Chapter Summaries

The Gambling God won his eighth round against Ninth Young Master, stripping away his shops and possessions through a concealed Divine Realm pricing rule. As Qin Kai challenged him for the Gambling God Gu, Long Xuan warned Di Xin not to act recklessly and claimed he had another way to deal with the Gambling God.

• The Gambling God rolled three sixes and defeated Ninth Young Master for the eighth time.
• The Gambling God Gu collected Ninth Young Master's storage treasures, belongings, and the wealth in the shops he managed, leaving him bare and bankrupt.
• The Gambling God explained that his trades followed Divine Realm prices, and Ninth Young Master collapsed after realizing the scale of his loss.
• Long Xuan learned that Di Xin had planned to kill the Repair Worm and track its respawn, but he told her to stand down and said he had a way to handle the Gambling God.
• Qin Kai challenged the Gambling God to guess the number of toes on his right foot and offered to wager for the Gambling God Gu, which the Gambling God said was far beyond Qin Kai's means.

Qin Kai lost a wager that cost the lives of his wives and children after the Gambling God used the Great Healing Technique to regrow a severed toe. Long Xuan prepared to challenge the Gambling God with material treasures, while Qi Huan’s Go game with the Gambling God’s clone turned into a stalling tactic that left him gravely distressed.

• Qin Kai wagered his wives’ and children’s lifespans, but the Gambling God guessed five toes and won when Qin Kai’s severed toe regrew through the Great Healing Technique.
• Di Xin recognized the technique as a Divine Realm ability, and Long Xuan reasoned that the Gambling God could have found another way to exploit Qin Kai’s rules.
• Long Xuan told Di Xin he would only gamble material treasures and left to prepare tools for a possible challenge.
• After two hours, Qi Huan declared that the Gambling God’s clone had lost their Go game, but the clone refused to finish and claimed it would keep playing as long as the board had empty spaces.
• Qi Huan realized the game could be dragged out until the Sky Island Ruins closed, spat blood, and collapsed as Qi clan Gu cultivators rushed to him.

Long Xuan challenged the Gambling God for the Repair Worm and wagered a piece of Living Wood on a Low-Grade Gu Insect battle, intending to exploit the Gambling God’s ignorance of Earthworkers and their formation. Just as the match was about to begin, Di Xin warned Long Xuan that the Gambling God’s Night Mantises could kill any Low-Grade Gu Insect.

• After no one challenged him for half a day, Long Xuan stepped forward and asked the Gambling God about the Repair Worm’s importance to Divine Mechanism City.
• The Gambling God explained that the Repair Worm was dispensable and revealed that his underground puppet army vastly outnumbered the puppets on the surface.
• Long Xuan offered a piece of Living Wood for the Repair Worm and proposed a match in which each side sent up to twenty Low-Grade Gu Insects into a melee.
• Long Xuan planned to use twenty Earthworkers carrying a Mountain-Protecting Formation, while the Gambling God selected Gu Insects preserved in stones.
• Di Xin warned Long Xuan that the Gambling God had brought out ten Low-Grade Night Mantises, which could kill all Low-Grade Gu Insects, and advised him to keep them away with the formation barrier.

Long Xuan used his armored Earthworkers and their formations to defeat the Gambling God’s carefully prepared Gu Insects. The Gambling God’s loss shattered his undefeated reputation and left the spectators eager to challenge him using Insect Armor.

• Long Xuan formed his twenty Earthworkers into a Mountain-Protecting Formation, startling the Gambling God into replacing his selected Gu Insects.
• The Gambling God sent twenty Gu Insects into the pit, then used hidden medicine to turn them into Mid-Grade Gu Insects and revealed ten Boundary-Breaking Gu.
• Long Xuan had the Earthworkers swallow the Boundary-Breaking Gu and rush out of bounds with them, leaving ten Earthworkers to face ten Night Mantises.
• Long Xuan’s Earthworkers used their formations to overwhelm and destroy the Night Mantises, winning the battle for him.
• The Gambling God admitted defeat, and the spectators realized Insect Armor could help them challenge him.

Long Xuan won the Repair Worm and Mandrake from the Gambling God by defeating him first with a formation-carrying Gu Insect and then with Chinese Chess, a game Long Xuan introduced to the world. The Gambling God banned both games to stop Long Xuan from winning more treasures, leaving Long Xuan to seek another way to gamble.

• The Gambling God banned formation-carrying Gu Insects after Long Xuan beat him and claimed the Repair Worm.
• Long Xuan accepted the Repair Worm, then wagered Living Wood for the Mandrake and introduced Chinese Chess as their next game.
• The Gambling God recognized that Chinese Chess might give rise to a new Board-Game Gu, while Chess Clan cultivators began studying and playing it.
• Long Xuan defeated the Gambling God at Chinese Chess and won the Mandrake.
• Long Xuan tried to start another round, but the furious Gambling God banned Chinese Chess and demanded a different game.

Long Xuan beat the Gambling God twice, then avoided a third wager when the Gambling God refused to let him set the rules. The Gambling God made the Gu Masters gamble among themselves for a commission, while Zhu Yue approached him with an offer that might let him leave.

• Long Xuan proposed a Rubik's Cube speed-solving contest, but the Gambling God refused and demanded to set the rules for any further wager.
• Long Xuan walked away, and the Gambling God announced a second stage in which Gu Masters could gamble against one another while he collected a tenth of each wager.
• The Gu Masters eagerly paired off, and most chose Long Xuan's Chinese Chess; Di Xin challenged Long Xuan for one Spirit Stone, and he agreed while giving her a material advantage.
• Long Xuan and the other Gu Masters continued gambling as Qi Huan became absorbed in Chinese Chess.
• Zhu Yue secretly found the Gambling God and said she had a way to let him leave, agitating him with the possibility.

Zhu Yue revealed a Heaven-defying Forbidden Art that could let the Gambling God possess an awakened puppet, and traded it for his Shadow Eye materials and other treasures. As the Sky Island Ruins prepared to close, Long Xuan reunited with his crew and learned that ships had been pushed off the island, setting up a likely clash with the Red Demon Pirate Group.

• Zhu Yue explained that her forbidden art could awaken spiritual objects and allow the Gambling God to possess a puppet, potentially escaping the ruins.
• Zhu Yue demanded three hundred sets of Shadow Eye materials, but the Gambling God had only one set and offered her a choice of his other treasures to make up the difference.
• A month passed, and the gambling gathering ended with most participants leaving the palace regretful and depleted while Long Xuan departed smiling after winning two treasures from the Gambling God.
• Leng Yan told Long Xuan that many factions’ ships had been pushed off the island and that some people had also pushed the Red Demon Ship away, likely provoking a fight when the Red Demon Pirate Group emerged.
• Long Xuan was relieved that he had carried his treasure ship with him, since anyone left stranded would die when the Sky Island Ruins sank.

Long Xuan realized that people leaving the Inner City still remembered the Gambling God and the Repair Worm, putting him in danger of attracting powerful enemies. As forces converged to seize the Repair Worm, he escaped by framing Shui Juanyun, leaving the Water Clan besieged in his place.

• Long Xuan suspected Qin Kai of sinking the ships, and Qin Kai charged into battle against the crowd that had pushed away the Red Demon Ship.
• Long Xuan and Di Xin discovered that people who had left the Inner City retained their memories, meaning they could reveal that Long Xuan had won the Repair Worm from the Gambling God.
• Shui Juanyun ambushed Long Xuan to seize the Repair Worm, but Long Xuan's Ten Ultimates Saber Technique struck Shui Juanyun's body as it transformed into water.
• Zhu Yue learned that Long Xuan had the Repair Worm and led the Candle Clan to attack; Long Xuan shouted that Shui Juanyun had stolen it and fled through Yang Zhan's breach.
• Zhu Yue and other Gu Masters believed Long Xuan's claim because of the Integrity Gu, and they attacked Shui Juanyun and the Water Clan while Long Xuan escaped.

Long Xuan escaped Sky Island with the crew and secretly kept the Repair Worm while developing a weakened Repair Gu recipe. After two months aboard the Divine Dragon Ship, the crew reached the edge of the Endless Sea and encountered the Black Dragon Ship blocking their way.

• Long Xuan told Di Xin he would disguise himself, disappear for a while, and keep the crew under his control rather than kill them to protect the Integrity Gu secret.
• Long Xuan used twenty Earthworkers to help the Divine Dragon Ship descend from Sky Island and sail away while the Gu cultivators there continued fighting.
• Long Xuan studied the Repair Worm in the Soul Library and spent two months creating a Repair Gu recipe requiring thirty thousand materials.
• Long Xuan continued refining the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad after completing its materials, including the Golden Toad from the Sky Island Ruins.
• The Divine Dragon Ship neared the end of the Endless Sea, where the damaged Black Dragon Ship waited with only a small number of pirates aboard.

Di Xin destroyed the Black Dragon Ship with four Giant Cannon shots powered by Top-Grade Spirit Stones, then refused Long Xuan’s attempt to dodge reimbursing her. Back in his cabin, Long Xuan decided to research a Gu that could devour Tribulation Lightning, allowing him to pursue a pill formula that improved aptitude without fearing Heavenly Tribulations.

• Di Xin fired the Giant Cannon’s strongest setting at the Black Dragon Ship, then fired three more times and blasted it apart.
• Long Xuan arrived after the battle, and the crew denied seeing Di Xin use Top-Grade Spirit Stones when he asked them to help reimburse her.
• Long Xuan returned to his cabin and considered whether to eat a Heaven-Mending Fruit or refine it into a spirit pill that could improve aptitude.
• Long Xuan decided to create a Gu Insect that could devour Heavenly Tribulations and began drafting the Tribulation Gu recipe.
• Long Xuan described how the Tribulation Gu would metamorphose by consuming each of the ten types of Tribulation Lightning, while recognizing that developing the required pill formulas would be a long task.

Long Xuan discovered that the Tribulation Gu Recipe required one hundred million materials and resolved to adapt it, while planning to seek rare Tribulation Worms and invent a new kind of Tribulation Lightning. After trading with Di Xin for Repair Gu materials and receiving the Face-Changing Gu Recipe, he began imagining how to adapt it to disguise a person's entire body.

• Long Xuan saw that the Tribulation Gu Recipe required one hundred million materials, then decided to prioritize developing Tribulation Gu and create a stronger, undiscovered kind of Tribulation Lightning.
• Long Xuan asked Di Xin whether she had any Tribulation Worms, but she said they were exceptionally rare and she did not have one.
• Long Xuan showed Di Xin the materials needed for Repair Gu, and she agreed to provide them in exchange for Soul-Nourishing Wood branches.
• Di Xin gave Long Xuan the Face-Changing Gu Recipe because she had no time to refine the Gu for him.
• Long Xuan decided to adapt Face-Changing Gu so it could alter a person's entire physique, not just their face.

Long Xuan refined Transformation Gu while continuing to develop the Tribulation Gu Formula, then received the newly evolved Repair Gu and tested its restorative ability. He learned that it could repair many treasures but was too limited and slow to make him wealthy, so he put it away to rest.

• Long Xuan renamed Face-Changing Gu as Transformation Gu and planned to give one to each clone so they could disguise themselves.
• Long Xuan spent four months developing the Tribulation Gu Formula while refining Transformation Gu and Repair Gu.
• The Flame Clone brought Long Xuan the newly evolved Repair Gu, and Long Xuan formed a blood contract with it.
• Long Xuan tested Repair Gu by feeding it fragments of a crushed Low-Grade Spirit Stone, which it restored into an intact stone.
• Long Xuan discovered that Repair Gu could restore most treasures below Rank Four, but its pace depended on its own valuation and it needed rest.
• After Repair Gu became exhausted and refused more items, Long Xuan placed it in the Insect-Rearing Pouch to rest.

Long Xuan hid in the Black Sand Archipelago under a changed identity and continued researching the Tribulation Gu Formula while Shui Juanyun was hunted over the Repair Worm. Shui Juanyun escaped death by abandoning his body, leaving Xue Island Lord trapped in a battle over the missing Gu as he searched for a suitable new body.

• Long Xuan used his clone to pose as a junior apprentice brother, put him in charge of the ship, and vanished to hide from the crisis surrounding the Repair Worm.
• Long Xuan reached the Black Sand Archipelago, concealed his appearance, and entered seclusion on a small island while his clone cultivated and he advanced the Tribulation Gu Formula to 20%.
• Shui Juanyun killed the attackers who cornered him, but another group arrived and overwhelmed him after his Water Clan companions were exhausted.
• Xue Island Lord's men reported that Shui Juanyun had died without the Repair Worm, and Xue Island Lord suspected the Water Clan had received it.
• A new group accused Xue Island Lord of taking the Repair Worm and attacked him, while Shui Juanyun revealed that he had abandoned his body and fled as a stream of water to seek a new one.

Long Xuan’s Flame Clone visited Treasure Pavilion on Star Isle to buy supplies and discovered a damaged ancient Hundred-Li Talisman that he could restore with Repair Gu. After learning it could provide an instant escape even from a Gu King, he decided to obtain it before his planned trip to the Teng Household.

• Long Xuan’s Flame Clone entered Star Isle while his main body watched through their shared soul connection.
• Long Xuan bought the enlarging and shrinking Demon-Swallowing Cauldron for eight million Spirit Stones.
• Long Xuan spotted a severely damaged talisman on display and suspected he could repair it with Repair Gu.
• Yun Shuiyao explained that the talisman was a Hundred-Li Talisman that could teleport its user a hundred li, though its damaged state made the destination unpredictable.
• Long Xuan decided to obtain the talisman, believing it would let him escape a Gu King during his planned trip to the Teng Household.

Long Xuan agreed to refine Third-Grade Realm-Breaking Pills for Yun Shuiyao’s Cloud Clan in exchange for their help gathering rare ingredients, using the request to advance his own plans. The clan’s elders learned he had arrived and rushed to welcome him, hoping his pills could save them from the four rival clans.

• Yun Shuiyao explained that spatial imprisonment could counter the Hundred-Li Talisman, and Long Xuan gained confidence in his plans.
• Yun Shuiyao asked Long Xuan to refine Third-Grade Realm-Breaking Pills for the Cloud Clan, whose old formula had become unusable after an ingredient went extinct.
• Long Xuan claimed to have a secret Thunderclap Pill formula requiring many lightning-attributed Spirit Insects, intending to have the Cloud Clan gather materials for his Gu Recipe.
• Yun Shuiyao recognized his real purpose but agreed to gather the ingredients and invited him to the Cloud Household.
• The Cloud Clan’s elders discussed their dying last Gu King and the threat posed by four rival clans that had exploited the Beast Tide to weaken them.
• After receiving Yun Shuiyao’s message that a Third-Grade Alchemist had arrived, the elders hurried out to welcome Long Xuan.

After half a year of seclusion, Long Xuan discovered that the lightning striking a youth near his cave came from a Tribulation Worm parasitizing him, and tricked the youth into following him. In the Central Land, Zhu Yue’s uncle praised her for bringing the Candle Clan the Shadow Eye materials, while she worried over the cruel use of her Misfortune Gu.

• Long Xuan completed 60% of the Tribulation Gu Recipe after his clones gathered six hundred thousand materials with the Cloud Clan’s help.
• During a storm, Long Xuan saw a youth repeatedly struck by lightning without harm and realized a Tribulation Worm was parasitizing him.
• Long Xuan claimed the youth had Lightning-Calling Disease and offered to cure him, persuading him to follow him into the cave.
• In the Candle Clan, Zhu Yuan praised Zhu Yue for bringing back materials for Shadow Eye and declared the clan could now pursue it.
• Zhu Yue questioned whether the Candle Clan’s method was too cruel, as her Misfortune Gu could absorb others’ luck and guarantee success.

Zhu Yue learned that Zhu Jiǔge’s clan was secretly sacrificing her loved ones to strengthen her Misfortune Gu and prepare her for a Gu refinement plan. Half a year later, Long Xuan completed Da Ming, the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad, and prepared to travel alone to the Teng Household for Earth Spirit Fruit, while the Divine Dragon Ship remained missing.

• Zhu Yuan told Zhu Yue that the Lineage would sacrifice more clan members to accumulate luck for Zhu Jiǔge and ordered her to bring the girl to Sacred Gu Academy.
• Zhu Yue summoned Zhu Jiǔge from her mother’s lap, leaving the child unaware of the deception surrounding her life.
• Long Xuan completed the refinement of the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad, named it Da Ming, and entered the vast space within its body.
• Long Xuan found the World Tree Seed’s medicines, terrain, lake, and Golden Dragonfish intact inside Da Ming, and planned to expand its space with treasures and living creatures.
• Long Xuan prepared to travel alone to the Teng Household for Earth Spirit Fruit because the Divine Dragon Ship had gone out of contact and Di Xin was unavailable.
• Long Xuan relied on his single repaired Hundred-Li Talisman as he set out, with only a month left before the Earth Spirit Fruit ripened.

Long Xuan left Star Isle amid a battle and sailed for Xue Island, hoping to reach Central Land before the Earth Spirit Fruit ripened. When Xue Island came under attack and its Teleportation Array lost its talismans, he used his resistant body to teleport without one, leaving the island’s other refugees stranded.

• Long Xuan sailed toward Xue Island aboard the Azure Dragon Ship, while the Cloud Clan’s old ancestor died and four rival clans launched a night raid on Star Isle.
• Long Xuan saw that the Cloud Clan had more than twenty Gu Kings and used the chaos to slip away from Star Isle.
• Ten months later, Long Xuan arrived at Xue Island during an invasion and hurried toward its Teleportation Array to reach Central Land.
• Long Xuan learned that the invaders had killed the Xue Clan guards and taken every Teleportation Talisman, making the array unusable for ordinary travelers.
• Long Xuan entered the array without a talisman, following a young man who transformed into water, and the array exhausted its energy after transporting him.

Long Xuan traveled to Green Mountain City to steal the Teng Household’s Earth Spirit Fruit and joined forces with Shui Juanyun, who planned to kill him without recognizing his disguise. They entered the city during a wedding celebration, where the arrival of Zhu Jiǔge, the Candle Clan’s renowned genius, drew everyone’s attention.

• Long Xuan encountered Shui Juanyun on the road, and Shui Juanyun proposed they cooperate to steal the Earth Spirit Fruit and kill Long Xuan.
• Long Xuan agreed to help Shui Juanyun, who shared a map and intelligence about the Teng Household.
• Half a month later, Long Xuan and Shui Juanyun saw five Spiritual Sea Stage Teng Household cultivators leave Green Mountain City for the Northern City Mining District.
• The pair reached the Teng Household’s wedding banquet, where Shui Juanyun entered using the Water Clan’s name and Long Xuan followed him inside.
• Zhu Jiǔge arrived with a supreme-grade Myriad Poisons Gu as a wedding gift, startling the guests and drawing the Teng Household head away from Shui Juanyun.

Long Xuan and Shui Juanyun found the secret chamber containing the Earth Spirit Tree and overcame its guards, but they discovered that only three fruits remained. A group of desperate old Gu cultivators arrived, mistook Shui Juanyun for the one who had taken all the fruits, and threatened to start a fight.

• Long Xuan used his ability to locate the Earth Spirit Tree, spotted a hidden Grand Gu King, and prepared a disguise by repairing a stolen piece of Teng Household clothing.
• Long Xuan found the hidden passage and summoned Shui Juanyun, who slipped inside and silently killed the four guards.
• Long Xuan entered the chamber and found three Earth Spirit Fruits left; Shui Juanyun used the Teng jade pendant to remove the barrier.
• Long Xuan noticed a group approaching and loudly claimed that Shui Juanyun could have all the fruits except one, misleading the newcomers about how many remained.
• The old men accused Shui Juanyun of taking thirty-five fruits and demanded that he hand over thirty, threatening to make enough noise to alert the Teng Household.