Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing let the Divine Court’s Heavenly Gods attack his hidden mountain, then rebuked them and refused to help heal a wounded god unless the god came to him. After they left, he saw Divine Firmament and found that becoming a Celestial Immortal had deepened his connection to the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel and his insight into the Way of Creation.

• Gu Yuanqing watched as the Heavenly Eye Sage Lord, Jiang Yunchuan, and Hong Kaiyuan failed to locate his hidden mountain with their divine artifacts.
• Jiang Yunchuan used the Heaven Measuring Ruler to shatter space, prompting Gu Yuanqing’s mountain to appear and smooth away the damage.
• Gu Yuanqing confronted the three Heavenly Gods for attacking him, and Jiang Yunchuan apologized while asking him to help a god whose divine kingdom was being consumed by Jinxu’s Way of Termination.
• Gu Yuanqing refused to travel to the Divine Court and told Jiang Yunchuan to bring the injured god to his mountain instead.
• After the three Heavenly Gods departed, Hong Kaiyuan warned that Gu Yuanqing was no simple True God, and Jiang Yunchuan called him an unpredictable variable.
• Gu Yuanqing saw a pillar of light at Divine Firmament and observed the Primordial Creation Heaven Wheel, sensing a closer connection to it and a deeper understanding of the Way of Creation.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating in the North Spring Realm while the Divine Court kept its distance, until Ling Yi and the Spirit Venerable arrived seeking his help after the Ancient Evil God's seal shattered. As Ling Yi prepared to leave without an audience, Gu Yuanqing invited them up the mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing examined a Dao Tree growing from Jinxu's power in the Heaven and Earth Pool and reflected on the King of the Underworld and the origins of his opportunities.
• Gu Yuanqing allowed Gu Huai'an to travel with Gu Siyuan and gave both young men protective items before they left to temper themselves.
• Jiang Yunchuan brought gifts from the Divine Court and probed Gu Yuanqing, who invited him to bring other Divine Court cultivators for discussions of the Dao.
• After more than forty years, Ling Yi and the Spirit Venerable visited Li Chengyi on Qian Yuan Island to ask for Gu Yuanqing's help against the Ancient Evil God's broken seal.
• Li Chengyi said he could not reach his father, but as Ling Yi and the Spirit Venerable prepared to depart, Gu Yuanqing sent word inviting them up the mountain.

Ling Yi sought Gu Yuanqing’s help as the Nine Domains Divine Continent faced a failing seal and renewed heavenly demon attacks, and Gu Yuanqing agreed to intervene. Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to the Immaculate Zen Forest, where he arrived as the assembled cultivators prepared to deal with the demonic fiend.

• Ling Yi and the Spirit Venerable met Gu Yuanqing in the North Spring Realm and told him that the demonic fiend’s seal was failing after Zen Master Huijue’s death and that heavenly demons had returned.
• Gu Yuanqing agreed to help protect the Nine Domains Divine Continent and said he would refine the demonic fiend and heavenly demons into pills.
• Ling Yi left with Gu Yuanqing’s command token, and Gu Yuanqing later sent an avatar to the Nine Domains Divine Continent using the Heavenly Angling Technique.
• At the Immaculate Zen Forest, Ling Yi and the gathered leaders discussed the crisis and asked him to summon Gu Yuanqing by crushing the jade talisman.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared before the gathered cultivators and turned his attention to the sealed demonic fiend.

Gu Yuanqing heard the history of the ancient demonic fiend and the three ways to deal with him, then persuaded the Immaculate Zen Forest to choose a direct attack. The seal opened, and Zen Master Liaokong began the Great Compassion Demon-Subduing Formation as Gu Yuanqing and the others prepared to strike.

• Zen Master Liaokong explained that the demonic fiend had survived for millions of years and described the best strategy, the lengthy middle strategy, and the destructive last resort.
• Gu Yuanqing recommended the best strategy, and the leaders of the Nine Domains Divine Continent agreed to follow it after discussing their concerns.
• Zen Master Liaokong assigned the cultivators their roles, with Zen Master Huiwu holding the Heaven-Swallowing Jar in check and Gu Yuanqing waiting to deliver the decisive blow.
• Zen Master Huijue opened the seal, revealing the chained demonic fiend, who threatened to devour the gathered cultivators.
• Zen Master Liaokong activated the Great Compassion Demon-Subduing Formation, and the demonic fiend screamed beneath its Buddha light as Liaokong called for everyone to attack.

Ling Yi, Li Yanshen, Zhou Luochen, Zen Master Li Kong, and Zen Master Huiwu fought Li Yun, but the demon overpowered them and began pulling the Nine-Ring Monk’s Staff from his chest. Gu Yuanqing then effortlessly seized Li Yun and the Heaven-Swallowing Jar, leaving the others stunned by his power.

• Ling Yi, Li Yanshen, and Zhou Luochen attacked Li Yun while Zen Master Li Kong opened the formation and Zen Master Huiwu empowered the Nine-Ring Monk’s Staff.
• Li Yun healed from their attacks, broke through their combined suppression, and began pulling the staff from his chest as the Buddhist formation weakened.
• Gu Yuanqing flicked a finger and erased half of Li Yun’s body, then said he intended to keep the demon alive.
• Li Yun unleashed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar against Gu Yuanqing, while Ling Yi, Li Yanshen, Zhou Luochen, and Zen Master Li Kong tried to intervene.
• Gu Yuanqing grasped at the air and drew Li Yun and the Heaven-Swallowing Jar into the North Spring Realm, leaving the battlefield silent.

After suppressing the demonic fiend beneath the Immaculate Zen Forest, Gu Yuanqing traveled into the Demon Land to capture the three Devil Masters and eliminate the heavenly demons threatening the Nine Domains Divine Continent. The continent learned of his success and erupted in celebration.

• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the demonic fiend, and the monks of the Immaculate Zen Forest celebrated as Zen Master Liaokong announced their victory.
• Li Yanshen, Ling Yi, and the others offered Gu Yuanqing their gratitude and help, but he said he was searching the Demon Land for the three Devil Masters.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the Sin Accumulation Abyss and used the North Spring Realm Projection to capture the Ten Thousand Sins Demon Lord and retrieve a substance of utmost yin.
• Gu Yuanqing visited the other two demon abysses and captured Demon Lord Xuan You and the Seven Emotions Demon Lord, then used the Void-Cave Heavenly Child to locate and retrieve their avatars.
• Gu Yuanqing's actions wiped out heavenly demons across the Demon Land, and the people of the Nine Domains Divine Continent celebrated after learning what he had done.

Gu Yuanqing’s return and effortless defeat of the Devil Masters ended the threat to the Nine Domains Divine Continent, while his descendants advanced and the Qian Yuan Sect rose to prominence. As Wei Zhao warned him that the Boundary Gate would reappear within twenty years and the Guixu Alliance would act, Gu Yuanqing learned the Divine Court was preparing for the same opportunity.

• Xuan Haoji received confirmation that Gu Yuanqing had slain the Devil Masters, and Gu Yuanqing refined them and two captured demonic beasts into five Divine Soul Grand Elixirs.
• Gu Yuanqing gave Li Chengyi an elixir, and after years of cultivation Li Chengyi became a Void Immortal, while Gu Huai'an advanced to the Shattering Heaven Realm.
• The Nine Domains Divine Continent’s visitors spread news of Gu Yuanqing’s intervention, drawing cultivators from across the Spirit Realm to the Qian Yuan Sect in search of his guidance.
• Gu Yuanqing continued his cultivation as the Divine Court and Guixu Alliance clashed in the Fa Yuan Realm, and Wei Zhao warned him that the Boundary Gate would appear again within twenty years.
• Gu Yuanqing pointed out that Wei Zhao had found a way to contact the Divine Court, but Wei Zhao insisted that the Boundary Gate and the Guixu Alliance were the real issue.

Gu Yuanqing prepared for renewed war between the Guixu Alliance and the Divine Court, then entered the Ancient Realm to follow the Boundless River upstream. At the river’s seemingly unreachable source, a pair of enormous eyes appeared and asked where he had come from.

• Gu Yuanqing agreed to fight the Guixu Alliance for Wei Zhao in exchange for source crystals and divine gold, while refusing to attack him.
• Gu Yuanqing studied the ancient sword scar for ten years, integrated its Sword Dao into the Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation, and cultivated for another ten years.
• As war preparations resumed, Wei Zhao delivered the promised treasures, and Gu Yuanqing informed Li Chengyi about the Guixu Alliance and the Demon Lord’s threat.
• Gu Yuanqing entered the Ancient Realm, met Wei Yuan’s avatar, and said he wanted to see the Boundless River’s source.
• Gu Yuanqing followed the Boundless River upstream, used his empowered Void Piercing Heavenly Eye to probe its domain, and encountered enormous eyes that asked where he had come from.

Gu Yuanqing glimpsed a mysterious Great Cultivator through the Boundless River, received the Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art, and later accepted another space-time cultivation technique from the King of the Underworld. Their conversation deepened his suspicions that powerful figures were shaping events around him, and he sensed the Guixu Alliance was finally making its move.

• Gu Yuanqing peered into the Boundless River and formed a karmic connection with a mysterious Great Cultivator, who left the Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art in his mind.
• Gu Yuanqing withdrew into the North Spring Realm, decided not to cultivate the unfamiliar art until he could analyze it, and later watched Feng Ziyi undergo her Yin-Yang Void-Breaking Calamity.
• The King of the Underworld summoned Gu Yuanqing for tea and gave him a jade slip containing the Great Void Evolution of the Cosmos Scripture.
• Gu Yuanqing told the King of the Underworld about the Great Cultivator and the Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art, then questioned why the King had repeatedly helped him.
• After their meeting ended, Gu Yuanqing suspected that apparent coincidences were deliberate moves by powerful figures and resolved not to pursue truths beyond his strength.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed activity at the God Ruins and wondered whether the Guixu Alliance was finally making its move.

Gu Yuanqing studied the Great Void Evolution of the Cosmos Scripture while the Guixu Alliance escalated its war against the Divine Court. When Xuan Ming entered North Spring Mountain, Gu Yuanqing welcomed the intruder as a chance to nurture another Dao Tree.

• Wei Zhao gave Gu Yuanqing two masses of small world origin and a Storage Bag in exchange for keeping the Guixu Alliance out of the God Ruins.
• Gu Yuanqing examined the Great Void Evolution of the Cosmos Scripture, considered using Dao Yan to derive a safer cultivation technique, and chose to proceed cautiously.
• The Guixu Alliance launched coordinated attacks across the Fa Yuan Realm, then assaulted the Tianfang Domain's Teleportation Array while Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan fought to defend it.
• Dang Shuo, Red Firmament, and Yang Dujiang prevented Hong Kaiyuan and Jiang Yunchuan from stopping Xuan Ming from entering North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing smiled as Xuan Ming entered North Spring Mountain, seeing an opportunity to nurture another Dao Tree in the Heaven and Earth Pool.

Xuan Ming entered North Spring Mountain to seize Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing trapped him inside a pool while the Divine Court drove back the Guixu Alliance attackers. Afterward, Jiang Yunchuan and the Divine Court’s other leaders remained uncertain whether Xuan Ming was truly trapped or had somehow controlled Gu Yuanqing.

• Xuan Ming attacked Gu Yuanqing with the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, but Gu Yuanqing’s mind remained unaffected and he trapped Xuan Ming as a small fish in a pool.
• Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan fought Red Firmament, Dang Shuo, and Yang Dujiang until the Heavenly Eye Sage Lord and Zhou Hanyuan arrived to reinforce the Divine Court.
• The Divine Court’s combined attacks forced the three Guixu Alliance members to retreat, while Jiang Yunchuan entered North Spring Mountain and found Gu Yuanqing unharmed but Xuan Ming missing.
• Gu Yuanqing told Jiang Yunchuan that his mountain was not easy to enter, leaving Jiang uncertain about Xuan Ming’s fate and whether Gu Yuanqing had been controlled.
• Jiang Yunchuan, Zhou Hanyuan, and Hong Kaiyuan discussed the battle, and Zhou Hanyuan warned that the awakened Ancient God of the Town Abyss Underworld Edict might be acting through Xuan Ming.

Gu Yuanqing suppressed Xuan Ming in North Spring Mountain, prompting the Guixu Alliance and Divine Court to clash over his fate. After the Divine Court courted him with gifts and knowledge, Gu Yuanqing refined Hong Kaiyuan’s imprint and deepened his understanding of the Way of Creation and the God King realm, while continuing to welcome visitors whose imprints aided his cultivation.

• Xuan Ming returned to the Guixu Alliance, learned that his original body had not emerged from North Spring Mountain, and angrily challenged Red Firmament and the others for retreating without saving him.
• Gu Yuanqing considered the battle in Tianfang Domain a success and remained calm as he waited to see whether the Guixu Alliance would try to rescue Xuan Ming.
• The Guixu Alliance launched another attack with five Heavenly Gods, but the Divine Court ambushed them, fought them for more than a month, and drove them away.
• Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan visited Gu Yuanqing with divine herbs and books about the Creation God King, and Gu Yuanqing later defeated Hong Kaiyuan in the Immortal Mountain Trial and refined his imprint.
• Gu Yuanqing studied Hong Kaiyuan’s Array Dao insights and the Divine Court’s ancient texts, gaining a deeper understanding of creation and becoming more wary of the God King realm.
• Experts from across the Fa Yuan Realm continued visiting Gu Yuanqing, and he welcomed them while refining their imprints to advance his cultivation.

Gu Yuanqing refined a Termination Dao Fruit and discovered it could potentially help someone advance along the Immortal Path. When another fruit ripened, he offered it to the Dragon Demon Ancestor as a dangerous chance to attain immortality.

• Jiang Yunchuan invited Gu Yuanqing to visit the Celestial Spirit Mountain Divine Realm, but Gu Yuanqing declined and reflected on the North Spring Realm’s growth.
• The first Termination Dao Fruit ripened in the Heaven and Earth Pool, and Jinxu awakened and tried to find the source of the power he felt.
• Gu Yuanqing refined the fruit, gained deeper insight into the Way of Termination and the Annihilation Dao, and formed a Great Annihilation Calamity Spear from his comprehension.
• More than ten years later, Gu Yuanqing summoned the Dragon Demon Ancestor and offered him a second Termination Dao Fruit, warning that refining it could either lead to immortality or destroy him.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor accepted the risk, and Gu Yuanqing prepared to let him refine the fruit under the protection of Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Gu Yuanqing gave the Dragon Demon Ancestor a sealed Termination Dao Fruit, saving him after its power nearly destroyed him and observing his rapid progress. He later offered another fruit to the Divine Court in exchange for small world origin and divine gold, while Xuan Haoji invited him to witness his attempt at the True Immortal tribulation.

• Gu Yuanqing placed a Termination Dao Fruit in the Dragon Demon Ancestor's Heavenly Human World, and its power nearly destroyed the Dragon Demon Ancestor before Gu Yuanqing restored him and added seven seals.
• The Dragon Demon Ancestor cultivated with the fruit's power, transformed his bloodline, and formed an embryonic Dao Principle Imprint within three months.
• Gu Yuanqing considered the value of trading Dao Fruits, while Li Shi'an attained Yin-Yang Circulation and Xie Jiugao delivered the Great Wu Divine Court's invitation to the Qian Yuan Sect.
• Li Chengyi brought Gu Yuanqing a letter from Xuan Haoji, who planned to risk his life attempting the True Immortal tribulation after abdicating; Gu Yuanqing said he would decide later whether to attend.
• Gu Yuanqing showed Jiang Yunchuan a Termination Dao Fruit and offered to trade it to the Divine Court for small world origin and divine gold, explaining that it could help a True God reach the Heavenly God realm.

Gu Yuanqing traded a perfected termination Dao Fruit to Zhou Hanyuan for valuable materials and seven small world origins, then refined the origins to strengthen his Heavenly Human World. After advancing to the middle stage of the Celestial Immortal realm and deepening his understanding of Rule Divine Artifacts, he considered entering the Underground Cave to gather the power needed to further deduce his cultivation method.

• Gu Yuanqing traded his termination Dao Fruit to Zhou Hanyuan for seven small world origins and a collection of heavenly materials, with Jiang Yunchuan witnessing the deal.
• Gu Yuanqing refined all seven world origins into his Heavenly Human World, strengthening its foundations and adjusting the flow of its Great Daos.
• Gu Yuanqing chose to let life arise naturally within his world rather than introduce outside creatures, then rested before resuming his cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing advanced to the middle stage of the Celestial Immortal realm, refined the Demon Suppressing Golden Mace, and realized it could draw on the power of his Heavenly Human World.
• Gu Yuanqing picked another ripe termination Dao Fruit and decided the incense and fire qi he needed would require a trip to the Underground Cave.

Gu Yuanqing entered the Underground Cave to seek the Demon Lord's power and subdued Shadow before finding the sealed Demon Lord's hand. He considered how to obtain its power without damaging the seal or provoking the Ancient Sword.

• Gu Yuanqing traveled through the Underground Cave toward the source of its demonic qi.
• Shadow tried to stop Gu Yuanqing, but Gu Yuanqing froze him and sealed him into a black bead.
• Gu Yuanqing sent Shadow's captured Demon Lord power to the North Spring Realm and continued into the mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing deciphered the mountain's formation, entered a deep cavern, and found the Demon Lord's hand pinned by a Middle Rule Divine Artifact.
• The Demon Lord's hand tried to tempt Gu Yuanqing, who resisted and weighed how to claim its power safely.

Gu Yuanqing studied the seal around the Demon Lord's Hand, then used Dao Derivation to master its Grand Formation and take control of it. He reversed the Formation and pulled the Demon Lord's Hand and its Rule Divine Artifact into the North Spring Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing determined that the seal’s flaw offered little power and that removing the Demon Lord’s Hand could provoke dangerous consequences, but decided its source power was worth the risk.
• He spent years studying and simulating the Grand Formation, then used Dao Derivation and Shadow’s suppressed avatar to deduce its transformations.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar back to the seal and embedded an array talisman into the Formation, bringing its operation under his will.
• He used World Arrival to empower himself, reversed the Formation to suppress the Rule Divine Artifact and Demon Lord’s Hand, and sliced their surrounding space out of the void.
• Gu Yuanqing used the Heavenly Angling Technique to pull the space containing the artifact and hand into the North Spring Realm.

Gu Yuanqing subdued the Heaven-Slaying Sword and cultivated a true talisman that let him control it, then began drawing power from the Demon Lord’s Hand to develop his own cultivation technique. He used Dao Yan to explore countless possible cultivation paths.

• The Heaven-Slaying Sword broke free of its formation and the Demon Lord’s Hand seized the chance to escape, but Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm’s power to suppress them both.
• Gu Yuanqing sealed the Demon Lord’s Hand and studied the Heaven-Slaying Sword, discovering its slaughtering dao and the sword stele within it.
• Gu Yuanqing spent weeks cultivating a Heaven-Slaying True Talisman, gained the sword’s recognition, and placed it on a weapon rack after removing the realm’s pressure.
• Gu Yuanqing met with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an, answered their cultivation questions, and later thought of Li Miaoxuan before deciding to enter seclusion.
• Gu Yuanqing drew the Demon Lord’s Hand’s power while silencing its angry will, then activated Dao Yan to explore countless cultivation paths.

Gu Yuanqing used Dao Yan to create and cultivate a technique that could lead him to Great Luo, then grew suspicious that the Great Void Evolution of the Cosmos Scripture concealed a spatial trap connected to his fate. After decades of quiet cultivation on North Spring Mountain, a blazing light suddenly appeared over the Fa Yuan Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing completed Dao Yan’s extrapolation, cultivated its new technique, and drew out the consciousness inside the Demon Lord’s Hand to question it before suppressing it again.
• Gu Yuanqing suspected the Great Void Evolution of the Cosmos Scripture might leave a spatial anchor that let an outsider locate him, but resolved to grow strong enough to overturn any scheme.
• Gu Yuanqing found no Demon Lord imprint in the Immortal Mountain Trial and returned to cultivating on North Spring Mountain.
• Li Chengyi brought Su Xin'er to Gu Yuanqing for guidance, and she broke through her bottleneck before later surviving the Chaos Heaven Tribulation and becoming an eight-tailed Sky Fox.
• The Heaven Treading Immortal Steed fell into a deep sleep as its bloodline began transforming, and seventy years later Gu Yuanqing noticed a dazzling light above the Fa Yuan Realm.

A disturbance above the Nine Heavens drew Gu Yuanqing into a discussion with Hong Kaiyuan, who warned that the Guixu Alliance might strike before the God Kings returned. After spending half a day discussing array dao, Gu Yuanqing mentioned an ancient figure called the Demon Lord, whose strength had rivaled the Creation God King's.

• Gu Yuanqing and Hong Kaiyuan watched a vast disturbance above the Nine Heavens and discussed the God Kings' absence and the possibility of a Guixu Alliance attack.
• Hong Kaiyuan warned Gu Yuanqing that God King obsessions could descend through the Guixu Alliance's Heavenly Gods and urged him to stay alert.
• Gu Yuanqing noticed Hong Kaiyuan secretly send an avatar toward the Teleportation Array, but continued with him to the pavilion for tea.
• Gu Yuanqing and Hong Kaiyuan discussed array dao and played a go match that ended in a draw.
• Gu Yuanqing told Hong Kaiyuan that an ancient text mentioned the Demon Lord, whose strength had rivaled the Creation God King's.