Chapter Summaries

Wei Yuan’s Soul-Refining Formation consumed Wei Wuji and restored his divine body, while Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan considered the weaknesses of the Divine Path and kept watch on the Ancient Realm. A hundred years later, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle began its immortal Calamity and transformed into the Black Tortoise.

• Wei Wuji entered Wei Yuan’s divine body, where a Soul-Refining Formation consumed his divine soul and used his power to restore the body.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan about his encounter with Wei Yuan and speculated that Divine Path cultivators’ flesh could not bear the power of their souls.
• News spread that demonic calamities were diminishing, and a century later Wei Zhao met Wei Yuan, who said Gu Yuanqing was not a Return to the Ruins and that becoming a God King would be difficult.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle stirred and gathered Calamity qi, prompting the Qian Yuan Sect and Qingping Grotto-Heaven residents to withdraw to the North Spring Realm.
• After traveling to a vast archipelago, the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle shed its shell and transformed into the Black Tortoise.

The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle survived his immortal Calamity, fully awakened as a Black Tortoise, and ascended to the Immortal Realm. More than a century later, after the Qian Yuan Sect had settled among the islands and Gu Huai'an became a heavenly human, Gu Yuanqing announced that he was preparing to face his own immortal Calamity.

• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle left Qian Yuan Island to face his Calamity, while Gu Yuanqing, Li Miaoxuan, and the Qian Yuan Sect disciples wished him success.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle endured nine rounds of Calamity and defeated the Immortal Beast formed from the Great Dao and Immortal Realm laws, completing his transformation into a true Black Tortoise.
• The Black Tortoise ascended through the Eye of the Great Dao, and Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan congratulated him as the Spirit Venerable arrived too late to learn whether he had succeeded.
• The Qian Yuan Sect settled across the Canghai islands, and Gu Yuanqing fortified Qian Yuan Island while Li Miaoxuan sent an avatar to the Lingxu Sect.
• Gu Huai'an passed his Calamity and became a heavenly human, prompting Li Chengyi to feel pressure about his cultivation progress.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan that he was preparing to face his immortal Calamity.

Gu Yuanqing prepared to undergo the Immortal Tribulation after years of strengthening his treasures and spending time with Li Miaoxuan and their family. He released the North Spring Realm’s restraints, and the Immortal Tribulation formed over North Spring Mountain as the Spirit Realm’s great cultivators sensed it.

• Gu Yuanqing and Li Miaoxuan discussed the threats facing the realms, his decision to undergo the Immortal Tribulation, and the danger of remaining in the lower realm without Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Gu Yuanqing completed preliminary refinement of the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, reforged the North Spring World Suppressing Seal and Clear Nether Sword, and spent three years living quietly with his family.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Miaoxuan, Li Chengyi, and Gu Huai'an that he was ready for the Calamity, then went to the summit of North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing released the North Spring Realm’s restraints and his true dao source seed, causing Creation Mystery to emerge and draw immense spiritual qi into tribulation clouds.
• Qiu Weifeng, Feng Jiuniang, Qian Yuan Sect disciples, the Spirit Venerable, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, and Ji Shan sensed or watched the approaching Immortal Tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing stood calmly beneath the Calamity clouds and said, "Here it comes!"

Gu Yuanqing underwent the immortal Calamity, using the North Spring Realm to absorb each trial and transform his true Dao source seed. He became an immortal but chose to remain in the North Spring Realm instead of ascending, leaving his connection to the immortal realm isolated for now.

• Gu Yuanqing faced the nine stages of the heavenly Calamity, absorbing their power while the North Spring Realm shielded everything around him.
• The Eye of the Great Dao formed and summoned Meng Yungui's imprint as the final trial, but it shattered upon entering the North Spring Realm and its light entered Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing's soul, body, and Heavenly Human World transformed, and auspicious signs and beneficial rain spread through the Spirit Realm.
• Qiu Weifeng realized Gu Yuanqing had survived the Calamity and wondered why he had not ascended to the immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed the Spirit Realm's rejection and Mortal Turbid Qi, then used the North Spring Realm to isolate his connection to the immortal realm.

Gu Yuanqing survived the Immortal Tribulation and became an Immortal, but he remained in the Lower Realm to stabilize his cultivation and perfect his immortal foundation. As he cultivated in seclusion, Li Miaoxuan prepared to leave for the Immortal Realm, while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an promised to support their parents and pursue ascension themselves.

• Gu Yuanqing became an Immortal and discovered that his new immortal body required vast amounts of energy, while the North Spring Realm's and Fa Yuan Realm's power carried impurities that could damage his foundation.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected the risk of drawing power from the Immortal Realm and chose to perfect his Immortal Foundation slowly with the North Spring Realm's spiritual energy like the sea empowerment.
• Li Chengyi ordered the Qian Yuan Sect to conceal Gu Yuanqing's successful tribulation and spread the story that Mountain Master Gu had postponed ascension to protect the Qian Yuan Realm.
• Li Chengyi asked Xiao Wuyа to monitor the Ancient Realm and Primordial Divine Sect while Gu Yuanqing stabilized his cultivation in seclusion.
• Li Miaoxuan asked Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an whether they would blame her for leaving, and the brothers accepted her choice to pursue her Dao path.
• Li Miaoxuan asked her sons to spend more time with Gu Yuanqing if she left, then saw a familiar figure in the courtyard and smiled brightly.

After becoming an immortal, Gu Yuanqing spent his remaining time with Li Miaoxuan, whose cultivation was nearing the point where she had to undergo her immortal Calamity and ascend. With her departure set for three months later, the chapter ended as she declined another farewell to her family, believing she had already said everything that needed saying.

• Gu Yuanqing reunited with Li Miaoxuan after emerging from seclusion, and they discussed how the North Spring Realm could not connect her to the Immortal Realm soon enough.
• Li Miaoxuan helped Gu Yuanqing understand the changes brought by immortality, while he demonstrated that he could awaken spirituality in lifeless matter within the North Spring Realm.
• Li Miaoxuan told Gu Yuanqing she would undergo her immortal Calamity in three months and asked him to care for her father, Li Haotian.
• Li Miaoxuan entered seclusion to prepare, while Gu Yuanqing refined his cultivation and Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Haotian visited him.
• Li Miaoxuan emerged from seclusion, walked through the mountains with Gu Yuanqing, and shared a family banquet with her relatives and descendants.
• At dawn, Li Miaoxuan exchanged a final look with Li Haotian from afar and told Gu Yuanqing she did not need to see the others again.

Li Miaoxuan faced the Immortal Tribulation on North Spring Mountain and overcame its trials, including the projection of Patriarch Mingchen. She became an Immortal as cultivators gathered to witness her ascension, while people on the islands below heard the news.

• Li Miaoxuan gave Gu Yuanqing the Green Hairpin, and he placed the Dragon Slaying Guillotine in her hair before releasing the restraint on her aura.
• Li Miaoxuan’s Immortal Tribulation summoned calamity clouds across the Spirit Realm, drawing the Spirit Venerable, Ji Shan, Heavenly Lord Xuanji, and other cultivators toward Canghai.
• Li Miaoxuan absorbed and refined the first eight heavenly calamities with her Heavenly Human World, while the Dragon Slaying Guillotine helped her withstand the later trials.
• Li Miaoxuan defeated Patriarch Mingchen’s projection in the final trial and absorbed its remaining power into her Heavenly Human World.
• Li Miaoxuan’s Dao source seed transformed, and she became an Immortal as Immortal Music rang out and Heavenly Blossoms fell.
• The gathered cultivators congratulated Li Miaoxuan, and people on the islands below wondered who Fairy Miaoxuan was.

Li Miaoxuan ascended to the Immortal Realm, leaving Gu Yuanqing behind on North Spring Mountain. After a year of seclusion, Gu Yuanqing sensed the soul imprint she carried and resolved to cultivate until he could reach her.

• Li Miaoxuan entered the Eye of the Great Dao after bidding farewell to Gu Yuanqing, Li Haotian, and her descendants; two cultivators who tried to follow her were destroyed.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the servants away, entered seclusion, and began cultivating while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an received visitors.
• Feng Tao asked to remain on the mountain, but Gu Yuanqing sent her to the Qian Yuan Sect to live and cultivate in peace.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the laws of his Heavenly Human World and nurtured its development as part of his True Immortal cultivation.
• After a year, Gu Yuanqing sensed the soul imprint Li Miaoxuan carried and believed that further cultivation could eventually let him open a passage to the Immortal Realm.

After Li Miaoxuan ascended, rumors spread that Gu Yuanqing was dead or had left the Spirit Realm, stirring Demonic cultivators to consider probing the Qian Yuan Sect. Gu Yuanqing remained in seclusion for centuries, strengthened the North Spring Realm, and appeared to sense something in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.

• Li Miaoxuan's witnessed ascension renewed cultivators' hopes and brought a wave of visitors to the Lingxu Sect and Qian Yuan Sect, while Ye Zhenghong worried about the Lingxu Sect's diminished strength.
• Four Demonic Great Cultivators debated whether Gu Yuanqing had died or ascended, then agreed to send spies into the Qian Yuan Sect before considering an attack.
• Li Chengyi and his family discussed the rumors, planned to watch for probes and spies, and Li Chengyi ordered Gu Huai'an to focus on his cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing remained in seclusion as the North Spring Realm grew stronger; more than three hundred years later, he descended to guide Li Haotian, who survived the Yin-Yang Great Tribulation.
• After returning to cultivation, Gu Yuanqing sensed something and manifested a Dharma Form above the Sacred Mountain in the Dao Source Forbidden Land.

Gu Yuanqing sensed the Fa Yuan Realm’s attempt to reach the Boundary Gate and watched Wei Zhao seal it, then continued cultivating while assessing the threat. Wei Zhao later proposed an alliance against the Guixu Alliance, but Gu Yuanqing left the offer undecided and returned to his peaceful cultivation.

• Gu Yuanqing used karmic sight from the Dao Source Forbidden Land to observe Wei Zhao, Zhou Tianyan, and Yan Guichi at the Boundary Gate, where Wei Zhao sealed the gate as the others concealed the area.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel and the realms, judged that the Guixu Alliance might eventually threaten him, and continued reading the Heavenly Dao Scripture and cultivating.
• Wei Zhao visited Gu Yuanqing and mistook his breakthrough for reaching the True God realm.
• Wei Zhao proposed that he and Gu Yuanqing join forces against the Guixu Alliance, but Gu Yuanqing neither accepted nor rejected the offer and resumed cultivating.

After more than a century of peace, Gu Yuanqing observed escalating battles across the Fa Yuan Realm between Heavenly Gods wielding Rule Divine Artifacts, while the North Spring Realm continued to strengthen. He turned back to cultivating, anticipating the realm’s next transformation and hoping it would produce immortal spiritual qi.

• Gu Yuanqing watched a clash between the Great Void Realm-Settling Tower and the Sky Transformation Command Wind Seal shake the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Heavenly Law Bell appeared, and Gu Yuanqing recognized the disturbance as a Dao Struggle between two Heavenly God cultivators.
• Gu Yuanqing later learned the combatants belonged to the Returning to the Void Alliance and the Divine Court, and further battles involving many Heavenly Gods plunged the Fa Yuan Realm into turmoil.
• Gu Yuanqing noted that no God Kings had appeared and withdrew his attention from the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing found that the Underground Demon Realm’s Demonic Qi had thinned and sensed reduced danger in the Underground Cave, but chose not to investigate the Demon Lord’s suppressed body.
• Gu Yuanqing observed the North Spring Realm thriving without relying on outside worlds and anticipated its next change, especially the possible emergence of immortal spiritual qi.

Gu Yuanqing visited Gu Yuanying and learned that grief over her children’s deaths had weakened her resolve, but she refused to be persuaded to prolong her life. Meanwhile, Li Chengyi survived his chaos immortal Calamity and a demonic ambush, and the chapter ended as Gu Yuanqing sensed the North Spring Realm beginning to transform.

• Li Chengyi sought Gu Yuanqing’s guidance, strengthened his Dao foundation, and reported on events across the Spirit Realm and Exquisite World.
• Gu Yuanqing visited Gu Yuanying and learned that she had lost several children and no longer wished to pursue a longer life; she asked him not to force her to stay when her time came.
• Gu Yuanqing spent the afternoon and evening with Gu Yuanying, then returned to North Spring Mountain, reflecting that he could not impose his wishes on her.
• Three months later, Li Chengyi passed his chaos immortal Calamity and used an Immortal Treasure to suppress two demonic Chaos Heaven Immortal experts who attacked him.
• Twenty years later, Gu Huai'an reached the yin-yang void-breaking realm, and ten years after that Little White woke and broke through again without a Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the North Spring Realm had begun to transform.

Gu Yuanqing witnessed the North Spring Realm transform, purifying its spiritual energy and beginning to produce immortal spiritual qi, then used the insights from its growth to perfect his Heavenly Human World. Three hundred years later, he defeated Wei Zhao in the Immortal Mountain Trial and gained sudden insight into the Dao of returning to the hidden and the Dao of life and death.

• The North Spring Realm underwent a major transformation, expanding its power and beginning to cleanse impurities from its spiritual energy.
• Gu Yuanqing absorbed the realm’s changes and used their Dao insights to refine his Heavenly Human World and cultivate more effectively.
• The Qian Yuan Sect gradually noticed that cultivation had become easier as the North Spring Realm’s spiritual qi grew purer.
• Three hundred years later, Gu Yuanqing activated the Immortal Mountain Trial and fought Wei Zhao, a Heavenly God at full strength.
• Gu Yuanqing defeated Wei Zhao and absorbed the light that remained, gaining Wei Zhao’s cultivation insights into the Dao of returning to the hidden and the Dao of life and death.

After gaining new Dao insights in the Immortal Mountain Trial, Gu Yuanqing met the King of the Underworld in a dreamlike realm and learned that the Profound Universe Realm involved immeasurably powerful beings. He returned to the North Spring Realm and sent his dharma body to the Qingping Grotto-Heaven, where Qiu Weifeng could barely withstand his presence.

• Gu Yuanqing killed Wei Zhao in the Immortal Mountain Trial and absorbed fragments of his spiritual light, gaining insights into the Way of Returning to the Hidden and the Way of Life and Death.
• Gu Yuanqing fought Wei Zhao again, killed him after nearly two hours, and confirmed that the trial granted no further spiritual light once he had absorbed those insights.
• The King of the Underworld invited Gu Yuanqing to a dreamlike mountain pavilion, where they drank tea and discussed the Immortal Realm and the Profound Universe Realm.
• The King of the Underworld warned Gu Yuanqing not to ask about immeasurably powerful beings, and Gu Yuanqing awoke wondering whether his system or transmigrator identity was connected to the matter.
• Gu Yuanqing sent his dharma body to the Qingping Grotto-Heaven, where Qiu Weifeng tried to look at him and was overwhelmed by his immortal presence.

Gu Yuanqing reclaimed the Immortal Painting, entrusted the Qingping Grotto-Heaven to Li Chengyi, and studied the ancient sword scar for ten years to deepen his Sword Dao. He met the Spiritual Treasure Venerable beside the Void Sea and explained that he had stayed in the realm to settle some remaining matters.

• Qiu Weifeng injured his eyes by trying to behold Gu Yuanqing, and realized the Mountain Master had never left the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing subdued the Person in the Painting, restored Mo Xuan as the painting’s true spirit, and gained complete control of the Immortal Painting.
• Gu Yuanqing entrusted the Immortal Painting and Qingping Grotto-Heaven to Li Chengyi, with instructions to pass them to a Qingping Dao Palace inheritor if they proved unnecessary.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the sword scar and studied its Sword Dao resonance for ten years, until his understanding reached its current limit.
• The Spiritual Treasure Venerable met Gu Yuanqing beside the Void Sea and asked why he had remained in the realm after passing his tribulation; Gu Yuanqing said he still had worldly matters to settle.

Gu Yuanqing explored the Spirit Realm’s ancient Dao imprints, then used Dao Yan to test countless cultivation paths toward the higher immortal realms. His deductions continued through repeated lives, with a clearer path gradually emerging.

• Gu Yuanqing spoke with the Spiritual Treasure Venerable about the Sword Scar, answered his questions about nurturing a true Dao source seed, and declined his invitation to visit the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled across the Spirit Realm to study legendary sites and their ancient immortal traces, eventually reaching the summit of the heavens and glimpsing a great world beyond an immortal’s reach.
• After nearly a hundred years of travel, Gu Yuanqing gathered his insights and prepared to use Dao Yan, intending to deduce a cultivation method suited to the True Immortal Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing activated Dao Yan Empowerment and experienced successive versions of himself following different cultivation paths, each facing a distinct failure or limitation.
• As the deductions continued, Gu Yuanqing became immersed in the repeated lives, and a clear cultivation path gradually emerged in his heart.

After Dao Yan gave Gu Yuanqing a cultivation path beyond the Golden Immortal realm, he spent decades advancing his Dao while Gu Yuanying peacefully died of old age. His strength and the North Spring Realm continued to grow until the Guixu Alliance began forcing open the Boundary Gate, leaving Gu Yuanqing’s choice unresolved.

• Gu Yuanqing absorbed the results of countless illusions, then spent half a month grounding his consciousness in his real memories and reflecting on the path Dao Yan had revealed.
• Decades later, Gu Yuanying refused Gu Yuanqing’s offer to extend her life and died peacefully with her family gathered around her.
• Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating, strengthening his Heavenly Human World and the North Spring Realm as his mastery of the Dao advanced toward great accomplishment in the True Immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar saw Wei Zhao, Zhou Tianyan, and Yan Guichi struggle to reinforce the Boundary Gate as the Guixu Alliance’s power battered its seal.
• Wei Zhao asked Gu Yuanqing whether he had decided what to do about the Return to the Ruins’ attempt to open the Boundary Gate, and Gu Yuanqing said he would decide when the time came.

Gu Yuanqing refused Wei Zhao’s request to join forces against the Guixu Alliance, saying he did not trust him and intended to follow his own path. He watched Wei Zhao reveal his divine body and seal the Boundary Gate, but expected the Guixu Alliance to return soon.

• Wei Zhao warned Gu Yuanqing that the ancient gods’ return could enslave cultivators, but Gu Yuanqing rejected his demand to help defend the Boundary Gate.
• Gu Yuanqing explained that he refused to ally with Wei Zhao because he did not trust him, and Wei Zhao warned that the Guixu Alliance would eventually discover Gu Yuanqing’s Way of Creation.
• Wei Zhao vanished, and Gu Yuanqing returned his attention to the ongoing battle at the Boundary Gate through his avatar in the Dao Origin Realm.
• Wei Zhao appeared in the God Ruins in his divine body and reunited with his divine soul, then used Gui Cang Hall’s power to force the Boundary Gate shut.
• Wei Zhao sheltered Zhou Tianyan and Yan Guichi inside Gui Cang Hall to withstand the heavenly punishment, while Gu Yuanqing concluded that the Guixu Alliance would soon attack again.

Gu Yuanqing refused to trust Wei Zhao’s proposed alliance and used the time before the Guixu Alliance’s possible arrival to strengthen his divine abilities. After refining several techniques with the Demon Lord’s power, he completed the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye using his accumulated incense and fire qi.

• Gu Yuanqing decided to wait and judge the Guixu Alliance by its actions while focusing on improving his combat strength.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned four demigod True Demon Apostles, suppressed them, and used their Demon Lord power to fuel Dao Yan.
• Gu Yuanqing completed the Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation, the Great Dao Return to Ruins Palm, and the Great Yi Illusionary Sky Steps.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the remaining Demon Lord power from the three exhausted Apostles and kept Qiu Weifeng’s avatar suppressed for future deductions.
• Gu Yuanqing spent his accumulated incense and fire qi deducing the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye, combining starlight with karma to reveal the connections among all things.

Gu Yuanqing cultivated the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye and used it to uncover and repair subtle flaws in the North Spring Realm, deepening his connection to the world. Ten years later, the Boundary Gate began opening again as a sea of blood poured through, and a violent disturbance struck the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground.

• Gu Yuanqing spent three months cultivating the Void Piercing Heavenly Eye, inscribing the Dao of Stars and the Path of Causality into his eyes and manifesting a Divine Mark between his brows.
• Using the new eye and Object Control, Gu Yuanqing detected and corrected hidden flaws in the North Spring Realm's Great Dao, making the world's operation smoother and strengthening his connection to it.
• Gu Yuanqing peered beyond the North Spring Realm and glimpsed Rule Divine Artifacts in the Fa Yuan Realm, but withdrew when their power threatened him and alerted watching gazes.
• Gu Yuanqing learned that Heavenly Lord Xuanji had died during his Void Immortal Heavenly Tribulation, then guided Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an and continued cultivating and fighting Wei Zhao in the Spiritual Mountain Trial.
• Ten years later, Gu Yuanqing sensed the Boundary Gate shaking open as blood poured through, while Wei Zhao struggled to shut it and the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground began to heave.