Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox settled into their cave abode in Listening Snow Valley and began planning a giant flying boat and their next steps. Big Black Ox finished installing powerful formations, while Chen Xun focused on the unusual Crane Spirit Tree and the materials and knowledge the project would require.

• Jiang Xuechen led Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to a well-supplied cave abode beneath a waterfall and offered to provide anything they needed.
• Chen Xun sent Big Black Ox to set up the cave formations while he contemplated studying Nascent Soul cultivation and seeking guidance on artifact refinement.
• Chen Xun planned a giant flying boat as a movable home, considering its materials, a large Storage Ring, and an alternative to powering it with spirit stones.
• Chen Xun wondered why the Crane Spirit Tree seemed increasingly extraordinary and considered using it as the flying boat's dragon bones.
• Big Black Ox completed overlapping concealment, defense, and slaughter formations that could operate as long as their Natal Array Flags and Heaven and Earth Five Elements Qi held out.
• Chen Xun praised Big Black Ox's improved formations and noticed the cave's crystals and jades illuminating it with a soft, milky-white light.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent fifty years in seclusion refining their Nascent Soul mana, while the Northern Border war disrupted the Cultivation World. They emerged with immense Five Elements Pressure and strengthened bodies, then added their accumulated Longevity Points to defense.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox planned a giant flying vessel to serve as their future home, then entered seclusion to refine their mana with the 'Jade Spirit Chapter.'
• Big Black Ox's formations concealed the cave abode as Chen Xun and Big Black Ox's surging mana strained the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Jin Yu sensed the cave abode had vanished from perception and reconsidered her plans, while Jiang Xuechen avoided further divination and continued cultivating despite her stalled progress.
• News from the Northern Border dwindled, sects restricted their disciples, and the uncertain war worsened turmoil across the Qian Kingdom.
• After fifty years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox emerged with ten Nascent Soul Phantoms and refined mana that strengthened their bodies; Chen Xun assigned their accumulated Longevity Points to defense.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited Jin Yu to ask about cultivation and pills, learning that breakthrough pills could poison a cultivator’s future progress. The chapter left Chen Xun asking Jin Yu about pill patterns after she revealed they surpassed ordinary pills.

• Chen Xun realized the system’s point limits protected his body, then left with Big Black Ox to seek a Five Elements Spirit Root Cultivation Method and answers.
• Chen Xun asked Jin Yu about creating cultivation methods, and she explained that modern cultivators lacked the time and resources of ancient sages.
• Jin Yu told Chen Xun that ancient cultivators could form Nascent Souls in three hundred years, while pills used for breakthroughs could restrict future advancement.
• Jin Yu explained that pill poison accumulated in the body, while naturally formed treasures such as Jade Origin Fruit did not carry the same risk.
• Chen Xun asked about pill patterns, and Jin Yu said they were supreme treasure pills that surpassed even top-grade pills.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned that Nascent Soul cultivation in the current Cultivation World was severely limited, then accepted ingredients for the Supreme Purity Ancient Pill and access to Moon Holding Pavilion’s collected cultivation methods. Jin Yu also warned them against cultivating with Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and they left with new knowledge and resources.

• Jin Yu explained that the strongest cultivators today were only at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage because pills for advancing beyond the Early Stage were unavailable.
• Jin Yu gave Chen Xun three portions of thousand-year-old ingredients and a formula for the Supreme Purity Ancient Pill, and Chen Xun promised the finished pills to Moon Holding Pavilion.
• Chen Xun asked to copy Five Elements Spirit Root Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods, and Jin Yu gave him a Restriction Token for Sealed Crossing Pavilion’s collection.
• Jin Yu offered to have the disciples stationed at Sealed Crossing Pavilion retreat so Chen Xun and Big Black Ox could use it undisturbed.
• Jin Yu warned Chen Xun and Big Black Ox not to cultivate with Mid-Grade Spirit Stones because their spiritual energy was impure and could harm Nascent Soul cultivation.

After learning from Jin Yu, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox chose a Nascent Soul cultivation method and settled in as guardians of Sealed Crossing Pavilion. Five years later, Jin Yu realized that Chen Xun’s pill-refining skill had surpassed her expectations, leaving Moon Holding Pavilion indebted to him.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox thanked Jin Yu for teaching them about cultivation, then went to Sealed Crossing Pavilion to choose methods.
• They spent a month studying the pavilion’s collections and selected the Treasure Radiance Five Lights Art.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox made a home by Sealed Crossing Pavilion and accepted the roles of Guardian Elder and Guardian Old Ox.
• Jin Yu visited Chen Xun and Big Black Ox over the following years to share news about the wider world.
• Five years later, Jiang Xuechen brought Jin Yu three bottles of genuine mid-grade Supreme Purity Ancient Pills, and Jin Yu realized Moon Holding Pavilion now owed Chen Xun a favor.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned that help with their flying vessel and a source of Sumeru Ore had been secured. Chen Xun then told Jiang Xuechen that her cultivation troubles might stem from a flawed family technique rather than Heaven’s displeasure.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed using Pill-Pattern Supreme Purity Ancient Pills to improve Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Jiang Xuechen reported that allies would meet Chen Xun and Big Black Ox at Flower Rain Valley in one month to assist with the flying vessel, and that Ink Feather Pavilion had found Sumeru Ore in Changyou Kingdom.
• Chen Xun noticed that Jiang Xuechen’s spiritual power was running in reverse and asked why she had been stuck at Mid Golden Core.
• Jiang Xuechen explained that her family believed their divination practice had angered Heaven and severed their immortal path.
• Chen Xun dismissed that explanation and suggested her family’s cultivation technique was incomplete or flawed, urging her to view divination as a supplementary path.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox agreed to have a giant flying vessel built so they could travel toward the Heaven Severing Great Plains, where Chen Xun believed a road remained. A month later, Jiang Xuechen brought them to the artifact refiners who would build the ship, and Chen Xun offered to help improve their cultivation in exchange for learning their craft.

• Jiang Xuechen told Chen Xun that her clan’s Nascent Soul ancestor had died while divining, after which calamities plagued his descendants until their branch died out.
• Chen Xun requested a three-hundred-meter flying vessel and said he and Big Black Ox intended to go west to the Heaven Severing Great Plains because an old friend had told him there was a road there.
• Jiang Xuechen excitedly promised to make preparations and return the following month.
• Jiang Xuechen led Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to Flower Rain Valley, where over a hundred Moon Holding Pavilion artifact refiners had gathered.
• Chen Xun asked to learn giant-ship artifact refinement and offered to help the Foundation Establishment cultivators reach Golden Core and raise the Golden Core cultivators’ cultivation in return for their service.
• Jiang Xuechen explained the offer to the refiners, who eagerly welcomed it, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared in the valley to meet them.

After a century spent refining Flying Boats and strengthening Moon Holding Pavilion, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met with Jin Yu as she prepared to investigate the Northern Border. Jin Yu entrusted Moon Holding Pavilion to Jiang Xuechen and sealed her before asking Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to forgive her past schemes; the pair remained eager to cross the Heaven Severing Great Plains.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox questioned Artifact Refiners about Flying Boats while Jiang Xuechen brought them news and helped their work.
• A hundred years passed as Chen Xun and Big Black Ox advanced their cultivation, raised the Artifact Refiners to the Golden Core Stage, and helped Moon Holding Pavilion grow stronger.
• Jiang Xuechen told Jin Yu she had severed her Dao to cultivate anew and would preserve Moon Holding Pavilion's legacy, and Jin Yu decided to entrust the pavilion to her.
• Jin Yu sealed Jiang Xuechen and welcomed Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, then told them she intended to join an expedition to investigate the Northern Border.
• Jin Yu thanked Chen Xun and Big Black Ox for their care of Moon Holding Pavilion, and Chen Xun excitedly discussed crossing the Heaven Severing Great Plains with Big Black Ox.

Jin Yu entrusted Moon Holding Pavilion to Jiang Xuechen, gave Chen Xun and Big Black Ox two massive Storage Rings, and left to search for a fellow cultivator. After returning to the cliff, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox began planning a Giant Ship powered by Five Elements Qi, officially starting their Crossing the Heaven's End Plan.

• Jin Yu named Jiang Xuechen the master of Moon Holding Pavilion and said she would set out to search for someone, while Jiang Xuechen pleaded with her not to go.
• Jin Yu gifted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox two Storage Rings large enough to hold a hundred-zhang Giant Ship, then revealed her youthful appearance and departed in a strand of rainbow light.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Nine Palaces Mountain and headed for Sealed Crossing Pavilion, with Chen Xun deciding to return to Five Elements Sect soon because the Cultivation World seemed troubled.
• Chen Xun considered turning a Ninety-Nine-Thousand-Year Crane Spirit Tree into a Natal Magical Artifact and wondered whether Five Elements Qi could power a flying vessel.
• Chen Xun assigned himself the Giant Ship's construction and Big Black Ox the remaining work, declaring that their Crossing the Heaven's End Plan had officially begun.

In Flower Rain Valley, Chen Xun studied how Crane Spirit Trees’ Wood Spiritual Qi transformed into attribute-less spiritual qi and realized Heaven and Earth Five Elements Qi needed a medium to become usable. He recorded ideas for developing his own cultivation method while Big Black Ox began planning new array flags.

• Chen Xun observed that old Crane Spirit Trees drained the valley’s spiritual qi and that their emitted Wood Spiritual Qi transformed only very slowly.
• Chen Xun realized that planting old Crane Spirit Trees throughout the Cultivation World could exhaust its spiritual qi, then put on his Bandit Mask before dismissing the idea.
• Chen Xun summoned his five Five Elements Nascent Souls and recognized that Heaven and Earth Five Elements Qi needed a medium to transform into attribute-less spiritual qi.
• Chen Xun wrote down his insights about cultivation and planned to study Five Elements Spirit Root Cultivation Methods from every stage.
• Chen Xun considered whether Crane Spirit Trees could help form spirit veins and spirit stone mines, while Big Black Ox contemplated refining two more array flags.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox felled the Crane Spirit Trees, discussed combining Five Elements Qi with spiritual energy, and tested a flying boat on their journey to Qian Kingdom. They arrived at the Five Elements Sect and discovered two towering statues that appeared to depict them, then slipped past the sect’s protective array.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox chopped down the Crane Spirit Trees in Flower Rain Valley and discussed crafting Five Elements Array Flags.
• Chen Xun showed the Big Black Ox his ideas about the relationship between Five Elements Qi and spiritual energy, and they discussed them for three days.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox tested their spirit-tree flying boat, reminisced about their long time together, and traveled toward Qian Kingdom.
• After half a year, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox arrived at the Five Elements Sect and recognized its two enormous statues as resembling themselves.
• The Big Black Ox stored the flying boat, then he and Chen Xun bypassed the Mountain Protecting Array and entered the sect.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Five Elements Sect and discovered that Ji Kun’s direct descendants had been marginalized and kept ignorant by the Ji Clan’s collateral branch. After confronting the Ji Clan, Chen Xun revealed himself as the returned Old Ancestor, leaving the sect in awe.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found Ji Estate on a Spirit Peak and overheard Ji Yan urging Ji Dingren to arrange a marriage with Liu Han.
• Ji Dingren revealed that the Ji Clan’s collateral branch had taken power from Ji Kun’s direct descendants, who had been kept isolated in the rear courtyard.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared before Ji Dingren, and Chen Xun’s spiritual power shook the mountain range as he condemned the Ji Clan.
• The cultivators of the Five Elements Sect rushed to Ji Estate, and Chen Xun declared that he had returned as the Old Ancestor.
• The cultivators bowed and paid homage to Chen Xun as the Old Ancestor.

Chen Xun disciplined Ji Clan relatives who had abused their ties to him, entrusted precious resources to the Five Elements Sect, and arranged for its protection before departing with three young disciples. The chapter left Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao aboard Chen Xun and Big Black Ox’s vessel, beginning their journey under the two Nascent Soul cultivators’ guidance.

• Chen Xun ordered the Five Elements Sect to investigate Ji Dingren and Ji Yan’s misconduct and expel them, while preserving and strictly guiding genuine Ji Clan descendants.
• Chen Xun gave six Five Elements Sect leaders precious pills and herbs, warned them that upheaval threatened the Cultivation World, and told them to protect the sect and its inheritance.
• Big Black Ox set up an array around the Five Elements Sect, where Chen Xun had buried ancient Crane Spirit Trees to nourish the land.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed the Five Elements Sect with Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao aboard their flying vessel.

Chen Xun brought Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao to Nine Palaces Mountain and began teaching them how dangerous the Cultivation World could be. After Jiang Xuechen welcomed them with gifts, Chen Xun led them to start settling in and cultivating.

• Chen Xun gave the three disciples booklets of practical scenarios and answers about surviving the Cultivation World, and they studied them during the journey.
• Three months later, Chen Xun arrived at Nine Palaces Mountain with Big Black Ox and the three disciples, where Jiang Xuechen welcomed them.
• Jiang Xuechen gave Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao Mystic Rank Low-Grade Magical Artifacts and invited them to visit Listening Snow Valley.
• Chen Xun rebuked the three for staring after Jiang Xuechen, then led them and Big Black Ox into the forest to build a house.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent decades developing their cultivation and a gigantic flying vessel while their three juniors advanced to Foundation Establishment and later entered seclusion. After reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Chen Xun began cultivating Five Elements Qi directly, unleashing a terrifying phenomenon across Nine Palaces Mountain.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox guided Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao through decades of cultivation, and the three juniors eventually achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox developed a gigantic flying vessel but could not yet make it transform Five Elements Qi.
• A disaster in the Northern Border stirred the Cultivation World, leaving the region forbidden and the major sects in mourning.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage after consuming pill-patterned Nascent Soul Pills for over a hundred years.
• Chen Xun declared that cultivation meant following Heaven's way and cultivating the Five Elements, then drew Five Elements Qi into his body as the arrays failed and Jiang Xuechen sensed the disturbance.

Chen Xun attempted to forge the Five Elements Immortal Path, drawing in vast amounts of Five Elements Qi as his spirit roots shattered and his life force dwindled. Half a month later, his Five Elements image stirred and a new aura emerged, leaving Big Black Ox preparing for whatever came next.

• Jiang Xuechen and the cultivators of Nine Palaces Mountain felt the immense spirit pressure spreading from Flower Rain Valley.
• Chen Xun transformed his body by replacing the spirit qi in his meridians with Five Elements Qi, and he realized the heavenly tribulation had targeted his Five Elements Golden Core and Nascent Soul.
• Chen Xun's Five Elements Spirit Roots shattered as the system helped him endure the pain, while Big Black Ox watched over him in alarm.
• Half a day later, Chen Xun remained unconscious and bloodied as his image shrank and senile decay spread through his body.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun's image moved and five Nascent Soul Phantoms appeared above him, prompting Big Black Ox to raise barriers and prepare an altar.

Chen Xun created the Five Elements Immortal Path, discovering that Five Elements Power could neutralize spells and transform his cultivation techniques. He began investigating how the new path affected plants and divine sense while Big Black Ox prepared to sever its own path.

• Chen Xun grew Five Elements Spirit Roots from his five Nascent Souls and realized that the Five Elements Immortal Path was only a beginning.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox about his new path and promised to explain how to sever the immortal path.
• Chen Xun demonstrated that he could break down Big Black Ox's Starfall Technique into spirit qi using Five Elements Power.
• Chen Xun considered the unfinished cultivation method and found that his Water Spirit Art had changed, making its Five Elements Power especially compatible with plants.
• Chen Xun tested the changed Water Spirit Art on a spiritual medicine seed, applied green liquid to it, and recorded questions about why his divine sense had not transformed.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox completed their Five Elements transformations and discussed Chen Xun’s mutated Spirit Gathering Grass before meeting with their disciples and Jiang Xuechen. Jiang Xuechen asked whether there was any hope of recovering Old Ancestor Jinyu, who had not returned from the Northern Border.

• Chen Xun observed the Spirit Gathering Grass he had cultivated and decided to further mutate the Crane Spirit Tree for the Giant Ship.
• Big Black Ox completed its transformation, gained a Five Elements Spirit Root, and shared its ideas for using Five Elements Qi in formations and the Giant Ship.
• Three days later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered with Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao outside Sealed Crossing Pavilion and urged them to cultivate carefully and avoid needless risks.
• Jiang Xuechen arrived and asked Chen Xun whether there was any hope of recovering Old Ancestor Jinyu, even if only her corpse.

Chen Xun recounted the cultivation world’s wars and losses, helping Jiang Xuechen understand the hardships behind his and Big Black Ox’s long lives. As Jiang Xuechen departed, Chen Xun told Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao he would watch Liu Han reach Golden Core before sending them back to the Five Elements Sect.

• Chen Xun told the younger cultivators about the Qian Kingdom’s conquest of Wu and how friends who joined the war returned with damaged foundations or never came back.
• Big Black Ox added details to Chen Xun’s stories, and Jiang Xuechen’s doubts began to ease as she heard how much the two seniors had witnessed.
• Chen Xun said he and Big Black Ox would not stay much longer and that the three juniors would eventually return to the Five Elements Sect.
• Jiang Xuechen thanked Chen Xun for his guidance, saluted him, and departed, promising to remember his kindness to Moon Holding Pavilion.
• Chen Xun told Shi Wujun and Ji Zhao to protect Liu Han, and promised the three he would watch Liu Han reach Golden Core before sending them down the mountain.
• The three juniors knelt to Chen Xun, then left for Listening Snow Valley after he promised to cook for them once a month.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent decades developing a Five Elements flying vessel, using a Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree with black-and-white leaves to help power it. As chaos spread through the Cultivation World, they completed their vessel and prepared to activate it with Five Elements Qi.

• Chen Xun assigned Big Black Ox to drive the Giant Ship while he studied techniques and began creating new ones.
• Over ten years, the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree grew at the ship’s stern and developed black-and-white leaves; Chen Xun and Big Black Ox destroyed the spiritually powered ship and tree to rebuild them around Five Elements Qi.
• Forty years later, chaos spread across the Qian Kingdom as sect disciples were ambushed, alliances shifted, and the Five Elements Sect sealed its gates.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox completed a one-hundred-and-fifty-zhang flying vessel equipped with arrays, living quarters, and a black-and-white-leaved Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox celebrated their new home and prepared to make Five Elements Qi the vessel’s energy source.