Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng defeated the Three Sects’ forces outside Black Iron City, then drove off a hidden Saint Warrior expert despite being nearly exhausted. Back at the City Lord’s Manor, he found a token marked “Peerless Abyss Pavilion” and resolved to grow stronger while fortifying Black Iron City.

• Gu Chenfeng killed the Black-Clad Youth, prompting Liu Youfang and the City Patrol Guards to counterattack as Xie Ying and the Three Sects’ guest elders fled.
• Gu Chenfeng killed Xie Ying, captured her Primordial Spirit with the Guixu Cauldron, and struck down the three fleeing guest elders with his Feathered Flying Swords.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered the Three Sects’ disciples to surrender, and they dropped their weapons and knelt.
• Gu Chenfeng spotted a concealed expert in the forest and feigned strength until the figure chose to leave rather than attack.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to the City Lord’s Manor, recovered in the Training Room, and found a silver Command Token inscribed with “Peerless Abyss Pavilion.”
• Gu Chenfeng reviewed the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation’s power and heavy costs, then resolved to reach the Saint Warrior realm and strengthen Black Iron City.

Gu Chenfeng consolidated Black Iron City's victory over the Three Sects, prepared for possible retaliation from the three cities that had backed them, and rewarded his followers with spirit pills. He then returned to cultivation and began studying puppet arts, aiming to repair a damaged puppet and strengthen his command of them.

• Liu Youfang reported that Black Iron City had reclaimed the Three Sects' territory and wealth, put their surrendered disciples to work, and seen no response yet from Red Gold City, Nether Abyss City, or Biting Wind City.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered continued surveillance of the three cities and gave spirit pills to Liu Youfang, Tongtong, and the Three Kings so they could improve their strength.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to the training room and sensed that he was nearing a breakthrough to the late True Saint realm.
• Gu Chenfeng summoned his puppets and decided to develop his puppet skills after discovering how well his divine sense could control multiple puppets.
• Gu Chenfeng took out the Myriad Puppet Treasure Art and the Heavenly Secrets Treasured Tome, then entered the Enlightenment Platform to study them and work on repairing his damaged puppet.

After Black Iron City destroyed the Three Sects, Gu Chenfeng strengthened his puppet-control skills and considered refining more powerful Puppets. He also discovered that Chaos Qi was restoring a mysterious talisman, then learned that the City Lords of the Three Cities had arrived to meet him.

• Black Iron City's victory over the Three Sects spread across the southwestern border, and Gu Chenfeng's reputation for strength and ruthless methods grew.
• Gu Chenfeng trained against his Puppets and confirmed that his control skills had reached Mo Qianji's level.
• Gu Chenfeng studied the Myriad Puppet Treasure Art and the Heavenly Secrets Treasured Tome, then planned to use captured Primordial Spirits to refine Spirit Souls for stronger Puppets.
• Gu Chenfeng examined the Golden Radiance Evil-Breaking Talisman and found that Chaos Qi had nourished it, revealing a faint silver-white rune forming on its surface.
• Liu Youfang informed Gu Chenfeng that the City Lords of the Three Cities had arrived together to see him, and Gu Chenfeng left the Training Room to meet them.

The City Lords of Red Gold City, Nether Abyss City, and Biting Wind City arrived at Black Iron City to meet Gu Chenfeng, who welcomed them despite his allies’ suspicions. After a private feast, the visitors left on friendly terms, promising to meet again.

• Lei Qianjun, Daoist Qingxuan, and Ling Wanshuang arrived at Black Iron City and inspected its defenses while questioning Gu Chenfeng’s strength.
• Gu Chenfeng flew out to greet the three City Lords, and their divine sense probes failed to penetrate the barrier around him.
• Ling Wanshuang described the visit as an act of fellowship, and Gu Chenfeng invited the three City Lords into Black Iron City.
• Gu Chenfeng hosted the visitors in an isolated hall, leaving Liu Youfang, Tongtong, and the Three Kings anxiously waiting outside.
• Gu Chenfeng emerged from the hall with the three City Lords, toured the city with them, and saw them off as they promised to visit again.

After Gu Chenfeng demonstrated Saint Warrior-level combat strength, the Three Cities’ lords befriended him, and he built an alliance with them to secure Black Iron City and learn more about the region. With the city’s rear now secure, he began a rare period of secluded cultivation.

• After the Three Cities’ lords departed, Gu Chenfeng explained that they had come to probe Black Iron City’s strength and would no longer threaten it.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled sparring with Lei Qianjun and using his divine sense and seven Feathered Flying Swords to prove his Saint Warrior-level combat strength.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to befriend the Three Cities, reasoning that he needed allies and information while Black Iron City’s foundations remained limited.
• Several days later, Ling Wanshuang, Lei Qianjun, and Daoist Qingxuan returned with attendants and gifts to publicly show their good relations with Gu Chenfeng.
• During their visit, the four exchanged knowledge about Xilin Commandery, cultivation, and spiritual resources.
• After the three city lords left, Gu Chenfeng began secluded cultivation in a period of peace.

After four years of secluded cultivation, Gu Chenfeng returned to a thriving Black Iron City, where his subordinates had grown stronger and the city had prospered under his rule. He traveled to Nether Abyss City for a gathering, hoping its promised treasure land might help him find rare pure-yin materials needed to break through to Saint Warrior level.

• Black Iron City prospered and formed an alliance with the three other major cities of the Southwestern Borderlands while Gu Chenfeng spent four years cultivating and refining puppets.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to Black Iron City, praised Liu Youfang and the others for their work, and rewarded them with magic treasures and pills.
• Gu Chenfeng departed for Nether Abyss City after telling his subordinates that Daoist Qingxuan had invited the four city lords to a gathering.
• Gu Chenfeng reflected that he had reached the peak of the True Saint Realm but had failed to break through to Saint Warrior level, and that he needed rare pure-yin materials to make the Mysterious Female Pill.
• Gu Chenfeng continued meditating aboard his airship as he traveled toward Nether Abyss City and the promised treasure land.

Gu Chenfeng met Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and Ling Wanshuang in Nether Shadow City to discuss a newly discovered Immortal Tomb. After learning that its yin miasma would soon disperse and that it might contain treasures he needed, Gu Chenfeng considered joining their expedition.

• Gu Chenfeng arrived at Nether Shadow City and was welcomed by Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and Ling Wanshuang.
• Lei Qianjun praised Black Iron City’s prosperity and asked Gu Chenfeng to introduce its renowned Pill Master.
• Ling Wanshuang secretly sensed that Gu Chenfeng’s aura had changed and invited him to visit Biting Wind City.
• Daoist Qingxuan told the others that rare treasures had appeared near the Immortal Tomb outside Huai'an City and invited them to explore it.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized that the reported yin marrow crystal, Taiyin grass, and Spirit-Communicating Jade could serve his needs.
• Daoist Qingxuan explained that yin miasma blocked the tomb except for several hours each month and urged the group to set out before the next opening.

Gu Chenfeng agreed to travel with Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and Ling Wanshuang to explore the Immortals' Grave, then encountered a Peerless Abyss Pavilion Killer on his way home. He overwhelmed the mid-stage Saint Warrior and trapped him with an ambush, leaving the Killer unable to escape.

• Gu Chenfeng, Lei Qianjun, and Ling Wanshuang agreed to join Daoist Qingxuan on a trip to Huai'an City and set out three days later.
• On his way back to Black Iron City, Gu Chenfeng detected a masked Killer waiting for him on a mountain and identified him as a Killer from the Peerless Abyss Pavilion.
• The black-clad Killer attacked, but Gu Chenfeng blocked his sword and countered with the Limitless Axe Technique.
• Gu Chenfeng used Azure Dragon's Eye to expose the Killer's true form, then battered him with Limitless Strike and Limitless Raging Tide Slash.
• When the wounded Killer tried to flee, Gu Chenfeng caught up and blocked his escape as dozens of hidden figures unleashed attacks around him.

Gu Chenfeng killed a Peerless Abyss Pavilion assassin who ambushed him, then decided to investigate the organization and whoever had placed him on its Mission List. At the Pavilion’s hidden command chamber, an old man learned the assassin had failed and returned the mission to the Mission Hall, where its bounty would rise.

• Gu Chenfeng used his Spirit Puppets to trap the black-clad assassin and split him in two with a Limitless Raging Tide Slash.
• Gu Chenfeng found little of value in the assassin’s Storage Ring and reflected that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion would keep sending killers after him.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to investigate the Pavilion and identify who had hired it, then returned toward Black Iron City.
• At the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s secret chamber, an old man saw a silver Command Token shatter and learned that Gu Chenfeng had killed another Silver Rank Killer.
• The old man sent the failed mission back to the Mission Hall, allowing its bounty to increase, and returned to meditation.

Gu Chenfeng and Ming Nine Netherworlds met Ling Wanshuang, Lei Qianjun, and Daoist Qingxuan to travel together toward the Immortal Tomb. On the way, Gu Chenfeng learned the Blood-Seeking Hall was rebuilding its strength and that the Peerless Abyss Pavilion was a vast assassin organization capable of threatening even Saint Master experts.

• Gu Chenfeng met the other three City Lords at the border and brought Ming Nine Netherworlds, Xu Yiyi, Yuanzhen, and Lei Ming along for the journey.
• The group boarded Ling Wanshuang's Airship and headed toward Huai'an City while the four companions piloted it and kept watch.
• Daoist Qingxuan revealed that the Blood-Seeking Hall's remnants had returned to the Southern Borderlands and planned to avenge Mo Qianji, whom Gu Chenfeng had secretly killed.
• Gu Chenfeng asked about the Peerless Abyss Pavilion, and Ling Wanshuang explained that the mysterious organization operated across multiple marquisates and could kill even Saint Master experts.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to deal with the threat after returning from the Immortal Tomb, and the group meditated as they traveled toward Huai'an City.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions reached Huai'an City and inspected the Immortal Tomb, where powerful yin miasma prevented entry until the full moon in seven days. While waiting at a cultivator inn, Gu Chenfeng recognized a young female cultivator and stopped Chu Zhusheng from using a sinister trick against her.

• Xu Yiyi reported that the group had arrived near Huai'an City, and Daoist Qingxuan led them to inspect the Immortal Tomb.
• The group found the gorge filled with dense yin miasma, and Daoist Qingxuan said it would recede for two hours at the full moon in seven days.
• Gu Chenfeng and his companions entered Huai'an City as rogue cultivators and lodged at an inn reserved for Saint Level experts.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized a young female cultivator studying a talisman book at the inn.
• Chu Zhusheng approached the woman with an ancient talisman fragment and secretly sent black qi toward her wrist.
• Gu Chenfeng knocked the manuscript away with a bead of tea, dispelled the black qi, and challenged Chu Zhusheng for targeting the woman.

Gu Chenfeng exposed Chu Zhusheng’s attempt to curse Zhang Xiaoyun and helped drive him away. After learning about Zhang Xiaoyun’s ruined sect, Gu Chenfeng traded her an Upper Grade Saint Weapon for the damaged shield he had given her before, and the group left to prepare for the Immortal Tomb.

• Ming Nine Netherworlds identified Chu Zhusheng’s technique as the Soul-Seizing Curse, and Daoist Qingxuan, Ling Wanshuang, and Lei Qianjun joined Gu Chenfeng in forcing Chu Zhusheng to retreat.
• Daoist Qingxuan explained that Chu Zhusheng belonged to the Kindling Fire Sect, a growing force of evil cultivators whose sect master was a late-stage Saint Warrior.
• Zhang Xiaoyun recognized Gu Chenfeng from their earlier trade and told him that she planned to rebuild the Zhengyi Sect after bandits destroyed it.
• Gu Chenfeng traded Zhang Xiaoyun an Upper Grade Saint Weapon for the damaged shield, warning her to stay cautious because Chu Zhusheng might target her again.
• Ling Wanshuang teased Gu Chenfeng about taking Zhang Xiaoyun as a concubine, and the group went to their guest rooms to prepare for the Immortal Tomb.

Gu Chenfeng and his companions reached the Immortal Tomb as the yin miasma began to recede, where they encountered the hostile Kindling Fire Sect and the powerful party from Southern Yue City. When the entrance opened, the groups rushed inside to search for treasures during the four-hour window.

• Gu Chenfeng searched Huai'an City for materials but found none, while noticing that cultivators were gathering in growing numbers for the Immortal Tomb’s opening.
• On the seventh evening, Gu Chenfeng, Ling Wanshuang, and their companions arrived at the valley and took a position near the entrance as the full moon caused the yin miasma to churn.
• High Person Guiku led the Kindling Fire Sect to the valley, and Chu Zhusheng recognized Gu Chenfeng and drew the sect leaders’ hostile attention toward his group.
• Xue Yan and Xiao Changge arrived with Southern Yue City’s experts, prompting High Person Guiku to restrain his group as Xue Yan warned that Southern Yue City would claim what it wanted.
• As the yin miasma receded, Southern Yue City’s party and the Kindling Fire Sect entered first, followed by Gu Chenfeng’s group and the gathered cultivators.

Gu Chenfeng’s party searched the Immortal Tomb’s maze-like caves and collected several yin-attribute treasures while avoiding danger. When Gu Chenfeng noticed that only seven sets of footsteps accompanied the party’s eight auras, he exposed the frightened-looking Xu Yiyi as an impostor and snapped her neck.

• Daoist Qingxuan gave the party Tracking Talismans, and the eight cultivators entered a cave together to search for treasures.
• The party found several yin-attribute treasures, including a tiny piece of yin marrow crystal, as they explored the winding passages.
• Lei Qianjun and Daoist Qingxuan believed the exploration was going smoothly, but Gu Chenfeng sensed that something was wrong.
• Gu Chenfeng stopped the party and said he had heard only seven sets of footsteps despite sensing eight auras.
• Gu Chenfeng lit a torch, approached Xu Yiyi, and snapped her neck while Ling Wanshuang protested.

Gu Chenfeng exposed and destroyed several ghosts that had replaced members of his group as they explored the Immortal Tomb, until Daoist Qingxuan became suspicious and split off. Alone, Gu Chenfeng followed his heightened senses to a cavern containing a skeleton, a large piece of yin marrow crystal, and a Spirit-Communicating Jade.

• Gu Chenfeng recognized that Xu Yiyi was a ghost and destroyed it with his yang qi, then explained that dense yin qi had helped the ghosts disguise themselves.
• Gu Chenfeng exposed and killed a ghost posing as Lei Ming, while the group realized its members were vanishing despite their vigilance.
• Gu Chenfeng repeatedly destroyed infiltrating ghosts until only he, Ling Wanshuang, and Daoist Qingxuan remained; he then killed a powerful ghost disguised as Ling Wanshuang.
• Daoist Qingxuan, unnerved and suspicious, proposed splitting up and ran down a different passage; Gu Chenfeng entered another passage alone.
• Gu Chenfeng used the Star Escape Secret Art to search for yin treasures and reached a cavern with a skeleton clutching a Spirit-Communicating Jade beside a large yin marrow crystal.

Gu Chenfeng found a superb yin marrow crystal and Spirit-Communicating Jade in the Immortal Tomb, but Chu Zhusheng and his crimson-haired senior sister confronted him and tried to seize the treasures. Gu Chenfeng badly wounded Chu Zhusheng before the woman intervened, and their clash ended with both retreating several steps.

• Gu Chenfeng broke the corroded restriction and collected the yin marrow crystal and Spirit-Communicating Jade from the skeleton.
• Chu Zhusheng and his crimson-haired senior sister emerged from a hidden passage and demanded Gu Chenfeng hand over the treasures.
• Chu Zhusheng revealed ghost creatures blocking the passage and attacked Gu Chenfeng with a ghost claw.
• Gu Chenfeng used a black battle axe to break through Chu Zhusheng's attack and defenses, leaving him grievously injured.
• The crimson-haired woman rushed to Chu Zhusheng's aid and clashed with Gu Chenfeng's axe, forcing both of them to retreat several steps.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the Red-Haired Woman and Chu Zhusheng in the cave, then pursued them as they tried to escape. He trapped them with the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation and killed them both.

• The Red-Haired Woman attacked Gu Chenfeng, but his Limitless Strike and follow-up axe blows wounded and suppressed her.
• Gu Chenfeng's Limitless Raging Tide Slash split the Red-Haired Woman's shield and refined corpse, then struck her into the cave wall.
• The Red-Haired Woman and Chu Zhusheng sent refined corpses and ghost spirits to delay Gu Chenfeng, but his spirit puppets engaged them while he pursued the pair.
• The Red-Haired Woman and Chu Zhusheng used Blood Escape Talismans to flee through the cave, but Gu Chenfeng's seven flying swords blocked their path.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation, which pierced Chu Zhusheng and annihilated both fugitives.

Gu Chenfeng killed the Kindling Fire Sect deputy leaders Chu Zhusheng and the red-haired woman in the Immortal Tomb, then escaped when the yin miasma surged unexpectedly. Outside the valley, the group learned the deputy leaders were missing, and a powerful aura suggested multiple supreme-grade pure yin spiritual objects had appeared.

• Gu Chenfeng captured the deputy leaders’ Primordial Spirits, took their storage artifacts, and cleared the cave battlefield.
• When yin miasma surged sooner than expected, Gu Chenfeng used his talisman and Star Escape Secret Art to flee the Immortal Tomb.
• Gu Chenfeng reunited outside the valley with Yin Gui King Ming Nine Netherworlds, Ling Wanshuang, Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, and the rest of their group.
• The returning cultivators noticed that only High Person Guiku and ten True Saints had emerged for the Kindling Fire Sect, and they speculated that both deputy leaders had died.
• Gu Chenfeng concealed his role while High Person Guiku searched the gathered factions for suspects.
• A new wave of yin qi and black mist spread through the valley, and Xiao Changge recognized the aura of multiple supreme-grade pure yin spiritual objects.

Cultivators discovered a supreme-grade pure yin spiritual treasure beneath the Immortal Tomb’s yin miasma, but a natural formation repelled their attempts to enter. As factions waited for reinforcements, the Blood-Seeking Hall arrived, drawing the attention of Xiao Changge, High Person Guiku, and Gu Chenfeng.

• Xiao Changge and the other cultivators recognized that a supreme-grade pure yin spiritual treasure lay within the Immortal Tomb, and Gu Chenfeng saw its value for refining the Mysterious Female Pill.
• Several True Saint and Sub-Saint cultivators attacked the yin miasma, but its natural formation struck them down and convinced the others not to force their way in.
• Xiao Changge revealed that he had summoned his father, while cultivators from other factions also sent for reinforcements; Daoist Qingxuan, Lei Qianjun, Ling Wanshuang, and Gu Chenfeng agreed to wait and watch.
• After three days, the yin miasma grew denser as reinforcements arrived, including more than a dozen Saint Warrior experts from across Xilin Commandery.
• A group led by three Saint Warrior experts arrived, and the cultivators identified them as members of the Blood-Seeking Hall.

The Blood-Seeking Hall arrived at the Immortal Tomb with greatly increased strength, and its First Boss Li Tianhan challenged the other factions gathered there. Southern Yue City Lord Xiao Qing appeared and revealed that he had reached the Saint Master realm, forcing Li Tianhan to submit.

• The Blood-Seeking Hall arrived with more than twenty members, including peak Saint Warrior Li Tianhan and two other bosses, astonishing the gathered cultivators.
• The Blood-Seeking Hall seized space between Xiao Changge's party and the Kindling Fire Sect, and its Second Boss beat a Kindling Fire Sect cultivator who objected.
• Li Tianhan dismissed the threat of Commandery City's forces and used his presence to cow the gathering, causing Xiao Changge to retreat.
• Xiao Qing arrived with two neighboring city lords and rejected Li Tianhan's attempt to claim friendship, saying an official and a bandit could not be confused.
• Xiao Qing unleashed Saint Master-level pressure, forcing Li Tianhan to bow and apologize before agreeing to cooperate in the Immortal Tomb treasure hunt.