Chapter Summaries

After Ancestor Ji Hui ordered Gu Sheng to leave the Ji family, Ji Ziyue secretly gave him an Imprint Removing Stone to erase tracking marks. Gu Sheng recovered in a cave using Yuan, but a powerful presence continued following him, so he headed toward a barren mountain to confront the pursuit.

• Hua Yunfei visited Ji Ziyue, who rejected his concern despite Ancestor Ji Hui revealing he was her cousin through her maternal family.
• Ancestor Ji Hui asked Gu Sheng to leave, and Ji Ziyue reluctantly saw him off after secretly giving him an Imprint Removing Stone.
• Gu Sheng found a concealed cave, used Yuan to heal his injuries, and regained his strength.
• Gu Sheng sensed a powerful presence following him, erased a tracking imprint with the stone, and still felt pursued.
• After several days of evading the pursuer, Gu Sheng left the forest and headed toward a barren mountain.

Gu Sheng defeated three Ji family servants who had been sent to kill him, then learned that Ancestor Ji Hui wanted him dead for taking something from the family. After Ji Ren murdered the failed assassins and ambushed Gu Sheng in a cave, Gu Sheng escaped his deadly techniques with the Dao Scripture and faced him again.

• Gu Sheng detected three approaching presences with his divine sense, defeated the servants in one move, and spared them after they said they had been ordered to kill him for taking something belonging to the Ji family.
• The servants returned to report their failure, and Ji Ren killed all three before setting out to kill Gu Sheng himself.
• Ji Ren sneaked into Gu Sheng's cave at night, but Gu Sheng evaded his attack and confronted him.
• Ji Ren trapped Gu Sheng inside a compressed void with the Great Void Technique and hurled divine fire at him.
• Gu Sheng summoned the Dao Scripture, whose page became a flying dagger that wounded Ji Ren and allowed Gu Sheng to escape the void and face him again.

Gu Sheng killed Ji Ren, but Ancestor Ji Hui revived him with a corpse-qi technique, forcing Gu Sheng to burn him to ashes in a palm forest. After erasing traces of the fight, Gu Sheng encountered three villagers and flew off to fetch water to put out the spreading fire.

• Ji Ren revealed that Ancestor Ji Hui ordered Gu Sheng killed for learning the Ji family's Great Void Technique, and Gu Sheng defeated him with Mysterious Yellow Qi and cut his throat.
• Ancestor Ji Hui appeared as black qi and revived Ji Ren with a pellet, explaining the Ji family's corpse-qi technique.
• Gu Sheng fled from Ji Ren, then pinned him among the palm trees and used fire to burn him completely to ash.
• Gu Sheng used the Imprint Removing Stone to erase traces of his aura, then told three villagers he would bring water from a nearby lake to put out the fire.

Gu Sheng extinguished a palm grove fire, escaped into hiding after a strange whirlwind rose from Ji Ren’s ashes, and fought off Ji family pursuers. After rescuing a woman and her child from wolves, he learned of a nearby capital, but Ji Hui caught up with him and demanded he give up his cultivation and the Great Void Technique.

• Gu Sheng used lake water to put out the palm grove fire, helped the mountain villagers gather their firewood, and accepted a wooden bird carving from them.
• A whirlwind carried ashes from where Ji Ren had died, so Gu Sheng hid in a cave and cultivated for roughly half a month.
• Ji family cultivators found Gu Sheng after he left the cave, but he killed them and used the Imprint Removing Stone to erase the imprints nearby.
• Gu Sheng rescued a woman and her child from wolves, and the woman recognized his wooden carving as her husband's work and told him about a nearby capital.
• The woman misdirected Hua Yunfei and the Ji family elders, but Ji Hui sensed Gu Sheng's true trail and confronted him, demanding that he cripple his cultivation and forget the Great Void Technique.
• Ji Hui attacked Gu Sheng, and he fought back as Hua Yunfei and the Ji family elders gathered around them.

Gu Sheng escaped Ji Hui’s attack and agreed to duel Hua Yunfei above the Great Capital City, but their fight was interrupted when Ji Hui tried to kill him for mastering the Ji family’s Great Void Technique. Gu Sheng threatened to reveal the technique’s formula to the watching crowd, forcing Ji Hui to lower her hand.

• Gu Sheng fled after Hua Yunfei hesitated to kill him, and Hua Yunfei pursued him to the Great Capital City over his jealousy about Ji Ziyue.
• Gu Sheng and Hua Yunfei fought one-on-one as cultivators gathered to watch, until Ji Hui arrived and ordered Hua Yunfei to stop.
• Ji Sheng attacked Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng used the Great Void Technique to strike him down and revealed that he had mastered it.
• Ji Hui attacked Gu Sheng, claiming he deserved to die for learning the Ji family’s secret technique, while spectators protested.
• Gu Sheng threatened to reveal the Great Void Technique’s formula to the crowd, and Ji Hui withdrew her gathered divine power.

Gu Sheng forced Ji Hui to withdraw by threatening to spread the Great Void Technique, but Peacock King intervened and warned him that Ji Hui intended to kill him later. Peacock King took Gu Sheng to a hidden refuge, where Gu Sheng began recovering and heard a woman enter the cottage.

• Gu Sheng used the Sound-Hiding Orbs containing the Great Void Technique to deter Ji Hui and make her call off her disciples.
• Peacock King appeared, exposed Ji Hui's plan to attack Gu Sheng after he let his guard down, and declared that anyone who harmed Gu Sheng would become his enemy.
• Ji Hui withdrew with her followers, and Gu Sheng agreed to go with Peacock King for protection.
• Peacock King brought Gu Sheng to a hidden refuge in a barren mountain, where Gu Sheng recognized a resemblance to Clumsy Peak and found a cottage prepared by an unnamed friend.
• Gu Sheng drank the tea, began healing with the power of "Yuan," and sprang up when he heard a woman open the cottage door, though his chest wound still hurt.

Gu Sheng reunited with Bai Yiyi at the Peacock King's refuge, learned that the demon race planned to migrate north, and heard that rumors about his power had spread across the Eastern Wasteland. The Ji Family Holy Lord and Shaking Light Holy Lord then appeared at a rift in the sky, and Gu Sheng prepared to face them so they would not endanger the Peacock King.

• Bai Yiyi told Gu Sheng that Yan Ruyu had recovered from a minor injury and was in seclusion after the Peacock King rescued her from Ji Haoyue.
• Gu Sheng and Bai Yiyi teased each other, and Bai Yiyi explained how she and Yan Ruyu had reached the Peacock King's territory.
• Bai Yiyi told Gu Sheng that rumors about his divine body, strength, and supposed knowledge of the Ji family's supreme cultivation method had spread widely.
• Bai Yiyi invited Gu Sheng to join the demon race, but he refused; she assured him the demon race would support him and said the Peacock King was preparing to lead them to the Northern Region.
• A spatial rift opened above the refuge, and Bai Yiyi identified the two approaching great powers as the Ji Family Holy Lord and the Shaking Light Holy Lord.
• Gu Sheng realized the two Holy Lords had come for him and prepared to go out to keep their arrival from bringing trouble to the Peacock King.

Peacock King fought the Ji Family Holy Lord and Shaking Light Holy Lord to protect Gu Sheng, until Green Flood Dragon King arrived to help him. After Ji Hui and other Ji Family experts cornered Gu Sheng and Bai Yiyi, Bai Yiyi helped Gu Sheng escape and stayed behind to face his pursuers.

• Bai Yiyi stopped Gu Sheng from joining Peacock King's confrontation with the Ji Family Holy Lord and the Shaking Light Holy Lord.
• Peacock King admitted taking Gu Sheng to protect him and avenge the demon race members killed by Ji Haoyue, then battled the two Holy Lords.
• Green Flood Dragon King arrived and joined Peacock King, forcing the two Holy Lords to face both Demon Kings.
• The battle's energy destroyed the wooden house, exposing Gu Sheng and Bai Yiyi, while Ji Hui arrived with Hua Yunfei, the Shaking Light Saintess, and other Ji Family experts.
• Bai Yiyi arranged for the demon race members to cover Gu Sheng's escape, then stayed behind and challenged Ji Hui and his group.

Gu Sheng fled Ji Hui and the Ji Family, but the Shaking Light Saintess’s offer of protection proved false, and Ji Hui drove him into the Fire Domain. He found an entrance deeper inside as Ji Hui pursued him and warned that entering meant certain death.

• Bai Yiyi and the demon race held off Ji Hui’s forces while Gu Sheng escaped, but Ji Hui sent Hua Yunfei and the Shaking Light Saintess to flank him.
• The Shaking Light Saintess offered Gu Sheng protection in exchange for the Great Void Technique, then revealed she had set up an illusion realm to capture him.
• Surrounded by Ji Hui and the others, Gu Sheng used the Great Void Technique, but Ji Hui shattered the void and sent him falling into what appeared to be a volcano.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord identified the volcano as the Fire Domain, an artifact-refining ground, and Ji Hui led her subordinates after Gu Sheng while the Shaking Light Saintess withdrew.
• Inside the Fire Domain, Gu Sheng found a verse describing seven layers and spotted a door marked “Entrance” as Ji Hui caught up and warned him that entering meant death.

Gu Sheng fled into the fire domain while Ji Hui and her allies pursued him through its increasingly dangerous levels. Ji Hui sealed Gu Sheng inside the Purple Fire of the third level and believed he would not survive, while Hua Yunfei quietly questioned the Ji family's ruthless actions.

• Gu Sheng entered the Crimson Fire Gate, endured its flames, and discovered that the fire domain's currents could temper his body and refine his divine power.
• Ji Hui, Hua Yunfei, and the senior Ji family members chased Gu Sheng into the second level after he escaped their attacks through its stone door.
• As the orange and red flames intensified, Gu Sheng used the Spirit Spring Power within him to keep moving, while Ji Hui used the Great Void Technique to pursue him.
• Ji Hui ambushed and injured Gu Sheng, then struck him through the entrance into the Purple Fire of the third level.
• Ji Hui entered the third level but was trapped by its Purple Fire, so she retreated and sealed the entrance with Gu Sheng inside.
• Ji Hui told Hua Yunfei and the Ji family elders that Gu Sheng would not survive, and Hua Yunfei privately wondered how Gu Sheng could endure the third level.

Gu Sheng survived the Purple Fire on the third level of the Fire Region and discovered that it strengthened his cultivation, but Ji Hui's barrier kept him trapped inside. The Peacock King confirmed Gu Sheng was alive, leaving Bai Yiyi relieved but still unable to reach him.

• Gu Sheng found Ji Hui had sealed the third-level exit with a powerful barrier, then used the Purple Fire to refine his Primordial Qi of All Things and grow stronger.
• Ji Hui assumed Gu Sheng had died and told Bai Yiyi he was gone; Bai Yiyi attacked Ji Hui but was driven back by the Ji family elders and Hua Yunfei.
• The Peacock King entered the Fire Region to investigate, but Ji Hui's barrier blocked him from entering the third level, so he sent his spiritual sense through it.
• The Peacock King's spiritual sense found Gu Sheng alive and apparently protected from the Purple Fire, though it had to retreat before the flames consumed it.
• The Peacock King told Bai Yiyi that Gu Sheng was alive on the third level, and she rejoiced while asking why he had not come out.

Gu Sheng broke through his cultivation in the third layer of the Fire Domain and entered the fourth, where the Pagoda King blocked his escape and attacked him. As firelight struck while Gu Sheng struggled beneath the King’s pagoda, his life was in immediate danger.

• The Peacock King told Bai Yiyi and the others that Gu Sheng’s cultivation resembled the Mad Old Man’s, then set a barrier to detect when Gu Sheng left the Fire Domain.
• After half a month of cultivation, Gu Sheng refined his divine sense, shattered Ji Hui’s barrier, and entered the fourth layer of the Fire Domain.
• The silver walls amplified the candle flame’s heat, and Gu Sheng tried to retreat but encountered the Pagoda King, who blocked his way.
• Gu Sheng and the Pagoda King exchanged attacks, but Gu Sheng’s strength waned as the fourth layer’s flames continued striking him.
• The Pagoda King trapped Gu Sheng beneath his enormous silver pagoda, and a reflected beam of firelight shot toward Gu Sheng while he could not dodge.

Gu Sheng escaped Pagoda King's silver tower by using the Mysterious Yellow Qi to absorb its flames and break its seal, then forced Pagoda King to guide him through the Fire Domain. They entered the fifth level together, where a Fire Spirit Beast suddenly attacked Gu Sheng.

• Pagoda King trapped Gu Sheng in the silver tower and heated it with spirit flames, but Gu Sheng formed a vortex with his Mysterious Yellow Qi and broke free.
• Gu Sheng pursued Pagoda King to a barrier at the Fire Domain's exit and agreed to spare him if he explained the remaining levels.
• Pagoda King described the fifth level's firestorms and the sixth level's guardian beast, then agreed to guide Gu Sheng onward.
• After resting, Gu Sheng and Pagoda King entered the fifth level and cautiously searched among the flames for Fire Spirit Beasts.
• A Fire Spirit Beast sprang from the flames toward Gu Sheng, and Pagoda King shouted a warning.

Gu Sheng and Pagoda King encountered a powerful fiery red figure on the fifth level of the Fire Domain and discovered that it could create illusions linked to their bodies. After Gu Sheng destroyed the crystal sustaining the illusions, the figure unleashed its natal flame and struck Pagoda King, leaving him engulfed in fire as Gu Sheng failed to reach him.

• Gu Sheng killed a Fire Spirit Beast, then continued with Pagoda King toward the entrance to the sixth level.
• A fiery red figure attacked Gu Sheng and Pagoda King, overpowering their combined strike and creating illusions that hurt them when attacked.
• Gu Sheng traced the illusions to a hidden cave and destroyed a glowing crystal on an altar, dispersing the illusions.
• The fiery red figure revealed that destroying the crystal had triggered its true power and attacked them with its natal flame.
• Pagoda King tried to flee, but the figure blocked his path and struck his crown with a flaming palm while Gu Sheng was unable to reach him.

Gu Sheng survived inside the dark purple creature by using Mysterious Yellow Qi to absorb its energy, reaching the Other Shore Realm. After the creature gave him an ancient dagger and died, Gu Sheng used the weapon to break through into the seventh level of the Fire Domain.

• The dark purple creature absorbed the Pagoda King, then pulled Gu Sheng into its body to devour him.
• Mysterious Yellow Qi protected Gu Sheng, letting him absorb the creature’s energy and find a golden stone that strengthened his cultivation.
• Gu Sheng cultivated inside the creature for several months, reached the Other Shore Realm, and drained most of its power.
• The dying creature revealed that it had hidden an ancient dagger that could help Gu Sheng escape the Fire Domain, then expired.
• Gu Sheng found the dagger and used its power alongside Mysterious Yellow Qi to shatter the barrier to the seventh level.
• Gu Sheng entered the seventh level, where the flames were more violent and scorching than those on the sixth.

Gu Sheng became trapped on the seventh level of the Fire Domain, where he strengthened his cauldron with hidden flames and fought off fire crows. After defeating a giant fire crow, he met the Fire Crow Person, who recognized his Heavenly Dipper Seven Stars Footwork and short sword before taking the sword from him.

• Gu Sheng found himself unable to advance through the seventh level’s flames or retreat, then hid inside his cauldron to evade attacking fire crows.
• Gu Sheng used the hidden flames to repair and strengthen his cauldron, then traveled forward inside it while dodging further attacks.
• The Fire Crow Person confronted Gu Sheng and attacked him with hidden flame after several fire crows died against the cauldron.
• Gu Sheng killed the Fire Crow Person’s enormous fire crow with his short sword, and the Fire Crow Person asked about the sword and his footwork.
• Gu Sheng said the Mad Old Man had taught him the Heavenly Dipper Seven Stars Footwork and the dark purple creature had given him the sword, after which the Fire Crow Person took it.

The Fire Crow Person revealed the Fire Spirit Dagger’s origins, strengthened Gu Sheng’s dagger and cauldron, and helped him merge with the dagger to escape the seventh layer of the Fire Domain. After Gu Sheng emerged, Ji Hui sent Ji Chi to kill him, and Gu Sheng struggled to survive their ensuing battle.

• The Fire Crow Person identified the Fire Spirit Dagger as an ancient weapon of the Tai Xuan Sect’s Grand Elder and returned it to Gu Sheng.
• The Fire Crow Person used his flaming bead to strengthen Gu Sheng’s cauldron and Fire Spirit Dagger, then taught him to merge with the dagger and break through the seventh layer of the Fire Domain.
• Gu Sheng escaped the Fire Domain, and his triumphant roar disrupted Ji Hui’s cultivation from a thousand miles away.
• Ji Hui ordered her martial uncle Ji Chi to find and kill Gu Sheng, and Ji Chi tracked him down.
• Gu Sheng fought Ji Chi with the Fire Spirit Dagger, but Ji Chi’s powerful sword attacks pushed him into a desperate defensive struggle.

Gu Sheng lured Ji Chi into the Fire Domain, where the Fire Crow Daoist captured and sealed him after Ji Chi wounded Gu Sheng and tried to flee. Later, Gu Sheng heard that the Ji Family planned to visit the Fire Region, with Ji Ziyue among them, leaving him uncertain about seeing her again.

• Gu Sheng merged with the Fire Spirit Dagger, pierced Ji Chi’s sword qi, and wounded his arm before escaping into the Fire Domain.
• Gu Sheng led Ji Chi to the third layer of the Fire Domain and called for help from the Fire Crow Person, who revealed himself as the famed Fire Crow Daoist.
• Ji Chi struck the unprepared Gu Sheng and fled, but the Fire Crow Daoist healed Gu Sheng, caught Ji Chi, and sealed him in the Fire Region for artifact refinement.
• Gu Sheng later heard rumors about his exploits in the Eastern Wasteland and learned the Ji Family planned to visit the Fire Region with Ji Ziyue.

Gu Sheng discovered that Hua Yunfei and others had stolen the Mystic Gate Treasure Pearl from the Heavenly Heart Tower, and Li Ruoyu sent him to pursue them. Gu Sheng tracked Hua Yunfei to the Fire Region, where he found Ji Ziyue preparing a cenotaph for him, believing he was dead.

• Gu Sheng followed Hua Yunfei into the Heavenly Heart Tower, where he witnessed Hua Yunfei and a white-robed cultivator escape with the Mystic Gate Treasure Pearl after fighting two men in black.
• Li Ruoyu arrived, learned the pearl had been stolen, and ordered Gu Sheng to pursue Hua Yunfei and retrieve it.
• Unable to find Hua Yunfei's trail, Gu Sheng heard that Ji Ziyue was going to the Fire Region to mourn him and guessed Hua Yunfei would accompany her.
• Gu Sheng reached the Fire Region ahead of them and hid as Hua Yunfei and Ji Ziyue arrived together.
• Gu Sheng watched Hua Yunfei dig a grave and saw Ji Ziyue unpack his old clothes, realizing she was making a cenotaph for him.

Gu Sheng reunited with Ji Ziyue, defeated Hua Yunfei long enough to recover the real Mystic Gate Treasure Pearl, and returned it to Tai Xuan Sect. To avoid a clash with the Ji family after Hua Yunfei’s betrayal, Gu Sheng was sent toward the Northern Region and arrived at the Carefree Sect.

• Gu Sheng revealed himself to Ji Ziyue, who embraced him in relief, while Hua Yunfei questioned how he had survived.
• Gu Sheng accused Hua Yunfei of betraying Tai Xuan Sect over the Mystic Gate Treasure Pearl; Hua Yunfei handed him a box containing a stone and attacked when Gu Sheng opened it.
• Gu Sheng used the Fire Spirit Dagger to injure Hua Yunfei, forced him to hand over the real Mystic Gate Treasure Pearl, and let him flee.
• Gu Sheng and Ji Ziyue returned to Tai Xuan Sect and gave the pearl to Li Ruoyu, who consulted the Five Elements Elders about Hua Yunfei and the Ji family.
• Li Ruoyu agreed that Gu Sheng should leave temporarily and gave him a Carefree Pass to enter the Carefree Sect.
• Gu Sheng flew to the Carefree Sect and pushed open its gates.