Recaps

Ning Qi challenged Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to question their reverence for immortals and pursue a new path to immortality, then invited them to study Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body. While they analyzed its Immortal Power, Ning Qi used the body as a living test subject for cultivation techniques, and a trapped Remnant Soul continued to curse him from his Divine Soul.

• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor that immortals should not be revered above humans and urged them to help open a new path to immortality.
• Sage Ancestor examined Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body, found its defenses too strong to damage, and learned from Ning Qi that the Buzhou Mountain Fragment contained cultivation techniques they could study.
• Sage Ancestor drew three strands of Immortal Power from the body, and Sage Ancestor, Sea Ancestor, and Ning Qi analyzed them; the two elders absorbed theirs and strengthened their cultivation.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor discovered that Ning Qi was manipulating Immortal Power inside the body to test and improve cultivation techniques, causing an experiment to fail with an explosion and black smoke.
• A Remnant Soul trapped within Ning Qi’s Yin-Yang Dao Diagram cursed him and threatened him with the Immortal Alliance.

Ning Qi tested the Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body with Buzhou Mountain techniques, sensed flaws in the inheritance, and modified the body so the Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor could use it. Elsewhere, Wei Xian and Lin Chen headed toward the True Martial Spirit World, while Black Slaughter True Immortal awakened the Divine Mountain Lineage and dispatched ships to reclaim the Divine Mountain.

• Ning Qi studied the Circulating Heaven Immortal Induction True Canon and discovered that its Two-Faced Immortal Body Technique made the Future Self the true inheritor, who would eventually kill the Past Self.
• Ning Qi experimented with the Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body, sensed that the Buzhou Mountain Inheritance was incomplete, and modified the body for the Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor to use.
• Wei Xian and Lin Chen sailed through the Boundary Sea toward the True Martial Spirit World, intending to meet whoever possessed another Buzhou Mountain Fragment.
• Black Slaughter True Immortal sensed the Divine Mountain Remnant, summoned his followers, and ordered them to prepare to reclaim the Divine Mountain.
• Five Giant Ships left the Divine Mountain in formation, carrying Black Slaughter True Immortal and his sharply divided forces into the Boundary Sea.

Ning Qi unlocked Mountain Ancestor’s Storage Ring while Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor experimented with Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body. Inside the ring, he found the remains of Mountain Ancestor’s victims and a bronze coffin in the deepest space, leaving its contents unknown.

• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor used Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Body together, clashing with and studying each other’s techniques.
• Ning Qi extracted Mountain Ancestor’s blood and Immortal Soul power to undo the Storage Ring’s first prohibition, while Mountain Ancestor argued that the strong should rule the weak.
• Ning Qi broke the ring’s spatial and cultivation-based prohibitions, learning that it had three nested spaces and was made from a material he named Immortal Silver.
• Ning Qi found Blood Spheres and skeletons among Mountain Ancestor’s collected resources and burned them, then discovered corpses of Dao Integration Cultivators soaking in a Blood Pool.
• Ning Qi entered the ring’s core space and found a bronze-colored coffin emitting faint Immortal Qi.

Ning Qi investigated the mysterious objects in the third layer of Mountain Ancestor’s Storage Ring and questioned Mountain Ancestor about their origins and his warning that enemies would come. Mountain Ancestor revealed that Ning Qi would be hunted by Buzhou Mountain inheritors and the Immortal Alliance for carrying Limitless Evil Qi, but Ning Qi resolved to face them.

• Ning Qi found a Bronze Immortal Coffin that absorbed his Immortal Power, then expelled it when he sent in Limitless Evil Qi; he could not open the coffin or move the nearby Bronze Divine Tree and Immortal Ore.
• Ning Qi questioned Mountain Ancestor about the coffin, and Mountain Ancestor said he did not know what was inside but believed it held something terrifying that needed Immortal Power to break free.
• Ning Qi asked who Mountain Ancestor meant by “they,” and Mountain Ancestor explained that summoning the Buzhou Mountain Fragment could attract other inheritors seeking it.
• Mountain Ancestor warned Ning Qi that the Immortal Alliance would hunt him as a Human Demon because Limitless Evil Qi had merged into his body.
• Ning Qi declared that he would face any enemies, leaving Mountain Ancestor shocked by his resolve.

Ning Qi purified the Buzhou Mountain Fragment and transformed it into Myriad Venerable Mountain, a cultivation ground and residence for Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor in the True Martial Spirit World. The chapter ended as the three entered the mountain and discovered its abundance of Immortal Grass and Wood.

• Ning Qi learned that other factions might seek Buzhou Mountain Fragments and that immortals would hunt him as a Human Demon, but he remained determined to explore the Boundary Sea.
• Ning Qi refined Mountain Ancestor's Storage Ring, secured the space containing the Bronze Immortal Coffin, and shared the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram's inheritances with Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi drew the World Sea Energy out of the Buzhou Mountain Fragment using his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram.
• Ning Qi placed the purified Buzhou Mountain at the center of the True Martial Spirit World's dragon veins, named it Myriad Venerable Mountain, and announced that Venerables would teach there.
• Ning Qi renewed the mountain's landscape and entered it with Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, who discovered many kinds of Immortal Grass and Wood.

Ning Qi restored Myriad Venerable Mountain, where he and Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor discovered rare Immortal Grass and Wood as well as mutated Chaos Grass and Chaos Wood. He opened the Lone Peak’s defenses, revealed its murals, and offered the mountain as the two ancestors’ home and a place to preach, then hinted that he had more to tell them.

• Ning Qi renamed Buzhou Mountain Myriad Venerable Mountain and used recovered life force to revive its inner world.
• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor explored the mountain and found True Immortal Genesis Lotuses, a Rebirth Great Belly Blood Scholar Tree, and a Thunder Peach Substitute Tribulation Wood.
• Sea Ancestor recognized that mutated grasses and trees held both Immortal Power and World Sea Power, and Ning Qi named them Chaos Grass and Chaos Wood.
• Ning Qi opened the Lone Peak’s defenses and showed the others its murals, including the Six Paths Immortal Wheel and Circulating Heaven Immortal Induction True Canon.
• Ning Qi placed the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram on the Cliff Wall and offered the mountain as Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor’s residence and a venue for preaching the Dao.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor accepted Ning Qi’s offer, and Ning Qi began to reveal one more thing.

Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor that a powerful enemy who might possess another Buzhou Mountain Fragment could threaten the True Martial Spirit World. The three planned to cultivate in the fragment, investigate the immortal gate, and help Sage Ancestor attempt to become an immortal.

• Ning Qi revealed the Enlightenment World Tree to Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor and explained how it aided cultivation and Dao comprehension.
• Ning Qi warned Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor that someone with another Buzhou Mountain Fragment might be approaching, and they agreed to prepare for the threat.
• Ning Qi and the two ancestors examined the fragment's world and Lone Peak, concluding that gathering the remaining fragments might reveal Buzhou Mountain's purpose and the truth about the Heaven Realm.
• Ning Qi proposed that they investigate the immortal gate while cultivating, and placed Mountain Ancestor's immortal body on the plaza.
• Ning Qi assigned Sage Ancestor to condense an immortal gate and encouraged him to aim for a Silver or Golden Immortal Gate with their resources and support.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor held a Dao Discourse, where Sage Ancestor revealed a flexible method for combining Divine Script into Supernatural Powers. Sea Ancestor then gained an Immortal Realm cultivation method from the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram, and its teachings helped Ning Qi see how his World Lord System might lead to a new Path to Immortality.

• Ning Qi summoned talented Cultivators to Enlightenment Plaza to hear the three Old Ancestors discuss their Dao arts and prepare for the choice of becoming immortals.
• Sage Ancestor demonstrated how attack and defense Divine Script could be combined and expanded into systematic Supernatural Powers, then gave the Cultivators further guidance.
• Sea Ancestor resonated with a sacred figure in the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram and received the Taiyin Flying Immortal Canon, a method that could lead directly to the Celestial Immortal realm.
• Sea Ancestor shared the canon with Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor, and explained the ranks of immortals and how cultivators broke free of the world's Rules to become True Immortals.
• Ning Qi connected the canon's teachings to his own World Lord System and realized he might have found a way to create a new Path to Immortality.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor discussed the stages of True Immortals and agreed to face the unknown path to immortality together. Sea Ancestor tested a method for revealing an Immortal Gate’s grade, but World Sea Energy disrupted the test, so Ning Qi proposed deciphering the Rune Array for everyone to use.

• Sea Ancestor explained that newly ascended immortals gained Immortal Power, while True Immortals condensed and cultivated Great Dao Fruits through the Nine Grades.
• Ning Qi warned Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor that the immortal realm could hold threats like Mountain Ancestor, and the three resolved to stay together as they pursued immortality.
• Ning Qi proposed helping Sage Ancestor condense an Immortal Gate and investigate what lay beyond it.
• Sea Ancestor used the Supreme Soaring Immortal Canon to form a Rune Array that summoned a small Immortal Gate, whose shifting colors indicated its grade.
• World Sea Energy in Sea Ancestor’s body caused the test gate to flicker and vanish before its grade could be confirmed.
• After Sage Ancestor said he could not use the Taiyin Gate method, Ning Qi proposed deciphering its Rune Array and adapting it for everyone.

Ning Qi used the Enlightenment World Tree to unravel Sea Ancestor’s Immortal Dao Rune Array and discovered that it required Great Dao Power rather than Power of Rules. After condensing and dismissing a Golden Immortal Gate, he transformed his rune arrays with Yin-Yang Great Dao Power and absorbed the resulting Great Dao Talisman Array Fruit.

• Ning Qi studied Sea Ancestor’s rune array and failed to reproduce it using Mountain Ancestor’s Immortal Power through the methods of Power of Rules.
• Ning Qi reconstructed his rune array system while Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor watched his deductions.
• Sea Ancestor explained that the array required Great Dao Power, and Ning Qi used his Yin-Yang Dao Diagram to successfully form it.
• Ning Qi’s Golden Key resonated with the Immortal Gate, transforming it into a Golden Immortal Gate before he severed their connection and made it vanish.
• Ning Qi transformed the rune arrays with Yin-Yang Great Dao Power, gathered them into a fruit, and absorbed what he called the Great Dao Talisman Array Fruit.

Ning Qi formed a Nascent Great Dao Rune Array and helped Sage Ancestor test the Immortal Gate he could summon, which proved to be bronze. Ning Qi then began combining their cultivation methods with Immortal Realm canons to perfect a method that could help Sage Ancestor reach a Golden Immortal Gate, and Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor joined his work.

• Ning Qi explained that his Great Dao Talisman Array Fruit was only a Nascent Great Dao, astonishing Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi shared his Immortal Dao Rune Array method, and Sage Ancestor used it to summon a Bronze Divine Script Immortal Gate.
• Ning Qi began inscribing and combining Sage Ancestor's Divine Script cultivation method with other cultivation methods to improve it.
• Ning Qi invited Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to help perfect the cultivation method, and both contributed their insights.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor perfected two Immortal Dao cultivation methods together, inspiring the Enlightenment World Tree to grow leaves inscribed with their insights. Ning Qi then began developing the Transcendence Realm of his World Lord cultivation system and concluded that he needed a new path capable of containing both Immortal Power and World Sea Energy.

• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor used the Enlightenment World Tree’s Wisdom Light to create the Three Sages Engrave Dao Immortal Text, while the tree’s leaves began recording their Divine Scripts.
• Sea Ancestor persuaded the other two to refine her cultivation method, and they created the Water Moon Inquire Immortal Dao Canon based on supreme yin and softness.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor began cultivating their new methods and agreed to test them at the Test Immortal Gate after adapting to them.
• Ning Qi discovered that the World Tree had grown distinct leaves bearing Divine Scripts and water-moon imagery, then returned to the Inner World to work on his cultivation system.
• Ning Qi defined the system’s next stage as the Transcendence Realm, or Great Dao Realm, and resolved to seek a new path that could contain both Immortal Power and World Sea Energy.

Ning Qi rejected the conventional Path to Immortality and created Immortal-Demon Power by fusing Immortal Power with Limitless Evil Qi, proving that it could devour ordinary Immortal Power. He then watched Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor test their perfected cultivation methods, while Sage Ancestor began condensing a new Immortal Gate.

• Ning Qi decided to keep the Limitless Evil Qi and World Sea Energy within himself rather than transform them into Immortal Power and follow the usual route to immortality.
• Ning Qi fused Immortal Power and Limitless Evil Qi into Immortal-Demon Power, then tested it by having it devour a strand of Mountain Ancestor's Immortal Power.
• Ning Qi returned to the Enlightenment Plaza, where Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor demonstrated the stronger Immortal Power produced by their perfected cultivation method.
• Ning Qi told Sea Ancestor to pursue the Great Dao without relying on background, and she realized that her Dao was not alone.
• Sage Ancestor formed a nine-stream Immortal Dao Rune Array, which became a ring and began condensing an Immortal Gate whose colors shifted rapidly.

At the Great Desolation Immortal Realm’s Immortal Selection Pavilion, Li Donglin and Han Song detected a Lower Realm ascender with a Golden Immortal Gate and confirmed he was Hao Shan, the Buzhou Mountain Heir. After recording him and beginning his Immortal Gate Baptism, they watched his name vanish from the Immortal Register and wondered whether demons had intercepted him in the World Sea.

• Li Donglin and Han Song detected an ascender with a Golden Immortal Gate and traced him to the Lower Realm near the Eastern Wasteland Immortal Realm.
• The ascender identified himself as Hao Shan, the Buzhou Mountain Heir, but the Immortal Selection Array detected World Sea Energy within him.
• Han Song stopped Li Donglin from reporting Hao Shan immediately, and Hao Shan proved his identity with an ancient Buzhou Mountain mark.
• Li Donglin entered Hao Shan into the Immortal Registry, sent him spatial coordinates, and began his Immortal Gate Baptism.
• The Immortal Register fell, and Hao Shan’s name disappeared despite his completing the baptism, leaving Li Donglin and Han Song to suspect he had encountered demons crossing the World Sea.

Han Song and Li Donglin investigated repeated Immortal Gate disturbances from one Lower Realm location and concealed the anomaly, hoping to claim the opportunity for themselves. In the True Martial Spirit World, the Sage Ancestor successfully formed a Golden Immortal Gate, and Ning Qi urged him to test whether an even higher level existed.

• Han Song concluded that Hao Shan had died after his name vanished from the Immortal Register, and he and Li Donglin decided to delay reporting the Buzhou Mountain Heir’s appearance.
• Han Song and Li Donglin planned to remain at the Immortal Selection Pavilion after their duty ended, hoping to pursue the Buzhou Mountain inheritance.
• The Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone detected Sea Ancestor testing a Silver Immortal Gate, then Ning Qi condensing a Golden Immortal Gate at the same location.
• The stone detected the Sage Ancestor testing a Bronze Immortal Gate, prompting Han Song and Li Donglin to activate a Barrier and hide the repeated disturbances.
• The Sage Ancestor followed the perfected Three Sages Engrave Dao Immortal Text and formed a Golden Immortal Gate, while Ning Qi urged him to test for further levels.

Ning Qi watched Sage Ancestor’s Golden Immortal Gate test fall just short of surpassing gold, drawing the attention of two True Immortals in the Great Desolation Immortal Realm. He then prepared a separate space to test whether he could interrupt Sage Ancestor’s ascension, and Sage Ancestor began condensing a true Immortal Gate.

• Sage Ancestor strengthened his Golden Immortal Gate, but it failed to break through, while Han Song and Li Donglin sensed the attempt through the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and resolved to keep waiting for the cultivator to ascend.
• Sea Ancestor restored Sage Ancestor with Immortal Brew, and Ning Qi decided they would stop testing and attempt to condense a true Immortal Gate.
• Ning Qi moved Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor into a separate space beyond the True Martial Spirit World, hoping to alter the Immortal Gate’s power to separate Immortal and Mortal and sever Spacetime.
• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor he was fifty percent confident he could interrupt the ascension and promised to send a clone to accompany him if he had to leave for the Immortal Realm.
• Sage Ancestor flew into the void and began condensing a true Immortal Gate.

Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor watched Sage Ancestor condense a Golden Immortal Gate and discovered that a mysterious presence beyond it monitored those becoming immortal. As Sage Ancestor began opening the gate, Ning Qi decided to approach it himself, despite the force keeping them away.

• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor watched Sage Ancestor condense an Immortal Gate while Ning Qi sensed that its power did not come from outside the space.
• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor used Immortal Power and Mountain Ancestor's immortal body to withstand the pressure as Sage Ancestor's gate advanced from Bronze to Silver to Golden.
• Sage Ancestor replenished his Immortal Power, underwent inspection by the Golden Immortal Gate, and began opening it while Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor remained a hundred zhang away.
• A voice inside the gate asked Sage Ancestor to state his name and rebuked him for communicating with Ning Qi, revealing that someone monitored his ascension.
• After Sage Ancestor warned Ning Qi that the presence could sense his actions, Ning Qi stood and said he would go to the Immortal Gate himself, leaving Sea Ancestor stunned.

Ning Qi used the Golden Key to pass through the Golden Immortal Gate’s resistance and shield himself from the beings beyond it while Sage Ancestor underwent the ascension test. The beings revealed that they served the Great Desolation Immortal Realm and pressed Sage Ancestor to open the gate fully, leaving Ning Qi wary of what would happen next.

• Ning Qi used the Golden Key’s Immortal Radiance to reach the Golden Immortal Gate and found he could touch it without being detected by the beings beyond it.
• Ning Qi shared the Golden Key’s radiance with Sage Ancestor, strengthening him as he pushed the gate open farther.
• A voice from beyond the gate questioned Sage Ancestor, identified his location as Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15, and demanded that he continue the test.
• Sage Ancestor stalled before fully opening the gate while Ning Qi glimpsed two figures and an Immortal Stone beyond it.
• The beings said they would record Sage Ancestor in the Immortal Registry and tell him how to reach the Great Desolation Immortal Realm if he passed their test.
• The beings questioned Sage Ancestor about other ascenders, learned there had been three including Hao Shan, and again ordered him to open the gate fully.

Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor opened the Golden Immortal Gate, but the Golden Key devoured its radiance and revealed two True Immortals monitoring the Lower Realm. The key opened a new rune gate, and its power destroyed the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and the Immortal Selection Pavilion, leaving the fate of Han Song and Li Donglin unclear.

• Han Song and Li Donglin contacted Sage Ancestor through the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and learned that Ning Qi and the others had killed the earlier immortal.
• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor to push the Golden Immortal Gate fully open so they could discover the Upper Realm's location and see who was watching them.
• Sage Ancestor opened the gate, and its Golden Immortal Radiance began transforming him while the Golden Key in Ning Qi's hand devoured much of the power.
• The Golden Key revealed Han Song and Li Donglin in the Immortal Selection Pavilion, and Ning Qi recognized them as True Immortals inspecting Lower Realm Cultivators.
• The Golden Key formed and opened a rune immortal gate, releasing immense radiance before the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone shattered and the pavilion collapsed around Han Song and Li Donglin.

Ning Qi used the Golden Key to seize Immortal Power from the Great Desolation Immortal Realm, destroying the Immortal Selection Pavilion and helping Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor undergo immortal-body transformations. In the Immortal Realm, Jiang Shou investigated the destruction, learned of the strange rune, and exiled Li Donglin while summoning Han Song.

• The Golden Key absorbed Immortal Power from the Immortal Realm, collapsed the Immortal Selection Pavilion, and gave Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor Golden Immortal Radiance.
• Ning Qi absorbed his share, pressured the Golden Key into revealing the words “Golden Immortal Clan,” and gave Sea Ancestor a mass of Immortal Radiance to strengthen her.
• Jiang Shou restored the Immortal Selection Pavilion and questioned Han Song and Li Donglin about the explosion and the strange rune.
• Li Donglin concealed that he recognized the rune, but Jiang Shou saw through his answer and exiled him to the Boundary Sea while ordering Han Song to come with him.

Jiang Shou punished Li Donglin for concealing the rune and bound Han Song to secrecy before revealing that it resembled the lost Golden Immortal Clan’s mark. After learning that Ning Qi and the Sage Ancestor had appeared before the Immortal Gate near Buzhou Mountain, Jiang Shou set out to investigate while ordering Han Song to track them.

• Jiang Shou ordered a Top Secret Annihilation Talisman planted in Li Donglin’s Divine Soul and exiled him from the Great Desolation Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Shou planted the same talisman in Han Song, then told him the rune resembled the Clan Mark of the vanished Golden Immortal Clan and might point to one of its relics.
• Han Song showed Jiang Shou an image of Ning Qi and the Sage Ancestor before the Immortal Gate and gave him their recorded spatial coordinates in Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15.
• Han Song explained that the newly ascended figure had summoned a Buzhou Mountain Fragment, leading Jiang Shou to fear that Buzhou Mountain’s inheritance might still have living heirs.
• Jiang Shou left to investigate and ordered Han Song to obtain another Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and track the figures’ movements.

Elder Jiang Shou recruited Dao Bujin to investigate the Golden Immortal Clan relic and sent him toward the Lower Realm. Meanwhile, Sage Ancestor completed his transformation through the Golden Immortal Radiance, emerging from the cocoon with a powerful Morning Sun Body.

• Elder Jiang Shou sought Boundary Protecting Immortal Army coordinates to find someone who could reach Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15 quickly.
• Dao Bujin learned that the Immortal Selection Pavilion incident involved the Golden Immortal Clan mark, accepted the mission, and swore an Absolute Secrecy Annihilation Curse.
• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor discussed the upper realm's path to immortality and Sea Ancestor agreed to try Ning Qi's new Great Dao.
• After three days in the Immortal Cocoon, Sage Ancestor emerged with a Golden Immortal Robe and a powerful Morning Sun Body.
• Sage Ancestor changed his robe back to a simple style, and Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor teased him for acting old despite his youthful appearance.

After Sage Ancestor became a Golden Immortal, Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor examined his power and discovered that immortals instinctively recoiled from World Sea Energy and Limitless Evil Qi. Back at Myriad Venerable Mountain, Ning Qi used the Golden Key to reveal a route to the distant Great Desolation Immortal Realm, leaving the group with a new destination and more questions about the key’s origins.

• Sage Ancestor shared his Golden Immortal Power with Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor, who found that it contained his emerging Divine Script Dao and surpassed Mountain Ancestor’s Silver Immortal Power.
• Sage Ancestor discovered that World Sea Energy made him feel sick and that Limitless Evil Qi triggered an instinctive urge to attack Ning Qi, prompting the others to reassure him they would stand by Ning Qi.
• Ning Qi questioned what the World Sea’s continued expansion would mean for the shrinking Immortal Realm, then returned with Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to Myriad Venerable Mountain.
• Sage Ancestor asked whether the Great Desolation Immortal Realm would retaliate, and Ning Qi showed him and Sea Ancestor the Golden Key, which inspired reverence in Sage Ancestor after his ascension.
• The Golden Key projected a map revealing the location of the Great Desolation Immortal Realm, apparently urging Ning Qi and the others to obtain more Immortal Power for it.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor chose to remain in Myriad Venerable Mountain and cultivate rather than travel to the distant Great Desolation Immortal Realm. Elsewhere in the World Sea, several groups headed toward the newly awakened Buzhou Mountain Fragment, while Black Slaughter True Immortal’s fleet continued its brutal voyage.

• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor celebrated Sage Ancestor’s ascension and agreed to remain in Myriad Venerable Mountain while they strengthened themselves and taught cultivators from the True Martial Spirit World.
• Dao Bujin escorted the exiled Li Donglin out of the Great Desolation Immortal Realm and revealed that he intended to investigate the Lower Realm’s Golden Immortal Clan relics with him.
• Wei Xian and Lin Chen sailed toward the newly appeared Buzhou Mountain Fragment, discussing the other fragments and preparing to confront whoever held them.
• Black Slaughter True Immortal’s five ships crossed the World Sea as their mortal crews chanted his praises and served as prey and labor for the cultivators above.

Ning Qi announced the Venerable Sage’s ascension and revealed his ambition to turn the True Martial Spirit World into an immortal realm. When Wei Xian and Lin Chen arrived seeking another Buzhou Mountain Fragment, Ning Qi moved the world out of reach and confronted them with the Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.

• Ning Qi revealed the Venerable Sage’s immortality and said he intended to make the True Martial Spirit World an immortal realm.
• The central Lone Peak resonated with another Buzhou Mountain Fragment, and Ning Qi sensed its bearer approaching from the west.
• Ning Qi, the Sage Ancestor, and the Sea Ancestor hid near the True Martial Spirit World and prepared for the arrival of an unknown enemy.
• Wei Xian and Lin Chen reached the world aboard their Five-Colored Treasure Boat and used their fragment to locate the True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi moved the True Martial Spirit World away and screened it from outside perception, leaving Wei Xian and Lin Chen unable to sense it.
• Ning Qi and the two ancestors appeared before Wei Xian and Lin Chen, who chose to speak with them before fighting.