[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ancestor-the-times-have-changed":3,"chapter-ancestor-the-times-have-changed-ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-603":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ancestor, the Times Have Changed",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2299925,4498,"Chapter 603: Hidden Turmoil in the Taiping Realm","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-603",603,"\u003Cp>For the molten-gold blood continuously dripping from the back of his hand, the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord paid no mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He merely lifted his gaze toward the heights above, his mind pondering endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether this mysterious sword cultivator of obscure origin, or the recent anomaly of swordlight ascending and converging, all pointed to changes occurring within the Yuanzhen Realm that he did not understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly… has happened?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such things had rarely occurred since he consolidated his myriad selves, merged with the Dao, and seated himself at the source of countless great cosmic timelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor Supreme Dao Lord slowly raised his hand, and the golden cracks behind his palm repaired themselves, ceasing all blood flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Time” itself seemed to have become tangible at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His dark-golden eyes reflected a vast, surging river that stretched forward, piercing the entirety of the Yuanzhen Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuanzhen · Main Timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Higher in ontological status than the many great universes within the Cosmic Sea, even one who had merged with the Dao could only glimpse it, never touch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord’s perception, this endless, boundless river now flowed at a speed slightly inconsistent with his memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it an illusion… or…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of nowhere, the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord suddenly recalled the several peculiar great universes that had abruptly appeared within the Cosmic Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cut, Kill, Cause…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kill?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the appearance of those great universes and the anomalous flow of the timeline be connected to the Lord of Infinite Carnage?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doubts piled thick, yet none found answers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart grew chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuanzhen Realm Cosmic Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tides stirred by countless universes twisted, howled, and resonated together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet a figure bearing a crimson longsword walked atop the many great universes, utterly unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He occasionally paused, gazing toward one direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He really knows how to stir things up…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Xing finally halted above a great universe named “Residual Life Realm,” gazing across layers of universes toward the Military Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything occurring within it—including the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord’s attempt to deduce the “Slaying Sword Scripture,” which caused his own collapse, and his discovery of the anomalous flow of Yuanzhen’s timeline—was all seen by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Xing found it unsurprising that the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord had sensed the anomaly in Yuanzhen’s timeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivators who had merged with the Dao were considered “Great Ones” even within the Taixuan Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to their consolidation into singularity, they were not easily disturbed by external environments, unlike Reversing Void cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Xu Xing had never intended to conceal his actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only natural he detected some irregularity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, it was better if he did—perfect preparation for the upcoming Ascension Platform setup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord, seated in confusion at the timeline sources of the Military Realm and others, Xu Xing couldn’t help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If the ‘Slaying Sword Scripture’ were so easy to cultivate, there wouldn’t have been so few successors over so many eons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most ferocious and perilous sword scripture of the Sword Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Chi Jiu Yu, whose affinity with the “Slaying Sword Scripture” was extremely high, dared not begin cultivating its sword techniques until reaching Soul Transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yunlu, who forged her Creation Dao Foundation upon the Principle of Risk, possessed a foundation among the very pinnacle of all realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she still had to first complete the “Nine Revolutions of Returning the Core,” forming an Imperishable Golden Core before she could switch cultivation paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the sword techniques above the “Slaying Sword Scripture”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before reaching Soul Transformation, one need not even think of them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a cultivator like the Emperor Supreme Dao Lord, who merged with the Dao through an Emperor’s Heart, his affinity with the “Slaying Sword Scripture” could be said to be nonexistent…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, he had only deduced a minuscule fraction of its content, so the backlash was shallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been merely a matter of minor injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Xing withdrew his gaze and turned toward another direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, his eyes pierced straight through the Yuanzhen Realm Cosmic Sea, then through the Yuanzhen Realm itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu approaching ever closer within the boundless chaos, near the Taiping Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, the Xuanling Daoist within the Taiping Realm was also nearing Ascension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had previously asked Elder You to use this opportunity to intimidate the Tongxuan beings within the Taiping Realm and stabilize its situation…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wondered how Elder You would act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought, Xu Xing turned his gaze once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Earth Immortal Realm…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It too was nearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chaos Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two exceptionally bright streaks of light swept across the infinite number of worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The secondary immortal power blazing within them carved a straight, enduring passage through the churning chaos, slow to heal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Approaching designated cross-realm destination. Disabling preset Ascension Platform beacon trigger program…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Warning! Disabling the trigger program will cause minor instability. Prepare accordingly.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minor instability?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant these lines appeared!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu felt all directions suddenly blur; an overwhelming force crushed and stretched their bodies as if flattening them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, they felt as if they had lost all their cultivation, like ordinary mortals tossed into a spinning drum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as Tongxuan Lords, they were dizzy and disoriented, completely losing control of their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Xu Xing and others had fallen outside the Taixuan Realm, it had taken them a long time to reach the Taiping Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, this immensely long journey had been compressed into thirty-four standard hours, and since the Taiping Realm’s vicinity lay beyond the Taixuan Immortal Network’s coverage, this cross-realm transit relied heavily on the beacon of the earlier Ascension Platform…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, even with secondary immortal power as protection, some side effects were unavoidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing this, both chose to grit their teeth and endure in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus passed an indeterminate length of time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, they sensed their own existence again; the strange sensations faded gradually, and the blurred vision ahead began to clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until their sight became perfectly sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu stood outside the Taiping Realm, feeling as if their entire bodies had been crushed and ground to dust, a weariness rising from the depths of their souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You call this “minor instability”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both were speechless inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After adjusting their states with magic power for a while, they looked ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, not far off, lay a colossal world resembling an ancient star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its momentum was immense; each pulse swallowed boundless chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The web of its internal laws was extraordinarily dense, separating chaos and transforming it into pure celestial energies that flowed into the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though smaller than the Earth Immortal Realm they had previously seen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No other world, save the Earth Immortal Realm, could compare to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the world before them, their eyes flickered with something inexplicable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they were still in the state of “Perception Ascension,” they could perceive the world’s entirety, even see its internal scenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their vision, a square frame enclosed the entire world, with an arrow pointing sideways along its edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lines of pale gold text were neatly arranged, detailing the world’s basic data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【World Name: Taiping Realm】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【World Level: Tongxuan】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【World Type: Standard】\u003C\u002Fp>",1219,"2026-06-20T06:44:15.330Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8a545285c5eeffe158d642517ec9bfd4adc1210a240495f9c1773b7540143296","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-604","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-602",648,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fancestor-the-times-have-changed-cover.jpg"]