Recaps

After the Northern Army took the lead, Li Yanhu challenged Gu Chenfeng to a strategic battle using his Divine Mechanism War Chess Formation. Gu Chenfeng accepted and entered the formation, where the contest began.

• The Futu Army won its battle, leaving the Northern Army ahead and making the third match decisive for the Southern Army.
• Li Yanhu built the Divine Mechanism War Chess Formation and challenged Gu Chenfeng to command armies against him, using Gu Chenfeng’s lineage and reputation to pressure him into accepting.
• Gu Yanshuang and Huang Quan warned Gu Chenfeng against taking Li Yanhu’s challenge, but Gu Chenfeng chose to face him.
• Li Yanhu explained that each side would command ten thousand identical ordinary soldiers in a changing battlefield, with an incense stick’s time to prepare before fighting until one army was annihilated.
• Gu Chenfeng and Li Yanhu sat in opposite formation eyes as the military strategy contest began.

Gu Chenfeng faced Li Yanhu in the Divine Mechanism War Chess Formation, where Li Yanhu quickly deployed his forces to encircle him. As the Northern Army grew anxious, Gu Chenfeng’s motionless army finally advanced straight ahead.

• Gu Chenfeng and Li Yanhu began their military strategy contest inside the illusory formation, while spectators watched their armies as points of light.
• Li Yanbao and Li Yanying mocked Gu Chenfeng, and the Sea-Calming King said Li Yanhu would defeat him easily; Princess Yaoyin silently urged Gu Chenfeng to succeed.
• After the formation revealed its terrain, Li Yanhu sent scouts and divided his troops into several forces advancing along different routes.
• Huang Quan and Li Yuanqi recognized Li Yanhu’s skillful plan to pressure Gu Chenfeng from the front, flank him, and strike from the rear.
• Gu Chenfeng’s ten thousand troops remained still as Li Yanhu’s forces advanced, then finally moved straight ahead without scouting or splitting up.

Gu Chenfeng kept his ten thousand troops together and appeared to make a disastrous defensive stand on a plain, drawing Li Yanhu’s forces into an attack. He then unleashed long-range explosive firepower that devastated the advancing detachments, leaving Li Yanhu’s army in retreat too late to escape.

• Gu Chenfeng advanced with his troops in a single formation while Li Yanhu’s four detachments took positions around him.
• Gu Chenfeng stopped on a low-lying plain and formed an arc-shaped defensive camp, prompting both armies’ generals to assume he had made a grave tactical error.
• Li Yanhu’s detachments surrounded Gu Chenfeng’s army, and Li Yanhu declared the outcome settled before ordering three detachments to attack.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Li Yanhu that wealthy armies could blanket their enemies in firepower, then held his position as Li Yanhu’s forces charged.
• Gu Chenfeng’s army launched black explosive projectiles at extreme range, destroying more than half of Li Yanhu’s white forces before they could retreat.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Li Yanhu in the Divine Mechanism War Chess Formation by using imagined machine guns and artillery, wiping out Li Yanhu’s army without losing a soldier. Li Yanhu admitted defeat, while the Northern Army celebrated and the Sea-Calming King and Emperor Xuan watched Gu Chenfeng closely.

• Gu Chenfeng’s black lights swallowed the last white lights on the formation map, leaving his ten thousand soldiers untouched.
• Li Yanhu recalled how Gu Chenfeng’s unfamiliar weapons had cut down and annihilated his forces, then collapsed from the shock and withdrew his Spiritual Power.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that he had used technology from his previous world, imagining firearms and artillery inside the formation to overcome Li Yanhu’s limited understanding of warfare.
• Li Yanhu told Li Yanbao and Li Yanying that Gu Chenfeng had not cheated and that he had lost completely.
• The Northern Army celebrated Gu Chenfeng’s victory as the generals and Princess Yaoyin watched him leave the platform.
• The Sea-Calming King’s expression stiffened, and Emperor Xuan watched Gu Chenfeng’s retreating figure with a meaningful gaze.

After his Northern Army victory, Gu Chenfeng considered the political consequences and visited Liu Fuyan at the Myriad Treasures House. He invited her to return to the Gu Lineage, but she chose to keep running the business, and the chapter ended with the two alone together.

• Gu Chenfeng chose the South Sea Demon King's Demon Pupil as his reward and gave the other treasures to his eldest sister and Luo Heng.
• Emperor Xuan appointed the Sea-Calming King as Grand Commander and named Gu Chenfeng, Li Yuanqi, Li Yanbao, and Li Yanying as inspectors for the coming Dragon Abyss Gathering.
• Gu Chenfeng weighed Emperor Xuan's ambiguous support and the Gu Lineage's precarious position, then secretly left the Prime Minister's Residence.
• Gu Chenfeng surprised Liu Fuyan at the Myriad Treasures House, and the two reunited after months apart.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Liu Fuyan to return to the Gu Lineage, but she declined so she could continue managing the Myriad Treasures House.
• Gu Chenfeng offered to demonstrate a new alchemy method, and Liu Fuyan eagerly agreed.

Gu Chenfeng learned that his grandfather had survived a battle at the Gu Lineage ore vein, then went with Mo Nancang to make further plans. At the Four Directions Gate, Yan Sihai feared the Gu Lineage had abandoned him until two visitors appeared and one greeted him.

• Mo Nancang told Gu Chenfeng that his grandfather had been injured in a battle but had likely escaped.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang agreed to remain near the Imperial Capital while keeping Mo Nancang's presence secret.
• Yan Sihai worried that the Huangfu Lineage or rival sects would target the Four Directions Gate after the Gu Lineage withdrew its support.
• Two bamboo-hatted figures suddenly appeared behind Yan Sihai, whose Qi Perception could not gauge their strength.
• Yan Sihai begged the visitors to spare his family, elders, and disciples, and one greeted him teasingly as Gate Master Yan.

Gu Chenfeng settled Mo Nancang at the Four Directions Gate, reassured Yan Sihai, and used a period of quiet in the Imperial Capital to cultivate and strengthen his techniques. After receiving an imperial order to inspect the troops in three days, he went to the Myriad Treasures House disguised as Ge Hong and found something amiss.

• Gu Chenfeng left Mo Nancang at the Four Directions Gate, demonstrated his power to Yan Sihai, and promised to send experts to protect the sect.
• Gu Chenfeng’s victory over the Southern Army spread through the Imperial Capital, while Huangfu stayed quiet and the Northern Army’s support for him grew.
• Gu Chenfeng cultivated the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique, developed the Azure Dragon’s Eye, studied the Five Elements Sacred Origin Art, and practiced his sword techniques.
• Gu Chenfeng refined pills and received an imperial decree ordering him to inspect the troops outside the Imperial Capital in three days.
• Gu Chenfeng disguised himself as Ge Hong and arrived at the Myriad Treasures House, where he noticed something unusual.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Myriad Treasures House and discovered that Jin Yulin was pressuring Liu Fuyan to replace the branch’s staff. Liu Fuyan rejected his demands, and Jin Yulin challenged the Myriad Treasures House to a Pill Duel.

• Gu Chenfeng found the Myriad Treasures House closed and learned that the Myriad Treasures Sect’s young master was inside conducting an inspection.
• After the disciples tried to turn him away, Gu Chenfeng left while secretly extending his divine sense through the building.
• Jin Yulin demanded that Liu Fuyan dismiss the branch’s entire staff and replace them with headquarters personnel.
• Liu Fuyan refused, citing the sect’s rules and her thirty-percent equity contract, while Jin Yulin’s elders used their pressure to intimidate her and Zhang Qi.
• Jin Yulin challenged the Myriad Treasures House to a Pill Duel to decide who would run it.

Jin Yulin challenged Liu Fuyan’s Myriad Treasures House to a Pill Duel, then used Qian Xi’s superior fourth-grade pill to force her to surrender its operating rights. When Liu Fuyan rejected Jin Yulin’s sexual demands and tried to leave, his men blocked the way until an unknown young man burst through the wall and entered.

• Jin Yulin invoked the sect’s Pill Duel rules to challenge Liu Fuyan’s branch, and Qian Xi introduced himself as an elder of the Pill Pavilion.
• Qian Xi swiftly refined a superior-quality Iceheart Spirit-Gathering Pill, and Liu Fuyan conceded that no alchemist at her branch could compete with him.
• Jin Yulin claimed the Myriad Treasures House’s operating rights and offered to return them if Liu Fuyan and Zhang Qi spent the night with him.
• Liu Fuyan rejected Jin Yulin, declared she would leave the sect, and tried to depart with Zhang Qi.
• Jin Yulin ordered his elders to stop the women, but an ordinary-looking young man smashed one elder through a stone wall and stepped into the room.

Gu Chenfeng arrived to protect Liu Fuyan and challenged Jin Yulin’s claim to the Myriad Treasures House through an alchemy contest. He began refining an Iceheart Spirit-Gathering Pill and left Qian Xi stunned by producing a supreme-grade pill.

• Gu Chenfeng revealed that he worked for the Myriad Treasures House and rejected Jin Yulin’s demand for respect as the Myriad Treasures Sect’s young master.
• Liu Fuyan urged Gu Chenfeng to leave, but he reassured her and she told Jin Yulin he was not worthy of comparison with him.
• Jin Yulin claimed the Myriad Treasures Sect had won the Myriad Treasures House’s operating rights through an alchemy contest, and Gu Chenfeng disputed the claim because the House’s alchemists had not competed.
• Gu Chenfeng used flames in his palm to refine the ingredients and manifested an energy pill furnace with Divine Sense Manifestation.
• Gu Chenfeng completed a supreme-grade Iceheart Spirit-Gathering Pill, shocking Qian Xi.

Gu Chenfeng drove Jin Yulin and the Myriad Treasures Sect’s group away by demonstrating his alchemy skill, then ordered the Blood Tiger Guard to track them. After learning that they were heading to the Hidden Dragon Mountains, he decided to go there himself as inspector of the Dragon Abyss Conference.

• Gu Chenfeng used Divine Sense and Source Qi to refine a Top-Grade Iceheart Spirit-Gathering Pill, convincing Qian Xi that his alchemy surpassed Qian Xi’s own.
• Jin Yulin accepted Elder Zhu’s advice and left the Myriad Treasures House with his group and the unconscious middle-aged elder.
• Liu Fuyan embraced Gu Chenfeng and thanked him for saving her business, while Zhang Qi left them alone and listened outside the door.
• After nightfall, Gu Chenfeng returned to the Prime Minister’s Residence and learned that Jin Yulin’s group had met other martial artists and were heading to the Four Directions Gate.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to visit the Hidden Dragon Mountains and have a chance encounter with Jin Yulin’s group.

Jin Yulin persuaded Zheng Qinghe to help him kill the alchemist Ge and led the Myriad Treasures Sect group to seize the Four Directions Gate as a cultivation base. The masked Yan Sihai agreed to Zheng Qinghe’s demands, then struck with a spear so swiftly that Zheng Qinghe was left staring into darkness.

• Jin Yulin offered Zheng Qinghe his father’s secret Golden Scale Saber Technique in exchange for killing Ge, and Zheng Qinghe agreed to act after the Dragon Abyss Conference.
• Zheng Qinghe and Jin Yulin led their group to the Four Directions Gate, where they demanded its territory and Heavenly Treasures for their use.
• Yan Sihai welcomed the Myriad Treasures Sect visitors and appeared to accept their demands, including Jin Yulin’s request for female disciples to attend to him.
• Yan Sihai asked Zheng Qinghe to demonstrate his skills, and Zheng Qinghe drew his saber and offered to let him make three moves.
• Yan Sihai vanished in a flash and thrust his spear, leaving Zheng Qinghe stunned as darkness filled his vision.

Gu Chenfeng disguised himself as Yan Sihai and killed Zheng Qinghe and Jin Yulin of the Myriad Treasures Sect, then let the survivors carry Yan Sihai’s name back to their sect. As martial artists flooded the Hidden Dragon Mountains for the Dragon Abyss Conference and outside forces seized local sects’ grounds, the Four Directions Gate remained a notable exception.

• Gu Chenfeng, disguised as Yan Sihai, killed Zheng Qinghe with one spear thrust and then killed Jin Yulin as he tried to flee.
• Gu Chenfeng told the surviving Myriad Treasures Sect elders to report Yan Sihai as the killer, then returned to the Four Directions Gate headquarters with his Blood Tiger Guards.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed his identity to Yan Sihai and explained that he had killed the visitors to establish the Four Directions Gate’s might ahead of the Dragon Abyss Conference.
• Yan Sihai worried that the Myriad Treasures Sect would seek revenge, but Gu Chenfeng reassured him and later spoke with Mo Nancang before returning to the Imperial Capital.
• As martial artists gathered for the Dragon Abyss Conference, the Great Li Dynasty designated the Hidden Dragon Mountains as a free zone where fights and deaths would go unpunished.
• Outside forces seized local sects’ grounds for temporary bases, but the recently risen Four Directions Gate was singled out as an exception.

Gu Chenfeng, acting as Yan Sihai, defeated another challenger and entered the top hundred of the Dragon Abyss Ranking, while he waited for news of his missing grandfather. Meanwhile, Huangfu Hong and his restored grandson plotted to wait for Gu Beiwu to emerge before destroying the Gu Lineage.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated a young swordsman who surrendered the hundredth ranking spot and Dragon Abyss Token to him.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that verified matches affected the Dragon Abyss Ranking and worried that his new rank would bring even more challengers.
• Gu Chenfeng met Li Yuanqi during a patrol, praised Yan Sihai and the Four Directions Gate, then left Li Yuanqi in charge as he returned to the Imperial Capital.
• Huangfu Hong spoke with Yun'er, whose injuries had healed and whose strength had surged after the ancestor restored his origin.
• Huangfu Hong explained that the Four Great Sects were searching for Gu Beiwu and that they would wait for him to emerge before moving against the Gu Lineage.
• Yun'er vowed to kill Gu Chenfeng and destroy the Gu Lineage.

As the Dragon Abyss Conference approached, Gu Chenfeng strengthened the Four Directions Gate and cultivated in seclusion, but a mysterious young Daoist arrived and drew him into a fight. The chapter ended with Gu Chenfeng being pulled down the mountain by the Daoist’s strange force.

• The Four Directions Gate used Big Bear and Second Bear to drive off challengers after Yan Sihai claimed the hundredth spot on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
• Mo Nancang searched for Gu Beiwu while Gu Chenfeng cultivated with precious resources and invited Big Bear and Second Bear to guard the sect.
• Yan Sihai warned Gu Chenfeng that a challenger had come and was holding off even the Mountain-Guarding Divine Beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng found Big Bear battling a handsome young Daoist and called Big Bear back.
• The young Daoist challenged Gu Chenfeng, and their sword-and-spear fight revealed that the Daoist could neutralize Gu Chenfeng’s attacks with a strange force.
• The Daoist retreated down the mountain, and Gu Chenfeng realized that the same force was pulling him along against his will.

A mysterious young Daoist led Gu Chenfeng into a hidden chamber beneath Great Wilderness Ridge, where a struggle revealed the Daoist to be the Imperial Preceptor. Gu Chenfeng recognized her as the story left them facing one another after their grapple.

• Gu Chenfeng pursued the young Daoist down from the Four Directions Gate, despite suspecting he was being compelled, and secretly alerted Mo Nancang with a jade talisman.
• Big Bear and Yan Sihai mistook Gu Chenfeng's pursuit for a victory and returned inside the sect to await his good news.
• The young Daoist led Gu Chenfeng through a mountain wall into a hidden chamber, where a golden formation enclosed sinister blood-red light.
• Gu Chenfeng broke free of the mysterious link and attacked, then resisted the young Daoist's mind-affecting command with the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique.
• As Gu Chenfeng grappled with the young Daoist, he discovered her body was female, and purple light revealed her as a Daoist nun.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the Daoist nun as the Imperial Preceptor.

Gu Chenfeng discovered that the Female Imperial Preceptor had brought him to a hidden cave to meet his grandfather, Gu Beiwu. Gu Beiwu revealed that he had to retrieve an item from the Ore Vein to protect the Gu Lineage and Yan Province, then agreed to share his plan with Gu Chenfeng and his allies.

• Gu Chenfeng recognized the Female Imperial Preceptor, who revealed Gu Beiwu sealed inside the cave.
• The Female Imperial Preceptor explained that she had helped Gu Beiwu repay an old favor and had brought Gu Chenfeng at his request.
• Gu Beiwu warned Gu Chenfeng that the Imperial Capital was dangerous and urged him not to risk himself or his family.
• Gu Beiwu revealed he had to return to the Ore Vein to retrieve an item vital to the Gu Lineage and all Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng refused to abandon his grandfather, and Gu Beiwu agreed to tell him the plan and assign tasks to him and Granduncle-Master.

Gu Chenfeng reunited Mo Nancang with Gu Beiwu’s plan and returned to the Four Directions Gate, while the Female Imperial Preceptor struggled with the lingering effects of her encounter with Gu Chenfeng. The next morning, Yan Sihai accepted a public challenge and announced his ambition to break into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty.

• Gu Beiwu accepted a Healing Pill from Gu Chenfeng and returned to the seal as his curse power flared.
• Mo Nancang arrived, and the Female Imperial Preceptor told Gu Chenfeng that she had repaid Chancellor Gu’s kindness and would no longer involve herself with the Gu Lineage.
• The Female Imperial Preceptor’s clone returned to her true body, bringing back a lingering trace of Gu Chenfeng’s energy that she could not erase.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang returned to the Four Directions Gate, discussed the plan, and began taking action.
• Yan Sihai defeated a challenger with one spear strike and declared that he would pursue the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty and accept challenges from Yan Province’s prodigies.

Gu Chenfeng, posing as Yan Sihai, rose through the Dragon Abyss Ranking by defeating every challenger with one spear thrust. When Jin Xiong arrived with the Myriad Treasures Sect and its allies to avenge his son and disciple, Yan Sihai summoned the Four Directions Gate’s ancestor to uphold justice.

• Yan Sihai defeated successive Dragon Abyss Ranking challengers with a single spear thrust and climbed from rank one hundred to thirty-seventh, earning the nickname Yan One Spear.
• Jin Xiong led the Myriad Treasures Sect’s forces and allies to the Four Directions Gate, bringing nine Source Spirit Realm powerhouses and more than a thousand people.
• Jin Xiong demanded that Yan Sihai pay for killing Jin Yulin and Zheng Qinghe, and threatened to destroy the Four Directions Gate.
• Yan Sihai appeared atop the Crimson Flame Savage Bear and defended his actions, provoking Jin Xiong and the assembled experts.
• As the nine Source Spirit Realm powerhouses released their pressure, Yan Sihai asked the Four Directions Gate’s ancestor to uphold justice.

The Four Directions Gate’s hidden Grandmaster ancestor crushed an invasion led by Jin Xiong, and news of the sect’s strength spread across Yan Province. Several powerful factions connected the revelation to Gu Beiwu, while Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang discussed their plan beginning to succeed.

• A hidden Grandmaster at the Four Directions Gate overwhelmed Jin Xiong and eight other Source Spirit Realm experts, then struck Jin Xiong nearly unconscious and spared the rest.
• Yan Sihai warned the invaders to leave, and the gathering fled as word spread that the Four Directions Gate had a Grandmaster ancestor.
• Emperor Xuan and the Sea-Calming King discussed whether the Grandmaster was connected to Gu Chenfeng and chose to wait before acting.
• A group of experts outside the Imperial Capital decided to pursue Gu Beiwu, believing he could lead them to the treasures of the Four Symbols Divine Sect.
• Huangfu Hong read a message at the Left Chancellor’s Residence and declared that the day he had awaited had arrived.
• Gu Chenfeng told Mo Nancang that their plan had begun to bear fruit.

As the Dragon Abyss Conference approached, Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue warned Gu Chenfeng that the Four Great Sects planned to attack the Four Directions Gate and urged him to flee. Gu Chenfeng refused to abandon the sect, leaving the two women facing his decision as danger drew near.

• Yan Sihai rose to twenty-first on the Dragon Abyss Ranking, and martial artists anticipated the arrival of the Four Great Sects.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue secretly met Gu Chenfeng at the Four Directions Gate and learned that his cultivation had advanced greatly.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue revealed that the Four Great Sects planned to target Gu Chenfeng, the Four Directions Gate, and Chancellor Gu over a sought-after treasure.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue offered to help Gu Chenfeng escape the Hidden Dragon Mountains before the Four Great Sects made their move.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked the women but refused to leave, insisting that he would stand with the Four Directions Gate.

Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang prepared to draw the Four Great Sects’ attention at the Dragon Abyss Conference while Gu Beiwu secretly retrieved the Four Symbols Divine Sect token. On the eve of the conference, Yan Sihai broke into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty, setting up a challenge against the four sects’ prodigies.

• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue failed to persuade Gu Chenfeng to leave the Four Directions Gate, and Mo Nancang confirmed that the Four Great Sects were watching it.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang reviewed their plan: they would draw the Four Great Sects into a battle while Gu Beiwu secretly retrieved the token from the Gu Lineage’s ore vein.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang agreed to face the danger at the Dragon Abyss Conference, where the Four Great Sects might attack them.
• The Four Great Sects’ forces arrived in the Hidden Dragon Mountains and established bases around the Four Directions Gate, while their prodigies held the top twenty ranking spots.
• Yan Sihai rose from twenty-first to twentieth on the Dragon Abyss Ranking, becoming the first prodigy outside the Four Great Sects to enter the top twenty.

Yan Sihai’s rise into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty stirred excitement as the Dragon Abyss Conference began. With secret forces gathering around the Four Directions Gate and Gu Chenfeng preparing for a coming storm, the chapter ended as the ranked prodigies entered the arena and the nineteenth arrival surprised the crowd.

• Yan Sihai’s appearance in the ranking’s top twenty sparked debate and betting among martial artists in the Hidden Dragon Mountains.
• Secret forces converged on the Four Great Sects’ encampments while personnel and troops mobilized in the Imperial Capital; Gu Chenfeng cultivated in preparation and hoped the turmoil would help his grandfather obtain a token.
• An unknown trace of energy continued to trouble the purple-eyed figure in Profound Heaven Abbey, who failed to remove it and considered asking Gu Chenfeng for help.
• The Dragon Abyss Conference gathered the four Great Sects, imperial officials, Princess Yaoyin, and crowds around the hovering arena as the top-ranked prodigies began arriving.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue anxiously searched for Gu Chenfeng, while Princess Yaoyin was disappointed that he had skipped his inspection duties.
• After eighteen of the top twenty had arrived, the nineteenth entrant drew surprise from the crowd.

Yan Sihai arrived at the Dragon Abyss Conference just before the arena sealed, as the Four Great Sects launched a coordinated assault on the Four Directions Gate and revealed that its ancestor was their target. With the arena sealed and Yan Sihai surrounded by the Four Sects’ prodigies, his fate remained uncertain.

• Yun Wuhen arrived at the Azure Sky Sect’s camp, and observers discussed his rapid rise to tenth place on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
• The Four Sects’ experts secretly watched the Four Directions Gate as energy from their bases formed an encirclement around it.
• Yan Sihai arrived on the floating arena moments before the incense burned out, and the arena’s sealing formation activated.
• The Four Great Sects sealed off the Four Directions Gate and demanded that it surrender a wanted criminal.
• The Four Directions Gate Ancestor mocked the Four Sects and accused them of concealing the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s history, prompting both sides to unleash a Grandmaster-level battle.
• Yan Sihai was left on the sealed arena among the Four Great Sects’ prodigies as onlookers wondered what they would do to him.

Gu Chenfeng, disguised as Yan Sihai, challenged all the Four Great Sects’ prodigies at the Dragon Abyss Conference while his sect remained under attack. He crippled seven opponents in quick succession and turned his attention to the twelve remaining prodigies.

• Yun Wuhen taunted Yan Sihai about the Four Directions Gate’s plight and invited him to choose an opponent.
• Gu Chenfeng told the other prodigies to attack him together, shocking the conference crowd and angering his challengers.
• A Sacred Fire Sect prodigy attacked Gu Chenfeng with Flowing Fire Instant Shadow Slash, but Gu Chenfeng pierced his Dantian with one thrust and destroyed his cultivation.
• Six prodigies ranked thirteenth through seventeenth joined forces against Gu Chenfeng, who pierced all six of their Dantians with a single attack.
• Gu Chenfeng challenged the twelve remaining prodigies, whose strength had reached the Source Spirit Realm.