Recaps

Tang Miaomiao’s pursuit of Gu Chen provoked Kang Zuoqing to challenge him, but Sun Jiangman stepped in and claimed Gu Chen as hers. Her declaration set off a confrontation with Tang Miaomiao and stunned the crowd, while Cao Miao reacted angrily to Sun Jiangman’s behavior.

• Cao Miao revealed that Tang Miaomiao had traveled to Shangjing several times to look for Gu Chen, and Tang Miaomiao confirmed it.
• Kang Zuoqing challenged Gu Chen to a spar, drawing an eager crowd.
• Sun Jiangman pulled Gu Chen to his feet and told Tang Miaomiao that she had mistaken him for someone else because Gu Chen was hers.
• Gu Chen and Sun Jiangman exchanged teasing remarks, prompting the crowd to resent Gu Chen and Cao Miao to question Sun Jiangman.
• Sun Jiangman warned Tang Miaomiao to stop pursuing Gu Chen, and Tang Miaomiao stood up, unwilling to accept the public slight.

Gu Chen rejected Tang Miaomiao in front of the crowd, then took Sun Jiangman away to reconcile with her and promised that no one would keep them apart. He declared that he would make his arrival known at the next day's gathering, determined to enter the Land of Heaven and Earth.

• Tang Miaomiao took Gu Chen's hand and told Sun Jiangman that no one could take him from her if she wanted him.
• Gu Chen pulled away from Tang Miaomiao, took Sun Jiangman's hand, and publicly rejected Tang Miaomiao before leaving with Sun Jiangman.
• Cao Miao lost control and smashed the ground, while Kang Zuoqing returned to his room for secluded cultivation and Tang Miaomiao announced she would do the same.
• Sun Jiangman confronted Gu Chen about his earlier lies, and Gu Chen embraced her and explained that he had been afraid of losing her.
• Sun Jiangman admitted she had acted impulsively by offending Cao Miao, and Gu Chen vowed to protect their relationship and announce his arrival at the gathering.
• Gu Chen resolved to enter the Land of Heaven and Earth, where his master Luo Yunxi's guidance had originated.

Gu Chen arrived at the Aristocratic Family Assembly and learned that his words and relationships had made him notorious among the younger generation. He faced the coming competition with confidence, declaring that he wanted his enemies to fear him.

• The Six Great Families prepared a concealing formation at Starfall Cliff, where competitors had to cross a long suspension bridge as their first test.
• Gu Chen waited at Leisurely Mountain for Sun Jiangman and noticed that the other young martial artists looked at him with hostility.
• Li Yiran told Gu Chen that he had become infamous for insulting Fan Yingqiu, offending Kang Zuoqing and Cao Miao, and winning the favor of Tang Miaomiao and Sun Jiangman.
• Li Yiran warned that Gu Chen would be isolated and vulnerable once fighting became permissible beyond the bridge.
• Gu Chen said he wanted his opponents to fear him, and Li Yiran called him a madman and told him to await his death.

Gu Chen learned the Aristocratic Family Assembly’s stages and raced across the pressure-suppressing suspension bridge, reaching the far side with ease. In the forest, three Wei Family siblings confronted him on behalf of the Kang Family, but Gu Chen struck Wei Hang before he could finish threatening him.

• Gu Chen asked Tang Tiandong about the assembly and learned that contestants had to cross the bridge, fight in the forest, and reach Starfall Cliff before its timed climb.
• Gu Chen recognized the bridge’s ink bamboo chains and Kongtong wood planks, then crossed it far faster than the other martial artists.
• Gu Chen estimated he had plenty of time to reach Starfall Cliff and continued into the forest.
• Three Wei Family siblings, led by Wei Hang, blocked Gu Chen and said they wanted to kill him to curry favor with the Kang Family.
• Wei Hang began boasting about his Tiger Ranking position, but Gu Chen struck him hard enough to send him crashing into a tree.

Gu Chen defeated Wei Hang and several other martial artists on his way through the maze-like woods, then reached Starfall Cliff first and blocked its staircase. Above, Elder Ge told the other Peak Grandmasters that Wang Gui was dead, leaving them stunned and eager to learn more.

• Gu Chen severely injured Wei Hang and ordered him to warn the other martial artists that they had half an hour to come after him.
• Wei Hang refused to pass on the warning and led his siblings away, hoping the other fighters would be weakened and give the Wei Family a chance to ascend Starfall Cliff.
• Gu Chen injured the martial artists who attacked him, crippled Ren Chong, and hung him from a tree before reaching the cliff ahead of the others.
• Gu Chen blocked the staircase with branches and sat down to wait for the assembly to begin.
• Elder Ge told Wei Fenghua, Zhuge Wangyue, and Yin Binwen that Wang Gui had died, and the news left them shocked and eager.

Gu Chen waited at the foot of Starfall Cliff and used force to control who could approach the steps. When the deadline arrived, he announced that he had blocked the road and would let no one climb that day.

• Shi Che spotted someone arriving early, and the Heaven and Earth Palace martial artists watched Gu Chen from the cliff.
• Kang Zuoqing arrived second, accused Gu Chen of cheating, and threatened to teach him a lesson on the cliff.
• Gu Chen caught Sun Da’s kick, threw him to the ground, and warned Cao Miao to take Sun Da aside.
• Sun Jiangman and Tang Miaomiao arrived, completing the group of forty-six martial artists gathered at the cliff’s foot.
• At three o’clock, Gu Chen punched two martial artists who tried to rush past him, then declared that he had blocked the road and no one would climb that day.

Gu Chen blocked the way up Starfall Cliff and defeated every martial artist who challenged him, including more than twenty attackers at once. He stopped Kang Zuoqing from ascending and provoked him into preparing to fight.

• Gu Chen dodged and threw aside the martial artists who attacked him, then declared that nobody would pass him.
• Li Yiran urged the crowd to attack, and more than twenty martial artists charged Gu Chen together.
• Gu Chen sent all the attackers flying, leaving the surrounding martial artists shocked by his strength.
• Kang Zuoqing praised Gu Chen's skill, refused to fight on the crowd's behalf, and started up the stairs to Starfall Cliff.
• Gu Chen blasted Kang Zuoqing off the stairs and said he was not worthy to be his opponent.
• Kang Zuoqing erupted with his Yunyao Cultivation Technique and prepared to fight Gu Chen.

Gu Chen defeated Kang Zuoqing with one palm strike and challenged the Land of Heaven and Earth’s younger generation. He began facing Cao Miao, promising to let him make three moves, and calmly dodged Cao Miao’s first two sword attacks.

• Kang Zuoqing attacked Gu Chen at full strength, but Gu Chen struck him in the chest and sent him flying.
• Gu Chen warned Kang Zuoqing that another attack could shatter his dantian, and Kang Zuoqing collapsed after spitting blood.
• Gu Chen challenged the onlookers, and Cao Miao stepped forward after being singled out.
• Gu Chen offered Cao Miao three moves because of his care for Jiangman, angering Cao Miao.
• Cao Miao swung his sword at Gu Chen twice, and Gu Chen dodged both attacks.

Gu Chen defeated Cao Miao and declared that he would stop every aristocratic-family disciple from ascending Starfall Cliff, regardless of the consequences. After Tang Miaomiao warned him that this would unite the families against him, Gu Chen attacked Zhu Hao and reaffirmed his resolve.

• Cao Miao used his strongest sword move, but Gu Chen caught the blade between two fingers and threw Cao Miao into the woods with the move's returned force.
• The assembled young masters watched in fear as Cao Miao fell unconscious, while Gu Chen criticized his swordsmanship.
• Tang Miaomiao warned Gu Chen that blocking the disciples from Starfall Cliff would turn a clash between young fighters into a dispute with the aristocratic families.
• Gu Chen dismissed Tang Miaomiao's warning and announced that he would let none of the disciples ascend, even if it meant offending the six great families.
• Zhu Hao threatened that his family would hunt Gu Chen down, and Gu Chen struck him so hard that he crashed through several trees.
• Gu Chen declared that no one would be allowed up the steps, and the others fell silent.

Gu Chen blocked the entrance to Starfall Cliff until Cao Wushuang arrived and challenged him over the injured family members. Cao Wushuang attacked Gu Chen with a blade and sent him crashing onto the steps, shattering the barricade.

• Martial artists arriving at Starfall Cliff saw Gu Chen guarding the steps while Kang Zuoqing treated his injuries and Cao Miao lay unconscious.
• Cao Wushuang reached the cliff and learned from Sun Da that Gu Chen had injured Cao Miao and blocked the entrance.
• Cao Wushuang examined Cao Miao, grew furious, and questioned Gu Chen, who admitted to injuring people and stopping everyone from ascending.
• Gu Chen challenged Cao Wushuang to try to pass, and Cao Wushuang attacked him with a short blade.
• Cao Wushuang's strike sent Gu Chen flying onto the steps and shattered the wooden barricade, prompting the crowd to cheer.

Gu Chen rose unharmed after Cao Wushuang’s slash and provoked him into another fight. Gu Chen overwhelmed Cao Wushuang in their exchange, leaving the Grandmaster Realm expert forced onto the defensive.

• Tang Miaomiao pleaded with Cao Wushuang to spare Gu Chen, but Gu Chen stood up unharmed and told her not to intervene.
• Gu Chen mocked Cao Wushuang’s strength and said he would return the slash, prompting Cao Wushuang to prepare for another attack.
• Gu Chen’s rising aura overwhelmed Cao Wushuang’s, and he declared that Cao Wushuang would not climb Starfall Cliff.
• Gu Chen charged Cao Wushuang and drove him back in their first clash.
• Gu Chen pressed his advantage through seven or eight moves, forcing Cao Wushuang to defend until another collision sent him reeling.

Gu Chen defeated Cao Wushuang by revealing his Grandmaster Realm strength and countering his saber technique with a finger-sword strike. As the onlookers reeled from the fight, Gu Chen noted that time was almost up and told Sun Jiangman to go up.

• Cao Wushuang launched the Cao Family's Great Desert Lone Wolf Art, expecting his killing move to overwhelm Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen blocked Cao Wushuang's attack with a wall of qi, then revealed his Grandmaster Realm aura and struck back with sword qi from his fingers.
• Gu Chen's strike sent Cao Wushuang crashing through several trees, leaving him badly injured while the onlookers stared in shock.
• Li Yiran and the others grew terrified of Gu Chen after witnessing his victory over Cao Wushuang.
• Gu Chen glanced at the sky, said time was almost up, and told Sun Jiangman to go on up.

Gu Chen protected Sun Jiangman so she could ascend Starfall Cliff, but Zhuge Wangyue arrived and attacked him. After overpowering Gu Chen, Zhuge Wangyue stripped him of his right to participate and ordered him off the mountain, leaving Gu Chen furious but unable to retaliate.

• Gu Chen told Sun Jiangman to climb Starfall Cliff alone, explaining that he would not compete for first place on the Tiger Ranking.
• As Sun Jiangman began ascending, Zhuge Wangyue descended from the cliff and struck Gu Chen, sending him flying.
• Zhuge Wangyue identified himself as an elder of the Zhuge Family and the sixteenth-ranked martial artist on the Dragon Ranking.
• Gu Chen challenged Zhuge Wangyue for attacking a participant and claimed he had followed the assembly's rules.
• Zhuge Wangyue struck Gu Chen again, injured him, and declared that Gu Chen had broken the rules.
• Zhuge Wangyue revoked Gu Chen's right to participate and ordered him down the mountain; Gu Chen restrained his anger because he could not match Zhuge Wangyue's strength.

After Zhuge Wangyue humiliated and injured Gu Chen at Starfall Cliff, Gu Chen escaped Leisurely Mountain in a stolen car. Zhuge Wangyue ordered Cao Wushuang and more than thirty martial artists to kill him, but they arrived too late.

• Zhuge Wangyue struck Gu Chen down, but Gu Chen stood up, vowed to avenge the humiliation, and walked away.
• After Gu Chen left, Zhuge Wangyue ordered Cao Wushuang to send family martial artists after him and prevent him from leaving the mountains alive.
• Gu Chen spat out blood in the woods, sensed that Zhuge Wangyue intended to kill him, and hurried down Leisurely Mountain.
• Gu Chen met Tang Tiandong near the parking lot, then took a car key from a distance and drove away in an imported Cherokee.
• Cao Wushuang arrived with more than thirty martial artists and learned from Tang Tiandong that Gu Chen had already left.
• Cao Wushuang ordered the group to search for Gu Chen and told Tang Tiandong to alert him if Gu Chen returned.

Gu Chen escaped Cao Wushuang and the pursuing guards by leaping from a mountain road and using his cultivation Qi Control Technique to descend safely. After reaching the forest below and heading toward an exit, he discovered a secluded flower bed filled with gold.

• Tang Tiandong hurried up the mountain after Cao Wushuang and the others left, wanting to learn what had happened at the assembly.
• Gu Chen blocked the narrow mountain road with his car and taunted Cao Wushuang, then leaped from the cliff when Cao refused to attack.
• Cao Wushuang threw Gu Chen's car after him, but Gu Chen stopped it in midair and slapped it away before continuing his descent.
• Cao Wushuang ordered the guards to pursue Gu Chen, while Gu Chen landed in the forest and set off to escape.
• Gu Chen sensed something near the mountainside, followed it for about twenty minutes, and found a secluded flower bed full of gold.

Gu Chen stole all the Yellow Rock Grass from a hidden garden on Leisurely Mountain and escaped by train while planning to refine it into pills to increase his strength. On the train, he stopped a suspicious passenger and accused him of planning to kill himself and everyone aboard.

• Gu Chen discovered more than thirty immature stalks of Yellow Rock Grass growing in a formation on Leisurely Mountain.
• Gu Chen uprooted every stalk, sealed them away in the Emperor's Vein, and vowed to repay Zhuge Wangyue for humiliating him.
• Gu Chen evaded the aristocratic families by taking a circuitous train route and planned to refine the Yellow Rock Grass into Yellow Rock Pills.
• A suspicious middle-aged man sat beside Gu Chen on the train and stood up when the carriage entered a tunnel.
• Gu Chen seized the man and said he sensed death about him and suspected he intended to kill himself and everyone on the train.

Gu Chen stopped Zhuge Kun from attacking and tried to learn why the martial artist was bent on dying. After Zhuge Kun revealed he belonged to the Zhuge Family, Gu Chen recognized the family’s connection to Zhuge Wangyue.

• Gu Chen caught Zhuge Kun’s punch and forced him back into his seat as the train emerged from a tunnel.
• Gu Chen urged Zhuge Kun not to take his own life and offered to help with his martial arts difficulties, but Zhuge Kun threatened to kill people on another train instead.
• Zhuge Kun guessed that Gu Chen was a young martial artist from a prominent family, while Gu Chen denied relying on family resources and asked about Zhuge Kun’s resentment.
• Zhuge Kun introduced himself and identified himself as a member of the Zhuge Family, one of the Six Great Families.
• Gu Chen recognized Zhuge Kun’s cultivation technique as sharing an origin with Zhuge Wangyue’s and found the encounter on the way to Shangjing remarkable.

Gu Chen learned that Zhuge Kun had been cast out of the Zhuge Family after Zhuge Wangyue favored his own son over him. Zhuge Kun explained how his long struggle to prove himself had collapsed when Zhuge Yanjia reached the Grandmaster Realm, leaving him expelled again.

• Gu Chen told Zhuge Kun that Zhuge Wangyue wanted to kill him and that he had barely escaped from Leisurely Mountain.
• Gu Chen revealed that he had blocked the aristocratic families at Starfall Cliff and injured Cao Wushuang, shocking Zhuge Kun.
• Zhuge Kun said Zhuge Wangyue had injured him and given his place in the family to Zhuge Yanjia.
• Zhuge Kun recounted how his low birth and Zhuge Wangyue’s influence had kept him isolated, deprived of resources, and eventually sent away to Shangjing.
• Zhuge Kun said he had cultivated on his own and hoped to return to the family, but Zhuge Yanjia’s recent breakthrough to the Grandmaster Realm had led to his expulsion again.

Gu Chen offered Zhuge Kun a chance to pursue revenge by becoming his disciple, and Zhuge Kun accepted. They arrived in Cangzhou, where Gu Chen decided to stay and sent Zhuge Kun to gather materials and buy a cauldron.

• Gu Chen asked Zhuge Kun whether he wanted revenge and offered to take him as a disciple.
• After wrestling with his doubts, Zhuge Kun knelt and kowtowed to Gu Chen, accepting him as his master.
• Gu Chen accepted Zhuge Kun and told him to call him Young Master Gu instead of master.
• When they reached Cangzhou, Gu Chen changed his plans and decided to stay there for a while.
• Gu Chen checked into a hotel and told Zhuge Kun to gather materials and buy a cauldron within two days.

Gu Chen prepared to refine pills after Zhuge Kun gathered a pill furnace and herbs, while the Aristocratic Family Assembly finalized its Tiger Ranking and arranged to distribute Yellow Rock Grass. When Elder Ge and the other Grandmaster Realm martial artists went to collect the grass, they found the plot dug up and empty.

• Gu Chen planted the Yellow Rock Grass on his hotel balcony and, after Zhuge Kun found a pill furnace and ingredients, revealed that he planned to refine pills.
• Zhuge Wangyue and the other leaders finalized the Tiger Ranking, placing Kang Zuoqing second, Cao Miao third, and Sun Jiangman eighth, while Fan Yingqiu remained first.
• Elder Ge announced that the top thirty families would receive Yellow Rock Grass, with the top-ranked families receiving more.
• Zhuge Wangyue dismissed the young disciples and went with Elder Ge and the other Grandmaster Realm martial artists to collect the ripe grass three days later.
• Elder Ge found the Yellow Rock Grass plot dug bare and asked who had taken it.

Elder Ge and the Six Great Families identified Gu Chen as the likely thief of their Yellow Rock Grass after Zhuge Wangyue connected the theft to the man he had pursued. Meanwhile, Gu Chen refined his first successful batch of Yellow Rock Pills and began preparing another.

• Elder Ge suspected Wei Fenghua, Yin Binwen, and Shi Che after discovering the Yellow Rock Grass was gone, but they denied taking it.
• Wei Fenghua suggested the Gu Family might have taken the grass, and Yin Binwen rejected the idea because their juniors had no use for it.
• Zhuge Wangyue recalled sending Cao Wushuang after Gu Chen three days earlier and concluded that Gu Chen had taken the Yellow Rock Grass.
• Gu Chen spent a day and night refining pills in a sealed hotel room in Cangzhou, overcoming repeated failures and completing a batch of twelve Yellow Rock Pills.
• Gu Chen sealed the twelve pills in a bottle, adjusted his ingredients, and began refining another batch.

Gu Chen successfully refined forty-eight Yellow Rock Pills and gave Zhuge Kun a Yellow Rock Pill and a Luo Heaven Pill to aid his breakthrough. Zhuge Kun broke through and thanked Gu Chen, while Gu Chen prepared to help him make his way in the Land of Heaven and Earth.

• After refining pills for more than two days, Gu Chen gave Zhuge Kun a Yellow Rock Pill and told him to begin secluded cultivation.
• Gu Chen also gave Zhuge Kun a Luo Heaven Pill to strengthen his body and stabilize his cultivation during a breakthrough.
• Gu Chen counted his results and realized he had refined forty-eight Yellow Rock Pills, which he saw as valuable resources for the Heavenly Pivot Sect.
• After resting and eating, Gu Chen heard Zhuge Kun’s breakthrough and formed a soundproof barrier around his room.
• Zhuge Kun emerged with a steadier aura, then knelt and thanked Gu Chen for helping him complete a breakthrough.

Gu Chen returned to Zhou City with Zhuge Kun, intending to cultivate before traveling to the Land of Heaven and Earth and to visit the Su Family after receiving Su Qingqing’s urgent message. A caller using Zhao Haiqing’s phone revealed that Zhao had been captured and threatened to send Gu Chen his subordinate’s head.

• Gu Chen helped Zhuge Kun advance to the peak Bone-Forge Realm, then gave him five Yellow Rock Pills and urged him to reach the Grandmaster Realm.
• After receiving an urgent message from Su Qingqing and failing to reach her, Gu Chen took Zhuge Kun back to Zhou City instead of heading to Shangjing.
• Zhuge Kun explained that he knew the way to the Land of Heaven and Earth but could not enter without being discovered by the Zhuge Family, so Gu Chen left him behind to stabilize his cultivation.
• Gu Chen settled Zhuge Kun near his home, bought a new phone, and transferred his old SIM card into it.
• A man called Gu Chen from Zhao Haiqing’s phone and said Zhao had been captured and might not survive the day, then threatened to send Gu Chen his head.

Gu Chen learned that the Qian Family had nearly destroyed Black Wind Hall and captured Zhao Haiqing at Su Zhenbei’s request, then drove to confront the Su Family. At the Su residence, Su Zhenbei and the Qian Family’s men discussed suppressing the remaining families while dismissing Gu Chen as a threat.

• Wen Ziqi told Gu Chen that the Qian Family had attacked Black Wind Hall and that Zhao Haiqing had been captured.
• Gu Chen remembered Su Zhenbei’s connection to the Qian Family, smashed a café table, and took Wen Ziqi’s car to the Su Family’s residence.
• Wen Ziqi explained that the Su Family wanted to eliminate Black Wind Hall and take control of Zhou City’s underground forces.
• At the Su Family’s residence, Su Zhenbei told Qian Tao that the Xiang and Wen Families still refused to submit.
• Qian Tao and Qian Jiang assured Su Zhenbei that Gu Chen could not threaten them, despite Su Zhenbei’s fear of him.

Su Zhenbei trusted Qian Tao and Qian Jiang to defeat Gu Chen, while the Qian brothers prepared to capture him and claim Su Qingqing as a bride. Gu Chen returned to Zhou City, stormed the Su Family residence, and confronted the Qian brothers after crashing into the villa.

• Su Zhenbei asked Qian Tao and Qian Jiang if they could handle Gu Chen, and they confidently promised to capture him.
• Su Yi demanded the chance to take revenge on Gu Chen, and Su Zhenbei agreed to send Su Qingqing to the Qian Family after the matter was settled.
• Qian Tao learned that Gu Chen had returned to Zhou City and told Qian Jiang to prepare to move.
• Gu Chen rejected Zhuge Kun's offer to handle the Qian Family himself and drove to the Su Family home after Su Qingqing failed to answer his calls.
• Gu Chen smashed through the villa's perimeter wall and drove into the living room, injuring Su Zhenbei and pinning Su Yi beneath the car.
• Gu Chen kicked Su Yi away, silenced Su Zhenbei with a threat, and confirmed to Qian Tao that he was Gu Chen.