Chapter Summaries

Li Fugui realized the Godslayer Official Ruins had trapped its inhabitants and that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant might be behind the disaster. Inside the ruins, Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli fled the plant’s attack, but Yue Gongli finally knelt before it and called it “Mother.”

• Li Fugui connected the vanished returnees and the Dragon Apricot Spirit’s warning to the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, then learned the ruins could no longer be exited and deaths inside were now real.
• Li Fugui sent Xiao Ran into the ruins with a warning for Wuxiu or Water Ghost, then ordered everyone else to stop entering.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli fled through the Dark World as the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant pursued them, and Xu Xiaoshou urged Yue Gongli to surrender his Dao Infant.
• The Dao Infant fell within the plant’s reach, and black branches pierced Xu Xiaoshou before he broke free and blasted open a temporary escape route.
• Xu Xiaoshou called for Yue Gongli to cooperate, but Yue Gongli knelt before the approaching branches and called the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant “Mother.”

Dao Qiongchang, Ba Zunan, and their companions warned that the Ran Ming Ruins were a trap where entrants could not leave, while Shen Yi fought the Half-Saints being drawn toward Dark Life Forest. Shen Yi defeated Changyi and discovered that a Half-Saint Godhood had come out of one of the people he stopped.

• Dao Qiongchang revealed that his latest news said entrants to the Ran Ming Ruins could not escape and would die, alarming Storyteller about Xu Xiaoshou.
• Shen Yi used Overlord to defeat Deng Kou and Dun Ling, then struck down Changyi when he charged to defend them.
• Shen Yi restored Changyi enough to question him and learned that the Half-Saints had entered because of the Saint Invitation Order, though they claimed they only wanted to have fun.
• Shen Yi showed Changyi a crystalline Half-Saint Godhood that he had accidentally punched out of someone while stopping the Half-Saints.

Xu Xiaoshou fought off the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s encircling branches as Yue Gongli hid in the Yin Spirit Coffin and tried to manipulate him into taking the risk. When an ancestral tree branch struck them both, the coffin was crushed, and the Void Giant Lord awakened, leaving Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli facing a far greater threat.

• Yue Gongli tested the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s intelligence by calling her “Mother,” then escaped into the Yin Spirit Coffin while Xu Xiaoshou fled the approaching branches.
• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant herded branches in from every direction, and Xu Xiaoshou transformed into the Limit Giant and used Immovable Wisdom King to withstand their attack.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized Yue Gongli’s attempt to make him fight alone and began crushing the Yin Spirit Coffin, despite Yue Gongli’s pleas to cooperate.
• Yue Gongli warned that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant had swallowed the Ancestor God’s Fate Grid and was pursuing the Godslayer Official’s inheritance, but Xu Xiaoshou continued crushing the coffin.
• A dark-brown ancestral tree branch carrying the forest’s hidden will attacked, and the collision with Xu Xiaoshou’s palm flattened the Yin Spirit Coffin.
• The Six-Marrow Corpse King’s light awakened the Void Giant Lord, who forced apart the ancestral branch and the Limit Giant as Yue Gongli announced its arrival.

Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli hid inside the Yin Spirit Coffin while the Void Colossus fought the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, and Yue Gongli revealed the Colossus was made from a finger shed by the Heavenly Ancestor. They realized the mutated plant might be luring Half-Saints into the Relics of the Gods, then summoned the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion, where an arriving Half-Saint was immediately killed.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli entered the Yin Spirit Coffin as the Void Colossus attacked the Ancestor Tree branches.
• Yue Gongli told Xu Xiaoshou that the Void Colossus had been refined from the Heavenly Ancestor's index finger, a God-shedding he obtained at Slumber Valley.
• Yue Gongli explained God-sheddings and the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion, while Xu Xiaoshou considered the cost of ascending to godhood.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli suspected the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant was using Xu Xiaoshou and the Saint Invitation Order to lure Half-Saints into the Relics of the Gods.
• As the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant overwhelmed the Void Colossus, Xu Xiaoshou called for Kong Yuhen and caused the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion to appear.
• An unfamiliar Half-Saint entered the pavilion's world and was pierced by a branch that extracted his Half-Saint Godhood.

Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli struggled to survive inside the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s embryonic Divine Court, nearly killing each other before Kong Yuhen arrived. The plant recognized Kong Yuhen after he asked who he was, then sent its branches plunging toward him.

• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant drained an uninvited Half-Saint and then consumed the Void Colossus, while Yue Gongli worried that his Dao Infant had been lost.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yue Gongli argued over their failed cooperation and Yue Gongli’s childbirth, then fought inside the Yin Spirit Coffin until Kong Yuhen appeared.
• Kong Yuhen stopped their attacks and tried to leave, but discovered that the plant had trapped him and could see him.
• Kong Yuhen asked the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant whether it knew him or his story, and it answered with mocking laughter.
• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s branches rushed toward Kong Yuhen after its laughter ended.

Xu Xiaoshou and his companions struggled to survive the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s assault as the Yin Spirit Coffin was broken apart and the group scattered. Just as the plant pursued them through the embryonic Divine Court, a bald man arrived, stopped its advance with a thrown staff, and told them to get behind him.

• Yue Gongli steered the battered Yin Spirit Coffin through the tsunami while Xu Xiaoshou, Kong Yuhen, and the Six-Marrow Corpse King endured its violent spinning.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the Sovereign Stage warrior as Palace Lord Bai Zhou, then saw the Six-Marrow Corpse King use Holy Ancestor’s Power to cleanse Evil God’s Power from the coffin.
• Water Ghost contacted Xu Xiaoshou, accepted a token naming him Grand Elder of the First Pavilion Under Heaven, and agreed to find Palace Lord Bai Zhou with Xu Xiaoshou’s offer of support.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Yue Gongli about a whip, causing Yue Gongli to abandon the coffin’s controls just as an Ancestor Tree branch smashed it apart and scattered everyone.
• Yue Gongli summoned the Sui Yin Evil God and polluted the Ancestor Tree’s branches, provoking the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant to reveal its true body and pursue the fleeing group.
• A bald man approaching through the darkness threw a heavy staff that shook the Divine Court and stopped the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, then told everyone to get behind him.

Shen Yi arrived in the embryonic Divine Court and broke the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s control over the others before confronting the enraged ancestral tree. After transforming into a giant through Heavenly Dao, he split the tree and the Divine Court, then pursued the fallen tree into the Relics of the Gods.

• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s call bewitched Cen Qiaofu, Water Ghost, Bai Zhou, Changyi, and Shen Yi, causing their bellies to swell as it tried to draw them closer.
• Shen Yi recovered from the tree’s influence, dispelled the others’ pregnancies with Overlord, and warned the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant to retreat.
• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant attacked with countless branches, but Shen Yi opened the Eight Gates and Seven Luminaries and severed the branches at their roots.
• Shen Yi struck the tree’s canopy and trunk with Overlord, but the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant seized and crushed him in its six great hands.
• Shen Yi transformed through Heavenly Dao, enlarged Overlord, and split the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and the Divine Court with a horizontal sweep.
• The tree’s broken halves fell into the Relics of the Gods, where the giant Shen Yi followed and prepared to strike it again.

Xu Xiaoshou reunited with Elder Sang amid the battle against the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, where Elder Sang showed off his newly comprehended fire Profound Meaning. Elder Sang called anyone who mastered several Great Dao Diagrams a Master of Spiritual Cultivation, and Xu Xiaoshou revealed his own many diagrams before demanding that Elder Sang call him master.

• Yue Gongli watched Shen Yi beat the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and worried about the returning Ten Seat Holders’ strength.
• Wuxiu appeared before Xu Xiaoshou, and the disciple rushed over to greet Elder Sang and tease him about his charred body and unusual clothes.
• Elder Sang pushed Xu Xiaoshou back and displayed a fire Profound-Meaning Array Diagram, explaining that cultivators could comprehend Profound Meaning beyond the Throne Dao Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou praised Elder Sang’s achievement and asked what a person who mastered several spiritual cultivation Profound Meanings should be called.
• Elder Sang named such a person the Master of Spiritual Cultivation, and Xu Xiaoshou revealed numerous Great Dao Diagrams before declaring that Elder Sang should call him master.

Xu Xiaoshou humiliated Elder Sang over his exposed feet and forced him to accept the joke, then the group gathered Divine Life Stars and confronted Bai Zhou over the three remaining stars. The chapter ended with Xu Xiaoshou placing a Straw Hat on Elder Sang as the Saint Slave members formed up against Bai Zhou.

• Xu Xiaoshou mocked Elder Sang’s exposed toes and taunted him to call Xu Xiaoshou Master or godfather, leaving Elder Sang furious and embarrassed.
• Cen Qiaofu broke the tension by reminding the group that Shen Yi was still fighting the evil tree, and Elder Sang gathered his former subordinates to discuss the urgent situation.
• Elder Sang offered Xu Xiaoshou six Divine Life Stars, and Cen Qiaofu handed over two more, bringing the group’s total to fifteen.
• Elder Sang asked Bai Zhou for the three remaining Divine Life Stars, but Bai Zhou demanded Xu Xiaoshou’s cooperation in exchange.
• Xu Xiaoshou placed a Straw Hat on Elder Sang, and Bai Zhou realized he was facing the gathered Saint Slave members alone.

Xu Xiaoshou gathered all eighteen Divine Life Stars, but he and the Saint Slave leaders chose to delay summoning the Ancestor God Godhood and let Yue Gongli test the ruins’ dangers first. Their prediction proved right when Yue Gongli summoned the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar, which killed the cultivators sent to activate it and left him furious.

• Bai Zhou handed over three Divine Life Stars, and Elder Sang and Xu Xiaoshou discussed the risks of summoning the Ancestor God Godhood amid the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s corruption.
• Xu Xiaoshou gathered eighteen Divine Life Stars, triggering a prompt that allowed him to summon something, while the Ancestor God Ranking showed only him and Yue Gongli.
• Water Ghost and Elder Sang advised Xu Xiaoshou to wait, explore the upper heavens, and let Yue Gongli test the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar first.
• The spatial mirror showed Yue Gongli summon the pillar, whose Evil God aura killed nearby cultivators and forced Yue Gongli to expend the Sui Yin Evil God’s power.
• Yue Gongli sent a Void cultivator and then Half-Saint Cheng Guanglu to activate the pillar; both died, and Cheng Guanglu’s Half-Saint Godhood merged into it, enraging Yue Gongli.

Shen Yi fought off the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s true body after it pierced him, then tried to pursue it through the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar. The Plant cut off the connection and escaped, and Shen Yi turned to Xu Xiaoshou to demonstrate Fourfold Renunciation.

• Xu Xiaoshou and the others realized the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant had possessed Cheng Guanglu with a fragment of its will while Shen Yi battled its incarnation.
• Cheng Guanglu attacked Shen Yi, but Shen Yi killed him in Beast Realm form before the Plant’s branch pierced Shen Yi’s heart.
• Shen Yi transformed through Asura and Hungry Ghost forms, seized the Plant’s true-body branches, and devoured parts of its body and soul until it severed them to escape.
• Shen Yi struck the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar and absorbed its Ancestral Source Power, but the Plant disrupted the pillar and prevented his ascent.
• Shen Yi asked Xu Xiaoshou what he was and said he would teach him Fourfold Renunciation.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that Gu Wu’s Fourfold Renunciation was a lethal art on the Holy Spirit Continent, but Shen Yi demonstrated it in the Relics of the Gods and feathered into a higher realm. The demonstration erased itself from most witnesses’ memories, leaving Xu Xiaoshou speaking with the unseen Kong Yuhen as the crowd tried to flee and Yue Gongli noticed Huangquan was missing.

• Elder Sang and Shen Yi explained Gu Wu’s stages, and Shen Yi described Fourfold Renunciation as renouncing the body, spirit, intent, and self.
• Shen Yi warned that using Fourfold Renunciation on the Holy Spirit Continent meant certain death, but the Relics of the Gods’ higher-level rules allowed him to demonstrate it.
• Shen Yi sacrificed his body, soul, and will, then feathered upward into the Eighteenth Heaven as witnesses watched.
• The crowd lost their memories of Shen Yi’s demonstration, and their jade slips and bamboo scrolls went blank, though Yue Gongli retained a few cryptic notes.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed the unseen Kong Yuhen and questioned him about what had happened, while the frightened crowd began leaving and Yue Gongli asked where Huangquan was.

Xu Xiaoshou raised his Body Dao Disk to 90% and approached Transcendent Dao Transformation, while Yue Gongli gambled on the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar to reach the upper realm. Xu Xiaoshou decided to keep advancing his other Dao Disks and pursue a stronger form of Ancient Martial Four Abandonments.

• Xu Xiaoshou gave the Saint Slave ten Divine Life Stars and sat down to cultivate, telling them to wait and use the stars to summon the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar if Yue Gongli's route worked.
• Yue Gongli chose to make a deal with the demon and struck the pillar with Evil God's Power, ascending to the upper realm as Holy Spirit Hall members began dying in repeated attempts to activate it.
• Xu Xiaoshou planted Dao-Nurturing Seeds until his Body Dao Disk reached 80%, producing a dazzling Profound-Meaning Array Diagram that stunned the onlookers.
• Xu Xiaoshou pushed the Body Dao Disk to 90%, regained control as his body began separating from himself, and sensed that he could ascend to the upper realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou considered advancing his Body, Soul, and Intent Dao Disks before attempting Four Abandonments, then decided to charge ahead.

Xu Xiaoshou completed the Spirit and Will Dao Disks, reaching three Profound Meanings beyond their limits while spending nearly all his Passive Value. After waking from seven days of enlightenment, he learned that Saint Emperor Wangze had killed four Saint Slave Void Masters and threatened to kill one person each day until Xu Xiaoshou confronted him, so Xu Xiaoshou prepared to ascend and fight.

• Xu Xiaoshou raised his Spirit Dao Disk to ninety percent and anchored his soul back into his body.
• Xu Xiaoshou advanced his Will Dao Disk to ninety percent, connected it to his powers of Guidance and Oblivion, and exhausted most of his Passive Value.
• Xu Xiaoshou woke after seven days and saw that the Ancestor God Ranking listed him and Yue Gongli with eighteen Divine Life Stars each, while Taizai Ci, Hua Yuan, Rao Wangze, and Cao Erzhu each had one.
• Elder Sang and the others explained that Yue Gongli had gathered eighteen stars, Saint Emperor Wangze had appeared, and Cao Erzhu had ascended after visiting Xu Xiaoshou.
• Bai Zhou told Xu Xiaoshou that Saint Emperor Wangze had killed four Saint Slave Void Masters and vowed to kill one person each day until Xu Xiaoshou woke and went to meet him.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Elder Sang to wake him if this happened again, then summoned the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar and declared that they would kill their way to heaven.

Yue Gongli found the buried plaque of the Life Command Divine Hall and entered it, while Xu Xiaoshou investigated the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar from the First Heaven. Xu Xiaoshou discovered that six Half-Saints guarded the Eighteenth Heaven and decided to go ahead alone.

• Yue Gongli explained that the plaque buried three hundred zhang underground was the Life Command Divine Hall, then ordered his followers to await Xu Xiaoshou and protect its entrance.
• Yue Gongli entered the plaque, and his followers mistook the Evil God's Power that appeared for a sign of the hall's nature.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar and tested its danger with Elder Sang and Water Ghost; Elder Sang was struck by Evil God's Power when he touched it.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Will Dao Disk and Unity of Heaven and Man to send a consciousness across the pillar, where he spotted six Half-Saints guarding the Eighteenth Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Elder Sang to withdraw, assigned Water Ghost to cover the rear, and announced that he would ascend first because there were only six enemies.

Xu Xiaoshou faced the Central Region Six-Point Saints, six Demi-Saint assassins sent by the Holy Spirit Hall, and defeated them with the Limit Giant after their coordinated attacks failed. He left the remaining enemies’ souls on the verge of collapse, then swept them away with Heart Sword Technique, Prajna-Nothingness.

• Xu Xiaoshou killed three Sovereigns who tried to alert the six Demi-Saints, then warned the six to leave or die.
• Red-Line Elder attacked Xu Xiaoshou’s soul, but Xu Xiaoshou answered with a Fengdu Sword strike that Word-Spirit Curse reversed with his power over time.
• The six Demi-Saints trapped Xu Xiaoshou inside Iron Tortoise’s tortoise-shell world and launched coordinated attacks, but Word-Spirit Curse’s Illusion Sword Technique revealed that they had attacked an illusion.
• Xu Xiaoshou summoned the Limit Giant, which crushed Iron Tortoise and killed Red-Line Elder, Heavy Sword Edge, Fu Jiu, and Ye Xiao despite their attempts to escape and fight back.
• Word-Spirit Curse forced the Limit Giant to retreat several steps, but his power and life were exhausted, and Xu Xiaoshou killed him with Soul Reading.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Heart Sword Technique, Prajna-Nothingness, to sweep through the five remaining Demi-Saint souls.

Xu Xiaoshou revealed that he had killed the Central Region Six-Point Saints and collected their Half-Saint Godhoods, stunning the Saint Slave representatives. He then concluded that the key figures and conflicts were likely in the Thirty-Third Heaven, but proposed striking elsewhere by turning Yue Gongli’s scheme against him.

• Cen Qiaofu found Xu Xiaoshou searching the battlefield and realized the youth had killed a Half-Saint and recovered its Godhood.
• Xu Xiaoshou showed Cen Qiaofu a bag containing five more Half-Saint Godhoods, revealing that he had killed all six members of the Central Region Six-Point Saints.
• Elder Sang questioned Xu Xiaoshou about the battle, and Xu named his opponents as the Central Region Six-Point Saints.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that Shen Yi, Ran Ming’s inheritance, the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, and Saint Emperor Wangze were likely in the Thirty-Third Heaven, while Wangze might be weakened or occupied.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed the Life Command Divine Hall and used a spatial mirror to locate more than twenty Half-Saints.
• Xu Xiaoshou placed five Half-Saint Godhoods in Water Ghost’s arms and urged him to turn their enemies’ scheme against them.

Kong Tong reported that Xu Xiaoshou had killed the Six-Ray Saints, but Taizai Ci ordered the Northern Region Half-Saints to prioritize the Holy Spirit Hall’s summons and head for the Life Command Divine Hall. Xu Xiaoshou and his allies debated confronting Taizai Ci, while Elder Sang warned that the Half-Saint Godhood they were collecting might be bait in a struggle to become Ancestor Gods.

• Kong Tong knelt before Snake Madam and Taizai Ci and reported that Xu Xiaoshou had killed the Six-Ray Saints in an instant.
• Snake Madam reacted with interest in Xu Xiaoshou, but Taizai Ci set the report aside and ordered everyone to follow Yue Gongli’s signal to the Life Command Divine Hall.
• Xu Xiaoshou complained that several solitary Half-Saints had agreed to join his side rather than fight, making it difficult to seize their Godhood without forcing them.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked whether his group should confront Taizai Ci, and Elder Sang warned that the surrounding Half-Saints could trap him if he failed to defeat Taizai quickly.
• Elder Sang revealed his own Half-Saint Godhood and questioned whether the group was taking bait meant to provoke Half-Saints into killing one another for the chance to become Ancestor Gods.

Elder Sang and Bai Zhou successfully sealed sainthood in the Eighteenth Heaven, giving Xu Xiaoshou two new Half-Saint allies. After they agreed they were ready to move, Xu Xiaoshou used the Ancestor God Ranking to locate Taizai Ci and prepared to act.

• Higher Voids watching the tribulations discussed the risks of sealing sainthood before the arrival of Lord Grand Minister and several Half-Saints.
• Elder Sang completed his fire-type tribulation, regained a younger appearance, and stabilized as an Upanishad Half-Saint.
• Bai Zhou also sealed sainthood, and Xu Xiaoshou accepted his gratitude while avoiding a taste of his blood wine.
• Xu Xiaoshou, Elder Sang, Water Ghost, and the others agreed that neither new Saint needed time to recover before they departed.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Ancestor God Ranking to find Taizai Ci, whose location matched the Godslayer Edict he sensed.

Xu Xiaoshou reached Taizai Ci’s stronghold and shattered the Twelve Saint Lords with a roar before confronting Snake Madam. He overcame her Sophora Poison and beheaded her with Yousi Sword, while the confrontation at the chasm remained underway.

• Kong Tong warned the defenders that five members of Saint Slave had arrived, and the Twelve Saint Lords prepared to face them.
• Xu Xiaoshou advanced with Water Ghost and Elder Sang, then roared the Twelve Saint Lords away and called for Taizai Ci to come out and die.
• Xu Xiaoshou rushed toward the chasm, where Snake Madam emerged and attacked him with Sophora Poison.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Dragon Orb and Life Upanishad to remove the poison from his body, then forced Snake Madam to meet his gaze with the Heart Sword Technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew Yousi Sword and used West Wind Withers Snow to sever Snake Madam’s head.