Chapter Summaries

Gu Li Sheng allowed the immortals who wished to leave the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm to pursue the Great Dao in the lower realm, and their mass departure transformed the realm. In later eras, Bo Dengyun and Wang Qicang witnessed the new worlds and powerful cultivators emerging, and realized the age had changed.

• Gu Li Sheng persuaded the Eternal Heavenly Dao to let departing immortals leave in peace, and the Heavenly Court announced that cultivators in the lower realm could become sovereigns or ancestors through a single Dao.
• Over thirty thousand years, nearly ten percent of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s cultivators and immortals departed, led in great numbers by disciples of the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
• Chen Xun, the Big Black Ox, and the Old Mister returned to Double Tree Alley, joking about their painting skills and leaving the realm’s upheaval behind.
• In the Heaven and Earth Calendar’s year 5.1 billion, Bo Dengyun saw a Nine Tribulation Immortal opening a world and discovered that a foreign cultivator from the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had entered the Primordial Beginning Immortal Realm.
• In year 5.2 billion, countless worlds and hundreds and thousands of True Immortals appeared across the Three Thousand Universes and the Immortal Realm, prompting Wang Qicang to wonder whether the Progenitor True Immortal Realm was beginning to save itself.

As the myriad realms flourished and began to merge, Bo Dengyun and Wang Qicang emerged from seclusion amid a new age of Immortal Dao. A war between worlds broke out over ten thousand daos, and Immortal Venerable Bo volunteered to take command as the conflict threatened to spread into the Progenitor True Immortal Realm.

• Bo Dengyun emerged from seclusion in the Primordial Beginning Immortal Realm and donned his returning battle robes.
• Wang Qicang saw that the rise of the myriad realms could delay the destruction of heaven and earth, then later entered the world and began a battle between true immortals that he lost.
• The myriad realms merged, the Star Pivot and ascension passages connected them, and legends of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm began to spread.
• Two worlds' true immortals began a war over ten thousand daos, and the conflict spread to realms connected to them.
• In the Progenitor True Immortal Realm, powerhouses learned that the war could reach their territories, while Immortal Venerable Bo volunteered to take command and join the fighting.

As war engulfed the lower realms, Meng Sheng returned to the Five Elements Sect and told Chen Xun he would reincarnate as his true self to cultivate a new immortal path. A thousand years later, a heavenly grief phenomenon followed his departure, and Chou Li claimed responsibility; Chen Xun was left reminiscing until someone kicked over his chair.

• Wang Qicang divined that disciples of the Eternal Antiquity Dao Lineage might have instigated the war across ten thousand realms and marveled at its scale.
• Meng Sheng returned to the Five Elements Sect and told Chen Xun he planned to reincarnate as his true self in the lower realms to forge a new immortal path.
• Chen Xun urged Meng Sheng to bring the Void Heaven Cave Abode as protection, and Meng Sheng agreed before departing.
• A thousand years later, a heavenly grief phenomenon appeared in Eternal Antiquity, and Chou Li of the Heavenly Peak Sect claimed it was caused by his cultivation.
• Chen Xun reminisced outside the old house until someone kicked over his chair.

Yu Xuan left the mountains to seek opportunities beyond the heavens, while Chen Xun reflected on how his old friends’ ambitions differed from his own. Over the next eleven thousand years, the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and Immortal Ancient each departed to pursue breakthroughs and ways to challenge Chen Xun.

• Yu Xuan told Chen Xun she would take disciples beyond the heavens, and Chen Xun gave her a Heavenly Dao Protection Jade Talisman before seeing her off half a month later.
• After Yu Xuan left, Chen Xun realized that his old friends were still driven to pursue the Immortal Dao while he wanted only a peaceful, endless life.
• Ten thousand years later, the Heavenly Wheel Immortal told Chen Xun he had understood the Seven Immortal-Banning Arts and planned to build a complete world of his own.
• After arguing with Chen Xun for three days, the Heavenly Wheel Immortal left the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm with his three direct disciples.
• A thousand years later, Immortal Ancient asked Gu Li Sheng to open a path to the warring lower worlds so he could gather Dao marks and essence blood to refine an undying immortal body capable of facing Chen Xun.

Chen Xun told Ke Ding that he would quell the consequences of the Lower Realm’s escalating Heavenly War, while the void gave birth to the destructive Void Radiance Clan. In a Human Race realm, Meng Sheng was born into the Meng Household amid extraordinary celestial signs, and his cupped-fist salute revealed that he had reincarnated.

• Immortal Ancient left the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm with his disciple to pursue a breakthrough in body refinement.
• A hundred thousand years later, cultivators began exploring hidden realms and venturing beyond the heavens.
• Ke Ding warned Chen Xun that the Heavenly War in the Lower Realm might produce an Invincible One, and Chen Xun said he would quell the consequences of the war.
• The void gave birth to the Void Radiance Clan, whose members gained power by killing cultivators and devouring Small Realms.
• Meng Sheng reincarnated as a child in the Meng Household, where he formed a cupped-fist salute despite being unable to open his eyes.

Meng Zhiyuan named his son Meng Sheng after a celestial phenomenon, and the boy grew into a celebrated young scholar whose wisdom helped Icecloud Town. At ten, Meng Sheng began suffering splitting headaches and visions of a sealed Heaven Gate, and the physicians could not explain his condition.

• Meng Zhiyuan bowed to the celestial phenomenon, interpreted his newborn son's peaceful greeting as a sign of innate virtue, and named him Meng Sheng.
• Meng Sheng displayed extraordinary learning from an early age, impressing teachers and students with his command of the classics.
• Meng Sheng helped villagers end a spring drought by clearing channels and drawing mountain spring water into their fields.
• At ten, Meng Sheng began experiencing severe headaches and visions of a vast, sealed Heaven Gate whenever he tried to read.
• Meng Zhiyuan took Meng Sheng to physicians, but they could not help him, and townspeople mocked the family and said Heaven had envied the boy's gifts.

Meng Sheng lost his prodigy reputation, discovered cultivation through a fallen Storage Bag, and became a powerful Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator. After his parents died, he stood at their graves and reflected on the brief, precious life they had shared in the Mortal World.

• Meng Zhiyuan comforted Meng Sheng after people mocked his fall from prodigy status, telling him not to let their judgment define his abilities.
• Half a year later, Meng Sheng remained withdrawn and puzzled over the Heaven Gate inside his body.
• A bloodstained Storage Bag fell from the sky, and Meng Sheng climbed a tree to retrieve it, beginning his path into cultivation.
• Thirty years later, Meng Sheng had become a powerful Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator whose reputation protected the Meng Household.
• Meng Sheng visited his parents' graves after their deaths and reflected on the warmth and brevity of their mortal lives.

After saying a quiet farewell to his deceased parents, Meng Sheng left Icecloud Mountain to enter the Cultivation World. Ni Canghuan joined him, while the chapter revealed that in another life he had reincarnated to compete with Meng Sheng in the same generation.

• Meng Sheng told his parents about the repairs and preparations he had made before announcing that he was leaving for a long journey.
• Meng Sheng departed from his parents’ graves and walked down the mountain path.
• Ni Canghuan waited beneath a locust tree and greeted Meng Sheng, recalling how Meng Sheng had once defended him.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan set out together to leave Icecloud Mountain and enter the Cultivation World.
• In the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, Ni Canghuan had asked Chen Xun to let him reincarnate so he could contend with Meng Sheng, and Chen Xun had agreed.

Ni Canghuan and Meng Sheng traveled the cultivation worlds, grew into powerful Nascent Soul cultivators, and became forces capable of deterring wars. Their long journey ended in a crisis when a Voidlight Race Cub of the Void Destruction Devouring Race descended and blotted out the sky.

• Ni Canghuan and Meng Sheng roamed Azure Mist Country, helping rogue cultivators and earning a fearsome reputation.
• They traveled through the Scarlet Radiance Sea Region and Northern Desert Cold Province, surviving deadly battles and growing stronger together.
• Meng Sheng entered the Nascent Soul Realm after venturing into the Northern Heaven Rift, and Ni Canghuan formed his Nascent Soul after slaying an ancient savage soul.
• Meng Sheng drove off a Spirit Transformation cultivator who had slaughtered a city, while Ni Canghuan guarded him against retaliation.
• A colossal being blocked the sky, and Ni Canghuan and Meng Sheng recognized that a Voidlight Race Cub of the Void Destruction Devouring Race had descended.

The Voidlight Race Cub’s innate command of the Power of Rules devastated the realm as it began consuming Heaven and Earth. With the World-Protecting Array failing and cultivators realizing they were only nourishment, the Great Profound Sect master and a Southern Region emperor each fled, leaving their people behind.

• The Voidlight Race Cub shifted its gaze, throwing Heaven and Earth out of alignment and killing countless mortals and cultivators.
• The creature revealed its dark silver form and consumed the realm’s mountains, spiritual veins, and laws through its void-like power.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan watched as the World-Protecting Array failed and Spirit Transformation cultivators recognized the creature as an irresistible catastrophe.
• The Great Profound Sect master ordered the sect sealed and its disciples dispersed, then fled beyond the realm using a prepared escape route.
• The Southern Region emperor opened an ancient Space Channel to a broken Star Road and fled, leaving his ministers and subjects behind.

Meng Sheng chose to defend the collapsing realm instead of fleeing, but the Voidlight cub killed him with a glance after his sword strike. As Ni Canghuan charged to avenge him, a vast Heaven Gate crushed the beast, and a mysterious man resembling Scholar Meng appeared.

• Ni Canghuan urged Meng Sheng to flee, but Meng Sheng said he wanted to protect the world and the Meng Household's Ancestral Land.
• Meng Sheng awakened the Primordial Immortal Sect within his divine sense and charged toward the Voidlight cub as cultivators across the realm watched.
• Meng Sheng struck the beast with a sword carrying the weight of his life, but its focused gaze shattered him into points of light.
• Ni Canghuan attacked the Voidlight cub to avenge Meng Sheng, and the beast prepared to kill him with its gaze.
• A vast Heaven Gate descended and crushed the Voidlight cub, while a resolute man appeared beneath it and left Ni Canghuan kneeling in shock at his resemblance to Scholar Meng.

Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan survived the creature’s attack, left their realm, and spent millennia wandering the dangerous cultivation world beyond the heavens. After refining the creature inside an Immortal Vein Star, Meng Sheng learned its race planned to target the Myriad Heavens and Worlds and the Upper Realm, while the two prepared to keep their distance from powerful cultivators.

• Meng Sheng awoke after half a month, and he and Ni Canghuan decided to claim the dead creature and use its body as cultivation materials.
• A thousand years later, Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan left their realm and entered the vast cultivation world of the myriad heavens, where they faced the horrors of the Myriad Heavens War.
• Over the next ten thousand years, Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan escaped enslavement and a conscription camp, survived the Myriad Worlds Battlefield, and became wandering rogue cultivators.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan salvaged an Immortal Vein Star, used its resources to reach the Great Ascension Stage, and began refining the young Void Radiance Clan member within it.
• As the Immortal Vein Star collapsed, Ni Canghuan finished refining the creature while Meng Sheng possessed it and gained its memories.
• Meng Sheng told Ni Canghuan that the creature’s vast race planned to target the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, countless cultivators, and the Upper Realm, and they agreed to stay beyond the heavens.

The Void Yao Race overwhelmed the Myriad Heavens and Worlds before fleeing the Upper Realm’s arrival, while Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan ascended to the Progenitor True Immortal Realm. Their relief ended when an ascension envoy suddenly died, prompting Ni Canghuan to suspect a scam and flee with Meng Sheng.

• The Void Yao Race identified Ni Canghuan as a possible assassin from the Upper Realm, but failed to find him.
• The Myriad Heavens and Worlds waged a brutal war against the Void Yao Race, which proved able to devour cultivation and annihilate the Dao.
• After Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan ascended, the Heavenly Void descended, and the Void Yao Race fled into the Unknowable Land.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan reached the Progenitor True Immortal Realm, where an ascension envoy told them to excavate the Nine Heavens Sea.
• The ascension envoy abruptly died while calculating their auras and karmic ties, so Ni Canghuan suspected an injury scam and fled with Meng Sheng.

Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan adapted to the information-rich Immortal Realm and set out for the Heavenly Frontier. In the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, Chen Xun watched new ascenders gather in a frontier city and learned that the lower realm’s heaven and earth veins were functioning normally.

• Meng Sheng used reports from the Star Pivot to learn about the Immortal Realm, and he warned Ni Canghuan to be careful as they traveled to the Heavenly Frontier.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan became part of the Progenitor True Immortal Realm and began their Immortal Path there.
• Chen Xun stood outside a modest shop in an Immortal City where cultivators from the Myriad Heavens and Worlds ascended into the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that the city was a Dragon-Rising Land and watched the ascenders discuss the world he had created.
• Yu Fangshuo reported to Chen Xun that the lower realm’s heaven and earth veins were functioning normally, and Chen Xun acknowledged the report.

Chen Xun ran his quiet shop with Chen Ba Tian, Chen Yanshu, and the Big Black Ox as the worlds moved toward a peaceful age. When several women passed through the snowy street, Chen Xun recognized a familiar Forehead Pattern of Law on one of them but kept his reaction hidden, then closed the shop for the night.

• Chen Xun and Yu Fangshuo left the affairs of the lower realms to unfold as the worlds entered a new age.
• Chen Ba Tian complained that no Ascension Cultivators wanted the shop's old stock, and Chen Xun teased him into retreating to clean the backyard.
• Chen Yanshu kept the accounts while Chen Ba Tian handled odd jobs, and Chen Xun persuaded Little Crimson to move away from the doorway.
• Several women walked down the snowy street, and Chen Xun paused when he saw a familiar Forehead Pattern of Law on the woman in their midst.
• The woman passed Chen Xun without recognizing him, and he concealed his reaction as the Big Black Ox watched in shock.
• Chen Xun closed the shop for the day and sat quietly behind the counter as snow continued to fall.

Chen Xun continued his quiet life in the immortal city near the Samsara Clan’s territory. In the lower realm, a True Immortal discovered the ruins of the Human Dao Pavilion and read the final messages left by those who died defending it.

• Big Black Ox realized Chen Xun had come to the frontier immortal city because it was near the Samsara Clan’s celestial territory.
• Chen Xun opened his shop the next day and reflected on the immortal city, cultivation, and the choices of those who left the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• A True Immortal explored an ancient ruin in the True Immortal Realm, where heaven and earth suppressed the land and immortal trees sealed the site.
• The True Immortal found a plaque bearing the words “Human Dao Pavilion” and recalled its former role as humanity’s center during the World-Shocking War.
• The True Immortal reached a ruined wall covered in farewell inscriptions from those who had fallen in the battle.

Mu Gu Sheng investigated the ruins of the Human Dao Pavilion to uncover the truth of the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm, but Wang Qicang arrived to stop him. As Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan entered the forest, they sensed the powerful beings nearby and were left stunned.

• Mu Gu Sheng recalled the final night before the World-Shocking War and realized the ruins concealed a fissure leading underground.
• An Immortal Beast warned Mu Gu Sheng that a powerful unknown being was approaching, and Mu Gu Sheng suspected the visitor was a human True Immortal tied to the Ten Pillars of Undying Dao Courts.
• Wang Qicang emerged from a crack in the void and warned Mu Gu Sheng to stop investigating the Primordial Truth, saying the truth could overturn the true immortal realm and the Myriad Heavens Immortal Realm.
• Mu Gu Sheng declared that he would eventually slaughter every last one of the Ominous Race, while Wang Qicang said he would meet the same end as countless others.
• Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan entered the Primeval Forest, sensed the Immortal Beast's aura, and saw Wang Qicang and Mu Gu Sheng from afar, leaving them shaken.

Wang Qicang sensed a looming disaster, while Meng Sheng became a hunted figure and Immortal Ancient hunted the Voidlight Race in the Upper Realm. As the Myriad Worlds Heavenly War escalated into a battle among the realms, the Heavenly Void descended upon the battlefield.

• Wang Qicang abruptly left after sensing danger, while Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan settled safely in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.
• Meng Sheng gained notoriety for plundering secret realms, and two Heavenly Pillar Dao Court elders discussed seeking him for his Voidlight Race manifestation.
• Immortal Ancient pursued a Voidlight Race Heavenly Ancestor and took three drops of his essence blood before returning to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm with his disciple.
• The Voidlight Race opened passages between realms and joined the lower-realm war, while the Progenitor True Immortal Realm entered the fighting and defeated the Eternal True Immortals at the cost of one True Immortal.
• As the war engulfed the myriad heavens, the Heavenly Void descended in a pillar of lightning, leaving the battlefield’s powerhouses in stunned silence.

The Ominous Race descended into an Immortal Realm and began severing its Immortal Path, revealing the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s disregard for the lower realms. A Yu Family True Immortal pleaded for his world, but the Ominous Old Ancestor offered only the choice to abandon his Dao and leave or perish with it.

• The Ominous Race descended into the collapsing Immortal Realm as True Immortals across the heavens watched in horror, while the Voidlight Race fled rather than challenge the overwhelming power.
• A True Immortal charged toward the Ominous Race, but the Ominous Old Ancestor’s power annihilated him and left the Heavenly Grief phenomenon behind.
• Ancient beings from Eternal Antiquity suspected that the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm harvested lower realms’ Dao Fruits to sustain its own Heaven and Earth.
• A Yu Family True Immortal who had become the realm’s Heavenly Dao begged the Ominous Old Ancestor to spare the world he had raised.
• The Ominous Old Ancestor rejected his appeal and offered him one final measure of consideration: sever his Dao and leave or perish with the Great Dao.
• The Yu Family True Immortal abandoned his True Immortal Dao Fruit and left, realizing that the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had used the lower realms as part of its Heaven-Seeding Plan.

After the war of ten thousand heavens, a disciple asked his master about the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and learned of the Chen Lineage and the Supreme Being who defined the Great Dao. Years later, True Immortals set the ten thousand Immortal Realms into a vast tribulation against the Voidlight Race, turning the realms into an arena for heavenly prides.

• A half-step True Immortal disciple asked his master what the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm was and expressed fear of the Ominous Race and the laws of finality.
• The master explained that the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm was boundless, then revealed that the Chen Lineage founded it and that a Supreme Being stood above the clan and defined the Great Dao.
• Across the Immortal Realms, Eternal Cultivators made the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm a common topic, and mighty figures began nurturing disciples.
• True Immortals initiated a common people tribulation against the Voidlight Race, drawing countless heavenly prides, including Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan, into the war.
• The Voidlight Race rose in the Upper Realm, but the Heavenly Dao repeatedly suppressed its strongest figures as True Immortals controlled the tribulation and the ten thousand Immortal Realms became an arena.