Chapter Summaries

Gu Xingzhi took over the Immortal Emperor’s body and used its fortune to perfect his Fortune Dao Rule, advance his cultivation, and obtain Fortune Origin Essence. After meeting Destiny through the purple-gowned woman’s inherited keepsake, Gu Xingzhi witnessed Destiny’s Rule of Destiny reach perfection.

• Gu Xingzhi possessed an Immortal Lord Realm messenger, then entered the Immortal Emperor’s palace and erased the Immortal Emperor’s consciousness to take his body.
• Gu Xingzhi used the Immortal Emperor’s fortune to perfect his Fortune Dao Rule, advance to the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal early-stage, and absorb a Fortune Source Pearl.
• After the banquet, the purple-gowned woman revealed that she knew Gu Xingzhi was not the Immortal Emperor and asked him to take her out of the realm.
• The woman presented a red jade treasure, prompting Gu Xingzhi to call out Destiny, who appeared and recognized her as his descendant.
• The woman opened a scroll bound to Destiny and returned a drop of bloodline essence to him, allowing Destiny’s Rule of Destiny to reach perfection.

After the Destiny Great World advanced, Gu Xingzhi and Mi Ying entered the place where creation first blossomed and founded the Luck World. As the world evolved, Qing Chi pursued the Fortune Great Dao, eventually understanding its meaning and setting out to begin his path.

• Gu Xingzhi sensed the Destiny Great World's advancement, bowed to Destiny, and left with Mi Ying.
• Gu Xingzhi created the Luck World, shaped its lands and life, and watched its laws give rise to Tribulation and conflict.
• After the Luck World matured, Gu Xingzhi lived as a white-haired farmer beneath a waterfall while Mi Ying continued cultivating.
• Qing Chi gained a Dao Body, followed the Rules' guidance to seek the Luck Old Ancestor, and knelt before Gu Xingzhi, who denied being the person he sought.
• Qing Chi followed the farmer's directions to an empty Soaring Cloud Reed, realized something about Fortune, and returned to work beside the Old Man.
• After Qing Chi said he had found the path, the Old Man sent him beyond the mountains, and Qing Chi departed to begin.

Gu Xingzhi advanced the Luck World and held lectures on the Fortune Dynasty Path and Fortune Dynasty Ascension, while Qing Chi’s Green Kingdom was destroyed during his absence. After the second lecture, Qing Chi defeated the rulers of the nine kingdoms, absorbed their National Fortune, and declared the Green Kingdom an Imperial Dynasty.

• Qing Chi founded the Green Kingdom, whose National Fortune raised his cultivation as other beings submitted and rival kingdoms arose.
• After the Luck World advanced into a Middle World, Gu Xingzhi reached the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal Middle Stage and announced a public lecture at the Fortune Palace.
• Qing Chi defeated the rulers of the nine kingdoms to claim the sole Green Prayer Mat, then attended Gu Xingzhi’s first lecture on the Fortune Dynasty Path.
• Gu Xingzhi kept Qing Chi farming for ten thousand years while the nine kingdoms united and destroyed the Green Kingdom.
• At the second lecture, Gu Xingzhi taught Fortune Dynasty Ascension, and Qing Chi learned that kingdoms needed to ascend before the next stage.
• Qing Chi summoned and eliminated the nine rulers, absorbed their kingdoms’ National Fortune, broke through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Early Stage, and declared the Green Kingdom an Imperial Dynasty.

After the kingdom heads imprisoned Gu Xingzhi, he returned to the central hub and reunited with Mi Ying, leaving the third lecture unfinished. A hundred thousand years later, he returned with Mi Ying, made Qing Chi his disciple, and prepared to resume the lecture.

• The newly founded kingdoms’ heads abducted Gu Xingzhi and imprisoned him in an abyss after demanding to learn how to advance their kingdoms.
• Qing Chi discovered Gu Xingzhi was missing but went to Fortune Palace for the third lecture; when Gu Xingzhi did not appear, Qing Chi revealed that the kingdom heads had visited his cottage, prompting them to search the abyss.
• The kingdom heads found Gu Xingzhi gone and executed the old man who had led them to him, while Gu Xingzhi reunited with Mi Ying at the Fortune World Central Hub.
• After the third lecture remained unfinished for over a hundred thousand years, Qing Chi began tending Gu Xingzhi’s fields and waited for him to return.
• Gu Xingzhi returned with Mi Ying, accepted Qing Chi as his disciple, and brought them to Fortune Palace to resume the lecture; his voice summoned living beings from across the Luck World.

Gu Xingzhi’s teachings helped Luck World advance into an independent world, and he entered Chaos before entrusting its governance to Qing Chi. After Destiny found him in Epoch Space, Gu Xingzhi declared that he planned to return.

• Gu Xingzhi continued his third lecture, after which the repentant kingdom lords dissolved their kingdoms and withdrew from worldly affairs.
• The myriad beings established sects and factions, and Luck World advanced into a Great World, raising Gu Xingzhi’s cultivation to the Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal Peak.
• Qing Chi governed Green Kingdom until it advanced into an Emperor Dynasty, becoming Emperor and reaching the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal Peak.
• After the fourth lecture, Gu Xingzhi entered the Chaos Venerable realm, Luck World advanced beyond a Great World, and he entrusted Qing Chi with its governance before departing with Mi Ying.
• Destiny followed Gu Xingzhi’s aura to Epoch Space and found him living as a farmer in Geng City.
• When Destiny asked what he planned to do next, Gu Xingzhi looked toward the sky and answered, “Return!”

Gu Xingzhi left the Primordial Expanse Domain in Destiny’s care and tried to return to his own world with Mi Ying, but she vanished in the Space-Time Passage. Chi Yu revealed that Gu Xingzhi was a Divided Source created by him and sent him to a mortal world to continue his training to command the Myriad Heavens.

• Gu Xingzhi told Destiny he came from beyond the domain and entrusted the Luck World to him before leaving with Mi Ying.
• Destiny took control of the Luck World as Gu Xingzhi’s traces disappeared from the Primordial Expanse Domain.
• Gu Xingzhi entered the Space-Time Vortex Portal with Mi Ying, but she dissipated halfway through and he lost consciousness.
• A golden-robed man named Chi Yu revealed that Gu Xingzhi was a Divided Source and explained that his training was meant to prepare him to command the Myriad Heavens.
• Chi Yu sent Gu Xingzhi through the Space-Time Passage, where he fainted and later awoke in a wooden house in a mortal world.
• An old farmer told Gu Xingzhi he had found him unconscious by a mountain stream, and Gu Xingzhi decided to cooperate with his true self’s plans.

After losing his cultivation and arriving in Tonggu Village, Gu Xingzhi settled in with Old Farmer Ling and helped with farmwork. He rescued Su Lin from a pit and grew closer to her, drawing the hostile attention of Chen Batian.

• Gu Xingzhi adapted to village life and helped Old Farmer Ling with chores and farmwork.
• Gu Xingzhi heard Su Lin calling for help, pulled her from a pit, and escorted her home.
• The next day, Su Lin brought Gu Xingzhi water while he worked in the fields.
• Su Lin invited Gu Xingzhi to lunch with her and her Grandma, and they later strolled through the village together.
• Chen Batian watched Gu Xingzhi and angrily accused him of stealing the woman he wanted.

Chen Batian framed Gu Xingzhi for trying to kill Old Farmer Ling after Gu Xingzhi treated Ling’s poisoning, turning the villagers against him. Su Lin learned what really happened and caught up with Gu Xingzhi, just as Chen Batian and a group of villagers arrived shouting at him.

• Chen Batian watched Su Lin and Gu Xingzhi together, then later hid his hostility when he encountered Gu Xingzhi and Old Farmer Ling on the way to the mountain.
• Old Farmer Ling suddenly fainted in the fields, and Gu Xingzhi recognized that he had been poisoned.
• Chen Batian accused Gu Xingzhi of trying to kill Old Farmer Ling and rallied the villagers against him as Gu Xingzhi drained the poisoned blood from Ling’s arm.
• Old Farmer Ling woke up confused, while Chen Batian falsely claimed Gu Xingzhi had attacked him; Gu Xingzhi left without defending himself.
• Su Lin caught up with Gu Xingzhi, heard his explanation, and offered to clear things up with the villagers, but Gu Xingzhi said he would leave the village.
• Chen Batian arrived with a group of villagers and shouted at Gu Xingzhi to let go of Su Lin.

Gu Xingzhi left Tonggu Village after defeating the villagers and killing Chen Batian, then traveled north in search of a place to settle. In Maple Forest Town, he met Mu Linglong, who left when someone called her out; the chapter ended with Gu Xingzhi unable to pay his tavern bill until the old man who had given him a ride arrived.

• Chen Batian turned the villagers against Gu Xingzhi, but Gu Xingzhi defeated them, rescued Su Lin, and killed Chen Batian.
• Gu Xingzhi left Tonggu Village and spent the night in a mountain cave before killing a tiger in a ravine.
• Ling Zhennan invited Gu Xingzhi to return with him to Xiao Cheng, but Gu Xingzhi refused and continued north.
• Gu Xingzhi rode an old man's ox cart to Maple Forest Town and stopped at a tavern.
• Mu Linglong sat with Gu Xingzhi, asked whether he knew of the Phoenix Nether Guard, then left after someone shouted for her outside.
• Gu Xingzhi realized he had no money to pay for his meal, and the old man who had given him a ride entered the tavern.

Gu Xingzhi met Su Lin again and learned that she led the Phoenix Nether Guard, a force seeking to restore the former dynasty, and she recruited him to help defeat the Wing King’s Dark Domain. He became the Guard’s Chief Commander, mastered the basics of the Nethercloud Thirteen Sacred Art, and received the Dragon Nether Sword.

• After a traveling merchant paid for his meal and lodging, Gu Xingzhi met Mu Linglong again, and she brought him to her senior sisters to discuss recruiting him into the Phoenix Nether Guard.
• A woman in black took Gu Xingzhi to Xiao Cheng, where he was restrained and brought before Governor Su Lin, whom he recognized from Tonggu Village.
• Su Lin revealed her identity as a descendant of the former dynasty and explained that the Wing King’s Dark Domain threatened her Phoenix Nether Guard.
• Su Lin asked Gu Xingzhi to help unify the land, and he agreed to join her cause; she then named him Chief Commander of the Phoenix Nether Guard.
• Gu Xingzhi took a pill, studied the Nethercloud Thirteen Sacred Art, and reached Martial Artist Peak within a day.
• Su Lin gave Gu Xingzhi the Dragon Nether Sword, and she watched in astonishment as he performed the sword techniques.

Gu Xingzhi and Su Lin carried out the Phoenix Nether Guard’s campaign against the Wing King’s forces, taking control of Xiao Cheng and Wind City. After receiving a secret letter about the plan’s second step, Gu Xingzhi traveled east with a young Gentle Woman, whose strange behavior in He City ended with her warning him not to touch her.

• Gu Xingzhi rescued the Phoenix Nether Guards, then stormed the Wing King’s base in Xiao Cheng and killed all the Dark Domain Black Armor Soldiers there.
• Su Lin captured Wind City, killed its City Lord, and ordered the Phoenix Nether Guard to wipe out the Dark Domain soldiers stationed outside the city.
• After learning that the second step of the plan was beginning, Gu Xingzhi left Xiao Cheng alone and later told the constable that the Wing King’s forces had fallen and the Phoenix Nether Guard had taken control.
• Gu Xingzhi issued orders the next day, traveled east by carriage with a young Gentle Woman, and reached He City after seven or eight days.
• Late that night, Gu Xingzhi found the Gentle Woman crouched on the floor with dull eyes, and she glared at him and warned him not to touch her.

Gu Xingzhi discovered that the Gentle Woman and her older sister shared one body, then grew much stronger after spending several days with her. In He City, he confronted the Dark Domain Black Armor Soldiers and two Grandmasters sent after him, leaving both men grievously injured.

• The Gentle Woman's older sister took control of their shared body and accused Gu Xingzhi of being heartless, then the Gentle Woman explained their condition to him.
• The Gentle Woman visited Gu Xingzhi late at night and agreed to be intimate with him; several days later, he found his strength had increased and briefly tested whether he could sense spiritual energy.
• Gu Xingzhi left the inn and noticed that several groups of Dark Domain Black Armor Soldiers were following him through He City.
• The Black Armor Soldiers charged at Gu Xingzhi, but his golden gang energy sent them flying into the walls.
• Two Grandmasters attacked Gu Xingzhi, failed to injure him, and were blasted away; when they tried to flee, Gu Xingzhi blocked their path.

Gu Xingzhi destroyed the Wing King and helped Su Lin take the throne before returning to Tonggu Village with the woman. At the waterfall, her hidden consciousness awakened and struck him, but the blow helped him break through the limits of the Mortal Body.

• Gu Xingzhi killed the Grandmasters, seized He City's City Lord's Mansion, and left with the woman.
• In Exterminate Purple Town, Gu Xingzhi defeated the assassins and soldiers sent against him, then continued to Wing City.
• Gu Xingzhi killed the Wing King and his subordinates, causing the Dark Domain to collapse.
• Su Lin reunited with Gu Xingzhi, took the Imperial City, and became emperor, but Gu Xingzhi refused to share the throne and left a year later.
• At the waterfall near Tonggu Village, the woman's other consciousness awakened, drew in the strange aura, and struck Gu Xingzhi.
• Gu Xingzhi used the blow to enter Spirit Condensation, shatter the Mortal Body's limits, and block her next attack.

Gu Xingzhi entered a Secret Realm World with Li Niang, completed the solidification of his Spirit Body, and advanced to the Spirit Master and Spirit Mentor realms while teaching Li Niang to cultivate. After meeting an old man in the realm, Gu Xingzhi learned that they might be unable to leave.

• Gu Xingzhi embraced Li Niang, and their intimacy further solidified his Spirit Body.
• Gu Xingzhi carried Li Niang through the waterfall into a Secret Realm World, where his Spirit Body finished condensing and Li Niang underwent Mortal Shedding Entering Spirit.
• Gu Xingzhi taught Li Niang a cultivation technique, then advanced to the Spirit Master and Spirit Mentor realms.
• Li Niang completed the solidification of her Spirit Body, and her consciousness shifted back to Li Niang.
• Gu Xingzhi and Li Niang followed a path to an old man's courtyard, where the old man said that those who entered through the waterfall could not leave.

Gu Xingzhi and Li Niang became trapped in the Exquisite Illusion Realm, where an old man had spent centuries unable to escape. After learning the old man’s cultivation methods and using Li Niang’s presence to expose the realm’s trick, Gu Xingzhi passed the secret realm but chose to remain and explore it further.

• The old man told Gu Xingzhi and Li Niang that the path back had vanished and that he had been trapped for a hundred years, reaching the peak of the Spirit Saint realm.
• Gu Xingzhi studied the methods engraved in the Thatched Cottage for ten years and reached the Spirit Saint realm, then comprehended them all and reached its peak a year later.
• Gu Xingzhi and Li Niang tried to forge a path home, returned to the cottage, and settled into farming and daily life with the old man.
• After another ten years, Gu Xingzhi broke through again and explained that Li Niang had never learned the Illusion Awareness Cultivation Method, allowing them to defeat the old man’s illusion.
• The old man acknowledged that Gu Xingzhi and Li Niang had passed the Exquisite Secret Realm and offered to send them out, but Gu Xingzhi said he wanted to stay and explore the Exquisite Illusion Realm.

Gu Xingzhi conquered the Exquisite Illusion Core, inherited Zhenlong, and restored Tonggu Village to its true form. After learning the truth about the world, he confronted the sealed Kui You and offered to release him on one condition.

• Gu Xingzhi entered the Exquisite Illusion Core and defeated the Old Daoist in a repeated battle of consciousnesses.
• The old man accepted Gu Xingzhi as his master, calling himself Evergreen Child, and Gu Xingzhi inherited Zhenlong.
• Gu Xingzhi returned to Tonggu Village and restored it, its halls, and its villagers to their true forms; Yun Xiazi greeted him as the Venerable Lord.
• Yun Xiazi told Gu Xingzhi the truth about the world, and Gu Xingzhi led Li Niang, Evergreen Child, and Yun Xiazi to the abyss where Kui You was sealed.
• Gu Xingzhi dispersed Kui You's aura and Dark Nether Divine Spear, then offered to release him on one condition.
• Kui You tried several techniques to break the seal, but it remained intact, and he angrily refused to accept his failure.

Gu Xingzhi collected Kui You’s and Qing Ao’s Origin Essence to restore regions of the realm eroded by Azure Qi. After freeing Kui You and restoring the Dragon Palace, he left with his companions, while Qing Ao pursued them to join their effort to save the realm.

• Kui You agreed to give Gu Xingzhi a thread of Origin Essence in exchange for breaking his seal, and Gu Xingzhi took it before destroying the seal with Azure Light.
• Kui You gave Gu Xingzhi a beast-patterned token, flew away, and vowed to make Fu Cang pay.
• Gu Xingzhi and his companions traveled through a great river to a ruined Crystal Palace, where he asked Qing Ao to offer his Origin Essence to restore the Dragon Clan.
• Qing Ao agreed, and Gu Xingzhi took his Origin Essence and used Azure Light to restore the Crystal Palace and bring back the Dragon Clan.
• Qing Ao gave Gu Xingzhi a jade pendant, then pursued the group and offered to help save the realm.

Gu Xingzhi restored the Yellow Sand Land and obtained a strand of the Yellow Yao Empress’s Origin Essence. After several months, he traveled with his companions to a lush forest and asked its giant tree-being to offer up its Origin Essence in exchange for restoring its body.

• Gu Xingzhi used Evergreen Child’s Exquisite Formation Art to reveal the Yellow Yao Empress, who warned that the Azure Qi would consume the Yellow Sand Land if she surrendered her Origin Essence.
• Gu Xingzhi absorbed the Azure Qi, broke the illusion realm, and restored the land, its factions, and its Wandering Souls.
• The Yellow Yao Empress pledged to follow Gu Xingzhi and gave him a strand of her Origin Essence, and he restored her cultivation.
• After traveling with Li Niang for several months, Gu Xingzhi left with his companions and arrived in a land of towering trees.
• Gu Xingzhi merged the trees into one giant tree and offered to restore its body in exchange for a strand of its Origin Essence.

Gu Xingzhi restored the old face’s body in exchange for a thread of his Wood Origin Essence, then sought Thunder’s Origin Essence and promised to exchange it for Time. Thunder agreed, and Fire Melt arrived to provide the Fire Origin Essence needed for the exchange.

• The old face reluctantly gave Gu Xingzhi a thread of Wood Origin Essence, and Gu Xingzhi restored his body and accepted a wooden treasure token.
• Gu Xingzhi led the group to a volcano but said the Fire Origin Essence would come to them, then traveled to the Thunder region alone.
• Gu Xingzhi subdued Thunder’s attacks and offered to exchange Thunder’s Origin Essence for Time, which Thunder eagerly accepted.
• Fire Melt warned Thunder about the risks, but Thunder chose to proceed and persuaded Fire Melt to help.
• Gu Xingzhi took a thread of Fire Melt’s Fire Origin Essence and began splitting off Thunder’s Origin Essence.

Gu Xingzhi replaced Thunder’s source with time, and Thunder transformed into Shi Yan while Fire Melt died attacking Gu Xingzhi. Shi Yan agreed to lure the Five Source Lords to Gu Xingzhi in exchange for Fire Melt’s revival, then arrived at the Floating Great Hall with two elderly men.

• Gu Xingzhi replaced Thunder’s source, and Thunder’s body dissipated before reforming as Shi Yan, who thanked Gu Xingzhi and took on his new name.
• Fire Melt attacked Gu Xingzhi in grief, consumed his Origin Essence, and self-destructed; Gu Xingzhi collected the scattered Fire Origin Essence.
• Shi Yan learned what happened to Fire Melt and asked Gu Xingzhi to revive him, agreeing to lure the Five Source Lords in exchange.
• Gu Xingzhi created a Floating Great Hall, entered an illusory space with Li Niang to cultivate, and sent Yun Xuzi and the others on their tasks.
• Shi Yan returned with two white-haired elderly men, and Gu Xingzhi summoned all three into the hall.