Recaps

The Exquisite Realm Domain’s major sects tried to discredit Gu Yuanqing by claiming the Primordial Divine Sect had eleven Chaos Heaven cultivators guarding the Boundary Abyss, while Qin Baijun revealed his obsession had corrupted his Dao fire. After seven years of cultivation, Gu Yuanqing met Ning Xuxuan, who warned him that the Primordial Divine Sect would regain its full strength after the Era Cycle, and Gu Yuanqing asked whether Ning had been watching the Ling Yuan Realm.

• The Yan Shen Sect and other major sects confirmed that the Primordial Divine Sect had eleven Chaos Heaven cultivators and accused Gu Yuanqing of shirking his duty to protect the Exquisite World.
• At the Lingxu Sect, Gong Daoxian urged Qin Baijun to let go of his grudge against Gu Yuanqing, but Qin Baijun told his grandfather that his hatred had become an obsession and revealed black Dao fire.
• Gu Yuanqing spent seven years consolidating his cultivation and realized that the Era Cycle was only a little over ten years away.
• Ning Xuxuan arrived from the God Ruins Land, and Gu Yuanqing brought him to the Tea Pavilion.
• Ning Xuxuan warned that Mu Tianheng and the Primordial Divine Sect would be far stronger after the Era Cycle, when their power was freed from suppressing the Boundary Abyss.
• Gu Yuanqing asked Ning Xuxuan what plan he had in mind and whether he had been watching the Ling Yuan Realm.

Gu Yuanqing investigated the Ling Yuan Realm’s growing danger and discovered that Qin Baijun carried concealed demonic power whose origin was unclear. After spending time with his family and allies, he received a visit from the mysterious Old Man, who claimed Gu Yuanqing had been waiting for him.

• Gu Yuanqing warned Ning Xuxuan that the Ling Yuan Realm might be falling into the Demon Realm, prompting Ning to hurry back and consult the Hidden Sun Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing found demonic power within Qin Baijun, examined his memories, and suspected someone had secretly altered or influenced him.
• Gu Yuanqing surveyed the Qian Yuan Realm and decided to watch Qin Baijun while investigating the unknown force behind him.
• Gu Yuanqing met Li Chengyi and other descendants, postponed visiting Li Chengyi’s mother, and offered guidance to his family and visiting demons.
• Xiong Mo, Xiong Ba, and the Great Gong Venerable visited Gu Yuanqing, and a panda stole the ancestral gong and ran off with it.
• The mysterious Old Man visited Gu Yuanqing and proposed a proper conversation, saying Gu Yuanqing had kept a mark because he was waiting for him.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Li Lingyun’s vague proposal, explored the Qian Yuan Realm’s spatial connections, and learned from Ning Xuxuan that the Ling Yuan Realm was at risk of falling into the Demon Realm. Ning Xuxuan invited him to enter Primordial Mountain in exchange for an alliance pact, believing Gu Yuanqing wielded the Primordial Heaven Furnace, though Gu Yuanqing was unsure why.

• Gu Yuanqing erased Li Lingyun’s avatar after Li Lingyun offered to borrow a Divine Ability without explaining the terms.
• The Heaven Monitoring Elder confronted Li Lingyun for impersonating him, and Li Lingyun asked him not to interfere the next time he used the Sky Monitoring Mirror.
• Gu Yuanqing explored spatial strings and discovered that the Qian Yuan Realm was connected to other realms as part of a vast formation, while the Primordial Divine Sect’s Ten Directions Token restrained it.
• Ning Xuxuan returned and warned Gu Yuanqing that the Ling Yuan Realm might soon fall into the Demon Realm, potentially opening a passage for fiends and disrupting the Exquisite Grand Formation.
• Ning Xuxuan offered to help Gu Yuanqing enter Primordial Mountain’s forbidden ground if he joined the Hidden Sun Alliance in facing the Era Cycle tribulation.
• Ning Xuxuan claimed Gu Yuanqing had drawn upon the Primordial Heaven Furnace, while Gu Yuanqing wondered whether his system was connected to the artifact.

Gu Yuanqing learned more about the Primordial Divine Sect, the Hidden Sun Alliance, and the God Ruins, but declined to swear an alliance with Ning Xuxuan. After struggling to kill immortal-level opponents in the Spiritual Mountain Trial, he realized that the root of immortality might be will.

• Ning Xuxuan explained the Primordial Divine Sect’s powerful cultivators and the Dao Struggle over paths tied to Rules Divine Artifacts.
• Gu Yuanqing declined Ning Xuxuan’s offer of an oath-bound alliance but accepted a map of the God Ruins Land and gave Ning a jade token to summon his help.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the map, noted the Dao Source Forbidden Land, and decided to postpone exploring it while he focused on cultivation and finding a way to kill immortal-level opponents.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the Spiritual Mountain Trial and repeatedly failed to defeat Ji Shan, Ning Xuxuan, and Li Lingyun, especially struggling to destroy Li Lingyun permanently.
• After reflecting on his reliance on borrowed power, Gu Yuanqing let go of his fixation on killing immortals through strength alone and concluded that will might be the root of immortality.

Gu Yuanqing reflected on the trials still needed before he could reach the Immortal Realm, while the Primordial Divine Sect struggled to contain the Boundary Abyss as the Era Cycle approached. When cracks opened near the Ling Yuan Realm, Gu Yuanqing realized its collapse was happening far sooner than expected.

• Gu Yuanqing reconsidered his battle with Mu Tianheng and recognized that his smooth rise through the realms had left his mental will insufficiently tempered.
• Mu Tianheng summoned Ye Xuanxiao from the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, and Ye Xuanxiao asked to kill Gu Yuanqing before Mu Tianheng told him to focus on mastering his new body.
• Xu Haoque reported that he had partly refined the Ten Directions Token, and the figure in the mirror promised to distract the Heaven Monitoring Elder and give him the Jun Tian Lei Xiao Jian.
• As the Boundary Abyss surged, Ye Xuanxiao turned Devil Beasts against their former allies, while Mu Tianheng and the others drove their Divine Artifacts at full power to stabilize the formation.
• Mu Tianheng traced the formation's damage to the Ling Yuan Realm, and Ning Xuxuan worried that the demons might escape if the Boundary Abyss fell.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed a tremor in the Qian Yuan Realm Domain and saw rifts near the Black Sea exposing the Ling Yuan Realm and letting demonic qi seep through.

Demons converged on the falling Ling Yuan Realm, while Gu Yuanqing used a surprise attack on Mu Tianheng to send an avatar out of the Divine Forbidden Mountain Range. The avatar headed for the Dao Source Forbidden Land to seek the Great Void Creation Wheel, as Gu Yuanqing considered the Boundary Abyss and its strange demons.

• Great Demons entered the Ling Yuan Realm through space rifts, but heavenly punishment killed many and drove the rest back.
• Lie Shanyu sent Lie Shanyi to investigate the falling boundary domain, while the Golden Winged Great Peng King abandoned his trip to the Dragon Demon Realm and arrived at the Ling Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked Mu Tianheng inside the Divine Forbidden Mountain Range and opened a passage for his avatar to escape.
• Mu Tianheng fought Gu Yuanqing with Calamity Dao Divine Weapons, accused him of colluding with the Boundary Abyss, and failed to stop the avatar from fleeing.
• Gu Yuanqing's avatar traveled toward the Dao Source Forbidden Land to seek the power of the Great Void Creation Wheel, while he wondered whether the Boundary Abyss led to the Underground Demon Realm.

Gu Yuanqing traveled through the God Ruins toward the Dao Source Forbidden Land, seeking the Great Void Creation Wheel, while the Ling Yuan Realm was isolated from the other Exquisite Worlds. As the Boundary Abyss’s assault eased, Mu Tianheng sent the newly awakened Xuan Xiao to confront Gu Yuanqing.

• Gu Yuanqing left the Divine Forbidden Mountain Range and raced toward the Dao Source Forbidden Land, while Mu Tianheng and Lei Fuyue decided not to pursue him during the crisis at the Boundary Abyss.
• Ning Xuxuan spotted Gu Yuanqing entering the God Ruins and guessed he was heading for the Dao Source Forbidden Land, but chose not to interfere.
• Xu Haoque announced that the Ling Yuan Realm would soon fall to the Demon Realm, and three days later the realms sealed it off with their Realm Tokens.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that the Qian Yuan Realm’s agreement did not matter, then discussed the Dao with him as the Qian Yuan Sect’s organization took shape.
• After searching for more than ten days, Gu Yuanqing used the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman and his Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to locate the hidden Dao Source Forbidden Land.
• Mu Tianheng refused Lei Fuyue’s request to attack Gu Yuanqing and sent Xuan Xiao, whose mastery of the Town Abyss Underworld Edict had reached the fourth layer, to confront him.

Mu Tianheng sent Ye Xuanxiao to stop Gu Yuanqing from claiming the Great Void Creation Wheel, and Ye Xuanxiao trapped Gu Yuanqing’s avatar inside the Town Abyss Underworld Edict’s domain. As Ye Xuanxiao unleashed the domain’s dead, Gu Yuanqing asked how villains usually died.

• Mu Tianheng warned Lei Fuyue that Gu Yuanqing might use the Dao Source Forbidden Land as a base and ordered Ruan Yihan to watch the area.
• Mu Tianheng told Ye Xuanxiao to go to the Dao Source Forbidden Land and stop Gu Yuanqing from seizing the Great Void Creation Wheel.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed an ambush near the forbidden land but continued onward after restoring his avatar’s strength.
• Ye Xuanxiao concealed a Town Abyss Underworld Edict trap, then revealed himself when Gu Yuanqing sensed his killing intent.
• Ye Xuanxiao’s edict attack failed to overcome Gu Yuanqing’s Lie Shan Seal, but Ye Xuanxiao trapped him inside the Abyssal Underworld Domain.
• Ye Xuanxiao summoned spirits of the dead to attack Gu Yuanqing, who asked how villains usually died.

Gu Yuanqing fought Ye Xuanxiao inside the Abyssal Underworld Domain while probing the Town Abyss Underworld Edict’s power. After exposing a flaw in Ye Xuanxiao’s dao heart, Gu Yuanqing used Heavenly Fishing Empowerment to pull him out of the domain, leaving Ye Xuanxiao’s fate uncertain.

• Ye Xuanxiao sent reborn ghosts to overwhelm Gu Yuanqing, who defended himself with the Lie Shan Seal and Demon Subduing Sword while studying their power.
• Ye Xuanxiao sealed the domain, weakened Gu Yuanqing’s artifacts, and declared that he would make Gu Yuanqing suffer as he had.
• Gu Yuanqing challenged Ye Xuanxiao’s identity with a question aimed at his dao heart, causing Ye Xuanxiao and the ghosts to falter and the domain to tremble.
• Gu Yuanqing seized the opening to attack Ye Xuanxiao with the Demon Subduing Sword, but Ye Xuanxiao regenerated and continued to rely on the edict’s power.
• Gu Yuanqing hooked Ye Xuanxiao’s divine soul with a Fishing Line and pulled him out of the Abyssal Underworld Domain.

Gu Yuanqing captured Ye Xuanxiao in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, suppressed the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, and discovered that its power could restore Ye Xuanxiao even after his body was reduced to particles. After glimpsing a mysterious presence connected to the Edict, Gu Yuanqing continued toward the Dao Source Forbidden Land, while Ye Xuanxiao appeared before Mu Tianheng in the Divine Forbidden Mountain Range.

• Gu Yuanqing brought Ye Xuanxiao into North Spring Grotto-Heaven, where the grotto-heaven suppressed the Town Abyss Underworld Edict and left Ye Xuanxiao powerless.
• Gu Yuanqing forced Ye Xuanxiao to kneel at Repentance Cliff and examined the runes in his body, but a pair of eyes linked to the Underworld Edict appeared in their consciousnesses.
• Gu Yuanqing destroyed and restored Ye Xuanxiao repeatedly, discovering that object control could erase some of the runes and weaken him.
• Gu Yuanqing left the God Ruins and continued searching for the Dao Source Forbidden Land, evading the Sky Monitoring Mirror with the Way of Space.
• Ye Xuanxiao knelt before Mu Tianheng in a hall within the Divine Forbidden Mountain Range, trembling and unable to meet his gaze.

Gu Yuanqing passed the trials of the Dao Source Forbidden Land and used the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman to take control of it. As the Boundary Abyss erupted again and Ye Xuanxiao recklessly attempted the fifth layer, Gu Yuanqing gained the ability to draw upon the Great Void Creation Wheel’s power.

• Ye Xuanxiao told Mu Tianheng that his main body was trapped, but Mu Tianheng refused to rescue him and ordered him to recover.
• Ye Xuanxiao returned to the Underworld Edict Stele to attempt the fifth layer despite Mu Tianheng’s warnings, while another eruption began beneath the Boundary Abyss.
• Gu Yuanqing found the hidden Dao Source Forbidden Land and used the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman to enter its trials.
• Gu Yuanqing passed the Heavenly Stairway of the Undeluded Heart, Five Elements Against the Dao Forest, yin-yang Tribulation Eye, and Myriad Laws Return to Void Bridge.
• Gu Yuanqing placed the completed Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman on the altar, awakening the forbidden ground and bringing it under his control.
• Ning Xuxuan and the Hidden Sun Alliance learned that Gu Yuanqing had opened the Dao Source Forbidden Land and discussed him as a potential ally against the Primordial Divine Sect.

Gu Yuanqing resisted the Great Void Creation Wheel’s dangerous pull, then learned that the living eyes he had seen on the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele might be connected to the fate of cultivators who master Rules Divine Artifacts. Ning Xuxuan’s explanation left him facing the possibility that at the sixth layer, an artifact’s power could consume or transform its wielder’s divine soul.

• Gu Yuanqing refused to draw the Great Void Creation Wheel’s power into himself, returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven, and used Mountain-Viewing Object Control to confirm that his avatar carried no hidden influence.
• Gu Yuanqing questioned Ye Xuanxiao about the living eyes, but Ye Xuanxiao mocked him and warned that the Primordial Divine Sect would pursue him, so Gu Yuanqing burned Ye Xuanxiao with black-and-white flames.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Ning Xuxuan, told him that Ye Xuanxiao had reached the fourth layer of control over the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, and described the living eyes he had seen on its stele.
• Ning Xuxuan explained that Guo Yongquan’s fifth-layer artifact control left him unable to act freely because his body would crumble, and said that cultivators reaching the sixth layer might lose their bodies and Heavenly Human Worlds.
• Gu Yuanqing realized that Ning Xuxuan’s explanation of where the divine soul goes at the sixth layer might account for the living eyes.

Gu Yuanqing considered the danger of relying on Rules Divine Artifacts and resolved to keep them as tools rather than the foundation of his cultivation. As the Ling Yuan Realm fell into turmoil and the Primordial Divine Sect’s plans remained unclear, the Demon Court’s Cangyun arrived to invite the Dragon Demon Realm’s Phoenix descendants back, leaving the decision to them.

• Gu Yuanqing questioned Ning Xuxuan about divine souls hidden in Rules Divine Artifacts and the possibility of possession, then decided to prioritize perfecting his Heaven Shattering realm and use artifact powers cautiously.
• Lie Shanyi reported the Ling Yuan Realm’s fall to Lie Shanyu, who dismissed the idea that entering the Exquisite Realm Domain would offer freedom from their current troubles.
• Xu Haoque learned that the old man planned to wait for the Boundary Abyss to break through the Eight Desolations Demon Suppressing Great Formation, hoping the upheaval would let them rebuild the order.
• The Primordial Divine Sect sent elders and Realm Guards into the Ling Yuan Realm to fight demons, while Emperor Li Guanrong silenced people who urged Gu Yuanqing to intervene.
• Cangyun, a Golden-winged Great Peng sent by the Demon Emperor, offered Gu Yuanqing nine-grain seeds and asked to guide the Dragon Demon Realm’s Phoenix descendants back to the Demon Court.
• Gu Yuanqing said the Demon Phoenix Clan’s choice was theirs, and a black-and-red-flamed Demon Phoenix approached in human form.

Feng Ziyi asked Gu Yuanqing to protect the Demon Phoenix Clan from the Demon Court, revealing that the Golden Crow Clan wanted to exploit their phoenix bloodline. Gu Yuanqing agreed after she offered him access to her clan’s inheritance, while the Great Peng King and Sky Hunting King discussed the Dragon Demon Realm’s strange bloodlines and Lie Shanyi plotted to draw out Gu Yuanqing’s strength.

• Feng Ziyi refused the Great Peng King’s demand to return the Demon Phoenix Clan to the Demon Court, and Gu Yuanqing asked to speak with her before deciding.
• Feng Ziyi revealed that the Golden Crow Clan had kept Demon Phoenixes captive to use their bloodline, and she pleaded with Gu Yuanqing to save her clan.
• Feng Ziyi offered Gu Yuanqing a Soul Seal and access to her clan’s nirvana-fire inheritance, and he agreed to take her to North Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• Cangyun met the Sky Hunting King near the fallen Ling Yuan Realm, and they discussed Gu Yuanqing and the unusual concentration of powerful bloodlines in the Dragon Demon Realm.
• Lie Shanyi ordered a Divine General to spread word that Gu Yuanqing possessed a Myriad Demon Pill, hoping the Demon Court would expose Gu Yuanqing’s true strength.

Lie Shanyi fueled rumors about the Myriad Demon Pill, prompting the Demon Court and Black Sea King Wu Ti to consider how to claim it from Gu Yuanqing. Gu Yuanqing demonstrated a trace resembling nirvana fire, promised to protect Feng Ziyi’s clan, and prepared for the inevitable conflict over the pill.

• Lie Shanyi ordered Wei Qin to spread information that stirred trouble around the Myriad Demon Pill.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng King and Sky Hunting King concluded that Demon God Mountain was behind the rumors and decided the Demon Court should demand an explanation from Gu Yuanqing.
• Wu Ti and the Water Ape Clan debated seizing the pill, then agreed to wait for the Demon Court to clash with Gu Yuanqing before attacking.
• Feng Ziyi showed Gu Yuanqing the Nirvana Fire Seed in her sea of consciousness, and he briefly manifested a flame resembling nirvana fire.
• Feng Ziyi said she would undergo the yin-yang tribulation in a hundred days, and Gu Yuanqing promised to protect her clan and keep the Myriad Demon Pill.

Gu Yuanqing watched the Demon Court’s battle with Lie Shanyi while Kui Wujiu entered the Black Sea and attacked demons. Gu Yuanqing killed Kui Wujiu and captured his divine soul, but failed to search it and prepared to destroy it.

• Lie Shanyi fought the Sky Hunting King and the Golden Winged Great Peng King, while Wu Ti watched and planned to obtain the Myriad Demon Pill.
• Gu Yuanqing observed the battle from the North Spring Grotto-Heaven and judged that he could face the Demon Court.
• Kui Wujiu left the Ling Yuan Realm, restored his chaos heaven-level power, and killed two demons before fleeing toward the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Kui Wujiu across space, killed his body, and captured his hidden divine soul.
• Gu Yuanqing attempted to search Kui Wujiu’s soul, but the rule divine artifact power resisted him, so he decided to kill Kui Wujiu instead.

Gu Yuanqing killed Kui Wujiu’s split soul, then refused the Golden Winged Great Peng King’s offer to surrender Feng Ziyi and the Myriad Demon Pill. He left the Demon Court to choose whether to remain at peace with the Dragon Demon Realm or become its enemy.

• Gu Yuanqing burned Kui Wujiu’s divine soul with chaos heaven vital fire, absorbed some of its power, and stored the two Dharma Treasures he had taken.
• The Demon Court and Demon God Mountain ended their battle without a victor, while Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had killed Kui Wujiu and kept that information to himself.
• Xu Haoque learned that Kui Wujiu’s avatar had been slain and resolved to continue pursuing his dao path.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng King offered Gu Yuanqing treasures in exchange for Feng Ziyi and the Myriad Demon Pill, but Gu Yuanqing refused and asked the Demon Court to leave him in peace.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng King departed after warning that they might meet as enemies, while Feng Ziyi thanked Gu Yuanqing for protecting her clan.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the Black Ape withdraw and Lie Shanyi retreat, then returned to cultivating in North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing sensed the Demon Court’s three Chaos Heaven Demon Kings approaching over the Myriad Demon Pill and refused to surrender it. The Demon Kings launched an attack on the Dragon Demon Realm, beginning a battle watched by the Black Sea Lord and Lie Shanyi.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed the Demon Court’s arrival and identified the Golden Winged Great Peng King, the Sky Hunting King, and the Sea Covering Demon King Ming Jiuyi approaching the Dragon Demon Realm.
• Wu Ti prepared the Water Ape Clan to use the Black Sea against the Dragon Demon Realm, while Lie Shanyi watched from a distance and considered how the battle might benefit Demon God Mountain.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng King demanded that Gu Yuanqing hand over the Myriad Demon Pill and the Demon Phoenix Clan, but Gu Yuanqing refused and warned the Demon Kings to retreat.
• The Sky Hunting King attacked Gu Yuanqing, unleashing his Qiongqi bloodline’s innate ability to disrupt Gu Yuanqing’s mind and taint his divine soul.

Gu Yuanqing used his Chaos Realm strength and North Spring Grotto-Heaven to crush the three Demon Kings who attacked the Dragon Demon Realm, forcing them to flee and establishing his dominance. After collecting the Sky Hunting King's blood and the nine-grain seeds, he turned his attention to the departing flying boat carrying Lie Shanyi and the North Suppressing Divine King.

• Gu Yuanqing overcame the Sky Hunting King's and Golden Winged Great Peng King's attacks with Myriad Dao Returns to Ruin Power, then used the Demon Subduing Sword Formation to badly wound the Sky Hunting King.
• Ming Jiuyi arrived to protect the Golden Winged Great Peng King and the Sky Hunting King, but Gu Yuanqing's North Spring Mountain palm shattered the Black Sea barrier and injured Ming Jiuyi.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng King offered Gu Yuanqing nine-grain seeds, and Ming Jiuyi used a bloodline avatar to help the three Demon Kings escape beneath the Black Sea.
• Gu Yuanqing collected the Sky Hunting King's essence blood and the nine-grain seeds, then struck at Demon God Divine Mountain's departing flying boat.
• Lie Shanyi urged the North Suppressing Divine King to drive the flying boat at full power, but Gu Yuanqing's palm seal pressed it downward.

Gu Yuanqing defeated the forces of the Demon Court and repelled Demon God Mountain’s flying boat, forcing Lie Shanyu’s avatar to intervene before retreating. After the battle, the Dragon Demon Realm remained safe, and news of Gu Yuanqing’s power spread until the region was treated as forbidden ground.

• Lie Shanyi empowered himself with the flying boat and attacked Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing’s palm seal overwhelmed him and the boat’s formations.
• Lie Shanyu appeared, clashed with Gu Yuanqing, and withdrew with Lie Shanyi after Lie Shanyi apologized; he warned his brother not to provoke Gu Yuanqing again.
• Wu Ti abandoned plans to attack the Dragon Demon Realm after witnessing Gu Yuanqing’s strength, while the Demon Phoenix Clan and other local demon clans celebrated their safety.
• Gu Yuanqing cleansed the nine-grain grain seed and gave it to Li Chengyi, then purified Qiongqi blood and returned to cultivation.
• News spread that Gu Yuanqing had defeated the Demon Court’s great demons and driven back Demon God Mountain, making the Dragon Demon Realm a place other demons and devils feared to approach.
• Heavenly King Jin regretted that the Heavenly King Hall had made an enemy of Gu Yuanqing, as its former members had scattered or died.

Feng Ziyi survived her yin-yang Calamity and completed her transformation into a Yin-Yang Great Demon, while Gu Yuanqing used the ensuing Chaos Heaven Calamity to strengthen his vital fire and study phoenix nirvana. The chapter leaves the Primordial Divine Sect’s formation destabilized as the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground suddenly awakens.

• Gu Yuanqing prepared a fire-dao mountain in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, and Feng Ziyi began undergoing her yin-yang Calamity there.
• As Feng Ziyi’s ancestral Nirvana Fire Seed fused with her bloodline, Gu Yuanqing observed the phoenix’s nirvana way through her consciousness.
• Gu Yuanqing scattered the final Calamity bolt, allowing Feng Ziyi to complete her transformation, but his intervention caused the Calamity to rise to the Chaos Heaven level.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed the Chaos Heaven Calamity’s tribulation qi, transforming part of his Two Forms Tribulation Fire into chaos heaven vital fire while Feng Ziyi stabilized her new realm.
• Mu Tianheng worried about Gu Yuanqing, the Ling Yuan Realm, and the Heaven Monitoring Elder as the Primordial Divine Sect faced mounting threats.
• Brilliant light erupted from the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground, causing the Eight Desolations Demon Suppressing Great Formation to fall out of balance.

Ye Xuanxiao seized control of the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground and tore it from the Eight Desolations Demon Suppressing Great Formation, allowing demons and Devil Beasts to escape before the formation was restored. Afterward, Ning Xuxuan told Gu Yuanqing that the runaway forbidden ground appeared to be heading toward his Dao Source Forbidden Land.

• Mu Tianheng confronted Ye Xuanxiao, who said he needed to save his captured main body and refused to wait while it weakened.
• Ye Xuanxiao overpowered Miao Xin, became the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground’s Edict Lord, and forced the forbidden ground to leave its position.
• The Eight Desolations Demon Suppressing Great Formation collapsed, and demons and Devil Beasts poured out of the Boundary Abyss as the Primordial Divine Sect and Hidden Sun Alliance fought to contain them.
• Purifying World Valley and the other forbidden grounds restored the formation, but a chaos immortal realm Great Demon and several Devil Race members escaped; Mu Tianheng said Ye Xuanxiao had lost control.
• Gu Yuanqing continued studying Nirvana Fire, then learned from Ning Xuxuan that the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground was heading toward his Dao Source Forbidden Land.

Ning Xuxuan warned Gu Yuanqing that Ye Xuanxiao might have reached the fifth layer of Rules Divine Artifact Power after the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground left the Boundary Abyss. Gu Yuanqing questioned his imprisoned enemy and waited in the Dao Source Forbidden Land, where he sensed the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground might have arrived.

• Ning Xuxuan told Gu Yuanqing that the Eight Directions Demon-Suppressing Formation had nearly collapsed after the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground departed, letting demons enter the God Ruins before the Primordial Divine Sect restored the defenses.
• Ning Xuxuan warned that Ye Xuanxiao might have mastered the fifth layer of Rules Divine Artifact Power and urged Gu Yuanqing to prepare for the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground's approach.
• Gu Yuanqing questioned the imprisoned Ye Xuanxiao, who realized his avatar may have gained fifth-layer power and grew fearful that their connection could make his death final.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the Dao Source Forbidden Land and explored its lingering demonstrations of the Dao while waiting for the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground.
• After four days of exploring, Gu Yuanqing sensed something in the distance and wondered whether the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground had arrived.

Gu Yuanqing watched Ye Xuanxiao drive the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground into the Dao Source Forbidden Land, then faced him as he breached its barriers. Ye Xuanxiao arrived atop the Sacred Mountain, intent on reclaiming his main body and killing Gu Yuanqing.

• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Dao Source Forbidden Land and saw the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground approach at tremendous speed.
• Ye Xuanxiao rammed the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground into the Dao Source Forbidden Land dozens of times, but neither forbidden ground overcame the other.
• Gu Yuanqing and Ye Xuanxiao exchanged threats, and Gu Yuanqing suggested Ye Xuanxiao’s avatar was losing control of its own consciousness.
• Ye Xuanxiao entered the Dao Source Forbidden Land and broke through its restrictive seals and formations.
• Gu Yuanqing studied Ye Xuanxiao’s Void Immortal Level power as his true body projected strength into the avatar.
• Ye Xuanxiao tore through space and arrived atop the Sacred Mountain where Gu Yuanqing stood.

Gu Yuanqing fought Ye Xuanxiao’s avatar in the Dao Source Forbidden Land, countering the Fifth Layer power of the Town Abyss Underworld Edict with the Primordial Heaven Furnace and the forbidden ground itself. Ye Xuanxiao escaped the first clash by using power from the Nether Edict Restricted Zone, but the chapter ended with his avatar blasted apart.

• Ye Xuanxiao attacked Gu Yuanqing with an Edict Rune, but Gu Yuanqing’s avatar evaded it using the Way of Inch-Distance Heaven-End while his true body’s techniques failed to affect the rune.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned the North Spring Mountain phantom, breaking Ye Xuanxiao’s Abyssal Underworld Domain and scattering the Edict Runes pursuing him.
• Ye Xuanxiao formed the Town Abyss Void Stabilizing Halberd and attacked, but Gu Yuanqing activated the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman and the Dao Source Forbidden Land repelled the weapon.
• Gu Yuanqing awakened the forbidden ground and directed the Great Void Creation Wheel’s power against Ye Xuanxiao, suppressing his avatar as it tried to flee.
• Ye Xuanxiao drew power from the Nether Edict Restricted Zone and shattered his avatar’s restraints, but a pillar of light descended and blasted the avatar apart.