Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing seized the Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Vine, later killed the Divine Path cultivator Zhang Yi after he endangered Li Chengyi, and drew the attention of Great Li’s imperial family. As the conflict between the Divine Court and the Guixu Alliance intensified, he sensed that Qin Wentian was preparing to undergo the God King Tribulation.

• Gu Yuanqing recognized the Azure Dragon phantom as a Ten-Thousand-Year Evergreen Vine, evaded its pursuers, and sealed the vine underground before returning to the Mystic Sword Sect’s residence.
• Gu Yuanqing’s cultivation rose to the Body Integration Realm as Divine Path cultivators entered the conflict, and he refused their offers of alliance.
• After Zhang Yi helped the Demon Race ambush Li Chengyi to lure him into a trap, Gu Yuanqing killed Zhang Yi and destroyed his sect; Mo Shangqing and an Imperial Grandson also died in a subsequent clash.
• An old man in blue robes from Great Li’s imperial family confronted Gu Yuanqing, and they agreed to fight after sharing food and wine; their battle in Dragon Falling Valley had an unknown outcome.
• More than a year after the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm opened, Gu Yuanqing sensed the Heavenly Law Bell and realized Qin Wentian was preparing for the God King Tribulation.

Qin Tianwen survived the Guixu Alliance’s assault and became a God King, though Gu Yuanqing suspected the battle’s unexpectedly restrained outcome concealed a larger cause. In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, Gu Yuanqing reunited with his sons and later discovered that his Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art shared a lineage with that realm’s Dao Path.

• As Qin Tianwen underwent his God King Calamity, the Guixu Alliance and Divine Court fought God King battles while the Taichu Holy Church performed blood sacrifices, but Qin Tianwen successfully ascended.
• The Jun Tian God King told Qin Tianwen that the conflict had gone smoothly because everyone wanted to live, and urged him to consolidate his new realm.
• Gu Yuanqing met Gu Huai'an through Li Chengyi, reunited with his sons for several days, and then parted from them.
• Over three years in the Fa Yuan Realm, the descending Divine Path cultivators grew stronger and began competing openly for opportunities in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated in seclusion while Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an pursued their own paths, and he discovered that the Cosmic Great Void Immortal Art shared a lineage with the Heavenly Canopy Dao Path.

Gu Yuanqing resisted the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm’s invitations to merge with its Dao, but prophecy and rising challengers pushed him to become the world’s feared summit. As the Era Cycle neared its end, Li Taicang urged him to undergo Dao Integration for the sake of other cultivators, but Gu Yuanqing refused to explain his choice.

• Gu Yuanqing sensed that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was steering him toward its Dao, yet reaffirmed that he would keep to his own path.
• A prophecy spread, rare opportunities appeared, and challengers flocked to Gu Yuanqing after his reputation as Great Li’s Number One Person grew.
• Mo Daoxuan challenged Gu Yuanqing, then returned to his sect and died after declaring that no one beneath heaven could surpass him.
• Gu Yuanqing killed every challenger who entered the Dustforgetting Mountain Range as the great contest unfolded and ancient powers emerged.
• With fewer than a thousand years left in the Era Cycle, Li Taicang asked Gu Yuanqing to achieve Dao Integration so other cultivators could advance, but Gu Yuanqing said their progress was not his responsibility.

Gu Yuanqing refused repeated demands to undergo Dao Integration, and his sons fought off five Mahayana cultivators who came to force him to comply. Back in the Fa Yuan Realm, the Jun Tian God King invited Gu Yuanqing to form an avatar and accompany him to Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• Li Taicang failed to persuade Gu Yuanqing to undergo Dao Integration, and three hundred years later he returned with four other Mahayana cultivators to demand that Gu Yuanqing face them.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an refused to let the cultivators reach Gu Yuanqing, and they fought alongside Li Taicang against the five attackers.
• Three of the attackers died, one later succumbed to his wounds, and Li Taicang survived; the battle spread rumors that Gu Yuanqing and his sons were visitors from beyond the realm.
• Gu Yuanqing joked with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an about their staying with him, then told them to use the era-cycle convergence to study the world's Great Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing began refining Ascension Immortal Pills with Primordial Demonic Dragon blood for his sons.
• The Jun Tian God King visited Gu Yuanqing in the Fa Yuan Realm and invited him to send an avatar with him to Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing accepted Jun Tian God King's invitation to visit Heaven Beyond Heaven in exchange for a wisp of world origin, which he intended to keep as a last resort while seeking insight into the collapse of a great world. In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, cultivators united to attack him at Dustforgetting Mountain, and he stepped in after Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an were overwhelmed.

• Gu Yuanqing agreed to visit Heaven Beyond Heaven a year later after Jun Tian God King gave him a wisp of world origin as compensation for Heavenly Eye Sage Lord's earlier intrusion.
• Gu Yuanqing decided that witnessing a great world's destruction could help him understand Indestructibility, while the world origin might help him locate the Heaven and Earth Stele if necessary.
• In the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, major sects, the Demon Race, and Divine Court cultivators declared Gu Yuanqing an obstacle and gathered to besiege Dustforgetting Mountain.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an refused to yield to the attackers, and they fought together against the assembled Mahayana cultivators.
• The attackers wounded Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an and forced them into mortal danger, so Gu Yuanqing left the mountain and appeared between them.

At Dustforgetting Mountain, Gu Yuanqing annihilated the cultivators who had come to kill him, terrifying the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm. As the Era Cycle drew closer, the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable emerged to confront him, while several cultivators elsewhere began undergoing the Dao Integration Calamity under changed conditions.

• Gu Yuanqing destroyed the attackers at Dustforgetting Mountain with his spatial power and Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation, leaving none alive.
• News of the massacre spread across the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, and Gu Yuanqing warned Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that further trouble could come.
• The Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable appeared, declared Gu Yuanqing an outer demon, and demanded that he abandon his otherworldly Dao and undergo the Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing met the Dao Venerable in battle, and the two exchanged blows at a speed Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an could barely follow.
• Li Chengyi sensed four cultivators undergoing the Dao Integration Calamity and realized the world's Great Dao had changed, increasing their chances of success.

Gu Yuanqing fought the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable while resisting the world’s attempts to force him into Dao Integration. After four more cultivators achieved Dao Integration and joined the battle against him, Gu Yuanqing used his sword domain to weaken their connection to the realm’s Great Dao, while Li Chengyi recognized that his Dao attainment had surpassed the world’s cultivation limits.

• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an suspected that the Heavenly Dao was forcing Gu Yuanqing to undergo his Calamity and feared they were too weak to help him.
• Gu Yuanqing held his own against the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable by relying on his Dao attainment, and he guessed that the tribulations below were meant to create more enemies for him.
• Four cultivators successfully achieved Dao Integration, then approached Gu Yuanqing and urged him to undergo his own Calamity.
• Gu Yuanqing refused, and the Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable and the four Dao Integration cultivators attacked him together.
• Gu Yuanqing deployed the Calamity Controlling Myriad Forms Sword Formation, making the five attackers feel their connections to the realm’s Great Dao weaken.
• Li Chengyi concluded that Gu Yuanqing’s Dao attainment had transcended the world’s cultivation limits.

Gu Yuanqing defeated five Dao Integration cultivators in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm, but their surviving spirits returned with severe Dao injuries. As the ten-thousand-year period passed without the expected Calamity, Gu Yuanqing and his sons realized they might be trapped in the realm.

• Gu Yuanqing used his sword formation to weaken the five attackers’ connection to the Great Dao, then struck them from within with his final sword move.
• Gu Yuanqing told Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that the Dao Integration cultivators’ spirits survived, though the four newly advanced cultivators had suffered damaged True Spirits and Dao injuries.
• Jiang Yunchuan visited Gu Yuanqing and said the Divine Venerable’s avatar would return to Heaven Beyond Heaven in roughly half a month, while Gu Yuanqing wondered whether trouble was brewing above the Nine Heavens.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an speculated that imprisoned Great Demons might cause the remaining Calamity, but the ten-thousand-year period passed without any apparent change.
• After waiting more than ten additional days, Gu Huai'an told Gu Yuanqing that something felt wrong and that they seemed to be trapped in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.

Gu Yuanqing sent Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an out of the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm before confronting the five Dao Integration cultivators and defeating them. He then met Great Simplicity, who urged him to undergo Dao Integration to face a future Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing asked whether the Creation God King Calamity had occurred.

• Gu Yuanqing realized that the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm was preventing his departure and sent Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an back to their bodies in the North Spring Realm.
• As Dustforgetting Mountain broke apart and the realm became a boundless void, Gu Yuanqing remained behind to investigate its hostility and seek insight into the Great Dao.
• Heavenly Canopy Dao Venerable and four allies attacked Gu Yuanqing, but he used the Myriad Phenomena Sword of Tribulation to shatter their attacks and strike their True Spirits.
• Great Simplicity appeared and explained that it was a manifestation of living beings’ convictions, not the artifact spirit of the Heaven and Earth Stele.
• Great Simplicity urged Gu Yuanqing to undergo Dao Integration to become a God King and resolve a future Calamity, and Gu Yuanqing asked if the Creation God King Calamity had not yet occurred.

Gu Yuanqing refused Great Simplicity’s offer to undergo Dao Integration, but witnessed the origin of Heaven and Earth and returned to cultivate his Golden Immortal Dao. News of his presence in the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm reached the Divine Court, where Jun Tian God King began considering what it meant.

• Gu Yuanqing rejected Dao Integration despite Great Simplicity’s warning that the Great Calamity could soon become irreversible.
• Great Simplicity showed Gu Yuanqing the evolution of the world from nonbeing through Chaos to the birth of Heaven and Earth, then sent him back to the North Spring Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing shared his experience with Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an, then entered seclusion to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao and the Golden Immortal Dao.
• Survivors returning from the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm reported that Gu Yuanqing had entered it, overturning the factions’ belief that he had stayed away.
• Duan Linchuan told Jun Tian God King that Gu Yuanqing had refused Dao Integration and proved stronger than the cultivators who challenged him after achieving it.
• After Duan Linchuan withdrew, Jun Tian God King asked Xue Jingnian what he thought of the report.

The Jun Tian God King brought Gu Yuanqing to Heaven Beyond Heaven, where three God Kings were suppressing a catastrophic rift threatening to consume the world. Gu Yuanqing denied being the Creation God King but suggested Creation might still be alive, leaving the Jun Tian God King eager to learn what he knew as Gu Yuanqing asked to observe the calamity.

• Xue Jingnian and the Jun Tian God King debated whether Gu Yuanqing was the Creation God King or an impostor, and the Jun Tian God King ordered an inquiry into who else had returned from the Heavenly Canopy Dao Realm.
• The Guixu Alliance sent news of Gu Yuanqing’s return to the Taichu Holy Church, and the Demon Lord questioned whether Gu Yuanqing was truly unrelated to Creation.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to Heaven Beyond Heaven and saw three God Kings using the Jun Tian Lei Xiao Jian, Heaven Measuring Ruler, and Cangwu Divine Tree to suppress a destructive space rift.
• The Jun Tian God King explained that the flawed Great Dao and unbalanced divine artifact power threatened to collapse Heaven and Earth, and Gu Yuanqing understood why the God Kings hoped he might help avert disaster.
• Gu Yuanqing denied being the Creation God King and asked whether the Divine Court had allowed the Demon Lord’s soul to escape as a possible last resort; the Jun Tian God King confirmed it was an option they hoped to avoid.
• Gu Yuanqing said the Creation God King might still be alive, then asked the Jun Tian God King for permission to stay and observe the calamity.

Gu Yuanqing comprehended the cycle of a world's creation and annihilation at the Heavenly Abyss, then deepened those insights within his Heavenly Human World. His world fell silent and his will seemed to vanish, leaving his family alarmed until a heartbeat sounded from his withered body.

• Gu Yuanqing studied the Heavenly Abyss and combined its annihilation with his memory of a world’s birth to grasp the cycle of formation-abiding-decay-emptiness.
• The three God Kings worried that Gu Yuanqing’s growing aura of termination would endanger him and worsen the Heavenly Abyss, but he stopped contemplating and left after giving Jun Tian God King a jade talisman.
• Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar and used its insights to accelerate the cycles of life, death, and transformation within his Heavenly Human World.
• The Heavenly Human World exhausted its power and fell silent, while Gu Yuanqing’s will also went quiet.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an felt that something was wrong and waited outside the inaccessible main peak as the Qian Yuan Sect grew tense.
• After half a month, the brothers’ unease suddenly vanished, and a heartbeat sounded from Gu Yuanqing’s withered body as wisps of vitality emerged.

Gu Yuanqing perfected his Celestial Immortal cultivation by comprehending life, death, and creation, then entered the Sword Scar to pursue the opportunity to become a Golden Immortal. After decades passed and Gu Huai'an became a Void Immortal, Gu Yuanqing finally understood the immortality of a Golden Immortal.

• Gu Yuanqing revived the Heavenly Human World through his return from annihilation, reached perfection as a Celestial Immortal, and told Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an that the Sword Scar held his final opportunity.
• Gu Yuanqing spent years settling his insights, testing his Dao against the Jun Tian God King and the Abyss-Suppressing God King, and refining his understanding of creation.
• Gu Yuanqing sent an avatar to the Sword Scar, recognized that a Great Luo Golden Immortal had left it, and crossed inside to meditate.
• Gu Huai'an passed his Void Immortal Tribulation, bringing the Qian Yuan Sect's two sons to the Void Immortal realm and drawing congratulations from across the Spirit Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing continued meditating within the Sword Scar for more than forty years, and his avatar finally understood the immortality of a Golden Immortal.

After integrating sixty years of Sword Scar insights, Gu Yuanqing brought his cultivation to the brink of the Golden Immortal Realm and advised Li Chengyi to ascend to the Immortal Realm. Gu Yuanqing waited for his breakthrough, sensing that an event was approaching.

• Gu Yuanqing left the Sword Scar after concluding it was a legacy and returned to the North Spring Realm, where he spent over thirty years absorbing his avatar’s insights.
• Gu Yuanqing reached the point where he had half a foot in the Golden Immortal Realm and observed the growing strength of the Heaven Treading Immortal Steed and the Demon Race.
• Li Chengyi told Gu Yuanqing he was unsure whether to remain in the North Spring Realm or undergo tribulation and ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Gu Yuanqing urged Li Chengyi to ascend, explaining that the Immortal Realm offered a wider world and that the Qian Yuan Sect and Qian Yuan Realm would remain secure.
• Li Chengyi decided to wait until Gu Yuanqing became a Golden Immortal before choosing his path, while Gu Yuanqing continued his quiet life and sensed something was about to happen.

The Demon Lord arranged to meet Wei Yuan, prompting Wei Zhao to fear that his father would face the God King Calamity and endanger the Wei Household. Half a month later, the Guixu Alliance attacked the Divine Court while Qin Wentian fought two ancient god obsessions, and Gu Yuanqing decided it was time to break through.

• The Demon Lord used a blood ritual and an ancient mirror to make contact with a mysterious figure.
• The Demon Lord told Wei Zhao he would enter the Ancient Realm in three days, and Wei Zhao opened the realm's restrictive seals for him.
• Wei Yuan admitted that he had accepted the risk of the God King Calamity because his lifespan had ended, and told Wei Zhao to flee to the Guixu Alliance if he failed.
• The Demon Lord met with Wei Yuan for two hours, and Wei Zhao spoke with his father before leaving the Ancient Realm.
• The Taichu Holy Church and the Guixu Alliance attacked the Divine Court's strongholds and the Boundary Gate, drawing Qin Wentian into battle against Return to the Ruins.
• Gu Yuanqing watched Qin Wentian's battle and concluded that it was time for him to break through.

As Gu Yuanqing began his Golden Immortal breakthrough, the Demon Lord’s revival accelerated and Wei Yuan prepared to become a God King, bringing the great Calamity closer. The chapter left Gu Yuanqing’s breakthrough underway as Wei Yuan drove the Heavenly Eye Sage Lord away from the Ancient Realm.

• Gu Yuanqing ordered Li Chengyi to prepare the Qian Yuan Sect for the looming Calamity, then sealed the main peak and began his Golden Immortal breakthrough.
• Gu Yuanqing’s Heavenly Human World entered a cycle of decline and destruction as Li Chengyi, Gu Huai'an, and the Qian Yuan Sect elders kept watch.
• Purple Cloud Daoist warned Zhou Muchen that the Demon Lord might reclaim his body, while Zhou Muchen reported that the Demon Realm’s seals were under surveillance.
• Gray-white qi surged from the Ancient Realm, and Li Chengyi concluded that Wei Yuan was nearing a breakthrough to the God King realm.
• The Heavenly Eye Sage Lord urged Wei Yuan to stop aiding the Demon Lord, but Wei Yuan attacked him and forced him to retreat from the Ancient Realm.

Qin Wentian fought the Guixu Alliance while Wei Yuan’s God King tribulation drew near, and the three God Kings questioned whether Gu Yuanqing’s mountain was truly the creation true realm. As Gu Yuanqing’s existence was erased during his cultivation, he awakened in a boundless darkness and remembered his name.

• Qin Wentian learned that Wei Yuan was about to face the God King calamity and rejected the Black-Robed Elder’s demand for the Mirror of Rebirth.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King suggested the Creation God King might not have perished, and the three God Kings questioned whether Gu Yuanqing’s mountain was a supreme Divine Artifact rather than the creation true realm.
• Hong Kaiyuan, the Heavenly Eye Sage Lord, and Qin Wentian each tried to meet Gu Yuanqing, but he remained in seclusion, while Li Chengyi prepared for Wei Yuan’s imminent tribulation and the Demon Lord’s escape.
• Li Miaoxuan sensed a change linked to Gu Yuanqing but chose not to contact him, believing she should remain in the immortal realm.
• Gu Yuanqing’s body, soul, and true spirit vanished into nothing, and after an unknown time in darkness, he awakened and remembered that he was Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing restored his world and body, comprehended the undying nature of the golden immortal Dao Fruit, and began ascending toward golden immortality. Meanwhile, Wei Yuan started his God King Calamity as powerful factions waited to see how events would unfold.

• Gu Yuanqing split chaos and rebuilt the Heavenly Human World, his immortal body, and his Great Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing realized that a golden immortal’s Dao Fruit represented Indestructibility, while immortal spiritual qi strengthened his body.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an sensed that Gu Yuanqing had survived his most dangerous Calamity and believed his golden immortal breakthrough was near.
• Wei Yuan emerged from the Mirror of Rebirth and began his God King Calamity, drawing on the artifact’s power as the Demon Lord watched.
• The Heavenly Eye Sage Lord worried that the Divine Court had not sent reinforcements as Wei Yuan’s tribulation began.
• The Jun Tian God King and God King Cangwu urged the Heaven-Measuring God King to act against the Demon Lord, but he chose to wait longer.

As Wei Yuan approached the God King realm, the Demon Lord opened a gateway for the King of the Underworld of Nether Capital to invade the Ancient Realm and seize the Mirror of Rebirth. God King Boundless rushed to intervene, but an unknown attacker blocked his arrival.

• Li Chengyi left sect affairs to Li Guanrong while Gu Yuanqing focused on his Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Wei Yuan endured his heavenly tribulation and began to reach the God King realm as the Demon Lord arrived to demand that he honor their oath.
• Wei Yuan and the Demon Lord accused each other of breaking their agreement, and the Demon Lord opened a gateway for Nether Capital’s King of the Underworld.
• The King of the Underworld attacked Wei Yuan, while the Demon Lord slipped underground to pursue the Mirror of Rebirth’s seal.
• God King Boundless left the Nine Heavens to aid Wei Yuan, but an unknown palm struck as he tried to enter the Ancient Realm.

Wei Yuan’s attempt to use the Mirror of Rebirth against the King of the Underworld of Nether Capital ended in his death, while the Demon Lord escaped his seal and the Underworld seized the mirror. The Heaven-Measuring God King fought the Underworld’s ruler over the artifact, as the Demon Realm prepared for the Demon Lord to reclaim his body.

• An unseen attacker disrupted God King Boundless’s entry into the Ancient Realm and forced him back, and the Demon Lord suspected Creation had intervened.
• Wei Yuan summoned the Mirror of Rebirth to resist the King of the Underworld of Nether Capital, but demonic thoughts interfered with his control and the mirror’s power destroyed his divine body and kingdom.
• The Demon Lord used the Great Mystery Calamity Sword to break through his seal and escape as the Mirror of Rebirth was drawn toward the gateway to the Underworld.
• The Heaven-Measuring God King confronted the King of the Underworld of Nether Capital over the Mirror of Rebirth, and the two began fighting.
• Li Chengyi and Gu Huai'an sensed the distant battle and prepared for the Demon Lord to target Gu Yuanqing, while Gu Yuanqing continued consolidating his Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Purple Cloud Daoist told Zhou Muchen that the Demon Lord’s divine soul had escaped and the Underworld had taken the Mirror of Rebirth, raising the prospect of war in the Demon Realm.