Recaps

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.

News spread that a region was the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court, drawing cultivators eager to explore it and stirring speculation about its dangers. Lu Qing sensed its possible connection to a terrifying corpse as he continued walking through the River of Time, where ages passed in a blink.

• Floating Light spread news that a region contained the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court and that Beyond-the-World Dojos had emerged there.
• Cultivators across the Nine Heavens discussed the ruins, their ominous forces, and the possibility that a Great Immortal might appear.
• Lu Qing's Red Dust Avatar sensed surging energy and growing Red Dust Qi in the Immortal City as cultivators prepared to seek treasure.
• Lu Qing suspected the region was connected to the terrifying corpse in a distant cosmic expanse.
• Lu Qing walked along the River of Time as ten thousand years flowed past him, protected by a faint layer of Spirit Light.

Lu Qing completed his spiritual heart and saw the path to immortal ascension, becoming the first true variable to open a new road toward transcendence. His breakthrough sent ripples through the River of Time, awakening hope and recognition across countless worlds and eras.

• Lu Qing reflected on his cultivation along the Path of Seeking the Dao and recognized that his complete spiritual heart left only transcendence through the Great Dao to pursue.
• Lu Qing saw the Great Dao as a boundless tree of worlds and stepped onto the path to immortal ascension.
• Lu Qing's breakthrough stirred wisdom and visions of the Dao in a mayfly and a monkey who found the.
• Profound Cloudflower True Scripture.
• Five ancient figures and other mighty cultivators across time sensed that someone had attained the Dao and ascended to immortality.
• The Desolate Serpent recognized Lu Qing as a unique variable who had opened a new path toward longevity.

The Desolate Serpent watched the present age’s new Variable Fate break down the divisions between Fixed Fate and Variable Fate, as well as life, death, and reincarnation. A white-haired God-Man appeared in the ancient tomblike Daoist Dojo and admitted that they had failed.

• The Desolate Serpent observed the present age’s lively contest between Variable Fate and Fixed Fate and saw that the chessboard’s Mortal Realm had changed.
• The Desolate Serpent realized that a road beyond the chessboard’s predictions had appeared and that the ancient powers had lost the game again.
• The Desolate Serpent closed its eyes as the countless shattered worlds returned to dust and the new Variable Fate dissolved the divisions between fate, life, death, and reincarnation.
• A white-haired God-Man appeared in the silent Daoist Dojo and stared toward the present age before saying, “We failed.”

Lu Qing broke through to the Immortal Ascension Realm and saw a future powerhouse’s corpse in another Cosmic Expanse. He spoke with the corpse’s lingering thought, which revealed that a failed attempt to attain the Dao had sent him into the past and destroyed his Great Dao before the thought faded away.

• The ancient Great Immortals beside the River of Time sensed that the path of Transcendence had appeared as Tribulation Qi eroded their existence.
• Lu Qing ascended to the Immortal Ascension Realm and saw the Great Dao, Cause and Effect, and the ages in a new way.
• Lu Qing entered another Cosmic Expanse and focused on the corpse of an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator from the future.
• Bifang sensed the change brought by Lu Qing’s breakthrough and turned his attention to Infinite Paradise’s next stage.
• Lu Qing saw the corpse’s true form as a High-Crowned Man and learned that time had reversed when he attained the Dao, causing his Great Dao to crumble.
• The High-Crowned Man said he was only a lingering thought and faded away.

Lu Qing learned why the Azure Heaven corpse had caused disaster and agreed to remove it from the Cosmic Expanse, receiving a Jade-Green Sky Pearl in return. He examined a possible future in which Yuan Zhen died upon attaining the Immortal Ascension Realm, but concluded that this was only one Heavenly Secret Future and need not become the Nine Heavens’ fate.

• The tall-crowned figure asked Lu Qing to take his true body's corpse away from the Cosmic Expanse, and left him a Jade-Green Sky Pearl as payment.
• Lu Qing understood that the corpse's entangled contents had worsened the Primordial Cataclysm and decided to remove it before the Cosmic Expanse merged with the Nine Heavens.
• Lu Qing examined a possible future and saw Yuan Zhen join Mount Qingcheng, attain the Dao, and die when a powerful enemy and uncanny Providence obstructed him.
• Lu Qing traced the future's Cause and Effect across five million years and saw white light appear on the path from the Immortal Ascension Realm toward Transcendence.
• Lu Qing judged Yuan Zhen's fate to be only one possible future and believed the present Dao Lords could reach the Immortal Ascension Realm themselves.

Lu Qing’s ascension to transcendence shook beings across time and the cosmic expanse, revealing hope for the cultivation path. Dao Lords named him Unity Dao Venerable for opening the way, while an awakened old man wondered whether his ancient friends might still be saved.

• Figures in the Primordial Era recognized Lu Qing’s overwhelming attainment and decided to visit the Nine Heavens to learn from the new path.
• Experts across the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Eras sensed the unprecedented future and began making plans to reach the era of variables.
• Dao Lords sensed the Unity and Samsara Dao Lord’s immortal ascension and were shocked that it had happened in fewer than a thousand years.
• A Dao Lord proposed honoring Lu Qing as Dao Venerable for opening the path, and thoughts across the worlds spread the name Unity Dao Venerable.
• An awakened old man accepted that the new era offered hope and sent his divine sense toward certain Return Ruins, hoping his old friends had not undergone Dao-assimilation.

Lu Qing traced Calamity Avoidance to his future self and glimpsed his path beyond Transcendence, then returned to the Nine Heavens as the Profound Heaven Dao Sect recognized him as the Unity Dao Venerable. His true presence remained too vast to descend into the Nine Heavens, while his avatars continued to represent him there.

• Lu Qing erased the ominous corpse and aura from the Cosmic Expanse, then contemplated Transcendence and the Other Shore as his scattered thoughts weathered tribulations across countless worlds.
• Lu Qing recognized the golden light of Calamity Avoidance as a message sent by his future self and glimpsed that future self departing amid endless Dao light.
• After returning to the Nine Heavens, Lu Qing found that his connection to the world had grown faint and that his true body could not descend without colliding with it.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Sect's Chiefs acknowledged that Lu Qing had reached Transcendence, and Fu Huazi proclaimed that the sect would honor him as Unity Dao Venerable.
• Those beside the Heavenly Net Chessboard cupped their hands toward the Profound Heaven Dao Sect in recognition of Lu Qing's achievement.

Lu Qing’s ascension as a Dao Venerable reshaped the grand trends and the futures visible to cultivators across the world. He then watched a former senior brother die after entering the mortal world and begin a new life through reincarnation.

• Humanity-Dao White Marsh sensed that Lu Qing’s appearance as a Dao Venerable had restored something fundamental to heaven and earth and changed the futures it had foreseen.
• Humanity-Dao White Marsh and others felt relief that this generation’s Human Emperor was not competing with Lu Qing, whose past had become impossible to investigate.
• Lu Qing looked down into the mortal world and manifested the youthful figure he had worn when he first came to the Dao Sect.
• Lu Qing watched his former Senior Brother Wang smile and congratulate him before the senior brother’s aura withered and a newborn Great Dao appeared.
• Lu Qing understood that Senior Brother Wang had entered the mortal world and reincarnation, then inscribed three names on his gravestone.

Lu Qing encountered the White-Robed Daoist, an image left behind by his past self, in the Dream Immortal's dojo within the remnant of the Ancient Heavenly Court. As the White-Robed Daoist faded away after asking about the Thunder Dragon, the sects of the Nine Heavens sent disciples to seek the dojo.

• The Great Dream Immortal Sect calmly decided to send its new disciples to the Dream Immortal Ancestor's dojo, judging it unlikely to hold great dangers.
• Heavenly Brow Mountain also ordered people to search for the dojo rather than resist the greater tide.
• True Person Chen realized the Ancient Era's descent had been fixed after someone became a Dao Venerable, and recognized the old fossils of the Great Dream Immortal Sect had planned wisely.
• An Ancient Heavenly Court Command Token awakened a white-robed image in the dojo, who recognized Lu Qing as a fellow seeker of the Path of Transcendence.
• The White-Robed Daoist asked whether Senior Thunder Dragon was well, heard that he was, and then scattered like the wind.

The Divine Firmament guardian reflected on the Ancient Era while Infinite Paradise continued expanding through the Cosmic Expanse and Azure Heaven. As the three great powers struggled to contain it, defectors and new recruits helped the Paradise extend its reach.

• The Divine Firmament guardian remembered the White-robed Daoist and accepted that the Ancient Era and its old acquaintances would not return.
• Cultivators from another Cosmic Expanse arrived in the Earth Realm as time passed swiftly in the Cosmic Expanse and Azure Heaven.
• Infinite Paradise sank roots into the Cosmic Expanse, and the three great powers struggled to stop its expansion.
• Sea-Crossing figures discussed the higher-ups’ order not to provoke Infinite Paradise and considered joining it instead.
• Paradise Apostles registered for missions as defectors from the three powers left worlds open for the Paradise to claim.
• A Mission Taker explained that the Paradise was recruiting Reserve Apostles to enter those worlds and expand its influence.