Recaps

High Person Guiku confronted Gu Chenfeng and revealed that he had tracked him for killing two Kindling Fire Sect Vice Sect Masters. As Guiku unleashed the refined corpses and attacked Gu Chenfeng with the Seven Baleful Demon Infants, Gu Chenfeng repelled the ghost heads, but Guiku then charged at him himself.

• High Person Guiku appeared at the passage entrance and accused Gu Chenfeng of killing Chu Zhusheng and his companion, explaining that a karmic restriction had revealed the deaths.
• Gu Chenfeng realized High Person Guiku had secretly followed him, then told Ling Wanshuang and the others to break out without him and sent Zhang Xiaoyun with them.
• High Person Guiku used his bone staff to enrage the refined corpses and block everyone from escaping.
• High Person Guiku summoned the Seven Baleful Demon Infants to attack Gu Chenfeng, who defended himself with his Battle Axe and forced the ghost heads back with Limitless Strike.
• High Person Guiku acknowledged Gu Chenfeng's strength, sent the ghost heads to harry him, and charged at him through gray mist.

Gu Chenfeng fought High Person Guiku, injuring him with the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation but failing to defeat him. When deadly corpse qi swept into the cavern and began turning cultivators into refined corpses, both sides fled deeper into the Immortal Tomb.

• Gu Chenfeng used his supreme yang power and Limitless Raging Tide Slash to withstand High Person Guiku's assault, while Guiku was surprised that his profound meaning could not break Gu Chenfeng's body.
• Gu Chenfeng struck Guiku with a divine sense attack and trapped him in the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation, which wounded Guiku but failed to kill him.
• Guiku escaped the weakening sword formation and pierced Gu Chenfeng's right shoulder with poisonous gray light, then prepared to unleash another secret art.
• Black corpse qi swept into the cavern, and two True Saint cultivators were transformed into refined corpses after being engulfed by it.
• Zhang Xiaoyun warned the group to flee, and Ling Wanshuang, Zhang Xiaoyun, and the others fought their way deeper into the Immortal Tomb as Gu Chenfeng and Guiku also escaped.

Gu Chenfeng fled the corpse qi through the Immortal Tomb while High Person Guiku pursued him, but Gu Chenfeng’s poison resistance thwarted the attacks. As Gu Chenfeng prepared a counterattack in the Core Region, the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins warned him of a deadly presence approaching from deeper within.

• Gu Chenfeng escaped the spreading corpse qi, but High Person Guiku tracked him down and attacked him in a passage.
• Gu Chenfeng evaded High Person Guiku’s poisoned gray streaks and fled, while High Person Guiku pursued him to seize his treasures.
• The two raced through hundreds of passages and reached a broad main passage in the Core Region, where Gu Chenfeng realized the poison had only made him feel tipsy and took a Profound Pill.
• Gu Chenfeng pretended to flee while planning to use his puppets and magic treasures to ambush High Person Guiku.
• As Gu Chenfeng prepared to strike, the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins warned him of an immense danger approaching from deeper in the passage.

Gu Chenfeng lured High Person Guiku toward a powerful Red-Haired Corpse Refining, then escaped its attack with a Substitute Puppet and hid among the rubble. The corpse began searching for him, but an unknown pursuer arrived and shouted that the beast would not escape.

• Gu Chenfeng and High Person Guiku encountered a terrifying Red-Haired Corpse Refining in the passage and fled from it.
• The Red-Haired Corpse Refining seized both men, killed High Person Guiku, and devoured his primordial spirit.
• Gu Chenfeng’s Substitute Puppet exploded in the corpse’s mouth while the real Gu Chenfeng hid beneath rubble and concealed his aura.
• The Red-Haired Corpse Refining swept the passage with yin qi to search for Gu Chenfeng.
• An escape light rushed toward the corpse as someone shouted, “Vile beast, you shall not escape!”

Gu Chenfeng watched as Xiao Qing and three powerful allies fought Xiahou Che, the red-haired refined corpse, and tried to force out the remnant spirit soul within him. Xiahou Che unleashed a devastating secret art and escaped deeper into the passage, prompting Xiao Qing’s party to pursue him.

• Xiao Qing, Li Tianhan, and City Lords Xin and Tan attacked Xiahou Che while Gu Chenfeng hid and realized the corpse was the long-dead Xiahou Che.
• The four fighters suppressed Xiahou Che, but his body endured their attacks and rapidly healed; Xiao Qing hoped to capture him and claim the treasures refined into his body.
• City Lord Tan proposed using a blood-costing secret method to drive out Xiahou Che’s remnant spirit soul, and Xiao Qing agreed to hold him still while promising Tan triple payment.
• Xiao Qing bound Xiahou Che with eight water dragons and pinned him down while Xin and Li Tianhan reinforced the restraints.
• City Lord Tan used his essence blood to inscribe a rune on Xiahou Che, weakening his yin baleful qi until Xiahou Che suddenly unleashed Profound Baleful Intent Divine Light and shattered their restraints.
• Xiahou Che blasted Li Tianhan away and fled deeper into the passage, so Xiao Qing ordered the others to chase him before he could consume more cultivators’ essence blood.

Gu Chenfeng escaped Xiahou Che and recovered High Person Guiku’s Storage Ring before reuniting with Ling Wanshuang’s group. With their route back blocked by corpse qi, they traveled toward the Immortal Tomb’s Core Region and discovered an underground palace beyond a damaged barrier.

• Xiahou Che’s corpse fled deeper into the passage as Xiao Qing and the others pursued it, allowing Gu Chenfeng to emerge from hiding and retrieve High Person Guiku’s Storage Ring.
• Ling Wanshuang, Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and their companions met Gu Chenfeng, who explained that Xiahou Che had killed High Person Guiku and that he had barely escaped.
• Ling Wanshuang told Gu Chenfeng that corpse qi and refined corpses had cut off their retreat, so he led the group toward the Immortal Tomb’s Core Region.
• Zhang Xiaoyun explained that Xiahou Che was a newly risen red-haired zombie from a corpse-nurturing ground and shared her Tianyi Sect’s history and possible connection to the tomb.
• Gu Chenfeng led the group through a winding passage and across a damaged light barrier, where they found a vast underground palace.

Gu Chenfeng and the other cultivators were trapped in Xiahou Che’s Underground Palace as Zhang Xiaoyun identified a formation that would turn everyone in the Immortal Tomb into refined corpses. With the passages overrun, Gu Chenfeng urged the survivors to fight toward the passage where Xiao Qing had gone, but Zhang Xiaoyun noticed Zhengyi Sect runes on the Bronze Coffin.

• Zhang Xiaoyun recognized the Nine Deaths Return-to-Origin Formation and explained that its nine passages all led to death.
• Cultivators fleeing the Yin Miasma and refined corpses gathered in the Underground Palace, while the catastrophe had already killed or transformed more than ninety percent of those exploring the tomb.
• Hordes of refined corpses poured through the passages, forcing the cultivators to defend themselves as the threat of the spreading corpse qi grew.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed leading everyone through the passage he believed Xiao Qing and Xiahou Che had entered, hoping to find a way to escape.
• Zhang Xiaoyun exclaimed that she saw runes from her Zhengyi Sect on the Bronze Coffin.

Gu Chenfeng and Zhang Xiaoyun discovered that a Zhengyi Sect Celestial Master had sealed Xiahou Che in the Bronze Coffin with an Eight Trigrams Mirror. The mirror destroyed the refined corpses and sealed the Underground Palace's entrances, then opened a path in the ceiling for a lightning-patterned peachwood coffin, which began to open.

• Zhang Xiaoyun recognized the Bronze Coffin's runes as the work of a Zhengyi Sect Celestial Master who had sealed Xiahou Che.
• Gu Chenfeng blasted away the yin baleful qi and found an Eight Trigrams Mirror embedded at the bottom of the Bronze Coffin.
• The Eight Trigrams Mirror activated, released azure light, and destroyed the refined corpses while sealing the nine cave entrances.
• The mirror's azure light cracked open the Underground Palace's ceiling and drew down a lightning-patterned peachwood coffin.
• The peachwood coffin hovered above the Bronze Coffin and opened a narrow, pitch-black crack.

Zhang Shouzhen, the missing Celestial Master of the Zhengyi Sect, emerged from the coffin but revealed himself as a powerful demon who attacked the cultivators trapped in the Underground Palace. Gu Chenfeng struck back, but his axe failed to break Zhang Shouzhen’s defenses, so he followed with his sword formation and the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain.

• Zhang Xiaoyun recognized the figure rising from the coffin as Zhang Shouzhen, the Zhengyi Sect’s last Celestial Master, and paid her respects.
• Zhang Shouzhen opened his abyssal eyes and fired blood-red beams at Zhang Xiaoyun, but Gu Chenfeng rescued her.
• Zhang Shouzhen unleashed overwhelming yin baleful qi and used the Eight Trigrams Mirror to drain the cultivators’ life force and essence blood.
• Gu Chenfeng attacked Zhang Shouzhen with repeated axe strikes, but Zhang Shouzhen stopped the final blow with one finger and shattered Gu Chenfeng’s Saint Weapon axe.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation around Zhang Shouzhen and brought down the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain.

Gu Chenfeng fought Celestial Master Zhang in the Underground Palace but was badly wounded by his overwhelming strength. With Zhang Xiaoyun’s help, Gu Chenfeng completed a Supreme Clarity Baleful-Suppressing Talisman that froze Celestial Master Zhang in place.

• Celestial Master Zhang broke through Gu Chenfeng’s defenses and repeatedly injured him while the other cultivators lay unconscious.
• Zhang Xiaoyun resisted the blood light with a Jade Talisman and distracted Celestial Master Zhang, allowing Gu Chenfeng to notice a faint silver rune on his robes.
• Gu Chenfeng used his last Substitute Puppet to fake his death, then stuck an incomplete Talisman Paper over Celestial Master Zhang’s chest to complete the rune.
• Zhang Xiaoyun added her essence blood to the talisman, unleashing its full power and immobilizing Celestial Master Zhang.

Gu Chenfeng and Zhang Xiaoyun restored Celestial Master Zhang’s Taiqing Baleful-Calming Talisman, awakening his remnant soul and learning how he had sealed Xiahou Che. As Xiahou Che approached, Celestial Master Zhang passed the Zhengyi Sect’s legacy to Zhang Xiaoyun, entrusted Gu Chenfeng with half of Xiahou Che’s spirit soul, and sent them out of the Underground Palace.

• Gu Chenfeng completed the talisman on Celestial Master Zhang with his last Substitute Puppet, and Zhang Xiaoyun helped keep the talisman light from being overwhelmed by yin baleful qi.
• Celestial Master Zhang removed the restored talisman, regained his awareness, and explained that he had preserved a remnant soul after dying two thousand years earlier.
• Zhang Xiaoyun told Celestial Master Zhang that the Zhengyi Sect had declined and lost its Mountain Gate, and he urged her to rebuild it.
• Celestial Master Zhang recounted how Xiahou Che broke through with his corpse, killed his disciples, and was sealed with half his spirit soul; he then resolved to keep suppressing Xiahou Che.
• Celestial Master Zhang passed the Zhengyi Sect’s core legacy to Zhang Xiaoyun and gave Gu Chenfeng half of Xiahou Che’s spirit soul, asking him to protect her.
• Celestial Master Zhang sent Gu Chenfeng and the others out of the Underground Palace with the Eight Trigrams mirror as Xiahou Che’s aura approached.

Gu Chenfeng and the survivors escaped the Immortal Tomb and headed toward Black Iron City, where Zhang Xiaoyun agreed to settle with him. After recovering aboard the Airship, Gu Chenfeng examined the objects Celestial Master Zhang had entrusted to him and opened the Peachwood Coffin.

• Gu Chenfeng, Zhang Xiaoyun, and the others awoke outside the Immortal Tomb, and Zhang Xiaoyun claimed that Celestial Master Zhang had saved them.
• The Immortal Tomb shook violently, so Gu Chenfeng and the survivors fled by Airship toward the Southwestern Borderlands of Xilin Commandery; Lei Ming was the only member of their group who had died.
• Gu Chenfeng invited Zhang Xiaoyun to take a post in Black Iron City, and she accepted; Ling Wanshuang urged Xu Yiyi to pursue a relationship with Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng spent two days recovering from his injuries aboard the Airship, then isolated his cabin and took out Xiahou Che's sealed Spirit Soul and the Peachwood Coffin.
• Gu Chenfeng lifted the Peachwood Coffin's lid to discover the items Celestial Master Zhang had left inside.

Gu Chenfeng explored the space inside the peachwood coffin and discovered valuable treasures, including two jade slips. After learning that one contained Xiahou Che’s dangerous body-refining art, he decided to wait until he had recovered before choosing whether to cultivate it.

• Gu Chenfeng entered the peachwood coffin’s vast inner world and found a cave containing a yin marrow crystal, a powerful pure-yin spirit medicine, and a huge piece of Spirit-Communicating Jade.
• Gu Chenfeng read the golden jade slip, discovering the Profound Talisman Heavenly Chapter and Celestial Master Zhang’s insights into talisman crafting.
• Gu Chenfeng examined the black jade slip and learned that it contained Xiahou Che’s Nine Deaths Profound Baleful Art, a perilous body-refining cultivation art.
• Gu Chenfeng studied the art’s three realms and nine layers, then decided to wait until he returned to Black Iron City and recovered from his injuries before deciding whether to cultivate it.

After recovering from the Immortal Tomb, Gu Chenfeng learned that the tomb had become a sealed forbidden land and considered how to answer the threat of the Peerless Abyss Pavilion. He resolved to investigate the killers, strengthen himself, and refine the Mysterious Female Pill to reach the Saint Warrior realm.

• Gu Chenfeng returned to Black Iron City, introduced Zhang Xiaoyun to his subordinates, and entered seclusion to heal.
• After more than a month, Gu Chenfeng recovered fully and summoned Liu Youfang for news about the Immortal Tomb.
• Liu Youfang reported that the upheaval had killed nearly all the tomb explorers, though Xiao Qing and his party had escaped badly injured.
• Liu Youfang said the Immortal Tomb had been identified as Xiahou Che's burial place, then sunk underground and been sealed off as a forbidden area.
• Gu Chenfeng weighed the danger posed by the Peerless Abyss Pavilion and decided to investigate it while improving his strength.
• Gu Chenfeng made refining the Mysterious Female Pill and breaking through to the Saint Warrior realm his immediate priority.

As rumors about Xiahou Che and the Immortal Tomb spread, Gu Chenfeng refined a Mysterious Female Pill and used it to break through to the Saint Warrior realm. After emerging from seclusion, he traveled toward Azure Cloud Market and entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins’ second fragment.

• Rumors about Xiahou Che and the Immortal Tomb spread across the Feather Transformation Marquisate, while powerful restrictions kept explorers out.
• Gu Chenfeng spent nearly half a month refining the Mysterious Female Pill in his mountain cave abode.
• Gu Chenfeng stored the pill and restored his strength, wary that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s killers might be searching for him.
• After several months of seclusion, Gu Chenfeng took the pill, condensed his Profound Meaning Seed, and broke through to the Saint Warrior realm.
• Gu Chenfeng consolidated his new cultivation, then left for Azure Cloud Market to buy resources and improve his strength.
• Gu Chenfeng turned his attention to the Divine Platform and sent another version of himself into the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins’ second fragment.

Gu Chenfeng discovered the Marrow Washing Pool in the second layer of the Divine Ruins Space and used it to cleanse his body and primordial spirit. He then bought cultivation supplies, returned to his cave abode, and began secluded cultivation to raise his combat strength.

• Gu Chenfeng passed through the curtain into the second layer of the Divine Ruins Space and found the Marrow Washing Pool.
• Gu Chenfeng injected Chaos Qi into the pool’s pearl, then entered the pool and had the dragon and phoenix phantoms cleanse his body and primordial spirit.
• Gu Chenfeng realized the pool consumed Chaos Qi quickly but could be valuable for healing injuries or overcoming a bottleneck, and he worried briefly about Leng Xingye.
• Gu Chenfeng visited Azure Cloud Pavilion in disguise and bought spirit medicine, talisman-making materials, and puppet materials.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to his cave abode, reinforced its defensive and concealment restrictions, and began secluded cultivation.

After five years of rapid growth, Black Iron City had become the Southwest's foremost city, and Gu Chenfeng returned to reward its leaders and inspect its progress. He then set out for Azure Cloud Market after learning that his information network had uncovered news of the Peerless Abyss Pavilion.

• Liu Youfang admired Black Iron City's prosperity and rushed to the City Lord's Manor when Gu Chenfeng summoned him.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed that he had reached the Saint Warrior realm and praised Liu Youfang for his work developing the city.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Liu Youfang a Profound Pill that could help him reach the peak of the True Saint Realm.
• Liu Youfang reported on Black Iron City's growth, and Gu Chenfeng summoned Tongtong, the Three Kings, and Zhang Xiaoyun before rewarding them with cultivation resources.
• Gu Chenfeng left for Azure Cloud Market after learning his information channels had found news of the Peerless Abyss Pavilion, and he wondered whether its members had abandoned their assassination attempt.

Gu Chenfeng reflected on five years of cultivation and his growing strength as he traveled toward Azure Cloud Market, while worrying about the Peerless Abyss Pavilion and longing to reunite with his family on the Seven Star Continent. He entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins and continued refining his body with the Nine Deaths Profound Baleful Art.

• Gu Chenfeng reviewed his progress in cultivation, pill refining, puppet crafting, talisman making, and secret arts, noting that he had reached the peak of the early Saint Warrior realm.
• Gu Chenfeng remained wary that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion had tracked him and worried about the passage of time and his family on the Seven Star Continent.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled that Taiching Daoist, the Barbarian God, and the Dragon Emperor still reported that the Seven Star Continent was safe under Yuqing and the Dragon-Controlling Guard.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins and used spirit stones to activate the Marrow Washing Pool with the Dragon-Phoenix Precious Pearl.
• Gu Chenfeng absorbed yin baleful qi from a Yin Marrow Crystal, enduring its pain as the pool's natural energy balanced it, then meditated while refining his body.

Gu Chenfeng, posing as Wang Zhong, bought a large quantity of supplies at Azure Cloud Market and learned that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion had ties to the Dingbo and Changning Marquisates. Lu Qingzhou then warned him that unrest was coming and that Azure Cloud Market would soon relocate.

• Gu Chenfeng gave Lu Qingzhou and Withered Glory Old Freak a list for a major purchase, and Lu promised to gather the supplies within three days at a thirty-percent discount.
• Lu Qingzhou told Gu Chenfeng that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion kept its headquarters secret, accepted missions only through trusted intermediaries, and might have ties to the upper ranks of the Dingbo and Changning Marquisates.
• Gu Chenfeng suspected the four clans that had betrayed Marquis Yu were behind the assassination mission targeting him, possibly through the Peerless Abyss Pavilion.
• Lu Qingzhou said Azure Cloud Market would relocate in a few days and warned Gu Chenfeng to leave the borderlands because unrest was coming.

Gu Chenfeng learned that danger was brewing on Xilin Commandery’s borders, stocked up on supplies, and returned to Black Iron City. As he approached his cave abode late at night, he sensed someone waiting for him.

• Lu Qingzhou warned Gu Chenfeng that unrest threatened the borders and said Azure Cloud Market was relocating.
• Withered Glory Old Freak suggested robbing Gu Chenfeng, but Lu Qingzhou suspected he had powerful backing and told him to leave Gu Chenfeng alone.
• Gu Chenfeng realized Lu Qingzhou and Withered Glory Old Freak had been watching him and considered the warning about trouble in Xilin Commandery.
• Gu Chenfeng bought extra supplies during his three-day stay, collected the resources he had ordered, and hurried back to Black Iron City.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed someone near his cave abode and declared that they had finally come to him.

Gu Chenfeng confronted two late-stage Saint Warrior killers from the Peerless Abyss Pavilion and defeated them with his overwhelming strength. The killers were left surrounded by hidden cultivators, and their fate was sealed by a combined attack.

• Gu Chenfeng questioned the two Peerless Abyss Pavilion killers about their employer, then summoned his new battle axe when they said they had come to kill him.
• The male and female killers attacked together, but Gu Chenfeng parried their strikes and held off their signature techniques.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the Eighteen Profound Apertures and unleashed Limitless Strike, gravely wounding both killers.
• The killers fled in opposite directions, but Gu Chenfeng revealed that they were surrounded by hidden cultivators.
• The hidden cultivators and Gu Chenfeng attacked the two killers, and their screams rang out as the forest fell silent.

Gu Chenfeng defeated the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s third wave of killers and discovered that their baleful resentment qi strengthened his cultivation. After returning to Black Iron City, he fortified defenses and resumed preparing for danger, but an unexpected development arrived ten days later.

• Gu Chenfeng used his puppet army to help kill the two Peerless Abyss Pavilion assassins, then absorbed the baleful resentment qi from their corpses and realized it aided the Nine Deaths Profound Baleful Art.
• Gu Chenfeng collected the assassins’ Storage Rings, destroyed their corpses, and left his exposed cave abode with his belongings and puppet army.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to Black Iron City and ordered Liu Youfang to investigate unusual activity throughout the territory and along its borders.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Ling Wanshuang, Daoist Qingxuan, and Lei Qianjun to coordinate border defenses and increase vigilance across the four cities.
• Gu Chenfeng continued cultivating and used resources from the Azure Cloud Market to refine pills, puppets, and talismans until an unexpected turn came ten days later.

Gu Chenfeng learned that the Heroes Alliance had rebelled and seized three cities in southwestern Xilin Commandery. He united the four border cities under Black Iron City's command and prepared for the conflict to escalate.

• Liu Youfang reported that bandit raids along Xilin Commandery's borders were spreading, and captured leaders revealed the Heroes Alliance had ordered them to cause trouble.
• Ling Wanshuang, Daoist Qingxuan, and Lei Qianjun told Gu Chenfeng that the Heroes Alliance had risen in revolt, captured three southwestern cities, and was preparing to attack more.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed coordinating the four border cities' defenses, combining their armies under one command, and clearing bandits near their territories; the three City Lords agreed to his leadership.
• Black Iron City took command of the four cities' forces and dispatched detachments to deal with nearby bandits.
• Gu Chenfeng sent messages to Taiching Daoist, the Barbarian God, the Dragon Emperor, and others, then increased his production of pills, talismans, and puppets.

As the Heroes Alliance seized more cities in southwestern Xilin Commandery, Gu Chenfeng chose to hold Black Iron City and its three allied cities rather than act hastily. Commandery Governor Lu Chongyue recognized their resilience but feared they would eventually fall, and decided to seek help from His Highness the Fourth Prince.

• Ling Wanshuang reported that the Heroes Alliance had stalled the Commandery Governor and the Three Great Fortresses, captured more Main Cities, and left the four border cities isolated.
• Daoist Qingxuan said the four cities had wiped out the nearby bandits, while Ling Wanshuang reported rebellions in the neighboring Dingbo Marquisate and Changning Marquisate and the Commandery Governor's harsh orders.
• Gu Chenfeng told Lei Qianjun and the others to hold their cities and wait for the situation to change.
• The Heroes Alliance continued capturing cities across the southwest as Xilin Commandery's main forces remained pinned down.
• Lu Chongyue learned that Sea Moon City, Ning'an City, and Sishui City had fallen and their populations had been slaughtered.
• Lu Chongyue heard that Black Iron City, Biting Wind City, Red Gold City, and Nether Shadow City had formed an alliance under Gu Chenfeng, then resolved to seek help from His Highness the Fourth Prince.

As the Heroes Alliance’s forces closed in on the last four cities in southwestern Xilin Commandery, Gu Chenfeng learned to cultivate the Nine Deaths Profound Baleful Art from captured bandits’ resentment qi. When a group of powerful cultivators arrived near Black Iron City, Gu Chenfeng recognized them as allies and went to welcome them.

• Gu Chenfeng questioned captured bandit leaders, killed them when they attacked, and refined the baleful resentment qi from their corpses.
• Gu Chenfeng discovered that the resentment qi’s density depended on a person’s evil deeds and victims, and that the bandits’ qi had substantially strengthened his cultivation.
• Ling Wanshuang told Gu Chenfeng, Daoist Qingxuan, and Lei Qianjun that three more cities had fallen and the Heroes Alliance was preparing to encircle the four remaining border cities.
• Daoist Qingxuan suggested abandoning the cities, but Ling Wanshuang warned that fleeing would bring severe punishment upon them and their families.
• Several late-stage Saint Warrior-level auras appeared northwest of Black Iron City, and Gu Chenfeng said they belonged to allies and led the others to greet them.