Recaps

Ji Wan relived her ninth-life Human Immortal Tribulation, which began with her and Ye Chenfeng ascending to the Immortal Realm and being assigned sect missions. After Ye Chenfeng spent nine years completing his mission, Ji Wan realized the illusion was reproducing events exactly as they had happened and wondered whether it could reveal the future.

• Ji Wan cut short her reminiscence with Xuanyin Wanshuang after her memories turned to her ninth-life Human Immortal Tribulation.
• Within the tribulation, Ji Wan and Ye Chenfeng ascended together and registered as subjects of the Four Extremes Immortal Sect.
• The sect assigned them missions to complete every ten years, and Ye Chenfeng promised to handle both while Ji Wan cultivated.
• Ji Wan chose to accompany Ye Chenfeng, and they set out to complete their missions together.
• In the ninth year after ascending, Ye Chenfeng finally killed an Evil Dao True Immortal but had no time left to complete Ji Wan's mission.
• Ji Wan recognized that the illusion matched their past exactly and wondered if its events could help her predict the future.

Ji Wan treated the illusion as real, cultivated alongside Ye Chenfeng, and advanced with him through the immortal ranks while they endured centuries of punishing sect missions. After they both became heavenly immortals, the sect ordered them to explore a ruins secret realm.

• Ji Wan encouraged Ye Chenfeng to keep cultivating, and they advanced together from true immortals to human immortals.
• The Four Extremes Immortal Sect assigned them difficult missions far apart, forcing them to work separately and struggle under heavy taxes.
• Across hundreds and thousands of years, Ji Wan and Ye Chenfeng completed missions and advanced through the human and earth immortal ranks to heavenly immortals.
• When they reunited with years of hardship and distance between them, a sect decree ordered the newly promoted heavenly immortal officials Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan to explore a ruins secret realm in three days.

After breaking through to Heavenly Immortal, Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan were sent by the Four Extremes Sect to investigate an ancient secret realm. Years of fruitless searching deepened Ji Wan’s despair over her lack of freedom, but the two broken statues suddenly stirred, and she sensed a great opportunity within them.

• Ye Chenfeng wanted to challenge the sect’s new mission, but Ji Wan persuaded him that arguing would only bring punishment.
• Ji Wan led Ye Chenfeng to the sect teleportation formation, and they entered an ancient secret realm alongside other Heavenly Immortals.
• Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan explored the ruined wasteland for several years without finding clues, while Ji Wan grew more resentful of the life imposed on her.
• The two broken statues began to shake, and Ji Wan saw light flicker in their eyes and urged Ye Chenfeng toward the opportunity inside.

Ji Wan recalled how she obtained the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect’s inheritance in her Human Immortal Tribulation and later found the same inheritance in reality. The memory ended with Ye Chenfeng reaching for the spirit fruit first, while Ji Wan watched in alarm.

• In her Human Immortal Tribulation, Ji Wan touched a spirit fruit in a statue and received the Lord Arbiter of Cause and Effect’s inheritance, rapidly advancing to Fourth-Turn Heavenly Immortal.
• Ji Wan hid her chance to overcome the tribulation so she could observe her possible future, then ended the illusion and became a Human Immortal.
• In reality, Ji Wan followed the remembered events and found the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect’s inheritance with Ye Chenfeng in the secret realm.
• Ji Wan recalled that reality differed from the illusion because Ye Chenfeng, not she, reached for the spirit fruit first.

Ji Wan relived the betrayal that had won her the Great Emperor’s inheritance, then ordered the Jade Balance Immortal Court to convene an Imperial Discourse in one hundred years. Nearly three centuries after Lu Li returned, Great Xia had evolved into a vast interstellar civilization, and teenager Zhang Xiaoman began connecting his new Spirit Machinery Bracelet to the Virtual Universe.

• Ji Wan recalled killing Ye Chenfeng to seize the Great Emperor’s inheritance, and Ye Chenfeng’s immortal soul accused her of betrayal.
• Ji Wan ordered the Jade Balance Immortal Court to take control of teleportation arrays along the route and convene the Imperial Discourse in one hundred years.
• Nearly three centuries after Lu Li returned from the Immortal Realm, Great Xia underwent another evolution and spread across the stars.
• Zhang Xiaoman brought home a commemorative holographic login Spirit Machinery Bracelet and learned that his mother was working overtime at a community spirit plant greenhouse.
• Zhang Xiaoman activated the bracelet, which verified his identity and began loading the Virtual Universe’s Great Xia backbone network.

Zhang Xiaoman logged into the Virtual Universe, where killing a demon beast fed pure Spiritual Power back into his real body and helped him cultivate. As billions of users connected across the Great Xia Dao Court, Lu Li realized the Virtual Universe had surpassed ordinary Immortal Treasures and considered expanding it into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.

• Zhang Xiaoman logged into the Virtual Universe and discovered its forty-five-percent Spiritual Qi feedback rate.
• Zhang Xiaoman killed a Bone-Spiked Wild Boar, and the Virtual Universe sent Spiritual Power into his physical body through his bracelet.
• Zhang Xiaoman saw that the cultivation boost could help him reach the Qi Refining Fifth Layer before his next monthly exam and went searching for more prey.
• Billions of users across Great Xia connected to the Virtual Universe, sending data streams and Divine Soul thoughts into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.
• Lu Li concluded that the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe had surpassed ordinary Immortal Treasures and considered installing login devices in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.

Lu Li planned to expand the Virtual Universe into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land by disguising its terminals as ancient Heavenly Dao fragments, while keeping the two populations separate. As he broke through to Second-Turn Earth Immortal, he used the upheaval in his Blessed Land to stage the Great Void Immortal Realm’s descent and distribute the fragments.

• Lu Li realized the Virtual Universe could grow by connecting the Blessed Land’s trillions of inhabitants, but decided to present it as a primordial secret realm and initially isolate it from Great Xia’s virtual space.
• Falling Firmament absorbed more of Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable’s demon core, flooding Lu Li with immortal essence and raising his cultivation to Second-Turn Earth Immortal.
• Lu Li’s breakthrough transformed the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land, causing mountains to rise, spiritual rain to fall, and its inhabitants to fear an impending catastrophe.
• Lu Li channeled his power into the silver cube and scattered its refined light across the Blessed Land as bronze-and-silver fragments.
• A voice announced that the Great Void Immortal Realm had descended and that anyone who obtained a Heavenly Dao fragment could enter it with a drop of blood.

A starving beggar named A Jiu found a bronze Heavenly Dao Token and used his blood to enter the Great Void Immortal Realm. He awoke at the Great Void Dao Sect, where a deacon welcomed him and prepared to give him a new name.

• A Jiu found a bronze ring that had fallen from the sky and hid it from the people searching for the scattered treasures.
• A Jiu pressed his blood onto the ring, bound his Divine Soul to it, and was transported into the Great Void Immortal Realm.
• A Jiu woke on the jade steps before the Great Void Dao Sect and saw its floating immortal mountains.
• A middle-aged deacon welcomed A Jiu as someone destined for the sect and asked him to help save the lost Great Void Immortal Realm.
• The deacon said A Jiu should take on a new appearance and began to give him a new name.

A Jiu received a name, robes, and a cultivation quest in the Great Void Immortal Realm, while Zhao Qian confirmed that rewards from the realm could strengthen people in the real world. The discovery ignited a scramble across the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land, and True Immortal Luo Wuchen wondered whether an ancient Immortal Realm could let him advance further.

• The middle-aged steward gave A Jiu outer-disciple robes, cultivation slips, and a quest to kill five Spirit-Devouring Rats in the rear mountain.
• A Jiu felt his strength return, thanked the steward, and hurried toward the spiritual fields to begin the quest.
• Zhao Qian tested a bronze ring, entered the Great Void Immortal Realm, and returned with innate Geng Metal Qi that loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Qingxuanzi ordered the Azure Profound Sword Sect to gather every Heavenly Dao Bracelet and kill anyone who concealed one or obstructed the search.
• Demon kings and the merfolk empress mobilized their followers to seek the bracelets as hundreds of millions of thoughts entered the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe.
• Luo Wuchen examined a bronze bracelet and questioned whether the ancient Great Void Immortal Realm could allow True Immortals to advance further.

Lu Li punished the powerful factions in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land for trying to seize the Heavenly Dao Bracelets and announced that they could help restore the fallen Great Void Immortal Realm. Luo Wuchen recognized the truth behind his blocked path to ascension, put on his bracelet, and entered the Virtual Universe to help reclaim the Great Void.

• Lu Li saw that sects, dynasties, demon kings, and the Sea Race were trying to confiscate the bracelets, and he resolved to intervene.
• Lu Li’s heavenly punishment forced Qingxuanzi, the demon kings, and the merfolk empress to withdraw and leave the bracelets with their recipients.
• Lu Li told the blessed land’s inhabitants that they could appeal to heaven against oppression and revealed that the bracelets would guide them in restoring the fallen Great Void Immortal Realm.
• A Jiu and countless other mortals learned that the bracelets were bound to them and could offer a path to immortality.
• Luo Wuchen realized the Immortal Realm had collapsed rather than the path to immortality being severed, then put on his bracelet and entered the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe.

Luo Wuchen bound his Divine Soul to the Great Void Immortal Realm and entered its Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven remnant domain, where he accepted a mission to cleanse it of filth devils. After he joined Lu Dahai and Elder Jian in the fight, Lu Li sensed that Luo Wuchen’s battles were strengthening the Virtual Universe and wondered whether the Great Void Immortal Realm might one day truly appear.

• Luo Wuchen bound his Divine Soul to the bronze bracelet and was received into the Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven remnant domain as a True Immortal from the Dragon-Rising Realm.
• Luo Wuchen examined the shattered Immortal Realm and read the Heavenly Dao mission to exterminate filth devils and cleanse the domain.
• Lu Dahai and Elder Jian arrived at the plaza, recognized Luo Wuchen as a True Immortal, and wondered where he had come from.
• Luo Wuchen accepted the mission to exterminate the Realm-Eroding Devil Lair in the Chaotic Star Sea and declared he would fight alongside the other immortals.
• Luo Wuchen flew into a void rift to battle the devils, while Lu Dahai and Elder Jian learned from Lu Li who he was.
• Lu Li sensed that Luo Wuchen’s battles were expanding the Virtual Universe and considered that the Great Void Immortal Realm might one day appear.

Lu Li observed how Luo Wuchen’s True Immortal presence strengthened the Virtual Universe, but realized he needed more powerful minds to expand it further. He remembered Crimson Crow’s long transformation and discovered the beast was finally awakening.

• Lu Li saw Luo Wuchen’s True Immortal power and the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land’s inhabitants reinforce the Virtual Universe, but concluded that the realm’s resources were insufficient for greater growth.
• Lu Li considered distributing login bracelets throughout Imprisoned Dragon Heaven, then recognized that the Spirit Network could not yet reach it.
• Lu Li remembered that Crimson Crow had been refining Golden Crow True Nature for three hundred years and sensed its immense power while it slept in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land’s starry sea.
• Crimson Crow’s surrounding meteors ignited, its old feathers turned to ash, and new golden-red divine feathers emerged as its body solidified.
• Lu Li sensed Crimson Crow’s dormant will awaken and realized that the beast was waking up.

Crimson Crow entered its Human Immortal Tribulation, but mistook the realistic illusion for a rebirth in the lower realm after failing to refine the Golden Crow True Nature. As it abandoned its ambitions and lamented that it would never see Lu Li again, Lu Li’s figure appeared before it.

• Crimson Crow broke through to the Human Immortal realm and began its tribulation as Lu Li watched through his divine sense.
• In the illusion, Crimson Crow believed it had died and returned to its past life in the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range.
• Crimson Crow celebrated its supposed rebirth and vowed to rise again, defeat its enemies, and make Lu Li its human pet.
• Crimson Crow reconsidered its ambitions, deciding to remain in the lower realm and live peacefully rather than ascend again.
• Crimson Crow lamented that it had wasted Lu Li’s Golden Crow True Nature, then saw a blue-robed figure and assumed it was hallucinating its master from longing.

Crimson Crow realized its Human Immortal Tribulation had exposed its disrespectful thoughts about Lu Li, then improvised an emotional display of loyalty to save face. After the tribulation ended, the Golden Crow True Nature pushed Crimson Crow through several breakthroughs to Half-Step Earth Immortal, though it regretted not having a blessed land foundation to reach Earth Immortal.

• Crimson Crow realized it had been undergoing the Human Immortal Tribulation and feared Lu Li had witnessed its thoughts about making him a human pet.
• As the illusion collapsed, Crimson Crow pretended its earlier words had been a test of its loyalty and tearfully swore devotion to Lu Li.
• Lu Li called out Crimson Crow's act and repeated its remarks about making him catch spirit insects.
• Crimson Crow's cultivation erupted after the tribulation, advancing through Ninth-Turn Human Immortal and reaching Half-Step Earth Immortal.
• Crimson Crow lamented that it might have reached Earth Immortal if Lu Li had prepared a blessed land foundation for it.

Crimson Crow awakened its Golden Crow bloodline and demonstrated its formidable strength, but Lu Li defeated it after a three-day test. Just as Lu Li returned to secluded cultivation, Bureau 749 reported an urgent problem that even True Immortal Dahai and Immortal Official Ye could not resolve.

• Crimson Crow told Lu Li that refining the Golden Crow True Nature had awakened its Golden Crow bloodline and Solar Divine Fire, making it a powerful Ninth-Turn Human Immortal.
• Lu Li asked Crimson Crow to demonstrate its strength and tested it against a Dharma body with one percent of his combat strength.
• After three days of fighting, Crimson Crow emerged exhausted, and Lu Li praised it for forcing his Dharma body to move.
• Lu Li told Bureau 749 about Crimson Crow and instructed it to take Great Xia's assignments.
• As Lu Li prepared to resume cultivating, a Bureau 749 staff member reported a problem that True Immortal Dahai and Immortal Official Ye could not handle.

Lu Li went to investigate a missing Great Xia outpost and discovered that ripples from the River of Time had engulfed Great Desolation Heaven. A Jade Balance Immortal Court lord announced a ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, and Lu Li realized the event had been aimed at him.

• Lu Li learned that a Great Xia forward base had vanished with its star and traveled to its location, where Ye Chenfeng and the others awaited him.
• Ye Chenfeng identified the strange spatial ripples as traces of the River of Time and explained that they could alter the passage of time.
• The ripples expanded rapidly, so Lu Li gathered his companions into his Blessed Land and tried to escape, but they followed him across Great Desolation Heaven.
• Lord Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan announced that the entire realm would enter the River of Time for a ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, with rewards for those who earned the most merit.
• After the River of Time enveloped Great Desolation Heaven and its Heavenly Dao was suppressed, Lu Li realized the Imperial Discourse had been aimed at him.

The Immortal Courts entered Great Desolation Heaven to search for ancient ruins and compete in the ten-thousand-year Imperial Discourse, while Di Yunxi urged Jade Capital not to harm the world's mortal natives. After entering, Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and others sensed their Master's presence.

• Crown Prince Shiyuan, Chen Yuan, ordered the Netherworld Demon Court to seize ruins’ fortunes and show no mercy to anyone who obstructed them.
• Chiyuan Blood Son, Chi Changsheng, sent the Blood Court into Great Desolation Heaven, while Shen Wuya led the Heaven-Reaching Golden Court in after them.
• Di Yaoguang questioned the other courts’ reckless approach, and Di Tianshu told Jade Capital to seek ruins without acting recklessly.
• Di Yunxi ordered Jade Capital’s sects not to slaughter Great Desolation’s mortal natives without cause, and Di Tianshu encouraged them to defend themselves if other courts attacked.
• The Immortal Courts entered through the River of Time’s ripples, beginning the Imperial Discourse, and Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and others sensed their Master’s presence.

Lu Li and Great Xia learned that the Boundless Realm's seven Immortal Courts had entered Great Desolation Heaven for the Imperial Discourse, which Ji Wan had arranged with Lu Li in mind. Lu Li sensed the River of Time's strength restriction and resolved to use the ten thousand years within it to prepare Great Xia for the coming struggle.

• Lu Changming and Lu Li's other disciples sensed Lu Li's presence as they entered Great Desolation Heaven with the Immortal Courts.
• Lu Li returned to Great Xia and warned Li Qingshan that Ji Wan's Imperial Discourse was likely aimed at him.
• Lu Li asked Ye Chenfeng whether the River of Time's ripples restricted cultivation, and Ye Chenfeng and Yinyang Qingfan realized Lu Li's strength approached that of a Heavenly Immortal.
• Lu Li concluded that the ripples' strength limit would hinder the Immortal Courts more than him and urged Great Xia to use the ten thousand years to prepare.
• Li Qingshan ordered Great Xia to enter level-one combat readiness.

After the Imperial Discourse announcement, Lu Li led Great Xia through nationwide level-one war readiness and evacuated its interstellar citizens to the Solar System. He then left alone to investigate the Immortal Courts, vowing that Great Xia would resist them with its full strength.

• Great Xia activated its defenses and shifted its cities, industries, and citizens to wartime operations after Ji Wan announced the Imperial Discourse.
• Ye Chenfeng, Yinyang Qingfan, Elder Jian, A Lei, Crimson Crow, and Lu Dahai took up positions beyond Great Xia’s borders as the foremost sentry line.
• Lu Li asked Li Qingshan for the coordinates of every interstellar city so he could bring Great Xia’s emigrants back to the Solar System.
• Using No Distance and his Blessed Land, Lu Li evacuated the people of all 1,037 interstellar cities, bringing tens of billions to the Solar System.
• After Great Xia consolidated its defenses and recalled its fleets, Lu Li left the Solar System to investigate the Immortal Courts and vowed to meet them with the might of the entire nation.

Ji Wan obeyed the Emperor Venerables’ order to sacrifice her cultivated attainments and place a drop of Emperor Lord Origin in Great Desolation Heaven as the Imperial Discourse prize. As the Immortal Courts’ cultivators gathered to claim it, Ji Wan recovered while secretly anticipating their doom.

• Ji Wan reported that the Imperial Discourse had begun, and the Jade Balance Pure Void Grotto Mystery Emperor Venerable warned her to watch over it and protect the venerables’ disciples.
• An Emperor Venerable proposed placing the Emperor Lord Origin reward in Great Desolation Heaven, and the wills agreed after an exchange of blows left Jade Balance to provide it.
• Ji Wan stripped golden light from her nine Great Dao attainments, condensed a drop of Emperor Lord Origin, and suspended it within a protected formation in Great Desolation Heaven.
• Ji Wan announced that the cultivator who earned the most merit could claim the reward, while the Emperor Venerables mocked Jade Balance and he briefly worried about Ji Wan’s resentment.
• The Immortal Courts’ leaders changed course to inspect the Emperor Lord Origin, and the prodigies resolved to fight for it as Ji Wan secretly wished to see them perish.