Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tried gambling on Heaven Concealing Stones and lost five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones without finding a treasure. They then reached the Heavenly Passage Tower, where they heard that an Earth Spirit Race Heavenly Pride had risen to ninth place on the thousandth-floor rankings.

• A young man paid two hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to have a Heaven Concealing Stone cut, but it contained nothing.
• Chen Xun chatted with stone-gambling cultivators, then bought and cut five stones with Big Black Ox; none yielded a treasure.
• Big Black Ox dragged Chen Xun away after he lost five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and Chen Xun swore off stone gambling before reconsidering reputable shops.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived beneath the Heavenly Passage Tower and heard that an Earth Spirit Race Heavenly Pride had broken the thousandth-floor record and ranked ninth.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the Heavenly Passage Tower and easily overcame the first floor’s hazards. They reached the next floor and eagerly prepared to receive their first Heaven and Earth Gift.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered information about the Heavenly Passage Tower, then connected their divine consciousness to enter it.
• The tower’s attempt to record their auras triggered azure light and the Essence of All Things, startling cultivators outside as the Heavenly Passage Board trembled.
• On the first floor, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived in a volcanic wasteland and adopted their fearsome Bandit Set disguises.
• Big Black Ox stopped a falling heavenly fire with Five Elements Divine Light, and Chen Xun destroyed the floor’s natural disasters with a devastating Axe Light.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox climbed the white staircase, passed through the gateway, and set up 108 incense burners to receive the Heaven and Earth Gift.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox repeatedly entered the Heavenly Passage Tower to collect Heaven and Earth Gifts, advancing their Five Elements cultivation while other cultivators climbed its floors. Their rapid progress stirred the Mystic Micro Immortal Realm, where powerful factions began investigating the newcomers and learned that extraordinary juniors had returned from the Taiyi Immortal Prison.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the gateway, reentered the Heavenly Passage Tower, and discovered they could return to its first floor to receive another Heaven and Earth Gift.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox repeatedly traversed the tower’s first five floors, enduring natural disasters and gathering gifts while keeping their visits inconspicuous.
• After a month, Chen Xun’s Five Elements Immortal Eyes and Life-Death Seal began to take shape, and his body started advancing toward a Five Elements Immortal Body as Big Black Ox also transformed.
• In Star Pivot, Ji Yan and other Sinful Spirits shared their floor progress, while Chen Xun revealed he and Big Black Ox were around the thirtieth floor.
• Cultivators across the Mystic Micro Immortal Realm investigated the unfamiliar names appearing on the Heavenly Passage Board, and powerful factions learned that extraordinary juniors had returned from the Taiyi Immortal Prison.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox repeatedly harvested Heaven and Earth Gifts from the Heavenly Passage Tower, and their relentless efforts caused their first-floor disaster world to collapse. They moved to the second floor and continued, eventually collapsing that floor too.

• Chen Xun studied the Great Dao Chains within himself and wrote down his theories about the Immortal Dao and the Heavenly Passage Tower.
• Big Black Ox used Heaven and Earth Gifts to upgrade its Five Elements Array Flags and develop a Great Dao array.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox repeatedly entered the tower’s first five floors to gather Heaven and Earth Gifts.
• After a month, the first-floor world collapsed, forcing Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to flee to the second floor.
• Two months later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox caused their second-floor world to collapse as well.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued advancing through the Heavenly Passage Tower as the Immortal Prison survivors gathered on its hundredth level. Outside the tower, Qing Yue and Shen Lanfeng discussed the trembling rankings and the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race’s suspected revival, which could threaten the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox plundered the Heaven and Earth Gifts on the tower’s first two levels, severed hundreds of Great Dao Chains, and charged into the third level.
• A year later, the Immortal Prison survivors reached the hundredth level, where Ji Yan mapped a route through its deadly illusion maze and the World-Saving Old Man urged them to press on.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the tenth level and passed through the eleventh, fifteenth, and thirtieth levels in single breaths as the Heavenly Passage Board began trembling.
• Qing Yue and Shen Lanfeng dismissed the tower’s shaking rankings as a commotion caused by juniors and continued discussing Yin Tianshou.
• Shen Lanfeng told Qing Yue that the Nine Heavens Shadowless Race had withdrawn and that the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race might have revived to settle accounts with the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Ji Yan and the Immortal Prison forces on the hundredth floor, then led them upward aboard the World Breaking Ship. As the others cultivated, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox broke through the tower’s hazards and continued toward higher floors.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the hundredth floor and used the Five Elements Array Flags and World Breaking Ship to cross its Phantom Labyrinth.
• Ji Yan and the Immortal Prison forces waited in the labyrinth until Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived, their power astounding Qian Shan and Demon Moon.
• Ji Yan told Chen Xun that the group might fall behind on higher floors, but Chen Xun said they would keep climbing as far as they could.
• Big Black Ox guided the ship through the Heavenly Passage Great Dao, and the Immortal Prison forces boarded and began comprehending the Heaven and Earth Gifts.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox shattered the tower’s hazards with axe strikes as the World Breaking Ship sailed onward, allowing the others to strengthen their foundations.

After a thousand years climbing the Heavenly Passage Tower, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the gateway to the two-thousandth floor, badly injured and at the limit of what they could endure. They repaired their ship while their companions cultivated, then set out ahead alone as Ji Yan waited for them in the gateway.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox led the group through the tower’s increasingly dangerous floors, gathering Heaven and Earth Gifts and protecting their companions along the way.
• At the two-thousandth-floor gateway, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox were severely wounded, and Chen Xun told the group they could go no farther with them for now.
• Ji Yan reassured Chen Xun that the group would cultivate in the gateway and wait, while Demon Moon urged him not to die.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox repaired the damaged World Breaking Ship as their companions entered seclusion behind Big Black Ox’s formations.
• Half a year later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed along the path to heaven, and Ji Yan told them to act within their limits.

After a thousand years in the Heavenly Passage Tower, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox accepted destruction and rebirth with calm, passed through the tower’s disasters untouched, and left with a Heaven and Earth Gift. They resumed tempering their Great Dao on the lower levels, and a century later Chen Xun’s Five Elements Immortal Eyes broke free of their restraints and revealed their true form.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sailed through a world-breaking storm without resisting, while Chen Xun painted and Big Black Ox recorded the journey.
• They passed a falling star and completed their thousand-year journey through the Heavenly Passage Tower, receiving a Heaven and Earth Gift before leaving.
• After briefly blending in among the cultivators outside, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the tower and began tempering their Great Dao on its lower levels.
• For a hundred years, they entered and exited the tower each month, severing their own Great Dao Chains and strengthening their foundations.
• On the tower’s tenth level, three thousand Great Dao Chains broke, allowing Chen Xun’s Five Elements Immortal Eyes to evolve into their true form.
• Chen Xun unleashed the Five Elements Immortal Eyes, whose power spread across the Disaster Heaven and Earth and cut down the Chaotic Great Dao.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox corrected the tenth floor of the Heavenly Passage Tower with the Five Elements, earning a gift from Heaven and Earth and advancing their cultivation. They continued climbing, repairing each floor and pursuing mastery of the Five Elements, Life and Death, and Yin Yang.

• Chen Xun used the Five Elements Power to restore order and vitality to Disaster Heaven and Earth on the tenth floor, and Heaven and Earth bestowed rosy light upon him.
• Chen Xun realized he had reached Mid-Stage Dao Integration, suppressed his cultivation, and vowed not to leave the tower until he reached Great Vehicle and the limit of his foundation.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox he would teach it the Five Elements Immortal Eyes, while Big Black Ox would need to comprehend the other Great Daos on its own.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox set out again, using their different methods to correct the floors of the Heavenly Passage Tower as they climbed.
• They nourished incense burners and other old items with Heaven and Earth Gifts while traveling through the tower, growing increasingly ethereal as the years passed.

After a thousand years of quietly climbing the Heavenly Passage Tower, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached its three-thousandth floor and confronted the Ancient Immortal Clan and Ancient True Dragon Clan. The two sides faced each other across the plain, poised for battle.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reflected on how the journey through the Heavenly Passage Tower had brought them greater insights than its rewards.
• After another thousand years, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the three-thousandth floor without drawing the notice of the other cultivators.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox struggled under the floor's ancient, orderly Great Dao, so Big Black Ox used the Five Elements Array Flags to shield them.
• The palace across the plain awakened and released a powerful battle intent that locked onto Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.
• A man of the Ancient Immortal Clan appeared with an Ancient True Dragon, and the pair faced Chen Xun and Big Black Ox across the plain.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox confronted Tai Xiao and the Ancient True Dragon on the three-thousandth floor of the Heavenly Passage Tower, where Tai Xiao challenged them to prove they could pass. Chen Xun fought Tai Xiao with his death-qi axe and Five Elements Immortal Path, but Tai Xiao’s power began collapsing Chen Xun’s Five Elements Qi.

• Tai Xiao demanded that Chen Xun and Big Black Ox leave his dao field unless they could defeat him and the Ancient True Dragon.
• Chen Xun struck Tai Xiao’s Great Dao Power with his axe while Big Black Ox and the Ancient True Dragon began fighting.
• Tai Xiao summoned his dao artifact, the Supreme Firmament Ancient Hall, and clashed with Chen Xun’s death-qi axe.
• Tai Xiao summoned his Heavenly Form and Earthly Manifestation, revealing a vast dharma manifestation filled with stars and Great Dao Power.
• Chen Xun manifested his Five Elements Immortal Path, but Tai Xiao’s dharma manifestation began collapsing the Five Elements Qi around him.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox fought Tai Xiao and the Ancient True Dragon on the three-thousandth level of the Heavenly Passage Tower, but the battle ended with both sides withdrawing. Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stayed behind to recover from their injuries.

• Chen Xun summoned a Death Qi Fiend and clashed with Tai Xiao, trading powerful attacks including Extinguishing Divine Power and the Starfall Art.
• Tai Xiao's Big Black Coffin overwhelmed the Ancient True Dragon, and the Supreme Firmament Ancient Hall struck Chen Xun and forced him back.
• Tai Xiao rescued the weakened Ancient True Dragon and withdrew, leaving Chen Xun and Big Black Ox without pursuing them.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reflected on the strength and accumulated heritage of the Ancient Immortal Clan before deciding to cultivate further.
• Chen Xun coughed blood from damage to his primordial spirit origin, and he and Big Black Ox recuperated for several days on the tower's three-thousandth level.

Tai Xiao and Long Yuan recovered from their defeat in the Heavenly Passage Tower and discussed the mysterious cultivators whose powers had overwhelmed them. Tai Xiao resolved to study their methods and prepare for another encounter, believing the Dao Integration Stage would be where the age’s Heavenly Prides truly distinguished themselves.

• Tai Xiao told Long Yuan that he had removed the formation foundations planted in Long Yuan’s body and that Long Yuan’s injuries were still severe.
• Tai Xiao and Long Yuan discussed the mysterious fighters’ abilities and considered whether they might be Other Spirits, while Tai Xiao identified Ancient Star Sea and Ling Meng Li as peerless Refining Void cultivators.
• Tai Xiao revealed that death qi had entered his Dao artifact and invaded his Great Dao, leaving him with a wound that would take time to disperse.
• Tai Xiao considered the risks of cultivating Five Elements Qi and suspected the mysterious fighter might belong to one of two races.
• Tai Xiao and Long Yuan reflected on Great Dao Chains, the limits of Refining Void cultivation, and how the Dao Integration Stage would determine the Heavenly Prides’ future strength.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox explored the upper floors of the Heavenly Passage Tower, avoiding unnecessary risks as they searched for the Heavenly Origin. After two hundred years of climbing, they found a realm of primordial chaos and the Heavenly Origin Qi they had sought, preparing to take one treasure and study it.

• Tai Xiao and Long Yuan began healing, planning to enter the Heavenly Passage Tower again after recovering.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox explored the palace on the three-thousandth floor and decided to seek the Heavenly Origin rather than climb toward the tower’s unknown summit.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox continued climbing peacefully, gathering spirit medicine, exotic flowers, and Immortal Realm stones along the way.
• Two hundred years later, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox reached a dark, chaotic realm filled with primordial Heavenly Origin Qi.
• Chen Xun told the Big Black Ox to take one Heavenly Origin, and the Big Black Ox brought out the Big Black Coffin as they prepared to secure it.

In the Heavenly Passage Tower, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox considered rebuilding their Small Realm and discovered how Heavenly Origin could be stabilized and expanded with Essence of All Things. They left with a plan to cultivate it into a vast source of Heavenly Origin Qi for future cultivators.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sat amid the Heavenly Origin and discussed rebuilding their Small Realm, while Chen Xun said Third Sister still had its origin and that he wanted an explanation from those responsible.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox roughhoused on the three thousand one hundredth floor, where the Heavenly Origin Qi’s pressure could no longer harm them.
• Chen Xun revealed a Heavenly Origin he had secretly captured and determined it required Three Thousand Great Dao Power to suppress.
• Big Black Ox infused the Heavenly Origin with Essence of All Things, stabilizing it and slightly expanding its reserves of Heavenly Origin Qi.
• Chen Xun realized the Heavenly Origin could support cultivation and proposed growing it to the size of the star in Heavenly Capital, while he and Big Black Ox hoped to raise the Immortal Dao’s upper limit for future generations.

After leaving the Heavenly Passage Tower, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox contacted Little Crane and arranged to borrow her Natal Magic Treasure to comprehend Yin-Yang and perfect their Five Elements Immortal Path. They returned to the tower to prepare for their breakthrough to the Great Ascension Stage, while Little Crane headed back to Nine Heavens Peak to prepare as well.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recorded an image, stored the Heaven and Earth Gift, and left the tower after harvesting it from their floor.
• Outside the tower, Chen Xun contacted Little Crane through the Void Transmission Disc, and they chatted about their time apart and their adventures.
• Chen Xun asked to borrow Little Crane's Natal Magic Treasure so he and Big Black Ox could comprehend the Yin Yang Grand Dao, and Little Crane agreed.
• Chen Xun told Little Crane to return to Nine Heavens Peak and prepare, and she said she would have fourth brother come pick her up.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Heavenly Passage Tower aboard a Giant Ship to prepare to perfect their Five Elements Immortal Path and advance toward Great Ascension.

After five hundred years, Chen Xun joined Little Crane’s Yin-Yang world to the Crane Spirit Five Elements Yin Yang Tree and discovered how to combine Yin-Yang and Five Elements power. He began comprehending the Five Elements Yin Yang Grand Dao, sending its radiance through the Heavenly Passage Tower.

• Five hundred years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared for their final breakthrough aboard the World Breaking Ship on the thousandth floor.
• Chen Xun connected his Five Elements Immortal Eyes to the Crane Spirit Five Elements Yin Yang Tree as Little Crane linked her main body to the tree through space and time.
• Chen Xun explored the tree’s Yin and Yang regions, then realized he needed to stand on the bridge between them to understand how to balance heaven and earth.
• With Chen Xun’s call, Little Crane helped draw Yin-Yang energy from the bridge, and Heavenly Origin Qi merged with the world.
• Chen Xun combined Five Elements Qi and Yin-Yang Qi within himself and comprehended the Five Elements Yin Yang Grand Dao, sending multicolored power into the next level of the Heavenly Passage Tower.

Chen Xun united the paths of life and death, yin and yang, and the Heaven and Earth Five Elements, becoming the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and gaining a powerful life-preserving method. He passed his understanding to the Big Black Ox, which later displayed a mysterious technique that concealed its location and aura.

• Chen Xun fused the three paths through Great Dao Power and transformed into the Five Elements, suppressing the surrounding forces.
• Chen Xun proclaimed himself the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, made the Big Black Ox bow, and explained the limits and new abilities of his power.
• Chen Xun transmitted his Dao comprehension to the Big Black Ox and told it to continue studying through Third Sister's Natal Magic Treasure.
• One year later, the Big Black Ox traversed the Tree Realm as Five Elements Array Disks appeared beneath its hooves, concealing its location and aura.
• Chen Xun praised the Big Black Ox's new technique and noted that it could scatter traces through the Five Elements Qi.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox underwent a devastating tribulation on the 3,100th floor of the Heavenly Passage Tower and forced their cultivation into the Mahayana realm. A hundred years later, they emerged battered and dazed, having achieved their breakthrough.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox traveled to the 3,100th floor to break through while using the Heavenly Passage Tower to resist the Chaotic Great Dao.
• They triggered an unprecedented Immortal Realm heavenly tribulation that engulfed them in destructive lightning.
• After one year, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox recovered and used the Heaven and Earth Gift to raise their cultivation.
• They advanced to Dao Integration Late Stage Peak while the Immortal Realm’s rejection force and lightning battered them.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun and the half-dead Big Black Ox left the Heavenly Passage Tower and announced that they had achieved Mahayana.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recovered from a devastating heavenly tribulation after climbing the Heavenly Passage Tower, while Zhu Xian mistook their ordeal for an ordinary tower challenge. The Nine Dragons Mystic Sect arrived, and Qionghua Yanbin waited for Ji Yan as Qionghua Shuiyu spotted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox below.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox rested after the lightning tribulation destroyed their defenses and consumed two of their Primordial Spirits.
• Zhu Xian approached Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, asked about the tower’s disasters, and was astonished that they had climbed more than a hundred floors.
• Zhu Xian watched three World Crossing Space Ships of the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect arrive and recognized the sect’s powerful reputation.
• Qionghua Yanbin asked whether Ji Yan and the others had left the Heavenly Passage Tower, and a Dao Integration cultivator reported that Star Heaven would not pursue their grievances.
• Qionghua Yanbin said he would wait for Ji Yan, while Qionghua Shuiyu spotted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox among the cultivators below.