Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou killed Snake Madam despite her escape tactics and Taizai Ci’s intervention, then challenged Taizai Ci to a fight over his promise to eat snake stew. Taizai Ci grew enraged and vowed to kill him, while Xu Xiaoshou stood ready to continue the battle.

• Xu Xiaoshou beheaded Snake Madam, but she emerged from her discarded body in a second form as the battles between the Twelve Saint Lords and their opponents continued.
• Shadow Saint stretched the distance between Xu Xiaoshou and Snake Madam to help her escape, but Xu Xiaoshou used Cosmic Rotation to repel the shadows and pull Snake Madam back toward the battlefield.
• Xu Xiaoshou attacked Snake Madam with the Hungry Ghost Path and Nine Nether Fist, but Taizai Ci arrived and smashed apart his Ghost Gate to protect her.
• Xu Xiaoshou challenged Taizai Ci over his intention to eat snake stew, then attacked before Taizai Ci could respond and kicked Snake Madam’s giant python form apart while taking a wound from the Dragon-Painting Halberd.
• Taizai Ci vowed to kill Xu Xiaoshou as his body grew into a towering, dragon-scaled War God form, and Xu Xiaoshou reaffirmed that he would eat snake stew.

Xu Xiaoshou used Divine Agility Moment to dismember Snake Madam, kill her, and force the Twelve Saint Lords to flee. He then faced Taizai Ci again, having nearly exhausted his spiritual essence but confident he could fight on.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Taizai Ci fought evenly in giant forms until Taizai Ci grew enraged by Xu Xiaoshou's taunts.
• Xu Xiaoshou evaded Taizai Ci and appeared beside Snake Madam, then used Divine Agility Moment to cut her into thirty-six pieces.
• Xu Xiaoshou crushed Snake Madam's head and claimed the Half-Saint Godhood that marked her death as final.
• The Twelve Saint Lords fled when Xu Xiaoshou turned his attention toward them, while Xu Xiaoshou chose not to pursue.
• Xu Xiaoshou confronted Taizai Ci again and demanded to know why he had not fled.

Taizai Ci awakened his War God bloodline and seemingly destroyed Xu Xiaoshou with the Dragon-Painting Halberd, then moved to finish off Saint Slave and Bai Zhou. Xu Xiaoshou revived as a colossal Limit Giant and appeared above the battlefield, ready to fight back.

• Taizai Ci overcame his fear and activated War God's Blood and War God Stance, transforming into a thousand-zhang warrior.
• Xu Xiaoshou used his defensive powers to withstand Taizai Ci's halberd, but the strike shattered his Berserk Giant and apparently erased him.
• The Twelve Saint Lords returned to surround Saint Slave and Bai Zhou while Taizai Ci demanded their surrender.
• Elder Sang realized Xu Xiaoshou had deliberately tested the Dragon-Painting Halberd, and Water Ghost and Elder Sang called for Xu Xiaoshou to save them.
• Xu Xiaoshou revived through the Life Profound-Meaning Array Diagram, absorbed power across the battlefield, and appeared as a Limit Giant towering above Taizai Ci.

Xu Xiaoshou returned as a Nine-Tailed Giant, killed Kong Tong, and trapped the fleeing Saint Lords in the Illusion Sword Technique’s Second World. The Shadow Saint panicked beneath Xu Xiaoshou’s gaze as ominous Dao music began to sound.

• The Twelve Saint Lords fled when Xu Xiaoshou returned, but Kong Tong discovered that Xu Xiaoshou had trapped him inside a dimensional-space world held between the giant’s fingers.
• Xu Xiaoshou swallowed Kong Tong, spat out his battered body, then killed him with the Fengdu Sword and Mo Sword, destroying his body, soul, and intent.
• The remaining Saint Lords tried to escape, but Qin Guan reached the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar and found himself at Goose Lake before the illusion shattered.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed that eleven Saint Lords were trapped in world-spheres by the Illusion Sword Technique’s Second World and drew Yousi Sword to finish them.
• The Shadow Saint fled in confusion but could not escape, and Xu Xiaoshou mocked his retreat into shadow as ominous Dao music rang out.

Taizai Ci relived an apparent memory of his first encounter with a young Dao Qiongchang and Bei Huai, who used him as a vessel for Kui while researching reincarnation. As the experiment overwhelmed him with pain and visions, Bei Huai and Dao Qiongchang discussed another promising Liu Xu candidate connected to a darkness attribute.

• Taizai Ci watched a memory of young Dao Qiongchang visiting Bei Huai in a sealed room filled with experimental containers.
• Bei Huai revealed that he had mastered reincarnation and invited Dao Qiongchang to witness his research, while Dao Qiongchang warned him about the risks of using Taizai Ci as a host.
• Bei Huai began the experiment on Taizai Ci, injecting him with Kui and insisting that he would survive and forget what happened.
• Taizai Ci suffered intense pain and saw visions of a Nine-Tailed Giant, eleven versions of himself trapped in spheres, and a one-legged monster identified as Kui.
• Dao Qiongchang warned Bei Huai that Taizai Ci might recover buried memories through the Second World, while Bei Huai asked whether Ba Zunan could be brought to the site.
• Bei Huai told Dao Qiongchang that he had also selected a promising Liu Xu candidate with a darkness attribute, prompting Dao Qiongchang to warn him not to target Elder Yan.

Xu Xiaoshou killed Taizai Ci’s apparent body, claimed the Dragon-Painting Halberd, and discovered a massive reserve of Heaven Ancestor Power in his Dragon Orb. As the Halberd bonded with him, Taizai Ci’s corpse began transforming into a Gold-Corroding Kui, one of the First Six Xu.

• Heaven Abandoned erased Shadow Saint, while Water Ghost collected another Half-Saint Godhood and reflected on his growing ties to Xu Xiaoshou’s group.
• Xu Xiaoshou crushed the unresponsive Taizai Ci, took the Dragon-Painting Halberd, and used the Dragon Orb’s Heaven Ancestor Power to win the weapon’s favor.
• Xu Xiaoshou severed the Halberd’s bond with Taizai Ci and bound it to himself, causing it to grow and manifest a crimson-gold dragon spirit.
• Water Ghost asked Xu Xiaoshou for Taizai Ci’s Half-Saint Godhood, but Xu Xiaoshou said he had not found one and claimed he might have destroyed it.
• Ghost Beast aura gathered around Taizai Ci’s missing corpse and formed a gigantic black mass as Bai Zhou recognized the emerging creature as a Kui.
• Elder Sang identified the creature as the Gold-Corroding Kui, one of the First Six Xu.

Xu Xiaoshou fought the mindless Gold-Corroding Kui, a failed host transformed from Taizai Ci, and defeated it before using Soul Reading to uncover a memory involving Bei Huai. The memory ended with the white-robed man turning around to reveal himself as Dao Qiongchang.

• Elder Sang explained the powers and histories of the First Six Xu, and Bai Zhou said the Gold-Corroding Kui was only part of one of them.
• The Gold-Corroding Kui emerged from Taizai Ci and charged Xu Xiaoshou, while Water Ghost and Elder Sang attacked the trapped Saint Lords.
• Xu Xiaoshou clashed with the Kui, endured its gold-corrosion attack, and realized it had lost its mind and most of its abilities.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated the Kui and used Soul Reading to examine its memories for clues about Taizai Ci and Bei Huai.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw a white-robed, barefoot man turn around in the memory and recognized him as Dao Qiongchang.

Dao Qiongchang and Nangong Youshu plotted around Ba Zunan’s plans and the Dao Department while gathering traces connected to Ba Zunan and the Storyteller. After sensing someone seeking him, Dao Qiongchang waited outside the Ran Ming Ruins, resolved to let the other person choose whether to approach his hidden surprise.

• Dao Qiongchang discussed Ba Zunan’s plans for the Grey Palace of the Xu Moon with Nangong Youshu and praised him for obtaining the Storyteller’s saliva and a hand that had nearly touched Ba Zunan.
• Dao Qiongchang left the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect’s cave headquarters, where Gou Wuyue and Wei Feng waited, after sensing someone looking for him.
• Dao Qiongchang emerged from a bald youth in the Four Symbols Secret Realm, healed him with the Great Blessing Technique, and watched him resume his trial.
• Dao Qiongchang reached the passage to the Ran Ming Ruins, divined an auspicious omen, and decided to wait outside rather than enter.
• Dao Qiongchang reasoned that Xu Xiaoshou might have touched a secret and waited for him to decide whether to approach the surprise Dao Qiongchang had left behind.

While searching Gold-Corroding Kui’s memories, Xu Xiaoshou encountered a lifelike but unoccupied consciousness body of Dao Qiongchang, which repeatedly blocked his attempts to probe further. He discovered that he could manipulate its Heavenly Secrets patterns and ended the chapter asking it about the Great God Descent Technique.

• Soul Reading revealed a silent Dao Qiongchang consciousness body, and its sudden grip on Xu Xiaoshou’s severed hand of will made him erupt into a series of transformations before he returned to his companions.
• Xu Xiaoshou resumed Soul Reading and confirmed the consciousness body reacted whenever he attacked, even after he severed his connections to his conjured hands of will.
• By provoking the body, Xu Xiaoshou discovered that its many arms and defenses were driven by Heavenly Secrets patterns and that he could disrupt them by threading a strand of will through its core array.
• Xu Xiaoshou repeatedly made Dao Qiongchang’s consciousness body malfunction, learned it could identify Ba Zunan, and used Mimicry to transform into Dao Qiongchang.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to Soul Reading, disrupted the consciousness body again, and asked it to explain the essence of the Great God Descent Technique.

Dao Qiongchang used the Four Symbols Secret Realm to perform the Great Heaven Divination Technique, resisting the Ancestor God's influence and learning that waiting outside the Ran Ming Ruins would bring a loss. He chose to enter the ruins, while Xu Xiaoshou questioned the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet about the Great God Descent Technique.

• Dao Qiongchang realized that an Ancestor God-level force was interfering with his divinations and decided to use the Four Symbols Secret Realm as a divination tool.
• Dao Qiongchang's Great Heaven Divination Technique stirred the Four Symbols Secret Realm, canceled a Godslayer Official's guiding light, and drew Ai Cangsheng and Xi's attention.
• Dao Qiongchang interpreted his hexagram as warning that waiting would bring a loss, then walked into the Ran Ming Ruins passageway.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that Dao Qiongchang's Great Dao of Intent comprehension was around eight or nine and asked the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet to demonstrate the Great God Descent Technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou reconsidered letting the puppet brand him with the technique and told it to use the seal on Water Ghost instead.

Xu Xiaoshou destroyed Dao Qiongchang’s soul after the Hall Master’s prank triggered a terrifying reaction, but Dao Qiongchang revived in a new body on the First Heaven. Back in the Eighteenth Heaven, Xu Xiaoshou and the others turned their attention to Dao Qiongchang’s defenseless physical body and the secrets hidden beneath his clothes.

• Xu Xiaoshou used the Dao Qiongchang puppet to investigate the Great God Descent Technique, but it revealed a message naming him and began to mutate, so he attacked the Gold-Corroding Kui with the Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• Dao Qiongchang emerged from the Gold-Corroding Kui and tried to joke with Xu Xiaoshou, who froze time and space, reversed Dao Qiongchang’s power, and destroyed his soul with the Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• Dao Qiongchang revived in a new body on the First Heaven, where he struggled to understand how Xu Xiaoshou had killed his soul and worried about his true body on the Eighteenth Heaven.
• Water Ghost and the others discovered Dao Qiongchang’s physical body had been left behind, while Xu Xiaoshou examined it and blasted himself back with the Holy Ancestor’s Power hidden within it.
• Xu Xiaoshou found that Dao Qiongchang’s clothes blocked probing and ordered the others to strip him naked.

Xu Xiaoshou thwarted Dao Qiongchang’s attempt to seize the souls of four Demi-Saints and forced him to release them. Dao Qiongchang then sought cooperation, but Xu Xiaoshou used the threat of summoning Shen Yi to make him yield and demand a friendship fee.

• Dao Qiongchang’s soul-seizing trap caught Elder Sang, Water Ghost, Cen Qiaofu, and Bai Zhou after they sent their perceptions toward the Heavenly Secrets Dao Runes, but Xu Xiaoshou escaped by severing his spiritual perception.
• Dao Qiongchang returned in a Cutting Path body and used Heavenly Secrets Arts to imprison the four Demi-Saints and draw out their souls, but Xu Xiaoshou threatened to expose him with embarrassing portraits and recordings.
• Dao Qiongchang returned the four souls to their bodies and proposed making friends, while Xu Xiaoshou challenged him over whether his Relics of the Gods body was his true body.
• Xu Xiaoshou threatened to summon Shen Yi with a jade talisman, prompting Dao Qiongchang to lower his pride and agree to whatever Xu Xiaoshou wanted.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Dao Qiongchang that making friends required paying a friendship fee.

Xu Xiaoshou used the Passive System to expose Dao Qiongchang’s lie about removing the Great God Descent Technique’s imprint, then learned that the Way of Memory could also remove it. Dao Qiongchang invited Xu Xiaoshou to join the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect as a vice sect master, and revealed that Nangong Youshu was his friend and a potential sect master.

• Xu Xiaoshou and Dao Qiongchang sparred over their new friendship, and Dao Qiongchang named erasing memories or killing him as ways to neutralize the Great God Descent Technique’s imprint.
• Dao Qiongchang admitted he had lied about removing the imprint with essence blood and soul blood, then revealed that mastery of the Way of Memory could locate and remove it.
• Dao Qiongchang questioned whether Xu Xiaoshou had an ability like mind-reading, but stopped him from answering, leaving both men wary of what the other had inferred.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that Elder Sang bore the imprint and began searching for it with the Will Dao Disk while Dao Qiongchang explained the risks and costs of repeated god descent.
• Dao Qiongchang offered to teach Xu Xiaoshou the Heavenly Secrets Thirty-Six Forms and protect his associates from god descent if he joined the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect as a vice sect master.
• Dao Qiongchang said he would share equal or subordinate rank with Xu Xiaoshou and revealed that his friend Nangong Youshu was also deeply versed in Heavenly Secrets.

Dao Qiongchang revealed his connection to the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect and pressed Xu Xiaoshou to accept him as a friend and recruit him into First Pavilion Under Heaven. Xu Xiaoshou refused a lasting alliance but agreed to cooperate in the Relics of the Gods, where Dao Qiongchang accepted Xu’s demand to pay him whenever he was used.

• Dao Qiongchang said the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect belonged to his friend Nangong Youshu, whom he insisted was a real person.
• Dao Qiongchang recited the sect’s doctrines and invited Xu Xiaoshou to join, but Xu refused and then hastily withdrew his offer to let Dao join First Pavilion Under Heaven.
• Xu Xiaoshou limited their friendship to their time in the Relics of the Gods and set their shared goal as escaping safely.
• Dao Qiongchang tried to read Xu Xiaoshou and the others through their reactions, while Elder Sang and Water Ghost warned Xu not to converse with him.
• Xu Xiaoshou offered to share information about the Relics of the Gods in exchange for Dao Qiongchang’s calculations and demanded payment each time he used Dao.
• Dao Qiongchang accepted Xu Xiaoshou’s terms and agreed to let him use his abilities during their time in the Relics of the Gods.

Dao Qiongchang deduced that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant was the Evil God’s contingency and warned Xu Xiaoshou that Ran Ming’s inheritance might have been corrupted. As Dao Qiongchang revealed the danger of the Relics of the Gods, a gigantic purple eye appeared in the sky as heavenly punishment.

• Dao Qiongchang connected the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s power and the God War, concluding that the Evil God had planted remnants in the plant to recover within the Relics of the Gods.
• Dao Qiongchang assessed the plant as possessing at least mid-to-high-stage Saint Emperor combat strength under normal circumstances, with the potential to become far more dangerous if it had infiltrated the entire relics.
• Dao Qiongchang warned Xu Xiaoshou that the Ancestor God Godhood might already be lost and that Ran Ming, encountered in the Three Realms of Feather Ascension, could be the Evil God.
• Dao Qiongchang argued that the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant could exploit the factions’ mutual suspicion and conflict while they delayed summoning the Ancestor God Godhood.
• Xu Xiaoshou accused Dao Qiongchang of trying to scare him, but Dao Qiongchang invoked heavenly punishment, and a gigantic sinister purple eye emerged through the split sky.

The Sui Yin Evil God manifested in the Eighteenth Heaven and attacked Dao Qiongchang, but Xu Xiaoshou absorbed its power and fought back as a Nine-Tailed Giant. After stabbing the Evil God’s face and charging Illusion Annihilation Finger, Xu Xiaoshou unleashed the attack as the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant descended to intervene.

• Elder Sang explained that the face belonged to the first-generation Sui Yin Evil God, while Dao Qiongchang said its awakening was incomplete and its attack targeted him.
• Xu Xiaoshou fled the descending evil light, then returned as a Nine-Tailed Giant and swallowed the attack’s Evil God’s Power, saving Dao Qiongchang.
• Xu Xiaoshou mistakenly called Dao Qiongchang his friend Yu Mo, drawing the Sui Yin Evil God’s attention toward Water Ghost.
• Xu Xiaoshou stabbed the Sui Yin Evil God’s face with the Dragon-Painting Halberd, taking damage while charging Illusion Annihilation Finger.
• As the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant’s black vines descended, Xu Xiaoshou roared them back and fired Illusion Annihilation Finger at the Sui Yin Evil God’s Eye.

Xu Xiaoshou destroyed the Sui Yin Evil God's manifestation, then provoked Dao Qiongchang with accidental finger-pointing and jokes while the group planned their escape from the Relics of the Gods. Dao Qiongchang finally lost his temper and threatened Xu Xiaoshou as the group prepared to descend to the First Heaven.

• Xu Xiaoshou annihilated the Sui Yin Evil God's manifestation and boasted while impersonating Dao Qiongchang.
• Dao Qiongchang confronted Xu Xiaoshou, who claimed he had saved him and would bear part of the Evil God's curse in his place.
• Xu Xiaoshou accidentally used Illusion Annihilation Finger on Water Ghost after a spatial swap, leaving Dao Qiongchang convinced he had been targeted again.
• Dao Qiongchang revealed the Life Command Divine Hall plaque and proposed returning to the First Heaven while the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant and Sui Yin Evil God attacked their enemies.
• Xu Xiaoshou accidentally pointed at Dao Qiongchang, who summoned Heavenly Mechanism Puppets and seized him before threatening him with his holy image.

Hua Yuan found Yue Gongli in the Life Command Divine Hall, and the two escaped when the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant invaded. They emerged into a darkened Eighteenth Heaven, where the Ancestor Tree and Evil God's Power focused on them and demanded to know where Dao Qiongchang was.

• Hua Yuan attacked Yue Gongli by mistake, but the two recognized each other after Yue Gongli tested him with a passphrase.
• Yue Gongli shared stories about Xu Xiaoshou and the outside world while Hua Yuan listened in the Godslayer Palace.
• The Saint-Infant Bearing Plant overwhelmed the Life Command Divine Hall, and Hua Yuan used Fengdu to carry Yue Gongli and the Six-Marrow Corpse King out through the plaque.
• Hua Yuan and Yue Gongli found the Eighteenth Heaven covered in Ancestor Tree branches and filled with Evil God's Power.
• The Ancestor Tree's faces fixed their gaze on Yue Gongli and asked where Dao Qiongchang was.

Yue Gongli manipulated the Sui Yin Evil God into sparing him and sending him to capture Dao Qiongchang, while Hua Yuan survived after losing his body. Yue Gongli left the Eighteenth Heaven with a divine decree, a purple eyeball, and a branch from the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant, determined to find Dao Qiongchang and repay his humiliation.

• Hua Yuan claimed Dao Qiongchang had not entered the Relics of the Gods, and the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant's branches destroyed his fleshly body for the lie.
• Yue Gongli summoned his Sui Yin Evil God, presented himself as the inheritor Xu Xiaoshou, and offered the Dao Infant's balanced powers as a gift to the true Sui Yin.
• Yue Gongli identified Hua Yuan as his servant and told Sui Yin that he knew where Dao Qiongchang was, saving Hua Yuan from being killed.
• Yue Gongli provoked Sui Yin into destroying the spiritual life in the Eighteenth Heaven, then claimed Dao Qiongchang might be in the Thirty-Third Heaven or the First Heaven.
• As Sui Yin's Evil God light threatened him, Yue Gongli offered to lure Dao Qiongchang back and swore himself into service, giving up soul blood and a Half-Saint Profound Decree.
• Sui Yin ordered Yue Gongli to go and gave him a purple eyeball and a Saint-Infant Bearing Plant branch, and Yue Gongli departed with Hua Yuan and the Six-Marrow Corpse King.

Mo Mo left Snow Lotus Valley with Bai Yu as her servant, while Feng Yujin urged her to survive and seek a Half-Saint Godhood. The three headed for the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar to find Kong Tong, but its sudden activation revealed a lone Half-Saint arriving with a coffin and a corpse.

• Mo Mo completed her Void Realm cultivation, refused Feng Yujin's Half-Saint Godhood, and released Bai Yu from the God-Sealing Coffin.
• Bai Yu offered his soul blood to Mo Mo, and Feng Yujin pressured him until Mo Mo accepted him as her servant.
• Bai Yu proposed seeking Half-Saints who might surrender their Godhoods, then named Kong Tong as a possible target connected to the hunt for Xu Xiaoshou.
• Mo Mo agreed to ascend with Feng Yujin and Bai Yu to avoid danger in their current realm.
• As Bai Yu reached for the Reincarnation Heaven-Ascending Pillar, it activated and revealed a lone Half-Saint accompanied by a coffin and a corpse.