Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan met Ling Yi at Wangxiang Pass and learned how the Demonic Calamity was weakening the Human Race. Gu Yuanqing asked for a map so he and Li Miaoxuan could venture deep into the Demon Land, and Ling Yi agreed to provide one within three days.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan waited at his courtyard near Wangxiang Pass, where Ling Yi came to meet them.
• Gu Yuanqing introduced Li Miaoxuan as his Dao Companion, and Ling Yi described the Demonic Calamity's toll and the Heavenly Demons' plan to corrode the Human Race's Dao Hearts.
• Gu Yuanqing asked whether the Nine Domains Divine Continent knew the location of Demon Lord Xuan You's lair, and Ling Yi explained that the precise depths of the Demon Land remained unknown.
• Gu Yuanqing said he planned to enter the Demon Land and requested an accurate map; Ling Yi agreed to deliver information about its depths and the Demon Abyss within three days.
• Li Miaoxuan chose to study the world's Great Dao while they waited, and Ling Yi returned to the Nine Heavens Sword Sect to order a disciple to compile the requested information.

Xuan Haoji asked Ling Yi to risk his life in a possible attempt to kill Demon Lord Xuan You, and Ling Yi agreed after Xuan Mingjin reported that Minister Li needed seven more days to emerge from seclusion. Meanwhile, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan prepared to venture into the Demon Land, where Gu Yuanqing intended to confront Xuan You and settle his debts.

• Xuan Haoji learned that Gu Yuanqing planned to venture to the Demon Abyss with his dao companion, whom Ling Yi suspected came from another world.
• Xuan Haoji asked Ling Yi whether he would die for a chance to kill Xuan You, and Ling Yi agreed to proceed after Minister Li needed at least seven more days in seclusion.
• Xuan Haoji urged Xuan Mingjin to reach the void immortal realm so he could qualify to succeed him.
• Li Miaoxuan continued advancing her cultivation while she and Gu Yuanqing hunted heavenly demons around the mountain, leaving the area near Wangxiang Pass unusually quiet.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan he planned to enter the Demon Land, wound Xuan You if possible, and repay his karmic debts before pursuing further cultivation.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan traveled into the Demon Land to probe Demon Lord Xuan You, while Ling Yi arranged for Liao Changyin to follow them. As they reached the depths of the Demon Land, Wujian repeatedly appeared through avatars, and Li Miaoxuan prepared to strike at him with the Silver Bracelet.

• Li Miaoxuan told Gu Yuanqing that heavenly demon origins would offer him little help at the Void Immortal Realm, and they discussed his prospects of breaking through.
• Ling Yi gave Gu Yuanqing a Jade Slip about the Demon Land and warned him about Demon Lord Xuan You, while secretly asking Liao Changyin to follow the pair.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan traveled deeper into the Demon Land, gathering fortune for the North Spring Town World Seal and noticing Liao Changyin following them.
• Gu Yuanqing wounded Liao Changyin with a sword formation when the latter emerged from hiding, then let him continue following as they pressed onward.
• Gu Yuanqing repeatedly destroyed Wujian's avatars, and Li Miaoxuan asked to use Gu Yuanqing's Way of Space to attack Wujian herself.
• Gu Yuanqing carried Li Miaoxuan to a valley where Wujian had appeared, and her Silver Bracelet flew out.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan hunted Demon King Wujian’s avatar, and Li Miaoxuan turned his desperate attempt to invade her mind into a chance to kill him and advance to the Peak of the Shattering Heaven realm. They continued through the Demon Abyss land together, where Li Miaoxuan later slew a chaos heaven deathless great demon while Demon Lord Xuan You ordered Wujian to keep watching Gu Yuanqing.

• Li Miaoxuan used the Nine Heavens Moonflow Chain to expose and restrain Demon King Wujian, while Gu Yuanqing pursued him through the void.
• Demon King Wujian burned his origin demonic thought and tried to possess Li Miaoxuan, but she revealed the Dragon Slaying Guillotine’s power and killed him, then meditated to stabilize her advancement.
• Liao Changyin approached from a distance, sensed Gu Yuanqing’s warning, and retreated without coming closer.
• In the Demon Abyss, Demon King Shiyue warned Wujian that further losses could ruin his demon seed, and Demon Lord Xuan You ordered Wujian to continue monitoring Gu Yuanqing.
• Li Miaoxuan awoke at the Peak of the Shattering Heaven realm and chose to travel onward with Gu Yuanqing instead of returning to North Spring Mountain.
• As they wandered through the demon land, Li Miaoxuan used her three true immortal artifacts to slay a chaos heaven deathless great demon, while Wujian watched from afar and Liao Changyin wondered why the demons let them roam freely.

Gu Yuanqing reached the Demon Abyss but was confronted by Zen Master Huijue and Xiao Wuyou, who claimed his advance would bring calamity. When Gu Yuanqing refused to turn back, Xiao Wuyou attacked and Huijue joined the fight, leaving Gu Yuanqing facing both Void Immortals.

• Gu Yuanqing sent Li Miaoxuan back to North Spring Grotto-Heaven after they traveled deep into the Demon Land and she had gained enough experience.
• Zen Master Huijue appeared before Gu Yuanqing and urged him not to approach the Demon Abyss, warning that his actions could cause a great calamity.
• Liao Changyin arrived and denounced Huijue for obstructing Gu Yuanqing, but Huijue sealed him with a Buddhist divine ability until Gu Yuanqing broke the domain with the Great Freedom Sword.
• Xiao Wuyou appeared and joined Huijue in opposing Gu Yuanqing, who refused to retreat and challenged them both.
• Xiao Wuyou attacked Gu Yuanqing with Forgetfulness Sword Intent, and Gu Yuanqing answered with the Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation.
• Huijue expanded his Immaculate Buddhist Kingdom to suppress Gu Yuanqing, who declared that he would fight both opponents.

Gu Yuanqing fought Xiao Wuyou and Zen Master Huijue after they blocked his journey to the Demon Abyss, then used the North Spring World Suppressing Seal and Heavenly Angling Technique to repeatedly wear them down. By the sixth attack, both opponents’ auras had weakened and their divine souls and dao foundations were damaged.

• Gu Yuanqing empowered his avatar and held off Xiao Wuyou and Zen Master Huijue while Liao Changyin and Ling Yi watched from a distance.
• Zen Master Huijue unleashed the Immaculate Buddhist Kingdom, and Xiao Wuyou used the Forgetfulness Heavenly Book to force Gu Yuanqing onto the defensive.
• Gu Yuanqing retreated and dropped the North Spring World Suppressing Seal on his pursuers, forcing Huijue and Xiao Wuyou to use their source power and damage their cultivation to resist.
• Gu Yuanqing vanished into the North Spring Grotto-Heaven, then reappeared through spatial anchors and repeatedly used the Heavenly Angling Technique to trap the two cultivators under the seal.
• Gu Yuanqing repeated the attack five times, leaving Huijue’s golden body cracked and Xiao Wuyou’s heavenly book nearly transparent.

Gu Yuanqing forced Xiao Wuyou to flee and spared Zen Master Huijue after hearing that entering the Demon Abyss might trigger a world-ending Calamity. He then pursued Demon King Wujian, captured his demonic thought, and learned that Wujian had finally realized Gu Yuanqing and his avatar were the same person.

• Xiao Wuyou fled while Zen Master Huijue delayed Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing pursued Xiao and forced him to spend more of his strength before returning to face Huijue.
• Zen Master Huijue warned Gu Yuanqing that entering the Demon Abyss could cause the great Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing withdrew his seal and let Huijue leave.
• Gu Yuanqing met Liao Changyin and asked him to report Huijue's warning to the Nine Domains Divine Continent, then set out to hunt more demons.
• Gu Yuanqing spotted Demon King Wujian, who escaped by shifting between demonic hosts, while Gu Yuanqing tracked him with a formation and pursued him through the Demon Land.
• Gu Yuanqing captured Wujian's demonic thought inside the North Spring Grotto-Heaven, where Wujian recognized that Gu Yuanqing and the person behind him were the same person.

Demon King Wujian realized Gu Yuanqing had severed an avatar’s connection to him and feared losing his Void Immortal rank, while Gu Yuanqing prepared hidden anchors in the Demon Land and returned to North Spring Grotto-Heaven to focus on cultivation. Over the following decades, Gu Yuanqing aided the Nine Domains Divine Continent through a resource exchange and brought Li Miaoxuan to North Spring Grotto-Heaven to undergo her chaos heaven immortal Calamity.

• Demon King Wujian lost contact with an avatar, feared his origin demonic seed would destabilize, and resolved to hide the loss from his lord.
• Gu Yuanqing established several concealed spatial anchors in the Demon Land, then used the Heavenly Angling Technique to return his avatar to North Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Yuanqing unified his divine soul and continued cultivating as the Qian Yuan Realm and its cultivators grew stronger; Su Yue'e underwent her yin-yang great Calamity.
• Twenty years later, Gu Yuanqing met Ling Yi at Homeward Pass and agreed to exchange resources with the Nine Domains Divine Continent.
• Gu Yuanqing completed the trade ten days later, receiving cultivation methods, elixir formulas, spirit elixirs, and medicinal herbs in return for resources.
• Sixteen years later, Gu Yuanqing brought Li Miaoxuan into North Spring Grotto-Heaven so she could face her chaos heaven immortal Calamity there.

Li Miaoxuan underwent the Chaos Immortal Calamity on North Spring Mountain and successfully became a chaos heaven immortal, while powerful figures in the Spirit Realm worried that her ascension would upset the balance between the Righteous and Demonic Paths. The chapter ended with the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle swallowing two Chaos-level Great Demons that had planned to ambush her.

• Gu Yuanqing explained the Chaos Immortal Calamity and the breakthrough to Li Miaoxuan, who then cultivated in seclusion on North Spring Mountain.
• Li Miaoxuan began her Calamity, and Venerable Nine Li suspected that the person undergoing it belonged to the Qingping Dao Palace but decided against intervening.
• The Spiritual Treasure Venerable told Ji Shan that someone was undergoing the Chaos Immortal Calamity and feared the Demonic Sects would resist the Righteous Path's growing strength.
• Li Miaoxuan calmly endured the Calamity and reached the chaos heaven immortal level.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle swallowed two Chaos-level Great Demons that had approached to ambush Li Miaoxuan.

Li Miaoxuan emerged from eight years of secluded cultivation after breaking through to the chaos heaven immortal level, while Gu Yuanqing remained stalled before the path to Void Immortal. The family reunited after Li Chengyi returned, though tension lingered between Gu Yuanqing and Li Haotian.

• Gu Yuanqing realized that the Spirit Realm's imperfect Heaven and Earth made it difficult for cultivators to reach true Perfection or advance to Void Immortal.
• Li Miaoxuan completed her breakthrough and discussed Gu Yuanqing's stalled progress and possible Dao paths with him.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan talked about Li Chengyi's long absence and Su Xin'er, whom they suspected was prompting Binglan to urge him to take a concubine.
• Li Chengyi returned three days later, and the family gathered together, while Li Haotian remained dissatisfied that Gu Yuanqing had never called him father-in-law.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Boundless River to seek the Ten Thousand Dao Stone, hoping it could reveal a path to the void immortal realm. After years of using the river’s ten thousand Daos to refine his own cultivation, he found the stone guarded by a powerful dragon-shaped Dao soul and prepared to face it.

• After discussing the Dao with Li Miaoxuan, Gu Yuanqing decided to seek the Ten Thousand Dao Stone rather than pursue other risky paths to becoming a void immortal.
• Gu Yuanqing sent nearly half his divine soul into the Ancient Realm, evaded the attention of its powers, and traveled upstream along the Boundless River.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the river and realized its countless interacting Daos could serve as a mirror for reconciling and perfecting his own Great Dao.
• After more than a dozen years of searching and cultivation, Gu Yuanqing found the Ten Thousand Dao Stone in a tranquil stretch of the river.
• A powerful dragon-shaped desolate-tier Dao soul guarded the stone and unleashed the river’s laws against Gu Yuanqing, who retreated and used his abilities to steady the surrounding Dao powers.

Gu Yuanqing captured the Dragon Soul and claimed the Ten Thousand Dao Stone from the Boundless River, using its Dao resonance to bring his cultivation to Perfection. He prepared the Qian Yuan Sect for the coming Void Immortal Tribulation, then revealed his full aura as he began to face it.

• Gu Yuanqing trapped the Dragon Soul in a divine-sense net, drew it into North Spring Grotto-Heaven, and subdued it after it lost the Boundless River's power.
• Gu Yuanqing took the Ten Thousand Dao Stone, whose insights helped him connect his Dao comprehensions and strengthen the foundations of his Heavenly Human World.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed the stone's Dao resonance, reached Perfection, and later told Li Shi'an to prepare the Qian Yuan Sect for his Void Immortal Tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Li Miaoxuan to observe the impending tribulation, and she returned to North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing activated his cultivation method, united his divine soul, physical body, and Dao Principle Imprints, and exposed his aura to the Cultivation World.

Gu Yuanqing began undergoing a terrifying Void Immortal Calamity, drawing the attention of powerful Demonic and Righteous Sect cultivators. As the Calamity’s layers battered his body, Heavenly Human World, and divine soul, he endured them and noticed the Demonic Venerable approaching.

• Gu Yuanqing released his aura, causing Calamity clouds to gather over Qian Yuan Island, while the Mountain Bearing Black Tortoise and nearby sea beasts avoided the danger.
• The Demonic Venerable sensed the Void Immortal Calamity, suspected it involved the Qingping Dao Palace, and set out for Canghai; other Demonic Sect experts followed.
• The Spiritual Treasure Dao Venerable tried to stop the Demonic Venerable, but the Demonic Venerable dismissed his warning and pierced through the void.
• After waiting three days, Gu Yuanqing endured the first two layers of the Calamity, using the Five Elements and yin-yang thunder to temper his body.
• The following Calamity layers attacked Gu Yuanqing’s Heavenly Human World and divine soul with dao laws, karmic fire, Guixu, and illusions, but he remained composed and stabilized his foundations.
• When the seventh Calamity descended, Gu Yuanqing noticed the Demonic Venerable in the distance, then focused again on surviving the Calamity.

Gu Yuanqing endured the eighth wave of the Void Immortal Tribulation while righteous and demonic cultivators gathered outside Qian Yuan Island and prepared to intervene. He condensed the true Dao source seed and became a Void Immortal, as the ninth wave began to gather and the Demon Venerable fixed its greedy gaze on him.

• The Demonic Venerable summoned six great Demonic Path cultivators with the Nine Emperor Banner, and Miaoyin Tiannv and Heavenly Lord Ji Mie tried to disrupt the tribulation.
• The Spirit Venerable, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, and Xiao Lingyue arrived to defend Qingping Dao Palace, creating a tense standoff between the righteous and demonic forces.
• The Demon Venerable appeared as a Nine-Headed Tiger, shifting the balance and intensifying the threat to the righteous cultivators.
• Within North Spring Grotto-Heaven, Gu Yuanqing endured the tribulation’s assaults and refined his body, divine soul, Dao principles, and will.
• Gu Yuanqing condensed the true Dao source seed and released the aura of a Void Immortal as the ninth wave of the tribulation gathered.
• The gathered cultivators recognized that Gu Yuanqing had survived the eighth wave, while the Demon Venerable eyed him with greed.

Gu Yuanqing endured the ninth heavenly Calamity and attained the void immortal realm, sensing the Great Dao River for the first time. As the Demonic Path attacked Qian Yuan Island, he sent a solidified phantom there while remaining on North Spring Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Object Control Art to absorb and refine all nine Calamity bolts, completing his transformation into a void immortal.
• The Calamity also tempered the North Spring World Suppressing Seal into a void immortal treasure, and Gu Yuanqing sensed the Great Dao River but could not find its source.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain ordered the Demonic Path to attack as soon as the Calamity ended, while Spiritual Treasure Dao Venerable, Xiao Lingyue, and Ji Shan tried to stop them.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle intercepted the Demon Venerable near Qian Yuan Island, and the two began fighting.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan to stay on North Spring Mountain, then sent a solidified phantom to Qian Yuan Island as Li Youhe approached on the Yellow Springs River.

Gu Yuanqing effortlessly defeated Li Youhe’s Netherworld techniques and trapped him in a sword domain, forcing the Netherworld Sect master to summon the Nether Dragon Town Nether Mirror. As the battle outside Qian Yuan Island intensified, Gu Yuanqing opened a scroll and spotted another opponent approaching.

• Li Youhe attacked Gu Yuanqing with Yellow Springs Crossing and the Myriad Ghosts Soul-Eating Banner, but Gu Yuanqing severed the river phantom and burned the ghosts with chaos heaven vital fire.
• Li Youhe opened the Nine Nether Gate and summoned an Underworld Yin Commander, Ghost Kings, and an army of yin soldiers, but Gu Yuanqing’s sword domain destroyed them and trapped Li Youhe.
• Li Youhe begged for mercy, then burned his origin essence and summoned the Nether Dragon Town Nether Mirror to fire a powerful beam at Gu Yuanqing.
• Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators sensed the mirror’s power but could not see through Gu Yuanqing’s sword domain; Han Jingshan refused to join the fight, while the Lord of Nine Li Mountain and the Demon Venerable remained held back by their opponents.
• Gu Yuanqing dismissed the mirror’s threat, remarked that one more had come to his death, and unfurled a scroll that transformed the surroundings into a night sky beneath a crescent moon.

After attaining void immortality, Gu Yuanqing effortlessly overpowered Li Youhe and Lu Jiuming, who had attacked him with their sects’ supreme treasures. As the fighting halted and the Righteous Path congratulated him, Gu Yuanqing turned his attention to the Demonic Sects and killed Lu Jiuming as he tried to flee.

• Lu Jiuming joined Li Youhe in attacking Gu Yuanqing with the Taiyin Soul Suppressing Heavenly Palace Diagram, but Gu Yuanqing stopped both treasures with his power as a Void Immortal.
• Gu Yuanqing shattered Li Youhe’s Nether Dragon Soul-Suppressing Mirror, forcing Li Youhe to flee badly weakened.
• Gu Yuanqing damaged Lu Jiuming’s treasure and struck him with the Great Annihilation Calamity Sword, leaving Lu Jiuming wounded as he fled and called for help.
• Li Youhe and Lu Jiuming revealed that Gu Yuanqing had attained void immortality, causing the fighting around Qian Yuan Island to falter.
• The Righteous Path cultivators congratulated Gu Yuanqing, while the Lord of Nine Li Mountain refused to stop the conflict.
• Gu Yuanqing promised the Demonic Path cultivators proper hospitality and exploded Lu Jiuming with the residual sword intent as he tried to escape.

Gu Yuanqing killed Lu Jiuming and struck his Taiyin Hall avatar, demonstrating the strength of his new Void Immortal realm. As the allied righteous cultivators watched from Qian Yuan Island, the Demonic Sects launched an all-out attack against him.

• Lu Jiuming repeatedly reconstructed his body to escape Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Intent, but the sword threads destroyed him and left Gu Yuanqing holding his five Dao Principle Imprints.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an Incense-and-Fire Nirvana Heavenly Saber through Lu Jiuming’s spiritual connection and severely wounded Yin Jiuming at the Taiyin Hall.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain persuaded the demonic experts to attack together, while Gu Yuanqing asked the Spirit Venerable, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, Ji Shan, and the others to watch from Qian Yuan Island.
• Li Miaoxuan welcomed the visiting cultivators, and Ji Shan realized she was Gu Yuanqing’s Dao companion.
• The Lord of Nine Li Mountain began the assault by summoning swarms of venomous insects, beasts, and flood dragons as sacrificial offerings, while the other demonic cultivators unleashed their strongest methods.

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed the demonic cultivators who attacked during his tribulation, killing Li Youhe’s body and forcing the survivors to reveal their strongest trump cards. Facing six Void Immortal-level powers at once, he finally recognized that their combined attack could threaten his dharma body.

• Gu Yuanqing used the Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation and his sword arts to break the demonic cultivators’ attacks and severely injure them.
• Li Youhe tried to escape inside the Immortal Burial Coffin, but Gu Yuanqing shattered the coffin and killed him before a Precious Mirror appeared to protect and restore him.
• The Demonic Venerable summoned a Witch Ancestor Dharma Form with the Nine Emperor Banner, and the Lord of Nine Li Mountain merged with it to attack Gu Yuanqing alongside the Nine-Headed Demon Venerable.
• Li Youhe, Miaoyin Tiannv, Heavenly Lord Ji Mie, and Zhao Shengbing each burned their origins or dao imprints to unleash powerful treasures and attacks against Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing faced six Void Immortal-level powers whose combined assault threatened his dharma body and could shake the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle’s defenses.

Gu Yuanqing stabilized his Void Immortal power while his Dharma Body fought the Spirit Realm demonic cultivators, overwhelming them with spatial techniques. After the enemies gathered beneath his true immortal artifact, he unleashed its full power to suppress them, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Gu Yuanqing used Mountain Observation empowerment to deepen his understanding of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, then sent more power into his Dharma Body through the Heavenly Angling Technique.
• Gu Yuanqing used spatial arts to turn the attackers' combined strikes against Zhao Shengbing, gravely wounding him, then shattered Heavenly Lord Ji Mie's arm and Dao Burying Bell.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Heavenly Lord Ji Mie again, destroying his defenses and body, while the Nine-Headed Demon Venerable also suffered a devastating attack.
• Li Youhe urged the demonic cultivators to gather around the Demonic Venerable, and the wounded enemies abandoned their plan to kill Gu Yuanqing and focused on survival.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned his true immortal great seal and pinned the gathered enemies beneath it, while the Demonic Venerable shattered his Bone Scepter and tried in vain to hold the seal up.