Chapter Summaries

Across billions of years, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm began to decline, prompting its ancient powers to seek a way to raise Heaven and Earth. As the wider Immortal Realms prepared to invade and restore it, Ji Yan ordered the annihilation of the Myriad Heavens Era to nourish it with the Dao Fruits of ten thousand realms.

• The Voidlight Race devoured the Primordial Beginning Immortal Realm, but the Ominous Race never descended, confounding the True Immortals' expectations.
• Chen Xun entered Heaven to investigate possibilities beyond True Immortality, while tensions among the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm's Dao Lineages continued.
• Ancient powers, including those of the Five Elements Sect and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, detected that the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm's essence was declining.
• NanGong HeLing and the other ancient powers chose to raise Heaven and Earth rather than accept its decline.
• The Voidlight Race and powers across the Immortal Realms agreed to invade the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and return Heaven to its living beings.
• Ji Yan ordered the annihilation of the Myriad Heavens Era and the retrieval of its realms' Dao Fruits to nourish the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.

The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance decided to slaughter the lower realms’ true immortals and claim control of Heaven Seeding and nourishing the Dao, while the Five Elements Immortal Sect and Heavenly Court accepted the coming upheaval. Ji Yan led the alliance through a passage Gu Li Sheng opened to the lower realms, with the Heavenly Court promising support.

• The World-Extinction Immortal Artifact activated, and the Tri-Finger Race unleashed World-Destroying Power to destroy immortal realms and kill their inhabitants.
• First Without End told Ji Yan that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had to bear the lower realms’ karma, and Ji Yan ordered the alliance to kill every realm’s true immortals and fight anyone who obstructed them.
• The alliance marched out, clashed with immortals who tried to stop it, and left the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace’s Tianjizi unwilling to intervene.
• The Five Elements Immortal Sect’s elders remained silent as its sect prepared to follow its own plan to devour heaven and earth and expand the stage for cultivators.
• At the Heavenly Court, Gu Li Sheng confirmed that he would support Ji Yan and opened the passage to the lower realms for the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

The Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm swallowed the Void and shattered, merging heaven and earth into a boundless realm where the Ten Thousand Clans began anew. Chen Xun and his old friends reunited at the Five Elements Sect, set aside the world's struggles, and went fishing as they began their retirement.

• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance descended into the lower realms and waged a brutal campaign across the heavens, while the Tri-Finger Race drove Meng Sheng and Ni Canghuan into reincarnation.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals of the Five Elements Sect sacrificed their Dao to merge the planes, and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace struck as the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm swallowed the Void and fragmented.
• The Ten Thousand Clans revived in a boundless unified realm, and the ancient factions departed to follow their own Immortal Paths.
• Chen Xun returned to the Five Elements Sect, where Ke Ding and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal accused him of secretly orchestrating the realm's transformation.
• Big Black Ox and the old friends discussed the new world, then followed Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng to the East Sea to fish.
• By year 14 billion, the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm had faded from public memory as new cultivators and the Ten Thousand Clans shaped the boundless world's future.

The Yu Family and Universe Immortal Navigation left the Five Elements Sect to pursue new paths beyond their homeland, while Chen Xun stayed behind to guard it. Years later, Ke Ding realized the ten thousand Daos came from a single origin, only to learn Chen Xun and his companions had known this long ago.

• The Yu Family ancestors told Chen Xun they had found an Immortal Star Sea and vowed to answer his call even after migrating, and Chen Xun agreed to watch over their ancestral land.
• The Yu Family departed, and Gu Qingyan visited Chen Xun before Universe Immortal Navigation set out to explore the dangerous Formless state.
• Gu Li Sheng used Meng Sheng's reincarnation to grasp a new path and began existing at every point in time while reshaping his past self.
• Ten years later, Ke Ding excitedly told Chen Xun that he had discovered a way beyond the ten thousand Daos system, rooted in a single origin.
• Chen Xun revealed that he, Old Ox, and Third Sister had known about the single origin since Heaven and Earth were unified, prompting Ke Ding and Brother Xun to argue with him.

As the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm’s territories drifted apart, Ji Kun led the Human Dao Pavilion on a farewell journey while many powers left and others stayed loyal to Chen Xun. Billions of years later, outsiders entered the remote Five Elements Immortal Domain and disappeared, drawing growing attention to the mysterious Wildland Continent.

• Ji Kun visited major powers to bid farewell and set out with the Human Dao Pavilion to spread the Dao across the vast world.
• The Wild Clan vowed to remain near the Dao Ancestor, while nearly thirty percent of the powers that had opened heaven stayed to guard the Five Elements Immortal Sect and others departed.
• Ji Kun spoke with Chen Xun for many days before leaving, and Chen Xun wished the departing powers well with a warning to remember their homeland if they became mighty.
• By the Heaven and Earth Calendar’s twenty billionth year, the Five Elements Immortal Domain had become a remote corner of the Boundless World, where Heavenly Dao’s laws barred ordinary True Immortals from living beyond an epoch.
• A fleet of Immortal Vessels approached the Five Elements Immortal Domain, bowed to the perceived presence of a supreme being, and vanished before reaching the Wildland Continent.
• Reports of armies, sect disciples, and mighty figures disappearing there spread, prompting Dao lineages, Immortal Nations, and sects to prepare an investigation.

A century later, Mu Yi and Cen Tang captured cultivators who trespassed into their wild immortal land and sent them to labor in the mines. Meanwhile, the Wild Clan resented the Heavenly Dao for excluding the Five Elements Immortal Domain from the Nine Provinces Heavenly Vein Immortal Continent.

• Hundreds of thousands of cultivators arrived from beyond the heavens seeking Dao flames in the wild immortal land.
• Mu Yi warned the newcomers to leave, then used primordial chaos immortal qi to capture them when they insulted him.
• Cen Tang joined Mu Yi, and they agreed to visit nearby lineages and warn them not to disturb Mysterious Wood Mountain.
• The captured cultivators were forced to work without pay in the Immortal Domain's mines, while the Wild Clan served as chief overseers.
• Wild Clan members discussed the Nine Provinces Heavenly Vein Immortal Continent and blamed the Heavenly Dao for withholding its benefits from their domain.

Chen Xun stayed behind in the Five Elements Sect while Frog Daoist, Mountain-Sitting Duck, and their companions headed for the Nine Provinces Heavenly Vein Immortal Continent, with Mu Feng secretly following. There, the long-vanished Heavenly Inquiry Patriarch reappeared and denounced the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao.

• He Ling brought Chen Xun books from the Outer Domain clans, and he explained that he read them to understand the races and the changes in Heaven and Earth.
• Two Bai Ze told Chen Xun they wanted to visit the revived Demon Race and bring it fortuitous opportunities, and Chen Xun agreed.
• Mountain-Sitting Duck urged Chen Xun to visit the Nine Provinces Heavenly Vein Immortal Continent, but Chen Xun declined and warned the travelers not to reveal too much of their identities.
• Ten years later, Frog Daoist, Mountain-Sitting Duck, and their companions departed in a noisy procession, while Mu Feng secretly followed them.
• At Heavenly Inquiry Mountain, the returned Heavenly Inquiry Patriarch condemned the Heavenly Dao and Great Dao for favoring ancient lineages and subjecting other living beings to tribulations.

Patriarch Heavenly Inquiry recounted the Immortal Puppet Clan and became the first True Immortal to lose his mind, spreading talk of Eternal Life Beings. In the Five Elements Immortal Domain, He Ling arrived at Eternal Extension Immortal City to suppress its runaway dao flame, while the Filth Beast Old Turtle slept on her back.

• Patriarch Heavenly Inquiry told three True Immortals that an Immortal Puppet Progenitor had gravely wounded him, but they dismissed his account.
• Patriarch Heavenly Inquiry raged against heaven and the Great Dao, eventually losing his mind as rumors of Eternal Life Beings spread across the Major Immortal Domains.
• He Ling arrived at Eternal Extension Immortal City on the sleeping Filth Beast Old Turtle and told the city lords she had come to suppress its escaping dao flame.
• The city lord and deputy city lord welcomed He Ling, who entered the immortal city with her five guards.

Chen Xun discovered that the Heavenly Dao’s repeated tribulations were weakening Eternal Antiquity’s inheritances and sealed it away, locking the world’s cultivation limit. In the ensuing age of peace, True Immortals and their legacies flourished, until reports from beyond the Five Elements Immortal Domain began pouring in.

• Nanhua and Ancient Emperor reflected on the Dao Ancestor and wished their departed fellow Daoists success on the Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao’s tribulations repeatedly sparked wars and slaughter, which Chen Xun accepted as its attempt to balance the world until the attacks threatened Eternal Antiquity’s inheritances.
• Chen Xun pierced the Heavenly Dao, ordered Big Black Ox to seal it, and locked the world’s upper limit to prevent further calamities.
• Mo Fuyang explained that the Heavenly Dao’s impartial tribulations were meant to let the world advance, while Chen Xun confirmed he had made his decision and told everyone to rest easy.
• Without the tribulations, True Immortal lineages, immortal talents, blessings, and treasures accumulated for ages as peace prevailed.
• Reports from the outside world suddenly poured into the Five Elements Immortal Domain.

Ke Ding warned that the Outer Domain’s clans were endangering Eternal Cultivators, while Chen Xun accepted that those who left had chosen their own path. The chapter then described the Nine Provinces’ rise and revealed the Shangxu Clan’s long-standing feud with the Tri-Finger Race.

• Ke Ding learned that the Holding Origin Sect was besieged and Eternal Cultivators had died, then warned the clans not to provoke Chen Xun.
• Mo Fuyang told Chen Xun that the Outer Domain’s powerful figures had drawn Eternal Cultivators into their schemes, and Chen Xun let those who had left face their choices.
• By year sixty billion, the Human Dao Pavilion had established the Human Race’s supremacy, while the Heavenly Wheel Sect had become the sole sect to define a Great Dao.
• The Shangxu Clan was revealed as a powerful, tranquil race that tracked changes in the Heaven and Earth Rules while remaining outside the Nine Provinces’ power structure.
• The Tri-Finger Race had targeted the Shangxu Clan, and after its strongest True Immortal claimed that the Shangxu Clan was heaven, the Tri-Finger Race suppressed and killed that ancestor, igniting a blood feud.

Shang Zhan sought help from the Heavenly Wheel Sect so the Shangxu Clan could obtain an Innate Dao Vein for Shang Ye and confront the Tri-Finger Race. The sect refused to lend its Dao vein but revealed that it would tolerate the Shangxu Clan's conflict with the Tri-Finger Race, leaving Shang Zhan to realize the sect and alliance were effectively aligned.

• Shang Zhan and Shang Yun discussed the Heavenly Dao's disappearance, the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and Shang Ye's need for an Innate Dao Vein.
• Shang Yun urged Shang Zhan to seek help from the Heavenly Wheel Sect in the Myriad Mountains, and he agreed despite the danger.
• A thousand years later, Shang Zhan reached the Myriad Mountains after surviving another ambush by the Tri-Finger Race and entered the Heavenly Wheel Sect.
• Bai Xinghan and Sea Macaque learned that Shang Zhan had come to ask the sect for help, while Lightning Arrow declined to leave his cultivation secret realm.
• The Heavenly Wheel Sect refused to lend Shang Ye a Dao vein but told Shang Zhan it would not interfere with the Shangxu Clan's fight against the Tri-Finger Race.
• Shang Zhan realized from the sect's remarks that its members were effectively on the same side as the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

Shang Zhan returned from the Myriad Mountains with the news that the Celestial Wheel Immortal Sect and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance were long-standing allies, leaving the Shangxu Clan to endure the Tri-Finger Race’s pressure. Shang Zhan entrusted Shang Ye with the Shangxu Sky Boat so he could venture beyond the clan’s narrow world and seek his own immortal path.

• Shang Zhan returned to the Shangxu Clan and told its True Immortals that they would have to endure the Tri-Finger Race’s suppression.
• Shang Yun proposed seeking help from the Immortal Puppet Clan, but the other immortals rejected the idea as too dangerous.
• Shang Zhan revealed that the Celestial Wheel Immortal Sect and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had long been allies, stunning the Shangxu Clan’s elders.
• Shang Ye reflected on the Dao Questioner, the halted River of Time, and the treasures needed to reproduce the Tri-Finger Race’s cultivation method.
• Shang Zhan gave Shang Ye the million-year-old Shangxu Sky Boat and urged him to make friends and pursue his own path beyond the clan.

The Shangxu Immortal Emperor’s victory over the Tri-Finger Race revealed that the Heavenly Dao’s lifespan shackles could be broken, setting off a chaotic longevity era and battles across the Nine Provinces. After Shang Ye died and the Shangxu Clan suffered a devastating attack, an unfamiliar group arrived at the frontier, where a man in white effortlessly destroyed a monstrous beast.

• The Shangxu Immortal Emperor defeated the Tri-Finger Race, and his strength alarmed the great Dao Lineages as they considered the consequences of the Heavenly Dao’s changing lifespan laws.
• Shang Ye realized the Shangxu Clan could not match the force behind the Tri-Finger Race, then kept his people restrained as they left the Sky Ridge and joined the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent.
• In year 80 billion, Shang Ye died meditating on Ancient Mountain after giving longevity blood to three True Immortals, and attackers devastated the Shangxu Clan while seeking his bones.
• The hundred great Ancestral Courts besieged the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance over the Karma Immortal Boat, and later the Heavenly Wheel Sect and its allies fought over immortal veins in the Myriad Mountains, where thousands of True Immortals died.
• A small antiquated boat landed at the Nine Provinces frontier, and its newcomers watched as a sky-blotting beast charged toward them.
• A man in white halted the beast with a fingertip and made it explode into blood mist, leaving the sword-riding cultivators stunned.

Chen Xun and his companions explored the primordial wilderness of the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent, where they met Gong Jing and received a Demon-Peering Mirror. A month later they set out to travel, while the wider cultivation world entered an era of escalating conflict and shifting power.

• Chen Xun and his companions admired the mountains, forests, beasts, and sky of the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent as they traveled through its frontier.
• Chen Xun asked Big Black Ox and Little Crimson to prepare a fierce beast so he could cook for the group.
• Gong Jing, an outer sect disciple of the Voidcloud Dao Palace, thanked the group for subduing a demon and warned them about the Primordial Demon Plains.
• Gong Jing gave Chen Xun a Demon-Peering Mirror, then left after Chen Xun teased him for having an unsteady Dao heart.
• A month later, Chen Xun and his companions set out to explore the Nine Provinces Continent.
• By year ninety billion of the Heaven and Earth Calendar, wars and rising numbers of true immortals were disrupting the old balance among Dao lineages.

Ancient Dao lineages withdrew from the Nine Provinces as Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox prepared to leave the Eternal Immortal Frontier and explore the limits of heaven and earth. Ke Ding sensed that the Heavenly Dao was weakening and learned that many disciples of the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace wanted it released.

• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance contracted its influence, and ancient powers including the Holding Origin Sect and Tai Xuan Ascension Hall began leaving the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Xun told the Heavenly Wheel Immortal that he and the Big Black Ox would depart after their bottleneck loosened, and asked him to look after their family.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox left the Eternal Immortal Frontier, while Ke Ding continued observing events in the Nine Provinces.
• Ke Ding reflected that the Heavenly Dao had weakened since Chen Xun suppressed it and that releasing it could bring catastrophe.
• A disciple told Ke Ding that more than half the disciples of the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace wanted the Heavenly Dao released and asked for his approval.

Ke Ding rejected Tianjizi’s proposal to revive the silent Heavenly Dao and revealed that he might take its place if Chen Xun did not return. Meanwhile, the Yu Family disappeared into the River of Time to establish its own immortal realm, and the chapter left their fate uncertain as conflicts and breakthroughs continued across the Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Tianjizi urged Ke Ding to revive the Heavenly Dao, but Ke Ding refused and said he would become the Heavenly Dao himself if Chen Xun did not return.
• The Yu Family entered the River of Time with its Immortal Ancestor to gather the past’s karma and origin and establish a Yu Family Immortal Realm.
• After the Yu Family stopped answering messages, Song Heng and other immortals investigated, and Meng Sheng concluded that the family was on a long journey.
• Ke Ding and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal discussed the Yu Family’s disappearance and hoped Chen Xun could locate them when he returned.
• Over the following ages, the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance fought wars, the Myriad Mountains faced a siege, NanGong HeLing approached a breakthrough, and the Wild Clan set out after a mysterious mine was discovered.

Over billions of years, the Eternal Immortal Frontier weakened and its old powers scattered as the Heavenly Dao fell dormant. In year 200 billion, an ancient figure and an immense ox emerged from the universe, shaking the Great Dao and heralding his return.

• By year 110 billion, the Immortal Dao had flourished across heaven and earth while the Eternal Immortal Frontier withdrew into silence.
• By year 120 billion, disputes over cultivating one Dao versus ten thousand Daos divided traditions in the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm.
• In year 130 billion, the Heavenly Dao fell asleep and Ke Ding disappeared.
• By year 140 billion, ancient powers split apart and left the Eternal Immortal Frontier, while the Five Elements Immortal Sect remained.
• In year 150 billion, NanGong HeLing emerged from seclusion, went to the source of the Heavenly Dao, and never returned.
• In year 200 billion, an ancient figure and a towering ox returned, stirring the Great Dao and awakening ancient beings and remnants across the heavens.

After returning from a journey spanning two hundred billion years, Chen Xun stood beyond Heaven and Earth’s laws and disrupted time across the cosmos. The Big Black Ox had also become an ancient, cosmos-shaping being, while powerful immortals across the Ten Wastelands awoke in fear.

• Chen Xun appeared in the cosmos, bearing a mark of time and an aura beyond cultivation, cause and effect, and reincarnation.
• Chen Xun’s first step threw time and the trajectories of the great Dao into disorder across countless realms.
• Slumbering great Dao immortals across the Ten Wastelands awoke and wondered what terrifying presence had entered Heaven and Earth.
• The Big Black Ox revealed his transformed form beside Chen Xun, his horns bearing Kai Tian Dao marks and a miniature cosmos swirling between them.
• The Big Black Ox lowed, silencing fluctuations of the great Dao and stirring ancient beings from their slumber.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned after ages of cultivation, with Chen Xun entering the Beyond-Dao Realm and reshaping the Great Dao. They arrived to find the Eternal Immortal Frontier changed, while the chapter ended with the Wild Clan being forced to mine the Nine Provinces Heavenly Marrow Mine.

• Chen Xun’s presence made True Immortal karma ineffective and altered the Great Dao as he walked.
• Heaven and earth sublimated, and Chen Xun’s cultivation reached the Beyond-Dao Realm, a realm beyond True Immortals.
• Ancient True Immortals across the Boundless World sensed that the Great Dao had changed and that a new path had opened.
• Chen Xun asked Big Black Ox where everyone was and noted that the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s aura had grown faint.
• At the Nine Provinces Heavenly Marrow Mine, exhausted miners died amid the violent Great Dao backlash while overseers watched.
• Several immortal cultivators called the Wild Clan beings born to mine for their sect.

A sect leader showed his disciples the Wild Clan’s brutal labor in a Thunder Sea mining vein and recounted how the clan once controlled Heaven Marrow mines and sought to remake the heavens. The chapter ended as he summoned a vast, pale golden magical seal.

• The disciples witnessed Wild Clan miners enduring lightning strikes and mining in numb silence among the bones of their dead.
• The sect leader warned the disciples not to pity the Wild Clan and explained that they could cultivate through Dao Devouring.
• He recounted how the Wild Clan once controlled most Heaven Marrow mines and used nine ancestral mines to disrupt the Great Dao and collapse an Immortal Venerable’s Dao sanctuary.
• The sect leader said the Wild Clan sought to reshape the Great Dao and the rules of heaven and earth, linking them to the ancient war against the heavens.
• The sect leader summoned the phantom of a vast, pale golden magical seal.