Chapter Summaries

Gu Shaoshang defeated and killed Fang Qidao after withstanding the Underworld King's kowtow, then escaped with Shen Wuxia as a powerful Sky Dome expert appeared at the ruins. After parting from Shen Wuxia, Gu Shaoshang set out to take revenge.

• Fang Qidao used the Underworld King's kowtow Divine Ability, but Gu Shaoshang resisted it and killed him with one punch.
• Shen Wuxia followed Gu Shaoshang as they fled, while the golden eagle died under a restriction triggered by Fang Qidao's death.
• Zhen Yueluo arrived at the ruins, killed several Spirit Condensation experts, and left with her two disciples.
• Gu Shaoshang and Shen Wuxia discussed the danger posed by the Underworld King Sect and Sky Dome experts before parting ways.
• Gu Shaoshang stood alone in the sea of sand and declared that it was time to take revenge.

Gu Shaoshang prepared to pursue vengeance for his mother as events unfolded in Great Zhou, where Wang Yuanshi left his family estate and Underworld King Sect sought revenge for Fang Qidao’s death. After the Grand Governor rejected the sect’s demand, Gu Shaoshang received a summons from him.

• Gu Shaoshang told Anger that the giant eagle and its master were dead, then turned his thoughts toward avenging his mother.
• Lin Xuanlong visited Wang Fulong, discussed Wang Yuanshi’s unidentified Sacred Body, and said Yuanshi would return to Black Dragon City after reuniting with his parents.
• Wang Yuanshi left the estate and encountered Miao Xiaoxiao, who carried him away while fleeing the Dao Chasing Old Man.
• The Underworld King Sect learned that Fang Qidao had been killed and sent a request to the Grand Governor, who replied, “Get lost!”
• Gu Shaoshang received a message from his Martial Arts Hall token summoning him to see the Grand Governor.

After receiving a summons from the Grand Governor, Gu Shaoshang went to the Jade Gate Sect to avenge his parents by killing Zheng Dong, the martial artist responsible for their deaths. He left the sect in ruins, and its surviving experts could only watch him depart.

• Gu Shaoshang saw the Grand Governor's summons on his Martial Arts Hall token and flew to the Jade Gate Sect on Anger.
• Gu Shaoshang demanded that Zheng Dong come out and die, then forced a Qi Sect Realm disciple to his knees with a glance and knocked Fu Shan and the other disciples down with a stomp.
• Gu Shaoshang reached Zheng Dong's stone chamber, destroyed the surrounding cultivation chambers, and told Zheng Dong that he had killed Gu Shaoshang's parents during a battle more than ten years earlier.
• Gu Shaoshang killed Zheng Dong with a single punch, scattering his body across the mountaintop, then departed as the Jade Gate Sect's experts arrived.

Gu Shaoshang met Chen Ang, the unfathomable Grand Governor of the Martial Arts Hall, at its Yan Capital headquarters. After recognizing a manual title that suggested Chen Ang came from another world, Gu Shaoshang agreed to remain at the Martial Arts Hall, while Chen Ang hinted he had something to ask of him soon.

• Gu Shaoshang arrived in Yan Capital and sensed that the cold, saber-carrying Gao Jinyang was a powerful Concentration Realm martial artist who had come to find him.
• Gao Jinyang led Gu Shaoshang to the Martial Arts Hall headquarters, where the Grand Governor, Chen Ang, welcomed him.
• Chen Ang said he had summoned Gu Shaoshang simply to meet him and handed him several manuals he had created.
• Gu Shaoshang recognized the title Infinite Tathagata Scripture and concluded that Chen Ang's true body was not from the Vast Continent.
• Chen Ang asked Gu Shaoshang to stay at the Martial Arts Hall because he would have something to ask of him in a few days, then dismissed Gao Jinyang to arrange lodging.

Chen Ang explained that Gu Shaoshang had been chosen as his representative in the upcoming Myriad Races Grand Competition and gave him a booklet about the Vast Continent. After learning that Chen Ang was an incarnation of a Nine-Star expert, Gu Shaoshang resolved to gain Five-Star combat power soon, and Chen Ang reappeared in the room.

• Chen Ang told Gu Shaoshang that he had killed a demon two years earlier and that the demon race’s old demon had challenged him to settle their dispute through representatives at the Myriad Races Grand Competition.
• Chen Ang described the Vast Continent’s hidden laws, its martial arts realms, and the powerful races born at high cultivation levels.
• Chen Ang handed Gu Shaoshang a booklet detailing the myriad races and martial arts system, then vanished from the room.
• Gu Shaoshang read the booklet and realized Chen Ang had captured members of many races and could assess the realm of Innate Divine Demons.
• Gu Shaoshang used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to learn that Chen Ang was an incarnation of a Nine-Star expert, currently suppressed by the Vast Continent but still possessing Six-Star Elite combat power.
• Gu Shaoshang decided he needed to reach Five-Star combat power in the next world to escape Chen Ang’s control, and Chen Ang reappeared.

Gu Shaoshang learned how the Vast Continent’s cultivation realms corresponded to the Myriad Heavens Mirror’s star levels and received several secret manuals from Chen Ang. After discovering that the Immeasurable Tathagata True Scripture could lead to the seven-star realm, he began examining the other manuals.

• Gu Shaoshang studied Chen Ang’s booklet and learned the star ratings of the Vast Continent’s cultivation realms, then left Chen Ang’s study under intense pressure.
• Chen Ang reflected that the world was too peaceful, while Gu Shaoshang resolved to surpass him in the future.
• Gu Shaoshang found Gao Jinyang cultivating the Immeasurable Tathagata True Scripture, and Gao reacted strangely when Gu Shaoshang said Chen Ang had given him several complete manuals.
• Gu Shaoshang calmed his mind through visualization, then opened the Immeasurable Tathagata True Scripture and saw a vision of a Buddha chanting in his sea of consciousness.
• Gu Shaoshang learned that the scripture cultivated Great Sun Power and could reach the seven-star realm, though its later stages required swallowing a sun.
• Gu Shaoshang opened another manual and saw a Daoist figure wield a vast Heavenly River filled with planets and enormous beasts.

Gu Shaoshang stabilized his mind under Chen Ang’s pressure, broke through to the perfected Qi Sect Realm, and refused Chen Ang’s offer to boost his cultivation. After Chen Ang directed him to a Spirit Medicine on Great Ming Mountain, Gu Shaoshang left Yan Capital for You Province, wary of the Grand Governor’s intentions.

• Gu Shaoshang absorbed Chen Ang’s manuals, steadied his Dao heart, and opened all 365 acupoints to reach the perfected Qi Sect Realm.
• After reading the Golden Chamber Essentials, Gu Shaoshang met Chen Ang, who praised his breakthrough and offered to help him ascend quickly, but Gu Shaoshang refused.
• Chen Ang told Gu Shaoshang to harvest a Spirit Medicine at Sky Bird Peak on Great Ming Mountain in You Province before it matured in a little over a year.
• Gu Shaoshang returned to his room, continued cultivating the Primordial Golden Scripture, and resolved not to abandon his chosen path for Chen Ang’s methods.
• After half a month at the Martial Arts Hall, Gu Shaoshang left Yan Capital on Anger and headed toward You Province.

Gu Shaoshang used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to make ten thousand random projections, then spent Source Power to project the young Jiang Taixu from the Shrouding the Heavens World. The chapter ended as Gu Shaoshang inspected the newly materialized Divine Body.

• Gu Shaoshang reviewed his remaining Source Power and made ten thousand random projections, obtaining many manuals and items along with a challenge projection of Gai Jiuyou.
• Gu Shaoshang converted the Main God Hall subsystem's Jade Pendant into 700,000 points of Source Power.
• Gu Shaoshang chose Jiang Taixu over Ye Fan, hoping to obtain a systematic cultivation framework useful for strengthening his Sacred Body.
• The Myriad Heavens Mirror projected Jiang Taixu as he received the Hengyu Scripture from his uncle and set out from the Jiang Family grounds.
• Gu Shaoshang received the young Jiang Taixu in the Mirror World and ordered the Myriad Heavens Mirror to inspect him.

Gu Shaoshang challenged Jiang Taixu’s projection, returned to Gu Family Village to reunite with his father, and then traveled toward Sky Bird Peak while hunting demon beasts for Source Power. He entered the Mirror World near a Demon Bear King’s territory, ready to use the power he had gathered to repair the four-star Myriad Heavens Mirror.

• Gu Shaoshang defeated Jiang Taixu’s projection but did not obtain the Hengyu Scripture; defeating Shen Wuxia’s projection earned him a four-star flying dagger.
• Gu Shaoshang returned to Gu Family Village, reunited with Gu Jiu, and told him that he had killed Zheng Dong.
• Gu Jiu warned Gu Shaoshang not to forget the lives of the weak, and father and son paid respects at Gu Shaoshang’s mother’s grave.
• Gu Shaoshang stayed for a month, helped Gu Jiu reach Life Establishment, and left martial manuals and spirit medicines with Clan Chief Gu Yu.
• Gu Shaoshang rode Anger into Great Ming Mountain and killed demon beasts along the way to collect Source Power.
• Near Sky Bird Peak, Gu Shaoshang noticed the growing number of Spirit Condensation Demon Bears and entered the Mirror World to repair his four-star Myriad Heavens Mirror.

Gu Shaoshang abandoned repairing the Myriad Heavens Mirror and made fifty thousand more projections, while Xiongba and his companions trained inside Black Bear King’s prison. Gu Shaoshang then arrived at Sky Bird Peak, poised to enter the next world.

• Gu Shaoshang learned that repairing the four-star Myriad Heavens Mirror would take ten years and decided to risk using it unrepaired.
• Gu Shaoshang spent five hundred thousand Source Power on fifty thousand random projections, producing a vast number of light orbs.
• Bear Weng was imprisoned for damaging a building in Black Bear King’s kingdom and met Xiongba, the little black tiger, and Fierce Wind inside.
• Xiongba continued deducing a fist-cultivation path and ordered the little black tiger to train with Fierce Wind.
• Gu Shaoshang traveled through the forest and arrived beneath Sky Bird Peak.

Gu Shaoshang watched four Sky Dome Level demon kings gather at Sky Bird Peak to claim a powerful Spirit Medicine. When the medicine released its fragrance and golden light, the surrounding demon beasts went mad and surged toward the peak.

• Gu Shaoshang spotted a golden bird of prey circling Sky Bird Mountain and recognized it as a Sky Dome Level demon.
• Sky Snake King confronted Golden Eagle King over the Spirit Medicine, and Black Bear King and Yak King appeared to claim their shares.
• Gu Shaoshang hid nearby for several months as demon beasts gathered around Sky Bird Peak, waiting for the kings to fight.
• The Spirit Medicine released a captivating fragrance that stirred Gu Shaoshang’s bloodline, but he chose not to approach while the kings remained united.
• A streak of golden light and a burst of pollen emerged from Sky Bird Mountain, driving countless demon beasts into a frenzied charge toward Sky Bird Peak.

Gu Shaoshang tricked the Four Great Demon Kings and took the unripe Spirit Medicine from Sky Bird Mountain. He stored the fruit and confirmed his crossing to the Yang Shen World.

• The Four Great Demon Kings fought around Sky Bird Peak while Gu Shaoshang assessed their strength and devised a way to reach the Spirit Medicine.
• Gu Shaoshang sent an incarnation wielding a Heavenly Treasure to draw the Demon Kings’ attacks while his true body traveled underground toward the mountain summit.
• The Demon Kings destroyed Gu Shaoshang’s incarnation, but his true body caught the Spirit Medicine as it fell from the flower and escaped.
• Gu Shaoshang returned to the Mirror World and regretted that the fruit had only half its full medicinal potency because it was unripe.
• Gu Shaoshang stored the fruit in the Nine Cauldrons, then asked the Myriad Heavens Mirror to confirm his crossing to the Yang Shen World.

Gu Shaoshang chose to enter the Yang Shen World through the Myriad Heavens Mirror and arrived in the body of Hong Xuanji. After eight years as a seemingly foolish child, Hong Xuanji awakened just as his mother tried to kill them both.

• Gu Shaoshang chose Possession Rebirth in the Yang Shen World, brought Anger along, and adjusted the world's time flow before crossing over.
• The Myriad Heavens Mirror carried Gu Shaoshang and Anger into the Yang Shen World, where Gu Shaoshang sensed the world's immense scale and its cycle of destruction.
• A young widow gave birth to a son alone in Hong Family Town and named him Hong Xuanji.
• Hong Xuanji's mother raised him despite poverty and illness, while he appeared foolish and unresponsive.
• When Hong Xuanji was eight, his mother tried to stab him with scissors, but the blade struck his body like iron and his eyes suddenly awakened.

Gu Shaoshang recovered as Hong Xuanji in the Yang Shen World, healed his birth mother, and learned that he had sixteen years to father Yi Zi or risk alerting the World Will. After deciding to help Madam Hong and pursue his cultivation goals, he confronted a rude physician who arrived to treat her.

• Gu Shaoshang revealed his identity as a reincarnated Ghost Immortal to his birth mother and used his power to cure her illness.
• The Myriad Heavens Mirror told Gu Shaoshang that he had to father Yi Zi within sixteen years to avoid detection by the World Will.
• Gu Shaoshang reviewed the world's martial and Daoist cultivation systems and resolved to help Madam Hong recover and find a stable home.
• Gu Shaoshang brought Madam Hong nourishing porridge and reassured her that she remained his birth mother in this life.
• Aunt You arrived with Doctor Li to treat Madam Hong, and Gu Shaoshang secretly incapacitated the impatient physician with a breath of force.

Gu Shaoshang subdued an old physician and recruited him, then learned about the newly established Great Qian and its powerful enemies while preparing to study medicine. After half a month, Gu Shaoshang and Hong arrived outside Imperial Capital City, where he observed the immense golden qi gathered over the capital.

• Gu Shaoshang used medical methods to disorder the old physician’s five energies, then restored him and invited Big Sister You inside to see Hong.
• The old physician reflected on the ethics of medicine, bowed to Gu Shaoshang, and followed him through town.
• Gu Shaoshang paid a tavern storyteller to describe Great Qian, learning about Meng Shenji, the Great Zen Temple, and the threats facing the dynasty.
• Gu Shaoshang recruited the old physician to help open a medical clinic in Imperial Capital City and promised to teach him the way of medicine.
• After half a month, Gu Shaoshang and the recovered Hong reached Imperial Capital City, where Gu Shaoshang saw golden qi grow denser toward the city’s center.

At Heavenly Mandate Hall, Gu Shaoshang rescued a girl from a Yin soul and gave Li Chunfeng a medical cultivation manual. That night, a Ghost Immortal came to attack him, and Gu Shaoshang moved to strike.

• Li Chunfeng revived a drowned girl, and Gu Shaoshang used his blood energy to destroy the Yin soul possessing her.
• Gu Shaoshang gave Li Chunfeng a medical path Foundation Establishment manual and explained how he had compiled it.
• A Ghost Immortal sensed the Martial Saint who had destroyed his thought and decided to seek revenge.
• Gu Shaoshang sensed the hostile presence approaching Heavenly Mandate Hall and waited to meet it.
• The Ghost Immortal transformed into a heavenly demon and challenged Gu Shaoshang, who reached out to attack.

Gu Shaoshang defeated Wu Yue, a Ghost Immortal and Grand Elder of the Witch Ghost Dao, then forced him to serve in a locust wood Jade Pendant and learned about the world’s powerful cultivators. Months later, Gu Shaoshang watched the imperial palace as Meng Shenji arrived to assassinate Emperor Gan, who received a Death Notice.

• Gu Shaoshang overwhelmed Wu Yue with his Yang energy and compressed him into a demonic pearl.
• Wu Yue revealed that Human Immortals were exceedingly rare, named Monk Yinyue and Gongyang Yu, and submitted to Gu Shaoshang as a servant.
• Gu Shaoshang spent three months studying medicine, martial cultivation, and Daoist magic while training his acupoints.
• Gu Shaoshang sensed Meng Shenji in the Imperial Capital City and went to observe the Great Master near the imperial palace.
• Emperor Gan confronted Meng Shenji’s Death Notice as armored warriors guarded him inside the palace.

Gu Shaoshang watched as Meng Shenji entered the Great Gan palace and killed Emperor Gan, demonstrating overwhelming power. Meng Shenji left the imperial family mourning over the emperor’s corpse.

• Emperor Gan dismissed the tearful Empress and vowed that his descendants would one day restore the glory of the ancient Sacred Emperors.
• Gu Shaoshang sensed Meng Shenji approaching, concealed his presence, and reflected on the differences between his cultivation and the Yang Shen World’s Human Immortal system.
• Meng Shenji arrived above the imperial palace and announced that Emperor Gan should be executed, while his pressure forced the palace guards to collapse.
• Gu Shaoshang slipped into the palace as Meng Shenji noticed another expert nearby and entered a hall where dozens of martial arts experts attacked him.
• Meng Shenji used the Clock of the Universe’s Extreme to destroy the attackers, then overcame Emperor Gan’s Ghost Immortal attack and killed him with a finger.
• The imperial family emerged from the side halls and mourned over Emperor Gan’s corpse after Meng Shenji disappeared.

After the Emperor Gan’s death, Gu Shaoshang searched the palace and studied its records, clarifying how martial arts and Daoist cultivation related in the Yang Shen World. When spring thunder came, he left the capital to test his theory by entering a lightning tribulation with his physical body.

• After Meng Shenji killed the Emperor Gan, Gu Shaoshang searched the imperial palace and recognized the young Yang Pan before leaving.
• Gu Shaoshang absorbed the Great Gan’s records and concluded that the paths of martial arts and Daoist magic ultimately supported the same attainment.
• After the court announced Taizong’s death and Yang Yun ascended the throne, Gu Shaoshang spent a month tempering his acupoints in Heavenly Mandate Hall.
• When spring storms arrived, Gu Shaoshang placed Wu Yue inside the locustwood Jade Pendant and traveled to West Mountain to undergo tribulation.
• Gu Shaoshang charged into the thunderclouds and entered the lightning tribulation with his physical body, leaving Wu Yue astonished.

Gu Shaoshang crossed the first lightning tribulation with his true body, letting the lightning destroy and restore him as it purified and strengthened his body and will. He entered the second layer, where lightning streams devoured him, as a powerful stranger arrived and reached into the thunderclouds to seize him.

• Gu Shaoshang endured the first layer of the lightning tribulation, repeatedly suffering catastrophic injuries and recovering as his body and soul grew purer and his will strengthened.
• After absorbing the first layer’s lightning and opening ten acupoints, Gu Shaoshang judged the deeper layers and stepped into the second lightning tribulation.
• Crystalline lightning streams attacked Gu Shaoshang and devoured his flesh and skeleton until nothing remained visible of him.
• Wu Yue sensed a powerful presence approaching and hid in the locust-wood Jade Pendant rather than warn Gu Shaoshang.
• A stranger in a vast black cloud identified the tribulator as a second-tribulation Ghost Immortal and reached a huge hand into the thunderclouds to seize him.