Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing attended the Ancient Realm Platform to face the Yan Shen Sect and the Primordial Divine Sect over accusations that he stole the Dao Heart Stone and brought down heavenly punishment. After the Yan Shen Sect presented a recording that appeared to show the crime, Gu Yuanqing challenged Li Wujiu about the man in the footage.

• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi he would attend the public hearing using only an avatar, while the realms awaited the confrontation.
• Ye Xuanxiao and the Yan Shen Sect’s leaders arrived at the Ancient Realm Platform and called for the Primordial Divine Sect to uphold justice.
• Gu Yuanqing arrived, rejected Li Wujiu’s accusations, and demanded evidence that he had stolen the Dao Heart Stone.
• Li Wujiu showed a recording that depicted Gu Yuanqing fighting him in the Flame God Divine Realm, taking the treasure, and surviving heavenly punishment.
• Ye Xuanxiao and Qin Tianyang condemned Gu Yuanqing, who asked Li Wujiu whether the man fighting him in the footage was Li Wujiu himself.

Gu Yuanqing challenged Li Wujiu to prove his claims by surviving one move, while accusing Ye Xuanxiao and the Primordial Divine Sect of manipulating the dispute. Li Wujiu accepted the challenge, and Gu Yuanqing began his attack on the Dao Discussion Platform.

• Li Wujiu accused Gu Yuanqing of attacking the Yan Shen Sect, while Gu Yuanqing denied responsibility and challenged the evidence.
• Ye Xuanxiao proposed using the Dust-Reflecting Heart Mirror to reveal the truth, and Gu Yuanqing accused the Primordial Divine Sect of scheming against him.
• Gu Yuanqing pointed out that Li Wujiu had claimed to fight him in the recording and challenged him to withstand one move before agreeing to use the mirror.
• Li Wujiu accepted the challenge and summoned a flaming pagoda on the Dao Discussion Platform.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared on the platform and used Formless Calamity Finger.

Gu Yuanqing killed Li Wujiu with one strike on the Dao Discussion Platform, shocking the gathered sects and worsening the Yan Shen Sect’s loss. He challenged Ye Xuanxiao to uncover who had impersonated him in the Flame God Realm, then left while suspecting the Primordial Divine Sect was wary of hidden forces or secrets.

• Gu Yuanqing erased Li Wujiu, his divine soul, and his Heavenly Human World with the Formless Calamity Finger.
• The cultivators on the Ancient Realm Platform reacted in shock, while Qin Tianyang recognized the death as an irreparable loss to the Yan Shen Sect.
• Xu Haoque suspected Gu Yuanqing was hiding secrets, and Ye Xuanxiao worried that others might reach the same conclusion.
• Gu Yuanqing pressed Ye Xuanxiao to investigate the attacker who had used his name in the Flame God Realm, and Ye Xuanxiao insisted that Gu Yuanqing might still be responsible.
• Gu Yuanqing exchanged brief acknowledgments with He Lixuan and left the platform, reflecting on the Primordial Divine Sect’s caution and the alliances among the major sects.

After the Primordial Divine Sect let Gu Yuanqing leave the Ancient Realm, Ye Xuanxiao reported the confrontation to Mu Tianheng and prepared a new investigation. Gu Yuanqing returned to Nine Bends Mountain and awaited the sect’s next move, which soon involved tracking the mysterious visitor to the Yan Shen Sect.

• Gu Yuanqing wondered why the Primordial Divine Sect had held back, while Ye Xuanxiao dismissed concerns about its reputation and promised Qin Tianyang that the sect would investigate the threat to the Exquisite World.
• Ye Xuanxiao used the Universe Myriad Manifestations Mirror to spy on Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing activated the Nine Twists Soul Stirring Great Formation and blocked the surveillance.
• Ye Xuanxiao reported the Ancient Realm confrontation to Mu Tianheng, who ordered him to proceed with the next step and assigned two Realm Guard members to assist him.
• Gu Yuanqing strengthened the formations at Nine Bends Mountain, met Li Shi'an, and returned to the Qian Yuan Realm while remaining alert for the Primordial Divine Sect’s response.
• Ye Xuanxiao visited the Flame God Realm with an unfamiliar cultivator and the tracking beast Xuan Ni, hoping to trace the mysterious visitor’s aura from the Yan Shen Sect.
• Gu Yuanqing heard the news and suspected the investigation would ultimately lead to the Qian Yuan Realm.

Gu Yuanqing learned that Lu Zeyu had survived his apparent death and joined the Hidden Sun Alliance in the God Ruins Land. Lu Zeyu invited him to enter the God Ruins Land, leaving Gu Yuanqing to weigh the alliance’s offer against the Primordial Divine Sect’s plans.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Chengyi suspected the Primordial Divine Sect’s search of the Boundary Domains was meant to use Gu Yuanqing as bait, while Ye Xuanxiao and Guan Dongchen discussed drawing hidden opponents out.
• Li Shi'an relayed a visitor’s twelve hand seals, and Gu Yuanqing recognized them as a clue to an old acquaintance waiting outside Nine Bends Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing met Lu Zeyu, the former Illusionary Spirit Sect Master, who revealed that he had survived the heavenly Calamity and was now in the God Ruins Land.
• Lu Zeyu identified himself as a representative of the Hidden Sun Alliance and invited Gu Yuanqing to enter the God Ruins Land, explaining that the Primordial Divine Sect was also using him as bait.
• After Lu Zeyu left, Gu Yuanqing considered the rivalry between the Hidden Sun Alliance and the Primordial Divine Sect and gained new insight into cultivation in the Exquisite World.

Gu Yuanqing recalled Lu Zeyu’s explanation of Rules Divine Artifacts and the Hidden Sun Alliance’s efforts to persuade him to enter the God Ruins Land, but he remained unwilling to leave the Qian Yuan Realm. Meanwhile, the Primordial Divine Sect punished a hidden cultivator, raising tensions across the Exquisite World as the Illusionary Spirit Sect and Sanyang Sect considered what the events might mean.

• Gu Yuanqing recalled Lu Zeyu explaining that Rules Divine Artifacts could help cultivators overcome the Exquisite World’s incomplete Great Dao, and that the Sky Monitoring Mirror in the Primordial Realm was only an avatar.
• Lu Zeyu reported to a blurry woman that Gu Yuanqing refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and she urged him to persuade Gu Yuanqing before the Primordial Divine Sect noticed his return.
• Ye Xuanxiao sent a severed hand to the Illusionary Spirit Sect as a warning after Xuan Ni hunted a hidden cultivator in the Lanyan Realm and the cultivator escaped gravely wounded.
• The Exquisite World identified the fugitive as Fishing Hermit Hanjiang, and Shang Ziyin asked Xing Zimo whether the Illusionary Spirit Sect’s missing Senior Brother might also still be alive.
• Zhuang Hanhai warned Baili Jinghong not to trust appearances about Gu Yuanqing’s connection to the Primordial Divine Sect and urged him to break through to the Yin-Yang Realm.

Gu Yuanqing learned why the Primordial Divine Sect was sweeping the Exquisite World and heard Lu Zeyu’s offer to bring him into the Hidden Sun Alliance. He refused to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and Lu Zeyu warned that the sect could destroy it.

• Li Chengyi reported that the Primordial Divine Sect’s searches had exposed many hidden Yin-Yang Cultivators, and Gu Yuanqing told him to focus on cultivation.
• The Primordial Divine Sect used the Ten Directions Token and Sky Monitoring Mirror to inspect the Sanyang Realm and other domains, raising its prestige while leaving protected sect residences untouched.
• Lu Zeyu revealed himself as the Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild’s Head Shopkeeper and explained that the Hidden Sun Alliance and Primordial Divine Sect were bound by an agreement that had let the sect intervene after Gu Yuanqing’s breakthrough and the Flame God Realm incident.
• Lu Zeyu urged Gu Yuanqing to join the Hidden Sun Alliance, offering three chances to resonate with a Rules Divine Artifact, and explained that the Primordial Divine Sect intended to settle Gu Yuanqing’s situation before resuming its campaign against the alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing declined to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, and Lu Zeyu warned that the Primordial Divine Sect could use the Ten Directions Token to suppress the realm and bring it to ruin.

Gu Yuanqing refused Lu Zeyu’s offer to leave the Qian Yuan Realm, despite learning that the Primordial Divine Sect might wield the Ten Directions Token and other powerful means against him. When Ye Xuanxiao arrived with the sect’s forces to inspect the realm, Gu Yuanqing rejected their demand to lift its restrictions, and the confrontation began.

• Gu Yuanqing considered whether his empowerment by North Spring Grotto-Heaven might resemble a Rules Divine Artifact, while Lu Zeyu warned that the Primordial Divine Sect could bring overwhelming force against him.
• Lu Zeyu left Gu Yuanqing a jade talisman in case he changed his mind, and Gu Yuanqing sent Qiu Han away with Li Guanrong.
• As the Primordial Divine Sect approached, Gu Yuanqing reassured the Great Qian Imperial Court that he would face its forces rather than close the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Xuanxiao arrived in the Qian Yuan Realm with Li Wujiu, Xuan Ni, and others, and Gu Yuanqing shielded the gathered cultivators and soldiers from their auras.
• Guan Dongchen used the Ten Directions Token to demand that Gu Yuanqing release the Qian Yuan Realm’s restrictions, but Gu Yuanqing knocked him unconscious.
• Ye Xuanxiao accused Gu Yuanqing of harboring corruption and threatened him after Gu Yuanqing refused to open the realm for inspection.

Gu Yuanqing fought the Primordial Divine Sect’s forces in the Qian Yuan Realm, overwhelming their attackers and stopping Ye Xuanxiao from escaping. As Gu Yuanqing’s true body clashed with a hidden enemy wielding a Rule Divine Artifact, his avatar was still about to suppress Ye Xuanxiao when a beam of mirror light appeared.

• Ye Xuanxiao accused Gu Yuanqing of treason and offered to take him to the Primordial Realm for judgment, but Gu Yuanqing refused and demanded that the Primordial Divine Sect leave the Qian Yuan Realm.
• The black-clad man and Xuan Ni attacked Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, and the others, but Gu Yuanqing froze them in space and destroyed them, while another attacker’s lightning and flame assault vanished against his Folding Fan.
• Ye Xuanxiao invoked the Ten Directions Token and his Thunder God Dharma Idol, but Gu Yuanqing stopped his punch and suppressed the Realm Guard’s sneak attack.
• Gu Yuanqing trapped Ye Xuanxiao’s Thunder Prison and shattered the Teleportation Array he used to flee, but a fair-skinned hand struck at Gu Yuanqing from the void.
• Gu Yuanqing’s true body countered the hand’s heavenly punishment power and attacked with the Demon Subduing Sword; the hand withdrew with a damaged glove and a drop of blood as the sword pursued it.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar continued to press down on Ye Xuanxiao, but a beam of mirror light suddenly appeared.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Ye Xuanxiao and the Primordial Divine Sect’s forces, though the Divine Son’s death made war between them inevitable. Afterward, Gu Yuanqing captured a mysterious black rune and considered its possible connection to the Heavenly Demon Sword Master and the Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar fought Ye Xuanxiao while Xu Haoque activated a hidden rune within Li Wujiu, sacrificing him to send a black beam at the Divine Son.
• The Primordial Divine Sect’s master tried to intervene with the Heavenly Law Bell, but withdrew when a sudden crisis elsewhere demanded his attention.
• Gu Yuanqing’s true self suppressed Ye Xuanxiao’s self-destruction, killed him, and trapped the black rune left behind.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar rescued Guan Dongchen and returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven as Li Chengyi and the Qian Yuan Realm’s forces celebrated their victory.
• Gu Yuanqing compared the rune with black aura from the Heavenly Demon Sword Master’s avatar, sealed both for later study, and examined three captured Heavenly Human Worlds.

Gu Yuanqing cleansed three captured Heavenly Human Worlds and searched Guan Dongchen for information about the Primordial Divine Sect. He learned that the sect was stronger than he expected and anticipated another attack once it could turn its attention to the Qian Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing anchored three Heavenly Human Worlds in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, destroyed their remnant souls and black jade scepter imprints, and gave two realms to Li Chengyi’s group.
• Gu Yuanqing searched Guan Dongchen’s soul and witnessed Mu Tianheng confront the Heaven Monitoring Elder over Ye Xuanxiao’s defeat and Li Wujiu’s betrayal.
• Mu Tianheng told Ye Xuanxiao that he would send him into the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, where he could try to control it or become a Realm Guard.
• Gu Yuanqing erased Guan Dongchen after learning about the Primordial Divine Sect, then assessed the sect’s strength and the risks posed by its Rules Divine Artifacts.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the sect’s current troubles in the Land of the Boundary Abyss limited its response, but warned himself that another war would follow once its experts were free.

After killing Ye Xuanxiao, Gu Yuanqing faced the Primordial Divine Sect’s denunciation and blockade of the Qian Yuan Realm, while the Great Qian Dynasty struggled to keep order. The chapter ended with Gu Yuanqing urging Li Chengyi to prepare to undergo his tribulation in five days.

• Liao Xu and Liu Muzhou feared the Primordial Divine Sect’s retaliation and prepared to withdraw the Heavenly Treasure Merchant Guild from the Qian Yuan Realm.
• The Primordial Divine Sect proclaimed across all worlds that Gu Yuanqing and the Great Qian Dynasty were guilty, giving people ten days to abandon their ties to them before the Qian Yuan Realm’s Boundary Gate was sealed.
• Gu Yuanqing reassured the Qian Yuan Realm’s people, but outside powers and many cultivators left while others argued over whether he had endangered the realm.
• On the tenth day, the Primordial Divine Sect used the Ten Directions Token to seal the Qian Yuan Realm’s Teleportation Array, cutting off its connections to the other Exquisite Worlds.
• Gu Yuanqing warned his family to be cautious about entering the Ancient Realm, then told Li Chengyi to prepare to undergo his tribulation in five days.

Gu Yuanqing refined his Heaven-Measuring Star Eye and continued strengthening his divine abilities while the Primordial Divine Sect held back from attacking. Li Chengyi survived his heavenly tribulation and became a heavenly human, and a mysterious visitor arrived at North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

• Gu Yuanqing considered the Primordial Divine Sect’s strength and focused on improving his Dao imprints, spell arts, and divine abilities.
• Gu Yuanqing used Dao Derivation Augmentation to cultivate the Heaven-Measuring Star Eye, increasing his vision and extending the reach of his attacks.
• Li Chengyi underwent his heavenly tribulation on Side Peak, survived its final strikes, and became a heavenly human.
• Gu Yuanqing continued deducing and cultivating his spell arts, saving some incense and fire qi for emergencies.
• A mist-shrouded figure arrived in a World-Breaking Shuttle and headed toward North Spring Grotto-Heaven, prompting Gu Yuanqing to suspect he had come to persuade him to enter God Ruins Land again.

Lu Zeyu asked Gu Yuanqing to help the Hidden Sun Alliance in the Ancient Battlefield in exchange for protection and a hundred-year pact. Gu Yuanqing accepted after Ning Xuxuan revealed the Alliance sought the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman, and the two sealed their contract ahead of the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum’s appearance in six months.

• Lu Zeyu told Gu Yuanqing that the Hidden Sun Alliance could help him enter the Ancient Battlefield through his Consecration Token and asked him to retrieve treasures from the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum.
• Gu Yuanqing demanded a hundred years of protection from the Primordial Divine Sect and a nether god contract with one of the Alliance’s Chaos Heaven Great Cultivators.
• Lu Zeyu returned three days later with Ning Xuxuan, the Hidden Sun Alliance’s patriarch, who agreed to Gu Yuanqing’s terms.
• Ning Xuxuan explained that the Alliance sought the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman, which could help locate the Great Void Creation Wheel.
• Gu Yuanqing and Ning Xuxuan sealed their blood pact, and Ning Xuxuan departed after arranging for Lu Zeyu to discuss the remaining details.

Gu Yuanqing prepared a fraction of his power for the Ancient Battlefield, where the Hidden Sun Alliance and the Primordial Divine Sect were maneuvering over the Great Void Creation Wheel. He joined Lu Zeyu and three other Yin-Yang Circulation cultivators at the Primordial Imperial Dynasty’s teleportation array, where his arrival provoked Bei Chenzhao.

• Gu Yuanqing weighed the risks of entering the Ancient Battlefield and spent five months strengthening his divine abilities.
• Ning Xuxuan withdrew the Hidden Sun Alliance’s power from the Boundary Abyss defenses, forcing Mu Tianheng and the Primordial Divine Sect to shoulder more of the burden while the alliance sought to hinder them before the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum emerged.
• Gu Yuanqing sent one-eighth of his power into the Ancient Realm, where it formed a body at the Yin-Yang Circulation Realm, then traveled with Lu Zeyu toward the Great Wei Divine Dynasty.
• At the Primordial Imperial Dynasty’s capital, Lu Zeyu led Gu Yuanqing to the Ancient Battlefield teleportation array and introduced him to Ling Xuzi, Tantai Yue, and Nangong Jin.
• Bei Chenzhao arrived and challenged Gu Yuanqing, but Nangong Jin reminded him that Gu Yuanqing was their guest and that they had come for the same undertaking.

Gu Yuanqing traveled with the Hidden Sun Alliance through the dangerous Ancient Battlefield toward the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum, where they expected to confront the Primordial Divine Sect over the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman. As the mausoleum’s opening drew near, Gu Yuanqing detected the Primordial Divine Sect’s group nearby, while Alliance Leader Ning Xuxuan considered whether Gu Yuanqing might be a hidden pawn.

• Gu Yuanqing joined Nangong Jin, Ling Xuzi, Zhan Taiyue, and Bei Chenzhao on the journey through the Ancient Battlefield, where they avoided shifting battle scenes until two Changyue Sect cultivators exposed them to a pursuing Yin-Yang Cultivator.
• The group reached the mausoleum’s vicinity and waited; Gu Yuanqing learned that Zhan Taiyue had brought her Gilded Soul Suppressing Bell and asked Nangong Jin about the Primordial Divine Sect and the God Ruins Land.
• After more than two days, Gu Yuanqing sensed six Primordial Divine Sect cultivators approaching from a little over two thousand li away, including three whom Nangong Jin recognized as his equals or stronger.
• In the God Ruins Land, a middle-aged man asked Ning Xuxuan whether Gu Yuanqing might be a secret Primordial Divine Sect pawn, and Ning Xuxuan said that possibility might not be bad.

Nangong Jin led Gu Yuanqing and their companions through the Nine Heavens War Mausoleum, overcoming its trials while racing the Primordial Divine Sect. At the sky bridge to the final island, they found four Primordial Divine Sect cultivators blocking their way, and learned that two others had already entered the hall.

• Nangong Jin led the group into the mausoleum when the jade-steles formation shattered, while the Primordial Divine Sect entered at nearly the same time.
• Nangong Jin used a talisman to pass the hall’s Golden Armored Divine Shadows, and the group bypassed the guards and bronze door with Zhan Taiyue’s illusion, Nangong Jin’s seals, and Gu Yuanqing’s array.
• Ling Xuzi defeated the awakened statues, Zhan Taiyue destroyed the Magic Beasts with her zither, and Bei Chenzhao burned away the mirror trial.
• Nangong Jin guided the group through further trials, while Gu Yuanqing conserved his strength for the final location.
• At the sky bridge to the immortal island, Ling Xuzi spotted four Primordial Divine Sect cultivators; one warned Nangong Jin to stop and revealed that two others had already entered the hall.

Gu Yuanqing broke through the Primordial Divine Sect’s formation and killed two of its cultivators, allowing the Hidden Sun Alliance to reach Myriad Laws Returning Origin Hall. As the group approached the hall, Gu Yuanqing sensed that the Alliance was hiding something connected to the Dao Source Stele.

• Nangong Jin and the Hidden Sun Alliance members engaged Mo Xie and the other Primordial Divine Sect cultivators while Gu Yuanqing advanced toward the hall.
• Gu Yuanqing’s Wuxiang Formless Calamity Finger severely injured the Primordial Divine Sect cultivators, and Zhang Ji recognized him as the man who had killed their Divine Son.
• Mo Xie and his companions formed the Four Extremes Universe-Suppressing Heaven Array, but Gu Yuanqing found a flaw and killed the cultivator wielding the Purple-Gold Gourd.
• Gu Yuanqing pursued and killed a second Primordial Divine Sect cultivator, causing the formation to collapse; Mo Xie and Zhang Ji fled toward the hall.
• Nangong Jin urged the Hidden Sun Alliance to hurry after Gu Yuanqing warned that the Primordial Divine Sect might take the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman.
• At the Dao Source Stele, Gu Yuanqing felt a stirring and suspected the Hidden Sun Alliance was concealing something about it.

Gu Yuanqing studied the Dao Source Stele and began to grasp a cultivation technique connected to the Great Void Creation Wheel, while the Hidden Sun Alliance and Primordial Divine Sect raced to claim the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman. Gu Yuanqing immobilized two Golden Armored Divine Mechanism Puppets to create an opening for his allies, but Feng Wuhen launched a sinister wind at him as their attacks struck the puppets.

• Gu Yuanqing used a stronger divine soul to study the Dao Source Stele and glimpsed a cultivation technique related to the Great Void Creation Wheel.
• Nangong Jin explained the talisman’s guarded altar and, after Gu Yuanqing pressed him, revealed how to reach the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Pill.
• Feng Wuhen burned his Wind Dao Divine Talisman to freeze two puppets, allowing the Primordial Divine Sect to reach the altar before the Hidden Sun Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the puppets’ attack range and used his Heavenly Human Realm and spatial power to suppress two of them.
• Nangong Jin, Ling Xuzi, Bei Chenzhao, and Zhan Taiyue attacked the puppets’ weak points as Feng Wuhen unleashed Wind Burial against Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing helped the Hidden Sun Alliance break past Feng Wuhen and the Golden Armored Divine Mechanism Puppets, then entered the Burning Heaven side hall to seek the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Pill. Using insights from the Dao Origin Source Stele and the Heavenly Evolution Blessing, he found a path through the White Jade Tower’s formations, but the Ancient Battlefield began to vanish as he pressed on.

• Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Mountain phantom to withstand Feng Wuhen’s Three Calamity Wind while the Hidden Sun Alliance members damaged their dao principle imprints to destroy the Golden Armored Divine Mechanism Puppets.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Feng Wuhen with his Void Piercing Heavenly Eye, then left the others to collect the Myriad Dao Returning Flow Talisman and went to the Burning Heaven side hall.
• Gu Yuanqing broke through the side hall’s fire formation and cautiously crossed the Restrictive Seals surrounding the White Jade Tower, losing three avatars on its first eight floors.
• Gu Yuanqing received his avatar’s insights from the Dao Origin Source Stele, then used the Heavenly Evolution Blessing in North Spring Mountain to deduce a route through the tower’s ninth-floor formation.
• Gu Yuanqing returned his new insights to the Ancient Battlefield and began following the route, but sensed that the battlefield was about to vanish.