Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox began refining their giant ship as a Natal Magic Treasure, imagining it might one day break through the barrier at the Bank of the Milky Way. Fifty years later, they saw Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao off as the three set out for the Five Elements Sect, urging them to experience the mortal and cultivation worlds and cultivate their hearts.

• Chen Xun proposed that he and Big Black Ox refine their ship, built from a Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree, into a Natal Magic Treasure and perhaps make it a World Breaking Ship.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent years refining the ship in Flower Rain Valley, where their work made the surrounding area forbidden ground.
• After fifty years, Liu Han, Shi Wujun, and Ji Zhao prepared to leave Moon Holding Pavilion for the Five Elements Sect, each having reached Golden Core Early Stage.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared to see the three off and gave them Storage Bags prepared by Ox Ancestor.
• Chen Xun advised the three to travel without fixating on cultivation, gain their own insights, and remain reverent toward all things under heaven.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared to leave Nine Palaces Mountain and tested their Giant Ship, whose power astonished the mountain’s cultivators. They vanished into the sky, leaving behind a forbidden legend and no word of where they had gone.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox saw off three young cultivators, then visited Jiang Xuechen and told her they might leave for the Heaven Severing Great Plains.
• Jiang Xuechen encouraged Chen Xun that a path across the Heaven Severing Great Plains would surely exist, and Chen Xun promised they would cross it.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox activated the Giant Ship’s formations and drew in the Five Elements Qi Between Heaven and Earth.
• The Giant Ship rose above Nine Palaces Mountain, displaying its enormous black-and-white tree and terrifying spirit pressure before vanishing into the sky.
• Jiang Xuechen and the three young cultivators bade farewell to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, who disappeared from the Cultivation World and became a forbidden legend at Nine Palaces Mountain.

A year after leaving Nine Palaces Mountain, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox guarded the Scolding Spirit Sect’s Skill Transmission Pavilion while studying inherited techniques. Chen Xun used a Qi Condensation technique to deduce a way to cultivate Five Elements Qi, ending with forty Acupoints opened in his body.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox discussed how inherited techniques and medical knowledge had been won through predecessors’ sacrifices.
• Chen Xun explained that studying many ordinary techniques could help him create a Five Elements Qi Condensation technique.
• Chen Xun began reversing Five Elements Qi through a Spirit Qi technique and asked the Big Black Ox to watch the pavilion.
• As Chen Xun’s meridians ruptured, he used Five Elements Qi to wash them and open his body’s Acupoints.
• Five Nascent Soul Phantoms helped Chen Xun break through the Acupoints, and his technique ultimately opened forty.

Chen Xun completed the first Qi Condensation cultivation method for the Five Elements Immortal Path, then spent centuries with Big Black Ox refining their cultivation and gathering knowledge. The chapter left them wandering the Eastern Nations with a self-contained cycle of 120 acupoints and power that could overwhelm cultivators of the same realm.

• Chen Xun opened forty acupoints and tested Five Elements Power, discovering that it silently crushed spirit qi and broke down soil and rock.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox he had created the Five Elements Immortal Path's first Qi Condensation method, and the two celebrated before recording their discoveries.
• Chen Xun mapped the acupoints and wrote down precautions while Big Black Ox reorganized cultivation arrays; Big Black Ox later opened forty acupoints, and Chen Xun bought three Crimson Lightning Wolves.
• Three years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Scolding Spirit Sect after giving it Foundation Establishment pills and spirit herbs, then visited major sects to study ordinary cultivation methods.
• Over two hundred years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox opened 120 acupoints across Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core, forming a cycle Chen Xun named the Human Aperture.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox strengthened their Five Elements Power and nurtured their Natal Magic treasures to 280,000 years as they continued wandering the Eastern Nations.

At the Pill Cauldron Sect, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox released Shen Yifeng after Zheng Yi pleaded for him and taught him a lesson about the dangers of arrogance. They stayed at the sect to study its Nascent Soul cultivation methods and Pills Dao, with Zheng Yi visiting to discuss alchemy.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox refused to release Shen Yifeng until Zheng Yi came to plead for his disciple and accept responsibility for his behavior.
• Chen Xun dissolved the Five Elements Chains, and Shen Yifeng apologized to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.
• Zheng Yi began scolding Shen Yifeng and prepared to attack him, but Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stopped Zheng Yi by suppressing him with Five Elements Power.
• Chen Xun warned Shen Yifeng that hidden experts were everywhere and calamity could come from careless words, then let Zheng Yi take him away.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox resumed reading at the Pill Cauldron Sect, where Chen Xun studied Nascent Soul cultivation methods and later discussed Pills Dao with Zheng Yi.

Chen Xun discussed the Heaven Severing Great Plains and the failed Northern Border expedition with Zheng Yi, then accepted a jade slip to help him visit other Immortal Gates and study Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods. After years of quiet research and travel, Chen Xun began forcing open his meridians with Five Elements Qi, leaving him badly injured while Big Black Ox watched helplessly.

• Chen Xun told Zheng Yi he planned to cross the Heaven Severing Great Plains, and Zheng Yi explained that an ancient Large Teleportation Array had once been found there.
• Chen Xun and Zheng Yi discussed the failed Northern Border plan and mourned the young cultivators who had died far from home.
• Zheng Yi gave Chen Xun a jade slip to ease his visits to other Immortal Gates and encouraged him to create a cultivation method.
• Chen Xun studied cultivation methods, refined Five Elements pills, and shared a peaceful decade with Big Black Ox before they left the mountain with Zheng Yi's farewell.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited other Immortal Gates as guests, where Chen Xun studied Nascent Soul Cultivation Methods.
• Chen Xun used Five Elements Qi to force open his meridians, suffering pain and bleeding while Big Black Ox anxiously watched.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox completed their preparations to leave the Cultivation World after Chen Xun perfected the Five Elements Immortal Path method. Two years later, their Giant Ship reached the Northern Border, where they faced powerful spirit beasts with overwhelming force.

• Chen Xun opened sixteen Earth Apertures, realized the Five Elements Immortal Path remained incomplete, and refused to let Big Black Ox cultivate the dangerous method.
• Over the next fifty years, Chen Xun perfected the cultivation method through the Nascent Soul Realm, and he and Big Black Ox prepared to leave the Azure Sea Sect.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox encountered Meng Sheng, a former Scolding Spirit Sect disciple who had reached the early Golden Core stage, and Chen Xun sent him on his way.
• Two years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox flew their Giant Ship into the Northern Border, awakening the attention of powerful spirit beasts beneath the glaciers.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox revealed their immense auras and over a hundred Five Elements Wheels, terrifying the spirit beasts into silence.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recovered the fallen cultivators from the Northern Border and returned their remains to their sects. A year later, they departed the Cultivation World aboard their Giant Ship as cultivators and mortals gathered to bid them farewell.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox threatened the Northern Border spiritual beasts, split the glacier with an axe, and recovered the cultivators buried beneath it.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun returned Jin Yu's body to Nine Palaces Mountain, while Big Black Ox brought Five Elements Sect cultivators' bodies back to their sect.
• A year later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared their Giant Ship outside Bailing City as cultivators and mortals rushed to see them off.
• The Five Elements Sect, Moon Holding Pavilion, and cultivators from across the region bid farewell as Chen Xun and Big Black Ox launched their ship.
• Zheng Yi urged Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to take care, and they sailed through a hole in the clouds toward the unknown.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled across the Heaven Severing Great Plains aboard their Giant Ship, cultivating and spending time with the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree. After reaching the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul Realm, they prepared for an ominous disturbance as black clouds and a strange wind appeared.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left their homeland aboard the Giant Ship and began cultivating while searching for a way to advance beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.
• After a hundred years, they had opened thirty Earth Apertures and strengthened their divine senses and physiques.
• Two hundred years into the journey, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox teased the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree and regaled it with stories of their past exploits.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached complete perfection in their cultivation by opening all forty Earth Apertures, then spent several years resting and entertaining themselves with the tree.
• Five years later, ink-black clouds and a strange wind appeared, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox armed themselves atop the Crane Head.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the Heaven Severing Ravine, where sinister winds attacked divine sense and drained spiritual qi. After investigating the ravine’s walls and the wind’s effects, they descended into its depths, treating the dangerous Unowned Land as theirs to explore.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox crossed the sinister winds in their Bandit Set and, a month later, found an immense, seemingly bottomless ravine from which the winds blew.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox studied the ravine and connected its restrictions on divine sense to Jin Yu’s death and a mysterious mountain in the Northern Border.
• Big Black Ox exposed a spirit herb to the sinister wind, and Chen Xun watched its spiritual qi drain away, concluding that the ravine’s influence might have contributed to the Heaven Severing Great Plains losing its spiritual qi.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox put away their Giant Ship and entered the ravine, where Chen Xun found that its walls were stone altered by the sinister wind rather than valuable ore.
• Chen Xun declared the Unowned Land theirs under his Rounding Up Great Law, and he and Big Black Ox descended farther into the ravine.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox explored the Heaven Severing Great Ravine and discovered that strange ores embedded in its walls emitted the sinister wind. They continued collecting the stones as they neared the bottom, convinced they had found an ownerless mineral vein.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox bombarded the ravine for seven days to draw out a ghostly creature, then descended again when nothing appeared.
• Chen Xun discovered that a glossy black stone damaged divine sense, and he and Big Black Ox pried it from the ravine wall.
• The stone glowed and released sinister wind, revealing to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox where the wind came from.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued downward, digging out more strange ores and finding that breaking one unleashed a divine-sense attack that their Bandit Set neutralized.
• After two months, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox neared the bottom with their Storage Rings full of ores.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that their Five Elements Power could decompose the ravine’s ore and absorb traces of its strange Extinguishing Divine Power. They began stripping the ore from the Heaven Severing Great Ravine, leaving the chapter with their enormous flying vessel sailing through the darkness like a ghost ship.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the ravine’s bottom, where they found fireballs, chilling winds, abundant ore, and enormous spirit beast skeletons.
• Big Black Ox discovered that decomposing the ore with Five Elements Power captured its strange power instead of letting it return to Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tested the ore together and absorbed several traces of the purified power into their bodies.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox rode through the ravine, collecting and decomposing ore while recording their observations and finding no cultivator remains.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox brought out their flying vessel and Little Crane, then continued harvesting ore as the vessel glided through the ravine like a ghost ship.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox used the ore in the Heaven Severing Great Ravine to develop divine apertures from their divine sense. After Chen Xun opened the first aperture, they opened sixteen each, then hit a bottleneck while continuing to store Extinguishing Divine Power.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sensed that Extinguishing Divine Power affected their divine sense and found a small mountain of the ore.
• Chen Xun realized the ore’s Extinguishing Divine Power could help open divine apertures and began breaking down the ore.
• Chen Xun endured the collapse of his divine sense and formed the first divine aperture while Big Black Ox gathered more ore for him.
• Chen Xun used his new aperture to release Extinguishing Divine Power and shatter the surrounding ground, then told Big Black Ox they would open its apertures too.
• Over the next three years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox opened sixteen divine apertures each, reached a bottleneck, and continued storing Extinguishing Divine Power.

While mining ore in the Heaven Severing Great Ravine, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered terrifying, living creatures sealed underground and fled in fear. A year later, they encountered miners from the other side of the ravine and decided to seek information about their powerful nation.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found blackish-purple ore veins containing immense, third-eyed living beings sealed underground, performed their blessing ritual, and fled the area.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox avoided the ravine floor for the rest of their time there, remaining fearful that the creatures might emerge.
• Qu Zhong led three junior cultivators in mining Extinguishing Divine Stones with Spirit Cleansing Grass protecting them from the Extinguishing Divine Wind.
• Qu Zhong saw Chen Xun and Big Black Ox's flying boat, mistook them for ghosts, and hurried away with his companions.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recognized the miners as cultivators from the other side of the ravine and set off to find people to question about their nation.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned from Huang Shao and Dai Xinqing about Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts and the price of Extinguishing Divine Stone. Their reaction to the information left the two cultivators terrified aboard the Giant Ship.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox crossed the Heaven Severing Great Ravine and learned that cultivators mined Extinguishing Divine Stone there to make Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts.
• Huang Shao told Dai Xinqing that he planned to make an Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifact to take revenge on the sect that had killed his family.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox summoned Huang Shao and Dai Xinqing onto their Giant Ship, where ancient Spirit Cleansing Grass protected them from the Extinguishing Divine Wind.
• Chen Xun asked where the two cultivators had come from and what Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts could do, and Huang Shao explained that they attacked divine sense and were crafted by powerful sects and families.
• Huang Shao and Dai Xinqing said a fist-sized Extinguishing Divine Stone sold for about ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and a terrifying pressure from Chen Xun and Big Black Ox briefly stilled the wind and left them unable to move.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned about Great Li and investigated the Extinguishing Divine Stones before finally leaving the Heaven Severing Great Ravine. They emerged at Great Li’s frontier, beginning their journey into the vast superpower.

• Chen Xun questioned Huang Shao and Dai Xinqing about Great Li, then rewarded them with Extinguishing Divine Stones and Spirit Cleansing Grasses.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox experimented with the stones and suspected they were connected to the terrifying beings sealed underground and might have come from beyond the Bank of the Milky Way.
• Big Black Ox discovered that the stones could absorb Five Elements Qi and transform, so Chen Xun told it to prepare them before they departed for Great Li.
• After lingering in the ravine for half a year, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox launched their flying vessel toward the surface.
• The flying vessel burst out of the Heaven Severing Great Ravine, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived at Great Li’s frontier.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox crossed Great Li’s Sky Covering Great Array and discovered the lush, spirit-rich Heaven Severing Great Plains beyond it. They explored the grasslands without disturbing its spirit beasts or gathering its resources, venturing deeper into the frontier.

• Big Black Ox examined the Sky Covering Great Array and found that its foundation extended underground, while Chen Xun realized it could block the Extinguishing Divine Wind without preventing passage.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox set off on foot, excited by the prospect of exploring Great Li, learning about teleportation arrays, and eventually going to sea.
• After seven days, they crossed three layers of the array and emerged onto the vast, green Heaven Severing Great Plains.
• Chen Xun rode on Big Black Ox as it charged across the prairie, and they marveled at its abundant spiritual energy and scenery.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched two Foundation Establishment spirit beasts fight, causing the beasts to flee in opposite directions.
• For half a month, Big Black Ox ran across the plains while Chen Xun occasionally joined in, and they left the spirit herbs and beasts undisturbed as they reached the grassland’s depths.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox encountered a timid Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion being chased across the Heaven Severing Great Plains and followed it to its underground hideout. The lion tried to escape after pretending to cooperate, but Chen Xun and Big Black Ox beat it senseless, still puzzled by how weak it seemed.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox saw a Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion flee from two Golden Core spirit beasts, then watched it defeat them and escape.
• The lion dug an underground hideout and hoped to spend the rest of its life peacefully on the Heaven Severing Great Plains.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared before the lion, suppressed it with Five Elements Power, and asked it to shrink and be their friend.
• The lion shrank to dog size, pretended to submit, then sent out its Nascent Soul to flee.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox trapped the lion with an array and beat it until it lay dazed in a pit.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox befriended the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion by listening to its painful past and sharing their own hardships. As the lion insisted it wanted only to live and die peacefully in the Heaven Severing Great Plains, Chen Xun suggested they were alike and that he understood it.

• The Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion begged Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to spare its life, but they explained they only wanted to talk.
• The lion revealed that its clan had been exterminated and that it had lived alone ever since, wary of other spirit beasts and humans.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox shared stories of nearly starving in Small Mountain Village, and the lion felt they understood its hardships.
• The lion described its fears of leaving the Heaven Severing Great Plains and said it hoped to die peacefully.
• Chen Xun asked whether the lion wanted to see the outside world, then told it they were the same kind and that he understood it.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox offered the lonely Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion a place as their companion, then forcibly brought it aboard their flying vessel. The trio departed for Great Li with the lion accepting their company.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox told the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion they wanted it as a companion, not a mount.
• Chen Xun promised that he and Big Black Ox would protect the lion as they traveled together.
• The lion hesitated to trust them and tried to refuse as the Giant Ship began to rise.
• Chen Xun used Five Elements Divine Light to pull the lion onto the flying vessel, where it joyfully agreed to go with them.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed with the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion aboard the vessel, heading for Great Li.