Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu heard that ancient ruins had drawn experts from across Central Province and decided to investigate, hoping to find Taiching Daoist, the Dragon Emperor, or the Heavenly Demoness. They flew toward the ruins, leaving their next encounter uncertain.

• Martial artists in the Time Wheel Space marketplace discussed the strength of Taiching Daoist, the Dragon Emperor, and the Heavenly Demoness before sharing stories of the fearsome Southern Heaven Twin Fiends.
• The martial artists recounted how Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu had killed several Half-Step Source Venerable experts from the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe, prompting its chief to seek revenge.
• After leaving the marketplace, Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu revealed their identities and lamented that they had spent over a year searching for the three experts they wanted to challenge.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that Huang Qiu's progress with Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes could help him approach the second black-pattern inheritance in the Barbarian God Secret Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng suggested that the ancient ruins might attract one of the three experts they sought, and Huang Qiu agreed to go investigate with him.

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu explored the Earth Abyss ruins, where unfamiliar relics and a spirit crystal led Gu Chenfeng to suspect that beings from the Upper Realm had reached the Seven Star Continent long before the Four Clans’ invasion. After they failed to breach a powerful barrier, a Source Venerable Realm Demon Race powerhouse attacked them.

• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu flew through the Earth Abyss ruins, where Gu Chenfeng noticed that several ancient treasures resembled relics from the Upper Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng seized a spirit crystal from two Half-Step Source Venerable Realm experts and suspected that Upper Realm beings had visited the Seven Star Continent before the Four Clans’ invasion.
• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu reached a massive restriction deeper in the ruins but could not break through it with their battle axes.
• As Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu turned back, a Source Venerable Realm Demon Race powerhouse shattered the barrier behind them and struck at them with a giant hand.
• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu met the attack head-on with their battle axes.

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu fought the Source Venerable Realm chief of the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe, who sought revenge for his son. As the brothers tried to retreat, the chief trapped them in a spatial passage with the Purplecloud Divine Peak.

• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu emerged from a passage in the earth abyss as the chief of the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape Tribe pursued them.
• The old ape king accused the Southern Heaven Twin Fiends of killing his son and attacked them with earth peaks and Law Power.
• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu joined forces, using the Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes to withstand the old ape king despite being driven back.
• As the brothers retreated toward the abyss's exit, the old ape king summoned the Purplecloud Divine Peak and struck them down.
• A dark spatial passage swallowed Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu, and the old ape king followed them inside before the passage sealed.

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu fought the old ape king inside a sealed space, where he wielded the Purplecloud Divine Peak. After Huang Qiu sacrificed his arm to hold back the enemy and urged Gu Chenfeng to escape, Gu Chenfeng gained sudden enlightenment and unleashed Heaven’s Mandate Nine Strikes.

• Gu Chenfeng recognized the sealed space as the ancient secret realm where he had once seen the Purplecloud Divine Peak and the Barbarian God's Severed Arm, but the old ape king's attacks drove him and Huang Qiu toward defeat.
• Gu Chenfeng used Mu Chen's Sword-Shaped Talisman Treasure and detonated it, blasting the Purplecloud Divine Peak away and tearing open a fissure in the space.
• The old ape king used his essence blood to cast the Heaven-Sealing Great Seal, and Huang Qiu severed his own arm to disrupt its sealing force and give Gu Chenfeng a chance to escape.
• Huang Qiu urged Gu Chenfeng to leave and protect their people, then charged the old ape king, prepared to die fighting.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled the Barbarian God's legacy and gained enlightenment as Huang Qiu rushed toward the old ape king, then invoked Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes, Earth-Slaying Chapter, and World-Slaying Space-Rending.

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu joined forces with the Barbarian God to kill the Old Ape King and suppress his essence blood and the Purplecloud Divine Peak. Huang Qiu began breaking through to the Immortal Realm, while Gu Chenfeng withdrew to prepare to return to the real world and claim the second black marking.

• Gu Chenfeng's axe strike gravely wounded the Old Ape King and helped Huang Qiu grasp the Earth-Slaying Chapter of Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes.
• Huang Qiu struck the Old Ape King between the brows, and Gu Chenfeng and the Barbarian God destroyed his body and primordial spirit before Huang Qiu suppressed his essence blood and the Purplecloud Divine Peak.
• Gu Chenfeng and the Barbarian God collapsed from exhaustion, and Huang Qiu thanked Gu Chenfeng for helping him comprehend the Earth-Slaying Chapter.
• Huang Qiu sensed that he was about to break through to the Immortal Realm and sat down to cultivate.
• Gu Chenfeng withdrew to a corner of the secret realm and prepared to return to the real world to claim the second black marking.

Gu Chenfeng entered the third region of the Altar and received the complete Earth-Slaying Chapter inheritance along with a surge of origin power. He used a battle with Blood Refining Venerable to refine that power and broke through, leaving Blood Refining Venerable alarmed as he promised to return.

• Gu Chenfeng countered Huang Qiu's axe shadow with Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes, World-Slaying Space-Rending, entered the third region, and absorbed its black gold inheritance.
• The inheritance flooded Gu Chenfeng with origin power and the complete Earth-Slaying Chapter, so he transported himself to the Inner Hall to digest it while fighting Blood Refining Venerable.
• Gu Chenfeng charged Blood Refining Venerable with renewed fury, repeatedly attacking despite being blasted back as his axe strikes grew stronger.
• Blood Refining Venerable formed the Nine Blood Blades into a saber and wounded Gu Chenfeng with a powerful blade aura.
• Gu Chenfeng's cultivation broke through as Heaven and Earth Origin Power surged into him, and he told Blood Refining Venerable he would return after stabilizing his cultivation.

Gu Chenfeng spent months fighting Blood Refining Venerable to master the Earth-Slaying Chapter and strengthen his cultivation until he could contend with a Source Venerable Realm expert. He finally defeated Blood Refining Venerable in a decisive battle inside the Inner Hall.

• Gu Chenfeng used his inheritance and repeated battles with Blood Refining Venerable to improve his cultivation and refine the Earth-Slaying Chapter.
• Over more than two months, Gu Chenfeng challenged Blood Refining Venerable every few days, growing stronger until he could fight him head-on.
• Gu Chenfeng returned with his cultivation at Source Emperor Realm Nine-Star and Peak Nirvana Realm, then told Blood Refining Venerable he would no longer retreat.
• Blood Refining Venerable unleashed Blood Sea Buries Heaven, but Gu Chenfeng countered with Earth-Slaying-World-Slaying Space-Rending and shattered his Blade Aura.
• Gu Chenfeng's attack sent Blood Refining Venerable crashing into the Bronze Door, and Gu Chenfeng declared that he had lost.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Blood Refining Venerable by summoning the Azure Dragon Soul, but Tongtong appeared with the Ten Thousand Yin Banner and took control of Blood Refining Venerable’s true body. The chapter ended with her drawing him into the banner.

• Blood Refining Venerable summoned the blood-marked Azure Dragon Skeleton and used his soul energy to bring it to life.
• Gu Chenfeng invoked “Dragon Soul Suppresses the World,” and his Azure Dragon Soul cleansed the blood runes and seized the skeleton.
• The dragon soul tore Blood Refining Venerable’s true Soul Devouring Beast body from the skeleton, and Blood Refining Venerable began to self-detonate.
• The Ten Thousand Yin Banner appeared and froze Blood Refining Venerable, stopping his self-detonation.
• Tongtong awoke, appeared with the banner, and pulled Blood Refining Venerable’s true body into it.

Gu Chenfeng recovered while Tongtong used the Ten Thousand Yin Banner to subdue Blood Refining Venerable and force him to reveal the Soul Devouring Beasts’ plans. After learning that Mingluo had reached the saint level, Gu Chenfeng asked Blood Refining Venerable whether he wanted to live or die.

• Tongtong tormented Blood Refining Venerable with the Ten Thousand Yin Banner until he begged Gu Chenfeng to spare him.
• Gu Chenfeng recovered his strength while Tongtong kept Blood Refining Venerable under control.
• Blood Refining Venerable admitted that Mingluo had ordered him to kill Gu Chenfeng and take Tongtong and the Ten Thousand Yin Banner to Central Province.
• Blood Refining Venerable revealed that the Soul Devouring Beasts were gathering strength for open war against the Human and Demon Races.
• Blood Refining Venerable told Gu Chenfeng that Mingluo had surpassed the Source Venerable Realm and reached the saint level.
• Gu Chenfeng asked Blood Refining Venerable whether he wanted to die or live.

Gu Chenfeng gathered the Four Symbols Divine Sect’s leaders to introduce Tongtong as its Great Protector and Blood Refining Venerable as its Second Protector. After Blood Refining Venerable pledged obedience, Gu Chenfeng took Tongtong to the altar plaza and brought forth the Thousand-Zhang Dragon Bone.

• Gu Chenfeng confirmed that the merged Four Symbols Divine Sect was stable and had grown into a powerful force with seven peaks and more than a hundred thousand members and disciples.
• Gu Chenfeng introduced Tongtong as his younger sister and appointed her the sect’s Great Protector.
• Tongtong promised to protect Gu Chenfeng and those he cared about, and Gu Chenfeng told her to command the Second Protector instead of putting herself in danger.
• Blood Refining Venerable appeared, alarming the gathered leaders, but bowed to Gu Chenfeng and pledged obedience after Gu Chenfeng appointed him the Second Protector.
• Blood Refining Venerable went to the Inner Hall to recover, while Gu Chenfeng brought Tongtong to the altar plaza, where she returned to the Bronze Coffin to sleep; Gu Chenfeng then produced the Thousand-Zhang Dragon Bone.

Gu Chenfeng extracted and refined the Azure Dragon Spinal Marrow, strengthening his body and divine dragon bloodline. In the Time Wheel Space, Huang Qiu survived an immortal realm tribulation, and an unseen protector slaughtered the cultivators who tried to seize his fortune.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale to extract the Azure Dragon Spinal Marrow from the skeleton and began refining it.
• The spinal marrow resonated with Gu Chenfeng's azure dragon origin and strengthened his body and divine dragon bloodline.
• Several days later in the Time Wheel Space, Huang Qiu survived an immortal realm tribulation and absorbed the origin power from the seven-colored auspicious clouds.
• A Mountain-Moving Demon Ape expert attacked Huang Qiu and tried to seize the auspicious clouds as human and demon cultivators joined the assault.
• Crimson-gold fist blasts destroyed the attackers, killing the Mountain-Moving Demon Ape expert and the other cultivators who charged toward Huang Qiu.

Gu Chenfeng guarded Huang Qiu as he completed his Immortal Realm breakthrough, driving away the experts who tried to interfere. Afterward, the brothers planned to explore the sealed depths of the ruins together while Huang Qiu waited for Taiching Daoist, the Dragon Emperor, and the Heavenly Demoness to challenge him.

• Gu Chenfeng killed a half-step Source Venerable Realm expert and warned the surrounding cultivators not to disturb Huang Qiu’s tribulation.
• A Golden-Winged Great Peng Race Source Venerable attacked, but Gu Chenfeng blocked its claw with the Profound Ice Battle Axe and forced the expert to retreat.
• Gu Chenfeng’s show of strength frightened the remaining Human and Demon Race cultivators into leaving the area.
• After several hours, Huang Qiu absorbed the seven-colored auspicious cloud, completed his breakthrough, and regrew his severed arm.
• Huang Qiu acknowledged that Gu Chenfeng had not yet entered the Immortal Realm and promised to guard him when he broke through.
• Huang Qiu decided to await battles with Taiching Daoist, the Dragon Emperor, and the Heavenly Demoness, while he and Gu Chenfeng agreed to explore the sealed ruins.

Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu explored an ancient battlefield in the ruins, breaking into cave abodes and collecting treasures and knowledge. After five years, they failed to open the bronze door to the ruins’ core, then sensed three powerful figures approaching and went out to meet them.

• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu returned to the Ancient Ruins and spent months breaking the restriction that sealed a passage into a vast battlefield-like space.
• The two discovered that the battlefield and its relics came from the Eternal Heaven Realm, though Gu Chenfeng could not determine why the battle had happened there.
• Gu Chenfeng and Huang Qiu broke through natural formations and restrictions around cave abodes, collecting treasures while Gu Chenfeng memorized manuals, pill formulas, and secret arts.
• After five years in the Time Wheel Space, the two reached a bronze door leading to the ruins’ core but could not break its powerful restriction.
• Huang Qiu sensed three powerful auras approaching, concealed the ruins with a secret treasure, and howled a challenge as he and Gu Chenfeng went to meet them.

Gu Chenfeng was expelled from the Myriad Worlds Time Wheel just as the Eternal Heaven Realm’s invasion began, then returned to reality and resumed cultivation. After three years, he emerged stronger and learned from Blood Refining Venerable that the Ancient Evil Demons in Central Province had come looking for him.

• In the Time Wheel Space, Gu Chenfeng and the Barbarian God witnessed the Eternal Heaven Realm tear open the Plane Laws and begin invading the Seven Star Continent.
• Before Gu Chenfeng could explain the invasion to the Barbarian God, the Time Wheel Space shattered and sent him back to the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins.
• Gu Chenfeng found the Myriad Worlds Time Wheel dormant, then returned to the Barbarian God Secret Realm and continued refining the Azure Dragon Spinal Marrow.
• After three more years of cultivation, Gu Chenfeng appeared in the Divine Sect’s great hall, where Blood Refining Venerable greeted him and reported that the Ancient Evil Demons in Central Province had come looking for him.

Gu Chenfeng learned that Mingluo’s forces had launched an all-out war against the Human and Demon Races and planned a rear attack through Yan Province. He revealed himself to Island Master Ling as she discussed the plan with Blood Refining Venerable.

• Gu Chenfeng summoned Blood Refining Venerable after a group of Soul Devouring Beasts entered Yan Province to contact him.
• Island Master Ling and her companions arrived near the Four Symbols Divine Sect headquarters and met Blood Refining Venerable.
• Blood Refining Venerable falsely claimed that Gu Chenfeng and the Four Symbols Divine Sect were under his control.
• Island Master Ling said Mingluo’s forces were attacking the Human and Demon Races and ordered Blood Refining Venerable to land secretly in Star Luo Domain and help destroy Star Luo Hall.
• Blood Refining Venerable stepped aside as Gu Chenfeng appeared and greeted Island Master Ling.

Gu Chenfeng learned from Ling Qianxue that Star Venerable had fallen and Star Luo Hall faced an imminent attack. After killing Ling Qianxue and her companions, he decided to return to Central Province to help his Master and the others.

• Blood Refining Venerable captured Ling Qianxue and her elite Soul Devouring Beast companions, and Ling Qianxue discovered he had submitted to Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng killed Ling Qianxue’s companions with a snap and forced her to explain that Star Venerable had died defending Star Luo Hall from the Blood Nether Race.
• Ling Qianxue revealed that Sword-Walking Venerable had sent messengers to Yan Province, but her forces had intercepted and killed them in the Boundless Sea.
• Ling Qianxue tried to seduce Gu Chenfeng to save her life, but he killed her and burned her body, leaving a Spirit Crystal.
• Gu Chenfeng looked north and said he would return to Central Province to help his Master and the others.

Gu Chenfeng led the Four Symbols Divine Sect through the Barbarian God Secret Realm toward Central Province to reinforce Star Luo Hall. After sharing a heartfelt farewell with Liu Fuyan, he left ahead of the sect’s main force, confident in his strengthened abilities but still anxious to reach his master and allies.

• Gu Chenfeng announced that the Four Symbols Divine Sect would leave Yan Province and travel to Central Province to support Star Luo Hall, leaving Blood Refining Venerable to guard Yan Province.
• Gu Chenfeng apologized to Liu Fuyan for his long absences, and she promised to support him and follow him through whatever came.
• Liu Fuyan realized Gu Chenfeng intended to leave ahead of the others, and the two shared an intimate moment before he departed.
• Gu Chenfeng flew north alone toward Star Luo Hall, thinking about his increased strength and the allies defending the hall.

Gu Chenfeng rushed to Star Luo Hall and found its secret space overrun by Soul Devouring Beasts, with the hall seemingly destroyed. After wiping out the beasts, he discovered signs that Mu Chen and the others had withdrawn recently and set off to find the fleeing disciples.

• Gu Chenfeng crossed the Boundless Sea, fought off an early Source Venerable sea demon, and continued toward Central Province.
• Near Star Luo Hall, Gu Chenfeng found Soul Devouring Beasts occupying cities and massacring martial artists, then hurried to the hall’s base.
• Gu Chenfeng entered Star Luo Hall’s secret space and saw its seven Star Islands fallen, its waters stained with blood, and Soul Devouring Beasts roaming among the dead.
• Gu Chenfeng annihilated the Soul Devouring Beasts with his Profound Ice Battle Axe and spiritual power.
• Gu Chenfeng inferred that Mu Chen and the others had withdrawn recently, sensed Star Luo Hall disciples moving southwest with his sect Command Token, and went after them.

Star Luo Hall’s fleeing forces were trapped by Soul Devouring Beasts while Panyue fought the traitor Yin Jiu. As Yin Jiu’s Curse Power left Panyue near defeat, a mysterious Blood Tide swept in and a crimson-gold fist struck toward Yin Jiu.

• Yin Jiu urged Panyue to surrender to the Evil Demons, but Panyue refused and fought to protect Star Luo Hall.
• As the Star-Island Ship fell and the Soul Devouring Beasts closed in, Panyue ordered everyone to scatter and escape through openings he made in the encirclement.
• Yin Jiu struck Panyue with Gu Insects and Curse Power, weakening him and leaving him in grave danger.
• Shen Tai, Li Qingluo, Si Mingwei, Jiang Yin, and the others worried over Panyue as he ordered them to leave him behind.
• A vast Blood Tide appeared and devoured countless Soul Devouring Beast blood shadows.
• A crimson-gold fist tore through the demonic ranks and surged toward Yin Jiu.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Star-Island Ship and overwhelmed Yin Jiu, turning the battle against the Soul Devouring Beasts in favor of Rocky Mountain Venerable and the Star Luo Hall disciples. Yin Jiu escaped using an essence-blood talisman, and Gu Chenfeng returned to Panyue and the others.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared on the battlefield and told Panyue to protect the others while he fought Yin Jiu.
• Gu Chenfeng killed the high-rank Soul Devouring Beasts blocking his path and drove Yin Jiu backward with his axe.
• Gu Chenfeng burned away Yin Jiu’s Gu Insects and cursed flames, then shattered his defenses and grievously injured him with an axe strike and a falling purple-gold peak.
• Yin Jiu fled after ordering the Soul Devouring Beasts to retreat, using exploding Gu Insects and an essence-blood talisman to escape Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng stopped pursuing Yin Jiu and flew back toward Panyue and the Star-Island Ship.