Chapter Summaries

Fairy Yao Xuan told Gu An about a frightening evil thought associated with the Heavenly Emperor, and he agreed to hear more about the Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Zhang Buku accompanied God Tianzhen to meet Yinxuan Immortal Monarch, and seeing the Heaven-Ascent Stairs strengthened his ambition to become an immortal god.

• Fairy Yao Xuan speculated that the Heavenly Emperor's weariness and hostility could bring catastrophe, while Gu An urged her not to worry about what they could not change.
• Fairy Yao Xuan asked whether Gu An hid in his small world because he feared the Heavenly Court, but Gu An denied it and agreed to hear her other intelligence.
• God Tianzhen led Zhang Buku, Xu You, and six other Heavenly Soldiers across a sea of clouds to meet someone from the Heavenly Court.
• The Heaven-Ascent Stairs appeared as immense golden mountains descended, and Zhang Buku became obsessed with climbing them and reaching the Heavenly Realm.
• Yinxuan Immortal Monarch descended the stairs and asked whether the kneeling God Tianzhen was the one he sought.

Yinxuan Immortal Monarch ordered God Tianzhen and the Heavenly Soldiers to support the Human Venerable in the coming Son of Heaven Contention, while Gu An watched Zhang Buku and the rising Heavenly Dao Luck across the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Back at Wushi Daoist Field, Gu An encouraged An Zizai after his spar with Zui and began teaching him the second palm of the Myriad Dao Peerless Palm.

• Yinxuan Immortal Monarch gave God Tianzhen a Golden Pill and told him to lead the charge in the Son of Heaven Contention in support of the Human Venerable.
• God Tianzhen explained to the Heavenly Soldiers that helping the Human Venerable become Heavenly Emperor would keep the Heavenly Dao on the right path, though Xu You remained unconvinced.
• Gu An observed Zhang Buku and the growing Heavenly Dao Luck as immortal gods mobilized throughout the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Zui defeated An Zizai in their spar, then praised his martial nephew's potential.
• Gu An reassured An Zizai that disciples should improve together and taught him the second palm, Myriad Dragons Ascending to Heaven.

Gu An identified the invading Moro Qilin as forces deployed by Taixian Shenyuan ahead of the future war between the Sons of Heaven, then rescued a stray black dog and helped it shed its mortal shell. A million years later, Wushi Daoist Field’s disciples discussed a Demon Emperor who had unified half the mortal realm, leaving the Nine Teachings uneasy despite his having committed no evil.

• Zhu Xi and cultivators observed a colossal being entering the Taiwei Great World and feared the struggle between the Sons of Heaven was beginning.
• Gu An deduced that the invading Moro Qilin belonged to the Moro Race and had been deployed by Taixian Shenyuan across half the Great Thousand Worlds.
• Gu An let a little black dog escape the children chasing it, then helped it shed its mortal shell after it followed him into the woods.
• Gu An returned to his courtyard and told Shen Zhen that saving the dog had made him happy.
• A million years later, Wushi Daoist Field’s fourth-generation disciples discussed a Demon Emperor who had united half the mortal realm and alarmed the Nine Teachings.

Gu An allowed Wushi’s fourth-generation disciples to leave and experience the Mortal World under strict conditions, while refusing to guide them toward creating worlds. In the Ethereal Immortal Court, Tian Hao decided to go to the Heavenly Court and face the fate tied to his identity as a Son of Heaven.

• Gu An foresaw the Demon Emperor’s future suppression but chose not to intervene, then returned to his courtyard.
• An Xin asked Gu An whether fourth-generation disciples could leave to temper themselves, and he permitted them to go for up to ten thousand years while forbidding them from entering the Myriad Worlds Gate.
• An Xin suggested encouraging disciples to open their own worlds, but Gu An told her not to guide them or become entangled in karma.
• Tian Hao reflected on An Hao’s memories, his hidden past-life karma, and the power buried within him.
• Tian Hao’s yellow-robed master warned that the struggle of the Sons of Heaven would erase Tian Hao’s current self when he returned to his origin.
• Tian Hao resolved to go to the Heavenly Court and discover his true fate as a Son of Heaven.

After Lifespan Reincarnation upgraded, Gu An decided to begin a new reincarnation in the past to learn about the ancient Heavenly Court. He chose Xuanyou Divine Abyss and began a new life as a Xuanyou Fruit on the Xuanyou Primordial Tree.

• Gu An’s lifespan surpassed ten trillion years, upgrading Lifespan Reincarnation and allowing him to choose a time period and reincarnation world.
• The Deep Sea Dragon Carp asked Gu An about the Demon Emperor and urged him to save the demon, but Gu An told him not to interfere and allowed him to leave if he wished.
• Gu An spent one hundred million years of lifespan to begin a new reincarnation evolution and chose the past.
• Gu An selected Xuanyou Divine Abyss and was born in Other Shore Heaven as a Xuanyou Fruit of the Xuanyou Primordial Tree.
• Gu An observed a Ghost Immortal comprehend the Dao and cultivate divine abilities, then gradually figured out how to absorb qi.

Gu An followed Gu Xuanyou’s reincarnation from a Xuanyou Fruit into Other Shore Heaven, where he cultivated under the Other Shore Emperor and later traveled to the Nine Yin Divine Mansion. The chapter left Gu Xuanyou by the Yellow Springs after he killed five Nine Yin Divine Mansion disciples and discovered he could seize lifespan.

• After more than thirteen thousand years as a Xuanyou Fruit, Gu An chose a male body, transformed into Gu Xuanyou, and set off with a staff made from the tree’s branch.
• Gu Xuanyou met Ghost Sanlang and Daoist Zhutian, accepted the latter’s invitation, and became the Other Shore Emperor’s disciple.
• After cultivating for one hundred thousand years, Gu Xuanyou reached Xuanyuan Carefree Immortal Realm and went to the Nine Yin Divine Mansion to temper himself.
• By the Yellow Springs, Gu Xuanyou refused Taihao’s invitation to search for treasure and began cultivating while Taihao entered the river alone.
• When two Nine Yin Divine Mansion disciples attacked him over Ghost Sanlang, Gu Xuanyou killed them, discovered he could seize lifespan, and used Lifespan Evolution to improve his divine technique.
• After three more disciples challenged him, Gu Xuanyou attacked and annihilated them.

Gu An guided Gu Xuanyou’s reincarnation as he grew powerful, allied with Taihao, and fought the Nine Yin Divine Mansion. After Gu Xuanyou reached the Taiqing Golden Immortal Realm, the Other Shore Emperor rescued him and Taihao and urged them to wait for reinforcements before acting again.

• Gu Xuanyou killed more Nine Yin Divine Mansion disciples, then rescued people in the Underworld and followed them to the Taiyuan Great World.
• Gu An rejected Yan Yuexi’s marriage proposal on Gu Xuanyou’s behalf, and Gu Xuanyou traveled the world with Ghost Sanlang, killing threats and saving those in distress.
• Gu Xuanyou grew to the Hengtian Golden Immortal Realm, returned to the Underworld with Ghost Sanlang, and reunited with Taihao, who asked him to oppose the Nine Yin Divine Mansion.
• Gu Xuanyou and Taihao attacked the Nine Yin Divine Mansion, destroyed the Taiyin Inverse Dragon, and took the Reincarnation Heavenly Lotus before escaping the pursuing disciples.
• Taihao taught Gu Xuanyou Nine Heavens True Dragon Qi, and they later intervened when the Nine Yin Divine Mansion refined souls into Six Paths Ghost Artifacts.
• Gu Xuanyou broke through to the Taiqing Golden Immortal Realm during the battle, but the Nine Yin Divine Mansion suppressed him and Taihao until the Other Shore Emperor rescued them and told them to wait for reinforcements.

Gu Xuanyou and Taihao survived the fall of Other Shore Heaven and waged war against immortals and gods, growing powerful enough to destroy the Nine Yin Divine Mansion. They then traveled together through the worlds, where Gu Xuanyou defeated new enemies and advanced his Other Shore Universal Divine Technique to a new level.

• Immortals and gods turned against Other Shore Heaven, forcing the Other Shore Emperor to send Gu Xuanyou and Taihao into reincarnation before he died.
• Gu Xuanyou sought revenge on heavenly gods across the myriad worlds, reunited with Yan Yuexi, and broke through to the Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm during battle before Taihao rescued him from a mysterious giant hand.
• After reaching the Miaozhen Daluo Immortal Realm, Gu Xuanyou fought Taihao for more than ten thousand years, then agreed to end their battle in a draw.
• Gu Xuanyou and Taihao destroyed the Nine Yin Divine Mansion but retreated when a Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal appeared.
• The pair cleared Chaos Demons from the Taishi Great World, bathed in a spiritual spring in the Abyssal Dao Sea, and killed a Great Dao Emperor Lord who attacked them.
• Gu Xuanyou and Taihao slaughtered tens of thousands of the Donglan Imperial Clan and then exterminated the clan in the Taichu Imperial Domain, where Gu Xuanyou's Other Shore Universal Divine Technique reached a new level.

Gu An watched Gu Xuanyou and Taihao travel the myriad heavens, grow into famed Dao Extreme Daluo Immortals, and eventually clash with the Heavenly Court after Gu Xuanyou was imprisoned. After Taihao rescued him, the two fought to the death in Chaos and perished together, learning they were both bodies of Reincarnation.

• Gu Xuanyou and Taihao traveled the myriad heavens together, earned the title Two Sages of the Great Dao, and reached the Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal Realm.
• Gu Xuanyou reunited with Yan Yuexi and accepted her as a companion, but their journey together was disrupted when immortals and gods captured them.
• Gu Xuanyou sent Taihao away and was imprisoned by the Heavenly Court, where he refused repeated offers to serve it.
• After a peerless vicious demon broke the heavenly prison, Gu Xuanyou escaped and fought the Heavenly Court alongside the demon until Taihao rescued him.
• In Chaos, Taihao challenged Gu Xuanyou to a death battle, and after one hundred million years they perished together, realizing they were both bodies of Reincarnation.

Gu An merged with Gu Xuanyou’s memories and reflected on Taihao, the Great Dao Heavens, and the meaning of reincarnation. He returned to Wushi Daoist Field, resolved to rest from reincarnations for a few million years, and met Zui, who showed him a newly created divine ability.

• Gu An absorbed Gu Xuanyou’s memories and concluded that Taihao was likely the Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnation.
• Gu An considered the power of Gu Xuanyou’s divine abilities and the mighty beings he had encountered, including the ferocious demon that attacked the Heavenly Court.
• Gu An demonstrated Xuanyou Yin-Yang Protection and decided to pause Lifespan Reincarnation for a few million years.
• Gu An walked toward Wushi Daoist Field while pondering Gu Xuanyou’s life and the meaning of reincarnation.
• Zui appeared before Gu An and demonstrated a divine ability he had created.

Gu An watched an immortal god’s power descend across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, bringing a contest for luck, while Xiao Lan asked him to advise a Xiao Family prodigy. He identified the youth’s Primordial Chaos Body and warned that its awakening would come through a near-fatal ordeal as a new era approached.

• Gu An praised Zui’s curse-based divine ability and cautioned him about its backlash.
• A Silver-Armored Immortal God opened a golden scroll, sending golden qi across the Three Thousand Great Worlds and urging all beings to contend for luck.
• Gu An watched the Xiao Family disciples cultivate with Xiao Lan, who asked him to assess a gifted junior.
• Gu An identified the junior’s physique as the Primordial Chaos Body and explained that it needed to awaken through a life-and-death reconstruction of his body.
• Gu An said the world’s great momentum was about to change and might bring the replacement of old and new eras.

After eight hundred thousand years of quiet cultivation and growing Wushi Daoist Field, Gu An allowed his disciples to enter the struggle of the Sons of Heaven. The war had begun across the Great Thousand Worlds, where Zhang Buku charged toward Moro Qilin and the black-clothed man atop it.

• Gu An spent eight hundred thousand years living quietly, while the struggle of the Sons of Heaven spread across the Great Thousand Worlds and reached the Heavenly Spirit Great World.
• At Wushi Daoist Field's Spring Festival, Gu An allowed fourth-generation disciples to take one disciple each and third-generation disciples to take a second.
• An Xin asked whether the disciples could temper themselves in the coming conflict, and Gu An agreed to let her arrange it.
• Gu An considered when to break through, wary that his 11.16 quadrillion years of lifespan might not be enough.
• Zhang Buku fought in the void battle and charged toward Moro Qilin, determined to reach the Heavenly Court.
• A black-clothed man stood atop Moro Qilin and looked down disdainfully at the approaching Heavenly Soldiers.

The struggle between the Sons of Heaven spread across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, while Gu An watched its effects reach the Heavenly Spirit Great World. Li Xuanmiao questioned why the Heavenly Court allowed such destruction, and the God of Heavenly Destruction explained the worlds’ importance to Heavenly Dao Luck and worship.

• The man in black unleashed the Dark Heavenly Army, and God Tianzhen led the Heavenly Soldiers into battle as Fang Xuan and his five brothers fought cautiously at the battlefield’s edge.
• Gu An observed the conflict across more than a hundred battlefields and reflected on the Heavenly Court’s immense, undying armies.
• Ten thousand years later, fleeing fighters invaded the Heavenly Spirit Great World, where the Heavenly Spirit God and Immortal Monarch Taiyi moved against them.
• Over the following five hundred thousand years, invaders fueled growing feuds until the Nine Sects and other powers plunged the Heavenly Spirit Great World into conflict.
• Li Xuanmiao asked the God of Heavenly Destruction whether the widespread struggle between the Sons of Heaven was acceptable, and he explained that the worlds sustained the Great Dao, Heavenly Dao Luck, and the Heavenly Court through worship.

Li Xuanmiao struggled with the Heavenly Court’s indifference to the Three Thousand Great Worlds while God of Heavenly Destruction prepared to pursue the Hundred Thousand Constellations. After another hundred thousand years of war, Li Xuandao told Gu An he intended to make the Great Cang Dynasty master of the world, and Gu An agreed to let him pursue that ambition without helping.

• God of Heavenly Destruction told Li Xuanmiao not to worry over the Three Thousand Great Worlds and explained that the Sons of Heaven’s struggle would eventually devastate them.
• God of Heavenly Destruction said he planned to pursue a place among the Hundred Thousand Constellations to transform his divine authority and cultivate the Great Dao.
• About a hundred thousand years later, warfare engulfed the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and Wushi’s disciples began rescuing people in the Heavenly Spirit Great World.
• Li Xuandao told Gu An that he wanted the Great Cang Dynasty to become the common master of the world and admitted he also wanted to become an emperor remembered by history.
• Gu An told Li Xuandao to pursue his ambition but said he would not help him conquer the world.

Gu An wandered through the Great Cang Dynasty and entertained children with a story while Li Ya fought a wounded sword cultivator from the Qingyu Great World. The sword cultivator subdued Li Ya and threatened a city full of people, then turned his attention to Gu An and the children.

• Gu An left Li Xuandao to plan his conquest and wandered the Great Cang Dynasty, helping people he happened to encounter.
• Li Ya confronted a red-robed sword cultivator from the Qingyu Great World, who admitted he needed souls to heal his wounded Sword Intent and demanded that Li Ya become his sword slave.
• Li Ya noticed that powerful outsiders were appearing across the Heavenly Spirit Great World as even the Heavenly Spirit God was held in battle elsewhere.
• Gu An told children a story about Zhao Zilong in a busy city and asked them to bring him wine before he continued.
• The red-robed sword cultivator crashed into the street holding the bloodied Li Ya by the throat and threatened to sacrifice the city's people.
• The red-robed sword cultivator noticed Gu An and the children, and Li Ya glanced toward them and smiled strangely.

Gu An rescued Li Ya from Red Sword Ghost Demon, then considered the growing turmoil as outsiders drew the Heavenly Spirit Great World into the struggle of the Sons of Heaven. The chapter left Purple Dragon Star Lord sensing that an unknown, non-immortal presence was watching the world.

• Red Sword Ghost Demon seized Li Ya and confronted Gu An, but Gu An killed him instantly and saved Li Ya.
• Gu An told Li Ya he had been in the city for two days, leaving Li Ya astonished by the apparent prediction.
• Gu An declined to heal Li Ya and left, while Li Ya worried about the chaos ahead and his own weakness.
• Gu An observed that the Heavenly Spirit Great World was being drawn into the struggle of the Sons of Heaven, but chose not to interfere yet.
• Purple Dragon Star Lord told a female immortal that an unknown presence, neither a mortal spirit, Son of Heaven, nor immortal, was watching the Heavenly Spirit Great World.

Gu An taught seventh-generation disciple Duan Li the Life-Reversing Divine Technique, stirring memories of Lu Baitian in Lu Xian. Ten years later, Gu An sent an avatar to hear a Dao Extreme Daluo Immortal preach and reunited with Hong Yazi.

• Gu An found Duan Li practicing in the forest and passed him a new cultivation technique.
• Duan Li told Lu Xian that Gu An had taught him the Life-Reversing Divine Technique, prompting Lu Xian to recall his father, Lu Baitian.
• Word of Duan Li's transmission spread through Wushi, and disciples watched him closely despite his ordinary apparent talent.
• Ten years later, Gu An sent an avatar to attend a sermon in the Endless Dao Mountains while his true body harvested herbs.
• Gu An spotted Hong Yazi at the Dao Mountain, and Hong Yazi greeted him as Fellow Daoist Meng Lang.

Gu An attended Jiang Rulai’s lecture on the Dao of creation and sensed a dangerous crimson fog approaching the Heavenly Dao from beyond its range. After deciding to pursue a breakthrough, he agreed to travel with Hong Yazi to the underworld.

• Gu An reunited with Hong Yazi, who described the pressure the Ethereal Immortal Court faced from a Son of Heaven and introduced Jiang Rulai’s history.
• After a hundred years of waiting, Jiang Rulai lectured on the Dao of creation for thirty thousand years, leaving the gathered Dao listeners awed.
• Gu An spotted crimson fog approaching the Heavenly Dao and detected karmic threads linking it to the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Jiang Rulai ended the lecture and flew toward the Heavenly Court, while Gu An decided to break through once he reached twenty quadrillion years of lifespan.
• Gu An agreed to travel with Hong Yazi, and they chose to visit the underworld and the Nine Yin Divine Mansion’s Xuanyou Primordial Tree.

Gu An learned that the Dark God Sect was spreading scriptures among mortals while its hidden founder watched the world from beyond it. The chapter ended with Gu An confirming to An Xin that the Dark God had arrived, as a skeletal figure gazed into the Heavenly Spirit Great World from the darkness.

• Qitian Xiansheng True Lord tried to rescue the Demon Emperor but was defeated by the Nine Sects and imprisoned beside him.
• The Demon Emperor warned Qitian Xiansheng True Lord that his captors might keep him imprisoned for thousands or millions of years, and Qitian eventually became numb to his confinement.
• After another million years passed, An Xin told Gu An that the Dark God Sect was spreading scriptures about a Dark God among mortals.
• Gu An told An Xin that the Dark God existed and had arrived to watch the mortal world, then silently looked toward the sky.
• Beyond the Heavenly Spirit Great World, a white skeleton sat in meditation, watching changing scenes within green flames in its hands.

The Dark God Sect spread through the Heavenly Spirit Great World as the immortals discovered it was linked to an existence beyond the Heavenly Dao. As the Heavenly Court debated how to respond, God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang challenged his disciples to compare the Dark God’s threat with the calamity of the Sons of Heaven’s struggle.

• A pale skeleton sent seven shattered bones wrapped in black qi into the darkness before closing its eyes and returning to slumber.
• Over fifty thousand years, the Dark God Sect grew into a major mortal-world force by drawing in the discontented, though it failed to stop the sects’ wars.
• Before the Boundary Gate, Emperor Tianhong told Heavenly Spirit God, Immortal Monarch Taiyi, and the Seventy-Two Immortals of Jindong that the Dark God Sect was a variable from beyond the Heavenly Dao.
• Immortal Monarch Taiyi ordered the immortals to investigate the Dark God Sect while Heavenly Spirit God remained to guard the Boundary Gate.
• At Guangfa Immortal Palace, God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang’s disciples debated how to handle the Dark God and the ongoing struggle between the Sons of Heaven.
• God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang asked whether the Dark God’s calamity or the Sons of Heaven’s struggle posed the greater threat, and the hall fell silent.