Chapter Summaries

The Zi Xiao Saintess won the Heavenly Origin Token for fifty million top-grade Spirit Stones, then urged the auction to move directly to its mysterious final item. Gu Sheng agreed to accept valuable treasures in exchange for his complete Saint Realm Ultimate Skill, and the bidding opened with several Heavenly Origin Tokens before the Zi Xiao Saintess offered a Saint Realm divine sword.

• The Zi Xiao Saintess bid fifty million top-grade Spirit Stones for the Heavenly Origin Token, and no one challenged her offer.
• Gu Sheng told Miss Tantai he would not compete for the token because its price was too high for his needs.
• Tantai Xuefei relayed Tantai Mingjing's suggestion to accept bartered treasures for Gu Sheng's auction item, and Gu Sheng approved a flexible exchange based on the value of a Heavenly Origin Token.
• Tantai Xuefei announced that the final auction item was a complete Saint Realm Ultimate Skill, with bids accepted in equivalent treasures rather than Spirit Stones.
• A bidder offered three Heavenly Origin Tokens, and the Zi Xiao Saintess countered with the Saint Realm divine weapon Purple Lightning Startling Swan Sword.

The auction for the Saint Realm Ultimate Skill Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash intensified as sacred lands offered rare treasures and services. Just as the Evil Flame Sacred Land appeared poised to win with three Hellfire Immortal Lotus petals, the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land intervened with a mysterious crimson pearl that stunned the experts present.

• The Heavenly Profound Sacred Land offered a Heavenly Profound Dao Fruit, while Gu Sheng considered its benefits but remained unimpressed.
• Jiang Xuanshen offered a Saint Realm pill furnace and three pill refinements by the Qing Nang Pill Saint, with the Qing Nang Sacred Land covering the ingredients it could obtain.
• Tantai Xuefei revealed that the skill was the fire-attribute Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash, believed to come from an unparalleled expert of the previous era.
• The Evil Flame Sacred Land offered three Hellfire Immortal Lotus petals, drawing Gu Sheng's interest because they could help transform his Southern Bright Leaving Fire.
• As Tantai Xuefei prepared to close the bidding, the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land declared that it wanted the skill and presented a mysterious crimson pearl whose ancient Dao essence shocked several experts.

Gu Sheng recognized the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land’s scarlet bead as the Great Dao Nirvana Bead and ordered the seller to accept it in exchange for the Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash. After the auction, he left the city to meet the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land and arrived at a desolate mountain region, while Shi Wufeng was forced to wait for their life-and-death battle the next day.

• Gu Sheng identified the scarlet bead as the Great Dao Nirvana Bead and told Miss Tantai to accept the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land’s offer.
• Tantai Xuefei confirmed the exchange, and the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land sent Gu Sheng a flame jade pendant with a message to meet outside the city.
• Gu Sheng explained to Miss Tantai why the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land would not attack him before the arena battle, then left the auction disguised among the crowd.
• Shi Wufeng ordered Third Elder to kill Gu Sheng, but Third Elder refused because the Holy Lord had ordered Gu Sheng to die openly in the arena.
• Gu Sheng used his VIP token to leave the city and followed a guiding mental force southeast to a desolate mountain region.
• Gu Sheng reached the meeting place and waited for the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land’s representative.

Gu Sheng met Li Yanxin, the Second Elder of the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land, who confirmed that Tantai Qingxuan was safe and training in an Eastern Wasteland battlefield. After three attackers ambushed Gu Sheng for the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art, he emerged unscathed from their leader’s powerful lightning strike.

• Li Yanxin confronted Gu Sheng about the Blazing Heaven Sacred Order, and he explained that Tantai Qingxuan’s Sacred Lord had given it to him.
• Li Yanxin told Gu Sheng that Tantai Qingxuan had entered the Venerable Realm and was training in an Eastern Wasteland battlefield guarded by the First Elder.
• Li Yanxin sensed hostile auras approaching from the Imperial City, while Gu Sheng used his spiritual power to locate the attackers and declined her offer to intervene.
• Three black-clad men surrounded Gu Sheng with a space-imprisonment formation and demanded the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art and his valuables.
• The leader unleashed a lightning attack as the other two men joined in, but Gu Sheng stood unharmed after the strike destroyed the mountaintop.

Gu Sheng killed the hidden attackers who had come for him and the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art, then faced five powerful Heavenly King Realm experts. He broke the formation elder’s spiritual attack and crippled him, while the other four remained poised to attack.

• Gu Sheng killed three black-clad attackers in moments, then detected and killed a concealed second-level Heavenly King Realm elder.
• Gu Sheng forced five more Heavenly King Realm experts out of hiding, including a red-haired young man who demanded the Qing Nang Leaving Fire Art and Gu Sheng’s body cultivation technique.
• The five experts surrounded Gu Sheng with the Spirit Sealing Immortal Trapping Formation and launched coordinated attacks.
• Gu Sheng stepped through the formation, shattering the elder’s spiritual threads with his own power and inflicting a backlash that wounded the elder’s sea of consciousness.
• Gu Sheng redirected a thread into the elder’s brow, devastating his sea of consciousness and leaving his cultivation crippled.

Gu Sheng crippled a Heavenly King Realm elder, used a Spiritual Power false body to draw his pursuers away, and returned to finish the elder and destroy his soul. When the enraged red-haired young man confronted him, Gu Sheng struck back and sent him flying with a devastating palm.

• Gu Sheng invaded the elder’s sea of consciousness, leaving him helpless, then evaded the four experts’ attacks and fled north.
• Gu Sheng created a Spiritual Power false body that continued north while his true body escaped south and circled back toward the battlefield.
• Gu Sheng killed the deranged elder with a punch and annihilated the elder’s fleeing soul with Spiritual Power blades.
• The red-haired young man realized Gu Sheng had deceived them and led the other experts back to the battlefield.
• The red-haired young man attacked Gu Sheng with two flaming divine birds, but Gu Sheng dispersed them with his palm and sent the young man flying, badly injured.

Gu Sheng shattered the red-haired Heavenly King’s Fire God Shield and killed him while Li Yanxin prevented a hidden Saint from intervening. The Saint revealed that Gu Sheng had put the Saint Realm Ultimate Skill Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash up for auction, deepening Li Yanxin’s curiosity as Gu Sheng continued fighting the remaining Heavenly Kings.

• Gu Sheng pursued the red-haired young man through attacks from three Heavenly King experts, blocking their techniques with Thousand Illusions Dao shields and his Glazed Golden Body.
• Gu Sheng opened more than twenty cave-heaven acupoints and struck the red-haired young man with Fist Suppresses Rivers and Mountains, cracking the Fire God Shield with his first punch and destroying it with his second.
• Li Yanxin warned a hidden Saint not to enter the battle, and the Saint told her that Gu Sheng had put the Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash up for auction.
• Gu Sheng caught the weakened red-haired young man and killed him with a precise strike between the brows.
• Li Yanxin watched Gu Sheng fight the remaining four Heavenly King experts and wondered how many secrets he was hiding.

Gu Sheng overwhelmed the remaining Heavenly King Realm experts after killing two of their companions, forcing Leng Yue to surrender and offer a token of allegiance. As Leng Yue fought Lei Gang, Gu Sheng defeated the saber-wielding man, leaving the outcome of the duel between Leng Yue and Lei Gang unresolved.

• Leng Yue admitted defeat and surrendered, while Lei Gang rejected surrender and attacked Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng evaded Lei Gang’s spear strike and demanded that Leng Yue prove her allegiance by turning against her former companions.
• Leng Yue reclaimed her icy sword and fought Lei Gang, while Gu Sheng attacked the saber-wielding man.
• The saber-wielding man burned his life force to unleash a desperate saber strike, but Gu Sheng used a Spirit Embryo Incarnation to take the blow and evade it.
• Gu Sheng shattered the saber-wielding man’s weapon and struck him in the chest, leaving him gravely wounded.

Gu Sheng defeated the attackers and bound the badly injured Leng Yue with a Soul Locking Seal, compelling her to serve him for ten years. As he prepared to take her away, several powerful figures from a sacred land arrived and shattered the remaining barrier.

• Gu Sheng killed the third Heavenly King Realm attacker, while Qin Ling'er complained that her Spirit Embryo Incarnation had been damaged protecting him.
• Leng Yue defeated Lei Gang, but he triggered a self-destruction; she escaped the blast with severe injuries and her cultivation fell to the third level of the Heavenly King Realm.
• Gu Sheng approached Leng Yue and kept his promise that she would live if Lei Gang died.
• Gu Sheng placed a Soul Locking Seal in Leng Yue's sea of consciousness and ordered her to serve him obediently for ten years, after which the seal would dissolve.
• As Gu Sheng prepared to take Leng Yue away, several powerful arrivals from a sacred land approached from the southeast and effortlessly destroyed the remaining restriction.

After Gu Sheng survived the ambush, the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord offered to end their feud and recruit him, but Gu Sheng refused and insisted on tomorrow’s arena battle. As he returned to the Myriad Treasure Hall with Ning An, a hidden observer from the Evil Flame Sacred Land considered turning the coming battle into a chance to win Gu Sheng’s favor.

• Shi Wufeng and the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord arrived at the devastated battlefield, and the Holy Lord praised Gu Sheng before offering him a place in the sacred land and a canceled arena match.
• Gu Sheng rejected the offer, insulted Shi Wufeng, and warned the Holy Lord against acting against him before the match; the Holy Lord then withdrew with his group.
• Li Yanxin emerged from hiding and explained that the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord had sensed her Saint Realm aura, then told Gu Sheng that the Blazing Heaven Holy Lord might soon meet him over the Hundred Phoenixes Burning Heaven Slash.
• Gu Sheng took the injured Ning An back to the Myriad Treasure Hall, while a white-haired man from the Evil Flame Sacred Land decided to watch the arena battle and possibly protect Gu Sheng to earn his favor.
• At the Myriad Treasure Hall, Gu Sheng introduced Ning An to Tantai Mingjing, Miss Tantai, and Tantai Xuefei as a former attacker who had surrendered and agreed to serve him.

Gu Sheng accepted Heavenly Origin Sacred Land’s wager on his life-or-death battle with Shi Wufeng and prepared for the fight. After returning to his room, he learned from Jin’er that the seal holding Nether River Venerable had weakened after Central Continent Sacred Lands clashed in Eastern Desolation, and that the fiend might be connected to the Blood Demon Clan and ancient powers.

• Gu Sheng told Tantai Mingjing he had spared Ning An after she pledged allegiance, and Tantai Mingjing provided her with healing pills.
• Gu Sheng declared he was certain to defeat Shi Wufeng and accepted Heavenly Origin Sacred Land’s wager, which promised a Heavenly Origin Token and Treasure Pool access if he won, or protection and a Guest Elder position if he lost.
• Tantai Mingjing arranged for Gu Sheng’s auction purchases and Great Dao Nirvana Bead to be delivered and waived the commission on his consigned items.
• Gu Sheng settled Ning An in a guest room, then found Jin’er waiting in his room and heard that Nether River Venerable’s seal had loosened after Saint Realm experts from Central Continent Sacred Lands fought near it.
• Jin’er told Gu Sheng that Nether River Venerable might be a pawn connected to the Blood Demon Clan and ancient forces, explaining why the Sacred Lands feared the consequences of his release.

After Jin'er warned Gu Sheng that Nether River Venerable's escape could herald a wider crisis, Gu Sheng used the Great Dao Nirvana Bead to perfect his Thousand Illusions Dao before his duel with Shi Wufeng. Meanwhile, the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord bolstered Shi Wufeng's confidence and urged him to kill Gu Sheng and seize the Great Dao he might possess.

• Jin'er told Gu Sheng she sought to perfect the Myriad Beings Way to protect herself from a looming threat connected to Nether River Venerable's escape, and left further details for when he accepted her pledge of allegiance.
• Gu Sheng examined the Great Dao Nirvana Bead and decided to use it to perfect the flawed Thousand Illusions Dao in his Dao Body.
• Gu Sheng channeled the bead's nirvana radiance into his Thousand Illusions Dao Bones, repairing their flaws and deepening his understanding of the Dao.
• Shi Wufeng admitted to the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord that Gu Sheng's strength exceeded his expectations and that Gu Sheng had defeated five Heavenly King Realm experts.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord assured Shi Wufeng that his Venerable Realm cultivation gave him the advantage and told him to kill Gu Sheng and claim the Great Dao that might be hidden within him.

Gu Sheng’s Diviner Dao absorbed the Great Dao Nirvana Bead’s power, interrupting his Thousand Illusions Dao refinement but awakening a new ability to predict immediate changes. As he set out with Miss Tantai for the life-and-death arena, he noticed a hidden karmic line linking Jin’er’s maid avatar to her shared consciousness and wondered whether the Diviner Dao could counter soul-dividing paths.

• Shi Wufeng received tacit approval from the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord and renewed his intent to kill Gu Sheng.
• The Diviner Dao skull forcibly absorbed the Great Dao Nirvana Bead’s remaining power, leaving the Thousand Illusions Dao unfinished.
• Gu Sheng discovered that the Diviner Dao had gained the ability to predict microscopic changes and likely movements.
• After a night of adapting to his new ability, Gu Sheng met Miss Tantai and prepared to leave for the arena outside Heavenly Origin Imperial City.
• Gu Sheng noticed an illusory karmic line extending from Jin’er’s maid avatar and considered its connection to her divided soul and the Myriad Beings Way.

Gu Sheng arrived at the arena for his life-and-death battle with Shi Wufeng and faced insults and threats from the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord. With Tantai Mingjing and the Mountain-Suppressing Sacred King enforcing the rules, the match was announced and began with both fighters agreeing to the restrictions.

• Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai reached the crowded arena, where Tantai Mingjing introduced him to the Mountain-Suppressing Sacred King and confirmed that their wager still stood.
• Gu Sheng declared that he was certain to defeat Shi Wufeng, provoking the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord; Gu Sheng then challenged the Holy Lord to face him within three years.
• The Mountain-Suppressing Sacred King and Tantai Mingjing warned the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord not to interfere, and Gu Sheng was transported onto the arena.
• Shi Wufeng landed opposite Gu Sheng, but Gu Sheng cut off his threats by pointing out that the Venerable Realm fighter was challenging someone in the Origin Realm.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord gave a public justification for the duel and announced that Lifebound Magical Treasures and weapons beyond Gu Sheng's cultivation level were forbidden.
• Gu Sheng and Shi Wufeng accepted the arena rules, and the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord declared the battle begun.

Gu Sheng fought Shi Wufeng in a sealed arena, evading the Holy Son’s attacks and using his precise predictions to wound him. The battle ended with Shi Wufeng bleeding from two sword strikes as Gu Sheng pressed his advantage.

• Shi Wufeng demanded that Gu Sheng surrender and become a slave, but Gu Sheng retorted that Shi should cripple his cultivation and work as a servant.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord, Tantai Mingjing, and the Mountain-Suppressing Sacred King sealed and reinforced the arena before declaring the life-and-death battle underway.
• Shi Wufeng attacked with Mountain Overturning Sea Palm, but Gu Sheng dodged its range with a precise step.
• Gu Sheng used North Star God Slaying Sword · Shadow to predict Shi Wufeng’s Myriad Phenomena Spirit Transmutation Steps and stab him near the heart.
• Gu Sheng pursued the wounded Shi Wufeng, slipped between his twin palm strikes, and slashed his right chest deeply.

Gu Sheng survived Shi Wufeng’s Saint Realm strike, leaving Shi Wufeng shaken and his trump cards spent. Gu Sheng then launched a blazing sword assault, with more than two hundred flying swords closing in on Shi Wufeng as he tried to defend himself and escape.

• Shi Wufeng summoned a Saint Realm power sealed within him and shattered the void with a finger strike, but Gu Sheng escaped the direct hit and suffered severe injuries from the aftershock.
• Gu Sheng rapidly began healing with the Longevity Dao, while Shi Wufeng realized his strongest trump card had failed and his confidence crumbled.
• Tantai Mingjing and the Mountain-Suppressing Saint King challenged the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord over whether Shi Wufeng had broken the arena rules, and the Holy Lord argued that the sealed power was permitted.
• Gu Sheng told Shi Wufeng he had used all his trump cards, then rushed toward him and formed more than two hundred flame-wreathed qi swords.
• Gu Sheng sent the swords swarming toward Shi Wufeng from every direction, and Shi Wufeng desperately raised barriers and dodged.

Gu Sheng used his newly evolved Fate Dao and spiritual suppression to overwhelm Shi Wufeng, who fled and then begged for his life after Gu Sheng’s swords badly wounded him. The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord nearly intervened, but Tantai Mingjing and the Mountain-Suppressing Holy King confronted him and demanded that he honor the life-and-death arena rules.

• Shi Wufeng’s shattered defense gave way, and he fled from Gu Sheng’s pursuing divine-flame swords as spectators mocked him.
• Tantai Xuefei and Miss Tantai suspected Shi Wufeng’s strange behavior came from spiritual suppression interfering with his judgment.
• Gu Sheng revealed that he had used materialized spiritual power to suppress Shi Wufeng while testing his new Fate Dao prediction ability.
• Gu Sheng accelerated his flying swords, which pierced Shi Wufeng and left him gravely wounded on the arena floor.
• Shi Wufeng knelt and pleaded for mercy, provoking the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord’s fury.
• Tantai Mingjing and the Mountain-Suppressing Holy King stopped the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord from interfering and reminded him that the arena rules required the fight to continue until death.

Gu Sheng revealed that he had secretly interfered with Shi Wufeng’s mind, then attacked his sea of consciousness as the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord ordered Shi Wufeng to self-destruct. Shi Wufeng began burning his origin to take Gu Sheng with him, and Gu Sheng summoned his Spirit Embryo Incarnation as Qin Ling'er offered to detonate it to blunt the blast.

• Gu Sheng refused Shi Wufeng’s plea for mercy and explained that Shi Wufeng had left him no choice by trying to kill him.
• Shi Wufeng realized Gu Sheng had suppressed his mind during their fight, and Gu Sheng confirmed his spiritual interference before striking Shi Wufeng’s sea of consciousness.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord urged Shi Wufeng to self-destruct and promised to protect his family, so Shi Wufeng chose to perish with Gu Sheng rather than die in disgrace.
• As Shi Wufeng began burning his origin, Gu Sheng summoned his Spirit Embryo Incarnation between them.
• Qin Ling'er told Gu Sheng she could detonate the incarnation to counter most of Shi Wufeng’s self-destruction, though doing so would severely damage her Spirit Embryo origin.

Shi Wufeng self-destructed at the life-and-death arena, and Qin Ling'er sacrificed the Spirit Embryo Incarnation to shield Gu Sheng from the blast. Gu Sheng was left as a cracked Dao Bone amid the crater, his fate unclear, while Tantai Xueli threatened to destroy the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land if he died.

• Qin Ling'er told Gu Sheng she would self-destruct the Spirit Embryo Incarnation to protect him, and he promised to survive and wake her.
• Shi Wufeng's Venerable Realm origin exploded, devastating the arena as the Mountain-Suppressing Sacred King tried to intervene and the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord blocked him.
• The Spirit Embryo Incarnation burned its remaining origin and canceled more than seventy percent of the blast's first wave before completely dissipating.
• Gu Sheng used the Thirty-Six Heavenly Caves Divine Art to regenerate, but the remaining force stripped away his flesh and left only a cracked Dao Bone beneath his intact head.
• After the explosion subsided, spectators wondered whether Gu Sheng had survived, and Miss Tantai sensed a faint familiar aura that then vanished.
• Tantai Xueli accused the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord and vowed that the Tantai Family and Myriad Treasure Hall would annihilate the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land if Gu Sheng died.

Gu Sheng survived Shi Wufeng’s self-destruction with only his damaged Dao Bone and head remaining, shocking the audience. He accused the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord of interfering with his Fate Dao and vowed to demand an explanation at the Sacred Land within three years, while the Holy Lord left without responding.

• Miss Tantai threatened the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord with the Tantai Family’s revenge if Gu Sheng died.
• The dust settled and revealed that Gu Sheng had survived the blast, though his body was destroyed and his Dao Bone was badly cracked.
• Gu Sheng realized Qin Ling’er’s sacrifice and the resilience of his Dao Body had saved him, then suspected outside interference had concealed Shi Wufeng’s self-destruction from his Fate Dao.
• Tantai Mingjing praised Gu Sheng, and the Mountain-Suppressing Saint King honored Heavenly Origin Sacred Land’s wager by promising him the Heavenly Origin Token and access to the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool.
• Gu Sheng accused the Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord of secretly interfering with his Great Dao and vowed to visit the Myriad Phenomena Sacred Land within three years to demand an explanation.
• The Myriad Phenomena Holy Lord left through a tear in space without answering Gu Sheng.