Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing visited the Lingxu Sect, received a guide to the Cultivation World's dangerous places, and continued his journey while cultivating through leisurely experience. Three years later, he met Li Chengyi outside the Sacred Heaven Sect and prepared to confront Zuo Qiu, while Li Chengyi asked him to bring their grandfather and great-grandfather along.

• Zhang Xuanlin warned Gu Yuanqing to keep secret how he escaped the sealed Ding Twelve Realms and told him Li Miaoxuan might seek him out; Gu Yuanqing said he would meet her.
• Zhang Xuanlin cautioned Gu Yuanqing about the Sacred Heaven Sect and Netherworld Sect, and the Lingxu Sect later discovered that Gu Yuanqing's nine Spirit Nurturing Pills were exceptionally precious.
• Zhang Xuanlin showed Gu Yuanqing the Lingxu Sect's wondrous sites and gave him a volume detailing opportunities and safe routes as a parting gift.
• Gu Yuanqing continued traveling toward the Heaven's Gate Forbidden Zone, visiting places and enjoying ordinary experiences as part of his cultivation.
• Three years later, Gu Yuanqing waited outside Sacred Heaven Sect territory for Li Chengyi, who emerged from seclusion with his yin yang realm foundation complete.
• Gu Yuanqing said he would have already gone in to kill Zuo Qiu, and Li Chengyi asked him to bring their grandfather and great-grandfather to witness it.

Shi Jin sensed an impending threat and mobilized the Sacred Heaven Sect’s defenses, while Gu Yuanqing brought Li Shi'an, Li Haotian, Ji Dai, and Li Chengyi to confront the sect over Zuo Qiu. The sect’s preparations were triggered partly by assassins from the Fate Calculation Tower, and Gu Yuanqing decided to proceed openly once they were exposed.

• Gu Yuanqing summoned Li Shi'an, Li Haotian, and Ji Dai before leading them toward the Sacred Heaven Sect to settle the matter of Zuo Qiu.
• Shi Jin’s growing unease led him to investigate possible enemies, contact the Spirit Realm, and order the Sacred Heaven Sect to prepare for battle.
• The Sacred Heaven Sect activated its formations, weapons, and Blood Corpses while its disciples waited for an unknown attacker.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered two Fate Calculation Tower assassins near the sect, and Shi Jin’s formation attacked them after they tried to flee.
• Li Chengyi urged Gu Yuanqing to wait until the sect lowered its guard, but Gu Yuanqing chose to confront it immediately and demand an accounting for Zuo Qiu.

Li Chengyi and his companions reached the Sacred Heaven Sect and demanded that it hand over Zuo Qiu, while Shi Jin mistook their arrival for part of the Fate Calculation Tower's assassination plot. The two sides faced off at the sect's formation, and Shi Jin tried to dismiss their old grievance as the killing of a few insignificant people.

• Two Fate Calculation Tower assassins attacked Shi Jin at the Sacred Heaven Sect, wounded him, and escaped after breaking through the sect's formations.
• Li Haotian killed a Sacred Heaven Sect cultivator who tried to stop the group's flying boat, alerting the sect to their arrival.
• Shi Jin learned that four outsiders skilled in heavenly secrets had entered his territory and returned to the mountain residence to await them.
• Li Chengyi demanded that Shi Jin summon Zuo Qiu, and Shi Jin and his elders recognized the visitors as members of the Qian Yuan Sect.
• Shi Jin identified Gu Yuanqing and claimed that the old dispute involved only the deaths of a few insignificant people.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Chengyi confronted the Sacred Heaven Sect over Zuo Qiu, but the sect refused to hand him over and activated its formidable mountain-protecting formation. After Li Chengyi failed to find a weakness, Gu Yuanqing attacked with the Lie Shan Seal, forcing the sect to unleash its full defenses as he sought a legitimate pretext to act.

• Shi Jin refused to surrender Zuo Qiu and warned Gu Yuanqing and Li Chengyi against making the Sacred Heaven Sect their enemy.
• Li Chengyi volunteered to attack, but he could not find a weakness in the sect’s mountain-protecting formation.
• Shi Jin activated the formation, revealing its Warpath Puppets and the yin-yang puppet at its core.
• Shi Jin threatened to report the pair to the Spirit Realm, and Gu Yuanqing decided to act himself.
• Gu Yuanqing launched the Lie Shan Seal, breaking the formation’s outer barrier and prompting Shi Jin to fully activate the Myriad Blades Formation.
• The yin-yang Warpath Puppet took up the Sacred Heaven Divine Spear as Gu Yuanqing prepared to draw the attention of the Sacred Heaven Sect’s upper sect and other powerful cultivators.

Gu Yuanqing attacked the Sacred Heaven Sect with the Lie Shan Seal, overwhelming its defenses and forcing its hidden expert Han Yifei to awaken. As a powerful figure from the Spirit Realm intervened, Gu Yuanqing found Zuo Qiu and dragged him through a rift.

• Zuo Qiu watched uneasily as Gu Yuanqing and his companions arrived, while his senior brother warned that the yin-yang cultivator might attack despite the sect’s defenses.
• Gu Yuanqing’s Lie Shan Seal overwhelmed the Sacred Heaven Sect’s formation, Warpath Puppet, and Sacred Heaven Divine Spear, injuring Shi Jin.
• Shi Jin awakened Han Yifei, who joined him in strengthening the formation, but Gu Yuanqing’s increased force shattered it and incapacitated both men.
• A voice from the Spirit Realm attacked the Lie Shan Seal with a saber, and Gu Yuanqing used the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to search the sect.
• Gu Yuanqing found Zuo Qiu, seized him with a hand of true essence, and dragged him through a space rift.

Gu Yuanqing fought the Sacred Heaven Sect’s upper-realm expert while Li Chengyi captured Zuo Qiu, the killer they had come to find. After Gu Yuanqing’s battle devastated the sect’s residence, the sect’s leaders demanded an explanation and threatened to withdraw from the Outer Realm Battlefield, while the Spirit Venerable and Demonic Venerable debated the rules governing Chaos Heaven Cultivators.

• Gu Yuanqing left Zuo Qiu with Li Chengyi and confronted the Sacred Heaven Sect’s expert, whose attacks he repelled with the Lie Shan Seal and his dao powers.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the Sacred Heaven Divine Spear, but the sect’s expert struck the Lie Shan Seal with a coffin, and their clash wrecked much of the sect’s residence.
• Li Chengyi imprisoned Zuo Qiu in the Great Cauldron, and Gu Yuanqing sent him, Li Shi'an, and Li Haotian away.
• Jing Yue accused Gu Yuanqing of breaking the rules for Chaos Heaven Cultivators and threatened to withdraw the Sacred Heaven Sect from the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• The Demonic Venerable of Nine Li Mountain challenged the Spirit Venerable over the rules and said a Chaos Heaven Immortal would be needed to lead the vanguard against gathering heavenly demons.

Gu Yuanqing rejected the Righteous and Demonic Paths’ attempt to settle his conflict with the Sacred Heaven Sect through political bargaining, while powerful figures gathered to prevent the dispute from escalating. As Zhao Shengbing prepared to fight him, Gu Yuanqing’s family discussed how to deal with their captive, Zuo Qiu, inside North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

• The Demonic Venerable of Nine Li Mountain and Jing Yue pressed the Spirit Venerable to resolve Gu Yuanqing’s attack on the Sacred Heaven Sect, while Gu Yuanqing condemned the sect’s atrocities and rejected using the Extraterrestrial Demons as leverage.
• The Spirit Venerable tried to delay the decision, but Zhao Shengbing emerged from seclusion, and Ji Shan and Xiao Lingyue arrived to support the Righteous Sects’ efforts to prevent a wider conflict.
• Gu Yuanqing thanked the Righteous leaders but insisted that he settle his grudge with the Sacred Heaven Sect himself, prompting Zhao Shengbing to threaten him and the Spirit Venerable and Ji Shan to warn him against fighting.
• Inside North Spring Grotto-Heaven, Li Chengyi, Li Shi'an, and Li Haotian discussed their confidence in Gu Yuanqing and how to execute Zuo Qiu for his crimes against Great Qian while keeping the matter secret.

Gu Yuanqing fought Zhao Shengbing, a powerful Sacred Heaven Sect expert, after the factions’ leaders failed to stop their conflict. Gu Yuanqing wounded Zhao Shengbing with the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression and trapped him in a heart-demon illusion, ending the chapter as he challenged Zhao to survive the final sword strike.

• Gu Yuanqing rejected the Righteous and Demonic Paths’ attempt to settle the feud peacefully and agreed to fight Zhao Shengbing.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain blocked the Spirit Venerable from disrupting the Sacred Heaven Sect’s spatial passage, allowing Zhao Shengbing to arrive in his true form.
• Gu Yuanqing and Zhao Shengbing flew thirty thousand zhang into the sky to battle, where Gu Yuanqing’s sword formations purified and sealed Zhao’s attacks.
• Gu Yuanqing wounded Zhao Shengbing’s fist with the Demon Purging Sword Dao, proving his sword intent could pierce Zhao’s formidable body.
• As Zhao Shengbing gathered power for his strongest attack, Gu Yuanqing used the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao to trap him in illusions drawn from his deepest fears and failures.
• Gu Yuanqing asked Zhao Shengbing whether he could survive the calamity of the combined Four Phases sword.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Zhao Shengbing’s avatar, forcing the Sacred Heaven Sect and the assembled leaders to accept his strength and demands. After the confrontation ended, Gu Yuanqing and Ji Shan discussed the risks his actions had created as he prepared to go to the Spirit Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression to destroy Zhao Shengbing’s avatar completely.
• Jing Yue and the other observers reacted to Gu Yuanqing’s victory, while the Demonic Venerable considered killing him before agreeing to end the confrontation.
• Gu Yuanqing agreed to go to the Spirit Realm but demanded that the Sacred Heaven Sect hand over Meng Nianchun and Zou Mingze, and Jing Yue refused.
• After the Demonic Venerable appealed for leniency, Gu Yuanqing killed two Sacred Heaven Sect cultivators in the sect residence instead and declared his grievances settled.
• The Spirit Venerable, the Demonic Venerable, and Xiao Lingyue departed, and Gu Yuanqing left with Ji Shan.
• At a city restaurant, Ji Shan warned Gu Yuanqing that the Demonic Sects might target him, but Gu Yuanqing said they had better not give him an excuse to strike.

Gu Yuanqing learned from Ji Shan that extraterrestrial demons were gathering and a Void Immortal might be needed to defend the cultivation world, then continued his journey after their friendly match. On Qian Yuan Island, Zuo Qiu faced execution for his past massacre, while Gu Yuanqing used Mountain Gazing Enlightenment to seek a view beyond Qian Yuan Realm.

• Ji Shan warned Gu Yuanqing that four Chaos Heaven-level demon kings had arrived and that a Void Immortal-level Demon Lord might threaten the Outer Lands.
• Ji Shan said the Spirit Venerable had protected Gu Yuanqing because he was seen as a promising candidate to become a Void Immortal, and the two played a three-day match that ended in a draw.
• News of the battle at the Sacred Heaven Sect spread through the cultivation world, but the sect's gag order left outsiders without details.
• Li Chengyi identified Zuo Qiu as the killer of more than a hundred thousand Great Qian soldiers and countless civilians, and Li Haotian ordered Li Rui to execute him by three thousand cuts.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the execution from North Spring Grotto-Heaven, then entered Mountain Gazing Enlightenment to try to see beyond Qian Yuan Realm and understand the Ancient Demon Refining Array.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating through his avatars, studying the world membrane, suppressing the Person in the Painting, and testing the dangers of the Boundless River while seeking a Ten Thousand Dao Stone. After years of wandering and gaining insight, he reached Heaven's Gate Forbidden Zone, where spirit fiend rain blocked the passage to the Spirit Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing studied the world membrane beyond the Exquisite Realm Domain and compared it with other membranes to deepen his understanding of space.
• The Heavenly Demon Sword Master, Daoist Qingxu, and Chi Jinyu debated Dao in Qingping Dao Palace while Feng Jiuniang listened and learned.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Circulation of Heaven Star Array to suppress the Person in the Painting after provoking it by calling it a prisoner.
• Gu Yuanqing tested ways to enter the Boundless River and search for a Ten Thousand Dao Stone, but its currents consumed his avatar and his attempt to control its vital energy triggered a dangerous backlash.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled through the Cultivation World for several years, gaining insights from its landscapes, people, and strange phenomena.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Heaven's Gate Forbidden Zone and learned that spirit fiend rain had halted passage across Falling Star Plain toward the Spirit Realm.

Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City while waiting to travel toward the Spirit Realm and investigated a vendor’s supposed fragment of Old Man Heavenly Sword’s sword. He exposed the vendor and his accomplice as frauds, then secretly listened as they discussed targeting him.

• Gu Yuanqing found that the Tianya Inn had no rooms available, and he noticed that Zhao Yunting of the Myriad Manifestations Sect cultivated the Formless Heart Sutra.
• Gu Yuanqing wandered through Wangxiang City and stopped at Song Tianrui’s stall to examine a sword fragment claimed to have belonged to Old Man Heavenly Sword.
• Gu Yuanqing recognized that Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping were working together and said he wanted to know where they had nurtured the fragment.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping packed up and left, then discussed whether to rob Gu Yuanqing and decided to watch him first.
• Gu Yuanqing stood beside them unseen and listened as they unknowingly revealed their plans, leaving both men startled by what they had said.

Gu Yuanqing caught Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping plotting against him, forced them to guide him to their Weapon-Nurturing Ground, and stopped them when they tried to flee. As Qi Yingchen of the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land arrived to beg his forgiveness, observers at the Tianya Inn wondered why he had come down the mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing used his concealed heavenly human realm to suppress Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping after hearing them plot to rob him, then demanded they guide him to their Weapon-Nurturing Ground once the spirit fiend rain stopped.
• Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City and tested the spirit fiend rain, judging that the Sword Scar’s power could help him break through his cultivation shackles.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping secretly left Wangxiang City, but Gu Yuanqing transported them back from a thousand li away and reprimanded them for trying to escape.
• Qi Yingchen of the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land knocked at Gu Yuanqing’s courtyard and apologized for failing to welcome him; Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping realized their captor was an immensely powerful cultivator.
• At the Tianya Inn, Ji Chang told Zhao Yunting that he had seen Qi Yingchen descend from the mountain, and Zhao Yunting wondered what had happened.

Gu Yuanqing explored Wangxiang City, met cultivators from the Myriad Manifestations Sect, and listened to a zither performance that helped him contemplate the yin-yang dao. After repeatedly crossing paths with Zhao Yunting and Ji Chang, he was asked to give his name, leaving their acquaintance poised to begin.

• Qi Yingchen visited Gu Yuanqing, offered him a place on the Mountain, and gave him a token; Gu Yuanqing declined the offer and sent Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping away after warning them to guide him when the spirit fiend rain stopped.
• Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting spotted Gu Yuanqing outside his inn, and Zhao Yunting sensed something unusual about him as Gu Yuanqing headed to the Azure Luan Workshop.
• Gu Yuanqing listened to a Yin Yang Sect cultivator play the zither, contemplated the yin-yang dao, and declined her invitation to meet, identifying her sect through the drink she served.
• The veiled woman told her green-skirted Maid that her dao heart had reached Perfection and that she planned to enter the Spirit Realm and undergo the yin-yang Calamity.
• Zhao Yunting and Ji Chang met Gu Yuanqing again in the market ward, introduced themselves, and asked for his name.

Gu Yuanqing met Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting of the Myriad Manifestations Sect, discussed Li Miaoxuan’s past, and shared insights that helped the two cultivators understand their cultivation more deeply. After learning Zhao Yunting’s birth year, Gu Yuanqing suspected they might be the same age and wondered whether their meeting was connected to the karma he sensed.

• Gu Yuanqing accepted Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting’s invitation to share tea and talk about overseas lands.
• Ji Chang recounted rumors that Li Miaoxuan had refused a marriage alliance because she was already married with a child, and Gu Yuanqing was shaken by what he heard.
• Gu Yuanqing explained how Heavenly Change cultivators could guide tribulation power to refine their inner worlds, earning the respect of Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting.
• Gu Yuanqing learned that Zhao Yunting was born in year 6792 of the Qixuan Era and suspected they were the same age.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled Li Miaoxuan saying they had met before and decided he might learn the truth by asking her in person.

Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting concluded that Gu Yuanqing was likely a Yin-Yang Great Cultivator, while Zhao Yunting privately suspected Gu Yuanqing had guided him through questions tied to his cultivation. After the spirit fiend rain stopped, Gu Yuanqing set out across Falling Star Plain in Song Tianrui’s Bronze Chariot, studying its formations and collecting a meteorite, and the group approached nightfall in the dangerous mist.

• Ji Chang and Zhao Yunting discussed Gu Yuanqing’s mastery of the Yin-Yang Dao, and Zhao Yunting reflected on Gu Yuanqing’s personal guidance and the trust he felt toward him.
• After the spirit fiend rain ended and the mist began to thin, Qi Yingchen asked whether Gu Yuanqing would travel to the Spirit Realm, but Gu Yuanqing kept to his original plans.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, and Song Tianrui transformed his compact Bronze Chariot into a spacious carriage and offered Gu Yuanqing its spirit formula.
• Gu Yuanqing rode in the Bronze Chariot across Falling Star Plain, examining its spatial formations and learning about the mist’s effect on divine sense.
• Gu Yuanqing retrieved a piece of extraterrestrial meteorite gold from the mist and stored it away.
• As darkness approached, Song Tianrui asked Gu Yuanqing whether they should spend the night at a nearby safe place while several cultivators headed in that direction.

Gu Yuanqing and his companions sheltered overnight in a Mysterious Vault Stone Hall, where Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping encountered their old enemy Sha Tongtian. The next morning, Sha Tongtian challenged them outside, and Gu Yuanqing spoke up to intervene, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Song Tianrui brought Gu Yuanqing and Gu Chengping to a Mysterious Vault Stone Hall as nightfall spread sha qi across the Falling Star Plain.
• Gu Yuanqing noticed a scar-faced Heavenly Human cultivator in the hall while Song Tianrui replenished the Mystic Tortoise Spirit Infusion Formation with spirit stones.
• Sha Tongtian arrived with his nephew, recognized Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, and threatened to settle their old grievances, but held back inside the hall.
• The scar-faced cultivator's glance silenced Sha Tongtian when he began discussing his powerful brother, and the night passed without further incident.
• The next morning, Sha Tongtian taunted Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping outside the hall and prepared to attack, prompting Gu Yuanqing to say they were serving as his guides.

Gu Yuanqing forced Sha Tongtian to abandon his pursuit of Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, then led them onward across the Falling Star Plain. After seven days, he ordered them to keep traveling despite an approaching Spirit Fiend Rain, and the Bronze Chariot entered the storm.

• Gu Yuanqing warned Sha Tongtian not to attack Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping while they served him, and his overwhelming presence made Sha Tongtian retreat with Zhou Lichuan.
• Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping thanked Gu Yuanqing, then drove the Bronze Chariot away from the stone hall.
• Over the following days, Gu Yuanqing collected materials while Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping guided the chariot between Mysterious Vault Stone Halls across the Falling Star Plain.
• After seven days, Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping warned that Spirit Fiend Rain was approaching and urged Gu Yuanqing to divert to a nearby stone hall, but he ordered them to continue.
• The Spirit Fiend Rain reached the Bronze Chariot sooner than expected, and Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping drove it into the rain while pushing its protective Formation to its limit.

Gu Yuanqing used the Bronze Chariot’s power to shield the group from the Spirit Fiend Rain and carried Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping to the Mysterious Vault Stone Hall. After they left the next morning, the chariot suddenly stopped roughly five thousand li later.

• The Spirit Fiend Rain nearly overwhelmed the Bronze Chariot’s barrier, but Gu Yuanqing strengthened it with a glasslike shield that resisted the downpour.
• The Dragon Steeds transformed into red and white flood dragons, and Gu Yuanqing drove the chariot through the storm while Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping recovered.
• Gu Yuanqing brought the group to the Mysterious Vault Stone Hall, where more than twenty cultivators, including three heavenly humans, noticed his arrival and recognized him as a powerful cultivator.
• Gu Yuanqing chose an out-of-the-way place to rest without asking anyone to give up their spot, while the cultivators kept quiet about the treasure they were seeking.
• The next morning, Gu Yuanqing left the stone hall with Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping, but the Bronze Chariot abruptly halted after traveling roughly five thousand li.

Gu Yuanqing traveled through the Star Fiend Miasma and located the hidden Seven Luminaries Profound Mansion, then led Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping to Song’s Weapon-Nurturing Ground near the Void Sea. There, Gu Yuanqing’s sword intent revealed Old Man Heavenly Sword’s Finger Mark, and its resonance clarified the path to his breakthrough into void immortality.

• Song Tianrui told Gu Yuanqing about the rumored Seven Luminaries Profound Mansion, and Gu Yuanqing’s Bronze Chariot crossed the dangerous Star Fiend Miasma to locate its hidden entrance.
• Gu Yuanqing postponed entering the cave abode and continued with Song Tianrui and Gu Chengping toward the Weapon-Nurturing Ground near the Void Sea.
• Song Tianrui gave Gu Yuanqing directions through the shifting space, and Gu Yuanqing used his sword intent to find the concealed route.
• Gu Yuanqing’s sword intent awakened the Sword Scars along a cliff and revealed the Finger Mark that recorded Old Man Heavenly Sword’s breakthrough to void immortality.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the Finger Mark, and the insights clarified obscure parts of Old Man Heavenly Sword’s legacy and the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Dao.