[{"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-611":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},2299933,4498,"Chapter 611: Can I Join the Sword Sect?","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-611",611,"\u003Cp>In comparison, those cultivators who had not yet reached Full Return to Void were also stunned by the phenomenon spanning the entire world, and thus developed a faint yearning for “Ascension.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, lotuses radiating golden light arranged themselves in rows, forming a staircase that stretched upward, reaching all the way to the “Gate of Ascension.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various wonders continued to shift, their Dao sounds echoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi Li stood motionless on the Ascension Platform for a long time, then, under the gaze of all mortals, slowly ascended the celestial staircase rising into the nine heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Immortal Path never ends; may those who follow strive hard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This line had just been revised by Xu Xing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Beast God Realm was a world of Dongzhen-level power, so there was no need to add the phrase “Return to Void incomplete.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tai Ping Realm was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Ascension Platform was first integrated into the world, little thought had been given to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, You was preoccupied with the “Law of Karma Fire Punishing Evil,” so details were overlooked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the impact of having or not having it was negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beings of the Earth Immortal Realm watched intently as Xi Li stepped steadily toward the Gate of Ascension, observing the ever-changing wonders that emerged around her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun and moon encircled her body; starry veils draped her form, as if countless landscapes and rivers guarded her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she reached the Gate of Ascension, the shadows of countless sages from past and present appeared together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single ray of dawn light blazed brilliantly at the center!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hum~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Tian Zhou Huo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dawn light pierced through twilight, parting the clouds and purging all demonic miasma!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great sun rose, illuminating all eight directions, dispelling calamities and misfortunes from the mortal realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its shadow was no taller than an ordinary human, yet it held aloft the great sun, and merely by its presence, overshadowed the thousands of ancestral shadows beside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, all the ancestral shadows of the Earth Immortal Realm bowed in heartfelt reverence, willingly serving as mere accompaniment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi—the one who once stood against the Beast God, whose single trace of Dao essence had protected the human race of the Earth Immortal Realm for a hundred thousand years—seemed to have crossed vast eons and descended at this moment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xi…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Mo’s voice was dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had cultivated under Xi’s Dao essence protection, achieving what she had today; to witness this scene, how could her heart not be stirred?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Xi Li stood motionless before the Gate of Ascension for a long while, gazing at the peerless shadow beside her, of equal height, holding the great sun aloft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dawn light burned brilliantly, illuminating all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, from behind her, a hazy, ethereal shadow emerged, walking past her to stand beside the other shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi Li froze, but soon a flicker of understanding passed through her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned to look back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All scenes of the Earth Immortal Realm came into her vision at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Mo and representatives of the major factions waiting outside the Ascension Rift, along with the many disciples of Han Yue Sword Palace standing on either side of the rift entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Farther still, the Han Yue Sword Palace, resembling an ice kingdom, the sacred ancestral grounds now reduced to ruins due to internal strife, and…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battlefield where two races clashed, soaked in blood and fire, where smoke still had not yet cleared!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if inspired by sudden insight, Xi Li bowed deeply toward the distant heavens, toward the ancestral shadows of the Earth Immortal Realm, toward all beings of heaven and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned back to face forward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gate of Ascension, entirely white jade, crystal-clear, with divine dawn light swirling within, slowly opened amid the chanting of Dao sounds, golden immortality light pouring forth, as if brimming with boundless Dao essence and spiritual vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side of the gate, a vast, immeasurable supreme world revealed a mere fraction of its grandeur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the slightest hesitation, Xi Li stepped forward into it, vanishing into the endless immortality light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an unknown length of time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ancestral shadows of the Earth Immortal Realm faded; the Gate of Ascension, which had poured forth boundless Dao essence and spiritual vitality, began slowly closing, dimming, and dissolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden clouds above the sky also gradually receded; all wonders returned to stillness, as if nothing had ever happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the Ascension Rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Mo still stared blankly at the direction where Xi Li had vanished, unable to return to herself for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had felt it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Gate of Ascension opened, she truly felt it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the “other side” of the gate lay the possibility of further advancement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, a surge of impulse arose within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An impulse to abandon everything, to follow the Ascension, to seek greater advancement!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the instinct of every cultivator!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, Fu Mo finally drew her gaze back, and her agitated emotions slowly calmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No rush…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her cultivation was sufficient; she could Ascend whenever she wished, no need to hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, she said nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned and became a streak of flaming light, shooting upward, vanishing into the horizon in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast Chaos Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A guiding beam of light descended from the highest realm, striking an absurd contrast against the eternal solitude of the Chaos Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Threads of the Tai Xuan Immortal Net encircled the guiding light, targeting none other than Xi Li, the one who had just Ascended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi Li now realized certain strange changes had occurred within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could feel her perception undergoing a transformation; the blinding light that had once filled everything now began to soften.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, the full form of the Earth Immortal Realm truly appeared within her perception, though somewhat hazy and illusory…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But logically, for a Return to Void cultivator to perceive the entirety of a Dongzhen-level world was impossible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention that each inhalation and exhalation of the Dongzhen-level world contained infinite information, far beyond what a Return to Void cultivator could endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcibly observing it would be like trying to contain the entire cosmos within a single drop of water!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, with the aid of the Tai Xuan Immortal Net and the “Perception Ascension” state activated, this impossibility had become possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi Li stood in stunned silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This immense world, like an eternal dam spanning the Chaos Sea, dwarfing all else—was this truly her home, the Earth Immortal Realm…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of dizziness washed over her heart; for a moment, she felt a profound sense of loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially as she realized she was rapidly distancing herself from the Earth Immortal Realm, the sense of loss grew heavier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recalled the former Mingguang Gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, she and her brother had just obtained the cultivation method, their realm barely Qi Refining; they had struggled desperately to stabilize the Gathering and secure a place to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, they were forced to leave due to unforeseen circumstances…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the emotions surging within her had been the same as now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, however, she was leaving a world she had lived in for over a thousand years, a world filled with countless memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the Earth Immortal Realm grow ever farther away, until it became invisible, she let out a quiet sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unbidden, she thought of her only true friend over these years…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fu Mo’s attachment to the Earth Immortal Realm far exceeded her own; what would she feel when she Ascended?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the boundless Chaos Sea unfolded before her perception, and she witnessed countless worlds rising and sinking within the infinite chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One world after another fell into ruin and silence; one world after another was born and evolved, every detail laid bare before her eyes—only then did her sense of loss begin to fade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xi Li had never been a sentimental person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, she used her peculiar state to observe these never-before-seen sights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also an arrangement made after discussion by Xu Xing and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the Tai Xuan Immortal Net’s functions were gradually improving, future Ascenders could be granted a taste of the “Perception Ascension” state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it would help them gain insight, aiding their eventual union with the Dao?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Xuan Ling Dao Ren later entered the realm covered by the Tai Xuan Immortal Net, this state would also be activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the first two Ascenders…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way; at that time, even the initial concept of the Immortal Net had not yet been conceived—there simply were no such conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>",1453,"2026-06-20T06:44:15.330Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1569f3ea86909dbc1d9492fd63475febf27031ce19f239f12a4bb6abe6c3eb4c","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-612","ancestor-the-times-have-changed-chapter-610",648,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fancestor-the-times-have-changed-cover.jpg"]