Recaps

Bifang watched the Mountain-Sea Realm spread while Dreamland and Infinite Paradise drew cultivators into new opportunities and dangerous missions. The arc ended with a silhouette crossing through the Strange Gate as Bifang traced the corpse’s Cause and Effect to the Longevity Banquet World and suspected time had become misaligned.

• Xiang Qingshan gained the Palm Moon-Viewing Method and inherited a Cause and Effect that required him to guide someone into the Dao, while Chen Huan refined Providence and learned he must protect the Ghost Path genius through a Tribulation.
• Ghost Mountain vanished during the Night of Ageless Longevity, taking cultivators and their Great Dao figures into the coffin, while the Devil Master's surviving vitality entered another cosmos and the Second Cultivation Realm began to emerge.
• The Mountain-Sea Realm descended across Nine Heavens and beyond, offering cultivators a protected place to practice, while Huang Wuxuan took the First Divine Sword and clashed with Li Beiyun over providence.
• Bifang followed the Golden Finger into another cosmos, where it bound itself to Shangguan Yang, then watched mission-takers enter Infinite Paradise's Station Murder Case and an escort mission carrying treasure toward Capital City.
• The mission-takers refused the robed man's offer of wealth and eternal life, fought his forces, and reached the Longevity Banquet as the Crown Prince and the Faceless Man maneuvered around the palace's Immortals.
• Li Beiyun devoured the remaining Sons of the Human Emperor, Zhao An died despite his Dreamland cultivation, and Bodhi Hall's figures chose to preserve their lineage rather than pursue the Human Emperor's Path.
• Cultivators in Dreamland feared outsiders might seize worlds in another cosmos, while Li Beiyun fought Ye Kong and observers linked Ye Kong's Tribulation to his attachment to the Mortal World.
• A silhouette crossed the River of Time through the Strange Gate and entered the Six Paths, while Bifang traced the corpse's Cause and Effect to the Longevity Banquet World and suspected time had become misaligned.

The Longevity Banquet revealed a future immortal’s corpse and set changes in motion across the Nine Heavens. Lu Qing attained the Dao, opened a path toward Transcendence, and became Unity Dao Venerable, while Infinite Paradise expanded into the Cosmic Expanse.

• At the Longevity Banquet, the Old Emperor and his guests called for longevity beneath a corpse whose bloody fruits were dead heads, while Bifang traced the corpse to the future.
• Sea-Crossing recruited Wan Yunhua and prepared the Heavenly God Festival as the three great powers debated how to respond to newcomers and shifting fate.
• Lu Qing’s avatar learned from Bifang that the missing answer to Nine Heavens lay in another cosmos, prompting the Dao Lords to seek the source of a new strand of future secrets.
• Cultivators entered the Beyond-the-World Dojos, where Chu Chengqing investigated calamities and sects found inheritances linked to the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Lu Qing traversed the River of Time and attained the Immortal Ascension Realm, then met the High-Crowned Man’s lingering thought and agreed to remove his corpse from the Cosmic Expanse.
• Lu Qing erased the corpse and its ominous aura, reached Transcendence, and was honored by the Profound Heaven Dao Sect and the worlds as Unity Dao Venerable.
• Lu Qing watched Senior Brother Wang enter reincarnation and inscribed three names on his gravestone, while an image in an Ancient Heavenly Court dojo recognized him as a fellow seeker of Transcendence.
• Infinite Paradise rooted itself in the Cosmic Expanse as the three great powers struggled to contain it, and Paradise Apostles recruited Reserve Apostles to claim worlds left open by defectors.