Chapter Summaries

Gu Fang was mocked for his apparent weakness during the Ancient Clan’s cultivation method inheritance ceremony, while Gu Yao displayed his Dou Emperor strength. Gu Fang’s bloodline seal began to break, signaling that he could soon leave the Ancient Realm, though he still intended to pursue the inheritance and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Embryo Fire.

• Elder Tong Xuan announced Gu Fang’s Three-star Dou Master strength, prompting the crowd to question his qualification for the ceremony.
• Gu Yao revealed his Dou Qi Wings and tested as a One-star Dou Emperor, earning the crowd’s praise while Gu Fang remained calm.
• Gu Fang recalled his past life, his efforts to protect Xun’er and Xiao Yan, and how his father had sealed his powerful bloodline at birth.
• Gu Fang heard his bloodline seal begin to break and realized the time had come for him to leave the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Fang decided to seek the cultivation method inheritance and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Embryo Fire before departing.

Gu Fang met Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing before the Ancient Clan’s assessment for inheritance slots in the Heavenly Rank Ancient Sage Treasure Codex. Despite doubts about his Dou Master strength, Gu Fang confirmed he would compete, and Elder Tong Xuan began the assessment.

• Gu Fang recognized Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing as future Black Annihilation Army Commanders approaching him.
• Gu Qingyang explained that the three would give their all to earn a slot in the Ancient Sage Treasure Codex inheritance.
• Gu Fang declared that he would compete just as determinedly, surprising Gu Hua and Gu Xing, while Gu Qingyang responded courteously.
• Gu Qingyang led the group to Gu Yao and Elder Tong Xuan, who asked Gu Fang whether he was certain he wanted to participate.
• Gu Fang confirmed his decision, and Elder Tong Xuan explained that only the overall top eight would receive the inheritance before starting the assessment.

Gu Fang entered the Ancient Clan’s Dou Skill assessment with the odds against him, but his hidden Dou Qi let him unleash the Emperor Seal Art with startling speed and proficiency. He left the other ten contestants and the spectators stunned as he took control of everyone’s attention.

• Elder Tong Xuan announced that the first assessment would judge contestants by the quantity and quality of the Dou Skills they used to destroy golden phantoms.
• Gu Fang’s final bloodline seal broke, releasing nearly inexhaustible Dou Qi as the golden phantoms appeared.
• When the assessment began, Gu Fang immediately formed seals for the Advanced Earth Rank Emperor Seal Art, prompting Gu Yao, Gu Qingyang, and the others to switch to the same skill.
• Gu Fang executed the Emperor Seal Art faster and more proficiently than the other ten contestants, and his aura continued to grow stronger.
• The contestants, elders, and spectators focused on Gu Fang as he dominated the Dou Skill test despite being only a Dou Master.

Gu Fang used the Mountain Splitting Seal with ease, shattered his golden opponent, and showed signs of a breakthrough. Gu Dao, the other two Ancient Clan Immortals, and Gu Yuan arrived to oversee the ceremony, and Elder Tong Xuan realized Gu Fang’s hidden bloodline might be ninth-grade peak or Divine Grade.

• Gu Fang unleashed the Mountain Splitting Seal and shattered the golden figure before him, drawing everyone’s attention.
• Gu Fang sensed his Three-star Dou Master strength beginning to break through as the other candidates completed their seals.
• Elder Tong Xuan prepared to intervene when he suspected Gu Fang was suffering from Merit Reversal, but Gu Dao appeared and stopped him.
• Gu Dao summoned the other two Ancient Clan Immortals, and Gu Yuan joined them beside the testing platform.
• Tong Xuan realized the powerful figures had come for Gu Fang and sensed that Gu Fang’s true bloodline might be ninth-grade peak or Divine Grade.

During the Ancient Clan’s testing, Gu Fang broke through from a Dou Master after using the Mountain Splitting Seal, then stunned the participants by forming and landing a Sea Turning Seal faster than expected. The chapter left Gu Yuan revealing that Gu Fang’s bloodline was the strongest in the Ancient Clan’s history, even stronger than Xun’er’s, as Gu Fang continued the test.

• Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, Gu Xing, and the other participants formed their Sea Turning Seals while Gu Fang stood still, causing them to mock him.
• Gu Fang’s Battle Qi Gauze Robe deepened as he broke through a minor realm, shocking the participants and spectators.
• Gu Fang told Gu Qingyang he would go all out and offered to leave the others some dignity, prompting Gu Yao to challenge his right to stand among them.
• Gu Fang formed a Sea Turning Seal and shattered his golden replica, drawing renewed attention as the other participants sped up their techniques.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Dao and the Three Immortals that Gu Fang’s bloodline was the strongest in Ancient Clan history and even surpassed Xun’er’s.

Gu Fang overwhelmed the battle-skill trial with an extraordinary run of Earth Rank skills, then successfully formed the Ancient Emperor Seal despite its severe strain on his body. He left the trial and challenged Gu Yao to acknowledge that he qualified for the remaining tests.

• Gu Fang caught up with the others by mastering the Heaven Annihilating Seal, while Gu Yao replenished his Dou Qi and continued using Earth Rank skills.
• Yang Hao withdrew in eighth place as Gu Fang continued performing dozens of Earth Rank battle skills, leaving Gu Yao, Gu Hua, Gu Xing, and Gu Qingyang to withdraw as well.
• Gu Yuan and the Three Immortals arrived as Gu Fang began forming the Ancient Emperor Seal, and they prepared to intervene when his body started cracking.
• Gu Fang used his Bloodline Power to heal and reinforce his body, adjusted the seal, and shattered the golden figure with his Ancient Emperor Seal.
• Gu Fang left the trial, looked at Gu Yao, and asked whether his performance qualified him to continue with the remaining tests.

Gu Fang defeated Gu Yao in the trial, prompting Gu Yao to admit defeat and vow to meet him again at a future crossroads. As the Pill and Herb Identification Test approached, Elder Han headed to the Ancient Realm with an invitation for Gu Fang’s master, and Gu Nanhai realized Gu Fang was the clan leader’s son.

• Gu Yao accepted that Gu Fang had overwhelmed him with his battle skills and admitted that Gu Fang was stronger and qualified.
• Gu Fang told Gu Yao that he had earned his abilities through talent and hard cultivation, then said he hoped they would meet again at the next crossroads.
• Gu Dao announced that the Pill and Herb Identification Test would begin in fifteen minutes before the Three Immortals and Gu Yuan disappeared.
• Gu Yao recovered his fighting spirit and vowed to reach the next crossroads, while Gu Qingyang recognized him as a more dangerous rival and made Gu Fang his goal to surpass.
• Elder Han gave Gu Nanhai an invitation from Gu Yuan for Gu Fang’s master to attend the ceremony, then vanished.
• Gu Nanhai guessed that Gu Fang had extraordinary pill-refining talent and went to watch the upcoming test.

Gu Fang overwhelmed the Ancient Clan’s younger generation in the pill-identification portion of the test, naming all thirty pills with unprecedented speed and perfect accuracy. He then paused instead of beginning the medicinal ingredient test, prompting Gu Dao to ask what he was waiting for.

• Gu Dao began the Pill and Medicinal Ingredient Test and distributed jade bottles and scattered medicinal ingredients to the participants.
• Gu Fang identified and arranged the pills far faster than the other test-takers, using their fragrances to name their grades and effects.
• Gu Fang finished all thirty pill identifications, and the golden beams confirmed that every answer was correct.
• Gu Fang did not start selecting medicinal ingredients, leaving the participants and elders confused as his time pillar continued to grow.
• Gu Dao approached Gu Fang and asked why he was waiting when the medicinal ingredient test had already begun.

Gu Fang’s request for a fairer test led Gu Dao to suspend the assessment and impose rules that gave the other candidates a head start on the medicinal ingredient test. With Gu Fang racing to recover the lost time, Gu Yuan secured the Three Immortals’ promise to guide his cultivation, while Elder Han spotted signs that Gu Fang might still succeed.

• Gu Fang challenged the combined time limit, so Gu Dao established a provisional rule that stopped counting the pill test and gave the candidates the remaining half-stick of incense to begin the medicinal ingredient test.
• Gu Fang realized the rule gave Gu Qingyang and the others a fifteen-minute head start, but he accepted the consequences and prepared to rely on his memory of the ingredients’ locations.
• Gu Dao persuaded Gu Yuan not to overturn the rule, and the Three Immortals agreed to oversee Gu Fang’s instruction in the Ancient Sage Treasure Codex.
• Gu Nanhai taunted Elder Han about Gu Fang’s apparent delay, but Elder Han recognized something promising in the image of Gu Fang’s ingredients.
• Gu Fang recalled the ingredient locations using his soul power and concluded that he might finish in time because he had moved some ingredients during the pill test.

Gu Fang used his soul force, Dou Qi, and careful preparation to sort herbs at astonishing speed, completing two pill formulas while the experts watched in disbelief. He and Gu Qingyang finished the test at nearly the same time, leaving the final result unresolved.

• Gu Fang blasted the herbs into the air and selected every ingredient for a Beast Strength Pill in just twenty-six seconds.
• Gu Fang swept a cluster of herbs together with Dou Qi and added five more herbs to complete a Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Elder Han explained that Gu Fang had studied and subtly rearranged the herbs in advance, insisting his success came from strength rather than luck.
• Gu Fang and Gu Qingyang both announced that they had completed the test.

Gu Fang selected ingredients for three pill formulas in under a minute, but one mismatched ingredient made his final result a failure. Rather than accept the loss or retest, he brought out an alchemy cauldron and announced he would refine a pill from the ingredients using a formula of his own creation.

• Gu Fang finished selecting ingredients in less than a minute, astonishing the spectators and the other participants.
• The pillars of light confirmed that Gu Fang's first two selections were correct, but his third contained an error caused by Greenwood Vine Tendril roots shifting two ingredients.
• Gu Dao announced Gu Qingyang as first place, but Gu Qingyang and the other participants requested a retest in recognition of Gu Fang's ability.
• Gu Fang rejected a retest, saying the rules should stand, then set down an alchemy cauldron and asked whether successfully refining a pill would count as passing.
• Gu Fang said he would refine a pill with the selected ingredients, leading Gu Dao to realize that Gu Fang intended to create his own pill formula.

Gu Fang improved a Wind-Traveling Pill with two herbs and refined it into a flawless Pseudo Fourth-grade pill, astonishing the Ancient Clan’s alchemists. The chapter ended with the Ninth-grade alchemist Medicine Maniac Gu Yao examining the pill and asking Gu Fang about the special attribute within it.

• Gu Yuan learned from Elder Han that Gu Fang was improving an existing pill formula and might fail because the two herbs were difficult to fuse with the Wind-Traveling Pill.
• Gu Fang successfully refined the improved pill, and its fragrance condensed into a Pill Cloud, showing its flawless quality.
• The testing platform judged Gu Fang’s pill to be an Improved Wind-Traveling Pill, Pseudo Fourth-grade, shocking the observers with the fourteen-year-old’s alchemy talent.
• Gu Dao worried that Gu Fang’s overwhelming advantages might leave him with no setbacks to overcome.
• Medicine Maniac Gu Yao took the pill, sensed an unfamiliar special attribute, and asked Gu Fang to explain it.

After Gu Fang improved the pill, Gu Yao praised his alchemy and revealed that his soul had reached the Pseudo Heaven Realm, securing him first place in the pill test. Gu Yuan decided to prepare Gu Fang to inherit the Ancient Clan leadership and turned his attention to the final test, where he planned to eliminate traitors within the clan.

• Gu Yao saluted Gu Fang as his teacher, examined the Heart of the Earth, and confirmed that its origin energy had helped improve the pill.
• Gu Yao told Gu Fang that his soul had reached the Pseudo Heaven Realm and that a life-or-death opportunity could help him advance further.
• Gu Dao announced Gu Fang as first place in the pill test, and the younger generation celebrated him as their new king.
• Gu Yuan told Elder Han and Gu Nanhai that Gu Fang could inherit the clan leadership after reaching the Battle Saint realm and passing the ancestor's temperament illusion realm.
• Gu Yuan entrusted Gu Fang to Elder Han and Gu Nanhai, then vanished as he prepared to begin the final test and clear out parasites within the clan.

Gu Fang’s bloodline test revealed a Divine Grade Bloodline, but the Ancient Clan’s celebration was interrupted when Soul Clan attackers infiltrated the ceremony and several self-destructed. The chapter ended with the Black Annihilation Army’s Three Commanders facing the deadly blast as the Battle Saints raced to save him.

• Gu Qingyang and the others insisted Gu Fang take the first bloodline test, and he placed his hand on the star disk.
• The disk lit up to nine stars, then revealed a tenth golden star before shattering, confirming Gu Fang’s Divine Grade Bloodline and overwhelming the Ancient Clan with its pressure.
• More than ten Soul Clan members revealed their markings and charged the platform, powering up to seven-star Battle Venerables.
• The Three Commanders of the Black Annihilation Army activated his clan pattern and prepared to fight the attackers.
• The Soul Clan attackers shouted that they would die in service to their clan and self-destructed, while the Three Commanders’ defenses began to break and the Battle Saints rushed to rescue him.

Gu Yuan protected Gu Fang from the Soul Clan’s attack and fought the assailants, while Gu Fang realized that the trusted elder Gu Yang was a Soul Clan spy. The chapter ended with Gu Yang striking at Gu Fang at close range, leaving him seemingly unable to be saved.

• Gu Yuan blocked the explosion and shielded Gu Fang while Gu Dao and the other elders contained the energy and drove back attackers.
• Three Battle Saint auras appeared, and Gu Dao and Gu Yuan fought the assassins, with Gu Yuan confronting a powerful foe whose presence suggested Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Two ancestral hall elders, Gu Mo and Gu Yang, arrived and told Gu Fang to continue his bloodline test.
• Gu Qingyang identified Gu Yang as a late-stage Five-star Battle Saint, prompting Gu Fang to recognize him from his vague memories as the Ancient Clan’s Soul Clan spy.
• Gu Yang gathered Dou Qi and struck at Gu Fang, catching him at close range and leaving him in mortal danger.

Gu Yang’s assassination attempt on Gu Fang was interrupted by the Ancient Emperor’s power, which protected Gu Fang and immobilized Gu Yang. As Ancient Clan experts arrived, white chains shattered Gu Yang’s body, leaving only his soul.

• Facing Gu Yang’s descending palm, Gu Fang’s soul power broke through to the Heaven Realm, but he could not stop the attack with his own strength.
• A ripple of power from the Ancient Emperor dispersed the Dou Qi in Gu Yang’s strike and stopped attacks across the battlefield.
• Gu Yang’s physical blow struck Gu Fang without harming him, and Gu Mo attacked Gu Yang after realizing he was a traitor.
• Gu Yang tried to flee but found himself unable to control his body or Dou Qi, allowing Gu Mo to send him flying.
• As Ancient Clan experts arrived, pure white chains bound Gu Yang and shattered his body, leaving only his soul.

The Ancient Emperor appeared in the Ancient Realm and subdued Nihility Devouring Flame, exposing the Soul Clan spies he had hidden among the Ancient Clan. As the spies prepared to self-destruct, the Ancient Emperor left to protect his clansmen while his chains destroyed Nihility Devouring Flame’s flame spirits.

• Gu Yang was revealed as a Soul Clan member and bound by the Ancient Emperor’s Chains of Rule.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used Soul Technique, Void, against Gu Yuan, but the Ancient Emperor’s phantom appeared and made him flee.
• The Ancient Emperor caught Nihility Devouring Flame’s scattered flame spirits with chains as Gu Fang witnessed the might of a Dou Di.
• Nihility Devouring Flame triggered the self-destruction of hidden Soul Clan spies, including the impostor Gu Yang, threatening the Ancient Clan’s people and stronghold.
• The Ancient Emperor dispersed his phantom and appeared atop the testing platform, leaving his chains to shatter Nihility Devouring Flame’s flame spirits.

Gu Fang received the Ancient Emperor’s aid, gained a Rule Bloodline awakening and fused two Heavenly Flames into an Origin Flame. The Ancient Emperor vanished after hinting that Gu Fang should go to the far north once he reached Battle Saint, leaving Gu Fang to plummet from the sky and call for Yutu.

• The Ancient Emperor appeared, explained that Gu Fang possessed a perfect Rule Bloodline, and revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame had survived the attack.
• The Ancient Emperor drove Nihility Devouring Flame away, entered Gu Fang’s body, and used Luo Tian Yuan Huo Jue to open new pathways within him.
• Gu Fang used the Ancient Emperor’s power to stop time and cast the Ancient Clan’s self-destructing spies into the endless void.
• The Ancient Emperor gathered Nihility Devouring Flame’s scattered fragments and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame’s origin, then fused them into an Origin Flame for Gu Fang.
• The Ancient Emperor departed after telling Gu Fang to visit the far north when he reached Battle Saint, and Gu Fang called for Yutu as he fell from the sky.

Gu Fang returned to the Ancient Clan testing square after the Ancient Emperor revealed his Rule Bloodline and bestowed two powerful Heavenly Flames, astonishing the clan members. After the tests concluded, Gu Dao announced Gu Fang as the top-ranked member of the younger generation, and the crowd acclaimed him.

• The Ancient Clan members marveled at Gu Fang’s Rule Bloodline and the two Heavenly Flames he had received from the Ancient Emperor.
• Gu Yuan caught Gu Fang, who greeted Old Han as his master, while Gu Dao confirmed that the Ancient Emperor had left.
• Gu Yuan dispatched the Dou Saints to calm disturbances across the Ancient Realm, and Gu Dao brought Gu Fang back to the testing platform.
• Gu Dao resumed the bloodline test and later announced the final rankings, naming Gu Fang first.
• The crowd drowned out the remaining rankings as they cheered Gu Fang and recognized him as the Ancient Clan’s foremost young member.

Gu Fang gave up the Ancient Sage Treasure Codex inheritance because Ancient Emperor had left him the superior Luo Tian Yuan Huo Jue. Ten days later, he broke through from Battle Master to six-star Dou Shi, then asked Gu Yuan for permission to leave the Ancient Realm and find Gu Xun'er.

• Gu Fang forfeited the Ancient Sage Treasure Codex inheritance and revealed that Ancient Emperor had left him the Luo Tian Yuan Huo Jue.
• Gu Fang demonstrated the power of his cultivation method, and Gu Qingyang and seven others received the Ancient Sage Treasure Codex inheritance.
• Ten days later, Gu Fang formed a massive Dou Qi vortex while cultivating in his cave residence, and Gu Yuan rushed to check on him.
• A dark golden flame purified the impure Dou Qi as Gu Fang broke through to five-star Battle Master and then six-star Dou Shi.
• Gu Fang told Gu Yuan about his six-star Dou Shi breakthrough and asked to leave the Ancient Realm to find his sister, Gu Xun'er.