Chapter Summaries

Bai Zesheng brought Xu Yan to Han Dang, offering to remove Sky Eye’s Hypnosis Seed if Zhu Wang accepted Xu Yan as a disciple. The God of Wine’s Throne easily destroyed the seed, and Zhu Wang was left facing the demand to take Xu Yan in.

• Han Dang continued to suffer from Sky Eye’s Hypnosis Seed, which had tormented him for a year and resisted every attempt to remove it.
• Bai Zesheng visited Han Dang with Xu Yan and said he could remove the Hypnosis Seed if Zhu Wang accepted Xu Yan as a disciple.
• Zhu Wang arrived and questioned Xu Yan’s extraordinary cultivation and mysterious background before Bai Zesheng led the group to the God of Wine’s Throne.
• The God of Wine’s Throne dispelled his Mental Domain, pulled the Hypnosis Seed from Han Dang, and destroyed it.
• The God of Wine’s Throne told Zhu Wang that Xu Yan was a good disciple and that Zhu Wang would not regret accepting him.

Zhu Wang faced the God of Wine's Throne's demands to take Xu Yan as a disciple and promote him, while Gu Shen helped stabilize Qingzhong's array in the Tomb Keeper's absence. Gu Shen discovered that Gu Changzhi's God's Domain, containing the Fire Seed, had appeared inside Qingzhong and was growing by absorbing its Transcendent Source Matter.

• Zhu Wang questioned the God of Wine's Throne about taking Xu Yan as a disciple, but the god demanded that he give Xu Yan an S-class rating and make him more famous than Gu Shen and Bai Xiu.
• The God of Wine's Throne threatened to expose Zhu Wang's role in Lian Zhou's advancement unless Zhu Wang accepted the deal and promised political support in return.
• The God of Wine's Throne revealed that he had come to Snow Forbidden City because he feared Gu Changzhi, though he said he would go to Qingzhong later.
• Gu Shen went to Qingzhong and took over the Tomb Keeper's role, restoring order to the cemetery's array while Master Chino was away.
• The Tomb Keeper showed Gu Shen a growing light within the Four Seasons Wilderness and identified it as Gu Changzhi's God's Domain, where the Fire Seed was absorbing Qingzhong's Transcendent Source Matter.

Gu Shen confronted Gu Lushen, leader of the Gu Family’s New Faction, after the Tomb Keeper divined that the Five Great Families faced an unprecedented catastrophe. Gu Lushen revealed that he had touched Gu Changzhi’s Fire Seed years earlier, leaving the reason for his knowledge and the changes to his body unresolved.

• The Tomb Keeper told Gu Shen that her divination pointed to Qingzhong being targeted and the Five Great Families suffering an unprecedented catastrophe.
• Gu Lushen arrived at Qingzhong with New Faction Transcendents and asked to speak with Gu Shen after the Tomb Keeper refused to see him.
• The Tomb Keeper allowed Gu Lushen to climb the mountain alone, where he questioned whether Qingzhong truly had a second heir to the Divination Technique.
• Gu Lushen said he could sense the Fire Seed and suggested that the Divination Technique could not explain matters beyond causality.
• Gu Lushen told Gu Shen that he had touched Gu Changzhi’s Fire Seed many years earlier and that subtle changes had occurred in his body.

Gu Lushen confronted Chino in Qingzhong, revealing his resentment over the fire seed and hinting that someone must inherit it if Gu Changzhi is dead. After Gu Lushen left, Gu Shen considered why the New Faction had won, while Chino spoke of Qingzhong’s future and promised to teach Gu Shen’s beloved the Divination Technique.

• Gu Lushen explained that the fire seed had tormented him for years and that its return convinced him his preparations for war against the Old Faction had been justified.
• Chino activated Qingzhong’s great arrays, defended Gu Changzhi, and used divination to uncover that Gu Lushen had tried to steal the fire seed.
• Gu Lushen told Chino that someone must inherit the fire seed if Gu Changzhi was dead, then left after asking Gu Shen why the New Faction had won the civil war.
• Gu Shen concluded that the New Faction had won because its members wanted greater privileges and feared losing influence under Gu Changzhi’s selfless rule.
• Chino worried that Qingzhong could not endure without a Tomb Keeper, while Gu Shen said he had comprehended most of its array patterns and could eventually take her place.
• Chino told Gu Shen that she would teach his beloved the Divination Technique when he brought her to Qingzhong.

After the disturbance at Qingzhong, Gu Shen learned that Zhu Wang had taken on Xu Yan, a mysterious prospective S-Rank whose sealed history and Dream Interpretation assessment appeared to imitate Gu Shen. Gu Shen suspected Xu Yan’s arrival was no coincidence, but could only wait to see what Zhu Wang’s faction intended.

• Gu Shen assured Luo Yu that Gu Lushen and Master Chino had not fought, and Qingzhong’s array settled back into stable operation.
• Luo Yu told Gu Shen that Zhu Wang had taken Xu Yan as a disciple and arranged an assessment that could reveal S-Rank potential.
• Luo Yu explained that Xu Yan’s records were sealed and that he planned to pass by solving the nightmares of three A-Rank Sealed Items in succession.
• Gu Shen noted that Xu Yan’s challenge resembled his own path, while Luo Yu worried that Zhu Wang meant to shift opinion within the Adjudication Court.
• Chu Ling found almost no information about Xu Yan in Deep Sea, and Gu Shen concluded that the mystery around him might be designed to help Nagano accept him.

Gong Zi reached Forward City after a year of independent training and set out to ask Duan Yang Duke to dissolve their arranged marriage. At the same time, Lin Sheng pleaded with her father to end the engagement, and the chapter left them learning that a guest named Gong had arrived.

• Gong Zi encountered the bullied Zhao Qi at Luo Yin City, offered him a cigar, and urged him to make something of himself rather than stay where he was mistreated.
• Gong Zi continued his journey to Forward City, having concealed his movements from his family and avoided using their money or Sealed Items.
• Gong Zi settled in Forward City, changed into proper clothes, and headed to Duan Yang Duke's manor without announcing his visit.
• Lin Sheng knelt before Duan Yang Duke and insisted that she would not marry Gong Zi because she already loved someone else.
• Duan Yang Duke defended the marriage arrangement and his family's ties to the Gong Family, but a servant announced that a guest surnamed Gong had arrived.

Gong Zi visited Duan Yang Manor to break off his engagement with Lin Sheng, and Grand Duke Duan Yang agreed to end it on behalf of both families. After Gong Zi told Gu Shen the news, Luo Yu reported that Xu Yan had passed the S-rank assessment with record-setting results, drawing comparisons that diminished Gu Shen’s reputation.

• Lin Yu recalled how his battlefield friendship with Gong Qing had led to the engagement between Lin Sheng and Gong Zi, and he worried about his daughter’s unhappiness.
• Gong Zi told Lin Yu and Lin Sheng that he wanted to break off the engagement because he loved someone else, and Lin Yu offered to take responsibility for ending it with Gong Qing.
• Gong Zi told Gu Shen that Lin Sheng had also wanted to end the engagement, and he planned to return to the Eastern Continent and surprise Mu Ya.
• Luo Yu told Gu Shen that Xu Yan had passed the S-rank assessment after interpreting three Nightmare-level Sealed Items in record time and studying the Awakening of Insects Scroll in fifty minutes.
• Luo Yu complained that Xu Yan’s achievements had led people to call Gu Shen an S-rank in name only, while Gu Shen listened without losing his composure.

Han Dang offered the Mu Family a marriage alliance between Xu Yan and Mu Ya, using Xu Yan’s sudden rise as leverage. When Xu Yan arrived to settle the matter, Gu Shen appeared and objected on Gong Zi’s behalf.

• Luo Yu complained that Xu Yan was imitating Gu Shen, while Gu Shen asked where Xu Yan had gone after completing his comprehension.
• Han Dang proposed that the Mu Family marry Mu Ya to Xu Yan, promising the family a powerful new ally if it agreed.
• Xu Yan completed comprehension of three nightmare Sealed Items, became an S-class, and broke another record by comprehending the Awakening of Insects Scroll.
• Mu Zhong gave Han Dang one day to receive the Mu Family’s answer, and the elders debated whether to accept the alliance despite Mu Ya’s feelings for Gong Zi.
• Xu Yan arrived at the Mu Family Clan Hall and asked directly about the engagement, but Gu Shen appeared and objected on Gong Zi’s behalf.

Gu Shen and Lu Nan Jin intervened at the Mu Family Clan Hall to free Mu Ya and stop her forced engagement to Xu Yan. After Xu Yan revealed the engagement was a misunderstanding and showed a portrait of the woman he sought, Gu Shen punched him through the courtyard wall.

• Gu Shen entered the Mu Family Clan Hall, ignored Xu Yan, and went to free Mu Ya from the Quiet Pavilion.
• Lu Nan Jin threatened Han Dang when he tried to stop Gu Shen, and Mu Zhong halted the confrontation.
• Gu Shen told the Mu Family that Gong Zi had ended his engagement with Duan Yang, giving Mu Ya hope that she could be with Gong Zi.
• Xu Yan revealed that Han Dang had arranged the engagement without his knowledge and apologized to Mu Ya for the misunderstanding.
• Xu Yan showed a portrait of the woman he had seen in Nagano, and Gu Shen punched him through the courtyard wall before catching the drawing.

Gu Shen attacked Xu Yan after discovering a portrait of Chu Ling and then pursued him through Mu Family territory, leaving Xu Yan badly injured. Zhu Wang demanded that the Safety Committee detain Gu Shen, while the chapter ended with the authorities being urged to investigate the fight.

• Gu Shen punched Xu Yan after seeing Chu Ling’s portrait, and Xu Yan suggested that Chu Ling had contacted him through a dream.
• Gu Shen launched a second, stronger attack and chased Xu Yan through the Mu Family compound, overcoming his defenses in a prolonged fight.
• Onlookers recorded the battle as it drew major figures and the Safety Committee to Blazing Fire Long Street.
• Zhu Wang tried to stop Gu Shen, but Old Master Gu supported the fight until the Mu Family Head arrived and ended the standoff.
• Mu Ya chose to stand with Old Master Gu, while Gu Shen stood victorious over the bloodied Xu Yan.
• Zhu Wang accused Gu Shen of violating Nagano’s laws and demanded that the Safety Committee detain and observe him.

After Gu Shen beat Xu Yan, the Safety Committee detained Gu Shen while the Mu Family patriarch confronted his elders over their failed marriage scheme. Xu Yan recovered under the God of Wine's Throne and revealed that he had stolen the patterns of Gu Shen's Blazing Fire, then began trying to reproduce it.

• Zhou Wei ordered Gu Shen detained for forty-eight hours, and Du Wei escorted him away while explaining the assessment process.
• The Mu Family patriarch lamented the clan's broken trust, dismissed the elders, and told one of them to let Mu Ya make any requests of the family.
• Han Dang asked the God of Wine's Throne why he had not been told about the plan, but the Throne dismissed his questions and Mr. Jin warned him to obey.
• The God of Wine's Throne healed Xu Yan, who explained that he had stolen Gu Shen's Blazing Fire patterns during their fight.
• Xu Yan used his Fire Thief ability to begin simulating the birth of Blazing Fire.

Xu Yan failed to replicate Gu Shen’s Blazing Fire, and the God of Wine’s Throne healed the resulting scar while sensing something unusual about the ability. Gu Shen passed the Safety Committee’s mental assessment with a score of ninety-nine, while Zhu Wang entered the God of Wine’s Throne’s courtyard after Gu Lushen urged him to seize the chance to reach Nagano’s true summit.

• Xu Yan tried to copy Gu Shen’s Blazing Fire, but Fire Thief failed and left a burn scar on his brow.
• The God of Wine’s Throne healed Xu Yan’s scar and called Blazing Fire a strange ability.
• Du Wei told Gu Shen that his mental stability score was ninety-nine and that he could leave the Safety Committee Building within forty-five hours.
• Gu Lushen spoke with Zhu Wang outside the God of Wine’s Throne’s courtyard and urged him to join the coming change in Nagano.
• After Gu Lushen entered the courtyard, Zhu Wang struggled with his decision, then opened the door and followed him inside.

The God of Wine's Throne entered Qingzhong to learn whether Gu Changzhi was truly dead, confronting Master Chino at the Inner Tomb. When he finally opened his eyes, Gu Changzhi's Fire Seed awakened and formed a vast cocoon over the cemetery.

• The God of Wine's Throne followed the wind through Snow Forbidden City and entered Qingzhong, where his divine power suppressed the cemetery's array.
• Master Chino confronted him and said he still did not dare open his eyes, while the God of Wine's Throne questioned her about the God's Descent in Dadu.
• The God of Wine's Throne cut Chino in half, but she survived as golden divination threads and challenged him to kill her and see whether Gu Changzhi appeared.
• Chino connected the upheaval in Nagano to the God of Wine's Throne's efforts to verify that Gu Changzhi's Fire Seed had gone out.
• The God of Wine's Throne opened his eyes and saw Gu Changzhi's Fire Seed absorb Qingzhong's Transcendent Source Matter, creating a vast barrier that stopped at the cemetery's array boundary.

A massive explosion erupted at Clear Tomb Cemetery, and Gu Qilin flew toward its blazing barrier to investigate. As Fire Seed Dreams escaped the Safety Committee’s safes and returned to the cemetery, a Golden Gate opened within the light.

• Han Dang arrived at the Safety Committee Building under the pretext of visiting Lian Zhou, making Du Wei keep Gu Shen detained for the full 48 hours.
• Gu Shen learned from Chu Ling that a massive explosion had occurred at Clear Tomb Cemetery, where a blazing barrier had formed.
• Gu Qilin ordered Luo Yu to fly closer to the barrier, but their heavy helicopter exploded before reaching it.
• Zhou Wei watched the helicopter’s destruction and saw the Fire Seed Dreams melt out of their safes and fly toward Qingzhong.
• The Fire Seed Dreams passed through the light barrier and returned to the fire seed as the cemetery’s light began to melt away and a Golden Gate opened.

After Qingzhong stabilized but blocked Deep Sea signals, Nagano’s leaders debated the disaster and learned that Fire Seed Dream had escaped into the cemetery. They agreed to send reinforcements from the institutes and Five Great Families to investigate and gather the scattered Fire Seed Dreams, then unanimously canceled Gu Shen’s observation period so he could help contact Chino.

• Mountain Master questioned Gu Lushen about Qingzhong, and Gu Lushen showed footage suggesting Gu Qilin had entered the cemetery and survived.
• Zhou Wei revealed that Fire Seed Dream had escaped the Safety Committee Building and flown into Qingzhong, prompting the leaders to consider whether God's Throne was involved.
• Mountain Master reported that the cemetery was stable and that the entrants’ Mental Links remained intact, while Zhu Wang and others proposed sending elite squads inside.
• Gong Qing challenged Zhu Wang’s participation, but Gu Lushen urged the institutes and Five Great Families to send reinforcements and let those who found Fire Seed Dream keep it.
• The meeting approved sending reinforcements from the Five Great Families and institutes, then unanimously voted to end Gu Shen’s forty-eight-hour observation period.

After the ban was lifted, Gu Shen left the Safety Committee Building with Chairman Zhou Wei and headed for Clear Tomb Cemetery, where the Golden Gate had opened. He entered alone and found the cemetery frozen in eerie silence, with his mental power suppressed.

• Du Wei released Gu Shen after Chairman Zhou Wei announced that the ban had been lifted, while Han Dang followed him out of the building.
• Han Dang challenged Gu Shen in the elevator but backed down when he sensed a powerful presence protecting him.
• Chairman Zhou Wei told Gu Shen that the Five Great Families were assembling a team to enter the cemetery and gave him the Sealed Item Ten Million Miles to report back.
• Gu Shen said goodbye to Chu Ling and stepped through the Golden Gate, losing contact with her and Zhou Wei as the gate vanished.
• Gu Shen found the cemetery suspended in stillness, with its array patterns frozen and his mental power unable to spread, and continued inward using his detailed knowledge of the grounds.

Gu Shen found Master Chino gravely wounded and learned that the God of Wine's Throne had triggered Qingzhong's frozen state before becoming trapped inside the inner mausoleum. As Gu Changzhi's Great Cold threatened to turn the cemetery into an immense disaster zone, Master Chino entrusted Gu Shen with the formation plans, and he began studying them to take her place as Tomb Keeper.

• Gu Shen reached the inner mausoleum and found Master Chino leaning against its sealed gate, with her body reduced to golden threads and shattered bones.
• Master Chino told Gu Shen that the God of Wine's Throne had come to the cemetery, destroyed the formation patterns, and become trapped inside the mausoleum after she released the Transcendent Source Matter into it.
• Master Chino explained that Gu Changzhi's Fire Seed had absorbed the source matter and that its immense mental power was spreading through Qingzhong, which would become an Ultra-Large Mystic Realm.
• Master Chino identified the spreading power as Gu Changzhi's Great Cold, the final stage of his Four Seasons Breathing Method, and warned that it would create a Great Cold Disaster Zone that could trap incoming Transcendents.
• Master Chino gave Gu Shen the remaining formation blueprints and her plans for dismantling them, telling him to learn the patterns and become Qingzhong's new Tomb Keeper.
• Gu Shen refused to accept that they would die and entered his focused state of mind to study the formation patterns.

With communication from Clear Tomb Cemetery severed, the Five Great Families and institutes began sending Transcendent teams inside. At the Li ancestral hall, Li Qingsui faced a Council of Elders challenge while Grand Elder Li Changsheng revealed a miraculous transformation and trapped Gao Tian in darkness.

• Mu Yi warned Gong Qing that the Snow Reflection Mirror’s power had been swallowed by the cemetery, but Gong Qing refused his offer to cooperate.
• Gu Lushen’s people entered the cemetery first, and Bai Lu prepared to follow before Bai Xiu emerged from seclusion and announced that he would enter too.
• Li Qingsui waited outside the ancestral hall as the Council of Elders considered stripping her authority, while Gao Tian promised to defend her if they broke the rules.
• An attendant invited Li Qingsui into the ancestral hall but sent Gao Tian to meet Grand Elder Li Changsheng separately.
• Li Changsheng thanked Gao Tian, then appeared to grow young as he pushed a grape-carved Token Crest toward him.
• Gao Tian tried to leave the quiet room but found himself enclosed in boundless darkness.

Li Qingsui escaped the Li family elders after blasting apart the ancestral hall and drove to Shrine Mountain to take Li Qingci away. The elders cornered them at the shrine, but as Li Changchi broke through Li Qingci’s arrays, a golden light appeared at the summit and a young girl’s voice declared that nothing was impossible.

• Li Qingsui attacked Li Changchi with the Flame Demon Umbrella during her impeachment, then fled after firing its two blasts and burning the ancestral hall.
• Li Qingsui drove to 447th Highway and urged Li Qingci to leave Shrine Mountain, but Li Qingci warned that the elders had sealed the entrance.
• Li Changchi and the Li family Transcendents arrived at the shrine, demanded that Li Qingci surrender Li Qingsui, and threatened to attack when she refused.
• Li Qingci shielded Li Qingsui with a series of arrays, but Li Changchi shattered them while denouncing Shrine Mountain and the Lamp Seeking plan.
• A golden light flooded Shrine Mountain, and a young girl’s voice spoke as a slender figure appeared at the summit.

Chu Ling emerged from the Shrine Mountain well as the Li family’s long-awaited Goddess, while Li Qingsui’s Flame Demon Umbrella disrupted the family’s standoff. After Li Changchi challenged Chu Ling, she killed him with the umbrella, regretting that her first day as a person had still ended in bloodshed.

• Li Qingsui fired the Flame Demon Umbrella at Li Changchi, and its blast struck the black cloud above Shrine Mountain, opening the Well Bottom World.
• Chu Ling awakened, emerged from the ancient well, shaped a body from golden light, and introduced herself to Li Qingci and Li Qingsui.
• The Li family’s Transcendents climbed the mountain, where Li Changchi denied that Chu Ling was the Goddess and pushed Li Xuan toward her.
• Chu Ling stopped Li Xuan with the umbrella and declared that she was the Goddess, choosing a restrained response instead of using Deep Sea’s lethal calculations.
• Li Changchi attacked Chu Ling with lightning, and she burned him to ashes with the Flame Demon Umbrella.