Recaps

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed Zhou Wei despite the Life-Tracing Sword of Causality, but Wei Wuji intervened through the Mirror of Rebirth to protect him and warn Gu Yuanqing against taking Great Wei’s power. Gu Yuanqing challenged Wei Wuji to test the consequences of their conflict.

• Gu Yuanqing countered Zhou Wei’s attacks while the Rebirth Banner cracked, and Zhou Wei revealed the actual Life-Tracing Sword of Causality and struck him with its power.
• Gu Yuanqing survived the strike by using the Way of Creation, then trapped Zhou Wei in an illusion and pressed the North Spring World Suppressing Seal down as the Rebirth Banner shattered.
• Zhou Wei called on Wei Wuji, who appeared through the Mirror of Rebirth and used its life-and-death power to drive back Gu Yuanqing.
• Wei Wuji accused Gu Yuanqing of taking Great Wei’s power and warned that fighting him could unleash more Demon Lord power into the Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Wuji’s warning and challenged him, asking, “How about we give it a try?”

Gu Yuanqing clashed with Wei Wuji, whose Mirror of Rebirth repeatedly struck at him while deflecting his attacks. After collecting the power left by the dead in Tiansheng City and drawing out a stronger response, Gu Yuanqing discovered Wei Wuji's hidden mirror shadow above the Gale Wind Layer.

• Wei Wuji threatened Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing refused to become his weapon or retreat from the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Wuji used the Mirror of Rebirth to attack Gu Yuanqing through his reflection, while Gu Yuanqing dodged and diverted injuries to his Creation Dao body.
• Gu Yuanqing tried multiple attacks against the mirror, but they passed through its shadow as Wei Wuji claimed the artifact could not be challenged within the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing gathered the power left by the dead yin souls and cultivators of Tiansheng City, provoking Wei Wuji to unleash a powerful beam of life-and-death energy.
• Gu Yuanqing dodged the beam and looked above the Gale Wind Layer, realizing that Wei Wuji's true mirror shadow was concealed beneath the sun.

Gu Yuanqing gathered the Great Wei Divine Dynasty cultivators’ yin souls while fighting Wei Wuji, then escaped the Mirror of Rebirth’s attacks and destroyed its shadow with the power of the North Spring Realm. The chapter ended with his North Spring Realm Projection spreading across the Ancient Realm as Wei Wuji watched the mirror shatter.

• Gu Yuanqing evaded Wei Wuji’s rune chains while gathering the power of the Great Wei Divine Dynasty cultivators’ yin souls, then concealed it with divine soul power.
• Wei Wuji trapped Gu Yuanqing beneath the Life and Death Grinding Mill, but Gu Yuanqing reappeared and launched Myriad Dao Returns to Ruin at the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the mirror with several divine abilities, while Wei Wuji reflected their powers back at him as life-and-death forces.
• Wei Wuji drew Gu Yuanqing into the Mirror of Rebirth’s internal world and tried to drag the North Spring Realm Projection into its samsara vortex.
• Gu Yuanqing brought in his true self’s power and the strength of the entire North Spring Realm, broke the mirror’s chains, and shattered the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Wuji’s projection and continued harvesting power from the Ancient Realm, while the rulers of Great Wei debated how to stop him without waking the Demon Lord Soul. The chapter ended with the Ancient Realm quiet for three days as Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan expected Wei Wuji to make another move.

• After defeating Wei Wuji, Gu Yuanqing destroyed the souls and cultivators in another city and gathered their power for the North Spring Realm.
• In the imperial palace, Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji over Feng Yue’s death and accused him of being an avatar rather than the original.
• Wei Wuji spoke with Wei Yuan in the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow and proposed using the divine body against Gu Yuanqing, but Wei Yuan refused and told him to let Gu Yuanqing take a few cities if necessary.
• Wei Yuan sealed the Demon Lord Soul beneath the Mirror of Rebirth, while the soul urged him to release it and work together to survive.
• Wei Wuji resolved to seek another way to escape his fate, and Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that the Ancient Realm’s silence after their battle likely concealed another move.

Gu Yuanqing continued his campaign through the Great Wei Divine Dynasty to force Wei Wuji to negotiate, and the full moon passed without restoring those he had killed. After Great Wei’s ministers debated how to stop him, the Hanging City and a vast formation confronted him at Cangwu City, where Lü Zhang struck with power nearing that of a true god.

• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan he would seize Great Wei’s outlying territories until Wei Wuji understood the cost of continuing the conflict.
• Gu Yuanqing killed Saber Demon Lü Chen, who welcomed death, and gathered his remaining yin energy.
• The full moon passed without the dead or ruined cities being restored, leaving Great Wei’s cities in ruins and their people permanently dead.
• Great Wei’s ministers debated using the Hanging City and the Nation-Guarding Divine Artifact against Gu Yuanqing, and Zhou Wei received permission from Wei Wuji to answer their questions.
• Three days later, Situ Xuan and Lü Zhang led the Hanging City and a vast formation against Gu Yuanqing at Cangwu City.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the Hanging City with the Myriad Dao Returns to Ruin Palm, and Lü Zhang answered with a saber strike empowered by the city’s runes and Heaven and Earth vital energy.

Gu Yuanqing defeated the Great Wei Divine Dynasty’s forces and destroyed the Hanging City after overcoming its sealing formation and Demon Suppressing Golden Mace. He claimed the artifact, while Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji in the Imperial Palace over the doomed mission.

• Gu Yuanqing broke through Lü Zhang’s saber strike and nullified the grand formation that bound him by unfolding the North Spring Realm.
• Chen Heng summoned the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, but Gu Yuanqing’s sword formation ground down its power and held it at bay.
• Situ Xuan and the others burned their origins and drained the Hanging City’s spiritual veins to launch a final attack, but Gu Yuanqing’s sword shattered the god-and-devil phantom and sent the mace crashing into the city.
• Situ Xuan ordered a retreat, but Gu Yuanqing sealed the void, brought down the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, and destroyed the Hanging City and Cangwu City.
• Gu Yuanqing killed the remaining Great Wei cultivators, captured the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, and gathered the yin energy from the ruins.
• Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji in the Imperial Palace and demanded to know why he had sent the Great Wei forces to their deaths.

Wei Wuji revealed that their original self might no longer need his avatars and decided to open the Heavenly Prison, while Gu Yuanqing continued destroying Great Wei cities and refining their yin energy. As word of his campaign spread, Gu Yuanqing studied the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace in the North Spring Realm and began trying to refine it.

• Wei Wuji told Zhou Wei that their original self had allowed the officials to die and might no longer need his avatars, then announced he intended to open the Heavenly Prison.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace with Li Miaoxuan and learned how the North Spring Realm had weakened its power.
• Gu Yuanqing continued destroying Great Wei cities, while reports of his campaign spread through the Exquisite Realm Domain and caused alarm and excitement among its sects and cultivators.
• Gu Yuanqing drew the yin energy of the dead into the North Spring Realm, accelerating its evolution as Li Miaoxuan regained her Void Immortal peak cultivation and chose to remain by his side.
• Gu Yuanqing focused on the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace and used the North Spring Realm's suppression of its power to begin refining it.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that powerful cultivators across the Ancient Realm had gone mad and that Great Wei’s cities had fallen into chaos, then traveled to the imperial capital to confront Wei Wuji. Wei Wuji confirmed that he had deliberately allowed the situation to unfold, leaving Gu Yuanqing to question what power he had been given.

• Gu Yuanqing refined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace while Li Miaoxuan gained insights from its Dao Rhythm before stepping away from cultivation to care for their home.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar killed a deranged Chaos Heaven Immortal and uncovered the identity of a Taichu Holy Church member, whose memories he sent to Cheng Yi.
• Gu Yuanqing encountered increasing numbers of powerful Ancient Realm cultivators who had lost their reason, including a Demigod, and discussed the worsening situation with Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to investigate the Ancient Realm’s heartland cautiously, but found cities in chaos and the thirty-six major cities affected as well.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the imperial capital and confronted Wei Wuji, who said he had deliberately given Gu Yuanqing the power he wanted.

Gu Yuanqing and Wei Wuji fought a fierce battle outside the imperial city, with each testing the other’s limits. Wei Wuji escalated the fight by unleashing the Mirror of Rebirth and the Purple Pole Bell, and Gu Yuanqing noticed strange qi seeping from the ground as the chapter ended.

• Wei Wuji told Gu Yuanqing that he had opened the Heavenly Prison and invited him to fight.
• Wei Wuji and Gu Yuanqing clashed with their spear and sword techniques, and Gu Yuanqing’s sword formation grew stronger under pressure.
• Wei Wuji used the Mirror of Rebirth’s Rebirth Samsara, but Gu Yuanqing connected his avatar to the North Spring Realm and dispelled the illusions.
• Wei Wuji summoned the Purple Pole Bell and intensified the Mirror of Rebirth’s power, draining Gu Yuanqing’s life force and striking him with the bell.
• Zhou Wei appeared in horror and accused Wei Wuji of going mad, while Gu Yuanqing spotted gray-white qi and black wisps rising from the ground.

Gu Yuanqing confronted Wei Wuji outside the imperial city, and the two fought in a fierce battle that pushed both of them to their limits. Wei Wuji then unleashed the Mirror of Rebirth and the Purple Pole Bell, and as Zhou Wei cried out that he had gone mad, Gu Yuanqing noticed strange qi rising from the ground.

• Gu Yuanqing questioned Wei Wuji about opening the Heavenly Prison, and Wei Wuji explained that he could no longer suppress it after Gu Yuanqing took the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace.
• Wei Wuji revealed his battle armor and spear, and he and Gu Yuanqing began fighting at full strength outside the imperial city.
• Gu Yuanqing adapted his Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation under Wei Wuji's assault, while their attacks shook the city and its Purple Pole Bell projection.
• Wei Wuji projected the Mirror of Rebirth and used Rebirth Samsara to attack Gu Yuanqing's consciousness, but Gu Yuanqing connected his avatar to the North Spring Realm and resisted the illusions.
• Wei Wuji combined the Mirror of Rebirth's power with the Purple Pole Bell and wounded Gu Yuanqing, while Zhou Wei appeared in the distance and called Wei Wuji mad.
• Gu Yuanqing saw gray-white qi, threaded with black wisps, seeping up from the ground.

Wei Yuan’s Soul-Refining Formation consumed Wei Wuji and restored his divine body, while Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan considered the weaknesses of the Divine Path and kept watch on the Ancient Realm. A hundred years later, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle began its immortal Calamity and transformed into the Black Tortoise.

• Wei Wuji entered Wei Yuan’s divine body, where a Soul-Refining Formation consumed his divine soul and used his power to restore the body.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan about his encounter with Wei Yuan and speculated that Divine Path cultivators’ flesh could not bear the power of their souls.
• News spread that demonic calamities were diminishing, and a century later Wei Zhao met Wei Yuan, who said Gu Yuanqing was not a Return to the Ruins and that becoming a God King would be difficult.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle stirred and gathered Calamity qi, prompting the Qian Yuan Sect and Qingping Grotto-Heaven residents to withdraw to the North Spring Realm.
• After traveling to a vast archipelago, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle shed its shell and transformed into the Black Tortoise.

The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle survived his immortal Calamity, fully awakened as a Black Tortoise, and ascended to the Immortal Realm. More than a century later, after the Qian Yuan Sect had settled among the islands and Gu Huai'an became a heavenly human, Gu Yuanqing announced that he was preparing to face his own immortal Calamity.

• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle left Qian Yuan Island to face his Calamity, while Gu Yuanqing, Li Miaoxuan, and the Qian Yuan Sect disciples wished him success.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle endured nine rounds of Calamity and defeated the Immortal Beast formed from the Great Dao and Immortal Realm laws, completing his transformation into a true Black Tortoise.
• The Black Tortoise ascended through the Eye of the Great Dao, and Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan congratulated him as the Spirit Venerable arrived too late to learn whether he had succeeded.
• The Qian Yuan Sect settled across the Canghai islands, and Gu Yuanqing fortified Qian Yuan Island while Li Miaoxuan sent an avatar to the Lingxu Sect.
• Gu Huai'an passed his Calamity and became a heavenly human, prompting Li Chengyi to feel pressure about his cultivation progress.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that he was preparing to face his immortal Calamity.

Gu Yuanqing prepared to undergo the Immortal Tribulation after years of strengthening his treasures and spending time with Li Miaoxuan and their family. He released the North Spring Realm’s restraints, and the Immortal Tribulation formed over North Spring Mountain as the Spirit Realm’s great cultivators sensed it.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed the threats facing the realms, his decision to undergo the Immortal Tribulation, and the danger of remaining in the lower realm without Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Gu Yuanqing completed preliminary refinement of the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, reforged the North Spring World Suppressing Seal and Clear Nether Sword, and spent three years living quietly with his family.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan, Li Chengyi, and Gu Huai'an that he was ready for the Calamity, then went to the summit of North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing released the North Spring Realm’s restraints and his true dao source seed, causing Creation Mystery to emerge and draw immense spiritual qi into tribulation clouds.
• Qiu Weifeng, Feng Jiuniang, Qian Yuan Sect disciples, the Spirit Venerable, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, and Ji Shan sensed or watched the approaching Immortal Tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing stood calmly beneath the Calamity clouds and said, "Here it comes!"

Gu Yuanqing underwent the immortal Calamity, using the North Spring Realm to absorb each trial and transform his true Dao source seed. He became an immortal but chose to remain in the North Spring Realm instead of ascending, leaving his connection to the immortal realm isolated for now.

• Gu Yuanqing faced the nine stages of the heavenly Calamity, absorbing their power while the North Spring Realm shielded everything around him.
• The Eye of the Great Dao formed and summoned Meng Yungui's imprint as the final trial, but it shattered upon entering the North Spring Realm and its light entered Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing's soul, body, and Heavenly Human World transformed, and auspicious signs and beneficial rain spread through the Spirit Realm.
• Qiu Weifeng realized Gu Yuanqing had survived the Calamity and wondered why he had not ascended to the immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the Spirit Realm's rejection and Mortal Turbid Qi, then used the North Spring Realm to isolate his connection to the immortal realm.

Gu Yuanqing survived the Immortal Tribulation and became an Immortal, but he remained in the Lower Realm to stabilize his cultivation and perfect his immortal foundation. As he cultivated in seclusion, Li Miaoxuan prepared to leave for the Immortal Realm, while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an promised to support their parents and pursue ascension themselves.

• Gu Yuanqing became an Immortal and discovered that his new immortal body required vast amounts of energy, while the North Spring Realm's and Fa Yuan Realm's power carried impurities that could damage his foundation.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected the risk of drawing power from the Immortal Realm and chose to perfect his Immortal Foundation slowly with the North Spring Realm's spiritual energy like the sea empowerment.
• Li Chengyi ordered the Qian Yuan Sect to conceal Gu Yuanqing's successful tribulation and spread the story that Mountain Master Gu had postponed ascension to protect the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Li Chengyi asked Xiao Wuyа to monitor the Ancient Realm and Primordial Divine Sect while Gu Yuanqing stabilized his cultivation in seclusion.
• Li Miaoxuan asked Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an whether they would blame her for leaving, and the brothers accepted her choice to pursue her Dao path.
• Li Miaoxuan asked her sons to spend more time with Gu Yuanqing if she left, then saw a familiar figure in the courtyard and smiled brightly.

After becoming an immortal, Gu Yuanqing spent his remaining time with Li Miaoxuan, whose cultivation was nearing the point where she had to undergo her immortal Calamity and ascend. With her departure set for three months later, the chapter ended as she declined another farewell to her family, believing she had already said everything that needed saying.

• Gu Yuanqing reunited with Li Miaoxuan after emerging from seclusion, and they discussed how the North Spring Realm could not connect her to the Immortal Realm soon enough.
• Li Miaoxuan helped Gu Yuanqing understand the changes brought by immortality, while he demonstrated that he could awaken spirituality in lifeless matter within the North Spring Realm.
• Li Miaoxuan told Gu Yuanqing she would undergo her immortal Calamity in three months and asked him to care for her father, Li Haotian.
• Li Miaoxuan entered seclusion to prepare, while Gu Yuanqing refined his cultivation and Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Haotian visited him.
• Li Miaoxuan emerged from seclusion, walked through the mountains with Gu Yuanqing, and shared a family banquet with her relatives and descendants.
• At dawn, Li Miaoxuan exchanged a final look with Li Haotian from afar and told Gu Yuanqing she did not need to see the others again.

Li Miaoxuan faced the Immortal Tribulation on North Spring Mountain and overcame its trials, including the projection of Patriarch Mingchen. She became an Immortal as cultivators gathered to witness her ascension, while people on the islands below heard the news.

• Li Miaoxuan gave Gu Yuanqing the Green Hairpin, and he placed the Dragon Slaying Guillotine in her hair before releasing the restraint on her aura.
• Li Miaoxuan’s Immortal Tribulation summoned calamity clouds across the Spirit Realm, drawing the Spirit Venerable, Ji Shan, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, and other cultivators toward Canghai.
• Li Miaoxuan absorbed and refined the first eight heavenly calamities with her Heavenly Human World, while the Dragon Slaying Guillotine helped her withstand the later trials.
• Li Miaoxuan defeated Patriarch Mingchen’s projection in the final trial and absorbed its remaining power into her Heavenly Human World.
• Li Miaoxuan’s Dao source seed transformed, and she became an Immortal as Immortal Music rang out and Heavenly Blossoms fell.
• The gathered cultivators congratulated Li Miaoxuan, and people on the islands below wondered who Fairy Miaoxuan was.

Li Miaoxuan ascended to the Immortal Realm, leaving Gu Yuanqing behind on North Spring Mountain. After a year of seclusion, Gu Yuanqing sensed the soul imprint she carried and resolved to cultivate until he could reach her.

• Li Miaoxuan entered the Eye of the Great Dao after bidding farewell to Gu Yuanqing, Li Haotian, and her descendants; two cultivators who tried to follow her were destroyed.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the servants away, entered seclusion, and began cultivating while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an received visitors.
• Feng Tao asked to remain on the mountain, but Gu Yuanqing sent her to the Qian Yuan Sect to live and cultivate in peace.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the laws of his Heavenly Human World and nurtured its development as part of his True Immortal cultivation.
• After a year, Gu Yuanqing sensed the soul imprint Li Miaoxuan carried and believed that further cultivation could eventually let him open a passage to the Immortal Realm.

After Li Miaoxuan ascended, rumors spread that Gu Yuanqing was dead or had left the Spirit Realm, stirring Demonic cultivators to consider probing the Qian Yuan Sect. Gu Yuanqing remained in seclusion for centuries, strengthened the North Spring Realm, and appeared to sense something in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.

• Li Miaoxuan's witnessed ascension renewed cultivators' hopes and brought a wave of visitors to the Lingxu Sect and Qian Yuan Sect, while Ye Zhenghong worried about the Lingxu Sect's diminished strength.
• Four Demonic Great Cultivators debated whether Gu Yuanqing had died or ascended, then agreed to send spies into the Qian Yuan Sect before considering an attack.
• Li Chengyi and his family discussed the rumors, planned to watch for probes and spies, and Li Chengyi ordered Gu Huai'an to focus on his cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing remained in seclusion as the North Spring Realm grew stronger; more than three hundred years later, he descended to guide Li Haotian, who survived the Yin-Yang Great Tribulation.
• After returning to cultivation, Gu Yuanqing sensed something and manifested a Dharma Form above the Sacred Mountain in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.

Gu Yuanqing sensed the Fa Yuan Realm’s attempt to reach the Boundary Gate and watched Wei Zhao seal it, then continued cultivating while assessing the threat. Wei Zhao later proposed an alliance against the Guixu Alliance, but Gu Yuanqing left the offer undecided and returned to his peaceful cultivation.

• Gu Yuanqing used karmic sight from the Dao Source Forbidden Land to observe Wei Zhao, Zhou Tianyan, and Yan Guichi at the Boundary Gate, where Wei Zhao sealed the gate as the others concealed the area.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel and the realms, judged that the Guixu Alliance might eventually threaten him, and continued reading the Heavenly Dao Scripture and cultivating.
• Wei Zhao visited Gu Yuanqing and mistook his breakthrough for reaching the True God realm.
• Wei Zhao proposed that he and Gu Yuanqing join forces against the Guixu Alliance, but Gu Yuanqing neither accepted nor rejected the offer and resumed cultivating.

After more than a century of peace, Gu Yuanqing observed escalating battles across the Fa Yuan Realm between Heavenly Gods wielding Rule Divine Artifacts, while the North Spring Realm continued to strengthen. He turned back to cultivating, anticipating the realm’s next transformation and hoping it would produce immortal spiritual qi.

• Gu Yuanqing watched a clash between the Great Void Realm-Settling Tower and the Sky Transformation Command Wind Seal shake the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Heavenly Law Bell appeared, and Gu Yuanqing recognized the disturbance as a Dao Struggle between two Heavenly God cultivators.
• Gu Yuanqing later learned the combatants belonged to the Returning to the Void Alliance and the Divine Court, and further battles involving many Heavenly Gods plunged the Fa Yuan Realm into turmoil.
• Gu Yuanqing noted that no God Kings had appeared and withdrew his attention from the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing found that the Underground Demon Realm’s Demonic Qi had thinned and sensed reduced danger in the Underground Cave, but chose not to investigate the Demon Lord’s suppressed body.
• Gu Yuanqing observed the North Spring Realm thriving without relying on outside worlds and anticipated its next change, especially the possible emergence of immortal spiritual qi.

Gu Yuanqing visited Gu Yuanying and learned that grief over her children’s deaths had weakened her resolve, but she refused to be persuaded to prolong her life. Meanwhile, Li Chengyi survived his chaos immortal Calamity and a demonic ambush, and the chapter ended as Gu Yuanqing sensed the North Spring Realm beginning to transform.

• Li Chengyi sought Gu Yuanqing’s guidance, strengthened his Dao foundation, and reported on events across the Spirit Realm and Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing visited Gu Yuanying and learned that she had lost several children and no longer wished to pursue a longer life; she asked him not to force her to stay when her time came.
• Gu Yuanqing spent the afternoon and evening with Gu Yuanying, then returned to North Spring Mountain, reflecting that he could not impose his wishes on her.
• Three months later, Li Chengyi passed his chaos immortal Calamity and used an Immortal Treasure to suppress two demonic Chaos Heaven Immortal experts who attacked him.
• Twenty years later, Gu Huai'an reached the yin-yang void-breaking realm, and ten years after that Little White woke and broke through again without a Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the North Spring Realm had begun to transform.

Gu Yuanqing witnessed the North Spring Realm transform, purifying its spiritual energy and beginning to produce immortal spiritual qi, then used the insights from its growth to perfect his Heavenly Human World. Three hundred years later, he defeated Wei Zhao in the Immortal Mountain Trial and gained sudden insight into the Dao of returning to the hidden and the Dao of life and death.

• The North Spring Realm underwent a major transformation, expanding its power and beginning to cleanse impurities from its spiritual energy.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed the realm’s changes and used their Dao insights to refine his Heavenly Human World and cultivate more effectively.
• The Qian Yuan Sect gradually noticed that cultivation had become easier as the North Spring Realm’s spiritual qi grew purer.
• Three hundred years later, Gu Yuanqing activated the Immortal Mountain Trial and fought Wei Zhao, a Heavenly God at full strength.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Zhao and absorbed the light that remained, gaining Wei Zhao’s cultivation insights into the Dao of returning to the hidden and the Dao of life and death.

After gaining new Dao insights in the Immortal Mountain Trial, Gu Yuanqing met the King of the Underworld in a dreamlike realm and learned that the Profound Universe Realm involved immeasurably powerful beings. He returned to the North Spring Realm and sent his dharma body to the Qingping Grotto-Heaven, where Qiu Weifeng could barely withstand his presence.

• Gu Yuanqing killed Wei Zhao in the Immortal Mountain Trial and absorbed fragments of his spiritual light, gaining insights into the Way of Returning to the Hidden and the Way of Life and Death.
• Gu Yuanqing fought Wei Zhao again, killed him after nearly two hours, and confirmed that the trial granted no further spiritual light once he had absorbed those insights.
• The King of the Underworld invited Gu Yuanqing to a dreamlike mountain pavilion, where they drank tea and discussed the Immortal Realm and the Profound Universe Realm.
• The King of the Underworld warned Gu Yuanqing not to ask about immeasurably powerful beings, and Gu Yuanqing awoke wondering whether his system or transmigrator identity was connected to the matter.
• Gu Yuanqing sent his dharma body to the Qingping Grotto-Heaven, where Qiu Weifeng tried to look at him and was overwhelmed by his immortal presence.

Gu Yuanqing reclaimed the Immortal Painting, entrusted the Qingping Grotto-Heaven to Li Chengyi, and studied the ancient sword scar for ten years to deepen his Sword Dao. He met the Spiritual Treasure Venerable beside the Void Sea and explained that he had stayed in the realm to settle some remaining matters.

• Qiu Weifeng injured his eyes by trying to behold Gu Yuanqing, and realized the Mountain Master had never left the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing subdued the Person in the Painting, restored Mo Xuan as the painting’s true spirit, and gained complete control of the Immortal Painting.
• Gu Yuanqing entrusted the Immortal Painting and Qingping Grotto-Heaven to Li Chengyi, with instructions to pass them to a Qingping Dao Palace inheritor if they proved unnecessary.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the sword scar and studied its Sword Dao resonance for ten years, until his understanding reached its current limit.
• The Spiritual Treasure Venerable met Gu Yuanqing beside the Void Sea and asked why he had remained in the realm after passing his tribulation; Gu Yuanqing said he still had worldly matters to settle.