Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao injured Luo Tianshan with the Nascent Soul Dao Sword, triggering a lightning tribulation that threatened to strike while Luo was wounded. Fang Xiao scattered the tribulation clouds and severed Luo’s lingering aura from them, leaving Bai Fusheng stunned by his defiance of heavenly might.

• Fang Xiao launched the Nascent Soul Dao Sword at Luo Tianshan, who failed to block it with lightning and suffered a severe soul injury.
• Luo Tianshan concealed his aura and sat down to avoid provoking the lightning tribulation, while Fang Xiao realized the clouds had sensed him.
• Fang Xiao released the restraints of his Leakless Body, scattering the forming tribulation clouds with his combined magical power, blood and qi, and sword intent.
• Fang Xiao used the Chanting Sword Art to shred Luo Tianshan’s lingering aura before the tribulation could lock onto it again.
• The heavenly pressure searched the area, cowed Bai Fusheng to his knees, then passed over Fang Xiao and dispersed without finding Luo Tianshan.
• Bai Fusheng recovered and stared at Fang Xiao in disbelief as Fang Xiao affirmed his resolve to defy anyone, even heaven.

After protecting Luo Tianshan through his recovery, Fang Xiao demanded compensation for the Qingmiao Tribe’s pursuit and ambush. Luo Tianshan revealed that the Guiyi Gu’s mother Gu had a problem and showed Fang a Guiyi Gu corpse containing a Dharma seal, but Fang challenged his explanation with another corpse that lacked one.

• Fang Xiao guarded Luo Tianshan until his aura and soul injuries had stabilized, then confronted him about compensation for the pursuit and ambush.
• Luo Tianshan agreed to give Fang Xiao the Guiyi Gu but said its mother Gu had gone wrong, so they would not obtain newborn larvae at the Gu God Palace.
• Luo Tianshan handed Fang Xiao a Guiyi Gu corpse and said its origins were connected to cultivators.
• Fang Xiao found a Dharma seal inside the corpse’s insect core, while Luo Tianshan explained that Guiyi Gu essence energy resembled magic power and could devour a cultivator’s Golden Core and Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xiao examined another Guiyi Gu corpse and asked Luo Tianshan why it lacked a Dharma seal.

Luo Tianshan explained how the Luo Clan bred Guiyi Gu and why its mother worm could no longer produce larvae. Fang Xiao remained unconvinced and demanded compensation before considering help with Luo Tianshan’s tribulation.

• Luo Tianshan explained that Demon Cores could give Guiyi Gu attributes, while Golden Cores imbued them with a dharma seal that enabled them to reach the Spirit Fusion Realm.
• Luo Tianshan revealed that the Luo Clan had exhausted nearly all its Golden Cores and that Luonan could not advance because his Guiyi Gu lacked a dharma seal.
• Luo Tianshan said the clan had overworked the Guiyi Gu Mother Worm until it stopped producing eggs, then sacrificed it to create a new mother worm that had not yet matured.
• Fang Xiao demanded to inspect the mother worm in Gu God Palace, but Luo Tianshan said he might die in his coming lightning tribulation before the palace opened.
• Fang Xiao accused Luo Tianshan of trying to secure his help with the promise of future information and demanded compensation before discussing the tribulation.

Luo Tianshan gave Fang Xiao an indestructible painting scroll once owned by a Nascent Soul Cultivator who died after fighting demons and Gu Masters. Fang Xiao discovered that the scroll absorbed mana without reacting, and continued pouring in more to test its limits.

• Luo Tianshan searched for a suitable gift and gave Fang Xiao an ordinary-looking painting scroll from his clan's collection.
• Luo Tianshan explained that a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator had brought the scroll to the Barren Gu Continent and died after fighting demons and Gu Masters.
• Fang Xiao tested the scroll and found it could not be damaged, then unrolled it to reveal a seemingly ordinary mountain-range painting.
• Fang Xiao tried feeding the scroll origin energy, but it repelled it, while mana was absorbed without producing any response.
• Fang Xiao increased the flow of mana from his Golden Core to find out how much the scroll required.

Fang Xiao infused the Five Peaks True Form Diagram with spiritual power, revived and refined it, and discovered its trapping, suppressing, and refining abilities. After claiming the treasure, he approached Luo Tianshan and proposed they put their past conflict behind them.

• Fang Xiao continuously poured spiritual power into the scroll while Luo Tianshan watched for a chance to attack, then gave up when Fang Xiao showed no sign of exhaustion.
• The scroll began drawing Fang Xiao's spiritual power and revealed that it was the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, a former Spirit Treasure that had regressed to a top-grade magic treasure.
• Fang Xiao smoothly refined the diagram as it revived, manifesting the pressure of the Five Peaks True Forms and leaving Luo Tianshan regretting that he had given it away.
• Fang Xiao learned that the diagram could imprison targets in its internal space and refine them to nourish itself, then decided it would help him on his journey to Gu God Palace.
• Fang Xiao put away the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, thanked Luo Tianshan for the gift, and suggested they forget their earlier conflict.

Fang Xiao bargained with Luo Tianshan for his help surviving the tribulation, securing a sworn promise that Luo would protect him for sixty years. When Fang Xiao revealed that Luo was unlikely to reach the Gu God Palace in time to weaken the tribulation, Luo flew into a rage and threatened to kill him.

• Luo Tianshan offered Fang Xiao a pile of belongings, but Fang rejected them and demanded that Luo protect him after breaking through.
• Fang Xiao and Luo Tianshan haggled over the length of the agreement and settled on sixty years, binding it with oaths.
• Fang Xiao said the Gu God Palace could weaken the lightning tribulation but believed Luo would not reach it in time.
• Luo Tianshan accused Fang Xiao of misleading him, unleashed his aura, and threatened to kill him.

Fang Xiao identified Luo Tianshan’s shortage of primal energy as the threat to his upcoming lightning tribulation and promised to prepare a solution. He entered the Qingmiao Tribe’s hidden Spirit Vein chamber and began preparing, while Luo Tianshan guarded the entrance.

• Fang Xiao explained that Luo Tianshan’s primal energy would likely run out before his lightning tribulation ended, and promised to address the problem if Luo Tianshan could hold on for two or three years.
• Luo Tianshan led Fang Xiao to the Qingmiao Tribe’s fourth-tier Spirit Vein after Fang Xiao removed the dangerous sword power from the unconscious Gu Masters and asked Bai Fusheng to watch over them.
• Fang Xiao followed Luo Tianshan through a concealed passage into a chamber where the tribe had bound the Spirit Vein within a fourth-tier Gu insect.
• Fang Xiao promised to provide Luo Tianshan with a solution within a year and a half, then placed concealment restrictions around the chamber.
• Fang Xiao brought out a white sphere that drew in spiritual qi from the Spirit Vein and began meditating as Luo Tianshan guarded outside.

Yan Tiandong hunted powerful Transformed Demon Beasts in the Sea of Chaotic Beasts to weaken the enemy awaiting them in the Gu God Palace and protect the Chi Miao Tribe. After killing a late-transformation Cloud Thunder Golden Flood Dragon, he believed the planned assault could succeed and looked ahead to breaking through to the Spirit God Realm.

• The chapter described how Fang Xiao's killings of Spirit Fusion Realm Gu Masters had shifted the balance between humans and demons, while the demon beasts remained too divided to unite.
• Yan Tiandong burned the Cloud Thunder Golden Flood Dragon alive in a vast golden sea of spirit flames and took its Demon Core.
• Yan Tiandong recalled that the Chi Miao Tribe's Spirit Fusion Gu Masters, led by Yan Yu, had gone to eliminate powerful demon beasts before their journey to the Gu God Palace.
• Yan Tiandong explained that the Azure Flame Golden Eye Beast had gathered intelligence on the Transformed Demon Beasts and would help them betray a peak-transformation demon in the Gu God Palace.
• Yan Tiandong judged that the four beasts he had helped eliminate, alongside Yan Yu's gains, had stripped the demon of most of its support, and he anticipated reaching the Spirit God Realm.

Yan Yu's group fled the Sea of Chaotic Beasts after Yan Kuan's attempt to claim the Dragon Carp caused it to detonate its soul and mark them. As the Thousand Year Dragon Carp caught up, Yan Yu promised to protect the group until Yan Tiandong arrived.

• Yan Tiandong received messages from Yan Yu and the Azure Flame Golden Eye Beast, then hurried toward them after seeing that trouble had arisen.
• Yan Yu's group raced toward the Barren Gu Continent while the others accused Yan Kuan of provoking the Dragon Carp by secretly placing restrictions on it.
• Yan Kuan angrily defended himself and insulted Yan Yu and the main-branch Gu Masters, prompting Yan Yu to order him to shut up.
• The Thousand Year Dragon Carp's overwhelming demonic aura and rising waves revealed that it was close behind them, so the group fled at full speed.
• Yan Yu stayed with the others, including Yan Kuan, and said he would use methods left by Yan Tiandong to hold off the Dragon Carp until help arrived.

The Thousand Year Dragon Carp pursued Yan Yu and the others to avenge the Little Dragon Carp and trapped them in a self-restoring water barrier. Yan Yu used a golden short arrow to pierce the barrier, allowing all five to escape.

• The Thousand Year Dragon Carp caught up with Yan Yu and the others, transformed into a purple-gold-robed man, and vowed to avenge the Little Dragon Carp.
• The Thousand Year Dragon Carp trapped the five in a giant palm of seawater and intended to capture them alive.
• Yan Yu tested the barrier, then took a golden short arrow from his Storage Gu and fired it through the water.
• Yan Yu ordered the others to attack the arrow's opening, widening it enough for all five to escape.

Yan Yu and four Gu Masters fled the Thousand Year Dragon Carp, but its strange airflow trapped Yun Shu and Yun Yi and threatened to trap the others. Yan Yu used the Heavenly Wave Flame to clear a path through the air currents, and the five prepared to reunite and escape.

• Yan Yu’s short arrow burst into Heavenly Wave Flame and forced the Dragon Carp to focus on freeing itself while the five fled.
• The Dragon Carp spread a strange force through the air, scattering Yun Shu’s escape light and dragging her away.
• A Gu Master tried to rescue Yun Shu but was swept away in another direction, leaving Yan Yu, Yan Kuan, and one other Gu Master trapped by the currents.
• Yan Yu realized he could use the Heavenly Wave Flame to burn away the air currents and create a safe area around them.
• Yan Yu and the others used the flames to block the airflow and set out to retrieve Yun Shu and Yun Yi before escaping.

Yan Yu and his companions escaped Dragon Carp using Yan Tiandong’s Heavenly Wave Flame, but two powerful Transformed Demon Beasts blocked their route before they could reunite with Yan Tiandong. The group faced Ventilation Shark and Sea Patrol Poison Octopus as Yan Tiandong raced to find them.

• Yan Yu used Yan Tiandong’s Heavenly Wave Flame to free Yun Shu and Yan Yunyi from Dragon Carp’s restraint, then led the group toward their meeting place with Yan Tiandong.
• Yan Tiandong learned that multiple Transformed Demon Beasts were pursuing Yan Yu’s group and hurried along their route, deciding Yan Kuan could no longer be trusted with important duties.
• Ventilation Shark and Sea Patrol Poison Octopus stopped Yan Yu and his companions and began arguing over which of them would claim the Gu Masters as food.
• Yan Yu recognized the two mid-transformation demon beasts and warned that neither was an ordinary opponent.

Yan Yu fought Ventilation Shark and Sea Patrol Poison Octopus so the others could escape, using his inherited techniques to withstand their attacks and wound them. Though he kept the demons occupied, his elemental power was running low, and he still needed to find a way to escape them.

• Yan Yu urged the four companions to scatter while he held off Ventilation Shark and Sea Patrol Poison Octopus, and they fled in different directions.
• Ventilation Shark bit off Yan Yu’s head, but he regenerated it with True Body into Flame and blasted the shark from inside its mouth.
• Yan Yu cut Ventilation Shark in two with a Great Guan Dao, but its body dissolved into gusts of demon wind before it attacked the fleeing companions.
• Yan Yu used golden Heavenly Wave Flame to torment Ventilation Shark and hurled his Great Guan Dao into Sea Patrol Poison Octopus, severing two tentacles and suppressing its poison.
• Yan Yu concealed his exhaustion as his elemental power dwindled and waited for the four to get far enough away before trying to shake off the demons.

Yan Yu and Yan Yunyi were trapped by the Ventilation Shark and the Mysterious Underworld Toad as the Dragon Carp’s forces closed in. With Yan Kuan and Yun Shu captured and their natal Gu worms removed, the chapter ended as the Toad attacked Yan Yunyi’s natal Gu worm.

• The Ventilation Shark recovered from Yan Yu’s Heavenly Wave Flame and attacked him with a swarm of wind-formed doubles.
• Yan Yu countered with over a hundred Heavenly Wave Flame weapons, but the clash tore open spatial rifts and trapped both sides in a dangerous struggle.
• Yan Yunyi returned after finding his escape route blocked, while two early-stage Transformed Demon Beasts pursued him.
• The Mysterious Underworld Toad arrived carrying the unconscious Yan Kuan and Yun Shu, whose natal Gu worms had been removed.
• The Toad persuaded the Ventilation Shark to help capture Yan Yu by promising a tribulation-avoiding treasure from the Dragon Carp.
• The Mysterious Underworld Toad attacked Yan Yunyi’s natal Gu worm, intending to capture him and claim most of the credit.

Yan Yu and Yan Yunyi were nearly captured by the demon beasts, but Yan Tiandong arrived and rescued them. He killed Yan Kuan, took Yun Shu with them, and left the Dragon Carp unable to track them.

• The Mysterious Underworld Toad attacked Yan Yunyi with its tongue, and Yan Yu severed it before the tongue's explosive flesh drained his strength.
• Yan Yu planned to self-destruct rather than let the Ventilation Shark and Mysterious Underworld Toad capture him and take his natal Gu.
• Yan Tiandong's Heavenly Wave Flame emerged from Yan Yu's natal Gu, trapping the Ventilation Shark and driving the Mysterious Underworld Toad away.
• Yan Tiandong killed Yan Kuan, then took Yun Shu, Yan Yu, and Yan Yunyi and fled the area.
• The Heavenly Wave Flame destroyed the Ventilation Shark and Sea Patrol Poison Octopus, and the Dragon Carp arrived too late to find the group.

After a year in seclusion, Fang Xiao completed Spirit Milk Wine for Luo Tianshan to help him survive his lightning tribulation. Luo learned that a Beast Tide was ravaging the Barren Gu Continent, then began to explain another matter related to his breakthrough.

• Luo Tianshan waited anxiously outside Fang Xiao’s stone chamber until ripples signaled that the promised item was ready.
• Fang Xiao gave Luo a jade gourd of Spirit Milk Wine, and Luo tasted a drop and felt its effects on his primordial energy and cultivation.
• Fang Xiao explained that the wine was made from diluted Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and should restore Luo’s energy during the tribulation and stabilize his realm afterward.
• Luo told Fang Xiao that the Demon Race of the Sea of Chaotic Beasts had launched a Beast Tide after the Chi Miao Tribe enraged a peak Transformed Demon Beast.
• Fang Xiao wondered whether the Chi Miao Tribe’s actions would affect their plans for Gu God Palace, while Luo said he would soon undergo the tribulation.
• Luo began to disclose another matter connected to his breakthrough.

Fang Xiao and Luo Tianshan negotiated what would happen if Luo failed to advance because of the Guiyi Gu’s independent consciousness. Fang Xiao offered a way to keep the Gu from interfering during their soul fusion, leaving Luo with renewed hope for advancing to late-stage Spirit Fusion.

• Luo Tianshan revealed that the Guiyi Gu had developed a childlike consciousness and gave him only a sixty percent chance of successfully merging with it.
• Fang Xiao demanded the Guiyi Gu Mother Worm and a century of protection if Luo failed, and Luo agreed to leave its whereabouts for him.
• Luo realized Fang Xiao might have a way to help with the Guiyi Gu’s consciousness, and Fang Xiao agreed to assist in exchange for the Mother Worm and a hundred years of protection.
• Fang Xiao gave Luo Tianshan Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine, explaining that the Guiyi Gu could use it to fall temporarily still during the soul fusion.

Fang Xiao stayed at the Qingmiao Tribe’s cultivation grounds to cultivate and study the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, which he hoped to restore to Spirit Treasure rank. His research had already advanced his five-element techniques, and he planned to feed the treasure items taken from future enemies.

• Luo Tianshan thanked Fang Xiao for his guidance and promised to reach the late spirit fusion stage, while Fang Xiao asked to keep using the Qingmiao Tribe’s fourth-tier Spirit Vein.
• Luo Tianshan freely granted Fang Xiao use of the Spirit Vein, and Fang Xiao set Milk Essence to produce more Spirit Milk.
• Fang Xiao dismissed thoughts of the Chi Miao Tribe and focused on studying the Five Peaks True Form Diagram over the past year.
• Fang Xiao found that the diagram’s five-element principles had improved his cultivation insights and helped him complete the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Formations while advancing the Thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Formations.
• Fang Xiao resolved to restore the Five Peaks True Form Diagram to Spirit Treasure rank by feeding it otherwise useless spoils from future enemies.

Fang Xiao sorted his accumulated treasures and fed useless items and Gu insect corpses to the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, restoring much of its power. He recognized that the awakened treasure could unfold its own space but that its protection had limits, while he planned to obtain more insect corpses through Yan Tiandong and the Gu God Palace.

• Fang Xiao decided to conceal the Five Peaks True Form Diagram until he had strength to protect it and sorted through his accumulated belongings.
• Fang Xiao fed useless items and Gu insect corpses to the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, discovering that the corpses replenished its spiritual resonance.
• Fang Xiao planned to have Yan Tiandong collect high-tier Gu insect corpses from the Gu God Palace while he and Luo Tianshan retrieved the Guiyi Gu Mother Worm.
• After refining his useless belongings, Fang Xiao saw the Five Peaks True Form Diagram unfold a space of towering mountains and realized it could provide powerful protection, though not absolute invincibility.

Fang Xiao tested the Five Peaks True Form Diagram and considered how to advance both his mana and the treasure to Spirit Treasure rank. He then began refining his Profound Origin Dao Platform, correcting its flaws before engraving its magic treasure restrictions.

• Fang Xiao activated the Five Peaks True Form Diagram in the stone chamber and saw that its suppressive space could hinder even a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• Fang Xiao planned to raise his mana to complete Nascent Soul level and nurture the Five Peaks True Form Diagram toward Spirit Treasure rank.
• Fang Xiao compressed the Five Peaks True Form Diagram and stored it as a mountain-shaped mark in his palm.
• Fang Xiao brought out the Profound Origin Dao Platform and prepared to refine it from a magic treasure embryo into a true magic treasure.
• Fang Xiao discovered flaws in the Profound Origin Dao Platform and began correcting them before engraving its restrictions.