Chapter 594

Long silence…

Xu Xing finally reopened his eyes, his pupils swirling with misty haze, and deeper still, a sharpness brewed that made the boundless chaos tremble.

All strange phenomena vanished in an instant, as if nothing had ever occurred; his eyes returned to pure clarity.

Suddenly!

Xu Xing suddenly sensed something and glanced once more toward the mountain’s base.

Where his gaze fell lay boundless, infinite, endlessly surging chaotic energy.

The most ordinary, ever-present presence within the Chaos Sea, the world filters it through its web of cosmic principles, inhaling and exhaling chaos to nourish itself.

This was normally the most mundane of things, yet now Xu Xing keenly sensed its difference.

With every inhalation and exhalation of the world, a faint, indescribable, inexplicable quality subtly emerged within the world itself.

“The Chaos Sea…”

He pondered briefly.

“The Dao mirrors all heavens, the ancestor of myriad worlds…”

Though he could not yet see how the Chaos Sea itself would change, he was certain this transformation was tied to him.

Though he was currently in the state of ‘Dao’s Obscurity Entangling the Heart,’ Xu Xing felt a sudden clarity rise within him.

Just as Xuan’s birth directly illuminated for all beings of the myriad worlds a path of progressive advancement, a way to strengthen oneself beyond the ordinary.

That is what is called ‘cultivation.’

Without Him, cultivation itself might never have taken the form it does today, but remained chaotic and disordered.

“The source of the extraordinary, the order of the extraordinary—then the next step…”

Countless thoughts wove through his mind, finally converging into a somewhat absurd answer.

“The end of the extraordinary!”

Yes!

In this moment, Xu Xing finally saw the ‘Dao Source’ path of Xuan.

Xuan’s path fundamentally differs from his own, yet in some sense, it is the same.

Xuan’s existence is the source of the extraordinary.

As the primordial ancestor of all heavens and worlds, He established the possibility of ‘cultivation’ and ‘the extraordinary’—a path to gradually strengthen oneself.

In a certain sense, this was the very act of ordering the extraordinary.

Thus, all beings of the myriad worlds must rely on ‘spiritual energy’ to transcend their limits and step into ‘the extraordinary.’

What remains lacking is merely the final step.

“Sit at the source of the extraordinary, establish its order, initiate its end…”

Once the Tai Xuan Realm and the countless worlds of the Chaos Sea fall into cosmic silence, the extraordinary vanishes.

Then He could fully seize ‘the extraordinary,’ truly transcend the Tai Xuan Realm, and become ‘the extraordinary’ itself, supreme above all.

But this is inherently contradictory.

As a primordial Dao-seeker, His very existence is the source of the extraordinary; the more the extraordinary flourishes across all heavens and worlds, the stronger He becomes.

Even now, Xuan’s strength to this degree is partly tied to the unprecedented flourishing of human cultivation.

emm…

When Xu Xing first learned this, the feeling was truly like eating…

Cough! Cough!

Triggering the End of the Dao is no different from digging up one’s own roots—it is tantamount to suicide.

Even if one day the Tai Xuan Realm and the countless worlds of the Chaos Sea truly fall into cosmic silence,

Will Xuan advance further—or will He perish, his Dao extinguished…

No one can say.

Yet this is precisely the point of similarity he spoke of—

Transcending without leaving the dust, like Xuan’s ‘initiating the end of the extraordinary,’ is equally contradictory.

Thinking this,

Xu Xing turned and walked into the Sword Ancestor’s Hall.

As for Gu…

One could infer something from Xuan’s condition.

Gu, since His birth, has resided at the primordial dawn of antiquity, giving rise to the concept of ‘Antiquity’ across all heavens and worlds.

On this foundation, the concepts of ‘Present’ and ‘Future’ emerged, causing the highest realm of the Tai Xuan Realm to have eternal, endless forward time.

Indirectly, this also radiated into the Chaos Sea, causing corresponding changes within it.

Perhaps His potential is even greater than Xuan’s, since ‘Antiquity,’ ‘Present,’ and ‘Future’ nearly encompass all.

Of course, He has already merged with the domain of the past, locking Himself away completely—there is no need to worry too much.

…

…

In the eternal, lonely, boundless Chaos Sea,

A corner, unremarkable, held a world adrift within the Chaos Sea.

In scale, though inferior to a Dao-merged great realm, it stood alone among great realms below that tier.

Yet now, even its instinctive inhalation and exhalation of chaos was intermittent, cautious, hesitant.

Its surface was riddled with countless thin crystal barriers, as if newly healed, scars still faintly visible.

This was Mission World 4.

The world Qi Ling had traveled to.

Over these twenty years, all cultivators within the world, under the threat of annihilation, set aside their conflicts and united as one.

They patched and repaired the world, on the brink of collapse and at the edge of the Return Void, forcibly sealing every chaotic rift.

Now, Mission World 4 had regained much of its vitality.

Within the world,

With the cosmic web repaired, heavenly light no longer obscured by gloomy clouds; everywhere bloomed vibrant, reborn energy after destruction.

The concentration of spiritual energy remained far below the world’s peak, yet it no longer steadily declined as before.

At the location of the sword array Qi Ling had originally established,

Sword intent rang clear; four towering sword shadows stood at the four cardinal points, their radiance interweaving, illuminating all directions.

Within the array, sword qi crisscrossed, dense as a net.

Compared to the initial chaos surging for thousands of miles through the rifts, the rifts now lay dark, profoundly deep, with only occasional wisps of chaotic energy rising, like smoke, after long intervals.

Though the cosmic web was repaired, it still required deepening and refinement, so occasional traces of chaos still leaked upward.

Above,

Qi Ling sat upon the clouds, cradling a black sword casket, calmly gazing into the distance.

In her gaze, every scene of this world seemed reflected clearly.

One glance surveyed the floating world, illuminating heaven, earth, and all beings.

Even the five returned spirits who had returned, and all elite cultivators, were not missed.

After all, it was Qi Ling who had rescued this world from the brink of the Return Void; she might well be called its rebirth parent.

This ‘one glance to observe the world’ authority was merely one of the world’s gifts of gratitude.

After a long while, Qi Ling lowered her eyes and sighed softly.

“This is enough.”

A mission lasting twenty years was once utterly impossible for her.

At first, she thought such a long time was excessive.

But now, within this world, she felt the twenty-one-year mission term was too short.

As for why she said ‘also’…

She believed Kong Ming and the other first-wave Ascension Envoys felt the same.

“If we had more time, we could have done better.”

Thinking this, she sighed inwardly.

The mission’s difficulty was marked as ‘Extreme,’ and that was no exaggeration.

Immediately, she activated her thoughts, and her personal interface appeared.

【Tai Xuan Immortal Net (Beta Version)】

【Name: Qi Ling】