Recaps

Xu Changxing’s simulation ended with the returning Daluo Immortal Venerables forcing him to flee with the Tianyan Sect, regardless of how he handled the stalemate. He considered ways to break the deadlock and suspected the Eye of the Great Dao might hold the key.

• Xu Changxing paused the simulation and ordered himself not to attack flaws in the Myriad Immortals Formation, then resumed its calculations.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self evaded the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s formation and continued luring them out, but they withdrew without exposing a weakness.
• When a Daluo Golden Immortal returned in Year 5,300, Xu Changxing’s simulated self attained the Dao of Daluo and fought him.
• More Daluo Immortal Venerables returned, forcing Xu Changxing’s simulated self to flee into the endless void with the Tianyan Sect.
• Xu Changxing rejected relying on the Tianyan Sect’s Supreme Elders and considered attaining the Dao outside the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao, before turning his attention to the Eye of the Great Dao.
• The simulation ended and offered Xu Changxing a choice between viewing its scenes and receiving one Great Dao crystal.

Xu Changxing chose a Great Dao Crystal and realized it might help him explore the Eye of the Great Dao and find what Wuyou Immortal Venerable left there. He decided to confront the Myriad Immortals Alliance, while Daoist Wuchen proposed waiting for the Alliance to reveal an opening and asked whether Xu Changxing could kill a Half-Step Immortal Venerable alone.

• Xu Changxing chose the Great Dao Crystal, whose law fluctuations resembled the Laws Storm in the Eye of the Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing concluded that studying the crystal might weaken the Laws Storm and help him find Wuyou Immortal Venerable's legacy with Jiang Yao's help.
• After Immortal Lord Muling returned to the Tianyan Sect, Xu Changxing declared that the sect should strike the Myriad Immortals Alliance decisively.
• Xu Changxing sealed the surrounding Great Dao and assigned Daoist Wuchen to plan how to lure the Alliance into a trap.
• Daoist Wuchen proposed waiting until the Alliance probed the sect and asked whether Xu Changxing could slay a Half-Step Immortal Venerable without a grand formation.

Xu Changxing and Daoist Wuchen agreed on a risky plan to use a dispute with the Myriad Immortals Alliance to confront Immortal Lord Zihao, while the Tianyan Sect prepared in secret. After the Alliance provoked a trade fair incident and seized two Tianyan Sect Golden Immortals, Xu Changxing led the elders through a Space Rift to act.

• Daoist Wuchen said his divination showed that killing a Half-Step Immortal Venerable within thirty breaths was the path that extended farthest, and Xu Changxing approved the plan.
• Xu Changxing entered seclusion while Daoist Wuchen arranged for the Tianyan Sect to reorganize its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation over the following months.
• At Immortal Lord Zihao's instruction, Myriad Immortals Alliance Golden Immortals provoked a dispute at a Trade Fair and subdued two Tianyan Sect Golden Immortals.
• Daoist Wuchen predicted that Immortal Lord Zihao would be nearby to intercept a Tianyan Sect Supreme Elder seeking the captives, while Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu would stay away to avoid suspicion.
• Xu Changxing tore open space and led the Tianyan Sect elders through a Space Rift.

Xu Changxing broke into the Small World to confront Immortal Lord Zihao, who had been testing the Tianyan Sect. As the Myriad Immortals Alliance leaders rushed to aid Zihao, Immortal Lord Muling blocked them from reaching the battlefield.

• Xu Changxing shattered the Small World's seal and entrance, then entered to face Immortal Lord Zihao.
• Immortal Lord Zihao unleashed a laws storm and challenged Xu Changxing to fight him alongside Immortal Lord Muling.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu sensed the Immortal Realm's Underlying Great Dao being stirred and went to support Zihao.
• Immortal Lord Muling revealed that Xu Changxing was fighting Zihao alone and told Lanyu and Jiuxu to stay out of it.
• Lanyu and Jiuxu sensed a terrifying surge of law fluctuations and hurried to save Zihao, but Muling blocked their way.

Xu Changxing killed Immortal Lord Zihao in thirteen breaths, leaving Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu trapped with him and Immortal Lord Muling. Muling realized Xu Changxing may have deliberately lured the two reinforcements into a plan to kill all three Half-Step Immortal Venerables.

• Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu attacked Immortal Lord Muling, who struggled to hold them off while keeping them from aiding Zihao.
• The Destruction Storm dissipated after thirteen breaths, revealing that Xu Changxing had killed Immortal Lord Zihao.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu realized Xu Changxing had sealed the surrounding space and they could not escape.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu accused the Tianyan Sect of hiding Xu Changxing’s strength to trap the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s leaders.
• Immortal Lord Muling recalled that Xu Changxing had slain Zihao in only three breaths after Lanyu and Jiuxu arrived, and suspected he had deliberately lured them there.

Xu Changxing forced the Myriad Immortals Alliance to accept responsibility for the conflict and negotiate peace after he killed Immortal Lord Zihao. The Alliance's leaders returned home furious but doubted they could defeat Xu Changxing, even with their Immortal Formation.

• Xu Changxing blamed the Myriad Immortals Alliance for provoking the fight and left the choice of an early Final Tribulation to them.
• High Person Sanshou condemned the Alliance for its past persecution of the Tianyan Sect and demanded that its leaders either die or publicly confess their actions.
• After High Person Sanshou berated them, Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu signed a new Peace Treaty and swore not to avenge Immortal Lord Zihao.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu returned to their headquarters and considered gathering the Alliance's Immortal Monarchs to attack the Tianyan Sect.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu questioned whether the Alliance could challenge Xu Changxing with a flawed Myriad Immortals Formation now that Immortal Lord Zihao was dead.

Xu Changxing secretly overheard Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu decide against advancing the Final Tribulation, preserving the balance he had carefully created. He planned to visit the Eye of the Great Dao to seek a way to survive the coming tribulation, and Daoist Wuchen asked whether he had been there before.

• Immortal Lord Jiuxu persuaded Immortal Lord Lanyu not to bring the Final Tribulation forward, and the two vowed to settle their score with Xu Changxing after it descended.
• Xu Changxing revealed that he had used the Tianyan Pearl's aura to eavesdrop on the two Immortal Lords and had deliberately concealed his full strength to prevent an all-out war.
• High Person Sanshou argued that Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu should have been killed, while Daoist Wuchen explained that doing so could prompt the Myriad Immortals Alliance to hasten the Final Tribulation.
• Xu Changxing told Daoist Wuchen and High Person Sanshou that he planned to visit the Eye of the Great Dao to look for a way to survive the Final Tribulation.
• Daoist Wuchen asked Xu Changxing whether he had entered the Eye of the Great Dao before.

Xu Changxing learned that Daoist Wuchen had recovered records linking the Eye of the Great Dao to Tianyan Sect, then fortified the sect before returning to the Bottom of the Abyss. There, Li Changge asked him to address the immortals’ growing dissatisfaction with the isolated Grotto-Heaven.

• Daoist Wuchen told Xu Changxing that the former Tianyan Sect Master had left records about the Eye of the Great Dao and that his memories had only just returned.
• Xu Changxing considered whether the recovered memories signaled that the Final Tribulation was approaching, but Daoist Wuchen recalled nothing else.
• Xu Changxing spent several decades strengthening Tianyan Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and secured an escape route under Immortal Lord Muling’s control.
• Xu Changxing traveled to the Bottom of the Abyss, where he noticed that the Grotto-Heaven’s Great Dao had grown more lively as several Heavenly Immortals attained their Dao.
• Li Changge explained that the immortals wanted to bring people from the Immortal Realm to the Grotto-Heaven, but Xu Changxing’s order to keep its existence secret had left them isolated and dissatisfied.

Xu Changxing brought mortal cultivators and immortal disciples into the Grotto-Heaven, where their arrival further stabilized its Great Dao. After Jiang Yao stabilized her cultivation, she joined Xu Changxing in the Eye of the Great Dao to investigate Wuyou Immortal Venerable’s traces, and they set out to find where he had ascended.

• Xu Changxing agreed to recruit mortal cultivators for the Grotto-Heaven while Li Changge gathered the auras of the immortals’ disciples.
• Over several decades, Xu Changxing brought disciples and tens of thousands of cultivators into the Grotto-Heaven, where the immortals took the most talented as disciples and he assigned Spirit Beasts to protect the mortal sects.
• Xu Changxing found that the arrival of mortal cultivators made the Grotto-Heaven’s Great Dao more stable and strengthened his suspicion that the Tianyan Pearl’s simulations were distorted.
• After Jiang Yao finished stabilizing her cultivation, Xu Changxing took her through the Eye of the Great Dao into its entrance Small World.
• At the Yangshan Sect, Jiang Yao sensed Wuyou Immortal Venerable’s aura but found that it conflicted with her past-life memory that he had already left the Eye of the Great Dao.
• Jiang Yao sensed the vague direction of Wuyou’s aura, and Xu Changxing said he could use it to find the place where Wuyou had ascended.

Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao crossed the chaotic void to reach Wuyou, then spent years consolidating the gains from their journey. After finding Wuyou and deciding to wait for his crucial memories to awaken, Xu Changxing asked Jiang Yao to watch over the place while he returned to the void to comprehend the Dao.

• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl and his Space-Time Great Dao to guide Jiang Yao through the chaotic void as she sensed Wuyou's direction.
• They emerged into a new world, where the perilous crossing had improved Jiang Yao's cultivation and Xu Changxing's mastery of the Space-Time Great Dao.
• After several years of seclusion, Jiang Yao advanced two Minor Realms and Xu Changxing reached the bottleneck of attaining Daluo.
• Xu Changxing located Wuyou cultivating on a mountain, and Jiang Yao said his aura resembled the Wuyou Immortal Venerable from her past-life memories but still seemed different.
• Xu Changxing decided to wait for Wuyou's crucial memories to awaken and asked Jiang Yao to guard the place while he returned to the void to comprehend the Dao.

Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao followed the Tianyan Pearl through the Void and found Wuyou Immortal Venerable’s Daoist Field. There, Wuyou revealed that the young disciple Xu Changxing had once met in the Yangshan Sect was both himself and not himself, while the Wuyou who ascended had been his incarnation.

• Wuyou rapidly advanced to the peak of Tribulation Transcendence, passed his tribulation, and ascended after his true essence transformed into immortal essence.
• Xu Changxing asked Jiang Yao whether Wuyou’s ascension had resembled the Immortal Venerable’s power, then delayed pursuing him while he handled the Tianyan Pearl for forty-nine days.
• Xu Changxing followed the Tianyan Pearl with Jiang Yao into the Void, taking a route that led away from the location she sensed.
• Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao reached Wuyou Immortal Venerable’s Daoist Field, where Jiang Yao recognized her former master and greeted him.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable recognized Jiang Yao and told her that meeting Xu Changxing had been her good fortune.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable told Xu Changxing that he had built the Small World to resemble his early cultivation days and that the Wuyou who ascended was his incarnation.

Xu Changxing learned from Wuyou Immortal Venerable that Tianyuan Immortal Venerable had died after fleeing into the Eye of the Great Dao. Wuyou revealed that he had emerged from the Eye in a time before the Final Tribulation, where Tianyuan was still alive and called the reversal destiny.

• Wuyou Immortal Venerable told Xu Changxing that he had watched Xu and Jiang Yao enter the Eye of the Great Dao and was surprised when they found him.
• Xu Changxing explained that the Tianyan Pearl had guided him to Wuyou after he learned of Wuyou's connection to the Tianyan Sect.
• Wuyou revealed that Tianyuan Immortal Venerable had died within the shattered Great Dao after fleeing an encirclement and entering the Eye.
• Xu Changxing questioned how Tianyuan could have died after the Final Tribulation when accounts of Wuyou's deeds circulated before it.
• Wuyou said he had emerged from the Eye of the Great Dao in a time before the Final Tribulation, found Tianyuan alive, and heard him call the reversal destiny.

Xu Changxing learned from Wuyou Immortal Venerable that Tianyuan’s Space-Time reversal had only delayed the Final Tribulation, while a hidden backup of the Immortal Realm’s laws could reshape its Great Dao. Wuyou gave Xu Changxing an Immortal Jade containing a projection of those laws, and his ability to withstand it gave Wuyou hope that they might survive the coming tribulation.

• Wuyou Immortal Venerable explained that Tianyuan had likely used his Great Dao to trigger the Space-Time reversal, which could only delay the Final Tribulation.
• Xu Changxing asked about the Eye of the Great Dao, and Wuyou revealed that it contained a backup of the Immortal Realm’s laws called the Gate of Samsara.
• Wuyou explained that the backup could reshape the Immortal Realm’s laws but could not by itself eliminate the Final Tribulation, and that Tianyuan’s vanished measure had once returned Wuyou to the past.
• Wuyou admitted he had exhausted his methods but said the place could still help Xu Changxing, then gave him an Immortal Jade containing a projection of the Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing briefly perceived the intricate laws in the jade before cutting off the connection, and Wuyou praised his steady Divine Soul and said survival might be possible with him there.

Xu Changxing learned that the Immortal Jade held laws copied from the Gate of Samsara, and Wuyou Immortal Venerable urged him to enter it to seek answers. Jiang Yao chose to accompany him in hopes of recovering her past-life memories, and they arrived at the Gate together.

• Xu Changxing questioned Wuyou Immortal Venerable about the Immortal Jade and learned it could help sense the Gate of Samsara’s laws.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable told Xu Changxing to enter the Gate, explaining that he might be able to reverse space-time and face the coming Final Tribulation.
• Xu Changxing agreed to enter the Gate and offered to send Jiang Yao back to the Immortal Realm for her safety.
• Jiang Yao asked whether the Gate could restore her past-life memories, and Wuyou Immortal Venerable warned that it might also affect her current memories.
• Jiang Yao chose to accompany Xu Changxing, and the two walked to the Gate of Samsara.

Xu Changxing used the Great Dao Crystal to discern the laws within the Gate of Samsara and entered it with Jiang Yao. As they advanced, Jiang Yao’s past-life memories returned and her cultivation rose, while Xu Changxing noticed a crack after questioning why Wuyou Immortal Venerable had not comprehended the Gate’s laws.

• The Tianyan Pearl and ten thousand Origin Crystals revealed some of the Gate of Samsara’s laws, but Xu Changxing could not decipher them fully.
• Xu Changxing brought out the Great Dao Crystal, which resonated with the Gate’s laws and helped him discover that they concealed the Immortal Realm’s underlying laws.
• Xu Changxing saw images of Wuyou Immortal Venerable and Jiang Yao’s past within the Gate, then entered with Jiang Yao despite Wuyou’s doubts about their safety.
• Xu Changxing used the Great Dao Crystal to advance through the chaotic laws and shield Jiang Yao as her lost memories returned and her cultivation rose to Middle Taiyi.
• Xu Changxing wondered why Wuyou Immortal Venerable had not comprehended the laws within the Gate, and a faint crack sounded as his body trembled.

Xu Changxing’s Great Dao Crystal shattered inside the Gate of Samsara, forcing him to risk attaining the Dao of Daluo amid the Laws Storm. He escaped into the Immortal Realm, where the presence of Tianyuan Immortal Venerable and the Tianyan Sect’s elders suggested he had traveled through time and space.

• Xu Changxing saw that the Great Dao Crystal was cracking, and it shattered before he and Jiang Yao could reach the exit.
• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl and his Origin Crystals to shield himself and Jiang Yao, then stopped to attempt attaining the Dao of Daluo.
• As the Tianyan Pearl’s protection failed, Xu Changxing’s Great Dao burst forth and extended out of the Gate of Samsara.
• Xu Changxing discovered that Jiang Yao had transformed into the Star River Pendant, took it, and escaped the Gate of Samsara along his Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing emerged into the Immortal Realm and sensed Daluo auras, including those of Tianyuan Immortal Venerable and Tianyan Sect elders who did not recognize him.

Xu Changxing encountered Tianyuan after traveling back to before the Final Tribulation, and Tianyuan recognized his connection to a future supreme treasure. As the Final Tribulation struck early, Tianyuan gave Xu Changxing a scroll painting, and Xu Changxing escaped through the Gate of Samsara.

• Xu Changxing realized the Tianyan Pearl had vanished into a Void Storm before he attained the Daluo realm.
• Tianyuan arrived and greeted Xu Changxing as if they were old acquaintances, but Xu Changxing said they had never met.
• Tianyuan asked Xu Changxing to help refine a supreme treasure and explained that their Threads of Destiny were intertwined.
• The Great Dao began collapsing as the Final Tribulation descended ahead of time, and distant voices blamed Tianyuan.
• Tianyuan gave Xu Changxing a scroll painting and said he could return to his own space-time; Xu Changxing retreated through the Gate of Samsara.

Xu Changxing used Tianyuan Immortal Venerable’s painting to navigate the Gate of Samsara, recover the Tianyan Pearl, and deepen his understanding of the Great Dao before leading Jiang Yao out. Wuyou Immortal Venerable waited outside, wondering whether Xu Changxing had tried to attain Daluo within the Gate.

• Xu Changxing discovered that Tianyuan Immortal Venerable’s painting clarified the chaotic laws and helped him conserve and replenish his magical power.
• Jiang Yao transformed back into her familiar appearance and thanked Xu Changxing for protecting her.
• Xu Changxing returned to the place where he had lost the Tianyan Pearl and recovered it from a Laws Storm.
• Xu Changxing studied the Gate’s fused laws with the painting’s help and stabilized his Daluo realm.
• Xu Changxing decided not to risk further exploration and led Jiang Yao out of the Gate of Samsara.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable waited outside and wondered whether Xu Changxing had attempted to attain Daluo within the Gate.

Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao returned through the Gate of Samsara, and Wuyou Immortal Venerable learned that Xu Changxing had become a Daluo Immortal Venerable. Their discussion linked Xu Changxing’s strange journey to the Final Tribulation and the Heavenly Dao Painting, but left its true cause unresolved.

• Wuyou Immortal Venerable tried and failed to divine what had happened to Xu Changxing, then saw Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao emerge from the Gate of Samsara.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable recognized that Xu Changxing had attained Daluo Immortal Venerable cultivation and asked about his journey.
• Xu Changxing asked whether Wuyou Immortal Venerable had caused the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao to collapse when he traveled back through the Gate of Samsara.
• Xu Changxing showed Wuyou Immortal Venerable memories of his journey, and Wuyou said his own return had only damaged his cultivation and did not affect the Immortal Realm.
• Wuyou identified Tianyuan’s gift to Xu Changxing as the Heavenly Dao Painting, a Dao Ancestor’s magic treasure depicting the world’s laws.
• Wuyou suggested the Final Tribulation Xu Changxing encountered might have been backlash from Tianyuan’s plans, which were likely connected to Xu Changxing.

After attaining Daluo and obtaining the Heavenly Dao Painting, Xu Changxing prepared to return to the Immortal Realm while Jiang Yao recovered her past-life memories and cultivation. He used the painting to conceal his realm, leaving his return as the next step.

• Xu Changxing and Wuyou Immortal Venerable discussed traveling backward through the Gate of Samsara, and Wuyou said the attempt had nearly collapsed his Great Dao.
• Jiang Yao told Xu Changxing she had recovered two lifetimes of memories and integrated her former cultivation, then thanked him for protecting her.
• Xu Changxing told Wuyou Immortal Venerable he would return to the Immortal Realm immediately, and he left the Small World with Jiang Yao.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable wondered why Xu Changxing had not recovered his former memories after obtaining the Heavenly Dao Painting.
• Xu Changxing brought Jiang Yao through the Void Storm to a secluded mountain, where she entered seclusion and he studied the Heavenly Dao Painting.
• Several months later, Xu Changxing used the Heavenly Dao Painting to conceal his cultivation until his aura resembled what it had been before his breakthrough.

Xu Changxing concealed his Daluo cultivation and heavenly secrets before returning to the Immortal Realm with Jiang Yao. At the Bottom of the Abyss, he surveyed the growing settlements and their Spirit Beast-based cultivation system, then went to Li Changge, where Jiang Yao was recounting their journey.

• Xu Changxing used the Heavenly Dao Painting and Tianyan Pearl to conceal his cultivation and obscure heavenly secrets.
• Jiang Yao chose to delay attaining Daluo until the Final Tribulation, and agreed to return to the Immortal Realm with Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing and Jiang Yao passed through the Eye of the Great Dao's barrier without drawing a reaction from the Immortal Realm's Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing sent Jiang Yao to the Bottom of the Abyss and discovered its population had grown to several hundred thousand and developed a Spirit Beast-based cultivation system.
• Xu Changxing examined the system's strengths and limits, surveyed the Grotto-Heaven's changes, and then went to Li Changge, where Jiang Yao was recounting their experiences.

Xu Changxing returned from the grotto-heaven and proposed involving the Tianyan Sect in its expansion, then restored Daoist Wuchen’s erased memories of the Dao Ancestor’s inheritance. Daoist Wuchen sensed that Xu Changxing’s power had opened a way to resolve the crisis he had foreseen and asked whether Xu Changxing had reached a realm capable of breaking the deadlock.

• Li Changge and Xu Changxing agreed to expand the grotto-heaven and bring in the Tianyan Sect’s immortals.
• Xu Changxing returned to the Tianyan Sect and found Daoist Wuchen divining an important event.
• Daoist Wuchen recognized that Xu Changxing’s aura had changed, and Xu Changxing restored his memories of the Dao Ancestor’s inheritance.
• Xu Changxing told Daoist Wuchen that he planned to use the Tianyan Sect’s strength to sustain the grotto-heaven’s expansion.
• Daoist Wuchen divined that the crisis he had foreseen now had a way to be resolved and asked if Xu Changxing had reached a realm that could break the deadlock.

Xu Changxing decided to relocate the Tianyan Sect to his Grotto-Heaven as a refuge from the Final Tribulation, and the sect’s elders agreed. After the sect departed, the Myriad Immortals Alliance discovered that it had found a path of retreat.

• Xu Changxing proposed moving the Tianyan Sect to his Grotto-Heaven, and Daoist Wuchen agreed after divining that the future was unclear.
• Xu Changxing assured the elders that their Dao foundations could be preserved and that his Grotto-Heaven could withstand attacks from the Immortal Realm unless a Daluo appeared.
• The Tianyan Sect’s senior leaders agreed to relocate, and its disciples spent several months preparing and dismantling the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
• Xu Changxing opened a passage through space, and the Tianyan Sect left its world for the Grotto-Heaven.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu divined that the Tianyan Sect had found a path of retreat, and Immortal Lord Jiuxu confirmed that the sect had secretly prepared to move to a Small World unaffected by the Immortal Realm’s laws.

Immortal Lord Lanyu and Immortal Lord Jiuxu plotted to use Innate Spirit Treasures against the Tianyan Sect, while Xu Changxing and Daoist Wuchen investigated the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s plans. Their deductions suggested the Alliance had prepared two hidden treasures, though their identities remained uncertain.

• Immortal Lord Jiuxu persuaded Immortal Lord Lanyu to seek Innate Spirit Treasures from awakened Daluo Immortal Venerables to counter Xu Changxing and the Tianyan Sect.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance spread news of the Tianyan Sect’s relocation throughout the Immortal Realm, prompting speculation among the immortals.
• Xu Changxing asked Daoist Wuchen what the Alliance was planning, and Daoist Wuchen explained how the Order Pearl could sanction the sect if the Immortal Realm’s people condemned it.
• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl to help Daoist Wuchen make deductions about the Alliance’s preparations.
• Daoist Wuchen concluded that the Alliance had likely prepared two more Innate Spirit Treasures, chosen from five possibilities: the Immortal-Dropping Banner, God-Slaying Sword, Cloud-Binding Rope, Cloudglow Serenity Jade Vase, and Immortal-Binding Cord.

Xu Changxing learned the powers of five Innate Spirit Treasures and prepared for a possible Myriad Immortals Alliance attack while planning to expand his grotto-heaven. He left Daoist Wuchen to organize the expansion and enforce rules protecting the realm’s native cultivators and spirit beasts, and the work began over the following years.

• Daoist Wuchen explained the powers of the Immortal-Dropping Banner, God-Slaying Sword, Cloud-Binding Rope, Cloudglow Serenity Jade Vase, and Immortal-Binding Cord to Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing considered which trump card to reveal if the Myriad Immortals Alliance attacked, while deciding that an early Final Tribulation would be the worst outcome.
• Xu Changxing ordered Daoist Wuchen to prepare basic defenses and devote the Tianyan Sect’s remaining forces to expanding the grotto-heaven, assuring him that he could repel an attack alone.
• Xu Changxing instructed Daoist Wuchen to forbid Tianyan Sect disciples from bullying local cultivators or provoking native spirit beasts, and Daoist Wuchen promised to add the rules and hold assemblies.
• Over the next few years, the grotto-heaven absorbed tracts of dark-red land, and Tianyan Sect cultivators worked to assimilate the new territory.