Recaps

Gu Yuanqing grew the North Spring Realm, sheltered the Dragon Demon clans, and watched the Demon Realm’s seals fail as the Blood Moon spread its influence. When Wei Zhao drew the Ancient Realm over the Qian Yuan Realm, Gu Yuanqing repelled its invasion and learned that a True Demon’s soul was sealed in the Ancient Realm, while Gui Cang Hall remained missing.

• Gu Yuanqing repelled the Primordial Divine Sect’s assault and the Demon Court’s attacks, using their power to transform North Spring Grotto-Heaven into a growing Small World.
• Gu Yuanqing helped arrange exchanges between the Spirit Realm and Nine Domains, while the Demon Realm’s seals weakened and the Blood Moon’s influence spread.
• Gu Yuanqing offered the Dragon Demon clans sanctuary in North Spring Realm and reinforced their Underground Cave Seal as the Demon Realm descended into war.
• Gu Yuanqing saved the Spirit Venerable during his Calamity, then sheltered the cleansed demon clans in North Spring Realm.
• Wei Zhao brought the Ancient Realm toward the Qian Yuan Realm, and Feng Yue led its armies in an invasion while Li Guanrong rallied the Great Qian forces.
• Gu Yuanqing killed the invading yin souls and absorbed their power into North Spring Realm, weakening the Ancient Realm as its inhabitants lost their memories.
• Gu Yuanqing forced Zhuo Ming to reveal that legend placed a True Demon’s body in the Demon Realm and its soul in the Ancient Realm, after which the Ancient Realm withdrew.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to Ancient God Mountain and ordered the Primordial Divine Sect to open its formation, but Qi Yichen and the elders refused out of fear.

Gu Yuanqing resisted Wei Zhao’s attempts to draw him into the Ancient Realm’s crisis while the Demon Lord’s influence spread into other domains. After entering the Ancient Realm to cleanse its corrupted cities, he fought Zhou Wei and Feng Yue as they tried to stop him.

• Gu Yuanqing broke the Primordial Divine Sect’s formation, looted its treasures, and fought Wei Zhao and the Heavenly God Divine Body beneath Ancient God Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in the North Spring Realm as the True Demon Apostles attacked, absorbing their sacrifices and capturing them, while Wei Zhao later failed to persuade him to intervene in the Ancient Realm.
• The North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan spent a century strengthening their foundations before Wei Zhao warned that the Demon Lord Soul’s power was spreading.
• Demonic qi spread through several domains, and Gu Yuanqing reached Void Immortal Perfection before attacking the Primordial Divine Sect to demand the Ten Directions Token.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan welcomed their son Gu Huai'an, while Li Huang and Zhou Tianyan secretly spread the Demon Lord’s power through the Ningshou Realm.
• After demonic possession ravaged five realms, Gu Yuanqing rescued Qian Yuan Sect disciples, cleansed their bodies and souls, and entered the Ancient Realm to confront the source of the crisis.
• Gu Yuanqing destroyed corrupted towns across the Ancient Realm and absorbed their demonic thoughts and life-and-death power, prompting Wei Wuji to send Feng Yue and Zhou Wei against him.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated Feng Yue’s forces in Tiansheng City, but Zhou Wei used the Rebirth Banner to intervene, and Feng Yue sacrificed himself before Zhou Wei fled with the banner.

Gu Yuanqing destroyed Great Wei’s forces, survived his Immortal Tribulation, and watched Li Miaoxuan ascend while he remained in the lower realm to cultivate. As the North Spring Realm transformed and Gu Yuanqing gained new strength, he continued to settle worldly matters and explain why he had not ascended.

• Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Wuji’s Mirror of Rebirth Shadow, then destroyed the Hanging City and Cangwu City and continued gathering power from Great Wei’s ruined cities.
• Wei Wuji opened the Heavenly Prison and fought Gu Yuanqing, while Gu Yuanqing saw strange qi rising from the ground and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle transformed into a Black Tortoise after surviving his Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, reforged his treasures, and faced the Immortal Tribulation, becoming an Immortal while choosing to remain in the Spirit Realm.
• Li Miaoxuan passed her own Immortal Tribulation and ascended through the Eye of the Great Dao, leaving Gu Yuanqing with her soul imprint and the hope of reaching her through further cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated for centuries, guided Li Haotian through his Great Tribulation, and watched the Fa Yuan Realm descend into battles between Heavenly Gods while the North Spring Realm grew stronger.
• The North Spring Realm purified its spiritual energy, and Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Zhao in the Immortal Mountain Trial, gaining insights into the Ways of Returning to the Hidden and Life and Death.
• Gu Yuanqing subdued the Person in the Painting, restored Mo Xuan as its true spirit, and entrusted the Immortal Painting and Qingping Grotto-Heaven to Li Chengyi.
• After studying the sword scar for ten years, Gu Yuanqing met the Spiritual Treasure Venerable beside the Void Sea and said he still had worldly matters to settle.

Gu Yuanqing refined his Dao, repelled Guixu Alliance forces, and refused to commit himself to either faction. He passed the Celestial Immortal Tribulation and left the story facing renewed scrutiny from the Heavenly Eye God Lord and others.

• Gu Yuanqing used Dao Yan to deduce a cultivation path, then continued advancing while the Guixu Alliance pressured the Boundary Gate and Wei Zhao sought his help.
• After accepting Wei Zhao’s payment, Gu Yuanqing defeated Jinxu, imprisoned him in the Heaven and Earth Pool, and used his insights to strengthen his cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing transformed his Creation True Talisman into a Divine Spark in the Fa Yuan Realm, endured the tribulation, and perfected his True Immortal Dao.
• Jiang Yunchuan and Dang Shuo separately tried to recruit Gu Yuanqing, but he refused to join either faction as Divine Court and Guixu Alliance Heavenly Gods fought around North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the Heavenly Gods’ imprints and advanced toward the Celestial Immortal realm while conflict spread across the Tianfang Domain and the God Ruins.
• Gu Yuanqing entered a profound inner transformation, passed the Celestial Immortal Tribulation without realizing it at first, and later told Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Guanrong that he had become a Celestial Immortal.
• Gu Yuanqing traced the North Spring Realm’s Great Dao River and refined a wisp of the Demon Lord’s aura as the Heavenly Eye God Lord investigated the Fuyuan Mountain Range.