Recaps

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.

Gu An watched cultivators struggle to contain the catastrophic waves rising from the Sea-Severing Great Rift while weighing the Heavenly Spirit Great World's strength. As the tide overwhelmed even an Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure and the gathered Great Cultivators, a mysterious thousand-zhang figure appeared within the waves, driving the defenders toward despair.

• Gu An kept the ancient precious bodies’ danger from Yang Jian and observed the growing disaster at sea, where cultivators from many sects tried to block the waves.
• Chi Jiuxiao and the other defenders saw the Star Sea Primordial Flag scatter one wave, but a stronger wave surged from the Sea-Severing Great Rift and tainted the treasure.
• Gu An discussed with the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord whether one could fight a loved one who had become a monster, then returned to discussing Go with him.
• Holy Mother of West Spirit told Lu Lingjun that her elder had advised her to leave, while other Taixuan Sect cultivators debated fleeing and wondered whether Sword Venerable Fudao could stop the tide.
• Chi Jiuxiao and more than a hundred thousand cultivators, including twelve Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals, failed to halt the wave as a thousand-zhang figure appeared within it.

Gu An stopped the sea calamity from afar by sending a leaf that killed the thousand-zhang Divine Strange Grudge Ghost, earning recognition as Sword Venerable Fudao among the fighters. Back at the Taixuan Sect, he wondered what greater threat might emerge next from the Sea-Severing Great Rift as You Yingying prepared to leave for the Star Sea Sect.

• Lu Jiujia asked Gu An what Mystic Valley should do about the disaster at sea, and Gu An told him to focus on their duties and cultivation.
• Gu An showed the Blood Prison Great Sage the battle against the thousand-zhang monster and sent a leaf flying toward it.
• The leaf's sword light killed the monster, split the towering wave and thunderclouds, and left the distant cultivators stunned.
• Chi Jiuxiao recognized the attack as Sword Venerable Fudao's, and the cultivators confirmed the name after finding a leaf that carried his Sword Intent.
• Gu An returned to the Third Medicine Valley and wondered why killing the monster had yielded no lifespan, while anticipating a greater calamity.
• You Yingying told Gu An she was returning to the Star Sea Sect and invited him along, but he declined.

Gu An learned that a mysterious Carefree Origin Immortal had stopped the waves beyond the Sea-Severing Great Rift, while Sword Venerable Fudao’s intervention sent the Taixuan Sect into an uproar. As Yang Jian’s disturbing visions worsened, Gu An entered one with him and encountered a shadow that identified Yang Jian as a rarely seen Mystic Steel Tyrant Body.

• Gu An saw a mysterious Carefree Origin Immortal scatter the waves on the far side of the Sea-Severing Great Rift, and later heard that Sword Venerable Fudao had slain a Divine Strange Grudge Ghost.
• You Yingying returned to tell Gu An about Sword Venerable Fudao’s feat, then began spreading the story among Taixuan Sect disciples.
• The growing crowds at the Sea-Severing Great Rift made Zuo Yijian busier, while Gu An worried that the gathering cultivators might increase the number of Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts.
• Gu An spent more time guiding Yang Jian, whose visions caused him pain and whose suffering Gu An could not trace through karma.
• While Gu An instructed Yang Jian in the Boundless Freedom Step, Yang Jian collapsed in the snow, and Gu An entered the mysterious illusion with him.
• A black armored shadow approached Gu An and Yang Jian and called Yang Jian a Mystic Steel Tyrant Body, rarely seen once in a million years.

Gu An learned that Tian Wuchang planned to devour precious bodies, including Yang Jian, and urged his disciple to grow stronger while keeping him in Medicine Valley. Later, Gu An learned the first Ji Xiaoyu had died and met her reincarnated namesake, who arrived in the valley to cultivate.

• Tian Wuchang revealed that he had eaten a Mystic Steel Tyrant Body before and vowed to devour Yang Jian after hunting other precious bodies.
• Gu An calmed Yang Jian and told him to cultivate, and Yang Jian resumed practicing Boundless Freedom Step after Tian Wuchang's illusion vanished.
• Lu Baitian told Gu An that the original Ji Xiaoyu had died in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and that a new Ji Xiaoyu with an Innate Dao Talisman had appeared in the Ji Family.
• Gu An watched Xiao Chuan living happily with his family and observed the tense activity around the Sea-Severing Great Rift.
• Ji Hantian brought the eleven-year-old Ji Xiaoyu to Medicine Valley and asked Gu An to look after her before leaving.
• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord appeared before Ji Xiaoyu and examined her.

Gu An welcomed Ji Xiaoyu into his medicine valley, grew close to her as she settled in, and watched her begin to show signs of extraordinary cultivation. Elsewhere, An Hao learned that the powerful Tian Wuchang might target his treasured body, while Ji Xiaoyu began seeing memories of a past life.

• The Nine-Fingered Divine Lord praised Ji Xiaoyu’s rare talent, and Gu An arranged for her to live near him after she asked to cultivate alone.
• Gu An told Ji Xiaoyu about his past as a Ji Family servant, and she confided that she felt distant from her parents; the two chatted until she felt close to him.
• True Person Fuchen warned An Hao to remain within the Star Sea Sect because Tian Wuchang, a powerful enemy who sought treasured bodies, might target him.
• A month later, Gu An found Ji Xiaoyu contemplating the Mystic Clarity Tree and guarded her until she came out of her trance.
• Ji Xiaoyu told Gu An that she had seen memories of herself in the sky, with demons and people kneeling before her.

Gu An heard reports of the Divine Strange Ghost Kings and watched a ghost attack Immortal Seeking Island before escaping back to the Taixuan Sect. There, Ji Xiaoyu revealed that Holy Mother of West Spirit’s presence reminded her of people who had hunted her in visions of her past life.

• Gu An learned that Tian Wuchang, Ni Jiuyou, and Yin Yang Luan were causing havoc across the ocean, while a Bitter Sea Buddhist Sect monk had obtained an Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure.
• A Six-Eyed Grudge Ghost attacked Gu An on Immortal Seeking Island, but it burst into ghost fog, and Gu An left without gaining any lifespan.
• Gu An found the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord playing chess against Holy Mother of West Spirit, who left after the divine lord challenged her questions about his identity.
• Lu Lingjun asked Gu An to let her take Ji Xiaoyu as her disciple, but Gu An said Ji Xiaoyu belonged to the Ji Family and suggested she ask the Vice Sect Leader.
• Ji Xiaoyu told Gu An that Holy Mother of West Spirit and Lu Lingjun’s auras resembled people who had tried to capture her in visions, and she warned him to stay away from them.

Gu An reassured Ji Xiaoyu, checked on the growing threat of Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts, and watched Yang Jian defeat Li Lingtian in a spar. Ji Xiaoyu then brought Gu An a cultivation technique she had comprehended, leaving him to consider whether he could share it with others.

• Gu An told Ji Xiaoyu she could cultivate safely in Medicine Valley, and she chatted with him about Journey to the West.
• Gu An visited Immortal Seeking Island, where Hu Xiaojian described its attack by Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts and reported that sects across the ocean were fighting more of them.
• Five years later, Yang Jian defeated Li Lingtian in a spar, and Gu An sensed Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts appearing near the continent.
• Ji Xiaoyu came to Third Medicine Valley and asked Gu An to talk with her in his pavilion.
• Ji Xiaoyu showed Gu An a technique she had comprehended to cleanse the tendons and refine the marrow, and Gu An asked whether he could teach it to others.

Gu An neared thirty million years of lifespan and prepared to break through, while Tian Wuchang targeted An Hao and attacked the Star Sea Sect. The chapter ended as Star Sea Sect Master Da Mingtian confronted Tian Wuchang with the Star Sea Primordial Flag.

• Ji Xiaoyu taught Gu An a body-tempering technique, and Gu An decided to break through in the Sea-Severing Great Rift once his lifespan reached thirty million years.
• Tian Wuchang appeared in An Hao’s vision, recognized his Blazing Origin Precious Body, and threatened to devour him before seeking the Mystic Steel Tyrant Body.
• Two years later, Gu An was close to reaching thirty million years of lifespan, and Shen Zhen brought him a new novel to read.
• Ji Xiaoyu told Gu An she was returning to the Ji Family, and he escorted her to the Ji Mansion before sensing a powerful battle nearby.
• Tian Wuchang attacked the Star Sea Sect to seize An Hao, and Sect Master Da Mingtian came to face him with the Star Sea Primordial Flag.

Tian Wuchang attacked the Star Sea Sect to seize An Hao, forcing Da Mingtian and the sect’s cultivators into a desperate battle while An Hao struggled with guilt and helplessness. Just as An Hao feared they could only wait for death, his master Gu An arrived and dismissed Tian Wuchang as an ant.

• Tian Wuchang broke into the Star Sea Sect’s hidden world and challenged Da Mingtian, who raised twelve Star Sea Primordial Flags against him.
• Tian Wuchang overpowered the flags’ attacks and taunted An Hao, while An Hao feared his presence would bring ruin to the sect.
• Chi Bei urged An Hao to watch and grow stronger, while Li Ya and Xuan Tianyi discussed the attack and worried over Zhang Buku’s disappearance.
• Da Mingtian and the Star Sea Sect’s reinforcements fought Tian Wuchang as he wounded the Sect Master and provoked An Hao into fury.
• Gu An appeared before An Hao, called Tian Wuchang an ant, and drew the Ghost King’s killing threat.

Gu An crushed Tian Wuchang’s body and drove the power sustaining the Divine Strange Grudge Ghost back toward the Sea-Severing Great Rift, then returned to the Taixuan Sect and prepared to grow stronger before confronting it. After Sword Venerable Fudao’s feat spread across the ocean and into the sect, Ji Xiaoyu returned and offered to use a family treasure to examine Gu An’s soul.

• Gu An ignored Tian Wuchang’s attack, disabled him, and crushed his body while the power behind the Divine Strange Grudge Ghost retreated toward the Sea-Severing Great Rift.
• An Hao told the Star Sea Sect that Gu An was his first master, Sword Venerable Fudao, and Tian Wuchang fled back to the stone stele, where its voice promised to summon the other Ghost Kings.
• The Star Sea Sect spread news of Tian Wuchang’s defeat, and Gu An heard cultivators praise Sword Venerable Fudao before returning to Mystic Valley and continuing to harvest herbs.
• Two months later, Gu An played chess with Nine-Fingered Divine Lord while teasing You Yingying, and Ji Xiaoyu returned to the Taixuan Sect.
• Ji Xiaoyu told Gu An she had brought a family treasure that could peer into souls and asked whether he wanted her to examine his.

Gu An entered the world beneath the Sea-Severing Great Rift and used his vast lifespan to transform his physique into the Primordial Causality Body and upgrade his cultivation technique to the Chaos Primordial Origin Sacred Art. After mastering their inherited powers, he prepared to break through beyond the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm.

• Gu An avoided Ji Xiaoyu and, after his lifespan exceeded thirty million years, descended through the Sea-Severing Great Rift into a vast, desolate world.
• Gu An established a Longevity Barrier on a cliff and spent 1.67 million years of lifespan transforming his Mysterious Saint Body into the Primordial Causality Body.
• Gu An spent another 2.7 million years of lifespan upgrading the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique into the Chaos Primordial Origin Sacred Art.
• Tian Wuchang felt the world tremble and feared Gu An had arrived, but the voice in the stele said the disturbance was likely caused by turbulence in the world's rules.
• Gu An inherited the Primordial Causality Body's abilities and the Chaos Primordial Origin Sacred Art, including the Primordial Divine Eye and Primordial Origin Heaven-Seizing Hand.
• Gu An checked his rapidly decreasing lifespan and prepared to break through beyond the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm.

Gu An spent more than twenty-two million years of lifespan to break through to the ninth level of the Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal Realm, triggering a disturbance across many worlds. The Divine Anomaly Realm Lord investigated the phenomenon as Gu An completed his breakthrough and his soul entered a mysterious transformation.

• Gu An repeatedly failed to break through, spending twenty million years of lifespan before one final investment let him reach the first level of the Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal Realm.
• Gu An spent another one million and thirty thousand years of lifespan advancing to the ninth level of the realm as spiritual energy shook the world and Divine Strange Grudge Ghosts fled.
• The Second Cave Master and the nine Divine Strange Ghost Kings investigated the sinking spiritual energy, and the Divine Anomaly Realm Lord emerged from the stone stele to examine it.
• Gu An sensed a powerful Carefree Origin Immortal's divine sense sweep across the world while he waited inside the Longevity Barrier.
• Gu An broke through from the ninth layer of the Carefree Origin Immortal Realm to the first layer of the Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal Realm, and his soul began absorbing the power of the Heavenly Rules.

Gu An completed his breakthrough to the ninth level of the Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal realm and confronted the Divine Anomaly Realm Lord over Tian Wuchang. After forcing the realm lord to kneel and apologize, Gu An returned to Taixuan Sect in high spirits.

• Gu An comprehended the destinies of living beings and rose to the ninth level of the Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal realm, while the Divine Anomaly Realm Lord searched the Divine Anomaly Realm for the cause of the upheaval.
• Gu An appeared behind Tian Wuchang and demanded that the Divine Anomaly Realm Lord extract Tian Wuchang's power from the Divine Strange Fate Stele.
• The Divine Anomaly Realm Lord surrendered Tian Wuchang's soul, and Gu An destroyed both it and Tian Wuchang's source soul.
• The Divine Anomaly Realm Lord challenged Gu An to take one palm, but Gu An grew to a hundred thousand zhang and overwhelmed him with the Primordial Origin Heaven-Seizing Hand.
• The Divine Anomaly Realm Lord knelt and asked Gu An to forgive him, and Gu An then returned to Taixuan Sect and headed to play chess with the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord.

Gu An left his life in the Third Medicine Valley to explore beyond heaven as a Wondrous Dharma Spirit Immortal, where he encountered Bai Ziya, a Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal from Human World Peak. After learning about the dangers and powers of the cosmos, Gu An was invited to join Bai Ziya’s sect.

• Gu An used his ability to see fate to frustrate the Nine-Fingered Divine Lord in a chess game until the Divine Lord quit.
• Gu An strolled through the Third Medicine Valley, spoke with Yang Jian, An Xin, and Tang Yu, then shared a conversation about beyond heaven with Ji Xiaoyu.
• Gu An sent his Wondrous Dharma Immortal Soul beyond the world and observed the Heavenly Spirit Great World, its seven suns, and the surrounding worlds.
• Gu An found Bai Ziya meditating on a wandering meteorite and introduced himself as Meng Lang, a newcomer beyond heaven.
• Bai Ziya explained the dangers beyond heaven, including hostile cultivators, Heavenly Demons, and the Extinction Domain, then invited Gu An to join Human World Peak.

Gu An learned about the Sacred Court and accepted Bai Ziya’s invitation to join Human World Peak, though he remained wary of its Luck Treasure Seat and stayed in the Human World. A month later, Tian Yao'er told him an immortal herb had matured in the World-Outside Grotto-Heaven, prompting him to go there with her, Tianqing, and Tianbai.

• Bai Ziya explained the Sacred Court’s authority and Human World Peak’s standing, then invited Gu An to become a peak lord and offered him a Human World Jade.
• Gu An agreed to join Human World Peak but declined to visit it for now, and Bai Ziya later wondered where Gu An had come from.
• Gu An evaded Bai Ziya’s divine sense, returned to Medicine Valley, and resumed his daily routine with the disciples.
• Li Lingtian tried to stir Ji Xiaoyu’s jealousy by mentioning Gu An’s female confidantes, but Ji Xiaoyu said she valued cultivation over becoming his dao companion.
• A month later, Tian Yao'er reported that an immortal herb had matured in the World-Outside Grotto-Heaven, and Gu An went there with Tianqing and Tianbai.