Recaps

Gu Qingfeng escaped the Golden Core Immortal Sect with a group of disciples, then was separated from them by a flood and crossed a deadly desert with a caravan. He reached the grasslands, where he fought off a swarm of Beauty Mosquitoes and impressed the caravan with his power.

• Gu Qingfeng found the Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner, used it to contact heroes, and learned that the sect was in the dangerous Returning Ruins.
• Gu Qingfeng discovered that Golden Core cultivation consumed his lifespan and suspected the sect was raising disciples to harvest them.
• When Zhang Yao tried to eat the disciples’ Golden Cores, Gu Qingfeng killed her and the others who attacked, then led Zhao San, Wang Wu, Shen Yun, and Qi Lingguang toward an escape route.
• Gu Qingfeng fought through a cavern of Man-Dogs, monster trees, and attacking corpses, leading the group out of the sect’s caves.
• Gu Qingfeng and his companions fled downstream, but a flood swept him away from them and left him alone in a desert.
• Gu Qingfeng found the Crimson Corruption Godscale, reversed its cost to gain power, and joined Liu Yu’s caravan after trading a golden anklet for supplies.
• When the Yin Moon appeared, giant Beauty Mosquitoes attacked the caravan, and Gu Qingfeng killed a blood-red one with his Core Branch and the Godscale, scattering the swarm.

Gu Qingfeng survived the Ghost Hand Apothecary’s deadly pill trials, killed Sun Sheng, and burned the apothecary and Immortal Leaf Hall. His presence at Zhao Situ’s fight led the Jiangzhong Sect and Ghost Hand Apothecary into escalating clashes, while a bounty notice identified Gu Qingfeng as a possible evil demon lord.

• During the Dark Moon, Gu Qingfeng and the Liu Household caravan reached Red Tears City, where he parted from them and entered Ghost Hand Apothecary as a medicine tester.
• Gu Qingfeng tested increasingly large doses of the Liver-Severing Qi-Killing Pill, secretly reversing its harmful effects while discovering that Sun Sheng harvested killing aura from his victims.
• After witnessing Immortal Leaf’s hallucinations and the strange Red Tears Rain, Gu Qingfeng took four pills and resolved to kill Sun Sheng.
• Sun Sheng attacked Gu Qingfeng to drain his killing aura, but Gu Qingfeng pursued and killed him, then killed the apothecary’s physician and attendants.
• Gu Qingfeng ate the apothecary’s pills, gained greater soul strength from the Red Taisui Cinnamon Pill, and set fire to Ghost Hand Apothecary and Immortal Leaf Hall before escaping with three medicine testers.
• Zhao Situ blamed the Jiangzhong Sect for the deaths at the apothecary and led an attack on Jiang Zhongtang, where Yu Qiling froze Zhao Situ, Wang Shanshan, and Elder Yuan to stop their fight.
• After Zhao Situ described Gu Qingfeng to Ghosthand, the apothecary and Jiangzhong Sect clashed repeatedly, and Gu Qingfeng found a bounty notice portraying him as a possible evil demon lord.