Chapter Summaries

Gu Shaoshang emerged from the lightning tribulation and fought the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor, overwhelming him but failing to stop his escape. After the battle, Gu Shaoshang reflected on the gains from his tribulation and planned to continue another time.

• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor reached into the lightning tribulation to seize Gu Shaoshang, but Gu Shaoshang condensed his body and emerged with the Nine Cauldrons.
• Gu Shaoshang recognized the Grand Ancestor and taunted him, then attacked with his Life and Death Wheel Seal.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor fought back with the Great God-Extinguishing Fist and the Abyss Throne, but Gu Shaoshang shattered his attacks and seized the throne.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor abandoned the Abyss Throne and fled, leaving behind a thought that Gu Shaoshang erased after learning his name was Hong Xuanji.
• Gu Shaoshang watched the storm clear and reflected on how the lightning tribulation had strengthened his body and Spiritual Sense.

After defeating the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor, Gu Shaoshang used Creation Qi to create a soul based on the GOD Leader and named him White Tiger. He gave White Tiger a path to regain a body, then examined the Abyss Throne and discovered it contained a map.

• Gu Shaoshang killed Wu Yue, then returned to Heavenly Mandate Hall and instructed Li Chunfeng to teach the children medicine when they were ready.
• Gu Shaoshang reflected on the strength gained from lightning tribulations and realized they also enriched his Creation Qi.
• Gu Shaoshang spent all the Creation Qi in one acupoint to create GOD’s soul, named him White Tiger, and taught him the Heavenly Dao Spirit Suppressing Meditation Method.
• Gu Shaoshang gave White Tiger the locustwood Jade Pendant as a temporary dwelling and planned to use created incarnations to explore other worlds.
• Gu Shaoshang examined the Abyss Throne he had taken from Great Zhou Grand Ancestor and found a map inside it.

Gu Shaoshang recovered from his lightning tribulation and learned that a hidden map on the Abyss Throne pointed to a Creation Dao ruin. He left Heavenly Mandate Hall for the State Guesthouse, where he intended to meet Fighting Buddha Yinyue and study the Present Tathagata Scripture.

• Gu Shaoshang concluded that the Creation Daoist had arranged the map as a destined opportunity for Hong Xuanji and put the Abyss Throne away.
• Gu Shaoshang spent months replenishing his depleted reserves, while White Tiger advanced to the Manifestation Realm.
• After Yang Yunji ascended the throne, Gu Shaoshang left Heavenly Mandate Hall and heard scholars discuss the compilation of the Martial Scripture and Dao Scripture.
• Gu Shaoshang challenged Li Yan's claim that Daoist magic should not be spread, arguing that weak laws, not Daoist practitioners themselves, caused disorder.
• Gu Shaoshang went to the State Guesthouse, where Fighting Buddha Yinyue and other experts had gathered, and focused on the Present Tathagata Scripture.

Gu Shaoshang entered the State Guesthouse under the name Hong Xuanji and joined the gathering where Great Gan was compiling the Dao Scripture and Martial Scripture. After asking Monk Yinyue to let him study the Present Tathagata Sutra, he was told he would have to beat him.

• Gu Shaoshang arrived at the State Guesthouse and said he had come to participate in compiling the scriptures.
• Yang Pan recognized Gu Shaoshang, introduced himself, and escorted him inside after Gu Shaoshang gave the name Hong Xuanji.
• Yang Pan introduced Monk Yinyue and Elder Xiao, while Gu Shaoshang concealed his cultivation and went to the Great Zen Temple's side of the hall.
• Gu Shaoshang read the Martial Scripture and asked Monk Yinyue about cultivation beyond the Human Immortal stage.
• Gu Shaoshang asked whether he could view the Present Tathagata Sutra, and Monk Yinyue said he would have to beat him.

Gu Shaoshang fought Monk Yinyue, the Great Zen Temple’s Fighting Buddha, to study the orthodox Human Immortal techniques of the Yang Shen World. After overpowering Yinyue, Gu Shaoshang revealed that he was Hong Xuanji and demanded to read the Tathagata Scripture if Yinyue could not withstand one final punch.

• Monk Yinyue sensed Gu Shaoshang’s strength and challenged him, prompting the other people in the hall to flee.
• Gu Shaoshang and Yinyue exchanged blows, destroying the State Guesthouse as spectators retreated from the aftershocks.
• Yinyue unleashed a barrage of Tathagata seals, but Gu Shaoshang calmly blocked them while studying his movements, blood qi, and acupoints.
• After Yinyue staggered back and asked his opponent’s identity, Gu Shaoshang said his name was Hong Xuanji.
• Gu Shaoshang demanded that Yinyue let him read the Tathagata Scripture if he failed to withstand one punch, then struck at him.

Gu Shaoshang defeated Monk Yinyue at the ruined State Guesthouse and obtained a portion of the Present Tathagata Scripture. He compensated Yang Pan for the destruction with the Martial Scripture and Dao Scripture, then left as Yang Pan identified him as Hong Xuanji.

• Gu Shaoshang crushed Monk Yinyue’s Great Thousand Seal with his Life and Death Wheel Seal and severely injured him.
• Gu Shaoshang asked Monk Yinyue for the Present Tathagata Scripture, and Monk Yinyue gave him the portion he possessed.
• Gu Shaoshang memorized the scripture and left Monk Yinyue to depart for Imperial Capital City.
• Gu Shaoshang gave Yang Pan the Martial Scripture and Dao Scripture to compensate for destroying the State Guesthouse.
• Yang Pan told Elder Xiao that Gu Shaoshang was called Hong Xuanji.

Gu Shaoshang studied the incomplete Present Tathagata Scripture and considered how to create the Future Lord, while Yang Yunji prepared to gamble Great Gan’s future against Meng Shenji. More than a year later, a group of Huoluo visitors arrived at Heavenly Mandate Hall, led by a gloomy middle-aged man and accompanied by a striking young girl.

• Gu Shaoshang used his light brain to deduce the missing techniques in the Present Tathagata Scripture and concluded that he needed to gather materials and improve the Scripture of Future Non-Existence before refining the Future Lord.
• Yang Pan urged Yang Yunji to recruit Hong Xuanji, and Yang Yunji told him to agree to Hong Xuanji’s requests while revealing his plan to use Creation Dao’s inheritance to strengthen Great Gan.
• Yang Yunji revealed that he had begun cultivating Daoist magic and intended to seize a chance to challenge Meng Shenji when the Great Zen Temple’s abbot underwent his seventh lightning tribulation.
• Yang Pan left the imperial hall fearing that Yang Yunji could not defeat Meng Shenji, whose strength had humbled even the founder of Great Zhou.
• More than a year later, a gloomy middle-aged man and several martial artists arrived on Huoluo warhorses outside Heavenly Mandate Hall, with a young girl at their center.

Great Luo Sect members visited Gu Shaoshang, who accepted a Fragrant Stone Meteorite needed to refine the Future Lord in exchange for one week of martial guidance. He dismissed the rest of the visitors and agreed to guide Zhao Fei'er.

• Zhao Xiu brought Zhao Fei'er and Yan Zhenzong to Heavenly Mandate Hall to visit Gu Shaoshang.
• Gu Shaoshang's overwhelming aura frightened the visitors, and he told Li Chunfeng to set aside the clinic and undergo blood exchange and marrow cleansing.
• Gu Shaoshang recognized Zhao Fei'er and Yan Zhenzong as figures connected to Hong Xuanji and asked why the Great Luo Sect had come.
• Zhao Fei'er presented Gu Shaoshang with a Fragrant Stone Meteorite that the sect knew he needed.
• Gu Shaoshang accepted the meteorite and offered Zhao Fei'er one week of martial guidance, then dismissed the others.

Gu Shaoshang shared a fragmentary map to the Creation Dao ruins with Yang Pan, and Great Qian began preparing to seek the ruins and the Boat of Creation. The expedition reached waters near Divine Wind Country, where Gu Shaoshang recalled an Immortal Monument said to suppress the Immortal King.

• Gu Shaoshang expelled Zhao Fe'er and considered how Meng Bingyun might affect his plans in this world.
• Gu Shaoshang destroyed two Vacuum Dao priests who were using Daoist magic to harm children in Imperial Capital City.
• Gu Shaoshang gave Yang Pan a fragmentary map he suspected led to the Creation Dao ruins, and Yang Pan revealed that Great Qian held another fragment.
• Yang Pan brought the map to Yang Yunji, who ordered palace experts summoned and said he would discuss the Boat of Creation with Gu Shaoshang.
• Yang Pan and Gu Shaoshang sailed with a fleet toward the ruins, and Gu Shaoshang realized they were near Divine Wind Country and its Immortal Monument.

Gu Shaoshang and Yang Pan reached a vast Lesser Thousand World and found the Creation Dao’s mountain ruins while searching for the Boat of Creation. They arrived at a sealed palace, where the barrier shattered after reflecting Wang Tao’s attack and injuring him.

• Yang Pan explained Divine Wind Country’s strategic importance, and Wang Tao confirmed that Luo Tianyue had survived six lightning tribulations and possessed the Seven Treasures of Peach God Dao.
• Months later, Gu Shaoshang recognized a colossal island as a Lesser Thousand World of the Creation Dao, and Yang Pan’s map guided their ship to it.
• Gu Shaoshang, Yang Pan, Wang Tao, and more than a thousand soldiers entered the island and discovered that the sea had vanished behind a black mist.
• Gu Shaoshang led Yang Pan and Wang Tao north to the Creation Dao’s mountain ruins, where they sensed the Boat of Creation and gathered ancient Spirit Medicine along the way.
• Wang Tao struck the restriction protecting the grand hall, was thrown back and injured, and the barrier then shattered like a broken mirror.

Gu Shaoshang found the damaged Boat of Creation and the surviving half of the Scripture of Creation, then let Yang Pan take the boat and told him to seek the missing scripture in Great Qian. After leaving the hall, Gu Shaoshang discovered that the island was the body of an expert close to Shattering the Void, and saw it transform into a colossal divine dragon.

• Gu Shaoshang shattered the hall’s barrier, and Yang Pan and Wang Tao entered to find the damaged Boat of Creation.
• Gu Shaoshang revealed the Gourd of Creation and half of the Scripture of Creation, then gave Yang Pan the boat and the manual.
• Yang Pan told Gu Shaoshang that the other half of the scripture was kept by Great Qian’s rulers and offered to honor him as a teacher.
• Gu Shaoshang refused to become an official, promised to keep others from acting recklessly in Jade Capital, and told Yang Pan to pursue the missing scripture.
• Yang Pan ordered Wang Tao to search the island and find a way to refine the Boat of Creation.
• Gu Shaoshang examined the island from above, recognized it as the body of an expert near Shattering the Void, and saw it become a divine dragon.

Gu Shaoshang glimpsed the nearly Void-Shattering dragon and used his insight to begin cautiously pursuing the one-acupoint-connecting-to-a-hundred-acupoints breakthrough. Months later, while he remained missing, the Heavenly Mandate Hall had grown, and a beautiful young woman with Ghost Immortal-level Daoist magic arrived.

• Gu Shaoshang recognized the island as the body of an ancient dragon close to Shattering the Void and gleaned insight into the one-acupoint-connecting-to-a-hundred-acupoints realm.
• Gu Shaoshang left the Lesser Thousand World, sank beneath the sea, and meditated while carefully preparing for a breakthrough that would require his soul to merge with every acupoint.
• Yang Pan returned to Imperial Capital City with the Boat of Creation and Creation Dao's resources, and Yang Yun used them to expand Great Gan.
• Li Chunfeng led the rapidly growing Heavenly Mandate Hall, while Zhao Fei'er advanced to Grandmaster after three years as a medicine-grinding attendant and continued resenting Hong Xuanji for disappearing.
• A beautiful young woman entered the Heavenly Mandate Hall, and Li Chunfeng sensed that her Daoist magic had reached at least the Ghost Immortal realm.

Meng Bingyun visited Heavenly Mandate Hall seeking its absent master, while she and Qian Daozi discussed Hong Xuanji. That night, White Tiger underwent thunder tribulation and passed two layers before entering the third, where a familiar figure appeared before him.

• Meng Bingyun visited Heavenly Mandate Hall and learned from Li Chunfeng that its master had been absent for three years.
• Zhao Fei'er suggested Meng Shenji's interest in the master might not be a bad thing, while Li Chunfeng wondered whether his master was truly a reincarnated Ghost Immortal.
• Qian Daozi joined Meng Bingyun and discussed Hong Xuanji's disappearance and reputation as a peak Human Immortal.
• White Tiger appeared above Heavenly Mandate Hall during a storm and entered the thunder tribulation.
• White Tiger split his thoughts and passed the first two layers by fighting and absorbing lightning essence.
• White Tiger entered the third layer, where an identical number of streams of light transformed into a figure he recognized.

White Tiger faced the lightning tribulation formed from his deepest memories of Ba Liming. Months later, Yunmeng attacked the Divine Wind Country, and after Great Gan hesitated to send aid, the naval battle began with Luo Tianyue defending the country against Yuwen Mu’s fleet.

• White Tiger fought the countless Ba Liming figures and their Scattered Arrows Strike with the martial arts he had mastered.
• A rider brought Great Gan an urgent report that Yuwen Mu and his allies had invaded the Divine Wind Country with four hundred thousand troops.
• Chancellor Li Yan urged Emperor Yang Yunji to aid the Divine Wind Country, but Yang Yunji postponed his decision and dismissed the court.
• Luo Tianyue waited at sea for Great Gan’s response while Yuwen Mu prepared to destroy the Divine Wind Country.
• Yuwen Mu ordered his fleet to attack, and Luo Tianyue commanded the Divine Wind fleet to fight as the two sides exchanged cannon fire.

Luo Tianyue used the Heaven Shaking Bow and Limitless Arrows to rout the Yunmeng Empire’s army, but Yuwen Mu and several powerful allies joined forces against him. Surrounded by the enemy, Luo Tianyue armed himself with Peach God Dao’s treasures as the battle continued.

• Yuwen Mu used the Yunmeng Empire’s assault to force Luo Tianyue to choose between intervening and risking his life or watching Divine Wind Country fall.
• Luo Tianyue fired the nine Limitless Arrows, which absorbed soldiers’ souls and drove the Yunmeng Empire’s army into retreat.
• Peacock King Xingxuan trapped the arrows with sword fiend energy, but Luo Tianyue broke the net and wounded him with a combined arrow.
• Yuwen Mu attacked Luo Tianyue alongside Xingxuan, while the master of Xuantian Pavilion appeared and destroyed Luo Tianyue’s warship.
• Luo Tianyue evaded the attacks and equipped himself with the Demon Shark Armor, Yin Yang Peach God Sword, and Spirit-Splitting Puppet as his opponents closed in.

Luo Tianyue fought off Yuwen Mu and the Xuantian Pavilion masters with Peach God Dao’s treasures, but was forced to burn his thoughts and pursue Yuwen Mu across the sea. Their battle disturbed Gu Shaoshang’s secluded cultivation, and he emerged after achieving the realm where one acupoint connected to a hundred acupoints.

• Yuwen Mu, the Xuantian Pavilion master and his wife, and Peacock King Xingxuan attacked Luo Tianyue, but his Peach God Dao treasures blocked their strikes.
• Sky Snake King Xingmou trapped the Spirit-Splitting Puppet in the Dark Mandara Womb Great Barrier while the Yunmeng Empire’s Martial Saint struck Luo Tianyue’s Demon Shark Armor.
• Luo Tianyue burned more than half his thoughts, blasted his attackers away, and pursued Yuwen Mu across the sea.
• Yuwen Mu fled until Luo Tianyue’s sword qi badly wounded him, then burned over three thousand thoughts and turned to fight back.
• The battle’s shock waves disturbed Gu Shaoshang’s secluded cultivation, and he rose from the seabed after completing the one-acupoint-to-a-hundred-acupoints realm.

Gu Shaoshang completed the minor stage of the Primordial Ancient Sacred Body, unleashing Blood Qi so immense that it stunned the fighters gathered over the sea. After Yuwen Mu recognized him as Hong Xuanji and fled, Gu Shaoshang killed him with one punch, leaving the others frozen in fear.

• Gu Shaoshang opened more than forty thousand acupoints and completed the minor stage of the Primordial Ancient Sacred Body.
• His enormous Blood Qi disrupted Luo Tianyue and Yuwen Mu's battle and forced the arriving Xuantian Pavilion Master, Sky Snake King, and Peacock King to retreat.
• Gu Shaoshang appeared in the sky, and Yuwen Mu recognized him as Hong Xuanji.
• Yuwen Mu fled through space, but Gu Shaoshang pursued him with a punch.
• Yuwen Mu unleashed the Three Realms Connecting Heaven Sword, but Gu Shaoshang shattered it and killed him with a single blow.
• Peacock King, the Xuantian Pavilion Master, and the others stood frozen, awed and afraid of Gu Shaoshang's power.

Gu Shaoshang killed Yuwen Mu with a single punch and forced the Xuantian Pavilion Master to surrender the Xuantian Dark Record in exchange for his life. After allowing the Xuantian Pavilion Master and Xingmou to leave, he stopped Peacock King Xingxuan and a Yunmeng Martial Saint, declaring that he would make them his mount and servant.

• Gu Shaoshang killed Yuwen Mu, and Luo Tianyue thanked him for saving his life.
• Gu Shaoshang challenged the Xuantian Pavilion Master, who offered the Xuantian Dark Record to spare himself and Xingmou.
• Gu Shaoshang read and memorized the manual, then returned it and let the Xuantian Pavilion Master and Xingmou go.
• Xingmou asked why Gu Shaoshang had killed Yuwen Mu, and he replied that Yuwen Mu had feared death.
• Gu Shaoshang stopped Peacock King Xingxuan and a Yunmeng Martial Saint from leaving, saying he needed a mount and a servant.
• Xingxuan angrily declared that they would fight to the death, and Gu Shaoshang dismissed the threat.

Gu Shaoshang subdued Peacock King Xingxuan without striking him and rode him to Divine Wind Country, where he saw the Immortal Monument’s protection and focused on refining his recent breakthrough. After learning that the Yunmeng army had been devastated in battle, Yang Yunji ordered Yang Pan to investigate whether Meng Shenji was involved, and Yang Pan sailed toward Divine Wind Country.

• Xingxuan burned his thoughts and attacked Gu Shaoshang, but Gu’s overwhelming fist intent shattered his sword energies and forced him to submit as a mount.
• Gu Shaoshang rode Xingxuan to Divine Wind Country with Luo Tianyue and the Yunmeng Martial Saint following, and he chose not to retrieve the Immortal Monument.
• Yang Pan read a memorial reporting that the Yunmeng army had suffered a crushing defeat, with a thousand warships destroyed and Yuwen Mu and Zhao An missing and presumed dead.
• Yang Yunji ordered Yang Pan to investigate the defeat in Divine Wind Country and determine whether Meng Shenji had intervened.
• More than ten days later, Yang Pan sailed toward Divine Wind Country aboard a flagship with a beautiful woman in white at his side.

Gu Shaoshang ordered Peacock King Xingxuan and Zhao An to bring Yang Pan and Meng Bingyun to meet him, after sensing Meng Bingyun’s approach and considering whether he would father Hong Yi. When Yang Pan’s ship reached Divine Wind Country, Xingxuan appeared and announced that his lord wished to see them.

• Yang Pan spoke with Meng Bingyun aboard the Great Qian flagship before joining Qian Daozi to view his painting.
• Gu Shaoshang accepted the Yin Yang Chaos True Scripture and gave Luo Tianyue a list of resources to gather for cultivating the Future Lord.
• Gu Shaoshang sensed Meng Bingyun aboard Yang Pan’s ship and ordered Xingxuan and Zhao An to bring them to him.
• More than a month later, Yang Pan’s ship reached Divine Wind Country, where Meng Bingyun and Qian Daozi sensed powerful fist intent left across the surrounding sea.
• Xingxuan and Zhao An approached the ship, and Xingxuan told Yang Pan that his lord wished to see him and Meng Bingyun.