Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan confronted He Fengyang and Cang Yu with eight primeval beasts after they came to claim Courageous Gall Gu on Soul-Shaking Mountain. He revealed an Air Sac Gu that could carry Courageous Gall Gu away from the mountain, then proposed trading with them.

• Eight primeval beasts surrounded He Fengyang and Cang Yu, forcing the Immortal Crane Sect Gu Immortals to abandon their confidence and identify themselves.
• Fang Yuan revealed his name and guessed that He Fengyang and Cang Yu had come for Courageous Gall Gu.
• He Fengyang admitted their purpose, while Cang Yu challenged Fang Yuan to either fight or stop taunting them.
• Fang Yuan gave He Fengyang a rank 3 storage Gu containing Courageous Gall Gu, despite the Gu's usual inability to leave Soul-Shaking Mountain.
• Fang Yuan named the storage Gu Air Sac Gu and proposed trading Courageous Gall Gu with He Fengyang and Cang Yu.

Fang Yuan offered He Fengyang a trade agreement for Courageous Gall Gu in exchange for Fox Immortal Blessed Land becoming a freely withdrawable subordinate of Immortal Crane Sect. He Fengyang left to report the proposal, but two masked Gu Immortals ambushed him on the way and began fighting his crane forces.

• Fang Yuan offered He Fengyang discounted Courageous Gall Gu and proposed that Fox Immortal Blessed Land become a subordinate of Immortal Crane Sect that could leave at any time.
• He Fengyang agreed that he needed to report the important proposal to his sect, while Fairy Cang Yu stayed behind as a guest.
• Little Fox Immortal opened the gate, and He Fengyang left Fox Immortal Blessed Land through its main entrance as nearby Gu Immortals watched.
• He Fengyang flew toward Flying Crane Mountain and wondered about the identities and origins of Fang Yuan's masked allies.
• Two masked Gu Immortals trapped He Fengyang in a battlefield killer move and attacked him with gray-white threads and green flames.
• He Fengyang summoned his crane swarm and Nine Palace Crane, then counterattacked with his flying cranes as the battle erupted.

He Fengyang was ambushed by two Gu Immortals who trapped him in the Soul Hunting Battlefield, but he escaped with Territory Expansion Immortal Gu. As he celebrated his escape, a third Emotion Dao Gu Immortal ambushed him with an attacking Immortal Gu.

• He Fengyang used Eight-Sided Ambush and Formation Like Water to suppress the two mysterious Gu Immortals with his crane flock.
• The two Gu Immortals revealed the Soul Hunting Battlefield, where slain cranes became soul beasts, and attacked He Fengyang with Wind Dao and Poison Dao killer moves.
• He Fengyang consulted Tiger Demon's anger will, used Territory Expansion Immortal Gu to break a hole in the battlefield, and escaped on his Nine Palace Crane.
• After noticing his unusually buoyant mood, He Fengyang realized a third Gu Immortal had approached unseen and was affecting his emotions.
• Tiger Demon's anger will warned He Fengyang that the attacker was an Emotion Dao Gu Immortal, but the assailant stabbed at him with an Immortal Gu.

He Fengyang survived an ambush after Little Nine took a dagger-shaped Immortal Gu meant for him, and he fought back before fleeing with the transformed crane. Tiger Demon Venerable and the elders then considered whether the attackers were Central Continent Gu Immortals, whose growing numbers and demand for resources threatened the Ten Great Ancient Sects’ control.

• Little Nine intercepted the dagger-shaped Immortal Gu and was struck, causing its body to regress into a juvenile form.
• He Fengyang ignored Tiger Demon Venerable’s warning, attacked the emotion path Gu Immortal, and escaped with Little Nine in his arms.
• The three mysterious Gu Immortals abandoned their pursuit and withdrew to protect their identities and their lord’s plan.
• He Fengyang returned to Tiger Subduing Blessed Land, where Tiger Demon Venerable learned what had happened and sent his anger to the sect’s discussion hall.
• Tiger Demon Venerable and the elders discussed the ambush and the possibility that rising numbers of Central Continent Gu Immortals would challenge the Ten Great Ancient Sects’ control of resources.

Immortal Crane Sect accepted Fang Yuan's terms, recognizing Fox Immortal Blessed Land as an affiliate and establishing a Courageous Gall Gu trade. After securing the agreement, Fang Yuan shared the trade with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Lishan, then revealed that another Gu Immortal was hiding in the blessed land.

• Tiger Demon Venerable proposed accepting Fang Yuan's terms and launching an Immortal-Slaughter Plan, but Grand Elder revealed that Heavenly Court had rejected an earlier proposal and forbidden such attacks.
• He Fengyang returned to Fox Immortal Blessed Land, where he and Fang Yuan exchanged Promise Gu pledges establishing the affiliation and Courageous Gall Gu trade.
• He Fengyang told Fang Yuan that three Gu Immortals had ambushed him, but Fang Yuan denied knowing who was responsible and suggested Immortal Crane Sect might be the real target.
• Fang Yuan reassured Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Lishan by offering them shares of the Courageous Gall Gu trade, and they agreed to help gather souls.
• Fang Yuan told Hei Lou Lan, Fairy Lishan, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng that they would pressure another Gu Immortal hiding inside Fox Immortal Blessed Land.

Fang Yuan exposed Fierce Thunder Villain’s Charming Blue Lightning clone and pressured him into trading a Blood God Child Immortal Gu Formula Fragment. The exchange ended with Fang Yuan obtaining a seventy-percent-complete fragment, while Fierce Thunder Villain left with a grudge.

• Fang Yuan revealed that the Charming Blue Lightning was Fierce Thunder Villain’s clone, and the lightning clone abandoned its fight with the Iron Crown Eagle.
• Fang Yuan, Hei Lou Lan, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng accused Fierce Thunder Villain of plotting around He Fengyang’s assassination and Myriad Dragon Dock’s political schemes.
• Fang Yuan demanded Fierce Thunder Villain’s immortal killer move, then settled for the Blood God Child formula fragment after Fierce Thunder Villain refused.
• Fang Yuan arranged a trade through Yellow Treasure Heaven and forced Fierce Thunder Villain to offer the seventy-percent-complete formula fragment rather than a less complete one.
• Fang Yuan completed the exchange and reflected that he might now finish the Blood God Child Immortal Gu Formula with the fragment and his accumulated knowledge.

Fang Yuan established a profitable Courageous Gall Gu trade by turning Fox Immortal Blessed Land into a mass-production operation. As demand and profits grew, souls became the main limit on further expansion.

• Immortal Crane Sect announced that Fang Yuan and Fox Immortal Blessed Land were its subsidiary, drawing attention from Central Continent’s forces and interest in Courageous Gall Gu.
• Hei Lou Lan delivered successive batches of souls, which Fang Yuan used to grow Courageous Gall Gu on Soul-Shaking Mountain.
• Fang Yuan built a stone nest where thousands of hairy men refined Air Sac Gu in stages using Hei Lou Lan’s Strength Qi Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan arranged sales mainly through the Ten Great Ancient Sects and Yellow Treasure Heaven, and the first three batches earned him more than a hundred Immortal Essence Stones.
• Fang Yuan expanded production by buying hairy men, eventually earning forty-eight Immortal Essence Stones per batch as soul supplies became the trade’s main bottleneck.

Fang Yuan returned Lang Ya Earth Spirit’s eight desolate beasts and reclaimed the Immortal Gu Land as Before and Man Like Old, then discussed his search for a way to escape his immortal zombie body and conceal his identity. Lang Ya Earth Spirit offered him a transformation killer move, while Fang Yuan continued seeking clues about White Lotus Silkworm Gu.

• Fang Yuan and Lang Ya Earth Spirit watched as the eight desolate beasts returned to their slumber beneath the Cloud Pavilions.
• Fang Yuan demanded the return of Land as Before and Man Like Old, and Lang Ya Earth Spirit reluctantly handed them over under their Mountain Alliance Gu oath.
• Fang Yuan delivered three completed Immortal Gu formulas and asked Lang Ya Earth Spirit for a way to escape his immortal zombie body.
• Mo Tansang suggested Fang Yuan investigate the Northern Plains Corpse Alliance, while Fang Yuan worried that others could identify him through witnesses to Imperial Court Blessed Land’s destruction.
• Mo Tansang described how Qin Baisheng had united Northern Plains factions and planned an auction of the Luck Dao True Inheritance’s core Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan asked about White Lotus Silkworm Gu, and Lang Ya Earth Spirit instead offered a Heavenly Thief Demon Venerable transformation killer move for disguising his identity.

Fang Yuan obtained Lang Ya Earth Spirit’s promise to teach him the mortal killer move Meeting Not as Acquaintances in exchange for enslaving a powerful desolate beast. Back in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, he assessed his precarious position and the unresolved problem of feeding his Immortal Gu.

• Lang Ya Earth Spirit offered Fang Yuan Meeting Not as Acquaintances and market-price Immortal Essence Stones if Fang Yuan returned with an enslaved desolate beast of outstanding combat strength.
• Fang Yuan agreed, received three Immortal Gu Formula Fragments, and returned to Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan gave Land as Before Gu and Man Like Old Gu to Tai Bai Yun Sheng, who left for the Eastern Sea after Shark Demon urgently called for him.
• Fang Yuan considered how his alliances and Courageous Gall Gu trade had bought him a fragile foothold, while greater profits could bring renewed attacks from powerful sects.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the feeding needs of his Immortal Gu and recognized that Pure Soul Gu’s need for over ten thousand White Lotus Silkworm Gus remained especially difficult to meet.

Fang Yuan assessed the burdens of his dead blessed land and weakened combat strength, then decided to focus on improving his killer moves. Meanwhile, Feng Jiuge led a group of Central Continent Gu Immortals through the regional walls and into Northern Plains, where they collapsed from exhaustion.

• Fang Yuan concluded that his dead blessed land, Immortal Gu feeding costs, and weakened Pure Soul Gu left killer moves as his quickest route to greater combat strength.
• Old Calculator identified a weak point in the Saintly Regional Wall, and Fairy Ao Xue and Fairy Ling Mei opened a passage with Peerless Crescent Moon Slash.
• Feng Jiuge led the group through the Saintly Regional Wall as the immortals took turns opening passages and endured damage to their immortal apertures.
• The group entered the Licorice Barrier, struggled against its repelling force and tangled grass, and changed direction after Old Calculator's deduction.
• Feng Jiuge and the other Gu Immortals broke through into Northern Plains after a day and night of hardship, then stopped to recover for three days.

Fang Yuan injured his mind while using the Wisdom Halo to deduce star path Gu recipes, then reconsidered which path could best strengthen him. After three days of thought, he found a promising direction in transformation path.

• Immortal Master Tian He gave up his chance to possess Fang Zheng and asked He Fengyang to save him, so He Fengyang healed Fang Zheng and stabilized his soul.
• Fang Yuan’s forced calculations under the Wisdom Halo injured his mind and failed to produce the recipe for Star Bud Gu.
• Fang Yuan concluded that advancing his star path plans required greater attainment and that Myriad Phenomena Star Lord had made Star Bud Gu difficult to reverse-engineer.
• Fang Yuan ruled out blood path and strength path as poor choices for increasing his battle strength, leaving slavery path and transformation path to consider.
• After pondering for three days, Fang Yuan found a breakthrough in the direction of transformation path.

Fang Yuan improved Hair Armor into Lion Fur Armor and bought a damaged desolate beast bat corpse to develop Light Void Bat Wings. After grafting the preserved wings onto his back, he completed a crucial step toward creating the new killer move.

• Fang Yuan tested his improved Lion Fur Armor and found that it resisted Ice Drill Star Dust far better than Hair Armor.
• Fang Yuan negotiated with the bat corpse’s seller, but Shi Lei intervened with a higher offer, forcing Fang Yuan to raise his bid to nine and a half Immortal Essence Stones.
• Fang Yuan obtained the desolate beast bat corpse and resolved to remember Shi Lei for making him pay several times the expected price.
• Fang Yuan spent half a month preserving and refining the bat wings, then endured the pain of grafting them onto his Immortal Zombie Body.

Fang Yuan improved his flight with the Return Reality Bat Wings killer move and decided to enter Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven to obtain more bat wings. With Hei Lou Lan as his expedition partner, he eventually used Immortal Wanderer to reach the grotto-heaven.

• Fang Yuan assessed Fox Immortal Blessed Land and tested his transplanted bat wings, naming his improved movement killer move Return Reality Bat Wings.
• Fang Yuan decided to seek a Star Demon Bat in Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven and considered whether he could capture a desolate beast for Lang Ya Earth Spirit.
• Hei Lou Lan joined Fang Yuan after Fairy Lishan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng became unavailable, agreeing to divide the expedition's spoils sixty-forty in Fang Yuan's favor.
• Fang Yuan tried several remembered locations, spent more than ten portions of green grape immortal essence, and successfully entered Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven with Hei Lou Lan in his immortal aperture.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan entered Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, escaped a strange forest that distorted their sense of direction, and fought a Star Desolate Hound. Just as two more Star Desolate Hounds appeared, they decided to flee.

• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan traveled through an endless-looking forest, then discovered it had trapped them in a loop.
• Hei Lou Lan smashed ancient trees with her Strength Dao Phantasm, revealing the forest's small boundaries and the wild beasts beyond it.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan collected several unusual trees before a Star Desolate Hound attacked them.
• Hei Lou Lan fought the Star Desolate Hound head-on while Fang Yuan assisted with Ice Drill Star Dust, and they wounded the beast.
• Two more Star Desolate Hounds appeared, so Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan telepathically agreed to run.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan explored Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven while searching for Star Demon Bats, but an encounter with a powerful Drill Bear forced them to retreat. After recovering some of Fang Yuan’s injuries and collecting Drill Soil, they decided to search elsewhere for their target.

• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan escaped three Star Desolate Hounds and discussed Fang Yuan’s Return Reality Bat Wings and his transformation path mastery.
• Fang Yuan could not match the grotto-heaven’s current terrain to his memories, so he and Hei Lou Lan searched for the Star Demon Bats elsewhere.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan fought a Drill Bear, whose Wild Gu Worms countered Hei Lou Lan’s strength path and enabled it to fly.
• The Drill Bear severely injured Fang Yuan and chewed up two of his severed arms, but rejected the flesh as disgusting.
• Fang Yuan reattached one arm and began recovering while Hei Lou Lan revealed they had taken Drill Soil from the bear’s cave.
• Fang Yuan refused to risk another confrontation over the remaining Drill Soil and chose to search another direction for Star Demon Bats.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan searched Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, where a sudden celestial phenomenon revealed the Star Hall, while Shi Lei and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord hunted desolate beasts to uncover another hall. Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan entered the Star Hall and found six strange wells, and the chapter ended as one swallowed Fang Yuan’s storage Gu.

• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan searched the region but found no Star Demon Bats, heavenly spirit, or Poison Gas Swamp, and they wondered whether the landscape had changed over time.
• Starlight gathered above a mountain and formed the intact Star Hall, so Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan went inside to investigate.
• Shi Lei killed a Flying Bear while Myriad Phenomena Star Lord explained that more desolate beast blood was needed to reveal the Eighth Star Hall.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan found six glowing wells whose colors matched the six star shadows in the sky, but their Gu worms could not identify their properties.
• Fang Yuan lowered a storage mortal Gu into one well, and the water formed a vortex that swallowed it.

Fang Yuan traced the faint connection to the mortal Gu he had thrown into the well and realized it had reached a star shadow above the Star Palace. Meanwhile, Shi Lei killed the Star Demon Bat after a fierce battle, and its blood activated an unseen force as starlight appeared in the sky.

• Fang Yuan sensed that his mortal Gu was far away and located it on one of the six star shadows above the Star Palace.
• Shi Lei transformed into an Iron Crown Eagle and fought the Star Demon Bat while the Myriad Phenomena Star Lord watched.
• The Star Demon Bat wounded Shi Lei with close combat and ranged attacks, but Shi Lei repeatedly charged back into the fight.
• Shi Lei adapted to the bat's ranged attacks, tore one of its wings, and killed it after its final counterattack.
• The Star Demon Bat's blood soaked into the ground, an invisible force activated, and specks of starlight appeared in the sky.

Shi Lei and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord flew toward the newly formed Eighth Star Hall, while Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan discovered that Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven was divided into seven isolated spaces and spotted the two Gu Immortals ahead. Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan concealed themselves and followed, with Fang Yuan identifying an enemy surveillance Gu and explaining how they could pass it undetected.

• The Eighth Star Hall appeared in the sky, and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord urged Shi Lei to finish treating his wounds before the hall vanished.
• Shi Lei completed his healing, then flew with Myriad Phenomena Star Lord toward the Eighth Star Hall.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan emerged into another star hall and deduced that the grotto-heaven consisted of seven separate spaces connected by six wells.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan saw Shi Lei and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord heading toward the Eighth Star Hall and decided to approach unseen.
• Fang Yuan identified a Star Shine False Eye Gu watching the area and assured Hei Lou Lan that their concealment would let them pass it safely.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan investigated a battlefield and used Fang Yuan’s unusual reconnaissance Gu to uncover clues about the fight. Hei Lou Lan grew increasingly impressed and wary of Fang Yuan’s depth as they continued examining the scene.

• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan evaded reconnaissance Gu worms and followed a bloody stench to a dead Shadowless Leopard.
• Fang Yuan used Trace Back Gu to glimpse a blurred battle between the Shadowless Leopard and another beast, observed by a humanoid Gu Immortal.
• Fang Yuan revealed Dao Marks with Thread Traces Gu and deduced that a Rank 6 Star Dao Gu Immortal had watched while another Rank 6 entity killed the leopard.
• Fang Yuan explained the limits of Thread Traces Gu, then used additional Gu worms to investigate the battlefield.
• Hei Lou Lan recognized the value behind Fang Yuan’s seemingly small methods and felt chilled by how much she still did not know about him.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan secretly collected nearly ten desolate beast corpses while advancing toward the Eighth Star Hall. Just as they arrived, an Ancient Primeval Beast corpse crashed down before them, offering an even greater prize.

• Fang Yuan identified Shi Lei as one of the two Gu Immortals pursuing their objectives and warned Hei Lou Lan that his Core Immortal Gu's hunger had disabled Myriad Me.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan stole a Shadowless Leopard corpse and a Crimson Mare Divine Steed corpse without alerting Myriad Phenomena Star Lord.
• Fang Yuan took a badly wounded Yellow Jade Lion, healed it enough to preserve its life, and had Hei Lou Lan store it.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan changed course to search for desolate beast corpses, collecting nearly ten, including a flying bear and a Star Demon Bat.
• A dead Ancient Primeval Beast, a Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig, crashed down near Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan beneath the Eighth Star Hall.