Chapter Summaries

Big Black Ox advanced his Defiant Dao as an enormous phantom appeared across the Shadow Immortal Realm, shaking its lands and terrifying its inhabitants. After drawing on the realm’s origin and the thoughts of its living beings, he swallowed the sphere of gathered power.

• A black ox phantom formed above the Shadow Immortal Realm, and its bellow fractured cultivators’ Dao hearts and opened fissures in the heavens.
• Big Black Ox absorbed the power of the defiant myriad Daos and grew increasingly solid, while He Ling and Ji Kun watched in awe.
• Big Black Ox raised and stamped each of his four hooves, drawing on the Shadow Immortal Realm’s reserves as its origin restored the land.
• Pillars of light converged above the realm into a sphere that gathered myriad Daos, the realm’s origin, and living beings’ thoughts.
• Big Black Ox inhaled the sphere and swallowed its gathered immortal radiance and Great Dao power.

Big Black Ox devoured the last of the light and began attaining Defy Ten Thousand Daos as his immense Ox Shadow transcended the Shadow Immortal Realm. While Chen Xun urged Meng Sheng to carry the Eternal Immortal Frontier forward, Big Black Ox continued his silent ascent, and his aura finally reached Eternal Antiquity.

• Big Black Ox regained control of his immense Ox Shadow, bellowed across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and shattered the Shadow Immortal Realm's Immortal Firmament.
• Chen Xun recalled his youth and encouraged Meng Sheng to press forward and help shape the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Big Black Ox remained motionless for half a year as cultivators, including Immortal Ancient, observed his Dao attainment without any tribulation appearing.
• The light of Defy Ten Thousand Daos shone in Big Black Ox's eyes as he continued comprehending and advancing beyond the need for Heaven and Earth's recognition.
• An aura from the Shadow Immortal Realm pierced the boundary and shook Azure Heaven above Eternal Antiquity.

Big Black Ox attained the Dao as its vast silhouette spanned the Shadow Immortal Realm and the Eternal Immortal Frontier, aligning the Orthodox and Defiant Great Daos. The ancient Immortal Venerables thanked the Ox Ancestor, and the chapter ended with the two realms trembling at its bellow.

• A colossal ox silhouette appeared across the Shadow Immortal Realm and the Eternal Immortal Frontier, stunning cultivators in both realms.
• As Big Black Ox attained the Dao, it aligned the Eternal Immortal Frontier's laws with the reversed laws of the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• Ancient Great Dao Immortal Venerables emerged from seclusion and thanked the Ox Ancestor for advancing their long effort to harmonize the realms' Daos.
• Big Black Ox continued its Dao attainment until the Ten Thousand Daos and their reversed counterparts were fully aligned.
• An ox's bellow echoed across both Immortal Borderlands, making their mountains, seas, and stars tremble.

Big Black Ox’s Dao shadow became a living being as its manifestation spread from the Shadow Immortal Realm and Eternal Immortal Frontier across the True Immortal Realm. Ancient half-step True Immortals recognized that the event came from beyond their realm’s Great Dao and concluded that an existence above True Immortals had emerged in Eternal Antiquity.

• Big Black Ox absorbed the essence of the myriad Daos and transformed from an ethereal shadow into a solid living being.
• The manifestation of Big Black Ox’s attainment of the Dao broke through the boundaries of the Shadow Immortal Realm and Eternal Immortal Frontier and spread across the True Immortal Realm.
• Cultivators throughout the True Immortal Realm witnessed the enormous ox manifestation and felt its overwhelming, unprecedented pressure.
• Ancient half-step True Immortals awoke in their forbidden lands and realized the manifestation came from outside the Immortal Realm and surpassed their understanding of the immortal Dao.
• The ancient powerhouses concluded that Eternal Antiquity had produced an existence above True Immortals and warned that the Eternal Immortal Frontier must not be opposed or coveted.

Big Black Ox’s Dao attainment sent a phenomenon across the entire true immortal realm, revealing that he had risen above the True Immortal realm. Ten years later, he became a physical black ox and was recognized as the new Dao Ancestor of the true immortal realm.

• The ox silhouette spread across the true immortal realm, and cultivators everywhere bowed, believing a True Immortal had attained the Dao.
• Bo Dengyun realized a being above True Immortals had appeared in Eternal Antiquity and ordered the Bo Clan to return to its Ancestral Land.
• Xuan Li recognized that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had advanced beyond the current age, while Dragon Lord abandoned his ambitions toward it.
• Immortal Realm organizations and sects withdrew from the Chaos Sea to avoid provoking the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ten years later, Big Black Ox solidified above the Shadow Immortal Realm and bellowed across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.
• Big Black Ox attained the Dao as the foremost immortal of heaven and earth and became the new Dao Ancestor of Defy Ten Thousand Daos.

After Big Black Ox attained the Dao, he remade the Eternal Immortal Frontier by creating innate Dao arenas, Great Dao immortal veins, and a Ten Thousand Dao Canon. The chapter ended as righteous Dao origin power poured from the sky over the frontier.

• Big Black Ox's attainment shattered the firmament, and myriad Great Dao stars fell across the Eternal Immortal Frontier to form innate Dao arenas.
• The Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace's Immortal Venerables recognized the arenas as the Ox Ancestor's way of making cultivation of the ten thousand Daos possible.
• Great Dao immortal veins spread beneath the land, astonishing Tianjizi and the other immortals as they halted across the realm.
• Dao scripts appeared in the sky as a Ten Thousand Dao Canon, helping cultivators overcome bottlenecks and prompting countless people to thank the Ox Ancestor.
• An immense fissure opened in the sky, releasing righteous Dao origin power over the land and its living beings.

Big Black Ox’s attainment of the Dao transformed the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and empowered the Shadow Immortal Realm to produce true immortals. The Heavenly Palace returned from the lower realms, and its travelers hurried toward the Shadow Immortal Realm, where Big Black Ox approached a gathering of powerful figures.

• The Eternal Immortal Frontier received immense blessings, causing cultivators to break through and the land to manifest countless immortal wonders.
• The Heavenly Palace returned through the Four Extremes Star Gate, and Song Heng and the others were astonished by how profoundly the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had changed.
• Ke Ding saw the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace calculating the realm’s future, then joined Gu Li Sheng and the others as they departed for the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• The origin of Defy Ten Thousand Daos transformed the Shadow Immortal Realm, allowing it to give birth to true immortals.
• Big Black Ox walked across a plain toward the powerful figures gathered there.

Big Black Ox returned to Chen Xun and reunited with their old friends, revealing a level of strength that surprised everyone. As they traveled back to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox acknowledged Chen Xun’s Dao Wounds and agreed that Big Black Ox would help him recover once his cultivation stabilized.

• Big Black Ox arrived through a strange descent through karma and sniffed the auras of Chen Xun’s gathered old friends, prompting laughter and chaos.
• Mo Fuyang remarked that the sky of the Shadow Immortal Realm seemed to have risen, and Chen Xun said he was glad Old Ox and everyone else had returned.
• Half a month later, Big Black Ox struck Chen Xun during a playful contest and knocked him to the ground, startling Mo Fuyang, Ni Canghuan, and Xian Jue.
• Chen Xun ordered Mo Fuyang to prepare a feast, then led the crowd toward the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm while Big Black Ox stubbornly stayed close to him.
• Chen Xun examined Big Black Ox’s unstable cultivation and offered him Eternal Antiquity Innate Heaven and Earth Elixirs; Big Black Ox noticed Chen Xun’s Dao Wounds, and Chen Xun said he could help heal them later.

After Big Black Ox attained the Dao, Chen Xun and his companions held a grand banquet at the Five Elements Immortal Sect, where Chen Xun set out three undertakings for the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s future. The realm’s powerful figures accepted his decree, establishing the direction for all living beings.

• Big Black Ox charged Chen Xun and sent him flying, while Immortal Ancient resolved to keep pursuing him through cultivation.
• Chen Xun and his companions returned to the Five Elements Sect and held a lavish banquet celebrating Big Black Ox’s attainment, with Young Master Gu paying the expenses as repayment of an old debt.
• At the banquet, Chen Xun told Ke Ding that advancing the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm required Heaven and Earth and its people to cultivate, the strong to nurture the world, and True Immortal Realm experts to reform immortal cultivation methods.
• The powerful figures gathered across the realm voiced their obedience to Chen Xun’s decree, recognizing him as the Dao Ancestor and the realm’s sole Heaven-and-Earth Supreme Venerable.

After Ximen Black Ox attained the Dao, the immortals made plans to expand Eternal Antiquity as the Three Thousand Universes entered an age of interstellar cultivation. Years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson searched for ancient stones in their peaceful home, while Ke Ding arrived looking for them.

• Chen Xun toasted Ximen Black Ox’s attainment of the Dao, and the immortals celebrated.
• Spiritual energy revived across the Three Thousand Universes, ushering in interstellar cultivation and revealing ancient ruins.
• Ji Yan discussed the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s plans to take over the Sin Prisons, while Ke Ding and Heavenly Wheel Immortal discussed expanding Eternal Antiquity.
• The immortals agreed to keep using the Lower Realm’s Void to elevate newborn territories and enlarge Eternal Antiquity.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson found an Ancient Spirit Stone in a stream and marked it as a protected treasure.
• Ke Ding searched the Ring Mountains for Chen Xun and his companions, and Chen Ba Tian called out to him.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson enjoyed a quiet life in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm while Ke Ding prepared to visit the true immortal realm. Ten years later, the trio traveled to the remote Boundless Mining Realm frontier to explore and see what they could bring home.

• Chen Ba Tian visited Ke Ding, gave him a talisman to locate Chen Xun, and left to attend to his business.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox relaxed with Ke Ding, who asked about Big Black Ox’s Dao attainment before Chen Xun kicked him away for pressing too hard.
• Ke Ding asked Chen Xun to visit the true immortal realm, but Chen Xun declined and asked him to bring back local specialties.
• Ten years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson arrived at the Boundless Mining Realm frontier, claiming they were surveying the region while hoping to find something novel.
• Chen Xun told Little Crimson they would not visit the ascended cultivators they knew, while Big Black Ox reacted to the sound of gongs and drums.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson wandered through the frontier and followed newly ascended cultivators to the Qiyue Sea Mining Realm. After the Immortal Puppet explained that ascendants had to mine until they became immortals to repay Heaven and Earth Karma, the three entered the realm and saw its vast mining veins.

• Featherless Bird collected treasures from newly arrived juniors before recognizing Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, who greeted him and walked on.
• Chen Xun met the anxious ascended cultivator Huo Chong, introduced himself as a cultivator from the Five Elements Sect's Ascension Platform, and agreed to travel with him to the Qiyue Sea Mining Realm.
• At the immortal gate, an Eternal Immortal Puppet told the ascended cultivators to bind their Dao Puppets and explained that they had to mine until they became immortals.
• A pillar of light transported Huo Chong into the mining realm, while Chen Xun and his companions entered through the immortal gate after the Immortal Puppet recognized them as the Dao Ancestor, Ox Ancestor, and Crimson Ancestor.
• Three days later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson surveyed the mining realm's immense, colorful veins stretching across tens of millions of miles.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox exploited the collision between the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and the True Immortal Realm, harvesting Boundary Bone Veins, Immortal Foundation Stones, and sinful spirits while the realms’ inhabitants struggled to understand the upheaval. After thirty million years, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm completed its transformation, ascended beyond the Immortal Realm’s plane, and vanished.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox connected the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm to the Primordial Chaos Immortal River and Eternal Heavenly Dao, causing the two realms to collide as Little Crimson gathered resources.
• Yuan Chu Shengzun and True Immortal Qing Xu investigated the chaos between the realms, returned grievously wounded, and warned others not to venture there.
• Over the following centuries, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm harvested nascent Immortal Foundation Stones and secretly took more than a hundred million sinful spirits from the Immortal Prisons.
• Ye Shoucheng was ambushed and killed on his way to the Southern Frontier Immortal Alliance’s banquet, while the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance expanded its influence across the True Immortal Realm.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year 400 million, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm completed its transformation, ascended out of the Immortal Realm’s plane, and disappeared.

Conflicting accounts circulated in the True Immortal Realm claiming that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had sublimated beyond the Immortal Realm after exhausting its foundations. The chapter revealed that True Immortals had seen almost nothing firsthand and that their stories were gradually stripping away the Frontier’s mystery.

• Scholars across the True Immortal Realm spread accounts that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had left the Immortal Realm through whole-realm sublimation.
• A Qing Xu Sect cultivator taught listeners that the Frontier had spent ages dissolving its heavenly foundations before departing without any tribulation or disturbance.
• Immortal Venerables and Dao Ancestors debated the Frontier’s fate for hundreds of thousands of years, unable to agree on what had happened.
• A Dao Ancestor found a True Immortal’s note stating that the Immortal Realm could no longer bear the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• The narrator revealed that the True Immortals had only glimpsed the Frontier once at great cost, and that later legends were eroding its mystery.

After the Eternal Immortal Frontier ascended, Xuan Li revealed his fears about its power as the Fortune Immortal Clan welcomed a new True Immortal. In the four hundred millionth year of the Eternal Calendar, Chen Xun learned that the Three Thousand Universes could no longer connect to Eternal Antiquity and ordered an ascension path preserved, then set off with NanGong HeLing for the Chaos Star Sea.

• Xuan Li said Fang Chen, Myriad Skies Immortal Emperor, Land-Splitting Pure Glaze, Fortune Immortal Ancestor, and Ancient Emperor had all fallen at Fang Chen's hands.
• The Fortune Immortal Clan welcomed the second True Immortal in its history.
• NanGong HeLing told Chen Xun that her immortal body had contracted, so she no longer had to bear an entire realm.
• Yu Fangshuo reported that Eternal Antiquity could no longer connect to the Three Thousand Universes, and Chen Xun ordered the Tai Xuan Ascension Hall to preserve an ancient ascension path.
• Chen Xun agreed that his clan could guide talented cultivators from the universes, but told Yu Fangshuo to block the Immortal Realm's route to the lower realms first.
• Chen Xun and NanGong HeLing set out for the Chaos Star Sea to find Old Ox and Little Crimson and confront the companions who had not waited for them.

Chen Xun brought He Ling into the Chaos Star Sea, where the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had grown into an immense realm of chaotic continents and celestial wonders. At the Heavenly Palace, Gu Li Sheng learned that a waterfall of longevity water had become commonplace, while the Mountain-Sitting Duck drank and collected it, provoking the Chaos Old Ancestor.

• Chen Xun used his divine ability to transform the sea of clouds into the Chaos Star Sea and stepped inside with He Ling.
• The Chaos Beast Clan and Five Elements Sect disciples were described as having settled in the realm's depths to explore the chaos frontier.
• Gu Li Sheng asked the Chaos Old Ancestor how longevity water could be pouring down in such abundance, and the Old Ancestor confirmed it was true.
• The Mountain-Sitting Duck bathed in the longevity water, drank it, and collected it in its Jing Water Treasure Bottle while Yue Xuan tried to stop it.
• The Mountain-Sitting Duck mocked the Chaos Beasts for drinking the water, and the Chaos Old Ancestor angrily confronted it as Gu Li Sheng watched him change color.

Gu Ji visited the lakeshore and took only one teapot of Longevity Heavenly Water while Yue Xuan prepared to return to the mountain with his clansmen. Elsewhere, the Heavenly Wheel Sect and Primordial Chaos Dao Court gathered Violet Glow Immortal Crystals, but Chen Xun arrived furious and threatened to record both groups in his ledger.

• Gu Ji greeted the Chaos Beasts, drew one teapot of heavenly water, and declined to take more, while the Mountain-Sitting Duck and Yue Xuan discussed returning to the mountain.
• Yue Xuan warned the Mountain-Sitting Duck not to waste the precious Longevity Heavenly Water and was driven away.
• Song Heng warned Gu Li Sheng that the Factory Owner had reached the Chaos Star Sea, and Gu Li Sheng turned his gaze toward it.
• The Heavenly Wheel Sect and Primordial Chaos Dao Court gathered around vast deposits of Violet Glow Immortal Crystals, which their disciples began collecting.
• Chen Xun demanded that Third Sister put the Heavenly Wheel Sect and Primordial Chaos Immortal Court in his ledger, prompting their members to protest that they had been wronged and call for Wuliang.

Chen Xun scolded the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and the others for wasting resources, then later found Immortal Ancient breaking Dao Stars to cultivate and struck his Dao Avatar with World Extinction Immortal Lightning. He accepted He Ling’s explanation that more Dao Stars would form, but charged Immortal Ancient for the shattered ones and acknowledged his talent.

• Chen Xun berated the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and the Dao Lineages for squandering violet glow immortal crystals, then ordered the costs charged to their accounts.
• Tai Yi explained that the crystals were renewable, and Chen Xun told everyone to use the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s resources in moderation.
• Immortal Ancient emerged from a shattered Dao Star after cultivating flesh-and-blood Dao avatars of the Ten Thousand Clans within the stars.
• Chen Xun confronted Immortal Ancient and struck his Dao Avatar with World Extinction Immortal Lightning before charging him for the shattered Dao Stars.
• He Ling reassured Chen Xun that Dao Stars would continue to form, and Chen Xun praised Immortal Ancient’s talent for the Body Cultivation Path.

Chen Xun cursed Immortal Ancient for taking his Dao Star, then turned his attention to Nanhua and the Ancient Emperor at the Star Pool. He put both on the tab for work, and left Nanhua facing an ultimatum to nurture two Chaos Star Pools.

• Immortal Ancient admitted that every drop of his blood held a spirit, prompting Chen Xun to curse him and seal off the star region before Immortal Ancient escaped to another Dao Star Domain.
• Nanhua and the Ancient Emperor discussed claiming the Star Pool and waiting for the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace to take shape.
• Chen Xun ordered Third Sister to put Nanhua and the Ancient Emperor on the tab, and he demanded that the Ancient Emperor leave his mountain and get to work.
• The Ancient Emperor agreed to work for the Five Elements Immortal Sect after his Mountain Spirit offered to stay behind, while Nanhua resumed refining the palace.
• Chen Xun ordered that Nanhua be thrown into the sea and fished for at the next Fishing Extravaganza if he failed to nurture two Chaos Star Pools, leaving Nanhua protesting that he had been wronged.

A hundred years later, Chen Xun returned to the Fu Shi Religion, where Ling Qing Zhi welcomed him and the sect’s disciples greeted him as Fu Tian Venerable. His return left Qing Fu thrilled and Chi Hao resentful.

• Chen Xun arrived at the Fu Shi Religion’s mountain gate with the unconscious Black Duck in his hand.
• Ling Qing Zhi came out on a Three-Legged Golden Crow and greeted Chen Xun, who said he had returned to visit his master and the others.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow addressed Chen Xun as Fu Tian Venerable, and the Fu Shi Religion’s gate opened.
• The disciples gathered to greet Chen Xun as Fu Tian Venerable, with the sect’s fortune converging around him.
• Qing Fu saw Chen Xun return, while Chi Hao complained that the Heavenly Dao’s bastard son had come back.