Recaps

After decades of sudden enlightenment, Gu Yuanqing strengthened himself and the North Spring Realm, reunited with his sons, and celebrated his four-thousandth birthday with his descendants. He continued cultivating while watching the realms, until a dazzling streak of light appeared in the Fa Yuan Realm and rushed toward the Heavenly Law Bell Projection.

• Gu Yuanqing emerged from seclusion with improved cultivation and comprehension, while the North Spring Realm grew larger and its spiritual veins neared immortal veins.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an, learned that the realms had seen few major changes, and asked them to watch the Exquisite Realm Domain and Ancient Realm for signs of the escaped Demon Lord.
• Gu Yuanqing declined a grand birthday celebration and asked his sons to share a family meal with him; he also questioned Gu Huai'an about finding a partner.
• Gu Yuanqing reflected on his longing for Li Miaoxuan and continued pursuing the Golden Immortal realm, studying Dao insights and monitoring the Ancient Realm and Fa Yuan Realm.
• A year later, Gu Yuanqing celebrated his four-thousandth birthday with more than a hundred descendants, then spent the night longing for Li Miaoxuan.
• After more than three years of quiet, a dazzling streak of light appeared in the Fa Yuan Realm and hurtled toward the Heavenly Law Bell Projection over the moon.

Gu Yuanqing witnessed the Guixu Alliance and the Demon Lord break the Heavenly Law Bell’s suppression, reviving the Demonic Dao and leaving the Divine Court at a disadvantage. After Gu Huai'an passed his tribulation, Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan asked Gu Yuanqing to help the Divine Court when the Heaven and Earth Stele appeared in about twenty years.

• Gu Yuanqing watched the Sky Transformation Command Wind Seal clash with the Heavenly Law Bell while the Guixu Alliance attacked Divine Firmament to distract the Divine Court.
• Blood sacrifices strengthened the Lunar Cold Abyss Pearl until the Heavenly Law Bell’s phantom shattered, restoring the Blood Moon’s influence across the Fa Yuan Realm and the Demon Realm.
• The Demon Lord awakened briefly and reassured Wei Yuan that he would honor his promise to help him become a God King.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that a Heavenly God of the Guixu Alliance had sacrificed himself to block the Divine Court’s attack, and the battle ended after the Heavenly Law Bell fell.
• Gu Huai'an passed his Chaos Heaven Immortal Level Tribulation in the North Spring Realm and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan asked Gu Yuanqing to assist the Divine Court when the Heaven and Earth Stele appeared in the Fa Yuan Realm in roughly twenty years.

Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan urged Gu Yuanqing to accept the Divine Court’s help entering the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, but he refused to avoid incurring a debt of favor. Gu Yuanqing suspected the realm was connected to a Great Cultivator he had encountered, then chose to avoid the opportunity and focus on his cultivation, leaving the Divine Court’s efforts unresolved.

• Jiang Yunchuan told Gu Yuanqing that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm might offer a path to becoming a Heavenly God and offered world origin power to draw him inside.
• Gu Yuanqing refused the offer, explaining that he did not want the Divine Court’s favor or deeper ties to the world of Rule Divine Artifacts.
• After Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan left, Gu Yuanqing studied records and considered whether the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was connected to the Great Cultivator he had met at the end of the Boundless River.
• Gu Yuanqing decided that entering the realm might bring dangerous karma, so he set aside his suspicions and trained in the Immortal Mountain Trial against the Jun Tian God King.
• Hong Kaiyuan, Jiang Yunchuan, and later an avatar of the Jun Tian God King each visited Gu Yuanqing, but he continued to refuse the Divine Court’s proposal.

The Divine Court debated the Demon Lord’s revival, Wei Yuan’s threat, and Gu Yuanqing’s suspected identity while preparing Qin Wentian to become a God King. As the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm’s opening drew near and demonic unrest spread, Wei Zhao arrived to tell Gu Yuanqing that a tremendous opportunity had appeared.

• Jun Tian God King convened the Heavenly Gods, and Xue Jingnian warned that Wei Yuan could become a God King and break the seal containing the Demon Lord’s soul.
• Xue Jingnian proposed using the Underworld’s power against Wei Yuan, while the Heavenly Gods speculated that Gu Yuanqing was Creation God King and might be hiding his strength.
• Jun Tian God King gave Qin Wentian the Heavenly Law Codex and ordered him to undergo his God King Calamity when the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm opened in seventeen years.
• The Taichu Holy Church spread across the Fa Yuan Realm through demonic influence, and Jiang Yunchuan again failed to persuade Gu Yuanqing to enter the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• Wei Zhao arrived outside the Qian Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to meet him; Wei Zhao announced that a tremendous opportunity had arrived.

Wei Zhao offered Gu Yuanqing an early-awakening method in exchange for an alliance in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused to commit. As the realm’s opening approached, Gu Yuanqing grew uneasy about hidden forces behind it, then sensed that the moment had finally arrived.

• Wei Zhao told Gu Yuanqing that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm would open and offered to help him awaken three years early if he allied with him.
• Gu Yuanqing questioned the value of an alliance and said he would help Wei Zhao only if their interests aligned.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to North Spring Realm and discussed the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an, saying he had no clear reason to enter.
• Gu Yuanqing felt that something was beyond his control and wondered whether someone had obscured heavenly secrets and karma.
• Rumors spread about the realm’s entry requirements, and the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance appeared to suspend their conflict as Gu Yuanqing suspected a greater struggle was coming.
• One morning, Gu Yuanqing opened his eyes and realized the moment had arrived.

The Heaven and Earth Stele began appearing in the Fa Yuan Realm as the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance prepared for the upheaval and Qin Wentian’s possible God King Calamity. As the stele manifested, Gu Yuanqing realized it was pulling his existence into the true Heaven and Earth Stele within his mind, even from the North Spring Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing watched the Fa Yuan Realm’s Great Dao shift and anticipated the Heaven and Earth Stele’s return.
• Qin Wentian told the Jun Tian God King that he had a sixty percent chance of surviving his God King Calamity, while the Jun Tian God King promised to hinder the Guixu Alliance.
• Heavenly Gods of the Guixu Alliance discussed exploiting the stele’s disruption of space and preparing for Qin Wentian’s possible tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing wondered whether Qin Wentian and Wei Yuan would attempt their God King Calamities, and feared that a clash could free the Demon Lord Soul.
• Seven days later, the Heaven and Earth Stele emerged from the void, and Gu Yuanqing realized its true form had appeared in his mind and was drawing his existence into it.

Gu Yuanqing was drawn into the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm by the Heaven and Earth Stele, while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an were also placed into protected slumber. After awakening as a seven-year-old in the Great Li Divine Dynasty, he resolved to survive the realm’s trials; back in the Fa Yuan Realm, he confronted visitors and the Demon Lord’s attack before demanding to know whether the Divine Court meant to make an enemy of him.

• Gu Yuanqing resisted the Heaven and Earth Stele with the North Spring Realm, but learned that Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an had been sent into the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm and left asleep in protected bodies.
• Gu Yuanqing let part of his consciousness enter the realm, where he awoke as a seven-year-old in the Great Li Divine Dynasty and learned that its cultivators competed to merge with the Dao and claim the world's origin.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to hide his identity and survive the realm's ten thousand years, while his original self in the North Spring Realm could sense but not locate his avatar.
• Jiang Yunchuan visited Fuyuan Mountain Range, but Gu Yuanqing stayed hidden; later, a Taichu Holy Church cultivator attacked the Qian Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing stopped the Demon Lord's manifestation, which mistook him for Creation's reincarnation.
• The Heavenly Eye Sage Lord tried to pierce the Qian Yuan Realm's boundary with a Precious Mirror, so Gu Yuanqing struck him twice; the Sage Lord invoked the Jun Tian Thunder Talisman and said he had come on the Divine Venerable's orders.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared before the Heavenly Eye Sage Lord and demanded to know whether the Divine Court had decided to make an enemy of him.

Heavenly Eye Sage Lord tested Gu Yuanqing and warned him that the Demon Lord might escape, while the Divine Court and other factions concluded that Gu Yuanqing was likely the Creation God King reborn. The Demon Lord ignited an uprising by the Taichu Holy Church, and inside the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, Gu Yuanqing concealed his strength as new strife began.

• Gu Yuanqing rebuked Heavenly Eye Sage Lord for probing the Qian Yuan Realm, but heard his warning that Wei Yuan’s possible God King Calamity could let the Demon Lord escape.
• Heavenly Eye Sage Lord departed, and Gu Yuanqing remained more concerned about Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an inside the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• Divine Venerable Jun Tian and the Heavenly Gods discussed Gu Yuanqing’s appearance and concluded that he was probably the Creation God King reborn.
• The Demon Lord dismissed Wei Zhao’s warning about Gu Yuanqing, then summoned his original dharma form and ordered the Taichu Holy Church to rise against the Divine Court.
• In Jing Province, Gu Yuanqing secretly cultivated in the Mystic Sword Sect and later took a post with the Demon Suppression Bureau to avoid attention.
• After Gu Yuanqing killed three men who recognized him, he used a demon beast to burn their bodies and returned home as pursuers shouted that the demon race had appeared.

Gu Yuanqing lived quietly in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, hiding his growing power while resisting the Heavenly Dao’s apparent attempt to unsettle him through Liu Ruxuan. After advancing to Void Refinement, he read that Li Chengyi had been gravely wounded by demons, leaving his son’s fate uncertain.

• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Mystic Sword Sect, joined the Demon Suppression Bureau, and spent decades blending into ordinary life while secretly reaching spirit transformation.
• Gu Yuanqing refused an arranged marriage to Liu Ruxuan, whose resemblance to Li Miaoxuan unsettled him, and killed the Chen Family and Liu Residence after Liu Ruxuan became betrothed to Chen Tingsong.
• Gu Yuanqing observed renewed wars across the realms and suspected Wei Yuan and Qin Tianwen were preparing to undergo their God King Calamities.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Mystic Sword Sect, pretended to reach Golden Core, then took a post guarding a spirit mine and secretly advanced to Void Refinement.
• Gu Yuanqing read a report that Li Chengyi had been gravely wounded in a demon assassination attempt, prompting Meng Xizhou to slay the spirit transformation Great Demon Eclipsing Moon.

Gu Yuanqing confirmed that the Imperial Grandson Li Chengyi was his son and secretly reunited with him, while warning him that their meeting might attract the Guixu Alliance's attention. The chapter ended as an azure dragon escaping a newly opened cave abode plunged into the Mystic Sword Sect's residence.

• Gu Yuanqing killed a retreating peak spirit transformation demon king to protect Crescent Moon City, then left after a Void Refinement cultivator arrived to investigate.
• A cave abode belonging to a long-dead Body Integration cultivator appeared near Gu Yuanqing's mine, drawing experts including Yin Qianzhong and Li Chengyi.
• Gu Yuanqing recognized Li Chengyi among the imperial delegation, and Li Chengyi discreetly arranged to stay at the Mystic Sword Sect's residence.
• Gu Yuanqing secretly met Li Chengyi and learned about his experiences in Great Li and his suspicions about people descended from the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing warned Li Chengyi to be cautious and not search rashly for Huai'an, then vanished from their dreamlike meeting.
• After the cave abode opened, an azure dragon fled from pursuing cultivators and plunged into the Mystic Sword Sect's residence.

Gu Yuanqing seized the Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Vine, later killed the Divine Path cultivator Zhang Yi after he endangered Li Chengyi, and drew the attention of Great Li’s imperial family. As the conflict between the Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance intensified, he sensed that Qin Wentian was preparing to undergo the God King Tribulation.

• Gu Yuanqing recognized the Azure Dragon phantom as a Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Vine, evaded its pursuers, and sealed the vine underground before returning to the Mystic Sword Sect’s residence.
• Gu Yuanqing’s cultivation rose to the Body Integration Realm as Divine Path cultivators entered the conflict, and he refused their offers of alliance.
• After Zhang Yi helped the Demon Race ambush Li Chengyi to lure him into a trap, Gu Yuanqing killed Zhang Yi and destroyed his sect; Mo Shangqing and an Imperial Grandson also died in a subsequent clash.
• An old man in blue robes from Great Li’s imperial family confronted Gu Yuanqing, and they agreed to fight after sharing food and wine; their battle in Dragon Falling Valley had an unknown outcome.
• More than a year after the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm opened, Gu Yuanqing sensed the Heavenly Law Bell and realized Qin Wentian was preparing for the God King Tribulation.

Qin Tianwen survived the Guixu Alliance’s assault and became a God King, though Gu Yuanqing suspected the battle’s unexpectedly restrained outcome concealed a larger cause. In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, Gu Yuanqing reunited with his sons and later discovered that his Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art shared a lineage with that realm’s Dao Path.

• As Qin Tianwen underwent his God King Calamity, the Guixu Alliance and Divine Court fought God King battles while the Taichu Holy Church performed blood sacrifices, but Qin Tianwen successfully ascended.
• The Jun Tian God King told Qin Tianwen that the conflict had gone smoothly because everyone wanted to live, and urged him to consolidate his new realm.
• Gu Yuanqing met Gu Huai'an through Li Chengyi, reunited with his sons for several days, and then parted from them.
• Over three years in the Fa Yuan Realm, the descending Divine Path cultivators grew stronger and began competing openly for opportunities in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in seclusion while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an pursued their own paths, and he discovered that the Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art shared a lineage with the Heavenly Canopy Dao Path.

Gu Yuanqing resisted the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm’s invitations to merge with its Dao, but prophecy and rising challengers pushed him to become the world’s feared summit. As the Era Cycle neared its end, Li Taicang urged him to undergo Dao Integration for the sake of other cultivators, but Gu Yuanqing refused to explain his choice.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was steering him toward its Dao, yet reaffirmed that he would keep to his own path.
• A prophecy spread, rare opportunities appeared, and challengers flocked to Gu Yuanqing after his reputation as Great Li’s Number One Person grew.
• Mo Daoxuan challenged Gu Yuanqing, then returned to his sect and died after declaring that no one beneath heaven could surpass him.
• Gu Yuanqing killed every challenger who entered the Dustforgetting Mountain Range as the great contest unfolded and ancient powers emerged.
• With fewer than a thousand years left in the Era Cycle, Li Taicang asked Gu Yuanqing to achieve Dao Integration so other cultivators could advance, but Gu Yuanqing said their progress was not his responsibility.

Gu Yuanqing refused repeated demands to undergo Dao Integration, and his sons fought off five Mahayana cultivators who came to force him to comply. Back in the Fa Yuan Realm, the Jun Tian God King invited Gu Yuanqing to form an avatar and accompany him to Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• Li Taicang failed to persuade Gu Yuanqing to undergo Dao Integration, and three hundred years later he returned with four other Mahayana cultivators to demand that Gu Yuanqing face them.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an refused to let the cultivators reach Gu Yuanqing, and they fought alongside Li Taicang against the five attackers.
• Three of the attackers died, one later succumbed to his wounds, and Li Taicang survived; the battle spread rumors that Gu Yuanqing and his sons were visitors from beyond the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing joked with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an about their staying with him, then told them to use the era-cycle convergence to study the world's Great Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing began refining Ascension Immortal Pills with Primordial Demonic Dragon blood for his sons.
• The Jun Tian God King visited Gu Yuanqing in the Fa Yuan Realm and invited him to send an avatar with him to Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing accepted Jun Tian God King's invitation to visit Heaven Beyond Heaven in exchange for a wisp of world origin, which he intended to keep as a last resort while seeking insight into the collapse of a great world. In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, cultivators united to attack him at Dustforgetting Mountain, and he stepped in after Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an were overwhelmed.

• Gu Yuanqing agreed to visit Heaven Beyond Heaven a year later after Jun Tian God King gave him a wisp of world origin as compensation for Heavenly Eye Sage Lord's earlier intrusion.
• Gu Yuanqing decided that witnessing a great world's destruction could help him understand Indestructibility, while the world origin might help him locate the Heaven and Earth Stele if necessary.
• In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, major sects, the Demon Race, and Divine Court cultivators declared Gu Yuanqing an obstacle and gathered to besiege Dustforgetting Mountain.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an refused to yield to the attackers, and they fought together against the assembled Mahayana cultivators.
• The attackers wounded Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an and forced them into mortal danger, so Gu Yuanqing left the mountain and appeared between them.

At Dustforgetting Mountain, Gu Yuanqing annihilated the cultivators who had come to kill him, terrifying the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm. As the Era Cycle drew closer, the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable emerged to confront him, while several cultivators elsewhere began undergoing the Dao Integration Calamity under changed conditions.

• Gu Yuanqing destroyed the attackers at Dustforgetting Mountain with his spatial power and Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation, leaving none alive.
• News of the massacre spread across the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, and Gu Yuanqing warned Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that further trouble could come.
• The Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable appeared, declared Gu Yuanqing an outer demon, and demanded that he abandon his otherworldly Dao and undergo the Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing met the Dao Venerable in battle, and the two exchanged blows at a speed Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an could barely follow.
• Li Chengyi sensed four cultivators undergoing the Dao Integration Calamity and realized the world's Great Dao had changed, increasing their chances of success.

Gu Yuanqing fought the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable while resisting the world’s attempts to force him into Dao Integration. After four more cultivators achieved Dao Integration and joined the battle against him, Gu Yuanqing used his sword domain to weaken their connection to the realm’s Great Dao, while Li Chengyi recognized that his Dao attainment had surpassed the world’s cultivation limits.

• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an suspected that the Heavenly Dao was forcing Gu Yuanqing to undergo his Calamity and feared they were too weak to help him.
• Gu Yuanqing held his own against the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable by relying on his Dao attainment, and he guessed that the tribulations below were meant to create more enemies for him.
• Four cultivators successfully achieved Dao Integration, then approached Gu Yuanqing and urged him to undergo his own Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing refused, and the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable and the four Dao Integration cultivators attacked him together.
• Gu Yuanqing deployed the Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation, making the five attackers feel their connections to the realm’s Great Dao weaken.
• Li Chengyi concluded that Gu Yuanqing’s Dao attainment had transcended the world’s cultivation limits.

Gu Yuanqing defeated five Dao Integration cultivators in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, but their surviving spirits returned with severe Dao injuries. As the ten-thousand-year period passed without the expected Calamity, Gu Yuanqing and his sons realized they might be trapped in the realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used his sword formation to weaken the five attackers’ connection to the Great Dao, then struck them from within with his final sword move.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that the Dao Integration cultivators’ spirits survived, though the four newly advanced cultivators had suffered damaged True Spirits and Dao injuries.
• Jiang Yunchuan visited Gu Yuanqing and said the Divine Venerable’s avatar would return to Heaven Beyond Heaven in roughly half a month, while Gu Yuanqing wondered whether trouble was brewing above the Nine Heavens.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an speculated that imprisoned Great Demons might cause the remaining Calamity, but the ten-thousand-year period passed without any apparent change.
• After waiting more than ten additional days, Gu Huai'an told Gu Yuanqing that something felt wrong and that they seemed to be trapped in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.

Gu Yuanqing sent Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an out of the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm before confronting the five Dao Integration cultivators and defeating them. He then met Great Simplicity, who urged him to undergo Dao Integration to face a future Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing asked whether the Creation God King Calamity had occurred.

• Gu Yuanqing realized that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was preventing his departure and sent Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an back to their bodies in the North Spring Realm.
• As Dustforgetting Mountain broke apart and the realm became a boundless void, Gu Yuanqing remained behind to investigate its hostility and seek insight into the Great Dao.
• Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable and four allies attacked Gu Yuanqing, but he used the Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation to shatter their attacks and strike their True Spirits.
• Great Simplicity appeared and explained that it was a manifestation of living beings’ convictions, not the artifact spirit of the Heaven and Earth Stele.
• Great Simplicity urged Gu Yuanqing to undergo Dao Integration to become a God King and resolve a future Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing asked if the Creation God King Calamity had not yet occurred.

Gu Yuanqing refused Great Simplicity’s offer to undergo Dao Integration, but witnessed the origin of Heaven and Earth and returned to cultivate his Golden Immortal Dao. News of his presence in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm reached the Divine Court, where Jun Tian God King began considering what it meant.

• Gu Yuanqing rejected Dao Integration despite Great Simplicity’s warning that the Great Calamity could soon become irreversible.
• Great Simplicity showed Gu Yuanqing the evolution of the world from nonbeing through Chaos to the birth of Heaven and Earth, then sent him back to the North Spring Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing shared his experience with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an, then entered seclusion to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao and the Golden Immortal Dao.
• Survivors returning from the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm reported that Gu Yuanqing had entered it, overturning the factions’ belief that he had stayed away.
• Duan Linchuan told Jun Tian God King that Gu Yuanqing had refused Dao Integration and proved stronger than the cultivators who challenged him after achieving it.
• After Duan Linchuan withdrew, Jun Tian God King asked Xue Jingnian what he thought of the report.

The Jun Tian God King brought Gu Yuanqing to Heaven Beyond Heaven, where three God Kings were suppressing a catastrophic rift threatening to consume the world. Gu Yuanqing denied being the Creation God King but suggested Creation might still be alive, leaving the Jun Tian God King eager to learn what he knew as Gu Yuanqing asked to observe the calamity.

• Xue Jingnian and the Jun Tian God King debated whether Gu Yuanqing was the Creation God King or an impostor, and the Jun Tian God King ordered an inquiry into who else had returned from the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• The Guixu Alliance sent news of Gu Yuanqing’s return to the Taichu Holy Church, and the Demon Lord questioned whether Gu Yuanqing was truly unrelated to Creation.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to Heaven Beyond Heaven and saw three God Kings using the Jun Tian Lei Xiao Jian, Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Cangwu Divine Tree to suppress a destructive space rift.
• The Jun Tian God King explained that the flawed Great Dao and unbalanced divine artifact power threatened to collapse Heaven and Earth, and Gu Yuanqing understood why the God Kings hoped he might help avert disaster.
• Gu Yuanqing denied being the Creation God King and asked whether the Divine Court had allowed the Demon Lord’s soul to escape as a possible last resort; the Jun Tian God King confirmed it was an option they hoped to avoid.
• Gu Yuanqing said the Creation God King might still be alive, then asked the Jun Tian God King for permission to stay and observe the calamity.

Gu Yuanqing comprehended the cycle of a world's creation and annihilation at the Heavenly Abyss, then deepened those insights within his Heavenly Human World. His world fell silent and his will seemed to vanish, leaving his family alarmed until a heartbeat sounded from his withered body.

• Gu Yuanqing studied the Heavenly Abyss and combined its annihilation with his memory of a world’s birth to grasp the cycle of formation-abiding-decay-emptiness.
• The three God Kings worried that Gu Yuanqing’s growing aura of termination would endanger him and worsen the Heavenly Abyss, but he stopped contemplating and left after giving Jun Tian God King a jade talisman.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar and used its insights to accelerate the cycles of life, death, and transformation within his Heavenly Human World.
• The Heavenly Human World exhausted its power and fell silent, while Gu Yuanqing’s will also went quiet.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an felt that something was wrong and waited outside the inaccessible main peak as the Qian Yuan Sect grew tense.
• After half a month, the brothers’ unease suddenly vanished, and a heartbeat sounded from Gu Yuanqing’s withered body as wisps of vitality emerged.

Gu Yuanqing perfected his Celestial Immortal cultivation by comprehending life, death, and creation, then entered the Sword Scar to pursue the opportunity to become a Golden Immortal. After decades passed and Gu Huai'an became a Void Immortal, Gu Yuanqing finally understood the immortality of a Golden Immortal.

• Gu Yuanqing revived the Heavenly Human World through his return from annihilation, reached perfection as a Celestial Immortal, and told Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that the Sword Scar held his final opportunity.
• Gu Yuanqing spent years settling his insights, testing his Dao against the Jun Tian God King and the Abyss-Suppressing God King, and refining his understanding of creation.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to the Sword Scar, recognized that a Great Luo Golden Immortal had left it, and crossed inside to meditate.
• Gu Huai'an passed his Void Immortal Tribulation, bringing the Qian Yuan Sect's two sons to the Void Immortal realm and drawing congratulations from across the Spirit Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing continued meditating within the Sword Scar for more than forty years, and his avatar finally understood the immortality of a Golden Immortal.

After integrating sixty years of Sword Scar insights, Gu Yuanqing brought his cultivation to the brink of the Golden Immortal Realm and advised Li Chengyi to ascend to the Immortal Realm. Gu Yuanqing waited for his breakthrough, sensing that an event was approaching.

• Gu Yuanqing left the Sword Scar after concluding it was a legacy and returned to the North Spring Realm, where he spent over thirty years absorbing his avatar’s insights.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the point where he had half a foot in the Golden Immortal Realm and observed the growing strength of the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed and the Demon Race.
• Li Chengyi told Gu Yuanqing he was unsure whether to remain in the North Spring Realm or undergo tribulation and ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing urged Li Chengyi to ascend, explaining that the Immortal Realm offered a wider world and that the Qian Yuan Sect and Qian Yuan Realm would remain secure.
• Li Chengyi decided to wait until Gu Yuanqing became a Golden Immortal before choosing his path, while Gu Yuanqing continued his quiet life and sensed something was about to happen.

The Demon Lord arranged to meet Wei Yuan, prompting Wei Zhao to fear that his father would face the God King Calamity and endanger the Wei Household. Half a month later, the Guixu Alliance attacked the Divine Court while Qin Wentian fought two ancient god obsessions, and Gu Yuanqing decided it was time to break through.

• The Demon Lord used a blood ritual and an ancient mirror to make contact with a mysterious figure.
• The Demon Lord told Wei Zhao he would enter the Ancient Realm in three days, and Wei Zhao opened the realm's restrictive seals for him.
• Wei Yuan admitted that he had accepted the risk of the God King Calamity because his lifespan had ended, and told Wei Zhao to flee to the Guixu Alliance if he failed.
• The Demon Lord met with Wei Yuan for two hours, and Wei Zhao spoke with his father before leaving the Ancient Realm.
• The Taichu Holy Church and the Guixu Alliance attacked the Divine Court's strongholds and the Boundary Gate, drawing Qin Wentian into battle against Return to the Ruins.
• Gu Yuanqing watched Qin Wentian's battle and concluded that it was time for him to break through.