Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan deduced that the Earth Mound inheritance exploited a loophole in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to borrow its power for refining an Immortal Gu. After six days of study, he deciphered the inheritance’s secret words, though he did not know what Gu they would create.

• Fang Yuan reasoned that the mysterious Gu Immortal had destroyed and sealed a small tower building to exploit the power used to form Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Hei Lou Lan and the others were expelled from the tower after failing to pass the stage, and Fang Yuan left with them to avoid suspicion.
• Hei Lou Lan praised Fang Yuan’s contribution and invited him to a banquet, but Fang Yuan declined so he could study the inheritance.
• Six days later, Fang Yuan deciphered the secret words as a recipe for refining an Immortal Gu using Eighty-Eight True Yang Building’s power.
• Fang Yuan suspected the inheritance came from Central Continent and that the clues he had found were only one section of a larger chain.

Fang Yuan prepared to pursue the Earth Mound inheritance while Hei Lou Lan struggled to make progress in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Hei Lou Lan opened the building to other tribes under strict conditions, drawing attention away from Fang Yuan’s plans.

• Fang Yuan deciphered the inheritance clue and began preparing the many Gu worms needed to refine the Mysterious Immortal Gu.
• Hei Lou Lan berated the Hei Family elders for failing to defeat the Golden White Tiger phantom guarding stage seventy-eight.
• Hei Lou Lan decided to recruit other Golden Tribes to challenge Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, despite the elders’ objections.
• Hei Pei proposed charging entrance fees, limiting daily entry slots, claiming half of all rewards for the Hei Family, and selling Guest Tokens to outsiders.
• Hei Lou Lan approved Hei Pei’s plan, and crowds rushed to register for entry into the building.
• Fang Yuan watched the commotion and prepared to pursue the Earth Mound inheritance while others focused on the building.

Fang Yuan opened the Earth Mound inheritance by using light-path Gu and then following the clues with further Gu refinements. As Eighty-Eight True Yang Building neared the formation of its second layer, Tai Bai Yun Sheng sought a Guest Token and hoped to find a lifespan Gu, but he witnessed an astonishing event.

• Fang Yuan used Small Light Gu, Light Grate Gu, and three Rank 5 light-path Gu to open the Earth Mound inheritance.
• Fang Yuan followed the inheritance’s next refinement steps, then predicted that Sacred Palace would soon fall into chaos.
• Elder Hei Pei escorted Tai Bai Yun Sheng through a hidden door after promising him a Guest Token.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng recalled choosing the Old Beggar’s inheritance that promised to aid all living beings, and reflected on his growing fear of death.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng watched Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and resolved to find a lifespan Gu before his eyes widened at an incredible sight.

Fang Yuan drew the rosy clouds from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building into an underground cavern to nurture an Immortal Gu, causing the building’s first layer to collapse and throwing the Sacred Palace into panic. The clouds began to return after Fang Yuan’s final refinement step, but Hei Lou Lan remained uncertain about what had happened.

• Hei Lou Lan ordered Elder Hei Pei to investigate as the second layer’s rosy clouds began shrinking.
• Fang Yuan watched from afar as the first layer cracked and collapsed, while the Sacred Palace’s Gu Masters panicked.
• Hei Lou Lan tried to call the clouds back, but they continued disappearing as Fang Yuan’s Spring Autumn Cicada trembled in resonance with an Immortal Gu nearing birth.
• Fang Yuan scattered Gu worms into the cavern using Flower Sprinkle, turning the clouds into emerald radiance and preparing the final refinement step.
• Fang Yuan sent a Stinky Fart Gu into the cavern, and the rosy clouds stopped shrinking and began to increase slowly again.
• Hei Lou Lan celebrated the clouds’ return but remained tense and puzzled about the damage to Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Hei Lou Lan reopened Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to everyone, and a crowd of Gu Masters advanced through its checkpoints before reaching an obstacle that required Fang Yuan’s help. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan’s Gu refinement neared completion as Blissful Snow Bat swarms gathered at his cave.

• After Eighty-Eight True Yang Building re-formed, Hei Lou Lan reopened it and recruited Gu Masters to clear its reset checkpoints.
• Yelü Sang, Chang Biao, Pan Ping, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng entered the building, and the gathered Gu Masters cleared the first thirty checkpoints before stalling at the fifty-third.
• Pan Ping provoked jealousy toward Fang Yuan, but Chang Jiyou defended his father; Tai Bai Yun Sheng then suggested asking Tang Miaoming to help with the difficult checkpoint.
• Fang Yuan drew Blissful Snow Bat swarms to his cave and brought his Gu refinement close to completion.

Fang Yuan pursued the embryonic Immortal Gu from Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to a hidden Near Water Pavilion and discovered it needed further nurturing. Deciphering the pavilion’s ancient writing revealed that Mo Yao had established the inheritance and that the Gu was Calamity Gu.

• Fang Yuan completed the Earth Mound refinement process, but the embryonic Immortal Gu escaped from the newly formed tower and flew southeast.
• Fang Yuan left his post near Sacred Palace and pursued the Gu until it vanished into a waterfall, where he sensed it had stopped inside the pool.
• Fang Yuan used investigative Gu to find a hidden Near Water Pavilion in the water and entered it with Rank 5 Charging Gu.
• Fang Yuan found the embryonic Immortal Gu submerged in a bowl of deep-blue liquid and realized it needed nurturing before it could be fully born.
• Fang Yuan consulted materials from Yellow Treasure Heaven to decipher the bowl’s Ink script, learning that Mo Yao had established the inheritance and that the Gu was Calamity Gu.

Fang Yuan learned how Mo Yao created Calamity Gu to help Bo Qing pursue rank nine, then took the Immortal Gu without suffering backlash. Tang Miaoming urged Tang Fang to make revitalizing their clan the meaning of his life, while Fang Yuan affirmed that his own purpose was pursuing eternal life.

• Fang Yuan read Mo Yao's account of how she entered Imperial Court Blessed Land, refined Calamity Gu, and later died with Bo Qing after his second attempt to reach rank nine failed.
• Fang Yuan recognized Calamity Gu's value and learned that it could only be subdued by someone with a heart willing to sacrifice themselves.
• Tang Miaoming rebuked Tang Fang for neglecting his duties and told him to devote himself to restoring the Tang Clan.
• Tang Fang copied a passage from The Legend of Human Ancestor, in which Bei Ming Bing Po created Meaning Gu to restore Gu Yue Yin Huang's sense of purpose.
• Fang Yuan calmly took Calamity Gu, which accepted him without backlash, and declared that pursuing eternal life gave his life meaning.

Fang Yuan completed the Calamity Gu and seized partial control of Near Water Pavilion, then encountered Mo Yao's Will in his mind. After learning Bo Qing had died, Mo Yao offered her refinement insights and secrets about Eighty-Eight True Yang Building in exchange for his help returning Near Water Pavilion.

• Fang Yuan placed the fully formed Rank 7 Calamity Gu back in the vermilion bowl because he lacked the immortal essence and means to refine or safely carry it.
• Fang Yuan began refining Near Water Pavilion's mortal Gu components and gained thirteen percent control over the Immortal Gu House.
• Mo Yao's Will appeared in Fang Yuan's mind, startling him with her ability to enter unnoticed and perceive his thoughts.
• Fang Yuan told Mo Yao's Will that Bo Qing had failed his tribulation and died, causing her to waver before she regained her composure.
• Mo Yao's Will asked Fang Yuan to return Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House and offered her lifetime refinement insights and secret information about Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Fang Yuan struggled with Mo Yao’s Will, which had entered his mind after he refined Calamity Gu and demanded that he return Near Water Pavilion. He discovered a powerful killer move she had devised, the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King, but its final step and one required Flying Corpse Gu remained unknown.

• Fang Yuan observed the newly formed floors of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and reflected on its growing crowds and the scarcity of Guest Tokens.
• Mo Yao’s Will urged Fang Yuan to prepare her Ink Transformation killer move and return Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House, while Fang Yuan resented her intrusion and refused to surrender the Immortal Gu House.
• Fang Yuan used Empty Thought Gu to conceal his thoughts from Mo Yao’s Will, though he knew the defense would weaken as she grew familiar with it.
• Mo Yao recalled Sword Immortal Bo Qing’s claim that everything he believed and did was right, then hid herself after Fang Yuan remarked that Bo Qing had failed to take the final step.
• Fang Yuan found a thought containing the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move, which built on his earlier strength-path techniques and used Strength-Borrowing Gu as its core.
• Fang Yuan praised the killer move’s design but noticed that its incomplete instructions required a sixth Flying Corpse Gu he could not identify.

Fang Yuan accepted Mo Yao's proposal to return Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity Sect in exchange for her help and the complete Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move. Meanwhile, Eighty-Eight True Yang Building formed its third layer, and Ma Hongyun joined a team hunting Earth Kui Beasts.

• Fang Yuan concluded that his wisdom path foundation was too weak to remove Mo Yao's Will and agreed to return Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity Sect.
• Mo Yao promised to help Fang Yuan become a Gu Immortal and gave him the final portion of Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King, along with her improved Earth Kui Corpse Gu recipe.
• Fang Yuan judged Mo Yao's improved Earth Kui Corpse Gu recipe feasible but planned to test the dangerous killer move on others before using it himself.
• The third layer of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building formed, prompting excitement among the people gathered in Sacred Palace.
• Jiang Dong's group left Sacred Palace to hunt Earth Kui Beasts, and Ma Hongyun went along while concealing that Zhao Lianyun had instructed him what to say.

Fang Yuan led a vast wolf pack through Imperial Court Blessed Land while dismissing Mo Yao's warning about combining Slavery and Strength Dao. The pack swept through a hunting party, and Fang Yuan continued onward without regard for the people in its path.

• Fang Yuan rode an Azure Ten Thousand Wolf King at the head of a five-hundred-thousand-strong pack and insisted he would fuse Slavery and Strength Dao and become a Gu Venerable.
• Jiang Dong's hunting team struggled against an aged Earth Kui Thousand Beast King whose rank 3 wild Gu made it too strong for them.
• After the Beast King killed a Gu Master, Jiang Dong abandoned the fight and fled, drawing the Beast King's pursuit.
• Jiang Dong lured the Beast King toward Ma Hongyun, knocked Ma Hongyun unconscious, and threw him behind as bait, but the Beast King kept chasing Jiang Dong.
• Fang Yuan's wolf tide arrived, and the Earth Kui Beast King fled while the wolves tore apart Jiang Dong and swept through the area.
• Mo Yao criticized Fang Yuan's indiscriminate slaughter, but Fang Yuan said those who stood in his army's way deserved death.

Fang Yuan slaughtered his way across the blessed land to draw out Earth Kui Beasts, then killed an Earth Kui Ten Thousand Beast King and refined the improved Earth Kui Corpse Gu. Ma Hongyun survived the battle and, heading toward the Sacred Palace, found and picked up a wild Gu worm.

• Fang Yuan used his wolf pack to massacre the area, drawing out Earth Kui Beasts and gathering souls while Mo Yao's Will watched and speculated about him.
• Fang Yuan commanded his wolves to exhaust and kill the Earth Kui Ten Thousand Beast King and the surrounding Earth Kui Beast packs.
• Fang Yuan refined the improved Earth Kui Corpse Gu beside the beast's carcass over three days and three nights, then returned to the Sacred Palace with his elite wolves.
• Ma Hongyun crawled out of a dead Blood Forest Wolf after surviving the battle and set off toward the Sacred Palace.
• Ma Hongyun spotted a wild Gu caught by a Bone-Binding Gu and picked it up, hoping to sell it for primeval stones.

Fang Yuan used the prisoners captured after the battle to test the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move under Mo Yao's guidance. He discovered that the killer move could take the form of a Gu house, and the prisoners began transforming inside it.

• Fang Yuan summoned Ge Guang and Chang Jiyou, learned they had captured more than one hundred and eighty Gu Masters, and ordered them to bring the prisoners to him.
• Fang Yuan killed two prisoners to silence the crowd, then dismissed everyone else and sealed the hall.
• Following Mo Yao's instructions, Fang Yuan arranged and activated the Gu worms that formed the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King's Gu house.
• Mo Yao explained that a Gu house was a killer move in a fixed form, and Fang Yuan realized killer moves could be expressed as Gu houses.
• The prisoners grew golden scales and grotesque extra arms as the experiment transformed them, while Fang Yuan sensed their growing dangerous aura.

Fang Yuan used repeated human experiments to help Mo Yao refine the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move while secretly exploiting the weakness of her will: thinking steadily consumed it. After the fifteenth experiment, he judged the move improved but unfinished and turned his attention back to the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

• Fang Yuan questioned Mo Yao about the flawed Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King, and each of them secretly assessed the other's abilities.
• Fang Yuan realized Mo Yao's will weakened whenever it thought, so he planned to outlast it without alerting her.
• Mo Yao proposed changes to the killer move, and Fang Yuan had Ge Guang and Chang Jiyou capture Gu Masters for further experiments.
• Over more than half a month, Fang Yuan conducted repeated experiments as Mo Yao refined the move and expended her will deliberating.
• After the fifteenth experiment, Fang Yuan summarized the killer move's strengths and dangerous corpse-qi aftereffects while Mo Yao explained its limits.
• Fang Yuan set aside Mo Yao's request for Rank 5 test subjects and prepared to explore the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building again.

Fang Yuan used Mo Yao’s guidance to turn a flaw in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building into a new opening and upgrade his Glazed Lord Token into a One-Horn Lord Token. Mo Yao revealed that refining more openings could let him claim a Ju Yang True Inheritance, then advised him to obtain Hei Lou Lan’s Lord Token, leaving Fang Yuan to decide how.

• Fang Yuan found that Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had repaired the Earth Mound breach, and Mo Yao explained that he could create new openings with Ink Transformation.
• Fang Yuan and Mo Yao found fifty-four flaws in the building, including thirteen severe openings suitable for Ink Transformation.
• Fang Yuan used Ink Transformation to refine one opening and turned the Glazed Lord Token into a One-Horn Lord Token.
• Mo Yao explained that refining openings could increase the token’s horns and that a Ten-Horn Lord Token could claim a Ju Yang True Inheritance.
• After Fang Yuan said he had only enough Immortal Essence Stones for one more use, Mo Yao suggested he obtain Hei Lou Lan’s Lord Token by any means he could.

Chang Biao and Pan Ping debated recruiting Ma Yingjie into their secret alliance against Fang Yuan while the Gu Masters fought through a sandworm siege. After they cleared the checkpoint, they discovered its reward was the formidable strength path killer move Six-Arm Heavenly Corpse King.

• The exhausted Gu Masters defended a sand dune from successive sandworm Beast Kings, and Ma Yingjie took his turn commanding the heavenly horse herd to stop one with a Golden Armor Gu.
• Pan Ping urged Chang Biao to recruit Ma Yingjie into the Wolf Slaying Alliance, but Chang Biao argued that Ma Yingjie prioritized restoring his tribe and might favor Fang Yuan.
• Pan Ping pointed out that the Wolf King could be framed as an obstacle to the Ma Family's revival, prompting Chang Biao to consider using Ma Hongyun as part of a future scheme.
• The Gu Masters held the dune for another three quarters of an hour and cleared the checkpoint.
• Chang Biao, Pan Ping, Ma Yingjie, and the others examined the reward and learned it was the strength path killer move Six-Arm Heavenly Corpse King.

Pan Ping and Chang Biao tested the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move and discovered that using it caused different aftereffects. Meanwhile, Chang Family staged a trap involving Ma Hongyun and an Iron Beak Bird flock, but their plan went awry when he ran off course and Chang Li had to get him to carry her.

• Pan Ping and Chang Biao praised the killer move’s strength, compared their painful aftereffects, and discussed recruiting others for the Wolf Slaying Alliance.
• A Gu Master team led by a Rank 3 leader tried to steal Iron Beak Bird eggs, but the flock took flight after another group disturbed it.
• Ma Hongyun’s team split up as Chang Family Gu Masters fleeing the birds ran toward them, and Chang Family’s men secretly tried to protect Ma Hongyun while guiding him toward their plan.
• Ma Hongyun ran in the wrong direction and failed to notice Chang Li until she tripped him and pleaded for help.
• Ma Hongyun carried Chang Li on his back and ran as the Iron Beak Birds pursued them.

At a banquet, Chang Biao praised Ma Hongyun for rescuing Chang Li and announced that she had fallen for him, offering him two Silver Sari Gu. The next day Ma Hongyun gave the Gu to Ma Yingjie as a show of loyalty, but Ma Yingjie kept them, leaving Zhao Lianyun puzzled.

• Chang Biao arranged for a guest to recount Ma Hongyun's rescue of Chang Li as a heroic deed, while Ma Yingjie suspected he had an ulterior motive.
• Chang Biao announced that Chang Li loved Ma Hongyun and gave him two Silver Sari Gu as thanks for saving her.
• Ma Yingjie summoned Ma Hongyun after receiving Chang Biao's invitation to a smaller banquet the next day.
• Zhao Lianyun urged Ma Hongyun to tell Ma Yingjie the whole story and offer him the Silver Sari Gu to prove his loyalty.
• Ma Hongyun followed Zhao Lianyun's advice, but Ma Yingjie kept the two Gu instead of returning them, confounding both Ma Hongyun and Zhao Lianyun.

Chang Biao and Pan Ping enlisted Ma Yingjie in their plan against Chang Shan Yin by hiding the true Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move, while Ma Yingjie arranged Ma Hongyun’s marriage and promoted him to acting elder. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan revealed that he had manipulated the killer move rewards to collect other Gu Masters’ experience, then found Chang Biao and Pan Ping trapped in the seventh floor’s maze.

• Chang Biao and Pan Ping persuaded Ma Yingjie to keep the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move secret, and the three formed a close alliance while arranging Ma Hongyun and Chang Li’s marriage.
• Chang Biao explained to Pan Ping that he intended to use the marriage and support for Ma Hongyun to bind the Ma Family to their future conflict with Chang Shan Yin.
• Ma Yingjie gave Ma Hongyun three Red Iron Sari Gu, appointed him acting elder, and considered testing the killer move himself.
• Fang Yuan used Ink Transformation to refine his Five-Horn Lord Token and revealed that he had withheld the stage’s five Immortal Essence Stones and distributed altered killer moves to gather usage data.
• Fang Yuan located Chang Biao and Pan Ping in the ninetieth stage, where the two were racing through a maze of passages between city walls.

Fang Yuan trapped Pan Ping and Chang Biao in a wolf-filled checkpoint to test the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move, and both died from the accumulating corpse qi. After studying a Wisdom Dao inheritance to understand Mo Yao’s Will, Fang Yuan learned that she had perfected the killer move.

• Fang Yuan used his control of the ninetieth checkpoint to prevent Pan Ping and Chang Biao from leaving, then forced them to fight endless wolf packs and repeatedly use the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King.
• Pan Ping and Chang Biao found Primeval Stones and endured for months, unaware that their frequent killer-move use was building up lethal corpse spots.
• Pan Ping died first, and Chang Biao later died from exhaustion and accumulated corpse qi while lamenting that he had never heard Chang Jiyou call him father.
• Fang Yuan collected both men’s Gu worms and concluded that repeated use of the killer move caused fatal corpse qi to accumulate.
• Fang Yuan studied a Wisdom Dao inheritance and considered how Mo Yao’s Will differed from the kinds of intent described in it.
• Mo Yao’s Will told Fang Yuan that the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move had been perfected without flaws.