Recaps

Gu Chenfeng strengthened Black Iron City’s alliances, confronted the Peerless Abyss Pavilion, and entered the Immortal Tomb to collect rare treasures. He returned to find refined corpses attacking his companions, while an unseen enemy accused him of killing Kindling Fire Sect members and blocked their escape.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated the Three Sects, secured their territory, and later established friendly ties with the three neighboring city lords.
• Gu Chenfeng joined Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and Ling Wanshuang on a journey to the Immortal Tomb, where he fought off an assassin from the Peerless Abyss Pavilion.
• At Huai'an City, Gu Chenfeng protected Zhang Xiaoyun from Chu Zhusheng and traded her an Upper Grade Saint Weapon for her damaged shield.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the Immortal Tomb, exposed ghosts impersonating his companions, and killed Chu Zhusheng and the Red-Haired Woman before escaping with their Primordial Spirits.
• After Xiao Qing broke the tomb’s yin-miasma formation, Gu Chenfeng retrieved a deep-blue pure yin spirit medicine with his Burrow Spider puppet while Xiao Changge and Xue Yan fought the ghosts guarding it.
• Gu Chenfeng found Zhang Xiaoyun under attack by refined corpses and hurried with her toward the tomb’s outskirts, where refined corpses had surrounded Ling Wanshuang, Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and Ming Nine Netherworlds.
• Gu Chenfeng cut down two Saint Warrior level refined corpses and urged his companions to flee, but an aged voice accused him of killing Kindling Fire Sect members and said they could not leave.

Gu Chenfeng escaped the Immortal Tomb, gained the Zhengyi Sect’s legacy, and advanced to the Saint Warrior realm while preparing for the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s assassination attempt. As the Heroes Alliance seized cities across the southwest, he united four border cities and awaited the arrival of powerful allies.

• Gu Chenfeng escaped the Red-Haired Corpse Refining, which killed High Person Guiku, and joined Ling Wanshuang and the others in the Underground Palace.
• Zhang Xiaoyun recognized the Bronze Coffin’s Zhengyi Sect runes, and the Eight Trigrams Mirror summoned Celestial Master Zhang, who attacked the cultivators.
• Gu Chenfeng and Zhang Xiaoyun restored Celestial Master Zhang’s talisman, and he passed Zhang Xiaoyun the Zhengyi Sect’s legacy before sending the survivors from the tomb.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to Black Iron City, recovered, studied the treasures in the Peachwood Coffin, and broke through to the Saint Warrior realm.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s killers were pursuing him, then killed two assassins and moved his base back to Black Iron City.
• As the Heroes Alliance’s revolt spread, Gu Chenfeng united Black Iron City, Biting Wind City, Red Gold City, and Nether Shadow City under his command.
• The Heroes Alliance captured more cities and threatened to encircle the four border cities, while Gu Chenfeng refined baleful resentment qi from captured bandits.
• Several late-stage Saint Warrior auras appeared northwest of Black Iron City, and Gu Chenfeng said they were allies and led the others to meet them.

Gu Chenfeng defended Black Iron City, reclaimed the fallen cities of Xilin Commandery, and grew stronger while the Heroes Alliance pursued him. As he tried to draw danger away from his allies, his battle with Luo Ji escalated until Luo Ji unleashed a Yaksha Ghost King and Gu Chenfeng answered with a lightning-marked Peachwood Coffin.

• Gu Chenfeng refused to abandon Black Iron City, and his defenses crushed the Blood-Seeking Hall army before he killed Xing Hu, Bai Yinfang, and the Blazing Cloud Stronghold chief.
• Gu Chenfeng absorbed the defeated army’s baleful resentment qi, then led his puppets to retake Black Rock City and set out to reclaim more fallen cities.
• Gu Chenfeng captured Fufeng City and defeated Li Tianhan, but Luo Ji arrived as a Saint Master-level pursuer and forced Gu Chenfeng to flee.
• Gu Chenfeng escaped Luo Ji and recovered while Lu Chongyue and Cao Meng learned that he had reclaimed much of Xilin Commandery and killed eleven Saint Warrior-level cultivators.
• Gu Chenfeng formed One Swarm and used its raids to draw enemy forces away from Black Iron City, while the Heroes Alliance pursued him and retook his captured cities.
• Gu Chenfeng advanced his cultivation, restored his Spirit Puppets, and used them to capture North Shore City before confronting Luo Ji again.
• Gu Chenfeng wounded Luo Ji with his formations and the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, but Luo Ji summoned a Yaksha Ghost King with the Yama Banner, so Gu Chenfeng brought out a lightning-marked Peachwood Coffin.