Chapter Summaries

Lan Ji left the Star Palace after reflecting on his ties to it and the death of Tong Yuan. Days later, Chen Xun revisited the Star Palace, advised the Void Ancestor against letting vengeance consume him, and reunited with Gu Qingyan, whose strange behavior ended with an unexpected question.

• Lan Ji acknowledged that Tong Yuan had become his enemy, then left to pay his respects and see him off.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox explored the Star Palace’s preserved grounds with the Void Ancestor.
• Chen Xun urged the Void Ancestor not to let past grievances erase his Dao heart, while promising to reclaim what had been taken ten thousandfold.
• Chen Xun found Gu Qingyan beneath a tree and spoke with her about his return and her injury from the battle against the Heavenly Dao.
• After spending the day beside Chen Xun, Gu Qingyan asked why he had not married her, and Chen Xun concluded she was still not quite in her right mind.

Gu Qingyan told Chen Xun about her childhood fears, her hopes for their betrothal, and the years she had waited for him. After half a month of talking, she explained that Ke Ding had died with the Heavenly Dao while opposing the Shadow Immortal Realm, and warned Chen Xun about the Defiant Dao.

• Gu Qingyan asked Chen Xun to listen as she recounted growing up timid and longing for someone to protect and encourage her.
• Gu Qingyan described how she had awaited her betrothed and confronted Chen Xun about never coming to marry her.
• Chen Xun explained that their betrothal had been a scheme to manipulate fortune and that they had not been right for each other in that era.
• Chen Xun and Gu Qingyan talked beneath the Crane Spirit Tree for half a month while Big Black Ox left them undisturbed.
• Gu Qingyan told Chen Xun that the Shadow Immortal Realm had sought to create an inverse world and that Ke Ding had perished alongside the Heavenly Dao while opposing it.
• Gu Qingyan warned Chen Xun that the Defiant Dao damaged the foundation of the Great Dao and was favored by nature.

Chen Xun learned that He Ling had become an immortal tree to stabilize the Heaven and Earth Origin and set out with Old Ox to save her. He hunted down the Thousand-Eyed Star Lord and entered the Time Void Realm, where Ke Zixiao finally faced him beside the Longevity Creation Cauldron.

• Gu Qingyan gave Chen Xun a bloodstained branch from He Ling’s true body and revealed that He Ling was holding up the manifestations shattered by the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Xun and Old Ox left to save He Ling, while the Thousand-Eyed Star Lord settled in a remote frontier to recover.
• A black-clad Chen Xun confronted and killed the Thousand-Eyed Star Lord, crushing his enormous eyeball before entering the Time Void Realm.
• Yu Huaqian warned Ke Zixiao that Chen Xun could search the River of Time layer by layer, but Ke Zixiao refused to surrender the Longevity Creation Cauldron and the two parted ways.
• Ke Zixiao returned to find Chen Xun standing beside the Longevity Creation Cauldron and asked whether the outcome matched what Chen Xun had once hoped for.

Ke Zixiao confronted Chen Xun over the Heavenly Dao’s demise and Eternal Antiquity’s collapse, then attacked him after rejecting his rebuke. Chen Xun defeated him, and Ke Zixiao fell with his Great Dao shattered.

• Ke Zixiao accused Chen Xun of abandoning the Heavenly Dao and deliberately setting the Eternal Immortal Frontier on a path to collapse.
• Chen Xun dismissed Ke Zixiao’s accusations and condemned his disordered Dao heart and presumption in judging the realm’s fate.
• Ke Zixiao summoned the Eight Desolations Mountains and Rivers into the Heavenly Secrets Dharma Aspect and attacked Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun recalled Ke Zixiao’s childhood and the promise that he would write Eternal Immortal History before striking back.
• Ke Zixiao continued fighting through his injuries until his Great Dao shattered, and his broken body fell from the sky.

Ke Zixiao died after confronting Black Robed Chen Xun over the catastrophe in Eternal Antiquity, and Chen Xun buried him beneath the snow. Chen Xun then shattered the Longevity Creation Cauldron to open an Immortal Path and entered it, heading toward the Shadow Immortal Realm.

• Ke Zixiao died, blaming the Eternal Dao Ancestor for bringing them to Eternal Antiquity and insisting that he had been wrong.
• Chen Xun watched snow cover Ke Zixiao, built a snow tomb for him, and left with the Longevity Creation Cauldron.
• Chen Xun arrived in the Immortal Sea and shattered the Longevity Creation Cauldron, transforming it into a Great Dao Immortal Road.
• Chen Xun stepped onto the road as the Immortal Sea erupted in turmoil, then the disturbance subsided after he disappeared inside.
• Chen Xun recognized that the path connected to the long-vanished Shadow Immortal Realm.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Azure Heaven Forbidden Land and witnessed the frozen battlefield where the heavenly dao had fallen. Third Sister was waiting for them, and Chen Xun reached out to touch the ancient cracks in time.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox ascended through the Chaotic Emptiness toward the Azure Heaven Forbidden Land.
• Chen Xun saw the Immortal Tree and the frozen remains of the Heaven-Slaying War, including the Starry Sky Ancient God who had shielded the tree.
• Chen Xun recognized the ancient immortals and Immortal Beasts preserved in the instant of the heavenly dao's extinction.
• Big Black Ox realized that Third Sister was waiting for them, and Chen Xun nodded in response.
• Chen Xun gently reached toward the cracks frozen in time.

A cataclysmic flood nearly engulfed the Immortal Domain before an unseen force stopped it, prompting Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to plan a disaster in the Shadow Immortal Realm while protecting Eternal Antiquity. Gu Li Sheng then reunited with Song Heng and explained how he survived an ambush and remained hidden until the Fishing Emperor returned.

• A wall of black water bearing ancient Great Dao patterns swept toward the Immortal Domain, then froze and receded before it could strike.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided to transfer the Heavenly Dao karma and destroy the Shadow Immortal Realm after arranging for its Myriad Clans to evacuate.
• Gu Li Sheng returned to Song Heng’s shop, where Song Heng reacted with joy before angrily confronting him over the trouble caused by his disappearance.
• Gu Li Sheng explained that the three great Longevity Immortal Cauldrons had tried to cripple him, but he had turned their scheme against them and hidden with help from the Ghost Face Clan.
• Gu Li Sheng revealed that he had finally returned because the Fishing Emperor had come back.

Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng discussed Eternal Antiquity’s defeat and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s destruction, revealing Song Heng’s lingering grief over the war. Gu Li Sheng asked Song Heng to return to Eternal Antiquity, but Song Heng refused until he rescued Shui Yu from the Shadow Immortal Realm.

• Song Heng questioned whether Gu Li Sheng was truly himself, then grew somber as he struggled to understand Eternal Antiquity’s crushing defeat.
• Song Heng told Gu Li Sheng that the Ghost Face Race had vanished during the war on the Nine Provinces Heavenly Continent, where the slaughter overwhelmed Eternal Antiquity’s forces.
• Gu Li Sheng said half of Eternal Antiquity had betrayed the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and Song Heng recalled urging the Alliance to leave before it was destroyed.
• Gu Li Sheng asked Song Heng to return to Eternal Antiquity, but Song Heng said he had to rescue Shui Yu from the Shadow Immortal Realm and protect Lion Dog first.

Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng entered the Shadow Immortal Realm to retrieve Shui Yu, while Immortal Venerable Ji Fan prepared for the Dao Ancestor’s return. Ji Fan reflected on how he had made the Shadow Immortal Realm independent and revealed that he had devised a method to kill the Dao Ancestor.

• Gu Li Sheng found Song Heng, learned that Song Heng’s Dao body protected Shui Yu in the Shadow Immortal Realm, and insisted they go there to bring her back.
• Gu Li Sheng used the Treasure Hunting Compass to locate the Shadow Immortal Realm’s spacetime entrance, and he and Song Heng entered it.
• A True Immortal told Ji Fan that the Dao Ancestor had arrived, and Ji Fan said he had long expected the return.
• Ji Fan recalled his rise, his discovery that the Shadow Immortal Realm’s defiant Dao was flawed, and his plan to free the realm from dependence on the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ji Fan concluded that he had conceived a way to slay the Dao Ancestor, and his gaze turned cold.

Ji Fan explained to Shi Yutong that the coming battle with the Dao Ancestor would decide whether Eternal Antiquity entered a new era, then ordered her to preserve their legacy by starting the Rebirth Plan. The next day, proclamations across the Shadow Immortal Realm urged its inhabitants to leave their world.

• Ji Fan told Shi Yutong that the final battle was near and reflected on how his pursuit of immortality and the Defiant Dao had drawn him into Eternal Antiquity’s struggle over its old and new orders.
• Ji Fan said the Dao Ancestor had grown too attached to the old era and that his return would determine whether the world advanced into a new age.
• Ji Fan warned Shi Yutong that the outside Heavenly Dao was reaching into the Shadow Immortal Realm and ordered her to awaken the prepared Immortal Continents and begin the Rebirth Plan.
• Shi Yutong left in immortal radiance to preserve the legacy after Ji Fan declared her unqualified to take part in the battle.
• The following day, voices from across the Shadow Immortal Realm told its inhabitants to leave their homeland and their world.

The Shadow Immortal Realm’s inhabitants began a mass evacuation after the Immortal Venerable announced an impending catastrophe, while a few powerful figures chose to stay behind. On a train, a man and a big black ox watched the fleeing masses, and the man revealed that the catastrophe’s portents had begun with their arrival.

• Cultivators and spirit beasts across the Shadow Immortal Realm fled toward teleportation arrays and Great Dao Immortal Arks after receiving the Immortal Venerable’s warning.
• The Dark Roc King worried that there were not enough arks to save the billions in his clan, but a True Immortal reassured him that preparations had been made and the Immortal Venerable was holding the fort.
• A Holy Son obeyed his elders and left his homeland, while the Supreme Elder Taishang refused to evacuate because he was part of the plan and wanted to witness the coming Great Dao.
• The sect’s elders began its great migration, leaving Taishang alone in the ancient hall as he recalled his past struggle for the Eternal Immortal Frontier and his decision to help establish the Shadow Immortal Realm.
• On a train, a woman asked the man beside the Immortal Crystal Window why he showed no panic, and he told her the portents had started with their arrival in the Shadow Immortal Realm.

Chen Xun traveled quietly through the Shadow Immortal Realm while its cultivators panicked over the Dao Ancestor’s return. At the besieged Ancient Divine Mountain Continent, Gu Li Sheng arrived to join Meng Sheng, who prepared to fight the Shadow Immortal Realm’s supreme experts without restraint.

• A woman dismissed Chen Xun as insane after he spoke, and he continued gazing out the Starry Sky Dao Orbit with Big Black Ox beside him.
• Three years later, a True Immortal saw Chen Xun aboard the orbit and was horrified by how closely he resembled someone he recognized.
• In the Forbidden Domain, Dream Daoist and the other hidden supreme experts learned from the Ji Fan Heavenly Edict that the Dao Ancestor had returned and recognized that Mentor Meng had held out until then.
• A hundred thousand True Immortals and seven mighty figures maintained their siege of Meng Sheng and the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent.
• Gu Li Sheng arrived and cut apart an immense beam of Immortal Light aimed at the continent.
• Meng Sheng entrusted the Divine Mountain Continent to Gu Li Sheng and prepared to fight the Shadow Immortal Realm’s forces without restraint.

Meng Sheng and Gu Li Sheng fought to protect the Divine Mountain Continent while Chen Xun destroyed the Shadow Immortal Realm through the Heaven and Earth Tribulation. Ten thousand years later, He Ling awoke in the Eternal Immortal Frontier and reunited with Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and their companions.

• Meng Sheng revealed his Reincarnation Body and fought the ancient traitors, while Gu Li Sheng entered the Divine Mountain Continent and suppressed True Immortals who tried to attack it.
• A thousand years later, the Heaven and Earth Tribulation struck the Shadow Immortal Realm, and the Eternal Dao Ancestor told Ji Fan and the other cultivators that their world was destined for reincarnation.
• The Shadow Immortal Realm's laws and Great Daos collapsed as its inhabitants faced annihilation, while Meng Sheng, Gu Li Sheng, and the others watched helplessly.
• Ten thousand years later, He Ling awoke beneath a tree in the Eternal Immortal Frontier and embraced Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, the Defiled Lifespan Old Turtle, and Mu Feng.
• He Ling threw herself into Chen Xun's arms, and he comforted her that he and her second brother had returned.

Chen Xun reunited He Ling with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, then helped Meng Sheng reflect on his purpose and accept that he could rest instead of carrying the burden of the Immortal Frontier. Gu Li Sheng arrived with Moon Essence for He Ling, startling Little Crimson with his changed bearing.

• He Ling reunited with Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, and reassured Little Crimson that she had chosen to send the World Breaking Ship away to protect him.
• Meng Sheng told Chen Xun that thoughts of immortality and the future had left him feeling empty and had nearly driven him to demonic madness.
• Meng Sheng recalled that he had begun cultivating to escape poverty and admitted that he regretted not spending more time drinking tea with Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun told Meng Sheng to follow what he liked, rest when tired, and stop feeling responsible for rebuilding Eternal Antiquity.
• Gu Li Sheng gave He Ling Moon Essence to nourish her soul, and Little Crimson stared at him in shock as Gu Li Sheng boasted of his changed bearing.

He Ling accepted the means that had restored Little Crimson, who was shocked that Gu Li Sheng had spent precious immortal material on him. Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng went fishing and discussed the reincarnation of the fallen, Ke Ding’s death, and the possibility of meeting old companions again.

• He Ling accepted the means of saving her, and Little Crimson revived and reproached Gu Li Sheng for using precious immortal material on him.
• Gu Li Sheng explained that treasures were plentiful beyond the Eternal Immortal Frontier, then told Little Crimson that Song Heng had become withdrawn.
• Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng went fishing and discussed how fallen True Immortals could return through Eternal Antiquity’s reincarnation laws without retaining their memories.
• Chen Xun recalled that Ke Ding had died preserving the world’s stability, and suggested they might meet him again someday.
• Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng reminisced about their early days fleeing disaster in the Three Thousand Great Worlds and laughed over how far they had come.

After learning Ni Canghuan had vanished to seek revenge, Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng realized he might have gone after those responsible for the ancient war. Ni Canghuan appeared at the Shixiao Heavenly Court and began a devastating assault, leaving its immortals in chaos.

• Nanhua told Chen Xun that Ni Canghuan had disappeared a hundred years earlier after asking about the ancient war, and Gu Li Sheng concluded that he had gone to seek revenge.
• Ni Canghuan arrived at the Shixiao Heavenly Court's Northern Heaven Gate and killed its five Giant Spirit guards with a single saber strike.
• Ni Canghuan recalled that the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace had fought in the war, that the Desolate Ancient Clan had fled, and that Chong Que had fallen.
• Ni Canghuan shattered the Eastern Heaven Gate and charged into the Heavenly Court, killing immortals and young disciples as its palaces sounded alarms.

Ni Canghuan attacked the Shixiao Heavenly Court, while Shi Huaixu failed to secure outside aid from former allies and the Ten Great Forces. The court fell, and ten years later Ni Canghuan was fighting true immortals as the myriad domains invaded Eternal Antiquity.

• Ni Canghuan condemned the immortals of the Shixiao Heavenly Court as thieves and killed one with a slash, unleashing chaos across the court.
• Shi Huaixu sought help from Wudao and other forces, but they refused to intervene, citing old grudges, their own affairs, or fear of Ni Canghuan.
• Ni Canghuan’s battle destroyed the Shixiao Heavenly Court, and its visiting immortals perished as immortal blood rained from the sky.
• Ten years later, a sky-weeping phenomenon spread across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds while true immortals fought beyond heaven.
• Ni Canghuan dismissed the invading forces of the myriad domains as he sent Chong Que and the Profound Yellow Dao Palace to fight them.

Ni Canghuan returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier and set out to avenge Chong Que without asking Chen Xun for help. Chen Xun spent time with Big Black Ox and old friends before the Heavenly Wheel Immortal, Qian Wuhen, and their companions returned home after a long journey.

• Ni Canghuan told Chen Xun he would enter seclusion, then left to pursue revenge against the Shixiao Heavenly Court for Chong Que's death.
• Frog Daoist warned that the Outer Domain was unsettled and suspected Chen Xun had deliberately allowed events to reach their current state.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited the quiet Five Elements Sect, where Chen Xun reflected that its scattered disciples had found their own paths.
• Chen Xun spent the seasons with his family and old friends, while Gu Qingyan and other Star Palace acquaintances returned and left the Star Palace to later generations.
• Ten years later, the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and Qian Wuhen returned with their companions, and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal sarcastically asked who had killed the Heavenly Dao.

After the ancient companions returned and spent ages in the quiet Eternal Immortal Frontier, Chen Xun revealed to He Ling that the Eternal Heavenly Dao had been one of his divided spirits and that he had already set its fall in motion. He explained that only his departure could prevent a coming dark age of slaughter, and said that only the final step remained.

• Bai Xinghan and Lightning Arrow reunited with Chen Xun, and Old Ox, Little Crimson, and the others welcomed them back.
• Over the following million years, the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent slowly recovered, while Chen Xun and his companions lived quietly without pursuing the immortal Dao.
• Chen Xun told He Ling that Ke Ding had chosen to preserve the Heavenly Dao despite Chen Xun's intention for it to fall into dead silence.
• Chen Xun revealed that the Eternal Heavenly Dao had been one of his divided spirits and explained how eternal life and the growing power of cultivators threatened the balance of heaven and earth.
• Chen Xun told He Ling that he had buried the silent Heavenly Dao in the Shadow Immortal Realm, beginning the withering of eternal life.
• Chen Xun said he had already witnessed an era of darkness and that he needed to leave the Eternal Immortal Frontier to prevent overwhelming war, adding that only the final step remained.

Chen Xun revealed that the Cosmic Realm was Eternal Antiquity’s contingency and promised to bring back those who had been lost. He and his family set out to restore them while Gu Li Sheng stayed behind to watch over the declining Eternal Immortal Frontier.

• Chen Xun told He Ling that Ke Ding and Ji Yan could be saved through the Samsara Secret Art and the Cosmic Realm, which he had prepared as Eternal Antiquity’s contingency.
• Gu Li Sheng realized that Chen Xun’s visit to a supposedly nonexistent era had altered karma, and that the Heavenly Dao’s fall had begun the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s decline.
• Chen Xun left with He Ling, Mu Feng, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, telling Gu Li Sheng to guard the frontier.
• As they traveled through an unfamiliar mountain range, Chen Xun explained to Mu Feng that the world preserved the auras and souls of Eternal Beings, so he could bring back Di Yang and the others.
• Chen Xun’s family spent the following years roaming the mountains and visiting Immortal Cities, living unnoticed among the locals.