Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng revealed himself as a peak sixth-grade Alchemy Master by refining nine superior healing pills, astonishing the Lishui Sect and Redfire Sect leaders. He announced plans to expand the Four Symbols Sect, and Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli offered to merge their sects into it.

• Gu Chenfeng refined more than a hundred spiritual materials at once without a pill furnace, then formed one with Divine Sense Manifestation and produced nine superior sixth-grade healing pills.
• Mo Nancang recognized Gu Chenfeng as a peak sixth-grade Alchemy Master, and the leaders of the Lishui Sect and Redfire Sect realized his talent could draw powerful cultivators to the Four Symbols Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng gave each of them a healing pill and told Mo Nancang to recruit Grandmasters by offering to refine sixth-grade pills for them.
• Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli stopped Mo Nancang and offered to bring their sects and resources into the Four Symbols Sect.
• Luo Xiangli admitted their past offenses and offered a blood oath, while Yan Cang promised they would surrender their resources and spirit veins without divided loyalties.

Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli merged their sects into the Four Symbols Sect, which later faced an invasion by an alliance of three top third-rate forces. As the attackers surrounded the sect, a pillar of lightning struck and apparently incapacitated Chen Xiao.

• Mo Nancang accepted the Redfire Sect and the Lishui Sect into the Four Symbols Sect, appointing Yan Cang and Luo Xiangli as hall masters.
• News of the merger spread, and the Four Symbols Sect sealed its gates while Chen Xiao vowed to retake the Cloudwatch Mountains.
• A month later, Chen Xiao led the Yin Baleful Sect alongside the Ironrock Sect and the Mistshadow Sect toward the Four Symbols Sect.
• The three forces surrounded the sect's mountain-guarding formation, and Chen Xiao demanded that Mo Nancang surrender.
• As Chen Xiao prepared to attack, a pale-gold lightning pillar struck him, sending his charred body crashing to the ground.

Mo Nancang revealed his breakthrough to the Source King Realm and the Four Symbols Sect’s dramatic rise in strength, forcing the allied Ironrock and Mistshadow Sects to abandon their attack. He left them facing a choice between paying a heavy congratulatory gift or risking a fight with the newly powerful sect.

• Mo Nancang struck Chen Xiao with lightning, broke down his yin baleful energy, and revealed he had used Chen Xiao’s stolen materials to refine a Dragon-Tiger Primordial Essence Pill and reach the Source King Realm.
• Mo Nancang promised to spare Chen Xiao’s life but cripple his cultivation, and Chen Xiao fainted in rage.
• Yan Cang, Yan Chuang, Luo Xiangli, Liu Ming, and Gu Qingxuan joined Mo Nancang as the Four Symbols Sect’s disciples assembled, displaying its strength as a rising second-rate faction.
• Mo Nancang called his attack on Chen Xiao a joke and claimed the leaders of the Ironrock and Mistshadow Sects had come to congratulate him.
• Mo Nancang demanded congratulatory gifts from the two sect leaders, who accepted defeat and prepared to pay rather than face the Four Symbols Sect.

After the Four Symbols Sect rose to become a second-rate faction, Mo Nancang credited Gu Chenfeng and considered handing him the sect master position. Gu Chenfeng cultivated in seclusion as the sect consolidated its regional power, then hurried to meet Mo Nancang about an important matter.

• News of the Four Symbols Sect defeating the Yin Baleful Sect and becoming a second-rate faction spread, drawing visitors, gifts, and recruits to the Cloudwatch Mountains.
• Mo Nancang credited Gu Chenfeng with saving and strengthening the sect, and resolved that Gu Chenfeng should inherit the sect master position.
• Gu Chenfeng continued cultivating in seclusion with abundant resources, aiming to reach the Grandmaster level and gain the strength to stand in Central Province.
• Over the next two months, the Four Symbols Sect reinforced its defenses, recruited disciples, and became the undisputed regional overlord.
• Mo Nancang sent Gu Chenfeng a serious message requesting a meeting, and Gu Chenfeng hurried to the main hall.

Gu Chenfeng met with Mo Nancang, who asked him to become the Four Symbols Sect's sect master, but Gu Chenfeng firmly refused. Mo Nancang then showed him invitations from the Golden Ring Sect to discuss exploring ancient ruins, and the two set out for the sect.

• Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Four Symbols Sect's main hall, where Mo Nancang remarked on his improved cultivation.
• Mo Nancang offered to pass the sect master position to Gu Chenfeng, who rejected the offer and suggested other candidates.
• Mo Nancang gave Gu Chenfeng an invitation from the Golden Ring Sect and explained that Han Heavenly Journey wanted to discuss exploring newly discovered ruins with several second-rate factions.
• Mo Nancang decided that he and Gu Chenfeng would visit the Golden Ring Sect, while Gu Qingxuan and other experts stayed behind to protect the Four Symbols Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang gathered the sect's senior members, gave instructions, and set out for the Golden Ring Sect.

Mo Nancang and Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Golden Ring Sect to join a discussion about exploring ruins with leaders from several second-tier powers. After Gu Chenfeng drew skeptical looks for concealing his cultivation, he stunned a black-robed Grandmaster who tried to intimidate him with divine sense.

• Mo Nancang and Gu Chenfeng reached Golden Light City and were welcomed at the Golden Ring Sect by its Supreme Elder, Yao Ze.
• Yao Ze told them that leaders of the Profound Yin Sect, Autumn Water Pavilion, and Rock Fortress had gathered to discuss the ruins, then led them to the rear mountain hall.
• As they flew through the sect, Gu Chenfeng saw disciples training their puppet control before statues in the Front Mountain Plaza, and Yao Ze explained the Golden Ring Sect's puppet dao.
• Yao Ze introduced Mo Nancang and Gu Chenfeng to the gathered experts, whose leaders had all reached the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• The withered black-robed leader questioned why Gu Chenfeng had been invited despite lacking an apparent Grandmaster aura, and one of his followers probed Gu Chenfeng with divine sense.
• Gu Chenfeng met the black-clad man's gaze and struck him with a roar of spiritual power, leaving him pale and staggering backward.

Gu Chenfeng attended a gathering at the Golden Ring Sect, where Han Heavenly Journey revealed that he had discovered a Source Emperor Realm tomb. He explained that the tomb lay in Demon Race territory and was protected by a powerful formation, leaving the gathered factions to consider joining forces to reach it.

• Yao Ze introduced Gu Chenfeng as a young martial artist capable of fighting Grandmasters, surprising the assembled factions.
• Mo Nancang identified the leaders and members of the Profound Yin Sect, Rock Fortress, and Autumn Water Pavilion to Gu Chenfeng.
• Han Heavenly Journey arrived and greeted the gathered representatives of the factions.
• Han Heavenly Journey revealed that the ruins he had discovered were the tomb of a Source Emperor Realm expert.
• Han Heavenly Journey explained that powerful demonic beasts and a defensive formation guarded the tomb, and that it lay within the Demon Race's sphere of influence.

Han Heavenly Journey persuaded the leaders of four powers to join an expedition to a Source Emperor Realm tomb in demon territory, and the group agreed to depart the next day. As he prepared for the dangerous journey, Gu Chenfeng assessed his strength and resolved to advance his cultivation more quickly.

• Han Heavenly Journey explained that he had discovered the ruins while pursuing a powerful demon into demon territory and proposed a swift joint expedition.
• Old Man Yin Gu agreed to join after Han Heavenly Journey proposed dividing the treasures according to each person's contribution; Shi Zhenyue, the master of Autumn Water Pavilion, and Mo Nancang also agreed.
• Han Heavenly Journey arranged for the group to rest at the Golden Ring Sect and depart the following afternoon, aiming to reach the demon border at night.
• Mo Nancang warned Gu Chenfeng about the dangers of exploring ruins, and Gu Chenfeng considered his abilities while meditating.
• Gu Chenfeng thought about the Azure Dragon Inner Core, the Heaven-Piercing Demon Hand, and his family's curse, then resolved to cultivate faster.

Five sects reached the ruins hidden beneath a poisonous swamp, cleared away the demonic beasts guarding them, and uncovered an ancient restriction sealing a spatial passage. Old Man Yin Gu identified the restriction as the work of martial artists from ten thousand years ago.

• Han Heavenly Journey led the five sects across the Demon Race border under the concealment of a Spirit Weapon Banner and into the poison miasma of the Desolate Mountains.
• The party reached the ruins’ entrance and found powerful swamp demonic beasts gathered around the restriction.
• The five sects formed the Azure Water Spirit-Sealing Formation and killed every demonic beast trapped inside it.
• Han Heavenly Journey cleared the swamp mud to reveal a sealed spatial passage covered in dark golden runes.
• Shi Zhenyue sensed a trace of order in the restriction’s Heaven and Earth Power, and Old Man Yin Gu said ancient martial artists had created it ten thousand years earlier.

Gu Chenfeng and the other cultivators broke the ancient restriction protecting the ruins and entered an underground plaza. When a Rock Fortress Grandmaster touched one of its eight bronze pillars, the pillars awakened and sent illusory demonic beasts charging at the group.

• Han Heavenly Journey confirmed that the restriction was an ancient formation, and the factions joined forces to break it while Yao Ze concealed their energy fluctuations.
• Gu Chenfeng observed the five Great Grandmasters attacking the restriction, and Han Heavenly Journey noticed his gaze and praised his fire-attribute power.
• After nearly four hours, the restriction shattered, revealing a passage that released pure Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Han Heavenly Journey and the other Great Grandmasters led the group through the passage into a circular underground plaza supported by eight carved bronze pillars.
• A Rock Fortress Grandmaster touched a pillar, awakening all eight and causing illusory demonic beasts to rush at everyone.

Demonic beast remnant souls attacked the group in the plaza, and their exploding Primordial Spirits released foul energy that corroded anyone who destroyed them. After Gu Chenfeng secretly tried to control one and glimpsed its core, the group found a passage and split between two routes into the tomb, leaving Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang to part after a covert exchange.

• Remnant souls poured from the eight bronze pillars, and their exploding Primordial Spirits released foul energy that harmed the experts who attacked them.
• Han Heavenly Journey and Old Man Yin Gu urged everyone to search the plaza for a way deeper into the tomb while Gu Chenfeng secretly used his Azure Dragon's Eye and Beast-Taming Technique on a remnant soul.
• Gu Chenfeng's attempt to control the soul triggered its explosion, but he saw into its Primordial Spirit core, and his Blood Qi neutralized the foul energy.
• Someone found a concealed restriction on the southeastern wall, and the group broke through it and entered a passage that ended at golden-lit and white-lit routes.
• The lord of Rock Fortress proposed splitting the group between the two routes, and Zhou Yu told Hu Yue'er to be careful before the teams departed.
• Mo Nancang received a concealed voice transmission from Gu Chenfeng, then glanced back at him in surprise before entering his passageway.

Gu Chenfeng and the Grandmasters emerged from the white-light passage into a spirit field filled with ancient medicines protected by natural formations. As the others began collecting them, Gu Chenfeng studied the formations and their positions, but Hu Yue'er pulled him free from one and ordered him to assist her.

• The Golden Ring Sect elder led the group through the restriction and discovered a spirit field filled with dense energy and fragrant spirit medicines.
• Hu Yue'er and the others found their Communication Talismans no longer worked, and a Profound Yin Sect expert triggered a fire formation while approaching a crimson medicine.
• The Grandmasters agreed to pursue medicines according to their abilities and began breaking the formations protecting them.
• Gu Chenfeng used Azure Dragon's Eye to study the formations and chose a seemingly weak one, letting its earth tendrils bind his legs while he observed the others.
• Hu Yue'er severed the tendrils and pulled Gu Chenfeng free, then told him to follow her and help break formations in exchange for some spirit medicines.

Gu Chenfeng exposed the Golden Ring Sect’s ambush plot in the Ruins and killed a trapped elder before warning the other sects. As the remaining Golden Ring Sect Grandmasters confronted the survivors, Gu Chenfeng revealed that their true target was likely the Great Grandmasters and that they had entered the Ruins before.

• Hu Yue'er went to rescue a Golden Ring Sect elder trapped in vines, but Gu Chenfeng attacked him and revealed that he had broken free of the formation and was preparing a strike.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Hu Yue'er and the distant Profound Yin Sect and Rock Fortress experts that the Golden Ring Sect was plotting, then pursued and killed the elder as he controlled the formation against him.
• The Profound Yin Sect and Rock Fortress Grandmasters arrived, reporting that Golden Ring Sect members had used the formations to ambush them and killed their companions.
• The three remaining Golden Ring Sect Grandmasters caught up and blamed Gu Chenfeng for ruining their plan.
• Gu Chenfeng told the others that the Golden Ring Sect’s plan was probably aimed at the Great Grandmasters and that its members had already entered the Ruins.

Gu Chenfeng exposed the Golden Ring Sect’s plot to kill the Great Grandmasters in the ruins and warned Hu Yue'er and the others. With their retreat sealed, the factions’ fighters were forced into battle, and Gu Chenfeng prepared to unleash his full strength against a charging Golden Ring Sect elder.

• Gu Chenfeng explained that he had detected the Golden Ring Sect’s control of the remnant souls and its alterations to the ruins’ formations, confirming that the sect intended to kill the visiting Great Grandmasters.
• The leading Golden Ring Sect elder admitted to the conspiracy, sealed the passage with a formation disk, and ordered his companions to attack.
• The Profound Yin Sect and Rock Fortress Grandmasters fought the leading elder, while two Golden Ring Sect elders attacked Gu Chenfeng and Hu Yue'er.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed that his allies were struggling and decided to defeat his opponent quickly before the danger worsened.
• Gu Chenfeng gathered his Yuan Force and Blood Qi Power, then swung the Profound Ice Battle Axe at the middle-aged elder’s descending warhammer.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed and killed a Five-Star Source Manifestation Realm elder of the Golden Ring Sect, then joined Hu Yue'er’s battle and ordered her to break the passage restriction. He began a fierce assault on the remaining female elder while the other two battlefields were turning against his allies.

• Gu Chenfeng overpowering the Golden Ring Sect elder with his Battle Axe, movement technique, and a divine-sense attack, then killed him in just over ten breaths.
• Gu Chenfeng rushed to Hu Yue'er’s battlefield and found her wounded but protected by her Spirit Weapon shield against a female Golden Ring Sect elder.
• Gu Chenfeng told Hu Yue'er to break the passage restriction while he held off the female elder.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed that the Profound Yin Sect and Rock Fortress Grandmasters were close to defeat, so he launched a relentless attack on the female elder.

Gu Chenfeng killed a fleeing Golden Ring Sect elder and confronted the sect’s grand elder, learning that the ambush was meant to sacrifice the gathered cultivators and use their essence blood for an ancient pill. He fought off two powerful puppets and barely blocked the grand elder’s sword strike as Hu Yue'er continued breaking the formation.

• Gu Chenfeng killed a wounded Golden Ring Sect elder with his axe and collected her Storage Ring and Spiritual Treasure.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that the Golden Ring Sect’s grand elder had already killed the Profound Yin Sect and Rock Fortress Grandmasters, while Hu Yue'er kept working to break the formation.
• The Golden Ring Sect’s grand elder arrived with two towering puppets and revealed that his sect planned to sacrifice the cultivators’ essence blood and souls to open a treasure and make an ancient pill.
• The grand elder offered to spare Gu Chenfeng if he signed a Blood Pact and joined the Golden Ring Sect, but Gu Chenfeng refused.
• The two puppets charged Gu Chenfeng, who knocked them back with his axe, then barely blocked the grand elder’s powerful sword ray.
• The grand elder launched a barrage of sword rays as the two puppets closed in on Gu Chenfeng from either side.

Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique to overpower the Grand Elder of the Golden Ring Sect, who survived a devastating attack with a Life-Saving Spirit Talisman. With reinforcements entering through the passage, Gu Chenfeng revealed that he had comprehended both Fire and Water Origin Power and began combining them.

• Hu Yue'er broke the passage restriction and escaped while Gu Chenfeng held off the Grand Elder of the Golden Ring Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng transformed into an azure dragon and overwhelmed the Grand Elder, driving him into the ground with Azure Dragon's Sorrow.
• The Grand Elder survived behind a Life-Saving Spirit Talisman and warned that Golden Ring Sect reinforcements were approaching.
• As reinforcements entered through the passage, Gu Chenfeng prepared to attack the Grand Elder with his newly revealed Fire and Water Origin Power.

Gu Chenfeng killed the Golden Ring Sect's First Elder with his Water-Fire Sacred Origin Seal, then used the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale to flee through the ruins' restrictions as Yao Ze pursued him. Trapped between the pursuing elders and a terrifying blood-mist passage, Gu Chenfeng found another route just as Mo Nancang burst in and urged him to run.

• Gu Chenfeng fused water and fire Origin Power into a seal that broke the First Elder's barrier and killed him in a violent explosion.
• Yao Ze arrived with two Golden Ring Sect elders, confirmed the First Elder and others were dead, and pursued Gu Chenfeng into the ruins.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale to slice through restrictions and escape deeper into the ruins, while Yao Ze recognized him and continued the chase.
• Gu Chenfeng reached a blood-mist passage that felt dangerously threatening, then spotted another restriction behind him and turned toward it.
• Mo Nancang shattered the restriction with lightning, appeared before Gu Chenfeng, and warned him that pursuers were behind him.

Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang fled into the deepest part of the Ruins, where they discovered a blood-filled pool and a sealed bronze coffin. Cornered by Han Heavenly Journey, Yao Ze, and another powerful pursuer, they plunged into the Blood Pool rather than be sacrificed.

• Mo Nancang told Gu Chenfeng that the Golden Ring Sect had trapped the other Grandmasters in a Blood Spirit Grand Formation and intended to use their Essence Blood to open a secret location.
• Han Heavenly Journey and Yao Ze pursued Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang into the blood-red passage, discussing how the sect’s plan depended on the favor of a powerful person.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang reached a vast Blood Pool beneath a hovering bronze coffin bound by blood-red runes.
• Han Heavenly Journey admitted that the Golden Ring Sect had slaughtered countless living beings to open the coffin and planned to use Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang as the final offerings.
• Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang attacked Han Heavenly Journey and Yao Ze but were overwhelmed, and another Great Grandmaster arrived to join the pursuit.
• Gu Chenfeng plunged into the Blood Pool, and Mo Nancang followed him.

Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang plunged into the blood pool to escape Han Heavenly Journey and Yao Ze, while the Golden Ring Sect began a blood sacrifice to open the bronze coffin. As the pool drained their strength, Gu Chenfeng found a barrier at its bottom and cut through it with the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, but the blood light beyond swallowed them both and he lost consciousness.

• Han Heavenly Journey and Yao Ze told the black-robed Zheng that Mo Nancang and Gu Chenfeng had entered the blood pool and were presumed dead.
• Han Heavenly Journey, Yao Ze, and four Golden Ring Sect elders activated the blood sacrifice grand formation and used a blood bead to awaken the bronze coffin.
• Gu Chenfeng dragged the weakening Mo Nancang deeper into the blood pool while Mo Nancang rambled about the Four Symbols Sect and his hidden treasure vault.
• Gu Chenfeng found a dark red barrier at the bottom of the pool and repeatedly struck it with the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale until he opened a narrow gap.
• Dense blood light erupted through the gap, engulfed Gu Chenfeng and Mo Nancang, and left Gu Chenfeng unconscious.