Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing met Lingxu Sect Master Ye Zhenghong, learned that the Illusory Annihilation Demon Mother threatened Lingxiao City, and cautiously ventured beyond the Space Rift. Finding that the Heavenly Angling Technique still connected him to his true body, he hunted nearby Heavenly Demons for their Mental Power before returning to find Xue Yunya waiting.

• Gu Yuanqing received the Myriad Laws Hub’s supplies from Xue Yunya and spoke with the injured Ye Zhenghong, who explained that the Illusory Annihilation Demon Mother had attacked cultivators near Lingxiao City.
• Ye Zhenghong warned Gu Yuanqing that the Demon Mother was exceptionally dangerous, but Gu Yuanqing said he would not act recklessly.
• Gu Yuanqing explored the Space Rift and discovered that his connection to his true body and the Heavenly Angling Technique remained intact beyond the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing killed a Yin-Yang Level Heavenly Demon and refined its power into Mental Power, strengthening his divine soul.
• Gu Yuanqing hunted more Heavenly Demons for three two-hour periods, then returned through the Space Rift and saw Xue Yunya waiting by Taixu City’s protective barrier.

Gu Yuanqing returned from the space rift near Taixu City, delivered supplies to Sunrise City, and purged the nearby void of Heavenly Demons. After confirming the area was clear, he headed toward Lingxiao City, where a chaos heaven immortal level demonic beast had appeared.

• Gu Yuanqing told Xue Yunya that few Heavenly Demons remained near Taixu City’s rift, then gave him a Command Token and set out for Sunrise City.
• Gu Yuanqing delivered the Myriad Laws Hub’s supplies to Wu Ruoyu and Gong Feiyang, learned that Heavenly Demon activity at Sunrise City had increased, and gave Wu Ruoyu a Command Token.
• Gu Yuanqing crossed Sunrise City’s space rift and destroyed the Heavenly Demons around it with Sword Qi and chaos heaven vital fire.
• Gu Yuanqing returned through the rift, greeted Wu Ruoyu, and flew toward Lingxiao City while killing and refining scattered Heavenly Demons along the way.

Gu Yuanqing reached Lingxiao City, found the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother beyond its space rift, and fought through her illusions and fleeing manifestations. He realized she was luring him away and exhausting his strength because she had chosen him as her prey.

• Gu Yuanqing concealed a Command Token in a meteorite, then approached Lingxiao City and saw it besieged by heavenly demons.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the space rift and discovered the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother feeding on the desire of ensnared heavenly demons.
• The Illusion Cloud Demon Mother caught Gu Yuanqing in an illusion and sent a demonic tide and two shattering heaven heavenly demons against him, but he broke through with his Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression.
• Gu Yuanqing resisted the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother's illusions, struck at her apparent forms, and burned the surrounding heavenly demons with chaos heaven vital fire.
• The Illusion Cloud Demon Mother repeatedly scattered her aura and used illusions to conceal her escape, while Gu Yuanqing sensed that she was draining his strength and targeting him.

Gu Yuanqing lured the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother into invading his body, then used the Heavenly Angling Technique and North Spring Grotto-Heaven to trap her and the Heavenly Demons in a drop of essence blood for refinement. After beginning to harvest their power, he sent an avatar toward Lingxiao City, where he started clearing the Heavenly Demons surrounding it.

• Gu Yuanqing pursued the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother through the Outer Void, pretending to weaken until she gathered her forces and attacked his body and divine soul.
• After seven days of resistance, Gu Yuanqing lured the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother's true origin devil soul into his sea of consciousness and revealed his trap.
• Gu Yuanqing empowered his avatar with his true body's strength, briefly restrained the Illusion Cloud Demon Mother, and transferred her and the invading Heavenly Demons into North Spring Grotto-Heaven within a drop of essence blood.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the trapped Heavenly Demons into spiritual power, then sent another avatar toward Lingxiao City while continuing the refinement.
• Gu Yuanqing emerged from a meteor and headed for Lingxiao City, slaying wandering Heavenly Demons along the way and cutting down more of them outside the city with the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression.

Gu Yuanqing arrived at besieged Lingxiao City and annihilated the surrounding heavenly demons, then returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven to refine Illusion Cloud Demon Mother and meditate. After resuming his role in Lingxiao City, he was drawn into the Xuanqiong Myriad Phenomena Mysterious Light Realm through its aura imprint.

• Nan Yunxi and Wang Haoran worried that Lingxiao City might fall before the Calamity Suppression Alliance sent help, then spotted a powerful cultivator approaching.
• Gu Yuanqing used Calamity Suppression, Four Phases Rotation to destroy the heavenly demons surrounding Lingxiao City, and Wang Haoran and Nan Yunxi recognized him as a likely ally of Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing declined a welcoming banquet, handed over resources, and secretly slaughtered the heavenly demons around the nearby space rift before withdrawing to a secluded cave abode.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven, merged his avatars' divine souls, refined Illusion Cloud Demon Mother, and meditated on their memories and experiences.
• After returning to Lingxiao City as an avatar, Gu Yuanqing touched the Xuanqiong Myriad Phenomena Mysterious Light Realm's aura imprint and was drawn into the mirror.

Gu Yuanqing joined a major expedition to hunt the Filth Plague Mother in the Outer Realm, where the cultivators planned to use Lu Jiuming as bait and strike once the demon was located. After they slipped through the space rift and began tracking Lu, Gu Yuanqing asked Ji Shan where the heavenly demons had come from.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji briefed the gathered leaders on threats across the boundary domains, and Miaoyin Tiannv identified three possible targets for a coordinated strike.
• The leaders chose the Filth Plague Mother near Great Settlement Realm City and arranged additional resources before scheduling the expedition for seven days later.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to Lingxiao City, visited the injured Ye Zhenghong in Taixu City, and later assured Ji Shan he would protect him during the operation.
• Lu Jiuming was assigned to act as bait while Gu Yuanqing and Han Jingshan formed the main assault force, with Ji Shan and other cultivators preparing the formation.
• At Taiyi City, Zen Master Wuneng drew the nearby heavenly demons into chaos, allowing Lu Jiuming to slip through the rift and search for the Filth Plague Mother; the rest of the party followed aboard Heavenly Lord Xuanji's concealed Flying Shuttle.
• As they waited in the Outer Realm, Gu Yuanqing asked Ji Shan where the heavenly demons had originated.

Lu Jiuming’s attempt to lure the Filth Plague Mother to a prepared formation went awry when the Shattering Star Eye Demon joined the pursuit. With the formation still incomplete, Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fought off the two demons while Heavenly Lord Xuanji and Ji Shan hurried to finish it.

• Lu Jiuming confirmed the Filth Plague Mother’s true body and signaled Heavenly Lord Xuanji to begin setting up the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array.
• On the fifth day of the formation’s construction, Lu Jiuming raced toward the formation site with the Filth Plague Mother and the Shattering Star Eye Demon pursuing him.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Gu Yuanqing, and Han Jingshan chose to fight despite the incomplete formation, which needed at least four more hours.
• Gu Yuanqing and Han Jingshan blocked Lu Jiuming from reaching the formation, then joined him in battling the demons and their accompanying horde.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji and Ji Shan continued rushing to complete the formation as the three cultivators held the demons back.

Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming lured the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye into the completed Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array and helped trap them. As the formation began refining the demons, the cultivators sensed new threats in several directions, and Xuanji Daojun warned that they were in serious trouble.

• Han Jingshan used the Myriad Transformations Sword Lotus to break the heavenly demons’ domain after Lu Jiuming nearly fled under their illusions.
• Gu Yuanqing deployed the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression, and the three cultivators retreated toward the formation once it was complete.
• Ji Shan activated the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array, trapping the heavenly demons and their source imprints within a vast cage.
• Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming entered the array cores and helped hold back the demons’ counterattacks while the formation compressed them.
• After more than half a day, the cultivators stabilized the formation and withdrew, leaving it to refine the trapped demons.
• Gu Yuanqing, Han Jingshan, and Xuanji Daojun sensed danger in multiple directions, and Xuanji Daojun warned that serious trouble was approaching.

Han Jingshan, Gu Yuanqing, and Heavenly Lord Xuanji guarded the formation refining the Filth Plague Mother and the Star Shattering Demon Eye while fighting a growing army of heavenly demons in the Outer Void. After weeks of battle and mounting exhaustion, Gu Yuanqing became the group’s mainstay, but a new Chaos Heaven Deathless Great Demon arrived as the fighting continued.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji chose to hold their position while the Spirit Locking Demon Refining Array completed its month-long refinement, and Han Jingshan and Gu Yuanqing agreed to fight.
• Han Jingshan engaged the Formless Shadow Demon, Gu Yuanqing charged into the Blood Sea Demon Lord’s blood sea, and Heavenly Lord Xuanji trapped the Nine-Headed Demon Owl in an array.
• The heavenly demons’ numbers and attacks increased over the following days, draining the cultivators as they defended the formation; Lu Jiuming recovered and joined Han Jingshan against the Formless Shadow Demon.
• As the four cultivators formed a Four Symbols array, Gu Yuanqing took the lead and helped the others recover, but their defensive perimeter continued to shrink.
• An enormous Bone Demon assembled from countless creatures’ bones arrived and brought its palm crashing down on the battlefield.

Gu Yuanqing and the exhausted cultivators suppressed the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye, then fled as the remaining great demons pursued them through the Outer Lands. Gu Yuanqing stayed behind to cover the others’ retreat, facing the four immortal-level demons alone with plans to use hidden methods against them.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fought off the Bone Demon and other demons while Gu Yuanqing maintained the failing sword formation.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji announced that the Filth Plague Mother and Star Shattering Demon Eye had been sealed in the Demon Refining Treasure Bottle, and the cultivators escaped through a gap opened by a Thunderstrike Bead.
• After three days of pursuit, Heavenly Lord Xuanji offered to stay behind, but Gu Yuanqing volunteered instead and asked the others to protect Li Miaoxuan and the Qingping Dao Palace disciples.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming promised support for Gu Yuanqing’s connections and continued toward the space rift as he blocked the pursuing demons.
• Gu Yuanqing faced the four immortal-level demons alone and considered using hidden methods to kill and refine one of them.

Gu Yuanqing held off four Chaos Heaven Immortal Level demonic beasts while Heavenly Lord Xuanji and the others escaped, using the battle to deepen his understanding of the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao. Once they were safely away, he unleashed his true strength and trapped the demons in the Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Formation, leaving them to realize he was a Void Immortal.

• Gu Yuanqing used his avatars to block the Nine-Headed Demon Owl and Formless Shadow Demon while Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, Han Jingshan, and Lu Jiuming fled.
• Gu Yuanqing sent another avatar to face the Blood Sea Demon Lord, whose blood sea fed the avatar's Chaos Heaven Vital Fire, and a fourth avatar confronted the Bone Demon.
• Gu Yuanqing replenished his avatars from his true body in North Spring Grotto-Heaven and used the Heavenly Demon Sword Dao to intensify the demons' greed and blunt their vigilance.
• After confirming Xuanji Daojun and the others had escaped, Gu Yuanqing arranged his four avatars in the Circulation of Heaven Star Array and revealed his true body's aura.
• Gu Yuanqing expanded his sword formation across more than thirty thousand li, suppressing the four demons and disrupting their attempts to flee.
• The four demonic beasts panicked and recognized that Gu Yuanqing was a Void Immortal, not a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level cultivator.

Gu Yuanqing trapped four Heavenly Demons in his sword domain, destroyed the Myriad Bone Demon, and captured much of the others’ demonic thoughts for refining. Meanwhile, the Calamity Suppression Alliance feared the expedition had gone wrong, but its members finally received word that the demon hunters had returned.

• The four Heavenly Demons tried to flee Gu Yuanqing’s sword domain, then attacked together and self-destructed to give their origin demonic thoughts a chance to escape.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the explosion, destroyed the Myriad Bone Demon, and captured most of the Blood Sea Demon Lord’s, Formless Shadow Demon’s, and Nine-Headed Demon Owl’s demonic thoughts.
• Gu Yuanqing spent half a month refining the captured demonic thoughts, then killed an approaching group of low-level Heavenly Demons when the Nine-Headed Demon Owl tried to rescue a fragment.
• Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Lu Jiuming, Ji Shan, and the others reached the space rift, where the Calamity Suppression Alliance was anxiously awaiting news.
• A figure appeared at the rift and announced that the seniors who had gone demon hunting beyond the realm had returned, drawing the Spirit Venerable and other cultivators to the entrance.

After the others escaped, Gu Yuanqing refined the trapped demons in the Outer Lands, strengthened his sword mastery, and withdrew into seclusion to prepare for the Primordial Divine Sect. The Spirit Venerable honored Gu Yuanqing’s sacrifice and announced how the pills made from the captured demons would be distributed.

• Heavenly Lord Xuanji and the other returning cultivators reported that Gu Yuanqing had stayed behind to cover their retreat against six Chaos Heaven Deathless Great Demons.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the scattered demonic thoughts, deepened his Four Phases Sword of Calamity Suppression Dao, and pulled the contained region of space into North Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Yuanqing chose not to return to the Xuanqiong Realm and entered seclusion to turn the demons’ power into greater divine soul strength and Dao attainment.
• The Spirit Venerable announced that the two captured demons could yield sixteen Top-Tier Spirit-Nurturing Pills and proposed granting Gu Yuanqing two of each pill for his sacrifice.

The Calamity Suppression Alliance debated Gu Yuanqing’s compensation and ordered its realm-city defenses maintained while the heavenly demons remained mysteriously absent. Ji Shan searched for Qian Yuan Island, encountered Qiu Weifeng surviving his tribulation, and exposed that he had followed Qiu Weifeng’s avatar to the island, where Gu Yuanqing greeted him.

• Li Youhe, Zhao Shengbing, and others argued that Gu Yuanqing should receive fewer pills, but Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Xiao Lingyue, and Heavenly Lord Ji Mie supported awarding him one Supreme Return-to-Quiescence Pill and two Nine Revolutions Returning to True Pills.
• The Spirit Venerable ordered the alliance to keep defending its realm cities and search for the missing deathless heavenly demons, while rumors spread that Gu Yuanqing’s avatar had been devoured.
• Ye Zhenghong emerged from seclusion and decided to inform the Lingxu Sect about Gu Yuanqing’s loss without disturbing Miaoxuan.
• Ji Shan received pills and set out to ask Gu Yuanqing what his avatar had sensed before it perished.
• After searching for more than ten years, Ji Shan found Qiu Weifeng surviving his Seven-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and followed him toward Qian Yuan Island.
• Qiu Weifeng sent an avatar ahead to the island, but Ji Shan appeared beside it, and Gu Yuanqing greeted him from within the formation.

Ji Shan visited Gu Yuanqing to deliver the Calamity Suppression Alliance’s rewards, while Gu Yuanqing concealed what had truly happened in the outer realm. The Qian Yuan Sect and Qingping Dao Palace continued to develop, but movement in the Dao Source Forbidden Land hinted at a new disturbance.

• Ji Shan praised Li Chengyi and gave him a Primordial Unity Formation Disk, then delivered Gu Yuanqing pills and merit from the Calamity Suppression Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing accepted the alliance’s compensation but returned Ji Shan’s extra pill, asking him instead to look after Qian Yuan Sect disciples in the future.
• After Ji Shan left, Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that he had only pretended to lose his avatar to avoid scrutiny from the Demonic Sects.
• Li Miaoxuan learned that Gu Yuanqing’s avatar had supposedly perished in the outer realm and told Mu Chuxia that she trusted him.
• Gu Yuanqing appointed Qiu Weifeng, who had disbanded the Heavenly Demon Cult, as the Qingping Dao Palace’s Transmission Elder.
• Years later, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle resumed its journey with Qian Yuan Island, and Gu Yuanqing sensed movement in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Li Lingyun’s request to help free his true body and continued building his strength while the Qian Yuan Realm expanded its influence. As the Primordial Divine Sect struggled with its sealed plans, signs of a loosening seal emerged in the Demon Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing refused to cooperate with Li Lingyun, who left with the transformed Ye Xuanxiao, now allied with him.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to cultivating the Great Void Creation Wheel as his strength and North Spring Grotto-Heaven continued to grow.
• The Qian Yuan Realm spread its influence throughout the Exquisite Realm Domain while the Primordial Divine Sect’s elders watched their former territories turn toward it.
• Mu Tianheng warned Lei Fuyue against defying the patriarchs and later offered Li Lingyun a drop of true demon blood in exchange for his cooperation.
• Lie Shanyu learned that seventy-one large incidents had occurred and concluded that a seal had loosened somewhere.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating in seclusion while conflicts stirred across the realms, and he cautiously observed strange changes in the Demon Realm. When Lie Shanyi invited him to a gathering at Demon God Mountain, Gu Yuanqing rejected the summons and sent the messenger’s flying boat tumbling away.

• Xing Linyuan reported that investigations had found no demonic qi leaking from the Underground Cave, and Lie Shanyu ordered him to keep searching and summoned the Demon Realm’s leaders to Demon God Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in North Spring Grotto-Heaven, refined his understanding of his system-granted abilities, and gave Li Miaoxuan two pills before they explored several realms and discussed the Dao together.
• After Li Miaoxuan returned to Lingmiao Blessed Land, Gu Yuanqing observed a clash involving forbidden lands and later sensed that the Underground Cave’s demonic qi and the Red Moon had changed during a battle in the Demon Realm.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor and the Demon Phoenix reported their unease to Gu Yuanqing, who reassured them but privately suspected that the Demon Realm’s changes were tied to secrets deep within the Underground Cave.
• Lie Shanyi arrived to invite Gu Yuanqing to Demon God Mountain, but Gu Yuanqing refused and sent a powerful gale that hurled the flying boat far away.
• Lie Shanyi recognized that Gu Yuanqing could kill him with ease and ordered Divine General Wei Qin to return to Demon God Mountain.

Lie Shanyu suspected Gu Yuanqing was connected to the True Demon and persuaded the races to activate the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror. As its light swept across the Demon Realm and approached North Spring Grotto-Heaven, Gu Yuanqing watched it draw near.

• Lie Shanyu and Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had obtained a True Demon's power and ordered a renewed investigation into the Dragon Demon Realm.
• Lie Shanyi found that demonic qi and unrest had surged in the Dragon Demon Realm after Gu Yuanqing appeared, so Lie Shanyu ordered the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror prepared and gave Lie Shanyi ancestral true blood to help him break through.
• Lie Shanyu called the Myriad Races Conclave and persuaded the Demon Emperor, the Barbarian Emperor, the Asura King, and the other races to join in activating the mirror.
• A year later, the races invoked their ancestral god imprints, and the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror released a vast beam of purifying light across the Demon Realm.
• The mirror's light reached the Dragon Demon Realm, where the Dragon Demon Ancestor and Demon Phoenix feared the sudden sun, while Gu Yuanqing sensed it approaching from North Spring Grotto-Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing watched the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror probe North Spring Grotto-Heaven, while Lie Shanyu used it to hunt the True Demon Incarnation and investigate the realms. After the mirror exposed Shadow and forced him deep underground, Lie Shanyu finally confronted Gu Yuanqing at North Spring Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing blocked the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror from penetrating North Spring Grotto-Heaven, and Lie Shanyu failed to uncover the mountain’s secrets.
• Lie Shanyu discovered that the Demon Emperor and the Barbarian Emperor used their powers to shield their territories from the mirror’s probing.
• Shadow fled the mirror’s purifying light underground, where it badly wounded him before dense Demonic Qi and earth-vein forces weakened the beam.
• Lie Shanyu located Shadow and sent Lie Shanyi and the other Divine Kings to capture or kill him, then continued the mirror’s sweep across the Human Lands and toward the Black Sea.
• Lie Shanyu directed the mirror to envelop the Dragon Demon Realm and demanded that Gu Yuanqing appear or face the forced destruction of North Spring Mountain’s Formation.
• Gu Yuanqing revealed himself atop North Spring Mountain and asked Lie Shanyu what he wanted.

Divine Emperor Lie Shanyu attacked Gu Yuanqing with the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror after Gu refused to let it inspect North Spring Grotto-Heaven. Gu discovered that the solar True Fire could nourish the grotto-heaven’s Extreme Yang Dao, and as the fire enveloped the revealed mountain, he prepared to turn the assault to his advantage.

• Lie Shanyu demanded that Gu Yuanqing lower North Spring Grotto-Heaven’s defenses for an inspection, but Gu refused and warned him against attacking.
• Lie Shanyu unleashed the Great Sun Sky Patrol Mirror’s solar True Fire, and Gu raised a gigantic palm to block it.
• The clash spread scorching heat and fires across the Dragon Demon Realm, alarming Xiong Mo, Xiong Ba, Wu Ti, and the other distant observers.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the solar True Fire replenished North Spring Grotto-Heaven’s Extreme Yang Dao, so he let the fire stream through his palm and onto the grotto-heaven’s barrier.
• Lie Shanyu increased the mirror’s power, Gu’s palm collapsed, and solar True Fire enveloped North Spring Grotto-Heaven as the mountain emerged from the void.