Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng staged a fight at Golden Saint Peak and used his grievances as a Purple Cloud Sect envoy to pressure Tie Kuang into seeking an audience with the Golden Ape King. Tie Kuang flew to his elder brother’s seclusion, while Gu Chenfeng returned to the courtyard, confident his troublemaking had worked.

• Tie Kuang attacked Gu Chenfeng, who pretended to be injured despite being able to withstand the blow.
• Gu Chenfeng accused the Golden Ape Tribe of mistreating and imprisoning him, leaving Tie Kuang unsure how to respond.
• Tie Kuang told Gu Chenfeng to wait until the Golden Ape King emerged from seclusion, but Gu Chenfeng insisted on meeting him immediately.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed he would die if he returned without completing his mission, so Tie Kuang agreed to personally ask his elder brother to receive him.
• Gu Chenfeng praised Tie Kuang, who ordered his people to treat the envoy properly and flew toward the summit.
• Gu Chenfeng declared he would overlook the Golden Ape Tribe’s treatment of him, then went back into the courtyard.

Gu Chenfeng met Golden Ape King Kuiyu, who confirmed that the Golden Ape Tribe would join the Purple Cloud Sect’s attack on Purple Cloud City but refused to reveal its plans. Kuiyu gave Gu Chenfeng a Golden Ape Token and insisted that he remain with the tribe, while Gu Chenfeng discovered a hidden bloodline aura in the token and pretended not to notice it.

• Gu Chenfeng met Kuiyu and Tie Kuang, and Kuiyu secretly questioned him to verify his identity as Han Heavenly Journey.
• Gu Chenfeng asked about the Golden Ape Tribe’s plans to attack Si Mingwei and Purple Cloud City, and Kuiyu confirmed the tribe had begun mobilizing forces.
• Kuiyu refused to disclose the deployment details and said he would notify Sect Master Ye when the tribe was ready.
• Kuiyu gave Gu Chenfeng a Golden Ape Token and asked him to stay with the tribe until preparations were complete.
• At Kuiyu’s insistence, Gu Chenfeng refined the token in the hall and detected a hidden trace of Golden Ape bloodline aura.
• Kuiyu and Tie Kuang secretly conversed, believing they had Gu Chenfeng under control.

Gu Chenfeng overheard Kuiyu and Tie Kuang planning to attack Purple Cloud City and kill him, then considered how to exploit Kuiyu’s desire for an inside man. He decided to try infiltrating the Golden Ape Tribe as a triple agent.

• Kuiyu and Tie Kuang discussed letting the Purple Cloud Sect and Purple Cloud City weaken each other before the Golden Ape Tribe attacked, and planned to kill Gu Chenfeng while blaming Purple Cloud City.
• Kuiyu told Tie Kuang to prepare the Golden Ape Tribe’s forces and retrieve the Nine Yang Meridian-Continuing Pill, while Tie Kuang presented him with Origin Yang Pills.
• After leaving the hall, Gu Chenfeng revealed that his powerful Divine Sense had let him overhear the entire conversation.
• Gu Chenfeng weighed fleeing to reunite with Si Mingwei against stirring up trouble inside the Golden Ape Tribe, then realized Kuiyu’s wish for an inside man could help him gather intelligence.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to infiltrate the Golden Ape Tribe and become a triple agent.

At Hu Yuyao’s birthday banquet, Gu Chenfeng used a seventh-grade Youth-Retaining Pill to win her favor and advance his plan to gain the Golden Ape King’s trust. Hu Yuyao secretly tested him with an illusion technique, and Gu Chenfeng pretended to be affected as her Spiritual Power probed him.

• Gu Chenfeng attended Hu Yuyao’s birthday banquet under his cover as the Golden Ape King’s distant nephew and considered how to earn her support for his infiltration plan.
• The guests presented gifts, and Tie Kuang gave Hu Yuyao a gemstone-adorned dress that pleased her and the Golden Ape King.
• Gu Chenfeng presented Hu Yuyao with a seventh-grade Youth-Retaining Pill, delighting her with its promise of preserving her beauty and youth.
• Hu Yuyao gave Gu Chenfeng a White Fox Clan Jade Talisman and discreetly used it to cast an illusion technique against him.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized Hu Yuyao’s Spiritual Power probing his body, pretended to be dazed, and allowed the probe to continue.

Gu Chenfeng let Hu Yuyao believe her illusion had taken control of him so he could manipulate her into thinking Han Heavenly Journey would betray Ye Beixuan and serve the Golden Ape King. After Hu Yuyao accepted the story, she asked whether he found her beautiful, leaving Gu Chenfeng facing her attempt to seduce him.

• At the birthday banquet, Hu Yuyao secretly tried to probe Gu Chenfeng with an illusion, but her aura recoiled when it entered his body.
• Hu Yuyao told the Golden Ape King she planned to summon Han Heavenly Journey alone after the banquet and extract information about the Purple Cloud Sect.
• After the banquet, Hu Yuyao's maid invited Gu Chenfeng to her bedchamber, while Tie Kuang watched him leave with hostility.
• Hu Yuyao cast another illusion, and Gu Chenfeng pretended to succumb as she questioned him about Ye Beixuan and the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed he resented Ye Beixuan and would pledge loyalty to the Golden Ape King if helped, convincing Hu Yuyao he could be recruited.
• Hu Yuyao approached Gu Chenfeng in revealing gauze and asked whether he thought she was beautiful.

Gu Chenfeng turned Hu Yuyao’s attempt to drain his yang energy into a chance to dominate their secret cultivation, then continued visiting her while posing as Han Heavenly Journey. When the Golden Ape King asked whether Hu Yuyao had learned anything from those meetings, she had to conceal her growing intimacy with Gu Chenfeng.

• Hu Yuyao targeted Gu Chenfeng as a cultivation furnace and used the Jade-Faced Yang-Stealing Art to absorb his yang energy.
• Gu Chenfeng countered with the Ice Soul Dragon Slumber Art and overwhelmed Hu Yuyao, who asked him to return the next night.
• Gu Chenfeng visited Hu Yuyao repeatedly over the following days under the pretense of teaching her to refine the Youth-Retaining Pill.
• The Golden Ape King reunited with Hu Yuyao and praised her improved cultivation, while she privately compared him unfavorably with Mister Han.
• The Golden Ape King asked Hu Yuyao what valuable information she had uncovered about Han Heavenly Journey.

Hu Yuyao persuaded the Golden Ape King to recruit Han Heavenly Journey by presenting him as a useful ally and a counterweight to Tie Kuang. The king made Han an elder and deputy commander for the planned attack on Purple Cloud City, leaving Tie Kuang resentful as they prepared to cooperate.

• Hu Yuyao urged the Golden Ape King to bring Han Heavenly Journey into his service, while secretly hoping to keep him close because she had become addicted to their encounters.
• The Golden Ape King worried that Tie Kuang might challenge his authority while he remained injured, and decided Han could help balance his power.
• Gu Chenfeng swore loyalty to the Golden Ape King and handed over a wisp of Divine Sense Origin to prove his commitment.
• The Golden Ape King appointed Gu Chenfeng an elder and deputy commander, ordering him to lead half the Golden Ape forces alongside Tie Kuang in the operation against Purple Cloud City.
• Tie Kuang objected to trusting a human, but the Golden Ape King insisted, and Tie Kuang reluctantly agreed while exchanging a hostile look with Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng followed Tie Kuang and the Golden Ape Tribe’s elite force to a secret base in the Borderlands Battlefield, where he learned their operation would use teleportation arrays to attack Purple Cloud City and escape. He pretended to praise the plan while asking where the array in Purple Cloud Prefecture was located.

• Gu Chenfeng left Golden Saint Peak with Tie Kuang and the Golden Ape Tribe’s experts, hoping to learn the operation’s plans and contact Si Mingwei.
• Han Heavenly Journey complained from the Bronze Coffin that Gu Chenfeng had sacrificed his divine sense’s origin to gain the Golden Ape King’s trust, and Gu Chenfeng promised to spare him after the plan succeeded.
• Tie Kuang led the group through guarded border restrictions into a secluded valley in the Borderlands Battlefield, where fewer than a hundred powerful Demon Race experts had gathered.
• Tie Kuang showed Gu Chenfeng a nearly completed teleportation array and explained that its other end was being built in Purple Cloud Prefecture to enable an attack on Purple Cloud City and a quick escape.
• Gu Chenfeng praised the plan while inwardly recognizing the danger it posed, then asked Tie Kuang where the Purple Cloud Prefecture teleportation array was located.

Gu Chenfeng learned that the Golden Ape Tribe was waiting for the Purple Cloud Sect to attack before teleporting into Purple Cloud Prefecture, and he devised a plan to prevent the two sides from joining forces. He sent Si Mingwei intelligence and instructions, leaving her uncertain about his scheme but willing to follow it.

• Tie Kuang ordered Gu Chenfeng to contact the Purple Cloud Sect and coordinate the timing and demands for their attack on Purple Cloud City.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to stop the alliance by luring the Golden Ape Tribe's forces into Human Race Territory and defeating them before they could cooperate with the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Si Mingwei received Gu Chenfeng's report that the Golden Ape Tribe had gathered a Source Emperor Realm expert, six Half-Step Source Emperor Realm experts, dozens of Great Grandmasters, and a teleportation point in Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• Gu Chenfeng told Si Mingwei to search for the teleportation point and send an envoy to the Golden Ape Tribe while secretly leaking the news to the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Si Mingwei questioned Gu Chenfeng's plan, but agreed to carry out his instructions.

Ye Beixuan weighed Han Heavenly Journey’s warning that the Golden Ape Tribe might be conspiring with Si Mingwei, then accepted a plan that would test the tribe’s intentions. Gu Chenfeng, who had sent the messages while posing as Han Heavenly Journey, reported that the Purple Cloud Sect would attack Purple Cloud City in five days and secretly passed on the teleportation point’s approximate location.

• Ye Beixuan received Han Heavenly Journey’s warning that the Golden Ape Tribe might join Si Mingwei in attacking the Purple Cloud Sect from both sides.
• After considering the warning alongside reports of an envoy from Purple Cloud City appearing in Two Realms City, Ye Beixuan accepted Han Heavenly Journey’s proposed stratagem.
• Gu Chenfeng told Tie Kuang that Ye Beixuan had agreed to make the Purple Cloud Sect the vanguard in an attack on Purple Cloud City five days later.
• When Gu Chenfeng asked for the teleportation point’s exact location, Tie Kuang refused but said it was less than a thousand li from Purple Cloud City.
• Gu Chenfeng secretly relayed the approximate location to Si Mingwei while the Demon Race’s Teleportation Array work accelerated and both sides prepared for war.

Purple Cloud Sect launched a feigned attack on Purple Cloud City while the Golden Ape Tribe prepared to teleport in and join the battle. Ye Beixuan suspected the Golden Ape Tribe might be conspiring with the city and waited for their arrival before committing his forces.

• Purple Cloud City's defenders sounded the alarm and counterattacked as fire streaks bombarded the city's protective formation.
• A scout reported the battle to the Golden Ape Tribe, and Tie Kuang ordered more than fifty Great Grandmasters, including Gu Chenfeng, to assemble for teleportation.
• The Golden Ape experts anticipated plundering the city, while Tie Kuang told Gu Chenfeng to stay close to him for protection.
• Ye Beixuan explained that Purple Cloud Sect's feigned attack would test the Golden Ape Tribe and let the demons weaken Purple Cloud City's defenders first.
• After hearing that Purple Cloud City had remained on the defensive, Ye Beixuan grew suspicious that it was waiting to attack Purple Cloud Sect alongside the Golden Ape Tribe and ordered his forces to watch for the demons' arrival.

Si Mingwei secretly led Purple Cloud City's elite forces away to ambush the Golden Ape Tribe's reinforcements, trusting Gu Chenfeng's intelligence that the Purple Cloud Sect's assault was only a feint. After receiving confirmation that the attack was limited, she detected the enemy's teleportation and ordered her troops to intercept them.

• Mo Nancang questioned why Si Mingwei had gathered the city's elite forces away from Purple Cloud City while the Purple Cloud Sect attacked.
• Si Mingwei explained that the assault was a feint, following Gu Chenfeng's plan to lure out and destroy the Golden Ape Tribe's reinforcements.
• A Star Luo Hall subordinate reported that Purple Cloud City remained stable and the enemy's assault appeared to be a feint.
• Si Mingwei detected spatial fluctuations and received Gu Chenfeng's message confirming that the Golden Ape Tribe's experts had teleported into Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• Si Mingwei ordered the gathered forces to ambush and intercept the Golden Ape Tribe's reinforcements as they approached the Purple Cloud Sect.

Tie Kuang’s demon contingent approached Soul-Severing Ridge, where Si Mingwei and Purple Cloud City’s experts had prepared an ambush. When Tie Kuang grew suspicious and ordered a retreat, a sudden crimson-golden sword strike tore through the demons, leaving the battle underway.

• Tie Kuang led Gu Chenfeng and dozens of Golden Ape Tribe experts through a teleportation array into human territory and flew toward Purple Cloud City.
• Gu Chenfeng knew Si Mingwei had hidden Purple Cloud City’s forces and laid restrictions at Soul-Severing Ridge to ambush the demons.
• Tie Kuang sensed the ridges’ unnatural quiet, but Gu Chenfeng persuaded him to continue toward Purple Cloud City.
• After receiving a report that the fighting near Purple Cloud City seemed staged, Tie Kuang suspected a trap and ordered the demons to return to the teleportation point.
• As the demons turned to withdraw, a crimson-golden sword light suddenly struck their ranks, killing several Great Grandmasters, including a half-step Source Emperor Realm demon.

Gu Chenfeng suddenly betrayed the Demon Race forces, killed nine Great Grandmaster experts, and fought Tie Kuang evenly while concealed among them. Si Mingwei recognized him as an ally and led the Purple Cloud City forces out of hiding to attack the scattered demons.

• Gu Chenfeng ambushed the Demon Race experts and killed nine of them before Tie Kuang could react.
• Tie Kuang attacked Gu Chenfeng with his Silver Gauntlets, but Gu Chenfeng matched his blow and revealed strength capable of contending with a Source Emperor Realm expert.
• Gu Chenfeng and Tie Kuang fought fiercely, with Gu Chenfeng using the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms and beginning to gain the initiative.
• Si Mingwei declared Gu Chenfeng an ally and ordered the Purple Cloud City forces to charge out from Soul-Severing Ridge.
• The Purple Cloud City forces attacked the panicked Demon Race experts, intent on wiping them out.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei led the Human Race forces in a trap against Tie Kuang and the Golden Ape Tribe, routing their fighters and pursuing Tie Kuang. After the damaged Teleportation Array thwarted his escape, Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei trapped and killed him.

• Si Mingwei arrived with Purple Cloud City experts, joining Gu Chenfeng and the Purple Cloud Sect in attacking the Demon Race forces.
• Si Mingwei slaughtered the Demon Race Great Grandmasters while Gu Chenfeng fought Tie Kuang, forcing the surviving demons to flee.
• Tie Kuang used the Blood Escape Secret Art to reach the Teleportation Array, but Gu Chenfeng's earlier sabotage made it explode and injure him.
• Si Mingwei bound Tie Kuang with vines while Gu Chenfeng struck him with his golden heavy sword.
• Gu Chenfeng's sword cleaved Tie Kuang's Iron-Armed Giant Ape form in two, killing him.

Gu Chenfeng revealed that he had disguised himself as Han Heavenly Journey and helped Si Mingwei defeat Tie Kuang and the Golden Ape Tribe’s forces. After the group returned toward Purple Cloud City, Ye Beixuan connected the ambush to Han Heavenly Journey and realized he had been behind the plan.

• Tie Kuang’s Primordial Spirit escaped after Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei destroyed his physical body, while the Purple Cloud City experts finished off the remaining demons.
• Si Mingwei asked the black-clad fighter who he was, and he revealed himself first as Han Heavenly Journey before changing his appearance back to Gu Chenfeng.
• Si Mingwei confirmed Gu Chenfeng’s identity with his Alliance Token and struggled to believe he had reached Source Emperor Realm strength.
• Gu Chenfeng urged everyone to return to Purple Cloud City, where they could discuss what had happened away from the battlefield.
• Ye Beixuan learned that Human Race forces had intercepted the Golden Ape Tribe and concluded that Han Heavenly Journey had arranged the ambush.

After returning to Purple Cloud City, Gu Chenfeng explained his year-long absence and his role in defeating the Golden Ape Tribe’s plans, while concealing his true experiences among the Demon Race. Si Mingwei’s gratitude and respect for him began to take on a more personal tone, and the chapter ended when her news about the Shadowless Asura caught Gu Chenfeng’s attention.

• After the feint ended, Si Mingwei and Gu Chenfeng returned to the City Lord’s Manor and spoke privately.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed he had found a hidden realm where time flowed differently, then recounted how he had taken Han Heavenly Journey’s place, infiltrated the Golden Ape Tribe, and helped arrange the ambush.
• Si Mingwei thanked Gu Chenfeng for saving Purple Cloud City and treated him with new respect after learning he had reached the Source Emperor Realm.
• As Si Mingwei considered how to repay Gu Chenfeng, her old teasing remarks about him stirred unexpected feelings, which she quickly tried to dismiss.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Si Mingwei about events during his absence, and her mention of the Shadowless Asura caught his attention.

Gu Chenfeng learned that Purple Cloud City could not rely on Star Luo Hall to defeat the Purple Cloud Sect, so he and Si Mingwei agreed to weaken the sect before risking an all-out battle. He also learned that Qing Xuan had returned to Yan Province amid renewed activity by the Four Great Sects, and he resolved to return there after settling matters in Purple Cloud Prefecture.

• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that the Supreme Dao Sect and Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe had searched for the Shadowless Asura and fought over him.
• Si Mingwei explained that Purple Cloud City could not count on Star Luo Hall and was weaker than the Purple Cloud Sect, while Ye Beixuan had nearly defeated her in battle.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed joining forces to kill Ye Beixuan, and Si Mingwei agreed after realizing Tie Kuang would blame the Purple Cloud Sect for the Golden Ape Tribe's losses.
• Gu Chenfeng secretly gave Si Mingwei a plan to isolate and weaken the Purple Cloud Sect before an all-out fight, and she agreed to follow it.
• Gu Chenfeng learned from Mo Nancang that Qing Xuan had taken Grandmaster experts back to Yan Province after his father reported unusual movements by the Four Great Sects.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to return to Yan Province after resolving the conflict in Purple Cloud Prefecture and remove the Curse Power from his grandfather's body.

Tie Kuang returned to Golden Saint Peak as a weakened Primordial Spirit and told the Golden Ape King that humans had ambushed his forces in Purple Cloud Prefecture. The Golden Ape King devoured Tie Kuang to heal himself, then ordered Hu Yuyao to seize the Purple Cloud Sect’s assets and sever its remaining ties to the tribe.

• Tie Kuang reached the Golden Ape King and reported that Han Heavenly Journey, Si Mingwei, and their allies had destroyed his body and wiped out his forces in Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• The Golden Ape King promised to help Tie Kuang recover, then bound and devoured his Primordial Spirit and essence blood to heal his injuries.
• Hu Yuyao begged the Golden Ape King for mercy, and he revealed that he had known about her secret affairs but had tolerated them.
• The Golden Ape King told Hu Yuyao to manage Golden Saint Peak while he went into seclusion and warned her not to secretly drain other men.
• The Golden Ape King ordered Hu Yuyao to seize the Purple Cloud Sect’s secret assets and deal with its trade routes and informants in Golden Ape territory.

After the Golden Ape Tribe severed ties with the Purple Cloud Sect, Ye Beixuan planned to rally Purple Cloud Prefecture’s sects against Purple Cloud City. Evidence of the Purple Cloud Sect’s collusion with demons then became public, and the chapter ended with Ye Beixuan receiving a challenge from Gu Chenfeng.

• Ye Beixuan learned that the Golden Ape Tribe had blamed the Purple Cloud Sect for the deaths of its reinforcements, seized its hidden resources, cut off trade, and killed its envoys.
• Ye Beixuan failed to activate the restriction in Han Heavenly Journey’s primordial spirit and decided to summon Grandmaster-level martial artists to destroy Purple Cloud City.
• An intelligence elder reported that the Golden Ring Sect had exposed evidence of the Purple Cloud Sect’s dealings with the Golden Ape Tribe and its slaughter of Human Race cultivators.
• Another elder reported that demons in Two Realms City had revealed evidence that the Purple Cloud Sect used Human Race martial artists as blood sacrifices.
• Ye Beixuan resolved to destroy Purple Cloud City and erase the evidence before the Human Race Alliance could act.
• An elder delivered a challenge to Ye Beixuan from Gu Chenfeng, the Supreme Elder of the Four Symbols Sect.