Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang discovered that he could absorb Nine Nether Power from a slain Nine Nether Giant Beast, then tested the phenomenon while hunting creatures in the wilderness. After defeating a powerful Nine Nether Ironclad Dragon, he saw its Nine Nether Qi gather around him again.

• Gu Yang absorbed the Nine Nether Power released by a dead Nine Nether Giant Beast and felt his strength increase.
• Gu Yang killed a Nine Nether Wolf and a Nine Nether Wild Bull, but neither released Nine Nether Power for him to absorb.
• Gu Yang encountered a Nine Nether Ironclad Dragon and fought it, evading its black flames and steel tail.
• Gu Yang wounded the dragon's abdomen, then struck its neck and killed it.
• Nine Nether Qi ignited from the dragon's corpse and converged upon Gu Yang.

Gu Yang hunted Nine Nether Giant Beasts in the wilderness to grow stronger, eventually defeating a colossal hundred-meter beast. After absorbing its Nine Nether Qi, his power gathered in his dantian and formed an azure-blue pearl.

• Gu Yang reasoned that only Nine Nether creatures with enough power released their energy when killed, then focused his hunts on powerful giant beasts.
• Gu Yang killed a winged, rhinoceros-shaped Nine Nether Giant Beast and absorbed the Nine Nether Qi it released.
• Gu Yang encountered a hundred-meter-tall Nine Nether Giant Beast and charged into battle, targeting its soft scales and then its eye.
• Gu Yang pierced the giant beast's eye and destroyed its brain despite its fierce struggles, killing it and absorbing its dense Nine Nether Qi.
• Gu Yang felt the absorbed power gather in his dantian, where an azure-blue pearl began spinning.

Gu Yang broke through to a new level of Nine Nether Power, then accepted Qian Gu’s invitation to join the effort concerning the Sealed Land. After waiting with more than ten experts at Windmoon Cliff, he entered Darklight City with the group as their mission began.

• Gu Yang’s Nine Nether Power condensed into a deep-blue orb, transforming his strength and senses as he broke through his limits.
• After half a month of hunting, Gu Yang killed a powerful Nine Nether Giant Beast and absorbed its Nine Nether Qi.
• Gu Yang received Qian Gu’s message and traveled to Windmoon Cliff, where he agreed to join the effort to investigate the Sealed Land.
• Gu Yang waited three days as more than ten experts gathered at Windmoon Cliff.
• Qian Gu arrived and led Gu Yang and the other experts through Darklight City’s gates with his identity token.

Gu Yang joined Darklight City's second squad and traveled toward the Sealed Land, fighting a beast and then a horde of more than a hundred Nine Nether Giant Beasts. The squad survived the hours-long battle and continued toward the Sealed Land, where greater dangers awaited.

• Qian Gu brought Gu Yang and the other powerhouses to the City Lord's mansion, where the Darklight City Lord assigned them to ten squads to confront the Sealed Land disaster.
• Gu Yang joined the second squad, led by Iron Wing, and set out first to investigate the Sealed Land.
• Iron Wing led the squad through the wasteland, where they killed a powerful beast that attacked from a deadwood forest.
• The squad encountered more than a hundred Nine Nether Giant Beasts, and Iron Wing ordered everyone to fight as the horde charged.
• Gu Yang killed several beasts, including one by striking its eye and severing its neck, while the squad fought for hours.
• Gu Yang and the squad defeated the last Nine Nether Giant Beast at dawn, and Iron Wing praised Gu Yang before they continued toward the Sealed Land.

Gu Yang and Iron Wing's team entered the Sealed Land to reinforce its defenses, but a violent eruption forced them through a spatial rift into an unknown realm. They found a peaceful grassland and discovered a Stone Tablet declaring that they were the Naxi Tribe's last hope.

• Iron Wing led the exhausted team to the Sealed Land, where Gu Yang activated a Stone Tablet and opened a Light Gate.
• The team entered the warped inner domain and began laying defensive formations around the seal's core.
• The crystal ball's power erupted, shattering their formations and tearing open a rift in space.
• Iron Wing led the team into the rift, and they emerged in a dark expanse before following a path of light to a tranquil grassland.
• Iron Wing noticed a Stone Tablet among the flowers, and the team deciphered its message that they were the Naxi Tribe's last hope.

Gu Yang and his team uncovered records of the Naxi Tribe, who had ruled before the Nine Nether and fought against Nine Nether Life, then ventured deeper into their underground palace. As they battled a succession of traps, poisonous smoke breached their defenses and began rotting several team members.

• Gu Yang and his companions found an ancient altar, activated its symbols, and descended through a hidden staircase into the Naxi Tribe's underground palace.
• Xiao Lei found a concealed switch that opened a Stone Door, and the team saw a crystal screen depicting Naxi history, including battles against Nine Nether Life.
• Gu Yang and the team continued through the palace and survived arrow, pit, and stone-fist traps.
• The palace released poisonous smoke through hidden wall openings, and Gu Yang dispersed it with a gust of Nine Nether Power.
• The smoke had already contaminated several team members, whose bodies began to rot.

Gu Yang and his team defeated a Naxi Tribe stone beast and used a totem-carved rock to open a sealed cave, where a crystal ball revealed a star chart guiding them deeper into the underground palace. They reached an underground lake and began an ancient ritual whose outcome remained uncertain.

• Gu Yang led the team in attacking the stone beast’s glowing eyes, and they destroyed it and recovered a rock carved with Naxi Tribe totems.
• Gu Yang fitted the totem rock into a Stone Door, opening a cave where touching a crystal ball revealed a star chart.
• Gu Yang and his teammates followed a constellation on the chart to a Stone Pillar cave and activated a mechanism that opened stairs below.
• Gu Yang led the team down to an underground lake, where they crossed a bridge to an island and studied an ancient ritual carved on a Stone Pillar.
• The Seal Master began chanting the ritual while the team arranged its materials, and glowing writing and ripples spread across the lake.

After escaping the underground palace, Gu Yang and his team encountered a herd of powerful flame giant beasts in an unknown mountain valley. They fled through a mountain pass, leaving the beasts behind for the moment.

• Gu Yang led his team up a spiral staircase and emerged in an unfamiliar mountain forest, where they followed a stream to a lake.
• Gu Yang and his teammates found a herd of giant beasts drinking at the lake, but a falling stone alerted the creatures and triggered a battle.
• Gu Yang realized the beasts carried an ancient energy and directed the archers to target their eyes and mouths, briefly weakening their attack.
• A larger flame giant beast emerged, and fire spread across the herd, forcing Iron Wing to order a retreat.
• Gu Yang rescued a teammate from a magma fissure as the team fled, then led them into a mountain pass where the pursuing beasts' roars faded.

Gu Yang and Iron Wing led their exhausted team through the valley in search of an exit, but the route brought them into fights with Metal Monkeys and a massive Giant Bear. The chapter ended with the Giant Bear repelling Gu Yang’s attack, forcing him to order a retreat.

• After resting overnight, Gu Yang and Iron Wing led the team along a stream and across a river toward a forest that might lead out of the valley.
• Gu Yang’s group encountered a troop of Metal Monkeys, whose young member spotted them and alerted the others.
• Gu Yang and Iron Wing fought the Metal Monkeys, then led the wounded team in a retreat when the troop overwhelmed them.
• The team changed direction and encountered a massive black Giant Bear as they neared the valley’s edge.
• Gu Yang tried to attack the Giant Bear from behind, but a blast wave knocked him away, and he ordered the team to retreat.

Gu Yang, Iron Wing, and their team used traps to defeat the Flame Giant Beasts and break out of the valley. After resting briefly by a river near the exit, they continued toward safer ground.

• Iron Wing and Gu Yang concluded that the team needed a new tactic and planned to lure the Flame Giant Beasts into a trap-filled clearing.
• Gu Yang and Xiao Yun drew the Flame Giant Beasts into the clearing at dawn while Iron Wing, Xiao Li, and the others attacked from above and around the traps.
• Gu Yang and the team killed the trapped Flame Giant Beasts, defeating the pack and opening a way out of the valley.
• Gu Yang led the injured team toward the valley exit, where they rested briefly and replenished their water beside a small river.
• Iron Wing urged the team to move on, and Gu Yang led them across the river toward safer ground.

After crossing the valley, Gu Yang and the team entered a mountain path filled with Mind-Bewitching Mist that clouded their thoughts and conjured phantoms. With Gu Yang leading and Xiao Yun using her whistle to keep everyone focused, they escaped the mist and reached the edge of a sunlit valley.

• Guards at the Pure Land entrance reported intruders to the Naxi Tribe elders, who sent a scouting party to investigate without leaving tracks.
• Gu Yang led the team across open grassland toward smoke rising from a mountain, hoping to find the Naxi Tribesmen and gather intelligence.
• A strange fragrance drew the team into the Mind-Bewitching Mist, where Gu Yang recognized the danger and warned everyone to stay alert.
• Xiao Yun blew her silver whistle while Gu Yang called out names and slapped team members, helping them resist the mist and its ghostly phantoms.
• When the path behind them vanished and stronger bewitching forces spread through the fog, Gu Yang led the team onward as Xiao Yun kept sounding her whistle.
• Gu Yang spotted thinner mist and guided the team through it until they reached the edge of a vast, sunlit valley.

After escaping the dangerous fog, Iron Wing’s team explored the valley and were ambushed by a pack of strange beasts in the forest. They fought back and pursued the beasts, but a sudden arrow attack struck from the surrounding woods.

• The team rested after leaving the fog, then continued through the valley and filled their flasks at a clear stream.
• A scout reported strange tracks near a dense forest, so Iron Wing and Gu Yang went ahead with several scouts to investigate.
• A pack of strange beasts surrounded the group, and Gu Yang called for reinforcements while the team held a defensive formation.
• Xiao Yun’s whistle summoned the rest of the team, allowing them to turn the battle around and chase the retreating beasts.
• As the team pursued the beasts through the forest, archers launched a rain of arrows, wounding several members.

Iron Wing and Gu Yang led their squad through a deadly ambush and battle against the Naxi Tribe, then defended their refuge through a night-long assault. They survived, but five of the team’s twenty members had died, and the expedition was only beginning.

• Iron Wing ordered the squad to retreat from the Naxi Tribe’s arrow ambush while he and Gu Yang covered their escape.
• Iron Wing unleashed his Nine Nether Power as the squad fought back and scattered the Naxi warriors, then led the team to a concealed cave to treat the wounded and prepare defenses.
• The Naxi Tribe launched a night assault on the cave, and Gu Yang took on the brunt of the fighting when Iron Wing’s earlier exertion left him injured.
• Iron Wing, Gu Yang, and the squad held off the attackers until dawn, when the Naxi warriors withdrew.
• The survivors counted two more deaths from the night battle, bringing the team’s losses to five out of twenty.

After the Naxi Tribe attacked Gu Yang and Iron Wing’s exhausted team again, Qian Gu arrived with Nine Nether experts and helped drive the attackers back. The team retreated to a concealed valley to recover and plan, unaware that powerful Naxi Tribe altar guards were watching them and intended to wear them down.

• Gu Yang and Iron Wing led their team through another fierce night battle against the Naxi Tribe, whose leader pressed them hard.
• Qian Gu arrived with the follow-up exploration team from Darklight City, and their attack turned the fight around, forcing the Naxi Tribe leader to retreat.
• Gu Yang, Iron Wing, and Qian Gu agreed to withdraw, then led the wounded team through the forest to a hidden valley and established a concealed camp.
• The three leaders gathered team members to discuss their next plan while Qian Gu’s people set warning lines around the valley.
• Naxi Tribe altar guards watched the camp from a nearby mountain and planned to use ordinary warriors to wear down Gu Yang’s team.

Gu Yang, Iron Wing, Qian Gu, and the Darklight City teams defeated a Naxi Tribe ambush and then fought off the Naxi Beast Legion while advancing through the Sealed Land. After a brief rest, they continued deeper into the unknown.

• Qian Gu warned the Darklight City teams as Naxi Tribe warriors launched a nighttime attack, and Gu Yang, Iron Wing, and Qian Gu helped hold the defensive line.
• Gu Yang spotted a Naxi warrior sneaking up behind Iron Wing and killed the attacker before the ambush could succeed.
• The Darklight City teams counterattacked, broke the Naxi Tribe warriors’ formation, and won the battle before preparing to move on.
• As the teams traveled deeper into the Sealed Land, they encountered the Naxi Beast Legion in a narrow valley and fought its powerful war beasts.
• Gu Yang, Iron Wing, Qian Gu, and the team coordinated attacks on the beasts’ weak points, forcing the Naxi Beast Legion to retreat.
• After resting and tending to minor injuries, the Darklight City team continued farther into the Sealed Land.

Gu Yang led Darklight City's force through Naxi ambushes and a trap-filled secret passage, fighting off attacks while searching for a way out. After choosing a side passage, the group raced toward an exit with Naxi warriors pursuing them.

• Naxi Forbidden-Ground Guardians set traps around the secret passages and ambushed Gu Yang's advancing group with arrows and sticky resin.
• Gu Yang led his warriors into a hidden passage, where Naxi guardians unexpectedly retreated instead of attacking.
• The guardians' retreat lured Gu Yang's group deeper into the passage, where concealed arrows, falling rocks, pits, and Naxi archers attacked them.
• Gu Yang ordered the shield-bearers to protect the group and the Seal Masters to counterattack, then cut iron wires and led the force onward.
• Gu Yang chose a left-hand side passage when the route forked, and the group raced toward an exit as Naxi warriors pursued them.

Gu Yang and his team escaped the Naxi Tribe’s sealed secret passage after fighting through a deadly barrage of arrows and attacks, then took shelter in a hidden cave to recover and plan their next move. Gu Yang and Iron Wing went scouting, but Naxi Tribe scouts discovered them, forcing them into a brief fight before they withdrew to report back.

• Gu Yang ordered the team to protect the Seal Masters as they used Explosive Seals to break through the boulders blocking the passage exit while Naxi Tribe warriors attacked.
• Gu Yang led the wounded and exhausted team out of the passage, and Qian Gu guided them to a hidden cave where they set traps, treated injuries, and restored their strength.
• Qian Gu assigned Iron Wing and Gu Yang to scout for the Naxi Tribe’s movements and a safe route while the rest of the team guarded the cave.
• Gu Yang and Iron Wing encountered approaching warriors in the forest, tried to evade them, and were discovered when a scout sounded a whistle.
• Gu Yang and Iron Wing fought the Naxi Tribe scouts, wounded several, and let the survivors retreat before heading back to the cave with their intelligence.

Qian Gu’s team fought off successive Naxi Tribe attacks, escaped through the forest, and eliminated scouts waiting to ambush them. The Naxi Tribe captain continued searching, but his warriors found no trace of the fugitives.

• Qian Gu’s team ambushed and routed Naxi Tribe scouts who approached their cave, then fled east to hide in a forest valley.
• A scout warned Qian Gu at daybreak that Naxi Tribe warriors had caught up, and the team hurried to withdraw.
• Qian Gu defended the team against the warriors’ assault, then led a charge through a weak point in their formation and escaped into the forest.
• Gu Yang spotted hidden Naxi Tribe scouts, and he and Iron Wing attacked them so the rest of Qian Gu’s team could retreat.
• Qian Gu’s team moved deeper into the forest and evaded their pursuers, while a Naxi Tribe captain searched the area without finding their trail.

Qian Gu led his team through the forest while evading the Naxi Tribe guards, crossing a river and surviving a black bear attack and a violent storm. After a peaceful encounter with a giant wilderness wolf, the team continued exploring the wilderness.

• The Naxi Tribe captain abandoned the search after his guards followed tracks left by wild beasts, while Qian Gu and his team continued through the forest.
• Qian Gu used a crystal to connect with a Whistle Beast, learned that a river lay ahead, and led the team across it using a temporary floating bridge.
• A black bear attacked the team at night, but the healer's pungent spices distracted it and the Seal Master subdued it with a binding spell.
• A storm forced the team into a cave after a falling tree cracked the Seal Master's crystal barrier, and they waited there until morning.
• Qian Gu approached a giant wilderness wolf without provoking it, touched its forepaw, and watched it return to the forest before leading the team onward.

Qian Gu led his team through the Mist Forest, where they saved an injured elk that repaid them by guiding them to a restorative valley. After scouting a Naxi Tribe village, Qian Gu launched a nighttime surprise attack on a guarded courtyard, where the team discovered a hidden secret door.

• Qian Gu kept his team together through the Mist Forest, protecting them from an illusory melody and helping an injured elk escape tangled vines.
• The elk led Qian Gu and his team to a hidden valley with a restorative spring and fruit orchard, then guided them onward.
• Qian Gu's scouts observed a Naxi Tribe village and located a secluded courtyard guarded by sentries.
• Qian Gu organized a nighttime operation, and Iron Wing and the team silently subdued the courtyard guards.
• Qian Gu's team searched the quiet courtyard and found a hidden secret door in a room.