Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng defeated five Eagle Vengeance Peak experts and fought Elder Huang, a Source Emperor Realm Nine-Star expert, on equal footing. Their battle was interrupted when an unknown Half-step Source Venerable Realm expert attacked Gu Chenfeng with a flaming finger imprint.

• Gu Chenfeng rescued Jiang Yin by suppressing and severely injuring three late-stage Source Emperor Realm experts from Eagle Vengeance Peak.
• Gu Chenfeng attacked the Silver-Haired Elder, Elder Huang, and fought him evenly above the Star Islet Ship.
• Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin watched Gu Chenfeng's battle, and Jiang Yin teased Si Mingwei about her feelings for him.
• A powerful figure released a suffocating pressure and summoned a crimson-flamed finger imprint to strike Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the attacker's power as Half-step Source Venerable Realm.

Gu Chenfeng faced Yin Xuan’s attack until Ling Qianxue intervened and forced the Eagle Vengeance Peak party to withdraw. After thanking her, Gu Chenfeng and the others invited the famously withdrawn Island Master Ling into Wanning Courtyard, and she unexpectedly accepted.

• Yin Xuan descended on Gu Chenfeng with a Crimson Flame Finger Seal, but Ling Qianxue’s Sword Qi intercepted the attack.
• Ling Qianxue judged that Eagle Vengeance Peak had provoked the conflict, challenged Yin Xuan to fight, and made him withdraw with his injured followers.
• Ling Qianxue ordered the spectators to disperse, while Dust-Cleansing Peak’s deacons repaired Wanning Courtyard and looked to Gu Chenfeng with admiration.
• Gu Chenfeng, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin thanked Ling Qianxue, and Si Mingwei invited her to Wanning Courtyard for tea.
• Ling Qianxue hesitated and glanced at Gu Chenfeng before accepting the invitation, surprising Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin.

After Gu Chenfeng and Ling Qianxue bonded over body cultivation, she arranged to visit him again, leaving Si Mingwei uneasy about their growing closeness. Once Ling Qianxue departed, Gu Chenfeng secretly watched her leave with his Divine Sense and an inscrutable glimmer in his eyes.

• Si Mingwei struggled to make conversation with Ling Qianxue until Gu Chenfeng asked about her icy sword technique, prompting her to explain her water-attribute power.
• Ling Qianxue asked Gu Chenfeng about his body cultivation, and the two spoke warmly while Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin noticed her special attention toward him.
• Ling Qianxue gave Gu Chenfeng a Jade Talisman and arranged to visit the next day for more guidance.
• Si Mingwei regretted inviting Ling Qianxue and left the hall, followed by Jiang Yin.
• Alone, Gu Chenfeng used his Divine Sense to watch Ling Qianxue fly away, revealing an obscure glimmer in his eyes.

Ling Qianxue told Gu Chenfeng that her cultivation required dual cultivation with someone of strong yang energy, then fled after he drew her into his arms and Si Mingwei interrupted them. Gu Chenfeng sensed black qi on his fingertips and suspected Ling Qianxue was concealing something.

• Ling Qianxue visited Gu Chenfeng almost daily for more than ten days, while Si Mingwei repeatedly patrolled near his quarters.
• Si Mingwei watched Ling Qianxue enter Gu Chenfeng's room and wrestled with her jealousy and feelings for her junior brother.
• Ling Qianxue told Gu Chenfeng that yin energy from her constitution and cultivation method threatened her health and that his vigorous yang energy made him a suitable dual-cultivation partner.
• Gu Chenfeng embraced Ling Qianxue and began touching her, but Si Mingwei knocked on the door before they could proceed further.
• Ling Qianxue fled the room, and Si Mingwei admonished Gu Chenfeng to keep himself pure despite having no clear standing to reproach him.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed black qi on his fingertips and concluded that Ling Qianxue was setting a clever trap, while wondering whether her aura was familiar.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm for the Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering and learned how its trials and discussions would work. While he waited, he confirmed his suspicions that Ling Qianxue was a powerful Devouring Spirit Beast, then reunited with Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue.

• The Star-Island Ship entered the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, where Si Mingwei explained the gathering’s trials and the Source Emperor Realm discussions on Heavenly Origin Mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng saw the other superpowers’ vessels and noticed that the Supreme Dao Sect and Heavenly Sound Pavilion had not yet arrived.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled how he had used close contact with Ling Qianxue to identify her hidden aura as that of a Devouring Spirit Beast, and decided to keep pretending he had fallen for her advances.
• After Ling Qianxue stopped visiting him, the remaining superpowers arrived, and Gu Chenfeng sent a message to Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue visited Gu Chenfeng at Wanning Courtyard, bringing Elder Si out of seclusion to resume her patrols.

Gu Chenfeng reunited with Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue, then learned Shangguan Bingxin had joined the Supreme Clarity Lineage. As the Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering began, Ling Qianxue invited him to enter Heavenly Origin Mountain with her.

• Gu Chenfeng welcomed Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue, who recalled his rise and grew shy when he reminded them of their shared marriage in an illusion.
• Si Mingwei overheard their conversation, concluded Gu Chenfeng was a womanizer, and began plotting to seduce him before rejecting him.
• Shangguan Bingxin told Gu Chenfeng she had become a disciple of the Supreme Clarity Lineage and that the Supreme Dao Sect had searched for him after she alerted her master.
• Gu Chenfeng escorted Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue from the Star-Island Ship, and they agreed to meet again after the gathering.
• The Three Sects and Six Gates assembled around Heavenly Origin Mountain, where Gu Chenfeng drew the attention of Source Emperor Realm powerhouses.
• Ling Qianxue approached Gu Chenfeng and proposed that they enter Heavenly Origin Mountain together when its restriction opened.

As the Dao Inquiry Assembly began in the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, Gu Chenfeng saw through his Azure Dragon's Eye that black qi and blood shadows had infiltrated the forest and the great hall. Suspecting a hidden disaster, he seized Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin and fled with them, leaving the assembly behind.

• A Source Venerable Realm expert announced the start of the Dao Inquiry Assembly and sent the Source King Realm cultivators into the forest.
• The Source Emperor Realm experts, including Gu Chenfeng and his companions, ascended Heavenly Origin Mountain to hear the Venerable expound the Dao.
• Gu Chenfeng noticed that Ling Qianxue and the white-robed Human Race Alliance envoys were surrounded by eerie black qi, while the great hall appeared like a devouring abyss.
• Gu Chenfeng saw black qi and blood shadows spreading through the forest entrance where the Source King Realm cultivators had gone.
• Gu Chenfeng warned Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin to run, then carried them away from Heavenly Origin Mountain.

Gu Chenfeng discovered that the Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering was a trap by the Devouring Spirit Beasts and fled with Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin. He turned back to rescue Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue, whose group was trapped in the forest, and a crimson-gold axe struck their barrier as they faced collapse.

• Gu Chenfeng fled Heavenly Origin Mountain with Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin after black qi erupted from the hall and Ling Qianxue ordered her envoys to pursue them.
• Ling Qianxue sealed the hall and revealed her plan to turn the human prodigies and Source Emperor Realm martial artists into puppets.
• Gu Chenfeng split from Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin to rescue Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue, while the forest filled with Devouring Spirit Beasts attacking the human prodigies.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue joined other prodigies in resisting the beasts and trying to break the restriction trapping them in the forest.
• A Medicine King Hall prodigy was possessed by a Devouring Spirit Beast, letting more attackers breach the defensive circle.
• A crimson-gold axe shadow descended toward the restriction barrier as the trapped group neared defeat.

Gu Chenfeng tore open the restriction trapping the prodigies, rescued Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin, and fought through the Human Race Alliance envoys pursuing them. Near the sealed exit of the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, two nine-star Source Emperor Realm envoys blocked his path while Jiang Yin and Si Mingwei remained under attack.

• Gu Chenfeng broke the restriction barrier, warned the trapped prodigies that a traitor in the Human Race Alliance was hunting them, and led Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin toward the secret realm’s exit.
• Gu Chenfeng sheltered the two women inside the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale, then killed three intercepting envoys and absorbed their Soul Devouring Beasts with the Blood Soul Spike and Bronze Coffin.
• Gu Chenfeng broke through successive checkpoints, slew ten more alliance envoys, and opened breaches in the forest formation so trapped prodigies could escape.
• The prodigies followed Gu Chenfeng toward the exit, where they saw Jiang Yin and Si Mingwei surrounded by alliance envoys beside a sealed spatial restriction.
• Two white-robed envoys with Source Emperor Realm Nine-Star cultivation stopped Gu Chenfeng and told him to halt.

Gu Chenfeng defeated and grievously wounded two Human Race Alliance envoys who tried to make him their slave. As he rushed to rescue Jiang Yin and Si Mingwei and escape the Secret Realm, a mysterious woman struck him with a powerful sword attack and stopped him.

• The male Alliance envoy offered to make Gu Chenfeng a slave, but Gu mocked the envoys and attacked them with his axe.
• Gu Chenfeng’s black-gold axe shadow overwhelmed the envoys’ combined attacks, and he transformed into an eighteen-foot-tall form.
• Gu Chenfeng struck the envoys three times with the First Human-Slaying Slash, destroying their Mystic Treasures and leaving them severely injured.
• Jiang Yin, Si Mingwei, their enemies, and the Human Race prodigies watched in shock as Gu Chenfeng headed toward the Secret Realm exit to rescue his companions.
• A deep-blue sword strike drove Gu Chenfeng back, and a cool, seductive voice asked whether he could bear to abandon her.

Gu Chenfeng fought Ling Qianxue, whose body had been taken over by a Devouring Spirit Beast, and struggled against her Half-Step Source Venerable strength. He landed a surprise attack that sent her crashing toward the forest, though her icy flames shielded her at the last moment.

• Ling Qianxue attacked Gu Chenfeng with Law Power, and her strength forced him back despite his Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes.
• Ling Qianxue revealed her desire to take over Gu Chenfeng's powerful body and pressed him with a relentless sword assault.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Heaven-Mixing Shield, his movement technique, and Divine Sense to withstand Ling Qianxue's attacks.
• Ling Qianxue gathered her Law Power for a lethal thrust, while Gu Chenfeng combined the shield's defense with a Heaven-Splitting axe strike.
• Gu Chenfeng's dragon roar stunned Ling Qianxue, and an azure dragon claw shattered her sword light and struck her.
• Ling Qianxue's icy flames formed armor around her as the blow hurled her through the forest's restriction barrier and toward the ground.

Gu Chenfeng trapped Ling Qianxue’s Extreme Yin Ghostfire and used it to absorb Flame Essence, hoping to fuse Law Power with his flesh. Blood Refining Venerable then appeared in the Secret Realm, radiating the same strange aura as Ling Qianxue and the blood-colored figures.

• Ling Qianxue survived Gu Chenfeng’s Azure Dragon Sky-Splitting Claw with the help of her Extreme Yin Ghostfire, though the attack left her badly scarred.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the flames as a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire he had sought, but Ling Qianxue trapped him inside a sea of fire and began refining him.
• Ling Qianxue sent Soul Devouring Beasts after the Human Race prodigies while Jiang Yin and Si Mingwei remained injured and outmatched.
• Gu Chenfeng endured the Extreme Yin Fire, extracted Flame Essence, and began using it with the Heaven-Opening Creation Art to fuse Law Power with his flesh.
• A teleportation formation opened, and Blood Refining Venerable emerged from a sea of blood with auras and blood-colored figures like those surrounding Ling Qianxue.

Blood Refining Venerable attacked Gu Chenfeng after discovering the Azure Dragon Secret Treasure, but Mu Chen arrived and revealed that he had exposed the infiltrators’ scheme. As reinforcements entered the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm and the battle inside the hall intensified, the Human Race’s counterattack began.

• Blood Refining Venerable recognized the Azure Dragon Secret Treasure on Gu Chenfeng and struck at him despite Ling Qianxue’s objections.
• Mu Chen’s sword light intercepted Blood Refining Venerable’s attack and saved Gu Chenfeng.
• Mu Chen revealed that he was a Human Race Alliance Inspector who had suspected Blood Refining Venerable and arranged for another inspector to infiltrate the hall.
• Blood Refining Venerable claimed Black Baleful Intent had already used the Blood Soul Grand Formation to kill the Human Race’s elite, but a clash inside the hall revealed another Source Venerable Realm expert was fighting there.
• A purple-robed Daoist tore open a spatial rift, entered the secret realm, and used the Profound Heaven Treasure Mirror to destroy the Soul Devouring Beast shadows.

Mu Chen led the human counterattack against the Soul Devouring Beasts and fought the Blood Refining Venerable while Gu Chenfeng escaped Ling Qianxue’s Extreme Yin Fire. The human forces won the battle, but Blood Refining fled with Ling Qianxue and vowed to return when the Upper Realm races descended.

• Mu Chen confronted the Blood Refining Venerable, and the two Source Venerable Realm experts began a fierce battle.
• The undercover inspector broke free with the other Source Venerable Realm Devouring Spirit Beast, freeing the imprisoned human experts and enabling them to turn the battle against the Soul Devouring Beasts.
• Ling Qianxue was forced to leave Gu Chenfeng and join the fight, giving him time to absorb the essence of the Extreme Yin Fire.
• Gu Chenfeng escaped the weakened sea of flames and thanked Ling Qianxue for the fire, while human experts blocked her attempted escape.
• Mu Chen wounded the Blood Refining Venerable, who sacrificed several possessed envoys to cover his retreat and escaped through the secret realm’s exit with Ling Qianxue.

After the battle at the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, Mu Chen explained the ancient war and the coming threat of the Upper Realm’s evil demons to Gu Chenfeng, Jiang Yin, and Si Mingwei. Gu Chenfeng asked whether the Seven Star Continent was prepared for war and what chance it had of winning.

• The Human Race’s elites gathered to count casualties, while the three inspectors explained that the battle had exposed threats lurking within the Human Race.
• The Heavenly Origin Dao Inquiry Gathering was canceled, and Gu Chenfeng parted from Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin as they returned to their sects.
• Mu Chen summoned Gu Chenfeng, Jiang Yin, and Si Mingwei aboard the Star-Island Ship and described the ancient war and the unstable seals threatening the Seven Star Continent.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Mu Chen whether the Seven Star Continent had prepared for war against the Demonic Beasts and how likely it was to win.

Mu Chen explained the ancient war and the coming demon caverns, then urged Gu Chenfeng to build the Four Symbols Sect into a powerful ally of Star Luo Hall. After the Human Race Alliance announced the threat, Gu Chenfeng traveled toward Purple Cloud Prefecture, resolved to strengthen himself before the danger grew.

• Mu Chen told Gu Chenfeng, Si Mingwei, and Jiang Yin that the war against the Upper Realm’s fiends had never ended and that the Human and Demon Races had prepared for its return.
• Mu Chen explained that weakening Plane Laws would expose ancient seals and that the Human Race Alliance and Three Sects and Six Gates had planned to suppress the fiends.
• Mu Chen encouraged Gu Chenfeng to develop the Four Symbols Sect, promising to help him build it into a faction that could stand alongside Star Luo Hall.
• More than ten days later, the Human Race Alliance and the Three Sects and Six Gates announced the ancient fiends’ threat and urged factions to report or suppress newly revealed demon caverns.
• Gu Chenfeng traveled covertly toward Purple Cloud Prefecture and resolved to break through to the Nirvana Realm and Source Emperor Realm while the continent remained relatively stable.

Blood Refining Venerable and Ling Qianxue returned to the Devouring Spirit Beasts’ hidden cavern, where he confronted hostile leaders from the other races and then went into hiding. Gu Chenfeng learned of Ao Li’s breakthrough and the growing threat, warned Han Heavenly Journey and the Four Symbols Sect to prepare, and began secluded cultivation.

• Blood Refining Venerable shattered the blood-red eyes in the cavern and warned the other three races’ leaders that attacking him could expose their hiding place to the Human and Demon Races.
• Blood Refining Venerable and Ling Qianxue withdrew into the darkness and concealed their auras.
• At Two Realms City, Han Heavenly Journey told Gu Chenfeng that Devouring Spirit Beasts had attacked the Demon Race and that Ao Li had revealed her new Source Venerable Realm strength while defending the Dragon Domain.
• Gu Chenfeng shared intelligence about demon caverns and Soul Devouring Beasts with Han Heavenly Journey, and ordered him to strengthen the Golden Ape Tribe.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to the Four Symbols Sect, ordered its members to consolidate their position and avoid conflict, then entered seclusion at Rosy Glow Peak.

Gu Chenfeng secluded himself to refine Extreme Yin Fire Essence and merge law energy with his body while demon caverns spread across the Seven Star Continent and grew increasingly dangerous. Three years later, the Four Symbols Sect debated a massive border cavern and Blazing Sun Valley’s invitation when a terrifying heavenly phenomenon appeared over Rosy Glow Peak.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Extreme Yin Fire Essence from Ling Qianxue to slowly temper his body and merge it with Heaven and Earth Origin Power and law energy.
• Demon caverns emerged throughout the Human Race Territory, and martial artists initially treated them as sources of ancient treasures before increasingly powerful evil demons made them deadly threats.
• The Human Race Alliance and powerful sects permitted forces to compete for territory, leading leading first-rate forces to absorb weaker neighbors as demon caverns grew to contain Source Emperor Realm evil demons.
• Mo Nancang and the Four Symbols Sect’s core members learned that a vast demon cavern near Purple Cloud Prefecture could contain multiple Source Emperor Realm evil demons.
• Luo Xiangli presented Blazing Sun Valley’s invitation to join forces against the cavern, while Xie Guhong and Zhao Xian criticized the valley’s recent arrogance and clashes with the Four Symbols Sect.
• As Zhou Yue wondered why Gu Chenfeng had remained in seclusion for three years, black clouds, lightning, and thunder gathered over Rosy Glow Peak.

After three years of seclusion, Gu Chenfeng emerged stronger and learned about a Demon Cavern and a gathering planned by Blazing Sun Valley. He traveled to a remote borderland to undergo the dangerous tribulation needed to advance, and faced the forming storm with confidence.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared in the Four Symbols Sect’s great hall, where Mo Nancang and the elders welcomed him back from seclusion.
• Gu Chenfeng learned that Blazing Sun Valley had called a gathering to suppress the Demon Cavern and told the sect to attend while he went ahead separately.
• Mo Nancang told Gu Chenfeng that the Human Race Alliance and Demon Race experts had sealed and were monitoring the abyssal Secret Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng left the sect and chose a remote place on the border between the Human and Demon Races to undergo his tribulation.
• After setting up formations and preparing his five barriers of law, Gu Chenfeng released his aura, summoned the tribulation, and challenged it to baptize him.

Blazing Sun Valley prepared to use an alliance gathering to suppress a large Demon Cavern and bring nearby first-rate sects under its control, while Valley Master Gongsun Yan considered the Four Symbols Sect and Gu Chenfeng obstacles. The arrival of the uninvited Nine Nether Sect unsettled the gathering just before Gu Chenfeng led the Four Symbols Sect party into the hall.

• Gongsun Yan and Blazing Sun Valley's elders planned to use the Demon Cavern alliance to dominate the northwest and pressure the Canglan Sword Sect, the Taixu Sect, the Thousand Illusions Palace, and the Four Symbols Sect.
• The Red-Robed Elder reported a mysterious three-day thunderstorm and flood of laws near the northeastern Star Luo Domain border, but Gongsun Yan dismissed it as a natural disaster.
• The Canglan Sword Sect, the Taixu Sect, and the Thousand Illusions Palace arrived and greeted Gongsun Yan deferentially.
• The Nine Nether Sect arrived without an invitation, surprising the gathering and stirring suspicion among the assembled powers.
• Gu Chenfeng personally led the Four Symbols Sect party to the gathering shortly afterward.