Chapter Summaries

Haoyue Hall Master Zi Mingyue stopped Ao Gutian from attacking the Qingxuan Ye Family after discovering its ties to Xuantian Sect and suspecting its ancestor was Ye Qingxuan. Zi Mingyue apologized to Ye Qingxuan and accepted Ao Yun’s ten-thousand-year suppression, while rumors about Haoyue Hall’s retreat and the Ye Family’s origins spread across Yunhai State and Qingzhou.

• Ao Gutian set out to attack the Qingxuan Ye Family, but Zi Mingyue stopped him and explained that the family was affiliated with Xuantian Sect.
• Zi Mingyue warned Ao Gutian that attacking the Ye Family would provoke Xuantian Sect, then hinted that the name Qingxuan referred to the famed ancestor Ye Qingxuan.
• Zi Mingyue visited the Ye Family and met Ye Qingxuan, recognizing that the figure before him was a clone and identifying him as the ancestor of blessed cultivation.
• Zi Mingyue apologized and asked Ye Qingxuan to spare Ao Yun, but Ye Qingxuan refused to end the ten-thousand-year punishment; Zi Mingyue accepted the sentence and departed.
• Zi Mingyue told Ao Gutian that Ao Yun would survive but remain suppressed for ten thousand years, and Ao Gutian accepted the outcome.
• Haoyue Hall stayed silent as reports of its retreat spread, and Qingzhou cultivators discussed the Ye Family’s origins and its suppression of Ao Yun.

An injured man and Ji Ziyun fled the Lihuo Sect, which hunted them after her strange stellar phenomenon led to the slaughter of her village. Hearing that Qingxuan Ye Family had once lived in Qingmu Prefecture, the man headed there in hopes of resolving their crisis, while Lihuo Sect pursuers followed.

• A teahouse informant explained that Qingxuan Ye Family had originated in Daoguang Commandery's Qingmu Prefecture before the Azure Devil Race destroyed its clan land.
• The injured man comforted Ji Ziyun and recalled how Lihuo Sect disciples had killed her family and villagers after mistaking her stellar phenomenon for a powerful Magic Treasure.
• The man reflected on how killing a Lihuo Sect Elder had triggered repeated pursuits that left him injured and made it dangerous to stay in Immortal Cities.
• After hearing about Qingxuan Ye Family, the man told Ji Ziyun they would go somewhere that might resolve their crisis, then left Xingmu City without her beside him.
• A Void Glimpse Realm Peak expert and another cultivator tracked the man's fading aura and pursued him toward Qingxuan Ye Family.

Ye Wenxuan confirmed that the Qingxuan Ye Family descended from his ancestors, joined the clan, and asked for its protection from the Lihuo Sect. As two Lihuo Sect elders arrived to pursue him, they saw him speaking with Ye Ximing inside the family’s barrier.

• Ye Wenxuan reached the Qingxuan Ye Family’s formation and asked to meet its Patriarch; Ye Ximing verified their shared bloodline.
• Ye Wenxuan accepted Ye Ximing’s invitation to return to the clan and explained that he sought protection from the Lihuo Sect.
• Ye Wenxuan revealed Ji Ziyun from his Dantian Small World and confirmed that he cultivated Blessed Cultivation - Self Path.
• Ye Ximing told Ye Wenxuan that Ye Qingxuan was their ancestor and warned him to keep the connection secret.
• Xiao Ruohai and another Lihuo Sect Elder approached the family’s territory to pursue Ye Wenxuan, then saw him chatting with Ye Ximing inside the formation.

Ye Ximing drove off two Lihuo Sect elders after revealing that Ye Wenxuan belonged to the Qingxuan Ye Family, then brought Ye Wenxuan and Ji Ziyun before Ye Qingxuan to investigate the strange phenomenon within her. Ye Qingxuan discovered that Ji Ziyun was developing a special physique, arranged for her to be raised as a Ye Family Core Disciple, and reflected on the Dihuan Realm’s changing limits as he awaited its transformation into a Great Thousand Realm.

• Ye Ximing warned the Lihuo Sect elders that Ye Wenxuan was a member of the Qingxuan Ye Family, and the elders fled rather than risk a conflict.
• Ye Ximing failed to identify the source of Ji Ziyun’s past phenomenon and secretly informed Ye Qingxuan about her.
• Ye Qingxuan summoned Ye Ximing, Ye Wenxuan, and Ji Ziyun to the Boundary Suppressing Pagoda and examined Ji Ziyun.
• Ye Qingxuan determined that Ji Ziyun’s many Spirit Roots were beginning to fuse into an unknown special physique and assured Ye Wenxuan that it was harmless.
• Ji Ziyun refused to join the Xuantian Sect, so Ye Qingxuan allowed her to stay with the Ye Family and ordered Ye Ximing to provide her Core Disciple-level resources.
• Ye Qingxuan’s Main Body reflected on the Dihuan Realm’s rising talent limit and wondered how long it would take the realm to become a Great Thousand Realm.

Ye Qingxuan informed Liu Tai'an that the Dihuan Realm’s talent ceiling had been broken, prompting the Xuantian Sect to begin recruiting more gifted disciples. Zhu Dafu then brought Zhu Fu Yuan to seek Ye Qingxuan’s help with two requests, but Zhu Fu Yuan hesitated when asked to swear loyalty to him.

• Ye Qingxuan told Liu Tai'an that the Dihuan Realm’s transforming Human Race could produce talents beyond the Twelve Element Spirit Root, and Liu Tai'an sent twenty elders to recruit disciples across the sect’s Great Provinces.
• Zhu Dafu asked Ye Qingxuan to receive him and his son, Zhu Fu Yuan, and Ye Qingxuan welcomed them with Enlightenment Tea that kept them in an Epiphany State for seven days.
• Zhu Dafu asked Ye Qingxuan to make Zhu Fu Yuan his attendant and allow him to take over management of the Qingxuan Virtual Market while Zhu Dafu attempted to break through to the Void Glimpse Realm.
• Zhu Dafu urged Zhu Fu Yuan to swear a Dao Oath of loyalty to Ye Qingxuan, but Zhu Fu Yuan remained silent, leaving Zhu Dafu to rebuke him.

Ye Qingxuan refused to make Zhu Fu Yuan swear a Dao Oath, allowed Zhu Dafu to pass on his Qingxuan Virtual Market authority, and gave him a new Blessed Cultivator Three Paths inheritance and Source Seeds. After Ye Qingxuan returned to seclusion, more than two thousand years passed, and the Dihuan Realm entered its first golden age and a widespread era of chaos.

• Ye Qingxuan told Zhu Dafu and Zhu Fu Yuan that he would not recruit Zhu Fu Yuan as a retainer, but allowed Zhu Dafu to pass on his Qingxuan Virtual Market management authority to anyone who followed his rules.
• Ye Qingxuan rewarded Zhu Dafu with another Blessed Cultivator Three Paths inheritance and two Source Seeds to help him pursue the Void Glimpse Realm, and Zhu Dafu and Zhu Fu Yuan thanked him before departing.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to Qingxuan Cave Heaven and began another period of closed-door cultivation.
• Over two thousand years later, the Dihuan Realm had many more forces and cultivators, while growing populations and expanded cultivation drove resources toward shortage.
• Ambitious forces attacked and plundered their neighbors, spreading warfare through most of the Dihuan Realm as new powers and peerless young prodigies emerged.

After Ji Ziyun destroyed Lihuo Sect to resolve her inner demon, the Dihuan Realm entered its sixth millennium and Ye Qingxuan discovered that its Spiritual Energy Density was beginning to decline. He concluded that the change might be part of the realm’s promotion, but feared it would cause widespread conflict, and his vibrating Token interrupted his thoughts.

• Ji Ziyun emerged injured from the ruins of Lihuo Sect, which she had destroyed with the Boundary Suppressing Pagoda, and Ye Wenxuan escorted her back to the Ye Family.
• In the sixth millennium of the Dihuan Realm’s transformation, Ye Qingxuan sensed an unusual change and used his clones to investigate across the realm.
• Ye Qingxuan found that Spiritual Energy Density was declining throughout the Dihuan Realm, while the spirit veins continued transforming and their core areas remained largely unaffected.
• Ye Qingxuan suspected the decline was part of the realm’s promotion and worried that resource shortages would make the Cultivation World increasingly chaotic and bloody.
• Ye Qingxuan’s Token began vibrating as he considered the coming upheaval.

Ye Qingxuan told Liu Tai'an that the Dihuan Realm’s sudden changes affected the entire realm and likely marked its transformation toward a Great Thousand Realm. He warned Liu Tai'an that declining spiritual energy could cause widespread turmoil, leaving the sect master to prepare for the coming upheaval.

• Liu Tai'an teleported to Ye Qingxuan’s Stone Pavilion and discussed how close each of them was to reaching the Mahayana Realm.
• Liu Tai'an told Ye Qingxuan that Xuantian Sect elders had left to investigate the realm-wide anomaly and asked whether Ye Qingxuan knew its cause and extent.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that his clones across the Dihuan Realm had helped him learn that the anomaly affected the entire realm and might be part of its advancement toward a Great Thousand Realm.
• Liu Tai'an relaxed after learning the anomaly did not appear to threaten the realm’s advancement, while Ye Qingxuan warned that falling spiritual energy could plunge the cultivation world into turmoil.

Ye Qingxuan warned Liu Tai'an that declining Spiritual Energy could destabilize the Dihuan Realm, though Liu Tai'an said Xuantian Sect’s resources could protect the sect from serious harm. Ye Qingxuan gave the sect twenty thousand Origin Seeds to expand Blessed Cultivator disciples and ease future unrest, then Liu Tai'an left to arrange the sect’s plans.

• Ye Qingxuan cautioned Liu Tai'an that reduced Spiritual Energy could drive low-level cultivators and ambitious factions into widespread turmoil.
• Liu Tai'an explained that Xuantian Mountain Range’s expanded Spirit Veins and the sect’s limited growth in disciple numbers would shield Xuantian Sect from the worst effects.
• Ye Qingxuan proposed training more Blessed Cultivator disciples so the sect could produce additional resources and sell them cheaply during unrest.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Liu Tai'an ten thousand First-grade Cave Heaven Origin Seeds and ten thousand Tier 1 Blessed Land Origin Seeds, declining payment in Sect Contribution Points.
• Liu Tai'an accepted the Origin Seeds and left after speaking with Ye Qingxuan to arrange Xuantian Sect’s future plans.

Ye Qingxuan prepared Xingluo State for the Dihuan Realm’s coming spiritual-energy decline before returning to closed-door cultivation. He assigned his subordinates to establish cultivation lands and patrol the state, while Ye Qingshuang took charge of affairs and Ye Xiaoging was allowed to join the missions with protective treasures.

• Ye Qingxuan gave Xueyu Source Seeds and ordered him to recruit cultivators to establish low-tier Cave Heaven Blessed Lands across Xingluo State.
• Ye Qingxuan summoned his experts and ordered them to patrol Xingluo State in three rotating groups while he pursued a breakthrough in closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan told Ye Qingxiao and Ye Xiaoging to remain in Qingxuan Cave Heaven, but agreed to let Ye Xiaoging go on missions after she insisted.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Ye Xiaoging the Boundary Suppressing Pagoda and Wood Life Armor for protection.
• Ye Qingxuan placed Ye Qingshuang in charge of Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Qingxuan Virtual Market, and Xingluo State, then vanished to begin closed-door cultivation.

As the Dihuan Realm’s spiritual energy declined for five hundred years, Ye Qingxuan advanced his Blessed Cultivation plans while cultivators across the realm struggled to understand the change and prepare for its effects. The decline reached forty percent and continued at a steady rate, leaving many regions facing the prospect of losing their spiritual energy entirely.

• Tribulation Crossing and Mahayana experts throughout the Dihuan Realm awoke to investigate the falling spiritual energy, but they could not find its cause.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to his Tier 10 Spirit Vein to pursue the Mahayana Realm, while Xueyu selected Dongxuan City cultivators to establish public Cave Heaven Blessed Lands across Xingluo State.
• As the decline continued, low-level Rogue Cultivators sought Spirit Veins and Cave Mansions, and fights over scarce cultivation sites spread.
• After two hundred years, spiritual energy outside Spirit Veins had fallen fifteen percent, prompting forces to reclaim rentals, occupy Spirit Veins, and stockpile resources.
• After five hundred years, spiritual energy outside Spirit Veins had fallen around forty percent, Rogue Cultivator groups had fallen into chaos, and cultivators feared many regions would eventually become devoid of spiritual energy.

After a long seclusion and a century-long transformation, Ye Qingxuan broke through to the Mahayana Realm. As he began to examine his new state, the sealed half of the Earth Immortal Legacy suddenly opened and flooded his consciousness with information.

• Ye Qingxuan reached the Tribulation Crossing Realm Peak, polished his Spiritual Power, and began breaking through to the Mahayana Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan merged his essence, qi, spirit, and consciousness into his Rules, forming a Rule Cocoon that drew nourishment from the Dihuan Realm's sea of Heaven and Earth Rules.
• After a century, Ye Qingxuan's body began to reform, drawing Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Vein and alarming Ye Qingshuang and the other experts in Qingxuan Cave Heaven.
• Ye Qingxuan's Rules returned to his body and became the Heaven and Earth Rules of his Dantian Small World, while the Rule Cocoon entered his Sea of Consciousness and transformed into his Nascent Soul.
• Ye Qingxuan awakened in the Mahayana Realm and reflected that reaching the Immortal Realm was within reach.
• The sealed half of the Earth Immortal Legacy suddenly unsealed and poured its chaotic information into Ye Qingxuan's consciousness sea.

After receiving the Earth Immortal Legacy, Ye Qingxuan learned about the Chaos Continent, the worlds surrounding it, and the cultivation realms beyond the Immortal Realm. The chapter ended with the legacy beginning its account of the Wu Liang Saint Realm and foreshadowing Ye Qingxuan’s rapid rise in cultivation.

• Ye Qingxuan recovered from receiving the Earth Immortal Legacy and learned its secret method, Change Heaven and Earth, which let Earth Immortals merge their Cave Heaven Blessed Lands with a world and eventually replace its core.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that Great Thousand Realms varied greatly in strength, while Boundless Realms were drawn into the Chaos Continent upon their ascension.
• The legacy described the Chaos Continent as the source of the Chaos Sea and its worlds, and explained that only regions protected by Saint Realm or Dao Realm experts remained peaceful amid its dangers.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that thirty-three Chaos Seas were separated by perilous Void Realm Seas and that the legacy’s human creator had scattered three thousand inheritances before attempting to break through to the Dao Realm.
• The legacy outlined the Chaos Continent’s cultivation hierarchy, including the Immortal Realm’s four stages and the Saint Realm’s progression through Hun Yuan, Tai Ji, and Wu Ji.
• The account reached the Wu Liang Saint Realm, as Ye Qingxuan’s cultivation was poised to rise rapidly.

Ye Qingxuan learned how Wu Liang Saint Realm and Dao Realm Experts differed, and how the Dihuan Realm’s nine Nirvana transformations would eventually lead it to become a Great Thousand Realm. He realized the Dihuan Realm was in its Spiritual Breath Period and discovered that its cultivators ascended directly to the Chaos Continent.

• Ye Qingxuan reviewed the inheritance explaining the Wu Liang Saint Realm, the supreme Great Daos of Dao Realm Experts, and the Dao Entry, Dao Fusion, and Dao Master Realms.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that the Dihuan Realm was in the Spiritual Breath Period of its Nirvana, when its energy nourished its Spirit Veins.
• Ye Qingxuan calculated that each Nirvana required nine thousand years and that the Dihuan Realm needed nine Nirvana transformations, or eighty-one thousand years, to ascend to a Great Thousand Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan’s worry about the Dihuan Realm’s receding spiritual energy faded, and he turned his attention to breaking through to the Immortal Realm and ascending.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that because the Dihuan Realm received no replenishment from a higher world, its ascending cultivators were claimed by the Chaos Continent.

After breaking through to the Mahayana Realm, Ye Qingxuan decided to remain in the Dihuan Realm until he could safely ascend, and considered using his future power to revive his family and claim the Azure Devil Realm. He learned that the world’s declining spiritual energy was driving unrest and crowding the Qingxuan Virtual Market, leaving its capacity and resources under strain.

• Ye Qingxuan chose to wait for the Dihuan Realm to ascend and for his cultivation to grow before leaving for the Chaos Continent, hoping he might eventually revive his parents and younger siblings.
• Ye Qingxuan examined his Mahayana transformation, including his Half-Immortal Power, his rule-infused body, and the emerging Lesser Thousand Realm within his Dantian.
• Ye Qingxuan met Ye Qingshuang after his breakthrough and learned that Xiaoqing had taken Zhaoheng, Zhaoyu, Yun'er, and Cai'er to Xingluo State, while Ye Qingxiao had followed them.
• Ye Qingshuang reported that the Dihuan Realm’s spiritual energy had fallen by about half, causing chaos and deaths in remote regions while protected territories remained relatively stable.
• Ye Qingshuang told Ye Qingxuan that displaced cultivators were crowding the Qingxuan Virtual Market and that falling spiritual energy threatened to overwhelm its resources.

Ye Qingxuan reassured Ye Qingshuang that the Dihuan Realm’s declining Spiritual Energy was a normal stage of its advancement, while keeping the Chaos Continent secret. He surveyed Qingxuan Virtual Market and heard cultivators debate whether to seek opportunities in the dangerous Endless Sea Domain.

• Ye Qingshuang explained that she could not endlessly divert Spiritual Energy to Qingxuan Virtual Market, and Ye Qingxuan said he would handle the market while she entered closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan told Ye Qingshuang that the Dihuan Realm was undergoing its normal Spiritual Breath Period, but withheld what he knew about the Chaos Continent.
• Ye Qingxuan surveyed Qingxuan Virtual Market and observed that low-level cultivators had surged as Spiritual Energy declined, while high-level cultivators visited less often.
• A cultivator from North Li Domain urged others to travel overseas and develop newly born islands and continents in the Endless Sea Domain.
• Other cultivators warned that the Endless Sea Domain teemed with powerful Demonic Beasts, but the first speaker dismissed them as cowards and left, prompting some in the crowd to reconsider.

Ye Qingxuan announced that Qingxuan Virtual Market would close to foreign cultivators and reopen only at scheduled intervals, prompting low-level cultivators to plead for continued access to its spiritual energy. He explained that the Dihuan Realm’s transformation was draining Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land’s origin through its Realm Gates, and left cultivators the choice to serve or join the market if they wished to stay.

• Ye Qingxuan listened to cultivators discuss the opportunities in the Endless Sea Domain and decided it was too early to send clones there to investigate.
• Ye Qingxuan announced that Qingxuan Virtual Market would close to the outside world, reopen at set intervals for cultivators of different levels, and have entrances appear randomly across the Dihuan Realm.
• Mid-level and high-level cultivators left Qingxuan Virtual Market, while low-level cultivators protested that they depended on its abundant spiritual energy for cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan refused to change his decision but offered those who wished to stay the choice of serving as temporary Blessed Cultivators for three hundred years or joining Qingxuan Virtual Market.
• Ye Qingxuan recognized that the Dihuan Realm’s ascending rules and increasing spatial stability made Realm Gate teleportation consume more of Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land’s origin, so he planned to restrict its use.

Ye Qingxuan announced that Qingxuan Virtual Market would close temporarily and reopen only at intervals, forcing low-level cultivators to choose between joining or leaving while reassuring the sects that their shop rights would remain intact. As most cultivators departed to seek opportunities in the Endless Sea Domain, Ye Qingxuan considered exploring it later and planned to discuss it with Taian.

• Ye Qingxuan explained that frequent teleportation was straining Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, so he would close Qingxuan Virtual Market temporarily and make its entrances appear at random locations when it reopened.
• Ye Qingxuan gave low-level cultivators half an hour to become temporary Blessed Cultivators or join Qingxuan Virtual Market, while those who resisted were teleported out.
• A Void Comprehension Realm cultivator challenged Ye Qingxuan over the sects’ shop rights and the altered entrances, and Ye Qingxuan assured the sects that their rights remained valid and that he would notify them of entrance locations.
• Most low-level cultivators left rather than surrender their freedom, while Brother Li chose to join Qingxuan Virtual Market and remain there.
• Ye Qingxuan concluded that the Endless Sea Domain would attract many cultivators and considered sending a clone to explore it after advancing his cultivation, then resolved to discuss it with Taian.

After closing Qingxuan Virtual Market to outside cultivators while keeping its shops open, Ye Qingxuan met with Liu Tai'an to discuss how Dihuan Realm’s transformation would restrict Realm Gate travel. He proposed turning Xuantian Sect’s Deep Sea Domain stronghold into a branch that could establish a lasting presence in the Endless Sea Domain.

• Liu Qingyun, Liu Qingxia, and Gu Haotian chose to remain in Qingxuan Virtual Market, valuing their Blessed Cultivator positions and hoping to find Source Seeds in its secret stones.
• Ye Qingxuan’s grand array expelled outsiders who had not received exclusive tokens, sealed the Realm Gates across the Nine Domains, and allowed Qingxuan Virtual Market’s proprietary shops to continue operating.
• Ye Qingxuan contacted Liu Tai'an, who left his closed-door cultivation and congratulated his Senior Brother on reaching the Mahayana Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan explained that Dihuan Realm’s growth would increase the energy cost of Realm Gate travel and restrict its range, even for his Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan proposed converting Xuantian Sect’s Deep Sea Domain stronghold into a sect branch, with elders and disciples stationed there to expand into the Endless Sea Domain.

Ye Qingxuan persuaded Liu Tai'an to establish a Xuantian Sect branch in the Endless Sea Domain, offering to send a clone equipped with the Five Elements Profound Spirit Armor to oversee it. After agreeing to a hundred-year preparation period, Ye Qingxuan resumed cultivation, while the closure of Qingxuan Virtual Market drew only limited reaction from the Dihuan Realm’s major forces.

• Liu Tai'an hesitated to establish a branch in the Endless Sea Domain because its Mahayana Realm demonic beasts posed a danger and the Realm Gate might not remain open.
• Ye Qingxuan offered to oversee the branch with a clone carrying the Five Elements Profound Spirit Armor, and Liu Tai'an agreed to prepare it without assigning a sect expert to guard it.
• Liu Tai'an arranged for the Artifact Hall and Formation Hall to select a site and build the branch’s facilities and guardian formation within one hundred years.
• Ye Qingxuan agreed to the schedule and returned to Qingxuan Cave Heaven to cultivate and improve his Minor Divine Abilities.
• The managers of Qingxuan Virtual Market returned to their forces with news of its temporary closure, and the major forces either accepted the change or withdrew their personnel without causing a major disturbance.