Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun used a vast thunderfire tribulation to destroy the Immortal Realm and slay its True Immortals, then ordered the realm’s era sacrificed to restore its mountains and rivers. As the Eternal Immortal Frontier and its allies joined the effort, Chen Xun prepared to suppress the realm’s great dao and end its paths to immortality.

• Thunderfire pillars tore through the Immortal Realm, destroying domains and killing True Immortals as Yu Qianting watched in terror.
• Chen Xun confronted the Dragon Lord, whose body and Dao fruit were shattered by the thunderfire tribulation.
• Xuan Li accused Chen Xun of plotting against the Immortal Realm, then entered the thunderfire pillar after asking him to restart the realm.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor reported that preparations were complete to harvest the True Immortals’ Dao fruits and the Immortal Realm’s accumulated foundations.
• Chen Xun ordered the Immortal Realm Era offered as a blood sacrifice and its great dao suppressed so that no more immortals could emerge.
• Ji Yan commanded the Eternal Immortal Frontier, the Qian Yuan Immortal Domain, and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance to join the destruction of the Boundless Immortal Realm.

After beams from beyond the heavens shattered the Immortal Realm’s great dao origins, the Fortune Immortal Clan fled its homeland and the Qing Xu Sect learned that its Immortal Ancestor had fallen. The Qing Xu Sect’s elders debated escaping to the Chaos Sea, while one feared Eternal Antiquity would destroy their realm and leave them nowhere to go.

• Dazzling beams pierced the Great Dao Heavenly Passage Pillar and shattered great dao origins across the Immortal Realm.
• A Fortune Immortal Clan cultivator tried to activate his great dao immortal power but suffered a backlash when heaven and earth no longer resonated with him.
• A Half-step True Immortal ordered the Fortune Immortal Clan to evacuate, and tens of millions fled through ancient Teleportation Arrays.
• One year later, the Qing Xu Sect learned that its Immortal Ancestor had fallen, but its sect master angrily refused to accept the news.
• Two Longevity Old Monsters discussed escaping to the Chaos Sea, while the senior brother warned that Eternal Antiquity intended to destroy the Immortal Realm.

After the True Immortals fell and the Immortal Realm began to collapse, Yu Chengu set out for the Chaos Sea while the survivors faced chaos and the loss of their paths to the Dao. Chen Xun sealed the realms apart and returned to a peaceful life with He Ling, leaving the catastrophe behind as if nothing had happened.

• Yu Chengu’s junior sister confronted him over their ancestor’s death, and he vanished after saying he understood.
• The next day, the Qing Xu Sect sealed its territory, and Yu Chengu used three immortal artifacts to sink the sect beneath the Heavenly Frontier before departing for the Chaos Sea.
• The Great Dao Corroded Ones celebrated the True Immortals’ fall but realized the destruction of the Immortal Realm’s ten thousand daos had also erased their own prospects.
• Six months later, the Immortal Realm descended into chaos as powerful cultivators scrambled to seek the Dao.
• Chen Xun sealed the coordinates between the realms, told Gu Li Sheng to treat the events as though nothing had happened, and departed.
• He Ling brought myriad heavens origin dew to Chen Xun, who woke beneath the ancient Immortal Tree and headed home with her while joking about Toad and Senior Chi Immortal.

Chen Xun and He Ling returned to the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, now an immense immortal domain at the heart of the Five Elements Immortal Sect. They found the sect thriving, with its ancient guardians and beasts continuing their familiar ways.

• Chen Xun and He Ling encountered Qian Wuhen, Bai Xinghan, and two others heading to watch a fight at the Longevity Yu Family, and Chen Xun sent them away.
• Chen Xun and He Ling crossed the Myriad Heavens and Worlds toward the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range while reminiscing about the four youngsters.
• A Chen Family Mountain Guardian noticed Chen Xun and He Ling pass and silently greeted their return.
• The Jade Bamboo Mountain Range revealed its vast immortal peaks, orbiting worlds, celestial formations, and abundant immortal resources.
• Immortal beasts welcomed Chen Xun and He Ling, while the mountain gods continued lazing about and A'Da and A'Er entertained young spirits outside the sect gates.

Chen Xun returned to the Five Elements Sect and ordered the Ominous Old Ancestor to help repair the Immortal Realm’s damaged rules, even if the cost was great. Meanwhile, Ji Yan warned First Without End that destroying the Immortal Realm would bring greater losses as its first cycle of reincarnation began.

• Chen Xun reunited with A'Da and A'Er, then returned to the Five Elements Sect with He Ling and settled in for a long stay.
• More than ten years later, the Ominous Old Ancestor reported that repairing the Immortal Realm’s rules would require sacrifices beyond three thousand true immortals.
• Chen Xun ordered the Ominous Old Ancestor to proceed with the plan, coordinate with the descended Ghost Face Race, and leave contingency measures for the Immortal Realm’s next epoch.
• At the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, First Without End told Ji Yan that the Tri-Finger Race’s ancestors supported destroying the Immortal Realm’s heaven and earth.
• Ji Yan called First Without End foolish and said slaughter and destruction would cause greater losses as the Immortal Realm’s first cycle of reincarnation began.

First Without End threatened to end the Immortal Realm if the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance failed to deliver results, and Ji Yan ordered the Alliance to suppress the Immortal Realm’s collective will. Ten thousand years later, the Immortal Realm’s Dao and civilization had collapsed beneath the Dark Immortal Gate, while a last Great Wall Heavenly Pass stood against it with three figures atop its walls.

• First Without End warned Ji Yan that the Tri-Finger Race would descend and destroy the Immortal Realm if the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance produced no tangible benefits.
• Tian Li and Qian Shan cautioned Ji Yan against involving the unstable Tri-Finger Race, but Ji Yan said Du Shi’s control of the Immortal Realm Gate kept them in check.
• As black rain fell and the Immortal Realm’s collective will surged against the Alliance, Ji Yan ordered the Nine Heavens’ Three Thousand Military Court to suppress it.
• Over the next ten thousand years, the Immortal Realm’s great Daos fractured, the Immortal Gate vanished, and the Dark Immortal Gate appeared as its civilization and countless races fell into despair.
• Yu Qianting suffered a grievous backlash while trying to understand the Dark Immortal Gate and the destruction of the Immortal Realm’s origin.
• A Great Wall Heavenly Pass rose from the Chaos Sea to face the Dark Immortal Gate, and three figures stood together atop it as black rain fell.

True Immortal War Ruins, Yuan Yirou, and Zhang Shenshuo led the Immortal Realm’s resistance against the Ominous Creatures, but the realm was gradually overwhelmed. The Ominous Old Ancestor opened the dark immortal gate, revealing that three thousand True Immortals were buried within the Ending Immortal Sect.

• True Immortal War Ruins, Yuan Yirou, and Zhang Shenshuo faced the advancing Ominous Creatures at the Chaos Heavenly Pass as immortals gathered for battle.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor sent a million Ominous Creatures to attack, and the Immortal Realm’s forces charged to meet them.
• True Immortal War Ruins and Zhang Shenshuo attacked the Ominous Old Ancestor, but darkness swallowed the battlefield.
• After a thousand years of siege, a million immortals attacked the Ending Immortal Sect, but none returned, and the Ghost Face Race began killing True Immortals.
• A hundred thousand years later, Zhang Shenshuo’s immortal skeleton returned, and the Ominous Old Ancestor ordered the Ending Immortal Sect to kill every immortal.
• The dark immortal gate merged with the Immortal Realm and opened, revealing three thousand buried True Immortal corpses.

The Ominous Race destroyed the Immortal Realm’s immortal lineages and left its peoples isolated, unable to ascend or practice the ancient arts. By 1.15 billion years, civilization had adapted to the darkness, and the realm’s former greatness survived only as stories that later generations struggled to believe.

• The Ominous Old Ancestor watched as the Immortal Realm’s rules collapsed, its cities were ruined, and the last immortals died.
• The Ominous Army slaughtered the remaining Dao Venerables, ending the rules of immortal ascension and plunging the realm into the Immortal Fall Era.
• Powers in the Chaos Sea sealed their prodigies in slumber, but a traitor awakened them and exhausted the reserves meant to preserve them.
• The Immortal Realm’s cultivators gradually stopped resisting and questioning the darkness as it receded and the realm’s rules ceased fracturing.
• An elderly Tribulation Transcendence cultivator told his grandson about the Immortal Realm’s former wonders, while cultivators across the Myriad Frontiers continued failing to reach immortality.

The Ominous Race restored the Immortal Realm’s heaven and earth rules, but its immortal Dao civilization faded as its people returned to mortal lives. Chen Xun revealed that he wanted many Immortal Realms to cultivate Dao fruits, while Yu Qianting began an eternal ascension plan and a vast Bo Clan territory emerged from the void.

• The Ominous Old Ancestor oversaw the restoration of the Immortal Realm’s rules and rebuked an Ominous expert who questioned the effort.
• The Immortal Realm’s daylight and natural world returned, but its cultivators still could not become immortals, and its civilization gradually vanished into a primordial way of life.
• After the Ominous Race returned to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, Chen Xun planted over three thousand Dao fruits in its heavenly Dao and explained to the Ominous Old Ancestor why heaven and earth needed nourishment.
• Chen Xun told the Ominous Old Ancestor that they needed many Immortal Realms, and the ancestor realized the plan involved Yu Qianting.
• Yu Qianting traveled to the Three Thousand Universes, took control of their myriad races, and began his eternal ascension plan.
• An immortal voice wondered whether it had outlasted Eternal Antiquity, but a vast void territory filled with Bo Clan cultivators rose from the depths.

Bo Dengyun reflected on fleeing the collapsing Immortal Realm and continued leading the Bo Clan through the void rather than risk returning. Over the following ages, Yu Qianting learned more about the Immortal Realm’s origins as both realms recovered and the Bo Clan began building a world of its own.

• Bo Dengyun recalled abandoning the Immortal Realm and its karmic ties to save himself and the Bo Clan, then resolved not to return while danger remained.
• Bo Dengyun sensed that a cultivator of his own realm had entered the Three Thousand Universes and kept the Bo Clan hidden as it expanded through the void.
• In Heaven and Earth Calendar year 1.2 billion, Yu Qianting learned that the Immortal Realm drew its power from the void and transformed it into the Great Dao and the rest of its world.
• Yu Qianting continued refining the Three Thousand Universes while remaining open to meeting the unknown True Immortal in the void.
• The Immortal Realm’s Great Dao and the Three Thousand Universes’ immortal ascension rules revived as the Bo Clan’s world took shape and Bo Dengyun advanced toward becoming its Heavenly Dao.
• The Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm remained the world that mattered to its inhabitants, who had forgotten the True Immortal Realm.

After Big Black Ox and Little Crimson returned, Chen Xun spent ages traveling and enjoying retirement before entering seclusion with his family. Meanwhile, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s young generation reshaped its Dao Struggle, and the Three Thousand Universes ascended as a new Immortal Realm appeared alongside the emergence of the first True Immortal of the new era.

• Chen Xun welcomed Big Black Ox and Little Crimson home, and Little Crimson excitedly recounted the treasures and wonders of the River of Time.
• Chen Xun and his family spent ages traveling the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, visiting the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, Primordial City, secret realms, and other places; Chen Xun also argued with a Painting Immortal after his paintings were criticized.
• In the year 1.3 billion of the Heaven and Earth Calendar, Chen Xun and his family entered seclusion as young prodigies began challenging ancient powers across the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• By the year 2 billion, Peerless Heavenly Prides had transformed the realm through discourse and innovation across the myriad Daos, while the Three Thousand Universes ascended into a new Immortal Realm.
• The Bo Clan established the Bo Clan Heaven Realm, and the first True Immortal of the Immortal Realm’s new era appeared, astonishingly from the Human Race.

A newly reborn True Immortal restored the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ fortune, founded the Immortal Gate, and laid plans to preserve the True Immortal Realm without repeating the Immortal Realm’s old mistakes. Billions of years later, Chen Xun emerged from seclusion with little apparent progress, reunited with Big Black Ox, and accepted that advancement depended on timing and opportunity.

• The True Immortal drew on the fortune of all living beings to restore the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and discovered that the human race had once cut off its path to True Immortalhood.
• The True Immortal instructed his Dharma manifestation to avoid making an enemy of a powerful realm and to let the True Immortal Realm endure rather than repeat a great cycle of destruction.
• Ten years later, the Immortal Gate rose at the center of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and the myriad races began to rise.
• After another great transformation of heaven and earth, Chen Xun’s Great Dao Immortal Power and Immortal Sense began to grow, while younger cultivators received stronger foundations.
• Chen Xun emerged from seclusion and realized that his tea had gone rotten during the immense passage of time.
• Chen Xun asked Big Black Ox whether anything had changed, and Big Black Ox shook his head as they accepted that no one had yet found the road ahead.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson settled into a quiet life in the Five Elements Immortal Sect, tending their home and visiting Demon Moon’s grave. Their peaceful days ended when Ke Ding arrived for tea and was stunned by Chen Xun’s extravagant tea table.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox agreed they had reached their limits and no longer needed secluded cultivation, while Little Crimson recovered from their trip to the River of Time.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson chose to stay home, where Chen Xun planted flowers and Big Black Ox tended his farmland.
• Chen Xun visited Demon Moon’s gravestone with Little Crimson and spoke of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and the possibility of meeting again.
• Chen Xun and Little Crimson left the tea mountain the next day, and Chen Xun reflected on flowers blooming anew and living beings beginning another journey.
• Ke Ding arrived at the Five Elements Sect and joined Chen Xun for tea, marveling at the extravagant immortal treasure tea table.

Chen Xun and Ke Ding spent years chatting at the Five Elements Sect before the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance began sending cultivators into the Immortal Realm and the Three Thousand Universes to develop its industries. A century later, Eternal Cultivators arrived in the Three Thousand Universes and were astonished by its vast, thriving population.

• Chen Xun told Ke Ding that a disturbance in the heavenly secrets centuries earlier had occurred during his breakthrough, then hosted him for several months.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding discussed the origins of the void and agreed they might explore it together someday.
• Ji Ziyu and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance decided to expand their downstream industries into the Immortal Realm and the Three Thousand Universes.
• Ji Ziyu activated the Nine Heavens Immortal Artifact, and a year later Alliance cultivators began descending into the two realms.
• A hundred years later, Eternal Cultivators arrived in the Three Thousand Universes and marveled at its immense population and flourishing trade.

Hundreds of Eternal Cultivators descended into the Three Thousand Universes and used their abundant Immortal Stones to buy the Frostfall Star Domain and reshape its economy. After crushing a prince’s attempt to oppose them, they discussed their success while resentment grew among the domain’s ancient sects.

• Hundreds of Eternal Cultivators bought the Frostfall Star Domain with a supreme-grade Immortal Stone mine, and the Immortal Emperor claimed the mine for himself.
• The cultivators offered Immortal Stones and generous wages to sects and locals, persuading even a reluctant sect master to cooperate.
• The newcomers bought up stars, established mines, commerce guilds, and vast Spiritual Herb Gardens, attracting business from other Star Domains.
• A prince sent a hundred-thousand-strong army against the newcomers, but they killed the Immortal Nation’s Second Starry Sky Battle General, and the Immortal Nation announced that the prince had died from qi deviation.
• The Immortal Emperor spent years currying favor with the newcomers, who discussed their prospects in the lower realm as malice grew among Frostfall Star Domain’s ancient sects.

On Sparse Paulownia Star, the Earth-Cosmos Immortal Sect’s elders schemed to keep the domain lord’s promised wealth from the servant races while anticipating their sect’s rise. Wuyin Zheng’s hope of receiving wages remained hidden under his father’s fearful obedience.

• Wuyin Zheng told his father that the new domain lord had supposedly promised the miners of Sparse Paulownia Star a fortune in immortal materials, but his father dismissed the rumor and ordered him to keep mining.
• Wuyin Zheng obeyed, afraid that the Earth-Cosmos Immortal Sect would punish their lineage by sending them to Garbage Star.
• Elder Pang told Elder Bei that the Immortal Cloud Holy Land had shown interest in Sparse Paulownia Star, but the Northern Wei Household would keep outside powers from participating.
• Elder Pang revealed that seven immortal mines’ worth of resources had been invested in the frontier to establish new trade routes.
• Elder Pang said the Earth-Cosmos Immortal Sect had withheld resources from the servant races and expected its Taishang’s breakthrough to bring the sect greater power.

The Eternal Cultivators answered corruption in the Frostfall Star Domain by building the Cosmic Commerce Guild and raising the myriad races, which eventually swept away the ancient powers. After the fighting ended, the Immortal Nation faced the Guild’s astonishing wealth and its offer to buy half its Star Domains.

• Elder Pang dismissed concerns about the Outer Domain Cultivators while Elder Bei privately hoped their promised Immortal Stones might help him break through.
• The Eternal Cultivators decided to support cosmic races, spread their teachings, and let corruption by the ancient powers continue until they could reclaim the stolen wealth.
• Over the next thousand years, the Cosmic Commerce Guild grew powerful and attracted cultivators from across the starry sky.
• Ten thousand years later, the Guild swept through the Frostfall Star Domain, arrested over a thousand immortals, and fought Taishang Yudi as Wuyin Zheng led the rising forces.
• The Immortal Nation’s court watched the Guild quell the turmoil, then learned that its visitors wanted to buy half the nation’s Star Domains, leaving the Immortal Emperor stunned.

Tens of thousands of years after expanding across the Frostfall Star Domain, the Eternal Cultivators launched vast plans to develop the Three Thousand Universes and the True Immortal Realm. A hundred thousand years later, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories began a sudden, sweeping war across the True Immortal Realm.

• The Cosmic Commerce Guild leader dismissed Xu Xiudao for opposing the guild’s generous spending and recruitment.
• The Eternal Cultivators announced plans spanning a million years, from opening star routes to launching the Three Thousand Universes Grand Voyage Project, and began putting them into action.
• Eternal Cultivators in the True Immortal Realm developed its wilderness by managing waterways, reclaiming land, building cities, and spreading the Dao.
• The Three Thousand Immortal Territories unexpectedly advanced across the True Immortal Realm on three fronts, opening more than ten thousand battlefields and overwhelming countless clans and powerful cultivators.

Wang Qicang vowed to lead the Three Thousand Immortal Territories to lasting prominence, and by the year 2,110,000,000 they had become the True Immortal Realm’s unrivaled hegemon. As the balance of power shifted, the Bo Clan invaded the Three Thousand Universes to seize territory, beginning the Heaven-Seizing War.

• Wang Qicang promised the buried sages that he would continue their unfinished Immortal Path and establish the Three Thousand Immortal Territories’ place in the True Immortal Realm.
• Wang Qicang spread the Immortal Dao across the True Immortal Realm while ruling prudently and keeping its myriad races firmly under his authority.
• Bo Dengyun ordered the Bo Clan to invade the Three Thousand Universes and claim them as territory because his clan could not attain True Immortality or sublimate its own world.
• Bo Clan continent-ships breached the realm barrier, shattered stars with their aura, and sent cultivators fleeing.
• The Bo Clan launched the Two Realms War, beginning the Heaven-Seizing War while frontier cultivators failed to grasp the scale of the invasion.

The Bo Clan swept out from the Cosmic Frontier and spent a million years conquering star domains across the universe, overcoming resistance and spreading too far for the universe’s powers to stop them. As the invasion reached the Cosmic Hinterland, star domains fell into panic and despair.

• The Bo Clan poured through the rift, seized the Cosmic Frontier, and established a foothold in the Upper Realm despite fierce resistance.
• For a million years, the Bo Clan conquered star domains while the universe’s powers dismissed reports of the invasion as an exaggerated threat.
• After the Bo Clan crushed the universe’s prodigies, patriarchs, and cultivation laws, its forces began destroying the sects, clans, and holy lands of conquered domains.
• The Bo Clan spread through the Cosmic Hinterland, while its descendants multiplied and grew into the main force of the invasion.
• The Clear Mist Star Domain learned that the Bo Clan had annihilated its front-line army and was attacking the Mirror Abyss Star Sea Great Wall.
• Reports from the Dao Cen and Ruin Mist Star Domains described fleeing powers and widespread destruction as the universe’s sects collapsed into despair.