Chapter Summaries

After the Bright Holy Envoy defeated Gu Sheng and shattered the green vine, Gu Sheng healed it with the Divine Spring and red fruit essence, then traveled with Mu Yuanyuan to the South Sea Abyss in search of a Spirit Perception Mushroom that could awaken it. They reached Spirit Perception Valley and began fighting the powerful Blue Sea Tentacle Demon guarding the way.

• The Bright Holy Envoy defeated Gu Sheng, and Wen Mingyan and First Elder Lu Junyi rescued him and retreated with him as news of the battle spread.
• Gu Sheng restored the green vine with Divine Spring and refined red fruit essence, but it remained asleep until the white-haired elder told him to seek a Spirit Perception Mushroom in the South Sea Abyss.
• Gu Sheng traveled to the South Sea Abyss with Mu Yuanyuan, where the fairies of the Spirit Flower Palace captured them and Palace Master Yingyue tested Gu Sheng before hearing his purpose.
• Yingyue revealed that the Spirit Perception Mushroom grew in Spirit Perception Valley, guarded by a demonic beast at the peak of the Marrow Refining Realm, and Gu Sheng and Mu Yuanyuan set out to find it.
• The Blue Sea Tentacle Demon trapped Gu Sheng and Mu Yuanyuan, but they escaped its restraints and attacked its vulnerable abdomen together.

Gu Sheng and Mu Yuanyuan defeated the Blue Sea Tentacle Demon and gathered Spirit Perception Mushrooms and spiritual liquid, allowing Green Vine to recover and grow stronger. Princess Yun Zishuang then sent Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie to find the seven Dragon Pearls, and they entered the Chu Kingdom’s secret realm, where they fought a Suanni Beast guarding the way to the center.

• Gu Sheng and Mu Yuanyuan defeated the Blue Sea Tentacle Demon, then collected three Spirit Perception Mushrooms and the cave’s spiritual liquid.
• Gu Sheng refined the Spirit Perception Mushrooms in the Secret Chamber, restoring Green Vine’s vitality and extending her length to over twenty meters.
• Princess Yun Zishuang asked Gu Sheng to sever the Chu Kingdom’s Dragon Vein in exchange for the seven Dragon Pearls and sent Shangguan Yudie to assist him.
• Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie followed a map into the Chu Kingdom’s secret realm, where they saw seven Sacred Mountains surrounding a radiant center.
• A Suanni Beast blocked their path, and Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie attacked it using Snake Breath, the Primordial Saint Body, and Butterfly Transformation Art.

Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie defeated a Suanni Beast, found a Dragon Pearl, and escaped the Immortal Binding Array before returning to the Chu Kingdom treasure secret realm. They faced the array’s Marrow Refining Realm guardian, and their combined attack was still underway when the chapter ended.

• Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie discovered that the Suanni Beast’s eyes were its weakness, killed it, and absorbed its energy through the green vine.
• The two shared roasted Suanni meat and life essence, then continued searching for Dragon Pearls and found one at the center of the Sacred Mountains.
• An old man trapped Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie in an Immortal Binding Array and revealed that he intended to use them as nourishment for the Dragon Pearl.
• With help from the Green Vine Demonic Soul, Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie used dual cultivation to break the array and were thrown out of the secret realm.
• Gu Sheng agreed to return with Shangguan Yudie to search for more Dragon Pearls, but the old man attacked them with his Jade Scepter.
• After being driven back by the old man’s attacks, Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie began cultivating the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and countered his next beam with sword and shears.

Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie defeated the scepter-bearing elder, explored the seven Sacred Mountains, and left the Chu Kingdom after finding only one Dragon Pearl and a Seven Dragon Eight Trigrams Array. As Emperor Chu Tianshu pursued Gu Sheng over the Chu Kingdom’s declining spirit qi, Princess Zishuang tasked him with finding the remaining Dragon Pearls in exchange for a chance to be with Shangguan Yudie; later, Gu Sheng began buying medicinal treasures at the Liang Kingdom’s royal auction.

• Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie combined their strength to defeat the scepter-bearing elder, then explored the seven Sacred Mountains and studied the Eight Trigrams Array.
• Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie absorbed divine liquid; it strengthened Gu Sheng’s body without raising his cultivation, while Shangguan Yudie advanced a minor realm.
• Gu Sheng and Shangguan Yudie found no other Dragon Pearls and left the Chu Kingdom with the Seven Dragon Eight Trigrams Array, causing the royal cultivation grounds to lose spirit qi and strange changes to spread across the kingdom.
• Emperor Chu Tianshu identified Gu Sheng in the secret realm’s recordings and vowed to capture him, while Princess Zishuang asked Gu Sheng to search for the remaining five Dragon Pearls and promised to consider granting him Shangguan Yudie.
• After recovering at the Saint Pill Sect, Gu Sheng attended the Liang Kingdom’s royal auction at Mu Tiantian’s invitation and spent heavily on medicinal materials and pills.

At the auction, Gu Sheng bought a Thousand Year Ice Soul Flower, then joined a royal hunting outing before setting out with Lin Tianhao, Lin Qingyu, and Lu Biluo to find the Dragon Pearl. After defeating a Volcanic Divine Crocodile and healing Lin Qingyu, the group discovered a chained expert in its nest and began fighting him.

• Gu Sheng outbid everyone for the Thousand Year Ice Soul Flower, whose spiritual energy stirred the Green Vine Demonic Soul.
• Gu Sheng and the women visited the royal hunting grounds, where he used the Green Vine to make lotuses bloom and plants flourish.
• Gu Sheng, Lin Tianhao, Lin Qingyu, and Lu Biluo infiltrated a hidden realm in Chu in search of the Dragon Pearl and descended into a well.
• The group fought a Peak Marrow Refining Realm Volcanic Divine Crocodile; Gu Sheng killed it with a golden palm after it broke Lin Qingyu's leg, then healed her with green energy.
• Lin Qingyu confessed her determination to be with Gu Sheng, but the two were interrupted when Lin Tianhao reported a stronger beast in the crocodile's nest.
• Gu Sheng, Lin Qingyu, Lin Tianhao, and Lu Biluo joined forces against a powerful expert bound in chains, but the expert used mysterious barriers to repel their attacks.

Gu Sheng and his companions fought their way through the Volcanic Divine Crocodile's lair, where they encountered a chained expert, a Black Tortoise, Cang Langyan's attackers, and a Dragon Pearl. The chapter left them joining forces against the Black Tortoise's formation as the battle reached its critical moment.

• Gu Sheng's group found a chained expert who proved immune to their attacks, but Gu Sheng distracted him with roasted Volcanic Divine Crocodile meat and persuaded him to let them pass.
• The four encountered a thousand-year Black Tortoise, whose Eight Trigrams Array struck them down as Cang Langyan arrived with thirty martial artists and ordered them to attack.
• The Black Tortoise unleashed its formation again, and Gu Sheng's group followed a surge of spiritual energy to a Dragon Pearl beneath five converging Dragon Vein passages.
• Cang Langyan and Gu Sheng's group fought over the Dragon Pearl while the Green Vine Demonic Soul wrapped around it and devoured approaching martial artists.
• The Black Tortoise trapped everyone in its formation, and Gu Sheng and his companions tore open part of it before Cang Langyan and his allies launched a counterattack.
• As the Black Tortoise activated its formation once more, Gu Sheng and the other three joined forces and shouted to break it.

Gu Sheng and his companions broke the Black Tortoise Array, defeated the Black Tortoise, and collected more Dragon Pearls, but their theft helped plunge Chu Kingdom into catastrophe. As Liang and Qi’s allied armies invaded, Gu Sheng’s group entered the war and clashed with Chu Xingchen’s prince corps, leaving Gu Sheng and Chu Xingchen locked in a fierce fight.

• Gu Sheng and Lin Qingyu foiled Cang Langyan and the Marrow Refining Realm martial artist’s ambush, and Lin Qingyu killed Cang Langyan.
• Gu Sheng used the Dragon Pearl to weaken the Black Tortoise Array, then destroyed the Black Tortoise after it promised to lead them to more Dragon Pearls.
• The Black Tortoise led Gu Sheng and his companions to four small Dragon Pearls, which Gu Sheng gave to the others before they collected the divine liquid and left.
• The stolen Dragon Pearls plunged Chu Kingdom into disaster, while Jiang Bai led the Liang-Qi Allied Forces toward its border and Chu Xingchen tried to awaken a Dragon Pearl’s power.
• Gu Sheng, Lin Tianhao, Lin Qingyu, and their allies joined the war, where Chu Xingchen’s prince corps confronted them and Chu Xingchen attacked Gu Sheng with Dragon Pearl-powered heavenly law strikes.
• Gu Sheng and Chu Xingchen exchanged repeated attacks, and their battle remained unresolved.

Gu Sheng defeated Chu Xingchen and helped the Liang Kingdom conquer Chu, then assisted Princess Zishuang in consolidating its new territory and subduing Qi. After the victory banquet, Princess Zishuang raised their agreement and revealed her ambition to claim the throne, while Gu Sheng questioned whether she needed the emperor’s title.

• Gu Sheng used the Green Vine Demonic Soul to kill Chu Xingchen, then joined the Purple Vine Demonic Soul in routing Chu’s forces and breaking the army’s morale.
• Gu Sheng and Princess Zishuang organized the occupation of Chu territory, while Princess Zishuang rejected the Qi envoy’s demand for spoils and made Qi a vassal state with one-seventh of the gains.
• At the victory banquet, Princess Zishuang rewarded Gu Sheng with Shangguan Yudie and offered him further rewards, but Gu Sheng said he wanted only to serve Liang.
• Princess Zishuang privately asked Gu Sheng whether he liked Shangguan Yudie and reminded him of their agreement to unify the realm in exchange for giving herself to him.
• Princess Zishuang said she could not share the realm because she was not emperor, and Gu Sheng urged her that she already ruled Liang and need not cling to the title.

Princess Zishuang asked Gu Sheng to help her claim the throne, but he declined while promising to serve Liang Kingdom; he also trusted Shangguan Yudie after she admitted serving the princess. After returning to Gu Family Village with Gu Xiaojiang, Gu Sheng reunited with his family and learned that Emperor Chu Tianshu had allied with the Fire Worship Cult to restore Chu, so he and Princess Zishuang set out to stop Chu Xingchen from gathering Dragon Pearls.

• Princess Zishuang told Gu Sheng she wanted the throne and asked for his help, but he refused to join the succession struggle and pledged to serve Liang Kingdom.
• Gu Sheng asked Shangguan Yudie whether she was spying on him, and she admitted she served Princess Zishuang because the princess had saved her life; Gu Sheng said he believed her.
• Gu Xiaojiang and Gu Sheng returned to Gu Family Village, where villagers welcomed them, Prefect Liu hosted them, and Gu Sheng reunited with Gu Daniu's family and saw Gu Wan's progress in cultivation.
• Emperor Chu Tianshu accepted the Fire Worship Cult's offer to help restore Chu in exchange for its wealth and a share of the realm, prompting Gu Sheng to prepare to strengthen himself.
• After discussing the Dragon Pearls, Princess Zishuang received word that Jiang Yunfei and Lu Biluo had found Chu Xingchen searching for them, and she and Gu Sheng rode to the fog-shrouded valley.

Princess Zishuang, Gu Sheng, Lu Biluo, and Jiang Yunfei defeated Chu Xingchen after breaking his Black Tortoise Formation, then turned back when Chu Kingdom launched a counterattack. Gu Sheng reached the frontline and faced the Fire Domain Supreme as Liang Kingdom's border came under threat.

• Princess Zishuang and Gu Sheng ambushed Chu Xingchen's group and seized the Dragon Pearl, but Chu Xingchen trapped them in the Black Tortoise Formation.
• Gu Sheng and Princess Zishuang joined their swords and the Dragon Pearl's power to break the formation, then defeated Chu Xingchen and his subordinates.
• The four rested in a misty valley, where Princess Zishuang exchanged her jade pendant for one of Gu Sheng's Dragon Pearls.
• After Princess Zishuang learned that Chu Kingdom had launched a counterattack, the four turned back to join Liang Kingdom's army.
• Gu Sheng attacked Chu soldiers with his Green Vine Demonic Soul, but the Fire Domain Supreme arrived and challenged him with the Heaven Burning Emperor Sword.

Gu Sheng and his companions failed to secure the sixth Dragon Pearl after encountering the powerful Holy Demon Body race, while the threat spread across the Crimson Cloud Continent. Princess Zishuang later sent Gu Sheng to infiltrate the Fire Worship Cult and weaken it or bring it under her control.

• Saint Aunt Su Ling tried to save the wounded Gu Sheng from the Fire Domain Supreme, but a mysterious Divine Monk intervened and forced the Fire Domain Supreme to leave.
• Gu Sheng and his companions traversed the five worlds in Chu's Divine Valley Secret Realm and found the sixth Dragon Pearl, then encountered the Holy Demon Body race beyond a hidden passage.
• Jiang Yunfei urged Gu Sheng to use the Seven Immortals Eight Trigrams Array to seal the entrance, allowing the group to retreat while the Holy Demon Body race remained trapped beyond it.
• Princess Zishuang's Great Dragon Pearl restored life to the Liang Kingdom, though its people remained divided and the Emperor of Great Liang secretly watched her and Gu Sheng.
• Princess Zishuang met Gu Sheng in the Secret Chamber, relived their sword-linked dual cultivation illusion, and then ordered him to infiltrate the Fire Worship Cult and cripple it or make it serve her.

After learning that the Thousand Poisons Sect had targeted Gu Family Village, Gu Sheng attacked its headquarters, killed Wu Gui, and rescued Gu Daniu's family. He appointed Gu Jingang sect master and settled the family at the sect, where Gu Jingang recounted his hardships.

• Gu Sheng learned that Marrow Refining Realm experts from the Thousand Poisons Sect were heading for Gu Family Village, sent Lin Miaomiao, Huang Miaoyin, and the other Saint Pill Sect seniors to protect it, and rushed to the sect headquarters.
• Gu Sheng confronted Wu Gui, fought through the Fuxi Bagua Formation, and killed him with help from the Green Vine Demonic Soul.
• Wu Gui used a gourd containing Gu Daniu's family to threaten Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng destroyed the gourd, defeated Wu Gui's incarnation, and dissipated his soul.
• Gu Sheng healed Gu Daniu's family, appointed Gu Jingang as the Thousand Poisons Sect's new sect master, and reorganized the sect.
• At a banquet, Gu Jingang told Gu Sheng about his years as a mine slave and mercenary and the suffering his wife had endured; Gu Sheng promised to protect them from further injustice.

Gu Sheng visited Cloud Heaven Palace and received a map from the Divine Monk, then returned to Saint Pill Sect as rumors spread that the Fire Worship Cult was preparing to rebel. Through his clone Xu Liehuo, he became entangled in a battle with the Fire Domain Supreme, and Gu Sheng strengthened the clone with the power of the Primordial Saint Body.

• Gu Sheng met with his family, then used Xu Liehuo's identity to approach Su Xian and cultivate the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra with her.
• Gu Sheng left a clone beside Su Xian to gather intelligence and traveled to Cloud Heaven Palace, where the Divine Monk gave him a map and explained why he had saved him.
• Gu Sheng returned to Saint Pill Sect, celebrated with his fellow disciples, and heard that the Fire Worship Cult was preparing to raise troops in rebellion.
• The Fire Domain Supreme discovered Xu Liehuo and Su Xian cultivating together and attacked them with the Heaven Burning Emperor Sword.
• Xu Liehuo and Su Xian fought the Fire Domain Supreme together, and Gu Sheng injected the clone with the power of the Primordial Saint Body.

Gu Sheng and Su Xian escaped Fire Domain Supreme by trapping him in the Seven Stars Array, then Gu Sheng revealed his identity and prepared to leave the Crimson Cloud Continent. After settling his affairs and saying farewell, he and Lin Tianhao reached the Profound Abyss Sea to begin their journey toward Central Continent.

• Su Xian used the Object Restraint Array to contain Fire Domain Supreme, and Gu Sheng studied its patterns while she and Xu Liehuo waited for a chance to escape.
• Gu Sheng distracted Fire Domain Supreme with a feast, then trapped him with the Seven Stars Array as Su Xian opened her array and fled with him.
• Gu Sheng revealed that he was not Xu Liehuo but Gu Sheng, and Su Xian accepted him and promised to face the dangers ahead by his side.
• Gu Sheng left a clone to impersonate Fire Domain Supreme, visited Princess Zishuang, and told her he was leaving for Central Continent.
• Gu Sheng said farewell to his friends and departed with Lin Tianhao for the Profound Abyss Sea, where they prepared to board a ship despite warnings of danger.

Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao traveled aboard the Profound Iron Giant Ship toward the Central Continent, surviving deadly sea monsters and the Sea of Thunder. After a brief stop on an island, the ship entered darkening waters, where Gu Sheng sensed an unknown danger ahead.

• Gu Sheng defeated and killed a Marrow Refining Realm challenger, then beat several more challengers aboard the ship.
• Sea monsters and a revolt against the captain killed passengers and threatened order, but the captain and crew subdued the resisters while Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao watched.
• Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao helped protect themselves and the ship in the Sea of Thunder; Gu Sheng's Primordial Saint Body blocked a lightning strike, and Lin Tianhao defended against another.
• After the ship reached an island, Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao hunted a Mystic Deer, shared their meal with Brother Zhao, and decided not to investigate the volcano.
• As the ship sailed on into gathering darkness, Gu Sheng warned Lin Tianhao that the strange waters required caution.

Gu Sheng escaped a sea tornado after gaining insight into its Dao patterns, defeated a Mysterious Sea Whisker Demon, and traveled toward the Central Continent. On an island, he clashed with Lei Ying over her Lightning Bird and was trapped by her pirate allies, leaving him fighting to break out.

• Gu Sheng studied the tornado's Dao patterns, escaped its restraints, and reached the Peak Gold Bone Realm.
• Gu Sheng fought the Mysterious Sea Whisker Demon for three days, weakened it with the Green Vine Demonic Soul, and forced it to serve as his mount.
• Gu Sheng traveled for about half a year, landed on an island, and took Lightning Bird eggs before killing a Lightning Bird that attacked him.
• Lei Ying confronted Gu Sheng over her pet bird, fought him with her Thunder God Staff, and lost after he disarmed her.
• Lei Ying returned with over thirty pirates, and her allies trapped Gu Sheng in a curtain of light as he fought to break free.

Gu Sheng rescued Di Zitong and Di Long from pirates and gave them a map of the Central Continent, but he and Lei Ying were later captured by Lei Biao. Gu Sheng was sold to the Ji Family Mine as a slave.

• Gu Sheng escaped the pirates who attacked him by taking Lei Ying hostage and fled with her on a Great Azure Bird.
• Gu Sheng and Lei Ying defeated pirates hunting Di Zitong and Di Long, then gave the siblings a map to help them search for their father in the Central Continent.
• Fifty pirates ambushed Gu Sheng and Lei Ying on a deserted island, and the pirates subdued Gu Sheng after he was badly wounded.
• Lei Ying begged her father, Lei Biao, to release Gu Sheng, but Lei Biao refused and sentenced her to three months of reflection.
• Gu Sheng was thrown into a dungeon and then sold to the Ji Family Mine as a mine slave.

Gu Sheng was forced to mine in the Ji family’s desert mine, where he fought the overseers and the Ji clan elder after defending fellow slaves. After being beaten and stripped of his storage ring, he discovered a way to locate spirit stones and began mining deeper, unaware that a fellow slave was stalking him to steal them.

• Gu Sheng followed an old miner’s advice to locate spirit-stone veins and later stopped mine slaves from fighting over a stone.
• The Scar-faced Overseer attacked Gu Sheng, who killed him with the Shadow Concealment Art and fled from the guards.
• The Ji clan elder confronted Gu Sheng, defeated him, took his storage ring, and ordered him to mine ten thousand spirit stones within a month or be executed.
• Gu Sheng used his Green Vine Demonic Soul to sense spiritual-energy veins in the Black Profound Earth and dug up a spirit stone.
• Gu Sheng defeated an overseer who tried to seize his find, then dug deeper and resolved to keep future discoveries secret.
• A short miner at the eighth level of the Marrow Refining Realm entered Gu Sheng’s tunnel intending to kill him and steal his goods.

Gu Sheng fought off miners and overseers who tried to steal the spirit stones he found in the Ji family's mine, while secretly refining them to strengthen himself. After breaking through the Marrow Refining Realm, he defeated the Ji family elders who came to stop him.

• Gu Sheng killed a short miner who attacked him for his spirit stones, then used the Green Vine Demonic Soul to locate hidden veins and a mineral nest.
• Gu Sheng fought off overseers and miners who tried to seize his first mineral nest, then concealed his mining and refining from a searching Ji family elder.
• Gu Sheng discovered a nest containing more than three thousand spirit stones and drove away the greedy people who came to take them.
• Gu Sheng sealed himself inside the mine and rapidly refined the spirit stones, triggering a breakthrough into the Marrow Refining Realm as Ji family elders arrived.
• Gu Sheng fought the Ji family elders and defeated them one by one.

After escaping the Ji Family, Gu Sheng cultivated in an underground palace, broke through to the Marrow Refining Realm First Heaven, and trained against icefield wolves before traveling to a new world. There he met Su Yao, helped her defeat a demonic octopus, and then faced a Blood Demon Hall envoy who had come to kill him.

• Gu Sheng escaped the Ji Family's pursuit and hid in an underground palace, where a massive coffin resisted his Divine Sense and sighed as he refined spirit stones.
• Gu Sheng broke through to the Marrow Refining Realm First Heaven, then trained in a birch forest and killed an icefield wolf king.
• After a month, Gu Sheng left the palace and followed a river into a new world with denser spiritual energy.
• Gu Sheng joined Su Yao in battle and killed a giant octopus, then declined to accompany her in search of the Water Spirit Pearl in Dreamy Marsh.
• A Blood Demon Hall envoy confronted Gu Sheng and attacked him, beginning a fierce battle in the forest.