Chapter Summaries

After the Great Immortal Realm War, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories ceded territory, declared victory, and began rebuilding while aiding the battered Primordial Myriad Races. The Bo Clan concluded that the old generation of Three Thousand Immortal Territories experts had fallen and believed its own power now held the advantage.

• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories declared victory and planned to seal the Outer Domain's Star Pivot as it rebuilt its shrunken, sparsely populated lands.
• The Alliance sent the Primordial Myriad Races vast supplies to help them recover, prompting a deranged artifact spirit in the Ye Family's Ancestral Land to curse the Alliance for giving away the reserves of fallen Dao lineages.
• The Bo Clan's leaders said the Three Thousand Immortal Territories no longer threatened them because its experts from two million years earlier had fallen.
• The Bo Clan recalled how it had avoided committing fully to the war, entered only after the Myriad Heavens Immortal Court collapsed, and stayed clear of invading the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• The Bo Clan concluded that it no longer needed to fear the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and that the momentum favored its own clan.

After the immortal realm’s war ended, its territories began rebuilding and countless Dao lineages flourished, while new ascenders found a realm rich with opportunities. In the Three Thousand Universes, the Dao Ancestor rewarded the Ye Family by opening a path for great ascension cultivators to ascend into the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.

• The Bo Clan discussed the Yinming Spirit Clan’s destruction and considered the Dao Ancestor’s possible role in the war.
• The immortal realm’s damaged teleportation networks left its territories isolated, and its races turned from battle toward rebuilding.
• By year 106,000,000, Dao lineages and cultivation arts flourished across the immortal realm, while ascenders from other worlds explored its sparsely populated territories.
• A tide of auspicious blessings descended upon the Three Thousand Universes, and the Ye Family bowed in thanks to the Dao Ancestor.
• The Dao Ancestor declared that great ascension cultivators from the Three Thousand Universes could undergo tribulations and ascend to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.

After the Immortal Realm’s Human Race lost control of its plans for the Three Thousand Universes, Ji Kun reflected on the strength and unity of Eternal Antiquity’s Human Race. The immortals gathered at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace learned that they could enter the Shadow Immortal Realm, where Chen Xun and the others encountered a colossal inverted Five Elements Realm Spine.

• The Human Race powerhouses in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories accepted that a powerful True Immortal had intervened and that they could only wait until their race produced a True Immortal.
• Ji Fan told Ji Kun that he would defend the Eternal Ancient Human Race against any threat, and Ji Kun reflected on Ji Fan’s rise and the race’s unity.
• The Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace summoned Ji Kun and the other Eternal Antiquity powerhouses after discovering an entrance to the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• Ke Ding announced that Eternal Antiquity could prepare to enter the Shadow Immortal Realm en masse, while Chen Xun and the others had already entered with a large group.
• Chen Xun and the other immortals saw the ground sink and a colossal inverted Five Elements Realm Spine rise across heaven and earth.

Nanhua and the Ancient Emperor discovered that Ancient Emperor Mountain opened a route to the Shadow Immortal Realm, and Chen Xun led a group there to explore the immense Reverse Five Elements Realm Spine. The group began settling and cultivating across the spine while Chen Xun tried to develop a true immortal cultivation method, leaving the Shadow Immortal Realm’s inhabitants still unknown.

• Nanhua told the Ancient Emperor about the Shadow Immortal Realm, and they used Ancient Emperor Mountain as a medium to find its passage in the Three Thousand Universes.
• Nanhua and the Ancient Emperor entered the Three Thousand Universes with Song Heng’s Old Ancestor and opened the route through Ancient Emperor Mountain.
• Chen Xun gave the Ancient Emperor three unusual stones, then later led a large group into the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• Ni Canghuan and Chong Que set out to investigate the Reverse Five Elements Realm Spine, while the Heavenly Wheel Immortal examined the area beyond it.
• The group established cave abodes across the Realm Spine and explored, cultivated, refined artifacts, and mined, but found no living beings.
• Chen Xun urged Big Black Ox to focus on comprehending the Dao as he worked toward creating a true immortal cultivation method.

Chen Xun and Gu Qingyan shared a quiet tea and recalled the mountains he had drawn long ago, while Heavenly Wheel Immortal arrived to discuss the Shadow Immortal Realm and its clear Dao markings. They considered whether to rebuild a cultivation system that could defy the ten thousand Daos and whether to bring the realm’s inhabitants or territory into Eternal Antiquity.

• Gu Qingyan visited Chen Xun and asked whether the Realm Spine resembled the mountains he had drawn beneath Ancient Mountain.
• Chen Xun and Gu Qingyan drank tea together in companionable silence.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal arrived, provoked Chen Xun, and then said he had something to discuss.
• Gu Li Sheng continued forging his sword intent while Song Heng, Little Crimson, and Qionghua Shuiyu prepared to use the Mountains and Seas Seal on the Realm Spine.
• Chen Xun and Heavenly Wheel Immortal discussed the Shadow Immortal Realm’s Dao markings and proposed inviting its inhabitants to Eternal Antiquity or incorporating the realm into Eternal Territory.

The Eternal Immortal Frontier developed the Shadow Immortal Realm while the wider Immortal Realm recovered from war and entered a prosperous era. The chapter ended with the announcement of the greatest Heavenly Pride Battle in the history of the Immortal Realm’s Myriad Frontiers.

• The Eternal Immortal Frontier withdrew from Immortal Realm affairs, and a hundred years later the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace restored the Heavenly Secrets Great Dao in the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• The Bo Clan consolidated its gains after the war, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories remained exclusionary and the Immortal Territory Alliance hoped for a new True Immortal to emerge.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year 110,000,000, the realm had healed and flourished, though many cultivators treated the war as a distant story and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories resumed dealings with the Myriad Races of the Earth Frontier.
• By year 120,000,000, the Immortal Realm held its greatest Heavenly Pride Battle, open to everyone below the Immortal realm.

The Immortal Realm’s Myriad Races Heavenly Pride Battle unfolded across the realm, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ competitors disappointed observers by failing to reach the Final Thirty-Two. As peerless contenders rose to fame, Li Kong wondered whether the legendary Eternal Prodigy would join the contest, but no heavenly pride from that land appeared.

• The Qing Xu Sect selected heavenly prides for a battle whose final showdown would take place at its dojo, and a hundred years later the Myriad Races’ contest began across the Immortal Realm.
• The Qing Xu Sect’s competitors earned renown, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ heavenly prides lagged behind the top contenders.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ competitors fell at the World’s Third Station, failed to qualify for the Final Thirty-Two Immortal Pride Seats, and withdrew from the battle.
• The Star Pivot stopped broadcasting the contest in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, whose people continued to believe their strongest heavenly prides had stayed away.
• Peerless heavenly prides including Li Kong, Xuan Kui, and Ling Yinchen distinguished themselves, and Li Kong wondered aloud whether the Eternal Prodigy would enter the battle.
• No heavenly pride from the Eternal Prodigy’s legendary land appeared, leaving Li Kong disappointed.

The Immortal Realm flourished across successive ages, leaving the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s influence behind as its factions and heavenly prides surpassed old legacies. Yuan Chu Shengzun became the first True Immortal since the great war and befriended True Immortal Xuan Li, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance worried that none of its descendants had attained True Immortality.

• The Immortal Realm entered an age of flourishing Daos, and successive generations of heavenly prides surpassed the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s legacies.
• The Five Elements Spirit Estate distanced itself from Eternal Antiquity, while the Immortal Realm’s factions expanded their civilization and opened celestial wilderness through the Star Pivot.
• A Chaos Sea Sage attained True Immortality, revealed himself as Yuan Chu Shengzun, and credited the Dao Ancestor, heaven and earth, and all living beings for guiding him.
• True Immortal Xuan Li congratulated Yuan Chu Shengzun, and the following year helped him establish the Yuan Chu Sacred Palace atop the Chaos Sea.
• True Immortal Xuan Li and Yuan Chu Shengzun became friends, while True Immortals taught the Longevity Dao and helped advance the Immortal Realm.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance fretted that its heavenly prides had repeatedly lost the Heavenly Pride Battles and that none of its descendants had become a True Immortal.

The Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance seized control of the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank, executing its former legend Lü Shouyi and inflaming calls to reclaim ancestral lands. The Heaven Elders rejected a proposed frontier war and threatened punishment for anyone who acted without the alliance's command.

• Heaven Elders in the Heavenly Palace blamed departed traditions for taking Three Thousand Immortal Territories legacies and repeatedly defeating their prodigies in Heavenly Pride Battles.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance took control of the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank and appointed a Heavenly Palace disciple as its Estate Master.
• Lü Shouyi denounced the alliance for seizing the Spirit Bank, and the alliance executed him and discarded his remains in the wilderness.
• Frontier cultivators of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories grew eager to reclaim their ancestral lands, while the Myriad Races of the Earth Frontier feared an invasion.
• A messenger told the Heaven Elders that frontier Marshals sought permission to fight, but the elders refused and warned that unauthorized attacks would be punished as treason.

Xian Qifeng led the Three Thousand Immortal Territories into a war against the Myriad Races of the Earth Frontier, but the conflict ended in retreat and lasting damage to the territories’ standing and fortunes. Much later, Bo Dengyun ascended to True Immortal and called his era the finest age for attaining the Dao.

• Xian Qifeng ordered his ten-million-strong army across the frontier, beginning a war against the Myriad Races of the Earth Frontier.
• The Immortal Territory Alliance issued orders to withdraw, while powers across the Immortal Realm condemned the war and pressured the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Ten years later, disciples of the Heavenly Palace marched to the frontiers but did not cross the borders, and the war faded from public attention.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories rebuilt their border formations as the Earth Frontier remained empty, and their reputation and heavenly luck declined.
• In year one hundred and sixty million of the Immortal Realm Calendar, Bo Dengyun became a True Immortal and declared it the finest age for attaining the Dao.

Bo Dengyun attained True Immortality and reflected on the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ lost standing, while the Immortal Realm saw more True Immortals emerge and its forces reorganize into vast alliances. By year 180,000,000, new giant organizations had begun shaping the Immortal Realm’s future, with the Five Elements Spirit Estate already a leading model.

• After attaining the Dao, Bo Dengyun looked toward the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and questioned what it meant to become a true immortal.
• The emergence of the Bo Clan’s True Immortal exposed the Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance’s lack of the power it claimed and left it afraid to fight.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year 170,000,000, two long-lived cultivators attained True Immortality, one through orthodox means and one by devouring the great dao origin.
• Over the following ten million years, the Immortal Realm’s forces recognized that its vast scale required cooperation across races, Dao lineages, and clans.
• In year 180,000,000, countless giant organizations arose, following the example of the Five Elements Spirit Estate.

The Immortal Court rose to prominence as an Ancient True Dragon attained the Dao as a True Immortal, alarming the Immortal Realm’s major powers. The Heavenly Sovereign was asked whether he would return to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, but his answer left his intentions unclear.

• The Heavenly Star Myriad-Dao Sea and Ancestral Spirit Mountain were described as dominant organizations in the Immortal Realm.
• The Immortal Court was established to unite beast races and began trading spirit herbs at the lowest prices.
• An Ancient True Dragon attained the Dao as a True Immortal, causing the Immortal Realm’s powerhouses to fear he might overturn the order in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Bo Dengyun reflected that the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ apparent weakness concealed a history and bloodlines that other powers feared to awaken.
• The Heavenly Sovereign was asked whether the Immortal Court should return to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and he remarked that the land had grown distant from his memory.

The Heavenly Sovereign explained why he could not yet revive the Ancient Immortal Clan and reflected that a Dao heart need only endure, not remain perfect. A century later, the Great Phoenix Dao Lineage took back the Ancient Mirror Heavenly Domain while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories Alliance’s bluster became a public farce, prompting many immortals to leave.

• The Heavenly Sovereign told Zhi Feng he had let go of his old grievances and said resurrecting the Ancient Immortal Clan was too difficult after two hundred million years had passed.
• The Heavenly Sovereign revealed that his attempt to search ten million years upstream in the River of Time had encountered a great terror, leaving further cultivation as the path forward.
• A century later, the Immortal Territory Alliance and cultivators of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories stirred up expectations of war against the Great Phoenix Dao Lineage.
• The Great Phoenix Dao Lineage arrived, the Star Pivot recordings went dark, and the lineage took the Ancient Mirror Heavenly Domain away without resistance.
• Cultivators of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories argued among themselves as the Outer Domain mocked their alliance, and many immortals quietly departed.

The Immortal Realm’s great age of prosperity continued as its races and organizations flourished, while the Three Thousand Immortal Territories lost influence after the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank’s collapse. By the Immortal Realm calendar year 210,000,000, cultivators across the realm enjoyed abundant opportunities, thriving markets, and a peaceful era of cultivation.

• The Heavenly Palace disciples’ misconduct ruined the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank, whose remaining legacy retreated into the Three Thousand Immortal Territories before its outside holdings were absorbed by the Five Elements Spirit Estate.
• The Five Elements Spirit Estate remained the Immortal Realm’s most formidable organization, with origins in the Eternal Immortal Frontier and influence spanning the heavens and worlds.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories insisted on their independence from the Immortal Realm’s organizations, but other powers ridiculed them as they fell out of step with the era.
• By year 210,000,000, cultivators explored the starry wilds, pursued opportunities, and attended a flourishing range of contests and Dao gatherings across the Immortal Realm.
• Auctions and merchant pavilions in the Star Pivot thrived, as the integration of the Immortal Realm brought together knowledge and advances in pills, artifacts, and other immortal arts.

A thousand years after Gu Yi became the first True Immortal from the Heavenly Pride Battle, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories remained isolated and in decline. Wang Qicang of the Desolate Wang Clan entered the forbidden Ink-Wash River Forest to seek a master and a path to his clan’s survival.

• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ old cultivation methods left its prodigies struggling, while the Immortal Territory Alliance restricted travel and concealed the defection of a top power.
• A thousand years later, Gu Yi became a True Immortal, and living beings across the Immortal Realm celebrated his achievement.
• Gu Yi looked back toward the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and bowed in gratitude to the teachers, elders, opponents, and era that had shaped him.
• Wang Qicang crossed the Ink-Wash River Forest on a bamboo raft and paid respects to the immortal spirit of the Ye Family’s ancestral artifact.
• The ancient spirit dismissed Wang Qicang as unworthy, but he stood firm and said he sought a master and a method to carry his clan into the future.

Wang Qicang endured the Ink-Wash River’s deadly currents for decades after the Old Madman found him, surviving repeated destruction and rebuilding. When the old man returned, Wang Qicang accepted his offer to cultivate the Dao under him.

• The Old Madman appeared on the river and recognized Wang Qicang as a descendant of the Longevity Wang Family, then left him to die in the freezing water.
• Wang Qicang survived until the next day, but the Old Madman did not return as promised, and Wang Qicang began to lose consciousness in the river.
• A warm power rescued Wang Qicang from death, and he continued enduring the river’s currents as they damaged his cultivation and washed away his immortal meridians.
• After years of struggling through pain and unconsciousness, Wang Qicang regained his awareness, then gradually recovered his consciousness again over another decade.
• The Old Madman returned and told Wang Qicang to cultivate the Dao under him, and Wang Qicang accepted.

Elder Ye brought Wang Qicang to the snowbound graveyard of the Ye Family and told him to cultivate the Dao of staying alive. Over two thousand years, Wang Qicang studied ancient texts under Elder Ye’s harsh guidance, and Elder Ye explained that he had withheld immortal Dao instruction until Wang Qicang understood the world and the inheritance of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.

• Elder Ye transported Wang Qicang to the Ye Family’s final resting place and named himself Wang Qicang’s teacher.
• Elder Ye ordered Wang Qicang to begin refining qi and cultivate the Dao of staying alive.
• A hundred years later, Elder Ye called Wang Qicang beast fodder while Wang Qicang remained unable to reach Foundation Establishment and reported sensing a different kind of spirit qi.
• A thousand years later, Wang Qicang read ancient books and questioned their account of true immortal history, prompting Elder Ye to order him out.
• After another thousand years, Elder Ye recounted the achievements of past heroes and said he had delayed teaching Wang Qicang the immortal Dao so he would first understand the world and its true inheritance.

After thirty thousand years of solitary qi cultivation, Wang Qicang prepared to leave the Ye Family ancestral grounds and pursue the path that might save his clan. As he stepped into the snow, the reeds bent into a road before him, marking the beginning of his journey.

• Wang Qicang decided to cultivate qi after studying the ancient books, and Elder Ye quietly approved.
• Wang Qicang spent thirty thousand years cultivating the Five Elements Evergreen Dao, studying ancient texts, and paying homage to the martyrs.
• Wang Qicang packed his worn books, cut his hair, and prepared to leave the Ye Family ancestral grounds.
• Wang Qicang stepped down from the final stone terrace, and the snowy reeds bent into a road leading away from the ancestral grounds.

Wang Qicang left the Ye Family ancestral grounds after Elder Ye entrusted him with the memory of the loyal dead and urged him to remain true to his cultivation. Five years later, he entered the Wild World and killed a Great Vehicle Middle Stage Mistland Azure Tiger, preparing its flesh as provisions for his journey home.

• Wang Qicang bowed farewell to the ancestral grounds, and Elder Ye told him to carve out his own heaven if none was offered and never betray his journey there.
• Wang Qicang accepted Elder Ye's teachings, bowed once more, and crossed the river on his bamboo raft without looking back.
• Five years later, Wang Qicang entered the Wild World and sensed two Ancient Ferocious Beasts fighting nearby.
• A Mistland Azure Tiger attacked Wang Qicang, but its Immortal Spirit Qi shattered and killed it before it could strike him.
• Wang Qicang harvested the tiger's flesh for provisions and set his sights on returning home through the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Wang Qicang discovered that the Desolate Heaven Domain was a hunting ground where powerful figures exploited its people and beasts, then spent thirty thousand years refining his Qi Condensation cultivation. When cultivators came to kill him as the last Wang descendant, he annihilated many and let the rest flee; two thousand years later, another young man named Wang Qicang appeared and became a target for protecting the ancient ferocious beasts.

• Wang Qicang learned that the Desolate Heaven Domain was a private hunting ground where powerful figures used its people as fodder and wagered over the beasts.
• Twenty years later, Wang Qicang returned to the empty Wang Family lands and sat alone through the night as cultivators arrived to kill him.
• Wang Qicang destroyed the first attacker with a flick of spiritual energy, revealing the power he had refined during thirty thousand years at Qi Condensation.
• Wang Qicang crushed the spells and bodies of dozens of cultivators with a breath, then suppressed Heaven and Earth as several survivors fled.
• Two thousand years later, a young man named Wang Qicang appeared in the Desolate Heaven Domain, protected the ancient ferocious beast race, and became a hunting target; three young fellow Daoists joined him.