Recaps

Gu Chenfeng refined and consumed a Primordial Marrow-Refining Pill, improving his cultivation but discovering that many more pills would be needed to reach the diamond realm. Meanwhile, a Barbarian Tribe prince prepared a covert operation against the Great Li Dynasty and the Gu Clan.

• Gu Chenfeng concealed his quarters and refined a medium-quality Primordial Marrow-Refining Pill.
• Gu Chenfeng consumed the pill and used the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and Heaven-Opening Creation Art to refine its power.
• Gu Chenfeng reached the peak of the warrior realm in physique cultivation and nine-star source sea realm, but realized he needed seven or eight more pills to break through.
• Gu Chenfeng concluded he would need to return to the Northern Plains Forest for more demonic beast cores and essence blood, despite the risk of encountering Zuo Qianhu.
• A Barbarian Tribe prince confirmed that his forces and Imperial Court Shamans were carrying out a secret operation in the Northern Plains Forest.
• The Barbarian Tribe prince vowed to capture Gu Lingxiao and avenge the Gu Clan, hoping to secure the Crown Prince position.

Gu Chenfeng escaped Zuo Yutang and two Blackwater Army commanders while hunting Origin Beasts in Northern Plains Forest, then discovered a hidden formation concealing a gorge where hundreds of barbarians had gathered. He left the chapter investigating the mysterious gathering.

• Gu Chenfeng killed a Three-Star Source Core Realm python and broke through Zuo Yutang and two commanders’ attempt to capture the masked bandit.
• Gu Chenfeng reflected that he had refined five Primordial Marrow-Refining Pills and was close to breaking through, but Zuo Yutang and the Blackwater Army commanders had repeatedly disrupted his hunts.
• Gu Chenfeng traveled west beyond the Blackwater Army patrol zone to hunt in a remote part of the forest.
• Gu Chenfeng followed a wounded Blood-Patterned Leopard’s trail to a mountain that he recognized as an illusion created by a formation.
• Gu Chenfeng questioned a bird Origin Beast and learned that hundreds of people had gathered in a hidden gorge behind the mountain, then realized they were barbarians.

Gu Chenfeng discovered a Barbarian Tribe battalion hiding in a gorge and overheard plans tied to the Sixth Prince and a coming attack on the Northern Territory's Border Pass. After a strange bird exposed him, the barbarians surrounded him, and he fought to escape and warn the Blackwater Army.

• Gu Chenfeng climbed a cliff and spotted nearly a thousand barbarians gathered in a gorge, including two Source Core Realm captains and a black-robed Shaman.
• Gu Chenfeng overheard the captains and Shaman discuss waiting until nightfall to act and the Sixth Prince's plan, while the Shaman recovered his spiritual power with Holy Water.
• Gu Chenfeng realized the battalion threatened the Border Pass and decided to alert the Blackwater Army's senior officers.
• A strange bird spotted Gu Chenfeng, and a black-feathered arrow struck the cliff as he tried to descend.
• The barbarian captains and soldiers surrounded Gu Chenfeng, and the Shaman ordered them to seize him before he could warn the Great Li army.
• Gu Chenfeng raised his Mountain-Splitting Axe and fought the two captains, determined to break through and reach the Border Pass.

Gu Chenfeng fought two Barbarian Tribe company commanders and overwhelmed them with his strength, physique, and battle axe. As he moved to finish them, a hidden spiritual power attack came from behind, and he countered it with his divine sense.

• Gu Chenfeng battled a five-star and a six-star Source Core Realm Barbarian Tribe commander, forcing them to activate their berserk transformation.
• The transformed commanders attacked relentlessly, but Gu Chenfeng held them off and then launched a fierce counteroffensive.
• The commanders tried to exploit Gu Chenfeng’s apparent lack of defense and attack him at close range, but his body withstood their blows while his own strikes injured them.
• Gu Chenfeng unleashed the Iron Elephant Art, revealed his Xiantian-level body cultivation, and battered the commanders until they were badly wounded.
• Gu Chenfeng struck the commanders with his axe and moved to kill them, but sensed a concealed spiritual power attack behind him and countered with his divine sense.

Gu Chenfeng used his divine sense to wound the Barbarian Tribe priest, then faced the army’s rotating battle-formation charges. He lured the troops into a gorge and stood waiting at its blocked end as their combined charge reached its peak.

• Gu Chenfeng shattered the priest’s attack with his divine sense, prompting the priest to order the Barbarian Tribe commanders to kill him with their battle formations.
• The Barbarian Tribe commanders led successive three-hundred-soldier charges that drove Gu Chenfeng back, while the priest recovered and summoned Origin Beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng charged toward the priest, broke through the soldiers near the gorge, then darted into it instead of attacking the priest.
• The priest sealed the gorge entrance, and nearly a thousand Barbarian Tribe soldiers charged toward Gu Chenfeng at its blocked end.
• As the army’s momentum peaked, Gu Chenfeng charged straight toward it.

Gu Chenfeng used the Mountain-Splitting Third Form, Earth-Splitting Form, to devastate the Barbarian Tribe army charging through the gorge. Though the strike left him exhausted, he rose to face the remaining soldiers, who could not break his defenses as he continued cutting them down.

• Gu Chenfeng fought off the two Barbarian Tribe captains with the first and second Mountain-Splitting Forms, but their attacks drove him back and left him injured.
• Gu Chenfeng planted his axe in the ground, activated the Azure Dragon Transformation, and unleashed the Mountain-Splitting Third Form, splitting the gorge and disrupting the army's charge.
• The Earth-Splitting Form killed both Barbarian Tribe captains and swept through two to three hundred soldiers, leaving a trench of destruction across the gorge.
• A Barbarian Tribe company captain urged the surviving soldiers to attack Gu Chenfeng while he was weakened, and they charged through the trench.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the trench, endured the soldiers' attacks with his powerful body, and continued slaughtering them with his axe.

The black-robed Shaman abandoned the trapped Barbarian Tribe soldiers and tried to flee, but Zuo Yutang and the Blackwater Army captured him. In the Gorge, they found a slaughtered battalion and recognized the Masked Bandit as the warrior responsible, then hurried to report the suspected conspiracy.

• The black-robed Shaman sensed that the Great Li warrior had destroyed the Barbarian Tribe force, then chose to flee and leave the surviving soldiers trapped in the Gorge.
• Zuo Yutang and several Blackwater Army thousand-household officers intercepted the Shaman, who fainted when Zuo Yutang seized his neck.
• The officers entered the Gorge and found the remains of a Barbarian Tribe battalion scattered across a blood-soaked battlefield.
• Zuo Yutang identified the fighting traces as the Masked Bandit's and concluded that he had killed the battalion alone.
• Zuo Yutang ordered the officers to take the captured Shaman to Blackwater City and report the suspected conspiracy to the Garrison Commissioner.

Gu Chenfeng returned to camp after wiping out a Barbarian Tribe battalion, while the Sixth Prince prepared a new plan in response. As rumors about Gu Chenfeng and Zuo Yutang spread through Blackwater City, Gu Chenfeng refined and swallowed a Primordial Marrow-Refining Pill to attempt a breakthrough to the Diamond Realm.

• Gu Chenfeng told Zhou Bin that he had been exhausted fighting beasts, while Zhou explained that Blackwater City's red signal marked the army's highest alert.
• The Sixth Prince learned that a young Great Li body cultivator with divine sense had destroyed the Eighth Battalion, and ordered his general to carry out a prepared second plan.
• Blackwater Army patrols doubled after news spread that a Barbarian Tribe shaman had been captured and a battalion wiped out.
• A patrolman claimed Gu Chenfeng was the masked bandit who destroyed the battalion, and an older veteran spread a rumor that Zuo Yutang pursued him after an affair.
• Gu Chenfeng took leave, refined a high-grade Primordial Marrow-Refining Pill, and swallowed it to try to reach the Diamond Realm and master the first level of the Azure Dragon Transformation.

Xiao Lie realized the Barbarian Tribe had redirected its main force toward Blackwater City, while Gu Chenfeng was interrupted just short of a breakthrough by the army’s emergency assembly signal. The chapter left Gu Chenfeng hurrying to join the troops as the enemy advanced.

• Xiao Lie learned that the Barbarian Tribe Shaman’s feint was devised by Sixth Prince Huyan Ji and initially concluded that Northern Desert Garrison was the target.
• Xiao Lie discovered Barbarian Tribe forces in all three other garrisons’ patrol zones and realized they were decoys meant to conceal a change of target.
• Scouts reported that Origin Beasts were stampeding toward Blackwater City with a large barbarian army advancing behind them.
• Gu Chenfeng finished absorbing the pill, restored his condition, and came close to mastering the first level of the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and reaching the Diamond Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng heard the camp’s assembly bells and war drums and hurried out to join the army.

Gu Chenfeng and the Seventh Thousand-Household Battalion prepared Blackwater City’s defenses as a massive Barbarian Tribe army advanced from the north. Zuo Yutang suspected Gu Chenfeng might be the warrior who had single-handedly wiped out a Barbarian battalion, but her attempt to check him left her embarrassed as the city faced a perilous battle.

• Zuo Yutang told the assembled Seventh Thousand-Household Battalion that a Barbarian Tribe army was attacking, and Blackwater City activated its defensive array.
• Zuo Yutang led the battalion outside the city to build defenses as a huge force of Origin Beasts, siege vehicles, and Barbarian soldiers approached.
• Zuo Yutang rallied the troops with confident words, while Gu Chenfeng privately judged that the enemy’s strength and unusual attack made the battle dangerous.
• Zuo Yutang watched Gu Chenfeng swing a pickaxe and suspected his movements resembled those of a warrior she knew, so she seized his collar and exposed his chest to search for clues.
• The soldiers teased Gu Chenfeng after Zuo Yutang walked away, while she privately regretted the awkward incident and worried Blackwater City might fall.

The Barbarian Tribe Army launched an enormous beast assault against Blackwater City, overwhelming the defenses with waves of Origin Beasts. Xiao Lie realized that high-ranking shamans were secretly directing the attack as Source Core Realm beasts joined the tide.

• Gu Chenfeng assessed the elite Barbarian Tribe Army as it halted outside Blackwater City, while Xiao Lie and Wushu Lang traded threats and recalled their battle ten years earlier.
• Wushu Lang ordered an attack, and dozens of Intermediate Shamans used their Beast Taming Method to send tens of thousands of Origin Beasts charging at the city.
• Xiao Lie ordered the Great Li troops to fire arrows, while Gu Chenfeng's defensive works and the City Defense Army stopped the beasts that broke through.
• Xiao Lie noticed the beast tide kept growing and the shamans replenished their Spiritual Power with Holy Water, while Blackwater City's defenders began suffering casualties.
• Several Source Core Realm Origin Beasts appeared in the beast tide, and Xiao Lie concluded that high-ranking shamans were secretly controlling them.

Xiao Lie left Blackwater City to find the High-Rank Shaman directing the growing beast tide, but Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing ambushed him in the air. As Xiao Lie became trapped between the two enemy Source Spirit Realm experts, Deputy Commander Lin appeared on a Flying Sword, having apparently reached the Source Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Lie took a Flying Source Weapon out of Blackwater City to search for the High-Rank Shaman while leaving a subordinate in command.
• Wushu Lang intercepted Xiao Lie, and the two Source Spirit Realm experts fought as Origin Beasts gathered against the city.
• Nalan Qing emerged from concealment and wounded Xiao Lie with a surprise attack before joining Wushu Lang against him.
• Gu Chenfeng watched Xiao Lie come under pressure while a Source Core Realm Origin Beast broke through the city's defensive line.
• Deputy Commander Lin flew from Blackwater City on a Flying Sword, and the soldiers recognized that he had advanced to the Source Spirit Realm.

Xiao Lie ordered Blackwater City's cavalry to charge the Barbarian Tribe's forces, and Gu Chenfeng joined Zuo Yutang's formation as it smashed through the beast tide. The two armies clashed in a fierce melee, but just as Great Li's cavalry regrouped for another attack, the Barbarian Tribe cavalry received a signal and began to retreat.

• Xiao Lie and Lin searched for the hidden High-Rank Shaman while fighting Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing, but could only locate the shaman's general direction.
• Xiao Lie ordered the city's cavalry to ride out and attack the Barbarian Tribe's main force, and Zuo Yutang selected Li Zicheng to join her charge.
• Gu Chenfeng joined the cavalry formation, which used its combined power to cut through the Origin Beasts and reach the Barbarian Tribe's position.
• Great Li's cavalry collided with the Barbarian Tribe's riders, and Gu Chenfeng fought beside Zuo Yutang as the armies became locked in melee.
• Great Li's cavalry regrouped into a stronger formation, but a signal from the Barbarian Tribe camp prompted its cavalry commander to order a retreat.

The Great Li cavalry’s charge was shattered by Origin Beasts that the Barbarian Tribe Shamans drove to self-detonate, forcing Zuo Yutang to order a retreat toward Blackwater City. Gu Chenfeng sensed a power near the Northern Plains Forest that could advance his Azure Dragon Transformation, and he disappeared before the cavalry reached safety.

• Zuo Yutang and the Great Li commanders ordered the cavalry to charge the Barbarian Tribe infantry after the enemy cavalry withdrew.
• The Origin Beasts attacked the charging Great Li cavalry and began detonating themselves, damaging its formation.
• Several source core realm Great Demons exploded, killing hundreds of cavalrymen and breaking apart much of the battle formation.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed a nature-filled power near the Northern Plains Forest that could help him break through the first level of the Azure Dragon Transformation.
• Zuo Yutang ordered a retreat and had the cavalry unleash their talismans to hold back the pursuing beasts.
• As the cavalry neared Blackwater City, Zuo Yutang realized Gu Chenfeng had disappeared.

After returning to Blackwater City, Zuo Yutang and the commanders faced mounting casualties as the beast tide’s self-detonating attacks battered the defenses, while Xiao Lie and Deputy Commander Lin struggled against their opponents. Presumed dead, Gu Chenfeng secretly reached the Barbarian Tribe’s rear and found the high-ranking Shaman controlling the Origin Beasts.

• Great Li’s cavalry returned to Blackwater City after losing two thousand soldiers, and Zuo Yutang discovered that Li Zicheng was missing and feared he had died.
• Zuo Yutang prepared to recover her Source Qi as self-detonating Origin Beasts attacked the city’s first defensive line.
• Xiao Lie and Deputy Commander Lin remained locked in difficult battles, leaving them unable to search for the high-ranking Shaman.
• Gu Chenfeng slipped away from the retreat and circled behind the Barbarian Tribe camp to investigate the mysterious energy.
• Gu Chenfeng found a Nine-Star Source Core Realm Iron-Winged Griffin carrying an elder whose Spiritual Power was driving the Origin Beasts into madness, and recognized him as the high-ranking Barbarian Tribe Shaman.

Gu Chenfeng ambushed the high-ranking Barbarian Tribe Shaman with the Falling Star Bow, but the Shaman survived using a Substitute Talisman and counterattacked. Trapped by the Shaman and five Origin Beasts, Gu Chenfeng spotted an opportunity as the Iron-Winged Griffin dove at him.

• Gu Chenfeng discovered the Shaman controlling the beast tide and saw that a crystal was powering his Spiritual Power.
• Gu Chenfeng climbed a tree and shot the Shaman with the Falling Star Bow, but the Shaman's Substitute Talisman took the hit, and the arrow knocked a chip from the crystal.
• Gu Chenfeng and the Shaman clashed with their Divine Senses, after which four late Source Core Realm Origin Beasts charged Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng fought the four beasts with the Mountain-Splitting Axe and realized the arrow had brought back a pea-sized piece of the crystal.
• The Shaman launched Divine Sense Arrows while the Iron-Winged Griffin dived at Gu Chenfeng, who looked into its open maw and formed a plan.

Gu Chenfeng was swallowed by the Iron-Winged Griffin while the Barbarian Tribe Shaman resumed using the Holy Crystal to drive Origin Beasts into suicidal attacks on Blackwater City. The defenses withdrew behind the City-Protecting Grand Formation, and Zuo Yutang feared the unknown fighter who had challenged the Shaman had died.

• The Iron-Winged Griffin swallowed Gu Chenfeng, and the blue-robed old man took the Mountain-Splitting Great Axe before returning to command the Origin Beast army.
• The Shaman's enhanced Beast Taming Art sent Origin Beasts into explosive attacks that overwhelmed Blackwater City's defensive lines and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Zuo Yutang fought at the front and narrowly survived a pounce from a Source Core Realm Great Demon when it unexpectedly stopped short of self-destruction.
• Xiao Lie and the commanders sensed a clash of Divine Sense behind the Barbarian Tribe Army, and Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing moved to help the Shaman before he told them he could handle the trouble.
• The beast tide resumed its suicidal assault, forcing the Blackwater Army to retreat behind the City-Protecting Grand Formation.
• Zuo Yutang wondered whether the mysterious fighter who had challenged the Shaman was Gu Chenfeng and regretted that she had never learned his name.

As Blackwater City's City-Protecting Grand Formation neared collapse under the Origin Beast assault, Gu Chenfeng refined the crystal inside the Iron-Winged Griffin and broke through his bottleneck. His breakthrough came as the city's defenders faced imminent defeat.

• The Origin Beasts battered Blackwater City's City-Protecting Grand Formation until it cracked, spreading panic among the Blackwater Army.
• Xiao Lie and Deputy Commander Lin saw the city's defenses failing and understood that the Blackwater Army's defeat was nearly certain.
• The Blue-Robed Elder sensed the formation was about to break and hurried his control of the Origin Beast army, whipping the restless Iron-Winged Griffin.
• Gu Chenfeng endured inside the Iron-Winged Griffin's stomach, concealed his aura, swallowed the crystal, and began refining its immense energy.
• Gu Chenfeng's aura surged as the shackles on his cultivation fractured, and he broke through into a new realm.

With Blackwater City's defensive array breached, Zuo Yutang and the Blackwater Army charged the beast tide while Xiao Lie fought Wushu Lang and Deputy Commander Lin battled Nalan Qing. Gu Chenfeng emerged from the Iron-Winged Griffin with greatly enhanced powers, killed four greater beasts, and advanced on the blue-robed elder.

• Zuo Yutang led the Seventh Thousand-Household Battalion and the assembled defenders in a desperate charge against the beast tide.
• Xiao Lie attacked Wushu Lang with a willingness to die, while Deputy Commander Lin forced Nalan Qing into a stalemate.
• The blue-robed elder celebrated the array's breach until an unseen attacker wounded him and Gu Chenfeng emerged from the Iron-Winged Griffin.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed his Diamond Realm Body Cultivator strength and killed the four late Source Core Realm greater beasts with his azure-scaled claws.
• Gu Chenfeng overpowered the elder in a clash of Divine Sense and blocked his attacks as he closed in to kill him.

Zuo Yutang led the Blackwater Army through the Origin Beast tide after a mysterious fighter disrupted and killed the Barbarian Tribe High-Rank Shaman. As the armies clashed and the Blackwater Army gained ground, a masked Great Li martial artist attacked the Barbarian Tribe camp from behind.

• Zuo Yutang sensed the Origin Beasts faltering as a battle erupted again behind the Barbarian Tribe's lines, and she realized the mysterious fighter was still alive.
• The High-Rank Shaman urgently called Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing for help, but Xiao Lie and Deputy Commander Lin blocked them while the Blackwater Army surged through the beast tide.
• Zuo Yutang ordered the Blackwater Army to push through toward the Barbarian Tribe's main force, and her soldiers charged with renewed morale.
• The Blackwater Army and Barbarian Tribe Army collided in a fierce battle as Intermediate Shamans sent Origin Beasts against the Blackwater formation from behind.
• Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing sensed the High-Rank Shaman's aura vanish and realized he had been killed, while the Blackwater Army gained the advantage.
• A masked Great Li martial artist wielding a Mountain-Splitting Great Axe attacked from the rear and carved his way into the Barbarian Tribe camp.

A masked Great Li warrior in the Diamond Realm charged through the Barbarian Tribe army, revealing that he was targeting the shamans directing beasts against the Blackwater Army. As the barbarians encircled him near their shamans, he unleashed the Mountain-Splitting Axe’s Earth-Splitting Form.

• The masked warrior cut through the Barbarian Tribe’s troops, with his golden body deflecting arrows and weapons and his axe killing several Source Core Realm experts.
• Xiao Lie, Deputy Commander Lin, and Zuo Yutang recognized him as the warrior who had killed the High-Rank Shaman and realized his target was the Intermediate Shamans in the guarded chariots.
• Wushu Lang charged toward the masked warrior, but Xiao Lie intercepted him, while Deputy Commander Lin held Nalan Qing back.
• The masked warrior broke through three thousand-man formations before a larger formation halted him and the surrounding barbarian troops moved to encircle him.
• The masked warrior drove his axe into the ground and activated the Mountain-Splitting Third Form, Earth-Splitting Form, shaking the earth and destabilizing the encircling formations.

A masked warrior shattered the Barbarian Tribe Army’s attack by killing or crippling most of its Intermediate Shamans, allowing the Blackwater Army to turn the battle around. As the Xuan Prefecture Army arrived and moved to encircle the enemy, Wushu Lang ordered a retreat.

• The masked man split the battlefield with an axe strike, then destroyed many of the chariots protecting the Barbarian Tribe shamans with arrows from his Darkgold Bow before escaping.
• With the Intermediate Shamans incapacitated, the Beast Taming Art ended, the Origin Beasts fled, and the Blackwater Army pressed the Barbarian Tribe Army into retreat.
• The Xuan Prefecture Army arrived with nearly ten thousand elite armored cavalry and was astonished to find the Blackwater Army winning despite the dire intelligence it had received.
• The Xuan Prefecture Army’s deputy commander ordered the cavalry to split into two forces and flank the battlefield.
• After seeing the reinforcements arrive, Wushu Lang ordered all Barbarian Tribe troops to retreat.

After the Blackwater Army and Xuan Prefecture Army defeated the Barbarian Tribe Army, Gu Chenfeng returned to Blackwater City disguised as the battered Li Zicheng. He fooled Zuo Yutang about how he had survived and concealed that he was the masked warrior who killed the shamans.

• The Blackwater Army and Xuan Prefecture Army pursued the retreating Barbarian Tribe Army, inflicting devastating losses before returning to Blackwater City.
• Zuo Yutang waited by the moat, hoping to see the masked warrior who had killed the Barbarian Tribe shamans, but instead spotted the bloodied Li Zicheng.
• Zhou Bin and the soldiers carried Li Zicheng to the city, where Zuo Yutang examined him and questioned how he survived the battle.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed that he had hidden in a hole and broken through to the Source Core Realm, convincing Zuo Yutang and the others.
• Zuo Yutang asked whether Li Zicheng had seen the axe-wielding warrior, and Gu Chenfeng denied seeing him before being carried into the city.

After his breakthroughs, Gu Chenfeng examined his new Source Core, Diamond Realm physique, and Azure Dragon Transformation Technique, then planned to study the Divine Sense secrets he had acquired. At Blackwater City, the First Prince heard of the masked warrior who had saved the city and asked Xiao Lie to tell him if the warrior was found, while the officers feared the Barbarian Tribe was preparing a larger invasion.

• Gu Chenfeng concealed his dormitory, inspected his new Source Core, and discovered he could sense many kinds of Heaven and Earth Power.
• Gu Chenfeng tested his Diamond Realm body and Azure Dragon Transformation Technique, then decided to recover before studying the beast-taming and Divine Sense text he had taken from the high-rank shaman.
• The First Prince arrived at the Blackwater Army’s council hall and asked Xiao Lie to recount the fighting at Blackwater City.
• Xiao Lie described how the masked warrior killed the high-rank shaman, broke the Barbarian Tribe’s formation, and helped defeat its forces, prompting the First Prince to ask to be told if the warrior was found.
• Xiao Lie warned that the attack might be a spearhead for a larger invasion, and the First Prince criticized the Northern Pass general and the Gu Family’s younger generation.

The Sixth Prince punished Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing for their defeat at Blackwater City and ordered his spies to find the Great Li warrior who had killed the High-Rank Shaman. Three days later, Gu Chenfeng was summoned by Zuo Yutang and learned that he had been promoted.

• The Sixth Prince heard Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing recount the defeat and identified the Great Li warrior as a threat to the Holy Clan.
• The Sixth Prince sentenced Wushu Lang and Nalan Qing to a hundred lashes each, while planning to let Wanyan Bulin lead future operations.
• The Sixth Prince told his guard captain that he expected to regain influence through a later victory and ordered scouts and spies to hunt for the Great Li warrior.
• Gu Chenfeng spent three days recovering and studying the High-Rank Shaman's manual before reporting to Zuo Yutang at her summons.
• Zuo Yutang examined Gu Chenfeng and told him that he had been promoted.