Chapter 619

Standing still in the Chaos Sea, churning chaotic energy surged past her side.

Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu gazed far into the distance.

Yet even in the state of “Perception Ascension,” they detected no change whatsoever—the Chaos Sea remained as solitary as ever.

It was as if the threads of the Immortal Net and the infinitely folded crimson patterns covering countless worlds had left no impact on this realm.

Yet they both knew deep down that this newly named 【Second · Xunyuan Realm】 had indeed become different.

After all…

“Activate world search function, filter worlds where the Daoist of Dongzhen, Yuan, once stayed.”

Ming Yu spoke directly.

Though Tongxuan was already an existence of the highest rank among cultivators.

Finding a specific world amid the boundless Chaos Sea, among countless worlds as numerous as sands, was still extremely difficult.

Who could blame them? After all, to prove their determination, they hadn’t asked the Sword Ancestor for the exact world coordinates…

In short, without the Immortal Net’s aid, they might have searched until the monkeys ruled the earth.

But with the Taixuan Immortal Net’s aid, it was entirely different!

As the executors of this Immortal Net expansion deployment, the two held extremely high permissions within this 【Second · Xunyuan Realm】.

This was also a reward for their day-and-night efforts in constructing the “Immortal Net connection nodes.”

【Command detected. Filtering target worlds based on preset conditions…】

Ning Wanzhu also watched her personal interface, where a progress bar—shared by Ming Yu—visually displayed the percentage of command execution.

Soon, the progress bar completed loading.

【Filtering complete. Target world confirmed!】

【Detected 2 worlds where the Dongzhen cultivator Yuan once stayed. Extract key information?】

Seeing this, Ming Yu clenched her fists tighter; Ning Wanzhu did the same.

“Yes!”

【Extracting…】

【Extraction complete! Preparing to play…】

Play?

The two paused, still uncomprehending, when suddenly several threads of the Immortal Net extended before their eyes.

Interwoven, entangled, they formed a luminous screen.

As the screen’s imagery appeared:

The sun sank toward dusk.

On a steep cliff sat a young man with black hair and violet eyes, clad in a black overcoat.

In his arms, a woman with exquisite features, tall stature, and long blue hair gazed at him with rapt devotion.

The brilliant twilight bathed them both, rendering the scene exquisitely beautiful.

“This world holds no suitable spiritual objects, but I will find a way to heal you.”

The black-haired, violet-eyed young man solemnly promised.

“It doesn’t matter—as long as I’m with my Lord…” the blue-haired woman whispered.

With those words, the two dissolved into light and departed the scene, heading toward the sunset.

Ning Wanzhu: “…”

Ming Yu: “…”

【First world playback complete. Preparing to play second world!】

The scene shifted.

There, in a lush, verdant forest, Yuan walked alone, appearing utterly at ease.

Clearly, the Taixuan Immortal Net’s second marked world was the first one Yuan had rested in within this 【Second · Xunyuan Realm】.

At that time, he hadn’t even realized Yin Ling had followed him.

…

…

Meanwhile, within the 【First · Daxian Realm】:

Amid surging chaotic energy stood an unremarkable world, its outer crystal barrier adorned with intricate patterns, its energy level at Soul Transformation.

Mission World 11.

It was the world assigned to Lin Changsheng, who delivered the best performance among all Soul Transformation cultivators in the Immortal Sect Competition, excluding Chang Xiao.

Inside the world:

A towering mountain pierced the clouds, its mid-slope veiled in mist.

A divine bird, slender and adorned with radiant golden tail feathers, circled the mountain’s waist.

Wherever it flew, golden shimmering light drifted from its wings, scattering across the mountainside.

Ancient cypresses on the cliffs sprouted new buds; slender branches by the path budded with flowers; pure springs steamed with misty auroras.

On the shore, a pure white deer with crystalline antlers and a white tiger with wings on its flanks both looked up, gazing at the golden clouds slowly spreading across the heavens.

“Today, I establish the Ascension Platform, attaining the Soul Transformation realm. After accumulating three thousand external merits, my cultivation shall be complete, and I shall ascend to the Immortal Realm, seeking the True Dao.”

The vast, ethereal voice echoed through all ten directions of heaven and earth, resounding across the cosmos.

Below the mountain:

A platform constructed entirely from branches of the world’s most peculiar plants.

Lin Changsheng looked up, his eyes filled with unmistakable awe.

Though his mission was already complete, he had not immediately chosen to settle and depart—he wished to observe what would happen after the Ascension Platform’s deployment…

And now, this scene unfolded before him.

Ascension?

Daxian Realm?

At this moment, he finally understood the purpose of the Ascension Hall in the outer sect!

Below the platform, locals—each accompanied by various divine beasts, recently transitioned from “Trainer” to “Beast Tamer Cultivator”—also stared at the sky, utterly stunned.

After a long while, Lin Changsheng was the first to recover.

“We should go, Qing.”

Perched on his shoulder was a small bird with purple plumage and lively eyes.

It appeared ordinary, yet the terrifying power within it surpassed even Lin Changsheng’s own Soul Transformation sword cultivation.

Sovereign-Level · Prophetic Divine Beast.

It was also the first Sovereign-Level divine beast he had tamed upon arriving in this world.

Hearing Lin Changsheng’s words, Qing paused, turning her head toward him. Her lively eyes expressed a distinctly human-like mix of complexity and curiosity.

“Alright.”

A soft, subtly alluring voice.

As the sole Sovereign-Level entity among Prophetic Divine Beasts, she was not truly an “yao,” but the personification of this world’s “Prophetic” rule.

If anything, she should be classified as a “ling.”

Originally, this world had been an ordinary technological realm.

But on a certain day over three thousand five hundred years ago, an accident utterly transformed it.

This world collided with an external world; their rules intermingled, triggering profound internal mutations.

Certain aspects of the world’s rules detached from their abstract state and descended upon the world, forming the Nine Sovereign-Level Divine Beasts.

All existing creatures within the world were likewise affected, mutating and gaining control over various powers.

Yet humans—highly intelligent beings—remained unaffected, bound by the unchanged portions of the rules, unable to wield any supernatural abilities in their pure human form.

It was presumed this would mark the beginning of humanity’s end.

Yet strangely, the divine beasts who controlled these supernatural powers did not despise humans; instead, they were drawn to humans with pure, upright hearts.

Pure, upright hearts…

To be honest, when Lin Changsheng first learned this, he thought he was listening to a fairy tale.

But this was the world’s true reality!

Under these circumstances, Lin Changsheng could not act against the world’s divine beasts, so he sought out the world’s sole “outlier” as his entry point.

That was Qing.

As the personification of this world’s “Prophetic” rule, she knew all past events and could glimpse fragments of the future.

This made her neither hostile nor close to humans.

After a battle, Lin Changsheng and she ended in a draw.