Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun rewarded Yu Fangshuo and Gui Ming with Longevity Fruits and asked them to investigate targets in the Desolate Heaven Domain. As Chen Xun and Big Black Ox waited for the Wood Clan to awaken, Yu Ning Honored One arrived at the Mu Yuan Realm and was trapped by a powerful array.

• Chen Xun offered Yu Fangshuo and Gui Ming Longevity Fruits that extended life by two thousand years, then entrusted them with investigating targets in the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Yu Fangshuo and Gui Ming admired Chen Xun's portraits, accepted his task, and left to carry it out.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that they would attend the Immortal Kingdom Dao Discussion, then prepared for the arrival of someone they suspected was behind the schemes against them.
• Yu Ning Honored One fled to the Mu Yuan Realm after being wounded and planned to question his tree spirit ally while pursuing control of the Wood Clan's inheritance.
• Yu Ning Honored One sensed a trap, failed to escape with his Space Teleportation Token, and was surrounded by a suppressive Rules Array.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox killed Yu Ning Honored One, severing his Immortal Dao Source and ending his revival contingencies. Three days later, the Mu Yuan Realm recovered, its people revered NanGong HeLing as the Tree Ancestor, and she declared the crisis over.

• Chen Xun’s ten golden formation discs suppressed Yu Ning Honored One before an Axe Light destroyed his body and annihilated his Primordial Spirit, severing his Immortal Dao Source.
• Yu Ning Honored One’s revival contingencies perished as people and creatures tied to him across the Southern Yu Continent also died.
• Three days later, the Mu Family awoke to find their bloodline shackles gone and the Mu Yuan Realm intact, while the Wood Clan ancestors acknowledged their past mistakes.
• Chen Xun urged the Wood Clan to avoid evil and cooperate properly with the Garbage Recycling Plant, and the ancestors agreed.
• The Mu Yuan Realm’s living beings worshipped the Crane Spirit Yin Yang Five Elements Tree and NanGong HeLing as Tree Ancestor, while Mu Jin mourned Qing Yao.
• NanGong HeLing appeared in the sky, restored the Mu Yuan Realm’s vitality, and told everyone to cultivate in peace.

Little Crane destroyed the Evil Tree, absorbed the Mu Yuan Realm’s source, and reunited with Chen Xun and Big Black Ox after reaching the Refining Void Stage. Meanwhile, Yin Tianshou realized that Ji Yan’s commotion on Mu Yuan Island might have been a diversion for Chen Xun’s actions elsewhere.

• The Wood Clan and Mu Yuan Realm’s inhabitants thanked the Tree Ancestor after she revealed the Evil Tree’s harm and assured them that the realm would survive as long as she did.
• Little Crane reunited with Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, and they celebrated her growth and breakthrough aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Yin Tianshou surrounded Mu Yuan Island with Immortal Hall forces and ordered the factions there to avoid a major conflict.
• The Spirit Mist Immortal Palace announced that the Garbage Recycling Plant and Mu Yuan Island were only discussing a matter, calming cultivators across the region.
• Yin Tianshou examined the Wood Clan’s blood poison, suspected that it had been hidden in their innate vital essence, and realized that the commotion might have helped Chen Xun act unseen.

The Garbage Recycling Plant faced down the Immortal Hall at Mu Yuan Island, then departed under Qian Shan’s command to attack the Azure Sea Phantom Underworld Clan. As Chen Xun and his companions sailed away from the Mengmu Great Sea Region, those who had met them offered farewells and blessings.

• Qian Shan argued that the Garbage Recycling Plant had only passed through Mu Yuan Island and warned the Immortal Hall not to misuse the Great World Rules.
• Yin Tianshou ended the standoff after hearing Qian Shan confirm they would leave, and he suspected Ji Yan was plotting against the Eight Meridians Jiaolong Clan.
• Qian Shan revealed that the Spirit Mist Immortal Palace had authorized an external war and led the Garbage Recycling Plant to attack the Azure Sea Phantom Underworld Clan.
• Yin Tianshou watched the group depart and worried about Ji Yan’s plans, while hoping Chen Xun would make a name for himself beyond the region.
• Ji Yan, Mo Yehan, Song Heng, Gu Li Sheng, and Yun Jin each offered farewells or blessings to Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun and three companions sailed away aboard a Giant Ship toward an unknown land.

Aboard the World Breaking Ship, Chen Xun and his companions listened to news of sweeping advances across the Cultivation World and discussed their hopes for the future. As the ship continued toward the Great World Mortal Realm, Chen Xun teased Little Crane about his knowledge before she corrected him.

• Chen Xun listened to reports about Mist Nether’s Divine Sense Nether technique, an expedition into the Land of Emptiness, and new artifact-refinement methods, while lamenting that his Mystic-rank array disk cut off the details.
• Chen Xun heard that three major Formation Dao powers were nearing completion of the Azure Sky Dao Orbit and hoped to invest in or travel on it with his family.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson discussed the abundance of mineral resources in the Land of Emptiness, and Chen Xun said he already had a plan but urged them not to rush.
• Chen Xun boasted to Little Crane that Immortal Emperors proved his knowledge, but Little Crane pointed out that Immortal Emperor was a title rather than a cultivation realm.
• Chen Xun changed the subject by telling Little Crimson to shrink to the size of a village dog, and the companions laughed as the World Breaking Ship flew onward.

Five years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Third Sister, and Little Crimson reached Qiong Yang Town in the Great World Mortal Realm. As they charged toward town, Chen Xun declared that their new life was beginning.

• The chapter described the Great World Mortal Realm, where mortals and immortals lived alongside one another and martial arts flourished.
• Qiong Yang Town prospered as a trading hub, with spirit beast caravans bringing goods from across the region.
• At sunset, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Third Sister, and Little Crimson appeared on the road outside town.
• Chen Xun excitedly ran toward Qiong Yang Town with his companions and announced that their new life was beginning.

Chen Xun and his companions entered Qiong Yang Town and discovered a bustling mortal civilization that used spirit stones and talismans to power unusual devices. They began exploring the town’s annual trading fair, where a vendor’s wife suspected they came from the martial world.

• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane marveled at Qiong Yang Town and its wheel-less iron boxes powered by inferior low-grade spirit stones.
• Little Crimson boasted that they would be invincible among mortals, and Chen Xun struck him for looking down on the town’s people.
• Chen Xun observed that the town blended mortal and immortal practices, and he and Big Black Ox realized they had plenty of spirit stones to trade.
• Chen Xun and his companions toured the trading fair, speaking with townsfolk as Little Crane admired the unfamiliar goods.
• A middle-aged vendor welcomed Chen Xun to his stall, while his wife suspected the visitors belonged to the martial world.

Chen Xun bought a spirit-powered chilling talisman from Zhou Guang Han’s family, while Little Crane befriended the family’s three children and learned their names. After Zhou Guang Han tried to help her family sell more goods, her mother reprimanded her, leaving Little Crane amused and sympathetic.

• Chen Xun bought the chilling talisman for one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, paying with Big Black Ox’s stored stones.
• Little Crane spoke with Zhou Guang Han, Zhou Guang Dai, and Zhou Guang Yi, praised their names, and accepted Zhou Guang Han’s rabbit candy.
• Zhou Guang Han whispered that Little Crane could buy more of her family’s goods, and Little Crane played along.
• Zhou Guang Han excitedly told her mother that Little Crane wanted to buy many things, but her mother scolded her for trying to influence a customer.
• Little Crane clarified that Zhou Guang Han had not asked for anything, while Zhou Guang Han tearfully complained that she did not know the goods and was not allowed to touch them.

Little Crane bought out the Zhou family’s market stall, and Chen Xun and his companions later settled into a courtyard in Double Tree Alley. There, Chen Xun encountered an Old Blind Man whose paintings drew his attention, and he judged them to possess three-tenths of his own skill.

• Little Crane bought all of the Zhou family’s goods, and Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson carried them away as the Zhou family celebrated their good fortune.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun and his companions bought a small courtyard in Double Tree Alley, where the neighbors welcomed the Chen Family siblings.
• Chen Xun chatted with Aunt Wang in the alley before noticing an Old Blind Man selling paintings nearby.
• Chen Xun studied the Old Blind Man’s paintings and told him they possessed three-tenths of his skill.

Chen Xun met the Old Blind Man, whose painting insight into the veins of Heaven and Earth astonished him. The Old Blind Man declared that his Dao was accomplished, while the neighbors continued to regard his paintings as meaningless scribbles.

• The Old Blind Man recognized Chen Xun as an immortal cultivator and painted his portrait into a landscape without seeing him.
• The Old Blind Man explained that he painted the veins of Mountains and Rivers by walking, touching, and tracing them with his heart.
• Chen Xun realized the Old Blind Man had independently grasped an insight into Heaven and Earth Veins that Chen Xun had only reached at the Refining Void Stage.
• The Old Blind Man said he did not want his eyes cured because he had returned to his ancestral land and accomplished his Dao.
• Chen Xun went to buy the Old Blind Man wine, while the neighbors discussed how his paintings looked like childish scribbles and worried that he would go hungry.

Chen Xun and his family enjoyed ordinary life in the Mortal World while Little Crane heard Aunt Wang worry that Chen Xun was wasting his time with an Old Blind Man. At the alley entrance, Chen Xun brought the painter wine and asked to watch him work, ending by urging him to take up his brush.

• Little Crimson played with the neighborhood children while NanGong HeLing sewed and Big Black Ox rested in the courtyard.
• Aunt Wang visited and praised Big Black Ox before telling NanGong HeLing that Chen Xun had gone to learn painting from the Old Blind Man.
• NanGong HeLing reassured Aunt Wang that Chen Xun could choose his own path and reflected that she had begun to enjoy the Mortal World's everyday warmth.
• Chen Xun brought the Old Blind Man wine infused with medicinal herbs and asked to watch him paint.
• The Old Blind Man explained that his inability to see freed his paintings from the outside world's restraints, and Chen Xun urged him to take up his brush.

Chen Xun spent five years quietly watching the Old Blind Man paint, while life in the alley carried on around him. Zhou Guang Han visited NanGong HeLing and talked about her crush and her wish to see the world, then secretly insulted Chen Xun’s paintings, provoking Little Crimson.

• Chen Xun watched the Old Blind Man paint for years, pondering the painter’s Inner Heaven and Earth while neighbors assumed he was wasting his life.
• After five years in the alley, Zhou Guang Han visited NanGong HeLing, who told her Chen Xun and Big Black Ox had gone to plant crops outside town.
• Zhou Guang Han confided that she admired a young martial artist she had met and lamented that she wanted to see the world but might be left behind with her parents.
• NanGong HeLing defended Chen Xun as formidable, but clarified that he had never practiced martial arts.
• Zhou Guang Han recalled Chen Xun’s reckless antics from her childhood, then whispered that his paintings did not look like anything.
• Little Crimson barked furiously at Zhou Guang Han for insulting Chen Xun’s paintings.

Zhou Guang Han asked NanGong HeLing to have Chen Xun treat her parents if they fell ill, then waited with her at the Old Blind Man’s stall. When five armed Martial World People harassed NanGong HeLing, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and the people of Double Tree Alley beat them down.

• Zhou Guang Han apologized to NanGong HeLing for badmouthing Chen Xun and asked whether he could treat her parents in the future.
• Zhou Guang Han went with Little Crimson to wait for Chen Xun at the alley entrance, where NanGong HeLing sat beside the Old Blind Man and read.
• Chen Xun sang while walking home with Big Black Ox, making the plants wilt and sending the ox running ahead.
• Five armed Martial World People harassed NanGong HeLing and the Old Blind Man, so Zhou Guang Han called for help.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson attacked the five men, and dozens of people from Double Tree Alley rushed out to join the beating.
• The five Martial World People were left battered and helpless, and one of them admitted that the people of Double Tree Alley were too fierce.

After the neighbors comforted Chen Xun’s family over the defeated Jianghu thugs, Chen Xun offered to teach Zhou Guang Yi martial arts. Zhou Guang Yi eagerly accepted, while wondering about Chen Xun’s unusual family and Big Black Ox.

• The neighbors defended Chen Xun’s family and promised to help if the Jianghu thugs returned.
• Chen Xun praised Zhou Guang Yi for confronting the thugs and offered him morning martial arts lessons.
• Chen Xun demonstrated his speed, astonishing Zhou Guang Yi and his sisters, and Zhou Guang Yi agreed to train with him.
• Chen Xun called Zhou Guang Yi a promising Martial Arts Hero and left with Big Black Ox.
• Zhou Guang Yi’s sisters praised Little Crimson for joining the fight, and Zhou Guang Yi wondered whether Big Black Ox was a spirit beast.

Chen Xun quietly looked after Old Blind Man, while Zhou Guang Yi arrived before dawn to begin learning martial arts. Chen Xun invited him to meditate on the roof, where their training was about to begin.

• Zhou Guang Yi and the others laughed as Little Crimson caused an uproar by stealing chickens in the alley.
• Old Blind Man returned to his dark ancestral home, found the meal Chen Xun had prepared, and thanked him.
• Zhou Guang Yi arrived at Chen Xun's home before sunrise and saw NanGong HeLing reading, Big Black Ox beneath a tree, and Little Crimson under a quilt.
• Chen Xun told Zhou Guang Yi to meditate with him before martial arts practice and asked Big Black Ox to fetch a ladder.
• Chen Xun and Zhou Guang Yi climbed onto the roof, where Zhou Guang Yi felt his heart open as he looked over the alleys.

Chen Xun watched the Old Blind Man paint in the rain and sensed the painted world merging with reality, finally inspiring him to take up the brush. The chapter ended as a thunderstorm erupted and the painting began to shatter.

• Chen Xun taught Zhou Guang Yi meditation and strange martial arts postures, and Zhou Guang Yi grew stronger over the years.
• After five more years, Zhou Guang Yi left home to travel the martial world, while Chen Xun's alley neighbors continued their lives.
• Zhou Guang Dai left for a great city to study under a teacher, leaving Zhou Guang Han worried about her family and future.
• Chen Xun sat with the Old Blind Man as he painted in the rain, and the Old Blind Man described the spiritual world within his painting.
• Chen Xun watched the painting's world break into reality amid thunder, purple dragons, and torrential rain, and felt ready to paint himself.

Chen Xun painted with the wind and rain, discovering a way to let Heaven and Earth form an evolving world on the page. After sharing their visions of painting, he escorted the Old Blind Man home, where the old man reflected on Chen Xun’s name and began painting with his cane.

• At the Old Blind Man’s urging, Chen Xun painted in the storm without using magic to shield himself from the rain.
• Chen Xun let raindrops, wind, and the veins of Heaven and Earth shape a living landscape across the paper, then realized the world itself could serve as his canvas.
• Chen Xun and the Old Blind Man described their inner visions of Heaven and Earth, and Chen Xun explained that his painting had returned to the wind and rain.
• The Old Blind Man praised Chen Xun’s painting, and Chen Xun joked that the old man was three parts inferior to him.
• Chen Xun supported the chilled Old Blind Man home, dried his clothes with a spell, and listened as the old man called him Immortal Chen Xun before painting on the ground with his cane.

After another decade passed, Chen Xun continued his quiet life in Qiong Yang Town while watching over Zhou Guang Yi’s martial path from afar. When neighbors rushed to tell him that Aunt Wang was vomiting blood and near death, Chen Xun went to save her.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent the rainy day painting and relaxing with NanGong HeLing and Little Crimson.
• Ten years passed, and Zhou Guang Yi had been away from home for two years without sending a letter.
• Chen Xun reassured NanGong HeLing that Zhou Guang Yi was safe and had the strength to become a major figure in the martial world.
• Several neighbors arrived at the Chen Family courtyard and told Chen Xun that Aunt Wang’s old illness had returned and she was vomiting blood.
• Chen Xun calmly promised to pull Aunt Wang back from the brink of death and set out with the neighbors.

Chen Xun treated Aunt Wang’s severe stagnant-blood condition with a wooden needle and a medicinal herb, astonishing Doctor Li and the neighbors. Aunt Wang’s breathing steadied and her color returned, and Chen Xun said she would recover fully after taking the herb for three days.

• Chen Xun assured the neighbors he could save Aunt Wang and said her old ailment was not serious.
• Doctor Li diagnosed Aunt Wang with stagnant blood in her meridians and organs and believed she would not survive the night.
• Chen Xun arrived at Aunt Wang’s courtyard, claimed the Ning Family’s medical inheritance, and asked Doctor Li to leave her treatment to him.
• Chen Xun treated Aunt Wang with a wooden needle until her pulse steadied and her complexion and breathing improved.
• Big Black Ox charged into the courtyard carrying a medicinal herb, which Chen Xun gave Aunt Wang instructions to take for three days.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox healed Aunt Wang, then returned to their quiet life as years passed and the neighbors’ fortunes changed. NanGong HeLing grew troubled by the passage of time and the shifting hearts of mortals.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox healed Aunt Wang, who thanked them and invited them to eat with her once she recovered.
• Chen Xun told Nie Yu to finish his studies and return in a few years if he still wanted to learn medicine from him.
• NanGong HeLing felt unsettled by Aunt Wang’s illness, but Chen Xun reassured her that Aunt Wang would soon recover.
• Ten years later, Zhou Guang Yi became a renowned martial hero and moved his family to the great city, while Zhou Guang Han grew resentful after Chen Xun refused to teach her child.
• NanGong HeLing recorded her reflections on how the neighbors had changed, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox remained undisturbed.