Chapter Summaries

Zhao Gongming awoke in the ruined temple at Guanjiangkou after Xiaotian Dog carried him there, and Gu Changqing stabilized his injuries. Zhao Gongming asked for a way to regain his strength and avenge his blood feud, and Gu Changqing offered him a new path to reclaim the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

• A strand of purple-gray incense smoke saved Zhao Gongming from death and brought him to the ruined temple, where he sensed profound Dao laws and recognized Guanjiangkou.
• Xiaotian Dog lay at the temple entrance, and Zhao Gongming thanked it for carrying him to safety.
• Gu Changqing revealed that he had stabilized Zhao Gongming and restrained the rage threatening to worsen his injuries.
• Zhao Gongming vowed to avenge the Black Tiger and the Shang Army soldiers, then asked Gu Changqing for a way to regain his strength.
• Gu Changqing told Zhao Gongming his old Mystic Gate cultivation was shattered and asked whether he wanted to take a new path and personally reclaim his Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Gu Changqing taught Zhao Gongming the Shrouding the Heavens method, a cultivation path rooted in the body rather than borrowed Heavenly Dao power. Zhao Gongming survived with twenty-four embryonic Wheels of Life and prepared to cultivate anew before seeking revenge on Randeng.

• Gu Changqing explained that Zhao Gongming’s Great Luo foundation was hollow because his power depended on the Heavenly Dao and the stolen Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Gu Changqing showed Zhao Gongming the Shrouding the Heavens method and promised him a way to rebuild his strength within his own body.
• Gu Changqing used the twenty-four breaches left by the stolen pearls to plant twenty-four Sea of Bitterness seeds in Zhao Gongming’s ruined body.
• Guangchengzi and Taiyi Zhenren sensed an unfamiliar aura rising from the Ruined Temple while their magical treasures remained pinned beneath purple-gray dao patterns.
• Zhao Gongming regained a faint vitality, thanked Gu Changqing and Xiaotian Dog, and resolved to cultivate until he could confront Randeng.

After his Immortal Foundation was destroyed, Zhao Gongming awakened the Shrouding the Heavens Method and formed twenty-four embryonic worlds within his body. He reached the trapped Jade Void Golden Immortals and prepared to collect the first installment of his debt.

• Zhao Gongming awakened twenty-four Seas of Bitterness and tested the concentrated power of his new method within the Guanjiangkou Divine Realm.
• He used his memories of refining the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to shape twenty-four embryonic worlds inside himself.
• The Divine Realm opened a path for Zhao Gongming, and he headed toward the Chan Sect Immortals.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Yu Ding Zhenren, Taiyi Zhenren, and the other Jade Void Golden Immortals remained trapped as their magical treasures were suppressed.
• Zhao Gongming appeared before the immortals, whose Immortal Dao laws froze under the pressure of his twenty-four worlds.
• Zhao Gongming told the Jade Void Golden Immortals that he would collect the first installment of his debt from them.

Zhao Gongming used his newly forged path to overpower the Jade Void immortals, then returned to Yin Shang's border to confront Randeng and reclaim the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. He destroyed Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao and seized Randeng by the throat, leaving Randeng trapped beneath his power.

• Zhao Gongming suppressed Guangchengzi and the other Jade Void immortals, shattered Chijingzi with one punch, and pinned Taiyi Zhenren before Gu Changqing sent him to reclaim his karma.
• Zhao Gongming appeared at Yin Shang's border as Randeng prepared to refine the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Zhao Gongming destroyed Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao in body and soul after they admitted using the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin against him.
• Zhao Gongming resisted Randeng's Qiankun Ruler and seized Randeng by the throat as the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls struck back at Randeng's Primordial Spirit.

Zhao Gongming reclaimed the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls from Randeng and used their source essence to establish twenty-four worlds within himself, though Randeng escaped by detonating the Qiankun Ruler. Zhao Gongming then swore to protect the ruined temple and its Dao, while Gu Changqing received a system notification that the Interception Sect quest had advanced and a mythic-grade reward was being calculated.

• Zhao Gongming forced Randeng to return the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and absorbed their source essence into his twenty-four Seas of Bitterness.
• Randeng detonated the Qiankun Ruler and sacrificed half his Dao body to escape toward Kunlun, leaving Zhao Gongming injured but alive.
• Zhao Gongming returned to the ruined temple and kowtowed before the divine statue, pledging to protect the Dao Venerable's teachings and the Interception Sect's disciples.
• Gu Changqing bound Zhao Gongming's Dao-protecting incense, and the system announced major quest progress and began calculating a mythic-grade reward.

In a ruined temple, Gu Changqing watched Yang Jian struggle against the Queen Mother and decided to intervene. He snapped a stone brick from the offering table and sent it through the Chaotic Void toward the Queen Mother’s head.

• Gu Changqing watched Yang Jian fall into the Queen Mother’s Illusion Realm and criticized his slow progress against the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Changqing decided to help his disciple and snapped a palm-sized brick from the ruined temple’s offering table.
• The Queen Mother prepared to detonate the Illusion Realm and damage Yang Jian’s Divine Soul.
• A cyan-gray brick crossed the Chaotic Void toward the Queen Mother’s head as she prepared to strike.