Chapter Summaries

After recovering enough to climb Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, Gu Chenfeng searched its lightning-struck slopes for resources to heal his injuries. He found and consumed an azure thunder vine, then planned to enter the mountainside once he had fully recovered.

• Gu Chenfeng spent ten days cultivating at the mountain’s foot, recovering about thirty percent of his injuries while the old man remained near death.
• With his healing supplies exhausted, Gu Chenfeng left the five-colored barrier and began climbing Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to search for spirit medicines.
• As the lightning grew stronger, Gu Chenfeng protected himself with astral qi and found an azure thunder vine surrounded by emerald lightning.
• Gu Chenfeng broke through the vine’s lightning defenses, tore it out by the roots, and swallowed it whole.
• After refining the vine’s energy for an hour, Gu Chenfeng’s injuries improved and his physique was tempered, and he decided to seek supreme blood crystals on the mountainside once fully healed.

After recovering from his injuries, Gu Chenfeng ventured into the mountainside of Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, where he found medicinal treasures guarded by thunder beasts. He suppressed the lightning essences the beasts left inside him and continued exploring higher up the mountain.

• Gu Chenfeng ate a Gilt Thunder-Pattern Fruit and meditated until his injuries healed and his cultivation returned to its peak.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the mountainside and found a Mystic Ice Thunder Lotus in a cold pool guarded by a giant lightning python.
• Gu Chenfeng killed the python, but its lightning essence entered his body and marked him as prey for other thunder beasts.
• Gu Chenfeng suppressed the essence with the five elements laws, took the Mystic Ice Thunder Lotus, and continued exploring.
• Gu Chenfeng killed an ocher-yellow tiger-like thunder beast, suppressed its earth-origin lightning essence alongside the first, and continued higher up the mountain.

Gu Chenfeng gathered volatile lightning essences from Thunder Beasts on Five-Thunder Divine Mountain until they threatened to destroy his Dantian. After struggling to refine them, he returned to the mountain’s foot and detected that the seemingly dead old man still had a faint aura.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated Thunder Beasts and collected their lightning essences, suppressing them by separating their Five Elements attributes inside his Dantian.
• As the essences accumulated and destabilized, Gu Chenfeng fled the mountainside to avoid being forced to kill more Thunder Beasts.
• After three days of refining, Gu Chenfeng found that the essences held valuable origin power but would take years to refine because of their savage auras.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to the foot of Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, where he continued cultivating near the five-colored rosy glow but made little progress.
• Gu Chenfeng used his Divine Sense on the old man in the courtyard and detected a faint fluctuation of aura, realizing the old man was not completely dead.

Gu Chenfeng revived the dying mountain keeper with medicinal herbs and learned why lightning essence limited his time on Five-Thunder Divine Mountain. The old man offered to teach him a way to refine it quickly and began demonstrating the method.

• Gu Chenfeng tossed medicinal herbs to the seemingly dead old man, whose vitality stirred and whose body absorbed their energy.
• The old man woke and told Gu Chenfeng that some of the herbs were poisonous, but they could not harm him as he neared the end of his lifespan.
• The mountain keeper explained that lightning essence accumulated from slain Thunder Beasts attracted further attacks and eventually forced visitors to leave the mountain.
• The old man recognized Gu Chenfeng as Chen Feng, identified his goal of finding spiritual treasures to aid the Chaos Star Domain, and offered him a method to refine lightning essence quickly.
• Gu Chenfeng questioned the old man's motives, and the mountain keeper began demonstrating the method by pointing into the air.

An old man taught Gu Chenfeng how to open three profound apertures and explained that lightning essence could help him overcome the Heavenly Dao’s backlash. Gu Chenfeng began opening the first aperture with wood-attribute lightning essence, but the chapter ended as he repeatedly struck it, trying to gather enough energy.

• The old man demonstrated the circulation routes for opening three profound apertures, and Gu Chenfeng memorized them with the help of his powerful primordial spirit and Star Vault Secret Method.
• The old man warned Gu Chenfeng to use lightning essence matching his law attributes, since other attributes could severely injure or kill him.
• Gu Chenfeng simulated the routes on the Enlightenment Platform, then found that his law power and blood qi were too weak to open a profound aperture.
• Gu Chenfeng guided wood-attribute lightning essence through the first route and struck the hidden aperture, forming a faint, unstable energy circuit.
• Gu Chenfeng sent further lightning essence into the aperture, making its vortex clearer as he continued bombarding it.

Gu Chenfeng broke open his first profound aperture with lightning essence, recovering from his injuries and greatly improving his cultivation. He then opened a second aperture, but found only two strands of lightning essence remained, leaving him unable to continue immediately.

• Gu Chenfeng used golden origin lightning essence to break through his first profound aperture, despite the damage caused by rampaging lightning.
• The newly opened aperture devoured the lightning essence and released origin power that healed Gu Chenfeng, strengthened his cultivation, and increased his technique’s circulation speed by more than twenty percent.
• The hemp-robed old man noticed Gu Chenfeng’s success and wondered whether it came from astonishing talent or heaven-defying luck.
• Gu Chenfeng used water origin lightning essence to attack a second profound aperture, enduring a longer and more painful breakthrough.
• After two hours of bombardment and a day and night of recovery, Gu Chenfeng opened his second profound aperture and advanced again.
• Gu Chenfeng considered opening a third aperture but discovered that only two strands of lightning essence remained in his dantian.

Gu Chenfeng returned from Five-Thunder Divine Mountain with a supreme blood crystal, opened his third profound acupoint, and refined the crystal to strengthen his body and blood qi. After the hemp-robed old man asked how he had opened the acupoints so quickly, Gu Chenfeng concealed his advantages and called himself a prodigy without equal.

• Gu Chenfeng left the hemp-robed old man and climbed Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to seek supreme blood crystals and gather lightning essence.
• After more than half a month, Gu Chenfeng descended with spirit medicines and a supreme blood crystal he had taken after defeating a Half-Saint Thunder Beast.
• Gu Chenfeng opened his third profound acupoint by using the beast’s lightning essence, then spent two days refining the origin power it released.
• Gu Chenfeng spent ten days refining the supreme blood crystal and more saint-level essence blood, bringing his breakthrough to Half-Saint within reach.
• The hemp-robed old man asked how Gu Chenfeng had opened three profound acupoints so easily, and Gu Chenfeng replied that he had ninety-nine percent talent.

Gu Chenfeng traded life-extending spirit medicines for Elder Wei’s secrets about opening Profound Apertures, then repeatedly climbed Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to gather more medicines and Supreme Blood Crystals. Nearly three years later, after opening his seventeenth aperture and reaching the limits of his current cultivation, he asked Elder Wei where to find the eighteenth.

• Gu Chenfeng offered to extend Elder Wei’s life in exchange for the Secret Method for opening Profound Apertures, and Elder Wei agreed to reveal the apertures one at a time in return for spirit medicines.
• Elder Wei demonstrated the fourth Profound Aperture, and Gu Chenfeng climbed Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to gather medicines and Supreme Blood Crystals before opening it and receiving the fifth aperture’s method.
• Gu Chenfeng continued gathering supplies and opening apertures during repeated climbs, growing stronger with each return to the mountain’s foot.
• Nearly three years later, Gu Chenfeng used Lightning Essence to open his seventeenth Profound Aperture, astonishing Elder Wei.
• After recovering and exhausting his Supreme Blood Crystals, Gu Chenfeng reached the limits of his current cultivation and asked Elder Wei to reveal the eighteenth Profound Aperture.

Gu Chenfeng learned that the True Essence Secret Treasury Art could open only eighteen Profound Apertures and said farewell to the dying Elder Wei. He then charged into Five-Thunder Divine Mountain’s depths to gather enough lightning essence to open the final aperture and break through to Half-Saint before the Chaos Star Domain’s barrier failed.

• Elder Wei told Gu Chenfeng that the eighteenth Profound Aperture was the last one the True Essence Secret Treasury Art could open and explained that his injuries and the mountain’s suppression were nearing the end of his life.
• Elder Wei passed Gu Chenfeng a command token and asked him to help its bearers if safe, and to discover what lay atop Five-Thunder Divine Mountain if he reached the summit region.
• Gu Chenfeng agreed to both requests, bowed to Elder Wei, and left as the old man closed his eyes to rest.
• Gu Chenfeng raced through the mountain’s lower reaches, absorbing lightning essence from thunder beasts with his seventeen Profound Apertures.
• Gu Chenfeng headed for the mountain’s deepest region to gather lightning essence from Half-Saint Thunder Beasts and open his eighteenth Profound Aperture before the Chaos Star Domain’s barrier shattered.

The Three Great Royal Cities’ barrier was nearing collapse after almost three years of resisting the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s refining force, leaving the people of the Chaos Star Domain with dwindling supplies and hope. Yin Hongluan, Ji Qianqiu, and Ming Nine Netherworlds agreed to spend their treasuries to sustain the formation and prepare to fight if Gu Chenfeng did not return in time.

• A girl feared that the golden sphere overhead was refining everyone, and her father reassured her by pointing out the three kings’ formation eyes before giving her and her mother blood crystals.
• The father privately admitted that the army’s blood crystals were dwindling and wondered whether the three kings could save them.
• Ming Nine Netherworlds and Ji Qianqiu warned that the Blood Huan Heaven-Pole Formation could last only about another month because the three blood crystal veins were nearly depleted.
• Yin Hongluan insisted that Gu Chenfeng would return and proposed using Mountain-Slaying City’s treasures to reinforce the barrier, then detonating it to strike the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall if necessary.
• Ji Qianqiu and Ming Nine Netherworlds agreed to empty their treasuries to sustain the formation, while Ming Nine Netherworlds privately prayed that Gu Chenfeng would return in time.

Gu Chenfeng hunted Half-Saint Thunder Beasts on Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to gather lightning essence and began forcing open his eighteenth profound aperture. The breakthrough proved harder than expected, leaving him fighting incoming beasts while still short of the energy he needed.

• Gu Chenfeng slaughtered first-rate Thunder Beasts, then climbed into the Half-Saint beasts’ territory to gather stronger lightning essence.
• Gu Chenfeng killed a Half-Saint Demon Wolf with one axe strike and absorbed its lightning essence.
• Gu Chenfeng slew three stronger Half-Saint Thunder Beasts at once and continued fighting his way up the mountain.
• As the accumulated five-element lightning essence began to strain against his control, Gu Chenfeng decided to open his eighteenth profound aperture on the mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng located the aperture and began bombarding it with lightning essence while his original body fought off the Half-Saint Thunder Beasts drawn by the energy.
• Gu Chenfeng sensed that the aperture was difficult to open and that his lightning essence was insufficient, just as several Half-Saint Thunder Beasts attacked from all sides.

Gu Chenfeng fought through the Half-Saint Thunder Beasts near Five-Thunder Divine Mountain’s summit to gather enough lightning essence to open his eighteenth profound aperture. After nearly killing every Half-Saint Thunder Beast on the mountain, he found his energy running low and headed into the perilous summit region to continue the breakthrough.

• Gu Chenfeng intensified his lightning-essence assault on the eighteenth profound aperture while hunting Half-Saint Thunder Beasts to replenish his energy.
• Gu Chenfeng reached the region near the summit and released his aura, drawing in more than a dozen Half-Saint Thunder Beasts and others from the surrounding forests.
• Gu Chenfeng used Starfall Soul Tribulation, Starlight Escape, and his battle axe to fight the Thunder Beasts while continuing to attack the profound aperture.
• Gu Chenfeng realized he had nearly exterminated the mountain’s Half-Saint Thunder Beasts, but their remaining lightning essence could not meet his needs.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to risk entering the summit region and shot toward it before his lightning essence ran out.

Gu Chenfeng entered the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain summit and found the Chaos White Lotus and the Saint-Seizing Land's anchoring treasure, but a Saint Level Thunder Beast drove him back. The five-colored treasure then summoned four more powerful beasts, leaving Gu Chenfeng facing the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin.

• Gu Chenfeng passed through the summit's barrier, where his Law Power recovered and his Divine Sense revealed abundant treasures and a Chaos White Lotus nurturing the Saint-Seizing Land's anchoring treasure.
• Gu Chenfeng realized the summit held no Lightning Essence and decided to use the lotus's Chaos Qi to force open his eighteenth Profound Aperture before taking the treasures.
• Gu Chenfeng flew toward the peak and sent a Law Giant Hand to seize the lotus and anchoring treasure.
• A five-clawed golden dragon emerged from the five-colored light, shattered Gu Chenfeng's attack, and blasted through his defenses, sending him flying and injuring him.
• The Chaos White Lotus revolved, and four more lightning beasts appeared beside the golden dragon: the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin.

Gu Chenfeng endured the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain’s lightning long enough to break open his eighteenth profound aperture, but was hurled from the summit with his fate unknown. Three months later, the Four Saints began shattering the barrier over the Chaos Star Domain, leaving its exhausted people facing imminent destruction.

• Five Saint-Level Thunder Beasts attacked Gu Chenfeng with a devastating five-elements lightning pillar, and his defenses and Ancient Treasures Battle Armor were destroyed.
• Gu Chenfeng formed a barrier from the Five Elements Law, drew lightning into his body, and used its essence to force open his eighteenth profound aperture.
• The Chaos White Lotus’s five-colored sphere revealed ancient runes forming a seal as the Thunder Beasts hesitated, then entered the sphere; Gu Chenfeng was carried down the mountain in a blazing mass of lightning.
• Three months later, Mingluo, Yan Yu, Dark Owl, and Yan Jin empowered the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall to break the weakened barrier enclosing the Chaos Star Domain.
• Cracks spread across the barrier as the people inside collapsed from exhaustion, and a father comforted his daughter by telling her the sun would rise again.

After more than three years holding the Blood Huan Heaven-Pole Formation, the Three Kings and Eight Generals launched a last-ditch attack on the Four Saints but were badly outnumbered and began losing ground. Just as Yin Hongluan was driven toward the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s flames, five powerful Five Elements Star Beasts entered the battle.

• The Three Kings and Eight Generals used the Sky-Splitting King’s innate Divine Ability to break through the Barrier and attack the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall, but failed to shake it.
• Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, Ji Qianqiu, and the Eight Generals confronted the Four Saints and Twelve Half-Saints, while Gu Chenfeng remained absent.
• Yin Hongluan fought Mingluo and Yan Jin as the other Kings and Generals battled the remaining Saints and Half-Saints, but their weakened forces fell behind.
• Mingluo and Yan Jin pressed Yin Hongluan toward the sea of blood-colored flames and urged her to surrender.
• Five beams of Profound Light struck at Mingluo, giving Yin Hongluan a chance to escape the flames, and five Half-Saint Five Elements Star Beasts charged into the battle.

Five Elements Star Beasts joined the battle and fought Mingluo, but the Chaos Star Domain’s barrier began collapsing and blood-colored flames flooded inside. Gu Chenfeng returned above the Three Great Royal Cities and pulled the Three Kings, Eight Generals, and Star Beasts into the barrier, then called on the Three Kings to help him break the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s suppression.

• The Five Elements Star Beasts attacked Mingluo with their combined law technique, forcing him to take them seriously even as he began to injure them.
• Yin Hongluan gained ground against Yan Jin, but the Three Kings and Eight Generals struggled against their opponents and could not stop the barrier from cracking.
• Blood-colored flames poured through the failing barrier, and Mingluo ordered his forces to kill everyone in the Chaos Star Domain once it broke.
• Gu Chenfeng appeared above the Three Great Royal Cities in a crimson formation, and the desperate defenders recognized him as he returned to save them.
• Gu Chenfeng drew the Three Kings, Eight Generals, and Five Elements Star Beasts into the barrier and told the Three Kings to join him in breaking the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s suppression.

Gu Chenfeng returned with the power to restore the Blood Huan Heaven-Pole Formation, breaking the seal created by the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall and turning the battle against Heavenly Saint City. After the Three Kings and Eight Generals clashed with the enemy, Gu Chenfeng faced Mingluo alone and blocked his first strike with the Profound Ice Battle Axe.

• Gu Chenfeng raised a mountain from the earth veins with the top-grade blood crystal ore vein, replenishing the Three Kings’ depleted mines and restoring the formation’s energy.
• Gu Chenfeng and the Three Kings activated all four poles of the Blood Huan Heaven-Pole Formation, which blasted away the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall and shattered the seal over the Chaos Star Domain.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, and Ji Qianqiu spirit medicines, and they recovered before joining him and the Eight Generals in battle against Heavenly Saint City.
• Gu Chenfeng sent the five Half-Saint star beasts to aid the Eight Generals, then remained behind to confront Mingluo.
• Mingluo charged Gu Chenfeng with his Blood Halberd, and Gu Chenfeng caught the Profound Ice Battle Axe and blocked the strike.

Gu Chenfeng fought Mingluo to a standstill, then revealed eighteen profound apertures that boosted his power and let him overpower the Sub-Saint. He left Mingluo badly wounded and sent flying.

• Mingluo attacked Gu Chenfeng, but Gu blocked his blows and matched his growing offense.
• Mingluo formed his Asura Battle Body, while Gu unleashed his Indestructible Golden Body and Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes Secret Art; their strength proved equal.
• The Three Kings recovered enough with Gu's spirit medicine, and the Eight Generals and five Star Beasts pushed Heavenly Saint City's twelve Half-Saints back.
• Gu revealed eighteen profound aperture vortices and eighteen rays of golden starlight, then struck Mingluo with a greatly empowered axe.
• Gu's Heaven-Smiting Slash overwhelmed Mingluo's defense, cracked his bone armor, and sent him flying as he spat blood.

Gu Chenfeng used his eighteen Profound Apertures and three overlapping domain powers to defeat Mingluo, then joined forces with Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, and Ji Qianqiu against the Four Saints. The Four Saints were defeated in the combined clash, though the battle continued.

• Gu Chenfeng recalled how opening his eighteenth Profound Aperture had brought his physique and Source Qi to the Half-Saint realm and allowed him to return with spirit medicines and reinforcements.
• Gu Chenfeng activated his Starry Sky Domain against Mingluo’s Asura Domain, then overwhelmed it by combining it with domain prototypes formed from his blood qi and law power.
• Gu Chenfeng struck Mingluo with his Profound Ice Battle Axe, shattering his bone armor and inflicting a grievous wound.
• The other three Saints shielded Mingluo and joined their domains with his, while Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, and Ji Qianqiu lent their domain power to Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng and the three kings shattered Yan Yu’s ruler attack, and the backlash sent Mingluo, Yan Yu, Dark Owl, and Yan Jin flying with injuries.

The Four Saints awakened the Saint-Hiding Golden Hall’s mysterious power and unleashed a golden giant hand against Gu Chenfeng and the Three Kings. As they prepared to make a final stand, an unknown hand emerged from the void and stopped the attack.

• The Four Saints sacrificed their essence blood to awaken the Golden Hall’s dormant power, forcing Gu Chenfeng and the Three Kings to retreat.
• A golden giant hand emerged from the hall, and its attack shattered the group’s defenses and wounded the Three Kings.
• Gu Chenfeng used his powerful body to hold back the hand, but the Four Saints strengthened it with another sacrifice.
• Yin Hongluan, Ming Nine Netherworlds, and Ji Qianqiu joined Gu Chenfeng to face the renewed strike together.
• A weathered hand reached out from the void and held up the descending golden giant hand.