Chapter Summaries

Song Heng spoke with Chen Xun aboard the World Breaking Ship about the Grand Thousand Sect and offered to help, but Chen Xun said his Dao bodies were already handling it. As the ship crossed a starfield, Big Black Ox recognized a Six-Eyed Star Demon, which was then attacked by Fu Shi the Old Daoist.

• Song Heng explored the World Breaking Ship and marveled at its treasures while Little Crimson kept him company.
• Chen Xun invited Song Heng for tea and asked about the Grand Thousand Sect spreading the Dao.
• Song Heng offered to handle matters for Chen Xun, who declined and said he had sent people to visit dozens of ancient Immortal Realm factions.
• Big Black Ox spotted a Six-Eyed Star Demon devouring stars and recognized it as a rare Primordial Immortal Spirit with an Innate Undying Immortal Body.
• Fu Shi the Old Daoist attacked the Star Demon, which opened six star gates to escape.

The Six-Eyed Star Demon fled into a trap aboard Chen Xun’s ship, and Chen Xun decided to hand him over to Tai Yi Heavenly Court. After half a month, the ship reached the Heavenly Court’s prosperous territory, where a strange lifeform approached and asked them to register.

• The Six-Eyed Star Demon escaped Fu Shi the Old Daoist by opening star gates, but each gate led him back to the ship.
• Chen Xun captured the exhausted Star Demon and decided to present him to Tai Yi Heavenly Court as a meeting gift.
• Song Heng and Chen Xun reflected on how Innate Lifeforms had grown scarce since the Heavenly Frontier Dao Embryo entered the world.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun’s group arrived in the Primordial Starry Wilds and saw the vast, thriving territory of Tai Yi Heavenly Court.
• A strange-looking lifeform approached Chen Xun’s group and asked whether they wanted to register under Tai Yi Heavenly Court.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled through the Tai Yi Heavenly Court Territory, where he recognized its ancient feng shui and the survival of traditions from the Nine Provinces. Their arrival on the Heavenly River stirred Emperor Lei Yue and disrupted the Heavenly Court’s tribulations, while Chen Xun realized Gu Li Sheng had long been building a system to govern the Heavenly Dao.

• Chen Xun dismissed the Taiyi Cultivator, and He Ling and Song Heng followed him onward.
• Chen Xun identified the Heavenly Court Territory’s nine-direction dragon-rising feng shui formation and reflected on how Gu Chuiniu’s rule had brought peace and prosperity.
• He Ling spotted the Heavenly River, and Chen Xun and the others traveled upstream toward the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly River garrison recognized the visitors, and its commander recalled the Heavenly Emperor’s warning not to interfere with old friends traveling upstream.
• A report of the visitors startled Emperor Lei Yue, disrupting the Heavenly Court’s lightning tribulations and causing a cultivator to face a Purple Heaven Lightning Tribulation.
• Song Heng realized Gu Chuiniu had succeeded, and Chen Xun concluded that Gu Li Sheng had planned for the Heavenly Court to govern the Heaven and Earth Rules.

Chen Xun and his companions reached the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and reunited with Gu Li Sheng after countless years apart. As Gu Li Sheng welcomed them and showed them the Heaven Gate, Chen Xun recognized traces of the Dao Sect’s work, and they agreed to visit the sect together.

• Chen Xun, Song Heng, and Big Black Ox agreed not to interfere with the Gu Family’s dangerous Rules and discussed the True Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun and his companions arrived at the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and found Gu Li Sheng waiting alone beneath its Heaven Gate.
• Gu Li Sheng greeted Chen Xun, Song Heng, Big Black Ox, Lion Dog, and He Ling, then offered to show them around the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng discussed the Heaven Gate’s Chaos Stone and Ages Heavenly Bone, while their companions listened.
• Chen Xun noticed traces of the Dao Sect’s work on the gate, and Gu Li Sheng proposed that they visit the Dao Sect together in a few days.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited the Fu Shi Religion, where the Thirteen Fu Elders recognized Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor. The elders reunited with him on the path to the Immortal Tomb, leaving Gu Li Sheng reflecting on the joy of encountering old friends and elders again.

• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Gu Li Sheng entered the Fu Shi Religion and headed toward its Immortal Tomb.
• The Thirteen Fu Elders sensed the visitors and declared that Chen Xun was the Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Xun recognized the three elders as the little fellows who had been taken to the Heavenly Palace long ago.
• The three elders rushed to Chen Xun, who kicked them away and told them to behave properly beneath Tomb Mountain.
• Gu Li Sheng reflected that the greatest joy of cultivation was meeting old friends and elders again.

Chen Xun visited the Fu Shi Religion’s tomb complex and received a stone tablet preserving memories of his old friends. After seeing the lives and messages they left behind, he paid his respects and carefully put the tablet away.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met the Fu Shi Religion’s ancestors, who explained that the Heavenly Emperor had supported them and helped them live long, successful lives.
• At the tomb complex, Gu Li Sheng gave Chen Xun a grotto-heaven containing things left for him by their old friends, and Gu Li Sheng was shaken by what he found inside.
• Gu Li Sheng worried that Chen Xun might be planning to revive their old friends, but He Ling declared that she and the others would follow Chen Xun whatever he chose to do.
• Chen Xun spent a month watching visions of his old friends appear in the tomb complex and fade away.
• The visions formed an ordinary stone tablet bearing old inscriptions, including Chen Xun’s own messages; he saluted his departed friends and carefully put the tablet away.

Ten years later, Chen Xun explained to Gu Li Sheng that immortals had to cultivate bodily longevity before they could attain the True Immortal Realm, then gave him a hundred thousand Longevity Spirits and a Star Demon. Three days later, Chen Xun dismantled the Taiyi Heaven Gate while the Heavenly Court’s officials watched approvingly.

• Chen Xun told Gu Li Sheng that cultivating the Great Dao alone could not lead to the True Immortal Realm; immortals first had to gain longevity by transforming their bodies.
• Chen Xun offered Gu Li Sheng a hundred thousand Longevity Spirits as relics from old friends, and Gu Li Sheng accepted them.
• Chen Xun told Gu Li Sheng that the Star Demon was a gift to the Heavenly Court, then demanded a return gift.
• Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng argued over the return gift, and their clash shook Heaven and Earth.
• Three days later, Chen Xun dismantled the Taiyi Heaven Gate to replace the gate at his Spiritual Herb Garden.
• Heavenly Court officials and Ancient Venerables praised Chen Xun and welcomed him taking the gate, while the heavenly soldiers outside looked on in alarm.

Chen Xun and his family left the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate, while the Immortal Realm’s Second Continent emerged as three powers began competing over the Three Thousand Universes. The chapter ends with the Eternal Immortal Frontier launching a second Great Reclaiming led by its younger generation.

• After seven years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox brought down the Heaven Gate, and Chen Xun’s family left the Tai Yi Heavenly Court aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng saw Chen Xun’s family off, and Song Heng warned Gu Li Sheng to stay away from the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ten thousand years later, Chen Xun’s family entered the Heavenly Tomb and began their plan to cultivate by breaking Dao tribulations.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier summoned its cultivators and later sailed toward the Unknowable Land as the Immortal Realm’s powers shifted and the Primordial Heavenly Court fell.
• The opening to the Three Thousand Universes widened, drawing the Eternal Immortal Frontier, the starry-sky races, and the saints of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories into a contest.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier began a second Great Reclaiming, led by its younger generation.

Three years after Heaven's Defect fell, the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains prospered under five top mine-owning powers, while the Immortal Realm developed under the Great Dao Scripture. A hundred years later, the Lower Realm's Cosmic Nations launched a mass attempt to ascend by force, and the chapter ended as heavenly tribulations erupted across the boundaries.

• Nanhua escaped Heaven's Defect's ruin with the World-Mixing Demon Monkey's help, then fled after the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace was purged.
• Five top powers came to dominate the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains, where the Ten Thousand Clans flourished under their rule.
• At the Inspiration Dao Platform, Shi Hong reported that the three Cosmic Nations had gathered fifty billion warriors to storm the ascension passages.
• The immortals of the Eternal Immortal Frontier watched as the Lower Realm's Ten Thousand Clans prepared to challenge the restrictions barring their ascent.
• The Heavenly God Human Race and other forces called for tribulation, and ascension heavenly tribulations erupted across the boundaries.

Ten Thousand Clans of the Three Thousand Universes sacrificed countless cultivators to attack the upper realm, destroyed the lower realm Ascension Passages, and tried to reach the Immortal Realm through a rift, where many were devoured. As spirit-catching nets began taking entire races and a Cosmic Nation vanished, the Eternal Immortal Frontier abandoned its ancestral practice of building Ascension Passages and left the lower realm to itself.

• Cosmic cultivators charged through the ascension phenomenon in the Five Elements Immortal Domain, sacrificing themselves to open a path against the upper realm.
• Little Junior Sister and the other disciples realized the cultivators’ true target was an Immortal Realm Rift, where three enormous beasts swallowed those who crossed through.
• After thirty years of mounting losses, the human elder of Tai Xuan Ascension Pavilion ordered the major Ascension Passages closed, but the Ten Thousand Clans had already destroyed the passages of the realms.
• Three hundred years later, Cosmic Nations formed alliances as spirit-catching nets from the Immortal Realm began snaring races, and a Cosmic Nation disappeared into a vast void.
• After a ferocious beast sent its opponent through a lower realm rift, the opponent’s arrival as a Ghostly Thing caused a catastrophe and led to its becoming that universe’s ancestor.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier decided to stop building Ascension Passages and let the lower realm run wild, provided its realms were not destroyed.

Ten thousand years after the Three Thousand Universes’ ascension path was severed, Mu Yuanzhi arrived in the Immortal Realm as the gate opener of the Boundary-Breaking Plan. Rescued by spirit beasts in Great Phoenix, he recovered enough to see the immense gulf between the lower realms and the Immortal Realm.

• The wills of the Three Thousand Universes sealed their realms and began the Age of Dharma’s End after the ascension path was cut off.
• Mu Yuanzhi appeared badly injured in Great Phoenix, where spirit beasts found him and healed his shattered body with water from a stream.
• Mu Yuanzhi’s body was overwhelmed by the Immortal Realm’s qi, but Second Sister returned and carried him away before he died.
• Second Sister brought Mu Yuanzhi to the spirit beasts’ cave abode and protected him from their objections, following the Phoenix Ancestor’s teaching to save people and gain good karma.
• After several months of recovery, Mu Yuanzhi surveyed the abundant spiritual herbs and immortal qi, then laughed at the contrast with his former world.

Mu Yuanzhi survived in Second Sister’s cave abode, learned about the Immortal Realm, and eventually cultivated the Five Elements Immortal Scripture. Elsewhere, Gai Sanqian briefly regained clarity and reflected on his defeat, while a small race in the Heavenly Frontier worshipped its ancestors and condemned the Immortal Realm’s ten thousand daos.

• Mu Yuanzhi was badly wounded by a spiritual medicine, and Second Sister explained that he had tried to pluck it without sufficient cultivation.
• Mu Yuanzhi spent ten years believing Second Sister’s cave abode was the Immortal Realm before finally stepping outside and seeing the Progenitor Immortal Realm.
• Second Sister gave Mu Yuanzhi the Five Elements Immortal Scripture, and he mistook it for a diagram and then a treasure before agreeing to cultivate it.
• Ten years later, Mu Yuanzhi successfully drew Yi Wood Spiritual Qi from spiritual grass, astonishing the surrounding spirit beasts and exciting Second Sister.
• Gai Sanqian briefly regained clarity in the River of Time, remembered his defeat by the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, and lamented the human race’s loss of fighting spirit.
• A small race in the Heavenly Frontier worshipped its ancestors and chanted that the ten thousand daos of the Immortal Realm should be deposed in favor of reincarnation.

The Reincarnation Clan emerged from hiding and began destroying Dao lineages because the Great Dao Ranking weakened its reincarnation powers, triggering a widening war with the Heavenly Frontier and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. Ten years into the conflict, both sides were shocked by the scale of the other's forces and wary of what they still had in reserve.

• The Reincarnation Clan revealed itself, with a hundred thousand members disguising their forms and constitutions as other races.
• The Reincarnation Earth Rank Lord led the clan in destroying Dao lineages and crushed the Endless Great Dao Sub-Ranking, blaming it for weakening their reincarnation abilities.
• More than a hundred Reincarnation Nine Tribulations Earth Rank Lords confronted Heavenly Frontier immortal Dao patriarchs, and the two sides began a fierce battle.
• The Star Pivot spread news of the war, drawing forces from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and the Heaven Ancient Forbidden Grounds into the conflict.
• After ten years of fighting, an Immortal Fall Phenomenon appeared, and the Reincarnation Clan sent more Earth Rank Lords to rescue their people as both sides grew wary of the other's strength.

Over countless ages, the Reincarnation Clan’s failed upheaval faded into history as the Immortal Realm’s old generation passed and new powers arose. The chapter left Ji Yan learning that Tai Yi Heavenly Court had fallen in battle.

• The Reincarnation Clan fled the Heavenly Frontier after its grand undertaking failed, leaving devastation and displaced cultivators behind.
• One hundred thousand years later, Mu Yuanzhi emerged from the Ancient Phoenix Nest, pondered the possibility of opening the passage to the lower realm, and resolved to grow stronger and gather information.
• Gai Sanqian stirred briefly when Mu Yuanzhi became an immortal, but was suppressed again.
• Fourteen million two hundred thousand years into the Immortal Realm calendar, immortals gathered at the Five Elements Immortal Sect for a feast that reminded the Ominous Old Ancestor of the many people and elders who had passed away.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor chose to keep watch over the Five Elements Sect and the Eternal Immortal Frontier while awaiting the Dao Ancestor’s return.
• Ji Yan received word that Tai Yi Heavenly Court had fallen in battle.

The Eternal Antiquity clans learned that the Immortal Realm extended far beyond the lands they knew and decided to leave the Eternal Immortal Frontier to explore the outer domains. Along the way, they took in Nanhua, who settled in the Ominous Dao Field and found a kindred spirit in the Ominous Old Ancestor.

• A Tri-Finger Race cultivator reported news from the Eternal Antiquity Three-Eyed Immortal Clan to Ji Yan, who left after hearing it.
• The Star Manifestation Clan revealed its Star Atlas of Myriad Frontiers, showing the immortals that the Immortal Realm contained many vast regions beyond their known territories.
• The Eternal Antiquity immortals decided to leave their ancestral lands and explore the outer domains, then departed ten years later.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier encountered Nanhua, who sought refuge with the Dao Ancestor's Token, and the Ominous Old Ancestor personally brought him into the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Nanhua settled in the Ominous Dao Field, where he and the Ominous Old Ancestor found they shared similar views and methods.

Ji Yan visited the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and learned from Ming Yu that the Heavenly Emperor had died after reaching the end of his lifespan. Ji Yan left without entering the Heavenly Court, while Song Heng wandered the Immortal Realm as a madman searching for Du Shi.

• The Ominous Old Ancestor warned Nanhua not to betray Eternal Antiquity, and Nanhua affirmed that he sincerely wished to settle in the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ji Yan arrived at the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and reunited with Ming Yu in the starry sky outside its territory.
• Ming Yu told Ji Yan that the Heavenly Emperor had died while sitting by the Bank of the Milky Way, and that Daoist Priest Song had left to find the Dao Ancestor.
• Ji Yan told Ming Yu he would inform the others of the Heavenly Emperor's death, then departed without entering the Heavenly Court.
• Song Heng wandered the Immortal Realm in a daze, laughing and raging among starry sky cultivators who called him the Old Madman.

As the ten thousand Daos flourished across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, Dao lineages began competing for disciples and challenging the Immortal Realm Rules. By the Immortal Realm Calendar’s sixteen millionth year, a Heavenly Frontier Dao Venerable’s declaration had openly ushered in an age of Dao contention, with the ancestors of the ten thousand Daos maneuvering behind the scenes.

• Shui Jing of the Dao Heng Sect confronted Song Yue Sect members for recruiting disciples on his sect’s territory, but they defeated him and warned that the coming Dao Battle would decide who controlled the region.
• The spread of complete Immortal Daos and cultivation methods fueled competition among Dao lineages, which sought disciples by recruiting across their territories.
• A thousand years later, the Heavenly Strategy Dao Prefecture and Tai Xu Heng Mountain fought a brief, mysterious war that eventually subsided.
• Ten years later, a top Dao lineage in Tai Chu Immortal Domain declared that its disciples need not obey the Immortal Realm Rules, drawing support from experts of the Heavenly Frontier.
• At the Immortal Realm Calendar’s sixteen millionth year, a Heavenly Frontier Dao Venerable declared that no Dao was superior, though cultivators differed in strength, and the ancestors of the ten thousand Daos began maneuvering amid the resulting contention.

The Three Thousand Immortal Territories outlawed the Five Elements Immortal Scripture and launched a surprise campaign against its practitioners, beginning with the Ancient Phoenix Nest. As Mu Yuanzhi watched the attackers threaten Second Sister, a towering Five Elements Dharma Idol appeared and slaughtered immortals with a single glance.

• Ancient Venerables in Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains condemned the Great Dao Ranking and recognized its threat to powerful beings outside the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Ten thousand years later, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories declared the Five Elements Immortal Scripture a forbidden art and ordered its practitioners killed.
• Immortal forces besieged and destroyed the Ancient Phoenix Nest, while an old man beneath an immortal tree seized the Immortal Phoenix's projected Dao body to obtain its essence blood.
• Mu Yuanzhi was caught in the fighting and saw several powerhouses close in on Second Sister.
• A Five Elements Dharma Idol rose over the battlefield, and its indifferent gaze made immortal blood pour across the mountains and rivers.

Mu Yuanzhi led the battered Phoenix Nest through a bloody breakout after the immortals decided to leave their fate to powerful Dao lineages. Once the survivors escaped, they learned the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were persecuting Five Elements Immortal Path cultivators and realized they had nowhere safe to flee.

• The immortals chose to spare Mu Yuanzhi and leave the matter to powerful Dao lineages, while he broke through the encirclement and carried the injured Second Sister away.
• Mu Yuanzhi turned back to face the enemy army and vowed to lead the Phoenix Nest out, then opened a path through the surrounding forces with his Five Elements Dharma Idol.
• The Phoenix Nest disciples rallied behind Mu Yuanzhi, fighting through enemy formations as their numbers dwindled and their mountain gate collapsed.
• Mu Yuanzhi tore open a rift with his final strike, allowing the surviving Phoenix Nest disciples to escape as the immortals reclaimed the Ancient Phoenix Nest as Dao soil.
• A disciple reported that the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were exterminating Five Elements Immortal Path cultivators, and the Phoenix Nest survivors warned against seeking refuge in the Tai Chu Immortal Domain.

As the Five Elements Cataclysm devastated Five Elements cultivators across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, Mu Yuanzhi fled toward the Void Sea while the Human Dao Pavilion mobilized to defend them. The Human Dao Pavilion’s Pavilion Master led his disciples into battle, and an immense continent in an Unknowable Land stopped and turned.

• An elder told Mu Yuanzhi to flee alone toward the Void Sea and said the Primordial Phoenix Nest would renounce the Five Elements Dao lineage; Mu Yuanzhi left after asking him to protect Second Sister.
• The Primordial Phoenix Nest disciples stayed in the Great Phoenix Immortal Domain as war and Dao Devouring spread against Five Elements cultivators across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Years later, Five Elements Dao lineages had been swept away, and fleeing cultivators converged on the Void Sea, where Dao Venerables of the Boundless Immortal Domain had laid a trap.
• The Pavilion Master ordered the Human Dao Pavilion’s disciples to follow him to the Void Sea and kill the enemy, while Jie Chen reported to the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• An immense continent in an Unknowable Land stopped moving and slowly turned.