Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan confronted the Primordial Divine Sect as Wei Zhao used the Ancient Realm to overlap with the Qian Yuan Realm and launch an invasion. The Great Qian Dynasty mobilized to defend its people, while Wei Zhao disappeared and the battle remained unresolved.

• Li Miaoxuan attacked Li Huang and the Primordial Divine Sect with the Dragon Slaying Guillotine, while Gu Yuanqing struck the Blood Formation and clashed with Wei Zhao's Gui Cang Hall.
• Gu Yuanqing used his World Master authority to shield the Qian Yuan Realm from the Ancient Realm's influence and restore the dazed cultivators.
• Wei Zhao revealed that he meant to overlap the Ancient Realm with the Qian Yuan Realm, bringing Feng Yue, Zhou Wei, and the Ancient Realm's armies into view above it.
• Feng Yue ordered the Ancient Realm soldiers to attack, and their troops and cultivators descended into the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Li Guanrong refused to retreat, rallied the Great Qian forces, and activated the Five Directions Great Formation as Li Miaoxuan recognized how badly the realm was outmatched.
• Gu Yuanqing understood Wei Zhao's plan, but Wei Zhao vanished with the Gui Cang Hall while the invasion continued.

Gu Yuanqing used the Qian Yuan Realm’s power to hold back the Great Wei Divine Dynasty’s invading cultivators and their endless yin souls, while Zhou Wei and Feng Yue tried to force him to use the Great Void Creation Wheel. After half a month of fighting, Gu Yuanqing still had not found Gui Cang Hall, and Li Miaoxuan warned that they might have to abandon the Exquisite Realm Domain.

• Gu Yuanqing unleashed sword qi throughout the Qian Yuan Realm, annihilating the Great Wei cultivators as the Qian Yuan Realm’s people watched in awe.
• The dead Great Wei cultivators and soldiers transformed into yin souls, and the Ancient Realm army panicked as its members remembered that they had died long ago.
• Feng Yue and Zhou Wei discussed Gu Yuanqing’s strength and agreed that the invasion was meant to compel him to use the Great Void Creation Wheel.
• Gu Yuanqing spent half a month killing a seemingly endless stream of yin souls while the Qian Yuan Realm’s inhabitants worried that he might eventually tire.
• Li Miaoxuan warned Gu Yuanqing that the full moon might revive the slain yin souls and that the Great Wei Divine Dynasty was trying to wear him down; Gu Yuanqing said he still could not locate Gui Cang Hall.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the North Spring Realm retained the spirituality it gained by absorbing the Yin Spirit auras of slain Ancient Realm inhabitants, and he began harvesting more of those auras. As the Ancient Realm's cultivators gradually lost memories through repeated deaths, Feng Yan charged into the sword qi, while Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan watched the Ancient Realm's power weaken and heard an angry roar from its phantom.

• Gu Yuanqing confirmed that the North Spring Realm's newly gained spirituality did not disappear on a full moon, then began drawing in more Yin Spirit auras after each kill.
• Over time, the North Spring Realm grew more vibrant as Gu Yuanqing continued absorbing the auras, while the Ancient Realm's repeated deaths eroded its inhabitants' memories.
• Feng Yue and Zhou Wei realized that they and other Great Wei cultivators were forgetting their pasts, and Zhou Wei concluded that Gu Yuanqing had finally made his move.
• Feng Yan told Feng Yue it was his turn to act, then plunged into the sword qi and died; Feng Yue feared his son might not recognize him after returning.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that the Ancient Realm's power had weakened by about thirty percent, and they heard someone roar "Fools!" from the shaking Ancient Realm phantom.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Ancient Realm’s Yin souls might all be avatars of one person and that their assault could be connected to the true demon beneath the Underground Cave. He began refining Zhuo Ming’s divine spark, forcing the True God to agree to reveal what he knew about the Great Wei Divine Dynasty.

• After hearing an angry voice from the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuanqing realized Wei Wuji had noticed the North Spring Realm devouring the power of the slain Yin souls, so he used the Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation to kill and refine them more quickly.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan noticed that the Yin souls shared similarities in their origins and speculated that they were avatars of one person, created to experience reincarnation and pursue cultivation.
• Li Miaoxuan suggested that the Ancient Realm’s attack might be connected to the true demon beneath the Underground Cave, and Gu Yuanqing suspected the Primordial Divine Sect’s Great Venerable and the Ancient Realm knew more.
• Gu Yuanqing threatened to refine Zhuo Ming’s divine spark, then intensified the North Spring Realm’s power until Zhuo Ming’s divine soul appeared and begged him to stop.
• Gu Yuanqing told Zhuo Ming that he would refine him unless he continued their previous conversation and revealed what he knew about the Great Wei Divine Dynasty, and Zhuo Ming agreed to talk.

Gu Yuanqing learned that an ancient legend placed a True Demon’s body in the Demon Realm and its soul in the Ancient Realm, then watched the Ancient Realm withdraw and lift its shadow from the Qian Yuan Realm. He went to the Primordial Divine Sect to inspect it, where Qi Yichen and the elders hesitated to open their formation.

• Zhuo Ming told Gu Yuanqing that an ancient legend said a True Demon’s body was sealed in the Demon Realm and its soul in the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Wuji confronted Zhou Wei and Feng Yue over the Great Wei Divine Dynasty’s lost power, while Feng Yue accused him of sending them to die and challenged his authority as an avatar.
• The Ancient Realm withdrew from the Qian Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed the True Demon, the coming Calamity, and the missing Gui Cang Hall.
• The Ancient Realm’s departure cleared the Qian Yuan Realm’s sky, and cultivators celebrated the return of sunlight and praised Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar arrived at Ancient God Mountain and ordered the Primordial Divine Sect to open its protective formation, but Qi Yichen and the elders were too afraid to comply.

Gu Yuanqing attacked the Primordial Divine Sect, but Wei Zhao intervened and explained that the sect wanted the Great Void Creation Wheel’s power to suppress the True Demon’s soul and protect the world. Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Zhao’s account and refused to sacrifice his own interests for the sect’s plan.

• Gu Yuanqing dismissed the Primordial Divine Sect’s complaints and used the North Spring World Suppressing Seal to break through its protective formation.
• The Gui Cang Hall appeared and stopped the seal from crushing Ancient God Mountain, and Wei Zhao emerged to negotiate with Gu Yuanqing.
• Wei Zhao claimed the Primordial Divine Sect needed the Great Void Creation Wheel to weaken the True Demon’s soul and stabilize its seal in the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Zhao revealed that Wei Wuji had sacrificed the Great Wei Divine Dynasty to imprison the True Demon’s soul and warned that the seal was weakening.
• Gu Yuanqing told Wei Zhao that he did not believe him and would not let a grand plan pressure him into sacrificing his interests.

Gu Yuanqing unleashed World Arrival to fight Wei Zhao while Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder battered them, and his avatar plundered the Primordial Divine Sect’s treasures. When he tried to draw out the earth vein beneath Ancient God Mountain, Wei Zhao revealed a hidden Heavenly God Divine Body, which wounded Gu Yuanqing’s attackers before retreating underground as Gui Cang Hall endured the punishment.

• Gu Yuanqing expanded World Arrival around Ancient God Mountain and used the North Spring World Suppressing Seal to battle Wei Zhao and Gui Cang Hall while resisting Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder.
• As the clash shattered the Primordial Divine Sect’s Protection Grand Formation, Gu Yuanqing’s avatar swept the Scripture Collection Pavilion, Treasure Pavilion, and other sites clean of their contents.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed something sealed beneath Ancient God Mountain and began drawing out its earth vein, prompting Wei Zhao to unleash the power of Gui Cang Hall and summon five True God remnant souls.
• Wei Zhao sent a Divine Spark projection underground, and an enormous Heavenly God Divine Body burst through Ancient God Mountain and attacked Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan wounded the divine body and restrained its falling blood before Wei Zhao withdrew the hand beneath the mountain and left Gui Cang Hall to withstand the Divine Punishment Heavenly Thunder.

After defeating Wei Zhao’s forces, Gu Yuanqing studied the spoils and investigated the Ancient Realm, finding that the Blood Moon’s influence had turned most inhabitants into yin souls. After thirty years of preparation, he entered seclusion and began deriving his cultivation technique, glimpsing possible futures that ranged from death to celestial immortality.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed Wei Zhao’s surviving divine body, the true demon, and the danger of involving the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Ancient Realm’s phantom vanished, and Gu Yuanqing’s defense of the Qian Yuan Realm raised his prestige across the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the Primordial Divine Sect’s treasures and records while the North Spring Realm absorbed the Ancient Realm’s yin soul auras.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Ancient Realm and found its cities devastated, their inhabitants turned into yin souls beneath the Blood Moon’s phantom.
• After another thirty years of study and Dao Discussions with Li Miaoxuan, Gu Yuanqing entered seclusion and activated Dao Derivation Augmentation to derive his cultivation technique.

Gu Yuanqing derived and mastered a revised cultivation technique and strengthened his divine abilities while Li Miaoxuan advanced to Void Immortal Great Accomplishment. After Li Chengyi left to temper himself in the Xuanqiong Realm, Gu Yuanqing hosted the Spirit Venerable and Ji Shan for a Dao discussion, then entered the Immortal Painting again.

• Gu Yuanqing replaced his cultivation technique and derived stronger versions of his divine abilities using incense and fire qi and true demon qi.
• Li Miaoxuan also reached Void Immortal Great Accomplishment, and she and Gu Yuanqing sparred while comparing their Dao insights.
• Li Guanrong abdicated the Great Qian throne in favor of Li Yuze and brought veteran court officials to North Spring Mountain.
• Li Chengyi asked Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan for permission to travel, then entered a spatial Vortex to reach the Xuanqiong Realm.
• The Spirit Venerable visited with Ji Shan, and both gained insights from seven days of discussing the Dao with Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing's avatar entered the Qingping Dao Palace and flew into the Immortal Painting.

Gu Yuanqing explored the Immortal Painting to study how its spirit had gained consciousness, then returned to the North Spring Grotto-Heaven with new insights. More than twenty years later, the Ancient Realm continued to suffer repeated resets, while Shadow and three True Demon Apostles entered the Dragon Demon Realm and reached the site of the former North Spring Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing restrained the Person in the Painting and used the North Spring Realm's phantom to examine the painting's spiritual origins.
• Gu Yuanqing offered the Person in the Painting a possible escape in exchange for a soul seal and Nether God Contract, then left as the formation imprisoned him again.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar after three months and discussed his insights with Li Miaoxuan before they entered secluded cultivation.
• Over the next twenty-odd years, repeated resets in the Ancient Realm left residents missing or with damaged memories, provoking panic and violence.
• Shadow and three True Demon Apostles entered the Dragon Demon Realm and arrived where North Spring Mountain had once stood.

Shadow and the True Demon Apostles used true demon blood and hundreds of millions of magic beasts in a ritual to find and attack North Spring Grotto-Heaven. Gu Yuanqing revealed its location deliberately, allowing the North Spring Realm to devour the assault as nourishment.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan watched the True Demon Apostles search for North Spring Mountain while Shadow argued that finding Gu Yuanqing could advance their master's plans.
• Shadow summoned a divine statue and offered it true demon blood, drawing power from the Blood Moon as Lie Shanyu explained that he had maneuvered the devils into targeting Gu Yuanqing.
• The Blood Moon became a giant demon eye, and the magic beasts in the Dragon Demon Realm exploded to form an altar that empowered the true demon fire.
• Gu Yuanqing deliberately let North Spring Grotto-Heaven reveal a trace of its aura, and the True Demon Apostles identified its location and intensified their attack.
• The North Spring Realm absorbed and refined the Blood Moon's power, demonic qi, and true demon fire, turning the assault into nourishment.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan let the True Demon Apostles believe their Blood Moon-powered assault was close to forcing the North Spring Realm into view, while Gu Yuanqing secretly absorbed the power they poured into it. As the Blood Moon’s influence spread and Feng Yan questioned his identity, Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had come from the Fa Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed the Blood Moon’s power and decided to let the True Demon Apostles keep attacking so he could absorb it.
• Shadow and the other apostles intensified their formation, and Gu Yuanqing staged signs of weakness to convince them the North Spring Realm was nearly exposed.
• Over a month, the apostles sacrificed countless magic beasts to sustain the altar, while Gu Yuanqing gained substantial power from the assault.
• Feng Yan asked Feng Yue whether he was truly himself after feeling an unfamiliar voice rise within him under the Blood Moon.
• Lie Shanyi proposed that someone from the Fa Yuan Realm had already arrived in the Demon Realm, and Lie Shanyu realized he meant Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing let the True Demon Apostles exhaust themselves against North Spring Mountain before their True Demon Artifact vanished against its barrier, allowing him to capture them and suppress the demonic assault. He kept the apostles and artifact in the North Spring Realm, while Lie Shanyu and Lie Shanyi remained uncertain about Gu Yuanqing’s strength and the future of Demon God Mountain.

• Lie Shanyi suspected Gu Yuanqing had surpassed demigod strength, and Lie Shanyu worried that Gu Yuanqing might blame their clan for the attack on the Underground Cave Seal.
• Gu Yuanqing watched the True Demon Apostles’ sacrifice empower the Blood Moon and strengthen the North Spring Realm, while the apostles grew impatient at their repeated failure to break its barrier.
• One True Demon Apostle unleashed a True Demon Artifact at North Spring Mountain, but the artifact vanished into the barrier without causing any damage.
• Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm’s sword-filled phantom world and Demon Refining Ascension Tower to capture the four True Demon Apostles, then swept those carrying True Demon power into his realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the apostles and the artifact for later use, and he and Li Miaoxuan hoped the Demon Realm would remain quiet while they cultivated.

Lie Shanyu sought Gu Yuanqing’s help for Demon God Mountain’s failing seal, but Gu Yuanqing refused, denying any connection to the Fa Yuan Realm. The Four Great Families then sacrificed their treasures and bloodlines to contact their ancestral land, but received no response, leaving Lie Shanyu fearing that their foundations—or the Fa Yuan Realm itself—were gone.

• Lie Shanyu and Lie Shanyi discussed the Black Sea report and decided to wait before contacting Gu Yuanqing again or activating the Ancestral Altar.
• Thirteen years later, Li Miaoxuan returned to the Lingxu Sect to relinquish her Dao Child position and become an elder focused on cultivation.
• Lie Shanyu visited Gu Yuanqing and explained that the Demon Lord’s failing seal threatened the world, asking him to contact the Fa Yuan Realm; Gu Yuanqing refused and warned him not to return.
• Lie Shanyu returned to Demon God Mountain and ordered the ancestral sacrifice after Gu Yuanqing declined to help.
• The Four Great Families sacrificed treasures, ancestral relics, and bloodline power to send a message to the Fa Yuan Realm, but after two days the light vanished without a reply, and Lie Shanyu wondered whether their ancestors were gone.

Gu Yuanqing continued strengthening himself and the North Spring Realm while the Demon Realm’s crisis subsided and rumors spread that a Demon Lord Soul was worsening the Ancient Realm’s chaos. Wei Zhao later approached Gu Yuanqing with an offer to help him become a genuine True God if he would intervene, leaving Gu Yuanqing to consider the proposal.

• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in the North Spring Realm as the Qian Yuan Realm’s influence grew and he became the undisputed strongest person in the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• Demon God Mountain suppressed the True Demon Apostle and resealed the Underground Cave fissure after a fierce battle in the Demon Realm.
• Li Guanrong and Gu Siyuan told Gu Yuanqing that rumors blamed a suppressed Demon Lord Soul for the Ancient Realm’s growing chaos, and Gu Yuanqing confirmed the soul existed.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that he had secretly visited the Ancient Realm and believed its ruler was nearing the loss of control as more of the demon soul’s power leaked out.
• Wei Zhao sent a divine soul to speak with Gu Yuanqing and offered to help him survive the Divine Tribulation and attain genuine True Godhood if he intervened in the Ancient Realm.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Zhao’s request to use the Way of Creation to slay the true demon soul, learning that ancient God King obsessions had begun to infest rule divine artifacts. After decades of family life and cultivation, the North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, a higher world ruled by the Great Void Creation Wheel rather than the immortal realm Gu Yuanqing had hoped to reach.

• Wei Zhao warned Gu Yuanqing that awakened God King obsessions occupied rule divine artifacts and could seize the bodies of cultivators who drew on them.
• Gu Yuanqing refused Wei Zhao’s offer to help him become a True God and declined to act against the true demon soul without his terms being met.
• More than twenty years later, Li Haotian celebrated his thousandth birthday, and he suggested Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan hold the wedding ceremony they had never had; Li Miaoxuan declined.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan celebrated their birthdays as visitors from many realms came to meet Gu Yuanqing and discuss the Dao with him.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the North Spring Realm beginning to connect to a higher world and found that the new realm’s vital energy strengthened his true dao source seed.
• The North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing recognized the Great Void Creation Wheel before telling Li Miaoxuan where they had arrived.

After the North Spring Realm connected to the Fa Yuan Realm, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan used its evolving Great Dao to deepen their cultivation while avoiding interference in the higher world. After observing a battle between Divine Court gods and preparing for possible discovery, they learned from Wei Zhao that the Demon Lord Soul had leaked into the Exquisite Realm Domain.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan decided not to interfere with the Fa Yuan Realm, though a demigod briefly searched the area where the North Spring Realm had appeared.
• The Fa Yuan Realm’s power and Rule Divine Artifact Dao nourished the North Spring Realm, helping Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan refine their Dao foundations; Gu Yuanqing’s panel showed his talent and comprehension had gained the title Exiled Immortal’s Appearance.
• Over the following century, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan neared the void immortal peak, improved their Dharma Treasures, and spent much of their time together instead of cultivating alone.
• Gu Yuanqing witnessed two Divine Court Heavenly Gods battle near Taihua City, and their clash sent destructive aftershocks across the surrounding mountains without harming the North Spring Realm.
• A group led by a crimson-robed demigod searched the battlefield and recovered a source crystal containing a law fragment from the Nirvana Purifying World Cauldron; Gu Yuanqing watched them return to Taihua City.
• Wei Zhao arrived outside the Qian Yuan Realm and told Gu Yuanqing that the Demon Lord Soul’s power had leaked into the Exquisite Realm Domain.

Gu Yuanqing confirmed that killing Great Wei Divine Dynasty inhabitants in the Ancient Realm could carry the Demon Lord’s demonic thoughts into the Exquisite Realm Domain, then tasked Li Chengyi with finding the culprit. After a cultivator’s rampage spread demonic qi through the East Mountain Realm, Gu Yuanqing removed the taint from those affected, but the corruption continued to expand.

• Wei Zhao told Gu Yuanqing that a cultivator had carried demonic thoughts out of the Ancient Realm and urged him to act, but Gu Yuanqing refused to enter and demanded that Wei Zhao summon the realm instead.
• Gu Yuanqing tested Wei Zhao’s warning by killing a yin soul in Wuyi City and found that demonic power clung to his split soul when it left the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing informed Li Miaoxuan and Li Chengyi, then ordered Li Chengyi to find the cultivator and keep the matter secret; Li Chengyi mobilized the Qian Yuan Sect and Great Qian Dynasty to investigate.
• A Void Heaven Cultivator from Golden Peak Hall slaughtered disciples, fled, and detonated himself, tainting Shen Yandong and the elders who tried to remove the demonic qi.
• Gu Yuanqing extracted the demonic qi from those affected and checked their contacts, but days later Li Chengyi reported that the qi left by the explosion was corroding people and beasts across the East Mountain Realm, and his efforts had barely slowed its spread.

Li Chengyi and his parents debated whether the Ancient Realm was deliberately spreading the Devil Venerable Soul’s power, while demonic corruption spread through the Exquisite Realm Domain. Li Chengyi contained one outbreak with Gu Yuanqing’s cauldron, but new cult activity and propaganda emerged, leaving Gu Yuanqing uncertain who was behind it.

• Li Miaoxuan suspected the Ancient Realm was forcing Gu Yuanqing to intervene by letting the Devil Venerable Soul’s influence spread, and Li Chengyi advised caution while offering to contain the demonic power.
• Gu Yuanqing gave Li Chengyi a cauldron containing Origin Dao True Fire, which Li Chengyi used to refine the demonic qi in the East Mountain Realm.
• Demonic activity spread to two more boundary domains, while rumors claimed that killing Great Wei Divine Dynasty subjects could extend life and break cultivation bottlenecks.
• The Taichu Holy Church reappeared and recruited demonic cultivators, prompting the Qian Yuan Sect and major sects to order the killing of anyone who brought Demon Lord power into the Exquisite Realm Domain.
• The Taichu Holy Church declared that the Demon Lord was a wrongfully slandered Holy Venerable, and Li Miaoxuan and Gu Yuanqing questioned whether the Primordial Divine Sect or the Demon Lord’s own forces were behind the movement.

Gu Yuanqing’s Dao lecture quelled rumors about the Taichu Holy Church as he reached Void Immortal Perfection, while Gu Yuanying advanced to Heavenly Human. He then confronted Wei Zhao over the Ten Directions Token and attacked the Primordial Divine Sect after Wei Zhao refused to surrender it.

• Gu Yuanqing expounded the Dao throughout the Exquisite Realm Domain, denying any connection to the Demon Lord and teaching cultivators up to the Shattering Heaven Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Void Immortal Perfection, and Gu Yuanying survived the Two-Nine Tribulation to become a Heavenly Human.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan he planned to visit the Primordial Divine Sect and retrieve the Ten Directions Token.
• Gu Yuanqing confronted Wei Zhao, who admitted the Primordial Divine Sect had links to the Great Wei Divine Dynasty and offered the token only on his own condition.
• Gu Yuanqing demanded the Ten Directions Token or another two hundred years of heavenly punishment for Wei Zhao, then struck the Primordial Divine Sect when Wei Zhao refused.