Chapter Summaries

Long Jun explained the Long Clan’s past and its responsibility to destroy the War Court, while Long Qing grew eager to master the Heavenly Dragon Great Dharma Image. A hundred years later, An Xin rescued the pursued Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai on the Nine Spirits Continent, claiming she knew Li Ya as she offered them shelter.

• Long Jun told Long Qing that the Long Clan had created the War Court and must end its rule, and that Long Qing’s descendants could no longer bear the Long surname.
• A hundred years later, Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai reached the Nine Spirits Continent while fleeing their pursuers, but black crows soon forced them to flee again.
• Li Xuanyu urged Tang Cai to leave her behind, but Tang Cai could not abandon her and stopped with her in a mountain forest.
• An Xin appeared and destroyed the pursuing black crows with her Fate-Fixing Pen, then said she could defeat their Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal pursuer.
• An Xin offered to take Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai somewhere to heal and said she was helping because she knew Li Ya, making Tang Cai wary.

An Xin sheltered Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai, shared stories about Gu An, and revealed the Fate-Fixing Pen’s overwhelming power. After An Xin killed the mighty being hunting them, she urged the two women to remain on the Nine Spirits Continent, leaving Tang Cai to consider whether she wanted to grow strong enough to stand beside Li Ya.

• An Xin told Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai about Gu An’s past, and Li Xuanyu recalled how she had known him more than nine thousand years earlier.
• Gu An listened to their conversation from the Wushi Daoist Field and revealed that he had secretly guided and protected Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai on their journey to the Nine Spirits Continent.
• Months later, An Xin used the Fate-Fixing Pen to kill the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal who had been hunting Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai.
• An Xin told Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai to settle on the Nine Spirits Continent, calling it the greatest opportunity of their lives, then departed.
• Li Xuanyu asked Tang Cai if she wanted to become strong enough to stand beside Li Ya, leaving Tang Cai stunned.

The Supreme Demon Realm descended on the Heavenly Spirit Great Heaven and Earth, alarming powerful beings across the world. Gu An reassured the people of Wushi Daoist Field that they were safe, while Shen Zhen asked whether she could paint the demons and learned that Gu An’s true opponent had already appeared before.

• Bai Ziya sensed a powerful meteor swarm heading toward the Heavenly Spirit Great Heaven and Earth, then chose to fly away and preserve himself.
• Long Jun and Zhu Xing recognized the Supreme Demon Realm’s threat and decided to stay hidden while preparing for Long Qing to master the Heavenly Dragon Great Dharma Image.
• Li Ya learned from Grandmaster Sword Destroyer about the Supreme Demon Realm’s history and power, and his master promised to pass on one final divine ability before leaving.
• The people of Wushi Daoist Field gathered to discuss the falling meteors, and Gu An told them to return to cultivation because the catastrophe would not affect the Daoist Field.
• Shen Zhen asked Gu An whether she could paint the demons, and he told her she could before revealing that his opponent had already appeared before.

Three hundred years after the Supreme Demon Realm invaded, its demons had overrun the mortal world while Gu An watched from seclusion and explained that the invasion served the Heavenly Spirit God’s plan. When Long Qing’s Heavenly Dragon Dharma Image appeared in the sky, Gu An identified it as a dead soul rather than a god or demon, and Long Qing opened his eyes within Long Jun’s domain.

• Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai watched a Beyond Heaven Demon battle near the Nine Spirits Continent and worried about Li Ya.
• Seven figures in the Holy Domain wondered why the Nirvana God Emperor had not returned as the Supreme Demon Realm attacked the Sacred Court and the Taixuan Sect.
• Three hundred years later, Perfected Lord Xuanmiao asked Mountain God whether anyone could drive out the Supreme Demon Realm, and Gu An said heroes were preparing to attack its main city.
• Perfected Lord Xuanmiao saw an enormous dragon tail in the sky, and Gu An recognized it as a Dharma Image formed by Long Qing rather than a true dragon.
• Long Qing opened his eyes inside Long Jun’s domain as beings across the continent prayed to the dragon they believed had descended to fight the demons.

Long Qing learned how Long Mang fell to the Nirvana God Emperor and resolved to master the Heavenly Dragon Great Dharma Image and end the Long Clan’s karma. As Gu An prepared for his coming battle with the Heavenly Spirit God, Seeker Immortal Daoist told Zhu Xi that her choices could reveal the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit and urged her to face the coming trial.

• Long Jun told Long Qing how Long Mang, a Long Clan orphan he had rescued and trained, developed the Heavenly Dragon Great Dharma Image before dying to the Nirvana God Emperor, who later possessed his grandson.
• Long Qing vowed to master the Heavenly Dragon Great Dharma Image, destroy the War Court, kill the Nirvana God Emperor, and settle the Long Clan’s karma.
• Gu An visited Immortal Seeking Island, considered the approaching battle with the Heavenly Spirit God, and wondered where the being who created the Heavenly Spirit Great World was hidden.
• Zhu Xi told Seeker Immortal Daoist she feared the coming destruction but would fight the Heavenly Spirit God, and he explained that her becoming a Mystic Origin Carefree Immortal could reveal the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit.
• Seeker Immortal Daoist described the Heavenly Emperor’s many mortal-world Reincarnation Calamities and urged Zhu Xi to press forward; Zhu Xi resolved to face the trial of the Heavenly Spirit God.

Gu An watched the Supreme Demon Realm’s growing assault while teaching An Xin and observing Zhu Xi’s advance toward Mystic Origin Carefree Immortal. When the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit emerged and the world began to collapse, he revealed that someone had reached that realm, leaving the Blood Prison Great Sage asking what it meant.

• Gu An taught An Xin and observed Li Ya being chased by demons, while Zhu Xi prepared to break through toward Mystic Origin Carefree Immortal.
• Gu An allowed the people in his Daoist Field to feel the world’s growing pressure and warned Lu Xian that heaven and earth and the universe might collapse.
• A powerful pressure descended, and Gu An showed An Xin, Shen Zhen, and the others a continent cracking apart beneath a vast sinking tide.
• A gigantic fruit covered in golden Dao Patterns rose from the ruins and appeared in the sky beyond the light screen.
• Gu An identified it as the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit and said someone had reached Mystic Origin Carefree Immortal; the Blood Prison Great Sage asked what the realm was.

Gu An explained the Immortal Dao realms and revealed that the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit belonged to a cultivator slain by a powerful enemy. As the Supreme Demon Emperor arrived to confront Zhu Xi, Jiang Qiong kept the Gathering Flower Sect sheltered from the catastrophe.

• Gu An told his disciples that the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit was a cultivator's Dao Fruit and that the cultivator's enemy had caused the catastrophe.
• Shen Zhen left to paint the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, while Gu An revealed that An Xin had encountered Zhu Xi, Holy Heaven's reincarnation.
• Li Ya and other Great Cultivators hurried toward the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, despite the danger and the fear it inspired.
• Zhu Xi and Seeker Immortal Daoist stood atop the Dao Fruit as the Heavenly Dao Light Layer weakened and the Supreme Demon Emperor appeared through a black hole.
• Jiang Qiong refused to lift the Gathering Flower Sect's protective formation, explaining that the sect should hide rather than let its disciples become reckless in pursuit of opportunity.

Zhu Xi continued fighting the Supreme Demon Realm while absorbing the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, as the battle devastated the world. An Hao then appeared in a vast sun and declared that he would also claim the Dao Fruit, while Lu Baitian remembered the youth he had known nine thousand years earlier.

• Gu An watched Zhu Xi overpower the Supreme Demon Realm and judged her nearly invincible among Xuanyuan Carefree Immortals.
• Gu An wondered what An Hao would do and continued observing as the battle's destruction spread across the world.
• An Xin, Tian Yao'er, Lu Xian, and the other disciples watched the battle and discussed Zhu Xi's strength and the threat of the immortal gods.
• After two days of fighting, the Supreme Demon Realm had lost half its forces, lands were breaking apart, and people fled the disasters.
• Seeker Immortal Daoist sensed that the Heavenly Dao Golden Pill had found an inheritor, but he withheld his suspicions from Zhu Xi.
• An Hao appeared in a gigantic sun and announced that he would also claim the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, prompting Lu Baitian to remember him as a youth from nine thousand years earlier.

An Hao fought Zhu Xi over the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit as the Heavenly Spirit Great World began to break apart, while the Heavenly Spirit God explained his plans and prepared for an approaching enemy. An Hao fused with the Dao Fruit, and Gu An realized he would have to intervene against the Heavenly Spirit God.

• The Nirvana God Emperor's seven subordinates returned through the Boundary Gate, where the Heavenly Spirit God told the Supreme Demon Emperor that opening a great world could help him attain the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, but he must remember who established order.
• Zhu Xi confronted An Hao, who wielded the Heavenly Dao Golden Pill, and revealed her suspicion that the founder of the Heavenly Spirit Great World was involved in the conflict.
• Zhu Xi drew An Hao into an illusory starry realm, while the Heavenly Dao Golden Pill shattered her Dharma idol and struck the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit; the resulting shockwave destroyed the Heavenly Dao Light Layer and annihilated fleeing beings and demons.
• The Heavenly Spirit God summoned a giant axe and reacted with excitement to an aura he believed belonged to someone still alive, while the Supreme Demon Emperor cried out in shock.
• Gu An discovered that An Hao's body had fused with the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit and decided he would have to fight the Heavenly Spirit God.

An Hao absorbed the power of the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit and the Heavenly Dao Golden Pill, transforming into Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable as Heavenly Spirit God approached. Their confrontation revealed a history of betrayal and sacrifice, while Gu An chose to wait and observe.

• Zhu Xi overwhelmed An Hao until the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit's power began flowing into him, forming a colossal blood cocoon.
• Gu An watched An Hao transform and decided not to intervene, while Heavenly Spirit God advanced toward the Heavenly Spirit Great World.
• Seeker Immortal Daoist sent Zhu Xi through a gate of light to escape, then questioned whether his disciple had stolen a supreme treasure from the Immortal Palace.
• Heavenly Spirit God accused Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable of sacrificing living beings, and Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable countered that Heavenly Spirit God had forced him into it.
• The blood cocoon burst, revealing An Hao transformed into Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable, who told Heavenly Spirit God to turn back and leave the past alone.

Gu An intervened in the battle between Heavenly Spirit God and Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable, rescuing An Hao just as Heavenly Spirit God was about to kill him. He faced Heavenly Spirit God with Ji, Yang Xian, and the Black Mystic Emperor also present within him.

• Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable summoned the Purple Qi Creation Cauldron, but Heavenly Spirit God shattered its attack and grievously wounded him.
• Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable revealed to An Hao that he had created him from his own Dao and chose the turning of eras to confront Heavenly Spirit God, while warning of an even more terrifying existence.
• Heavenly Spirit God revealed he had reached the middle stage of the Hengtian Golden Immortal and trapped Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable and An Hao.
• An Hao urged Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable to fight on, restoring his resolve even as Heavenly Spirit God raised his axe to kill An Hao.
• Gu An appeared between them and stopped the Heavenly Dao Divine Axe, protecting An Hao as he faced Heavenly Spirit God.

Gu An defeated Heavenly Spirit God with the Eternal Boundless Divine Sword, but the Heavenly Spirit Great World continued collapsing after the battle. Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable resolved to remake the world, erase its past causality, and conceal Heavenly Spirit God’s death from the Heavenly Court.

• Gu An confronted Heavenly Spirit God over his plan to destroy the Heavenly Spirit Great World, then revealed his strength and severed Heavenly Spirit God’s connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• Gu An struck Heavenly Spirit God with a sword, but Heavenly Spirit God unleashed the Heavenly Eye Dao Technique and summoned countless eyes across the universe.
• Gu An used the Eternal Boundless Divine Sword to destroy the eyes and Heavenly Dao light, then seized Heavenly Spirit God and took his head with the Palm of Qiankun.
• Gu An realized the universe was still collapsing, while Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable explained that his earlier extraction of the world’s power and Heavenly Spirit God’s attack had destabilized it.
• Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable decided to remake the Great Thousand World, wash away its past causality, and prevent the Heavenly Court from investigating Heavenly Spirit God’s death.

Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable sacrificed himself to reshape the Great Thousand World's Great Dao, and An Hao followed by sacrificing himself to restore the shattered world. As the new era began, Gu An returned to the Wushi Daoist Field and noticed that Shen Zhen alone remained unaffected by An Hao's power.

• Heavenly Spirit Immortal Venerable sacrificed himself, healing An Hao and reshaping the Great Thousand World's rules as its heavens and earth began to recover.
• Seeker Immortal Daoist warned Gu An that the Heavenly Court would seek revenge and offered him a chance to obtain a Heavenly Dao Immortal Position, but Gu An sent him away.
• An Hao told Gu An he had chosen to save the living despite their eventual deaths, then declared he would finish what Immortal Emperor Yang had left undone.
• Gu An returned to the Wushi Daoist Field and told An Xin and the others that An Hao and Zhu Xi would not return and that a new era was beginning.
• An Hao sacrificed himself to condense the shattered Great Thousand World anew, and Gu An let the Daoist Field's inhabitants pass through the transformation unconscious.
• Gu An noticed that Shen Zhen continued painting despite the world being frozen, then a powerful light engulfed everything.

A hundred years after the Great Thousand World was reshaped into the Heavenly Spirit Great World, Gu An traveled to the Nine Heavens of the Heavenly Pole to strengthen his body and Dao arts. He paused his improvements when the Nine Heavens Blue Bird and the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor appeared nearby.

• An Xin taught Daoist arts to Qiankun Sect disciples while Gu An considered how to spend his lifespan improving his abilities.
• Gu An chose the Nine Heavens of the Heavenly Pole as his breakthrough location and spent five billion years of lifespan evolving his Chaotic Wuji Body into the Chaotic Reincarnation Indestructible Body.
• Gu An advanced the Great Dao Great Carefree Ruyi Scripture into the Great Dao Sovereign Art and the Great Thousand Follow-Heart Supreme Void Art into the Sun and Moon Selfless Divine Path.
• The Nine Heavens Blue Bird appeared, and Gu An used Lifespan Inspection to learn that it was an early-stage Taiqing Golden Immortal with a fifty-trillion-year lifespan.
• The Nine Heavens Blue Bird landed nearby, and the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor appeared atop its head, so Gu An stopped evolving and prepared to teleport away if they did not leave.

Gu An evaded the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor and used his remaining lifespan to evolve several powerful techniques before returning to the Qiankun Sect. After searching Heavenly Spirit God's memories, he sent him into reincarnation in the Heavenly Spirit Great World to experience mortal life, sealing him there indefinitely.

• The Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor and the Nine Heavens Blue Bird discussed the strange phenomenon above the Great Thousand World before leaving the sea of clouds.
• Gu An spent billions of years of lifespan evolving his sword art, movement technique, body, and soul-searching ability into the Doom Absolute Eye.
• Gu An returned to the mountain forest near the Qiankun Sect and used the Doom Absolute Eye to search Heavenly Spirit God's memories.
• Gu An learned that Heavenly Spirit God had coveted the World-Slaughtering Great Dao Pearl, which belonged to Immortal Emperor Ziwei, and suspected Emperor Ziwei was Immortal Emperor Ziwei's reincarnation.
• Heavenly Spirit God refused to serve Gu An and asked to be killed, so Gu An sent him into reincarnation in the Heavenly Spirit Great World and sealed his divine soul with the Return to Origin Divine Path.

Gu An watched Chen Chuan spar with Lu Xian, then accompanied An Xin to the bustling Qiankun Sect, where he reunited with Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai. After discussing Li Ya’s troubles with the Yaoguang Sacred Sect, Gu An left with Tian Yao’er, while Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai watched them go.

• Gu An saw Chen Chuan and Lu Xian spar and reassured An Xin that the Qiankun Sect would soon have new things to see.
• A thousand years after the world was reshaped, the Qiankun Sect prepared to host the Hundred Sects Conference, and Gu An visited its busy Library Pavilion with Tian Yao'er.
• Gu An met Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai, who had joined the Qiankun Sect, and invited them to catch up at an inn.
• Tang Cai asked Gu An to help Li Ya, who was being hunted by the Yaoguang Sacred Sect, but Li Xuanyu told her not to burden him.
• Gu An reassured them that Li Ya had powerful treasures and great fortune, then left after discussing the Hundred Sects Conference.
• Li Xuanyu and Tang Cai watched Gu An leave with Tian Yao'er, who embraced his arm as they walked through the crowd.

Gu An watched the Heavenly Spirit God's thirty-ninth reincarnation, a dying beggar boy named Xiao Wu, and saw Xiao Wu briefly glimpse him. After Xiao Wu died, his devoted older brother carried his body into the mountains, where three white foxes offered to save him if the brother became their servant and killed someone before dawn.

• Gu An cautioned Shen Zhen to stay wary of the mysterious visions she experienced while comprehending the Great Dao.
• Gu An visited a mortal city and watched Xiao Wu, the Heavenly Spirit God's thirty-ninth reincarnation, suffer from a terminal illness.
• Xiao Wu briefly saw Gu An, but Gu An concealed himself again, and Xiao Wu assumed he had imagined the figure.
• Big Brother returned with medicine to find Xiao Wu dead, then carried him from shop to shop before heading into the mountains in search of Immortals.
• Three white foxes offered to save Xiao Wu if Big Brother served them for life and killed someone before dawn.

Big Brother agreed to kill evildoers in exchange for the white foxes saving Xiao Wu, while Gu An watched and set a limit on Xiao Wu’s fate. Elsewhere, Zhang Buku grew stronger under the Buddha Immortal’s guidance, and news spread that Li Ya would duel the Holy Son of the Yaoguang Sacred Sect as An Xin announced that Master would forge treasures for the Wushi Daoist Field disciples.

• Big Brother returned to the city alone after agreeing to kill evildoers, and the three white foxes cast spells to protect Xiao Wu’s soul.
• Gu An left the forest and ensured Xiao Wu would never become immortal in this life as punishment for the Heavenly Spirit God.
• Zhang Buku learned he would be sent to the Taize Great World and practiced controlling its Heaven and Earth Power.
• The Buddha Immortal told Zhang Buku that Lu Qiuxian watched over those who entered the River of Fate and warned him not to offend Lu Qiuxian.
• News spread that Li Ya had arranged a life-and-death duel with the Holy Son of the Yaoguang Sacred Sect, while Lu Xian bragged about once defeating Li Ya.
• An Xin told the Wushi Daoist Field disciples that Master would refine magical treasures for them, and Lu Xian claimed he had already chosen one.

Gu An spent ten thousand years refining powerful Dao treasures for the people of Wushi Daoist Field while his cultivation and lifespan continued to grow. After his disciples received their treasures, they urged him to establish a sect, leaving Gu An to consider their proposal as he prepared to break through.

• Gu An began refining a Dao treasure with An Xin’s help, then continued the work while maintaining a peaceful life and gathering herbs.
• A thousand years later, Gu An gave Tian Yao'er the Years Clouds Silk Ribbon, and its power impressed the people of the daoist field.
• Over the following millennia, Gu An gave Shen Zhen, the Blood Prison Great Sage, Jiang Shi, Tianqing, Tianbai, An Shengtian, Chen Chuan, Lu Xian, and An Xin their own Dao treasures.
• While forging the treasures, Gu An comprehended the Great Daos and accumulated more than three hundred and forty billion years of lifespan.
• After Gu An explained that he could strengthen the treasures and contact their bearers through them, the Blood Prison Great Sage suggested that Gu An establish a sect, and the others agreed.

Ten thousand years after the Great Thousand World was reshaped, Gu An named his disciples’ force Wushi, while the Taixuan Sect faced the return of Ye Cang. Long Qing hoped to speak with his former disciple, but Zhu Xing went to confront him, leaving Long Qing reflecting on the choices he had made as sect master.

• Gu An named his force Wushi and urged his disciples to pursue eternal immortality beyond the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Epiphyllum Ghost Mother resolved to increase the herb yield in hopes of earning a Dao Treasure.
• Zhu Xing told Long Qing that he was cultivating a Taichu physique for Long Teng and described powerful Great Thousand Worlds beyond the War Court’s reach.
• Long Ya warned Long Qing that Ye Cang had returned with an Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure and the Primordial Chaos Body, seeking justice for his father.
• Zhu Xing left to confront Ye Cang, while Long Qing asked him not to take his life and wondered what his master would do in his place.