Chapter Summaries

Sect disciples recounted the Wild Clan’s ancient defeat while the clan’s descendants mined under their rule. When a man and an ox appeared in the Thunder Sea, the heavenly marrow ancestral vein stirred, and a Wild Clan elder recognized them as rain began falling over the mines.

• A senior brother told the disciples that the ancestral court had destroyed the Wild Clan’s Ancestral Mines and annihilated its thirty Immortal Ancestors after a war lasting over ten million years.
• A disciple asked why the sect had not exterminated the Wild Clan, and the leader explained that their bloodline could sense deep mineral networks.
• An ancient heavenly marrow crystal glimmered, triggering a violent upheaval in the Thunder Sea as a man and an ox appeared at its center.
• Ancient Dao Courts and Immortal Ancestors across the Heavenly Vein Domains awoke and directed their divine senses toward the disturbed ancestral vein.
• A Wild Clan elder recognized the man and Black Ox, dropped his mining hammer, and stirred with inherited memories as torrential rain fell and the miners stopped working.

An almost imperceptible aura from Chen Xun spread through the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein and cracked the sky across the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent, awakening ancient beings and drawing the Immortal Ancestors of the great Dao lineages. The Immortal Ancestors confronted the disturbance and spotted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox standing amid the Thunder Sea and rain.

• Cracks resembling frozen lightning spread across the sky throughout the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent, and powerful beings sensed an incomprehensible aura.
• Chen Xun stood calmly in the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein as a faint aura around him subtly distorted space, while Big Black Ox watched beside him.
• Ancient auras awakened across the heavenly veins, and a figure emerged from a Dao Palace to ask who was tampering with the heavenly veins’ karma.
• An ancient figure rose from the Thunder Sea at Myriad-Age Thunder Mountain and declared that an outsider was tampering with the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein.
• The Nine Ancient Courts rang together, and dozens of Immortal Ancestors arrived and demanded to know who disturbed the vein.
• The Immortal Ancestors looked down through the lightning and saw Chen Xun and Big Black Ox standing amid the withered bones and miners.

Chen Xun confronted the Nine Provinces’ Immortal Ancestors at the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein and exposed their ancient crimes against the Wild Clan. When one Immortal Ancestor attacked him, Chen Xun severed the man’s karma and erased him from existence.

• An Immortal Ancestor in the Ancient Thunder Dao Robe ordered Chen Xun and the others to withdraw from the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein.
• Chen Xun named the Nine Heavens Thunder Court, the Grand Profound Heavenly Gate, the Boundless Dao Court, and the Return to Ruin Ancient Sect, then revealed how they had suppressed the Wild Clan and erased its legacy.
• An Immortal Ancestor demanded to know who Chen Xun was and unleashed rivers of thunder Dao against him.
• Chen Xun stopped the attack with one finger and shattered the Immortal Ancestor’s Dharma manifestation, but the man repeatedly regenerated.
• Chen Xun revealed the Immortal Ancestor’s river of karma and severed it, erasing every version of him across time.

Chen Xun severed the Thunder Dao Immortal Ancestor’s karma with a single finger, leaving the surrounding Immortal Ancestors unable to trace or understand him. An ancient Daoist recognized an aura like that of someone from the old era of Eternal Antiquity, as the great Dao lineages gathered at the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein.

• Chen Xun’s strike erased the Thunder Dao Immortal Ancestor completely and severed the Thunder Dao, provoking heavenly grief across the Nine Provinces.
• The Thunder Court mobilized after its cultivators felt their Dao collapsing, while the other lineages that had suppressed the Wild Clan were shaken by the event.
• The Immortal Ancestors surrounding Chen Xun withdrew and concluded that he existed outside karma after they failed to sense or trace him.
• An ancient Daoist said Chen Xun’s aura resembled someone from the old era of Eternal Antiquity, the Wild Clan’s most glorious age.
• Immortal ships carrying experts from the great Dao lineages arrived at the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein as battle intent and murderous intent gathered.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox fought the Nine Provinces’ Immortal Ancestors, shattering their Dao palaces, formations, artifacts, and Great Dao rivers. With the Nine Provinces collapsing around them, Chen Xun called on the Wild Clan to follow him and leave.

• Chen Xun destroyed the Grand Mysterious Dao Palace and blasted its three Immortal Ancestors from the battlefield.
• Big Black Ox charged the descending Ancestral Artifacts, cracking one and sending another flying.
• Chen Xun shattered the Heaven-Sealing Defiant Formation and caused the Immortal Ancestors’ Great Daos to loosen.
• Chen Xun manifested the past, present, and future of the Heaven Marrow Mining Vein, then broke the nine Great Dao rivers and unleashed a devastating backlash.
• Chen Xun declared that he would slaughter the heavenly Dao lineages, while the ancestral courts and Dao palaces collapsed around him.
• Chen Xun turned to the Wild Clan and told them to follow him across the sea of immortal blood and leave.

Chen Xun returned as the Wild Clan’s Dao Ancestor, and tens of millions of clan members knelt before him. As Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Immortal Blood Sea, the Wild Clan rose and followed them into its deadly waters.

• Tens of millions of Wild Clan members prostrated themselves before Chen Xun, silently confirming that he had truly returned.
• A child asked who Chen Xun was, and a woman identified him as the Dao Ancestor, the revered Ancestor of Eternal Antiquity.
• Chen Xun said that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had never observed the rite of kneeling, then entered the Immortal Blood Sea with Big Black Ox.
• A white-haired Wild Clan elder stood and took the first step forward, and the others rose and followed.
• The Wild Clan entered the Immortal Blood Sea despite its killing intent and their injuries, following Chen Xun as he walked ahead.

Chen Xun reached the remains of a Wild Mine and witnessed the Royal Venerable’s final moments across overlapping eras, learning how much had happened while he was gone. A hundred years after news of upheaval at the Nine Provinces Heavenly Marrow Mining Vein spread, an immense Immortal Palace hauled by ten thousand dragons arrived over the Nine Provinces, carrying a hostile figure from Eternal Antiquity’s Old Era.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found an Immortal Bone in a Wild Mine, and Chen Xun’s touch stirred memories from the past.
• Wuliang Venerable, the Wild Clan’s Royal Venerable, told Ji Yan he had less than a day to live and asked him to relay his final message to the Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Xun appeared before the dying Royal Venerable through a connection between two points in time, and the Royal Venerable recounted Eternal Antiquity’s collapse and the war against it.
• Chen Xun laid a hand on the Royal Venerable’s shoulder as their eras overlapped, then left with Big Black Ox after the Royal Venerable passed away.
• A hundred years after news of the Nine Provinces Heavenly Marrow Mining Vein upheaval spread, ten thousand True Dragons hauled an Immortal Palace into the Nine Provinces.
• The figure atop the Immortal Palace condemned an existence from Eternal Antiquity’s Old Era and vowed to find who had destroyed his Dao Lineage and released the Sin Races.

The Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable returned to the Nine Provinces aboard the Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal Palace, alarming the ancient powers. Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor then arrived through a manifestation of the Karma Great Dao and confronted him with a gaze, leaving the Nine Provinces poised for an epoch-shaking struggle.

• The Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable appeared aboard the Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal Palace, and ten thousand dragons bowed before him.
• Ancient powerhouses across the Nine Provinces recognized the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable and warned one another to prepare for upheaval.
• Karma manifested across the Nine Provinces as Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor stepped from a vast river of karmic light.
• Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor and the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable exchanged gazes across the Nine Provinces, distorting space and the laws.
• Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor declared that the Eternal Era’s figures were returning as karmic threads unfurled behind him.

The Fate-Calamity Heavenly Emperor and Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor arrived above the Nine Provinces, joining the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable of Primordial Beginning as they converged on the Heavenly Marrow Mining Vein. At the vein’s summit, the White-Clothed Man opened his eyes, plunging the Nine Provinces into darkness and shocking all three supreme beings.

• A gray-robed old man identified the Fate-Calamity Heavenly Emperor as a survivor of the Calamity Ruins Heaven Domain who had severed the River of Fate and taken part in Heaven-Slaying.
• The Fate-Calamity Heavenly Emperor waited above the Nine Provinces, watching the Heavenly Marrow Mining Vein as his aura met the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable of Primordial Beginning’s.
• Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor appeared on a path beyond the Great Dao, restored order to the heavens, and looked toward the mining vein.
• The three supreme True Immortals’ auras and manifestations converged over the Nine Provinces, revealing that they had come for the same target.
• The White-Clothed Man opened his eyes at the summit of the mining vein, plunged the Nine Provinces into darkness, and changed the expressions of all three supreme beings.

Chen Xun revealed overwhelming power against the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable, the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, and the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor, plunging the Nine Provinces into darkness. He summoned five true-immortal Five Elements clones, and the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor answered by casting a Karmic Web over them.

• Chen Xun declared that the descendants of Eternal Antiquity would be erased, and the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable threatened him in response.
• Chen Xun plunged the Nine Provinces into darkness, leaving the Great Dao still and unsettling the three ancient powers.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor recognized that Chen Xun had reached the beyond-the-Dao realm, while the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor welcomed a fight and attacked with his Fate-Fixing Technique.
• Chen Xun summoned five true-immortal Five Elements clones, whose Metal Element Clone shattered the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor's karmic hand.
• The Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor gathered the broken threads into a Karmic Web and cast it over the five clones to bind their fates to Chen Xun.

Chen Xun’s Five Elements Clones countered the attacks of three supreme powerhouses, while his true body revealed an ancient axe that filled them with terror. The three recognized its connection to an ancient figure and attacked together, fearing they would die there.

• The Wood Element Clone turned the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor’s net of karma into a growing canopy.
• Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable Primordial Beginning unleashed the Nine Dragons Gathering Array, but the Fire Element Clone’s Dao Flame resisted and purified its torrent.
• Dao Ancestor Profound Heaven tried to disrupt the Great Dao around Chen Xun, but the Water Element Clone dissolved the attack.
• Chen Xun raised his hand and summoned a plain, ancient axe, shifting the stars and causing Great Dao formations to collapse.
• The Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor and Dao Ancestor Profound Heaven recognized the axe’s life-imprint aura and feared an ancient figure had returned, so all three powerhouses attacked Chen Xun together.

Chen Xun used the Heaven-Opening Axe and his Five Elements Clones to withstand the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable, the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, and the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor’s combined assault on the Nine Provinces. He shattered the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor’s Yin-Yang Dao Wheel and sent him flying, leaving the three attackers facing Chen Xun’s overwhelming power.

• The Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable, the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, and the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor jointly unleashed attacks that threatened to destroy the Nine Provinces.
• Chen Xun drew the Heaven-Opening Axe and used its light to restore the shattered sky and reconnect the Great Dao Laws.
• Chen Xun sent his Metal Element Clone to break the nine True Dragons’ formation, while the Wood Element Clone returned the stolen fates of the Nine Provinces and turned the River of Fate against the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor.
• The Water Element Clone began repairing the divided world, and Chen Xun confronted the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor directly.
• Chen Xun’s Heaven-Opening Axe shattered the Yin-Yang Dao Wheel and hurled the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor hundreds of millions of miles through the void.

Chen Xun overcame the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable, the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, and the wounded Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor after their final attacks failed. He restrained the first two and faced the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor, who began reflecting on the end of the old era.

• The Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable and Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor joined forces with the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor to unleash their final attacks on Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun channeled the Five Elements into the Heaven-Opening Axe, whose strike destroyed the Dragon Vein Sword Qi, the death-calamity lightning, and the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor’s gathered dao power.
• Chen Xun suppressed the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable, exhausted the nine True Dragons, and left the Immortal Venerable suspended and unable to move.
• The Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor threatened to sever his karma with Chen Xun, but Chen Xun’s metal element avatar shattered his Fate Blade.
• Chen Xun sealed the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor’s remaining fate lines, trapping him between life and death, then approached the Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor told Chen Xun he had expected this day and began naming the old era of Eternal Antiquity, the Heavenly Dao Supreme Venerable, and the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.

The Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor gave Chen Xun the Great Dao he had gathered over hundreds of millions of years, then collapsed as Chen Xun suppressed the three enemies. After Chen Xun battered the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, the Immortal Emperor launched a final karmic attack, and Chen Xun raised his hand to answer.

• The Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor transferred his accumulated understanding of the Great Dao to Chen Xun and collapsed, while Chen Xun subdued the Dragon-Ruling Immortal Venerable and the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor.
• The ancestors of the Ancient Land withdrew as sunlight returned to the Nine Provinces, leaving the mark of the Heaven-Opening Axe in the workings of heaven and earth.
• Chen Xun told the Main Honored One that he would bathe the Nine Provinces in blood before bringing the three subdued enemies back.
• The Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor questioned how the Eternal Dao Ancestor could return, and Chen Xun struck him into a crater after he refused to answer.
• The Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor unleashed his Karma Great Dao in a final attempt to bind Chen Xun, who raised his hand and declared that all the heaven-and-earth myriad daos had begun with him.

Chen Xun annihilated the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor, then turned his judgment on the Nine Provinces’ hidden Outer Regions strongholds and lineages tied to Eternal Antiquity. Crimson celestial stars began destroying them across the land, and the reckoning continued.

• Chen Xun erased the Calamity Fate Immortal Emperor with a flick, triggering heavenly grief across the Nine Provinces.
• Profound Heaven Dao Ancestor saluted Chen Xun and began revealing the Longevity Race, Outer Regions, and foreign races before a forbidden force killed him.
• Chen Xun opened immense black hollows above the Nine Provinces and declared that every debt would be settled.
• A crimson celestial star destroyed a concealed sanctum in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, vaporizing everything within it.
• More celestial stars fell across the Nine Provinces, annihilating hidden Outer Regions footholds and implicated lineages.

Chen Xun wiped out hidden lineages across the Nine Provinces and then disappeared, while the chapter revealed that the Myriad Mountain Domain was once the supreme cultivation ground of Heavenly Wheel Immortal. As the ancient ruins opened, prodigies from across the Cosmic Realm arrived seeking opportunities, unaware of the domain’s lost history.

• Chen Xun sealed the Nine Provinces and used scarlet heavenly stars to destroy hidden lineages, leaving the survivors unable to flee.
• Chen Xun said there was no hurry, then vanished toward the center of the Nine Provinces in search of something.
• The chapter revealed that the Myriad Mountain Domain had once been a supreme Immortal Domain belonging to Heavenly Wheel Immortal, but had become ruins filled with remnants of its former glory.
• The Myriad Mountain Domain opened, drawing sects and prodigies from across the Cosmic Realm to seek treasures and make their names.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived at the crowded outskirts of the Myriad Mountains Region, where Chen Xun silently watched cultivators explore a land rich with memories of the distant past. Nearby cultivators warned one another away from the depths, where the mysterious Mountain Guardian had always stood.

• Countless cultivators from sects and across the realms gathered at the Myriad Mountains Region, treating its ancient grounds as a place to seek opportunities and fame.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox quietly landed at the region’s edge and watched the crowds pass without recognizing them.
• Chen Xun recalled the land’s vanished history as cultivators collected its scattered remnants, while Big Black Ox spoke to him through divine sense.
• A young cultivator mentioned the Primordial Chaos Immortal Qi Lake in the region’s depths, but his senior brother warned him that the Mountain Guardian was there.
• The cultivators shared warnings and legends about the Mountain Guardian, an ancient being they avoided and believed inseparable from the Myriad Mountains Region.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered an ancient, secluded part of the Myriad Mountain Domain and met the mountain keeper, who had guarded it for hundreds of millions of years. Chen Xun revealed himself as the returning Dao Ancestor, and the keeper slowly turned to face him.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the crowds behind and walked into the silent, ancient mountain grounds.
• The mountain keeper spoke of guarding a withered land, gathering scattered energy, and waiting for the great one who had departed.
• Chen Xun answered that the keeper had guarded the act of waiting, and that the length of the wait mattered no longer once the awaited one returned.
• Chen Xun told the keeper that he had been taking his first steps when the Dao Ancestor departed and had guarded the mountain until his hair turned white.
• The mountain keeper froze, tightened and relaxed his hands, then slowly turned to face Chen Xun.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Qianqiong, who had guarded the ruined Heavenly Wheel Sect grounds for hundreds of millions of years. Qianqiong revealed his sect’s destruction and the surviving enemies responsible, while Chen Xun’s return gave him a first glimmer of hope.

• Qianqiong stared at Chen Xun and Big Black Ox in stunned silence before greeting them as the Dao Ancestor and Ox Ancestor.
• Chen Xun told Qianqiong that he had returned, and Qianqiong’s long-held composure began to break.
• Qianqiong recounted how the Eternal Ancient Immortal Realm and his sect had fallen, how Master Wu Hen had ordered him to survive and guard the place, and how he had killed those who threatened its foundations.
• Qianqiong told Chen Xun that the people who destroyed the realm and slaughtered his sect were still alive.
• Big Black Ox answered with a solemn moo, and Chen Xun repeated that he had returned as Qianqiong’s eyes slowly brightened.

Qianqiong recounted how the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s prosperous age ended when its cultivators broke the seal on the Longevity Dao and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace destroyed the Heavenly Dao. Chen Xun realized the Heavenly Dao had once stopped the flow of time and karma, and concluded that Eternal Antiquity’s fall had always been inevitable.

• Qianqiong told Chen Xun that the Eternal Immortal Frontier had prospered after the Dao Ancestor left, while its younger generation came to reject the old era and pursue greater realms.
• Qianqiong explained that the Longevity Laws collapsed when Eternal Cultivators broke the seal on the Heaven and Earth Rules, setting the stage for internal strife.
• Qianqiong revealed that Ke Ding had become the Heavenly Dao to steady the world, but the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace destroyed it and annihilated its patriarch.
• Qianqiong broke down in rage and grief, and Chen Xun recognized that he had remained in the Myriad Mountains out of obsession.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that the Heavenly Dao had once halted the River of Time and the karma of the Great Dao, and reflected that Eternal Antiquity’s collapse had been inevitable.