Recaps

Gu Chen warned Zhao Bo that he would die within a month, then corrected Zhao Bo’s cultivation technique and strengthened his respect as his master. Zhao Bo agreed to take Gu Chen to Zhou City’s black markets so he could buy a few things.

• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo that a calamity would kill him in a month, and Zhao Bo asked his new master for help.
• Gu Chen examined Zhao Bo’s circulation of the Undying Divine Skill and redirected his qi through his meridians.
• After ten minutes of guided cultivation, Zhao Bo broke through several blockages and sincerely thanked Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo to stop using the crude practice of standing still to take beatings and explained that he had corrected the technique.
• Gu Chen asked Zhao Bo, a guide to Zhou City’s black markets, to lead him there, and Zhao Bo agreed.

Gu Chen entered the black market with Zhao Bo to buy medicinal ingredients for a Spirit-Gathering Pool and then summoned four underground fighters. He told them they were too weak, and they confronted him in the private room.

• Zhao Bo brought Gu Chen to the black market and explained its entry rules and underground attractions.
• Gu Chen bought a Blood Moon Flower and several supplementary ingredients for a medicinal bath.
• Zhao Bo found four fighters for Gu Chen, whose cultivation ranged from Early Initiation Realm to Mid Initiation Realm.
• Gu Chen said the fighters were too weak and unqualified, provoking all four to release their auras and glare at him.

Gu Chen intimidated four underground boxers and offered them ten million each to win twenty consecutive matches. He revealed Zhao Bo’s strength as a late Bone-Forge Realm martial artist and said Zhao Bo had only trained under him briefly.

• Gu Chen knocked down the bearded boxer, endured his punch without moving, and lifted him by the neck until he submitted.
• The other three boxers accepted Gu Chen’s authority, and he ordered all four to pursue twenty consecutive wins for a share of forty million.
• The boxers revealed their winning streaks were four, six, seven, and nine matches, and the bearded man said they lacked the strength to complete a grand slam.
• Gu Chen asked Zhao Bo to demonstrate his strength, and Zhao Bo unleashed an aura that revealed he had reached the late Bone-Forge Realm.
• Gu Chen told the stunned boxers that Zhao Bo was his disciple and had trained under him only a short time.

Gu Chen recruited Ma Gang and three other underground fighters, offering to train them to twenty consecutive wins and give them new identities. He left Zhao Bo in charge of their training and handed him the Tiger Roar Technique to teach them.

• Gu Chen used Zhao Bo's strength to persuade the four fighters to consider his offer.
• Ma Gang accepted Gu Chen's offer, and the other three agreed to follow him as well.
• Gu Chen made the men his subordinates and gave them a month to reach twenty consecutive wins, warning them that he would pay no compensation if they died.
• After Gu Chen left, Ma Gang explained why he trusted the offer and told the others to take the bank card and wait for Zhao Bo.
• On the way out of the black market, Gu Chen told Zhao Bo he needed people in Zhou City and gave him the Tiger Roar Technique to teach the four fighters.

Gu Chen struggled to prepare a medicinal bath in the world’s thin spiritual energy, then discovered that refining the vapor through his cultivation technique could provide purer spiritual energy. Meanwhile, Hua Yumo and Zhuxin discussed his clash with the Zhou Family, and Zhuxin revealed she was waiting for him to regain his former genius.

• Gu Chen promised to help Zhao Bo repair his incomplete Undying Divine Skill and left him to train four men.
• Gu Chen failed to prepare a medicinal bath at home, while Hua Yumo recounted his confrontation with Zhou City's aristocrats to Zhuxin.
• Zhuxin wondered whether Gu Chen was becoming the genius he once was and said she would always wait for him.
• Gu Chen spent nearly a million on medicinal ingredients before settling for an imperfect decoction and entering the bath.
• Gu Chen refined the medicinal vapor with his breathing technique and drew its purified spiritual energy into his body.

After two days of cultivation, Gu Chen reached the Late Bone-Forge Realm and learned that the Xu Family was in crisis after the Zhou Family withdrew its support. He met Zhao Bo, who was astonished to discover Gu Chen’s age, and gave him a revised version of the Undying Divine Skill.

• Gu Chen reached the Late Bone-Forge Realm after two days of cultivation.
• Xu Mo asked Gu Chen to help the Xu Family after the Zhou Family diluted its shares and withdrew investment, but Gu Chen refused to take responsibility for the family’s troubles.
• Gu Chen agreed to visit Elder Hua that evening before learning from Uncle Liu that Zhao Bo had been waiting for him.
• Gu Chen met Zhao Bo at a teahouse, discussed his cultivation progress, and handed him a booklet containing a revised Undying Divine Skill.
• Zhao Bo doubted Gu Chen’s claims but began reading the revised cultivation method.

Gu Chen gave Zhao Bo a revised Undying Divine Skill and instructed him to train four underground fighters, then promised Xu Mo help against the Zhou Family after three days. He went to Pottery House to seek medicinal herbs for refining pills, where he ran into Ji Yun.

• Zhao Bo was shocked by Gu Chen's revised Undying Divine Skill, accepted it, and promised to cultivate diligently.
• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo to keep training Ma Gang and the other underground fighters, hoping two would achieve twenty consecutive victories.
• Xu Mo asked Gu Chen for help against the Zhou Family, and Gu Chen told him to return in three days after taking two million from him.
• Gu Chen visited Pottery House to look for medicinal herbs so he could refine pills.
• Ji Yun approached Gu Chen at Pottery House and mocked him for shopping without a servant.

Gu Chen was barred from the Pottery House’s second floor for lacking a VIP card, and Ji Yun tried to make him beg before ordering him thrown out. Gu Chen kicked Ji Yun, but Qi Ming arrived, recognized him, and revealed that the Black Wind Hall had a stake in the club.

• Gu Chen asked the Pottery House manager how to get a VIP card, and Ji Yun mocked him and demanded that he beg for an introduction.
• Ji Yun told the manager to throw Gu Chen out, so the manager called security and ordered Gu Chen to leave.
• Gu Chen kicked Ji Yun in the chest after Ji Yun continued insulting him, and Ji Yun ordered his bodyguards to attack.
• Qi Ming came downstairs, greeted Gu Chen warmly, and asked why he had come to the Pottery House.
• Gu Chen said he wanted to buy something on the second floor, and Qi Ming explained that the Black Wind Hall had a stake in the club.
• Qi Ming turned sternly toward the manager and asked who had been making trouble.

At Pottery House, Qi Ming intervened when the manager and Ji Yun mistreated Gu Chen, then let Gu Chen decide Ji Yun’s fate. Gu Chen spared Ji Yun but made clear he had seen through Qi Ming’s conflict of interest, and the two left on friendly terms.

• Qi Ming learned the manager had accused Gu Chen of causing trouble and fired him on the spot.
• Ji Yun appealed to Qi Ming for the Ji Family’s sake, but Qi Ming kicked him down and asked Gu Chen how to handle him.
• Gu Chen told Qi Ming to kill Ji Yun, frightening Ji Yun into begging for his life and apologizing.
• Gu Chen knocked out two of Ji Yun’s teeth and ordered him to leave; Ji Yun crawled out, and the security guards followed.
• Gu Chen told Qi Ming he had spared Ji Yun to give him face, having seen that Qi Ming was close to Ji Zhongliu; Qi Ming acknowledged Gu Chen’s insight and accepted his friendship.
• Qi Ming’s guards threw the manager out, and Qi Ming accompanied Gu Chen upstairs.

Gu Chen browsed the Pottery House’s second floor, absorbing jade essence from raw stones and buying ingredients for a Luo Heaven Pill while looking for a medicinal cauldron. His shopping was interrupted when armed men blocked the stairs and a murderous middle-aged man entered the floor.

• Qi Ming left Gu Chen with Zhang Yun while he went upstairs to meet a friend.
• Gu Chen absorbed the essence from several raw jade stones without visibly damaging them, then stopped before taking in too much.
• Gu Chen bought more than three million worth of ingredients for a Luo Heaven Pill and searched the rare-treasures area for a medicinal cauldron but found none.
• Crashes and Qi Ming’s roar sounded upstairs, and armed men in black blocked the stairway.
• A poised middle-aged man in a long gown ascended the stairs, bringing a murderous silence to the second floor.

Wen Tao and Viper attacked the Pottery House and tried to take Qi Ming away. Gu Chen intervened, and after a thug attacked him, Gu Chen sent him flying.

• Wen Tao revealed that Viper had betrayed Qi Ming and ordered his men to seize him.
• Qi Ming fought back against Wen Tao's men but was surrounded and threatened with a beating.
• Gu Chen stepped in and told Wen Tao he would not allow him to take Qi Ming.
• A burly thug attacked Gu Chen, but Gu Chen grabbed his wrist and threw him to the ground.

Gu Chen defeated Wen Tao’s fighters and their powerful young martial artist, then stayed calm when Wen Tao’s men aimed more than a dozen guns at him. As Wen Tao ordered them to open fire, Gu Chen helped Qi Ming to his feet, leaving the confrontation on the brink of gunfire.

• Gu Chen knocked down Wen Tao’s lackeys and overpowered the young martial artist, breaking his wrist and kicking him through the railing to the first floor.
• Wen Tao and the Fierce Tiger Society members were shocked by Gu Chen’s strength, but Wen Tao warned that fists were not everything.
• Wen Tao’s men drew more than a dozen handguns and aimed them at Gu Chen, frightening the guests and Zhang Yun.
• Gu Chen calmly helped Qi Ming to his feet and asked if he was hurt.
• Wen Tao, enraged that Gu Chen ignored him, ordered his men to open fire.

Gu Chen subdued Wen Tao and forced the Fierce Tiger Society to retreat from the Pottery House. He then went upstairs with Qi Ming to learn why Black Wind Hall had come under attack, and Qi Ming began explaining the trouble caused by a Jade Guanyin.

• Gu Chen seized Wen Tao and used him as a shield, forcing the Fierce Tiger Society's men to lower their guns.
• Zhang Yun said she had called the police, so Wen Tao abandoned his threat and led his men out of the Pottery House.
• Qi Ming thanked Gu Chen, who asked why the Fierce Tiger Society had targeted him and offered to help.
• Qi Ming invited Gu Chen upstairs and explained that Black Wind Hall had recently encountered serious trouble.
• Qi Ming said Zhao Haiqing had bought a Jade Guanyin at an underground auction in Shangjing a week earlier, and bringing it back had caused trouble.

Qi Ming explained that Zhao Haiqing was being targeted after refusing to return a jade Guanyin tied to a powerful Shangjing family, and Gu Chen went with him to inspect the treasure. The chapter left Gu Chen holding the jade Guanyin as an uncanny chill passed through him.

• Qi Ming told Gu Chen that Zhao Haiqing’s troubles began after he beat the family’s messengers and that Viper had secretly allied with the Fierce Tiger Society.
• Gu Chen asked to see the jade Guanyin, and Qi Ming called Zhao Haiqing for permission.
• Gu Chen and Qi Ming left Pottery House and traveled to Zhao Haiqing’s heavily guarded warehouse hideout.
• Zhao Haiqing welcomed Gu Chen and explained that assassins had forced him to abandon his company and home.
• Zhao Haiqing had a thug bring out the jade Guanyin, and Gu Chen felt a chill when he lifted it from its box.

Gu Chen discovered that Zhao Haiqing’s Jade Guanyin held cold spiritual qi that could greatly advance his cultivation, and he used its power to show Zhao Haiqing why it was dangerous. Zhao Haiqing agreed to give him the Jade Guanyin, and Gu Chen promised to help him in return.

• Gu Chen recognized the Jade Guanyin as a source of cold spiritual qi suited to his Heaven and Earth Creation Art.
• Gu Chen learned that Zhao Haiqing had kept the Jade Guanyin in his bedroom and suffered chills, troubling dreams, and declining health.
• Gu Chen stimulated the Jade Guanyin with his true qi, causing ice to spread across the brocade box and coffee table.
• Gu Chen warned Zhao Haiqing that the Jade Guanyin could harm him, and Zhao Haiqing agreed to hand it over.
• Gu Chen promised to help Zhao Haiqing with whatever he needed, while Qi Ming praised Gu Chen’s fighting skills.

After leaving Zhao Haiqing with the Jade Guanyin, Gu Chen was ambushed near the Pottery House by two powerful martial artists sent by Mr. Jiang. With his internal force depleted, Gu Chen was badly injured and left struggling to survive their assault.

• Gu Chen left Zhao Haiqing's warehouse with the Jade Guanyin, and Zhao Haiqing promised to send a medicinal cauldron to his home.
• Gu Chen sensed killing intent near the Pottery House and saw two masked fighters emerge from an ambush by his car.
• The two fighters attacked Gu Chen with Six Harmonies Fist and Eight Desolations Leg, and their combined assault overwhelmed his depleted internal force.
• Gu Chen dodged a kick that smashed a crater into the street, but the fighter struck him again and sent him crashing into a utility pole.

Gu Chen narrowly escaped two powerful assassins by unleashing Emperor Claw, then fled into the mountains while badly injured and exhausted. He hid in a cave to recover, realizing his pursuers might still find him and suspecting Jiang Kun had sent them.

• Gu Chen staked his remaining strength on Emperor Claw, and the Six Harmonies Fist user intervened to help the Eight Desolations Leg user withstand the attack.
• The two men saw the destruction caused by Gu Chen's strike and pursued him after realizing he had escaped.
• Gu Chen ran for more than an hour into the wooded mountains, then hid in a small cave and blocked its entrance with branches and leaves.
• Gu Chen circulated the Heaven and Earth Creation Art to restore some inner breath, though his injuries and exhaustion left him unable to fight.
• Gu Chen assessed the assassins' strength and concluded that the mention of Mr. Jiang pointed to Jiang Kun.

After recovering in a cave, Gu Chen refined the Jade Guanyin’s cold spiritual qi and broke through to the Revolving Illumination Realm. He then used a flying branch to confront the killers searching for him, who mistook him for a secluded Grandmaster-level senior.

• Gu Chen suspected Jiang Kun and possibly the Zhou Family had arranged the ambush, then used the Jade Guanyin to heal and cultivate through the night.
• Gu Chen broke through his bottleneck, reached the Revolving Illumination Realm, and gained heightened sight and hearing.
• Six Harmonies Fist and Eight Desolations Leg searched the mountains but found no trace of Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen sent a flying branch at the killers, severing Six Harmonies Fist's arm and frightening both men.
• Six Harmonies Fist apologized to the supposed senior, and Gu Chen appeared with the branch circling him.

After recovering and breaking through, Gu Chen defeated the two assassins who had ambushed him, but they killed themselves with hidden poison before he could interrogate them. He found matching gold tokens and went to Zhao Bo, who recognized one as a Beacon Fire Token.

• Gu Chen used a branch to sever Eight Desolations Leg’s right leg, then revealed that his strength had advanced since their fight the previous day.
• Gu Chen questioned Six Harmonies Fist and threatened him with a needle, but Six Harmonies Fist killed himself with poison; Eight Desolations Leg was also dead.
• Gu Chen searched the corpses and found two gold tokens marked with the characters for fire and wind.
• Gu Chen returned to the city, collected the medicine furnace Zhao Haiqing had sent, and called Gu Beichi without telling him about the ambush.
• Gu Chen visited Zhao Bo and showed him one of the tokens, which Zhao Bo identified as a Beacon Fire Token.

Gu Chen learned that the token he had picked up belonged to the powerful Beacon Fire Hall and changed his plans, telling Zhao Bo to prepare four underground boxers within three days. He then began refining Luo Heaven Pills with artifact fire, reaching the crucial pill-fusion stage.

• Zhao Bo explained that the Beacon Fire Hall was a far-reaching assassin organization and identified Gu Chen's token as a bronze rank.
• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo he needed four underground boxers ready within three days and asked whether Zhao Bo could reach the Revolving Illumination Realm immediately.
• Gu Chen used Zhao Bo's room to begin refining pills with the medicinal ingredients he had bought.
• Gu Chen produced Crimson Flame Fire and steadily controlled the furnace as he refined the ingredients.
• Gu Chen began using his self-created Vortex Pill Fusion Technique to condense the medicinal liquid into pills.

Gu Chen refined high-grade Luo Heaven Pills and made Eastern Sun Heaven-Suppressing Flags to build a Spirit Gathering Array, greatly accelerating his cultivation. He gave Zhao Bo three pills and sent him into the array to cultivate, leaving Zhao Bo astonished and admiring his master.

• Gu Chen refined eleven high-grade Luo Heaven Pills, then spent the day making more pills and seven Eastern Sun Heaven-Suppressing Flags.
• Gu Chen set up a Spirit Gathering Array with the flags and Jade Guanyin, then cultivated with a Luo Heaven Pill and found his speed had increased tenfold.
• Gu Chen gave Zhao Bo three Luo Heaven Pills and ordered him to break through to the Revolving Illumination Realm within a day.
• Zhao Bo entered the Spirit Gathering Array, felt spiritual energy gather around him, and realized Gu Chen had mastered arrays.

Gu Chen stabilized his cultivation, gained Divine Sense, and helped Zhao Bo break through to the Revolving Illumination Realm after Zhao Bo went astray while cultivating. The chapter ended with Zhao Bo testing his strength in the courtyard and discovering that Gu Chen’s defense and a casual finger flick easily defeated his attack.

• Gu Chen stabilized his cultivation and developed Divine Sense with a range of less than ten meters.
• Gu Chen sensed Zhao Bo’s cultivation going astray and helped him expel stagnant blood, allowing him to break through to the Revolving Illumination Realm.
• Zhao Bo comprehended his new realm, thanked Gu Chen, and reaffirmed his respect for him as his master.
• Gu Chen invited Zhao Bo to test his strength in the courtyard and told him to attack without holding back.
• Zhao Bo’s Five Void Claw could not pass Gu Chen’s invisible shield, and Gu Chen’s finger flick knocked Zhao Bo to the ground.

Gu Chen tested Zhao Bo’s new Revolving Illumination Realm strength, spoke with Elder Hua, and brought Zhao Bo to the black market, where he confronted Ma Gang about his inadequate progress. The chapter ended with Ma Gang discovering that Gu Chen had placed a painful restriction on him.

• Zhao Bo’s attack failed to move Gu Chen, who told him they were going to the black market.
• Elder Hua called Gu Chen, accepted his apology for missing their dinner, and offered help if anyone tried to harm him or his father.
• At the black market, Ma Gang won his thirteenth consecutive fight, but Gu Chen told him he was still too weak and ordered him to reach twenty wins within three days or die.
• Ma Gang protested that he had never agreed to give Gu Chen control over his life, so Gu Chen told him to press a spot on his abdomen.
• Ma Gang pressed the spot and doubled over in agony.

Gu Chen challenged the fighters at Zhou City's underground venue and defeated Ragnar, a fifteen-win fighter, by breaking his leg. He left the crowd asking whether anyone else there could fight.

• Ma Gang confronted Gu Chen about the pain caused by the Tiger Roar Technique, and Gu Chen said Ma Gang could not cultivate it properly.
• Gu Chen entered the arena and challenged anyone with fifteen consecutive wins to fight him.
• Ragnar accepted the challenge and climbed into the arena after Gu Chen used qi manipulation to lift him.
• Ragnar attacked Gu Chen with a punch and a kick, but Gu Chen caught his foot and broke his right leg.
• The crowd cheered as Gu Chen asked if anyone else in Zhou City's underground fighting scene could fight.

Gu Chen dominated the black-market fighters, prompting Lu Fan to confront him for breaking the arena’s rules. Zhao Bo stepped between them to stop Lu Fan, who revealed his Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm strength and attacked him.

• Lei Zhen challenged Gu Chen, but Gu Chen stopped his punch with one finger and sent him flying from the arena.
• Gu Chen called out several fighters, but they backed down as the crowd recognized his strength.
• Lu Fan arrived and confronted Gu Chen for fighting without signing a contract or life-and-death waiver.
• Lu Fan entered the arena to fight Gu Chen, but Zhao Bo stepped in and asked him to stop.
• Lu Fan threatened Zhao Bo, revealed his Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm aura, and grabbed for Zhao Bo’s shoulder.