Recaps

Ye Xuanxiao decided to advance to the yin-yang realm while keeping watch on Gu Yuanqing, and Xu Haoque began considering his own move in the Primordial Divine Sect’s rivalry. Gu Yuanqing traveled through five realms in an avatar to study their Great Dao, then arrived in the Phantom Spirit World for the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony as a message from the Sky Monitoring Tower reached Ye Xuanxiao.

• Ye Xuanxiao concluded that Gu Yuanqing might distrust the Primordial Divine Sect or possess hidden resources, and resolved to break through to the yin-yang realm before intervening.
• Xu Haoque learned that Ye Xuanxiao was preparing for his breakthrough and considered making a move in the competition among the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to visit other realms before the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s Sect Master succession ceremony and asked Liao Xu to arrange an inconspicuous identity for him.
• Qiu Han brought Gu Yuanqing Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild tokens, and Gu Yuanqing accepted them to support his travels and conceal his identity.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar through five realms to study their different Dao resonances, then entered the Phantom Spirit World and met an Illusionary Spirit Sect reception elder.
• A streak of light flew from the Sky Monitoring Tower toward Lieque Peak, where a great hand carried it into a cave abode.

Ye Xuanxiao sent Guan Dongchen to the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony with the Yin-Yang Mirror, while Gu Yuanqing arrived and grew wary of the Primordial Divine Sect. At the ceremony, Gu Yuanqing and Guan Dongchen met face to face.

• Ye Xuanxiao suspected Gu Yuanqing possessed an Ancient God Divine Artifact and instructed Guan Dongchen to attend the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony and use the Yin-Yang Mirror on him if possible.
• Shang Ziyin welcomed Gu Yuanqing to the Illusionary Spirit Sect, where he studied the Phantom Spirit World’s Great Dao and sensed that someone had been watching him.
• Yi Yunbo and Qiu Ziqing warned Gu Yuanqing that the Primordial Divine Sect was dangerous and reminded him of rumors linking it to the destruction of the Ling Yuan Realm.
• The Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony began, and Gu Yuanqing recognized Guan Dongchen as a powerful Primordial Divine Sect cultivator seated near him.
• Guan Dongchen introduced himself to Gu Yuanqing before the ceremony began.

At Shang Ziyin’s succession banquet, Guan Dongchen maneuvered Gu Yuanqing into a public spar, and the two began fighting on the Dao Discussion Platform. Gu Yuanqing quickly overwhelmed Guan Dongchen, who was driven back and resorted to using the Primordial Divine Sect’s Yin-Yang Mirror.

• Shang Ziyin completed the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession rites and was greeted as its new Sect Master.
• At the banquet, Guan Dongchen urged Gu Yuanqing to demonstrate his power, and Gu Yuanqing challenged him to exchange moves instead.
• Xing Zimo activated the Dao Discussion Platform’s protective formation as Guan Dongchen and Gu Yuanqing took the stage.
• Guan Dongchen attacked with Myriad Stars Destroying Dao, but Gu Yuanqing evaded him with the Great Yi Illusionary Sky Steps and shattered his defenses with a palm strike.
• Guan Dongchen unleashed his Indestructible Star Body, but Gu Yuanqing’s next attack wounded him and sent him flying.
• As Gu Yuanqing pursued him, Guan Dongchen reformed his armor and raised the Primordial Divine Sect’s Yin-Yang Mirror.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Guan Dongchen at the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony, leaving the Primordial Divine Sect disciple badly injured and humiliated. Guan returned to the Primordial Realm and reported the loss to Ye Xuanxiao, while Gu anticipated that the conflict with the Primordial Divine Sect would continue.

• Gu Yuanqing evaded the Yin-Yang Mirror’s attacks as Xing Zimo explained the treasure to Shang Ziyin and cautioned her about the Primordial Divine Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Guan Dongchen with a mountain-like palm and a Yin-Yang Great Millstone, overwhelming Guan’s defenses and injuring him despite Xing Zimo’s effort to protect the platform.
• Xing Zimo treated Guan Dongchen, who acknowledged his defeat, retrieved the Yin-Yang Mirror, and left for the Primordial Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing dismissed concerns from Xing Zimo and Shang Ziyin, then privately reflected that the Primordial Divine Sect would likely seek further conflict.
• Guan Dongchen returned to the Primordial Realm and told Ye Xuanxiao that Gu Yuanqing had defeated him and that his recovery would take several years.

After decades of travel and meditation, Gu Yuanqing began the Yin-Yang void-breaking Calamity to transform his Heavenly Human World. As the five-stage tribulation raged around North Spring Mountain, the Primordial Divine Sect’s Sky Monitoring Pavilion detected his breakthrough.

• Ye Xuanxiao concluded that Gu Yuanqing’s strength suggested he possessed a Rule Divine Artifact and worried that Guan Dongchen’s humiliating defeat would draw the attention of other True Disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing toured more than seventy realms over twenty years, exchanging insights on the Yin-Yang Dao and returning to his original body three times to merge his memories.
• After three years of meditation and a final period of preparation, Gu Yuanqing released North Spring Mountain’s suppression and allowed his Heavenly Human World to begin transforming.
• The heavenly Calamity gathered across the Qian Yuan Realm, the Dragon Demon Realm, and the Cultivation World, while Liao Xu and others recognized it as a Yin-Yang-level tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing endured the five stages of the void-breaking Calamity, including lightning, elemental transformations, weapons, black dragons, and heart demons, as his Heavenly Human World grew more real.
• The old man in the Primordial Realm saw the Calamity through the Sky Monitoring Mirror and wondered how Gu Yuanqing had advanced so quickly.

Gu Yuanqing faced the five-nine Calamity as the Heaven Monitoring Elder and Ye Xuanxiao learned that he was advancing toward the yin-yang void-breaking realm. After the final lightning strike, Gu Yuanqing understood how to shatter illusion and turn fantasy into reality.

• The Heaven Monitoring Elder summoned Ye Xuanxiao and showed him an image of Gu Yuanqing’s Calamity before Gu Yuanqing concealed the heavenly secrets with a Realm Token.
• The Heaven Monitoring Elder identified the Calamity as Gu Yuanqing’s yin-yang void-breaking great Calamity, shocking Ye Xuanxiao.
• The Heaven Monitoring Elder agreed to delay reporting Gu Yuanqing’s breakthrough for at most ten days, giving Ye Xuanxiao time to prepare.
• Gu Yuanqing drew the great dao powers in the Calamity into his Heavenly Human World, nourishing his cultivation as its formations and dao principle imprints transformed.
• The final bolt of the five-nine great Calamity struck, and Gu Yuanqing grasped the meaning of shattering illusion and turning fantasy into reality.

Gu Yuanqing survived the yin-yang void-breaking Calamity and immediately endured a second tribulation, reaching the yin-yang circulation realm and strengthening his Heavenly Human World. As news spread, he prepared for the Primordial Divine Sect’s response while Ye Xuanxiao confronted Xu Haoque over the assignment involving Gu Yuanqing.

• Gu Yuanqing transformed his Heavenly Human World into a real world, formed dao principle imprints, and called down a six-nine heavenly Calamity after surviving the first tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Object Control Art to turn the second Calamity’s power into cultivation, and the three-day tribulation caused a stir across the boundary domains.
• Shang Ziyin questioned Xing Zimo about Gu Yuanqing and the sect’s former Grandmaster, but Xing Zimo refused to reveal more unless she reached the yin-yang realm.
• Gu Yuanqing completed his breakthrough to the yin-yang circulation realm, with six dao principle imprints nearing perfection, and anticipated the Primordial Divine Sect’s next move.
• Ye Xuanxiao blocked Xu Haoque outside the Void God Hall and warned him not to take what Ye Xuanxiao would not give.

Xu Haoque arrived in the Qian Yuan Realm as the Primordial Divine Sect’s guiding envoy and invited Gu Yuanqing to leave for the Primordial Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused. The chapter ended as Xu Haoque hinted that refusing could lead to an unpleasant confrontation.

• Ye Xuanxiao warned Xu Haoque not to interfere with Gu Yuanqing, but Xu Haoque chose to travel to the Qian Yuan Realm as its guiding envoy.
• Li Chengyi urged Gu Yuanqing to visit Li Miaoxuan in the Spirit Realm, and Gu Yuanqing dismissed him before privately wondering if he should go.
• Xu Haoque crossed into the Qian Yuan Realm and examined its spiritual qi and North Spring Mountain before Gu Yuanqing appeared to meet him.
• Xu Haoque introduced himself as a True Disciple of the Primordial Divine Sect and said he had come to guide Gu Yuanqing beyond the limits of the Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm for now, and Xu Haoque warned that he had hoped not to spell out what might happen next.

Gu Yuanqing refused Xu Haoque’s demand that he enter the Primordial Realm, and Xu Haoque withdrew after Gu Yuanqing warned him. As Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating, Shadow plotted to grow stronger, while Xu Haoque returned to the Primordial Realm and Ye Xuanxiao headed to the same hall.

• Xu Haoque warned Gu Yuanqing that his power could endanger the Exquisite World and demanded he enter the Primordial Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused and challenged the Primordial Divine Sect to act if it dared.
• Xu Haoque threatened that a sect elder would come next, then fled when Gu Yuanqing’s warning made him sense imminent danger.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered the imprint Xu Haoque had left in the North Spring Grotto-Heaven and isolated it, intending to turn any future use of it into a trap.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to his true body and continued strengthening his Heavenly Human World as his cultivation advanced.
• Shadow watched North Spring Mountain, vowed to become stronger and claim the Demon Subduing Sword, then forgot who Gu Yuanqing was as madness overtook him.
• Xu Haoque returned to the Void Lotus Platform in the Primordial Realm and went to a great hall, where Ye Xuanxiao also arrived.

After Gu Yuanqing refused the Primordial Divine Sect’s repeated demands to enter the Primordial Realm, the sect used an attack on the Yan Shen Sect as a pretext to accuse him and force a confrontation. The chapter ended with Ye Xuanxiao summoning Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Realm Platform in three days.

• Xu Haoque reported Gu Yuanqing’s refusal to the Primordial Divine Sect Master, who ordered him to try persuading Gu Yuanqing again before considering other measures.
• Gu Yuanqing received Xu Haoque and rejected his offer to enter the Primordial Realm, then refused again three months later despite Xu Haoque’s warning.
• Heavenly Punishment devastated part of the Flame God Realm, and the Yan Shen Sect accused Gu Yuanqing of stealing its Limitless Spirit Lamp and appealed to the Primordial Divine Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that someone had used his name to attack the Yan Shen Sect and warned the Qian Yuan Realm’s people to stay inside.
• Ye Xuanxiao invoked the Ten Directions Token and summoned Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Realm Platform in three days to face the Yan Shen Sect.

Gu Yuanqing attended the Ancient Realm Platform to face the Yan Shen Sect and the Primordial Divine Sect over accusations that he stole the Dao Heart Stone and brought down heavenly punishment. After the Yan Shen Sect presented a recording that appeared to show the crime, Gu Yuanqing challenged Li Wujiu about the man in the footage.

• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi he would attend the public hearing using only an avatar, while the realms awaited the confrontation.
• Ye Xuanxiao and the Yan Shen Sect’s leaders arrived at the Ancient Realm Platform and called for the Primordial Divine Sect to uphold justice.
• Gu Yuanqing arrived, rejected Li Wujiu’s accusations, and demanded evidence that he had stolen the Dao Heart Stone.
• Li Wujiu showed a recording that depicted Gu Yuanqing fighting him in the Flame God Divine Realm, taking the treasure, and surviving heavenly punishment.
• Ye Xuanxiao and Qin Tianyang condemned Gu Yuanqing, who asked Li Wujiu whether the man fighting him in the footage was Li Wujiu himself.

Gu Yuanqing challenged Li Wujiu to prove his claims by surviving one move, while accusing Ye Xuanxiao and the Primordial Divine Sect of manipulating the dispute. Li Wujiu accepted the challenge, and Gu Yuanqing began his attack on the Dao Discussion Platform.

• Li Wujiu accused Gu Yuanqing of attacking the Yan Shen Sect, while Gu Yuanqing denied responsibility and challenged the evidence.
• Ye Xuanxiao proposed using the Dust-Reflecting Heart Mirror to reveal the truth, and Gu Yuanqing accused the Primordial Divine Sect of scheming against him.
• Gu Yuanqing pointed out that Li Wujiu had claimed to fight him in the recording and challenged him to withstand one move before agreeing to use the mirror.
• Li Wujiu accepted the challenge and summoned a flaming pagoda on the Dao Discussion Platform.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared on the platform and used Formless Calamity Finger.

Gu Yuanqing killed Li Wujiu with one strike on the Dao Discussion Platform, shocking the gathered sects and worsening the Yan Shen Sect’s loss. He challenged Ye Xuanxiao to uncover who had impersonated him in the Flame God Realm, then left while suspecting the Primordial Divine Sect was wary of hidden forces or secrets.

• Gu Yuanqing erased Li Wujiu, his divine soul, and his Heavenly Human World with the Formless Calamity Finger.
• The cultivators on the Ancient Realm Platform reacted in shock, while Qin Tianyang recognized the death as an irreparable loss to the Yan Shen Sect.
• Xu Haoque suspected Gu Yuanqing was hiding secrets, and Ye Xuanxiao worried that others might reach the same conclusion.
• Gu Yuanqing pressed Ye Xuanxiao to investigate the attacker who had used his name in the Flame God Realm, and Ye Xuanxiao insisted that Gu Yuanqing might still be responsible.
• Gu Yuanqing exchanged brief acknowledgments with He Lixuan and left the platform, reflecting on the Primordial Divine Sect’s caution and the alliances among the major sects.

After the Primordial Divine Sect let Gu Yuanqing leave the Ancient Realm, Ye Xuanxiao reported the confrontation to Mu Tianheng and prepared a new investigation. Gu Yuanqing returned to Nine Bends Mountain and awaited the sect’s next move, which soon involved tracking the mysterious visitor to the Yan Shen Sect.

• Gu Yuanqing wondered why the Primordial Divine Sect had held back, while Ye Xuanxiao dismissed concerns about its reputation and promised Qin Tianyang that the sect would investigate the threat to the Exquisite World.
• Ye Xuanxiao used the Universe Myriad Manifestations Mirror to spy on Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing activated the Nine Twists Soul Stirring Great Formation and blocked the surveillance.
• Ye Xuanxiao reported the Ancient Realm confrontation to Mu Tianheng, who ordered him to proceed with the next step and assigned two Realm Guard members to assist him.
• Gu Yuanqing strengthened the formations at Nine Bends Mountain, met Li Shi'an, and returned to the Qian Yuan Realm while remaining alert for the Primordial Divine Sect’s response.
• Ye Xuanxiao visited the Flame God Realm with an unfamiliar cultivator and the tracking beast Xuan Ni, hoping to trace the mysterious visitor’s aura from the Yan Shen Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing heard the news and suspected the investigation would ultimately lead to the Qian Yuan Realm.

Gu Yuanqing learned that Lu Zeyu had survived his apparent death and joined the Hidden Sun Alliance in the God Ruins Land. Lu Zeyu invited him to enter the God Ruins Land, leaving Gu Yuanqing to weigh the alliance’s offer against the Primordial Divine Sect’s plans.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Chengyi suspected the Primordial Divine Sect’s search of the Boundary Domains was meant to use Gu Yuanqing as bait, while Ye Xuanxiao and Guan Dongchen discussed drawing hidden opponents out.
• Li Shi'an relayed a visitor’s twelve hand seals, and Gu Yuanqing recognized them as a clue to an old acquaintance waiting outside Nine Bends Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing met Lu Zeyu, the former Illusionary Spirit Sect Master, who revealed that he had survived the heavenly Calamity and was now in the God Ruins Land.
• Lu Zeyu identified himself as a representative of the Hidden Sun Alliance and invited Gu Yuanqing to enter the God Ruins Land, explaining that the Primordial Divine Sect was also using him as bait.
• After Lu Zeyu left, Gu Yuanqing considered the rivalry between the Hidden Sun Alliance and the Primordial Divine Sect and gained new insight into cultivation in the Exquisite World.

Gu Yuanqing recalled Lu Zeyu’s explanation of Rules Divine Artifacts and the Hidden Sun Alliance’s efforts to persuade him to enter the God Ruins Land, but he remained unwilling to leave the Qian Yuan Realm. Meanwhile, the Primordial Divine Sect punished a hidden cultivator, raising tensions across the Exquisite World as the Illusionary Spirit Sect and Sanyang Sect considered what the events might mean.

• Gu Yuanqing recalled Lu Zeyu explaining that Rules Divine Artifacts could help cultivators overcome the Exquisite World’s incomplete Great Dao, and that the Sky Monitoring Mirror in the Primordial Realm was only an avatar.
• Lu Zeyu reported to a blurry woman that Gu Yuanqing refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and she urged him to persuade Gu Yuanqing before the Primordial Divine Sect noticed his return.
• Ye Xuanxiao sent a severed hand to the Illusionary Spirit Sect as a warning after Xuan Ni hunted a hidden cultivator in the Lanyan Realm and the cultivator escaped gravely wounded.
• The Exquisite World identified the fugitive as Fishing Hermit Hanjiang, and Shang Ziyin asked Xing Zimo whether the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s missing Senior Brother might also still be alive.
• Zhuang Hanhai warned Baili Jinghong not to trust appearances about Gu Yuanqing’s connection to the Primordial Divine Sect and urged him to break through to the Yin-Yang Realm.

Gu Yuanqing learned why the Primordial Divine Sect was sweeping the Exquisite World and heard Lu Zeyu’s offer to bring him into the Hidden Sun Alliance. He refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and Lu Zeyu warned that the sect could destroy it.

• Li Chengyi reported that the Primordial Divine Sect’s searches had exposed many hidden Yin-Yang Cultivators, and Gu Yuanqing told him to focus on cultivation.
• The Primordial Divine Sect used the Ten Directions Token and Sky Monitoring Mirror to inspect the Sanyang Realm and other domains, raising its prestige while leaving protected sect residences untouched.
• Lu Zeyu revealed himself as the Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild’s Head Shopkeeper and explained that the Hidden Sun Alliance and Primordial Divine Sect were bound by an agreement that had let the sect intervene after Gu Yuanqing’s breakthrough and the Flame God Realm incident.
• Lu Zeyu urged Gu Yuanqing to join the Hidden Sun Alliance, offering three chances to resonate with a Rules Divine Artifact, and explained that the Primordial Divine Sect intended to settle Gu Yuanqing’s situation before resuming its campaign against the alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing declined to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and Lu Zeyu warned that the Primordial Divine Sect could use the Ten Directions Token to suppress the realm and bring it to ruin.

Gu Yuanqing refused Lu Zeyu’s offer to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, despite learning that the Primordial Divine Sect might wield the Ten Directions Token and other powerful means against him. When Ye Xuanxiao arrived with the sect’s forces to inspect the realm, Gu Yuanqing rejected their demand to lift its restrictions, and the confrontation began.

• Gu Yuanqing considered whether his empowerment by North Spring Grotto-Heaven might resemble a Rules Divine Artifact, while Lu Zeyu warned that the Primordial Divine Sect could bring overwhelming force against him.
• Lu Zeyu left Gu Yuanqing a jade talisman in case he changed his mind, and Gu Yuanqing sent Qiu Han away with Li Guanrong.
• As the Primordial Divine Sect approached, Gu Yuanqing reassured the Great Qian Imperial Court that he would face its forces rather than close the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Xuanxiao arrived in the Qian Yuan Realm with Li Wujiu, Xuan Ni, and others, and Gu Yuanqing shielded the gathered cultivators and soldiers from their auras.
• Guan Dongchen used the Ten Directions Token to demand that Gu Yuanqing release the Qian Yuan Realm’s restrictions, but Gu Yuanqing knocked him unconscious.
• Ye Xuanxiao accused Gu Yuanqing of harboring corruption and threatened him after Gu Yuanqing refused to open the realm for inspection.

Gu Yuanqing fought the Primordial Divine Sect’s forces in the Qian Yuan Realm, overwhelming their attackers and stopping Ye Xuanxiao from escaping. As Gu Yuanqing’s true body clashed with a hidden enemy wielding a Rule Divine Artifact, his avatar was still about to suppress Ye Xuanxiao when a beam of mirror light appeared.

• Ye Xuanxiao accused Gu Yuanqing of treason and offered to take him to the Primordial Realm for judgment, but Gu Yuanqing refused and demanded that the Primordial Divine Sect leave the Qian Yuan Realm.
• The black-clad man and Xuan Ni attacked Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, and the others, but Gu Yuanqing froze them in space and destroyed them, while another attacker’s lightning and flame assault vanished against his Folding Fan.
• Ye Xuanxiao invoked the Ten Directions Token and his Thunder God Dharma Idol, but Gu Yuanqing stopped his punch and suppressed the Realm Guard’s sneak attack.
• Gu Yuanqing trapped Ye Xuanxiao’s Thunder Prison and shattered the Teleportation Array he used to flee, but a fair-skinned hand struck at Gu Yuanqing from the void.
• Gu Yuanqing’s true body countered the hand’s heavenly punishment power and attacked with the Demon Subduing Sword; the hand withdrew with a damaged glove and a drop of blood as the sword pursued it.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar continued to press down on Ye Xuanxiao, but a beam of mirror light suddenly appeared.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Ye Xuanxiao and the Primordial Divine Sect’s forces, though the Divine Son’s death made war between them inevitable. Afterward, Gu Yuanqing captured a mysterious black rune and considered its possible connection to the Heavenly Demon Sword Master and the Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar fought Ye Xuanxiao while Xu Haoque activated a hidden rune within Li Wujiu, sacrificing him to send a black beam at the Divine Son.
• The Primordial Divine Sect’s master tried to intervene with the Heavenly Law Bell, but withdrew when a sudden crisis elsewhere demanded his attention.
• Gu Yuanqing’s true self suppressed Ye Xuanxiao’s self-destruction, killed him, and trapped the black rune left behind.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar rescued Guan Dongchen and returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven as Li Chengyi and the Qian Yuan Realm’s forces celebrated their victory.
• Gu Yuanqing compared the rune with black aura from the Heavenly Demon Sword Master’s avatar, sealed both for later study, and examined three captured Heavenly Human Worlds.

Gu Yuanqing cleansed three captured Heavenly Human Worlds and searched Guan Dongchen for information about the Primordial Divine Sect. He learned that the sect was stronger than he expected and anticipated another attack once it could turn its attention to the Qian Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing anchored three Heavenly Human Worlds in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, destroyed their remnant souls and black jade scepter imprints, and gave two realms to Li Chengyi’s group.
• Gu Yuanqing searched Guan Dongchen’s soul and witnessed Mu Tianheng confront the Heaven Monitoring Elder over Ye Xuanxiao’s defeat and Li Wujiu’s betrayal.
• Mu Tianheng told Ye Xuanxiao that he would send him into the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, where he could try to control it or become a Realm Guard.
• Gu Yuanqing erased Guan Dongchen after learning about the Primordial Divine Sect, then assessed the sect’s strength and the risks posed by its Rules Divine Artifacts.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the sect’s current troubles in the Land of the Boundary Abyss limited its response, but warned himself that another war would follow once its experts were free.

After killing Ye Xuanxiao, Gu Yuanqing faced the Primordial Divine Sect’s denunciation and blockade of the Qian Yuan Realm, while the Great Qian Dynasty struggled to keep order. The chapter ended with Gu Yuanqing urging Li Chengyi to prepare to undergo his tribulation in five days.

• Liao Xu and Liu Muzhou feared the Primordial Divine Sect’s retaliation and prepared to withdraw the Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild from the Qian Yuan Realm.
• The Primordial Divine Sect proclaimed across all worlds that Gu Yuanqing and the Great Qian Dynasty were guilty, giving people ten days to abandon their ties to them before the Qian Yuan Realm’s Boundary Gate was sealed.
• Gu Yuanqing reassured the Qian Yuan Realm’s people, but outside powers and many cultivators left while others argued over whether he had endangered the realm.
• On the tenth day, the Primordial Divine Sect used the Ten Directions Token to seal the Qian Yuan Realm’s Teleportation Array, cutting off its connections to the other Exquisite Worlds.
• Gu Yuanqing warned his family to be cautious about entering the Ancient Realm, then told Li Chengyi to prepare to undergo his tribulation in five days.

Gu Yuanqing refined his Heaven-Measuring Star Eye and continued strengthening his divine abilities while the Primordial Divine Sect held back from attacking. Li Chengyi survived his heavenly tribulation and became a heavenly human, and a mysterious visitor arrived at North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

• Gu Yuanqing considered the Primordial Divine Sect’s strength and focused on improving his Dao imprints, spell arts, and divine abilities.
• Gu Yuanqing used Dao Derivation Augmentation to cultivate the Heaven-Measuring Star Eye, increasing his vision and extending the reach of his attacks.
• Li Chengyi underwent his heavenly tribulation on Side Peak, survived its final strikes, and became a heavenly human.
• Gu Yuanqing continued deducing and cultivating his spell arts, saving some incense and fire qi for emergencies.
• A mist-shrouded figure arrived in a World-Breaking Shuttle and headed toward North Spring Grotto-Heaven, prompting Gu Yuanqing to suspect he had come to persuade him to enter God Ruins Land again.

Lu Zeyu asked Gu Yuanqing to help the Hidden Sun Alliance in the Ancient Battlefield in exchange for protection and a hundred-year pact. Gu Yuanqing accepted after Ning Xuxuan revealed the Alliance sought the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman, and the two sealed their contract ahead of the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum’s appearance in six months.

• Lu Zeyu told Gu Yuanqing that the Hidden Sun Alliance could help him enter the Ancient Battlefield through his Consecration Token and asked him to retrieve treasures from the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum.
• Gu Yuanqing demanded a hundred years of protection from the Primordial Divine Sect and a nether god contract with one of the Alliance’s Chaos Heaven Great Cultivators.
• Lu Zeyu returned three days later with Ning Xuxuan, the Hidden Sun Alliance’s patriarch, who agreed to Gu Yuanqing’s terms.
• Ning Xuxuan explained that the Alliance sought the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman, which could help locate the Great Void Creation Wheel.
• Gu Yuanqing and Ning Xuxuan sealed their blood pact, and Ning Xuxuan departed after arranging for Lu Zeyu to discuss the remaining details.

Gu Yuanqing prepared a fraction of his power for the Ancient Battlefield, where the Hidden Sun Alliance and the Primordial Divine Sect were maneuvering over the Great Void Creation Wheel. He joined Lu Zeyu and three other Yin-Yang Circulation cultivators at the Primordial Imperial Dynasty’s teleportation array, where his arrival provoked Bei Chenzhao.

• Gu Yuanqing weighed the risks of entering the Ancient Battlefield and spent five months strengthening his divine abilities.
• Ning Xuxuan withdrew the Hidden Sun Alliance’s power from the Boundary Abyss defenses, forcing Mu Tianheng and the Primordial Divine Sect to shoulder more of the burden while the alliance sought to hinder them before the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum emerged.
• Gu Yuanqing sent one-eighth of his power into the Ancient Realm, where it formed a body at the Yin-Yang Circulation Realm, then traveled with Lu Zeyu toward the Great Wei Divine Dynasty.
• At the Primordial Imperial Dynasty’s capital, Lu Zeyu led Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Battlefield teleportation array and introduced him to Ling Xuzi, Tantai Yue, and Nangong Jin.
• Bei Chenzhao arrived and challenged Gu Yuanqing, but Nangong Jin reminded him that Gu Yuanqing was their guest and that they had come for the same undertaking.