Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng secured Tantai Xuefei’s approval to use Linlang Pavilion personnel as he prepared to search for Venerable Cang Long’s treasure. At the hidden treasury entrance west of Meteor Moon City, Gu Sheng’s group was surrounded by hundreds of local fighters led by eight elders, who claimed the Yu Family guarded the site.

• Tantai Xuefei revealed that her body had been reconstructed after an attack and agreed to let Gu Sheng mobilize Linlang Pavilion personnel for the expedition.
• Gu Sheng explained that a remnant soul of Venerable Cang Long had told him about the treasure, and Tantai Xuefei offered Linlang Pavilion’s help with any items he wanted auctioned.
• Gu Feng fought a dragon-headed Giant Ape demon beast near a remote mountain range in the Central Continent.
• At dusk, Gu Sheng, Fan Qingcheng, Gu Yuanyuan, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Linlang Pavilion fighters led by Zhao Gan reached the hidden treasury entrance in a valley west of Meteor Moon City.
• As Zhao Gan’s group prepared to attack the hidden formation, hundreds of fighters arrived and surrounded them, with eight peak sect-realm elders claiming the treasury was guarded by the Yu Family.

Gu Sheng confronted the eight great families of Meteor Moon City over the hidden treasure and unleashed the Fate Controlling Yin Plate’s shadow to slaughter their forces. The family heads burned their life and soul origins to launch a combined Human King Realm attack, and the chapter ended with Gu Sheng engulfed by its explosions.

• The Yu Family head accused Linlang Pavilion of breaking its agreement over the hidden treasure, but Gu Sheng dismissed the claim and told Fan Qingcheng to watch for hidden Venerable Realm experts.
• A ninth-level Martial Sect Realm fighter attacked Gu Sheng, who killed him with one punch and shattered his saber.
• Gu Sheng summoned a demonic shadow from the Fate Controlling Yin Plate and ordered it to kill the eight families’ martial artists as Zhao Gan continued opening the hidden treasure.
• The Yu Family head begged Gu Sheng to spare the survivors, but Gu Sheng refused, and the shadow continued killing the fleeing martial artists.
• After the Yu Family head’s grandson died, he and the other seven family heads used the Blood Burst Art to break through to the first level of the Human King Realm and attack Gu Sheng together.
• The eight attacks struck Gu Sheng and engulfed him in blinding explosions while Gu Yuanyuan, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Fan Qingcheng watched.

Gu Sheng killed the eight family heads and their forces, then entered Venerable Cang Long’s hidden vault with Fan Qingcheng. After collecting treasures for his family, he discovered a Third-grade Pure Heart Divine Pill that could help an Eight Revolutions cultivator break through to the Nine Revolutions Venerable Realm.

• Gu Sheng survived the eight family heads’ combined attack and killed all eight with his fists while the Fate Controlling Yin Plate’s shadow eliminated the remaining attackers.
• Gu Sheng and Fan Qingcheng discussed the Great Desolation Sacred Academy’s claim to Venerable Cang Long’s possessions, and Fan Qingcheng said she would neither interfere nor report the vault.
• Gu Sheng entered the vault with Fan Qingcheng, collected resources for Gu Lie and Gu Feng, and found an Azure Dragon Nine Forms martial skill suited to Gu Feng.
• Gu Sheng captured a fleeing Third-grade Pure Heart Divine Pill, and Fan Qingcheng was shocked by his spiritual force and the pill’s rarity.

Gu Sheng gave Fan Qingcheng a Third-grade Pure Heart Divine Pill in exchange for Academy Head Fan Mingli’s future full-force intervention, then collected rare treasures from the Azure Dragon Secret Treasure. Fan Qingcheng rushed back to Great Desolation City with the pill, while Gu Sheng returned to Linlang Pavilion and considered Tantai Xuefei’s unusual condition.

• Fan Qingcheng revealed that Fan Mingli’s Dao injuries had reduced her cultivation from the peak of the Ninth Revolution Venerable Realm to the Eighth Revolution, and asked Gu Sheng for the Pure Heart Divine Pill.
• Gu Sheng agreed to give Fan Qingcheng the pill in exchange for Fan Mingli acting for him once with her full strength, and Fan Qingcheng accepted.
• Gu Sheng sent Fan Qingcheng to deliver the pill to Fan Mingli, then collected Star Sand, Unyielding Bone, Immortal Burning Grass, and other treasures from the secret vault.
• Fan Qingcheng hurried Gu Sheng back to Linlang Pavilion before taking the teleportation array to Great Desolation City with the pill.
• Gu Yuanyuan told Gu Sheng that Tantai Xuefei had offered to buy anything from the treasure that could help her condition, and Gu Sheng pondered her reconstructed body and soul.

Gu Sheng considered helping Tantai Xuefei recover from the limits of her Innate Embryo Body, then revealed his identity as the Northern Star Pill Emperor when he bound her to secrecy with an oath. He explained that he could refine her body with soul power, and Tantai Xuefei agreed to prepare before the treatment.

• Tantai Xuefei asked Gu Sheng whether the Azure Dragon Secret Treasure contained anything that could help her, and he said it did not.
• Gu Sheng consulted Miss Tantai through a communication crystal, and she warned him not to risk himself by interfering in Xuefei's rebirth secrets.
• Gu Sheng summoned Tantai Xuefei and offered a way to help her recover her strength, provided she kept the matter absolutely secret.
• Tantai Xuefei swore the Northern Star Oath to the Northern Star Pill Emperor, and Gu Sheng's soul projection entered the oath imprint, revealing his identity to her.
• Gu Sheng explained that he would use soul power to cleanse and refine Tantai Xuefei's body, and she agreed to prepare herself before beginning.

Gu Sheng used his Emperor Realm Soul Power to cleanse Tantai Xuefei’s body, awakening its potential and allowing her to reach the first level of the Venerable Realm, but she lost consciousness afterward. Gu Ling’er recognized that Tantai Xuefei’s secret technique resembled her race’s innate abilities and began explaining her condition.

• Tantai Xuefei left Gu Sheng, secretly delighted by what she had learned about the Northern Star Pill Emperor, then returned with her storage rings and offered him her treasured resources.
• Gu Sheng selected several soul-nourishing treasures from Tantai Xuefei’s collection and began cleansing her body with his Soul Power.
• Tantai Xuefei endured intense pain as Gu Sheng’s Soul Power awakened her body’s potential and transformed her from a child into a young girl.
• Tantai Xuefei’s body broke through to the first level of the Venerable Realm, so Gu Sheng stopped the cleansing before her body could collapse.
• When Tantai Xuefei remained unconscious, Gu Ling’er appeared and said her secret technique resembled an innate ability of her race.

Gu Sheng tempered Tantai Xuefei’s sea of consciousness so it could withstand her revived Venerable Realm spiritual power, with Gu Ling’er’s flames speeding the process at the cost of sending her into a deep sleep. Meanwhile, Gu Lie returned Myriad Spirits Palace’s corpse puppets and was admitted to see Xuance; the chapter ended with Gu Sheng telling Tantai Xuefei to complete the fusion of her soul and body.

• Gu Ling’er explained that Tantai Xuefei’s fragile sea of consciousness could not withstand her emerging Venerable Realm spiritual power, so Gu Sheng began forging it with spiritual flames.
• Gu Ling’er summoned brilliant gold and pure white flames to aid Gu Sheng’s tempering, then fell asleep inside the Primordial Qi of All Things Cauldron after exhausting herself.
• Gu Lie arrived at Myriad Spirits Palace with three corpse puppets and their control method, which Qingyun had asked him to return to their rightful home.
• Elder Lingluan accepted the puppets, welcomed Gu Lie inside to see Xuance, and learned that Linlang Pavilion had assigned four Human King Realm guards to protect him.
• Gu Sheng strengthened Tantai Xuefei’s sea of consciousness to the level of a peak sixth-grade Spirit Sorcerer, stopped the flames, and told her to begin the final fusion of her soul and body.

Gu Sheng and Tantai Xuefei underwent an unexpected Unity of Spirit that transformed both their spiritual power, leaving Xuefei at peak Rank 7 and Gu Sheng with a second refinement. After Xuefei teased him about taking responsibility for their soul bond, Gu Sheng returned to his chamber and told Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao to avoid looking directly at his unstable aura.

• Tantai Xuefei released her sealed spiritual power, broke through Rank 6, and began advancing toward Rank 7.
• A mysterious golden flame triggered Unity of Spirit between Tantai Xuefei and Gu Sheng, causing their spiritual powers to merge and Gu Sheng's to undergo a second refinement.
• Tantai Xuefei reached peak Rank 7 and sensed an inseverable spiritual connection with Gu Sheng, while Gu Sheng discovered his spiritual power had become far denser and more potent.
• Tantai Xuefei teased Gu Sheng that he had to take responsibility for their Unity of Spirit, then laughed it off as an exchange that benefited them both.
• Gu Sheng hurried back to his chamber, where Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao were studying information about Lan Liyue's Sacred Gu Spirit Body.
• Gu Sheng warned Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao not to look directly at him while he adjusted to his newly refined spiritual power.

After refining his spiritual force, Gu Sheng traveled with his companions from the Eastern Wasteland toward the Central Continent. They arrived in a prosperous city, where Tantai Xuefei unleashed her Venerable Realm pressure against a nobleman who insulted them.

• Gu Sheng adapted to his second-refined spiritual force while Fan Qingcheng returned and helped Gu Yuanyuan cultivate.
• Tantai Xuefei joined Gu Sheng's group for the journey to the Central Continent, and Meteor Moon King agreed to serve Linlang Pavilion for three years in exchange for the Tantai Family's help advancing his cultivation.
• Gu Sheng, Tantai Xuefei, Gu Yuanyuan, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Fan Qingcheng crossed the spatial tunnel and arrived in a bustling Central Continent city.
• A crippled young nobleman mocked the group as country bumpkins and threatened them, while Qi Diao Yaoyao prepared to act.
• Tantai Xuefei struck the nobleman's cane against the ground and released the pressure of her first-turn Venerable Realm cultivation.

Tantai Xuefei brought Gu Sheng and his companions to the Myriad Treasure Hall in Myriad Elephant Imperial City, where they learned that Xue Li’s group had settled in nearby Heavenly Origin Imperial City. Their quiet stay was interrupted when Lu Yongshen barged in and insulted Gu Sheng, leaving Tantai Xuefei confronting him.

• Tantai Xuefei revealed her Venerable Realm cultivation and terrified Liu Third and his guards, while Gu Sheng’s glance made Liu Third collapse in fear.
• Tantai Xuefei led Gu Sheng’s group to the Myriad Treasure Hall and arranged top-floor rooms for them.
• Fan Qingcheng gave Gu Sheng a Communication Jade Talisman and left to handle her own affairs.
• At Gu Sheng’s request, Tantai Xuefei’s steward reported that Xue Li’s group had been settled in Heavenly Origin Imperial City about half a month earlier.
• Lu Yongshen forced his way into the room after Tantai Xuefei refused to see him, and she rebuked him for insulting Gu Sheng and reminded him their marriage agreement had been dissolved.
• Lu Yongshen continued mocking Gu Sheng as a kept man, provoking Tantai Xuefei as she stood between them.

Gu Sheng challenged Lu Chensong to a fight to the death and wagered an enormous fortune, while Tantai Xuefei backed him and arranged the contract. As the duel drew a crowd at the Myriad Treasure Hall, Miss Tantai arrived secretly and realized Gu Sheng was setting up Lu Chensong to lose.

• Tantai Xuefei threatened Lu Chensong after he insulted her and Gu Sheng, and Gu Sheng asked whether crippling him would cause trouble.
• After Tantai Xuefei told him to proceed, Gu Sheng challenged Lu Chensong to a fight to the death despite their difference in cultivation realms.
• Gu Sheng wagered Earth Vein Tea, a Venerable Realm ultimate technique, and ten million top-grade Spirit Stones; Tantai Xuefei agreed to cover his stake.
• Tantai Xuefei had the Myriad Treasure Hall prepare a binding duel contract, and both Gu Sheng and Lu Chensong signed it.
• The crowd gathered at the second-floor martial arena, where Miss Tantai arrived in disguise and decided Lu Chensong was likely to lose.

Gu Sheng defeated Lu Chensong with one punch in their deathmatch, stunning the spectators and Tantai Family elders. Lu Chensong refused to accept the loss and launched a furious barrage, but Gu Sheng remained unmoved as the elders suspected he possessed a Glazed Golden Body.

• Lu Chensong mocked Gu Sheng and unleashed his Earth King Realm aura before the deathmatch began.
• Lu Chensong attacked with Mountain Collapse Fist, but Gu Sheng evaded the strike and sent him flying into the arena wall with one punch.
• Gu Sheng dismissed Lu Chensong and prepared to leave, but Lu Chensong rose from the rubble and accused him of winning by ambush.
• Lu Chensong attacked again with Thousand Peaks Demon Suppressing Fist, forcing the Tantai Family elders to shield the spectators with a barrier.
• Gu Sheng stood unmoved beneath the barrage, and the elders identified the faint treasure light around him as a possible Glazed Golden Body.

Gu Sheng survived Lu Chensong’s Demon Subduing Pestle attack by using a spiritual force avatar, then disrupted Lu Chensong’s consciousness as the borrowed Vajra power ran out. With Lu Chensong’s protectors trying to intervene, Tantai Xuefei blocked them and enforced the deathmatch rules.

• Gu Sheng mocked Lu Chensong after withstanding his attacks, prompting Lu Chensong to reveal a peak Venerable Realm Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Lu Chensong used the pestle and sealed essence blood to transform into a six-armed Vajra with combat strength comparable to the Heavenly King Realm.
• Lu Chensong trapped Gu Sheng with prayer-bead phantoms and struck him with the pestle and trident, but Gu Sheng’s apparent destruction was only a spiritual force avatar.
• Gu Sheng reappeared unharmed and explained that Lu Chensong’s Vajra power came from borrowed essence blood, then demanded the Demon Subduing Pestle.
• As the essence blood ran out, Gu Sheng uttered “Chaos” and wrecked Lu Chensong’s consciousness, while Tantai Xuefei stopped his protectors from entering the arena.

Gu Sheng forced Elder Lu to concede the wager after defeating Lu Chensong, but Elder Lu fled with his grandson and the Demon Subduing Pestle. Gu Sheng revealed he had secretly placed a soul imprint on Lu Chensong, then agreed to travel with Miss Tantai and Tantai Xuefei to Heavenly Origin Imperial City, where he returned alone to a sealed quiet chamber.

• Elder Lu appeared to stabilize Lu Chensong, but Gu Sheng demanded the Demon Subduing Pestle and the wagered items, threatening to let Lu Chensong's unstable Dharma Body destroy him.
• Elder Lu agreed to surrender the wager and, after Gu Sheng dispelled Mind Chaos, seized Lu Chensong and the Demon Subduing Pestle before fleeing Myriad Treasure Hall.
• Miss Tantai ordered preparations to confront Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land, but Gu Sheng said Elder Lu would return because he had secretly planted a confinement imprint in Lu Chensong's soul.
• Gu Sheng explained that defeating Lu Chensong helped establish his reputation in the Central Continent, then agreed to go with Miss Tantai and Tantai Xuefei to Heavenly Origin Imperial City to search for his father and friends.
• As their group prepared to leave, Gu Sheng returned alone to the quiet chamber, sealed it against spiritual probing, and sought privacy for an undisclosed purpose.

Gu Sheng brought Yue Shen Gong to the Central Continent and agreed to help him find his reincarnated wife, while Elder Lu tried to conceal Lu Chensong’s defeat. In Heavenly Origin Imperial City, Gu Sheng met Tantai Bingyu and learned that his physical strength measured thirty apertures.

• Gu Sheng entered the Divine Craftsman's Maze Hall, where Yue Shen Gong thanked him for bringing him to the Central Continent and explained how the Reincarnation Locks could help locate his wife.
• Yue Shen Gong said his wife might be in the Heavenly Ingenuity, Heavenly Mechanism, or Thousand Illusions Sacred Land, and promised Gu Sheng the hall’s ultimate inheritance if Gu Sheng helped reunite them.
• Elder Lu examined the unconscious Lu Chensong, failed to find Gu Sheng’s hidden restraint, and ordered the guardians to suppress news of the duel at the Myriad Treasure Hall.
• Gu Sheng and his companions arrived in Heavenly Origin Imperial City, where Miss Tantai explained that it was governed by the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.
• Tantai Bingyu greeted Gu Sheng, thanked him for helping his sisters, and revealed that Gu Sheng’s physical strength was about thirty apertures.

Gu Sheng and his companions reached Myriad Treasure Hall just as a thief escaped with a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token, and Tantai Bingyu pursued him. Bingyu returned with a captured girl, who insisted she was innocent and refused to let anyone search her sea of consciousness.

• Tantai Bingyu explained that his Body-Solidifying Spirit Talisman gave him powerful passive defense, then gifted Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao fangs containing Void-Rending Leopard beast souls.
• Gu Sheng declined Bingyu's invitation to Drunken Star Tower, and the group headed to Myriad Treasure Hall.
• A thief blasted through the hall's third-floor wall with a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token, and Gu Sheng used his Sky-Peeking Technique to assess the fugitive as Tantai Bingyu gave chase.
• Elder Cheng reported that the thief had been aided by a powerful incarnation, while Miss Tantai rebuked him for secretly probing Gu Sheng.
• Tantai Xuefei explained the value of the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token, and Gu Sheng learned that Tantai Bingyu had reached the Nine Revolutions Venerable Realm.
• Tantai Bingyu returned with a bound girl, claiming she was the thief's accomplice, but she denied knowing the thief and refused a search of her sea of consciousness.

Tantai Bingyu detained a girl who refused a search of her sea of consciousness, then spoke with Gu Sheng about the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool and its upcoming auction. After Gu Sheng left, the Destiny Star Plate began pointing toward a distant disturbance, and he infused it with Fatekeeper Dao essence.

• The girl insisted she was innocent and refused to let anyone search her sea of consciousness, so Tantai Bingyu rendered her unconscious and ordered Elder Cheng to watch over her until Uncle Mingjing returned.
• A wounded man who had escaped Tantai Bingyu's attack reached a farmhouse and checked on a gravely ill young girl lying in a formation-protected room.
• Tantai Bingyu told Gu Sheng that the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool could help him forge a perfected golden body, and revealed that an entry token would be the finale item at the next evening's auction.
• Tantai Xuefei denied having feelings for Gu Sheng when Tantai Bingyu questioned her, and he sent her to fetch Xue Li for a private discussion.
• After Gu Sheng settled in at the guest courtyard, the Destiny Star Plate began glowing and pointing toward the distant horizon, so he infused it with Fatekeeper Dao essence.

Gu Sheng followed the star chart’s revelation to Sunset Ancient Town, where he found Yun Gucheng struggling to keep his dying sister Yun Meng alive. After explaining that her condition required solving its root cause, Gu Sheng revealed the Fate Controlling Yin Plate, and Yun Gucheng reacted with overwhelming shock.

• The star chart pointed Gu Sheng toward Sunset Ancient Town, thirty thousand miles away.
• Yun Gucheng told the sleeping Yun Meng he had obtained a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token and left to find resources for her life-sustaining array.
• Gu Sheng appeared beside Yun Meng and warned Yun Gucheng that neither the treasure pool nor the array could fix her steadily worsening condition.
• Yun Gucheng agreed to speak with Gu Sheng in the courtyard, where Gu Sheng described how Yun Meng’s vitality was being eroded by an invisible power or rule.
• Gu Sheng revealed the Fate Controlling Yin Plate, causing Yun Gucheng to lose control, and then calmed his mind with spiritual force.

Gu Sheng revealed himself as the current Lord Siming to Yun Gucheng and promised he could save Yun Meng, but several powerful factions surrounded their courtyard and demanded treasures Yun Gucheng had sold. As Yun Gucheng tried to sacrifice his lifespan to protect his sister, an unknown young man in moon-white robes appeared and effortlessly stopped the attack.

• Gu Sheng proved his identity to Yun Gucheng with the Fate Controlling Yin Plate, and Yun Gucheng pledged respect as a descendant of the Yun Clan.
• Yun Gucheng told Gu Sheng that the unconscious woman in the side room was his sister, Yun Meng, and Gu Sheng said he could cure her within three days.
• Gu Sheng asked Yun Gucheng to help find the third compass, while Yun Gucheng remained wary and focused on saving his sister.
• Experts from the Sacred Fire Sect, the Heavenly Array Sect, and Myriad Flower Pavilion surrounded the courtyard and demanded their stolen treasures.
• Yun Gucheng entrusted Yun Meng and the Formation Plate to Gu Sheng, then burned his lifespan to confront the attackers.
• A huge Jade Palm erased the incoming attacks and knocked Yun Gucheng back, while a young man in moon-white robes appeared in midair.

Tantai Mingjing arrived to settle the claims against Yun Gucheng, took back the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token, and confronted Gu Sheng over his Unity of Spirit with Xuefei. He accepted Gu Sheng as Xuefei’s Dao companion, then learned that Xue Li had also achieved Unity of Spirit with him and reacted with fresh outrage.

• Tantai Mingjing appeared with a square seal, offered to compensate the gathered factions for Yun Gucheng’s theft, and sent their twelve Venerables away with a snap of his fingers.
• Tantai Mingjing took the stolen Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool token from Yun Gucheng and entered the side room to meet Gu Sheng.
• Tantai Mingjing tested Gu Sheng with crushing pressure and demanded an explanation for his Unity of Spirit with Xuefei.
• After Gu Sheng affirmed their Unity of Spirit, Tantai Mingjing relented and ordered him to call him Father-in-law.
• Tantai Mingjing remembered that Xue Li had also reported achieving Unity of Spirit with Gu Sheng and angrily confronted him.
• Gu Sheng calmly argued that Tantai Mingjing would not need to debate him if he truly meant to kill him, prompting Tantai Mingjing to laugh scornfully.