Chapter Summaries

Gu Changqing entered the Qilin Clan’s treasury and found over a hundred Mighty Experts drinking its wine. His reputation and connections frightened them into leaving, leaving him alone with the wine.

• Gu Changqing criticized the Mighty Experts for wasting the Immortal Brew as they drank in the treasury.
• A Mighty Expert recognized Gu Changqing and stopped insulting him, prompting the others to greet him respectfully.
• Kong Xuan watched the experts’ deference and recalled Yuanfeng’s praise of Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing remarked that the experts had beaten him to the wine, and they feared he was claiming their opportunity.
• The Mighty Experts apologized and left the treasury, while Gu Changqing drank the wine they left behind.

Gu Changqing recognized that the Qilin Clan’s wine carried the power of a mysterious supreme spirit root and searched beneath Qilin Cliff for its source. He split open the Heavenly Abyss with one sword and revealed a ray of divine radiance.

• Gu Changqing drank the Qilin Clan’s fine wine and sensed that it contained the potency of an unknown supreme-grade spirit root.
• Kong Xuan doubted that the Qilin Clan would have used such a precious spirit root to make wine, prompting Gu Changqing to suspect that it remained beneath Qilin Cliff.
• Gu Changqing searched the former Qilin Clan territory with his divine sense and traced the mysterious aura into the abyss beneath the cliff.
• Gu Changqing danced with his sword and unleashed a strike that shattered mountains and split open the Heavenly Abyss.
• A ray of divine radiance emerged from the abyss, and Gu Changqing recognized that his guess had been correct.

Gu Changqing discovered and claimed the Tongtian Jianmu beneath Qilin Cliff, drawing awe from the powerful cultivators gathered there. A new treasure emerged from the cliff’s depths, and Guangchengzi recognized it as the God-Slaying Spear.

• Gu Changqing recognized the Tongtian Jianmu beneath Qilin Cliff and seized it with his sword intent.
• The gathered experts marveled at Gu Changqing’s discovery but did not dare challenge his claim to the spirit root.
• A deafening roar shook Qilin Cliff as black mist rose and an enormous battle spear appeared in the sky.
• Powerful cultivators rushed toward the spear’s emergence, hoping to identify or claim the treasure.
• Beneath Qilin Cliff, Guangchengzi and Chijingzi watched the spear emerge, and Guangchengzi identified it as the God-Slaying Spear.

The God-Slaying Spear emerged beneath Qilin Cliff, drawing Guangchengzi, the Chan Sect disciples, and numerous ancient experts into a tense standoff over the legendary weapon. Just as neither side dared make a move, the Wine Sword Immortal arrived and challenged them to let him claim it.

• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect disciples discovered the God-Slaying Spear beneath Qilin Cliff and resolved to take it for their sect.
• Numerous mighty experts gathered, recognized the spear, and began arguing over who had the strength to claim it.
• Guangchengzi invoked Master Yuanshi's name to deter the assembled experts from competing for the spear.
• A mighty expert questioned whether Guangchengzi was merely borrowing Yuanshi's authority, and Chijingzi threatened anyone who dared attack the Chan Sect disciples.
• The Wine Sword Immortal arrived and asked whether everyone was waiting for him to claim the God-Slaying Spear.

Gu Changqing arrived at the God-Slaying Spear, alarming Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Disciples. He challenged them to defeat him if they wanted to claim the treasure, leaving them facing his threat.

• Gu Changqing arrived on his sword with his Wine Gourd, and the Mighty Experts abandoned hope of claiming the God-Slaying Spear.
• One Mighty Expert urged Gu Changqing to take the treasure, and others joined in to provoke Guangchengzi and his companions.
• Guangchengzi tried to claim that the Chan Sect had discovered the opportunity first, but Gu Changqing dismissed the rules between Saint's Lineages.
• Juliusun demanded to know what Gu Changqing intended to do, and Gu Changqing challenged the Chan Sect Disciples to attack him together for the God-Slaying Spear.
• Guangchengzi and the others fell into a deathly silence after Gu Changqing called himself a drunkard.

Gu Changqing faced Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Disciples, who attacked him with their Spirit Treasures while secretly planning to seize the God-Slaying Spear. He repelled their treasures with a sweep of his sleeve, but Yu Ding Zhenren grabbed the spear and prepared to escape.

• The Mighty Experts mocked Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Disciples until Guangchengzi decided they had to fight Gu Changqing.
• Guangchengzi secretly told the others to keep Gu Changqing occupied while Yu Ding Zhenren stole the God-Slaying Spear using Earth-Escaping Golden Light.
• Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect Disciples attacked Gu Changqing with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, Soul Falling Bell, Yin-Yang Mirror, and other Spirit Treasures.
• Gu Changqing swept his sleeve and sent the attackers’ Spirit Treasures flying back into their owners’ hands.
• Guangchengzi ordered Yu Ding Zhenren to strike, and Yu Ding seized the God-Slaying Spear and began to vanish.

When Yu Ding Zhenren tried to steal the God-Slaying Spear, Gu Changqing severed his arm with a blade of grass and warned the Chan Sect disciples not to try again. Sage Yuanshi then appeared, furious and demanding the spear, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Yu Ding Zhenren seized the God-Slaying Spear while Gu Changqing was recovering from his attack.
• Gu Changqing sliced off Yu Ding Zhenren’s arm with a blade of grass, causing him to drop the spear.
• Gu Changqing warned Yu Ding Zhenren that another attempt would cost him his life, while Guangchengzi accused Gu Changqing of excessive violence.
• Gu Changqing dismissed Guangchengzi’s protest, saying Yu Ding Zhenren had shown no martial honor.
• Sage Yuanshi appeared and demanded the God-Slaying Spear, prompting the Chan Sect disciples to celebrate.

Yuanshi manifested a divine-sense incarnation to claim the God-Slaying Spear, while Gu Changqing refused to yield. Yuanshi attacked him, and Gu Changqing defiantly declared his loyalty to Tongtian and the Interception Sect.

• Yuanshi manifested before the world, and the beings watching feared he would seize the God-Slaying Spear from Gu Changqing.
• Bixiao, Duobao, and the other Interception Sect disciples urged Tongtian to intervene, but Tongtian said Yuanshi had sent only a phantom and left Gu Changqing to handle him.
• Gu Changqing recognized Yuanshi's manifestation as an incarnation and refused to submit or surrender the spear.
• Yuanshi angrily accused Gu Changqing of arrogance, and Gu Changqing challenged him to fight.
• Yuanshi struck with a palm that shattered the void, and Gu Changqing answered that he honored Tongtian and respected the Interception Sect's Dao.

Gu Changqing met Yuanshi’s attack head-on with the Purple-Green Nine Heavens Sword and emerged unharmed, forcing Yuanshi’s incarnation to retreat with Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect disciples. In Zixiao Palace, Yuanshi’s true self reacted with furious hatred and vowed that Gu Changqing deserved to die.

• Gu Changqing summoned a vast deluge of sword intent and shattered Yuanshi’s enormous palm of laws.
• After the tribulation light cleared, Gu Changqing stood unharmed, stunning the watching cultivators and leaving Yuanshi on the back foot.
• Gu Changqing taunted Yuanshi about his incarnation’s strength and challenged him to withstand more sword strikes.
• Yuanshi claimed his incarnation held only a fraction of his true strength, then withdrew with Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect disciples.
• In Zixiao Palace, Yuanshi’s true self cursed Gu Changqing in fury.

Yuanshi told Hongjun and Laozi that Gu Changqing had defeated his incarnation and taken the God-Slaying Spear, earning Hongjun’s rebuke. Gu Changqing returned to Golden Ao Island to the Interception Sect disciples’ acclaim, then collapsed in his cave abode after mumbling that he was drunk.

• Yuanshi recounted his failed attempt to seize the God-Slaying Spear and admitted that Gu Changqing had taken it.
• Laozi reacted in shock, and Hongjun condemned Yuanshi for allowing Gu Changqing to gain another supreme treasure.
• Hongjun urged Yuanshi and Laozi to resume cultivating the Heavenly Dao and promised they would settle accounts with Gu Changqing later.
• Gu Changqing returned to Golden Ao Island, where the Interception Sect disciples celebrated his victory and praised his strength.
• Gu Changqing mumbled that he was drunk and collapsed inside his cave abode as the disciples and Kong Xuan looked on.

Kong Xuan swore himself to Gu Changqing as a disciple, impressing the Interception Sect and Tongtian with the growing power of Gu Changqing’s lineage. During a quiet period of cultivation, a demonic presence emerged from the God-Slaying Spear and tried to kill Gu Changqing, who destroyed it and identified Luohu as the source; Luohu then spoke again.

• Kong Xuan knelt before the sleeping Gu Changqing, swore an oath, and asked to become his disciple.
• Gu Changqing accepted Kong Xuan into the Interception Sect as a Third-Generation Disciple, while Duobao and the others marveled at his identity as Yuanfeng’s son.
• Tongtian watched with gratification as Gu Changqing continued to gather powerful disciples, and the Mighty Experts withdrew to cultivate after the battle at Qilin Cliff.
• A humanoid mass of demonic energy emerged from the God-Slaying Spear and sent a claw toward Gu Changqing’s sea of consciousness.
• Gu Changqing woke, destroyed the demonic energy with the Purple-Green Nine Heavens Sword, and recognized Luohu behind the attack.
• Luohu’s voice came from the demonic energy, acknowledging Gu Changqing’s ability.

Gu Changqing confronted the Demon Ancestor Luohu, whose remnant soul had been hiding in the God-Slaying Spear. After disarming and suppressing Luohu’s spear, Gu Changqing broke through his devil Dao laws with his sword and unleashed the eighth form of Sword Nine, leaving Luohu horrified by his mastery of the Great Dao of Wine and the Great Dao of the Sword.

• Luohu revealed himself as a remnant soul inside the God-Slaying Spear and concealed the cave abode from outside detection.
• Gu Changqing mocked Luohu’s weakened state, and Luohu attacked to reclaim the spear.
• Gu Changqing knocked the God-Slaying Spear away and trapped it in a sword array.
• Luohu unleashed his devil Dao laws, but Gu Changqing shattered his Chains of Order with sword intent.
• Gu Changqing performed “Final Song: Immortals Kneel,” and Luohu recognized the Great Dao of Wine and the Great Dao of the Sword in terror.

Gu Changqing defeated Luohu, who had tried to seize the God-Slaying Spear, and destroyed his remnant soul. When Tongtian asked what had happened, Gu Changqing drunkenly replied that he had just killed Luohu.

• Luohu sensed that Gu Changqing wielded two Great Daos and unleashed the Devil Dao Veil to invade his mind.
• Gu Changqing drank his wine and repelled Luohu’s demonic qi, forcing Luohu to flee.
• Gu Changqing trapped Luohu with spatial barriers formed from sword intent and ignored his pleas for mercy.
• Gu Changqing struck Luohu with the Purple-Green Nine Heavens Sword, destroying his remnant soul before the sword landed on Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian asked Gu Changqing what had happened, and Gu Changqing drunkenly said he had just killed Luohu.

Gu Changqing revealed that he had deliberately lured Luohu’s remnant soul out of the God-Slaying Spear and destroyed it, then asked Tongtian to plant the Tongtian Jianmu on Golden Ao Island. As Gu Changqing prepared to brew wine with the Southern Bright Separation Flame’s origin, Nuwa arrived to visit him.

• Tongtian rushed to Gu Changqing’s cave abode and learned that Luohu had survived within the God-Slaying Spear until Gu Changqing drew him out and killed him.
• Tongtian praised Gu Changqing, told him to refine the now-ownerless spear, and warned him to use the baleful treasure sparingly.
• Gu Changqing revealed the Tongtian Jianmu, and Tongtian took it away to plant within the Interception Sect using his Sage power.
• Gu Changqing brought out the Southern Bright Separation Flame’s origin to brew wine, but Nuwa announced that she had come to visit him.

Nuwa visited the Interception Sect to ask Gu Changqing whether Fuxi had truly perished. Gu Changqing showed her a human youth and urged her to divine his fate mark, revealing that the youth was Fuxi’s reincarnation.

• Tongtian welcomed Nuwa into the Interception Sect, and she clarified that she held no grudge against Gu Changqing.
• Nuwa asked Gu Changqing whether Fuxi’s Dao had been extinguished and his soul destroyed.
• Gu Changqing showed Nuwa visions of a human youth who was accumulating faith and merit.
• Gu Changqing told Nuwa to divine the youth’s fate mark, and she discovered that he was Fuxi’s reincarnation.

Nuwa realized Gu Changqing had helped Fuxi reincarnate into a human youth and, grateful for his kindness, agreed to teach him the Creation Great Dao. As Gu Changqing began comprehending it, Tongtian warned the Jie Sect disciples not to attempt the Dao, lest they ruin their cultivation.

• Nuwa thanked Gu Changqing for arranging Fuxi's reincarnation and granting him a great opportunity in his new life.
• Gu Changqing asked Nuwa to impart the Creation Great Dao, hoping to strengthen his path toward proving the Dao of primordial unity.
• Nuwa agreed and began explaining the Creation Great Dao, while Gu Changqing drank wine and absorbed her teachings.
• Nuwa was astonished as Gu Changqing quickly manifested the Dao's resonance and balanced it with the Great Dao of the Sword.
• Duobao and the Jie Sect disciples gathered outside Gu Changqing's Cave Abode to listen and contemplate Nuwa's teaching.
• Tongtian appeared and ordered the disciples not to perceive the Creation Great Dao, warning that attempting it could destroy ten thousand years of cultivation.

Nuwa spent a thousand years imparting the Creation Great Dao to Gu Changqing while humanity, the Dragon Race, and the Witch Clan grew powerful after the Witch-Demon War. As the sermon ended on Golden Ao Island, Ji Ren sensed that humanity’s era was approaching its end and a new age was about to begin.

• Tongtian warned the disciples that trying to comprehend the Creation Great Dao could ruin their Dao Foundations, and they withdrew their divine sense.
• Humanity prospered under the protection of Gu Changqing, and Ji Ren broke through to the late-stage quasi-saint realm.
• Ji Ren credited Master Changqing for humanity’s prosperity and sensed that humanity was about to welcome another great age.
• The Dragon Race flourished through its totem contract with humanity, and the Four Seas Dragon Kings vowed never to betray Gu Changqing.
• Houtu incorporated the surviving remnants of Buzhou Mountain into the Underworld, strengthening the Earth Dao’s authority.
• After a thousand years, Nuwa finished imparting the Dao to Gu Changqing on Golden Ao Island.

After Nuwa spent a thousand years teaching Gu Changqing the Creation Great Dao, Laozi and Yuanshi returned from the Outer Chaos Region with vastly increased power. Tongtian suspected that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had strengthened them because he had come to despise Tongtian and his allies.

• Nuwa asked Gu Changqing how much of her Creation Great Dao he had comprehended, and he claimed he had understood only a tenth or two.
• Tongtian arrived and thanked Nuwa for teaching Gu Changqing for a thousand years, while Nuwa praised Gu Changqing's brilliance.
• Nuwa prepared to return to Wa Huang Heaven, but a terrifying aura swept across the world as Laozi and Yuanshi returned from the Outer Chaos Region.
• Living beings were astonished by Laozi and Yuanshi's immense increase in power, while Nuwa suspected Hongjun had empowered them.
• Tongtian reflected that Hongjun may have strengthened Laozi and Yuanshi because he had come to despise Tongtian and his allies.

Tongtian and Nuwa discussed how Hongjun’s support for Laozi and Yuanshi threatened Gu Changqing and their allies, but Gu Changqing hinted that Nuwa could one day stand alongside Houtu. After Nuwa departed, Gu Changqing kept the Human Dao’s future secret from Tongtian and turned to brewing wine.

• Tongtian told Nuwa that Hongjun had abandoned the Six Sages’ former unity by strengthening Laozi and Yuanshi, and he suspected this was aimed at Gu Changqing and the Interception Sect.
• Nuwa acknowledged the danger but refused to retreat from her alliance with Gu Changqing, while Tongtian vowed to defend his Interception Sect and warned her that she stood alone.
• Gu Changqing suggested that Nuwa could one day stand shoulder to shoulder with Houtu, leaving Tongtian and Nuwa astonished.
• Nuwa trusted Gu Changqing’s prediction and returned to Wa Huang Heaven; Tongtian then asked Gu Changqing whether he had discerned another heavenly secret.
• Gu Changqing withheld his knowledge that humanity could give rise to a Human Dao and began brewing wine with the origin of the Southern Bright Separation Flame.

Gu Changqing brewed wine with the Southern Bright Separation Flame, nine heavens spirit spring, and Phoenix treasures, drawing the Jie Sect Disciples with its fragrance. Bixiao drank a cup and began suffering a violent reaction, leaving Gu Changqing to intervene as Zhao Gongming feared the wine was poisoned.

• Gu Changqing balanced the Southern Bright Separation Flame with nine heavens spirit spring and added spirit roots and immortal fruits to brew wine.
• The wine's fragrance spread across Golden Ao Island, attracting hundreds of thousands of Jie Sect Disciples and the Personal Disciples.
• Duobao, Bixiao, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and the others entered Gu Changqing's Cave Abode to see the new wine.
• Gu Changqing revealed that he had brewed the wine with the Southern Bright Separation Flame and nine heavens spirit spring.
• Bixiao conjured a jade cup, drank the wine in one gulp, and soon showed signs of pain as her blood qi surged.
• Zhao Gongming cried out that the wine might be poisoned, and Gu Changqing unleashed power to envelop Bixiao.