Chapter Summaries

After defeating Shi Wufeng, Gu Sheng was taken to Miss Tantai’s private room to recover while Chuan Xu reported the battle to the Nether River Venerable, who ordered him to keep watching Gu Sheng and work through hidden agents. As Gu Sheng began rebuilding his body, his reborn Dao Bones proved stronger than before, and he suspected the ordeal might help him break through his cultivation bottleneck.

• Miss Tantai rushed to Gu Sheng after the spatial lockdown lifted, and Tantai Mingjing transported them to safety at her request.
• Tantai Mingjing noticed Tantai Xuefei watching Gu Sheng and resolved to encourage her to pursue him more actively.
• Chuan Xu secretly reported Gu Sheng’s victory and survival to the Nether River Venerable, who instructed him to monitor Gu Sheng and gather intelligence about his adopted daughter without confronting Gu Sheng directly.
• Miss Tantai brought Gu Sheng to her private quiet room in Myriad Treasure Hall, where she prepared the formations and stood guard while he began healing.
• Gu Sheng used the Longevity Dao and Thirty-Six Heavenly Caves Divine Art to mend his Dao Bones, which rapidly grew stronger and led him to wonder whether the destruction could trigger a breakthrough.

Gu Sheng recovered from his injuries with a stronger body and broke through to the ninth level of the Sect Realm, then chose to postpone his Human King Realm breakthrough until after the secret realm or Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool. With the secret realm expedition approaching, he summoned Jin'er's avatar to investigate his new ability to perceive the Myriad Beings Way and began questioning her about hidden observers at the arena battle.

• Gu Sheng completed his bodily reconstruction, gaining strength equivalent to forty-five acupoints and breaking through two levels to reach the ninth level of the Sect Realm.
• Gu Sheng decided to save the Human King Pill and delay his attempt to enter the Human King Realm until after exploring the secret realm or entering the Heavenly Origin Treasure Pool.
• Miss Tantai embraced Gu Sheng after his recovery, gave him the Heavenly Origin Token, and discussed the upcoming secret realm expedition with him.
• Gu Sheng asked Miss Tantai to summon Jin'er's avatar so he could test the Fate Dao resonance he had gained from refining the Great Dao Nirvana Bead.
• Gu Sheng perceived a karmic thread linked to Jin'er's maid avatar and asked her about a young woman and an old woman who had secretly watched the arena battle.

Gu Sheng learned that Jin'er was the inheritor of the Myriad Beings Way and had been tasked by a mysterious being from across time to assist the Arbiter of Fate. After leaving Heavenly Origin Imperial City with Miss Tantai, he reached Rift Valley near Sky-Piercing Imperial City, where they met Tantai relatives waiting to explore the secret realm.

• Jin'er acknowledged that her incarnations were linked to her true body and recognized Gu Sheng's Arbiter of Fate Way.
• Jin'er said a mysterious being had given her the Myriad Beings Way inheritance and ordered her to help the current Arbiter of Fate inheritor confront a future calamity.
• Jin'er proposed fusing her soul's origin with Gu Sheng's Arbiter of Fate Yin Disk, which would let him sense and influence her incarnations while hiding her aura.
• Jin'er revealed that the Myriad Beings Heavenly Emperor, founder of her path, had been the wife of the first-generation Arbiter of Fate.
• Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai left for Sky-Piercing Imperial City and traveled to Rift Valley, where groups of martial artists had gathered to enter a secret realm.
• Tantai Qingyao greeted Miss Tantai and excitedly praised Gu Sheng for his arena victory.

Gu Sheng entered the Kongxuan Secret Realm with Miss Tantai, reunited with Gu Ningshuang, Shen Qingtian, and Yu Rou, and helped them uncover a hidden gateway beneath ancient ruins. The group emerged in a peaceful, spirit-rich land that appeared to be a world within the secret realm.

• Gu Sheng learned that Shen Qingtian and Gu Ningshuang had entered the secret realm earlier, then went inside with Miss Tantai when the entrance allowed another group through.
• Gu Sheng sensed the others in the ancient forest and reunited with Gu Ningshuang, who embraced him before asking whether he was safe.
• Shen Qingtian discovered that Gu Sheng had reached the ninth level of the Grandmaster Realm, and she vowed to defeat her brother herself after returning to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Shen Qingtian led the group to the ruins of an ancient palace and explained that a damaged formation beneath the rubble concealed another place.
• Gu Sheng powered the formation with his true energy, and the group was transported from the ruins to a tranquil land filled with spiritual energy and rare herbs.

In the Kongxuan Secret Realm, Miss Tantai’s Heavenly Demon Vine offshoot devoured the demonic plants ambushing Gu Sheng’s group, and they continued deeper to seek the realm’s core or an exit. In Great Desolation City, the Heavenly Star Saintess dismissed the Eastern Wasteland’s talent and mocked Gu Sheng before a vast pillar of crimson-gold flames erupted near the arena.

• Miss Tantai’s Heavenly Demon Vine offshoot counterattacked the ambushing vines, drained their life essence, and protected Gu Sheng’s group.
• Gu Sheng explained that the attackers were low-intelligence demonic plants and directed Miss Tantai to use her offshoot to scout and devour more of them.
• Miss Tantai sent the offshoot ahead, and Gu Sheng’s group cautiously advanced through the Kongxuan Secret Realm in search of its core or an exit.
• The Heavenly Star Saintess defeated five Great Desolation Sacred Academy true disciples, including Xia Furong, and scorned the Eastern Wasteland before Fan Mingli praised Gu Sheng’s strength.
• The Heavenly Star Saintess dismissed Gu Sheng as a Sect Realm ant, then a towering pillar of crimson-gold fire erupted beside the arena and forced her to retreat behind a starlight barrier.

Qing'er defended Gu Sheng by forcing the Heavenly Star Saintess to apologize, backed by the Blazing Heaven Holy Lord. Meanwhile, Gu Sheng's group reached the palace complex at the heart of the Kongxuan Secret Realm and discovered signs that someone had recently been there, despite the secret entrance being sealed.

• Qing'er revealed that Gu Sheng was the Qin Family's Second Young Master and threatened to kill the Heavenly Star Saintess unless she apologized for insulting him.
• The Heavenly Star Saintess apologized, and the Blazing Heaven Holy Lord's phantom suppressed an attempted intervention by the Heavenly Star Sacred Land.
• Qing'er told her Dao-protecting elder that she owed Gu Sheng for helping her and would defend him even if the whole world opposed her.
• Gu Sheng's group reached the ancient palace complex that Shen Qingtian believed held the secret realm's core and clues to the Divine Craftsman Inheritance.
• Gu Sheng sensed fresh spiritual traces left within the past half hour, prompting the others to question how anyone could have entered the sealed secret realm.

Gu Sheng and Miss Tantai used Unity of Spirit to uncover signs that an unknown outsider had entered the hidden hall, then led their group inside. They found the hall ransacked and encountered three Sacred Land disciples searching for a target, while Qin Yurou’s Treasure Seeking Mouse behaved strangely by sleeping instead of sensing treasure.

• Gu Sheng detected concealed spiritual traces and used Unity of Spirit with Miss Tantai, who sensed a strange aura and remnants of a spiritual barrier.
• Gu Sheng warned the group, broke the barrier with his spiritual power, and led everyone to the main hall.
• Bone Chi, Mei Qi, and Shadow Kill realized the intruders had arrived and agreed to kill them while continuing their search for the target object.
• Gu Sheng and the others opened the hall doors and found signs that its contents had been forcibly searched and removed.
• Qin Yurou noticed that Little White, her Treasure Seeking Mouse, was asleep despite having been excited to enter the hall during their previous visit.

Gu Sheng deduced that a Holy Land faction had already plundered the secret realm, but Little White soon sensed an extraordinary hidden treasure deeper inside. As the group reached its source, a third-level Venerable Realm man and two companions appeared, and Gu Sheng shielded the women from his pressure before demanding to know who he was.

• Gu Sheng concluded that an organized faction, likely from a Holy Land, had stripped the core region of its treasures, and Miss Tantai revealed she could summon Saint Realm incarnations but agreed not to use them yet.
• Little White suddenly sensed a peerless treasure, so Gu Sheng gave Qin Yurou and Shen Qingtian Great Teleportation Ancient Talismans as an escape measure.
• Following Little White to a ruined side hall, the group found the treasure's aura concealed by a powerful restriction.
• Before Miss Tantai could raise a barrier, a tall, burly third-level Venerable Realm man appeared with two companions and threatened to spare only one of the five.
• Gu Sheng protected the four women by resisting the man's pressure with a pale golden barrier, then asked the stranger who he was and why he had entered the secret realm.

Gu Sheng resisted the Heavenly Charm Saintess’s technique and clashed with Bone Chi, revealing blood energy and a body far beyond what his Sect Realm should allow. After Bone Chi’s Saint Realm saber art failed to wound him, Gu Sheng appeared behind him and struck for his neck.

• The cloaked woman tried to charm Gu Sheng, but he broke her influence with his spiritual power and Fatekeeper Dao resonance.
• Gu Sheng summoned the North Star God Slaying Sword and met Bone Chi’s renewed pressure with overwhelming golden blood energy.
• Bone Chi used his ghost-headed saber and the Saint Realm Ultimate Skill Purple Emperor Devours Heaven Slash against Gu Sheng.
• The clash threw Miss Tantai and the other three women into a wall, but Gu Sheng remained standing as Bone Chi’s saber failed to pierce his body.
• As Bone Chi recovered from his shock, Gu Sheng vanished and swept his sword toward Bone Chi’s neck from behind.

Gu Sheng wounded Bone Chi and Tantai Xue Li invoked her family’s Saint Realm incarnation to halt the Sacred Lands’ attempt to claim the hidden region. Tantai Mingjing confronted Yuwen Ruo, who summoned the Saint Realm figure behind his group, setting up a negotiation between powerful representatives.

• Gu Sheng disrupted Bone Chi’s attack and slit his throat, prompting Bone Chi to reach for a Saint Realm jade talisman.
• Tantai Xue Li identified herself as a direct-line member of the Tantai Family and threatened to summon its Saint Realm power, then disputed the Sacred Lands’ claim to the hidden region.
• Yuwen Ruo calmed Bone Chi, introduced himself as a candidate Holy Son of the Divine Profound Sacred Land, and recognized Gu Sheng from his victory over Shi Wufeng.
• Gu Sheng suggested calling Senior Mingjing to negotiate, and he and Tantai Xue Li detected Yuwen Ruo’s concealed barriers.
• Tantai Xue Li shattered her incarnation pearl, summoning Tantai Mingjing, who demanded that Yuwen Ruo call out the person behind him.
• Yuwen Ruo crushed a black jade pendant, summoning an elderly Saint Realm figure who emerged and faced Tantai Mingjing.

Tantai Mingjing returned with Yuwen Ku and declared that the Tantai Family would avoid conflict with the three Sacred Lands in the secret realm, forcing Xue Li to accept the order. She then secretly asked Gu Sheng to obtain the object the Sacred Lands sought, offering to unconditionally do one thing for him in return.

• Tantai Mingjing and Yuwen Ku left the hall, while Mei Qi confronted Gu Sheng over his criticism of her seduction art and his knowledge of Yu Liuli.
• Gu Sheng invoked Xue Li and Tantai Ancestor's backing, and Mei Qi put away her Sacred Realm mirror but threatened to report him to her sect.
• Tantai Mingjing and Yuwen Ku returned and announced that the Tantai Family would not compete or provoke the three Sacred Lands within the secret realm.
• Tantai Mingjing ordered Xue Li to comply, and Xue Li reluctantly agreed not to clash with the three Sacred Lands.
• Tantai Mingjing privately told Gu Sheng that her family needed the object the three Sacred Lands sought and offered him one unconditional favor if he obtained it.

Gu Sheng accepted Tantai Mingjing’s bargain to seek a space-and-creation treasure, while the three Sacred Lands pursued their own objectives in the secret realm. After the Tantai Family arranged resources to keep Gu Sheng’s dying acquaintance alive, Gu Sheng led his companions away from the ruined hall and secretly shielded them from surveillance.

• Gu Sheng bargained with Tantai Mingjing for three promises if he obtained the hidden treasure, or one if he kept it from the three Sacred Lands, and then accepted her terms.
• Yuwen Ku warned Yuwen Ruo to watch Gu Sheng and the Tantai Family, suspecting that Tantai Mingjing had made a covert move.
• At the Myriad Treasure Hall, Tantai Bingyu told Yun Gucheng that the unconscious girl on the jade marrow bed was someone Gu Sheng wanted protected and gave him a year’s supply of resources to sustain her life.
• Yun Gucheng privately made a request of Tantai Bingyu, who said she would pass it on to her sister, Tantai Mingjing.
• Back in the ruined hall, Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi told Gu Sheng and the Tantai group not to obstruct the Sacred Lands, and Gu Sheng led his companions away.
• When Shen Qingtian began to question their retreat, Gu Sheng silenced her and raised a barrier that blocked sound and spiritual surveillance before addressing the group.

Gu Sheng learned that Tantai Mingjing wanted the secret realm’s treasure, which was tied to space and creation, and set out for it when it awakened. Bone Chi intercepted him at Yuwen Ruo’s command, and Gu Sheng faced a killing-intent attack as the contest among the younger fighters began.

• Gu Sheng told Miss Tantai and the others about Tantai Mingjing’s offer of rewards if he secured the treasure or kept it from the three Sacred Lands.
• Miss Tantai offered Gu Sheng an ancestor’s protective jade pendant, but he returned it and urged her to keep it for herself and the others.
• Miss Tantai arranged for Gu Ningshuang, Shen Qingtian, and Qin Yurou to cultivate and watch the flower sea, while Gu Sheng gave Gu Ningshuang a small sword containing Ju Que Holy Lord’s sword insights.
• A brilliant radiance erupted from the secret realm’s central ruined hall, and Gu Sheng recognized it as the treasure connected to space and creation before racing toward it.
• Yuwen Ruo, Mei Qi, and Bone Chi also headed for the hall, and Yuwen Ruo ordered Bone Chi to kill Gu Sheng while the Saint Realm experts were occupied.
• Bone Chi intercepted Gu Sheng and unleashed Blood Prison Killing Intent Slash as Gu Sheng tried to break through with his speed.

Gu Sheng resisted Bone Chi’s killing-intent Dao essence with his blood and qi, but Bone Chi drew on the Saint-grade divine weapon Erosion Star and pierced him twice. As Bone Chi prepared another attack, Gu Sheng secretly awakened Qin Ling'er and remained intent on reaching the treasure above the ruined main hall.

• Gu Sheng used his blood and qi, strengthened by his Dao essences, to resist Bone Chi’s killing-intent blade lights and close in on him.
• Bone Chi summoned the Saint-grade divine weapon Erosion Star, transformed himself with the ghost-headed saber’s blood fiend energy, and fired three arrows at Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng dodged two arrows, but the third pierced his shoulder; he healed most of the wound with the Longevity Dao essence and his blood and qi.
• Bone Chi fired another volley, and an arrow pierced Gu Sheng’s chest near his heart.
• Gu Sheng secretly awakened Qin Ling'er and told her he needed her help, while keeping his attention on the treasure above the ruined main hall.
• Bone Chi threatened to kill Gu Sheng and claimed Tantai Mingjing was being restrained by his ancestor.

Gu Sheng fought Bone Chi while Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi reached the Innate Spirit Embryo and tried to claim it. Qin Ling'er appeared, revealed her connection to the Spirit Race, and froze Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi in place with an overwhelming power.

• Gu Sheng endured Bone Chi's relentless blood-arrow attacks and remained unable to break through toward the main hall.
• Yuwen Ruo used an ancient Saint Emperor seal to suppress the Innate Spirit Embryo, revealing its infant-like form, and Mei Qi moved to collect it.
• Qin Ling'er appeared between Mei Qi and the Spirit Embryo, explained that its divine soul had been erased, and asked them to give it to her.
• Yuwen Ruo attacked Qin Ling'er with spiritual spears, but they passed through her because she had no sea of consciousness.
• Yuwen Ruo summoned the Spirit Gu Bell and ordered an attack, but Qin Ling'er gathered crystalline motes that froze Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi's consciousness and left them unable to move.

Qin Ling'er subdued Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi, seized the Innate Spirit Embryo, and returned to help Gu Sheng kill Bone Chi. With the battle won, she explained that the Spirit Embryo could help her undergo an important transformation.

• Qin Ling'er froze Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi with her strange power, then took the Spirit Embryo, which responded to her as though they shared an origin.
• Qin Ling'er left Yuwen Ruo and Mei Qi restrained for Gu Sheng to decide their fate and flew back to the battle.
• As Bone Chi prepared a final arrow, Qin Ling'er told Gu Sheng she had obtained the treasure and restrained the other two.
• Gu Sheng drew on the Nine Dragon Universe Cauldron's Source Power, crossed the distance to Bone Chi, and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Qin Ling'er revealed that the Spirit Embryo's soul had been erased and that refining it might restore her losses and help her advance.

Gu Sheng and his companions were caught in a battle between Tantai Mingjing and Yuwen Ku after Yuwen Ku learned Qin Ling'er was a transformed Innate Spirit Embryo Spirit. Tantai Mingjing sent the group away and confronted Yuwen Ku, while Li Yanxin arrived to help; Yuwen Ku launched a desperate attack and tried to escape.

• Tantai Mingjing warned Gu Sheng that Yuwen Ku had recognized Qin Ling'er and wanted to seize her, then teleported Gu Sheng and five companions away behind a protective barrier.
• Tantai Mingjing accused Yuwen Ku of sacrificing his disciples for Qin Ling'er, and he admitted he would sacrifice Yuwen Ruo to pursue the Saint King Realm.
• Tantai Mingjing struck Yuwen Ku with Mirror Heaven · Shatter, injuring him and revealing that her true body had one foot in the Saint King Realm.
• Yuwen Ku threatened that other Central Continent sacred lands would learn of Qin Ling'er, but Li Yanxin arrived and declared that she was protecting Gu Sheng at the Blazing Heaven Sacred Land's Saintess's request.
• Yuwen Ku used Divine Profound Secret Art · Myriad Souls Devour the Spirit against Tantai Mingjing and Li Yanxin while attempting to flee.