Recaps

Chen Xun learned that the Realm Battlefield had no road ahead, then prepared to challenge the Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespans while protecting Little Crimson’s clan and building a way home. He returned to the Qian Kingdom, reunited with the Five Elements Sect, and found Jiang Xuechen’s cultivation path still severed.

• Chen Xun met Bai Li Zhong Hu at Corpse Mountain, learned the realm had been cut off from the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and revealed his plan to confront the strongest Defiled Lifespans.
• Chen Xun left the battlefield with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, reached the Baili Clan, and traded with Meng Sheng for the Qian Kingdom teleportation token.
• Chen Xun created the Five Elements Spirit Transformation Art and reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson prepared teleportation arrays.
• Chen Xun and his companions mined Extinguishing Divine Stones, then Chen Xun threatened the Jiang Clan and other powers into ending their hunt for Little Crimson’s clan.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson returned to the Northern Border, where Chen Xun declared the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion Clan under his protection and entrusted the spirit beasts to Blue Lion.
• Chen Xun and his companions visited Pan Ning City, reopened the blacksmith shop where Chen Xun and Big Black Ox had once lived, paid respects at the Ning Family Ancestral Hall, and departed for the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Liu Han, Shi Wujun, Ji Zhao, and Jiang Xuechen as more than a hundred thousand cultivators welcomed them back.
• Chen Xun learned that Jiang Xuechen’s cultivation path remained severed and her vitality was fading, then introduced Little Crimson to the Five Elements Sect.

Chen Xun and his companions broke through the Realm Barrier, ending the Defiled Lifespan threat and opening a path from the Realm Battlefield. They entered the Taiyi Great World, settled in an Ancient Forest, and encountered five colossal vessels.

• Chen Xun reunited with the Five Elements Sect, strengthened its ties with the Demon Ancestors, and departed the Qian Kingdom Cultivation World aboard the Giant Ship with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson.
• The forces of Da Li and the Ancient War Realm Camp launched a costly campaign against the Defiled Lifespans, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox joined the fighting on the Black Earth Land.
• After twelve years of battle, Chen Xun held back the enemy as Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and the ancient warships charged toward the canopy’s weak point.
• Chen Xun stirred up the Earth Tribulation, and he and Big Black Ox drove through the collapsing Realm Barrier as the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree absorbed the realm’s source.
• Little Crane emerged in human form and helped Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson smash through the barrier, opening a gateway and ending the Realm Battlefield’s darkness.
• Chen Xun and his companions crossed into the Taiyi Great World, hid from the Great World Source in an Ancient Forest, and began exploring the unfamiliar region.
• Little Crimson completed its Spirit Transformation breakthrough, and Chen Xun named it Northern Darkness Red Lion and added it as the fourth entry in the Longevity Genealogy.
• Chen Xun and his companions investigated an unexplained spatial storm and saw five colossal vessels sail across the distant sky.

Chen Xun and his companions learned the ways of the Great World, turned the Garbage Dump into a source of wealth, and established their first base on Leaving Dust Island. They returned to the dump and began recruiting Treasure Hunters to supply their recycling plant.

• Chen Xun met Mo Fuyang, learned that his Spirit Stones were worthless in the Great World, and got an introduction to its cultivation markets and the Mystic Micro Heaven Garbage Dump.
• Chen Xun and his companions explored the dump, discovered Great Wasteland Black God Crystal among the discarded materials, and organized Treasure Hunters to collect it.
• After a year of gathering crystal, Chen Xun led the group to Leaving Dust Island, where they sold their haul to Yun Jin for forty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun learned about the Thousand Machines Spirit Seal and obtained one from Wan Xiangying, taking precautions to keep its tracking function from exposing his past.
• Chen Xun and his companions acquired a remote mountain outside Hun Yuan Immortal City as their first bridgehead, then used Big Black Ox's array to return to the Garbage Dump.
• Chen Xun offered Treasure Hunters spirit stones for crystal fragments and announced that they could exchange garbage at his plant without surrendering their freedom.
• Qing Li and Qing Wan brought materials to the plant, and Chen Xun paid them three hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones as Big Black Ox began breaking down the garbage.

Chen Xun and his companions expanded the Garbage Recycling Plant, advanced their cultivation, and built new trade and recruitment networks. Their sense of impending disaster proved true when the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance destroyed the Small Realm, leaving the survivors and those connected to it in grief.

• Chen Xun agreed to Song Heng's proposal to search for Great Wasteland Black God Crystal, and the Garbage Recycling Plant rapidly drew Treasure Hunters with its generous prices and orderly operations.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the Refining Void Stage, then returned to Garbage Island and resumed expanding the plant and its business.
• Chen Xun recruited Mo Fuyang into a greater role, arranged new trades through Yun Jin and Luo Shuang, and agreed to let Qing Li and Qing Wan bring a thousand of their clansmen to Garbage Island for assessment.
• Chen Xun and his companions sensed a disturbance connected to the Small Realm as the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall declared it was stealing the Great World Source and dispatched ships and Dao Integration True Lords to destroy it.
• Three colossal beasts drained the Small Realm's vital energy, bringing widespread destruction as the Five Elements Sect and other cultivators tried to evacuate while the Three-Eyed Lifeforms prepared to leave the realm.
• The Jiang and Yu Clan elders sacrificed themselves to stabilize the Space Channel, and Baili Lingjin stayed behind as Meng Sheng and other survivors escaped before three World-Destroying pillars annihilated the Small Realm.
• Meng Sheng watched the Small Realm's destruction through the Space Channel, while Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson felt the loss on Garbage Island.
• Majestic Starfall appeared over the Mengmu Great Sea Region, where Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng listened to the news and quietly watched the spectacle.