Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoshou used the Sword of Illusion to trap Ai Cangsheng in a dream of his own making, undoing the Great Emperor’s apparent Virtual Ancestor Transformation and the arrow he had loosed. As the illusion collapsed and Ai Cangsheng’s technique seed split open, its heads and limbs knelt and called for the Descent of Ancestor Shou Technique.

• Ai Cangsheng offered the spell seed, causing the Ancient Battle God Platform to crack and the Hook-and-Drag Eye to target dangerous figures across the Five Domains.
• Dao Qiongchang realized Xu Xiaoshou was behind the unfolding deception, and Feng Tingchen turned the Dao Transmission Mirror’s focus toward Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Illusion Sword Technique revealed the Ten Seat Holders as real while the world around them became a dreamlike Great Unity World.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s illusion made Ai Cangsheng’s arrow and Virtual Ancestor Transformation vanish, then restored the scene to the moment before Ai Cangsheng shouted his technique.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s Sword of Illusion split the technique seed open, forcing Ai Cangsheng and the Sui Yin heads to kneel and cry, “Technique! Descent of Ancestor Shou Technique!”

Xu Xiaoshou killed Ai Cangsheng’s body and soul, then searched the Southern Domain for the Great Emperor’s scattered consciousness. As the people’s wishes gathered around those fragments, Ai Cangsheng begged Xu Xiaoshou to kill him quickly.

• Xu Xiaoshou emerged from Ai Cangsheng’s body and used the Illusion Annihilation Finger to destroy his soul after his body had been shattered.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized Ai Cangsheng might survive through the remnant of his consciousness, but the Will Dao Disk revealed fragments scattered across the Southern Domain.
• The Southern Domain’s citizens wished for Ai Cangsheng to become an Ancestor God, and their beliefs formed a purple power of wishes that flowed into the clouds.
• Kui Leihan sensed the gathering Divine Mind Penetration and sent a surge of power toward Sin Land.
• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the clouds as a Tomb of Returning Consciousness, and Ai Cangsheng begged him to kill him quickly.

Xu Xiaoshou devoured Ai Cangsheng’s remnant consciousness with Art-Dog Feast, but Sui Yin returned it and revealed a connection to Ai Cangsheng’s puppet. With Dao Qiongchang hinting that he was manipulating events, Xu Xiaoshou called on Ba Zunan and began a spacetime leap to reach Ai Cangsheng in the past.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Art-Dog Feast to swallow Ai Cangsheng’s remnant consciousness, but the Technique Dog later spat it back out under Sui Yin’s influence.
• Sui Yin declared that Ai Cangsheng belonged to it, while Dao Qiongchang called Ai Cangsheng’s cloth doll the Sui Yin Puppet and hinted that he was behind the unfolding events.
• Xu Xiaoshou found the doll in the Eastern Region, saw it transform in appearance, and stopped Hidden Pain from striking it when the sword dodged on its own.
• Xu Xiaoshou called for Ba Zunan, then used his Great Dao Disks to begin a spacetime leap toward the moment the cloth doll had appeared.
• Xu Xiaoshou called on Ai Cangsheng to move beyond the chessboard as Dao Qiongchang had, and set out to reach him in the past.

Xu Xiaoshou used Hidden Pain and the Space and Time Dao Disks to send Jinren’s consciousness into the past, reaching the moment Ai Cangsheng escaped to the Eastern Region. Jinren made contact with Xu Xiaoshou’s past self, who recognized the impossible messages and attacked Ai Cangsheng.

• Xu Xiaoshou used Hidden Pain, the Space Dao Disk, and the Time Dao Disc to send a thread of consciousness through the River of Time and locate Ai Cangsheng in the past.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent Jinren into the past so he could approach Ai Cangsheng and communicate with Xu Xiaoshou’s past self.
• Jinren greeted the past Xu Xiaoshou, who noticed the disturbance and challenged the hidden presence.
• Jinren claimed to be Xu Xiaoshou’s future Second True Body and revealed his name, convincing the past Xu Xiaoshou that the message was genuine.
• The past Xu Xiaoshou accused Ai Cangsheng of using illusions, raised Hidden Pain, and attacked him.

Past Xu Xiaoshou drew Ai Cangsheng into a Taixu world, where Future Jinren questioned the Great Emperor about Sui Yin and the puppet containing its consciousness. Ai Cangsheng warned them to beware Dao Qiongchang and revealed that the Ten Seat Holders sought godhood and ancestorhood as the conversation ended.

• Past Xu Xiaoshou pulled himself, Ai Cangsheng, and Future Jinren into a Taixu world, while Future Jinren felt the past’s changes causing growing rejection in the present.
• Future Jinren proved his identity by revealing Ai Cangsheng’s cultivation and Sui Yin’s attachment, then asked whether the Sui Yin Puppet sealed Sui Yin’s consciousness.
• Ai Cangsheng said Sui Yin awakened after he entered the Relics of the Gods and attached itself to him when he obtained the Evil Sin Bow thirty-six years earlier.
• Ai Cangsheng warned them to beware Dao Qiongchang, though he did not know why Dao Qiongchang had guided him toward the Relics of the Gods.
• Future Jinren asked whether the puppet should be torn apart, and Ai Cangsheng advised delaying its destruction for as long as possible.
• Ai Cangsheng said the other Ten Seat Holders wanted to become gods and claim ancestorhood, and advised that no means were too unscrupulous in the battle to seize the Dao.

Jinren questioned Ai Cangsheng about his advice and learned that he had entrusted him with the Ancient Battle God Platform and the fate of the Eye of the Great Dao. Ai Cangsheng revealed his memories of Lei Xiaoxiao and the message she had left him.

• Past Xu Xiaoshou challenged Ai Cangsheng’s claim that all Ten Seat Holders sought to become gods, and Ai Cangsheng corrected himself to say nine, excluding Aunt Xiang.
• Ai Cangsheng told Jinren that the Ancient Battle God Platform would accept him as its master and could be used to confine the Ten Ancestors in a future crisis.
• Ai Cangsheng explained that his irreversible technique kept the Eye of the Great Dao alive while he lived, and asked Jinren to keep it from Dao Xuanji and, if possible, bury it at Kun’s Chanting Grounds.
• Xu Xiaoshou pressed Ai Cangsheng about why he had stayed in the Five Domains and asked about his attachment to the Eye of the Great Dao.
• Ai Cangsheng recounted how Dao Qiongchang used the Heavenly Secrets Art to hear Lei Xiaoxiao’s unfinished words, revealing that she had left him the Eye to see and watch over the world in her stead.

Xu Xiaoshou told Ai Cangsheng that Lei Xiaoxiao had wished him to live well in her stead, but the revelation did not alter the battle’s course. As Ai Cangsheng’s defeat became certain and Sui Yin’s consciousness threatened to escape, Xu Xiaoshou had Feng Yujin seal the Sui Yin Puppet and send it to the Southern Abyss, where Feng Yujin suddenly invoked the Great God Descent Technique.

• Ai Cangsheng explained that he had followed Dao Qiongchang’s account of Lei Xiaoxiao’s wishes because he had chosen to believe it and had dedicated his life to her.
• Xu Xiaoshou wrestled with whether to reveal Lei Xiaoxiao’s true words, then told Ai Cangsheng that she had wished him to live well in her stead.
• Xu Xiaoshou suffered a burst of agony and lost contact with Jinren, but his review of battle traces showed that Ai Cangsheng’s actions had not changed.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw that Ai Cangsheng’s body and soul were failing and Sui Yin was possessing his consciousness, so he ordered Feng Yujin to seal the Sui Yin Puppet.
• Feng Yujin sealed the puppet in a God-Sealing Coffin and carried it to the Southern Abyss, where he suddenly dropped to his knees and shouted the Great God Descent Technique.

Feng Yujin trapped Dao Qiongchang with the Clam-Binding Technique and chose to oppose him, but Dao Qiongchang escaped after swapping the real Sui Yin Puppet for a fake. As Feng Yujin pursued him, a little girl who appeared to be Dao Qiongchang taunted him, and Feng Yujin crushed her head.

• Feng Zhongzui reported Master Shou’s movements as he reached the Eastern Region and sent Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor to Southern Abyss with the Sui Yin Puppet.
• Dao Qiongchang emerged from Feng Yujin’s body, purified the God-Sealing Coffin, and tried to crush the doll inside.
• Feng Yujin trapped Dao Qiongchang with the Clam-Binding Technique and resolved to stand with Xu Xiaoshou and Mo Mo, prompting Dao Qiongchang to abandon his body and flee.
• Feng Yujin recovered the falling puppet, but it exploded into fragments, revealing that Dao Qiongchang had taken the real one.
• A little girl appeared on the Southern Abyss Sea and challenged Feng Yujin, who pulled her close and crushed her head.

Feng Yujin accidentally destroyed the Sui Yin Puppet after Dao Qiongchang manipulated his memories, while Dao Qiongchang revealed a scheme involving Sui Yin’s consciousness. As Sui Yin’s main consciousness attacked Great Emperor Cangsheng’s remnant in the Southern Domain, Master Shou remained unable to act, and Cangsheng’s consciousness cried out in apparent defeat.

• Feng Yujin crushed the Sui Yin Puppet, releasing its purple mist, and realized Dao Qiongchang had manipulated his memories.
• Feng Yujin tried to seal the scattered Sui Yin consciousness, but the mist escaped the God-Sealing Coffins as Dao Qiongchang arrived and taunted him.
• Dao Qiongchang confused Feng Yujin with an illusion of Mo Mo, then resisted the God of Suffering’s control by detonating himself and leaving behind a branch of the Saint-Infant Bearing Plant.
• Feng Zhongzui recognized that the Tomb of Returning Consciousness above Southern Abyss was a Sui Yin technique and warned that Sui Yin was moving to awaken in the Southern Domain.
• Sui Yin’s main consciousness surged toward the Sinful Land and began devouring Great Emperor Cangsheng’s remnant consciousness while Master Shou remained trapped by the battlefield’s rules.
• The Five Domains realized Dao Qiongchang’s plan had kept Master Shou from intervening as Sui Yin overwhelmed Cangsheng, whose remnant consciousness screamed in resistance.

Nangong Youshu traveled from the Southern Domain to the Buddhist temple where Abbot Youxi was staying and delivered Grudge’s message about whether Youxi would enter the world. Youxi chose to go to the Central Region, but Nangong drew Nuxian to block him as a host of Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoys surrounded the temple.

• Nangong Youshu crossed the Western Region desert and arrived at the secluded temple, where Abbot Youxi refused to let him enter.
• Nangong revealed the Buddha Sword Nuxian and the Buddha-Hand Command Seal, then relayed Grudge’s question about whether Youxi would enter the world.
• After considering the consequences, Abbot Youxi declared that he would enter the world to help those threatened by Sui Yin.
• Nangong warned that Grudge might be compromised and that Youxi’s choice could endanger the Buddhist Sect, then revealed Grudge’s instruction to wield Nuxian and ascend the Buddhist Sect if Youxi chose to go.
• Youxi summoned his Holy Emperor relic and prepared to force his way past Nangong, who threatened to slaughter the Buddhist Sect disciples if Youxi crossed over him.
• Crimson-eyed figures appeared throughout the forest, and the novice monks recognized them as Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoys.

Xu Xiaoshou revealed that he had used Grotesque Trickery and the Immeasurable Silence Seed to deceive Dao Qiongchang and Sui Yin, then devoured Sui Yin’s consciousness in the Tomb of Returning Consciousness. He brought Ai Cangsheng’s faint remnant consciousness into the Falling Petals Realm for a final meeting, preserved his Dao-patterned eyes, and watched the Ancient Battle God Platform disappear.

• Feng Zhongzui deduced that Xu Xiaoshou had disguised himself as the Sui Yin Puppet, then as the Tomb of Returning Consciousness, to trick the Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor, Dao Qiongchang, and Sui Yin.
• Xu Xiaoshou confirmed that he had devoured Sui Yin’s consciousness and its contamination of Ai Cangsheng, then tried unsuccessfully to draw Ai Cangsheng into the Void World.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped maintaining his fog disguise, summoned Hidden Pain, and used the Falling Petals Realm to gather Ai Cangsheng’s fading remnant consciousness.
• Ai Cangsheng’s presence disappeared as the Ancient Battle God Platform and its surrounding formations vanished, while Xu Xiaoshou kept Ai Cangsheng’s Dao-patterned eyes safe beneath an ancient seal.

After Xu Xiaoshou killed Ai Cangsheng, Aunt Xiang pieced together Dao Qiongchang’s hidden dealings with Sui Yin and the Devil Ancestor, and realized Dao Qiongchang was at Crossroads Corner. She then noticed Ba Zunan had remained in the Central Region after the battle and wondered who he was waiting for.

• Eagle-Serpent reported that Xu Xiaoshou defeated Ai Cangsheng, whose body, soul, and Great Dao of Intent vanished, leaving the Eye of the Great Dao behind.
• Aunt Xiang questioned Shen Yi about Sui Yin and Dao Qiongchang’s earlier contact, then found that Shen Yi had located the Inverted Buddha Pagoda.
• Aunt Xiang connected the Devil Ancestor, Sui Yin, and Dao Qiongchang’s plans, and concluded that Dao Qiongchang was at Crossroads Corner.
• Shen Yi insisted that he needed to act to support Ba Zunan and Xu Xiaoshou, despite Aunt Xiang urging him to stay out of danger.
• Aunt Xiang reconsidered the battle and realized Ba Zunan had remained in the Central Region without helping Xu Xiaoshou, prompting her to ask who he was waiting for.

After defeating Ai Cangsheng, Xu Xiaoshou reflected on the threats surrounding the Five Domains, secured the Evil Sin Bow, and went to meet Yu Zhiwen. Their strained reunion ended with Xu Xiaoshou inviting her to accompany him to bury the Eye of the Great Dao in Southern Abyss.

• Feng Zhongzui announced that Ai Cangsheng had fallen, and Xu Xiaoshou told the Five Domains that he had won but Ai Cangsheng had not lost.
• Xu Xiaoshou considered the limits of his Void Dao Transformation and sensed an unsettling life force within Elder Sang that seemed connected to the Devil Ancestor.
• Xu Xiaoshou took the Evil Sin Bow and told it that Ai Cangsheng had left it no message, then stored it in the Apricot Realm under the Ancestor Trees' watch.
• Xu Xiaoshou found Yu Zhiwen by the Southern Abyss shore and learned that she had gouged out her eyes after discovering the truth in Yujing City.
• Yu Zhiwen prepared to leave with Little Star, but Xu Xiaoshou called after her and invited her to come with him to bury the Eye of the Great Dao.

Cao Erzhu relived a childhood memory in a dream, then woke to find Ghost Buddha’s influence reaching him in the present. He traveled to confront Ghost Buddha at Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain Ruins and wondered what it was preparing to hatch before someone spoke behind him.

• Cao Erzhu dreamed of being thirteen, when Cao Yihan explained the deadly road between them and challenged him to dare fight his father.
• Cao Erzhu woke in the blacksmith shop and learned from Cao Yihan that Ghost Buddha could now affect him, so he was told to go to the Apricot Realm and deliver a message to Xu Xiaoshou.
• Cao Erzhu left town, destroyed a red-haired vicious ghost with the God-Punishing Execution Tribulation, and headed toward Ghost Buddha.
• Cao Erzhu reached Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain Ruins and saw the corrupted Wuxiu seated above a vast fissure in the sky.
• Cao Erzhu wondered what Ghost Buddha was trying to hatch, and an unseen speaker joked that Grudge might be laying eggs.

Matchmaker used her Golden Apricot to broadcast her journey through the Ghost Buddha Realm, where Old Fu and Uncle Jin fought vicious ghosts for her viewers. After a ghost ambushed Matchmaker and Uncle Jin rescued her, an unseen attacker decapitated him and a pale-faced entity appeared, threatening Matchmaker and her audience.

• Matchmaker arrived at the Central Origin Realm stele with Old Fu and Uncle Jin and explained that she was broadcasting through her Golden Apricot.
• Matchmaker’s broadcast attracted hundreds of thousands of Apricots as Old Fu and Uncle Jin fought vicious ghosts in the Ghost Buddha Realm.
• Viewers identified Uncle Jin as the Demi-Saint Pei Zai, and a vicious ghost suddenly attacked Matchmaker.
• Uncle Jin smashed the ghost before it could reach Matchmaker, then reassured her and waved to the camera.
• An unseen attacker severed Uncle Jin’s head and killed his body, and a pale face appeared over his neck to tell Matchmaker and her viewers that their souls smelled delicious.

Cao Erzhu fought an intelligent Corpse Man whose ancient swordsmanship and battle awareness contrasted with its weak body and soul. After Cao Erzhu destroyed it, the Corpse Man transformed under a mysterious torment, and a figure bearing Saint Emperor pressure emerged.

• Cao Erzhu recognized the Corpse Man as an intelligent ghost with Saint Power, and the creature attacked him with a ghostfire sword.
• Cao Erzhu blocked the strike with purple lightning, shattered the Corpse Man’s body, and pursued its fleeing skull with lightning swords.
• Cao Erzhu unleashed God-Punishing Domain and crushed the Corpse Man, but its remnant consciousness survived and began to mutate.
• The Corpse Man’s remnant consciousness became a gigantic fiendish ghost, which suffered under an unknown force and was corrupted by Death God’s Power.
• A figure with Saint Emperor pressure emerged from the earth, and Cao Erzhu demanded to know who he was.

Cao Erzhu encountered a terrifying Holy Emperor’s image in the Ghost Buddha Realm and faced its one-sword challenge, but a hammer blow from his father shattered the strike. After learning that the image had summoned Hua and that Shou and Lord Li had left the Apricot Realm, Cao Erzhu went home to hammer.

• The Holy Emperor’s image raised its lantern and burned away the Corpse Man and the ghosts across the Ghost Domain, then identified Cao Erzhu as Cao Yihan’s son.
• Cao Erzhu challenged the image, which promised to use one sword; its sword light shattered Cao Erzhu’s Divine Firmament Chief and cut toward him.
• As Cao Erzhu stood his ground, a hammer blow rang out and destroyed the sword light, though his father was nowhere in sight.
• The Holy Emperor’s image told Cao Erzhu to tell Ba Zunan to prepare because Hua would arrive soon, then faded away.
• At the Crystal Palace, Cao Erzhu learned from Zang Ren that Shou and Lord Li had left the Apricot Realm for practical combat experience.
• Cao Erzhu left to go home and hammer.

The White-Faced Ghost killed Uncle Jin and Old Fu, then cornered Matchmaker as more than a million viewers watched. A sickly young master and his servant, Old Li, arrived in the Fragrant Cassia Carriage and initially refused to save her, but the ghost’s insult made the carriage stop.

• The White-Faced Ghost beheaded Uncle Jin and chased Matchmaker as she fled.
• Old Fu used a Golden Origin Shield to protect Matchmaker, but the ghost pierced and killed him before he could activate his Saint-power talisman.
• The White-Faced Ghost immobilized Matchmaker and prepared to strike her with Dao Pointing.
• The Fragrant Cassia Carriage emerged from the mist, and Matchmaker begged its occupants to save her.
• The sickly young master refused to help, and Old Li drove the carriage onward while the White-Faced Ghost let it pass.
• The White-Faced Ghost turned back toward Matchmaker, but the carriage stopped after Old Li said the ghost had insulted them.

Old Li and the Sickly Young Master taunted White-Faced Ghost while refusing to fight, until the Sword-Bearing Chicken emerged from the Fragrant Cassia Carriage and attacked. It overwhelmed White-Faced Ghost with its swordsmanship and sliced away half its head, leaving the ghost reeling in disbelief.

• Old Li defended the Sickly Young Master’s honor, while the young master refused to kill White-Faced Ghost because he had said he would not save Matchmaker.
• White-Faced Ghost regained its ability to move, threatened the carriage, and demanded to know who its occupants were.
• Old Li announced that Sword Chicken could act, and a black hen holding a stone sword in its beak emerged from the Fragrant Cassia Carriage.
• Sword-Bearing Chicken rushed White-Faced Ghost and unleashed a relentless sword assault that forced the ghost to block repeatedly.
• On its seventy-second strike, Sword-Bearing Chicken sliced away half of White-Faced Ghost’s head, and the wounded ghost cried that it was impossible.

Black Chicken devastated White-Faced Ghost while the young master and Old Li tried to force it to reveal its hidden Death God's Power. When the ghost finally attacked the Fragrant Cassia Carriage, the young master blocked its strike with two fingers and unleashed a sword technique that pierced the sky.

• Black Chicken outmatched White-Faced Ghost with its swordsmanship, and Old Li revealed that they had already slain fifty-six similar ghosts.
• White-Faced Ghost tried to escape, but Black Chicken severed its arm, pierced its eye, pulled out its tongue, and tortured it while the young master urged it to reveal its hidden power.
• The young master ordered Black Chicken to kill White-Faced Ghost after deciding it would not reveal its Death God's Power.
• White-Faced Ghost exploded its body, transformed into a giant evil ghost, and charged the Fragrant Cassia Carriage with a greatsword formed from Death God's Power.
• Old Li steered the carriage aside as the young master blocked the greatsword with two fingers, then unleashed the Ten-Stage Sword Finger and split the evil ghost with a vast sword beam.