Chapter Summaries

Rising Dusk King and Gu Yao evacuated the Ancient Moon Sword Sect and prepared defenses against the Supreme Saint’s forces while Xu Bai advanced to Entering Sainthood Seventh Grade in the Ghost Market. Xu Bai strengthened his skills further and decided to search the Ghost Market for more gains as the Supreme Saint raged in the Ruins.

• Gu Yao and Rising Dusk King agreed to protect Xu Bai by removing obstacles, securing her space-traversing sword, and assigning Chief Mu to guard the Barbarian Territory.
• Rising Dusk King and Gu Yao led the Ancient Moon Sword Sect disciples away using Gu Yao’s Iron Sword.
• Xu Bai completed his progress bars and reached Entering Sainthood Seventh Grade.
• Xu Bai fused the Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, raising his skills to Entering Sainthood Level 8.
• Xu Bai decided to search the Ghost Market for more resources while he remained unable to leave.
• The Supreme Saint opened his eye in the Ruins and angrily condemned his followers for going wrong from the start.

Ruins warned Supreme Saint that Xu Bai might escape, while Supreme Saint remained confident Ghost Market would doom him. Xu Bai investigated a trembling space, encountered two humans who had died in the human world, and realized their arrival had revealed a hidden backup plan connected to Supreme Saint.

• Ruins visited Supreme Saint and worried that Xu Bai might escape before Ruins could hold him much longer.
• Xu Bai, unable to make progress toward Entering Excellence Eighth Grade, decided to investigate the trembling sky and entered the empty space beyond it.
• A young man appeared in the space with his divine soul intact, and he told Xu Bai that he had died fighting a strange being in the human world.
• A middle-aged man appeared with a similar story, prompting Xu Bai to connect their arrivals with the vanished sphere of light and recognize a backup plan for dealing with Supreme Saint.

Xu Bai discovered that the dead could revive in the mysterious space and used two revived people to send messages to the Chu Emperor, who recognized the space as both a potential source of reinforcements and a reliable way to contact Xu Bai. Elsewhere, a second batch of people revived amid calls to attack the world, until an armored woman silenced them.

• Xu Bai learned from two revived men that the Chu Emperor had opened all inheritances to prepare the human world for war, then gave them identical letters to carry back.
• The two men felt themselves being pulled away and vanished with Xu Bai’s letters, confirming that information could pass from the mysterious space to the human world.
• The Chu Emperor and Eunuch Wei read Xu Bai’s letters and decided to prioritize a reliable communication channel through people who revived in the space.
• The Chu Emperor asked whether the people from the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms had been found, and Eunuch Wei said the search was still underway.
• In a distant place, another batch of people revived and celebrated their return to life, while some called for the world to be attacked.
• An armored woman stepped forward and ordered the crowd to be quiet.

Ning Weiyue ordered the resurrected forces to gather intelligence and weaken Great Chu by killing civilians and tradespeople, then prepared an attack on the Barbarian Territory. Nearly half a month later, the Poisoned Playboy confronted Zhang Chen in Shen City and attacked him.

• Ning Weiyue rebuked the resurrected warriors for their failed first assault and revealed the Million Ning Army.
• Ning Weiyue ordered her forces to gather intelligence and eliminate enemy strength, including ordinary people, and killed a young man who objected.
• After nearly half a month of intelligence gathering, Ning Weiyue targeted the Barbarian Territory border and ordered her soldiers to retreat immediately after making contact.
• Zhang Chen discussed the family's cultivation efforts with his steward before sensing blood outside his home.
• The Poisoned Playboy appeared, identified himself as Zhang Chen's forefather from the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms, and attacked him before he could call for help.

Poisoned Playboy and his allies massacred cities along the Barbarian Territory’s borders, prompting Chu Ling to order a retreat inward while Xu Bai remained in the Ghost Market. When a great many people revived there, Zhang Chen recognized Xu Bai and pleaded for him to stop the traitors threatening the world.

• Poisoned Playboy killed Zhang Chen after revealing that he had poisoned Zhang Chen’s entire family for offending a powerful being, and he and his allies left the city strewn with corpses.
• Poisoned Playboy’s group carried out similar attacks across the Barbarian Territory’s borders, killing residents and Bureau of Surveillance members without drawing a timely response.
• Ying Yue told Chu Ling that several border cities had been wiped out and that even Chief Mu could not trace the attackers, leading Chu Ling to order everyone to retreat inward and coordinate their efforts.
• Xu Bai sensed the Ghost Market’s sky trembling, opened a passage, and found a vast crowd of newly revived people gathered beyond it.
• Zhang Chen recognized Xu Bai and called on him to stop the traitors, while other revived people reported that their clans had been exterminated.

Xu Bai learned that a second, larger attack had struck the resurrected clans, warned the survivors to head for the central area, and returned to the Ghost Market. There, a monstrous tree made of heads that resembled him claimed he had died and resurrected countless times, then pursued him until an unseen person pulled him away.

• Xu Bai questioned Zhang Chen and the other resurrected people, learned that their clans had been ambushed, and warned them to hurry toward the central area before they vanished.
• After returning to the Ghost Market, Xu Bai decided to seek an ability related to clones so he could leave his confinement without facing the Supreme Saint alone.
• Xu Bai found a head-covered tree in an empty ancient city and began destroying it, but its heads transformed into his likeness and called him by name.
• The heads claimed Xu Bai had died and resurrected countless times and insisted that he was one of them, but Xu Bai attacked the tree anyway.
• The tree resisted with destructive white light and chased Xu Bai through the city, forcing him to flee.
• An unseen person grabbed Xu Bai's arm and pulled him away, making him vanish from the tree's pursuit.

Xu Bai was dragged into a hidden realm, where a woman who claimed to be another version of him revealed that countless worlds had joined forces to reduce Supreme Saint to a single eye. Though she urged Xu Bai to hide in the realm, he planned to lure the failed world-tree into a fight with Supreme Saint and vowed to make him pay.

• A mysterious hand dragged Xu Bai into a sealed realm, where an unseen woman told him not to leave because Supreme Saint's forces were still nearby.
• The woman appeared and claimed she was Xu Bai, explaining that the heads on the giant tree were failed versions of them.
• The woman revealed that countless worlds had gathered their power to destroy Supreme Saint until only one eye remained, but he had seen through their plan.
• She said Xu Bai was trapped in the Ghost Market and that the giant tree was the remnant of their failed resistance.
• Xu Bai asked the woman to lure the giant tree to a place where it could trouble Supreme Saint, then declared he would fight with all his strength.

Xu Bai learned about A Wu’s ancient battle against the Supreme Saint and left the Ghost Market after the Giant Tree departed, determined to weaken the enemy and share his plan. As the Chu Emperor prepared to protect the people and sent a letter through condemned prisoners, the Ghost Market sky began to tremble, giving Xu Bai a chance to act.

• A Wu agreed to help Xu Bai and recounted the disastrous war against the Supreme Saint; Xu Bai asked her to assist him when he faced his greatest difficulty.
• The Chu Emperor ordered the people gathered for protection, despite the dangers of overcrowding, shortages, and the enemy’s encirclement.
• The Chu Emperor sent Eunuch Wei to kill ten condemned prisoners carrying copies of a letter, then had the Warden guard their bodies until they revived.
• After the Giant Tree left, A Wu sent Xu Bai out of her world, and he resolved to contact the outside world and put his plan into action.
• The Ghost Market sky began trembling, and Xu Bai flew toward it, declaring that he would give the Supreme Saint a grand gift.

Xu Bai coordinated with the Chu Emperor and A Wu to lure the Supreme Saint toward the Giant Tree and set their plan in motion. The Giant Tree appeared at a guarded circular pattern in the human world, leaving the Bureau of Surveillance members facing the looming threat.

• Xu Bai questioned revived condemned prisoners in the Ghost Market, read their letters, and sent a blood-written reply back with them.
• The Chu Emperor and Eunuch Wei agreed to cooperate with Xu Bai, prepare more condemned prisoners, and search for an occupation involving clones.
• Xu Bai received the Chu Emperor’s reply and arranged for A Wu to lure the Supreme Saint toward the Giant Tree using her clone and his token.
• A Wu sensed that the lure had succeeded, and she and Xu Bai left to talk while they waited to see what happened.
• A Giant Tree emerged from a circular pattern guarded by Bureau of Surveillance members.

A giant tree entered the Ruins and attacked the Supreme Saint, who fought back using the Ruins’ power. As the tree began to break apart and the Supreme Saint mocked Xu Bai, the Ruins realized the tree’s arrival had a deeper purpose.

• The giant tree shook off the Bureau of Surveillance’s observation and flew into the nearest Ruins.
• The Supreme Saint tried to persuade the Ruins to free him, while the Ruins refused and remained beside him.
• The giant tree arrived and revealed that it had come to kill the Supreme Saint, who recognized it as an old enemy.
• The Supreme Saint used his control of the Ruins to halt the tree’s attack, but the tree resumed its assault and badly wounded him.
• The Supreme Saint mocked Xu Bai for bringing the tree, then claimed he would recover once he escaped; the Ruins recalled Xu Bai and realized there was a deeper meaning behind the tree’s arrival.

Ruins used the giant tree’s final assault to bind the weakened Supreme Saint with another chain, then contacted Yun Zihai through the world door. After receiving Ruins’s report and exchanging information, Yun Zihai learned that Xu Bai had another step in his plan and sent a message to the Great Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace.

• The giant tree’s attacks weakened the Supreme Saint until the tree dissolved, and Ruins used the opening to bind him with a new chain.
• The Supreme Saint cursed Xu Bai and accused Ruins of delaying his escape, while Ruins regained control of the place and mocked him with a false offer to remove the chain.
• Ruins left to contact the outside world and sent Yun Zihai a report through the door between worlds.
• Yun Zihai shared news from the human world and received a message revealing that Xu Bai had another step planned.
• Yun Zihai wrote a letter with the information and asked Liu Qingfeng to deliver it to the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom.

Yun Zihai grew uneasy about the doors in his mind and headed to consult Chief Mu, while Liu Qingfeng delivered Yun Zihai’s letter to the Chu Emperor. The Chu Emperor and his allies agreed to lure and capture people from the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms so Xu Bai could use their traces to gain progress bars, and Xu Bai confirmed the plan was underway.

• Yun Zihai worried that controlling the doors was making him more uneasy and set out to visit Chief Mu.
• Liu Qingfeng delivered Yun Zihai’s letter to the Chu Emperor, who learned that the Supreme Saint had been weakened and that Xu Bai wanted the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms people captured alive.
• The Chu Emperor summoned Eunuch Wei, the dean, the Female Daoist Abbot, and Prime Minister Wen, then presented a plan to loosen their defenses and lure the enemy into a trap.
• The Female Daoist Abbot warned that two people might have divided loyalties, but the Chu Emperor said he would destroy them if they betrayed the plan.
• Xu Bai received a letter from controlled prisoners in the mysterious space and concluded that the Ruins had recognized his plan to use the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms people as a new source of progress bars.

Xu Bai learned that the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms would provide him with a steady supply of resources, while Ning Weiyue reconsidered her siege strategy to secure credit before more people revived. Liu Yue and Bai Zhong waited in hiding as planned, and the chapter ended when two unfamiliar Extraordinary Realm men arrived, confirming they were the people Liu Yue had been waiting for.

• Xu Bai returned to the Ghost Market and told A Wu that the Supreme Saint’s plan had turned the Era of Ten Thousand Kingdoms into a source of resources for him.
• The Great Yue Kingdom rebelled and fled, so the Great Chu Kingdom pursued Liu Yue and Bai Zhong’s forces while the martial world speculated that they had run in fear.
• Ning Weiyue initially ordered her forces to maintain the siege, then changed course and sent some troops to investigate the rebels after her subordinates raised concerns about losing credit.
• Liu Yue and Bai Zhong stayed hidden under the Chu Emperor’s instructions, and Bai Zhong spread news of their whereabouts to attract attention.
• A soldier brought two unfamiliar Extraordinary Realm men to Liu Yue and Bai Zhong, and Liu Yue realized they were the people he had been waiting for.

Liu Yue told Ning Weiyue’s envoys that he had defected to restore the Great Yue Kingdom, and the two sides considered cooperation. Ning Weiyue ordered an infiltration to test his claim, but remained worried about finding a plan quickly enough to secure victory and the foremost merit.

• Liu Yue told the tall man that he and his people had defected to establish a true Great Yue Kingdom, and the tall man left to report to Ning Weiyue.
• Bai Zhong asked whether they should track the envoys, but Liu Yue refused and said they should wait for a chance to cooperate while trying to capture their opponents alive.
• The tall man and his companions returned to Ning Weiyue, who learned their report and considered whether Liu Yue’s defection was genuine.
• Ning Weiyue ordered the tall man to return with people who would join Liu Yue’s group, allowing her to test them and keep them waiting for further instructions.
• Ning Weiyue assured her subordinates that she would find a way to secure victory, then worried privately that she had little time to devise a plan.

Ning Weiyue privately weighed her options while Liu Yue and Bai Zhong drew out negotiations with her side, using a threat and a claimed secret to raise the price of cooperation. Ning Weiyue agreed to continue talks through a mirror, while using the delays to buy time and seeking immediate benefits from Liu Yue’s group.

• Ning Weiyue admitted to herself that she had no solution yet and decided to test whether Liu Yue and Bai Zhong’s offer was genuine.
• Liu Yue and Bai Zhong waited in the barren wasteland, where Liu Yue said they would create an opportunity if Ning Weiyue’s side refused to move.
• After the tall man returned offering cooperation, Liu Yue slapped him and ordered him to tell his master that cooperation required sincerity and that he possessed a secret capable of devastating Great Chu.
• The tall man reported Liu Yue’s demands to Ning Weiyue, who recognized that Liu Yue was trying to raise his price.
• Ning Weiyue agreed to cooperate if Liu Yue’s side offered something worthwhile and sent the tall man back with a mirror so she could speak to them directly.
• Ning Weiyue privately reflected that the repeated trips had bought her time to think, but she still wanted immediate benefits from Liu Yue’s group.

Liu Yue negotiated with Ning Weiyue through a mirror, proposing that her people establish a nation and support him as king so he could use its national fortune to enter Exiting Sainthood. Ning Weiyue agreed to consider cooperation only if Liu Yue proved he could kill more of their enemies, leaving the tall messenger shaken by the revelation that his leader had been deceiving him.

• Ning Weiyue drank alone by the sea before the scene shifted to Liu Yue and Bai Zhong waiting in the wasteland.
• Liu Yue threatened the tall messenger until he revealed a mirror that could connect them directly to Ning Weiyue.
• Liu Yue dismissed Ning Weiyue’s strength and proposed that her people establish a nation and support him as king so he could claim its Luck Power and enter Exiting Sainthood.
• Ning Weiyue rejected the proposal at first, then said she would consider cooperating if Liu Yue demonstrated his ability by killing more of their enemies.
• Liu Yue agreed to prove himself, ended the call, and crushed the mirror before Bai Zhong pointed out that Ning Weiyue’s leader had been deceiving the tall messenger.

Liu Yue recruited Lei Yun to draw the martial world people away from Ning Weiyue, while the Chu Emperor helped enact a plan that cost more than a hundred Transcendent experts before they revived in the Ghost Market. Ning Weiyue accepted Liu Yue’s conditions, and Xu Bai ended the chapter urging A Wu to honestly reveal what troubled her.

• Liu Yue persuaded Lei Yun to recruit the martial world people to his side, and Lei Yun agreed to follow him.
• Liu Yue asked Bai Zhong to contact the Chu Emperor, who received a secret letter and summoned Eunuch Wei to discuss an important matter.
• Nearly half a month later, Ning Weiyue learned that Liu Yue’s side had lured out and killed more than a hundred Transcendent experts, then agreed to their conditions and offered Luck Power to help him Exit Sainthood.
• Xu Bai found the revived Transcendent experts in the Ghost Market and asked one to tell the Chu Emperor to bring him something to relieve his boredom.
• A Wu worried that they could not keep wasting time, and Xu Bai urged her to speak honestly about what was troubling her.

Xu Bai learned that he could seek progress bars in worlds that had submitted to the Supreme Saint, though A Wu warned he might lose his way and never return. Meanwhile, Liu Yue and Bai Zhong drew half of Ning Weiyue’s people into their camp, and Liu Yue began assessing the recruits in the yellow sands.

• A Wu told Xu Bai that the people, objects, and records in worlds that submitted to the Supreme Saint could provide him with new progress bars, but warned that he might become lost among the worlds and fail to return.
• Liu Yue pressured Lei Yun to bring the people he had won over to the yellow sands, and Lei Yun agreed to gather them and submit to Liu Yue and Bai Zhong.
• Liu Yue told Bai Zhong he planned to send half the defectors to Xu Bai and use their defection to unsettle Ning Weiyue.
• Nearly half a month later, Ning Weiyue learned that half her people had defected and ordered her forces to monitor Liu Yue’s group from a distance.
• Liu Yue gathered the defectors in the yellow sands, sealed the area with sheets of paper, and told each person to imprint their strongest attack for evaluation.

Liu Yue used the gathered practitioners’ attacks to collect traces, established the Great Yue Kingdom, and broke through to Exiting Sainthood. Xu Bai received the marked pages in the Ghost Market and found a vast supply of progress bars, though A Wu warned that reaching Entering Sainthood Ninth Grade would not make him safe.

• Liu Yue had the practitioners attack the pages filling the sky, preserving their abilities as traces, then declared the Great Yue Kingdom established.
• Liu Yue drew on Luck Power and broke through to Exiting Sainthood as Bai Zhong and the others watched.
• Bai Zhong confirmed Liu Yue had succeeded, and Lei Yun and the gathered practitioners congratulated their new ruler.
• Liu Yue ordered everyone to disperse and planned to send the pages to Xu Bai while awaiting word from the Great Chu Emperor.
• Xu Bai opened a passage in the Ghost Market sky and received a huge book from the prisoners Liu Yue had sent.
• Xu Bai discovered that every page held a progress bar, while A Wu warned him that only Exiting Sainthood might offer security from the Supreme Saint.

Xu Bai finished grinding every progress bar in Ghost Market, while Liu Yue tried to persuade Ning Weiyue to help eliminate their shared enemies and claim the credit. Ning Weiyue remained undecided as Liu Yue gave her one month to choose, and the chapter ended with Xu Bai ready to move on.

• Xu Bai began grinding the progress bars on the pages A Wu had gathered for him.
• Ning Weiyue sent a messenger to Liu Yue, offering full cooperation if he had a record of killing one hundred extraordinary experts.
• Liu Yue demanded that Ning Weiyue bring all her people to join the Great Yue Kingdom, and she led them to his territory.
• Liu Yue asked Ning Weiyue to help kill their enemies and claim the credit, but she worried they might fail and incur the Supreme Saint's wrath.
• Liu Yue gave Ning Weiyue one month to decide whether to join his plan, threatening to slaughter them if she did not answer.
• Xu Bai finished every progress bar in Ghost Market.