Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin confronted the Celestial Venerable over the coming ascension and warned that he would kill a Profound Penetration if the mortal realm was thrown into chaos. As Daoist Xuanling ascended, karmic fire rose from the souls of every Profound Penetration in the Peaceful Realm.

• Jiang Lin showed Daoist Xuanling his sword scar and bronze mirror, promising to punish any Profound Penetration who disrupted the mortal realm.
• Bright Yang Greedy Wolf Star Lord returned from destroying a nest of demons, and Jiang Lin recalled him into pill form.
• The Celestial Venerable questioned He Yunqi about ascension and tried to make him reveal the Record of Dao-Deriving Great Thousand, but Jiang Lin intervened.
• Jiang Lin warned the Celestial Venerable to keep the mortal realm peaceful and told He Yunqi that a Profound Penetration might fall during the ceremony.
• Daoist Xuanling entered the Imperial Zenith High Heaven Hall, where a jade slip proclaimed his merits and announced his ascension.
• As a flame spread across the heavens, karmic fire rose from the souls of every Profound Penetration in the Peaceful Realm.

Karmic Fire Punishes Evil burned the Netherworld Devil Ancestor, the Divine Path Celestial Venerable, the Divine Path Emperor, and the Three-Legged Golden Crow, while a heavenly declaration announced that the immortal path remained unbroken. Xu Xing and You established the punishment as a rule of the Peaceful Realm, and Xu Xing reviewed the progress of the Ascension Envoys and their missions.

• Karmic fire engulfed the Divine Path Celestial Venerable and Divine Path Emperor, weakening them until the Three-Legged Golden Crow tried to escape its rune-bound cage and was burned as well.
• Jiang Lin and He Yunqi witnessed Karmic Fire Punishes Evil take effect, and the Netherworld Devil Ancestor’s Cave Heaven fell into the mortal realm as he was refined by the flames.
• A sorrowful cry followed the Netherworld Devil Ancestor’s fall, but a cold snort dispelled it and golden light proclaimed that the immortal path remained unbroken.
• You told Xu Xing that he had made karmic fire an automatic rule of the Peaceful Realm, then departed to watch over it.
• Xu Xing reviewed the Ascension Envoys’ missions, noting Lin Changsheng’s progress, Xiao Yunlu’s violent clashes with local powers, Chi Jiuyu’s research, and a Law Realm Dao Integration cultivator’s interest in Zhao Ruoming as a disciple.

Xu Xing monitored ascenders and the Karmic Fire Punishment Law before visiting the Sword Sect’s outer sect, where he quietly gave Ye Zhiwei the last Blood Jade. The Blood Jade was gone, and he resolved to find other small gifts to carry.

• Xu Xing assessed the ascenders in the Original Truth Realm and arranged for Daoist Xuanling’s long passage to the Great Profound Realm to feel brief.
• Xu Xing observed the Karmic Fire Punishment Law taking effect in the Peaceful Realm and noted that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu were building Taixuan Immortal Network nodes in the Chaos Sea.
• Xu Xing left the Sword Ancestor Hall and walked through the Sword Sect, passing Jiang Jing as she taught contestants about the Severing Sorrow and Ending Calamity Sword Scripture.
• Xu Xing encountered Ye Zhiwei and slipped the last Blood Jade into her storage ring without revealing himself.
• Xu Xing realized he had handed out all the Blood Jade and decided to find other gifts to keep on hand.

Xu Xing reflected on the Sword Sect’s past as he watched the Earth Immortal Realm prepare for ascension. Xi Li told Fumu she had decided to ascend to seek answers, and Fumu accepted her choice while hinting that she might follow.

• Xu Xing recalled how Yueling’s Sword Qi had tainted a spirit ore deposit, leading the Sword Enforcement Hall to be built over it and the ore to be repurposed for sword cultivation.
• Xu Xing watched visitors take photos by the Sword Enforcement Hall statue, then turned his attention to the Earth Immortal Realm as its ascension approached.
• Xi Li, now a powerful cultivator and master of Cold Moon Sword Palace, contemplated ascending after the Human Race’s victory over the Beast God clan.
• Fumu appeared before Xi Li and warned that ascending could make it difficult to return, but Xi Li said she wanted to seek answers, including some related to Senior Sword Ancestor.
• Fumu stopped trying to dissuade Xi Li and said she might ascend to find her in a few years; Xi Li promised to wait.

Xi Li prepared to ascend from the Earth Immortal Realm, and Xu Xing appeared to explain Xiyun’s connection to her deceased brother and the forces behind the Human Race’s recent history. After answering her questions, he revealed that she would be the third or fourth person to ascend, depending on timing.

• Fumu joked with Xi Li before departing, and Xi Li left her quiet chamber to look over the Cold Moon Sword Palace.
• Xi Li recalled why she had founded the Cold Moon Sword Palace and how the civil strife had turned her against Xiyun.
• Xu Xing appeared and told Xi Li that Xiyun had been shaped from her brother’s Dao essence after her brother’s death.
• Xu Xing explained that Origin was an incarnation of his great enemy and that its influence had affected Xiyun.
• Xi Li asked Xu Xing how he viewed the Earth Immortal Realm, and he said its final outcome was very good.
• Xi Li asked how many people would ascend before her, and Xu Xing said she would be third or fourth.

Xi Li prepared to ascend after meeting Xu Xing, while cultivators from across the Earth Immortal Realm gathered at the Cold Moon Sword Palace. Xu Xing watched over the proceedings beside the newborn Heavenly Will as Xi Li’s ascension remained imminent.

• Xi Li questioned Xu Xing about his enemy and his arrival in this world, then chose to seek answers by ascending; Xu Xing vanished without her noticing how he left.
• Xi Li reflected on how Xu Xing had saved her and her brother nearly two thousand years earlier, and on why she had kept his true name, Xu Xing, secret.
• Fumu arrived at the Cold Moon Sword Palace’s rift valley and questioned Xi Li about moving up her ascension; Xi Li revealed she had met Senior Sword Ancestor and said someone was competing with her.
• Representatives from across the Earth Immortal Realm gathered to witness the unprecedented ascension, and Xi Li accepted a congratulatory gift from Gan Yang Dao Palace without hostility.
• Xu Xing watched from the depths of the world beside the Earth Immortal Realm’s newborn Heavenly Will, waiting for Xi Li’s ascension to begin.

Xu Xing captured the newborn Heavenly Will of the Earth Immortal Realm and began testing how its revival affected the world, with Ning Ruo recording the results. Meanwhile, Xi Li ascended, and the spectacle made Void Return cultivators reconsider delaying their own ascension.

• Xu Xing concluded that the Earth Immortal Realm's destroyed Heavenly Will had begun to form anew and considered how often a Heavenly Will could be erased and revived.
• Xu Xing summoned Ning Ruo through the Taixuan Immortal Network to record and analyze experiments on the newborn Heavenly Will.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo discussed Xi Li's inheritance from Xu Xing and Bie Xuening as they began testing the Heavenly Will's effects on the world.
• Xi Li stepped onto the Ascension Platform, and the Gate of Ascension appeared above the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Fumu and many Void Return cultivators watched Xi Li's ascension and began considering whether they should ascend sooner.

Xi Li ascended from the Earth Immortal Realm and arrived in the Great Profound Realm, where several sect leaders competed to recruit her. After receiving information in the Immortal Cleansing Pool, she asked Du Ruoheng if she could join the Sword Sect.

• Xi Li passed through the Gate of Ascension after witnessing the legacy of Xi and bowing to the sages and people of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• During her journey through the Chaos Sea, the Taixuan Immortal Network enabled Xi Li to perceive the Earth Immortal Realm and countless other worlds.
• Du Ruoheng, Cheng Junming, Qin Wei, and Li Wanwan gathered at the Sword Sect's Ascension Hall to recruit Xi Li for their sects.
• Xi Li arrived at the Great Profound Realm, greeted the four Dao Integration True Lords, and entered the Immortal Cleansing Pool.
• After emerging from the pool, Xi Li asked Du Ruoheng whether she could join the Sword Sect.

Xi Li chose to explore the Great Profound Realm before deciding whether to join the Sword Sect, while learning about its cultivators and other ascenders. After Xu Xing met Xi Li and Daoist Xuanling, Xi Li asked what kind of world Xu Xing hoped to create, seeking answers to the conflicts she had faced in the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Du Ruoheng told Xi Li that the Sword Sect would welcome her but advised her to travel and decide after learning more about the Great Profound Realm.
• Xi Li explored the Sword Sect, studied in the Dharma Transmission Tower, and tested her strength against Void Return cultivators in the Virtual Immortal Realm.
• Xi Li contacted Chen Yan, learned that Li Ming had joined the Supreme Dao Sect and that Chen Yan planned to join the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect, then welcomed the arrival of Daoist Xuanling.
• Daoist Xuanling chose to travel the Great Profound Realm rather than ask Xu Xing questions, and Xu Xing gave him a World Seed before sending him to the Sword Sect's gate.
• Xi Li asked Xu Xing what kind of world he hoped for, explaining how conflicts over personal desires had left her uncertain about the Earth Immortal Realm's future.

Xu Xing gave Xi Li a World Seed and sent her to the Sword Sect’s outer sect after she chose to visit the Righteous Alliance. In the Hall of Time, Tian escaped Gu and Xuan’s suppression long enough to send a strand of seven-colored radiance away, which struck a young Cang cultivator and revealed the birth of the Dao at the beginning of Extreme Antiquity.

• Xi Li asked Xu Xing about his hopes for the Great Profound Realm, and he admitted he was still searching for answers and pointed her toward the missing Saint Emperor Abyss.
• Xu Xing explained that the Great Profound Realm’s distant past did not belong to the Human Race, then gave Xi Li a World Seed and the Great Void World-Deriving Observation Method.
• Xi Li chose to visit the Righteous Alliance, and Xu Xing sent her to the Sword Sect’s outer sect.
• In the Hall of Time, Tian appeared before Gu and urged him to make haste, but Xuan’s Purple Qi overwhelmed them; before disappearing, Tian concealed and flung away a strand of seven-colored radiance.
• A young Cang cultivator advanced to God Forging after twenty-one years of cultivation and then collided with the radiance Tian had sent away.
• The Cang cultivator witnessed scenes of ancient upheaval and grasped that he was seeing the beginning of Extreme Antiquity, when the Dao was born, before losing consciousness.

Ye Zhiwei entered the Three Trials of Dharma while Xi Li reflected on the Great Profound Realm’s stronger foundations and met the mysterious Meng Xuan. Xu Xing tore through time into Ancient Great Profound Heaven, confronted Gu, and discovered signs of an even more ancient era.

• Ye Zhiwei examined the Blood Jade that had appeared in her storage ring, then entered the Cave Heaven Secret Realm for the Three Trials of Dharma.
• Xi Li watched the recruitment broadcast, realized her cultivation foundations needed strengthening, and left the venue as Meng Xuan followed her.
• Meng Xuan introduced herself to Xi Li and asked whether she came from beyond the Great Profound Realm.
• Xu Xing opened a rift through time from the Sword Ancestor Hall and crossed into Ancient Great Profound Heaven.
• Xu Xing recognized a trace of the primordial era within the seven-colored radiance, then destroyed the Cang Race’s attack with one sword strike.
• Gu confronted Xu Xing from the Hall of Time, and Xu Xing replied, “You think, therefore I am.”

Xu Xing returned from Ancient Great Profound Heaven with a bound fragment of true history after anchoring the realm and making it unique. He prepared to study it with Charm Ancestor, while Xuan arrived too late to stop him and recognized the danger of the Sword Ancestor’s lingering mark.

• Gu tried to expel Xu Xing and used Old-Time World Shedding to sever Ancient Great Profound Heaven from the point of the Sword Ancestor’s arrival, but Xu Xing’s Red Moon restored the realm.
• Xu Xing noticed Xuan breaking through his blockade, captured a seven-colored stream of true history, and left after several hundred members of the Cang Race were swallowed by a temporal-spatial distortion.
• Xuan arrived, repaired the rift across the heavens, and realized that Xu Xing had detected the location of Heaven.
• At the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, You and Min speculated that Xu Xing had forced Xuan to intervene, while the Guardian Envoys relaxed as Xuan’s Purple Qi faded.
• Back at the Sword Sect, Xu Xing explained to Charm Ancestor that he had anchored Ancient Great Profound Heaven, fixed it as unique, and brought back a fragment from its past to examine.

Xu Xing and the True Immortals investigated why Heaven had appeared in Ancient Great Profound Heaven, but the historical record offered only cryptic clues before revealing fragments of Xuan’s birth and the decisive battle. Meanwhile, Ye Zhiwei began the Sword Sect’s combat trial, and Heng asked Zhou Kongming when she could receive a humanoid body.

• Xu Xing, Charm Ancestor, and Yuanjun reconstructed Heaven’s appearance and heard it tell Gu to act quickly, while Hong Sovereign suspected Heaven had waited until Xuan was not watching.
• The True Immortals examined the historical record and witnessed the battle between humanity and the Cang Race before the image showed Xuan’s birth and was obscured by purple qi.
• Ye Zhiwei created the Hidden Sword Thread during the Sword Sect’s assessment and used it to fight the Mystic Profound Grass Monsters.
• Heng asked Zhou Kongming when she could switch to a humanoid physical foundation, and he explained that Qi Ling had made her a sphere suited to her condition.

Zhou Kongming considered Ye Zhiwei’s prospects while the Immortal Sect recruitment continued, and Xu Xing received a gift for Jiu Yu before returning to the Sword Ancestor Hall. In Ancient Great Profound Heaven, Xuan refined the traces of Heaven from Heavenly Will, pushing back Heaven’s awakening while warning Gu that the Cang Race remained Heaven’s only chance to return.

• Zhou Kongming judged that Ye Zhiwei was likely to place first in the Immortal Sect Special Recruitment and wondered whether she belonged to the faction being prepared for the future Sect Master election.
• Yuanjun invited Xu Xing to collect Meng Die, but Xu Xing stayed to watch over the Sword Sect, while Charm Ancestor asked him to deliver a jade-like maple leaf to Jiu Yu before leaving for the Joyous Union Sect.
• Xu Xing returned to the Sword Ancestor Hall as the True Immortals remained uncertain about the hidden past connected to Xuan and Heaven.
• Gu tried to use the seven-colored spheres to undo the Sword Ancestor’s severing of Ancient Great Profound Heaven’s possibilities, but Xuan told him the world’s fate had become fixed.
• Xuan refined Heavenly Will with Dao Origin Source Fire, erasing Heaven’s traces from it and forcing back the eyes that appeared within it.
• Xuan told Gu that Heaven would not abandon the Cang Race because it was Heaven’s only chance to return, and explained that Heaven’s transcendence would endanger every being at or above Dao Attainment.

Xuan ordered Cang Race members who reached Dao Integration to relocate from Ancient Great Profound Heaven, while Gu began repairing the damage left by the Sword Ancestor. Across the wider realms, ascension missions ended and the Taixuan Immortal Net established a new realm, which Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu named the Second Seeker Realm.

• Xuan told Gu to arrange for Cang Race members above Dao Integration to leave Ancient Great Profound Heaven, then departed after noticing something unusual at the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield.
• Gu repaired the great hall and left to restore his ability to observe the present world and search for suitable humans in the Central Continent.
• Ye Zhiwei joined the Sword Enforcement Hall as a reserve disciple, Gu Wangjun applied to [Pure Moon], and Xiao Fan and other Ascension Envoys completed their missions.
• Xu Xing watched Zhao Ruoming refuse an invitation to meet the Saint Venerable Dao Lord and identify his lineage as the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu oversaw the Immortal Net's expansion beyond the Peaceful Realm and named the newly established realm the Second Seeker Realm.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu used the Immortal Network to find worlds Yuan had visited, while Lin Changsheng completed his mission in a world of exotic beasts and brought Azure with him. Back at the Sword Sect, Du Ruoheng welcomed Lin Changsheng and discovered that the Immortal Network’s Presence Aura could reveal information about people in the chat group.

• Ming Yu used the Immortal Network to locate two worlds where Yuan had stayed, and she and Ning Wanzhu watched recordings from them.
• Lin Changsheng witnessed the Ascension Platform appear in Task World 11 and learned that Spirit Transformation cultivators could ascend after earning enough merit.
• Lin Changsheng settled his mission, spending an Ascension Point to bring Azure with him from the world.
• Lin Changsheng returned to the Sword Sect, where Du Ruoheng praised his performance and assured him the sect would cover his expenses.
• Du Ruoheng checked the sect workhorse group and found that Cheng Junming’s Presence Aura revealed personal information even through the Spirit Net.

After returning from a three-year mission, Zhang Yunlu set out to meet Ye Zhiwei, while Lin Changsheng registered Azure in the Great Profound Realm and tried to reassure her. At the Sword Ancestor Hall, Xu Xing and the other Sovereigns examined the Taunt Aura, which made its targets broadcast an insulting challenge and their location.

• Zhang Yunlu returned from her mission, learned that her master was in seclusion, and read messages from Zhang Xiu, Lin Xuanxuan, and Nangong Ruo.
• Zhang Yunlu saw Ye Zhiwei ranked second on the Foundation Establishment list and found her own name ranked ninety-first on the Nascent Soul list.
• Zhang Yunlu decided to visit Ye Zhiwei and headed toward the Sword Enforcement Hall.
• Lin Changsheng registered Azure as a Spirit Transformation Late Stage spirit and guardian-bound companion, then promised to help her understand the Great Profound Realm.
• Azure proposed dual cultivation to deepen her bond with Lin Changsheng, but he asked her to change back and reassured her instead.
• Xu Xing and the Sovereigns discussed the Taunt Aura, and Hong Sovereign shared an example of its target repeatedly announcing an insulting challenge and real-time location.

Hong Sovereign explained the duration and purpose of the auras imposed on the Supreme Dao Sect’s juniors, while Ye Zhiwei’s cultivation at the Sword Sect brought her an unsettling encounter with Zhang Yunlu. A week later, the auras were affecting goods and projects across the cultivation world, and Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor discussed whether the Presence Aura could be used as a reward for other sects.

• Hong Sovereign said the Taunt Aura would last a week before becoming a Presence Aura for another month, and warned that future punishments could last twice as long.
• Ye Zhiwei left a Killing Intent cultivation chamber, reflected on her progress, and read a message from Zhao Ruoming before finding a forum post about a Supreme Dao Sect sword coating.
• Ye Zhiwei sensed the sword-coating artist’s identity through the post, then froze when Zhang Yunlu introduced herself at the Sword Enforcement Hall entrance.
• A week later, people across the Spirit Net complained that the Presence and Taunt Auras affected items and projects made by Supreme Dao Sect cultivators, including city formations and commercial goods.
• Xu Xing and Charm Ancestor discussed whether the Presence Aura could be renamed and adjusted for distribution as a reward to other sects.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu completed the Taixuan Immortal Network’s deployment in the Second Abyss Seeker Realm Region and resolved to search for Yuan before he faced a difficult choice over Yinling’s physical foundation. As the Ascension Plan began attracting rumors across the immortal sects, Bie Xuening emerged from seclusion stronger than before.

• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu visited the world where Yuan had once brought Yinling and learned that he could not have known about the Peaceful Realm or the Original Truth Realm.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu decided to return to the Great Profound Realm, report to their master, and bring suitable spiritual materials on their next search for Yuan.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu’s completed deployment marked the end of testing for the Taixuan Immortal Network, while rumors about Ascension spread through the Seven Great Immortal Sects.
• Bie Xuening completed her cultivation in Sword Venerable Hall and demonstrated sword power that shook the Great Profound Realm and Chaos Sea.
• Bie Xuening dismissed Yueling, who had hoped her master would go play with Lord Sword Ancestor, and sent her off to play her game.

After emerging from seclusion, Bie Xuening gained the ability to leave the Sword Sect while continuing to grind away at the sealed Heavenly Will. She reunited with Zhang Yunlu and Xu Xing, then confronted Charm Ancestor and challenged her to test their skills.

• Bie Xuening used her advanced Sword Path of Slaughter to rapidly wear down the Sword Sect's sealed Heavenly Will and confirmed she could leave the sect, though she still could not project her power beyond the Great Profound Realm.
• Bie Xuening used the Taixuan Immortal Network to observe Chi Jiuyu roaming the Weapon Realm Macro-Universe, then summoned her disciple to return.
• Chi Jiuyu reflected on the Ultimate Talisman Weapon-Suppressing Sword Scripture she had devised and vowed to strike the power behind the Weapon Realm after her mission ended.
• Imperial Zenith Dao Lord noticed Chi Jiuyu's sword light vanish and hurried toward its last known location, fearing what had happened.
• Bie Xuening met Zhang Yunlu, learned that Charm Ancestor had been visiting the Sword Sect, and went to find Xu Xing.
• Charm Ancestor admitted she had come to dual cultivate with Xu Xing while Bie Xuening was secluded; Bie Xuening appeared, dodged Charm Ancestor's teasing, and challenged her to test their skills.