Chapter Summaries

Lu Heng arrived in the Eternal Immortal Frontier and was overwhelmed by the vast mining territories and the power of Cheng Yuan. The Dao Ancestor issued an edict permitting all Eternal Cultivators to cultivate ten thousand Daos, and Lu Heng learned that reaching immortality could take a million years.

• Lu Heng ascended to the Thirty-Seventh Star Ring and was awestruck by its immense mining sites and the Eternal Immortal Realm.
• Cheng Yuan invited those who became immortals to cultivate on Heavenly Cosmos Mountain.
• A vast Mountain and River Map and ancient beasts appeared as the Dao Ancestor's Heavenly Edict was proclaimed.
• The edict allowed Eternal Cultivators to cultivate ten thousand Daos, opened the Shadow Immortal Realm to those who mastered them, and made ten-thousand-Dao unity a requirement for the True Immortal Path.
• Lu Heng asked the veteran miners about the Dao Ancestor and the path to immortality, then realized that his ambitions had to change after hearing that becoming an immortal could take a million years.

Ancient ancestors returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier and revealed powers that reshaped their sects and domains. The Heavenly Wheel Immortal established the Heavenly Wheel Great Dao, while the Yu Family’s new path to immortality proved far more difficult than the usual ascension road.

• The Heavenly Wheel Sect’s disciples welcomed the Heavenly Wheel Immortal as he returned from the Shadow Immortal Realm, where his Wheel Shadow transformed shadow qi into immortal radiance.
• The Heavenly Wheel Immortal declared that the Heavenly Wheel Immortal Dao would become the Heavenly Wheel Great Dao and establish itself as the origin of Dao Attainment.
• Bai Xinghan, Foolish Eagle, and Qian Wu Hen appeared behind the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and obeyed his command.
• The Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace welcomed its short Ancestor as he manifested cycles of reincarnation, and Ke Zixiao saw heavenly secrets descend into his lord’s Heavenly Secret Scroll.
• The Yu Family opened its own Ascension Road through an Ascension Platform, but its descendants despaired when they learned it was a hundred times harder than the Eternal Antiquity Ascension Road.

The Yu Family imposed its own Dao-attainment rules, while several ancient figures returned to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm with overwhelming power. Immortal Ancient departed to confront Chen Xun Old Thief, and Gu Li Sheng, the Human Dao Pavilion ancestor, and Gu Qingyan began shaping their respective domains.

• The Yu Family revealed that its Third Ancestor was the Dao Questioner and enforced family-written rules for attaining the Dao, overturning all but one ancestral precept.
• Immortal Ancient reassembled his body from the bloodline immortal mountains in the Tai Chu Mine and declared that it was time to decide the victor against Chen Xun Old Thief.
• Immortal Ancient opened a Void Great Avenue and left while Mo watched in shock.
• At the Primordial Chaos Immortal River, Gu Li Sheng discussed his understanding of the Emperor's Way with a fat man in yellow Daoist robes and sensed that other ancient figures had returned.
• The Human Dao Supreme Sword appeared at the Human Dao Pavilion, where its ancestor arrived holding a Wine Gourd and was welcomed by the disciples.
• Gu Qingyan returned from the Shadow Immortal Realm and announced that Universe Immortal Navigation would reorganize the Zhou Tian Star Orbit across the Three Thousand Star Territory.

Ling Qiuchu returned to the Jade Terrace Immortal Palace with three complete Great Daos, while Meng Sheng returned to his sanctuary on the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent. After reuniting with Yu Yiwei, he began telling her about the strange events and hardships he had faced crossing the Shadow Immortal Realm.

• Ling Qiuchu brought three complete Great Daos back to the Jade Terrace Immortal Palace, laying foundations for countless Dao lineages.
• Meng Sheng returned to his Dao sanctuary on the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent and was greeted by White Fur and his other followers.
• Meng Sheng reunited with Yu Yiwei and learned that the Yu Family's younger generation worried its disciples were falling behind.
• Meng Sheng told Yu Yiwei that many ancient Dao lineages shared the same concern as heaven and earth's conditions made differences between cultivators smaller.
• Meng Sheng began describing the strange events and difficulties he had encountered with Eternal Antiquity's seniors in the Shadow Immortal Realm.

Meng Sheng explained to Yu Yiwei that Chen Xun and three companions were resisting the clash between the Shadow Immortal Realm and Eternal Antiquity, and that their victory could free future generations from the limits of True Immortals. Deep in the Shadow Immortal Realm, Chen Xun calmly cultivated while his companions waited, and his visits had brought the realm’s clans into line.

• Meng Sheng told Yu Yiwei that Senior, Senior Black Ox, Senior Ji Yan, and Senior Yuan Ming were resisting the merging worlds and that the Immortal Path’s future depended on Senior’s victory.
• Chen Xun wrote an Immortal Dao Cultivation Method and sent phantom figures bearing different Great Daos toward the sky while Big Black Ox and the others cultivated across the realm.
• Little Crimson complained about being stuck in the Shadow Immortal Realm and wanted to return home to renovate his cave abode.
• A frog and a duck returned, and Chen Xun scolded them for causing trouble among the Shadow Immortal Realm’s clans and bullying their gifted juniors.
• Chen Xun’s repeated visits subdued the Shadow Immortal Realm’s powerful clans, which gradually accepted Eternal Antiquity and acknowledged him as the Dao Ancestor.

Chen Xun traveled the Shadow Immortal Realm aboard the World Breaking Ship while his teachings transformed its cultivation traditions and strengthened ties with the Eternal Immortal Frontier. Over the following eras, the three Immortal Realms developed in parallel, and the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm rebuilt its foundations as powerful forces descended into the lower realm.

• Chen Xun nurtured the World Breaking Ship, then set off with Little Crimson, Mountain-Sitting Duck, and Frog Daoist to wander without a destination.
• In year 270 million, Chen Xun's basic Defy Ten Thousand Daos cultivation method inspired countless cultivation paths in the Shadow Immortal Realm, where its people honored him as the Patriarch of the Immortal Dao.
• The Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm occupied many of the Shadow Immortal Realm's Great Dao forbidden lands, while exchanges with the Eternal Immortal Frontier revived the Shadow Immortal Realm's Immortal Dao and brought its cultivators across the Three Thousand Universes passage.
• By year 280 million, the integration of the Shadow Immortal Realm's teachings helped Eternal Cultivators advance to shattering twenty thousand great Dao chains.
• In year 290 million, Universe Immortal Navigation completed the reconstruction of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm's Zhou Tian Star Orbit to protect its source from decline.
• The Tai Yi Heavenly Palace descended to the lower realm with the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, leaving Gu Li Sheng stunned and the Fu Shi Religion dumbfounded.

The Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm continued expanding its foundations while the Immortal Puppet race introduced Dao Puppets, powerful guides to cultivation that were distributed on credit and quickly sold out. Shadow Immortal Realm cultivators struggled to understand the realm’s mature Dao systems and chose to begin anew by mining on the Three Thousand Star Territory’s frontiers.

• He Ling agreed to help Song Heng transfer void origin into the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm as part of its plan to prevent Heaven and Earth from declining.
• By eternal calendar year three hundred million, the Eternal Immortal Puppet race allied with other powers and created the Dao Puppet, an artifact that taught myriad Daos and connected users to the Star Pivot.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance financed mass production, and the Immortal Puppet race offered Dao Puppets free in advance in exchange for repayment after recipients attained their Dao.
• Shadow Immortal Realm cultivators found themselves unable to understand the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s integrated Dao systems and creations.
• The Shadow Immortal Realm cultivators decided to rebuild their foundations by mining, and they headed for the Three Thousand Star Territory’s frontiers.

The chapter contrasted the bustling frontier where ascenders mined and settled with Chen Xun’s discovery that true immortals’ Dao attainments caused other branches of the Great Dao to collapse. It ended with Chen Xun appearing within his inner world as the World-Saving Old Man and telling Ji Muzhi that his other disciples had passed away.

• Ascenders and powerful figures gathered at the Eternal Antiquity frontier, where the Wild Clan and others organized mining and settlement.
• Chen Xun examined the Shadow Immortal Realm and saw branches of the Great Dao collapsing as true immortals attained the Dao.
• Chen Xun recognized that the convergence of myriad Daos and true immortals’ attainments were correcting the Heaven and Earth Great Dao while extinguishing unorthodox paths.
• Chen Xun entered the Five Elements Realm Spine within his body and appeared before Ji Muzhi as the World-Saving Old Man.
• Ji Muzhi asked about the unfinished chess game, and Chen Xun told her that his other disciples had all passed away.

Chen Xun’s inner world advanced through another cycle as the Five Elements Immortal Sect carried on in its chaotic, powerful fashion. When great dao markings disappeared from the Shadow Immortal Realm, the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace resolved to delay true immortals from attaining the Dao, while True Immortal Xuan Li sensed that someone was severing the path to immortality.

• Chen Xun watched his inner world enter its ninth cycle, then departed with Brother Xun and a companion aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• By Eternal Calendar year three hundred and ten million, the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s disciples pursued cultivation in their eccentric ways, while its immortals spent their days drinking tea and talking.
• After more great dao markings vanished from the Shadow Immortal Realm, Tianjizi told the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace that the damage threatened its inhabitants’ chances of becoming true immortals.
• The Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace’s immortals chose to delay the True Immortal Realm’s true immortals from attaining the Dao rather than let the Shadow Immortal Realm’s path to immortality be severed.
• A thousand years later, True Immortal Xuan Li of the Qing Xu Sect sensed that the great dao origins and heavenly secrets were in turmoil and wondered who was severing the paths to immortality.

True Immortal Xuan Li investigated the force that had halted new True Immortals and traced it to Tianjizi and the Eternal Immortal Frontier. He failed to persuade Tianjizi to end the fifty-million-year Dao severance and left unable to change the decree.

• Xuan Li searched for the one influencing the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao Rules and questioned Yuan Shi Shengzun, who denied knowing anything.
• By Immortal Realm Calendar year three hundred and twenty million, no new True Immortals had emerged, and Xuan Li arrived at the Five Elements Spirit Estate.
• Xuan Li entered the Ancestral Hall and asked Eternal Antiquity to restore the Dao and give cultivators a path to survival.
• Tianjizi appeared and declared that the Dao would be severed across the Immortal Realm for fifty million years to stabilize the Three Realms.
• Xuan Li warned that the decree would cause slaughter and appealed for the living beings of the Immortal Realm, but Tianjizi refused to relent.
• Xuan Li left the Five Elements Spirit Estate, recognizing that he lacked the power to stop Tianjizi or alter the decree.

Pu Su died while failing to attain True Immortality, and Gu Yi realized the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao had become too powerful for him to protect her. Wang Qicang later vanished after battling four True Immortals, while Dao-lineage conflicts spread, prompting Qing Xu to prepare to act.

• Pu Su failed her True Immortal tribulation and was reduced to ashes, leaving Gu Yi unable to revive her.
• Gu Yi recalled that Pu Su’s Dao had been incomplete and that the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao overwhelmed his attempt to save her.
• Bo Dengyun sealed his clan’s immortals in a time-stilled forbidden ground, while Wang Qicang prepared the Three Thousand Immortal Territories for his possible death.
• Four True Immortals invaded the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and fought Wang Qicang, who disappeared and never returned.
• Dao-lineage disputes spread across the Immortal Realm, and Qing Xu declared that the disorder had to end and prepared to act.

Two cultivators became True Immortals after fifty million years without a new ascension, while four injured True Immortals returned and Wang Qicang remained missing. Ye Shoucheng inherited Wang Qicang’s final instructions and the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, as Elder Ye sensed a strange change in the Frost-Reed Marsh.

• Two cultivators attained the Dao and became True Immortals, ending the fierce struggles between their Great Dao lineages.
• Four True Immortals returned grievously injured, but Wang Qicang did not return.
• Ye Shoucheng became sovereign of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and recalled Wang Qicang’s guidance on protecting its people and homeland.
• Ye Shoucheng realized Wang Qicang’s brief instructions had been his last words and bowed toward the two newly ascended True Immortals.
• Elder Ye watched the figure of a cultivator vanish among the reeds, then sensed the Frost-Reed Marsh shift for a reason unrelated to the True Immortals’ blessings.

The Immortal Realm witnessed the return of the Eternal Immortal Frontier as the Shadow Immortal Realm, Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, and True Immortal Realm completed their unification. The Three Realms expanded and entered an age of unprecedented contention.

• Purple Firmament Thunder darkened the Immortal Realm, stirring cultivators’ Dao hearts and drawing the attention of True Immortals and other powerful figures.
• Bo Dengyun called the Bo Clan’s immortals and Peerless Heavenly Prides out of seclusion as the heavens and lands shook.
• The colossal silhouette of the Eternal Immortal Frontier appeared, and the Five Elements Spirit Estate, Azure Sea Academy, and other groups paid homage to it and its figures.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier descended through the Chaos Sea as the Shadow Immortal Realm led the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and True Immortal Realm into complete unification.

As the Eternal Immortal Frontier descended, Yuan Chu Shengzun watched the Chaos Sea gather in excitement while worrying about the unknown world and rules beyond it. The Fortune Immortal Clan arrived and revealed that its ancestors had avoided attaining the Supreme Mystery Realm ever since Eternal Antiquity killed their forebear.

• Yuan Chu Shengzun greeted Tai Xu and Hong Yan, who hoped to pay their respects to the Dao Ancestor before returning to ruin, and told them to wait.
• Ten years later, cultivators, juggernaut organizations, ancient beings, and prodigies flocked to the Chaos Sea to await entry into the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• The Fortune Immortal Clan arrived with its ancestor Zao Kongyan, who exchanged greetings with Yuan Chu Shengzun.
• Within the clan's world, an ancestor concluded that the Eternal Immortal Frontier stood alongside the Immortal Realm as an equal and possessed its own great Dao rules.
• Zao Kongyan explained that the clan had not dared to attain the Supreme Mystery Realm since Eternal Antiquity killed their forebear.

The Immortal Realm discovered that the Eternal Immortal Frontier was separated from it by an Ages Great Array and existed in a different spacetime, leaving even true immortals unable to enter. While the Jade Capital Immortal Sect withdrew from the Chaos Sea, Bo Dengyun remained to observe, and the Eternal Antiquity powers continued their own disputes within the frontier.

• Zao Kongyan brought the Fortune Immortal Clan to ask whether they could attain the supreme mystery realm and to learn the Eternal Immortal Frontier's intentions.
• Pei Jichuan and Su Yuance arrived at the Chaos Sea, and a later attempt to enter the frontier ended with an immortal disappearing.
• The Jade Capital Immortal Sect's expedition became trapped beyond the heavenly chasm, and Su Yuance learned that an Ages Great Array separated the two realms into different spacetimes.
• The Jade Capital Immortal Sect ordered its immortals to withdraw from the Chaos Sea after realizing the Eternal Immortal Frontier had developed heaven and earth on a scale they had not understood.
• Bo Dengyun brought the Bo Clan's immortals to the Chaos Sea and chose to wait, while the Eternal Immortal Frontier remained isolated from the Immortal Realm's attention and gathered its own immortals for heated debates.

The Eternal Ancient Immortal Venerables debated whether absorbing the Shadow Immortal Realm would wrong the Immortal Realm and its people. Ji Ziyu laid out Eternal Antiquity’s ambition to develop a realm beyond true immortals, and the assembly began planning how to align the Shadow Immortal Realm with Eternal Antiquity’s laws.

• Tianjizi, Chong Que, and other immortals argued over whether taking the Shadow Immortal Realm’s foundations would obstruct the Immortal Realm’s future.
• The Yu Family Old Ancestor called for withdrawing the Shadow Immortal Realm entirely, while Ji Ziyu said its integration into Eternal Antiquity could not be reversed.
• Ji Ziyu revealed that Eternal Antiquity aimed to rise above the Immortal Realm and create a realm beyond true immortals through cooperation between heaven, earth, and all living beings.
• The Ancient God Old Ancestor argued that Eternal Antiquity should respect the Immortal Realm’s chosen path and stop planning its future, prompting the assembly to fall silent.
• The immortals began planning to align the Shadow Immortal Realm with Eternal Antiquity’s ten thousand Daos and rules, using the Immortal Realm as an intermediary and considering how to handle predators and evil cultivators.

A century later, Eternal Antiquity’s disciples traveled to the Immortal Realm to study its flourishing cultivation, while Chen Xun and his old companions reunited in the Shadow Immortal Realm. Chen Xun was left fishing under Yu Xuan’s watch as news emerged that Black Ox was nearing the end of his seclusion and would prove his Dao.

• The Heaven Ruins Sect’s Supreme Elder sent a million disciples to the Immortal Realm, and other Eternal Antiquity lineages also dispatched cultivators to learn from its competing Daos.
• Chen Xun told the Heavenly Wheel Immortal that Yu Xuan’s fishing gear frightened away Eternal Immortal Fish, and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal’s reaction caused the insult to echo across the realm.
• Yu Xuan demanded that Chen Xun fish until he caught an Eternal Immortal Fish, and Chen Xun grudgingly began fishing while blaming the Heavenly Wheel Immortal.
• Ji Yan told Du Shi that the gathering was nearing its conclusion, and Chen Xun revealed that Black Ox was proving ten thousand Daos together against the flow of the Immortal Dao.
• He Ling and Yu Xuan reacted with excitement when Chen Xun confirmed that Black Ox was coming out of seclusion to prove his Dao.

The elders gathered in the Shadow Immortal Realm learned that Big Black Ox was nearing the end of his seclusion and preparing to prove his Dao. As the Reverse Five Elements Realm Spine began to stir, Immortal Ancient realized the strange surge of power did not come from Chen Xun, and five pillars of light erupted into the sky.

• Meng Sheng and Yin Tianshou realized Big Black Ox was about to emerge from seclusion, and Ji Kun readied his sword to protect him from tribulations.
• The Ominous Creature continued severing the Immortal Realm’s Dao fruits as the gathered elders discussed Big Black Ox’s impending Dao proof and Chen Xun’s extraordinary path.
• Mo Yehan recalled how Chen Xun had overwhelmed Immortal Ancient, who remained trapped beneath the Reverse Five Elements Realm Spine and had lost the will to challenge him again.
• The Reverse Five Elements Realm Spine trembled as a speck of reverse light disrupted the Five Elements and turned their natural cycle into one of mutual restraint.
• Immortal Ancient first suspected Chen Xun was responsible, then felt the power surge through the Realm Spine and realized it was not him as five pillars of light burst skyward.

Immortal Ancient sensed Black Ox’s unprecedented resonance as the Shadow Immortal Realm’s great forces began manifesting reversed Daos. The reverse phenomena spread across the realm, leaving its central region caught in chaotic, backward-flowing time.

• Immortal Ancient felt the Five Elements Power in his life origin boil and realized the resonance came from Black Ox.
• The Ten Thousand Arrays Ancient Land awakened, and hundreds of millions of arrays reversed across the eastern territories.
• The Thunder Marsh unleashed a vast storm of upward-rising lightning as the Reverse Thunder Dao reshaped the northwestern sky.
• The Yin Yang Two Realms formed a colossal tai chi diagram that rotated backward and reversed yin and yang.
• The Void Rift Valley released waves of chaos that made time flow backward throughout the central region.

Big Black Ox’s seclusion triggered the defiant daos across the Shadow Immortal Realm to manifest and reverse, drawing their power into a vast vortex above the realm. The vortex stopped rotating and its central black point began to shine, spreading unfamiliar black radiance.

• Time and space grew chaotic across much of the Shadow Immortal Realm, while the Karma Great Dao and other great daos manifested in reverse.
• The defiant daos resonated across the realm and converged on Big Black Ox as he assailed an unprecedented realm.
• Luminous patterns spread across the Shadow Immortal Realm, and cultivators saw their great daos awaken in response to the phenomenon.
• Immortal Ancient witnessed the chain reaction of daos unfolding throughout the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• The realm’s immortal domains surfaced like stars as the entire sea of domains began to tremble.
• The colossal vortex stopped rotating after devouring the power of the ten thousand daos, and black radiance began spreading from its center.