Chapter Summaries

Over tens of millions of years, fallen True Immortals returned to life in the Eternal Immortal Frontier while its people waited for Chen Xun and his family. Chen Xun finally returned with Ji Yan, greeting the gathered old acquaintances and saying he had come back a little late but at just the right time.

• Chong Que resurrected amid heavenly lightning, and other fallen True Immortals of Eternal Antiquity began returning over the ages.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier grew lively as its ancient ancestors reunited, while they continued waiting for Chen Xun and his family.
• Ke Ding manifested during a vast heavenly phenomenon and spoke with Chen Xun, who said he would give up the world's foundation rather than cling to it.
• Ke Ding returned to the Eternal Immortal Frontier, where old friends welcomed him and the factions gradually grew close again.
• Chen Xun returned with his family and Ji Yan, and the gathered beings of the Ten Thousand Clans greeted him.
• Chen Xun told the assembled old acquaintances that he had come back a little late, but at just the right time.

Chen Xun and the immortals settled into a quiet life in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range after Ji Yan revealed the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had left assets and contingencies across the Five Great Pole Domains. Eternal Antiquity stopped counting years, and the chapter left Chen Xun and his companions enjoying peaceful days together.

• Chen Xun and the immortals reunited with Ji Yan, who reassured them that the old war had not been their fault.
• Chen Xun accused Ji Yan of secretly stirring up the war, and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal agreed that Chen Xun had allowed the conflicts to erupt.
• Gu Li Sheng questioned Ji Yan about powerful factions descended from the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and Ji Yan admitted he had left Du Shi assets for his return.
• Mo Fuyang confirmed he had managed the alliance’s outside assets and withdrawn before the war, while Ji Yan said the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance would not exist in the future.
• Chen Xun invited the immortals to live in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range and told the Yu Family to move outside it.
• Eternal Antiquity stopped reckoning years, and Chen Xun and his companions settled into leisurely lives of conversation, tea, fishing, and roaming the mountains.

The Cosmic Realm passed through successive ages of peerless cultivators, warring Immortal Dao civilizations, and teaching orders that ended the pursuit of immortality as an absolute obsession. In the present, a True Immortal founding ancestor thanked the great teachers of the Eternal Immortal Frontier after recalling how a Dao-Picking Immortal Fairy had led him to the Fu Shi Religion.

• The age of peerless cultivators gave way to Immortal Dao civilizations, which grew through wars until seven great civilizations dominated the Cosmic Realm.
• The seven great civilizations waged a devastating war as the decline of heaven and earth’s origin threatened their longevity.
• The Great Immortal Gate Teaching rose by condemning the civilizations’ rulers and making the slaying of their ancient ancestors a sacred tenet.
• The teaching orders ended the age of civilizations and made finite life and an endless Dao widely accepted.
• A True Immortal founding ancestor bowed toward the Eternal Immortal Frontier and thanked its great teachers for guidance.
• The ancestor recalled finding a Dao-Picking Immortal Fairy in a remote wilderness, who led him to the Fu Shi Religion.

Chen Xun watched Meng Sheng ascend into a star beside his wife, Yu Yiwei, then returned to the Five Elements Sect and sat among the graves of those he had known. Big Black Ox joined him as Chen Xun confirmed Meng Sheng had chosen to become ancient in the firmament, like Ke Ding.

• Meng Sheng asked Chen Xun whether Eternal Antiquity would have followed a different path if the Heavenly Dao had survived, and Chen Xun said saving them had been enough.
• Meng Sheng thanked Chen Xun, said he had no regrets about following him, and ascended to become ancient within a star, with Yu Yiwei's tiny star circling beside it.
• Chen Xun bid farewell to Meng Sheng and Yu Yiwei, then slowly walked into the sect, recalling the Five Elements Sect and his first journey with Big Black Ox.
• Chen Xun passed the Five Elements Immortal Platform and sat among the countless gravestones of people he had known.
• Big Black Ox joined Chen Xun, who told him that Meng Sheng had been laid to rest in the firmament like Ke Ding.

After the Eternal Antiquity lineage died out, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and NanGong HeLing stayed in their homeland and passed the ages in quiet seclusion. Elsewhere, the preserved Great Daos and immortal corpses began spawning Dao Nightmares, and a new calamity emerged when Primordial Dao Drowning tainted the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.

• NanGong HeLing reported that the Outer Frontier had been settled and the fallen had been laid to rest, while Ominous Old Ancestor and Foul Beast Turtle had also died.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and NanGong HeLing chose to remain in Eternal Antiquity, spending the ages walking its roads and keeping the dead company.
• As generations of cultivators rose and fell, the preserved Great Daos and immortal corpses of Eternal Life Beings began producing Dao Nightmares in forbidden Immortal Tombs.
• Religious orders first treated the Dao Nightmares as opportunities, calling them Immortal Demise after prodigies slew them and gained the Dao.
• Primordial Dao Drowning began flowing down from the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, marking the first appearance of filth within it.

Chen Xun spent peaceful days fishing and tending the Immortal Tombs in the Eternal Immortal Frontier while the Outer Domain descended into chaos and the age of Dharma's end. At the world's remote edge, Han Yu led a group of cultivators in search of the Land of Everlasting Traces, though his claims drew skepticism.

• Chen Xun caught a fish in the river, released it, and returned with an empty basket as he and He Ling discussed sparing living creatures.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and He Ling continued their quiet routine, visiting Immortal Tombs at night to repair them and nourish their surroundings.
• The immortal nightmares and primordial Dao drowning spread through the Outer Domain, possessing cultivators, causing wars, and killing many prodigies.
• After countless ages of conflict against the Great Dao, the world entered the age of Dharma's end, and a peerless hero struck back against the immortal nightmares and Dao drowning.
• Han Yu led Xiang Tian, Motley Bird, Yue Yao, and others to the remote edge of Heaven and Earth, claiming they could find the Land of Everlasting Traces and attain immortality.

Han Yu led Xiang Tian and their companions to a secluded land, but a star formation dragged them into the ominous Ten Thousand Tombs, where they encountered an impossibly powerful hemp-clad man. The man asked who had guided them there, and Han Yu dropped to his knees, expecting to die.

• Han Yu described an ancient secluded land, and Xiang Tian accepted his claims despite their doubts.
• A Zhou Tian Star Orbit swept Han Yu, Xiang Tian, and the others into an abyss in the river of stars.
• They awoke in a land of pure immortal qi and discovered that it was covered in gravestones and held three mysterious figures.
• A hemp-clad man appeared before them, and the group begged him for mercy.
• The hemp-clad man asked who had guided them to the tombs, and Han Yu knelt in acknowledgment.

Chen Xun let Han Yu, Xiang Tian, Yue Yao, and their companions leave the Immortal Tomb Grove after Xiang Tian declared they sought the Dao. Ages later, Xiang Tian returned to seek the mysterious senior but received no answer, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox comforted He Ling as Heaven and Earth withered.

• Xiang Tian declared that his group had come to seek the Dao, so Chen Xun warned them to leave or be buried.
• Han Yu struck Xiang Tian and led the group onto the Ancient Immortal Road, while Yue Yao urged them to leave the legendary place behind.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed the group's possible connection to the Eternal Cultivators and walked deeper among the tombs.
• During the Age of Dharma's End, Heaven and Earth began devouring ancient Immortal Corpses, starting a corpse-seeking era that brought a final age of cultivation splendor.
• Xiang Tian, now a supreme powerhouse of the Human Race, visited the end of Heaven and Earth to seek the Eternal Antiquity Sages, waited decades without a reply, and departed.
• He Ling worried that she would perish as Heaven and Earth withered, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reassured her that they would remain together.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox remembered raising He Ling and the peaceful Immortal Path they once hoped for. After He Ling died and the world’s cultivation declined across countless ages, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox walked into the spirit-eroding rain, leaving their destination unknown.

• He Ling asked why Big Black Ox had raised her, and he explained that Chen Xun’s loneliness as an orphan had inspired them to make a family together.
• Chen Xun recalled that he and Big Black Ox had once wanted a quiet life, cultivating peacefully and seeing the world without seeking wealth or conflict.
• As the Immortal Dao declined across ancient ages, Chen Xun gave up half the Eternal Immortal Frontier to nourish Heaven and Earth and prolong He Ling’s existence.
• He Ling died in the arms of Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, leaving her true body behind, and Chen Xun sealed away the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• In a later age, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox walked through spirit-eroding rain beneath the Immortal Tree and vanished, with legends later describing their journey through time.