Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing fought Wei Zhao while demanding the Ten Directions Token, then used a second avatar to threaten the seal protecting Wei Zhao’s divine body. Wei Zhao unleashed his god-level power but was forced to retreat beneath Ancient God Mountain and endure the strengthening heavenly punishment, while Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan considered what to do if the Ancient Realm’s crisis worsened.

• Gu Yuanqing shattered the Primordial Divine Sect’s protective formation and pressed Qi Yichen to hand over the Ten Directions Token.
• Wei Zhao attacked Gu Yuanqing with the Gui Cang Hall, but Gu Yuanqing repeatedly weakened its connection to the Great Dao and forced Wei Zhao to fight under heavenly punishment.
• Gu Yuanqing’s other avatar questioned Qi Yichen and learned that the Ten Directions Token was enshrined in the Ancestor Hall, then disturbed the earth veins beneath Ancient God Mountain.
• Wei Zhao rushed to protect his sealed divine body, unleashed his god-level power, and sent its Divine Spark projection into the mountain as a giant hand emerged to attack Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing withdrew his avatar, while Wei Zhao returned underground and used the Gui Cang Hall to suppress his aura and withstand heavenly punishment.
• In the North Spring Realm, Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed Wei Zhao’s motives and agreed to wait and see whether the Ancient Realm’s situation worsened.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan continued to cultivate as the North Spring Realm grew into an immortal paradise, while the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Gods suspected Gu Yuanqing was one of those who returned to the ruins. In the Ancient Realm, Wei Zhao entered the Mirror of Rebirth and found an elderly man who resembled Wei Wuji, addressing him as his father.

• The Mountain Bearing Black Tortoise settled among uninhabited islands, where Qian Yuan Sect disciples discovered and collected rare cultivation resources.
• Little White reached the chaos heaven deathless realm without undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation, while Xiao Lingyue failed his Void Immortal Tribulation and died.
• Gu Yuanqing’s growing strength made it increasingly difficult for Wei Zhao and the Primordial Divine Sect’s True Gods to oppose him, leading them to speculate that he had returned from the ruins.
• Wei Zhao entered the Ancient Realm and demanded that Wei Wuji open the Mirror of Rebirth.
• Inside the mirror, Wei Zhao found an elderly man resembling Wei Wuji, bound in a struggle between opposing powers, and called him Father.

Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan welcomed their son Gu Huai'an, then celebrated their family’s growing lineage at a banquet on North Spring Mountain. Elsewhere, Li Huang and Zhou Tianyan prepared to sacrifice a few Exquisite Worlds to prevent the Demon Lord from emerging if the seal on the Ancient Realm broke.

• Wei Zhao told the aged man that Gu Yuanqing refused to act and might be connected to those seeking to return from the ruins, prompting the man to question whether they had found a way back.
• Li Miaoxuan explained that she wanted a son with the Gu surname and hoped to raise a child with Gu Yuanqing; Gu Yuanqing agreed despite worrying about the toll on her cultivation.
• Ten years later, Li Miaoxuan gave birth to Gu Huai'an, whose arrival brought spiritual signs across the North Spring Realm, and Gu Yuanqing named him.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan welcomed their descendants and guests at a family banquet, while Li Haotian watched the flourishing lineage with contentment.
• Li Huang and Zhou Tianyan arrived in the Ningshou Realm and decided to sacrifice inhabitants of a few Exquisite Worlds as a chance to save the wider boundary domain from the Demon Lord.

Zhou Tianyan and Li Huang spread the Bone Casket’s hidden aura across the Ningshou Realm, tying its living beings to a sealed existence in the Ancient Realm. In the North Spring Realm, Li Chengyi survived his chaos heaven Calamity, and the chapter ended with upheaval erupting across several Exquisite Realm Domains.

• Zhou Tianyan concealed the area with the Immeasurable Heavenly Secrets Diagram while Li Huang opened the Bone Casket and planted its aura throughout the Ningshou Realm.
• Wei Yuan dispersed the Demon Lord’s power through the Exquisite Realm Domain to ease the pressure on himself, but warned Gu Yuanqing that entering the domain had drawn him into Calamity.
• Li Chengyi faced the seven-nine Heavenly Calamity as Qian Yuan Sect watched and endured its successive trials, becoming a chaos heaven cultivator.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan relaxed their involvement in the realms and spent years traveling and living as ordinary people, while Li Chengyi took over most of Gu Huai'an’s instruction.
• A tremendous upheaval erupted almost simultaneously in several Exquisite Realm Domains.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Taichu Holy Church’s mark had been left behind during coordinated demonic calamities that overwhelmed five realms and cut them off from the Qian Yuan Sect. He traced the calamity’s source to Ningshou Realm and found captured Qian Yuan disciples, while two conspirators were discussing how to make them fight one another.

• A fragrance triggered demonic possession during Ningshou Realm’s tournament, and the resulting calamity spread across five realms.
• Li Chengyi learned that the Teleportation Arrays in all five affected realms had been shut down, while their trapped disciples’ soul lamps still burned.
• Gu Yuanqing reached Ningshou Realm, recognized the Demon Lord’s power and the Life and Death Cycle, and found the Taichu Holy Seal inside the ruined Qian Yuan Divine Hall.
• Gu Yuanqing traced the strongest demonic aura to a Primeval Forest and spread the North Spring Realm Projection across Ningshou Realm.
• In a concealed cave, two men kept dozens of captured Qian Yuan Sect disciples restrained and discussed making them fight each other.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared from the void in the cave, immobilizing the two men.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that the crisis in the boundary domains involved the Demon Lord’s power and the Primordial Divine Sect, then purged the Taichu Holy Church and rescued the Qian Yuan Sect disciples. After cleansing the disciples and other affected realms, he confronted Wei Zhao at the Primordial Divine Sect before returning to the Ancient Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing entered the underground cave, destroyed the Demon Lord Statue and the Taichu Holy Church members, and rescued the trapped Qian Yuan Sect disciples.
• Gu Yuanqing reported to Li Miaoxuan that demonic qi had contaminated the Ningshou Realm and said the root of the crisis lay in the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sent four avatars to cleanse the other boundary domains, then treated the Qian Yuan Sect disciples by removing demonic qi and life-and-death force from their bodies and souls.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi that the disciples would recover but would need to strengthen their state of mind against future demonic thoughts.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the Primordial Divine Sect with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, fought Wei Zhao as heavenly punishment descended, and then appeared in the Ancient Realm.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Ancient Realm and used World Arrival and Heavenly Fishing to draw out and refine the intertwined powers of its great cultivator and the Demon Lord, refusing to follow Wei Zhao’s plan and choosing to make the power his own. After destroying towns and freeing their inhabitants from their false lives, he returned to Wuyi City and confronted Xiang Feng'er, who asked whether he had come to kill them.

• Gu Yuanqing subdued the guards at the body-condensing formation and traveled to Wuyi City, resolving to overturn the Ancient Realm’s game rather than be used as a blade.
• In a small town, Gu Yuanqing told Wang the Third that he was dead, triggering the town’s people to become resentful yin souls.
• Gu Yuanqing used World Arrival to destroy the yin souls and Heavenly Fishing to pull their intertwined demonic thoughts and life-and-death power into the North Spring Realm, where he broke them apart and let the realm refine them.
• Gu Yuanqing sent his avatars through towns across the Ancient Realm, destroying the manifestations and growing certain they all came from one person.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to Wuyi City and spoke with Xiang Feng'er, who recognized his origins and asked whether he had come to kill them.

Gu Yuanqing annihilated the inhabitants of Wuyi City and Sandao City with the North Spring Realm Projection, gathering their demonic thoughts and life-and-death force to strengthen his realm. As Wei Wuji and his ministers investigated his actions, they realized something was wrong.

• Xiang Feng'er and the Silver-Haired Elder chose to die, and Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm Projection to erase Wuyi City's inhabitants and collect the energy left behind.
• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed how refining the cities strengthened the North Spring Realm and how the Great Wei Divine Dynasty might respond.
• Gu Yuanqing entered Sandao City and destroyed its inhabitants and yin souls after they recognized and attacked him.
• Zhou Wei used the Heaven-Peering Mirror to observe Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing sensed the spying and disrupted the image.
• Wei Wuji and Zhou Wei saw that Gu Yuanqing had emptied another city, then Wei Wuji abruptly noticed something wrong.

Wei Wuji and Zhou Wei suspected Gu Yuanqing had altered Wusheng City and prepared to stop him, while Feng Yue investigated and then confronted him in Tiansheng City. Gu Yuanqing destroyed the Great Wei forces’ formation, but the Rebirth Banner appeared just as Feng Yue gave up resisting.

• Wei Wuji noticed Wusheng City had no yin energy or demonic qi and ordered Feng Yue to investigate Gu Yuanqing and stop him if anything was wrong.
• Wei Wuji gave Zhou Wei the Rebirth Banner and ordered him to investigate Gu Yuanqing, intervene, or force him out of the Ancient Realm.
• Feng Yue confirmed Wusheng City was unnaturally clean, while Gu Yuanqing entered Tiansheng City to cleanse it and found its powerful cultivators waiting for him.
• Feng Yue demanded that Gu Yuanqing leave the Ancient Realm, but Gu Yuanqing refused and unfolded the North Spring Realm Projection.
• Feng Yue and the assembled cultivators activated a prepared formation, but Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Qi shattered it and killed the surrounding forces.
• Feng Yue stopped resisting as Gu Yuanqing’s Sword Qi reached him, but the Rebirth Banner appeared and released gray-white qi across the battlefield.

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed Zhou Wei with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, but Feng Yue sacrificed himself to strike a gap in the seal and save Zhou Wei. Gu Yuanqing pursued the fleeing Zhou Wei, who summoned an Ancient Bronze Sword as their battle continued.

• A Rebirth Banner appeared and pulled Feng Yue from Gu Yuanqing’s sword attack, while Zhou Wei used its power to fight Gu Yuanqing with the Dao of the Life and Death Cycle.
• Gu Yuanqing expanded the North Spring Realm Projection and crushed Zhou Wei with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, severely injuring him and suppressing the surviving cultivators across Tiansheng City.
• Zhou Wei urged Feng Yue to give his life meaning, and Feng Yue burned away his body and soul in a sword strike that pierced the seal and left a small mark on Gu Yuanqing’s finger before Feng Yue disappeared.
• Zhou Wei fled with the Rebirth Banner, while Gu Yuanqing pursued him, broke the Nine-Ringed God-Trapping Net, and resisted the Mirror of Rebirth’s deathly power.
• Gu Yuanqing froze the void and forced Zhou Wei out of hiding, and Zhou Wei summoned the projection of an Ancient Bronze Sword and slashed toward him.

Gu Yuanqing overwhelmed Zhou Wei despite the Life-Tracing Sword of Causality, but Wei Wuji intervened through the Mirror of Rebirth to protect him and warn Gu Yuanqing against taking Great Wei’s power. Gu Yuanqing challenged Wei Wuji to test the consequences of their conflict.

• Gu Yuanqing countered Zhou Wei’s attacks while the Rebirth Banner cracked, and Zhou Wei revealed the actual Life-Tracing Sword of Causality and struck him with its power.
• Gu Yuanqing survived the strike by using the Way of Creation, then trapped Zhou Wei in an illusion and pressed the North Spring World Suppressing Seal down as the Rebirth Banner shattered.
• Zhou Wei called on Wei Wuji, who appeared through the Mirror of Rebirth and used its life-and-death power to drive back Gu Yuanqing.
• Wei Wuji accused Gu Yuanqing of taking Great Wei’s power and warned that fighting him could unleash more Demon Lord power into the Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Wuji’s warning and challenged him, asking, “How about we give it a try?”

Gu Yuanqing clashed with Wei Wuji, whose Mirror of Rebirth repeatedly struck at him while deflecting his attacks. After collecting the power left by the dead in Tiansheng City and drawing out a stronger response, Gu Yuanqing discovered Wei Wuji's hidden mirror shadow above the Gale Wind Layer.

• Wei Wuji threatened Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing refused to become his weapon or retreat from the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Wuji used the Mirror of Rebirth to attack Gu Yuanqing through his reflection, while Gu Yuanqing dodged and diverted injuries to his Creation Dao body.
• Gu Yuanqing tried multiple attacks against the mirror, but they passed through its shadow as Wei Wuji claimed the artifact could not be challenged within the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing gathered the power left by the dead yin souls and cultivators of Tiansheng City, provoking Wei Wuji to unleash a powerful beam of life-and-death energy.
• Gu Yuanqing dodged the beam and looked above the Gale Wind Layer, realizing that Wei Wuji's true mirror shadow was concealed beneath the sun.

Gu Yuanqing gathered the Great Wei Divine Dynasty cultivators’ yin souls while fighting Wei Wuji, then escaped the Mirror of Rebirth’s attacks and destroyed its shadow with the power of the North Spring Realm. The chapter ended with his North Spring Realm Projection spreading across the Ancient Realm as Wei Wuji watched the mirror shatter.

• Gu Yuanqing evaded Wei Wuji’s rune chains while gathering the power of the Great Wei Divine Dynasty cultivators’ yin souls, then concealed it with divine soul power.
• Wei Wuji trapped Gu Yuanqing beneath the Life and Death Grinding Mill, but Gu Yuanqing reappeared and launched Myriad Dao Returns to Ruin at the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the mirror with several divine abilities, while Wei Wuji reflected their powers back at him as life-and-death forces.
• Wei Wuji drew Gu Yuanqing into the Mirror of Rebirth’s internal world and tried to drag the North Spring Realm Projection into its samsara vortex.
• Gu Yuanqing brought in his true self’s power and the strength of the entire North Spring Realm, broke the mirror’s chains, and shattered the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Wuji’s projection and continued harvesting power from the Ancient Realm, while the rulers of Great Wei debated how to stop him without waking the Demon Lord Soul. The chapter ended with the Ancient Realm quiet for three days as Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan expected Wei Wuji to make another move.

• After defeating Wei Wuji, Gu Yuanqing destroyed the souls and cultivators in another city and gathered their power for the North Spring Realm.
• In the imperial palace, Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji over Feng Yue’s death and accused him of being an avatar rather than the original.
• Wei Wuji spoke with Wei Yuan in the Mirror of Rebirth Shadow and proposed using the divine body against Gu Yuanqing, but Wei Yuan refused and told him to let Gu Yuanqing take a few cities if necessary.
• Wei Yuan sealed the Demon Lord Soul beneath the Mirror of Rebirth, while the soul urged him to release it and work together to survive.
• Wei Wuji resolved to seek another way to escape his fate, and Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that the Ancient Realm’s silence after their battle likely concealed another move.

Gu Yuanqing continued his campaign through the Great Wei Divine Dynasty to force Wei Wuji to negotiate, and the full moon passed without restoring those he had killed. After Great Wei’s ministers debated how to stop him, the Hanging City and a vast formation confronted him at Cangwu City, where Lü Zhang struck with power nearing that of a true god.

• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan he would seize Great Wei’s outlying territories until Wei Wuji understood the cost of continuing the conflict.
• Gu Yuanqing killed Saber Demon Lü Chen, who welcomed death, and gathered his remaining yin energy.
• The full moon passed without the dead or ruined cities being restored, leaving Great Wei’s cities in ruins and their people permanently dead.
• Great Wei’s ministers debated using the Hanging City and the Nation-Guarding Divine Artifact against Gu Yuanqing, and Zhou Wei received permission from Wei Wuji to answer their questions.
• Three days later, Situ Xuan and Lü Zhang led the Hanging City and a vast formation against Gu Yuanqing at Cangwu City.
• Gu Yuanqing attacked the Hanging City with the Myriad Dao Returns to Ruin Palm, and Lü Zhang answered with a saber strike empowered by the city’s runes and Heaven and Earth vital energy.

Gu Yuanqing defeated the Great Wei Divine Dynasty’s forces and destroyed the Hanging City after overcoming its sealing formation and Demon Suppressing Golden Mace. He claimed the artifact, while Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji in the Imperial Palace over the doomed mission.

• Gu Yuanqing broke through Lü Zhang’s saber strike and nullified the grand formation that bound him by unfolding the North Spring Realm.
• Chen Heng summoned the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, but Gu Yuanqing’s sword formation ground down its power and held it at bay.
• Situ Xuan and the others burned their origins and drained the Hanging City’s spiritual veins to launch a final attack, but Gu Yuanqing’s sword shattered the god-and-devil phantom and sent the mace crashing into the city.
• Situ Xuan ordered a retreat, but Gu Yuanqing sealed the void, brought down the North Spring World Suppressing Seal, and destroyed the Hanging City and Cangwu City.
• Gu Yuanqing killed the remaining Great Wei cultivators, captured the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, and gathered the yin energy from the ruins.
• Zhou Wei confronted Wei Wuji in the Imperial Palace and demanded to know why he had sent the Great Wei forces to their deaths.

Wei Wuji revealed that their original self might no longer need his avatars and decided to open the Heavenly Prison, while Gu Yuanqing continued destroying Great Wei cities and refining their yin energy. As word of his campaign spread, Gu Yuanqing studied the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace in the North Spring Realm and began trying to refine it.

• Wei Wuji told Zhou Wei that their original self had allowed the officials to die and might no longer need his avatars, then announced he intended to open the Heavenly Prison.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace with Li Miaoxuan and learned how the North Spring Realm had weakened its power.
• Gu Yuanqing continued destroying Great Wei cities, while reports of his campaign spread through the Exquisite Realm Domain and caused alarm and excitement among its sects and cultivators.
• Gu Yuanqing drew the yin energy of the dead into the North Spring Realm, accelerating its evolution as Li Miaoxuan regained her Void Immortal peak cultivation and chose to remain by his side.
• Gu Yuanqing focused on the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace and used the North Spring Realm's suppression of its power to begin refining it.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that powerful cultivators across the Ancient Realm had gone mad and that Great Wei’s cities had fallen into chaos, then traveled to the imperial capital to confront Wei Wuji. Wei Wuji confirmed that he had deliberately allowed the situation to unfold, leaving Gu Yuanqing to question what power he had been given.

• Gu Yuanqing refined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace while Li Miaoxuan gained insights from its Dao Rhythm before stepping away from cultivation to care for their home.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar killed a deranged Chaos Heaven Immortal and uncovered the identity of a Taichu Holy Church member, whose memories he sent to Cheng Yi.
• Gu Yuanqing encountered increasing numbers of powerful Ancient Realm cultivators who had lost their reason, including a Demigod, and discussed the worsening situation with Li Miaoxuan.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to investigate the Ancient Realm’s heartland cautiously, but found cities in chaos and the thirty-six major cities affected as well.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the imperial capital and confronted Wei Wuji, who said he had deliberately given Gu Yuanqing the power he wanted.

Gu Yuanqing and Wei Wuji fought a fierce battle outside the imperial city, with each testing the other’s limits. Wei Wuji escalated the fight by unleashing the Mirror of Rebirth and the Purple Pole Bell, and Gu Yuanqing noticed strange qi seeping from the ground as the chapter ended.

• Wei Wuji told Gu Yuanqing that he had opened the Heavenly Prison and invited him to fight.
• Wei Wuji and Gu Yuanqing clashed with their spear and sword techniques, and Gu Yuanqing’s sword formation grew stronger under pressure.
• Wei Wuji used the Mirror of Rebirth’s Rebirth Samsara, but Gu Yuanqing connected his avatar to the North Spring Realm and dispelled the illusions.
• Wei Wuji summoned the Purple Pole Bell and intensified the Mirror of Rebirth’s power, draining Gu Yuanqing’s life force and striking him with the bell.
• Zhou Wei appeared in horror and accused Wei Wuji of going mad, while Gu Yuanqing spotted gray-white qi and black wisps rising from the ground.

Gu Yuanqing confronted Wei Wuji outside the imperial city, and the two fought in a fierce battle that pushed both of them to their limits. Wei Wuji then unleashed the Mirror of Rebirth and the Purple Pole Bell, and as Zhou Wei cried out that he had gone mad, Gu Yuanqing noticed strange qi rising from the ground.

• Gu Yuanqing questioned Wei Wuji about opening the Heavenly Prison, and Wei Wuji explained that he could no longer suppress it after Gu Yuanqing took the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace.
• Wei Wuji revealed his battle armor and spear, and he and Gu Yuanqing began fighting at full strength outside the imperial city.
• Gu Yuanqing adapted his Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation under Wei Wuji's assault, while their attacks shook the city and its Purple Pole Bell projection.
• Wei Wuji projected the Mirror of Rebirth and used Rebirth Samsara to attack Gu Yuanqing's consciousness, but Gu Yuanqing connected his avatar to the North Spring Realm and resisted the illusions.
• Wei Wuji combined the Mirror of Rebirth's power with the Purple Pole Bell and wounded Gu Yuanqing, while Zhou Wei appeared in the distance and called Wei Wuji mad.
• Gu Yuanqing saw gray-white qi, threaded with black wisps, seeping up from the ground.