Recaps

Li Chengyi told Gu Yuanqing about his life in the Immortal Realm, and Gu Yuanqing revealed that an avatar was already heading to Nine Abyss to find Li Miaoxuan. After reaching the forbidden ground, Gu Yuanqing recognized that Li Miaoxuan had likely come to comprehend the essence of indestructibility.

• Li Chengyi explained his place in the Celestial Origin Immortal Palace and answered Gu Yuanqing's questions about the Immortal Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that his avatar had already set off for Nine Abyss, though he believed Li Miaoxuan might not be in trouble.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled cautiously through the Immortal Realm, observing its Great Dao and avoiding powerful sects.
• After nearly two days, Gu Yuanqing reached Nine Abyss and saw that its ruinous aura dimmed the Great Dao River.
• Gu Yuanqing realized Li Miaoxuan had likely entered Nine Abyss to comprehend the essence of indestructibility.

Gu Yuanqing entered Nine Abyss to find Li Miaoxuan, navigating its perilous small worlds and spatial turbulence until he reached the abyss’s still, mist-shrouded depths. As Li Chengyi toured the Immortal Mountain with his father, Gu Yuanqing encountered a figure blocking his way near Li Miaoxuan.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed that Li Miaoxuan was somewhere in Nine Abyss and entered, parting the spatial turbulence with his mastery of the Way of Space.
• Gu Yuanqing avoided a hidden Celestial Immortal and then evaded three Celestial Immortals from the Great Void Immortal Sect after they sensed his presence.
• Gu Yuanqing explored Nine Abyss for a day, gaining insights into the Great Daos as he followed his connection to Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the abyss’s bottom, where an endless still ocean and freezing black mist surrounded the area near Li Miaoxuan.
• A figure emerged from the black mist and ordered Gu Yuanqing to halt.
• Elsewhere, Gu Yuanqing toured the Immortal Mountain with Li Chengyi, rewarded the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed, and told Li Chengyi that Gu Huai'an might soon come to the Immortal Realm.

Gu Yuanqing reunited with Li Chengyi in the Immortal Realm, then found Li Miaoxuan cultivating in the Nine Abyss and reunited with her after nearly three thousand years apart. After teaching Li Chengyi a newly deduced cultivation method and exploring the Immortal Realm for ten years, Gu Yuanqing withdrew his avatar while Li Miaoxuan prepared for a long seclusion.

• Gu Yuanqing reassured Li Chengyi about the Fa Yuan Realm, promised to teach him a revised cultivation method, and heard that Li Chengyi wanted to send messages to Binglan and the others.
• Gu Yuanqing passed a middle-aged woman guarding Li Miaoxuan by trapping her in an illusion, protected her with a formation, and waited for Li Miaoxuan to finish comprehending the Dao.
• Li Miaoxuan emerged from the Spiritual Splendor Immortal Palace and reunited with Gu Yuanqing, explaining that she had arranged for Li Chengyi to join the Celestial Origin Immortal Palace.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that he had found Li Miaoxuan, sent him a new cultivation method, and answered his questions for three days before leaving to explore the Immortal Realm.
• After ten years together, Li Miaoxuan prepared to enter seclusion in the Nine Abyss, and Gu Yuanqing withdrew his avatar to focus on comprehending the Dao.

After returning from the Immortal Realm, Gu Yuanqing refined his Golden Immortal cultivation while Li Miaoxuan awakened and prepared to pursue an opportunity within her sect. A battle between the Demon Lord and Qin Wentian ended with the Heaven-Measuring God King intervening, and Gu Yuanqing learned that the Demon Lord’s artifact was about to return to the Heavenly Dao’s ritual framework.

• Gu Yuanqing merged his avatars’ Immortal Realm insights and used them to refine his body, Great Dao, and Heavenly Human World.
• After a hundred years, Li Miaoxuan awakened, and Gu Yuanqing congratulated her on comprehending the essence of indestructibility.
• Li Miaoxuan planned to return to the Great Void Immortal Sect to compete for an opportunity to become a Golden Immortal, while Gu Yuanqing departed ten days later.
• About a decade later, Gu Yuanqing sensed the Demon Lord battling Qin Wentian, and the Heaven-Measuring God King intervened.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King warned Gu Yuanqing that an Ancient God had broken the seal on the Demon Lord’s Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Origin Banner, which would return to the Heavenly Dao’s ritual framework within half a month.

Gu Yuanqing learned that the Demon Lord's Great Dao had revived with help from a hidden Ancient God, likely God King Wuxiang, while the Divine Court considered its response and the possibility of a traitor within its ranks. He prepared the Qian Yuan Sect for the coming danger, watched the realms grow tense, and finally sensed the Demon Lord make his move at Demon God Mountain.

• Heaven-Measuring God King told Gu Yuanqing and Jun Tian God King that the Demon Lord's Great Dao had revived with help from a hidden Ancient God, and Gu Yuanqing suggested the culprit might be God King Wuxiang.
• Gu Yuanqing revealed that Creation God King had spoken to him through the Demon Lord's seal and identified God King Wuxiang as a possible threat; the Divine Court's God Kings discussed Wuxiang's power and whether one of them could advance toward God Lord.
• Heaven-Measuring God King warned that Wuxiang might have an incarnation within the Divine Court, while Gu Yuanqing suspected the God Kings had their own ambitions and prepared for the Demon Lord to seek his physical body.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Gu Huai'an and Li Guanrong, informed them of the Demon Lord's situation, and had them arrange precautions for Qian Yuan Sect disciples across the boundary domains.
• As the red moon and Demonic Dao influence spread through the realms, Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating and avoided intervening; three months later, he sensed the Demon Lord make his move at Demon God Mountain.

The Demon Lord entered the Demon Realm and fought Heaven-Measuring God King, while Gu Yuanqing watched and studied their power. A Heavenly Dao Forbidden Artifact wounded Heaven-Measuring God King and drew out the Heaven Measuring Ruler’s true form, allowing the Demon Lord to vanish as a major disturbance erupted in the Fa Yuan Realm.

• The Demon Lord arrived in the Demon Realm and headed for Demon God Mountain, but Heaven-Measuring God King intercepted him.
• The Demon Lord and Heaven-Measuring God King fought across the Demon Realm as Gu Yuanqing observed their Great Daos and Rule Divine Artifacts.
• The Demon Lord struggled to break away, while Heaven-Measuring God King recognized that their battle was part of a larger conflict over the Divine Court’s rule.
• A mottled sword, revealed as a Heavenly Dao Forbidden Artifact, attacked Heaven-Measuring God King, who summoned the Heaven Measuring Ruler’s true form to defend himself.
• The sword wounded Heaven-Measuring God King, and the Demon Lord disappeared as immeasurable light erupted far away in the Fa Yuan Realm.

Gu Yuanqing watched the Divine Court and its enemies maneuver for power after the Demon Lord’s allies stole the Primordial Heaven-Sealing Talisman, while he continued cultivating in the North Spring Realm. Years later, as the Jun Tian God King interfered with a Guixu Alliance God King’s tribulation, a vast formation diagram appeared across the Nine Heavens.

• Gu Yuanqing realized that the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang had attacked the Divine Firmament Domain, where they stole the Primordial Heaven-Sealing Talisman with help from Gongsun Yue and the Abyss-Suppressing God King.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King fought the Guixu Alliance and later pursued the Demon Lord, while the Divine Court promoted his reputation to build support for his bid to become a God Lord.
• The Demon Lord repeatedly struck Divine Court strongholds, escaped the Heaven-Measuring God King, and undermined the Divine Court’s prestige as the Taichu Holy Church expanded.
• Gu Yuanqing remained apart from the conflict and cultivated as the Qian Yuan Sect and the spirit beasts in the North Spring Realm grew stronger.
• A God King tribulation began in the Myriad God Ruins, and the Jun Tian God King made it more difficult for the Guixu Alliance candidate to survive.
• As the tribulation unfolded, an enormous formation diagram suddenly appeared across the Nine Heavens.

The Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang sealed the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel to draw out the Creation God King, but he refused to appear. Gu Yuanqing denied being the Creation God King and continued cultivating until he sensed the Demon Lord making a move.

• Gu Yuanqing deduced that the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang were targeting the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel to force the Creation God King out, while the Heaven-Measuring God King ordered the Divine Court to search for the Demon Lord.
• The Profound Heaven Boundary-Measuring Disk gathered power from rule divine artifacts and formed a sealing array around the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel; the Heaven-Measuring God King and the Divine Court's three God Kings chose not to intervene.
• After the seal took effect and the Creation God King remained absent, the three God Kings summoned Gu Yuanqing, who denied being the Creation God King and said the sealing suited him.
• Three days later, the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel vanished from the sky, weakening the Way of Creation, while Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating and advanced toward great accomplishment as a Golden Immortal.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the Demon Lord's activity and remarked that the Demon Lord had finally acted.

Gu Yuanqing confronted the Demon Lord, who demanded his physical body and attacked when Gu Yuanqing refused. Their battle revealed the power of the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner, and the chapter ended with Gu Yuanqing and the Demon Lord facing off across a sea of blood and demons.

• The Demon Lord asked Gu Yuanqing to return his physical body and offered him the position of Creation God King if he joined him, but Gu Yuanqing refused.
• The Demon Lord attacked Gu Yuanqing with a demonic dao seal, which Gu Yuanqing broke with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation to pressure the Demon Lord, who summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner.
• The Demon Lord used the banner's Heart Demon Tribulation Sound and Tribulation Fortune Befalls abilities to disrupt Gu Yuanqing's techniques.
• Gu Yuanqing countered with the Demon Refining Ascension Tower and restored his sword formation, while the Demon Lord transformed the battlefield into a sea of blood filled with reborn corpses.

Gu Yuanqing tested his Sword Dao against the Demon Lord’s Demonic Dao, then revealed the power of the North Spring Realm Projection and captured the Demon Lord’s avatar. With the Abyss-Suppressing God King’s rule divine artifact bearing down on North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing left the Demon Lord to the Heaven-Measuring God King and went to confront the Abyss-Suppressing God King.

• Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Dao held its own against the Demon Lord’s sea-of-blood domain, and his seven living streams of Sword Qi stopped the Demon Lord’s nine demonic dragons.
• The Demon Lord turned his Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner into a spear and sent it through Gu Yuanqing’s avatar to attack his true body, but Gu Yuanqing immobilized and seized the spear in the North Spring Realm.
• The Abyss-Suppressing God King summoned the true body of the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele and sent it down on North Spring Mountain, while the Demon Lord taunted Gu Yuanqing and demanded to know who he was.
• Gu Yuanqing unleashed the North Spring Realm Projection, severed the Demon Lord’s connection to the banner, and captured his weakened avatar as the Demon Lord’s true body struck back.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King blocked the Demon Lord’s true body and promised to keep him out of the Qianyuan Realm, while Gu Yuanqing went to face the Abyss-Suppressing God King.

The Abyss-Suppressing God King attacked North Spring Mountain with the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele, while Gu Yuanqing used the assault to strengthen the North Spring Realm. Just as the realm began to transform, God King Wuxiang appeared and struck its defenses with the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel.

• The Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele descended on the North Spring Realm, and Gu Yuanqing calmed Gu Huai'an and the others as its power threatened them.
• Gu Yuanqing merged his North Spring Realm Projection with the realm and drew its power together to withstand the stele.
• The Abyss-Suppressing God King increased the pressure, while Gu Yuanqing let the North Spring Realm absorb and transform the stele's incoming power.
• The North Spring Realm grew stronger as its spiritual veins transformed into immortal veins and its Great Dao imprints developed.
• The Abyss-Suppressing God King called for Wuxiang, who appeared with the Formless Heavenly Book and sent the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel crashing into the North Spring Realm's world membrane.

Gu Yuanqing lured the Abyss-Suppressing God King’s stele and God King Wuxiang’s attack into the North Spring Realm, where he subdued the stele and drove Wuxiang away. He began observing the realm’s transformation in secluded cultivation, while Gu Huai'an prepared to face his immortal tribulation and the Demon Lord’s battle with the Heaven-Measuring God King ended.

• Gu Yuanqing let the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele and the Formless Heavenly Book’s divine ability enter the North Spring Realm, then trapped the stele in the Heaven and Earth Pool and absorbed the attacks into the boundary domain.
• Gu Yuanqing struck God King Wuxiang, forced him to reveal his body, and pursued him through space until Wuxiang severed their causal connection and escaped.
• Gu Yuanqing told Gu Huai'an he would enter secluded cultivation, relinquished his absolute control over the North Spring Realm, and observed its transformation with the Mountain Observation Technique.
• Cultivators in the Qianyuan Realm realized the battle had ended, and Gu Huai'an told Li Haotian that he intended to face his immortal tribulation after Gu Yuanqing emerged from seclusion.
• The Demon Lord and the Heaven-Measuring God King ended their battle without fighting to the death, and the Jun Tian God King praised Gu Yuanqing’s strength.

After Gu Yuanqing’s battle with God King Wuxiang, the North Spring Realm underwent a prolonged transformation that helped Gu Yuanqing reach the Great Accomplishment Golden Immortal stage. He emerged from seclusion to find the realm nearing a new connection through the void, though he did not yet know where it would lead.

• Heaven Beyond Heaven’s God Kings recognized Gu Yuanqing as a half-step god lord and saw his conflict with God King Wuxiang as beneficial to the Divine Court.
• The Great Gan Imperial Court announced that Gu Yuanqing had suppressed an outer-dao heavenly demon, while his fame spread across the Qianyuan Realm and beyond.
• The North Spring Realm continued expanding and developing the foundations of an immortal realm as Gu Yuanqing united his observations of it with his Heavenly Human World.
• Over more than twenty years, Gu Yuanqing reached the Great Accomplishment Golden Immortal stage, and the Qianyuan Sect and Qianyuan Realm gained stronger Dao resonance and cultivation benefits.
• Li Siyuan survived his void immortal tribulation, and Gu Huai'an hinted that his own tribulation might be near.
• After emerging from seclusion several years later, Gu Yuanqing saw Void Rifts forming and wondered which boundary domain the North Spring Realm would connect to.

Gu Yuanqing watched the North Spring Realm’s transformation and prepared Gu Huai'an for his coming immortal tribulation while guiding his descendants. He interrogated the Abyss-Suppressing God King about the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang, then began considering how Wuxiang had become a half-step god lord and whether he had ties to the previous epochal calamity.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed mysterious forces at the heart of the North Spring Realm and in his consciousness, concluding that he would need to reach Great Luo to understand them fully.
• Gu Yuanqing advised Gu Huai'an to undergo his immortal tribulation and ascend to the Immortal Realm afterward, then shared a map and guidance about cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing instructed Li Guanrong, Gu Siyuan, and his other grandsons, while Gu Huai'an entered seclusion to prepare for his tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing refined pills, treasures, and a cultivation technique for Gu Huai'an, then summoned the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele and forced the Abyss-Suppressing God King to submit.
• The Abyss-Suppressing God King explained that God King Wuxiang had recruited the Ancient God obsessions by promising to revive them, and Gu Yuanqing wondered whether Wuxiang was connected to the previous epochal calamity.

Gu Huai'an survived his immortal tribulation and ascended to the Immortal Realm, leaving Gu Yuanqing to resume cultivating as the North Spring Realm’s transformation approached. The Heaven-Measuring God King later visited Gu Yuanqing to discuss God King Wuxiang and the ancient gods, ending with a cryptic report about Creation’s changed temperament.

• Gu Yuanqing considered the hidden threat behind the ancient gods’ secrets and decided to wait until the North Spring Realm transformed before investigating further.
• Gu Huai'an passed the nine-nine heavenly tribulation, defeated the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao imprint, and ascended through the Immortal Realm Gate after bidding farewell to Gu Yuanqing and the others.
• Gu Huai'an’s ascension strengthened the Qian Yuan Sect’s reputation, while Gu Yuanqing returned to cultivation as the North Spring Realm’s transformation drew closer.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King visited Gu Yuanqing’s avatar and asked whether he had suppressed the Abyss-Suppressing God King and the Town Abyss Underworld Edict Stele.
• Gu Yuanqing and the Heaven-Measuring God King discussed God King Wuxiang’s unexplained rise in power and the ancient gods’ disappearances, then the Heaven-Measuring God King recalled that Creation’s temperament changed after the Demon Lord was suppressed.

Gu Yuanqing discussed God King Wuxiang’s mysteries with the Heaven-Measuring God King, then witnessed the North Spring Realm complete its transformation into a Great Luo World. The change expanded Gu Yuanqing’s reach and gave him a glimpse of the Great Luo Dao, and he prepared to settle old karmic debts.

• The Heaven-Measuring God King speculated that God King Wuxiang had concealed his rise with the Creation God King’s help, and promised Gu Yuanqing records of the Ancient Era.
• Gu Yuanqing agreed to visit Divine Firmament in a few years and search for God King Wuxiang’s hidden avatars.
• After more than a decade, Gu Yuanqing merged his consciousness with the North Spring Realm as its power condensed and its Great Daos approached perfection.
• The North Spring Realm sublimated into a Great Luo World, awakening its immortal veins and transforming its Great Dao River into a heavenly net beneath the River of Years.
• Gu Yuanqing glimpsed the Great Luo Dao and his countless selves across different timelines, while the Qian Yuan Realm and much of the Exquisite Realm Domain came under the North Spring Realm’s influence.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the North Spring Realm’s transformation had finished and resolved to settle certain karmic debts.

Gu Yuanqing traveled to the Divine Firmament Domain to fulfill his agreement with Heaven-Measuring God King and investigate hidden dangers in the Divine Court. After identifying several people tainted by demonic thoughts or the Abyss-Suppressing Edict, he raised suspicions about Heavenly Eye Sage Lord, whose original body was summoned under spatial restraint.

• Gu Yuanqing reflected on his karma with heaven and earth, then formed an avatar and crushed the Jade Talisman to fulfill his appointment with Heaven-Measuring God King.
• Heaven-Measuring God King brought Gu Yuanqing across the boundary domains to the Divine Firmament Domain, where Qin Wentian and other Divine Court cultivators welcomed him.
• At the banquet, Zhao Chengyun apologized for their past conflict, and Qin Wentian helped settle the old grievance with Gu Yuanqing.
• Over seven days, Heaven-Measuring God King showed Gu Yuanqing around the Divine Firmament Domain and its important sites.
• Gu Yuanqing identified several suspicious cultivators and warned Heaven-Measuring God King that Heavenly Eye Sage Lord might also be compromised.
• Heaven-Measuring God King froze the space around Heavenly Eye Sage Lord’s divine mountain and waited for his original body to arrive.

Gu Yuanqing exposed Heavenly Eye Sage Lord as God King Wuxiang’s avatar, prompting Wuxiang to destroy it rather than reveal his true body. Afterward, Gu Yuanqing left the Divine Court, withholding a suspected secret from Heaven-Measuring God King unless he someday reached the half-step God Lord realm.

• Heavenly Eye Sage Lord denied Gu Yuanqing’s accusation, but Gu Yuanqing used a causal sword strike to trace the connection to Wuxiang’s true body.
• Heavenly Eye Sage Lord revealed a rule divine artifact and broke Gu Yuanqing’s sword qi, confirming that he was God King Wuxiang’s avatar.
• God King Wuxiang questioned Gu Yuanqing about his identity and mocked him over a hidden matter before destroying his own avatar in a massive explosion.
• Heaven-Measuring God King and Qin Wentian recognized that Wuxiang had secretly served as the Divine Court’s overseer and thanked Gu Yuanqing for exposing him.
• Gu Yuanqing prepared to leave, then told Heaven-Measuring God King that he could ask about the suspected secret if he reached the half-step God Lord realm.

Gu Yuanqing tracked the Demon Lord through the Fa Yuan Realm and challenged him to settle their past Karma in battle. Their domains, divine abilities, and souls clashed, and as the Demon Lord summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner, God King Wuxiang appeared and used the Heavenly Book to sever something from Gu Yuanqing.

• After Gu Yuanqing left the Divine Firmament Domain, the Heaven-Measuring God King told Qin Wentian that Gu Yuanqing’s warning concerned something beyond the knowledge of anyone below the half-step God Lord realm.
• Gu Yuanqing followed the karmic trace of God King Wuxiang across the Fa Yuan Realm, deepening his understanding of the Divine Path as he traveled west.
• Gu Yuanqing found the Demon Lord and refused his offer to settle their Karma peacefully, challenging him to survive an attack instead.
• The Demon Lord empowered himself with the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner and fought Gu Yuanqing, whose avatar used the battle to test his Dao.
• As neither could defeat the other, the Demon Lord summoned the banner and unleashed its powers, weakening Gu Yuanqing’s fortune and connection to the world.
• God King Wuxiang appeared amid the battle and cried “Sever” while directing the Heavenly Book.

Gu Yuanqing survived God King Wuxiang and the Demon Lord’s ambush, then fought them both as they tried to escape. When the two unleashed their space-time-like trump cards, Gu Yuanqing merged his avatars and invoked the North Spring Realm Projection, but their desperate counterattack shook the space he was compressing.

• God King Wuxiang’s Formless Heavenly Book and the Demon Lord’s attack seemingly annihilated Gu Yuanqing’s avatar, but Gu Yuanqing reappeared unharmed and challenged them both.
• Gu Yuanqing enveloped the battlefield with his North Spring Immortal Domain and fought God King Wuxiang and the Demon Lord, testing his abilities while keeping the battle away from the ground.
• The Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang tried to flee, but Gu Yuanqing split into two figures, forced them back, and used the North Spring Realm’s boundary domain to block their escape.
• God King Wuxiang unleashed Heavenly Book’s Final Chapter, Formless World, while the Demon Lord empowered the Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Fortune Banner, making their attacks threaten Gu Yuanqing’s avatar and power.
• Gu Yuanqing merged his avatars and summoned the North Spring Realm Projection, then compressed the surrounding space as the two ancient gods burned their power and fought back, shaking the space and the Great Dao River.

Gu Yuanqing suppressed the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang while studying their half-step god lord powers, but their battle began damaging the Fa Yuan Realm. Great Simplicity intervened with the Heaven and Earth Stele and demanded that Gu Yuanqing stop, leaving him facing the stele’s overwhelming pressure.

• Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm to suppress the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang while observing the power of their rule divine artifacts and refining his own cultivation.
• The clash distorted the surrounding rules, causing strange disasters across the boundary domain and affecting the Guixu Abyss.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to end the battle before the Fa Yuan Realm suffered irreversible damage, and the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang began burning their origins to resist.
• The Heaven and Earth Stele descended, restored the damaged surroundings, and halted time for everyone except Gu Yuanqing and the two ancient gods.
• Great Simplicity emerged from the stele, explained that he wanted to protect the world from the Guixu Tribulation, and warned Gu Yuanqing that he could not kill the two half-step god lords.
• Great Simplicity empowered the Heaven and Earth Stele with the divine artifacts and heavenly dao celestial orbit, forcing Gu Yuanqing’s North Spring Realm Projection to contract.

Gu Yuanqing settled his clash with the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang after Great Simplicity intervened, then studied the battle’s insights in seclusion. He emerged three years later and entered the Immortal Mountain Trial again.

• Great Simplicity appeared with the Heaven and Earth Stele and asked Gu Yuanqing to retreat or integrate with the Fa Yuan Realm’s origin, and Gu Yuanqing agreed to spare the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang in exchange for severing thirty percent of their origins.
• Gu Yuanqing used a powerful sword strike to cut away portions of the Demon Lord’s and God King Wuxiang’s bodies and divine souls, then captured the severed parts as they fled.
• Great Simplicity returned to the Heaven and Earth Stele, while the Heaven-Measuring God King regained awareness and later visited Gu Yuanqing to ask what had happened.
• Gu Yuanqing explained that Great Simplicity had mediated, and he advised the Heaven-Measuring God King to seize the opportunity to advance beyond the God King realm while the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang were weakened.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the captured portions of the two Ancient Gods in the Demon Refining Ascension Tower and entered seclusion to study the battle’s insights.
• After roughly three years of cultivation, Gu Yuanqing emerged from seclusion and entered the Immortal Mountain Trial again.

Gu Yuanqing refined Ancient God imprints in the Immortal Mountain Trial, strengthening his Dao while the Divine Court regained influence and the weakened Guixu Alliance kept its distance. After more than two hundred peaceful years, Gu Yuanqing discovered that Creation God King had been secretly guiding his cloud grandson, Gu Hanshan.

• Gu Yuanqing repeatedly fought and refined God King Wuxiang and the Demon Lord’s imprints, incorporating their Dao insights into his own cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing challenged multiple God King imprints at once and continued advancing his Dao attainment, while Heaven-Measuring God King restored the Divine Court’s prestige in the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Demon Lord, God King Wuxiang, and the Guixu Alliance remained weakened and fearful of Gu Yuanqing, while the Exquisite Realm Domain grew quiet.
• More than two hundred years passed as Gu Yuanqing advanced far into great accomplishment as a Golden Immortal and continued training against eight powerful imprints.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Gu Hanshan and exposed the mysterious being hidden in his soul as Creation God King, who said he had been offering the young cultivator guidance.

The Creation God King visited Gu Yuanqing to warn him that his overwhelming display of power had awakened hidden beings and drawn him into a looming tribulation. He revealed that only a Supreme Divine Artifact could offer escape, but ascending to God Lord required overcoming the being who treated cultivators as nourishment; Gu Yuanqing asked why he alone had to act.

• The Creation God King emerged from Gu Hanshan’s mind, and Gu Yuanqing sent Gu Hanshan back to the Qianyuan Sect before hosting the visitor with tea.
• The Creation God King warned Gu Yuanqing that his battle against Yuanchu and Wuxiang had made him powerful enough to attract the attention of slumbering beings.
• The Creation God King recounted how the ancient gods learned their world was nearing its end, sought refuge in the Underworld, and suffered deaths concealed from history.
• The Creation God King explained that controlling a Supreme Divine Artifact could resolve the tribulation, but doing so required becoming a God Lord and overcoming the being who used cultivators as nourishment.
• Gu Yuanqing acknowledged that he understood the cosmic karma but questioned why he had to act, as the Creation God King warned that Gu Yuanqing’s ripe cultivation made escape from the Guixu Tribulation impossible.

Gu Yuanqing heard the Creation God King’s plan to seize a Supreme Divine Artifact and refused to commit, knowing his own path differed from the ancient god’s. He gained the Creation God King’s imprint in the Immortal Mountain and began a fierce contest of Dao domains against him.

• The Creation God King proposed that Gu Yuanqing hold off an old God Lord while he took control of a Supreme Divine Artifact, then offered an alternative in which Gu Yuanqing would merge with the world’s origin and protect him.
• Gu Yuanqing declined to decide immediately, let the Creation God King leave, and granted the awakened Water Spirit Maid permission to become a water deity.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the Creation God King’s deep ties to Heaven and Earth made his plan irrelevant to Gu Yuanqing, who intended to await events instead.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Creation God King’s imprint had appeared in the Immortal Mountain and summoned it within the Trial Space.
• Gu Yuanqing and the Creation God King unleashed their Dao domains, with Gu Yuanqing forming his sword formation against the Creation God King’s creation divine kingdom.