Chapter Summaries

Xu Bai secured the Demon Heart, fused it with Evil Eye to create a blade capable of killing an Entering Sainthood Ninth Grade expert, and learned the Soul Extermination Art as another way to protect himself. As Great Chu invaded the Barbarian Tribe and Great Yue decided to send aid, Ying Yue tried to win Prime Minister Liu Yue’s cooperation by offering him the throne and hinting at a way to extend his life.

• Sun Lan revealed how she escaped the Demon-Strange Entity Market through Liu Qingfeng and offered the Great Chu intelligence in exchange for her life; Chief Mu took her into custody.
• Xu Bai fused the Demon Heart into Evil Eye, learned that its ultimate strike could kill an Entering Sainthood Ninth Grade expert, and kept Chief Mu’s one-use treasure.
• Xu Bai asked the Chu Emperor for a soul-destroying technique, then mastered the Extraordinary Rank 9 Soul Extermination Art before the war began.
• Chief Mu gave Xu Bai a red cloth to conceal his aura and told him to follow Eunuch Wei toward the capital of Great Yue Kingdom.
• Great Chu launched a full-scale invasion of the Barbarian Tribe, and Great Yue’s Emperor ordered Bai Zhong to send troops to aid the Barbarian Tribe.
• Ying Yue approached Prime Minister Liu Yue and proposed that he take the throne after the Emperor died, then hinted that his lifespan could be prolonged.

Ying Yue persuaded Liu Yue to cooperate with Great Chu Kingdom, while Xu Bai traveled to the Great Yue capital to support Eunuch Wei. Xu Bai survived the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom’s attack and killed him with a devastating saber strike, then left with Eunuch Wei as news of the emperor’s death spread.

• Ying Yue convinced Liu Yue that unifying the world might let him break through and extend his life, and he agreed to stop opposing Great Chu Kingdom and help her side.
• Xu Bai reached the capital ahead of Eunuch Wei, then agreed not to attack Liu Yue after Ying Yue warned that he was a valuable future ally.
• Eunuch Wei entered the Imperial Palace and challenged the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom, but Xu Bai arrived before Eunuch Wei could use his life-for-life ability.
• The Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom’s golden attack devastated the Imperial Palace, but Xu Bai survived by using Evil Eye Saber and treasures that temporarily raised his strength and protected him.
• Xu Bai killed the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom with Overturning Heaven, while Liu Yue contained the battle’s aftermath; Eunuch Wei caught the exhausted Xu Bai and prepared to take him home.
• News spread throughout the world that the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom was dead and that Xu Bai had killed him.

After the Great Yue Emperor’s death, Bai Zhong returned to the capital intending to claim the throne, but Liu Yue convinced him to accept Great Yue as a vassal of Great Chu and punish those who had harmed the people. Xu Bai returned to Great Chu, gained permission to study in the Imperial Treasury, and then went with Qing Xue to meet the Ninth Princess.

• Extraordinary Rank 9 masters across the world secluded themselves to compete for the vacant Entering Sainthood position, while Bai Zhong decided to return to the capital and contest the throne.
• Gu Mu Yin tried to stop Bai Zhong, but Bai Zhong said his declaration of a righteous cause was only a pretext and led his army back to Great Yue.
• Liu Yue showed Bai Zhong a letter explaining why he had allowed the Emperor to die, and Bai Zhong accepted that Great Yue would become Great Chu’s vassal and agreed to punish those who had harmed the people.
• Xu Bai and Eunuch Wei met the Chu Emperor, who granted Xu Bai access to the Imperial Treasury and asked for advice on who should govern the conquered Barbarian Tribe; Xu Bai suggested the Ninth Princess.
• Qing Xue asked Xu Bai not to visit the Ninth Princess out of obligation, but Xu Bai reassured her and went with her to the Ninth Princess’s residence.

Xu Bai rejected the Ninth Princess’s marriage proposal, but she later disguised herself as Ye Zi and slept with him as part of a scheme by the Ninth Princess, Eunuch Wei, and the Chu Emperor. After Eunuch Wei explained that the plan would help the Ninth Princess gain a fief and give Xu Bai an heir, Xu Bai left with the princess to think things over, while the Chu Emperor began revealing a deeper secret to Eunuch Wei.

• Qing Xue told Xu Bai that the Ninth Princess planned to ask the Chu Emperor for a marriage decree so she could gain influence over the Barbarian Tribe’s territory.
• Xu Bai told the Ninth Princess that the First Prince surpassed her in merit and ability, rejected her advances, and went to the Imperial Treasury to read.
• Xu Bai learned that Ye Zi had entered seclusion, then spent the day grinding progress bars until a disguised Ninth Princess came to him wearing Ye Zi’s human-skin mask.
• Xu Bai discovered the disguise and confronted the Heavenly Sound Master, who directed him to Eunuch Wei; Eunuch Wei explained that the Ninth Princess needed a fief to preserve her life and that he had arranged the encounter so Xu Bai could father an heir.
• The Ninth Princess said she accepted the arrangement and wanted Xu Bai, but Xu Bai left with her to think it over; afterward, the Chu Emperor told Eunuch Wei that the plan had been his idea and began explaining his deeper purpose.

The Chu Emperor explained that uniting the world would let him use its dragon aura to break the rules limiting entry to the Ghost Market, while Xu Bai remained in the Imperial Treasury and married Chu Ling as the Barbarian Tribe war unfolded. After a year of fighting, the Barbarian Tribe was destroyed, but its leader and Great Shaman vanished, leaving the Chu Emperor and Eunuch Wei wary of their next move.

• The Chu Emperor told Eunuch Wei that he could use the dragon aura of a united world to break the rules governing entry to the Ghost Market, but refused to reveal his plans for the night.
• Chu Ling stayed with Xu Bai in the Imperial Treasury, and the two agreed to marry alongside Ye Zi; Xu Bai learned that Chu Ling was her name.
• News spread of Liu Xu’s progress at Azure Cloud Academy, Wu Hua’s growing importance among the Buddhists, and Yun Zihai’s breakthrough into the Extraordinary Realm.
• After the Jingfeng Tribe was destroyed, Gu Mu Yin ordered the Barbarian Tribe to withdraw around the Supreme Tribe and later joined its leader and Great Shaman in preparing to fight for a year.
• Rising Dusk King discussed the war and his military succession with the First Prince, then puzzled over the Barbarian Tribe’s strategy as its forces launched a sudden counterattack.
• A year later, Gu Mu Yin died after telling Rising Dusk King that the Barbarian Tribe’s leader and Great Shaman had vanished; the Chu Emperor received the report and asked Eunuch Wei about Xu Bai’s lavish year.

Xu Bai completed every book in the Imperial Treasury but remained far from Entering Sainthood, so he set out for the conquered Barbarian Tribe to search for more manuals. As the Great Chu Kingdom prepared to rebuild the territory, Liu Xu and Wu Hua organized people to join the effort, and Rising Dusk King gave Xu Bai a book he needed.

• Xu Bai finished the last book in the Imperial Treasury, confirmed he had reached Extraordinary Rank 9, and learned that manuals and traces related to Entering Sainthood could not remain.
• Eunuch Wei told Xu Bai and Chu Ling that they would govern the Barbarian Tribe's territory, and Xu Bai agreed to leave in about a month to search for more secret manuals.
• Liu Xu voted with Azure Cloud Academy's instructors to send scholars and officials west, while Wu Hua decided the Buddhists should help rebuild the Barbarian Tribe.
• Chief Mu assigned Ying Yue to establish a Bureau of Surveillance in the territory, and Xu Bai traveled there with Chu Ling, Ye Zi, and their companions.
• At the Border Pass, Chu Yu brought Ancient Moon Sword Sect disciples to help, and Rising Dusk King introduced the First Prince as commander of the Barbarian Tribe's soldiers.
• Xu Bai privately asked Rising Dusk King for secret manuals, and Rising Dusk King gave him a book that delighted him.

Xu Bai reached the newly built royal palace in Barbarian Tribe territory and began reading Entering Sainthood Insights while the new settlement took shape. After the Female Daoist Abbot asked to use the treasury’s books in exchange for support from Daoist sects, she offered an additional concession.

• Rising Dusk King gave Xu Bai Entering Sainthood Insights, a collection of records from Extraordinary experts who had survived failed attempts to enter sainthood, and warned him that the Barbarian Chieftain and Great Shaman might seek revenge.
• Rising Dusk King explained that the new capital’s location would let him and other Entering Sainthood Experts respond if the Barbarian Chieftain or Great Shaman attacked, and urged Xu Bai to avoid trouble.
• Xu Bai arrived with Chu Ling, Ye Zi, Chu Yu, and the others at the new royal palace, toured it, and spent the night there after Chu Ling raised the subject of Qing Xue and Qing Mei.
• The next morning, Xu Bai found Chu Yu had left to establish the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s base, then inspected the treasury and settled down to read Entering Sainthood Insights.
• Ying Yue asked Xu Bai to let her borrow his name to recruit for the Bureau of Surveillance branch, and he agreed on the condition that she not use the title Blood Fiend Swordsman.
• The Female Daoist Abbot asked to read the treasury’s books in exchange for bringing one-third of the Daoist sects into Barbarian Tribe territory, then offered something more.

Xu Bai accepted the Female Daoist Abbot’s record of failed attempts to Enter Sainthood and continued studying it while Chu Ling and Ye Zi managed the new fief. A Ruins opened nearby, and Xu Bai let Ying Yue oversee the factions entering it; later, he discovered puzzling eunuch insights in the book before an unexplained voice spoke to him that night.

• The Female Daoist Abbot gave Xu Bai a Daoist Sect record of failed attempts to Enter Sainthood, and he accepted her bargain after seeing its progress bar.
• A Ruins appeared at the Construction Bureau worksite, and Chu Ling and Ye Zi asked Xu Bai how to handle it.
• Xu Bai decided to open the Ruins to the factions and assigned Ying Yue to manage the situation as a test of her abilities.
• Chu Ling announced the Ruins’ rules, and factions including the Academy and Buddhists entered while Wu Hua and Liu Xu asked to visit Xu Bai afterward.
• Xu Bai found a category of eunuch attempts to enter the Saint Realm in the book, but neither he nor the Female Daoist Abbot knew how it was possible.
• As Xu Bai continued reading that night, a gust of wind swept through and an unfamiliar voice spoke beside his ear.

Xu Bai and the Female Daoist Abbot discovered that the Great Shaman had planted a resentful soul fragment in Xu Bai, and they put it into Liu Qingfeng, whose body recovered and whose soul returned. Liu Qingfeng revealed that the two Ghost Markets could merge and exceed the world’s limit of nine Saint Realm experts, then warned Xu Bai that he must enter the Saint Realm quickly or face danger.

• Xu Bai heard an unspoken syllable that made him restless, and the Female Daoist Abbot found a foreign soul fragment merging with his divine soul.
• The Female Daoist Abbot traced the fragment to the Great Shaman and warned that destroying it could disturb the power protecting Xu Bai’s soul.
• Xu Bai divined that transferring the fragment into Liu Qingfeng would bring great auspice, summoned him, and the fragment helped restore Liu Qingfeng’s body and soul.
• Liu Qingfeng explained that he had left a remnant soul behind before entering the Ghost Market and that Xu Bai’s soul fragment had filled the hole in his body.
• Liu Qingfeng revealed that the Human-Strange Entity Market and Demon-Strange Entity Market could merge, allowing their Saint Realm experts to exceed nine, and Xu Bai decided to inform the Chu Emperor.
• Liu Qingfeng stopped Xu Bai and warned him that he had to enter the Saint Realm quickly or he would be in danger.

Xu Bai learned that the Ghost Market would target him in a future war, recruited Liu Qingfeng to remain in his territory, and sent Chu Ling to warn the Chu Emperor. After reading the warning, the Chu Emperor spent the day with the Empress and his consorts, then went to Star Plucking Tower and ordered Chief Mu to withdraw every hidden agent.

• Liu Qingfeng warned Xu Bai that the Ghost Market knew of him and would try to capture him, and Xu Bai persuaded Liu Qingfeng to stay as a resident expert.
• Xu Bai relayed the danger to Chu Ling, who sent the information to the Chu Emperor while Xu Bai waited with the factions at the Ruins.
• After the Ruins ended, Xu Bai welcomed Wu Hua and Liu Xu to his royal palace and agreed to give Yun Zihai a post if he resigned his princely title.
• The Chu Emperor read Chu Ling's letter, canceled morning court, and spent the day with the Empress and his consorts.
• The Chu Emperor went to Star Plucking Tower at night, ordered Chief Mu to withdraw all hidden agents, and asked him to speak privately.

The Chu Emperor broke through to Exiting Sainthood, glimpsed horrifying beings beyond the realm, and entered the Ghost Market alone to buy the human world time to prepare for war. After his funeral, Chief Mu warned Xu Bai that the Chu Emperor’s vision might be connected to him, and Xu Bai encountered someone in the darkness.

• The Chu Emperor told Chief Mu that he planned to enter the Ghost Market and asked him to take the throne, then spent the night drinking with him.
• The Chu Emperor gathered the Great Chu Kingdom’s dragon qi, broke through to Exiting Sainthood, and opened a rift to the Ghost Market.
• The Chu Emperor warned practitioners throughout the world to grow stronger, then entered the Ghost Market alone as the rift closed behind him.
• Rising Dusk King presided over the Chu Emperor’s funeral, while Xu Bai comforted Chu Ling and learned that Chief Mu would become emperor.
• Chief Mu told Xu Bai that the Chu Emperor had seen madness and reason mixed among horrifying beings upon breaking through, and warned him not to act if he saw them himself.
• Xu Bai prepared to return to the main hall after speaking with Chief Mu, but spotted someone in the darkness.

After reading the Chu Emperor’s letter, Xu Bai learned that his altered fate and golden finger might have originated in the Ruins, but he postponed investigating until he reached Entering Sainthood. A month later, he gained Myriad Strange Arts by fusing many skills, while the Barbarian Tribe and the Strange Entities continued plotting; the chapter ended as Zhao San heard dripping behind him in an alley.

• The Empress Consort gave Xu Bai a letter from the Chu Emperor, who revealed that Xu Bai’s fate had changed because of something connected to the Ruins.
• Xu Bai destroyed the letter, returned to the Mourning Hall, and later resumed studying Entering Sainthood Failure Insights in the Royal Palace Treasury.
• The Barbarian Chieftain and the Great Shaman discussed hiding and following a plan with the Entering Sainthood Strange Entity, who intended to exploit the Barbarian Tribe’s dead to create more Strange Entities.
• The nine Sainthood Strange Entities gathered and planned to slow the human world by creating a massive outbreak of Strange Entities while drawing the Chu Emperor toward the Demon-Strange Entity Market.
• After a month of study, Xu Bai completed Entering Sainthood Failure Insights and gained Myriad Strange Arts, which combined his miscellaneous skills into one Extraordinary Rank 9 skill.
• Zhao San packed up his stall late and walked home through an alley, where he heard dripping behind him.

Zhao San was killed by a concealed strange thing, and Ying Yue realized that someone was helping the strange entities evade the Bureau of Surveillance. As strange entities spread across Great Chu and disrupted the kingdom, Xu Bai continued cultivating; Prime Minister Wen entered Sainthood, and Eunuch Wei sent Xu Bai another set of Entering Sainthood Insights.

• A bloodied strange thing killed Zhao San and then staggered away to seek another victim.
• Ying Yue investigated the strange thing’s concealed aura, suspected the escaped Barbarian Tribe Entering Sainthood Experts were involved, and ordered tighter defenses.
• Ying Yue told Chu Ling about the incident, then informed Xu Bai, who said the culprit behind the concealment was likely stronger than him and left the response to the Bureau of Surveillance.
• Liu Xu met Xu Bai privately in the Royal Palace Treasury, received an answer from him, and left with Wu Hua.
• Xu Bai, the Female Daoist Abbot, and Liu Qingfeng saw a beam of light from the Imperial Palace and learned that Prime Minister Wen had entered Sainthood.
• Eunuch Wei sent Xu Bai a book of Entering Sainthood Insights, while concealed strange entities spread throughout Great Chu and slowed the kingdom’s progress.

Xu Bai gained two Entering Sainthood skills through fusion, sought more Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, and learned that Ruins had begun appearing unusually often. After deciding to investigate the Miao Sect, he left the palace, unaware that Chu Ling was hiding a pregnancy from him.

• Xu Bai fused his skills into Myriad Attacks and Myriad Defenses, then decided to seek more Entering Sainthood Failure Insights while managing his limited True Yuan Power.
• Xu Bai visited Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei, learned that Eunuch Wei had entered Sainthood, and received access to the Imperial Palace archives.
• Xu Bai found records naming five factions with Entering Sainthood Failure Insights and chose to approach the nearby Miao Sect, where Miao Xiao lived.
• Chief Mu told Xu Bai that nearly thirty Ruins had appeared across the Great Chu Kingdom in the past month and warned that they were spreading outward from the Barbarian Territory.
• Xu Bai returned to the Royal Palace, spent the night with Chu Ling and Ye Zi, then left for the Miao Sect the next day.
• Chu Ling concealed her pregnancy from Xu Bai, while Ye Zi offered to help with her duties so she could rest.

Xu Bai obtained two Entering Sainthood Insights from the Miao Sect and agreed to help save its weakening Golden Silk Gu after he entered Sainthood. He learned Chu Ling was pregnant, returned to her, and then resumed studying in the Royal Palace Treasury.

• Chu Ling kept her pregnancy from Xu Bai because she did not want to disrupt his plans, while Ye Zi helped her continue working.
• Xu Bai overheard their conversation, continued to Long Prefecture, and met Miao Xiao at the Miao Sect residence.
• Miao Xiao gave Xu Bai the Entering Sainthood Failure Insights and an Entering Sainthood Insight, asking him to visit the Miao Sect after entering Sainthood and use his blood to save the Golden Silk Gu.
• Xu Bai accepted the request but criticized Miao Xiao for using a scheme instead of speaking to him directly, then returned to the royal palace.
• Xu Bai confirmed Chu Ling was pregnant and urged her to rest, while she and Ye Zi assured him she would be cared for.
• Xu Bai returned to the Royal Palace Treasury, where the Female Daoist Abbot planned to seek a quiet place to break through and Liu Qingfeng remained at Transcendent Rank Eight; Xu Bai began studying the two insights.

After completing two months of seclusion and gaining new fused skills, Xu Bai left the Royal Palace Treasury to investigate an enormous Ruins opening in the Barbarian Territory. He entered the Ruins ahead of the other martial world wanderers and found himself alone on a desolate grassland surrounded by corpses.

• Chu Ling received news of an enormous Ruins opening north of the Royal City and sent Qing Xue to inform Xu Bai.
• Xu Bai completed Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, gained Fusion Art, and fused skills into Myriad Miscellaneous Arts and Myriad Assistance.
• Xu Bai left seclusion, promised Qing Xue an answer about her feelings once matters settled, and arranged for Liu Qingfeng to help Chu Ling and Ye Zi while he was away.
• Xu Bai arrived at the Ruins, reassured the gathered martial world wanderers, and entered first when the entrance opened.
• Xu Bai appeared alone on a vast, withered grassland inside the Ruins, with corpses as the only other presence.

Xu Bai followed a trail of tokens and stolen manuals to a Doomsday Law Pavilion branch, where he encountered Gao Guan before the Corpse Collector’s later fate. After registering under the name Fang Mu, he chose to join a combat division.

• Xu Bai raised the corpses scattered across the grassland and sent them searching, discovering two rival groups carrying tokens and stolen belongings.
• The rival groups fled from the advancing corpses, but Xu Bai caught up and subdued them with Heavenly Change and his divine soul.
• Xu Bai learned that the tokens granted entry to the Doomsday Law Pavilion, collected more than two hundred tokens and seven manuals, and killed the group before flying to the branch city.
• Xu Bai entered the city with a token and met Gao Guan, who explained the division assignments and directed him to register.
• Xu Bai registered as Fang Mu and chose a combat division, and the registrar handed him a bottle of medicine and told him to drink it.

Xu Bai joined the Doomsday Law Pavilion, learned that the city lord was watching him, and uncovered her plan to steal resources from headquarters. After Chief Si tried to control him with an Entering Sainthood Supreme Treasure, Xu Bai resisted, took the hairpin, and controlled her, leaving him in charge of the city.

• Xu Bai drank the Doomsday Law Pavilion's poison, memorized its rules, and explored the resource-strapped city.
• Gao Guan explained the brutality of life in the city and revealed that the city lord had learned about Xu Bai's actions through a divine-soul treasure.
• Gao Guan took Xu Bai to meet Chief Si, who offered him resources in exchange for helping intercept a shipment from headquarters.
• Chief Si attempted to mark Xu Bai's soul with the Emerald Green Hairpin, but its attack was devoured by Xu Bai's soul.
• Xu Bai seized the hairpin, controlled Chief Si, and spread his soul across the city.

Xu Bai controlled the city and gathered resources from a ruined formation, but discovered a Saint-level Thought God and had to use Little Gold to defeat it. After recovering, he found Chief Si’s group on the road and controlled them again, ordering them to rob the other resource carriers.

• Xu Bai took control of the city, learned from Chief Si about the Doomsday Law Pavilion and the resources hidden behind a formation, and read ten low-level manuals.
• Xu Bai led Chief Si and the controlled city members to the formation, where they gathered the scattered resources after it collapsed.
• Xu Bai discovered a Saint-level Thought God in the formation and fled, then destroyed his own divine soul to summon Little Gold, who annihilated the Thought God.
• A giant eye searched the area, but Xu Bai’s gold and gray-white aura concealed him until it disappeared.
• Chief Si and her group recovered with missing memories and headed back to the city carrying resources they had intercepted.
• Xu Bai met them on the road, controlled them again with his divine soul, and ordered them to rob the other groups.

Xu Bai intercepted a resource convoy and found Entering Sainthood Failure Insights before investigating reports of Thought Gods on a mountain. There, he uncovered an apparent illusionist posing as an Entering Sainthood Expert, though the chapter ended before the man revealed his full ability.

• Xu Bai controlled the people escorting resources, took a book of Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, and sent the convoy onward after altering their memories.
• Xu Bai met Zheng Hong, who described how a blind man and a swarm of Thought Gods had attacked his group on a barren mountain.
• Xu Bai went to the mountain, where a blind man attacked him and then suddenly recovered when Xu Bai tried to control his soul.
• A plump man who resembled Wu Hua appeared, claimed to be an Entering Sainthood Expert, and tried to persuade Xu Bai to go with him.
• Xu Bai deduced that the man was using illusions rather than possessing Entering Sainthood strength, and the man ominously said Xu Bai had guessed one part wrong.