Chapter Summaries

Ji Kun arrived at the ruined Human Ancestor Domain and found a young woman living beside the Human Emperor Hall. After a year there, he learned she had stayed because she could eat her fill, then disappeared.

• Travelers discussed the attention drawn by their Human Race identity as they journeyed through Boundless.
• The Human Ancestor Domain showed signs of revival, though its former glory and Human Dao fortune had faded.
• Ji Kun reached the ruins of the Human Emperor Hall and met a young woman who had lived there since birth.
• The young woman challenged Ji Kun, and he stayed at the ruins for a year as they watched the snow fall.
• Ji Kun asked why she remained, and she answered that she could eat her fill there before he vanished.

A Miao survived the climb Ji Kun demanded and stayed on Human Ancestor Mountain after he departed. A thousand years later, she found a Great Dao Ranking stone and saw the figure at the end of the Five Elements Immortal Path glance back at her.

• Ji Kun challenged the nameless woman to climb Human Ancestor Mountain if she wanted to eat, and she returned fifteen days later badly wounded, with her Golden Core shattered and Dao foundation ruined.
• The woman befriended Ji Kun, chose the name A Miao, and continued running the mountain paths after he vanished ten years later.
• A thousand years later, A Miao witnessed immortal light spread across the Immortal Firmament and discovered an ancient ranking stone in a valley.
• The stone revealed the Great Dao Ranking and drew A Miao's divine sense through several Daos, including the Human Emperor Dao and the Five Elements Immortal Path.
• A Miao saw a white-robed man standing at the end of the immortal road, and he glanced back at her.

After A Miao woke from her encounter with the stone, the Immortal Realm’s new Great Dao Ranking began guiding cultivators toward paths suited to their talents. At an Immortal Gate, disciples selected promising candidates and sent the rest onward, while hopeful cultivators argued for a chance to join.

• A Miao awoke with her divine sense exhausted, but she sensed Heaven and Earth Qi more clearly and gained a better understanding of how to cultivate.
• The Great Dao Ranking spread across the Immortal Realm, revealing suitable paths for beings whose talents had been overlooked and prompting powerful factions to recruit disciples.
• An Immortal Gate Supreme Elder chose a thousand cultivators for the sect and gave the others spirit stones and directions to another Dao sect.
• A man accompanied by a Black Ox and a lion questioned the lack of an entry trial, then accepted ten Low-Grade Immortal Spirit Stones and directions to Namefall Mountain.
• Tang Kong challenged the Immortal Gate’s selection, but a disciple judged his talents unsuited to the sect’s path, as other hopeful cultivators introduced themselves and pleaded to join.

Chen Xun and his companions used the Great Dao Ranking to gather cultivators across the Boundless Immortal Domain as disorder and bloodshed spread. The Human Dao Yellow Court returned under Gai Sanqian, who began reviving humanity by slaughtering the Ten Thousand Clans’ cultivators.

• Chen Xun and his companions sent incarnations to sects across the Boundless Immortal Domain, and one sect they joined was destroyed amid the rising conflicts.
• In Year 4,410,000, Immortal Fall Phenomena accompanied the deaths of many immortals, while their followers and cultivators of other Great Daos turned the domain into a battlefield; A Miao emerged from the Human Ancestor Domain.
• In Year 4,420,000, the Human Dao Yellow Court returned to the Human Ancestor Domain and announced that all humans could return to their ancestral land.
• Gai Sanqian told Mu Hua Jue that the Yellow Court would remain and work to revive humanity, then left to cleanse the Human Ancestor Domain of foreign cultivators.
• Over the next three years, Gai Sanqian killed cultivators of the Ten Thousand Clans, leaving mountains of corpses and earning a fearsome reputation as the swordsman who killed one man every ten steps.

Gai Sanqian killed Sang Feng by erasing his past from the River of Time and began a reckoning against those who oppressed the Human Race. As Mu Hua Jue witnessed the Defiled Lifespan race rally behind Gai Sanqian, Tai Xiao sealed and ranked the Spirit Qi Immortal Path on the Myriad Races Bridge, though the Eternal Immortal Frontier had thwarted his ambition to make it the Immortal Realm’s supreme Dao.

• Gai Sanqian confronted Sang Feng at Forbidden Seclusion Mountain for enslaving Human Race beings and erased Sang Feng and his Dao Fruit from the River of Time.
• Gai Sanqian demanded the return of the essence Sang Feng had taken from the Human Ancestor Domain and told Mu Hua Jue that the reckoning had begun.
• Mu Hua Jue saw the Defiled Lifespan beings emerge, and the new generation Zu Shou declared that the Human Lord’s will was his race’s will.
• The chapter revealed that Sheng Chang'an had recovered Zu Shou’s scattered bones and that Gai Sanqian had revived the Defiled Lifespan race in the Immortal Realm.
• Tai Xiao sealed and ranked the Spirit Qi Immortal Path on the Myriad Races Bridge, but regretted that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had prevented it from becoming the Immortal Realm’s supreme Dao.

As the Annihilate the Dao War subsided, Chen Xun kept gathering immortal essence while powerful figures watched, wary of provoking him. Ke Ding urged Chen Xun to leave, but the arrival of Nanhua’s disciple Chong Que reignited the Dao struggle.

• The gathered Saints, Dao Ancestors, and Heavenly Frontier monsters watched Chen Xun as the battle paused and the contest for the Great Dao Ranking came into view.
• Little Crimson urged Chen Xun to leave, but Chen Xun threatened to shatter the Great Dao Ranking if anyone made a move against him.
• First Light Saint supported Chen Xun’s control of the ranking and continued healing without intervening.
• Ke Ding emerged from the sea of blood and told Chen Xun it was time to leave before they could not return.
• Nanhua recognized Chong Que, who paid respects to his Master, and Nanhua erupted in fury, beginning the second battle of the Dao struggle.

Chen Xun and his companions left the Myriad Races Bridge after the battle, while the Immortal Realm was nourished by the fallen immortals and displayed a vast phenomenon. As they traveled, they discussed the returning Human Dao Yellow Court and the uncertain future of Eternal Antiquity.

• Chong Que defeated the weakened Nanhua, and Chen Xun departed with Ke Ding and the others after giving Tai Xiao a meaningful look.
• Chen Xun invited Three Beginnings to settle at the Eternal Immortal Frontier, but Three Beginnings declined and said he would leave after recovering.
• Immortal bones transformed into Heaven and Earth Essence, creating a vast phenomenon across the Boundless Immortal Domain and helping cultivators advance.
• Ke Ding marveled at the Immortal Realm's many Great Dao Origins, and Big Black Ox butted him after Chen Xun rebuked him for joking about Chen Xun's Third Sister.
• Ke Ding asked Chen Xun about the Human Dao Yellow Court's return, and Chen Xun said it had nothing to do with Senior Brother or with them.
• As the group continued traveling, Ke Ding warned that the Three Thousand Immortal Territories could become a vortex and questioned where Eternal Antiquity could safely go.

After the Eternal Immortal Frontier vanished, the Immortal Realm entered a period of treaties, exploration, and unprecedented peace. The chapter ends with this era flourishing unnoticed by the countless immortals caught up in its changes.

• Ke Ding tried to persuade Chen Xun to stay cautious, but Chen Xun and his companions departed.
• Cultivators flocked to the Boundless Immortal Domain, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories signed a non-aggression covenant; the Human Sect's leader mourned the losses recorded on its spirit tablets.
• The Ancient Immortal Clan vanished, and the Demon Court and Yu Immortal Kingdom continued their war.
• Underground cultivators opened exchanges with the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, prompting Shang Chen to lead a campaign to develop the underground Cave Realms.
• Zhetian left the Primordial Heavenly Court after parting ways with Shang Chen, who had chosen peace over ancestral hatred.
• The Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains and the Boundless Immortal Domain signed a non-aggression covenant, as the Immortal Realm entered an unprecedented age of peace.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox helped a beast-race community develop cities, sects, and spiritual herb fields before the Eternal Immortal Frontier continued its journey through the Star Wilderness. By the end, the Frontier had drifted so far from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories that even the Star Pivot could no longer reach them.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox helped the beast-race creatures build a great city and offered to teach them how to construct stone cities.
• Chen Xun brought the beast-race elders and youths to the Five Elements Sect, gave them his Planting Immortal Scripture, and taught them to identify spiritual herbs.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stayed for seven years as the beast race transformed a vast forest into ten thousand li of medicine fields.
• Five Elements Sects and great cities spread across the stellar continent, and a sub-ranking of the Great Dao Ranking descended the following year.
• A hundred years later, the Eternal Immortal Frontier departed, leaving legends and the results of its aid behind.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year 44,490,000, the Frontier had wandered so far from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories that even the Star Pivot could no longer reach it.

Five million years after the great war, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories flourished while Gai Sanqian’s declaration of war against the Longevity Families brought humanity under siege. In the Heavenly Frontier, revelations about Eternal Immortal Frontier’s destruction of the Heavenly Realm sparked more battles, and Ning Kunlun killed the Nether River Ancient Saint for revealing the Heavenly Tomb’s secret.

• The Demon Court and the Yu Immortal Kingdom formed an alliance, and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories rose to prominence after the first Immortal Realm Heavenly Pride Gathering.
• A Miao returned to Gai Sanqian gravely wounded and reported war against the Longevity Families; Gai Sanqian declared that the Human Dao Yellow Court and humanity would accept no surrender.
• The Longevity Families and other factions began attacking humanity’s Heavenly Prides, businesses, and reclamation efforts, while Mu Hua Jue feared Gai Sanqian’s public declaration had given humanity’s enemies a pretext to crush it.
• Nanhua remained in the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains, where Luo Xiuyuan took an ordinary monkey as his disciple, while the Heavenly Frontier’s experts fought over the proposed Innate Dao Embryo Sequence.
• The Nether River Ancient Saint’s disciples learned that Eternal Immortal Frontier had caused the Heavenly Realm’s collapse and the birth of the Heavenly Tomb and netherworld, prompting fierce disputes among Heavenly Frontier cultivators.
• Ning Kunlun confronted the Nether River Ancient Saint over revealing the Heavenly Tomb, and the Nether River Ancient Saint died in alarm.

Ning Kunlun spent his final years in the Heavenly Tomb and became its guardian mountain after his peaceful death. Across the Immortal Realm, old powers passed away, the human race declined under Gai Sanqian, and Nanhua chose to keep the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains undisturbed.

• Ning Kunlun watched Nether River Ancient Saint's Dao Fruit enter the Heavenly Tomb and resolved to spend his remaining years there in service to his teacher's plan.
• Three thousand years later, Ning Kunlun died beneath the Crane Spirit Trees, and his remains became Mountain and Sea Kunlun, which protected the Profound Universe Heavenly Realm and the Sea Clan from future calamities.
• Five and a half million years into the Immortal Realm Calendar, Heavenly Emperor Shang Chen passed away, and War Emperor Zhetian returned in disbelief.
• Before dying, First Light Saint warned his disciples to seal their mountain gates if the Immortal Realm ever waged war against heaven, but his Dao lineage later declined.
• Gai Sanqian's campaigns devastated the human race's foundations, while Fallen Immortal Mu Hua Jue broke with the Imperial Court and headed toward the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains.
• Nanhua chose not to stir up trouble in the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains and instead established another Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace underground, with Luo Tian as master and Five Elements as assistant.

The Tai Feng Immortal Domain was isolated after a bloody conflict with cultivators who coveted its spirit beasts and resources, though the Tai Yao Immortal Domain secretly opened it a path of retreat. Far away, Chen Xun and an old friend walked through the Five Elements Immortal Domain before parting with laughter.

• Cultivators across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories challenged the immortal rules, while many targeted the Tai Feng Immortal Domain for its beasts and treasures.
• After outsiders seized spirit beasts and provoked its ancestors, the Tai Feng Immortal Domain launched a massacre and faced a gathering of hostile powers.
• An immortal war erupted, but no force conquered Tai Feng; the domain was declared a forbidden ground and surrounded by formations.
• The Tai Yao Immortal Domain secretly opened a path of retreat for Tai Feng despite the Azure Emperor's past hostility toward the Tai Yao Immortal Emperor.
• In the boundless Star Wilderness, Chen Xun and an old friend walked across the Five Elements Immortal Domain and jokingly parted ways.

Chen Xun and Heavenly Wheel Immortal shared a final afternoon of banter before Heavenly Wheel Immortal returned to his sect and died in meditation. His disciples carried on the Heavenly Wheel Immortal Dao, while a sapling by his tomb grew into a towering tree that endured for ten thousand years.

• Chen Xun and Heavenly Wheel Immortal argued for three days, reminiscing about their long friendship and the Dao artifact’s fate.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal returned to the Heavenly Wheel Sect, remembering his adventures with Chen Xun but choosing not to turn back.
• Half a month later, Heavenly Wheel Immortal died in meditation, and his disciples sealed his coffin as the Eternal Immortal Frontier saw him off.
• Bai Xinghan, Qian Wuhen, and Lightning Arrow completed the funeral rites and continued the Heavenly Wheel Immortal Dao.
• The disciples visited Heavenly Wheel Immortal’s tomb with roast chicken over the years, as the sapling beside it grew into a towering tree that stood for ten thousand years.

Across millions of years, Chen Xun watched old companions and elders pass away as the Eternal Immortal Frontier prospered. He walked with Gu Qingyan, who recalled their past and began painting something that left him shaken.

• Chen Xun, Gu Qingyan, and Ke Ding each visited the Heavenly Wheel Immortal's tomb over the years, paying their respects and leaving personal words or offerings.
• Yin Tianshou and Cui Ying died peacefully after their longevity origins ran dry, and Chen Xun mourned them before visiting a young sword cultivator who reminded him of Yin Tianshou.
• Mountain-Sitting Duck angered Chen Xun by trying to defecate on his head, while Liu Han and Shi Wujun later passed away and Ji Zhao grieved with Qi Hao.
• The Five Elements Sect named Frog Daoist its Mountain Guardian Spirit Beast, and Chen Xun went to the star palace after the frog's croaking troubled the sect.
• Chen Xun and Gu Qingyan walked together and discussed their past, including a time when she had been his fiancée in a Years Secret Realm.
• Gu Qingyan began painting for Chen Xun, whose soul trembled as he realized something startling about the painting.

Chen Xun watched Gu Qingyan pass away after she worried that he was becoming more like the person he had once been. Her death and the passing of other elders left him and Big Black Ox considering how they would live when their remaining friends were gone.

• Chen Xun recognized Gu Qingyan's painting and talked around what it meant while she watched his reaction.
• Gu Qingyan embraced Chen Xun and asked him to promise he would not wait for his companions to die before joining them; he insisted he was not becoming the person from his past.
• Gu Qingyan thanked Chen Xun for their years together, asked him to carry her painting, and peacefully passed away against his shoulder.
• Three days later, news of the Immortal Navigation Forefather's death shocked Eternal Antiquity, and Meng Sheng grieved while fearing he would not attain eternal life.
• At the Five Elements Sect, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed how they would live if Ke Ding, Toad, Duck, and the Prison Pavilion people all passed away.

Chen Xun watched friends and companions depart or pass away as the Eternal Immortal Frontier continued toward the Star Wilderness. After Mo Fuyang’s death, Chen Xun later reunited with Senior Brother Ji and announced that he would stay at the Human Dao Pavilion.

• Chen Xun accompanied Yue Xuan on his final journey, where Yue Xuan asked to be laid to rest without a tomb so his blessings could shelter the Eternal Mountains and Rivers.
• Xian Jue and Ni Canghuan left to challenge the Heavenly Frontier, while Tun Shi secretly followed; Tai Yu departed to bury A'Da and A'Er in their homeland before visiting the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• A thousand years later, Mo Fuyang died after pouring Chen Xun a final cup of tea, and the Five Elements Sect mourned the longtime chief steward.
• Ten thousand years later, Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu left to revisit the Mo and Ling Clans, and Chen Xun drank with Mo Yehan before they departed.
• Senior Brother Ji teased Chen Xun for breaking his precepts, and Chen Xun said he would stay at the Human Dao Pavilion with Old Ox and Little Crimson.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson spent years living and wandering in the Human Dao Pavilion, teasing Ji Kun until he chased them into the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace. There, they reunited with Ke Ding, who proudly showed them his palace and explained that its disciples chanted his own Heavenly Secrets Dao Sound.

• Chen Xun led Big Black Ox and Little Crimson to stay at Ji Kun's dojo in the Human Dao Pavilion.
• Chen Xun and his companions ate noodles atop a statue and left the disturbances at Undying Mountain to the Tai Xuan Ascension Pavilion and Human Dao Pavilion.
• Over the years, Chen Xun and his companions wandered the pavilion, farmed and fished, and repeatedly teased Ji Kun while he instructed his disciples.
• A hundred years later, Ji Kun chased Chen Xun and his companions across three mountain ranges and kicked them into the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace.
• Ke Ding welcomed Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, then showed them his Dao Palace and explained that its disciples chanted his own Heavenly Secrets Dao Sound.

Chen Xun accepted that Ke Ding had refined the Heavenly Dao Mirror and toured the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace with him before leaving for the Four Seas Dao Assembly. Fifty thousand years after two Peerless Immortal Venerables were found dead in the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm, their ally Tun Shi revealed his identity as a new conflict began around their corpses.

• Ke Ding told Chen Xun he had refined the Heavenly Dao Mirror and transformed himself into Heavenly Secrets, and Chen Xun let him keep it in exchange for some treasures.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Ke Ding, and Little Crimson toured the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace for a thousand years while Little Crimson secretly took treasures.
• Chen Xun stopped the tour and took Ke Ding to watch the Four Seas Dao Assembly in the Primordial Chaos Immortal Domain.
• A young cultivator and his master discussed the two Peerless Immortal Venerables whose corpses had remained in the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm for fifty thousand years.
• Immortals descended with killing intent toward the corpses, and the young cultivator's master revealed that the two were his fellow Daoist brothers from the Eternal Immortal Frontier and that his true name was Tun Shi.

Tun Shi fought a host of powerful immortals who sought the secret of immortality, refusing to let them approach the corpses of his senior brothers. A hundred years into the battle, he still stood against them, though his strength and lifespan were waning.

• Feng Zhu watched as Tun Shi stepped forward to defend his two senior brothers' corpses and challenged the invading immortals to get past him.
• Tun Shi scattered the Mystic Dao Divine Thunder and fought off the immortals, killing and injuring many without retreating.
• Tun Shi taunted the invaders and continued fighting as his hair and aura showed the cost of burning his lifespan.
• A hundred years later, Tun Shi remained standing while the battle had devastated the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm.
• Tun Shi shattered a Dao Venerable's sword strike, then broke a female immortal's golden seal and wounded her.

Tun Shi fought to the death against the invading immortals, and Feng Zhu witnessed his master fall while defending the immortal corpses. As the invaders moved to seize the corpses, Chen Xun arrived with the Heaven-Opening Axe and annihilated them.

• Tun Shi unleashed his remaining strength, killed or wounded the invading immortals, and died standing guard over the immortal corpses.
• The immortals returned through resurrection and prepared to attack Ni Canghuan, Xian Jue, and Tun Shi’s corpses despite warnings about their ominous power.
• Tun Shi’s final trace of Immortal Sense called out to the Dao Ancestor as the immortals’ attacks descended.
• A crack opened in heaven and earth, and the Heaven-Opening Axe swept through the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm, annihilating the invading immortals and severing their karma.
• Chen Xun arrived above the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm with the Heaven-Opening Axe as the surviving immortals stood in stunned silence.