Chapter Summaries

As the Taixuan Sect’s Heavenly Ranking Tournament began, True Person Biluo interrupted the proceedings and challenged Sword Venerable Fudao. Gu An realized he had to answer the challenge, while the sky transformed into a vast sea of stars.

• Li Ya visited Mystic Valley with gifts, and Gu An later took Yang Jian and the Blood Prison Great Sage to Outer Sect City as the tournament approached.
• The Taixuan Sect gathered cultivators to watch the Heavenly Ranking Tournament, and Lu Baitian announced its rules.
• True Person Biluo interrupted the opening and challenged Sword Venerable Fudao, alarming the gathered disciples and sect leaders.
• Gu An decided to make a move, while Yang Jian suspected that his master was Sword Venerable Fudao.
• True Person Biluo summoned two enormous green dragons and called on Sword Venerable Fudao to break his formation.
• A thundercloud parted above the tournament, revealing a radiant sea of stars across the sky.

Sword Venerable Fudao overwhelmed True Person Biluo with the Cangxing Zhentian Wuliang Sword, then Gu An secretly killed Biluo and searched his memories. He learned the Seven Stars Spirit Realm had sent Biluo to test Fudao and began considering how to uncover the realm’s strength.

• Sword Venerable Fudao summoned the Cangxing Zhentian Wuliang Sword, stunning the Taixuan Sect and revealing his identity to Yang Jian.
• True Person Biluo sent two azure dragons against the falling stellar Sword Qi, but the attack destroyed them and left him badly wounded inside the Luo Tian Pagoda Battle Formation.
• True Person Biluo fled after the battle, while Lu Baitian announced Zhou Zu of Cangtian Sect and Gu Xuan of Taixuan Sect as the Heavenly Ranking Tournament’s first opponents.
• Gu An left the Third Medicine Valley, intercepted True Person Biluo over a sea island, and killed him after searching his memories.
• Gu An learned that the Seven Stars Spirit Realm had sent a ghost to recruit True Person Biluo and resolved to investigate whether the realm possessed a Carefree Origin Immortal.

Gu An watched the Heavenly Ranking Tournament as Li Ya won his match by summoning Divine Wonder City, and the competition narrowed to thirty cultivators. After secretly questioning Yan Qitian, Gu An learned the Star Sea Sect planned to attack the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and recruited Yan Qitian to gather intelligence on it.

• Gu An considered how to deal with the Seven Stars Spirit Realm after killing True Person Biluo, while Gu Xuan defeated Zhou Zu in the tournament’s opening battle.
• Li Ya defeated a Nirvana Realm opponent by summoning Divine Wonder City, prompting cheers across Taixuan Sect.
• A month later, the tournament had narrowed from five hundred contestants to thirty, including Li Ya, the Yellow-Clad Immortal Lord, and Yan Qitian.
• Gu An visited Yan Qitian in secret and asked about the Star Sea Sect’s stance toward the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• Yan Qitian said the Star Sea Sect planned an all-out assault on the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, and Gu An ordered him to gather intelligence without informing the sect.

After the Heavenly Ranking Tournament ended, Li Ya became famous and the Taixuan Sect strengthened its standing. Two years later, Zhou Tongyou visited Gu An and challenged Yang Jian, only to be stunned by the supposedly Qi Refining disciple’s physical strength.

• Li Ya reached fourth place in the Heavenly Ranking Tournament, while Yan Qitian defeated the Yellow-Clad Immortal Lord to claim first place.
• The Taixuan Sect circulated the tournament roster, and Li Xuandao discussed the sect’s growing influence and the Gathering Flower Sect’s place with Jiang Qiong.
• Two years later, Zhou Tongyou visited Medicine Valley as a Jueshan Sect representative and reunited with Gu An.
• Zhou Tongyou praised Ye Yan’s spear comprehension and asked Gu An to spar with him, so Yang Jian offered to take his place.
• Yang Jian struck Zhou Tongyou with a kick during their fight without using spiritual power, leaving Zhou Tongyou astonished that Yang Jian was supposedly in the Qi Refining Realm.

Gu An watched Yang Jian defeat Zhou Tongyou in a spar, then heard about Wu Jue’s victory over Zhou at a Taixuan Sect gathering. That night, Gu An met Yan Qitian to collect intelligence on the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, while Ji Xiaoyu faced pressure from her family to trust the realm with the Ji Family’s Innate Dao Talisman.

• Yang Jian defeated Zhou Tongyou in a spar after Zhou accidentally used spiritual power, and Gu An praised Yang Jian while sending Zhou off.
• Zhou Tongyou later lost to Wu Jue during the Jueshan Sect disciples’ visit, confirming Wu Jue’s standing as a Taixuan Sect genius.
• Lu Baitian urged Gu An to consider becoming sect master, but Gu An dismissed the idea.
• Gu An met Yan Qitian at night, received a scroll about the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, and warned him to keep their dealings secret.
• A middle-aged man urged Ji Xiaoyu to trust the Seven Stars Spirit Realm with the Ji Family’s Innate Dao Talisman, but she remained silent.

Ji Xiaoyu warned Ji Qiankun that her Heavenly Eye foresaw the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and the Ji Family being destroyed, while Yan Qitian joined the Taixuan Sect as a guest elder. Gu An prepared to target the Seven Stars Spirit Realm’s continental bases and, three years later, looked ahead to the coming battle.

• Ji Xiaoyu told Ji Qiankun that her Heavenly Eye had shown her the devastation of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, the Ji Family’s end, and his death, then rejected the plan that would cost her life.
• Yan Qitian received Sword Venerable Fudao’s Dao-Breaking Divine Light inheritance and decided to visit the Taixuan Sect.
• Gu An urged Xiao Chuan to consider going down the mountain to marry and experience mortal life, then defeated him at chess.
• Yan Qitian became a guest elder of the Taixuan Sect, prompting excitement within the sect and diplomatic overtures from other powers.
• Gu An planned to eliminate the Six Stars Cave and Seven Stars Cave on the continent and watched a special power begin brewing within the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• Three years later, Gu An saw Lu Jiujia instructing new Handyman Disciples and considered what magic artifact to use in the coming battle.

Gu An prepared to enter the Seven Stars Spirit Realm as Ji Xiaoyu faced an arranged marriage to Luo Yetian. At the wedding, Ji Xiaoyu revealed the power of her Innate Dao Talisman and destroyed a powerful figure who intervened from the sky.

• Gu An chose the Heavenly Abode Sword and headed into the mountain woods to enter the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• The Luo Family arrived at the Ji Family estate to marry Luo Yetian to Ji Xiaoyu, while Ji Qiankun tried to reassure his daughter.
• Ji Xiaoyu left her room in wedding clothes and told Ji Qiankun their father-daughter bond would end when she crossed the threshold.
• At the estate gates, Ji Xiaoyu burned her bridal veil, rose into the air, and declared that the mortals had disturbed her cultivation.
• Ji Xiaoyu manifested a towering phantom, crushed the thundercloud above the estate, and refined the figure within it with Golden Flame.

Ji Xiaoyu unleashed the power of her Innate Dao Talisman, killing the Luo Family cultivators before Gu An arrived and slew a Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal. After the talisman vanished, Gu An reached a white-jade plaza in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where another Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal remained hidden inside a palace.

• Ji Xiaoyu’s Golden Flame phantom overwhelmed the Luo Family forces, killing the gray-robed elder and Luo Yetian with a sweep of its fan.
• As Ji Xiaoyu’s power consumed her, she transformed into golden light and her Innate Dao Talisman merged with the Golden Flame phantom.
• Gu An appeared before Ji Xiaoyu and slew the Great Cultivators charging from the Seven Stars Spirit Realm with a single sword strike.
• Divine Lord Digang attacked the Golden Flame phantom, but Gu An crossed the clash and killed him with one slash.
• Ji Xiaoyu’s phantom and talisman vanished, and Gu An crossed space to a plaza where thousands of Seven Stars Spirit Realm disciples meditated before a palace concealing another Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal.

Gu An confronted the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and accused it of raising the Demon Ancestor and creating the Fierce Demon, while Wanli Divine Lord defended the sect’s sacrifices and denied the charge. As seven Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals gathered and the Seven Stars Mirror sealed the small world, strange summer snowfall spread across the continent, signaling that an immortal had fallen.

• Gu An walked through the plaza toward the palace, and the Seven Stars Spirit Realm disciples recognized him as Sword Venerable Fudao but dared not stop him.
• Wanli Divine Lord emerged and challenged Gu An, who accused the Seven Stars Spirit Realm of creating the continent’s calamities and revealed that Fierce Demons remained inside the palace.
• Wanli Divine Lord defended the Seven Stars Spirit Realm’s sacrifices, but Gu An asked why other Fierce Demons were still in the hall after he had eliminated the one on the continent.
• Several Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals arrived as strange snow fell across the continent; You Yingying suspected the phenomenon marked an immortal’s death, while Wu Jue entered a mysterious state.
• The Heavenly Righteous Realm Master summoned the Seven Stars Mirror, sealing the small world as seven Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals faced Gu An and the plaza disciples suffered beneath their pressure.

Gu An annihilated the Seven Stars Spirit Realm’s seven Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals with one sword, took the Seven Stars Mirror, and exposed the Holy Land’s demonic practices. The Second Cave Master learned of the defeat as Thousand-Face Divine Lord escaped, leaving the Seven Stars Spirit Realm’s future uncertain.

• Gu An protected the Seven Stars Spirit Realm disciples from the Seven Stars Mirror’s pressure and asked whether they could bring order to the land if he cut open the sky.
• Gu An slew six Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals with one sword, split the thunderclouds, and took control of the Seven Stars Mirror, while Thousand-Face Divine Lord escaped by shifting his main soul and split soul.
• Gu An warned the disciples to reform the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, destroyed its palace, and exposed the Fierce Demons hidden inside before leaving.
• The Second Cave Master learned from the oil lamps that the Realm Master and the other leaders had fallen, and Thousand-Face Divine Lord recounted Sword Venerable Fudao’s strength.
• Thousand-Face Divine Lord refused to fight Sword Venerable Fudao again and left the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, while the Second Cave Master remained behind with the little boy ghost.

After destroying the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, Gu An returned to the Taixuan Sect and learned from the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord that its fall would throw the cultivation world into turmoil. The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord warned Gu An to keep Yang Jian in Medicine Valley, then left for Main Sect City.

• Gu An tracked the Innate Dao Talisman to a Ji Family branch, examined the Seven Stars Mirror, and returned to the Taixuan Sect as summer snow fell for seven days.
• Cultivators from the Star Sea Sect and other powers began hunting Seven Stars Spirit Realm cultivators and taking over its territory.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord visited Gu An, warned that the Seven Stars Spirit Realm was about to fall, and said its collapse would upset the balance of power.
• Gu An and the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord played Go, then Gu An had Xiao Chuan take his place as more disciples gathered to watch.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord noticed Yang Jian's unusual physique, but Gu An refused to let him take the disciple, and Yang Jian pledged to stay with Gu An.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord warned Gu An that Yang Jian could bring trouble if he left Medicine Valley, then departed for Main Sect City.

News of Sword Venerable Fudao’s triumph over the Seven Stars Spirit Realm spread throughout the immortal cultivation world, while Gu An claimed the damaged Immortal King Crown as his own. The chapter ended when Guo Guhong suddenly attacked Gu An at the North Sea.

• Gu An heard that Sword Venerable Fudao had entered the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, defeated its Immortal, and begun reshaping the Holy Land, then listened as disciples across the Taixuan Sect praised him.
• Gu An visited Heaven-Mending Platform, saw Seven Stars Spirit Realm geniuses explain their reforms, and exchanged a greeting with Emperor Fiend before leaving to meet his other friends.
• Cultivators across the world celebrated Sword Venerable Fudao’s power and benevolence, and Shen Zhen wanted to write a book about him until Gu An stopped her.
• Gu An retrieved the Immortal King Crown from the North Sea, refined it to recognize him as its master, and transformed it into a Daoist hair crown.
• Guo Guhong approached Gu An at the North Sea to ask about rumors of a supreme treasure, then suddenly clawed toward Gu An’s heart.

Gu An killed Guo Guhong, rewarded Perfected Lord Xuanmiao with a sword art, and saw the Taixuan Sect rise in influence after Sword Venerable Fudao’s victory. In Tianya Valley, he reunited with Li Xuandao and met the young Li Lingtian, whose extraordinary lifespan and confidence caught his attention.

• Gu An destroyed Guo Guhong when Guo Guhong attacked him with killing intent.
• Gu An visited Perfected Lord Xuanmiao, collected herbs, and taught him the Cangxing Zhentian Wuliang Sword.
• Perfected Lord Xuanmiao wondered whether the mountain god and Sword Venerable Fudao were the same person.
• The Taixuan Sect and the Seven Stars Spirit Realm announced an alliance, strengthening the Taixuan Sect’s standing.
• Gu An rode Blood Prison Great Sage into Tianya Valley and met Li Xuandao and Li Lingtian.
• Li Lingtian asked Gu An about Sun Wukong and challenged his disciple Yang Jian to a future spar.

Gu An learned more about Li Lingtian’s powerful Yang family background as the boy grew up and became determined to spar with Yang Jian. Ten years later, Li Lingtian arrived at the Third Medicine Valley with Yang Ni to fulfill their appointment, and the two young cultivators prepared to fight.

• Li Xuandao scolded and spanked Li Lingtian, while Gu An discovered that the boy’s mother, Empress Yang, came from a powerful ocean clan that had arranged protection for him.
• Gu An and Blood Prison Great Sage discussed Li Lingtian’s unusual strength and Yang Jian’s greater potential as peace settled over the continent after Sword Venerable Fudao’s victory.
• Ten years passed, and Xiao Chuan released the Innate Reincarnation Technique, reached Foundation Establishment, and left to return to his hometown and try mortal life again.
• Yang Ni and eighteen-year-old Li Lingtian visited the Third Medicine Valley, where Li Lingtian insisted on sparring with Yang Jian.
• As Gu An led them to an empty place, Li Lingtian called himself Sun Wukong and challenged Yang Jian to prove he was the real Yang Jian.

Yang Jian defeated Li Lingtian in a spar, forcing the arrogant prince to reconsider his strength and ask to stay in Gu An’s Medicine Valley. Later, Li Xuandao questioned Ye Yan about Gu An after learning that Yang Jian was Gu An’s disciple, suspecting a powerful expert stood behind him.

• Li Lingtian challenged Yang Jian, but Yang Jian overwhelmed him with speed and physical strength without using spiritual power.
• Gu An treated Li Lingtian’s injuries and warned him to remain humble; Li Lingtian vowed to win next time and asked to stay in the Medicine Valley.
• Yang Jian accepted Li Lingtian as a junior, while Yang Ni returned to the Inner Sect and Gu An went back to reading.
• Li Lingtian encountered Blood Prison Great Sage, who called himself Bull Devil King, and wondered whether a Bodhi Patriarch was behind Yang Jian’s strength.
• Li Xuandao showed Ye Yan a letter about Li Lingtian’s defeat and asked whether Gu An had an expert supporting him.

Li Xuandao ordered Ye Yan to prepare for Great Cang’s overseas expedition while privately pursuing greater power. In Third Medicine Valley, Gu An learned that Divine Wonder City’s former master was inside the Ocean Great Rift, then defeated the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord at Go as the Spring Festival preparations continued.

• Li Xuandao dismissed Ye Yan after ordering him to prepare for the coming expedition, then resolved to break through to Profound Heart and welcomed Yang Jian’s future.
• Zhang Buku told Li Ya that An Hao had cultivated the Blazing Origin Precious Body and invited him to join the Star Sea Sect’s exploration of the Sea-Severing Great Rift, but Li Ya declined.
• During the Spring Festival preparations, the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit told Gu An that Divine Wonder City’s former master was inside the Ocean Great Rift, where fleeing cultivators and a powerful aura suggested danger.
• Gu An decided not to investigate the distant rift after confirming the former master could not reclaim Divine Wonder City, then joined the disciples gathered around a Go game.
• Gu An took Elder Lu’s place and defeated the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord, impressing the watching disciples and drawing Li Lingtian’s interest in Go.

Gu An spent the festival with Tian Yao'er, revealed his face to her, and encouraged her to grow strong enough to stand beside him. Later, after defeating Nine-Fingered Divine Lord at Go, Gu An traveled toward Tianya Valley with Yang Jian and Li Lingtian, where Yang Jian sensed an approaching calamity.

• Gu An visited Tian Yao'er and the other women, compared Tian Yao'er's progress with two disciples, and teased her about becoming his disciple.
• Gu An removed his Mask and let Tian Yao'er see his face, then promised he would not abandon her and urged her to cultivate harder.
• Gu An played Go against Nine-Fingered Divine Lord and defeated him, leaving the elder questioning whether he had truly understood the game.
• Li Lingtian considered challenging Nine-Fingered Divine Lord to a fight, hoping to recover his confidence after losing to Yang Jian.
• Gu An traveled toward Tianya Valley with Yang Jian and Li Lingtian; Yang Jian sensed that something major was about to happen, and Gu An told him to identify what he could sense.

Gu An took Yang Jian to meet Li Xuandao and explore Immortal Seeking Island, where they learned of the dangers and opportunities in the Sea-Severing Great Rift. After returning to the Third Medicine Valley, Gu An wondered whether he could amass one hundred million years of lifespan before the great calamity arrived.

• Yang Jian sensed an aura of destruction in the approaching thundercloud, then raced Gu An and Li Lingtian to Tianya Valley and came last.
• Li Xuandao warmly questioned Yang Jian, promised to find him a heavy weapon within three years, and sent Li Lingtian to continue following Gu An.
• Gu An brought Yang Jian to Immortal Seeking Island, where Hu Xiaojian showed him around and cultivators discussed An Hao's growing fame.
• True Person Tanghai revealed that the Sea-Severing Great Rift concealed an ancient Immortal King's Cave Mansion and that a Deep Sea Spirit Palace cultivator had obtained Immortal King True Blood there; some attendees signed up to venture inside.
• Gu An declined to join the expedition, returned to the Third Medicine Valley with Yang Jian, and wondered whether he could accumulate one hundred million years of lifespan before the calamity.

Gu An watched the Great Cang Dynasty unify the world, learned that Ji Xiaoyu’s soul had merged with a newborn, and later went to the Heaven-Mending Platform when Lu Lingjun returned with an overseas Scattered Immortal. The chapter ended with Holy Mother of West Spirit failing to lift the Heaven-Severing Axe and Lu Lingjun spotting Gu An.

• Gu An encouraged Ye Lan to join the Taixuan Sect’s northern branch, and she agreed that the opportunity suited her ambitions.
• Gu An witnessed Ji Xiaoyu’s soul merge with a woman from a branch of the Ji Family, leaving him uncertain whether she would remember her previous life.
• Over the next ten years, the Great Cang Dynasty unified the world, the Taixuan Sect expanded, and Go grew popular in the Third Medicine Valley.
• Gu An rode Blood Prison Great Sage to the Heaven-Mending Platform after sensing Lu Lingjun had returned with an overseas Scattered Immortal.
• Holy Mother of West Spirit tried and failed to lift the Heaven-Severing Axe, then Lu Lingjun noticed Gu An and asked why he had come.

Gu An learned that the Sea-Severing Great Rift had unleashed enormous waves and Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts, while Yang Jian began sensing a connection to an ancient treasured body. After consulting the Seeker Immortal Daoist, Gu An left to consider the danger as the catastrophe continued to grow.

• Lu Lingjun gave Gu An a Storage Bag of gifts from overseas before leaving with Holy Mother of West Spirit.
• Gu An learned that Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts had emerged from the Sea-Severing Great Rift and that a thousand-zhang wave was threatening the surrounding islands.
• Yang Jian told Gu An that he had seen demons and ghosts in a terrifying vision, and Gu An reassured him.
• Gu An visited the Seeker Immortal Daoist, who said Yang Jian's ancient treasured body might be sensing another treasured body inside the Sea-Severing Great Rift.
• The Seeker Immortal Daoist warned that the other treasured body could belong to a dead powerhouse turned Divine Strange Grudge Ghost, then considered fleeing to avoid the danger.