Chapter Summaries

Chu Ling defeated the Li family’s Council of Elders at Shrine Mountain, imprisoned the surviving Transcendents, and learned that the crisis may be controlled by the Throne of God. Worried about Gu Shen inside Clear Tomb Cemetery, she left the mountain with Li Qingsui to go to him.

• Chu Ling used the Flame Demon Umbrella to kill Second Elder, and the Li family Transcendents hailed her as the Goddess.
• Li Qingsui asked Chu Ling to imprison the elders who had besieged Shrine Mountain, and Chu Ling sealed them inside a cage of black flowers.
• Chu Ling suspected the Throne of God was behind the turmoil and said she was going to Clear Tomb Cemetery because Gu Shen was still inside.
• Li Qingsui left the imprisoned elders behind and went with Chu Ling toward the edge of Shrine Mountain.
• At the mountain boundary, Chu Ling touched the sunlight beyond the mist and prepared to enter the outside world.

After the teams entered the cemetery, Shen Li found that it had become a vast, snowbound disaster realm where entrants were scattered. He discovered the dead and realized Xu Yan was killing them while framing Gu Shen, then faced Xu Yan himself.

• Zhou Wei coordinated the teams outside the cemetery and waited with Mountain Master and Zhu Wang as the Golden Gate’s flames slowed and he sensed something was wrong.
• Shen Li entered the cemetery with Zou He and their fellow disciples, but a blizzard scattered the team and cut off all communications.
• Shen Li found Shu Chong and other Transcendents dead, their spirits erased by a flame that resembled Gu Shen’s Blazing Fire but had been left as a deliberate clue.
• Xu Yan appeared in the snowstorm and dropped another victim’s head, confirming that he was killing Transcendents and implicating Gu Shen.
• Shen Li confronted Xu Yan, who called him next and described Gu Shen as a lost controller who had killed his old friend.

Shen Li escaped Xu Yan’s attack and told Zou He that Xu Yan had massacred Transcendents in the cemetery, but Xu Yan killed Zou He and revealed a token of the God of Wine’s Throne. Just as Xu Yan moved to kill Shen Li, Chu Ling arrived and blocked his attack with the Flame Demon Umbrella, then prepared to open it again.

• Shen Li fought Xu Yan, escaped through a tunnel beneath the Snowy Wasteland, and searched for an ally while injured.
• Zou He found Shen Li and healed him as Shen Li explained that Xu Yan had killed Li Chong, Yuan Yu, and many others, apparently to frame Gu Shen.
• Zou He went to confront Xu Yan, but Xu Yan soon returned with Zou He’s severed head and a token of the God of Wine’s Throne.
• Xu Yan attacked the exhausted Shen Li with a dark flame, but Chu Ling descended and blocked the strike with the Flame Demon Umbrella.
• Chu Ling depleted the umbrella’s stored energy with her attack and told Shen Li she was going to open it again.

Chu Ling fled with Shen Li after Xu Yan survived her umbrella strike, and they headed for the inner mausoleum, where Gu Shen was holding back the Great Cold Disaster Zone. As Chu Ling and Shen Li entered the darkness, Xu Yan attacked her from behind, and Gu Shen recognized them and rose to intervene.

• Chu Ling grabbed Shen Li and fled after her black umbrella pierced Xu Yan, explaining that his Apostle blessing would keep him alive and that Shen Li was still suffering from Poison Scorpion's soul toxin.
• Xu Yan recovered, pursued them with violet radiance, and used his grape token as Chu Ling burned a black flower to protect Shen Li from the freezing wind.
• Chu Ling told Shen Li that Deep Sea's calculations placed the titled figures and Li Qingsui deeper in the cemetery, and she decided to take him to the inner mausoleum where the God of Wine's Throne was located.
• Shen Li chose to accompany Chu Ling into the inner mausoleum, and they plunged through the mist into darkness, where he spotted Gu Shen amid the array-pattern diagrams.
• Xu Yan swept in and struck at Chu Ling from behind as Gu Shen recognized them, rose to his feet, and shouted, "Xu Yan, how dare you!"

Gu Shen reunited with Chu Ling, rescued Shen Li, and drove Xu Yan from the inner tomb, then pursued him into the Great Cold Disaster Zone. As Xu Yan recovered under the God of Wine's Throne's power, Gu Shen prepared to face him while Tie Wu sensed the aura of the Source Tower.

• Xu Yan ambushed Chu Ling, but Shen Li blocked his strike until Gu Shen arrived and protected them with formation-pattern sheets.
• Gu Shen and Chu Ling attacked Xu Yan together, and Gu Shen's blows exhausted much of the relic's power and sent Xu Yan crashing into the Great Cold Disaster Zone.
• Gu Shen healed Shen Li's Poison Scorpion toxin and put him to sleep, then asked Chu Ling to remain in the inner tomb and master the unfinished formation patterns.
• Chu Ling agreed to stay and asked Gu Shen to travel with her once the cemetery crisis was over, and they embraced before parting.
• Gu Shen confronted Xu Yan in the snowy wasteland as the God of Wine's Throne's relic restored him, while Tie Wu sensed the aura of the Source Tower.

Gu Shen fought Xu Yan, an Apostle empowered by the God of Wine's Throne, and defeated him with the Clear Tomb Cemetery's array patterns. After extracting Xu Yan's memories, Gu Shen discovered a Death List ordered by the Source Tower's Throne of God.

• Tie Wu warned Gu Shen that Xu Yan could summon God's Descent, and explained that an Apostle's token could be exhausted or the Apostle's body could fail under its power.
• Xu Yan activated his Token Crest and attacked Gu Shen, but Gu Shen used Perfect Flash and read Xu Yan's movements to counter his strikes and abilities.
• Xu Yan unleashed a vast array of stolen powers, but Gu Shen forged the cemetery's array patterns into a sword and cut Xu Yan in half.
• Gu Shen took Xu Yan's Token Crest and severed his arm when Xu Yan reached for him, while the token's power tried to restore his body.
• Xu Yan launched a final Iron Eater attack, but Gu Shen used the Iron Throne to destroy most of his remaining body.
• Gu Shen extracted Xu Yan's memories with Blazing Fire and discovered the corpses of Xu Yan's victims and a Death List ordered by the Source Tower's Throne of God.

Gu Shen killed Xu Yan after discovering the Fire Thief’s plans and the Death List, while Chu Ling reached Master Chino at the inner cemetery. Chu Ling mastered the cemetery’s remaining array patterns, and Master Chino began passing her everything she knew as the Great Cold continued to threaten Nagano.

• Gu Shen copied Xu Yan’s memories, learned that the Fire Thief had targeted gifted Transcendents and obtained Chu Ling’s portrait through Bai Lu, then killed Xu Yan and absorbed the Fire Thief’s Source Matter.
• Chu Ling brought the sleeping Shen Li to the hill cemetery and followed Master Chino’s guidance through the fog to its gate.
• Master Chino recognized Chu Ling as her disciple and told her to save the living, while Chu Ling tried unsuccessfully to heal Chino’s ruined body.
• Chu Ling simultaneously comprehended the cemetery’s remaining one hundred array patterns in five groups, astonishing Master Chino with her ability.
• Chu Ling told Master Chino that she wanted to save her too, and Master Chino offered to teach her everything as golden divination threads settled over Chu Ling.

Luo Yu and Gu Qilin discovered that Clear Tomb Cemetery contained a Third Fire Seed whose awakening threatened to overwhelm the Great Cold Disaster Zone, which had been protecting the cemetery. Gu Lushen arrived empowered by the God of Wine's Throne, revealed he had brought Nagano's forces into the mausoleum, and demanded the Family Head's Order after defeating Gu Qilin.

• Luo Yu woke in a snowy forest beside Gu Qilin and learned that two Thrones of God had clashed above Clear Tomb Cemetery.
• Gu Qilin identified the recurring mental waves as the power of a Third Fire Seed, possibly the Fire Seed of the missing King of the Underworld, and realized the disaster zone was shielding the cemetery from its awakening.
• Gu Lushen arrived with the God of Wine's Throne's power and admitted that he had brought more than a thousand Transcendents and Nagano's major factions into the mausoleum.
• Gu Lushen knocked Luo Yu unconscious with a mental shockwave, then shattered Gu Qilin's blade and wounded him with a fragment.
• Gu Lushen demanded the Family Head's Order and promised Gu Qilin could leave the mausoleum alive if he handed it over.

Gu Lushen defeated Gu Qilin and revealed that he had spent decades planning to free the Third Fire Seed from the Colossus Ruins and claim its power. After explaining why he had spared Gu Qilin, he attacked him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Gu Lushen demanded Gu Qilin's Family Head's Order, and Gu Qilin refused to surrender it without a fight.
• Gu Lushen stood and defeated Gu Qilin, took the token, and erased Gu Qilin's Mental Imprint while sparing his life.
• Gu Lushen explained that the Five Great Families' tokens could activate the Colossus Ruins, which he believed suppressed the Third Fire Seed.
• Gu Lushen revealed that he had secretly nurtured the Fire Seed's growth for years and worked with the God of Wine's Throne to prevent Gu Changzhi from awakening.
• Gu Lushen told Gu Qilin that he intended to become a Throne of God and inherit Gu Changzhi's Fire Seed.
• Gu Lushen swept two fingers past Gu Qilin, and blood splashed across the snow.

Gu Lushen left Gu Qilin gravely wounded but alive, then Bai Xiu survived an assassination in the cemetery’s Snowy Wasteland and found a hidden Fire Seed Dream. The chapter ended with Bai Lu and the Bai family’s main group reaching him and Second Elder asking what had happened.

• Gu Lushen told Gu Qilin that he would keep him alive until he became a Throne of God, then left the Snow Forest in his wheelchair.
• Bai Xiu realized the cemetery had separated its entrants into a rule-bound Snowy Wasteland where spiritual power could not spread.
• Mr. Jin sprang from beneath the snow to assassinate Bai Xiu, but Bai Xiu dodged his sword and struck him with lightning as he fled.
• Bai Xiu stopped pursuing Mr. Jin, uncovered a hidden Fire Seed Dream beneath a rock, and caught it before it could escape.
• Bai Lu arrived with the Bai family’s main group, and Second Elder asked Bai Xiu what had happened.

Bai Xiu entered the Great Cold Disaster Zone with the Bai Family squad and began comprehending a Fire Seed Dream, unaware that Bai Zesheng had arranged for Mr. Jin to kill him. As Mr. Jin struck, Bai Xiu survived and killed him, then asked whether his death would really have made the Bai Family better.

• Bai Xiu told the Bai Family squad that an assassin had attacked him, and the group recognized that Clear Tomb Cemetery was covered by the Great Cold Disaster Zone.
• Bai Xiu obtained a Fire Seed Dream and agreed to comprehend it in a secluded snow cave while Bai Zesheng and the others guarded him.
• Bai Zesheng used a token to keep the squad together, then helped isolate Bai Xiu in the cave and revealed his plan to kill him with Mr. Jin.
• Mr. Jin confronted Bai Zesheng about why he wanted Bai Xiu dead, and Bai Zesheng admitted he regretted bringing him back from Jiangbei because he had become too powerful.
• Mr. Jin drew his saber and attacked Bai Xiu, but Bai Xiu remained alive as Mr. Jin's head rolled toward Bai Zesheng.
• Bai Xiu, surrounded by lightning with a Thunder Dragon on his shoulder, asked whether killing him would really make the Bai Family better.

Bai Xiu revealed that he had never entered the Fire Seed Dream and had used the supposed meditation to test whether Bai Zesheng was behind the tundra assassination. After Bai Zesheng admitted his role and attacked him, Bai Xiu unleashed Thunder Shadow Ancient General and sent him crashing into the snow, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Bai Xiu killed Mr. Jin with lightning while pretending to meditate, then destroyed the assassin's head.
• Bai Xiu confronted Bai Zesheng with clues linking Mr. Jin to the earlier tundra assassination and accused him of arranging the killing.
• Bai Zesheng admitted that he wanted the Bai Family purified by Bai Xiu's death and drew his weapon to kill him.
• Bai Zesheng pressed Bai Xiu through the narrow cave, cutting his white sleeves and grazing his cheek.
• Bai Xiu summoned Thunder Shadow Ancient General, shattered Bai Zesheng's blade, and punched him out of the cave into the snow.

Bai Xiu confronted Bai Zesheng over the attempt to destroy him, but the Second Elder escaped after apologizing and admitting he wanted to live. Elsewhere in the cemetery, Gong Qing and Mu Yi discovered that Gu Lushen was lying about Gu Qilin, and Gu Lushen revealed his power as spiritual ripples spread through the Snow Forest.

• Bai Xiu questioned Bai Zesheng about the plan to kill or cripple him, and Bai Zesheng explained that Bai Xiu was an outsider to the Bai Family’s bloodline.
• Bai Xiu offered Bai Zesheng a blade fragment and turned away to grant him a dignified death, but Bai Zesheng used the God of Wine's Throne's power to escape after apologizing and saying he wanted to live.
• Gong Qing tracked the growing spiritual ripples through the Snow Forest and met Gu Lushen, who claimed they might come from Gu Changzhi’s fire seed.
• Mu Yi arrived with the Snow Reflection Mirror, which exposed Gu Lushen’s lie about not seeing Gu Qilin.
• Gu Lushen rose from his wheelchair and used the God of Wine's Throne's Divine Power to unfold his domain as another powerful spiritual ripple swept through the forest.

Gu Shen killed Bai Zesheng after discovering his role in the conspiracy surrounding the mausoleum, then faced an enraged Bai Family squad. Bai Xiu arrived and confirmed that Bai Zesheng had been a traitor, thanking Gu Shen for killing him.

• Bai Zesheng was teleported to a snowy wasteland, where he found Gu Shen beside Xu Yan's corpse.
• Bai Zesheng tried to summon Bai Family reinforcements and escape, but Gu Shen injured and pursued him.
• Gu Shen killed Bai Zesheng in front of the approaching Bai Family transcendents and declared that he had betrayed the Bai Family and Nagano.
• Bai Lu restrained her group from attacking Gu Shen as the Bai Family transcendents questioned his account.
• Bai Xiu arrived, confirmed Bai Zesheng was a traitor, and thanked Gu Shen for ending him.

Gu Shen uncovered Bai Zesheng’s betrayal and learned that the God of Wine’s Throne was behind the crisis in Clear Tomb Cemetery. After Chu Ling mastered all the cemetery’s array patterns, Gu Shen shared a complete map with Bai Lu and discussed the secrets he and Bai Xiu kept from one another.

• Bai Xiu explained what had happened in the Snow Cave, and the Bai clan Transcendents learned that Bai Zesheng had betrayed the clan and colluded with the God of Wine’s Throne.
• Gu Shen told the Bai clan that Clear Tomb Cemetery was caught in Gu Changzhi’s Great Cold Disaster Zone and that the clan head was likely inside the Inner Tomb.
• Gu Shen asked Bai Lu to gather the scattered Transcendents and gave her a map of the Snowy Wasteland, then Chu Ling transmitted her completed understanding of the cemetery’s array patterns through their Mental Link.
• Gu Shen replaced Bai Lu’s partial map with a complete Outer Tomb map and introduced Chu Ling by name, while Bai Lu led the Transcendents toward the edge of the Snowy Wasteland.
• Bai Xiu told Gu Shen about the secret power behind his victories, and Gu Shen said he had deleted the memories of Bai Zesheng fighting him rather than read them.

As the Great Cold Disaster Zone overflowed, Chu Ling used the Divination Technique to see events beyond the formation and found that Gu Lushen had badly wounded several family heads. She realized Gu Lushen was targeting their Family Head's Orders, then saw Li Qingsui retreating from a man in a wheelchair.

• The disaster zone’s frost seeped through the mausoleum, and Chu Ling learned that using the Divination Technique cost her little while revealing the world’s trajectories.
• Chu Ling divined that Old Master Gu Qilin lay wounded beside the unconscious Luo Yu deep in the disaster zone.
• Chu Ling showed Gu Shen that Gu Lushen had also gravely wounded Gong Qing and Mu Yi, and they inferred that he was taking the family heads’ Orders.
• Chu Ling connected the Li family elders’ attempt to detain Li Qingsui with the scheme to obtain the Li family’s Order.
• Chu Ling divined Li Qingsui standing in the snow and retreating from a man seated in a wheelchair.

Gu Lushen tried to seize Li Qingsui’s Family Head’s Order, but Bai Xiaochi intervened and uncovered Gu’s plan to collect the Five Great Families’ Keys and refine the Fire Seed hidden in Qingzhong. Gu claimed he wanted to bring peace and asked Bai to hand over his Order, leaving Bai to decide whether to trust him.

• Gu Lushen tore the Li Family Head’s Order from Li Qingsui, but Bai Xiaochi cut through his mental power, recovered the token, and returned it to her.
• Gu Lushen launched a sudden physical attack at Li Qingsui, and Bai Xiaochi blocked it with Shadow Illumination.
• Gu Lushen revealed that he had taken the Family Head’s Orders of the Gu, Gong, and Mu Families, and Bai Xiaochi realized Old Master Gu Qilin was in his hands.
• Bai Xiaochi recognized the growing mental tide as the power of a Fire Seed hidden in Qingzhong and connected Gu Lushen to the Source Tower and the Colossus Ruins.
• Gu Lushen claimed Gong Qing, Mu Yi, and Old Master Gu were alive and said he intended to refine the Fire Seed and drive out the God of Wine.
• Gu Lushen asked Bai Xiaochi to give him the Bai Family’s Family Head’s Order so they could ascend to a Higher Summit together.

Bai Xiaochi refused to ally with Gu Lushen and tried to flee with Li Qingsui, but Gu Lushen caught them and forced a fight over Li Qingsui’s token. Bai Xiaochi took Gu Lushen’s punch to protect her, then summoned a counterattack of heavenly thunder and earthly fire.

• Bai Xiaochi sent the Bai Family’s token flying to distract Gu Lushen, then fled with Li Qingsui and used the Bai clan pattern to rewind Gu Lushen’s snow dragon by one second.
• Gu Lushen caught up with Bai Xiaochi, revealed he had recovered the Bai Family’s token, and demanded Li Qingsui hand over hers.
• Li Qingsui refused to surrender her token, and Gu Lushen attacked her while Bai Xiaochi used his forbidden technique to redirect the punch into his own chest.
• As Li Qingsui began to give up the token, Bai Xiaochi urged her not to and held Gu Lushen’s arm in place.
• Bai Xiaochi called down lightning and raised Golden Light formations and Blazing Fire from underground to attack Gu Lushen.

Gu Shen and Bai Xiu joined forces to trap Gu Lushen inside the Clear Tomb Grand Array and exploit a weakness in his Obscure Moon defense. Gu Shen sent Blazing Fire into Gu Lushen’s bloodstream and attempted to hypnotize him as the chapter ended.

• Bai Xiu used a thunderstrike as a feint while Gu Shen activated the Clear Tomb Array Patterns around Gu Lushen, Bai Xiaochi, and Li Qingsui.
• Gu Shen revealed his control of the cemetery’s array patterns and sent their golden swords to attack Gu Lushen, but Obscure Moon kept them from seriously injuring him.
• Bai Xiu’s lightning struck the crown of Gu Lushen’s head, revealing that concentrated Thunder Power could pierce his defense.
• Bai Xiu repeatedly bombarded Gu Lushen with lightning while Gu Shen’s array swords kept him trapped, until a bolt opened a wound on Gu Lushen’s shoulder.
• Gu Shen sent Blazing Fire through Gu Lushen’s bloodstream toward his head and shouted, “Gu Lushen! Enter Dream!”

Gu Shen and Bai Xiaochi agreed to risk fighting Gu Lushen in the Clear Tomb Cemetery, with Li Qingsui escaping with the last token and Chu Ling joining their plan. The chapter ended as Gu Lushen took the bait and struck at Bai Xiu, whose lightning armor began to form.

• Gu Shen's Blazing Fire hypnosis nearly reached Gu Lushen's Cranial Sea, but Gu Lushen broke free and continued resisting the array-pattern attacks.
• Gu Shen learned that Li Qingsui and Chu Ling had entered together, reassured Li Qingsui that Chu Ling was safe, and urged Bai Xiaochi to help defeat Gu Lushen before they left the cemetery.
• Li Qingsui ran toward the exit with the Wooden Token while Gu Shen linked his spirit with Bai Xiaochi and Bai Xiu and explained a plan involving Chu Ling.
• Gu Lushen found an apparent gap in the array-pattern cage and rushed toward Bai Xiu, believing he could quickly break the alliance.
• Bai Xiu revealed that his exhaustion had been feigned, and his ancient divine general's lightning armor began to assemble as Gu Shen announced that Gu Lushen had taken the bait.