Chapter Summaries

Tai Zhixing led the Ancient Immortal Clan back to the Boundless Immortal Domain and traveled the Immortal Realm, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched events unfold. The Great Reclaiming drew cultivators across the Immortal Bridge, where they met disaster and never returned.

• Tai Zhixing welcomed the Ancient Immortal Clan home and sent its Ancient Immortal Palaces crashing into the Boundless Immortal Domain.
• Tai Zhixing questioned the decline of several ancient races, especially the Human Race, and summoned a Saint Dao Lineage to answer him.
• Tai Zhixing traveled through the Three Thousand Immortal Territories as the Ancient Immortal Clan settled into a long, peaceful era.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned that a junior from the Earth Frontier had reached the Third Step of Great Dao Immortal and crossed paths with Tai Zhixing.
• The Great Reclaiming drew cultivators from distant Major Immortal Domains to cross the Immortal Bridge, but none returned, and a corpse-strewn blood sea awaited at its end.

The Three Thousand Immortal Territories retaliated against the Primordial Myriad Races, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched an Immortal Continent take shape and learned that Outer Frontier beings were being brought there as miners. After rescuing a boy from the river, they discovered how deeply the Three Thousand Immortal Territories had crushed the Outer Frontier’s civilization.

• The cultivators of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories hunted and killed Primordial Cultivators in response to the Primordial imperial clans’ ban and violence.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched spring return and a tender shoot grow into a towering tree beside their World Breaking Ship.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox saw a constructed Immortal Continent rise and watched a One Tribulation Immortal assign tens of millions of Outer Frontier beings to mine there.
• Chen Xun rescued a little boy who fell into the river, then invited him and Big Black Ox to look at the World Breaking Ship.
• The little boy told Chen Xun and Big Black Ox that Outer Frontier beings had sold themselves and abandoned their crushed immortal civilization to settle in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories as miners.

Chen Xun gave a nameless mining boy a strange stone, then learned that his disciples and descendants had turned the Five Elements Immortal Path into a major dispute across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. He watched the Star Pivot as rival lineages traded insults invoking him as the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.

• Chen Xun asked the little boy about his future and gave him a strange stone as a possible talisman of protection.
• A Longevity Old Ghost named Silent Saint was exposed for devouring his disciple’s Dao, and the Ancient Immortal Clan and a Third Step of Great Dao Immortal brought about his death and the erasure of his karmic ties.
• The Five Elements Dao Lineages competed across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories to establish which teachings and sects should lead, drawing spectators from across the Immortal Realm and beyond.
• Chen Xun discovered that his disciples and descendants had sparked the dispute and that rival factions repeatedly invoked him in their Star Pivot literary battles.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Heavenly Tomb, where Chen Xun’s plan to gather the blessings of fallen immortals had finally borne fruit. At the ancient tree at the realm’s center, a crystal-like fruit containing life origin and the laws of life began to emerge.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox the time had come, and they boarded the World Breaking Ship to travel to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Heavenly Tomb, a realm formed from the blessings left by fallen immortals.
• Chen Xun explained that the Heavenly Tomb had been nurtured for a myriad years and thanked the fallen immortals whose blessings had gathered there.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox approached the ancient tree he had guided into existence from the gathered Mountains and Rivers Blessing.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to prepare as a translucent, glazed-crystal fruit containing life origin and the laws of life began to form on the tree.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox completed the Immortal Transformation Fruit and used it in an attempt to save Little Crimson. Little Crimson improved, but a hundred years later their attempt to Reshape Life Rules failed and the Dao Fruit dispersed.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox examined the completed Immortal Transformation Fruit, which Chen Xun said could break free from the Immortal Realm's rules governing life.
• Chen Xun drew the fruit into his Primordial Spirit, and he and Big Black Ox left the Heavenly Tomb to save Little Crimson.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached He Ling and Little Crimson, and Chen Xun told He Ling that Little Crimson could be saved.
• Chen Xun summoned the Immortal Transformation Dao Fruit, and Little Crimson's condition steadily improved over the next ten years.
• A hundred years later, the attempt to Reshape Life Rules failed, and the Immortal Transformation Dao Fruit dispersed Between Heaven and Earth.

Chen Xun brought Big Black Ox, He Ling, and Little Crimson to the Mysterious Ruins Continent and revealed a magnificent Star City he had built. As they toured it together, Little Crimson admitted that its immortal consciousness felt weak, and Chen Xun promised to protect it.

• Chen Xun brought his companions aboard the World Breaking Ship to the distant Mysterious Ruins Continent.
• Chen Xun arrived at a grand immortal city, and He Ling realized that he had built it himself.
• Little Crimson recognized the city’s resemblance to the Super Immortal City and praised Chen Xun for building it.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and He Ling entered the city together to explore its markets and streets.
• Little Crimson told Chen Xun that its immortal consciousness felt weak despite its vital immortal body, and Chen Xun promised to protect it to the end.

Little Crimson used its final moments to tell Chen Xun about the treasures it had saved for the family and confessed that it only wanted to stay by his side. After Little Crimson died, Chen Xun was left devastated as Big Black Ox tried to revive it and He Ling watched helplessly.

• Little Crimson told Chen Xun that most of its family assets were Image Recording Stones and described the treasures and medicines it had saved for them.
• Little Crimson recalled how it had first met Chen Xun and said it wanted only to remain by his side.
• Little Crimson leaned against Chen Xun, closed its eyes, and died.
• Chen Xun and the others appeared on a mountain overlooking the immortal city, where Little Crimson's body lay still.
• Big Black Ox tried to revive Little Crimson by sending Longevity Blood into its bloodline while Chen Xun trembled in despair and He Ling wept.

After Little Crimson died, Chen Xun and his companions grieved for him and reflected on the limits that even the Immortal Realm could not overcome. Ten years later, they set out for home carrying Little Crimson’s coffin, where a strange spirit beast offered them three objects.

• Big Black Ox stopped transfusing blood and nudged Little Crimson, while Chen Xun realized that Little Crimson had died and collapsed into grief.
• Chen Xun told He Ling that he had built the Immortal Realm hoping his loved ones could live forever or be resurrected, but he had failed to save them.
• Ten years later, Big Black Ox buried Little Crimson in the Big Black Coffin and carried it on its shoulder.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and He Ling decided to go home together and take Little Crimson with them.
• Chen Xun reflected that Little Crimson’s life had been limited by the inherent limits of living beings, then met a large spirit beast that offered them three nut-like objects.

Chen Xun gave the Big Squirrel a painting before leaving, then the story followed the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s peaceful life and trade in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier. Ten thousand years later, Chen Xun reunited with Nanhua, who had been playing the erhu.

• Chen Xun painted the Big Squirrel a landscape and gave it to comfort the squirrel when it felt unhappy.
• Chen Xun and his companions departed aboard the World Breaking Ship, and he sensed the distant direction of the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ten thousand years passed as the Eternal Immortal Frontier settled into the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, where its cultivators befriended the natives and traded across the rivers.
• Nanhua played the erhu atop the Filth Beast Old Turtle and defended his music when a voice criticized it.
• Chen Xun revealed himself to Nanhua, saying that he was Nanhua’s father.

Chen Xun reunited with Nanhua and the Foul Beast Turtle, then learned that Meng Sheng had returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier several times and achieved extraordinary feats. As they traveled home, Chen Xun heard that Meng Sheng had forged a Reincarnation Body and created a cultivation method for Nine Tribulation Immortals.

• Nanhua recognized Chen Xun, the Ox Ancestor, and Immortal Venerable Nangong, then thanked Chen Xun for helping him reach the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun woke the Foul Beast Turtle with a slap, and the reunited companions greeted one another joyfully.
• The next day, Chen Xun and the others set off for the Eternal Immortal Frontier on the Foul Beast Turtle while Nanhua searched for his missing erhu.
• Chen Xun asked Nanhua whether Meng Sheng had returned, and Nanhua said Senior Meng had visited several times.
• Nanhua recalled that Meng Sheng had once reshaped the winds, fire, thunder, and lightning in the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent, then later secluded himself for seven hundred thousand years to forge a Reincarnation Body and create the Reincarnation Cultivation Method.

Nanhua recounted Senior Meng’s past returns and disappearance to Chen Xun as they reached the transformed Eternal Immortal Frontier. The Four Heavens Star Gates opened together, signaling the Dao Ancestor’s arrival and throwing the frontier into excitement.

• Nanhua told Chen Xun about Senior Meng’s visits to the Eternal Immortal Frontier, his immense power, and his departure without a trace.
• Chen Xun and the others arrived at the Eternal Ancient Continent and saw the frontier’s vast network of continents, Immortal Bridges, auspicious spirits, and karma-traversing Immortal Vessels.
• He Ling sensed the embryonic Eternal Heavenly Dao and recognized that the Tri-Finger Race had succeeded.
• The Eternal Four Heavens Star Gates opened simultaneously, and the Eternal Immortal Frontier erupted into preparations for the Star Palace Heaven-Opening Ceremony.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor began choosing clothes in anticipation of the Dao Ancestor’s return.

Chen Xun returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier and was welcomed by its countless races and cultivators as the Dao Ancestor. As he reunited with Ji Yan and the others, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories erupted in auspicious light, and the chapter ended with the Reincarnation Clan reflecting on how wise it had been to join the Eternal Immortal Venerables.

• Chen Xun's return stirred the mountains, seas, and living beings across the Eternal Immortal Frontier, who recognized him as their sovereign.
• Billions of cultivators and representatives of countless races gathered at the Four Heavens Star Gates to welcome Chen Xun.
• Ji Yan called out to Du Shi, and the Ending Immortal Sect arrived to pay homage to Chen Xun, the Ox Ancestor, and Miss NanGong.
• Chen Xun remembered Ke Ding and declared that Eternal Antiquity was stable and flourishing.
• Chen Xun addressed Ji Yan, Ominous One, and the assembled crowd as auspicious light spread across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Lian Qingyue and the Reincarnation Clan reflected that joining the Eternal Immortal Venerables had been the right decision.

Chen Xun returned to Eternal Immortal Frontier and revisited the Five Elements Immortal Domain, where memories of his old friends and homeland began repairing his shattered Dao heart. Ji Yan revealed that Chen Xun had planned this return and his own recovery all along, then told him a Reincarnation Dao Ancestor had reincarnated into Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Chen Xun entered Eternal Immortal Frontier and reunited with Ji Yan, who welcomed him back to the Five Elements Sect.
• As Chen Xun and Ji Yan traveled through the Five Elements Immortal Domain, Chen Xun marveled at its changes and recalled founding Eternal Immortal Frontier with his companions.
• Chen Xun revisited Ancient Divine Mountain Continent and Jade Bamboo Continent, where memories of old friends and the familiar homeland stirred his shattered Dao heart.
• Ji Yan told Chen Xun that his return had been planned as part of his effort to restore his Dao heart, and that he had been plotting against himself for years.
• After Chen Xun paid respects to the Sword Pavilion, Ji Yan revealed that a Reincarnation Dao Ancestor had reincarnated into Eternal Immortal Frontier, catching Chen Xun's and Big Black Ox's interest.

Chen Xun and Ji Yan discussed the Reincarnation Clan’s inherited memories and the Underworld’s progress before reaching Green Mountain. Qi Ming greeted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, and the disciples of the Five Elements Immortal Sect welcomed their Patriarch home.

• Ji Yan explained that the Reincarnation Clan’s supposed reincarnation was an inheritance of memories and will, not true reincarnation or immortal longevity.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan discussed how the Underworld’s mysteries could draw more immortals and allow people from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories to enter without crossing the Dao River again.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox saw Green Mountain’s immortal inscriptions and heard Qi Ming calling from the mountain gate.
• Ji Yan recognized Qi Ming as an ancient spirit, and a five-colored cloud path appeared before Chen Xun as Jade Bamboo Mountain Range came into view.
• Disciples throughout the Five Elements Immortal Sect bowed and welcomed Chen Xun back as their Patriarch.

Chen Xun returned to the Five Elements Sect, celebrated with its disciples, and revisited the wooden hut and Jade Clarity Palace as memories of absent friends surfaced. The chapter ended with him seated alone in the empty palace as several letters drifted toward him.

• Chen Xun was welcomed back to the Five Elements Sect, and he called for a feast on the Five Elements Immortal Platform.
• Chen Xun met Sect Master Yao Wanzhong and learned about his work inscribing the Nine Tribulations Divine Ability onto immortal vessels.
• After the feast, Chen Xun returned to the wooden hut and carefully arranged the Tattered Cotton Quilt and wooden bucket.
• Chen Xun left Old Ox and Third Sister to tidy the hut, then went to Jade Clarity Palace to find letters left by several youngsters.
• Chen Xun walked through the empty palace, sat in the seat of honor, and watched several letters drift toward him.

Chen Xun returned to Jade Clarity Palace and read the final letters of old companions who had died after long lives in Eternal Antiquity. After visiting the Chen Family Ancient Residence and sealing the coffins of his descendants, he continued wandering the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range while the Reincarnation Clan debated challenging him.

• Chen Xun read letters from Qi Hao, Ji Zhao, Wu Hen, and others, then watched the palace lamps and Dao inscriptions light as the final letter had promised.
• Chen Xun left Jade Clarity Palace and visited the Chen Family Ancient Residence, where he found his descendants resting in unsealed coffins and sealed their lids after staying three days.
• Chen Xun began wandering the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range as his family visited powers across the Eternal Immortal Frontier to meet their descendants.
• At the Reincarnation Clan's dojo, a Dao Venerable urged Lian Qingyue to challenge Chen Xun and gain fame for the Reincarnation Dao.
• Lian Qingyue warned that Chen Xun stood at the peak of the immortal Dao, but the Dao Venerable insisted on testing the waters.

After returning to the Eternal Immortal Frontier, Chen Xun withdrew from worldly affairs and lived quietly with Big Black Ox and He Ling for hundreds of thousands of years. At last, he let go of his eternal obsession, releasing the Five Elements Immortal Path and Heavenly Tomb Underworld for all Spirits of the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Xun sent a Reincarnation Dao Venerable back toward the Reincarnation Clan as a rainbow, and Lian Qingyue was swept into it when he tried to receive him.
• A Heavenly Cauldron Immortal Sect elder used tales of Eternal Beings to scold the disciples, while a 300-year-old disciple from the Five Elements Sect silently ate flatbread and ignored him.
• Chen Xun returned to the mountain and lived simply with Big Black Ox and He Ling, while Ji Yan visited him over the years and refrained from urging him to act.
• After hundreds of thousands of years, Chen Xun told Ji Yan he would stop making plans for younger generations and would let the Immortal Realm's Spirits use the Five Elements Immortal Path and Heavenly Tomb Underworld.
• Chen Xun released a strand of Five-Colored Immortal Light that spread through the Immortal Realm as magnificent fireworks, and Big Black Ox and He Ling watched as he let go of his eternal obsession.

The Heavenly Tomb became a Peerless Secret Realm, while Chen Xun erased his Heaven and Earth Karma and vanished from the Immortal Realm’s memory as the Five Elements Dao Ancestor. At the River of Time, Gai Sanqian revealed to Mu Yuanzhi that his cruel schemes had been part of a plan to revive the Human Race, just as ancient beings began to stir.

• The Heavenly Tomb transformed into a Peerless Secret Realm, restoring the celestial realm and unleashing a great providence across the Heavenly Frontier and Underworld.
• Karma and traces of the Five Elements Dao Ancestor disappeared across the Immortal Realm, as Chen Xun erased his past and left only as a hermit who had returned the Dao to Heaven.
• Gai Sanqian told Mu Yuanzhi that he had sought to make the Human Race powerful enough to resist the Immortal Realm’s other races.
• Gai Sanqian revealed that the Boundless Filth Beasts had been given to their enemies to draw the Ten Thousand Clans’ attention toward the long-lived Human Race factions, and that he had saved Mu Yuanzhi so he could ascend.
• The River of Time rippled as ancient beings began to awaken, leaving Mu Yuanzhi shaken.

Chen Xun uncovered Gai Sanqian’s Ten Thousand Dao Ancestor Shou scheme, refined the River of Time, and returned to a quiet life in the Eternal Immortal Frontier. He later approved the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom’s move to the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier despite opposition from Ji Yan and other factions.

• Gai Sanqian vanished with Mu Yuanzhi, leaving the Ye Family to benefit from the Three Thousand Universes’ living creatures.
• Chen Xun and his companions found the Ten Thousand Dao Ancestor Shou in the River of Time, and Chen Xun later refined and took away the river.
• Chen Xun asked Ominous who had closed the Ascension Passage, then accepted that the Ye Family was supporting ascenders from the lower realms.
• Chen Xun and his companions resumed their quiet life in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, while He Ling pursued the Eternal Antiquity Great Undertaking.
• The Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom chose to settle in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, provoking the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s factions.
• Chen Xun approved the move because the kingdom’s ancestors had rendered merit, despite Ji Yan’s warning that the precedent could divide the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

Ji Yan realized that the Purple Qi Imperial Emperor was using Du Shi’s return to arrange a withdrawal from the Eternal Immortal Frontier. As the Ancient God Clan prepared to stop them and dissent spread among rival powers, the people of the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom erupted in protest against leaving.

• Ji Yan concluded that the Purple Qi Imperial Emperor had timed the planned withdrawal to minimize losses and prevent the precedent from spreading.
• A Nine Tribulation Immortal of the Ancient God Clan vowed to block the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom at the Sui Qi Star Territory’s border and began forming a killing formation.
• The Kuang Clan Old Ancestor said his clan would follow the Dao Ancestor’s decree, while the Yu Family Old Ancestor warned that Purple Qi’s departure could bring lasting calamities.
• News of the planned withdrawal provoked outrage across the Sui Qi Star Territory, where citizens rejected the idea of being taken from their homes and connections.
• Purple Qi citizens and Immortal Kingdom soldiers denounced the Imperial Clan, insisting that they were Eternal Beings first and demanding that the rulers leave without the people if they wished to found a nation elsewhere.