Recaps

Yuan tried to rescue Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu from Lush Heaven, but Taiyi Domain’s Heavenly Will trapped them in a ritual array and began forcing the domain’s ascension. The two sacrificed themselves to send Yuan out, leaving him to face Dongming Holy Lord as Ji Yinxue entered Taiyi World and Yuan’s consciousness finally cried out, “Myriad Dao!”

• Senior Confusion watched Yuan’s rescue attempt get exposed and accepted that Ji Yinxue’s arrival left him no time for other plans.
• Yuan reached Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu in Lush Heaven and tried to take them to safety after the Son of Destiny located them.
• Taiyi Domain activated a ritual array and began its ascension, draining Yuan’s Truth Insight power and trapping the three.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu spent the jade tablet’s final Truth Insight power to open a breach, threw Yuan out, and vanished as the array closed.
• Senior Confusion met Ji Yinxue outside Taiyi World, agreed to take the weakened Yuan away, and let her enter the world.
• Dongming Holy Lord watched shadows erode Yuan as he recalled his past, apologized, and heard an icy voice cry, “Myriad Dao!”

Ji Yinxue entered the Taiyi World, halted its ascension, and began judging its inhabitants while repairing the damage and confronting those who resisted her. As Senior Confusion took Yuan away, Kongji Holy Lord charged toward Ji Yinxue, and a fleeing Light of Doubt crossed into the Second Xunyuan Realm before an unseen force took something from it.

• Ji Yinxue arrived with a punch that stopped the merging and ascension of the Taiyi World, and her presence made its inhabitants recall their past deeds.
• Ji Yinxue declared the realm evil, extracted Taiyi Heavenly Will, and let the world’s collapse continue wherever her light did not repair it.
• Senior Confusion seized Yuan from his chains and vanished, while the Disaster-Shifting Holy Lord restored parts of the collapsing Taiyi World.
• Ji Yinxue killed a reclusive Holy Lord who tried to spread a corrupting light, then erased the extraordinary beings who charged at her.
• Dongming Holy Lord questioned whether the events were part of a game, while Kongji Holy Lord reignited his power and flew toward Ji Yinxue.
• A Light of Doubt fled the Third Realm toward the Second Xunyuan Realm, where an unseen gaze took something from it.

Xu Xing intercepted Yuan and Yinling as Confusion tried to send them back to the Great Profound Realm, then arranged for Yuan to return to the Sword Sect. After Yuan arrived unconscious, Xu Xing restored Yinling’s physical foundation with the World-Deriving Instrument, leaving Yuan’s condition to be addressed next.

• Xu Xing told Chen Shang that Yuan was returning and arranged for Chen Shang to remain at the Sword Sect until he could meet Yuan.
• Xu Xing explained to Ning Ruo that he had intercepted Yuan and Yinling from Confusion, and Ning Ruo agreed to notify Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu.
• Charm Ancestor asked Xu Xing about Yinxue, and he assured her that Confusion’s safeguards and Remorse’s Jade Talisman should protect her.
• Confusion came to the Sword Ancestor Hall and asked about Yuan, then followed Xu Xing to meet him and Yinling.
• Yuan and Yinling arrived at the Sword Sect, with Yuan unconscious and Yinling anxious; Xu Xing returned the World-Deriving Instrument to Yinling to restore her physical foundation.

Xu Xing revived Yuan and explained that Confusion had staged his ordeal in Taiyi World to make him reconsider the consequences of his choices. After learning the truth about his transmigration and reflecting overnight, Yuan decided to return to the Righteous Alliance once Wanzhu and Ming Yu recovered, while Xu Xing asked whether he still intended to go home.

• Xu Xing used his Red Radiance to cut away Yuan’s silent state and revive him in the Sword Ancestor Hall.
• Xu Xing brought Yuan and the others to a reception hall, where Confusion asked whether Yuan regretted his choice in Taiyi World.
• Confusion revealed that the events in Taiyi World had been a script and that Wanzhu and Ming Yu were safe, then urged Yuan to consider those close to him before making choices.
• Xu Xing explained how Wanzhu and Ming Yu had found Taiyi World, how Confusion had arranged Yuan’s ordeal and captured Xu, and that Yuan’s transmigration had resulted from a thought Xu Xing had while in seclusion.
• After reflecting overnight, Yuan told Yinling he was fine and decided to return to the Righteous Alliance once Wanzhu and Ming Yu recovered.
• Xu Xing arrived with Chi Jiuyu to ask Yuan about his plans and asked whether he still intended to go home.

Xu Xing explained the Taixuan Immortal Network and the Ascension Plan to Yuan, who prepared to return to the Righteous Alliance while Xu Xing and Chi Jiuyu left the Sword Sect. In Taiyi World, Ji Yinxue declared her intent to purify the world and handed two subdued Holy Lords to Kongji Holy Lord for judgment.

• Xu Xing apologized to Abyss for bringing him to the Great Profound Realm, but Abyss chose to stay until the coming conflict was over.
• Xu Xing told Yuan that the Taixuan Immortal Network supported Ning Ruo's Ascension Plan, and Yuan received access to his personal interface.
• Xu Xing asked Yuan to restore the Righteous Alliance and establish an Ascension Hall, then left with Chi Jiuyu, who had befriended Yinling.
• Ji Yinxue entered Taiyi World, stopped its transformation, killed many chaos-aligned transcendent beings, and saved Kongji Holy Lord from the collapsing continent.
• Ji Yinxue told Kongji Holy Lord that she had come to purify Taiyi World, then restored the dead order-aligned transcendent beings she had preserved.
• Ji Yinxue restrained Dianling and Cuojiu, sealed their speech, and left them for Kongji Holy Lord to deal with.

Ji Yinxue condemned Dianling and Cuojiu for their long history of abducting children and killing witnesses, then explained that she intended to reshape Taiyi World according to her convictions as she pursued Dao Extremity. In the Great Profound Realm, Yuan reunited with Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, while Xu Xing and the others discussed Yuan’s recovery and awaited news of Ji Yinxue’s progress.

• Ji Yinxue revealed that Dianling and Cuojiu had abducted 179,327 children and killed 1,793,250 people over 317 years to indulge their grandson.
• Ji Yinxue left Dianling and Cuojiu to Kongji Holy Lord, who killed them with a sacred flame after Ji Yinxue had sealed them.
• When Kongji Holy Lord asked why she acted, Ji Yinxue said she disliked evil going unpunished and resolved to change Taiyi World to suit her ideals as she sought Dao Extremity.
• Yuan waited at the Sword Sect’s Ascension Hall and welcomed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu when they returned from the Chaos Sea.
• Charm Ancestor, Bie Xuening, Xu Xing, and Ning Ruo watched the reunion until Xu Xing cut off their view and told them to give the family privacy.
• Xu Xing said Yuan needed time to recover before they asked about his plans, while the group decided to wait for Ji Yinxue to make progress toward Dao Extremity.

Yuan chose to remain in the Sword Sect to recover before returning to the Righteous Alliance and helping set up Immortal Net connection nodes. While browsing a trade stall, he uncovered clues about Tai’s lingering influence, and Xu Xing began explaining his past and why he named the realm above Truth Insight “immortal.”

• Yuan told Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu he would stay in the Sword Sect to reunite his soul and body and recover before handling the Righteous Alliance’s affairs.
• Yuan persuaded Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu to continue their work setting up Immortal Net connection nodes, promising he would help once he recovered.
• At a Sword Sect trade stall, Yuan bought worm-eaten spiritual wood for three thousand Spirit Coins, recognizing that its insect venom could kill a Profound Penetration cultivator.
• Yuan wondered whether Tai’s death had caused the Chaos Sea’s disorder, but Xu Xing warned him that investigating Tai’s influence was dangerous before Dao Attainment.
• Xu Xing recalled arriving in Great Profound Heaven, where the Human Race lacked immortals, and said that this absence had become his obsession.

Yuan reunited his spirit and body, but struggled to control his restored form. Meanwhile, Xu Xing and the True Immortals planned to use Yuan’s return to bring the Righteous Alliance into the Ascension Plan through the Taixuan Immortal Network.

• Xu Xing and Yuan discussed Yuan’s past conflict with Hong Sheng, and Xu Xing said Hong Sovereign would not hold a grudge over it.
• Yuan reunited his spirit with his body in Sword Ancestor Hall, causing a brief spatial ripple before awakening in a weak, awkward state.
• Xu Xing offered Yuan a strand of Sword Qi to help him control his body, then left him to adjust on his own.
• Xu Xing discussed with the True Immortals in the Big Boss Group using Yuan’s return to introduce the Ascension Platform and Taixuan Immortal Network to the Righteous Alliance.
• The True Immortals discussed Yuan’s past efforts to change the Great Profound Realm’s power structure, and Sword Venerable said he had not stopped Yuan because Yuan pursued goals his junior brother had always wanted to achieve.

Xu Xing recalled how he had told his master and Bie Xuening that he was a transmigrator, while the group’s discussion turned to Yuan’s past and a rematch with Hong Sheng. Yuan agreed to fight Hong Sheng once he recovered, and Xu Xing was left reflecting on his confession and his master’s expectations of him.

• Xu Xing explained that Bie Xuening had learned he came from another world before she met Yuan, but the group members failed to reveal when they had first met one another.
• Xu Xing told the group that Yuan thought he had offended Hong Sovereign by seriously injuring Hong Sheng, and Hong Sovereign said the defeat had helped his son pursue Dao Integration.
• Hong Sovereign asked Xu Xing to arrange another match between Yuan and Hong Sheng, and Yuan agreed after learning Hong Sheng was only at Dao Integration.
• Xu Xing remembered arriving in the Great Profound Realm as a ten-year-old, gradually earning Bie Xuening’s trust, and eventually confessing to her and their master that he was a transmigrator.
• Xu Xing recalled that his master had kept his secret and expected him to lead the Human Race, while Xu Xing himself had drifted through life and suspected he had disappointed his master.

Yuan met Chen Shang to learn about the Righteous Alliance and signaled that its transition should proceed with the times. At the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, Xuan’s attempt to help a Cang Race cultivator become the Innate Ancestor God of Tribulation ended in a catastrophic failure.

• Yuan met Chen Shang at the Sword Sect and asked him to answer questions about the Righteous Alliance, hinting that its transition should move forward.
• Xu Xing watched Yuan gain Chen Shang’s cooperation, then sensed a disturbance at the Far Side of the Starry Sky and went there with the Sword Ancestor.
• Xuan unveiled a vast Purple Qi and began helping a peak Truth Insight Cang Race member construct a Heaven Pass and attain the Dao of Tribulation.
• Xu Xing confronted Xuan as the Sword Ancestor and other forces moved to stop the transformation, but the Cang Race member appeared to succeed after Xuan suppressed the transcendent order.
• The Cang Race member’s body began to fail, and Xu Xing concluded that the transformation had been forcibly accelerated from within.
• The Cang Race member exploded into frenzied annihilation calamity bolts, while Xu Xing withdrew and left Xuan’s plan in ruins.

Xuan suppressed the catastrophic tribulation lightning after the Sword Ancestor failed to seize any, while Xu Xing and the others debated who had sabotaged the Cang Race member’s failed advancement. At Hong Hall, Hong Sovereign reflected on his past with Heaven before telling Hong Sheng he had arranged a match against Yuan, leaving Hong Sheng stunned by the gap between their cultivation levels.

• Gu reversed the destruction caused by the tribulation lightning, and Xuan eventually pulled the remaining lightning into his palm and erased it.
• Xu Xing returned to Bie Xuening and explained that Xuan had left him no chance to obtain tribulation lightning; they suspected Heaven had interfered with the Cang Race member’s advancement.
• Xu Xing described his findings in the Immortal Net group, where the others discussed Heaven, Tai, and the possibility of further Cang Race advancement attempts.
• Hong Sovereign recalled how Heaven had arranged Cang Race Dao companions for him and how he had killed them during the final battle.
• Hong Sheng admitted that Yuan had surpassed him, but Hong Sovereign told him he had arranged a match between them, shocking Hong Sheng because he had only reached Dao Integration while Yuan had attained Truth Insight.

Hong Sheng met his younger sister Zhao Ruohan after emerging from seclusion, while Xuan investigated an anomalous failed breakthrough and ruled out Heaven's involvement. The chapter ended with Xuan realizing that Tai had never used a certain opportunity before his fall.

• Hong Sheng left seclusion, reflected on Abyss's overwhelming fame, and went to visit Zhao Ruohan.
• Hong Sheng startled Zhao Ruohan in the transit lane, causing her injured spiritual power to go astray and making her spit blood.
• Hong Sheng learned that Zhao Ruohan admired Chi Jiuyu, who had reached Spirit Transformation at twenty-two, and he maintained that Abyss was the true number one prodigy.
• Xuan and Gu considered whether Heaven had interfered with a Cang Race member's failed breakthrough, and Xuan briefly awakened and then crushed a strand of Heaven's consciousness.
• Xuan concluded that Heaven was not responsible and reconsidered Gu and Tai as possible causes before recalling that Tai had never used a certain opportunity before his fall.

Xuan wondered whether Tai had secretly used the Taixuan Authority to survive and considered investigating Qingxu, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening also decided to look there for clues. Meanwhile, Yuan fought Hong Sheng and brutally defeated him as Ning Wanzhu, Ming Yu, and Yinling watched.

• Xuan recalled how Tai might have used the Taixuan Authority without his knowledge and considered sending Gu to investigate Tai's fall in Qingxu, but postponed the decision.
• After the Truth Insight Cang Race member's failed Dao Attainment heightened tension on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, Xu Xing told Bie Xuening he planned to investigate Qingxu, and she prompted him to consider Xuan as a possible culprit.
• Hong Sheng brought prodigies from several Immortal Sects to meet Yuan, and Xu Xing transported them to a boundless white space for their contest.
• Hong Sheng unleashed his innate divine ability against Yuan, but Yuan effortlessly dispersed his attack and smashed Hong Sheng's head apart with a punch.
• As Hong Sheng regenerated, Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu discussed his past pursuit of her and teased each other about liking younger men, while Yinling watched the fight.

Xu Xing investigated the strange powers behind a new Bio-Weapon and planned a trip to Qingxu with Charm Ancestor, while Hong Sheng’s repeated defeats by Yuan rekindled the resolve of those watching. The Righteous Alliance arrived to welcome Yuan, and Du Ruoheng deliberately provoked its delegation by insisting they call him “Sect Master.”

• Hong Sheng fought Yuan and was defeated 371 times, inspiring the watching cultivators to recover some of their resolve.
• Xu Xing agreed to travel to Qingxu with Charm Ancestor after explaining his suspicions about the abnormality during the Cang Race cultivator’s Dao attainment.
• Xu Xing saw Chi Jiuyu recovering from her mission injuries and examined the purple-and-black source powers taken from a new Bio-Weapon.
• Hong Sheng continued fighting until Yuan had beaten him 1,256 times, and the people who came with him were impressed by his refusal to give up.
• Gan Xiang arrived with the Righteous Alliance to welcome Yuan, but Du Ruoheng led them along a route under repair and insisted they address him as “Sect Master.”

Yuan confronted Gan Xiang over his role in the Blood Calamity and won his cooperation in reforming the Righteous Alliance. Meanwhile, Xu Xing watched Yuan’s plan succeed and learned that the Charm Ancestor had been questioning members of their mysterious group.

• Du Ruoheng led Gan Xiang and the others to Yuan beneath the Soul-Nourishing Tree, then returned to the Sect Master's hall and reflected on his performance.
• Yuan questioned Gan Xiang about the old conflict between the Righteous Alliance and the Joyous Union Sect, revealing that Gan Xiang had helped engineer it to test the True Immortals' tolerance.
• Yuan reminded Gan Xiang that the Sword Ancestor's Blood Calamity had followed that reckless test, and Gan Xiang agreed to cooperate with Yuan from then on.
• Yuan admitted he had neglected the Alliance's problems before, while Gan Xiang recalled the Sword Ancestor's terrifying response during the Blood Calamity.
• Xu Xing watched Yuan secure Gan Xiang's cooperation, then spoke with the Charm Ancestor, who revealed she had coaxed information about their group from the Sword Venerable.

Charm Ancestor and Xu Xing learned that Ji Yinxue had reshaped Taiyi World’s laws to reward merit and punish evil, while Confusion continued watching over her. Before leaving for Qingxu, Charm Ancestor gave Xiao Fan a protective maple leaf, and Confusion took his curious disciple to meet the Demonic Path’s other disciples and juniors.

• Charm Ancestor asked Xu Xing how he had met Spirit Ancestor, but he told her to ask Spirit Ancestor herself.
• Xu Xing explained Evolving Sword True Lord’s unusual path as a sword cultivator with two Life-Bound Swords while he and Charm Ancestor visited Sword Evolution City.
• Confusion told Charm Ancestor that Ji Yinxue had entered Taiyi World, killed numerous chaotic-side transcendent beings, and used the World-Refining Method to alter its Heavenly Will and establish rules that punished evil karma and rewarded merit.
• Confusion said Ji Yinxue seemed to be gaining insight into Dao Extremity and promised to keep watch over her.
• Charm Ancestor gave Xiao Fan a protective maple-leaf artifact before she and Xu Xing left for Qingxu.
• Confusion offered to take Xiao Fan to meet his disciples and juniors, then transported him away before he could respond.

Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor traveled to Qingxu to investigate the place where Tai had fallen, while Yuan prepared to take Gan Xiang and Ning Wanzhu to resolve the Righteous Alliance’s affairs. In the Past Domain, Gu searched Qingxu’s history for clues about Tai but was startled when Charm Ancestor and Xu Xing spotted him in the present.

• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor returned to the Sword Sect, where Bie Xuening greeted them with a sword strike and refused to tell Xu Xing what she and Charm Ancestor had discussed.
• Yuan persuaded Gan Xiang to cooperate with the Ascension Plan, and Gan Xiang agreed to help settle the Righteous Alliance’s internal affairs.
• Yuan, Ning Wanzhu, Ming Yu, and Yinling prepared to go to the Righteous Alliance before Yuan resumed construction of the Immortal Net connection node in the Third Realm.
• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor arrived at Qingxu and discussed how Tai had been killed there during the battle against the Cang Race.
• Gu searched the Past Domain’s records of Qingxu for evidence about Tai, then encountered Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor in the present and froze in alarm.

Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor attacked Gu in Qingxu’s past, extracted a piece of real history, and found no clue to the anomaly linked to Tai. After Gu was driven off and others arrived despite an agreement, Charm Ancestor accused Yuanjun and Bie Xuening of breaking their promises.

• Gu appeared in Qingxu’s past, but Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor sealed the time span, wounded him, and extracted a fragment of real history.
• Charm Ancestor found nothing useful in the fragment, and Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor searched Qingxu without discovering an anomaly.
• Bie Xuening and Ning Ruo discussed Gu’s appearance while Yuanjun headed toward Qingxu, prompting Bie Xuening to challenge her in their group chat.
• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor finished investigating and remained unable to explain the Dao-attainment anomaly, though they had obtained real history and injured Gu.
• Yuanjun and Bie Xuening arrived, and Charm Ancestor immediately accused them of breaking their agreement.

Xu Xing and his companions returned from Qingxu after driving Gu away, while Xuan let the injured Gu recover without reprimanding him. Back at the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu received a Crimson Edge Medal and endured Ye Zhiwei’s bitter medicine; Xu Xing’s group then gathered with Ning Ruo to discuss the Qingxu incident and review a record of the final battle against the Cang Race.

• Xu Xing told Yuanjun and the Charm Ancestor that they had encountered Gu in Qingxu and driven Him away before He could reach the present world.
• Xuan learned that Gu had been injured by the Sword Ancestor and Charm Ancestor, told him to recover, and said he should decide when to investigate Qingxu again.
• Chi Jiuyu proudly showed off her Sword Sect third-class Crimson Edge Medal, then drank Ye Zhiwei’s intensely bitter medicine to aid her recovery.
• Ye Zhiwei explained that her treatment would help Chi Jiuyu recover faster than conventional care, and Zhang Yunlu pushed Chi Jiuyu outside for a stroll with the others.
• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, the Charm Ancestor, and Ning Ruo discussed whether the Qingxu encounter had been an accident, while Xu Xing watched a recording of the final battle against the Cang Race.

Xu Xing and the other True Immortals examined the record of Tai’s fall but found no anomaly, leaving Heaven as the main suspect. A month later, Xu Xing planned to use Ning Wanxin’s Dao of order to test whether Tai could still interfere, while Ning Ruo asked him to tell her how he had met Charm Ancestor.

• Xu Xing showed the sealed record of Tai’s fall to Yuanjun, Ning Ruo, and the others, and they found no sign of an anomaly.
• Xu Xing stored the record in Sword Ancestor Hall alongside other important items and reflected on the sealed swords whose masters had died.
• Over the next month, Xu Xing brought the record to the other Immortal Sects and the starry sky, where all nine True Immortals, including Remorse, also found nothing unusual.
• At Spirit Sound Workshop, Xu Xing told Ning Ruo he planned to use Ning Wanxin’s Immortal-Knocking Pass to see whether Tai could interfere with her pursuit of Dao Attainment.
• Ning Ruo offered Xu Xing information from their group chat in exchange for the story of how he and Charm Ancestor had met.

Ning Ruo accepted that Xu Xing might choose to be with multiple people, while he explained his guilt over those whose expectations he had failed. At the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu returned to health and discovered she had missed the chance to receive Xu Xing’s generous gifts.

• Ning Ruo told Xu Xing she would accept whatever choice he made, even if he chose to take them all, though she admitted she minded.
• Chi Jiuyu met Ye Zhiwei in the Autumn Scenery Garden and bragged about earning a Crimson Edge Medal.
• Chi Jiuyu asked when Ye Zhiwei’s sister would leave seclusion, then decided she might seek out Xiao Zhao instead.
• Zhang Yunlu received Spirit Stones and Mystic Candle Fruit from Xu Xing after welcoming him at the Sword Venerable Hall.
• Chi Jiuyu learned she had turned down the chance to welcome Xu Xing and regretted missing his gifts.

Chen Yuanlin was chosen to become the Righteous Alliance’s first ascension envoy as Yuan and the alliance’s senior cultivators prepared to advance the Ascension Plan. Xu Xing confirmed to Ming that the plan was his own, then warned that its upheaval could devastate ordinary cultivators.

• Chen Yuanlin was brought to the Supreme Council’s central tower, where the Taixuan Immortal Network registered him as its Eighth Marker and assigned him Ascension Envoy authority.
• Yuan argued that Chen Yuanlin was the most suitable candidate for the first ascension mission, while Fu Yuan objected and proposed Mu Yun instead.
• Gan Xiang ultimately backed Chen Yuanlin as the best available choice, and Yuan urged the senior cultivators to move the Ascension Plan forward.
• Three days after Xu Xing returned from the Spirit Sound Workshop, Ming visited him at the Sword Sect and asked whether the Ascension Plan came from the Sword Ancestor.
• Xu Xing confirmed that the plan was his intention and said the Righteous Alliance could accept it through Yuan, while Ming and Xu Xing acknowledged the unrest it could cause ordinary cultivators.

Ming and Xu Xing discussed Chen Yuanlin’s progress after receiving the Sword Ancestor’s guidance, while Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan and displayed her improved swordsmanship. Hong Sheng recognized Chi Jiuyu’s talent and reflected on how Yuan had changed the cultivation world, before asking Cheng Ding about the Extreme Sword.

• Ming told Xu Xing that Chen Yuanlin had rebuilt his foundations and become one of the clearest-sighted young cultivators in the Righteous Alliance.
• Chi Jiuyu defeated Zhao Ruohan in three moves with her Four Symbols Destruction Sword Wheel, Spirit Cloud Dao Sword, and improved Annihilation Sword.
• Chi Jiuyu reassured Zhao Ruohan, offered her a Mystic Candle Fruit, and left Shengji Cave Heaven with her.
• Hong Sheng praised Chi Jiuyu’s talent to Cheng Ding and acknowledged that Yuan had transformed the Great Profound Realm.
• Hong Sheng asked whether Chi Jiuyu might learn the Extreme Sword, and Cheng Ding explained that Sword Venerable and the Sword Ancestor had their own plans for her.

Zhao Ruohan and Chi Jiuyu discussed the changing world and the scarce ascension missions before Zhao Ruohan departed on a mission. In the Righteous Alliance, Chen Yuanlin began its first ascension mission, while Yuan organized the next stage of expanding the immortal network.

• Zhao Ruohan declined Chi Jiuyu's offer to borrow the Mystic Candle Fruit tree for now, but said she would need its yin-aspected essence later to balance her dharma power.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan discussed the difficulty of obtaining ascension missions and wondered what the future would bring.
• More than a month later, Zhao Ruohan left the Great Profound Realm for an ascension mission, while Chi Jiuyu stayed in the Sword Sect to consolidate her Annihilation Sword.
• Chen Yuanlin entered the Righteous Alliance's Ascension Hall and began a mission to an unnamed Spirit Transformation Honeycomb Plane in the Second Xunyuan Realm, with a three-year mission-world limit.
• After Chen Yuanlin departed, Gu Mo defended the True Immortals' decisions, and Yuan sent Ming Yu, Ning Wanzhu, and Fu Meng to construct immortal network connection nodes.

Yuan advanced the Ascension Plan by expanding the Taixuan Immortal Network across the Righteous Alliance and the Four Star Regions, while clearing up Fu Yuan’s suspicions about Fu Meng. Five years later, Xu Xing asked Xi Li to represent the Ascenders during the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and she agreed.

• Ning Wanzhu, Ming Yu, and Fu Meng departed to establish Immortal Network connection nodes, while Yuan reassured Fu Yuan that the envoys would be protected.
• Yuan explained the Immortal Network’s Ascension Point costs and subsidies to Righteous Alliance cultivators, then told Gu Mo that Gan Xiang had secretly fueled the earlier conflict between the Righteous Alliance and the Joyous Union Sect.
• Fu Yuan confronted Yuan about Fu Meng, and Yuan realized Fu Yuan had mistaken her assignment to help with the network expansion for a personal matter.
• The Taixuan Immortal Network spread across the Four Star Regions, and the Ascension Plan’s new stage advanced until five years had passed.
• Xu Xing asked Xi Li to appear as an Ascender at the upcoming Immortal Sect Grand Competition, and she agreed to take part.