Recaps

At Nine Tribulation Peak, Li Miaoxuan began enduring her seven-nine heavenly Calamity while Gu Yuanqing guarded her. The formation was sabotaged by Tu Muyun of the Heavenly Demon Cult, leaving the collapsing tribulation array unable to protect Li Miaoxuan as the sixth layer descended.

• At Stop War Sky Wall, Spiritual Treasure Venerable confronted the Lord of Nine Li Mountain over the Demonic Path's attacks on Li Miaoxuan, but the Lord refused to restrain its sects and turned the discussion to the Outer Realm War.
• Xiao Yunqi warned Gu Yuanqing to stay away from Li Miaoxuan, and Gu Yuanqing rebuffed him as Li Miaoxuan prepared for her Calamity.
• Li Miaoxuan endured the first five layers of her heavenly Calamity, using the lightning to temper her body, divine soul, Dao laws, and Dao heart.
• As the sixth layer began, the Sha-Attracting Banner broke, and Yun Yinghe discovered that Tu Muyun had sabotaged the formation and destroyed a Formation Base Artifact.
• Tu Muyun identified himself as acting for the Heavenly Demon Cult, then self-detonated while fleeing, gravely wounding a Lingxu Sect elder.
• The Nine Revolutions Tribulation-Controlling Grand Formation collapsed completely, leaving Li Miaoxuan to face the remaining Calamity on her own.

Li Miaoxuan completed her tribulation and broke through into the Chaos Realm as the Lingxu Sect fought off a coordinated assault. As a masked attacker moved to kill her, Gu Yuanqing discovered he had found only an avatar and set out to locate the attacker’s true body.

• Li Miaoxuan endured the seventh layer of heavenly tribulation and became a Chaos Heaven Great Cultivator.
• Yun Yinghe discovered that the Lingxu Sect’s protective formations had been sabotaged, and five masked Yin-Yang Circulation Level cultivators attacked from different directions.
• Ye Zhenghong struggled to stop a flying sword that exploited flaws in the Lingmiao Blessed Land’s protective formation.
• A concealed Chaos Heaven Cultivator sent a spear and then an avatar to attack Li Miaoxuan while she was comprehending the Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared behind the masked attacker and identified him as an avatar, demanding to know where his true body was.

Gu Yuanqing swiftly killed the Shattering Heaven Realm attacker who threatened Li Miaoxuan and protected her enlightenment as the Lingxu Sect fought off masked invaders. The attackers were identified as members of the Netherworld Sect and Taiyin Hall, while Xiao Yunqi recognized Gu Yuanqing as the man who had taken his chance at the Dao of yin-yang and left without acting against him.

• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the attacker’s avatar, seized his spear, and killed the fleeing Shattering Heaven Realm cultivator with the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression.
• Gu Yuanqing stopped the Lingxu Sect elders from disturbing Li Miaoxuan’s enlightenment, and Yun Yinghe led the elders against the five masked attackers.
• Xiao Yunqi recognized Gu Yuanqing as the person who had taken his opportunity to achieve the Dao of yin-yang, but Gu Yuanqing’s glance extinguished his hostility, and Xiao Yunqi departed with Elder Sun.
• Yun Yinghe identified the attackers as members of the Netherworld Sect and Taiyin Hall; three escaped before Gu Yuanqing killed them, while two detonated themselves and severely wounded three Lingxu Sect elders.
• Ye Zhenghong watched Li Miaoxuan attain the hun tian realm and felt relieved that he had not interfered in her relationship with Gu Yuanqing.

After Li Miaoxuan survived her tribulation and stabilized in the early Shattering Heaven Realm, Lingxu Sect’s leaders welcomed her and Gu Yuanqing. Ye Zhenghong proposed that Gu Yuanqing serve as a Guest Elder, and the chapter ended as everyone awaited his answer.

• Li Miaoxuan completed her breakthrough while Gu Yuanqing guarded Nine Tribulation Peak, and Lingxu Sect members discussed his mysterious identity.
• Yun Yinghe identified the attackers as likely connected to the Netherworld Sect and Taiyin Hall, while Ye Zhenghong learned that Tu Muyun’s associates were being investigated.
• After half a month, Li Miaoxuan thanked Gu Yuanqing for helping her commune with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, then reunited with Yun Yinghe.
• Yun Yinghe brought Li Miaoxuan and Gu Yuanqing to meet Ye Zhenghong, who welcomed Gu Yuanqing with high honors.
• Li Miaoxuan agreed to a celebration within Lingxu Sect but declined a grand banquet, and Gu Yuanqing said he planned to visit the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Ye Zhenghong asked Gu Yuanqing to become Lingxu Sect’s Guest Elder, leaving the hall waiting for his response.

Gu Yuanqing declined Ye Zhenghong’s offer to become a Guest Elder but identified the assassin who attacked Li Miaoxuan as likely belonging to the Taiyin Hall. Ye Zhenghong named Li Miaoxuan the Lingxu Sect’s Dao Child after she passed the ancestors’ trial, while Gu Yuanqing prepared to leave for the Outer Realm Battlefield.

• Gu Yuanqing refused the Guest Elder position and told Ye Zhenghong that the attacker who had tried to assassinate Li Miaoxuan was likely a cultivator of the Taiyin Hall.
• Ye Zhenghong apologized to Li Miaoxuan for the sect’s past failings and offered her the Dao Child Seal; Li Miaoxuan accepted and passed the Three Dao Heart Questions.
• Li Miaoxuan visited Gu Yuanqing at the Ruins Character Courtyard and told him she had been designated the sect’s next master; Gu Yuanqing said he planned to leave for the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan visited Cheng Yi at North Spring Grotto-Heaven, then attended a banquet where Ye Zhenghong publicly announced Li Miaoxuan as the Lingxu Sect’s Dao Child.
• During Gu Yuanqing’s three-day stay, three elders resigned and disciples with past grievances against Li Miaoxuan were sent away from the blessed land, without her knowledge.

Gu Yuanqing bid farewell to Li Miaoxuan and the Lingxu Sect before setting out for the Outer Lands to temper his cultivation. As he traveled toward the Myriad Ravine Ancient Abyss, an unknown hunter investigated the site of his recent battle, while the Lord of Nine Li Mountain considered the rising prodigies of the Righteous Sects.

• Li Miaoxuan gave Gu Yuanqing a Cosmic Bag of supplies and a Taixu Ruyi Dharma Robe, and warned him about the dangers of the Outer Realm Battlefield and splitting his divine soul.
• Gu Yuanqing left Ethereal Peak with the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed, exchanged farewells with Ye Zhenghong and Yun Yinghe, and departed across the Rainbow Bridge.
• Li Miaoxuan watched Gu Yuanqing leave and resolved to strive harder so she could keep up with his progress.
• A disguised hunter investigated the lingering traces at the site where Gu Yuanqing had killed a Chaos Heaven Great Cultivator, then withdrew when Lingxu Sect cultivators approached.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain learned of Li Miaoxuan's advancement and Gu Yuanqing's presence, but decided not to act against the Righteous Sects while the Extraterrestrial Demons threatened the world.
• Gu Yuanqing continued toward the Myriad Ravine Ancient Abyss, intending to use the Outer Lands as hunting grounds and to temper his cultivation.

Gu Yuanqing traveled to the Xuanqiong Realm’s Outer Realm Battlefield and met the Spiritual Treasure Venerable at the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land. After learning that two more Chaos Heaven Deathless heavenly demons had appeared, he agreed to join the Calamity Suppression Alliance’s Elder Council.

• Gu Yuanqing passed through the guarded passage at the Myriad Ravine Ancient Abyss and entered the Xuanqiong Realm.
• At the Reception Hall, Gu Yuanqing met Zhou Jingshan, who arranged a flying boat to take him to the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land.
• Zhu Hongfei welcomed Gu Yuanqing and escorted him to the Spiritual Treasure Venerable in the Hundred Refinements Hall.
• The Spiritual Treasure Venerable told Gu Yuanqing that the Sky Patrol Department had detected two more Chaos Heaven Deathless heavenly demons, bringing their known total to six.
• The Spiritual Treasure Venerable proposed nominating Gu Yuanqing to the Calamity Suppression Alliance’s Elder Council, and Gu Yuanqing accepted.

Gu Yuanqing studied artifact refining at the Spiritual Treasure Palace and learned that the Cultivation World’s path to immortality had grown increasingly difficult. At the Calamity Suppression Alliance meeting, he was nominated for the Elder Council and asserted that he could prove his strength, leaving the gathered cultivators to judge his claim.

• Gu Yuanqing spent half a month studying the Xuanqiong Realm, Extraterrestrial Demons, and artifact refining at the Spiritual Treasure Palace.
• Ji Shan and the Spiritual Treasure Venerable discussed Li Miaoxuan’s tribulation, the Demonic Sects’ attack, and how the Great Dao had grown obscure; Gu Yuanqing suspected they were testing what he knew about Old Man Heavenly Sword’s ascension.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled with the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable and Ji Shan to the Stop War Sky Wall for the Calamity Suppression Alliance meeting.
• Heavenly Lord Ji Mie challenged Gu Yuanqing’s right to attend, and the Spirit Venerable nominated him for the Elder Council.
• Gu Yuanqing told the gathered cultivators that the Sacred Heaven Sect could testify to his strength and offered to set terms with anyone who doubted him.
• Heavenly Lord Ji Mie accepted that a chaos heaven immortal qualified, while Miaoyin Tiannv said she would seek Gu Yuanqing out later.

Gu Yuanqing joined the Calamity Suppression Alliance’s council and exposed the Taiyin Hall and Netherworld Sect’s role in an attack on the Lingxu Sect while they tried to force him into the vanguard. He agreed to join the expedition as a main attacker, and preparations began for the strike against the heavenly demons three months later.

• Gu Yuanqing claimed a seat on the Elder Council by leaving a soul imprint in the Xuanqiong Myriad Phenomena Mysterious Light Mirror.
• The Spirit Venerable reported growing heavenly demon numbers and proposed advancing the Alliance’s plan to strike them.
• Zhao Shengbing and Li Youhe tried to assign Gu Yuanqing the dangerous vanguard position, citing his defeat of Zhao’s avatar and his Qingping Dao Palace legacy.
• Gu Yuanqing produced a Taiyin Token and a storage bag from an attacker he had slain at the Lingxu Sect, prompting Heavenly Lord Xuanji to assign the vanguard duty to the Taiyin Hall.
• The Taiyin Hall Master accepted the vanguard position and challenged Gu Yuanqing to join the expedition; Gu Yuanqing agreed to serve as a main attacker.
• The Alliance scheduled the expedition for three months later, and its sects and departments began preparing while Gu Yuanqing studied the plan with the Spirit Venerable and Ji Shan.

As Heavenly Demons launched a major assault on the Realm Cities, the Spirit Venerable sent Gu Yuanqing to oversee three cities in the Southwestern Realm and deliver supplies. Gu Yuanqing arrived in Taixu City and asked whether its Sect Master was still there.

• In Taiyi City, Li Yu and Master Mingxin detected the Filth Plague Mother pouring through a space rift and activated the city's defenses.
• The Filth Plague Mother overwhelmed nearby cultivators, and Li Yu ordered a report sent to the Demon Suppression Mansion.
• The Spirit Venerable told Gu Yuanqing that twenty-six Realm Cities had reported Heavenly Demons and assigned him to oversee Taixu, Lingxiao, and Chaoyang Cities.
• Gu Yuanqing collected supplies from Su Panliu and used the Teleportation Array to reach Taixu City.
• Xue Yunya welcomed Gu Yuanqing, who asked whether the city's Sect Master was still there.

Gu Yuanqing met Lingxu Sect Master Ye Zhenghong, learned that the Illusory Annihilation Demon Mother threatened Lingxiao City, and cautiously ventured beyond the Space Rift. Finding that the Heavenly Angling Technique still connected him to his true body, he hunted nearby Heavenly Demons for their Mental Power before returning to find Xue Yunya waiting.

• Gu Yuanqing received the Myriad Laws Hub’s supplies from Xue Yunya and spoke with the injured Ye Zhenghong, who explained that the Illusory Annihilation Demon Mother had attacked cultivators near Lingxiao City.
• Ye Zhenghong warned Gu Yuanqing that the Demon Mother was exceptionally dangerous, but Gu Yuanqing said he would not act recklessly.
• Gu Yuanqing explored the Space Rift and discovered that his connection to his true body and the Heavenly Angling Technique remained intact beyond the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing killed a Yin-Yang Level Heavenly Demon and refined its power into Mental Power, strengthening his divine soul.
• Gu Yuanqing hunted more Heavenly Demons for three two-hour periods, then returned through the Space Rift and saw Xue Yunya waiting by Taixu City’s protective barrier.

Gu Yuanqing returned from the space rift near Taixu City, delivered supplies to Sunrise City, and purged the nearby void of Heavenly Demons. After confirming the area was clear, he headed toward Lingxiao City, where a chaos heaven immortal level demonic beast had appeared.

• Gu Yuanqing told Xue Yunya that few Heavenly Demons remained near Taixu City’s rift, then gave him a Command Token and set out for Sunrise City.
• Gu Yuanqing delivered the Myriad Laws Hub’s supplies to Wu Ruoyu and Gong Feiyang, learned that Heavenly Demon activity at Sunrise City had increased, and gave Wu Ruoyu a Command Token.
• Gu Yuanqing crossed Sunrise City’s space rift and destroyed the Heavenly Demons around it with Sword Qi and chaos heaven vital fire.
• Gu Yuanqing returned through the rift, greeted Wu Ruoyu, and flew toward Lingxiao City while killing and refining scattered Heavenly Demons along the way.

Gu Yuanqing reached Lingxiao City, found the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother beyond its space rift, and fought through her illusions and fleeing manifestations. He realized she was luring him away and exhausting his strength because she had chosen him as her prey.

• Gu Yuanqing concealed a Command Token in a meteorite, then approached Lingxiao City and saw it besieged by heavenly demons.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the space rift and discovered the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother feeding on the desire of ensnared heavenly demons.
• The Illusion Cloud Demon Mother caught Gu Yuanqing in an illusion and sent a demonic tide and two shattering heaven heavenly demons against him, but he broke through with his Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression.
• Gu Yuanqing resisted the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother's illusions, struck at her apparent forms, and burned the surrounding heavenly demons with chaos heaven vital fire.
• The Illusion Cloud Demon Mother repeatedly scattered her aura and used illusions to conceal her escape, while Gu Yuanqing sensed that she was draining his strength and targeting him.

Gu Yuanqing lured the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother into invading his body, then used the Heavenly Angling Technique and North Spring Grotto-Heaven to trap her and the Heavenly Demons in a drop of essence blood for refinement. After beginning to harvest their power, he sent an avatar toward Lingxiao City, where he started clearing the Heavenly Demons surrounding it.

• Gu Yuanqing pursued the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother through the Outer Void, pretending to weaken until she gathered her forces and attacked his body and divine soul.
• After seven days of resistance, Gu Yuanqing lured the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother's true origin devil soul into his sea of consciousness and revealed his trap.
• Gu Yuanqing empowered his avatar with his true body's strength, briefly restrained the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother, and transferred her and the invading Heavenly Demons into North Spring Grotto-Heaven within a drop of essence blood.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the trapped Heavenly Demons into spiritual power, then sent another avatar toward Lingxiao City while continuing the refinement.
• Gu Yuanqing emerged from a meteor and headed for Lingxiao City, slaying wandering Heavenly Demons along the way and cutting down more of them outside the city with the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression.

Gu Yuanqing arrived at besieged Lingxiao City and annihilated the surrounding heavenly demons, then returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven to refine Illusion Cloud Demon Mother and meditate. After resuming his role in Lingxiao City, he was drawn into the Xuanqiong Myriad Phenomena Mysterious Light Realm through its aura imprint.

• Nan Yunxi and Wang Haoran worried that Lingxiao City might fall before the Calamity Suppression Alliance sent help, then spotted a powerful cultivator approaching.
• Gu Yuanqing used Calamity Suppression, Four Phases Rotation to destroy the heavenly demons surrounding Lingxiao City, and Wang Haoran and Nan Yunxi recognized him as a likely ally of Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing declined a welcoming banquet, handed over resources, and secretly slaughtered the heavenly demons around the nearby space rift before withdrawing to a secluded cave abode.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven, merged his avatars' divine souls, refined Illusion Cloud Demon Mother, and meditated on their memories and experiences.
• After returning to Lingxiao City as an avatar, Gu Yuanqing touched the Xuanqiong Myriad Phenomena Mysterious Light Realm's aura imprint and was drawn into the mirror.

Gu Yuanqing joined a major expedition to hunt the Filth Plague Mother in the Outer Realm, where the cultivators planned to use Lu Jiuming as bait and strike once the demon was located. After they slipped through the space rift and began tracking Lu, Gu Yuanqing asked Ji Shan where the heavenly demons had come from.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji briefed the gathered leaders on threats across the boundary domains, and Miaoyin Tiannv identified three possible targets for a coordinated strike.
• The leaders chose the Filth Plague Mother near Great Settlement Realm City and arranged additional resources before scheduling the expedition for seven days later.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to Lingxiao City, visited the injured Ye Zhenghong in Taixu City, and later assured Ji Shan he would protect him during the operation.
• Lu Jiuming was assigned to act as bait while Gu Yuanqing and Han Jingshan formed the main assault force, with Ji Shan and other cultivators preparing the formation.
• At Taiyi City, Zen Master Wuneng drew the nearby heavenly demons into chaos, allowing Lu Jiuming to slip through the rift and search for the Filth Plague Mother; the rest of the party followed aboard Heavenly Lord Xuanji's concealed Flying Shuttle.
• As they waited in the Outer Realm, Gu Yuanqing asked Ji Shan where the heavenly demons had originated.

Lu Jiuming’s attempt to lure the Filth Plague Mother to a prepared formation went awry when the Shattering Star Eye Demon joined the pursuit. With the formation still incomplete, Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fought off the two demons while Heavenly Lord Xuanji and Ji Shan hurried to finish it.

• Lu Jiuming confirmed the Filth Plague Mother’s true body and signaled Heavenly Lord Xuanji to begin setting up the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array.
• On the fifth day of the formation’s construction, Lu Jiuming raced toward the formation site with the Filth Plague Mother and the Shattering Star Eye Demon pursuing him.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Gu Yuanqing, and Han Jingshan chose to fight despite the incomplete formation, which needed at least four more hours.
• Gu Yuanqing and Han Jingshan blocked Lu Jiuming from reaching the formation, then joined him in battling the demons and their accompanying horde.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji and Ji Shan continued rushing to complete the formation as the three cultivators held the demons back.

Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming lured the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye into the completed Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array and helped trap them. As the formation began refining the demons, the cultivators sensed new threats in several directions, and Xuanji Daojun warned that they were in serious trouble.

• Han Jingshan used the Myriad Transformations Sword Lotus to break the heavenly demons’ domain after Lu Jiuming nearly fled under their illusions.
• Gu Yuanqing deployed the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression, and the three cultivators retreated toward the formation once it was complete.
• Ji Shan activated the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array, trapping the heavenly demons and their source imprints within a vast cage.
• Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming entered the array cores and helped hold back the demons’ counterattacks while the formation compressed them.
• After more than half a day, the cultivators stabilized the formation and withdrew, leaving it to refine the trapped demons.
• Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Xuanji Daojun sensed danger in multiple directions, and Xuanji Daojun warned that serious trouble was approaching.

Han Jingshan, Gu Yuanqing, and Heavenly Lord Xuanji guarded the formation refining the Filth Plague Mother and the Star Shattering Demon Eye while fighting a growing army of heavenly demons in the Outer Void. After weeks of battle and mounting exhaustion, Gu Yuanqing became the group’s mainstay, but a new Chaos Heaven Deathless Great Demon arrived as the fighting continued.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji chose to hold their position while the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array completed its month-long refinement, and Han Jingshan and Gu Yuanqing agreed to fight.
• Han Jingshan engaged the Formless Shadow Demon, Gu Yuanqing charged into the Blood Sea Demon Lord’s blood sea, and Heavenly Lord Xuanji trapped the Nine-Headed Demon Owl in an array.
• The heavenly demons’ numbers and attacks increased over the following days, draining the cultivators as they defended the formation; Lu Jiuming recovered and joined Han Jingshan against the Formless Shadow Demon.
• As the four cultivators formed a Four Symbols array, Gu Yuanqing took the lead and helped the others recover, but their defensive perimeter continued to shrink.
• An enormous Bone Demon assembled from countless creatures’ bones arrived and brought its palm crashing down on the battlefield.

Gu Yuanqing and the exhausted cultivators suppressed the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye, then fled as the remaining great demons pursued them through the Outer Lands. Gu Yuanqing stayed behind to cover the others’ retreat, facing the four immortal-level demons alone with plans to use hidden methods against them.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fought off the Bone Demon and other demons while Gu Yuanqing maintained the failing sword formation.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji announced that the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye had been sealed in the Demon Refining Treasure Bottle, and the cultivators escaped through a gap opened by a Thunderstrike Bead.
• After three days of pursuit, Heavenly Lord Xuanji offered to stay behind, but Gu Yuanqing volunteered instead and asked the others to protect Li Miaoxuan and the Qingping Dao Palace disciples.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming promised support for Gu Yuanqing’s connections and continued toward the space rift as he blocked the pursuing demons.
• Gu Yuanqing faced the four immortal-level demons alone and considered using hidden methods to kill and refine one of them.

Gu Yuanqing held off four Chaos Heaven Immortal Level demonic beasts while Heavenly Lord Xuanji and the others escaped, using the battle to deepen his understanding of the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao. Once they were safely away, he unleashed his true strength and trapped the demons in the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Formation, leaving them to realize he was a Void Immortal.

• Gu Yuanqing used his avatars to block the Nine-Headed Demon Owl and Formless Shadow Demon while Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fled.
• Gu Yuanqing sent another avatar to face the Blood Sea Demon Lord, whose blood sea fed the avatar's Chaos Heaven Vital Fire, and a fourth avatar confronted the Bone Demon.
• Gu Yuanqing replenished his avatars from his true body in North Spring Grotto-Heaven and used the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao to intensify the demons' greed and blunt their vigilance.
• After confirming Xuanji Daojun and the others had escaped, Gu Yuanqing arranged his four avatars in the Circulation of Heaven Star Array and revealed his true body's aura.
• Gu Yuanqing expanded his sword formation across more than thirty thousand li, suppressing the four demons and disrupting their attempts to flee.
• The four demonic beasts panicked and recognized that Gu Yuanqing was a Void Immortal, not a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level cultivator.

Gu Yuanqing trapped four Heavenly Demons in his sword domain, destroyed the Myriad Bone Demon, and captured much of the others’ demonic thoughts for refining. Meanwhile, the Calamity Suppression Alliance feared the expedition had gone wrong, but its members finally received word that the demon hunters had returned.

• The four Heavenly Demons tried to flee Gu Yuanqing’s sword domain, then attacked together and self-destructed to give their origin demonic thoughts a chance to escape.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the explosion, destroyed the Myriad Bone Demon, and captured most of the Blood Sea Demon Lord’s, Formless Shadow Demon’s, and Nine-Headed Demon Owl’s demonic thoughts.
• Gu Yuanqing spent half a month refining the captured demonic thoughts, then killed an approaching group of low-level Heavenly Demons when the Nine-Headed Demon Owl tried to rescue a fragment.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Lu Jiuming, Ji Shan, and the others reached the space rift, where the Calamity Suppression Alliance was anxiously awaiting news.
• A figure appeared at the rift and announced that the seniors who had gone demon hunting beyond the realm had returned, drawing the Spirit Venerable and other cultivators to the entrance.

After the others escaped, Gu Yuanqing refined the trapped demons in the Outer Lands, strengthened his sword mastery, and withdrew into seclusion to prepare for the Primordial Divine Sect. The Spirit Venerable honored Gu Yuanqing’s sacrifice and announced how the pills made from the captured demons would be distributed.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji and the other returning cultivators reported that Gu Yuanqing had stayed behind to cover their retreat against six Chaos Heaven Deathless Great Demons.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the scattered demonic thoughts, deepened his Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Dao, and pulled the contained region of space into North Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Yuanqing chose not to return to the Xuanqiong Realm and entered seclusion to turn the demons’ power into greater divine soul strength and Dao attainment.
• The Spirit Venerable announced that the two captured demons could yield sixteen Top-Tier Spirit-Nurturing Pills and proposed granting Gu Yuanqing two of each pill for his sacrifice.

The Calamity Suppression Alliance debated Gu Yuanqing’s compensation and ordered its realm-city defenses maintained while the heavenly demons remained mysteriously absent. Ji Shan searched for Qian Yuan Island, encountered Qiu Weifeng surviving his tribulation, and exposed that he had followed Qiu Weifeng’s avatar to the island, where Gu Yuanqing greeted him.

• Li Youhe, Zhao Shengbing, and others argued that Gu Yuanqing should receive fewer pills, but Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Xiao Lingyue, and Heavenly Lord Ji Mie supported awarding him one Supreme Return-to-Quiescence Pill and two Nine Revolutions Returning to True Pills.
• The Spirit Venerable ordered the alliance to keep defending its realm cities and search for the missing deathless heavenly demons, while rumors spread that Gu Yuanqing’s avatar had been devoured.
• Ye Zhenghong emerged from seclusion and decided to inform the Lingxu Sect about Gu Yuanqing’s loss without disturbing Miaoxuan.
• Ji Shan received pills and set out to ask Gu Yuanqing what his avatar had sensed before it perished.
• After searching for more than ten years, Ji Shan found Qiu Weifeng surviving his Seven-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and followed him toward Qian Yuan Island.
• Qiu Weifeng sent an avatar ahead to the island, but Ji Shan appeared beside it, and Gu Yuanqing greeted him from within the formation.

Ji Shan visited Gu Yuanqing to deliver the Calamity Suppression Alliance’s rewards, while Gu Yuanqing concealed what had truly happened in the outer realm. The Qian Yuan Sect and Qingping Dao Palace continued to develop, but movement in the Dao Source Forbidden Land hinted at a new disturbance.

• Ji Shan praised Li Chengyi and gave him a Primordial Unity Formation Disk, then delivered Gu Yuanqing pills and merit from the Calamity Suppression Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing accepted the alliance’s compensation but returned Ji Shan’s extra pill, asking him instead to look after Qian Yuan Sect disciples in the future.
• After Ji Shan left, Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that he had only pretended to lose his avatar to avoid scrutiny from the Demonic Sects.
• Li Miaoxuan learned that Gu Yuanqing’s avatar had supposedly perished in the outer realm and told Mu Chuxia that she trusted him.
• Gu Yuanqing appointed Qiu Weifeng, who had disbanded the Heavenly Demon Cult, as the Qingping Dao Palace’s Transmission Elder.
• Years later, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle resumed its journey with Qian Yuan Island, and Gu Yuanqing sensed movement in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.