Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou investigated Sunflower Kong Yuhen’s strange ability to pass through Blackstone Prison and questioned him about ancient Ancestor Gods, while the Five Domains debated whether he was the same Kong Yuhen known from history. The chapter ended with Aunt Xiang recognizing Xu Xiaoshou and Sunflower refusing to rescue her despite claiming he could.

• Xu Xiaoshou tested Sunflower Kong Yuhen at Blackstone Prison and saw him pass through its barriers as though they were not obstacles.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected Sunflower’s ability to space and questioned him about his age and the Ancestor Gods he had met.
• Sunflower said he had known Holy Ancestor, Dragon Ancestor, Heavenly Ancestor, and Medicine Ancestor, but had never seen Time Ancestor.
• Elder Sang advised Xu Xiaoshou to stop questioning Sunflower and make use of him, so Xu Xiaoshou asked whether he knew Ye Xiaotian and Aunt Xiang.
• Aunt Xiang recognized Xu Xiaoshou, and Sunflower said he could rescue her but refused because he did not want to be tainted by karma.

Aunt Xiang accepted Sunflower Kong Yuhen’s Spatial Origin Seed, escaped Blackstone Prison, and agreed to retrieve people while Xu Xiaoshou continued toward the tenth level to find Wuxiu. Xu Xiaoshou glimpsed the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion and the unsettling connection between Kong Yuhen and Huangquan, while Dao Qiongchang’s recording guaranteed Aunt Xiang’s safety and accidentally exposed his past attempt to use her.

• Sunflower Kong Yuhen offered Aunt Xiang a Spatial Origin Seed to settle his karmic debt, and she swallowed it under an unseen guidance.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion and discovered Kong Yuhen seated with a nested wooden carving of Huangquan, then suspected Huangquan had been reclaimed.
• The Spatial Origin Seed let Aunt Xiang turn ethereal and pass through Blackstone Prison, and she manifested a colossal sunflower aspect.
• Aunt Xiang rejected Xu Xiaoshou’s plan to use her as bait, agreed to retrieve people around the Dead Sea, and asked him to continue toward the tenth level for Wuxiu.
• Aunt Xiang chose Bei Bei to accompany her, and Bei Bei gave Xu Xiaoshou the Sovereign Token before Aunt Xiang took her away.
• Aunt Xiang played Dao Qiongchang’s guarantee against anyone who pursued her, and the recording continued long enough to reveal that he had once used her to deal with Xu Xiaoshou.

Xu Xiaoshou opened his eyes in the Dead Sea and began a Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation, revealing a path that united ancient sword cultivation, Gu Wu, and spirit refinement. As four Ancestor Trees aided his tribulation and the first bolt was absorbed, Ba Zunan recognized that Xu Xiaoshou had brought the three Daos together.

• Aunt Xiang left with Bei Bei after giving Xu Xiaoshou the Recording Pearl and the matter of Dao Qiongchang.
• Jinren surveyed events across the Five Domains from Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain and reflected that the remaining choices rested on Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou opened his eyes in the Dead Sea, and his gaze struck Feng Zhongzui with a vision that led him to attain enlightenment.
• Xu Xiaoshou manifested the imagery of Ancient Sword Arts, Gu Wu, and numerous Dao Disks as the Dead Sea roiled around him.
• Feng Xiaoshuang reported that Xu Xiaoshou was undergoing a Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation in the Dead Sea, while four Ancestor Trees—including the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant—sent aid and Dao Fruits.
• The four Ancestor Trees concealed the tribulation as its first bolt passed through the Dead Sea and was absorbed by Xu Xiaoshou; Ba Zunan praised his union of the three Daos.

Xu Xiaoshou began the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation beneath the Dead Sea and used the opportunity to pursue several Second Awakenings. As he gained Absolute Repulsion and Immeasurable Silence Seed, Ai Cangsheng refused to attack him and proposed a future fair fight on the Ancient Battle God Platform.

• Xu Xiaoshou began the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation on the Dead Sea's sixth level and spent Passive Value on Second Awakening skills.
• Zhong Yuanzi urged Ai Cangsheng to shoot Xu Xiaoshou, but Ai Cangsheng refused and said he would fight Xu Xiaoshou fairly on the Ancient Battle God Platform after he rescued Wuxiu.
• Xu Xiaoshou successfully awakened Countershock into Absolute Repulsion, which halted the lightning tribulation just outside his body and could push attacks back at the cost of energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that Absolute Repulsion's energy cost was a weakness and began trying to awaken Conversion to replenish his reserves.
• After seventeen failed attempts, Xu Xiaoshou successfully awakened Conversion into Immeasurable Silence Seed.

Ai Cangsheng saw Lei Xiaoxiao and resisted Sui Yin’s attempt to tempt him with the Supreme Mystery Scripture, while Xu Xiaoshou awakened the Immeasurable Silence Seed during his lightning tribulation. The chapter left Xu Xiaoshou continuing his second-awakening attempts as he prepared to test Jinren’s transformation.

• Zhong Yuanzi realized Ai Cangsheng was seeing Lei Xiaoxiao and connected the visions to Dao Qiongchang’s Confinement hexagram.
• Lei Xiaoxiao appeared before Ai Cangsheng and offered him the Supreme Mystery Scripture, but Ai Cangsheng recognized Sui Yin’s influence and rejected the temptation.
• Xu Xiaoshou awakened the Immeasurable Silence Seed, which absorbed the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation and could convert and store energy attacks.
• Xu Xiaoshou tested the Immeasurable Silence Seed with Heaven Ancestor Power and Sword Thought, then considered how it might fare against Ai Cangsheng and other powerful enemies.
• Xu Xiaoshou resumed exchanging for Awakening Stones and began trying to awaken Jinren’s transformation.

Xu Xiaoshou awakened Grotesque Trickery and discovered he could transform energy, objects, and living beings into whatever he imagined, briefly creating a colossal Heavenly Ancestor's Goose before grasping the idea of the Grotesque Divine Court. Elsewhere, Hua Lai returned to his ancestor and recounted his journey, ending with a cryptic insight about the Ten Ancestors.

• After eleven failed attempts, Xu Xiaoshou successfully awakened Transformation into Grotesque Trickery and tested it by turning lightning tribulation into living geese and a spiritual sword into a wooden pig.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Heaven Ancestor Power to create a gigantic Heavenly Ancestor's Goose in the Dead Sea, shocking the Five Domains spectators and Dao Qiongchang before the goose vanished.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Grotesque Trickery could transform immense things if he had enough energy and understood the concept of the Grotesque Divine Court.
• Hua Lai guided Old Master You through the desert toward his ancestor, then vanished after demonstrating that his ancestor’s path could not be followed by ordinary means.
• Hua Lai returned to his ancestor and described the places and powers he had encountered, admitting he had forgotten to seek the Time Ancestor.
• Hua Lai summarized his insight into the Ten Ancestors: technique and evil, Gods and Devils, medicine and ghosts, the Four Ancestors’ reincarnation, and the eternity of time and space.

Bei Huai learned that Xu Xiaoshou had cultivated a life technique close to the Medicine Ancestor’s power, while a mysterious black-robed figure said it would choose Bei Huai over him. During the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation, Xu Xiaoshou awakened Berserk Golden Body, discovered it was a last-resort ability that activated at death’s door, and finished his second-awakening spree as the tribulation neared its final stage.

• A black-robed figure told Bei Huai that Xu Xiaoshou had reached the life force of medicine through a technique close to Dao, and said it would choose Bei Huai over him.
• Bei Huai wondered whether the figure should choose Xu Xiaoshou instead, then continued recording his research in his diary and manual.
• While enduring the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation in the Dead Sea, Xu Xiaoshou considered how Grotesque Trickery related to life and began awakening Resilience a second time.
• Xu Xiaoshou successfully awakened Berserk Golden Body and learned it drew on a peak state, activated automatically at death’s door, and lasted five breaths.
• Xu Xiaoshou speculated about using Jinren and the Second True Body to extend Berserk Golden Body, then worried about dying before dismissing the idea as impractical.
• Xu Xiaoshou completed the second-awakening carnival with 68,864,399 Passive Value remaining as the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation approached its final stage.

Xu Xiaoshou completed the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation and reached peak Great Void, while the Passive System devoured his Great Void Power. After weighing the dangers of advancing his Dao, he chose to push Ancient Sword Arts toward Transcendent Dao Transformation, potentially drawing the Sword Ancestor’s attention.

• Xu Xiaoshou passed the Nine-Death Lightning Tribulation, but the Passive System consumed his forming Great Void Power before spectators could see it.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the system might be stripping away the Holy Ancestor’s imprints, then set aside his suspicions and stabilized at peak Great Void.
• Xu Xiaoshou considered advancing his Sword, Life, and Space Dao Disks and worried that Transcendent Dao Transformation could bring him face-to-face with an Ancestor God.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided not to ask Ba Zunan for guidance and exchanged Passive Value for Dao-Nurturing Seeds to advance Ancient Sword Arts.

Xu Xiaoshou completed his Sword Dao Disk’s advancement to 90% and projected a Will Sword through the Dead Sea, then encountered a mysterious flower-filled world. He deduced that its hidden host was You Tu and challenged him to appear.

• Xu Xiaoshou spent fifteen days comprehending Ancient Sword Arts and raised his Sword Dao Disk to 90%.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Sword Thought to perceive Ba Zunan and saw how greatly Ba Zunan’s reputation amplified his Sword Thought.
• Xu Xiaoshou formed a Will Sword that pierced through the Dead Sea and drew the attention of Ai Cangsheng and the observers across the Five Domains.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s consciousness entered a Flower World, where a hidden voice called to him and showed him flowers blooming and withering through apparent cycles of time.
• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the unseen speaker was You Tu and thrust a phantom Taicheng Sword forward while calling him out.

Xu Xiaoshou encountered the Flower Sword Saint Hua Weiyang in the Flower World, but Sui Yin revealed that the apparent conversation had been a trap. As Sui Yin attacked with the Forbidden Art-Dog Feast and Kong Yuhen took the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff, Xu Xiaoshou was left in mortal danger.

• Xu Xiaoshou recognized Hua Weiyang as the Flower Sword Saint, and Hua Weiyang explained that he had become the Dao Guardian of the Flower World.
• Hua Weiyang told Xu Xiaoshou that Transcendent Dao Transformation could behold an Ancestor, and Xu Xiaoshou trusted him after his information panel showed no deception.
• The Flower World withered into a battlefield, where Sui Yin appeared and mocked Xu Xiaoshou for believing the conversation had been real.
• Kong Yuhen emerged from the Ancient Past Forget-Worry Pavilion and confiscated the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff from Xu Xiaoshou.
• Sui Yin revealed that its Art Flower was real, then unleashed the Forbidden Art-Dog Feast, summoning nine enormous flower maws to tear Xu Xiaoshou apart.

Xu Xiaoshou recognized Hua Weiyang’s Second World as an illusion, then used his own Second World to summon Shen Yi and strike at Hua Weiyang’s world. The strike sent Xu Xiaoshou into what appeared to be the deepest part of Hua Weiyang’s memories, where he approached a wooden hut and heard someone angrily asking where Weiyang was.

• After Xu Xiaoshou’s body transformed into a Limit Giant, he realized that Sui Yin and Kong Yuhen were manifestations of Hua Weiyang’s illusion and let the illusion destroy him.
• Xu Xiaoshou created his own Second World, filled it with power from nine Immeasurable Silence Seeds, and summoned Aunt Xiang and Shen Yi.
• Aunt Xiang summoned Shen Yi and died; Shen Yi used Fourfold Renunciation to strike the Thirty-Third Heaven and shatter Hua Weiyang’s world.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to his body in a quiet mountain landscape and concluded that he had entered Hua Weiyang’s memories.
• Xu Xiaoshou approached a wooden hut and heard someone inside angrily demanding to know where Weiyang was.

Xu Xiaoshou became trapped in Hua Weiyang’s nested illusion, where he discovered that the Sword God Gu Louying was his own aged self, before waking in the Flower World still connected to Hua Weiyang. There, Hua Lai relayed cryptic words from his ancestor and added a final saying of his own.

• Xu Xiaoshou entered Hua Weiyang’s childhood memories, mistook Feng Chengxue for a stranger, and learned that Feng Chengxue was Feng Wuhen’s son.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw the aged Sword God Gu Louying and recognized his own face, while the revelation plunged his consciousness into overlapping memories and identities.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Hua Weiyang had trapped him inside a nested Second World, but the illusion’s Flower World was crushed by Shen Yi’s Overlord’s staff before Xu Xiaoshou could escape it.
• Xu Xiaoshou woke in the Dead Sea, still connected to the Flower World, and met A Lai, who identified himself as Hua Weiyang’s descendant.
• A Lai told Xu Xiaoshou that Hua Weiyang had sent him three sayings about Transcendent Dao Transformation, self-discernment, and Ancestor Gods, then shared his own statement about space and time being eternal.

After leaving the Flower World, Xu Xiaoshou pondered Hua Weiyang’s cryptic warning and sought Dao Qiongchang’s interpretation. Dao revealed that several Ancestor Gods might be paired identities of the same beings, leaving Xu Xiaoshou alarmed and uncertain about the nature of his own Second True Body.

• Xu Xiaoshou recalled Hua Weiyang’s advice, concluded that the Sword Ancestor might have suffered an accident, and weighed whether to pursue Transcendent Dao Transformation with the Life and Space Dao Disks.
• Xu Xiaoshou left the Dead Sea with a Sword Thought avatar and received Dao Qiongchang’s message that the Ten Ancestors might consist of only eight ancestors.
• Dao Qiongchang explained that Lei Shuangxing’s God-Devil Pupils had let him integrate divine and demonic nature powers as a mortal.
• Dao Qiongchang said the Art Ancestor and Sui Yin, the Holy Ancestor and Devil Ancestor, and the Medicine Ancestor and Ghost Ancestor were paired identities, while the sword, dragon, battle, and heaven ancestors had fallen.
• Xu Xiaoshou feared that the paired Ancestor Gods resembled his relationship with Jinren, then counted the named ancestors and found the total came to ten.

Xu Xiaoshou learned that the Ancestor Gods were pursuing a way to ascend without Ancestor God Godhoods, then used his vast Passive Value to advance several Great Dao Disks while avoiding encounters with certain ancestors. He ended by investing in the Art Dao Disk and challenging Feng Zhongzui through the Dao Transmission Mirror.

• Dao Qiongchang explained how Ancestor God Godhoods accounted for the Ten Ancestors and described the possibility of ascending from two to one to zero without relying on a Godhood.
• Xu Xiaoshou connected that pursuit to Bei Huai, Kui Leihan, Dao Qiongchang, and Ba Zunan, and resolved to seek a higher-rule place where his Great Dao Disks could reach full perfection.
• Xu Xiaoshou spent Passive Value raising the Space Dao Disk and Life Dao Disk to 89%, stopping short of Transcendent Dao Transformation to avoid drawing out the Time Ancestor or Medicine Ancestor.
• Xu Xiaoshou raised the Fire Dao Disk from 20% to 89%, hoping to meet the Holy Ancestor or Devil Ancestor and show Elder Sang his progress.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered that the Art Dao Disk was a large disk and that advancing it would cost far more than he had first expected.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped investing in the Art Dao Disk, transformed into Master Shou, and challenged Feng Zhongzui by saying he could kill him like a dog in half a month.

After raising the Art Dao Disk to 89%, Xu Xiaoshou used Evolution Water to improve Passive Fist, Unity of Heaven and Man, and Illusion Annihilation Finger. The new abilities gave him repeated charged attacks, access to multiple Dao Disks, a dangerous Void Dao Transformation, and a way to store excess Illusion Annihilation Finger charge in an Immeasurable Silence Seed.

• Xu Xiaoshou finished comprehending the Art Dao Disk to 89% after five days and decided to spend his remaining resources on Evolution Water.
• Xu Xiaoshou evolved Passive Fist, allowing it to retain half its charge after being used.
• Xu Xiaoshou evolved Unity of Heaven and Man so he could activate multiple Great Dao Disks at once.
• Xu Xiaoshou evolved Unity of Heaven and Man a second time, gaining Void Dao Transformation when he stepped on a Great Dao Disk at 90% or higher, at the risk of losing his reason.
• Xu Xiaoshou evolved Illusion Annihilation Finger a second time, causing charge above 1000% to flow into an Immeasurable Silence Seed.

Xu Xiaoshou spent his remaining Passive Value to raise his Art Dao Disk to 90%, then entered Hua Weiyang’s Flower World and manifested his Body, Soul, and Intent Dao Disks together. Sui Yin appeared in the vision and scorned Xu Xiaoshou for coveting the Way of Arts without bowing to an Ancestor God.

• Xu Xiaoshou realized Illusion Annihilation Finger could convert excess charge into energy for Immeasurable Silence Seed, and he prepared to face Ai Cangsheng after finishing his upgrades.
• Xu Xiaoshou spent one million Passive Value on Dao-Nurturing Seeds and advanced his Art Dao Disk to 90%.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered Hua Weiyang’s Flower World and manifested the Body, Soul, and Intent Dao Disks simultaneously to anchor his consciousness.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried to speak with Hua Weiyang and asked to discuss the Illusion Sword Technique before being sent to see Sui Yin.
• Sui Yin forced Its presence into the Flower World, and Hua Weiyang warned Xu Xiaoshou to be cautious.
• Sui Yin appeared on a divine throne and derided Xu Xiaoshou as a child who coveted the Way of Arts but refused to bow before an Ancestor God.

Xu Xiaoshou taunted Sui Yin into considering cooperation while probing for the Ancestor God’s allies and contingencies. He guessed that the Devil Ancestor was connected to the Inverted Buddha Pagoda, provoking Sui Yin into demanding to know whether the Devil Ancestor was bound to him.

• Xu Xiaoshou recognized Sui Yin as the real Evil God and mocked it by feigning an attack that made it recoil.
• Hua Weiyang warned Xu Xiaoshou that Sui Yin was on the continent, and Xu Xiaoshou realized it had returned to the Holy Spirit Continent.
• Xu Xiaoshou proposed that he and Sui Yin cooperate, claiming his strength and companions made him a better prospect than Sui Yin’s hidden contingencies.
• Xu Xiaoshou questioned Sui Yin about the Devil Ancestor and Ghost Ancestor, then implied that his understanding of the Way of Art qualified him to negotiate as an equal.
• Xu Xiaoshou named the Inverted Buddha Pagoda, causing Sui Yin to appear before him in a fury and ask whether the Devil Ancestor was bound to him.

Xu Xiaoshou deduced that Sui Yin had allied with the Devil Ancestor and used Yue Gongli and Ai Cangsheng as backup plans, then provoked Sui Yin into retreating. Hua Weiyang warned him that Sui Yin was ancient, and Sui Yin reached across time to reveal a forbidden technique that could alter the past.

• Xu Xiaoshou reasoned that the Inverted Buddha Pagoda sealed the Devil Ancestor and that Sui Yin had used Yue Gongli and the Half-Saints invited to the Relics of the Gods to regain power.
• Xu Xiaoshou named Yue Gongli and Ai Cangsheng as Sui Yin’s likely backup plans, startling Sui Yin and weakening its confidence.
• Xu Xiaoshou mocked Sui Yin’s condition and dismissed its offer of fortune, while Sui Yin decided to avoid him and seek more manageable hosts.
• Hua Weiyang warned Xu Xiaoshou that Sui Yin was ancient, and a force pulled his consciousness from the Flower World into a past scene in the Relics of the Gods.
• Sui Yin looked through the past at Xu Xiaoshou and used a forbidden technique called Reversal of Forgotten Appearances.

Xu Xiaoshou learned Sui Yin’s Reversal of Forgotten Appearances and realized it altered how forgetting and visibility worked, then headed toward the Dead Sea’s tenth level. Meanwhile, Elder Sang prepared to leave the Relics of the Gods as Xu Xiaoshou’s anticipated confrontation with Ai Cangsheng drew near.

• Xu Xiaoshou returned from the Relics of the Gods and suspected Dao Qiongchang could detect changes to the past.
• Xu Xiaoshou mastered Reversal of Forgotten Appearances and discovered it twisted Vanishing Art and World-Apart Independence, making his appearance visible and strengthening memory of him.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to postpone meeting the other Ancestor Gods, then told Feng Zhongzui to explore the Dead Sea’s tenth level with him.
• Feng Yujin watched Xu Xiaoshou’s progress and noted that the world was focused on the tenth level and Wuxiu’s return.
• Water Ghost defeated Elder Sang at chess and urged him to leave matters to Xu Xiaoshou, but Elder Sang said he was prepared and set out.

Xu Xiaoshou found Saint Slave Wuxiu on the Dead Sea’s tenth level and appeared to resurrect him using a broken willow branch, but Great Emperor Cangsheng immediately attacked with the Evil Sin Bow. The Spirit-Shaking Arrow and a relentless barrage pinned Xu Xiaoshou away while the arrows pierced Wuxiu, leaving Xu Xiaoshou powerless to save his master.

• Feng Zhongzui led the Holy Mountain Refugee Group through the black waters of the tenth level, where he sensed the Moonless Sword Immortal’s Mo Sword Technique and traces of Wuxiu’s Scarlet-Scorching Hand.
• Xu Xiaoshou placed a broken willow branch in the Dead Sea and called for Elder Sang to come back to life, causing the water to boil as Wuxiu appeared in prison garb beneath a Straw Hat.
• Great Emperor Cangsheng fired the Evil Sin Bow’s Spirit-Shaking Arrow as Xu Xiaoshou turned toward the attack.
• The arrow stunned everyone, and Cangsheng’s follow-up barrage pinned Xu Xiaoshou away while numerous arrows pierced Wuxiu’s body, soul, and intent.
• Xu Xiaoshou cried out for Elder Sang and begged Ai Cangsheng to stop as he watched his master被 struck by the arrows.