Chapter Summaries

Kongji Holy Lord learned that Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu believed taking too much from the treasury would harm the world, then suspected their missing ally had either lost to Taiyi Domain’s enemy or been betrayed. Confusion discovered two wounded Dao Attainers in the Chaos Sea, and when they confronted the pair, an ordinary-looking man appeared before them.

• Kongji Holy Lord offered Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu the Insight Brightness treasury, but Ming Yu declined because taking too much could harm the world.
• Ning Wanzhu explained that Kongji Holy Lord could not ascend to the Great Profound Realm yet, and Kongji Holy Lord suggested their missing ally might have been defeated or betrayed by Taiyi Domain.
• Confusion watched Taiyi Domain’s ritual grind down a sleeping higher-level existence and decided to guide Yuan’s companions through trials to save him.
• Confusion sensed two Dao-wounded Dao Attainers near a dying world in the Chaos Sea: Xu and Chi, who were searching for the true god Xu had encountered.
• Xu admitted she had exaggerated her victory and said the true god had nearly defeated her before the world intervened; Chi demanded the full story.
• An ordinary-looking, mild-tempered man suddenly appeared before Xu and Chi, leaving both Dao Attainers on guard.

Confusion encountered Xu and Chi in the Chaos Sea, clashed wills with a distant Dao Attainer, and kept Xu after the unknown being took Chi away. Days later, Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed the potential threat while Hong Sovereign analyzed the rival’s Ritual Transcendence System.

• Confusion learned Xu and Chi’s language, identified himself as the Devil Ancestor, and drew a response from the distant Dao Attainer.
• The Dao Attainer seized Chi and said that the Dao Ancestor had once invited him, but he had refused; Confusion kept Xu, whose memories had been altered.
• Confusion questioned Xu about her race, while she remembered herself only as a wounded True God wandering the Chaos Sea.
• Bie Xuening released Yueling from her punishment, and Yueling ran off to find Jiuyu.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening considered precautions against the unknown Dao Attainer and discussed whether Xu Xing might need to intervene personally.
• Hong Sovereign concluded that the Ritual Transcendence System’s endpoint was a Dao Attainment Ritual and began sharing his deductions with the group.

Xu Xing discussed the innovative ritual supernatural system and the uncertainty surrounding Yuan with the other True Immortals, then explained its purpose to Bie Xuening. Meanwhile, Yueling confronted Chi Jiuyu over the Sword Spirit Cultivation Guide, beat her, and demanded a self-criticism before Chi Jiuyu tried to appease her with a rare game controller.

• Hong Sovereign, Tyrant Sovereign, and the others discussed their cultivation progress, the ritual system, and whether Yuan had left the Taiyi World.
• Xu Xing told the group to share Hong Sovereign’s collected rituals and their conclusions with the neighboring exchange group, then decided not to question Confusion about Yuan.
• Xu Xing explained to Bie Xuening that the ritual system had diverged greatly from the original cultivation system for a special purpose, while greater deviation did not necessarily make a system better.
• Yueling restrained herself from kicking in Chi Jiuyu’s door, entered her cave residence, and beat Chi Jiuyu and her Life-Bound Sword for the hardships caused by the Sword Spirit Cultivation Guide.
• Yueling took over Chi Jiuyu’s beanbag chair and demanded a five-thousand-word self-criticism, while Chi Jiuyu served her fruit and the Life-Bound Sword answered the door.
• Chi Jiuyu received a rare Supreme Immortal Path Ultimate Collector’s Edition Game Controller and explained its value to the angry Yueling.

Yueling obtained Chi Jiuyu’s game controller but was ordered by Bie Xuening to write a five-thousand-word self-criticism. Two days later, Xu arrived in the Great Profound Realm, where Xu Xing restored her memories and learned that she had been abandoned by the Supreme Existence.

• Yueling bought Chi Jiuyu’s controller for five times its price and had her self-criticism canceled, while they agreed to blame Bie Xuening as the Great Devil King.
• Bie Xuening caught Yueling with the controller and ordered her to write a five-thousand-word self-criticism by the next day.
• Confusion sent Xu through the Immortal Net to the Sword Sect, where she was confined in the Obscure Prison.
• Xu attacked Xu Xing, but he used the Sword Ancestor’s power to suppress her and sever the enchantment hiding her memories.
• Xu recovered her identity as Xu, Witness of the World’s End, and revealed through her thoughts that the Supreme Existence had abandoned her and taken Chi.
• Xu Xing said he already knew what he needed, though he still could not learn the world’s name or the unknown Dao Attainment’s true name.

Xu Xing kept Xu imprisoned while he considered how the Great Profound Realm should handle her, the first non-Ascender to arrive from another world. Xu offered to revive the worlds she had led toward destruction and accept any punishment except death.

• Xu Xing asked Xu what race she belonged to, but the Great Profound Realm neither rejected nor acknowledged her as human.
• Xu Xing said Xu would remain in Obscure Prison while he sought others' opinions and considered how to judge her actions.
• Xu offered to revive the worlds she had guided toward annihilation and restore their timelines to the moments before her interference.
• Xu agreed to accept punishment other than death, despite knowing that reviving the worlds would damage her own foundations.

Xu learned that the Nine Annihilation Lightning Secret Ritual Canon was a balanced true method with no negative effects, while Xu Xing considered how the Supreme Existence’s control over the ritual system kept it wounded. Days later, Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu received news about Yuan and a warning to be careful of Confusion.

• Xu gave Xu the Nine Annihilation Lightning Secret Ritual Canon to study, and she recognized its benefits and learned that the Supreme Existence’s condition affected the flaws in her ritual system.
• Du Ruoheng visited Xu in Obscure Prison, and she ignored him until he said he was the Sword Sect Master’s Founder Ancestor.
• Xu Xing reflected that the Supreme Existence’s grip on the ritual system conflicted with Xuan’s authority and prevented its Dao wounds from healing.
• Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu completed a Chaos Sea regional node test, then discussed their lack of news about Yuan.
• Ning Ruo and Xu Xing told Ming Yu and Ning Wanzhu that Confusion had captured a Truth Insight cultivator from another world, and Xu Xing warned them to be careful of Confusion.

Xu Xing learned that Yuan had been captured and gravely wounded in Taiyi World, then focused on upgrading the Taixuan Immortal Network. The upgrade introduced a World Directory and a system requiring worlds to report before ascending.

• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo read that Taiyi World had betrayed Yuan, imprisoned him for a ritual, and that Confusion had captured Xu while she tried to retrieve him.
• Xu Xing decided to wait for Confusion to return Yuan and Yinling before making plans, and Ning Ruo said she would accompany Xu Xing home once matters were settled.
• Xu Xing and Ning Ruo completed the Taixuan Immortal Network upgrade, then Xu Xing took Li Wanwan to the Sword Sect, where Du Ruoheng and Cheng Junming led her toward Obscure Prison.
• Xu Xing returned to the Sword Ancestor Hall and, with Bie Xuening, activated the upgraded network core.
• The upgrade added the World Directory, which assessed worlds’ alignments and enabled World Ascension reports, protection for lawful-aligned worlds, and evacuation of humans from failed chaotic-aligned worlds.

Li Wanwan questioned Xu in the Obscure Prison, where Xu cooperated and explained how the worlds she had doomed could be restored. Later, Chi Jiuyu asked Xu Xing to name her Life-Bound Sword, but Yueling’s suggestion of Wind Spirit was rejected by Bie Xuening.

• Du Ruoheng and Cheng Junming led Li Wanwan into the Obscure Prison, then watched her meeting with Xu through the Sect Master's token.
• Xu told Li Wanwan that she had guided worlds toward extinction for a ritual and that those worlds could be restarted if their timelines were repaired.
• Li Wanwan asked Xu about the two visitors before her, and Xu explained that she had initially disregarded them because of her past beliefs about differences in rank.
• Du Ruoheng later brought other Immortal Sect leaders and cultivators to question Xu, who answered them cooperatively but treated people differently according to their cultivation realms.
• Chi Jiuyu asked Xu Xing to name her Life-Bound Sword, and Yueling suggested Wind Spirit before Bie Xuening dismissed the name.

Xu Xing helped Chi Jiuyu name her Life-Bound Sword Yuelan, with Yuyi as its pet name, while Chi Jiuyu reluctantly gave up on calling it Life Sect. After the other sects’ Truth Insight cultivators visited Xu in Obscure Prison, their leaders gathered to discuss how to handle Xu and set rules for similar cases.

• Xu Xing rejected Chi Jiuyu’s suggestion to name her sword Life Sect and asked the sword for its opinion.
• Xu Xing proposed Yuyi and then Yuelan; Chi Jiuyu’s sword accepted Yuelan and kept Yuyi as a pet name.
• Chi Jiuyu told her companions the sword’s new name and gradually accepted it herself.
• The remaining Truth Insight cultivators arrived at the Sword Sect and visited Xu in Obscure Prison to learn what they wanted to know.
• The sect leaders and Truth Insight cultivators entered a special space Xu Xing had opened to discuss Xu’s situation and establish rules for future cases.
• Ji Yinxue prepared to attend for the Joyous Union Sect, but Charm Ancestor replaced her.

The Immortal Sects’ leaders debated the rules for the coming Era of Ascension while Xu Xing watched and the Immortal Net group chatted. In Taiyi Domain, Confusion altered the worlds’ ritual and sent a radiant object from the Abyss Ruins Realm into the domain, hoping Yuan would learn the cost of his innocence.

• The Charm Ancestor’s explanation established that Dao Lord Xianying had pioneered charm-cultivator livestreaming and replaced Ji Yinxue as the Joyous Union Sect’s representative.
• Xu Xing observed the Sect Masters and Truth Insights debate the new era’s rules, while the Ancestors discussed the talks and Yuan’s situation in their group chat.
• Xu Xing recalled that he had informed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu of Abyss’s location and left the outcome to them.
• Confusion altered the ritual surrounding Taiyi Domain, causing the worlds to shift and channel their World Light into the Abyss Ruins Realm.
• A dazzling point of light formed in the Abyss Ruins Realm and shot into Taiyi Domain as Confusion hoped Yuan would understand the price of his innocence.

A blue-violet light entered Taiyi World and appeared in Lofty Sky Heaven, where Yuan watched Yinling fade away, unaware that Confusion had staged the apparent loss to force him to confront his naivety. As Confusion moved his plan into a new stage, the wounded Dongming Holy Lord remained hidden in Hidden Departure Heaven, struggling to heal and fearing Kongji Holy Lord would defeat him.

• A blue-violet streak passed through the attacks of Taiyi World's Saint King-tier and Holy Lord-tier beings before vanishing just above the continent.
• The light reappeared in Lofty Sky Heaven, where the Lofty Sky Holy Lord fled after its awakening will briefly analyzed him.
• Yuan descended with Yinling in his arms, and she vanished as her spirituality and existence faded away.
• Confusion revealed that he had saved Yinling and staged the apparent loss to awaken Yuan, while Yinling suspected he was the True Immortal her master had mentioned.
• Taiyi World's high-level beings searched for the light, while the injured Dongming Holy Lord hid in Hidden Departure Heaven and worried that Kongji Holy Lord was wearing away his marks in the Abyss Ruins Realm.

The Dongming Holy Lord regained the Taiyi World's favor and resolved to lure out Yuan's escaped consciousness. Yuan recovered in Lofty Sky Heaven, where the Dongming Holy Lord confronted him and exploited his kindness to deter him from replacing the world.

• The Dongming Holy Lord reclaimed his identity as the Child of Destiny, healed his Dao wounds, and decided to target the outsiders to draw out Yuan's consciousness.
• Confusion revealed that he had restored the Dongming Holy Lord's status and memories to rebalance the conflict, while Yinling accepted the explanation from Taiyi World's Heavenly Will.
• Yuan gathered extraordinary power in Lofty Sky Heaven and resolved to recover what he had lost and bring Yinling back to life.
• The Dongming Holy Lord located Yuan with the world's aid, and Yuan accused Taiyi World's Heavenly Will of betrayal and threatened to replace the world.
• The Dongming Holy Lord warned that replacing Taiyi World would kill its inhabitants, then openly relied on Yuan's kindness to restrain him.

Yuan escaped the Dongming Holy Lord’s attempt to trap him in Lofty Sky Heaven, while Kongji Holy Lord learned how the Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will had betrayed Yuan and vowed to help save him. In Mingsi Holy City, Yuan secretly rescued spectators killed in the arena and planted a method designed to target the Heavenly Will.

• Yuan slipped out of Lofty Sky Heaven before the Dongming Holy Lord’s attack destroyed its mountain range, and Dongming eventually gave up after searching for him nine times.
• Kongji Holy Lord told Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu that she had refused the Taiyi Mandate because it conflicted with her principles.
• Ning Wanzhu explained Yuan’s history with the Taiyi World and its betrayal, and Kongji Holy Lord promised to help save him despite the cost to the world’s ascension.
• Yuan watched the brutal arena in Mingsi Holy City and recognized that the Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will had enabled the Child of Destiny to create the Chaos-Extracting Origin-Refining Truth-Seeking Ritual.
• Yuan restored spectators killed by the arena’s shockwaves, sent them away, and planted the Heaven-Deceiving Form-Substitution World-Seizing Method in their hearts.

Yuan spread the Heaven-Deceiving Form-Substitution World-Seizing Method while laying low, and Confusion secretly altered events to keep him from recklessly contaminating himself. Meanwhile, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu left Kongji Sacred Domain to investigate Lofty Sky Heaven, but Dongming Holy Lord ambushed them at the Kongji Ruins and projected the encounter across Taiyi World.

• Yuan’s method allowed native cultivators to become false bodies that could borrow the world’s foundation, while helping him reconnect with his sealed self and reclaim what he had lost.
• After a father lost a ritual duel to his son and was beheaded, Yuan used purple Bright Light to reach the spectators and the dead man, giving them a chance to change.
• Confusion watched Yuan from the sealed heights and secretly intervened to prevent the method from contaminating him; Yuan then traveled Taiyi Continent, planting more seeds while Dongming Holy Lord prepared to attack Kongji Sacred Domain.
• Kongji Holy Lord gave Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu prisms designed to break blockades, and the two left for Taiyi Continent to investigate Lofty Sky Heaven.
• At the Kongji Ruins, Ning Wanzhu sensed Dongming Holy Lord nearby and fled with Ming Yu, but he used Taiyi World’s power to suppress them and broadcast their situation across the world.
• As Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu prepared to use their prisms, they sensed a familiar gaze filled with surprise, incomprehension, and guilt.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu escaped the Kongji Ruins with Truth Insight power and reunited with Yuan in Taiyi World. After they explained how they had found him, Yuan learned that Yinling had sacrificed her remaining spirituality and considered how to reclaim what was his, while the two women refused to leave.

• Ning Wanzhu used the jade tablet's Truth Insight power to free herself and Ming Yu from the Taiyi Domain's restraints, and the two fled toward Yuan.
• The Dongming Holy Lord failed to track the women as the Kongji Holy Lord destroyed his rituals targeting the Kongji Sacred Domain.
• Yuan moved to the Void Ultimate Heaven, where Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu found him and explained that they had followed clues through the Taixuan Immortal Network.
• Yuan told the women that Yinling had burned away her remaining spirituality to protect his conscious will, and said he would restore her after reclaiming what belonged to him.
• Yuan asked whether they could summon help from the Righteous Alliance, but Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu explained that reinforcements would take too long to arrive.
• Yuan urged the two women to leave Taiyi World, but Ning Wanzhu said they were only incarnations and would suffer no harm if they perished.

Yuan parted from Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu after giving them protection from Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will, while Confusion continued manipulating their perceptions. As the Kongji Holy Lord confronted Dongming Holy Lord over Taiyi’s suffering, Ji Yinxue set out for Taiyi World, believing she could find an opportunity to comprehend Dao Extremity.

• Yuan split Ning Wanzhu’s remaining Truth Insight power between her and Ming Yu, shielding them from Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will for one month, then left Void Ultimate Heaven.
• Confusion watched Yuan depart and planned to introduce a small accident into the script he was controlling.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu taught the Heaven-Deceiving Form-Substitution World-Seizing Method to suitable people, including Kongji Holy Lord, who used it to confront Dongming Holy Lord in the Abyss Ruins Realm.
• Kongji Holy Lord accused Dongming Holy Lord and Taiyi’s Heavenly Will of abandoning those who aided the world and bringing calamity upon its people, but Dongming defended his belief that the world’s rise justified any price.
• Ji Yinxue told Xu Xing she sensed an opportunity to comprehend Dao Extremity in Taiyi World and showed him the Jade Talisman Senior Remorse had given her for the journey.
• Ji Yinxue left Sword Ancestor Hall for Taiyi World after exchanging messages with her master, who warned her to be careful around Confusion.

Xu Xing sent Ji Yinxue through the Immortal Net to the Taiyi World in search of an opportunity for Dao Extremity. After a turbulent two-hour journey across the Chaos Sea, Ji Yinxue arrived near the Second Xunyuan Realm, where Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu met her.

• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Ji Yinxue planned to seek Dao Extremity in the Taiyi World and decided not to send anyone to accompany her, trusting Confusion to help Yuan.
• Xu Xing used the Immortal Net and True Immortal power to send Ji Yinxue toward the Taiyi World, noting that Fellow Daoist Remorse had already given her a gift to help with the journey.
• Ji Yinxue departed from Ascension Hall at exactly eight o'clock, and Dao Lord Xianying arrived after she had left to avoid an awkward meeting.
• Ji Yinxue crossed the Chaos Sea in two standard hours and endured severe turbulence when the guidance program shut down near the Second Xunyuan Realm.
• Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu approached Ji Yinxue, who greeted them and explained that she had come in search of an opportunity for Dao Extremity.

Ji Yinxue headed for Taiyi World to seek an opportunity for Dao Extremity and promised to protect Yuan, while Yuan continued spreading his cultivation method in Efeng Holy City to build enough false bodies to sense his sealed true body. Confusion saw Ji Yinxue approaching and decided to abandon his carefully planned script and bring matters to a direct conclusion.

• Ji Yinxue cut off Ning Wanzhu’s explanation of Taiyi World and said she would learn about it herself, promising to ensure Yuan’s safety if she found him.
• Ji Yinxue gave Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu a golden Jade Talisman bearing Remorse’s martial will, then set off toward Taiyi World.
• Yuan observed a boy in Efeng Holy City begin Qi Refining and found that residents there took up his cultivation method more readily than people in chaos-aligned cities.
• Yuan counted 2,973 false bodies but failed to use them to sense his sealed true body, and he resolved to return to the Great Profound Realm with Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu before investigating unanswered questions.
• Confusion saw Ji Yinxue approaching Taiyi World and concluded that her arrival would disrupt his script for Yuan, so he decided to skip the buildup and bring it to a direct conclusion.

Confusion set events in motion to force Yuan to confront his helplessness, then returned the Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will and reflected on the danger facing it. In Taiyi Realm, Yuan told Sage Efeng how the world had betrayed him, but abruptly sensed something beyond their meeting space.

• Confusion spread unseen ripples through Taiyi World, ensuring Dongming Holy Lord would find Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu and force Yuan to intervene.
• Confusion seized the Taiyi World’s Heavenly Will from Yinling, then released it back into the world after warning that its growing sense of self could eventually challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• Confusion watched a martial immortal light approach the edge of the Taiyi Domain and hoped he had acted in time to protect the Heavenly Will.
• Yuan visited Sage Efeng in a hidden room in Efeng Holy City and asked him about the beam of light that had entered Taiyi World.
• Yuan told Sage Efeng that a foreign True God had sought to claim Taiyi World and that the world had betrayed Yuan while trying to refine him into its foundation.
• Yuan began to assure Sage Efeng that he would not punish the world’s inhabitants for its actions, then sensed something and looked beyond the space.

Dongming Holy Lord revealed Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu in Lush Heaven to draw out Yuan, while Kongji Holy Lord intervened and fought the ancient Saint Kings Dianling and Cuojiu. Yuan’s arrival slipped into Lush Heaven amid the battle, as Ji Yinxue broke the radiant barrier around the Taiyi Domain and advanced toward it.

• Dongming Holy Lord projected Lush Heaven across the heavens, and Yuan recognized Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu as his Dao companions before leaving Sage Efeng.
• Dongming Holy Lord sealed Lush Heaven and waited for Yuan, while the Lush Sacred King watched but did not interfere.
• Dongming Holy Lord intercepted a gray light near Lush Heaven, but Kongji Holy Lord appeared and attacked him, forcing him to summon Dianling and Cuojiu to stop her.
• Kongji Holy Lord fought Dianling and Cuojiu while a purple flash slipped into Lush Heaven and appeared beside Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu.
• Dongming Holy Lord spotted the purple flash and rushed toward Lush Heaven as Kongji Holy Lord warned the others to flee.
• Ji Yinxue shattered the radiant barrier around the Taiyi Domain with her fist and flew toward it, frightening the returning Heavenly Will.