Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing sent a powerful avatar to the Dragon Demon Realm, where Magic Beasts were overrunning the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. At the Underground Cave, he confronted Shadow, who blamed Gu Yuanqing for his current state.

• Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Demon Race had abandoned the Underground Cave as Magic Beasts poured into the Dragon Demon Realm and attacked its tribes.
• Gu Yuanqing created an avatar with a drop of essence blood, equipped it with the Nine Yang Cauldron and Floating Dust Seal, and sent it toward the Underground Cave.
• The avatar burned and bypassed the Magic Beasts, drawing the attention of Xiong Mo and Xiong Ba as it forced a path to the cave.
• Shadow emerged from the Underground Cave and waited for the approaching Yin-Yang Cultivator, then recognized Gu Yuanqing and expressed shock at his breakthrough.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the cave exit with the Nine Yang Cauldron, and Shadow introduced himself as Shadow before blaming Gu Yuanqing for his condition.

Gu Yuanqing fought Shadow, whose mysterious Black Qi let him evade ordinary attacks, and used Great Five Elements Divine Thunder to damage him. After examining the Black Qi, Gu Yuanqing entered the Underground Demon Realm, where he sensed North Spring Mountain somewhere in its depths.

• Shadow challenged Gu Yuanqing and claimed that Gu Yuanqing could not harm him, then repeatedly evaded Formless Calamity Finger and escaped its Grand Formation.
• Gu Yuanqing used Five Elements Divine Thunder to deduce that Shadow's Divine Soul could not fully control his power and lured him toward the Underground Cave entrance.
• Gu Yuanqing's hidden Divine Sense struck Shadow with Great Five Elements Divine Thunder, shattering him and destroying more than half of the Divine Sense within his escaping Black Qi.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Black Qi and found it far purer and heavier than ordinary True Essence, while his Avatar discovered that it passed through matter and resisted control.
• Gu Yuanqing's Avatar entered the Underground Demon Realm as the Magic Beasts retreated, then sensed North Spring Mountain in the distant depths of the realm.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that North Spring Mountain overlapped the Dragon Demon Realm and the Underground Demon Realm, then returned from the Underground Cave and continued refining Black Qi. Meanwhile, Xu Wu chased the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed across the Dragon Demon Realm, and the exhausted creature raced toward North Spring Mountain for refuge.

• Gu Yuanqing realized North Spring Mountain had fallen into the Underground Demon Realm and found that its space resonated almost identically with the Dragon Demon Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing withdrew his avatar from the Underground Cave, refined a wisp of Black Qi into golden-flickering vital energy, and stored it in a jade bottle.
• Xu Wu pursued the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed through the Dragon Demon Realm while the Dragon Demon Ancestor and Chang Quan remained locked in battle.
• Xu Wu struck Demon Ape Mountain, wounded the Demon Ape King, shattered its protective barrier, and disrupted the Dragon Demon Realm's formation.
• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed, nearly exhausted and unable to escape Xu Wu, raced toward North Spring Mountain despite sensing danger there.

Gu Yuanqing captured the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed after it fled into North Spring Mountain, then faced Xu Wu’s attacks on the hidden mountain. Xu Wu’s powers failed against the mountain, and Gu Yuanqing caught his descending spear, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed tried to lure its pursuer, Xu Wu, toward North Spring Mountain so it could escape and find food.
• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed entered North Spring Mountain, where Gu Yuanqing suppressed it and pulled it before him.
• Xu Wu attacked North Spring Mountain with successive techniques, but the mountain’s power nullified each strike.
• Gu Yuanqing watched as Xu Wu summoned a spear and sent it toward the mountain, then caught and examined it.

Gu Yuanqing confronted Xu Wu, a Divine General of Demon God Divine Mountain, after Xu Wu demanded the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed and threatened North Spring Mountain. Gu Yuanqing used the mountain’s power to crush Xu Wu, then intensified his attack with Formless Calamity Finger as Five Elements Divine Thunder poured through Xu Wu’s shattered defenses.

• Gu Yuanqing stored Xu Wu’s Star Shattering Spear after it vanished into North Spring Mountain’s power.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared before Xu Wu and refused to surrender the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed, warning him to leave.
• Xu Wu rejected Gu Yuanqing’s warning, grew to a thousand zhang, and slashed at North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing unleashed Great Five Elements Divine Thunder and pinned Xu Wu beneath the North Spring Mountain Phantom.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Xu Wu’s Battle Armor with Formless Calamity Finger, breaking its barrier as Five Elements Divine Thunder poured in.

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed Xu Wu with North Spring Mountain’s power, but Xu Wu unleashed his incomplete Dao Principle Imprint and nearly escaped. Gu Yuanqing dragged him back from a spatial breach, and Xu Wu threatened to destroy the realm with him.

• Xu Wu burned his divine soul and manifested his incomplete Dao Principle Imprint, splitting the North Spring Mountain Phantom with a powerful saber slash.
• Xu Wu used Spatial Arts to flee, while a bearded man and Chi Boyong left the Demon God Mountain Tower Ship to check on the Divine General.
• Gu Yuanqing blocked Xu Wu’s escape by sealing the surrounding space and crushed his body within a collapsing thirty-zhang radius.
• Xu Wu’s divine soul escaped with his essence blood and Dao Principle Imprint, but Gu Yuanqing used the Heavenly Angling Technique to pull the imprint back from a spatial breach.
• Xu Wu warned Gu Yuanqing that killing him would bring the God King’s wrath, then threatened to destroy the realm alongside himself.

Gu Yuanqing used North Spring Mountain’s full power to kill Xu Wu and the three cultivators who tried to flee, then struck at the tower ship. The ship survived after its barrier absorbed his attack, leaving Ao Jie’s forces battered and retreating.

• Xu Wu burned his essence blood, divine soul, and Dao principle imprint to power his great seal, while Chi Boyong and Wei Shangfeng warned Chang Quan that a Chaos Heaven Great Cultivator was nearby.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor delayed Chi Boyong, Wei Shangfeng, and Chang Quan long enough to toss out a jade token as they withdrew.
• Gu Yuanqing manifested North Spring Mountain’s full form and killed Xu Wu with a spectral palm and the Demon Subduing Sword, then drew in Xu Wu’s collapsing Heavenly Human World.
• Gu Yuanqing used the jade token’s coordinates to reach the boundary domain and kill the three fleeing cultivators, destroying their Heavenly Human Worlds with Great Five Elements Divine Thunder.
• Gu Yuanqing struck the tower ship at Demonic Dragon Mountain, shattering its protective barrier before the jade token’s divine sense was exhausted and his attack dissipated.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Xu Wu and helped the Dragon Demon Ancestor capture Demon God Mountain’s forces, then turned his attention to the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed. After sending the boastful, underage beast into the Heaven and Earth Pool, he was approached by Li Chengyi, who asked why North Spring Mountain had shaken.

• The Dragon Demon Ancestor captured and sealed the cultivation of more than six hundred Demon God Mountain soldiers and officers, while the other Demon Kings agreed to hold them for Gu Yuanqing’s decision.
• Gu Yuanqing withdrew from his unity with North Spring Mountain and found the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed trying to escape, but the mountain’s power prevented it from leaving.
• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed communicated with Gu Yuanqing and claimed it was a twelve-year-old heavenly horse that would become powerful when it reached adulthood.
• Gu Yuanqing dismissed the steed’s claims and sent it into the Heaven and Earth Pool, where it became a fish and fled in panic.
• Gu Yuanqing released the restriction, and Li Chengyi flew over to ask what had caused North Spring Mountain to shake.

At the North Suppressing Divine King's Mansion, the North Suppressing Divine King resurrected Xu Wu from his stored Essence Blood and Divine Soul and tried to trace the death of Xu Wu's original body. His search reached Gu Yuanqing on North Spring Mountain, where Gu Yuanqing recognized that the watcher came from Demon God Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing reassured Li Chengyi that the disturbance on North Spring Mountain was resolved and told him to focus on cultivating until he became a Heavenly Human.
• The North Suppressing Divine King sent Bei Hao to retrieve Xu Wu's Essence Blood and Divine Soul from the Soul Nurturing Pavilion.
• The North Suppressing Divine King restored Xu Wu to life, but said he could only recover to the Yin-Yang Level.
• Xu Wu asked to learn how his original body died, and the North Suppressing Divine King used his Heavenly Eye to trace the death to the Black Sea.
• The North Suppressing Divine King saw Xu Wu attacked by an enormous hand and followed it toward its owner.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed someone spying on him, struck back with Incense and Fire Qi, and realized the watcher was from Demon God Mountain.

Gu Yuanqing clashed with the North Suppressing Divine King after killing Xu Wu, then learned that Demon God Mountain’s members were magically prevented from revealing its secrets. As he returned to cultivation, Shadow resisted the power speaking through the ancient sword in the Underground Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used a karmic blade strike to destroy Xu Wu’s divine soul, but the North Suppressing Divine King blocked the attack without being injured.
• The North Suppressing Divine King ordered Xu Wu’s body buried and his memorial tablet placed in the Heroes’ Shrine.
• Gu Yuanqing’s attempt to search the surviving Yin-Yang realm cultivator’s soul failed when the man’s divine soul collapsed under Demon God Mountain’s imprint.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor and the demons of the Dragon Demon Realm grew more reverent toward Gu Yuanqing, while the realm recovered from the magic beast calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing purified the Black Qi and resumed cultivation, wary of the power within the Underground Cave and the Heavenly Demon Sword Master’s avatar.
• Shadow retreated from the array platform and declared that he would never submit to the power addressing him as master.

Shadow escaped the Heavenly Demon Sword’s influence by focusing on his hatred of Gu Yuanqing, while the Heavenly Demon Sword Master’s assault on the Spirit Realm provoked a major response. Xiao Yunqi confronted Feng Jiuniang after she appeared aboard his tower ship.

• Shadow retreated from the sword and its fair-skinned hand, then fixed his thoughts on killing Gu Yuanqing to resist its influence.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed Shadow’s resentment from the Underground Cave and decided to wait and see.
• Cultivators across the Cultivation World speculated that the Heavenly Demon Sword Master was behind the North Sea tribulation and Qian Yuan Island’s disappearance.
• Lin Jingxing reported the events to the Spirit Realm, received an order to return, and left with the other Spirit Realm cultivators.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master used the Sun Wheel Mirror and Moon Wheel Mirror to break through the Spirit Realm Gate, battled the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land’s Chief Disciple, and revealed great accomplishment in the Yin-Yang Realm.
• Xiao Yunqi blamed the Heavenly Demon Sword Master for stealing his opportunity and confronted Feng Jiuniang after she appeared aboard his tower ship.

Feng Jiuniang tried to negotiate with Xiao Yunqi, who accused the Heavenly Demon Cult of plotting to steal his opportunity, while their encounter revealed signs of Three Absolutes Island and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle. The Heavenly Demon Sword Master possessed six Heavenly Human cultivators and arrived near Qian Yuan Island, where Gu Yuanqing prepared to face him.

• Xiao Yunqi fought Feng Jiuniang aboard the tower ship, but she evaded his attacks and vanished when Jin Wei approached.
• Feng Jiuniang reported to her master that Three Absolutes Island and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle had appeared, and her master realized Xiao Yunqi might be trying to borrow the Heavenly Demon Cult's power.
• Feng Haoran traveled to the North Sea, where five other Heavenly Human cultivators joined him and helped locate the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle near Qian Yuan Island.
• The six cultivators sacrificed their divine souls to the Heavenly Demon Sword, allowing the gray-robed Heavenly Demon Sword Master to appear and unleash his sword.
• Gu Yuanqing recognized the Heavenly Demon Sword Master's arrival and faced him from within the concealed formation.

Gu Yuanqing confronted the Heavenly Demon Sword Master, who used his Sword Qi to influence cultivators on Qian Yuan Island and possess one of them. After Gu Yuanqing suppressed the possessed body and destroyed its empty divine soul, the Heavenly Demon Sword Master sent another phantom toward the island.

• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master's Sword Qi spread across Qian Yuan Island, and cultivators who sensed it became vulnerable to possession.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the affected cultivators into North Spring Mountain, leaving one possessed cultivator outside to speak with him.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master offered to share his Sword Dao, but Gu Yuanqing demanded half a volume of the Heavenly Dao Scripture and rejected the offer.
• Gu Yuanqing dragged the possessed cultivator into North Spring Mountain, extracted the Heavenly Demon Sword Master's divine soul, and destroyed it after finding no useful information.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master formed a sword hand seal and sent a phantom from the Heavenly Demon Sword toward the island.

Gu Yuanqing repelled the Heavenly Demon Sword Master's attacks, then struck back and wounded him in the Spirit Realm. Afterward, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle told Gu Yuanqing that the Demon Subduing Sword was a key to a grotto-heaven and urged him to practice more.

• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master's phantom invaded Gu Yuanqing's sea of consciousness, but Gu Yuanqing suppressed and destroyed its sword intent.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the Demon Subduing Sword ten thousand li away and fought the Heavenly Demon Sword Master, who sacrificed his flesh and blood to destroy his own sword and escape.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered another phantom hidden in his avatar and used incense and fire qi to strike the Heavenly Demon Sword Master in the Spirit Realm.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master rewarded Feng Jiuniang with a wisp of Heavenly Demon Sword Intent for bringing back news of Three Absolutes Island.
• Gu Yuanqing extinguished the remaining sword intent, then asked the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle about the Demon Subduing Sword.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle said the sword was a key to a grotto-heaven and told Gu Yuanqing to practice more.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating as tensions with powerful enemies loomed, then released and gradually tamed the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed on North Spring Mountain. Several years later, he announced that he would expound the Dao again in ten days.

• Gu Yuanqing reflected on his shortcomings in the Sword Dao and resolved to cultivate the Demon Subduing Sword more seriously while preparing for future threats.
• Gu Yuanqing spent more than three months cultivating before releasing the frightened Heaven Treading Immortal Steed and naming it Little White.
• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed settled on North Spring Mountain, grew close to Li Chengyi and Little Fox, and feasted on spirit herbs and Dao Bait.
• Several years later, Gu Yuanqing announced to all living beings in the Floating World that he would expound the Dao in ten days.

Gu Yuanqing preached the Dao throughout the Floating World as its cultivators grew stronger, then continued investigating the Heavenly Dao Scripture while Li Chengyi approached his breakthrough. Li Chengyi attained Void Heaven, and the Great Qian Dynasty celebrated as the growing strength of the Floating World made the Slanting Moon World’s coming defeat seem more likely.

• Gu Yuanqing preached the paths from Origin Scholar through Void Heaven, and cultivators across the Floating World gained insights and broke through.
• Gu Yuanqing reflected on the Heaven and Earth Stele’s benefits and studied the half-volume of the Heavenly Dao Scripture, whose golden threads still failed to form anything.
• Li Chengyi sought Gu Yuanqing’s guidance, then entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough from the Divine Platform ninth layer.
• Li Chengyi attained Void Heaven with complete wind, thunder, and fire Daos, and his family and North Spring Mountain celebrated.
• Li Shi'an and Ji Dai reached the Divine Platform ninth layer, while Chen Zhengfeng, Bai Shanghui, and others worried about their lineages’ future as the Floating World grew stronger.

As the World Conflict approached, Gu Yuanqing and the Qian Yuan Realm prepared to face the Slanting Moon World, while Wang Shihong reported on the depleted strength of his family. The chapter ended with an aged voice asking how many cultivators the Chen, Tong, and Ji Families had left behind.

• The Great Qian Dynasty and the sects strengthened their forces as the World Conflict drew near.
• Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, Ji Dai, and the others discussed their chances with Gu Yuanqing, who promised to hold off the Void Heaven Cultivators while they fought the rest.
• Gu Yuanqing warned the group that the World Conflict's rules might prevent him from fighting multiple opponents, leaving them to face whatever contest arose.
• Wang Shihong told an aged voice that the Wang Family had sent its talented juniors away and listed the few high-level cultivators who remained.
• The aged voice asked Wang Shihong how many cultivators the Chen Family, Tong Family, and Ji Family had left behind.

As the World Conflict approached, the Great Qian Dynasty prepared its army and waited for the battle to begin. When the Heaven and Earth Stele activated, Gu Yuanqing allowed part of his divine soul to be pulled into the Ancient Realm and found that it had replicated the Qian Yuan Realm and everyone in it.

• Wang Shihong and Wang Zufeng discussed which cultivators from the other families would remain for the World Conflict and considered the threat posed by Gu Yuanqing.
• Cultivators across the Qian Yuan Realm used the Heavenly Ladder one last time as the rankings faded from the Heaven and Earth Stele.
• Li Chengyi rallied Great Qian's army outside Fengtian City, and the soldiers drank wine and smashed their bowls in a vow to defend their world.
• The Heaven and Earth Stele blazed, and Gu Yuanqing resisted the force pulling his divine soul away while allowing half of it to follow.
• Gu Yuanqing found himself on a replica of North Spring Mountain in the Ancient Realm and sensed that the entire Qian Yuan Realm and its inhabitants had been copied there.

Gu Yuanqing comprehended the Way of Space as the Qian Yuan Realm froze, while the Heaven and Earth Stele vanished and the World Conflict began in the Ancient Realm. The Slanting Moon World descended with swarms of magic beasts, and the rule that survivors had to kill every living being in the opposing world left Gu Yuanqing appalled.

• Gu Yuanqing used North Spring Mountain to observe the frozen Qian Yuan Realm and became absorbed in comprehending the Way of Space, developing a new dao principle imprint in his Heavenly Human World.
• Everyone in the Ancient Realm awoke to find the Heaven and Earth Stele gone, and Gu Yuanqing told them that the World Conflict had begun and ordered them to prepare for war.
• Li Chengyi ordered beacon fires lit and sent divine platform cultivators to spread the imperial city's warning.
• Gu Yuanqing spotted magic beasts pouring through space rifts and an inverted continent of the Slanting Moon World descending toward the Qian Yuan Realm.
• The Rules announced that the survivors would win, requiring each world to kill every living being in the other, and Gu Yuanqing cursed the cruel condition.

Gu Yuanqing and the cultivators of the Qian Yuan Realm fought off a vast assault by magic beasts, while their kills granted them power under the rules of the world conflict. The Slanting Moon World faced the same attack without a defender of Gu Yuanqing’s strength, and its abandoned inhabitants suffered terribly.

• Gu Yuanqing warned the Qian Yuan Realm that magic beasts were descending, and Li Chengyi organized the cultivators and soldiers to intercept them.
• Gu Yuanqing sent out four avatars and used the Nine Yang Cauldron and his own magic to burn away huge numbers of beasts.
• Some beasts reached the ground, where the Qian Yuan Realm’s cultivators and soldiers killed them and gained energy that strengthened them.
• Gu Yuanqing let more beasts through when the defenders could cope, but increased his interception whenever they were close to buckling.
• The Qian Yuan Realm descended into widespread fighting as Li Chengyi led from the front and people displayed courage, fear, and opportunism.
• The Slanting Moon World suffered a far worse assault because most of its experts had evacuated and no one there could protect its people.