Chapter Summaries

Yao Ze accused the Four Symbols Sect of colluding with the Demon Race, while Mo Nancang blamed the Golden Ring Sect for plotting the Ancient Ruins disaster. The three factions attacked the Four Symbols Sect, and as Mo Nancang fought three Great Grandmasters, a gigantic crimson-gold axe shadow emerged from the clouds.

• Yao Ze and Mo Nancang traded accusations over who had caused the disaster in the Ancient Ruins, while both withheld the Purple Cloud Sect’s involvement.
• Yao Ze, the Crimson Glow Sect, and the Ink Feather Gate surrounded the Four Symbols Sect and demanded that Mo Nancang go to the Purple Cloud Sect for trial.
• Mo Nancang refused, and Gu Qingxuan returned to activate the Four Symbols Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation as the three factions attacked it.
• Yao Ze fought Mo Nancang, who matched his attacks before the Crimson Glow Sect’s Great Grandmaster joined in and forced him onto the back foot.
• The Ink Feather Gate’s Great Grandmaster prepared to strike Mo Nancang, but a gigantic crimson-gold axe shadow suddenly cleaved through the clouds.

Gu Chenfeng returned to the Four Symbols Sect after breaking through in both physical cultivation and Source Qi, then fought the master of the Ink Feather Gate. He overwhelmed the Great Grandmaster with an axe strike and Mountain-Overturning Seal, leaving his opponent badly wounded and flying backward.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared above the Four Symbols Sect and deflected the Ink Feather Gate master's strike with his battle axe.
• Gu Chenfeng and the Ink Feather Gate master fought evenly at first, astonishing the watching factions.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled that he had advanced his Azure Dragon Transformation Technique to its third level and reached the Source Manifestation Realm with the help of pills and the Enlightenment Platform.
• Gu Chenfeng increased his power and suppressed the Ink Feather Gate master's Water Origin Power, forcing him onto the defensive.
• Gu Chenfeng broke the master's Profound Yin Heavy Water Barrier with the Sixth of the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms, Earth Slash.
• Gu Chenfeng followed with Mountain-Overturning Seal, struck the master with a mountain of Fire Origin Power, and sent him flying while he vomited blood.

Gu Chenfeng defeated the Ink Feather Gate master, then faced Han Heavenly Journey, who appeared from the Golden Ring Sect airship and attacked him. An unknown middle-aged man blocked Han's sword strike and greeted him, leaving the battle poised for a new confrontation.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated the Ink Feather Gate master and turned his attention toward the Crimson Glow Sect master.
• Han Heavenly Journey struck Gu Chenfeng with a Golden Finger Seal, but Gu Chenfeng resisted its energy and survived the blow.
• Gu Chenfeng challenged Han Heavenly Journey over the Golden Ring Sect's actions and called for the Human Race Alliance to judge the dispute.
• Han Heavenly Journey unleashed a powerful Golden Sword Ray at Gu Chenfeng, but a towering wall of earth origin power blocked it.
• An unknown middle-aged man appeared before Gu Chenfeng, stopped Han's attack, and greeted Han Heavenly Journey.

Gu Chenfeng used a Human Race Alliance token to stop Han Heavenly Journey from attacking the Four Symbols Sect after Shi Qianchong’s support and the Purple Mountain Token created a standoff. Han called off the attack, but Gu demanded compensation before letting the Golden Ring Sect and its allies leave.

• Shi Qianchong arrived to defend Gu Chenfeng, citing their friendship, and challenged Han Heavenly Journey’s attempt to accuse the Four Symbols Sect of colluding with the Demon Race.
• Han revealed the Purple Mountain Token and claimed the Golden Ring Sect was acting on the Purple Cloud Sect’s orders, making Shi hesitate.
• Gu Chenfeng produced a Star Luo Branch Alliance token and said the Four Symbols Sect was secretly investigating the Ancient Ruins for the Human Race Alliance.
• Han acknowledged the Alliance Token’s authority, withdrew the accusation, and ordered his forces and allies to leave.
• Gu stopped Han and demanded compensation for the Four Symbols Sect’s casualties, damage, and distress, and Han reluctantly agreed to pay.

After the Four Symbols Sect repelled the Golden Ring Sect, Shi Qianchong warned that war was about to break out at Purple Cloud Prefecture’s border. The Human Race Alliance had accepted the Golden Ape Tribe’s challenge, and the sects in the region would soon be called to fight.

• The Golden Ring Sect left after Han Heavenly Journey compensated the Four Symbols Sect, and nearby factions abandoned plans to seize its Ruins treasures.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked Shi Qianchong for helping defeat the Golden Ring Sect, and Shi explained that he had come because Gu’s Holy Crystals could help cure his wife.
• Shi Qianchong revealed that the Golden Ape Tribe had declared war on Purple Cloud Prefecture and that the Human Race Alliance had already fought a small battle at the border.
• Mo Nancang explained that the conflict would serve as a limited trial and training opportunity, though the local factions would have to provide troops.
• Shi Qianchong warned that the Human Race Alliance would likely mobilize the sects to the front lines and hurried back to prepare the Five Mountains Sect.

As war broke out between Purple Cloud Prefecture and the Golden Ape Tribe, Gu Chenfeng met Si Mingwei to learn how the conflict might affect the Four Symbols Sect. Si Mingwei offered him a way to avoid the battlefield by joining Star Luo Hall, but Gu Chenfeng chose to stay and prepare for war.

• The Human Race Alliance ordered Purple Cloud Prefecture to muster its forces, and Star Luo Hall sealed the borders as the region established a wartime command headquarters.
• Gu Chenfeng met Si Mingwei, who accepted his handling of the Golden Ring Sect and confirmed that the Four Symbols Sect was under her command rather than the Purple Cloud Sect's.
• Si Mingwei warned Gu Chenfeng that powerful young prodigies would join the regional war and that she could not protect him once fighting intensified.
• Si Mingwei offered to recommend Gu Chenfeng as a Star Luo Hall deacon so he could leave Purple Cloud Prefecture and avoid the war, but he chose to remain with the Four Symbols Sect.
• Si Mingwei said the early months would bring defensive preparations and probing attacks, and promised to assign the Four Symbols Sect a relatively safe task while Gu Chenfeng improved before full-scale fighting began.

As the Human Race and Golden Ape Tribe prepared for war, the Four Symbols Sect guarded a remote supply warehouse while Gu Chenfeng used the lull to cultivate. His cultivation and techniques had advanced, but he needed real combat to break through his bottlenecks, and an early meeting summons hinted that the situation might be changing.

• The Four Symbols Sect arrived at Miasma Cloud Ridge to guard a border supply depot, and Gu Chenfeng warned them that their safety would not last once the full war began.
• At the Golden Ring Sect's command post, Ye Canglan ordered Han Heavenly Journey to kill Gu Chenfeng and destroy the Four Symbols Sect when they entered the battlefield.
• Both sides continued low-intensity raids and scouting as they built defenses and accumulated casualties.
• After more than two months of seclusion, Gu Chenfeng stabilized his cultivation, improved his techniques, and began practicing new secret arts, but his progress slowed without combat.
• Mo Nancang summoned everyone to an unexpectedly early regular meeting, and Gu Chenfeng headed there wondering whether the battlefield situation had changed.

Mo Nancang and the Four Symbols Sect's senior members established a forward outpost to protect their warehouse, with Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan stationed there. When a demonic reconnaissance squad arrived, the siblings moved to intercept it, and Gu Qingxuan confronted its lecherous leader.

• Mo Nancang told the Four Symbols Sect's senior members that the Demon Race had intensified attacks and warned that their warehouse was vulnerable to scouts.
• The sect decided to build a forward outpost, and Gu Chenfeng volunteered to stay there while others rotated through; he and Gu Qingxuan traveled to the border and set it up.
• Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan killed several low-level demonic scouts before detecting a seven-member reconnaissance squad led by a peak Source Spirit Realm demon.
• The squad's golden-haired captain revealed that they had intelligence about a human military warehouse and intended to capture scouts to confirm its location.
• As the squad advanced through the forest, Gu Qingxuan appeared behind the captain and asked how he wanted to play.

Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan captured a demon scout and learned that a human scouting squad had leaked information about their military supply depot. After Gu Chenfeng sent Gu Qingxuan to guard the lookout post and absorbed the demons’ remains, a trace of Ancient Golden Ape blood reacted with his Azure Dragon scales.

• Gu Chenfeng subdued the golden-haired demon scout and questioned him, learning that captured human scouts had revealed the possible location of a supply depot.
• Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan suspected the Purple Cloud Sect’s young master had leaked the depot’s location, and Gu Chenfeng decided to warn the city lord of Purple Cloud City.
• Gu Chenfeng arranged for Gu Qingxuan to guard the lookout post while he entered the border battlefield to gather intelligence and stop demon scouts.
• Gu Chenfeng absorbed the demon corpses with the Blood Soul Spike, which extracted a drop of Ancient Golden Ape blood from the golden-haired scout.
• Gu Chenfeng discovered that his Azure Dragon Transformation Technique had reached its third layer, and one of his scales reacted greedily to the Ancient Golden Ape blood.

Gu Chenfeng discovered that the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale could devour Essence Blood from demons with powerful ancient bloodlines, speeding up his Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and physical cultivation. After hunting scouts on the border battlefield and testing the scale, he concluded that the region offered too few suitable demons and resolved to seek more ancient-demon Essence Blood.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale to devour the Ancient Golden Ape's Essence Blood, briefly accelerating his Azure Dragon Transformation Technique.
• Gu Chenfeng began patrolling the border battlefield and intercepted Demon Race scouts before they could cross into Human Race territory.
• Gu Chenfeng killed a scouting squad and watched the reverse scale devour the Essence Blood of a purple-and-gold python demon, strengthening his body and technique.
• Gu Chenfeng reached the Second Star of Source Manifestation Realm as his cultivation improved through hunting demons, but found that few had bloodlines strong enough to satisfy the reverse scale.
• Gu Chenfeng wondered whether the Purple Cloud Sect's leaked information could draw more high-ranking demons to the area and decided to seek more Essence Blood from ancient demons.

Gu Chenfeng hunted along the border battlefield’s eastern fringe, using ancient essence blood from increasingly powerful demons to advance his cultivation while avoiding the central fighting. On a routine patrol, he sensed a powerful aura near the battlefield’s midline and moved closer to investigate.

• With reconnaissance demons scarce, Gu Chenfeng shifted his hunts toward the battlefield’s center and gradually improved the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique.
• As prodigies arrived and fighting intensified, Gu Chenfeng reached the early third layer’s advanced stage and broke through to three-star Source Manifestation.
• Gu Chenfeng chose to keep hunting on the eastern fringe until he reached the middle of the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique’s third layer, despite hearing that Great Grandmaster-level demons had joined the central battle.
• Gu Chenfeng continued patrolling the boundary before hunting, keeping the Four Symbols Sect’s War Supplies Depot safe from surprise attacks.
• During a morning patrol, Gu Chenfeng reached the battlefield’s midline, detected a powerful aura and several more presences, and approached them with a strange expression.

Jin Jiuxiao defied his red-haired guardian’s efforts to keep him safe on the border battlefield, but the pair discovered that a Human Race expert was killing the Demon Race scouts. Jin Jiuxiao rushed toward the fighting, eager to face the enemy.

• Jin Jiuxiao flew toward the battlefield until the red-haired old man threatened to report him to his father, forcing him to descend.
• The old man explained that Jin Jiuxiao’s father had sealed his cultivation and that he had sent Demon Race scouts ahead to capture humans for him.
• Jin Jiuxiao reluctantly followed the old man toward the battlefield’s center, expecting no challenge from the captured martial artists.
• A series of explosions erupted ahead, and the auras of several Grandmaster-level Great Demons vanished.
• After receiving a warning that the scouts had encountered a possible Human Race Great Grandmaster, Jin Jiuxiao charged toward the fighting and told the old man not to follow.

Gu Chenfeng ambushed and killed four Grandmaster-level Great Demons, then confronted Jin Jiuxiao as the demon arrived. Both tried to kill the other in one strike, but their attacks collided and sent them flying backward.

• Gu Chenfeng sensed several Grandmaster-level Great Demons approaching the human border and deliberately attacked one to draw the others toward him.
• Gu Chenfeng killed the Tiger Demon with a single axe strike and absorbed its essence blood.
• Gu Chenfeng killed three more Great Demons in quick succession, prompting the remaining demons to stop and flee.
• Jin Jiuxiao arrived, and both he and Gu Chenfeng judged the other as a threat while hiding their full strength.
• Jin Jiuxiao attacked with a golden claw as Gu Chenfeng swung a fire-powered axe, and their attacks exploded in a clash that sent them both flying backward.

Gu Chenfeng and Jin Jiuxiao fought to a standstill despite their different cultivation levels, each discovering the other possessed extraordinary strength and Divine Sense. They ended the clash regarding one another as formidable foes.

• Gu Chenfeng and Jin Jiuxiao exchanged powerful opening strikes, then attacked again, each eager to fight and confident of victory.
• Jin Jiuxiao raised his Metal Origin Power while Gu Chenfeng brought out his Blood Qi Power, but neither could overpower the other.
• Gu Chenfeng wielded the Profound Ice Battle Axe and used the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms, while Jin Jiuxiao fought back with golden maces; their attacks remained evenly matched.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Mountain-Moving Seal, but Jin Jiuxiao countered with the Golden Feather Flowing-Cup Slash and evaded the collapsing mountain.
• Jin Jiuxiao fired golden light from his eyes, and Gu Chenfeng blocked it with azure light; both recognized the other's powerful Divine Sense and realized they faced an exceptional opponent.

Gu Chenfeng battled Jin Jiuxiao, a prodigy of the Golden-Winged Great Peng Race, and used his own evasion art to overcome Jin Jiuxiao’s speed. After forcing Jin Jiuxiao to retreat, Gu Chenfeng fled toward Human Race Territory and reflected on the strength of Demon Race prodigies.

• Jin Jiuxiao revealed his Golden-Winged Great Peng heritage and attacked Gu Chenfeng with the Golden Peng Evasion Art, sending him flying.
• Jin Jiuxiao surrounded Gu Chenfeng with Golden Peng phantoms and attempted to strike his head, but Gu Chenfeng evaded the attack and countered from behind.
• Gu Chenfeng struck Jin Jiuxiao in the lower back and showed him a golden feather he had taken, leaving Jin Jiuxiao shocked and furious.
• Jin Jiuxiao demanded Gu Chenfeng’s name but fled when Gu Chenfeng disappeared into space, while Gu Chenfeng secretly headed toward Human Race Territory by flying boat.
• Gu Chenfeng recovered aboard the flying boat and concluded that he needed to grow stronger before the border battlefield’s full-scale war.

After barely escaping Gu Chenfeng, Jin Jiuxiao vowed to identify and kill him once his sealed cultivation was restored. Gu Chenfeng broke through to the middle stage of the third layer of the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique and learned that the border battlefield would soon open to all-out war, where he prepared to face demon prodigies and his human enemies.

• Jin Jiuxiao told the Red-Haired Elder that Gu Chenfeng had nearly killed him and ordered an investigation into Gu Chenfeng's identity.
• Jin Jiuxiao resolved to refine his seal, challenge Gu Chenfeng again, and kill him once his cultivation was fully unsealed.
• Gu Chenfeng cultivated for half a month, advancing his Azure Dragon Transformation Technique to the middle stage of the third layer and his Source Qi cultivation to four-star Source Manifestation Realm.
• Mo Nancang informed the Four Symbols Sect's senior members that cultivators at the Source Spirit Realm or above would enter the battlefield in three days to carry out combat missions.
• Gu Chenfeng prepared to pursue higher-quality essence blood and confront both demon prodigies and the Golden Ring Sect and Purple Cloud Sect.

Jin Jiuxiao prepared to enter the Borderlands battlefield and seek revenge on the human who had humiliated him, while Si Mingwei warned Gu Chenfeng about the dangers ahead. Gu Chenfeng set out for the battlefield wondering whether he would encounter Su Wanyue, Shangguan Bingxin, or the Female Imperial Preceptor.

• Jin Jiuxiao failed to identify the human who had plucked his golden feathers and decided to find him on the battlefield once it opened.
• Gu Chenfeng collected his Combat Merit Token and met Si Mingwei, who noted his progress to four-star Source Manifestation Realm.
• Si Mingwei warned Gu Chenfeng that Source Emperor Realm martial artists could not enter the battlefield and urged him to avoid powerful demon prodigies.
• Gu Chenfeng asked whether the Supreme Dao Sect's prodigies had come, and Si Mingwei told him the Nine Great Sects' prodigies had entered the battlefield the previous day.
• Gu Chenfeng left for the Borderlands battlefield, hoping he might encounter Su Wanyue, Shangguan Bingxin, or the Female Imperial Preceptor.

Gu Chenfeng entered the border battlefield alone and lured four Great Grandmasters into a remote valley, where he confronted them. He badly wounded the Ink Feather Gate Master with one axe strike and teleported behind him to finish the attack as the others rushed to intervene.

• Gu Chenfeng traveled alone through the battlefield to a remote valley and called out Yao Ze and the others who had followed him.
• Yao Ze, the Ink Feather Gate Master, the Crimson Glow Sect Master, and another Great Grandmaster revealed themselves and surrounded Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng taunted the four Great Grandmasters, who hesitated before the Ink Feather Gate Master attacked him with a Water Origin Dragon.
• Gu Chenfeng cleaved through the water dragon and shattered the Ink Feather Gate Master's shield, severely wounding him with one axe strike.
• Yao Ze and the other two moved to intercept Gu Chenfeng, but he vanished and reappeared behind the Ink Feather Gate Master, bringing his axe down.

Gu Chenfeng lured Yao Ze and his allies into a trap in the Borderlands battlefield, then transformed into a dragon and killed them, leaving Yao Ze’s Primordial Spirit captive. After torturing Yao Ze into confessing, Gu Chenfeng learned an astonishing secret.

• Gu Chenfeng killed the Ink Feather Gate master, devoured his Primordial Spirit with the Blood Soul Spike, and reduced his body to ashes.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed that he had lured Yao Ze and his companions to the valley, then transformed into a dragon and defeated them.
• Yao Ze tried to flee with his Primordial Spirit, but Gu Chenfeng blasted him out of the void and trapped him in a Blood Spike cage.
• Yao Ze asked whether Gu Chenfeng was human or demon, then begged for his life; Gu Chenfeng returned to human form and questioned him about Han Heavenly Journey.
• Yao Ze claimed Han Heavenly Journey had entered the battlefield with the Young Master of the Purple Cloud Sect, but Gu Chenfeng sensed he was hiding something.
• Gu Chenfeng tortured Yao Ze’s Primordial Spirit until he confessed, and learned an astonishing secret.

Gu Chenfeng learned that Ye Canglan, Han Heavenly Journey, and the Golden Ape Tribe’s young master were exploring a secret realm while their forces colluded across the border. After killing Yao Ze and the other attackers, he decided to hunt ordinary demon geniuses on the battlefield’s outskirts to strengthen himself before his enemies returned.

• Yao Ze revealed that Ye Canglan and Han Heavenly Journey had gone to explore a secret realm with experts from the Purple Cloud Sect and the Golden Ape Tribe.
• Yao Ze described the Purple Cloud Sect and Golden Ape Tribe’s secret trade in human cultivators and demon inner cores, and Gu Chenfeng demanded the secret realm’s location.
• Gu Chenfeng refused to spare Yao Ze and devoured his primordial spirit, completing the annihilation of all four attackers.
• Gu Chenfeng collected the Storage Rings and left, reasoning that the secret realm’s explorers would be occupied and that he was too weak to challenge them there.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to hunt ordinary demon geniuses on the battlefield’s outskirts and absorb their essence blood to advance the Azure Dragon Transformation Technique.