Chapter Summaries

The Imperial Clan left the Eternal Immortal Frontier and founded an Immortal Nation in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled onward. Tens of thousands of years later, the Imperial Clan began to feel uneasy about their separation, and one ancestor suddenly realized the Eternal Immortal Frontier was gone from the sky.

• The Imperial Clan departed the Eternal Immortal Frontier and entered the Immortal Realm, leaving the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom behind.
• Chen Xun accepted the clan’s choice and later traveled with Big Black Ox to the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier to explore its rivers of sun and moon.
• Thirty thousand years later, the Eternal Immortal Frontier set sail toward a distant continent to investigate its Giant Immortals and True Immortals and recover a detained Karma Immortal Boat.
• The Imperial Clan established an Immortal Nation in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, but its ancestors increasingly missed the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• One Imperial Clan ancestor looked toward the heavens and cried out in alarm after noticing that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had vanished.

The Imperial Clan abandoned the Eternal Immortal Frontier and built a powerful civilization in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, spreading its cultivation methods and Eternal Ideology. Back in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox encountered enormous Great Dao Immortals and realized they were innate beings sustained by the flourishing Great Dao.

• The Imperial Clan lost its connection to the Eternal Heavenly Dao after the Eternal Immortal Frontier vanished, then began establishing its legacy in the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier a thousand years later.
• The Imperial Clan spread cultivation arts, built immortal cities and formations, planted Longevity Immortal Herbs, and gained the submission of countless Dao lineages.
• Over the next ten thousand years, the Imperial Clan transformed the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, while its ancestors came to see the territory as the foundation of their own future immortal path.
• On a continent in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, giant beings and Peerless Fierce Spirits hunted and fought one another, astonishing those who witnessed their immense size.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched the giants and concluded that they were beings with innate Dao seeds whose lives endured as the Immortal Realm Great Dao flourished.

After three years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived in the Great Desolation Northern Lands, where the Qingshang Immortal Clan was locked in a stalemate over an outer-heavenly ship. Chen Xun appeared before the clan and asked its ancestor to lead him to the Immortal Clan.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived in the Northern Lands and observed the Qingshang Immortal Clan suppressing the fleeing vicious spirit Tunmin.
• Qingshang clan members discussed the war, their ancestor’s absence from the battlefield, and their efforts to decipher the outer-heavenly ship’s formations.
• The Qingshang immortals explained that outsiders remained inside the ship, while their clan had used the ship’s formation patterns to create weapons for the battlefield.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared before the Qingshang clan, startling its immortals because no one had sensed their arrival.
• Chen Xun introduced himself and asked the Qingshang Immortal Ancestor to lead him to the clan.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox freed the Eternal Immortal Boat from the Qingshang Immortal Clan and demanded compensation from its ancestor, Shang Chunqiu. After presenting a list that included sending clan members to mine, Chen Xun left Shang Chunqiu stunned and near an outburst.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox traveled with the Qingshang Immortal Clan to its icebound ancestral land, where Chen Xun restored the Heaven and Earth Rules and revealed the imprisoned Eternal Immortal Boat.
• Shang Chunqiu admitted his clan had wrongfully detained the boat and released it at Chen Xun's request.
• The awakened cultivators aboard the Eternal Immortal Boat thanked Chen Xun and departed for the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun introduced himself to Shang Chunqiu and demanded compensation for the boat's imprisonment and the losses suffered by its passengers.
• The Big Black Ox presented a compensation list that included mining, leaving Shang Chunqiu dumbfounded and close to erupting.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled the Immortal Realm as the Eternal Immortal Frontier entered a new era of life-tier cultivation, while Chen Xun grew lonely watching the years pass. After spending ten thousand years painting with old companions, Chen Xun saw Song Heng’s coffin return from beyond the heavens.

• Chen Xun persuaded Shang Chunqiu to accept a deal, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traded for the Qingshang Immortal Clan’s strange stones before leaving its affairs to the Eternal Cultivators.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent years exploring the Immortal Realm, and the Eternal Immortal Frontier later established a life-tier cultivation method that transformed its immortal path.
• Ji Yan’s life spirit body stirred after the new cultivation method emerged, and Chen Xun brought his family to celebrate before returning to the Five Elements Sect, where he began painting a long scroll.
• Nanhua joined Chen Xun in painting, and Big Black Ox, He Ling, Ji Yan, and the Ominous Old Ancestor gradually gathered to watch over the following years.
• After ten thousand years of quiet, an object arrived from beyond the heavens, and Chen Xun recognized it as Song Heng’s coffin.

The Ten Lifetimes Coffin arrived at the Five Elements Sect, but Chen Xun found it empty and set out with Big Black Ox to search the Immortal Realm for Song Heng. After they left, Nanhua entered the ancient tree-lined avenue and became trapped there.

• The Ten Lifetimes Coffin descended from the Star Wilderness into the Five Elements Sect, and Chen Xun opened it with the Great Dao Sound.
• Chen Xun found the coffin empty, with only a faint trace of Song Heng's qi remaining.
• Chen Xun told Ji Yan he would find Song Heng, then left the Eternal Immortal Frontier with Big Black Ox.
• Ji Yan warned Ominous that new forces might emerge and that his clan should prepare.
• Nanhua entered the ancient tree-lined avenue and became trapped inside.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived at the Tai Yi Heavenly Court’s centuries-long war and found the ancient lineage under attack by powerful outsiders. Chen Xun annihilated the invading immortals and ended the battlefield’s fighting, then Purple Firmament Thunder began striking down more cultivators approaching from across the starry sky.

• Chen Xun traced the battlefield’s memories and learned that rival Dao lineages and powerful immortals had besieged the Tai Yi Heavenly Court for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Seven Stars attacked a Heavenly Court Seven Tribulations Immortal while seeking the Heavenly Foundation Stone of the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared, and Chen Xun killed Seven Stars before turning against the other attackers.
• Chen Xun strode into the Heavenly Palace and killed the invading Nine Tribulations Immortals and other powerful enemies with his axe.
• The battlefield fell silent, with only Heavenly Court cultivators left alive, as Purple Firmament Thunder struck cultivators still heading toward the war.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that Gu Li Sheng’s and Song Heng’s immortal corpses had been stolen, then left the Tai Yi Heavenly Court after taking a Dao leaf and soil from the Immortal Tomb. A thousand years later, they continued searching for Song Heng’s traces and arrived at the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found the Immortal Tomb empty and realized that Gu Li Sheng’s and Song Heng’s immortal corpses were gone.
• Three Heavenly Court Immortal Ancestors arrived, and Chen Xun revealed that he had watched the Heavenly Palace rise and that the Former Emperor’s corpse had been taken by Song Heng.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to take a leaf from the Dao Tree, gathered soil from the Immortal Tomb, and departed with him.
• The Tai Yi Heavenly Court later found that the battlefield’s immortal corpses were gone, while news of its defeat spread across countless star domains.
• A thousand years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat while continuing to follow Song Heng’s traces.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched Big Head pursue his cultivation dreams and later joined him on a long journey to Sea Barbarian Cave. After a failed breakthrough left Big Head seeking wealth to repair his spirit roots, they arrived at the bustling coast ready to slay demons.

• Big Head told Chen Xun that he had traded Spirit Tree Seeds for an Alien Star Cultivation Method and planned to reach the Refining Void Stage.
• Big Head gave Big Black Ox spirit herbs, then left the street corner and returned to his hidden cave abode, where Chen Xun watched him from afar.
• Ten years later, after a failed breakthrough, Big Head pedaled Chen Xun and Big Black Ox in a wooden cart toward Sea Barbarian Cave to earn money for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• After more than a hundred years on the road, Big Head arrived at Sea Barbarian Cave and marveled at the busy coast, where Chen Xun suggested they go slay demons.

Big Head, Chen Xun, and Big Black Ox traveled aboard a Demon Hunting Ship to Shanglu after Big Head hunted a powerful sea demon. On arrival, Chen Xun helped Big Head sell the demon core for a high price, while Big Head looked ahead to a life of adventure.

• Big Head defeated a Transformation God Stage Azure Scale Sea Demon while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox relaxed nearby.
• The group boarded Hai Luzi’s Demon Hunting Ship, where Big Head sold the sea demon and learned the ship would carry them to Shanglu.
• During the month-long voyage, Hai Luzi advised Big Head to watch his surroundings while hunting and wished him well on the Sea Route.
• After disembarking, Chen Xun negotiated with a merchant and sold Big Head’s demon core for four hundred and eighty Low-Grade Immortal Spirit Stones.

After helping Big Head complete his spirit roots, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left him to pursue a hidden lead connected to Song Heng’s Immortal Tomb. Their actions devastated a gathering of immortals, drawing the attention of the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat’s seven ruling families and the Heavenly Seat, who warned that the newcomers came from the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent centuries helping Big Head earn wealth, then used his fortune to complete his spirit roots.
• When Big Head returned to sea, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed after discovering that the ruined ancient city was an Immortal Tomb built by Song Heng, who might have created several tombs.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox flew toward a grand Dao discussion gathering, and a hundred years later the gathering was reported destroyed, with the Immortal Fall Phenomenon lingering over it.
• The ancestors of the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat’s seven families discussed the unknown assailant and suspected a powerful Immortal Realm figure had come to settle an old matter.
• The Heavenly Seat appeared and warned the seven families that their visitors came from the Eternal Immortal Frontier and that exposing the families would bring a World Extinction calamity.
• The seven families’ ancestors recoiled at the warning, while the Heavenly Seat considered abandoning them rather than face the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned that an immortal artifact was being used to investigate events in the Immortal Realm, so Chen Xun called on Ji Yan, Ominous, and the Ghost Face Race to investigate. They secretly crippled the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat and its seven Ancient Cultivation Families, leaving the clans fearing the unseen force they called 'It.'

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Big Head, who had reached the Refining Void Stage and recounted his cultivation experiences.
• Chen Xun suspected the demons possessed an immortal artifact like the Heavenly Dao Mirror and ordered Ji Yan, Ominous, and the Ghost Face Race to investigate.
• Ji Yan and Ominous mobilized the Ghost Face Race, whose Dao Venerables infiltrated the Seven Heroes Mysterious Star Heavenly Seat.
• The Ghost Face Race secretly devastated the Heavenly Seat’s commerce and secret realms, then used a Heavenly Foundation Immortal Artifact to prevent the seven Ancient Cultivation Families from becoming immortal.
• After two hundred years without a clan member proving Dao, the seven families realized they were under attack but could not find their enemy or obtain help from the Heavenly Seat.
• The seven clans’ ancestors feared the force they called 'It,' while a clan woman’s Dao heart began to waver as their family faced ruin.

Meng Sheng appeared in the Dao Sea and destroyed the Longevity Immortal Palace after learning it had imprisoned Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng. He ended by apologizing to the two seniors for arriving late.

• Ji Yan sent the Longevity, Samsara, and Astral Phenomena clans to investigate the Longevity Immortal Palace, and twenty years later the Heavenly Seat and Seven Clans vanished.
• A hundred years later, Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng's immortal blood was being extracted in the Dao Sea as the Longevity Immortal Palace discussed threats from the Tai Yi Heavenly Court and Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Meng Sheng appeared above the Dao Sea and demanded an explanation for the imprisonment of his Eternal Antiquity seniors, Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng.
• Meng Sheng's presence annihilated the Dao Sea's rules and destroyed the Longevity Immortal Palace, leaving Heavenly Seat alive to witness the Great Dao's Heavenly Lament.
• Meng Sheng bowed toward Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng and apologized for arriving late.

Meng Sheng punished those who desecrated the ancient immortals of Eternal Antiquity, then reunited with Chen Xun and the others after reaching the threshold of the True Immortal Realm. Aboard the World Breaking Ship, he explained how he had investigated the Longevity Immortal Palace and secretly watched over Song Heng.

• Meng Sheng declared that anyone who traced ancient immortal tombs or corpses in Eternal Antiquity would be punished, and karmic retribution caused Heaven Seat to suffer before he died a year later.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Ji Yan, the Ominous Old Ancestor, and Nanhua arrived at the Dao Sea, where Meng Sheng welcomed them and reminisced with Chen Xun.
• Meng Sheng told Chen Xun that he had neared the True Immortal Realm while pursuing longevity and the revival of the Eternal Beings.
• Chen Xun invited Meng Sheng to return to the sect with them, and Meng Sheng gladly accepted.
• On the World Breaking Ship, Meng Sheng recounted how he had learned about the Longevity Immortal Palace and secretly protected Song Heng after Song Heng asked him to leave.

Meng Sheng reunited with Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, and Chen Xun spoke of his growing affection for Big Head as they watched the young cultivator from afar. Afterward, Chen Xun learned that Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng had died and ordered Meng Sheng to rebury them in the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Meng Sheng visited Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, while Chen Xun reflected on how his junior had grown into someone ready to shoulder responsibility.
• Chen Xun praised Big Head, and he and Big Black Ox sent their divine souls to continue watching the young cultivator on the Primordial Ancient Star.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor encouraged Nanhua to visit the Five Elements Sect and suggested he might suit the vacant post of second steward.
• After half a year of conversation, Chen Xun cursed Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng for dying and having their remains stolen, then asked Meng Sheng to confirm what had happened.
• Chen Xun instructed Meng Sheng to bury Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, while Meng Sheng wondered privately whether his senior had begun to feel helpless.

Chen Xun and his companions uncovered the Broken Vine’s origin, then returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier, where Chen Xun built tombs for Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng and reflected on his regrets. Meng Sheng later departed to pursue the Dao, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories began expanding across the Immortal Realm.

• Big Black Ox’s Broken Vine restrained the Ten Lifetimes Coffin, and Chen Xun used the River of Time to reveal that it had once been the Immortal Realm’s first Primordial Beginning Ridge, shattered when the Eternal Immortal Frontier broke the Heaven Realm.
• Chen Xun gave the Broken Vine, Dao diagrams, and immortal treasures from the Longevity Immortal Palace to Meng Sheng for his travels.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun and Meng Sheng reached the Eternal Immortal Frontier, where Chen Xun began building Immortal Tombs for Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng on the Jade Bamboo Continent.
• Chen Xun told Meng Sheng that he regretted not having continued traveling with Gu Li Sheng, and Meng Sheng promised to help Chen Xun if he reached the True Immortal Realm.
• After three hundred peaceful years, Meng Sheng left the Five Elements Sect for his three Dao grounds, and Chen Xun sent him off with tea before returning to painting.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year twenty-eight million, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories entered an era of expansion, and their cultivators began traveling beyond their borders using teleportation artifacts.

The Ye Family entered the Immortal Realm’s expansion, bringing the Three Thousand Universes under its control and preparing its people to follow it into the Immortal Realm. The Three Thousand Immortal Territories later entered a long era of peace as its factions focused on exploration and development, and humanity gradually gained influence.

• The Ye Family expanded its territory and prepared to establish a lasting foundation rather than compete in the Great Dao Competition.
• The Ye Family drained the Three Thousand Universes of resources, leaving them in the Age of Dharma’s End while promising their inhabitants a place to cultivate in the Immortal Realm.
• The Ye Family assembled the races of the Three Thousand Universes and prepared to lead them into the Immortal Realm half a year later.
• Cultivators from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories spread across the Immortal Realm, recruiting disciples and developing new territories instead of waging war.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year twenty-nine million, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories had become peaceful, and humanity’s influence had grown as its cultivators emerged.

Qi Qianqiu used the Formation Dao to establish a vast Array Dao Heaven and strip Formation Dao from the Immortal Realm Great Dao Ranking, defying the Liu and Shi clans’ control. He stood before the Human Dao Pavilion and began explaining how the Eternal Immortal Frontier had seized the ranking.

• Qi Qianqiu covered the Three Thousand Immortal Territories in formation patterns and linked the myriad Daos through a grand formation.
• Qi Qianqiu established a Formation Dao Heavenly Palace that challenged the Great Dao Ranking and began stripping away its Formation Dao imprint.
• Qi Qianqiu shattered the Formation Dao imprint on the ranking, returning it to the Heaven and Earth Origin.
• Cultivators and powerful figures reacted with shock, while the Human Dao Pavilion’s ancestral masters watched Qi Qianqiu without daring to act.
• Qi Qianqiu declared that the Great Dao Ranking had originally been established to help ordinary people enter the Dao, but the Eternal Immortal Frontier had taken sole control of it.

Qi Qianqiu publicly erased the Formation Dao from the Great Dao Ranking, challenging the Eternal Immortal Frontier to let the Dao return to Heaven and accepting whatever punishment followed. The Eternal Immortal Frontier did not respond, and after more than a thousand years of anxious waiting, Qi Qianqiu and the gathered observers were left with nothing happening.

• Qi Qianqiu explained that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had ignored his requests to return the Dao to Heaven, then erased the Formation Dao’s name and vowed to bear the consequences.
• The Liu and Shi ancestors recognized that suppressing Qi Qianqiu could provoke imitators, and decided to act according to circumstances as the Great Dao Ranking’s control became untenable.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier remained silent, while the Boundless Immortal Domain grew increasingly alarmed and prepared for its possible descent over the following years.
• The Human Dao Pavilion expelled Qi Qianqiu after more than ten years of complaints, but no one dared kill him, and Immortal Realm Strong Ones gathered to watch him.
• After hundreds and then thousands of years passed without any response, Qi Qianqiu stood alone with an ashen expression before the still-unresolved situation.

Li Buzhou broke the Yan Tian Great Dao Imprint and vanished, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories discovered the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier and began a long war against it. The Three Thousand Immortal Territories expanded through the Immortal Realm, but its cultivators’ disorder and the Heavenly Human Race’s enslavement of other beings left the wider conflict growing more chaotic.

• Li Buzhou slew his Heavenly Origin Sage master, shattered the Yan Tian Great Dao Imprint, and disappeared from the Boundless Immortal Domain.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories discovered the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier, whose Immortal Nation threatened to kill those who entered without bowing.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories and the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier clashed in the Star Pivot, beginning a war over territory and the Eternal Antiquity Inheritance.
• During the Golden Prosperity Era, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories expanded across the Immortal Realm while the Sun Moon Immortal Frontier weakened and other Immortal Realm beings gathered around the newcomers.
• The Heavenly Human Race enslaved Immortal Realm beings and took them to the Heavenly Frontier, where they were forced to build and develop its civilization.
• Outer Frontiers began targeting the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and some of its Dao Lineages attacked other Immortal Borderlands, denying responsibility when defeated.