Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun reunited with his fellow disciples and master at the Fu Shi Religion, then revealed that he had come to establish the reincarnation of all beings. He proposed that the sect take charge of guarding it, leaving everyone in the hall stunned.

• Gu Ji, Ling Qing Zhi, and Kunpeng welcomed Chen Xun back to the Fu Shi Religion, but Yuan Chengsi interrupted Kunpeng’s offer to give Chen Xun a tour and brought him to the hall.
• Chen Xun knocked Mountain-Sitting Duck unconscious again, threatened Chi Hao for calling him by the wrong title, and fielded questions about Longevity Immortal Water and monsters.
• Chen Xun and the others shared stories about their experiences, and Yuan Chengsi asked whether Chen Xun had returned for an important reason.
• Chen Xun announced that he intended to implement the ten thousand daos reincarnation because Eternal Antiquity now included beings beyond intelligent life.
• Chen Xun said the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm could support the reincarnation of all beings, but he had not found someone suitable to oversee it and wanted the Fu Shi Religion to guard it.

Chen Xun explained why Eternal Antiquity needed reincarnation and helped establish the Samsara Heavenly Domain, which the Fu Shi Religion and Reincarnation Clan guarded. As the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm expanded and its Daos flourished, ancient powers struggled to recruit enough cultivators, while the discovery of great Dao immortal stones drew Chen Xun into increasingly heavy affairs.

• Chen Xun explained that reincarnation would return the legacy and blessings of life to heaven and earth, and Yuan Chengsi agreed to take on the task with help from Old Ox and the Reincarnation Clan.
• After spending several months with the Fu Shi Religion, Chen Xun left the Mountain-Sitting Duck with the Teaching Order and departed as its disciples escorted him.
• Ten years later, a Great Dao tide erupted in the Chaos Star Sea, and the Samsara Heavenly Domain was established under the Fu Shi Religion's guard as the Reincarnation Clan and powerful cultivators such as Shi Hong entered it.
• By the Eternal Calendar year four hundred and one million, the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace and the Yu Family competed for scarce recruits, while ancient powers across the expanding realm sought help with their projects.
• In the Eternal Calendar year four hundred and two million, the Wild Clan discovered intact great Dao immortal stones, which became hard currency, and Chen Xun grew busy handling a stream of affairs at the Five Elements Immortal Sect.

Over hundreds of millions of years, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm reached a new height as its powers built immortal wonders and younger generations took the lead. In the year 500 million, an immortal cultivator crossed the Ancient Immortal Road from the Lower Realm, leaving his identity and purpose unknown.

• The Great Dao Immortal Ark was created to traverse forbidden regions, and Old Ancestor Chen Xun called it wasteful before it explored the realm.
• Gu Li Sheng established the Heavenly Palace on the Chaos Continent, and Chen Xun went to fish with him after dismissing Wuliang’s debt dispute.
• The major sects built Void Heaven, and Tianshu replaced Star Pivot as an immortal artifact that connected distant immortal domains.
• Chen Xun sent the older generation into retirement and urged them to trust young cultivators as the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm flourished.
• By the year 500 million, the realm’s powers had transformed into ancient lineages, and a bloodied human immortal crossed the Ancient Immortal Road from the Lower Realm.

Yu Qianting crossed the Ancient Immortal Road and awoke in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, where plants restored his damaged body. He met Chen Xun, the Dao Ancestor, and learned that the Three Thousand Universes had become a battleground for Dao Struggles.

• Yu Qianting charged toward the end of the Ancient Immortal Road, but the chaos barrier overwhelmed him and he lost consciousness.
• Yu Qianting woke in an ancient wilderness, where nearby plants released their essence to heal his immortal body and sense.
• Yu Qianting spotted Chen Xun, a Big Black Ox, and a Red Lion beside an Ancient Immortal Platform, then warily offered to leave without disturbing them.
• Chen Xun identified Yu Qianting as an Ascension Cultivator from the Three Thousand Universes and introduced himself as the Dao Ancestor, overwhelming Yu Qianting with the weight of his title.
• Chen Xun asked about the Three Thousand Universes, and Yu Qianting explained that the realms had linked, allowing him to become immortal while turning the universe into a battlefield for Dao Struggles.
• Chen Xun named his realm the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, and Yu Qianting realized he had not reached the Progenitor True Immortal Realm.

Chen Xun learned from Yu Qianting that the True Immortal Realm was suppressing cultivators from the Three Thousand Universes and had severed their path to ascension. He sent Yu Qianting to a mine to temper him, intending to give him a chance to oversee the universes’ sublimation, then hinted to Ji Yan that his own origins held a deeper secret.

• Chen Xun questioned Yu Qianting about the sealed passage and the conditions in the Three Thousand Universes, learning that cultivators there were being suppressed by powerful factions.
• Chen Xun sent Yu Qianting with Wen Long to work in a mine, where Yu Qianting gradually found opportunity, made friends, and chose to stay.
• Chen Xun told Ji Yan that he intended for Yu Qianting to return someday and oversee the sublimation of the Three Thousand Universes, allowing its cultivators to ascend to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun asked Ji Yan whether he knew where Chen Xun truly came from.

Chen Xun and Ji Yan discussed Chen Xun’s uncertain origins and arranged for Yu Qianting to return as a hidden safeguard for the Three Thousand Universes. Over hundreds of millions of years, Yu Qianting rose through the Immortal Realm while its apparent prosperity concealed a brutal struggle among powerful cultivators.

• Ji Yan told Chen Xun that the Great Dao of Ages cultivators could not return to their younger selves, and he suspected Chen Xun had not come from a realm.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan agreed that Yu Qianting could return to the Three Thousand Universes as a hidden piece in case the True Immortal Realm threatened them.
• Yu Qianting spent a hundred thousand years mining, joined the Immortal Puppet race and Heavenly Cosmos Mountain, and gained powerful opportunities, including a nine-turn dao body.
• After nearly dying in an ancient forbidden zone, Yu Qianting became cautious and stayed at Heavenly Cosmos Mountain to digest his gains.
• In Eternal Calendar year 510 million, a True Immortal’s mistake destroyed one of the Three Thousand Universes, and an Eight Tribulation Immortal from each of three groups died to dispel the resulting karma.
• The Immortal Realm entered a violent era of Dao struggles as powerful cultivators schemed against peers and even their own lineages, while common people mistook the conflict for a sign of prosperity.

The Immortal Realm’s Great Dao struggles devastated heaven and earth, brought down the Bo Clan, and transformed the Three Thousand Immortal Territories as True Immortals split into rival factions. In year 600 million, the Eternal Star Pivot collapsed, and a meteor carrying a sleeping being crashed into the Three Thousand Universes, where he awoke.

• True Immortals began intervening in the Great Dao struggles, and one killed seven Half-step True Immortal Realm experts.
• Bo Dengyun descended to oversee the Three Thousand Universes’ sublimation, but after he vanished, the Bo Clan lost its True Immortal and was destroyed by its enemies.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories were overrun and became an ownerless domain shared by powers from across the Immortal Realm.
• More than a hundred True Immortals divided into conservative, radical, and Eternal Antiquity factions over the future of the Immortal Realm.
• In year 600 million, the Eternal Star Pivot collapsed, and a meteor pierced the Three Thousand Universes’ will; the living being inside opened his eyes.

Yu Qianting returned to the Three Thousand Universes and wandered for hundreds of thousands of years, learning that ascension had become impossible while quietly transforming the cosmic environment. He began using a Dao mountain to repair the universe’s laws and announced his plan to ignite a new age of dharma’s end by targeting several powerful races.

• Yu Qianting returned to the lower realm, mourned the vanished traces of his past, and drifted through deep space on a barren star.
• A cosmic Immortal Nation seized Yu Qianting and forced him to mine, where he learned that the ascension passage had been destroyed and the universe had entered an age of dharma’s end.
• Yu Qianting left the mines after five hundred years and wandered across the Three Thousand Universes, encountering ruins, Immortal Corpses, and legendary figures seeking ascension.
• Yu Qianting placed an immortal mountain given to him by Bai Xinghan on a barren star, and the Three Thousand Universes entered a great age of spiritual energy revival a thousand years later.
• After placing three more immortal mountains, Yu Qianting brought out a Dao mountain that could repair heaven and earth’s rules and named the Heavenly River Race, Mechanical Race, Heavenly God Human Race, and Zhou Clan as targets for his plan.

Yu Qianting entered the void to retrieve the universe’s eroding will, but discovered that the cosmic origin was mysteriously disappearing. Meanwhile, Star Pivot’s destruction plunged the True Immortal Realm into isolation and helped trigger a collapse of its rules, while True Immortals exploited the chaos to purge Eternal Life Beings and pursue an immortal upheaval.

• Yu Qianting infused the Three Thousand Universes with five-element power, planted his seeds across them, and later entered the void, where it began eroding his life origin.
• Yu Qianting realized the universe’s will was assimilating with the void and resolved to bring it back, but ten thousand years later he discovered the cosmic origin was disappearing and found no path to the Immortal Realm.
• Star Pivot broke apart in the True Immortal Realm, severing its realm-wide means of viewing and communication, and the True Immortals used the disaster as a pretext to kill Eternal Life Beings and make the Longevity Method taboo.
• In Immortal Realm year 610,000,000, the rules began collapsing and deadly forbidden zones appeared as the Great Dao slaughter intensified.
• Powerful cultivators attained the Dao amid the collapsing rules, while the True Immortals grew wary and began brewing a plan for an immortal upheaval.

Yu Qianting protected a cultivator ascending the Ancient Immortal Road as the Three Thousand Universes underwent upheaval. After Sishou Xuanming failed to force his way onto the road, it vanished, and Yu Qianting questioned him about the Immortal Realm’s influence on the cosmic chaos.

• The Three Thousand Universes suffered chaotic cosmic changes that devastated the weak and created opportunities for powerful beings.
• Yu Qianting refused to ascend and instead stabilized the Ten Wastelands, telling a young cultivator to carry a message to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• As the cultivator stepped onto the Ancient Immortal Road, Sishou Xuanming attacked it, but Yu Qianting suppressed his sword intent and warned him not to advance.
• A month later, the Ancient Immortal Road vanished, and Xuanming asked whether it led to another Immortal Realm instead of the Progenitor True Immortal Realm.
• Yu Qianting asked Xuanming how he had come from the Immortal Realm and whether its influence had caused the Three Thousand Universes’ rule chaos.

Yu Qianting spent ages watching over the expanding Three Thousand Universes while Xuanming lived out his remaining lifespan beside him, then exposed Xuanming as an impostor linked to a presence in the Void. In Immortal Realm Calendar year 800,000,000, nine True Immortals descended to claim the universes’ origin and were stunned by what they saw.

• Xuanming told Yu Qianting that the True Immortal Realm’s rules were fracturing, while Yu suspected the upheaval could offer a path to the Upper Realm.
• Yu Qianting rejected Xuanming’s schemes to use cultivators and the Ancient Immortal Road, and the two remained together as the Three Thousand Universes changed through the ages.
• Xuanming died on a barren star in Immortal Realm Calendar year 750,000,000, and Yu Qianting recognized that he had been an impostor or Dao incarnation and warned a hidden presence in the Void.
• A presence in the Unknowable Land identified Yu Qianting as an Eternal Cultivator.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year 800,000,000, nine Immortals descended from the True Immortal Realm to use the Three Thousand Universes’ origin to repair their fractured rules.
• The nine Immortals looked down at the universes and froze in shock.

Nine immortals trapped in the Three Thousand Universes discovered the Cosmic Heavenly Mountain, the source of its spiritual energy, and were violently repelled when they approached it. Several were gravely wounded, and the mountain’s power remained an overwhelming threat.

• The nine immortals realized they had lost the Immortal Realm’s coordinates and agreed to travel together while searching for opportunities.
• After a thousand years, the immortals found an immense, decrepit immortal mountain that supplied spiritual energy to the Three Thousand Universes.
• The immortals sensed that the mountain was still alive and speculated that a mountain god might dwell there.
• The nine immortals followed the spiritual energy toward the mountain, but an invisible force erupted from it and shattered their immortal arts.
• The mountain’s force hurled the nine immortals across star domains, leaving several with shattered bodies, damaged souls, or disordered Dao foundations.

Yu Qianting defended the Three Thousand Universes from descending immortals while the Progenitor True Immortal Realm consolidated control over the Immortal Realm. The Heaven-Reversing Grand Plan had succeeded, but Xuan Li delayed the Heaven-Mending Grand Plan until the True Immortals could face Eternal Antiquity.

• Yu Qianting and the mountain discussed the Upper Realm’s growing interest in the Three Thousand Universes, and Yu Qianting vowed to resist even a True Immortal’s arrival.
• Yu Qianting fought descending immortals for thousands of years and became known as the Town Guardian of the Three Thousand Universes.
• Over hundreds of millions of years, more than a thousand True Immortals ruled the Immortal Realm, purged rivals, and sealed off other immortal paths.
• True Immortals discussed retrieving the Void from the Three Thousand Universes to repair the Immortal Realm’s rules and debated launching the Heaven-Mending Grand Plan.
• Xuan Li ordered the plan delayed, saying the Immortal Realm was not yet strong enough to confront Eternal Antiquity.

True Immortal Xuan Li, the Dragon Lord, and Ren Kuanghai made preparations amid fears of the Eternal Immortal Frontier and the Immortal Realm’s fractured rules. After the Three Thousand Immortal Territories ignited a major upheaval and the Fortune Immortal Clan followed, True Immortal Gu Yi announced that the Eternal Heaven and Earth Barrier had broken, allowing the powers to begin arranging matters in the lower realms.

• True Immortal Xuan Li concealed his fear of the Eternal Immortal Frontier, while the Dragon Lord halted plans to distribute a replacement Star Pivot and set out to tour the Three Thousand Immortal Territories with Tai Chuan.
• Ren Kuanghai ordered Yao Xue to move the Five Elements Spirit Estate’s operations and the Spirit Realm into the Chaos Sea and abandon their ancestral land.
• Over the years, ancient powers made separate moves across the Immortal Realm, spreading their influence despite having divided intentions.
• In year 910,000,000 of the Immortal Realm Calendar, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories ignited a major upheaval, and the Fortune Immortal Clan followed; the resulting phenomenon disturbed heaven and earth rules for more than half a year.
• Three years later, True Immortal Gu Yi announced that the Eternal Heaven and Earth Barrier had broken and urged the others to make arrangements in the lower realms.

Yu Qianting endured the Immortal Realm’s pressure on the Three Thousand Universes while secretly seeking a way to survive. He eventually attained true immortality in the Immortal Realm, concealing how he had entered it from even the True Immortals.

• A hundred years after the Fortune Immortal Clan broke through, Immortal Realm cultivators descended and Yu Qianting was gravely wounded while resisting them.
• The Immortal Realm’s immortals withdrew, then reopened the ascension passage and gradually drew ascenders from the Three Thousand Universes away.
• When a universe powerhouse summoned the Ancient Immortal Road, Canghuang and Xuan Li observed it and concluded it came from the Void beyond the universe.
• Over tens of millions of years, ascensions and the merging Void weakened the Three Thousand Universes, leaving Yu Qianting’s resources nearly exhausted.
• Yu Qianting attained the Dao in the True Immortal Realm and became the Immortal of Ages, while the True Immortals were shocked by his appearance.
• In an ancient battlefield, Yu Qianting lamented that he had abandoned his pursuit of Myriad Daos Converge into One, though no one knew how he had secretly entered the Immortal Realm.

Yu Qianting learned that the True Immortal Realm had confined the Three Thousand Universes to endless reincarnation and reflected on how eternal life had narrowed his choices and worn away his hopes. In Immortal Realm Calendar year one billion, the sentient Eternal Ancient Immortal Mountain died still watching beyond the heavens, then self-detonated when Immortal Realm immortals tried to take it away.

• Yu Qianting abandoned his mission to travel to the Lower Realm after realizing that the True Immortal Realm had locked down the lifespan of all beings in the Three Thousand Universes.
• Yu Qianting reflected on how attaining True Immortality had not brought freedom, and how the possibilities before him had dwindled as his hopes and emotions faded.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year one billion, the sentient Eternal Ancient Immortal Mountain lamented that it would never see the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm descend, then died under the universe's decaying rules.
• Immortals from the Immortal Realm arrived at the mountain and ordered that it be taken to their realm.
• The Eternal Ancient Immortal Mountain declared that the True Immortal Realm could not contain it and self-detonated, grievously injuring hundreds of immortals.

Over the ages, the Immortal Realm descended into chaos as fractured rules, true immortal rivalries, and slaughter over the Great Dao reshaped its order. By year 1.1 billion, the rules began irreversibly restoring, and the true immortals turned to merging the Three Thousand Universes into the Immortal Realm as an unstoppable collapse began.

• Yu Qianting sensed Mountain's self-destruction, but continued on without turning back.
• The Immortal Realm's fractured rules ushered in a golden age, while divisions among true immortals and renewed wars plunged the realm into chaos.
• Zhang Shenshuo rose as a half-step true immortal, shattered a true immortal's Great Dao, and later challenged True Immortal Xuan Li, who suppressed him.
• By Immortal Realm calendar year 1.1 billion, the rules began irreversibly restoring, triggering a catastrophe that lasted hundreds of millions of years.
• As true immortals emerged in vast numbers, they began drawing upon the Three Thousand Universes to merge them into the Immortal Realm, setting off a collapse no one could stop.

The Dragon Lord, True Immortal Xuan Li, and other True Immortals accepted that the Immortal Realm’s fractured rules left them no path to survival except beyond its boundaries. Three thousand True Immortals charged through the Three Thousand Universes toward the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, leaving the universes’ wills shattered as their march began.

• The Dragon Lord said the Immortal Realm was draining through an irreparable hollow and prepared to confront an ancient opponent to reclaim the missing piece of heaven and earth.
• True Immortal Xuan Li took responsibility for the Immortal Realm’s fractured rules and declared his farewell to its living beings.
• Zhang Shenshuo sensed the overwhelming power of an old monster and recognized the threat of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Yuan Chu Shengzun and other True Immortals gathered, discussed their plan to reach the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, and agreed there was no turning back.
• True Immortal Xuan Li declared that three thousand True Immortals were enough to conquer Eternal Antiquity, and the assembled powers set out.
• The three thousand True Immortals tore apart the universes’ descending wills and marched toward the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s coordinates.

Yu Qianting watched as more than three thousand True Immortals opened a path toward the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and its Chaos Forbidden Sea. The Ominous Old Ancestor and his army emerged to confront them, then a Black-robed Man appeared and faced the stunned True Immortals.

• Yu Qianting chose to stay behind rather than join the True Immortals, fearing he would be killed if he followed them.
• The True Immortals combined their Divine Abilities and Ancient Immortal Roads to locate the Immortal Realm and open a route toward it.
• The True Immortals saw the Chaos Forbidden Sea and its treasures, and True Immortal Xuan Li charged ahead.
• The Chaos Sea's edge was swallowed by darkness, and a massive Immortal Gate opened as the Ominous Old Ancestor led his Ominous Army through it.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor said the True Immortals had finally come knocking, then the Black-robed Man appeared and looked toward them with a cold smile.

Black Robed Chen Xun answered the three thousand True Immortals’ challenge by unleashing thunderfire pillars from Eternal Antiquity against the Immortal Realm. The Time-Space Dao Ancestor and many other True Immortals died as the pillars descended, leaving the Immortal Realm’s laws and domains in chaos.

• Taishang Xuanheng, the Primordial War Immortal, Kongji, and the other True Immortals challenged Chen Xun and demanded the Immortal Realm’s stolen foundations back.
• Chen Xun identified the Time-Space Dao Ancestor as the one who had found his Eternal Ancient Coordinates.
• Chen Xun summoned a thunderfire pillar that shattered the Time-Space Dao Ancestor’s time-space great dao and destroyed his body.
• Three thousand thunderfire pillars descended toward the Immortal Realm as the True Immortals joined forces to resist them.
• The pillars overwhelmed the True Immortals, killing one after another and plunging the Immortal Realm’s laws into disorder.