Chapter Summaries

More than twenty years passed as the Mountain-Sea Realm expanded into a major cultivation ground linked to countless worlds, while Immortal reincarnations began their cultivation paths. In the Four Lands, old Demonic Path fiends watched over the Devil Master's Reincarnation, now known as Longevity.

• Cultivators discussed the spread of Immortal reincarnations and headed to the Mountain-Sea Illusion Realm to cultivate.
• The Mountain-Sea Realm grew across countless worlds, developing stars, Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Daoist Dojos, and cultivation sects connected through Dreamland.
• Cultivators shared opportunities on Floating Light and discussed earning Merit by killing Demonic Cultivators in the Mountain-Sea Realm.
• Old Demonic Path fiends gathered in the Four Lands and regarded the Devil Master's Reincarnation, who had taken the name Longevity.

Longevity and the old devils discussed the rising power of Li Beiyun and the destiny pattern of the future Human Emperor. In Bodhi Hall, Zhao An’s death was confirmed, while Ling Congzi survived; decades later in Dreamland, Xiang Qingshan and Chu Chengqing mourned Zhao An’s defeat.

• Longevity asked the old devils about the reincarnations of Primordial Immortals and whether he would face the Human Path variable fate; they said the powerful bearer of the Human Emperor destiny pattern had slain an enemy of immense strength.
• An old devil revealed that Li Beiyun had devoured the remaining Sons of the Human Emperor, and the devils recognized that his growth posed a major threat.
• A rebirth tablet shattered in Bodhi Hall, confirming Zhao An’s death despite his progress in Dreamland and his effort to conceal his fate.
• Bodhi Hall’s figures saw a powerful attack erased by Ling Congzi’s destiny pattern and resolved to focus on preserving their lineage rather than the Human Emperor’s Path.
• Decades later in Dreamland, Xiang Qingshan and Chu Chengqing reflected on Zhao An’s crushing defeat and death, then Chu Chengqing turned to another piece of intelligence.

Cultivators discussed why Dreamland had released a mission world near another cosmos and concluded that outsiders wanted its coordinates to find unclaimed worlds. They expected many newcomers to enter Dreamland, but did not know how its will—or the other cosmos—would respond.

• A mist-shrouded figure asked why Dreamland’s new mission world seemed strange, and others shared information about its location near another cosmos.
• The group said new outsiders would likely arrive through Dreamland because they lacked Dao Markers to reach its mission worlds directly.
• Several cultivators worried that newcomers might threaten Dreamland or try to seize worlds from it.
• The group reasoned that emerging factions wanted unclaimed worlds as foundations for cultivation, since the nearby Boundary Seas were already occupied.
• A voice suggested outsiders might target worlds in the other cosmos, and the gathering fell silent.
• The cultivators acknowledged that someone had been watching Dreamland as it grew, but they did not know the situation in the other cosmos.

Li Beiyun challenged Ye Kong, and their clash of Providence exposed a flaw in Ye Kong’s Dao Heart that threatened to pull him into a Mortal World Tribulation. The chapter left Ye Kong’s fate unresolved as observers weighed his chances and cultivators continued their work around the West Sea’s Ancient Demon Domain.

• Li Beiyun fought Ye Kong, causing black clouds of Providence Devouring to gather over the northwest.
• Observers revealed that Ye Kong had links to the Strange Gate Temple, the Seeking Dao Immortal Cauldron, and the Spirit Palace, but his Dao Heart had developed a flaw.
• The observers attributed Ye Kong’s Tribulation to his unbroken attachment to the Mortal World and estimated that he had a seventy percent chance of overcoming it.
• Cultivators continued using the West Sea Inheritance Grounds for training after the Supreme Treasure had accepted a master.
• Two cultivators at the West Sea maintained formation nodes intended to contain dangers from the Ancient Demon Domain.

An unknown silhouette crossed the River of Time through the Strange Gate and was drawn into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, strengthening its foundation. Meanwhile, Bifang discovered that the cosmos’s history and the corpse’s Cause and Effect did not align, and traced the discrepancy to the Longevity Banquet World.

• Two disciples discussed the Strange Gate as they prepared to make minor repairs to a Restriction in the West Sea.
• An illusory silhouette crossed the River of Time through the Strange Gate and sensed life in the cosmos.
• A gaze swept across Reincarnation and sent the silhouette into the Six Paths, where its foundation grew stronger.
• Bifang found that the three great powers had arisen after an upheaval dated ten thousand years ago, despite the corpse’s Cause and Effect spanning several eras.
• Bifang traced the Cause and Effect strand to the Longevity Banquet World and suspected that time had become misaligned.

Mission-takers who completed their treasure-delivery mission discovered an optional, extremely dangerous invitation to infiltrate the Longevity Banquet, while the Crown Prince and the Faceless one prepared for the midnight gathering. As the banquet drew near, the Emperor awoke on the dragon throne and declared himself the Person of Heavenly Mandate.

• Mission-takers who completed their main mission saw a new optional mission to infiltrate the Longevity Banquet, and most returned to Paradise while a few chose to stay.
• The Crown Prince learned from the Faceless one that the treasure had entered the Capital City and the Longevity Banquet would begin at midnight, when the Crown Prince planned to take the throne.
• Mission-takers discussed disguising themselves as palace staff and speculated that the banquet might involve a dream or another dimension.
• An inner-court eunuch announced the banquet to the Emperor, whose pounding heartbeat caused the attendant to burst apart.
• The Emperor declared himself the Person of Heavenly Mandate as palace servants cleaned up the remains.

The Crown Prince launched a rebellion and confronted the emperor, while the Faceless man sensed an ominous power surrounding the old ruler. The emperor called for Longevity to descend, leaving the threat behind his calm words unrevealed.

• Land Immortals and members of an Aristocratic Clan watched the palace as the Crown Prince’s rebellion began.
• The Crown Prince entered the throne hall and told the emperor he was old, but the emperor remained unmoved.
• The Faceless man sensed something wrong despite the Crown Prince’s powerful Land Immortal allies and retreated from the hall.
• The emperor asked whether the Crown Prince had brought everyone, then declared that it was time for Longevity to descend.

The Longevity Banquet began hours before midnight, trapping the Imperial Capital’s guests and revealing a corpse-tree whose fruits were the heads of the dead. As the guests’ cries for longevity fed the corpse’s ascent, Bifang concluded it had come from the future and considered what lay beyond the Immortal Ascension Realm.

• The Longevity Banquet began unexpectedly early, and people across the Imperial Capital found themselves bound to seats at its tables.
• The Old Emperor appeared, while guests realized the Longevity Tree was the enormous corpse hanging overhead, its blood-red fruits each a dead person’s head.
• The Old Emperor and the other guests shouted for longevity and Immortal Ascension, sending a crimson tide of thought into the corpse and causing more fruits to appear.
• Bifang examined fragments of Cause and Effect and concluded the corpse had come from the future and had once reached the Immortal Ascension Realm.
• Bifang considered Transcendence beyond the Immortal Ascension Realm and decided to draw out another fragment of Cause and Effect.

Bifang realized that the corpse spanning the universe belonged to the future of the Nine Heavens and that it could help him gather more Cause and Effect. Meanwhile, Sea-Crossing Envoys prepared to leave the Crimson Planet after finding no qualified recruits, as hidden mission takers watched them and discussed missing guild members.

• Bifang concluded that the corpse belonged to the future and that his Providence could still influence it, giving him a chance to draw in another fragment of Cause and Effect.
• Bifang considered how the Golden Finger had become Infinite Paradise in this universe and suspected that traces of ancient immortals might remain.
• Two Sea-Crossing Envoys found that the Sea-Crossing Detection Gate had identified no qualified candidates and decided to wait one more day before leaving.
• Hidden mission takers watched the Sea-Crossing Envoys and speculated that they had come to recruit new envoys.
• The mission takers discussed people who had vanished after taking follow-up quests in a mission world tied to the Longevity Banquet.

Wan Yunhua infiltrated Sea-Crossing as a Paradise mission taker, while a thread of Cause and Effect gave Bifang coordinates within Sea-Crossing. Mysterious beings discussed Sea-Crossing, Heaven-Crossing, and Dimension Heaven’s search for survival as recruits continued arriving at Sea-Crossing’s Heavenly Palace.

• Wan Yunhua emerged as the only recruit from his planet and accepted the Sea-Crossing Envoys’ offer to return for a formal assessment.
• Wan Yunhua realized Paradise had given him an optional mission to join Sea-Crossing and planned to gather intelligence for mission points.
• Wan Yunhua studied the other recruits aboard the palace, while a thread of Cause and Effect extended from him and gave Bifang coordinates within Sea-Crossing.
• Fu Louluo and two mysterious voices discussed the great powers’ search for a future of survival and the danger of drawing closer to it.
• A Sea-Crossing Envoy reported recruiting nineteen people from a world suffering an Abyssal distortion near the Return Ruins.
• A scarlet glow spread across a remote stretch of stars as Sea-Crossing Envoys arrived at the Heavenly Palace.

Over a century, Infinite Paradise expanded while the three established powers failed to identify the unfamiliar mission takers. Their representatives agreed to use the upcoming Heavenly God Ritual and the indispensable Heavenly God's Gift to influence the newcomers, with the story ending as the Heavenly God Festival was announced for seven days later.

• Infinite Paradise developed rapidly over a century, while unfamiliar people appeared across territories controlled by the three powers.
• Representatives of Sea-Crossing, Heaven-Crossing, and Dimension Heaven met to discuss their failure to find the newcomers and blamed one another.
• The Dimension Heaven representative said the Supreme One had divined a great tide of fate and proposed setting certain strands of fate in motion.
• The Dimension Heaven representative pointed out that the newcomers would need the Heavenly God's Gift to become the fourth power, and the others agreed to divide it into three equal shares.
• Seven days later, the Heavenly Palace was set to hold the Heavenly God Festival, where official Sea-Crossing Envoys would receive the Heavenly God's Gift.

Fang Yunhua gathered intelligence about the Heavenly God Festival, while Bifang considered its possible connection to the uncanny corpse above Azure Heaven. As the festival approached, mysterious figures watched for interference, and the news caused a faint shift in the future’s heavenly mysteries.

• Fang Yunhua heard about the Heavenly God Festival and wondered what the Heavenly God was, hoping to learn valuable information for Paradise.
• Bifang examined the Cause and Effect threads connecting mission-takers to Infinite Paradise and reflected on the corpse above Azure Heaven and its possible connection to the festival.
• A senior Sea-Crossing disciple explained that Sea-Crossing, Heaven-Crossing, and Dimension Heaven jointly held the festival to honor the ancient Heavenly God who had opened the cosmos.
• Fang Yunhua collected replies from Sea-Crossing Envoys and learned that the festival was a familiar routine of worship, with no known Envoy ever receiving the Heavenly God's Gift.
• Mysterious figures discussed the approaching festival, noted that no anomalies had appeared, and dismissed potential observers as harmless so long as they did not interfere with their lord's affairs.
• The figures dispersed, while the festival's news caused a faint shift in future heavenly mysteries that went largely unnoticed amid the changing Providence of the Great Era.

Lu Qing’s avatars learned from Bifang that a corpse of an ascended immortal lay ahead in another cosmos, revealing a new possibility beyond Nine Heavens. As the original approached a critical point in his cultivation, the discovery promised to alter Nine Heavens’ heavenly secrets and intensify changes in the ancient era’s Providence.

• The Red Dust Avatar considered the surviving corpse of an ascended immortal and recognized that the news could change the futures foreseen in Nine Heavens.
• At the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, Lu Qing’s avatar observed the fierce competition among young disciples blessed with Providence, Destiny Patterns, and varied aptitudes.
• Lu Qing’s avatar received Bifang’s news that the answer missing from Nine Heavens lay hidden in another cosmos.
• Lu Qing’s avatar sensed that the discovery would affect Nine Heavens’ Providence and drive further changes in the ancient era’s variable fate.

A newly emerged tributary of heavenly secrets revealed a sliver of hope in a possible future, drawing the attention of Dao Lords across time. They searched the Nine Heavens and debated whether the source lay in the Ancient Era, Reincarnation, the Outer Void, or another cosmos, but found no answer.

• The Dao Lords recognized that a rare strand of future heavenly secrets had appeared far earlier than their deductions had predicted.
• The new vision of hope stirred countless gazes, and the Dao Lords began searching the Nine Heavens for what had caused it.
• The Heavenly Net Chessboard showed no change beyond the known Era of Great Contention and its variables.
• The Dao Lords considered whether upheavals in the long river of time or Reincarnation had produced the strand, then dismissed both as unlikely.
• The Dao Lords turned to the Abyss and the cosmos beyond the Primordial Era as possible sources of the future variable.

Dao Lords debated how to hasten the arrival of a heavenly secret future as Lu Qing’s avatar observed the heavens’ gazes press down on providence. The pressure transformed the providence of many Heavenly Prodigies, intensifying the world’s rising fortunes.

• The Dao Lords discussed keeping watch for the heavenly secret and disagreed over whether to suppress other possible futures.
• Lu Qing’s avatar sensed that a heavenly secret thread had appeared and that a road was beginning to emerge ahead of the Great Dao.
• The gazes from above pressed down on the providence of the Heavenly Prodigies, causing it to transform and rise to a higher level.
• A black-robed youth and a scarlet-robed youth sensed the terrifying gazes, while others noticed their providence had changed.
• The transformed providence and the prodigies’ ambitions caused providence throughout the world to burn more fiercely.

A century after the Mountains and Seas Illusory Realm appeared, ancient figures discussed the Human Emperor’s foretold attainment of the Dao and the rise of Human Path prodigies. The chapter left the expanding Mountains and Seas Cultivation World bustling with cultivators debating exploration and the arrival of worlds from another cosmic expanse.

• A blindfolded old man and a figure beside him discussed Ling Congzi’s changed providence, Li Beiyun’s strength, and the Human Emperor’s destiny.
• The two figures considered the Human Emperor’s foretold attainment of the Dao and wondered whether variable fate could alter that future.
• A century passed as prodigies rose, Dao Lords turned their attention toward a distant cosmic expanse, and the mortal world grew more lively.
• Cultivators gathered in the fantastical Mountains and Seas Cultivation World, where floating light carried animated conversations about the Human Emperor, Earth Continent exploration, and providence-blessed natives.
• Cultivators discussed unfamiliar worlds appearing beyond the Nine Heavens and learned that they came from another cosmic expanse and might be assimilated into their own.

Cultivators discussed the worlds contested by Nine Heavens and the cosmic expanse, then turned to a newly discovered realm holding traces of supreme divine-power immortals. As a crimson-robed cultivator watched the realm, a vast dharma manifestation tore through its mist and entered.

• Cultivators said major sects were seeking to reclaim worlds from the cosmic expanse for their resources.
• They discussed Dreamland's origins and a newly appeared realm containing traces of primordial immortals.
• Cultivators explained that the realm held energy flows from several supreme divine-power immortals and might contain ancient cultivation grounds.
• Sects and unaffiliated cultivators prepared to seek opportunities in the realm, which was only half a day from Nine Heavens by grand formation.
• A crimson-robed cultivator watched the realm as a sky-filling dharma manifestation sped into it.

Chu Chengqing entered a realm filled with dangerous Beyond-the-World Dojos and found that powerful native cultivators were watching the newcomers without hostility. The natives hoped the visitors would deal with the dojos’ ominous forces, which had caused recurring calamities for millennia.

• A crimson-robed cultivator recognized Divine Medicine Mountain, Heaven Mountain Dao, and Heavenly Human Path among the sects arriving to investigate the dojos.
• Chu Chengqing found himself in a starry buffer zone full of spatial rifts and illusory figures shaped by the Mira Great Dao.
• Chu Chengqing cast the Turtle Shell and used its net to disperse the illusory figures blocking the way.
• Native cultivators discussed how the Beyond-the-World Dojos had brought cultivation to their realm but had also unleashed fiends, ghosts, and recurring disasters.
• Chu Chengqing sensed that the realm’s powerful natives were not hostile, then began performing another divination.

Chu Chengqing learned that recurring calamities had scarred the realm and that nine Greatly Ominous Lands remained sealed, then set out to find an unnamed object in a beyond-the-world dojo. Elsewhere, three cultivators used a Heavenly Court Token to bypass the realm's protections and approach the ancient dojos.

• Chu Chengqing learned that repeated calamities had devastated the realm and left its cultivators vulnerable to demonhood and collapsing Dao Hearts.
• Chu Chengqing learned that undying ghost creatures had once ravaged the realm before a Celestial Master sealed them away, and he counted nine sealed Greatly Ominous Lands.
• Chu Chengqing discovered that Dreamland had assigned him to retrieve an unnamed object from a beyond-the-world dojo, then continued along a road leading toward the mountains.
• A white-haired young man checked his jade slip map as a shrewd-looking cultivator identified the realm as a possible fragment of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• The shrewd-looking cultivator urged his companions to enter the dojos quickly, explaining that their Heavenly Court Token let them bypass the outer protections.

Three cultivators entered a Daoist dojo tied to the Ancient Heavenly Court, while Chu Chengqing and other sect leaders uncovered the ruins’ origins and weighed the dangers and value of the inheritances. The chapter left multiple factions gathering outside the dojos as they prepared to pursue their own inheritances and destinies.

• Three cultivators confirmed their destination, detected a damaged Celestial Stars formation, and entered the dojo under the protection of their shared command token.
• The three discovered a palace-like dojo in the valley and identified it as belonging to the Fire Division of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Chu Chengqing divined that the gathered sect dojos were connected to the Ancient Heavenly Court and stayed outside to prepare safeguards.
• Master Gongyang told the Heavenly Human Path and Heaven Mountain Dao that they could not enter alone and warned of strange dangers within the inheritances.
• Two immortals discussed how the dojos might help them resist assimilation and escape the constraints of their fates.