Chapter Summaries

At the Boundless Immortals' assembly, the Old Heavenly Master condemned Luo Xiuyuan and left, while a Sage explained why the Three Thousand Immortal Territories had to remain divided and prepare for the Primordial Myriad Races. The Sages agreed to let the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance act without openly involving Eternal Immortal Frontier, leaving the Primordial Heavenly Court to face the consequences.

• Luo Xiuyuan's remarks exposed the conflict between the Three Thousand Immortal Territories' natives and the Innate Lifeforms of the Immortal Realm.
• The Old Heavenly Master rebuked Luo Xiuyuan, then left the assembly with several other powerhouses.
• A Sage argued that the Three Thousand Immortal Territories had to defend itself against the Primordial Myriad Races and bear the karma inherited from the Great World Overlord Clans.
• The Sages explained that they opposed unification because a divided Immortal Realm prevented its power structure from becoming entrenched.
• After hearing that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had intervened, the Sages chose to wait and let it act without Eternal Immortal Frontier's open support.

Luo Xiuyuan journeyed to the Eternal Immortal Frontier to challenge its Dao, convinced that its cultivator had obstructed his enlightenment. The Frontier answered with a single thread of starlight that crushed him, leaving him fallen and the watching Primordial Immortals terrified.

• Luo Xiuyuan traveled through the Immortal Realm as auspicious signs appeared with every step, then accused the Eternal Daoist Friend of obstructing his enlightenment.
• Luo Xiuyuan advanced into the Three Thousand Immortal Territories with Chang Feng and killed a group of Primordial Cultivators on an immortal bridge.
• Luo Xiuyuan arrived at Cloud Peak and publicly challenged the Eternal Immortal Frontier to answer whether it could still be called the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Peak.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier sent down a thread of starlight that struck Luo Xiuyuan’s brow, crushed Cloud Peak, and sent him crashing to the ground.
• A voice from the Realm of the Void declared Luo Xiuyuan’s Dao too thin to bear his question, while the surrounding Primordial Immortals watched in terror.

Luo Xiuyuan fled after a senior from the Eternal Immortal Frontier severed his Great Dao obsession, while Bi Fan dismissed concerns about him at the Star Gate. In Minghuang Hanzhou, Myriad Cliffs Sea had become Boss Chen’s famous fishing ground, with cultivators already arguing over who would win the next Fishing Grand Event.

• Luo Xiuyuan cast off his Great Dao obsession, bowed to the ancient sages of Eternal Antiquity, and departed.
• Three days later, Luo Xiuyuan raced through the immortal territory, evading danger and severing old karma as he fled the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Luo Xiuyuan chose to remain in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and hide in a blessed land to heal, lamenting that its ancient histories had deceived him.
• Bi Fan told her brother she had driven away the outsider who sought the Dao, and vowed to destroy his Dao Fruit if he returned with ill intent.
• Cultivators gathered at Myriad Cliffs Sea in Minghuang Hanzhou, where they discussed Boss Chen’s fishing ground and boasted about the upcoming Second Session Fishing Grand Event.

Chen Xun turned Myriad Cliffs Sea into a thriving fishing destination while the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s powers explored the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. Years later, Ji Ziyu explained that the Eternal Immortal Frontier would guard the Primordial Heavenly Court for a time, leaving Shang Chen to recognize the greater force shaping the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Xun and his companions ran a popular fishery at Myriad Cliffs Sea, where cultivators paid admission and sought opportunities by fishing.
• Chen Xun kicked Mountain-Sitting Duck into the sea after it teased him about fishing, and chaos broke out aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Tian Li and Qian Shan learned that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance was collecting local specialties while other Eternal Immortal Frontier powers pursued their own activities in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year 4,100,000, Shang Chen had strengthened the Primordial Heavenly Court with Nine Heavens Turbid Spirit Factories and Primordial Spirit Manor.
• Ji Ziyu presented Shang Chen with ten strategies, declined to serve as an immortal minister, and said the Eternal Immortal Frontier would guard the Primordial Heavenly Court for a stretch of the road.
• Shang Chen let Ji Ziyu leave and realized that one chess player had long controlled the Immortal Realm’s unfolding events.

Ten years later, Chen Xun promised Frog Daoist that he would continue protecting the Primordial Heavenly Court as the Immortal Realm’s Dao lineages rapidly expanded. Three Beginnings challenged the First Light Saint for the position of Dao master, igniting the first battle of the Immortal Realm Dao Struggle, while the Yu Immortal Kingdom stirred toward a reckoning with the Demon Court.

• Frog Daoist told Chen Xun that forces were targeting the Primordial Heavenly Court, and Chen Xun reaffirmed his promise to protect it.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year 4,200,000, Heavenly Dao Transmission spread across the Immortal Realm as Great Dao Immortals founded sects, schools, and new Dao lineages.
• Three Beginnings’ Spirit Corpse appeared before the First Light Saint and demanded that he yield the Dao master seat to settle their old karma.
• The First Light Saint refused to yield, and he and the Spirit Corpse began a battle that became known as the first battle of the Immortal Realm Dao Struggle.
• The battle’s outcome remained unclear, while the dormant Yu Immortal Kingdom stirred toward a reckoning with the Tai Yao Immortal Domain’s Demon Court.

Immortal Emperor Yu declared war on the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, prompting the Demon Court and other powers to prepare to join the conflict. As the Boundless Immortal Domain watched the escalating turmoil, Nanhua arrived in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories hoping to establish a new Dao lineage.

• Immortal Emperor Yu challenged anyone who opposed his path to come to Tai Ling and face his forces.
• The Demon Emperor summoned the Demon Court army and declared war on the Tai Ling Immortal Domain.
• Immortal Emperor Cang Lei ordered the Thunder Sound Divine Court to prepare the Heavenly Punishment Pillar and promised to unleash the first thunder.
• Old Ancestor Xuan Ji watched the gathering powers without involving himself, while Dao Venerable Chi Guang observed from the Grand Void and welcomed the challenge to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories' rules.
• The sages of the Boundless Immortal Domain recognized that powerful lineages across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were acting independently.
• Nanhua arrived at the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and considered founding the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace there.

After seven years of travel, Nanhua arrived in a frontier immortal city and discovered an unexpectedly flourishing cultivation world governed by strict Immortal Dao Rules. He studied a coordinate map that revealed the vast Three Thousand Immortal Territories and its layered defenses around the Boundless Immortal Domain.

• Nanhua explored the frontier city with his Immortal Sense and was astonished by its powerful cultivators, immortal beings, and flourishing Dao lineages.
• Jiang Xiaoyu introduced herself and explained that the Immortal Pavilion belonged to the Universal Sky Spirit Estate.
• Nanhua asked Jiang Xiaoyu about the Five Elements Immortal Sect and the strongest lineage in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, frightening her into leaving.
• Nanhua reflected that the Immortal Dao Rules made cultivators overly cautious and lacking in the spirit of survival of the fittest.
• Nanhua examined a coordinate map and saw the Boundless Immortal Domain surrounded by three thousand connected mountains, four nearby immortal domains, and more than a hundred vast domains beyond them.

Nanhua studied a coordinate map of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and realized how vast its reach and ambitions were, while choosing Tai Chu Immortal Domain as the base for his lineage. He stole the map from an Immortal Pavilion and vanished, earning a place on the Three Thousand Immortal Territories Wanted List.

• Nanhua examined the tiers of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and learned that his city stood near the edge of the Boundless Immortal Domain, beside the Void Sea.
• Nanhua saw that the map extended toward the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains and suspected the Three Thousand Immortal Territories had long observed and infiltrated it.
• Nanhua studied the wider star diagram and wondered whether the Eternal Immortal Frontier had once sought to claim the entire Immortal Realm.
• Nanhua spotted the Heavenly Frontier and an immortal bridge, then chose Tai Chu Immortal Domain as the Dragon-Rising Land for his lineage.
• Nanhua took the coordinate map from the Immortal Pavilion and disappeared, ignoring its furious keeper.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories placed Nanhua on its Wanted List.

The Universal Sky Spirit Estate declared Nanhua a wanted criminal and plotted to use him to settle unsolved cases, while Nanhua evaded their pursuit. He resolved to make the Spirit Estate the first target in establishing his Dao lineage in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.

• The Universal Sky Spirit Estate's Dao Judging Ancient Immortals issued a decree accusing Nanhua of violating the Three Thousand Immortal Territories' Dao Covenant and ordered his karma judged.
• The Spirit Estate's immortals learned Nanhua was heading toward the Ancient Myriad Races Immortal Domain and discussed exploiting his capture to claim credit for unresolved cases.
• Ten years later, the Spirit Estate had spread Nanhua's wanted order across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, drawing offers of protection from powerful factions.
• Nanhua cut off the Immortal Words reaching him and dismissed the Spirit Estate's attempts to locate his real coordinates.
• Nanhua accused the Spirit Estate of coveting his Great Dao and decided to begin establishing his Dao lineage by striking against it.

Nanhua fled across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, where powerful factions hunted him and forced him to leave the Tai Chu Immortal Domain. Years later, he encountered Luo Xiuyuan, and the two immediately felt a bond as if they had met too late.

• Nanhua tried to escape a battle between Immortal Domains but was trapped in a formation and spent a hundred years fleeing pursuit.
• Wanted notices spread across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and Mu Hua Jue told Chong Miao to ask the Hun Ling, Divine Softshell Turtle, and Yu Kui clans to forge good karma with Nanhua.
• After a thousand years, Nanhua reached the Tai Chu Immortal Domain, but its great powers warned him to leave or face destruction.
• Fifty years later, Nanhua was declared fallen and his name was removed from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Luo Xiuyuan saw Old Immortal Nanhua telling fortunes outside his tavern, and the two recognized a bond between them.

Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua met in a frontier city, shared their experiences, and decided to stay amid the upheaval of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. Decades later, Chen Xun entrusted Zhong Wan with managing the Myriad Cliffs Sea fishery while he continued tending it with Big Black Ox and the others.

• Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua recognized each other in a tavern and exchanged accounts of their legendary pasts and their struggles against powerful forces.
• After talking for three days and nights, Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua chose to remain in the frontier region and wait for the world’s great changes.
• Thirty years later, Nanhua and Luo Xiuyuan established the minor Great Violet Luo Heaven Sect, with Nanhua as Great Ancestor and Luo Xiuyuan as Second Ancestor.
• At the Myriad Cliffs Sea, Chen Xun assigned Zhong Wan to take over management of the fishery after she reached the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
• Little Crimson questioned whether Zhong Wan could manage the fishery, but Chen Xun defended his choice while grooming it.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled through the province after learning that the Five Elements Immortal Scripture had stalled among its cultivators, then set out to spread it elsewhere. A hundred years later, Chen Xun reunited with Nanhua in a frontier city, and his arrival restored the supposedly blind fortune-teller’s sight.

• Chen Xun learned that the province’s Five Elements Immortal Scripture inheritance had been cut off again, and Little Crimson suggested the Three Thousand Immortal Territories might be more receptive to it.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson left Frog Daoist and the others to guard the ship, beating up Mountain-Sitting Duck before departing.
• A hundred years later, Nanhua and Luo Xiuyuan had selected more than a hundred disciples in a remote frontier city beyond the Immortal Bridge.
• Chen Xun approached Nanhua’s fortune-telling stall and teased him about his business and whether he had predicted Chen Xun’s arrival.
• Nanhua’s stool burst apart as his eyes opened, prompting a passerby to call Chen Xun a divine physician.

Chen Xun confronted Nanhua over his past crimes and demanded repayment for the lives he owed. He then summoned Luo Xiuyuan and asked him to help with a matter, leaving Luo Xiuyuan to consider the Dao Ancestor’s power and request.

• Chen Xun told Nanhua to return the map and reminded him of his past actions against the Five Elements Sect and Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Nanhua bowed and begged Chen Xun for mercy, then accepted Chen Xun’s demand that he repay six lifetimes.
• Chen Xun ordered Nanhua to sit and called Luo Xiuyuan over from the tavern.
• Luo Xiuyuan paid his respects, and Chen Xun asked him to repay his gratitude by helping with one matter.
• Luo Xiuyuan silently assessed Chen Xun’s strength as Chen Xun furrowed his brows at his silence.

Chen Xun sent Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua to spread the Five Elements Immortal Scripture, then secretly staged their deaths and arranged a future for the Great Violet Luo Heaven Sect disciples. A hundred years later, Nanhua and Luo Xiuyuan returned to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, where Nanhua invoked the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s name as the Demon Court and Yu Immortal Kingdom moved against him.

• Chen Xun ordered Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua to spread the Five Elements Immortal Scripture through the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and Nanhua accepted the task.
• Chen Xun, the Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson faked Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua’s deaths, held their funerals, and arranged for Yu Fangshuo to look after the Great Violet Luo Heaven Sect disciples.
• Chen Xun and his companions left at night to visit the Immortal Bridge.
• A hundred years later, Luo Xiuyuan and Nanhua returned to the End of the Immortal Bridge, where seven ancient demon immortals arrived to capture Nanhua and rebuked Luo Xiuyuan.
• Nanhua displayed the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s Dao-Inquiry Immortal Scripture, provoking the demon immortals and prompting an Immortal King from the Yu Immortal Kingdom to strike at him with a Ten Thousand Zhang Immortal Blade.

After three years of being hunted, Nanhua was surrounded in an ancient mountain, where Demon Sage Bai Xuanyu revealed the Demon Court’s reverence for the Dao Ancestor and offered him refuge. An Immortal King then warned Nanhua to fulfill the Dao Ancestor’s Decree, leaving him caught between the powers of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.

• Nanhua’s pursuit lasted three years, costing him a treasured immortal weapon and drawing Luo Xiuyuan into the hunt as well.
• Demon Sage Bai Xuanyu arrived and told the gathered powers that the Demon Court would wipe away its grievances with Nanhua because he carried the Dao Ancestor’s Decree.
• Nanhua distrusted Bai Xuanyu’s offer and warned that his death could doom the Demon Court by leaving the Dao Ancestor’s Immortal Scripture lost.
• Bai Xuanyu explained the Demon Court’s ties to the Dao Ancestor, offered Nanhua refuge in the Tai Yao Immortal Domain, and departed with the Demon Court powers.
• Immortal King Ling Xi arrived, invited Nanhua to the Ling Clan, and threatened to kill him if he failed to fulfill the Dao Ancestor’s Decree.

Nanhua used the Five Elements Immortal Scripture and his connection to the Five Elements Dao Ancestor to secure peace and establish the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace in the Boundless Immortal Domain. A thousand years later, the palace had become a haven for wanted criminals, leaving Nanhua stunned by how many infamous thieves had joined him.

• The Universal Sky Spirit Estate's Spirit Venerable erased Nanhua's wanted notice after the Five Elements Dao Ancestor's intervention deterred other factions.
• Luo Xiuyuan recognized the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, and he and Nanhua agreed not to depend on a powerful backer.
• Luo Xiuyuan advised Nanhua to avoid the Tai Chu Immortal Domain and spread his Dao in the Boundless Immortal Domain instead.
• Thirty years later, Nanhua founded the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace and attracted cultivators from many races, while Luo Xiuyuan struggled to build the impoverished sect.
• Nanhua realized he had to spread the Five Elements Immortal Path rather than the Luo Heaven Great Dao because he owed the Five Elements Dao Ancestor six lives.
• A thousand years later, the palace had become a thieves' den filled with wanted criminals, and Nanhua was shocked as he searched the wanted list for its members.

Nanhua discovered that the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace had sheltered powerful wanted cultivators, but Luo Xiuyuan convinced him to keep them and trust in the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s backing. After thousands of years of secret preparations, the palace rose to prominence in the Boundless Immortal Domain, where Nanhua proclaimed the Five Elements Dao Era and summoned a Five Elements Immortal Scripture.

• Nanhua learned that Zi Nie was an Eight Tribulation Dao Lord and a wanted member of the Devil Race, but Luo Xiuyuan persuaded him to let her remain as hall master.
• Nanhua discovered that the Silent Extinction Hall’s master, Three Beginnings, was a notorious Corpse Lord hiding from powerful enemies, and learned that Sheng Yuan was also wanted by the Lightning Dao Immortal Court.
• Nanhua spent years nervously guarding the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace while no outside powers came to demand punishment.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year 4,210,000, the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace appeared openly in the Zhongji region of the Boundless Immortal Domain and became a renowned Dao lineage.
• Standing on the Zi Wei Dao Platform, Nanhua declared that the Dao Era would shift and the Five Elements would prosper, and five streams of Origin Immortal Light formed a Five Elements Immortal Scripture above the palace.

Luo Xiuyuan warned Nanhua that official histories revealed Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace stood amid ancient feuds with the Immortal Realm’s Overlord Clans, but Nanhua chose to face the danger. At the Immortal Bridge, Chen Xun arrived with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, where mysterious beings bowed to him as the Dao Ancestor.

• Luo Xiuyuan told Nanhua that the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s enemies included Overlord Clans still hidden across the five great Immortal Domains.
• Nanhua revealed that establishing his Dao had stirred a clash with the Spirit Qi Immortal Path, which Luo Xiuyuan identified with the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• Nanhua declared that he would contend with the hundreds of millions of races and Dao lineages in the Boundless Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun arrived at the Immortal Bridge with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson as mysterious armored beings emerged from the chaotic mist.
• The beings paid homage to Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor, leaving Big Black Ox and Little Crimson stunned.

Chen Xun and his companions discovered that the Ominous Creatures had gathered on the Immortal Bridge, then investigated the bridge’s rare, naturally formed materials. After refining a piece and uncovering its body-tempering effect, Chen Xun summoned everyone to help explore its uses.

• Chen Xun explained that Ominous Creatures born from immortals had taken refuge in the Abandoned Immortal Land until the Ending Immortal Sect could return them to the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun recognized the Immortal Bridge’s markings and proposed harvesting its material to make an Innate Blessing Formation.
• Big Black Ox searched an ancient tome for the bridge’s origin, and Chen Xun identified its materials as Marrow Crystal Essence and stone left by the Destruction Dao Fire.
• Chen Xun struck the bridge with his Mountain-Splitting Axe, and Big Black Ox realized it could provide material for roads connecting the Eternal Immortal Frontier to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun refined a chunk of the bridge over three days and discovered that it could temper the bodies of Eternal Cultivators, so he called everyone over.

Ten years after Chen Xun summoned the Eternal Immortal Frontier, its cultivators began excavating Immortal Bridges, alarming the Primordial Heavenly Court a thousand years later. After Xian Yuanguang confronted the excavators and was swiftly defeated, the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance accepted the frontier’s work, while Shang Chen prepared to enter the true Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Chen Xun summoned the Eternal Immortal Frontier, and Shan Yuan ordered the Mountain Clan to excavate at least three thousand Immortal Bridges as cultivators poured through the East Heaven Star Gate.
• A thousand years later, Xian Yuanguang arrived at the frontier and discovered that the Qu Yan Immortal Bridge had vanished.
• Xian Yuanguang found the Heaven Ruins Sect excavating Immortal Bridges and confronted its cultivators, who explained that the bridges were not the Heavenly Court’s exclusive property.
• Xian Yuanguang charged the cultivators but was quickly overwhelmed, while the Heaven Ruins Sect reported the incident to the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance approved the excavation and opened several Immortal Bridge routes for the Primordial Heavenly Court, whose leaders accepted the arrangement.
• Shang Chen changed his appearance and prepared to enter the true Eternal Immortal Frontier.