Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang returned from Yinfeng Cave and continued using its cold energy to accelerate his Bone Forging, while Yuan Xiong and Bear Wu planned a Beast Tide against Wan City to target Qin Hu. Before leaving for Arid State, Gu Yang ventured deeper into Yinfeng Cave, discovered portable ice crystals that could preserve its benefits, and stopped when he reached his limit.

• Helian Feng escorted Gu Yang away from Yinfeng Cave, and Gu Yang practiced the Fish Dragon Transformation until his proficiency increased by five.
• Yuan Xiong told Bear Wu that Qin Hu lived in Wan City, and they planned to attack it during the autumn harvest on the tenth day of the ninth month.
• After eight days of cultivation, Gu Yang summoned Helian Feng and entered Yinfeng Cave again to gather more cold energy before departing for Arid State.
• Gu Yang ventured deeper into the cave, found a loose ice crystal that released potent cold energy, and stored it in his Void Ring.
• Gu Yang continued searching for ice crystals until he reached a point seventeen zhang into the cave and could go no farther.

Gu Yang harvested more than twenty pieces of Yinfeng Cold Marrow from Yinfeng Cave, and Helian Feng confirmed he could keep them. After traveling to Arid State and learning about Great Brahma Heaven and the Black Demon Battlefield, Gu Yang reached the front line and entered the battlefield alone.

• Gu Yang searched Yinfeng Cave to the edge of his limit, collected more than twenty ice crystals, and brought one out for Helian Feng to identify as Yinfeng Cold Marrow.
• Helian Feng assured Gu Yang the marrow was his to keep, then took him to meet Qin Wujiu the next morning.
• Qin Wujiu sent Gu Yang to Arid State with instructions to kill the Black Demon Race without disgracing Canglong Island.
• Gu Yang traveled with military reinforcements aboard a Flying Ship to Arid State, where he learned about Great Brahma Heaven and the separate battlefields for Body Realm and Longevity Realm fighters.
• Gu Yang declined the officers' invitations to join them, marched to the frontline military camp, and entered the battlefield alone.

Gu Yang slaughtered Black Demon Race scouts and military formations across the Black Demon Battlefield, drawing the attention of a thousand-strong force. After an ambush brought him face-to-face with thirty elite Level 2 warriors, the Human Race military camp ordered a rescue operation for the unknown Genius Disciple.

• Gu Yang killed a disguised Black Demon scout squad with his Scarlet Domain and Blood Kill Saber, gaining proficiency in Scarlet Domain.
• Gu Yang wiped out several Black Demon Race military formations, pursued fleeing enemies, and cleared the area of survivors.
• A Black Demon scout squad raised a smoke signal, exposing Gu Yang's position, so he changed direction and headed west.
• The Black Demon commander used a feint to position his thousand-strong force near Gu Yang, while thirty Level 2 warriors advanced as an elite squad.
• Gu Yang ran into the elite squad and attacked with his full strength as the two sides clashed.
• After scouts reported the Black Demon force and nearby corpses, a Human Race commander ordered the West-Three-Three Outpost defenders to mobilize and find and escort the Genius Disciple.

Gu Yang destroyed a thousand-man Black Demon Race force with his Scarlet Domain, then fought its commander after eliminating the remaining soldiers. The commander activated Blood Burning Magnification and rushed at Gu Yang with a powerful axe strike, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Gu Yang slaughtered thirty Black Demon Race warriors, then charged into a thousand-man formation and used Death Harvest to kill soldiers across the battlefield.
• Two Human Race scouts watched as Gu Yang evaded the Black Demon commander while his Scarlet Domain felled the surrounding soldiers.
• Gu Yang killed the surviving Level 2 Warriors and turned to fight the commander, matching his strength and wounding him with the Blood Kill Saber.
• The Black Demon commander activated Blood Burning Magnification, grew to two zhang tall, and lunged at Gu Yang with his battle-axe.

Gu Yang used the Void Realm Golden Light to survive the Black Demon commander’s Life-Risking Method, then killed him and confirmed the entire thousand-man unit had been wiped out. He returned toward the northern main camp as a Red Feather Flying Eagle carried the scouts’ battle report to it.

• Gu Yang blocked the Black Demon commander’s attacks with the Void Realm Golden Light and Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales, then beheaded him when his Blood Burning Secret Technique ended.
• Jia Ruobing arrived with two scouts, learned Gu Yang had killed the commander, and was stunned when Gu Yang found and killed a hidden Black Demon scout.
• The two scouts told Jia Ruobing that Gu Yang had killed every soldier in the thousand-man unit, leaving no one to report what happened.
• Jia Ruobing ordered the force to withdraw to the West 33 Defense Line, while Gu Yang continued north toward the main camp.
• A Red Feather Flying Eagle carried the two scouts’ full battle report toward the northern main camp.

Xiao Qingshan reviewed Gu Yang’s battle report and ordered the camp to leave him alone. Gu Yang cultivated through the night, completed the Fish Dragon Transformation’s seventh transformation, and gained a Steel Body as dawn arrived.

• Xiao Qingshan read Gu Yang’s report, told his aide not to interfere with him, and judged his potential greater than Fan Wanyang’s.
• Gu Yang returned to camp and practiced the Fish Dragon Transformation, bringing its proficiency close to the Bone Forging stage’s first threshold.
• While checking his progress, Gu Yang noticed that a moon hung over Arid State and wondered whether the nearest three moons belonged to Human Race territory.
• Gu Yang continued practicing until his bones transformed, expelled their cold energy, and became dense and metallic, completing the Steel Body.
• Gu Yang tested his increased weight and strength, then spent the rest of the night adjusting to his transformed body until dawn.

Gu Yang joined the Human Race army in a large-scale battle and unleashed his Scarlet Domain against the Black Demon Race, killing huge numbers of soldiers. His domain leveled up, and as Black Demon Race commanders moved to intercept him, one hurled a massive war saber at Gu Yang.

• Gu Yang spent seven days hunting Black Demon Race soldiers by day and mastering Fish Dragon Transformation stance training by night.
• After the Black Demon Race launched a large-scale battle, Gu Yang marched with the Human Race army and entered the fighting alongside a bearded soldier.
• Gu Yang charged into the Black Demon Race formation and expanded his Scarlet Domain, killing soldiers across a three-hundred-meter radius and shocking both armies.
• Gu Yang's Scarlet Domain leveled up to Level 2, increasing its range and inflicting severe mental shock on Level 2 Warriors.
• Gu Yang moved rapidly across the battlefield, killing Black Demon Race soldiers as Human Race morale rose and Black Demon Race forces panicked.
• Black Demon Race commanders sent Level 3 Warriors to intercept Gu Yang, and one hurled a huge war saber at him.

Gu Yang used his Scarlet Domain to slaughter Black Demon Race soldiers, turning the tide of the battle and forcing the Black Demon Race to retreat. The Human Race celebrated him as invincible, while a towering Black Demon figure watched and hinted that Gu Yang still faced dangerous methods.

• Gu Yang dodged the Black Demon Race Level 3 Warriors and cut down ordinary soldiers with his Scarlet Domain, while the Human Race's morale surged and the Black Demon Race's formation faltered.
• The Human Race's Mortal Transformation experts blocked the Black Demon Race pursuers, allowing Gu Yang to continue killing until the Black Demon Race sounded its retreat horn.
• The Black Demon Race abandoned its front-line troops and War Giant Beasts to withdraw most of its forces behind its defensive line.
• Fan Wanyang noticed that the soldiers' attention had shifted from his victory over a Giant Beast to Gu Yang, who had driven the Black Demon Race into retreat.
• The Human Race soldiers shouted that Gu Yang was invincible and celebrated their victory, while a towering Black Demon figure warned that Gu Yang might not survive what was coming.

After Gu Yang’s battlefield prowess drew attention, Human Race cultivators debated whether to make him reveal his methods, while allied alien races planned to hunt him and Fan Wanyang. Qi Fu discovered Gu Yang was only at the Bone Forging stage, and Gu Yang stepped outside to ask why Qi Fu and a water-blue-robed old man had come to see him.

• Human Race Longevity Realm cultivators discussed Gu Yang’s origins and whether his battlefield method could be shared, but Qi Fu condemned their greed and left without being persuaded.
• The Black Demon Race and its allies agreed to send low-level assassins and poison users after Gu Yang, have the Earth Burrow Race track him, and target Fan Wanyang as well.
• Qi Fu saw Gu Yang practicing Stance Training through a window and was shocked to learn he was only at the Bone Forging stage.
• Gu Yang completed a set of Stance Training, gained five proficiency points in Fish Dragon Transformation, and calculated how long it would take to advance.
• Gu Yang noticed Qi Fu confronting the water-blue-robed old man outside his barracks, opened the door, and asked what they wanted.

Gu Yang faced Pei Jue’s demand to reveal how he cultivated the Scarlet Domain and explained that its two prerequisites were awakened Soul Secret Power and tangible killing intent. When Pei Jue threatened him with the Barracks Commander, Gu Yang proposed consulting Xiao Qingshan directly, leaving Pei Jue unsettled.

• Qi Fu stopped Pei Jue from approaching Gu Yang, and Gu Yang invited both men into his barracks to explain their purpose.
• Pei Jue questioned Gu Yang about his sect and background while Qi Fu warned Gu Yang to be wary of outsiders.
• Gu Yang concealed his origins and told Pei Jue he was the number one Body Tempering genius in his sect.
• Pei Jue asked Gu Yang to make the Scarlet Domain method public so it could help end the war against the Black Demon Race.
• Gu Yang demonstrated his Soul Secret Power and Scarlet Killing Intent, then explained that both were prerequisites for attempting the method.
• Pei Jue accused Gu Yang of deceiving him and threatened that Xiao Qingshan might demand the method, but Gu Yang said he would visit the commander and verify the claim.

Gu Yang confronted Pei Jue over his attempt to manipulate him and prepared to bring the matter before Xiao Qingshan. After revealing his rare resources and prestigious backing, Gu Yang accepted Pei Jue’s apology gift, called off the meeting, and planned to profit from others who might try to exploit him.

• Gu Yang insisted that Pei Jue accompany him to see Xiao Qingshan, while Qi Fu agreed to witness their account of the dispute.
• Pei Jue offered Gu Yang Cold Wind Sand to persuade him to drop the matter, but Gu Yang refused and revealed a piece of Yinfeng Cold Marrow from his Void Ring.
• Gu Yang introduced himself as Canglong Island’s foremost Body Tempering prodigy and said King Qin had personally approved his training at the battlefield, alarming Pei Jue and Qi Fu.
• Pei Jue agreed to accompany Gu Yang to Xiao Qingshan and offered him Heavenly Clarity Qi as an apology, prompting Gu Yang to abandon the meeting.
• Gu Yang asked Pei Jue and Qi Fu to keep his identity secret, then anticipated that other cultivators would come seeking to exploit him and provide further opportunities to profit.

After seven days of cultivation in the military camp, Gu Yang returned to the battlefield and slaughtered Black Demon Race soldiers, drawing the attention of the Alien Races. He discovered that an Earth Burrow Race scout had exposed his location, and a powerful killing intent approached from the southwest.

• Pei Jue asked Qi Fu to keep his failed attempt to gain credit from Gu Yang secret, and Qi Fu said he would keep it only because he had promised Gu Yang.
• Gu Yang spent seven days cultivating Fish Dragon Transformation in the military camp, then left to hunt Black Demon Race soldiers.
• Gu Yang killed nearly a thousand Black Demon Race soldiers, prompting the Black Demon Race to locate him and Alien Race prodigies to converge on the battlefield.
• Gu Yang detected and killed an Earth Burrow Race scout underground, realizing his position had likely been exposed.
• As Gu Yang prepared to leave, he sensed intense killing intent approaching from the southwest.

Gu Yang uncovered and killed a Thousand Illusion Race assassin disguised as a Human Race warrior, then learned that several Alien Races had joined forces to hunt him. He returned to the military camp to report the new threat.

• Gu Yang fought a Level 3 Black Demon Race warrior until a seemingly helpful Human Race soldier named Lu Chuan joined the battle and killed the Black Demon.
• Gu Yang sensed Lu Chuan's killing intent, attacked him before he could strike, and killed him, revealing that he was a Thousand Illusion Race member in disguise.
• Gu Yang searched the corpse, then left the battlefield to warn the military camp about the newly revealed Alien Race.
• Several Alien Race members found the battlefield and argued over the Thousand Illusion Race member's failed ambush before agreeing to hunt Gu Yang together during a decisive battle.
• Gu Yang returned to the military camp and sought out an intelligence officer.

Gu Yang joined the Human Race’s renewed battle against the Black Demon Race, where both sides focused their plans on him. As the aliens tried to surround him, his Scarlet Domain broke through to Level 3 and unleashed far greater power across the battlefield.

• After Fan Wanyang returned wounded and reported that nearly all the targeted Great Brahma Heaven geniuses had died, the Human Race launched a shadow war against the aliens.
• The Human Race gathered Mortal Transformation Warriors for a decisive battle, placing Gu Yang at the center of their formation while the Black Demon Race marked him and Fan Wanyang as targets.
• Gu Yang charged into the Black Demon Race ranks and used his Scarlet Domain to kill large numbers of soldiers, while Human Race warriors intercepted the enemies sent to surround him.
• Fan Wanyang arrived to support Gu Yang as more than twenty Human Race warriors faced a growing alien force, but Gu Yang kept attacking Black Demon Race soldiers.
• When Scarlet Domain’s proficiency reached 20000, Gu Yang’s domain advanced to Level 3, expanded to five hundred zhang, gained Friend-or-Foe Distinction, and grew nine times more powerful.
• As aliens charged into the upgraded domain, Gu Yang summoned Scarlet Serpents that coiled around them while the Human Race warriors moved to attack.

Gu Yang used the Scarlet Domain to restrain the Alien Race warriors, turning the battle in the Human Race’s favor and killing a powerful prodigy alongside Fan Wanyang. After the armies withdrew, the Alien Race leaders struggled to find a way to counter Gu Yang and decided to ask the Human Race what it would take to send him away.

• Gu Yang’s Scarlet Domain weakened the Alien Race warriors, and he coordinated with the Human Race martial artists to kill them as the battle shifted in their favor.
• When the Alien Race ordered a retreat, Gu Yang trapped nine warriors and used the Scarlet Divine Dragon with Fan Wanyang to kill the prodigy who had challenged him.
• The Human Race higher-ups discussed how their powerful backing let Gu Yang fight without restraint, while the Alien Race leaders considered his growing influence on the battlefield.
• The Black Demon Race leader proposed contacting the Human Race to ask what it would take for them to send Gu Yang away.

After a month in the camp, Gu Yang prepared to return to Canglong Island, unaware that the Ferocious Beasts were launching an operation against Qin Hu and Wan City. The chapter ended as his returning flying ship reached Cangzhou, while his family waited for him at home.

• Xiao Qingshan told Gu Yang to stay in camp and return to Canglong Island with the next garrison rotation, and Gu Yang spent the following month cultivating and meeting Canglong Island elders and deacons.
• Yuan Xiong woke Bear Wu and gathered the Ferocious Beasts of Qianwu Mountain to launch a fast assault aimed at killing Qin Hu and destroying Wan City.
• Yuan Xiong warned Bear Wu that Qin Wujiu would retaliate if they massacred a Human Race city, and Bear Wu agreed to join the operation in exchange for being sent to another major state afterward.
• Gu Yingying asked Gu Dashan and Gu Mother when Gu Yang would return, and they reassured her while reflecting on how his success had transformed their family’s fortunes.
• The Ferocious Beasts chose Mount Mang as the site where their Beast Tide would break out, while the flying ship carrying Gu Yang arrived at the southern edge of Cangzhou.

A massive Ferocious Beast Tide attacked Wan City, and its defenders struggled as the city wall collapsed. Gu Yang arrived and unleashed his Scarlet Domain to slaughter the beasts, but Ferocious Beast Kings Bear Wu and Yuan Xiong noticed him and prepared to act.

• Gu Yang asked the flying ship manager to let him disembark at Wan City, but the ship diverted there after they spotted a Beast Tide charging toward the city.
• Lu Yao, Hong Tao, Qin Hu, and the city’s guards joined forces to defend Wan City as the beasts battered down part of the wall.
• Qin Hu fought to hold the breach and protect the city’s people and Gu Yang’s family, but several top-tier Ferocious Beasts surrounded and wounded him.
• Gu Yang leaped from the flying ship and used his Scarlet Domain and nine scarlet Giant Pythons to kill or restrain the beasts near the wall, saving Qin Hu and the other defenders.
• The flying ship landed outside Wan City, and its soldiers formed up to attack while Gu Yang strode into the Beast Tide, killing large numbers of beasts.
• Bear Wu and Yuan Xiong, the Ferocious Beast Kings at the rear of the Beast Tide, noticed Gu Yang and fixed their attention on him.

Bear Wu and Yuan Xiong attacked Gu Yang and Qin Hu, killing Qin Hu and nearly killing Gu Yang before Qin Wujiu arrived and turned the battle against them. Qin Wujiu trapped Bear Wu in the Azure Dragon River Projection and struck him through the chest, while Yuan Xiong fled.

• Bear Wu and Yuan Xiong launched simultaneous attacks on Gu Yang and Qin Hu, intending to kill them before Canglong Island could respond.
• Gu Yang fled and survived Bear Wu's crushing palm when the Void Realm Golden Light protected him, while Yuan Xiong's strike smashed Qin Hu into the earth.
• Gu Yang struggled free and ran again, but Bear Wu prepared to strike him a second time.
• The Azure Dragon River Projection appeared, disrupting the Gate of Myriad Beasts, and Qin Wujiu arrived and destroyed the gate.
• Yuan Xiong fled after recognizing Qin Wujiu, while Qin Wujiu trapped Bear Wu in the Azure Dragon River Projection and a white-haired figure pierced Bear Wu's chest with a sword.

Gu Yang watched Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya defeat Bear Wu, then begged Qin Wujiu to save Qin Hu, who had survived Yuan Xiong’s attack. After healing Qin Hu, Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya enlisted Gu Yang to track down Yuan Xiong, and the three caught him near Cangzhou’s border.

• Gu Yang found Qin Hu gravely wounded but still alive after Yuan Xiong’s attack.
• Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya worked together to kill Bear Wu, then returned to help Gu Yang.
• Qin Wujiu examined Qin Hu and healed him with a drop of jade liquid, confirming that a Void Realm Pill had helped him survive.
• Gu Yang used the Heart of Slaughter Imprint to sense Yuan Xiong’s location, while Qin Wujiu ordered the factions to help the Cangli Army clear the remaining Ferocious Beasts.
• Gu Yang led Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya southwest in pursuit of Yuan Xiong; Feng Tianya blocked his escape near Cangzhou’s border as Qin Wujiu summoned the Azure Dragon River Projection around him.

Qin Hu awakened a Golden Body and returned to battle while Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya fought Yuan Xiong. After they killed Yuan Xiong, they returned to Wan City, where Gu Yang reunited with his awakened master.

• Qin Hu’s injuries healed, and he condensed a Golden Body before rising and charging into the Ferocious Beast herd to fight.
• Feng Tianya blocked Yuan Xiong’s escape while Qin Wujiu closed in, forcing Yuan Xiong to reveal his Sky-Propping Giant Ape form and fight them.
• Qin Wujiu and Feng Tianya coordinated their attacks as Yuan Xiong grew exhausted and failed to break through their siege.
• Feng Tianya struck Yuan Xiong’s heart with his sword while Qin Wujiu tore into him, and Yuan Xiong collapsed dead.
• Qin Wujiu, Feng Tianya, and Gu Yang returned to Wan City with Yuan Xiong’s corpse, where Gu Yang found Qin Hu and greeted his awakened master.