Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing confronted the North Sea sect leaders over their threat to the Qian Yuan Sect and demanded harsh compensation for their attack. The five Void Heaven Great Cultivators refused, relying on their ships as they faced the choice of surrendering or fighting.

• Zou Zhixing claimed the sects had come to investigate Huang Wenzhong’s disappearance, and Gu Yuanqing revealed he had killed Huang Wenzhong and challenged their intentions.
• Huo Huai'an asked Feng Mingzhi to speak on the other sects’ behalf, but Gu Yuanqing drove Feng Mingzhi and Jiang Hongyun hundreds of miles away with a gale.
• Zou Zhixing and the other leaders offered apologies and promised gifts, but Gu Yuanqing refused to let them leave without paying for their actions.
• Gu Yuanqing demanded the six ships, one severed arm from each of the five leaders, and the Soul Searching Technique from Divine Intent Island in exchange for their lives.
• The leaders refused to surrender their ships, and Gu Yuanqing told them they could live only if they accepted his terms.

Gu Yuanqing used North Spring Mountain’s power to simulate the Yin-Yang realm, creating an avatar that crushed the Seven Sects of the North Sea when their ships’ formation failed to withstand his attack. He left the defeated sect members to Li Chengyi and reflected on the limits of his simulated avatar.

• Zou Zhixing and the other sect leaders activated a six-ship formation and demanded that Gu Yuanqing let them leave, but he attacked them.
• Gu Yuanqing shattered the formation, wounded the cultivators, and captured Zou Zhixing after he tried to escape through the sea.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the cultivators’ powers and left Li Chengyi to decide their fate, asking him to pay particular attention to the Divine Intent Sect’s Soul Seizing Method.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to North Spring Mountain and examined the golden true blood that let him form an avatar with one-tenth of his strength.
• Gu Yuanqing reflected that his Yin-Yang simulation depended on North Spring Mountain’s power and closed his eyes while Li Chengyi and the others dealt with the defeated sects.

Gu Yuanqing studied the Divine Intent Sect’s soul-searching art, strengthened his position on the island, and continued cultivating while the North Sea sects reacted to their missing leaders. The chapter ends as he turns his attention back to the Underground Cave’s exit in the Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Divine Intent Spirit Analysis Arts to search Yue Sheng’s memories, then returned him to prison and resumed studying sect techniques.
• Li Chengyi brought trusted Imperial Court disciples to the island, where they signed a Nether God Blood Pact and saw the Cultivation World for the first time.
• Li Chengyi kept the captured cultivators as sealed laborers and shrank the six great ships into miniature tower ships for storage.
• After the sect masters failed to return, representatives from five North Sea sects met on Changmian Island, and Qin Anrong offered to seek help from the Northming Immortal Sect.
• Li Chengyi broke through to divine platform ninth layer as Gu Yuanqing advanced toward the perfection of Heavenly Change.
• Gu Yuanqing turned his gaze toward the Underground Cave’s exit in the Demon Realm.

Tiger Lord and the Demon Ape King faced a growing Magic Beast horde at the Underground Cave as a hidden human Yin-Yang Realm attacker wounded the defenders. The defensive line fell, forcing the Great Demons to retreat while demonic qi poured through the space rift.

• Tiger Lord and the Demon Ape King discussed the rising demonic qi, the growing Magic Beast horde, and a hidden Yin-Yang Realm creature in the depths.
• A faint sound awakened the Magic Beasts, and Tiger Lord ordered the city’s formation activated as the horde attacked.
• A concealed human attacker wounded several Great Demons and evaded Tiger Lord’s strikes with concealment and mist-like transformations.
• The attacker’s Sword Qi wounded the Demon Ape King, while damaged formation nodes and mounting injuries weakened the city’s defenses.
• Tiger Lord ordered a retreat, held back the Magic Beasts in his enormous tiger form, and left last as demonic qi surged through the space rift.

Gu Yuanqing witnessed a human repeatedly break through the demons’ defenses at the Underground Cave and suspected the intruder was the Demon Sword Master. Meanwhile, Qin Anrong secured help from the North Ming Immortal Sect, and Xiao Liyang set out with her to recover the Sea Shaking Boat and search for Zou Zhixing.

• Gu Yuanqing recognized familiar sword qi in a human who fought Tiger Lord and drove back the demons at the Underground Cave.
• Dragon Demon Ancestor arrived, but the human escaped through the space rift; afterward, the intruder repeatedly assaulted the defenses, breaking through about every ten days.
• Dragon Demon Ancestor asked Gu Yuanqing for help, but Gu Yuanqing made no promise beyond acting if a crisis entered North Spring Mountain’s territory.
• Qin Anrong asked Xiao Liyang to use the North Ming Immortal Sect’s Kunpeng Token to retrieve the Sea Shaking Boat and rescue Zou Zhixing if he was alive.
• Three days later, Xiao Liyang departed by Flying Boat with Qin Anrong and Feng Haoran, who told his master he had begun practicing sword dao.

Gu Yuanqing advanced his cultivation and array knowledge while North Spring Mountain and the Floating World continued to develop. When envoys from the North Ming Immortal Sect arrived at Qian Yuan Island to investigate the Qian Yuan Sect, trapped North Sea Sect cultivators hoped they had come to rescue them.

• Gu Yuanqing observed North Spring Mountain's transformation and reflected on the yin-yang realm, recognizing that his broad Heavenly Human World required him to understand yin and yang across all its Great Daos.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated the guardian on the Thirty-Fourth Heavenly Ladder step and received the Great Yi Array Dao True Understanding.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the array manual, improving his understanding of the Nine Twists Soul Stirring Great Formation and the Demon Subduing Sword Formation.
• Xiao Liyang and Qin Anrong traveled to Qian Yuan Island to investigate the newly emerged Qian Yuan Sect, while Xiao Liyang's group concealed none of their heavenly human aura.
• Feng Haoran announced Xiao Liyang's visit and asked the Qian Yuan Sect's heavenly human to meet them; North Sea Sect cultivators on the island believed the visitors had come to rescue them.

Gu Yuanqing met Xiao Liyang of the Northming Immortal Sect, who had come to visit the Qian Yuan Sect and ask a favor. Xiao Liyang sought to learn whether several captured North Sea sects’ cultivators were still alive.

• A Qian Yuan Sect cultivator whipped a Purple Qi Palace prisoner who claimed the Northming Immortal Sect had arrived, while Senior Brother Qi mocked the prisoners’ hopes of rescue.
• Zou Zhixing suspected Xiao Liyang had come because his junior sister had used the Northming Immortal Sect’s favor, but feared the sect could not overcome Gu Yuanqing’s father.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Shi'an to keep cultivating, then created a divine soul avatar strengthened with his blood and sent it to meet the visitors.
• Xiao Liyang sensed Gu Yuanqing’s concealed presence, and Gu Yuanqing appeared and introduced himself by name.
• Xiao Liyang said he had come to visit and ask a favor, then asked whether the cultivators of six North Sea sects were still alive.

Gu Yuanqing negotiated with Xiao Liyang over the fate of the North Sea sects, sparing their lives only on the condition that they serve Qian Yuan Sect as laborers for a hundred years. When Xiao Liyang turned to the Sea Shaking Profound Star Boats and demanded their return, Gu Yuanqing’s remaining goodwill toward him disappeared.

• Xiao Liyang asked Gu Yuanqing to spare the Six Great Sects of the North Sea, explaining that he had come to repay a favor to the Purple Qi Palace.
• Gu Yuanqing agreed to spare the sects but required everyone who had come to Qian Yuan Island to serve as laborers for a hundred years.
• Qin Anrong objected to the punishment, and Xiao Liyang pressed Gu Yuanqing to reconsider, warning that the North Ming Immortal Sect might have to intervene to honor its promise.
• Gu Yuanqing cautioned Xiao Liyang against using force, and Xiao Liyang shifted the discussion to the Sea Shaking Profound Star Boats.
• Xiao Liyang demanded that Gu Yuanqing return the six boats, claiming they contained the North Ming Immortal Sect’s secret arts, and Gu Yuanqing’s goodwill toward him vanished.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Xiao Liyang’s demand that the Qian Yuan Sect surrender the Sea Shaking Profound Star Boats and submit to the Northming Immortal Sect. When Xiao Liyang prepared to attack, Gu Yuanqing’s power made him realize he could not afford to provoke him.

• Gu Yuanqing challenged Xiao Liyang’s authority to demand the boats and refused his offer of amnesty and official status in exchange for the boats and the Six Great Sects’ people.
• Gu Yuanqing examined Xiao Liyang with the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye and noticed that Feng Haoran had visualized the Demon Sword.
• Xiao Liyang merged with the Spirit Cloud Flying Boat, transformed it into a Kunpeng, and prepared to fight Gu Yuanqing.
• Xiao Liyang suspected Gu Yuanqing might be a powerful cultivator from the Qian Yuan Sect’s long seclusion and asked whether he was an ordinary heavenly human.
• Gu Yuanqing told Xiao Liyang to attack or leave, and his murderous intent made Xiao Liyang feel that heaven and earth were bearing down on him.

Gu Yuanqing drove Xiao Liyang, Feng Haoran, and Qin Anrong away from Qian Yuan Island and concealed the island behind a powerful formation. At Great Evolution Mountain, the Lingxu Sect awaited the arrival of Spirit Envoy Li Miaoxuan, while rumors spread that she had once come from the Floating World.

• Gu Yuanqing threw Feng Haoran and Qin Anrong from the Spirit Cloud Flying Boat, suppressed Xiao Liyang, and warned them that entry near Qian Yuan Island without invitation meant death.
• Gu Yuanqing expanded Qian Yuan Island's formation, concealing it and the surrounding islands from outsiders.
• Xiao Liyang steadied himself with a Dharma Treasure skiff and hurried to search for Feng Haoran, whose cultivation he feared had also been sealed.
• The Lingxu Sect and allied sects sought aid from the Upper Realm after the Demon Sword's influence spread through the Sacred Mark Sect and threatened millions of civilians.
• Zhang Xuanlin and the Lingxu Sect's disciples awaited Spirit Envoy Li Miaoxuan as they discussed whether she was the same cultivator who had left the Floating World eighty years earlier.
• Zhou Youshan ordered the disciples to be silent after their discussion drew Zhang Xuanlin's attention.

Zhang Xuanlin and the Lingxu Sect disciples learned that Li Miaoxuan had become a powerful heavenly human after cultivating for barely a century. As Li Miaoxuan traveled toward the sect’s residence with Yunmeng Holy Land’s Saint Son Xiao Yunqi, she tried to part ways with him, but Senior Brother Lin insisted that she receive him.

• Lingxu Sect disciples speculated about Li Miaoxuan’s rapid rise, and Zhang Xuanlin and Ji Qingyun were struck by how far she had surpassed her former peers.
• Li Miaoxuan traveled with four other heavenly human cultivators aboard a Flying Boat, while Xiao Yunqi followed in a lavish vessel and declared her worthy of becoming the Holy Mother of Yunmeng Holy Land.
• When Lüzhu insulted Li Miaoxuan, Xiao Yunqi slapped her and ordered her to punish herself before apologizing to Li Miaoxuan for his servants’ behavior.
• Li Miaoxuan said she would part ways with Xiao Yunqi when they reached the Lingxu Sect’s residence, but Xiao Yunqi asked to visit it.
• Li Miaoxuan declined to host Xiao Yunqi, but Senior Brother Lin overruled her and argued that the sect should welcome him; Li Miaoxuan told him to take responsibility for receiving the Saint Son.

Li Miaoxuan rejected Lin Jingxing’s pressure to become Xiao Yunqi’s Dao Companion, while Xiao Yunqi learned that Feng Jiuniang’s allies would give him the Glazed Illusion Seal only if he helped them at the Loulan Assembly. The Upper Realm envoys arrived at Great Evolution Mountain, where Li Miaoxuan asked Zhang Xuanlin to speak with her privately.

• Xiao Yunqi departed after Li Miaoxuan declined to invite him to the Lingxu Sect, and Lin Jingxing berated her for risking the sect’s relationship with the Yunmeng Holy Land.
• Li Miaoxuan warned Lin Jingxing to stop pressuring her and threatened him after he accused her of attacking him.
• Feng Jiuniang told Xiao Yunqi that the Glazed Illusion Seal depended on him doing a favor at the Loulan Assembly, and he suspected a hidden pawn within the Yunmeng Sect.
• Li Miaoxuan and the other Lingxu Sect envoys arrived at Great Evolution Mountain and completed the welcome ceremony with Zhang Xuanlin.
• Li Miaoxuan asked Zhang Xuanlin to speak with her privately.

Li Miaoxuan learned that the Ding Twelve Realms had been sealed inside a century-long world conflict and could not be contacted, though Zhang Xuanlin believed it might win and become an Exquisite World. After returning to the Heaven-Character Courtyard, she silenced Lin Jingxing with a sudden attack when he dismissed her concerns and tried to advise her.

• Lin Jingxing and the other Lingxu Sect cultivators speculated about Li Miaoxuan's mortal marriage and her reasons for rejecting Saint Son Qin.
• Li Miaoxuan asked Zhang Xuanlin whether anyone from the Ding Twelve Floating Realm had entered the Cultivation World, and he said no.
• Zhang Xuanlin explained that the Ancient Demon Refining Array had stopped operating when Li Miaoxuan left, and that the Heaven and Earth Stele now sealed the realm during a world conflict.
• Zhang Xuanlin told Li Miaoxuan that the Ding Twelve Realms had a good chance of winning, but refused to reveal more because of a Divine Soul Oath.
• Li Miaoxuan returned to the Heaven-Character Courtyard and warned Lin Jingxing to stop speaking; when he continued, she struck him down and entered her courtyard.

Li Miaoxuan demonstrated her strength, and the Sacred Mark Sect’s schemes shook the Cultivation World before the Loulan Assembly. At a banquet in the Northern Extension Lands, Xiao Yunqi learned of the Qian Yuan Sect and broke Xiao Liyang’s seal, while Gu Yuanqing noticed the seal had been removed.

• Li Miaoxuan injured Lin Jingxing, leaving him and the others wary of her power.
• The Sacred Mark Sect was exposed after its forces were wiped out, then sabotaged the Loulan ruins, stole the Sun Wheel Mirror, and vanished again.
• Xiao Yunqi visited the Northming Immortal Sect, where Wei Lin told him that a Qian Yuan Sect expert had sealed Xiao Liyang.
• Xiao Yunqi examined Xiao Liyang and broke the seal, restoring his Heavenly Human aura.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that Xiao Liming’s seal had been broken earlier than expected and considered it a sign that the Northming Immortal Sect had unexpected resources.

As the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle suddenly awoke and carried Qian Yuan Island at great speed toward a distant disturbance, Gu Yuanqing gathered the Floating World cultivators and confined the sealed North Sea Sect cultivators for safety. He and Li Chengyi watched from North Spring Mountain, waiting to learn whether the disturbance would bring danger or opportunity.

• Gu Yuanqing strengthened Great Qian's armies by improving six military formations and giving them to Li Chengyi.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed a vast aura, and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle awoke and began moving Qian Yuan Island rapidly toward it.
• Gu Yuanqing warned Li Shi'an to recall the Floating World cultivators to North Spring Mountain, and Li Shi'an called the Qian Yuan Sect disciples back.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the sealed North Sea Sect cultivators into a dungeon on North Spring Mountain and told Li Shi'an to keep them fed.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the Divine Turtle's mastery of water control as the island drew closer to the distant disturbance.
• Li Chengyi arrived at North Spring Mountain, and he and Gu Yuanqing waited together to see what lay ahead.

Gu Yuanqing and North Spring Mountain entered the Yunmeng Ancient Marsh, where the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle overcame its defenses and carried them into the Ancient Pagoda. Inside, Gu Yuanqing began receiving insights into the Yin-Yang Great Dao, while the chapter revealed how Xiao Yunqi had summoned the marsh and activated its grand formation.

• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle entered the Yunmeng Ancient Marsh, where its barrier and shrinking force failed to stop it.
• The Divine Turtle endured attacks from mist-formed serpents and the continent’s powerful array formations as it pressed onward.
• The Divine Turtle entered a nine-story treasure pagoda, and North Spring Mountain’s origin drew Gu Yuanqing’s consciousness into a space of starlight and yin-yang transformations.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed Star Liquid and began a profound transformation while the Divine Turtle continued onward.
• One day earlier, Xiao Yunqi used the Yunmeng Nine Seals to summon the Yunmeng Ancient Marsh, enter the Ancient Pagoda’s ninth floor, and activate the Circulation of Stars Grand Formation from the Yunmeng Platform.

Gu Yuanqing absorbed most of the Yin-Yang star liquid in Xiao Yunqi’s formation, disrupting Xiao Yunqi’s chance to perfect his Dao foundation. Xiao Yunqi attacked him in rage, while Gu Yuanqing dodged and tried to explain, leaving the two confronting each other inside the Starsea Formation.

• Xiao Yunqi sensed an intruder in the Starsea Formation and discovered Gu Yuanqing rapidly absorbing the Yin-Yang star liquid.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle pushed through the Yunmeng Holy Land’s ancient arrays as its target drew closer.
• On North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing entered Dao comprehension, and Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, Ji Dai, and Qin Wuya assumed he had gained insight from the formations.
• After half a day, Xiao Yunqi realized most of the star liquid was gone and his chance to establish his Dao foundation had been ruined.
• Xiao Yunqi attacked Gu Yuanqing, who dodged and tried to explain that he had entered by chance.

Xiao Yunqi fought Gu Yuanqing over the stolen yin-yang star liquid, but Gu Yuanqing gained the upper hand and escaped even after Xiao Yunqi revealed a dao principle imprint. With the formation weakened and someone breaking into the treasure tower, Xiao Yunqi prepared to stop the array.

• Xiao Yunqi attacked Gu Yuanqing with divine soul weapons and a formless blade that injured Gu Yuanqing's divine soul.
• Gu Yuanqing countered with the Heavenly Angling Technique and repeatedly struck Xiao Yunqi's divine soul, driving him out of his three-headed, six-armed form.
• Xiao Yunqi manifested a dao principle imprint, empowering himself with the starlight and Star Liquid around them.
• Gu Yuanqing abruptly vanished from the Star Realm, leaving Xiao Yunqi astonished and unable to pursue him.
• Xiao Yunqi sensed someone forcing their way through the Mystic Tortoise Treasure Tower and used the Yunmeng Seal to prepare to stop the weakened Circulation of Stars Grand Formation.

Gu Yuanqing watched the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle tear through the Mystic Tortoise Treasure Tower while reflecting on the cultivation gains he had brought back from the Star Realm. After Xiao Yunqi empowered the tower and the turtle reached the eighth floor, its demeanor turned solemn and its protective barrier strengthened.

• Gu Yuanqing returned from the Star Realm with greatly improved cultivation and a strong chance of entering the Yin-Yang Realm, then worried about the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle's intrusion into the Yunmeng Holy Land.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle destroyed the Fire Domain's Lava Giants and overcame the forest's Treefolk, then entered the Sea of Thunder.
• Xiao Yunqi watched through the Mystic Tortoise Treasure Tower, blamed Gu Yuanqing for the turtle's arrival, and used the Yunmeng Seal to strengthen the tower.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle pushed through the amplified Sea of Thunder and the seventh floor's nine-heaven astral wind, reaching the eighth floor.
• Gu Yuanqing noticed the turtle grow solemn and reinforce its protective barrier upon entering the boundless ocean.

Gu Yuanqing witnessed the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle defeat a Black Tortoise conjured within the Mystic Tortoise Treasure Tower, swallow its two inner cores, and escape an attack from a powerful figure. He and the Island returned to safety, but Gu Yuanqing realized the ordeal had made him enemies and brought him closer to reaching the yin-yang realm.

• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle advanced across the sea and confronted a colossal Black Tortoise that rose from the water.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle fought the Black Tortoise for two hours, tore it apart, and swallowed its black and white inner cores.
• A fair-skinned hand reached through a rift to attack the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle, who bit it off and forced open a rift to escape.
• Gu Yuanqing emerged outside the pagoda as the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle left the Yunmeng Ancient Marsh and a flying boat fled in another direction.
• Gu Yuanqing suspected the flying boat carried the person he had encountered earlier and resolved to learn more about the Yunmeng Holy Land.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Shi'an and the others that the danger had passed, and Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, and the others headed to his peak to ask what had happened.