Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou met Luo Leilei on Blackfall Cliff as she tried to pull a black sword scabbard from the ground. After dismissing her offer to cooperate, he used his immense physical strength to break the scabbard’s seal and pull it free.

• Xu Xiaoshou reached Blackfall Cliff’s summit and found Luo Leilei trying to pull a black sword scabbard from the ground.
• Xu Xiaoshou suspected Luo Leilei had been sent by Zhang Xinxiong, while Luo Leilei thought they were both after the scabbard.
• Luo Leilei offered to cooperate, but Xu Xiaoshou refused and said he would take the scabbard if he could pull it out.
• Xu Xiaoshou failed on his first attempt, then used brute strength to shake Blackfall Cliff and expose the scabbard’s seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou shattered the ground and yanked the scabbard free, then steadied himself above the cliff.

Xu Xiaoshou and Luo Leilei fought over a spiritual sword sheath that had escaped its seal. After Luo Leilei reclaimed it, Xu Xiaoshou struck her with One Sword, One Thought and took the sheath back, leaving her badly injured.

• Xu Xiaoshou chased down the spiritual sword sheath, but Luo Leilei grabbed it and tried to claim it for her mission.
• Xu Xiaoshou fled with the sheath, while Luo Leilei used her lightning ability to catch up and take it from him.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried to store the sheath in his ring, but it flew out because spiritual objects could not be contained in spatial rings.
• Luo Leilei taunted Xu Xiaoshou and fled with the sheath, but he unleashed One Sword, One Thought and struck her through it.
• Luo Leilei was sent flying with shattered ribs, and Xu Xiaoshou reclaimed the sword sheath.

Xu Xiaoshou clashed with Lei Lei over the sword sheath, then realized she was an independent thief rather than someone sent by Zhang Xinxiong. He tried to bluff her by claiming to belong to Saint Slave, but Lei Lei said she was with Saint Slave too and did not recognize him, leaving him stunned and falling from the air.

• Lei Lei recovered from Xu Xiaoshou's sword strike and demanded that he sell her the sword sheath.
• Xu Xiaoshou searched for the people Lei Lei implied were backing her, but his Perception found no one.
• Lei Lei warned Xu Xiaoshou that taking the sword sheath would alert people outside Heavenly Mystery Gate and bring Spirit Palace's powerful figures after him.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Lei Lei had come to steal the sword sheath and asked whether she knew Zhang Xinxiong; she confirmed that she did.
• Xu Xiaoshou claimed he belonged to Saint Slave, and Lei Lei replied that she was also with Saint Slave but did not know him, causing him to fall from the air.

Xu Xiaoshou discovered that Luo Lei Lei belonged to Saint Slave after bluffing about his own connection to the organization. After she failed to recruit him, they argued over a bet, and Luo Lei Lei accepted his challenge.

• Xu Xiaoshou tried to leave after realizing Luo Lei Lei was with Saint Slave, but she used her Violet Lightning Wings to block him.
• Luo Lei Lei punched Xu Xiaoshou and struck him with heavenly lightning, but he recovered and insisted he had an innate physical body.
• Luo Lei Lei mistook Xu Xiaoshou's toughness for a Master Physique and invited him to join Saint Slave, but he refused in the name of justice.
• Luo Lei Lei tried to persuade Xu Xiaoshou to come with her, then proposed a bet that would make him go if she won.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Luo Lei Lei about the terms of the bet and said betting was for adults, but she agreed to challenge him.

Xu Xiaoshou fought Luo Leilei to test his newly advanced strength, overwhelming her with powerful spiritual techniques and a close-quarters trick. He defeated her with a finger-blade through the chest and left her unconscious or near death.

• Luo Leilei chose a ranged fight and called down lightning, but Xu Xiaoshou leaped above the clouds and used Emberlight Skyburn to burn through them.
• Xu Xiaoshou struck Luo Leilei with Emberlight Heavenly Flame, while she answered with Sky-Sealing Thunder Prison.
• Xu Xiaoshou escaped the thunder prison and bombarded Luo Leilei with compressed fireballs, but she dodged and rushed in with Lightning Strike Wood.
• Xu Xiaoshou disrupted Luo Leilei's spiritual essence with a sharp breath, caught her wrist, and pierced her chest with a finger-blade.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Luo Leilei she had lost and warned her not to fight him at close range.

Xu Xiaoshou defeated Luo Leilei, healed her, and teased her while claiming she was poisoned. He refused her offer to take him beyond the Heavenly Mystery Gate and flew off alone, leaving Luo Leilei watching him with surprise.

• Xu Xiaoshou realized Luo Leilei might die from her chest wound, fed her a small amount of Red-Gold Elixir, and healed her.
• Luo Leilei woke up, and Xu Xiaoshou claimed their wager made her his while pretending he had poisoned her.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Luo Leilei he would leave with the sword sheath, then joked that longing would cure her supposed poison.
• Luo Leilei invited Xu Xiaoshou to leave the Heavenly Mystery Gate with her, but he refused and said he would see the world himself, even if he ended up covered in wounds.

While the elders discussed the failing seals in Heavenly Mystery Gate, Elder Sang realized Xu Xiaoshou might have advanced to a Master physique and suspected Lei Lei was a spy. Mo Mo obtained the Seal Stone but was ordered to kill Xu Xiaoshou and Zhao Xidong, and she refused to harm Xu Xiaoshou as she headed toward the Myriad Secret Forest.

• Zhao Xidong broke another bead on the Twelve-Bead Spirit Veil Disc while celebrating his meal, prompting the elders to fear the seal would fail.
• Elder Sang realized Xu Xiaoshou had likely reached a Master physique and said he could probably defeat Lei Lei, the strongest newcomer.
• Elder Sang identified Lei Lei as one of two likely spies but could not determine the other spy's identity.
• Mo Mo obtained the Seal Stone and spoke with the hidden presence in her censer, which warned her someone had been peering into the space.
• The presence ordered Mo Mo to kill Xu Xiaoshou, but she refused because he had been gentle with her.
• The presence named Zhao Xidong as the second target, and Mo Mo continued toward the Myriad Secret Forest.

Yuan Tou broke through in the Land of Hundred Weapons and realized Xu Xiaoshou had tricked him, so he headed for Blackfall Cliff. Xu Xiaoshou continued west while trying to understand the Blackfall Sword Scabbard, which he paired with Hidden Pain before deciding the sword still needed to improve.

• Yuan Tou reached the late stage of the Upper Spirit Realm in the Land of Hundred Weapons, then realized Xu Xiaoshou had sent him there as a decoy.
• Yuan Tou concluded Xu Xiaoshou might be at Blackfall Cliff and flew west to find him before the trial ended.
• Xu Xiaoshou sneezed and continued west, intending to encounter Yuan Tou and discover his true intentions.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried several ways to activate the Blackfall Sword Scabbard, but it did not release its white sword aura.
• Xu Xiaoshou inserted Hidden Pain into the scabbard, which stopped trembling as the sword seemed pleased with its new companion.
• Xu Xiaoshou hoped to find a way to advance Hidden Pain, warning that he might otherwise replace it.

Xu Xiaoshou won a faint connection with the Blackfall Sword Scabbard by promising to help it find its former master, then encountered Yuan Tou, who had been sent to kill him over Rao Yinyin. Yuan Tou attacked with his Profound Weight Domain, and Xu Xiaoshou prepared to fight back.

• Xu Xiaoshou persuaded the Blackfall Sword Scabbard to follow him by offering to help it find its former master, forming a faint connection with it.
• Xu Xiaoshou encountered Yuan Tou, who was surprised to learn Xu Xiaoshou had reached the Innate Realm.
• Yuan Tou revealed that Zhang Xinxiong had sent him to kill Xu Xiaoshou over Rao Yinyin.
• Xu Xiaoshou offered Yuan Tou a chance to leave, but Yuan Tou donned black armor and unleashed his Profound Weight Domain.
• Xu Xiaoshou resisted the increased gravity, drew Hidden Pain, and prepared to fight Yuan Tou.

Xu Xiaoshou used the Blackfall Sword Scabbard to unleash a thousand-layer Sword-Draw Form that grievously wounded Yuan Tou, who then consumed Throne Essence Blood and transformed. Their first clash after his transformation ended in a physical-strength stalemate.

• Yuan Tou charged Xu Xiaoshou, but Xu Xiaoshou's Blackfall Slash unleashed countless sword auras that destroyed Yuan Tou's armor and spear and left him gravely injured.
• Yuan Tou drank golden Throne Essence Blood and transformed into a giant ape-like form.
• Yuan Tou struck Xu Xiaoshou with unexpected speed, but recoil from the blow sent Yuan Tou flying as well.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Yuan Tou exchanged punches, and their collision sent both flying before they steadied themselves at a distance.
• Yuan Tou realized Xu Xiaoshou's physical strength matched his own after the transformation.

Xu Xiaoshou battled Yuan Tou after Yuan Tou consumed Throne's essence blood, using his healing, Countershock, and compressed fire seeds to survive and overpower him. When Yuan Tou rose again, Xu Xiaoshou finished him with a sword technique, leaving Yuan Tou's severed head on the ground.

• Yuan Tou used Ten-Thousand-Jun Force to enhance his strength and repeatedly battered Xu Xiaoshou, who recovered quickly and planted compressed fire seeds on Yuan Tou's palms.
• Xu Xiaoshou attacked Yuan Tou with Little Fireball Fist and Little Fireball Kick, using explosive fire seeds to blast him into the ground.
• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed five compressed fire seeds with his Five-Finger Seed Imprinting Technique, badly mangling Yuan Tou as the essence blood began repairing him.
• Yuan Tou rose from the pit and roared that he refused to accept defeat, but Xu Xiaoshou appeared behind him and used Leisurely White Clouds, Fifth Form: West Wind Withers Snow to cut off his head.

After killing Yuan Tou, Xu Xiaoshou looted his ring and reflected on the strength and techniques he had shown in the battle. With just over a day before the Heavenly Mystery Gate reopened, he chose to head for the Myriad Secret Forest, where Mu Zixi was undergoing her trial.

• Xu Xiaoshou burned Yuan Tou's corpse and retrieved the ring from the flames after the battle had ended.
• Xu Xiaoshou found tens of thousands of Spirit Crystals and more than a hundred Yuan Ting Pills in Yuan Tou's ring, but no golden blood.
• Xu Xiaoshou added the lesson that he should kill enemies in one blow to his strategies for dealing with enemies.
• Xu Xiaoshou assessed how Endless Vitality, Countershock, Little Fireball Fist, West Wind Withers Snow, and the Blackfall Sword Scabbard had helped him defeat Yuan Tou.
• Xu Xiaoshou checked Mu Zixi's map, chose the Myriad Secret Forest as his next destination, and set off to find his Junior Sister.

Mu Zixi absorbed a surge of life force from an ancient well, reached the peak of the Yuan Ting Realm, and obtained a Life Spirit Seal. When Mo Mo demanded the seal, Mu Zixi refused and attacked her in the Myriad Secret Forest, leaving Mo Mo trapped among summoned trees.

• Mu Zixi absorbed life force from the ancient well, advanced to the peak of the Yuan Ting Realm, and vomited up a golden-jade seal.
• Mu Zixi realized the seal was a Life Spirit Seal and refused Mo Mo's request to trade for it.
• Mo Mo warned Mu Zixi to be careful and vanished as she began her attack.
• Mu Zixi summoned the forest's trees to strike Mo Mo, then trapped her inside a mass of ancient trees.
• Mu Zixi summoned more trees and shouted for them to explode.

Mu Zixi fought Mo Mo in the Myriad Secret Forest, but Mo Mo trapped her with the Sixfold Sealing Gates and demanded her Life Spirit Seal in exchange for a ring. Just as Mu Zixi was about to give in, Xu Xiaoshou arrived.

• Mu Zixi's attempted explosion failed, and Mo Mo emerged unharmed from the fused ancient trees.
• Mo Mo cast the Great Wind Decree, severing Mu Zixi's connection to the forest and surrounding her with gray gates.
• Mo Mo used the Sixfold Sealing Gates to trap Mu Zixi in a crystal of gray mist.
• Mu Zixi recognized strange terms connected to lost memories and used the Life Spirit Seal's life force to resist the gates, but Mo Mo sealed her spiritual essence.
• Mo Mo offered Mu Zixi a ring for her Life Spirit Seal, and Xu Xiaoshou arrived as Mu Zixi was about to surrender.

Xu Xiaoshou arrived at the Myriad Secret Forest and joined Mo Mo and Mu Zixi in a contest over the Life Spirit Seal. After escaping Mo Mo’s gray mist crystal, Mu Zixi realized Xu Xiaoshou had tricked her and fled with the seal.

• Xu Xiaoshou found Mo Mo holding Mu Zixi inside a gray mist crystal, but refused to help until Mu Zixi called him Senior Brother.
• Mu Zixi threw the Life Spirit Seal between Xu Xiaoshou and Mo Mo, hoping they would fight while she took advantage of the opening.
• Xu Xiaoshou snatched the seal and used a pill cauldron to repel Mo Mo’s strike.
• Mu Zixi shattered the gray mist crystal with a giant tree and escaped, then offered to help Xu Xiaoshou in exchange for the seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou tossed Mu Zixi a Spirit Crystal instead of the Life Spirit Seal and flew away, leaving her and Mo Mo stunned.

Xu Xiaoshou fled from Mu Zixi and Mo Mo until Mo Mo’s sealed right arm awakened and transformed her into the Gray Mist Man, who grievously injured Mu Zixi. Xu Xiaoshou healed Mu Zixi and faced the Gray Mist Man, unleashing Emberlight Heavenly Flame as his anger erupted.

• Xu Xiaoshou realized Mu Zixi and Mo Mo were chasing him, and he noticed both had reached unexpectedly high cultivation levels.
• Mo Mo struggled against the incense’s influence, then vanished into gray mist after her bronze furnace fell away.
• The Gray Mist Man struck Mu Zixi from behind, shattering her meridians and sealing her sea of qi.
• Xu Xiaoshou caught Mu Zixi, used the Life Spirit Seal to heal her, and confronted the Gray Mist Man as its strength surged to the Master realm.
• After the Gray Mist Man dismissed his anger, Xu Xiaoshou unleashed Emberlight Heavenly Flame across the area.

Xu Xiaoshou attacked the gray-fog figure that had nearly killed Mo Mo, landing a series of blows despite its powerful sealing defenses. The figure stopped its severe bleeding with a strange technique, leaving Xu Xiaoshou to nervously try to talk his way out of the fight.

• Xu Xiaoshou ambushed the gray-fog figure while it tried to reveal its identity and punched it into the sky.
• The gray-fog figure defended itself with the Three-Storey Mysterious Realm, but Xu Xiaoshou detonated fire seeds hidden in its defenses and blasted it again.
• Xu Xiaoshou struck the figure's neck with West Wind Withers Snow, leaving it badly wounded.
• The gray-fog figure used Black Vein: Self-Binding Technique to stop its injuries from worsening.
• Xu Xiaoshou joked that he had not meant to hurt it and tried to resume their conversation, but the figure's wound began bleeding again.

Xu Xiaoshou carried the unconscious Mu Zixi away from the gray-mist figure, resisting its sealing techniques and using Perception to evade its traps. He finally stopped the pursuing figure with a vast field of leaves infused with sword intent and Ordinary Mental Force, leaving it realizing it had been fooled again.

• The gray-mist figure used the Six Paths · Heaven-Obscuring Technique to raise its cultivation, then launched the Great Wind Decree as Xu Xiaoshou fled with Mu Zixi.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Emberlight Heavenly Flame to repel the eerie wind and spent twenty-five thousand Passive Value to raise Perception to Innate Lv.6, expanding its range to nearly five hundred meters.
• Xu Xiaoshou pretended not to see the Sixfold Sealing Gates, repeatedly slipping between them until he escaped the eerie wind's range and angered the gray-mist figure.
• The gray-mist figure chased Xu Xiaoshou, who offered Mu Zixi's Life Spirit Seal in exchange for being allowed to leave.
• Xu Xiaoshou spent Passive Value to raise Sword Mastery to Innate Lv.3, then stopped and lured the gray-mist figure into range of tens of thousands of leaves imbued with sword intent and Ordinary Mental Force.

Xu Xiaoshou unleashed Myriad Swords Form against the gray mist man, but the man broke through the sword attack with Six Paths: Azure Dragon Seal and sealed Xu Xiaoshou’s body and abilities. Just before the Azure Dragon could devour Xu Xiaoshou’s soul, a hidden red interface appeared and blasted the dragon apart.

• Xu Xiaoshou commanded tens of thousands of sword-infused leaves to attack the gray mist man with Myriad Swords Form.
• The gray mist man’s Three-Storey Mysterious Realm barriers shattered, so it used its blood essence to unleash Six Paths: Azure Dragon Seal.
• The Azure Dragon swept away Xu Xiaoshou’s leaves, then plunged into him and sealed his senses, body, abilities, and soul.
• As the Azure Dragon attacked Xu Xiaoshou’s soul origin, a hidden red interface appeared and destroyed the dragon with beams of red light.

Xu Xiaoshou awakened the Berserk Giant after the gray mist man repeatedly stabbed him, then transformed and battered his opponent. The tremors shook nearby trial mystic realms as the inner court disciples wondered what was happening.

• The gray mist man doubted that Xu Xiaoshou was truly sealed, swallowed pills, and charged at him with a sword.
• Trapped in the Yuan Ting, Xu Xiaoshou sensed the gray mist man's attacks and struggled to awaken while his vitality drained away.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the violent power stirring within him was the Berserk Giant awakening effect of Sturdiness and drew it into his body.
• Xu Xiaoshou transformed into a golden giant, seized the gray mist man, and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
• The shaking of Heavenly Mystery Gate disturbed nearby inner court disciples, who complained that the tremors were interrupting their cultivation.