Gu Jinlai

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Gu Jinlai (古今来)
Alias(es)	Jiang Dongqu; Jiang Yufeng; Jiang Shengsheng; Gu Xian Zun; King Liyang; the Weapon Master 20 333 601 685 824 537
Species/Race	Human; an Earth-origin transmigrant inhabiting the body of a former Purgatory Demonic Sect elder 20 727
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Lingxiao Palace (Palace Master); Changqing Alliance (Alliance Leader); Creation Gate (acting sect leader while posing as Jiang Yufeng); formerly the Purgatory Demonic Sect and Void True Tower 24 573 622 773
Occupation/Role	Cultivator, Celestial Master, artifact forger, military innovator, city ruler, law-enforcement dean, and alliance leader 22 40 429 573 773
First Appearance	2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Red Lotus Sword Qi — Great Accomplishment	2	Used Clear Light gained from killing the Blood Demon Ancestor to elevate the technique from Entry Level.
Celestial Master	22	Received a Pure Light transmission concerning the Great Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method, became a true Celestial Master, and forged his first Treasure Armor.
Great Sun Demonic God Body Refining Method — Minor Accomplishment	29	Used his final strand of Pure Light to comprehend the body-refining method.
Martial Dao Mastery Realm	124	Reached the realm through sparring with Jiang Zhongshan and understanding the unity of person and sword.
Intent Realm	147	Entered the Intent Realm after cultivating the Eternal Furnace, True Spirit Projection Technique, and Intent; gained the ability to sense others’ favorable and hostile intentions.
Chaos Thunder Origin Body — Introductory Stage	384	Used Pure Light to initiate the technique; his transformed body grew from six to ten meters tall.
Martial King	419	Displayed Martial King-level strength by defeating two Nascent Soul True Monarchs and three Martial Ancestors alone.
Peak Heavenly Being-level power	436	Overwhelmed six Great Martial Kings and killed several top-tier opponents within moments.
Thunder Sword Supernatural Ability — Perfection	437 440	Invested sixteen strands of Pure Light into the ability, mastering its mysteries and completing it.
Mahayana Realm	606	Broke through publicly while disguised as Jiang Yufeng, securing the Creation Gate’s resources and protection.
Great Heavenly Monarch	650	Explored an inheritance site containing the legacies of a Land True Immortal, a Great Heavenly Monarch, and the Aries Star Lord.
Great Dao Golden Immortal	738	Emerged from six years of seclusion having reached this realm and advanced his mental state to the seventh stage.
Mind Realm — Tenth Order	779	Reached the tenth order while preparing to improve Space Dao and Great Dao of Destruction compatibility.
Space Dao Affinity — 98%	786	Raised his affinity to a record-breaking 98% after more than two centuries of cultivation.
Mind Realm — Eleventh Order	788	Used an Immortal Artifact and the complete Star River Chart, accomplishing an advancement estimated to equal thirty thousand years of ordinary effort.
Immortal Golden Immortal	824	Entered the Immortal Golden Immortal realm; recognized the coming Dao Ancestor purge and began planning for survival beyond it.
Mind Realm — Fifteenth Stage	838	Reached a level sufficient to observe the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors within the Heart of the Universe.
Great Power	867	Recovered Great Power-level strength and defeated Yan Xuan and the Golden Radiance God Emperor through superior calculation, degradation, and immortal arts.

Background

Gu Jinlai soul-traveled into the body of a Purgatory Demonic Sect elder, inheriting neither the original owner’s memories nor his personal attachments. The body’s former master was a feared demonic cultivator, a former Spirit Refining elder, and a man notably protective of his disciples. At the beginning of the story, Gu Jinlai is sixty-nine but retains the vitality and physique of a Core Forming cultivator. 4 5 20 727

Initially hunted by orthodox cultivators and the Four Evils of Star Province, he killed the Blood Demon Ancestor with a single sword strike, refined Clear Light into the Red Lotus Sword Qi, and eliminated all four pursuers. These early battles established both his ruthlessness and his willingness to use combat as a means of rapid advancement. 2 3

Appearance

In his ordinary state, Gu Jinlai is a powerfully built man whose body has been repeatedly altered through demonic body refinement, Celestial Master forging, and later Innate Divine Being cultivation. At age sixty-nine, he retained a robust Core Forming physique; after three months of refining demonic beast blood, he grew to 1.86 meters and developed a visibly muscular build. 4 30

• His ordinary physique grew beyond 1.9 meters through continued body refinement. 81
• The Great Sun True Demon Body initially expanded him from 1.86 meters to 2.66 meters. 50
• Later transformations reached roughly three meters, ten meters, 490 meters, and eventually 1,800 meters. 89 384 631 673
• He frequently fights in heavy armor, Spirit Armor, or the Chengying Mecha, giving him a towering metallic silhouette. 25 89 312

Personality

Gu Jinlai is pragmatic, highly analytical, and unusually willing to integrate knowledge from Earth with local cultivation methods. He optimized sword qi through physics, developed armor and weapons around cost-effectiveness, and repeatedly treated cultivation, industry, and warfare as connected systems rather than separate disciplines. 4 22 312

His morality is defined by a persistent conflict between expediency and his desire to create order. He can be merciless toward enemies, corrupt officials, and cultivators he judges karmically tainted, yet he repeatedly rejects power gained at the cost of innocent lives. During Guangye’s attempt to provoke him by threatening a town, Gu Jinlai refused to let civilians die merely to gain more Pure Light. 24 436

By the Fengyu City period, he identifies his true inner self as the pursuit of legal justice and stable order. This ideal becomes both a personal conviction and the basis of his Martial Dao Will. 429 430 432

Abilities & Skills

Pure Light and the Green Lotus

Gu Jinlai’s spiritual world contains the Green Lotus, a treasure closely tied to his cultivation, Pure Light, and later his ability to process immense amounts of information.

• Uses Clear Light and Pure Light to accelerate comprehension of techniques, including Red Lotus Sword Qi, body-refining methods, and Supernatural Abilities. 2 29 437
• Perceives karmic coloration, allowing him to distinguish heavily burdened individuals and choose targets he considers evil. 24 190
• Can enter an “overclocked” state in which a strand of Pure Light supports extreme calculation speed for roughly ten seconds. 856
• The Green Lotus remained unaffected by the Heavenly Star God Evil Refining Array, while an Evil God mark on Gu Jinlai faded. 795
• Gu Jinlai later speculates that the Green Lotus may be a Creation Divine Artifact capable of suppressing a race’s fortune. 838

Swordsmanship and Martial Arts

Gu Jinlai began as a sword cultivator and continued refining martial skill even after shifting toward body refinement and artifact-based combat.

• Red Lotus Sword Qi — His foundational sword art; its ultimate move, Blood Lotus, could extinguish life within dozens of meters when fully formed. 6
• Formless Sword Qi — An invisible sword qi developed by optimizing Red Lotus Sword Qi; it bypassed Zhang Buyi’s expectations and killed him after his defense focused on visible attacks. 4 6
• Myriad Phenomena Sword Qi — Another optimized technique created through his Earth-derived knowledge. 4
• Mastery and Intent — The Mastery Realm improved his control of force, while Intent Realm perception allowed him to track, intercept, and destroy Flying Swords. 124 128 147
• Ten Directions Annihilation — Enables him to hurl Spirit Swords as high-speed “flying swords” through pure martial force. 419

Demonic Body and Eternal Furnace

Gu Jinlai develops a body-refining path based on demonic beast bloodlines, the Great Sun system, and the Eternal Furnace.

• Great Sun True Demon Body — Enlarges his body and dramatically increases strength, reach, and physical durability. 50 89
• Great Sun Demonic God Body Refining Method — Builds a demonic-beast-like physique capable of surviving severe Flying Sword injuries with armor support. 29 132
• Eternal Furnace — Converts and circulates immense energy throughout his body; its Eternal Immortality characteristic can refresh his condition and restore devastating injuries. 132 227
• Chaos Thunder Origin Body — Further refines his body by transforming impurities into power instead of expelling them. 384
• Innate Divine Being path — Gu Jinlai identifies this as his true foundation alongside Void Returning cultivation, eventually developing it into a path based on the Great Sun Golden Crow and Creation Great Dao. 605 688

Celestial Master Forging

After abandoning the Purgatory Sect’s path, Gu Jinlai becomes a Celestial Master and applies Spirit Fusion to armor, weapons, military industry, and large-scale production.

• Forged Treasure Armor whose defense could rival High-grade Treasure Armor despite relatively low weight. 22
• Uses Spiritual Awareness and Spirit Fusion to treat armor as an extension of himself, substantially reducing its practical burden. 22
• Designed affordable armor production to finance the Gu family’s military expansion. 22
• Directed the development of missiles, artillery, CIWS units, fighter jets, mechas, and storage artifacts. 124 221 312
• Reorganized Lingxiao Palace’s research structure and tasked the Creation Hall with mass-producing the Chengying Mecha. 573

Mental Strength, Great Daos, and Immortal Arts

Gu Jinlai’s later strength relies increasingly on mental cultivation and simultaneous command of several Great Daos.

• Masters the Space, Destruction, Devouring, and Creation Great Daos. 824
• Particle Sword Intent — A peerless Immortal Art combining Space, Destruction, and Devouring; at perfection, it is described as lethal to beings below the Immortal Venerable realm. 793 824
• Destruction Chaos Sword Qi — A composite art based on Destruction and Devouring, capable of creating a destructive rift that consumes matter. 752
• Great Chaos Technique — A Devouring Great Dao-based Immortal Art strengthened by Gu Jinlai’s mental cultivation. 752
• Void Projection Technique — Allows projection across worlds and, at higher levels, supports long-range movement and tactical infiltration. 576 867

Great Power Calculation and Degradation

At Great Power level, Gu Jinlai’s advantage lies in analyzing the structure and trajectory of enemy techniques before they fully form.

• Can instantly derive methods of breaking, defending against, evading, or escaping an enemy Immortal Art. 866
• Used superior calculation to redirect Yan Xuan’s attack into the Golden Radiance God Emperor’s Divine System. 866
• Can degrade enemies by severing or erasing their connection to the Three Thousand Great Daos. 886
• Evolved a personal universe that absorbed Creation Divine Artifacts, Cosmic Anomalies, and attacks from Great Powers. 886

Equipment

• Chengying Sword — A specialized Peerless Spirit Artifact resembling an oversized double-edged ruler; later used as Gu Jinlai’s primary heavy sword. 166 182
• Chengying Mecha — Immortal Gold battle mecha powered by the Eternal Furnace; reached six times the speed of sound and delivered sword strikes comparable to small tactical nuclear weapons. 312
• CIWS units — Automated anti-Flying Sword weapons capable of intercepting attacks from great cultivators. 128 182
• “Thunder” Gatling guns — Heavy rapid-fire weapons used to massacre Tiangang Gate and Meteor Guard forces. 88
• Panwu Spear — Dao Artifact used to channel an amplified Eternal Furnace strike that destroyed multiple Demon Emperors and the Great Grinding Spiritual Venerable. 367
• Dragon General Armor — Spirit Armor with Size as Desired, Toughness, Thousand Jun, Repair, and Thorn traits. 264
• Taiyi Sword — Supreme Immortal Artifact containing the profundities of the Three Thousand Great Daos; its fusion with the Green Lotus expanded Gu Jinlai’s knowledge and calculation capacity. 854 856
• Profound Gold Armor, Silent Flowing Light, Formless Pearl, Brahma Ring, Void Flow, and Myriad Silence Returns to Annihilation — Immortal Artifacts used for defense, concealment, movement, mental protection, and combat. 782 787 794

Relationships

• Gu Chaoyang — Disciple and trusted executor of Gu Jinlai’s military, forging, and administrative plans; later assists with the development of Lingxiao Palace and its armies. 20 22 573
• Su Nanxing — Eldest disciple, adopted by the original body’s owner; a taciturn cultivation fanatic who remains loyal to Gu Jinlai and serves as an important aide. 5 8 577
• Gu Xiangyang — Disciple and Gu family organizer who carries out Gu Jinlai’s recruitment, training, and intelligence instructions. 8 20
• Gu Changfeng — Gu Jinlai’s brother and Gu family patriarch; oversees troop training and works to strengthen the family’s foundation. 29 310
• Jiang Zhongshan — Star King who guides Gu Jinlai into the Martial Dao Mastery Realm and later provides the Qian Tian Purple Qi Art. 124 147
• Zhang Lihuo — Loyal follower and student in artifact forging; receives Gu Jinlai’s Great Sun insights and later becomes Master of the Creation Institute. 147 573
• Zhao Xi — Trusted ally whose talent and proven reliability lead Gu Jinlai to support his cultivation of the Cycle of Reincarnation Great Dao. 774
• Xie Yusheng — Disciple from Earth whom Gu Jinlai guides with the Chaos Demonic God Proves Eternal Method and later supports within Lingxiao Palace. 576 727
• Qin Yiren — Dao Companion; assists Gu Jinlai with Qin family affairs and later manages the Changqing Sect on his behalf. 783 798
• Qin Daosheng — Qin family head and patron who provides Immortal Artifacts, cultivation resources, and opportunities for Gu Jinlai’s advancement. 781 782

Story Role / Major Arcs

Purgatory Sect Fugitive

Gu Jinlai begins as a hunted demonic cultivator whose supposed cultivation deviation draws enemies out of hiding. He kills the Blood Demon Ancestor, the Four Evils of Star Province, Ma Zheng, and Zhang Buyi, then decides that raw survival requires rebuilding his strength and changing paths. 2 3 6

Celestial Master Conversion

Assuming the dead apprentice Jiang Dongqu’s identity, Gu Jinlai enters Starlight City and converts to the Celestial Master path. He uses this new role to forge armor, build wealth, recruit talented youths, and establish a military base for the Gu family. 20 22

Lingxiao City and Xingzhou Expansion

After joining the Meteor Guard, Gu Jinlai becomes West City Commander in Lingxiao City. Conflict with Fang Que, the Wang family, and local sects escalates into open warfare; Gu Jinlai defeats the city’s entrenched powers and begins building the stable, prosperous city he wants to govern. 40 50 53 72

Weapon Master of Qian Tian

Gu Jinlai combines demonic body cultivation, Celestial Master artifacts, CIWS units, Gatling guns, aircraft, and the Chengying Mecha to challenge the traditional cultivation hierarchy. His destruction of Heavenly Beings, Nascent Soul True Monarchs, and powerful demonic-path forces earns him the title Weapon Master and recognition as Qian Tian’s Sixth Saint. 88 182 312 333

Fengyu City Law Enforcement

In Fengyu City, Gu Jinlai becomes involved with the Purifiers and Law Enforcement Court. He avenges the Zhou family, seizes corrupt families’ assets, becomes Dean of the Law Enforcement Court, and openly defines his Martial Dao Will around legal justice and stable order. 419 420 429 432

Creation Gate and the Profound Immortal Realm

Under the identity Jiang Yufeng, Gu Jinlai enters the Creation Gate, reaches Mahayana, and ultimately becomes its acting sect leader. He purges corrupt elders and criminal factions, cleanses the sect’s territories, and expands his influence into the Profound Immortal Realm. 601 606 622 681

Changqing Alliance and Immortal Ascension

After defeating the Myriad Realms Alliance, Gu Jinlai establishes the Changqing Alliance to unite the Profound Yellow Star Domain under a system of order. His cultivation then accelerates through the Great Dao Golden Immortal and Immortal Golden Immortal realms, supported by the Qin family and his own increasingly formidable mental strength. 738 773 783 824

Great Power and Final Conflict

Gu Jinlai reaches Great Power level through the Green Lotus’s fusion with the Taiyi Sword and defeats Great Immortal Venerable-level enemies. When Primal, Human Race Great Powers, and Supreme Experts attempt to suppress him, he evolves a universe that absorbs their artifacts, severs their Great Dao connections, and erases them. 856 867 886

Notable Quotes

“I want to be a good person.” 72

“Maintaining legal justice and stable order, this is my true inner self!” 429

“I don’t want to deceive my own heart.” 430

“Perhaps one day in the endless years, I will be consumed by emptiness, but for now... all I need to do is be myself!” 874