Recaps

Gu Yuanqing traded with Xiong Ba for rare materials and prepared them to cast a divine platform. He began his breakthrough, completed the Divine Platform Formation, and reached the critical stage where his dao embryo and divine sense had to transform before the Wind Dao tribulation.

• Xiong Ba and Great Gong Venerable visited North Spring Mountain, and Xiong Ba traded rare divine-platform materials to Gu Yuanqing for bamboo after haggling over the prices.
• Gu Yuanqing cleansed the materials with Fire Dao over ten days and waited for the right moment to break through.
• When insight ignited his Fire Dao, Gu Yuanqing sealed off the rear mountain and began refining the materials into a Divine Platform Formation.
• Gu Yuanqing completed the formation with phoenix gold and seven-colored cloud iron, then prepared to transform his dao embryo and condense his divine sense into a Divine Soul as the Wind Dao tribulation approached.

Gu Yuanqing endured the Wind Dao tribulation and completed his Divine Soul's Transformation, entering the divine platform realm. After discovering the Floating World’s limits and confronting Qin Wuya, he was left wary of Qin Wuya’s dangerous power.

• Gu Yuanqing formed his Divine Soul on the divine platform and endured the sinister Wind Dao until it dispersed, completing his Transformation.
• Gu Yuanqing replenished his body and true essence, then tested his newfound ability to fly and walk through the sky.
• Gu Yuanqing saw through his Pupil Technique that the Floating World ended about two thousand zhang above him and concluded that its celestial bodies might be unreal.
• Gu Yuanqing detected Qin Wuya cultivating in the Guiyun Mountain Range and tried to capture him with Heavenly Fishing Empowerment, but Qin Wuya escaped using a Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Qin Wuya unleashed Heavenly Human Divine Sense and Sword Intent to break Gu Yuanqing’s Fishing Line, creating space rifts that Gu Yuanqing repaired before Qin Wuya fled.
• Qin Wuya lamented his injuries and depleted Split Soul Power, then warned someone not to act rashly or he would erase their consciousness.

Gu Yuanqing questioned Zhang Xuanlin about the heavenly human who had possessed Qin Wuya, but learned little beyond the possibility that he came from the Cultivation World. After another year of cultivation and growth in North Spring Mountain’s influence, the Floating World’s spatial limit rose to the initial Divine Platform stage.

• Qin Wuya agreed not to endanger the Floating World, suppressed the consciousness in his mind, and fled after sensing Gu Yuanqing watching him.
• Gu Yuanqing visited Zhang Xuanlin at Repentance Cliff and asked him to identify the heavenly human who had possessed Qin Wuya, but Zhang said he needed to meet him to recognize him.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the split soul was unlikely to cause trouble soon, then examined how his breakthrough had strengthened his divine sense and formed a nine-foot first-level divine platform.
• A year later, Gu Yuanqing traded in the Demon Realm for divine-platform materials, learned that humans had gone underground and another Demon Race faction had joined the fighting, then concealed North Spring Mountain.
• As North Spring Mountain’s spiritual qi spread through Great Qian, the Floating World’s space grew stable enough to withstand initial Divine Platform power, and Cultivators appeared in greater numbers near the mountain.

The Great Qian Dynasty prospered as North Spring Mountain grew and Gu Yuanqing prepared to establish a Scripture Pavilion with refined cultivation manuals. As the mountain began breaking toward another world, the young prince collapsed in the Imperial Garden.

• The Great Qian Dynasty gained four Grandmasters, doubled its harvests, and exchanged national treasures for Spirit Spring Water from North Spring Mountain.
• North Spring Mountain expanded dramatically, and Gu Yuanqing refined over a hundred cultivation techniques for a Scripture Pavilion to be managed with help from the Great Qian Imperial Court.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed North Spring Mountain trying to break into another world and worried that entering the Cultivation World would bring him into conflict with the Heavenly Humans.
• A eunuch reported to Xu Lianying that the young prince had collapsed unconscious in the Imperial Garden, and Xu Lianying informed Li Haotian.

Li Chengyi suddenly collapsed unconscious in the Imperial Palace, and the Imperial Physicians could not explain why. Li Haotian and Li Shi'an brought him to North Spring Mountain, where Gu Yuanqing was asked to examine him.

• Li Chengyi collapsed after crying out in the Imperial Garden, and Li Haotian rushed to his bedside.
• Xu Lianying and Wu Bingzhi found no injury, poison, or illness, while Li Haotian ordered the palace sealed and an investigation begun.
• Li Shi'an examined Li Chengyi and found no sign of his soul or consciousness, so he suggested taking the child to Gu Yuanqing.
• Li Haotian, Li Shi'an, and Xu Lianying traveled to North Spring Mountain, where Gu Yuanqing brought them directly into his courtyard.
• Li Shi'an asked Gu Yuanqing to examine the unconscious Li Chengyi.

Gu Yuanqing woke Li Chengyi and discovered that spirit spring water had awakened a powerful treasure sealed within the boy, trapping his consciousness. Impressed by Li Chengyi’s aptitude, Gu Yuanqing asked to take him as a disciple, but Li Haotian refused, and the treasure’s nature remained unknown.

• Gu Yuanqing examined Li Chengyi, realized spirit spring water had strengthened his body, and used his power to wake him.
• Li Chengyi told Li Haotian and Li Shi'an that he had explored a bead filled with flowers, trees, clouds, and living cloud creations.
• Li Haotian sent Li Shi'an and Li Chengyi out, then thanked Gu Yuanqing for saving the boy.
• Gu Yuanqing praised Li Chengyi’s aptitude and asked to take him as his disciple, but Li Haotian refused.
• Gu Yuanqing explained that the spirit spring water had awakened a treasure sealed in Li Chengyi’s Divine Court, trapping the child’s consciousness inside it.

Li Haotian revealed that Li Chengyi was Gu Yuanqing’s son and argued that the boy should remain under his care, while Gu Yuanqing insisted he should have a role in raising him. The chapter ended with the two debating Chengyi’s future and whether he should be raised to become Emperor.

• Li Haotian refused Gu Yuanqing’s request to keep Li Chengyi on North Spring Mountain for cultivation and explained that he wanted his grandson prepared to rule Great Qian.
• Li Haotian revealed that Chengyi was Li Miaoxuan’s son and Gu Yuanqing’s, then tried to leave before Gu Yuanqing pulled him back into the courtyard.
• Gu Yuanqing realized that his sudden fondness for Chengyi came from their father-son bond, while Li Chengyi played with Little Fox nearby.
• Li Haotian argued that Chengyi should keep the Li surname and remain in his care, since he had raised the boy after Miaoxuan left.
• Gu Yuanqing said he would learn to be a father and challenged Li Haotian’s plan to raise Chengyi as Emperor, noting that Miaoxuan had rejected the throne for her dao path.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Haotian settled the arrangements for Li Chengyi, and the boy met his birth father for the first time. Gu Yuanqing spent the day caring for him, and as Li Chengyi slept in his new mountain home, Gu Yuanqing reflected on the responsibility of fatherhood.

• Gu Yuanqing insisted that Li Chengyi keep the surname Li while leaving his future choice about the throne to him, and Li Haotian accepted the arrangement after a long argument.
• Li Shi'an brought Li Chengyi to the courtyard, where Li Haotian told him that Gu Yuanqing was his birth father.
• Li Chengyi bowed to Gu Yuanqing and called him Father, moving Gu Yuanqing to lift him and embrace his new responsibility.
• Li Haotian left to arrange for Li Chengyi's needs, while Gu Yuanqing took the boy around North Spring Mountain and introduced him to its animals.
• Gu Yuanqing brought Li Chengyi's attendants and belongings onto the mountain through a spatial gateway, and the exhausted boy fell asleep in his care.

Gu Yuanqing raised Li Chengyi on North Spring Mountain, developed a cultivation method for him, and began teaching him before Li Haotian returned to take the boy to the Imperial Palace. After their tearful farewell, Gu Yuanqing watched Li Chengyi leave and resolved to eliminate the danger posed by the heavenly human split soul in the Floating World.

• Gu Yuanqing accepted Li Chengyi as his son and devoted himself to caring for him and refining a cultivation technique suited to his foundation.
• Gu Yuanqing guided Li Chengyi through his first cultivation session, and the boy sensed his vital energy in less than the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Li Haotian visited for Li Chengyi's birthday, discovered that the boy had reached the True Martial Realm, and arranged to take him back to the Imperial Palace the next morning.
• Gu Yuanqing flew with Li Chengyi on a goshawk, and the boy excitedly asked whether he would someday be able to fly too.
• Li Chengyi tearfully said goodbye to Gu Yuanqing and the mountain animals before Li Haotian took him to Fengtian City and ordered his attendants to keep the mountain's secrets.
• Gu Yuanqing watched Li Chengyi enter the city and vowed to crush the risks posed by the heavenly human split soul in the Floating World.

Gu Yuanqing developed and cultivated the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to search for Qin Wuya, while spending the New Year on North Spring Mountain and sensing Li Chengyi in the Imperial Palace. After testing his new eye across great distances, he finally found Qin Wuya.

• Gu Yuanqing searched his Mountain Observation range for Qin Wuya, caught two Crimson Dragon Cult disciples, and studied several Pupil Techniques to devise his own.
• Gu Yuanqing named his new technique the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye and tested it repeatedly in the Spiritual Mountain Trial.
• On New Year's Eve, Gu Yuanqing watched Li Chengyi from afar and drank with Li Shi'an and Ji Dai on North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye, drawing on spiritual qi and Dao resonance to temper his eyes.
• Gu Yuanqing used his new eyes to see Fengtian City and look toward Void Spirit Island, then declared that he had found Qin Wuya.

Qin Wuya cultivated with Demonic Qi at Soul Falling Abyss and prepared to confront Gu Yuanqing for two objects. Gu Yuanqing sent an Incense Avatar to the abyss, where Qin Wuya challenged him to come in his true body.

• Qin Wuya told Qi Daojie that Gu Yuanqing was coming, while Qi recalled how Gu Yuanqing's actions had ruined his former life and driven him into the Death Camp.
• Gu Yuanqing borrowed Zhang Xuanlin's Sky Burning Tower, refined it, and created an Incense Avatar to travel to Soul Falling Abyss.
• Gu Yuanqing sent his Divine Soul and True Essence through the Avatar to confront Qin Wuya about drawing Demonic Qi into the world.
• Qin Wuya demanded that Gu Yuanqing hand over two objects and challenged him to come to Soul Falling Abyss in his true body.

Gu Yuanqing used the Sky Burning Tower to defeat Qin Wuya’s formation in Soul Falling Abyss, though Qin Wuya’s heavenly human split soul escaped into the Demon Realm. After containing the corrupted Qin Wuya and killing Qi Daojie, Gu Yuanqing returned the borrowed tower to Zhang Xuanlin.

• Gu Yuanqing attacked Qin Wuya with a palm strike, but Qin Wuya activated his formation and warned that their battle could tear open the world and let in the Demon Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing deployed the Sky Burning Tower and used strange fire and wind to overwhelm Qin Wuya’s formation.
• Qin Wuya spent his dao embryo essence blood to break free briefly, then fled into the Demon Realm as his body collapsed.
• Qi Daojie succumbed to demonic influence, charged into the flames, and burned to ashes; Gu Yuanqing took the unconscious Qin Wuya to North Spring Mountain.
• Qin Wuya awoke violently and was sealed as a little fish in the Heaven and Earth Pool, while Gu Yuanqing searched Soul Falling Abyss and concluded the split soul had escaped.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled to Repentance Cliff and returned the Sky Burning Tower to Zhang Xuanlin by placing it in his Storage Bag.

After Qin Wuya recovered from possession, Gu Yuanqing learned that the dangerous Visualization Method was the Heavenly Demon Sword Diagram and uncovered its history and power. Zhang Xuanlin offered Gu Yuanqing a cultivation method in exchange for freedom, and Gu Yuanqing agreed to trust him under strict promises as strange spatial fluctuations continued above North Spring Peak.

• Gu Yuanqing rescued Qin Wuya from the Heaven and Earth Pool, and Qin Wuya explained that a sword Visualization Method had enabled the possession.
• Gu Yuanqing kept Qin Wuya on North Spring Mountain until his consciousness could control his cultivation, then accompanied him to Fengtian City to retrieve his belongings.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Heavenly Demon Sword Diagram and learned from Zhang Xuanlin that its sword seed let the Sword Lord possess practitioners, even those in the Divine Platform Realm.
• Zhang Xuanlin offered to teach Gu Yuanqing a method spanning the Divine Platform Realm through the Heavenly Human Realm if Gu Yuanqing freed his split soul and accepted responsibility for the method's Karma.
• Gu Yuanqing secured Zhang Xuanlin's promise not to harm him or reveal North Spring Mountain's secrets, then decided to trust him as spatial fluctuations intensified above North Spring Peak.

Gu Yuanqing studied the Formless Heart Sutra and questioned Zhang Xuanlin about cultivation, using the lessons to clarify ideas from the Remnant Scripture. Their instruction ended when the Heaven-Connecting Stele appeared across the Floating World, leaving Zhang Xuanlin to explain its strange nature.

• Gu Yuanqing agreed to learn from Zhang Xuanlin, who copied the Formless Heart Sutra by hand after Gu Yuanqing refused to lift the array's suppression of divine sense.
• For a month, Gu Yuanqing visited Repentance Cliff to study the manual and ask Zhang Xuanlin questions, while Ji Qingyun helped and their treatment improved.
• Zhang Xuanlin noticed that some of Gu Yuanqing's questions came from another source, and Gu Yuanqing admitted he had questions he could not ask anyone else.
• After Zhang Xuanlin explained the danger of learning advanced methods too early and asked Gu Yuanqing to honor his promise, the Floating World shook and a seven-colored light revealed the Heaven-Connecting Stele.
• Zhang Xuanlin recognized the stele from legend and told Gu Yuanqing to check whether its front remained visible from every direction.

Gu Yuanqing and Zhang Xuanlin investigated the Heaven-Connecting Stele and learned that it would open the Heavenly Ladder and give the Floating World a hundred years before a conflict with an Exquisite World. The chapter ended with Gu Yuanqing sensing that North Spring Mountain could still manifest in the Demon Realm, though something about it had changed.

• Gu Yuanqing used a Puppet Jade Token and the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to confirm that the Heaven-Connecting Stele appeared the same from faraway places as it did from North Spring Mountain.
• Zhang Xuanlin explained that the stele would protect the world from outside threats for a hundred years before a world conflict began, possibly because Gu Yuanqing had nourished the world with demonic qi.
• Zhang Xuanlin described the Trial Path, the Heavenly Ladder, and how the stele would let the world's inhabitants repeatedly attempt the ladder and enter an Exquisite World after passing ten steps.
• Zhang Xuanlin revealed that the conflict would pit the Floating World against an Exquisite World and said he knew neither how it would be fought nor whether it would occur on the Ancient Realm Platform.
• Zhang Xuanlin said the stele's domain prevented him from sending word outside the world and warned Gu Yuanqing not to leave for the Demon Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that North Spring Mountain could still manifest in the Demon Realm, and Zhang Xuanlin asked whether it felt different.

After the Heaven-Connecting Stele appeared, Gu Yuanqing learned that it heralded a world conflict that could transform the Floating World, though its rules and creator remained unknown. Three days later, the stele spoke to everyone in the world, but only those born and raised there could hear its message.

• Gu Yuanqing asked Zhang Xuanlin about the Exquisite World and learned that its strongest known cultivators had reached the Peak of the divine platform realm, though some might have hidden their greater strength.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Shi'an and Ji Dai what he had learned, including that the Floating World might ascend through a world conflict, and urged them to wait for clarity.
• Emperor Li Haotian received a report from North Spring Mountain, considered whether the Floating World’s transformation could let him see Miaoxuan again, and ordered officials to prevent unrest.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an incense avatar toward the Heaven-Connecting Stele, but spatial power kept it and other investigators more than ten li away.
• After three days, the Heaven-Connecting Stele blazed and spoke into the minds of the Floating World’s inhabitants; Gu Yuanqing heard it, while Zhang Xuanlin and Ji Qingyun did not.

Gu Yuanqing observed the first cultivators entering the Heavenly Ladder and learned that its trials felt like entire lifetimes despite lasting only moments outside. After Zhang Xuanlin left North Spring Mountain and gifted Gu Yuanqing the Sky Burning Tower, Gu Yuanqing discovered that Zhang Xuanlin’s puppet had returned to a hidden chamber beneath Lingxiao Mountain.

• Li Shi'an climbed the Heavenly Ladder's first step, experienced an entire lifetime in an instant, and received a bottle of marrow cleansing spirit liquid; Ji Dai also emerged weeping over memories from the trial.
• Shen Yurong reached the ladder's second step and obtained pills and a cultivation technique, while Li Haotian ordered Xu Lianying to record talented climbers for the Imperial Court.
• Zhang Xuanlin asked Gu Yuanqing to send him and Ji Qingyun outside North Spring Mountain so he could reconnect with his true body, and Gu Yuanqing lifted the mountain's suppression.
• Zhang Xuanlin gifted Gu Yuanqing the Sky Burning Tower before his divine sense departed, and Ji Qingyun and the puppet vanished as well.
• Gu Yuanqing used his heavenly eyes to see that the puppet had appeared in a hidden chamber beneath Lingxiao Mountain.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Heavenly Ladder, saw through its illusions, and fought his way to the nineteenth level before withdrawing with valuable rewards. As his name topped the rankings, leaders of the Slanting Moon World gathered to discuss its coming conflict with the Floating World.

• Gu Yuanqing entered the Heavenly Ladder and rejected illusions of his former life, his parents, and Li Miaoxuan because the phantom of North Spring Mountain remained clear to him.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated opponents on the ladder through the nineteenth level, where he subdued a fourth-heaven Divine Platform expert after a hundred moves and then withdrew.
• Gu Yuanqing received a pile of rewards, including phoenix gold and a seven-colored meteorite for clearing the fifteenth level.
• Gu Yuanqing's name rose to the top of the rankings, and people across the world accepted his achievement as expected of him.
• Bai Changbi gathered the five great Lineages at Hundred Phoenix Mountain to discuss the Slanting Moon World's coming battle against the Floating World.
• An elderly man in magnificent robes dismissed the Floating World as an insignificant opponent despite the hundred years before the conflict.

Bai Changbi convened the Slanting Moon World’s patriarchs to discuss the threat of a World Conflict and proposed inspecting the Heaven Ladder Rankings in ten years. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Ladder’s illusions transformed life across the Floating World, and Gu Yuanqing continued his daily trials while Ji Dai and Li Shi'an struggled with their memories.

• Bai Changbi argued that the patriarchs should prepare for a World Conflict, and Ji Yuhuan warned that losing could doom the Slanting Moon World.
• Bai Changbi proposed using the Five Directions Great Formation to inspect the Heaven Ladder Rankings, and Wang agreed to wait ten years before doing so.
• The Heaven-Connecting Stele made the Heavenly Ladder widely accessible, but repeated visits to its illusory realms caused many people to lose their memories or change their behavior.
• Gu Yuanqing warned Ji Dai against entering the Heavenly Ladder again, and Li Shi'an explained that Ji Dai was haunted by having killed his first wife after believing a false accusation.
• Li Shi'an admitted that the illusions had unsettled his own mind, while Gu Yuanqing returned to the trial and restarted it to collect phoenix gold and seven colored cloud iron.

Over nine years, Gu Yuanqing strengthened North Spring Mountain as the Floating World entered a cultivation boom, while Li Chengyi grew up and chose to leave the mountain to make his own path. In the Slanting Moon World, Bai Changbi and four others activated a formation that revealed the Heaven and Earth Stele’s rankings ahead of the World Conflict.

• Gu Yuanqing traded zen heart demonic bamboo with Meng San for divine platform materials, including phoenix gold, then hid North Spring Mountain in the void.
• Li Chengyi returned to North Spring Mountain, grew stronger alongside its evolving beasts, and saw through the Heavenly Ladder’s trials by instinct.
• Over nine years, spiritual qi spread across the Floating World, cultivators multiplied, and North Spring Mountain expanded into a powerful mountain range under Gu Yuanqing’s control.
• At thirteen, Li Chengyi told Gu Yuanqing he wanted to experience the Imperial Dynasty’s affairs and take part in the coming conflict between the two worlds, then left the mountain to begin his own journey.
• Bai Changbi and four other divine souls activated five Slanting Moon Tokens and a Grand Formation, causing the Heaven and Earth Stele’s rankings to appear.

Bai Changbi revealed that his clan possessed a World-Breaking Shuttle that could carry six people into the selected Floating World, then proposed using it to exploit the Heavenly Ladder’s rewards. The other patriarchs weighed the steep cost and Bai Clan’s demanded share, and the group remained to discuss the plan.

• The five patriarchs saw the Heaven Ladder Rankings and learned that Gu Yuanqing had reached Divine Platform Seventh Level.
• Bai Changbi argued that Gu Yuanqing could become a threat before the world conflict, while Chen Zongyao dismissed the danger and Wang Shihong called for a plan.
• Bai Changbi revealed his clan’s World-Breaking Shuttle and said it could carry people into the Floating World, though it required nine High Grade spirit veins and the divine soul power of nine high-level Divine Platform Cultivators.
• Bai Changbi proposed that the Bai Clan contribute one cultivator and one spirit vein, take two of the six places, and claim forty percent of the rewards.
• Chen Zongyao protested the Bai Clan’s share, but he stayed when the others did not join his objection, and Bai Changbi began discussing the details.

Gu Yuanqing lost a chance to catch a silver blood Snake when the winged Unicorn Beast severed his fishing line, then watched the people and cultivators of his world. Six powerful outsiders arrived through a space rift and began discussing how to divide the Floating World, while Gu Yuanqing observed them from afar.

• The winged Unicorn Beast cut Gu Yuanqing’s fishing line before he could catch the silver blood Snake, ending his attempt to fish for ingredients for Spirit Tempering Pills.
• Gu Yuanqing checked on Li Chengyi, Li Sian, and the cultivators around North Spring Mountain, then let Aunt Feng prepare his meal.
• Six divine platform cultivators from the Wang, Chen, Ji, Tong, and Bai clans emerged from a space rift more than six thousand li west of North Spring Mountain.
• Wang Yuchi proposed that the six outsiders divide the Floating World’s territory according to their already allocated shares.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the newcomers and wondered how they had reached the world despite the Heaven and Earth Stele’s blockade.

Wang Yuchi and the other visitors planned to divide the Floating World and cultivate its people to strengthen their gains from the world conflict. Gu Yuanqing decided to let them help develop the world, but when Bai Jianfei approached North Spring Mountain and tried to claim it, Gu Yuanqing captured him.

• Wang Yuchi proposed dividing the Floating World among the five families and establishing sects to cultivate its people, and Chen Zhengfeng and the Ji Family agreed.
• Gu Yuanqing listened to the visitors’ plan and decided to use their efforts to strengthen the Floating World while he considered his own strategy.
• The six visitors agreed to reconvene in three days and split up to inspect the world, while Gu Yuanqing stayed his hand.
• Bai Jianfei flew toward North Spring Mountain, sensed its dense spiritual qi, and decided to capture Gu Yuanqing and make the mountain his cultivation base.
• Gu Yuanqing trapped Bai Jianfei with a rope, inflicted severe pain on him, and suppressed his true essence and divine soul.

Gu Yuanqing captured Bai Jianfei and tried to force him to train Cultivators from the Floating World. After Bai Jianfei refused, Gu Yuanqing targeted another Slanting Moon World cultivator, Bai Shanghui, at Lingxiao Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing suppressed Bai Jianfei, learned his identity, and offered to spare him if he helped train the Floating World’s Cultivators.
• Bai Jianfei refused to betray the Slanting Moon World, so Gu Yuanqing trapped him in a tower and burned him with Azure strange Fire Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing took Bai Jianfei’s Storage Bag and used the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to find Bai Shanghui above Lingxiao Mountain.
• Kuang Tongyi recognized Bai Shanghui as an outsider and cautiously questioned him about his connection to the Lingxu Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Hun Tian Rope to snare Bai Shanghui and pull him into the void.

Gu Yuanqing sealed Bai Xianghui’s cultivation and forced him to accept a Soul Imprint, then sent him into the Sky Burning Tower to confront Bai Jianfei. After witnessing their bitter clash, Gu Yuanqing decided to use Soul Seals to control the other people in the Floating World and targeted another man near the Heaven-Connecting Stele.

• Gu Yuanqing subdued Bai Xianghui, carved off a strand of his divine soul, and planted a Soul Imprint that let him control Bai Xianghui’s life and death.
• Gu Yuanqing sent Bai Xianghui into the Sky Burning Tower and told him to persuade Bai Jianfei or Bai Jianfei would be killed.
• Bai Jianfei condemned Bai Xianghui for betraying the Bai Clan, while Bai Xianghui argued that surrender could give the clan a way to survive.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to control the remaining people in the Floating World with Soul Seals so he could focus on cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing spotted another man investigating the Heaven-Connecting Stele and used Heavenly Fishing to send the Hun Tian Rope through space.