Recaps

Long Yundao arrived at Linlang Pavilion mortally wounded and revealed that the Imperial Sect had been nearly wiped out. A black-clad messenger then warned Gu Sheng that Wuyun City was under attack, prompting him to lead the Linlang Guards there as the chapter turned to the city and the powerful Gu family he had built.

• A gravely wounded Long Yundao burst into Linlang Pavilion, and Gu Sheng recognized him and ordered the guards to stand down.
• Long Yundao told Gu Sheng that attackers had nearly destroyed the Imperial Sect, then died despite Gu Sheng's attempt to save him.
• A black-clad youth revealed that the Imperial Sect's destruction was a gift from his master and said assassins had already reached Wuyun City before killing himself.
• Situ Qingfeng warned Gu Sheng that the threat might be a trap, but Gu Sheng ordered the Linlang Guards to follow him to Wuyun City.
• The chapter described how Gu Sheng's plans had helped the Gu family eliminate Gu Yuanshan's faction, absorb rival forces, and rise to prominence across the surrounding cities.

Gu Lie and Gu Jianghe discussed the Gu family's growing prospects before a black-clad youth stormed the residence and slaughtered its defenders. The youth confronted Gu Lie and demanded recognition, leaving the reason for his attack unknown.

• Gu Lie and the newly appointed First Elder discussed the family's expansion, Gu Feng's training, and the planned marketplaces in Tianyuan City and Tianlang City.
• A black-clad youth kicked the Gu residence's gates off their hinges, killing the guards struck by the flying panels.
• The youth killed dozens of Gu family escorts with an invisible force and exploded a Heavenly Martial Realm Guest Elder with a glance.
• The youth slaughtered more than a hundred additional guards as the survivors fled through the residence.
• Gu Lie and Gu Jianghe arrived at the blood-covered courtyard, and the youth asked Gu Lie if he was the head of the Gu family.

A black-clothed attacker slaughtered the Gu family, abducted Gu Lie, and challenged Gu Sheng to meet him at Soul Severing Cliff in half a month. Gu Sheng returned to find the massacre and, after the attacker’s spiritual imprint taunted him, struck it down with a lightning-fast sword.

• The young man in black captured Gu Lie and massacred the Gu family despite promising to spare them, leaving Gu Jianghe alive.
• Gu Sheng arrived at the estate and used his energy and spiritual force to revive Gu Jianghe, who told him that Gu Lie had been taken.
• The young man in black’s disembodied voice ordered Gu Sheng to appear at the life-and-death arena atop Soul Severing Cliff at noon in half a month or lose his father.
• Gu Sheng erupted with killing intent and vanished from the courtyard after learning the challenge’s location.
• In a deserted alley, Gu Sheng’s sword light appeared without warning and severed the head of the young man in black’s spiritual imprint.

After Xiao Beixuan’s attack destroyed the Gu family, Gu Sheng burned his ruined home and vowed to kill the mastermind at Soul Severing Cliff. He left for the Southern Frontier to retrieve the Golden Winged Great Peng’s molted remains and deliberately leaked his route to lure Xiao Beixuan’s forces into an ambush, while Gu Lie remained captive in Xiao Beixuan’s estate.

• Gu Sheng ordered the Linlang Guards to care for the dead and their families, then burned the Gu residence and vowed to make Xiao Beixuan repay the blood debt.
• At Linlang Pavilion, Gu Sheng told Situ Qingfeng they would go to the Southern Frontier to retrieve the Golden Winged Great Peng’s molted remains before the appointment at Soul Severing Cliff.
• Gu Sheng ordered the Intelligence Hall to deliberately spread word of his journey, intending to bait Xiao Beixuan into attacking him.
• A Boundless Sect operative learned of Gu Sheng’s destination and received orders to activate the Falcon Hunt plan and kill him along the route.
• Xiao Beixuan lounged in his estate while his subordinate reported nearby, and the kidnapped Gu family head, Gu Lie, remained chained and unconscious.

Gu Sheng traveled with Situ Qingfeng to the Southern Border, using his publicized journey to draw Xiao Beixuan’s attention away from Great Desolation City and the coming life-and-death arena battle. The chapter ended as Xia Wuyou’s incarnation appeared and a vast allied army of the Seventy-two Divine Sects, led by Xiao Beixuan’s stand-in, surrounded the border city and demanded Gu Sheng’s death.

• Xiao Beixuan rejected a subordinate’s suggestion to search Gu Lie’s soul and learned that Gu Sheng had traveled south, so he sent a stand-in while keeping Gu Lie alive as bait.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng used Linlang Pavilion’s teleportation network to reach a Southern Border city, where they found a wanted poster issued by the Southern Border Divine Cult and Southern Emperor City.
• Gu Sheng explained that he had publicized his route to draw Xiao Beixuan and his allies toward the Southern Border while protecting his plans in Great Desolation City for the arena battle.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng spotted Xia Wuyou’s energy incarnation across the street as an enormous force gathered on the southern horizon.
• Thousands of warriors from the Boundless Sect and the Seventy-two Divine Sects approached the city, and Xiao Beixuan’s stand-in accused Gu Sheng of killing his elder brother and threatened to tear him apart.

Xia Wuyou’s incarnation revealed overwhelming Venerable Realm power and annihilated the allied force sent to capture Gu Sheng. He spared Xiao Beixuan’s substitute and brought him to Gu Sheng for questioning.

• The Divine Sects and Boundless Sect surrounded the small city and threatened Gu Sheng, while Xia Wuyou’s incarnation dismissed their forces as no threat.
• Xia Wuyou effortlessly destroyed the elders’ attacks, then revealed his rusty chopping knife and immobilized the allied army with his Venerable Realm power.
• Xia Wuyou killed more than ten thousand martial artists with three slashes, leaving Situ Qingfeng stunned and the city silent.
• Xia Wuyou entered the inn, pinned Situ Qingfeng to the floor with his pressure, and tossed Xiao Beixuan’s substitute before Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng escaped after Xia Wuyou destroyed the forces sent to capture them, while the Southern Frontier’s Divine Sects mobilized to hunt for the survivors. They reached Xiaguang City in disguise, where an armed squad blocked their way.

• Xia Wuyou warned Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng to flee, then vanished as his incarnation’s power ran out.
• Gu Sheng tried to search the captive double’s soul, but a restriction killed him before Gu Sheng could learn anything useful.
• Gu Sheng explained that thousands of Soul Lamps had gone out and urged Situ Qingfeng to leave immediately.
• The Longevity Old Ancestor learned that more than ten thousand fighters, including the Punishment Elder, had died, and ordered nearby Divine Sects to seal the routes and search for Gu Sheng.
• The Longevity Old Ancestor kept the Southern Emperor and Mu Xue at the Longevity Divine Cult, while the Southern Emperor agreed to remain as a guest.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng arrived in Xiaguang City under disguises, but a squad of ten Heavenly Martial Realm martial artists blocked their path.

Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng entered Xiaguang City under the guise of Situ Qingfeng’s return to his ancestral home, intending to use Gu Sheng’s connection to the Town South King’s Mansion as cover while they searched for the Golden Winged Great Peng’s remains. Gu Sheng summoned Nangong Yuexia with a token associated with Saintess Mu Xue, but their meeting ended with Yuexia releasing a heavy pressure over the private room.

• Situ Qingfeng used his father Situ Tian’s reputation to get past Purple Cloud Divine Sect guards at Xiaguang City’s entrance.
• Gu Sheng told Situ Qingfeng that he had killed the Town South King and planned to obtain cover from the Town South King’s Mansion whether its people cooperated willingly or not.
• Gu Sheng presented a jade plaque at Purple Cloud Residence and asked the attendant to summon Nangong Yuexia with the message that someone from Mu Xue had arrived.
• Nangong Yuexia received the message, left a meeting with Xiaguang City’s new City Lord, and went to Purple Cloud Residence.
• Situ Qingfeng presented Gu Sheng as his servant and asked Nangong Yuexia to help them enter a secret realm, prompting her to release a formidable pressure across the private room.

Gu Sheng revealed himself to Nangong Yuexia and pressured her into considering an alliance, offering help within the Purple Cloud Divine Sect in exchange for her letting him go somewhere under the sect’s name. Nangong Yuexia chose to meet with him again the next morning, while Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng stayed under covert surveillance at an inn.

• Nangong Yuexia recognized Gu Sheng from the jade token and threatened to expose him, but he warned that doing so would reveal evidence of her own dealings and endanger her.
• Gu Sheng offered to support Nangong Yuexia’s rise within the Purple Cloud Divine Sect in exchange for traveling openly under its name, and gave her one day to decide.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng left Purple Cloud Residence and checked into an inn despite sensing that they were being watched.
• After consulting her longtime confidante, Nangong Yuexia decided to consider cooperating with Gu Sheng and sent a Sect Realm expert to invite him and Situ Qingfeng back the next morning.
• The shadowy messenger appeared in Situ Qingfeng’s room and delivered Nangong Yuexia’s invitation.

A shadowy messenger told Situ Qingfeng that Nangong Yuexia had agreed to cooperate, while Gu Sheng cultivated with Gu Ling’er and advanced to the ninth level of the Heavenly Martial Realm. Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng left the inn before Purple Cloud Divine Sect forces arrived to investigate, then went to Nangong Yuexia’s residence to discuss their next move.

• A Martial Grandmaster Realm messenger delivered Nangong Yuexia’s message, and Situ Qingfeng learned from Gu Sheng’s pre-recorded spiritual message to meet him in the morning.
• Gu Ling’er supplied Gu Sheng with refined spiritual energy, helping him break through from the early Heavenly Martial Realm to a higher level.
• Gu Sheng’s cultivation breakthrough caused a major spiritual energy disturbance that alarmed the inn and drew the attention of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng left the inn before a Divine Sect search party could find them.
• Gu Sheng told Situ Qingfeng that he had reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Martial Realm and attributed his rapid progress to a Heavenly Marrow Spirit Liquid pool in the Boundless Sect’s secret realm.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng arrived at Nangong Yuexia’s residence, where Situ Qingfeng asked how they should handle her and her powerful subordinates.

Gu Sheng negotiated an alliance with Nangong Yuexia, who agreed to help him enter a secret realm in exchange for support in taking control of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect. When she questioned his ability to back her against the sect’s powerful forces, Gu Sheng challenged her thirteen Grandmaster Realm death warriors to attack him together.

• Nangong Yuexia emerged in armor and invited Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng into her courtyard, where thirteen of her foster father's death warriors awaited.
• Gu Sheng identified the warriors as Grandmasters around the third heaven and convinced Nangong Yuexia that killing him would bring her little benefit and greater danger.
• Nangong Yuexia agreed to help Gu Sheng enter the secret realm and asked him to support her bid for real control of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect.
• Gu Sheng promised resources and intelligence, while telling Nangong Yuexia that her success would depend on her own ability.
• Nangong Yuexia questioned whether Gu Sheng could protect himself against her warriors, and Gu Sheng challenged all thirteen to attack him together.

Gu Sheng faced Nangong Yuexia and thirteen manor warriors in a test of strength, enduring their combined attacks without injury and overpowering Nangong Yuexia with his speed and sword-like aura. After he spared her, he revealed that he was at the peak of the ninth layer of the Heavenly Martial Realm and had achieved a Half-step Glass Golden Body.

• Nangong Yuexia joined the thirteen manor warriors in their battle formation and ordered them to attack Gu Sheng together.
• Gu Sheng stood still as their combined spear strike hit him, and the spears could not pierce his skin.
• The warriors attacked again, but one spearhead cracked; Gu Sheng appeared behind Nangong Yuexia and bent her sword against his chest.
• Gu Sheng stopped an invisible sword light at Nangong Yuexia's throat, then asked whether she believed his warning and told her to end the test.
• Nangong Yuexia withdrew the warriors and asked about Gu Sheng's strength, and he disclosed his cultivation and Half-step Glass Golden Body.

Gu Sheng forced Nangong Yuexia to accept his control and arranged a deceptive expedition to the Golden Wing Ridge secret realm. As the departure approached, he revealed his strengthened defenses and told Situ Qingfeng that he needed Nangong Yuexia’s usefulness, not her loyalty.

• Gu Sheng persuaded Nangong Yuexia to submit by promising power, then learned that Nangong Tiance had likely bought or abducted many of his adopted children.
• Gu Sheng placed a Soul Imprint on Nangong Yuexia and ordered her to arrange their trip to Golden Wing Ridge and spread a cover story that implicated the Xiaguang City Lord’s line.
• Three days later, Nangong Yuexia’s messenger reported that the Skyfire Divine Sect, Glazed Divine Sect, Longevity Divine Cult, and possibly the Five Poisons Divine Cult would join the expedition.
• The messenger gave Gu Sheng the forged identity of City Lord’s Mansion adviser Yun Qing, and Gu Sheng revealed that his Glazed Golden Body had reached minor mastery.
• Gu Sheng warned Nangong Yuexia through the messenger not to test him, then told Situ Qingfeng that he only needed her as a useful chess piece, not a loyal partner.

Gu Sheng sent a Spirit Embryo Incarnation disguised as Yun Qing with the expedition to Golden Wing Ridge while his true body followed unnoticed. Elsewhere, intruders rescued Gu Lie from Xiao Beixuan’s residence and left a shapeshifter disguised as the captive in his place, but Xiao Beixuan soon came to inspect him.

• Gu Ling'er created an incarnation of Gu Sheng, which he changed into Yun Qing and sent to join the City Lord’s expedition.
• The new City Lord assembled his forces, and the Yun Qing incarnation joined the formation while Gu Sheng’s true body followed behind Situ Qingfeng.
• A young woman traveling with the expedition warned Yun Qing about the mission, and Gu Sheng learned that her master supported the City Lord.
• Two intruders infiltrated Xiao Beixuan’s residence, freed Gu Lie, and had one of them transform into his likeness to remain chained in the courtyard.
• Xiao Beixuan inspected the apparent Gu Lie and found no obvious sign that the captive had been replaced.

A rescuer freed Gu Lie and escaped with him while a disguised accomplice fooled Xiao Beixuan into believing his prisoner was still chained in the courtyard. On the road to Golden Wing Ridge, Situ Qingfeng’s party met Skyfire Divine Sect members, and a concealed girl recognized Gu Sheng’s Yun Qing incarnation by the Five Immortals Soul Chasing Gu mark.

• A woman broke Gu Lie’s chains, transformed into his likeness, and let another rescuer carry the unconscious Gu Lie away through a secret passage to Linlang Pavilion.
• The woman impersonating Gu Lie reattached the broken chains and mimicked his exhausted posture as Xiao Beixuan inspected the courtyard and found no sign of interference.
• Xiao Beixuan left the courtyard, while the disguised Gu Lie suppressed his killing intent and resolved to follow the young master's plan.
• Shen Wuguang and Situ Qingfeng led Xiaguang City's group out of the no-fly region and encountered martial artists from the Skyfire Divine Sect.
• When a Skyfire Divine Sect elder questioned Yun Qing’s strange aura, Situ Qingfeng claimed he was a rare Golden Body Realm Body Cultivator and diverted suspicion.
• A concealed girl recognized Yun Qing as Gu Sheng’s incarnation by the lingering mark of the Five Immortals Soul Chasing Gu and reacted with murderous hatred.

Gu Sheng protected Situ Qingfeng from the Longevity Old Ancestor’s spiritual probe at Golden Wing Ridge, drawing attention to the disguised incarnation. Situ Qingfeng opened the Golden Peng’s Nest secret realm, and he and Gu Sheng entered first.

• The Five Poisons Divine Cult’s Little Princess recognized Gu Sheng’s distinctive karmic aura, and Gu Sheng secretly marked her with his spiritual sense.
• The Skyfire Divine Sect brought the group to Golden Wing Ridge, where Shen Wuguang explained that the Longevity Old Ancestor had come searching for Gu Sheng.
• The Longevity Old Ancestor used spiritual pressure to test Situ Qingfeng, but Gu Sheng broke the suggestion and warned the elder against attacking Situ Qingfeng again.
• Situ Qingfeng fitted a blood-red jade plaque into the Golden Winged Great Peng sculpture and opened the Golden Peng’s Nest secret realm.
• Situ Qingfeng took Gu Sheng by the arm, and the two entered the teleportation gate first.

Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng entered the Golden Wing Ridge secret realm, while the Longevity Old Ancestor ordered the surrounding sects to hunt Gu Sheng, whom he suspected was disguised as Situ Qingfeng’s protector. Gu Sheng used his incarnation to kill a Heavenly Charm Sect infiltrator and planned to draw attention away from his true body, which then headed with Situ Qingfeng toward the secret realm’s core.

• After the sects entered the secret realm, the Longevity Old Ancestor identified Gu Sheng as a likely disguised protector and ordered the forces outside to seal the exits and kill him.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng arrived in the secret realm together, and Gu Sheng sensed that his incarnation was roughly a hundred miles away.
• Gu Sheng’s incarnation killed the seductive female adviser with a black short sword made by Gu Ling’er, who explained that the weapon could annihilate its victims’ vitality and souls.
• Gu Sheng resolved to draw attention toward his incarnation while his true body pursued the secret realm’s core with Situ Qingfeng, who used his mother’s inherited memories to guide them.
• Gu Sheng and Situ Qingfeng discovered three Purple Cloud Divine Sect disciples hiding in a thicket and questioned why they had been spying on fellow cultivators.

Gu Sheng passed the pressure trial and entered the Golden Winged Great Peng's main hall, while Situ Qingfeng remained outside with the Purple Cloud Divine Sect disciples. The Little Princess of the Five Poisons Divine Cult appeared and poisoned the disciples unconscious before turning to Situ Qingfeng.

• Situ Qingfeng invited three Purple Cloud Divine Sect disciples to travel with him and Gu Sheng, then led them to the main hall's bronze doors.
• Gu Sheng endured the pressure trial, opened the doors, and entered the main hall alone as the doors slammed shut behind him.
• Gu Sheng sensed the Golden Winged Great Peng's core source aura and sped toward the deepest part of the ancient world to seek its remains.
• A disguised young woman appeared outside the doors and was identified as the Little Princess of the Five Poisons Divine Cult.
• The Little Princess incapacitated the three Purple Cloud Divine Sect disciples with a mysterious poison, leaving Situ Qingfeng on guard as she addressed him.

The Five Poisons Little Princess captured Situ Qingfeng with a poisonous gu mark to force him to help her find Gu Sheng. Unaware of the trouble outside, Gu Sheng fought through the main hall’s traps, subdued a shadow creature, and counterattacked a spear-wielding ambusher.

• The Five Poisons Little Princess rejected Situ Qingfeng’s denial that he knew Gu Sheng and marked him with a bone-clinging maggot, making him her prisoner until she found Gu Sheng.
• Situ Qingfeng persuaded the princess to follow him into the main hall by claiming he was searching for a remote treasure and might encounter Gu Sheng there.
• Gu Sheng pushed through the main hall’s traps, enduring their attacks with his Glazed Golden Body.
• Gu Sheng detected and seized a shadow-like construct that had attacked him with poisoned needles, then pinned it down and struck it into submission.
• An ambusher attacked Gu Sheng from behind with a blue spear, but Gu Sheng used Shaping Dao to form a protective shield and punched the attacker in the chest.

Gu Sheng escaped a horde of regenerating shadow warriors and discovered an ancient bronze funerary stele that may mark an Immortal Tomb. As its characters activated and imprisoned him, he realized the stele had triggered a teleportation restriction.

• Gu Sheng destroyed a shadow warrior, saw it begin to regenerate, and spotted countless armed shadows filling the passage.
• Gu Sheng fled through an ancient gate, where the shadows stopped and would not cross the threshold.
• A bronze stele rose from the ground, and Gu Sheng suspected its ancient inscription described an Immortal Tomb and a guardian ordered to remain there.
• Gu Sheng concluded the shadows might be fallen martial artists absorbed by the secret realm, then prepared to continue deeper into the hall.
• The stele's characters lit up and circled Gu Sheng, imprisoning him as the hall twisted under spatial fluctuations and a teleportation restriction activated.

Gu Sheng spoke across time and space with the final ruler of the Fate Weaver clan, who revealed the bronze stele’s origins and offered him the clan’s inheritance in exchange for retrieving a compass. The conversation ended as the stele’s light dispelled the darkness, leaving Gu Sheng with the task of finding the Circumference Star Compass in the main hall.

• Gu Sheng found himself in a vast, lightless hall with his spiritual power suppressed and learned that a Fate Weaver was speaking to him across time and space.
• The Fate Weaver revealed that the bronze stele had been made from the Mirror of Fate and that the core inheritance had been sealed within the River of Time.
• The Fate Weaver sensed an aura from beyond Gu Sheng’s world and recognized that Gu Sheng was pursuing the ancient Dao Fusion method.
• The Fate Weaver offered Gu Sheng the complete Way of the Fate Weaver to help him break through his cultivation bottleneck if he retrieved the Circumference Star Compass from the Fate Weaver’s body.
• The Fate Weaver revealed that the Golden Winged Great Peng clan descended from his spirit beasts and had guarded his body until the inheritance reappeared.
• The Fate Weaver’s message faded, and the bronze stele released a brilliant light that dispelled the hall’s darkness.

Gu Sheng entered the hall and met the remnant spirit of a Golden Winged Great Peng, who recognized him as the person awaited by Lord Siming. She led him to Siming’s starry resting place and asked him to carry her remains to the Golden Winged Great Peng ancestral grounds in the Northern Sea, hinting that a greater opportunity awaited there.

• Gu Sheng discovered that the colossal figure in the hall was the sealed remains of a Golden Winged Great Peng, which awakened under the control of a remnant spirit.
• The bird-bodied woman asked whether Gu Sheng was the one awaited by Lord Siming, and Gu Sheng confirmed that he had spoken with Siming across the river of time.
• The woman led Gu Sheng through a hidden passage into a star-filled space and used her demonic energy to reveal Siming’s coffin.
• The woman entrusted Siming’s final instruction to Gu Sheng and offered him eighteen drops of her natal essence blood in exchange for burying her remains.
• The woman asked Gu Sheng to return her remains to the Northern Sea, explaining that the true great opportunity lay there.

Gu Sheng accepted the Golden Winged Great Peng’s request to carry her corpse to the Northern Abyss Burial Ground and help her descendant hatch. He opened the Starry Sky Coffin, heard a final message from the Arbiter of Fate, and retrieved the Fate Compass without damaging her body.

• Gu Sheng agreed to deliver the Golden Winged Great Peng’s corpse to the Northern Abyss Burial Ground and free the pure-blooded hatchling sealed there.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng’s remnant spirit faded, and eighteen drops of her natal essence blood entered Gu Sheng’s body.
• Gu Sheng stored the Golden Winged Great Peng’s corpse and watched the Starry Sky Coffin open to reveal the Arbiter of Fate’s body.
• When Gu Sheng cut the Arbiter of Fate’s skin, a preset consciousness spoke to him and warned him not to damage her body further.
• The Arbiter of Fate’s voice directed Gu Sheng to a ring beneath her jade pillow and told him it would let his hand pass through the body’s barrier.
• Gu Sheng used the ring to retrieve the Fate Compass from inside the Arbiter of Fate’s chest, and the ring vanished.

After obtaining the Fate Compass, Gu Sheng activated the Destiny Star Plate and inherited the Way of the Fate Weaver, refining his spiritual power and learning that another supreme treasure lay elsewhere in the secret realm. With danger awaiting outside, he chose to postpone the search and began preparing to refine the Golden Winged Great Peng essence blood before attempting Dao Fusion and a breakthrough.

• The Starry Sky Coffin vanished after Gu Sheng took the Fate Compass, and he resolved to strengthen himself before facing Longevity Old Ancestor outside the secret realm.
• Gu Sheng activated the Destiny Star Plate with his blood and received the Way of the Fate Weaver inheritance.
• The inheritance advanced Gu Sheng’s spiritual power to the seventh rank and refined it, also tempering his second Sea of Consciousness.
• Gu Sheng learned that the Fate Weaver had hidden another supreme treasure elsewhere in the secret realm, but decided to prioritize improving his strength.
• Gu Sheng summoned one of the eighteen drops of Golden Winged Great Peng essence blood and prepared to refine it.

Gu Sheng fused the Longevity Dao Resonance into his bones and prepared to use Gu Ling’er’s help with his remaining Dao Resonances. After Gu Ling’er revealed that she had framed rival sects and Shen Wuguang for the incarnation’s crimes, Gu Sheng began fusing the Thousand Illusions Dao Resonance as Situ Qingfeng and the disguised Little Princess entered an enormous mountain hall.

• Gu Sheng drew power from a Blood Essence Pearl and fused the Longevity Dao Resonance into his bones, enduring severe pain before gaining greatly increased vitality.
• Gu Ling’er emerged from Gu Sheng’s body and told him that his Spirit Embryo Incarnation had been killed after she used it to assassinate a Skyfire Divine Sect elder and two Longevity Divine Cult disciples, turning the factions against each other and implicating Shen Wuguang.
• Gu Sheng praised Gu Ling’er and explained his plan to fuse the Thousand Illusions, Earth Element, and Way of the Fate Weaver Dao Resonances into his body to establish his Sect Realm foundation.
• Gu Ling’er offered to protect Gu Sheng’s meridians and acupoints during the first two fusions, saying the effort would cost her three Blood Essence Pearls; Gu Sheng agreed, and she created a spirit formation with her origin spiritual energy.
• Gu Ling’er urged Gu Sheng to begin, and he drew the Thousand Illusions Dao Resonance toward his legs to start fusing it.
• Situ Qingfeng and the disguised Little Princess of the Five Poisons Divine Cult entered a vast, ancient hall inside a mountain in another part of the secret realm.