Chapter Summaries

Gu An considered accepting Emperor Tianhong as his disciple and weighed the Dao Court’s plans to explore other Great Thousand Worlds. Meanwhile, Immortal Monarch Huangfeng learned of Chaos Yuanluo’s spread and chose to wait while sending God Tianzhen on a separate mission.

• Gu An told An Xin that he had not ruled out accepting Emperor Tianhong, and An Xin reassured herself that Tian Hao would survive his troubles.
• An Xin described the Dao Court’s weakening influence and its plan to search for other Great Thousand Worlds, which Gu An supported; he then decided to let Chen Chuan choose whether to leave seclusion.
• Gu An and An Xin left Emperor Tianhong, who awoke briefly and reflected that kneeling had helped him shed the burden of being called the number one prodigy.
• God Tianzhen told Immortal Monarch Huangfeng that Chaos Yuanluo was spreading through the Great Thousand Worlds and could become a calamity.
• Immortal Monarch Huangfeng told God Tianzhen not to act rashly, warning that greater Karma might lie behind Yuanluo, then gave him a piece of golden jade to deliver to Immortal Monarch Xuansu.

Xiao Lan considered joining the Dao Court’s Beyond Heaven Project, and Gu An encouraged her to pursue the opportunity while he stayed behind. After she departed with the Dao Court’s expedition, Heavenly Spirit God sensed an unusual connection to her and wondered whether Gu An would make more immortal gods suffer.

• Xiao Lan told Gu An she wanted to join the Beyond Heaven Project and pursue the Dao Court’s top heavenly genius position, and he supported her decision.
• Xiao Lan and Gu An spent a month together before she left, after which Gu An began gathering herbs from his other Medicine Valleys to increase his lifespan income.
• Xiao Lan traveled with Yuan Songzi and the Dao Court’s cultivators to the Boundary Gate, where they bowed to Heavenly Spirit God and passed through.
• Heavenly Spirit God sensed something strange about Xiao Lan, then looked toward Wushi and saw Emperor Tianhong kneeling beside the Qiankun Sect.
• Heavenly Spirit God searched for Immortal Monarch Taiyi’s reincarnated body and wondered whether other immortal gods would descend to suffer after offending Gu An.

Zhao Rushen came to persuade Emperor Tianhong to return to the Dao Court and challenge him, but An Xin drove him away and revealed that the two men were destined to contend as Great Dao Emperor Lords. Emperor Tianhong remained kneeling before Wushi, determined to continue cultivating as he awaited his future duel with Zhao Rushen.

• Zhao Rushen visited Emperor Tianhong after more than twenty-one thousand years of kneeling and urged him to return to the Dao Court, describing how he had become its foremost prodigy.
• An Xin and Chen Chuan arrived, and Zhao Rushen sensed An Xin's overwhelming presence and left after she ordered him to go.
• An Xin told Emperor Tianhong that Zhao Rushen had been able to kill him and would become his destined enemy in a struggle between future Great Dao Emperor Lords.
• An Xin explained that Sword Venerable had not accepted Emperor Tianhong yet and told him to keep kneeling, while he acknowledged that his understanding of the Great Dao had grown.
• After An Xin departed, Emperor Tianhong resolved to remember Zhao Rushen and looked forward to their future duel.

Gu An reflected on Zhao Rushen’s fate and Xiao Lan’s rise on the Path of the Great Dao, then spent time with Jiang Qiong after another five thousand years had passed. He sensed a strange, corrupting power approaching the Heavenly Spirit Great World, one that had already plunged other Great Thousand Worlds into chaos.

• Gu An observed that Xiao Lan had begun pursuing the Great Dao Emperor Lord and had been guided toward the Dao of Obsession, the Great Dao of Thought.
• Chen Chuan founded the Sword Sect, An Shengtian returned to support the An Family, and Lu Xian gained fame by defeating peerless geniuses across the four directions.
• Gu An visited Jiang Qiong, gave her a formation that could protect the Gathering Flower Sect for a million years, and spoke with her about his long stay in the world.
• Gu An sensed a strange power nearing the Heavenly Spirit Great World and learned that it made those it touched violent and bloodthirsty.

Gu An told Jiang Qiong about his varied experiences living as a mortal, which she began to see as a form of cultivation. Elsewhere, Long Lin and Yang Nian traveled with the Changyang Sect to confront a ten-thousand-year-old Great Demon, while Long Lin weighed whether to return to the powerful Long Family.

• Jiang Qiong studied Gu An's Formation scroll, discussed the Gathering Flower Sect and Lu Lingjun with him, and asked whether he grew bored with cultivation.
• Gu An explained that he had spent decades serving a mortal emperor and had experienced many mortal identities, prompting Jiang Qiong to consider doing the same.
• Long Lin and Yang Nian flew with the Changyang Sect disciples toward a battle against a ten-thousand-year-old Great Demon.
• Long Lin told Yang Nian that his clansmen had found him and wanted him to return to the Long Family, whose influence had persuaded the Changyang Sect's leaders to urge him to go.
• Yang Nian felt envy beneath his gratitude toward Long Lin, while Long Lin hesitated because the Long Family did not accept outsiders and yearned to meet its Immortal.

Gu An sensed an eerie power invading the Great Thousand Worlds and reassured An Xin that the coming calamity would draw powerful beings to oppose it. On the Path of the Great Dao, Ji Xiaoyu and Xiao Lan learned about Spirit Mountain before a battle outside their monastery alarmed Yuan Songzi.

• Gu An recognized that the eerie power had entered the Great Thousand World through its Great Dao rules, but chose not to interfere in the troubles it would cause Long Lin and Yang Nian.
• An Xin told Gu An that her Immortal Emperor Pupils and future self had sensed a vast calamity, and Gu An confirmed that the heavens would face one.
• Gu An noted that Ji Xiaoyu, Zhang Buku, Tian Hao, and Zhu Xi were pursuing the Great Dao Emperor Lord realm, while Ji Xiaoyu and Xiao Lan had met through Yuan Songzi's efforts.
• Ji Xiaoyu told Xiao Lan about Spirit Mountain, and Yuan Songzi recalled a Spirit Mountain disciple who had once saved his world and suppressed a Beyond Heaven Demon.
• The monastery shook as two figures fought in the void of the Great Dao, and Yuan Songzi recognized one of them and grew visibly troubled.

Gu An watched the mortal world descend into widespread conflict while considering his next breakthrough, then met Emperor Tianhong, who had knelt for more than fifty thousand years. He lent Emperor Tianhong the Longevity Sword to save the mortal world and told him to decide later whether he still wished to become his disciple; afterward, Gu An resolved to break through.

• Yuan Songzi identified one of the fighters outside as Zhou Jie of Ascending Yellow Heaven, and the group waited in fear until the battle pressure disappeared.
• Over the next twenty thousand years, eerie power spread through the Heavenly Spirit Great World, fueling violence and wars that Gu An chose not to stop while secretly protecting old acquaintances.
• Gu An checked his Attribute Panel and found that his lifespan had exceeded five trillion years, then encountered Emperor Tianhong kneeling beside a river after more than fifty thousand years.
• Emperor Tianhong said that the Dao could be found everywhere in heaven and earth and asked Gu An to accept him as a disciple.
• Gu An lent Emperor Tianhong the Longevity Sword and charged him with saving the mortal world before deciding whether to become his disciple.
• Gu An walked away, deciding to attempt a breakthrough beyond the Miaozhen Daluo Immortal Realm.

Gu An used Lifespan Breakthrough to travel to Endless Dao Mountain and spent billions of years of lifespan advancing his physique and techniques. As his enhancements disturbed the mountain, a powerful Miaozhen Great Luo Immortal appeared nearby, while Gu An began upgrading the Immortal Emperor Pupils.

• After parting from Emperor Tianhong, Gu An traveled to an uninhabited mountain forest and activated Lifespan Breakthrough.
• Gu An chose Endless Dao Mountain from the nine destinations and spent ten billion years of lifespan to teleport there.
• Gu An invested forty billion years of lifespan to transform the Chaotic Reincarnation Indestructible Body into the Chaotic Dao-Creating Body.
• Gu An advanced his Great Dao Sovereign Art, Sun and Moon Selfless Divine Path, Dao-less Heavenly Net Step, and Primordial Void-Turning Golden Body into stronger techniques.
• Gu An's upgrades stirred the Great Dao rules and drew the attention of a powerful Miaozhen Great Luo Immortal on a distant Dao Mountain.
• Gu An ignored the distant figure and began investing lifespan to enhance the Immortal Emperor Pupils.

Gu An evolved his Immortal Emperor Pupils into Absolute Void Pupils, then spent trillions of years attempting to break through to the Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal Realm. He finally passed the Great Tribulation of Boundless Heavenly Void and began transforming into a Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal as powerful cultivators watched from the Endless Dao Mountains.

• Gu An invested 1.8 trillion years of lifespan to evolve his Immortal Emperor Pupils into Absolute Void Pupils, gaining the power to create and erase void and reality.
• The disturbance from Gu An's breakthrough drew cultivators onto nearby Dao mountains, including a gray-qi figure whose cultivation was at the late stage of the Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm.
• Gu An repeatedly failed to break through to the Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal Realm, spending more than two trillion years of lifespan before finally passing the Great Tribulation of Boundless Heavenly Void.
• Gu An sensed many powerful cultivators in the Endless Dao Mountains, including several Dao Extreme Daluo Immortals.
• Gu An learned that Dao Extreme Daluo Immortals could revive up to forty-nine times through their Dao Extreme Markings, while his magic power and True Words of Longevity began transforming.

Gu An broke through to the mid-stage of the Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal Realm while exploring the Endless Dao Mountains, then returned to Wushi Daoist Field. He discovered that Fairy Yao Xuan’s soul was exiled in the World of No Cause, a dangerous place he was not yet ready to enter.

• Gu An completed his transformation into a Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal and sensed other powerful beings and Heavenly Court providence in the Endless Dao Mountains.
• Gu An used his enhanced insight to learn about the mountains’ rules, their visitors, and the routes leading to different cosmic planes.
• Gu An spent eight hundred billion years of lifespan to reach the mid-stage of the Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal Realm, then returned safely to Wushi Daoist Field.
• Gu An traced Fairy Yao Xuan’s karma to the World of No Cause and found her soul sleeping there among countless exiled souls.
• Gu An judged that the World of No Cause’s terrifying will made rescuing Fairy Yao Xuan too dangerous for now, while Shen Zhen sensed that he had become stronger.

Gu An discussed Emperor Tianhong and the mortal realm’s growing chaos with Shen Zhen, then traveled in disguise to the Endless Dao Mountains to seek knowledge and learn about the Heavenly Court. He met Hong Yazi, who invited him to hear the White-Headed Immortal Ancestor preach the Dao.

• Gu An told Shen Zhen that Emperor Tianhong had great potential and shared what he knew about the force stirring disasters in the mortal realm.
• Emperor Tianhong roamed the world suppressing evil forces, while Dao Court chief disciple Zhao Rushen gained renown for helping save the world.
• A hundred years later, Gu An suppressed his cultivation and entered the Endless Dao Mountains to gather intelligence and deepen his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Gu An approached the cautious cultivator Hong Yazi, introduced himself as the wandering Meng Lang, and learned that Hong Yazi came from the Ethereal Immortal Court.
• Hong Yazi invited Gu An to hear the White-Headed Immortal Ancestor, a respected Heavenly Court immortal, preach the Dao.

Gu An attended White-Headed Immortal Ancestor’s sermon through a clone while continuing to gather herbs and observe the growing turmoil in the Heavenly Spirit Great World. The chapter ended with Li Ya arriving at the Qiankun Sect, changed from his former hot-blooded self.

• Gu An arrived at the Endless Dao Mountains with Hong Yazi, mingled with Great Luo Immortals, and sent his true body back to the Heavenly Spirit Great World while his clone remained for the sermon.
• White-Headed Immortal Ancestor descended and began preaching about the Great Dao of Strength, which Gu An listened to through his clone.
• The Heavenly Spirit Great World grew more chaotic as the Dao Court descended into internal strife, and Emperor Tianhong became a wanted criminal after breaking with it.
• Li Ya arrived at the Qiankun Sect carrying Elder Li Xuanyu’s token, and the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit remarked on the sect’s fortune and Li Ya’s changed temperament.

Li Ya told Gu An about a force of resentment from Beyond Heaven that was spreading chaos through the mortal world. Gu An agreed to end the calamity and made the bizarre force vanish with the simple act of setting down his teacup.

• Li Xuanyu and Li Ya exchanged stories about their lives, and Li Ya was unsettled by how quickly Li Xuanyu had advanced with help from powerful figures.
• Li Ya explained that a dying servant of the Heavenly Dao had warned him that a force of resentment from Beyond Heaven was fueling evil thoughts and threatening the world.
• Gu An revealed that the force came from Chaos Yuanluo and refused to treat it as an unstoppable calamity.
• Li Xuanyu argued that people had to face hardships themselves, while Li Ya asked whether Gu An could end the chaos without harm to himself.
• Gu An promised to grant Li Ya's wish, then set down his teacup and caused the bizarre force shrouding all living beings to vanish.

Gu An reunited with Li Ya, who chose to keep traveling rather than remain by Gu An’s side, and learned that Li Ya’s own choices had changed his karma. The chapter ended with Gu An attending the White-Headed Immortal Ancestor’s sermon and preparing to ask a question.

• Li Ya doubted Gu An had dispersed the strange power, then said he intended to keep traveling and refused Gu An’s offer to enter the Dao Court.
• Gu An and Li Ya reminisced at the Qiankun Sect, and Li Ya shared the hardships he had endured over the years.
• Gu An brought Li Ya to Wushi Daoist Field, where Li Ya saw its powerful disciples before departing after three days.
• Li Ya said he wanted to follow his own path and someday return to see whether Gu An had truly resolved the great calamity; the Divine Wonder Immortal Spirit left with him.
• An Xin asked whether Gu An had changed Li Ya’s karma, and Gu An said Li Ya’s own choice had changed it.
• At Endless Dao Mountains, the White-Headed Immortal Ancestor ended his thousand-year sermon and invited everyone to ask one question, prompting Gu An to consider what to ask.

At White-Headed Immortal Ancestor’s sermon, Gu An learned more about the Heavenly Court’s rule and asked whether the Great Dao was infinite. Afterward, he heard other immortals condemn the Heavenly Court and learned why they dared to speak freely in the Endless Dao Mountains.

• White-Headed Immortal Ancestor answered listeners’ questions about Chaos, the Heavenly Court, and the ways to become ranked among the immortals.
• Gu An asked whether the Great Dao was infinite and what meaning cultivators had within it, and White-Headed Immortal Ancestor said the Great Dao had no known end.
• After the sermon, Gu An asked an Opening Heaven Great Luo Immortal about Chaos Yuanluo, and the immortals blamed the Heavenly Court for allowing its destruction to spread.
• Hong Yazi told Gu An that the Endless Dao Mountains were beyond the Heavenly Dao’s providence, so visitors there were not bound by the Heavenly Court’s laws.
• Hong Yazi said the Ethereal Immortal Court outwardly flattered the Heavenly Court because factions that resisted it had been destroyed.

Gu An learned more about the Ethereal Immortal Court from Hong Yazi, then spent ten thousand years cultivating as the Qiankun Sect recovered. He discovered that Chaos Yuanluo had reincarnated as a disciple of peerless talent in the Qiankun Sect, while Immortal Monarch Huangfeng prepared to pursue him.

• Hong Yazi told Gu An about the Ethereal Immortal Court’s tribute to the Heavenly Court and gave him a Red Domain Immortal Token before they parted.
• Immortal Monarch Huangfeng ordered God Tianzhen to clear away Chaos Yuanluo’s power and said he would enlist a stronger Heavenly Dao power to capture him.
• Over ten thousand years, Gu An accumulated another one trillion six hundred billion years of lifespan, and the Qiankun Sect restored peace and began sending disciples out to save the world.
• Gu An told Shen Zhen that a peerless disciple was about to be born in the Qiankun Sect and said the disciple might surpass Emperor Tianhong and Zhao Rushen.
• Gu An recognized that the new disciple was Chaos Yuanluo reincarnated and told Shen Zhen he would keep his promise to take Emperor Tianhong as his disciple if he returned.

Gu An discussed Yuan Luo’s rise and the dangers surrounding his reincarnation while following Ji Xiaoyu and Xiao Lan’s progress on the Path of the Great Dao. Ji Xiaoyu prepared to face the Invincible Emperor, rejecting Yuan Songzi’s plea to withdraw from the battle.

• An Xin told Gu An that the Qiankun Sect planned to cultivate Yuan Luo as a prodigy, and Gu An revealed Yuan Luo had been Chaos Yuanluo in his previous life.
• Gu An told An Xin that Zhao Rushen was destined to become a Great Dao Emperor Lord and reflected on Ji Xiaoyu and Xiao Lan’s progress.
• Gu An saw that Ji Xiaoyu’s next opponent was the Invincible Emperor, a peerless prodigy from the Taichu Imperial Domain who had defeated a Great Dao Emperor Lord.
• Yuan Songzi warned Ji Xiaoyu that the Invincible Emperor was unbeatable and urged her to give up the match to survive.
• Ji Xiaoyu argued that she had to defeat the opponent chosen by the Great Dao and challenged Yuan Songzi’s certainty that she would lose.

Ji Xiaoyu fought the Invincible Emperor on the Path of the Great Dao, but was defeated and left with only a fading soul as he claimed her accumulated fortune. At the Qiankun Sect, Yuan Luo impressed the spectators with his strength, while Yuan Songzi tried to protect Ji Xiaoyu from the Invincible Emperor.

• The Invincible Emperor arrived with the mighty figures of the Taichu Imperial Domain and challenged Ji Xiaoyu to battle.
• At the Qiankun Sect, Yuan Luo defeated a Profound Heart Realm opponent and challenged a higher realm, prompting Lin Chuan to send a Great Vehicle Realm disciple against him.
• Gu An watched Yuan Luo's duel while monitoring Ji Xiaoyu's fight and decided to ensure she survived rather than help her win.
• Ji Xiaoyu wounded the Invincible Emperor but lost their final clash, leaving only her faint soul as her accumulated fortune flowed to him.
• Yuan Songzi pleaded with the Invincible Emperor to spare Ji Xiaoyu, but the Emperor called him a crawling insect as Taichu's mighty figures pressed him with their aura.

Gu An intervened when Invincible Emperor and the Imperial Clan threatened Ji Xiaoyu, Yuan Songzi, and the Dao Court. His golden hand wiped out the Imperial Clan, leaving the survivors stunned.

• Yuan Songzi endured Invincible Emperor's humiliation and tried to protect Ji Xiaoyu as the Imperial Clan sealed off their escape.
• Ji Xiaoyu offered to die in exchange for the others' lives, but Invincible Emperor launched his spear at Yuan Songzi.
• Gu An secretly intervened, stopping the spear and warning Invincible Emperor to spare them.
• The Imperial Clan's mighty figures challenged the hidden helper, and Gu An judged their defiance to be conceited.
• Gu An sent a golden giant hand across the void, which turned Invincible Emperor and the Imperial Clan beings to ash.

Gu An destroyed the Imperial Clan forces threatening Ji Xiaoyu and gained enough lifespan to surpass ten trillion years, upgrading his enemy-prediction function. Ji Xiaoyu survived but lost her chance to become a Great Dao Emperor Lord, while Xiao Lan decided to leave the Imperial Road and return to the Heavenly Spirit Great World.

• Gu An seized vast amounts of lifespan from the Imperial Clan after using his own power to destroy the Invincible Emperor and his forces.
• Gu An's lifespan exceeded ten trillion years, upgrading Lifespan Enemy Prediction so it could identify Karma and warn him about potential enemies.
• Gu An saw prompts naming numerous future enemies, including Tiangan Imperial General, Ancestor Chuji, and Hanlong, and used inspection costs to gauge their strength.
• Ji Xiaoyu recovered her physical body but said the Invincible Emperor's divine ability had cut off her path to becoming a Great Dao Emperor Lord.
• Yuan Songzi urged Xiao Lan to stop pursuing the Imperial Road, and she agreed, thinking of returning to the Heavenly Spirit Great World and her Brother Gu.