Chapter Summaries

Kamizuki Yu arrived in a world where a strange energy and the laws within insects formed the basis of its power system. Intrigued, he concealed his immense strength and set out to observe and understand the world.

• Kamizuki Yu crossed between worlds and found himself in a primeval forest under unfamiliar laws.
• He sensed a strange energy that communicated with the laws within his body rather than merging with his power.
• Kamizuki Yu used his Rinnegan to discover that insects carried intricate law marks and circulated energy through them.
• He concluded that insects were the foundation of the world's power system and wondered how its people used them.
• Kamizuki Yu concealed his aura to pass as an ordinary person and began observing the world.

Kamizuki Yu entered the Gu Master world, where its laws suppressed his chakra and Six Paths Senjutsu, forcing him to travel as a mortal. After joining a caravan bound for Black Rock City, he witnessed a Gu Master slay a giant lizard and concluded that Gu insects might offer a way to overcome the world's suppression.

• Kamizuki Yu found that using chakra and Six Paths Senjutsu provoked the world's laws, so he sealed his power and continued as an ordinary mortal.
• Kamizuki Yu observed dao marks in the forest's plants and animals before meeting a caravan traveling to Black Rock City.
• Kamizuki Yu joined the caravan after claiming he had become separated from his family and agreeing to pay ten copper coins for the ride.
• Kamizuki Yu heard the caravan members discuss Gu Masters and learned that a hired Gu Master was protecting their cargo.
• A Mountain Rock Giant Lizard attacked the caravan, and a green-robed Gu Master killed it with a mantis Gu insect.
• Kamizuki Yu studied how the Gu Master activated the insect and decided that Gu might help him overcome the world's suppression.

Kamizuki Yu observed a poor village where Gu Masters preyed on mortals, then watched a scar-faced Gu Master kill a rival over a Gu insect. He resolved to study the world by living among mortals for now and returned to his hut.

• Kamizuki Yu left the caravan, rented a thatched hut, and spent several days watching the villagers endure poverty, hunger, and danger.
• A scar-faced Gu Master took water and dried meat from villagers, who were too frightened to resist.
• A young man in black challenged the scar-faced Gu Master for a Three-Tailed Scorpion, but the scar-faced Gu Master’s Earth-Yellow Centipede destroyed his Black Beetle and killed him.
• The scar-faced Gu Master took the young man’s pouch and left, while villagers later dragged the corpse into the wilderness.
• Kamizuki Yu used his Rinnegan to examine how Gu insects drew on environmental energy through their Dao marks and decided to observe village life longer before joining the struggle.

Kamizuki Yu captured several mortal gu and used the Rinnegan to discover that their abilities came from law marks resonating with the laws of nature. He successfully simulated a Starlight Gu law mark to draw on starlight, then decided to seek higher-ranked gu for further study.

• Kamizuki Yu searched the wilderness at night and captured several mortal gu with different abilities.
• Kamizuki Yu analyzed Starlight Gu with the Rinnegan and identified its law mark as the key to drawing upon starlight.
• Kamizuki Yu concluded that gu masters borrowed power through gu, whose law marks represented fragments of the world's laws.
• Kamizuki Yu repeatedly simulated the Starlight Gu law mark until he formed a stable copy and drew starlight energy into himself.
• Kamizuki Yu considered creating gu by combining Yin–Yang Release with simulated law marks, then went out seeking higher-ranked gu from gu masters.

Kamizuki Yu watched Li Ergou’s bandits massacre and plunder a village, then sensed that a Gu Master was backing them. Old Wang and two men finally emerged to confront the bandits, who demanded that the village surrender a mysterious object.

• Kamizuki Yu watched the bandits kill resisting villagers, seize their possessions, and capture young women.
• Kamizuki Yu sensed a concealed energy around Li Ergou and deduced that a Gu Master supported the bandits.
• Old Wang and two middle-aged men emerged from the back of the village as Li Ergou prepared to leave.
• Old Wang accused Li Ergou of betraying the village, and Li Ergou demanded that they surrender the village’s lifeblood.
• Old Wang refused, so Li Ergou ordered his bandits to kill the three men and search for the object.

Kamizuki Yu watched Old Wang defend the village from bandits, only for the Rank Two black-robed Gu Master to overpower him and kill villagers. After learning both sides’ strength, Kamizuki Yu decided he had seen enough as the black-robed man prepared to strike Old Wang down.

• Old Wang revealed himself as a Rank One Gu Master and used Moon Blade Gu and Earth Armor Gu to drive back the bandits and protect the villagers.
• Li Ergou called forth the black-robed bandit ally, whom Kamizuki Yu identified as a Rank Two Gu Master.
• The black-robed Gu Master shattered Old Wang’s moon blades, cracked his earth armor, and killed more than a dozen villagers with Stone Spike Gu.
• The black-robed man mocked Old Wang’s weakness and advanced on him while Old Wang struggled with depleted primeval essence.
• Kamizuki Yu judged that he had learned enough about the two sides and watched the black-robed man prepare to slash Old Wang’s neck.

Kamizuki Yu intervened when a black-robed Gu Master was about to kill Old Wang and effortlessly neutralized the Rank Two Gu Master's attacks. The black-robed Gu Master realized Kamizuki Yu was far beyond his understanding as Kamizuki Yu pointed one finger at him.

• The black-robed Gu Master's wind blade stopped inches from Old Wang's neck as Kamizuki Yu's pressure froze the bandits and villagers.
• Kamizuki Yu walked down from the hillside and shielded Old Wang after the black-robed Gu Master attacked him with a wind blade and Stone Spike Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu kept walking as the wind blade vanished and the stone spikes crumbled before reaching him.
• The black-robed Gu Master invoked the Gu Master world's rules, then attacked Kamizuki Yu with Wind Blade Dance, but Kamizuki Yu dissolved the blades with a casual wave.
• The black-robed Gu Master recognized Kamizuki Yu's overwhelming power, and Kamizuki Yu turned toward him and extended one finger.

Kamizuki Yu used the Rinnegan’s power of laws to erase the black-robed Gu Master’s Gu and cripple him. The bandits fled, while Old Wang stared at Kamizuki Yu in shock and reverence.

• Kamizuki Yu silently targeted the black-robed Gu Master’s ordinary Gu with the Rinnegan’s power of laws.
• The Gu insects in the Gu Master’s pouches, containers, and dantian sea of qi cracked apart and vanished.
• The Gu Master lost his powers, collapsed, and demanded that Kamizuki Yu return his Gu.
• The bandits panicked and fled after seeing their leader defeated.
• Kamizuki Yu turned away from the powerless Gu Master and faced Old Wang, who could not speak from shock and reverence.

Kamizuki Yu spared the crippled black-robed Gu master and the bandits, but ordered them to compensate the village and protect it for a year. He marked the village against future attackers and left, entrusting the villagers' safety to the defeated men.

• The black-robed Gu master begged Kamizuki Yu for his life and offered his possessions, while Kamizuki Yu stopped the fleeing bandits and forced them to surrender.
• Kamizuki Yu asked Old Wang what the bandits had taken, and the villagers reported that they had lost their food and plow oxen.
• Kamizuki Yu ordered the black-robed Gu master to use his possessions to compensate the village and protect it for one year, threatening him if he failed.
• Kamizuki Yu marked the village so that anyone entering with ill intentions would trigger its protection, and the villagers knelt to thank him.
• Kamizuki Yu left the village after telling the black-robed Gu master and bandits to carry out his orders.

After Kamizuki Yu erased the black-robed Gu Master's swarm and crippled him, the survivors and Azure Wood Stockade disciples struggled to comprehend the power he had displayed. The disciples fled to report the incident, while Kamizuki Yu sensed a powerful Rank Three approaching.

• The bandit leader and his men fled the village, abandoning their order to protect it, while the black-robed Gu Master stayed behind under Kamizuki Yu's restriction.
• Three Azure Wood Stockade disciples investigated the village and questioned the black-robed Gu Master, who admitted he had sent more than ten thousand Thousand-Needle Bees to attack it.
• The disciples searched the village and found no traces of the bees or their Gu aura, then hurried away to report the inexplicable event to the Stockade Lord.
• Kamizuki Yu watched the investigation from a distant tree and concluded that displaying power beyond the world's system could inspire lasting fear.
• Kamizuki Yu sensed a much stronger aura approaching and identified its owner as a Rank Three Gu Master.

Kamizuki Yu intimidated the investigating Gu Masters, protected the village, and earned a check-in reward that let him perceive Dao marks. He decided to test whether he could use his own powers to alter Gu refinement by experimenting on the black-robed Gu Master’s Gu worms.

• Kamizuki Yu watched a rank-three Gu Master investigate the village and become terrified by the traces of absolute erasure where the Gu worms had vanished.
• Kamizuki Yu concluded that he had protected the village and reshaped its order, then checked in and received the Mortal Gu Refinement Method and Dao Mark Analysis Eye.
• Kamizuki Yu used the Dao Mark Analysis Eye to see Dao marks in living things and realized Gu refinement involved their collision, merging, and transformation.
• Kamizuki Yu considered combining Gu refinement with his own powers, such as Wood Release and Yin–Yang Release, to improve or bypass the world's methods.
• Kamizuki Yu spotted the black-robed Gu Master’s Gu worms and descended from the tree to use them as test materials.

Kamizuki Yu subdued a black-robed Gu Master who planned to poison a village, then took his Gu. In a secluded cave, Yu used his law power and Dao Mark Analysis Eye to refine a Moonlight Gu in an instant and enhance it far beyond its usual strength.

• Kamizuki Yu silently approached the black-robed Gu Master as he prepared to poison the village's water source.
• The black-robed Gu Master attacked Kamizuki Yu, but an invisible force immobilized him, and Yu knocked him unconscious.
• Kamizuki Yu examined the Gu in the man's aperture and chose a Moonlight Gu as experimental material.
• Kamizuki Yu used his Dao Mark Analysis Eye and Yin–Yang Release law power to reconstruct the Moonlight Gu's dao marks and refine it in less than a breath.
• Kamizuki Yu tested the enhanced Gu, whose moon blade pierced through a stone wall, then turned his attention to the other Gu he had taken.

Kamizuki Yu discovered that his laws could optimize mortal Gu but could not change their fundamental dao marks, leading him to conclude that Immortal Gu held the deeper laws of the world. He decided to seek out Gu Yue Village for access to higher-level knowledge and set out from the cave.

• Kamizuki Yu optimized a Wine Worm, increasing its primeval essence refining efficiency by more than a hundredfold.
• Kamizuki Yu realized that his modifications improved dao mark arrangements but could not create or change their underlying nature.
• Kamizuki Yu inferred that mortal Gu contained fragments of laws and that Immortal Gu carried more complete laws.
• Kamizuki Yu concluded that analyzing Immortal Gu could help him understand the world's laws and overcome the suppression of his power.
• Kamizuki Yu identified the black-robed Gu Master's token and map as connected to Gu Yue Village, then chose it as his starting point.
• Kamizuki Yu gathered the Gu worms and left the cave to seek out Gu Yue Village.

Kamizuki Yu gathered intelligence in Rock City and learned that the Tianyuan Sect was preparing for the Misty Illusion Realm, rumored to contain Immortal Gu. He decided to find a way to approach the sect and enter the coming struggle, then asked a map seller for a detailed map of Southern Border.

• Kamizuki Yu entered Rock City and used his abilities to sift through conversations for reliable information about Gu Masters, sects, and rare treasures.
• Kamizuki Yu overheard martial artists claim that Tianyuan Sect genius Fang Yuan had risen through an opportunity connected to the Misty Illusion Realm.
• The martial artists said the realm opened once every hundred years, might contain Immortal Gu, and had drawn unusual preparations from Tianyuan Sect.
• Kamizuki Yu concluded that approaching Tianyuan Sect was his best chance to investigate the realm, but he needed an identity that could bring him close to the sect.
• Kamizuki Yu left the teahouse and asked a stallholder for the most detailed map of Southern Border.

Kamizuki Yu infiltrated the Tianyuan Sect’s entrance trial under the guise of a novice Gu Master, hoping to learn about the sect and its rumored secret realm. After passing the first round with ease, he faced a second test: surviving the night in the Black Wind Forest.

• Kamizuki Yu learned that the Tianyuan Sect’s triennial entrance trial could lead its victor to a secret realm rumored to contain Immortal Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu concealed his true cultivation, refined a Moonlight Gu, and joined the trial candidates at Azure Spirit Mountain.
• A Tianyuan Sect deacon began the trial and ordered the candidates to collect three intact Blood-Coagulating Grass plants from the Black Wind Forest within an hour.
• Kamizuki Yu watched other candidates struggle, harvested three plants with ease, and waited before returning to avoid drawing attention.
• Kamizuki Yu passed the first round alongside roughly a thousand survivors, and the deacon announced that the second round required surviving the night in the forest.

Kamizuki Yu spent the night trial in Black Wind Forest and effortlessly defeated three youths with an unusually powerful Moonlight Gu. The examiners investigated his mysterious background, while rumors of his skill spread until Brother Chen came to confront him.

• The outer sect deacon ordered the surviving youths to spend the night in Black Wind Forest, and Kamizuki Yu calmly set off alone.
• Three youths tried to rob Kamizuki Yu, but he used his Moonlight Gu to neutralize their attacks and send them fleeing.
• Deacon Wang and the other examiners watched Kamizuki Yu’s fight and recognized the flawless Dao Mark structure behind his Moonlight Gu’s power.
• A disciple reported that Kamizuki Yu’s name was known but his background was blank, and rumors about him spread through the forest.
• Brother Chen dismissed the rumors as exaggerations, then later approached Kamizuki Yu and asked whether he was Kamizuki Yu.

Kamizuki Yu faced Li Aotian’s challenge during the trial and defeated him without using a Gu, leaving the participants and examiners stunned. Li Aotian’s vital Gu was crippled, and Kamizuki Yu’s mysterious power drew the sect’s attention.

• Li Aotian confronted Kamizuki Yu and demanded that he admit his earlier success was luck and withdraw from the trial.
• Li Aotian attacked with Wind Blade Gu, Rock Armor Gu, and Fire Spider Gu as onlookers expected Kamizuki Yu to be overwhelmed.
• Kamizuki Yu pointed one finger at Li Aotian without activating a Gu, and an unseen force damaged Li Aotian’s vital Twin Hearts Gu.
• Li Aotian lost control of his Gu, causing his wind blades and flaming web to fizzle before reaching Kamizuki Yu.
• Kamizuki Yu asked Li Aotian, “That’s it?” while the crowd and Steward Wang stared in shock.

Kamizuki Yu crushed Li Aotian in the trial grounds just as the Tianyuan Secret Realm began leaking the aura of an Immortal Gu, drawing powerful factions to Tianyuan Sect. With the entrance opening and the Demonflame Sect Master Yan Baichuan charging inside, Kamizuki Yu saw the chaos as a chance to obtain Spring Autumn Cicada.

• Kamizuki Yu effortlessly dispersed Li Aotian's attack, leaving Li Aotian crumpled in defeat.
• An Immortal Gu aura leaked from the Tianyuan Secret Realm entrance, frightening Gu worms and alerting Tianyuan Sect's elders and sect master.
• Independent cultivators and rival factions sensed the aura and rushed toward Tianyuan Sect, while Kamizuki Yu's system offered Spring Autumn Cicada as a sign-in reward at the emergence site.
• Yan Baichuan and Liu Qing Shi arrived with their forces, escalating the confrontation over the Immortal Gu.
• The secret realm entrance opened into a dark vortex, and Yan Baichuan charged inside first.

The sects and independent cultivators clashed over the newly opened secret realm, while Kamizuki Yu slipped away to check in near its entrance. As he began the check-in, Liu Qing Shi finally moved and spoke.

• Yan Baichuan entered the unstable secret realm first, and Lie Shan, Yin Jiuxuan, and Master Liaochen arrived with their factions to contest the Immortal Gu.
• A reckless independent cultivator was erased by the unstable entrance, so the Tianyuan Sect Supreme Elder ordered the Tianyuan Grand Formation to seal it.
• Lie Shan and Yin Jiuxuan led attacks that shattered the formation, and the factions surged toward the secret realm in a chaotic melee.
• Kamizuki Yu used the fighting as cover to reach the check-in range and silently began checking in at the Birthplace of the Immortal Gu.
• Liu Qing Shi remained apart from the melee, then moved and said, “Too noisy.”

After signing in at the Immortal Gu Emergence Grounds, Kamizuki Yu gained the Dao Mark Analysis Eye and used it to uncover the secret realm’s law dao marks, hidden Immortal Gu projections, and dangerous energy. He ignored the chaos around him and headed toward a convergence of pure dao marks.

• Liu Qing Shi cleared a path through the fighting with a single sword strike, warning the factions of her strength.
• Kamizuki Yu signed in and received the god-tier Dao Mark Analysis Eye.
• When the secret-realm entrance stabilized, Kamizuki Yu followed the crowd inside while other Gu Masters greedily absorbed its dense energy.
• Kamizuki Yu activated his new ability and saw the world as intertwined dao marks, including projections of numerous Immortal Gu.
• A Golden Sun Sect disciple absorbed corrupted energy and died, while nearby Gu Masters rushed to loot his storage Gu.
• Kamizuki Yu spotted a node where several kinds of pure dao marks converged and headed toward it.