Recaps

Zhao Ruoming negotiated with the Five Senses Immortal City cultivators for information about the Heavenly Track and avoided a confrontation with Yue Zhongfeng. In the hidden cave, Chi Jiuyu told Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei about her helplessness after her Master disappeared, before Zhao Ruohan received news from the city.

• Zhao Ruoming learned that the Heavenly Track made cultivation depend on resources and received secret records, a promised copy of the Spirit Absorption Ritual Secrets, and a storage ring.
• Zhao Ruoming agreed to wait a month before Void Return cultivators could act, then passed Yue Zhongfeng without incident as he left the city hall.
• Yue Zhongfeng entered the side hall and unleashed a terrifying Primordial Spirit will, forcing the city lord and four Spirit Transformation cultivators to answer questions.
• In the cave, Ye Zhiwei asked Chi Jiuyu whether she had ever felt helpless, and Chi Jiuyu recalled that her Master and Martial Uncle vanished after the previous training beyond the realm.
• Zhao Ruohan interrupted Chi Jiuyu and brought up a light screen showing news from inside the city.

Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan watched Zhao Ruoming’s puppet recording and planned to seize the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record, while Zhao Ruoming studied the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track Secret Record in Five Senses Immortal City. Yue Zhongfeng arrived to propose an alliance against the other contestants, but their discussion was interrupted by an attendant’s arrival and explosions shaking the city.

• Chi Jiuyu, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruohan watched Zhao Ruoming’s recording end after he encountered Yue Zhongfeng, then agreed to monitor Five Senses Immortal City and seize the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record if the chance arose.
• Zhao Ruoming studied the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track Secret Record and learned that Daoist Xuan Qi’s Heavenly Track exploited cultivators across the world to cultivate Void Return experts.
• Yue Zhongfeng visited Zhao Ruoming, proposed that they cooperate, and revealed that seven other contestants were in the city.
• A woman sent by the City Lord arrived to attend Zhao Ruoming, prompting Yue Zhongfeng to say that the contestants would make their move that night.
• Explosions erupted and Five Senses Immortal City began to shake.

Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming searched [Five Senses Immortal City] for spiritual items as contestants gathered to attack a Void Return cultivator. They weakened and drove the guard away but failed to kill him, and the contestants then turned on one another, leaving four eliminated.

• Yue Zhongfeng recruited Zhao Ruoming to gather spiritual items, and told him the [Bliss Immortal City] lord who had held the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record was already dead.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming left the room as a body cultivator fought the city lord and other Spirit Transformation cultivators, then headed toward the ruined City Lord's Manor.
• Outside the city, Chi Jiuyu wanted to join the battle, but Zhao Ruohan urged caution; before Ye Zhiwei could explain her mask, a Void Return cultivator appeared and shattered the blood-and-qi furnace.
• The contestants, including the body cultivator, Chi Jiuyu, Zhao Ruohan, and Ye Zhiwei, attacked the Void Return guard together and weakened him, but he escaped by burning his divine-soul origin.
• The contestants began fighting among themselves after the guard fled, and four contestants were eliminated, including the strongest body cultivator.

The contestants eliminated the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect body cultivator and a Sword Sect sword cultivator after the Void Return cultivator escaped, while Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan slipped away. Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming found a hidden treasure trove and shared its spiritual treasures; Chi Jiuyu hid in a remote forest, where an announcement about the competition appeared.

• The contestants used coordinated attacks to eliminate the body cultivator and then the sword cultivator, while local cultivators watched in bewilderment.
• Ye Zhiwei discovered that Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan had disappeared after fleeing the fight.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming reached a secret storage chamber beneath the City Lord's Manor and found human-derived materials and a hidden spiritual realm.
• Yue Zhongfeng and Zhao Ruoming agreed to divide the spiritual treasures, with Yue Zhongfeng taking seven parts and Zhao Ruoming three.
• Chi Jiuyu hid in a remote forest, roasted a strange bird, and checked her sixth-place ranking with one point.
• A translucent screen announced that the competition would reveal the remaining contestants, rankings, and point totals.

Chi Jiuyu studied the Spirit Transformation rankings, recovered from her injuries, and set out to seek more points as the competition intensified. Meanwhile, Xuan Xing and other Void Return cultivators debated the extraterrestrial contestants and their world, while Mu Yong was assigned to investigate a dangerous Miao City.

• Chi Jiuyu saw that 63 Spirit Transformation contestants remained, noted Lin Changsheng led the rankings with six points, and found Zhao Ruohan, Ye Zhiwei, and Zhao Ruoming still had none.
• Chi Jiuyu wondered whether contestants had been killed by the world's cultivators, then recovered from her injuries and flew toward the prosperous regions to hunt for points.
• The Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion participants began searching for World Relief Valley contestants, while Zhao Ruoming sent the Paper Molting Immortal City team away and left Five Senses Immortal City.
• Xuan Xing and the other Void Return cultivators examined a device taken from a Joyous Union Sect contestant and discussed the possibility that the extraterrestrial contestants' world could help them advance beyond Void Return.
• Xuan Xing stopped a Heavenly Secret Palace cultivator from refining his injured junior brother and restored the junior brother's body and strength.
• Mu Yong received a compulsory mission to investigate Miao City and was told he had to complete it before applying to become a one-Leaf disciple.

Mu Yong’s suspicion that the Spirit Transformation unrest was serious deepened when Cheng Miao’s clique disappeared in a supernatural mist and the Disciplinary Hall summoned him. Meanwhile, Lin Changsheng encountered Tyrant Sovereign outside the safe zone, the Founder Ancestors gathered to watch the competition, and Chi Jiuyu fought Yan Mu at the abandoned Sword-Nurturing Sea.

• Mu Yong refused to back down when Cheng Miao confronted him, and a black-green mist carried Cheng Miao and his clique away before the Disciplinary Hall called Mu Yong in.
• Lin Changsheng defeated a body cultivator to reach seven points, then left the safe zone and ran into Tyrant Sovereign, who gave him a brutal beating without injuring his insides.
• Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Ning Ruo watched the contestants as Bie Xuening, Charm Ancestor, Tyrant Sovereign, Hong Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, and other immortals gathered above the Xuanxiang World.
• Chi Jiuyu rejected Yan Mu’s proposal to cooperate and attacked him with a powerful sword technique.
• Yan Mu countered Chi Jiuyu’s attack with his five-colored fist seal, and an observer recognized his innate divine ability as Brother Dog’s.

Yan Mu and Chi Jiuyu fought fiercely, and Chi Jiuyu prepared to use a new sword technique as both drew on insights from opposing ancestors. Meanwhile, Zhao Ruoming searched the ruined Bliss Immortal City for the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record and found a hidden treasure beneath the City Lord’s Manor.

• Yan Mu and Chi Jiuyu’s divine abilities transformed the abandoned Sword-Nurturing Sea, and Surging Waves Sword Palace disciples summoned Kunlan, who was killed by the fighters’ stray power.
• Chi Jiuyu pressed her advantage over Yan Mu, but Yan Mu revealed a crimson sword technique learned from a trace left by Senior Sword Ancestor.
• Chi Jiuyu recognized Yan Mu’s crimson sword as Martial Uncle’s and prepared her newly comprehended Nameless First Sword.
• Observers watched as Chi Jiuyu and Yan Mu, each drawing insight from an opposing ancestor, faced off with their swords.
• Zhao Ruoming searched the abandoned City Lord’s Manor in Bliss Immortal City for the Spirit Absorption Ritual Record and followed his innate ability to a hidden treasure underground.

Zhao Ruoming discovered Lin Changsheng beneath the Bliss Immortal City City Lord's Manor, paid him spiritual items to escape, and Lin kept his lead in the competition. After defeating Yan Mu, Chi Jiuyu found that her Life-Bound Sword had begun speaking and tried to teach it to call her Master.

• Zhao Ruoming descended into the manor's seventh underground level and found a hidden chamber behind a concealed wall.
• Lin Changsheng revealed himself, stopped Zhao Ruoming's Great Teleportation Talisman with his sword, and demanded spiritual items worth two hundred thousand Spirit Coins to let him go.
• Zhao Ruoming surrendered spiritual items Yue Zhongfeng had given him, then escaped when Lin released his spatial seal.
• Lin put away the payment, confirmed he remained first with seven points, and returned to his formation to recover before the remaining rounds.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Yan Mu and saw that she had six points and sixth place, then resolved to seek harder training after the competition.
• Chi Jiuyu's Life-Bound Sword spoke in a childish voice, and she tried to teach it to call her Master.

Chi Jiuyu escaped to recover after defeating Dog Brother, while the immortals debated returning Xuanxiang World to the Chaos Sea and contestants continued eliminating one another. The chapter ended with Mu Yong witnessing a steel giant chasing a crimson meteor, as its pilot taunted the fleeing Senior Brother Qiu.

• Chi Jiuyu reconciled with her obedient Life-Bound Sword, left the sea, and sought a place to heal with her spoils.
• Kun Yuan pretended to mourn Junior Brother Kunlan, then hurried back to claim his inheritance and consider selling Kunlan's wife and daughter.
• Xu Xing and the other immortals decided Xuanxiang World should be returned to the Chaos Sea after its problems were resolved.
• Immortal Sect Grand Competition contestants continued ambushing and eliminating one another, alarming Xuanxiang World's Void Return cultivators with the scale and strength of the outsiders.
• Mu Yong watched a crimson meteor flee from an enormous steel giant, whose pilot and companion mocked Senior Brother Qiu as they pursued him.

After the sudden clash in Miao City, Mu Yong resumed his mission while Qiu Zheng continued fleeing the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion’s construct, and Zhao Ruoming hid from its devastating attack. In the competition’s other branches, Sheng Wu was eliminated, while Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan recovered together and discussed their progress.

• Mu Yong admitted he did not know what had appeared in Miao City and urged the Miao-class disciples to finish their mission and return to the sect.
• Qiu Zheng kept evading the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion’s pursuit as its construct carved through a mountain range with a massive psionic sword strike.
• Zhao Ruoming emerged from hiding after the attack, activated his stealth unit when his scouts detected someone, and recognized the newcomer as a contestant from World Relief Valley.
• Nearly forty contestants helped Sheng Wu destroy the Blood Vajra Temple, but Xuan Xing and five other Void Return cultivators defeated Sheng Wu and eliminated more than ten contestants.
• Zhang Yunlu and Lin Xuanxuan rested in an underground chamber, discussed Chi Jiuyu’s points, and Lin Xuanxuan asked why Zhang Yunlu kept her cracked Ice Crystal Longsword.

Zhang Yunlu recovered from her injuries and chose to keep nurturing her treasured Ice Crystal Longsword, while Lin Xuanxuan prepared for the contestants’ planned attack on the Heavenly Spirit Sect. In the main timeline, Zhao Ruoming defeated a World Relief Valley alchemist, and Lin Changsheng encountered Xuan Xing, the Heavenly Spirit Sect’s second-generation Founder Ancestor.

• Lin Xuanxuan treated Zhang Yunlu with a medicinal bath, and Zhang Yunlu repaired her cracked Ice Crystal Longsword with the Sword Nurturing Art.
• Zhang Yunlu finished the bath and used an entry-level nurturing sword sheath while she and Lin Xuanxuan discussed the contestants’ plan to retaliate against the Heavenly Spirit Sect.
• Zhao Ruoming defeated a World Relief Valley alchemist in a sea of lava, and the dying alchemist mocked him over his loss to Chi Jiuyu before taking his own life.
• Lin Changsheng recovered in Bliss Immortal City and set out to hunt for contestants, but Xuan Xing stopped him and said he wanted to ask a few questions.

Lin Changsheng bluffed his way through a meeting with Xuan Xing, then fled with a gift he did not trust. Elsewhere, the immortals discussed Xuan and Xu Xing's past, Mu Yong found a discarded opportunity, and Chi Jiuyu returned to the rankings race.

• Lin Changsheng told Xuan Xing that his group was a resource exploration team and claimed Xuan Xing was vastly weaker than the Void Return cultivators he knew.
• Xuan Xing gave Lin Changsheng a storage ring of spirit plants and let him leave, then concluded that the world behind the extraterrestrial cultivators was immensely powerful.
• The Tyrant Sovereign, Pill Ancestor, Ning Ruo, Yuanjun, and Charm Ancestor discussed Xuan Xing's name and whether Xuan regretted not acting against Xu Xing earlier.
• Lin Changsheng inspected Xuan Xing's gift, discarded the ring because he feared it had been tampered with, and Mu Yong picked it up on his way back to the sect.
• Chi Jiuyu recovered at Surging Waves Sword Palace, captured a seabird for her storage ring, and set out to regain points after her ranking fell to seventh.

Zhao Ruohan used her spirit-plant puppets to eliminate a Spirit Sound Workshop contestant as the fourth safe-zone update revealed the remaining contestants’ locations. The Taixuan Immortal Network then spread across the Xuanxiang World, exposing the world’s rules as nodes that could be forcibly merged and reorganized to uproot the Spirit Herding lineage.

• Zhao Ruohan prepared dozens of spirit-plant puppets and began cultivating a rare seed before sensing a nearby contestant.
• A Spirit Sound Workshop cultivator entered the forest, where Zhao Ruohan’s hidden puppets surrounded and attacked her.
• The fourth safe-zone update activated real-time rankings, maps, and periodic displays of contestants’ precise coordinates, alarming the Supreme Dao Sect contestants.
• Zhao Ruohan’s puppets eliminated the sound cultivator, though Zhao Ruohan was injured by her causal sound art and lost several puppets.
• The Immortal Network swept across the Xuanxiang World, causing its inhabitants and Void Return cultivators to sense an overwhelming power from beyond their world.
• The Taixuan Immortal Network connected to nodes left where contestants had been eliminated and revealed the world’s rules, preparing to impose a new order.

Mu Yong glimpsed other versions of his fate and replaced his cultivation art as the Immortal Net weakened Xuan’s influence. At the grand competition, Lin Changsheng pursued a newly marked contestant, while Chi Jiuyu and nearby participants rushed toward another pursued contestant.

• Mu Yong recalled visions of alternate lives in which unknown cultivators disrupted events and he was killed, then resolved to seize control of his fate.
• Mu Yong replaced the Heavenly Spirit Qi Refining Formula with the Vast Radiance Self-Nourishing Mystic Art and decided to use his previously unused storage ring.
• Ning Ruo reported that the Immortal Net nodes were installed, and Hong Sovereign noted that Mu Yong’s thinking was changing as Xuan’s influence faded.
• Lin Changsheng saw Qiu Zheng eliminated by Di Xing, then used the newly unlocked map to rush toward the nearest contestant outside Miao City.
• Chi Jiuyu spotted a contestant fleeing from a pursuer and used Great Void Sword Escape to intervene as four other nearby participants also moved toward the hunted contestant.

Chang Xiao escaped a six-person pursuit and entered a spirit city to eliminate witnesses while trying to catch up with Lin Changsheng’s score. As the world’s Void Return cultivators debated surrendering to the outsiders, Xuan Xing discovered Mu Yong was a reborn one.

• The pursued contestant accelerated beyond the six contestants chasing him, and Chi Jiuyu abandoned the pursuit as the real-time coordinates disappeared.
• Chang Xiao entered a spirit city, planned to eliminate its cultivators, and saw that Lin Changsheng had taken first place with eight points while he had six.
• The fourth safe-zone update eliminated contestants across the three time branches, leaving thirty-seven in the Spirit Transformation group, forty-five in the Nascent Soul group, and twenty-one in the Golden Core group.
• Xuanxiang World’s Void Return cultivators debated surrendering to the outsider Spirit Transformations, and the Blood Vajra Temple cultivator suggested the conflict was a trial in which supposedly dead contestants might have survived.
• Xuan Xing sensed that his safeguard had been triggered and found Mu Yong cultivating in a sealed stone room; he recognized Mu Yong’s techniques and identified him as a reborn one.

Xuan Xing discovered Mu Yong’s memories of a past life and tried to uncover the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track’s secrets, but Xuan Qi’s protection forced him to spare Mu Yong and take him as a disciple. The chapter revealed that Mu Yong was Xuan’s chosen subject for a transformation ritual, while the contest’s contestants remained unaware of the plot and Lin Changsheng faced an approaching opponent.

• Xuan Xing searched Mu Yong’s memories and learned that Mu Yong had lived a future life as the Radiant Immortal Sovereign and had seen possible attacks on the Heaven Spirit Sect.
• Xuan Xing tried to force open the memories obscured by Xuan Qi’s protection, but his cultivation began draining, so he stopped and restored it with super-grade Xuanxiang Scripts.
• Xuan Xing’s killing intent toward Mu Yong triggered another threat to his cultivation, so he asked Mu Yong to become his disciple, and Mu Yong accepted.
• Hong Sovereign and the others explained that Xuan intended Mu Yong to use the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track to become a Cang Race member and serve as part of a larger plan.
• The contestants remained unaware of the events in Xuanxiang World, while Lin Changsheng, ranked first with eight points, found himself facing a battle-hungry opponent whom Chang Xiao had lured to him.

Lin Changsheng accepted Yue Zhongfeng’s challenge, and the two fought to a stalemate as the grand competition’s observers watched. After the contestants’ coordinates appeared, Chi Jiuyu encountered a Supreme Dao Sect cultivator and attacked him as nearby competitors converged.

• Yue Zhongfeng challenged Lin Changsheng, who refused to admit he was weaker and drew his sword to fight.
• Lin Changsheng and Yue Zhongfeng battled for hours while Immortal Sect leaders and eliminated contestants watched the projected divisions.
• A beam of light brought Zhang Yunlu to the stands as an eliminated contestant, surprising Lin Xuanxuan.
• Chi Jiuyu saw the newly displayed contestant coordinates and struck at a nearby Supreme Dao Sect cultivator.
• The gray-robed cultivator proposed that they cooperate against the approaching competitors, but Chi Jiuyu attacked him again.

Chi Jiuyu pursued the elusive Supreme Dao Sect contestant to draw her pursuers into conflict, while Mu Yong suspected that his rebirth and cultivation were part of Xuan Qi’s scheme and triggered a dangerous change in his spiritual power. As Xuan Xing considered using the Heavenly Track to address the crisis, Mu Yong’s actions caused Xuan Xing’s own cultivation to begin draining again.

• The Supreme Dao Sect contestant escaped Chi Jiuyu’s attack using a golden-patterned bead, and Chi Jiuyu chased him to distract the contestants converging on her.
• The contestant escaped Chi Jiuyu a second time, while Charm Ancestor, Bie Xuening, and Xu Xing watched the competition and assessed Chi Jiuyu’s predicament.
• Mu Yong realized Xuan Qi might have fabricated his past-life memories to prepare him for possession, and the Spirit Herding Self-Nourishing Cang True Scripture began converting his spiritual power as he coughed up blood.
• Void Return cultivators watching Lin Changsheng and Yue Zhongfeng admired their abilities and considered joining them, prompting Xuan Xing to worry that they might defect.
• Xuan Xing began to suggest that the cultivators examine the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track, but sensed his cultivation draining and discovered that Mu Yong had reduced himself to a half-dead state.

Xuan Xing persuaded the Void Returns to investigate the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track by sacrificing cultivators and mortals as scouts, while Lin Changsheng and Yue Zhongfeng fought fiercely during the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. Chi Jiuyu tracked down the Supreme Dao Sect contestant who had ambushed her, but he escaped again just as Zhao Ruoming arrived.

• Xuan Xing secretly sent an incarnation toward Mu Yong’s Heavenly Spirit inheritance Dao-seed and proposed that the Void Returns decipher the Heavenly Track.
• The Void Returns agreed to Xuan Xing’s plan and began gathering mortals and cultivators from multiple realms to scout the Heavenly Track.
• Lin Changsheng and Yue Zhongfeng continued their fierce battle as Chang Xiao waited for them to weaken so he could seize the championship.
• Chang Xiao recognized Yue Zhongfeng’s progress in the Yin-Yang Metamorphosis Method while observing the combatants’ techniques.
• Chi Jiuyu tracked the masked Supreme Dao Sect contestant using her sword-intent mark, but he escaped by sacrificing a gold-patterned pearl.
• Zhao Ruoming arrived and called out to Chi Jiuyu as she prepared to pursue the escaping contestant.

Zhao Ruoming challenged Chi Jiuyu, but she ignored him and Ye Zhiwei intercepted him, leading to a fierce battle. Meanwhile, Xuan Xing brought Mu Yong and a million expendable pathfinders to the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track, where he sent Mu Yong to scout it as the immortals watched.

• Zhao Ruoming challenged Chi Jiuyu to a rematch, but she told him to go play somewhere else and continued pursuing the Supreme Dao Sect contestant.
• Ye Zhiwei blocked Zhao Ruoming with her Imitative Fire Art, and the two fought to a standstill as the other contestants also revealed their trump cards.
• The Supreme Dao Sect contestant led Chi Jiuyu into a remote desert and activated preparations for a decisive fight.
• Xuan Xing gathered a million expendable pathfinders and brought Mu Yong and several Void Return cultivators to the Xuanxiang Heavenly Track.
• Xuan Xing gave Mu Yong the artifacts containing the pathfinders and ordered him to scout the Heavenly Track, then ordered a Spirit Transformation cultivator to follow him.
• Mu Yong cursed Xuan Xing and walked toward the Heavenly Track while the Void Return cultivators demanded an explanation and the immortals watched.

Mu Yong approached the Heavenly Track and saw Tyrant Sovereign seize its armillary sphere after Mu Yong recoiled from the light of spirituality’s demand to treat all living beings as livestock. Meanwhile, Chi Jiuyu accepted defeat to the Supreme Dao Sect contestant and was eliminated from the competition.

• Mu Yong walked toward the Heavenly Track and realized his memories of reaching it had been fabricated by Xuan Qi.
• Mu Yong saw the light of spirituality and hesitated to embrace its vision of herding all living beings, prompting Tyrant Sovereign to reveal himself and grasp the Heavenly Track.
• Tyrant Sovereign and Xu Xing watched Mu Yong, while the altered flow of time kept nearby cultivators from entering their domain.
• Chi Jiuyu recovered from a near-fatal throat wound and admitted that the Supreme Dao Sect contestant had defeated her.
• The safe-zone notice eliminated Chi Jiuyu after she failed to enter the safe zone.

Cheng Sheng defeated Chi Jiuyu, but Chang Xiao arrived and eliminated Cheng Sheng, bringing his score level with Lin Changsheng’s. Sheng Qingqing rescued the badly injured Lin Changsheng, who woke beside a river and agreed to repay her for saving him.

• After the final safe-zone rules were announced, Cheng Sheng prepared to hide, but Chang Xiao appeared and confronted him.
• Chang Xiao defeated Cheng Sheng, took the storage rings, and tied Lin Changsheng’s score at nine points before setting off to hunt him.
• The realm’s observers discussed Zhao Ruohan’s puppet army and joked about Sheng Qingqing rescuing the unconscious Lin Changsheng.
• As the safe zone contracted, Lin Changsheng woke beside a river and learned that Sheng Qingqing had saved him.
• Sheng Qingqing said she had once fallen from the Void Return Realm and demanded twelve first-grade spiritual opportunities as repayment; Lin Changsheng agreed.

Sheng Qingqing rescued Lin Changsheng, accepted his spiritual materials, and planned to meet him again while he continued through the trial. Elsewhere, Zhao Ruohan completed a massive army of spirit plant puppets and faced a Divine Mechanism construct as the Grand Competition continued.

• Sheng Qingqing accepted Lin Changsheng’s spiritual materials instead of killing him, then left him to recover and watched from above as he departed.
• Sheng Qingqing inferred that the Spirit Transformations from beyond the heavens might locate one another and that their battles could be part of a trial.
• The eliminated contestants watched Lin Changsheng’s encounter with Sheng Qingqing on the projection screen, while Chi Jiuyu learned Zhang Yunlu had scored five points and Zhao Ruoming received a message from Zhiwei.
• Chang Xiao pursued the wounded Lin Changsheng, and Sheng Qingqing fled when she saw the pursuer, setting up their second meeting as she had planned.
• Zhao Ruohan completed a giant mountain puppet and an army of spirit plant puppets, then faced a nearly hundred-meter-tall Divine Mechanism construct from the Divine Mechanism Artifact Refining Pavilion.

The Xuanxiang Void Returns debated the frozen Heavenly Track and suspected that Mu Yong’s presence was affecting it, while Sheng Qingqing continued infiltrating Lin Changsheng’s circle. The Golden Core competition ended with Liu Ming in first place, and the Second Time Branch collapsed as he was teleported away.

• Zhao Ruohan activated her divine mechanism construct’s dharma form and fought the mountain puppet with its wave of spirit-plant puppets.
• The Xuanxiang Void Returns discussed the contestants frozen near the Heavenly Track and considered whether Mu Yong was connected to the reduced cultivation drain.
• Sheng Qingqing reported that the otherworldly Spirit Transformation cultivators who had supposedly died might still be alive, then continued replacing her origin and growing closer to Lin Changsheng.
• The remaining Second Time Branch Golden Core contestants were hunted down after their attack on the Heavenly Spirit Sect, leaving Liu Ming as the final survivor.
• Liu Ming received first place in the Golden Core competition and insulted Xuan Xing before being teleported away.
• The Second Time Branch began collapsing into the void, and Xuan Xing realized that its world had been fake.

The second Time Branch collapsed after the Immortal Network stopped sustaining it, while Liu Ming was celebrated as the Golden Core champion in the main competition. In the main timeline, Chang Xiao failed to convince Lin Changsheng that Sheng Qingqing was dangerous, and the world’s rulers agreed to try a modern Divine Path reform.

• The second Time Branch and its inhabitants dissipated into nothingness after the final contestant departed and the Immortal Network withdrew its power.
• Liu Ming descended amid a grand display of auspicious beasts and clouds as the Golden Core Realm Champion, while Chi Jiuyu regretted having entered the Spirit Transformation division instead of receiving similar fanfare.
• Chang Xiao warned Lin Changsheng that Sheng Qingqing was suspicious, but Lin defended her; Sheng Qingqing accepted Chang Xiao’s offer to leave and demanded twenty-four first-grade spiritual opportunities as repayment.
• The Tyrant Sovereign admitted he had won a bet about Lin Changsheng, and Hong Sovereign and Xu Xing exchanged embarrassing memories before turning the discussion to the world’s future.
• Hong Sovereign and Xu Xing supported the Sect Masters’ plan to establish a modern Divine Path system based on moral character, merit, and contributions so the harvested world could recover.