Chapter Summaries

Gu Shaoshang endured a lightning strike, learned from Li Taibai’s phantom that the Nine Provinces World trapped those who tried to leave it, and departed Bright Moon Island with Qing'er. By the end, Qing'er had opened all her meridians, while Gu Shaoshang had opened forty-nine acupoints and condensed the Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade.

• Gu Shaoshang survived the World Will's lightning attack, discovered that lightning strengthened his body, and resolved to force the World Will to reveal the Nine Cauldrons.
• Gu Shaoshang watched Li Taibai's recorded message, which explained that Shattering the Void only led to another world within the same confines, and reacted to Li Taibai's mention of Martial Ancestor.
• Tian Hong saw Gu Shaoshang leave Bright Moon Island on a giant eagle and discovered that the Immortal Jade Tablet's mountain wall had vanished.
• Qing'er told Gu Shaoshang that she had opened all her meridians, and he advised her to build up her cultivation before learning the Cihang Sword Canon.
• Gu Shaoshang examined his acupoints and recalled that lightning had helped him open ten more, bringing his total to forty-nine and allowing him to condense the Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade.

Gu Shaoshang returned to the Tantai Family after two years away, but left after discovering they had concealed a Crimson Cloud Gold mine and tried to manipulate him. As he headed for the Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce, Skywind Family forces arrived to claim the mine.

• Gu Shaoshang demonstrated his newly condensed Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade to Qing'er while they flew back to Duanmu Continent.
• Tantai Zhengming welcomed Gu Shaoshang and reported that his family had collected three more stone stele diagrams, while the Skywind Family and Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce held many others.
• Tantai Huazhang brought in the captive Fu Gang, who revealed that the Tantai Family was secretly mining Crimson Cloud Gold and that he had informed their rivals.
• Gu Shaoshang stopped Tantai Zhengming from striking Fu Gang, questioned the Tantai elders, killed Fu Gang, and left despite Qing'er's tearful pleas.
• Gu Shaoshang ordered the giant eagle to fly to the Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce, while an armed force from the Skywind Family entered Donghua Domain to seize the Crimson Cloud Gold mine.

Gu Shaoshang arrived at Yunmeng Ancient City and demanded martial arts manuals, spirit medicines, three hundred thousand slaves, and a city from the Rising Sun Merchant Guild. After he repelled the guild’s fighters with a devastating sound attack, its two Void Realm experts donned Void Glimpse Armor, and Gu Shaoshang prepared to test his small saber against them.

• Gu Shaoshang traveled by giant eagle to Yunmeng Ancient City and summoned the Cloud Dream War God.
• Gu Shaoshang demanded the guild’s Divine Skill Manuals and one of each kind of Spirit Medicine, and the Cloud Dream War God agreed to provide them.
• Gu Shaoshang also demanded three hundred thousand slaves and a city, prompting the Rising Sun Merchant Guild experts to attack him.
• Gu Shaoshang blasted the attackers away with a sound-based martial art, leaving them injured and their surroundings wrecked.
• The Cloud Dream War God and a concealed Void Realm expert put on Void Glimpse Armor and offered to meet Gu Shaoshang’s first two demands if he abandoned the third.
• Gu Shaoshang produced a tiny saber and asked whether one slash could pierce their armor.

Gu Shaoshang defeated Cloud Dream War God and another Void Realm expert with the Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade, then forced the Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce to give him Nanshan City and help establish his sect. As the Divine Fist Dao's mountain gate took shape and visitors flocked to Divine Axe Mountain, Tantai Qing'er arrived and declared herself its founding senior sister.

• Gu Shaoshang unleashed the Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade, devastating the hall and stripping Cloud Dream War God of his armor while badly injuring the other man.
• Cloud Dream War God asked the name of Gu Shaoshang's strike, and the Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce admitted defeat and accepted his demands.
• The Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce moved hundreds of thousands of slaves to Nanshan City, where Gu Shaoshang settled them and selected registered disciples.
• Gu Shaoshang announced that he would establish the Divine Fist Dao at Divine Axe Mountain, drawing visitors from across the land.
• Cloud Dream War God exchanged help building the sect's mountain gate for Gu Shaoshang's guidance on the saber Dao and received the Eight Heavenly Saber Techniques.
• Tantai Qing'er came alone to see Gu Shaoshang and declared that she was the Divine Fist Dao's founding senior sister.

Gu Shaoshang welcomed Tantai Qing'er as his disciple and deduced that the World Will had brought Teng Qingshan to the Nine Cauldrons World to oppose Xuantian Evil Emperor and Dugu Xingye. Meanwhile, Qin Seventeen and Ying Haitong led the Ying Family toward the Duanmu Continent, hoping to claim it before rival Nine Provinces powers arrived.

• Gu Shaoshang accepted Tantai Qing'er, brought her to Nanshan City, and gave her guidance on her cultivation.
• Gu Shaoshang concluded that the World Will needed Teng Qingshan to counter the threat posed by Xuantian Evil Emperor and Dugu Xingye, and declared that the Nine Cauldrons were his.
• Qin Seventeen and Ying Haitong discussed the Ying Family's retreat from the Nine Provinces and their plan to establish themselves on the Duanmu Continent.
• Qin Seventeen and Ying Haitong expected to subdue the Duanmu Continent unless it had powerful experts, while ships from Emperor Yu's Gate and Mani Temple pursued them.
• The Ying Family's ships reached the Duanmu Continent at sunrise.

The Ying Family seized a city on Duanmu Continent and planned to use the Divine Fist Dao’s opening ceremony to establish their dominance. As Gu Shaoshang hosted the continent’s powerful figures, Qin Seventeen flew toward the summit, and Gu Shaoshang sensed his arrival.

• Ying Haitong and Qin Seventeen led an elite army inland, and Qin Wang captured a small city for them.
• After questioning the city lord, Ying Haitong learned that Duanmu Continent had few powerful experts and planned to challenge Gu Shaoshang at the Divine Fist Dao’s opening.
• Gu Shaoshang completed the sect’s mountain gates, trained more than a dozen disciples to the Innate realm, and prepared to accept new students.
• In Divine Spring Town, Fu Dao killed Lin Longqing after Lin Longqing mocked Wang Longwu for being born a slave.
• The Divine Fist Dao opened its gates and distributed introductory manuals, while Qin Seventeen and Ying Haitong headed toward the ceremony.
• Qin Seventeen flew toward the main hall where Gu Shaoshang and Duanmu Continent’s leading figures had gathered, and Gu Shaoshang noticed his approach.

Gu Shaoshang challenged Qin Seventeen after the Dongxu expert arrived at the Divine Fist Dao’s founding ceremony, defeating him with the Life and Death Wheel. Qin Seventeen died after lamenting that he would never fight Dugu Xingye.

• Qin Seventeen arrived at the Divine Fist Dao and asked whether Gu Shaoshang was its sect master.
• Gu Shaoshang ordered Qin Seventeen down and struck him with a punch, sending him flying into Ying Haitong.
• Qin Seventeen recovered and charged Gu Shaoshang with his sword, whose black-and-white power wounded Gu Shaoshang’s hand.
• Gu Shaoshang used the Life and Death Wheel, breaking Qin Seventeen’s sword and sending him crashing into the ground.
• Qin Seventeen rose despite his grave injuries, said he would never fight Dugu Xingye, and died.

Gu Shaoshang killed Qin Seventeen, drove Ying Haitong from the Donghua Domain, and realized Dugu Xingye was expelling Virtual Realm experts to help repair the Nine Provinces. After expanding the Divine Fist Dao and studying the Emperor Yu stone carvings, he met Da Yu’s spiritual imprint, who explained the world’s decline before reacting to an arrival.

• Gu Shaoshang killed Qin Seventeen and allowed Ying Haitong and the other displaced Nine Provinces factions to settle anywhere on the Duanmu Continent except the Donghua Domain.
• Gu Shaoshang deduced that Dugu Xingye was driving Virtual Realm experts from the Nine Provinces because their understanding of natural laws helped repair the continent.
• Teng Qingshan practiced fist techniques in the Teng Family Manor and resolved to grow stronger in a world ruled by sects and Supreme Experts.
• Gu Shaoshang received reports that 1,706 recruits had mastered the introductory fist techniques and ordered Wu Ma to teach them the next stage.
• Gu Shaoshang studied the Emperor Yu stone carvings, which crumbled and revealed a spiritual imprint identifying itself as Da Yu and part of the World Will.
• Da Yu explained that the Nine Cauldrons suppressed the world’s upheavals and that the twin world’s decline would return its origin to the Nine Provinces, then reacted to someone’s arrival.

Da Yu’s phantom warned Gu Shaoshang that Dugu Xingye threatened the world and offered him a request if he could defeat him, but Gu Shaoshang refused to fight before he was strong enough. Meanwhile, Huang Tianqin and the Old Monk investigated Qin Seventeen’s death and prepared to confront Divine Fist Dao, where Gu Shaoshang sensed killing intent approaching.

• Da Yu’s phantom told Gu Shaoshang that Dugu Xingye might soon Shatter the Void and urged him to stop the catastrophe, offering the World Will’s reward of one request.
• Gu Shaoshang judged that he could not yet defeat a Supreme Expert, but considered that the World Will might help him obtain the remaining Nine Cauldrons.
• Huang Tianqin and the Old Monk visited the Ying Family to ask how Gu Shaoshang had killed Qin Seventeen, and Ying Haitong blamed the Supreme Armor and several allies.
• After the visitors left, Ying Haitong revealed that he wanted Emperor Yu’s Gate and Mani Temple to suffer losses by seeking out Divine Fist Dao.
• Huang Tianqin learned from a Ying Family disciple that Qin Seventeen and Ying Haitong had gone to Divine Fist Dao, then agreed with the Old Monk to wait for Sun Shooting Divine Mountain’s reinforcements.
• As snowfall covered the Donghua Domain, Gu Shaoshang sensed killing intent approaching Divine Axe Mountain while teaching his nominal disciples.

Gu Shaoshang confronted Huang Tianqin, Liaoyuan, and Shen Goutu after they arrived to attack Divine Fist Dao and divide Duanmu Continent. He overwhelmed Liaoyuan and crushed Huang Tianqin’s sword, then struck Huang Tianqin with Buzhou Break as Shen Goutu’s arrows closed in.

• Gu Shaoshang flew from Divine Fist Dao to meet the approaching attackers away from the sect.
• Huang Tianqin, Liaoyuan, and Shen Goutu agreed to eliminate Divine Fist Dao and divide Duanmu Continent among their factions.
• Gu Shaoshang charged the three men, deflected Shen Goutu’s arrows, and met Huang Tianqin and Liaoyuan in battle.
• Gu Shaoshang’s punch drove Liaoyuan back, while he caught and crushed Huang Tianqin’s sword with his bare fingers.
• Gu Shaoshang blasted Huang Tianqin’s sword glow apart with a roar and struck his raised arms with Buzhou Break as Shen Goutu fired nine arrows.

Gu Shaoshang killed Huang Tianqin with a single punch, then fought the Old Monk while unleashing his Divine Emperor's Unrivaled Blade against Shen Goutu and the other attackers. After the Old Monk wounded him, Gu Shaoshang's arm regenerated completely, revealing the power of his Uninjured Body.

• Gu Shaoshang killed Huang Tianqin with the Great Might World Destroying Seal, shattering his body and spirit.
• The Old Monk struck Gu Shaoshang from behind, but Gu Shaoshang recovered and counterattacked with a Buzhou Break; the two then fought evenly in the air.
• Shen Goutu led the Xiantian experts toward the Divine Fist Dao's mountain gate, hoping to distract Gu Shaoshang, but Gu Shaoshang sent his Blade Light after them.
• Gu Shaoshang's Blade Light killed Shen Goutu and dozens of Xiantian experts, while the Sun Shooting Celestial Wolf charged at him in rage.
• The Old Monk attacked Gu Shaoshang with a hand blade and lost to Gu Shaoshang's punch, but Gu Shaoshang's severed arm regenerated through the power of his Uninjured Body.

Gu Shaoshang defeated the Old Monk and the Sun Shooting Celestial Wolf, then forced the surviving disciples of three sects into twenty years of service to the Divine Fist Dao. Years later, Da Yu told him the World Will would grant him the complete Nine Cauldrons if he killed Dugu Xingye, but Gu Shaoshang demanded the cauldrons first.

• Gu Shaoshang killed the Old Monk and the Sun Shooting Celestial Wolf, then ordered the three sects’ surviving disciples to bury the dead and meet him at the hall.
• Gu Shaoshang questioned the disciples about the Profound Heaven Divine Emperor, learned that the Ying Family had sent them, and made them serve the Divine Fist Dao for twenty years.
• The three sects later paid Gu Shaoshang for permission to settle, while the Ying Family offered gifts and Ying Haitong’s head; Gu Shaoshang sent all four factions to the Northern Cold Domain after reviewing their manuals.
• Over the following years, Gu Shaoshang strengthened the Divine Fist Dao and advanced to the late stage of the Qi Sect Realm by opening more than a hundred acupoints.
• Da Yu told Gu Shaoshang that the World Will would give him the complete Nine Cauldrons if he killed Dugu Xingye, and Gu Shaoshang insisted on receiving them before the fight.

After receiving the remaining Nine Cauldrons, Gu Shaoshang set out to challenge Dugu Xingye, while Dugu Xingye revealed his cruelty by killing two Divine Dao Alliance elders. The chapter ended with Gu Shaoshang heading for the Nine Provinces as Dugu Xingye lamented the loss of Source Power.

• Gu Shaoshang refused to give up the Nine Cauldrons to Dugu Xingye and continued tempering his acupoints while planning a divine ability to improve his chances against him.
• Ten years later, Gu Shaoshang left the Divine Fist Dao with Tantai Qing'er, who had reached the peak of the Void Realm, and flew toward the Nine Provinces on Anger.
• Dugu Xingye ignored You Shijin's demands to explain the disappearance of the Divine Dao Alliance's 380,000 members.
• Dugu Xingye crushed You Shijin's head, then killed Zou Tianchang with his Thousand Blades Without End technique.
• Dugu Xingye sighed over the lost Source Power in the ruined hall.

Teng Qingshan reunited with his master Gu Shaoshang and his wife Xiao Mao, while Gu Shaoshang continued toward Divine Emperor City to confront Dugu Xingye. The chapter ended with Dugu Xingye noticing Gu Shaoshang approaching the city.

• Teng Qingshan practiced spear techniques before Anger arrived carrying Gu Shaoshang, Tantai Qing'er, and Xiao Mao.
• Teng Qingshan reunited emotionally with Xiao Mao and welcomed Gu Shaoshang and Tantai Qing'er to Teng Family Manor.
• Gu Shaoshang stayed for half a month, taught Teng Qingshan martial arts, and then departed with Tantai Qing'er on Anger to challenge the Profound Heaven Divine Emperor.
• As they traveled, Gu Shaoshang told Tantai Qing'er to remain outside Divine Emperor City and prepare to take charge of the Divine Fist Dao.
• Dugu Xingye reviewed his Main God Hall missions and learned that shifting the timeline to revive Xiao Yezi would cost ten million Source Power.
• Dugu Xingye sensed Gu Shaoshang approaching Divine Emperor City and called him a reckless fool.

Gu Shaoshang launched a devastating attack on Dugu Xingye, breaking through the Supreme Expert’s Blade and Sword Combination at the cost of severe injuries. Dugu Xingye rose from the ruins and challenged Gu Shaoshang to decide how he wanted to die.

• Dugu Xingye remained restrained within Divine Emperor City as he fought the World Will in silence.
• Gu Shaoshang crossed the city and struck Dugu Xingye with a fist that shattered the Divine Dao Alliance hall and transformed the surrounding ground.
• Dugu Xingye countered with his Blade and Sword Combination, depriving Gu Shaoshang of his five senses and cutting him severely.
• Gu Shaoshang endured the assault and landed a powerful punch that shattered Dugu Xingye’s Supreme Armor and sent him flying into the ruins.
• Dugu Xingye rose from the trench, acknowledged Gu Shaoshang’s resolve, and asked how he wished to die.

Gu Shaoshang and Dugu Xingye fought a devastating battle above the ruins, each unleashing their strongest techniques. Their final collision tore open a black hole and swallowed them both, leaving Anger and Tantai Qing'er unable to find Gu Shaoshang.

• Gu Shaoshang recovered from Dugu Xingye's attacks and charged him, while Dugu Xingye answered with his blade and sword techniques.
• Dugu Xingye broke free of Gu Shaoshang's materialized fist intent and struck him with a devastating blade-and-sword combination, forcing Gu Shaoshang to retreat with a serious shoulder wound.
• Gu Shaoshang unleashed his Buzhou Break, drawing on his divine ability and Blood Qi to manifest a collapsing divine mountain in a blow that trapped Dugu Xingye.
• Dugu Xingye met Gu Shaoshang's descending fist with his strongest blade-and-sword attack, and their collision tore open a black hole that swallowed them both.
• Anger searched the battlefield above Divine Emperor City, but Tantai Qing'er found no sign of Gu Shaoshang and cried out for her master.

After destroying Divine Emperor City, Gu Shaoshang survived the void between worlds and obtained a Main God Hall subsystem before returning to the Nine Provinces. Hundreds of years later, he appeared in Yicheng as Teng Qingshan’s legacy endured, while Anger had spent decades waiting for Gu Shaoshang to return.

• Anger searched the ruins of Divine Emperor City for Gu Shaoshang, and Tantai Qing'er later left while the eagle continued to wait there.
• Gu Shaoshang recovered in the void, learned that he had killed Dugu Xingye and received a Main God Hall subsystem, then returned to the Nine Provinces without inspecting the jade pendant.
• The people of the Nine Provinces learned that Pei San had challenged Teng Qingshan and Tantai Qing'er to a battle at White Horse Lake.
• Teng Qingshan and Tantai Qing'er went to White Horse Lake, where Teng Qingshan killed Pei San with one spear strike and advanced to become a Supreme Expert.
• Several hundred years later, Gu Shaoshang walked through Yicheng with a tiny golden eagle and looked at statues of himself and Teng Qingshan.

Gu Shaoshang returned from the Nine Cauldrons World after nearly five hundred years, settled his account with its World Will, and recorded the world in the Myriad Heavens Mirror. Back in the Mirror World, he resisted the temptation of his Source Power, manifested a Main God Hall subsystem, and discovered it was a Five-Star secret treasure.

• Gu Shaoshang learned that Teng Qingshan and Tantai Qing'er had shattered the void, then revealed himself as the Martial Ancestor before ascending from Yicheng Square.
• Gu Shaoshang left the Nine Cauldrons World, and its wounded World Will abandoned the modern world, which drifted into a vast universe where the RR virus began transforming life.
• Gu Shaoshang returned to the Mirror World and reunited with Anger after hundreds of years apart, then worried that his long absence might have endangered Shen Wuxia.
• Gu Shaoshang recorded the Nine Cauldrons World as the fourth world in the Myriad Heavens Mirror and learned he had gained 1,619,653 points of Source Power and the united Nine Cauldrons world core.
• Gu Shaoshang resisted the desire to use Source Power to destroy worlds and chose to manifest the Main God Hall subsystem, spending 1,200,000 points on the Five-Star secret treasure.

Gu Shaoshang examined the damaged Main God Hall Subsystem and learned about Dugu Xingye’s life and the danger posed by other powerful travelers. Elsewhere, Shen Wuxia fled across Tianmo Prefecture with a bottle of bloodline-activating pills, but Fang Qidao and Xie San cornered him with two more pursuers.

• Gu Shaoshang activated the Jade Pendant and discovered that Subsystem No. 1943 was damaged, but its records showed how Dugu Xingye had been reincarnated and driven toward demonic nature by the system’s mission.
• Gu Shaoshang concluded that at least 1,942 other powerful travelers could threaten the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and noted the fifty thousand Source Power stored in the subsystem.
• Gu Shaoshang reviewed his status, assessed his Three-Star combat power, and left the Mirror World with Anger.
• Shen Wuxia fled across Tianmo Prefecture after activating his Divine Body with a bottle of pills, while Fang Qidao and Xie San pursued him and demanded that he hand it over.
• Shen Wuxia taunted Fang Qidao and Xie San with the bottle, but two red-robed pursuers arrived and trapped him between the groups.

Shen Wuxia surrendered the pill bottle to the Butterfly Love Valley sisters, but Fang Qidao attacked him anyway until Gu Shaoshang arrived and defeated Fang, taking the Underworld King Sect’s Heavenly Treasure. As Gu Shaoshang moved to kill Fang, Fang knelt and began invoking the Underworld King.

• Shen Wuxia tossed the pill bottle to the Butterfly Love Valley sisters and fled as the surrounding masters attacked.
• Xie San and Fang Qidao pursued Shen Wuxia, and Fang trapped him with the Hand of the Underworld King.
• Gu Shaoshang arrived, struck Fang Qidao down, and seized his Heavenly Treasure before it could return to him.
• Shen Wuxia told Gu Shaoshang that the bottle contained a pill that had activated his body and drawn him into the pursuit.
• Fang Qidao rose from the sand and accused Gu Shaoshang of a sneak attack, but Gu charged to finish him.
• Fang Qidao knelt before Gu Shaoshang and declared, “Underworld King... first kowtow!”