Recaps

Gu Chenfeng defeated Ye Beixuan and established the Four Symbols Sect as Purple Cloud Prefecture’s leading power. When news of an attack on his Gu Lineage forced him to seek Star Luo Hall’s backing, he faced a rigged guest elder assessment while the northern defenses came under threat.

• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei defeated Ye Beixuan after he revealed his Baleful Demon Body, and Gu Chenfeng destroyed him with Azure Dragon Rends the Sky.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to Purple Cloud City, where Si Mingwei announced Ye Beixuan’s death and Gu Chenfeng declared the Four Symbols Sect would defend Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• Mo Nancang completed the takeover of Rosy Perch Mountain as allied sects joined the Four Symbols Sect, and Gu Chenfeng recovered in seclusion before the headquarters ceremony.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that the Supreme Dao Sect elders had been sent to aid him, while Si Mingwei invited him to join Star Luo Hall for the Four Symbols Sect’s protection.
• Mo Nancang brought urgent news that the Four Great Dynasties were attacking Gu Chenfeng’s Gu Lineage and the Barbarian Tribe, so Gu Chenfeng joined Star Luo Hall to use its teleportation array to Yan Province.
• The Supreme Elder offered Gu Chenfeng a chance to become a guest elder and nominal disciple if he passed the assessment on Kaiyang Island.
• Liao Xing tried to sabotage Gu Chenfeng’s assessment, but Gu Chenfeng overcame the Heart-Questioning Formation and endured the strengthened Kaiyang Star Cauldron Formation.
• Liao Xing challenged Gu Chenfeng to withstand three moves and attacked with poisoned Weak Water, but Gu Chenfeng blocked the strike and destroyed the poison with blazing astral qi.

Gu Chenfeng returned to Yan Province, rescued the Gu Lineage from a major invasion, and uncovered a hidden Secret Realm beneath the Imperial Palace. There he learned of an ancient Upper Realm conflict and gained the incomplete Human-Slaying Chapter of Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

• Gu Chenfeng passed Star Luo Hall’s Guest Elder assessment and arranged to travel to Yan Province as the Four Great Dynasties’ forces closed in on the Gu Lineage and Barbarian Tribe.
• The Four Great Sects’ Ancestors and three blood-robed outsiders attacked the defenders, but Gu Beiwu and Gu Lingxiao fought back until Gu Chenfeng arrived with powerful reinforcements.
• Gu Chenfeng routed the attackers, then pursued Li Kun, whose hidden curse destroyed his Primordial Spirit before he could reveal his master’s identity.
• After the Four Symbols Divine Sect reclaimed Yan Province, Gu Chenfeng searched Ascending Dragon Hall and uncovered a Secret Realm containing ancient treasures and a sealed being.
• The being tried to possess Gu Chenfeng, but the Bronze Coffin devoured its Primordial Spirit, leaving Luo Sheng trapped inside it.
• Luo Sheng told Gu Chenfeng that the Barbarian God and other ancient experts had defeated invaders from the Upper Realm and sealed their survivors and Devouring Spirit Beasts across the continent.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the Spatial Passage’s core and approached a giant cracked axe at an ancient altar, overcoming its trials and receiving the incomplete Human-Slaying Chapter of Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei uncovered the theft of the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, only to discover that Fan Yue had engineered the affair as part of a blood sacrifice. Gu Chenfeng rescued Si Mingwei and fought through the city’s slaughter, leaving the battle against the black-robed force unresolved.

• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei joined Fan Yue in Starshine City to recover Star Luo Hall’s stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and Gu Chenfeng devised a plan to bait the thieves with a fruit.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei staged a public fight with the fruit as bait, drawing the city’s factions into a battle while the real thief tried to flee with the tree.
• Gu Chenfeng exposed Xie Guhong’s tree as a fake and tracked the real thief to Jiang Yin, who recovered the tree before the thief self-destructed.
• After the tree was returned, Fan Yue secretly used a touch at the banquet to pass a wisp of divine sense to Gu Chenfeng, who later learned that Fan Yue planned a blood sacrifice and Si Mingwei’s enslavement.
• Fan Yue’s forces began slaughtering Starshine City’s inhabitants, and Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong confronted Fan Yue after his identity as the masked attacker was revealed.
• Gu Chenfeng killed Deputy City Lord Zhou, rescued the unconscious Si Mingwei, took the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and fought his way through attackers while guiding survivors toward the city’s edge.
• Gu Chenfeng battled the black-robed controller of the blood tide, defeated him with Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes, and crushed him with a Purple-Gold Giant Peak.
• Black-clad experts attacked cultivators escaping through the eastern gate, then heard their wounded senior brother call for help as purple-gold light erupted from the sea of blood.

Gu Chenfeng saved Starshine City’s survivors, strengthened the Four Symbols Sect, and sealed a dangerous fiend inside the Guixu Cauldron. After learning that a greater calamity was approaching, he traveled to the Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering, where a dispute with Eagle Vengeance Peak erupted.

• Gu Chenfeng killed Blood Snake, escaped Starshine City, and joined Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong in their fight against Fan Yue, eventually driving Fan Yue back with the Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.
• Chi Lian attacked Gu Chenfeng and the others, but Mu Chen arrived, healed his disciples, killed Chi Lian, and forced the Blood Refining Venerable to withdraw.
• Mu Chen expelled Fan Yue from Dust-Cleansing Peak, and Fan Yue destroyed his own meridians and detonated himself to atone, and Mu Chen then appointed Jiang Yin acting city lord and made Gu Chenfeng a direct disciple.
• The Four Symbols Sect absorbed the Famed Sword Sect, Moon-Covering Temple, and Treasure Elephant Sect, while Gu Chenfeng cultivated toward the Source Emperor Realm and later went to reinforce his sect at the Borderlands Battlefield.
• In the Underground Palace, Gu Chenfeng defeated the demon leaders and sealed the fiend inside the Bronze Ancient Cauldron with Chaos Qi, escaping as the abyss collapsed.
• The Dragon Emperor warned Gu Chenfeng that the Four Great Clans had begun their assault in the Eternal Heaven Realm and that Devouring Spirit Beasts might be hiding among the Human and Demon Races.
• Gu Chenfeng placed Han Heavenly Journey in the Golden Ape King’s body and sent him back to the Golden Ape Tribe to gather intelligence, then refined the Azure Dragon’s Eye and traveled to the Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering.
• At Wanning Courtyard, Eagle Vengeance Peak elders fought Jiang Yin and Si Mingwei over rooms, and Gu Chenfeng struck the elders blocking the gate before rushing toward the battle.