Recaps

Gu Yuanqing fought the Sacred Heaven Sect’s upper-realm expert while Li Chengyi captured Zuo Qiu, the killer they had come to find. After Gu Yuanqing’s battle devastated the sect’s residence, the sect’s leaders demanded an explanation and threatened to withdraw from the Outer Realm Battlefield, while the Spirit Venerable and Demonic Venerable debated the rules governing Chaos Heaven Cultivators.

• Gu Yuanqing left Zuo Qiu with Li Chengyi and confronted the Sacred Heaven Sect’s expert, whose attacks he repelled with the Lie Shan Seal and his dao powers.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the Sacred Heaven Divine Spear, but the sect’s expert struck the Lie Shan Seal with a coffin, and their clash wrecked much of the sect’s residence.
• Li Chengyi imprisoned Zuo Qiu in the Great Cauldron, and Gu Yuanqing sent him, Li Shi'an, and Li Haotian away.
• Jing Yue accused Gu Yuanqing of breaking the rules for Chaos Heaven Cultivators and threatened to withdraw the Sacred Heaven Sect from the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• The Demonic Venerable of Nine Li Mountain challenged the Spirit Venerable over the rules and said a Chaos Heaven Immortal would be needed to lead the vanguard against gathering heavenly demons.

Gu Yuanqing rejected the Righteous and Demonic Paths’ attempt to settle his conflict with the Sacred Heaven Sect through political bargaining, while powerful figures gathered to prevent the dispute from escalating. As Zhao Shengbing prepared to fight him, Gu Yuanqing’s family discussed how to deal with their captive, Zuo Qiu, inside North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

• The Demonic Venerable of Nine Li Mountain and Jing Yue pressed the Spirit Venerable to resolve Gu Yuanqing’s attack on the Sacred Heaven Sect, while Gu Yuanqing condemned the sect’s atrocities and rejected using the Extraterrestrial Demons as leverage.
• The Spirit Venerable tried to delay the decision, but Zhao Shengbing emerged from seclusion, and Ji Shan and Xiao Lingyue arrived to support the Righteous Sects’ efforts to prevent a wider conflict.
• Gu Yuanqing thanked the Righteous leaders but insisted that he settle his grudge with the Sacred Heaven Sect himself, prompting Zhao Shengbing to threaten him and the Spirit Venerable and Ji Shan to warn him against fighting.
• Inside North Spring Grotto-Heaven, Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, and Li Haotian discussed their confidence in Gu Yuanqing and how to execute Zuo Qiu for his crimes against Great Qian while keeping the matter secret.

Gu Yuanqing fought Zhao Shengbing, a powerful Sacred Heaven Sect expert, after the factions’ leaders failed to stop their conflict. Gu Yuanqing wounded Zhao Shengbing with the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression and trapped him in a heart-demon illusion, ending the chapter as he challenged Zhao to survive the final sword strike.

• Gu Yuanqing rejected the Righteous and Demonic Paths’ attempt to settle the feud peacefully and agreed to fight Zhao Shengbing.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain blocked the Spirit Venerable from disrupting the Sacred Heaven Sect’s spatial passage, allowing Zhao Shengbing to arrive in his true form.
• Gu Yuanqing and Zhao Shengbing flew thirty thousand zhang into the sky to battle, where Gu Yuanqing’s sword formations purified and sealed Zhao’s attacks.
• Gu Yuanqing wounded Zhao Shengbing’s fist with the Demon Purging Sword Dao, proving his sword intent could pierce Zhao’s formidable body.
• As Zhao Shengbing gathered power for his strongest attack, Gu Yuanqing used the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao to trap him in illusions drawn from his deepest fears and failures.
• Gu Yuanqing asked Zhao Shengbing whether he could survive the calamity of the combined Four Phases sword.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Zhao Shengbing’s avatar, forcing the Sacred Heaven Sect and the assembled leaders to accept his strength and demands. After the confrontation ended, Gu Yuanqing and Ji Shan discussed the risks his actions had created as he prepared to go to the Spirit Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression to destroy Zhao Shengbing’s avatar completely.
• Jing Yue and the other observers reacted to Gu Yuanqing’s victory, while the Demonic Venerable considered killing him before agreeing to end the confrontation.
• Gu Yuanqing agreed to go to the Spirit Realm but demanded that the Sacred Heaven Sect hand over Meng Nianchun and Zou Mingze, and Jing Yue refused.
• After the Demonic Venerable appealed for leniency, Gu Yuanqing killed two Sacred Heaven Sect cultivators in the sect residence instead and declared his grievances settled.
• The Spirit Venerable, the Demonic Venerable, and Xiao Lingyue departed, and Gu Yuanqing left with Ji Shan.
• At a city restaurant, Ji Shan warned Gu Yuanqing that the Demonic Sects might target him, but Gu Yuanqing said they had better not give him an excuse to strike.

Gu Yuanqing learned from Ji Shan that extraterrestrial demons were gathering and a Void Immortal might be needed to defend the cultivation world, then continued his journey after their friendly match. On Qian Yuan Island, Zuo Qiu faced execution for his past massacre, while Gu Yuanqing used Mountain Gazing Enlightenment to seek a view beyond Qian Yuan Realm.

• Ji Shan warned Gu Yuanqing that four Chaos Heaven-level demon kings had arrived and that a Void Immortal-level Demon Lord might threaten the Outer Lands.
• Ji Shan said the Spirit Venerable had protected Gu Yuanqing because he was seen as a promising candidate to become a Void Immortal, and the two played a three-day match that ended in a draw.
• News of the battle at the Sacred Heaven Sect spread through the cultivation world, but the sect's gag order left outsiders without details.
• Li Chengyi identified Zuo Qiu as the killer of more than a hundred thousand Great Qian soldiers and countless civilians, and Li Haotian ordered Li Rui to execute him by three thousand cuts.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the execution from North Spring Grotto-Heaven, then entered Mountain Gazing Enlightenment to try to see beyond Qian Yuan Realm and understand the Ancient Demon Refining Array.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating through his avatars, studying the world membrane, suppressing the Person in the Painting, and testing the dangers of the Boundless River while seeking a Ten Thousand Dao Stone. After years of wandering and gaining insight, he reached Heaven's Gate Forbidden Zone, where spirit fiend rain blocked the passage to the Spirit Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing studied the world membrane beyond the Exquisite Realm Domain and compared it with other membranes to deepen his understanding of space.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master, Daoist Qingxu, and Chi Jinyu debated Dao in Qingping Dao Palace while Feng Jiuniang listened and learned.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Circulation of Heaven Star Array to suppress the Person in the Painting after provoking it by calling it a prisoner.
• Gu Yuanqing tested ways to enter the Boundless River and search for a Ten Thousand Dao Stone, but its currents consumed his avatar and his attempt to control its vital energy triggered a dangerous backlash.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled through the Cultivation World for several years, gaining insights from its landscapes, people, and strange phenomena.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Heaven's Gate Forbidden Zone and learned that spirit fiend rain had halted passage across Falling Star Plain toward the Spirit Realm.

Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City while waiting to travel toward the Spirit Realm and investigated a vendor’s supposed fragment of Old Man Heavenly Sword’s sword. He exposed the vendor and his accomplice as frauds, then secretly listened as they discussed targeting him.

• Gu Yuanqing found that the Tianya Inn had no rooms available, and he noticed that Zhao Yunting of the Myriad Manifestations Sect cultivated the Formless Heart Sutra.
• Gu Yuanqing wandered through Wangxiang City and stopped at Song Tianrui’s stall to examine a sword fragment claimed to have belonged to Old Man Heavenly Sword.
• Gu Yuanqing recognized that Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping were working together and said he wanted to know where they had nurtured the fragment.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping packed up and left, then discussed whether to rob Gu Yuanqing and decided to watch him first.
• Gu Yuanqing stood beside them unseen and listened as they unknowingly revealed their plans, leaving both men startled by what they had said.

Gu Yuanqing caught Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping plotting against him, forced them to guide him to their Weapon-Nurturing Ground, and stopped them when they tried to flee. As Qi Yingchen of the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land arrived to beg his forgiveness, observers at the Tianya Inn wondered why he had come down the mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing used his concealed heavenly human realm to suppress Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping after hearing them plot to rob him, then demanded they guide him to their Weapon-Nurturing Ground once the spirit fiend rain stopped.
• Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City and tested the spirit fiend rain, judging that the Sword Scar’s power could help him break through his cultivation shackles.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping secretly left Wangxiang City, but Gu Yuanqing transported them back from a thousand li away and reprimanded them for trying to escape.
• Qi Yingchen of the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land knocked at Gu Yuanqing’s courtyard and apologized for failing to welcome him; Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping realized their captor was an immensely powerful cultivator.
• At the Tianya Inn, Ji Chang told Zhao Yunting that he had seen Qi Yingchen descend from the mountain, and Zhao Yunting wondered what had happened.

Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City, met cultivators from the Myriad Manifestations Sect, and listened to a zither performance that helped him contemplate the yin-yang dao. After repeatedly crossing paths with Zhao Yunting and Ji Chang, he was asked to give his name, leaving their acquaintance poised to begin.

• Qi Yingchen visited Gu Yuanqing, offered him a place on the Mountain, and gave him a token; Gu Yuanqing declined the offer and sent Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping away after warning them to guide him when the spirit fiend rain stopped.
• Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting spotted Gu Yuanqing outside his inn, and Zhao Yunting sensed something unusual about him as Gu Yuanqing headed to the Azure Luan Workshop.
• Gu Yuanqing listened to a Yin Yang Sect cultivator play the zither, contemplated the yin-yang dao, and declined her invitation to meet, identifying her sect through the drink she served.
• The veiled woman told her green-skirted Maid that her dao heart had reached Perfection and that she planned to enter the Spirit Realm and undergo the yin-yang Calamity.
• Zhao Yunting and Ji Chang met Gu Yuanqing again in the market ward, introduced themselves, and asked for his name.

Gu Yuanqing met Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting of the Myriad Manifestations Sect, discussed Li Miaoxuan’s past, and shared insights that helped the two cultivators understand their cultivation more deeply. After learning Zhao Yunting’s birth year, Gu Yuanqing suspected they might be the same age and wondered whether their meeting was connected to the karma he sensed.

• Gu Yuanqing accepted Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting’s invitation to share tea and talk about overseas lands.
• Ji Chang recounted rumors that Li Miaoxuan had refused a marriage alliance because she was already married with a child, and Gu Yuanqing was shaken by what he heard.
• Gu Yuanqing explained how Heavenly Change cultivators could guide tribulation power to refine their inner worlds, earning the respect of Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting.
• Gu Yuanqing learned that Zhao Yunting was born in year 6792 of the Qixuan Era and suspected they were the same age.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled Li Miaoxuan saying they had met before and decided he might learn the truth by asking her in person.

Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting concluded that Gu Yuanqing was likely a Yin-Yang Great Cultivator, while Zhao Yunting privately suspected Gu Yuanqing had guided him through questions tied to his cultivation. After the spirit fiend rain stopped, Gu Yuanqing set out across Falling Star Plain in Song Tianrui’s Bronze Chariot, studying its formations and collecting a meteorite, and the group approached nightfall in the dangerous mist.

• Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting discussed Gu Yuanqing’s mastery of the Yin-Yang Dao, and Zhao Yunting reflected on Gu Yuanqing’s personal guidance and the trust he felt toward him.
• After the spirit fiend rain ended and the mist began to thin, Qi Yingchen asked whether Gu Yuanqing would travel to the Spirit Realm, but Gu Yuanqing kept to his original plans.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, and Song Tianrui transformed his compact Bronze Chariot into a spacious carriage and offered Gu Yuanqing its spirit formula.
• Gu Yuanqing rode in the Bronze Chariot across Falling Star Plain, examining its spatial formations and learning about the mist’s effect on divine sense.
• Gu Yuanqing retrieved a piece of extraterrestrial meteorite gold from the mist and stored it away.
• As darkness approached, Song Tianrui asked Gu Yuanqing whether they should spend the night at a nearby safe place while several cultivators headed in that direction.

Gu Yuanqing and his companions sheltered overnight in a Mysterious Vault Stone Hall, where Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping encountered their old enemy Sha Tongtian. The next morning, Sha Tongtian challenged them outside, and Gu Yuanqing spoke up to intervene, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Song Tianrui brought Gu Yuanqing and Gu Chengping to a Mysterious Vault Stone Hall as nightfall spread sha qi across the Falling Star Plain.
• Gu Yuanqing noticed a scar-faced Heavenly Human cultivator in the hall while Song Tianrui replenished the Mystic Tortoise Spirit Infusion Formation with spirit stones.
• Sha Tongtian arrived with his nephew, recognized Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, and threatened to settle their old grievances, but held back inside the hall.
• The scar-faced cultivator's glance silenced Sha Tongtian when he began discussing his powerful brother, and the night passed without further incident.
• The next morning, Sha Tongtian taunted Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping outside the hall and prepared to attack, prompting Gu Yuanqing to say they were serving as his guides.

Gu Yuanqing forced Sha Tongtian to abandon his pursuit of Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, then led them onward across the Falling Star Plain. After seven days, he ordered them to keep traveling despite an approaching Spirit Fiend Rain, and the Bronze Chariot entered the storm.

• Gu Yuanqing warned Sha Tongtian not to attack Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping while they served him, and his overwhelming presence made Sha Tongtian retreat with Zhou Lichuan.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping thanked Gu Yuanqing, then drove the Bronze Chariot away from the stone hall.
• Over the following days, Gu Yuanqing collected materials while Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping guided the chariot between Mysterious Vault Stone Halls across the Falling Star Plain.
• After seven days, Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping warned that Spirit Fiend Rain was approaching and urged Gu Yuanqing to divert to a nearby stone hall, but he ordered them to continue.
• The Spirit Fiend Rain reached the Bronze Chariot sooner than expected, and Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping drove it into the rain while pushing its protective Formation to its limit.

Gu Yuanqing used the Bronze Chariot’s power to shield the group from the Spirit Fiend Rain and carried Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping to the Mysterious Vault Stone Hall. After they left the next morning, the chariot suddenly stopped roughly five thousand li later.

• The Spirit Fiend Rain nearly overwhelmed the Bronze Chariot’s barrier, but Gu Yuanqing strengthened it with a glasslike shield that resisted the downpour.
• The Dragon Steeds transformed into red and white flood dragons, and Gu Yuanqing drove the chariot through the storm while Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping recovered.
• Gu Yuanqing brought the group to the Mysterious Vault Stone Hall, where more than twenty cultivators, including three heavenly humans, noticed his arrival and recognized him as a powerful cultivator.
• Gu Yuanqing chose an out-of-the-way place to rest without asking anyone to give up their spot, while the cultivators kept quiet about the treasure they were seeking.
• The next morning, Gu Yuanqing left the stone hall with Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, but the Bronze Chariot abruptly halted after traveling roughly five thousand li.

Gu Yuanqing traveled through the Star Fiend Miasma and located the hidden Seven Luminaries Profound Mansion, then led Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping to Song’s Weapon-Nurturing Ground near the Void Sea. There, Gu Yuanqing’s sword intent revealed Old Man Heavenly Sword’s Finger Mark, and its resonance clarified the path to his breakthrough into void immortality.

• Song Tianrui told Gu Yuanqing about the rumored Seven Luminaries Profound Mansion, and Gu Yuanqing’s Bronze Chariot crossed the dangerous Star Fiend Miasma to locate its hidden entrance.
• Gu Yuanqing postponed entering the cave abode and continued with Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping toward the Weapon-Nurturing Ground near the Void Sea.
• Song Tianrui gave Gu Yuanqing directions through the shifting space, and Gu Yuanqing used his sword intent to find the concealed route.
• Gu Yuanqing’s sword intent awakened the Sword Scars along a cliff and revealed the Finger Mark that recorded Old Man Heavenly Sword’s breakthrough to void immortality.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the Finger Mark, and the insights clarified obscure parts of Old Man Heavenly Sword’s legacy and the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Dao.

Gu Yuanqing comprehended Old Man Heavenly Sword’s legacy at the Finger Mark, then studied the way of space at the Void Sea before returning from Falling Star Plain. He left Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping near Wangxiang City and was met at his inn by a yin-yang cultivator from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land.

• Gu Yuanqing awakened the Sword Scar’s fifty-thousand-year-old dao marks, strengthened his Sword Dao, and added a new finger mark to the cliff before the legacy vanished.
• Gu Yuanqing studied spatial fluctuations at the Void Sea for more than two months while Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping struggled to keep the Bronze Chariot protected.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Bronze Chariot, and the three traveled to the Seven Luminaries Profound Mansion; cultivators in the Star Fiend Miasma region witnessed its appearance and spread news of its location.
• Gu Yuanqing gave Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping cultivation techniques and other rewards, then dismissed them near Wangxiang City.
• Gu Yuanqing arrived at his inn in Wangxiang City, where a yin-yang cultivator from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land came to meet him.

Gu Yuanqing reunited his avatars’ insights, then prepared to leave the Cultivation World for the Spirit Realm aboard the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land’s Void Crossing Heavenly Boat. As the boat began boarding, he encountered Chu Yiyi, her Maid Lü Luo, and the scar-faced Qu Clan Heavenly Human among the passengers.

• Qi Yingchen invited Gu Yuanqing to travel to the Spirit Realm aboard the Heavenly Ark, and Gu Yuanqing accepted.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatars and combined their memories and insights before sending them back to their respective locations.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping thanked Gu Yuanqing and gave him a Bronze Chariot and spirit herb seeds before he left Wangxiang City.
• Qi Yingchen escorted Gu Yuanqing aboard the Void Crossing Heavenly Boat and placed him in a lavish heaven-class room.
• Gu Yuanqing spotted Chu Yiyi and her Maid Lü Luo boarding the Heavenly Ark, then recognized the scar-faced Qu Clan Heavenly Human among the passengers.

Gu Yuanqing crossed from the Cultivation World into the Spirit Realm aboard the Void Crossing Heavenly Boat and traveled toward the Lingxu Sect. He entered Lingxu Sect territory on the Abyss-Suppressing Continent, where he heard that Li Miaoxuan was about to undergo the Chaos Tribulation.

• The Void Crossing Heavenly Boat crossed the Two Worlds Gate, carrying Gu Yuanqing and the other cultivators into the Spirit Realm.
• Qi Yingchen gave Gu Yuanqing a map and a Star Token, and Gu Yuanqing declined an onward ride and left Thousand Spirits Mountain on his own.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled across the Spirit Realm, sightseeing as he headed toward the Abyss-Suppressing Continent and repeatedly heard news of Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing entered Lingxu Sect territory and learned that Li Miaoxuan was about to undergo the Chaos Tribulation.

Gu Yuanqing reached Lingmiao Blessed Land to visit Li Miaoxuan as she prepared for her Chaos Heaven Calamity. After an outer sect elder directed him toward the guest quarters, Gu Yuanqing planned to seek her out despite the sect’s restrictions, while disciples mistook him for another admirer claiming to know her.

• Xiao Yunqi offered Mu Chuxia three treasures to help Li Miaoxuan through her Calamity, but Mu Chuxia refused them on Li Miaoxuan’s behalf.
• Gu Yuanqing arrived at the Lingxu Sect during its recruitment examination and told an outer sect disciple he had come to visit a friend.
• Gu Yuanqing showed the disciple a Star Token from Spiritual Treasure Holy Land, prompting the disciple to summon the outer sect elder Cao Zhengping.
• Cao Zhengping recognized the token’s origin and learned that Gu Yuanqing wanted to see Li Miaoxuan, who was secluded before her Calamity.
• Cao Zhengping suggested that Gu Yuanqing stay in the guest quarters and go to Time Sequence Peak to ask to see Li Miaoxuan himself.
• The disciple who had first stopped Gu Yuanqing mocked him to Senior Brother Chen as another visitor who claimed to be Li Miaoxuan’s old acquaintance.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Lingxu Sect with a genuine token from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land and arranged to visit Li Miaoxuan at Time Sequence Peak. The visit ended at the foot of the peak, where Martial Aunt Liu refused to let him pass because Li Miaoxuan was preparing for her Calamity.

• Cao Zhengping brought Gu Yuanqing to the mountain gate, where Senior Brother Qi verified his Star Token and placed a Clear Brilliance Guiding Seal on him.
• Junior Brother Zhou escorted Gu Yuanqing into the Lingmiao Blessed Land, and Ding Mincai assigned him a courtyard in the Silence Character Courtyard.
• Gu Yuanqing asked to visit Li Miaoxuan, but Ding Mincai explained that she was in seclusion and arranged for a guide to take him to Time Sequence Peak the next morning.
• Ding Mincai sent Lang Yifei to guide Gu Yuanqing, and they reached the foot of Time Sequence Peak as Tribulation Qi gathered around it.
• Martial Aunt Liu blocked Gu Yuanqing and refused his request to see Li Miaoxuan, ordering him to leave and warning the Guest Reception Hall not to send outsiders again.

Gu Yuanqing visited Lingxu Sect hoping to see Li Miaoxuan, but respected her apparent choice not to meet and spoke with elder Zhang Hegui instead. That night, Li Miaoxuan left seclusion and went to Gu Yuanqing’s courtyard, where they reunited face-to-face.

• Gu Yuanqing waited below Time Sequence Peak, then left without meeting Li Miaoxuan, choosing to respect her silence.
• Lang Yifei showed Gu Yuanqing around the guest area, where Gu Yuanqing met Zhang Hegui and discussed his visit and Star Token over tea.
• Yun Yinghe checked on Li Miaoxuan’s seclusion and warned Mu Chuxia that her approaching Calamity was vital to the sect.
• Li Miaoxuan emerged from seclusion and flew to Gu Yuanqing’s courtyard, while Yun Yinghe watched her arrive.
• Gu Yuanqing opened the gate, and Li Miaoxuan entered his courtyard after greeting him with a smile.

After more than three hundred years apart, Gu Yuanqing brought Li Miaoxuan from the Lingxu Sect to North Spring Mountain so she could reunite with Li Chengyi and Li Haotian before her approaching Calamity. Li Miaoxuan chose to stay overnight and planned to meet her grandchildren, while Yun Yinghe learned that Gu Yuanqing had arrived bearing a Star Token from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land.

• Li Miaoxuan met Gu Yuanqing at the Lingxu Sect and asked him to take her to see her father and Li Chengyi before her Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing brought Li Miaoxuan to North Spring Mountain, where he explained that it had become the Qian Yuan Realm and an Exquisite World.
• Li Miaoxuan reunited with Li Chengyi and Li Haotian, and Li Chengyi revealed that Gu Yuanqing had kept her portrait in his room.
• Gu Yuanqing offered to help Li Miaoxuan undergo her Calamity on North Spring Mountain, but she said she had reasons to face it at the Lingxu Sect and planned to meet her grandchildren the next day.
• Yun Yinghe waited for Li Miaoxuan to return, told Mu Chuxia to keep her absence secret, and received word that Gu Yuanqing had come bearing a Star Token from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land.

Gu Yuanqing accompanied Li Miaoxuan as she revisited the transformed Qian Yuan Realm and reunited with her descendants after three hundred years away. After a family banquet in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, she decided to return to the Lingxu Sect to prepare for her coming Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing took her there.

• Li Miaoxuan emerged from seclusion, and she and Gu Yuanqing set out to see Great Qian and the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Li Miaoxuan marveled at how the realm had grown from a small Floating World into a vast, spiritually rich world, then declined Gu Yuanqing's offer to visit her old acquaintances at Lingxiao Mountain.
• Li Chengyi and his descendants welcomed Li Miaoxuan and Gu Yuanqing with a family banquet in North Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• The next day, Li Miaoxuan declined to visit Qingping Grotto-Heaven and said she needed to return to the Lingxu Sect before her Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing took Li Miaoxuan's hand, and the two vanished to return to the sect.

Li Miaoxuan returned to the Lingxu Sect and told Yun Yinghe that Gu Yuanqing was her Dao companion. As the sect investigated Gu Yuanqing’s origins and feared the dangers surrounding Li Miaoxuan’s coming Calamity, Yun Yinghe and Ye Zhenghong decided to set the matter aside and focus on protecting her.

• Gu Yuanqing brought Li Miaoxuan to the Silence Character Courtyard, and she left for Time Sequence Peak to prepare for her Calamity.
• Li Miaoxuan told Yun Yinghe that Gu Yuanqing was her Dao companion, then entered Time Sequence Pavilion and settled her Dao heart.
• Ye Zhenghong questioned Yun Yinghe about Gu Yuanqing and ordered her to visit him under the pretext of offering better accommodations.
• Yun Yinghe invited Gu Yuanqing to move to the Ruins Character Courtyard, but he declined and assured her that he would not let his private affairs disrupt Li Miaoxuan’s cultivation or involve the Lingxu Sect in turmoil.
• Yun Yinghe reported that Gu Yuanqing admitted coming from Qian Yuan Island and seemed at least a yin-yang circulation cultivator, possibly a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level Great Cultivator.
• Ye Zhenghong and Yun Yinghe set their concerns about Gu Yuanqing aside and resolved to focus on guarding Li Miaoxuan through her Calamity.

Li Miaoxuan prepared to undergo the Chaos Heaven Tribulation at Nine Tribulation Peak while Gu Yuanqing arrived to support her. After a report that three outer formation bases had been sabotaged, Li Miaoxuan took her place on the Tribulation Platform as Yun Yinghe moved to protect the sect.

• Li Miaoxuan emerged from secluded cultivation, and Yun Yinghe confirmed that the tribulation preparations were complete.
• Li Miaoxuan summoned Gu Yuanqing with a Paper Crane, and he joined her and Yun Yinghe on the way to Nine Tribulation Peak.
• The Lingxu Sect gathered to guard the site, where Xiao Yunqi watched Gu Yuanqing stand beside Li Miaoxuan.
• A cultivator reported that three array bases in the outer mountain-protecting formation had been sabotaged and their Array Tools contaminated with baleful qi.
• Yun Yinghe sent her avatar to repair the formation, while Li Miaoxuan accepted an object from Gu Yuanqing in case she faced danger.
• Li Miaoxuan entered the formation to prepare for her Calamity, and Yun Yinghe went to the Protection Grand Formation's core.