Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuanqing placed the Heaven and Earth Pool beside the Cliff and tested its power by sending a demonic wild boar into it. After practicing weaving true essence, he gave Aunt Feng the Blood Tiger Yao Blade to use for chores and invited her to prepare a feast.

• Gu Yuanqing found the demonic wild boar’s meat unusable and summoned the Heaven and Earth Pool beside the Cliff.
• Gu Yuanqing put the boar into the pool, where it became a tiny fish, then drew it out and watched it return to its original form.
• Gu Yuanqing tested the pool’s water and found it too heavy to lift in quantity, then gave up trying to uncover its mysteries.
• Gu Yuanqing practiced weaving true essence for half a day and increased the number of strands he could control to sixty.
• Aunt Feng asked Gu Yuanqing for sturdier tools, so he gave her the Blood Tiger Yao Blade and told her to prepare extra dishes.

Li Miaoxuan reached the Cultivation World, while Gu Yuanqing practiced the Heavenly Fishing Method and discovered that his casts could reach different locations. Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi set out to inspect the Demon Realm seals and planned to meet Gu Yuanqing over the Hun Tian Rope.

• Li Miaoxuan crossed the Heaven Ascending Path and used a Long Bridge to climb toward the Cultivation World.
• Zhou Youshan waited at the Lingxu Sect's Reception Platform for Li Miaoxuan, then departed when she did not arrive before evening.
• Gu Yuanqing caught a gray bear and a pig from the Demon Realm, turning both into fish in the Heaven and Earth Pool.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered that shifting his Fishing Line by more than three feet sent it to a different place in the Demon Realm.
• Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi reached the mainland and decided to inspect the Demon Realm seals before meeting Gu Yuanqing to recover the Hun Tian Rope.

Ji Qingyun revealed that the Floating World’s ancient array had stopped, threatening the world with eventual destruction by the Demon Realm, while Gu Yuanqing advanced his cultivation and caught a young white fox. The chapter ended with Kuang Tongyi and another powerful cultivator approaching North Spring Mountain, apparently seeking Gu Yuanqing.

• Ji Qingyun told Kuang Tongyi that the Floating World’s ancient array had stopped and warned that the Demon Realm could eventually consume the world.
• Gu Yuanqing refined his true essence, expanded his divine sense, reached the peak of the Dao Embryo Realm, and sensed that his Yin Fire Tribulation was near.
• Gu Yuanqing discovered that the wild boar in the Heaven and Earth Pool was losing its demonic qi and wondered whether the beasts would become edible.
• Gu Yuanqing lured a cautious young white fox with a spirit fruit and pulled her into the Heaven and Earth Pool.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed Kuang Tongyi and another powerful cultivator approaching North Spring Mountain and suspected they had come for him.

Gu Yuanqing waited as Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi arrived at North Spring Mountain to discuss matters with him. After sensing the mountain’s strange transformation, Ji Qingyun asked Gu Yuanqing to come down for a conversation, but Gu Yuanqing invited the two men up instead.

• On Sky Fox Mountain, an enraged White Demon Fox searched for her missing daughter and attacked suspicious outsiders with flying needles.
• Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi traveled to North Spring Mountain, where Ji Qingyun noticed its unusually dense spiritual qi and powerful protective array.
• Imperial Guard soldiers recognized Kuang Tongyi and withdrew rather than obstruct the Lingxu Sect visitors.
• Gu Yuanqing appeared on a treetop and challenged Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi’s intentions, citing his poor impression of the Lingxu Sect.
• Ji Qingyun introduced himself and asked Gu Yuanqing to come down the mountain, but Gu Yuanqing refused and invited Ji Qingyun and Kuang Tongyi up instead.

Gu Yuanqing rejected Ji Qingyun’s demands over the deaths of two Lingxu Sect members, and the two clashed over the sect’s authority and rules. Ji Qingyun summoned the Sky Burning Tower, which suppressed North Spring Mountain and engulfed it in azure flames.

• Ji Qingyun floated up to Gu Yuanqing’s level and demanded an accounting for the two Lingxu Sect members killed at North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing refused to return the Hun Tian Rope, retrieve the buried bodies, or keep vigil, and challenged Ji Qingyun to take what he wanted by force.
• Ji Qingyun admitted that they would have to fight and explained that the Lingxu Sect would not intervene in Zuo Qiu’s actions because he was one of the trial people.
• Ji Qingyun summoned the Sky Burning Tower, which grew enormous and enveloped North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing struck Ji Qingyun with a Green Mountain Phantom, sending him plummeting, but the Sky Burning Tower descended and suppressed the mountain as azure flames blazed around it.

Gu Yuanqing resisted Ji Qingyun’s Sky Burning Tower by relying on North Spring Mountain’s Array Formation and its connection to the Earth Vein, leaving the two sides at an impasse. As the mountain settled under Gu Yuanqing’s control, Li Shi'an arrived and asked Kuang Tongyi whether Ji Qingyun could spare Gu Yuanqing.

• Gu Yuanqing used Object Control to keep the Sky Burning Tower’s flames from harming North Spring Mountain, while Ji Qingyun merged his divine sense with the tower and intensified its Fire Dao.
• Gu Yuanqing controlled the mountain’s temperature, protected its plants and animals, and realized that neither he nor the tower could overcome the other for now.
• Gu Yuanqing reassured Aunt Feng that the battle outside could not affect life inside the mountain, then calmed the panicked animals.
• Ji Qingyun told Kuang Tongyi that Gu Yuanqing’s formation might come from another inheritance and that the battle could last a long time.
• A hawk flew toward the imperial city, and four hours later Li Shi'an arrived and asked Kuang Tongyi whether Ji Qingyun could spare Gu Yuanqing.

Ji Qingyun’s siege of North Spring Mountain remained at a standstill as Gu Yuanqing grew more adept at resisting the Sky Burning Tower and continued fishing creatures from the Demon Realm. His catches sparked chaos in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where powerful beasts began searching for the cause of the disappearances.

• Ji Qingyun kept the Sky Burning Tower’s blockade around North Spring Mountain for more than ten days, while visitors and the Lingxu Sect gathered outside.
• Aunt Feng continued her daily chores and blade practice as Gu Yuanqing used the Heaven and Earth Pool to cleanse demonic qi from the mountain’s captured creatures.
• Gu Yuanqing improved his resistance to the tower by cultivating Mountain Observation and Object Control, and he advanced his understanding of the Heavenly Dao Zen Heart Art.
• Gu Yuanqing continued fishing creatures from the Demon Realm, including a white fox and a tiger cub, and tossed them into the Heaven and Earth Pool.
• Young beasts vanished from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, prompting rumors that a mysterious spirit fruit dragged away anyone who ate it.
• The Mountain Lord of Tiger King Mountain vowed revenge over the disappearances, while a woman at Sky Fox Mountain mocked him for losing Tiger Cub.

Gu Yuanqing endured Ji Qingyun’s Wind Dao-Fire Dao Grand Formation inside the Sky Burning Tower and gained deeper insight into the two paths as he countered its attacks. Just as changes emerged in his Dao Embryo, a strange Fire Dao flame began burning him from within.

• Gu Yuanqing discovered that creatures in the Demon Realm were locating and attacking his Fishing Bait, so he stopped fishing.
• Ji Qingyun appeared through a Flame Clone, offered Gu Yuanqing one last chance to surrender, and then activated the Sky Burning Tower’s Wind Dao-Fire Dao Grand Formation.
• Kuang Tongyi warned Li Shi'an and Ji Dai that the formation could reduce everything to nothingness and turn the area into a sealed site.
• Gu Yuanqing used North Spring Mountain’s power to resist the formation, while the relentless pressure deepened his understanding of the Wind and Fire Paths.
• Gu Yuanqing drew some of the formation’s Wind Dao and Fire Dao into North Spring Mountain, and the resulting insights changed his Dao Embryo and produced more spiritual qi.
• An eerie Fire Dao flame rose from Gu Yuanqing’s Bubbling Spring points and spread through his body to his Divine Court and Niwan Palace.

Gu Yuanqing faced the Yin Fire Dao Tribulation while Ji Qingyun intensified the Sky Burning Tower’s assault on North Spring Mountain. After repeated interruptions and a rising heart demon drove him to attack the tower, Gu Yuanqing regained clarity, deepened his union with the mountain, and used Heavenly Fishing to reach outside the tower.

• Gu Yuanqing’s Dao Embryo Transformation triggered the Yin Fire Dao Tribulation, and he realized he had to balance his breakthrough against Ji Qingyun’s attack.
• Ji Qingyun noticed North Spring Mountain’s formation falter and poured more true essence into the Sky Burning Tower, while Gu Yuanqing extinguished the Yin Fire Dao with object control.
• The Yin Fire Dao repeatedly invaded Gu Yuanqing’s body and Dao Embryo, forcing him to abandon Mountain Observation at crucial moments and leave the mountain vulnerable.
• Gu Yuanqing threatened Ji Qingyun and unleashed attacks on the Sky Burning Tower, while Ji Qingyun struggled to stabilize it after driving the tower for more than ten days.
• Gu Yuanqing used his techniques in succession, overcame the heart demon’s influence, and activated Heavenly Fishing to send a fishing line outside the Sky Burning Tower.

Gu Yuanqing used Heavenly Fishing to pull Ji Qingyun into North Spring Mountain and cast him into the Heaven and Earth Pool, then broke through into the Dao Fire Realm. Outside the Sky Burning Tower, Kuang Tongyi and Gong Daoxian discovered Ji Qingyun was missing and chose to wait for his return.

• Gu Yuanqing’s Heavenly Fishing hook pierced the Sky Burning Tower’s defenses and dragged Ji Qingyun’s Divine Soul into North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing used Object Control Power to throw Ji Qingyun into the Heaven and Earth Pool, where Ji Qingyun became a tiny fish and feared Gu Yuanqing was a Mighty Figure.
• With the Sky Burning Tower’s formation weakened, Gu Yuanqing ignited dao Fire Dao and began transforming his body, divine sense, and true essence as he entered the Dao Fire Realm.
• Kuang Tongyi and Gong Daoxian noticed Ji Qingyun had vanished and found that the Sky Burning Tower was no longer under his control.
• Kuang Tongyi said Ji Qingyun might have been taken away, but withheld his suspicion, then decided to wait on the tower while leaving North Spring Mountain alone.

Gu Yuanqing completed his breakthrough and used his new power to seize the Sky Burning Tower, forcing the Lingxu Sect to withdraw from North Spring Mountain. Kuang Tongyi left without learning what happened to the ancestor and planned to investigate nearby.

• After a day of cultivation, Gu Yuanqing awakened with a transformed body and a drop of essence blood at the core of his dao embryo.
• Gu Yuanqing tested his strength by striking the Sky Burning Tower twice, extinguishing its fire and sending it flying into the air.
• Gu Yuanqing seized the Sky Burning Tower, then returned it to Kuang Tongyi in repayment for his earlier pleas and warned the Lingxu Sect not to come back.
• Kuang Tongyi asked about the ancestor, but Gu Yuanqing denied knowing his whereabouts and ordered the Lingxu Sect members to leave.
• Kuang Tongyi led the Lingxu Sect members away and decided to investigate the ancestor's disappearance before returning to Lingxiao Mountain with Gong Daoxian.
• Ji Dai suggested visiting Gu Yuanqing, but Li Shi'an decided they should wait, while the old man in hemp robes predicted that North Spring Mountain would attract many visitors.

Gu Yuanqing questioned Ji Qingyun, confiscated his belongings, and discovered that the Floating World was part of the Demon Refining Array. He cut off a message from the Lingxu Sect after its sender realized he was not Ji Qingyun.

• Gu Yuanqing pulled Ji Qingyun from the Heaven and Earth Pool, suppressed his cultivation, and questioned him about his Bronze Token and the Demon Refining Array.
• Gu Yuanqing returned Ji Qingyun to the pool and searched his Storage Bag, finding Divine Platform materials, cultivation techniques, and a Silk Book about the Three Thousand Floating Realms.
• Gu Yuanqing learned that the Demon Refining Array used the entire Floating World and considered whether North Spring Mountain’s fall into the Demon World had disrupted it.
• Gu Yuanqing identified Ji Qingyun’s Bronze Token as the Heaven Gate Token and learned how it related to the Heaven Ascending Path and the array.
• A Lingxu Sect cultivator sent a message through the Heaven Gate Token, realized Gu Yuanqing was not Ji Qingyun, and prompted Gu Yuanqing to sever the connection.

Gu Yuanqing explored the changes in his cultivation after reaching the dao Fire Dao realm while the Lingxu Sect debated the loss of contact with its overseer in the Ding Twelve Realms. A blue-robed scholar caught Void Form in Linping County, then paused and realized he was in a Floating World.

• Gu Yuanqing rested, then tested how he could wield flame and wind through dao resonance in his new realm.
• Zhou Ji told the Lingxu Sect elders that the Demon Refining Array had merged the realms’ time and space and that the Heaven Gate Token’s holder had changed.
• Qi Minze and the elders concluded that only Sect Master Zhang Xuanlin might safely intervene and agreed to keep the matter secret until he decided what to do.
• In a Linping County teahouse, Void Form fled from the blue-robed scholar, who intercepted him in an alley.
• The blue-robed scholar seized Void Form through the air, then stopped and recognized that he was in a Floating World.

Void Form revealed that he had given Jiuan Palace’s Remnant Scripture to Gu Yuanqing, prompting Qin Wuya to seek it on North Spring Mountain. Gu Yuanqing awakened the Demon Subduing Sword’s Sword Formation and tested its power, while Qin Wuya judged him too strong to confront for now and planned to go to Great Zhou.

• Qin Wuya forced Void Form to reveal that he had given the original Remnant Scripture to Young Master Gu of North Spring Mountain, then left to find him.
• Gu Yuanqing awakened the North Spring Secret Sword and discovered its core contained a Sword Control Technique that became a Sword Formation.
• Gu Yuanqing learned the Secret Sword was the Demon Subduing Sword and used it to cut through Stone and a Dao Coin fragment with ease.
• Gu Yuanqing tested the sword beyond North Spring Mountain and found that its empowered strikes tore rifts in the fragile space.
• Qin Wuya watched Gu Yuanqing from afar, realized he was not yet strong enough to challenge him, and decided to head to Great Zhou.

Gu Yuanqing continued cultivating on North Spring Mountain as its creatures and vegetation flourished, while visitors and the Imperial Guard gathered below. When Xu Lianying delivered gifts from the emperor, Gu Yuanqing sent back spirit water and fruits for the emperor’s injuries and hinted that General Zhang Zhuo should remain stationed at the mountain; afterward, he reflected on the distance his growing strength had created and went to speak with Ji Qingyun.

• The animals, plants, and Aunt Feng grew stronger as Gu Yuanqing cultivated with the Fire Dao and studied techniques from Ji Qingyun’s manuals.
• Xu Lianying came to North Spring Mountain at the emperor’s command and marveled at the mountain’s spiritual qi and Gu Yuanqing’s transformation.
• After learning that the emperor had been injured by the backlash from the array formation used against Zuo Qiu, Gu Yuanqing gave Xu Lianying spirit water and three spiritual fruits for him.
• Xu Lianying brought valuable gifts from the Imperial Family, and Gu Yuanqing declined the emperor’s offer to renovate North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing remarked that General Zhang Zhuo’s presence at the mountain’s foot put him at ease, and Xu Lianying promised to report the comment to the emperor.
• After Xu Lianying departed, Gu Yuanqing reflected on his growing estrangement from others and went to the Heaven and Earth Pool to speak with Ji Qingyun.

Gu Yuanqing learned that the Floating World would eventually be devoured by the Demon Realm if its Demon Refining Array remained stopped, then resumed Heavenly Fishing. A strange Unicorn Beast repeatedly disrupted his fishing before suddenly attacking the Six-tailed Fox Demon on Sky Fox Mountain.

• Gu Yuanqing questioned Ji Qingyun about the stopped Demon Refining Array and learned that the Floating World would eventually fall into the Demon Realm, while a solution was uncertain.
• Gu Yuanqing asked whether Lingxu Sect cultivators from the Upper Realm could descend, then threw Ji Qingyun back into the Heaven and Earth Pool when he avoided answering.
• Gu Yuanqing practiced Heavenly Fishing and discovered that his divine sense could reach twenty zhang into the Demon Realm.
• A snow-white Unicorn Beast repeatedly severed Gu Yuanqing's connection to his bait and swallowed it, forcing him to stop fishing and return to his courtyard.
• The Unicorn Beast appeared on Sky Fox Mountain and rammed the Six-tailed Fox Demon, destroying parts of the mountain before vanishing.

Lingxu Sect's Fire Dao Cultivators worried that the world's Demon Refining Array had failed and searched for a solution, while Gu Yuanqing's influence grew as North Spring Mountain became a cultivation sanctuary. When a desperate mother prayed for her dying son, Gu Yuanqing used Heavenly Fishing and the power of incense and fire to send him spirit spring water.

• Kuang Tongyi told the Fire Dao Cultivators that the patriarch had vanished and proposed that five of them search the world for signs of trouble with the Demon Refining Array.
• Old Master Gu ordered his family to stop mentioning Gu Yuanqing and told his steward to let Li Changyan and Yunying's relationship take its natural course.
• Li Shi'an gave Li Haotian spirit spring water from Gu Yuanqing, and advised him to consider carefully how to handle Chengyi and Gu Yuanqing.
• Gu Yuanqing cultivated as North Spring Mountain's Spiritual Qi spread across the surrounding land, earning the mountain a reputation as an immortal sanctuary and Gu Yuanqing the name Banished Immortal.
• Gu Yuanqing sensed a woman's prayer for her dying son and used Heavenly Fishing, guided by incense and fire, to deliver spirit spring water to the child.

Gu Yuanqing discovered that North Spring Mountain had appeared in the Demon Realm, though it remained connected to the Floating World and had not caused a catastrophic rift. He surveyed the dangerous new surroundings and realized his plans for peaceful cultivation had been upended.

• Gu Yuanqing healed Tong with Spirit Spring Water, and the grateful woman knelt to thank him.
• After another month, Zhang Zhuo thanked Young Master Gu, while Gu Yuanqing continued practicing Heavenly Angling and avoided the Strange Beast with a unicorn horn.
• North Spring Mountain suddenly trembled and its surroundings changed, revealing a red moon, raging Gale, and Demonic Qi as Gu Yuanqing's fishing rod shattered.
• Gu Yuanqing used Mountain Observation and learned North Spring Mountain existed in both the Demon Realm and the Floating World, leaving the Floating World's scenery and earth veins unaffected.
• Gu Yuanqing saw enormous beasts in the Demon Realm, including a giant bird and a hundred-foot ape, and recognized how dangerous his new surroundings were.

Gu Yuanqing explored the Demon Realm beyond North Spring Mountain and discovered that its demonic qi drained his true essence while attracting ferocious beasts. He returned to the mountain, arranged for Zhang Zhuo and Little Li to leave supplies at the entrance, and spotted a huge horned python approaching the forest.

• A giant ape defeated a giant bird, then charged Gu Yuanqing before he struck it away; afterward, the Monkey King stared at its own hands.
• Gu Yuanqing used Heavenly Fishing to draw prey for North Spring Mountain’s beasts and crossed the Memorial Archway to investigate the Demon Realm.
• Demonic qi consumed Gu Yuanqing’s true essence, and a pack of wolves and other beasts converged on him, so he killed the wolves and retreated into the mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing watched Zhang Zhuo and Little Li pass through the archway, pulled their supplies into North Spring Mountain with Heavenly Fishing, and told them to leave future supplies at the entrance.
• Gu Yuanqing reassured Aunt Feng that she should remain on the mountain, then saw a gigantic, horned python moving through the distant forest.

Gu Yuanqing killed a giant python that attacked North Spring Mountain, then discovered that humans lived in the Demon Realm when its owner, Lan Tinglie, came to confront him. Their fight began with Gu Yuanqing seizing Lan Tinglie’s Bronze Bell, and he launched another attack with the Hun Tian Rope.

• A giant python charged North Spring Mountain, but Gu Yuanqing crushed it with a palm formed from the mountain’s power.
• Lan Tinglie arrived, saw his dead mount, and challenged Gu Yuanqing to a fight.
• Lan Tinglie attacked with his Bronze Bell, but Gu Yuanqing’s techniques disrupted the bell and dragged it inside North Spring Mountain.
• Gu Yuanqing seized the Bronze Bell and sent the Hun Tian Rope through the void toward Lan Tinglie.