Chapter Summaries

After Gu Chenfeng’s victory reshaped Yan Province and Great Li, he spoke with the newly enthroned Li Yuanqi, who complained about being emperor and thanked Gu Chenfeng for sparing his family. Gu Chenfeng then asked about the Great Li Imperial Family’s ancestral ground, the Ascending Dragon Hall.

• Gu Beiwu rebuilt the Four Symbols Divine Sect, which reclaimed the Four Great Sects’ bases and gained the submission of sects and dynasties across Yan Province.
• Emperor Xuan abdicated after confessing his crimes, ordered Huangfu Hong and his faction punished, deposed Li Yuankai, and named Li Yuanqi heir; Li Yuanqi later took the throne.
• In the Imperial Palace, Li Yuanqi complained to Gu Chenfeng about the burdens of ruling and asked him to take back the throne, but Gu Chenfeng refused.
• Li Yuanqi thanked Gu Chenfeng for sparing Emperor Xuan and the Imperial Family, and Gu Chenfeng said they should let the past go.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Li Yuanqi whether the Imperial Family’s ancestral ground, the Ascending Dragon Hall, had a special origin.

Gu Chenfeng learned of an old legend linking Ascending Dragon Hall to the Barbarian God and investigated the hidden spatial fluctuation he had sensed there. He uncovered ancient runes concealing a Secret Realm entrance.

• Li Yuanqi told Gu Chenfeng that Ascending Dragon Hall was built over a Dragon Vein and recalled a story about the Barbarian God’s statue being destroyed there.
• Gu Chenfeng connected the legend to the Barbarian God’s real existence and the spatial fluctuation he had detected in Ascending Dragon Hall.
• Gu Chenfeng asked about Princess Yaoyin, and Li Yuanqi revealed that she had left the Imperial Capital years ago, feeling guilty about Gu Chenfeng’s apparent death and having feelings for him.
• Gu Chenfeng searched Ascending Dragon Hall for hours before using his Azure Vertical Pupils to expose ancient golden runes hidden in the space.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the runes as the entrance to a Secret Realm rather than the spatial artifact Li Kun had mentioned.

Gu Chenfeng discovered a hidden Secret Realm connected to the Barbarian Tribe and entered its ancient treasury, which held a vast cultivation legacy. In the Inner Hall, he found a mysterious golden sphere whose life aura and trace of Chaos Qi stirred an intense reaction from the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale to break the Secret Realm’s damaged seal and entered the vast, energy-rich Primeval Forest.
• Gu Chenfeng flew to a mountain-top palace and broke through its restriction to enter the treasury.
• Gu Chenfeng found ancient treasures, spirit medicines, cultivation manuals, pill formulas, and secret arts, realizing the collection could support a sect’s growth.
• Gu Chenfeng opened the Inner Hall and found it mostly empty except for Barbarian Tribe markings and a cracked golden sphere radiating life and Heaven and Earth Origin Power.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed a trace of Chaos Qi inside the sphere, while the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins stirred with intense longing.

Gu Chenfeng recognized that the golden mass of light in the Inner Hall was a trap concealing a being suppressed by the Barbarian God, but he was caught before he could escape. The grayish-white entity pulled him into the light and invaded his Divine Platform.

• Gu Chenfeng sensed the golden mass of light’s unusual energy and suspected it contained a dangerous being rather than a treasure.
• Gu Chenfeng pretended to reach for the mass of light, then fled toward the passage after realizing it had lured him into the hall.
• The entity halted Gu Chenfeng by manipulating space and admitted it had drawn him there to help it escape.
• Grayish-white threads bound Gu Chenfeng and began freezing his body, but his Blood Qi Power and Azure Dragon Power resisted the invasion.
• The entity decided Gu Chenfeng’s body suited it and dragged him into the golden light, where it entered between his brows and headed for his Divine Platform.

Gu Chenfeng fought off a gray-white Primordial Spirit that tried to possess him, then faced its silver skeleton body and its Heaven-Devouring Art. The Bronze Coffin appeared and began devouring the skeleton’s Primordial Spirit.

• A gray-white Primordial Spirit entered Gu Chenfeng’s Sea of Consciousness and tried to possess him, but Gu Chenfeng’s transformed Primordial Spirit fought back.
• Gu Chenfeng gained the upper hand as the sealed Primordial Spirit weakened, pummeling it until a blue rune helped it escape into a silver skeleton.
• The skeleton used the Heaven-Devouring Art to try to pull Gu Chenfeng’s Primordial Spirit from his Divine Platform.
• A blood-wreathed Bronze Coffin appeared behind the skeleton and unleashed a powerful devouring force against its Primordial Spirit.

Gu Chenfeng defeated the skeleton by using the Bronze Coffin to draw out and devour the Primordial Spirit that controlled it, breaking the golden sphere. He discovered the spirit had survived inside the coffin, and its claim that it came from another world led Gu Chenfeng to ask if it was from the Eternal Heaven Realm.

• Gu Chenfeng summoned the Bronze Coffin, whose blood-colored vortex disrupted the skeleton’s Primordial Spirit and forced it to abandon the Heaven-Swallowing Secret Art.
• Gu Chenfeng broke free of the gray threads and battered the skeleton with the Bronze Coffin until its Primordial Spirit was dragged out and devoured.
• The golden sphere shattered, and Gu Chenfeng absorbed the remaining chaos qi before preparing to restore his Primordial Spirit.
• The Bronze Coffin trembled, and the gray Primordial Spirit called out from inside, revealing that it had resisted the coffin’s blood tide with dark blue runes.
• Gu Chenfeng asked the Primordial Spirit who it was and where it came from, then guessed that it was from the Eternal Heaven Realm.

Gu Chenfeng learned from Luo Sheng that the Eternal Heaven Realm’s clans invaded the Seven Star Continent ten thousand years ago to harvest its people and resources, but the continent’s human and demon races defeated them and sealed the survivors. Luo Sheng revealed how he had endured in his prison, leaving Gu Chenfeng with the truth behind the ancient cataclysm.

• Luo Sheng identified himself as a young master of the Spirit-Speech Clan and offered Gu Chenfeng a reward for freeing him, but Gu Chenfeng demanded to know why the Barbarian God had sealed him.
• Luo Sheng explained that four Upper Realm clans had opened two passages to the Seven Star Continent and sent millions of Devouring Spirit Beasts to harvest its living beings and resources.
• Luo Sheng said the continent’s human and demon cultivators resisted the beasts, then learned from captured Upper Realm resources and texts, strengthening themselves to fight the invaders.
• Luo Sheng recounted how the continent’s experts sealed the two passages, turned the invaders into hunting targets, and defeated them in a costly battle led by the Barbarian God, the Dragon Emperor, and Taiching Daoist.
• Luo Sheng said the victors sealed the four clans’ survivors and beasts across the continent, while the Barbarian God imprisoned him for ten thousand years; Luo Sheng survived by sacrificing a secret treasure and putting his Primordial Spirit to sleep.

Gu Chenfeng learned from Luo Sheng that the ancient seals holding back the Upper Realm clans and Devouring Spirit Beasts were weakening, but he distrusted Luo Sheng’s outdated warnings and kept him imprisoned in the Bronze Coffin. When Luo Sheng asked what would make Gu Chenfeng release him, he offered the Barbarian God's Legacy.

• Gu Chenfeng heard Luo Sheng recount how the Barbarian God and other experts had sealed the Upper Realm clans and Devouring Spirit Beasts, and how the seals had begun weakening several hundred years earlier.
• Luo Sheng warned that the four clans’ reinforcements might have arrived and urged Gu Chenfeng to pledge loyalty to him in exchange for help in the Eternal Heaven Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled problems in the Ten Thousand Dragon Demon Cavern and worried that the Seven Star Continent’s situation was worsening, but recognized that Luo Sheng’s knowledge was ten thousand years out of date.
• Gu Chenfeng shook the Bronze Coffin to punish Luo Sheng and refused to release him, while considering asking Leng Xingye about the invasion when they next met.
• Luo Sheng panicked at Gu Chenfeng’s refusal and asked what he wanted in return for releasing him, then brought up the Barbarian God's Legacy.

Gu Chenfeng used his Barbarian God essence-blood aura and divine dragon bloodline to pass through the restriction sealing the Secret Realm’s core. Inside, he discovered the Barbarian God’s enormous axe and its three black-gold patterns, then resolved to approach it.

• Luo Sheng offered to break the restriction around the Spatial Passage if Gu Chenfeng freed him, restored his Primordial Spirit, and found him a body, but Gu Chenfeng refused.
• Gu Chenfeng calmed his Primordial Spirit and pressed his blood qi and Azure Dragon power into the restriction, allowing him to pass through its barrier.
• Gu Chenfeng cut off the Bronze Coffin’s connection to the outside and put it in his Storage Ring after realizing the restriction responded to his Barbarian God and Dragon Emperor lineage.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the core space and found an ancient altar plaza crowned by a massive, cracked stone axe bearing three black-gold patterns.
• After comprehending the axe’s aura, Gu Chenfeng heard a voice declaring that those who hesitated or feared death should not follow its path, then strode toward the altar.

Gu Chenfeng endured the altar’s bladed wind and faced a devastating axe strike from the Barbarian God’s phantom, awakening the Barbarian God’s legacy: the incomplete Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes. Though badly injured, he entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins to study the art and the lingering axe intent.

• Gu Chenfeng pushed through the altar’s bladed wind, using his Azure Dragon Transformation, Mountain-Turning Seals, and axe techniques to advance toward the giant axe.
• A black gold marking on the axe summoned the Barbarian God’s phantom, which struck Gu Chenfeng with a powerful axe phantom.
• Gu Chenfeng countered with Heaven-Splitting, but the Barbarian God’s strike broke through and blasted him into the plaza’s stone wall.
• The black gold light entered Gu Chenfeng’s body, granting him the incomplete Human-Slaying Chapter of Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins and sat on the Enlightenment Platform to comprehend the secret art and the remaining axe intent.

Gu Chenfeng moved the Barbarian God’s Secret Realm beneath Holy Mountain and brought his family inside, making it the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s hidden refuge and cultivation foundation. After showing them its treasures and ancient techniques, he continued studying the Human-Slaying Chapter while his family began cultivating.

• The Four Symbols Divine Sect’s grounds became a thousand-li oasis filled with dense energy of heaven and earth, drawing attention from across Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng took Gu Beiwu, Gu Lingxiao, Gu Yanshuang, Gu Qingxuan, and Liu Fuyan on a tour of the Secret Realm beneath Holy Mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that he had moved the Secret Realm to protect his family from Li Kun’s master and intended to use it as the sect’s core refuge and cultivation ground.
• Gu Chenfeng showed his family the great hall’s ancient legacies and treasures, restricted access to those present, and urged them to choose cultivation methods and Secret Arts.
• Gu Chenfeng helped Liu Fuyan select techniques, then continued comprehending the Human-Slaying Chapter while she cultivated in their Cave Abode.

Gu Chenfeng spent several months cultivating and guiding his family in Yan Province, helping them advance while discovering Liu Fuyan’s Profound Yin Body and teaching her a dual cultivation art. After receiving an assignment from Star Luo Hall, he prepared to leave for Central Province, reassured that his grandfather had reached the Source Emperor Realm and could oversee the Four Symbols Divine Sect.

• A blood-shrouded figure in Central Province read a report about Gu Chenfeng killing Li Kun, then ordered several powerful subordinates to work with Shadow Tiger and retrieve what he needed.
• Gu Chenfeng remained in the Barbarian God's Secret Realm, guiding his family’s cultivation and helping Gu Yanshuang, Gu Qingxuan, and Gu Lingxiao advance while Gu Beiwu entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough.
• Gu Chenfeng discovered that Liu Fuyan possessed a Profound Yin Body and taught her an ancient dual cultivation secret art, greatly improving both their cultivation.
• Si Mingwei sent Gu Chenfeng a message that his Star Luo Hall master had issued an assignment and wanted him to return to Central Province.
• Gu Chenfeng’s family and allies held a farewell banquet at Sacred Mountain Summit, where the guests learned that Gu Beiwu had survived his thunder tribulation and reached the Source Emperor Realm.
• During the banquet, Gu Yanshuang and Gu Qingxuan teased Liu Fuyan about her beauty and rapid cultivation, while Gu Chenfeng prepared to leave Yan Province.

Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan prepared to leave for Central Province as Helian Na revealed she had become Gu Lingxiao’s sworn sister and Liu Fuyan encouraged Gu Chenfeng to accept other women who sincerely cared for him. Before the siblings departed, Gu Beiwu revealed that Gu Qingxuan and Gu Chenfeng’s mother had been taken away by powerful people, and Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan vowed to seek her in Central Province.

• Helian Na explained that she and Gu Lingxiao had become sworn siblings, while Gu Chenfeng had given the Barbarian Tribe access to the Barbarian God's legacy and resources.
• Gu Chenfeng embraced Liu Fuyan and promised to bring her to Central Province once it was safe; Liu Fuyan urged him not to reject women who sincerely supported him.
• Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan boarded the Airship, and Gu Qingxuan told Gu Lingxiao she would call him Dad when he brought her mother back.
• Gu Beiwu revealed that powerful people had taken Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan's mother away after threatening the Gu Lineage and the children.
• Gu Qingxuan softened toward Gu Lingxiao and said she would look for news of her mother in Central Province, while Gu Chenfeng promised to bring her back.

Gu Chenfeng returned to Central Province with Gu Qingxuan, determined to grow strong enough to handle threats tied to the Gu Clan and the Seven Star Continent. After escorting her to the Four Symbols Sect, he reached Star Luo Hall, where Si Mingwei said a difficult mission awaited him.

• Gu Chenfeng considered his goals and threats during the journey, then resumed cultivating while the Bronze Coffin emerged beside his bed and resisted being stored until he contained it with the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale.
• A Five-Star Source Emperor Realm Great Demon discovered Gu Chenfeng and Gu Qingxuan over the Boundless Sea and sent an army of strange fish to attack their airship; Gu Chenfeng drove the demon off, then fled with Gu Qingxuan.
• Gu Chenfeng escorted Gu Qingxuan to the Four Symbols Sect, where he told Mo Nancang that Gu Beiwu had recovered and the Four Symbols Divine Sect had regained its supremacy in Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng traveled to Star Luo Hall, where Si Mingwei greeted him and said her master had a tricky mission for him.

Gu Chenfeng met Mu Chen, became his fourth disciple, and received several valuable treasures, including a replica of the Heaven-Mixing Shield. He and Si Mingwei then set out for Heavenly Star Prefecture to help their eldest senior brother investigate a missing secret treasure, which Si Mingwei identified as the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.

• Gu Chenfeng apologized to Mu Chen for delaying his visit and confirmed that the crisis in his lineage had been resolved.
• Mu Chen formally accepted Gu Chenfeng as his fourth disciple and gave him a replica of the Heaven-Mixing Shield, pills, talismans, and other treasures.
• Si Mingwei complained that Gu Chenfeng had received better gifts than she had, and Mu Chen promised her a Replica Mystic Treasure if she completed the mission.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei left Star Luo Hall aboard a flying boat and headed to Heavenly Star Prefecture.
• Si Mingwei explained that their eldest senior brother had reported a missing secret treasure in Starshine City and revealed that it was the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.

Si Mingwei explained the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree’s rare fruit and its value in strengthening cultivation and weakening source emperor realm thunder tribulations. After learning the tree had been stolen, Gu Chenfeng eagerly committed to recovering it so he could earn Cloudzhi Immortal Fruits for his impending breakthrough.

• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that Star Luo Hall’s Cloudzhi Immortal Tree required vast resources to bear a small crop of fruit once every hundred years.
• Si Mingwei explained that Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit could improve source emperor realm cultivation and help source king realm martial artists withstand thunder tribulations.
• Si Mingwei recounted how the fruit had helped her advance, then revealed that the tree had been stolen shortly before its next crop was due.
• Gu Chenfeng pledged to help Si Mingwei and Eldest Senior Brother recover the tree, then asked whether the mission could earn him a share of its fruit.
• After Si Mingwei said the fruit could be requested as a reward, Gu Chenfeng sought details about the theft and Heavenly Star Prefecture and resolved to retrieve the tree.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei traveled to Starshine City to investigate the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, disguising themselves to avoid drawing attention. They secretly entered the City Lord's Manor and reunited with Si Mingwei, where they met the city's lord, Fan Yue.

• During the journey, Gu Chenfeng examined his treasures and refined the imitation Dao Treasure Mu Chen had given him.
• After three days, Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei arrived in Starshine City and decided to enter in disguise because the immortal tree's theft had stirred suspicion and tension.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed nearly ten Source Emperor Realm experts in the city, including two late-stage experts, and suspected the one in the center was Fan Yue.
• Gu Chenfeng followed a concealed rendezvous arranged through a Command Talisman and entered a carriage with a hidden Concealment Formation.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei reached the City Lord's Manor in separate carriages and met Fan Yue, the Eldest Senior Brother serving as city lord.

Fan Yue explained how the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree was stolen from Starshine City and why the thieves may be among three powerful local sects. Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei learned the tree was still inside the city, but they had to find it before its fruit ripened and the city formation could no longer detect it.

• Fan Yue welcomed Si Mingwei and Gu Chenfeng to the City Lord's Manor and revealed that he had been injured during the theft of the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree.
• Fan Yue showed them the Sky-Congealing Pool and described how black-clad thieves ambushed and imprisoned him before stealing the tree.
• Fan Yue suspected the Famed Sword Sect, the Moon-Covering Temple, or the Treasure Elephant Sect, whose power limited the City Lord's Manor's authority.
• Gu Chenfeng asked whether the thieves had moved the tree, and Fan Yue explained that Starshine City's grand formation would detect it if they tried to take it beyond the city.
• Fan Yue warned that the tree had to be found before its fruit ripened, when it would enter dormancy and become undetectable to the city's formation.

Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Gu Chenfeng discussed how to recover the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree before its fruit ripened and became impossible to detect. Gu Chenfeng proposed using Fan Yue’s Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit as bait to provoke the city’s factions into fighting, leaving the thief an opportunity to move the tree and reveal themselves.

• Fan Yue said the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree would ripen in about a month, after which it would go dormant and escape detection by formations.
• Fan Yue explained that the theft had thrown Starshine City into turmoil, leaving the City Lord’s Manor with few clues and little ability to search the major forces openly.
• Si Mingwei suggested using Star Luo Hall’s authority to search the three major forces, but Fan Yue worried they might unite against the City Lord’s Manor.
• Gu Chenfeng reasoned that the thief might try to move the tree amid the chaos and proposed worsening the unrest to draw them out.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Fan Yue for a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to use as bait, and Fan Yue agreed to provide one from his secret vault.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed posing as powerful rogue cultivators to lure the city’s factions into competing for the fruit, and Si Mingwei volunteered to lead the way.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei listened to Starshine City’s martial artists discuss the stolen Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and the spreading search for it. With the city in turmoil, Gu Chenfeng planned one final provocation to force the true culprits to move the tree, and the pair slipped away to prepare.

• Martial artists at Tongfu Restaurant discussed the City Lord's Manor confirming the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree had been stolen and offering a bounty for information.
• A guest said Star Luo Hall would send experts with a treasure to track the tree, while rumors of the theft drew powers and rogue cultivators to Starshine City.
• Si Mingwei told Gu Chenfeng that the city had grown chaotic and several people had died searching for clues.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that the threat of Star Luo Hall's tracking treasure would pressure the thieves to move the tree, and said he and Si Mingwei would stoke the panic further.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei left the restaurant and disappeared into the crowd to make preparations.