Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei staged a fight in Starshine City to draw out the factions searching for the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, using a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit as bait. Gu Chenfeng broke free of the swordswoman’s attack but was stopped by newly arrived experts.

• Reports of a powerful aura led Starshine City’s factions and martial artists to search for the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and the two black-clad figures.
• On the third night, Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei faced off above an inn, and Gu Chenfeng revealed a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to the gathered onlookers.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei privately discussed their plan to stall for the approaching experts, then fought in earnest after Gu Chenfeng insulted her.
• Gu Chenfeng gained the upper hand, knocked Si Mingwei back, and tried to escape with the fruit’s seal concealed.
• A Taoist swept at Gu Chenfeng with a fly-whisk, and another expert blocked his escape with a golden fist shadow.

Gu Chenfeng fought Starshine City’s leading experts to draw them away while someone else prepared to move the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree. After four Source Emperor experts joined the battle, Si Mingwei charged at him, and Gu Chenfeng threw out a ball of spirit light as if surrendering the fruit.

• True Person Xuansu and Master Longchan tried to make Gu Chenfeng surrender the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, but he fought them off while attempting to flee east.
• City Lord Fan Yue sent his deputies to watch the southern and northern gates and went to guard the eastern gate, expecting the immortal tree to be moved.
• Two supreme elders from the Moon-Covering Temple and Treasure Elephant Sect joined the fight, leaving Gu Chenfeng under attack from four Source Emperor experts.
• Gu Chenfeng endured their combined assault without using his trump cards, drawing the city's top experts into the battle as planned.
• Si Mingwei charged at Gu Chenfeng and demanded the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and he threw a ball of spirit light toward her, claiming he was done fighting.

Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei fought off Starshine City's major forces while the Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit changed hands, and the City Lord's Manor ordered the city gates sealed. A disguised figure escaped through the eastern gate but was intercepted outside the city by a powerful blade attack.

• Gu Chenfeng threw the Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit to Si Mingwei, who fought off the Moon-Covering Temple and Treasure Elephant Sect's Supreme Elders.
• Xie Jingchen and the Famed Sword Sect joined the battle, and three faction leaders attacked Gu Chenfeng while three Supreme Elders engaged Si Mingwei.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei held their attackers at bay as the gathered martial artists watched the battles.
• At the eastern gate, a disguised carriage tried to leave Starshine City, but its occupants killed the guard commander and broke through the gate and its restriction.
• An escape light fled beyond the city, where an ocher blade aura intercepted it and forced it to stop.

Fan Yue intercepted the disguised Xie Guhong outside Starshine City's east gate, while Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei revealed themselves as Star Luo Hall elders and led the city’s factions to the battle. The crowd recognized the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree in Xie Guhong’s bundle, exposing the Famed Sword Sect as the thieves.

• Fan Yue confronted the masked man carrying the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and challenged him to surrender it, then fought him outside the east gate.
• Gu Chenfeng used his Profound Ice Battle Axe to drive back the three factions’ experts and help Si Mingwei before they revealed their Star Luo Hall identities.
• Gu Chenfeng and Si Mingwei told the assembled fighters that the real thief was battling Fan Yue at the east gate, then rushed there with Xie Jingchen, True Person Xuansu, Master Longchan, and others following.
• Xie Guhong overwhelmed Fan Yue and the two Deputy City Lords, forcing them backward as the battle’s energy tide cleared.
• The crowd recognized Xie Guhong and saw the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree in his damaged bundle, revealing that the Famed Sword Sect had plundered it.

Gu Chenfeng interrupted the battle between Xie Guhong and Fan Yue’s allies, then exposed the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree as a fake. The tree crumbled away, leaving only its real rootstock and one Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit.

• Xie Guhong refused to surrender the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and declared that he would fight his way out of Starshine City.
• Fan Yue called on True Person Xuansu and Master Longchan to help surround Xie Guhong, Xie Jingchen, and the Famed Sword Sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Gu Chenfeng stopped the impending battle and asked Xie Guhong how he had obtained the tree.
• Xie Guhong explained that he had taken the bundle from a black-clad man fleeing the City Lord’s Manor, but the others doubted his story.
• Gu Chenfeng claimed the tree was fake and challenged Xie Guhong to cut off one of its branches.
• Xie Jingchen severed a branch, causing the tree to dissolve into Heaven and Earth Origin Power and reveal a real rootstock and Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit.

Gu Chenfeng exposed the fake Cloudzhi Immortal Tree and used a tracking talisman to pursue the thief who had stolen the real one. The chase led them to a battle where Si Mingwei recognized one of the auras as their Second Senior Brother’s.

• Gu Chenfeng revealed that Xie Guhong’s Cloudzhi Immortal Tree was fake, leaving only one real Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit, and Xie Guhong thanked him for preventing disaster for the Famed Sword Sect.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Fan Yue that the real thief had used Xie Guhong to distract them, but the city formation detected the tree’s aura as the thief escaped through Starshine City’s western gate.
• Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, Xie Guhong, and the others pursued the thief, but found the western gate guards slaughtered and no trace of the fugitive.
• Gu Chenfeng used a High-Rank Tracking Talisman, explaining that he had planted Positioning Talismans at the city gates to detect the immortal tree’s aura.
• Gu Chenfeng, Fan Yue, and Si Mingwei followed the tracking talisman in a Flying Boat as the thief tried to erase the Positioning Talisman’s mark.
• The pursuers sensed a distant fight between Source Emperor Realm experts, and Si Mingwei recognized one of the auras as their Second Senior Brother’s.

Gu Chenfeng, Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin recovered the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree from a black-clad thief, who self-destructed rather than be captured. As they returned to the city, Si Mingwei kept her distance from Fan Yue, and Gu Chenfeng asked Jiang Yin whether Fan Yue had always been so attentive.

• Jiang Yin fought the six-star Source Emperor black-clad thief and reunited with Fan Yue, Si Mingwei, and Gu Chenfeng.
• Jiang Yin recovered the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, and Fan Yue confirmed it was the real parent tree bearing fourteen fruits.
• The thief used a talisman to evade Jiang Yin and attack Si Mingwei, but Gu Chenfeng and Fan Yue stopped him before Jiang Yin pinned him down.
• The thief self-destructed, destroying the area, while Gu Chenfeng noticed a strange aura dissipating from the man’s remains.
• Fan Yue treated Si Mingwei’s shoulder wounds, but she pulled away; on the journey back, Gu Chenfeng asked Jiang Yin whether Fan Yue had always been so kind.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions celebrated recovering the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree before preparing to return to Star Luo Hall. After Gu Chenfeng secretly retrieved something from Fan Yue during a banquet, Fan Yue told him that Si Mingwei had stayed behind to cultivate and would return later with him.

• Jiang Yin praised Fan Yue for guiding his junior siblings and taking responsibility for Starshine City, and the group returned the immortal tree to the Sky-Congealing Pool.
• The City Lord's Manor confined the Famed Sword Sect's core members while Gu Chenfeng, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin recuperated for two days.
• Fan Yue hosted a banquet, gave gifts to his guests, and presented Gu Chenfeng with a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit; Gu Chenfeng gave Fan Yue a healing pill.
• When Gu Chenfeng and Fan Yue touched hands while clinking cups, an undetected wisp of divine sense flowed from Fan Yue back into Gu Chenfeng, who concealed his shock.
• Gu Chenfeng spent the night on alert, then met Jiang Yin in the morning; Fan Yue explained that Si Mingwei had entered seclusion at the Sky-Congealing Pool and would return to Star Luo Hall with him after the fruit ripened.

Fan Yue let Gu Chenfeng and Jiang Yin leave Starshine City while preparing a blood sacrifice and a curse to control Si Mingwei. After confirming Jiang Yin was not involved in Fan Yue’s scheme, Gu Chenfeng told him that Fan Yue was dangerous and urged him to return to help rescue Si Mingwei.

• Fan Yue escorted Gu Chenfeng and Jiang Yin out of Starshine City, then revealed that he planned to have the city’s people killed to cover up the blood sacrifice.
• Fan Yue’s Deputy City Lord reported that he and Deputy City Lord Zhou were nearly finished setting up a Blood Curse Art on Si Mingwei, and Fan Yue said he intended to make her obey him again.
• A thousand li from Starshine City, Gu Chenfeng suddenly attacked Jiang Yin, then used his Divine Sense to check that Jiang Yin was not compromised.
• Gu Chenfeng told Jiang Yin that Fan Yue was planning something terrible and that they needed reinforcements to rescue Si Mingwei.
• Jiang Yin doubted Gu Chenfeng’s accusations but agreed to return with him to the vicinity of Starshine City.

Fan Yue led a massacre of Starshine City, using a blood-colored formation to absorb the victims’ blood essence and Soul Power. After Xie Guhong discovered Fan Yue’s identity and was about to be killed, a familiar voice called out to him as a water-blue sword strike intervened.

• A black figure ordered the slaughter to begin, and attackers across Starshine City killed its inhabitants while the formation absorbed their blood essence and Soul Power.
• Xie Guhong, True Person Xuansu, and Master Longchan escaped the formation after breaking through it, but a black-robed attacker pursued them.
• The attacker killed Master Longchan and True Person Xuansu, then caught up with Xie Guhong.
• Xie Guhong’s sword strike tore the attacker’s face covering and revealed Fan Yue, the city lord of Starshine City.
• Fan Yue struck Xie Guhong down and prepared a killing blow, but a water-blue sword strike blocked it as a familiar voice addressed him as “Eldest Senior Brother.”

Jiang Yin confronted Fan Yue over the slaughter of Starshine City and learned that his senior brother had betrayed Star Luo Hall for power and resources. Fan Yue rejected Jiang Yin’s plea to repent, revealed his source emperor realm nine-star strength, and charged Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong.

• Jiang Yin explained how Gu Chenfeng had uncovered Fan Yue’s role in faking the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree theft and orchestrating the events in Starshine City.
• Fan Yue admitted his actions and said he wanted the treasures and resources offered by a mysterious Great Figure, urging Jiang Yin to join him.
• Jiang Yin refused to betray Star Luo Hall and urged Fan Yue to help save the city’s people and return to face judgment.
• Fan Yue rejected Jiang Yin’s plea, revealed that Gu Chenfeng was likely trying to rescue Third Junior Sister, and threatened to kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Xie Guhong joined Jiang Yin, and the two attacked Fan Yue, who revealed his source emperor realm nine-star strength and rushed at them.

Gu Chenfeng infiltrated the City Lord's Manor, killed Deputy City Lord Zhou and the other Deputy City Lord, and rescued Si Mingwei while taking the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree. The city's formation then marked him, and three Source Emperor Realm powerhouses closed in as he prepared to fight his way out.

• Gu Chenfeng killed Deputy City Lord Zhou before she could feed Si Mingwei the Blood Soul Pill, then stored the unconscious Si Mingwei inside his Azure Dragon Reverse Scale.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled that he and Jiang Yin had split up after Fan Yue pursued Xie Guhong and the others, with Jiang Yin delaying Fan Yue while Gu Chenfeng entered the city to rescue Si Mingwei.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that black-clad powerhouses were slaughtering Starshine City under a blood-colored barrier that suppressed martial artists and refined souls and blood energy.
• Gu Chenfeng found the other Deputy City Lord dead, took the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree into his Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, and prepared to leave the manor.
• The city's formation locked onto Gu Chenfeng, and he sensed three approaching Source Emperor Realm powerhouses, so he decided to force his way out.

Gu Chenfeng fought his way through Starshine City, killing the black-robed Source Emperor Realm experts sent to stop him and drawing the city’s surviving martial artists into his wake. As they neared the eastern edge of the city, the Spirit-Devouring Grand Formation’s controller engulfed Gu Chenfeng in a vast tide of blood.

• Gu Chenfeng killed three black-robed Source Emperor Realm experts in quick succession, then slew four more sent by the formation’s controller, including a six-star expert.
• As he crossed the city, Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon’s Eye to kill many black-robed attackers who were slaughtering civilians.
• The surviving martial artists recognized Gu Chenfeng as an elder of Star Luo Hall and followed him toward the city’s eastern side.
• Gu Chenfeng led the survivors within several hundred feet of the eastern edge before a vast blood tide surged over and engulfed him.

Gu Chenfeng resisted the blood tide in Starshine City and fought its black-robed controller, a peak Source Emperor Realm Seven Stars expert. As the enemy began to falter under Gu Chenfeng’s attacks and divine sense, Gu Chenfeng unleashed Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

• Gu Chenfeng resisted the blood tide’s refining force, located the black-robed man controlling it, and demanded to know who he was and what connection he had to Fan Yue.
• The black-robed man refused to answer, and Gu Chenfeng attacked him with the Profound Ice Battle Axe; their first clash sent Gu Chenfeng flying back while forcing the man to retreat half a step.
• Gu Chenfeng followed with the Seven Mountain-Splitting Forms, growing stronger with each strike until his seventh blow, Heaven-Opening Form, matched the black-robed man’s attack.
• Gu Chenfeng used his azure dragon power and powerful divine sense to press the black-robed man back, shaking his divine platform and destabilizing his primordial spirit.
• As the black-robed man sent the blood tide surging at him to buy time, Gu Chenfeng charged the Profound Ice Battle Axe with his essence, qi, and spirit, then invoked Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the black-robed man inside the sea of blood and finished him with a Purple-Gold Giant Peak. Outside Starshine City's eastern gate, the black-clad attackers' assault was interrupted by an explosion and purple-gold light erupting from the blood sea.

• Gu Chenfeng shattered the black-robed man's blood tide with his mystic ice axe and struck him down with the Fate-Slaying Initial Awakening, First Human-Slaying Slash.
• The wounded black-robed man tried to call his companions and withdraw the restriction, but Gu Chenfeng crushed him with a descending Purple-Gold Giant Peak.
• At Starshine City's eastern gate, black-clad experts led by Source Emperor Realm cultivators intercepted the city's escaping cultivators and began slaughtering them.
• The black-clad experts claimed their Senior Brother would defeat Gu Chenfeng, but they soon received his desperate plea for help from the sea of blood.
• A violent explosion shook Starshine City, and purple-gold light burst from the sea of blood, blasting back the black-robed experts approaching it.

Gu Chenfeng used Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes to kill a powerful black-robed Source Emperor Realm expert and escape Starshine City, but his flight led him toward a battle where Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong were on the verge of defeat. Fan Yue shattered their protective barrier, and a Heaven-Mixing Shield appeared to block his attack.

• Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed and killed the black-robed Source Emperor Realm Seven Stars expert, then absorbed his Primordial Spirit with a blood-colored vortex.
• Nearly drained by Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes, Gu Chenfeng fled Starshine City as its people poured through the opening he had made.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed a battle a hundred miles east of the city and changed course toward it.
• Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong struggled to hold their failing talisman barrier against Fan Yue, a Source Emperor Realm Nine-Star expert.
• Fan Yue broke the golden barrier and sent Blade Aura toward the two wounded men, but the Heaven-Mixing Shield appeared and blocked the strike.

Gu Chenfeng rescued Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong from Fan Yue, then refused Fan Yue’s offer to join him. With the three cultivators preparing to fight, the chapter ended as Gu Chenfeng called for battle.

• Gu Chenfeng arrived with an imitation Heaven-Mixing Shield and stopped Fan Yue’s attack on Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong.
• Fan Yue learned that Gu Chenfeng had killed Blood Snake and tried to recruit him by asking him to kill Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong as proof of loyalty.
• Gu Chenfeng pretended to consider the offer, then rejected Fan Yue and warned him that Star Luo Hall’s experts would soon arrive.
• Fan Yue’s killing intent and energy rose as Gu Chenfeng prepared to fight, joined by Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong after they suppressed their injuries.
• Gu Chenfeng gripped the Profound Ice Battle Axe and called for the three of them to fight Fan Yue.

Gu Chenfeng, Jiang Yin, and Xie Guhong struggled against Fan Yue until Gu Chenfeng used a surprise attack and his Human-Slaying State to overpower him. The chapter ended with Gu Chenfeng’s axe smashing Fan Yue into the ground.

• Fan Yue overwhelmed Gu Chenfeng, Jiang Yin, and Xie Guhong with his saber techniques, while Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong’s injuries worsened.
• Gu Chenfeng told Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong to keep the Heaven-Mixing Shield steady while he tried to break the deadlock.
• Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong unleashed their strongest sword attacks, but Fan Yue repelled them and sent them flying.
• Gu Chenfeng appeared behind Fan Yue and struck with the Profound Ice Battle Axe, but Fan Yue blocked him with an Earth Origin Power barrier.
• Gu Chenfeng used a dragon cry to interrupt Fan Yue, then entered the Human-Slaying State with the Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes secret art.
• Gu Chenfeng’s axe cleaved through Fan Yue’s saber energy and smashed him into the earth.

Gu Chenfeng’s devastating axe strike wounded Fan Yue but left him nearly powerless, and Fan Yue resumed his attack at full strength. While Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong struggled to protect him, Gu Chenfeng consumed a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit and began rapidly recovering, with signs that he might break through.

• Gu Chenfeng’s axe strike carved a massive trench, but Fan Yue emerged alive with a serious wound and most of his fighting strength intact.
• Fan Yue sensed Gu Chenfeng was exhausted and attacked all three with greater force, threatening to overwhelm their Heaven-Mixing Shields.
• Jiang Yin offered to use a life-threatening Secret Method to hold Fan Yue off, but Gu Chenfeng asked for more time and enclosed himself in a crimson-gold cocoon.
• Gu Chenfeng secretly swallowed a Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit, restoring his Fire Origin Power and drawing in fire energy from his surroundings.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed his Fire Origin Power beginning to condense Law Power and activated the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins and Enlightenment Platform to accelerate his transformation.

Gu Chenfeng broke through to Half-Step Source Emperor Realm after comprehending an embryonic law, then fled with Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong while using the Heaven-Mixing Shield to fend off Fan Yue. Their escape was blocked by a blood-colored lotus, whose arrival brought an oppressive presence and an accusation against Blood Tiger.

• Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong reached their limits defending against Fan Yue, but Gu Chenfeng’s renewed power reinforced the Heaven-Mixing Shield and saved them.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed that the Cloudzhi Immortal Fruit and Enlightenment Platform had helped him transform his fire origin power and comprehend an embryonic law.
• Gu Chenfeng piloted a flying boat away from Starshine City with Jiang Yin and Xie Guhong while Fan Yue pursued and attacked them.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Heaven-Mixing Shield to withstand Fan Yue’s saber strikes and convert their force into thrust, keeping the pursuit at a distance.
• A blood-colored lotus appeared in the fugitives’ path, and an oppressive presence spread as an effeminate voice rebuked Blood Tiger for disappointing their venerable master.