Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun examined the changes from his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, including his enhanced Longevity Points, body, and Divine Apertures, while reflecting on the Heart Demon Tribulation. He planned to test the growth of his Divine Apertures and later visit the Heaven Severing Great Ravine, as the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree began swaying by the coast.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to stay away while he examined his newly opened 160 Body Apertures and tangible Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Xun summoned a tombstone for Long Guanzhi and considered settling matters with the Yu Family.
• Chen Xun reviewed his Longevity Points and concluded that his strengthened body could withstand attacks from Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Chen Xun reflected on how killing Defiled Lifespan still increased his Divine Apertures and planned to test their limits before seeking Extinguishing Divine Stones.
• Chen Xun realized the Heart Demon Tribulation had created a possible future rather than his past, and he wondered why Little Crimson had been absent.
• The Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree swayed wildly while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson watched in confusion.

Chen Xun analyzed the Heart Demon Tribulation and prepared Big Black Ox for the ordeal, while reflecting on the Defiled Lifespans and his place in the Realm Battlefield. He sent Big Black Ox away to undergo its tribulation, promising to wait for it and protect it whatever happened.

• Chen Xun reasoned that Big Black Ox might become trapped in an Eternal Life Heart Demon and searched for a way to help it from outside the tribulation.
• Chen Xun concluded that the Heavenly Dao might be the collective will of all things opposing Eternal Life Beings, and declared that he and his brothers were free.
• Chen Xun noticed Little Crimson’s lifespan seemed to be running out and planned to use stones from the Three-Eyed Lifeforms sealed beneath the Heaven Severing Great Ravine to preserve it.
• After a month of writing and destroying booklets, Chen Xun gave Big Black Ox detailed preparations for the Heart Demon Tribulation and urged it to hold fast to its true self.
• Chen Xun sent Big Black Ox to find Defiled Lifespans and undergo its tribulation, promising to protect it even if it became crippled.

Chen Xun sent Big Black Ox through its tribulation, which trapped it in a heart demon illusion of their life together as criminals, laborers, and finally cannon fodder. The illusion ended with Chen Xun and Big Black Ox charging into battle.

• Chen Xun kicked Big Black Ox away to undergo its tribulation, then reassured Little Crimson that the ox could withstand it.
• A vast lightning tribulation struck Big Black Ox and annihilated the nearby Defiled Lifespans before pulling the ox into a Heart Demon Illusion.
• In the illusion, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox were convicted of robbing an ancestral tomb and exiled to hard labor at the frontier.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent years working together and secretly sharing food, until the two nations went to war and conscripted the laborers as cannon fodder.
• Chen Xun mounted Big Black Ox and charged onto the battlefield as arrows struck down the fleeing cannon fodder.

After years of war, work, and hardship, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Small Mountain Village, where Chen Xun grew old while teaching the village children. As Chen Xun approached death, he offered Big Black Ox his last meal, but Big Black Ox refused and rushed outside.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox survived the war, regained their freedom, and made a living as vendors before a battle between immortals destroyed their city and forced them to flee.
• After a year on the road, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox shared their remaining dried meat and decided to return to the Small Mountain Village.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox built a Thatched Cottage beside the old Crane Spirit Tree, and Chen Xun taught martial arts to the village children, including his first disciple, Xiao Heizi.
• As Chen Xun grew old and weak, Big Black Ox took over the heavy work and searched the mountain for medicinal herbs.
• Chen Xun reached the Five Signs of Decay and gave Big Black Ox the last meal he had prepared, but Big Black Ox refused it and rushed outside despite Chen Xun calling after it.

Big Black Ox survived a Heart Demon Tribulation by rejecting its false memories and awakening to its true self. After reuniting with Chen Xun and Little Crimson, it revealed that it had once dug up Chen Xun’s grave, provoking Chen Xun to attack it.

• In the Heart Demon Illusion, Big Black Ox spent ages carrying Chen Xun’s coffin and searching for a way to revive him, until it nearly lost its will to live.
• Big Black Ox recalled Chen Xun’s words about reincarnation and the True Self, recognized the false Chen Xun as a heart demon, and broke free of the illusion.
• Big Black Ox awakened from its tribulation in the Realm Battlefield and joyfully reunited with Chen Xun and Little Crimson.
• Big Black Ox accidentally revealed that it had dug up Chen Xun’s grave and thrown off the coffin lid.
• Chen Xun furiously attacked Big Black Ox with a Sky Covering Giant Palm, sending it flying into the distance as Little Crimson watched in fear.

After Big Black Ox’s tribulation, Chen Xun experimented with refining defiled blood into talismans while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson gathered materials from the Realm Battlefield. Chen Xun then led the Giant Ship on a ruthless assault against Black Mountains, leaving the Defiled Lifespans terrified.

• Chen Xun listened to Big Black Ox describe his Heart Demon Tribulation and told Big Black Ox and Little Crimson that his own trial had been a peaceful farming experience with them.
• Chen Xun tested whether the Rootless Essence Qi Flower and Yellow-rank talismans could refine defiled blood, splitting his focus to work on the experiment.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson gathered Extinguishing Divine Wind and Yin Cold Qi while Big Black Ox helped Little Crimson improve his divine consciousness.
• Chen Xun declared that defiled blood from stronger Defiled Lifespans had greater effects and set the Giant Ship toward a Black Mountain.
• Chen Xun cleaved Black Mountain with a black axe, and the Giant Ship smashed through its remains without slowing.
• The Giant Ship continued ramming Black Mountains and killing Defiled Lifespans until their growing fear became apparent.

Two years later, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox confronted a Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespan in the Realm Battlefield. Chen Xun slew it with his Mountain-Splitting Axe while the Big Black Ox and the giant ship destroyed its Black Mountain, leaving the surrounding Defiled Lifespans terrified.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox found a Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespan guarding a majestic Black Mountain and questioned it about its origins and the path to the greater world.
• The Defiled Lifespan attacked Chen Xun with Life Severing, but Chen Xun emerged unharmed and revealed that he had been testing his defensive power.
• Chen Xun ordered the Big Black Ox and Little Crane to use Collapse Mountain as the giant ship charged toward the Black Mountain.
• The Big Black Ox attacked the Black Mountain with the formation and a Big Black Coffin while Chen Xun cleaved the Defiled Lifespan in two with his Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• The Black Mountain collapsed, the Defiled Lifespan's body failed to reunite, and nearby Defiled Lifespans fled in terror as Chen Xun stood above the death-qi chasm.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that Black Mountain’s yin cold aura could help Little Crimson raise his divine sense through Extinguishing Divine Stones. After Chen Xun extracted the dead Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespan’s blood, he ordered Big Black Ox to prepare a Teleportation Array so they could return and deal with Long Guanzhi.

• Chen Xun reflected on his Spirit Transformation breakthrough and considered how opening more Divine Apertures could strengthen his divine sense.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson used Black Mountain’s yin cold aura to mutate an Extinguishing Divine Stone, allowing Little Crimson to raise his divine sense.
• Little Crimson began to say that reaching Spirit Transformation would let them return to Heaven Severance, but Chen Xun interrupted him with a Sky Covering Giant Palm and knocked him unconscious.
• Chen Xun decided to prepare the Death Qi Mountain-Splitting Axe for advancement and settle old scores with the Yu Family.
• Chen Xun ordered Big Black Ox to find a place for a Teleportation Array so they could return and deal with Long Guanzhi.
• Chen Xun drew the Defiled Blood from the dead Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespan and hoped to find a way home to the Qian Kingdom and visit his old companions.

Chen Xun arrived in Great Li and met Yu Jingxin, who was mourning Ding Lingxiao while waiting for traces of his enemies. After Chen Xun bought an old man's oranges and helped name them Encounter Immortal Oranges, Yu Jingxin approached him and invited him to travel together.

• Chen Xun sealed Spirit Transformation Foul Blood in the Ten Thousand Year Crane Spirit Tree Container and left through a Medium Teleportation Array with his companions.
• Yu Jingxin visited Ding Lingxiao's gravestone and remembered their century together before she died.
• Yu Jingxin considered his search for the three people from the Forbidden Sea and Demon Nest fruitless, then headed toward a mortal city.
• Chen Xun bought all the old man's oranges, and the old man decided to call them Encounter Immortal Oranges.
• Yu Jingxin, concealing his cultivation, approached Chen Xun and asked to travel with him; Chen Xun happily agreed.

Chen Xun and Yu Jingxin became friends while walking, drinking tea, and sharing stories, though both concealed their true identities. Two months later, Yu Jingxin revealed that he knew Chen Xun was the cultivator from the Forbidden Sea, and the atmosphere turned tense.

• Chen Xun met Yu Jingxin and claimed he was a guard who had saved someone from the Yu Family.
• Chen Xun and Yu Jingxin discussed mortals and cultivators, shared oranges, and went to a teahouse together.
• Over the next two months, Chen Xun continued gathering information about Long Guanzhi while Yu Jingxin occasionally took him into the city.
• Yu Jingxin asked why Chen Xun had come to the Yu Family, and Chen Xun identified Long Guanzhi as the Yu Family Third Ancestor's Extraterrestrial Clone.
• Yu Jingxin confirmed that he had guessed Chen Xun was the cultivator from the Forbidden Sea, and the pavilion fell silent as the atmosphere turned tense.

Chen Xun turned Yu Jingxin’s ambush against him and forcibly teleported them both toward the Forbidden Sea. The Yu Family and other great powers mobilized to pursue them, leaving Great Li in turmoil.

• Yu Jingxin activated a prepared killing formation and demanded that Chen Xun surrender, but Chen Xun revealed his overwhelming aura and threatened to kill him.
• Chen Xun placed formation flags around the pavilion and used Forced Teleportation to suppress and transport himself and Yu Jingxin away.
• Yu Family Old Ancestors rushed toward the Forbidden Sea after realizing Yu Jingxin was in grave danger.
• The news of a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s forced teleportation spread through Great Li, prompting the Jiang and Yao Clans and the Five Great Ancient Immortal Sects to mobilize.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox trapped Yu Jingxin in a prepared killing formation and overwhelmed him with twelve Transformation God Stage figures. Yu Jingxin fell dead before Long Guanzhi’s tombstone, his Primordial Spirit erased by the Extinguishing Divine Storm.

• Yu Jingxin used a Yu Family secret art to resist the Forbidden Sea’s suppression as he faced Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox on Mine Pit Island.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox summoned twelve Transformation God Stage figures and encircled Yu Jingxin inside the island’s killing formation.
• Yu Jingxin unleashed his secret arts, but the twelve figures and the formation’s attacks overwhelmed his defenses.
• The twelve figures shattered Yu Jingxin’s Natal Magic Treasure and struck him down while the Extinguishing Divine Storm ground away his Primordial Spirit.
• Yu Jingxin collapsed and died before Long Guanzhi’s tombstone.

Chen Xun stayed beside the dying Yu Jingxin as he remembered Ling Xiao and passed away, then left with Big Black Ox carrying Yu Jingxin’s Storage Ring. The Yu Family’s ancestors found his body, declared war on the Jiang Clan, and left the other factions wary of the unknown force behind his death.

• Yu Jingxin returned an orange to Chen Xun and asked whether it was snowing before recalling Ling Xiao and wishing he could have lived as an ordinary man.
• Yu Jingxin forced out his bloodline and died beneath the formation light, while Chen Xun took his Storage Ring and left the island with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson.
• The Yu Family’s two ancestors arrived, mourned Yu Jingxin, and concluded that the Jiang Clan was responsible for the conflict that led to his death.
• The Yu Family’s Big Brother declared war on the Jiang Clan and carried Yu Jingxin’s body away from the island.
• The other factions withdrew after seeing the Yu Family ancestors return with Yu Jingxin’s corpse, while the Jiang Clan’s ancestors left under their furious gaze.

After Yu Jingxin died in the Forbidden Sea, the Yu Family declared war on the Jiang Clan, while the Jiang Clan’s elders decided not to provoke the mysterious killer. In Guiyi City, Chen Xun and his companions browsed a bustling merchant pavilion as cultivators discussed his growing reputation.

• The Yu Family mourned Yu Jingxin, sealed his gravesite as forbidden ground, and declared war on the Jiang Clan, unsettling cultivators across Great Li.
• Two Jiang Clan elders discussed Yu Jingxin’s death and the mysterious Forbidden Sea cultivator, deciding to leave that person alone and focus on the Yu Family conflict.
• The Forbidden Sea—Demon Cultivator became widely feared, while Chen Xun and his companions remained unconcerned with the spreading war.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson visited Three Lives Pavilion in Guiyi City and overheard cultivators discussing the war and Chen Xun’s reputation.
• Chen Xun went to the second floor to speak with a shop attendant while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson browsed the first floor.

Chen Xun negotiated with Yun Zheng at Three Lives Pavilion for a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of Profound Rank Talisman Blanks and offered a premium for materials to build a Large Teleportation Array. After leaving the deal in Yun Zheng’s hands, he surprised Big Black Ox and Little Crimson while they browsed cultivation goods.

• Chen Xun asked Three Lives Pavilion for a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of Profound Rank Talisman Blanks and offered a three-hundred-thousand-stone deposit.
• Yun Zheng recognized Chen Xun from their past fishing encounter and agreed to discuss his large purchase.
• Chen Xun presented Yun Zheng with a list of forbidden Large Teleportation Array materials and raised his offer until she agreed to try to procure them within three months.
• Yun Zheng planned to consult her father, keep the deal secret, and seek Chen Xun’s friendship after he left.
• Chen Xun sneaked up on Big Black Ox and Little Crimson at the pavilion and smacked them on the head, provoking their anger.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson completed a major black-market deal with Three Lives Pavilion and returned to their shop. They prepared to set out for the Bank of the Milky Way.

• Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, then claimed he had spent Five Million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to impress them.
• Three months later, Chen Xun and the two spirit beasts met the Yun Family at a guarded courtyard to exchange forbidden materials for spirit stones.
• Both sides inspected the goods and payment, and Chen Xun accepted the materials and a jade pendant and jade slip from Three Lives Pavilion.
• Yun Zheng's father praised her role in the deal, which earned the Yun Family one million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and strengthened its connections.
• Back at their shop in Guiyi City, Chen Xun announced their next destination was the Bank of the Milky Way, and the trio prepared to depart.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson set out aboard their Giant Ship to explore the depths of the Black Earth Land, while Chen Xun refined talismans from Spirit Transformation Foul Blood. As they journeyed at tremendous speed, Chen Xun lamented the spirit stones he had spent and planned to use his eternal life to build a prosperous future for his brothers.

• Chen Xun studied his route and decided to steer the Giant Ship left into the depths, trusting that a path would be found.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson prepared the ship and its teleportation arrays, and the Giant Ship launched across the Black Earth Land.
• Big Black Ox used the Black Coffin and arrays to slaughter Defiled Lifespans while Little Crimson watched and recorded the route.
• Chen Xun used his Primordial Spirit and Rootless Essence Qi Flower to refine talismans from Spirit Transformation Foul Blood.
• The Giant Ship accelerated dramatically, smashing a Black Mountain as it raced through the land.
• Chen Xun brooded over the millions of Spirit Stones he had spent and imagined investing in the greater world to provide a carefree life for his brothers.

Chen Xun and his companions fought their way deeper into the Realm Battlefield, where Chen Xun’s Forgetfulness Talismans turned three Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespans’ own Defiled Blood against them. A year later, they reached a destination surrounded by overwhelming numbers of Defiled Lifespans and began summoning their full power.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox added points to defense as the Giant Ship continued through the hostile Realm Battlefield.
• Three early Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespans attacked the Giant Ship, but Chen Xun’s Forgetfulness Talismans made their own Defiled Blood backlash against them, and his figures killed them.
• Chen Xun and his companions sailed onward, while the slain Defiled Lifespans’ corpses vanished under the talismans’ lingering effects.
• One year later, after battling countless Defiled Lifespans, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stopped the Giant Ship at their destination and prepared to use a powerful move.
• Chen Xun transformed, Big Black Ox’s body hardened, and a Five Elements Void Formation Plate appeared beneath the ship as twelve towering figures rose to face the Defiled Lifespans.

Chen Xun and his companions faced a boundless horde of Defiled Lifespans at the apparent end of the realm, where no road forward could be seen. Chen Xun unleashed overwhelming attacks and charged into battle against the Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespans, while the horde continued to pour toward them.

• Chen Xun took up the rear as Big Black Ox and the others faced the approaching Defiled Lifespans near the gray-blue canopy.
• Chen Xun and five companions launched an assault, with Chen Xun summoning Starfall meteors that devastated the advancing horde.
• Little Crimson watched from the Giant Ship as Chen Xun held back tens of millions of Defiled Lifespans.
• Spirit Transformation Defiled Lifespans condemned Chen Xun for entering the Realm Spirit Ancestral Land and attacked him with Defiled Blood.
• Chen Xun countered with Death Qi Axe Lights and Five Elements Divine Light, then charged a thousand miles through the enemy ranks.

Chen Xun and his companions discovered that the far end of the Black Earth Land was the birthplace of defiled lifespans, with no apparent way through the sealed realm. They escaped back to the coast, where Chen Xun decided to seek Bai Li Zhong Hu and prepare to grow stronger before exploring again.

• The Giant Ship smashed into the realm's heavenly curtain as Chen Xun held off powerful defiled lifespans with his twin axes.
• Chen Xun and his companions realized they had reached the defiled lifespans' breeding ground and were surrounded by an overwhelming force.
• Chen Xun scattered Forgetfulness Talismans while Big Black Ox used the Black Coffin to cover their retreat, then activated the Five Elements Array to teleport the Giant Ship away.
• The defiled lifespan leaders ordered their race to hunt Chen Xun and his companions, then withdrew to cultivate.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson returned safely to the coast, and Chen Xun resolved to find Bai Li Zhong Hu and prepare for another attempt.