Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun gathered the immortal corpses of Ni Canghuan, Xian Jue, and Tun Shi and left the Mysterious Rain Immortal Realm. As powerful immortals gathered to challenge him, he ignored them and continued through the Star Wilderness to take his disciples home.

• Chen Xun summoned the Essence Qi Flower, reversed the Immortal Fall Phenomenon, and gathered the corpses of Ni Canghuan, Xian Jue, and Tun Shi aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Tu Wantian set out from the Yu Immortal Kingdom to seek a battle with Chen Xun, and other powerful immortals followed to challenge him.
• After half a year of searching and calling for Chen Xun, the challengers failed to find him.
• Chen Xun traveled through the Star Wilderness with the three corpses, intent on taking them home.

Chen Xun returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier and watched as old companions passed away, including Chong Que, Old Immortal Crane, Featherless Bird, and Yu Xuan. He fulfilled Yu Xuan’s final wish by taking her home in a wooden cart to Jade Terrace Immortal Palace.

• Chen Xun met Chong Que at the Profound Yellow Dao Palace, and Chong Que later left for the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains, never to return.
• Old Immortal Crane died in Jade Clarity Palace, and Chen Xun buried it beside Earth Fatty in the Primitive Forest Sea.
• When Featherless Bird neared the end of its lifespan, Chen Xun traveled to the Primordial Chaos Immortal Domain to seek strange stones.
• Yu Xuan found Chen Xun and asked him to stroll through Bright Moon Immortal City with her, and they spent the evening sharing memories.
• Thirty years later, Yu Xuan died in the Primordial Chaos Immortal Domain, and Chen Xun carried her home by wooden cart to Jade Terrace Immortal Palace.

Chen Xun visited the flourishing Azure Void Immortal Abode and remembered his disciple Wen Xuan, then left without revealing himself. Later, he met You Yuan at the Five Elements Sect and spent time fishing and talking with her.

• Chen Xun traveled to the Azure Void Immortal Abode and admired how Wen Xuan's Pill Dao school had grown into a vast institution.
• Chen Xun noticed Wen Xuan's spirit tablet in the hall of offerings but departed without looking back.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year seven million one hundred seventy thousand, young Eternal Cultivators began leaving the Eternal Immortal Frontier to explore other regions of the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun fished at the Five Elements Sect's East Sea with the Foul Beast Turtle and was surprised when You Yuan arrived.
• You Yuan caught fish easily while Chen Xun struggled, then she shared a meal with him and told him about You Immortal Garden's expanding business and its ambitious young people.

Chen Xun watched his old friends and companions of the Eternal Immortal Frontier pass away or depart, while he remained at the Five Elements Sect. After years of solitude, Ke Ding, Ji Yan, Ji Kun, and other familiar faces gathered with him again.

• You Yuan visited Chen Xun, then left the East Sea with her bearing transformed and said she was glad to eat his cooking again.
• More visitors came to the Five Elements Sect, where Chen Xun and his fellow Daoists held banquets and commemorated their pioneering years in Eternal Antiquity.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar eight million years, Chen Xun sat alone at the summit of the Ring Mountains as his old companions were gone.
• Frog Daoist died on Chen Xun's shoulder, and Mountain-Sitting Duck died not long afterward; Chen Xun held a grand banquet to send the duck off.
• Meng Sheng, Bai Xinghan, Lightning Arrow, Qian Wuhen, Ji Zhao, and Qi Hao left to pursue their journeys, while Ke Ding, Ji Yan, Ji Kun, and others later came to see Chen Xun.

Chen Xun and his old companions discussed the future of Eternal Antiquity and the limits of its immortal path before choosing separate journeys. Ten years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and He Ling left the Five Elements Sect to visit the resting places of old friends.

• Ji Kun said the Eternal Immortal Frontier had reached the limit of the Nine Tribulations and that they would need to enter the worldly Immortal Realm to advance further.
• Ke Ding argued that the immortal path should be severed and the Great Dao True Ranking suppressed, but Chen Xun urged him to cherish the present.
• Ji Kun planned to take Human Dao Pavilion disciples to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, Ke Ding planned to travel the Immortal Realm, and Ji Yan chose to remain in Eternal Antiquity.
• After seven days, the companions parted ways, while Chen Xun said he would farm in the mountains for now and hoped Eternal Cultivators would leave legends throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Ten years later, Chen Xun and his companions left the Five Elements Sect and slowly crossed many Immortal Domains to pay their respects to the elders who had died.

After Immortal Emperor Haocang vanished during a revolt in the Three Walls Immortal Court, Chen Xun arrived in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and began gathering rare herbs from forbidden places. The story leaves off as the defiled lifespan of the Human Dao Yellow Court entered the world, threatening humanity with extinction.

• In Year 8,100,000, three gifted juniors trapped Immortal Emperor Haocang and declared their intent to overthrow the Three Walls Immortal Court, but an unknown force made Haocang vanish.
• The three juniors concluded that Haocang had been rescued, and news of his disappearance spread throughout the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun arrived at Supreme Unity, Xuanwei, Mengmu Great Sea Region with Big Black Ox and the others, then settled on an uninhabited Small Island.
• Chen Xun entered the Grand Yi Gates of Hell and casually plucked the Wang Chuan Flower, stunning the watching ancestors.
• Powerful figures across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories heard rumors of a mysterious man carrying a bamboo basket through forbidden lands, but could not track him down.
• In Year 8,200,000, the defiled lifespan of the Human Dao Yellow Court entered the world, and the Ancient Races recalled their ancestors' fear of it.

Chen Xun harvested an immortal Dao Fruit before learning that Human Dao Yellow Court had fallen under attack, while Mu Hua Jue tried to save the human race. At the chapter’s end, cultivators surrounded Human Dao Pavilion, and its seemingly harmless young beast revealed an ancient, fearsome presence.

• Chen Xun visited the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and took an immortal corpse’s Dao Fruit, leaving the battlefield behind.
• He Ling told Chen Xun that Human Dao Yellow Court had unleashed Filth Beasts and was drawing the Immortal Realm’s Dao lineages against it.
• Gai Sanqian was trapped by ten Sages, and the Human Ancestor Domain was overrun as its people fled or were slaughtered.
• Mu Hua Jue arrived in the Human Ancestor Domain and fought, but realized he could no longer turn the tide and focused on saving the humans.
• Three Realms cultivators surrounded Human Dao Pavilion and ordered its destruction; the young beast guarding the gate responded by revealing an ancient, overwhelming majesty.

A young beast’s Immortal Roar wiped out a Three Realms army, while Human Race lineages across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories fought back against attacks. The Three Realms then moved against the Tai Feng Immortal Domain, but the Five Elements Dao Ancestor intervened, and some of the Three Realms experts died.

• The young beast destroyed a million-strong Three Realms army with its roar and later drove off another group of attackers, making the Human Dao Pavilion feared.
• Ji Kun refused to let his disciples intervene in the Human Race’s crisis and admitted he did not intend to save the Human Race.
• Chen Xun and the others went to the Mo Clan, where its ancestors repelled a powerful enemy as Human Race experts across many Immortal Domains emerged to fight.
• The Boundless Dao Venerables and Saints discussed destroying the Human Ancestor Domain and reclaiming the Primordial Myriad Realms Domain, while Wan and Xiao Yu clashed over the Eternal Ancient Human Race.
• Ancestor Li Jun charged into Boundless, and a thousand years later the Three Realms condemned the Tai Feng Immortal Domain and broke its Heaven and Earth Rules.
• The Five Elements Dao Ancestor threatened the Three Realms experts for judging Tai Feng, and some of them apparently died.

After the Tai Feng Immortal Domain was opened, cultivators across the Three Realms descended to seize its spirit beasts, while the three clan ancestors met their end at Heaven Gate Mountain. Chen Xun helped beasts escape as the human race’s decline deepened, and the chapter ended with the Three Thousand Immortal Territories preparing for the Myriad Dao Assembly.

• The World-Extinguishing Formation vanished, and the Tai Feng Immortal Domain’s spirit beasts fled as cultivators from the Three Realms arrived to capture them.
• The dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans left Tai Feng, and their three ancestors crashed into Heaven Gate Mountain, triggering a ten-year calamity that scattered the Boundless Human Race.
• After Jiang Qing spoke with him, Gai Sanqian hid himself across the Boundless Immortal Domain, while the human race lost its remaining unity and prestige.
• Chen Xun watched cultivators slaughter and capture Tai Feng’s spirit beasts, then told Big Black Ox to open more escape routes for them.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar Year 8,300,000, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories held the Myriad Dao Assembly, where Ancestors of the Great Dao gathered and distant cultivators watched through the Star Pivot.

Chen Xun enjoyed a quiet life with his family, then spent ten thousand years buying land across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. Nine million years later, the Five Elements Dao Ancestor vanished from the Great Dao Ranking, and the realms held an enormous funeral for him, believing he had died and transformed into the Dao.

• At the Myriad Dao Assembly, Ke Ding arrived and mourned that Chen Xun was absent from the gathering.
• Chen Xun read ancient books while He Ling, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson shared a peaceful life with him in the mortal world.
• Chen Xun proposed buying land in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories to fulfill a dream from his youth, and the family set out to acquire it.
• After ten thousand years away, Chen Xun returned with his family to their foothill home, where the mountain had grown immense and the Thatched Cottage had been buried.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year nine million, Old Ancestor Chen Xun vanished from the Great Dao Ranking, and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories held a grand funeral for the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.
• The Tai Yao Immortal Domain observed state funeral rites and halted cultivation for three months, while Demon Race ancestors emerged from seclusion and learned that the Dao Ancestor was believed to have transformed into the Dao.

Chen Xun and his family planted Kunqiu trees across the Tai Wang Immortal Domain, while he reassured He Ling that he had made peace with the deaths of old friends. A century later, the forest sheltered young living beings, and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories mourned Chen Xun, unaware that an ordinary-looking man had arrived at the forest.

• Little Crimson told Chen Xun that the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were holding memorial rites for him, but Chen Xun chose to keep planting Kunqiu trees with Big Black Ox and He Ling.
• He Ling worried that Chen Xun might fall into madness over the deaths of old friends, and Chen Xun explained that he had moved on and would revive them only if he could do so without destroying others' Dao hearts.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and He Ling discovered a mine, planted trees for ten years, and performed a harvest ritual.
• A hundred years later, young living beings settled among the Kunqiu saplings and found safety and peace.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year nine million one hundred thousand, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories accepted that the Five Elements Dao Ancestor had died and held memorials for him.
• An ordinary-looking man arrived outside an immortal forest in Taiyi Immortal Domain and stared at it in shock.

Chen Xun and Ke Ding reminisced about their long friendship as Ke Ding prepared to die, while the Five Elements Spirit Estate arrived in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. Ke Ding passed away in sitting meditation, leaving Chen Xun to guard Eternal Antiquity and carry on alone.

• A man recognized a Kunqiu Immortal Tree from his homeland and left the immortal forest with plans to return someday.
• The Five Elements Spirit Estate arrived by Giant Ship, and its envoys respectfully met with the Human Dao Pavilion disciples.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding revisited the Desolate Heaven Domain, remembered their past, and spoke of the lives they had shared.
• Ke Ding gave Chen Xun his final wishes and asked him to protect Eternal Antiquity and tell him secrets if he reached the True Immortal Realm.
• Ke Ding passed away in sitting meditation, and Chen Xun watched the Immortal Fall Anomaly while holding the Heavenly Secret Scroll.

Chen Xun mourned Ke Ding and continued onward with Big Black Ox after scattering his Dao and bloodline through the Immortal Realm to Become Ancient. Ten million years later, the Immortal Realm flourished in a peaceful Prosperous Era, while the Tai Feng Immortal Domain emerged from its long suffering changed beyond recovery.

• Chen Xun scattered his Great Dao, bloodline, and spirit through the Immortal Realm, Becoming Ancient as the heavens and myriad Daos honored him.
• In the Desolate Heaven Domain, Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that Ke Ding was gone, and the two left together as Chen Xun quietly coughed blood from his pain.
• Chen Xun's blood transformed the wilderness into an immortal paradise, and he later returned whenever immortal radiance fell to gaze into the distance, salute, and leave.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar ten million years, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories entered a prosperous era of peace, discarded racial divisions, and established rules for settling conflicts.
• Nine saints persuaded the Major Dao Lineages to address the Tai Feng Immortal Domain, which emerged from its suffering ten years later as a domain populated by spirit beasts and Ten Thousand Clans Dao lineages.

A Primal Dao Child visited the Longevity Mo Family, where Mo Xuansheng learned that her grandmother had arranged a marriage contract between them. After the Dao Child was beaten up on the way there, he recovered at the Mo estate and met Qionghua Shuiyu, the patriarch of the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect.

• A man revisited the transformed site of an ancient immortal realm and departed after offering a blessing to Ke Ding.
• The Mo Family’s grandmother told Mo Xuansheng that her family had arranged a marriage contract with the Primal Dao Court’s Dao Child, while Mo Jingchen suggested the Dao Child should marry into their family.
• A messenger reported that the Primal Dao Child had been ambushed on his way to the Mo estate and was waiting outside, battered and disfigured.
• The Mo Family brought the Dao Child inside, and Mo Xuansheng laughed at his appearance as he said the ambush had settled their karmic ties.
• The Dao Child formally visited the Mo Family with gifts, challenged hostile peers to settle their jealousy through battle, and recovered at the estate.
• The Dao Child learned that the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect had once been the Primal Dao Court’s predecessor, then met its patriarch, Qionghua Shuiyu.

Ji Kun bade farewell to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, then chose to end his life in a final, resounding salute to the Ancient Human Race. Chen Xun watched him depart and mourned another lost companion, while Little Crimson showed an unsettling hint of fear.

• Ji Kun told Chen Xun and Big Black Ox that he hoped they would remain safe and support one another after he was gone.
• Ji Kun explained that the Human Race could now live ordinary lives in the Immortal Realm, though the peaceful age felt strange to him after the brutal era he had known.
• Half a month later, Ji Kun asked Chen Xun to bury him in the Three Thousand Universes and gave farewell words to his companions.
• Ji Kun unleashed his power, saluted the Eternal Daoist Friends and Ancient Human Race, and transformed into a blazing light as he departed.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox mourned Ji Kun, while Little Crimson watched the Immortal Firmament with shock, fear, and an unexplained chill.

After a hundred thousand years, Chen Xun and his companions settled in an immense underground treasure ground beneath the Immortal Realm. Chen Xun began reforging his pill furnace, but his cultivation consumed the entire region’s immortal plant essence, leaving his companions stunned by his appetite.

• Chen Xun and his companions discovered an uninhabited underground world filled with immortal plants and claimed it as their cultivation ground.
• Chen Xun summoned the Northern Cold Blazing Jade Furnace and began reforging it with Wild Immortal Bones and gathered immortal energy.
• Chen Xun’s furnace-refining process drained the essence from a vast area, leaving the land barren for half a month.
• After a hundred years, the treasure ground had lost its power, and Chen Xun complained that he had not even finished re-engraving the furnace’s immortal patterns.
• Little Crimson, Mu Feng, He Ling, and the others reacted to the exhausted land, while Big Black Ox glared at Chen Xun in confusion.

Twelve million years into the Immortal Realm calendar, the Grand Thousand Sect’s Longevity Spirit art drew powerful visitors and the attention of forces across the Immortal Realm. As sect leaders Zhan Chuan and Dao Qingyi prepared to meet them, rival Heavenly Courts and other formidable factions gathered outside the sect.

• Chen Xun restored the wasteland with Five-Colored Immortal Radiance, then carefully inscribed immortal patterns on his pill furnace while drawing in Heaven and Earth Qi.
• A Longevity Spirit descended from the Filth Beasts and became highly sought after after the art of raising it spread from the Grand Thousand Sect.
• Grand Thousand Sect disciples gained renown as visitors came seeking the Longevity Spirit, while the sect’s leaders feared the attention would bring disaster.
• Zhan Chuan told Dao Qingyi that visitors had arrived from the Eternal Immortal Frontier, Outer Heaven, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, the Primordial Starry Wilds, and the Grand Void Immortal Realm.
• Tai Yi Heavenly Court cultivators and visitors from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories Heavenly Court gathered outside the Grand Thousand Dao Gate, eyeing one another warily.
• A lone Fat Daoist in a yellow robe arrived on behalf of the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

Song Heng arrived at the Grand Thousand Sect, where the Fat Daoist overwhelmed a Tai Yi Heavenly Court cultivator and searched for Chen Xun while pursuing the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s interest in Longevity Spirits. Meanwhile, Chang Feng and Tai Miao discussed the Fat Daoist’s power before Xuan Daoling confronted Chen Xun and Black Ox over the sect’s immortal trees.

• The Fat Daoist forced a cold-faced Tai Yi Heavenly Court cultivator to apologize, then accepted Dao Qingyi’s welcome and mingled with the Three-Eyed Immortal Clan.
• Song Heng searched the Grand Thousand Sect for Du Shi and considered how Gu Li Sheng might help the Eternal Immortal Frontier obtain Longevity Spirits.
• Chang Feng and Tai Miao assessed the Fat Daoist’s overwhelming strength and discussed Chen Xun, who they heard was chopping trees.
• Xuan Daoling charged at Chen Xun for chopping the sect’s immortal trees, and Black Ox struck him with a hoof, sending him flying.

Chen Xun and his companions continued chopping trees at the Grand Thousand Sect while Cen Huan sought their protection for the sect’s Longevity Spirit teachings. As Chen Xun’s Dao Runes broke through tribulation and became Great Dao Divine Fetuses, one emerged as a Void True Spirit and flew southeast to establish itself.

• Xuan Daoling protested Chen Xun’s relentless tree chopping, but Chen Xun told him to return to cultivating.
• Cen Huan told He Ling that spreading the Longevity Spirit teachings could bring a great tribulation upon the Grand Thousand Sect and asked for help.
• He Ling told Cen Huan to spread the teachings as she wished, assuring her that people would protect the sect’s Dao lineage.
• A Dao Breaking Tribulation struck the Grand Thousand Sect, sublimating Chen Xun’s Dao Runes into Great Dao Divine Fetuses.
• A newly formed Void True Spirit bowed to Chen Xun, then flew southeast to settle as a mountain, sea, city, or other domain.

Chen Xun reunited with Song Heng, learned how he had spent his years alone, and explained why he suppressed Gai Sanqian and destroyed the Grand Creation Art. Song Heng agreed to forbid its use in Eternal Antiquity and joined Chen Xun’s group as they set out for Tai Yi Heavenly Court to see Gu Li Sheng.

• Song Heng arrived in the forest, reunited with Chen Xun and the others, and told them he had spent the years in Eternal Antiquity appraising treasures and building tombs.
• Chen Xun invited Song Heng to travel with them, and Song Heng accepted.
• Song Heng asked whether the Longevity Spirit granted immortality, and Chen Xun confirmed it consumed the Immortal Realm’s fundamental laws of immortality.
• Chen Xun told Song Heng that he had suppressed Gai Sanqian for killing his master and seeking to become the next Five Elements Dao Ancestor, and that he had obliterated the Grand Creation Art to prevent the spread of Defiled Lifespan.
• Song Heng agreed to deliver Immortal Tokens to every faction in Eternal Antiquity to prevent anyone from using the art.
• Song Heng asked to accompany Chen Xun to see Gu Li Sheng through his final journey, and one month later the group set out for Tai Yi Heavenly Court in the Primordial Starry Wilds.