Recaps

Chen Shang met Xu Xing, the Sword Ancestor, and learned that the Sword Sect had rescued the Righteous Alliance from the Heart-Severing Qi crisis. Xu Xing gave him an Ancestral Sword Token to request help, explaining that he was looking after the Alliance because he considered Yuan a friend.

• Chen Shang arrived at the Immortal Sect Grand Competition with three Dao Integration cultivators and was summoned to meet the Sword Ancestor.
• Chen Shang recognized Xu Xing as the Sword Ancestor and realized he had once mistaken him for a young friend.
• Xu Xing reassured Chen Shang that he was not to blame for the Righteous Alliance’s near-disaster and told him not to dwell on his mistake.
• Chen Shang reported that the Alliance was stable and that its star-region defensive deployments would be completed in about two years.
• Xu Xing gave Chen Shang an Ancestral Sword Token and said he would look after the Alliance because he considered Yuan a friend.

Chen Shang told Xu Xing about Yuan’s rise and his ambition to change the world, and Xu Xing said he would bring the Holy Emperor back once everything was settled. At the Sword Sect’s Free Trade Zone, Zhang Yunlu showed Lin Xuanxuan around while Chi Jiuyu accompanied Zhao Ruohan, who planned to set up a stall.

• Xu Xing asked Chen Shang to describe Yuan’s personal history, and Chen Shang recounted Yuan’s rise from a mocked prodigy to a Truth Insight powerhouse who founded the Righteous Alliance.
• Chen Shang said Yuan had explained that he disliked the world as it was and wanted to change it, and Xu Xing agreed with his reasoning while admitting he had failed.
• Xu Xing told Chen Shang he would bring Yuan back after settling all matters, then sent Chen Shang outside the Sword Ancestor Hall.
• Zhang Yunlu warned Lin Xuanxuan that the Free Trade Zone was notorious for scams, but Lin Xuanxuan decided to spend only the dividend from Pure Moon Flying Sword.
• Chi Jiuyu arrived at the Free Trade Zone with Zhao Ruohan, who said she wanted to experience running a stall and did not care whether she made money.

Zhao Ruohan set up a stall with Chi Jiuyu and exchanged valuables for a strange seed, while Zhao Ruoming discovered that Ye Zhiwei might be real but was arrested after trying to find her. After the contestants prepared for the competition, the Immortal Sect Grand Competition began with the Xuanxiang World presented as its trial ground.

• Chi Jiuyu guaranteed Zhao Ruohan's permit to sell items at the Free Trade Zone, where Zhao Ruohan set up a stall beside her.
• Zhao Ruoming told Lin Xuanxuan he was in love with Ye Zhiwei, and Lin revealed that her senior sister Ye Zhiwei had been giving away tea and was competing in the Grand Competition.
• A burly man traded a peculiar seed for two items from Zhao Ruohan's stall, and Zhao Ruoming left to seek Ye Zhiwei.
• Zhao Ruoming was arrested for entering World Relief Valley's contestants' residential area and trying to harass Ye Zhiwei, then was released by True Person Xiao Yu and locked up to keep him out of trouble.
• Chi Jiuyu refined her Four Symbols of Destruction technique while the contestants prepared, and the final three days passed.
• Sword Sect Master Du Ruoheng arrived at the opening venue as the frozen Xuanxiang World was presented as the competition's trial ground.

The Immortal Sect Grand Competition began as the sect leaders and contestants gathered and prepared under special rules for the event. As Du Ruoheng announced the countdown, the Xuanxiang World expanded above the venue, revealing the frozen battlefield where the competition would take place.

• Du Ruoheng welcomed the other sect leaders and Chen Shang, then announced the start of the competition.
• The sect teams reviewed their opponents’ strengths and weaknesses while preparing their limited initial supplies.
• Zhao Ruoming openly stared at a masked, heterochromatic-eyed woman from World Relief Valley, while Zhao Ruohan and True Person Xiao Yu tried to distance themselves from him.
• Chi Jiuyu lamented that her Life-Bound Sword had consumed most of her supply allowance.
• Du Ruoheng announced that the competition would begin in thirty seconds, and the Xuanxiang World expanded above the venue.

The Immortal Sect Grand Competition began, and its participants entered the Xuanxiang World as the world resumed moving after being frozen. Chi Jiuyu arrived with a mysterious Taixuan Immortal Network module, which labeled her the “Most Absurd Prodigy in the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.”

• The competition participants vanished in a flash of white light, leaving the sect leaders behind to return to their seats.
• Lin Xingyue led Zi Yue away, leaving Xiao Yu True Person and Gao Wuwang stunned, while Chen Xuanqing recognized that Zi Yue was Lin Zi Yue.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening tested the Taixuan Immortal Network as the ancestors discussed its functions and Charm Ancestor installed sticker packs.
• The Xuanxiang World resumed its flow of time, and Xuan Xing sensed that a great upheaval might be coming before dismissing the thought.
• Chi Jiuyu materialized in the mortal realm, connected to the beta Taixuan Immortal Network, and received the Time Balance system with zero points.

Chi Jiuyu explored the spiritual-qi-depleted mortal realm while Zhao Ruoming infiltrated Paper Molting Immortal City by taking control of its protective array. Meanwhile, observers tracked the competitors’ progress and discussed how the Taixuan Immortal Network’s rules could weaken cultivators who had relied on shortcuts.

• Chi Jiuyu mastered the Taixuan Immortal Network’s basic controls, learned that she was in Xuanxiang World’s mortal realm, and flew toward the cultivation world on her sword.
• Zhao Ruoming watched cultivators surrender pieces of skin to enter Paper Molting Immortal City, then used layered concealment measures to approach it.
• Zhao Ruoming infected the city’s grand array with a Spirit Sound Type III Array Virus, seized control, and slipped inside.
• A Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivator survived a Void Return cultivator’s attack and escaped while demonic and righteous cultivators hunted him for his body.
• Pill Ancestor told the Taixuan Immortal Network group chat that its rules could reduce the realms of Void Return cultivators who had advanced through the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track or the Spirit Herding lineage.

Zhao Ruoming infiltrated Paper Molting Immortal City and discovered that Azure Talisman Hall exploited its disciples by turning their skin into a commodity, while a mysterious bell drained the city's cultivators. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu surveyed Cloud Coiling Kingdom and decided to punish its emperor before entering the cultivation world.

• Pill Ancestor praised the stability of the World Derivation Method's Time Branches, and Sword Ancestor said he planned to bring Yuan along for a future project.
• Zhao Ruoming used his World-Viewing True Eyes to see that Paper Molting Immortal City had been made from the remains of a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Zhao Ruoming entered Azure Talisman Hall and watched young disciples cultivate spirit skin by sacrificing their own flesh so they could earn release from the hall.
• Zhao Ruoming saw the hall's stockpiles of harvested skin and discarded, skinless figures, then heard a bell drain spiritual power from the entire city.
• Chi Jiuyu looked down on Cloud Coiling Kingdom's capital and chose to deliver a gift to its corrupt emperor before heading to the cultivation world.

Chi Jiuyu entered the Cloud Coiling Kingdom’s palace, exposed Emperor Pang Ling’s futile and murderous attempts to extend his life, and watched him die. She then crossed into the cultivation world and reached the outskirts of Returnless City, where she encountered a disguised participant who recognized her.

• Chi Jiuyu used her Void-Piercing Golden Pupils to find Emperor Pang Ling and learned that her Time Balance system could weaken older opponents, though it was still only partially unlocked.
• Chi Jiuyu confronted Pang Ling, revealed that his talismans drained his life essence and that his underground formation required the blood of unborn infants, and told him he could not survive or cultivate.
• Pang Ling died after Chi Jiuyu left, and she flew toward the cultivation world across the No-Return Sea.
• Chi Jiuyu passed through the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s barrier and mistook Blood Vajra Temple searchers for people hunting her before hiding in a forest near Returnless City.
• A brawny man disguised as a moss-covered boulder changed back into human form and complained about encountering Chi Jiuyu, but she suddenly addressed him.

Chi Jiuyu eliminated the wounded Zhan Xing, then escaped a Void Return cultivator by using Time Balance to weaken him. After claiming first place and earning a reward choice, she debated her options while remaining drawn to the global announcement.

• Chi Jiuyu attacked the injured Zhan Xing, who fought back with his Soul-Shaking Roar and Yang Extremity Hand, flattening the mountain range in their clash.
• A Void Return cultivator from Returnless City targeted them, so Chi Jiuyu killed Zhan Xing before he could be eliminated by someone else.
• Chi Jiuyu used Time Balance to drain the blood-robed cultivator's cultivation, then fled as he swallowed Spirit-Draining Pills to stabilize himself.
• A hidden Supreme Dao Sect scout observed the battle, destroyed his miniature reconnaissance robot, and left without revealing himself.
• Chi Jiuyu checked her ranking and learned she could choose supplies, unlock part of the Auxiliary Module, or make a global announcement; she hesitated while staring at the announcement option.

Chi Jiuyu unlocked more of her system and fled to avoid drawing attention, while Zhao Ruoming learned that the supposedly righteous Heavenly Secret Palace exploited people in the Xuanxiang World. As the Immortal Sect Grand Competition’s contestants faced the world’s cruelty, Zhao Ruohan arrived in Delusionless Forest and spotted a possible spiritual object.

• Chi Jiuyu decided to seek Spirit Transformation cultivators her age and flew away to avoid attracting Void Return cultivators and Supreme Dao Sect schemers.
• Zhao Ruoming entered the Azure Talisman Hall unnoticed and watched Yan Han cut Gold Talisman Skin from his own arm.
• Zhao Ruoming confronted Yan Han, who explained that Heavenly Secret Palace was one of the three great righteous sects and that debts and cultivation costs drove people to trade away their bodies and senses.
• Yan Han said he limited his demands to skin because he had seen the mortal world and refused to become more cruel, leaving Zhao Ruoming uncertain how to judge him.
• Zhao Ruohan arrived at Delusionless Forest and noticed jade-green vines bearing translucent white blossoms that might be a spiritual object.

Zhao Ruohan uncovered a World Relief Valley alchemist’s trap, and the two fought before withdrawing without a clear victor. As the first safe-zone shrink began, the immortals discussed the contestants and considered personally pressuring those left outside the circle.

• A hidden World Relief Valley alchemist tried to poison Zhao Ruohan with Azure Pearl Mana-Coagulating Powder, but her Myriad Azure Primordial Wood Supreme Immortal Light exposed the ambush.
• The alchemist activated the Power of Nine Pills, while Zhao Ruohan used Time Balance and attacked with a sword formed from her immortal light.
• Chen Shang compared the immortal sect contestants with the Righteous Alliance’s younger generation and considered the potential of the Taixuan Immortal Network.
• The immortals discussed Zhao Ruohan’s performance, Chi Jiuyu’s good fortune, and how differences between worlds could weaken the influence of the Dao.
• Zhao Ruohan and the alchemist withdrew after neither could defeat the other; meanwhile, a Blood Vajra Temple Void Return cultivator set out to hunt Chi Jiuyu.
• The first safe-zone shrink began, and Charm Ancestor proposed that the immortals use avatars to pressure contestants outside the circle during the next shrink.

The Founder Ancestors agreed to enter the Second Time Branch, while Zhang Yunlu and Chi Jiuyu each fought the Blood Vajra Temple’s abuses and faced powerful Void Return cultivators. Sheng Wu and Liu Ming watched Zhang Yunlu’s fight, and Chi Jiuyu recovered after escaping an attack by the Blood Vajra Temple and Heavenly Spirit Sect.

• The Founder Ancestors agreed to enter the competition’s Time Branch after the Sect Masters were informed of their plan.
• Zhang Yunlu destroyed Blood Vajra Temple forces near the No-Return Sea after discovering that the pursuers were far weaker than expected, then faced a powerful blood-cloud enemy.
• Sheng Wu and Liu Ming observed Zhang Yunlu’s battle, and Sheng Wu said he would help her because she had acted against the temple’s cruelty.
• Zhang Yunlu exchanged blows with the blood-red giant hand and escaped as the blood clouds withdrew.
• Chi Jiuyu recovered inside a concealed cave and recalled how she had been attacked by Void Return cultivators from both Blood Vajra Temple and the Heavenly Spirit Sect.

Chi Jiuyu prepared a concealed cave in Xuanxiang World and learned that the first competition round had ended, while Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Charm Ancestor entered the world through the Taixuan Immortal Network. Their paths left them poised to explore the realm as new rules sent participants toward an updated safe zone and Hong Sovereign observed Zhao Ruohan enter a Lifespan Fruit Domain.

• Chi Jiuyu activated a concealment formation in her cave and reflected on the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s Seedling Cities and Fruit Domains, which exploited people as resources.
• The first round ended with three participants eliminated and 102 remaining; Chi Jiuyu learned that 52 participants shared her Time Balance System and that those outside the updated safe zone would be hunted after 72 hours.
• Chi Jiuyu discovered that she was already inside the safe zone and began cooking with her Life-Bound Sword while considering whether to seek out the same-realm hunters.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening projected themselves into Xuanxiang World through the Taixuan Immortal Network, and Charm Ancestor joined them as they set out to explore.
• Hong Sovereign watched a younger man struggle to draw a Life-Creation Talisman, then saw Zhao Ruohan enter a Lifespan Fruit Domain.

Chi Jiuyu escaped Xuan Feng’s attempt to capture her, then met Ye Zhiwei, who proposed cooperation. Meanwhile, Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Charm Ancestor examined how Xuan’s influence was steering the Azure Profound Dynasty’s technological progress before heading toward the cultivation world.

• Chi Jiuyu’s cultivation caused a powerful disturbance, and Xuan Feng sealed the area after spotting her.
• Chi Jiuyu used a High-Frequency Spiritual Energy Oscillator to disrupt Xuan Feng’s Heaven-Binding Cord, then escaped while his cultivation failed to recover.
• Chi Jiuyu collected scattered purple-gold runes and encountered Ye Zhiwei, who asked to cooperate with her.
• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Charm Ancestor observed the Azure Profound Dynasty’s factories and discussed how Xuan’s influence could guide its civilization toward the Cang Race.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening left with Charm Ancestor for the cultivation world, but Charm Ancestor teased Bie Xuening about Xu Xing calling Ning Ruo by name and drew a sword strike.

Xu Xing and his companions entered the Xuanxiang cultivation world and observed how its sects harvested mortals to fuel the Heavenly Track ritual. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu teamed up with Ye Zhiwei to attack a Soul Power Fruit Domain, where they confronted Heavenly Spirit Sect forces and Mu Yong.

• Xu Xing explained that the Lifespan-Reaping formation drained the city's mortals and that Mu Yong's supposed attempt to save the world would instead advance Xuan's plan to create the Cang Race.
• Chi Jiuyu inspected Ye Zhiwei with her Void-Piercing Golden Pupils, then agreed to help her seize a Soul Power Fruit Domain after learning that Ye Zhiwei's younger sister had been Brother Dog's online romance.
• Immortal Sect Grand Competition participants overwhelmed local sects, while Xuan Xing used spiritual treasures and newly initiated cultivators as bait to hinder them.
• At the Soul Power Fruit Domain's execution platform, Chi Jiuyu killed a Heavenly Spirit Sect figure and burned his body while Ye Zhiwei watched.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei faced a frightened crowd and bound Seed-level disciples, among them Mu Yong, who was shocked that events were unfolding differently from the future he knew.

Ye Zhiwei and Chi Jiuyu spared Mu Yong and the other Heavenly Spirit Sect disciples, then revealed the sect’s complete cultivation inheritance to the people of the Soul Power Fruit Domain. At the edge of a desolate Gobi, Ye Zhiwei prepared an explosive pill formation to test the incoming pursuers, but Chi Jiuyu recognized them as Senior Yuanjun and Senior Spirit Ancestor and fled.

• Ye Zhiwei chose to leave the bound Heavenly Spirit Sect disciples alive, and Chi Jiuyu agreed not to kill them as long as they stopped causing trouble.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei departed the Soul Power Fruit Domain and displayed the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s complete inheritance across the sky, thrilling the crowd and moving Mu Yong.
• Ye Zhiwei built crude alchemy furnaces from vines and stone in the Gobi and linked pills into a formation while Chi Jiuyu waited nearby.
• As the safe-zone countdown ended, two pursuers appeared, and Ye Zhiwei hurled a red-hot furnace at them.
• Chi Jiuyu disappeared, then warned Ye Zhiwei that the pursuers were Senior Yuanjun and Senior Spirit Ancestor and told her to run.

Yuanjun and Ning Ruo pursued Ye Zhiwei and Chi Jiuyu after the two tried to test their pursuers, while other Founder Ancestors confronted contestants across the competition grounds. The chapter left several encounters poised to begin, with Chi Jiuyu facing Charm Ancestor and other contestants facing Tyrant Sovereign, Sword Venerable, and Xu Xing.

• Yuanjun extinguished Ye Zhiwei’s hidden true flame, then reversed her pill-furnace explosions and caught up as she fled.
• Ning Ruo let Ye Zhiwei escape while Yuanjun pursued her, and she arranged for someone else to chase Chi Jiuyu.
• Chi Jiuyu reached the edge of the safe zone, but her Life-Bound Sword turned aside and carried her to Charm Ancestor, who refused to let her go and offered to end the attack if she endured for three seconds.
• Tyrant Sovereign sent Qiu Zheng crashing into a mountainside and declared that one punch remained.
• Sword Venerable confronted Cen Qingqing and prepared to strike her with her sword.
• Xu Xing faced Yan Mu with a sword formed from Moon Shadow’s sword momentum and offered to end the attack if Yan Mu took one strike.

Yan Mu faced Xu Xing’s sword and gained insight into its profound essence before losing consciousness, while the immortals tested contestants beyond the safe zones. Chi Jiuyu woke injured, gathered spiritual treasures, and met up with Ye Zhiwei; the two headed toward the safe zone to recover.

• Yan Mu used his five-colored mystic technique against Xu Xing’s sword, glimpsed its essence, and fainted as the Pill Ancestor observed.
• Xu Xing and the Pill Ancestor noted that the Supreme Dao Sect and Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion contestants had stayed inside the safe zones, while several contestants in other Time Branches were eliminated.
• Chi Jiuyu woke outside the safe zone, learned that the next attack would be stronger, and gathered all the spiritual treasures around her before setting out.
• Chi Jiuyu met the injured Ye Zhiwei, and the two compared their encounters before agreeing to heal together near the safe zone.
• Xu Xing and the Pill Ancestor watched the two leave, and Xu Xing told the Pill Ancestor that his junior’s younger sister was dating Hong Sovereign’s descendant online.

Xu Xing learned that Heavenly Track had distorted the Xuanxiang World and that Ning Ruo and Yuanjun had gathered the data needed to correct it after the grand competition. Outside the safe zone, Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei encountered a sword-wielding young man who recognized Chi Jiuyu as his Little Martial Uncle Ancestor.

• The Pill Ancestor left Xu Xing, who watched a debt-burdened Heavenly Spirit Sect elder destroy Chi Jiuyu’s inheritance copies but leave the trapped Seedling-tier disciples alone.
• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing and Yuanjun that the Immortal Net’s feedback data was nearly complete and that they could clear the Xuanxiang World’s abnormalities after the competition.
• Chi Jiuyu dug a concealed underground shelter while Ye Zhiwei refined healing pills, and the two argued over their ages and possible allies.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei sensed an approaching participant, but his sword strike collided with Chi Jiuyu’s when a voice warned her not to attack.
• The sword-wielding young man recognized Chi Jiuyu as his Little Martial Uncle Ancestor, and Chi Jiuyu claimed she had easily handled the formidable person who had chased her.

Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei recovered outside the safe zone while Qiu Zheng seized a chance to eliminate an unconscious Sword Sect contestant and claim her points. Hong Sovereign and Pill Ancestor discussed the contestant’s ambitions and the competition’s strongest sects, as the hosting rotation moved toward World Relief Valley.

• The starlit sword cultivator left after deciding not to risk confronting the injured Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei.
• Chi Jiuyu chose to trust Ye Zhiwei rather than cooperate with the Sword Sect cultivator, then took a healing pill and began learning basic alchemy from her.
• Qiu Zheng hid outside the safe zone and watched Hong Sovereign defeat a sword cultivator using the Star-Destroying Sword Formation.
• Qiu Zheng took the unconscious contestant’s spiritual items, struck her with a qi-and-blood fist, and raised his score to three points before returning to the safe zone.
• Hong Sovereign and Pill Ancestor revealed that the eliminated Sword Sect contestant had been pursuing a new Life-Bound Sword path, then compared the top participants from the leading sects.
• Pill Ancestor noted that the Immortal Sect Grand Competition would rotate hosts, with World Relief Valley due to host soon.

Pill Ancestor and Hong Sovereign discussed Ning Fu's seclusion and the possibility that the Cang Race might produce a True Immortal. At Five Senses Immortal City, Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei discovered Heavenly Secret Palace's brutal tribute trade, then encountered Zhao Ruohan, who revealed she had been injured by a Void Return cultivator and had earned no points.

• Pill Ancestor asked Hong Sovereign to arrange a replacement to deliver Ning Fu's delayed Metamorphic Condensate quota, and Hong Sovereign agreed there would be no more collections next year.
• Chi Jiuyu and Ye Zhiwei followed flying boats to Five Senses Immortal City and saw that its tributes included body parts, refined souls, and spirit products taken from cultivators.
• Chi Jiuyu caught a seemingly ordinary blade of grass that had been watching them, and it revealed itself as Zhao Ruohan using a divine ability.
• Zhao Ruohan asked Chi Jiuyu to come to her main body without Ye Zhiwei, and Chi Jiuyu went while Ye Zhiwei stayed behind to watch the city.
• As Chi Jiuyu followed Zhao Ruohan's coordinates, Zhao Ruohan said a Void Return cultivator had injured her and that she had earned no points.

Chi Jiuyu found Zhao Ruohan’s hidden cave, where they discussed Ye Zhiwei’s abilities and Zhao Ruoming’s online relationship with her. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming learned that Ye Zhiwei was his online girlfriend and that she was only sixteen, while the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track’s overseers discussed the shrinking contestant pool and their plans for Ascension Envoys.

• Chi Jiuyu reached Zhao Ruohan’s concealed cave, mistook one of her scouting puppets for fruit, and heard how a Heavenly Spirit Sect Void Return cultivator had ambushed Zhao Ruohan.
• Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan about Ye Zhiwei and her partnership with her, and Zhao Ruohan grew concerned about Ye Zhiwei’s strength and alchemy.
• Zhao Ruoming mistook Ye Zhiwei for his online girlfriend until she revealed that she knew his identity and warned him that the girl was only sixteen.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan arrived, and Zhao Ruohan confirmed that Ye Zhiwei was not Zhao Ruoming’s girlfriend; Ye Zhiwei then told him her younger sister’s age, leaving him stunned.
• At the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track, Yuanjun, Xu Xing, and Ning Ruo reviewed the remaining contestants and considered selecting winners as Ascension Envoys, with Yuanjun proposing a Presence Aura as punishment for those who sabotaged their missions.

Yuanjun discussed a new halo and the Immortal Net deployment of her improved cultivation method while the Immortal Sect Grand Competition continued to throw the Xuanxiang World into chaos. Zhao Ruoming entered Five Senses Immortal City to investigate its cultivation-draining system, while Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan stayed outside and revealed how badly they had fared against the Founder Ancestors.

• Yuanjun told Xu Xing she had prepared a halo to gradually counter the Supreme Dao Sect’s growing Dao of Cowardice, and Ning Ruo confirmed the improved True Method had passed Immortal Net simulations.
• Zhao Ruoming arranged to enter Five Senses Immortal City with the Paper Molting Immortal City team to investigate why cultivators lost cultivation each day, while Ye Zhiwei, Chi Jiuyu, and Zhao Ruohan chose to remain outside.
• Chi Jiuyu drove Ye Zhiwei and Zhao Ruohan to their destination on her human-powered tricycle, explaining that she had brought it into the competition because she had spare allowance.
• Chi Jiuyu accidentally revealed that she and Ye Zhiwei had encountered the Founder Ancestors, and Zhao Ruohan concluded they had lasted dozens of moves against them.
• Ye Zhiwei clarified that neither she nor Chi Jiuyu had lasted even one exchange against the Founder Ancestors, leaving Zhao Ruohan astonished at the difference between their experiences.

Chi Jiuyu explained that the founders’ overwhelming strength came from spending centuries forging a path where none existed, while Zhao Ruohan awakened the purple fruits with her divine ability. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming led a convoy to Five Senses Immortal City, where his power was mistaken for that of a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord, and he noticed the arriving Jishen convoy.

• Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei that the founders had reached Nascent Soul Perfection after centuries of trial and error because no path lay ahead of them.
• Zhao Ruohan used Myriad Azure Primordial Wood Supreme Immortal Light to turn the purple fruits into peculiar puppets, and the three entered the cave to heal.
• Zhao Ruoming set out from Paper Molting Immortal City with the resource convoy and used a Spirit Sound III Formation Virus to infiltrate Five Senses Immortal City’s formation.
• A white-haired Nascent Soul cultivator mistook Zhao Ruoming for a Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord, offered him a storage bag, and rolled away after Zhao Ruoming told him to scram.
• Ziying escorted Zhao Ruoming toward the City Lord, and he paused when the Jishen Immortal City convoy docked nearby and spotted someone at its bow.

Zhao Ruoming arrived at Five Senses Immortal City and discovered that its leaders had already recognized him as a visitor from beyond the heavens. The City Lord offered him cooperation and a chance to reach Void Return, leaving Zhao Ruoming to wonder if the city wanted him to betray his realm.

• Zhao Ruoming recognized Yue Zhongfeng, a powerful Celestial Human cultivator from the Joyous Union Sect, at the docking area and worried he could disrupt the competition.
• Yue Zhongfeng knocked aside the Nascent Soul cultivator sent to receive him from Jishen Immortal City and left without speaking further.
• Ziying escorted Zhao Ruoming to the City Lord's Manor, where the City Lord identified him as a visitor from beyond the heavens.
• The City Lord offered to cooperate with Zhao Ruoming and suggested Void Return Immortal Venerables could help him advance.
• Zhao Ruoming asked whether the City Lord was asking him to betray his realm.