Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao reached the depths of Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge, where a damaged divine sword awaited them and Luo Tian Sect elites entered an ancient formation. Ling Xiao sent Gu Sheng to lure Tribulation Crossing expert Long Yi toward a formation core, and Gu Sheng fled with Long Yi in pursuit.

• Ling Xiao led Gu Sheng safely through the ruins to a damaged sapphire-blue spirit sword, and Gu Sheng agreed to claim it while Ling Xiao sought something else.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao spotted Luo Tian Sect elites led by Long Yi and followed them toward a basin Ling Xiao identified as the ancient Soul Refining Tomb formation.
• Ling Xiao explained that the Taotie stone pillar could trigger a Spirit Devouring effect and gave Gu Sheng a disguise mask and instructions to lure Long Yi near it.
• Gu Sheng disguised himself and appeared on the Luo Tian Sect group's right flank, prompting Long Yi to recognize him and order an attack.
• After being wounded, Gu Sheng fled between the stone pillars, drawing Long Yi away from his companions as he headed toward the formation core.

Gu Sheng fled Long Yi’s attack through Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge, but Long Yi seized the Primordial Samsara Bell and pursued him toward Ling Xiao. Ling Xiao killed Long Yi, recovered the bell, and healed Gu Sheng; after waking, Gu Sheng began restoring his strength with a Vermilion Bird Tear Stone.

• Long Yi used a Burning Blood Pill to intensify his pursuit, and Gu Sheng relied on the Primordial Samsara Bell to withstand his attacks.
• Gu Sheng threw the bell at Long Yi, who suppressed it into his Void Ring and resumed the chase as Gu Sheng fled toward Ling Xiao.
• Ling Xiao led Long Yi away from the unconscious Gu Sheng and killed him near a Taotie stone pillar, then took the Void Ring and Primordial Samsara Bell.
• Long Yi’s fellow Luo Tian Sect disciples found his corpse and fled after Gong Xuefeng suspected the Gluttonous Beast Soul had devoured his soul.
• Ling Xiao used a Seven Revolutions Soul Returning Pill and his Spiritual Power to heal Gu Sheng, who woke three days later and received the Primordial Samsara Bell back.
• Gu Sheng stopped himself from drawing in spiritual energy that could attract fiends, then began recovering with a Vermilion Bird Tear Stone.

Ling Xiao absorbed energy from Long Yi’s jade pendant while Gong Xuefeng used Long Yi’s life token to track him and Gu Sheng. The pair fled into a chaotic magnetic field and fought the pursuing Luo Tian Sect disciples there, but the battle remained unresolved as Gu Sheng revealed strange markings on his chest and Ling Xiao continued attacking Shen Hua.

• Ling Xiao absorbed energy from Long Yi’s jade pendant while Gong Xuefeng’s group discovered Long Yi’s life token could still track the pendant’s energy and set out after Gu Sheng.
• Ling Xiao and Gu Sheng heard the pursuers, threw away the life token and jade pendant, and fled toward a depression where the magnetic field weakened Spiritual Power and divine sense.
• Gu Sheng lured Shen Hua and the other Luo Tian Sect disciples into the rocky depression, where he fought Shen Hua while Ling Xiao held off Wei Feng.
• Gu Sheng used buried Golden Light Thunders and Void Crossing to badly wound Shen Hua, while Wei Feng struck the Primordial Samsara Bell to interrupt Gu Sheng’s finishing attack.
• Shen Hua recognized Gu Sheng’s Glass Jade Body and conspired with Wei Feng to capture the pair alive, while Ling Xiao attacked Shen Hua with the Gilded alms bowl.
• Gu Sheng tore off his shirt to reveal strange, writhing patterns on his chest as Ling Xiao pressed his attack against Shen Hua.

Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao killed Wei Feng and Shen Hua, then fled as Zhang Zhishang, Yu Wenbai, and Zhang Zuo pursued them. Gu Sheng lured the pursuers into a strange rocky area, killed Zhang Zuo, and struck down Yu Wenbai, while Zhang Zhishang remained nearby.

• Gu Sheng killed Wei Feng in a brutal close-range fight, and Ling Xiao helped kill Shen Hua as he tried to flee.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao erased traces of the battle and escaped before Zhang Zhishang, Yu Wenbai, and Zhang Zuo arrived and identified them.
• Gu Sheng sent Ling Xiao east and lured the three pursuers west, where he blocked Zhang Zuo's Black Fiend Blade with his fist.
• Gu Sheng drew Zhang Zuo and Zhang Zhishang into a yin-filled rocky area, where they discovered the Primordial Samsara Bell.
• Gu Sheng ambushed Zhang Zuo, used the bell and the strange area's crushing force to defeat him, and killed him with the Sky-Breaking Fist.
• Gu Sheng broke Yu Wenbai's bronze shield and punched through his chest after Yu Wenbai pleaded for his life.

Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao killed Wei Feng and Shen Hua, then fled as Zhang Zhishang, Zhang Zuo, and Yu Wenbai pursued them. Gu Sheng lured the pursuers into a yin-filled rock formation, killed Zhang Zuo, and turned on Yu Wenbai, whose fate remained unresolved.

• Gu Sheng killed Wei Feng in a timed close-quarters battle, and Ling Xiao helped him kill the fleeing Shen Hua before they erased the evidence and escaped.
• Zhang Zhishang, Zhang Zuo, and Yu Wenbai identified Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao as the fighters and pursued them; Gu Sheng split from Ling Xiao and led the pursuers west into a field of strange rocks.
• Gu Sheng ambushed Zhang Zuo with a powerful punch, then drew him and Zhang Zhishang into the rock formation while Yu Wenbai guarded its exit.
• Gu Sheng used the Primordial Samsara Bell and pressure from a strange rock to overpower Zhang Zuo, then killed him with the Sky-Breaking Fist.
• Gu Sheng attacked Yu Wenbai, broke his bronze shield, and sent him flying as Yu Wenbai begged for his life.

Gu Sheng used the strange rock forest and prepared traps to kill Luo Tian Sect pursuers while Ling Xiao hid nearby. He continued picking off the sect’s disciples, leaving Gong Xuefeng and the remaining cultivators lured deeper into the dangerous terrain.

• Gu Sheng killed Yu Wenbai and Zhang Zhishang, then escaped with Ling Xiao and recovered in a concealed cave.
• After spotting nine Luo Tian Sect cultivators led by Gong Xuefeng, Gu Sheng sent Ling Xiao to hide and deliberately lured the pursuers into the rock forest.
• Gu Sheng trapped Liao Feiyu, Si Zhengqi, and Kong Zhemao in Bone-Corroding Blood Fiend, killing all three before Gong Xuefeng’s reinforcements arrived.
• Gong Xuefeng recognized the danger but, tempted by the promised reward, led six cultivators after Gu Sheng while keeping them together.
• Gu Sheng ambushed and killed three more early-stage Heavenly Palace Realm disciples, then stored their corpses in his Void Ring for Ling Xiao.

Gu Sheng lured Gong Xuefeng onto a strange rock that suppressed cultivation and fought him using his body-refining strength, while Ling Xiao battled Luo Tian Sect’s experts. Gu Sheng drove Gong Xuefeng away with the Sky-Breaking Fist and killed or helped defeat several pursuers before collapsing from his injuries; Quan Yangping escaped and sent Gong Xuefeng a message.

• Gong Xuefeng ordered the remaining Luo Tian Sect disciples to search for Gu Sheng, who ambushed them but was quickly overpowered by Gong Xuefeng.
• Gu Sheng stepped onto the strange rock, whose pressure suppressed cultivation, and Ling Xiao rushed to warn and aid him.
• Gong Xuefeng stepped onto the rock to attack Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng’s aura recovered as he seized Gong Xuefeng and counterattacked with his body-refining strength.
• Gu Sheng struck Gong Xuefeng with the Sky-Breaking Fist, but Gong Xuefeng escaped using an ancient Void Talisman.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao killed two fleeing Luo Tian Sect disciples before Gu Sheng collapsed from his injuries, and Ling Xiao carried him to safety.
• Quan Yangping reached a secluded cave outside Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge and sent Gong Xuefeng a message that the others had died.

Gong Xuefeng lured powerful cultivators to Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge to hunt Gu Sheng, who fled with Ling Xiao and was pursued by Deity Transformation experts. Gu Sheng escaped into the ridge’s depths and raced toward the Blood River, with his pursuers closing in.

• Gong Xuefeng recovered from his injuries and plotted to use a detonated magical artifact to draw cultivators to Gu Sheng.
• Mo Wuhen arrived at Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge seeking revenge for his younger brother, while a sword’s appearance attracted numerous cultivators.
• Gong Xuefeng’s explosion drew pursuers to Gu Sheng, who struck him and Quan Yangping with the Primordial Samsara Bell before fleeing with Ling Xiao.
• Three powerful cultivators pursued Gu Sheng; Ling Xiao fled separately after using talismans to hold Gong Xuefeng back.
• Gu Sheng entered a pit of strange rocks and urged Ling Xiao toward a western teleportation array, but a gray-robed Deity Transformation cultivator shattered the rocks and forced him to use Void Crossing.
• Gu Sheng escaped into the depths of Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge and ran toward the Blood River as the gray-robed cultivator and others pursued him.

Gu Sheng escaped his pursuers by plunging into the Blood River beneath the mountain, where he steadily advanced toward a divine sword. The people gathered at the river discovered it was an inheritance trial, and Wang Xiujie suspected that the Blood River acknowledged Gu Sheng as its master.

• Gu Sheng evaded Wang Xiujie and other pursuers while crossing the dangers of Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge, and a black flood dragon killed one of the men pursuing him.
• Gu Sheng reached the mountaintop, found the Blood River and the divine sword beyond it, and jumped into the river as his pursuers arrived.
• Wang Xiujie and the other experts watched Gu Sheng survive and progress through the river, while a giant bloody hand attacked them and was driven back by Qinghe Holy Land's disciples and Lin Batian.
• Lin Batian entered the Blood River and fought the bloody hands, advancing more slowly than Gu Sheng as the onlookers realized the river was an inheritance trial.
• Wang Xiujie wondered whether the Blood River acknowledged Gu Sheng as its master, just as bells rang in the distance.

The Qinghe Saintess and other cultivators gathered at Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge as Lie Feng entered the blood river to pursue Gu Sheng, who drifted toward a treasured sword seemingly unharmed. Wang Xiujie and the others followed, while Ling Xiao joined the pursuit; then ancient battlefield yin souls descended, leaving the group under attack as Gu Sheng continued ahead.

• The Qinghe Saintess arrived at the mountaintop, and Lie Feng plunged into the blood river to search for Gu Sheng.
• Lie Feng discovered that the river’s crushing pressure slowed him, while Gu Sheng was protected by a layer of black blood and drifted toward the treasured sword.
• Wang Xiujie led dozens of cultivators into the river, and Ling Xiao followed them using his golden alms bowl to resist the pressure.
• A mutation sent violent waves through the river, pushing Gu Sheng farther ahead while Ling Xiao quietly kept pace behind the others.
• Countless ancient battlefield yin souls descended from the darkening sky, prompting Wang Xiujie’s group to form an alliance as Lie Feng continued chasing Gu Sheng.
• The yin souls’ piercing roar struck the cultivators, making Lin Batian scream as blood poured from his seven orifices and leaving Wang Xiujie’s group weakened.

A monster horde attacked the cultivators in Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge, and Wang Xiujie exploited his formation to pursue the unconscious Gu Sheng. When a black spirit stone entered Gu Sheng’s brow, it triggered a devastating change in the Blood River, and Gu Sheng opened his eyes with a spinning vortex in each pupil.

• Thousands of grotesque monsters emerged from the darkness, and Wang Xiujie raised the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Dipper Formation to protect his group.
• Wang Xiujie claimed his Space Teleportation Talisman could save them, then secretly led the formation after Gu Sheng while Lu Feng and the others followed under attack.
• Wang Xiujie admitted he meant to seize Gu Sheng’s corpse, forcing Lu Feng and the survivors to chase the formation as Ling Xiao followed from a distance in his golden bowl.
• A red-furred monster caught Gu Sheng, but a black spirit stone flew into Gu Sheng’s brow and released beams that destroyed the monster and several Saint Lord-level creatures.
• The resulting Blood River waves threw everyone into the air, and Gu Sheng opened his eyes as the spirit stone became a vortex that devoured nearby Spiritual Power.

Gu Sheng absorbed the power of the Blood River’s monsters, broke through to the Heavenly Palace Realm, and raced toward the Sky Slaying Sword while Wang Xiujie’s group pursued him. As the Qinghe Saintess watched him suffer, a familiar soul above the sword called to Gu Sheng, and he ignited his blood essence to surge forward.

• Gu Sheng absorbed the monsters’ power through the relic between his brows, reached the Heavenly Palace Realm, and gained formidable physical strength as the Blood River’s whirlpool subsided.
• Wang Xiujie and his followers found Gu Sheng alive and chased him toward the Sky Slaying Sword, while Ling Xiao recognized the monsters as remnants of an ancient war between immortals and demons.
• Gu Sheng used the river currents and his newfound strength to outrun his pursuers, but Wang Xiujie took a Burning Blood Pill and struck him repeatedly with sword qi.
• The Qinghe Saintess entered the Blood River and watched Gu Sheng’s wounds deepen, confused by the pain she felt as Dragon Palace praised his apparent defeat.
• A familiar soul floating above the Sky Slaying Sword called Gu Sheng to it, triggering a sudden surge of power as he burned his blood essence and charged toward the sword.

Gu Sheng endured attacks from Wang Xiujie and Lu Feng’s forces as he struggled toward the peerless sword, while the rival camps fought over who would seize him. A soul pulled Gu Sheng to the sword, and when he grasped it, its violent power surged as the soul’s Dao inscription tried to suppress it.

• Gu Sheng pushed through the Blood River’s attacks, reached within twenty meters of the sword, and vowed revenge on Wang Xiujie.
• Lu Feng and Wang Xiujie clashed over Gu Sheng, and Wang’s battle formation injured the surrounding cultivators while both camps pursued him.
• Wang Xiujie’s formation blasted Gu Sheng into the air, but Lu Feng’s intervention interrupted his attempt to capture him.
• Lu Feng spent her life token to attack Wang Xiujie, who wounded her and drove back the others before turning toward Gu Sheng.
• A mass of black Soul Power dragged Gu Sheng to the sword, and he grasped its hilt as the Qinghe Saintess watched.
• The sword’s power erupted, and the soul became a Dao inscription marked “Trapped” that suppressed the blade’s violent aura.

Gu Sheng formed a bond with the Ancient Divine Sword and used it to kill Wang Xiujie after Wang Xiujie trapped him and tried to capture him. Gu Sheng then turned his attention to the fleeing survivors.

• Wang Xiujie ordered the cultivators to attack Gu Sheng, but Lu Feng rallied them to fight Wang Xiujie as well, throwing the battlefield into chaos.
• Gu Sheng connected with the Ancient Divine Sword, whose power awakened and dissolved Wang Xiujie's attack when it struck to protect him.
• The Qinghe Saintess urged Gu Sheng to run, but he refused, while Wang Xiujie's forces advanced and he prepared to seize Gu Sheng alive.
• Wang Xiujie trapped himself inside a spatial barrier and reached for Gu Sheng as his followers attacked the barrier from outside.
• Gu Sheng drew the Ancient Divine Sword and cut through Wang Xiujie's defenses, killing him with a single strike.
• Lu Feng called for everyone to flee, and the surviving cultivators ran from Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng wiped out the experts pursuing him with the Ancient Divine Sword, then escaped Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge with Ling Xiao under disguises as rival Holy Lands converged. The Qinghe Fifth Elder dismissed warnings about Gu Sheng’s power and urged the assembled forces to pursue him, while Tianlan’s First Elder secretly followed at a distance to protect him.

• Gu Sheng unleashed the Ancient Divine Sword’s remaining energy, killing the fleeing experts and sparing Dragon Palace because he had not attacked him.
• The Qinghe Saintess and Dragon Palace escaped, while experts from the Seven Great Holy Lands rushed toward Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge after sensing the sword’s eruption.
• Gu Sheng left the ruined ridge disguised with a Black Mask, loose black robe, and Bamboo Hat, and Ling Xiao changed his appearance before joining him.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao crossed the desert as pursuers headed toward the ridge, avoiding a group of cultivators who passed them without recognizing them.
• Dragon Palace told the assembled experts that Gu Sheng had drawn the Ancient Divine Sword and killed everyone in the Blood River, but the Qinghe Fifth Elder insisted the sword’s energy had exhausted itself and called for a pursuit.
• The First Elder of Tianlan told his disciple to follow the pursuers while keeping his distance, intent on confirming Gu Sheng’s safety without revealing their connection.

As Qinghe Holy Land’s forces closed in on Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao, Ling Xiao proposed infiltrating Qinghe’s disciple selection, and Gu Sheng rapidly learned his Thousand Faces Illusory Form Art. Tianlan Holy Land mobilized its elders and Shadow Guards while its First Elder delayed the pursuers, but the Qinghe Fifth Elder cornered the pair in a forest cave until a thunderous voice intervened.

• Tianlan’s First Elder sent the disciples home with a warning that Qingyun had appeared, then used a talisman to pursue Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng sensed danger as he and Ling Xiao traveled, and Ling Xiao proposed entering Qinghe Holy Land disguised as recruits.
• Ling Xiao taught Gu Sheng the Thousand Faces Illusory Form Art, and Gu Sheng mastered it overnight after fleeing into a forest.
• The Tianlan Holy Lord ordered the elders to gather at Two Realms Mountain, released Xuan Feng from Repentance Cliff, and placed the Shadow Guards on standby.
• The First Elder lured the Qinghe pursuers away from their route, but the Fifth Elder led dozens of cultivators to Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao’s cave and began sealing the mountain.
• As the Qinghe cultivators formed their array, a furious voice thundered that they dared bully Tianlan’s disciples.

Daoist Guanyu defeated Qinghe Holy Land’s Fifth Elder and forced its Eighth Elder to flee, then urged the other holy lands to seize Gu Sheng before Qinghe’s leaders arrived. The five holy lands attacked Qinghe’s defenses, and the Black Profound Heaven Suppressing Pagoda’s barrier began to crack under their combined assault.

• Daoist Guanyu overwhelmed the Qinghe experts, wounded the Fifth Elder, and cornered the Eighth Elder, who escaped using Blood Escape.
• Gu Sheng remained in the cave, worried by the fighting outside and searching for a way out.
• Experts from Chiyan, Xuanbing, and Tianxian Holy Lands joined the conflict as Daoist Guanyu revealed powerful auras approaching and urged them to capture Gu Sheng.
• The five holy lands attacked Qinghe’s mountain-protecting formation, forcing the Fifth Elder to raise the Black Profound Heaven Suppressing Pagoda as a defensive barrier.
• The Tianxian elders struck the pagoda’s barrier with their secret art and bronze mirror, shaking it and opening dozens of cracks.

Qinghe Holy Land’s Eighth Elder used the Soul Severing Remnant Sword to drive back the five holy lands, but Tianlan Holy Land’s First Elder defeated him and destroyed the sword. As the two First Elders searched the ruins for Gu Sheng, Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao hid among the crowd at Qinghe Holy Land’s main gate.

• Fifth Elder’s barrier began to fail, so Eighth Elder used the Soul Severing Remnant Sword’s final charge to unleash a crimson strike that injured the five holy lands’ attackers and killed two elders.
• Tianlan Holy Land’s First Elder confronted Eighth Elder, broke the peachwood sword with the Star Spirit Vine, and left Eighth Elder gravely wounded.
• Qinghe Holy Land’s First Elder arrived on an azure tiger and collapsed the mountain while trying to stop Tianlan Holy Land’s First Elder from reaching the cave.
• The two First Elders searched the ruins for Gu Sheng, but found no trace of him and ordered their followers to scour the forest.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao disguised themselves and blended into the crowd at Qinghe Holy Land’s main gate while their pursuers continued searching the ruins.

Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao entered Qinghe Holy Land’s selection while hiding their identities, and Gu Sheng narrowly kept the Gate of Eternal Life concealed during the aptitude test. As the screening began, Qinghe Holy Land’s disciples mocked the contestants, and Gu Sheng urged Ling Xiao to endure it rather than risk exposing them.

• Ling Xiao and Gu Sheng agreed to infiltrate Qinghe Holy Land, then encountered a silver-haired elder who announced the selection’s three rounds and opened the aptitude screening.
• Ling Xiao passed through the light gate safely, while Gu Sheng’s test nearly exposed the Gate of Eternal Life before an unseen force expelled him.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao met Liang Yu of the Huatian Sect, who explained the selection rounds and gave them jade slips detailing the rules and arrays.
• Qinghe Holy Land’s inner disciples arrived, and a blue-robed half-step Earth Palace Realm cultivator defeated a contestant who challenged him.
• The aptitude screening began across three plazas, and Qinghe Holy Land’s disciples mocked the failed contestants while Gu Sheng restrained Ling Xiao from reacting.

Ling Xiao and Gu Sheng began the Qinghe Holy Land’s dangerous Five Pass Formation assessment, with Gu Sheng urging Ling Xiao to hide his strength. After Holy Land disciples mocked him, Ling Xiao provoked them and completed the formation in two hundred breaths, placing near the top of the rankings.

• Liang Yu explained that the second round required candidates to pass five tests, with only the ten fastest advancing, and that the Holy Land had only ten entry slots.
• Gu Sheng and Ling Xiao watched other candidates attempt the formation before deciding to enter midway through the assessment.
• Qinghe Holy Land disciples mocked Ling Xiao, prompting him to challenge them until the black-robed elder intervened and forbade private fighting.
• Ling Xiao entered the formation and smashed through its combat trial with a single punch, then proceeded through the remaining tests.
• Ling Xiao emerged after two hundred breaths, earning a near-top result and leaving the mocking disciples stunned.