Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou tricked Ai Cangsheng into shooting a painted image of Sang Qiye, while the real Wuxiu emerged unharmed. Ai Cangsheng recognized Xu Xiaoshou’s Painting Technique, then summoned the War Ancestor as the confrontation escalated.

• Xu Xiaoshou mourned Sang Qiye theatrically as Ai Cangsheng’s arrow destroyed what he believed was Wuxiu’s true body.
• A second Wuxiu emerged from the Dead Sea, leaving Feng Zhongzui and the spectators stunned that Ai Cangsheng’s Eye of the Great Dao had been deceived.
• Xu Xiaoshou mocked Ai Cangsheng, reclaimed the fallen Half-Saint Godhood, and changed it into an Origin Dao-Pattern Stone.
• Ai Cangsheng realized Xu Xiaoshou had used Painting Technique to make an image become real, and he accepted that he could not bypass Xu Xiaoshou to attack Wuxiu.
• Ai Cangsheng unsealed Seed-Spell Confinement, formed the Art-Binding Seal, and respectfully invited the War Ancestor.

Ai Cangsheng summoned the War Ancestor and used the Ancient Battle God Platform to force Xu Xiaoshou into a life-and-death battle. The arena formed across the Five Domains, and Ai Cangsheng lifted the first seal of his Seed-Spell Confinement as the fight began.

• Ai Cangsheng invoked the War Ancestor, whose colossal image appeared above the sea and declared that battle would begin.
• Ai Cangsheng revealed the Ancient Battle God Platform and activated it with his holy blood, while Xu Xiaoshou failed to stop it with the Time Ancestor Shadow Staff.
• The War Ancestor set the arena, participants, and terms: Ai Cangsheng and Xu Xiaoshou would fight on the War God Continent until one died.
• Four pillars and silver chains formed the Ancient Battle God Platform across the Five Domains, allowing the combatants to unleash their power while the War Ancestor repaired any destruction.
• Ai Cangsheng shot Zhong Yuanzi to demonstrate the arena's protections, then destroyed his wheelchair, rose, and lifted the first seal of his Seed-Spell Confinement.

Elder Sang sacrificed Resentful Buddha’s blood and summoned Grudge to the Heavenly Ladder, where he used an innate Ancestor God Godhood and the power of vows to melt it. The chapter left Elder Sang frozen in place after declaring that he would control the realm for one year, beyond the Ten Ancestors’ power to reverse.

• Xu Xiaoshou asked Elder Sang how to escape the Ancient Battle God Platform, and Elder Sang said only an Ancestor God could transcend it.
• Elder Sang sacrificed a drop of black blood, causing people across the Five Domains to suffer waves of demonic corruption and Buddhist healing.
• Feng Xiaoshuang’s Dao Transmission Mirror showed the blood transform into a Buddha on the Heavenly Ladder as Elder Sang invoked a divine oracle.
• Elder Sang became a monk-like figure and called himself Grudge, then appeared on the Heavenly Ladder with the Precept Blade and demon staff.
• Grudge released an innate Ancestor God Godhood and used the power of vows to corrode the Heavenly Ladder while purifying the evil drawn from the Five Domains.
• Elder Sang declared that he would melt the Heavenly Ladder and control the realm for one year, then became frozen like a stone statue.

Saint Slave Wuxiu destroyed the Heavenly Ladder and used Resentful Buddha’s power to seize the Holy Spirit Continent, but his life force began to fail as the world’s protective barriers shattered. Ba Zunan’s Sword Self emerged and reached Master Shou, where it took a black token and ordered the Black-and-White Branches to return.

• Wuxiu melted the Heavenly Ladder, cutting off the route between the Holy Spirit Continent and the Saint Emperor Secret Realms while the Ancient Battle God Platform kept Ai Cangsheng from intervening.
• Resentful Buddha’s golden Buddha hand shrank the Holy Spirit Continent and shattered the barriers left by the Ancestor Gods, while Wuxiu’s body began to crumble.
• Master Shou stabilized Wuxiu with the Life Upanishad, and Feng Zhongzui concluded that Wuxiu and Resentful Buddha intended to control the continent for a year.
• The Storyteller pushed Ba Zunan as instructed, releasing Ba Zunan’s youthful Sword Self, which crossed the land and reached the former Heavenly Ladder site.
• Ba Zunan’s Sword Self passed through Master Shou, took a black token marked Eight, and commanded the Black-and-White Branches to return.

Ba Zunan summoned Void Island and several Saint Emperor incarnations, who joined Demon Emperor Black Dragon in empowering Saint Slave Wuxiu's body. Elder Sang became the vessel of the Four Divine Pillars, while Xu Xiaoshou wondered what forces would answer next as dragon roars sounded from the Holy Palace and Saint Mystery Gate.

• Ba Zunan used the Eight-Character Order to summon a corner of Void Island, and Demon Emperor Black Dragon appeared beside it.
• Demon Emperor Black Dragon tried to embrace Xu Xiaoshou but passed through him because the Ancient Battle God Platform prevented outside influence on the battle.
• Ancestor Jinzhao and Seven Trees Emperor appeared as phantoms and poured power into Saint Slave Wuxiu's body, followed by Divine Prison Azure Stone's chain.
• Demon Emperor Black Dragon activated the Four Divine Pillars, which empowered Wuxiu's body and made Elder Sang the vessel of their power.
• Xu Xiaoshou recalled Elder Sang's predictions about the upheavals his return would cause, then heard dragon roars from the Holy Palace and Saint Mystery Gate.

Ye Xiaotian tried to persuade Saint Emperor White Dragon not to involve the Holy Palace in the conflict between Saint Slave and the Holy Spirit Hall, but Purple Pet judged that the Holy Emperor Clans could not be ignored and that Hua Changdeng posed a particular danger. Purple Pet ordered the Holy Palace to prepare defensively and decided to meet Ba Zunan herself.

• Feng Zhongzui learned that Saint Emperor White Dragon and Saint Emperor Purple Pet guarded the Holy Palace, and wondered whether the Holy Palace would oppose Saint Slave.
• Ye Xiaotian arrived at the Saint Mystery Gate and urged White Dragon to stay out of the conflict, arguing that Sang Qiye and Ba Zunan sought a voice rather than innocent lives.
• White Dragon warned that Saint Slave might eventually threaten the Holy Palace, while Ye Xiaotian insisted that Sang Qiye and Xu Xiaoshou would not harm it.
• Purple Pet appeared and questioned Ye Xiaotian about Ba Zunan, then argued that the Holy Emperor Clans were not too occupied to act and that Hua Changdeng was especially troublesome.
• Purple Pet ordered White Dragon to remain inside the Saint Mystery Gate and told Ye Xiaotian to prepare three lineages for defense and take her to meet Ba Zunan.

Holy Emperor Purple Pet confronted Ba Zunan, but Xu Xiaoshou stepped forward and revealed overwhelming sword momentum as he threatened her and the entire Holy Palace. The chapter ended with Purple Pet enraged and Xu Xiaoshou warning that the Holy Palace would be buried if she did not leave.

• Holy Emperor Purple Pet appeared beside Ye Xiaotian, identified herself as a Divine Spirit-blooded Holy Emperor, and challenged Ba Zunan.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Thought Deprivation to read Purple Pet's thoughts and judged her to be impulsive, while Ba Zunan silently assured him he would handle the beast himself.
• Xu Xiaoshou dismissed Ba Zunan as weak, then announced that he represented the Saint Slave and First Pavilion Under Heaven in delivering a message to the Holy Palace.
• Xu Xiaoshou unleashed ten Profound-Meaning Array Diagrams, the black moon, and overwhelming sword momentum as the Sword Self's swords shifted their worship to him.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Purple Pet to leave or die, then threatened to bury the entire Holy Palace if she stayed.

Xu Xiaoshou confronted Saint Emperor Purple Pet and, while facing her threats, comprehended a new Emotion Sword Art Aspect that united his past and present selves. He declared his Dao complete, leaving Feng Zhongzui to identify the Aspect as the Two Lives Aspect and connect it to the Reincarnation Token.

• Xu Xiaoshou openly threatened Purple Pet, declaring that he would rather threaten her than submit to threats.
• Ye Xiaotian restrained Purple Pet as she nearly struck Xu Xiaoshou, while Xu Xiaoshou condemned her pride and dismissed her Saint Emperor status.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s past and present selves appeared behind him as he realized an Aspect through the Emotion Sword Art.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized his resolve to never retreat as the foundation of his Dao and asked Purple Pet whether she had ever died.
• Xu Xiaoshou declared that his Dao was complete, and Feng Zhongzui identified his new Aspect as the Two Lives Aspect and suspected a connection to the Reincarnation Token.

Xu Xiaoshou completed his Emotion Sword Art by forming the Two Lives Aspect and Reincarnation Token, forcing Holy Emperor Purple Pet to abandon her confrontation. With his sword momentum unleashed, he called for the final sword he needed before facing Ai Cangsheng.

• Xu Xiaoshou’s breakthrough spread across the Five Domains as ancient sword cultivators explained the Two Lives Aspect and Reincarnation Token, while Ba Zunan recognized that Xu Xiaoshou had verified his Dao.
• Purple Pet realized Xu Xiaoshou might open the Mysterious Gate and threaten her, and she hesitated to attack despite being a Holy Emperor.
• Xu Xiaoshou told Purple Pet to leave or wager their lives, and Ye Xiaotian used Spatial Upanishad to take her away.
• Xu Xiaoshou chose not to provoke the Holy Palace further and turned his attention back to Ai Cangsheng.
• Xu Xiaoshou declared his Dao complete and called for the final sword from the Relics of the Gods.

Cao Erzhu shattered a Seal Stone casket to reveal that he had reforged Xu Xiaoshou’s Hidden Pain into a first-grade sword, stunning the Five Domains as it rose into the sky. The chapter ended with Mei Suren and Ba Zunan reflecting on the sword’s awakening and the road ahead.

• Feng Zhongzui recognized Cao Erzhu carrying a trembling Seal Stone sword casket and speculated that it held a sword reforged by Kui Leihan.
• Cao Erzhu roared, “Are kings, marquises, generals, and ministers born to their stations?” and shattered the casket.
• Hidden Pain burst free, and Feng Zhongzui recognized it as Xu Xiaoshou’s bound sword, now a first-grade Famous Sword.
• Hidden Pain revealed through Sword Thought how Cao Erzhu had reforged it through repeated hammering and tempering, awakening its resilient spirit.
• Mei Suren watched the sword’s ascent from Heting Mountain and reflected on his own lost youth.
• Ba Zunan heard Hidden Pain awaken and contemplated the sword and the path before him.

Xu Xiaoshou completed Hidden Pain’s blood sacrifice and used the sword to destroy Ai Cangsheng’s Forbidden: Evil God’s Arrow, revealing a fierce exchange of techniques across the Central and Southern Domains. As Ai Cangsheng launched an arrow array and forbidden spell, Xu Xiaoshou counterattacked with multiple Desireless Reckless Swords and began casting Forbidden: Dust-Sealed Gate.

• Cao Erzhu told Xu Xiaoshou that Hidden Pain needed a blood sacrifice, and the sword plunged into Xu Xiaoshou’s heart to drink his blood and transfer Sword Thought.
• Xu Xiaoshou pulled Hidden Pain free, gained a vast surge of Sword Thought, and met Ai Cangsheng’s Forbidden: Evil God’s Arrow with a direct sword strike.
• Xu Xiaoshou used the Desireless Reckless Sword to shatter the arrow, while Ai Cangsheng revealed an array of eighty-one arrows and cast Forbidden: Sui-Bodied Rebirth Technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent six Desireless Reckless Swords to attack Ai Cangsheng in the Southern Domain while transforming into his three-headed, six-armed Asura form.
• Xu Xiaoshou formed a hand seal and began casting Forbidden: Dust-Sealed Gate.

Xu Xiaoshou wounded Ai Cangsheng with a new Sealing Sword Formation, then endured Ai Cangsheng’s Sui-Body Weighting Technique and used the Immeasurable Silence Seed to devour its attack. As Xu Xiaoshou headed toward the Eastern Region, Ai Cangsheng confronted Sui Yin, who tried to draw him into merging with it.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Sealing: Dust-Sealed Gate, a Sealing Sword Formation built from the six Desireless Reckless Swords, to trap and wound Ai Cangsheng.
• Ai Cangsheng retaliated with Sealing: Sui-Body Weighting Technique, pinning Xu Xiaoshou with golden arrows that weighed down his body and techniques.
• Xu Xiaoshou revealed that Sui Yin spirits were weighing him down, then used the Immeasurable Silence Seed to devour the golden attack and break the technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou identified Ai Cangsheng’s escape as Death-Substitution Reversal Technique and headed east toward him.
• Ai Cangsheng emerged in the Eastern Region and saw Lei Xiaoxiao tormented by Sui Yin before Sui Yin took her form and urged him to merge with it.

Ai Cangsheng sealed away the Sui Yin presence in a cloth doll, then unsealed Seed-Spell Confinement through its sixth seal and summoned Sui Yin’s eye, body, and aspect while retaining control. He faced Xu Xiaoshou in his transformed state, declaring that Xu could either tread over his corpse to achieve the Dao or die.

• Ai Cangsheng sacrificed part of his soul to seal the cave scene and the humanoid Sui Yin inside a cloth doll, but Sui Yin’s trace remained in Xu Xiaoshou’s arts.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the battlefield and taunted Ai Cangsheng, recognizing the doll’s Sui Yin aura and suspecting Ai Cangsheng had helped Sui Yin return to the Holy Spirit Continent.
• Ai Cangsheng unsealed the second and third stages of Seed-Spell Confinement, unleashing Sui Yin’s power as the Ancient Battle God Platform revived those killed by the initial surge.
• Ai Cangsheng released the fourth and fifth stages, then announced the sixth seal as his power darkened the skies across the Eastern Domain Sword God Heaven.
• Ai Cangsheng invoked Sui Descent, grew Sui Yin eyes, heads, and arms, and used the Evil Sin Bow while keeping his own will intact.
• Ai Cangsheng confronted Xu Xiaoshou and declared that Xu would achieve the Dao by stepping over his corpse or die.

Xu Xiaoshou unleashed his Second Realm sword techniques against Ai Cangsheng, but even the Unified Extreme Sword only left a shallow wound on the Sui-patterned Ten Seat Holder. Ai Cangsheng then aimed the transformed Evil Sin Bow at Xu Xiaoshou, whose Art Dao Disk revealed that he had been locked as the arrow’s target.

• Ai Cangsheng unsealed Seed-Spell Confinement’s Sixth Segment, and Dao Qiongchang told Xu Xiaoshou that the Death-Ban Technique could suppress Sui Yin and intercept some of its power.
• Xu Xiaoshou formed nine Desireless Reckless Swords with Hidden Pain and attacked Ai Cangsheng with the Heart Sword Technique’s second realm, but Ai Cangsheng caught or blocked all nine without moving.
• Xu Xiaoshou called the swords back and merged them into the Unified Extreme Sword, which cut through eighteen Eastern Region realms and left a shallow gash across Ai Cangsheng’s body.
• Ai Cangsheng drew the Evil Sin Bow and formed an arrow that pushed everything within ten thousand miles away, while Xu Xiaoshou remained inside its force field.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed the Art Dao Disk reveal a Hook-and-Drag Eye above his head and lock onto him just as a blast shook the Five Domains.

Xu Xiaoshou used the Immeasurable Silence Seed to swallow Ai Cangsheng’s devastating Sixth-Stage arrow, while Dao Xuanji watched the battle and set a plan in motion at Crossroads Corner. There, she approached a newcomer named Liu Guifen, who intended to fight his way north and become Lord of North Street.

• Ai Cangsheng’s Sixth-Stage arrow drove Xu Xiaoshou from the Eastern Region to the Western Domain, where Absolute Repulsion kept it from striking him directly but left him badly injured.
• Xu Xiaoshou activated the Immeasurable Silence Seed and swallowed the arrow, stunning the observers and the Xuanji Star Attendants.
• Dao Xuanji assessed Ai Cangsheng’s overwhelming power, reconsidered her plans, and decided to pursue an alliance with the Devil Ancestor.
• Dao Xuanji entered Crossroads Corner intending to find the Inverted Buddha Pagoda, claim the Devil Ancestor’s power, and take control of the Crossroads.
• Dao Xuanji met Liu Guifen, who asked how to reach North Street and declared that he would kill his way out and become its lord.

Xu Xiaoshou survived Ai Cangsheng’s first two arrows by absorbing their power, but the third tore apart his arm and revealed that Ai Cangsheng had been testing him. Ai Cangsheng unleashed his seventh-stage Starfall art, and Xu Xiaoshou called on Ba Zunan for help as the meteors descended.

• Xu Xiaoshou absorbed Ai Cangsheng’s first arrow, healed himself, and taunted him into firing again.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped Ai Cangsheng’s second arrow with Absolute Repulsion and Dao Discharge, then absorbed its energy while losing only his arm.
• Ai Cangsheng’s third arrow used Sui Pattern-amplified force to tear apart Xu Xiaoshou’s arm, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to transform into the Limit Giant.
• Ai Cangsheng shattered his sixth-stage shackles and invoked seventh-stage Starfall, summoning the Art Ancestor and three thousand Sui Yin to unleash a meteor barrage.
• Xu Xiaoshou tried to flee the falling meteors, then shouted for Ba Zunan to save him.

Xu Xiaoshou harvested Passive Value from the Five Domains and evolved Passive Fist while Ai Cangsheng’s arrow rain descended. He used Grotesque Trickery, Painting Mastery, and the Way of Arts to create a false Buddha realm that redirected the arrows and let the Immeasurable Silence Seed absorb one, then challenged Ai Cangsheng to continue.

• The Storyteller urged Ba Zunan to save Xu Xiaoshou, but Ba Zunan said Xu Xiaoshou had not yet reached a desperate end.
• Xu Xiaoshou appeared across marked locations throughout the Five Domains to harvest Passive Value, then used it to evolve Passive Fist for a second time.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s evolved Passive Fist sent excess Charge Value into the Immeasurable Silence Seed, while he prepared to face Ai Cangsheng’s arrow rain.
• Xu Xiaoshou invoked a false Buddha and used Grotesque Trickery, Painting Mastery, and the Way of Arts to transform spatial techniques into a temporary realm that swallowed one arrow and pushed the rest away.
• The realm shattered, but Xu Xiaoshou’s Immeasurable Silence Seed absorbed the Seven-Section Arrow and restored his strength.
• Xu Xiaoshou looked toward Ai Cangsheng and asked whether seven sections were all he had.

Xu Xiaoshou and Ai Cangsheng escalated their battle as Xu devoured Starfall arrows to replenish his power, while Ai used bans and the Light of Primal Unraveling to weaken him. Xu countered Ai’s Dead Sea trap by turning the sea into a bow and launching himself at Ai, leaving two Limit Giants to attack as Ai prepared the Blade of the Fallen Kingdom.

• Ai Cangsheng bound the Limit Giant with Dao chains, letting a Starfall arrow blast apart its arm before Xu Xiaoshou repelled the chains and devoured more arrows.
• Xu Xiaoshou filled most of his Immeasurable Silence Seed, but Ai Cangsheng used Three Thousand Law Bans and the Light of Primal Unraveling to regress him to his original form.
• Xu Xiaoshou restored himself with Human Realm, then retreated when Ai Cangsheng baited him with the Hook-and-Drag Eye and moved the tenth layer of the Dead Sea onto the battlefield.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Grotesque Trickery to turn the Dead Sea into a bow and shoot himself toward Ai Cangsheng, revealing the Hook-and-Drag Eye and producing two Limit Giants beside him.
• One Limit Giant struck Ai Cangsheng with four Passive Fists while the other pulled its power to the point of explosion, and Ai Cangsheng began the Blade of the Fallen Kingdom as the second giant vowed to ignite the world.

Xu Xiaoshou defeated Ai Cangsheng’s body with a barrage of Passive Fists and Jinren’s self-destruction, then used arts to trace Ai Cangsheng’s escaped soul. The search led to the Southern Domain, where a soul-gathering technique manifested as Sui Yin and announced Soul-Returning Mound.

• Xu Xiaoshou broke Ai Cangsheng’s Sui patterns with a charged Passive Fist and smashed his body apart with successive punches.
• Jinren gathered Ai Cangsheng’s remains and self-destructed, devastating the Eastern Region before both Master Shou and Ai Cangsheng vanished.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to the Central Region unharmed, used Mimicry and Blood Chain Trace-Back, and discovered Ai Cangsheng had escaped as a soul.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s search traced Ai Cangsheng to the Southern Domain, where spirit cultivators’ soul power gathered into a three-headed, six-armed image of Sui Yin.
• A seed pulsed above the image as a voice announced, “Art · Soul-Returning Mound!”

Xu Xiaoshou tried to destroy Ai Cangsheng’s soul before he could return, but Ai Cangsheng used False Ancestor Transformation to become an Ancestor God for an instant. As Ai Cangsheng prepared a single arrow aimed across the world, the chapter ended with the Holy Spirit Continent praying for peace.

• Feng Zhongzui explained that the Soul-Returning Mound could let Ai Cangsheng reincarnate and gain power from the Art Ancestor’s shattered soul, possibly unlocking the eighth seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou compressed space between the Central and Southern Domains and launched Illusion Annihilation Finger at Ai Cangsheng’s soul and spell seed.
• The spell seed opened, and Ai Cangsheng returned after using Seed-Spell Nurturing the Divine: False Ancestor Transformation.
• Ai Cangsheng halted Xu Xiaoshou’s attack, unfolded his Profound-Meaning Array Diagram, and released the seventh, eighth, and ninth seals of Seed Imprisonment.
• Ai Cangsheng reclaimed the Evil Sin Bow and used hooked eyes to locate powerful figures throughout the Five Domains.
• As his body crumbled, Ai Cangsheng announced that one arrow would suffice, raised the Evil Sin Bow, and invoked Seed-Spell sacrifice.