Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing watched the Guixu Alliance descend through the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground while Wei Zhao struggled to hold the Boundary Gate. As another Guixu Alliance power awakened, Wei Zhao bargained for Gu Yuanqing’s help, and the chapter ended with an offer of three thousand cubic units of high-grade source crystals.

• Gu Yuanqing realized the Guixu Alliance was attempting to enter the God Ruins through the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground as Wei Zhao fought to keep the Boundary Gate shut.
• Wei Zhao and the Primordial Divine Sect’s true god remnant souls used forbidden grounds and artifact phantoms to contain the descending power, while Gu Yuanqing sensed a fierce battle between the Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance in the Fa Yuan Realm.
• A second forbidden ground awakened under the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear, and Wei Zhao recognized that another member of the Return to the Ruins might descend.
• Wei Zhao called on Gu Yuanqing to intervene, but Gu Yuanqing said he could abandon the Dao Source Forbidden Land and refused to be swayed by Wei Zhao’s warning about the Demon Lord.
• Wei Zhao offered the Ten Directions Token and the source power of three small worlds, but Gu Yuanqing rejected them as insufficient.
• Wei Zhao made a final offer of three thousand cubic units of high-grade source crystals and threatened to let everything collapse if Gu Yuanqing refused.

Gu Yuanqing forced Wei Zhao to pay the agreed goods before agreeing to intervene against the Guixu Alliance’s descending Heavenly God. After collecting the payment, he appeared before the awakening forbidden ground and began fighting the Heavenly God wielding the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear.

• Gu Yuanqing refused to help Wei Zhao until he received payment, while the Boundary Gate and the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground came under increasing pressure.
• Gu Yuanqing pressed Wei Zhao about his father Wei Yuan’s attempt to reach the God King Realm, and Wei Zhao agreed to provide the world origins and source crystals.
• Gu Yuanqing traveled to the Primordial Realm to collect the Ten Directions Token and half the source crystals from Wei Zhao’s avatar, then received the remaining goods near the Boundary Gate.
• Gu Yuanqing promised to honor their deal and appeared before the forbidden ground as a Guixu Alliance Heavenly God tried to descend using the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear.
• The Heavenly God attacked Gu Yuanqing with gray beams, and Gu Yuanqing met them with sword qi before erasing the spear’s lingering power from his fingertip.

Gu Yuanqing fought Jinxu, a Heavenly God of the Guixu Alliance, and used their clash to deepen his understanding of annihilation while probing the forbidden ground. As Jinxu’s true body descended through the Boundary Gate, Gu Yuanqing revealed that he had been waiting for him.

• Gu Yuanqing met Jinxu’s attacks with his sword arts, the Way of Space, and the Way of Creation, while studying the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear.
• Jinxu unleashed the spear’s All Things Return to Ruin ability, but Gu Yuanqing escaped into the void and returned unharmed.
• Gu Yuanqing’s repeated attacks weakened the forbidden ground and strengthened the annihilation within his sword dao, prompting Jinxu to recognize his cultivation of the Way of Creation.
• Jinxu suspected Gu Yuanqing’s identity and tried to recruit him to the Guixu Alliance, but Gu Yuanqing ignored him and continued fighting.
• Wei Zhao struggled to restrain the Boundary Gate as it opened farther, allowing Jinxu’s true body to descend and merge with his projection.
• Jinxu declared that Gu Yuanqing’s resistance would end, and Gu Yuanqing replied that he had been waiting for Jinxu to arrive.

Gu Yuanqing fought Heavenly God Jinxu after Jinxu’s true body arrived with the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear. Gu Yuanqing revealed that his earlier fighter was an avatar, then used the North Spring Realm’s Boundary Domain to overwhelm and imprison Jinxu.

• Jinxu summoned the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear and challenged Gu Yuanqing while Wei Zhao continued resisting the Boundary Gate.
• Gu Yuanqing manifested the North Spring Realm, countering Jinxu’s Termination Domain and matching him in a prolonged battle.
• Jinxu summoned the spear’s true form and unleashed a devastating attack, forcing Gu Yuanqing to retreat into the North Spring Realm.
• Jinxu sensed danger and stopped before entering the realm, but Gu Yuanqing’s true self revealed itself and used World Arrival against him.
• Gu Yuanqing’s Boundary Domain severed Jinxu’s connection to the spear and pulled him into the North Spring Realm, where Jinxu was imprisoned.

Gu Yuanqing captured Jinxu and cast him into the Heaven and Earth Pool, where the Heavenly God became a fish and his Divine Spark began to dissolve. At the Boundary Gate, Wei Zhao learned that Jinxu was no longer a threat, closed the gate against the Guixu Alliance, and Gu Yuanqing turned to examine the Ten Directions Token.

• Gu Yuanqing found he could suppress Jinxu but could not destroy his Divine Spark, so he tossed him into the Heaven and Earth Pool.
• The pool transformed Jinxu into a fish, suppressed his power, and began dissolving his Termination Dao Resonance.
• Wei Zhao held the Boundary Gate under pressure as Jinxu’s and Gu Yuanqing’s auras suddenly vanished.
• Gu Yuanqing told Wei Zhao that Jinxu could no longer trouble him and said his intervention had only covered the payment already given.
• Wei Zhao forced the Boundary Gate shut as the Guixu Alliance’s attack receded, then exposed a phantom escaping from the Nether Edict Forbidden Ground.
• Gu Yuanqing considered the Ten Directions Token and sent for Li Chengyi.

Li Chengyi received the Ten Directions Token from Gu Yuanqing, who had obtained it from Wei Zhao after helping stop the Guixu Alliance. Gu Yuanqing strengthened the North Spring Realm and used the Immortal Mountain Trial to defeat Jinxu’s projection, gaining insights that advanced his cultivation, while the Guixu Alliance’s Heavenly Gods investigated Jinxu’s disappearance.

• Gu Yuanqing gave Li Chengyi the Ten Directions Token and warned him that its prestige could bring danger amid the conflict between the Guixu Alliance and the Divine Court.
• Gu Yuanqing sent three portions of Small World Origin into the North Spring Realm Core, slightly enriching the realm’s spiritual qi.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the Immortal Mountain Trial and fought Jinxu’s projection to test his Great Dao against the Way of Termination and the Way of Destruction.
• Gu Yuanqing destroyed Jinxu’s projection and absorbed its imprinted insights, forming new Great Dao runes and strengthening his Heavenly Human World.
• Seven Heavenly Gods in the Fa Yuan Realm discussed Jinxu’s vanished aura, but Xuan Ming and Guanxing could not identify who had fought him.

The Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance both weighed the struggle over the Boundary Gate and the Exquisite Realm Domain, while Wei Yuan and Wei Zhao discussed Gu Yuanqing’s hidden strength and the danger surrounding the Mirror of Rebirth. After absorbing Jinxu’s Dao imprints, Gu Yuanqing reconsidered his view of the Great Daos of the Fa Yuan Realm as conflict with its powers loomed.

• The Crimson Figure and the other Heavenly Gods discussed obtaining the cultivation seeds in the Exquisite Realm Domain, and Xuan Ming and Guanxing argued over the threat posed by the Divine Court and the returning God Kings.
• Qin Wentian blamed Zhao Chengyun for failing to guard the Boundary Gate, warned that future failures could be judged by the Heavenly Law Bell, and the Divine Court’s assembly questioned Wei Yuan and Wei Zhao’s intentions.
• Wei Zhao told Wei Yuan that Gu Yuanqing had trapped Jinxu, and Wei Yuan suspected Gu Yuanqing had already been a Heavenly God when he arrived in the Ancient Realm.
• Wei Yuan and Wei Zhao considered whether North Spring Mountain had affected Jinxu, while Wei Yuan admitted that his own path to the God King realm remained uncertain.
• The Demon Lord urged Wei Yuan to choose a side before the Guixu Alliance or the Divine Court’s returning elders left him no options.
• Gu Yuanqing reflected on how absorbing Jinxu’s imprints of termination and annihilation had changed his understanding of the Great Daos, and began reconsidering his stance toward the Fa Yuan Realm’s Daos.

Gu Yuanqing refined his understanding of destruction and creation while the North Spring Realm and Qian Yuan Realm continued to grow. After weighing where to advance his Primordial Creation True Talisman, he chose the Fa Yuan Realm and sent his avatar there to transform it into a true god-level talisman.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed Jinxu's power changing the Heaven and Earth Pool and discovered something might be condensing in its depths.
• Gu Yuanqing used the insights from Wei Zhao and Jinxu to advance his cultivation, while the North Spring Realm expanded and developed traces of immortal spiritual qi.
• Li Chengyi raised the Ten Directions Token in the Qian Yuan Realm, causing the Heaven and Earth Stele to appear and the realm to grow rapidly.
• After another thirty-odd years, Gu Yuanqing drew close to the peak of the True Immortal realm and decided to transform the Primordial Creation True Talisman in the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing manifested an avatar containing the Primordial Creation True Talisman and sent it out of the North Spring Realm into the Fa Yuan Realm.

Gu Yuanqing transformed his Creation True Talisman into a Divine Spark and became a True God as the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel awakened. His avatar endured the heavenly tribulation while the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance raced to find him, and his true body continued comprehending the Way of Creation on North Spring Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing drew power from the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel and source crystals to transform his Creation True Talisman into a Divine Spark.
• The Divine Spark’s formation triggered a heavenly tribulation that gathered across the Fuyuan Mountain Range.
• The Divine Court recognized the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel’s awakening, and Qin Wentian ordered the Heavenly Gods to find its new wielder before the Guixu Alliance could claim him.
• The Guixu Alliance also sensed the awakening, and Xuanming sent Dang Shuo to reach the new True God ahead of the Divine Court.
• Gu Yuanqing’s avatar absorbed the tribulation’s thunder through his Divine Spark while his true body observed and comprehended its changes on North Spring Mountain.

Gu Yuanqing’s avatar passed the divine tribulation, and the destruction and rebirth within his Divine Spark perfected his True Immortal Dao. After becoming a True God, he met Jiang Chen, while a powerful newcomer with mastery of space appeared nearby.

• Gu Yuanqing watched his avatar’s tribulation and sensed that the Heaven-Watching Mirror had begun spying on the disturbance.
• His avatar endured the Great Annihilation Calamity Spear, studying how destruction and creation clashed and then rebuilt the Divine Kingdom within his Divine Spark.
• The Divine Spark’s world was reborn, and Gu Yuanqing’s True Immortal Dao reached perfection, leaving him one step from becoming a Celestial Immortal.
• Jiang Chen approached after Gu Yuanqing stabilized his realm, congratulated him, and learned that he cultivated in the Fuyuan Mountain Range.
• As Gu Yuanqing invited Jiang Chen to North Spring Mountain, a figure with formidable spatial attainment appeared, and Gu Yuanqing suspected the newcomer was a god-level cultivator.

Gu Yuanqing welcomed Jiang Chen into North Spring Mountain, then absorbed the Dao insights from Jiang Chen’s imprint in the Immortal Mountain Trial. Jiang Yunchuan arrived at the Fuyuan Mountain Range and asked Gu Yuanqing to meet him.

• Jiang Chen accepted Gu Yuanqing’s invitation, visited North Spring Mountain, and discussed the Dao with him before leaving.
• Jiang Yunchuan intercepted Jiang Chen and questioned him about Gu Yuanqing’s origins, but Jiang Chen admitted he knew nothing.
• Gu Yuanqing merged his avatar’s insights with his true body’s and refined his understanding of the Way of Creation.
• Gu Yuanqing fought Jiang Chen’s imprint in the Immortal Mountain Trial, destroyed it, and gained insights into the Four Symbols Return to Origin Cauldron.
• Jiang Yunchuan appeared above the Fuyuan Mountain Range and called for Gu Yuanqing to meet him.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Jiang Yunchuan’s attempt to bring him to the Divine Court, and the two nearly fought before Jiang Yunchuan backed down. When Dang Shuo of the Guixu Alliance arrived, Gu Yuanqing calmly waited for him to reach North Spring Mountain while Jiang Yunchuan prepared a concealed intervention.

• Gu Yuanqing welcomed Jiang Yunchuan to North Spring Mountain and served him tea as Jiang Yunchuan explained that the Guixu Alliance wanted the Way of Creation.
• Jiang Yunchuan urged Gu Yuanqing to go to the Divine Court for protection, but Gu Yuanqing refused and warned him against using force.
• Jiang Yunchuan challenged Gu Yuanqing to a fight, then reconsidered after sensing danger and chose not to attack.
• Dang Shuo’s arrival stirred a powerful wind across the region, and Jiang Yunchuan identified him as a heavenly god of the Guixu Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing let the winds fill North Spring Mountain and said he would wait for Dang Shuo, while Jiang Yunchuan secretly formed a hand seal.

Gu Yuanqing listened as Heavenly Gods Jiang Yunchuan and Dang Shuo argued over the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance, each trying to win him over and warning him about the other faction. The chapter ended with Gu Yuanqing asking whether the Guixu Alliance could take him out of Divine Court territory instantly, alarming Jiang Yunchuan.

• Jiang Yunchuan watched Dang Shuo's wind domain surround the mountain while Gu Yuanqing allowed its power to enter the North Spring Realm without letting it discover the realm's true workings.
• Dang Shuo appeared before Gu Yuanqing and invited him to join the Guixu Alliance, promising support for his rise to Heavenly God or even God King.
• Jiang Yunchuan challenged Dang Shuo's promises and warned Gu Yuanqing that the Guixu Alliance wanted to use the Way of Creation to resurrect the Ancient Gods, while Dang Shuo accused the Divine Court of seeking to control Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned a table of food and drink, then invited Dang Shuo to explain how both factions regarded him as the two Heavenly Gods continued their argument.
• Dang Shuo asked Gu Yuanqing to join the Guixu Alliance, and Gu Yuanqing asked whether it could instantly remove him from Divine Court territory, prompting Jiang Yunchuan to warn him to consider his choice carefully.

Gu Yuanqing refused to join either the Guixu Alliance or the Divine Court as Dang Shuo and Jiang Yunchuan fought over him. As more Heavenly Gods arrived and battled near North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing remained confident that his realm could withstand them and looked forward to gaining their imprints.

• Gu Yuanqing rejected Dang Shuo’s demand to join the Guixu Alliance, and Dang Shuo attacked him with the Sky Transformation Command Wind Seal.
• Jiang Yunchuan blocked Dang Shuo’s attack and fought him with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, while Gu Yuanqing’s mountain remained untouched by the Heavenly Gods’ power.
• Jiang Yunchuan realized North Spring Mountain might be a true realm of creation and urged Gu Yuanqing to seek safety with the Divine Court, but Gu Yuanqing declined.
• A hidden attacker targeted Gu Yuanqing, prompting Heavenly Eye and Guanxing to clash and Qin Tianwen to confront Xuan Ming with the Heavenly Law Bell.
• Gu Yuanqing welcomed the arrival of six Heavenly Gods, hoping to refine their imprints and advance beyond the peak of the True Immortal realm.

The Divine Court and Guixu Alliance fought around North Spring Mountain while Gu Yuanqing watched and studied their Divine Abilities. When the Guixu Alliance revealed an attack on Divine Firmament, Qin Wentian used the Jun Tian Thunder Talisman to devastate the battlefield, and the three Guixu Heavenly Gods escaped wounded as the Divine Court turned to reinforce elsewhere.

• Jiang Yunchuan suspected Gu Yuanqing's calm reaction might conceal a trap as the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance surrounded North Spring Mountain.
• Qin Wentian and the other Divine Court Heavenly Gods battled Xuan Ming, Dang Shuo, and Guanxing while Jiang Yunchuan's Avatar protected Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing observed the combatants' Divine Abilities and used his authority over North Spring Mountain to resist Qin Wentian's Heavenly Law Bell.
• The Heavenly Eye God spotted another Rule Divine Artifact shining over Divine Firmament, and Xuan Ming revealed that the Guixu Alliance had launched a separate attack there.
• Qin Wentian deployed the Jun Tian Thunder Talisman, unleashing God King power that shattered the Guixu Alliance's Laws and severely wounded Xuan Ming and Dang Shuo.
• The three Guixu Heavenly Gods escaped through a mirror after opening a fissure in the lightning, and Qin Wentian ordered Jiang Yunchuan to return and reinforce Divine Firmament.

After the Guixu Alliance’s attack, Gu Yuanqing studied the insights he had gained while the Divine Court and the Alliance debated how to deal with him. Jiang Yunchuan suspected Gu Yuanqing’s mountain was the Creation True Realm, leaving both sides wary of its power and planning their next moves.

• Qin Wentian, the Heavenly Eye God, and Jiang Yunchuan left the battle, while Jiang Yunchuan’s avatar stayed with Gu Yuanqing to discuss the Dao and probe his mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing secretly replaced his true body with an avatar, then reviewed the battle’s insights and later entered his trial space to challenge Jiang Yunchuan’s imprint.
• Jiang Yunchuan departed after a day, but suspected the mountain was the Creation True Realm left by the Creation God King.
• At a Divine Court council, Jiang Yunchuan and the Heavenly Eye God reported that Gu Yuanqing and his mountain were difficult to discern, while Xue Jingnian and others argued that Gu Yuanqing should be brought back or killed.
• Jiang Yunchuan proposed that the mountain was the Creation True Realm, leading the Divine Court’s Heavenly Gods to reconsider the danger of attacking Gu Yuanqing.
• In the Myriad God Ruins, Xuan Ming and the other Guixu Alliance leaders planned to exploit the Divine Court’s limited reach and conceal the region’s heavenly secrets.

Gu Yuanqing defeated Jiang Yunchuan’s imprint and Dang Shuo’s imprint while deepening his understanding of space and creation, then stayed focused on cultivation as the Guixu Alliance and Divine Court moved toward war. When an attack damaged the nearly completed teleportation array and a blood-robed Heavenly God assaulted Fuyuan Mountain Range, Hong Kaiyuan appeared to fight him, while new fluctuations emerged from the Boundary Gate.

• Gu Yuanqing fought Jiang Yunchuan’s imprint for ten days, overcame a flaw in his spatial methods, and destroyed his divine spark to absorb the Heaven Measuring Ruler’s spatial principles.
• Gu Yuanqing explored the creation divine ability Myriad Daos Return to Origin, then fought Dang Shuo’s imprint with the Wind Dao before combining multiple Great Dao abilities to kill him.
• Jiang Yunchuan warned Gu Yuanqing that the Guixu Alliance was preparing to pin down Divine Court forces and target the Tianfang Domain as battles broke out across the region.
• Dang Shuo attacked Jiang Yunchuan near the nearly completed teleportation array, while an insider destroyed much of the formation’s core and disrupted its earth veins.
• A blood-robed attacker approached North Spring Mountain, but Hong Kaiyuan trapped him in the Great Change Array Diagram and fought him with its Taiji Eight Trigrams formations.
• Gu Yuanqing watched Hong Kaiyuan battle the attacker, then sensed fluctuations coming from the Boundary Gate in the God Ruins Land.

Gu Yuanqing watched Hong Kaiyuan repel the Guixu Alliance’s attack on the Tianfang Domain, then spent decades refining his cultivation and weighing where to undergo the Celestial Immortal Tribulation. He decided to hold the tribulation in the North Spring Realm and instructed Li Chengyi to prepare for changes during his absence.

• Gu Yuanqing observed Hong Kaiyuan trap Red Firmament and the Blood-Robed Daoist in a formation until they escaped, ending the Guixu Alliance’s attack on the Tianfang Domain.
• Gu Yuanqing studied Hong Kaiyuan’s array arts and refined six god-level imprints, bringing his cultivation close to the Celestial Immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing considered the risks of undergoing the Celestial Immortal Tribulation in the connected realms and chose the North Spring Realm as his first option.
• After more than thirty years of conflict, the Divine Court completed its formation across the endless void, while Jiang Yunchuan warned Gu Yuanqing against risking his life to help the Guixu Alliance.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected Wei Zhao’s appeal to defend the boundary domain without a promised price and, after consolidating his cultivation, decided to begin preparing for his tribulation.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Li Chengyi and instructed him to prepare for changes in the North Spring Realm during the tribulation, leaving Li Chengyi troubled by how far ahead his father had advanced.

Gu Yuanqing passed the Celestial Immortal Tribulation by immersing his consciousness in his Heavenly Human World and allowing it to transform without his control. After eighty or ninety years, he summoned Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Guanrong and revealed that he had already succeeded.

• Li Chengyi informed the Qian Yuan Sect elders that Gu Yuanqing planned to undergo a Celestial Immortal Tribulation and told them to prepare quietly.
• Gu Huai'an learned about the tribulation and wondered whether Gu Yuanqing becoming a Celestial Immortal would let him contact their mother, then decided to wait before leaving for the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Gu Yuanqing let the dao principles in his Heavenly Human World develop without his intervention, merged his consciousness with the world, and awakened when life first appeared there.
• Gu Yuanqing realized the Celestial Immortal Tribulation was a perilous dao-transformation within oneself and that he had passed it by preserving his original heart through the world's transformation.
• After eighty or ninety years of waiting, Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Guanrong went to the main peak when Gu Yuanqing summoned them.
• Gu Yuanqing told the three that he had already passed the Celestial Immortal Tribulation, leaving them stunned.

After becoming a Celestial Immortal, Gu Yuanqing reassured his family about their mother and examined how his breakthrough had changed the North Spring Realm. He surveyed the other worlds and discovered the divine court was searching for him in the Fa Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and Li Guanrong that he had become a Celestial Immortal, answered their questions about events during his seclusion, and guided their cultivation.
• Gu Huai'an asked whether Gu Yuanqing could contact his mother, and Gu Yuanqing explained that she could send him her location by crushing another command token.
• Gu Yuanqing observed that his breakthrough had enriched the North Spring Realm's spiritual qi and traced the realm's Great Dao River toward what might be the immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing surveyed Demon God Mountain and the Underground Cave, recognized the power of the Demon Lord, and refined a wisp of his aura into divine power.
• Gu Yuanqing saw Heavenly Eye God Lord using the Heaven-Watching Mirror to investigate the Fuyuan Mountain Range while Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan searched for clues.