Chapter Summaries

Xu Bai defeated the newly ascended Entering Sainthood Expert known as the Fat Man, broke his illusions, and took control of him to question him about how he knew Xu Bai came from another world. The Fat Man began to reveal that someone had made him learn the truth, but his response abruptly turned to a claim that everything was fake and they were all dead.

• The Fat Man revealed that he had replaced his deceased master and had only recently entered the Entering Sainthood realm, while Xu Bai prepared to fight him.
• Xu Bai's attacks failed to hit the Fat Man, who trapped him in an illusion that filled a grassland with corpses and manipulated his emotions.
• Xu Bai destroyed the ground to expose a flaw in the illusion, then used a wide-area Myriad Attacks to severely injure the Fat Man as he tried to flee.
• Xu Bai controlled the defeated Fat Man with the Soul Extermination Art and asked how he knew Xu Bai was not from this world.
• The Fat Man trembled in terror and said that someone had looked at him and made him know too much, then abruptly declared that everything was fake and they were all dead.

Xu Bai defeated the Thought God Fat Man by exploiting the illusion’s dependence on his thoughts, but the illusion persisted after Fat Man died. Xu Bai was transported to a temple, where he witnessed Fat Man begging the immense eye in the sky for mercy.

• Fat Man became a Thought God and trapped Xu Bai in a darkness filled with an illusionary double who matched his abilities.
• Xu Bai changed his thoughts to recreate the modern world from his past life, then evaded the illusion’s attacks until Fat Man’s power weakened.
• Xu Bai destroyed Fat Man with white light, but the illusion did not disappear, and a huge, emotionless eye formed in the sky.
• Xu Bai was transported to a temple, where Fat Man knelt among dead monks and repeatedly begged the eye to spare him.

Xu Bai discovered an Illusion Pearl after witnessing Wu Nan’s past, then returned to the ruined city and found Chief Si and its inhabitants dead. He tracked down Gao Guan carrying a baby girl and learned that she was a Savior, leaving the reason for Gao Guan’s opportunity and the child’s fate unresolved.

• Xu Bai watched Wu Nan survive the giant eye’s massacre, find an Illusion Pearl, and leave the scene before the illusion vanished.
• Xu Bai picked up the Illusion Pearl, left the mountain, and returned to the city to investigate local Doomsday Law Pavilion branches.
• Xu Bai found the city filled with corpses, including Chief Si, and calculated that Gao Guan had survived and fled toward Three Lives Mountain.
• Xu Bai caught Gao Guan carrying a baby girl, controlled him with his divine soul, and questioned him about the child.
• Gao Guan explained that Saviors were born with innate supernatural gifts and could sustain people amid resource depletion, but that contact with them drove people to crave their flesh and blood.
• Xu Bai learned that Gao Guan had rescued the baby girl from Chief Si and planned to hide her on Three Lives Mountain and raise her with ordinary caretakers.

Xu Bai followed Gao Guan’s memories to Three Lives Mountain, where Gao Guan hid and raised the baby girl he had rescued. After a month of watching them, Xu Bai encountered a young boy who claimed to be a Savior and asked to take the girl to his organization, but Gao Guan refused.

• Xu Bai restored Gao Guan’s memory, then secretly followed him as he carried the baby girl to Three Lives Mountain.
• Gao Guan settled the baby girl in a hidden cavern and began caring for her, while Xu Bai watched and nearly completed the progress bar for Entering Sainthood Failure Insights.
• After stopping just short of completing the progress bar, Xu Bai prepared to leave and search for more skills, but noticed a seven- or eight-year-old boy approaching the cave.
• Gao Guan caught the boy inside the cavern, and the boy claimed he was a Savior who had come with others like him to take the baby girl somewhere safe.
• Gao Guan rejected the boy’s plea and told him to get lost.

Xu Bai watched Gao Guan lose the baby girl to a group of young Saviors, then learned their story and confronted Slaughter, an organization hunting world-savers. He unleashed his power against more than a hundred professionals and finally enjoyed a chance to fight freely.

• Gao Guan left the cavern with the baby girl, but a group of children confronted him and demanded that he hand her over.
• The children overwhelmed Gao Guan with a planned ambush, took the baby girl, and prepared to flee before Xu Bai froze them and questioned the boy who had attacked Gao Guan.
• The boy revealed that the children were Saviors who had joined together to survive, and Xu Bai learned they were the prophecy's world-savers.
• More than a hundred professionals arrived, led by a white-haired elder from Slaughter, and demanded that Xu Bai surrender the children.
• After learning that Slaughter hunted world-savers and had two Entering Sainthood Experts, Xu Bai attacked the group with a massive burst of white light.

Xu Bai looted the final Doomsday Law Pavilion branch in the region and discovered that the Deity Summoning Sect had allied with the Pavilion and Slaughter to turn Saviors into resources and summon a god. He learned they planned to use this method to ambush and kill a lone Entering Sainthood expert, but the controlled young man warned Xu Bai that he would die.

• Xu Bai traveled through the Ruins, looted branches for progress-bar items, and reached the final branch in the region.
• Xu Bai controlled the branch’s inhabitants and learned that a mysterious young guest was staying with the city lord.
• Xu Bai discovered the guest was the young master of the Deity Summoning Sect, whose members turned captured Saviors into gods that could provide resources.
• The young master revealed that the Deity Summoning Sect had allied with the Doomsday Law Pavilion and Slaughter to hunt Saviors and planned to summon a god capable of producing endless resources.
• Xu Bai learned that the alliance intended to use summoned Entering Sainthood experts to ambush a lone saint near a mountain, and the young master warned him that he would die.

Xu Bai was forced by a soul-specialist from the Slaughter Organization to agree to replace a man as the one who summoned a deity, but the Ruins expired before he could learn more. After returning to the Imperial Palace, he reunited with Chu Ling and Ye Zi, then asked Liu Qingfeng about deity summoning and learned that its surviving practitioners were in the Miao Sect.

• A soul-specialist from the Slaughter Organization used a richly dressed man to approach Xu Bai and demanded that he replace the man as the one who summoned a deity.
• Xu Bai agreed to cooperate, but the Ruins reached their time limit and sent him back to the real world before the soul-specialist could teach him the method.
• Xu Bai returned to the Imperial Palace, reunited with Chu Ling and Ye Zi, and gave Chu Ling an Emerald Green Hairpin that could protect against soul attacks.
• Xu Bai visited Liu Qingfeng and recounted what the Deity Summoning Sect had attempted in the Ruins.
• Liu Qingfeng said the deity-summoning profession had not gone extinct and revealed that its surviving practitioners were in the Miao Sect.

Xu Bai learned from Liu Qingfeng that the Deity Summoning Method came from a mysterious ancient man at the Miao Sect, so he hurried to its headquarters with Miao Xiao. There, Miao Long confirmed that the man was alive and willing to meet Xu Bai.

• Liu Qingfeng told Xu Bai that an ancient, powerful soul expert at the Miao Sect had taught him the Deity Summoning Method after defeating and capturing him.
• Xu Bai decided to visit the Miao Sect immediately, left the palace after informing Chu Ling, and asked Miao Xiao to guide him to its headquarters.
• Miao Xiao set aside her wish to explain her earlier actions and took Xu Bai to the headquarters, where he carried her by the waistband as they flew.
• Miao Xiao introduced the Miao Sect's leaders, and Miao Long recognized why Xu Bai had come before Xu Bai explained it.
• Miao Long told Xu Bai that the ancient man was still alive and willing to meet him.

Xu Bai met an elderly descendant of the Saviors, who recounted how the Saviors survived a world-ending catastrophe and later taught their abilities to humanity. The old man prepared to reveal one final detail before Xu Bai examined his divine soul to verify the story.

• Miao Long led Xu Bai through the Miao Sect grounds to a hidden forest grave, where Xu Bai sensed an unfamiliar form of the Deity Summoning Method.
• The old man recognized Xu Bai as someone who had encountered the Saviors in the Ruins and explained that he descended from them.
• The old man recounted how the Saviors were hunted, how Entering Sainthood Experts used them in a deity-summoning ritual, and how those experts died when a crack appeared in the sky.
• The old man said resources later vanished, the surviving Saviors resorted to killing one another, and humanity eventually reappeared as resources recovered.
• The old man revealed that the Saviors had taught their abilities to generations of practitioners, and Xu Bai asked to inspect his divine soul to confirm his account.
• The old man agreed but said he had one more thing to tell Xu Bai first.

Xu Bai learned that the Ghost Market had survived an ancient resource crisis by gaining new strange entities from the dead, and an old Miao Sect descendant warned him about a gigantic eye in the Ruins that resembled his Heavenly Change. After the old man died, Xu Bai returned to the Royal Palace Treasury to study illusion-related books, while Wu Hua emerged from a vision in the Black Lotus and hurried to seek Xu Bai’s answer.

• The old man told Xu Bai that the Ghost Market predated every current dynasty and had been replenished by the many people who became strange entities during an ancient resource crisis.
• After seeing Xu Bai’s Heavenly Change, the old man warned him never to enter the Ruins again or encounter a gigantic living eye he had once seen there.
• The old man died soon after Xu Bai left, and Xu Bai returned to the Barbarian Territory with Miao Xiao before heading to the Royal Palace Treasury to study illusion-related books.
• In Sheng Province, A Xiu summoned the abbots when Wu Hua began sweating and showing signs of distress while comprehending the Black Lotus.
• Wu Hua recovered from his vision, refused to reveal what he had seen, and hurried to the royal palace to seek an answer from Xu Bai.

Wu Hua told Xu Bai about a vision of a blood-soaked mountain and an aged monk, then revealed that a mysterious faction had tried to kill him for seeing it. After Xu Bai sheltered Wu Hua, he uncovered the Illusion Pearl’s memories and entered a vision of Fat Man, Wu Nan.

• Wu Hua fought and killed a strange man who tried to stop him from reaching the Royal Palace, using a Black Lotus petal at the cost of severe injuries.
• Xu Bai brought the injured Wu Hua to the Royal Palace Treasury and sealed the room while Wu Hua described his vision and the unknown faction pursuing him.
• Xu Bai failed to divine useful information from Wu Hua’s account and asked him to stay at the palace while he recovered.
• Xu Bai completed the Illusion Heart Technique and used it to activate the Illusion Pearl, which revealed scenes from Fat Man, Wu Nan’s life.
• The scenes entered Xu Bai’s brow, and he found himself facing Fat Man, Wu Nan.

Xu Bai witnessed Wu Nan’s past through the Illusion Pearl, from his rise to Entering Sainthood to the ritual that summoned a godlike being and destroyed the other experts. The vision ended with Wu Nan receiving an order to find someone and watch him until the being escaped its cage.

• Xu Bai watched Wu Nan survive the era of dwindling resources by serving an Entering Sainthood Expert, then enter Entering Sainthood after the Expert died.
• Six Entering Sainthood Experts captured Wu Nan and imprisoned him as a possible sacrifice for the Deity Summoning Method.
• The Sect Leader sacrificed the Saviors, opening cracks in the sky and revealing a chaos-like expanse, but no god appeared as expected.
• An eye appeared on the Sect Leader’s forehead, and he effortlessly turned the other five Entering Sainthood Experts to ash.
• The Sect Leader touched Wu Nan’s head, then vanished, leaving Wu Nan with instructions to find someone and watch him until the being broke free from its cage.

Xu Bai learned that Wu Nan's followers had been tasked with finding and monitoring him, then used Wu Hua's Black Lotus and disguise to lure them into an ambush. After defeating and controlling the attackers, Xu Bai questioned their leader, Wang Xing, and discovered something important about the faction and the giant eye.

• Xu Bai watched Wu Nan die after he warned his followers to find and monitor the man marked by mad frenzy, explaining that the man could not be killed because each death made him stronger.
• Xu Bai concluded that the faction was targeting him, that the Ruins were the giant eye's cage, and that the Deity Summoning Method could summon the eye, so he decided to destroy the faction.
• Xu Bai borrowed Wu Hua's Black Lotus and, after three days of preparation, disguised himself as Wu Hua and flew toward Sheng Province to lure the faction into attacking.
• More than a dozen Extraordinary Realm fighters ambushed Xu Bai, but he survived their attack, revealed his identity, and used his divine soul to control them.
• Xu Bai questioned the archer, Wang Xing, who began recounting everything he knew, and Xu Bai realized he had uncovered something extremely important.

Xu Bai learned that a hidden force of Extraordinary experts had amassed a vast treasury and over a hundred secret manuals, but he could not safely travel to destroy them while two Barbarian Tribe experts watched him. After Eunuch Wei could not accompany him, he proposed that the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s ancient sword might let Xu Bai reach the treasury instantly, though he warned that the sect had recently encountered trouble.

• Wang Xing revealed that his force guarded Xu Bai, had gathered treasures and secret manuals, and could assemble at a remote treasury.
• Xu Bai killed the gathered Extraordinary experts except Wang Xing and decided to ask Eunuch Wei for help retrieving the force’s hoard.
• Xu Bai visited Eunuch Wei in the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace and learned that the Dean and Prime Minister Wen were both in the Capital City pursuing Entering Sainthood.
• Eunuch Wei said he could not leave the Capital City, where he was protecting the Dean and Prime Minister Wen as they advanced.
• Eunuch Wei suggested that the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s inherited ancient sword could transport Xu Bai instantly, then warned that the sect had recently faced trouble.

Xu Bai went to the Border Pass and learned that the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s Sect Leader was angry with him, though no one could explain why. He traveled to the sect and tricked Qin Feng into revealing what he knew, then headed toward its largest building to confront the Sect Leader.

• Eunuch Wei told Xu Bai that the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s Sect Leader had blamed him after striking Rising Dusk King at the Border Pass.
• Xu Bai reached Rising Dusk King’s camp, where Rising Dusk King urged him to visit the sect and hinted that he might gain access to its secret manuals.
• Xu Bai arrived at the Ancient Moon Sword Sect and heard disciples say its Sect Leader was still furious and had been muttering his name.
• Xu Bai questioned Qin Feng, who initially tried to avoid him, then revealed what he knew after Xu Bai promised to show him a place with plenty of fish.
• Xu Bai walked toward the sect’s largest building to meet the Sect Leader.

Xu Bai persuaded Gu Yao to use the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s spatial sword to reach a remote island, where he seized a hoard of treasures and killed the group guarding it. As he prepared to return to the Barbarian Territory, a strange mark suddenly appeared in his forehead and caused him intense pain.

• Xu Bai agreed to give Chu Yu a satisfactory answer, and Gu Yao accepted his promise and used her iron sword to send him and Wang Xing to the island.
• Xu Bai and Wang Xing reached a cave filled with treasures, and Xu Bai stored everything in the temporary space inside a withered blade of grass.
• Xu Bai waited for the treasure hoard’s guardians to arrive, controlled more than a hundred of them, then killed them all after Wang Xing confirmed the group was complete.
• As Xu Bai prepared to return to the Barbarian Territory, a mark burrowed into his forehead and caused him sudden, immense pain.

Xu Bai escaped the faceless figure by using Fusion Art to raise several abilities to the second stage of Sainthood, then destroyed it. When the enormous eye began dragging him into the Ruins, he unleashed the madness within himself and stepped through a gap into the Ruins.

• Xu Bai discovered that the enormous eye had marked his location, and he destroyed the mark that emerged from his forehead with Myriad Attacks.
• A faceless figure attacked Xu Bai, matching his movements and strength as they battled across the island and into the sea.
• Xu Bai used Entering Sainthood Failure Insights to comprehend Fusion Art, raising Myriad Attacks, Myriad Defenses, and Myriad Assistance to the second stage of Sainthood.
• Xu Bai used his strengthened Myriad Attacks to destroy the faceless figure, but an illusory enormous eye appeared and surrounded him with entrances to the Ruins.
• Xu Bai attacked his own soul to unleash his madness, tore open a gap through the Ruins entrance, and stepped inside as the Demon-Strange Entity Market's demon-strange entities encountered a terrifying human.

Xu Bai’s uncontrolled power destroyed much of the Demon-Strange Entity Market and killed Zhou Sheng before he woke in a pitch-black wilderness among corpses that appeared to be from another world. He found an ancient book written in an unknown script, and its pages revealed something that shocked him as he prepared to store it.

• Xu Bai emerged in the Demon-Strange Entity Market and unleashed a frenzy of intertwined gold and grayish-white power that turned the city and its inhabitants to ash.
• Zhou Sheng attacked Xu Bai, but Xu Bai overwhelmed him with the frenzy and Zhou Sheng died after tearing off his own wings.
• The Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity ordered the demon-strange entities to switch from offense to defense and leave Zhou Sheng’s killer alone for the time being.
• Xu Bai woke in a dark wilderness, discovered a vast mound of corpses wearing unfamiliar clothing, and found an ancient book buried beneath them.
• Xu Bai opened the book but could not read its strange script; when he tilted it to store it with the Withered Grass, a later page opened and shocked him.

Xu Bai escaped the endless darkness by breaking through a false ground into the Demon-Strange Entity Market, where he discovered the cities were ruins left by Little Gold. Unable to find a token because the Ghost Markets were at war, he went to the battlefield and offered the Demon-Strange Entity Saints a deal that would send him to the Human-Strange Entity Market.

• Xu Bai realized the book contained writing from different worlds, then escaped the dark space by destroying its false ground and entering the Ghost Market beneath it.
• Xu Bai found the Demon-Strange Entity Market in ruins and learned that Little Gold had caused the destruction while the two Ghost Markets fought.
• Xu Bai learned that the city lords and their tokens were at the battlefield, so he decided to travel there and reach the Human-Strange Entity Market to upgrade the golden finger.
• The Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity and the other Saints discussed their worsening position after Zhou Sheng's death when a messenger reported that Xu Bai had arrived.
• Xu Bai offered to be sent secretly through the battlefield to the Human-Strange Entity Market in exchange for killing one enemy Saint, then claimed the Demon-Strange Entities would profit simply by sending him away.

Xu Bai forced the Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity to agree to help him cross the battlefield to the Human-Strange Entity Market, but the demon-strange entities secretly plotted with the human-strange entities to kill him. As the White-Clothed Man prepared to accept the plan, an unknown speaker offered to reveal the next steps.

• Xu Bai threatened the eight Saint Realm demon-strange entities with a suicidal attack until the Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity agreed to help him reach the Human-Strange Entity Market without an oath.
• The Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity told Xu Bai to cross the battlefield while the demon-strange entities drew the human-strange entities' attention, and Xu Bai agreed to set out the next day.
• Xu Bai rejected the map the Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity gave him and left the group near the battlefield's edge.
• The Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity met the nine Saint Realm human-strange entities, led by the White-Clothed Man, and revealed Xu Bai's plan while proposing that they kill him together.
• The White-Clothed Man reluctantly prepared to accept the proposal, but an unknown voice offered to explain the Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity's next steps.