Countless years later, Qin Wuyou broke through the Great Emperor realm and ascended to the Immortal Realm.
The Immortal Realm arc was both a side story and a new beginning.
The Eastern Radiance Immortal Realm.
Heavenly Moon City.
Qin Wuyou awoke from a daze.
As he looked at his unfamiliar surroundings, a wave of dizziness struck him, and countless jumbled memories flooded his mind.
He had clearly reached the pinnacle of the Great Emperor realm and, after enduring countless hardships, finally ascended to the Immortal Realm.
Yet an accident had occurred during his ascension, sweeping him into spacetime turbulence.
When he awoke again, he was already in this unfamiliar place.
"Did I... fail to ascend?"
A trace of regret lingered in Qin Wuyou's eyes.
He had thought ascending to the Immortal Realm would mark the beginning of happiness. He had never expected to end up in such a state.
Now, all his cultivation was gone. He lay in bed like a cripple, struggling even to move.
Over the following days, Qin Wuyou drifted between sleep and wakefulness.
During his bouts of unconsciousness, he learned from the unfamiliar people coming and going that this really was the Immortal Realm.
In other words, he had indeed ascended to the Immortal Realm.
It was only the accident during his ascension that had reduced him to his current crippled state.
The many treasures he had refined in the Lower Realm, even his immortal artifacts, had all been lost when he was swept into spacetime turbulence.
His cultivation had also been completely exhausted resisting the spacetime turbulence.
Over those several dozen days, Qin Wuyou tried practicing his various former cultivation techniques, but none of those Lower Realm techniques would work here.
Fortunately, the Nameless Immortal Art still worked.
Only after several dozen days, when