Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang and Little Gold raced through the sky before Gu Yang began learning the Five Elements Killing Technique. After two months of practice, he had mastered the basics of all five elemental techniques and planned to temper them in combat.

• Little Gold challenged Gu Yang to a flying contest and easily outpaced him, then returned to fly beside him.
• Gu Yang practiced the Metal Element’s Golden Blade Technique and cut a deep fissure into the ground.
• Gu Yang cultivated the Wood Element’s Myriad Wood Cage and learned to make plants grow into a prison.
• Gu Yang practiced the Water Element’s Tidal Power until he could summon tidal whirlpools with a thought.
• Over two months, Gu Yang mastered the basics of the Fire and Earth techniques along with the other three, and gathered all five elemental powers around him.

Gu Yang fused Tidal Power with Geocentric Gravity to master Tidal Gravity, then combined Meteor Fire with Geocentric Gravity to create Starfire Descends. After exhausting himself controlling both spells within the Five Elements Secret Ground, he rested and asked Little Gold to join him in the coming battle.

• Gu Yang fused Tidal Power and Geocentric Gravity, creating Tidal Gravity, but its vortex threatened to ravage the cultivation ground.
• Gu Yang connected with the vortex's core and gradually brought it under control, mastering the spell.
• Gu Yang combined Meteor Fire with Geocentric Gravity to create Starfire Descends and carefully restrained its flames before they could damage the Five Elements Secret Ground.
• Gu Yang collapsed from exhaustion after ending his cultivation, and Little Gold stayed by his side.
• Gu Yang asked Little Gold to face the coming battle with him, and Little Gold answered that it would follow him wherever he went.

After more than a year of secluded cultivation, Gu Yang returned to Canglong Island stronger and reunited with his friends and family as war approached. When the Alien Race army mobilized, he joined the island’s reinforcements and flew toward the western border.

• Gu Yang left the Five Elements Secret Ground with Little Gold and returned to Canglong Island, where Qin Wujiu told him the war had not yet begun.
• Gu Yang reunited with Qin Hu and learned that Qin Hu would leave for the border the following month to take part in the rotation.
• Gu Yang returned home and joyfully reunited with his parents, Wang Caihua and Gu Dashan, and his younger sister, Gu Yingying.
• During the month after his return, Gu Yang practiced Tidal Gravity and Starfire Descends while spending time with his family and friends.
• After Qin Hu left for the border, war drums sounded on Canglong Island, and Qin Wujiu told Gu Yang that reinforcements were urgently needed.
• Gu Yang and Little Gold boarded an Iron Winged Sky Peng with the other cultivators and flew toward the western border.

Gu Yang and Canglong Island arrived at the Mo State battlefield, where Human Race forces prepared to defend against the Alien Coalition Army. As the invasion began, Gu Yang unleashed Starfire Descends against the charging Half-Beastman Race warriors, while the opposing Longevity Realm experts counterattacked.

• Qin Wujiu assigned Canglong Island to defend the eastern route after Li Hanye organized the Human Race factions around the battlefield’s key passes.
• Canglong Island’s forces built a fortified position, and Helian Feng rallied the warriors as the Alien Coalition Army’s vanguard approached.
• The Half-Beastman Race, Dragon-Man Race, and Multi-horn Race charged while Alien Coalition Army experts attacked with spells.
• Helian Feng directed Canglong Island’s archers and siege weapons to strike the attackers, while Longevity Realm experts weakened the enemy spells with their defenses.
• Gu Yang cast Starfire Descends, raining destructive fireballs and killing many Half-Beastman Race warriors.
• The Alien Coalition Army’s Longevity Realm experts redirected their attacks toward the Human Race experts, and spells collided in the sky.

Canglong Island’s experts and warriors fought to hold their defensive line as the Alien Alliance attacked. Gu Yang battled an Alien Race Mana Realm expert in the sky, defeated his lightning techniques, and killed him with a massive golden blade aura.

• Alien Alliance Longevity Realm experts unleashed powerful spells against Canglong Island’s defenders, but the Human Race experts coordinated their counterattacks and held the line.
• The armies collided on the ground, where Canglong Island’s outnumbered warriors fought fiercely as Gu Yang watched from above.
• An Alien Race Mana Realm expert attacked Gu Yang with purple lightning, and Gu Yang protected himself with the Lesser Five Elements Barrier before launching his Golden Blade Technique.
• Gu Yang fused his golden blades and pursued the expert, then used Tidal Gravity to absorb and destroy the enemy’s thunderball.
• Gu Yang’s golden blades broke through the expert’s lightning barrier, wounded him, and killed him with a massive blade aura.

Gu Yang killed a wounded Alien Race expert, then fought a powerful fox-faced Half-Beastman Race expert in the sky. After trapping his opponent with Myriad Wood Cage and piercing his chest with golden blade light, Gu Yang sensed a purple-black bolt of lightning racing toward him from behind.

• Gu Yang defeated and killed the wounded Alien Race expert, while a grieving fighter was intercepted by a Canglong Island Elder.
• As the battle below raged, Qin Hu and other Mana Realm experts surrounded and killed a Dragon Race expert who had burned Canglong Island soldiers with dragon breath.
• Gu Yang battled a three-tailed, fox-faced Half-Beastman Race expert, and both fighters endured heavy injuries as their attacks escalated.
• Gu Yang manifested Myriad Wood Cage to restrain the fox-faced Half-Beastman Race expert and struck his chest with a golden blade, killing him.
• A purple-black bolt of lightning suddenly raced toward Gu Yang from behind.

Gu Yang faced a violet-black thunderbolt that was an Innate Divine Ability from a Nascent Soul Realm expert and nearly died before his Essence and Qi Divine Dragon transformed his Magic Power into Vitality Force. He overcame the Thunder Tribulation by absorbing its power, and the chapter left him with a greatly strengthened body but no breakthrough in cultivation.

• Gu Yang tried to evade the pursuing thunderbolt, then struck it with his golden blade light and was blasted backward as it engulfed his body.
• As the lightning charred his flesh and drained his life force, Gu Yang activated the Essence and Qi Divine Dragon and converted his Magic Power into Blood Qi and Vitality Force to repair himself.
• Gu Yang drove the lightning out of his body, then realized the Thunder Tribulation was transforming and strengthening his flesh.
• Gu Yang stopped evading the returning lightning and absorbed its power, using the Essence and Qi Divine Dragon and Vitality Force to withstand its attacks.
• Gu Yang ground away the remaining lightning and emerged with a far more resilient body, though his cultivation had not advanced to a new realm.

After surviving the Thunder Tribulation, Gu Yang fought alongside the Canglong Island Elder against the Multi-horn Race Imperial Envoy. They killed the envoy, and Gu Yang shattered the lightning engulfing him, revealing the immense strength of his Mystic Yellow Indestructible Body.

• Gu Yang emerged from the Thunder Tribulation with greatly strengthened physical power and charged the Multi-horn Race Imperial Envoy.
• Gu Yang and the Canglong Island Elder combined their attacks, forcing the Imperial Envoy into a desperate counterattack.
• Gu Yang shattered the envoy's lightning sphere with his Mystic Yellow Indestructible Body, allowing the Canglong Island Elder to cut the envoy's throat.
• The envoy's lightning engulfed Gu Yang, but the Canglong Island Elder stayed beside him as he endured it.
• Gu Yang struck again and shattered the lightning, leaving the Canglong Island Elder astonished by his strength.

After the Alien Alliance withdrew from its three-day assault, Gu Yang used the seven-day respite to recover and cultivate, reaching the Peak Sky Riding Realm. The enemy attacked again as the break ended, bringing Ancient Life God Clan experts to the battlefield.

• The Alien Alliance retreated after three days and nights of fighting, leaving Canglong Island's exhausted warriors to treat the wounded and prepare for another assault.
• Gu Yang urged the soldiers to stay alert, then cultivated in a ruined courtyard and advanced from the early Sky Riding Realm to the Peak Sky Riding Realm.
• During the seven-day respite, Canglong Island's soldiers trained while Gu Yang consolidated his cultivation and refined his strength.
• An alarm horn sounded on the seventh night, and Gu Yang and Canglong Island's Elders and Deacons took their positions at the front line.
• The Alien Races charged the fortress again, joined by Ancient Life God Clan experts whose arrival alarmed Canglong Island's defenders.

Gu Yang and Canglong Island’s forces fought repeated night battles against the Alien Coalition Army, whose Ancient Life God Clan warriors could recover from grievous wounds. Reinforcements helped stabilize the front, but the war resumed, and the chapter ended as Gu Yang struck a powerful Ancient Life God Clan member with his Golden Blade Technique and charged in to follow up.

• Gu Yang and Canglong Island’s Elders fought back the Ancient Life God Clan’s attacks while their soldiers clashed with the Alien Races through the night.
• After the enemies withdrew at dawn, Canglong Island’s Elders recognized that the Alien Coalition Army was using attrition and called for reinforcements.
• The Human Race’s soldiers struggled to adapt to fighting through the night, and the Alien Races nearly broke through their position.
• Canglong Island’s reinforcements arrived after three days, lifting the soldiers’ morale as the Alien Races withdrew before returning that night.
• Qin Hu and Canglong Island’s soldiers repelled attacks by the Dragon Race, Half-Beastman Race, and Multi-horn Race while Gu Yang fought the Ancient Life God Clan.
• Gu Yang used Golden Blade Technique: Thousandfold Overlap to crack an Ancient Life God Clan warrior’s bark-like body, then charged toward him to continue the attack.

Gu Yang fought the Ancient Life God Clan experts, defeating one before enduring their encirclement with his Profound Yellow Indestructible Body. He broke through their combined attack and continued striking them down as experts from the other Alien Races began to intervene.

• Gu Yang battered an Ancient Life God Clan expert with Azure Dragon Force and Profound Yellow Power, eventually killing him with a punch to an exposed wound.
• The remaining Ancient Life God Clan experts surrounded Gu Yang, who activated his Profound Yellow Indestructible Body and attacked them head-on.
• Gu Yang's shield weakened under their attacks, but he repelled their combined assault and charged back into the encirclement.
• Gu Yang struck the strongest Ancient Life God Clan expert and then pursued the others as they tried to flee, killing them one after another.
• The experts of the other Alien Races finally moved to intervene.

After defeating the Ancient Life God Clan experts, Gu Yang was surrounded by Alien Race experts and fought on despite his injuries and dwindling strength. He finally spotted a weakness and began breaking through the encirclement, though attacks continued to strike him.

• Gu Yang faced a fresh assault from Alien Race experts and fought back, severely injuring one with a punch.
• Gu Yang killed an Alien Race expert by crushing his throat after breaking through the enemy’s defensive spell and Flame Ring of Repulsion.
• Gu Yang fought off repeated attacks, including a Dragon Race expert’s spear and another expert’s Palm Yin Thunder, while searching for a way out.
• Gu Yang seized a longsword from an attacker and used its Sword Qi to force back the surrounding Alien Race experts.
• Gu Yang pierced the throat of an Alien Race expert preparing a spell and briefly advanced toward the edge of the encirclement, where Human Race experts were unable to reach him.
• Gu Yang found a flaw in the encirclement and surged through it while enduring attacks.

Gu Yang broke through the Alien Race’s encirclement and joined the Human Race powerhouses as the battle escalated into a brutal stalemate. After wounding a Half-Beastman Race warrior, he dodged a lethal warhammer strike and retreated from a Multi-horn Race restraining spell, which continued flying toward him.

• Gu Yang escaped the encirclement and joined the Human Race powerhouses, who rallied and renewed their attacks.
• Canglong Island elders and Human Race fighters battled Dragon Race, Multi-horn Race, and Half-Beastman Race enemies amid a chaotic, prolonged melee.
• Gu Yang killed a Dragon Race powerhouse and continued attacking enemy weak points across the battlefield.
• Gu Yang outmaneuvered a Half-Beastman Race warrior, pierced him beneath the armpit, and battered his defenses with repeated sword strikes.
• A Multi-horn Race powerhouse gathered a black restraining spell as the Half-Beastman Race warrior attacked, forcing Gu Yang to retreat and evade the warhammer.
• The black restraining spell activated and flew toward Gu Yang.

Gu Yang evaded a Multi-horn Race powerhouse’s sealing attack by steering its black orb into a Dragon Race powerhouse, then fought the Multi-horn and Half-Beastman Race powerhouses together. After grievously wounding the Half-Beastman, he killed the Multi-horn powerhouse and drove his sword into the Half-Beastman’s heart.

• Gu Yang led the black orb into a Dragon Race powerhouse, whose death unleashed a black barrier and disrupted the sealing attack.
• Gu Yang fought off the Multi-horn and Half-Beastman Race powerhouses, using his swordsmanship and Killing Intuition to evade their attacks.
• Gu Yang wounded the Half-Beastman Race powerhouse beneath the ribs, and the Multi-horn Race powerhouse used a broken horn to shield them both.
• Gu Yang shattered the weakened shadowy defense and pierced the Multi-horn Race powerhouse’s chest, killing him.
• Gu Yang blocked the injured Half-Beastman’s warhammer and thrust his sword through the shadowy glow into the Half-Beastman’s heart.

Gu Yang fought a Dragon Race expert in a prolonged battle after killing a Half-Beastman Race expert. He killed the Dragon Race expert with a strike guided by Killing Intuition, but ended the fight utterly exhausted.

• Gu Yang killed a Half-Beastman Race expert and turned to face a Dragon Race expert who had just slain a Canglong Island expert.
• Gu Yang and the Dragon Race expert clashed with swordsmanship and Dragon Breath Power, and Gu Yang cracked his opponent’s armor.
• The Dragon Race expert unleashed a secret art, but Gu Yang evaded his attacks and repeatedly interrupted his attempts to form seals.
• As Gu Yang’s stamina neared its limit, he used Killing Intuition to pierce the Dragon Race expert’s defenses and stab him through the heart.
• The Dragon Race expert fell dead, and Gu Yang remained standing with his strength nearly exhausted.

After the Human Race and Alien Coalition Army ended seven days of slaughter, Gu Yang searched the battlefield, mourned the fallen, and prepared to grow stronger. He broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and released his Primordial Spirit.

• The Alien Coalition Army retreated after seven days of battle, leaving Gu Yang to search the battlefield for survivors.
• Gu Yang rescued a wounded Human Race warrior from rubble, but the warrior soon lost consciousness, and Gu Yang continued searching among the dead.
• Gu Yang vowed to honor the fallen and keep defending the Human Race while the wounded recovered and trained on Canglong Island.
• At dawn, Gu Yang began cultivating in the desert, circulating Five Elements Power and repeatedly attacking the Nascent Soul Realm barrier.
• Gu Yang found a resonance in his Five Elements Power, shattered the barrier, and entered the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Gu Yang let the energy vortex draw his consciousness inward, where his Primordial Spirit was released.

Gu Yang broke through to the Primordial Spirit Realm, formed a Primordial Spirit, and tested his greatly enhanced Magic Power. He began refining the Lesser Five Elements Barrier into the Great Five Elements Barrier, condensing its Five Elements power into a Five-colored Bead.

• Gu Yang condensed his Divine Soul Power into a humanoid Primordial Spirit and entered the Primordial Spirit Realm.
• Gu Yang learned that the realm’s stages were Divine Ability, Unity, and Dharma Image, and that Qin Wujiu’s Canglong Dharma Image drew power from the Azure Dragon River.
• Gu Yang tested his improved Magic Power, casting spells faster and cutting a boulder cleanly with a blade of Five Elements Mana.
• Gu Yang chose the Lesser Five Elements Barrier as his first Divine Ability and began refining it into the Great Five Elements Barrier.
• Gu Yang fused the five elements within his sea of consciousness into a small Five-colored Bead.

Gu Yang condensed the Great Five Elements Barrier Divine Ability and spent seven days improving his control over it. When war erupted between the Human Race and Alien Race, he entered the battle and killed a Half-Beastman Race expert with a Five-colored Light Wheel.

• Gu Yang condensed the Great Five Elements Barrier Divine Ability, though it remained a Divine Ability Seed that required further cultivation.
• Over seven days, Gu Yang practiced merging and reshaping Five-colored Halos, strengthening his mastery and Magic Power.
• Gu Yang saw the Human Race fighting the Alien Race and entered the battlefield to defend the Human Race.
• Gu Yang attacked a Half-Beastman Race expert who was overpowering a Nascent Soul Realm Elder of Canglong Island.
• Gu Yang transformed his barrier into a Five-colored Light Wheel and cleaved the Half-Beastman Race expert in two.

Gu Yang used the Great Five Elements Barrier to overwhelm a Dragon Race expert with techniques that combined offense and defense. After Gu Yang landed a series of devastating blows, the expert burned his Dragon Soul for a last strike, but Gu Yang’s five-colored wheel blocked it, leaving the expert despairing.

• Gu Yang used the Great Five Elements Barrier to slay a Half-Beastman Race expert and then attacked a Dragon Race expert battling a Canglong Island Elder.
• Gu Yang trapped the Dragon Race expert with Great Five Elements: Ten Thousand Wood Prison and wounded him with the Golden Blade Technique.
• Gu Yang weakened the expert with Great Five Elements: Tidal Gravity, then battered him with golden saber strikes and pinned him down with Great Five Elements: Geocentric Gravity.
• Gu Yang unleashed Great Five Elements: Thousand-Layer Golden Blade Technique, shattered the expert’s Dragon Claw, and inflicted a deep wound on his neck.
• The Dragon Race expert burned his Dragon Soul and fired Light of World Destruction at Gu Yang, but Gu Yang’s five-colored wheel blocked the black pillar of light.

Gu Yang used the Great Five Elements Barrier to dissolve a Dragon Race expert’s Light of World Destruction, while Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya fought two Alien Race experts above the clouds. Qin Wujiu defeated the Half-Beastman Race expert and broke Feng Tianya out of a wind barrier, then caught the fleeing Multi-horn Race female warrior and reached for her head.

• Gu Yang endured the Dragon Race expert’s final attack and dissolved the black pillar of light with his Great Five Elements Barrier.
• Three days after the battle on Canglong Island ended, Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya fought a Half-Beastman Race expert and a Multi-horn Race female warrior above the clouds.
• The Multi-horn Race female warrior trapped Feng Tianya inside a cyan barrier filled with deadly wind blades.
• Qin Wujiu disarmed and struck down the Half-Beastman Race expert, then broke the cyan barrier and freed Feng Tianya.
• The Multi-horn Race female warrior tried to flee, but Qin Wujiu intercepted her, struck her chest, and reached for the back of her neck.