Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi followed the passage to a powerful monster that warned them to leave. Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi attacked, but the creature effortlessly shattered her Sword Qi and caught Ye Lin’s sword, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Lin led Gu Qingzhi deeper through the passage, where the pressure of the presence ahead grew stronger.
• A massive, scaled monster emerged from the darkness and told Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi to leave.
• Ye Lin charged the monster as Gu Qingzhi sent Sword Qi at it with her green zither.
• The monster shattered Gu Qingzhi’s Sword Qi, caught the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and struck at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin evaded the blow, and the monster threw away his sword before repeating its warning.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi fought a poison-blooded monster guarding a young master in the cave. Gu Qingzhi's zither disrupted it while Ye Lin attacked, but the monster's strength and resistance continued to grow.

• Gu Qingzhi played her zither to disrupt the monster while Ye Lin attacked with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin wounded the monster with Sword Nine, Cleave the Heavens, and learned from its cries that it was protecting its young master.
• Ye Lin engulfed the monster in Beginningless True Flame and struck it with Thunder Break, exposing its poisonous green blood.
• Gu Qingzhi warned Ye Lin that the monster's Primordial Spirit power was increasing and that she could not control it much longer.
• Ye Lin realized the Beginningless True Flame could not defeat the monster quickly.

Ye Lin defeated the monster with his strongest sword strike, silencing the zither and revealing its corpse. As he and Gu Qingzhi approached what it had guarded, the monster began to regenerate, leaving them shocked that it was still alive.

• Ye Lin combined his sword techniques and several powers into a peak strike that split the monster in two.
• The monster's death ended the zither's sound, and Gu Qingzhi joined Ye Lin beside its burning corpse.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi decided to investigate what the monster had guarded, suspecting it was connected to the Time Gu disturbance and the Young Master.
• As they passed the corpse, Ye Lin grabbed Gu Qingzhi and retreated when the monster's body began fusing back together.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi fought the monster guarding the cave, but it revived after being killed and returned even stronger. They realized they would have to defeat or trap it to proceed inside.

• The monster fused itself back together, healed its wounds, and revived with a stronger aura.
• The monster charged Ye Lin, who evaded its attack, while Gu Qingzhi's sound waves initially sent it crashing into the cave wall.
• The monster smashed through Gu Qingzhi's sound waves and rushed at her, but Ye Lin blasted it away with Thunder Break.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi assessed the monster's immense strength and vitality, and Gu Qingzhi said they had to defeat or trap it to enter the cave.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi continued fighting the increasingly powerful monster, but their attacks could not break its defenses. Gu Qingzhi began preparing her ultimate move and asked Ye Lin to hold the creature off for three minutes, leaving herself vulnerable as he faced the monster.

• Ye Lin refused to trap the monster because his Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell might be destroyed, endangering Lin Yunlu inside it.
• Ye Lin charged at the monster again while Gu Qingzhi attacked with her zither, but her music no longer affected the creature.
• Gu Qingzhi switched to direct attacks, yet her Sword Qi left the monster unharmed.
• Gu Qingzhi asked Ye Lin to stall the monster for three minutes while she prepared her ultimate move.
• The monster released a surge of Killing Intent that sent Ye Lin flying as Gu Qingzhi closed her eyes before her floating azure long zither.

Ye Lin and Xinyou struggled to hold back a monster protected by a dense membrane of Killing Intent. Gu Qingzhi unleashed the Nine Kill Art and destroyed it, leaving the group with the monster’s remains.

• Ye Lin fought the monster head-on to keep it from reaching Gu Qingzhi, but its punches left him at a disadvantage.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to blast the monster away, then summoned Xinyou to help pin it down.
• Ye Lin and Xinyou attacked together, but the monster’s Killing Intent membrane resisted their blows.
• Gu Qingzhi told Ye Lin and Xinyou to move aside and unleashed the Nine Kill Art.
• Gu Qingzhi’s three strikes pierced the monster’s heart, pulverized its head, and reduced its body to mush.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi thought they had killed the monster, but it began reviving until Xinyou swallowed it whole. As Xinyou writhed and grew stronger, Gu Qingzhi questioned Ye Lin about the Demon Beast’s origins.

• Gu Qingzhi exhausted herself using the Nine Kill Art to reduce the monster to mangled flesh, and Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi waited to see if it was dead.
• The flesh began wriggling and rebuilding itself, so Ye Lin prepared to attack again.
• Xinyou howled, rushed to the flesh, and swallowed the entire monster.
• Xinyou collapsed and cried out as white light shone from his body and his aura grew stronger.
• Gu Qingzhi asked Ye Lin where his Demon Beast had come from.

After Xinyou devoured the monster, it broke through to the fourth layer of Golden Immortal, astonishing Gu Qingzhi. Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi then continued onward to investigate what the monster had guarded and who its “Young Master” was.

• Xinyou’s cultivation rose to the fourth layer of Golden Immortal after it devoured the monster, and Ye Lin checked its panel.
• Xinyou returned to its miniature form and perched on Ye Lin’s shoulder, while Gu Qingzhi admired it.
• Xinyou initially rejected Gu Qingzhi, but it leapt into her arms after she offered it a green stone.
• Ye Lin headed farther into the area to investigate what had triggered the Time Gu and learn about the monster’s “Young Master,” and Gu Qingzhi followed with Xinyou.

Ye Lin found a white cocoon linked to countless blood-red flesh pods and learned that a Divine Gu was inside. He set his Time Gu beside it, terrifying the cocoon, while Gu Qingzhi watched with Xinyou.

• Ye Lin discovered a cavern filled with humanoid creatures in flesh balls whose threads fed a small white cocoon.
• The creature inside the cocoon offered Ye Lin power if he stayed to guard it until its birth, but Ye Lin rejected its promise.
• The cocoon declared itself a Divine Gu and berated Ye Lin, while Gu Qingzhi watched with Xinyou and dismissed the Gu insect as useless to her.
• Ye Lin summoned his Time Gu and placed it beside the cocoon.
• The cocoon panicked at the sight of the Time Gu and begged Ye Lin to take it away, but he stood unmoved.

Ye Lin watched as the Time Gu devoured a creature still gestating inside a white cocoon, ignoring its pleas for mercy. The scene revealed that Ye Lin had killed Xiao Yun and that Xu Feng had likely helped conceal or enable it, leaving Ye Lin with the Time Gu and a powerful connection to Xu Feng.

• A woman realized that Ye Lin possessed the Time Gu and deduced that he had killed Xiao Yun, while Xu Feng had intervened in the matter.
• The creature inside a white cocoon begged Ye Lin to spare it and promised to recognize him as its master.
• Ye Lin rejected the creature’s pleas and decided he did not want to trust an unknown being forced into serving him.
• The Time Gu bit through the cocoon, revealing yellow beads containing a curled larva, and continued devouring the creature.

Ye Lin obtained the yellow bead after Time Gu devoured the creature inside it, then thanked Gu Qingzhi for helping him reach the underground cavern. The two left the cavern and continued exploring the desolate Divine Gu Sect through the black mist.

• Time Gu devoured the yellow bead’s creature and fell asleep in Ye Lin’s sea of consciousness.
• Ye Lin thanked Gu Qingzhi for helping him, and she teased him about marrying her.
• Gu Qingzhi explained that the item had suited Ye Lin and that she had no use for it.
• Ye Lin promised to owe Gu Qingzhi a favor, and the two left the underground cavern.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi walked through the black mist and remarked on how desolate the Divine Gu Sect looked.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi met Xu Feng in the desolate Divine Gu Sect, where he claimed to have found a mysterious place. Ye Lin recognized that Xu Feng was an impostor and held a sword to his throat, leaving Gu Qingzhi puzzled about how he had detected the deception.

• Gu Qingzhi and Ye Lin lamented the ruined state of the Divine Gu Sect and recalled finding only a strange gu insect.
• Xu Feng approached them, complained that he had found nothing, then said he had discovered a strange place he could not enter alone.
• Gu Qingzhi agreed to follow Xu Feng, but Ye Lin stopped him by pressing a blood-red sword to his throat.
• Ye Lin accused Xu Feng of being an impostor who had taken on Xu Feng's appearance.
• The impostor protested that Ye Lin was crossing a line, and Ye Lin questioned who had claimed that he and Xu Feng were close.

Ye Lin exposed an impostor posing as Xu Feng and discovered that the Divine Gu Sect’s black insects were being controlled from behind the scenes. He continued into the black mist with Gu Qingzhi and Xinyou, wary of what else the sect concealed.

• Ye Lin rejected the claim that he was close with Xu Feng and challenged the apparent Xu Feng to kill him to prove he was real.
• Ye Lin attacked the impostor, whose body rotted away and revealed a carpet of tiny black insects that burrowed underground.
• Gu Qingzhi asked how Ye Lin had recognized the fake, but he kept the reason secret and entered the black mist alone.
• Gu Qingzhi followed Ye Lin with Xinyou as they advanced through the mist with their divine senses limited to a safe radius.

Li Xiaoyao fought the Mountain God, guardian of the Divine Gu Sect’s forbidden grounds, and discovered that a flash of green light let the stone giant regenerate. He resolved to take the treasure within it.

• The Mountain God warned Li Xiaoyao that trespassers in the Divine Gu Sect’s forbidden grounds would die and rose from the mountain as a stone giant.
• Li Xiaoyao attacked the Mountain God with his thunder hammers and shattered one of its arms.
• The Mountain God struck again, but Li Xiaoyao used the Three Heaven-Opening Forms to smash both arms and its chest.
• The Mountain God reassembled itself from the scattered rocks, and Li Xiaoyao noticed a green light inside its body and decided to claim the treasure.

Li Xiaoyao repeatedly demolished the mountain god, uncovering the green pearl that allowed it to regenerate. The mountain god tried to drive him away, but Li Xiaoyao remained determined to take the pearl and charged back at it.

• Li Xiaoyao smashed the mountain god's head and arms with his hammers, then destroyed its nearly restored body.
• Li Xiaoyao spotted the green pearl inside the mountain god and realized it caused the creature's endless regeneration.
• The mountain god changed back into a mountain and asked Li Xiaoyao to leave, but he destroyed the mountain range to expose the pearl again.
• When Li Xiaoyao reached for the pearl, its green light blasted him away and rocks covered it once more.
• Li Xiaoyao insisted on taking the pearl and charged at the mountain god again, prompting its angry roar.

Li Xiaoyao repeatedly defeated the Mountain God and demanded the green pearl hidden within his body. After the Mountain God refused and was trapped by lightning, Li Xiaoyao took the pearl without resistance.

• Li Xiaoyao smashed the Mountain God and tried to seize the green pearl, but its radiance blasted him away.
• The Mountain God decided to leave the forbidden ground, but Li Xiaoyao stopped him and shattered his twin hammers.
• Li Xiaoyao demanded that the Mountain God hand over the green pearl in exchange for being allowed to leave.
• The Mountain God refused, so Li Xiaoyao trapped him in a storm of lightning and approached the pearl.
• Li Xiaoyao reached into the Mountain God's body and took the green pearl with ease.

Li Xiaoyao exposed and destroyed an insect-like impostor posing as Ye Lin, but the Mountain God died after losing the green bead. Elsewhere, Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi found a ruined great hall they suspected was the mastermind’s hideout and prepared to enter.

• Li Xiaoyao took the green bead from the Mountain God, then returned it after the counterfeit Ye Lin urged him to do so.
• Li Xiaoyao recognized the impostor by his missing mask and his concern for the Mountain God, then attacked him with the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Li Xiaoyao struck the counterfeit Ye Lin with the Thunder Hammer, destroying his body and revealing that he was made of insects.
• The Mountain God died because the green bead had sustained him.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi found a ruined great hall while searching for the mastermind and decided to investigate it.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi entered the ruined main hall of the Divine Gu Sect and met its Third Elder, an ancient Golden Immortal near the end of his lifespan. The Third Elder accused them of destroying his home and revealed that the old tree had directed them there.

• Ye Lin turned the remaining half of the hall's door to ash as he and Gu Qingzhi entered.
• The Third Elder of the Divine Gu Sect addressed them from a platform and reproached them for entering his home and plundering it.
• Ye Lin recognized that the Third Elder's frail condition came from his lifespan running out.
• Ye Lin argued that the Immortal World had become secret realms and that they had come to explore one, then asked the Third Elder to explain his objection.
• The Third Elder said their actions were destroying his home and asked whether the old tree had sent them.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi confronted the old man about transforming into Xu Feng, and he admitted he had done it to lure them in and drain their vital essence. He offered to reveal the Divine Gu Sect’s greatest secret in exchange for vital essence, leaving them wary after claiming he had once reached the eighth layer of Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin asked the old man whether he had transformed into Xu Feng, and the old man admitted it.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi prepared to fight, but the old man asked to make a deal instead.
• The old man explained that he needed vital essence to extend his life and offered the Divine Gu Sect’s greatest secret in return.
• Ye Lin said he had no way to extend the old man’s lifespan, and the old man insisted that a supply of vital essence would suffice.
• The old man claimed he had been an eighth-layer Golden Immortal and warned Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi to either provide vital essence or leave.

Ye Lin refused to help the weakened eighth-layer Golden Immortal recover, deciding to wait until the old man died and search for his secret afterward. Outside the hall, Ye Lin told Gu Qingzhi that the old man would perish in three days.

• Ye Lin warned the old man that restoring his strength would put Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi in danger.
• The old man cursed Ye Lin and told him to leave, so Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi departed without learning the secret.
• The old man closed his eyes and sighed that his fate had reached its end.
• Gu Qingzhi asked Ye Lin whether they would have to wait long for the old man to die.
• Ye Lin said the old man would die within three days, based on the information he had seen on the old man's panel.