Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Primordial Forbidden Zone, Gu Sheng and his companions found themselves in the Eastern Wasteland and decided to return to the forbidden zone to seek a way home. They discovered a time-revealing light screen and an intact teleportation array that carried them through visions of many eras before returning them to the real world.

• Gu Sheng, the Black Emperor, and Wu Dewang shared precious jade-green leaves with Kou Hai, Ying Tianxing, and Xing Lie.
• Gu Sheng's group realized the teleportation array had sent them from the Western Desolation Desert to the Eastern Wasteland, and they agreed to return to the Primordial Forbidden Zone to search for a way home.
• The group encountered a light screen displaying the history of the Primordial Forbidden Zone and watched scenes of ancient buildings and battles.
• Gu Sheng used the Grass Vine Demonic Soul to find the ruined teleportation array, where Wu Dewang and the Black Emperor studied its patterns for three days and nights.
• The Grass Vine Demonic Soul led the group to an intact teleportation array, which carried them through visions of ancient eras and worlds before returning them to reality.

Gu Sheng returned from a desert hunt with his companions, gave Divine Spring to the Jade Pool Saintess, and defeated Jiang Yichen in a public duel after reaching the Navel Wheel Realm. After the victory drew attention from major factions, Gu Sheng and the Saintess began exploring how the Dream Butterfly Atlas might complement their cultivation.

• Gu Sheng and his companions hunted game and found a Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng at a desert oasis, then shared a feast while an unseen watcher observed them.
• Gu Sheng brought Divine Spring to the Jade Pool Saintess and gave her another bottle to distribute among Jade Pool's disciples and elders.
• After three days of secluded cultivation, Gu Sheng accepted Jiang Yichen's challenge and discovered he could break through the air because he had reached the Navel Wheel Realm.
• Gu Sheng defeated Jiang Yichen, then revived him with spiritual energy; the two exchanged respectful words as their sects' disciples and elders looked on.
• News of Gu Sheng's victory spread across the Cultivation World, and Jade Pool's Saintess and elders praised him as a rising pillar of their faction.
• Gu Sheng and the Jade Pool Saintess joined their palms in a bamboo grove to study the Dream Butterfly Atlas, entering a vision in which they became butterflies and then turtles.

Gu Sheng and the Jade Pool Saintess dual cultivated on Heavenly Sword Mountain, reached the ninth level of the Navel Wheel Realm, and endured the mountain’s trial. Gu Sheng found the Profound Heaven Sword, then entered Giant Elephant Forest, where he defeated a Shadow Mist Cultivator and continued deeper into the forest.

• Gu Sheng and the Jade Pool Saintess’s dual cultivation caused heavenly phenomena and raised their cultivation levels, then they went to Heavenly Sword Mountain.
• The pair reached the ninth level of the Navel Wheel Realm and worked together to withstand the heavenly sword trial, which revealed a well inside the mountain.
• Gu Sheng descended into the well, found the Profound Heaven Sword, and formed a connection with it before returning to the Jade Pool Saintess.
• Gu Sheng entered Giant Elephant Forest and used the Profound Heaven Sword to kill a giant elephant at the peak of the Sea Bottom Realm.
• A Shadow Mist Cultivator from the Dao Annihilation Hall demanded the sword, but Gu Sheng defeated him and continued deeper into the forest.

Gu Sheng hunted mammoths in Giant Elephant Forest, defeated Ji family assassins, and learned that his Grass Vine Demonic Soul had grown stronger. In the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, he killed a first-level Sun Realm Sky-Tearing Saber-toothed Tiger, survived its self-destruction, and began refining its Space Law inner core.

• Gu Sheng killed more than a hundred mammoths, causing his Grass Vine Demonic Soul to grow into long cyan vines with a corrosive aura.
• Black-clad men attacked Gu Sheng in Giant Elephant Forest, but he defeated them and found a Ji family token on their bodies.
• Gu Sheng traveled to Tianqing City, heard about a dangerous demonic beast near the city, and set out to find it.
• Gu Sheng joined cultivators fighting a first-level Sun Realm Sky-Tearing Saber-toothed Tiger and killed it with the Profound Heaven Sword.
• The Sky-Tearing Saber-toothed Tiger began to self-destruct, but Gu Sheng escaped the blast with the help of his Grass Vine Demonic Soul.
• Gu Sheng retrieved the tiger’s Space Law inner core and began refining it in a quiet place.

Gu Sheng comprehended Space Leap, then joined Wu Dewang and the others on an expedition into the Primordial Beginning Ancient Mine to find the site where Great Emperor Hengyu forged his imperial weapon. After escaping the collapsing mine with a piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold, Gu Sheng kept the treasure despite Wu Dewang's request for it.

• Gu Sheng mastered Space Leap and used it to save a cultivator from a demonic beast, though his leaps could cover only about a hundred meters.
• Wu Dewang told Gu Sheng that he had found Great Emperor Hengyu's weapon-forging site in the Primordial Beginning Ancient Mine, and Gu Sheng gathered Xing Lie, Wu Tianxiong, Kou Hai, Ying Tianxing, and the Black Emperor to investigate.
• Gu Sheng and the others crossed a wave of Nine Yang True Fire with Space Leap and found a thumb-sized piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold on an altar deep inside the mine.
• When the mine began collapsing, Gu Sheng opened a spatial rift and led everyone to safety, bringing the Phoenix Blood Red Gold with him.
• Wu Dewang asked Gu Sheng to give him the metal to repair his Great Black Bowl, but Gu Sheng refused, and the Phoenix Blood Red Gold rose into Gu Sheng's hand as if drawn to him.
• Wu Dewang accepted that the treasure belonged with Gu Sheng, who promised to put it to good use and agreed to treat the group.

Gu Sheng and his companions reached Falling Sun Ridge, where they strengthened their weapons with its blazing yang energy and dragon qi. Back at Jade Pool Holy Land, Gu Sheng used seven-colored thunder dragons to advance the Profound Heaven Sword, drawing the admiration of the Jade Pool Saintess and the disciples.

• Gu Sheng and his companions shared a barbecue before traveling to Falling Sun Ridge, where they witnessed a vision of Great Emperor Hengyu forging the Sun God Furnace.
• Black Emperor was caught in an iron trap, and Gu Sheng and the others freed him and treated his injury.
• Finding no treasures, Gu Sheng and his companions used Falling Sun Ridge's yang energy to refine their weapons, and a dragon formed from dragon qi blessed the Profound Heaven Sword.
• Gu Sheng returned to Jade Pool Holy Land with the Jade Pool Saintess and planted the Profound Heaven Sword at Heavenly Sword Mountain.
• Seven-colored thunder dragons baptized the Profound Heaven Sword, advancing it from Earth-grade low-rank to Earth-grade mid-rank as Jade Pool Holy Land disciples gathered to watch.

After upgrading the Profound Heaven Sword, Gu Sheng visited the Heavenly Dao Sect with Ji Yewei, sensed Clumsy Peak’s divine aura, and learned of the peak’s bloody past. He and Ji Yewei joined Clumsy Peak after passing Hidden Sword Peak’s trial, and Gu Sheng later proposed using the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra with Su Ling to deepen his comprehension.

• Gu Sheng told the Jade Pool Saintess how he had refined the Profound Heaven Sword with pure yang energy and dragon qi from Falling Sun Ridge.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Yewei visited the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Su Ling showed Gu Sheng Clumsy Peak and he sensed its repeating divine aura.
• Li Ruoyu showed them Clumsy Peak’s former prosperity and revealed that a white-robed youth had massacred its disciples, leaving the peak in decline.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Yewei agreed to join Clumsy Peak and passed Li Ruoyu’s trial by overcoming the secret realms on their way to the summit of Hidden Sword Peak.
• After half a month of studying Clumsy Peak’s divine aura, Gu Sheng proposed that he and Su Ling practice the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra together to create a virtual space.

Gu Sheng triggered Clumsy Peak's All Characters Secret while cultivating with Su Ling, then used the Grass Vine Demonic Soul's life essence to advance to the Sun Realm and strengthen his Space Leap. After defeating Li Yunfei, he was left wondering about the black-robed man's interest in spatial power as Clumsy Peak finally gained respect.

• Gu Sheng triggered the All Characters Secret during Joyful Buddha Seclusion Mode with Su Ling, briefly doubling his combat strength, and explained that the secret art was difficult to activate and dangerous to reveal.
• Gu Sheng used the Grass Vine Demonic Soul to convert life essence into spiritual energy, breaking through to the first level of the Sun Realm amid a Heavenly Tribulation that alarmed Heavenly Dao Sect and eight other factions.
• Gu Sheng discovered that his Space Leap could carry him a thousand meters and encountered a black-robed man who described spatial power as essential to reaching the continent's peak.
• Li Yunfei arrived and attacked Gu Sheng, who used Space Leap to appear behind him and defeat him with a golden palm strike.
• Su Ling warned Li Yunfei to stop pursuing her, and he limped away while the black-robed man vanished and Clumsy Peak's people finally stood tall.

Gu Sheng and Ji Yewei shared a seafood feast by the sea before Gu Sheng studied a Great Accomplishment Saint Body corpse and cultivated with Yan Ruyu, strengthening both their cultivation. After leaving the demon territory, Gu Sheng was confronted by Jiang Yichen, and he appeared behind him with the Profound Heaven Sword ready.

• Gu Sheng gathered seafood from the ocean and cooked a feast for Ji Yewei, sharing memories of Blue Star as they grew closer.
• Gu Sheng visited Yan Ruyu at Hundred Flowers Valley and studied the Dao patterns in the Great Accomplishment Saint Body corpse, improving his physical cultivation.
• Gu Sheng and Yan Ruyu cultivated together with the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, advanced their cultivation realms, and endured the heavenly lightning tribulation together.
• After leaving the demon race territory, Gu Sheng was confronted by Jiang Yichen of the Heavenly Dao Sect, who attacked him with his sword.
• Gu Sheng vanished from Jiang Yichen's strike and reappeared behind him holding the Profound Heaven Sword.

Gu Sheng defeated Jiang Yichen, the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, and Chen Feng, using the All Characters Secret to overcome powerful opponents. After half a month of seclusion, he broke through from the Sun Realm second level to the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm and formed a golden ocean within his sea of qi.

• Gu Sheng defeated Jiang Yichen in a sword fight, and Jiang Yichen admitted defeat while vowing to challenge him again.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng shattered his One Hundred Eighty Thousand Swords with the All Characters Secret and left him defeated.
• Chen Feng challenged Gu Sheng at the Jade Pool Holy Land and initially overwhelmed him with the Cold Cicada Art, but Gu Sheng turned the fight around with the All Characters Secret and defeated him.
• Gu Sheng entered seclusion for half a month and broke through from the Sun Realm second level to the Sun Realm ninth level.
• Gu Sheng broke through into the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm, shattered the dark bitter sea with the power of the Demon Suppressing Golden Scroll and the Divine Spring, and formed a golden ocean.

After mastering the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm, Gu Sheng entered the Dao Annihilation Hall’s Spirit Gathering Secret Realm to seek herbs, where Elder Wei Dubu attacked him after learning he possessed the Primordial Saint Body. Their battle triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, and Gu Sheng faced its final strike alone.

• Gu Sheng refined his control of the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm and drew the admiration and envy of Jade Pool Holy Land’s disciples.
• Gu Sheng entered the Dao Annihilation Hall’s Spirit Gathering Secret Realm with an elder’s token and found the Spirit Gathering King Immortal Herb.
• Elder Wei Dubu accused Gu Sheng of trespassing, attacked him, and threatened to capture his Primordial Saint Body for refining into medicine.
• Gu Sheng used Space Leap to evade Wei Dubu, then activated the All Characters Secret and fought him on even footing until a Heavenly Tribulation forced Wei Dubu to flee.
• Gu Sheng resisted the tribulation’s lightning with his golden sea and Primordial Saint Body, then met its devastating final strike head-on.

Gu Sheng survived his Heavenly Tribulation, defeated Wei Dubu, and obtained the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir before escaping Wei Daoyuan’s revenge attempt. After returning to the Jade Pool Holy Land, he refined the elixir and Spirit Gathering Immortal Herb, broke through to greater power, and faced Wei Daoyuan’s armed group as they stormed in.

• Gu Sheng survived the Heavenly Tribulation, but Wei Dubu attacked him, hoping to refine him into a pill.
• Gu Sheng fought Wei Dubu with his Primordial Saint Body and secret arts, then used grass vines, Space Leap, and the Profound Heaven Sword to gain the upper hand.
• A new Heavenly Tribulation struck as Wei Dubu pursued Gu Sheng; its final bolt shattered Wei Dubu’s staff, allowing Gu Sheng to kill him.
• Wei Dubu’s corpse vanished and left behind a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, which Gu Sheng took before escaping Wei Daoyuan, who swore revenge.
• Gu Sheng returned to the Jade Pool Holy Land and refined the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir and Spirit Gathering Immortal Herb, expanding his bitter sea and breaking through while the Jade Pool Saintess protected him.
• Wei Daoyuan led a group into the Jade Pool Holy Land to confront Gu Sheng, who challenged them to attack.

Gu Sheng defeated Wei Daoyuan during a Heavenly Tribulation and broke through, then joined Yan Ruyu in exploring the Demon Emperor’s tomb and obtained the Dao Scripture. After the tomb was opened and powerful factions converged, Gu Sheng slipped into the ruins and found the Netherworld Pearl in the Demon Emperor’s Yin Tomb.

• Gu Sheng struck Wei Daoyuan as a Heavenly Tribulation descended, then used the opening to defeat him and begin breaking through to a higher realm.
• Yan Ruyu invited Gu Sheng to the Demon Emperor’s tomb, where the two entered the emerged hall and Gu Sheng obtained the Dao Scripture before the Demon Emperor’s Heart flew away.
• Gu Sheng shared a copy of the Sea of Wheels Scroll with Yan Ruyu, but Jade Pool Holy Land and other powerful factions arrived, setting the stage for a fight over the tomb’s treasures.
• Five great figures joined forces to open the tomb, and Gu Sheng seized treasures before using Space Leap to enter a sealed area of the ruins.
• Gu Sheng sent Wu Dewang into a deep pool in search of a green-bronze treasure, then explored a hidden cave and discovered the Netherworld Pearl in the Demon Emperor’s Yin Tomb.

Gu Sheng absorbed the green copper fragment, advanced rapidly, and tried to reach the Demon Emperor’s Tomb while protecting Lin Tianhao from the powerful figures pursuing them. The tomb began opening, and Gu Sheng followed the Grand Elder of the Dao Annihilation Hall toward it despite the danger.

• The green copper fragment entered Gu Sheng’s body and activated, causing his cultivation to advance while Wu Dewang lamented that he had not found it.
• The Demon Emperor’s Heart chose Lin Tianhao, who was sealed by the Dao Annihilation Hall’s elders as the ancient hall emerged from the crater.
• Gu Sheng opened his Sea of Bitterness, displayed great power, and confronted the figures racing to enter the ancient hall before going to free Lin Tianhao.
• After Lin Tianhao was captured and sealed again, Gu Sheng watched Su Ling and the others confront the demon race near the volcano.
• The Demon Emperor’s Tomb rose from the crater, and Gu Sheng followed the Grand Elder toward it after a blast of energy announced that it was opening.

Gu Sheng obtained a golden page from the Dao Scripture after the Demon Emperor’s relics fled the ancient hall, then comprehended it and began undergoing a breakthrough amid a lightning tribulation. He fought back against the tribulation by shattering one of its bolts with his fist.

• The Grand Elder and the golden-haired girl fought over the relics while Gu Sheng tried to seize them, but an ancient figure revealed that only a victor in trials could earn their recognition.
• The Dao Scripture and the Eastern Wasteland human race’s supreme treasure fled the hall, and the experts’ attempts to enter were repelled by an invisible force.
• Gu Sheng pulled a golden page from a corpse and left the hall with it as Lin Tianhao watched before departing.
• Gu Sheng studied the page in seclusion, merged its Golden Book into his Bitter Sea, and felt his power surge as the sea expanded.
• A lightning tribulation descended during Gu Sheng’s breakthrough, and he fought back until he shattered a bolt with his fist.

Gu Sheng broke through the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm and saw the Dao Scripture reappear in his Sea of Suffering. Amid the struggle over the Demon Emperor’s Tomb and its heart, he passed the tomb’s trial and gained the Demon Emperor’s recognition before departing.

• Gu Sheng defeated the lightning tribulation, entered a new cultivation realm, and saw the Dao Scripture emerge from his golden Sea of Suffering.
• Shaking Light Holy Land, the Ji family, and other factions entered the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, but found an empty box as the Demon Emperor’s heart flew away.
• Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao pursued the Demon Emperor’s heart alongside a woman from Shaking Light Holy Land, but it vanished after releasing a powerful burst of energy.
• The factions gathered again at the reemerged tomb, where its Demon Race Imperial Script struck down cultivators who tried to force their way in.
• Gu Sheng touched the tomb without being attacked, declared that he had passed the Demon Emperor’s trial, and left after claiming its recognition.

Gu Sheng and Lin Tianhao confronted a mysterious woman and her great demons before the Demon Emperor's Tomb, but she let them leave after Gu Sheng refused to abandon his friend. Later, Gu Sheng watched five powerful figures enter the tomb, then sensed a mysterious aura awakening inside the stone mountain where an azure light had disappeared.

• Gu Sheng fought the great demons until Lin Tianhao appeared and demanded that the mysterious woman let Gu Sheng go.
• When the woman said Lin Tianhao had to stay, Gu Sheng stood by him, and she eventually allowed them both to leave.
• Five great figures opened the Demon Emperor's Tomb, and countless Spiritual Martial weapons flew out; an azure radiance plunged into the stone mountain beneath Gu Sheng.
• Heaven Breaker Venerable, Holy Light True Person, Heaven Battling Marquis, Jade Wave Fairy, and Netherworld Demon King entered the tomb, then returned without finding the weapons or a supreme treasure.
• As the five figures searched the area again, Gu Sheng sensed a strange aura within the stone mountain and began climbing toward it.

Gu Sheng found Spiritual Martial weapons in a cavern, fought Wu Dewang, and briefly reclaimed treasures after defeating him, but Wu Dewang later stole three weapons from him again. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman escaped with the Demon Emperor’s Spiritual Martial weapon, and Gu Sheng faced Wu Dewang once more, ending with the stolen weapons still out of reach.

• Gu Sheng found a blue-green dagger and a blood-red pearl, but Wu Dewang stole both and attacked him when he tried to leave.
• Gu Sheng used his techniques and Grass Vine Demonic Soul to defeat Wu Dewang in the cavern and reclaim the dagger and pearl.
• The five supreme experts shattered the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, but a mysterious woman used a Treasure Gathering Basin to take its Spiritual Martial weapon and escaped after trapping Netherworld Demon King in a formation.
• Wu Dewang used the Great Breaking Bowl to swallow the three Spiritual Martial weapons Gu Sheng held, then tried to leave with them.
• Gu Sheng blocked Wu Dewang and attacked with the power of his Primordial Saint Body, but Wu Dewang remained standing while Gu Sheng was forced back.

Gu Sheng discovered that the green bronze he found held mysterious Dao markings and drew the attention of the five great figures, while Wu Dewang revealed its connection to the Desolate Pagoda and the Demon Emperor’s Yin Tomb. The chapter ended with Wu Dewang explaining the Desolate Pagoda’s origins and its role in opening the Yin Tomb.

• Heaven Breaker Venerable defeated Gu Sheng and Wu Dewang when they tried to seize the seven-colored divine sword, so they fled using the Space Leap secret technique.
• Gu Sheng found a piece of green bronze among the rubble, and it revealed mysterious Dao markings before entering his Bitter Sea and stirring his Primordial Saint Body.
• The five great figures demanded that Gu Sheng surrender the bronze, but they left to investigate a beam of demonic light they believed came from the Desolate Pagoda.
• Wu Dewang told Gu Sheng that the bronze was a key to the Desolate Pagoda, then searched the black pool while Gu Sheng concealed that he still had it.
• Gu Sheng told Wu Dewang about the Demon Emperor’s Yin Tomb, and Wu Dewang explained that the Desolate Pagoda could stabilize its entrance and had been forged by a Primordial Age expert.

Gu Sheng and Wu Dewang uncovered the origins of the green copper, then entered the Yin Tomb and fought its guardians and their hidden mastermind. After they survived the battle and obtained a Dao-patterned wooden token, five great figures arrived and forced Wu Dewang back into the cold pool while Gu Sheng withdrew.

• Wu Dewang told Gu Sheng that the green copper had once brought chaos to the Eastern Wasteland and might awaken an ancient existence, and Gu Sheng later studied its Dao patterns during months of cultivation.
• Gu Sheng and Wu Dewang returned to the black pool, defeated the Black Gold Ape, and fought through waves of Yin soldiers to locate the Yin Tomb.
• The pair entered the tomb, found a battered book and a cold-glinting dagger on an altar, and identified the book as the Demon Emperor's cultivation manual.
• A Shaking Light Holy Land disciple appeared with a Dao-patterned wooden token, but Wu Dewang snatched it from him before Demon Generals attacked and killed the disciple.
• Gu Sheng and Wu Dewang fought the old man controlling the Yin soldiers and Demon Generals for three days and nights, then defeated him and obtained the token.
• Five great figures arrived and ordered Wu Dewang into the cold pool again, while Gu Sheng distanced himself from them.