Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng deliberately displayed his rapid study of the manuals to establish himself as a minor genius, then attempted to open his Gu Aperture using the Sky Swallowing Gu. His attempt went wrong when the Gu resisted his suppression and began devouring his flesh and blood.

• Zhou Feng quickly read every manual on the first floor of the Scripture Repository, drawing Li Liwen's attention as Li suspected he possessed an Unforgettable Gu.
• Li Liwen's Alert Gu warned him of extreme danger, so he suppressed his curiosity and stayed quiet.
• Zhou Feng returned to his quarters, intending to open his Gu Aperture with the Sky Swallowing Gu he already controlled.
• Zhou Feng used his Soul Power and vitality and blood to suppress the Sky Swallowing Gu and force it toward dormancy.
• The Sky Swallowing Gu tore through Zhou Feng's restraint and began devouring his flesh and blood, shocking him with its ferocity.

Zhou Feng suppressed Sky Swallowing Gu’s blood poison and decided to let it devour his regenerating flesh until it transformed, then subdue it. That night, Steward An arrived with a helper, believing Zhou Feng’s Blood Essence Gu had mutated and planning to eliminate him.

• Zhou Feng used Soul Power to weaken Sky Swallowing Gu and his Immunity to Poisons passive skill to neutralize its blood poison.
• Zhou Feng concluded that his changing body and flesh were making Sky Swallowing Gu more bloodthirsty.
• Zhou Feng decided to feed Sky Swallowing Gu until it transformed, relying on his rapid regeneration and replenishing his Blood Qi Power with food.
• Steward An inferred that Zhou Feng’s Blood Essence Gu had beneficially mutated after he investigated Zhou Feng’s unusual behavior.
• Steward An brought a helper to Zhou Feng’s courtyard at night, intending to eliminate the perceived threat.

Zhou Feng’s Sky Swallowing Gu completed its transformation as Steward An and An Xin broke into his room to seize it. After the Gu devoured both intruders and their Gu insects, Zhou Feng recovered and realized he had become a Gu cultivator.

• Steward An and An Xin broke into Zhou Feng’s room, intending to take his mutated Blood Essence Gu and burn away the evidence.
• An Xin activated his Azure Stone Gu and attacked Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng caught his punch and the Sky Swallowing Gu tore out his throat.
• The Sky Swallowing Gu ambushed Steward An, devoured his Sake Gu, and swallowed him along with An Xin and the Azure Stone Gu.
• Zhou Feng called the Sky Swallowing Gu back before it could attack the Insect Garden, and it restored his body after feeding on the intruders.
• Zhou Feng examined the transformed Sky Swallowing Gu and recognized that he had successfully opened a Gu Aperture and become a Gu cultivator.

Zhou Feng discovered that the Sky Swallowing Gu was rapidly strengthening him and could absorb and adapt the abilities of other Gu insects. He realized its refinement formula might help him secure an inheritance from the Ouyang Family, but first he needed to make the formula easier to use.

• The Sky Swallowing Gu returned purified blood qi to Zhou Feng, helping him open a Gu Aperture and cultivate as a First-turn Gu Cultivator.
• Zhou Feng found that the Sky Swallowing Gu had absorbed abilities from the Azure Stone Gu and the Sake Gu, toughening his skin and purifying his blood qi.
• Zhou Feng concluded that his Passive Skills and Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art had made the Sky Swallowing Gu's unique evolution possible.
• Zhou Feng considered trading the Sky Swallowing Gu formula to the Ouyang Family for other Gu insect formulas and cultivation knowledge.
• Zhou Feng decided to improve the Sky Swallowing Gu formula's success rate and considered cultivating more Sky Swallowing Gu to strengthen himself.

Zhou Feng planned to use Gu insect recipes to gain the Ouyang Family’s support while secretly relying on the Sky Swallowing Gu. At Ouyang Qian’s servant selection, he discovered that her charm came from a Nurturing Emotion Gu, and his composure drew her attention and the hostility of the crowd.

• Zhou Feng decided to refine a weakened Sky Swallowing Gu and trade Gu recipes for the Ouyang Family’s resources and cultivation methods.
• The Insect Garden noticed Steward An had gone missing, but the other stewards suppressed the matter and the Insect Keepers soon turned their attention to Ouyang Qian’s servant selection.
• Zhou Feng joined the Insect Garden workers in the plaza, where Ouyang Qian arrived and her supernatural charm affected nearly everyone present.
• Zhou Feng used his Appraisal Eye to identify Ouyang Qian’s Nurturing Emotion Gu and learned it could implant offspring Gu that fed its owner when their hosts fell in love with her.
• Ouyang Qian noticed Zhou Feng’s calm demeanor, provoking jealous and threatening looks from the crowd.

Zhou Feng drew attention in the Insect Garden by claiming he had refined a new Gu insect from his Blood Essence Gu, while Ouyang Qian became interested in the insect’s unusual qualities. She accepted him into her service without a test, leaving him to follow her.

• Zhou Feng decided to act arrogant to appear talented without seeming out of place, while people discussed his conflict with Steward An.
• Ouyang Qian noticed Zhou Feng’s vigorous life force and wondered whether the Gu insect inside him was a special growth-type insect.
• Ouyang Qian beckoned Zhou Feng over, and he sensed that her fragrance stirred and slightly increased his blood vitality.
• Zhou Feng claimed he had refined a new Gu insect using his Blood Essence Gu and said Steward An had tested it.
• Ouyang Qian accepted Zhou Feng without a test and told him to follow behind her.

Ouyang Qian let Zhou Feng stay in the inner courtyard of the Insect Garden while she and the others entered Great Green Mountain for a trial. As Zhou Feng explored his new surroundings, the trial participants ventured into the mountain to hunt Gu Beasts.

• Ouyang Qian waived Zhou Feng's trial process and sent him to rest in the Insect Garden's core area instead of bringing him to Great Green Mountain.
• An old servant showed Zhou Feng the inner courtyard's medicinal garden, insect-rearing grounds, and other facilities, then led him to Worthies Gathering Tower.
• Zhou Feng used Appraisal Eye on the old servant and discovered that he carried a Secret Gu and a Nurturing Emotion Child Gu.
• Ouyang Qian and the other trial participants entered Great Green Mountain, where dangerous terrain and venomous insects had already eliminated some people.
• The trial participants were tasked with bringing back a Gu Beast, a wild beast parasitized by a wild Gu worm.

Ouyang Qian used the supposed trial to feed the Ouyang Family’s Blood Vine Gu Wolves, while Zhou Feng studied Gu insects and pondered how to advance his Sky Swallowing Gu. When Lin Jing confronted him, Zhou Feng considered how much of his strength to reveal.

• Ouyang Qian left as the Blood Vine Gu Wolves began hunting the trial participants, and the wolves killed their prey with scarlet vines.
• Zhou Feng studied books on Gu insects and learned about their categories, weaknesses, cultivation stages, and the need to coordinate multiple Gu.
• Zhou Feng realized that his Sky Swallowing Gu was still in the Larval Stage and that he lacked a plan to advance it.
• Lin Jing entered Zhou Feng’s room and berated him for ignoring him.
• Zhou Feng considered how to respond to Lin Jing while balancing the need to display strength against the risk of arousing suspicion.

Zhou Feng defeated Lin Jing with one punch, revealing the strength of his Sky Swallowing Gu and damaging Lin Jing’s Blood Vine Gu. Meanwhile, Ouyang Qian’s hunt ended with only one survivor catching her interest, and she reflected on Zhou Feng’s concealed abilities and his value to the Nurturing Emotion Gu.

• Lin Jing provoked Zhou Feng, who struck him with a controlled punch that shattered his skull and sent him flying.
• Lin Jing’s Growth Stage Blood Vine Gu repaired his injuries by withering and regressing to the Larval Stage, leaving Lin Jing frightened and without room to improve.
• The onlookers left, and Zhou Feng planned to study Gu insects and reveal more of his strength after Ouyang Qian returned.
• Ouyang Qian noticed a little girl who had subdued a rare Healing Gu, while the other trial survivors celebrated without realizing they would not enter the inner courtyard.
• Ouyang Qian thought Zhou Feng had hidden his strength and considered his talent useful nourishment for the Nurturing Emotion Gu.

Ouyang Qian returned to find that Zhou Feng had defeated the inner courtyard residents instead of being bullied, so she reassessed his potential and summoned him to her bedroom. There, Zhou Feng noticed her faint fragrance and pretended to boast about the Sky Swallowing Gu, then asked to hold her hand to demonstrate its abilities.

• Ouyang Qian planned to return and rescue Zhou Feng from the inner courtyard to win his favor, but learned he had subdued its residents.
• Ouyang Qian decided to question Zhou Feng herself and considered implanting him with a child Gu to keep him under control.
• Zhou Feng arrived at Ouyang Qian's bedroom and detected a faint fragrance that made his body restless.
• Ouyang Qian asked about Zhou Feng's victory, and he claimed the Sky Swallowing Gu had extraordinary powers.
• Zhou Feng proposed demonstrating how the Sky Swallowing Gu could purify and return blood energy, asking Ouyang Qian to give him her hand.

Ouyang Qian tried to plant a child Gu in Zhou Feng, but the Sky Swallowing Gu drained and purified her blood qi, transforming her body and expelling the child Gu. Zhou Feng decided to pose as an earnest genius with no ulterior motives, and left Ouyang Qian weighing how to keep him close after he declared he wanted to marry the Eldest Miss.

• Ouyang Qian offered Zhou Feng her hand to plant a child Gu, but the Sky Swallowing Gu drew blood qi from her and returned a purer stream that stirred the Gu insects in her body.
• Ouyang Qian recognized the Sky Swallowing Gu's extraordinary ability and resolved to control it and obtain its refining method.
• Ouyang Qian's child Gu entered Zhou Feng's body, but his blood qi forced it back out, convincing her that he was a rare genius.
• Zhou Feng decided to present himself as a devoted, simple genius, then boasted about the Sky Swallowing Gu while openly admiring Ouyang Qian.
• Zhou Feng told Ouyang Qian he wanted to become the Ouyang Family's son-in-law and marry the Eldest Miss, and Ouyang Qian responded with a restrained rebuke rather than rejecting him outright.

Zhou Feng demonstrated the Sky Swallowing Gu’s power to convince Ouyang Qian that he was a suitable husband, and she tested him by planting a Nurturing Emotion Child Gu in his body. The child Gu began resisting its mother Gu after feeding on Zhou Feng’s extraordinary vitality, leaving Ouyang Qian eager to claim him as a valuable treasure.

• Zhou Feng explained that the Sky Swallowing Gu grew stronger by eating and demonstrated the heat his powerful blood vitality produced.
• Ouyang Qian demanded that Zhou Feng accept a Love Gu as a test, though she planned to plant a Nurturing Emotion Child Gu in him instead.
• Zhou Feng agreed, and Ouyang Qian successfully planted the child Gu while he suppressed the Sky Swallowing Gu.
• The child Gu began to resist Ouyang Qian’s control after being nourished by Zhou Feng’s flesh and blood.
• Ouyang Qian used her Nurturing Emotion Gu to subdue the child Gu, removed it to drain it, and resolved to keep Zhou Feng as her obedient treasure.

Zhou Feng learned how Gu Essence and Spiritual Molts could strengthen Gu insects, and he decided to leave the barren Great Green Mountain with Ouyang Qian to find more resources. Ouyang Qian secretly prepared their escape to Nine Void Mountain, and the two fled aboard a flying Gu Beast.

• Ouyang Qian gave Zhou Feng Gu Essence and Spiritual Molts, and he discovered that the Sky Swallowing Gu grew more effectively by devouring Gu Essence.
• Zhou Feng learned that Ouyang Qian planned to flee the Ouyang Family for Nine Void Mountain, and he agreed to go with her.
• Ouyang Qian sold off the Insect Garden's assets, uprooted its Spiritual Medicines, and prepared their escape using an Illusion Butterfly Gu.
• Ouyang Qian put the inner courtyard to sleep, covered Zhou Feng with odorless powder, and summoned a flying Gu Beast.
• Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian flew away from Great Green Mountain, beginning their journey into the world of Gu cultivators.

Ouyang Qian settled with Zhou Feng on Seven Colors Mountain, where she planned to support herself by refining Dragon Tiger Medicine with help from her Nurturing Emotion Gu. Zhou Feng explored body tempering with Gu poison and began considering a second Gu insect before Ouyang Qian sent him to sell pills and buy Spiritual Medicines.

• Ouyang Qian rented Seven Colors Mountain near Nine Void Mountain and planned to grow Spiritual Medicines and refine pills there.
• Ouyang Qian worried that Zhou Feng's Sky Swallowing Gu consumed too many resources and resisted her Nurturing Emotion Gu's control.
• Zhou Feng examined and swallowed a Body Tempering Pill, then realized its poison could strengthen his body through the Sky Swallowing Gu.
• Zhou Feng considered choosing a second, support-type Gu insect suited to body tempering.
• Ouyang Qian gave Zhou Feng Fierce Tiger Pills to sell for at least ten low-grade Gu yuan each and told him to purchase Spiritual Medicines.

Zhou Feng sold his Fierce Tiger Pills at Hundred Herbs Pavilion for a large profit, then searched for cultivation methods and found the Blood Refining Sky Swallowing Gu Method. The method intrigued him, though its warning about consuming only Gu Worms of the same kind left him with a possible lead at Blood Refining Pavilion.

• Zhou Feng explored White Jade Marketplace and observed Gu cultivators modifying their bodies with Gu Worms.
• Lin Kou'er tested Zhou Feng's Fierce Tiger Pills with a Medicine Testing Gu and analyzed most of their formula.
• Zhou Feng sold one hundred Fierce Tiger Pills to Hundred Herbs Pavilion for two thousand low-grade Gu Essence.
• Zhou Feng visited a cultivation-method seller and found that Gu-based methods were widely available at low prices.
• Zhou Feng read the Blood Refining Sky Swallowing Gu Method, which promised a portion of each consumed Gu Worm's abilities but warned against swallowing Gu Worms of different kinds.

Zhou Feng visited the Demonic Hand Pavilion to learn about the Three-Handed Demonic Gu Method and chose to buy an original Three-Handed Demonic Gu for combat cultivation. He left without buying the Pavilion's guidance, while Zhao Mingwang expected him to return after failing on his own.

• Zhou Feng decided to explore the Three-Handed Demonic Gu Method because the Sky Swallowing Gu could cover its heavy resource costs and he wanted to understand the body's potential.
• Zhou Feng went to the Demonic Hand Pavilion, where Zhao Mingwang approached him and explained that the Pavilion's Gu subspecies could grow customized demonic hands for various purposes.
• Zhao Mingwang warned Zhou Feng that a combat demonic hand required the vicious original Three-Handed Demonic Gu and carried substantial costs and risks.
• Zhou Feng requested an original Three-Handed Demonic Gu without purchasing the Pavilion's other services.
• Zhao Mingwang agreed to sell Zhou Feng the Gu and privately expected him to fail and return to the Pavilion.

Zhou Feng returned to Seven Colors Mountain, learned how Gu People used parasitic insects for labor, and chose to cultivate the Three-Handed Demonic Gu Method. He planted the Gu on his spine with the Sky Swallowing Gu’s help and began considering how to nurture it.

• Zhou Feng saw Gu People controlled by Farming Gu tending Ouyang Qian’s medicine fields and understood how Gu cultivators and Gu People shared labor and profits.
• Zhou Feng gave Ouyang Qian the Gu essence he had earned from selling Fierce Tiger Pills, then returned to his room for closed-door cultivation.
• Ouyang Qian suspected that the Nurturing Emotion Gu could not fully control Zhou Feng and wondered why he had stayed with her.
• Zhou Feng chose the Three-Handed Demonic Gu Method over the Blood Refining Sky Swallowing Gu Method and decided to grow a third hand by planting the Gu on his back.
• The Three-Handed Demonic Gu rushed toward Zhou Feng’s heart, but his Sky Swallowing Gu suppressed it and moved it to his spine.
• Zhou Feng learned that he could shape the Three-Handed Demonic Gu’s eventual traits by feeding it different pills as it grew.

Zhou Feng nurtured the Three-Handed Demonic Gu by letting it feed on his regenerating flesh, and his Gu insects transformed his body until he expelled Ouyang Qian’s Child Gu. Alarmed that she was losing control of him, Ouyang Qian used a Double Harmony Gu to bind him to her, ending the chapter as she entered his room and forced the Yang Gu into his mouth.

• Zhou Feng chose the Blood Hand Form and let the Three-Handed Demonic Gu feed on his flesh, while it and the Sky Swallowing Gu began transforming his body.
• Zhou Feng studied the Gu insects’ transformations, and their activity expelled the Nurturing Emotion Child Gu planted by Ouyang Qian.
• Ouyang Qian realized Zhou Feng had never truly been under her control and feared losing the support she needed to resist her family.
• Ouyang Qian abandoned her plan to use an Illusion Butterfly Gu and swallowed the Yin Gu of the Double Harmony Gu.
• Ouyang Qian rushed into Zhou Feng’s room and forced the Yang Gu into his mouth.

After Ouyang Qian gained a major cultivation advantage from her union with Zhou Feng, Zhou Feng decided to keep a low profile and slowly cultivate the Three-Handed Demonic Gu. Three months later, he was still making little progress, and Zhao Mingwang offered him other ways to obtain a Demonic Hand.

• Ouyang Qian’s Nurturing Emotion Gu reached the Mature Stage through Zhou Feng’s vitality, allowing her to use Emotion-Nurturing Silk and advance her cultivation.
• Zhou Feng felt calmer after their union, abandoned his rash plans, and resolved to blend into the Gu cultivator world while cultivating the Three-Handed Demonic Gu.
• Over three months, Zhou Feng sold pills and bought resources at White Jade Marketplace while Ouyang Qian refined pills and Gu insects on Seven Colors Mountain.
• Zhao Mingwang envied Zhou Feng’s supposed virtuous wife and reminded him that Demonic Hand Pavilion offered alternatives if his Three-Handed Demonic Gu made no progress.

Zhou Feng learned how Auxiliary Gu strengthened and altered Natal Gu, then agreed to buy Auxiliary Gu and Gu-raising materials from the Demonic Hand Pavilion. When Medicine King Valley representatives approached him over Ouyang Qian’s pill sales, he detected their poison and walked toward the market exit, but they chose not to follow.

• Zhao Mingwang explained how Auxiliary Gu supported Natal Gu and gave his Demonic Hand Gu’s Iron Eating Gu as an example.
• Zhou Feng connected Ouyang Qian’s Double Harmony Gu to her Nurturing Emotion Gu and agreed to purchase Auxiliary Gu and materials from the Demonic Hand Pavilion.
• Three people from Medicine King Valley arrived to confront Zhou Feng because Ouyang Qian’s pill sales threatened their profits.
• Zhou Feng noticed Yan Chunsheng had poisoned him and told Zhao Mingwang not to get involved.
• Zhou Feng headed out of the market, but Yan Chunsheng and the other two Medicine King Valley members left instead of following him.