Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing removed the Ling Shu Realm’s Calamity qi while news of his destruction of the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower spread across the Exquisite World. As powerful factions concluded that Gu Yuanqing was likely responsible, the Purple You Realm debated whether to fear retaliation from him.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Two Forms Tribulation Fire to slowly extract the Ling Shu Realm’s Calamity qi from his body and divine soul.
• The Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower’s destruction shocked the Exquisite World, and people speculated about the attacker’s identity and the mountain-shaped Lie Shan Seal.
• Baili Jinghong told Liu Ruiyuan that Gu Yuanqing was almost certainly the attacker and had grown powerful enough to surpass their estimates; both were relieved that the Sanyang Sect had settled its grudge with him.
• Lu Zeyu suspected Gu Yuanqing was responsible and worried that his strength would draw dangerous attention toward the Primordial Realm.
• The Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild’s shopkeepers classified its connection to Gu Yuanqing as a top secret and planned to seize the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower’s trading businesses, sending half the profits to the Great Qian Dynasty.
• Feng Yunting asked the Purple You Realm’s Elders for their opinions, and one Elder argued that the suspected attacker might not be Gu Yuanqing because he had cultivated for only a hundred years.

The Purple Extreme Pavilion sought to appease Gu Yuanqing after learning how dangerous it was to provoke him, while Li Guanrong pressed them for a more sincere apology. Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating as the Qian Yuan Realm gained new Void Heaven Cultivators and received tribute from the Dragon Demon Ancestor, then sensed someone had prepared what he wanted ahead of schedule.

• Feng Yunting learned that Gu Yuanqing might have destroyed the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower’s headquarters, bribed Sanyang Sect’s Lu Qing for information, and received none.
• Feng Yunting secretly allied with the Heavenly Treasure Chamber of Commerce to attack the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower’s members in the Purple You Realm; the Five Directions Great Formation killed a Heavenly Change Cultivator, but the Purple Extreme Pavilion suffered casualties.
• Xiahou Chen delivered the confiscated tower holdings and other gifts to Li Guanrong as an apology, but Li Guanrong demanded that Feng Yunting personally visit Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated the Two Forms Tribulation Fire, while Li Chengyi and Li Shi'an returned from the Ancient Realm and Bai Xianghui and Fan Hongqing advanced to Void Heaven cultivation.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor brought tribute and asked Gu Yuanqing to let a young Demonic Dragon cleanse its bloodline in the Heaven and Earth Pool, which Gu Yuanqing allowed.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that someone had prepared the things he was waiting for sooner than expected.

Gu Yuanqing used a spatial projection to claim the treasures owed to him from Demon God Divine Mountain, overcoming Lie Shanyu’s formations and injuring him with the Demon Subduing Sword. Lie Shanhan then warned that another seal might be in danger.

• Gu Yuanqing merged with North Spring Grotto-Heaven to strengthen himself before confronting Demon God Divine Mountain across space.
• Lie Shanhan revealed the three treasures and jade token in the Divine Emperor Hall, and Lie Shanyu proposed that Gu Yuanqing take them to settle their feud.
• Gu Yuanqing projected his soul into the hall and reached for the treasures, while Lie Shanyu tried to restrain him with Nine Nether Prison Suppression.
• Gu Yuanqing’s hand broke through the formations and withdrew with all three treasures despite Lie Shanyu’s efforts.
• Lie Shanyu struck through space with Eternal Silence Return to the Void, but the Demon Subduing Sword wounded his palm before Gu Yuanqing escaped.
• Lie Shanhan warned Lie Shanyu that another seal might have a problem.

Lie Shanyu concealed how close he had come to losing his hand while Gu Yuanqing secured the grotto-heaven’s treasures and the Qian Yuan Realm grew stronger after the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower fell. Gu Yuanqing declined the Primordial Divine Sect Divine Son’s invitation to Ancient God Mountain, then received a polite but seemingly threatening message that left him wondering whether it was a warning.

• Lie Shanyu told Lie Shanyi and Lie Shanhan that his test of Gu Yuanqing had revealed no connection to the Great Demon, but privately recalled how the danger in the mountain had nearly severed his hand.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the Myriad Demon Pill, True Phoenix Blood, and Mystic Womb Heaven Crystal, then returned to cultivating with the Clear Thought Heaven Stone.
• Feng Yunting apologized to Li Chengyi on behalf of the Purple Extreme Pavilion, while the Ten Directions Misty Rain Tower’s remaining branches were destroyed and Qiu Han brought its ledgers and supplies to the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Ye Xuanxiao learned from the Myriad Worlds Rankings that Gu Yuanqing had concealed his presence with a Dao Artifact and invited him to Ancient God Mountain, but Gu Yuanqing declined the invitation.
• After Guan Dongchen reported Gu Yuanqing’s refusal, Ye Xuanxiao warned that the Primordial Divine Sect would intervene if Gu Yuanqing damaged an Exquisite Realm Domain with his Dao Artifact.
• Qiu Ziqing delivered a Jade Slip from the Primordial Divine Sect, and Gu Yuanqing sensed lofty superiority beneath its polite wording and wondered whether it was a warning.

Gu Yuanqing declined the Primordial Divine Sect’s invitation, explored the Qian Yuan Realm’s mysteries, and later joined its newly opened Heavenly Ladder trial. When the Heaven-Connecting Tower appeared across the Exquisite Worlds, he watched the trials begin and noticed Li Lingyi among the Dao Fire cultivators.

• Gu Yuanqing judged that he already had the resources to pursue the Void Immortal realm, refused the Primordial Divine Sect’s invitation, and failed to see beyond the Qian Yuan Realm’s boundaries with his Mountain Observation Technique.
• Six years later, Qin Wuya and Feng Kaiping reached Void Heaven, and the Qian Yuan Realm’s Heavenly Ladder opened after Gu Yuanqing’s Two Forms Tribulation Fire neared minor mastery.
• Gu Yuanqing climbed to the thirty-eighth step before losing to a Yin-Yang Void Breaking Realm opponent, and he received several cultivation treasures, including a Supreme Yang Blazing Crystal he had previously sold to the Sanyang Sect.
• Ye Xuanxiao suspected that Gu Yuanqing possessed a Rules Divine Artifact after Gu Yuanqing’s name nearly appeared on the Myriad Worlds Rankings, but he resolved to proceed cautiously.
• The Heaven-Connecting Tower appeared across the one hundred and eight Exquisite Worlds, and Qian Yuan Realm cultivators entered it to challenge trial imprints and Outer Realm participants.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the tower’s trials and spotted Li Lingyi, Li Guanrong’s fourth son, who practiced an exceptional cultivation method Gu Yuanqing had taught him.

Li Lingyi defeated Di Chen to become the Qian Yuan Realm’s Heaven-Connecting Tower guardian, then joined the hundred-world contest on the Ancient Realm Platform. As the contest began, Gu Yuanqing met the other realms’ leaders, including Ye Xuanxiao, who hinted at a future private discussion.

• Li Guanrong urged Li Lingyi to win the Heaven-Connecting Tower trial, and Meng Jing warned them that the guardian was a formidable saber wielder.
• Li Lingyi fought Di Chen in the tower’s fourth stage and beheaded him, earning the guardian’s position and the tower’s reward for the Qian Yuan Realm.
• After five days, the Heaven-Connecting Tower vanished, and Li Lingyi returned to the Crown Prince’s Residence ready for the Ancient Realm Platform contest.
• Li Guanrong praised Li Lingyi and promised to ask Gu Yuanqing to grant him the surname Gu and teach him personally if he performed well.
• Li Lingyi and representatives of the Qian Yuan Realm arrived at the Ancient Realm Platform, where contestants from 108 boundary domains gathered for the ranking contest.
• Gu Yuanqing greeted other realm leaders, and Ye Xuanxiao introduced himself before suggesting they speak privately another time.

After Ye Xuanxiao exposed Gu Yuanqing as a Yin-Yang Great Cultivator, the other sects abandoned their designs on the Qian Yuan Realm. As the Trial Grounds’ battles continued, Gu Yuanqing grew wary of the Primordial Divine Sect and chose to keep his distance, while Ye Xuanxiao praised Li Lingyi’s talent.

• Ye Xuanxiao identified Gu Yuanqing as a Yin-Yang Great Cultivator, changing how the gathered sects viewed him and the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing ended his discussion with Ye Xuanxiao, while Lu Zeyu and Baili Jinghong sensed tension between them.
• The gathered cultivators watched the Trial Grounds, where battles had begun and Heavenly Humans lamented the weaknesses of cultivators raised in the Exquisite World.
• Li Chengyi and his companions recognized that North Spring Mountain’s connection to the Cultivation World had to remain secret.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the Primordial Divine Sect might contain cultivators beyond the Yin-Yang realm and decided to keep a respectful distance from it.
• Ye Xuanxiao pointed out Li Lingyi and praised his sword Dao and talent, and Gu Yuanqing acknowledged him as a junior of his family.

After refusing Ye Xuanxiao’s offer to bring Li Lingyi into the Primordial Divine Sect, Gu Yuanqing guided him into the Gu family and refined powerful pills while the Qian Yuan Realm grew stronger. More than thirty years later, Gu Yuanqing stood at the peak of yin-yang myriad longevity and prepared to face two tribulations in succession, while suspecting the Primordial Divine Sect might be behind the danger he sensed.

• Ye Xuanxiao offered Li Lingyi a chance to enter the Primordial Divine Sect, but Gu Yuanqing declined on his junior’s behalf.
• After the three-day Trial Path ended, Li Chengyi and Li Guanrong brought Li Lingyi to North Spring Mountain, where he took the surname Gu and became Gu Lingyi under Gu Yuanqing’s personal instruction.
• Gu Yuanqing forged an alchemy furnace and refined Seven Revolutions Profound Yellow Pills and Return Origin Mend Heaven Pills from divine soul great medicines.
• Over the next thirty years, Gu Yuanqing cultivated in the North Spring Grotto-Heaven while the Qian Yuan Realm flourished and its cultivators advanced.
• Having reached the peak of yin-yang myriad longevity, Gu Yuanqing refrained from breaking through immediately, sensing that his calamity might bring trouble from the Primordial Divine Sect.

Gu Yuanqing visited his dying grandfather, who refused both a breakthrough and a life-extending pill, then mourned Lu Zeyu after he failed the Yin-Yang Great Tribulation. Lu Zeyu’s successor invited Gu Yuanqing to Shang Ziyin’s succession ceremony and gave him a sealed jade slip that only he could open, leaving him wondering what Lu Zeyu had entrusted to him.

• Gu Yuanqing and Gu Yuanying visited their grandfather, and Gu Yuanqing offered to help him reach the Divine Platform Realm, but the old man declined.
• Gu Yuanqing left his grandfather a pill that could extend his life by a hundred years, but the old man refused it and died peacefully ten days later.
• Lu Zeyu visited Gu Yuanqing to say farewell before facing the Yin-Yang Great Tribulation and named Shang Ziyin as his successor if he died.
• After the Illusionary Spirit Sect disciples departed the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuanqing realized Lu Zeyu had likely failed the tribulation and bid farewell to him.
• Yi Yunbo invited Gu Yuanqing to Shang Ziyin’s succession ceremony and delivered Lu Zeyu’s sealed jade slip, which Gu Yuanqing suspected contained an important secret.

Gu Yuanqing learned from Lu Zeyu’s final message that the Primordial Divine Sect monitored those who spoke of it and that cultivators who reached the Yin-Yang Void Breaking Realm entered the Primordial Realm and never returned. The chapter revealed that Ye Xuanxiao and the Primordial Divine Sect were already watching Gu Yuanqing and might act against him.

• Gu Yuanqing recognized the Jade Slip’s seals as methods he had discussed with Lu Zeyu and removed them.
• Lu Zeyu’s recorded message revealed that the Sky Monitoring Mirror and the Universe Myriad Manifestations Mirror detected talk of the Primordial Divine Sect, and that Yin-Yang Void Breaking Realm cultivators who entered the Primordial Realm never returned.
• Gu Yuanqing mourned Lu Zeyu, resolved to be wary of the Primordial Divine Sect, and declared that Chaos Heaven Cultivators would not intimidate him.
• Ye Xuanxiao met an elder beneath the Sky Monitoring Mirror and explained that he had been monitoring Gu Yuanqing because of his rapid rise and Dao Artifact.
• Ye Xuanxiao said the Primordial Divine Sect might have to act against Gu Yuanqing if he continued to endanger the Exquisite Realm Domain.

Ye Xuanxiao decided to advance to the yin-yang realm while keeping watch on Gu Yuanqing, and Xu Haoque began considering his own move in the Primordial Divine Sect’s rivalry. Gu Yuanqing traveled through five realms in an avatar to study their Great Dao, then arrived in the Phantom Spirit World for the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony as a message from the Sky Monitoring Tower reached Ye Xuanxiao.

• Ye Xuanxiao concluded that Gu Yuanqing might distrust the Primordial Divine Sect or possess hidden resources, and resolved to break through to the yin-yang realm before intervening.
• Xu Haoque learned that Ye Xuanxiao was preparing for his breakthrough and considered making a move in the competition among the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to visit other realms before the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s Sect Master succession ceremony and asked Liao Xu to arrange an inconspicuous identity for him.
• Qiu Han brought Gu Yuanqing Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild tokens, and Gu Yuanqing accepted them to support his travels and conceal his identity.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar through five realms to study their different Dao resonances, then entered the Phantom Spirit World and met an Illusionary Spirit Sect reception elder.
• A streak of light flew from the Sky Monitoring Tower toward Lieque Peak, where a great hand carried it into a cave abode.

Ye Xuanxiao sent Guan Dongchen to the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony with the Yin-Yang Mirror, while Gu Yuanqing arrived and grew wary of the Primordial Divine Sect. At the ceremony, Gu Yuanqing and Guan Dongchen met face to face.

• Ye Xuanxiao suspected Gu Yuanqing possessed an Ancient God Divine Artifact and instructed Guan Dongchen to attend the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony and use the Yin-Yang Mirror on him if possible.
• Shang Ziyin welcomed Gu Yuanqing to the Illusionary Spirit Sect, where he studied the Phantom Spirit World’s Great Dao and sensed that someone had been watching him.
• Yi Yunbo and Qiu Ziqing warned Gu Yuanqing that the Primordial Divine Sect was dangerous and reminded him of rumors linking it to the destruction of the Ling Yuan Realm.
• The Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony began, and Gu Yuanqing recognized Guan Dongchen as a powerful Primordial Divine Sect cultivator seated near him.
• Guan Dongchen introduced himself to Gu Yuanqing before the ceremony began.

At Shang Ziyin’s succession banquet, Guan Dongchen maneuvered Gu Yuanqing into a public spar, and the two began fighting on the Dao Discussion Platform. Gu Yuanqing quickly overwhelmed Guan Dongchen, who was driven back and resorted to using the Primordial Divine Sect’s Yin-Yang Mirror.

• Shang Ziyin completed the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession rites and was greeted as its new Sect Master.
• At the banquet, Guan Dongchen urged Gu Yuanqing to demonstrate his power, and Gu Yuanqing challenged him to exchange moves instead.
• Xing Zimo activated the Dao Discussion Platform’s protective formation as Guan Dongchen and Gu Yuanqing took the stage.
• Guan Dongchen attacked with Myriad Stars Destroying Dao, but Gu Yuanqing evaded him with the Great Yi Illusionary Sky Steps and shattered his defenses with a palm strike.
• Guan Dongchen unleashed his Indestructible Star Body, but Gu Yuanqing’s next attack wounded him and sent him flying.
• As Gu Yuanqing pursued him, Guan Dongchen reformed his armor and raised the Primordial Divine Sect’s Yin-Yang Mirror.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Guan Dongchen at the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s succession ceremony, leaving the Primordial Divine Sect disciple badly injured and humiliated. Guan returned to the Primordial Realm and reported the loss to Ye Xuanxiao, while Gu anticipated that the conflict with the Primordial Divine Sect would continue.

• Gu Yuanqing evaded the Yin-Yang Mirror’s attacks as Xing Zimo explained the treasure to Shang Ziyin and cautioned her about the Primordial Divine Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Guan Dongchen with a mountain-like palm and a Yin-Yang Great Millstone, overwhelming Guan’s defenses and injuring him despite Xing Zimo’s effort to protect the platform.
• Xing Zimo treated Guan Dongchen, who acknowledged his defeat, retrieved the Yin-Yang Mirror, and left for the Primordial Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing dismissed concerns from Xing Zimo and Shang Ziyin, then privately reflected that the Primordial Divine Sect would likely seek further conflict.
• Guan Dongchen returned to the Primordial Realm and told Ye Xuanxiao that Gu Yuanqing had defeated him and that his recovery would take several years.

After decades of travel and meditation, Gu Yuanqing began the Yin-Yang void-breaking Calamity to transform his Heavenly Human World. As the five-stage tribulation raged around North Spring Mountain, the Primordial Divine Sect’s Sky Monitoring Pavilion detected his breakthrough.

• Ye Xuanxiao concluded that Gu Yuanqing’s strength suggested he possessed a Rule Divine Artifact and worried that Guan Dongchen’s humiliating defeat would draw the attention of other True Disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing toured more than seventy realms over twenty years, exchanging insights on the Yin-Yang Dao and returning to his original body three times to merge his memories.
• After three years of meditation and a final period of preparation, Gu Yuanqing released North Spring Mountain’s suppression and allowed his Heavenly Human World to begin transforming.
• The heavenly Calamity gathered across the Qian Yuan Realm, the Dragon Demon Realm, and the Cultivation World, while Liao Xu and others recognized it as a Yin-Yang-level tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing endured the five stages of the void-breaking Calamity, including lightning, elemental transformations, weapons, black dragons, and heart demons, as his Heavenly Human World grew more real.
• The old man in the Primordial Realm saw the Calamity through the Sky Monitoring Mirror and wondered how Gu Yuanqing had advanced so quickly.

Gu Yuanqing faced the five-nine Calamity as the Heaven Monitoring Elder and Ye Xuanxiao learned that he was advancing toward the yin-yang void-breaking realm. After the final lightning strike, Gu Yuanqing understood how to shatter illusion and turn fantasy into reality.

• The Heaven Monitoring Elder summoned Ye Xuanxiao and showed him an image of Gu Yuanqing’s Calamity before Gu Yuanqing concealed the heavenly secrets with a Realm Token.
• The Heaven Monitoring Elder identified the Calamity as Gu Yuanqing’s yin-yang void-breaking great Calamity, shocking Ye Xuanxiao.
• The Heaven Monitoring Elder agreed to delay reporting Gu Yuanqing’s breakthrough for at most ten days, giving Ye Xuanxiao time to prepare.
• Gu Yuanqing drew the great dao powers in the Calamity into his Heavenly Human World, nourishing his cultivation as its formations and dao principle imprints transformed.
• The final bolt of the five-nine great Calamity struck, and Gu Yuanqing grasped the meaning of shattering illusion and turning fantasy into reality.

Gu Yuanqing survived the yin-yang void-breaking Calamity and immediately endured a second tribulation, reaching the yin-yang circulation realm and strengthening his Heavenly Human World. As news spread, he prepared for the Primordial Divine Sect’s response while Ye Xuanxiao confronted Xu Haoque over the assignment involving Gu Yuanqing.

• Gu Yuanqing transformed his Heavenly Human World into a real world, formed dao principle imprints, and called down a six-nine heavenly Calamity after surviving the first tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Object Control Art to turn the second Calamity’s power into cultivation, and the three-day tribulation caused a stir across the boundary domains.
• Shang Ziyin questioned Xing Zimo about Gu Yuanqing and the sect’s former Grandmaster, but Xing Zimo refused to reveal more unless she reached the yin-yang realm.
• Gu Yuanqing completed his breakthrough to the yin-yang circulation realm, with six dao principle imprints nearing perfection, and anticipated the Primordial Divine Sect’s next move.
• Ye Xuanxiao blocked Xu Haoque outside the Void God Hall and warned him not to take what Ye Xuanxiao would not give.

Xu Haoque arrived in the Qian Yuan Realm as the Primordial Divine Sect’s guiding envoy and invited Gu Yuanqing to leave for the Primordial Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused. The chapter ended as Xu Haoque hinted that refusing could lead to an unpleasant confrontation.

• Ye Xuanxiao warned Xu Haoque not to interfere with Gu Yuanqing, but Xu Haoque chose to travel to the Qian Yuan Realm as its guiding envoy.
• Li Chengyi urged Gu Yuanqing to visit Li Miaoxuan in the Spirit Realm, and Gu Yuanqing dismissed him before privately wondering if he should go.
• Xu Haoque crossed into the Qian Yuan Realm and examined its spiritual qi and North Spring Mountain before Gu Yuanqing appeared to meet him.
• Xu Haoque introduced himself as a True Disciple of the Primordial Divine Sect and said he had come to guide Gu Yuanqing beyond the limits of the Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm for now, and Xu Haoque warned that he had hoped not to spell out what might happen next.

Gu Yuanqing refused Xu Haoque’s demand that he enter the Primordial Realm, and Xu Haoque withdrew after Gu Yuanqing warned him. As Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating, Shadow plotted to grow stronger, while Xu Haoque returned to the Primordial Realm and Ye Xuanxiao headed to the same hall.

• Xu Haoque warned Gu Yuanqing that his power could endanger the Exquisite World and demanded he enter the Primordial Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused and challenged the Primordial Divine Sect to act if it dared.
• Xu Haoque threatened that a sect elder would come next, then fled when Gu Yuanqing’s warning made him sense imminent danger.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered the imprint Xu Haoque had left in the North Spring Grotto-Heaven and isolated it, intending to turn any future use of it into a trap.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to his true body and continued strengthening his Heavenly Human World as his cultivation advanced.
• Shadow watched North Spring Mountain, vowed to become stronger and claim the Demon Subduing Sword, then forgot who Gu Yuanqing was as madness overtook him.
• Xu Haoque returned to the Void Lotus Platform in the Primordial Realm and went to a great hall, where Ye Xuanxiao also arrived.

After Gu Yuanqing refused the Primordial Divine Sect’s repeated demands to enter the Primordial Realm, the sect used an attack on the Yan Shen Sect as a pretext to accuse him and force a confrontation. The chapter ended with Ye Xuanxiao summoning Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Realm Platform in three days.

• Xu Haoque reported Gu Yuanqing’s refusal to the Primordial Divine Sect Master, who ordered him to try persuading Gu Yuanqing again before considering other measures.
• Gu Yuanqing received Xu Haoque and rejected his offer to enter the Primordial Realm, then refused again three months later despite Xu Haoque’s warning.
• Heavenly Punishment devastated part of the Flame God Realm, and the Yan Shen Sect accused Gu Yuanqing of stealing its Limitless Spirit Lamp and appealed to the Primordial Divine Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that someone had used his name to attack the Yan Shen Sect and warned the Qian Yuan Realm’s people to stay inside.
• Ye Xuanxiao invoked the Ten Directions Token and summoned Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Realm Platform in three days to face the Yan Shen Sect.