Recaps

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox formed their Golden Cores, spent decades cultivating in seclusion, and eventually settled in Imperial Void City. As the Centennial Grand Meet approached, they bought a rare herb, lost their friend Li Miao, and began bidding at the grand auction.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox formed their Golden Cores on Chenhui Great Snow Mountain, survived the tribulation, and killed the cultivators who gathered there before fleeing west.
• They crossed Heaven Severing Great Plains, where Big Black Ox also formed a Golden Core, and spent decades cultivating, building a home, and refining treasures before continuing toward Qian Kingdom.
• After traveling through Qian Kingdom, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Imperial Void City, sold herbs, and bought a cave dwelling on Soaked Immortal Mountain.
• They cultivated for fifty years in the city, then attended an East City auction where Chen Xun traded a thousand-year Black Sandalwood Mushroom for Yuan Chen Ginseng.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox encountered Li Miao after he was beaten while seeking a home, and Chen Xun promised to help him bid for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• They learned Li Miao had died before the Centennial Grand Meet, carried his coffin to Heaven Severing Great Plains, buried him, and said farewell at his grave.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Great Estimation Hall’s Auction Grand Meet, bid thirty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for the Jade Spirit Chapter, and received it by Teleportation Array.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox cultivated for centuries, acquired rare treasures, and protected Liu Yuan from the Heavenly Martial Sect. After their attack forced them to leave Imperial Void City, they settled in a hidden underground cave to prepare for the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox won the Northern Cold Blazing Jade Furnace at auction, then watched the Heavenly Pride Battle before Chen Xun cultivated the Jade Spirit Chapter for half a year.
• They advanced to mid Golden Core, spent decades cultivating and refining their treasures, and built a Five Extremes Array around their cave abode.
• At the Auction Conventions, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox eventually bought Jade Stamen Night White Ganoderma and Yu Chen Grass, then opened a quiet Talisman Shop.
• Liu Yuan visited the shop, gave Chen Xun a Five Elements Sect token left by Ji Kun, and told him about the inheritance book he had entrusted to a friend.
• When the Heavenly Martial Sect moved to kill Liu Yuan and the Five Elements Sect disciples, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox intervened and erased the attacking cultivators and their ships with the Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered the spoils, including Spirit Cleansing Grass and Jade Origin Fruit, then left Imperial Void City as the Five Elements Sect gained the advantage over the Heavenly Martial Sect.
• After finding no suitable villains in the Qian Kingdom, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox carved out a hidden underground cave, planted spirit trees and herbs, and began preparing for their Nascent Soul Plan.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered the ingredients for Nascent Soul Pills, broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and returned to Yongquan Province. After honoring the descendants of their old friends and searching for Sun Lao’s grave, they left the province.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox comforted each other after Liu Yuan’s death, honored their departed friends, and set out to pursue the distant road revealed in Ji Kun’s book.
• They strengthened the Five Elements Sect’s standing, then cultivated until they reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage and began searching for Nascent Soul Pill ingredients.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled across the Eastern Nations, gathered pill formulas and rare herbs, and obtained the Five Qi Ink Spirit Flower from Old Ancestor Jinyu.
• They settled on the Heaven Severing Great Plains, where Chen Xun refined more than twenty Dao Vein Nascent Soul Pills while a war spread through the Cultivation World.
• Chen Xun broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm by surviving heavenly lightning and the Heart Refining Tribulation, then Big Black Ox completed its own breakthrough.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to Yongquan Province, found their old village gone, and paid their respects at its graveyard before visiting Pan Ning City.
• Chen Xun revealed to Ning Yuanru and Ning Chongwan that Ning Si had been his master, then gave the Ning Family medicines and books while Big Black Ox set up a protective array.
• After paying respects to Teacher and Shimu, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox searched for Sun Lao’s grave, bought the mountain when they could not find it, named it Sun Lao Mountain, and left Yongquan Province.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox joined Moon Holding Pavilion, studied cultivation and artifact refinement, and built ties with Nine Palaces Mountain before returning to the Five Elements Sect. Chen Xun transformed his cultivation through Five Elements Qi, while the pair completed their giant flying vessel as turmoil spread across Qian Kingdom.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned spiritual herbs to the sects, then visited Nine Palaces Mountain, where Jin Yu welcomed them and offered a place at Moon Holding Pavilion.
• Chen Xun accepted a guest abode and cultivation resources, studied Nascent Soul methods, and helped Moon Holding Pavilion by refining pills and training its artifact refiners.
• Jin Yu entrusted Moon Holding Pavilion to Jiang Xuechen and departed to search for someone, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox began planning their giant flying vessel and journey west.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Five Elements Sect, where Chen Xun exposed Ji Dingren and Ji Yan’s abuse of Ji Kun’s descendants and was recognized as the Old Ancestor.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox took Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao to Nine Palaces Mountain, then guided the three juniors through decades of cultivation as the Northern Border disaster shook the Cultivation World.
• Chen Xun consumed pill-patterned Nascent Soul Pills, reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and replaced the spiritual qi in his meridians with Five Elements Qi despite a severe tribulation.
• Chen Xun gained Five Elements Spirit Roots and discovered new properties in his Water Spirit Art, while Big Black Ox transformed its cultivation and developed ideas for using Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox completed a one-hundred-and-fifty-zhang flying vessel powered by a Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree as chaos spread across Qian Kingdom and the Five Elements Sect sealed its gates.