Chapter Summaries

After the Purple Cloud Sect’s collusion with the Demon Race was exposed, Gu Chenfeng returned and declared war on it in the Four Symbols Sect’s name, prompting the sect to mobilize against Purple Cloud City. As the Purple Cloud Sect’s fleet approached, Gu Chenfeng prepared in seclusion to master a secret art from the Azure Dragon inheritance before the battle.

• The Golden Ring Sect and evidence from the Demon Race exposed the Purple Cloud Sect’s slaughter of Human Race martial artists and its collusion with demons.
• Gu Chenfeng returned and issued a declaration of war against Ye Beixuan and the Purple Cloud Sect, inviting the people of Purple Cloud Prefecture to join the campaign.
• Si Mingwei backed the investigation, while the factions summoned by the Purple Cloud Sect refused to help, leaving it isolated.
• Ye Beixuan accepted the declaration and led the Purple Cloud Sect’s forces aboard warships toward Purple Cloud City.
• Gu Chenfeng assessed his and Si Mingwei’s chances against Ye Beixuan and continued refining the Azure Dragon Origin to master its secret art before the battle.

The Purple Cloud Sect launched its decisive assault on Purple Cloud City, while Ye Beixuan and Si Mingwei confronted each other before the battle. Purple Cloud City’s defenders held against the fleet’s overwhelming attack, leaving Ye Beixuan preparing to fight personally.

• Ye Beixuan brought the Purple Cloud Sect’s forces to Purple Cloud City, intent on destroying Si Mingwei’s alliance and restoring the sect’s dominance.
• Si Mingwei told Ye Beixuan that the Four Symbols Sect and Gu Chenfeng led the alliance defending the city.
• Ye Beixuan ordered the fleet to attack, and Si Mingwei activated the City-Protecting Grand Formation.
• The Purple Cloud Sect’s disciples and grandmasters battered the formation, while Mo Nancang, Shi Qianchong, the city’s defenders, and its formation masters fought back and repaired it.
• Purple Cloud City endured the assault with help from its formation and secretly supplied allies, prompting Ye Beixuan to decide to act personally.

Ye Beixuan and Si Mingwei fought as Source Emperor Realm experts above Purple Cloud City while their forces battled below. As Ye Beixuan’s ghostly flames opened a gap in Si Mingwei’s defenses, an unseen ally intervened with a crimson-gold axe phantom and destroyed the attacking ghost head.

• Ye Beixuan attacked Purple Cloud City’s protective formation with a massive purple fireball, and Si Mingwei blocked it with a shield of vines.
• Si Mingwei left the formation and attacked Ye Beixuan with wood-origin giant pythons, but he crushed them and engaged her in battle above the battlefield.
• Ye Beixuan gradually drove Si Mingwei onto the defensive as she relied on an ancient tree and its vines to hold back his purple flames.
• Ye Beixuan unleashed a black banner that summoned nine flaming ghost heads, whose baleful flames eroded Si Mingwei’s defenses and opened a path toward her.
• An ally sent Si Mingwei a Divine Sense transmission, then struck the attacking ghost head with a crimson-gold axe phantom and destroyed it.

Gu Chenfeng revealed himself as a Source Emperor Realm expert and joined Si Mingwei against Ye Beixuan, refusing Ye’s offer to divide Purple Cloud Prefecture. As Gu fought Ye’s ghost heads, black mist closed around him, and he unleashed a burst of fierce astral qi to break free.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared before Si Mingwei and shattered Ye Beixuan’s attack, shocking both armies with his Source Emperor Realm strength.
• Ye Beixuan recognized Gu as the Four Symbols Sect’s Supreme Elder and alliance leader, then realized Gu had helped undermine him and kill Tie Kuang.
• Ye Beixuan offered to join forces with Gu and divide Purple Cloud Prefecture, but Gu refused and declared that the Purple Cloud Sect would have no place there.
• Ye attacked Gu and Si Mingwei with the Soul-Eroding Banner, while they countered together with wood-origin vines and Gu’s battle axe.
• Gu fought off nine regenerating ghost heads with the Seven Mountain-Cleaving Forms Axe Technique, but Ye’s black mist surrounded him.
• Si Mingwei warned Gu as the mist surged to engulf him, and Gu released powerful astral qi, shouting, “Break!”

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei lured Ye Beixuan into the Greenwood Origin-Locking Formation and trapped him with its roots. As Si Mingwei strained to hold the formation, Gu Chenfeng launched a decisive axe strike, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Gu Chenfeng used his astral qi to destroy Ye Beixuan’s nine ghost heads and charged through the baleful yin qi with Si Mingwei’s support.
• Ye Beixuan gained the upper hand against Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei, driving them toward a mountain range southeast of Purple Cloud City.
• Si Mingwei activated the Greenwood Origin-Locking Formation, sealing the mountain hollow and binding Ye Beixuan with rapidly regrowing roots.
• Ye Beixuan struggled to break free as Si Mingwei poured energy into the formation and called on Gu Chenfeng to strike.
• Gu Chenfeng rushed within a hundred feet of Ye Beixuan and swung the Profound Ice Battle Axe with the Heaven-Opening Form.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei defeated Ye Beixuan, but a concealed attack revealed that he had survived and transformed into a demon-like form. The chapter ended with the two facing the altered Ye Beixuan as he approached them.

• Ye Beixuan used the Soul-Eroding Banner to survive Gu Chenfeng's Heaven-Opening axe strike, but Gu Chenfeng followed with the Severing Baleful Intent Sword and engulfed him in a destructive blast.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei saw no sign of Ye Beixuan and prepared to return to Purple Cloud City, believing him dead.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed a hidden attack and pulled Si Mingwei away from a violet-black claw that emerged from the void.
• Gu Chenfeng blocked the claw with his battle axe, and the force blasted him and Si Mingwei into a mountainside.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei saw Ye Beixuan approach with violet-gray skin, fleshy wings, and a powerful demonic aura.

Ye Beixuan revealed that his Baleful Demon Body came from fusing with the Six-Winged Demon Bat King, then used its speed and poison to overwhelm Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei. After Si Mingwei fell unconscious, Gu Chenfeng transformed into an Azure Dragon half-demon, shocking Ye Beixuan as their battle continued.

• Ye Beixuan explained that he had fused with the Six-Winged Demon Bat King and needed Demon Race resources to maintain his Baleful Demon Body.
• Ye Beixuan used the Bat Shadow Stealth Art and his enhanced strength to attack Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei, while Gu Chenfeng repeatedly detected his hidden movements.
• Ye Beixuan poisoned Si Mingwei with his claws and struck her down after a divine sense assault, but Gu Chenfeng caught her and treated her wounds.
• Gu Chenfeng enclosed the unconscious Si Mingwei in a Wood Origin Barrier and told Ye Beixuan that the bat poison could not harm him.
• Gu Chenfeng put away his battle axe and transformed, manifesting dragon scales, claws, horns, and an Azure Dragon Shadow.
• Ye Beixuan recognized Gu Chenfeng as a half-demon and reacted with shock.

Gu Chenfeng fought Ye Beixuan in his Azure Dragon form, enduring the Four-Star Source Emperor’s stronger attacks until he lured Ye into a trap. He struck Ye with a Divine Sense attack, escaped the crater, and began suppressing him with successive seals formed from different kinds of Heaven and Earth Origin Power.

• Ye Beixuan recognized Gu Chenfeng’s Dragon Race form and coveted his powerful bloodline and body.
• Gu Chenfeng and Ye Beixuan fought at close quarters, and Ye discovered that Gu’s body was tougher than his own Baleful Demon Body.
• Ye reinforced his attacks with Heaven and Earth Origin Power and drove Gu into a crater, believing his energy circulation had collapsed.
• Gu opened his eyes and struck Ye with a powerful Divine Sense attack, then escaped the crater while Ye briefly lost consciousness.
• Gu dropped a flaming Mountain-Overturning Seal on Ye, then followed with Water, Metal, Wood, and Earth Great Seals.

Gu Chenfeng used the Five Elements Great Seals to pin down Ye Beixuan, then awakened his Azure Dragon Origin and summoned an enormous dragon claw with a Purple-Gold Mountain to deliver a fatal blow. As Ye Beixuan faced death, he recalled his rise to power and the betrayals and murders that had turned him into the kind of monster he once opposed, before the combined attack engulfed him.

• Gu Chenfeng dropped five elemental great seals onto Ye Beixuan, whose Purple Flames and yin baleful qi let him resist and begin loosening their hold.
• Gu Chenfeng circulated Azure Dragon Power into the Azure Dragon Origin, awakening a rune as Ye Beixuan boasted that he would break free and seize Gu Chenfeng’s secrets.
• Black clouds gathered overhead, and Gu Chenfeng unleashed Azure Dragon Rends the Sky, sending a colossal Azure Dragon claw down at Ye Beixuan.
• A thousand-zhang Purple-Gold Mountain appeared within the dragon claw, which gripped the mountain and descended with its power to crush Ye Beixuan.
• Ye Beixuan recalled his rise through the Purple Cloud Sect, his murder of his master and wife, and his later alliance with the Golden Ape Tribe and slaughter of humans.
• The combined azure and purple-gold radiance engulfed and destroyed Ye Beixuan.

Gu Chenfeng killed Ye Beixuan with the Azure Dragon Sky-Splitting Claw and Purplecloud Divine Peak, then used his blood to cure Si Mingwei’s poison. As they prepared to return to Purple Cloud City, two Source Emperor Realm experts approached the battlefield.

• Gu Chenfeng confirmed Ye Beixuan was dead, then used pills to recover after the battle left him nearly exhausted.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Si Mingwei his dragon blood and guarded her heart meridians until the poison was dispelled and she awoke.
• Si Mingwei thanked Gu Chenfeng and learned that he had killed Ye Beixuan; Gu Chenfeng claimed luck and Ye Beixuan’s backlash had helped him win.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei decided to return to Purple Cloud City, but two powerful Source Emperor Realm experts approached.

After Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei defeated Ye Beixuan, two Supreme Dao Sect elders arrived and treated Gu Chenfeng’s injuries, explaining that they had come to help him because of his connection to the sect. On their way back to Purple Cloud City, they learned that Gu Chenfeng had slain Ye Beixuan, whose power had reached four-star Source Emperor Realm.

• Guanfeng and Guanyue, elders of Zhengyi Peak, arrived at the battlefield and gave Gu Chenfeng precious pills while Guanyue helped him refine their medicinal power.
• Si Mingwei learned that the Dao Sect had already restored order in Purple Cloud City, then asked why its elders had come to Star Luo Domain.
• Guanfeng and Guanyue identified Gu Chenfeng’s black Fish-Pattern Token as proof of his fated connection to the Dao Sect and said they had been sent to aid him.
• The group boarded Guanfeng’s airship and headed back to Purple Cloud City, where Si Mingwei told the elders that Gu Chenfeng had killed Ye Beixuan.
• Guanfeng and Guanyue learned that Ye Beixuan had reached four-star Source Emperor Realm before Gu Chenfeng killed him while Si Mingwei was unconscious, and they regarded Gu Chenfeng with awe.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei returned to Purple Cloud City after Ye Beixuan’s defeat, and Si Mingwei announced that the Purple Cloud Sect leader had been executed and the sect would be investigated. Gu Chenfeng declared the Purple Cloud Sect’s fall and the Four Symbols Sect’s rise, leaving the people of Purple Cloud Prefecture cheering for their new leader.

• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei returned to Purple Cloud City while Supreme Dao Sect experts guarded the captured Purple Cloud Sect forces.
• Si Mingwei displayed Ye Beixuan’s ruined Soul-Eroding Banner and Mystic Treasure fragments, then announced that he had been executed and the Purple Cloud Sect would face an investigation.
• Gu Chenfeng declared that the Purple Cloud Sect was finished and that the Four Symbols Sect would defend Purple Cloud Prefecture and the Human Race’s border.
• The Four Symbols Sect members and Mo Nancang celebrated Gu Chenfeng’s rise, and other factions in Purple Cloud City joined their cheers.
• Martial artists and factions watching from across Purple Cloud Prefecture turned their hopes toward Gu Chenfeng and the Four Symbols Sect.

The Four Symbols Sect took over the Purple Cloud Sect’s former headquarters and celebrated its rise as a first-rate power, while Gu Chenfeng recovered from his battle with Ye Beixuan. After emerging from seclusion, he met with Guanfeng and Guanyue, who noticed that his cultivation had advanced.

• Mo Nancang and the Four Symbols Sect’s allies completed the takeover and renovation of Rosy Perch Mountain, the former Purple Cloud Sect headquarters.
• More than ten allied sects, including Shi Qianchong’s Five Mountains Sect, joined the Four Symbols Sect, swelling its ranks and strength.
• Powers from across the Star Luo Domain sent envoys and gifts to the Four Symbols Sect’s headquarters inauguration ceremony.
• Mo Nancang persuaded Gu Chenfeng to reside at the mountain’s summit as the sect’s guardian figure, and Gu Chenfeng entered secluded cultivation to recover.
• Gu Chenfeng emerged from seclusion on the day of the ceremony and met with Guanfeng and Guanyue, who observed that his injuries had healed and his cultivation had advanced.

Gu Chenfeng recovered and advanced his cultivation by feeding demon ape essence blood to the Azure Dragon Origin, which returned a trace of Divine Dragon Bloodline energy. After Guanfeng and Guanyue refused his gifts, Gu Chenfeng asked them about the Supreme Dao Sect command token and Yuji’s status.

• During two months of cultivation on the Enlightenment Platform, Gu Chenfeng healed his injuries and reached the late Dragon Elephant Realm and seven-star Source King Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng fed demon ape essence blood to the Azure Dragon Origin, which stopped absorbing his power and returned a strand of energy that helped him break through.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked Guanfeng and Guanyue for aiding the Four Symbols Sect and offered them storage rings filled with pills and treasures.
• Guanfeng and Guanyue returned the rings, explaining that they had served under their sect’s orders and considered Gu Chenfeng a friend.
• After Gu Chenfeng promised to repay their help, Guanfeng and Guanyue showed delight, and he asked about the command token and whether Yuji held special status in the Supreme Dao Sect.

Gu Chenfeng questioned Guanfeng and Guanyue about the Command Token and the name Yuji, but learned little about its origin. After the elders left, he resolved to return to Yan Province before visiting the Supreme Dao Sect, while their private conversation revealed that the Sect Leader had secretly ordered them to protect him; Gu Chenfeng then sat alone beneath the Moon Laurel Tree until someone teased him for relaxing.

• Gu Chenfeng asked Guanfeng and Guanyue about Yuji and the Command Token, but they said they did not know Yuji and invited him to visit the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Guanfeng and Guanyue bid Gu Chenfeng farewell, and he decided to return to Yan Province after the Four Symbols Sect Celebration before visiting their sect.
• Aboard their airship, Guanfeng and Guanyue revealed that the Sect Leader had secretly ordered them to protect Gu Chenfeng and keep the mission confidential.
• Guanyue speculated that Gu Chenfeng might be the Sect Leader's illegitimate son, and Guanfeng warned her not to speak recklessly.
• Gu Chenfeng drank alone beneath the Moon Laurel Tree until a clear voice teased him for taking it easy while others worked.

Si Mingwei visited Gu Chenfeng after breaking through to the Three-Star Source Emperor Realm and asked whether he would join Star Luo Hall. She warned that the Four Symbols Sect could be vulnerable in Purple Cloud Prefecture, especially to the person behind the fallen Purple Cloud Sect.

• Si Mingwei revealed that fighting Ye Beixuan had helped her break through her limits and reach the Three-Star Source Emperor Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked Si Mingwei for helping the Four Symbols Sect take over the Purple Cloud Sect’s territory and resources.
• Gu Chenfeng said he planned to return to Yan Province, later visit Central Province, and possibly go to the Dao Sect.
• Si Mingwei questioned Gu Chenfeng about his ties to the Supreme Dao Sect after seeing Guanfeng and Guanyue leave to meet him.
• Si Mingwei asked Gu Chenfeng to consider joining Star Luo Hall and warned that the Four Symbols Sect might face threats without powerful backing.

Si Mingwei urged Gu Chenfeng to join Star Luo Hall so her master could protect the Four Symbols Sect, while Gu Chenfeng weighed the offer without having accepted the Supreme Dao Sect’s invitation. Si Mingwei blurted out that Gu Chenfeng’s blood already ran through her veins, and Mo Nancang overheard her, mistaking the remark for a romantic confession.

• Si Mingwei offered to introduce Gu Chenfeng to her master, a Supreme Elder of Star Luo Hall, and argued that joining the sect would shield the Four Symbols Sect from retaliation.
• Gu Chenfeng considered the offer because he feared leaving the Four Symbols Sect exposed, though he remained cautious about joining a powerful sect.
• Si Mingwei worried that the Supreme Dao Sect might recruit Gu Chenfeng and persuade him to move the Four Symbols Sect out of Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• Si Mingwei asked whether Gu Chenfeng had decided to join the Supreme Dao Sect, and he clarified that he was only visiting old acquaintances from Yan Province.
• Si Mingwei insisted their bond was stronger because they had faced life and death together, then declared that Gu Chenfeng’s blood already ran through her veins.
• Mo Nancang overheard Si Mingwei’s words, reacted with shock and delight, and tactfully retreated.

After receiving urgent messages that the Four Great Dynasties were attacking his family and allies in Yan Province, Gu Chenfeng set out to reach them as quickly as possible. Si Mingwei revealed that Star Luo Hall had a Super Teleportation Array leading there, and Gu Chenfeng decided to join the sect to gain access to it.

• Si Mingwei explained that Gu Chenfeng had saved her from poison, while Mo Nancang reacted with suggestive approval.
• Mo Nancang delivered three urgent messages from Qing Xuan, and Gu Chenfeng learned that the Four Great Dynasties had joined forces to attack his Gu Lineage and the Barbarian Tribe.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that enemy reinforcements might break through the Northern Frozen Expanse defenses and decided to leave for Yan Province immediately.
• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that Star Luo Hall's Super Teleportation Array could take him to Yan Province, while Mo Nancang stayed behind to protect the Four Symbols Sect.
• After learning the requirements for using the array, Gu Chenfeng decided to join Star Luo Hall as an elder.

As the Four Great Dynasties advanced on the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse, Gu Yanshuang and Gu Qingxuan warned Liu Fuyan that the border passes would soon fall and the hidden forces of the Four Symbols Sect had not yet shown their full strength. The three women began planning the final defenses while Liu Fuyan still believed Gu Chenfeng would return from Purple Cloud Prefecture.

• Gu Yanshuang and Gu Qingxuan arrived at Silverwind City and reported that the allied armies could delay the Four Great Dynasties but could not prevent the Four Directions Border Pass from falling.
• Gu Qingxuan warned that the Four Symbols Sect's hidden forces seemed to be holding back their full strength until the enemy reached the cities.
• Liu Fuyan blamed herself for being unable to fight, but Gu Yanshuang and Gu Qingxuan praised her for building Silverwind City and funding the frozen expanse's defenses.
• Liu Fuyan asked whether Gu Chenfeng would return, and Gu Qingxuan falsely assured her that he was occupied in Purple Cloud Prefecture.
• Gu Qingxuan learned that Gu Yanshuang's grandfather and father remained in seclusion, then the three women began planning defenses for the Holy Mountain, Silverwind City, and the Barbarian Tribe Imperial City.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei reached Star Luo Hall, where Gu Chenfeng asked its Supreme Elder for a chance to become a guest elder rather than for personal treasures. The elder granted him a separate assessment and promised to make him an honorary disciple if he passed.

• Si Mingwei brought Gu Chenfeng to Dust-Cleansing Peak and reported that she had eliminated the Purple Cloud Sect faction colluding with the Demon Race.
• The Supreme Elder praised Si Mingwei and gave her a Storage Ring, then tested Gu Chenfeng with his presence and judged him worthy of cultivation.
• The Supreme Elder offered Gu Chenfeng a reward, and he asked for an opportunity to become a guest elder so the Four Symbols Sect could gain Star Luo Hall's backing.
• The Supreme Elder gave Gu Chenfeng a sword-shaped Jade Talisman to arrange a separate elder assessment on Kaiyang Island, explaining that he still had to pass it himself.
• The Supreme Elder offered to take Gu Chenfeng as an honorary disciple if he passed the assessment.