Recaps

Gu Yuanqing attacked the Primordial Divine Sect, but Wei Zhao intervened and explained that the sect wanted the Great Void Creation Wheel’s power to suppress the True Demon’s soul and protect the world. Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Zhao’s account and refused to sacrifice his own interests for the sect’s plan.

• Gu Yuanqing dismissed the Primordial Divine Sect’s complaints and used the North Spring World Suppressing Seal to break through its protective formation.
• The Gui Cang Hall appeared and stopped the seal from crushing Ancient God Mountain, and Wei Zhao emerged to negotiate with Gu Yuanqing.
• Wei Zhao claimed the Primordial Divine Sect needed the Great Void Creation Wheel to weaken the True Demon’s soul and stabilize its seal in the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Zhao revealed that Wei Wuji had sacrificed the Great Wei Divine Dynasty to imprison the True Demon’s soul and warned that the seal was weakening.
• Gu Yuanqing told Wei Zhao that he did not believe him and would not let a grand plan pressure him into sacrificing his interests.

Gu Yuanqing unleashed World Arrival to fight Wei Zhao while Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder battered them, and his avatar plundered the Primordial Divine Sect’s treasures. When he tried to draw out the earth vein beneath Ancient God Mountain, Wei Zhao revealed a hidden Heavenly God Divine Body, which wounded Gu Yuanqing’s attackers before retreating underground as Gui Cang Hall endured the punishment.

• Gu Yuanqing expanded World Arrival around Ancient God Mountain and used the North Spring World Suppressing Seal to battle Wei Zhao and Gui Cang Hall while resisting Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder.
• As the clash shattered the Primordial Divine Sect’s Protection Grand Formation, Gu Yuanqing’s avatar swept the Scripture Collection Pavilion, Treasure Pavilion, and other sites clean of their contents.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed something sealed beneath Ancient God Mountain and began drawing out its earth vein, prompting Wei Zhao to unleash the power of Gui Cang Hall and summon five True God remnant souls.
• Wei Zhao sent a Divine Spark projection underground, and an enormous Heavenly God Divine Body burst through Ancient God Mountain and attacked Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan wounded the divine body and restrained its falling blood before Wei Zhao withdrew the hand beneath the mountain and left Gui Cang Hall to withstand the Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder.

After defeating Wei Zhao’s forces, Gu Yuanqing studied the spoils and investigated the Ancient Realm, finding that the Blood Moon’s influence had turned most inhabitants into yin souls. After thirty years of preparation, he entered seclusion and began deriving his cultivation technique, glimpsing possible futures that ranged from death to celestial immortality.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed Wei Zhao’s surviving divine body, the true demon, and the danger of involving the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Ancient Realm’s phantom vanished, and Gu Yuanqing’s defense of the Qian Yuan Realm raised his prestige across the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the Primordial Divine Sect’s treasures and records while the North Spring Realm absorbed the Ancient Realm’s yin soul auras.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Ancient Realm and found its cities devastated, their inhabitants turned into yin souls beneath the Blood Moon’s phantom.
• After another thirty years of study and Dao Discussions with Li Miaoxuan, Gu Yuanqing entered seclusion and activated Dao Derivation Augmentation to derive his cultivation technique.

Gu Yuanqing derived and mastered a revised cultivation technique and strengthened his divine abilities while Li Miaoxuan advanced to Void Immortal Great Accomplishment. After Li Chengyi left to temper himself in the Xuanqiong Realm, Gu Yuanqing hosted the Spirit Venerable and Ji Shan for a Dao discussion, then entered the Immortal Painting again.

• Gu Yuanqing replaced his cultivation technique and derived stronger versions of his divine abilities using incense and fire qi and true demon qi.
• Li Miaoxuan also reached Void Immortal Great Accomplishment, and she and Gu Yuanqing sparred while comparing their Dao insights.
• Li Guanrong abdicated the Great Qian throne in favor of Li Yuze and brought veteran court officials to North Spring Mountain.
• Li Chengyi asked Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan for permission to travel, then entered a spatial Vortex to reach the Xuanqiong Realm.
• The Spirit Venerable visited with Ji Shan, and both gained insights from seven days of discussing the Dao with Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing's avatar entered the Qingping Dao Palace and flew into the Immortal Painting.

Gu Yuanqing explored the Immortal Painting to study how its spirit had gained consciousness, then returned to the North Spring Grotto-Heaven with new insights. More than twenty years later, the Ancient Realm continued to suffer repeated resets, while Shadow and three True Demon Apostles entered the Dragon Demon Realm and reached the site of the former North Spring Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing restrained the Person in the Painting and used the North Spring Realm's phantom to examine the painting's spiritual origins.
• Gu Yuanqing offered the Person in the Painting a possible escape in exchange for a soul seal and Nether God Contract, then left as the formation imprisoned him again.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar after three months and discussed his insights with Li Miaoxuan before they entered secluded cultivation.
• Over the next twenty-odd years, repeated resets in the Ancient Realm left residents missing or with damaged memories, provoking panic and violence.
• Shadow and three True Demon Apostles entered the Dragon Demon Realm and arrived where North Spring Mountain had once stood.

Shadow and the True Demon Apostles used true demon blood and hundreds of millions of Devil Beasts in a ritual to find and attack North Spring Grotto-Heaven. Gu Yuanqing revealed its location deliberately, allowing the North Spring Realm to devour the assault as nourishment.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan watched the True Demon Apostles search for North Spring Mountain while Shadow argued that finding Gu Yuanqing could advance their master's plans.
• Shadow summoned a divine statue and offered it true demon blood, drawing power from the Blood Moon as Lie Shanyu explained that he had maneuvered the devils into targeting Gu Yuanqing.
• The Blood Moon became a giant demon eye, and the Devil Beasts in the Dragon Demon Realm exploded to form an altar that empowered the true demon fire.
• Gu Yuanqing deliberately let North Spring Grotto-Heaven reveal a trace of its aura, and the True Demon Apostles identified its location and intensified their attack.
• The North Spring Realm absorbed and refined the Blood Moon's power, demonic qi, and true demon fire, turning the assault into nourishment.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan let the True Demon Apostles believe their Blood Moon-powered assault was close to forcing the North Spring Realm into view, while Gu Yuanqing secretly absorbed the power they poured into it. As the Blood Moon’s influence spread and Feng Yan questioned his identity, Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had come from the Fa Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed the Blood Moon’s power and decided to let the True Demon Apostles keep attacking so he could absorb it.
• Shadow and the other apostles intensified their formation, and Gu Yuanqing staged signs of weakness to convince them the North Spring Realm was nearly exposed.
• Over a month, the apostles sacrificed countless Devil Beasts to sustain the altar, while Gu Yuanqing gained substantial power from the assault.
• Feng Yan asked Feng Yue whether he was truly himself after feeling an unfamiliar voice rise within him under the Blood Moon.
• Lie Shanyi proposed that someone from the Fa Yuan Realm had already arrived in the Demon Realm, and Lie Shanyu realized he meant Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing let the True Demon Apostles exhaust themselves against North Spring Mountain before their True Demon Artifact vanished against its barrier, allowing him to capture them and suppress the demonic assault. He kept the apostles and artifact in the North Spring Realm, while Lie Shanyu and Lie Shanyi remained uncertain about Gu Yuanqing’s strength and the future of Demon God Mountain.

• Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had surpassed demigod strength, and Lie Shanyu worried that Gu Yuanqing might blame their clan for the attack on the Underground Cave Seal.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the True Demon Apostles’ sacrifice empower the Blood Moon and strengthen the North Spring Realm, while the apostles grew impatient at their repeated failure to break its barrier.
• One True Demon Apostle unleashed a True Demon Artifact at North Spring Mountain, but the artifact vanished into the barrier without causing any damage.
• Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm’s sword-filled phantom world and Demon Refining Ascension Tower to capture the four True Demon Apostles, then swept those carrying True Demon power into his realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the apostles and the artifact for later use, and he and Li Miaoxuan hoped the Demon Realm would remain quiet while they cultivated.

Lie Shanyu sought Gu Yuanqing’s help for Demon God Mountain’s failing seal, but Gu Yuanqing refused, denying any connection to the Fa Yuan Realm. The Four Great Families then sacrificed their treasures and bloodlines to contact their ancestral land, but received no response, leaving Lie Shanyu fearing that their foundations—or the Fa Yuan Realm itself—were gone.

• Lie Shanyu and Lie Shanyi discussed the Black Sea report and decided to wait before contacting Gu Yuanqing again or activating the Ancestral Altar.
• Thirteen years later, Li Miaoxuan returned to the Lingxu Sect to relinquish her Dao Child position and become an elder focused on cultivation.
• Lie Shanyu visited Gu Yuanqing and explained that the Demon Lord’s failing seal threatened the world, asking him to contact the Fa Yuan Realm; Gu Yuanqing refused and warned him not to return.
• Lie Shanyu returned to Demon God Mountain and ordered the ancestral sacrifice after Gu Yuanqing declined to help.
• The Four Great Families sacrificed treasures, ancestral relics, and bloodline power to send a message to the Fa Yuan Realm, but after two days the light vanished without a reply, and Lie Shanyu wondered whether their ancestors were gone.

Gu Yuanqing continued strengthening himself and the North Spring Realm while the Demon Realm’s crisis subsided and rumors spread that a Demon Lord Soul was worsening the Ancient Realm’s chaos. Wei Zhao later approached Gu Yuanqing with an offer to help him become a genuine True God if he would intervene, leaving Gu Yuanqing to consider the proposal.

• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in the North Spring Realm as the Qian Yuan Realm’s influence grew and he became the undisputed strongest person in the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• Demon God Mountain suppressed the True Demon Apostle and resealed the Underground Cave fissure after a fierce battle in the Demon Realm.
• Li Guanrong and Gu Siyuan told Gu Yuanqing that rumors blamed a suppressed Demon Lord Soul for the Ancient Realm’s growing chaos, and Gu Yuanqing confirmed the soul existed.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that he had secretly visited the Ancient Realm and believed its ruler was nearing the loss of control as more of the demon soul’s power leaked out.
• Wei Zhao sent a divine soul to speak with Gu Yuanqing and offered to help him survive the Divine Tribulation and attain genuine True Godhood if he intervened in the Ancient Realm.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Zhao’s request to use the Way of Creation to slay the true demon soul, learning that ancient God King obsessions had begun to infest rule divine artifacts. After decades of family life and cultivation, the North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, a higher world ruled by the Great Void Creation Wheel rather than the immortal realm Gu Yuanqing had hoped to reach.

• Wei Zhao warned Gu Yuanqing that awakened God King obsessions occupied rule divine artifacts and could seize the bodies of cultivators who drew on them.
• Gu Yuanqing refused Wei Zhao’s offer to help him become a True God and declined to act against the true demon soul without his terms being met.
• More than twenty years later, Li Haotian celebrated his thousandth birthday, and he suggested Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan hold the wedding ceremony they had never had; Li Miaoxuan declined.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan celebrated their birthdays as visitors from many realms came to meet Gu Yuanqing and discuss the Dao with him.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the North Spring Realm beginning to connect to a higher world and found that the new realm’s vital energy strengthened his true dao source seed.
• The North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing recognized the Great Void Creation Wheel before telling Li Miaoxuan where they had arrived.

After the North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan used its evolving Great Dao to deepen their cultivation while avoiding interference in the higher world. After observing a battle between Divine Court gods and preparing for possible discovery, they learned from Wei Zhao that the Demon Lord Soul had leaked into the Exquisite Realm Domain.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan decided not to interfere with the Fa Yuan Realm, though a demigod briefly searched the area where the North Spring Realm had appeared.
• The Fa Yuan Realm’s power and Rule Divine Artifact Dao nourished the North Spring Realm, helping Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan refine their Dao foundations; Gu Yuanqing’s panel showed his talent and comprehension had gained the title Exiled Immortal’s Appearance.
• Over the following century, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan neared the void immortal peak, improved their Dharma Treasures, and spent much of their time together instead of cultivating alone.
• Gu Yuanqing witnessed two Divine Court Heavenly Gods battle near Taihua City, and their clash sent destructive aftershocks across the surrounding mountains without harming the North Spring Realm.
• A group led by a crimson-robed demigod searched the battlefield and recovered a source crystal containing a law fragment from the Nirvana Purifying World Cauldron; Gu Yuanqing watched them return to Taihua City.
• Wei Zhao arrived outside the Qian Yuan Realm and told Gu Yuanqing that the Demon Lord Soul’s power had leaked into the Exquisite Realm Domain.

Gu Yuanqing confirmed that killing Great Wei Divine Dynasty inhabitants in the Ancient Realm could carry the Demon Lord’s demonic thoughts into the Exquisite Realm Domain, then tasked Li Chengyi with finding the culprit. After a cultivator’s rampage spread demonic qi through the East Mountain Realm, Gu Yuanqing removed the taint from those affected, but the corruption continued to expand.

• Wei Zhao told Gu Yuanqing that a cultivator had carried demonic thoughts out of the Ancient Realm and urged him to act, but Gu Yuanqing refused to enter and demanded that Wei Zhao summon the realm instead.
• Gu Yuanqing tested Wei Zhao’s warning by killing a yin soul in Wuyi City and found that demonic power clung to his split soul when it left the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing informed Li Miaoxuan and Li Chengyi, then ordered Li Chengyi to find the cultivator and keep the matter secret; Li Chengyi mobilized the Qian Yuan Sect and Great Qian Dynasty to investigate.
• A Void Heaven Cultivator from Golden Peak Hall slaughtered disciples, fled, and detonated himself, tainting Shen Yandong and the elders who tried to remove the demonic qi.
• Gu Yuanqing extracted the demonic qi from those affected and checked their contacts, but days later Li Chengyi reported that the qi left by the explosion was corroding people and beasts across the East Mountain Realm, and his efforts had barely slowed its spread.

Li Chengyi and his parents debated whether the Ancient Realm was deliberately spreading the Devil Venerable Soul’s power, while demonic corruption spread through the Exquisite Realm Domain. Li Chengyi contained one outbreak with Gu Yuanqing’s cauldron, but new cult activity and propaganda emerged, leaving Gu Yuanqing uncertain who was behind it.

• Li Miaoxuan suspected the Ancient Realm was forcing Gu Yuanqing to intervene by letting the Devil Venerable Soul’s influence spread, and Li Chengyi advised caution while offering to contain the demonic power.
• Gu Yuanqing gave Li Chengyi a cauldron containing Origin Dao True Fire, which Li Chengyi used to refine the demonic qi in the East Mountain Realm.
• Demonic activity spread to two more boundary domains, while rumors claimed that killing Great Wei Divine Dynasty subjects could extend life and break cultivation bottlenecks.
• The Taichu Holy Church reappeared and recruited demonic cultivators, prompting the Qian Yuan Sect and major sects to order the killing of anyone who brought Demon Lord power into the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• The Taichu Holy Church declared that the Demon Lord was a wrongfully slandered Holy Venerable, and Li Miaoxuan and Gu Yuanqing questioned whether the Primordial Divine Sect or the Demon Lord’s own forces were behind the movement.

Gu Yuanqing’s Dao lecture quelled rumors about the Taichu Holy Church as he reached Void Immortal Perfection, while Gu Yuanying advanced to Heavenly Human. He then confronted Wei Zhao over the Ten Directions Token and attacked the Primordial Divine Sect after Wei Zhao refused to surrender it.

• Gu Yuanqing expounded the Dao throughout the Exquisite Realm Domain, denying any connection to the Demon Lord and teaching cultivators up to the Shattering Heaven Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Void Immortal Perfection, and Gu Yuanying survived the Two-Nine Tribulation to become a Heavenly Human.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan he planned to visit the Primordial Divine Sect and retrieve the Ten Directions Token.
• Gu Yuanqing confronted Wei Zhao, who admitted the Primordial Divine Sect had links to the Great Wei Divine Dynasty and offered the token only on his own condition.
• Gu Yuanqing demanded the Ten Directions Token or another two hundred years of heavenly punishment for Wei Zhao, then struck the Primordial Divine Sect when Wei Zhao refused.

Gu Yuanqing fought Wei Zhao while demanding the Ten Directions Token, then used a second avatar to threaten the seal protecting Wei Zhao’s divine body. Wei Zhao unleashed his god-level power but was forced to retreat beneath Ancient God Mountain and endure the strengthening heavenly punishment, while Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan considered what to do if the Ancient Realm’s crisis worsened.

• Gu Yuanqing shattered the Primordial Divine Sect’s protective formation and pressed Qi Yichen to hand over the Ten Directions Token.
• Wei Zhao attacked Gu Yuanqing with the Gui Cang Hall, but Gu Yuanqing repeatedly weakened its connection to the Great Dao and forced Wei Zhao to fight under heavenly punishment.
• Gu Yuanqing’s other avatar questioned Qi Yichen and learned that the Ten Directions Token was enshrined in the Ancestor Hall, then disturbed the earth veins beneath Ancient God Mountain.
• Wei Zhao rushed to protect his sealed divine body, unleashed his god-level power, and sent its Divine Spark projection into the mountain as a giant hand emerged to attack Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing withdrew his avatar, while Wei Zhao returned underground and used the Gui Cang Hall to suppress his aura and withstand heavenly punishment.
• In the North Spring Realm, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed Wei Zhao’s motives and agreed to wait and see whether the Ancient Realm’s situation worsened.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan continued to cultivate as the North Spring Realm grew into an immortal paradise, while the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Gods suspected Gu Yuanqing was one of those who returned to the ruins. In the Ancient Realm, Wei Zhao entered the Mirror of Rebirth and found an elderly man who resembled Wei Wuji, addressing him as his father.

• The Mountain Bearing Black Tortoise settled among uninhabited islands, where Qian Yuan Sect disciples discovered and collected rare cultivation resources.
• Little White reached the chaos heaven deathless realm without undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation, while Xiao Lingyue failed his Void Immortal Tribulation and died.
• Gu Yuanqing’s growing strength made it increasingly difficult for Wei Zhao and the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Gods to oppose him, leading them to speculate that he had returned from the ruins.
• Wei Zhao entered the Ancient Realm and demanded that Wei Wuji open the Mirror of Rebirth.
• Inside the mirror, Wei Zhao found an elderly man resembling Wei Wuji, bound in a struggle between opposing powers, and called him Father.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan welcomed their son Gu Huai'an, then celebrated their family’s growing lineage at a banquet on North Spring Mountain. Elsewhere, Li Huang and Zhou Tianyan prepared to sacrifice a few Exquisite Worlds to prevent the Demon Lord from emerging if the seal on the Ancient Realm broke.

• Wei Zhao told the aged man that Gu Yuanqing refused to act and might be connected to those seeking to return from the ruins, prompting the man to question whether they had found a way back.
• Li Miaoxuan explained that she wanted a son with the Gu surname and hoped to raise a child with Gu Yuanqing; Gu Yuanqing agreed despite worrying about the toll on her cultivation.
• Ten years later, Li Miaoxuan gave birth to Gu Huai'an, whose arrival brought spiritual signs across the North Spring Realm, and Gu Yuanqing named him.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan welcomed their descendants and guests at a family banquet, while Li Haotian watched the flourishing lineage with contentment.
• Li Huang and Zhou Tianyan arrived in the Ningshou Realm and decided to sacrifice inhabitants of a few Exquisite Worlds as a chance to save the wider boundary domain from the Demon Lord.

Zhou Tianyan and Li Huang spread the Bone Casket’s hidden aura across the Ningshou Realm, tying its living beings to a sealed existence in the Ancient Realm. In the North Spring Realm, Li Chengyi survived his chaos heaven Calamity, and the chapter ended with upheaval erupting across several Exquisite Realm Domains.

• Zhou Tianyan concealed the area with the Immeasurable Heavenly Secrets Diagram while Li Huang opened the Bone Casket and planted its aura throughout the Ningshou Realm.
• Wei Yuan dispersed the Demon Lord’s power through the Exquisite Realm Domain to ease the pressure on himself, but warned Gu Yuanqing that entering the domain had drawn him into Calamity.
• Li Chengyi faced the seven-nine Heavenly Calamity as Qian Yuan Sect watched and endured its successive trials, becoming a chaos heaven cultivator.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan relaxed their involvement in the realms and spent years traveling and living as ordinary people, while Li Chengyi took over most of Gu Huai'an’s instruction.
• A tremendous upheaval erupted almost simultaneously in several Exquisite Realm Domains.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Taichu Holy Church’s mark had been left behind during coordinated demonic calamities that overwhelmed five realms and cut them off from the Qian Yuan Sect. He traced the calamity’s source to Ningshou Realm and found captured Qian Yuan disciples, while two conspirators were discussing how to make them fight one another.

• A fragrance triggered demonic possession during Ningshou Realm’s tournament, and the resulting calamity spread across five realms.
• Li Chengyi learned that the Teleportation Arrays in all five affected realms had been shut down, while their trapped disciples’ soul lamps still burned.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Ningshou Realm, recognized the Demon Lord’s power and the Life and Death Cycle, and found the Taichu Holy Seal inside the ruined Qian Yuan Divine Hall.
• Gu Yuanqing traced the strongest demonic aura to a Primeval Forest and spread the North Spring Realm Projection across Ningshou Realm.
• In a concealed cave, two men kept dozens of captured Qian Yuan Sect disciples restrained and discussed making them fight each other.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared from the void in the cave, immobilizing the two men.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the crisis in the boundary domains involved the Demon Lord’s power and the Primordial Divine Sect, then purged the Taichu Holy Church and rescued the Qian Yuan Sect disciples. After cleansing the disciples and other affected realms, he confronted Wei Zhao at the Primordial Divine Sect before returning to the Ancient Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing entered the underground cave, destroyed the Demon Lord Statue and the Taichu Holy Church members, and rescued the trapped Qian Yuan Sect disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing reported to Li Miaoxuan that demonic qi had contaminated the Ningshou Realm and said the root of the crisis lay in the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sent four avatars to cleanse the other boundary domains, then treated the Qian Yuan Sect disciples by removing demonic qi and life-and-death force from their bodies and souls.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that the disciples would recover but would need to strengthen their state of mind against future demonic thoughts.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the Primordial Divine Sect with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, fought Wei Zhao as heavenly punishment descended, and then appeared in the Ancient Realm.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Ancient Realm and used World Arrival and Heavenly Fishing to draw out and refine the intertwined powers of its great cultivator and the Demon Lord, refusing to follow Wei Zhao’s plan and choosing to make the power his own. After destroying towns and freeing their inhabitants from their false lives, he returned to Wuyi City and confronted Xiang Feng'er, who asked whether he had come to kill them.

• Gu Yuanqing subdued the guards at the body-condensing formation and traveled to Wuyi City, resolving to overturn the Ancient Realm’s game rather than be used as a blade.
• In a small town, Gu Yuanqing told Wang the Third that he was dead, triggering the town’s people to become resentful yin souls.
• Gu Yuanqing used World Arrival to destroy the yin souls and Heavenly Fishing to pull their intertwined demonic thoughts and life-and-death power into the North Spring Realm, where he broke them apart and let the realm refine them.
• Gu Yuanqing sent his avatars through towns across the Ancient Realm, destroying the manifestations and growing certain they all came from one person.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to Wuyi City and spoke with Xiang Feng'er, who recognized his origins and asked whether he had come to kill them.

Gu Yuanqing annihilated the inhabitants of Wuyi City and Sandao City with the North Spring Realm Projection, gathering their demonic thoughts and life-and-death force to strengthen his realm. As Wei Wuji and his ministers investigated his actions, they realized something was wrong.

• Xiang Feng'er and the Silver-Haired Elder chose to die, and Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm Projection to erase Wuyi City's inhabitants and collect the energy left behind.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed how refining the cities strengthened the North Spring Realm and how the Great Wei Divine Dynasty might respond.
• Gu Yuanqing entered Sandao City and destroyed its inhabitants and yin souls after they recognized and attacked him.
• Zhou Wei used the Heaven-Peering Mirror to observe Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing sensed the spying and disrupted the image.
• Wei Wuji and Zhou Wei saw that Gu Yuanqing had emptied another city, then Wei Wuji abruptly noticed something wrong.

Wei Wuji and Zhou Wei suspected Gu Yuanqing had altered Wusheng City and prepared to stop him, while Feng Yue investigated and then confronted him in Tiansheng City. Gu Yuanqing destroyed the Great Wei forces’ formation, but the Rebirth Banner appeared just as Feng Yue gave up resisting.

• Wei Wuji noticed Wusheng City had no yin energy or demonic qi and ordered Feng Yue to investigate Gu Yuanqing and stop him if anything was wrong.
• Wei Wuji gave Zhou Wei the Rebirth Banner and ordered him to investigate Gu Yuanqing, intervene, or force him out of the Ancient Realm.
• Feng Yue confirmed Wusheng City was unnaturally clean, while Gu Yuanqing entered Tiansheng City to cleanse it and found its powerful cultivators waiting for him.
• Feng Yue demanded that Gu Yuanqing leave the Ancient Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused and unfolded the North Spring Realm Projection.
• Feng Yue and the assembled cultivators activated a prepared formation, but Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Qi shattered it and killed the surrounding forces.
• Feng Yue stopped resisting as Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Qi reached him, but the Rebirth Banner appeared and released gray-white qi across the battlefield.

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed Zhou Wei with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, but Feng Yue sacrificed himself to strike a gap in the seal and save Zhou Wei. Gu Yuanqing pursued the fleeing Zhou Wei, who summoned an Ancient Bronze Sword as their battle continued.

• A Rebirth Banner appeared and pulled Feng Yue from Gu Yuanqing’s sword attack, while Zhou Wei used its power to fight Gu Yuanqing with the Dao of the Life and Death Cycle.
• Gu Yuanqing expanded the North Spring Realm Projection and crushed Zhou Wei with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, severely injuring him and suppressing the surviving cultivators across Tiansheng City.
• Zhou Wei urged Feng Yue to give his life meaning, and Feng Yue burned away his body and soul in a sword strike that pierced the seal and left a small mark on Gu Yuanqing’s finger before Feng Yue disappeared.
• Zhou Wei fled with the Rebirth Banner, while Gu Yuanqing pursued him, broke the Nine-Ringed God-Trapping Net, and resisted the Mirror of Rebirth’s deathly power.
• Gu Yuanqing froze the void and forced Zhou Wei out of hiding, and Zhou Wei summoned the projection of an Ancient Bronze Sword and slashed toward him.