Chapter Summaries

After sharing a final drink, Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen resumed their conflict as Xuangen forcibly awakened and decay spread through Heaven and Earth. Their Great Dao powers clashed across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, leaving Great Simplicity unable to intervene without worsening one realm’s fate or the other.

• Gu Yuanqing, Xuangen, and Great Simplicity agreed that their paths left no room for retreat, then shared a final drink before parting as enemies.
• Xuangen and Great Simplicity left the mountain, and Gu Yuanqing erased the trace of Xuangen’s power from the North Spring Realm.
• Xuangen declared he would awaken before Gu Yuanqing reached full strength, despite risking the world and the Supreme Divine Artifact’s retaliation.
• Xuangen’s awakening intensified decay across Heaven and Earth, while the North Spring Realm’s Dao domain began spreading again.
• Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen clashed through their Great Dao powers across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, alarming cultivators who sensed the battle.
• Great Simplicity remained silent, unable to help Gu Yuanqing without aiding the North Spring Realm’s expansion or help Xuangen without hastening the world’s end.

Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen continued their contest of Great Daos as the North Spring Realm expanded into the Fa Yuan Realm and the world’s final end drew closer. Xuangen’s power revived, spreading decay and Tribulation Qi, while Gu Yuanqing prepared the North Spring Realm for the eventual decisive battle.

• Great Simplicity used the Heaven and Earth Stele to delay Gu Yuanqing’s expansion and suppress Xuangen’s awakening, then withdrew as Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen continued their clash through the boundary domains.
• Gu Yuanqing ordered the Great Daos of the worlds absorbed by the North Spring Realm, erasing the Profound Universe Realm’s marks to secure his territory and block Xuangen’s influence.
• Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen maintained their standoff at the Fuyuan Mountain Range as the Fa Yuan Realm’s decay deepened and its cultivators felt their lifespans rapidly diminish.
• The Heaven and Earth Stele kept cultivators away from the Fuyuan Mountain Range, while Heaven-Measuring God King and the Creation God King remained trapped using artifacts they could not control.
• The Demon Lord and God King Wuxiang cultivated in the Origin Dao Sea, while God Kings Cangwu, Jun Tian, and Heavenly Law struggled to contain the growing power of decay and the Guixu Heavenly Abyss.
• The Guixu Alliance and Mu Tianheng’s group grew alarmed as connections and routes failed, while the Qian Yuan Realm remained safe under Gu Yuanqing’s protection.

As the North Spring Realm expanded and Gu Yuanqing’s power grew, he gained deeper insight into the Great Dao and gradually gained the upper hand against Xuangen. While he strengthened the realm and helped Li Haotian embark on the Divine Path, the struggle narrowed toward its true battleground: the Fa Yuan Realm and the Origin Dao Sea.

• Gu Yuanqing met the King of the Underworld, shared Red Dust Wine with him, and heard that the hidden mysteries would become clear in time.
• Centuries later, Gu Yuanqing gave Li Haotian the Withered Glory Staff and protected him through his Divine Tribulation, after which Li Haotian entered seclusion.
• Gu Yuanqing continued shaping the North Spring Realm, dividing it into seven heavens and making the Qian Yuan Sect its guardian before the Heavenly Gate.
• As the North Spring Realm brought more worlds under its control, Gu Yuanqing became known as the Dao Ancestor, and the gathered Incense and Fire Qi flowed into the realm’s Great Dao River.
• Gu Yuanqing’s expansion outpaced Xuangen’s recovery, and the North Spring Realm stripped branches and leaves from the river surrounding the myriad realms, leaving the Fa Yuan Realm and Origin Dao Sea as the coming battlefield.

Gu Yuanqing weighed the forces and uncertain alliances surrounding the coming final battle, then studied a Great Luo immortal scroll that helped him advance despite leaving the final step beyond reach. Over the following centuries, North Spring swallowed most of the Profound Universe Realm’s small worlds, forcing Xuangen’s defenses into a rout.

• Gu Yuanqing assessed how the Fa Yuan Realm’s strength, Great Simplicity’s choices, and the Origin Dao Realm’s God Kings could affect the final battle.
• Jiang Jingnian and God Lord Leng Yue reached the God King Realm, while Zhou Hanyuan died during a God King Calamity and Hong Kaiyuan approached the end of his lifespan.
• Li Miaoxuan lent Gu Yuanqing an ancient scroll from the Great Void Immortal Sect’s founder, and he spent seven days studying its visions of the Great Dao’s evolution.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to the Fa Yuan Realm, integrated his insights, and advanced further toward Great Luo while continuing to clash with Xuangen.
• Over several hundred years, North Spring encompassed most small worlds in the Profound Universe Realm, and Xuangen’s retreat became a rout.
• Xuangen opened his eyes and regarded Gu Yuanqing with a complicated expression, as his original plan to hold out for around a hundred thousand years had failed.

Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen resumed their battle as the North Spring Realm pressed into the Fa Yuan Realm. Gu Yuanqing shattered Xuangen’s Boundary Gate, but Xuangen then knocked the North Spring World Suppressing Seal away with his enormous divine body.

• Xuangen admitted that Gu Yuanqing’s North Spring Realm had surpassed his expectations, and the two spoke about life, death, and their coming battle.
• Gu Yuanqing sent the North Spring Realm’s power surging into the Fa Yuan Realm through multiple regions, while Xuangen used phantoms and the Heaven and Earth Stele to suppress it.
• Xuangen summoned the Gate of Myriad Realms to block the North Spring Realm, but Gu Yuanqing’s North Spring World Suppressing Seal struck the gate and disrupted its alignment with the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Great Simplicity used the Heaven and Earth Stele to contain the battle’s damage as Gu Yuanqing repeatedly rammed the Boundary Gate until it shattered.
• Xuangen expanded into a hundred-thousand-zhang divine body and slapped the North Spring World Suppressing Seal flying, prompting Gu Yuanqing to welcome the stronger challenge.

Gu Yuanqing fought Xuangen for months, using the battle to deepen his understanding of Great Luo while gradually overwhelming Xuangen’s avatar. When Great Simplicity intervened, Gu Yuanqing shattered the Heaven and Earth Stele, allowing the North Spring Heavenly Realm’s Dao domain to spread through the Fa Yuan Realm and transform its power.

• Gu Yuanqing summoned the Azure Nether Sword and combined its attacks with the North Spring World Suppressing Seal against Xuangen.
• The battle’s tremors spread through the Fa Yuan Realm, disrupting Divine Artifacts and alarming Jiang Jingnian, God King Lengyue, and the God Kings in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• After months of fighting, Gu Yuanqing broke through Xuangen’s defenses and forced him to retreat into the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Xuangen returned to the Great Dao River and drew on its power and the Divine Artifacts, while Great Simplicity asked Gu Yuanqing to stop and negotiate.
• Gu Yuanqing rejected Great Simplicity’s appeal and shattered the Heaven and Earth Stele with a palm strike.
• Great Simplicity vanished as the North Spring Heavenly Realm’s Dao domain spread, erasing Divine Path imprints and transforming Vital Energy into Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Gu Yuanqing’s North Spring Realm continued to spread its Great Dao through the Fa Yuan Realm as he announced that he would preach the Immortal Path in sixty years. More than thirty years later, as the Immortal Path took root in Tianfang Domain, Jiang Yunchuan asked whether it could save humanity from the decaying Divine Path and the approaching Final End.

• Gu Yuanqing and Xuangen clashed as North Spring Realm’s Great Dao pressed into the Fa Yuan Realm, but Xuangen withdrew his Avatar and used the world’s Great Dao to resist.
• Great Simplicity warned Xuangen not to halt the Guixu Heavenly Abyss’s expansion, and Xuangen vanished again.
• Gu Yuanqing announced that he would preach the Immortal Path in sixty years at Fuyuan Mountain Range in Tianfang Domain, prompting cultivators across the Fa Yuan Realm to debate the path and the Divine Path’s decay.
• North Spring Realm continued expanding, and the Qian Yuan Sect established the Qian Yuan Dao Academy in Tianfang Domain to spread the Immortal Path.
• More than thirty years later, Jiang Yunchuan visited Gu Yuanqing on behalf of the Divine Court and asked whether the Divine Path had truly decayed.
• Gu Yuanqing explained the danger posed by the awakened Old Gods and the approaching Final End, and Jiang Yunchuan asked whether the Immortal Path could save humanity.

Gu Yuanqing preached the Immortal Path across the Tianfang Domain while Xuangen tried to stop him with the power of the Fa Yuan Realm’s Rule Divine Artifacts. Gu Yuanqing blocked Xuangen’s final strike, and after the Heaven Stele suppressed the aftermath, he resumed preaching.

• Jiang Yunchuan visited Gu Yuanqing, learned that Divine Path cultivators could switch to the Immortal Path, and asked to attend his future preaching.
• Over the following years, Divine Court cultivators and other forces visited the Tianfang Domain to study the Immortal Path, and Jiang Yunchuan and the dying Hong Kaiyuan arrived for Gu Yuanqing’s sermon.
• Gu Yuanqing began preaching across the Tianfang Domain, the Exquisite Realm Domain, and the Small Worlds under the North Spring Realm’s Great Dao.
• Xuangen summoned the Rule Divine Artifacts and attacked the Tianfang Boundary Domain, while Gu Yuanqing continued preaching and sent an Avatar to fight him.
• After half a day of battle, Xuangen unleashed a strike backed by the power of the Fa Yuan Realm, and Gu Yuanqing met it with a sword-finger.
• The Heaven Stele suppressed the devastating aftermath, Xuangen disappeared, and Gu Yuanqing resumed his sermon.

After Gu Yuanqing’s victory over Xuangen, the Immortal Path spread through the Fa Yuan Realm as the Divine Path weakened and the Guixu Calamity worsened. Five God Kings asked Gu Yuanqing whether the Immortal Path could resolve the calamity and offer Divine Path cultivators a future, and he confirmed the calamity could be resolved before hinting that he had a path for them if they were willing.

• Gu Yuanqing’s survival of Xuangen’s attack strengthened the Immortal Path, and the Qian Yuan Dao Academy spread through the Tianfang Domain as the North Spring Boundary Domain expanded.
• Gu Yuanqing killed a Divine Court True God who used an Avatar to assassinate an Immortal Path genius, and Jiang Yunchuan later established the Immortal and God Pact restricting conflicts to below the True God level.
• As the Divine Path declined and the Guixu Calamity grew, Jiang Jingnian and God King Lengyue reached an agreement and joined the Jun Tian God King, God King Cangwu, and others to contain the abyss and seek a greater plan.
• The five God Kings invited Gu Yuanqing to Heaven Beyond Heaven and asked whether the North Spring Realm’s rise could resolve the Guixu Heavenly Abyss and give the Divine Court a way forward.
• Gu Yuanqing said the calamity would be resolved if the Fa Yuan Realm came under the North Spring Realm, then said he had considered a path for Divine Path cultivators and the God Kings if they were willing.

Gu Yuanqing offered the Divine Court God Kings a way to escape the decaying Divine Path by joining the North Spring Heavenly Realm and helping merge its Dao with the Fa Yuan Realm. He returned to North Spring Peak as Xuangen’s awakening accelerated, and three months later he sensed movement from Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• Gu Yuanqing proposed that the God Kings abandon the Rules Divine Path, accept the North Spring Realm’s imprint, and join his Immortal Court.
• Gu Yuanqing asked the God Kings to use the Rule Divine Artifacts to guide the Fa Yuan Realm’s Dao into union with the North Spring Realm, and God King Cangwu requested time to discuss the offer.
• Gu Yuanqing discussed the Immortal Path with the God Kings for three days, earning their respect, and Jun Tian requested a communication jade token.
• Gu Yuanqing returned to North Spring Peak and sensed that Xuangen’s revival had accelerated as the North Spring Realm occupied more of the Fa Yuan Realm.
• Three months later, Gu Yuanqing sensed something stir and looked toward Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing won the five God Kings’ allegiance and established the Immortal Court, becoming its Immortal Emperor as the Divine Court joined his realm. The Immortal Path’s fortune surged, while Xuangen and Great Simplicity stayed silent, apparently saving their strength for the final battle.

• Gu Yuanqing met the five God Kings, who pledged themselves to him and addressed him as Immortal Emperor Gu.
• Gu Yuanqing and the God Kings discussed the Divine Court’s defection, the danger Xuangen posed, and the future of the Divine Court’s followers.
• The Qian Yuan Sect began organizing the North Spring Realm, and Gu Yuanqing prepared to take the Immortal Emperor’s position.
• A hundred years later, Gu Yuanqing established the Immortal Court before the assembled Immortals, Divine Beings, cultivators, and Spirit Beasts and Demon Beasts.
• Gu Yuanqing bestowed the title Eastern Immortal King Cangwu on God King Cangwu, whose connection to the North Spring Realm’s Great Dao strengthened.
• The Divine Court joined the Immortal Court, accelerating the North Spring Realm’s expansion, while Xuangen and Great Simplicity remained quiet.