Chapter Summaries

Tantai Mingjing gave Gu Sheng a Virtual Spirit Source and declared it a betrothal gift binding him to the Tantai Family, then spared Yun Gucheng in exchange for ten years of service at the Myriad Treasure Hall. After learning that Gu Sheng possessed the Divine Craftsman’s artifact-forging treatise, Tantai Mingjing eagerly asked to see a copy, which Gu Sheng agreed to provide.

• Tantai Mingjing gave Gu Sheng a Virtual Spirit Source, which Gu Sheng captured with his refined spiritual power.
• Tantai Mingjing called the gift a betrothal gift and warned Gu Sheng not to refuse marriage to the Tantai Family or mistreat Tantai Xuefei.
• Gu Sheng asked Tantai Mingjing to let him fulfill his promise to treat Yun Meng, and Tantai Mingjing spared Yun Gucheng’s life in exchange for compensation and ten years of service.
• Tantai Mingjing used his jade thumb ring to send Yun Gucheng away, and Gu Sheng recognized it as a portable spatial teleportation artifact.
• Gu Sheng revealed that he had obtained the Divine Craftsman’s Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter, prompting Tantai Mingjing to ask for a copy.
• Gu Sheng agreed to have Tantai Xuefei deliver a copied jade slip to Tantai Mingjing the next morning.

Gu Sheng returned to the Myriad Treasure Hall after meeting Tantai Mingjing, and the hall resolved the misunderstanding surrounding Su Youwei’s wrongful accusation. As everyone prepared to retire, Gu Sheng privately asked Tantai Xuefei to come to his room at midnight, leaving her flustered and unsure what he meant.

• Tantai Mingjing promised to treat Gu Sheng like family, agreed to deliver the requested item to Xuefei by morning, and sent Gu Sheng back to Heavenly Origin Imperial City.
• Gu Sheng arrived at the Myriad Treasure Hall, where Tantai Bingyu explained that Yun Gucheng had confessed to stealing the token and that it was with Tantai Mingjing.
• Tantai Xue Li apologized to Su Youwei for Tantai Bingyu’s wrongful accusation, and her offer to let Tantai Xuefei and herself beat him up eased Su Youwei’s anger.
• Su Youwei described her family’s destruction and flight from enemies, while Yun Gucheng apologized for implicating her and offered to serve the Myriad Treasure Hall for ten years.
• Gu Sheng promised to help Yun Gucheng’s sister, arranged for Su Youwei to stay with Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao, and secretly asked Qi Diao Yaoyao to watch her.
• Gu Sheng asked Tantai Xuefei to come to his room at midnight, and she blushed and wondered what he intended.

Gu Sheng gave Tantai Xuefei an engraved jade talisman containing the Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter, while she mistakenly believed he had summoned her for an intimate encounter. As Gu Sheng worried about Gu Ningshuang and the others in a secret realm, the chapter shifted to show them cornered by a horde of demonic beasts.

• Gu Sheng engraved the Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter onto a jade talisman for Tantai Mingjing and decided to have Qi Diao Yaoyao watch Su Youwei.
• Tantai Xuefei returned to Gu Sheng's room dressed up and confessed that she had secretly used Dream Entering Immortal Lotus powder to make her sister sleep, believing Gu Sheng wanted her.
• Gu Sheng handed Tantai Xuefei the jade talisman to deliver to her father, Uncle Mingjing, and she left in angry embarrassment after realizing he had only asked her to run an errand.
• Gu Sheng considered how Myriad Treasure Hall could help him find his father and Gu Ningshuang, then worried about the dangers facing those trapped in the secret realm.
• Gu Ningshuang, Shen Qingtian, and Gu Yurou stood injured and surrounded by hundreds of Heavenly Martial Realm demonic beasts, while Little White struggled to protect them despite its severe wounds.

Gu Ningshuang and Shen Qingtian risked attacking the Beast King to break the beast horde’s deadlock. The next morning, Gu Sheng opened another acupoint and spoke with Tantai Mingjing about the Divine Craftsman’s incomplete inheritance, agreeing to seek its missing sections if he revisited the ruin.

• Gu Ningshuang charged toward the hidden Beast King while Shen Qingtian sent an avatar into the beast horde and detonated it, throwing the beasts into chaos.
• Gu Sheng opened his fourth acupoint on the third meridian, bringing his estimated physical strength to that of thirty-nine or forty acupoints.
• Tantai Mingjing confronted Gu Sheng about the Divine Craftsman’s name, Gu Tiechui, and asked what Gu Sheng knew about her life and disappearance.
• Gu Sheng explained that the Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter was incomplete, and Tantai Mingjing said its missing Heaven Forging and Divine Forging sections could help him overcome his bottleneck.
• Gu Sheng offered to look for the missing sections if he returned to the ruin, and Tantai Mingjing agreed not to pursue the ruin himself.

Gu Sheng learned about the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool and heard the desperate details of Yun Meng’s worsening condition. Before he could examine her, the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord confronted him over his injury of Lu Chensong, but Tantai Mingjing and the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land’s Holy Lord intervened, and the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord challenged Gu Sheng to a duel tomorrow.

• Tantai Mingjing told Gu Sheng that a token for the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool would be auctioned that night and explained the pool’s value for tempering the body.
• Yun Gucheng asked Gu Sheng to save Yun Meng and explained that her life force was draining rapidly despite the Nine Revolutions Rebirth Array.
• Gu Sheng said Yun Meng would need to leave the array briefly for an examination and promised he could stabilize her, so Yun Gucheng agreed to trust him.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord sent a golden command token to Myriad Treasure Hall, locked Gu Sheng with spiritual force, and then pressured him with Saint Realm laws.
• Tantai Mingjing and the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land shielded Gu Sheng and confronted the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord challenged Gu Sheng to fight his over-a-century-old Holy Son at noon the next day, and Tantai Mingjing objected to the unfair match.

Gu Sheng accepted the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land’s challenge only after demanding that it honor his previous wager, while Tantai Mingjing threatened to blockade Myriad Elephant Imperial City and protect him. After the Holy Lord agreed to deliver the wager that night, Gu Sheng joined Tantai Mingjing and Tantai Bingyu to discuss tomorrow’s battle.

• Tantai Bingyu mocked the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord over his Sacred Son’s past defeat, and the Holy Lord demanded that Gu Sheng accept a challenge for the next day.
• Gu Sheng agreed to fight if the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land delivered twenty million top-grade Spirit Stones, six jin of Earth Vein Tea, and two Venerable Realm martial techniques containing Dao Rhymes from the previous wager.
• Tantai Mingjing sent ten Venerable Realm protectors to seal Myriad Elephant Imperial City and threatened the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land if Gu Sheng was mistreated.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord agreed to deliver the wager that night and said he would personally watch the battle before withdrawing his projection.
• Yuan Batian noticed Gu Sheng’s unusual body and coexisting Dao Rhymes, then promised him a fortuitous opportunity if he earned a place in the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool.
• Gu Sheng told Yun Gucheng that Tantai Mingjing might stabilize Yun Meng’s condition, then went with him to Tantai Mingjing’s study, where Tantai Bingyu was waiting.

Gu Sheng discovered that a black hole inside Yun Meng was devouring her life force and suspected her condition was connected to the missing Fate Reversing Yang Plate. After agreeing to face the Myriad Phenomena Holy Son, Shi Wufeng, he learned that the witnessed duel would prohibit external treasures and divine weapons.

• Tantai Mingjing stabilized Yun Meng while Gu Sheng investigated her body and found a black hole consuming her life force.
• Gu Sheng connected the black hole’s aura to the Fate Controlling Yin Plate and suspected the Fate Reversing Yang Plate could help save Yun Meng and reveal its whereabouts.
• Gu Sheng told Yun Gucheng he had leads but withheld his findings, and Yun Gucheng left with Yun Meng.
• Tantai Mingjing suggested Yun Gucheng could become a valuable ally, then warned Gu Sheng that Shi Wufeng’s Venerable Realm made their upcoming fight extremely dangerous.
• Tantai Bingyu offered to fight Shi Wufeng in Gu Sheng’s place, but Tantai Mingjing rejected the idea; Gu Sheng insisted he would accept the duel and was confident of victory.
• Tantai Mingjing explained that the witnessed life-and-death arena forbade both fighters from using external treasures or divine weapons.

The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord learned that Gu Sheng was connected to the Fate Command inheritance and ordered Shi Wufeng to kill him and capture his soul after tomorrow’s duel. Meanwhile, Gu Sheng absorbed the Virtual Spirit Source in the Myriad Treasure Hall, pushing his sea of consciousness toward the ninth-rank threshold.

• Tantai Mingjing warned Gu Sheng that tomorrow’s arena duel would allow no surrender, and Gu Sheng thanked him before leaving.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord ordered Shi Wufeng to deliver Lu Chensong’s lost items to Gu Sheng and demanded that Shi Wufeng win their duel decisively.
• After receiving news linking Gu Sheng to the Fate Command, the Holy Lord gave Shi Wufeng a Soul Devouring Bone Banner and ordered him to kill Gu Sheng outside the city and capture his soul.
• Su Youwei observed Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao cultivating, concluded that her identity had not been exposed, and joined their cultivation.
• Gu Sheng absorbed the Virtual Spirit Source so rapidly that his sea of consciousness expanded toward the ninth-rank spirit rune master threshold.

Gu Sheng forcibly compressed and purified his mental power, breaking through to the ninth grade after enduring hours of soul-rending pain. Tantai Mingjing sensed the breakthrough, discovered the extraordinary stability of his sea of consciousness, and grew even more curious about him.

• Gu Sheng used Soul Power to restrain his expanding sea of consciousness and compress the Virtual Spirit Source's mental power into dense gelatinous energy and tiny solid crystals.
• Qin Ling'er recognized the danger of Gu Sheng's method and attributed his ability to endure it to the protections established by Tantai Xue Li and Tantai Xuefei.
• Gu Sheng broke through to the ninth grade and unconsciously spread his mental perception across a thousand miles, reaching Tantai Mingjing in her workshop.
• Tantai Mingjing recognized Gu Sheng's breakthrough, investigated his room, and found his sea of consciousness exceptionally stable and his control of mental power remarkably refined.
• Tantai Mingjing sent Taiyin Spirit Nurturing Light to help Gu Sheng, but he instinctively drew out its essence with precise control, further astonishing her.

Gu Sheng completed his third spiritual power refinement, reaching the ninth grade while still at the seventh level of the Sect Realm, and discussed the upcoming auction with Tantai Mingjing. After Shi Wufeng arrived seeking a meeting, Gu Sheng checked on his companions and helped Gu Yuanyuan begin cultivating her spiritual power with a Spirit Nourishing Ancient Soul.

• Gu Sheng told Tantai Mingjing that the Virtual Spirit Source had helped him complete his third refinement and reach the threshold of ninth-grade spiritual power, astonishing her.
• Tantai Mingjing warned Gu Sheng that the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land auction would draw many competitors, mentioned the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land's debt to him, and explained that Xue Li and Xue Fei had visited the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land.
• A Myriad Treasure Hall attendant told Gu Sheng that Shi Wufeng, the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land's Holy Son, had come to request an audience, and Gu Sheng arranged for him to wait in a quiet room.
• Gu Sheng invited Su Youwei to the auction, but she declined and said Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao were still cultivating.
• Gu Sheng praised Qi Diao Yaoyao's growing control of her bloodline power and gave Gu Yuanyuan a Spirit Nourishing Ancient Soul to absorb, beginning to awaken and strengthen her spiritual power.

Gu Sheng helped Gu Yuanyuan absorb a simulated Virtual Spirit Source to strengthen her sea of consciousness and promised Qi Diao Yaoyao suitable treasures after she advanced her spirit body. He then took them to the Myriad Treasure Hall auction, where they received the luxurious Heavenly Armor private room and a thirty-million-top-grade-Spirit-Stone credit allowance from Tantai Mingjing.

• Gu Sheng guided Gu Yuanyuan in absorbing the remaining spiritual power of a simulated Virtual Spirit Source, strengthening her newly formed sea of consciousness.
• Qi Diao Yaoyao asked Gu Sheng for help improving her strength, and he promised her body-tempering medicines and treasures after her spirit body advanced and her foundation stabilized.
• Gu Sheng and Qi Diao Yaoyao headed toward the auction while Su Youwei reflected on Gu Sheng and his disciples’ unusual abilities and decided to observe them further.
• Miss Tantai and Tantai Xuefei returned from Heavenly Origin Sacred Land with information for Tantai Mingjing, then told Gu Sheng they would meet him at the auction.
• Elder Liu escorted Gu Sheng, Gu Yuanyuan, and Qi Diao Yaoyao to the Heavenly Armor private room and explained that Tantai Mingjing had granted Gu Sheng thirty million top-grade Spirit Stones in interest-free credit.
• Gu Yuanyuan admired the private room’s lavish furnishings and sensed that its rich spiritual energy could help her advance her cultivation quickly.

Gu Sheng brought Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao to the Heavenly Armor private room at the Myriad Treasure Hall, then went to the Appraisal Office to seek Spirit Stones for the auction. There, he encountered the powerful appraiser and Shi Wufeng, whose attempt to confront him was stopped by the old man.

• Qi Diao Yaoyao and Gu Yuanyuan were amazed by the Heavenly Armor private room, and Elder Liu told Gu Sheng how to request service.
• Gu Sheng asked the Myriad Treasure Hall to appraise and buy his Earth-grade-or-better secret arts, pill formulas, and unusual artifacts; Elder Liu agreed to arrange an appraisal.
• Gu Sheng declined to rely on Tantai Mingjing's thirty-million-top-grade-Spirit-Stone credit limit unless he truly needed it, then followed Elder Liu's directions to the Appraisal Office.
• Gu Sheng tested the crystal barrier around a quiet room and sensed that the old man inside was a powerful Half-Saint.
• Shi Wufeng confronted Gu Sheng over his delay, and Gu Sheng taunted him as a defeated general.
• Shi Wufeng's aura collapsed after the old man issued a warning, preventing him from attacking Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng accepted Shi Wufeng’s challenge to fight at Mountain Breaker Platform and exchanged a fragment of the Saint Realm Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash for an appraisal at Myriad Treasure Hall. The Half-Saint appraiser confirmed its extraordinary value, and Gu Sheng asked to have it added to the auction so he could raise enough Spirit Stones for his own bidding.

• Shi Wufeng challenged Gu Sheng to a life-and-death battle at Mountain Breaker Platform the next day, and Gu Sheng accepted after receiving the wager in Spirit Stones and a jade talisman containing the Myriad Phenomena Seal information.
• Gu Sheng entered Myriad Treasure Hall’s crystal appraisal chamber and offered to trade martial skills and secret arts for Spirit Stones.
• Gu Sheng inscribed a fragment of the Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash onto a Resonance Jade Talisman, exhausting himself as its Saint Realm aura filled the sealed chamber.
• The Half-Saint appraiser inspected the talisman and recognized the fragment as a rare, complete inheritance fragment with clear Saint Realm laws.
• Gu Sheng asked Myriad Treasure Hall to add the technique to its auction rather than buy it directly.

Gu Sheng entrusted two martial skill jade talismans to Myriad Treasure Hall for auction, then rejected Jiang Xuanshen’s attempt to draw him toward Qing Nang Sacred Land. Back in the Heavenly Armor private room, Miss Tantai told him that Gu Yuanyuan, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Miss Su had unlocked an ancient restriction in a Tantai Family secret realm and gained the first right to explore what lay beyond it.

• The Myriad Treasure Hall agreed to auction Gu Sheng’s Saint Realm martial skill without commission, and he also submitted the Myriad Phenomena Seal for auction.
• Gu Sheng passed through the crowded auction venue, where attendees discussed the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool entry token and the gathered sacred land and Ancient Clan forces.
• Jiang Xuanshen of Qing Nang Sacred Land approached Gu Sheng, asked whether he had obtained the Northern Star Emperor Venerable’s inheritance, and invited him to visit the sacred land; Gu Sheng refused and left.
• Gu Sheng returned to the Heavenly Armor private room, where Miss Tantai asked to speak with him privately.
• Miss Tantai revealed that Gu Yuanyuan, Qi Diao Yaoyao, and Miss Su had accidentally unlocked an ancient restriction in a Tantai Family secret realm, giving them the first right to explore the newly discovered region.

Gu Sheng agreed to join the first exploration of a newly discovered area after Ning Shuang and Qing Tan recovered, and assured Miss Tantai that he could defeat Shi Wufeng in their arena battle. As the auction began, he and Miss Tantai discussed his Pill Emperor inheritance and the risks of attracting powerful enemies, while the first lot drew fierce bidding.

• Miss Tantai invited Gu Sheng to join the first group exploring the new area and agreed to deliver his Spirit Stones and healing pills to the injured Ning Shuang and Qing Tan.
• Gu Sheng confirmed that he had accepted Shi Wufeng's arena challenge and told Miss Tantai he could kill him despite the gap in their cultivation.
• Gu Sheng offered to use the Unity of Spirit method to help Miss Tantai overcome her spiritual-power bottleneck, and she quietly agreed.
• Hong Xiao opened the auction by presenting the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art, whose bidding quickly rose past fifteen million top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Miss Tantai urged Gu Sheng to seek help from the Qing Nang Pill Saint, but Gu Sheng refused, citing their different approaches to the Northern Star Pill Emperor's legacy.
• Miss Tantai vowed that the Tantai Family would protect Gu Sheng, and he said he would avoid provoking Saint Realm experts until he had greater strength.

Gu Sheng accepted the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art after the Zi Xiao Saintess spent twenty million top-grade Spirit Stones to gift it to him, though he insisted he had never met her. The Saintess called herself Xue'er and hinted at a past parting, leaving Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai baffled as the auction moved on to its next treasure.

• Gu Sheng explained to Miss Tantai why he planned to defeat Shi Wufeng and why he believed the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land would not retaliate openly.
• The Zi Xiao Saintess won the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art with a bid of twenty million top-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Zi Xiao Saintess ordered the Myriad Treasure Hall attendant to deliver the jade slip to Gu Sheng in Room Heavenly Armor as a gift.
• Gu Sheng said he did not recognize the Saintess, but decided to keep the gift and wait to learn her intentions.
• The Saintess addressed Gu Sheng as someone named Xue'er, recalled their supposed parting, and lamented that he had forgotten her; Gu Sheng gave no reply.
• Auctioneer Hong Xiao introduced a ten-thousand-year Nine Apertures Spirit Jade Ginseng as the second auction item.

At the auction, Gu Sheng realized that the Zi Xiao Saintess was likely Jin'er, the woman he had met in the Hall of a Thousand Souls ruins. He then auctioned the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land’s Mountain Overturning Sea Palm, provoking Shi Wufeng, while the Saintess challenged Shi Wufeng’s attempt to intimidate bidders.

• Gu Sheng recognized clues linking the Zi Xiao Saintess to Jin'er, his former companion from the Hall of a Thousand Souls ruins.
• Hong Xiao presented the upper-grade Venerable Realm Mountain Overturning Sea Palm, which included its creator’s Dao rhythm imprint.
• Shi Wufeng recognized the martial skill as the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land’s compensation to Gu Sheng and bid twenty million top-grade Spirit Stones while warning others not to compete.
• Hong Xiao rebuked Shi Wufeng for threatening bidders, and Gu Sheng explained that he had auctioned the skill to raise funds and provoke Shi Wufeng into bidding.
• The Zi Xiao Saintess mocked the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land and bid twenty million top-grade Spirit Stones plus one low-grade Spirit Stone.

Zi Xiao Saintess drove Shi Wufeng to stake a Hundred Saints Dao Fruit to win the Mountain Overturning Sea Palm, then visited Gu Sheng. Gu Sheng suspected she was Jin’er but found no trace of the soul imprint he had placed on Jin’er, leaving her identity uncertain.

• Zi Xiao Saintess mocked Shi Wufeng and raised her bid for the Mountain Overturning Sea Palm to thirty-eight million top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Shi Wufeng ignored his elder’s warning, mobilized Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land’s resources, and pledged a Hundred Saints Dao Fruit as collateral for a thirty-nine-million bid.
• Zi Xiao Saintess withdrew, and auctioneer Hong Xiao sold the Mountain Overturning Sea Palm to Shi Wufeng for thirty-nine million top-grade Spirit Stones.
• A purple-clad woman entered Gu Sheng’s private room and asked whether he could guess who she was.
• Gu Sheng suspected the woman was Jin’er, but his spiritual sense found none of the soul imprint he had left on her, making him question her identity.

Gu Sheng discovered that Jin'er had cultivated the forbidden Myriad Beings Way, allowing her consciousness to exist in multiple independent bodies. Jin'er asked him to become her Dao protector, but he withheld his answer and agreed to consider her proposal for a month.

• The Zi Xiao Saintess told Gu Sheng that she had not erased his soul imprint because he had never placed it in her body.
• Jin'er revealed herself through four bodies: the Zi Xiao Saintess, a girl in black, a Myriad Treasure Hall maid, and auctioneer Hong Xiao.
• Gu Sheng identified Jin'er's technique as the forbidden Myriad Beings Way and warned her that the path could drive her mad and provoke the world to destroy her.
• Jin'er asked Gu Sheng to serve as her Dao protector and offered to use her avatars to gather intelligence, obtain resources, and infiltrate his enemies.
• Gu Sheng declined to decide immediately, and Jin'er gave him one month to answer through an avatar in the Myriad Treasure Hall.

Jin'er warned Gu Sheng that she would erase her clone if he exposed her, while Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai investigated how the Myriad Beings Way worked and considered the danger she posed. The auction then drew the Central Continent’s top powers after Gu Sheng offered a complete Saint Realm martial skill, and bidding began on the Heavenly Origin Token.

• Jin'er threatened to make the Zi Xiao Saintess clone disappear if Gu Sheng exposed her secret, then vanished with both Jin'er bodies.
• Gu Sheng explained to Miss Tantai that Jin'er’s clones required vulnerable near-death targets and that destroying her completely would mean finding every clone.
• Miss Tantai checked her family’s records and learned that the maidservant had nearly died twelve days earlier, while auctioneer Hong Xiao had no record of a recent fatal injury.
• Representatives of major powers, including Yan Yang Holy Son, Xuan Guang Saintess, Tian Shu Elder, and the Sword Son, arrived at the auction after news spread of Gu Sheng’s complete Saint Realm martial skill.
• Hong Xiao unveiled the Heavenly Origin Token, and powerful bidders quickly drove its price close to thirty million top-grade Spirit Stones.