Recaps

Gu Xingzhi infiltrated the Martial Dao Realm Domain and saved Graceful from poisoned thugs, then learned her fate had been arranged by the realm domain’s ruler. He told her he had changed her destiny, leaving her unsure whether to hate or love him.

• Gu Xingzhi sealed the Fortune Dynasty Realm Domain in an Origin Essence Formation and slipped into the Martial Dao Realm Domain.
• In Blue Universe World, Graceful fled poisoned thugs and called Gu Xingzhi her husband to get his help.
• Gu Xingzhi restrained the thugs, carried Graceful away, and killed the attackers as she succumbed to the poison.
• Gu Xingzhi took Graceful to a hotel suite, where her poison was cured and she later woke up beside him.
• When hotel staff tried to force open the suite door, Gu Xingzhi carried Graceful to her home.
• Gu Xingzhi revealed that Graceful’s hardships and mission had been arranged by the realm domain’s ruler, and said he had come to free her from that fate.

Gu Xingzhi restarted Chu Junling’s life in the ordinary city and helped her avoid the fate that would have made her powerful before turning her into cultivation nourishment. After testing her abilities and evading the Old Man destined to guide her, they returned to her rental house.

• Gu Xingzhi showed Chu Junling the course of her original fate and brought her back to the moment she entered the ordinary city.
• Gu Xingzhi told Chu Junling to abandon her Police Academy exam materials, and she threw them away.
• Gu Xingzhi took Chu Junling to a testing hall, where her strength scored 100, her endurance 300, her speed 200, and her mental test 3,000.
• The Old Man arrived looking for the person with the exceptional mental score, but Gu Xingzhi hid Chu Junling’s identity and told her the Old Man had been destined to help her.
• Gu Xingzhi returned Chu Junling to her rental house, paid the rent collector, and watched Chu Junling go to cook.

Gu Xingzhi disappeared for a day after taking the Landlady to her bedroom, then returned with news that she had given Chu Junling an entire residential complex. After Chu Junling rejected the White-Haired Old Man’s repeated attempts to recruit her into martial arts, Gu Xingzhi altered the Old Man’s memories and took Chu Junling to the police academy to Change Fate.

• The Landlady visited Gu Xingzhi, and he took her to her bedroom while Chu Junling waited at home without him.
• Chu Junling refused the White-Haired Old Man’s invitation to visit the Testing Center, but he followed her home and waited outside her apartment.
• Gu Xingzhi returned and told Chu Junling that the Landlady had transferred the entire residential complex into her name.
• After seven days, Chu Junling again rejected the Old Man’s offer to enter the martial path, and Gu Xingzhi altered his memories and sent him back to the Testing Center.
• Gu Xingzhi told Chu Junling they were going to the police academy to Change Fate, then vanished with her.

Gu Xingzhi helped Chu Junling fuse with her past self, bringing her cultivation to the threshold of Transcendence while leaving her to understand how to fuse with her true self and change her fate. He then sought out Lin Cang and brought him back to Lin Family Village to help him break free from the fate imposed by the realm’s rules.

• Gu Xingzhi took Chu Junling to Qingtian Police Academy, where they met another Chu Junling from a different time-space.
• Gu Xingzhi brought the academy-uniform Chu Junling to the Rental House, where the two Chu Junlings discussed the future and the academy-uniform Chu Junling fused with her future self.
• Gu Xingzhi told Chu Junling that she had reached the threshold of Transcendence but needed to understand and fuse with her true self to take control of her fate.
• Gu Xingzhi left Chu Junling in a formation-protected Rental House to contemplate the meaning of the self.
• Gu Xingzhi found Lin Cang begging in an alley and offered to help him break free from his fate as a solitary star.
• Gu Xingzhi took Lin Cang to Lin Family Village to help him change his fate.

Gu Xingzhi brought Lin Cang to the Mountain Hollow, claiming he could help him change his fate and that his father was still alive. Instead, he led Lin Cang to a peach-blossom island, where Lin Cang met a woman who said she was his mother, and Gu Xingzhi declared that he could change Lin Cang’s fate despite the Rule Realm.

• Lin Cang recalled how his ill-omened birth led to his parents’ exile, his father’s reported death, his mother’s death, and his own expulsion from Lin Family Village.
• Gu Xingzhi returned Lin Cang to the Mountain Hollow and told him his father was not dead, but Lin Cang found no one there.
• Gu Xingzhi took Lin Cang through an illusory doorway to a peach-blossom island, where they met a woman playing the zither.
• The woman recognized Lin Cang and claimed to be his mother, though Lin Cang insisted that his mother had died.
• Gu Xingzhi confirmed that the woman was Lin Cang’s mother and declared he had come to change Lin Cang’s fate, dismissing the Rule Realm’s power as insignificant to him.

Lin Cang learned that the Rule Realm had imprisoned his real parents and staged their deaths with doppelgangers, so Gu Xingzhi changed his fate by transferring Lin Cang’s bloodline bond to himself and becoming his father. The chapter ended with Gu Xingzhi erasing the Martial Dao Controller’s Source Doppelganger’s memories and the woman killing him, while Gu Xingzhi planned to arrange Lin Cang’s future when he turned fifteen.

• The Purple Skirt woman told Lin Cang that the Rule Realm had imprisoned his real parents on Peach Blossom Island and used their doppelgangers to stage their deaths, and Lin Cang asked Gu Xingzhi to help Change Fate.
• Gu Xingzhi took the Purple Skirt woman to a bedchamber and began the Change Fate process, creating a new bloodline bond with Lin Cang and becoming his father.
• The Purple Skirt woman gave birth to Lin Cang, and Gu Xingzhi explained that the infant had left the track of fate but still had a long way to go before his fate was fully changed.
• Gu Xingzhi brought the woman and infant Lin Cang to the thatched cottage, where he revealed that the unconscious man in the Green Brocade Robe was a Source Doppelganger of the Martial Dao Controller.
• Gu Xingzhi erased the Source Doppelganger’s past, present, and future experiences, and the woman killed him with a palm strike.
• The woman asked how Lin Cang should be raised, and Gu Xingzhi said he would arrange things for him when he turned fifteen.

Fifteen years later, Gu Xingzhi brought Lin Cang to the Heavenly City Martial Dao Testing Center, where Chu Junling tested Lin Cang and opened his path to cultivation. After they returned home, Lin Cang told his mother that Gu Xingzhi had a mistress, only to discover she already knew about Aunt Ling.

• Fifteen years after Lin Cang’s birth, Gu Xingzhi took him to the Heavenly City Martial Dao Testing Center for an aptitude test.
• Chu Junling greeted Gu Xingzhi affectionately, introduced herself to Lin Cang as his Aunt Ling, and took charge of the test.
• The test showed that Lin Cang’s every statistic had reached the maximum, and Chu Junling opened his path to Martial Dao cultivation.
• Lin Cang displayed overwhelming strength by punching a strength-testing machine and sending its reading to the maximum.
• Gu Xingzhi took Chu Junling and Lin Cang back to their villa, where Lin Cang hurried to warn his mother that Gu Xingzhi had a mistress.
• Lin Cang’s mother revealed that she already knew about Aunt Ling.

Lin Cang reached the Martial Dao First Layer and heard a mysterious voice urging him to seek an opportunity in the Green Peak Mountain Range. Gu Xingzhi took him there, where Lin Cang acquired an inheritance and Gu Xingzhi revived Nine Xuan, leaving her bound to him as his wife.

• Lin Cang apologized to Chu Junling and praised her magnanimity, then spent less than half a month cultivating until he reached the Martial Dao First Layer.
• A voice in Lin Cang's mind urged him to seek a great opportunity in the center of the Green Peak Mountain Range, but he waited for his family instead of going alone.
• After Lin Cang told Gu Xingzhi about the voice, Gu Xingzhi took him and the others to the mountain range and led them through the Rules to the opportunity.
• Lin Cang shattered a boulder, causing a red ring to merge into him and granting him inheritances along with the remnant soul of Nine Xuan of Azure Heaven.
• Gu Xingzhi pulled Nine Xuan's remnant soul from Lin Cang, offered to revive her on a condition, and restored her body with Golden Light.
• Nine Xuan agreed to Gu Xingzhi's condition and called him husband.

Gu Xingzhi revealed Nine Xuan’s origins and changed the Martial Dao Realm Domain’s fate by taking control of its Authority and fortune. After ages passed, the displaced Martial Dao Controller returned and confronted Gu Xingzhi outside the domain.

• Gu Xingzhi told Nine Xuan she was Origin Essence separated from the Martial Dao Controller and had been destined to help Lin Cang reach the Supreme Realm, then asked her to keep guiding Lin Cang’s cultivation.
• Gu Xingzhi controlled the Old Man in Heavenly City, then killed the White Fox who had taken Nine Xuan’s position as Empress; Nine Xuan regained her fortune and Martial Dao Heaven Domain Realm strength.
• Gu Xingzhi transferred the Authority and fate of the elderly man in the hidden palace, took control of the Martial Dao Realm Domain, and absorbed its fortune, reaching the peak of the Endless Source Lord Rank.
• After countless ages, the Martial Dao Controller returned but could not enter the Martial Dao Realm Domain, discovered Gu Xingzhi had taken control, and attacked him outside the domain.

Gu Xingzhi left the Martial Dao Realm Domain and entered a Time-Space vortex that stripped away his cultivation and fortune. An Old Daoist guided him through a gateway to the Primordial World, where he awoke at Shouyang Mountain.

• Gu Xingzhi killed Martial Dao Controller, consumed his wandering soul, and freed the three women from their shackles.
• After wandering the Martial Dao Realm Domain for ten thousand years, Gu Xingzhi followed the golden-robed man's instructions and led an army into the Dim Starry Sky.
• Gu Xingzhi entered a Time-Space vortex and arrived in a Yellow Sand Land, where a dust storm overwhelmed him after his Authority, cultivation, and connection to the National Fortune Divine Dragon were sealed.
• Gu Xingzhi followed temple bells to a Daoist temple, where an Old Daoist claimed they were old friends and said the dust storm had been caused by Gu Xingzhi himself.
• The Old Daoist took Gu Xingzhi to the Heart Hut and sent him through a Time-Space gateway to the Primordial World.
• Gu Xingzhi awoke beside an Eight Trigrams Furnace at Shouyang Mountain, where the Old Daoist greeted him.

Gu Xingzhi restarted his path of Fortune as an Enlightenment Tea Tree in the Primordial World, eventually proving the Dao and reaching the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal Peak. The old man sent him into the Chaos Heavens with part of his memories unsealed, where he met Destiny and was introduced to a Rule Realm.

• The old man sealed Gu Xingzhi's memories, turned him into an Enlightenment Tea Tree, and left him to train without interference.
• Demon and Witch Clan cultivators damaged the array around Gu Xingzhi, allowing him to escape and rapidly advance until he transformed into a humanoid Dao Body.
• Gu Xingzhi established Enlightenment Palace in the Ten Thousand Miles Demon Mountains, killed challengers, and attracted Fortune from the cities that honored him as their ancestor.
• Gu Xingzhi overcame Heaven and Earth's restraint by absorbing the Fortune of all plants, proving the Dao and rising to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal Peak.
• The old man brought Gu Xingzhi to Shouyang Mountain, unsealed part of his memories, and sent him into the Chaos Heavens.
• Gu Xingzhi followed Destiny to the Destiny Great World, where Destiny demonstrated his Rule Realm.

After comprehending the Rule of Destiny, Gu Xingzhi traveled to the Heng Chuan Realm, where he rescued Empress Mi Ying from attackers and brought her back to the Mi Dynasty palace. He learned that the dynasty was near collapse and promised to help, proposing annihilation as the solution.

• Gu Xingzhi left the Divine Temple of Destiny to travel through the Destiny Great World and comprehend his own rules.
• In the Heng Chuan Realm, Gu Xingzhi saved Mi Ying from four black-clad men and treated her injuries after she had been poisoned.
• When Mi Ying awoke, Gu Xingzhi told her that the Mi Dynasty's national fortune was nearly exhausted and offered to help save it.
• Gu Xingzhi transported Mi Ying to the palace, where she introduced herself and asked how to resolve the Imperial Court's crisis.
• Gu Xingzhi told Mi Ying that the solution was annihilation.

Gu Xingzhi destroyed the corrupt officials who controlled Mi Ying’s court, restored them as obedient servants, and became Regent as the Mi Dynasty’s fortune revived. He expanded the dynasty until it ruled all of Heng Chuan, then faced hidden forces whose ancestors gathered to destroy it or recruit him.

• A powerful minister impeached Zhang Ze and demanded that Gu Xingzhi leave court, but Gu Xingzhi killed the minister and then every official who denounced him.
• Gu Xingzhi slaughtered the Imperial Guards sent against him, revived the officials as loyal servants, and received the title of Regent from Mi Ying.
• The Mi Dynasty’s national fortune recovered; Gu Xingzhi’s generals defeated Zhu Luo, which surrendered, and he advanced in the Fortune Dao Rule and cultivation.
• Gu Xingzhi reformed the Mi Dynasty and ordered conquests that made it the leading dynasty in Heng Chuan, prompting hidden forces to plot against it.
• Over the next five years, the Mi Dynasty destroyed every rival dynasty and unified Heng Chuan, while Gu Xingzhi’s protection allowed its armies to withstand the hidden forces’ interference.
• The hidden forces’ Old Ancestors gathered to destroy the Mi Dynasty, but Gu Xingzhi arrived and heard them accuse him of disrupting Heng Chuan’s Rule Realm and offer him a place under their command.

Gu Xingzhi crushed the Heng Chuan Realm’s hidden sects, bringing the Mi Dynasty to rule and ascending with Mi Ying to the Middle World. After Mi Ying was taken to a general’s manor and Gu Xingzhi was imprisoned in the Fighting Prison, he killed an inmate and sensed more trouble to explore.

• Gu Xingzhi revealed his overwhelming power, identified himself as Regent of the Mi Dynasty, and killed the Heng Chuan Realm’s Supreme Old Ancestors.
• Gu Xingzhi destroyed the hidden sects, bringing the Heng Chuan Realm under Mi Dynasty rule and raising its National Fortune to its peak.
• Gu Xingzhi comprehended the Fortune Dao Rule and advanced to the Hunyuan Taiji Golden Immortal late-stage, while Mi Ying rose to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Rule expelled Mi Ying from Heng Chuan, and Gu Xingzhi ascended with her to the Middle World.
• Immortal Soldiers arrested Gu Xingzhi and Mi Ying, taking her to a general’s manor and sending him to the Fighting Prison.
• Gu Xingzhi killed a hunched old man who tried to bite him, then sensed across the Fighting Prison.

Gu Xingzhi subdued Immortal General Bai Ling in the Fighting Prison and later appeared at the Immortal General Residence to protect Mi Ying. After killing the black-armored Immortal General who attacked her, Gu Xingzhi took his place and openly defied the Immortal Emperor’s decree.

• Gu Xingzhi remained in his cell as Immortal General Bai Ling came to inspect prisoners and investigate his strange lack of cultivation fluctuations.
• When Bai Ling attacked him, Gu Xingzhi shattered his spear, destroyed his Divine Soul, and made him his servant.
• Mi Ying stayed at the Immortal General Residence while Gu Xingzhi’s hidden formation killed the black-armored Immortal General when he lunged at her.
• Gu Xingzhi emerged from the blood mist, reunited with Mi Ying, and took the black-armored Immortal General’s place when a visitor from Tianchen Residence arrived.
• The visitor delivered the Immortal Emperor’s order for Tian Ao to lead one hundred thousand Immortal Soldiers to Zhuhe Island and exterminate the demons.
• Tian Ao took the decree without kneeling and called the Immortal Emperor an ant.

Gu Xingzhi took over the Immortal Emperor’s body and used its fortune to perfect his Fortune Dao Rule, advance his cultivation, and obtain Fortune Origin Essence. After meeting Destiny through the purple-gowned woman’s inherited keepsake, Gu Xingzhi witnessed Destiny’s Rule of Destiny reach perfection.

• Gu Xingzhi possessed an Immortal Lord Realm messenger, then entered the Immortal Emperor’s palace and erased the Immortal Emperor’s consciousness to take his body.
• Gu Xingzhi used the Immortal Emperor’s fortune to perfect his Fortune Dao Rule, advance to the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal early-stage, and absorb a Fortune Source Pearl.
• After the banquet, the purple-gowned woman revealed that she knew Gu Xingzhi was not the Immortal Emperor and asked him to take her out of the realm.
• The woman presented a red jade treasure, prompting Gu Xingzhi to call out Destiny, who appeared and recognized her as his descendant.
• The woman opened a scroll bound to Destiny and returned a drop of bloodline essence to him, allowing Destiny’s Rule of Destiny to reach perfection.

After the Destiny Great World advanced, Gu Xingzhi and Mi Ying entered the place where creation first blossomed and founded the Luck World. As the world evolved, Qing Chi pursued the Fortune Great Dao, eventually understanding its meaning and setting out to begin his path.

• Gu Xingzhi sensed the Destiny Great World's advancement, bowed to Destiny, and left with Mi Ying.
• Gu Xingzhi created the Luck World, shaped its lands and life, and watched its laws give rise to Tribulation and conflict.
• After the Luck World matured, Gu Xingzhi lived as a white-haired farmer beneath a waterfall while Mi Ying continued cultivating.
• Qing Chi gained a Dao Body, followed the Rules' guidance to seek the Luck Old Ancestor, and knelt before Gu Xingzhi, who denied being the person he sought.
• Qing Chi followed the farmer's directions to an empty Soaring Cloud Reed, realized something about Fortune, and returned to work beside the Old Man.
• After Qing Chi said he had found the path, the Old Man sent him beyond the mountains, and Qing Chi departed to begin.

Gu Xingzhi advanced the Luck World and held lectures on the Fortune Dynasty Path and Fortune Dynasty Ascension, while Qing Chi’s Green Kingdom was destroyed during his absence. After the second lecture, Qing Chi defeated the rulers of the nine kingdoms, absorbed their National Fortune, and declared the Green Kingdom an Imperial Dynasty.

• Qing Chi founded the Green Kingdom, whose National Fortune raised his cultivation as other beings submitted and rival kingdoms arose.
• After the Luck World advanced into a Middle World, Gu Xingzhi reached the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal Middle Stage and announced a public lecture at the Fortune Palace.
• Qing Chi defeated the rulers of the nine kingdoms to claim the sole Green Prayer Mat, then attended Gu Xingzhi’s first lecture on the Fortune Dynasty Path.
• Gu Xingzhi kept Qing Chi farming for ten thousand years while the nine kingdoms united and destroyed the Green Kingdom.
• At the second lecture, Gu Xingzhi taught Fortune Dynasty Ascension, and Qing Chi learned that kingdoms needed to ascend before the next stage.
• Qing Chi summoned and eliminated the nine rulers, absorbed their kingdoms’ National Fortune, broke through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Early Stage, and declared the Green Kingdom an Imperial Dynasty.

After the kingdom heads imprisoned Gu Xingzhi, he returned to the central hub and reunited with Mi Ying, leaving the third lecture unfinished. A hundred thousand years later, he returned with Mi Ying, made Qing Chi his disciple, and prepared to resume the lecture.

• The newly founded kingdoms’ heads abducted Gu Xingzhi and imprisoned him in an abyss after demanding to learn how to advance their kingdoms.
• Qing Chi discovered Gu Xingzhi was missing but went to Fortune Palace for the third lecture; when Gu Xingzhi did not appear, Qing Chi revealed that the kingdom heads had visited his cottage, prompting them to search the abyss.
• The kingdom heads found Gu Xingzhi gone and executed the old man who had led them to him, while Gu Xingzhi reunited with Mi Ying at the Fortune World Central Hub.
• After the third lecture remained unfinished for over a hundred thousand years, Qing Chi began tending Gu Xingzhi’s fields and waited for him to return.
• Gu Xingzhi returned with Mi Ying, accepted Qing Chi as his disciple, and brought them to Fortune Palace to resume the lecture; his voice summoned living beings from across the Luck World.

Gu Xingzhi’s teachings helped Luck World advance into an independent world, and he entered Chaos before entrusting its governance to Qing Chi. After Destiny found him in Epoch Space, Gu Xingzhi declared that he planned to return.

• Gu Xingzhi continued his third lecture, after which the repentant kingdom lords dissolved their kingdoms and withdrew from worldly affairs.
• The myriad beings established sects and factions, and Luck World advanced into a Great World, raising Gu Xingzhi’s cultivation to the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal Peak.
• Qing Chi governed Green Kingdom until it advanced into an Emperor Dynasty, becoming Emperor and reaching the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal Peak.
• After the fourth lecture, Gu Xingzhi entered the Chaos Venerable realm, Luck World advanced beyond a Great World, and he entrusted Qing Chi with its governance before departing with Mi Ying.
• Destiny followed Gu Xingzhi’s aura to Epoch Space and found him living as a farmer in Geng City.
• When Destiny asked what he planned to do next, Gu Xingzhi looked toward the sky and answered, “Return!”

Gu Xingzhi left the Primordial Expanse Domain in Destiny’s care and tried to return to his own world with Mi Ying, but she vanished in the Space-Time Passage. Chi Yu revealed that Gu Xingzhi was a Divided Source created by him and sent him to a mortal world to continue his training to command the Myriad Heavens.

• Gu Xingzhi told Destiny he came from beyond the domain and entrusted the Luck World to him before leaving with Mi Ying.
• Destiny took control of the Luck World as Gu Xingzhi’s traces disappeared from the Primordial Expanse Domain.
• Gu Xingzhi entered the Space-Time Vortex Portal with Mi Ying, but she dissipated halfway through and he lost consciousness.
• A golden-robed man named Chi Yu revealed that Gu Xingzhi was a Divided Source and explained that his training was meant to prepare him to command the Myriad Heavens.
• Chi Yu sent Gu Xingzhi through the Space-Time Passage, where he fainted and later awoke in a wooden house in a mortal world.
• An old farmer told Gu Xingzhi he had found him unconscious by a mountain stream, and Gu Xingzhi decided to cooperate with his true self’s plans.

After losing his cultivation and arriving in Tonggu Village, Gu Xingzhi settled in with Old Farmer Ling and helped with farmwork. He rescued Su Lin from a pit and grew closer to her, drawing the hostile attention of Chen Batian.

• Gu Xingzhi adapted to village life and helped Old Farmer Ling with chores and farmwork.
• Gu Xingzhi heard Su Lin calling for help, pulled her from a pit, and escorted her home.
• The next day, Su Lin brought Gu Xingzhi water while he worked in the fields.
• Su Lin invited Gu Xingzhi to lunch with her and her Grandma, and they later strolled through the village together.
• Chen Batian watched Gu Xingzhi and angrily accused him of stealing the woman he wanted.

Chen Batian framed Gu Xingzhi for trying to kill Old Farmer Ling after Gu Xingzhi treated Ling’s poisoning, turning the villagers against him. Su Lin learned what really happened and caught up with Gu Xingzhi, just as Chen Batian and a group of villagers arrived shouting at him.

• Chen Batian watched Su Lin and Gu Xingzhi together, then later hid his hostility when he encountered Gu Xingzhi and Old Farmer Ling on the way to the mountain.
• Old Farmer Ling suddenly fainted in the fields, and Gu Xingzhi recognized that he had been poisoned.
• Chen Batian accused Gu Xingzhi of trying to kill Old Farmer Ling and rallied the villagers against him as Gu Xingzhi drained the poisoned blood from Ling’s arm.
• Old Farmer Ling woke up confused, while Chen Batian falsely claimed Gu Xingzhi had attacked him; Gu Xingzhi left without defending himself.
• Su Lin caught up with Gu Xingzhi, heard his explanation, and offered to clear things up with the villagers, but Gu Xingzhi said he would leave the village.
• Chen Batian arrived with a group of villagers and shouted at Gu Xingzhi to let go of Su Lin.

Gu Xingzhi left Tonggu Village after defeating the villagers and killing Chen Batian, then traveled north in search of a place to settle. In Maple Forest Town, he met Mu Linglong, who left when someone called her out; the chapter ended with Gu Xingzhi unable to pay his tavern bill until the old man who had given him a ride arrived.

• Chen Batian turned the villagers against Gu Xingzhi, but Gu Xingzhi defeated them, rescued Su Lin, and killed Chen Batian.
• Gu Xingzhi left Tonggu Village and spent the night in a mountain cave before killing a tiger in a ravine.
• Ling Zhennan invited Gu Xingzhi to return with him to Xiao Cheng, but Gu Xingzhi refused and continued north.
• Gu Xingzhi rode an old man's ox cart to Maple Forest Town and stopped at a tavern.
• Mu Linglong sat with Gu Xingzhi, asked whether he knew of the Phoenix Nether Guard, then left after someone shouted for her outside.
• Gu Xingzhi realized he had no money to pay for his meal, and the old man who had given him a ride entered the tavern.

Gu Xingzhi met Su Lin again and learned that she led the Phoenix Nether Guard, a force seeking to restore the former dynasty, and she recruited him to help defeat the Wing King’s Dark Domain. He became the Guard’s Chief Commander, mastered the basics of the Nethercloud Thirteen Sacred Art, and received the Dragon Nether Sword.

• After a traveling merchant paid for his meal and lodging, Gu Xingzhi met Mu Linglong again, and she brought him to her senior sisters to discuss recruiting him into the Phoenix Nether Guard.
• A woman in black took Gu Xingzhi to Xiao Cheng, where he was restrained and brought before Governor Su Lin, whom he recognized from Tonggu Village.
• Su Lin revealed her identity as a descendant of the former dynasty and explained that the Wing King’s Dark Domain threatened her Phoenix Nether Guard.
• Su Lin asked Gu Xingzhi to help unify the land, and he agreed to join her cause; she then named him Chief Commander of the Phoenix Nether Guard.
• Gu Xingzhi took a pill, studied the Nethercloud Thirteen Sacred Art, and reached Martial Artist Peak within a day.
• Su Lin gave Gu Xingzhi the Dragon Nether Sword, and she watched in astonishment as he performed the sword techniques.