Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing oversaw the spread of Dao teachings and advanced his cultivation while fishing in the Demon Realm. After the Sky Fox Tribe discussed confronting humanity over his attacks on young demons, Gu Yuanqing encountered Lan Tinglie again, who asked him to leave seclusion and help humanity through its Great Calamity.

• Bai Xianghui and the other lecturers taught thousands of Cultivators on Blue Dragon Mountain, and cultivation advanced across the Floating World over the following six months.
• Wang Yuchi remained overseas, where the Mysterious Light Mirror warned him that returning to the continent would bring danger, so he sent others to gather information.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Divine Platform Fifth Level, developed the preliminary Formless Heart Sutra, and continued catching demons with Heavenly Fishing.
• Gu Yuanqing overheard the Sky Fox, Tiger, Demon Phoenix, and Ape tribes discuss his attacks on their young, and the Six-tailed Fox Demon threatened to demand an explanation from humanity.
• Great Venerable Meng San warned Gu Yuanqing that Asura prodigies had entered the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Lan Tinglie found Gu Yuanqing and invited him to join the effort to help humanity survive its Great Calamity, but Gu Yuanqing refused to leave seclusion.

Gu Yuanqing refused the Heavenly Human Sacred Hall’s request for help and returned to the Floating World to continue cultivating. Meanwhile, Wang Yuchi learned how powerful Gu Yuanqing had become and sent Hao Deyang to obtain items for a scheme, prompting Gu Yuanqing to suspect Wang Yuchi was plotting against him.

• Gu Yuanqing struck Lan Tinglie aside, rejected the Heavenly Human Sacred Hall’s appeal, and returned North Spring Mountain to the Floating World.
• Wang Yuchi learned that Gu Yuanqing had established the Dao Hall and suspected he had defeated experts from the Slanting Moon World.
• Wang Yuchi ordered Hao Deyang to obtain Gu Yuanqing’s birth details and personal items, then bound him with a Soul-Chasing Seal and promised a cultivation breakthrough if he succeeded.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed someone might be plotting against him, suspected Wang Yuchi, and searched the area around North Spring Mountain for threats to his son.

Li Chengyi became Great Qian’s heir apparent and learned the truth about his mother, Miaoxuan, from Li Haotian. Meanwhile, Hao Deyang entered Fengtian City under an assumed identity and persuaded Xia Yanjie to help him obtain something once used by Gu Yuanqing.

• Li Chengyi was named heir apparent after reaching the Fire Dao Realm at fourteen, and Li Haotian took him to pay homage to the imperial ancestors.
• Li Chengyi asked Li Haotian about his parents, and Li Haotian revealed that his mother was Miaoxuan, who had left the world after his birth and secretly returned to see him.
• Li Chengyi told Li Haotian that Miaoxuan had appeared inside the pearl in his Divine Court when he broke through to the Fire Dao Realm.
• Hao Deyang arrived in Fengtian City posing as a merchant from the Shuiyue Kingdom and questioned Xia Yanjie about Gu Yuanqing.
• Hao Deyang offered Xia Yanjie six Qi-Increasing Yuan-Returning Pills to help him obtain items Gu Yuanqing had once used, and Xia agreed.

Gu Yuanqing uncovered a plot to obtain his Eight Characters of Birth and traced Hao Deyang to the far western islands. There, Wang Yuchi sacrificed the people of a city to invoke the Great Black Prison Underworld God using Gu Yuanqing’s birth details, while Gu Yuanqing sensed a sudden chill.

• Gu Yuanqing noticed Hao Deyang obtaining his Eight Characters of Birth from Xia Yanjie and had Imperial Guards arrest Xia after Hao left.
• Gu Yuanqing tracked Hao Deyang west with a hidden jade token and concluded he was heading toward the far western islands.
• Wang Yuchi’s divinations warned of growing peril, so he decided to use Gu Yuanqing’s Eight Characters of Birth in a secret ritual.
• Wang Yuchi used a formation to slaughter every living being within hundreds of miles and gathered their souls into incense.
• Wang Yuchi offered Gu Yuanqing’s Eight Characters of Birth to the Great Black Prison Underworld God, and Gu Yuanqing sensed an unexplained chill on North Spring Mountain.

Wang Yuchi summoned the King of the Underworld to seize Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing resisted the Soul Locking Chain and gained a profound change in his Divine Soul before the King withdrew. The King then punished Wang Yuchi by taking a hundred years of his lifespan, leaving him aged and near death.

• Wang Yuchi summoned the King of the Underworld to kill Gu Yuanqing, paying with part of his Divine Soul and a hundred years of his lifespan.
• The King of the Underworld bound Gu Yuanqing’s Divine Soul and tried to drag it away, but Gu Yuanqing united with North Spring Mountain and resisted.
• The King withdrew, and Gu Yuanqing discovered that his exhausted Divine Soul had become purer and more closely attuned to his body and the world.
• Wang Yuchi waited for news at the altar, but the King accused him of insincerity and took another hundred years of his lifespan.
• Wang Yuchi aged rapidly as the Divine Statue shattered, and he cursed the King before collapsing into despair.

Gu Yuanqing recovered his divine soul and grew more wary after reflecting on a near-fatal encounter. Meanwhile, Hao Deyang learned that the Hao Family and others near Qi Yi Mountain had been slaughtered, and Gu Yuanqing appeared just as Wang Yuchi demanded Hao Deyang's items.

• Gu Yuanqing restored his divine soul, discovered that its power and his comprehension had improved, and resolved to treat every opponent as a serious threat.
• Hao Jizhou and Qing'er told Hao Deyang that everyone near Qi Yi Mountain had been killed, including nearly the entire Hao Family.
• Hao Deyang went to Qi Yi Mountain and confronted Wang Yuchi, who admitted no explanation was owed and threatened the two surviving members of Hao Deyang's family.
• Wang Yuchi demanded the items Hao Deyang had brought, and Hao Deyang reluctantly prepared to hand them over.
• Gu Yuanqing made the bundle vanish and appeared before Wang Yuchi, who recognized him and said he had known Gu Yuanqing was following Hao Deyang.

Gu Yuanqing confronted the dying Wang Yuchi, who had prepared a formation to kill him, and the two fought with their treasures and formations. Wang Yuchi unleashed a suicidal attack that seemed to break through Gu Yuanqing’s defenses, but it revealed a jade token wrapped in incense power.

• Wang Yuchi activated his hidden formation, intending to trade his life for Gu Yuanqing’s, while Gu Yuanqing revealed he was only an avatar.
• The formation’s wind blades wounded Hao Deyang fatally, but Gu Yuanqing protected himself with the North Spring Mountain Phantom.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Demon Subduing Sword to shatter Wang Yuchi’s Great Seal and form a sword formation around him.
• Wang Yuchi burned his dao embryo and divine soul to unleash a final attack, forcing the Hun Tian Rope back and empowering the formation’s wind blades.
• Wang Yuchi’s body and divine soul were torn apart by the sword formation, while his wind blades pierced Gu Yuanqing’s defenses and exposed a jade token wrapped in incense power.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Wang Yuchi by revealing that the Gu Yuanqing he had fought was only an avatar, then returned to North Spring Mountain with his spoils. He summoned Li Chengyi to improve his cultivation before the story shifted to a one-armed elder offering a Sword Manual and Visualization Diagram for sale in the Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing revealed that Wang Yuchi had not killed him, and Wang Yuchi died as his divine soul burned away.
• Gu Yuanqing buried Wang Yuchi, collected his Storage Bag, and found an ancient mirror he suspected was the Mysterious Light Mirror.
• Gu Yuanqing gave Li Shi'an a Storage Bag of unwanted items to trade for Exotic Objects from the Heavenly Ladder.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Li Chengyi, told him not to neglect cultivation, and kept him on North Spring Mountain to adjust his technique and teach him body refinement.
• In Qizhou Prefecture, the One-Armed Elder showed a trading house manager a Sword Manual and Visualization Diagram and asked to sell them.

The One-Armed Elder sold a Sword Manual and Visualization Diagrams to the North Dragon Sword Sect, whose master, Chang Beilong, recognized the genuine sword intent hidden in them. Meanwhile, Gu Yuanqing cultivated for five years in the Floating World before sensing a battle between heavenly humans in the Demon Realm.

• The One-Armed Elder sold Zhang Shuo the Sword Manual for seven hundred High Grade Demonic Spirit Stones, and Zhang Shuo sent someone to follow him.
• Zhang Shuo learned the seller had bought soul-nourishing herbs and medicines before disappearing, while the business firm's headquarters later discovered its branches had purchased nine copies.
• Qiu Shangrui reported to Chang Beilong that the seller had been killed and that the Visualization Diagrams contained genuine sword intent, which Chang Beilong believed could advance his sword mastery.
• A Farmboy outside Qilong City said he had chosen Chang Beilong to receive the Heavenly Demon Sword's Visualization Diagram and hoped the sect master would meet his expectations.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to cultivation in the Floating World, and North Spring Mountain's growing power intensified the spatial fluctuations above its summit.
• Five years later, Gu Yuanqing used his Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to see a giant bear in the Iron-Eating Tribe Residence and sense a battle between heavenly humans in the Demon Realm.

Xiong Ba was gravely wounded after an Asura guardian attacked the Iron Eater Tribe, weakening the tribe’s deterrence. A month later, several demon heavenly humans demanded that Xiong Mo surrender the human cultivator living in his territory, and the confrontation escalated as more forces arrived.

• Gu Yuanqing watched an Asura guardian battle Xiong Ba, who was wounded and forced back toward Bamboo Mountain.
• The Iron Eater Tribe Chief fought off the Asura guardian with an Innate Divine Ability, and the Asura eventually departed after mocking the tribe.
• Gu Yuanqing realized Xiong Ba’s injury could expose the Iron Eater Tribe and threaten his own peaceful cultivation.
• A month later, Moon Demon demanded that Xiong Mo hand over the human cultivator, while the Scorpion-tailed Woman and Dragon-horned Python threatened to force their way in.
• Xiong Ba appeared to challenge the intruders, and a Green-eyed Toad and a burly man accompanied by a Centipede Phantom joined them.

Five Poisons Mountain tested the Iron Eater Tribe’s strength by demanding that it hand over Gu Yuanqing, then sent five void heaven realm demons into its territory to confront him. Gu Yuanqing watched them approach North Spring Mountain and considered using them as ingredients for pills.

• Xiong Ba and Xiong Mo threatened the Five Poisons Mountain leaders when they demanded the human in the Iron Eater Tribe’s territory.
• The Five Poisons Mountain heavenly humans stopped at the border and proposed sending their void heaven realm subordinates in instead.
• Xiong Mo allowed the demons to enter as long as they caused no trouble for the Iron Eater Tribe, while warning Xiong Ba not to interfere.
• Five void heaven realm demons headed toward North Spring Mountain as Gu Yuanqing watched them approach.
• Gu Yuanqing thought about refining pills with void heaven Great Demons as medicinal ingredients.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that Five Poisons Mountain’s five Void Heaven Demon Beasts had learned North Spring Mountain’s location and were using a five-element array to expose it. Gongsun Sui and Ji Xian tried to pressure Gu Yuanqing into aiding the Human Race, but he rejected their scheme and unleashed North Spring Mountain’s power.

• The five Void Heaven Demon Beasts surrounded North Spring Mountain’s hidden location and used their combined five-element domains to probe its Spatial Barrier.
• The beasts released their Inner Cores and formed an array that produced a Heavenly Human aura, beginning to force North Spring Mountain out of the void.
• Gongsun Sui arrived, while Ji Xian and the Iron Eater Tribe’s two Heavenly Humans faced off against the five Heavenly Humans of Five Poisons Mountain.
• Gongsun Sui urged Gu Yuanqing to join the Heavenly Human Sacred Hall and help the Human Race, while Gu Yuanqing accused him of helping the Demon Race find North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing dismissed the five Demon Beasts as trash and merged with North Spring Mountain’s power, sending a tremendous aura into the sky.

Gu Yuanqing turned against Gongsun Sui after the Heavenly Human Sacred Hall repeatedly pressured him, then drove off the five demons besieging North Spring Mountain. He trapped the demons in a Sword Dao Domain and began cutting them down.

• Gu Yuanqing attacked Gongsun Sui with the Demon Subduing Sword Formation and shattered his spear, domain, and defensive bell.
• Gongsun Sui escaped toward human territory after Gu Yuanqing wounded him.
• The five Void Heaven demons fled when they saw Gu Yuanqing force Gongsun Sui to retreat.
• Gu Yuanqing unleashed a five-hundred-li Sword Dao Domain that stopped the demons' evasion techniques and wounded the Ghost Face Spider.

Gu Yuanqing used the Demon Subduing Sword Formation to capture members of Five Poisons Mountain while the Iron Eater Tribe kept the other demons at bay. When the Five Poisons Mountain Heavenly Humans charged into the tribe’s territory, the Iron Eater chief revealed Heaven Devour and blasted them back, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Gu Yuanqing ignored the demons’ threats and wounded them with sword qi as Xiong Ba and the Iron Eater chief warned Wu Qing not to cross the border.
• Ji Xian and Gongsun Sui left, intending to spread Gu Yuanqing’s name and draw attention to his abilities.
• Gu Yuanqing broke the Green-eyed Toad’s domain, captured it, and then swept the azure Giant Python into North Spring Central.
• After sensing three subordinates vanish, the five Heavenly Humans of Five Poisons Mountain charged into Iron Eater Tribe territory.
• The Iron Eater chief unleashed Heaven Devour, then struck the demons’ Five Elements Divine Formation with black energy and hurled them back.

Xiong Mo drove away the five demons and warned Gu Yuanqing that displaying Heavenly Human-level power meant he would have to leave Iron Eater Tribe territory. After the danger passed, Gu Yuanqing gathered herbs and prepared to refine pills, determined to grow stronger on his own.

• The five demons fled after Xiong Mo's attack, while Tiger Lord appeared, spoke with Xiong Mo, and vanished.
• Tiger Lord's gaze warned Gu Yuanqing, who abandoned the Heavenly Fishing Method; the Ghost Face Spider escaped after exploding its Inner Core.
• Xiong Mo told Gu Yuanqing that he must leave Iron Eater Tribe territory if he displayed Heavenly Human-level power, then departed.
• Gu Yuanqing reassured the uneasy cultivators on North Spring Mountain and asked Li Shi'an to trade for more than thirty medicinal herbs.
• Li Shi'an delivered herbs, and Gu Yuanqing used Object Control Arts to grow several young plants before preparing to refine pills.

Gu Yuanqing prepared to refine the Profound Yellow Spirit Nurturing Pill while news of his actions stirred outrage among humans and demons. As tensions gathered around North Spring Mountain, Chang Beilong recognized Gu Yuanqing as the man connected to his enemy, but the entity possessing him urged him to accept its help.

• Gu Yuanqing studied the Qi Huang Dan Jing, tested pill formulas, and gave many of his trial pills to Li Shi'an for Great Qian.
• Reports spread that Gu Yuanqing had killed four Void Heaven Great Demons and attacked the Heavenly Micro Divine General, provoking condemnation from human Cultivators.
• Gongsun Sui defended Gu Yuanqing publicly, while Ji Xian explained that the Sacred Hall could not afford to antagonize the Iron Eater Tribe and planned to use Gu to draw the Demon Race's attention.
• Chang Beilong connected Gu Yuanqing to the Demon Subduing Sword and his enemy, but the entity possessing him insisted that taking over his body had given him a chance at revenge and the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed an oppressive aura gathering around North Spring Mountain and hoped the coming storm would arrive later.

Gu Yuanqing refined twelve third-rank pills from the Green-eyed Toad’s Inner Core and began using them to strengthen his divine soul. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Hero Divine General confronted Chang Beilong at the North Dragon Sword Sect over claims that Chang Beilong had provoked the Iron Eater Tribe.

• Gu Yuanqing tested his techniques on the Green-eyed Toad, weakened its divine soul, and extracted its Inner Core and poisonous flesh.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the Inner Core into twelve pills, using North Spring Mountain’s power to stabilize the Alchemy Furnace and control the pill tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing swallowed one pill and found that its medicinal potency rapidly strengthened his divine soul.
• The Heavenly Hero Divine General arrived at the North Dragon Sword Sect and demanded that Chang Beilong come out.
• Chang Beilong asked the Heavenly Hero Divine General to explain his anger, and the Divine General accused him of sowing discord and antagonizing the Iron Eater Tribe.

Chang Beilong revealed that he had become a Heavenly Human, but Shadow controlled his divine soul and planned to exploit the conflict between the Demon Race and the Iron Eater Tribe. Meanwhile, Gu Yuanqing finished refining pills and entered seclusion to strengthen himself before the approaching calamity in the Demon Realm.

• Huo Guangyin confronted Chang Beilong over the North Dragon Sword Sect's role in stirring up trouble against Gu, and Chang Beilong defended his actions.
• Chang Beilong's Sword Intent pierced Huo Guangyin's domain, revealing that Chang Beilong had become a Heavenly Human; Huo Guangyin left rather than risk a fight.
• In his sealed Residence, Chang Beilong struggled against rune seals binding his divine soul, while Shadow suppressed him and resolved to set the Demon Race against the Iron Eater Tribe.
• Gu Yuanqing refined pills from four Void Heaven yao beasts and two Core Formation Realm demon beasts over more than a month.
• Gu Yuanqing entered seclusion, taking pills every ten days and using Mountain Observation to comprehend dao resonance as his divine soul grew.

Gu Yuanqing approved Li Chengyi’s marriage to Chen Binglan and promised to attend, while the Demon Realm’s tensions continued to rise. At the wedding, Li Chengyi brought Chen Binglan to meet his father, but Gu Yuanqing’s expression suddenly hardened.

• Li Chengyi asked Gu Yuanqing’s approval to marry Chen Binglan, and Gu Yuanqing agreed after warning him about the dangers of relying on Human Dao Aura.
• Li Chengyi spent a day with Gu Yuanqing on North Spring Mountain before returning to the Imperial Palace.
• As tensions grew in the Demon Realm, Li Chengyi led his wedding procession to the Grand General’s Residence, where Gu Yuanqing attended in an avatar.
• Li Chengyi and Chen Binglan completed the ceremonial bows, then Li Chengyi revealed Gu Yuanqing’s identity and asked Chen Binglan to pay her respects to him.
• Gu Yuanqing was about to speak to Chen Binglan when his expression hardened and his aura turned icy.

Gu Yuanqing attended Li Chengyi and Chen Binglan’s wedding before turning his attention to a demon confrontation surrounding North Spring Mountain. As the Iron Eater Tribe refused demands to surrender a human and pay compensation, Ji Xian ordered Chang Beilong not to act without permission.

• Gu Yuanqing completed the wedding tea ceremony, gave Li Chengyi and Chen Binglan cultivation pendants and pills, and reminded Li Chengyi to treat his wife well and keep cultivating.
• Gu Yuanqing left the wedding after receiving news through the Puppet Jade Token, then looked toward the Demon Realm with anger.
• Zhu Yi, Moon Demon, and other demons demanded that Xiong Mo and Xiong Ba surrender a human and compensate Five Poisons Mountain, while the Iron Eater leaders refused and threatened to fight.
• Ji Xian watched the confrontation with Tian Ying, Tian Wei, Tian Xian, and Chang Beilong, then ordered Chang Beilong not to act without his permission.