Chapter 595

Until the thread fully settled within the cradle, touching the infant’s brow.

The tip began to glow with a faint light, as if capable of piercing through all things, effortlessly sinking beneath the infant’s delicate skin.

Instantly!

The infant’s distant, indifferent gaze vanished without a trace, replaced by an overwhelming, Jizhi terror.

No!

Impossible!

That outsider may be powerful, but they are merely a Return-to-Void cultivator—how could they possibly…

Soon, the black pupils expanded, staining the entire eyeball pitch black.

If a Soul Transformation or higher cultivator were to use divine perception to observe at this moment, they would see the infant’s flesh and blood emitting a faint luminescence, bones as radiant as white jade, their surfaces inscribed with intricate, mysterious patterns.

After all, this is the will of a world incarnated as a human—how could it be ordinary?

Although Task World 4 failed to ascend to a Union Dao great world, it had briefly touched that boundary.

As the world’s own will, it thus absorbed a trace of the unique quality of the Union Dao great world’s “Heaven’s Will.”

Later, it witnessed one by one the cultivators within the world modifying nearby small worlds to escape—and inevitably, it developed an instinctive desire to “break free.”

But the world was already on the edge of the Return-to-Nothing—even if it could shed some of the world’s restrictions, where could it flee?

Without turning the entire world into nourishment, it would ultimately perish alongside the world itself.

It had already fallen into despair.

Yet unexpectedly, an outsider with an utterly mysterious method arrived in this world, seeking to “save it!”

She truly managed to pull this world back from the brink of destruction.

Since then, it had plotted to escape the world’s restrictions during the world’s turmoil.

But the outsider’s methods far exceeded its understanding.

To avoid being discovered, it could only act in secrecy, splitting off a portion of itself to be reborn as this infant, concealing itself fully while waiting for the right moment.

Finally!

It had waited for the outsider’s departure!

It had thought the long-awaited moment had finally arrived—yet the result was…

Whispered murmurs, sobbing cries, wild laughter… as if all “sounds” of the world converged in the soul, forming a single calm voice understandable to all sentient beings.

【Detected: Task World 4’s World Will has broken free from world restrictions. Initiating correction protocol…】

Hum~

From above, a streak of light descended, traveling along the slender, resilient, neither-real-nor-illusory thread and sinking beneath the infant’s skin!

The room fell utterly silent, yet within the infant, a cataclysmic transformation unfolded.

In the unseen depths, the thread was slowly being drawn outward, its tip dragging something immensely heavy.

‘This is impossible—!’

A roar that existed nowhere in reality twisted in shadow, desperately struggling—but immobilized by the thread’s power.

The World Will had gone utterly mad.

The current situation was utterly incomprehensible to it.

It could feel the portion it had cast into the world being peeled and extracted from the infant’s body by this sudden thread.

But the problem was—the infant was born precisely because that portion had been cast into the world.

One could say it was the infant itself.

Yet now, it was being peeled out of “itself” by this thread!

How could this be!

【Initiating Protocol One—Annihilation】

Annihilation?!

The moment the calm voice, formed of countless sounds, sounded again, the World Will’s thoughts froze in that instant.

Then, the twisted shadow at the thread’s tip dissolved like a drawing erased by an eraser, fading bit by bit into nothingness.

Above the clouds, boundless malice gathered; jagged black lightning tore through the golden sky.

Boom!

Thunder rumbled!

Lightning serpents writhed, radiating heavy destruction, as if ready to flatten Fuming County in the next second.

The four Nascent Soul completions within Fuming County snapped out of their shock from the Ascension Platform and shot skyward as four streaks of light, watching warily the black lightning poised to strike.

Yet before they could devise a response, the malice hovering above Fuming County vanished abruptly.

The lightning dissipated, as if erased at its very root by some presence.

In the unseen depths, the entire world seemed to undergo subtle changes—but the Nascent Soul completion realm was still insufficient to perceive them.

They merely assumed the world’s lingering hostility remained from the earlier escape of the Return-to-Void elders.

Thus, they silently resolved to cultivate the Spirit Refining and World-Repairing Method even harder.

After all, when you live under someone else’s roof, you must bow your head…

Especially since this is the world itself—even the Return-to-Void elders had to humbly make amends, let alone them.

No one knew—not even the five Return-to-Void elders sensed more than a vague impression.

The World Will was erased by the Taixuan Immortal Net on the day it was cast upon the Ascension Platform.

Fuming County.

In the side chamber of the Yuan family, the infant lay in the cradle, eyes round and bright, filled with innocence and ignorance.

It was truly indistinguishable from an ordinary newborn.

…

…

Deep within Task World 4.

A Jianyi spirit-body of Xu Xing sat silently, a crimson-long sword resting behind him, threads of the Immortal Net swirling around his right fingertip.

His gaze surveyed the entirety of Task World 4.

“Good.”

He had detected its intentions before the World Will had even descended into the world.

But considering Qi Ling was still present, Xu Xing suppressed the Immortal Net’s world-detection function, curious whether Qi Ling could discover it herself.

If she did, she would earn all the Ascension Points available for this mission.

Unfortunately, until the mission’s conclusion and departure, she never noticed any anomaly.

Of course, that was no surprise—the first batch of Ascension Envoys faced inherently high difficulty.

So after Qi Ling left, Xu Xing simply tested the Immortal Net’s “world-detection” function.

Given the precedents of the Taixuan Realm and the Earth Immortal Realm, the Taixuan Immortal Net had been designed from the outset with protocols to counter World Will and Heaven’s Will.

The test results?

Roughly as expected.

But…

“Whether World Will or Heaven’s Will, both can only break free from world restrictions during periods of world turmoil.”

The situations of the Earth Immortal Realm and this Task World 4 confirm this.

Then…

What of the Taixuan Realm?

The Taixuan Realm sits supreme, reflecting chaos, eternally shining across all heavens.

Yet how, then, did such a mighty realm as Taixuan ever fall into turmoil, allowing “Heaven” to seize its chance and descend as the “Ancestor of Cang ”?

Remember, in the final battle, even the Central Continent was shattered, and “Tai” became boundless starry void.

Even so, the Taixuan Realm itself remained utterly undisturbed…

Xu Xing’s thoughts churned endlessly, yet he could not conceive how the Taixuan Realm could have ever fallen into turmoil.

After a long while, he sighed softly.

“My understanding of the Taixuan Realm is still insufficient.”

Looking forward from the current timeline, when he first crossed over into the Taixuan Realm, it was in the Ancient Era.

The even more distant Primordial Era was utterly unknown.

Much less the “Ultimate Primordial” era when the primordial cultivators Gu, Xuan, and Tai were born.

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Taixuan Realm, Outer Gate of the Sword Sect.

At the entrance to the sect, crowds surged, forming long queues.

On the other side, a free lane had been set aside for “Immortal Sect Special Recruitment” contestants, with far fewer people.

By the roadside, Chi Jiu Yu waited with Lin Xuanxuan, holding a box of snacks pills she had given him.

Fish-and-bacon flavor.