Chapter Summaries

Wu Dewang traded the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood and left Gu Sheng trapped among the women in the peach blossom forest, where he learned they intended to use his body as a Saint Artifact. Yan Ruyu recognized Gu Sheng and arranged to have his foundation examined, while his worry for Ji Xuri remained unresolved.

• Wu Dewang took the Demon Emperor's Essence Blood, abandoned Gu Sheng, and left the peach blossom forest.
• Bai Yiyi revealed that the Demon Emperor's heart and descendant were with them, then led Gu Sheng to meet Yan Ruyu, whom he already knew.
• Gu Sheng learned that Yan Ruyu's group considered his body a potential Saint Artifact and that Ji Xuri was in long-term seclusion.
• Yan Ruyu and Bai Yiyi privately discussed Gu Sheng's exceptional body and its connection to the Primordial Ancient before Gu Sheng was led to a cottage in a sealed valley.
• After several days, Yan Ruyu arrived with Bai Yiyi and two elderly women, who moved to examine Gu Sheng's foundation.

Gu Sheng refused to become the host of the Demon Emperor's Heart and tried to escape, but Bai Yiyi's peach blossom grove trapped him. Yan Ruyu and the elders began a ritual at the icy pool, where a crystal coffin rose and the spell focused on Gu Sheng revealed his extraordinary sacred body.

• Yan Ruyu left Gu Sheng under Bai Yiyi's watch, and Bai Yiyi explained that they wanted him to host the Demon Emperor's Heart, offering Yan Ruyu's marriage as an additional inducement.
• Gu Sheng asked for time, then tried to escape the peach blossom grove at night, but its traps kept him circling until morning.
• Bai Yiyi had Gu Sheng bound and returned to the hut, then ordered that the ritual be carried out that day.
• The elders brought Gu Sheng to the icy pool, where their incantations raised a crystal coffin that Yan Ruyu and the others revered as the resting place of the Demon Emperor's Heart.
• Yan Ruyu used the Jade Plate to open the coffin while the elders cast a spell on Gu Sheng, whose body endured the power and displayed signs of a pure sacred body.

Yan Ruyu and the old women implanted the Heart of the Great Emperor in Gu Sheng after using the emperor’s sacred weapon to open his Sea of Bitterness, revealing its golden nature. Gu Sheng woke with increased strength and used the Green Copper Block to stop the heart from draining his life; after absorbing a drop of the Demon Emperor’s sacred blood, he displayed his power as Yan Ruyu left him to stay at the hut for now.

• Gu Sheng suffered intense pain as the old women tried and failed to open his Sea of Bitterness with their mana alone.
• Yan Ruyu used an ancient scroll, the Great Emperor’s sacred weapon, to help the old women tear open Gu Sheng’s Sea of Bitterness and reveal its golden light.
• The old woman guided the Heart of the Great Emperor into Gu Sheng, and he fainted before waking half an hour later with his restraints removed and his strength increased.
• Gu Sheng discovered the Green Copper Block stopped the Heart of the Great Emperor from absorbing his life essence.
• Gu Sheng used a cauldron to draw a drop of the Demon Emperor’s sacred blood into his body, which strengthened and nourished him.
• Gu Sheng showed Yan Ruyu his newfound divine strength, and she left after telling him to stay at the hut for the time being.

Gu Sheng confronted Yan Ruyu over her promise to marry him, then cultivated the Heart of the Great Emperor’s holy blood while Bai Yiyi warned him that the Ji Clan planned to use the demons as a trial. As Gu Sheng prepared to leave, Yan Ruyu’s retreat was blocked by an arrogant purple-clad man who challenged her to fight.

• Gu Sheng demanded that Yan Ruyu honor her marriage promise, but she blasted him into a cold pool and left with her attendants.
• Gu Sheng used his cauldron to knock several drops of holy blood from the Heart of the Great Emperor and spent a day absorbing their power.
• Bai Yiyi visited Gu Sheng and told him that the Ji Clan planned to test a youth with a rare physique against the demons, and that Yan Ruyu had ordered a retreat.
• Bai Yiyi urged Gu Sheng to leave immediately, and he agreed to get ready.
• As Yan Ruyu led her attendants through the mountains, a purple-clad man and his followers blocked their path and challenged her to exchange moves.

Yan Ruyu and the demon clan fought Ji Haoyue and the Ji Family over the Demon Emperor Sacred Weapon. As Ji Haoyue’s moon formation and Ancient Mirror overwhelmed them, Yan Ruyu refused to abandon her followers, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ji Haoyue revealed his identity and used Moon Rising Over the Sea to trap a demon elder in a powerful formation.
• Three Ji Family Elders appeared and demanded the Demon Emperor Sacred Weapon, but Yan Ruyu refused and the demon clan attacked.
• As the Ji Family Elders slaughtered the demon clan, Yan Ruyu used the Treasure Gathering Basin to create a barrier that initially stopped their assault.
• The moonlight began draining the Treasure Gathering Basin’s power, so Yan Ruyu brought out the Demon Emperor Sacred Weapon and Ji Haoyue answered with an Ancient Mirror.
• Ji Haoyue attacked with the moon formation and Ancient Mirror, killing or wounding more than half the demon clan, while Yan Ruyu refused to flee and leave her followers behind.

Yan Ruyu battled Ji Haoyue while Gu Sheng was captured by a purple-clad Ji family girl, who spared him after hearing his excuses. Yan Ruyu drew the Ji family forces away, but Gu Sheng took the injured girl hostage and both fell into a gorge toward an underground river.

• Yan Ruyu used the Demon Emperor Sacred Weapon to clash with Ji Haoyue, while Bai Yiyi told her that Gu Sheng and the stone coffin had been escorted away.
• The purple-clad girl ordered her subordinates to capture Gu Sheng, and the great demons escorting him were killed in the breakout attempt.
• The purple-clad girl spared Gu Sheng and questioned him, but accepted his fabricated story about seeking ancient cultivation manuals for the moment.
• Yan Ruyu struck the purple-clad girl with golden lotuses, then drew the Ji family forces away and urged Gu Sheng to escape.
• Gu Sheng found the injured purple-clad girl, pinned her beneath his cauldron, and made her his hostage.
• When a powerful Ji family presence approached, Gu Sheng bound the purple-clad girl and fled with her, but they slipped and fell into the gorge.

Gu Sheng and the Ji family young lady were swept through the Rootless Dark River into a vast underwater region, where their attempts to escape failed. They discovered the words “Bronze Immortal Palace” and decided to investigate it, with a flickering light drawing them inside.

• Gu Sheng and the restrained girl in purple fell into the underground river, worked together to navigate its currents, and learned she was a Ji family young lady and Ji Haoyue’s seventh sister.
• Gu Sheng threatened to take her treasures, but she warned that her death would leave a mark the Ji family could track, so he spared her.
• They entered a vast region beneath the river, where the pressure increased and powerful currents repeatedly swept them away from their attempted routes to the surface.
• The girl in purple identified the passage as the Rootless Dark River and showed Gu Sheng the words “Bronze Immortal Palace” on a distant structure.
• Gu Sheng and the girl in purple examined the palace’s rune-covered pillars, then headed toward a flickering light inside.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue uncovered the Bronze Immortal Palace’s ancient message and discovered the remains of cultivators who had died exploring it. They chose the entrance marked “death,” but an ethereal melody interrupted them as they approached.

• Gu Sheng cleared the seaweed from the hall, revealing statues that awakened, crumbled into dust, and left behind inscribed stones.
• Ji Ziyue revealed her identity and explained that her family had long searched for the Bronze Immortal Palace; together, she and Gu Sheng arranged the stones to reveal the question, “Dare I ask the azure heavens: are there immortals?”
• A tremor exposed heaps of ancient cultivators’ bones and two entrances in a bronze wall, marked with the runes for “life” and “death.”
• Gu Sheng chose the entrance marked “death,” and Ji Ziyue agreed to follow him.
• As Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue approached the death entrance, they heard an ethereal melody that Ji Ziyue thought sounded like a konghou.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue entered the Death cave and discovered that staying together protected them from its Yin Yang Qi, which carried them to the lake’s surface and revealed a way to activate the palace’s exit. When a shrinking barrier trapped them, they flew toward a vortex and black hole formed by the Qi.

• Gu Sheng heeded the Green Copper Block’s warning, avoided the illusory treasure chest, and chose the Death cave with Ji Ziyue.
• Inside the cave, Gu Sheng was struck down by the Yin Yang Qi, but a light curtain protected him and Ji Ziyue when they embraced.
• Ji Ziyue separated from Gu Sheng and was attacked; they realized the Qi could not harm them while they stayed together.
• The Yin Yang Qi carried Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue to the lake’s surface, where they saw a yin-yang diagram beneath the water and concluded that a man and woman were needed to activate the mechanism.
• When the Qi surged into the sky, Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue found an invisible barrier shrinking around the lake and flew upward to escape it.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue saw the Qi form a powerful vortex with a black hole at its center.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue escaped the lake’s deadly Profound Yellow Qi when the Green Copper Block opened a gap in the air wall, though Gu Sheng’s cauldron shattered in the process. After refusing to free Ji Ziyue, Gu Sheng began using the Mysterious Yellow Qi and the Green Copper Block’s energy to reforge his cauldron, leaving the process underway.

• The Profound Yellow Qi overwhelmed Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue, trapping them between the lake, the air walls, and the energy above.
• Gu Sheng summoned his cauldron and tried to absorb the Profound Yellow Qi, but the cauldron cracked and shattered under the strain.
• The Green Copper Block gathered the cauldron fragments and tore a gap in the air wall, allowing Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue to escape the lake’s pressure.
• Gu Sheng refused to untie Ji Ziyue or give her water, and the two rested beside the lake.
• Gu Sheng entered his Sea of Bitterness and began gathering the cauldron fragments, Mysterious Yellow Qi, and green energy to forge the cauldron anew.

Gu Sheng reforged the cauldron in his Sea of Bitterness, then fought off water demons with Ji Ziyue before the powerful Wu Zhiqi trapped them in an illusion. Ji Ziyue began searching for a way to break the illusion while Gu Sheng faced the danger of being refined as a sacrifice.

• Gu Sheng completed the cauldron’s rebirth, restoring it and greatly increasing its quality.
• Gu Sheng teased Ji Ziyue by demanding her family’s secret manuals and treasures, but water demons interrupted them.
• Gu Sheng defeated the attacking water demons, though one escaped, and Ji Ziyue urged him to leave the lake.
• A huge wave dragged Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue into the lake, where they encountered Wu Zhiqi, who overwhelmed them and pulled them into his illusion.
• Ji Ziyue recognized the illusion and warned that Wu Zhiqi intended to refine them, then began sensing its structure for a way out.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue escaped Wu Zhiqi’s illusion only to discover they were still trapped in a loop around the lake, and Wu Zhiqi attacked them. Gu Sheng defeated Wu Zhiqi with the Mysterious Yellow Qi and found the Water Spirit Pearl, then he and Ji Ziyue headed toward nearby thatched huts to rest.

• Ji Ziyue identified the illusion’s northwest corner as its weak point, and Gu Sheng broke through it so they could escape.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue realized they were still circling the lake, and Wu Zhiqi attacked before Gu Sheng could free Ji Ziyue’s restraints.
• Wu Zhiqi overpowered Gu Sheng and lifted both captives into the air, prompting Ji Ziyue to remind Gu Sheng about the Mysterious Yellow Qi.
• Gu Sheng combined the Mysterious Yellow Qi with the Green Copper Block’s power and defeated Wu Zhiqi with a golden attack.
• Gu Sheng found the Water Spirit Pearl beside Wu Zhiqi, and he and Ji Ziyue walked toward several dilapidated thatched huts to rest.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue hid in abandoned huts while he studied the Void Ancient Scripture she copied for him. When Ji Xia and her attendants found them, Gu Sheng used the Profound Yellow Power beneath the lake to strike their pursuers, but one person was still missing when the bodies surfaced.

• Gu Sheng agreed to release Ji Ziyue's restraints after she transcribed the Void Ancient Scripture, then spent two days studying it with her help.
• Ji Ziyue recognized her cousin's pet bird and feared it would lead her cousin to their hiding place, but Ji Xia arrived with several attendants before they could leave.
• Ji Xia mocked Ji Ziyue and threatened her, so Gu Sheng grabbed Ji Ziyue and fled with her into the lake.
• Gu Sheng led Ji Xia and her attendants over the Profound Yellow Power and activated it, blasting them with a powerful shockwave.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue reached the shore and saw several corpses float up, but Gu Sheng noticed that one of Ji Xia's companions was missing.

Gu Sheng defeated Ji Xia after she used the Divine Light Talisman Escape to survive his attack, but the talisman then merged with Ji Ziyue and removed her restraints. Ji Ziyue’s power returned, and after confronting Gu Sheng for binding her divine power, she reunited with her maid Ji Ye.

• Ji Xia used the Divine Light Talisman Escape to survive the Profound Yellow Power, then wounded Ji Ziyue and attacked her and Gu Sheng with a spirit treasure.
• Gu Sheng repelled Ji Xia’s hammer-shaped spirit treasure with power from the Void Ancient Scripture and chased her when she tried to escape.
• Gu Sheng defeated Ji Xia in close combat, shattering her Bitter Sea and killing her.
• The Divine Light Talisman Escape left Ji Xia’s body and merged into Ji Ziyue, removing her restraints and restoring her strength.
• Ji Ziyue stopped Gu Sheng when he tried to flee, then bit his arm in anger after he admitted to binding her divine power.
• Ji Ye appeared, told Ji Ziyue that her family had been searching for her, and met Gu Sheng.

Ji Ziyue refused to return to her family and decided that she and Gu Sheng would join the Tai Xuan Sect, where rumors of a secret art had drawn many recruits. At the sect entrance, they disguised Ji Ziyue with heavy makeup to hide her identity just as the Entry Stone trial was about to begin.

• Ji Ziyue sent Ji Ye away and explained to Gu Sheng that she feared the Ji family's power struggles and threats to her life.
• Ji Ziyue proposed that she and Gu Sheng travel to the Tai Xuan Sect, and they spent several days journeying there together.
• At the sect entrance, Gu Sheng recognized Li Xiaoman, while Ji Ziyue spotted an acquaintance who might identify her.
• Gu Sheng borrowed a Makeup Set from a heavily made-up cultivator, and Ji Ziyue reluctantly used it to disguise herself.
• Tai Xuan Sect cultivators arrived in Divine Rainbows, and an old man announced that recruits had to pass the Entry Stone trial.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue passed through the Entry Stone and entered Tai Xuan Sect, while a stubbled cultivator began to suspect Ji Ziyue’s identity. After learning that new disciples had to choose a main peak for further tests, Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue chose a quiet, unlit peak in the northwest corner.

• The Entry Stone repelled most cultivators, and Gu Sheng stopped a stubbled cultivator from attacking Ji Ziyue.
• The stubbled cultivator was thrown back by the Entry Stone, while Gu Sheng passed through it and returned unharmed.
• The stubbled cultivator called Gu Sheng “Grandpa” after losing their bet, then appeared to recognize Ji Ziyue.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue entered Tai Xuan Sect’s inner area, where they learned about the Ninety-nine Main Peaks and the tests required to join one.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue chose the quiet, unlit main peak in the northwest corner because its aura seemed suited to Ji Ziyue.

Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue chose to cultivate at Clumsy Peak, where Ji Ziyue proved her extraordinary potential by reaching the summit of the Nine-story Xuan Tower and triggering the Tai Xuan Sect’s Spirit Light. The elders recruited Ji Ziyue to Spirit Peak while Gu Sheng stayed with Li Ruoyu on Clumsy Peak, where he learned about its former glory and the saying “The Great Dao is Simple.”

• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue arrived at Clumsy Peak, and Li Ruoyu warned them that its spiritual energy and cultivation conditions were poor.
• Gu Sheng insisted that he and Ji Ziyue take the test to stay, despite other disciples mocking their choice.
• Ji Ziyue climbed all nine levels of the Nine-story Xuan Tower and triggered the Tai Xuan Sect’s Spirit Light, astonishing Li Ruoyu and the gathered elders.
• The elders invited Ji Ziyue to cultivate at Spirit Peak, and she agreed after Gu Sheng encouraged her to go while he remained at Clumsy Peak.
• Li Ruoyu told Gu Sheng that Clumsy Peak had once been a sacred cultivation site and explained its former master’s final words, “The Great Dao is Simple.”

Gu Sheng cultivated on Clumsy Peak, then intercepted a Spirit Peak crane to steal breakfast and got into a fight with Spirit Peak disciples. Li Ruoyu intervened, sent them away, and told Gu Sheng to focus on cultivation.

• Gu Sheng cultivated through the night, and Li Ruoyu watched over him before retreating unseen.
• Li Ruoyu told Gu Sheng to fetch water, light a fire, and cook, so Gu Sheng intercepted an immortal crane and ate its food before bringing the leftovers back.
• A Spirit Peak cultivator confronted Gu Sheng over the stolen food and trapped him with several disciples, but Gu Sheng defeated them.
• Li Ruoyu arrived, dismissed the barrier, and rebuked the Spirit Peak cultivator for entering Clumsy Peak without reporting.
• Li Ruoyu explained that the other peaks looked down on Clumsy Peak, and Gu Sheng promised to cultivate harder before Li Ruoyu sent him to train.

Gu Sheng followed a spiritual summons from Clumsy Peak to Spirit Peak, where its spirit spring chose him during a confrontation with Senior Brother Ling Mu. The spring’s power strengthened Gu Sheng but proved difficult to control, and he accidentally injured Ling Mu as the chapter ended.

• Gu Sheng sensed a spiritual fluctuation calling him from Spirit Peak and went there to visit Ji Ziyue, striking a gatekeeper who mocked him before the gatekeepers agreed to deliver his message.
• Ji Ziyue welcomed Gu Sheng and showed him Spirit Peak, where he traced the summons to a natural spirit spring.
• Senior Brother Ling Mu arrived with disciples who had clashed with Gu Sheng at Clumsy Peak, and Ji Ziyue tried to reconcile them by proposing a discussion of cultivation.
• Ling Mu secretly provoked Gu Sheng with his divine sense, and their confrontation escalated into a clash of spiritual power as Ji Ziyue’s fellow disciples urged Ling Mu on.
• When Ling Mu tried to absorb the spring’s power, it entered Gu Sheng instead, strengthening him until Ling Mu agreed to end their standoff.
• A disciple fired a beam of Spirit Light at Gu Sheng as they withdrew, and Gu Sheng’s uncontrolled power struck Ling Mu, leaving him coughing blood while Gu Sheng apologized.

Gu Sheng accidentally absorbed Spirit Spring Power at Spirit Peak, where Ling Mu accused him of wrongdoing and an elder’s attack was repelled by a mysterious force within him. Back at Clumsy Peak, Li Ruoyu sent Gu Sheng into an illusion to master the power, and Gu Sheng returned with a Black Bow and arrows as his reward.

• A Spirit Peak cultivator attacked Gu Sheng, but a burst of light from Gu Sheng’s palm repelled the attack and injured the cultivator.
• The Spirit Peak disciples prepared to attack Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue until an elder arrived and ordered them to stop.
• Ling Mu accused Gu Sheng of deliberately absorbing the Spirit Spring Power, and the elder tried to force it out, but a mysterious barrier sent the elder’s power back.
• Gu Sheng returned to Clumsy Peak and told Li Ruoyu that he could not control the Spirit Spring Power, so Li Ruoyu sent him into an illusion to master it.
• Gu Sheng defeated a Five-Colored Green Ox by striking its unarmored abdomen with a sword formed from the Spirit Spring Power.
• The defeated ox transformed into a Black Bow and arrows, and Gu Sheng returned to Clumsy Peak carrying his reward.