Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng accepted the chance to become a nominal disciple of a Supreme Elder, provided he passed Star Luo Hall’s elder assessment. He reached Kaiyang Island for the trials and learned that one of the examiners, Liao Xing, was Ye Beixuan’s backer, but Gu Chenfeng remained determined to pass and reach Yan Province in time.

• The Supreme Elder offered to make Gu Chenfeng his nominal disciple if he passed the elder assessment, and Gu Chenfeng bowed and accepted.
• Si Mingwei accompanied Gu Chenfeng to Kaiyang Island and explained that the assessment tested his Dao heart, talent, and combat ability.
• Gu Chenfeng presented the Supreme Elder’s Jade Talisman so he could take the assessment outside its designated period.
• Liao Xing and another Star Luo Hall elder arrived to oversee the assessment.
• Si Mingwei warned Gu Chenfeng that Liao Xing backed Ye Beixuan and might make the assessment difficult, while Gu Chenfeng resolved to pass regardless.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at Star Luo Hall to take the Guest Elder assessment, but Elder Liao Xing resented him for destroying the Purple Cloud Sect and planned to stop him from passing. The Hundred Tribulations Heart-Questioning Formation began its first trial, while Liao Xing waited to see whether Gu Chenfeng would fail.

• Liao Xing mocked Si Mingwei over her mission in Purple Cloud Prefecture, and she retorted that she had acted under orders to eliminate human traitors.
• Gu Chenfeng introduced himself as a member of the Four Symbols Sect and asked Liao Xing to arrange his Guest Elder assessment.
• Si Mingwei told Liao Xing that her master had accepted Gu Chenfeng as a nominal disciple, but Liao Xing insisted that Gu Chenfeng would receive no special treatment.
• Si Mingwei explained the dangers of the Hundred Tribulations Heart-Questioning Formation, and Gu Chenfeng entered it with confidence.
• Liao Xing activated the formation normally while Si Mingwei watched, then privately told a female elder that he expected Gu Chenfeng to fail because he blamed him for ending the flow of illicit benefits from the Purple Cloud Sect.

Gu Chenfeng passed the Hundred Tribulations Heart-Questioning Formation, but its final illusion of a dark catastrophe left him wondering whether it had drawn on real threats from the Eternal Heaven Realm. He entered the Kaiyang Star Cauldron Formation and caught its crushing cauldron with one hand without moving.

• Gu Chenfeng overcame the Hundred Tribulations Heart-Questioning Formation’s illusions, including visions of his family’s deaths and a darkness that consumed the Seven Star Continent.
• Gu Chenfeng suspected the terrifying beings in the final illusion might be the creatures sealed near the passage to the Eternal Heaven Realm, then reassured himself that powerful experts guarded the seal.
• Liao Xing, unsettled by Gu Chenfeng’s quick success, asked the female elder to conduct his next assessment.
• Si Mingwei explained that the Kaiyang Star Cauldron Formation tested foundation and talent by forcing participants to endure a giant cauldron without using secret arts or divine abilities.
• The female elder activated the formation, and Gu Chenfeng reached up with one hand to catch the cauldron as it fell; despite its increased force, he did not move.

Gu Chenfeng endured the Kaiyang Star Cauldron Formation after Liao Xing and a female elder secretly increased its power. He passed the trial by hurling the cauldron into the formation barrier, injuring the elder with the backlash, and prepared to begin the final trial.

• Liao Xing and the female elder secretly strengthened the cauldron’s pressure, while Si Mingwei objected that it exceeded the one-star Source Emperor Realm standard.
• Gu Chenfeng reassured Si Mingwei and continued holding the cauldron steady as the formation’s power rose to the three-star Source Emperor Realm.
• Near the end of the incense stick, Gu Chenfeng switched to both hands, lifted the cauldron, and slammed it into the formation barrier.
• The collision sent backlash through the formation node and injured the female elder, while the incense burned out and Gu Chenfeng passed the trial.
• Gu Chenfeng apologized sarcastically to the injured elder and asked to begin the final trial.

Gu Chenfeng began the combat trial for Star Luo Hall’s elder assessment, facing Liao Xing, who was allowed to test him despite having a much higher cultivation. Gu Chenfeng blocked Liao Xing’s first two attacks and neutralized his Weak Water Poison, leaving the trial unresolved as Liao Xing prepared to continue.

• Liao Xing took over the combat trial and demanded that Gu Chenfeng withstand three moves, while Si Mingwei protested that Liao Xing’s cultivation violated the assessment rules.
• Gu Chenfeng accepted the challenge, and Liao Xing sealed the arena before attacking with Abyssal Sea Swallows Stars.
• Gu Chenfeng countered Liao Xing’s waterspout with a mountain of fire origin power, and the two attacks clashed evenly.
• Liao Xing summoned a top-grade mystic treasure and struck with a blade of cold light, concealing Weak Water Poison within it.
• Gu Chenfeng blocked the strike with his Profound Ice Battle Axe, then used blazing astral qi to destroy the poison and crushed the remaining gray energy in his hand.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Liao Xing’s three-move assessment, exposing Liao Xing’s underhanded attack and forcing him to reveal his Four-Star Source Emperor Realm strength. After becoming a Guest Elder of Star Luo Hall, Gu Chenfeng accompanied Si Mingwei to the Super Teleportation Array on Tianji Island, which could take him to Yan Province.

• Liao Xing attacked Gu Chenfeng with the Covering Sea Kui Ox Strike, and Gu Chenfeng countered with his Opening Heaven Strike.
• Liao Xing secretly launched a Divine Sense attack, but Gu Chenfeng repelled it and struck Liao Xing’s brow with his axe.
• Liao Xing unleashed his suppressed Four-Star Source Emperor Realm power to survive, while Gu Chenfeng declared that he had passed the assessment and warned Liao Xing against further schemes.
• Gu Chenfeng officially became a Guest Elder of Star Luo Hall and left the Assessment Hall with Si Mingwei.
• Two Tianji Island deacons led Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei to the mountain housing the Super Teleportation Array to Yan Province.

Gu Chenfeng arranged for Star Luo Hall to reactivate the Super Teleportation Array to Yan Province and planned to bring Four Symbols Sect members with him. Meanwhile, Liao Xing reported his failure to his master, who dismissed Gu Chenfeng as insignificant and stayed focused on a secret plan.

• Star Luo Hall stewards and Formation Masters inspected the Super Teleportation Array and confirmed it was intact but would need several days of energy infusion to activate.
• Gu Chenfeng rewarded the stewards to speed up the work, then agreed with Si Mingwei that he should bring others to Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng sent Mo Nancang a message asking the Four Symbols Sect to dispatch people from Purple Cloud Prefecture, then waited for them and the formation.
• Liao Xing reported to his master that Gu Chenfeng had become Mu Chen’s nominal disciple and passed the Guest Elder assessment.
• Liao Xing’s master ordered him not to provoke Mu Chen over Gu Chenfeng for now, and Liao Xing decided he would deal with Gu Chenfeng himself if given the chance.

As the Four Great Dynasties’ armies neared the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse’s final defenses, its leaders prepared for a battle against overwhelming numbers and powerful experts. Meanwhile, Gu Chenfeng waited anxiously for a formation to be completed before the Four Symbols Sect’s people arrived.

• The Four Great Dynasties’ armies broke through most of the defensive lines, while the Gu Lineage and Barbarian Tribe slowed their advance with cavalry raids, traps, and assassinations.
• Liu Fuyan, Gu Yanshuang, Gu Qingxuan, and Empress Helian assessed the enemy’s approach and the strength of the final defensive line linking Silverwind City, the Holy Mountain, and the Barbarian Tribe Imperial City.
• Empress Helian warned that the enemy had more than thirty Grandmasters and likely several Great Grandmasters, while the defenders had far fewer powerful fighters.
• Empress Helian said she hoped Ling Xiao would come, then teased that she and he could become a couple; Gu Qingxuan objected and learned that Ling Xiao had once agreed to call Helian his godmother.
• Gu Qingxuan angrily called Gu Chenfeng a traitor, then returned to discussing the war.
• At Star Luo Hall, Gu Chenfeng learned the formation would be ready within two days and that the people sent by the Four Symbols Sect would arrive in one day, leaving him anxious about whether it would be completed in time.

The Four Great Dynasties launched a decisive assault on the Gu Lineage and Barbarian Tribe’s triangular defenses in the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse. As the siege stalled, Grandmaster-level experts from the Four Great Sects attacked, and Gu Qingxuan prepared to meet them.

• The allied armies of the Four Great Dynasties attacked Silverwind City, the Barbarian Tribe Imperial City, and the Holy Mountain, while the defenders fought back from their walls.
• The Sea-Calming King, Li Sheng, watched the siege with his adopted sons and said the Four Great Sects intended to destroy the Gu Lineage and eliminate Gu Beiwu and Gu Lingxiao.
• Li Yanhu asked what would become of Li Sheng and the Sea-Shaking Army after the Gu Lineage fell, and Li Sheng said he planned to return to the South Sea after the battle.
• After hours of fighting left the siege at a stalemate, more than twenty Grandmaster-level experts from the Four Great Sects flew toward the defensive line.
• Gu Qingxuan recognized the incoming experts and ordered her forces to prepare to engage.

Gu Qingxuan defended Silverwind City against the Four Great Sects and fought Huangfu Qi, who had become a Great Grandmaster. As three more sect masters joined the attack and threatened her life, Gu Lingxiao suddenly appeared and cut off Huangfu Qi’s arm.

• More than twenty Grandmasters from the Four Great Sects attacked the triangular defensive line, while Gu Qingxuan, Gu Yanshuang, the Gu Lineage experts, and the aged Grand Shaman held them back.
• Huangfu Qi appeared as a Great Grandmaster and attacked the city formation, but Gu Qingxuan fought him and drove him onto the defensive.
• Granny Netherfire, Yuan Tai, and Dugu Jue arrived as Great Grandmasters; Dugu Jue attacked the formation while the other two joined Huangfu Qi against Gu Qingxuan.
• The three sect masters overwhelmed Gu Qingxuan, and Huangfu Qi struck at her from behind as her allies could not reach her in time.
• Gu Lingxiao flashed in from the Sacred Mountain Summit and severed Huangfu Qi’s right arm, declaring that no one could touch his daughter.

Gu Lingxiao arrived at the decisive battle as a Great Grandmaster and turned the tide by suppressing the Four Great Sect Masters while Gu Qingxuan protected the formation and attacked their forces. The Four Sects’ powerful Ancestors then appeared, and Gu Lingxiao called on his father to deal with them.

• Gu Lingxiao reached Gu Qingxuan and reassured her before entering the battle.
• Gu Lingxiao trapped the Four Great Sect Masters with formation patterns and overwhelmed their combined attacks.
• Gu Qingxuan joined the fight against the enemy Grandmasters and wounded several of them.
• The Four Great Sects’ four Ancestors appeared, revealing that they had restored their bodies and reached the Eight-Star or Nine-Star Great Grandmaster level.
• Gu Lingxiao told his father to handle the four Ancestors.

Gu Beiwu appeared on the Central Battlefield and revealed strength in the half-step Source Emperor Realm, turning back the Four Sects' Ancestors. With Gu Lingxiao and Gu Beiwu overwhelming their opponents, the allied forces gained the upper hand in the decisive battle.

• Gu Beiwu arrived from the Holy Mountain and confronted the Four Sects' Ancestors, accusing them of colluding with those who destroyed the Four Symbols Divine Sect.
• The four Ancestors attacked Gu Beiwu with phantoms of the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, but he blocked Gu Qingxuan from joining the fight.
• Gu Beiwu transformed into an Azure Dragon and shattered the Ancestors' combined attack, sending all four flying and revealing his half-step Source Emperor Realm cultivation.
• Gu Beiwu relentlessly drove the four Ancestors back while Gu Lingxiao and the allied forces struck their enemies, shifting the battle's momentum toward the Gu Lineage and the Barbarian Tribe.

Gu Beiwu defeated the Four Ancestors and learned that shadowy figures had recruited them to attack the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse and seize treasures tied to the Azure Dragon's remains. Three Half-Step Source Emperor Realm figures arrived and demanded the treasures, offering to make the Gu Lineage the Lord of Yan Province if Gu Beiwu submitted.

• Gu Beiwu annihilated the Tai Xuan Sect's Ancestor and two other Ancestors, then captured the Azure Sky Sect's Ancestor.
• The Azure Sky Sect's Ancestor revealed that the mysterious figures had promised to restore the Ancestors' bodies and strengthen the Four Great Sects in exchange for attacking the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse and forcing Gu Beiwu to surrender treasures tied to the remains.
• Blood-colored runes spread across the Azure Sky Sect's Ancestor, causing him to explode before he could reveal where the figures were hiding.
• Gu Beiwu sensed the figures and confronted a black cloud bearing three Half-Step Source Emperor Realm experts, recognizing their sinister aura as the power that had killed his master a hundred years earlier.
• The leader of the three figures offered to spare Gu Beiwu's people and support the Gu Lineage as the Lord of Yan Province if Gu Beiwu handed over the treasures and served them.

Gu Beiwu defeated the blood-robed powerhouse, but the man triggered the Curse Power within him and summoned a hidden force to attack the Gu Lineage. As Gu Beiwu faced the blood-colored mountain and prepared to sacrifice himself, a crimson-gold flaming hand seized it in midair.

• Gu Beiwu rejected the outsiders’ offer and fought the central blood-colored figure, defeating him after a fierce battle.
• The wounded blood-robed man activated a talisman that triggered Gu Beiwu’s Curse Power and called on his two companions to subdue him.
• Fifty or sixty blood-colored Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters emerged from the black cloud, and the blood-robed man ordered them to slaughter the Gu Lineage and break the defense line.
• Gu Lingxiao and Gu Qingxuan moved to rescue Gu Beiwu as the three blood-colored figures formed a mountain of energy and pressed it toward him.
• As Gu Beiwu prepared to unleash his power at the cost of his sanity, a crimson-gold flaming hand emerged from the void and stopped the blood-colored mountain above him.

Gu Chenfeng arrived in time to save the Gu Clan, crushed the Blood-Robed Men’s mountain, and removed the curse that had tormented Gu Beiwu for nearly a century. With a force of powerful allies at his command, he ordered the execution of the Blood-Robed Men and the Grandmaster-level-or-higher experts of the Four Great Sects and Four Great Dynasties.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared above the battlefield and crushed the Blood-Robed Men’s blood-colored mountain with his giant hand.
• Gu Chenfeng reunited with his family, drew the curse out of Gu Beiwu, and destroyed it.
• Gu Chenfeng refused to heed the Blood-Robed Middle-Aged Man’s threat about their Source Emperor Realm senior brother and said he would seek him out after killing them.
• An Airship arrived carrying one hundred or two hundred experts, including four Half-Step Source Emperor Realm leaders, who bowed and awaited Gu Chenfeng’s orders.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered his allies to kill the Blood-Robed Men and all Grandmaster-level-or-higher experts from the Four Great Sects and Four Great Dynasties.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse with a formidable force, crushing the allied armies and killing the three Blood-Robed Men. With the battle won and the dynasties retreating, he held their Primordial Spirits captive and demanded to know where their Senior Brother was.

• Gu Chenfeng's four half-step Source Emperor experts and their forces overwhelmed the enemy Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters.
• The three Blood-Robed Men fled in different directions, but Gu Chenfeng trapped them with a flaming palm and crushed their bodies to ash, along with tens of thousands of soldiers caught in its blast.
• The Sea-Calming King and his sworn sons fled, and commanders of the Four Great Dynasties ordered their armies to retreat.
• Gu Chenfeng's experts reported that nearly all their targets had been eliminated, with only a handful of distant Grandmasters escaping.
• Gu Chenfeng preserved the three Blood-Robed Men's Primordial Spirits and demanded that they reveal the whereabouts of their Senior Brother.

Young Master Li seized control of Great Li’s court with the Blood Curse Art and ordered Emperor Xuan and his officials to provide blood sacrifices and women for his cultivation. After learning that Gu Chenfeng had annihilated his forces, Young Master Li prepared to go to the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse, but Gu Chenfeng arrived at the hall.

• Young Master Li used blood-red threads to control Emperor Xuan and the court, then demanded over a hundred thousand commoners for sacrifice and women as cultivation furnaces.
• When officials denounced him, Young Master Li killed them by snapping the threads linked to them.
• Left Chancellor Huangfu Hong pledged loyalty to Young Master Li, and Crown Prince Li Yuankai, Third Prince Li Yuanze, and the Huangfu faction followed suit.
• A black-clad messenger reported that the Four Great Sects and Four Great Dynasties had been routed and that Gu Chenfeng had killed the forces’ leaders and their followers.
• Young Master Li decided to go to the Four Symbols Frozen Expanse, but Gu Chenfeng’s voice announced his arrival in the hall.

Gu Chenfeng confronted Li Kun in the Great Li Imperial Palace after Li Kun demanded the Four Symbols Divine Sect Command Token and its associated treasures. Gu Chenfeng drew Li Kun into the sky to spare the capital from their battle, then overpowered his first attack and struck at him with the Profound Ice Battle Axe.

• Gu Chenfeng entered the Imperial Palace, disrupting Li Kun’s control over the hall and revealing himself to Emperor Xuan and the officials.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that Li Kun was the disciple of the man who had sought the Four Symbols Divine Sect Command Token, and Li Kun demanded the token and related treasures.
• Gu Chenfeng mocked Li Kun’s arrogance, prompting Li Kun to attack him with a blood-colored claw.
• Gu Chenfeng lured Li Kun high above the capital and shattered his claw with a Heaven and Earth Origin Power and Blood Qi Power punch.
• Gu Chenfeng appeared below Li Kun and swung the Profound Ice Battle Axe at him, intending to beat his hidden origins out of him.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed Li Kun in the Imperial Capital and pursued him after he fled, then defeated his attempt to escape and captured his Primordial Spirit. The chapter ended with Li Kun imprisoned by Gu Chenfeng’s Blood Soul Spike.

• Gu Chenfeng drove Li Kun into retreat while their battle shook the Imperial Capital, and the other Half-Step Source Emperor Realm experts fought Li Kun’s two blood-robed allies inside the palace.
• Gu Chenfeng shattered Li Kun’s feather fan and chased him hundreds of miles from the Imperial Capital after Li Kun tried to flee.
• Li Kun offered to treat the battle as a misunderstanding and threatened Gu Chenfeng with his master, but Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon’s Eye to stun him.
• Gu Chenfeng pinned Li Kun beneath a crimson-golden mountain and struck him with One Axe Opens the Heavens, tearing apart his body.
• Gu Chenfeng found Li Kun’s escaping Primordial Spirit with his Divine Sense and trapped it with the Blood Soul Spike.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Li Kun and tried to learn the identity of the Central Province master directing attacks on the Gu Lineage, but a curse destroyed Li Kun before he could reveal it. Believing the threat had temporarily receded, Gu Chenfeng flew toward Great Li's Imperial Capital to search for the rumored spatial treasure and settle old grudges.

• Gu Chenfeng captured Li Kun's Primordial Spirit, took his Storage Ring, and demanded to know who he was and who his master was.
• Li Kun offered information about a possible spatial secret treasure in Great Li's Imperial Palace, but Gu Chenfeng suspected he was stalling and increased the Blood Soul Spike's devouring force.
• Li Kun revealed that he came from Central Province and had been ordered by his master to foster factions in Yan Province and attack the Gu Lineage.
• A hidden curse caused Li Kun's Primordial Spirit to explode before he could identify his master, and Gu Chenfeng escaped the blast.
• Gu Chenfeng concluded that a Source Venerable Realm expert from a Nine Great Superpower might be behind the plot and that the recent attack had been a probe after Leng Xingye wounded the master.
• With the threat to Yan Province temporarily eased, Gu Chenfeng headed for Great Li's Imperial Capital to search for the secret treasure and settle old grudges.