Maps, puzzles and hidden encounters in three realms

Exploration in Sword of Immortality is gated by realm rather than by level, so the map order doubles as a progress checklist. This chapter puts the route sequence, the two recorded puzzle solutions, the reported hidden-beast spawns and the Immortal Estate trigger in one place. Spawn notes carry a caveat because they are single-source.

What is the map order across the three realms?

Three layers, each opened by a realm breakthrough:

Layer	Route	Role
Human Realm	Qiudao Ridge → Wuxian Ridge → Youluo Valley	Opening story and first systems
Spirit Realm	Miexing Ark, Demon Abyss, Wushan	Post-ascension hub, main map and a side region
Immortal Realm	Path of Dao Verification	1,050-stage endgame track

The Human Realm route is linear enough that you can simply follow it. The Spirit Realm is a hub with branches, which is where players get lost: Miexing Ark is the city, Demon Abyss is the main progression map, and Wushan is a separate region with its own build lines.

What is inside the Spirit Realm?

Three anchors and three side maps:

• Miexing Ark is the city hub — shops, services and the place you return to between runs.
• Demon Abyss is the main progression map.
• Wushan is a separate region tied to the Fusion-era lines (Chunjun Tian sword, Lieshan fire, Qingming thunder support, Guling mixed).
• Yezhu Island, Three Poisons Abyss and Shamo Eye are exploration maps with their own encounters.

What is the Immortal Realm map?

The Immortal Realm's content track is the Path of Dao Verification, 1,050 stages. Treat the stage count as a progress bar rather than a map: it is the endgame ladder that runs alongside the Three Thousand Daos. The named Daos and suppression rules are covered in the Descent and Daos chapter.

How do you solve the two recorded puzzles?

Both are in the Human Realm, and both are sequence puzzles rather than riddles.

Puzzle	Solution	Notes
Wuxian Ridge stone pillars	Strike the left pillar five times, then the right pillar five times	Order matters; a full reset is usually required after a wrong input
Bell	Hold until three-quarters of the bar, then release	Releasing early or at full both fail

These answers are reported from the community corpus rather than confirmed by an official puzzle guide. If a patch changes the interaction, the sequence may stop working; the correct response is to check the live game, not to assume the page is wrong about the concept.

Where are the hidden beasts?

Four hidden beasts are recorded, each with a different gate:

Beast	Location	Condition
Dark Ice Spirit Fox	Beiming Snowfield (reported X:142, Y:89)	Yin hour, 03:00–05:00; bring Cold Jade Bait
Nine Nether Sparrow	Ghost Domain Abyss, third floor (reported X:76, Y:215)	Defeat the Yin Sha Demon Lord first
Heavenly Mechanism Turtle	Langya Academy	Answer five questions correctly
Leize Kui Ox	Leize Marsh	Rain increases the encounter rate by 50%

Capturing any of these requires the Fengyao Record, which opens at Spirit Transformation. The Fengyao chapter covers orbs, the pity bar and which beast to raise first.

How do Immortal Estates trigger?

An Immortal Estate triggers either from geomancy or by using an Immortal Estate Token. There is no realm requirement, which makes it one of the few systems a mid-game player can access early. Inside, two activities are recorded:

• Void Sky Black Market — an auction where 90% of the proceeds are paid in immortal jade.
• Sermons — teaching encounters that form the second half of the estate's content.

Because there is no realm gate, an estate can appear before you have the resources to use it. Save a token if you are close to a realm breakthrough rather than spending it on an auction you cannot bid in.

What should you do when a spawn note fails?

First, separate the three variables: floor, time and weather. The corpus attaches one condition to each beast, and a missed spawn is usually one of those three rather than a broken page. Second, check whether the region itself changed in the current patch — new maps are added at realm boundaries. Third, if both checks pass and the beast still does not appear, report it through the about page so the caveat can be updated.