Recaps

Gu Jingang left Gu Family Village after the clan elders reclaimed power, and they later ordered Gu Sheng to leave after discovering his great-completion Blood Refining Realm strength and failing to bind him to the main family. Gu Sheng prepared to depart for Chiyun Prefecture, paying Ge Qing in advance to provide medicine for Gu Wan and saying farewell to Helian Tielan.

• Gu Xiaojiang told Gu Sheng he was joining the Chiyun Guard and promised to help him enter after he advanced.
• Gu Jingang surrendered power to the clan elders and left Gu Family Village with his family after they refused to let him stay.
• The clan elders restricted martial arts training and resources for those outside the main family, while Gu Sheng helped Gu Wan cultivate until he reached the Skin Refining stage.
• The clan elders discovered Gu Sheng had reached great completion of the Blood Refining Realm and tried to bind him to the main family through marriage and promises of authority.
• After Gu Sheng refused, the Great Clan Elder told him to leave, and Gu Sheng agreed to depart within days.
• Gu Sheng paid Ge Qing in advance for Gu Wan's medicine and visited Helian Tielan, who guessed that he was leaving Canghe County.

Gu Sheng prepared to leave Gu Family Village for Chiyun Prefecture, said farewell to the people who had helped him, and made plans to support Gu Wan's cultivation. He left Gu Wan with three martial arts techniques and urged him to hide his strength until he was powerful enough.

• Gu Sheng told Helian Tielan he would leave soon, and she warned him about Chiyun Prefecture and gave him techniques for forging treasure weapons with the Helian Weapon Forging Art.
• Gu Sheng gave Helian Tielan thirty thousand taels and promised to wait for her in Chiyun Prefecture until she became a weapon refiner.
• Gu Sheng visited Gu Erniu and Li Lian, shared a meal with them, explained he was leaving, and gave Li Lian two hundred taels to help with household expenses.
• Gu Sheng packed his belongings and wrote down Flying Thunder Leg, Snake Breathing Technique, and Wrathblood Three Forms along with his cultivation insights for Gu Wan.
• At dawn, Gu Sheng told Gu Wan he was going to Chiyun Prefecture and urged him to cultivate the three techniques, especially Snake Breathing Technique, while keeping his strength hidden.

Gu Sheng left Gu Family Village and traveled toward Chiyun Prefecture, stopping at a waystation where he joined a Mu's Merchant Guild mission into Thunderwood Mountain. The group set out to escort a valuable cargo, though its nature remained unconfirmed as they entered the mountains.

• Gu Sheng entrusted Gu Dajiang with money to buy back his courtyard for Gu Erniu's family, accepted a fine horse, and departed for Chiyun Prefecture.
• Gu Sheng stayed at a costly waystation, learned that its proprietress was a Silver Bone Realm expert, and signed up for a well-paid mission in Thunderwood Mountain.
• Mu Qinghe gathered twelve recruits, warned them not to pry into the mission, and led them toward the mountains beside the official road.
• Gu Sheng learned that Thunderwood Mountain produced valuable Iron Thunderwood and Roaring Thunder Fruit, and the recruits suspected they would be escorting one of those materials.

Gu Sheng joined Mu Qinghe’s group in Thunderwood Mountain and learned that Mu’s Merchant Guild was preparing for a secret mission involving a powerful Thunder Beast. After seeing the Stone Shattering Crossbow’s strength, Gu Sheng bought one, leaving Mu Qingyuan stunned by his wealth.

• Gu Sheng entered Thunderwood Mountain with Mu Qinghe’s group, learned about the dangerous Thunder Beasts, and followed them to a secluded valley.
• Mu Qingyuan and Mu Qingwen met Mu Qinghe, warned the recruits to keep the mission secret, and offered them payment for helping.
• Mu Qingyuan distributed Stone Shattering Crossbows and demonstrated how one could blast through a massive tree.
• Gu Sheng recognized that his archery skills could make the crossbow especially effective and asked Mu Qinghe to sell him one.
• Mu Qingyuan named a price of eighteen thousand taels for the crossbow and extra payment for bolts, and Gu Sheng produced twenty thousand taels in banknotes to buy it.

Mu Qingyuan’s group entered a gorge to kill the Wind Thunder Bird guarding Iron Thunderwood and Roaring Thunder Fruit, using Stone Shattering Crossbows to keep it from flying. After the bird broke through and slaughtered most of the Blood Refining Realm fighters, Gu Sheng crippled one of its legs with a precise shot, but it took to the air, leaving Mu Qinghe urging him to shoot it down.

• Mu Qingyuan warned the recruited fighters that a Copper Bone Realm Wind Thunder Bird guarded the gorge, then had Mu Qinghe kill a man who tried to withdraw.
• Mu Qingyuan led the group into the gorge, where they found the Iron Thunderwood and Roaring Thunder Fruit, and the Wind Thunder Bird swooped down to attack.
• Mu Qingyuan used armored gear to break the bird’s beak, and he, Mu Qingwen, and Mu Qinghe attacked while the Blood Refining Realm fighters fired crossbow bolts to keep it grounded.
• The Wind Thunder Bird charged the crossbowmen while they reloaded and killed nearly all of them; Gu Sheng saved the middle-aged man and struck the bird’s leg with a crossbow bolt.
• The injured Wind Thunder Bird escaped into the air as Mu Qinghe promised Gu Sheng another thousand taels if he could shoot it down.

Gu Sheng was forced to help Mu Qingyuan's group steal Three-pattern Iron Thunderwood and Roaring Thunder Fruits, then got abandoned when Saint Pill Sect disciples arrived. Lin Miaomiao prepared to punish him for injuring her Wind Thunder Bird, but Gu Sheng claimed his elder knew the sect's First Elder, leaving Lin Miaomiao uncertain.

• Gu Sheng failed to shoot down the Wind Thunder Bird, while Mu Qingyuan's group extracted the Three-pattern Iron Thunderwood and took all four Roaring Thunder Fruits.
• The Wind Thunder Bird returned with Saint Pill Sect disciples approaching, and Mu Qingyuan's group escaped over the cliff after cutting Gu Sheng's rope and threatening him.
• Lin Miaomiao arrived with six Copper Bone Realm disciples, discovered the stolen items, and ordered an investigation into the thieves.
• Lin Miaomiao questioned Gu Sheng and Liu Erhu; Liu Erhu denied knowing the thieves' identities, while the Wind Thunder Bird revealed that Gu Sheng had wounded it.
• Lin Miaomiao threatened to take one of Gu Sheng's legs, but Gu Sheng claimed his elder knew the First Elder and said he had come from Canghe County, making her hesitate.

Gu Sheng used Ge Qing’s token to convince Lin Miaomiao that he might be connected to the Saint Pill Sect’s First Elder, and she brought him along to investigate a theft at the relay station. Lin Miaomiao confronted Lin Qing about the people who had recruited help for the theft, but Lin Qing denied knowing anything and planned to use the secret against Mu’s Merchant Guild.

• Lin Miaomiao tested Gu Sheng’s claim about the First Elder, then recognized the significance of Ge Qing’s token and agreed to take him to meet the First Elder after her investigation.
• Gu Sheng recovered a Stone Shattering Crossbow and his wooden weapon box, while Mo Buwen introduced himself and Liu Erhu received treatment for his injuries.
• Lin Miaomiao’s group surrounded the relay station, where Lin Qing challenged her and invoked her family ties and the Governor’s Mansion.
• Lin Miaomiao accused Lin Qing of helping recruit people who stole the Saint Pill Sect’s Three-pattern Iron Thunderwood and four Roaring Thunder Fruits.
• Lin Qing denied knowing who had hired her, concealed her dealings with Mu’s Merchant Guild, and considered using the information to extort them later.

Lin Miaomiao brought Gu Sheng to the Saint Pill Sect and explained the sect’s peaks and disciple ranks. At Cloud Saint Peak’s entrance, a core disciple recognized Gu Sheng’s Lava Thousand Layer Stone token and rushed to inform First Elder Lu Junyi, leaving Lu Junyi to hear that the youth claimed to be the son of an old acquaintance.

• Lin Miaomiao led the Saint Pill Sect party away from the relay station with Gu Sheng, then let him ride behind her on her horse leopard.
• Lin Miaomiao showed Gu Sheng the Saint Pill Sect’s three Spirit Peaks and explained their different roles, as well as the privileges of core disciples.
• Lin Miaomiao used her jade token to open the restriction on the path to Cloud Saint Peak, where Chen Ke initially tried to turn her and Gu Sheng away.
• Lin Miaomiao presented Gu Sheng’s Lava Thousand Layer Stone token, and Chen Ke recognized it as genuine and hurried to report it.
• Chen Ke reached Lu Junyi’s pavilion and told the First Elder that a youth outside claimed to be the son of an old acquaintance.

After recognizing the Dragon Phoenix Pill Cauldron design on Ge Qing’s token, Lu Junyi eagerly took Gu Sheng to Cloud Saint Peak and learned where Ge Qing lived. Lu Junyi flew toward Canghe County to find him, while the approaching Five-colored Bird frightened the city guards into sounding an alarm.

• Lu Junyi learned that Gu Sheng carried a genuine Lava Thousand Layer Stone token and hurried to meet him.
• Lin Miaomiao explained the sect’s status divisions and her struggle to enter the inner sect, and Gu Sheng promised to speak up for her if he could.
• Gu Sheng showed Lu Junyi Ge Qing’s token, and Lu Junyi recognized the Dragon Phoenix Pill Cauldron pattern and brought Gu Sheng to his pavilion.
• Gu Sheng told Lu Junyi that Ge Qing had given him the token and revealed Ge Qing’s name and residence.
• Lu Junyi rode his Five-colored Bird toward Canghe County, where Zhang Guangqun mistook its arrival for a demon-blood beast attack and called for Lord Liu and Lord Mo.

Lu Junyi arrived in Canghe County on the Five-colored Bird, and Ge Qing gave him the Marrow Building Pill formula in exchange for a request. After learning that Gu Sheng came from Gu Family Village, Lu Junyi recognized the significance of his talent and asked Liu Yuanhu about the village.

• Liu Yuanhu and Mo Chen prepared Canghe County’s defenses against the Five-colored Bird, then stopped their attack when Mo Chen recognized Lu Junyi of the Saint Pill Sect.
• Lu Junyi demanded to see Ge Qing, but Ge Qing sent him a scroll advising him to “Start from scratch” and a gift containing the Marrow Building Pill formula.
• Lu Junyi thanked Ge Qing, while Ge Qing divined Gu Sheng’s fate and hoped to form a connection with him amid the coming chaos.
• Lu Junyi returned to the city wall and asked Liu Yuanhu about the Gu family; Liu Yuanhu explained that Gu Family Village was home to nearly everyone surnamed Gu in the county.
• Lu Junyi realized Gu Sheng had reached the peak of the Blood Refining Realm despite coming from a poor village fortress, and Liu Yuanhu cautiously asked whether someone from the village had offended him.

Lu Junyi confirmed Gu Sheng’s token was genuine but assigned him the lowest status of menial disciple in the Saint Pill Sect. At the Fire Bamboo Forest, Gu Sheng learned how difficult it was to earn advancement points and paid Liu Yiming to handle his labor so he could pursue missions instead.

• Lu Junyi gave Liu Yuanhu a bottle of Bone Strengthening Pills to compensate for the soldiers injured by Little Cai, then returned to Cloud Saint Peak and told Gu Sheng he would enter the sect as a menial disciple.
• Lu Junyi explained that Gu Sheng needed one hundred contribution points to become an outer disciple and ordered Chen Ke to take him to the menial disciples’ quarters.
• Chen Ke led Gu Sheng to the Fire Bamboo Forest, where Liu Yiming explained the disciples’ daily work quotas and the dangers of trying to earn points through Merit Hall missions.
• Gu Sheng offered Liu Yiming one thousand taels a month to complete his work quota and gave him another two hundred taels to repair his dilapidated hut.

Gu Sheng accepted a high-reward mission to hunt a Hallucinogenic Porcupine in the Chiyun Mountain Range. After his crossbow shot failed to stop the beast, he assembled his Thirstblood Great Axe and prepared to fight it at close range.

• Gu Sheng went to War God Peak's Merit Hall and chose a fifteen-point mission to hunt a Hallucinogenic Porcupine.
• Gu Sheng registered the mission, left the sect through its fortified wall, and traveled into the Chiyun Mountain Range alone.
• Gu Sheng found the Hallucinogenic Porcupine basking beside a pond and shot at its exposed belly with his Stone Shattering Crossbow.
• The Hallucinogenic Porcupine deflected the arrow with its spikes, charged Gu Sheng, and shattered the wooden case on his back, sending him flying.
• Gu Sheng set aside his crossbow, assembled the Thirstblood Great Axe, and faced the Hallucinogenic Porcupine for close combat.

Gu Sheng fought and killed the poisonous Hallucinogenic Porcupine, then harvested its spikes for his sect mission and a possible new weapon. While roasting its meat by a pond, he discovered plants that looked like Houttuynia cordata.

• Gu Sheng opened the fight by striking the Hallucinogenic Porcupine with the Thirstblood Great Axe, but its poisonous spikes and rainbow gas left him dizzy and injured.
• Gu Sheng used the Snake Breathing Technique to evade the Porcupine’s crushing attack, covered his mouth and nose with a wet cloth, and countered with the three forms of Wrathblood.
• Gu Sheng wounded the fleeing Porcupine with the Stone Shattering Crossbow and finished it off with the Thirstblood Great Axe.
• Gu Sheng collected 432 spikes, planned to use some for his mission and forge the rest into arrows, then packed the beast’s head and his disassembled axe into a wooden box.
• Gu Sheng made a fire and began roasting pork belly beside the pond, where he noticed plants resembling Houttuynia cordata.

Gu Sheng intervened when the Thousand Poisons Sect attacked the wounded Mo Buwen over Ink Treasure Grass, killing Yun Feihe with his Stone Shattering Crossbow. After treating Mo Buwen, Gu Sheng faced the three surviving enemies and began firing as they charged.

• Gu Sheng hid near the pond after hearing a fight, then saw the wounded Mo Buwen pursued by four Thousand Poisons Sect disciples led by Yun Feihe.
• Yun Feihe poisoned Mo Buwen and tried to kill him, so Gu Sheng shot Yun Feihe through the heart with his Stone Shattering Crossbow.
• Gu Sheng emerged, treated Mo Buwen's wounds, and kept the remaining disciples at bay while Mo Buwen urged him to flee.
• After Yun Feihe died, the three survivors attacked Gu Sheng, who hurled Mo Buwen to safety near the pond.
• Gu Sheng turned his Stone Shattering Crossbow toward the charging Thousand Poisons Sect disciples and fired.

Gu Sheng fought off the Thousand Poisons Sect disciples near the pond, revealing his Copper Bone Realm strength and turning the battle with the Blood Revitalizing Technique and Wrathblood Three Forms. He killed one attacker, while Senior Brother Zhou escaped into the forest and Gu Sheng returned to Mo Buwen rather than pursue him far.

• The Thousand Poisons Sect disciples attacked Gu Sheng with poisoned weapons, but he assembled the Thirstblood Great Axe and revealed that he was at the Copper Bone Realm.
• Gu Sheng deflected the disciples’ hidden attacks, but poison blinded one man and the other two pressured him until his strength began to fade.
• Gu Sheng released his stored blood and qi with the Blood Revitalizing Technique and used Wrathblood Three Forms to kill the disciple wielding the extended manure fork.
• Senior Brother Zhou fled after Gu Sheng unleashed the third form, and Gu Sheng fired several arrows after him without hitting.
• Gu Sheng returned to Mo Buwen, leaving the blinded disciple behind as he called fearfully for Senior Brother Zhou.

Gu Sheng returned from the Chiyun Mountain Range after defeating the Thousand Poisons Sect attackers, rescued Mo Buwen, and gave him the valuable Ink Treasure Grass. At the Merit Hall, Gu Sheng insisted he was a Copper Bone Realm menial disciple, leaving Chen Ke shocked when he confirmed Gu Sheng’s cultivation.

• The blinded Thousand Poisons Sect disciple died after falling onto one of his sect’s poisoned daggers, and Gu Sheng searched the corpses and packed away the battle spoils.
• Gu Sheng returned the Ink Treasure Grass to Mo Buwen, carried him toward the Saint Pill Sect, and claimed his recent breakthrough and hunting experience explained his strength.
• Gu Sheng brought Mo Buwen to his residence, where Lin Miaomiao learned that An Xin had been killed and vowed to report the Thousand Poisons Sect’s attack.
• Gu Sheng went to the Merit Hall to submit his mission, but the attendant questioned his lack of sect robes and could not find his records.
• Chen Ke arrived and confirmed Gu Sheng had been registered as a menial disciple, then sensed his Copper Bone Realm cultivation and reacted in disbelief.

After Qin Xue told Wen Mingyan that seventeen-year-old Gu Sheng had reached the Copper Bone Realm despite being assigned as a menial disciple, Wen Mingyan went to confront First Elder Lu Junyi. He accidentally disrupted Lu Junyi's pill refining, destroying an expensive batch, and was left facing his furious uncle.

• Qin Xue gave Gu Sheng contribution-point Jade Slices and learned from Chen Ke that the First Elder had assigned the seventeen-year-old Copper Bone Realm cultivator to be a menial disciple.
• Qin Xue told Wen Mingyan about Gu Sheng's talent and the Saint Pill Sect's declining position in the competition for Chiyun Secret Domain resources.
• Wen Mingyan went to Lu Junyi's pavilion to ask why Gu Sheng had been made a menial disciple, but Bai Xueyuzi warned him that Lu Junyi was refining pills behind sealed restrictions.
• Wen Mingyan struck the pavilion's restrictions, shaking the pill cauldron and causing Lu Junyi's batch of Marrow Building Pills to explode.
• Lu Junyi emerged furious and ordered Wen Mingyan inside to explain the damage.

Wen Mingyan confronted Lu Junyi over Gu Sheng’s assignment to the Fire Bamboo Forest, but Lu Junyi insisted that no one interfere with the young disciple’s progress. Back in the Fire Bamboo Forest, Gu Sheng reviewed his recent battle and began cultivating the Shadow Concealment Art.

• Lu Junyi scolded Wen Mingyan for breaking into his alchemy room, and Wen Mingyan explained that he wanted Gu Sheng to join War God Peak after hearing the seventeen-year-old had reached the Copper Bone Realm.
• Lu Junyi ordered Wen Mingyan not to give Gu Sheng special treatment or interfere with his arrangements, then sent him away to keep watch over the sect.
• Wen Mingyan returned to War God Peak and hid his swords, fearing Lu Junyi would take them to cover the cost of the exploded pill cauldron.
• Liu Yiming showed Gu Sheng the repaired room, a new bed, and a meal he had bought in Saint Pill City.
• Gu Sheng examined the Hallucinogenic Wild Boar’s poisonous spikes, reviewed his battle against four opponents, and assessed his strengths and limits.
• Gu Sheng decided to focus on cultivating the Golden Body Art and Shadow Concealment Art, then began studying how to use Mirror Force to bend light.

Gu Sheng confronted menial supervisor Shi Lezhi after Shi extorted the disciples and beat Liu Yiming for helping with Gu Sheng’s work. Gu Sheng defeated Shi, and Lin Miaomiao revealed that Gu Sheng had been personally brought into the sect by the First Elder, leaving Shi too frightened to retaliate.

• Shi Lezhi extorted silver from the menial disciples during his inspection and beat Liu Yiming for defending Gu Sheng.
• Liu Yiming told Gu Sheng why Shi wanted to see him, and Gu Sheng went with Liu to the Fire Bamboo Forest.
• Gu Sheng refused to pay Shi, gave Liu money for medical expenses, and kicked Shi when he attacked.
• Shi threatened Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng refused to flee and insisted their fight was permitted by sect rules.
• Lin Miaomiao arrived and told Shi that Gu Sheng was a Copper Bone Realm cultivator personally arranged into the sect by the First Elder, so Shi stopped demanding that she capture him.

After Shi Lezhi hired a servant disciple to spy on Gu Sheng and Liu Yiming, Lin Miaomiao told Gu Sheng about a kill order against the Thousand Poisons Sect and recruited him for a planned expedition. Gu Sheng traveled to Saint Pill City to prepare specialized arrows and reached a forging room at Mu's Merchant Guild.

• Shi Lezhi paid a servant disciple to monitor Gu Sheng and Liu Yiming, then left to seek pills for his injuries.
• Lin Miaomiao told Gu Sheng that Peak Master Wen had issued a kill order against the Thousand Poisons Sect, with sect contribution points awarded for kills.
• Lin Miaomiao invited Gu Sheng to join a team entering the Chiyun Mountain Range in three days, and Gu Sheng agreed.
• Gu Sheng packed the Hallucinogenic Wild Boar spikes and went to Saint Pill City to have specialized arrows made.
• After learning that Mu's Merchant Guild offered custom forging, Gu Sheng asked attendant Qingqing to use a forging room and followed her inside.

Gu Sheng forged 132 special arrows from hundred-forged refined iron and Hallucinogenic Wild Boar spines, then tested their power and range with the Stone Shattering Crossbow. After discovering that the weapon’s loud report would hinder ambushes, he began thinking about making a silencer.

• Gu Sheng rented a forging room at Mu's Merchant Guild and refined pig iron into hundred-forged iron using the Helian Weapon Forging Art.
• He forged 132 arrows with refined-iron shafts and Hallucinogenic Wild Boar spine arrowheads, increasing his forging art’s progress by six points.
• After Qingqing told him he had forged for eighteen hours, Gu Sheng paid the bill and returned to the Fire Bamboo Forest, where a servant disciple who had accepted Shi Lezhi's silver tried to explain why he was waiting outside in the dark.
• The next morning, Gu Sheng tested his arrows and found that one shot pierced five trees, while the durable arrows remained undamaged and could be reused.
• He measured the arrows’ maximum range at 500 meters and their effective range at 300 meters, then considered a silencer to conceal the Stone Shattering Crossbow’s loud report.

Gu Sheng tested a silencer he had made for the Stone Shattering Crossbow, reducing its noise but discovering that its materials burned and failed. Elder Huang recognized the design’s potential and began crafting an improved version with Gu Sheng in his forging room.

• Gu Sheng made a first-generation silencer from pig iron, purple radish vine, and beast fur at Mu's Merchant Guild.
• Gu Sheng tested the modified Stone Shattering Crossbow and found it was quieter, but the beast fur caught fire and the baffles were ruined.
• Elder Huang examined the silencer, praised its design, and asked Gu Sheng to explain his ideas and process.
• Elder Huang took Gu Sheng to his forging room and began making a refined silencer using Deep Sea Sinking Silver and other materials.

Gu Sheng and Elder Huang tested a second-generation silencer that made crossbows nearly silent, then Elder Huang gifted Gu Sheng a powerful new crossbow. As Gu Sheng headed back to the Saint Pill Sect, he recognized Mu Qinghe passing by.

• Elder Huang installed Cotton Ironwood baffles and seaweed stuffing in the second-generation silencer, then tested it by firing the Stone Shattering Crossbow into a granite wall.
• Gu Sheng heard the silenced shot and saw the arrow rebound, while Elder Huang found the baffles intact and the seaweed partly charred.
• Elder Huang gave Gu Sheng the silencer for free, then forged him a stronger crossbow and demonstrated that it drove an arrow deep into the granite wall.
• Elder Huang gifted Gu Sheng the new crossbow, and Gu Sheng took spare seaweed before leaving Mu's Merchant Guild with Qingqing.
• Gu Sheng named the new weapon the Star Shatterer Crossbow and, on his way toward the Saint Pill Sect, spotted Mu Qinghe.

Gu Sheng confronted Mu Qinghe over the stolen Thunderwood and Roaring Thunder Fruit, then followed him to uncover the brothers’ plan to kill him and frame the Thousand Poisons Sect. He tracked Mu Qinghe into an underground black market and was left examining a martial arts manual offered for sale.

• Gu Sheng demanded five hundred thousand taels from Mu Qinghe in exchange for keeping the brothers’ theft secret, and Mu Qinghe agreed to meet him at midnight.
• Gu Sheng followed Mu Qinghe to Bright Moon Pavilion and learned that Mu Qinghe, Mu Qingyuan, and Mu Qingwen planned to kill him and blame the Thousand Poisons Sect.
• Mu Qinghe disguised himself and went to a gambling house, where Gu Sheng followed him into its underground black market.
• Gu Sheng found Mu Qinghe buying supplies, then stopped at a stall where the owner offered him an incomplete Star Piercing Sword Art for fifty thousand taels.

Gu Sheng followed Mu Qinghe and his accomplices to a barren slope, where they planned to silence him after arranging to blame someone else for their scheme. He killed Mu Qinghe and Mu Qingyuan in quick succession, then aimed his crossbow at the fleeing Mu Qingwen.

• Gu Sheng bought a damaged martial art manual and paid the poison-stall owner for Ten Sinew Soft Bone Powder and information about what Mu Qinghe had purchased.
• Gu Sheng followed Mu Qinghe back to the Bright Moon Pavilion, then waited outside the city and trailed him and two companions to a barren slope.
• Gu Sheng overheard Mu Qinghe, Mu Qingyuan, and Mu Qingwen discuss shifting blame and silencing him, then revealed himself and demanded money.
• Mu Qinghe charged Gu Sheng, who killed him with a bolt from the Star Shatterer Crossbow.
• Mu Qingyuan and Mu Qingwen attacked together, but Gu Sheng killed Mu Qingyuan with a punch and aimed his reloaded crossbow at Mu Qingwen as he fled.