Recaps

As the Dihuan Realm continued transforming, Ye Qingxuan advanced in cultivation while Xuantian Sect enforced its authority against rebellious forces. He also protected and strengthened the Qingxuan Ye Family, whose ranks gained new members as the realm’s rising talent drew attention.

• Emperor Xieyuan entrusted Mo Yuan with the Xie Yuan Emperor Token before ascending, and the Dihuan Realm and Azure Devil Realm continued expanding over the following centuries.
• Ye Qingxuan perfected his spirit roots, advanced to the Tribulation Crossing Late Stage, and restrained the growth of his Cave Heaven and Blessed Land to avoid their merging into a True World.
• Ji Dongming organized a tribute test among five sects, but Liu Tai'an destroyed Bihai Sect after it refused to pay, and Yao Qiudao helped him kill Immortal Qingxia permanently.
• Ye Qingxuan suppressed Ao Yun and Ji Yao for ten thousand years after Ao Yun attacked the Qingxuan Ye Family, then prepared the family to face Haoyue Hall and secured its territory.
• Zi Mingyue persuaded Ao Gutian not to attack the Ye Family, and Haoyue Hall accepted Ao Yun’s punishment without retaliating.
• Ye Wenxuan brought Ji Ziyun to the Qingxuan Ye Family for protection from Lihuo Sect, and Ye Qingxuan discovered that her many Spirit Roots were fusing into an unknown physique.
• Ye Qingxuan told Liu Tai'an that the transforming Dihuan Realm could produce talents beyond the Twelve Element Spirit Root, and Liu Tai'an sent elders to recruit disciples.
• Zhu Dafu brought Zhu Fu Yuan to meet Ye Qingxuan and asked for his son to become Ye Qingxuan’s attendant and manage Qingxuan Virtual Market, but Zhu Fu Yuan did not swear the requested Dao Oath.

As the Dihuan Realm’s spiritual energy declined during its long transformation, Ye Qingxuan reached the Mahayana Realm and reorganized Qingxuan Virtual Market. He established Qingxuan Sect in the Endless Sea Domain and began moving cultivators and mortals there, leaving them to develop the new continent under his rules.

• Ye Qingxuan discovered that spiritual energy was declining across the Dihuan Realm and warned Liu Tai'an that shortages could bring widespread turmoil, so he supplied Xuantian Sect with Origin Seeds to expand its Blessed Cultivator ranks.
• Ye Qingxuan reached the Mahayana Realm, received the rest of the Earth Immortal Legacy, and learned that the Dihuan Realm’s decline was part of the process leading to its eventual ascent.
• As displaced cultivators crowded Qingxuan Virtual Market, Ye Qingxuan restricted its access and opening periods, then reopened it under rules that provided low-level cultivators with resources while controlling their stay and conduct.
• Ye Qingxuan prepared a clone to oversee Xuantian Sect’s expansion into the Endless Sea Domain, and Liu Tai'an named the new branch Qingxuan Sect and gathered volunteers and formation experts.
• Ye Qingxuan led the group from Blazing Sun Continent to an uninhabited sea domain, where they founded Qingxuan Continent and built a protective formation and Realm Gate for Qingxuan Sect.
• Ye Qingxuan announced that cultivators and up to ten billion mortals from Xingluo State could relocate to the Endless Sea Domain, with land and support for settlers and their families.
• Ye Qingxuan formed Qingxuan Sect on Qingxuan Continent, established rules for territory development and contribution points, and transported registered residents there as cultivators began claiming spirit lands and organizing them.

As the Dihuan Realm passed through successive Nirvana transformations, Ye Qingxuan and his allies confronted the Blood Spirit Cult and the Azure Devil Race while the realm’s expansion weakened the old powers’ control. The arc ended with provincial forces forming secret alliances as major sects prepared to assert their authority.

• Bai Buyi found a Chaos Color source seed in the Qingxuan Virtual Market Central Ring and refused a high-priced offer for it.
• Nie Xiaofeng survived the Li Family’s destruction of the Nie Family, accepted Xie Xingyuan’s Demon Origin Blood, and became a Blood Spirit Art cultivator who massacred the Li Family and later built the Blood Demon Cult.
• Ye Qingxuan advanced his Five Elements Rules to Great Dao Laws as the Dihuan Realm endured its first Great Thousand Tribulation, expanded, and began reviving its spiritual energy.
• Yao Qiudao ascended from the Dihuan Realm, while Ye Qingshuang later perfected her Rules and reached the Mahayana Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er to travel the realm, and they uncovered a Blood Spirit Cult stronghold sustaining an Azure Devil expert.
• Ye Qingxuan searched the Azure Devil expert’s memories and ordered the four travelers to hunt Azure Devil Race experts and demon cultivators as the Dihuan Realm’s vastness weakened Xuantian Sect’s control.
• Ji Dongming emerged from seclusion, learned that the expanded Dihuan Realm had severed Tianming Sect’s connection to Diyuan State, and ordered his forces to withdraw from there and secretly control Tongtian State.
• Tianyuan Sect, Daoxuan Sect, and Qianyuan Sect sent Mahayana Realm experts with Immortal Artifacts to patrol their territories, prompting provincial forces to form secret alliances and plan ambushes.

As the Dihuan Realm passed through its Nirvanas, Ye Qingxuan merged Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Qingxuan Blessed Land into the Eternal Qingxuan Realm and advanced to the Immortal Lord Realm. He then explored the World Tree and discovered a sleeping Immortal Soul inside it.

• Wang Daoyun survived an ambush when Tianyuan Sect reinforcements drove off his attackers, while the Tianyuan Sect and Daoxuan Sect’s conflict with rival forces spread into a prolonged struggle.
• Xue Cangwang took over Nie Xiaofeng’s body, slaughtered Jian Xuzi and the people of Tai'an Mountain Range, then built up the Blood Spirit Sect and expanded his influence.
• Liu Tai'an passed the Xuantian Sect Master Position to Luo Linger and ascended, while Ye Qingxuan waited for the Dihuan Realm’s Third Nirvana before pursuing his own breakthrough.
• Ye Qingxuan became a True Immortal, detached Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Qingxuan Blessed Land from the Dihuan Realm, and merged them into the Eternal Qingxuan Realm, advancing to the True Immortal Realm Middle Stage.
• As the Dihuan Realm passed through further Nirvanas, Ye Qingxuan cultivated his Great Dao Laws, reached the True Immortal Realm Peak, and guided Luo Linger and his returning companions in their cultivation.
• When the Dihuan Realm entered its Seventh Nirvana, Ye Qingxuan advanced within the Eternal Qingxuan Realm and emerged as an Immortal Lord, with his main Great Dao Laws refined to thirty-five percent.
• Ye Qingxuan refined Chaos Energy in the Chaos Sea, then examined the World Tree and found a sleeping Immortal Soul inside its Origin Space.
• The awakened Immortal Soul tried to trace Ye Qingxuan’s Spiritual Sense to his main body, and Ye Qingxuan asked whether it was the Ancestor of the Everlasting Immortal Sect.