Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng drove Jin Yulin and the Myriad Treasures Sect’s group away by demonstrating his alchemy skill, then ordered the Blood Tiger Guard to track them. After learning that they were heading to the Hidden Dragon Mountains, he decided to go there himself as inspector of the Dragon Abyss Conference.

• Gu Chenfeng used Divine Sense and Source Qi to refine a Top-Grade Iceheart Spirit-Gathering Pill, convincing Qian Xi that his alchemy surpassed Qian Xi’s own.
• Jin Yulin accepted Elder Zhu’s advice and left the Myriad Treasures House with his group and the unconscious middle-aged elder.
• Liu Fuyan embraced Gu Chenfeng and thanked him for saving her business, while Zhang Qi left them alone and listened outside the door.
• After nightfall, Gu Chenfeng returned to the Prime Minister’s Residence and learned that Jin Yulin’s group had met other martial artists and were heading to the Four Directions Gate.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to visit the Hidden Dragon Mountains and have a chance encounter with Jin Yulin’s group.

Jin Yulin persuaded Zheng Qinghe to help him kill the alchemist Ge and led the Myriad Treasures Sect group to seize the Four Directions Gate as a cultivation base. The masked Yan Sihai agreed to Zheng Qinghe’s demands, then struck with a spear so swiftly that Zheng Qinghe was left staring into darkness.

• Jin Yulin offered Zheng Qinghe his father’s secret Golden Scale Saber Technique in exchange for killing Ge, and Zheng Qinghe agreed to act after the Dragon Abyss Conference.
• Zheng Qinghe and Jin Yulin led their group to the Four Directions Gate, where they demanded its territory and Heavenly Treasures for their use.
• Yan Sihai welcomed the Myriad Treasures Sect visitors and appeared to accept their demands, including Jin Yulin’s request for female disciples to attend to him.
• Yan Sihai asked Zheng Qinghe to demonstrate his skills, and Zheng Qinghe drew his saber and offered to let him make three moves.
• Yan Sihai vanished in a flash and thrust his spear, leaving Zheng Qinghe stunned as darkness filled his vision.

Gu Chenfeng disguised himself as Yan Sihai and killed Zheng Qinghe and Jin Yulin of the Myriad Treasures Sect, then let the survivors carry Yan Sihai’s name back to their sect. As martial artists flooded the Hidden Dragon Mountains for the Dragon Abyss Conference and outside forces seized local sects’ grounds, the Four Directions Gate remained a notable exception.

• Gu Chenfeng, disguised as Yan Sihai, killed Zheng Qinghe with one spear thrust and then killed Jin Yulin as he tried to flee.
• Gu Chenfeng told the surviving Myriad Treasures Sect elders to report Yan Sihai as the killer, then returned to the Four Directions Gate headquarters with his Blood Tiger Guards.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed his identity to Yan Sihai and explained that he had killed the visitors to establish the Four Directions Gate’s might ahead of the Dragon Abyss Conference.
• Yan Sihai worried that the Myriad Treasures Sect would seek revenge, but Gu Chenfeng reassured him and later spoke with Mo Nancang before returning to the Imperial Capital.
• As martial artists gathered for the Dragon Abyss Conference, the Great Li Dynasty designated the Hidden Dragon Mountains as a free zone where fights and deaths would go unpunished.
• Outside forces seized local sects’ grounds for temporary bases, but the recently risen Four Directions Gate was singled out as an exception.

Gu Chenfeng, acting as Yan Sihai, defeated another challenger and entered the top hundred of the Dragon Abyss Ranking, while he waited for news of his missing grandfather. Meanwhile, Huangfu Hong and his restored grandson plotted to wait for Gu Beiwu to emerge before destroying the Gu Lineage.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated a young swordsman who surrendered the hundredth ranking spot and Dragon Abyss Token to him.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that verified matches affected the Dragon Abyss Ranking and worried that his new rank would bring even more challengers.
• Gu Chenfeng met Li Yuanqi during a patrol, praised Yan Sihai and the Four Directions Gate, then left Li Yuanqi in charge as he returned to the Imperial Capital.
• Huangfu Hong spoke with Yun'er, whose injuries had healed and whose strength had surged after the ancestor restored his origin.
• Huangfu Hong explained that the Four Great Sects were searching for Gu Beiwu and that they would wait for him to emerge before moving against the Gu Lineage.
• Yun'er vowed to kill Gu Chenfeng and destroy the Gu Lineage.

As the Dragon Abyss Conference approached, Gu Chenfeng strengthened the Four Directions Gate and cultivated in seclusion, but a mysterious young Daoist arrived and drew him into a fight. The chapter ended with Gu Chenfeng being pulled down the mountain by the Daoist’s strange force.

• The Four Directions Gate used Big Bear and Second Bear to drive off challengers after Yan Sihai claimed the hundredth spot on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
• Mo Nancang searched for Gu Beiwu while Gu Chenfeng cultivated with precious resources and invited Big Bear and Second Bear to guard the sect.
• Yan Sihai warned Gu Chenfeng that a challenger had come and was holding off even the Mountain-Guarding Divine Beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng found Big Bear battling a handsome young Daoist and called Big Bear back.
• The young Daoist challenged Gu Chenfeng, and their sword-and-spear fight revealed that the Daoist could neutralize Gu Chenfeng’s attacks with a strange force.
• The Daoist retreated down the mountain, and Gu Chenfeng realized that the same force was pulling him along against his will.

A mysterious young Daoist led Gu Chenfeng into a hidden chamber beneath Great Wilderness Ridge, where a struggle revealed the Daoist to be the Imperial Preceptor. Gu Chenfeng recognized her as the story left them facing one another after their grapple.

• Gu Chenfeng pursued the young Daoist down from the Four Directions Gate, despite suspecting he was being compelled, and secretly alerted Mo Nancang with a jade talisman.
• Big Bear and Yan Sihai mistook Gu Chenfeng's pursuit for a victory and returned inside the sect to await his good news.
• The young Daoist led Gu Chenfeng through a mountain wall into a hidden chamber, where a golden formation enclosed sinister blood-red light.
• Gu Chenfeng broke free of the mysterious link and attacked, then resisted the young Daoist's mind-affecting command with the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique.
• As Gu Chenfeng grappled with the young Daoist, he discovered her body was female, and purple light revealed her as a Daoist nun.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the Daoist nun as the Imperial Preceptor.

Gu Chenfeng discovered that the Female Imperial Preceptor had brought him to a hidden cave to meet his grandfather, Gu Beiwu. Gu Beiwu revealed that he had to retrieve an item from the Ore Vein to protect the Gu Lineage and Yan Province, then agreed to share his plan with Gu Chenfeng and his allies.

• Gu Chenfeng recognized the Female Imperial Preceptor, who revealed Gu Beiwu sealed inside the cave.
• The Female Imperial Preceptor explained that she had helped Gu Beiwu repay an old favor and had brought Gu Chenfeng at his request.
• Gu Beiwu warned Gu Chenfeng that the Imperial Capital was dangerous and urged him not to risk himself or his family.
• Gu Beiwu revealed he had to return to the Ore Vein to retrieve an item vital to the Gu Lineage and all Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng refused to abandon his grandfather, and Gu Beiwu agreed to tell him the plan and assign tasks to him and Granduncle-Master.

Gu Chenfeng reunited Mo Nancang with Gu Beiwu’s plan and returned to the Four Directions Gate, while the Female Imperial Preceptor struggled with the lingering effects of her encounter with Gu Chenfeng. The next morning, Yan Sihai accepted a public challenge and announced his ambition to break into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty.

• Gu Beiwu accepted a Healing Pill from Gu Chenfeng and returned to the seal as his curse power flared.
• Mo Nancang arrived, and the Female Imperial Preceptor told Gu Chenfeng that she had repaid Chancellor Gu’s kindness and would no longer involve herself with the Gu Lineage.
• The Female Imperial Preceptor’s clone returned to her true body, bringing back a lingering trace of Gu Chenfeng’s energy that she could not erase.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang returned to the Four Directions Gate, discussed the plan, and began taking action.
• Yan Sihai defeated a challenger with one spear strike and declared that he would pursue the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty and accept challenges from Yan Province’s prodigies.

Gu Chenfeng, posing as Yan Sihai, rose through the Dragon Abyss Ranking by defeating every challenger with one spear thrust. When Jin Xiong arrived with the Myriad Treasures Sect and its allies to avenge his son and disciple, Yan Sihai summoned the Four Directions Gate’s ancestor to uphold justice.

• Yan Sihai defeated successive Dragon Abyss Ranking challengers with a single spear thrust and climbed from rank one hundred to thirty-seventh, earning the nickname Yan One Spear.
• Jin Xiong led the Myriad Treasures Sect’s forces and allies to the Four Directions Gate, bringing nine Source Spirit Realm powerhouses and more than a thousand people.
• Jin Xiong demanded that Yan Sihai pay for killing Jin Yulin and Zheng Qinghe, and threatened to destroy the Four Directions Gate.
• Yan Sihai appeared atop the Crimson Flame Savage Bear and defended his actions, provoking Jin Xiong and the assembled experts.
• As the nine Source Spirit Realm powerhouses released their pressure, Yan Sihai asked the Four Directions Gate’s ancestor to uphold justice.

The Four Directions Gate’s hidden Grandmaster ancestor crushed an invasion led by Jin Xiong, and news of the sect’s strength spread across Yan Province. Several powerful factions connected the revelation to Gu Beiwu, while Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang discussed their plan beginning to succeed.

• A hidden Grandmaster at the Four Directions Gate overwhelmed Jin Xiong and eight other Source Spirit Realm experts, then struck Jin Xiong nearly unconscious and spared the rest.
• Yan Sihai warned the invaders to leave, and the gathering fled as word spread that the Four Directions Gate had a Grandmaster ancestor.
• Emperor Xuan and the Sea-Calming King discussed whether the Grandmaster was connected to Gu Chenfeng and chose to wait before acting.
• A group of experts outside the Imperial Capital decided to pursue Gu Beiwu, believing he could lead them to the treasures of the Four Symbols Divine Sect.
• Huangfu Hong read a message at the Left Chancellor’s Residence and declared that the day he had awaited had arrived.
• Gu Chenfeng told Mo Nancang that their plan had begun to bear fruit.

As the Dragon Abyss Conference approached, Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue warned Gu Chenfeng that the Four Great Sects planned to attack the Four Directions Gate and urged him to flee. Gu Chenfeng refused to abandon the sect, leaving the two women facing his decision as danger drew near.

• Yan Sihai rose to twenty-first on the Dragon Abyss Ranking, and martial artists anticipated the arrival of the Four Great Sects.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue secretly met Gu Chenfeng at the Four Directions Gate and learned that his cultivation had advanced greatly.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue revealed that the Four Great Sects planned to target Gu Chenfeng, the Four Directions Gate, and Chancellor Gu over a sought-after treasure.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue offered to help Gu Chenfeng escape the Hidden Dragon Mountains before the Four Great Sects made their move.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked the women but refused to leave, insisting that he would stand with the Four Directions Gate.

Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang prepared to draw the Four Great Sects’ attention at the Dragon Abyss Conference while Gu Beiwu secretly retrieved the Four Symbols Divine Sect token. On the eve of the conference, Yan Sihai broke into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty, setting up a challenge against the four sects’ prodigies.

• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue failed to persuade Gu Chenfeng to leave the Four Directions Gate, and Mo Nancang confirmed that the Four Great Sects were watching it.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang reviewed their plan: they would draw the Four Great Sects into a battle while Gu Beiwu secretly retrieved the token from the Gu Lineage’s ore vein.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang agreed to face the danger at the Dragon Abyss Conference, where the Four Great Sects might attack them.
• The Four Great Sects’ forces arrived in the Hidden Dragon Mountains and established bases around the Four Directions Gate, while their prodigies held the top twenty ranking spots.
• Yan Sihai rose from twenty-first to twentieth on the Dragon Abyss Ranking, becoming the first prodigy outside the Four Great Sects to enter the top twenty.

Yan Sihai’s rise into the Dragon Abyss Ranking’s top twenty stirred excitement as the Dragon Abyss Conference began. With secret forces gathering around the Four Directions Gate and Gu Chenfeng preparing for a coming storm, the chapter ended as the ranked prodigies entered the arena and the nineteenth arrival surprised the crowd.

• Yan Sihai’s appearance in the ranking’s top twenty sparked debate and betting among martial artists in the Hidden Dragon Mountains.
• Secret forces converged on the Four Great Sects’ encampments while personnel and troops mobilized in the Imperial Capital; Gu Chenfeng cultivated in preparation and hoped the turmoil would help his grandfather obtain a token.
• An unknown trace of energy continued to trouble the purple-eyed figure in Profound Heaven Abbey, who failed to remove it and considered asking Gu Chenfeng for help.
• The Dragon Abyss Conference gathered the four Great Sects, imperial officials, Princess Yaoyin, and crowds around the hovering arena as the top-ranked prodigies began arriving.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue anxiously searched for Gu Chenfeng, while Princess Yaoyin was disappointed that he had skipped his inspection duties.
• After eighteen of the top twenty had arrived, the nineteenth entrant drew surprise from the crowd.

Yan Sihai arrived at the Dragon Abyss Conference just before the arena sealed, as the Four Great Sects launched a coordinated assault on the Four Directions Gate and revealed that its ancestor was their target. With the arena sealed and Yan Sihai surrounded by the Four Sects’ prodigies, his fate remained uncertain.

• Yun Wuhen arrived at the Azure Sky Sect’s camp, and observers discussed his rapid rise to tenth place on the Dragon Abyss Ranking.
• The Four Sects’ experts secretly watched the Four Directions Gate as energy from their bases formed an encirclement around it.
• Yan Sihai arrived on the floating arena moments before the incense burned out, and the arena’s sealing formation activated.
• The Four Great Sects sealed off the Four Directions Gate and demanded that it surrender a wanted criminal.
• The Four Directions Gate Ancestor mocked the Four Sects and accused them of concealing the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s history, prompting both sides to unleash a Grandmaster-level battle.
• Yan Sihai was left on the sealed arena among the Four Great Sects’ prodigies as onlookers wondered what they would do to him.

Gu Chenfeng, disguised as Yan Sihai, challenged all the Four Great Sects’ prodigies at the Dragon Abyss Conference while his sect remained under attack. He crippled seven opponents in quick succession and turned his attention to the twelve remaining prodigies.

• Yun Wuhen taunted Yan Sihai about the Four Directions Gate’s plight and invited him to choose an opponent.
• Gu Chenfeng told the other prodigies to attack him together, shocking the conference crowd and angering his challengers.
• A Sacred Fire Sect prodigy attacked Gu Chenfeng with Flowing Fire Instant Shadow Slash, but Gu Chenfeng pierced his Dantian with one thrust and destroyed his cultivation.
• Six prodigies ranked thirteenth through seventeenth joined forces against Gu Chenfeng, who pierced all six of their Dantians with a single attack.
• Gu Chenfeng challenged the twelve remaining prodigies, whose strength had reached the Source Spirit Realm.

Gu Chenfeng crippled a Tai Xuan Sect Source Spirit Realm genius with one spear thrust, then fought all eleven remaining Four Sects geniuses at once. He held them at bay and announced that he was ending the warm-up, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Gu Chenfeng charged a Tai Xuan Sect sword cultivator and shattered his golden dragon sword light with a crimson-flame tiger formed from his spear.
• Gu Chenfeng smashed the sword cultivator's shield and pierced his Dantian with one thrust, crippling him.
• Gu Chenfeng mocked the Four Sects' geniuses, while the crowd, Shangguan Bingxin, Su Wanyue, Huangfu Hong, Princess Yaoyin, and Yun Wuhen reacted in shock.
• The eleven remaining geniuses joined forces and attacked Gu Chenfeng from all sides.
• Gu Chenfeng met their combined assault with a storm of spear images and gradually reached an equal footing with them.
• Gu Chenfeng laughed and declared that the warm-up was over.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the Four Great Sects’ prodigies in the arena, crippling most of them before the elders could dismantle the formation. As the formation began to fade, he turned his attention to Yun Wuhen and vanished to attack him.

• Gu Chenfeng used his spear to cripple more than half of the eleven prodigies attacking him, while Huangfu Hong urged the elders to take down the arena formation.
• The elders of the Four Great Sects began dismantling the formation, but it remained in place as the prodigies tried to escape Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng broke through the strongest sword move of the Tai Xuan Sect prodigy ranked first on the Dragon Abyss Ranking and sent him flying.
• Yun Wuhen attacked Gu Chenfeng from behind with a concealed chain, but Gu Chenfeng caught it barehanded and extinguished its corrosive energy.
• Gu Chenfeng noted that the formation was fading and asked Yun Wuhen whether he could kill him before it disappeared, then vanished from sight.

Gu Chenfeng, disguised as Yan Sihai, killed Huangfu Yun in the Dragon Abyss Conference arena and revealed his identity as the Four Great Sects surrounded him. He challenged their experts to fight him without concern for life or death.

• Yun Wuhen tried to escape as the barrier weakened, but the masked Yan Sihai killed him with a silver spear.
• Yun Wuhen’s mask shattered, revealing him as Huangfu Yun, and Left Chancellor Huangfu Hong cried out in shock.
• After the barrier vanished, surviving prodigies fled while the Four Great Sects’ elders and disciples surrounded the arena.
• Yan Sihai taunted the Four Great Sects and removed his mask, revealing himself as Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng challenged the gathered experts to attack him with everything they had, declaring neither side would answer for life or death.

Gu Chenfeng revealed the Profound Ice Battle Axe and fought off the Four Great Sects’ elders, gravely wounding one and forcing the others to recognize his strength. When more than a dozen elders surrounded him, he boarded the Black Flying Boat and charged into the sky to meet their attacks.

• Princess Yaoyin tried to stop the Four Great Sects’ elders from attacking Gu Chenfeng, but they claimed authority over the Hidden Dragon Mountains and attacked him.
• Gu Chenfeng’s spear broke under the four late Source Spirit Realm elders’ assault, so he drew the Profound Ice Battle Axe and repelled them with the Mountain-Piercing Form.
• Gu Chenfeng used Traceless Blood Shadow to strike a Sacred Fire Sect elder, shattering his shield-saber and gravely wounding him with one blow.
• Gu Chenfeng drove back three more elders, revealing that his strength was far beyond what the Four Great Sects had expected.
• More than a dozen elders attacked Gu Chenfeng together, and he summoned the Black Flying Boat to take the fight into the sky.

Gu Chenfeng fought more than ten elders of the Four Great Sects at the Dragon Abyss Conference, revealing strength that shocked everyone watching. He continued battling without signs of weakening, leaving the elders struggling to contain him.

• Huangfu Hong, Shangguan Bingxin, Su Wanyue, Li Yuanqi, Princess Yaoyin, and Li Yuanze watched Gu Chenfeng face the Four Great Sects' elders and realized how extraordinary his strength had become.
• Li Yuanqi recognized Gu Chenfeng as Li Zicheng, the commander who had led the Futu Army and killed the Barbarian Tribe's Sixth Prince.
• Princess Yaoyin asked Li Yuanze to persuade their father to stop the battle, but Li Yuanze warned that their father already knew and they could not change the situation.
• Gu Chenfeng fought with the combined power of his internal and external cultivation, his Divine Sense, the Profound Ice Battle Axe, and his Flying Source Weapon.
• The Four Great Sects' elders tried to wear Gu Chenfeng down with secret arts, weapons, and talismans, but his endurance and defense remained formidable.
• Gu Chenfeng countered with Divine Sense attacks, and the watching warriors recognized him as Yan Province's greatest prodigy.