Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng returned to Seven Colors Mountain after Medicine King Valley backed down from confronting him, then reassured Ouyang Qian that their threats were not worth worrying about. Ouyang Qian continued refining pills while Zhou Feng cultivated a new desire-feeding Gu through their physical relationship.

• Medicine King Valley chose not to intercept Zhou Feng, so he returned to Seven Colors Mountain.
• Zhou Feng used his Greenwood Gu to pass the Ghost Face Flowers and Screaming Vines and reach Ouyang Qian at the alchemy room.
• Zhou Feng told Ouyang Qian that someone had targeted their business, and she identified Medicine King Valley as the likely culprit.
• Ouyang Qian explained Medicine King Valley's tactics against Rogue Cultivators, then pinned Zhou Feng down when his wandering hand disrupted her alchemy.
• Afterward, Zhou Feng told Ouyang Qian to keep refining pills while he dealt with Medicine King Valley, and she accepted his reassurance.

Zhou Feng chose to cultivate the Gold Devouring Demonic Hand and bought the basic Gu insects and metals needed to begin. As he continued shopping, someone from Medicine King Valley secretly watched him, suggesting the valley was preparing to respond to Ouyang Qian’s success in the pill market.

• Zhou Feng waited for Medicine King Valley to act first while Zhao Mingwang teased him about his calm, arrogant manner.
• Zhou Feng told Zhao Mingwang that he had chosen the Gold Devouring Demonic Hand path for his third Demonic Hand.
• Zhao Mingwang recommended Gold Swallowing Gu, Iron Eating Gu, Fine Iron, Mystic Gold, and other supplies for the cultivation plan.
• Zhou Feng bought the two Auxiliary Gu and some Fine Iron and Mystic Gold, declining Zhao Mingwang’s offers of additional goods.
• A hidden observer from Medicine King Valley watched Zhou Feng as the valley prepared to counter the impact of Ouyang Qian’s pills.

Zhou Feng tested whether the Sky Swallowing Gu could suppress other Gu insects and make them cooperate, then used it to turn the Iron Eating Gu and Gold Swallowing Gu into Auxiliary Gu for his Three-Handed Demonic Gu. With the insects working together, he began transforming his third hand into a Gold Devouring Demonic Hand.

• Zhou Feng returned to Seven Colors Mountain, where Ouyang Qian continued refining pills, and examined the third hand grown from the Three-Handed Demonic Gu.
• Zhou Feng saw that the demonic hand could stretch and digest Fine Iron, but it did so too slowly without Auxiliary Gu.
• Zhou Feng brought the Iron Eating Gu and Gold Swallowing Gu into his body, where the Gu insects became hostile and began competing for his blood energy.
• Zhou Feng commanded the Sky Swallowing Gu to suppress the other insects, and its refined blood energy calmed them and marked them with its aura.
• Zhou Feng made the Iron Eating Gu and Gold Swallowing Gu Auxiliary Gu to the Three-Handed Demonic Gu, then directed them to devour the Fine Iron and Dark Gold he had gathered.

Zhou Feng devised the Heavenly Heart Method to make the Sky Swallowing Gu suppress other Gu insects by marking their origins, and considered spreading the method to earn resources. After his Gold Devouring Demonic Hand consumed the available metal, he decided to provoke Medicine King Valley into attacking so he could obtain resources while concealing his other abilities.

• Zhou Feng created the Heavenly Heart Method’s first layer, Source Devouring Gu Lock, which let the Sky Swallowing Gu purify and return other Gu insects’ origins while leaving a suppressive imprint.
• Zhou Feng planned to develop a Heavenly Heart Gu, then spread both the Gu and its cultivation method in a way that would let him profit from others’ low success rate.
• Zhou Feng devoured the Fine Iron and Mystic Gold, leaving his Gold Devouring Demonic Hand withered and revealing how much more metal it needed.
• Zhou Feng decided to target Medicine King Valley for resources but resolved to make its people attack first, since conspicuous action risked triggering the world’s hidden pressure.
• Zhou Feng planned for Ouyang Qian to sell more pills so Medicine King Valley would suffer enough lost profits to take action.

Zhou Feng left White Jade Marketplace to buy Spiritual Medicine elsewhere, expecting Medicine King Valley to ambush him and eager to test his Gold Devouring Demonic Hand. Meanwhile, Yao Lin concealed the Valley’s interest in Louguan Sect’s inheritance and a maturing Treasure Medicine; the chapter ended as Zhou Feng faced Yao Thirteen’s spreading blackish-yellow gas.

• Ouyang Qian’s pill-refining improved through the Nurturing Emotion Gu, and her output exceeded that of ten ordinary refiners.
• Medicine King Valley exhausted the Spiritual Medicine supply at White Jade Marketplace, prompting Zhou Feng to seek supplies in other marketplaces.
• Yao Lin used the Thousand Eye Gu and Favorable Wind Gu to track Zhou Feng, while planning to keep Medicine King Valley’s interest in Louguan Sect’s inheritance hidden.
• Yao Lin revealed that the Gu combination had located a nearly mature Treasure Medicine in Nine Empty Forest Sea, which could repay the Valley’s expenses.
• Zhou Feng traveled toward another marketplace as Medicine King Valley sent an ambusher; Yao Thirteen confronted him and released a blackish-yellow mist.

Zhou Feng subdued Yao Thirteen, a Poisoned Human from Medicine King Valley, and took him to Seven Colors Mountain for Ouyang Qian to handle while pretending to be poisoned. Realizing someone was watching him, Zhou Feng decided to accelerate his plan to forge an inherited Heavenly Heart Gu so he could reveal more strength and retaliate against Medicine King Valley.

• Yao Thirteen released corrosive toxic gas, and Zhou Feng avoided exposing his strength by piercing him with the Gold Devouring Demonic Hand and knocking out his Corrosive Poison Gu.
• Zhou Feng carried Yao Thirteen through the wilderness to Seven Colors Mountain, where onlookers and Zhao Mingwang noticed his unusual capture method and Gold Devouring Demonic Hand.
• Zhou Feng pretended to be badly poisoned and handed Yao Thirteen to Ouyang Qian, who took him to the dungeon for interrogation.
• Inside the Closed-door cultivation chamber, Zhou Feng dropped his act and recognized that someone had been secretly watching him near Seven Colors Mountain.
• Zhou Feng decided to forge an Inheritance Jade Slip and accelerate his Heavenly Heart Gu plan so he could display greater strength and take resources from Medicine King Valley.
• Zhou Feng began researching a prototype for the Heavenly Heart Gu, which he wanted to use to suppress Auxiliary Gu and mobilize his blood qi.

Zhou Feng worked out a plan to derive the Heavenly Heart Gu and profit from controlling its key material, while Medicine King Valley chose to watch rather than confront him. After two days of silence, Zhou Feng left Ouyang Qian to respond to Medicine King Valley and test her improved strength.

• Zhou Feng used Born Close to Dao and Intelligent Brain to derive formulas for the Heavenly Heart Gu, Heavenly Heart Blood, and a substitute for it.
• Medicine King Valley learned Zhou Feng had returned with Yao Thirteen unconscious, and Yao Lin considered negotiation rather than risking a fight.
• Medicine King Valley stayed quiet while secretly watching Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian, leaving Zhao Mingwang and the marketplace residents confused.
• On Seven Colors Mountain, Ouyang Qian confirmed that she had brought Yao Thirteen under control and could use him to obtain Medicine King Valley's corrosive poison.
• Zhou Feng told Ouyang Qian that they needed to display strength before negotiating, then asked her to handle the response and demonstrate how much her strength had improved.

Zhou Feng decided to publicly reveal the Heavenly Heart Gu recipe while preparing to use Ouyang Qian’s body to fight her family’s pursuer. Ouyang Shaotian confronted them on Seven Colors Mountain, where Ouyang Qian launched a fierce attack.

• Zhou Feng chose to publish the Heavenly Heart Gu recipe openly and wrote down the formula he had deduced.
• Ouyang Qian sensed her family approaching through the Nurturing Emotion Gu and panicked about the strength of its fighters.
• Zhou Feng proposed reversing the Nurturing Emotion Gu to control Ouyang Qian’s body, explaining how their Gu connection could let him fight while remaining hidden.
• Ouyang Shaotian gathered his strength with the Great Strength Vajra Gu as he tracked Ouyang Qian and dismissed the mountain’s defenses.
• Ouyang Qian charged at Ouyang Shaotian and struck with a powerful punch, forcing him to block as light burst from his body.

Zhou Feng controlled Ouyang Qian’s body and defeated Ouyang Shaotian, ending the immediate threat from the Ouyang Family by killing him. He brought the corpse back to the mountaintop for Gu cultivation, where Ouyang Qian regained control and confronted him over her injuries.

• Zhou Feng controlled Ouyang Qian’s body and overwhelmed Ouyang Shaotian with a fierce attack.
• Ouyang Qian left the decision about Shaotian’s fate to Zhou Feng, who crushed his throat and killed him.
• Yao Lin witnessed the fight and decided that Medicine King Valley should seek reconciliation or offer benefits rather than escalate the conflict.
• Zhou Feng carried Ouyang Shaotian’s corpse to the mountaintop to use its blood vitality and bones for cultivating Gu insects.
• Ouyang Qian regained control of her body, felt the pain of her injuries, and angrily confronted Zhou Feng.

After Ouyang Shaotian exposed their whereabouts, Ouyang Qian decided she and Zhou Feng had to move to Nine Void Mountain for safety. Zhou Feng planned to raid the Medicine King Valley before they left, while their stolen Gu Essence would fund their move.

• Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian concluded that the Medicine King Valley had helped Ouyang Shaotian uncover their location.
• Ouyang Qian decided they would move to Nine Void Mountain, and Zhou Feng asked whether they had enough Gu Essence to secure a residence.
• Ouyang Qian revealed that she had taken Ouyang Shaotian's storage Gu worm, which held enough assets to support their move.
• Zhou Feng said he would retaliate against the Medicine King Valley before departing and planned to notify Zhao Mingwang of their destination.
• Ouyang Qian accepted that she could not stop Zhou Feng and told him to improve his alchemy skills so he could support them in Nine Void Mountain.

After learning that Medicine King Valley’s defenses were depleted, Zhou Feng infiltrated the sect at night and silently killed its guards. He plundered the treasure vault and Spiritual Medicine, while Yao Lin fled through a secret passage.

• Yao Lin feared Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian would attack Medicine King Valley, so he kept the most precious Treasure Medicine with him and left other resources in the treasure vault.
• Rumors about Zhou Feng and Ouyang Shaotian’s attack spread through White Jade Marketplace as night fell.
• Zhou Feng investigated Medicine King Valley, found its defenses weak, and suppressed his aura before infiltrating the sect.
• Zhou Feng killed the guards with the Gold Devouring Demonic Hand and used the Sky Swallowing Gu to consume their blood and conceal the attack.
• Yao Lin noticed the silence, realized Medicine King Valley had been infiltrated, and escaped through a secret passage.
• Zhou Feng found little resistance, then plundered Medicine King Valley’s treasure vault and swallowed its Spiritual Medicine.

Zhou Feng escaped Medicine King Valley with Dragon Breath Soil and traveled with Ouyang Qian to the Central Marketplace on Nine Void Mountain. They arrived at the Thousand Nest Gu Mother and headed for a waystation, where Ouyang Qian explained the marketplace’s rules and transportation options.

• Zhou Feng found Dragon Breath Soil in Medicine King Valley and took it as a source of income for himself and Ouyang Qian.
• Zhou Feng slipped out of Medicine King Valley, leaving Yao Lin to discover the sect’s dead inhabitants and intact but ineffective arrays.
• Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian traveled toward the Central Marketplace, where Ouyang Qian planned to settle nearby and arrange their identities.
• Zhou Feng saw the colossal Thousand Nest Gu Mother and felt its oppressive aura suppress his Gu worms.
• Ouyang Qian explained that visitors had to use designated waystations and described the Camel Mountain Gu Beasts, Cloud Shuttle Gu Beasts, and Blood Escape Gu.

Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian reached Nine Void Mountain’s Central Marketplace, where they registered with the Tax Gu Division. Qian Mingming approved their residence but revealed that he knew Ouyang Qian’s background and warned that settling on the mountain could be difficult.

• Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian entered the Central Marketplace, where Ouyang Qian explained that residents could not use their own Gu insects and that public Gu insects served everyday needs.
• Ouyang Qian registered herself and Zhou Feng at the Tax Gu Division, presenting Dragon Tiger Pills and introducing Zhou Feng as her paramour and medicine test subject.
• Qian Mingming inspected Zhou Feng’s Gold Devouring Demonic Hand Gu and recognized its extraordinary flexibility and strength.
• Qian Mingming approved their residence and gave them Information Gu as identification documents, subject to a three-month inspection period.
• Qian Mingming revealed that he knew Ouyang Qian came from the Ouyang Family and warned her that establishing herself on Nine Void Mountain would be difficult.

Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian settled their registration and rented a residence on Nine Void Mountain while Qian Mingming tried to recruit Zhou Feng into the dangerous Tax Gu Division. As they considered how to afford their new life, Zhou Feng urged Ouyang Qian to help him develop the Heavenly Heart Plan, but she still doubted the Heavenly Heart Gu existed.

• Qian Mingming explained the Source Devouring Gu’s dangers and offered Zhou Feng a place in the Tax Gu Division, but Zhou Feng said he would think about it.
• Qian Mingming gave Zhou Feng the Source Devouring Blood Tax Scripture and registered Zhou Feng and Ouyang Qian under Nine Void Mountain’s protection.
• Ouyang Qian rented a small courtyard with a Medicine Field and completed a Blood Contract Gu agreement requiring ten thousand Earth Grade Gu Essence each year.
• Zhou Feng pointed out that Ouyang Qian’s Dragon Tiger Pills faced fierce competition and encouraged her to help launch the Heavenly Heart Plan.
• Ouyang Qian remained unconvinced that Zhou Feng could cultivate a Heavenly Heart Gu and wondered whether they could keep it if it existed.

Zhou Feng developed a Heavenly Heart Gu that could suppress Gu insect riots, though its flaws limited it to short-term use in safe places. After cultivating ten of them, he planned to test the market at the Live Gu Workshop while Ouyang Qian focused on pill formulas.

• Ouyang Qian agreed to try Zhou Feng’s plan for cultivating the Heavenly Heart Gu amid their financial pressure.
• Zhou Feng studied the Source Devouring Blood Tax Scripture and considered how his Passive Skills might help him use it safely.
• Zhou Feng spent more than a dozen days refining the Heavenly Heart Gu formula through repeated experiments.
• Zhou Feng explained to Ouyang Qian that the Heavenly Heart Gu could suppress Gu insect riots but would consume the host’s flesh if left inside too long and would disable controlled Gu insects.
• Zhou Feng planned to cultivate ten Heavenly Heart Gu and take them to the Live Gu Workshop, while Ouyang Qian stayed home to study pill formulas.

Zhou Feng brought his Heavenly Heart Gu to a Gu-testing shop at Live Gu Workshop, where its ability to control other Gu insects was put to the test. The test succeeded, revealing that the Heavenly Heart Gu could suppress a severe conflict between two Gu insects.

• Zhou Feng surveyed the Gu-testing shops at Live Gu Workshop and chose one suited to testing healing or cultivation Gu insects.
• Zhou Feng showed Qian Mingming his Heavenly Heart Gu and explained that it could control the Gu insects in a person's body and prevent their backlash.
• Qian Mingming brought in Mu Yuan, whose Calm Heart Gu and Corrosive Poison Gu were dangerously clashing inside him.
• Mu Yuan swallowed the Heavenly Heart Gu, which released Soul Power and mobilized his Blood Qi Power to suppress the two Gu insects.
• Qian Mingming saw that the conflict had eased and realized the Heavenly Heart Gu's ability worked.

Zhou Feng demonstrated the Heavenly Heart Gu’s ability to suppress Gu insect rampages, but its severe energy consumption and single-use nature limited its practicality. He offered Qian Mingming the Gu insect formula, which depended on Zhou Feng’s Heavenly Heart Blood, and left the negotiation with a high bid on the table.

• Qian Mingming watched the Heavenly Heart Gu suppress a Gu insect rampage, but the test subject rapidly withered as the Gu consumed his energy.
• Qian Mingming tried to lower the price by emphasizing the Heavenly Heart Gu’s side effects, while Zhou Feng pointed out that it could assist with refining a Natal Gu.
• Zhou Feng offered to sell the Heavenly Heart Gu formula, explaining that buyers would need to purchase Heavenly Heart Blood from him.
• Qian Mingming recognized the formula’s potential for profit and asked Zhou Feng to name a price.
• Zhou Feng gave Qian Mingming only one chance to bid, and Qian Mingming offered one thousand Heaven Grade Gu Essence and three pieces of Silver Scale Gu Spiritual Molt.

Zhou Feng sold the Heavenly Heart Gu formula to Qian Mingming of the Qian Clan for Heaven Grade Gu Essence and Silver Scale Gu Spiritual Molts, agreeing not to sell the formula elsewhere for three years. After learning where to obtain ores and about the dangers surrounding Nine Void Mountain, Zhou Feng focused on using Gu knowledge to advance his cultivation in the real world.

• Qian Mingming offered Zhou Feng a thousand Heaven Grade Gu Essence and three Silver Scale Gu Spiritual Molts for the Heavenly Heart Gu formula, and demanded exclusive rights to it for three years.
• Zhou Feng accepted the deal and handed over the formula, and Qian Mingming verified it before completing the payment.
• Zhou Feng asked Qian Mingming where to buy ores, and Qian Mingming recommended the Exotic Material Workshop and described the Gloomy Mountain Range.
• Qian Mingming explained that Nine Void Mountain faced threats from Gu Beasts, the Chen Clan, and demonic Rogue Cultivators seeking the Thousand Nest Mother Gu.
• Zhou Feng resolved to blend in and study Gu insects, whose Great Dao Rules could help him make breakthroughs in the real world.

Zhou Feng traded the Heavenly Heart Gu formula to Qian Mingming and then went to the Forging Workshop at Nine Void Mountain, where he learned that mysterious murders were being blamed on heretics. He suspected the newly organized heretic cultivators might be other people who had entered the Dream World with him, and chose to keep a low profile.

• Zhou Feng sold the Heavenly Heart Gu formula to Qian Mingming for cultivation resources and left the shop.
• Qian Mingming shut his shop and celebrated after his Fortune Gu revealed the deal’s immense value, then realized the Gu had reacted to Zhou Feng himself.
• Zhou Feng arrived at the Forging Workshop and found several shops sealed off after Artifact Refiners were mysteriously murdered.
• Zhou Feng heard that the victims’ bodies had been drained while their Gu insects remained, and that heretics were suspected.
• Zhou Feng suspected the heretic cultivators recruiting openly might be fellow Dream World entrants, so he decided to stay cautious and observe.

Zhou Feng commissioned spirit armor and a glove from Niu Dali using Silver Scale Gu Spiritual Molts, then became intrigued by the Contract Blood Gu implanted to seal their agreement. He left the shop focused on whether the Gu’s power to consume lifespan held clues to longevity.

• Zhou Feng visited Niu Dali’s shop and offered two pieces of Silver Scale Gu Spiritual Molt for a custom suit of spirit armor.
• Niu Dali agreed to make the armor for a hundred Heaven Grade Gu Yuan, and Zhou Feng added a glove for ten more.
• Niu Dali proposed sealing their agreement with Contract Blood Gu, which would drain the lifespan of anyone who broke the contract.
• Zhou Feng and Niu Dali went to a Tax Gu Division office, where the contract was witnessed and the Gu were implanted in both of them.
• After Niu Dali left to refine the armor, Zhou Feng wondered whether the Contract Blood Gu’s power to consume lifespan revealed a secret of longevity.