Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing suppressed the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang while studying their half-step god lord powers, but their battle began damaging the Fa Yuan Realm. Great Simplicity intervened with the Heaven and Earth Stele and demanded that Gu Yuanqing stop, leaving him facing the stele’s overwhelming pressure.

• Gu Yuanqing used the North Spring Realm to suppress the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang while observing the power of their rule divine artifacts and refining his own cultivation.
• The clash distorted the surrounding rules, causing strange disasters across the boundary domain and affecting the Guixu Abyss.
• Gu Yuanqing decided to end the battle before the Fa Yuan Realm suffered irreversible damage, and the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang began burning their origins to resist.
• The Heaven and Earth Stele descended, restored the damaged surroundings, and halted time for everyone except Gu Yuanqing and the two ancient gods.
• Great Simplicity emerged from the stele, explained that he wanted to protect the world from the Guixu Tribulation, and warned Gu Yuanqing that he could not kill the two half-step god lords.
• Great Simplicity empowered the Heaven and Earth Stele with the divine artifacts and heavenly dao celestial orbit, forcing Gu Yuanqing’s North Spring Realm Projection to contract.

Gu Yuanqing settled his clash with the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang after Great Simplicity intervened, then studied the battle’s insights in seclusion. He emerged three years later and entered the Immortal Mountain Trial again.

• Great Simplicity appeared with the Heaven and Earth Stele and asked Gu Yuanqing to retreat or integrate with the Fa Yuan Realm’s origin, and Gu Yuanqing agreed to spare the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang in exchange for severing thirty percent of their origins.
• Gu Yuanqing used a powerful sword strike to cut away portions of the Demon Lord’s and God King Wuxiang’s bodies and divine souls, then captured the severed parts as they fled.
• Great Simplicity returned to the Heaven and Earth Stele, while the Heaven-Measuring God King regained awareness and later visited Gu Yuanqing to ask what had happened.
• Gu Yuanqing explained that Great Simplicity had mediated, and he advised the Heaven-Measuring God King to seize the opportunity to advance beyond the God King realm while the Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang were weakened.
• Gu Yuanqing suppressed the captured portions of the two Ancient Gods in the Demon Refining Ascension Tower and entered seclusion to study the battle’s insights.
• After roughly three years of cultivation, Gu Yuanqing emerged from seclusion and entered the Immortal Mountain Trial again.

Gu Yuanqing refined Ancient God imprints in the Immortal Mountain Trial, strengthening his Dao while the Divine Court regained influence and the weakened Guixu Alliance kept its distance. After more than two hundred peaceful years, Gu Yuanqing discovered that Creation God King had been secretly guiding his cloud grandson, Gu Hanshan.

• Gu Yuanqing repeatedly fought and refined God King Wuxiang and the Demon Lord’s imprints, incorporating their Dao insights into his own cultivation.
• Gu Yuanqing challenged multiple God King imprints at once and continued advancing his Dao attainment, while Heaven-Measuring God King restored the Divine Court’s prestige in the Fa Yuan Realm.
• The Demon Lord, God King Wuxiang, and the Guixu Alliance remained weakened and fearful of Gu Yuanqing, while the Exquisite Realm Domain grew quiet.
• More than two hundred years passed as Gu Yuanqing advanced far into great accomplishment as a Golden Immortal and continued training against eight powerful imprints.
• Gu Yuanqing summoned Gu Hanshan and exposed the mysterious being hidden in his soul as Creation God King, who said he had been offering the young cultivator guidance.

The Creation God King visited Gu Yuanqing to warn him that his overwhelming display of power had awakened hidden beings and drawn him into a looming tribulation. He revealed that only a Supreme Divine Artifact could offer escape, but ascending to God Lord required overcoming the being who treated cultivators as nourishment; Gu Yuanqing asked why he alone had to act.

• The Creation God King emerged from Gu Hanshan’s mind, and Gu Yuanqing sent Gu Hanshan back to the Qianyuan Sect before hosting the visitor with tea.
• The Creation God King warned Gu Yuanqing that his battle against Yuanchu and Wuxiang had made him powerful enough to attract the attention of slumbering beings.
• The Creation God King recounted how the ancient gods learned their world was nearing its end, sought refuge in the Underworld, and suffered deaths concealed from history.
• The Creation God King explained that controlling a Supreme Divine Artifact could resolve the tribulation, but doing so required becoming a God Lord and overcoming the being who used cultivators as nourishment.
• Gu Yuanqing acknowledged that he understood the cosmic karma but questioned why he had to act, as the Creation God King warned that Gu Yuanqing’s ripe cultivation made escape from the Guixu Tribulation impossible.

Gu Yuanqing heard the Creation God King’s plan to seize a Supreme Divine Artifact and refused to commit, knowing his own path differed from the ancient god’s. He gained the Creation God King’s imprint in the Immortal Mountain and began a fierce contest of Dao domains against him.

• The Creation God King proposed that Gu Yuanqing hold off an old God Lord while he took control of a Supreme Divine Artifact, then offered an alternative in which Gu Yuanqing would merge with the world’s origin and protect him.
• Gu Yuanqing declined to decide immediately, let the Creation God King leave, and granted the awakened Water Spirit Maid permission to become a water deity.
• Gu Yuanqing concluded that the Creation God King’s deep ties to Heaven and Earth made his plan irrelevant to Gu Yuanqing, who intended to await events instead.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered that the Creation God King’s imprint had appeared in the Immortal Mountain and summoned it within the Trial Space.
• Gu Yuanqing and the Creation God King unleashed their Dao domains, with Gu Yuanqing forming his sword formation against the Creation God King’s creation divine kingdom.