Chapter Summaries

Gu Shaoshang cultivated on Heaven Sword Mountain and broke through to the middle stage of the Qi Sect Realm before deciding to leave Hanging Temple. He challenged Gan Gang to accept him as a disciple, and Gan Gang said he would have to defeat him first.

• Gu Shaoshang formed a true qi seed, reached the Qi Sect Realm, and opened thirty-six major acupoints.
• Gu Shaoshang urged Gu Ji to reconsider staying at Hanging Temple, then gave him a ring containing items and left his quarters.
• Gu Shaoshang entered Hanging Temple's main hall and told Gan Gang he was not his disciple.
• Gu Shaoshang asked why Gan Gang was determined to take him as a disciple, and Gan Gang compared him with Chen Ang.
• Gan Gang told Gu Shaoshang that if he could defeat him, no one at Hanging Temple would object to his joining.

Gu Shaoshang fought Gan Gang, the powerful abbot of Hanging Temple, first in the hall and then across the snow-covered mountains. Gan Gang overwhelmed him with a palm strike infused with Sea of Consciousness Power, but insisted that Gu Shaoshang join Hanging Temple as thunderous roars approached.

• Gu Shaoshang challenged Gan Gang in the great hall, and their first clash shook the hall and toppled its bronze statues.
• Gu Shaoshang fled outside to avoid damaging the statues, and Gan Gang pursued him into the mountains as the monks and Gu Ji watched in shock.
• Gu Shaoshang and Gan Gang exchanged fierce blows across the snowy mountains, with Gan Gang proving stronger despite Gu Shaoshang's formidable Qi Sect Realm power.
• Gan Gang struck Gu Shaoshang with a hand seal infused with Sea of Consciousness Power, sending him through several hills and leaving a lotus-shaped mark on his chest.
• Gan Gang urged Gu Shaoshang to enter Hanging Temple, while thunderous roars approached from afar.

After surviving the avalanche, Gu Shaoshang left Hanging Temple and sought information in Heaven Sword City about the stolen Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra. Sun Jing warned him that powerful forces were involved and began to tell him about the demon clan.

• Gan Gang shielded Gu Shaoshang and hundreds of monks from the avalanche with his Golden Bell Shield, but the effort greatly depleted his vital energy.
• Gu Shaoshang offered to retrieve the Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra, and Gan Gang let him leave rather than risk making an enemy of him.
• Gan Gang told another monk that Gu Shaoshang was extraordinary and that capturing him was not worth awakening the temple's secluded ancestors.
• Gu Shaoshang descended Heaven Sword Mountain, then traveled to Heaven Sword City with his Flood Dragon Horse and Anger.
• Gu Shaoshang met Sun Jing, the Martial Arts Hall's local intelligence officer, and paid him for information about the stolen sutra.
• Sun Jing cautioned Gu Shaoshang against investigating, saying powerful forces were involved, and asked whether he knew the demon clan.

Gu Shaoshang learned that Kun Wu was a half-demon who stole the Hanging Temple’s Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra and set out to intercept him. He reached a likely route into Great Ming Mountain, where several other martial artists had gathered to hunt Kun Wu.

• Sun Jing told Gu Shaoshang that Kun Wu was the half-demon son of the Violent Ape King and had stolen the Hanging Temple scripture after learning he could not receive it through the sect.
• Sun Jing explained that the Hanging Temple had offered a Concentration Level martial arts manual to whoever recovered the scripture, then gave Gu Shaoshang a dossier of potential pursuers.
• Gu Shaoshang left the city on his Flood Dragon Horse and followed the dossier toward the routes Kun Wu might take into Great Ming Mountain.
• Gu Shaoshang stopped at an ironwood forest and encountered a wild saber wielder with formidable Blade Intent, who warned that others had come there to die.
• Six other Qi Sect Realm martial artists arrived, and they discussed Kun Wu’s injuries and their hopes of claiming the Hanging Temple’s reward.

Gu Shaoshang and the gathered experts waited overnight for Kun Wu, while Shen Wuxia, a Divine Focus expert from Great Zhou, arrived and joined them. The chapter then followed the Hanging Temple’s pursuit of Kun Wu and three ape demons, who raced toward Great Ming Mountain with stolen scriptures.

• Shen Wuxia arrived in the ironwood grove, introduced himself as a descendant of Great Zhou’s Shen family, and asked Gu Shaoshang why the experts had gathered.
• Gu Shaoshang said they were waiting to rob and kill someone, referring to their plan to kill Kun Wu and seize the stolen secret manual.
• Gan Yang and the Hanging Temple’s monks pursued Kun Wu and three ape demons toward Great Ming Mountain while disciples and flying beasts followed.
• One ape demon stopped to delay Gan Yang, but Gan Yang killed him with a palm strike.
• Gan Yang, the other Divine Focus monks, and Kun Xiang unleashed their full power and continued chasing the three fleeing demons.

Kun Wu fled the monks of Hanging Temple toward the ironwood forest, enduring a devastating arrow barrage from Old Man Fang and an attack by the Five Heroes of Ring Mountain. As the four heroes’ sword and blade strikes enveloped him, crimson-gold light erupted from Kun Wu, and he unleashed a furious roar.

• Kun Wu’s two demon ape companions attacked Gan Yang and the other pursuers, but the seven martial artists killed them as Kun Wu escaped toward the ironwood forest.
• Gu Shaoshang sensed the approaching pursuit, and Old Man Fang manifested a bow through his acupoints and shot Kun Wu, then unleashed a powerful barrage that left the ape grievously wounded.
• The Five Heroes of Ring Mountain announced their intention to capture Kun Wu, while Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia declined to interfere.
• The dark-faced man and three companions attacked Kun Wu with a combined sword and blade technique as Gan Yang and the monks closed in behind them.
• Kun Wu’s crimson-gold fur trembled in his hand, then golden light burst from him and erased the heroes’ attack as he roared at them.

The Violent Ape King appeared to save Kun Wu from the Four Heroes of Ring Mountain, then confronted Hanging Temple over the stolen Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra. In the ironwood forest, Gu Shaoshang killed Leng Yue with a single slash and set out to meet the Demon King.

• The Violent Ape King seized and killed the Four Heroes of Ring Mountain, then faced Gan Yang and Hanging Temple’s monks over Kun Wu and the sacred scripture.
• Gu Shaoshang realized the Violent Ape King’s presence was an incarnation with Spirit Condensation strength, while Shen Wuxia questioned why he had waited for a Demon King.
• Leng Yue revealed himself as a half-demon and demanded that Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia come before the Violent Ape King.
• Leng Yue attacked with a sweeping saber technique, but Gu Shaoshang drew Moon in the Well and killed him with one slash.
• Shen Wuxia praised Gu Shaoshang’s saber technique, and Gu Shaoshang announced that he was going to meet the Sky Dome Level expert.

Violent Ape King overwhelmed the Hanging Temple monks with the power of his Sky Vault Diagram, killing Gan Yang and injuring the monks who tried to stop him. As he prepared to seize the Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra, Master Gu challenged him.

• Violent Ape King sent Kun Wu flying and unleashed his demonic energy against the monks.
• Gan Yang and six other Divine Mirror martial artists attacked, but Violent Ape King used his Sky Vault painting scroll to repel them and send them flying.
• Gan Yang confronted Violent Ape King with his Crimson Gold Dragon Elephant Golden Body, but Violent Ape King killed him with a single punch.
• Kun Xiang and the other monks stood in Violent Ape King's way, and he struck them with three punches, wounding and scattering them.
• Violent Ape King declared that he would take the Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra, and Master Gu challenged him.

Gu Shaoshang challenged the weakened Violent Ape King and used his fist techniques to overcome the demon king’s overwhelming strength. After detecting and breaking the Violent Ape King’s invisibility, Gu Shaoshang struck him down with Buzhou Break.

• Gu Shaoshang retrieved a purple scroll from Kun Wu and confronted the Violent Ape King, whose exhausted incarnation no longer triggered his warning sense.
• Gu Shaoshang and the Violent Ape King exchanged punches, and Gu Shaoshang’s Life and Death Wheel disrupted the Violent Ape King’s fist force.
• The Violent Ape King vanished, but Gu Shaoshang sensed his approach and broke his invisibility with Buzhou Break.
• The Violent Ape King tried to shield his head, but Gu Shaoshang’s punch struck him and blew his incarnation apart.

Gu Shaoshang defeated the Violent Ape King's avatar and returned the Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra to the Hanging Temple monks, then learned that Kun Wu's mind held a deadly restriction. The Violent Ape King used the Sky Vault Diagram to target Gu Shaoshang as he rode away.

• Gu Shaoshang destroyed the Violent Ape King's avatar with a punch, recovered a golden strand of hair, and returned the Dharma I Alone Am Honored Sutra to Kun Wu.
• Gu Shaoshang warned the Hanging Temple monks that the Violent Ape King's plan might be more complicated, and they decided to treat him with respect and consider awakening their Patriarch.
• Gu Shaoshang searched the dying Kun Wu's memories, but a restriction placed by the Violent Ape King caused Kun Wu's head to explode.
• Shen Wuxia asked Gu Shaoshang about his plans, and Gu Shaoshang said he would ride alone across the world.
• The Violent Ape King raged in Great Ming Mountain, unfolded the Sky Vault Diagram, and reached into it to seize a mountain as he spotted Gu Shaoshang riding away.

The Violent Ape King attacked human territory and dismissed warnings about a powerful human, while the Black Bear King arrived with Xiongba and his companions captured. A colossal finger appeared and struck both demon kings, leaving them battered and crashing into the mountains.

• The Violent Ape King sent a mountain flying toward human territory and told the Black Bear King that Great Yan was too weak to threaten him.
• The Black Bear King explained that Xiongba, the little black tiger, and Fierce Wind Hou had killed his mount, then trapped them in his palm and sentenced them to a hundred years in prison.
• Xiongba considered how to escape and told Fierce Wind Hou to wait until they reached prison before acting.
• The Black Bear King suddenly fled, but a colossal finger emerged from the sky and froze the surrounding winds and clouds.
• The Violent Ape King and Black Bear King raised their diagrams to defend themselves, but the finger flicked them aside, shattered the Violent Ape King's Sky Vault Diagram, and sent both kings crashing into the mountains.

After the Violent Ape King was killed by an unseen expert, Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia traveled onward and discussed the Vast Continent’s history and the Myriad Machines Tower. Shen Wuxia revealed that an inheritance from a Manifesting Sainthood Great Master had appeared in the Xuanxu Mountain Range and asked Gu Shaoshang if he wanted to investigate.

• The Black Bear King survived the destruction of his Sky Vault Diagram, mourned the Violent Ape King’s death, and left.
• In Great Yan’s court, Chen Ang sensed the distant disturbance, flicked a finger, and told the frightened emperor and ministers to continue the session.
• Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia saw a thousand-zhang mountain fall from the sky, and Shen Wuxia guessed that a Sky Dome expert had been defeated.
• Shen Wuxia asked about Gu Shaoshang’s master, and Gu Shaoshang named Ba Liming.
• Shen Wuxia explained how the Heavenly Secrets Tower was destroyed after publishing a ranking of the myriad races, and described the Myriad Machines Tower that followed it.
• Shen Wuxia told Gu Shaoshang that a Manifesting Sainthood Great Master’s inheritance had appeared in the Xuanxu Mountain Range and invited him to go see it.

Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia traveled toward Tianmo Prefecture for a Manifest Saint inheritance, while Qiuye chose to risk the journey for a chance to advance. As they neared the border, Shen Wuxia revealed his family's thousand-year-old Heavenly Treasure, which transformed into a Flying Boat that could speed their journey.

• Gu Shaoshang questioned why Myriad Machines Tower had publicized the Manifest Saint inheritance, and Shen Wuxia explained that its emergence could not be concealed and urged him to pursue the opportunity.
• Gu Shaoshang, Shen Wuxia, and Qiuye traveled north through several provinces, with Qiuye dealing with bandits along the way as rumors spread that major sects were sending Spirit Condensation martial artists to Tianmo Prefecture.
• Near Great Yan's border, Shen Wuxia warned Qiuye that the dangers ahead could cost him his life, but Qiuye resolved to continue for a chance to reach Spirit Condensation.
• Shen Wuxia showed Gu Shaoshang a silver throwing knife his family had nurtured for a thousand years, whose Blade Intent injured Qiuye's eyes.
• Shen Wuxia transformed the throwing knife into a Flying Boat capable of traveling tens of thousands of li in a day and night, and Gu Shaoshang welcomed the prospect of faster travel.

Gu Shaoshang, Shen Wuxia, and Qiuye traveled to Tianmo Prefecture in search of the Manifestation inheritance, discussing martial arts along the way. After reaching the desert and encountering a demon beast, they wondered when the roaming Xuanxu Mountain Range would appear.

• Shen Wuxia took Gu Shaoshang and Qiuye aboard his Heavenly Treasure Flying Boat and explained Great Zhou’s powerful experts, including Wang Fulong and his Sacred Body grandson, Wang Yuanshi.
• Gu Shaoshang felt an unexplained stir whenever Shen Wuxia mentioned Wang Yuanshi.
• Over several months, Gu Shaoshang, Shen Wuxia, and Qiuye crossed hundreds of thousands of li, exchanging martial knowledge and tempering their acupoints along the way.
• The three arrived in Tianmo Prefecture, where Gu Shaoshang killed a Fire Poison Scorpion and shared its cooked flesh with the others and Anger.
• Shen Wuxia said the Xuanxu Mountain Range moved unpredictably through the desert and would appear when the Manifestation inheritance was ready to open, and Gu Shaoshang suddenly sensed something.

Gu Shaoshang discovered that the repaired Myriad Heavens Mirror had regained unrestricted travel across worlds, forcing him to weigh its immense opportunities against the danger of being discovered. Back in Tianmo Prefecture, he joined Shen Wuxia and Qiuye, then challenged Shen Wuxia to a spar so they could gauge each other before the inheritance opened.

• Gu Shaoshang entered the Mirror World and learned that the Myriad Heavens Mirror had been repaired to three stars, restoring unrestricted projections, true-body crossings, and possession rebirth.
• Gu Shaoshang considered using the Mirror to seize treasures across powerful worlds, then rejected reckless shortcuts and chose to advance steadily.
• Gu Shaoshang realized that repairing the Mirror to four stars would require a Heart of the World, whose nature and means of acquisition he did not know.
• Gu Shaoshang returned to the desert, where Shen Wuxia and Qiuye had slain Fire Poison Scorpions and Gu Shaoshang noticed that many Spirit Realm experts were gathering in Tianmo Prefecture.
• Gu Shaoshang asked Shen Wuxia to spar, and Shen Wuxia agreed and warned him that the Shen family's Way of the Flying Dagger was immensely powerful.

Gu Shaoshang tested Shen Wuxia’s flying dagger, then used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to project Ji Ning as a child in the Vast Wilderness Great World. The projection’s arrival alarmed powerful beings across the Three Realms and drew the attention of an immensely powerful figure who recognized his own childhood.

• Shen Wuxia formed a flying dagger from his acupoints and attacked Gu Shaoshang, who eventually caught it but injured his hand.
• Gu Shaoshang later defeated Shen Wuxia’s projection with the Tail-Feathered Mantis Shrimp ability, then received only a gauze handkerchief and 100 points of Source Power.
• Gu Shaoshang chose to project Ji Ning, age ten, to obtain materials for forming his Sky Vault Diagram, and spent 10,000 points of Source Power.
• Purple qi appeared in the Ji Clan West Manor training ground and enveloped Ji Ning, then vanished as Ji Yichuan and Ji Ning watched in astonishment.
• Terrifying beings across the Three Realms sensed the purple qi and searched Great Xia, while a powerful figure in the Desolate World recognized the qi’s destination as his own childhood.

Gu Shaoshang projected Ji Ning, erased the traces that an Eight-Star mighty figure had followed, and obtained Ji Ning’s cultivation manuals. While waiting in Tianmo Prefecture for the Sacred Manifestation inheritance to open, Gu Shaoshang acquired the Nuwa Visualization Diagram and the Scripture of Future Non-Existence, leaving him ready to condense the Future Lord.

• Gu Shaoshang projected ten-year-old Ji Ning, paid 100,000 Source Power to erase the Eight-Star figure’s tracking traces, then defeated Ji Ning and obtained the incomplete Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram.
• Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia searched Tianmo Prefecture for the Sacred Manifestation inheritance before settling in an oasis, where Shen Wuxia spotted Fang Qidao, Xie San, and Butterfly Love Valley disciples he disliked.
• Gu Shaoshang stayed at the inn, trained, and repeatedly challenged projections; after a month, he obtained Ji Ning’s Nuwa Visualization Diagram and strengthened his Sea of Consciousness Power.
• Gu Shaoshang’s later projection rewards included Yang Pan’s Imperial Jade Seal and the Scripture of Future Non-Existence, along with several other manuals.
• Gu Shaoshang studied the Scripture of Future Non-Existence and decided its Future Lord could help him derive his own path of martial cultivation.

Gu Shaoshang chose to cross into the Nine Cauldrons World, hoping to repair the Myriad Heavens Mirror and grow stronger without attracting the attention of powerful beings. He arrived in the modern era decades before Teng Qingshan entered the Nine Provinces and set off to find the Siberian Training Camp.

• Gu Shaoshang left the oasis and found Anger injured after it had fought a giant eagle ridden by a young man in purple robes.
• In the Mirror World, Gu Shaoshang decided to seek two- and three-star worlds with a World Will and selected the Nine Cauldrons World for True Body Crossing.
• Gu Shaoshang adjusted the time flow so one day in the Main World equaled one year in the Nine Cauldrons World, then crossed with Anger.
• Gu Shaoshang arrived in a snow-covered modern landscape and learned that Teng Qingshan had entered the Siberian Training Camp.
• Gu Shaoshang sent Anger to fly freely and headed through the snowstorm to visit the Siberian Training Camp.

Gu Shaoshang entered the Siberian Training Camp after killing the men who attacked him and forcing their survivor to guide him there. At the camp, he found the young Teng Qingshan enduring brutal training and heard him call out for Qinghe.

• Gu Shaoshang crossed Siberia and saw armed men torturing two brown bears after shooting them.
• When one of the men shot at Gu Shaoshang, he crushed the group with a strike and spared Cherv to ask about the Siberian Training Camp.
• Cherv admitted he was a camp fighter and led Gu Shaoshang to the facility.
• Gu Shaoshang entered the camp and observed more than a hundred trainees enduring deadly exposure to the freezing cold.
• Gu Shaoshang spotted a small boy being doused with icy water and whipped; the boy was Teng Qingshan, who struggled to survive so he could meet his younger brother.

Gu Shaoshang rescued the young Teng Qingshan from the Siberian Training Camp’s deadly training and massacred the instructors and guards who attacked them. The camp’s boss, Melakimirte, charged at Gu Shaoshang in a rage.

• Gu Shaoshang recognized the frostbitten Teng Qingshan and restored his strength by placing a hand on his shoulder.
• Cherv told Melakimirte that the camp had won its boxing match and warned him about a Chinese youth suspected of being SS-class.
• The camp instructors opened fire after Gu Shaoshang rescued Teng Qingshan, but Gu Shaoshang caught their bullets and returned them, killing the attackers.
• Gu Shaoshang stomped the ground to detonate incoming rockets and struck the camp’s guards and instructors with flying rubble, killing them.
• Melakimirte found his subordinates dead, roared at Gu Shaoshang, and charged him with a raised fist.