Chapter Summaries

Months after the Seven Star Continent was saved, Gu Chenfeng and the other experts prepared to travel to the Eternal Heaven Realm, while Yuqing chose to stay behind and protect their family and the continent. Gu Chenfeng entered the golden passage, resolved to find his mother and eventually bring his loved ones to the Upper Realm.

• The Dragon Emperor, the Barbarian God, Tongtong, the Three Kings of the Chaos Star Domain, and the Seven Star Alliance experts gathered to depart, while Taiching Daoist concealed her awkward reaction to Tongtong’s news about Gu Chenfeng and Yuqing.
• Gu Chenfeng arrived with his five wives and the Gu Clan, said farewell to his family, and received a broken jade pendant from Gu Lingxiao that might help him find his mother in the Upper Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng urged his pregnant wives and Ao Li to take care of themselves, but Yuqing refused to join the journey so she could protect the Seven Star Continent and their family.
• Yuqing embraced Taiching Daoist, called her sister, and asked her to care for Gu Chenfeng, explaining that their hearts were connected.
• Gu Chenfeng and the others ascended through the golden passage as he vowed to find a way to lift the Seven Star Continent’s seal and reunite everyone in the Upper Realm.

Gu Chenfeng and the others traveled through the Golden Passage toward the Eternal Heaven Realm while he adapted to the Upper Realm’s laws and reviewed his growing strength. As his Starry Sky Divine Sense Art reached its second level, Marquis Yu’s legacy revealed a new secret art: the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation.

• Chen Bo used the Dragon-Controlling Edict to carry Gu Chenfeng, the Four Great Experts, and the Three Kings through the spatial tides toward the Eternal Heaven Realm, while the Seven Star Continent’s two Spatial Passages were sealed.
• Chen Bo told Gu Chenfeng and the others that they would reach the Eternal Heaven Realm in about ten days, and Gu Chenfeng, Tongtong, and the Three Kings went to their cabins to adapt to the changing Plane Laws.
• Gu Chenfeng assessed his perfected Three Systems Energy, formidable Limitless Domain, and newly created Limitless Axe Technique as he traveled.
• Gu Chenfeng examined Qi Shan’s storage ring and reviewed his treasures, including the battle axe, Guixu Cauldron, and Five-Thunder Divine Mountain.
• Gu Chenfeng advanced his Starry Sky Divine Sense Art to its second level and discovered the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation on Marquis Yu’s Golden Palace Jade Page.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions crossed into the Eternal Heaven Realm, where powerful plane laws suppressed their strength even as richer spiritual energy promised faster cultivation. They headed for the Dragon-Controlling Guard’s northwestern branch camp, while Gu Chenfeng considered the chance to claim the Feather Transformation Marquisate.

• Gu Chenfeng studied the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation in the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins while sensing the growing pressure of the Eternal Heaven Realm’s rules.
• Taiching Daoist summoned Gu Chenfeng to the deck, where Chen Bo used the Dragon-Controlling Edict to open a passage through the vast law chains and guide the airship into the Eternal Heaven Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng experienced the upper realm’s rich spiritual energy and learned that its rules suppressed martial power and accelerated the consumption of life essence.
• Chen Bo explained that the Dragon-Controlling Guard was stationed at the border to keep the chaotic Feather Transformation Marquisate from worsening until a new Marquis Yu took over, stirring Gu Chenfeng’s interest in the fief.
• Chen Bo activated his waist token to pass the camp’s crimson dragon restrictions, and the group flew toward the Dragon-Controlling Guard’s branch camp.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions arrived at a branch camp of the Dragon-Controlling Guard, where he witnessed the strength of the Great Jin Divine Dynasty’s elite forces. Left Commandant Zhuo Zhengting tested Gu Chenfeng’s composure and considered recruiting him, but said a friend wanted to meet him first.

• Gu Chenfeng was shocked by the many Half-Saints, Sub-Saints, and True Saints stationed at the Dragon-Controlling Guard camp, and Taiching Daoist explained that its soldiers were exceptional elites.
• Chen Bo, Taiching Daoist, and the other captains brought Gu Chenfeng and his companions to meet Left Commandant Zhuo Zhengting.
• Zhuo Zhengting’s pressure weighed on Gu Chenfeng and the others, but Gu Chenfeng stood firm using the Heaven-Opening Creation Art and his Limitless Domain.
• Zhuo Zhengting praised Gu Chenfeng’s strength and bearing, and Gu Chenfeng thanked him for helping protect the Seven Star Continent.
• Huang Qiu recommended Gu Chenfeng for the Dragon-Controlling Guard, and Zhuo Zhengting said Gu Chenfeng qualified for special admission but should first meet a friend of his.

Gu Chenfeng met Cao Meng, the commandant's young friend, and traded an illustrated album for Cao Meng's Myriad Puppet Treasure Art. As Gu Chenfeng left, he revealed that he recognized Cao Meng as the Fourth Prince.

• Zhuo Zhengting sent Gu Chenfeng alone to meet the commandant's friend in a tent at the rear of camp.
• Gu Chenfeng found Cao Meng carving Spirit Power-infused Puppets and praised them as works of art.
• Cao Meng asked Gu Chenfeng about the Seven Star Continent, and Gu Chenfeng recounted its long resistance and his victory over the Four Races.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Cao Meng an illustrated album, and Cao Meng exchanged it for the Myriad Puppet Treasure Art.
• As Cao Meng saw him off, Gu Chenfeng bowed and addressed him as the Fourth Prince.

Gu Chenfeng returned Marquis Yu’s Command to Fourth Prince Cao Meng and declined offers of a military post or personal service, choosing instead to receive a territory. Cao Meng agreed to grant it within a month and prepared to return to the Great Jin Divine Dynasty, while ordering his guard merely to watch Gu Chenfeng.

• Gu Chenfeng deduced that Cao Meng was the Fourth Prince and impressed him with his reasoning.
• Gu Chenfeng gave Cao Meng Marquis Yu’s Command, explaining that he did not consider himself Marquis Yu’s chosen successor and was returning the decree to its rightful owner.
• Cao Meng offered Gu Chenfeng a place in the Dragon-Controlling Guard, a role as a personal guard, or a territory, and Gu Chenfeng chose the territory.
• Cao Meng told Gu Chenfeng to remain with the Dragon-Controlling Guard until the grant arrived within a month, then said he would return to the divine dynasty.
• Cao Meng rejected his guard’s suggestion to search Gu Chenfeng’s memories and ordered him only to keep an eye on Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng survived his meeting with Cao Meng by handing over Marquis Yu's Command and choosing a territory of his own rather than joining the Fourth Prince's forces. Meanwhile, the Second Prince learned that Cao Meng had likely secured the command and ordered his forces to focus on their rivalry while leaving Gu Chenfeng alone for now.

• Gu Chenfeng realized a hidden expert had been watching him and felt the killing intent fade after he gave Marquis Yu's Command to Cao Meng.
• Gu Chenfeng chose the reward of receiving territory and remaining independent, believing it was safer than joining the Fourth Prince's forces.
• The Second Prince learned the Four Races had failed to recover Marquis Yu's Command and suspected Cao Meng had obtained it.
• The Second Prince ordered the Seven Star Continent blockade maintained, the Dragon-Controlling Guard kept in check, and the Four Races punished.
• After learning Gu Chenfeng was among the Lower Realm cultivators at a Dragon-Controlling Guard camp, the Second Prince dismissed him as unimportant and ordered his agent not to act.

Gu Chenfeng demonstrated strength comparable to a peak True Saint while sparring with four Dragon-Controlling Guards, then received the court’s decree granting him rewards and a new post. The decree appointed him city lord of Black Iron City and made him a viscount, setting the next stage of his future in the Eternal Heaven Realm.

• Gu Chenfeng fought four late-stage True Saint Dragon-Controlling Guards and defeated them using his Limitless Domain and Heaven's Mandate Nine Strikes Secret Art.
• Chen Bo praised Gu Chenfeng’s strength and offered him a deputy captain position, but Gu Chenfeng said he wanted to explore the Eternal Heaven Realm instead of joining the Dragon-Controlling Guard.
• Gu Chenfeng reflected that he had reached the mid-stage True Saint realm and believed he could defeat peak True Saint opponents and briefly contend with Saint Warrior experts.
• A soldier reported that the court’s rewards had arrived, and Gu Chenfeng went with the Four Great Experts and Chen Bo to the Central Army Tent.
• Zhuo Zhengting read the divine dynasty’s decree granting Gu Chenfeng one thousand low-grade spirit stones, two mid-grade saint weapons, the post of city lord of Black Iron City, and the rank of viscount.

Gu Chenfeng accepted the appointment as viscount and city lord of Black Iron City despite warnings that the border city was perilous. He received the Fourth Prince’s Command Token and prepared to leave for his new post immediately.

• Zhuo Zhengting announced that Gu Chenfeng had been appointed city lord of Black Iron City and granted the rank of viscount.
• Taiching Daoist, the Dragon Emperor, Huang Qiu, and Chen Bo warned Gu Chenfeng that Black Iron City was dangerous and urged him to join the Fourth Prince’s Personal Guards instead.
• Gu Chenfeng chose to accept the appointment, reasoning that governing a city offered more independence and opportunity than remaining caught between the princes.
• Zhuo Zhengting gave Gu Chenfeng a Command Token that would let him seek the Fourth Prince’s help once and warned that the Second Prince’s faction might target him as he rose.
• Gu Chenfeng accepted the edict, rewards, and appointment documents, then said he would set out for Black Iron City that day.

Gu Chenfeng departed for Black Iron City with Tongtong and the Three Kings after bidding farewell to the Dragon Emperor, Huang Qiu, and Taiching Daoist. While traveling through the Feather Transformation Marquisate, he received an ambush and used the Shadow Soul-Chasing Needle to kill three Sub-Saint bandit leaders.

• Gu Chenfeng, Tongtong, and the Three Kings said goodbye to the Dragon Emperor, Huang Qiu, and Taiching Daoist before flying toward Blackwater City.
• In the commandant's tent, Chen Bo warned Zhuo Zhengting that Gu Chenfeng's refusal to become a pawn in the political struggle would make his path dangerous.
• During the journey, Gu Chenfeng examined the Fourth Prince's token and refined the Wood Yi Shield and Shadow Soul-Chasing Needle he had selected as rewards.
• More than half a month into the trip, Tongtong and the Three Kings fought a bandit group whose three leaders were Sub-Saints.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Shadow Soul-Chasing Needle to kill all three Sub-Saint leaders, causing the remaining bandits to flee.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions traveled through the chaotic Feather Transformation Marquisate, fighting off bandits and gathering resources before reaching Black Iron City. At the eastern gate, Yin Hongluan announced Gu Chenfeng’s official arrival as city lord to the startled guards.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Shadow Soul-Chasing Needle to kill three Sub-Saint bandit leaders, and Tongtong and the Three Kings collected the spoils.
• Gu Chenfeng learned from Yin Hongluan that the Feather Transformation Marquisate had fallen into disorder after Marquis Yu’s death, while the group continued defeating bandits and accumulating resources.
• During the journey, Gu Chenfeng learned about the Eternal Heaven Realm’s cultivation levels and the rarity of Sub-Saint and Saint experts.
• After a month of travel, Gu Chenfeng’s party reached Black Iron City and noticed its defensive formation and Spirit Power seemed weak.
• Black Iron City’s guards surrounded Gu Chenfeng’s Airship and demanded fees, but Yin Hongluan identified Gu Chenfeng as the newly appointed city lord and ordered them to clear the way.

Gu Chenfeng arrived in Black Iron City and learned from Deputy City Lord Liu Youfang that rampant bandits had devastated the city while the authorities ignored its plight. After Liu handed over the city seal at a private banquet, Gu Chenfeng drank the wine and identified it as a possible ingredient in Origin-Scattering Incense.

• Yin Hongluan showed Black Iron City's guards Gu Chenfeng's official appointment, and Liu Youfang came out to welcome him.
• Gu Chenfeng entered the city with Tongtong and the Three Kings, then toured its deserted streets and saw the damage caused by bandits.
• Liu Youfang explained that bandits had plundered the city and that Black Iron City's previous two City Lords had died trying to stop them.
• Liu Youfang guided Gu Chenfeng to the City Lord's Manor, reported on the city's affairs, and handed him the great seal.
• At a private banquet, Gu Chenfeng drank Liu Youfang's spirit wine, recognized it as a possible component of Origin-Scattering Incense, and asked where Liu had obtained it.

Gu Chenfeng exposed Deputy City Lord Liu Youfang’s attempt to poison and ambush him, then defeated him and subdued the attackers. The guards lay incapacitated in the City Lord’s hall as Liu Youfang remained pinned beneath Gu Chenfeng’s axe.

• Gu Chenfeng revealed the wine contained Origin-Scattering Incense and confronted Liu Youfang about the hidden attackers.
• Liu Youfang attacked Gu Chenfeng, but Gu Chenfeng’s Azure Dragon Reverse Scale and domain power neutralized his strikes and secret blade.
• Gu Chenfeng struck Liu Youfang with his battle axe, gravely wounding him and pinning him to the floor.
• Four Sub-Saint experts and armed guards charged into the hall, then froze when they saw Liu Youfang defeated.
• Gu Chenfeng sent a silver needle through the attackers’ vital acupoints, causing them to collapse and cry out in pain.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Liu Youfang’s ambush in the City Lord’s Manor and captured the Deputy City Lord, who hinted that someone powerful stood behind him. After Gu Chenfeng tortured Liu Youfang with the Sealing Mark, Liu Youfang finally agreed to reveal everything, but Gu Chenfeng began the punishment again.

• Gu Chenfeng neutralized the poisoned wine, overcame Liu Youfang’s ambush, and pinned him beneath his axe.
• Gu Chenfeng questioned Liu Youfang about who had ordered the attack, while Liu Youfang warned him not to harm him because of his powerful backing.
• Tongtong used the Ten Thousand Yin Banner to capture everyone else in the hall, including the wounded Sub-Saint cultivators.
• Gu Chenfeng sealed Liu Youfang with the Sealing Mark and subjected him to repeated tortures until he agreed to talk.
• Gu Chenfeng ignored Liu Youfang’s promise to reveal everything and began the torture again.

Gu Chenfeng forced Liu Youfang to confess his conspiracy with the three sects and learned that powerful neighboring cities might be backing them. He decided to stabilize Black Iron City before confronting its enemies and planned to fund its recovery with Liu Youfang’s fortune and forced labor from the captured villains.

• Gu Chenfeng revived Liu Youfang after torturing him and threatened him into revealing everything.
• Liu Youfang confessed that he had conspired with the Azure Wolf Sect, Profound Yin Valley, and Iron Halberd Gate to assassinate Gu Chenfeng and keep control of Black Iron City.
• Liu Youfang revealed that the three sects had True Saints and secretly paid tribute to three powerful neighboring cities that might support their efforts to take Black Iron City’s resources.
• Gu Chenfeng concluded that the plot was driven by local interests rather than the Second Prince and decided to secure Black Iron City before confronting the sects.
• Liu Youfang disclosed that fewer than a tenth of the city’s resources and inhabitants remained, including two black iron ore veins and several dozen mu of spirit fields.
• Gu Chenfeng suggested that Liu Youfang contribute his accumulated wealth to rebuild the city and that the captured villains be made to work in the mines and fields.

The three sect leaders learned that Gu Chenfeng had seized control of Black Iron City and rebuilt its operations, so they chose to investigate him before attacking. In the city, Gu Chenfeng heard that funding remained a problem and began considering whether to make money by refining pills.

• The leaders of Profound Yin Valley and two other sects learned that Liu Youfang had fallen and that Gu Chenfeng had restored Black Iron City's mines, spirit fields, and defenses.
• The three leaders decided to report Gu Chenfeng's success and investigate his background before making another move.
• Gu Chenfeng assigned Tongtong, Yin Hongluan, Ji Qianqiu, and Ming Nine Netherworlds responsibility for Black Iron City's affairs and its surrounding resources.
• Yin Hongluan reported that city repairs and recruitment were progressing, but Black Iron City still lacked funds.
• After learning that alchemists were highly valued in the Eternal Heaven Realm, Gu Chenfeng considered refining pills himself.

Gu Chenfeng tested whether his Lower Realm alchemy skills would work in the Eternal Heaven Realm and successfully refined several batches of spirit pills. He left the hall eager to try a top-grade spirit pill formula.

• Yin Hongluan brought Gu Chenfeng spirit medicines and pill formulas from Liu Youfang's storeroom and doubted he could refine spirit pills.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Guixu Cauldron to refine eleven Origin Restoration Pills, proving himself a Pill Craftsman-level alchemist.
• Gu Chenfeng refined another batch of ten spirit pills, and Yin Hongluan offered him a more difficult Spirit-Gathering Pill formula.
• Gu Chenfeng successfully refined ten Spirit-Gathering Pills and asked for a top-grade spirit pill formula to try.

Gu Chenfeng left Black Iron City for Azure Cloud Market to buy rare materials needed to forge the Feathered Flying Swords and strengthen his defenses against the Three Sects and their allies. As he traveled, he reflected on his complicated feelings for Leng Xingye, then turned to cultivation while awaiting a response from her.

• Gu Chenfeng surveyed Black Iron City's recovery and resolved to build up its industries and defenses before the Three Sects could retaliate.
• Gu Chenfeng reviewed his progress gathering materials for the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation and planned to use his pill-refining earnings and two valuable Profound Pills to buy what remained.
• Gu Chenfeng flew northeast toward Azure Cloud Market, hoping to purchase all the missing materials in one trip.
• Gu Chenfeng thought of Leng Xingye and his growing feelings for her, but received no response when he had tried contacting her in the Divine Ruins Space.
• Gu Chenfeng set aside his thoughts and began cultivating on the Enlightenment Platform.

Gu Chenfeng entered Azure Cloud Market to buy materials for refining flying swords, but Azure Cloud Pavilion lacked two of the three main materials and the purchase depleted nearly all his spirit stones. He planned to seek the missing materials at the evening Trading Gathering, but a woman collided with him and cried out over her family's Ancestral Jade.

• Gu Chenfeng paid the entrance fee and explored Azure Cloud Market, where he sensed several hidden Saint Warrior experts.
• Gu Chenfeng went to Azure Cloud Pavilion and gave an attendant his list of artifact-refining materials.
• Gu Chenfeng bought the available supplementary materials and Nine Netherworlds silkworm silk, then sold spirit pills to cover the high cost.
• Gu Chenfeng planned to use his two remaining Profound Pills to trade for the two missing main materials at the Trading Gathering.
• A woman rushed around a corner and fell after Gu Chenfeng dodged her, and she cried out that her family's Ancestral Jade had broken.

Gu Chenfeng was targeted by a trio of swindlers in the Azure Cloud Market, but a young woman in yellow exposed their scheme before he could leave with them. After thanking her and Elder Zhong, Gu Chenfeng departed, while Elder Zhong questioned whether the woman had truly helped him.

• A woman accused Gu Chenfeng of breaking her family’s jade, and two True Saints and the crowd backed her demand for thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized the accusation as a con but pretended to agree to pay, and the two men secretly planned to kill him outside the market and take his treasures.
• A woman in yellow confronted the trio, identifying them as wanted swindlers from another market, while Elder Zhong drove off the two men with his Saint Warrior aura.
• The woman chased after the fleeing swindlers, and the crowd realized they had witnessed a scam.
• Gu Chenfeng thanked the woman and Elder Zhong before leaving; Elder Zhong warned the woman that Gu Chenfeng might have been involved with the swindlers.