Chapter Summaries

At the Blazing Sun Valley Alliance Camp, Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye clashed over the Nine Nether Sect’s uninvited arrival, and Gu Chenfeng approved their participation in the effort to suppress the Demon Cavern. Before Gongsun Yan could explain the cavern’s situation, it emerged northeast of the camp, forcing the gathered forces to set out at once.

• Gongsun Yan challenged Ming Ye’s arrival, but the Nine Nether Sect leader argued that his sect had a right to help suppress the Demon Cavern.
• The Canglan Sword Sect, Taixu Sect, and Thousand Illusions Palace grew wary of Blazing Sun Valley’s intentions as the two powerful sects confronted each other.
• Gu Chenfeng arrived with the Four Symbols Sect’s contingent, and Gongsun Yan asked him to decide whether the Nine Nether Sect could join the gathering.
• Gu Chenfeng approved Ming Ye’s participation, and Gongsun Yan accepted while warning him of the danger.
• The Demon Cavern emerged hundreds of miles to the northeast, pouring black qi into the sky, and Gu Chenfeng urged everyone to set out immediately.

Six first-rate forces entered a massive demon cavern to stop its evil demons from breaking free, and Gu Chenfeng led the Four Symbols Sect through the depths. When Gu Chenfeng warned that powerful demons lay in ambush inside a treasure-filled rosy glow, Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye rushed in anyway and were attacked, leaving Gu Chenfeng to go to their aid.

• Gongsun Yan, Ming Ye, and the other leaders agreed to enter the demon cavern after its Crimson Sun Heavenly Net Formation began to crack.
• The six forces fought through the cavern, killing Soul Devouring Beasts and collecting treasures as the demons grew stronger deeper inside.
• Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye led their strongest experts toward the Core Region, while Gu Chenfeng advanced behind them with Xie Guhong, Zhao Xian, and Zhou Yue.
• Gu Chenfeng's Four Symbols Sect group overtook the other three forces as he effortlessly destroyed the evil demons in their path.
• The leaders spotted an ancient treasure's rosy glow in the Core Region, and Gu Chenfeng warned that powerful evil demons were lying in ambush inside it.
• Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye entered the rosy glow and were attacked; Gu Chenfeng then went in to help them as the other experts followed.

Gu Chenfeng entered the Demon Cavern’s Core Region and revealed overwhelming strength as he cut through the Soul Devouring Beasts. After finding Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye fighting over an ancient bronze mirror, he saw through the illusion controlling them and attacked the hidden creature.

• Gu Chenfeng told Xie Guhong, Zhao Xian, and Zhou Yue to hold off the Source Emperor Realm Soul Devouring Beasts while he went to aid Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye.
• Gu Chenfeng instantly destroyed the Soul Devouring Beasts that intercepted him, including one with strength comparable to a Source Emperor Realm Nine-Star expert.
• Gu Chenfeng reached the Core Region and found Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye fighting over an ancient bronze mirror amid a rosy glow.
• The mirror’s light caused Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye to attack Gu Chenfeng, but he pierced them with azure light and exposed their illusion-bound state.
• Gu Chenfeng unleashed a scarlet-gold punch into the dark space and demanded that the creature behind the deception reveal itself.

Gu Chenfeng defeated and killed Thousand Illusions Daoist, freeing Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye from the Thousand Illusions Mirror’s illusions. After the two thanked him, Gu Chenfeng noticed Gongsun Yan coveting the mirror and suddenly attacked him with his battle axe.

• Thousand Illusions Daoist revealed his identity and offered to spare Gu Chenfeng, but Gu Chenfeng chose to kill him and attacked.
• Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed Thousand Illusions Daoist with his Nirvana Realm body cultivation and Heaven-Splitting, splitting the Daoist’s body in two.
• Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye recovered from the mirror’s illusions and watched Gu Chenfeng’s victory, shocked by his strength.
• Gu Chenfeng checked on Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye, then questioned Gongsun Yan about coveting the Thousand Illusions Treasure Mirror.
• Gu Chenfeng suddenly struck at Gongsun Yan with his battle axe.

Gu Chenfeng exposed and destroyed the Thousand Illusions Daoist, saving Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye during the Demon Cavern battle. After the six factions subdued the cavern, Blazing Sun Valley and the Nine Nether Sect pledged to follow the Four Symbols Sect, while Gu Chenfeng returned home having broken through to the Nirvana Realm and Source Emperor Realm.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated the possessed Gongsun Yan, drove the Thousand Illusions Daoist from his body, and swallowed the demon, leaving behind a grayish-white crystal.
• Gu Chenfeng revived Gongsun Yan, who thanked him and pledged Blazing Sun Valley's support to the Four Symbols Sect; Ming Ye made the same pledge for the Nine Nether Sect.
• The six factions cleared and sealed the Demon Cavern, then divided its treasures, with Blazing Sun Valley and the Nine Nether Sect each giving half their shares to the Four Symbols Sect.
• Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye overruled opposition within their sects and announced an alliance with the Four Symbols Sect as its leader, shocking factions across the eastern Star Luo Domain.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to Rosy Glow Peak and examined himself in the Training Room, recognizing that he had broken through to the Nirvana Realm and Source Emperor Realm.

Gu Chenfeng assessed his new Nirvana Realm strength and examined the treasures he had won in the Demon Cavern. After discovering that a crystal from Thousand Illusions Daoist rapidly strengthened his Law Power, physical body, and Divine Sense, he decided to seek out more Demon Caverns and travel the Cultivation World.

• Gu Chenfeng tested his Law Power and Azure Dragon Transformation Technique, concluding that he could match or potentially defeat an ordinary Half-Step Source Venerable Realm expert.
• Gu Chenfeng examined the Thousand Illusions Mirror and found it suited his powerful Divine Sense.
• Gu Chenfeng absorbed the grayish-white crystal left by Thousand Illusions Daoist, rapidly strengthening his Law Power, blood qi, and Divine Sense before the crystal crumbled.
• Gu Chenfeng suspected the crystal contained higher-grade energy from the Eternal Heaven Realm and might come from Soul Devouring Beasts at Half-Step Source Venerable Realm or above.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to travel the Cultivation World, seek out large Demon Caverns, test his strength, and strengthen the Four Symbols Sect.

After three years of worsening demon invasions, the Four Symbols Sect became a dominant force under Gu Chenfeng and was renamed the Four Symbols Divine Sect. At a demon cavern on the border with the Half-Mountain Demon Ape Tribe, Gu Chenfeng arrived just as Gongsun Yan was about to be crushed by an ancestral artifact.

• Demon caverns grew larger and more dangerous, and the Four Symbols Sect rose to prominence as Gu Chenfeng slew Half-Step Source Venerable Realm evil demons and defeated rival leaders.
• The Four Symbols Sect absorbed allied forces, expanded its ranks, and became the eastern Star Luo Domain’s dominant power; Mo Nancang renamed it the Four Symbols Divine Sect and Gu Chenfeng accepted the branch sect master role.
• At a large demon cavern on the Star Luo Domain’s border with the Half-Mountain Demon Ape Tribe, Gongsun Yan and Ming Ye fought two Half-Step Source Venerable Realm apes over the cavern and its treasures.
• The Mountain-Moving Giant Ape used his tribe’s ancestral artifact to attack Gongsun Yan while the Earth-Splitting Stone Ape held Ming Ye back.
• Gu Chenfeng tore through the restriction from the Core Region, knocked the mountain aside, and announced that he had slain the evil demons there and would handle the two apes.

Gu Chenfeng defeated and sealed two Half-Step Source Venerable Ape Race experts after they tried to stop him from leaving the Demon Cavern. He spared them and warned the Human and Demon Races to unite against the Evil Demons, leaving the two Ape Race experts shaken and determined to avoid the Four Symbols Divine Sect.

• The Earth-Splitting Stone Ape and the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape realized Gu Chenfeng had entered the Demon Cavern's Core Region first and taken its greatest treasures.
• The two Ape Race experts joined forces and used the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe's Ancestral Artifact to block Gu Chenfeng's Star Gathering attack.
• Gu Chenfeng's Star-Shattering Sky-Burning attack blasted the black peak away and injured the two Ape Race experts.
• Gu Chenfeng sealed the two beneath his crimson-golden hand, then released them after the Four Symbols Divine Sect and the others had withdrawn.
• Gu Chenfeng told the Ape Race experts to set aside their prejudices against the Human Race and warned them to act wisely as Evil Demons invaded.
• The two Ape Race experts learned the Four Symbols Divine Sect had spared their followers and ordered their group to leave immediately.

After returning from a large Demon Cavern, Gu Chenfeng sent the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s main force home and hurried to Star Luo Hall after receiving a summons from his master, Mu Chen. He suspected the meeting might concern the being sealed within the Guixu Cauldron, which he feared was close to breaking free.

• The Four Symbols Divine Sect’s fleet returned from the border Demon Cavern, where Gu Chenfeng had used the Thousand Illusions Treasure Mirror to subdue two Half-Step Source Venerable Realm Ape Race experts.
• Gu Chenfeng discussed the expedition’s gains and the sect’s development with Gongsun Yan, Ming Ye, and Xie Guhong, then sent them back to the sect’s base while he headed for Star Luo Hall.
• As he crossed Purple Cloud Prefecture, Gu Chenfeng observed the devastation wrought by Demon Caverns and reflected that the Seven Star Continent’s true crisis was approaching.
• Gu Chenfeng examined a crystal taken from a slain Soul Devouring Beast and considered how his cultivation and strength had advanced over the past three years.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled that Mu Chen had summoned him to Star Luo Hall and wondered whether the meeting concerned the being sealed within the Guixu Cauldron.

Gu Chenfeng returned to Star Luo Hall as its forces were being recalled amid escalating demonic threats and disputes over Eagle Vengeance Peak. He reunited with Mu Chen, who warned him that the real war was about to begin.

• Deacons at Star Luo Hall’s entrance discussed the recall of powerful members and the coming division of Eagle Vengeance Peak’s resources.
• Pan said Gu Chenfeng might help Dust-Cleansing Peak regain ground when he returned to the hall.
• Gu Chenfeng passed through the checkpoint without being recognized, and the deacons later realized who he was from the entry records.
• Gu Chenfeng hurried to Dust-Cleansing Peak and reunited with his master, Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen told Gu Chenfeng that the real war was about to begin.

Mu Chen told Gu Chenfeng that Star Luo Hall stood above a sealed Super Demon Cavern that would break open within two months, and appointed him to command Dust-Cleansing Peak’s forces in suppressing it. Gu Chenfeng accepted after learning he could take over Kaiyang Island as its acting lord and use the island’s privileges.

• Mu Chen revealed that the Human and Demon Races’ super forces existed in part to suppress ancient restrictions sealing powerful Upper Realm invaders, including a Super Demon Cavern beneath Star Luo Hall.
• Mu Chen said the weakening Plane Laws would cause the cavern’s seal to break within a month or two, and explained that the leading Star Luo Hall experts would enter its Core Region to fight the Source Venerable Realm beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng privately anticipated collecting gray-white crystals from the cavern to advance his cultivation, while keeping his unique ability to absorb them secret from Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen praised Gu Chenfeng’s accomplishments, then declined to explain the guarded situation at the Abyss Ruins when Gu Chenfeng asked about it.
• Mu Chen appointed Gu Chenfeng to command Dust-Cleansing Peak’s forces and secured his appointment as acting island lord of Kaiyang Island.
• Gu Chenfeng asked whether the position included access to the Super Teleportation Array, then hurried to Kaiyang Island to complete the handover when Mu Chen confirmed it did.

Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin tried to stop Li Qingluo, Shen Tai, and Dong Ting from taking Kaiyang Island’s supplies and personnel before Gu Chenfeng could assume his new post. When Li Qingluo attacked them, Gu Chenfeng arrived and ordered everyone to put everything down.

• Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin blocked Li Qingluo and Shen Tai’s followers from carrying Kaiyang Island’s supplies out of the storehouse.
• Li Qingluo and Shen Tai claimed the supplies repaid debts owed by Kaiyang Island, and Dong Ting produced two contracts as proof.
• Dong Ting announced that Kaiyang Island’s Source King Realm cultivators and above would leave with Li Qingluo and Shen Tai to repay the debt.
• Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin tried to hold them back until Gu Chenfeng arrived, but Li Qingluo attacked them with Frost Sword Qi.
• Gu Chenfeng shattered Li Qingluo’s attack with a crimson-gold finger imprint and ordered everyone to put everything down.

Gu Chenfeng returned to Kaiyang Island and confronted Dong Ting over the attempted removal of the island’s personnel and forged IOUs. After Li Qingluo and Shen Tai exposed Dong Ting, Gu Chenfeng seized their secret cooperation contract and demanded to know what the two island lords had to say.

• Gu Chenfeng arrived at the main hall plaza, and his reputation made the Kaiyang Island group hesitate.
• Gu Chenfeng challenged Dong Ting for taking Kaiyang Island’s personnel away without approval and warned the island’s elites they could lose their posts.
• Dong Ting presented IOUs for resources allegedly borrowed from Jade Balance Island and Heavenly Pivot Island, but Li Qingluo and Shen Tai accused him of forging them alone.
• Dong Ting revealed that Li Qingluo and Shen Tai had helped arrange the scheme and produced their secret cooperation contract.
• Gu Chenfeng snatched the contract from Dong Ting and kicked him away, then confronted Li Qingluo and Shen Tai with the evidence.

Gu Chenfeng took control of Kaiyang Island, forced Jade Balance Island and Heavenly Pivot Island to compensate him for their attack, and reunited with Si Mingwei and Jiang Yin. Later, the bronze coffin reacted to the approaching opening of Star Luo Hall’s super demon cavern, leaving Gu Chenfeng wondering about their connection.

• Gu Chenfeng used the evidence in Dong Ting’s jade-slip contract to stop Li Qingluo and Shen Tai from fleeing and demanded compensation for their raid on Kaiyang Island.
• Li Qingluo and Shen Tai agreed to send compensation and write promissory notes rather than risk Gu Chenfeng reporting their scheme to the Hall Master.
• Gu Chenfeng received the gifts, shared some of the compensation with Si Mingwei, Jiang Yin, and Kaiyang Island’s personnel, and celebrated with his fellow disciples.
• Si Mingwei recalled refusing her master’s proposal that she and Gu Chenfeng become Dao companions, then returned to Dust-Cleansing Peak with Jiang Yin.
• While Gu Chenfeng cultivated in Kaiyang Island’s cave abode, the approaching super demon cavern sent out a powerful aura, and the bronze coffin emerged and resisted his summons.
• The bronze coffin seemed eager to enter the super demon cavern before returning to the Reverse Scale Space, and Gu Chenfeng wondered whether the two ancient mysteries were connected.

A super demon cavern emerged in the marsh, and Star Luo Hall’s five peaks sealed in its spreading demonic qi. Star Venerable Beichen assigned the leaders of the seven Star Islands and the supreme main peaks to suppress the demons, then asked Gu Chenfeng to remain behind.

• A super demon cavern tore open beneath the marsh, releasing black qi that threatened to engulf the seven Star Islands.
• Star Luo Hall’s five peaks unleashed their powers and sealed the demonic qi within the marsh’s center.
• Gu Chenfeng and the six other Star Island masters met Star Venerable Beichen and the three Supreme Elders on Starry Peak.
• Beichen ordered the seven island masters to lead their forces against demons outside the Core Region while he and two Supreme Elders attacked the cavern’s leader.
• Beichen dismissed everyone except Gu Chenfeng and asked him to stay.

Hall Master Beichen assigned Gu Chenfeng to guard the passage into the demon cavern’s Core Region while the Venerables fought its Source Venerable Realm evil demons. Gu Chenfeng accepted the dangerous mission, which also required him to watch for hidden Soul Devouring Beast hosts among Star Luo Hall’s people.

• Beichen praised Gu Chenfeng’s strength and explained that three Venerables would enter the Core Region to kill the Source Venerable Realm evil demons.
• Beichen told Gu Chenfeng to guard the sealed passage against attacks from inside the cavern and revealed that evil demon allies might be hiding within Star Luo Hall.
• Gu Chenfeng considered the danger of Soul Devouring Beasts possessing or corrupting martial artists and recognized that the mission involved guarding against hidden hosts.
• Mu Chen offered Gu Chenfeng a choice of three treasures or texts as a reward, and said he could refuse if he swore to keep the matter secret.
• Gu Chenfeng accepted the mission, and Beichen declared that the evil demons would remain buried beneath the earth.

Star Luo Hall launched an assault on the super Demon Cavern, and Gu Chenfeng joined the advance toward its Core Region. During the battle, he suddenly crushed several Star Luo Hall elders, leaving his allies shocked.

• Star Venerable Beichen rallied Star Luo Hall, and three Source Venerable experts broke through the Demon Cavern's entrance while Rocky Mountain Venerable sealed the surrounding area.
• Gu Chenfeng and Star Luo Hall's forces fought through the cavern's outer and middle regions, reaching a mass of Source Emperor Realm Soul Devouring Beasts and spotting Half-Step Source Venerable Realm beasts beyond them.
• After receiving a message from the Hall Master, Gu Chenfeng realized the passage restriction was complete, and Star Luo Hall's forces attacked the gathered Soul Devouring Beasts.
• More than twenty Half-Step Source Venerable Realm Soul Devouring Beasts joined the battle, and Li Qingluo and Shen Tai rebuked Gu Chenfeng for appearing to fish in troubled waters.
• Gu Chenfeng ignored them and used fire element law to seize and crush several Star Luo Hall elders on the battlefield.

Gu Chenfeng exposed demon-possessed spies hidden among his allies and slaughtered nine powerful Soul Devouring Beasts, turning the battle in Star Luo Hall’s favor. With the enemy weakened, he left the others to finish the fight and went deeper to investigate.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon's Eye to reveal demon-possessed spies among Star Luo Hall's forces and killed them before they could strike.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the half-step Source Venerable battlefield and destroyed a gray-robed old man and a Tiger Demon with the Great Wilderness Star-Shattering Seal.
• Gu Chenfeng repeatedly hunted Soul Devouring Beasts, devouring their true forms and collecting nine gray-white crystals.
• Gu Chenfeng told the others to handle the remaining enemies and vanished deeper into the area to investigate.

Gu Chenfeng guarded the Core Region passage while a battle raged inside, but Li Qingluo and Shen Tai arrived disguised as Ancient Evil Demons and attacked him alongside Ling Qianxue. He recognized Ling Qianxue as the confrontation began, and she vowed he would not escape her this time.

• Gu Chenfeng killed a Half-Step Source Venerable Soul Devouring Beast attacking the restriction, then used the Bronze Coffin to absorb it and guarded the passage.
• The Bronze Coffin tried to enter the Core Region, but Gu Chenfeng calmed it and returned it to the Reverse Scale Space.
• Gu Chenfeng killed several high-ranking Soul Devouring Beasts that came to attack the formation and sensed a battle at the Star Luo Hall Base.
• Li Qingluo and Shen Tai arrived wounded and urged Gu Chenfeng to reinforce the base, but he suspected them and attacked.
• Li Qingluo and Shen Tai revealed themselves as Ancient Evil Demons, while Ling Qianxue emerged from hiding and clashed with Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized Ling Qianxue, who declared that he would not be so lucky this time.

Gu Chenfeng fought Ling Qianxue and her two companions as they tried to break the restriction sealing the passage. After revealing his Dragon Race bloodline and matching their Upper Realm spirit power, he unleashed the Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

• Ling Qianxue attacked Gu Chenfeng while her two companions tried to destroy the passage restriction, but he held them off with his axe and Star Seal.
• Ling Qianxue awakened Upper Realm spirit power and struck Gu Chenfeng, who was driven back as the other two attacked him from behind.
• Gu Chenfeng survived the combined assault and revealed his Azure Dragon Transformation, using his Dragon Race bloodline to fight all three opponents.
• Ling Qianxue recognized Gu Chenfeng as a threat to the four races and prepared a talisman to summon more Soul Devouring Beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng activated a black-gold power that enlarged his body and unleashed the Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.