Chapter Summaries

Qionghua Shuiyu reunited with Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, chatted with them, and offered Big Black Ox healing pills. Qionghua Yanbin interrupted and offered his own pills, but Chen Xun rejected them, leaving the exchange tense.

• Qionghua Shuiyu spotted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox and ignored Qionghua Yanbin’s warning to go greet them.
• Qionghua Yanbin led the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect group after Shuiyu and told them to keep her safe.
• Qionghua Shuiyu recognized Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, and the three chatted about their tribulation and injuries.
• Qionghua Shuiyu offered Big Black Ox a bottle of healing pills, prompting Chen Xun to recall someone who had once sincerely given Old Ox pills.
• Qionghua Yanbin called Shuiyu back and sent Chen Xun and Big Black Ox two bottles of pills, but Chen Xun returned them and refused the gift.

Qionghua Yanbin dismissed Chen Xun and Big Black Ox while leading Qionghua Shuiyu away, but more than ten thousand Heavenly Prides arrived and passed him without acknowledgment. They gathered around Chen Xun, leaving Yanbin and Shuiyu stunned by the Black-Faced Cultivator’s apparent influence.

• Qionghua Shuiyu apologized to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox for Qionghua Yanbin’s behavior and returned the Healing Pills to them.
• Qionghua Yanbin prepared to leave with the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect cultivators as two columns of more than ten thousand Heavenly Prides approached.
• Qionghua Yanbin greeted Ji Yan, but Ji Yan said they could discuss matters later and walked past him without stopping.
• The Heavenly Prides streamed past Qionghua Yanbin without sparing him a glance, while Zhu Xian realized the Black-Faced Cultivator he had met was connected to their gathering.
• Qi Ming flew toward Chen Xun and Big Black Ox at the giant boulder, and Qionghua Yanbin and Qionghua Shuiyu recognized that the Heavenly Prides had come for the Black-Faced Cultivator.

After Chen Xun successfully recovered from his ordeal, he and Big Black Ox left the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower surrounded by the respect of the Immortal Prison prodigies. He parted warmly from Qionghua Shuiyu and Zhu Xian, then learned Ji Yan had bought a manor and wondered how much it had cost.

• Ji Yan, Tian Li, Qi Ming, and the other prodigies respectfully helped Chen Xun and Big Black Ox after Chen Xun announced his success.
• Chen Xun led the Immortal Prison prodigies through the Nine Dragons Mystic Sect's encirclement, and the sect's cultivators made way for him.
• Chen Xun thanked Qionghua Shuiyu for her gift, reassured her that they remained friends, and promised they might meet again; Big Black Ox also said farewell to her.
• Chen Xun encouraged Zhu Xian for climbing beyond the three-hundredth floor of the Heavenly Passage Tower, then continued across the plains with his companions.
• Ji Yan said he would meet Chen Xun at the purchased manor after handling some matters, and Chen Xun privately worried that the manor had cost too many spirit stones.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recognized Dai Xinqing, an old acquaintance from their former realm, and learned that Huang Shao had been killed by an Immortal Hall expert. Chen Xun offered Dai Xinqing pills, but Dai declined and said he no longer wished to force his cultivation.

• Chen Xun asked Tian Li to take the others back while he and Big Black Ox went to meet an old acquaintance.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recognized the pavilion guard Dai Xinqing and spoke with him privately.
• Chen Xun recalled their shared past, and Dai Xinqing confirmed that he had entered the Great Age when the Realm Path opened.
• Dai Xinqing told Chen Xun that Huang Shao had been killed seven hundred years earlier by an Immortal Hall Harmony Dao expert.
• Chen Xun offered Dai Xinqing Fifth Grade High Level pills, but Dai declined and said he would let his cultivation progress naturally.

Chen Xun met Dai Xinqing, heard how the Southern Yu Immortal Hall had killed Huang Shao, and offered Dai Xinqing a place in Mengmu Great Sea Region. After leaving him with a promise and pills, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tested their luck at a stone-gambling stall, then planned their recovery and next steps.

• Dai Xinqing told Chen Xun that Southern Yu Immortal Hall had hunted down Huang Shao after a powerful clan descendant accused him of crimes.
• Chen Xun invited Dai Xinqing to return with him to Mengmu Great Sea Region, but Dai Xinqing refused because he wanted to fulfill Huang Shao's last wish.
• As Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed, Chen Xun told Dai Xinqing to live well and promised to give the Realm Myriad Spirits an answer, leaving him a bottle of high-grade pills.
• Chen Xun visited a stone-gambling stall with Big Black Ox and bought a low-grade Spirit Stone that the stall owner had cut from a Heaven Concealing Stone.
• On an uninhabited hill, Chen Xun told Big Black Ox they would recover at their Spirit Realm Estate, conceal their Mahayana cultivation, and later pursue their plans for the Dao Academy, the Great World Mortal Realm, and Desolate Heaven.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Mystic Micro Heaven Capital’s central region and arrived at Spirit Realm Estate, where their companions had gathered after breaking through to Dao Integration. Chen Xun welcomed them and urged them to stabilize their cultivation before establishing themselves in the Mengmu Great Sea Region.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed for Spirit Realm Estate after leaving the plains around the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Spirit Realm Estate and were greeted by Tian Li, Qian Shan, Demon Moon, Yun Shao, and Yuan Ming.
• Chen Xun examined Yuan Ming and concluded that he was genuinely an ordinary cultivator whose strength came from his own opportunities.
• Chen Xun congratulated the five on reaching Dao Integration and told them to stabilize their realms before seeking rapid progress.
• Tian Li explained that Spirit Realm Estate had a fifth-grade spirit vein and enough spiritual energy, while Chen Xun said he was working on a solution to their shortage of High-Grade Spirit Stones.

Chen Xun confronted Demon Moon about her despair, and she revealed that her family and powerful elders had exploited her Water Moon Saint Body as a Furnace Cauldron Body. After she killed a Moonlit Radiance Race prodigy and fled, they sent her to the Immortal Prison, and Chen Xun was left struggling to respond to her painful past.

• Chen Xun led everyone into the Spirit Realm Estate and told them to stabilize their cultivation while he and Big Black Ox recovered in seclusion.
• Demon Moon told Chen Xun that she saw no meaning in living, and he challenged her to explain why she had betrayed her clan and killed a prodigy.
• Demon Moon revealed that she had once possessed the Water Moon Saint Body, and Chen Xun misunderstood its significance as a physique for Dao companions.
• Demon Moon explained that her family elders had exploited her as a Furnace Cauldron Body and planned to give her to an elder’s son.
• Demon Moon said she had killed the Moonlit Radiance Race prodigy, fled her clan, and been sent to the Immortal Prison, while Chen Xun listened in silence.

Chen Xun gave Demon Moon a robe and promised to take her to the Desolate Heaven Domain, where she could confront the Mahayana evil cultivator backed by the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect. After Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left to heal, Tian Li offered to help Demon Moon, but she refused and departed.

• Chen Xun offered Demon Moon a gray robe he had made and told her to stay alive until they reached the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Demon Moon warned Chen Xun that her enemy was a Mahayana cultivator backed by the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect, but Chen Xun said he and Big Black Ox would go after him.
• Chen Xun gave Demon Moon the robe and left with Big Black Ox to enter seclusion and heal their wounds.
• Tian Li approached Demon Moon and offered to enlist Ji Yan's help against her enemies, but Demon Moon said she did not need revenge and left.
• Tian Li returned to guard the gate, while Demon Moon watched him from a hill and quietly bowed.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox secluded themselves to recover and comprehended their unprecedented Great Vehicle breakthrough, which had fused ten thousand Great Daos into one. They emerged with overwhelming Five Elements and formation Rules of Power, and Chen Xun resolved to cultivate carefully while imagining how powerful he might become.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox settled into an unoccupied cave abode in the Spirit Realm Estate to heal and cultivate.
• Chen Xun reflected on how Great Vehicle cultivators fused Great Dao Power into Rules of Power and considered the role of High-Grade Spirit Stones and Immortal Realm Heavenly Origin in advancement.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox broke through into the Great Vehicle Honored One Realm after the Immortal Realm’s lightning ground their ten thousand Daos together, though no outsiders knew of their achievement.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gained powerful Five Elements Rules of Power, while Big Black Ox’s formation Dao rules suppressed other Great Vehicle rule-based methods.
• Chen Xun calculated that they could add up to 440 points in the Great Vehicle Realm and estimated that maxing their five attributes would take 450 years.
• Chen Xun imagined wielding ten thousand Dao rules with overwhelming power, then reminded himself to stay cautious and live to the end.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reflected on the cultivation rules and immense potential of the Great Vehicle Realm while recovering from their injuries. They remained unable to find medicine to restore their Five Elements Nascent Souls, and their cultivation continued slowly in seclusion.

• Chen Xun considered how fusing Heaven and Earth essence, Five Elements Qi, and Heavenly Origin Qi could eventually produce an Immortal Dao divine ability, though they had only formed one strand of Innate Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun compared the Great Vehicle Realm’s stages, Rules of Power, and suppression between realms, concluding that he and Big Black Ox could become overwhelmingly powerful as they advanced.
• Chen Xun planned to use the Heavenly Origin they had captured to cultivate Great Dao Rules Power and calculated how Longevity Points could accelerate their progress.
• Chen Xun noted that Little Crane’s main body was healthy and could absorb enough Five Elements Qi in the Great Age.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stayed silent in their cave abode, tending their wounds and stabilizing their realms as shoots slowly grew from their Five Elements Spirit Roots.

Three years after entering seclusion, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox emerged with their Dao Artifacts transformed and their power greatly strengthened. While fishing with Ji Yan, Chen Xun reaffirmed his trust in his followers, and Ji Yan warned that the Garbage Recycling Plant could not yet compete with Heavenly Capital’s immense factions, especially the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox emerged from three years of seclusion, and Chen Xun’s three Mountain-Splitting Axes had merged into the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Five-Elements Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan fished together, and Ji Yan said the followers who had received Longevity Fruits had kept the matter secret.
• Chen Xun told Ji Yan that he trusted his followers and would not stop them if they chose to leave, though he had prepared ways to preserve his life if they betrayed him.
• Ji Yan explained that the Garbage Recycling Plant was too small to make an impact in Heavenly Capital, where powerful factions controlled vast trades and industries.
• Ji Yan said the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall held immense power, occupied many Small Realms, and had originated the Dao of immortal puppets.

Ji Yan and Chen Xun discussed building a powerful faction around the Garbage Recycling Plant, using Big Black Ox’s formations to break down large quantities of cultivation waste. Ji Yan left in high spirits after learning Chen Xun’s cultivation plans, while Chen Xun was devastated to discover that Ji Yan had bought Spirit Realm Estate for three billion Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Ji Yan told Chen Xun that they needed to develop a colossus capable of rivaling the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance before confronting its backers.
• Chen Xun revealed that the Garbage Recycling Plant could process shattered Thousand Machines Spirit Seals, and Big Black Ox said he could set up countless breakdown formations.
• Ji Yan planned to expand the faction’s mineral veins, War Magical Artifact industry, and spatial traversal routes, and to use the recovered resources to support its cultivators.
• Chen Xun said he could use the Purple Mansion Azure Spirit Liquid and Returning Origin Purple God Essence to raise Great Dao Power and help others cultivate.
• Ji Yan confirmed that Chen Xun had reached the early Dao Integration Stage, then caught a fish by chance and teased Chen Xun about winning at fishing.
• Ji Yan revealed that Spirit Realm Estate had cost three billion Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, leaving Chen Xun lamenting the price as Ji Yan walked away laughing.

After a month of preparation, Chen Xun and the Immortal Prison spirits entrusted their future business to Ji Yan and prepared to leave Mystic Micro Heaven Capital. Ji Yan planned to expand into war magical artifacts and new sea-region industries, while Chen Xun sent him off with an unexpected bargaining handbook.

• Chen Xun agreed to leave the industry to Ji Yan and said they would support him from behind.
• Ji Yan told Du Shi that their tickets were bought and they would depart at noon the next day.
• Qi Ming sensed that Big Black Ox’s aura had become impossible to detect, even with its Dao Integration Stage racial talent.
• Ji Yan planned to expand from the Garbage Recycling Plant into the Mengmu Great Sea Region and Nether Great Sea Abyss, while considering alliances and threats among local forces.
• Ji Yan proposed establishing a war magical artifact industry, and Chen Xun approved as long as he did not act recklessly.
• Chen Xun gave Ji Yan a handbook of bargaining insights, leaving Ji Yan confused by the gift.

Chen Xun and Ji Yan decided to trade away the War Magical Artifacts and leave Mystic Micro Heaven Capital with their companions. They boarded a Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship bound for the Southern Yu Continent, while those left behind reflected on their departure.

• Chen Xun persuaded Ji Yan to trade away the War Magical Artifacts and leave Mystic Micro Heaven Capital, and Ji Yan agreed to plan how to use the spirit stones.
• The Spirit Realm Estate formation closed, and Chen Xun, Black Ox, Ji Yan, and the others departed through the cloudborne passage; Qian Shan vowed to serve World Crossing Great One, while Yuan Ming resolved to visit Nine Dragons Mystic Sect someday.
• The group boarded a Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship at Azure Dragon Platform and set its destination for the Southern Yu Continent.
• Chen Xun and Black Ox watched Mystic Micro Heaven Capital recede as the ship entered the Space Channel, while Dai Xinqing and the Integration boss remembered or sensed the departing seniors.

Chen Xun realized that refining his fused Rule Daos could take a million years, and he and Big Black Ox resumed cultivation aboard the Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship. The ship arrived at Leaving Dust Island, where NanGong HeLing was guarded by the powerful members of the Garbage Recycling Plant.

• Chen Xun calculated that refining his Rule Daos could take a million years and understood why prodigies reduced their Great Dao Powers before breaking through to Great Vehicle.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox resumed meditation in their cave abode and observed the changes in Heavenly Origin as the ship traveled.
• The escorting Venerable sensed his Rules of Power trembling and left his cave abode, unable to meditate through his unease.
• The Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship emerged at the spatial teleportation ring platform on Leaving Dust Island in the Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• Cultivators watched as members of the Garbage Recycling Plant guarded NanGong HeLing, whose status and connections to Mist Nether drew wary speculation.

Chen Xun and Black Ox returned from the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower to the Mengmu Great Sea Region, where their overwhelming Great Dao Power and the arrival of more than ten thousand Dao Integration powerhouses stunned the gathered cultivators. Their force’s rise began spreading through the region, while Yun Ying decided to stay and watch what came next.

• Yin Tianshou waited for Chen Xun and Black Ox, wondering whether they had remained inside the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower for nearly four hundred years.
• Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng bickered on the platform, and Mo Fuyang questioned Gu Li Sheng about his claimed marriage pact with Chi Ye.
• Chen Xun and Black Ox emerged from the Space Ship, and their concealed Great Dao Power shook Desolate Gold, the other guardians, and Yin Tianshou.
• Little Crane and Little Crimson joyfully reunited with Chen Xun and Black Ox as more than ten thousand Dao Integration powerhouses followed them onto the platform.
• The gathered cultivators were overwhelmed by the force’s killing aura, and news of its strength began spreading throughout the region.
• Yun Ying decided to remain in the Mengmu Great Sea Region and watch the newcomers’ journey, while Ji Yan welcomed the display of strength.

Chen Xun and his companions prepared to leave the sea region and later showed their friends a recording of Mystic Micro Heaven Capital. The chapter ended with Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng looking forward to visiting it with Chen Xun.

• Yin Tianshou tested Chen Xun’s resolve, then relaxed when Chen Xun calmly showed him respect.
• Ji Yan left to make arrangements, including investigating the sellers of Immortal Slaves and planning a gathering with the Nine Heavens Immortal Sound Pavilion.
• Chen Xun told his companions they might leave the sea region after Little Crane left the Dao Academy, and they joked about earning spirit stones by selling Little Crimson.
• At Spotless Immortal Ridge, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox proudly showed everyone an Image Recording Stone of Mystic Micro Heaven Capital.
• Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng marveled at the recording and agreed they wanted to visit Mystic Micro Heaven Capital with Chen Xun.

Chen Xun reassured Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng that they could keep working at the Garbage Recycling Plant under Ji Yan, then gave them access to Nine Heavens Peak as a cultivation ground. As everyone watched the Image Recording Stone, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox relaxed aboard the World Breaking Ship, encouraged by the Heavenly Origin’s promise of faster cultivation and comforted by their reunited family.

• Chen Xun told Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng that Ji Yan would manage the Garbage Recycling Plant, but they could continue working there and cultivate at Nine Heavens Peak.
• Chen Xun thanked Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng for their past help, while Gu Li Sheng eagerly agreed to buy Nine Heavens Peak for five billion Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun asked Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng to keep garbage decomposition operating at Spotless Immortal Ridge, and Big Black Ox also thanked them.
• The Image Recording Stone showed scenes from the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower, captivating Little Crane, Little Crimson, and Mo Fuyang as day turned to night.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed how cultivating the Heavenly Origin could shorten the time needed to refine the Great Dao, then rested together aboard the World Breaking Ship.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Leaving Dust Immortal Palace and told Yin Tianshou they had emerged from the Heavenly Passage Tower with their Dao foundations intact. Yin Tianshou agreed to guide their Dao Integration cultivation, and the chapter ended with the pair reacting dramatically to his promise to seek treasures for them if he advanced.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited Yin Tianshou and reported that their injuries had healed and their Dao foundations remained unharmed.
• Yin Tianshou revealed that he had once ranked third on the Heavenly Passage Board, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned their Great Dao Power had surpassed his.
• Yin Tianshou offered to guide their Dao Integration cultivation and teach Big Black Ox the Dao of talisman arrays without becoming their master.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox assured Yin Tianshou that they had enough resources from the Garbage Recycling Plant and did not expect him to provide for them.
• Yin Tianshou said he would retrieve treasures from Desolate Heaven if he reached Dao Integration Late Stage, prompting Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to shout in alarm.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox agreed to receive six hundred years of instruction from Yin Tianshou before leaving the Mengmu Great Sea Region. After they departed, Yin Tianshou remembered his rise, his desperate efforts to save his realm’s people, and how he eventually became a Great Vehicle Honored One who guarded the region; Cui Ying joined him as he watched the two juniors go.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox told Yin Tianshou they planned to leave the region after Third Sister left the Dao Academy, and he agreed to teach them for six hundred years beginning in five days.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Yin Tianshou Image Recording Stones from Mystic Micro Heaven Capital before departing.
• Yin Tianshou remembered becoming a celebrated sword prodigy, opening the Great World Source, and leaving for Mystic Micro Heaven Capital with Cui Ying.
• After learning that the Immortal Hall had destroyed his realm and hunted its cultivators, Yin Tianshou pleaded for them and accepted a thousand years of struggle in the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Yin Tianshou returned, confronted Mystic Micro Celestial Venerable, and secured the absolution of the Realm Lifeforms before rising through the Immortal Hall to become a Great Vehicle Honored One.
• Cui Ying joined Yin Tianshou as he watched Chen Xun and Big Black Ox depart, and she shared his gentle regard for the juniors.