Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng discovered that the Longevity Old Ancestor was secretly imprinting the minds of Purple Cloud Divine Sect members and alerted Qi Diao Yaoyao, who summoned her grandfather, Qi Diao Wu. Qi Diao Wu confronted the Longevity Old Ancestor and demanded a huge payment to keep the attempted takeover quiet.

• Gu Sheng used the Sky-Peeking Technique and saw the Longevity Old Ancestor's mental power planting imprints in Purple Cloud Divine Sect members.
• Gu Sheng contacted Qi Diao Yaoyao through the Sub-Gu mark and warned her that the Longevity Old Ancestor was trying to control them.
• Qi Diao Yaoyao alerted Qi Diao Wu, who shouted into the valley and disrupted the Longevity Old Ancestor's mental pressure.
• Gu Sheng exposed the secret imprints to the crowd and moved toward Qi Diao Yaoyao as the valley erupted in panic.
• Qi Diao Wu confronted the Longevity Old Ancestor, attacked with poisonous techniques, and demanded Spirit Stones, Heavenly artifacts, and entry to the Longevity Grotto-heaven.

Gu Sheng helped Nangong Yuexia resist the Longevity Old Ancestor’s attempt to control the Purple Cloud Divine Sect, then secretly hid his Soul Power inside her completed mental brand. The Old Ancestor left believing his scheme had succeeded, while Gu Sheng returned to the Five Poisons Divine Cult exhausted.

• Gu Sheng failed to help Nangong Yuexia contact the Purple Cloud Divine Sect’s higher-ups, so he gave her Soul Power to steady her mind and advised her to pretend to submit and secretly gather evidence.
• Qi Diao Wu seized Gu Sheng, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Situ Qingfeng and escaped as the Longevity Old Ancestor resealed the valley and began branding the Purple Cloud Divine Sect members.
• Gu Sheng’s Soul Power shattered Nangong Yuexia’s first mental brand, but the Longevity Old Ancestor sensed her resistance and forced a new brand to form.
• Gu Sheng concealed his Soul Power inside Nangong Yuexia’s completed brand, and the Longevity Old Ancestor ordered the branded disciples to infiltrate and seize control of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect.
• The Longevity Old Ancestor praised Nangong Yuexia to the sect’s arriving leaders, while the Skyfire Divine Sect’s First Elder felt that important memories had been erased.
• Gu Sheng opened his eyes in a quiet room at the Five Poisons Divine Cult headquarters, visibly exhausted.

Gu Sheng negotiated with Qi Diao Wu for the Five Poisons Divine Cult to cooperate with Linlang Pavilion in exchange for taking Qi Diao Yaoyao to Central Continent and seeking help for her Sacred Gu Spirit Body. They reached an agreement, while Gu Sheng hinted at plans to expand into Southern Border and investigate the lands to its south.

• Qi Diao Wu entered Gu Sheng's chamber, settled their old grievance, and asked him to take Yaoyao safely to Central Continent.
• Gu Sheng explained the Sacred Gu Spirit Body's deadly danger and agreed to seek help from the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land in return for the Five Poisons Divine Cult's cooperation.
• Gu Sheng demanded comprehensive cooperation between the Five Poisons Divine Cult and Linlang Pavilion, along with a deputy cult leader to oversee it.
• Qi Diao Wu rejected the deputy cult leader demand and offered an influential elder position and his public recognition as a closed-door disciple; Gu Sheng accepted.
• Gu Sheng revealed his plans to develop power in Southern Border and hinted that something in the southern miasmic wasteland interested him, prompting Qi Diao Wu to acknowledge his audacity.

Gu Sheng secured the Five Poisons Divine Cult’s loyalty by offering its complete Gu technique inheritance and promising to cure Qi Diao Yaoyao’s Sacred Gu Spirit Body. After learning Qi Diao Wu was near the end of his life, Gu Sheng wagered he would become a grandmaster of alchemy within ten years and extend Qi Diao Wu’s lifespan, binding them both to the deal with an ancient oath.

• Gu Sheng sent Qi Diao Wu an ancient Gu technique inheritance, and Qi Diao Wu reacted with shock when it revealed the Gu Emperor’s true name, Lan Liyue.
• Gu Sheng offered the Five Poisons Divine Cult’s loyalty for ten years in exchange for the inheritance and his promise to resolve Qi Diao Yaoyao’s spirit-body danger.
• Gu Sheng deduced that Qi Diao Wu was nearing death, and Qi Diao Wu admitted that his Venerable Realm transformations had made ordinary life-prolonging medicines ineffective.
• Gu Sheng wagered that he would become a grandmaster of alchemy within ten years and refine pills to extend Qi Diao Wu’s life, and Qi Diao Wu accepted.
• Qi Diao Wu produced an ancient Pledge Scroll, and he and Gu Sheng swore their terms in blood, binding themselves with the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• Qi Diao Wu pledged the Qi Diao clan and the Five Poisons Divine Cult to Gu Sheng for ten years, and Gu Sheng began engraving Lan Liyue’s Gu technique inheritance onto a jade talisman.

Gu Sheng gave Qi Diao Wu Lan Liyue's sealed inheritance and set out for the Eastern Desolation with Qi Diao Yaoyao, intending to settle old grudges. At the border, a force of more than a hundred Sovereign Realm fighters and three Human King Realm cultivators ambushed them, but Gu Sheng effortlessly shattered their leader's attack.

• Gu Sheng gave Qi Diao Wu Lan Liyue's inheritance and said its sealed Saint methods would become accessible when Qi Diao Wu reached the Saint Realm.
• Gu Sheng agreed to take Qi Diao Yaoyao to the Eastern Desolation, where she would become his second registered disciple and he would address the side effects of her Sacred Gu Spirit Body.
• During their journey, Gu Sheng revealed that Qi Diao Yaoyao was only fifteen, had reached the Half-step Sovereign Realm, and reminded him of an old acquaintance with the same Sacred Gu Spirit Body.
• Gu Sheng explained that he had avoided teleportation arrays to lure out enemies, and more than a hundred Sovereign Realm fighters and three Human King Realm cultivators surrounded them near the border.
• A fourth-level Human King Realm elder attacked Gu Sheng with the Mountain Suppressing Heaven Flipping Seal, but Gu Sheng broke it with one finger and caused the elder to spit blood.

Gu Sheng used his newly awakened strength to slaughter the Sect Realm attackers sent by the Longevity Old Ancestor and turned the fleeing survivors over to the Fate Controlling Yin Plate’s shadow army. He then faced the three Human King Realm experts, whose coordinated assault failed to harm him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The attackers surrounded Gu Sheng and unleashed a barrage of martial techniques, but his body deflected them without injury.
• Gu Sheng killed fifteen late-stage and peak Sect Realm martial artists with his punches, then scattered the remaining attackers by charging into their ranks.
• Gu Sheng released hundreds of peak Sect Realm shadows from the Fate Controlling Yin Plate to pursue and kill the fleeing martial artists.
• The old man in green robes persuaded the other two Human King Realm experts to fight Gu Sheng together rather than return to face the Longevity Old Ancestor.
• The three Human King Realm experts struck Gu Sheng with a golden pagoda, a massive seal, and sword qi, but the pagoda and seal broke against his body.

Gu Sheng annihilated the attackers who had ambushed him, then faced Huang Batian, a powerful body cultivator from the Thousand Jun Sect who wanted to claim his Glazed Golden Body. Their first fist clash ended with both men pushed back, and Gu Sheng felt strain in his body.

• Gu Sheng used Space Imprisonment and true qi weapons to kill three Human King Realm experts while the Fate Controlling Yin Plate's shadows slaughtered the fleeing Sect Realm martial artists.
• Qi Diao Yaoyao watched Gu Sheng's overwhelming victory, then approached him as the Heavenly Demon Vine absorbed energy from the corpses.
• Gu Sheng sensed a hidden threat, pulled Qi Diao Yaoyao out of danger, and forced Huang Batian out of a mountain hollow with his spiritual power.
• Huang Batian identified himself as a member of the Thousand Jun Sect, revealed his peak Golden Body Realm strength, and declared that he wanted Gu Sheng's body.
• Gu Sheng sent Qi Diao Yaoyao far away and met Huang Batian's charge with a fist; their clash shook the surroundings and left Gu Sheng's body aching from the impact.

Gu Sheng battled Huang Batian, defeated his physical body with soul attacks and glazed divine flame swords, then discovered a Blood Demon possessed him. With Gu Ling’er’s help, Gu Sheng expelled and annihilated the Blood Demon spirit body, leaving Huang Batian’s fate unclear.

• Gu Sheng and Huang Batian fought hundreds of close-quarters blows as their bodies rapidly healed and Gu Sheng’s Golden Body was tempered.
• Gu Sheng concealed himself with the Way of the Fate Weaver, struck Huang Batian’s consciousness with the Spirit Severing Dao, and cut him into pieces with glazed divine flame qi swords.
• Huang Batian regenerated in a transformed state, revealing that a Blood Demon spirit had possessed him.
• Gu Sheng summoned Gu Ling’er, who kicked the Blood Demon out of Huang Batian’s body.
• Gu Sheng bound the six-armed Blood Demon spirit body, crushed it, and devoured its pure soul fragments.

Gu Sheng killed Huang Batian by destroying the Blood Demon spirit body, then returned to Great Desolation City with his new disciple, Qi Diao Yaoyao. Xiao Beixuan learned of Huang Batian’s death and ordered a plan involving Gu Lie, while Gu Sheng introduced Qi Diao Yaoyao to the reach of his influence in the city.

• Gu Sheng returned to his body after destroying the Blood Demon spirit body, and Huang Batian’s mutated body exploded as the Heavenly Demon Vine devoured his remains.
• Xiao Beixuan learned that Huang Batian had died, recognized Gu Sheng as a threat, and ordered his subordinates to proceed with a plan using the captive Gu Lie.
• After the Heavenly Demon Vine absorbed Huang Batian’s flesh and entered hibernation, Gu Sheng and Qi Diao Yaoyao returned to Great Desolation City.
• At Linlang Pavilion, Huang Ting welcomed Gu Sheng and gave Qi Diao Yaoyao a valuable bracelet; he also told Gu Sheng that Xue Li was away and Bing Tang had secluded herself.
• Gu Sheng revealed Linlang Pavilion’s shadow guards and intelligence network to Qi Diao Yaoyao before taking her to Earth City, where its prosperity astonished her.

Gu Sheng returned to Linlang Pavilion after a messenger threatened his father and ordered him to die in Phoenix Town, while the messenger was mysteriously killed after teleporting away. He introduced Qi Diao Yaoyao to Gu Yuanyuan as his new disciple, and the chapter ended with the girls beginning to reconcile after Gu Yuanyuan saw Yaoyao’s scarred face.

• A black-clad messenger threatened Gu Sheng with his father’s life and ordered him to Phoenix Town, while Gu Sheng warned Qi Diao Yaoyao not to act without permission or reveal her Gu technique.
• After teleporting to Great Desolation City, the messenger collapsed and dissolved into black liquid, alarming the people near the formation.
• Gu Sheng returned to Linlang Pavilion with Qi Diao Yaoyao, told Miss Tantai that he was restarting cultivation from the Yellow Martial Realm, and proposed trying the Unity of Spirit method again.
• Gu Sheng introduced Qi Diao Yaoyao to Gu Yuanyuan as her new junior sister, and Miss Tantai agreed to contact Qi Diao Wu about working with Linlang Pavilion.
• Qi Diao Yaoyao removed her mask and revealed her scarred face; Gu Yuanyuan recoiled, apologized, and offered her treasured storage ring, which Yaoyao declined before handing her a Five Poisons token.

Gu Sheng formally accepted Qi Diao Yaoyao as his disciple, taught her how to suppress her Sacred Gu Spirit Body’s backlash, and prepared to teach Gu Yuanyuan the Spirit Severing Dao. After Gu Lie arrived and learned of Gu Sheng’s strength, Gu Sheng prepared to face Xiao Beixuan the next day, with Elder Xia standing by in secret.

• Gu Yuanyuan accepted Qi Diao Yaoyao’s meeting gift, and Gu Sheng warned Gu Yuanyuan not to judge others rashly.
• Gu Sheng accepted Qi Diao Yaoyao as his disciple, bound her to secrecy with a Soul-Binding Lock, and gave her the first teachings for controlling her Sacred Gu Spirit Body.
• Gu Sheng summoned Gu Yuanyuan to teach her the Spirit Severing Dao, while she later regretted how she had reacted to Qi Diao Yaoyao’s face.
• Gu Lie arrived at Linlang Pavilion and was shocked to discover that Gu Sheng had reached the Grandmaster Realm.
• Gu Sheng told Gu Lie he would settle the Gu family’s grudge with Xiao Beixuan, whom he expected to wield Earth King Realm strength.
• Gu Sheng asked Xue Li to protect Gu Lie and agreed that Elder Xia would observe the coming battle from afar.

Gu Sheng prepared for his coming battle with Xiao Beixuan while learning that sacred lands were converging on the Eastern Wasteland. As dawn approached, Gu Yuanyuan revealed an extraordinary second Sea of Consciousness, and Gu Sheng ordered her to keep it secret and strengthen it.

• Miss Tantai told Gu Sheng that two ancient sacred lands were preparing to relocate to the Eastern Wasteland and asked him to find someone in the Central Continent; Gu Sheng agreed and returned to prepare for battle.
• Xiao Beixuan revealed that he had controlled the sect masters of Dragon Abyss Sect, Martial God Gate, and Taiping Sect as human pills, then drained their life essence.
• Xiao Beixuan’s subordinate reported that more than thirteen thousand members of the three sects had been killed, and Xiao Beixuan devoured their blood and qi to break through to the first level of the Earth King Realm.
• At dawn, Gu Yuanyuan told Gu Sheng that she had reached the Yellow Martial Realm and opened a second Sea of Consciousness containing the Spirit Severing Dao’s intent.
• Gu Sheng examined Gu Yuanyuan’s new Sea of Consciousness, warned her to keep it secret, and instructed her to stabilize her cultivation and deepen her connection with the Dao intent.

Gu Sheng prepared to duel Xiao Beixuan in Phoenix Town, bringing Gu Yuanyuan under Xia Wuyou’s protection while entrusting Gu Lie to Xue Li. He confronted Xiao Beixuan, who revealed Gu Lie as a hostage and unleashed a blood-charged power, while the Academy Head forbade anyone in Great Desolation City from interfering.

• Gu Sheng realized Gu Yuanyuan’s Primordial Spirit Body could make forging balanced Dao Bodies dangerous, then arranged for Xia Wuyou to protect her and observe the duel.
• Gu Sheng gave Xia Wuyou the Golden Winged Great Peng’s essence blood in return for stopping other Venerable experts from interfering.
• Gu Sheng entrusted Gu Lie to Xue Li and told her he might have found a way to resolve the origin chill afflicting her and Bing Tang.
• Gu Sheng arrived at deserted Phoenix Town, where Xiao Beixuan challenged him to a duel and demanded his life if he lost.
• Xiao Beixuan revealed the bound and weakened Gu Lie, then unleashed a powerful blood-red aura that transformed the town with evil qi.
• The Academy Head ordered the experts in Great Desolation City not to interfere in the battle at Phoenix Town.

Gu Sheng countered Xiao Beixuan’s blood-refining techniques and fought through his demonized assault, then nearly killed him with the North Star Sky Breaking Sword. Xiao Beixuan survived through a mysterious power and began regenerating as Gu Sheng sensed the threat.

• Xiao Beixuan attacked Gu Sheng with bloody hands and hidden Essence-Seizing Threads, but Gu Sheng burned the threads with golden blood flames and forced Xiao Beixuan to sever their connection.
• Xiao Beixuan transformed through demonization and charged Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng met him head-on and matched his strength.
• When Xiao Beixuan tried to retreat, Gu Sheng summoned the Southern Emperor Sword and struck him with the North Star Sky Breaking Sword, shattering most of his body.
• A mysterious power protected Xiao Beixuan’s head and core organs from most of the sword’s force, and his remaining body began regenerating.

Xiao Beixuan used his Blood Demon power to regenerate and unleash a forbidden summoning ritual, calling on the ancient sovereign Tianmingzi to descend. Gu Sheng was pinned and gravely injured by the entity’s pressure as a colossal figure began emerging through the shattered sky.

• Xiao Beixuan regenerated using a vast reserve of essence blood, grew two additional demonic arms, and attacked Gu Sheng with four-arm claw strikes.
• Gu Sheng used the Sky-Peeking Technique to discover the hidden sea of blood within Xiao Beixuan’s heart and drove him into a corner with the Southern Emperor Sword and Shadow Escape.
• Xiao Beixuan sacrificed the blood souls of Great Desolation City to summon an ancient sovereign, and Tianmingzi’s consciousness answered.
• The Holy Academy ordered a citywide alert and sent its experts toward Phoenix Town, while Xia Wuyou rushed to pull Gu Sheng from the battlefield.
• Tianmingzi’s pressure struck Gu Sheng and the approaching fighters, cracking Gu Sheng’s body and knocking many experts from the sky.
• A vast, indistinct figure began emerging through the cracks in the blood-red heavens as Xiao Beixuan celebrated Gu Sheng’s apparent defeat.

Gu Sheng survived the descent of the true demon Tianmingzi when the current Siming invoked an ancient imperial decree and annihilated it. As Ju Que of the Heavenly Sword Sacred Land arrived to judge Xiao Beixuan, Gu Sheng concealed the Destiny Star Plate, and Xiao Beixuan was left unable to speak or resist.

• The emerging Tianmingzi's pressure drove martial artists into madness and nearly shattered Gu Sheng, while Xiao Beixuan gloated over his plan to slaughter Great Desolation City and reach the Venerable Realm.
• The Destiny Star Plate blazed as Siming declared Tianmingzi had violated the river of time and annihilated the true demon, restoring the sky.
• Gu Sheng tried to contact Siming, who warned that she could not answer his questions or interfere further, then fell silent.
• Xiao Beixuan panicked and tried to flee, but an azure pillar of spiritual energy pinned him as a voice condemned his crimes.
• Ju Que arrived with hundreds of flying vessels, and Gu Sheng hid the Destiny Star Plate before Ju Que confronted the immobilized Xiao Beixuan and demanded his acceptance of punishment.

Gu Sheng killed Xiao Beixuan in Ju Que's Sword World, then faced Ju Que's questions about Si Ming and received a treasured sword-insight token. After returning to the others, Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai used a powerful teleportation talisman to reach Linlang Pavilion with Gu Yuanyuan.

• Gu Sheng asked Ju Que to let him personally settle his blood feud with Xiao Beixuan, and Ju Que sent them into his Sword World.
• Gu Sheng defeated and beheaded Xiao Beixuan, then accepted Ju Que's invitation to speak aboard the cloud ship.
• Ju Que questioned Gu Sheng about Si Ming and probed his sea of consciousness, but Gu Sheng's denial showed no detectable signs of deception.
• Ju Que apologized for the probe by giving Gu Sheng a bronze miniature sword containing the Dao insights of an ancient Sword Saint.
• Gu Sheng returned to Phoenix Town, where Miss Tantai, Tantai Bing Tang, and Fan Mingli met him; Ju Que agreed to visit the Sacred Academy and offered to advise Tantai Bing Tang.
• Miss Tantai used a directional teleportation talisman to take Gu Sheng and Gu Yuanyuan to Linlang Pavilion's underground hall.

After recounting the battle with Xiao Beixuan, Gu Sheng planned to leave Great Desolation City as two Sacred Lands prepared to relocate to the Eastern Wasteland. He arranged for Gu Lie to remain under Linlang Pavilion’s protection, spent the night speaking with his father, and departed at dawn, finding Miss Tantai and Tantai Bing Tang waiting in the rune-guarded chamber.

• Gu Sheng told Miss Tantai how Xiao Beixuan had tried to sacrifice Great Desolation City, while concealing his connection to the inheritance of the Arbiter of Fate.
• Miss Tantai revealed that the Heavenly Sword Sacred Land and the ancient Heavenly Forge Sacred Land were both relocating to the Eastern Wasteland, and Gu Sheng decided to leave for Wuyun City and then Central Continent at dawn.
• Miss Tantai agreed to make Gu Lie the underground city's Linlang Pavilion manager and protect the families of the Gu Family's fallen members; Gu Sheng also proposed Long Yundao for negotiations with the Five Poisons Divine Cult.
• Gu Sheng told Gu Lie that Xiao Beixuan was dead and that he could stay in Great Desolation City; father and son spoke through the night about the Gu Family and Gu Sheng's childhood companion Little Feng.
• At dawn, Gu Sheng left a storage ring full of cultivation resources beside his sleeping father and went to the deepest chamber, where he found Miss Tantai and Tantai Bing Tang waiting.

Gu Sheng learned that the Eastern Wasteland was facing an unprecedented upheaval and agreed to travel to Central Continent with Fan Qingcheng escorting him to the border. In Wuyun City, he returned to the Gu Family ruins, erased Xiao Beixuan’s remnant soul after forcing it to kneel, and declared that the Gu Family had left the city.

• Tantai Bing Tang arranged for Fan Qingcheng to escort Gu Sheng toward Central Continent and for Xue Li to travel there separately under Elder Xia’s protection.
• Tantai Bing Tang warned Gu Sheng that the Eastern Wasteland faced a great upheaval, but withheld details and urged him to grow stronger and leave soon.
• Gu Sheng, Qi Diao Yaoyao, Gu Yuanyuan, and Fan Qingcheng arrived in Wuyun City, where Gu Sheng walked toward the Gu Family ruins carrying Xiao Beixuan’s head.
• Gu Sheng summoned Xiao Beixuan’s imprisoned remnant soul and demanded that it kneel and repent to the Gu Family’s dead.
• When Xiao Beixuan refused and tried to self-detonate, Gu Sheng repeatedly reassembled his soul, then destroyed it completely after it knelt.
• Gu Sheng spread his authority across Wuyun City and announced that the Gu Family had left the city.

Gu Sheng left Wuyun City with Fan Qingcheng, Gu Yuanyuan, and Qi Diao Yaoyao, then traveled to Meteor Moon City to rest before crossing the Endless Wasteland. At Linlang Pavilion, he prepared to meet its reclusive overseer and revealed that his search was connected to Senior Azure Dragon, a vanished genius linked to Fan Qingcheng’s academy.

• Gu Sheng declared that Gu Lie would rebuild the Gu family in Great Desolation City and demanded that future occupants honor the Gu family’s dead.
• Gu Sheng and his companions met Fan Qingcheng outside Wuyun City, then traveled through several cities to Meteor Moon City and agreed to rest there until dawn.
• Su Rui of Linlang Pavilion welcomed the group and explained that the Meteor Moon City branch was a major Eastern Wasteland warehouse overseen by a Heavenly King Realm Peak cultivator.
• Gu Sheng asked Su Rui to arrange a meeting with the pavilion’s person in charge, while Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao began cultivating in the prepared quiet rooms.
• Gu Sheng told Fan Qingcheng that his next matter might concern her academy, and she recalled that Meteor Moon City had once been the hometown of the vanished Senior Azure Dragon.
• Gu Sheng confirmed Senior Azure Dragon was an extraordinary genius and suggested that what he had left behind was still significant.