Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng escaped the demon emperor’s Yin Tomb with spiritual herbs and Life Essence, then settled in a quiet town and grew close to the innkeeper and his granddaughter, Tingting. After driving off thugs who threatened them, he cultivated with the Dao Scripture and Bodhi Seed before setting out to confront the Li family; the chapter leaves him studying the four realms of the Sea of Wheels Scroll.

• Gu Sheng collected spiritual herbs and Life Essence, escaped the ruins as a terrifying aura rose from the cold pool, and reached the town of Qingshan.
• Gu Sheng accepted the innkeeper’s offer to stay and help with chores, befriended Tingting, and shared stories with her about cultivation and his distant home.
• Gu Sheng returned from hunting to find local thugs threatening the innkeeper and Tingting, then defeated them and learned that the Li family backed their abuses.
• Gu Sheng investigated the Li family, cultivated with the Dao Scripture and Bodhi Seed, and set out to confront the family after strengthening his powers.
• Gu Sheng studied the Sea of Wheels Scroll’s four realms: Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore.

Gu Sheng strengthened his Primordial Saint Body by cultivating with Source, defeated a black-clad man who tried to steal it, and attacked a minor branch of the Li family. After advancing in the Sea of Suffering Realm, he confronted Steward Liu for abusing Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting, leaving Steward Liu thrown into the street.

• Gu Sheng refined his cultivation methods and techniques, then found a piece of Source in the forest and defeated the black-clad man who tried to take it.
• Gu Sheng absorbed the Source during a month of seclusion, emerged stronger, and prepared to oppose the Li family while reassuring Little Tingting and Old Man Jiang.
• Gu Sheng raided the Li family treasury and fought through its guards, declaring the end of the family's minor branch.
• Gu Sheng refined spiritual herbs and Source until his Sea of Suffering expanded and contained nineteen Divine Marks.
• Steward Liu bullied Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting at their restaurant, so Gu Sheng knocked down his men and threw Steward Liu into the street.

Gu Sheng forged a Three-legged Round Cauldron in his Bitter Sea and exploited a feud between the Li Family and the Wang Family to create chaos. He infiltrated the Li Family treasury to steal Source stones, but was discovered and attacked.

• Gu Sheng broke Steward Liu's limbs after denouncing him and his men for oppressing the townspeople.
• Gu Sheng chose a Three-legged Round Cauldron as his artifact, then forged it in his Bitter Sea with guidance from the Dao Sutra Master.
• After Old Man Jiang told him the Li Family and Wang Family were fighting, Gu Sheng infiltrated the Wang Family estate and rescued Manager Zhang.
• Gu Sheng directed Manager Zhang to spread rumors and start fires, then used his abilities to intensify the families' conflict until a powerful middle-aged man intervened.
• Gu Sheng entered the Li Family treasury and began gathering its Source stones, but a hidden mechanism was triggered and someone attacked him.

Gu Sheng strengthened his cultivation with the Li family's source stones and struggled to refine a cauldron, discovering that copying the green copper's Dao patterns helped his progress. After defending Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting from Seventh Young Master Li, Gu Sheng waited on the road and brought down Li's Dragon Scale Horse as he approached.

• Gu Sheng defeated the Li family guardian, escaped with the source stones, and used them to cultivate until his Sea of Wheels Secret Realm changed dramatically.
• Gu Sheng trained in the mountains, killed an ambushing demonic beast, and continued seeking strength to obtain the Li family's source.
• Gu Sheng repeatedly failed to refine a cauldron, then studied the Golden Book and copied the Dao patterns on the green copper until the divine iron began to change.
• An unseen senior praised Gu Sheng's perseverance and advised him to gain more experience refining a cauldron.
• Gu Sheng promised Old Man Jiang he would protect Little Tingting, then knocked down Seventh Young Master Li's men when they tried to take her.
• Gu Sheng waited on the road for Seventh Young Master Li and struck down his Dragon Scale Horse as Li rode toward him.

Gu Sheng forced Seventh Young Master Li to confess to murdering Tingting’s parents and learned that the Jiang family had come to Qingfeng Town seeking Tingting. Jiang Yifei confronted the Li family for answers, while Old Man Jiang had yet to decide whether to return with Tingting to the Jiang family.

• Gu Sheng severed Seventh Young Master Li’s leg and arms, then made him confess that he had murdered Tingting’s parents for their family heirloom and planned to sell Tingting to Yanxia Cave Heaven.
• Gu Sheng spared Seventh Young Master Li at Little Tingting’s request and crippled his cultivation, then hid a piece of source he had obtained.
• Riders from the Ancient Jiang Family arrived in Qingfeng Town seeking the Jiang family, and Gu Sheng warned Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting about them.
• Jiang Yifei told Old Man Jiang that he and the riders were Jiang family descendants and invited him and Little Tingting to return, but Old Man Jiang said he needed time to decide.
• Jiang Yifei led the riders to the Li family estate to investigate Tingting’s parents’ deaths, and the Li family denied responsibility until a rider kicked its elder aside.

Jiang Yifei uncovered the Li family’s role in the deaths of Tingting’s parents and confronted Yanxia Cave Heaven, where its sect master admitted a disciple had been murdered by a traitor. After the traitor escaped, Jiang Yifei reunited with Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting, while Gu Sheng declined his invitation to join the Jiang family.

• Jiang Yifei found evidence in the Li family’s secret chamber linking them to Tingting’s parents’ deaths and took the Li family members away.
• Jiang Yifei led the Jiang family to Yanxia Cave Heaven, fought past its cultivators, and demanded justice for the murdered Jiang family member.
• An elder led Jiang Yifei to the sect master, who admitted that a disciple surnamed Jiang had been poisoned by a traitor and promised to execute him.
• The traitor escaped Yanxia Cave Heaven after Jiang Yifei left.
• Jiang Yifei reunited with Old Man Jiang and Little Tingting at an inn in Qingfeng Town and invited Gu Sheng to join the Jiang family.
• Gu Sheng politely declined Jiang Yifei’s invitation because he preferred an unrestrained life.

After Jiang Yichen discovered Gu Sheng’s treasure and pursued him, Gu Sheng defeated him but became the target of the Jiang family. He fled into the Primordial Forbidden Zone, where strange beasts and unseen dangers threatened him as more Jiang family riders closed in.

• Jiang Yichen followed Gu Sheng into a valley, where Gu Sheng defeated him with the Profound Heaven Sword and left him wounded.
• Gu Sheng hid in the mountains, cultivated, and escaped a pursuing Jiang family rider by using the Shadow Concealment Art and Carefree Immortal Step.
• Gu Sheng entered the Primordial Forbidden Zone to evade the pursuit and explore its secrets, then killed a charging demonic beast with the Profound Heaven Sword.
• Gu Sheng encountered increasingly powerful beasts, including a Golden-winged Peng, as the Jiang family sent five more riders to seal off routes into the forbidden zone.

Gu Sheng escaped the Jiang family by reaching Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven, where he hid in a bamboo grove and secretly refined a mysterious piece of “source.” After his cultivation caused a disturbance that drew the attention of the grotto-heaven’s second strongest expert, Gu Sheng denied possessing the source, but curious young cultivators and Lin Qingyu arrived to question him.

• Gu Sheng took shelter and ate at Old Man Jiang’s restaurant, then left town and fled toward a crowded city in the State of Yan.
• In the city, Gu Sheng encountered Lin Qingyu, then defeated several Jiang family riders who had caught up with him and escaped into the crowd.
• Gu Sheng met Lin Qingyu again with her Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven companions, revealed his powerful cultivation, and left the city before the Jiang family could find him.
• Gu Sheng reached Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven and entered by joining the crowd admitted after he persuaded the assessment cultivators to give rejected youths another chance.
• Gu Sheng settled in a bamboo grove and refined the mysterious source until a disturbance drew Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven’s second strongest expert, who offered to trade for it.
• Gu Sheng denied having any source to the expert and later to questioning young cultivators, before Lin Qingyu arrived at the grove.

Gu Sheng refused to surrender the Source and escaped Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven after fighting off disciples who tried to seize it. After hiding the Source and discovering the Bodhi Seed had attracted the Jiang family's rider, he encountered Elder Han, who captured him for his treasures and Primordial Saint Body; an unknown presence then stirred nearby.

• Lin Qingyu offered to arrange blessings in exchange for Gu Sheng's Source, but he refused.
• Black-clad cultivators attacked Gu Sheng in the bamboo forest, but he defeated them and drove them away.
• When a strange rider disrupted Purple Sun Grotto-Heaven, Gu Sheng escaped, killing pursuers and hiding the Source in a river.
• Gu Sheng evaded pursuit for half a month, advanced his cultivation, and found that hiding the Bodhi Seed reduced the Jiang family's rider's tracking.
• Elder Han of Lingxu Grotto-Heaven confronted Gu Sheng in an ancient city and demanded his treasures, especially the Bodhi Seed.
• Elder Han escorted Gu Sheng to a barren mountain range, intending to use his treasures and Primordial Saint Body for a Vitality Returning Pill, when they sensed an unusual presence nearby.

Elder Han captured Gu Sheng and tried to refine him into a pill, but Gu Sheng survived the cauldron and briefly struck back before Elder Han subdued him again. Trapped in a second cauldron, Gu Sheng used the Dao Scripture and the Fire Fiend’s power to recover, consume a Dark Jade Divine Lotus seed, and approach a breakthrough while Elder Han mistook the signs for a pill nearing completion.

• Elder Han killed the Jiang family knights, captured Gu Sheng, and took him to a hidden cave filled with spiritual herbs.
• Elder Han placed Gu Sheng in a medicine cauldron and began refining him, but Gu Sheng’s techniques formed a golden shield and caused the cauldron to explode.
• Gu Sheng struck Elder Han with a golden palm, but Elder Han used his Life Spring to seize him and throw him into a new cauldron.
• Elder Han gathered the spilled medicinal liquid, relit the Fire Fiend, and began boiling Gu Sheng again for seven days and seven nights.
• Gu Sheng used the Dao Scripture to regain some movement, absorbed the Fire Fiend’s Spiritual Power, and ate a Dark Jade Divine Lotus seed.
• Gu Sheng’s bitter sea churned as his cultivation neared a breakthrough, while Elder Han mistook the sounds and light for signs of a supreme spiritual pill forming.

Gu Sheng survived Elder Han’s repeated attempts to refine him, killed him, and took his treasures before retreating to cultivate. As Gu Sheng broke through in a hidden cave abode, a heavenly phenomenon drew the attention of distant cultivators.

• Gu Sheng opened his golden Bitter Sea, overpowered Elder Han, and killed him with the Profound Heaven Sword, only to be seized by another of Elder Han’s avatars and thrown into a second medicine cauldron.
• After seven days and nights of refining, Gu Sheng emerged with greater strength and used the Golden Book to wound Elder Han, destroy his Bitter Sea, and kill him.
• Gu Sheng collected Elder Han’s spirit herbs and his Bodhi Seed, then left the stone chamber and cultivated in seclusion.
• Gu Sheng used the spirit herbs and the Dao Scripture to advance into a higher realm.
• Gu Sheng continued cultivating in a hidden cave abode until his breakthrough caused a heavenly phenomenon, which startled cultivators in the distance.

Gu Sheng broke through to the Life Spring Realm, stabilized his cultivation, and refined a crude Three-legged Round Cauldron before setting out toward the Primordial Forbidden Zone and the Demon Emperor's Tomb. In Yandu, he reunited with Chu Haoran and endured Wu Xinyu's taunts without fighting, then continued cultivating with his junior brother.

• Gu Sheng broke through to the Life Spring Realm and later spent nearly a year consolidating his cultivation and refining the crude embryo of a Three-legged Round Cauldron.
• Gu Sheng learned about the cursed Demon Emperor's Tomb and decided to add it to his journey to the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Gu Sheng returned to Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven, reunited with Chu Haoran, and learned that Huang Miaoyin had entered seclusion to pursue the Life Spring Realm.
• At a tavern, Wu Xinyu mocked Gu Sheng and blocked his way, but Gu Sheng left with Chu Haoran rather than start a fight.
• Gu Sheng and Chu Haoran cultivated together and discussed the Dao over the following days.

Gu Sheng defended Chu Haoran from sect bullies, defeated Chen Feng and Chen Yu’s groups, and refused Elder Ma Huayun’s invitation to join Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven. He then entered the Primordial Forbidden Zone with his companions, where a giant beast and a looming catastrophe awaited them alongside the Jiang family and Shaking Light Holy Land.

• Gu Sheng reunited with Chu Haoran and defeated Wu Xinyu and the others after they mocked and attacked Chu Haoran.
• Gu Sheng used his Sea of Wheels Secret Realm strength to defeat Chen Feng’s group, then evaded their ambushes and killed Chen Yu and the others with his Space Leap secret art.
• Elder Ma Huayun recognized Gu Sheng’s Primordial Saint Body and invited him to join Jade Cauldron Grotto-Heaven, but Gu Sheng refused.
• Gu Sheng met Dai Sen, Mo Buwen, Linghu Qingwan, Lin Qingyu, and others, and they entered the Primordial Forbidden Zone in search of sacred medicine.
• Gu Sheng and his companions fought and defeated a Primordial Giant Beast, their first trial inside the forbidden zone.
• A calamity erupted as strange beasts filled the sky, and a seemingly mad old man warned Gu Sheng that the forbidden zone held the world’s secret and his fate; the Jiang family and Shaking Light Holy Land then arrived.

Gu Sheng survived the beast horde with Old Madman's help, then joined the Shaking Light Holy Land, the Jiang family, and the Ji family on an expedition into the Primordial Forbidden Zone. After reaching the Sacred Mountains and finding divine medicine, he was asked to use his curse-resistant constitution to help the factions gather it.

• Gu Sheng fought the ferocious beasts until one struck him down, and Old Madman intervened to rescue him.
• Gu Sheng and Old Madman learned that the Bronze Giant Coffin had reappeared, while Linghu Qingwan warned Gu Sheng that consuming the Sacred Fruit might have put him in danger.
• The Shaking Light Holy Land recruited Gu Sheng for an expedition to gather sacred medicine, and he entered the Primordial Forbidden Zone with several factions.
• The curse sealed the cultivators' divine power and rapidly aged one of them, but Gu Sheng found that his Primordial Saint Body resisted its effects.
• Gu Sheng led the group through the Sacred Mountains, where they found a divine medicine and encountered the forbidden zone's guardian.
• Jiang Hanzhong asked Gu Sheng to use his special constitution to help the factions climb the Sacred Mountains and gather divine medicine.

Gu Sheng forced the Jiang family and two other factions to rely on him to reach the divine medicine, killing Jiang Feng and demanding the others be freed in exchange for revealing its location. As he searched the Sacred Mountain summit, Jiang Hanzhong secretly launched a puppet imprint at him.

• Gu Sheng agreed to help obtain the divine medicine but demanded the right to kill Jiang Feng; the Jiang family elder accepted, and Gu Sheng struck Jiang Feng.
• Gu Sheng defeated and killed Jiang Feng, then faced Jiang Hanzhong, the Shaking Light Holy Land elder, and the Ji family elder, who demanded his help finding the divine medicine.
• Gu Sheng made the three elders clear the skeletons from the abyss before he entered it and reached the Sacred Mountain summit.
• Gu Sheng demanded that Huang Miaoyin, Gu Xiaojiang, and the others be released before he revealed the divine medicine's location; Xu Daoling agreed to the condition.
• Gu Sheng began sensing the medicine's location, but Jiang Hanzhong suddenly sent a puppet imprint rushing toward him.

Gu Sheng fought off Jiang Hanzhong, Ji Yunfeng, and Xu Daoling, but they captured him and forced him to lead them toward the divine medicine. After the Heavenly Jade Saintess, now a Desolate Slave, killed the three elders, Gu Sheng survived her attack with help from the Green Copper Block and found the Divine Spring and eleven ancient trees bearing golden fruits.

• Gu Sheng defeated the three elders in battle, then lured them into a cave and bound them with his Grass Vine Demonic Soul.
• Jiang Hanzhong used an imitation Desolate Pagoda to free the elders, and they coerced Gu Sheng into guiding them farther across the mountain.
• The group encountered the Heavenly Jade Saintess, who had become a Desolate Slave; she erased the elders and the forces at the mountain's foot after surviving their attack with the damaged pagoda.
• Gu Sheng fought the Heavenly Jade Saintess with his secret techniques and Golden Book of the Dao Scripture, but her wound began draining his life force.
• The Green Copper Block struck the Heavenly Jade Saintess and sent her into the abyss, allowing Gu Sheng to reach a spring and recover.
• Gu Sheng found eleven ancient trees beside the Divine Spring, picked a golden fruit, and ate it.

Gu Sheng survived the Desolate Slave in the Primordial Forbidden Zone, learned to use his cauldron to suppress the youth-restoring effects of the Sacred Fruits, and later left seclusion to seek experience. After defeating a black-robed pursuer, he continued consuming the fruits, which increasingly refined his divine sense.

• Gu Sheng recovered his strength by eating Sacred Fruits, but a Desolate Slave attacked him as a Sacred Mountain collapsed; a mysterious golden light destroyed the attacker, allowing him to escape.
• After discovering that the fruits made him shrink, Gu Sheng spent a month learning to use his cauldron to suppress his body and then consumed another fruit without shrinking further.
• Gu Sheng studied the nine ancient characters in the Dao Scripture, noticed their resemblance to characters in the scripture from the bronze ancient coffin, and left the Primordial Forbidden Zone with the remaining fruits and other keepsakes.
• Gu Sheng found that the Jiang family, the Ji family, and the Shaking Light Holy Land experts had died, so he secluded himself in a stone mountain and cultivated until he reached the Divine Spring realm.
• Gu Sheng set out to gain experience, hid from an approaching black-robed man who demanded something he had taken, and killed him with a single punch.
• Gu Sheng consumed the golden fruits inside his cauldron, steadily refining his divine sense until, after the sixth fruit, he could detect minute changes around him.

After reaching the Divine Bridge Realm, Gu Sheng left the Primordial Forbidden Zone, learned that powerful factions and familiar peers had vanished, and resolved to seek Dao Palace cultivation methods at Jade Pool Holy Land. He returned to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven for his belongings, defeated Li Lin and Li Yun, and began fighting Elder Han Yishui to reclaim the items Han had taken.

• Gu Sheng consumed the final golden fruit, entered the Divine Bridge Realm, and left his secluded cultivation place with his cauldron newly imprinted with the ancient scripture’s maxim.
• Gu Sheng traveled through towns, heard that the Demon Emperor's Tomb had sunk and the Desolate Pagoda had vanished, and learned that major factions and several familiar cultivators had disappeared in the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Gu Sheng visited Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, learned from Elder Wu Qingfeng that he needed to cross the Bitter Sea and reach the Other Shore before approaching the Dao Palace, and gave Wu Qingfeng Divine Spring water in gratitude.
• Gu Sheng decided to seek cultivation methods at Jade Pool Holy Land and promised to return for Lin Tianwen, who remained trapped in the Demon Emperor's Yin Tomb.
• Gu Sheng returned to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, defeated Li Lin and Li Yun, and learned that Elder Han Yishui had claimed his belongings.
• Gu Sheng confronted Han Yishui and fought him in the main hall, ending the chapter as he thrust his sword toward Han Yishui's chest.

Gu Sheng defeated Han Yishui after giving him three days to return the stolen mystic artifacts, then left Lingxu Grotto-Heaven and developed his cultivation in the Wei Kingdom. After studying Taiji and attempting to create a new body technique, he encountered Daoist Wu Dewang while training in the mountains.

• Gu Sheng exposed Han Yishui's claim to the spiritual artifacts with Lin Tianwen's jade token, defeated Han Yishui and his disciples, and gave him three days to return the artifacts.
• Gu Sheng searched Lingxu Grotto-Heaven for information about Lin Tianwen while Han Yishui secretly contacted elders and factions for support.
• When Han Yishui failed to return the mystic artifacts after three days, Gu Sheng defeated him again and left Lingxu Grotto-Heaven using Space Leap.
• Gu Sheng reached Xiaodu City in the Wei Kingdom, settled there, and studied the Taiji principles embodied by an ancient temple's divine statue.
• After leaving Xiaodu City, Gu Sheng practiced an ancient body technique in the mountains but made limited progress over two months.
• Daoist Wu Dewang approached Gu Sheng and greeted him as an old friend.

Gu Sheng followed Wu Dewang to a gathering at Xuanling Sect, but Wu led him through a hidden cave and into a peach blossom formation, where Gu Sheng stumbled upon demon women bathing. After Wu revealed he had arranged the encounter to obtain Demon Emperor's Essence Blood, he questioned Gu Sheng about a Bronze Spirit Artifact; Gu Sheng blamed its loss on a powerful mad old man, whose identity alarmed Wu.

• Gu Sheng followed Wu Dewang to Xuanling Sect, where they lacked invitations, and Wu led him to a secret passage behind the mountain.
• Gu Sheng found himself lost in a shifting peach blossom forest and followed a woman's voice to a pool where demon women were bathing.
• Wu Dewang appeared and admitted he had led Gu Sheng there as a trial, while the white-haired woman praised Gu Sheng's rare treasure body and promised Wu the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood.
• Wu Dewang demanded to know where Gu Sheng's Bronze Spirit Artifact was, and Gu Sheng claimed a powerful mad old man had stolen it.
• Wu Dewang recognized Gu Sheng's account as possibly involving the terrifying mad old man who had appeared in Yan Land, then accepted the woman's offer of an amber containing the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood.