Chapter Summaries

The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord fought Divine Wonder City’s Soul Ghosts in hopes of claiming its Immortal Spirit, while Chi Bei and Chi Jiuxiao faced an encircling force from the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After defeating the Immortal Spirit’s phoenix form, the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord was confronted by Gu An, who declared he would take it.

• A Purple-Skirted Woman learned that three Wandering Immortals from near the Star Sea Sect had recently died and went to investigate fluctuations in a spirit mirror.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord and Chu Jingfeng witnessed Divine Wonder City’s Soul Ghosts surge through the ruined city, and the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord fought them in pursuit of the Immortal Spirit.
• Chi Bei stopped An Hao from rejoining Lu Baitian, then prepared to face Wandering Immortals from the Seven Stars Spirit Realm as a Star Sea Sect ally arrived to support him.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord battled waves of Soul Ghosts, subdued the phoenix Immortal Spirit with an Ancient Bell, and destroyed a ten-thousand-zhang giant.
• Gu An appeared, seized the palm-sized phoenix, and told the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord that he was taking the Immortal Spirit, provoking his fury.

Gu An subdued the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit and became the master of Divine Wonder City, then arranged for it to recognize Li Ya as its apparent master. As Gu An began claiming the city’s treasures, Jiang Qiong waited anxiously for the missing Epiphyllum Ghost Mother.

• Gu An crushed Phoenix to annihilate the Soul Ghosts, then used Palm of Qiankun to seize the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit while the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord and Chu Jingfeng watched.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord abandoned his plans to fight, and Chu Jingfeng concealed that Gu An was Sword Venerable Fudao as they prepared to leave.
• The Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit entered Gu An’s palm and acknowledged him as master, giving him control of Divine Wonder City.
• Gu An instructed the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit to hide his identity and recognize Li Ya as its master, and it bonded with Li Ya while he and Zhang Buku bickered.
• Gu An surveyed Divine Wonder City and planned to claim its treasures, while Jiang Qiong worried that the Epiphyllum Ghost Mother had not returned after two days.

Li Ya gained control of Divine Wonder City and led its Soul Ghost army into the battle, while Gu An harvested its treasures and rescued Jiang Qiong from black-robed cultivators. After the fighting, Li Ya agreed to join the Star Sea Sect and returned to the Taixuan Sect, where he flew into Mystic Valley to see Gu An.

• Li Ya used Divine Wonder City's power to summon Soul Ghosts and a colossal giant, then charged out to affect the battle beyond the city.
• Gu An harvested treasures in Divine Wonder City as Li Ya's forces drove back the Star Sea Sect and Seven Stars Spirit Realm cultivators.
• A black-robed old man tried to use Jiang Qiong to lure out the Hell Ghost King, but Sword Venerable Fudao intervened and drew her into a blood-red pagoda.
• Nan Fengtian and Chi Bei invited Li Ya to join the Star Sea Sect, and Li Ya agreed after asking to visit the Taixuan Sect first.
• Gu An learned that Li Ya had taken Divine Wonder City into his body and returned to Mystic Valley, where Li Ya soon flew in to meet him.

Li Ya and Zhang Buku visited Gu An to share their adventures and give him treasures, while Jiang Qiong revealed that she served Sword Venerable Fudao and prepared a medicinal bath for Gu An. The chapter ended with Jiang Qiong showing Gu An the immortal treasure she had obtained in Divine Wonder City: the Blood Domain Soul-Suppressing Tower.

• Li Ya showed Gu An Divine Wonder City, recounted his adventures, gave him treasures, and said he would leave for the Star Sea Sect for a hundred years.
• Zhang Buku visited Gu An, shared his thoughts about Li Ya and his late father, and gave Gu An more treasures.
• After the Taixuan Sect's main force returned, Zhen Qin visited Gu An and brought him treasures.
• Jiang Qiong told Gu An she served Sword Venerable Fudao and described how the Sword Venerable had saved her during her dangerous trip to Divine Wonder City.
• Jiang Qiong prepared a body-tempering medicinal bath for Gu An, then showed him the Blood Domain Soul-Suppressing Tower, an immortal treasure she had obtained.

Gu An continued his quiet life while news spread about Li Ya taking Divine Wonder City and tensions grew between the Star Sea Sect and the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. He established a hidden medicine valley called the World-Outside Grotto-Heaven and prepared pills for Tianqing, Tianbai, and Tian Yao'er.

• Jiang Qiong told Gu An about the Blood Domain Soul-Suppressing Tower and her experiences founding the Gathering Flower Sect, then helped him improve his cultivation.
• Li Ya’s control of Divine Wonder City made him famous, and Taixuan Sect expanded overseas as disciples headed south to establish a city.
• You Yingying visited Gu An, asked to help at his medicine valley, and told him about the Star Sea Primordial Flag and the Seven Stars Mirror.
• Five years later, Hu Xiaojian told Gu An that the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and Star Sea Sect were clashing over an Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure won by a minor cultivator.
• Gu An brought Tian Yao'er, Tianqing, and Tianbai into the World-Outside Grotto-Heaven, planted high-grade seeds, and prepared pills to help them.

Gu An learned that Lu Lingjun and You Yingying were preparing to establish the Ascension Sect, while Li Ya braved a Star Sea Sect inheritance trial and a vast fissure split the western ocean. He later met Tianqing and Tianbai after they transformed into human form, leaving Tian Yao'er waiting for his praise.

• You Yingying told Gu An that her spies had found five ascenders, and Lu Lingjun announced she planned to travel south and establish the Ascension Sect beyond the Three Dynasties.
• You Yingying revealed that she knew she could not pursue the immortal path, then left Gu An to return to refining pills.
• Gu An learned through the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit that Li Ya was near the end of a Star Sea Sect inheritance trial.
• A fissure tens of millions of li long opened across the western ocean, drawing cultivators and divine senses toward it.
• Gu An visited Nianchu Cave at night and found Tianqing and Tianbai transformed into human form and wearing a fragrance meant to conceal their demon smell.
• Tian Yao'er approached Gu An, pleased with the transformation, but he asked about her cultivation instead of praising her fragrance.

Gu An acquired a ninth-rank Luo Sea Tree and watched it grow over ten years, while the expanding ocean rift raised questions about ancient Immortal Kings and the Red Dust Sect. He helped Ye Lan release her suppressed cultivation, but after she reached Spirit Transformation, he discovered her lifespan limit remained only six hundred years and began considering how to help her comprehend the Dao.

• Gu An taught Dao Gang Primordial Qi to Tianqing and Tianbai, then passed it on to Tian Yao'er before leaving for Immortal Seeking Island.
• Hu Xiaojian told Gu An a legend linking the ocean rift to the Red Dust Sect's Immortal King, and Gu An asked him to collect records about ancient Immortal Kings.
• Gu An bought a ninth-rank Luo Sea Tree at auction and planted it in the World-Outside Grotto-Heaven, returning ten years later to see it growing.
• Gu An watched Ye Lan release her suppressed cultivation; she formed a Golden Core and then a Nascent Soul, startling cultivators across the sect.
• Lu Baitian helped conceal the commotion by announcing that a Spirit Transformation cultivator was cultivating in Ye Lan's residence.
• After Ye Lan stabilized at the fifth level of Spirit Transformation, Gu An inspected her and discovered that her lifespan limit was only six hundred years, so he considered how to help her comprehend the Dao.

Gu An spent the night with Ye Lan and found hope that she might extend her lifespan again in the future. Later, while welcoming new Handyman Disciples to Third Medicine Valley, he discovered that Yang Jian had an extraordinary lifespan limit and resolved to watch his progress, then checked on An Hao’s rapid cultivation.

• Gu An suggested that Ye Lan join the Inner Sect, and they talked through the night before he left the next morning.
• Gu An considered how Ye Lan might cultivate the Innate Reincarnation Technique again in several hundred years and worried more about Xiao Chuan’s lack of diligence.
• Gu An met the new Handyman Disciples and noticed that Yang Jian had an upper lifespan limit of 9,999 years.
• Yang Jian explained that he had taken his name from Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, and Gu An approved of it while promising to help diligent disciples pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Gu An observed An Hao cultivating with Chi Jiuxiao and Chi Bei, noticed Chi Bei’s cultivation declining from the Immortal-Swallowing Scorpion’s poison, and decided to pass An Hao an advanced technique.

Yang Jian sought Gu An’s favor by diligently serving the valley’s spirit pets, while Wu Jue visited Gu An and decided to support the Taixuan Sect. Five years later, Yang Jian still hoped Gu An would take him as a disciple, and Gu An sensed a powerful presence over the Ocean Great Rift.

• Yang Jian diligently served the Blood Prison Great Sage and the White Spirit Mouse, hoping to gain Gu An’s favor despite other disciples distancing themselves from him.
• Wu Jue visited Gu An, described his conflict between loyalty to the Taixuan Sect and obligations to Li Xuandao and his master, and chose to stand with the Taixuan Sect.
• Wu Jue gave Gu An eight treasures before leaving to meet Lu Baitian, and Yang Jian watched him go, inspired by his cultivation.
• Over the next five years, An Hao reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and Wu Jue advanced to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Realm and became a True Disciple.
• Gu An returned from Immortal Seeking Island and noticed Yang Jian caring for the Blood Prison Great Sage, who then promised to teach Yang Jian a spell.
• Gu An sensed a being whose aura surpassed the Wandering Immortal Realm flying over the Ocean Great Rift.

Gu An spent the spring festival in Third Medicine Valley amid the attention of several women, while Yang Jian began training in Blood Prison Great Sage’s Blood Prison Roar. The chapter ended with Lu Baitian revealing that Gu An was his appointed successor as sect master, surprising the women gathered around him.

• Blood Prison Great Sage demonstrated Blood Prison Roar to Yang Jian and began teaching him the technique after Yang Jian eagerly agreed to endure hardship.
• Wu Jue visited Third Medicine Valley, questioned Yang Jian about his hoarse voice, and later met Gu An with Ye Lan and Zhen Qin.
• Shen Zhen and You Yingying joined the group, and You Yingying revealed that Lu Lingjun might return for the festival, stirring the women’s curiosity about Gu An’s connections.
• Gu An discussed Journey to the West with Ye Lan, Zhen Qin, and Shen Zhen, and said he would not write another book.
• Lu Baitian arrived and told the women that Gu An was his personally appointed successor as sect master, leaving them astonished.

Gu An advised Lu Baitian to hold a Heavenly Ranking Assembly to challenge Cangtian Sect’s dominance, and Taixuan Sect later announced the event across the cultivation world. While taking Yang Jian to Outer Sect City, Gu An accepted him as a disciple, then encountered an old man warning that a world-ending calamity was coming.

• Gu An proposed an unrestricted Heavenly Ranking Assembly, and Lu Baitian planned to seek Sword Venerable Fudao’s tacit approval.
• Taixuan Sect announced the assembly and sent invitations throughout the cultivation world, exciting ordinary cultivators and angering rival sects.
• Gu An took Yang Jian to Outer Sect City and accepted him as his disciple after Yang Jian eagerly agreed.
• An old man stopped Gu An and warned that disaster would strike the mortal world and the ocean would swallow everything.

Gu An heard growing reports that a World-Ending Ocean Tide might threaten the mortal world and met True Person Tanghai, who invited him to a future auction featuring an Immortal Spirit Tree. He then offered to transform Yang Jian’s poor aptitude, leaving Yang Jian to decide whether he would endure the dangerous process.

• Gu An heard warnings about the World-Ending Ocean Tide and reassured Hu Xiaojian that its arrival had not been confirmed.
• True Person Tanghai told Gu An that others had been asking about his purchases and invited him to a private auction ten years later, promising him a discount on the Immortal Spirit Tree.
• Yang Jian grew anxious that Gu An had not taught him cultivation methods, but Gu An summoned him for a nighttime walk with Blood Prison Great Sage.
• At daybreak, Gu An asked Yang Jian whether he wanted a superior cultivation method and explained that Yang Jian’s special constitution made absorbing qi difficult.
• Gu An offered to make Yang Jian a genius through an agonizing process, and Yang Jian hesitated after learning that Gu An’s other true disciple was already a renowned heaven’s chosen.

Gu An took Yang Jian to an island and began restoring his special constitution through painful body tempering, while explaining the realms of cultivation. As Yang Jian’s power awakened and heavenly thunder gathered overhead, Gu An searched for a place to break through beyond Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal.

• Yang Jian accepted Gu An’s offer to defy fate despite the promised pain, and Gu An used the Boundless Freedom Step to take him to an island by the sea.
• Gu An told Yang Jian that he was a Scattered Immortal and explained the Nine Stages of the Mortal Realm and the first two Immortal Path realms.
• Gu An prepared a medicinal cauldron and gave Yang Jian a costly pill, then guided him through the Myriad Forms Qi Art to temper his body and restore his constitution.
• Yang Jian endured intense agony as his bones and body transformed, while Blood Prison Great Sage watched and marveled at the awakening power.
• Yang Jian rose from the cauldron with a fearsome aura as thunderclouds gathered, while Gu An continued searching the ocean for a suitable place to break through.

Gu An watched Yang Jian undergo a brutal tribulation that revealed his extraordinary ancient physiques, then dispersed the supposedly fatal Mystic Nether Heavenly Tribulation to save him. Yang Jian completed his transformation, while Seeker Immortal Daoist learned little of Gu An’s true strength and waited with him for Yang Jian to awaken.

• Yang Jian endured repeated lightning strikes that tore apart his body while his power continued to grow, and Seeker Immortal Daoist arrived to observe him.
• Seeker Immortal Daoist identified mysteries of the Five Elements Precious Body and Primordial Tyrant Body in Yang Jian and described ancient Precious Bodies to Gu An and Blood Prison Great Sage.
• A red bolt of Mystic Nether Heavenly Tribulation struck Yang Jian, and Seeker Immortal Daoist warned that interfering would bring the karmic tribulation upon Gu An.
• Gu An swept away the thunder cloud and declared that only he could decide his disciple’s life and death, leaving Seeker Immortal Daoist stunned.
• Gu An and Seeker Immortal Daoist exchanged polite conversation as Yang Jian’s body transformed, and Yang Jian later washed in the lake and emerged stronger.

After Yang Jian survived the Mystic Nether Heavenly Tribulation, Gu An trained him as his disciple and introduced him to important figures in the Taixuan Sect. The chapter ended with Gu An planning to break through after the Spring Festival and then visit An Hao.

• Seeker Immortal Daoist explained that Gu An had dispersed Yang Jian's Mystic Nether Heavenly Tribulation and given him the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique.
• Gu An taught Yang Jian the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique, and Yang Jian returned to Third Medicine Valley as Gu An's disciple.
• Yang Jian cultivated rapidly, and Gu An introduced him to Ye Lan, Zhen Qin, and Lu Baitian, who offered him support and an opportunity to join the Inner Sect.
• Yang Jian refused Lu Baitian's offer, declaring that he would serve only Gu An, while Gu An and Lu Baitian discussed the Heavenly Ranking Tournament.
• During the Spring Festival, Gu An told Tian Yao'er, Tianqing, and Tianbai about Yang Jian and planned to break through before visiting An Hao.

Gu An left the continent and secretly broke through from the ninth layer of the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm to the ninth layer of the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm after spending nearly twelve million years of lifespan. He discovered that the new realm let him transcend the Heavenly Rules and travel through places connected to his Dao, then descended into the Ji Mansion, where mortals could neither perceive nor touch him.

• Gu An found a remote sea island with no Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals nearby and opened a Longevity Barrier to attempt his breakthrough.
• Gu An failed 220 attempts to reach the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm before finally passing the Supreme Path Reincarnation Profound Heaven Tribulation.
• Gu An continued investing lifespan until he reached the ninth layer of the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm, causing spiritual energy across the island and surrounding sea to surge toward him and alarm the demons.
• Gu An comprehended the Heavenly Rules, learned that his Golden Pill was transforming into an Origin Pill, and discovered that he could descend to places connected to his Dao and control their karma.
• Gu An descended into the Ji Mansion, crossed through its gate and courtyard, and passed through an old servant without being perceived or touched.

Gu An visited the Ji Mansion and discovered that Ji Zhan, Ji Xiaoyu’s bloodline Old Ancestor, slept inside the ancestral tablet. He then cured Chi Bei’s scorpion venom, reunited with An Hao, and taught him a more powerful technique while warning him about a talented younger disciple.

• Gu An explored the Ji Mansion and found Ji Zhan’s soul concealed in the central ancestral tablet, where he noticed an unusual blur in Ji Xiaoyu’s karma.
• Ji Zhan sensed unease about a possible calamity facing the Ji Family, then returned to his dreams.
• Gu An arrived where Chi Bei and Chi Jiuxiao stood by the sea, and he gradually expelled the Immortal-Swallowing Scorpion’s poison from Chi Bei.
• Gu An found An Hao meditating at the fourth level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and praised his progress.
• Gu An taught An Hao a higher-level technique built on the Yang Wood Primordial Chaos Technique and warned him that it would bring dangerous tribulations.
• Gu An told An Hao that his new junior brother had comparable aptitude and cultivated the same technique, making An Hao feel challenged.

After reaching the ninth level of the Carefree Origin Immortal realm, Gu An remained in Taixuan Sect while exploring the vast Heavenly Spirit Great World with his enhanced vision. He continued his quiet routine and trained Yang Jian, leaving the young disciple eager to see Gu An enter the Heavenly Ranking Tournament.

• Gu An returned to Taixuan Sect, surveyed the pasts of the disciples in Third Medicine Valley, and marveled at the stars, seven suns, distant continents, and hidden powers across the Heavenly Spirit Great World.
• You Yingying told Gu An that the Star Sea Sect’s internal assessment was approaching and that Li Ya might participate with Divine Wonder City.
• Gu An continued observing the world, finding a vast northern continent shielded by immense fortune and a golden palace in the western desert that he could not see through.
• Gu An spent the first spring of his Carefree Origin Immortal realm living as before, visiting Medicine Valleys, reading, and meeting friends.
• Gu An trained Yang Jian in the mountain forest and advised him that every part of the body could be used in body cultivation.
• Yang Jian asked whether to focus on the Myriad Forms Qi Art or the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique, then asked when Gu An would compete in the Heavenly Ranking Tournament.

Gu An warned Yang Jian against arrogance, then killed Zhou Yu when he threatened Wu Jue and his friends. Meanwhile, An Hao arrived at Star Sea Sect’s entrance assessment, where Li Ya challenged him to a contest.

• Gu An rebuked Yang Jian for wanting fame and urged him to pursue immortality without looking down on others.
• Gu An learned Zhou Yu harbored killing intent toward him, then discovered Zhou Yu pressuring Wu Jue to join the Zhou Family and threatening Gu An and Wu Jue’s friends.
• A thunderbolt killed Zhou Yu, and the Zhou Family cultivators fled while Wu Jue escaped the ruined temple.
• Gu An reflected that killing Zhou Yu had gained him only ninety-two years of lifespan and resolved not to tolerate further threats from the Zhou Family.
• At Star Sea Sect, An Hao heard cultivators discussing Li Ya and his Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure before Li Ya arrived with Zhang Buku and challenged An Hao to win this time.

Li Ya returned to Taixuan Sect for the Heavenly Ranking Tournament and reunited with Gu An, who introduced him to his disciple Yang Jian. As Li Ya promised to protect Yang Jian, Gu An looked ahead to the tournament and the future bond between his disciples.

• At Star Sea Sect, Li Ya and Zhang Buku befriended An Hao and agreed to help one another as fellow Taixuan Sect disciples.
• Ten years later, Gu An prepared for Taixuan Sect's Heavenly Ranking Tournament while planning to gather more lifespan and Immortal Spirit Trees.
• Li Ya arrived at Mystic Valley, where Gu An introduced him to Yang Jian, and Li Ya gave Yang Jian a precious sword.
• Li Ya told Gu An that he had become a True Disciple of Star Sea Sect but had lost to An Hao when he fought without Divine Wonder City.
• Li Ya explained that Taixuan Sect had summoned him to help defend its tournament title against overseas Great Cultivators.
• Gu An asked Li Ya to support Yang Jian in the future, and Li Ya vowed to protect him to the death.