Chapter Summaries

Tie Ruo Nan deduced that Fang Yuan had concealed a Ten Absolute Aptitude, and Gu Yue Bo concluded that he was the prophesied Gu Yue Yin Huang Body. Gu Yue Bo rushed to find Fang Yuan while Tie Ruo Nan hurried after him, leaving Fang Zheng devastated until he seized on the suspicion that Fang Yuan had murdered Jia Jin Sheng to rebuild his resolve.

• Tie Ruo Nan argued that Fang Yuan's calmness during the aperture awakening meant he was hiding a stronger aptitude, and she connected it to the Ten Absolute Aptitude.
• Tie Ruo Nan explained the Ten Absolute Aptitude, prompting Gu Yue Bo to identify Fang Yuan as the prophesied Gu Yue Yin Huang Body and decide to protect him.
• Fang Zheng rejected the deduction, but Tie Ruo Nan suggested Fang Yuan might have concealed his aptitude and killed Jia Jin Sheng; Gu Yue Bo warned her to speak cautiously.
• Gu Yue Bo left to find Fang Yuan and summoned the elders, while Tie Ruo Nan hurried to Fang Yuan's residence and Fang Zheng remained alone.
• Fang Zheng collapsed under the belief that his A-grade aptitude was inferior to Fang Yuan's, then regained his resolve by telling himself that Fang Yuan was a murderer who deserved punishment.

Gu Yue Bo confronted Tie Ruo Nan over Fang Yuan’s disappearance, while Fang Yuan took the Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus from the primeval spring and was swept into a hidden blood lake. He landed on a ledge above the Blood Lake Burial Ground, where countless creatures were drained of their blood.

• Gu Yue Bo demanded that Tie Ruo Nan explain Fang Yuan and Tie Xue Leng’s disappearances, but she refused and stood firm against him.
• Tie Ruo Nan said she would remain, capture Jia Jin Sheng’s murderer, and not let an innocent person suffer injustice; Gu Yue Bo left without taking her.
• Fang Yuan retrieved the Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus from the primeval spring and refined it using the Spring Autumn Cicada’s aura.
• The primeval spring collapsed, and a burst of blood-red light pulled Fang Yuan into a blood-filled passage despite his attempts to escape with Heavenly Peng Gu and Lightning Wing Gu.
• Fang Yuan fell into an underground cavern and used the Serrated Golden Centipede to reach a ledge above the blood lake.
• Fang Yuan surveyed the Blood Lake Burial Ground and saw fish and other creatures drained of blood, with bones—including human skeletons—floating in the lake.

Fang Yuan discovered that the blood lake housed a swarm of Blade Wing Blood Bats and a Rank 5 python, and recognized the bats from Old Ancestor Xue Hai’s blood-related inheritance. As the bats attacked and Fang Yuan prepared to use the Spring Autumn Cicada, a powerful voice from above declared that a Blood Calamity was hidden there.

• Fang Yuan realized the glowing red soil came from the strange blood lake and worried that the cave’s openings or unreliable Lightning Wings might be his only ways out.
• A Rank 5 python stirred beneath the lake as a swarm of Blade Wing Blood Bats rose and charged at Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan recalled Old Ancestor Xue Hai’s blood Gu inheritances and considered whether this place held one of Xue Hai’s true inheritances.
• Fang Yuan prepared to summon the Spring Autumn Cicada, but a deep voice from the cave ceiling announced that a Blood Calamity was hidden there.

Tie Xue Leng entered the cavern and confronted the Blood River Python guarding the blood lake, while Fang Yuan struggled to survive the destruction around them. The battle left Fang Yuan trapped in contaminated bloodwater, with his Lightning Wing Gu failing and no clear escape route.

• Fang Yuan recognized Tie Xue Leng’s voice as the investigator arrived and unleashed the pressure of his Righteous Qi Gu, which weakened the Blade Wing Blood Bats but did not affect Fang Yuan.
• Tie Xue Leng identified the Blood River Python and called out Gu Yue Yi Dai, revealing that he had come to stop a hidden Blood Calamity and investigate Jia Jin Sheng’s death.
• The Blood River Python attacked Tie Xue Leng, who evaded its strikes as their battle shattered the cavern ceiling and sent rocks crashing into the blood lake.
• Fang Yuan used the Serrated Golden Centipede and Lightning Wing Gu to move along the mountain wall, then realized the Lightning Wing Gu was being contaminated by Blood Frenzy Gu in the bloodwater.
• Fang Yuan fell into the blood lake and used the Heavenly Peng Gu’s illusory white light armor to withstand falling debris while searching for an escape route.

Fang Yuan tried to escape the burning blood lake while Tie Xue Leng fought the Blood River Python and summoned a Mountain Giant Puppet. As Tie Xue Leng’s old ailment weakened his grip on the python, Gu Yue Yi Dai emerged from a crimson coffin as a rank 5 Blood Ghost Corpse Gu.

• Fang Yuan swam toward a revealed cave entrance, but collapsing red soil buried it again as Tie Xue Leng battled the Blood River Python.
• Tie Xue Leng used the Oil Dragon Gu and Fire Dragon Gu to drive the python beneath the blood lake, while Fang Yuan struggled against the flames and suffocation.
• Tie Xue Leng gathered earth and stone with the Mountain Giant Puppet Gu, then joined the two dragons to restrain and burn the Blood River Python.
• Tie Xue Leng’s old ailment relapsed, briefly loosening the puppet’s grip, and Fang Yuan climbed into the reopened cave entrance as Blood Frenzy Gu extinguished the lake’s flames.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai rose from a crimson coffin and threatened Tie Xue Leng, revealing himself as a rank 5 Blood Ghost Corpse Gu.

Fang Yuan was caught between the battle of Tie Xue Leng and Gu Yue Yi Dai and a pursuing swarm of blood bats, but the Spring Autumn Cicada would not respond when he tried to activate it. As dawn broke, the Three Clans Competition began, and Fang Yuan realized his Destined Gu could not move within his aperture.

• Gu Yue Yi Dai summoned rank 5 Blood Droplets and vast swarms of Blade Wing Blood Bat Gu to attack the wounded Tie Xue Leng, while Fang Yuan watched from a cave.
• Fang Yuan decided to retreat, but Gu Yue Yi Dai sent blood bats after him and tried to lure him deeper into the cave.
• Tie Xue Leng unleashed the Heaven and Earth Great Sound Gu, scattering the blood bats and shaking the mountain, while Fang Yuan escaped through the cave.
• With a blood bat swarm closing in, Fang Yuan tried to summon the Spring Autumn Cicada but found it immovable in his aperture.
• Gu Yue Bo and the Bai and Xiong clan leaders began the preliminary Three Clans Competition as dawn arrived, while Fang Yuan realized his Destined Gu could not be moved once it resided in his aperture.

Fang Yuan discovered that the Spring Autumn Cicada was endangering his Aperture and reasoned that attempting rebirth again would be risky. He used the Stone Aperture Gu to strengthen his Aperture and raise his cultivation, then fought the Blade Winged Blood Bat swarm and killed its controlling male bat.

• Fang Yuan realized the Spring Autumn Cicada’s growing pressure could eventually burst his Aperture and considered the dangers of trying to be reborn again.
• Fang Yuan used the Stone Aperture Gu to turn his Aperture walls to stone and raise his cultivation from initial Rank 3 to peak Rank 3.
• Fang Yuan fought the Blade Winged Blood Bats in the narrow cave, using the Serrated Golden Centipede and Heavenly Peng Gu while the Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus replenished his primeval essence.
• Fang Yuan charged into the swarm and killed the male Blade Winged Blood Bat that Gu Yue Yi Dai had refined to control the bats.

Fang Yuan escaped the blood bat swarm, discovered and refined a Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider, and rode it through the tunnel toward the surface. Meanwhile, Fang Zheng and Xiong Lin joined forces against Bai Chong Shui, and Fang Yuan remained determined to leave Qing Mao Mountain before his pursuers found him.

• Fang Yuan killed many Blade Winged Blood Bats, abandoned his contaminated Lightning Wing Gu to distract the swarm, and fought off the remaining bats.
• Fang Yuan found the tunnel blocked by a stone wall and dug until he sensed a creature sealed inside it.
• Fang Yuan uncovered and refined the hibernating Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider, realizing it had been used by the Flower Wine Wanderer to carve the tunnel.
• Fang Yuan rode the recovering spider through the tunnel, stopping to replenish his primeval essence as they burrowed through cave-ins.
• Fang Zheng and Xiong Lin surrounded Bai Chong Shui with their clans’ forces and revealed their alliance, intent on killing Bai Ning Bing.
• Bai Chong Shui was attacked by the allied Gu Yue and Xiong clans while Fang Yuan continued toward the surface.

Bai Ning Bing fought the allied Gu Yue and Xiong clans with overwhelming strength while Fang Yuan struggled to escape underground on the berserk Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider. The chapter ended with Bai Ning Bing’s Northern Darkness Ice Soul Body revealed and a sudden earthquake striking the village.

• Bai Ning Bing faced the allied Gu Masters, and Xiong Jiao Sao led her bear herd into battle against him.
• Bai Ning Bing killed Xiong Jiao Sao, Xiong Lin, Chi Cheng, and many others, leaving Fang Zheng and fewer than thirty Gu Masters alive.
• Fang Yuan rode the relapsing Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider as it dug wildly toward the surface, trying to maintain control of its direction.
• Bai Ning Bing raised his enlarged ice blade to strike the remaining Gu Masters, while the Bai Family Clan Leader stopped Gu Yue Bo from intervening and revealed Bai Ning Bing’s Northern Darkness Ice Soul Body.
• A Gu Yue clan Gu Master reported an earthquake that had damaged village buildings and caused blood to seep from the ground.

Fang Yuan emerged from underground on the Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider and fought Bai Ning Bing at the Three Clans Grand Competition. He escaped through the Misty Fog as Tie Ruo Nan pursued him, while an elder riding a giant crane appeared and tracked Gu Yue village with the Blood Kin Gu.

• Fang Yuan emerged on the Thousand Mile Earth Wolf Spider and broke Bai Ning Bing’s ice blade with the Serrated Golden Centipede.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing fought atop their Rank 5 Gu worms as the gathered clans recognized Fang Yuan’s strength and suspected he had a Ten Absolute Aptitude.
• The Misty Fog Snake fled after the two Gu worms fought, and Fang Yuan used the Earth Hearing Flesh Ear Grass to escape through the concealing mist.
• Bai Ning Bing unleashed an Ice Blade Storm as Gu Yue Bo tried to pursue Fang Yuan and Tie Ruo Nan flew after him.
• The Mountain Giant Puppet Gu covered Tie Ruo Nan’s face, and a giant iron hand carried her away as an elder on a giant crane tracked Gu Yue village with the Blood Kin Gu.

A massive crane swarm led by the White-browed Old Man attacked the three clans, and Fang Yuan urged Gu Yue Bo to gather the survivors and retreat to Gu Yue village. The White-browed Old Man killed the three Clan Leaders and pursued the survivors, but Gu Yue Yi Dai emerged from a vermilion coffin to face him.

• Tens of thousands of flying cranes descended on the battlefield, killing or wounding more than half the Gu Masters.
• Gu Yue Bo found Fang Yuan and fought to protect him, while Fang Yuan persuaded him that their first ancestor had awakened beneath the earth.
• Fang Yuan and Gu Yue Bo rallied the scattered Gu Masters to join forces and retreat toward Gu Yue village.
• The White-browed Old Man struck the three Clan Leaders with white rings, then killed them as they fought to hold him off.
• Fang Yuan and the surviving Gu Masters reached the battered Gu Yue village as the crane swarm followed.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai rose from a vermilion coffin in the village square and confronted the White-browed Old Man.

Immortal Master Tian He revealed his history with Gu Yue Yi Dai and attacked him to reclaim the inheritance, but their battle turned against the aging Tian He until he trapped Yi Dai with the Raise Eyebrows and Exhale Gu. Yi Dai redirected his swarms against Tian He, leaving the elder’s defensive halo close to breaking.

• Immortal Master Tian He revealed that he had used the heartblood of Gu Yue Yi Dai’s two sons to refine the Blood Kin Gu and had spent centuries searching for him.
• Immortal Master Tian He explained how Gu Yue Yi Dai had betrayed him over Old Ancestor Xue Hai’s inheritance and later founded Gu Yue village.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai unleashed Blood Droplets and Blade Wing Blood Bat Gus while Immortal Master Tian He’s crane king carried the wounded Blood River Python away from the village.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai and Immortal Master Tian He fought in the air, and Yi Dai gradually gained the advantage over the old and weakening Tian He.
• Immortal Master Tian He used the Raise Eyebrows and Exhale Gu to bind Yi Dai and drain their primeval essence, exploiting Yi Dai’s dead zombie aperture.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai directed his swarms at Immortal Master Tian He, forcing him to defend with a trembling halo that was close to collapsing.

Immortal Master Tian He attacked the village, but Gu Yue Yi Dai was bound by Tie Xue Leng’s hidden Gu and brought to the brink of defeat. Fang Yuan and the other Gu Masters joined the struggle to drain Tian He’s primeval essence, and the chapter ended as the Root-Pulling Talisman Gu extracted the Blood Skull Gu from Yi Dai.

• Immortal Master Tian He slaughtered Gu Masters and destroyed buildings, forcing Gu Yue Yi Dai to abandon his attack and defend the village.
• Demon Suppression Iron Chain Gu and Root-Pulling Talisman Gu bound Gu Yue Yi Dai, revealing that Tie Xue Leng had secretly planted them before his death.
• Immortal Master Tian He overwhelmed the bound Yi Dai, but Yi Dai’s sound attack wounded Tian He and temporarily stopped him.
• Tian He used Raise Eyebrows and Exhale Gu to drain Yi Dai’s primeval essence, while Gu Masters who tried to help were themselves drained and killed.
• Fang Yuan urged the Gu Masters to grasp Tian He’s white brows, and Bai Ning Bing and Xiong Jiao Man joined the desperate struggle.
• The Root-Pulling Talisman Gu extracted a crystal-like Blood Skull Gu from Gu Yue Yi Dai, and Immortal Master Tian He recognized it with joy.

Gu Yue Yi Dai used the Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor Gu to escape his restraints and survive Immortal Master Tian He's assault. After recovering his strength, he slaughtered the Gu Masters trapped inside and used their blood to raise his aptitude, leaving Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing among the survivors.

• The Root-Pulling Talisman Gu revealed and sealed the Yin-Yang Transformation Gu, while Gu Yue Yi Dai's consumable blood Gu activated the Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor and freed those inside it.
• Immortal Master Tian He attacked the barrier without effect, then stopped to recover his primeval essence as Gu Yue Yi Dai persuaded the trapped Gu Masters to supply Primeval Stones.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai broke free, restored his body, and announced that he would kill the people inside the barrier before facing Tian He.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai massacred the trapped Gu Masters and used the Blood Skull Gu to drain their blood.
• The Blood Skull Gu released a fragrant blood spring over Gu Yue Yi Dai, and he declared that his aptitude had risen.

Gu Yue Yi Dai explained why he had turned against the righteous path and slaughtered the Gu Yue clansmen to raise his aptitude. Bai Ning Bing intervened to protect Fang Yuan and unleashed his final power, freezing Qing Mao Mountain beneath a vast glacier as Fang Yuan searched for a way to escape.

• Gu Yue Yi Dai confessed that resentment over his C-grade aptitude and Tian He's good fortune had driven him to seize the Blood Sea True Inheritance and become a demon.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai slaughtered the remaining Gu Yue clansmen to raise his aptitude, then demanded that Fang Yuan surrender the Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus.
• Bai Ning Bing intercepted Gu Yue Yi Dai and promised to protect Fang Yuan if Fang Yuan would live on and witness the world's wonders.
• Bai Ning Bing fought Gu Yue Yi Dai, repeatedly rebuilding his body from ice despite being badly outmatched.
• As his life ended, Bai Ning Bing unleashed a glacier that imprisoned Gu Yue Yi Dai, shattered Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor, and covered Qing Mao Mountain in ice.
• Fang Yuan realized Bai Ning Bing was losing control of the glacier as the ice rapidly compressed the space where he stood.

Fang Yuan used the Spring Autumn Cicada to travel back in time after being trapped and facing death, then found himself bound during the earlier confrontation between Gu Yue Yi Dai and Immortal Master Tian He. He waited as Gu Yue Yi Dai activated the Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor Gu, leaving the gathered Gu Masters convinced they were safe.

• Trapped in the glacier, Fang Yuan decided to use the Spring Autumn Cicada and self-destructed to send his consciousness upstream through the River of Time.
• Fang Yuan successfully reincarnated and recognized the moment when Tie Xue Leng's arrangements had bound Gu Yue Yi Dai and Immortal Master Tian He was exhausting his primeval essence.
• Immortal Master Tian He watched as the Blood Skull Gu and Yin-Yang Transformation Gu were extracted from Gu Yue Yi Dai.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai called for the Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor Gu to be destroyed, and its barrier severed the white eyebrows binding Fang Yuan and the others.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai asked the Gu Masters for Primeval Stones to restore his primeval essence, while Immortal Master Tian He warned them that Gu Yue Yi Dai would kill them and use their blood.

Fang Yuan tricked Gu Yue Yi Dai into throwing himself outside the Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor, then seized his Gu while he fought Immortal Master Tian He. With the two Rank 5 experts battling outside, Fang Yuan recruited Bai Ning Bing and began killing the people trapped inside.

• Fang Yuan pretended to offer Gu Yue Yi Dai the Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus, then hurled him outside the blood barrier toward Immortal Master Tian He.
• The stunned crowd turned on Fang Yuan, but he claimed no one inside could kill him and took Gu Yue Yi Dai’s sealed Blood Skull Gu and Yin-Yang Transformation Gu.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai escaped the Demon Suppression Iron Chain Gu but could not reenter his own barrier, and Immortal Master Tian He resumed their fight.
• Fang Yuan told Bai Ning Bing he could temporarily overcome the limit of his Ten Extreme Physique, and Bai Ning Bing agreed to help despite the method’s risks.
• When the Root-Pulling Talisman Gu dissolved, Fang Yuan refined Gu Yue Yi Dai’s Gu using the Spring Autumn Cicada’s aura, enraging Gu Yue Yi Dai and intensifying the battle outside.
• Fang Yuan urged Bai Ning Bing to kill with him and sawed a Gu Master clansman in half with the Serrated Golden Centipede.

Fang Yuan slaughtered the people trapped inside the blood barrier and raised his aptitude to A-grade, though his cultivation fell to initial Rank 1. After Gu Yue Yi Dai fled and Immortal Master Tian He returned with his head, Bai Ning Bing transformed into ice to attack Tian He as the barrier vanished.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing massacred the clansmen inside the blood barrier, allowing Fang Yuan to use the Blood Skull Gu to raise his aptitude to ninety percent while his cultivation collapsed to initial Rank 1.
• Fang Yuan told Bai Ning Bing to self-destruct against Tian He and promised he would revive him afterward, leaving Bai Ning Bing to decide whether to trust him.
• Gu Yue Yi Dai lost to Immortal Master Tian He and fled, but Tian He pursued him and returned about two hours later carrying Yi Dai's head.
• When Blood Curtain Heavenly Splendor disappeared, Tian He demanded that Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing surrender their Gu and attacked them.
• Bai Ning Bing transformed into an ice sculpture and unleashed a spreading frost that caught Tian He off guard and sealed him in ice.

Fang Yuan revived Bai Ning Bing with the Yin-Yang Transformation Gu, and the two agreed to leave Qing Mao Mountain together, though Bai Ning Bing discovered she had been transformed into a woman. After escaping his jade coffin, Immortal Master Tian He found the near-dead Fang Zheng and took him toward Central Continent.

• Bai Ning Bing trapped Immortal Master Tian He in ice, but his Breath Preserving Jade Burial Gu protected him inside a jade coffin.
• Fang Yuan used the Yin Gu to revive Bai Ning Bing, lowering her aptitude and transforming her into a woman; he kept the only Yang Gu for himself.
• Fang Yuan convinced Bai Ning Bing to leave the frozen Qing Mao Mountain with him and head for White Bone Mountain.
• Two days later, Immortal Master Tian He broke free, found Fang Zheng near death in the ice, and realized he could use him to pursue the Blood Sea True Inheritance.
• Immortal Master Tian He saved Fang Zheng and carried him on a giant crane toward Central Continent.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing fled down the Yellow Dragon River on a damaged bamboo raft, but Arrow Fish attacked and forced them ashore before they could reach White Bone Mountain. They survived the assault, though both were wounded and Fang Yuan had no Healing Gu to treat them.

• Fang Yuan judged that Immortal Master Tian He was unlikely to catch them and considered the two-person trials said to lie within White Bone Mountain's inheritance.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing repaired the raft's loose bindings, but Fang Yuan estimated it would last only another day.
• A school of Arrow Fish attacked the raft, wounding Bai Ning Bing and breaking apart the bamboo poles and sail.
• Fang Yuan activated Heavenly Peng Gu to protect them as he steered the collapsing raft toward shore.
• Fang Yuan grounded the raft on a shoal, and he and Bai Ning Bing came ashore with bleeding wounds.
• Bai Ning Bing asked Fang Yuan for a Healing Gu, but Fang Yuan had none.