Recaps

Gu Yuanqing honed his Dao at the Ancient Fishing Platform, then returned to North Spring Mountain and survived two Heavenly Change tribulations to become a Heavenly Human. After defeating Bai Hong and repelling Shentu Yu, he resumed cultivating and turned his attention to the Dragon Demon Ancestor.

• Gu Yuanqing fished at the Ancient Fishing Platform, caught a Thunder Flood Dragon Dao Soul, and refined it to deepen his understanding of the Path of Thunder.
• After years of cultivation on North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing reached the perfection of Void Heaven and began his Heavenly Tribulation, drawing the storm across all three worlds.
• Gu Yuanqing endured two successive Heavenly Change tribulations and became a Heavenly Human, while Bai Hong entered the Floating World through the Underworld and possessed Bai Xianghui.
• Bai Hong attacked North Spring Mountain, but Gu Yuanqing revealed his Heavenly Human World, captured him, and killed his true body through their causal connection.
• Gu Yuanqing questioned Bai Hong and killed him, then climbed the Heavenly Ladder through its thirty-second level before narrowly losing at the thirty-third.
• Shentu Yu investigated Bai Hong's death, but Gu Yuanqing's attack destroyed his Heavenly Eye, and Shentu Yu warned the Bai Clan that Gu Yuanqing wielded power beyond their expectations.
• Gu Yuanqing spent three months cultivating, met with Li Chengyi and Li Shi'an's group, and then went to the Heaven and Earth Pool and lifted out the Dragon Demon Ancestor.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Ancient Realm, clashed with Lu Chen and the Sanyang Sect, and refused to let the Illusionary Spirit Sect become involved in his disputes. After Liu Ruiyuan and Chen Baotian confronted him, Gu Yuanqing killed them and accepted that his conflict with the Sanyang Sect had begun.

• Ao Jie pledged to serve Gu Yuanqing, returned to the Demon Realm, and ordered the Demonic Dragon Clan to respect Young Master Gu and deliver offerings to North Spring Mountain.
• Bai Yuebin ordered the Slanting Moon Bai Clan to leave Slanting Moon World, while Gu Yuanqing trained, developed Gu Siyuan’s cultivation, and allowed Hu Lie to attempt a breakthrough to the Yin-Yang Realm.
• The Nine-Headed Serpent attacked the Dragon Demon Domain, and the demon kings forced it to retreat before it later entered the Dragon Demon World and approached the Underground Cave.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the Ancient Realm, killed Yu Yunan and the Green-Skirted Woman, and escaped after nearly killing a purple-robed elder.
• Lu Chen sought Gu Yuanqing at the Illusionary Spirit Sect, while Gu Yuanqing killed Chen Baotian in the Ancient Realm and continued fishing for powerful Dao Souls along the Boundless River.
• Lu Chen attacked the Sanyang Sect and called the killings a gift for Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing told Qiu Ziqing that he would handle the feud himself and would not involve the Illusionary Spirit Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing killed Tan Ziping during his confrontation with the Sanyang Sect, then defeated Liu Ruiyuan and killed Chen Baotian when they attacked him together.
• Lu Zeyu warned Gu Yuanqing that the Sanyang Sect would seek revenge, and Gu Yuanqing said he would face whatever the sect sent.

Gu Yuanqing strengthened his cultivation while resisting the Sanyang Sect’s attempts to trap and kill him, and faced Pei Yutang’s challenges in the Ancient Realm. After a Chaos Realm threat emerged from the Demon Realm, he completed another tribulation and returned to confront the Sanyang Sect, where Pei Yutang came to meet him.

• Gu Yuanqing seized treasures and divine soul medicines from the Sanyang Sect’s valleys, then exposed himself to Baili Jinghong and demanded that Pei Yutang abandon his cultivation and the sect apologize publicly.
• Gu Yuanqing escaped Pei Yutang’s formation by returning to his original body, refined the Spirit Phoenix Grass, and entered Mountain Observation to strengthen his divine soul and North Spring Mountain.
• The Nine-Headed Serpent attacked the Dragon Demon Domain, but the Dragon Demon Ancestor and other Great Demons defeated it, while a strand of black hair escaped and was believed to belong to a Chaos Realm Great Cultivator.
• The Demon Ape Clan and Demon Phoenix Race submitted to Gu Yuanqing for protection, and he cultivated for eighteen years before facing his third heavenly transformation tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed eighty-one bolts of Heavenly Thunder, created the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Divine Thunder, and later sent his divine soul into the Ancient Realm before challenging the Sanyang Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing killed Luo Kun and defeated Han Baifeng’s twelve-person formation outside the Sanyang Sect’s residence, then waited as Pei Yutang armed himself and came to confront him.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Pei Yutang, settled his conflict with the Sanyang Sect, and built up his strength while guiding the Floating World. When the North Sea sects challenged the Qian Yuan Sect over Huang Wenzhong’s death, Li Chengyi fought their leaders with Gu Yuanqing’s protection, leaving Gu Yuanqing to decide their fate.

• Pei Yutang burned his divine soul to reach the seventh revolution, but Gu Yuanqing killed him and then defeated Zhuang Hanhai’s challenge, settling with the Sanyang Sect for ten Heaven-Tier Divine Soul Great Medicines.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to Dongyuan City, traded Dao Souls with Yi Yunbo, and spent years fishing for high-tier Dao Souls before establishing a mountain residence and protective formation.
• Gu Yuanqing taught cultivation across the Floating World, while Li Miaoxuan prepared to descend to the Cultivation World and Gu Yuanqing wondered whether she was well.
• Li Shi'an and Ji Dai welcomed cultivators to Cangming Island as the Qian Yuan Sect, but rumors of its secret realm and Spirit Spring drew Huang Wenzhong and his attackers to North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated Huang Wenzhong and the Yellow Wind Island cultivators, and the North Sea sects began investigating the Qian Yuan Sect after news of the deaths spread.
• Gu Yuanqing prepared Li Chengyi to lead the Qian Yuan Sect as its master, then watched as Li Chengyi welcomed the Seven Sects of the North Sea and explained that their elder had slain the attackers.
• Li Chengyi fought Meng Tingfeng and Yue Heng as the other sects tested the Qian Yuan Sect, while Gu Yuanqing stopped Yue Sheng from intervening.
• Li Chengyi trapped Yue Heng with the Hun Tian Rope and Sky Burning Tower, and Gu Yuanqing appeared beside him to ask the North Sea cultivators how he should deal with them.