Chapter Summaries

Gu Jiuxuan and Xiao Wen stepped down as Dan Tower giants and later reached the Dou Saint realm, while Gu Jiuxuan trained a new generation at Jia Nan Academy. Fifty years later, Gu Hui broke through to an Emperor-Realm Soul and began using a Ninth-Grade pill to advance his Dou Qi cultivation.

• Gu Yue, Gu Ya, and Gu Yun gave Gu Jiuxuan pills, a Heavenly Rank Dou Technique, and a Ninth-Tier Magic Core for him and Wen'er.
• Gu Jiuxuan and Xiao Wen appointed three Dan Tower giants, then returned to their respective regions to cultivate and reached the Dou Saint realm eleven years apart.
• Gu Jiuxuan brought Lan Ying and Su Yi, who possessed the Woeful Poison Body and Jade-Green Three-Flower Pupils, to Jia Nan Academy and took them as disciples.
• Lan Ying and Su Yi reached Peak Dou Zun within just over twenty years and became Jia Nan Academy's first and second grand elders.
• Fifty years later, Gu Hui broke through to the Emperor-Realm Soul, demonstrated its immense power, and returned to seclusion.
• Gu Hui consumed a Tier 9 Profound Pill with the aid of Netherworld Profound Water and Nine Profound Golden Lightning, causing his Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint realm to loosen and his aura to rise.

After reaching Nine-Star Dou Saint, Gu Hui spent four hundred years advancing his martial cultivation to the ninth heaven of Tribulation Transcendence. He began his final tribulation in the Endless Sea, but the Nine-Dragon Tribulation overwhelmed his defenses and left him certain he would die.

• Gu Hui reached Nine-Star Dou Saint, sent the Wind Emperor to the Upper Realm, and reassured Mu Nianci and his other companions about their cultivation.
• Over the following four hundred years, Gu Hui cultivated until he reached the ninth heaven of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Gu Hui prepared a concealed formation in the Endless Sea and began his final breakthrough while his wives, children, and grandson watched.
• Gu Hui endured six devastating lightning bolts as his body was repeatedly destroyed and restored.
• The Nine-Dragon Tribulation descended, destroyed Gu Hui's Five Elements Seal, and overpowered his techniques.
• Gu Hui gave up trying to stop the nine lightning dragons and believed he was certain to die.

Gu Hui survived the fatal Nine-Dragon Tribulation when the Dao Mirror absorbed its power, raising his cultivation to the Third Heaven of the Mahayana Stage. He reunited with his family, explained the danger of Martial Dao tribulations, and urged them to cultivate carefully as he recognized the strength of their growing forces.

• Gu Hui said farewell to Dongfang Bai, Mu Nianci, A Bi, and his children as the Nine-Dragon Tribulation tore into his body.
• A golden mirror seal emerged from Gu Hui's forehead and transformed the tribulation's lightning into nourishment, carrying him to the Third Heaven of the Mahayana Stage.
• Gu Hui spent nine days consolidating his cultivation and realized his tribulation had targeted him as an anomaly because Martial Dao was unknown in the world.
• Dongfang Bai, A Bi, Mu Nianci, and the children rushed to Gu Hui after the formation was removed, and he warned them to approach future Martial Dao tribulations cautiously.
• Gu Hui urged his family and Xiao Wen to cultivate diligently and avoid needless struggles, then assessed the formidable strength of their allies and affiliated forces.

After more than ten years in Sound Valley, Gu Hui traveled to Fenyan Valley for the Valley Master's celebration of his newborn son. At the gathering, Dan Tower presented a lavish gift and voiced support for Fenyan Valley, while Gu Hui realized he had brought no congratulatory gift.

• After hearing about Fenyan Valley's celebration in a tavern, Gu Hui decided to visit and traveled to the Blazing Fire Mountain Range.
• Xuan Ling and Xuan Yi accompanied Gu Hui through Fenyan Valley's spatial barrier and introduced him to Elder Han of Dan Tower.
• Gu Hui identified himself as a member of Sound Valley, earning separate accommodations as an invited guest.
• At the celebration, Fenyan Valley's Valley Master welcomed the guests and announced the festivities for his newborn son.
• Elder Han presented Dan Tower's Snow Soul Pill as a congratulatory gift, and the Valley Master promised that Fenyan Valley would stand with Dan Tower.
• As other guests presented their gifts, Gu Hui realized that he had prepared nothing for the occasion.

Gu Hui presented Tang Shan with a Bodhi Pill at Fenyan Valley’s celebration, but Soul Hall interrupted and provoked the Nine Dragons Lightning Flame into a rampage. As Soul Hall attacked Tang Shan and Han Chuan, the gathering prepared to fight back.

• Gu Hui congratulated Tang Shan on the birth of his son and gave him a Bodhi Pill, earning Fenyan Valley’s promise of aid and hospitality.
• Venerable Blood Sea arrived with Soul Hall and claimed they had come to free the Nine Dragons Lightning Flame from Fenyan Valley.
• Black Nether presented Tang Shan with a strange black stone that the Nine Dragons Lightning Flame swallowed, causing the Heavenly Flame to erupt and circle above the square.
• Tang Shan ordered the crowd to retreat while Blood Sea demanded that he release the Heavenly Flame and then ordered Black Nether and two others to attack.
• Han Chuan confronted Blood Sea, sent Brother Huang to help Tang Shan, and directed the other Dou Zuns to join the fight.

Soul Hall attacked Fenyan Valley, but Fire Cloud Ancestor emerged as a Half-Saint and forced Gu You to retreat. Gu Hui aided the wounded Tang Shan and gave Fire Cloud Ancestor a Bodhi Pill and fire-path insights, while revealing Sound Valley’s powerful ties to Fenyan Valley.

• Blood Sea asked Gu You to capture Tang Shan and subdue Nine Dragons Lightning Flame after Gu Hui calmed the Heavenly Flame.
• Gu You badly wounded Tang Shan and attacked Gu Hui, but Fire Cloud Ancestor appeared as a Half-Saint and drove him into a spatial passage.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor asked Han Chuan to treat Tang Shan and announced that the celebration could continue.
• Tang Shan told Fire Cloud Ancestor that Gu Hui had given him a Bodhi Pill, and Gu Hui gave Fire Cloud Ancestor another Bodhi Pill and two communication talismans.
• Gu Hui sent Fire Cloud Ancestor and Tang Shan insights into the path of fire, including records of the path from Half-Saint to Dou Saint.

Gu Hui met Yao Chen in Shengdan City and later watched him win the Alchemist Grand Meeting, earning a place as a Dan Tower giant candidate. Gu Hui then revealed his long-standing ties to Dan Tower and explained that Gu Yue and Gu Ya had been sent there to strengthen it, while keeping his clan’s identity secret.

• Gu Hui met Yao Chen and Xuan Yi in a tavern, praised Yao Chen’s talent, and encouraged him not to let Xuan Yi down.
• After half a year of competition, Yao Chen won the Alchemist Grand Meeting and became a candidate for a Dan Tower giant.
• Yao Chen resolved to keep growing stronger so he could return to his clan and honor his parents by carving their names onto its stone stele.
• More than half a month after the meeting, Gu Hui heard people spreading stories about Yao Chen and entered the Little Dan Tower, where he reunited with Gu Yue and Gu Ya.
• Gu Hui revealed that he had sent Gu Yue and her siblings to Dan Tower more than eight hundred years earlier to cultivate their alchemy and help protect the organization.
• When the Danta Ancestor asked which clan Gu Hui came from, Gu Hui refused to reveal its identity, saying the time was not yet right.

Gu Hui gave his daughters permission to deal with anyone who bullied them, then watched decades pass as Yao Chen founded Star Pavilion, disappeared, and Xiao Yan was born. After ordering Jia Nan Academy to protect Xiao Yan without interfering, Gu Hui stepped in to save Feng Xian from the Blood River Sect and seized Hun Shang in the Void.

• Gu Hui told Gu Ya and Gu Yue to make their own decisions and threatened to dig up the ancestors of anyone who bullied them.
• Over the following decades, Yao Chen and Feng Xian founded Star Pavilion, Yao Chen disappeared, Fire Cloud became a Dou Saint, and Xiao Yan was born.
• Gu Hui went to Jia Nan Academy and instructed its experts to watch over Xiao Yan in secret without interfering in his growth.
• Xiao Wen told Gu Hui that Jiu Xuan had reached the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm and gone into the Outer Void to pursue the path of the Dou Emperor.
• Gu Hui entered the secret realm where Blood River was attacking Star Fall Pavilion, stopped Feng Xian from self-destructing, and promised to deal with the invaders.
• Gu Hui spotted Hun Shang watching from the Void and grabbed him before he could resist.

Gu Hui killed Hun Shang and captured Blood River, leaving Soul Hall to believe Star Fall Pavilion was responsible and prepare to attack it. At Star Fall Pavilion, Gu Hui gave Feng Xian numerous medicinal pills, including rare eighth-grade pills, as the stunned survivors reacted.

• Gu Hui shattered the space around Hun Shang and destroyed his soul, causing Hun Shang's soul jade tablet to break at Soul Hall headquarters.
• Hun Miesheng killed the messenger who reported Hun Shang's death, then confirmed the news with Hun Shang's shattered soul jade tablet.
• Hun Miesheng ordered Soul Hall to gather and destroy Star Fall Pavilion, though he suspected another ancient faction had killed Hun Shang.
• Gu Hui dragged the fleeing Blood River back and threw him before Feng Xian, while former attackers knelt and sought mercy.
• Gu Hui gave Feng Xian countless medicinal pills, and the onlookers recognized an eighth-grade Soul-Cleansing Spirit Pill and a Heaven Mending Pill among them.

Gu Hui confronted Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall forces as they arrived to destroy Star Fall Pavilion, overwhelming Hun Miesheng with a palm strike. Hun Tiandi intervened and matched Gu Hui’s attack, leaving the two powerful figures facing off in the Star Realm.

• Gu Hui gave Feng Xian high-grade pills and told him to handle them as he saw fit.
• Hun Miesheng and more than a dozen powerful Soul Hall figures emerged from a wormhole, and Hun Miesheng declared that Star Fall would be destroyed.
• Gu Hui appeared before the group and pressed Hun Miesheng into the ground with a palm strike.
• Hun Miesheng crushed jade slips to summon reinforcements, while Gu Hui’s golden palm attack left the Soul Hall group dazed by its radiance.
• Hun Tiandi arrived and caught Gu Hui’s attack with his palm, then diverted it into a nearby mountain, destroying more than half of it.

Gu Hui and Hun Tiandi fought evenly in the Star Realm, each revealing formidable mastery of power and rules. They stopped at the same moment and turned toward the Void, leaving the onlookers uncertain about the outcome while Hun Miesheng feared Hun Tiandi had lost.

• Hun Tiandi challenged Gu Hui and sent a vast torrent of Dou Qi at him, but Gu Hui scattered it with a touch.
• Hun Tiandi teleported in and punched Gu Hui, who met the attack with his own fist, unleashing a destructive clash.
• Gu Hui and Hun Tiandi exchanged repeated blows that shattered the surrounding space and drove the onlookers back in fear.
• Hun Tiandi realized he could not defeat Gu Hui and considered repeating what he had done a thousand years earlier, while Gu Hui recognized Hun Tiandi's mastery of the power of rules.
• Gu Hui and Hun Tiandi stopped fighting and turned toward the Void, and Hun Miesheng feared that Hun Tiandi had lost.

Gu Hui faced Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and the leaders of the ancient clans in the Star Realm as they gathered around the conflict. After Yan Jin challenged him, Gu Hui unleashed a vast aura that seemed even purer than Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan’s, leaving the gathering on the brink of confrontation.

• Gu Yuan emerged from the Void and mocked Hun Tiandi, while remaining wary of Gu Hui.
• Lei Ying arrived and felt the pressure of Gu Hui, Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan before Yan Jin and Yao Dan joined them.
• Gu Hui asked why the clan leaders had come and made clear he would not let the matter involving the Star Fall Pavilion go without a price.
• Yan Jin challenged Gu Hui, unaware that he had already confronted Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
• Gu Hui released a powerful aura toward Yan Jin, astonishing Lei Ying and drawing Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan’s attention.

Gu Hui challenged Hun Tiandi after rejecting Gu Yuan’s appeal to the agreement restricting powerful Dou Saints from fighting. Their clash revealed that Gu Hui’s Five-Colored Divine Light could seal its target, leaving Hun Tiandi wary as the battle continued.

• Yan Jin froze in fear before Gu Hui, and Gu Yuan cited the agreement barring experts above Five-Star Dou Saint from acting lightly.
• Gu Hui argued that the agreement was meaningless and demanded that Hun Tiandi hand over Hun Miesheng and the others.
• Hun Tiandi refused and attacked Gu Hui, who dodged his first strike and met his next punch with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Hun Tiandi failed to tear open space to banish the attack, then shattered space to swallow some of its radiance.
• Gu Hui gathered the divine light and lunged at Hun Tiandi, whose spatial technique collided with it in an immense explosion.
• Hun Tiandi recognized that the Five-Colored Divine Light’s greatest strength was its ability to seal.

Gu Hui fought Hun Tiandi to a stalemate and pursued him as he escaped with the Soul Hall, while Gu Yuan witnessed Gu Hui’s power and introduced himself. After the other visitors departed, Gu Hui returned to the Star Fall Pavilion, where Feng Xian thanked him for saving his life.

• Hun Tiandi unleashed a blood sea and battered Gu Hui’s five-colored divine light, while Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin watched the clash.
• Hun Tiandi broke through the divine light and fled through a spatial rift with the Soul Hall, but Gu Hui sent an attack after him and a faint cry for help came from the closing rift.
• Gu Yuan praised Gu Hui, introduced himself, and invited him to visit Ancient Saint City before leaving with the others.
• Gu Hui returned to the Star Fall Pavilion, where Feng Xian thanked him and vowed to remember his debt.
• Gu Hui told Feng Xian to pass along news promptly, then departed.

After crushing the Soul Hall’s forces, Gu Hui’s power and identity became the subject of rumors across the continent, though no investigation uncovered the truth. Hun Tiandi treated the five-colored mountain as a path to greater strength and ordered the Soul Hall to retreat, while Gu Hui’s family discussed his intervention and their own need to keep a low profile.

• Hun Tiandi carried the five-colored mountain and its trapped captives back to the Hun Realm, then recognized it as a way to learn new cultivation methods.
• Hun Tiandi ordered an investigation of Gu Hui, ranked him as a greater threat than Gu Yuan, and told the Soul Hall to lie low; he also suppressed Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Other Ancient Emperor Clans investigated Gu Hui cautiously and noticed that the Hun Clan and Soul Hall had disappeared from public view.
• Witnesses spread stories about Gu Hui’s strength and medicine across the continent, but the clans and major forces found no evidence about his origins.
• In the Canaan Secret Realm, Gu Yun discussed how Gu Hui’s fame required the family and Xiao Clan to stay discreet, noting that some Xiao Clan experts still survived in hiding.
• Inside the Little Dan Tower, Gu Yue and Gu Ya discussed Gu Hui’s rescue of Star Fall Pavilion, his gifts to Fenyan Valley, and their siblings’ service in the Dan Tower.

Gu Hui gained new insight into the relationship between minor worlds, the Dou Qi Continent, and Dou Emperor bloodlines, then visited Medicine Mountain to gather ingredients for a Ninth-Rank Golden Pill. After surveying the mountain, he began refining the pill.

• Gu Hui studied his minor world and speculated that it could feed back into the continent, explaining how Dou Emperor bloodlines benefited from the world's foundation.
• Gu Hui left the mountaintop and went to Medicine Mountain, where a formation had made the area a rich cultivation ground for medicinal herbs.
• Gu Hui assessed the mountain's dense, active Dou Qi and regretted that its small range made it ineffective for people above the Dou Wang realm.
• Gu Hui gathered the medicinal ingredients he needed and began refining the pill.

Gu Hui refined a Ninth-Rank Golden Pill in his small world, drawing on its energy and origin laws until lightning perfected the pill and purple qi nourished the world. The pill fled into the Void after emerging, but Gu Hui captured it and imprinted his soul upon it.

• Gu Hui fused five clusters of medicinal liquid with his life-bound flame and refined them with the energy and origin laws of his small world.
• The pill formed an energy cocoon, and lightning struck it as the pill absorbed each bolt and grew.
• After half a Shi Chen, the cocoon cracked and shattered, revealing the Golden Core amid the auspicious Purple Qi Comes from the East.
• Gu Hui sent most of the purple qi to Medicine Mountain and dispersed the rest through the small world to restore it.
• The Golden Core fled into the Void, but Gu Hui used five-colored light to immobilize it, seized it, and imprinted his soul upon it.

Gu Yuan visited the diminished Xiao Clan and left his daughter Xun'er in Xiao Zhan’s care, while Xiao Yan met her and led her away to play. Gu Yuan departed Wutan City only after confirming that Xiao Zhan treated Xun'er like family while keeping appropriate boundaries.

• Gu Hui gave the Ninth-Rank Golden Pill to Gu Yue, Gu Ya, and Gu Yun to study together, then left Sound Valley with his three wives.
• Xiao Zhan learned that a powerful guest had arrived and went to the reception hall, leaving Xiao Yan behind.
• Gu Yuan introduced himself to Xiao Zhan and asked him to care for Xun'er for a time.
• Xiao Zhan sent Xiao Yan to play with Xun'er, and Gu Yuan praised Xiao Yan’s potential.
• Gu Yuan left Xiao Zhan a Storage Ring containing gold coins and low-grade Dan, then stayed in Wutan City for several days to observe how the Xiao Clan treated Xun'er.
• Gu Yuan departed Wutan City after seeing Xiao Zhan treat Xun'er like family while maintaining proper boundaries.

After ten years in Wutan City, Gu Hui encountered Xiao Yan and Xun'er at his jewelry stall, then reunited with Lan Ying and Su Yi, who had found successors with rare constitutions. He gave the girls guidance and cultivation manuals, while Yao Chen grew wary of his presence.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er walked through Wutan City after Xiao Yan regained his cultivation talent and ended his engagement to Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er a bracelet from Gu Hui's stall, and Xun'er paid the ten gold coins Gu Hui demanded.
• Yao Chen recognized Gu Hui as the Dou Saint he had met in Shengdan City and decided to urge Xiao Yan to avoid him.
• Lan Ying and Su Yi met Gu Hui with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian, whom they had chosen as successors.
• Gu Hui welcomed the girls and gave Xiao Yi Xian the Medical Classic and Poison Classic, and Qing Lin his cultivation experience from the Dou Saint realm.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in the Three-Year Agreement after she recognized him as Yan Xiao, then left the Misty Cloud Sect. Soul Hall targeted the Xiao Clan and attacked Xiao Yan, forcing Yao Lao to take control of his body.

• Xiao Yan revealed his azure flame during the duel, and Nalan Yanran realized he was Yan Xiao.
• Xiao Yan's flame lotus defeated Nalan Yanran's attack, and she admitted her loss in the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect as his reputation spread, while Wu Protector ordered Yun Shan to capture the Xiao Clan's Patriarch.
• Wu Protector sent black mist into Xiao Yan's room and attacked him with a chain, and Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan's body.