Chapter Summaries

Tai Wangshu reversed the White Chalk’s advantage, restoring Ying Huaixu and the others while weakening their enemies. When the White Chalk evolved into seemingly unkillable event bosses, she used a Dao technique to merge them into one opponent per arena, leaving the fighters facing forced one-on-one battles.

• Tai Wangshu used her Yin-Yang Spirit Aspect to revert the White Chalk and redistribute their absorbed life force, healing Ying Huaixu and the others.
• Xu Yaoyang, Qin Erniu, Qiu Shiyi, and Huang Tianqi attacked the weakened White Chalk, but the enemies began merging into stronger forms that could not safely be attacked.
• The White Chalk advanced into Phase Four as Limited-Time Event bosses, and Ying Huaixu warned Tai Wangshu to evacuate He Xiuyuan and the others if danger grew.
• After Ying Huaixu confirmed that the bosses followed their deadly game mechanics, Tai Wangshu revealed she had a dangerous idea and received his trust.
• Tai Wangshu invoked “The Dao Gives Birth to One,” merging the monsters in each arena into a single Infinite Great Thousand and forcing one-on-one fights.

Tai Wangshu used The Dao Gives Birth to One and the Balancing Technique to reshape the raid battles, while Xu Yaoyang revealed his Second Spirit Aspect and fought the Infinite Great Thousand. The other groups were pushed into desperate battles, and Qiu Shiyi and the others feared for Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, who faced Return to True.

• Tai Wangshu fused the raid bosses with The Dao Gives Birth to One, causing Ying Huaixu's experience to skyrocket, then weakened some arenas and strengthened others with the Balancing Technique.
• Tai Wangshu sensed a seal suppressing He Xiuyuan's potential, and Xu Yaoyang knocked He Xiuyuan unconscious before Tai Wangshu sent him out of the instance.
• Xu Yaoyang revealed his Second Spirit Aspect, Radiant Sun Emperor Lord, and battled the Infinite Great Thousand with his Mimicry, Infinite Radiant Sun.
• Qiu Shiyi and the others endured the Great Thousand Spirit Aspects' blood-colored energy blasts, relying on Revival Pills and stored Life Qi to survive.
• Qiu Shiyi and the others looked toward Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and realized they were fighting Return to True.

Ying Huaixu fought a Return to True Chalk Seed after Infinite Great Thousand forcibly broke through, using his game mechanics and Sword Master Form to counter the realm gap. As Chen Zhiyuan slowed the enemy with a formation, Ye Ningshuang revealed Spirit Aspects modeled on Ying Huaixu, including his Sword Master Form.

• Infinite Great Thousand forced his way into Return to True and attacked Ying Huaixu with a slash that split distant stars.
• Ying Huaixu dodged the Return to True Chalk Seed's attacks and struck him with a powerful counter, while Ye Ningshuang struggled against her own Return to True opponent.
• Ying Huaixu activated Sword Master Form and the Blood-Burning Forbidden Technique, then used the system to raise his cultivation to the eighth level of Spirit Aspect.
• Ying Huaixu dodged another attack and unleashed Sword Qi that pierced the Return to True Great Thousand, while healing formed a shield around him.
• Chen Zhiyuan appeared, raised his cultivation to Return to True, and used Slowing Formation to hinder the enemy.
• Ye Ningshuang revealed her Second Spirit Aspect, Ningshuang, and her Third Spirit Aspect, Huaixu Form, which transformed into Sword Master Form.

Ye Ningshuang synchronized with Ying Huaixu’s power and overwhelmed the fourth-generation Cretaceous, while Ying Huaixu also dominated his own fight. Chen Zhiyuan trapped the battered Cretaceous in a Spirit-locking formation as he tried to quit the Instance.

• Ye Ningshuang released her full power, using Purple Miasma and her Sword Lord form to corrode the fourth-generation Cretaceous’s defenses and disrupt his immunity.
• Ye Ningshuang synchronized with Ying Huaixu’s power, then attacked Cretaceous with rapid punches and tracking Sword Qi until he self-destructed.
• Ye Ningshuang endured Cretaceous’s explosion behind her shield and tore into him when he recovered, leaving the onlookers stunned by her transformation and Ying Huaixu’s strength.
• Ying Huaixu evaded Cretaceous’s attacks and battered him with Sword Qi and controlled longswords, while his shields withstood Cretaceous’s repeated self-destructions.
• Chen Zhiyuan activated the Spirit-locking formation, preventing Cretaceous from self-destructing again as he begged to quit the fight.

Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, Xiaoxue, and their allies defeated the Chalk beings by weakening their immortality and preventing their escape. After the Raid Instance collapsed, the exhausted group celebrated their victory while Ying Huaixu cared for the unconscious Ye Ningshuang.

• Xiaoxue struck the fourth-generation Chalk being with a seal that limited his regeneration, while Ye Ningshuang weakened her opponent by giving him a soul bound to his body.
• The fourth-generation Chalk being tried to escape, but Chen Zhiyuan stabilized the Raid Instance, and Ying Huaixu killed him as Ye Ningshuang defeated her Chalk opponent.
• Tai Wangshu applied Xiaoxue's seal to the remaining Chalk beings, who accepted defeat, and the great tree withered after producing a clear-eyed baby who disguised himself as an abandoned infant.
• Qiu Shiyi and the others escaped the collapsing Raid Instance, and Ying Huaixu carried the unconscious Ye Ningshuang as the group celebrated their victory.
• Tai Wangshu noticed Xu Yaoyang was silently drinking Spirit Spring Liquid through a baby bottle and asked why he did not simply open it.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect survived an attack by Outsiders when Lü Qingyi shattered their assault and the Heavenly Dao declared its gamble won. Ying Huaixu received notice that S1 had ended and S2 had begun, then asked the Heavenly Dao for a way to log out.

• Xu Yaoyang refused to approach Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang until Tai Wangshu offered him Ying Huaixu’s Spiritual Energy, then ran off with a crystal ball as Tai Wangshu chased him with the Black Sword.
• A massive hand descended through a tear in the sky and pinned Ying Huaixu and the others to the ground, but the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s gathered flying swords shattered it.
• Lü Qingyi struck through the rift, cleaved open the sky of Primordial Chaos, and used Evil-Exterminating to destroy the Outsiders while sealing the void.
• The Heavenly Dao told Lü Qingyi to oversee Primordial Chaos Heaven’s prodigies as it prepared to declare war, while the attacking sects fled Hongmeng World.
• Ying Huaixu received the Sect Defense Battle rewards and learned that S2, the Primordial Chaos Great Escape, had begun alongside the Heart-Questioning Valley Calamity mission.
• Ying Huaixu messaged the Heavenly Dao to ask for a quit button so he could log out.

Ying Huaixu explored the new season’s quest rewards and learned that Xu Yaoyang could use his pure yang power to strengthen Chen Zhiyuan. After Xu Yaoyang performed the treatment, Chen Zhiyuan emerged with a dramatically improved body and aura.

• Ying Huaixu tried to use the newly appeared power button, but a little hand shattered it, and the system revealed a future final quest before reporting an error.
• Ying Huaixu examined the Improved Revival Pill formula with Tai Wangshu, who said the Taiyin Sacred Land had plenty of the rare herbs it required.
• Tai Wangshu explained that Chen Zhiyuan had connected teleportation formations between the Taiyin Sacred Land and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, then described his stalled cultivation and limited aptitude.
• Tai Wangshu said Xu Yaoyang’s pure yang power could create something for Chen Zhiyuan, though doing so would cost Xu Yaoyang his pure yang origin.
• Xu Yaoyang agreed to help Chen Zhiyuan and used a secret technique to cleanse and transform his body, leaving Xu Yaoyang exhausted and Chen Zhiyuan far stronger.

Ying Huaixu led the group in reviewing their latest battle and planning for future challenges. He announced that the Heavenly Dao would soon loosen its seals and allow outsiders into the world, bringing an all-out war.

• Ying Huaixu asked the group to review the battle, and Qiu Shiyi and Huang Tianqi identified their lack of reliable intelligence as a major weakness.
• Qin Erniu argued that they needed to train as the ones being challenged, while Ye Ningshuang said she would kill whoever Ying Huaixu chose and could activate Musou.
• Ying Huaixu proposed establishing an intelligence operation through Shura Hall, training as defenders, and taking turns guarding Tai Wangshu.
• Ying Huaixu announced that heaven and earth would soon change and the Heavenly Dao would release seals to let outsiders in, beginning the primordial chaos great escape.

After the Divine Firmament Defense Battle began to reshape the world, Tai Wangshu and Xu Yaoyang returned to their sacred grounds while Ye Ningshuang and the others went to cultivate. Ying Huaixu learned He Xixiang was hunting the Three Sects' Founding Masters, then brought Lü Qingyi a Revival Pill formula, prompting her to refine nine pills and slap him twice for his remarks.

• Tai Wangshu realized the Heavenly Dao had forced the world to choose sides, then hurried back to the Taiyin Sacred Land as spiritual energy surged across the world.
• Xu Yaoyang left for the Great Sun Sacred Ground and found that Ying Huaixu had sent him several hundred crystal balls.
• Ye Ningshuang, Qiu Shiyi, and the others went to cultivate, while Ying Huaixu returned to the sect and learned He Xixiang had gone beyond the starry sky to hunt the Three Sects' Founding Masters.
• Ying Huaixu gave Lü Qingyi the Revival Pill formula and a set of spirit herbs, and she refined nine pills bearing pill veins.
• Ying Huaixu praised Lü Qingyi clumsily, and she slapped him out of her room and into Meng Wuya's classroom.

Ying Huaixu escaped lessons by prompting Meng Wuya to rethink his teachings, then helped Third Grand Martial Uncle reorganize the sect’s administration. He headed to Ascension City to recruit Ascenders for a new sanctuary mission, where he found many recruits stalled outside the Questioning Heart Formation.

• Ying Huaixu slept through Meng Wuya’s lecture, and the students defended him; Meng Wuya dismissed the class to revise his coursework.
• Ying Huaixu urged Meng Wuya to create teachings suited to the present age, prompting Meng Wuya to glimpse his own Dao.
• Ying Huaixu advised Third Grand Martial Uncle to delegate routine affairs and establish an auditing department, easing the sect’s administrative workload.
• Ying Huaixu received a mission to build a sanctuary by recruiting one hundred thousand Ascenders and went to Ascension City to investigate the low recruitment count.
• Ying Huaixu discovered that many Ascenders were being held up outside the Questioning Heart Formation.

Ying Huaixu managed the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s recruitment and helped other sects distribute new disciples, then went to Sword-Questioning Peak to ask Lü Qingyi about the Revival Pills. He left after Lü Qingyi punished him for his thoughts.

• Ying Huaixu learned that applicants who wanted to coast through life kept failing Peak Master Zhenfeng’s Questioning Heart Formation, and he approved of keeping the sect’s recruitment standards strict.
• Ying Huaixu arranged benefits and subordinate-sect status for small sects that had helped in the Sect Defense Battle, and directed them to train Ascenders and other recruits.
• Ying Huaixu gathered several Sacred Lands’ Sect Masters to coordinate distributing new disciples among nearby small sects as recruitment overwhelmed the other sects.
• Ying Huaixu complained to the Heavenly Dao that he deserved benefits, then planned to study the S2 Season, the Heart-Questioning Valley battle, the Illusory Dream Trial, and the Revival Pills.
• Ying Huaixu arrived at Sword-Questioning Peak and fell into Lü Qingyi’s pond, where she blasted him out and struck him for his fantasies before he begged her to stop.

Ying Huaixu confirmed that Lü Qingyi’s Revival Pills worked and learned that the coming struggle with the Myriad Clans would be a two-sided slaughter. Lü Qingyi revealed a plan to let outsiders gather resources before killing them and keeping what they had collected, leaving Ying Huaixu to face the pressure of the coming war.

• Ying Huaixu tested one of Lü Qingyi’s Revival Pills by killing himself and revived at full strength.
• Tai Wangshu assured Ying Huaixu that the Taiyin Sacred Land had plenty of herbs and asked for spirit stones as well as pills in exchange for Spirit Herbs.
• Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that killing the Myriad Clans would grant power, and outsiders who killed them would gain power too.
• Lü Qingyi explained that she could not locate the outsiders because the Heavenly Dao wanted her to guard the Hongmeng World.
• Lü Qingyi showed Ying Huaixu how she planned to let outsiders extract resources and then kill them, while she prevented them from carrying anything away.
• Lü Qingyi snapped her fingers and sent Ying Huaixu outside Sword-Questioning Peak, where he felt the pressure of the coming war but no longer worried about gaining experience.

Ying Huaixu learned that Heart-Questioning Valley seemed unnaturally peaceful and planned to investigate it after reaching Return to True. Meanwhile, the Outsiders reacted to the Chalk Seed's defeat as Hongmeng World united and awakened its Heavenly Dao, leaving the Lord of the Weird Gods defending his choices.

• Ying Huaixu asked the Hall Master of Shura Hall about Heart-Questioning Valley and learned that it was eerily peaceful despite the Chalk Seed War.
• Ying Huaixu decided to keep investigating Heart-Questioning Valley but postponed visiting Dream Continent until he reached Return to True.
• The Outsiders were alarmed that Ying Huaixu and his allies had defeated the Chalk Seed before it could grow into a Nine-Color King.
• Hongmeng World united, expelled its collaborators with the Outsiders, and awakened the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao.
• The Outsiders accused the Lord of the Weird Gods of helping Hongmeng World, but he argued that sending the powerful Chalk Seed had been a reasonable choice.

After the Chalk Seed’s defeat, the clans debated how to kill Tai Wangshu and whether the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao had prepared a hidden strategy. The Lord of the Weird Gods suspected the Seventh Divine Weapon could reveal the truth, while privately realizing the fully evolved Chalk Seed had escaped his control and vanished.

• The Lord of the Weird Gods blamed Tai Wangshu for the Chalk Seed’s failure, and the clans agreed she had to be killed.
• The Mile-High Heaven Clan, Ancient God Clan, Ancient Buddha, and Beast God each provided a Nine-Color King to attack Tai Wangshu.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods questioned whether the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao had truly been asleep or had opened its gates with a plan.
• The Beast God proposed activating Heart-Questioning Valley’s Seventh Divine Weapon to test the Heavenly Dao’s preparations.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods privately sensed that the fully evolved Chalk Seed had disappeared from the Hongmeng World and escaped his control.

The Lord of the Weird Gods weighed whether to abandon the invasion of Hongmeng World, while the Ghost Bride rebuilt her life after years of being beaten by the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. She settled in a Small World with the child Xia Tong and reunited with Xue Si, who was hiding from Hongmeng World; two years later, the Ghost Bride urged Xue Si to find work.

• The Outsiders decided to send races below Nine-Color King into Hongmeng World to steal Dao resonance while four Nine-Color Kings went after Tai Wangshu, and the Lord of the Weird Gods considered fleeing before searching for Chalk.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect learned that the Ghost Bride had killed only her abusive husband's family, gave her a pill to reconstruct her body and resources, and let her leave after years of serving as a test for disciples.
• The Ghost Bride found an abandoned baby, took him into a Small World, and raised him as Xia Tong.
• Xue Si appeared in the Small World, explained that she had revived with a pill and wanted to hide far from Hongmeng World, and the Ghost Bride kept Xia Tong behind her warily.
• Two years later, the Ghost Bride supported Xia Tong and the stressed, dazed Xue Si by doing embroidery, then suggested that Xue Si return to her old line of work.

Xue Si warned the Ghost Bride that Outsiders were about to be purged and asked her to help her join Primordial Chaos Heaven. The Ghost Bride reluctantly agreed to introduce her, while cautioning Xia Tong against blindly trusting others.

• Xue Si warned the Ghost Bride that the Primordial Chaos Great World was a trap and that Ying Huaixu and the others would soon purge every Outsider.
• The Ghost Bride decided to leave with Xia Tong rather than risk being caught up in Xue Si's danger.
• Xue Si confronted the Ghost Bride and Xia Tong outside their home, explaining that she needed someone to vouch for her choosing a side.
• The Ghost Bride hesitated, but Xia Tong urged her to help Xue Si, and the Ghost Bride agreed to make an introduction.
• The Ghost Bride warned Xia Tong that kindness without judgment could be foolish, while Xue Si silently followed them.

Xue Si and the Ghost Bride followed Xia Tong’s directions to Youdu, where Shenxiao’s token earned the Ghost Bride exceptional hospitality from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. After confirming Xia Tong was safe, the Ghost Bride accepted an offer to look for cultivation resources, hoping to become strong enough to protect him.

• Xue Si and the Ghost Bride reached the Youdu courtyard and followed lantern-bearing guides into a strange realm filled with floating palaces, stars, and monsters.
• At the great palace, the Ghost Bride presented Shenxiao’s token, and the guides recognized her as an honored guest of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Ghost Bride grew anxious when she could not see Xia Tong, but a maid let her hear his voice and assured her he was safe and playing with other children.
• A maid explained that the Ghost Bride could cultivate again and that her token could be used three times, persuading her to consider using its favor.
• The Ghost Bride followed the maid to view cultivation resources and was dazzled by the many treasures she could take.

Xia Tong and Xue Si were accepted into Primordial Chaos Heaven after Xia Tong endured purgatory’s karmic flames and cleansed his blood sin. As Xia Tong began killing Outsiders to fulfill his mission, his unexpected kills flooded Ying Huaixu’s system with experience.

• Xia Tong asked to serve Primordial Chaos Heaven, and the Left Dao Envoy consulted Lü Qingyi about his blood-soaked past and dangerous talent.
• The Heavenly Dao bound Xia Tong and made him endure the karmic flames of his victims until his blood sin was cleansed and his White Chalk aura disappeared.
• Lü Qingyi approved Xia Tong, and the Left Dao Envoy registered him and Xue Si, issued them tokens, and assigned them missions to kill Outsiders.
• Xia Tong, Xue Si, and the Ghost Bride returned to Youdu, where the Ghost Bride celebrated their new fortune and Xia Tong secretly concealed the merit appearing behind her.
• Ying Huaixu waited in vain for Outsiders until system notifications revealed that Xia Tong was killing them and granting Ying Huaixu huge amounts of experience.

Ying Huaixu grew uneasy when He Xixiang and the other peak masters failed to return, then learned they were watching a rift into an Outsider universe. There, he saw the four sects that had defected being enslaved, while the peak masters chose to guard the rift and wait for the Outsiders to come through.

• Ying Huaixu checked the Sect Master's Hall, found He Xixiang and the other peak masters still absent, and messaged the group chat to make sure they were alive.
• Zhuang Mu showed Ying Huaixu a video of the peak masters watching through a rift into an Outsider universe.
• Ying Huaixu saw that the defectors from the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect, the Feathered Immortal Sacred Land, and the fourth sect had been enslaved and sold in different roles.
• The peak masters discussed how Lü Qingyi had changed Hongmeng World by enforcing rules, and they agreed not to attack the Outsider universe yet so they would not alert its inhabitants.
• Zhuang Mu said the peak masters would guard the rift and wait for the Outsiders to enter, and Ying Huaixu sent them a picture of Third Martial Uncle relaxing with tea.

Lao Zhuang and the others returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect after Old Ten agreed to guard the rift, where Ying Huaixu warned them that future Raid Instances would demand their help. The chapter left the sect leaders wondering when the next deadly Raid would arrive and whether they could prepare for it.

• After learning how Third Martial Uncle had handled the sect’s affairs, Lao Zhuang and the others decided to return and asked Meng Wuya to guard the rift, but he refused.
• Old Ten appeared at the Return to True Realm and volunteered to guard the rift; after Lü Qingyi approved, the others entrusted it to her and returned to the sect.
• At the sect, Zhuang Mu tried to pass the Chief Escort Seal to Ying Huaixu, but Ying Huaixu asked whether Zhuang Mu would handle future Raid Instances and World Bosses instead.
• Ying Huaixu warned that he would bring the peak masters into increasingly difficult Instances, including a Heart-Questioning Valley Raid that required at least the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
• Zhuang Mu and Meng Wuya said their True Immortal realms would raise the Raid’s difficulty, while Tong Xinran and the others remained at the Tribulation Transcendence Ninth Layer Peak.
• Ying Huaixu said he could not predict when the Raid would arrive, but believed it would be soon because the Outsiders would not let their group survive.