Chapter Summaries

Gu An tried to protect his disciples as Demonic Cultivators threatened the Outer Sect, while Shen Zhen revealed that the Taixuan Sect was secretly sacrificing lower-level disciples to test a demonic art. He was left confronting the sect’s hidden scheme and asking Shen Zhen to stop naming her book’s protagonist after him.

• Gu An told Elder Tian about the attack on the Outer Sect and mentioned Li Ya’s efforts to protect him, prompting Elder Tian to pass the concerns to Elder Gu Zong.
• Gu An stayed in Mystic Valley, where Wuxin organized spell practice to help the disciples attract reinforcements if they came under attack.
• Ye Lan gave Gu An the Qinghong Sword, which would alert her through its connection to her Bailing Sword if he faced danger.
• Gu An returned to Third Medicine Valley, harvested herbs, and learned from Elder Tian that he had told Elder Gu Zong about the Outer Sect’s danger.
• Shen Zhen revealed that the Taixuan Sect was using the Outer Sect city as a hidden trial site for a demonic art that sacrificed lower-level disciples to help Great Cultivators break the Heavenly Mandate.
• Shen Zhen asked Gu An what he thought of her writing, and he objected to her naming the protagonist of Travels of the Green Hero after him.

Gu An witnessed Zuo Yijian confront Outer Sect Grand Elder Chen Xuanjin, who had cultivated demonic arts and attacked his fellow disciples. When Chen Xuanjin nearly killed Zuo Yijian, Gu An intervened as the Flying Leaf Sword Immortal and struck him with a sword-qi-wreathed leaf.

• Shen Zhen traded Gu An a copy of Mystic Sound Art for permission to use his name in her story.
• At Outer Sect City, Zhu Qinglu warned Gu An to move to the Inner Sect and said a formation platform was being built to protect the city.
• Li Xuanyu paid Gu An and said she looked forward to competing with him when he entered the Inner Sect.
• Gu An traveled into the mountains to prepare for a breakthrough and discovered Zuo Yijian facing Chen Xuanjin, who admitted to cultivating demonic arts.
• Zuo Yijian used his own sword art to battle Chen Xuanjin but was left badly wounded.
• Gu An, acting as the Flying Leaf Sword Immortal, pierced Chen Xuanjin's chest with a sword-qi-wreathed leaf, and Zuo Yijian recognized him as the senior who had guided him before.

Gu An spent over twelve thousand years of lifespan forcing his way through repeated tribulation failures until he reached the first level of the Body Integration Realm. His breakthrough stirred spiritual qi across the Taixuan Sect, alarming its cultivators as Chen Xuanjin awaited the arrival of the figure behind him.

• Gu An spared Chen Xuanjin after piercing his chest with a leaf carrying Sword Qi, while Zuo Yijian recovered alone among the ruins.
• Gu An invested lifespan in repeated attempts to overcome the Five-Elephant Divine Lightning Tribulation, eventually succeeding and beginning a massive surge in cultivation.
• Chen Xuanjin told the person in the Ancient Bronze Mirror that the Flying Leaf Sword Immortal had nearly killed him and that Zuo Yijian was obstructing their plan; the person promised to come to the Outer Sect the next day.
• Ye Lan challenged Lu Jiujia over his support for their path, but he denied causing the latest disturbance and warned of a possible Demonic Cultivator invasion.
• Gu An's breakthrough drew spiritual qi from across the Taixuan Sect as cultivators, including Gu Zong and more than ten Void Crossing Realm cultivators, patrolled overhead without detecting him.
• Gu An completed his breakthrough to the first level of the Body Integration Realm and sensed his spiritual power and connection between body and Primordial Spirit transform.

Chen Xuanjin and the black-robed man prepared to activate the Heaven-Mending Platform, while Gu An kept his disciples in Mystic Valley and avoided interfering in the Taixuan Sect’s schemes. As Outer Sect disciples gathered before the completed platform, Jiang Qiong arrived with the Hunchbacked Elder, and the black-robed man and Chen Xuanjin prepared for what would happen the next day.

• The black-robed man ordered Chen Xuanjin to prepare the formation and said he would personally bear the risk, while Chen Xuanjin accepted despite his injuries.
• Gu An assured his disciples they could leave Mystic Valley if they wished, but Tang Yu and the others chose to stay; Ye Lan visited to confirm Gu An was safe.
• Gu An watched the Heaven-Mending Platform being built, decided not to interfere in the Taixuan Sect’s plans, and continued tending his Medicine Valleys.
• At Tianya Valley, Luo Hun heard from Gu An that Li Ya had been injured by Demonic Cultivators, then sent a message toward Li Xuandao using a talisman.
• Su Han and Zhen Qin saw the Heaven-Mending Platform as Outer Sect disciples gathered in the city, while Jiang Qiong and the Hunchbacked Elder decided to stay and inspect it the next day.
• The black-robed man told Chen Xuanjin, now inhabiting a young disciple’s body, that they did not need to summon Handyman Disciples from nearby valleys, beast farms, and mines.

The Demon Extermination Hall’s hunt for supposed Demonic Path traitors was exposed as a trap when Chu Xian arrived and used the Demon-Subduing Umbrella to reveal demonic energy among the hall’s disciples. He then sealed everyone on the Heaven-Mending Platform and declared the Outer Sect would be destroyed, while Gu An noticed the Qinghong Sword trembling violently in Mystic Valley.

• Su Han and Zhen Qin tried to leave Outer Sect City, but Demon Extermination Hall disciples captured them and brought them to the Heaven-Mending Platform.
• Ye Lan asked Lu Jiujia to free Su Han and Zhen Qin, and Lu Jiujia later returned with them.
• Chu Xian appeared above the Heaven-Mending Platform and used the Demon-Subduing Umbrella to expose the Demon Extermination Hall disciples as Demonic Cultivators.
• The umbrella’s power caused Lu Jiujia and other Demon Extermination Hall disciples to writhe in pain as demonic energy rose from their bodies.
• Chu Xian activated blood patterns beneath the platform, sealing the gathered disciples’ spiritual power and declaring that the Outer Sect had no reason to exist.
• In Mystic Valley, Gu An noticed the Qinghong Sword trembling and heard a faint birdlike cry from it.

Gu An used the Qinghong Sword to rescue more than a hundred thousand disciples from Chu Xian’s sacrifice, killing the Void Crossing Realm cultivator and carving “Righteous Path” into the Heaven-Mending Platform. As the sword flew away, a Daoist-robed man caught up with it and demanded to know who wielded it.

• Chu Xian activated the Universe Nirvana Array and began draining the disciples’ cultivation, while Jiang Qiong and the Hunchbacked Elder tried to leave Outer Sect City.
• Gu An controlled the Qinghong Sword from Mystic Valley, shattering the Demon-Subduing Umbrella, killing Chu Xian, and freeing the disciples.
• Elder Tian, Ye Yan, Shen Zhen, and Jiang Qiong witnessed the pillar of Sword Qi and realized a powerful sword cultivator had intervened.
• The Qinghong Sword carved “Righteous Path” into the Heaven-Mending Platform before flying beyond the horizon.
• A Daoist-robed man caught up with the Qinghong Sword and asked who its wielder was.

Gu An used the Qinghong Sword to defeat Ji Hantian, then learned that the Taixuan Sect was investigating Chu Xian’s slaughter of Outer Sect disciples. Two days later, Ji Hantian visited Gu An with Gu Zong and angrily demanded that Pan An expose the sect’s crimes.

• The Qinghong Sword overwhelmed Ji Hantian’s defenses but stopped short of injuring him, and Ji Hantian gave up the chase.
• Gu An returned the sword to Mystic Valley, while Taixuan Sect Great Cultivators arrived to investigate Chu Xian’s crimes and reassure the surviving disciples.
• Ye Lan, Su Han, and Zhen Qin returned to Mystic Valley and recounted the incident; Gu An offered the badly injured Lu Jiujia a place to live and work in the valley.
• Ye Lan resolved to prioritize cultivation so she could stand beside Gu An, while reports emerged that the investigation might reach the Elder Hall.
• Gu Zong brought Ji Hantian, the Taixuan Sect’s Vice Sect Leader, to see Gu An, and Ji Hantian demanded that Pan An expose the sect’s sins.

After helping Ji Hantian expose the Demon Extermination Hall’s massacre, Gu An secured a hundred miles of land and resources for his Medicine Valley. A month later, Jiang Qiong summoned him as the newly appointed Outer Sect Grand Elder and asked him to search for Pan An, whose identity the Elder Hall was concealing.

• Ji Hantian asked Gu An to record how the Demon Extermination Hall had used over a hundred thousand disciples in a Formation, and Gu An agreed in exchange for expanding his Medicine Valley.
• Ji Hantian granted Gu An the land within a hundred-mile radius of the Third Medicine Valley and a Sixth-Rank Spirit Protection Array, while Gu Zong arranged for nearby disciples to move and for Gu An to keep twenty Handyman Disciples.
• Elder Tian told Gu An that later generations should judge whether the Taixuan Sect was righteous or evil.
• A month after the Outer Sect calamity, Gu An encountered Jiang Qiong in Outer Sect City and learned she had become its Grand Elder, accompanied by the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator Hu Mo.
• Jiang Qiong told Gu An to keep the Azure Vine Tree’s whereabouts secret and agreed to promote Ye Lan from the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Jiang Qiong asked Gu An to watch for news of Pan An, whose identity the Elder Hall had concealed.

Gu An expanded Third Medicine Valley while the fame of Sword Venerable Fudao spread and drew challengers. After meeting the Emperor’s sword attendant Yi Liuyun, Gu An returned to the Heaven-Mending Platform, where he spotted someone above the character for “Path.”

• Jiang Qiong asked Gu An to look for information about Pan An, and Gu An visited the Heaven-Mending Platform, where Zuo Yijian, Zuo Lin, and Su Han studied Sword Venerable Fudao’s Sword Intent.
• Shen Zhen warned Gu An that sword cultivators from the Great Yu Dynasty planned to challenge Sword Venerable Fudao, then gave him her book, Taixuan Secret Biography.
• Gu An read Shen Zhen’s book overnight, expanded Third Medicine Valley with his disciples, and learned that the Library Hall had rejected her manuscript.
• At Tianya Valley, Gu An met Yi Liuyun, the Emperor’s foremost sword attendant, who asked about Sword Venerable Fudao and flew to Taixuan Sect to study his Sword Intent.
• After the Spring Festival, Gu An returned to the Heaven-Mending Platform and saw Yi Liuyun meditating beneath someone positioned above the character for “Path.”

Gu An discovered that the Yellow Spring Demon Emperor was studying Sword Intent on the Heaven-Mending Platform, while his book Righteousness and Demon spread through the Great Cang Dynasty. After recruiting eleven Handyman Disciples, Gu An returned to the platform, where an old Daoist suddenly claimed to understand the words Righteous Path.

• Gu An used Lifespan Inspection to identify the Yellow Spring Demon Emperor among the cultivators meditating on the Heaven-Mending Platform and resolved to keep a low profile.
• Gu Yu showed Gu An the privately circulated Taixuan Secret Biography, and Gu An read it before returning to work on expanding Third Medicine Valley.
• Ji Xiaoyu praised Righteousness and Demon to Ji Hantian, who revealed that Gu An had written it and said the book strengthened his influence in the Elder Hall.
• The Ji Family delivered fourth-grade and higher medicinal herb seeds to Gu An, who planned to recruit more Handyman Disciples and outfit them with Demon Beasts.
• Gu An brought Elder Tian to Outer Sect City, recruited eleven Handyman Disciples, and led them to the Heaven-Mending Platform, where he saw the Yellow Spring Demon Emperor mimicking a move from the Great Vast God-Startling Sword.
• An old Daoist leaped into the air above the Heaven-Mending Platform and announced that he understood the words Righteous Path.

Pang Yu tried to destroy the Heaven-Mending Platform, but Taixuan Sect cultivators drove him away, while the words Righteousness and Demon continued to raise the platform’s renown. More than two years later, Gu An prepared to resume cultivating as Li Ya visited to discuss the upcoming Hundred Clans Assembly, where Li Ya and the hidden genius Lu Xian could face Zhou Tongyou.

• Pang Yu threatened the Heaven-Mending Platform, but Yi Liuyun and a Taixuan Sect Void Crossing elder confronted him, and Gu Zong pursued him as he fled.
• Gu An returned to Third Medicine Valley with the new Handyman Disciples, where he noticed Elder Tian had advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refining.
• Over two years, Gu An filled the land within a hundred li with medicinal herbs, and the Heaven-Mending Platform became a renowned holy land for sword cultivators.
• Gu An decided to restart his nightly cultivation plan, then met Li Ya, who had grown stronger and came to discuss the Hundred Clans Assembly.
• Li Ya declared he would defeat Zhou Tongyou at the assembly, and Elder Tian revealed that Lu Xian had formed a Golden Core at thirty.

Gu An watched Lu Xian leave for the Hundred Clans Assembly after learning about his strange dreams and boundless ambition, then returned to Mystic Valley and discovered that Ye Lan suspected him of writing Taixuan Secret Biography. Ye Lan warned him that the Sword Sect planned to arrest his disciple Su Han over a forbidden sword art, and Gu An sought Shen Zhen's help, only for her to say there might be a problem.

• Li Ya left Third Medicine Valley, and Gu An secretly invested five years of lifespan into his cultivation on the way to Tianya Valley.
• Gu An watched Lu Xian spar with Yi Liuyun and challenged him to win the Hundred Clans Assembly before Gu An would learn his spells; Lu Xian set out the next morning.
• Yi Liuyun told Gu An that Lu Xian experienced dreams of becoming powerful rulers and sword experts whenever he cultivated.
• Ye Lan accused Gu An of writing Taixuan Secret Biography, then told him that the Sword Sect intended to arrest Su Han for using its forbidden Hating Heaven Divine Sword.
• Gu An went to Shen Zhen for help protecting Su Han, and Shen Zhen hesitated after hearing the details.

Gu An learned that Su Han’s Hating Heaven Divine Sword could lead him to become a murderous demon, but Su Han refused to abandon it and Ye Lan arranged to send him away from the Taixuan Sect. After a moment of unexpected Dao comprehension, Gu An met the Sword Madman Han Ming, who challenged Sword Venerable Fudao and offered to pass his sword art to Gu An before the duel.

• Shen Zhen explained that the Hating Heaven Divine Sword was forbidden across the Great Yu Dynasty because it could cause its wielder to lose control and slaughter others.
• Gu An and Ye Lan learned that Su Han would not give up the sword art, which he treasured as his connection to his father and as a means of revenge, so Ye Lan arranged to send him out of the Taixuan Sect.
• While reflecting on the choices of Su Han and Lu Jiujia, Gu An entered a wondrous state of Dao comprehension and met Han Ming on the Heaven-Mending Platform.
• Han Ming announced that he would challenge Sword Venerable Fudao in one month and offered to teach Gu An his sword art; Gu An brought him to Third Medicine Valley.
• Han Ming listened to Gu An’s account of his worries and offered to pass down his entire sword Dao during the month before the duel.

Gu An refused Han Ming’s offer to teach him swordsmanship and later decided to reach the ninth layer of the Body Integration Realm before Han Ming’s challenge drew more attention. He completed the breakthrough in a remote mountain forest amid a terrifying demonic upheaval, while two captive children struggled to escape a monster’s cave.

• Gu An declined Han Ming’s offer to take him as a disciple, then recommended Zuo Lin as a possible inheritor; Han Ming agreed to assess him.
• Gu An told Elder Tian that he had refused Han Ming out of loyalty to Taixuan Sect, while news of Han Ming’s challenge to Sword Venerable Fudao spread through the sect.
• After hearing Luo Hun and Yi Liuyun discuss the challenge, Gu An decided to break through to the ninth layer of the Body Integration Realm before facing Han Ming.
• Gu An traveled deep into the mountains and spent eighteen thousand years of lifespan advancing to the ninth layer as demons and ghosts gathered around him.
• Two captive children tried to escape a cave while a monster approached, but the bloated figure was suddenly dragged away and eaten by something outside.
• At dawn, Gu An completed his breakthrough, sensed a dramatic increase in power, and reminded himself not to underestimate opponents or become careless.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Gu An rescued Goudan and Xiaohua from a Wolf Demon and learned that Goudan had an extraordinary maximum lifespan. He taught them immortal cultivation, renamed them An Hao and An Xin, and returned to Mystic Valley as the Taixuan Sect investigated a recent disturbance.

• Gu An encountered Goudan and Xiaohua fleeing a Wolf Demon and drove it away with Sword Qi.
• After learning that demons had killed the children’s families and taken them captive, Gu An brought them to safety and offered to teach them cultivation.
• Gu An taught the children the Yang Wood Primordial Chaos Technique; An Hao quickly cultivated spiritual energy while An Xin struggled to memorize the first layer.
• Before leaving, Gu An named Goudan An Hao and Xiaohua An Xin, then returned to Mystic Valley.
• Gu An saw cultivators flying over the Taixuan Sect, apparently responding to the disturbance from the previous night.

Gu An returned to the forest to train An Hao and An Xin while the Taixuan Sect and the cultivation world awaited Han Ming’s duel with the Great Yu Sword Madman. An Hao rapidly mastered sword techniques, and Gu An demonstrated the power of a true sword cultivator by sending a leaf streaking toward the Taixuan Sect.

• Gu An returned to Medicine Valley, heard that spiritual energy had sunk again, and decided to visit An Hao and An Xin each night while returning to the Taixuan Sect by day.
• The one-month deadline arrived, and Han Ming waited outside the Outer Sect City as cultivators from across the region gathered to see whether Sword Venerable Fudao would appear.
• Fifteen thousand li away, Gu An taught An Hao the Great Vast God-Startling Sword while An Xin continued cultivating her first wisp of spiritual power.
• An Hao reached the third level of Qi Refining and formed Sword Qi after practicing the sword technique for an hour.
• Gu An told An Hao and An Xin that a sword could be anything held in the heart, then flicked a leaf that unleashed terrifying Sword Qi and blasted a clearing toward the Taixuan Sect.

Gu An defeated Han Ming with two leaf-based sword attacks, revealing the overwhelming power of Sword Venerable Fudao, then took An Hao and An Xin to a nearby town. There he encountered his former senior brother Zhang Chunqiu and learned that Zhang was preparing to retire.

• Han Ming challenged Sword Venerable Fudao at the Taixuan Sect's South City Gate, and a leaf shattered his Sword Qi and made him stagger.
• Gu An showed An Hao and An Xin how an ordinary leaf could become a swift, subtle sword attack, then brought them to a nearby town.
• Gu An's second leaf pierced Han Ming's shoulder and pinned him to the city wall, leading spectators to identify Sword Venerable Fudao as the Flying Leaf Sword Immortal.
• Gu An settled into the town to enjoy the mortal world, sensed a second-order demon enter, and then met Zhang Chunqiu, who said he planned to retire there.

Gu An reunited with the aging Zhang Chunqiu and met his talented son, Zhang Buku, before returning to his disciples and Mystic Valley. A year later, as Sword Venerable Fudao’s fame continued to grow, Gu An noticed an unfamiliar Great Cultivator at Heaven-Mending Platform.

• Zhang Chunqiu told Gu An how he had left the Taixuan Sect to live with Xiao Lian, and Gu An learned that Zhang Chunqiu had only three years left to live.
• Zhang Buku returned to the courtyard, where Gu An gave him high-grade Spirit Qi Pills and heard that he had fought An Hao.
• Gu An left An Hao and An Xin to cultivate, then returned to Third Medicine Valley and helped Shen Zhen make her painting of Han Ming’s defeat more dynamic.
• Over the following year, An Hao reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining and killed the Wolf Demon, while Gu An continued secretly training him and An Xin.
• Gu An visited Heaven-Mending Platform, saw Han Ming berating his disciple Zuo Lin, and spotted an unfamiliar Great Cultivator among the visitors.

Gu An taught An Hao the Gale Absolute Shadow Leg and planned to send him and An Xin to the Taixuan Sect. Lu Xian returned from the Hundred Clans Assembly claiming first place, but his account of breaking Li Ya’s limbs alarmed Luo Hun and Gu An.

• Han Ming pulled Gu An into a sword lesson with Zuo Lin, and Gu An escaped after an hour.
• Jiang Qiong gave Gu An high-grade medicinal seeds, promised to help him reach the Golden Core Realm, and asked whether he wrote books before reading Taixuan Secret Biography.
• Gu An taught An Hao the Gale Absolute Shadow Leg, and An Hao quickly learned its moves.
• Gu An decided to send An Hao and An Xin to the Taixuan Sect in about half a year.
• Lu Xian returned to Tianya Valley and said he had secured first place at the Hundred Clans Assembly after facing Ji Xiaoyu and Li Ya.
• Lu Xian revealed that he had broken Li Ya’s arms and legs, making Luo Hun and Gu An react with alarm.

Gu An watched over An Hao and An Xin as they reached the Taixuan Sect, where An Hao’s Heavenly Spirit Root drew the elders’ attention. After celebrating Spring Festival and visiting Hao Dragon, Gu An sensed a familiar visitor approaching Mystic Valley, and the chapter ended with the visitor leaping through his window with a treasure.

• Lu Xian taught Gu An the Black Tortoise Surging Wave Palm, but Gu An pretended he could not learn it and left before Lu Xian gave up.
• Gu An escorted An Hao and An Xin near the Taixuan Sect, then secretly watched them until An Hao revealed his ninth-layer Qi Refinement cultivation and an elder welcomed them.
• At Mystic Valley’s Spring Festival gathering, Zhen Qin and Ye Lan told everyone that An Hao had a Heavenly Spirit Root and had been taken away by the sect master.
• Gu An visited Hao Dragon in the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven and decided to ask Jiang Qiong about a transformation technique so Hao Dragon could go outside disguised as a snake.
• Gu An returned to his pavilion when he sensed someone familiar approaching, and the visitor leaped through the window asking him to guess what treasure they had brought.