Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan unleashed the Four Arms Earth King killer move and tore through the Ma Family's forces, killing the Eagle King and several powerful Gu Masters. He reached Ma Zun's position and declared that he would take his life, as Ma Yingjie moved to hold him off.

• Cheng Hu transformed into a tiger and attacked Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan activated Four Arms Earth King and ripped him apart.
• Fang Yuan flew through the Lightning Eagle flock, crushed Yang Po Ying's head, and scattered the flock.
• Fang Yuan broke through Wu Ye's defenses and smashed him out of the sky, killing the Flight Master.
• Cheng Long transformed into a giant dragon to avenge Cheng Hu, but Fang Yuan broke one of his horns and knocked him into a crater.
• Fang Yuan advanced toward Ma Zun and announced that he would kill him, while Ma Yingjie offered to hold Fang Yuan back.

Fang Yuan overwhelmed the Ma Family forces by combining his slavery and strength path abilities, killing Ma Zun and Cheng Long. With Ma Zun dead and the horse herd broken, the Ma Family army’s morale collapsed.

• Ma Zun refused to retreat and summoned the Heavenly Horse herd, but Fang Yuan charged through it and killed many horses.
• Ma Yingjie activated Dragon Horse Spirit, sacrificing horses to create mutated horse souls, while Fang Yuan sent his wolves to exhaust them.
• Ma Zun retreated with his guards, and Fang Yuan pursued him, evading Ma Yingjie’s horse souls with his flight skills.
• Cheng Long attacked Fang Yuan as a giant dragon, but Fang Yuan smashed his eyes and battered him to death.
• Fang Yuan coordinated the wolf pack’s attacks with his own charge, broke through Ma Zun’s defenses, and killed him.
• The horse herd collapsed, and the Ma Family army’s morale fell as its soldiers realized Fang Yuan cultivated both slavery and strength paths.

Fang Yuan’s devastating performance broke the Ma Family army, and the Hei Family won the battle while he stayed behind to assess the backlash from his killer move. As the defeated survivors fled, Zhao Lianyun and Fei Cai encountered the injured Ma Yingjie, while Hei Cheng revealed plans to recruit Fang Yuan into the Hei Family.

• Jiang Bao Ya fled despite the oath’s backlash, and the Ma Family army’s fighting spirit collapsed as Hei Lou Lan ordered a pursuit.
• Fang Yuan examined the severe backlash from Four Arms Earth King and concluded that flying had exposed a flaw in the killer move.
• Ma Shang Feng tried to rally his forces behind a defensive line, but Tai Bai Yun Sheng broke through it and Pan Ping killed him with Single Blade Gu.
• Fei Cai and Zhao Lianyun escaped the battlefield, then encountered the injured Ma Yingjie after their carriage broke down.
• Hei Cheng and Hei Bai discussed the victory, identified Xue Song Zi as the Ma Family’s supporter, and Hei Cheng said he intended to recruit Fang Yuan.

After the Ma Family’s defeat, Ma Yingjie gathered survivors and became clan leader, leading them toward Warm Marsh Valley. Fang Yuan celebrated the victory with the Hei alliance but focused on obtaining Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s future Immortal Gu, Land as Before, and considered how to act while still a mortal.

• Ma Yingjie woke after the battle, learned the Ma Family had lost, and set out with Fei Cai and Zhao Lianyun for Warm Marsh Valley.
• Ma Yingjie reunited with wounded Ma Youliang, learned his father had died, and declared himself the Ma Family’s new clan leader.
• Hei Lou Lan and the alliance celebrated their victory, while Fang Yuan received recognition for his decisive role in defeating the Ma Family.
• Fang Yuan reflected on reaching the mortal world’s peak and resolved that he still needed to become a Gu Immortal and save Soul-Shaking Mountain.
• Fang Yuan considered ways to obtain Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s future Immortal Gu, Land as Before, and concluded that his second plan would require him to scheme against a Gu Immortal while he remained mortal.

Fang Yuan weighed his plan to obtain Land as Before Immortal Gu, while Ma Yingjie faced the Ma Family’s decline and found a new primeval spring. After Hei Lou Lan’s army besieged Warm Marsh Valley and ruined its springs, Ma Yingjie chose to preserve the Ma Family’s future by admitting outsiders into the lineage.

• Fang Yuan judged that pursuing Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s future Land as Before Gu offered his best chance to save Soul-Shaking Mountain.
• Ma Yingjie learned that one of the Ma Family’s three primeval springs had dried up, weakening the tribe ahead of the snow calamity.
• Fei Cai accidentally uncovered a powerful new primeval spring, and Ma Yingjie renamed him Fei Hongyun.
• Seven days later, Hei Lou Lan’s army surrounded Warm Marsh Valley and polluted all three of its primeval springs.
• Ma Yingjie decided to give outsiders the Ma surname and accept them into the lineage to prevent the family from dwindling.

As the Northern Plains army struggled through the snow toward Imperial Court, Fang Yuan watched Ma Hongyun and Zhao Lianyun and wondered whether fate preserved certain outcomes despite changes to history. He reviewed his cultivation plans and sought a way to overcome the limitations of his strength and slavery dao methods, ending with a sudden inspiration from The Legend of Human Ancestor.

• Hei Lou Lan led the enormous procession through the snow toward Imperial Court, while mortal slaves who collapsed along the way were left to die.
• Fang Yuan saw Ma Hongyun and Zhao Lianyun traveling with the Ma Family and had Ge clan members secretly watch over them.
• Fang Yuan considered how Ma Hongyun's life had followed a similar course despite changes to history, and wondered whether fate bound living beings together.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the flaws in his Four Arms Earth King killer move and reflected on his limited foundation in strength dao and slavery dao.
• After studying The Legend of Human Ancestor, Fang Yuan recalled Gu Yue Yin Huang's journey to Success and Failure Mountain and was struck by a new inspiration.

Fang Yuan read the tale of Gu Yue Yin Huang, who lost herself after mistaking Failure Gu for Success Gu. As the ten-year deadline arrived, Hei Lou Lan and his army entered Imperial Court Blessed Land, with Fang Yuan among the first to follow.

• Gu Yue Yin Huang searched Success and Failure Mountain for Success Gu, enduring terrible trials by chanting “I” as the stones changed her body and tested her resolve.
• After only two stones remained, Gu Yue Yin Huang chose Failure Gu and lost herself despite repeatedly chanting “I.”
• Fang Yuan closed The Legend of Human Ancestor and watched the heavy snow intensify as the ten-year deadline approached.
• Hei Lou Lan led his diminished army to Imperial Court Blessed Land, where his presence opened the entrance and formed an ice staircase.
• Hei Lou Lan entered first, followed by Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Hao Jiliu, and the rest of the army; the entrance then closed behind them.

Fang Yuan entered the Imperial Court Blessed Land, fought and killed a netherflame dragon python, and found a Gu Master inheritance in its valley. He collected the inheritance and the python eggs before flying onward toward the center of the blessed land.

• Fang Yuan flew through the Imperial Court Blessed Land and avoided stealing Gu worms from its towers.
• Fang Yuan fought and killed a netherflame dragon python, testing his improved Four-armed Wind King killer move.
• Fang Yuan salvaged valuable materials from the python and discovered Huo Zhengjun's inheritance, including a Flame Eye Gu and Gu recipes.
• Fang Yuan stored the inheritance's three surviving Gu worms and destroyed the stone tablet after recording its information.
• Fang Yuan found six netherflame dragon python eggs, stored them, and continued flying toward the blessed land's center.

Fang Yuan traveled toward Sacred Palace through Imperial Court Blessed Land, learning more about its quasi-grotto-heaven environment and avoiding dangerous beast swarms. After subduing two Azure Ten Thousand Wolf Kings, he continued his journey with a powerful wolf pack, still far from his destination.

• Fang Yuan flew for three days without finding Sacred Palace and noted Imperial Court Blessed Land’s day-and-night cycle and deep foundations.
• Fang Yuan camped in Great Lizard House Gu as a Blissful Snow Bat swarm passed, then woke to see the bats fighting an Azure Wolf pack.
• Fang Yuan subdued the first Azure Ten Thousand Wolf King and gained control of a third of its pack.
• Fang Yuan used his wolves to defeat and subdue a second Azure Ten Thousand Wolf King, while the remaining wolf king fled.
• Fang Yuan changed camps to escape scavenging beasts, then flew onward with two Azure Ten Thousand Wolf Kings and gathered more wolf breeds along the way.

Fang Yuan reached Star Vulture Peak and took charge of a group of Gu Masters competing to enter a hidden inheritance. He entered first and discovered the legacy of Du Minjun, a Northern Plains Poetry Immortal, including rare Gu worms and recipes that could make star Gu more powerful.

• Fang Yuan arrived at Star Vulture Peak, where Pan Ping and Zhu Zai had gathered Gu Masters around a periodically opening inheritance gate.
• Fang Yuan organized the Gu Masters to clear a path through the insect swarm, then entered the gate ahead of them with his wolves.
• Fang Yuan explored the inheritance courtyard and learned that it had belonged to Du Minjun, a poet who had ended his life there.
• Fang Yuan found Du Minjun's Poetry Sentiment Gu, a large collection of Star Dao Gu worms, and recipes for a five-rank set of star-enhancing Gu.

Fang Yuan refined a star-path Gu recipe from Du Minjun’s inheritance, then intimidated and extorted Pan Ping after he demanded a share of the inheritance’s gains. Days later, Fang Yuan neared the Sacred Palace and recognized familiar terrain below.

• Fang Yuan looted Du Minjun’s inheritance and discovered a Gu recipe that could amplify Star Firefly Gu’s power.
• When Pan Ping demanded compensation and asked to inspect the inheritance, Fang Yuan set the Azure Wolf pack on him and forced him to admit his mistake.
• Fang Yuan demanded payment for the lesson, extorting Gu recipes and several Gu worms from Pan Ping while the others watched in fear.
• After Fang Yuan departed, Zhu Zai and Pan Ping found only Du Minjun’s poems in the inheritance courtyard, and Pan Ping fainted after spitting blood.
• Several days later, Fang Yuan rode toward the Sacred Palace and recognized the terrain below.

Fang Yuan discovered the Earth Mound inheritance site but could not decipher its cryptic verse, so he continued toward Sacred Palace to pursue his plans. There, Hei Lou Lan dismissed complaints against Chang Shan Yin and decided to keep relying on him for the challenge to True Yang Building.

• Fang Yuan found the terrain matching the Earth Mound inheritance clue, searched its empty cave, and concluded that he needed to decipher the cryptic verse.
• Fang Yuan flew toward Sacred Palace, intending to obtain Land as Before Immortal Gu and Ju Yang Immortal Venerable's inheritance in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Wolf Dog Gentleman delivered Pan Ping's and Zhu Zai's letters accusing Chang Shan Yin of taking an inheritance and mistreating others.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered compensation for Pan Ping and the others but refused to punish Chang Shan Yin, saying he still needed him to challenge True Yang Building.
• Hei Lou Lan planned to reveal the path to Gu Immortal promotion to Chang Shan Yin only after he joined the Hei Family.

Fang Yuan arrived at the Sacred Palace, explored its halls, and reflected on the impermanence and suffering hidden beneath its splendor. He kept a low profile while waiting for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to appear, and the tower emerged after the golden sky began to ripple.

• Fang Yuan arrived at the Sacred Palace and toured its halls, including Painting Palace, before asking to go directly to his residence.
• Fang Yuan rejected the receiving Gu Master's wish to see more sights and settled into a quiet routine while waiting for Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Hei Lou Lan offered to recruit Fang Yuan as an external elder of the Hei clan, and Fang Yuan pretended to consider the proposal.
• Rumors spread that Fang Yuan had acted overbearingly at Star Vulture Peak, and Fang Yuan suspected Pan Ping, Sun Shihan, or Hei Lou Lan of stirring them up.
• More than half a month later, the golden sky rippled and Eighty-Eight True Yang Building appeared above the Sacred Palace.

Fang Yuan weighed how to prepare for the threat posed by Tai Bai Yun Sheng and placed his greatest hopes on the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. As the snow disaster worsened across the Northern Plains, Man Tu ordered his tribe to plant a replacement primeval spring and assigned Shi Wu to manage it.

• Fang Yuan judged that his mortal strength was insufficient against a Gu Immortal and considered searching the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, plotting against Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and improving his battle strength.
• The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building continued forming as snow buried the Northern Plains and threatened tribes across the region.
• Man Tu heard that the Number Ding primeval spring had dried up and learned that two more springs in Red Flame Valley would soon fail.
• Man Tu ordered a Spring Egg Gu from the clan treasury to create a new Number Ding spring and appointed Shi Wu to oversee it.
• Shi Wu received the Spring Egg Gu, and Man Duo explained that planting the spring would require a Lasting Gu, a Renewing Gu, and at least half a month.

Shi Wu nearly completed cultivating the Spring Egg Gu before Flying Hand Snow and a snow monster destroyed it. In the Imperial Court Blessed Land, Fang Yuan discovered a clue to the Earth Mound inheritance as the first floor of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building manifested and Hei Lou Lan began exploring it.

• Shi Wu infused the Spring Egg Gu with primeval essence for days while Man Duo praised his efforts and concealed Red Flame Valley's worsening cold.
• Flying Hand Snow and a snow monster overwhelmed the Gu Masters guarding the Spring Egg Gu, and a giant snow hand seized and destroyed it.
• Fang Yuan noticed that no small tower buildings stood near the Earth Mound, unlike the surrounding regions, and realized this could reveal the inheritance's secret.
• The first floor of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building manifested, and Hei Lou Lan entered, later returning injured and bringing Hei Family Gu Masters on his next attempt.
• Hei Lou Lan emerged from his second expedition exhausted, with only sixty percent of his accompanying Gu Masters returning, while rumors about the building spread.

Hei Lou Lan struggled to clear True Yang Building's fifty-fourth stage and summoned Chang Shan Yin to help, while Fang Yuan investigated a mysterious inheritance hidden beneath an Earth Mound. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan entering True Yang Building alongside Hei Lou Lan, intending to pursue both the stage and the secrets of the building.

• Hei Lou Lan beat Hei Qi Sheng and ordered his elders to find a way to clear the fifty-fourth stage, until Hei Pei advised him to call on Chang Shan Yin.
• Hei Shu reported that Chang Shan Yin was away pasturing his wolves and had told them to wait or summon Tang Miaoming and the others instead.
• Fang Yuan examined the Earth Mound's dark cave entrance and deduced that its inheritance had likely been arranged by a Gu Immortal.
• Fang Yuan received Hei Lou Lan's message, replied, and returned to the Sacred Palace to help with the fifty-fourth stage.
• Hei Lou Lan gave Fang Yuan a Guest Token, and they entered True Yang Building together.

Fang Yuan used the Hedgehog Fish to defeat the Water Snake Lions in True Yang Building’s fifty-fourth stage. His victory earned an upper-class evaluation and transported him to the Secret Treasure Pavilion.

• Fang Yuan entered the fifty-fourth stage with Hei Lou Lan and learned he had to use Hedgehog Fish to overcome the Water Snake Lion pack.
• Fang Yuan effortlessly tamed the fish school, then let it swim around while he studied the lions and surveyed the terrain.
• Fang Yuan’s fish launched a surprise attack, killing the lions in the water and drawing the rest of the pack into an Undercurrent Vortex.
• Fang Yuan manipulated the fish school to exploit the vortex and annihilate the Water Snake Lion pack.
• Fang Yuan received an upper-class evaluation and vanished, leaving the Hei family members astonished.

Fang Yuan entered the Secret Treasure Pavilion and exchanged four Spring Egg Gu for a Heavenly Origin Treasure King Lotus, learning more about the treasures and mechanisms of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. At the Guest Stopper Stele, he began the first step of refining the building.

• Fang Yuan found a Heavenly Origin Treasure King Lotus in the crystal wall and decided to exchange for it.
• Fang Yuan discovered eighteen Spring Egg Gu in his aperture and recognized them as rewards from the trial.
• Fang Yuan exchanged four Spring Egg Gu for the Heavenly Origin Treasure King Lotus and refined it instantly.
• Fang Yuan explored the pavilion and reached the Guest Stopper Stele, which blocked outsiders from the treasures beyond it.
• Fang Yuan sat before the stele and sent a Gu worm into it, beginning to refine Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Fang Yuan used his knowledge of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to refine part of the Guest Stopper Stele without waking Ju Yang Immortal Venerable’s dormant will. He gained access to the crystal corridor’s treasures and moved into a deeper section, where he spotted a Rank 5 Strength Dao Gu worm.

• Fang Yuan recalled how Central Continent Gu Immortals had breached Imperial Court Blessed Land and recorded the process, then used that footage and intelligence from Lang Ya Blessed Land to plan his own partial refinement of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Fang Yuan carefully poured primeval essence and his will into the Guest Stopper Stele, gradually claiming a small portion of the building while avoiding Ju Yang Immortal Venerable’s sleeping will.
• After two hours, Fang Yuan successfully refined the stele, though he realized the footage from his previous life had omitted details about the process.
• Fang Yuan tested his new access by reaching through a crystal wall to retrieve a Thunder Stone, then returned it to avoid arousing suspicion when the treasure was later found missing.
• Fang Yuan concealed himself with several Gu worms and crossed the stele into a deeper stretch of the crystal corridor.
• Fang Yuan saw a Rank 5 Strength Dao Gu worm sealed inside a crystal wall.

Fang Yuan found and awakened a hidden Glazed Lord Token, giving him access to the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s central control room. There he located a breach tied to the Earth Mound inheritance and hesitated over whether opening it would destroy the inheritance.

• Fang Yuan exchanged nearly ten Spring Egg Gu for a Strength-Borrowing Gu and continued searching the crystal corridor for a Lord Token.
• Fang Yuan found a hidden Lord Token, awakened its true form, and used his blood to make it acknowledge him before his protective blood flame disappeared.
• Using the Glazed Lord Token, Fang Yuan secretly observed Hei Lou Lan and the others struggling against a phantom Golden White Tiger on the sixty-first stage.
• Fang Yuan entered the central control room and used a sand table to locate the breach in the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Fang Yuan realized the breach was the Land of Inheritance of the Earth Mound and considered whether to open it at the cost of destroying the inheritance.