Chapter Summaries

Yuqing prepared to use the Saint-Seizing Land’s restrictions to suppress Mingluo as Gu Chenfeng reached Qi Province after more than two years of evading Geng Yuan. With his spirit crystals nearly exhausted, Gu planned to draw Geng Yuan into the Eternal Silence Ice Abyss before seeking supplies from the Snow God Palace.

• Yuqing learned that Gu Chenfeng had reached Qi Province and prepared to unleash the full power of the grand formation against Mingluo’s shrinking Asura Domain.
• Gu Chenfeng raced across Qi Province while reflecting on the people and Daos he had encountered during his flight, which had also strengthened his cultivation.
• Gu Chenfeng realized his spirit crystals were nearly depleted and planned to trade heavenly treasures for supplies at the Snow God Palace.
• Gu Chenfeng chose the Eternal Silence Ice Abyss as a deathtrap where he could delay Geng Yuan before traveling to the Snow God Palace.

Gu Chenfeng escaped Geng Yuan’s pursuit with help from the Frost Giant Dragon, which gave him its essence blood and Ice Dragon Origin and asked him to take it home. Gu Chenfeng then reached the Snow God Palace, where his arrival startled two gate guards.

• Geng Yuan chased Gu Chenfeng into the Eternal Silence Ice Abyss, awakening the Frost Giant Dragon’s remnant soul.
• The Frost Giant Dragon recognized Gu Chenfeng’s Divine Dragon Bloodline and agreed to hold off Geng Yuan.
• The Frost Giant Dragon sealed the abyss and fought Geng Yuan while Gu Chenfeng bowed and prepared to leave.
• The Dragon Soul sent Gu Chenfeng its dragon essence blood and Ice Dragon Origin, then asked him to take it home, and Gu Chenfeng promised he would.
• Gu Chenfeng flew to the Snow God Palace, where two guards were chatting about the Saint Selection Ceremony.
• A calm voice asked the guards whether this was the Snow God Palace’s headquarters, startling them.

Gu Chenfeng arrived at the Snow God Palace seeking to exchange Heavenly Treasures for Spirit Crystals, and his Seven Star Alliance status prompted the sect to receive him with great ceremony. He entered the palace with the Palace Masters while the disciples who had first met him realized how far his standing exceeded their expectations.

• Gu Chenfeng appeared at the Snow God Palace gates and gave two disciples his Command Token, asking them to announce his visit.
• The disciples delivered the token to a steward, who brought them to the outer-perimeter Elders; after seeing the Seven Star marking, the Elders took them to the Grand Elder.
• The Grand Elder recognized the significance of Gu Chenfeng’s visit and ordered a ceremonial escort, then went to inform the two Palace Masters.
• The two Palace Masters welcomed Gu Chenfeng as a Seven Star Alliance Adjudicator after finding they could not sense his aura, and he asked to exchange Heavenly Treasures for Spirit Crystals.
• The Palace Masters agreed to help after receiving secret transmissions, and Gu Chenfeng entered the Snow God Palace as the two gate disciples watched in awe.

Gu Chenfeng exchanged treasures for spirit crystals with the Snow God Palace and overheard its palace masters discussing their suspicions about the Seven Star Alliance. As he prepared to leave, he sensed someone familiar at the palace’s Saintess Selection Ceremony and asked to attend.

• Palace Masters Yingxiao and Ninghua questioned Gu Chenfeng about his background, while he concealed Geng Yuan’s existence and overheard their private conversation about the Snow God Palace’s wary Ancestor.
• The Grand Elder brought three early-stage Source Venerable-grade spirit crystals and several Half-Step Source Venerable spirit crystals, which Gu Chenfeng traded for rare treasures.
• Ninghua explained that the Snow God Palace was holding the final contest of its Saintess Selection Ceremony on the rear mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed a familiar aura among the Saintess candidates and changed his mind about leaving, asking Yingxiao and Ninghua to let him watch the ceremony.
• Yingxiao and Ninghua agreed to lead Gu Chenfeng to the ceremony.

Gu Chenfeng watched the Snow God Palace’s Saintess contest and recognized that Xuan Bing had changed greatly since their past. After Xuan Bing defeated Lin Zhanshuang and was chosen as Saintess, the Ancestor summoned her to receive his power, but Gu Chenfeng’s departure was interrupted by someone calling, “Wait!”

• Ninghua explained that Xuan Bing and Lin Zhanshuang were the leading candidates for Saintess, and that the winner would receive the Ancestor’s power.
• Yingxiao told Gu Chenfeng that the Ancestor was nearing the end of his lifespan and would transfer most of his cultivation to the new Saintess.
• Xuan Bing and Lin Zhanshuang fought in the final match, and Xuan Bing defeated Lin Zhanshuang with a powerful frost sword strike.
• Lin Zhanshuang conceded, and the Snow God Palace disciples celebrated Xuan Bing’s selection as Saintess.
• The Ancestor summoned Xuan Bing to the rear mountain hall to receive the transmission of power, but a voice stopped her as she prepared to leave.

Gu Chenfeng interrupted Xuan Bing’s power-imparting ceremony and declared he would take her away, despite the Snow God Palace’s resistance. He defeated the Palace Masters and elders’ combined attack and continued flying away with Xuan Bing as a furious voice rang out from the rear mountain.

• Gu Chenfeng stopped Xuan Bing in midair, suppressed her power, and warned her that receiving power from the Ancestor was no good opportunity.
• Yingxiao and Ninghua arrived and refused Gu Chenfeng’s request to meet the Ancestor, so he announced that he would take Xuan Bing with him.
• Yingxiao and Ninghua confronted Gu Chenfeng while the Snow God Palace elders surrounded him and formed the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Formation.
• Gu Chenfeng shattered the Palace Masters’ water-and-fire law mountain and formation, sending Yingxiao, Ninghua, and the elders flying or coughing blood.
• Gu Chenfeng continued leaving with the stunned Xuan Bing, but a thunderous voice from the rear mountain shouted at him.

Gu Chenfeng defied the Snow God Palace Ancestor’s threats and subdued him with a single Azure Dragon Sky-Splitting Claw. When the Ancestor begged for mercy and offered Xuan Bing to Gu Chenfeng, Gu Chenfeng revealed that he was not the real Ancestor and exposed signs that he was a Soul Devouring Beast.

• The Snow God Palace Ancestor activated the palace’s restrictions and attacked Gu Chenfeng with a golden pillar of light, but Gu Chenfeng shattered it and damaged the golden hall.
• The Ancestor emerged and charged Gu Chenfeng as an Ice-Origin dragon, but Gu Chenfeng crushed the dragon shadow and pinned him beneath an Azure Dragon claw.
• The Ancestor begged Gu Chenfeng to spare his life and offered him Xuan Bing and the other Holy Maiden candidates.
• Ninghua and Yingxiao protested the Ancestor’s offer, while Xuan Bing felt humiliated and the disciples were enraged.
• Gu Chenfeng declared that the Ancestor was an impostor, then intensified the Azure Dragon claw until blood-red light and a sinister aura emerged from the captive’s eyes.

Gu Chenfeng exposed and destroyed the Soul Devouring Beast possessing the Snow God Palace Ancestor, then learned how the beast had endangered the palace and Xuan Bing. Snow God Palace joined the Seven Star Alliance, and Gu Chenfeng departed after inviting Xuan Bing to visit his sect.

• Gu Chenfeng used his Azure Dragon's Eye and a pillar of starlight to destroy the Soul Devouring Beast possessing the Snow God Palace Ancestor, then revived the Ancestor.
• The Snow God Palace Ancestor explained that a Source Venerable-level Soul Devouring Beast had taken control of him and planned to seize Xuan Bing's body during a cultivation transfer.
• The Ancestor said he would pass his cultivation to Xuan Bing and asked Gu Chenfeng to accept Snow God Palace into the Seven Star Alliance.
• Gu Chenfeng signed a Blood Pact with the Snow God Palace Ancestor, formally bringing Snow God Palace into the Alliance.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Xuan Bing a Four Symbols Divine Sect Command Token and left, while the Ancestor and Palace Masters urged her to visit him in Central Province.

Gu Chenfeng fled across Qi Province while refining Spirit Crystals and Ice Dragon Essence Blood, then rushed back to the Snow God Palace after sensing Geng Yuan was heading there. He arrived to find the palace deserted, but Geng Yuan appeared with Xuan Bing captured.

• Gu Chenfeng reflected on Xuan Bing, then spent months fleeing Geng Yuan across Qi Province while improving his cultivation.
• While cultivating in a hidden hot spring, Gu Chenfeng sensed Geng Yuan moving south toward the Snow God Palace.
• Gu Chenfeng sent the Snow God Palace a warning to evacuate and raced there, arriving to find its halls empty and its restrictions intact.
• Geng Yuan appeared before Gu Chenfeng with Xuan Bing held captive, and Xuan Bing asked Gu Chenfeng why he was there.

Gu Chenfeng pretended not to care about Xuan Bing so Geng Yuan would let down his guard, but her command token freed her from Geng Yuan’s Law Power. When Geng Yuan moved to seize her again, Gu Chenfeng returned to shield her and struck at his giant hand.

• Geng Yuan revealed that he had captured Xuan Bing to use her against Gu Chenfeng, but Gu Chenfeng claimed he did not care whether she lived or died.
• Gu Chenfeng mocked Geng Yuan, feigned interest in Xuan Bing, and fled, leaving Geng Yuan stunned.
• Geng Yuan tried to crush Xuan Bing, but the Four Symbols Divine Sect Command Token Gu Chenfeng had given her shattered the Law Power cage.
• Geng Yuan turned back and reached for Xuan Bing, but an azure dragon claw appeared to block his attack before breaking under its force.
• Gu Chenfeng returned in a flash, spread his Star Wings to shield Xuan Bing, and struck Geng Yuan’s descending hand with a dark gold astral fist.

Gu Chenfeng saved Xuan Bing from Geng Yuan, then fought the Half-Saint and was forced to retreat after several hours. He escaped to a concealed cave at Qi Province’s border, severed Geng Yuan’s tracking mark on Xuan Bing, and told her she was safe to leave.

• Gu Chenfeng saved Xuan Bing from Geng Yuan and ordered her to leave the battlefield.
• Geng Yuan tried to chase Xuan Bing to exploit her as Gu Chenfeng’s weakness, but Gu Chenfeng intercepted him and revealed his increased strength.
• Gu Chenfeng and Geng Yuan fought for several hours, but Geng Yuan’s domain prototype overcame Gu Chenfeng, who escaped using Star Escape.
• Gu Chenfeng reached a hidden cave near Qi Province’s eastern border, concealed it, and refined away Geng Yuan’s tracking mark.
• Gu Chenfeng summoned Xuan Bing from the Azure Dragon Reverse Scale and told her he had severed Geng Yuan’s lock on her aura and that she could leave safely.

In the cave, Xuan Bing tried to discover why Gu Chenfeng had saved her twice by offering herself to him, but he claimed his injuries made him unable to accept. She stayed to care for him, while Gu Chenfeng decided to keep her safe until he had dealt with Geng Yuan and left Qi Province.

• Xuan Bing questioned Gu Chenfeng about saving her, and he pretended that he had done it because he desired her beauty.
• Xuan Bing undressed and offered herself to Gu Chenfeng to repay him, while demanding that he explain whether they had known each other before.
• Gu Chenfeng used blood from his nose and his injuries as an excuse to stop Xuan Bing, who hurriedly dressed again.
• Xuan Bing insisted on staying to care for Gu Chenfeng until his injuries healed, and he warned her not to tempt him again.
• Gu Chenfeng agreed to let Xuan Bing stay, intending to protect her until he had taken Geng Yuan out of Qi Province.

After Gu Chenfeng recovered in the snowy borderlands, he left Xuan Bing, whose memories of him began returning as she played a farewell song. Xuan Bing resisted her heartless Great Dao to preserve those memories, tearing a breach in it and suffering severe injuries.

• For half a month, Xuan Bing played her zither to help Gu Chenfeng recover, but her growing memories nearly caused her qi to become chaotic.
• Gu Chenfeng stabilized Xuan Bing, confirmed his injuries had healed, and said goodbye before leaving for Central Province.
• Xuan Bing played “Flying Snow's Lament” as Gu Chenfeng departed, but he suppressed his feelings and flew away without turning back.
• As the song ended, Xuan Bing recognized Gu Chenfeng and recalled their past, but her heartless Great Dao surged to erase the memories again.
• Xuan Bing tore through the heartless Great Dao to protect her memories, spat blood as her zither strings snapped, and vowed not to forget Gu Chenfeng.

After parting with Yao Yin, Gu Chenfeng experienced sudden enlightenment and broke through in both internal and external cultivation. His newly unleashed aura reached across Qi Province, where he challenged Geng Yuan to fight.

• Gu Chenfeng left Yao Yin behind and, as the last trace of the body's original owner's obsession faded, suddenly gained enlightenment.
• Gu Chenfeng sealed himself on a snowy peak and absorbed his final Spirit Crystal, Heaven and Earth Origin Power, and the remaining Ice Dragon essence blood.
• After seven days inside a vast cocoon, Gu Chenfeng emerged having completed breakthroughs in both internal and external cultivation.
• Xuan Bing told Yingxiao and Ninghua how Geng Yuan had captured her and Gu Chenfeng had rescued her before they parted again.
• Gu Chenfeng's powerful aura swept across Qi Province, alerting Xuan Bing, the two Palace Masters, and Geng Yuan.
• Gu Chenfeng sent a thunderous challenge across Qi Province: "Geng Yuan, come fight!"

Gu Chenfeng and Geng Yuan fought to a standstill after Gu Chenfeng broke through and proved he could match the Half-Saint. When both received urgent summons, they abandoned their battle and raced out of Qi Province.

• Gu Chenfeng and Geng Yuan met above a frozen wasteland and clashed, with Gu Chenfeng's combined powers overcoming Geng Yuan's strength.
• Geng Yuan unleashed his Blood Nether Dharma Body and domain prototype, but Gu Chenfeng broke through the blood tide with his Earth-Slaying Slash and Divine Sense Secret Art.
• After fighting for a day and night, both men emerged battered, and Geng Yuan acknowledged Gu Chenfeng as a worthy opponent.
• Geng Yuan tried to gain an advantage through superior energy reserves and recovery, but Gu Chenfeng's recovery matched his and his Heaven-Traversing Star Wings gave him greater speed.
• Gu Chenfeng received a summons from Alliance Leader Yuqing, and Geng Yuan also received a message; both abandoned the fight and left Qi Province.

Gu Chenfeng returned from Qi Province toward Central Province after learning that the Human and Demon Races had won on the front lines and Mingluo had been suppressed. Yuqing’s urgent summons and the Core Region’s sudden silence made him suspect that a hidden crisis remained.

• After the battle ended, Xuan Bing resolved to assimilate the Ancestor’s power, reach the Source Venerable Realm, and travel around Central Province.
• Gu Chenfeng journeyed toward Central Province while cultivating the Star Mirror secret art and reflecting on his strength and the powerful figures still above him.
• After leaving Qi Province, Gu Chenfeng contacted the Seven Star Alliance and learned that the Four Races’ Soul Devouring Beasts had withdrawn and the alliance had won on the front lines.
• Bai Miaoyin and other leaders welcomed Gu Chenfeng, praised his service, and told him that the Alliance Leader had suppressed Mingluo while the Core Region was sealed off.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled Yuqing’s urgent message and accelerated toward Central Province, suspecting that the Core Region’s leaders were hiding a serious development.

Gu Chenfeng returned to the Saint-Seizing Land and learned that Yuqing and the four Deputy Alliance Leaders had paid a terrible price to seal Mingluo. The weakened seal would last less than ten years unless Yuqing stayed to reinforce it, buying the Seven Star Continent only a limited reprieve.

• Gu Chenfeng reached the collapsed core space of the Saint-Seizing Land and entered its damaged sealing formation after Yuqing let him in.
• Yuqing told Gu Chenfeng that Mingluo had been sealed, but she and the four Deputy Alliance Leaders were gravely injured.
• Yuqing explained that Yao Sheng had taken the force of Mingluo’s secret treasure with his Dragon Race body, leaving only his slumbering primordial spirit.
• Jade Void True Person reassured Gu Chenfeng that he was not to blame for arriving late and said the Seven Star Continent still faced a crisis.
• Yuqing warned Gu Chenfeng that Mingluo’s secret treasure had damaged the seal, reducing its expected duration from at least a hundred years to less than ten; she could extend it to at most twenty years by remaining there.

Yuqing appointed Gu Chenfeng acting alliance leader after warning that the Seven Star Alliance lacked a Half-Saint to defend it while its strongest members recovered. Gu Chenfeng accepted responsibility for protecting the Human and Demon Races during the twenty years before the seal broke, then left to take command as Yuqing urged him to protect himself.

• Yuqing explained that the seal on the Saint-Seizing Land would hold for only twenty more years, while the wounded Half-Saints and the escaped Soul Devouring Beasts left the Seven Star Alliance vulnerable to Geng Yuan.
• Yuqing appointed Gu Chenfeng acting alliance leader and tasked him with defending the Human and Demon Races and strengthening the alliance before the decisive battle.
• Gu Chenfeng accepted the responsibility and promised to find a way to reconstruct Great Protector Yao Sheng's physical body.
• Jade Void True Person, Venerable Xuanyao, Venerable Qinglan, and Yao Sheng entered deep dormancy to recover, leaving Gu Chenfeng alone with Yuqing.
• Gu Chenfeng asked whether Yuqing needed the Guixu Cauldron to heal as before, and Yuqing flung him out of the barrier space.
• Yuqing told Gu Chenfeng to be careful and protect himself if the situation became hopeless, and he nodded before preparing to leave.

Gu Chenfeng informed the Seven Star Alliance’s gathered leaders that Mingluo had been sealed, while Alliance Leader Yuqing and the four Deputy Alliance Leaders were unable to lead in person. After Yuqing formally appointed him Acting Alliance Leader, Gu Chenfeng asked the core forces to vote on his appointment.

• Rumors spread that the seal in the Saint-Seizing Land had broken and that the Alliance’s leaders were missing or gravely injured.
• The Seven Star Alliance’s senior experts gathered at Halberd Mountain Hall, but Alliance Leader Yuqing and the four Deputy Alliance Leaders did not appear.
• Gu Chenfeng arrived, took the Alliance Leader’s Throne, and announced that Mingluo had been sealed and the allied forces had won.
• Gu Chenfeng said Yuqing had to remain at the seal and the four Deputy Alliance Leaders needed to recover, so he would serve as Acting Alliance Leader.
• Yuqing formally appointed Gu Chenfeng through the Alliance Tokens, and he asked the assembled forces whether they supported his appointment.

At the alliance meeting, Gu Chenfeng won overwhelming support to become acting alliance leader, but Dugu Lingjue and Qi Tiannu objected and proposed leading jointly instead. Gu Chenfeng defeated them effortlessly with Half-Saint-level power and ordered them to serve as acting deputy alliance leaders.

• Ao Li, the Supreme Dao Sect, and more than ninety percent of the Human and Demon super forces supported Gu Chenfeng as acting alliance leader, while the Infinite Sword Sect and Qilin Race remained silent.
• Dugu Lingjue declared Gu Chenfeng's appointment inappropriate, then wounded Jin Kuang with a sudden strike of sword qi when Jin Kuang challenged him.
• Qi Tiannu also opposed Gu Chenfeng's appointment, arguing that the alliance leader needed to withstand the Half-Saint Geng Yuan; Dugu Lingjue and Qi Tiannu proposed serving jointly as acting leaders with Gu Chenfeng as their deputy.
• Gu Chenfeng accepted that the leader needed sufficient strength and attacked Dugu Lingjue and Qi Tiannu with a dark gold giant palm.
• Dugu Lingjue's Formless Tribulation Sword and Qi Tiannu's Eight Desolations Thunder Domain failed to stop Gu Chenfeng's palm, which pinned them to the ground.
• Gu Chenfeng identified his power as Half-Saint-level and told Dugu Lingjue and Qi Tiannu to remain as acting deputy alliance leaders and assist him.