Chapter Summaries

After Sa’s first two volumes of the Great Eating Sutra triggered a worldwide inheritance vote, Owl and Sa faced overwhelming hostility from the people gathered in a magical restaurant. Ghost Fatty killed everyone who voted against them, leaving twelve supporters alive and granting Owl and Sa the third volume.

• Owl, Sa, Long Na, and others were transported from Moreya Town to a vast restaurant after green pillars of light appeared at the old well and Emerald City.
• Ghost Fatty explained that everyone would vote on whether Owl and Sa could receive the complete inheritance, while Jin Dong revealed that they had been falsely accused of colluding with the Lion-Ant-Bees.
• Most of the diners voted against Owl and Sa, but Ghost Fatty revealed that their meal had extended their lives and improved their luck and cultivation, then killed everyone who had voted against them.
• Ghost Fatty warned Sa to stand firm against enemies, and the twelve surviving supporters watched as he gave Owl and Sa the third volume of the Great Eating Sutra.

After Banquet erased more than three million people, Owl and Sa helped survivors gather and relocate orphaned children while Jin Dong and Trevor chose to remain and rebuild humanity. Wan Weiyi, haunted by surviving because he had voted in favor, challenged Owl to a duel, and his strange sword struck Owl twice despite seeming easy to evade.

• Owl and Sa returned to Moreya Town after Ghost Fatty destroyed the restaurant and killed more than three million people.
• Owl, Sa, and Long Na found Trevor and Jin Dong caring for orphaned children; they decided to send most of the children to other worlds while Jin Dong and Trevor stayed behind with ten.
• Over the following weeks, Owl arranged homes for children in Infinite City and other worlds, while Wan Weiyi awoke and flew toward Owl to demand a fight.
• Owl met Wan Weiyi and accepted his challenge, but Wan Weiyi's slow thrust nearly pierced Owl's chest despite Owl expecting to evade it.
• Wan Weiyi thrust again, and his sword struck Owl's throat even as Owl watched it closely.

Chapter Summary: “One After Another”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wan Weiyi, renowned for his lethal swordsmanship, confronts Owl. His sword is normally impossible to evade or withstand, but Owl’s body blocks every strike without injury.
• Wan Weiyi questions Owl’s defense, but Owl casually claims that his body is simply strong. Wan Weiyi refuses to believe him and attacks repeatedly, yet none of his blows have any effect.
• Jack Dragon arrives, having survived the earlier events, and reveals that he intends to seize the inheritance from Owl and Sa rather than allow them to obtain it.
• Jack Dragon attacks Owl with enormous firepower, including his Firewheel Fists and Crimson Flame Dragon Breath. Despite tens of thousands of punches and a world-devastating sea of flames, Owl remains completely unharmed.
• Wan Weiyi launches a refined sword attack aimed at destroying Owl’s soul. Owl realizes the nature of the sword technique, but its sword intent disappears upon entering his soul. Owl then kills Wan Weiyi with a single finger tap to the brow and takes his treasured sword and Storage Ring.
• Jack Dragon recognizes that Owl is overwhelmingly powerful and decides to flee rather than continue fighting. He pretends to prepare another attack, then escapes into the sky.
• Owl attempts to pursue him but loses track of his aura. Reflecting on the battle, Owl realizes that neither opponent came close to revealing the limits of his copied physical abilities.
• The chapter ends with Di Shikun approaching Owl through the still-boiling magma.

Character Developments

• Owl: Demonstrates near-total physical and spiritual invulnerability. His copied body withstands Wan Weiyi’s killing sword and Jack Dragon’s strongest flames without apparent damage. He also shows improved combat insight, quickly understanding the principles behind Wan Weiyi’s sword and defeating him effortlessly. However, Owl remains uncertain about his true power level because no opponent has managed to challenge his defenses.
• Wan Weiyi: His confidence is shaken when his supposedly unstoppable sword fails against Owl. He experiments with repeated thrusts and finally uses a soul-destroying attack, but Owl counters and kills him instantly.
• Jack Dragon: Initially aggressive and confident, relying on overwhelming firepower and rapid attacks. After witnessing Owl survive his flames, he becomes intimidated and chooses retreat over risking defeat. His actions reveal that, despite possessing world-ending potential, he has no reason to destroy the world and is primarily motivated by practical self-interest.
• Celestial Phenomenon Riding Dragon: Though already dead, his fate is revisited. Owl recalls that his Fate Line control failed against him and that his mysterious cultivation technique was lost with his death.
• Di Shikun: Appears at the end, signaling the likely beginning of another confrontation.

Significant Themes

• The limits of power: The chapter repeatedly questions whether any defense or attack can truly be absolute. Wan Weiyi believes every defense can be broken, while Owl’s body appears to contradict that assumption.
• Uncertainty about strength: Owl has gained immense power but lacks a clear sense of where he ranks because no one has forced him to reveal his limits.
• Deception and hidden abilities: Owl conceals the true source of his durability, while Jack Dragon disguises his intention to flee by announcing a fake follow-up attack.
• Practicality versus destruction: Although Jack Dragon possesses enough power to destroy the world, he has no interest in doing so because it offers him no benefit.
• Death and lost knowledge: Owl regrets that Celestial Phenomenon Riding Dragon died before Owl could uncover the secrets of his cultivation technique.

Character Interactions

• Wan Weiyi and Owl engage in a tense exchange over the secret behind Owl’s defense, with Owl giving a deliberately simple answer that Wan Weiyi rejects.
• Jack Dragon joins the fight and coordinates indirectly with Wan Weiyi, warning him not to underestimate Owl after seeing the failed sword attacks.
• Owl defeats Wan Weiyi while Jack Dragon attacks, creating a contrast between Wan Weiyi’s precise killing technique and Jack Dragon’s overwhelming elemental force.
• Jack Dragon and Owl exchange a final silent look after the fire attack, with Jack Dragon realizing that Owl is far beyond his expectations.
• The chapter concludes with Di Shikun arriving as Owl remains alone amid the magma, suggesting another powerful encounter is imminent.

Chapter Summary: “Immortal and Indestructible”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Di Shikun enters the magma to challenge Owl, demonstrating his rapid healing and growing immunity to extreme heat.
• He threatens Owl’s girlfriend to force him to fight. Owl reluctantly attacks, pulverizing Di Shikun with a single punch.
• Di Shikun resurrects and reveals his ability: each death makes him immune to the same attack and increases his strength.
• Owl repeatedly kills him, but Di Shikun continually returns, becoming more resistant and powerful.
• Owl destroys Di Shikun and his suspected resurrection backups with a massive shockwave, but Di Shikun eventually reappears.
• To prevent Di Shikun’s resurrection from leaving behind indestructible evidence, Owl gives him pink underwear that automatically reappears with him after every resurrection.
• Di Shikun attempts increasingly sophisticated attacks, including a feint that nearly catches Owl off guard. Owl recognizes his skill but still remains overwhelmingly stronger.
• Owl decides that killing Di Shikun permanently would be difficult but believes there is a suitable place to send him after the battle.
• Di Shikun rejects the idea of ending the fight, insisting that it must continue until one of them dies. The battle therefore continues through countless cycles of death and resurrection.

Character Developments

• Owl: Remains calm, controlled, and vastly powerful. He initially sees Di Shikun as a nuisance but becomes interested in testing his own strength against Di Shikun’s unusual growth. Owl also shows strategic intelligence by studying Di Shikun’s resurrection timing and backup mechanism.
• Di Shikun: Is portrayed as fanatical, fearless, and obsessed with strength. His immortality allows him to treat death as a learning process. Each resurrection improves his durability, healing, combat ability, and eventually the speed of his revival. Despite repeatedly being killed, he remains energetic and excited rather than traumatized.
• Di Shikun also proves to be an unexpectedly capable fighter. His feints, changes in direction, and silent attacks nearly deceive Owl, and he freely explains his technique because he believes Owl cannot be killed by it.

Significant Themes

• Growth through repeated defeat: Di Shikun becomes stronger by surviving death, while Owl also improves through combat. Their battle becomes a contest of development rather than a simple fight.
• Immortality versus overwhelming power: Di Shikun’s resurrection makes him nearly impossible to eliminate, but his ability to return does not close the gap between him and Owl.
• Obsession and madness: Di Shikun welcomes pain and death because they provide opportunities to become stronger. His refusal to stop fighting highlights his distorted view of combat and self-worth.
• Adaptation and strategy: The chapter emphasizes that raw power is not the only factor in battle. Di Shikun’s feints and techniques briefly challenge Owl despite the immense difference in strength.
• The limits of invincibility: Di Shikun is effectively indestructible, but Owl remains capable of overpowering him each time. His immortality ensures continuation, not victory.

Character Interactions

• Owl and Di Shikun maintain a tense relationship built on threats, provocation, and mutual recognition.
• Di Shikun repeatedly threatens Owl’s girlfriend to force him to attack, while Owl criticizes his behavior and warns that he is seeking death.
• Owl acknowledges Di Shikun’s increasing strength and combat skill, while Di Shikun admires Owl as an ideal example of humanity’s potential.
• Their exchanges become almost cooperative at times: Di Shikun explains the secret behind his feint, and Owl provides the special underwear to accommodate his resurrection.
• Despite Owl’s intention to end or redirect the conflict, Di Shikun insists on continuing indefinitely, making their battle an escalating cycle of mutual growth.

Owl defeated Di Shikun and sent him into the Compression Layer, where Di Shikun began growing stronger by surviving its dangers. Six months later, Owl, Sa, Long Na, and the Coal-Eating Dragon left their settlement to travel to another world.

• Di Shikun landed a punch on Owl after countless resurrections, but Owl continued to defeat him and eventually sent him through a rift into the Compression Layer.
• Di Shikun adapted to the Compression Layer, destroyed and ate an enormous eyeball, and began climbing the creature's esophagus to seek greater strength.
• Owl, Trevor, and Jin Dong rebuilt a safe settlement, raised livestock, and hunted the birds that had multiplied across the land.
• Owl, Sa, Long Na, and the Coal-Eating Dragon said goodbye to Trevor and Jin Dong and departed from the village.
• Owl told Sa and the Coal-Eating Dragon that he could use a wish to take them to another world, and they set out together.

After more than a hundred million years of effortless wandering, Owl returned to his original world to live in seclusion, but sent a portion of his consciousness into the void. In the Zombie Dynasty, strange birth omens gathered over King Li’s estate as his half-transformed wife went into labor.

• Owl reflected that none of the powerful enemies he had encountered had challenged him, and decided to return home and retire with the women.
• As he traveled home, Owl’s Heart's Premonition stirred, prompting him to send a drop of heart’s blood carrying part of his consciousness into the void.
• In the Zombie Dynasty, a storyteller reported that King Li’s living wife was pregnant after her body became half alive and half dead from his yin-spirit essence.
• Dark and white clouds formed a vortex above the Zombie King Estate, and two bolts of lightning struck as people suspected King Li’s wife was giving birth.
• Demons and monsters fought zombies and ghost spirits in the streets while a baby’s wild laughter came from the Zombie King Estate.

Seven years after his birth, Li Xiao remained paralyzed but nearly impossible to kill, and his father had given him a powerful Ghost Tiger as a mount. When Li Xiao discovered that someone had tampered with his medicine, he exposed and captured an assassin, then prepared to interrogate her.

• A Ghost Spirit storyteller told tavern patrons that King Li had subdued an ancient Ghost Tiger for his paralyzed son, Li Xiao.
• Li Xiao reflected on his half-life half-death constitution, his origin as an embodiment of Owl’s destructive urges, and his desire to fight.
• Li Xiao noticed that his medicine tasted different and identified ingredients that had not been in the previous prescription.
• Li Xiao questioned the maid responsible for brewing his medicine and ordered Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to seize Wu Fu after she blamed him.
• The maid attacked Li Xiao with a dagger, but the Ghost Tiger struck her down, and Li Xiao announced that he would interrogate her.

After Wu Fu’s spirit attacked him, Li Xiao ordered his arrest and went to the Scripture Pavilion seeking a way to become stronger. He found that its cultivation methods offered no solution for someone half alive and half dead, leaving his hopes unresolved.

• Li Xiao revealed that Chun Tao had confessed Wu Fu supplied the medicinal ingredients, but Wu Fu’s spirit suddenly struck him.
• Ghost Tiger knocked Wu Fu’s spirit down, and the guards restrained him while Li Xiao ordered them to take Wu Fu away.
• Li Xiao asked Ghost Tiger to carry him to the Scripture Pavilion so he could search for a way to cultivate.
• Li Xiao questioned the book arrangers about techniques that could grant power without cultivation or through unorthodox means, but they said the pavilion held none.
• A book arranger explained that qi refiners’ methods were not collected because their cultivation often ended with their souls scattering, while Li Xiao’s mother had trusted a qi refiner from Mang Mountain.

Li Xiao examined the cultivation manuals delivered by King Li, the Eighth Madam, and his brothers, searching for arts compatible with his undying body and balanced yin and yang. He chose the Blood Pact Technique, the Heart-Link Formula, and the Copper Puppet Method as possible ways to gain power, then learned its creator, Chen Rui, had died from poisoning.

• King Li, the Eighth Madam, and Li Xiao's brothers sent him cultivation manuals, giving him sixteen methods to study.
• Li Xiao rejected several dangerous or unsuitable methods and decided to try the Blood Pact Technique and consider the Heart-Link Formula for controlling demons.
• Li Xiao burned the Sun-Swapping Great Method after condemning its requirements.
• Li Xiao found the Copper Puppet Method could create copper puppets to block injuries, die in his place, or attack as flying swords.
• Zhao Hu told Li Xiao that Chen Rui, the Copper Puppet Method's author, was a qi practitioner from their village who had died after his cultivation went awry and he was poisoned.

Li Xiao spent six months mastering copper refining and testing other metals, then settled on copper as the best material. Meanwhile, the assassins White Jue and Black Jue attacked him in the Zombie King Estate, but Ghost Tiger intervened after White Jue’s strike failed to kill him.

• Li Xiao began cultivating the Copper Refining Technique and refined tiny flecks of brass overnight.
• With a storehouse full of copper ingots, Li Xiao spent six months refining copper and experimenting with gold, iron, silver, and other materials before returning to copper.
• White Jue and Black Jue agreed to assassinate Li Xiao, suspecting a ghost king had hired them to provoke King Li.
• Black Jue used the Shadow Path to carry the pair into Li Xiao’s room while White Jue concealed their attack with the Nightmare Realm.
• White Jue struck Li Xiao and believed the target was dead, but he sensed Li Xiao had survived, while Ghost Tiger broke free of Black Jue’s shadows and confronted the assassins.

Li Xiao turned the Black and White Extremes’ assassination attempt against them, using the Blood Pact Technique to cripple Black Jue and force both brothers to submit. He left them under his control, though their loyalty remained uncertain.

• Ghost Tiger protected Li Xiao while White Jue and Black Jue planned to drag him into the Shadow Path and kill him.
• Black Jue pulled Li Xiao into the Shadow Path and stabbed him, but Li Xiao revealed he was conscious and used the Blood Pact Technique to make Black Jue share his injuries.
• Li Xiao inflicted severe wounds on himself until Black Jue collapsed, then ordered him to take them back to the room.
• Li Xiao stopped Ghost Tiger from pursuing White Jue and forced White Jue to surrender, then questioned him about their identities and employer.
• Black Jue and White Jue offered to serve Li Xiao, and both agreed to obey after he threatened to use a secret art on them.

Li Xiao bound Black Jue and White Jue as ghost pillars, then refined copper while developing a more powerful Netherworld Prison. Meanwhile, King Li learned that the crown prince sought a marriage alliance and concluded that he needed to take Li Xiao to Fengdu Academy; he found Li Xiao training when he visited his courtyard.

• Li Xiao used the Yin Contract Scripture to bind Black Jue and White Jue and made them support his Netherworld Prison.
• Li Xiao discovered that his prison could hold physical objects, renamed his technique the Underworld King's Prison-Suppressing Hand, and continued refining copper.
• The crown prince visited King Li and proposed betrothing his eleven-year-old granddaughter to Li Xiao, but King Li suggested letting the children meet first.
• King Li reflected on the crown prince's fears and the rumors about his strength, then decided Li Xiao would need to attend Fengdu Academy for safety.
• King Li followed the flow of yin energy and killing intent to Li Xiao's courtyard and found him refining copper while strengthening his Netherworld Prison.

Li Xiao began absorbing killing intent and yin energy through a secret art, and Li Zongxu took him to the Ancient Demon Pit to seek treasures before he entered Fengdu Academy. After receiving another secret art from Dead Yin, Li Xiao jumped into the abyss with his father.

• Li Xiao demonstrated that he could cultivate with secret arts, and Li Zongxu told him about the crown prince's marriage proposal and his upcoming enrollment in Fengdu Academy.
• Li Zongxu led Li Xiao through a secret passage toward the Ancient Demon Pit and explained its dangers and treasures.
• Dead Yin recognized Li Xiao's Netherworld King Soul-Sealing Hand and taught him the risky Myriad Treasures Golden Body Art.
• Li Zongxu guided Li Xiao through the Demon Pit's tunnels, fending off skeletons as they descended for nearly six hours.
• At the bottomless abyss, Li Zongxu explained how their ancestor had found treasure by leaping into the pit, then pulled Li Xiao into the fall with him.

Chapter Summary: Dark Room Mirror and Mirage Orb

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiao and his father, Li Zongxu, continue descending through the Demon Pit, surrounded by darkness, demonic sounds, and corpses embedded in the cliffs.
• The corpses animate and attack, but Li Zongxu easily protects Li Xiao, knocking the monsters back into the walls with his superior strength.
• Li Xiao realizes how limited his vision and abilities are in the darkness and resolves to acquire more Qi Refiners’ secret arts after returning.
• An exotic treasure enters Li Xiao’s palm and is obtained by Black Jue through the Yin Contract. It is the Dark Room Mirror, which can imprison enemies in a separate Dark Room.
• The Dark Room immobilizes captives and drains their stamina, lifespan, Yin energy, and Killing Intent, producing powerful, obedient Shadow Wraiths.
• Li Xiao orders Black Jue to establish the Dark Room inside Netherworld Prison and then releases him to capture the Demon Pit’s monsters.
• Black Jue struggles to restrain and refine a powerful monster, eventually succeeding. The resulting Shadow Wraith is an elastic, shadow-like creature with strong physical attacks and limitless regeneration as long as its imprisoned source remains alive.
• Recognizing the strategic value of the Wraiths, Li Xiao orders Black Jue to continue capturing monsters. A large enough force could potentially fight even Ghost Generals.
• Li Zongxu explains that exotic treasures are attracted to beings with compatible abilities, which is why Black Jue—whose powers involve night shadows—obtained the Dark Room Mirror.
• White Jue then obtains a second exotic treasure, the Mirage Orb. It stabilizes space and creates illusions through the infusion of mana.
• White Jue places the orb at the center of Netherworld Prison, greatly strengthening and stabilizing the prison’s space. This allows him to stop personally maintaining it, though Li Xiao still refuses to release him.
• Li Xiao suspects White Jue may be concealing additional abilities of the Mirage Orb and plans to reinforce his authority over him.
• After a long descent, Li Zongxu announces that both the Demon Pit and his own endurance are nearing their limits, signaling that they must prepare to return.

Character Developments

• Li Xiao becomes increasingly aware of his own weakness, particularly his dependence on others in darkness and his lack of specialized techniques. He also demonstrates his usual ruthlessness and suspicion, threatening both Black Jue and White Jue against hiding information.
• Li Zongxu continues to act as a calm, protective father. He effortlessly handles the attacking corpses and offers practical insight into how exotic treasures choose their owners.
• Black Jue becomes more submissive and cautious after witnessing Li Xiao and Li Zongxu’s power. The Dark Room Mirror gives him a valuable role and the possibility of avoiding dangerous missions, so he works diligently to capture monsters.
• White Jue gains the Mirage Orb and improves Netherworld Prison’s stability. However, Li Xiao distrusts him more than Black Jue, believing White Jue may lack sufficient fear of his master and may be hiding part of the orb’s power.

Significant Themes

• Power and control: Li Xiao maintains dominance through the Yin Contract, threats, and psychological intimidation, while his subordinates seek survival and better treatment.
• Adaptation and resourcefulness: Rather than fighting every monster directly, Li Xiao turns the Demon Pit’s corpses into a renewable army of Shadow Wraiths.
• Trust and suspicion: The chapter repeatedly questions whether servants are being honest, especially regarding the abilities of exotic treasures.
• The importance of compatibility and destiny: Exotic treasures appear to choose owners whose abilities match their functions.
• Family protection: Li Zongxu’s strength and reassurance contrast with the terrifying environment and reinforce his protective relationship with Li Xiao.
• Growth through weakness: Li Xiao’s inability to see in the darkness exposes his shortcomings and motivates him to seek new techniques.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiao clings to Li Zongxu while his father reassures him and destroys the attacking corpses.
• Li Xiao interrogates Black Jue about the Dark Room Mirror, making it clear that concealment will be punished.
• Black Jue obeys Li Xiao’s orders, captures a monster, and demonstrates the mirror’s abilities under Li Zongxu’s observation.
• Li Zongxu silently evaluates Black Jue but respects Li Xiao’s secrets and does not question how the subordinate was obtained.
• Li Xiao questions White Jue about the Mirage Orb and threatens him when he suspects deception.
• White Jue proves the orb’s space-stabilizing function but remains inside Netherworld Prison, while Li Xiao deliberately withholds his release.
• Li Zongxu later warns Li Xiao that their descent must end soon because he is approaching his limit.

Li Xiao and Li Zongxu descended deep into the Ancient Demon Pit, where Li Xiao obtained the Netherworld Sea Chart. The artifact triggered a demon tide, forcing them to race upward as ghost hands surged after them.

• Li Zongxu explained that protecting Li Xiao limited how far they could descend, so Li Xiao ordered Black Jue to release the Wraiths to help fight the monsters.
• Li Zongxu summoned his Mount Tai Hammer and fought alongside the Wraiths as the monsters grew into an overwhelming swarm.
• After they descended about three hundred and fifty thousand meters, Li Xiao saw an artifact rise from below and enter his body as the Netherworld Sea Chart.
• Li Xiao learned that the chart contained the Bitter Sea Netherworld and its nine hundred and ninety-nine hell islands, while Li Zongxu explained that the artifact had triggered a demon tide.
• Li Zongxu carried Li Xiao toward the surface as ghost hands surged up the pit, pursuing them while monsters fled or attacked.

Li Xiao used the Netherworld Sea Chart to suppress the ghostly hands in the Demon Pit until he collapsed, allowing Li Zongxu to carry him to safety. After waking, he learned more about the Sea Chart and Dead Yin’s Myriad Treasures Golden Body Art, then considered merging the Sea Chart with the Netherworld Prison in his left hand.

• Li Xiao used the Waters of the Sea of Bitterness to wither the ghostly hands while Li Zongxu flew toward the exit.
• Li Xiao exhausted himself after holding back the ghostly hands for half an hour, and Dead Yin arrived to take over as Li Zongxu carried him away.
• Li Xiao awoke at home and learned that the Netherworld Sea Chart could cleanse ghosts and evil beings, contained nine hundred and ninety-nine hell islands, and needed Ghost Soldiers to grow stronger.
• Li Xiao recalled that Dead Yin had passed him the Myriad Treasures Golden Body Art along with his personal experience and insights.
• Li Xiao considered refining the Netherworld Sea Chart into his left hand and merging it with the Netherworld Prison.

After mastering the Myriad Treasures Golden Body Art, Li Xiao fused the Netherworld Sea Chart with the Netherworld Prison and gained powerful abilities. He later went to the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda, where he met his sixteenth elder brother, Li Dun.

• Li Xiao studied the Myriad Treasures Golden Body Art for two months, then easily ignited soul fire and merged the Netherworld Sea Chart with the Netherworld Prison in his left hand.
• Li Xiao gave Black Jue and White Jue tokens that made them Sea of Fire Ghost Soldiers, then sent them into the Nether Domain to fight its monsters.
• Li Xiao tested the Waters of the Sea of Bitterness, assessed his new strength and abilities, and spent the following months without finding anyone he wanted or could safely target.
• Li Xiao remembered the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda and asked Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to take him there.
• Li Xiao reached the pagoda and met his sixteenth elder brother, Li Dun, a Gluttonous Ghost at the Ghost Spirit level.

Li Xiao went with Li Dun and Li Mingcheng to the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda, learning about its dangerous, individualized trials and rewards. At the pagoda, he met more siblings and discovered that Li Minglong was challenging it; Li Xiao questioned why a nine-floor tower was called infinite.

• Li Dun and Li Mingcheng explained how the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda gave different trials and rewards to each challenger, and Li Dun urged Li Xiao not to enter.
• Li Xiao declined Li Dun’s offer of a meal and continued to the pagoda with him and Li Mingcheng.
• Li Yurong and Li Yuewan greeted Li Xiao and offered to open a betting pool on when he would leave the pagoda.
• Li Xiao noticed the pagoda had nine floors and learned that Li Minglong was on the fifth floor after nearly six hours inside.
• Li Xiao asked why the nine-floor pagoda was called the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda.

Li Xiao entered the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda and solved the first two trials, reaching the third floor. His family arrived as he continued inside, surprised by his progress and worried about what lay ahead.

• Li Mingcheng explained that challengers could repeat the pagoda’s nine floors, with each round growing harder, and Li Xiao entered despite Li Dun’s attempt to stop him.
• Li Xiao found the first floor’s exit by tracking how his shadow changed, then claimed the Myriad-Mile Guiding Light Ring as his reward.
• On the second floor, Li Xiao recognized a maze trial and inferred its route using the ring’s clue; Black Jue and White Jue could not help because the walls hurt them.
• Li Xiao found the passage to the third floor, prompting Li Dun and Li Mingcheng to marvel that he had cleared two trials.
• Li Zongxu arrived, learned that Li Xiao had reached the third floor, and reassured his anxious eighth wife while she watched the pagoda.

Li Xiao explored the third floor of the Infinite Reincarnation Pagoda and concluded that its trial involved avoiding enemies while searching for the exit. He and Black Jue and White Jue faced a teleporting Vengeful Ghost, drove it away with the waters of the Sea of Bitterness, and prepared Soul-Seizing Chains for its return.

• Li Xiao noticed that the third-floor walls no longer drained his mental energy, then deduced that the ring's new warning function was his reward for clearing the second floor.
• Li Xiao followed the ring's guidance to a dead end, where he encountered a Vengeful Ghost and learned that its hands carried Phantom Poison.
• Li Xiao dodged the Vengeful Ghost's teleporting attacks with help from the ring and the Shadow Path while Black Jue and White Jue guarded him.
• Li Xiao used the waters of the Sea of Bitterness to torment the Vengeful Ghost until it disappeared, and Black Jue suggested using their Soul-Seizing Chains against it.
• Black Jue and White Jue transformed their tokens into chains and waited for the Vengeful Ghost to return.