Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan perfected the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move but sought a way to eliminate its dangerous aftereffect, which required a willing Rank 5 test subject. After exhausting his resources to raise his Lord Token to six horns, he watched Hei Lou Lan's forces struggle against the fifth floor's final checkpoint and withdraw.

• Fang Yuan learned that Mo Yao had perfected the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King, but he remained concerned that overuse could turn him into a zombie.
• Mo Yao said she needed a fully cooperative Rank 5 Gu Master to test a complete transformation and investigate how to prevent the killer move's aftereffect.
• Fang Yuan used Ink Transformation to raise his Lord Token from five horns to six, selling much of his wealth and many Gu worms to fund the refinement.
• Fang Yuan decided to wait until Imperial Court Blessed Land was about to close before claiming rewards from the floors he could control, so Hei Lou Lan would not discover his actions.
• Hei Lou Lan's forces suffered heavy casualties fighting the Flying Bear Phantasm at the fifth floor's hundredth checkpoint, and Hei Lou Lan ordered a withdrawal.

Hei Lou Lan gathered the Sacred Palace’s experts to challenge the Flying Bear Phantasm, promising Fang Yuan half the final-stage reward. Fang Yuan’s wolves and the other beast armies wore down the bear, but its wild Gu unleashed devastating attacks, leaving the assembled forces searching for a way to weaken it further.

• Hei Lou Lan summoned powerful experts and promised Fang Yuan half the reward for clearing the stage.
• Hei Shu reported that Pan Ping and Chang Biao had gone missing in the seventh-floor maze, and Hei Lou Lan decided the group would depart without them.
• The assembled Gu Masters entered the fifth floor and faced an ambush by the Flying Bear Phantasm.
• Fang Yuan used his wolf packs to surround and exhaust the bear, withdrawing them after the bear’s Star River Gu caused heavy casualties.
• Tang Miaoming’s fox army and Hei Qi Sheng’s eagle army replaced Fang Yuan’s wolves, but the bear’s Wind Tiger Cloud Dragon Gu overwhelmed their forces.
• Hei Lou Lan’s scout located the Star River Gu on the bear’s left fang while Tang Miaoming and Hei Qi Sheng began to falter.

Fang Yuan refused to join the assault on the Flying Bear Phantasm and struck Black Embroidered Robe down when he challenged him, forcing Hei Lou Lan to swallow his anger. The assembled experts battered the bear, but when Hao Jiliu charged in, a bubble swallowed him and the Flying Bear Phantasm, leaving both gone.

• Fang Yuan struck Black Embroidered Robe with a strange fist, shattering his breastbone and knocking him unconscious.
• Hei Lou Lan confronted Fang Yuan, then accepted his explanation and turned back to the battle as the eagle and fox armies fell back.
• Xi Xue and Gu Guo Long slowed the Flying Bear Phantasm with snow and sand, while a group of experts attacked it and Yelü Sang hit it with a huge fireball.
• The wounded Flying Bear Phantasm curled up and activated its Five Elements Bear Skin Gu as the experts prepared for its Fierce Dance Gu.
• Hao Jiliu charged the Flying Bear Phantasm, which spat out a transparent bubble that enveloped them both before they vanished.

After Void Constellation Gu trapped and killed Hao Jiliu, Fang Yuan proposed keeping the Gu Masters beyond its range while his wolves attacked Flying Bear. The tactic began turning the battle in their favor, but Flying Bear activated Void Constellation Gu again and vanished with a Blood Forest Wolf, leaving Fang Yuan and the others concerned.

• Sun Shihan identified Void Constellation Gu, and Yelü Sang explained that it trapped opponents in a separate space until one side won or the user ran out of primeval essence.
• Flying Bear returned with blood and scraps of Hao Jiliu's clothing in its teeth, revealing that it had killed and devoured the Water Demon.
• Fang Yuan reassured the demoralized Gu Masters that Void Constellation Gu had limited range and proposed attacking Flying Bear from a distance while his wolf pack surrounded it.
• The Gu Masters attacked from outside the Gu's range as Fang Yuan sent the wolves against Flying Bear, gradually injuring the beast without further human casualties.
• Flying Bear activated Void Constellation Gu again, pulling itself and a Blood Forest Wolf into another space, and Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and the others watched with concern.

Hei Lou Lan’s group cleared the final trial by sacrificing Hei clan death warriors to wear down the Flying Bear Phantasm, earning the Flying Bear Phantasm Gu as the reward. As Hei Lou Lan refined the Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan demanded that he hand it over.

• The group realized the Flying Bear Phantasm could heal inside the void constellation, while Hei Lou Lan weighed the cost of fighting it himself.
• Fang Yuan proposed sending death warriors to die when the flying bear dragged them into the void constellation, allowing the others to keep attacking from afar.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered more than a dozen Hei clan death warriors into battle, and they brought the flying bear to the verge of death.
• The Eighty-Eight True Yang Building immobilized the group and declared the checkpoint cleared, granting Hei Lou Lan control of the floor.
• The flying bear transformed into the rank 6 Flying Bear Phantasm Gu, which the building refined for Hei Lou Lan.
• Fang Yuan calmly demanded that Hei Lou Lan transfer the Immortal Gu to him.

Fang Yuan obtained the Flying Bear Phantasm Gu and tested it against his Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move, which proved stronger. Mo Yao explained how void dao Gu could enhance the phantasm and offered to reveal three inheritances if Fang Yuan returned Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House, but he remained wary.

• Hei Lou Lan agreed to give Fang Yuan the Flying Bear Phantasm Gu, while the other Gu Masters demanded compensation for their share.
• Fang Yuan secretly restored the Flying Bear Phantasm Gu and entered the seventh floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to test it against his Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move.
• Fang Yuan defeated the Flying Bear Phantasm and reflected on the killer move’s strength and the danger of maintaining it beyond its time limit.
• Mo Yao explained that void dao Gu worms could greatly increase the Flying Bear Phantasm’s battle strength, including by letting it turn illusory to evade attacks.
• Mo Yao offered Fang Yuan information about three void path inheritances if he returned Near Water Pavilion to Spirit Affinity House, but Fang Yuan postponed the discussion.

Hei Bai and Hei Cheng massacred a snowman tribe while hunting for the Woodpecker Gu, and Hei Lou Lan learned that the Gu had appeared in the thirty-ninth floor of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. He ordered Hei Shu to summon Ma Yingjie as Chang Shan Yin remained inside the maze checkpoint and attacks on the Chang Family continued.

• Hei Bai and Hei Cheng found a prosperous snowman tribe in the Northern Plains and attacked it, destroying its ice houses and overwhelming its warriors with Gu worms.
• Hei Lou Lan received another message urging him to find the Woodpecker Gu and reflected that mortals could not contend with Gu Immortals without Immortal Gu.
• Hei Shu reported that Chang Family Gu Masters were being attacked and that Chang Shan Yin had entered the maze checkpoint after Chang Sou's body was returned.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered Hei Shu to identify and recruit the person attacking the Chang Family, then heard that the thirty-ninth floor was forming and the Woodpecker Gu had appeared.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered Hei Shu to summon Ma Yingjie immediately.

Hei Lou Lan pursued a secret alliance with Xue Song Zi while Ma Yingjie learned that Hei Lou Lan had a surprising proposal for him. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan comforted Chang Jiyou after his failure to find a murderer, as Hei Lou Lan waited for the Strength Dao Immortal Gu to appear.

• Hei Lou Lan questioned Ma Yingjie about the Ma Family’s ties to Xue Song Zi, then told him to cooperate in exchange for glory and wealth.
• Dragon Lord Demon Monarch demanded Xue Song Zi’s Hundred Year Longevity Gu as payment for helping him fight the Hei Family, so Xue Song Zi left without an agreement.
• Xue Song Zi received a letter from Hei Lou Lan proposing cooperation and, after suspecting a trap, became intrigued by the offer.
• More than half a month later, Hei Lou Lan reflected on his successful alliance with Xue Song Zi and continued waiting for the Strength Dao Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan summoned Chang Jiyou, heard his apology for failing to find the murderer, and healed his wound, moving Chang Jiyou to tears.

Fang Yuan manipulated Chang Jiyou into raising his aptitude and cultivation, then guided him into becoming a heavenly corpse through the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move. When Chang Jiyou begged for help, Fang Yuan pretended to share his despair and promised to find a cure, leaving Chang Jiyou trusting him completely.

• Fang Yuan comforted Chang Jiyou, gave him Sari Gu, and secretly used Blood Skull Gu to raise his aptitude to ninety-six percent.
• Fang Yuan left Chang Jiyou Gu worms and instructions, including a record that disclosed the killer move's flaw, while planning to steer him toward becoming a heavenly corpse.
• Chang Jiyou used the Sari Gu to reach high Rank 5, then became intoxicated by the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King killer move and transformed during a prolonged battle.
• Chang Jiyou begged Fang Yuan to save him, and Fang Yuan claimed the move's aftereffects were beyond his power to reverse.
• Fang Yuan reassured Chang Jiyou that he would search for a cure and take charge of the Chang Family, strengthening Chang Jiyou's faith in him.

Fang Yuan tried increasingly dangerous methods to restore Chang Jiyou from his heavenly corpse form, but the final attempt killed him when his soul scattered. Fang Yuan grew more wary of Mo Yao's Will and realized he needed to act quickly before Hei Lou Lan reached the Woodpecker Gu.

• Fang Yuan's latest restoration method briefly returned Chang Jiyou's arms to living flesh, but the heavenly corpse form soon returned.
• Mo Yao proposed a final, extremely dangerous method that could shatter Chang Jiyou's soul, and Chang Jiyou asked Fang Yuan to try it.
• After repeated experiments, Fang Yuan prepared the final attempt and continued adding Gu Worms despite Mo Yao's warnings.
• Chang Jiyou died when the pain scattered his soul, and Fang Yuan said his death had revealed how stubborn the killer move's flaw was.
• Mo Yao withdrew from Fang Yuan's mind, while Fang Yuan worried she might attack his thoughts and noted that Hei Lou Lan was targeting the Woodpecker Gu.

Fang Yuan secretly took control of the fifty-fifth floor of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and watched Tai Bai Yun Sheng fight toward the lifespan Gu. Tai Bai Yun Sheng survived the ordeal and obtained the Gu, leaving Fang Yuan's plan to make him risk ascending to immortality in jeopardy.

• Fang Yuan used his Six-Horn Lord Token to take control of the fifty-fifth floor and observed Tai Bai Yun Sheng's team advancing through the blood beasts.
• Fang Yuan read about Gu Yue Yin Huang sacrificing herself to become a human-shaped Life Gu, which Bei Ming Bing Po carried away to revive Human Ancestor.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng's team suffered heavy casualties as Zhu Zai and Gao Yang protected him during the final push toward the main hall.
• Zhu Zai died fighting, Gao Yang was swallowed by a blood beast, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng reached the main hall alone.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtained the fifteen-year lifespan Gu after earning a low-grade clearance, then fainted from exhaustion.

Fang Yuan searched Tai Bai Yun Sheng's soul but found no formula for Land as Before Gu, leaving him to plan to seize it after Tai Bai became immortal. After waking, Tai Bai learned the stage attempt had failed and confronted the fact that he had sacrificed Gao Yang and Zhu Zai for his own survival, shattering the benevolent creed he had lived by.

• Fang Yuan used soul-searching Gu on the unconscious Tai Bai Yun Sheng and reviewed his memories, but found no formula for Land as Before Gu.
• Fang Yuan concluded that he would have to take Land as Before Gu from Tai Bai Yun Sheng after Tai Bai became immortal.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng was rescued and treated at Hei Lou Lan's residence after being forcibly expelled from the stage when the time limit ended.
• Tai Bai woke and learned that his attempt to clear the stage had failed and that Gao Yang and Zhu Zai had died.
• Tai Bai recalled that he had chosen to save himself instead of his companions, and he grieved over betraying his lifelong creed of helping others.

Hei Lou Lan learned that the sixty-eighth layer of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building contained the Flying Bear Strength Gu he needed to become a Strength Path Gu Immortal, and ordered the building closed so he could focus the tribe’s forces on obtaining it. Hei Bai and Hei Cheng set out to assist him, while the chapter explained that the building’s Gu-refining process had slowed because Ju Yang’s Will had fallen asleep.

• Hei Lou Lan learned that Flying Bear Strength Gu was in the sixty-eighth layer and resolved to obtain it for his revenge and plans.
• Hei Shu reported heavy losses among the challengers, and Hei Lou Lan ordered the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building closed until his forces conquered the sixty-eighth layer.
• Hei Lou Lan planned to enlist Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Chang Shan Yin, Yelü Sang, Xue Song Zi, Hei Cheng, and Hei Bai in the assault.
• Hei Bai read Hei Lou Lan’s letter and learned that Woodpecker Gu had appeared near Demon Blood Hill; he and Hei Cheng set out to help.
• The chapter explained how the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building drew in and refined Gu worms, and revealed that Ju Yang’s Will had slowed the process by falling asleep.

Hei Lou Lan used Wood Chicken Immortal Gu to secure Xue Song Zi’s support, then led the Gu Masters through the sixty-eighth floor with Killer Move Ash Melt. As the group entered the next stage, Fang Yuan secretly used his six-cornered Lord Token to take control of the floor and began putting his plan into motion.

• Hei Bai and Hei Cheng fed Rank 5 Gu to Flying Hand Snow, sending them into Eighty-Eight True Yang Building as support for Hei Lou Lan.
• Hei Lou Lan grew frustrated when Xue Song Zi refused to help, so he led his forces to claim Wood Chicken Immortal Gu and used it to win Xue Song Zi’s support.
• Hei Lou Lan led over a hundred refinement path Gu Masters in using Killer Move Ash Melt to clear the first stage of the sixty-eighth floor and reach the next one.
• Mo Yao explained that Ash Melt exploited Ju Yang's Will’s slow refinement of Gu Worms while it slept.
• Fang Yuan secretly used his six-cornered Lord Token to take control of the floor.

Hei Lou Lan’s army was ambushed by green vines after Fang Yuan secretly gathered and controlled the checkpoint’s plant clusters. Trapped and facing heavy losses, Hei Lou Lan ordered a dangerous use of the Grey Melt Killer Move to bypass the checkpoint.

• Hei Lou Lan’s party advanced through the rainforest while Yelü Sang and Chang Shan Yin cleared the way through Green Snake Vine clusters.
• Fang Yuan unleashed the gathered vines in a coordinated ambush, and the army suffered heavy casualties as Green Flood Dragon Vines attacked the experts.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered a retreat, but the army discovered that the exit had been sealed and morale nearly collapsed.
• Hei Lou Lan rallied the troops and began forming a Refinement Dao formation to activate the Grey Melt Killer Move.
• An elderly Refinement Dao Gu Master warned that forcing the move could kill thirty percent of their people, but Hei Lou Lan chose to proceed to bypass the second checkpoint.

Fang Yuan secretly disrupted Hei Lou Lan’s attempt to use Ash Melt, then used a prepared refinement formation in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building to seize two Immortal Gu. Mo Yao realized he had planned the move long ago and demanded to know who had sent him.

• Fang Yuan stole Hei Lou Lan’s two-cornered Lord Token during Ash Melt, causing the killer move to collapse and killing most of the refinement path Gu Masters in the formation.
• Fang Yuan opened a route out of the floor, allowing the surviving Gu Masters to retreat, while Hei Lou Lan left the plaza in defeat.
• Hei Lou Lan gathered another force the next day and attacked the second checkpoint again, determined to press onward without the Lord Token.
• Fang Yuan entered the Secret Treasure Pavilion that night and rearranged treasures and Gu worms into a refinement formation modeled on Black Moon Fairy’s past actions.
• Fang Yuan activated the formation with his six-cornered Lord Token and claimed Immortal Wanderer from the twenty-first floor and Muddying the Waters from the thirty-fourth floor.
• Mo Yao recognized the significance of Fang Yuan’s plan and demanded to know his identity and which force had sent him.

Fang Yuan used the ten-cornered Lord Token to enter the True Inheritance Secret Realm and witness a memory of Savage Demon Venerable defeating an Earthly Azure Owl. He learned that the ordinary inheritance contained an Earthly Azure Owl Transformation killer move, declined it, and continued deeper into the realm.

• Fang Yuan combined his two Lord Tokens into a ten-cornered token and entered the True Inheritance Secret Realm.
• Fang Yuan followed crimson starlight to an ordinary true inheritance and saw Savage Demon Venerable defeat and devour an Earthly Azure Owl.
• Savage Demon Venerable's will struck Fang Yuan with a shock that left him injured, but Mo Yao's Will explained that he had survived the inheritance's danger.
• Fang Yuan learned the inheritance contained the Earthly Azure Owl Transformation killer move, which did not suit him.
• Fang Yuan released the crimson inheritance and swam through the void toward another true inheritance.

Fang Yuan passed Old Immortal Kong Jue’s Aperture trial by sharing its strain between his two Apertures, then rejected the valuable Secret Manual of Ascension. With Mo Yao’s advice, he used a Wisdom Dao will to explore another inheritance without triggering its trial, and learned it held unusually great value to some Gu Masters and Gu Immortals.

• Fang Yuan grabbed Old Immortal Kong Jue’s jade-green inheritance, and its vibrations shook his Aperture until he redirected part of the strain into his Second Aperture.
• Fang Yuan learned the inheritance was the Secret Manual of Ascension, annotated by Ju Yang Immortal Venerable, but released it because he had other aims.
• Mo Yao taught Fang Yuan to send a will made with Wisdom Dao Gu Worms into inheritances to inspect them while avoiding direct contact and their trials.
• Fang Yuan formed a will with Intent Gu, placed it in a Great Soul Worm, and sent it into a nearby true inheritance light cluster.
• Fang Yuan retrieved the damaged Great Soul Worm and examined the will, discovering that the third inheritance was exceptionally valuable to some Gu Masters and Gu Immortals.

Fang Yuan explored the True Inheritance Secret Realm, discovering records of Ju Yang Immortal Venerable’s lifespan-extending methods and You Hun Demon Venerable’s doubts about their worth. After learning the dangers of lingering in the realm, he continued searching and found an Unrivaled True Inheritance.

• Fang Yuan learned that the Body Seizing method’s Immortal Gu and accompanying mortal Gu had already been taken, then read You Hun Demon Venerable’s criticism of the method and reflections on longevity.
• Fang Yuan reaffirmed his pursuit of eternal life and passed over two wisdom-path inheritances because their Immortal Gu did not interest him.
• Mo Yao warned Fang Yuan that the moving inheritances made the realm dangerous, that he could inspect at most eight, and that she had nearly died there.
• Fang Yuan examined a sixth inheritance and discovered Ju Yang Immortal Venerable’s Yin-Yang Dao, a lifespan-transfer method that had also been taken.
• Thirteen days later, Fang Yuan encountered a dazzling true inheritance, and Mo Yao identified it as an Unrivaled True Inheritance.

Fang Yuan discovered that the Unrivaled True Inheritance contained Popularity Immortal Gu, whose power could erase his will and whose ability to gather human qi could greatly aid Gu Immortal ascension. After Mo Yao warned him that true inheritances grew faster and more dangerous over time, a Supreme True Inheritance hurtled toward him.

• Fang Yuan sent a Great Soul Worm toward the Unrivaled True Inheritance, but Popularity Immortal Gu consumed the will inside it before it could approach.
• Mo Yao recognized the inheritance and explained that Popularity Immortal Gu collected and converted other people’s human qi to strengthen someone’s ascension.
• Fang Yuan decided Popularity Immortal Gu was too powerful and unsuitable for him, then left it behind.
• Mo Yao explained that true inheritances accelerated the longer Gu Masters remained in the secret realm, making them a mortal danger, and revealed that only three Supreme True Inheritances existed.
• A human-sized, seven-colored true inheritance sped toward Fang Yuan, and he realized it was a Supreme True Inheritance.