Chapter Summaries

Gu An saved Liu An from a death tribulation and brought him to an isolated island, where Liu An agreed to serve him for ten million years. Gu An stripped away Liu An’s cultivation and kept him on the island; ten years later, Liu An again begged to leave and take revenge.

• Liu An awakened healed on an island with dense spiritual energy and found Gu An in a courtyard, though he could not sense Gu An’s presence.
• Liu An introduced himself and asked to take revenge before serving Gu An, but Gu An told him he was too weak and ordered him to build a place to live.
• Gu An gave Liu An an axe to chop firewood, then turned him into a mortal and left the courtyard.
• Liu An spent ten years on the island, unable to escape, and on a stormy night asked Gu An to let him return after taking revenge.
• Gu An questioned how Liu An could seek revenge with his current ability and whether he knew how to return from the island.

Liu An spent ten thousand years recovering on Gu An’s island before learning he had ascended to Zhongtian and receiving a cultivation manual. As human power reached its height and a world-shaking battle approached, Gu An erased Liu An’s cultivation again and offered to teach him himself.

• Liu An abandoned his plan for revenge and spent a thousand years chopping firewood and rebuilding his cultivation on Gu An’s island.
• A blue-robed Daoist identified Liu An as an ascender in Zhongtian and left him the Taishang Qi Absorption Method before departing.
• Liu An cultivated with the manual for ten thousand years while human influence expanded across Zhongtian and the Wushi Disciples observed the rising threat.
• Shen Zhen asked Gu An whether the human race had reached its height, and Gu An predicted that a world-shaking battle would soon mark Zhongtian’s turning point.
• Gu An scattered Liu An’s cultivation and offered to teach him how to cultivate.

Gu An taught Liu An a new cultivation path and revealed that the Immortal Gods were attacking the Taishang Demon God. As Gu An went to watch a play, the battle escalated when mysterious purple eyes appeared across the sky.

• Gu An explained that Liu An’s former cultivation method was flawed and that he had saved him from the consequences tied to the Taishang Qi Absorption Method, then warned him to keep their relationship secret.
• Gu An gave Liu An a new set of cultivation methods and abilities, and Liu An spent a thousand years cultivating by the sea.
• Liu An sensed a growing disturbance and learned from Gu An that the Immortal Gods were encircling and suppressing the Taishang Demon God.
• Gu An returned to the Wushi Continent to watch a play while the battle spread across Zhongtian.
• Li Xuanmiao and other Immortal Gods watched the fighting until purple light darkened the world and mysterious purple-pupiled eyes appeared across the firmament.

Gu An told Liu An that the Taishang Demon God had been defeated and warned him that the human race would face persecution. Centuries later, Zhang Buku and Xu You arrived in Zhongtian amid the aftermath of the conflict between humans and demons.

• Liu An witnessed the Immortal Emperor Pupils vanish and a vast Golden Vertical Eye appear over Zhongtian before both disappeared.
• Gu An returned to Wuzhong Mountain, where Shen Zhen tried and failed to deduce the meaning of the Golden Vertical Eye.
• A hundred years later, Gu An told Liu An that the Taishang Demon God had been suppressed and that cultivators of the Taishang Qi Absorption Method would die in future heavenly tribulations.
• Gu An warned Liu An that the human race would be hunted, and Liu An continued practicing the fist technique Gu An taught him.
• Several centuries later, the Demon Race slaughtered the human race until Immortal Gods ordered the hunt to stop, though demons continued to prey on humans.
• Zhang Buku and Xu You emerged from a spatial rift over the ocean, recognized the killing intent left by the conflict, and Xu You asked where they would go next.

Zhang Buku arrived in Zhongtian as the Underworld’s representative, while Gu An reflected on their shared past and spoke about him with the Epiphyllum Ghost Mother. Gu An then visited Liu An on a secluded island, named it Fangcun Island, and left Liu An to continue cultivating.

• Zhang Buku and Xu You set out to meet the great powers of the Demon Race in Zhongtian.
• Gu An told the Epiphyllum Ghost Mother about his former fellow Handyman Disciples, Zhang Chunqiu, Li Ya, and Meng Lang, and explained Zhang Buku’s life and connection to Zhang Chunqiu.
• Gu An went to the island where Liu An was cultivating and asked him what the island should be called.
• Liu An suggested Fangcun Island, and Gu An accepted the name and explained its meaning.
• Gu An left to fish elsewhere on Fangcun Island while Liu An continued cultivating and looked forward to surprising Wei Ye in the future.

After Liu An’s ten-million-year term ended, Gu An sent him away and continued his quiet life as Zhongtian developed over hundreds of millions of years. Fairy Yao Xuan investigated the newly risen Emperor Yongsheng and returned convinced that, despite resembling someone she knew, he was not that person.

• Gu An told Liu An his ten-million-year term was over, and Liu An bid farewell to Xuanwu before a black rift pulled him away.
• Gu An stopped teaching cultivation and focused on comprehending the Dao as Wushi Disciples spread into Zhongtian and its native civilizations developed.
• Fairy Yao Xuan told Gu An she wanted to see the newly risen Emperor Yongsheng, and Gu An allowed her to go so long as she kept Wushi secret.
• Several thousand years later, Fairy Yao Xuan returned and told Gu An that Emperor Yongsheng looked and acted exactly like him, but was not him.

Gu An watched Zhongtian’s rising heroes while protecting Wushi Continent and its disciples from outside threats. Wu Xie’s uncontrolled Dao comprehension revealed a terrifying presence that was coming to slaughter everyone in Wushi.

• Gu An gave Fairy Yao Xuan a stone containing the true meaning of the Heavenly Dao and urged her to pursue her own goal rather than live for Emperor Yongsheng.
• Gu An observed Dragon Emperor’s growing fame and foresaw that he would eventually submit beneath the Heavenly Court.
• Wushi Disciples spread across Zhongtian, established sects and schools, and invented legends about Grandmaster Wushi while relying on Gu An to protect their continent.
• An Zizai interrupted Wu Xie’s cultivation when his uncontrolled aura threatened to attract attention, then told him what had happened.
• Wu Xie fell into the Great Dao again and manifested a mysterious dharma idol, but after An Zizai awakened him, he warned that someone was coming to slaughter everyone in Wushi.

Wu Xie told An Zizai that a Great Dao Emperor Lord had threatened Wushi, and Gu An promised to resolve the danger. Later, as golden snow carrying the Great Dao’s origin fell across Zhongtian, Li Ya, Wu Jue, and Xuanwu sensed the extraordinary phenomenon.

• Wu Xie told An Zizai that a Great Dao Emperor Lord had tried to force his power on him and threatened to wipe out those who followed the same path.
• An Zizai took Wu Xie to seek Gu An, and after several days of waiting, Gu An said he would personally resolve the trouble targeting Wushi.
• Wu Xie later realized the Great Dao Emperor Lord had vanished and returned his attention to cultivation.
• Li Ya and Wu Jue discussed Gu An, the Hunyuan Dao Emperor, and Emperor Xuanji’s challenge to the Dragon Emperor.
• Golden snow began falling across Zhongtian, and Li Ya and Wu Jue sensed that it contained spiritual qi of the Great Dao’s origin.
• Xuanwu sensed the golden snow from Fangcun Island and wondered whether another monster had been born.

Gu An observed True Origin Old Ancestor, a newly born Great Luo Immortal whose resistance to the Heavenly Emperor’s will revealed a power capable of surpassing the Heavenly Dao. After thousands of years, True Origin Old Ancestor headed toward Fangcun Island, leaving Gu An to wonder what would happen when they met.

• Golden snow blessed Zhongtian’s living beings, who learned the name True Origin Old Ancestor and revered him.
• Gu An saw that True Origin Old Ancestor had been born with extraordinary aptitude and that the Heavenly Emperor had marked him to become an abandoned pawn.
• True Origin Old Ancestor questioned the mission and thoughts imposed on him, then avoided other beings as he grew increasingly wary of the forces guiding him.
• Several thousand years later, True Origin Old Ancestor flew over the ocean toward Fangcun Island, where Gu An was fishing with Xuanwu.
• Gu An realized that resisting the Heavenly Emperor made True Origin Old Ancestor’s fate branch without limit, potentially leading him to transcend the Heavenly Dao or suffer eternal damnation.

Wu Xie sensed that the Great Dao Emperor Lord was approaching, while Wu Jue visited Wushi Continent and encountered a dangerous black-robed man. Gu An captured the man, revealed he was a servant of the Great Dao Emperor Lords’ creator, and sent him toward True Origin Old Ancestor as a test intended to draw out his master.

• Wu Xie sensed that the Great Dao Emperor Lord was descending from Beyond Heaven and worried about Wushi Continent being exposed.
• Wu Jue arrived at Wushi Continent, observed its peaceful but weak inhabitants, and was threatened by a black-robed man.
• Gu An seized the black-robed man, transformed him into a Wooden Man, and learned he had come to force Gu An into the Heavenly Dao’s view.
• Gu An let Wu Jue leave, deciding not to interrupt the opportunity arising from Wu Jue’s grief and growing potential.
• Gu An sent the Wooden Man toward True Origin Old Ancestor, hoping the encounter would make the Great Dao Emperor Lords’ creator reveal himself.

True Origin Old Ancestor broke a wooden figure on an island trapped in a storm, releasing the existence inside it. In Chaos, Emperor Lord Taiqi sensed Black Desire Great Emperor fighting a being he believed was the long-awaited variable.

• True Origin Old Ancestor realized he could not escape the storm-bound sea and found a wooden figure on an island.
• True Origin Old Ancestor returned to the island, shattered the wooden figure, and released a spreading black fog.
• Emperor Lord Taiqi reflected on Hunyuan Dao Emperor, his plans against the Heavenly Court, and his use of Black Desire Great Emperor.
• Emperor Lord Taiqi sensed Black Desire Great Emperor fighting and recognized the opposing Heavenly Dao living being as the variable he had been waiting for.

Gu An watched the Heavenly Court’s influence reach Zhongtian as a Heavenly Steed carried an Immortal God’s child across the sky, while he prepared for Emperor Lord Taiqi’s arrival. The White-Headed Immortal Ancestor told Li Ya that his merit and plans could earn him a place among the immortals, leaving him resolved to continue his path.

• Gu An watched Xuanwu worry over the distant thunder cloud and ordered him to cultivate, then continued painting the battle between the True Origin Old Ancestor and Black Desire Great Emperor while awaiting Emperor Lord Taiqi.
• A Heavenly Steed carrying an Immortal God’s child galloped across the sky, and Gu An told Xuanwu it belonged to the Heavenly Court and could easily kill him.
• Xuanwu asked whether Gu An was an Immortal God and said he wanted to visit the Heavenly Court, but Gu An sent him back to cultivate.
• Li Ya visited the White-Headed Immortal Ancestor at Wu Jue’s recommendation and asked whether he could become immortal.
• The White-Headed Immortal Ancestor said Li Ya’s merit and planned orthodoxy qualified him, and told him to keep taking disciples and building merit until an immortal official came to take him to the Heavenly Court.

Gu An observed the ongoing battle between True Origin Old Ancestor and Black Desire Great Emperor as he considered creating a divine power unique to himself. Emperor Lord Taiqi arrived and offered to take True Origin Old Ancestor to Chaos to seek his origin, while Black Desire Great Emperor warned him about the powerful being who had trapped them.

• Gu An watched the battle and thought about making a divine power that no one else could learn.
• True Origin Old Ancestor fought Black Desire Great Emperor, grew overwhelmed by confusion, and began to lose control of his emotions.
• Black Desire Great Emperor unleashed a devastating black-fire attack against True Origin Old Ancestor.
• Emperor Lord Taiqi appeared, dispersed the black fire, and broke True Origin Old Ancestor out of his altered state.
• Emperor Lord Taiqi offered to take True Origin Old Ancestor to Chaos to seek his origin, and Black Desire Great Emperor warned that another powerful being had trapped him.

Gu An rescued True Origin Old Ancestor from Emperor Lord Taiqi and revealed his overwhelming power. He then carried True Origin Old Ancestor into Chaos, where they found Emperor Lord Taiqi’s true form meditating among the nebulae.

• Emperor Lord Taiqi immobilized True Origin Old Ancestor and provoked the black qi within him to emerge.
• Gu An appeared, seized Emperor Lord Taiqi’s arm, and challenged his interference with Gu An’s Dao.
• Emperor Lord Taiqi tried to strike Gu An, but Gu An annihilated his body in an instant, prompting Black Desire Great Emperor to flee.
• Gu An shrank True Origin Old Ancestor and carried him through darkness toward Chaos, explaining that Emperor Lord Taiqi’s true form was hidden there.
• Gu An and True Origin Old Ancestor emerged in a starry sky and spotted Emperor Lord Taiqi meditating on curved wood within a nebula.

Gu An defeated Emperor Lord Taiqi and offered True Origin Old Ancestor the karma that would let him control the Great Dao Emperor Lord. True Origin Old Ancestor asked Gu An to accept him as a disciple, and his future as the Sacred Chancellor began to surpass the Heavenly Emperor’s.

• Emperor Lord Taiqi saw Gu An arrive at his hidden Daoist field and attacked him with a Golden Dragon and a giant Black Cauldron.
• Gu An shattered the Black Cauldron with the Qinghong Sword and beheaded Emperor Lord Taiqi, severing his karma with the Great Dao Emperor Lord.
• Gu An captured Emperor Lord Taiqi’s dark-blue divine soul pill and offered its power to True Origin Old Ancestor.
• Gu An told True Origin Old Ancestor that he wanted him to grow freely and would not demand repayment or take away his freedom.
• True Origin Old Ancestor knelt and asked Gu An to accept him as a disciple, causing his future as the Sacred Chancellor to grow beyond the Heavenly Emperor’s.

Gu An brought True Origin Old Ancestor to Fangcun Island as his disciple and concealed his whereabouts from the Heavenly Dao. A million years later, as Wushi’s disciples left to pursue their own paths, An Zizai told Gu An he did not want to become an immortal under the current Heavenly Dao.

• Gu An took True Origin Old Ancestor to Fangcun Island, gave him a pill, and hid his fate from the Heavenly Dao so he could cultivate unnoticed.
• Xuanwu welcomed True Origin Old Ancestor and realized he was the powerful figure associated with Golden Snow.
• Black Desire Great Emperor and Emperor Lord Taiqi died secretly, while an Immortal God’s rampage with the Heavenly Steed became a legend among mortals.
• A million years passed as Immortal Gods frequently visited the mortal world, deepening living beings’ hopes of joining the Heavenly Court.
• An Zizai told Gu An that fewer than thirty percent of the Wushi Disciples remained and explained why he accepted their departures.
• Gu An asked whether An Zizai wanted to become an immortal, and An Zizai refused because he disliked the current Heavenly Dao.

Gu An reflected on whether the Heavenly Court should change while An Zizai criticized its failures. Meanwhile, True Origin Old Ancestor’s growing insight and Saintly aura threatened the Heavenly Dao, and Gu An arrived to find Li Xuandao troubled by a prince’s bid for the throne.

• Gu An agreed that living beings should strive to change the Heavenly Court themselves, while An Zizai listed the Immortal Gods’ failures and Gu An added details.
• True Origin Old Ancestor told Xuanwu he could read his thoughts and sense Liu An’s karma, then admitted he could not perceive Gu An’s thoughts.
• True Origin Old Ancestor used the Great Dao Emperor Lords’ providence to shape his Dao, nearing Miaozhen Great Luo Immortal while his Saintly aura began affecting the Heavenly Dao.
• Gu An observed that the Heavenly Dao was instinctively opposing True Origin Old Ancestor’s path to sainthood, though the Heavenly Emperor had not noticed the changes.
• Gu An went to the Great Cang Dynasty, where Li Xuandao sat drinking in the Imperial Garden, worried because an imperial prince had become a Luo Heaven Carefree Immortal and sought the throne.

Gu An returned to visit Li Xuandao and helped him decide to leave the throne and seek a new path in Zhongtian. In Zhongtian, Zhang Buku restored his father Zhang Chunqiu’s memories after ten thousand reincarnations, and the two reunited.

• Gu An appeared before Li Xuandao after Li Xuandao had prepared a place for him more than a thousand times.
• Gu An advised Li Xuandao to follow his true heart and establish order elsewhere, and Li Xuandao decided to go to Zhongtian.
• Gu An and Li Xuandao drank and talked until dusk, when Gu An left and Li Xuandao looked forward to the future.
• Zhang Chunqiu regained his youth in a dark-green pool, and Zhang Buku told him that he was his son.
• Zhang Buku explained that Zhang Chunqiu had reincarnated through ten thousand lives and that they were now in Zhongtian.
• Zhang Chunqiu asked whether Zhang Buku had been well, and Zhang Buku said he would not suffer anymore now that his father was with him.

Zhang Buku told Zhang Chunqiu about the long life he had lived since his father's death, and Zhang Chunqiu praised him while accepting that his mother might not return. As Zhongtian's powerful figures rose and clashed, Su Han asked Gu An who was strongest and revealed his plan to write a history of the world's greatest existences and refine it into a treasure of Karma and fate.

• Zhang Chunqiu read Investiture of the Gods and asked Zhang Buku to recount his experiences since his death.
• Zhang Buku described his hardships, Gu An's help, and his friendship with Li Ya; Zhang Chunqiu told him he was proud of him.
• Zhang Buku raised the possibility of reviving his mother, and Zhang Chunqiu said there was no need to force her return.
• Gu An continued his routines as True Origin Old Ancestor and Wushi disciples advanced in cultivation, while the Seven Demon Emperors fought among themselves.
• The Nine Tribulations Immortal Emperor arrived from Beyond Heaven, challenged powerful figures, and defeated a Demon Emperor.
• Su Han asked Gu An who was strongest in the world and said he wanted to record the greatest beings of each era in a book that he could refine into a treasure of Karma and fate.

Su Han described his ambition to create a Years Dao Book, and Gu An warned him about the Nine Tribulations Immortal Emperor’s disastrous final tribulation. In the Heavenly Court, Star Lord Xuanqing sought God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang’s view of His Highness Taihao, then left Li Xuanmiao to learn that Xuanqing was Eastern Pole Imperial Duke’s youngest disciple.

• Su Han explained that his supreme treasure would record Zhongtian’s past and present, deduce its future, and eventually reflect the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao.
• Gu An told Su Han that Dust Ancestor had reached the Peak of Immortal Path and said the Nine Tribulations Immortal Emperor would suffer for choosing Zhongtian as his final tribulation.
• Su Han worried that creating his Years Dao Book might offend the Heavenly Dao, but Gu An refused to answer and sent him away.
• Star Lord Xuanqing asked God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang whether His Highness Taihao could become emperor and said Taihao reminded him of His Majesty.
• After Star Lord Xuanqing departed, Li Xuanmiao asked about him, and God Venerable Guangfa Taiguang revealed that Xuanqing was Eastern Pole Imperial Duke’s youngest disciple.