Chapter Summaries

Xu Bai forced Senior Chen, an Extraordinary soul-support expert, to help Yun Zihai after Chen refused because Xu Bai had killed his grandson. Chen claimed that Xu Bai had to enter Yun Zihai’s soul, but Xu Bai exposed him as a traitor to this world and the Supreme Saint’s lackey.

• Chief Mu explained that Senior Chen had stayed neutral since Xu Bai killed Chen’s grandson and would not help anyone connected to Xu Bai.
• Xu Bai traveled to Chen’s secluded cottage and demanded his help with saving Yun Zihai.
• When Chen refused and threatened to kill himself rather than cooperate, Xu Bai disarmed and subdued him with his soul power.
• Xu Bai carried Chen back to the Imperial Palace, where Chen examined Yun Zihai and said Xu Bai had to enter Yun Zihai’s soul to save him.
• Xu Bai recognized that Chen was pretending to be controlled, seized him by the neck, and accused him of serving the Supreme Saint.

Xu Bai exposed and killed the old man, then sought a way to save Yun Zihai by having Xu Ling learn and copy the book from the thatched hut. Xu Bai began filling the book’s progress bar, leaving him hopeful that he could resolve Yun Zihai’s injuries as preparations for a battle with the Ghost Market continued.

• Xu Bai revealed that the old man had been planted to monitor him, and the old man warned that the Supreme Saint had ordered Xu Bai’s death.
• After the old man said the book in his hut could not trigger Xu Bai’s ability, Xu Bai snapped his neck and asked how to save Yun Zihai.
• Xu Bai retrieved the book, brought it to the Barbarian Territory, and asked Xu Ling to learn it so she could copy it for him.
• Xu Bai told Liu Qingfeng that a battle with the Ghost Market was likely soon, and Liu Qingfeng agreed to fight alongside him.
• Xu Ling learned and copied the book, and Xu Bai saw a golden progress bar appear above it.

Xu Bai strengthened Yun Zihai's soul enough to wake him and stop the worlds in his mind from overwhelming him. As Xu Bai searched Yun Zihai's mind for a door to the Ruins, Ruins sensed Xu Bai approaching and sent goodwill through the door.

• Xu Bai used the soul-assisting technique to empower Yun Zihai, who woke and thanked him for saving him from becoming a springboard for countless worlds.
• Xu Bai told Yun Zihai to cultivate his soul and promised to infuse him with soul power as needed; Yun Zihai revealed he had seen a door to the Ruins in his mind.
• Yun Zihai said he had sensed two forces beyond the door: one powerful but restrained, and another weaker but free.
• Xu Bai entered Yun Zihai's mind to search for the door, while Ruins created a mirror and recognized Xu Bai's approaching soul.
• Ruins sent a message of goodwill through the door as Xu Bai sensed an approaching aura.

Xu Bai learned from the living Ruins that the Supreme Saint’s plans held unknown dangers and that Yun Zihai was the springboard, then spent a long stretch advancing his skills until he reached Entering Sainthood Tier 3. As he stayed in the Barbarian Territory through the first snowfall, someone entered sainthood.

• Xu Bai contacted the being behind the door and learned that it was the Ruins, which warned him to protect Yun Zihai and gave him locations of hidden books and advice about the Ghost Markets.
• The Ruins told Xu Bai that the Supreme Saint might have a further plan beyond bringing countless worlds to descend, and that the springboard must be killed or kept safe.
• Xu Bai returned his soul, warned Yun Zihai to protect himself, and went to the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom to collect secret manuals from Chief Mu.
• Xu Bai spent a long time grinding progress bars until his skills reached Entering Sainthood Tier 3, then decided to seek more books in the Ghost Market.
• Xu Bai went to the Barbarian Territory, where he accompanied Chu Ling and supervised little Xu Ling as she reached the Extraordinary Realm.
• After Liu Qingfeng noticed something outside, Xu Bai looked toward the sky and realized that someone had entered sainthood.

Xu Bai learned that the Dean and Prime Minister Wen had entered Sainthood together, freeing a place after he killed the Barbarian Tribe's Great Shaman. At a gathering in the Great Chu Imperial Palace, Chief Mu asked Xu Bai to locate the missing Female Daoist Abbot, and Xu Bai's soul-searching method revealed something astonishing.

• Xu Bai told Liu Qingfeng that the Dean and Prime Minister Wen had tied by entering Sainthood together, and that the Great Shaman's death had opened another place.
• Xu Bai urged Liu Qingfeng to resume cultivating, then went to the Great Chu Imperial Palace, where the realm's Sainthood experts gathered.
• Liu Yue discussed his prospects of Exiting Sainthood with Chief Mu while the others waited for Xu Bai to arrive.
• Chief Mu explained that two places for Entering Sainthood remained and shared a list of seven likely candidates, including Liu Qingfeng and the missing Female Daoist Abbot.
• Chief Mu asked Xu Bai to help find the Female Daoist Abbot, and Xu Bai used soul assistance to locate her before reacting in shock to what he saw.

Xu Bai learned that his soul had helped the Female Daoist Abbot approach sainthood, then agreed to enter the Ghost Market ahead of the coming battle to gather intelligence and gain progress bars. As he prepared to enter through a circular pattern in the Barbarian Territory, the White-Clothed Man aberration revealed that the Chu Emperor had been lured toward a place where the aberrations planned to destroy him.

• Xu Bai discovered that the Female Daoist Abbot had refined his soul into a sleeping infant-like form, and she sensed his observation before he contacted her.
• The Female Daoist Abbot explained that Xu Bai's soul had helped her approach sainthood, so Xu Bai told her to come to the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom after she entered sainthood.
• Chief Mu explained the Ghost Market's circular passages and assigned Xu Bai to enter first and gather intelligence because he was not bound by the Ghost Market's rules.
• Xu Bai agreed to enter the Ghost Market to capture aberrations and build progress bars, then left for the Barbarian Territory to find a circular pattern.
• The White-Clothed Man aberration said the Chu Emperor had been lured toward a location where the aberrations planned to destroy him.

Hun Feng used a trace of the Supreme Saint’s aura to take over the Chu Emperor’s body and set off toward the White-Clothed Man. Unaware of the change, Xu Bai returned to the Ghost Market, where he found a ruined city and began harvesting progress from its weak aberrations.

• The Chu Emperor drained the black sea and destroyed the figure sitting beneath its whirlpool, but the figure’s remains became black water that tried to enter him.
• Hun Feng took control of the Chu Emperor’s body, revealed that he had waited ages to serve the Supreme Saint, and flew toward the White-Clothed Man.
• Xu Bai returned to the Ghost Market and saw that its cities had been devastated by the war between the two Ghost Markets and the Chu Emperor’s rampage.
• Xu Bai entered a city inhabited by weak aberrations, controlled them, and asked them for secrets about the Ghost Market and the coming war.
• After the aberrations could offer no useful intelligence, Xu Bai made them leave traces to fill his progress bars, then killed them and set off to find more targets.

Xu Bai harvested progress bars from wounded ghosts across several cities in the Ghost Market, while Hun Feng pressed the White-Clothed Man ghost to finish the unification ritual within seven days. After reports of two destroyed medical sites reached the leaders, Xu Bai waited in another city for an investigator to arrive.

• Xu Bai controlled the guards at a city gate, learned that the city sheltered wounded ghosts and that similar rest sites were scattered across the region, then killed the ghosts after grinding their progress bars.
• Xu Bai used a map taken from one ghost to travel between cities, repeatedly controlling their inhabitants, harvesting progress bars, and killing them.
• Hun Feng demanded a firm schedule for the unification ritual, and the White-Clothed Man ghost promised it would be completed within seven days before they marched into the human world.
• A messenger reported that two medical sites in the borderlands had been destroyed and their ghosts killed, and the White-Clothed Man ghost ordered an investigation.
• Xu Bai learned that an investigator was coming to the city, harvested the controlled ghosts' progress bars, and waited in disguise until a ghost appeared in the sky.

Xu Bai lured an Extraordinary Peak strange entity away from the treatment city and learned that the Supreme Saint had strengthened its soul and granted it a temporary Saint Realm power. After defeating it, Xu Bai tortured its soul until it begged for mercy, leaving him poised to question it.

• Xu Bai used a controlled strange entity to learn that the Extraordinary Peak entity had come alone and relied on benefits from the Supreme Saint.
• Xu Bai accompanied the entity to a destroyed city, then tried to control its soul at close range.
• The entity activated a costly safeguard that temporarily raised it to the Saint Realm, but Xu Bai overpowered it and wounded it.
• The entity identified Xu Bai as the Blood Slaughtering Saber Wielder, and Xu Bai seized it and explained that the Supreme Saint had reinforced its soul.
• Xu Bai tortured the entity's soul, and it finally begged him to spare it.

Xu Bai learned that the Ghost Market and the Supreme Saint were preparing to invade the Human Realm, then hurried to escape with the intelligence. Hun Feng and the Entering Sainthood strange entities ambushed him, and Xu Bai raised his hands to try an uncertain countermeasure as their attack closed in.

• Xu Bai tortured the Extraordinary strange entity until it opened its soul, then discovered the Ghost Market’s invasion plans, the controlled Chu Emperor, and the Supreme Saint’s power-sharing with Extraordinary Peak strange entities.
• Xu Bai decided to return to the Human Realm with the intelligence and headed toward the city lords to seize a token.
• The White-Clothed Man entity sensed the Extraordinary strange entity’s death and identified Xu Bai, while Hun Feng planned to kill Xu Bai by destroying his body before his ability could activate.
• An Entering Sainthood strange entity sensed Xu Bai heading toward the city lords, and Hun Feng led the group to ambush him.
• Xu Bai sensed danger, turned away from the city lords, and was struck by a devastating attack from Hun Feng and the Entering Sainthood strange entities.
• Unable to destroy his soul in time to summon his golden finger, Xu Bai found a possible solution and raised both hands as the attack approached.

Xu Bai entered a terrifying state after destroying his divine soul, killed the Sainthood horrors, and sent the Chu Emperor out of the Ghost Market before regaining consciousness. As the Chu Emperor returned to the human world, Chief Mu and the others sensed his arrival and went to welcome him.

• Xu Bai avoided the horrors’ concentrated attack by destroying half his body, then completely destroyed his divine soul and entered a golden-and-grayish-white state.
• Xu Bai killed the Sainthood horrors and stripped Hun Feng from the Chu Emperor’s body, restoring the Chu Emperor’s consciousness.
• Xu Bai took a token from a horror and used it to send the Chu Emperor through a circular pattern, while remaining in the Ghost Market.
• Xu Bai regained consciousness and sensed that the powerful horrors held things he could claim, then hurried back toward them.
• In the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace, Chief Mu and the Sainthood members sensed the Chu Emperor’s return, and Eunuch Wei led them to welcome him.

After the Chu Emperor returned, he told the assembled leaders that Xu Bai had killed every Entering Sainthood Expert in the Ghost Market. While Xu Bai ground through progress bars there, the Supreme Saint revealed that his eventual exit would trigger the first step of its plan, prompting Ruins to seek a way to contact him.

• The Chu Emperor returned, and Rising Dusk King punched him for leaving without warning before accepting his apology.
• The Chu Emperor told Chief Mu and the others that Xu Bai had killed every Entering Sainthood Expert in the Ghost Market, so they decided to wait for Xu Bai before choosing how to proceed.
• Xu Bai controlled the remaining bizarre creatures and began grinding through the progress bars left across the Ghost Market.
• The Supreme Saint tried to tempt Ruins with immortality, but Ruins rejected the offer and reaffirmed its resolve to destroy the Supreme Saint.
• The Supreme Saint said Xu Bai's exit from the Ghost Market would begin its plan, and Ruins resolved to contact Xu Bai using the method from last time.

The Ruins warned Yun Zihai that Xu Bai must not leave the Ghost Market because the Supreme Saint had laid a dangerous scheme, prompting Yun Zihai and the Chu Emperor to plan how to get a message to him. Meanwhile, Xu Bai finished grinding through the Ghost Market’s traces, reached Entering Sainthood Fifth Rank, and turned his attention to a nearly completed batch of Entering Sainthood Failure Insights.

• The Ruins sent Yun Zihai an urgent warning through the soul door, telling him to keep Xu Bai inside the Ghost Market because the Supreme Saint planned to endanger him.
• Yun Zihai hurried to the Great Chu Imperial Palace and told the Chu Emperor about the warning.
• The Chu Emperor proposed sending letters into the Ghost Market with death-row prisoners and said he would enter the market himself if that plan failed.
• Xu Bai completed the final progress bar among the Ghost Market’s traces and advanced to Entering Sainthood Fifth Rank.
• Xu Bai noticed that a pile of Entering Sainthood Failure Insights progress bars was almost complete.

Xu Bai raised his skills to Entering Sainthood Tier Five, learned that the Supreme Saint was trapping the human world, and chose to remain in the Ghost Market while fishing for more progress bars. As the Chu Emperor prepared the world for the coming threat, Xu Bai’s fishing brought up a miniature eye resembling the Supreme Saint, which attacked his mountain of books.

• Xu Bai fused his Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, raised his Myriad skills to Tier Five, and erased the remaining Entering Sainthood strange beings.
• Xu Bai used Qin Feng’s Fishing Skill and caught a soulless prisoner carrying a letter from the Chu Emperor, warning him that the Supreme Saint was preparing a trap in the human world.
• Xu Bai decided to stay in the Ghost Market, sent the prisoner back with his reply, and resumed fishing for progress bars.
• The Chu Emperor received Xu Bai’s message and ordered the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace treasure vault opened to Extraordinary Realm cultivators, while demanding other groups share their treasures.
• Xu Bai fished up a mountain of books, then caught a miniature eye resembling the Supreme Saint; it charged at the books, and Xu Bai blocked it with Heavenly Change.

Xu Bai fought off the Supreme Saint’s miniature eye, but it multiplied into countless eyes and drove him toward the remains of shattered worlds above the Ghost Market. He reached the corpse-filled realm hoping its residual power would hinder his pursuers, only to sense that the pile of corpses had come alive.

• Xu Bai moved the books out of danger, then clashed with the miniature eye and was struck by a black beam that suppressed his recovery.
• Xu Bai countered the eye’s barrage with Myriad Attacks and the heavenly changes, but the eye split into countless copies and pursued him.
• Xu Bai fled upward, broke through the Ghost Market’s sky, and entered the realm of shattered worlds with the pursuing eyes behind him.
• Xu Bai flew toward the mountain of corpses, sensed something watching him, and realized the pile of corpses seemed to have come alive.

Xu Bai realized the miniature eyes were following a fixed plan to weaken the towering figure formed from corpses, then joined the fight against them. When the towering figure fled and the eyes ignored Xu Bai to pursue it, he exploited their predictable behavior and destroyed them, then continued after the fleeing figure.

• Countless corpses fused into a towering humanoid, while the miniature eyes combined into a creature that attacked it.
• Xu Bai inferred that the Supreme Saint had arranged the eyes to destroy his skill books, target him, and ultimately weaken the towering figure.
• Xu Bai attacked alongside the towering figure, but the eyes focused on their original target and injured it while both sides accumulated wounds.
• The towering figure abruptly fled, and the miniature eyes pursued it as Xu Bai followed.
• Xu Bai tested his suspicion that the eyes followed a fixed pattern, then repeatedly struck them with Myriad Attacks until they shattered.

After Xu Bai defeated the miniature eye, the corpse giant knelt and mimicked his movements before collapsing back into a heap of bodies. Back in the Ghost Market, Xu Bai focused on improving his strength while the Supreme Saint seized control of the Ruins and began restoring an army to attack the human world.

• Xu Bai defeated the miniature eye, then watched the corpse giant kneel to him and copy his movements before it collapsed into corpses.
• Xu Bai found nothing unusual among the bodies, returned to the Ghost Market, and flew off to work through the books and improve his strength.
• The Supreme Saint woke after Xu Bai returned, while Ruins sensed danger and saw a crack open between the Ruins and the human world.
• The Supreme Saint revealed that it had taken control of the Ruins and began making the Ten Thousand Kingdoms War-era figures and transcendent beings real again.
• The Supreme Saint said it would empower nine figures to reach Exiting Sainthood temporarily and destroy the human world once they solidified.
• Ruins hurried to contact the human world through Yun Zihai's door, while the Supreme Saint laughed and declared that its plan would prevail.

Ruins lost control of the Ghost Market and could not warn Yun Zihai, while Xu Bai watched a strange golden sphere absorb the corpses before it vanished. As Chu Yu grew increasingly restless in the human world, Butcher of Heavens led a powerful group toward the Great Chu Kingdom to seize a supreme treasure for the Supreme Saint.

• Ruins realized he could no longer contact Yun Zihai and focused on keeping the Supreme Saint restrained.
• Xu Bai saw a giant opening form in the Ghost Market sky and, after it spread toward him, found a golden sphere absorbing the corpses inside.
• The golden sphere vanished after the corpses turned to ashes, and Xu Bai returned to grinding progress bars.
• Chu Yu told Qin Feng that she felt increasingly unsettled while watching over the Barbarian Territory.
• Butcher of Heavens gathered a powerful group by the sea and led them to set out for the supreme treasure in the Supreme Saint's name.

Butcher of Heavens led a powerful force to seize the Iron Sword from the Ancient Moon Sword Sect, while Gu Yao prepared the sect’s defenses. At the enemy’s arrival, she recognized Butcher of Heavens from an ancient memory, and he demanded the Iron Sword in exchange for sparing her.

• Butcher of Heavens gathered his forces and led them toward the Ancient Moon Sword Sect, planning to take the Iron Sword and stop the sect from using it.
• Gu Yao replenished the Iron Sword with her power, preserving the sect’s means of escape despite the drain preventing her from entering sainthood.
• Two disciples spotted the approaching enemy and fired the sect’s signal, prompting Gu Yao and the Twelve Sword Envoys to assemble the Ten Thousand Swords Formation and the Twelve Heavenly Swords Formation.
• Gu Yao sent a disciple toward the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace, then raised her Ancient Moon Sword to complete the sect’s three-layer defense.
• Butcher of Heavens halted outside the formation, and Gu Yao recognized him from an ancient memory before he demanded that she return the Iron Sword.

Gu Yao fought Butcher of Heavens and his forces when they demanded the Iron Sword and threatened to destroy the world. She used the Iron Sword to weaken the invaders, then prepared to learn more about the Supreme Saint and their plans from Rising Dusk King.

• Butcher of Heavens told Gu Yao that his group planned to destroy the world to escape death and demanded the Iron Sword, but Gu Yao refused and rallied the Ancient Moon Sword Sect to fight.
• Butcher of Heavens disabled the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, while the Twelve Sword Envoys used the Twelve Heavenly Swords Formation to block the attackers’ first assault.
• Gu Yao activated the Iron Sword’s forbidden power, cutting the cultivation of everyone in its range by a major realm and banishing that power into space.
• The Twelve Sword Envoys killed the weakened attackers, while Butcher of Heavens and the middle-aged scholar self-destructed after refusing to reveal the Supreme Saint’s identity and plans.
• Gu Yao told the Twelve Sword Envoys to prepare for the arrival of her people from Great Chu Kingdom, then confronted Rising Dusk King when he arrived and demanded that he explain everything he knew.