Chapter Summaries

In the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins, Leng Xingye told Gu Chenfeng that he needed strength above the Source King Realm to safely reach the Eternal Heaven Realm, prompting him to resolve to grow powerful enough to protect his loved ones. Before vanishing, she revealed that the ruins were an incomplete secret treasure restored by Chaos Qi, and Gu Chenfeng vowed to one day make the Demon Sovereign beg for mercy.

• Leng Xingye explained that the stable passage to the Eternal Heaven Realm lay in Central Province and that Gu Chenfeng was not yet strong enough to use it safely.
• Leng Xingye warned Gu Chenfeng that he needed strength above the Source King Realm and challenged him to consider how he would protect his family and friends from powerful beings.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to increase his strength and find a way into the Eternal Heaven Realm so he could protect those he cared about.
• Leng Xingye revealed that the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins was an incomplete secret treasure left by a supreme powerhouse of the Eternal Heaven Realm and that it could be restored by absorbing Chaos Qi.
• Leng Xingye vanished after teasing Gu Chenfeng about becoming a qualified cultivation cauldron, and Gu Chenfeng swore he would one day make her beg for mercy.

Gu Chenfeng recovered from his injuries after Leng Xingye rescued him and traveled to reunite with his family at the Northern Pass. He concealed the nature of his connection to Leng Xingye, and the Gu family prepared to leave Great Li for the Northern Frozen Expanse.

• After Leng Xingye transported him away, Gu Chenfeng discovered that his injuries and the backlash from his techniques had healed, though his energy was depleted.
• At the Northern Pass, Gu Beiwu, Gu Lingxiao, and Mo Nancang worried that Gu Chenfeng might still be dead and argued over who should search for him.
• Gu Chenfeng arrived in dark light, blocked Gu Lingxiao's sword qi, and reunited with Gu Beiwu, Gu Lingxiao, and Mo Nancang.
• Gu Chenfeng said a powerful senior had saved him, but concealed his true relationship with Leng Xingye and urged the others not to reveal the senior's involvement.
• Gu Lingxiao proposed honoring the senior with a statue, but Gu Chenfeng objected, saying she had declared her ties to the Gu Lineage settled.
• Gu Beiwu called for the group to depart for the Northern Frozen Expanse, possibly never to return to Great Li.

More than half a month after the battle in the Hidden Dragon Mountains, the Gu Lineage and its allies settled on the Barbarian Tribe’s Holy Mountain as a new power emerged in Yan Province. Gu Beiwu recovered his Great Grandmaster cultivation, and the chapter ended as Gu Chenfeng sensed the approaching Female Imperial Preceptor and two familiar figures.

• News of the battle spread across Yan Province, revealing the Gu Lineage’s strength, Gu Chenfeng’s death at Emperor Xuan’s hand, and the Red-Robed Woman’s overwhelming power.
• The Four Great Sects and Great Li suffered losses, while the Female Imperial Preceptor resigned and left for distant lands.
• The Gu Lineage, its armies, and allied households relocated north and established their headquarters on the Barbarian Tribe’s Holy Mountain.
• Gu Beiwu showed that his cultivation had returned to the Great Grandmaster Realm after the curse weakening gave him a chance to heal.
• Gu Chenfeng and the others sensed the Female Imperial Preceptor approaching with two familiar people.

After reuniting with the Female Imperial Preceptor, Shangguan Bingxin, and Su Wanyue, Gu Chenfeng learned that they were leaving for Central Province, where he also planned to travel with Mo Nancang. Yan Province remained unstable, so Gu Beiwu and Gu Lingxiao stayed behind as Gu Chenfeng prepared to depart in three days.

• Gu Chenfeng found the three women safe, and they told him they were going to Central Province to seek greater strength and new opportunities.
• The Female Imperial Preceptor gave Gu Chenfeng a Fish-Pattern Token, which Mo Nancang recognized as a token of the powerful Supreme Dao Sect.
• Gu Beiwu and Gu Lingxiao decided to remain in Yan Province to protect the Gu Lineage and its allies from the Four Great Sects and Emperor Xuan.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang agreed to leave for Central Province in three days, and Gu Beiwu asked Gu Chenfeng to stay behind for a private conversation.

Gu Beiwu revealed that the Four Symbols Divine Sect Sect Master Token concealed the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, the source of Gu Chenfeng’s Azure Dragon Transformation Technique. He entrusted both the token and scale to Gu Chenfeng, who was heading to Central Province, and told him they could lead to the ruins holding the Azure Dragon Inner Core.

• Gu Beiwu gave Gu Chenfeng the Thousand-Year Ice Soul Illusion Heart Lotus and revealed the Four Symbols Divine Sect Sect Master Token hidden inside it.
• Gu Beiwu explained that the expert who destroyed the Four Symbols Divine Sect had pursued the sect because its Sect Master had found an Azure Dragon Skeleton and the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale.
• Gu Beiwu unlocked the token, exposing the reverse scale, which triggered Gu Chenfeng’s Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and Azure Dragon’s Eye.
• Gu Beiwu revealed that the reverse scale contained the complete Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and could help locate the vanished ruins where the Sect Master had found another treasure.
• Gu Beiwu entrusted the token and reverse scale to Gu Chenfeng and identified the other treasure as the Azure Dragon Inner Core.

After inheriting the Four Symbols Token and Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, Gu Chenfeng prepared to leave the Barbarian Tribe Sacred Mountain for Central Province. He reunited with Liu Fuyan, told her he would depart in three days, and learned that she intended to build the Gu Lineage’s wealth in the Northern Frozen Expanse.

• Gu Chenfeng descended from the Sacred Mountain Summit and quietly visited a residence, where he mistook Gu Yanshuang for Liu Fuyan and startled her with a prank.
• Liu Fuyan entered with account books, and Gu Yanshuang left the two alone after explaining that she would continue learning bookkeeping from Liu Fuyan.
• Gu Chenfeng told Liu Fuyan that he would leave for Central Province in three days and offered to take her with him, but she chose to stay behind.
• Liu Fuyan declared that she would develop the Gu Lineage’s holdings and make the Northern Frozen Expanse Yan Province’s commercial center.
• Gu Chenfeng said his family had tasked him with continuing the Gu Lineage’s bloodline, then carried Liu Fuyan toward the bed.

Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang traveled toward Central Province as Mo Nancang explained the long-standing conflict between its human and demon powers. Meanwhile, the Four Great Sects planned revenge against the Gu Lineage, and Emperor Xuan ordered it watched while naming Yuan Kai as crown prince.

• Gu Chenfeng teased Mo Nancang about crying at the farewell banquet, then recalled Gu Lingxiao's request to help repair his relationship with Gu Qingxuan and learned that his mother had left the Gu Lineage after his birth.
• Mo Nancang explained that Central Province was divided between twelve dominant demon races and nine major human sects, which had fought for over ten thousand years before settling into a tense standoff.
• The Ancestors of the Four Great Sects recovered their Primordial Spirits in the secret realm and vowed to destroy the Gu Lineage once their strength returned.
• Emperor Xuan ordered the Sea-Calming King to monitor the Gu Lineage and planned to join the Four Great Sects in eradicating it.
• Emperor Xuan learned that Princess Yaoyin was still missing, then chose Yuan Kai as crown prince.

During their journey across the Boundless Sea, Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang escaped a deadly Boundless Vortex and were attacked by a Grandmaster-level Unicorn Whale Shark. Gu Chenfeng fought the sea demon to test his strength, and Mo Nancang realized the battle was driving him toward a breakthrough.

• Gu Chenfeng cultivated the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique during the month-long journey, aided by the Azure Dragon's reverse scale in the Sect Master Token.
• Mo Nancang steered the flying vessel away from a Boundless Vortex that swallowed clouds, islands, birds, and demonic beasts.
• After escaping the vortex, Gu Chenfeng asked Mo Nancang to let him face a Grandmaster-level sea demon, and a Unicorn Whale Shark emerged from the sea.
• Gu Chenfeng attacked the Unicorn Whale Shark with the Profound Ice Battle Axe, then used the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique to resist its charge.
• The Unicorn Whale Shark relentlessly drove Gu Chenfeng back, but his aura and azure scales continued to intensify as Mo Nancang realized he was about to break through.

Gu Chenfeng broke through to the Overlord Realm by awakening the Azure Dragon Condensation Form and fought a Grandmaster-level Unicorn Whale Shark to a draw. After consolidating his cultivation and advancing to the Source Spirit Realm during the journey, he reached Central Province with Mo Nancang, only to find the Four Symbols Sect under attack.

• Gu Chenfeng awakened the Azure Dragon Condensation Form, advanced to the Overlord Realm, and fought the Unicorn Whale Shark until it retreated.
• Mo Nancang praised Gu Chenfeng while warning him not to become complacent, and Gu Chenfeng resumed cultivating during their journey to Central Province.
• Over half a month later, Gu Chenfeng had consolidated his Overlord Realm cultivation and advanced to the Source Spirit Realm with the aid of a Great Pill and the Enlightenment Platform.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang arrived at the Four Symbols Sect, where Gu Chenfeng noticed flames and fighting at the mountain gate.
• Mo Nancang realized that someone was attacking the Four Symbols Sect's mountain gate.

Gu Qingxuan fought to defend the Four Symbols Sect as the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect attacked its mountain-guarding formation. Mo Nancang returned to battle their leaders, but Gu Qingxuan was overwhelmed until an unknown axe-wielding man appeared to protect her.

• Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli led the attack on the Four Symbols Sect, while Gu Qingxuan refused Luo Xiangli's offer to surrender and fought two Grandmasters.
• Mo Nancang returned and drove Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli back, but they held him off while their forces continued attacking the formation.
• Gu Qingxuan struggled against the Redfire and Lishui elders until their combined water and fire attacks broke through her storm defense.
• A tall, powerful man caught Gu Qingxuan, stepped in front of her, and swung a rosy-lit battle axe with the Mountain-Opening Form.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Four Symbols Sect and helped Gu Qingxuan repel the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect, then revealed himself as her younger brother. He learned that the Four Symbols Sect had only seven members and shared its Spirit Vein with the rival sects as Mo Nancang began explaining the situation in Central Province.

• Gu Chenfeng shielded Gu Qingxuan from the shock waves and fought the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect Grandmasters while she attacked their disciples.
• Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli ordered their forces to retreat, and Mo Nancang stopped Gu Qingxuan from pursuing them.
• Gu Chenfeng called Gu Qingxuan his second sister, and she recognized him as Little Feng and tousled his hair.
• Gu Qingxuan asked about the Gu Lineage and Gu Beiwu, then Mo Nancang brought everyone back to the Four Symbols Sect's main hall.
• Gu Chenfeng discovered that only seven people belonged to the Four Symbols Sect, its Azure Dragon Hall Master position was vacant, and its Spirit Vein was shared with the Redfire Sect and the Lishui Sect.
• Mo Nancang began explaining the complicated situation in Central Province to Gu Chenfeng.

After joining the Four Symbols Sect as master of Azure Dragon Hall, Gu Chenfeng learned about the sect’s losses, its struggle over a Spirit Vein, and the powerful forces of Central Province. He settled in to cultivate, concealing his unusual five-element Origin Qi as he worked to improve his martial skills and secret arts.

• Mo Nancang appointed Gu Chenfeng master of Azure Dragon Hall and explained Central Province’s powerful sects and cultivation realms.
• Mo Nancang told Gu Chenfeng that bandits had plundered the Four Symbols Sect, leaving only seven members, and that the sect now fought the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect over a Spirit Vein.
• Gu Chenfeng settled in Azure Dragon Hall and set up a formation to conceal his aura.
• Gu Chenfeng cultivated and assessed his new Source Spirit Realm strength, his five types of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, and his martial skills and secret arts.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins to continue cultivating.

After Gu Qingxuan returned wounded from a fight over prey, she explained how the Four Symbols Sect struggled to obtain resources and urged Gu Chenfeng to seek support from a powerful sect. Gu Chenfeng rejected that option to protect his secrets and considered plundering resources instead, just as Mo Nancang urgently summoned them to the main hall.

• Gu Qingxuan returned to the Four Symbols Sect with a demonic beast corpse and a blade wound from fighting a Grandmaster over prey.
• Gu Chenfeng offered Gu Qingxuan a Storage Ring of cultivation resources, but she refused it and said she could earn what she needed herself.
• Gu Qingxuan explained that the Four Symbols Sect could obtain resources by plundering, hunting demonic beasts, or joining a stronger sect, and recounted why she had refused Star Luo Hall.
• Gu Qingxuan advised Gu Chenfeng to take Star Luo Hall's assessment, but he decided to avoid powerful sects so no one would discover his secrets.
• Gu Chenfeng considered plundering resources as Mo Nancang urgently summoned him and Gu Qingxuan to the main hall.

Gu Chenfeng urged the Four Symbols Sect to seek an alliance with the powerful Yin Baleful Sect and strike before its enemies could prepare. That night, the Redfire Sect was caught by surprise when the Four Symbols Sect attacked.

• Mo Nancang told Gu Qingxuan and Gu Chenfeng that the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect planned to hire Grandmasters and drive the Four Symbols Sect from the Cloudwatch Mountains.
• Gu Chenfeng learned about the wealthy Yin Baleful Sect and proposed using it as an ally against the Redfire and Lishui sects.
• Gu Qingxuan supported Gu Chenfeng's plan, and Mo Nancang left immediately to approach the Yin Baleful Sect while Gu Qingxuan prepared for battle.
• Yan Cang and Yan Chuang discussed their plan to destroy the Four Symbols Sect in three days and their concerns about the Yin Baleful Sect.
• A Redfire Sect disciple rushed into the hall and announced that the Four Symbols Sect had launched an attack.

The Four Symbols Sect attacked the Redfire Sect after discovering its plan to join forces with the Lishui Sect, while the Yin Baleful Sect attacked the Lishui Sect. Gu Chenfeng fought Yan Chuang at the Redfire Sect and decisively overwhelmed him, leaving Yan Chuang badly wounded.

• Mo Nancang, Gu Qingxuan, and Gu Chenfeng attacked the Redfire Sect, and Mo Nancang revealed that he knew about its planned assault on the Four Symbols Sect.
• Yan Cang learned that the Yin Baleful Sect was attacking the Lishui Sect, and the Redfire Sect's mountain-guarding formation soon collapsed.
• Mo Nancang fought Yan Cang while Gu Chenfeng confronted Yan Chuang, and Gu Qingxuan charged into the Redfire Sect's forces.
• Gu Chenfeng tested his strength against Yan Chuang and suppressed him despite Yan Chuang's greater cultivation and full use of his power.
• Yan Chuang launched a desperate fireball attack, but Gu Chenfeng split it with the fifth form of the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms and sent Yan Chuang crashing into a cliff.

Gu Chenfeng and his allies defeated the Redfire Sect, seized its resources, and connected its Spirit Vein to the Four Symbols Sect’s. With the Yin Baleful Sect likely to attack within ten days, Gu Chenfeng proposed recruiting the Redfire and Lishui Sects as outside help, leaving his allies puzzled about his full plan.

• Gu Chenfeng spared Yan Chuang after taking his Storage Ring, and Yan Chuang fled down the mountain.
• Gu Qingxuan forced the Redfire Sect’s elders and disciples to surrender their treasures, while Mo Nancang defeated Yan Cang and took his Storage Ring.
• Gu Qingxuan gathered the Redfire Sect’s spoils, and Mo Nancang connected its Spirit Vein and Mountain-Guarding Formation to the Four Symbols Sect’s.
• Gu Chenfeng found and looted the Redfire Sect’s treasury, then warned Mo Nancang and Gu Qingxuan that the Yin Baleful Sect would likely attack within ten days.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed using the Redfire Sect’s resources to recruit the Redfire and Lishui Sects as allies, and said the Four Symbols Sect would rule the Cloudwatch Mountains within a month.

After the Yin Baleful Sect seized the Lishui Sect’s grounds, Chen Xiao planned to take the Four Symbols Sect’s territory as well. Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang found the displaced Redfire and Lishui sects and offered to set aside past grievances and cooperate, leaving them to consider a return to the Cloudwatch Mountains for resources.

• Chen Xiao celebrated the Yin Baleful Sect’s victory and ordered his forces to gather before attacking the Four Symbols Sect.
• Yan Cang, Luo Xiangli, and their surviving disciples rested in a concealed gorge after fleeing their ruined sect grounds.
• Luo Xiangli thanked Yan Cang for helping her escape, and Yan Cang explained that Mo Nancang had spared him and Yan Chuang.
• When two figures approached, Mo Nancang and Gu Chenfeng entered the formation and assured the displaced sects they meant no harm.
• Gu Chenfeng offered to put aside past grievances, cooperate, and help the two sects obtain resources in the Cloudwatch Mountains.

The Yin Baleful Sect surrounded the Four Symbols Sect, intending to seize the Cloudwatch Mountains, but Mo Nancang revealed that the Redfire Sect and the Lishui Sect had joined forces with him. Chen Xiao ordered his forces to attack, and the three allied sects charged to meet them.

• Chen Xiao led the Yin Baleful Sect in surrounding the Four Symbols Sect and demanded that Mo Nancang surrender and hand over Gu Qingxuan.
• Mo Nancang revealed hidden forces from the Redfire Sect and the Lishui Sect, who had allied with the Four Symbols Sect.
• Mo Nancang accused Chen Xiao of plotting to monopolize the Cloudwatch Mountains, and Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli vowed revenge for the Yin Baleful Sect's attacks.
• Chen Xiao realized he had been set up and ordered the Yin Baleful Sect to wipe out the three allied sects.
• Mo Nancang rallied the allied forces, and both sides charged into battle.

The Four Symbols Sect and its allies fought the Yin Baleful Sect while Gu Qingxuan and Gu Chenfeng raided the sect’s headquarters and plundered its treasury. The Yin Baleful Sect was driven from the Cloudwatch Mountains, leaving the victors to divide the spoils.

• Mo Nancang and the allied forces battled Chen Xiao and the Yin Baleful Sect, holding their ground despite the enemy’s strength.
• A messenger reported that two Grandmaster-level intruders had destroyed the Yin Baleful Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation and were attacking its treasury.
• Chen Xiao ordered a retreat to defend the sect grounds, but Mo Nancang and the allies blocked the Yin Baleful Sect and inflicted heavy losses.
• Gu Qingxuan and Gu Chenfeng emerged from the raided headquarters carrying plunder and joined the battle, worsening the Yin Baleful Sect’s disadvantage.
• As members of the Yin Baleful Sect fled and its Supreme Elders were wounded, Chen Xiao ordered the remaining forces to retreat from the Cloudwatch Mountains.
• Mo Nancang halted the pursuit after receiving Gu Chenfeng’s voice transmission, and the victorious sects celebrated before preparing to divide the spoils.

After the battle, Gu Chenfeng paid the Redfire Sect and Lishui Sect as promised, then used the threat of the surviving Yin Baleful Sect to encourage them to seek a lasting alliance. He delayed the agreement and offered to refine medicine for their wounded, leaving his next move unclear.

• Gu Chenfeng gave Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli Storage Rings containing the promised resources, and they thanked him for his help.
• Mo Nancang and Qing Xuan admired how Gu Chenfeng had used the conflict to secure resources and spirit veins for the Four Symbols Sect while making the other sects indebted to it.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli that the surviving Yin Baleful Sect might return, prompting Luo Xiangli to propose a permanent alliance among the three sects.
• Mo Nancang realized Gu Chenfeng had spared Chen Xiao to keep the threat of the Yin Baleful Sect looming over the Redfire and Lishui Sects, but Gu Chenfeng signaled him not to agree to the alliance yet.
• Gu Chenfeng postponed alliance discussions until the others recovered, then brought out medicinal herbs and offered to refine Healing Pills for them.