Recaps

Gu Sheng and the Southern Emperor’s daughter reached Nine Heavens City to rescue Situ Qingfeng, but learned he had been teleported away and that Qin Tian and Miao Muxue were targets of the Seventy-two Divine Sects. After fleeing back to Southern Emperor City, Gu Sheng met the Southern Emperor, who thanked him for helping in the Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven and noticed the vial preserving Miao Muqing’s soul.

• The Southern Emperor’s daughter revealed her identity and ordered Commander Lin to send five King Realm experts with her and Gu Sheng to Nine Heavens City.
• Gu Sheng and the group found the city deserted, then learned from Situ Qingfeng’s message that he was being hunted near the Nine Heavens Divine Sect cemetery.
• The group found the cemetery destroyed and confronted a Nine Heavens Divine Sect martial artist, who accused Situ Qingfeng of stealing the Nine Heavens Exquisite Tower and trapping the sect master and three elders.
• A Venerable Realm voice revealed that Situ Qingfeng had been teleported away through an ancient remnant formation and warned that the Seventy-two Divine Sects were hunting Qin Tian and Miao Muxue.
• After three days without word from Situ Qingfeng, Gu Sheng and the others returned toward Southern Emperor City, where the Southern Emperor met them and brought them to his palace.
• The Southern Emperor thanked Gu Sheng for his help in the Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven after learning that Miao Muqing’s soul was being preserved in Gu Sheng’s Lifebound Magical Treasure.

Gu Sheng escaped the Southern Frontier with Mu Qing after the Southern Emperor secretly arranged a half-hour head start and gave him treasures to aid their flight. Hunted through Skyfire Divine Sect territory, Gu Sheng reached the ruined borderlands, recovered and strengthened his Heavenly Demon Vine, and prepared to break through to the Heavenly Martial Realm.

• The Southern Emperor agreed to help Gu Sheng flee with Mu Qing, gave him the Jadeheart Ring, and publicly declared him the Southern Emperor lineage’s top target for execution.
• Nangong Qingtian ordered the city to be told that the Saintess had died, while Nangong Ling'er questioned her father about the hunt for Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng arrived in Yanhuang City, where Skyfire Divine Sect warriors recognized him; he killed the attackers, forced a survivor to activate the teleportation array, and escaped as alarms sounded.
• After more than a month of flight, Gu Sheng reached a ruined city near the border between the Southern Frontier and the Eastern Wasteland and rested in a concealed cave.
• Gu Sheng fed ten Sect Realm corpses to the Heavenly Demon Vine, strengthening it, then took out his remaining spirit spring water and began attempting a breakthrough.

Gu Sheng consumed Spiritual Spring Water and broke through to the first level of the Heavenly Martial Realm, while a greedy search party was devoured by the awakened Heavenly Demon Vine. After Gu Sheng fled from the commotion, three pursuers found his cave and tracked his direction.

• Gu Sheng cultivated with the Spiritual Spring Water, and the Nine Dragon Qiankun Art refined its energy into true qi.
• Scarface led martial artists searching for Gu Sheng, but the Heavenly Demon Vine dragged them underground and drained them of their flesh and blood.
• Gu Sheng broke through to the first level of the Heavenly Martial Realm and discovered that his refined true qi gave him strength beyond his level.
• Gu Sheng sensed approaching divine senses, used Ghost Shadow Evasion to flee, and took the Heavenly Demon Vine back into his storage ring.
• Three pursuers arrived at Gu Sheng's cave, identified his recent breakthrough, and used a crystalline compass to track him east.

Gu Sheng confronted Nangong Tiance, who demanded Miao Muqing’s soul on the Southern Emperor’s orders, and used a hidden Dao essence to cripple and control him. Gu Sheng forced Nangong Tiance to take him toward Great Desolation City, then escaped through a teleportation array as Nangong Tiance exploded, devastating Blazing Sun City.

• The Divine Cult pursuers lost Gu Sheng’s trail, while Gu Sheng crossed into Southern Frontier and was intercepted by Nangong Tiance near Blazing Sun City.
• Nangong Tiance demanded Miao Muqing’s soul and surrounded Gu Sheng with the Nine Nether Soul Locking Array.
• Gu Sheng revealed that the Dao insight he had given Nangong Tiance contained a hidden contingency that drained his cultivation and forced him to obey.
• Gu Sheng threatened Nangong Tiance with what he had left inside Miao Muqing and the Southern Emperor’s seven-year-old Little Princess Yuwei, then made him carry him to Blazing Sun City.
• Gu Sheng entered the teleportation array to Great Desolation City and revealed that Nangong Tiance’s Dao essence would lose control in ten breaths.
• Nangong Tiance exploded above Blazing Sun City, destroying much of the city and leaving Tang Muzhi badly wounded by the shockwave.

After learning that Qin Tian had killed Nangong Tiance, Gu Sheng met Shen Qingtian and Qin Yurou while they hunted a Sovereign Realm evil cultivator. Gu Sheng agreed to help lure out the Blood Refiner, leaving Jiang Feiyu injured and behind after he attacked Gu Sheng.

• Tang Muzhi learned that Qin Tian had caused Nangong Tiance's death and ordered his men to investigate at the Town South King's Mansion.
• Gu Sheng arrived near Great Desolation City, sensed Shen Qingtian's group, and joined them in their hunt for the Blood Refiner.
• Shen Qingtian explained that the Blood Refiner had reached the Sovereign Realm, could rapidly heal, and controlled blood threads that drained life force.
• Gu Sheng proposed luring the Blood Refiner out, and Shen Qingtian agreed to accompany him while Qin Yurou was told to stay behind.
• Jiang Feiyu objected to the plan and attacked Gu Sheng, who knocked him down and warned him not to speak again.
• Shen Qingtian, Gu Sheng, and Qin Yurou left to investigate the Blood Refiner, while Jiang Feiyu remained behind to recover.

Gu Sheng, Shen Qingtian, and Qin Yurou confronted the Blood Refining Evil Cultivator after Jiang Feiyu betrayed them and was killed by his master. The evil cultivator attacked the group, but Gu Sheng revealed overwhelming hidden power and matched his Heavenly Martial Realm strength.

• Jiang Feiyu stayed behind at the Daoist temple and was captured by the Blood Refining Evil Cultivator, who planted blood lines in his meridians and ordered him to lure Gu Sheng, Shen Qingtian, and Qin Yurou to the ruined temple.
• Gu Sheng, Shen Qingtian, and Qin Yurou encountered Jiang Feiyu on their way to find the evil cultivator, and Gu Sheng accused him of cooperating with the enemy and causing Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Li's deaths.
• Jiang Feiyu attacked the group with ten blood lines, but Gu Sheng severed them all with his astral qi sword.
• The Blood Refining Evil Cultivator appeared, drained Jiang Feiyu's blood through the severed lines, and killed him before turning on the others.
• The evil cultivator struck at Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng parried the attack and sent him crashing into a mountain wall.
• Gu Sheng opened eighteen caverns within his body and used the Second Transformation of Nirvana Three Profound Transformations to match the evil cultivator's aura and drive him back.

Gu Sheng killed the Blood Refining Evil Cultivator with the North Star Sky Breaking Sword, concealed the battle from Shen Qingtian and Qin Yurou, and searched the dead man’s storage ring before returning to Great Desolation City. Jiang Feihong discovered his brother’s death and vowed revenge, while Gu Sheng arrived at Linlang Pavilion.

• The Blood Refining Evil Cultivator transformed into a Blood Demon True Body, but Gu Sheng drew the Southern Emperor's Sword and killed him with the North Star Sky Breaking Sword.
• Gu Sheng absorbed the enemy’s corpse with his Heavenly Demon Vine, and Shen Qingtian and Qin Yurou promised not to reveal what they had witnessed.
• Shen Qingtian collected Jiang Feiyu’s corpse and said she would send Gu Sheng his mission reward, while Gu Sheng offered to help if she ran into trouble.
• Gu Sheng searched the Blood Refining Evil Cultivator’s storage ring, found an evil scythe, Blood Burst Pills, and the Thousand Silk Marrow Extraction Technique, then left by teleportation array.
• Jiang Feihong arrived at the battlefield, identified his younger brother’s killer as someone with an unfamiliar aura, and swore to make the culprit pay.
• Gu Sheng reached Great Desolation City and made his way to Linlang Pavilion.

Gu Sheng learned that Xie Qingxuan was being forced into a marriage alliance and prepared to rescue her in Yellow City with Miss Tantai. After reaching the Linlang Pavilion branch, he met Xiao Yun and Hong Ya, who recognized Miss Tantai as the Second Pavilion Mistress.

• Hong Ya delivered Xie Qingxuan’s plea for help, and Gu Sheng decided to go to Yellow City after seeing Miss Tantai.
• Miss Tantai agreed to accompany Gu Sheng, while Linlang Pavilion’s intelligence agents began investigating Xie Qingxuan’s forced marriage and an evil cultivator’s weapon.
• Miss Tantai gave Gu Sheng a Body Protection Talisman, and the pair traveled by teleportation array to Yellow City.
• At the Linlang Pavilion branch, Xiao Yun and Hong Ya greeted Gu Sheng, and Hong Ya recognized his companion as the Second Pavilion Mistress.

Gu Sheng attacked the Meng Family after learning that Xie Qingxuan had been forced into an alliance with Meng Xiao. He killed Meng Xiao and learned that the Myriad Flow Sect had targeted the Xie Family bloodline, while its surviving experts escaped.

• Gu Sheng read Xie Qingxuan’s plea for help and set out with Miss Tantai for the Meng Family residence.
• Gu Sheng confronted the Meng Family, killed Seventh with one sword strike, and drove the other Sect Realm experts to flee with the injured Meng Family Ancestor.
• Gu Sheng ordered the Meng Family martial artists to kneel, then learned that Meng Xiao was in the Purple Bamboo Courtyard.
• Gu Sheng seized Meng Xiao and demanded to know why he had harmed Xie Qingxuan.
• Meng Xiao revealed that the Myriad Flow Sect had taken an interest in the Xie Family bloodline and that three Saint Realm experts were stationed in the north.
• Gu Sheng rejected Meng Xiao’s pleas for mercy and killed him.

Gu Sheng destroyed the Meng Family residence after learning that the Myriad Flow Sect was targeting the Xie Family bloodline, then recruited Xue Li and Tantai Bing Tang to help rescue Xie Qingxuan. The chapter ended with Qingxuan held at the Myriad Flow Sect and being prepared for the Young Sect Master.

• Gu Sheng told Miss Tantai that the Myriad Flow Sect had targeted the Xie Family, then unleashed his Heavenly Demon Vine to massacre the Meng Family residence.
• The Meng Family ancestor returned with Myriad Flow Sect experts, found Meng Xiao dead, and ordered a citywide search for Gu Sheng.
• At Linlang Pavilion, Gu Sheng showed Xue Li his Heavenly Demon Vine, which stopped just short of harming her, and offered her a separated branch in exchange for help with a dangerous matter.
• Xue Li agreed to help and brought Tantai Bing Tang; the sisters joined Gu Sheng at dawn to carry out a plan to rescue Xie Qingxuan.
• Gu Sheng warned the sisters to withdraw once Qing Xuan was rescued, while the Myriad Flow Sect’s disciples dressed Qingxuan and mocked her impending match with the Young Sect Master.

Tantai Bing Tang and Miss Tantai rescued Xie Qingxuan from the Myriad Flow Sect and disguised her to infiltrate Qi Yinglong’s concubine-taking ceremony. As the ceremony began, Gu Sheng appeared and declared that he had come to challenge the sect and kill, while dozens of Sect Realm experts surrounded him.

• Tantai Bing Tang and Miss Tantai killed two disciples, disguised themselves and Xie Qingxuan with Thousand Illusions Masks, and led her into the Myriad Flow Sect.
• The disguised women joined the guests at Qi Yinglong’s ceremony, where an impostor appeared as the bride and Tantai Bing Tang gave Xie Qingxuan Illusion Heart Powder.
• An unseen voice interrupted the ceremony, challenged the Myriad Flow Sect, and declared its intention to kill.
• Gu Sheng descended into the hall and told Qi Tianqiong that the Myriad Flow Sect would cease to exist.
• Qi Tianqiong ordered dozens of Sect Realm experts to surround Gu Sheng, who calmly raised his hand.

Gu Sheng revealed the Xie Family’s corpses and evidence that the Myriad Flow Sect had used infants for cultivation, while disclosing his revenge against the sects that destroyed the Northern Star Sect. The survivors joined him, and Tantai Bing Tang learned that Gu Sheng’s Northern Star Flower might be tied to the legendary Alchemy Emperor Qin Beichen.

• Gu Sheng used the Northern Star Soul Severing Incense to kill the Myriad Flow Sect, then sent Tantai Bing Tang, Miss Tantai, and Xie Qingxuan away with an antidote for the surviving guests.
• Tantai Bing Tang explained that Gu Sheng’s art belonged to the long-destroyed Northern Star Sect, and Gu Sheng admitted that the Myriad Flow Sect and six other sects had slaughtered his family twenty years earlier to seize the Northern Star Heavenly Scripture.
• Miss Tantai, Tantai Bing Tang, and Xie Qingxuan refused to abandon Gu Sheng as he vowed to pursue the remaining six sects.
• Gu Sheng revealed that the Xie Family had been killed and prepared for corpse-puppet refinement, and Xie Qingxuan collapsed in grief.
• Gu Sheng showed Tantai Bing Tang evidence that the Myriad Flow Sect had distributed infant corpses to its disciples for their primordial qi.
• Tantai Bing Tang identified the Northern Star Flower as Alchemy Emperor Qin Beichen’s signature technique, and Gu Sheng silently intimidated her.

Gu Sheng revealed the cost of using the Northern Star Flower and helped Tantai Bing Tang expose the Myriad Flow Sect’s crimes while Xie Qingxuan began to recover from her family’s deaths. After Gu Sheng received conflicting clues about valuable pills and heard that something had happened to Qing Tan, the story ended with an urgent warning from Qin Yurou.

• Gu Sheng told Tantai Bing Tang that the Northern Star Flower consumed his flesh and blood, then promised he could make it bloom wherever she wished; she ordered an investigation into the Myriad Flow Sect and the Blood Infant Sect.
• Gu Sheng comforted Xie Qingxuan and urged her to accept Tantai Bing Tang’s support so she could grow strong enough to seek revenge.
• Tantai Bing Tang offered Gu Sheng an eighth-grade Golden Body Pill, but he refused it; she concluded he was unlikely to be the Emperor Venerable’s reincarnation.
• Gu Sheng discovered that Tantai Bing Tang had actually given him a Seven Revolutions Profound Spirit Pill, then learned from Gu Ningshuang that she had reached the Earth Martial Realm.
• Gu Sheng contacted Qin Yurou to ask for help reaching the Great Desolation Sacred Academy, and she told him that something had happened to Sister Qing Tan.

Gu Sheng went to Heavenly City after learning Shen Qingtian had been detained on suspicion of harming a fellow disciple, and he promised Qin Yurou he would help clear her name. He reunited with Gu Ningshuang at the academy and began sparring with her, leaving their sword practice underway.

• Gu Sheng learned that Shen Qingtian had been taken by the Law Enforcement Hall and traveled to Heavenly City to meet Qin Yurou.
• Qin Yurou explained that Jiang Feihong had accused Shen Qingtian of colluding with outsiders to kill his younger brother, and Gu Sheng vowed to help prove her innocence.
• Qin Yurou brought Gu Sheng into the academy to find Gu Ningshuang, who was shocked and relieved to see him again.
• Gu Sheng, Gu Ningshuang, and Qin Yurou went to Gu Ningshuang's residence, where Gu Sheng suggested they practice swordsmanship.
• Gu Ningshuang attacked with her Zhan Xue Sword and Flying Snow Sword Technique, while Gu Sheng deflected her strikes with a sword of qi.

Gu Sheng guided Gu Ningshuang to a breakthrough in sword intent before the Law Enforcement Hall arrived to arrest him. He defeated its disciples and fought Jiang Feihong, who began breaking through to the Half-step Sovereign Realm as Gu Sheng prepared to meet his next attack.

• Gu Sheng guided Gu Ningshuang through a sword exchange, helping her achieve fourth-grade sword intent.
• Jiang Feihong ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to arrest Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng shielded Gu Ningshuang and Qin Yurou from their pressure.
• Gu Sheng shattered the five disciples' attacks and defeated them without killing them.
• Jiang Feihong attacked Gu Sheng from behind, struck one of his own disciples when Gu Sheng dodged, and was driven back by Gu Sheng's qi sword.
• Gu Sheng countered Jiang Feihong's Heavenly Gang Heart Shattering Palm with the Heaven-Burning Sword Art, destroying eighteen layers of its hidden force.
• Jiang Feihong's bottleneck loosened, and he began breaking through to the Half-step Sovereign Realm as Gu Sheng gathered divine flame to face his attack.

Gu Sheng defeated Jiang Feihong, then accepted Bai Yu’s invitation to discuss a secret matter. Bai Yu revealed that his sister Bai Yuyao had been abducted by the organization behind the Myriad Spirits Palace and offered Gu Sheng a Glass Heart to help rescue her.

• Gu Sheng’s Divine Flame Sword Qi pierced Jiang Feihong’s attack, but Bai Yu intervened and ordered Jiang Feihong to kneel and apologize.
• Bai Yu punished Jiang Feihong and the Law Enforcement Hall disciples, ordered Shen Qingtian released, and invited Gu Sheng to speak privately.
• Bai Yu brought Gu Sheng to Falling Plum Cottage and showed him a pendant depicting his missing sister, Bai Yuyao, and a map.
• Bai Yu connected the Myriad Spirits Palace, the Blood Refining Evil Cultivators, and the Myriad Flow Sect to one mysterious organization, then revealed the Myriad Flow Sect had been destroyed.
• Bai Yu asked Gu Sheng to help save Bai Yuyao, who had been taken by the organization, and showed him a Glass Heart as an inducement.

Gu Sheng considered Bai Yu’s request to rescue his sister Xiaodie and learned of Bai Yu’s connection to Ye Qinglan. After reuniting with Shen Qingtian and Gu Ningshuang, he joined them for a trip to the market, where Shen Qingtian protected Xu Ling su from Zhao Ming.

• Bai Yu offered Gu Sheng three Glass Hearts to help rescue Xiaodie, revealed their ancestors were surnamed Ye, and left Gu Sheng to consider the request.
• A cloaked woman bet a Glass Heart against Bai Yu’s Heavenly Secrets Map that Gu Sheng would fail to save Xiaodie.
• Gu Sheng found Shen Qingtian freed from the Law Enforcement Hall and asked her about the secret True Disciple Ranking and Shen Qingyun’s whereabouts.
• Gu Ningshuang invited Gu Sheng, Shen Qingtian, and Qin Yurou to the eastern district market, where they met Xu Ling su and her brother Xu Lingxu.
• Shen Qingtian offered Xu Ling su work as her assistant, then knocked Zhao Ming back when he tried to seize Xu Ling su and warned him not to cause trouble.

Xu Ling su struggled under Mr. Zhou’s harsh treatment until Shen Qingtian made her an agent at Gu Sheng’s request, while Gu Sheng reunited with his companions and gave Gu Ningshuang and Xu Ling su gifts. At Linlang Pavilion, he demonstrated that he could refine two perfect Nine-patterned Pills at once and offered to teach his cost-saving methods, then faced Miss Tantai’s question about Xie Qingxuan.

• Xu Ling su arrived at the Great Desolation Sacred Academy and was assigned to Earth C Courtyard, where Mr. Zhou demanded monthly contribution points and insulted her origins.
• After Xu Ling su struggled to meet Mr. Zhou’s quota, Shen Qingtian made her her agent with five hundred contribution points a month because Gu Sheng had asked her to look after Xu Ling su.
• Gu Sheng joined Shen Qingtian, Gu Ningshuang, Xu Ling su, and Qin Yurou at the Heaven-grade Market, where he gave Gu Ningshuang a storage ring and Xu Ling su a storage pouch.
• Gu Sheng went to Linlang Pavilion, where Miss Tantai introduced him to Xie Qingxuan and he asked to use the alchemy room in exchange for teaching improved pill formulas.
• Gu Sheng used the Spirit Severing Dao to refine Spirit Replenishing Pills and Blood Generating Pills simultaneously, producing perfect Nine-patterned Pills and showing Miss Tantai a method that cut ingredient costs by forty percent.
• Miss Tantai accepted Gu Sheng’s offer to teach Linlang Pavilion’s pill masters, then asked what he planned to do about Xie Qingxuan.

Gu Sheng learned that the Great Desolation Sacred Academy and the Shadow Alliance threatened him, then stabilized the spirit embryo by pouring thousands of spirit stones into it. After helping Miss Tantai improve a pill formula, he reached Heavenly City with Shen Qingtian, where two Inner Court disciples confronted her.

• Miss Tantai told Gu Sheng that factions within the Great Desolation Sacred Academy backed the Shadow Alliance and warned him of a gathering in three days, giving him a jade slip of its members.
• The spirit embryo began cracking as it fused with the Southern Emperor Saintess's remnant soul, so Gu Sheng fed it thousands of High-grade Spirit Stones until its shell healed and a life-form stirred within.
• Miss Tantai found Gu Sheng after his seventh failed attempt at refining the Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensation Pill, and he improved her Jade Marrow Pill formula before she kissed him and hurried away to test it.
• Gu Sheng headed for Heavenly City but was stopped by a Great Desolation Sacred Academy disciple until Shen Qingtian arrived and vouched for him.
• Two Inner Court disciples confronted Shen Qingtian and mocked her despite her demand that they get out of the way.

Gu Sheng accepted Bai Yu’s commission and received the Glass Heart, then returned to find Chu Linfeng threatening Shen Qingtian and her companions. He agreed to a battle to the death at the Martial Arts Stage despite his injured legs, and Luo Gan charged at him as the match began.

• Gu Sheng knocked an Inner Court disciple aside after he attacked, then left with Shen Qingtian to visit Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu gave Gu Sheng a jade slip with clues about a dangerous mission and handed him the Glass Heart, warning him not to open its sachet before refining it.
• Gu Sheng found Chu Linfeng confronting Shen Qingtian, Qin Yurou, and Gu Ningshuang, and accepted Chu Linfeng’s challenge after the Academy Head permitted their duel.
• Shen Qingtian, Qin Yurou, and Gu Ningshuang accompanied Gu Sheng to the Martial Arts Stage, where elders Ye Qianqiu and Bai Wanchen announced the battle’s rules.
• Luo Gan mocked Gu Sheng’s injuries and low cultivation, then attacked as the battle began.

Gu Sheng killed Luo Gan in their life-and-death battle, then faced Xiao Beixuan, the Mystic Sect’s powerful chief senior brother. He accepted Xiao Beixuan’s challenge to fight to the death in one month, despite Shen Qingtian warning him that the gap between their realms was far too great.

• Gu Sheng broke Luo Gan’s arm with a punch, overwhelmed his Mystic Nether Ice Flame with his eighteen Grotto-Heavens and golden flames, then killed him with the Southern Emperor Sword and a final stomp.
• A purple-robed man accused Gu Sheng of acting ruthlessly, but Gu Sheng defended his actions under the life-and-death arena’s rules.
• A masked member of the Mystic Sect threatened Gu Sheng over Luo Gan’s death, and Xiao Beixuan arrived and dismissed the elders’ objections.
• Xiao Beixuan tested Gu Sheng with thirty percent of his pressure, then demanded an explanation from the Mystic Sect and challenged him to a death match.
• Gu Sheng shortened the proposed preparation time and accepted a fight with Xiao Beixuan in one month, alarming Shen Qingtian and the watching disciples.

Gu Sheng was ambushed by fifteen Realm experts and a Venerable Realm incarnation tied to the Blood Saber Stronghold, but used the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron to defeat the incarnation. After securing the area, he prepared to refine an eighth-grade Golden Body Pill with a Glass Heart.

• Gu Sheng left Great Desolation City after promising Shen Qingtian that the truth about his challenge would emerge in a month and that he would help deal with Shen Qingyun.
• Fifteen Realm experts surrounded Gu Sheng outside the city, and he used the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron and his sword techniques to kill several attackers, including Elder Li.
• The green-robed leader summoned a Venerable Realm incarnation, which revealed that it had orchestrated the Blood Saber Stronghold and demanded Gu Sheng's submission or death.
• Gu Sheng summoned the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron and absorbed the incarnation, then used the Heavenly Demon Vine to capture the surviving attackers.
• Gu Sheng tried repeatedly to probe the cauldron with his spiritual sense and found that the impacts tempered it, then took out a Golden Body Pill and a Glass Heart to prepare for pill refining.

Gu Sheng refined a Golden Body Pill and Glass Heart into a potent medicinal essence, breaking through to the Half-step Glass Golden Body before fighting off the Black Fiend Guards and their Venerable’s phantom. After the Heavenly Demon Vine helped him destroy the transformed guards, three new attackers arrived, and Gu Sheng stood still as their spears struck him.

• Gu Sheng fused the Golden Body Pill and Glass Heart, swallowed the resulting essence, and endured the violent process that strengthened his body and spiritual power.
• Gu Sheng fought twelve black-armored warriors, broke their Blood Fiend Spirit Devouring Array, and killed half of them with his fists and the Heavenly Demon Vine.
• The Black Fiend Guards’ leader summoned a Venerable phantom, which transformed the six surviving warriors into blood-red monsters.
• Gu Sheng used the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron’s Source Power with the sentient Heavenly Demon Vine to destroy the monsters, after which the vine fell asleep.
• Gu Sheng sensed three more attackers approaching, then allowed their black spear streaks to hit him as he tested his Half-step Glass Golden Body.

Gu Sheng defeated three Black Fiend Sect assassins and discovered that Luo Gan's remnant soul had helped trace him, then used the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron's power to control Nether River Venerable's corpse puppets. The control proved temporary, and the twelve Blood Fiend Twelve Riders turned back toward him in a barren valley.

• Gu Sheng defeated the three Black Fiend Sect assassins and learned that someone at the Great Desolation Sacred Academy had offered thirty million High-grade Spirit Stones for his life.
• Gu Sheng found Luo Gan's remnant soul attached to the jade token and forced the assassins to tell the client that he was dead, placing a restriction on them to ensure they obeyed.
• Gu Sheng flew into an aerial restriction barrier and was surrounded by the twelve corpse puppets known as the Blood Fiend Twelve Riders, who sought to capture him for Nether River Venerable.
• Gu Sheng drew on the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron's Source Power and discovered that the corpse puppets mistook him for their master, allowing him to command them.
• Gu Sheng sent the corpse puppets away, but they turned back when they passed beyond the control range, leaving him trapped in a barren valley.

Gu Sheng destroyed Tiangang and escaped toward Great Desolation City, while Nether River Venerable and Yaoyue broke free of an ancient seal. On the way to Boundless Ancient City, Gu Sheng encountered Zhao Boyang’s group and was surrounded by Blood Fiend Sect cultivators, who began attacking him.

• Gu Sheng used Nether River Venerable’s aura to control the Blood Fiend Twelve Riders and force them to fight until only Tiangang remained.
• When Nether River Venerable’s aura vanished, Tiangang attacked Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng killed him with the Southern Emperor Sword and the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron’s power.
• Nether River Venerable and the newly awakened Yaoyue combined their powers to break Old Thief Gu’s seal and escape the collapsing palace.
• Two days later, Gu Sheng met Zhao Boyang and his fellow disciples while traveling toward Boundless Ancient City, but he refused their invitation to travel together.
• More than thirty Blood Fiend Sect cultivators surrounded Gu Sheng and Zhao Boyang’s group; Gu Sheng survived their attacks without injury, and a burly cultivator launched another attack.