Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Gray Mist Man while transformed into a berserk giant, Xu Xiaoshou found Mo Mo barely alive and restored her Life Spirit Seal. He recovered from the fight, then discovered Mu Zixi asleep upside down in a tree.

• Xu Xiaoshou returned to normal after his berserk giant form collapsed, then found Mo Mo unconscious with a faint heartbeat.
• Xu Xiaoshou concluded the Gray Mist Man had likely hidden itself inside Mo Mo and used the Life Spirit Seal to preserve her vitality.
• Xu Xiaoshou decided to save Mo Mo, fed her Red-Gold Elixir, and warned the Gray Mist Man not to emerge again.
• Xu Xiaoshou recovered his strength and noticed Mu Zixi hanging upside down from a nearby tree, fast asleep.

Xu Xiaoshou stopped Mu Zixi from attacking Mo Mo and pressed her to explain the Gray Mist Man, claiming he considered her a friend. Mo Mo nearly revealed the truth, but Mu Zixi bit Xu Xiaoshou's hand, breaking the moment before Mo Mo spoke.

• Mu Zixi confronted Xu Xiaoshou about the Spirit Crystal and tried to reclaim the Life Spirit Seal, but he snatched it away.
• Mo Mo woke, and Mu Zixi demanded Xu Xiaoshou's sword to take revenge on her for the betrayal.
• Xu Xiaoshou restrained Mu Zixi and asked Mo Mo whether the Gray Mist Man was still alive; Mo Mo stayed silent.
• Xu Xiaoshou softened his approach and told Mo Mo that he considered her a friend, prompting her to nearly reveal the truth.
• Mu Zixi bit Xu Xiaoshou's hand, making him break character, and Mo Mo closed her mouth without explaining the Gray Mist Man.

Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi learned that Mo Mo was a first-generation Ghost Beast Host, corrupted by a Ghost Beast despite never entering an alternate-dimensional space. The chapter left them trying to recall the major White Cavern incident she cited.

• Mo Mo said an unknown presence inside her right arm had guided the awakening of her innate attribute power.
• Mu Zixi asked whether Mo Mo was connected to the Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor, but Mo Mo said she did not know.
• Mo Mo explained that some alternate-dimensional spaces gave birth to intelligent Ghost Beasts, and Xu Xiaoshou realized the Gray Mist Man had been far more dangerous than he had thought.
• Mo Mo said the Holy Spirit Hall hunted Ghost Beasts, but she herself had been corrupted in an alternate-dimensional space and was a first-generation Ghost Beast Host.
• Mo Mo reminded Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi of the White Cavern incident in Tiansang Commandery, which they could not recall.

Mo Mo explained her connection to the White Cavern and revealed that the Gray Mist Man had sent her to retrieve a Seal Stone and the Life Spirit Seal. Xu Xiaoshou tested the Seal Stone’s sealing power and eagerly accepted it, while the Gray Mist Man remained at risk of waking soon.

• Mo Mo told Xu Xiaoshou and Mu Zixi that the White Cavern was near her former home and that she had survived its disastrous dimensional eruption.
• Xu Xiaoshou promised Mo Mo his friendship and offered to help her, though he nervously reconsidered staying in touch when he remembered the Gray Mist Man.
• Mo Mo said the Gray Mist Man could awaken within three to seven days and might already be conscious.
• Mo Mo revealed that the Gray Mist Man had sent her to obtain the Seal Stone and the Life Spirit Seal.
• Xu Xiaoshou infused the Seal Stone with spiritual essence, used its sealing aura on Mu Zixi, and thanked Mo Mo for the treasure.

Xu Xiaoshou used his Emberlight Heavenly Flame to melt the Seal Stone so Mo Mo could imprint a sealing technique into it. They began shaping the stone into a bracelet to delay the Gray Mist Man’s awakening, while Mu Zixi reacted jealously to the exchange.

• Xu Xiaoshou learned that the Seal Stone could not seal the Gray Mist Man without forging, and Mo Mo agreed to imprint her sealing technique once it was molten.
• Xu Xiaoshou heated the Seal Stone in the Little Bathtub until it melted, impressing Mo Mo with his control of the flames.
• Mo Mo sent hand seals into the molten stone and urgently told Xu Xiaoshou to shape it before it cooled.
• Mo Mo suggested making a bracelet, and Mu Zixi misread the suggestion before pretending she had not implied anything.
• Xu Xiaoshou noticed Mu Zixi’s jealousy and teased her as she struggled to deny it.

Xu Xiaoshou forged a sealing bracelet for Mo Mo and gave Mu Zixi a spatial ring, then teased her with a story that compared her to a tagged pigeon. The story left Mu Zixi enraged and attacking him with a forest of crimson trees.

• Xu Xiaoshou shaped the white stone liquid into a bracelet that suppressed Mo Mo's cultivation, and Mo Mo put it on herself.
• Mu Zixi demanded a gift, so Xu Xiaoshou gave her a ring containing a small storage space and a jar of honey.
• Xu Xiaoshou joked that the ring was like a name ring used to distinguish domesticated pigeons, and Mu Zixi realized he was mocking her.
• Mu Zixi's eyes turned blood-red as countless crimson trees erupted from the ground and surged toward Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou flew into the air and pleaded with Mu Zixi to stop, calling it just a joke.

As the Heavenly Mystery Gate neared collapse, Ye Xiaotian waited for reinforcements instead of activating the formation. He welcomed Hall Master Jiang and two Holy Spirit Hall disciples to the Spirit Palace, then questioned why only the three of them had come.

• Zhao Xidong reported that the Twelve-Bead Spirit Veil Disc was damaged, and Qiao Qianzhi urged Ye Xiaotian to activate the formation before the Heavenly Mystery Gate collapsed.
• The fourth bead's seal began to fail, but Ye Xiaotian said the reinforcements had arrived and left to receive them.
• Disciples in the outer court watched three people fly toward the Spirit Palace and saw Ye Xiaotian open the grand formation to admit them.
• Jiang Bianyan introduced the young man and veiled woman as Holy Spirit Hall disciples and exchanged praise with Ye Xiaotian.
• Ye Xiaotian noticed there was no one else accompanying Jiang Bianyan and asked if only the three of them had come.

Ye Xiaotian humiliated Cheng Xingchu when Holy Spirit Hall’s delegation arrived at Tiansang Spirit Palace, but Jiang Bianyan still followed him inside to pursue his business. At Goose Lake, a scarred blind young man appeared and reacted to Yu Zhiwen’s name before frightening off a woman who approached him.

• Ye Xiaotian questioned why Jiang Bianyan had brought only a branch hall master and two young disciples to answer the plea for aid.
• Cheng Xingchu challenged Ye Xiaotian, who dropped him into a black hole and returned him unharmed but terrified and humiliated.
• Ye Xiaotian mocked Cheng Xingchu and invited the Holy Spirit Hall delegation inside, while Jiang Bianyan put aside his anger and followed.
• A blind, scarred young man appeared by Goose Lake and murmured about late summer, autumn’s chill, and Yu Zhiwen.
• A boldly dressed woman approached the blind young man, recoiled at his scarred face, and fled.

Jiang Bianyan and his companions arrived at Tiansang Spirit Palace, where Ye Xiaotian and Qiao Qianzhi rushed to deal with an unexplained crisis inside the Heavenly Mystery Gate. When they forcibly opened the gate, it jammed, and the fourth bead on Zhao Xidong’s spirit disc shattered, signaling that the feared disaster had come true.

• Jiang Bianyan questioned the Spirit Palace’s tense defenses, while Ye Xiaotian and Qiao Qianzhi offered the visitors lodging instead of explaining the emergency.
• Yu Zhiwen deduced that the Twelve-Bead Spirit Veil Disc was linked to the Heavenly Mystery Gate, and Qiao Qianzhi admitted something had gone wrong inside it.
• Qiao Qianzhi ended the meeting and led Ye Xiaotian and Zhao Xidong to open the Heavenly Mystery Gate, while Jiang Bianyan stayed behind and Yu Zhiwen went to observe.
• Qiao Qianzhi forced the gate open, but it stuck halfway and began to tremble.
• The fourth bead on Zhao Xidong’s spirit disc shattered, leaving him to realize that the nightmare had come true.

Chao Qingteng nearly froze to death after being knocked into the Ice Dragon Spring, but Luo Leilei rescued him while carrying a giant Ice Dragon Egg. As the Heavenly Mystery Gate began collapsing and its exit jammed, Ye Xiaotian summoned everyone to the array gate, and Luo Leilei and Chao Qingteng raced toward it.

• Chao Qingteng cultivated beside the Ice Dragon Spring and wondered whether Luo Leilei had survived diving into it.
• The Heavenly Mystery Gate shook and knocked Chao Qingteng into the spring, where he froze and lost consciousness.
• Luo Leilei returned with the Ice Dragon Egg, shattered Chao Qingteng's ice coating, and revived him with three electric shocks.
• Luo Leilei noticed fissures splitting the sky and realized the gate was collapsing as more world-stabilizing treasures were taken.
• The Heavenly Mystery Gate opened only a narrow crack, and Ye Xiaotian ordered everyone to gather at the array gate, giving Luo Leilei and Chao Qingteng a chance to escape.

As Heavenly Mystery Gate began collapsing, Xu Xiaoshou carried Mu Zixi and Mo Mo to the Formation Gate, where the survivors prepared to open a brief passage out. Xu Xiaoshou revealed he was more concerned with whether the collapse might scatter the remaining world-stabilizing treasures.

• A spatial fissure opened as Heavenly Mystery Gate shook, and Ye Xiaotian summoned everyone to the Formation Gate within fifteen minutes.
• Xu Xiaoshou carried Mu Zixi and Mo Mo at full speed toward the Formation Gate while the small world began breaking apart.
• Xu Xiaoshou arrived to find several newcomers gathered, including Luo Leilei and Chao Qingteng, but Zhou Tianshen and another person were missing.
• Luo Leilei explained that the unstable world would allow only a one-second passage and confronted Xu Xiaoshou about taking the Blackfall Sword Scabbard, Life Spirit Seal, and Seal Stone.
• When Xu Xiaoshou stopped Luo Leilei from contacting Ye Xiaotian, he asked her to find out whether the collapse might blast out the other world-stabilizing treasures.

Xu Xiaoshou spoke with the dean through Luo Leilei's jade slip and learned that he had to deliver it to a nearby realm-suppressing seal before the Heavenly Mystery Gate exploded. The dean trusted him to act, leaving Xu Xiaoshou considering how to shift his burdens onto Luo Leilei.

• Luo Leilei urged Xu Xiaoshou to join her, but he firmly refused, prompting their companions to mistake the exchange for a romance.
• Xu Xiaoshou teased Chao Qingteng about secretly loving Luo Leilei, and Chao Qingteng denied it before collapsing in embarrassment.
• Luo Leilei handed Xu Xiaoshou the jade slip, and he eventually reached the dean after learning to press it to his forehead.
• The dean ordered Xu Xiaoshou to send the jade slip into the nearest realm-suppressing seal and warned that the Heavenly Mystery Gate was close to exploding.
• Xu Xiaoshou denied possessing the Blackfall Sword Scabbard, but the dean called him the most trustworthy person and ordered him to hurry.

Xu Xiaoshou left the group with Ye Xiaotian’s jade slip to find a trial mystic realm and help stabilize the collapsing Heavenly Mystery Gate, while Luo Leilei held the passage against those who wanted to stop him. At the Slaughter Corner, he found Zhou Tianshen fighting steel puppets and knocked him unconscious with a single strike.

• Xu Xiaoshou told the group he had to leave with the jade slip, and Luo Leilei stopped three angry members from pursuing him.
• Luo Leilei struck down the three members with lightning and told the others to wait for Xu Xiaoshou’s return.
• Xu Xiaoshou rushed to the Slaughter Corner, where killing intent filled the arena and steel puppets fought Zhou Tianshen.
• Xu Xiaoshou caught Zhou Tianshen’s saber between two fingers, flicked him into a wall, and knocked him unconscious.
• The steel puppets emerging from the arena’s eight gates retreated after seeing Xu Xiaoshou defeat Zhou Tianshen.

Xu Xiaoshou searched the ruined arena for the treasure suppressing the realm while tending to the badly injured Zhou Tianshen. After discovering that a powerful life force lay beneath the ground, he broke open a black crystal and revealed a human head inside.

• Xu Xiaoshou fed Zhou Tianshen his Red-Gold Elixir and tricked the confused man into believing ten thousand years had passed and that he was a chosen one destined to stop Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou confronted a steel puppet and realized its head had fallen off along with the heads of the other puppets, suggesting someone had withdrawn their intelligence.
• Xu Xiaoshou sensed a growing life force beneath the arena and melted through the ground with the Emberlight Heavenly Flame.
• Xu Xiaoshou found a black crystal containing the life force and cracked it with repeated punches.
• The black crystal exploded after an impact answered Xu Xiaoshou's punch from inside, revealing a human head.

Xu Xiaoshou freed a sealed puppet child beneath Heavenly Mystery Gate, only to be battered by its overwhelming speed and strength. The child called him “Mommy” and paused when he lay still, leaving Xu Xiaoshou pinned in the crater as his injuries healed.

• Xu Xiaoshou found a humanlike puppet child sealed underground and decided to pull it free despite the unresponsive communication jade slip.
• Xu Xiaoshou broke the child’s second seal and discovered its flesh-colored body and black shackles.
• The puppet child struck Xu Xiaoshou through hundreds of meters of earth and continued attacking whenever he tried to dodge.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the child stopped attacking while he remained still and tried to reason with it.
• The puppet child slammed Xu Xiaoshou’s head into the ground, leaving his legs dangling as his passive skills recorded another attack.

Xu Xiaoshou cautiously coaxed the powerful puppet child into following him instead of attacking, then returned with it to the place of sealing. The collapsing world continued to close in as he reached the pit where the puppet had been imprisoned.

• Xu Xiaoshou tried to fight back, but the puppet child dodged his fire seed and easily outmaneuvered him.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the puppet child understood him and persuaded it to keep its arms folded while they talked.
• Xu Xiaoshou invited the puppet child to leave the collapsing world with him, but it only answered, “Mama.”
• Xu Xiaoshou showed the puppet child the jade slip and warned it not to take it or return to the dark pit, which frightened it.
• Xu Xiaoshou cautiously walked toward the pit, and the puppet child followed him without attacking.
• Xu Xiaoshou reached the place of sealing where the puppet child had emerged.

Xu Xiaoshou transformed the Dean’s jade slip into a tree seed and planted it in the pit, where it grew into a colossal tree that began repairing the collapsing Heavenly Mystery Gate. As the world recovered, Ye Xiaotian prepared to evacuate everyone, while Yu Zhiwen learned that he too came from the Central Region.

• Xu Xiaoshou fed spiritual energy into the jade slip until it shattered and revealed a tree seed.
• After the puppet child urged him, Xu Xiaoshou planted the seed in the pit, and it grew into a colossal tree that began mending the world’s fractures.
• Mu Zixi and the others at the array gate saw the tree and realized the group might survive.
• The Twelve-Bead Spirit Veil Disc repaired itself, confirming to Zhao Xidong that the Heavenly Mystery Gate was recovering.
• Ye Xiaotian decided to evacuate everyone immediately and opened passages between the worlds using his spatial power.
• Jiang Bianyan told Yu Zhiwen that Ye Xiaotian, like her, came from the Central Region.

Yu Zhiwen learned more about Tiansang Spirit Palace’s hidden strength as Ye Xiaotian opened a passage to Heavenly Mystery Gate. The passage gave the gathered experts a chance to study spatial Dao, while people inside began escaping before it could close.

• Jiang Bianyan told Yu Zhiwen that Ye Xiaotian had once been a Central Region talent and that Elder Sang was powerful enough to command his respect.
• Jiang Bianyan revealed that Elder Sang had recently taken a female disciple, prompting Yu Zhiwen to look forward to meeting her in the White Cavern.
• Ye Xiaotian completed the world passage, and Jiang Bianyan urged the gathered people to comprehend its spatial power and Great Dao rules.
• Ye Xiaotian sent the people inside Heavenly Mystery Gate an order to come out through the stabilized passage.
• The three people near the formation rushed into the passage, followed by Mo Mo and Mu Zixi; Chao Qingteng and Luo Leilei also left, though Luo Leilei feared the black-clad people outside.

After leaving the council hall, Cheng Xingchu tried to find someone in Tiansang Spirit Palace’s inner court and encountered a blind young man at the entrance. The young man walked away after effortlessly evading Cheng Xingchu’s attack, leaving him stunned by evidence that he possessed Grandmaster-level strength.

• Cheng Xingchu wandered through the inner court, found it nearly empty, and headed toward the outer court to seek out the disciples who had mocked him.
• At the inner-court threshold, Cheng Xingchu blocked a blind young man and taunted him when he tried to pass.
• Cheng Xingchu used his aura to intimidate the young man, but it had no visible effect, and the young man detoured around him.
• Cheng Xingchu punched at the young man’s back, but the young man dodged and used Cheng Xingchu’s momentum to throw him forward.
• The young man lowered his cane without attacking Cheng Xingchu and continued on his way, while a distant spirit tree exploded and Cheng Xingchu’s protective spirit jade cracked.
• Cheng Xingchu realized the blind young man might be a Grandmaster and wondered if he had already escaped death.

The group began emerging from the Heavenly Mystery Gate as Zhao Xidong suspected Mo Mo might be the second spy, while Qiao Qianzhi welcomed Luo Leilei with unexpected warmth. Qiao Qianzhi then realized Xu Xiaoshou might have gone to the Slaughter Corner and endangered the world-suppressing treasure, leaving him and Ye Xiaotian deeply worried.

• Three rule-breaking disciples emerged first, and Qiao Qianzhi asked why they had come out before the others.
• Mo Mo emerged, and Zhao Xidong's suspicions about her as a possible spy intensified when she looked directly at him.
• Luo Leilei emerged unaffected by the passage's dizziness, and Qiao Qianzhi asked where Xu Xiaoshou and the others were.
• Luo Leilei said Xu Xiaoshou had gone to the other side and had not returned, while Yuan Tou and Zhou Tianshen had disappeared.
• Qiao Qianzhi connected Xu Xiaoshou's absence to the Slaughter Corner and the world-suppressing treasure, and his sudden alarm nearly destabilized the passages.
• Ye Xiaotian steadied the passages, while he and Qiao Qianzhi feared that Xu Xiaoshou's actions might have led to disaster.