Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Small Realm had been destroyed, Chen Xun fell into a deathly transformation and vowed to avenge its people, even against the highest immortals. The next morning, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane waited anxiously for him to return.

• Chen Xun left Big Black Ox and the others without explaining what had happened, then sat alone on a reef in the Boundless Sea Region with the Five Elements Sect token and two land deeds.
• Chen Xun recalled his homeland and old friends, realized the Small Realm had been destroyed, and blamed himself as grief gave way to an unnerving calm.
• Death qi consumed Chen Xun as his hair turned silver, his robes shifted between black and white, and his Rootless Essence Qi Flower and Death Qi Mountain-Splitting Axes transformed.
• Chen Xun swore that he would investigate those responsible and drag even the greatest immortals down to be buried with the Small Realm, while a black-and-white law pattern formed on his brow.
• Great powers across several Great Worlds sensed the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board trembling and discussed the ominous sign, while the next morning Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane waited for Chen Xun by the coast.

Chen Xun returned after the Starfall with silver hair and soot-stained robes, then tried to reassure his companions that the Small Realm was safe and that they should not dwell on vengeance. He privately revealed to Big Black Ox that the realm had been damaged but could be restored because Little Crane had grasped part of its origin source.

• Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson worried over Chen Xun’s changed appearance as he returned and assured them he was unharmed.
• Chen Xun told Little Crimson the Starfall was a natural phenomenon unrelated to their realm and promised to take him back to the Heaven Severing Great Plains when an opportunity arose.
• Chen Xun scolded Little Crane and Little Crimson for letting the incident affect them, then sent them to their reading and preparations for the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• Big Black Ox confronted Chen Xun with its anger, and Chen Xun revealed that the realm had not been destroyed because Little Crane had grasped part of its origin source.
• Chen Xun urged Big Black Ox to abandon thoughts of revenge, warning that pursuing vengeance would endanger their companions and distract them from their long lives.

Chen Xun urged Big Black Ox to focus on earning merit and protecting reincarnated beings, then quietly revealed a colder, more distant side as he directed the Garbage Island clansmen to gather information. Meanwhile, Little Crimson vented his frustration by beating Gu Li Sheng with Song Heng, but ended the chapter worried about Sister Crane’s condition.

• Chen Xun returned the Merit Ledger to Big Black Ox and told him to develop the Decomposition Array while they worked to protect the Small Realm’s people through merit.
• After Big Black Ox left, Chen Xun wrote in a new booklet and received Qing Li, Qing Wan, and their Nascent Soul clansmen, ordering them to follow the sisters and gather information about the other Garbage Islands.
• Qing Li and Qing Wan sensed Chen Xun’s unfamiliar, frightening presence and quickly led their clansmen away.
• At the Garbage Recycling Plant, Little Crimson rebuked Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng, then joined Song Heng in beating Gu Li Sheng after he boasted about his Ten Million Generals.
• After the beating, Little Crimson thought of Sister Crane and worried because she had gone to Hua Tian in poor condition and had not returned to the Thatched Cottage.

Little Crane sensed the Foul Longevity Little Turtle awakening and resolved to support Big Brother while keeping the creature’s power secret until he made a plan. In the ancient forest, Big Black Ox continued developing layered formations and praying for the reincarnated to be found.

• Little Crane reflected on Big Brother’s hometown and decided to study the secrets of Myriad Realms Spirit Bank so she could support him.
• Little Crane sensed that the Foul Longevity Little Turtle had awakened and warned it not to reveal its Life Severing secret technique while it was still weak.
• The Foul Longevity Little Turtle’s hatred focused on cultivators bearing the aura of the Great Age and the sources of the Three Thousand Great Ages.
• Little Crane prepared to feed the creature stones from her Storage Ring as the Crane Spirit Five Elements Yin Yang Tree’s shadow grew behind her.
• Big Black Ox layered formations to gather Five Elements Qi and eventually incorporate Decomposition Power.
• Big Black Ox set up one hundred and eight Incense Burner Great Arrays, prayed for the reincarnated to be found, and returned to its formation work.

Chen Xun visited the Spirit Treasure Immortal Pavilion on Leaving Dust Island and bought the Nine Heavens Illusory Dream Star Nexus for seven million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. After Yu Wangxian explained its dangers and exchanged Void Transmission Disc auras with him, Chen Xun left for Wind Riding Mountain Villa while Yun Jin received a reward.

• Chen Xun went to the Spirit Treasure Immortal Pavilion after Yun Jin reported that the formation materials had been gathered and that Chen needed to verify his identity for a trade item.
• Yu Wangxian introduced himself to Chen Xun and quoted seven million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for the Nine Heavens Illusory Dream Star Nexus, which Chen agreed to buy.
• Chen Xun paid for the Star Nexus, and Yu Wangxian explained how to use it and warned him about dangers within it.
• Yu Wangxian exchanged Void Transmission Disc auras with Chen Xun, who then left for Wind Riding Mountain Villa.
• Yu Wangxian asked Yun Jin about Chen Xun's affiliations, praised his handling of the sale, and rewarded him with a bottle of Jade Purity Profound Pills.

Chen Xun entered the Nine Heavens Illusory Dream Star Nexus and discovered it was a vast network for cultivators across the Great Taiyi World. He chose an avatar and the Daoist title World-Saving Old Man, then entered Kunwu Star Pavilion, where other cultivators noticed his unusual profile.

• Chen Xun activated the Nine Heavens Illusory Dream Star Nexus, and its heavenly voice identified him and explained its features and limits.
• Chen Xun decided to use an avatar and chose World-Saving Old Man as his Daoist title.
• Chen Xun entered Kunwu Star Pavilion and found more than ten thousand cultivators, along with messages from major sects seeking members.
• Hong Guang Zhenren and Xiao Zhi Zhenren noticed Chen Xun's unusual avatar and investigated his profile, which revealed no faction affiliation.

Chen Xun explored the Star Pivot and began planning how to build influence through the Mengmu Great Sea Region’s garbage trade. After resolving to keep a low profile and grow stronger, he began cultivating the fourth and fifth layers of the Water Spirit Art.

• Chen Xun watched Void Refining cultivators exchange information and learned that a starry sky warship would leave the Southern Yu Continent for the Desolate Realm in one month.
• Chen Xun asked the Star Pavilion whether anyone would sell him discarded materials and talismans, then decided to take over the garbage business throughout the Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• Chen Xun left the Star Pivot and resolved to stay at the Garbage Dump unless necessary, while steadily increasing his strength.
• Luo Shuang told Chen Xun that the spirit herbs for the Flying Crossing Pill were ready and that she would deliver the transaction worth ten million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in one year.
• Chen Xun took out the Water Spirit Art Fourth Layer and Water Spirit Art Fifth Layer manuals and began cultivating them, wondering how the art would combine with the Essence of All Things.

Little Crane reviewed the Garbage Recycling Plant’s growing population and earnings, then prepared to manage its dealings with Luo Shuang. Luo Shuang arrived at Garbage Island with a shipment and met Little Crane, while Chen Xun was away.

• Mo Fuyang reported that Garbage Island held over a hundred thousand people and about twenty thousand had joined the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• Little Crane warned Mo Fuyang to preserve resources for the plant’s future cultivation needs and asked him to summon Sister Qing Wan to discuss the four other Garbage Islands.
• A year later, Luo Shuang arrived at Garbage Island aboard her treasure ship with over a hundred family death warriors to deliver items under her agreement with Chen Xun.
• Little Crane welcomed Luo Shuang and said she would handle the matter because Chen Xun had gone into the city.
• Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng led five hundred cultivators in a tense standoff with Luo Shuang’s people as Luo Shuang followed Little Crane inland.

Chen Xun drank and watched dancers at the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion in Hun Yuan Immortal City, then went to the Leaving Dust Immortal Palace to buy land. He learned that he needed a Profound Rank Spirit Seal to qualify and left, resolved to prepare before returning.

• Little Crane and Luo Shuang traveled together to complete their transaction while wondering what Chen Xun had gone into the city to do.
• Chen Xun drank alone at the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion and paid for five Immortal Fairies to dance for him.
• After the performance, Chen Xun left the pavilion and walked through Hun Yuan Immortal City, sealing off his ears against the noise.
• Chen Xun teleported to the Leaving Dust Immortal Palace and asked to buy land.
• The officials told Chen Xun he needed a Profound Rank Spirit Seal to qualify, so he left and said he would return after making proper preparations.

Chen Xun returned to Garbage Island and resumed planning for cultivation while trying to put his hatred behind him. After secretly tasting alcohol, he settled by the shore and used Sunset Green Immortal Nectar to seek insight.

• Chen Xun returned to Barren Mountain, accepted Little Crane’s flowers and the Storage Ring from Luo Shuang’s transaction, and told Little Crane to return to her reading.
• Chen Xun met Big Black Ox and said they would refine pills with pill patterns to advance toward the Dao Integration Stage.
• Chen Xun urged Big Black Ox to focus on restoring the Small Realm and finding the reincarnated, rather than pursuing revenge, and told it to continue its array work.
• Big Black Ox noticed Chen Xun smelled of alcohol and worried that he had broken a principle by secretly drinking.
• Chen Xun went to the shore, reflected on letting go of hatred, then drank a drop of Sunset Green Immortal Nectar and experienced a brief flash of insight.

Chen Xun used costly treasures to deepen his understanding of the Five Elements Immortal Path while the Garbage Recycling Plant expanded across the islands. After fifty years, he tested a transformed fruit on Mo Fuyang, then learned that his cultivation spending had emptied the family’s spirit-stone reserves.

• Chen Xun used Heaven Protecting White Secret Liquid on his eyes and gained insight into the need to unite Yin-Yang with the Five Elements.
• Chen Xun spent heavily on cultivation for fifty years as the Garbage Recycling Plant grew, recruited the Soul Nourishing Spirit Weeping Clan, and occupied a second Garbage Island.
• Chen Xun gave Mo Fuyang a transformed Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruit, extending his lifespan and beginning an experiment to remodel his body for the Five Elements Immortal Path.
• Mo Fuyang accepted the risks of Chen Xun’s experiment, while Chen Xun planned to continue with further body-refining medicines.
• Little Crane told Chen Xun that he had spent all the family’s spirit stones on cultivation resources, leaving expenses greater than income.

Chen Xun reflected on his family’s hardships and resumed recording the Spirit Stones he and Big Black Ox had spent, while Little Crane secretly reassured herself that their family fortune was safe. He then prepared to refine Flying Crossing Pills with overgrown Five Elements herbs and the restored Northern Cold Blazing Jade Furnace, ending as two Primordial Spirits surrounded it.

• Little Crane told Chen Xun that he had spent billions of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, prompting him to remember his family’s past struggles and promise to plan more carefully.
• After Chen Xun left, Little Crane revealed her Profound Rank Thousand Machines Spirit Seal and thought about how she had deceived him to stop him from squandering Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun found his old expense booklet and began recording the years he had left blank, including a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones spent on Ximen Black Ox’s formation materials.
• Chen Xun considered how his comprehension and control over Heaven and Earth Essence Qi had grown as he wandered through the Garbage Island.
• Chen Xun went beneath the Ancient Forest, where he prepared Five Elements herbs cultivated for Flying Crossing Pills and set down his restored Earth Grade Low Rank Northern Cold Blazing Jade Furnace.
• Chen Xun sat beside the medicine field as two Primordial Spirits emerged from his body and surrounded the pill furnace.

Chen Xun spent three months trying and failing to refine pills with essence qi, then returned to the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion seeking an explanation. The Pavilion’s master, Mo Yehan, arrived and demanded that Chen Xun explain himself in three sentences.

• Chen Xun used essence qi and Five Elements Qi in his pill refinement, but the spirit medicines melted into waste, so he recorded his insights and tried again.
• After three months of failed attempts, Chen Xun left the underground chamber empty-handed and chopped down several Crane Spirit Trees to vent his frustration.
• Chen Xun visited the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion and said he had come neither to drink nor watch performances, pointing to the nearly five million mid-grade spirit stones he had spent there as proof of his sincerity.
• Chen Xun waited in an elegant room until Mo Yehan arrived through a golden rift and demanded a reasonable explanation in three sentences.

Chen Xun confronted Heavenly Immortal Pavilion Master Mo Yehan, endured his palm strike, and earned his respect with his formidable physical body. Chen Xun then offered to buy living creature essence blood from the Mengmu Great Sea Region with High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Mo Yehan agreed to hear the deal.

• Chen Xun challenged Mo Yehan's rude reception and turned to leave, but Mo Yehan stopped him and demanded he take a palm strike.
• Chen Xun blocked Mo Yehan's attack without injury or stepping back, surprising the Late Stage Refining Void Pavilion Master.
• Mo Yehan apologized and offered Chen Xun wine, having grown interested in his strength.
• Chen Xun said he would offer a satisfactory price for living creature essence blood from the Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• Chen Xun proposed paying in High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Mo Yehan invited him to discuss the deal.

Chen Xun negotiated with Mo Yehan to obtain Nascent Soul essence blood from every race in the Mengmu Great Sea Region, while keeping his valuable treasures out of the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion’s transactions. After leaving, he discovered a troubling mistake in his spending calculations and rushed toward Wind Riding Mountain Villa, convinced that a little lass had deceived him.

• Chen Xun asked Mo Yehan to source at least five drops of Nascent Soul essence blood from every race in the Mengmu Great Sea Region and offered two rare treasures as proof of his resources.
• Mo Yehan declined to handle the treasures but agreed to arrange the essence blood, and he gave Chen Xun a Sound Transmission Disc contact.
• After Chen Xun left, Mo Yehan learned that Chen Xun operated a Garbage Recycling Plant and told his aide to have the sea race leave behind essence blood, without involving Luo Yan Hall for now.
• Chen Xun calculated his Spirit Stone spending on the great road, realized something was wrong, and accused a little lass of deceiving him.
• Chen Xun crossed Myriad Miles toward the Teleportation Array at Wind Riding Mountain Villa.

Chen Xun discovered that Little Crane and Big Black Ox had deceived him about the spirit stones, but he softened toward Little Crane and reflected on how fixated he had been. After declaring they should live well in the present and plan for the future, he beat Little Crimson for talking about returning to Heaven Severance, then threw Big Black Ox into the sea for helping with the deception.

• Chen Xun confronted Little Crane about the ledger, and she admitted she had lied to keep him from wasting spirit stones.
• Chen Xun ordered Little Crane to submit her reading reflections for inspection and punished her by forbidding her from tending Hua Tian for two days.
• Chen Xun told Little Crimson and Big Black Ox that he had neglected them and said they should live well in the present before planning for the future.
• Little Crimson mentioned returning to Heaven Severance, so Chen Xun grabbed him and had Big Black Ox beat him.
• Chen Xun realized Big Black Ox had planned the spirit-stone deception, called him Ximen Black Ox, and hurled him into the sea while Little Crimson pretended to faint.

Little Crimson and Gu Li Sheng ambushed Song Heng and humiliated him, while Chen Xun warned Qing Li and Qing Wan that their awakened clan talent could attract danger. The chapter left Qing Li and Qing Wan strengthening their clan on Garbage Island as Chen Xun began planning again.

• Little Crimson and Gu Li Sheng plotted against Song Heng after learning he had stopped working at the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• Little Crimson and Gu Li Sheng ambushed Song Heng at the Garbage Dump, blasted him into a garbage pit, and recorded Gu Li Sheng farting on him.
• Song Heng woke furious but told his Treasure Hunters to continue the Factory Owner’s task while he prepared a backup plan.
• Chen Xun told Qing Li and Qing Wan that their awakened Soul Nourishing Spirit Weeping talent could bring a great calamity.
• Qing Li and Qing Wan pledged to remain on Garbage Island, and Chen Xun gave them notebooks and advised them to keep a low profile.
• Chen Xun began writing plans in a new notebook while contemplating a matter he intended to see through.

Chen Xun resumed cultivating while the Garbage Recycling Plant expanded its work across two Garbage Islands. Little Crane managed the growing operation and studied, while Big Black Ox discovered a new direction for the Formation Dao; the island settled into a busy, orderly routine.

• Chen Xun meditated by the shore and cultivated the Water Spirit Art as treasure hunters searched the Garbage Dump.
• Song Heng directed the hunters, while Little Crimson, Gu Li Sheng, and Mo Fuyang sorted materials and maintained the operation.
• Qing Wan and Qing Li led clansmen in mapping and organizing the two Garbage Islands, and Mo Fuyang enforced order between them.
• Little Crane studied immortal history and oversaw arrangements with Yun Jin and Luo Shuang, while tracking the group's income, expenses, and resources.
• Little Crane read that the Profound Rank Thousand Machines Spirit Seal could deploy a Dao Integration True Lord, then returned to studying after remembering NanGong HeLing's instruction.
• Big Black Ox studied a Formation Dao Teaching Stone and decided to build its own approach around Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and the General Trend of Heaven and Earth.

Five hundred years passed as the Garbage Recycling Plant grew on Garbage Island, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox planned to buy a secure home on Leaving Dust Island. The chapter ended with Little Crane and Little Crimson arriving to join them at the shore.

• Over five hundred years, Yun Jin and Luo Shuang advanced to become young Immortal Pavilion stewards, while Mist Nether's ships brought more than forty thousand Treasure Hunters to the Garbage Dump.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox joked about their spending and recalled protecting their old pots, bowls, and utensils together.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that he had connections at the Profound Cave Dao Academy and planned to send Little Crane there to study.
• Chen Xun proposed buying a large Leaving Dust Island property with a spirit vein as their first safe home, and Big Black Ox eagerly agreed.
• Big Black Ox developed the Five Elements Decomposition Great Array, hiding its Array Eye beneath Garbage Island in a strand of its Five Elements Nascent Soul.
• Little Crane and Little Crimson arrived at the shore, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox welcomed them.

Chen Xun reflected on the strange strengths of the myriad races and the human race’s standing among them, then told Little Crane it was time for her to go see the world. Little Crane feared they would be separated, but Big Black Ox reassured her they were not going far.

• Chen Xun considered how Little Crimson benefited from the Soul Nourishing Spirit Weeping Clan’s Soul Nourishing Liquid, while he and Big Black Ox had no use for it.
• Chen Xun recalled that humans ranked among the Strongest Ten Thousand Clans and wondered whether Ji Kun might be a powerful being reborn, though Song Heng had confirmed that reincarnation did not exist in the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Chen Xun sat by the sea with Little Crane, Little Crimson, and Big Black Ox and told Little Crane he planned to buy property on Leaving Dust Island.
• Chen Xun told Little Crane she should go out and see the world, prompting her to fear that they would be separated.
• Little Crimson worried that Chen Xun was sending Little Crane into the dangerous Great Age, while Big Black Ox patted her head to reassure her they would not go far.