Chapter Summaries

The Second Prince explained how he planned to exploit the Feather Transformation Marquisate’s internal divisions and the Great Jin Divine Dynasty’s rules to expand into Xilin Commandery. An urgent report revealed that Gu Chenfeng had defeated the besiegers of Black Iron City and retaken three cities, prompting the Second Prince to order his elimination.

• The Second Prince told Commandery Governor Yin and Commandery Governor Huang that the Feather Transformation Marquisate would not intervene because suspicion and rivalries had divided Marquis Yu’s disciples.
• The Second Prince explained that he and Fourth Brother could not intervene directly in their father’s political test, and that capturing Xilin Commandery’s four border cities would give the Two Great Marquisates grounds to enter.
• A guard delivered an urgent report that the army besieging Black Iron City had been annihilated and Gu Chenfeng had helped Xilin Commandery reclaim three cities.
• The guard revealed that Gu Chenfeng came from the Seven Star Continent and that Fourth Prince had appointed him city lord ten years earlier.
• The Second Prince wondered whether Fourth Brother had planned these events, then ordered the troops to eliminate Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng attacked Fufeng City, where the Heavenly Poison Sect’s leaders had prepared a fortified defense and a poisonous ambush. He breached the city’s formation with Restriction-Breaking Talismans, survived the poison, and led a devastating assault on the defenders.

• The Heavenly Poison Sect’s three leaders discussed Gu Chenfeng’s advance and prepared to hold Fufeng City until reinforcements arrived.
• A strange fog surrounded the city, and Gu Chenfeng appeared with thousands of black-clad cultivators.
• Gu Chenfeng’s forces used Restriction-Breaking Talismans to shatter a section of the Four-Origin True Fire Formation and storm the city.
• The Heavenly Poison Sect’s defenders released Seven-Colored Fragrant Lingzhi poison, but Gu Chenfeng and his army emerged unharmed.
• Gu Chenfeng struck the voluptuous leader with an axe shadow, then ordered his army to bombard the city walls with talisman attacks.

Li Tianhan arrived at Fufeng City too late to stop Gu Chenfeng, then searched for him while Gu recovered in hiding and prepared to keep attacking. At the frontline, Cao Meng and Lu Chongyue coordinated reinforcements and assaults to support Gu Chenfeng’s campaign.

• Li Tianhan and two powerful allies found Fufeng City ruined and its garrison dead, then split their army to search for Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng detected the pursuing force with a Spirit Breath Sensing Talisman and decided to avoid a direct clash while continuing to seize enemy territory.
• Gu Chenfeng restored his divine sense and cultivation by absorbing baleful resentment qi and drawing energy from the Marrow Washing Pool.
• A messenger reported to Lu Chongyue and Cao Meng that Gu Chenfeng had captured Fufeng City and wiped out its defenders.
• Cao Meng told Lu Chongyue that reinforcements were on their way and ordered him to coordinate with Gu Chenfeng and pressure the enemy’s front.

Gu Chenfeng confronted Li Tianhan, the First Boss of Blood-Seeking Hall, after taking Luoshui City and clashed with him in a fierce battle. Gu Chenfeng turned the tide with his secret art and armor, then struck Li Tianhan with a devastating punch that sent him flying.

• Gu Chenfeng absorbed the battlefield’s baleful resentment qi while his puppets searched Luoshui City, and Li Tianhan appeared to confront him.
• Li Tianhan recognized Gu Chenfeng’s puppet army and asked whether he had killed Mo Qianji, but Gu Chenfeng challenged him to attack.
• Gu Chenfeng and Li Tianhan exchanged powerful axe and saber attacks, with Li Tianhan initially gaining a slight advantage.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the True Essence Secret Treasury Art, reversed the fight, and pressed Li Tianhan with Limitless Raging Tide Slash.
• Li Tianhan used his domain power to stabilize his saber attack, then released his weapon and struck at Gu Chenfeng with a close-range dharma seal.
• Gu Chenfeng blocked the seal with Profound Baleful Armor and punched Li Tianhan in the chest, caving it in and sending him flying.

Gu Chenfeng defeated Li Tianhan at Luoshui City, then hid in the mountains to cultivate as the Heroes Alliance prepared to target him. He began breaking through in both his physical cultivation and Power of Profound Meaning.

• Gu Chenfeng defeated Li Tianhan, who escaped with severe injuries, and then withdrew with his Spirit Puppets rather than pursue him.
• Li Tianhan met a Gray-Robed Elder and a Purple-Robed Beauty, told them Gu Chenfeng was far stronger than expected, and urged them to request support from the alliance, including a Saint Master Realm expert.
• Gu Chenfeng concealed himself in the mountains and used the Marrow Washing Pool to absorb the Baleful Resentment Qi collected in Luoshui City.
• Gu Chenfeng's Profound Baleful Armor began transforming as he neared the second layer of the Baleful Intent Fusion realm, while his Power of Profound Meaning also approached a breakthrough.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to finish cultivating before the alliance could send stronger enemies and focused on advancing both arts.

Gu Chenfeng led the Black Legion in an assault on Azure Mist City, where twelve Heroes Alliance Saint Warrior cultivators ambushed him. He killed nine with his Feathered Myriad Sword Formation and turned to face the three wounded survivors.

• The Black Legion breached Azure Mist City's City-Protecting Grand Formation, and twelve Heroes Alliance Saint Warrior cultivators surrounded Gu Chenfeng.
• Gu Chenfeng revealed that he had detected the ambush and used a dragon roar to stun the twelve cultivators.
• Gu Chenfeng activated the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation and trapped all twelve opponents.
• Li Tianhan, the Gray-Robed Elder, and the Purple-Robed Woman escaped the formation badly wounded, while the other nine cultivators died.
• Gu Chenfeng recalled his flying swords and told the three survivors that they had to die too.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the three peak Saint Warrior realm ambushers and pursued them as they fled. After taking half of Li Tianhan’s wealth and continuing the attack, Gu Chenfeng was struck by a powerful green-light attack from a newly revealed Saint Master realm cultivator.

• Gu Chenfeng used his Limitless Strike to shatter Li Tianhan and the other two cultivators’ combined attack, leaving them gravely wounded.
• Li Tianhan, the Gray-Robed Elder, and the Purple-Robed Woman fled, but Gu Chenfeng pursued and killed the Gray-Robed Elder and the Purple-Robed Woman.
• Gu Chenfeng caught up with Li Tianhan, accepted half of the Blood-Seeking Hall’s wealth, and refused to spare him, declaring that he wanted both his fortune and his life.
• Gu Chenfeng struck Li Tianhan and prepared to finish him, but abruptly turned his axe toward an attack emerging from the nearby void.
• A green-light attack shattered Gu Chenfeng’s axe shadow and forced him backward; he used the True Essence Secret Treasury Art to steady himself as a Saint Master realm cultivator appeared.

Gu Chenfeng faced Luo Ji, a Saint Master realm expert and Luo Sheng’s older cousin, who attacked him with profound-meaning vines and concealed sword strikes. After revealing the increased power of his Profound Baleful Armor, Gu Chenfeng was still overwhelmed by Luo Ji and realized he needed to escape.

• Luo Ji revealed he was Luo Sheng’s older paternal cousin and said the Four Great Families had arranged the Peerless Abyss Pavilion’s pursuit of Gu Chenfeng.
• Luo Ji attacked Gu Chenfeng with vines formed from his power of profound meaning, then used his domain to strengthen them and launch concealed sword strikes.
• Luo Ji broke through Gu Chenfeng’s defenses and trapped him in a cage of vines, but Gu Chenfeng shattered the cage with his second-layer Profound Baleful Armor and counterattacked with Limitless Strike.
• Luo Ji intensified his sword attacks, drove Gu Chenfeng backward, and eroded the defenses of his Profound Baleful Armor.
• Gu Chenfeng judged that he could not overpower Luo Ji and resolved to find a way to escape.

Gu Chenfeng fought Luo Ji to a standstill long enough to escape using a puppet decoy, though the battle left him injured. Luo Ji planned to besiege Black Iron City to draw him out, while Gu Chenfeng hid in the mountains to recover and wait for reinforcements.

• Gu Chenfeng used Limitless Raging Tide Slash, divine sense attacks, and the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation to injure Luo Ji before fleeing.
• Luo Ji caught up with Gu Chenfeng and cleaved him apart, then realized he had destroyed a puppet decoy and returned to find Gu Chenfeng gone.
• Luo Ji told Li Tianhan that he would report Gu Chenfeng to the alliance and proposed besieging Black Iron City to force him to appear.
• Gu Chenfeng escaped to a cave in the mountains, assessed his injuries, and concluded that he could still grow strong enough to challenge a Saint Master-level expert.
• Gu Chenfeng decided to recover and consolidate his cultivation while waiting for the Fourth Prince and the Feather Transformation Marquisate's reinforcements.

Lu Chongyue reported on the stalled defense of Xilin Commandery City and Gu Chenfeng’s victories to Cao Meng, who decided Gu Chenfeng must be protected. After recovering from his injuries, Gu Chenfeng learned the Heroes Alliance was retaking cities and considered abandoning Xilin Commandery.

• Lu Chongyue told Cao Meng that Feather Transformation City’s reinforcements were inadequate and the blockade around Xilin Commandery City could not be broken.
• Cao Meng learned Gu Chenfeng had captured sixteen cities and reclaimed over sixty percent of the fallen main cities in the Southwestern Region, using a Puppet Army that Cao Meng mistakenly believed he had helped him build.
• Lu Chongyue reported that Gu Chenfeng had slain eleven Saint Warrior level cultivators and escaped a Saint Master level expert, prompting Cao Meng to order that he be kept safe.
• Gu Chenfeng recovered in the Marrow Washing Pool while the Heart Demon absorbed baleful resentment qi and grew more powerful within the Demon Abyss.
• Gu Chenfeng learned the Heroes Alliance was retaking his captured cities and advancing on the four border cities, and he considered abandoning Xilin Commandery.

Second Prince Cao Sheng dismissed reports that Gu Chenfeng’s One Swarm was raiding Nanyang and Seven Star Commanderies, choosing to press the siege of Black Iron City. Gu Chenfeng continued capturing border cities, hoping to spread the raids and strengthen his cultivation as he resisted the two commanderies’ plans.

• Cao Sheng learned that One Swarm had captured three border cities and suspected Gu Chenfeng was using the raids to distract his forces.
• Commandery Governor Huang and Commandery Governor Yin urged Cao Sheng to recall the army, but he ordered it to intensify its attack on the four border cities, especially Black Iron City.
• Gu Chenfeng led One Swarm in taking another city, announced that the group was called One Swarm and invited cultivators to join, then left its remaining treasures as bait.
• After fleeing the city, Gu Chenfeng revealed himself and explained that the weakened border defenses gave him an opportunity to make the two commanderies pay for their campaign.
• Gu Chenfeng piloted a flying boat toward the next city while absorbing baleful resentment qi to advance the Nine Deaths Profound Baleful Art.

Cao Sheng ordered Luo Ji to return and hunt down Gu Chenfeng as One Swarm’s raids destabilized Nanyang and Seven Star Commanderies. Luo Ji confronted Gu Chenfeng at White Deer City, but Gu Chenfeng escaped again, leaving Luo Ji alarmed by how quickly his strength was growing.

• Cao Sheng ordered the siege of Black Iron City to continue and sent Luo Ji with experts to hunt Gu Chenfeng, as bandit attacks spread through Nanyang and Seven Star Commanderies.
• Gu Chenfeng led One Swarm’s assault on White Deer City, where the city’s defenses fell and residents rushed to loot the City Lord’s Manor.
• Luo Ji confronted Gu Chenfeng above White Deer City while Li Tianhan and the other Saint Warrior realm cultivators went to suppress the unrest inside the city.
• Gu Chenfeng fought Luo Ji with his Eighteen Profound Apertures and Profound Baleful Armor, and Luo Ji realized that Gu Chenfeng had grown stronger since their last encounter.
• Gu Chenfeng gathered his spirit puppets and escaped using a Divine Sense Secret Art, the Star Escape Secret Art, and an Incarnation Talisman.
• Luo Ji failed to stop Gu Chenfeng and ordered the region’s main cities to raise their guard and report any trace of him.

Gu Chenfeng strengthened himself by stirring up bandit unrest across two commanderies, but learned that Saint Master Realm experts were coming to eliminate him and Black Iron City. Preparing to draw the enemy away so his companions could escape, he used Xiahou Che’s Spirit Soul to restore a damaged Spirit Puppet, leaving it ready for the battles ahead.

• Gu Chenfeng reached the peak of the second layer of the Baleful Intent Fusion realm and the middle-stage peak of the Saint Warrior realm after absorbing baleful resentment qi from his raids.
• After learning that several Saint Master Realm experts were pursuing him, Gu Chenfeng decided to leave the conflict but first protect his companions and Black Iron City by drawing the enemy’s attention.
• Gu Chenfeng brought out four damaged Saint Warrior-level Spirit Puppets and restored three with spirit essences from the Guixu Cauldron.
• When the Guixu Cauldron’s spirit essences ran out, Gu Chenfeng inscribed restrictions on Xiahou Che’s Spirit Soul and placed it inside the fourth puppet.
• Gu Chenfeng tested the restored Spirit Puppet, found that it worked and hit harder than the others, and planned to seal Xiahou Che’s Spirit Soul again after the battle.

Gu Chenfeng captured North Shore City and battled Luo Ji, whose reinforcements were expected to arrive soon. After a concealed ambush wounded Luo Ji, Gu Chenfeng charged at him with clear intent to kill.

• Gu Chenfeng's puppet army breached North Shore City's defenses and killed its two deputy city lords, while one unusually savage puppet revealed signs of Xiahou Che's malice.
• Luo Ji arrived after the city had fallen, and Gu Chenfeng taunted him about the approaching Heroes Alliance reinforcements before they clashed.
• Gu Chenfeng's growing strength allowed him to withstand Luo Ji's sword and vine attacks, then he pretended to retreat into the city.
• Luo Ji sensed danger beneath the collapsed gate tower, but Gu Chenfeng's dragon roar briefly stunned him and a hidden seven-sword formation struck.
• Gu Chenfeng summoned the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain to strengthen the assault, leaving Luo Ji bloodied in a crater.
• Gu Chenfeng advanced on the injured Luo Ji with his mountain, battle axe, and flying swords, and Luo Ji realized Gu Chenfeng intended to kill him.

Gu Chenfeng fought Luo Ji in North Shore City, gradually gaining the upper hand and nearly defeating him. Luo Ji summoned the Yama Banner and its Yaksha Ghost King, leaving Gu Chenfeng struggling against its sinister attacks until he brought out a Peachwood Coffin.

• Gu Chenfeng battled Luo Ji, using his deep reserves and powerful defenses to withstand their injuries and gradually match Luo Ji's strength.
• Gu Chenfeng stunned Luo Ji with a divine sense assault, then struck him with the Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, the Feathered Myriad Sword Formation, and his axe, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Luo Ji revealed the Yama Banner, which he had made from the souls of cultivators killed in the Four Races' rebellion, and summoned a Yaksha Ghost King.
• The Yaksha Ghost King repeatedly struck Gu Chenfeng and covered him in yin miasma that threatened to invade his body.
• Gu Chenfeng recognized that the ghost's sinister power required a counter and summoned a black Peachwood Coffin marked with lightning patterns.

Gu Chenfeng used Celestial Master Zhang’s Peachwood Coffin to overwhelm the Yaksha Ghost King and badly wound Luo Ji. As Luo Ji tried to detonate his Profound Meaning Seed and take Gu Chenfeng with him, a damaged puppet killed him, leaving Gu Chenfeng alive and the puppet nearly spent.

• Gu Chenfeng struck the Yaksha Ghost King with the Peachwood Coffin, whose thunder runes scorched the ghost and drove it back.
• Luo Ji empowered the Yama Banner, but the coffin released a lightning rune that destroyed the banner’s vortex, struck the Yaksha Ghost King, and blasted Luo Ji to the ground.
• Gu Chenfeng pursued Luo Ji with the Mountain-Splitting Axe while four Spirit Puppets blocked his escape, and he wounded Luo Ji in their clash.
• Luo Ji detonated his Dark Green Long Sword, destroying the four Spirit Puppets, then began to detonate his Profound Meaning Seed and lunged at Gu Chenfeng.
• A damaged puppet pierced Luo Ji’s chest, crushed his heart, and tore his body apart, stopping the Profound Meaning Seed from exploding.

Gu Chenfeng captured Luo Ji’s Primordial Spirit, absorbed the dead Saint Master’s power, and watched the Spirit Puppet repair itself with Luo Ji’s Essence Blood. As he hid to strengthen himself before the coming storm, the Fourth Prince ordered someone to protect him while the Second Prince ordered a large-scale hunt.

• Gu Chenfeng used the Peachwood Coffin’s lightning to capture Luo Ji’s Primordial Spirit and collected Luo Ji’s Storage Ring and Baleful Resentment Qi.
• The Spirit Puppet absorbed Luo Ji’s Essence Blood, repaired its damaged body, and grew stronger while remaining under Gu Chenfeng’s control.
• Gu Chenfeng gathered his Spirit Puppets and fled to a hidden cave abode near Seven Star Commandery to recover and advance his cultivation.
• After learning Gu Chenfeng had killed Luo Ji, the Fourth Prince Cao Meng sent an agent to protect him at all costs.
• The Second Prince Cao Sheng ordered the front line to gather Saint Master Realm cultivators and sent a Black-Armored Guard to find Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng merged the Profound Baleful Armor into his body, advanced to the late-stage Saint Warrior realm, and broke through to the third layer of the Starry Sky Divine Sense Art, gaining the Star Punishment divine ability. His breakthrough awakened the Feather Transformation Divine Wheel, prompting three of his master’s disciples to gather and investigate the possibility of a new successor.

• Gu Chenfeng endured hours of agony as the Profound Baleful Armor merged into his body and forged his profound baleful treasure body.
• Gu Chenfeng refined the baleful resentment qi absorbed from Luo Ji and reached the third layer of the Baleful Intent Fusion realm.
• Gu Chenfeng’s power of profound meaning surged, advancing his cultivation to the late-stage Saint Warrior realm.
• Gu Chenfeng broke through to the third layer of the Starry Sky Divine Sense Art and received the Star Punishment divine ability.
• The Feather Transformation Divine Wheel reacted to Gu Chenfeng’s breakthrough, and three of his master’s disciples decided to summon the others and discuss their master’s possible new successor.

Black Iron City’s defenders faced a renewed siege while their resources dwindled, and two Heroes Alliance Saint Master realm experts waited for Gu Chenfeng to appear. When an urgent message reported that another Saint Master had found Gu Chenfeng and needed help, the two experts rushed to respond.

• Liu Youfang told Taiching Daoist that Black Iron City had only about three days of resources left, with most defensive weapons depleted and only the fifth-grade Lihuo Heaven-Burning Formation still protecting the city.
• The Heroes Alliance launched another assault from all four sides, and Taiching Daoist ordered the defenders to prepare for battle.
• In the enemy’s rear encampment, two Saint Master realm experts discussed using Black Iron City as bait to lure Gu Chenfeng into their Heavenly Net.
• The two experts received an urgent message that Daoist Friend Zhang had found Gu Chenfeng’s trail and needed help, so they flew toward him at once.

Zhang Yan, a Saint Master Realm commander guarding the border, investigated the disappearance of his patrol squads and found them slaughtered by a blood-devouring black-robed man. As the man distracted him, Gu Chenfeng ambushed Zhang Yan and drove him back with a relentless axe assault, leaving Zhang Yan to recognize him in terror.

• Zhang Yan complained about being assigned to hunt Gu Chenfeng while monitoring the border and drinking alone.
• When one patrol squad’s signal vanished, Zhang Yan sent two more squads to investigate, and their signals soon disappeared as well.
• Zhang Yan found the three squads dead in a gorge and confronted a black-robed man devouring their essence blood.
• Zhang Yan struck the black-robed man into a crater, but the man regenerated and spat a blood attack at him.
• Gu Chenfeng emerged from a concealed restriction and ambushed Zhang Yan with the Mountain-Splitting Battle Axe, battering him backward until Zhang Yan recognized him.