Recaps

Gu Chenfeng moved the Barbarian God’s Secret Realm beneath Holy Mountain and brought his family inside, making it the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s hidden refuge and cultivation foundation. After showing them its treasures and ancient techniques, he continued studying the Human-Slaying Chapter while his family began cultivating.

• The Four Symbols Divine Sect’s grounds became a thousand-li oasis filled with dense energy of heaven and earth, drawing attention from across Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng took Gu Beiwu, Gu Lingxiao, Gu Yanshuang, Gu Qingxuan, and Liu Fuyan on a tour of the Secret Realm beneath Holy Mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that he had moved the Secret Realm to protect his family from Li Kun’s master and intended to use it as the sect’s core refuge and cultivation ground.
• Gu Chenfeng showed his family the great hall’s ancient legacies and treasures, restricted access to those present, and urged them to choose cultivation methods and Secret Arts.
• Gu Chenfeng helped Liu Fuyan select techniques, then continued comprehending the Human-Slaying Chapter while she cultivated in their Cave Abode.

Gu Chenfeng spent several months cultivating and guiding his family in Yan Province, helping them advance while discovering Liu Fuyan’s Profound Yin Body and teaching her a dual cultivation art. After receiving an assignment from Star Luo Hall, he prepared to leave for Central Province, reassured that his grandfather had reached the Source Emperor Realm and could oversee the Four Symbols Divine Sect.

• A blood-shrouded figure in Central Province read a report about Gu Chenfeng killing Li Kun, then ordered several powerful subordinates to work with Shadow Tiger and retrieve what he needed.
• Gu Chenfeng remained in the Barbarian God's Secret Realm, guiding his family’s cultivation and helping Gu Yanshuang, Gu Qingxuan, and Gu Lingxiao advance while Gu Beiwu entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough.
• Gu Chenfeng discovered that Liu Fuyan possessed a Profound Yin Body and taught her an ancient dual cultivation secret art, greatly improving both their cultivation.
• Si Mingwei sent Gu Chenfeng a message that his Star Luo Hall master had issued an assignment and wanted him to return to Central Province.
• Gu Chenfeng’s family and allies held a farewell banquet at Sacred Mountain Summit, where the guests learned that Gu Beiwu had survived his thunder tribulation and reached the Source Emperor Realm.
• During the banquet, Gu Yanshuang and Gu Qingxuan teased Liu Fuyan about her beauty and rapid cultivation, while Gu Chenfeng prepared to leave Yan Province.

Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan prepared to leave for Central Province as Helian Na revealed she had become Gu Lingxiao’s sworn sister and Liu Fuyan encouraged Gu Chenfeng to accept other women who sincerely cared for him. Before the siblings departed, Gu Beiwu revealed that Gu Qingxuan and Gu Chenfeng’s mother had been taken away by powerful people, and Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan vowed to seek her in Central Province.

• Helian Na explained that she and Gu Lingxiao had become sworn siblings, while Gu Chenfeng had given the Barbarian Tribe access to the Barbarian God's legacy and resources.
• Gu Chenfeng embraced Liu Fuyan and promised to bring her to Central Province once it was safe; Liu Fuyan urged him not to reject women who sincerely supported him.
• Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan boarded the Airship, and Gu Qingxuan told Gu Lingxiao she would call him Dad when he brought her mother back.
• Gu Beiwu revealed that powerful people had taken Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan's mother away after threatening the Gu Lineage and the children.
• Gu Qingxuan softened toward Gu Lingxiao and said she would look for news of her mother in Central Province, while Gu Chenfeng promised to bring her back.

Gu Chenfeng returned to Central Province with Gu Qingxuan, determined to grow strong enough to handle threats tied to the Gu Clan and the Seven Star Continent. After escorting her to the Four Symbols Sect, he reached Star Luo Hall, where Si Mingwei said a difficult mission awaited him.

• Gu Chenfeng considered his goals and threats during the journey, then resumed cultivating while the Bronze Coffin emerged beside his bed and resisted being stored until he contained it with the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale.
• A Five-Star Source Emperor Realm Great Demon discovered Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan over the Boundless Sea and sent an army of strange fish to attack their airship; Gu Chenfeng drove the demon off, then fled with Gu Qingxuan.
• Gu Chenfeng escorted Gu Qingxuan to the Four Symbols Sect, where he told Mo Nancang that Gu Beiwu had recovered and the Four Symbols Divine Sect had regained its supremacy in Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng traveled to Star Luo Hall, where Si Mingwei greeted him and said her master had a tricky mission for him.

Gu Chenfeng met Mu Chen, became his fourth disciple, and received several valuable treasures, including a replica of the Heaven-Mixing Shield. He and Si Mingwei then set out for Heavenly Star Prefecture to help their eldest senior brother investigate a missing secret treasure, which Si Mingwei identified as the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.

• Gu Chenfeng apologized to Mu Chen for delaying his visit and confirmed that the crisis in his lineage had been resolved.
• Mu Chen formally accepted Gu Chenfeng as his fourth disciple and gave him a replica of the Heaven-Mixing Shield, pills, talismans, and other treasures.
• Si Mingwei complained that Gu Chenfeng had received better gifts than she had, and Mu Chen promised her a Replica Mystic Treasure if she completed the mission.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei left Star Luo Hall aboard a flying boat and headed to Heavenly Star Prefecture.
• Si Mingwei explained that their eldest senior brother had reported a missing secret treasure in Starshine City and revealed that it was the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.

Si Mingwei explained the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree’s rare fruit and its value in strengthening cultivation and weakening source emperor realm thunder tribulations. After learning the tree had been stolen, Gu Chenfeng eagerly committed to recovering it so he could earn Cloudzhi Immortal Fruits for his impending breakthrough.

• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that Star Luo Hall’s Cloudzhi Immortal Tree required vast resources to bear a small crop of fruit once every hundred years.
• Si Mingwei explained that Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit could improve source emperor realm cultivation and help source king realm martial artists withstand thunder tribulations.
• Si Mingwei recounted how the fruit had helped her advance, then revealed that the tree had been stolen shortly before its next crop was due.
• Gu Chenfeng pledged to help Si Mingwei and Eldest Senior Brother recover the tree, then asked whether the mission could earn him a share of its fruit.
• After Si Mingwei said the fruit could be requested as a reward, Gu Chenfeng sought details about the theft and Heavenly Star Prefecture and resolved to retrieve the tree.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei traveled to Starshine City to investigate the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, disguising themselves to avoid drawing attention. They secretly entered the City Lord's Manor and reunited with Si Mingwei, where they met the city's lord, Fan Yue.

• During the journey, Gu Chenfeng examined his treasures and refined the imitation Dao Treasure Mu Chen had given him.
• After three days, Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei arrived in Starshine City and decided to enter in disguise because the immortal tree's theft had stirred suspicion and tension.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed nearly ten Source Emperor Realm experts in the city, including two late-stage experts, and suspected the one in the center was Fan Yue.
• Gu Chenfeng followed a concealed rendezvous arranged through a Command Talisman and entered a carriage with a hidden Concealment Formation.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei reached the City Lord's Manor in separate carriages and met Fan Yue, the Eldest Senior Brother serving as city lord.

Fan Yue explained how the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree was stolen from Starshine City and why the thieves may be among three powerful local sects. Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei learned the tree was still inside the city, but they had to find it before its fruit ripened and the city formation could no longer detect it.

• Fan Yue welcomed Si Mingwei and Gu Chenfeng to the City Lord's Manor and revealed that he had been injured during the theft of the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.
• Fan Yue showed them the Sky-Congealing Pool and described how black-clad thieves ambushed and imprisoned him before stealing the tree.
• Fan Yue suspected the Famed Sword Sect, the Moon-Covering Temple, or the Treasure Elephant Sect, whose power limited the City Lord's Manor's authority.
• Gu Chenfeng asked whether the thieves had moved the tree, and Fan Yue explained that Starshine City's grand formation would detect it if they tried to take it beyond the city.
• Fan Yue warned that the tree had to be found before its fruit ripened, when it would enter dormancy and become undetectable to the city's formation.

Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Gu Chenfeng discussed how to recover the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree before its fruit ripened and became impossible to detect. Gu Chenfeng proposed using Fan Yue’s Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit as bait to provoke the city’s factions into fighting, leaving the thief an opportunity to move the tree and reveal themselves.

• Fan Yue said the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree would ripen in about a month, after which it would go dormant and escape detection by formations.
• Fan Yue explained that the theft had thrown Starshine City into turmoil, leaving the City Lord’s Manor with few clues and little ability to search the major forces openly.
• Si Mingwei suggested using Star Luo Hall’s authority to search the three major forces, but Fan Yue worried they might unite against the City Lord’s Manor.
• Gu Chenfeng reasoned that the thief might try to move the tree amid the chaos and proposed worsening the unrest to draw them out.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Fan Yue for a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to use as bait, and Fan Yue agreed to provide one from his secret vault.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed posing as powerful rogue cultivators to lure the city’s factions into competing for the fruit, and Si Mingwei volunteered to lead the way.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei listened to Starshine City’s martial artists discuss the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and the spreading search for it. With the city in turmoil, Gu Chenfeng planned one final provocation to force the true culprits to move the tree, and the pair slipped away to prepare.

• Martial artists at Tongfu Restaurant discussed the City Lord's Manor confirming the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree had been stolen and offering a bounty for information.
• A guest said Star Luo Hall would send experts with a treasure to track the tree, while rumors of the theft drew powers and rogue cultivators to Starshine City.
• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that the city had grown chaotic and several people had died searching for clues.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that the threat of Star Luo Hall's tracking treasure would pressure the thieves to move the tree, and said he and Si Mingwei would stoke the panic further.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei left the restaurant and disappeared into the crowd to make preparations.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei staged a fight in Starshine City to draw out the factions searching for the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, using a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit as bait. Gu Chenfeng broke free of the swordswoman’s attack but was stopped by newly arrived experts.

• Reports of a powerful aura led Starshine City’s factions and martial artists to search for the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and the two black-clad figures.
• On the third night, Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei faced off above an inn, and Gu Chenfeng revealed a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to the gathered onlookers.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei privately discussed their plan to stall for the approaching experts, then fought in earnest after Gu Chenfeng insulted her.
• Gu Chenfeng gained the upper hand, knocked Si Mingwei back, and tried to escape with the fruit’s seal concealed.
• A Taoist swept at Gu Chenfeng with a fly-whisk, and another expert blocked his escape with a golden fist shadow.

Gu Chenfeng fought Starshine City’s leading experts to draw them away while someone else prepared to move the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree. After four Source Emperor experts joined the battle, Si Mingwei charged at him, and Gu Chenfeng threw out a ball of spirit light as if surrendering the fruit.

• True Person Xuansu and Master Longchan tried to make Gu Chenfeng surrender the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, but he fought them off while attempting to flee east.
• City Lord Fan Yue sent his deputies to watch the southern and northern gates and went to guard the eastern gate, expecting the immortal tree to be moved.
• Two supreme elders from the Moon-Covering Temple and Treasure Elephant Sect joined the fight, leaving Gu Chenfeng under attack from four Source Emperor experts.
• Gu Chenfeng endured their combined assault without using his trump cards, drawing the city's top experts into the battle as planned.
• Si Mingwei charged at Gu Chenfeng and demanded the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and he threw a ball of spirit light toward her, claiming he was done fighting.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei fought off Starshine City's major forces while the Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit changed hands, and the City Lord's Manor ordered the city gates sealed. A disguised figure escaped through the eastern gate but was intercepted outside the city by a powerful blade attack.

• Gu Chenfeng threw the Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to Si Mingwei, who fought off the Moon-Covering Temple and Treasure Elephant Sect's Supreme Elders.
• Xie Jingchen and the Famed Sword Sect joined the battle, and three faction leaders attacked Gu Chenfeng while three Supreme Elders engaged Si Mingwei.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei held their attackers at bay as the gathered martial artists watched the battles.
• At the eastern gate, a disguised carriage tried to leave Starshine City, but its occupants killed the guard commander and broke through the gate and its restriction.
• An escape light fled beyond the city, where an ocher blade aura intercepted it and forced it to stop.

Fan Yue intercepted the disguised Xie Guhong outside Starshine City's east gate, while Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei revealed themselves as Star Luo Hall elders and led the city’s factions to the battle. The crowd recognized the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree in Xie Guhong’s bundle, exposing the Famed Sword Sect as the thieves.

• Fan Yue confronted the masked man carrying the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and challenged him to surrender it, then fought him outside the east gate.
• Gu Chenfeng used his Profound Ice Battle Axe to drive back the three factions’ experts and help Si Mingwei before they revealed their Star Luo Hall identities.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei told the assembled fighters that the real thief was battling Fan Yue at the east gate, then rushed there with Xie Jingchen, True Person Xuansu, Master Longchan, and others following.
• Xie Guhong overwhelmed Fan Yue and the two Deputy City Lords, forcing them backward as the battle’s energy tide cleared.
• The crowd recognized Xie Guhong and saw the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree in his damaged bundle, revealing that the Famed Sword Sect had plundered it.

Gu Chenfeng interrupted the battle between Xie Guhong and Fan Yue’s allies, then exposed the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree as a fake. The tree crumbled away, leaving only its real rootstock and one Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit.

• Xie Guhong refused to surrender the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and declared that he would fight his way out of Starshine City.
• Fan Yue called on True Person Xuansu and Master Longchan to help surround Xie Guhong, Xie Jingchen, and the Famed Sword Sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Gu Chenfeng stopped the impending battle and asked Xie Guhong how he had obtained the tree.
• Xie Guhong explained that he had taken the bundle from a black-clad man fleeing the City Lord’s Manor, but the others doubted his story.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed the tree was fake and challenged Xie Guhong to cut off one of its branches.
• Xie Jingchen severed a branch, causing the tree to dissolve into Heaven and Earth Origin Power and reveal a real rootstock and Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit.

Gu Chenfeng exposed the fake Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and used a tracking talisman to pursue the thief who had stolen the real one. The chase led them to a battle where Si Mingwei recognized one of the auras as their Second Senior Brother’s.

• Gu Chenfeng revealed that Xie Guhong’s Cloudzhi Immortal Tree was fake, leaving only one real Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit, and Xie Guhong thanked him for preventing disaster for the Famed Sword Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Fan Yue that the real thief had used Xie Guhong to distract them, but the city formation detected the tree’s aura as the thief escaped through Starshine City’s western gate.
• Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, Xie Guhong, and the others pursued the thief, but found the western gate guards slaughtered and no trace of the fugitive.
• Gu Chenfeng used a High-Rank Tracking Talisman, explaining that he had planted Positioning Talismans at the city gates to detect the immortal tree’s aura.
• Gu Chenfeng, Fan Yue, and Si Mingwei followed the tracking talisman in a Flying Boat as the thief tried to erase the Positioning Talisman’s mark.
• The pursuers sensed a distant fight between Source Emperor Realm experts, and Si Mingwei recognized one of the auras as their Second Senior Brother’s.

Gu Chenfeng, Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin recovered the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree from a black-clad thief, who self-destructed rather than be captured. As they returned to the city, Si Mingwei kept her distance from Fan Yue, and Gu Chenfeng asked Jiang Yin whether Fan Yue had always been so attentive.

• Jiang Yin fought the six-star Source Emperor black-clad thief and reunited with Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Gu Chenfeng.
• Jiang Yin recovered the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and Fan Yue confirmed it was the real parent tree bearing fourteen fruits.
• The thief used a talisman to evade Jiang Yin and attack Si Mingwei, but Gu Chenfeng and Fan Yue stopped him before Jiang Yin pinned him down.
• The thief self-destructed, destroying the area, while Gu Chenfeng noticed a strange aura dissipating from the man’s remains.
• Fan Yue treated Si Mingwei’s shoulder wounds, but she pulled away; on the journey back, Gu Chenfeng asked Jiang Yin whether Fan Yue had always been so kind.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions celebrated recovering the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree before preparing to return to Star Luo Hall. After Gu Chenfeng secretly retrieved something from Fan Yue during a banquet, Fan Yue told him that Si Mingwei had stayed behind to cultivate and would return later with him.

• Jiang Yin praised Fan Yue for guiding his junior siblings and taking responsibility for Starshine City, and the group returned the immortal tree to the Sky-Congealing Pool.
• The City Lord's Manor confined the Famed Sword Sect's core members while Gu Chenfeng, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin recuperated for two days.
• Fan Yue hosted a banquet, gave gifts to his guests, and presented Gu Chenfeng with a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit; Gu Chenfeng gave Fan Yue a healing pill.
• When Gu Chenfeng and Fan Yue touched hands while clinking cups, an undetected wisp of divine sense flowed from Fan Yue back into Gu Chenfeng, who concealed his shock.
• Gu Chenfeng spent the night on alert, then met Jiang Yin in the morning; Fan Yue explained that Si Mingwei had entered seclusion at the Sky-Congealing Pool and would return to Star Luo Hall with him after the fruit ripened.

Fan Yue let Gu Chenfeng and Jiang Yin leave Starshine City while preparing a blood sacrifice and a curse to control Si Mingwei. After confirming Jiang Yin was not involved in Fan Yue’s scheme, Gu Chenfeng told him that Fan Yue was dangerous and urged him to return to help rescue Si Mingwei.

• Fan Yue escorted Gu Chenfeng and Jiang Yin out of Starshine City, then revealed that he planned to have the city’s people killed to cover up the blood sacrifice.
• Fan Yue’s Deputy City Lord reported that he and Deputy City Lord Zhou were nearly finished setting up a Blood Curse Art on Si Mingwei, and Fan Yue said he intended to make her obey him again.
• A thousand li from Starshine City, Gu Chenfeng suddenly attacked Jiang Yin, then used his Divine Sense to check that Jiang Yin was not compromised.
• Gu Chenfeng told Jiang Yin that Fan Yue was planning something terrible and that they needed reinforcements to rescue Si Mingwei.
• Jiang Yin doubted Gu Chenfeng’s accusations but agreed to return with him to the vicinity of Starshine City.

Fan Yue led a massacre of Starshine City, using a blood-colored formation to absorb the victims’ blood essence and Soul Power. After Xie Guhong discovered Fan Yue’s identity and was about to be killed, a familiar voice called out to him as a water-blue sword strike intervened.

• A black figure ordered the slaughter to begin, and attackers across Starshine City killed its inhabitants while the formation absorbed their blood essence and Soul Power.
• Xie Guhong, True Person Xuansu, and Master Longchan escaped the formation after breaking through it, but a black-robed attacker pursued them.
• The attacker killed Master Longchan and True Person Xuansu, then caught up with Xie Guhong.
• Xie Guhong’s sword strike tore the attacker’s face covering and revealed Fan Yue, the city lord of Starshine City.
• Fan Yue struck Xie Guhong down and prepared a killing blow, but a water-blue sword strike blocked it as a familiar voice addressed him as “Eldest Senior Brother.”

Jiang Yin confronted Fan Yue over the slaughter of Starshine City and learned that his senior brother had betrayed Star Luo Hall for power and resources. Fan Yue rejected Jiang Yin’s plea to repent, revealed his source emperor realm nine-star strength, and charged Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong.

• Jiang Yin explained how Gu Chenfeng had uncovered Fan Yue’s role in faking the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree theft and orchestrating the events in Starshine City.
• Fan Yue admitted his actions and said he wanted the treasures and resources offered by a mysterious Great Figure, urging Jiang Yin to join him.
• Jiang Yin refused to betray Star Luo Hall and urged Fan Yue to help save the city’s people and return to face judgment.
• Fan Yue rejected Jiang Yin’s plea, revealed that Gu Chenfeng was likely trying to rescue Third Junior Sister, and threatened to kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Xie Guhong joined Jiang Yin, and the two attacked Fan Yue, who revealed his source emperor realm nine-star strength and rushed at them.

Gu Chenfeng infiltrated the City Lord's Manor, killed Deputy City Lord Zhou and the other Deputy City Lord, and rescued Si Mingwei while taking the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree. The city's formation then marked him, and three Source Emperor Realm powerhouses closed in as he prepared to fight his way out.

• Gu Chenfeng killed Deputy City Lord Zhou before she could feed Si Mingwei the Blood Soul Pill, then stored the unconscious Si Mingwei inside his Azure Dragon Reverse Scale.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled that he and Jiang Yin had split up after Fan Yue pursued Xie Guhong and the others, with Jiang Yin delaying Fan Yue while Gu Chenfeng entered the city to rescue Si Mingwei.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that black-clad powerhouses were slaughtering Starshine City under a blood-colored barrier that suppressed martial artists and refined souls and blood energy.
• Gu Chenfeng found the other Deputy City Lord dead, took the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree into his Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, and prepared to leave the manor.
• The city's formation locked onto Gu Chenfeng, and he sensed three approaching Source Emperor Realm powerhouses, so he decided to force his way out.

Gu Chenfeng fought his way through Starshine City, killing the black-robed Source Emperor Realm experts sent to stop him and drawing the city’s surviving martial artists into his wake. As they neared the eastern edge of the city, the Spirit-Devouring Grand Formation’s controller engulfed Gu Chenfeng in a vast tide of blood.

• Gu Chenfeng killed three black-robed Source Emperor Realm experts in quick succession, then slew four more sent by the formation’s controller, including a six-star expert.
• As he crossed the city, Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon’s Eye to kill many black-robed attackers who were slaughtering civilians.
• The surviving martial artists recognized Gu Chenfeng as an elder of Star Luo Hall and followed him toward the city’s eastern side.
• Gu Chenfeng led the survivors within several hundred feet of the eastern edge before a vast blood tide surged over and engulfed him.

Gu Chenfeng resisted the blood tide in Starshine City and fought its black-robed controller, a peak Source Emperor Realm Seven Stars expert. As the enemy began to falter under Gu Chenfeng’s attacks and divine sense, Gu Chenfeng unleashed Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

• Gu Chenfeng resisted the blood tide’s refining force, located the black-robed man controlling it, and demanded to know who he was and what connection he had to Fan Yue.
• The black-robed man refused to answer, and Gu Chenfeng attacked him with the Profound Ice Battle Axe; their first clash sent Gu Chenfeng flying back while forcing the man to retreat half a step.
• Gu Chenfeng followed with the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms, growing stronger with each strike until his seventh blow, Heaven-Opening Form, matched the black-robed man’s attack.
• Gu Chenfeng used his azure dragon power and powerful divine sense to press the black-robed man back, shaking his divine platform and destabilizing his primordial spirit.
• As the black-robed man sent the blood tide surging at him to buy time, Gu Chenfeng charged the Profound Ice Battle Axe with his essence, qi, and spirit, then invoked Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the black-robed man inside the sea of blood and finished him with a Purple-Gold Giant Peak. Outside Starshine City's eastern gate, the black-clad attackers' assault was interrupted by an explosion and purple-gold light erupting from the blood sea.

• Gu Chenfeng shattered the black-robed man's blood tide with his mystic ice axe and struck him down with the Fate-Slaying Initial Awakening, First Human-Slaying Slash.
• The wounded black-robed man tried to call his companions and withdraw the restriction, but Gu Chenfeng crushed him with a descending Purple-Gold Giant Peak.
• At Starshine City's eastern gate, black-clad experts led by Source Emperor Realm cultivators intercepted the city's escaping cultivators and began slaughtering them.
• The black-clad experts claimed their Senior Brother would defeat Gu Chenfeng, but they soon received his desperate plea for help from the sea of blood.
• A violent explosion shook Starshine City, and purple-gold light burst from the sea of blood, blasting back the black-robed experts approaching it.