Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang killed a white giant eagle after a fierce battle, then fled when a black-robed Alien Race expert arrived. The expert traced Gu Yang’s Five Elements Power and pursued him, leaving a small black giant eagle behind to watch the battlefield.

• Gu Yang endured the giant eagle’s attacks, trapped it with Tidal Gravity, and killed it with his Golden Blade Technique, Thousandfold, Slash.
• Gu Yang took the giant eagle’s wind-attribute eye core and feathers, then fled as a black-robed Alien Race expert approached.
• The black-robed Alien Race expert inspected the corpse and battlefield, identified Gu Yang’s Five Elements Power, and used a black Rune to trace his escape.
• The black-robed Alien Race expert pursued Gu Yang and left behind a small black giant eagle to gather clues and guard the battlefield.

Gu Yang fled through Arid State while the black-robed Alien Race expert relentlessly pursued him, and he fought back only to be badly outmatched. As the pursuer’s black claw struck, a white-robed elder intervened and dispersed it, leaving Gu Yang’s fate in the elder’s hands.

• Gu Yang crossed into Arid State, evaded its demonic beasts, and hid in a cave to recover.
• The black-robed Alien Race expert found Gu Yang, but Gu Yang trapped him briefly and wounded his shoulder with the Golden Blade Technique before escaping.
• The black-robed Alien Race expert caught up again and overpowered Gu Yang, who detonated the Great Five Elements Barrier and fled north toward Great Brahma Heaven’s sacred grounds.
• As dawn approached, Gu Yang encountered a white-robed elder and flew toward him while the black-robed Alien Race expert attacked them with a black claw.
• The white-robed elder pushed Gu Yang aside and shattered the black claw with his palm.

Gu Yang was saved from a powerful black-robed Alien Race expert by a white-robed elder from Fan Wanyang's family, then returned to Cangzhou after seven days of travel. Finding an Alien Race squad threatening a county town, he killed them all and continued toward Canglong Island to check on its safety.

• The white-robed elder used lotus light and a sword formation to overpower the black-robed Alien Race expert while Gu Yang struck with Tidal Gravity.
• The black-robed Alien Race expert unleashed his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, but the elder shattered his body; the expert re-formed as black mist and fled after threatening them.
• The elder recognized Gu Yang and said he was an elder of Fan Wanyang's family, then allowed Gu Yang to leave for Cangzhou.
• Gu Yang reached Cangzhou at dusk on the seventh day and discovered an elite Alien Race squad targeting a border county town.
• Gu Yang ambushed the squad, killed its strongest warrior, and eliminated every surviving member as they fled.
• Gu Yang set out for Canglong Island to assess the situation and bring back news.

After returning to Canglong Island, Gu Yang reunited with his family and learned that the Alien Race had intensified its attacks across Cangzhou during his three-year absence. He entered seclusion to strengthen himself and, on the ninth day, broke through to the Return to One Realm.

• Gu Yang returned to his family residence, embraced his worried mother, and reassured his parents and sister that he would protect them.
• Gu Yang learned that the Alien Race had been raiding Cangzhou and that the Gu Family had relied on his friends to remain safe and keep its businesses steady.
• Gu Yang visited Qin Hu and heard that the Alien Race's incursions had grown more severe while its main force remained in Mo State.
• Gu Yang delayed meeting His Highness King Qin and entered a secluded Cultivation Room to cultivate the Five Elements Heaven Opening Record.
• On the ninth day, Gu Yang refined his Divine Abilities into a five-colored talisman and broke through to the Return to One Realm.

After completing his cultivation, Gu Yang helped Gu Yingying overcome a bottleneck and visited Qin Wujiu to report his return from the Nine Nether World. He revealed that he had reached the Unity realm and left after agreeing to await Qin Wujiu’s plans for the war against the Alien Race.

• Gu Yang strengthened his physical body after condensing the Five-Colored Talisman, then left seclusion with his Magic Power and vitality greatly improved.
• Gu Yang examined Gu Yingying’s meridians, cleared their blockages, and guided her through Skin Grinding.
• Gu Yang arrived at King Qin’s Residence and met Qin Wujiu, who asked about his three years away.
• Gu Yang told Qin Wujiu how he had entered the Nine Nether World and returned, then demonstrated his Unity realm cultivation.
• Gu Yang and Qin Wujiu discussed Cangzhou’s coming conflict with the Alien Race, and Qin Wujiu told Gu Yang to stay with his family until he assigned him a task.

After a month of secluded cultivation, Gu Yang followed Qin Wujiu’s order to patrol Cangzhou and eliminate Alien Race forces. He killed an Alien Race squad and then defeated a Dragon-Man Race Primordial Spirit expert, leaving Cangzhou’s defenses strengthened.

• Gu Yang spent seven peaceful days with his family before entering seclusion to improve his strength.
• After a month, Gu Yang received Qin Wujiu’s order to patrol Cangzhou and eliminate Alien Race squads, then departed Canglong Island under cover of night.
• Gu Yang ambushed an Alien Race camp in western Cangzhou, captured its soldiers, and learned that a Dragon-Man Race Primordial Spirit expert was directing nearby squads.
• Gu Yang tracked down the Dragon-Man Race expert and fought him in a desolate valley, wounding him despite the expert’s wind and lightning attacks.
• After his first blade shattered, Gu Yang formed a new one with the Golden Blade Technique and killed the severely wounded expert with a slash to the neck.

Gu Yang patrolled Cangzhou, returned to Canglong Island, and spent seven days with his family before leading an elite force toward the Multi-horn Race territory. After scouting and slipping past a weak outpost, he entered enemy territory with a map and planned to push toward its core region.

• Gu Yang secretly swept across Cangzhou, eliminating an Alien Race unit, capturing spies, and destroying a hidden stronghold before reporting to Canglong Island's Elders.
• Gu Yang urged the Elders to strengthen Cangzhou's defenses and send elite squads behind enemy lines, then reunited with his mother and Gu Yingying at home.
• Gu Yang spent seven days with his family while secretly cultivating, then left before dawn with a letter saying he had sect affairs to handle.
• One month later, Gu Yang led an elite force toward the Multi-horn Race territory and sent scouts to investigate its defenses.
• After learning of a weakly guarded outpost, Gu Yang led his squad past it, found a Multi-horn Race map, and chose a route toward the enemy's core region.

Gu Yang led his squad through two Multi-horn Race cities, stealing strategic documents, ores, and war machines while causing a diversion. After escaping into the wilderness, the squad split up to evade pursuing trackers, but Gu Yang’s group was closing on the mountains with the enemy on their trail.

• Gu Yang infiltrated the City Lord’s Manor with his squad and stole documents detailing the Multi-horn Race’s troop deployments and strategic plans.
• Gu Yang’s squad entered a fortified resource city through a mine, emptied its underground warehouse of ores, and stole war machines from the armory amid a citywide diversion.
• Gu Yang led the squad out of the city and abandoned their camp as the Multi-horn Race raised the alarm and began tracking them.
• Gu Yang split the squad into several groups in the wilderness, then led a smaller group toward a remote mountain range.
• The Multi-horn Race trackers picked up Gu Yang’s group’s trail and pursued them, so Gu Yang ordered his squad to use the mountain terrain to shake them off.

Gu Yang and his team escaped the first pursuit, then returned to the Multi-horn Race city to sabotage its power and communications and assassinate the City Lord. Gu Yang killed the City Lord, but the trackers remained a threat, forcing him to flee with his team and reconsider their plans.

• Gu Yang led his team through the mountains at night, using false trails to shake off the Multi-horn Race pursuers and hide in a cave.
• The City Lord ordered elite tracking squads to pursue Gu Yang's team, so Gu Yang sent two team members to create a decoy trail while he led the rest deeper into the mountains.
• Gu Yang returned with his team to the city and split them into groups to destroy the energy supply station and disable the communications tower.
• Gu Yang and his remaining team members infiltrated the City Lord's residence and fought the City Lord in his bedchamber.
• Gu Yang pierced the City Lord's chest with a golden attack and killed him, then prepared to lead his team away before the trackers arrived.

After killing the City Lord, Gu Yang led his team out of the city, but the Multi-horn Race tracked them from the dagger’s trace. The team defeated two pursuing groups and fled to a cave, where another battle began and Gu Yang continued fighting.

• Gu Yang ordered his team to withdraw from the City Lord’s estate and escape to a concealed valley.
• A Multi-horn Race Elder found the golden trace left by Gu Yang’s dagger and sent elite trackers after the team.
• A scout warned Gu Yang that trackers had found their location, so he led the team away and defeated the pursuing group in the mountains.
• Gu Yang took the team to a cave, spotted more Multi-horn Race trackers nearby, and prepared his team to fight.
• Gu Yang and his team clashed with the trackers at the cave, and Gu Yang killed a huge attacker wielding a battle-axe.

Gu Yang defeated the Multi-horn Race trackers, then led his team toward the Northern Mountain Range to escape their territory. When three Nascent Soul Realm experts and a large force caught up, he fought and killed all three while his team held off the warriors, leaving them time to continue their retreat.

• Gu Yang used his Five Elements Divine Ability to defeat the Multi-horn Race trackers and ordered his team to move north.
• Gu Yang led the team through the Northern Mountain Range, where they found temporary safety beyond the reach of the nearby city.
• Drumbeats announced new pursuers, and Gu Yang faced three Multi-horn Race Nascent Soul Realm experts while his team used the terrain to fight the warriors.
• Gu Yang killed the first two experts and then defeated the last one, winning his team precious time to retreat.

Gu Yang led his exhausted team across the Multi-horn Race border and hid in a cave while they waited for nightfall. When pursuers found them, he helped the team escape their ambush, then stayed behind to face a powerful Multi-horn Race Return to One Realm expert, and their battle began.

• Gu Yang led the team to the Multi-horn Race border and chose a lightly guarded valley as their crossing point.
• Gu Yang guided the team past several guards and hid them in a concealed cave, where he and the vice-captain took turns keeping watch.
• Gu Yang spotted the Multi-horn Race pursuers at night and led the team in an ambush that forced them to retreat.
• Gu Yang ordered the team to withdraw deeper into the forest and stayed behind to confront the approaching Return to One Realm expert.
• Gu Yang charged the Multi-horn Race expert, and the two began a fierce battle with blade and bone spears.

Gu Yang killed a Multi-horn Race Unity expert after a fierce battle, then led his injured teammates through the forest toward the border. As reinforcements closed in, they fought past the checkpoint guards and crossed the blockade.

• Gu Yang unleashed the Golden Blade Technique and killed the Multi-horn Race Unity expert, though the enemy wounded his chest.
• Gu Yang gathered his injured teammates and led them away from the battlefield, then spotted Multi-horn Race border guards approaching and took a hidden trail.
• Gu Yang and his teammates reached the border and charged the checkpoint, fighting through its elite guards.
• As more Multi-horn Race experts approached, Gu Yang rallied his teammates and led them across the border blockade just in time.

Gu Yang held off a Multi-horn Race Dharma Image powerhouse so his teammates could escape, then wounded him with a surprise Five-Colored Divine Radiance strike. Helian Feng arrived and turned the fight around, but the enemy launched a black ice spike at Gu Yang.

• Gu Yang ordered his teammates to flee and stayed behind to face the Multi-horn Race Dharma Image powerhouse.
• Gu Yang fought at a disadvantage as the enemy summoned a frost Dharma Image and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Gu Yang used the enemy's distraction to strike his back with Five-Colored Divine Radiance, wounding him and disrupting the frost Dharma Image.
• Helian Feng arrived, blocked the enemy's attack on Gu Yang, and challenged him as a peak Dharma Image Realm powerhouse.
• Helian Feng trapped the enemy in a formation and knocked him backward, but the enemy hurled a black ice spike toward Gu Yang.

Helian Feng defeated and killed the Multi-horn Race Dharma Image expert after a fierce duel, while Gu Yang watched despite his injuries. After regrouping with their squad, they escaped the Multi-horn Race border, recovered in a hidden valley, and set out again once everyone had healed.

• Gu Yang narrowly dodged an ice cone as Helian Feng continued fighting the Multi-horn Race Dharma Image expert.
• Helian Feng broke through the enemy's frost techniques and overcame his final desperate attack with a sword formation.
• Helian Feng pierced the Multi-horn Race Dharma Image expert's heart, killing him and destroying his Dharma Image.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng found their withdrawn squad and led them away from the Multi-horn Race border to a concealed valley.
• The group tended their injuries and rested in the valley for several days.
• After everyone had recovered, Gu Yang, Helian Feng, and the squad set out again.

After recovering, Gu Yang sent Shen Li and an elite squad to deliver supplies and intelligence to Canglong Island, then led the remaining warriors to meet their Multi-horn Race allies and infiltrate enemy territory. After discovering a lightly guarded enemy camp, Gu Yang prepared a night raid to destroy its supplies.

• Gu Yang recovered from his injuries, discussed cultivation with his teammates, and set out with Helian Feng the next morning.
• Gu Yang entrusted Shen Li with spatial rings containing supplies and intelligence to deliver to Canglong Island, and Shen Li's squad fought off an ambush before continuing toward Human Race territory.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng led the remaining team toward the Multi-horn Race border, avoided patrols, and met their allies to exchange intelligence and plan their cooperation.
• Gu Yang's team infiltrated enemy territory and discovered a small, lightly guarded camp that might be a supply transfer point.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng agreed to raid the camp, and Gu Yang split the warriors into groups to distract the guards and destroy the supplies.

Gu Yang led his team in destroying thirteen Multi-horn Race camps, then evaded the gathering enemy army and infiltrated its territory. After sabotaging a major bridge, he pushed deeper into the enemy heartland and set his sights on a core city while seeking a chance to break through the encirclement.

• Gu Yang's team burned and eliminated an enemy camp, then withdrew to their valley and rested.
• Over several days, Gu Yang led raids that destroyed thirteen camps and spread fear among the Multi-horn Race forces.
• The Multi-horn Race war commander ordered his army to gather and surround Gu Yang's team, but Gu Yang heard the approaching forces and changed routes.
• Gu Yang led his team around the army into the enemy interior and destroyed a bridge over a major river.
• A Multi-horn Race captain recognized that some tracks might be a trap, but his forces failed to stop Gu Yang's team from entering the heartland.
• Gu Yang told Helian Feng they needed to exploit the enemy's confusion and break through, then led the team toward a core great city.

Gu Yang and his team infiltrated Ironstone Fortress, blew up a resource warehouse, and killed the City Lord in a coordinated ambush. They escaped with military intelligence and supplies, leaving the fortress in chaos as the war continued.

• Gu Yang led his team through a drainage ditch into Ironstone Fortress and rigged a warehouse full of supplies with explosives.
• After a guard nearly discovered their trap, Gu Yang killed him, and the team detonated the warehouse before moving toward the City Lord's residence.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng ambushed the City Lord when he arrived to hear the officer's report, and they wounded him until he destroyed himself in an explosion.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng searched the residence's secret chamber and recovered a report on Multi-horn Race military deployments and city defenses.
• Gu Yang and his team escaped Ironstone Fortress with intelligence and resources as news of the explosion and City Lord's death spread.

Gu Yang led his team through a series of ambushes against the pursuing soldiers from Ironstone Fortress, first defeating a vanguard in the mountains and then drawing the stronger pursuit into Ghost Gorge. There, Gu Yang and Helian Feng attacked from opposite sides and nearly wiped out the enemy, leaving the team victorious.

• Gu Yang set pitfall and rolling-stone traps in a mountain pass, then led his team in routing the pursuing soldiers from Ironstone Fortress.
• Gu Yang ordered his team to conceal their strength and eliminate the fleeing enemies before moving deeper into the forest.
• When a Longevity Realm expert pursued them, Gu Yang sent Helian Feng to create false tracks and led the rest toward Ghost Gorge.
• Gu Yang’s team hid in the fog and ambushed pursuers inside the gorge, while Helian Feng’s group attacked them from behind.
• Helian Feng slew a Longevity Realm cultivator of the Multi-horn Race and led the final charge as the pursuers suffered devastating losses.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng reunited after the battle, with enemy corpses scattered inside and outside Ghost Gorge.

After escaping Ironstone Fortress, Gu Yang led his team to Wind Cloud City to pursue their next mission. They met an intelligence agent, learned about the mysterious Night Walker and a new southern black-market force, then split up to investigate the city’s factions.

• Gu Yang led his exhausted team out of Ghost Gorge and Ironstone Fortress, then camped in a secluded valley overnight.
• At dawn, Gu Yang guided the team toward Wind Cloud City, where they entered in disguise and met a Four-Armed Race intelligence agent in a teahouse.
• The agent gave Gu Yang a book of intelligence and warned him that the Night Walker led a powerful new force in the southern black market, likely linked to their enemy.
• Gu Yang and Helian Feng split their forces: Helian Feng went to investigate the southern black market, while Gu Yang set out to verify information about the city’s factions.
• Gu Yang led his remaining team to a northern market, where they spread out to gather clues as he listened to conversations in a busy restaurant.