Chapter Summaries

Xu Bai reached the Human-Strange Entity Market, survived the soul pain that awakened his Golden Finger state, and found a second mysterious book in a hidden space. After returning to the market, he encountered the Chu Emperor, who seized his Withered Grass.

• Xu Bai's controlled demon-strange entity revealed that the Four-Eyed Demon-Strange Entity had tried to use the human-strange entities to kill Xu Bai, prompting the White-Clothed Man to abandon the Human-Strange Entity Market and begin a battle with the eight demon-strange entities.
• Xu Bai flew into the Human-Strange Entity Market, where soul pain knocked him unconscious and his Golden Finger state emerged, summoning countless figures before carrying him through a crack in the sky.
• Xu Bai found a second thick book among a mountain of corpses in a hidden space, stored it with Withered Grass, and blasted his way back into the market.
• Xu Bai obtained directions to a city using a token, exterminated human-strange entities along the way, and reached his destination, where the Chu Emperor blocked his escape.
• The Chu Emperor pulled the Withered Grass from Xu Bai's robes, leaving Xu Bai stunned and demanding his treasure back.

Xu Bai learned from two books that the Giant Eye was the Supreme Saint, which destroyed worlds that grew too powerful, and that his golden finger had been created as the last hope against it. He began using the cheat’s accelerated progress to grow stronger, while Chief Mu approached the threshold of Exiting Sainthood in seclusion.

• The Chu Emperor transformed the writing in two books from the Ghost Markets, returned them to Xu Bai, and vanished toward the battlefield to confront the remaining Saint-level strange entities.
• Xu Bai escaped the island, returned to the Great Chu Kingdom, and hurried to the Royal Palace Treasury, where he read the books while Liu Qingfeng stayed back.
• The books revealed the origins of the golden finger, the Giant Eye’s destruction of countless worlds, and Xu Bai’s role as the final inheritor meant to oppose it.
• Xu Bai burned the books, found that entering two Ghost Markets had greatly accelerated his progress bars, and began grinding them in seclusion with Liu Qingfeng’s support.
• Nearly half a month later, Chief Mu cultivated in the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace and neared Exiting Sainthood, but his rising aura suddenly stalled.

Chief Mu reached Exiting Sainthood and saw the colossal eye that Xu Bai feared, then learned from Xu Bai about the Supreme Saint and the Ruins. After Xu Bai asked Chief Mu to gather books, he hurried back to the Barbarian Territory and found that Liu Xu had become unresponsive and attacked anyone who approached her.

• Chief Mu broke through to Exiting Sainthood, but a vision of a colossal eye filled him with fear and left him keeping the encounter secret.
• Xu Bai completed half a month of study in the Royal Palace Treasury, reached Rank 9.5 in his cultivation method, and went to ask Chief Mu what he had seen during his breakthrough.
• Chief Mu confirmed that the colossal eye had appeared to him, and Xu Bai told him about the Supreme Saint, the Ruins, and the danger facing their world.
• Chief Mu agreed to help Xu Bai gather books, and Xu Bai flew back to the Barbarian Territory after their conversation.
• Scholars told Xu Bai that Liu Xu had become foolish and attacked anyone who approached her, so he rushed to the Academy and found her standing blankly in the rear courtyard.
• When Xu Bai sent his divine soul toward Liu Xu, she turned on him and summoned a small black sword from a black book.

Xu Bai stopped Liu Xu’s attack, learned that the woman inside the black book had fled a world destroyed by the Supreme Saint, and entered Liu Xu’s soul to bring her back. Liu Xu revealed that she had withdrawn to avoid becoming a burden after foreseeing Xu Bai’s defeat, but Xu Bai persuaded her to return, leaving him and Liu Xu reunited while Chief Mu questioned the woman.

• Xu Bai severed his hand to expel a Black Small Sword, then destroyed the black book’s defenses and forced the woman inside to explain herself.
• The woman said the Supreme Saint had destroyed her world after she reached Exiting Sainthood, and that Liu Xu had withdrawn into her soul after seeing the destruction and fearing for Xu Bai’s future.
• When Liu Xu stopped Xu Bai from destroying the black book, he took her to the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace, where Chief Mu confirmed that she had retreated deep within her soul.
• Xu Bai entered Liu Xu’s soul and found her hiding there; Liu Xu explained that she had foreseen Xu Bai’s defeat and planned to die so the Supreme Saint could not use her against him.
• Xu Bai refused to accept Liu Xu’s plan and persuaded her to leave her soul, bringing her back to normal as Chief Mu chatted with the woman in the black book.

Xu Bai learned that the Supreme Saint had cultivated forces across countless worlds and planned to reach the Sainthood Realm to draw out the hidden Barbarian Tribe experts. At the Ancient Moon Sword Sect, he sought access to its treasure vault and left to bargain with Qin Feng for his contributions by offering to help him catch fish.

• The woman in the black book warned Xu Bai and Chief Mu that the Supreme Saint’s forces across many worlds might attack, and they agreed to prioritize unifying the Ghost Market.
• Xu Bai proposed reaching the Sainthood Realm and using himself as bait to lure out the two hidden Barbarian Tribe experts, while Chief Mu promised to gather books for him.
• Xu Bai returned to Chu Ling and Ye Zi, reassured them, and flew to the Ancient Moon Sword Sect to seek books.
• The Barbarian Chieftain and the shaman agreed with the injured White-Clothed Man Ghost to kill Xu Bai when he left Great Chu, before the Ghost Market held its unification ceremony.
• Gu Yao refused to let Xu Bai enter the sect’s treasure vault, so Xu Bai learned that Qin Feng had enough contributions and went to ask him to transfer them.
• Xu Bai offered to help Qin Feng catch a fish, and Qin Feng eagerly agreed to give him anything he wanted if he could make it happen.

Xu Bai investigated why Qin Feng could never catch fish and discovered that a mysterious book had given him the Extraordinary Rank 9 skill Fishing All Things, which could catch hidden treasures instead. Gu Yao revealed that the book was part of the Saviors’ preparations, gave Xu Bai access to the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s treasury, and warned him of a coming disaster; Xu Bai entered the treasury to cultivate further.

• Xu Bai inspected the lake and found that the fish avoided Qin Feng’s hook, even escaping when Xu Bai forced one onto it.
• Qin Feng explained that an old fisherman had sold him the book that sparked his obsession with fishing, and Xu Bai uncovered divine soul power hidden inside it.
• Xu Bai filled the book’s progress bar and learned Fishing All Things, discovering that it was meant to catch treasures rather than fish; he taught the cultivation method to Qin Feng in exchange for his contribution.
• Gu Yao led Xu Bai to the old fisherman’s grave and explained that the Saviors had planted the book as part of a broad plan to recover treasures they had hidden.
• Gu Yao gave Xu Bai a token granting him access to the Ancient Moon Sword Sect’s treasury and asked him to protect Chu Yu and the sect when disaster struck.
• Xu Bai entered the treasury and began working through its books, hoping to reach Sainthood.

Xu Bai entered Sainthood after completing and fusing his arts, then returned in time to save Chu Ling during a dangerous childbirth by transferring his power to their ravenous child. Chu Ling gave birth to a daughter, but as Xu Bai and the others celebrated, Ye Zi noticed the baby was changing.

• Chu Ling went into labor while Xu Bai remained in seclusion, and the midwife warned that the child was draining Chu Ling's strength and could kill her.
• Xu Bai completed the Mind and Soul Art, fused it with the Myriad Aspects Heavenly Attraction Mountain Sea Art, and entered Sainthood, causing a phenomenon visible throughout the world.
• Xu Bai sensed Chu Ling's danger, arrived at the birth room, and learned he could transfer his power to the child to prevent her from draining Chu Ling.
• Xu Bai supplied the child with his True Yuan Power, allowing Chu Ling to recover enough strength to give birth safely to a daughter.
• Xu Bai held his newborn daughter and struggled to think of a name while Chu Ling, Ye Zi, and Qing Xue celebrated.
• Ye Zi screamed that the baby was changing.

Xu Bai welcomed his rapidly growing daughter, Xu Ling, and learned that she could absorb energy to gain strength. After arranging to leave for the Miao Sect and bait the Barbarian Tribe’s two Entering Sainthood experts, he asked Eunuch Wei about Xu Ling’s ability, and Eunuch Wei warned that she might be even more outrageous than her father.

• Xu Bai discovered that newborn Xu Ling absorbed his True Yuan Power, grew rapidly, and reached the Transcendent Realm before he and Chu Ling named her Xu Ling, with the pet name Ling Ling.
• Ling Ling recognized Chu Ling as her mother and spoke her first word, while Chu Ling and the other women planned to let her choose a trade when she was older.
• Xu Bai spent the night with Ye Zi and Qing Xue, then left to meet Eunuch Wei and Chief Mu at the imperial palace.
• Xu Bai and Eunuch Wei planned to lure the Barbarian Tribe’s two Entering Sainthood experts into a fight, with Liu Yue and Eunuch Wei joining him while Chief Mu stayed behind.
• Xu Bai asked Eunuch Wei and Chief Mu about Ling Ling’s energy-devouring ability, and Eunuch Wei said she might be even more outrageous than Xu Bai.

Eunuch Wei showed Xu Bai records of the Saviors’ failed experiment to create a power that could absorb other powers, and he and Chief Mu concluded Xu Bai’s daughter might avoid its fatal flaw because she could learn professions through her bloodline. Xu Bai left for the Miao Sect to resolve the Golden Silk Gu’s weakening, while Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei planned a final assault on the Ghost Market.

• Eunuch Wei told Xu Bai about a man who absorbed others’ power and died when it accumulated beyond his control, then showed him the man’s experimental records.
• Xu Bai and Chief Mu read that the Saviors’ experiment failed because its subjects could not learn professions to release their accumulated power.
• Eunuch Wei suggested Xu Bai’s daughter could learn other professions, and Xu Bai decided that testing this would verify whether she was safe.
• Xu Bai left for the Miao Sect, while Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei discussed filling the remaining Sainthood positions before attacking the Ghost Market.
• Miao Long welcomed Xu Bai at the Miao Sect and presented the Golden Silk Gu, which cowered when Xu Bai opened its box.

Xu Bai discovered that the Golden Silk Gu concealed Savior souls, one of which had betrayed the others and served the Supreme Saint. After erasing the intruding souls and saving the Gu, he left to confront the Barbarian Tribe, whose Great Shaman sensed his approach and prepared for a dangerous gamble.

• Xu Bai examined the Golden Silk Gu and found two souls inside each one, then learned that the Gu came from an old man's inheritance.
• Xu Bai questioned one of the souls, learned that the Saviors had hidden treasures across multiple worlds, and uncovered that this soul had betrayed them and submitted to the Supreme Saint.
• Xu Bai destroyed the traitorous souls in the Golden Silk Gu, restoring the insects, and Miao Long thanked him and gave him three original manuals.
• Xu Bai left the Miao Sect and headed beyond the Great Chu Kingdom's border, intending to kill two leaders of the Barbarian Tribe.
• The Barbarian Great Shaman sensed Xu Bai approaching and told the Barbarian Chieftain that their chance had arrived, but the Chieftain suspected a trap.

Xu Bai lured the Barbarian Chieftain and the Great Shaman into an ambush, then turned them against each other by offering one a chance to survive. The Great Shaman sided with Xu Bai, and the Barbarian Chieftain was surrounded by Xu Bai, Eunuch Wei, and Liu Yue as Xu Bai announced that another Saint Realm slot would be freed.

• The Barbarian Chieftain and the Great Shaman decided to attack Xu Bai despite recognizing his bait, planning to kill him and flee.
• The Barbarian Chieftain struck Xu Bai while the Great Shaman stirred his sorrow, but Xu Bai survived repeated blows through his recovery abilities.
• Xu Bai offered one of the two a chance to live and exposed the Great Shaman’s fear that the Ghost Market would lose.
• The Great Shaman turned his emotional power against the Barbarian Chieftain and joined Xu Bai in attacking him.
• Eunuch Wei and Liu Yue arrived, trapping the weakened Barbarian Chieftain as Xu Bai mocked him and declared another Saint Realm slot would be freed.

Xu Bai killed the Barbarian Chieftain, forced the Barbarian Great Shaman to help him fake his death and draw out the Ghost Market, then received books from Liu Yue for himself and Xu Ling. He returned to the Barbarian Territory to see his daughter, only to find her causing chaos in the royal palace.

• Xu Bai ordered the Barbarian Great Shaman to block the Barbarian Chieftain, and Eunuch Wei and Liu Yue killed the Chieftain in their combined attack.
• Xu Bai inspected the Barbarian Great Shaman's divine soul, learned the Ghost Market's plans, and ordered him to claim that Xu Bai was dead so the Ghost Market would emerge.
• Xu Bai sent the Barbarian Great Shaman with Eunuch Wei to the Great Chu Kingdom, while Liu Yue gave Xu Bai his Entering Sainthood Failure Insights and a cultivation book for Xu Ling.
• Xu Ling raced across the royal palace rooftops and headed for the Royal Palace Treasury to wreak havoc after her mother had beaten her.
• Xu Bai arrived at the Royal Palace Treasury intending to bring books to Xu Ling, but her guards tearfully begged him to control her.

Xu Bai disciplined Xu Ling for causing trouble and agreed to teach her after she promised to behave. When Xu Ling chose Liu Yue’s illustrated scholar book and quickly learned its contents up to the Transcendent Realm, Xu Bai suspected she had overcome a dangerous flaw in her ability and began testing her with True Yuan Power.

• Xu Bai entered the Royal Palace Treasury, found Xu Ling, and carried her out after beating her for the trouble she had caused.
• Xu Bai brought Xu Ling to Chu Ling, Ye Zi, and Qing Xue, then asked whether she wanted to learn a profession ability.
• Xu Ling demanded to learn every ability, but Xu Bai told her to behave and presented four books for her to choose from.
• Xu Ling picked Liu Yue’s scholar book because of its pictures, then reluctantly began studying it after Xu Bai persuaded her.
• After half an hour, Xu Ling said she had learned the book’s contents up to the Transcendent Realm and could absorb power smoothly again.
• Xu Bai suspected Xu Ling had overcome her ability’s flaw and told her to absorb the True Yuan Power in his palm so he could test her limit.

Xu Bai tested Xu Ling’s ability and found that learning more techniques increased how much power she could absorb, then promised to spend time with his family. Meanwhile, Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei verified the Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe’s account and began a plan involving him, marking the opening move against the Ghost Market.

• Xu Bai tested Xu Ling’s absorption limit and found that she could absorb more after learning additional Miao Sect techniques.
• Xu Bai opened the Royal Palace Treasury to Xu Ling and promised Chu Ling, Ye Zi, and Qing Xue that he would spend the next few nights with them.
• Xu Ling tried to claim Xu Bai’s attention, but Chu Ling, Ye Zi, and Qing Xue tossed her outside, where she ran toward the Royal Palace Treasury.
• Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei questioned the captured Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe, who explained his betrayal and cooperation with the Ghost Market.
• A soul-proficient Transcendent expert inspected the Great Shaman’s soul, and Chief Mu told him what to do while Eunuch Wei threatened him.
• The Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe created a translucent mirror with strange figures flickering inside as Chief Mu prepared to begin the plan.

The Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe learned that the White-Clothed Man served a terrifying imprisoned being whose forces across countless worlds were preparing to enter their world. As Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei planned to find Xu Bai and lure out the Ghost Market, Yun Zihai grew alarmed by dreams of doors draining his strength, one of which had begun to open.

• The Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe pretended Xu Bai was dead and claimed he needed help, but the White-Clothed Man refused to intervene.
• The Great Shaman of the Barbarian Tribe threatened to trade Xu Bai to the humans unless the White-Clothed Man explained his confidence, prompting him to reveal that a terrifying imprisoned being wanted Xu Bai killed.
• The White-Clothed Man said that being expected to break free soon and that its subordinates from countless worlds were approaching, though he did not know what would serve as their springboard.
• Chief Mu and Eunuch Wei agreed to destroy the Ghost Market, search for the springboard, and find Xu Bai so they could work with him to lure out their enemies.
• In the Barbarian Territory, Yun Zihai worried that dreams of countless doors had been draining his strength, especially after one door opened and he felt an urge to open them all.

Yun Zihai worried that his increasingly vivid dreams and the beckoning door signaled danger, but he postponed telling Xu Bai, who had been summoned to the Great Chu Imperial Palace. That night, a shadowy figure emerged from Yun Zihai’s shadow and fled, and the chapter ended as an unknown expert arrived to confront it.

• Yun Zihai decided to report his strange dreams to Xu Bai, but learned Xu Bai had gone to the Great Chu Imperial Palace and chose to wait until his return.
• Yun Zihai returned home and worked through memorials instead of sleeping, while his servants noticed that his manner seemed unusual.
• Yun Zihai saw his shadow twist outside his window and watched a black figure crawl out of it before fleeing.
• Yun Zihai pursued the figure and, with Bureau of Surveillance agents, cornered it outside the Royal City.
• The shadow’s aura rose to Extraordinary Peak, and an approaching figure declared that it would make a fitting offering to heaven.

Liu Qingfeng fought the black shadow with his self-created, recovery-based style until Xu Bai returned and stopped its escape. Xu Bai discovered the shadow concealed a lifeless metal machine that vanished into ashes, then sensed that something had changed in Yun Zihai, who asked to speak privately.

• Liu Qingfeng arrived from the Royal Palace Treasury and challenged the black shadow while the others kept it surrounded.
• The black shadow stabbed Liu Qingfeng, but he used his rapid recovery to trade blows and gradually weaken it.
• As the black shadow tried to flee, Xu Bai returned and halted it with his overwhelming presence.
• Xu Bai scattered the shadow and revealed a complex metal machine with no soul or signs of life, but it quickly turned to ashes.
• Xu Bai sent the onlookers away, sensed that Yun Zihai had changed, and heard him ask for a private conversation.

Yun Zihai revealed that doors appearing in his dreams were draining his power and might make him a springboard for countless worlds to invade. As Xu Bai rushed him toward the Great Chu Kingdom's Imperial Palace for help, Yun Zihai began losing control and begged Xu Bai to kill him before the door inside him opened.

• Yun Zihai sealed the Royal Palace Treasury with Heavenly Change and told Xu Bai and Liu Qingfeng about the strange dreams and doors that had been draining his power.
• Xu Bai realized the doors could make Yun Zihai a springboard for the Supreme Saint's forces to invade their world, and he sent Liu Qingfeng away to keep the information secret.
• Xu Bai explained the danger to Yun Zihai, who feared becoming a sinner for all eternity, but agreed to travel to the Great Chu Kingdom's Imperial Palace for help.
• Xu Bai and Yun Zihai flew toward the Great Chu Kingdom's Imperial Palace, but Yun Zihai stopped in midair as his aura changed and a door appeared in his eyes.
• Yun Zihai struggled against the presence emerging through the door and begged Xu Bai to kill him before he lost control.

Xu Bai confronted Machine, who had taken over Yun Zihai and tried to provoke Xu Bai into killing him. Machine was separated from Yun Zihai and destroyed by an unseen force, while Xu Bai remained unsure of the Supreme Saint’s purpose; elsewhere, a chained Giant Eye received word that the coordinates to a world had been found.

• Machine used Yun Zihai’s body to trap Xu Bai in the Gate of Technology and claimed he could wield Saint Realm strength there.
• Xu Bai inferred that Machine wanted him to kill Yun Zihai so Machine could truly descend, and Machine attacked after Xu Bai exposed his suspicion.
• Xu Bai destroyed Machine’s mechanical body, causing Machine to separate from Yun Zihai and reveal himself as a mechanical sphere with a bloodshot eye.
• Machine accused the Supreme Saint of deceiving him before an invisible force turned him to ash and ended the Gate of Technology.
• Xu Bai carried the unconscious Yun Zihai toward the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom while wondering what the Supreme Saint had intended.
• Within some Ruins, a chained Giant Eye received black light and an aged voice reported that the coordinates to a world had succeeded.

The Ruins confronted the imprisoned Supreme Saint, who defended his control over countless worlds as necessary for balance, while the Ruins vowed to destroy him. Xu Bai brought the unconscious Yun Zihai to the Great Chu Imperial Palace, where the Dean and others sought help and revealed that a living soul expert who resented Xu Bai might be their best lead.

• The Ruins rejected the Supreme Saint’s offer of another life and condemned his control over countless worlds, but admitted he could not break through or safely leave his post.
• The Ruins realized he could convey a warning through a vessel before he vanished, while Xu Bai flew toward the Great Chu Imperial Palace carrying the unconscious Yun Zihai.
• Chief Mu examined Yun Zihai and said countless consciousnesses filled his body, leaving his own consciousness barely holding on; he could not find a way to save him.
• The Dean and Prime Minister Wen examined Yun Zihai, and the Dean admitted that Yun Zihai had ignored his advice not to enter the transcendent realm.
• Prime Minister Wen identified a highly skilled divine-soul expert who might help, and Chief Mu and the Dean explained that the expert resented Xu Bai but could not be threatened into helping.
• Xu Bai questioned why he had a living enemy, and Chief Mu connected the grudge to Xu Bai’s visit to the Upper Capital and his battle against a thousand people.