Recaps

Gu Chenfeng opened his eighteenth Profound Aperture and returned in time to save the Chaos Star Domain from Heavenly Saint City. After the victory, he learned more about the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall and returned to Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to challenge its five guardian Thunder Beasts.

• Gu Chenfeng learned Elder Wei’s method for opening Profound Apertures, then climbed Five-Thunder Divine Mountain repeatedly to gather lightning essence, spirit medicines, and Supreme Blood Crystals until he opened seventeen apertures.
• Elder Wei revealed the eighteenth aperture’s method, gave Gu Chenfeng a command token, and asked him to help its bearers and investigate the mountain’s summit.
• Gu Chenfeng fought Half-Saint Thunder Beasts near the summit and forced open his eighteenth aperture with the five-elements lightning attack of five Saint-Level Thunder Beasts, but the Chaos White Lotus’s seal carried him down the mountain.
• As the Chaos Star Domain’s barrier failed, Yin Hongluan and the other defenders fought Heavenly Saint City until Gu Chenfeng returned with five Half-Saint Star Beasts and replenished their formation with a blood crystal ore vein.
• Gu Chenfeng and the Three Kings broke the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s suppression, then fought Mingluo and the other Saints until Elder Wei stopped the Golden Hall’s giant hand and Heavenly Saint City retreated.
• After the victory, Gu Chenfeng recovered, was named the Sky-Pillar King, and refused proposals to take a wife or concubine, and he then left for Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to seek its suppressing object.
• Elder Wei explained that the Golden Hall’s occupant was a True Saint and warned Gu Chenfeng about the summit’s guardians, while Gu Chenfeng learned a powerful force was accelerating the seal’s collapse.
• Gu Chenfeng fought the Sub-Saint Golden Dragon, Wood Tiger, and Fire Sparrow, but the five Thunder Beasts combined their attack to blast him from the summit, so he gathered supplies and rested before trying again.

Gu Chenfeng mastered Five Elements Unity and returned as the Saint-Seizing Land’s seal broke, leading the defense against the Four Races and Luo Sheng. After Luo Sheng apparently annihilated him, a golden drop of blood began merging with the Seven Star Continent’s laws as Leng Xingye attacked the Human Emperor.

• Gu Chenfeng studied Five Elements fusion with Elder Wei, then endured the Five Thunder Beasts’ combined attacks until his five-element power formed a self-sustaining cycle and a hazy chaotic domain.
• As the Saint-Seizing Land’s seal broke, the Four Races invaded the Seven Star Continent, and Yuqing, the Three Kings, and their allies assembled to defend Central Province.
• The Four Saints captured the Three Kings with the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall, but Gu Chenfeng emerged from the starlight, rescued them, and defeated the Four Saints’ attacks.
• Luo Sheng appeared from the Golden Hall and demanded that Gu Chenfeng kill the Seven Star Continent’s people, but Gu refused and fought him while the allied armies battled the Four Races.
• Gu Chenfeng endured Luo Sheng’s Word Spirit Sword Formation and True Mantra Domain, absorbing their power and healing until Qi Shan emerged as a second True Saint and shattered Gu’s body.
• Elder Wei restrained Luo Sheng and Qi Shan while Yuqing, Tongtong, and the allied cultivators attacked the Golden Hall, but Luo Sheng broke free and restored its barrier.
• Luo Sheng used the Heavenly Edict Talisman to annihilate Gu Chenfeng, then he and Qi Shan unleashed the Golden Hall’s blood sea to refine the Seven Star Continent’s inhabitants.
• A mysterious ripple froze the blood sea, and white light absorbed the True Saints’ power before a golden drop merged with the continent’s laws and formed a cocoon, and elsewhere, Leng Xingye attacked the Human Emperor.

Gu Chenfeng ascended to the Eternal Heaven Realm, returned Marquis Yu’s Command to the Fourth Prince, and accepted the title of viscount and the lordship of Black Iron City. After discovering the city’s officials had plotted to kill him, he uncovered their alliance and set out to rebuild the battered city.

• Gu Chenfeng broke through to True Saint, killed Qi Shan, and defeated the Heavenly Patrol Guards before Commander Sun withdrew with Luo Sheng as the Dragon Emperor, Huang Qiu, and Taiching Daoist arrived.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that the Four Races’ invasion was tied to Marquis Yu’s conflict with the princes, then married Ao Li, Liu Fuyan, Shangguan Bingxin, Su Wanyue, and Yuqing before leaving the Seven Star Continent with his companions.
• Chen Bo brought Gu Chenfeng and the others to the Eternal Heaven Realm, where Gu Chenfeng met Cao Meng, identified him as the Fourth Prince, and returned Marquis Yu’s Command.
• Gu Chenfeng chose a territory over a post in the Dragon-Controlling Guard, then accepted an appointment as viscount and city lord of Black Iron City despite warnings about its dangers.
• On the journey to Black Iron City, Gu Chenfeng and his companions fought bandits, and Gu Chenfeng killed three Sub-Saint leaders with the Shadow Soul-Chasing Needle.
• Gu Chenfeng reached Black Iron City, found it depleted and damaged by bandits, and accepted the city’s great seal from Liu Youfang.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized that Liu Youfang had used poisoned wine and an ambush against him, defeated Liu and his allies, and forced Liu to confess his conspiracy with three sects and neighboring cities.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that little of Black Iron City’s population and resources remained, and proposed using Liu Youfang’s wealth to rebuild the city while putting the captured attackers to work.

Gu Chenfeng secured the materials for his sword formation, defeated Blood-Seeking Hall attackers, and strengthened Black Iron City for the Three Sects’ assault. He repelled the invasion and defeated a hired Saint Warrior, though the attacker’s primordial spirit exploded before Gu Chenfeng could capture it.

• Gu Chenfeng refined pills to fund Black Iron City’s recovery and traveled to Azure Cloud Market to obtain materials for the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation.
• At the Trading Gathering, Gu Chenfeng traded for Star-Sinking Sand and acquired a damaged talisman containing Chaos Qi, then uncovered Blood-Seeking Hall’s tracking scheme and killed two of its members.
• Gu Chenfeng intervened when Mo Qianji attacked Zhong Huai and Lu Qiling, killed Mo Qianji, and found high-purity obsidian gold among his spoils.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered the Three Sects to return their seized resources and submit, while Liu Youfang prepared Black Iron City’s defenses and Gu Chenfeng forged Feathered Flying Swords.
• The Three Sects attacked Black Iron City, but its formation, crossbows, drums, and nets turned back their assaults until Gu Chenfeng left the city to face their leaders.
• Gu Chenfeng killed Fan Chengji and Chen Xiaochuan, gravely wounded Xie Ying, and confronted a Black-Clad Youth hired to kill him.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation to overwhelm the Black-Clad Youth, whose primordial spirit exploded under a hidden restriction.