Chapter Summaries

Gu Qingshan deduced that Guangyang Sect was near collapse and that Wang Hongdao was withholding the truth about its dwindling resources. After Zhao Wuchui admitted the sect could afford only one more pill exchange, Gu Qingshan revealed that he had found a New World.

• Gu Qingshan reasoned that Zhao Wuchui and Ye Yingmei might want Qi Yan dead to claim his disciple, and that Rakshasa Peak could overwhelm Guangyang Sect after Qi Ruoya's tribulation.
• Gu Qingshan warned Zhao Wuchui and Ye Yingmei that the sect could not survive Rakshasa Peak's three Profound Spirit Realm experts once Qi Ruoya and Wang Hongdao were gone.
• Gu Qingshan pressed Zhao Wuchui for the truth about the sect's resources and promised to share a way to survive.
• Zhao Wuchui admitted that Guangyang Sect had enough resources for only one final pill exchange, and confirmed that Wang Hongdao had concealed this from the others.
• Gu Qingshan told Zhao Wuchui and Ye Yingmei that he had found a New World.

Gu Qingshan convinced Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui that a New World existed by showing Qi Yan’s scars and letting them search Wu San’s memories. After Gu Qingshan killed Wu San to protect the secret, the two hall masters agreed to help him kill Wang Hongdao, which he said was their last chance to survive.

• Gu Qingshan claimed he had discovered a New World and showed Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui the scars on Qi Yan’s face as evidence that the world was dangerous.
• Gu Qingshan demanded that Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui help him kill Wang Hongdao before Gu Qingshan’s father failed his tribulation, and swore he did not know the New World’s coordinates.
• Gu Qingshan summoned Wu San and invited the two hall masters to examine his memories, which proved that the New World existed.
• Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui confirmed the New World’s existence by searching Wu San’s memories.
• Gu Qingshan killed Wu San to keep the secret from spreading and warned the hall masters that Wang Hongdao might discover what had happened.
• Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui accepted Gu Qingshan’s sincerity, and he again urged them to help kill Wang Hongdao.

Gu Qingshan learned that Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui were bound by Wang Hongdao and could not openly fight him, so they considered how to escape his control and kill him. As Wang Hongdao and Qi Ruoya’s fates remained unknown after their battle during the tribulation, Gu Qingshan accepted that he would have to face Wang Hongdao himself.

• Ye Yingmei revealed that Wang Hongdao had bound her with a restriction, while Zhao Wuchui explained that demonic worms inside him could turn him into Wang Hongdao’s loyal zombie if he opposed him.
• Gu Qingshan realized that entering the New World could free Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui from Wang Hongdao’s control, and he reviewed the completed mission reward on his War God Operating Interface.
• Gu Qingshan proposed that they plan a trap to kill Wang Hongdao, who was likely away interfering with Qi Ruoya’s tribulation in the Void Turbulence.
• Gu Qingshan explained that Qi Ruoya and Wang Hongdao might have survived, died, or killed each other, and concluded that he would need to handle Wang Hongdao himself if the enemy had won.

Gu Qingshan discovered that Rakshasa Woman had disguised herself as a spirit-jade mask to spy on Guangyang Sect, and he learned the All Things Synchronization Mystery. As Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui began explaining their plan to deal with Wang Hongdao, Rakshasa Woman remained hidden and listened.

• Gu Qingshan and the two hall masters discussed how to confront Wang Hongdao, while Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui secretly plotted against their master.
• Gu Qingshan examined Rakshasa Woman’s mask and discovered it had revealed the All Things Synchronization Mystery, allowing him to understand she had transformed herself into the mask.
• Gu Qingshan asked Zhao Wuchui for a formation token to send his disciple into the Void Turbulence for the Saint Sealing Tribulation, and Zhao Wuchui gave him one.
• Ye Yingmei said she and Zhao Wuchui had devised a way to deal with Wang Hongdao, while Gu Qingshan watched the mask and realized Rakshasa Woman was still listening.

Gu Qingshan convinced Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui to hand over their hidden treasures so he could fight Wang Hongdao, then left Mountain Girl to impersonate Qi Yan and stall while he pursued his breakthrough. The chapter ended with Mountain Girl healing under Zhao Wuchui’s watch as she waited for Gu Qingshan to return from the Saint Sealing Thunder Tribulation.

• Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui revealed the treasures they had prepared to use against Wang Hongdao, and Gu Qingshan swore an oath to fight him if they handed them over.
• Gu Qingshan persuaded Ye Yingmei to retrieve the treasures while Zhao Wuchui stayed behind to guard the sect, then took Rakshasa Woman’s mask and left with Qing Rou.
• Zhao Wuchui noticed the mask was missing and suspected Qi Yan had another plan involving Rakshasa Woman.
• Gu Qingshan returned as Mountain Girl and let Zhao Wuchui believe he was Qi Yan, while Qing Rou brought him Spirit Tea.
• Mountain Girl used her injuries as an excuse to enter Samadhi and stall until Gu Qingshan completed his Saint Sealing Thunder Tribulation.

Gu Qing Shan used the Profound Spirit Tribulation Array to teleport Rakshasa Girl away, then entered the turbulent void to undergo his Saint-Sealing Tribulation. With time running out and danger closing in, he fought to break apart the gathering lightning as quickly as possible.

• Gu Qing Shan inspected the sect's tribulation arrays and activated the Profound Spirit Tribulation Array with 196 spirit stones.
• Gu Qing Shan left Rakshasa Girl, disguised as a spirit-jade mask inside a storage bag, in the array and teleported her away without a token.
• Gu Qing Shan used Zhao Wu Chui's token to travel through the black array to a sealed section of the turbulent void.
• Gu Qing Shan swallowed the Saint-Sealing Pill, summoned Earth Sword and Tidal Sound, and began his tribulation.
• Gu Qing Shan and Earth Sword shattered the incoming lightning while the array dispersed the scattered bolts, and Gu Qing Shan kept cutting down the gathering clusters.

Gu Qingshan survived the Saint Sealing Tribulation and reached the Saint Sealing Realm, then used a special mission reward to request his divine ability. As he and Mountain Girl resumed their disguises and headed for the Council Platform, the system remained mysteriously silent.

• Gu Qingshan shattered the tribulation lightning with his swords and secret arts, completing the Saint Sealing Tribulation and advancing to the Saint Sealing Realm.
• Gu Qingshan returned to the Suspended World, and Zhao Wuchui sensed his new cultivation and marveled at his achievement.
• Gu Qingshan used the reward from the special mission to request the Saint Sealing Realm God of War Divine Ability, but the system stopped responding after connecting to the World Origin.
• Mountain Girl reported that Zhao Wuchui had not suspected her disguise, and she and Gu Qingshan switched identities again while Qing Rou and Wan Er joined them.
• Gu Qingshan and the others headed toward the Council Platform as he wondered why the system had fallen silent.

Gu Qingshan secured two treasures from Ye Yingmei to help him face Wang Hongdao and gained permission from Zhao Wuchui to examine the sect’s secret arts. As the World Demon awakened earlier than before, Gu Qingshan left for the treasure trove with Mountain Girl to study Wang Hongdao’s techniques.

• Gu Qingshan found that the system did not respond, then hurried back to the platform before Ye Yingmei returned.
• Ye Yingmei showed Gu Qingshan a space-tearing spike and a talisman that could withstand one of Wang Hongdao’s attacks, but hesitated to hand them over.
• The Ominous Hour arrived, and the World Demon awakened; Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui noted that it had been waking earlier and more often.
• Ye Yingmei gave Gu Qingshan the treasures after he urged her to take a chance, and both hall masters warned him that Wang Hongdao’s strength and methods were hard to fathom.
• Gu Qingshan asked Zhao Wuchui for access to the sect’s secret arts treasure trove, and Zhao gave him a seal after deciding there was little risk.
• Gu Qingshan took Mountain Girl with him to study the sect’s arts, including sword techniques, and left the platform with her.

Gu Qingshan and his companions witnessed the World Devil destroy a Floating Island after its sect leader fled, while Qing Rou revealed Wan Er had survived Guangyang Sect’s past experiments with the Devil. The World Devil’s true body devoured the island’s last defender, Zhang Detao, leaving Gu Qingshan and the others shaken.

• Gu Qingshan led Mountain Girl, Qing Rou, and Wan Er toward Jixiang Hall and saw mindless World Devil entities surrounding a nearby Floating Island.
• A flying boat escaped the island, and the sect’s protective arrays collapsed as cultivators accused Sect Leader Wang Bishi of abandoning them.
• The island’s cultivators gathered Spirit Stones while a World Devil Tree released human skins that slaughtered them and trapped Zhang Detao, a late Great Void Realm cultivator.
• Qing Rou explained that Wan Er was the sole survivor of Guangyang Sect’s tests, which had used her world’s people as sacrifices to study the World Devil.
• The World Devil’s suckers seized and devoured Zhang Detao, and Qing Rou comforted the trembling Wan Er afterward.

Rakshasa Woman was trapped in the Void Turbulence’s isolation zone and abandoned her body after realizing Qi Yan had tricked her. White Fox reported the incident and added Qi Yan to the Observation Queue as a possible Rakshasa candidate, then left after sensing another candidate descend on Rakshasa Peak.

• Rakshasa Woman appeared in the isolation zone, found that spatial movement was impossible, and cut off her own head while accusing Qi Yan of deceiving her.
• White Fox sensed Rakshasa Woman’s death and discovered that she had ended up in the isolation zone.
• White Fox opened a light gate and warned a man that killing Qi Yan before completing his trial could cost him his last chance; the man agreed to resume the trial.
• White Fox reported the events to a dignified voice, which ordered Qi Yan added to the Observation Queue for possible qualification as a Rakshasa candidate.
• White Fox sensed another Rakshasa candidate descending on Rakshasa Peak and vanished.

Gu Qingshan learned that the Suspended World’s origin was nearly gone and that the world could collapse within seven days, so he gave up the chance to obtain a Saint Sealing Realm divine power and used the remaining origin to evolve Thunder and Lightning. He chose Severance, a power that separates an opponent’s consciousness from their body for three seconds, as he prepared to face Wang Hongdao.

• Gu Qingshan entered Wang Hongdao’s Secret Chamber with Mountain Girl, Qing Rou, and Wan Er, then assigned Qing Rou to find formation arts and Wan Er and Mountain Girl to copy the jade slips.
• The system returned and reported that the World Demons had nearly devoured the world’s origin, leaving the world likely to collapse within seven days.
• Gu Qingshan used the special mission reward and the remaining origin power to evolve his Thunder and Lightning Divine Power instead of pursuing a Saint Sealing Realm divine power.
• Gu Qingshan examined three possible third-layer powers and rejected Thousand Realms Exorcising Divine Thunder and Thunder Spirit Responding to Heaven’s Profound Sense.
• Gu Qingshan chose Severance, which could separate an opponent’s consciousness from their body for three seconds, despite the system warning that it consumed enormous Spiritual Power.

Gu Qingshan advanced his lightning divine power to Severance, then began learning array formation while searching for a way to free Qing Rou and Wan Er. Mountain Girl brought him a jade slip containing an Object-Possessing Grievous Soul, leaving Gu Qingshan to face the danger of its lingering obsession.

• Gu Qingshan advanced his lightning divine power to Severance, which separated a target's consciousness from its body for three seconds.
• Gu Qingshan tested Severance on Mountain Girl and Wan Er and realized its heavy Spiritual Power cost meant he needed to end fights quickly.
• Gu Qingshan spent Soul Power learning basic array formation from jade slips, then remembered he needed a forbidden technique to free Qing Rou and Wan Er from their Spirit Binding Chains.
• Mountain Girl showed Gu Qingshan a jade slip that contained the phantom of a powerful Object-Possessing Grievous Soul, which she had found inside an attack array.
• Gu Qingshan confirmed Mountain Girl had kept the jade slip away from Qing Rou and Wan Er and recognized the danger of the soul possessing someone through its vessel.

Gu Qingshan met the spirit of Qian Shan Ye, Guangyang Sect’s ninth Sect Leader, and learned how Wang Hongdao betrayed and killed his master. Qian Shan Ye revealed that the sword manual jade slip was a trap and proposed a deal with Gu Qingshan.

• Gu Qingshan recognized Qian Shan Ye as the legendary ninth Sect Leader of Guangyang Sect and learned that Wang Hongdao had been his disciple.
• Qian Shan Ye explained that Wang Hongdao attacked him while he recovered from a fatal wound because Qian Shan Ye had taught him saber arts but withheld his sword arts.
• Qing Rou recalled how Qian Shan Ye had vanished after a contest, while Gu Qingshan concluded that Wang Hongdao had wanted the secret sword manual.
• Qian Shan Ye described Wang Hongdao as calculating and afraid to die, and said he had concealed his nature for three hundred years.
• Qian Shan Ye offered Gu Qingshan a deal and revealed that he had destroyed his technique manuals, leaving a sword manual jade slip as a trap that would possess anyone who touched it.

Gu Qingshan met the fading spirit of Qian Shan Ye, who offered him his sword art in exchange for an oath to kill Wang Hongdao. After Gu Qingshan explained his own reasons for seeking revenge, Qian Shan Ye entrusted him with all his Knife and Sword Arts and left him a second jade slip containing a warning about the World Demons.

• Qian Shan Ye told Gu Qingshan how he had planned to possess Wang Hongdao or one of his disciples, but Wang Hongdao had feared the jade slip and left it untouched for a thousand years.
• Qian Shan Ye asked Gu Qingshan to swear he would kill Wang Hongdao in return for the sword art, and Gu Qingshan agreed and explained that Wang Hongdao had murdered his father.
• Qian Shan Ye questioned Gu Qingshan about his fierce Sword Intent, and Gu Qingshan said sword cultivators should ask whom they had saved rather than whom they had killed.
• Qian Shan Ye removed the trap from the jade slip and began passing on his swordsmanship, then warned Gu Qingshan that World Demons had descended and left him another jade slip with a message.
• Qian Shan Ye passed away after entrusting Gu Qingshan with all his Knife and Sword Arts, and Gu Qingshan promised to kill Wang Hongdao with his swordsmanship.
• Qing Rou and Wan Er warned Gu Qingshan that the jade slip might be a trap, but he trusted Qian Shan Ye and said that between sword cultivators there was only the sword.

Gu Qingshan saw through Qian Shan Ye’s attempt to use two jade slips to ensnare him and had Mountain Girl secure the one about the World Demons. The God of War Interface analyzed the other slip and revealed a complete Sword Immortal technique, Sword Formation: Taiyi.

• Gu Qingshan recognized that the Knife and Sword Arts manual had been written by two people and suspected Qian Shan Ye’s jade slips were part of a trap.
• Gu Qingshan secretly instructed Mountain Girl to seize the jade slip about the World Demons and store it in her Storage Bag.
• Gu Qingshan explained how Qian Shan Ye had tried to exploit greed and fear of the World Demons while hiding his schemes behind plausible reasoning.
• The God of War Interface analyzed the Knife and Sword Arts jade slip and found that only 1.3% of its contents were correct and complete.
• The God of War Interface identified the intact technique as Sword Immortal Secret Art, Sword Formation: Taiyi.

Gu Qingshan discovered the Taiyi Sword Formation but lacked enough Soul Power to learn it, so he turned to freeing Qing Rou and Wan Er from their Spirit Binding Chains. After undoing the chains and restoring their cultivation, he left them to recover and searched Wang Hongdao’s collection for useful jade slips.

• Gu Qingshan learned that comprehending the Taiyi Sword Formation required 2,000 Soul Power, which he did not have.
• Gu Qingshan decided to find a way to undo the Spirit Binding Chains, and Wan Er found a jade slip describing the method.
• Gu Qingshan used the method to remove Wan Er’s chains, restoring her cultivation and prompting her to weep with relief.
• Gu Qingshan removed Qing Rou’s chains as well, and Qing Rou and Wan Er embraced and cried together.
• Gu Qingshan and Mountain Girl searched Wang Hongdao’s collection for formation jade slips and other useful arts.

Gu Qingshan learned that the secret art binding Zhao Wuchui to Wang Hongdao made Zhao an unlikely ally against the Supreme Elder. He realized Zhao had been pretending to conspire with Ye Yingmei and had probably been reporting to Wang Hongdao, leaving the group in danger of being watched from within the sect.

• Gu Qingshan searched for the restrictions on Ye Yingmei and Zhao Wuchui, but the women found only Zhao Wuchui’s sealed jade slip.
• Gu Qingshan paid the system 200 Soul Power to read the jade slip and learned that the Life Devouring Rebirth Gu linked Zhao Wuchui’s life to Wang Hongdao’s.
• Gu Qingshan reasoned that Zhao Wuchui could not truly want Wang Hongdao dead and had been deceiving Ye Yingmei while gathering information.
• Gu Qingshan concluded that Zhao Wuchui had likely told Wang Hongdao about Qi Yan’s plans and warned the women that someone was keeping Wang Hongdao informed about events in the sect.

Gu Qing Shan learned formation techniques and uncovered a terrifying mystery about why no one who left the Suspended World had ever returned. With Wang Hongdao still hunting them and no clear escape route, he asked Qing Rou, Wan Er, and Mountain Girl to help devise a plan, but his own proposal stunned them.

• Gu Qing Shan spent his remaining Soul Power learning formation techniques from two jade slips, becoming a first-rate formation master.
• Gu Qing Shan asked Qing Rou and Wan Er whether any sects or cultivators had returned after leaving the Suspended World, and they said none had.
• Wan Er recalled a Profound Spirit Realm cultivator who had left alone to scout ahead and never returned, prompting Gu Qing Shan to question the accepted explanation for the disappearances.
• Gu Qing Shan reasoned that cultivators who knew other worlds’ coordinates should have been able to return, then suspected something terrifying was preventing them from doing so.
• Gu Qing Shan urged everyone to leave immediately, but Qing Rou and Wan Er reminded him of his Heavenly Dao Oath to kill Wang Hongdao and their lack of world coordinates.
• Qing Rou proposed lowering the Floating Island near the World Demons to scare Wang Hongdao away, while Mountain Girl declined to devise a plan; Gu Qing Shan’s own idea left the three women speechless.

Zhao Wuchui secretly informed his injured master that Qi Yan had found two New Worlds, prompting Wang Hongdao to return to Guangyang Sect. Wang Hongdao questioned Wu San’s corpse about the coordinates and concluded Qi Yan had entrusted them to someone else, but he did not know who.

• Zhao Wuchui activated a hidden formation and told his master that Qi Yan had found two New Worlds and that Ye Yingmei’s magic treasures had been sabotaged.
• Zhao Wuchui’s master said he would return to Guangyang Sect and kill Qi Yan, despite his injuries.
• Wang Hongdao arrived above Guangyang Sect and absorbed Gray Mist from the corpses around Floating Island to heal his shoulder wound.
• Wang Hongdao used a Corpse Gu Demonic Insect to question Wu San’s corpse, learning that Wu San believed only Qi Yan knew the New World coordinates.
• Wang Hongdao reasoned that Qi Yan had secretly entrusted the coordinates to someone else and wondered who he had chosen.

Wang Hongdao used Six Senses Soul Capture on Wu San to copy Qi Yan’s Two Worlds Traversing Array Disc, but lost the final hand seals when Chu Liu interrupted the memory. Reviewing the evidence, he realized Qi Yan both knew and truthfully swore he did not know the New World’s coordinates, leading him to suspect there were two Qi Yans.

• Wang Hongdao used Six Senses Soul Capture on Wu San’s corpse and discovered Qi Yan had been refining a Two Worlds Traversing Array Disc.
• Wang Hongdao copied Qi Yan’s array-refining techniques and entered most of the coordinates, but missed two hand seals when the memory blurred.
• Chu Liu interrupted Qi Yan’s work in Wu San’s memory, leaving Wang Hongdao unable to finish the array disc.
• Wang Hongdao destroyed Wu San’s corpse and the white worm inside it, then reconsidered the memories and Zhao Wuchui’s account.
• Wang Hongdao concluded that Qi Yan’s truthful Heavenly Dao Oath contradicted his apparent knowledge of the coordinates and wondered whether there were two Qi Yans.