Chapter Summaries

After gaining Thunder Authority, Gu Xingzhi left the spreading Thunder behind and entered a vortex with Ao Shuang, only to be swept into the Chaotic Sea. They learned they could not return and crossed the Chaotic Boundary aboard Kong Shi’s Primordial Unity Boat, heading toward Chaotic City.

• Gu Xingzhi gained Thunder Authority from Lei Qing’s right palm, then left the rulerless Thunder Domain’s spreading Thunder to its fate.
• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang found a Space Origin Essence vortex at Blue Lake and entered it; space and chaotic time stopped the Thunder from spreading through those regions.
• The vortex passage shattered, sending Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang unconscious into the Chaotic Sea, where they awoke aboard the Primordial Unity Boat with Kong Shi.
• Kong Shi told Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang that they could not return and recounted how a man in golden robes had given him the power to steer the boat.
• Kong Shi transformed the boat into an ancient house to weather the Chaotic Sea’s storm, then resumed the journey and said he would take them to Chaotic City.

Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang settled into the Celestial Phenomenon Trading Manor in Chaotic City, where they suspected the manor master was watching them. After days of pretending not to notice the surveillance, Gu Xingzhi caught the cloaked figure spying on them and discovered she was a familiar woman who called him husband.

• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang entered Chaotic City and accepted the Celestial Phenomenon Trading Manor master's offer of lodging.
• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang suspected the manor master's excessive hospitality and decided to play along while investigating his intentions.
• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang grew stronger together, with Gu Xingzhi nearing a new cultivation level and Ao Shuang reaching the Supreme Peak realm.
• The manor master first had the White-Haired Youthful Old Man accompany Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang, then ended the surveillance as they continued their routine.
• Gu Xingzhi confronted a cloaked figure spying above the manor and bound her with Azure Light.
• The figure removed her robe, and Gu Xingzhi recognized a familiar woman who glared at him and called him husband.

A disguised old woman met the portly manor lord in secret, after which he invited Gu Xingzhi to travel with him to the Hengchuan West Sea. Gu Xingzhi agreed, leaving the manor lord suspicious of his calm response.

• The old woman disguised herself as a brothel madam and secretly met the portly manor lord in Chaotic City.
• After returning to his manor, the lord summoned Gu Xingzhi and described the Hengchuan West Sea and its rumored secrets of the Myriad Heavens.
• The lord asked Gu Xingzhi to accompany him to the Hengchuan West Sea, and Gu Xingzhi agreed to go in seven days.
• The manor lord watched Gu Xingzhi leave and wondered why he showed no concern.

Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang set out with the manor lord’s group for a special area in the Hengchuan West Sea, where Gu Xingzhi discovered a hidden gateway and entered it with Ao Shuang. They arrived in a dim, chaotic space, and Gu Xingzhi took dragon-form Ao Shuang toward a patch of golden starlight.

• The manor lord reported Gu Xingzhi’s strange lack of interest in escaping the Chaotic Sea to Madam Li, who ordered him to accompany Gu Xingzhi into the space and watch him closely.
• Seven days later, the manor lord led Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang toward the Hengchuan West Sea aboard a Rule Ark.
• Young Master Dongfang tried to force Gu Xingzhi to join his team, but Gu Xingzhi refused and later ignored him in the white mist.
• Gu Xingzhi sensed the mist’s peculiar nature, located a massive white boulder, and destroyed the spatial severance power it unleashed.
• The boulder split open to reveal a gateway, and Gu Xingzhi brought Ao Shuang through it into a dim space filled with fierce winds and scattered starlight.
• Ao Shuang transformed into her Dragon Body under the oppressive force, and Gu Xingzhi carried her toward golden fluorescent starlight.

Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang entered a chaotic region of the dark Chaos, where Gu Xingzhi found a five-colored mist consuming rampaging Rule Realm Origin Essence. After forcing the mist to disgorge what it had swallowed, he captured it and prepared to end the chaos and make up for the One That Escaped.

• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang were forced out of the crumbling place and returned to the dimness of Chaos.
• Gu Xingzhi sensed strange sounds and brought Ao Shuang to their source in an abnormal region where rules and Time-Space were in disarray.
• Gu Xingzhi and Ao Shuang flew through the rampaging rules to the center, where they found five-colored mist absorbing Rule Realm Origin Essence.
• Gu Xingzhi struck the mist with Azure Light, causing it to retch up the Rule Realm Origin Essence it had swallowed.
• Gu Xingzhi absorbed the expelled essence, reduced the mist to a tiny bead, and captured it in his palm.
• Gu Xingzhi said he would end the chaos there and make up for the One That Escaped.

Gu Xingzhi brought Ao Shuang through the Boundary Gate and appeared before a middle-aged man in a golden robe, who acknowledged that Gu Xingzhi had resolved the chaos and altered his laws. Gu Xingzhi demanded the promised Chaos Controlling Pearl.

• Gu Xingzhi took Ao Shuang into the depths of Chaotic City and opened an ancient gateway called the Boundary Gate.
• A Golden Armor General challenged Gu Xingzhi, but Gu Xingzhi ignored him and vanished with Ao Shuang.
• The Golden Armor General pursued them as the gateway disappeared.
• Gu Xingzhi appeared with Ao Shuang in a golden hall, where a middle-aged man in a golden robe welcomed them.
• The middle-aged man praised Gu Xingzhi for resolving the chaos and changing his laws, and Gu Xingzhi demanded the Chaos Controlling Pearl.

Gu Xingzhi absorbed the Chaos Controlling Pearl and gained complete Authority over the Chaotic Sea, while the expedition team returned to Chaotic City without finding a way out. The Fair-Skinned Man secretly followed the Manor Lord back and confronted him as he prepared to report to Madam Li.

• Gu Xingzhi returned to the manor with Ao Shuang, absorbed the Chaos Controlling Pearl, and became the true Lord of Chaos.
• Gu Xingzhi used his new Authority to bring Li Niang out of the Special Space and pulled her and Ao Shuang into his arms.
• The expedition team left the Hengchuan West Sea without finding a passage out of the Chaotic Sea, and the Manor Lord and Fair-Skinned Man failed to find Gu Xingzhi.
• The Fair-Skinned Man secretly turned his boat around and followed the Manor Lord back to Chaotic City, believing Gu Xingzhi had tricked him.
• The Manor Lord arrived at the manor and went to report to Madam Li, but the Fair-Skinned Man appeared and angrily confronted him.

The Fair-Skinned Man tracked Gu Xingzhi to Chaotic City, where Gu Xingzhi killed Madam Li and the Manor Lord after demanding to know their purpose. Gu Xingzhi later revealed to Old Man Punting a Boat that he had slain the Lord of Chaos and become the new master of the Chaotic Sea.

• The Fair-Skinned Man found Gu Xingzhi's aura in the Manor Lord's bedchamber, then confronted Gu Xingzhi when he emerged with Ao Shuang and Li Niang.
• Gu Xingzhi restrained Madam Li and the Manor Lord, demanded to know who had sent them, and killed them when they would not answer.
• Gu Xingzhi vanished with Ao Shuang and Li Niang, while the Fair-Skinned Man returned home before leaving again after the Clan Elders berated him.
• The Fair-Skinned Man confided in Old Man Punting a Boat, took his guidance, and returned home.
• Gu Xingzhi appeared behind Old Man Punting a Boat, shattered the Rule Realm aura protecting the boat, and declared that he had slain the Lord of Chaos and become master of the Chaotic Sea.

Gu Xingzhi forced the old man with the pole to row across the Chaotic Sea before absorbing the entire sea into his body and returning to the Li Quan World. The Fair-Skinned Man found the old man dead and reported the strange events to his father, who entered the empty Floating Great Hall and encountered a mysterious figure on the throne.

• Gu Xingzhi ordered the old man to pole the boat north, then forced him to continue until the exhausted man dropped the pole and plunged into the Chaotic Sea.
• Gu Xingzhi took Ao Shuang and Li Niang to the Chaotic Sea’s center, absorbed the sea into his body, and returned to the Li Quan World.
• The Fair-Skinned Man found the unmanned boat, the fallen pole, and the old man’s corpse, then hurried back to report his suspicions to his father.
• Lin Xiao’s father entered the Floating Great Hall, found it empty, and called for the Supreme Lord.
• A handsome figure appeared on the throne and asked Lin Xiao’s father why he had come, leaving him stunned and asking who the figure was.

Gu Xingzhi offered the Lin Family a chance to leave the Chaotic Sea, but the Clan Elders rejected him and stripped Lin Xiao of his position. The Fair-Skinned Man became the new clan head, and Gu Xingzhi appeared to present him with a condition.

• Gu Xingzhi declared that the Lin Family had lost its chance to leave after the Clan Elders doubted him, then vanished.
• A white-robed Clan Elder removed Lin Xiao as clan head and sent him out of the great hall.
• Lin Xiao returned to his quarters and entered secluded cultivation, while the Clan Elders summoned the Fair-Skinned Man and made him clan head.
• Gu Xingzhi appeared before the Fair-Skinned Man and offered the Lin Family another chance to leave the Chaotic Sea in exchange for agreeing to a condition.

Gu Xingzhi seized the Time Instrument’s Authority and freed the child shadow from the time-binding that had kept him young. The transformed Handsome Young Master warned Gu Xingzhi not to become obsessed with the Authority before disappearing, while Gu Xingzhi regarded it as a Li Quan mission.

• Gu Xingzhi sent Azure Light into the Time Instrument, causing it to break free from the hall and land in his hand.
• The child shadow sensed his Authority slipping away, opened his eyes, and asked Gu Xingzhi who he was.
• Gu Xingzhi sent Azure Light into the child shadow to break the time-binding restriction and help him grow.
• The child shadow became a Handsome Young Master in a Cloud Pattern White Robe and thanked Gu Xingzhi.
• The Handsome Young Master warned Gu Xingzhi not to become obsessed with the Authority, then disappeared.
• Gu Xingzhi smiled and said the Authority was merely a Li Quan mission to him.

Gu Xingzhi learned how people became Rune Soul Warriors and discovered he would have to wait until noon to gaze at the sky. The next day, after helping a blacksmith stoke his forge, he set off for the Gazing Sky Platform.

• Gu Xingzhi asked a woman how to become a Rune Soul Warrior, and she explained that people received Soul Guidance Force by gazing at the sky at age eighteen.
• The woman told Gu Xingzhi to go to the Gazing Sky Platform at noon, so he stayed with her family overnight.
• The next morning, Gu Xingzhi helped the middle-aged man stoke the forge.
• When the Blazing Sun was high, Gu Xingzhi said farewell and headed to the Gazing Sky Platform, wondering whether he could become a Rune Soul Warrior.

Gu Xingzhi failed to awaken a Rune Soul at the Gazing Sky Platform, then discovered he could cultivate through the Seven Stars Diagram Path instead. After activating all seven Star Paths under the full moon, he faced an approaching three-headed giant beast.

• A young man endured the blazing sun and awakened a white Beast-Form Rune Soul, while another awakened a green Weapon-Form Rune Soul.
• Gu Xingzhi stood beneath the blazing sun, but no Rune Soul appeared, and the others mocked him as he left the platform.
• Gu Xingzhi watched an old man fish beside a river until the old man told him that people could cultivate without a Rune Soul.
• Gu Xingzhi followed the old man's advice, circulated his cultivation technique, and lit all seven Star Paths, forming a Seven Stars Pattern.
• The sun became a full moon and sent light down to Gu Xingzhi, who declared that the Seven Stars Diagram Path could be cultivated without a Rune Soul.
• Gu Xingzhi released Seven Stars Moon Radiance, and a three-headed giant beast emerged from the forest as he invoked Moon Radiance Guidance, Soul Fusion and Heaven Unity.

Gu Xingzhi absorbed Rune Beast souls to advance his Moon Radiance power, then saved four Rune Soul Cultivators while hunting in the forest. After returning to the blacksmith’s home, he learned his Horizontal Training Qi had been created by someone the middle-aged man recognized, who ordered him to start forging iron.

• Gu Xingzhi killed a three-headed giant beast and advanced to a new level of Moon Radiance power.
• Gu Xingzhi rescued Hai Ge and three other Rune Soul Cultivators from a Scaled Armor Rune Beast, then continued hunting Rune Beasts in the forest.
• Gu Xingzhi broke a Huan in the forest’s central area, killed five giant beasts, and advanced again.
• Gu Xingzhi returned to the home of the sweet-looking woman, told her he had no Rune Soul, and was invited to stay and forge iron with Tianhe.
• The middle-aged man told Gu Xingzhi that someone had created his Horizontal Training Qi and ordered him to follow him and forge iron.

Gu Xingzhi met Xue Er, a long-eared creature from Star Origin Continent, and learned that she had seen the strange old man he was seeking. After she led him to the old man’s cottage, Gu Xingzhi asked what Horizontal Training Qi was and when it had been planted in his body.

• Gu Xingzhi searched for the old man by the river, then encountered Xue Er in the overgrown path and learned she came from Star Origin Continent.
• Gu Xingzhi warned Xue Er that special creatures could be hunted by Rune Soul cultivators and showed her his Moonlight Path.
• Xue Er used her Memory Recall skill to recognize Gu Xingzhi’s description of the old man and led him to a hidden path and thatched cottage.
• Gu Xingzhi waited until the old man woke, then followed him to the kitchen while Xue Er watched in confusion.
• Gu Xingzhi asked the old man what Horizontal Training Qi was and when he had planted it in his body.

Gu Xingzhi continued to suspect the old man had a hidden purpose while accepting his cultivation lessons and Jade Perch. After slaying a beast and absorbing its Rune Soul, Gu Xingzhi fused a series of heavenly lights and moonlight, greatly increasing his strength; Xue Er asked if he was all right.

• Gu Xingzhi and Xue Er lived near the old man for a month while he took Gu Xingzhi underground at night to cultivate.
• The old man caught a Jade Perch and told Gu Xingzhi to eat it raw, but Gu Xingzhi liquefied it with Moon Radiance and fused it into his body.
• The old man caught a second Jade Perch, which Gu Xingzhi also fused, then returned to his cottage to sleep.
• Gu Xingzhi and Xue Er followed a beast's roar into the forest, where Gu Xingzhi killed an enormous humanoid beast and absorbed its Rune Soul.
• Multicolored lights appeared in the sky, and repeated Golden Lights fused into Gu Xingzhi until his Moon Radiance turned violet-gold.
• A full moon appeared and sent white light into Gu Xingzhi; after it vanished, he descended, and Xue Er asked if he was all right.

Gu Xingzhi followed a disguised old man into a hidden realm and killed an Illusion Rune Beast, revealing the true world. The old man tried to persuade Gu Xingzhi to stay, but the Mad Old Man arrived and confronted him over targeting Gu Xingzhi.

• After Gu Xingzhi advanced, the old man revealed his concealed power and opened a stone cave in the cliff, leading Gu Xingzhi and Xue Er inside.
• A Calamity Beast roared from a light-filled passage, and Gu Xingzhi struck it down at the old man's command.
• The group returned to the cliff, where the old man explained that the beast had been an Illusion Rune Beast and Gu Xingzhi could kill it because he came from the Outer Domain and was not bound by the world's Rule Realm.
• The old man transformed the thatched cottage into a grand pavilion, brought Gu Xingzhi and Xue Er into its hall, and asked Gu Xingzhi to settle there.
• The Mad Old Man appeared, and Gu Xingzhi greeted him excitedly as he warned the other old man that targeting Gu Xingzhi had cut off his path forward.
• The old man refused to discuss his path and challenged the Mad Old Man to fight.

Gu Xingzhi learned that the Dark Source had sent him into this world to replace him, then absorbed it and gained part of the Full Moon Authority. After continuing his trial with Xue Er, he reached a fragrant region where she transformed into a woman and found a way back.

• Mad Old Man revealed that the Dark Source had stolen his Moon Radiance Pearl and sent Gu Xingzhi into the world to devour and replace him.
• Gu Xingzhi absorbed the Dark Source, advanced his Moon Radiance Dao, and obtained part of the Full Moon Authority.
• Gu Xingzhi killed the middle-aged blacksmith after the blacksmith attacked him, then learned from the middle-aged woman that she had rescued the blacksmith ten years earlier.
• Gu Xingzhi repaid the middle-aged woman by sending her Moon Radiance to evolve her Rune Soul, then departed with Xue Er to continue his trial.
• Xue Er absorbed the floral fragrance in a fragrant region, transformed into a woman in a Purple Pattern White Dress, and told Gu Xingzhi she had found the way back.

Xue Er returned to Cang Lan with Gu Xingzhi and resumed her position as Palace Master, then told him of a calamity in the Hot Springs caused by corrosive Azure Light. Gu Xingzhi went to investigate and entered the sealed region, where phantoms attacked him as he cultivated Moon Radiance.

• Xue Er revealed her true appearance and opened a gateway that brought her and Gu Xingzhi to Cang Lan.
• Xue Er declared her return, reunited with the four elders, and learned that Azure Light had transformed cultivators into monsters in the Hot Springs.
• Gu Xingzhi stopped Xue Er from intervening and set out alone to investigate the Hot Springs, accepting her Jade Token.
• The four elders secretly opened a crack in their formation for Gu Xingzhi, then followed him inside.
• Gu Xingzhi sat down and circulated Moon Radiance as sinister phantoms emerged and pounced on him.

Gu Xingzhi escaped the realm where Xue Er was trapped, returned to the Myriad Heavens, and gained powerful new Authorities at the Realm Domain Central Hub. He then seized an old woman’s Authority and brought Li Niang and Ao Shuang to the central hub.

• Gu Xingzhi’s cultivation was unsealed in the Hot Springs, allowing him to destroy the Eerie Shadows and Azure Light, though he dispersed the four old men after their consciousnesses had been erased.
• Gu Xingzhi found a Void rift and entered it after sending Xue Er a message; she arrived too late and vowed to find a way to reach him in the Myriad Heavens.
• Gu Xingzhi returned to his original world, found Li Niang and Ao Shuang in seclusion, and continued experiencing Authority until the Mad Old Man took him to the Realm Domain Central Hub.
• Gu Xingzhi sat on the Purple Gold Lotus Platform and, after an unknown time, awakened with immense power and new Realm Domain Authorities.
• Gu Xingzhi returned to the illusion-filled place, took the Authority from the Phoenix Head Crutch old woman, and brought Li Niang and Ao Shuang to the central hub.