Chapter Summaries

As the people of Double Tree Alley grew old and died, NanGong HeLing grieved over the loss of the mortal neighbors she had loved. Old Blind Man finished a painting of the alley and died, leaving it to Chen Xun’s family.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to their funeral trade as the elders of Double Tree Alley passed away.
• NanGong HeLing mourned Aunt Wang and the other neighbors, while Little Crimson tried to comfort her.
• Chen Xun visited the aged Old Blind Man, who painted a lively scene of Double Tree Alley and spoke of his memories of their family.
• Old Blind Man gave the unfinished painting to Chen Xun’s family, then died with Chen Xun supporting him.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox laid the Old Blind Man, whose surname was Ying, to rest as Little Crane struggled with the grief of mortal life. Nie Yu returned to Double Tree Alley as a successful doctor, but arrived at the funeral and found Chen Xun and Big Black Ox conducting the rites.

• Chen Xun cleaned the Old Blind Man’s home and accepted his painting after the old man died.
• Neighbors gathered at the funeral, and Little Crane felt overwhelmed by how quickly mortals passed away.
• Nie Yu returned to Double Tree Alley with his wife, children, and attendants after establishing medical clinics and Medicine Fields.
• Nie Yu told his family he had come to visit Elder Chen and bid farewell, while praising Chen’s medical skill and independence.
• Nie Yu and his family reached the Old Blind Man’s Ancestral Home and found Chen Xun and Big Black Ox playing funeral instruments.

Nie Yu returned to visit Chen Xun and NanGong HeLing with his wife and children, then left after Chen Xun advised him to practice medicine and live rightly. After Old Mister Ying’s funeral, Chen Xun, NanGong HeLing, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson departed Double Tree Alley beneath the starry night, leaving the ancestral residence sealed behind them.

• Nie Yu introduced Liang YuanShuang and their children to NanGong HeLing, while Little Crimson greeted the family with a playful attack.
• NanGong HeLing told Nie Yu that Chen Xun was arranging Old Mister Ying’s funeral, and Nie Yu decided he wanted to stay and care for her and Chen Xun in their old age.
• Chen Xun told Nie Yu to practice medicine, pass on his skills, and use his martial arts for the right path; Nie Yu revealed his powerful True Qi before departing with his family.
• After the neighbors left, NanGong HeLing grieved over the passage of mortal lives, and Chen Xun comforted her and encouraged her not to live with regrets.
• Chen Xun, NanGong HeLing, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson left Double Tree Alley, and the Chen Family Ancestral Residence was sealed shut.

As Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson traveled through the mortal realm, they shared stories that eased Little Crane’s grief and helped her cherish the family she still had. Later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that the Water Spirit Art Sixth Layer threatened their Immortal Dao Sources, leaving the technique’s origins and purpose unresolved.

• Chen Xun and Little Crane discussed her lingering sadness, and he encouraged her to remember the people they had lost while holding on to the family still beside her.
• Little Crane asked Chen Xun to share stories from his past; Big Black Ox and Little Crimson exposed his story about Aunt Jin Yu, prompting a playful fight before they spent the night telling tales.
• At dawn, Chen Xun and the others left the mortal territories and continued toward their next destination aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Chen Xun questioned Big Black Ox about the Water Spirit Art, and Big Black Ox revealed that he had already cultivated it successfully using the laws of formation Dao.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox realized that the sixth layer could irreversibly drain their Immortal Dao Sources, yet they could not identify the technique’s crucial point or connection to the immortal Dao.

Chen Xun failed to translate the ancient book Senior Brother Ji had given him, then continued cultivating as he and his companions traveled for three hundred years. At the Azure Sky Dao Orbit Central Hub, the group gaped at its vastness, and Chen Xun excitedly ordered the Giant Ship forward.

• Chen Xun tried a translation lens on the ancient book, learned it was written in no living being's language, and resolved to visit the Ji Clan someday.
• Chen Xun put away the ancient book and resumed cultivating the Water Spirit Art as the World Breaking Ship sped through the clouds.
• Chen Xun and his companions spent three hundred years traveling through immortal cities, enjoying food and gatherings and meeting cultivators from various races.
• The group reached the point where Mystic Micro Heaven, Star Heaven, and Jade Firmament Heaven converged and saw the Azure Sky Dao Orbit Central Hub.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson trembled at the sight of the hub, but Chen Xun shouted for the Giant Ship to charge forward.

Chen Xun and his companions reached the Azure Sky Dao Orbit hub and negotiated with Shan Zhuo about joining the Yellow Character Chen Position Array Base to extend the Dao orbits. After learning the work paid well and the Three Great Heavenly Domains would cover their magic-power recovery costs, Chen Xun agreed to join.

• Shan Zhuo invited Chen Xun and his companions to work at the Yellow Character Chen Position Array Base after noticing their ship's formidable arrays.
• Shan Zhuo explained that extending the Dao orbits was dangerous, though the routes had been scouted and the Array Base supplied materials.
• Chen Xun asked about compensation, and Shan Zhuo offered one hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for each Dao length, with the option to exchange them for cultivation resources.
• Shan Zhuo said the work required Refining Void Formation Dao cultivators and that the Three Great Heavenly Domains would cover their magic-power recovery costs.
• Chen Xun agreed to join the Yellow Character Chen Position Array Base and asked Shan Zhuo about promotion benefits.

Chen Xun and his companions joined Shan Zhuo on a tour of the Azure Sky Dao Orbit’s central hub and learned how its formation divisions operated. After registering their divine senses and ascending through the Space Ascending Channel, they saw the vast Dao Orbit and reflected that they had caught a golden age of cultivation.

• Shan Zhuo welcomed Chen Xun and his companions into the Yellow Character Chen Position Array Base and explained the ranks, duties, and rewards of its formation cultivators.
• Shan Zhuo gave Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson protective garments before leading them to the Space Ascending Channel.
• Chen Xun and his companions registered their divine senses and passed the channel’s identity checks.
• Shan Zhuo activated the Space Ascending Channel, which carried the group upward and revealed the immense Azure Sky Dao Orbit.
• Chen Xun praised the Earth Mountain Race’s achievement, then said the Nine Heavens Immortal Sound Array Disk had drawn cultivators of every race into a golden age.

Chen Xun and his companions arrived at the remote Yellow Character Chen Position Array Base to begin constructing Dao Orbits across the Land of Emptiness. After Shan Zhuo explained their duties and issued their tools, they were left at a lonely stretch of Dao Orbit with manuals and array diagrams to guide them.

• Little Crimson watched the unstable Land of Emptiness as the group traveled toward the Azure Sky Dao Orbit.
• Shan Zhuo gave Chen Xun and his companions Storage Rings and Yellow Character Jade Tokens, explaining that their progress would be recorded and warning them not to stray beyond the formations' protection.
• Chen Xun asked whether their Dao Orbit construction would need to reach another heavenly domain, and Shan Zhuo explained that the nodes would shift and connect later.
• Big Black Ox assessed the formations and recognized that it and Chen Xun had particular expertise in capturing the Chaotic Great Dao.
• Shan Zhuo brought the group to a dark, isolated stretch of Dao Orbit and told Chen Xun that the Storage Rings held the construction manuals and array diagrams.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled along a silver Dao Orbit to its unfinished end, where Big Black Ox began extending it with his array mastery. With the others supplying materials and helping with construction, they pushed the traversal artifact into the darkness as the Dao Orbit rapidly grew beneath it.

• Chen Xun and his companions boarded a traversal artifact and raced along the silver Dao Orbit, joking and shouting as they went.
• At the orbit’s unfinished end, Little Crane noticed Big Black Ox studying the manuals and preparing to build an extension.
• Big Black Ox used array disks and talismans to capture the Chaotic Great Dao and form an illusory continuation of the Dao Orbit.
• Chen Xun ordered Little Crane and Little Crimson to supply Star Dust Stones, Star Wheel Silver, and other materials while he hauled materials himself.
• Big Black Ox controlled the arrays as the group extended the Dao Orbit, carrying their traversal artifact farther into the Land of Emptiness.

Chen Xun and his family continued building the Dao orbit through the Land of Emptiness while Big Black Ox developed a new array. They remained together and fulfilled as their work advanced and Chen Xun painted their lives into the blank heavens.

• Chen Xun, Little Crane, Little Crimson, and Big Black Ox advanced the Dao orbit, completing ten lengths in a month and earning abundant spirit stones and subsidies.
• Little Crimson eagerly handled materials and helped with construction while Little Crane supplied Big Black Ox with Five Elements Qi and Chen Xun supplied Heavenly Origin Qi.
• Big Black Ox used ten array discs to evolve the Dao orbit array independently and began developing a Void-Binding Grand Array, which it named the Heaven Restricting Earth Severing Array.
• Chen Xun sensed Big Black Ox’s thoughts, looked back, and nodded to it as the family continued constructing the Dao orbit.
• Chen Xun cooked and painted their family working on the orbit, filling the blank heavens with a scene that also recalled Old Blind Man.

Chen Xun and his companions continued building the Azure Sky Dao Orbit, eventually extending it beyond thirty thousand Dao lengths over a century. When contact with them weakened, the Yellow Character Array Base sent rescue forces, and its leaders faced an angry Vermilion Bird over the danger they had placed Ximen Black Ox’s team in.

• Chen Xun’s team built two hundred Dao lengths, while Little Crane and Little Crimson began learning to capture the Chaotic Great Dao in the Land of Emptiness.
• Ten years later, Ximen Black Ox’s team had built two thousand Dao lengths, prompting Shan Zhuo to explain to Cang Xinyun how he had recruited them.
• Cang Xinyun accepted that Shan Zhuo had not deceived the team, rewarded him, and decided not to force Ximen Black Ox and his companions into official posts.
• Over the next hundred years, the team’s Dao Orbit reached thirty thousand Dao lengths, and their distance from the hub made communication increasingly unreliable.
• The Yellow Character Array Base dispatched rescue teams, while a Vermilion Bird demanded an explanation from Cang Xinyun and Shan Zhuo for placing Ximen Black Ox in such a perilous position.

Que Yan confronted Cang Xinyun and Shan Zhuo over the Ximen Squad’s unauthorized construction of a Dao Orbit beyond its thirty-thousand-Dao limit. After Cang Xinyun admitted his negligence and explained what happened, the Array Palace waited for rescuers, while a Great Vehicle Honored One approached through the Land of Emptiness.

• Que Yan accused Cang Xinyun and Shan Zhuo of knowing the Dao Orbit’s thirty-thousand-Dao limit and nearly erupted in fury.
• Cang Xinyun admitted he had neglected his duties and explained that the Ximen Squad had built too quickly for the Yellow Character Chen Position Jade Token to keep up.
• Que Yan said Honored Ones who cultivated spatial laws had gone to rescue the Ximen Squad and ordered Cang Xinyun to explain what had happened.
• Cang Xinyun and Shan Zhuo recounted how the squad had kept building toward the regional gateway without returning or learning the orbit’s taboos.
• The Array Palace waited for news as a Great Vehicle Honored One traveled across the stable silver Dao Orbit aboard a Space Warship.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox’s group continued building a Dao track in the Land of Emptiness while refining Great Dao Power and celebrating their earnings. Chen Xun then urged Little Crane and Little Crimson to sever the myriad Dao shackles within themselves during the Refining Void Stage, leaving them stunned by the prospect.

• Qi Ying Honored One ordered the Immortal Hall’s warships to cross the Land of Emptiness and recover Ximen Black Ox’s team at any cost.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox used their extra Primordial Spirits to refine Great Dao Power while their main bodies cultivated Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson ate together beside the Dao track and celebrated completing nearly Forty Thousand Dao Lengths.
• Chen Xun said he wanted to exchange their earnings for Array Palace inheritances and the Immortal Puppet Crafting Method.
• Chen Xun told Little Crane and Little Crimson that, as family, they should sever the myriad Dao shackles within themselves during the Refining Void Stage, and both were left in disbelief.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared to strengthen Little Crane and Little Crimson while building their Dao orbit in the Land of Emptiness. After Chen Xun drove off a Void Ancient Beast, Qi Ying Honored One’s rescue fleet arrived and found them calmly eating amid the warships.

• Chen Xun told Little Crane and Little Crimson that Big Black Ox’s array could capture Chaotic Great Dao in large quantities and discussed preparing them for painful cultivation.
• Chen Xun offered to perform a blood exchange for Little Crimson using the matured Rootless Essence Qi Flower, and Little Crimson agreed.
• A Void Ancient Beast appeared and threatened the Heavenly Origin Star, but Chen Xun drew his Black and White Great Axe and gave it three breaths to leave or surrender five drops of essence blood.
• Qi Ying Honored One learned that the Void Ancient Beast had fled before the fleet arrived and led the Space Warships toward the Ximen Black Ox Squad.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox put away the Heavenly Origin Star and their Primordial Spirits, then watched as the fleet surrounded them while they were eating.
• Qi Ying Honored One and the other Dao orbit cultivators stared at Chen Xun and his companions, leaving both sides in an awkward silence.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson were rescued by Qi Ying and welcomed back to the Azure Sky Dao Orbit after constructing tens of thousands of Dao Lengths. At the Yellow Character Array Base, Big Black Ox was appointed Earth Character Azure Sky Dao Orbit Inspector, leaving the group stunned by the authority and status bestowed on him.

• Qi Ying told Chen Xun and his companions that the warships had come to rescue them, and the cultivators welcomed them home.
• Chen Xun admitted that the group could still continue constructing the Dao Orbit, then joined the return voyage and mourned the High-Grade Spirit Stones spent to reach them.
• Qi Ying revealed that he was a leading Array Master from the Universe Array Palace and praised Big Black Ox's formation work and new formation diagram.
• Half a month later, Que Yan and the gathered cultivators ceremonially welcomed Big Black Ox at the Yellow Character Array Base.
• Que Yan announced that Big Black Ox had been appointed Earth Character Azure Sky Dao Orbit Inspector, and Chen Xun, Little Crane, and Little Crimson reacted with shock.

Big Black Ox was appointed an Earth Character Inspector and received its robes and jade token before Que Yan explained its duties and rewards. The group learned that Big Black Ox had to report to the Azure Sky Hall the next day, while Cang Xinyun realized Chen Xun was the true leader and an old monster of the human race.

• Que Yan announced that Ximen Black Ox had been promoted to Earth Character Inspector, earning the cultivators’ respect.
• Que Yan gave Big Black Ox its ritual robes and identity jade token, then led the group into the Array Palace.
• Big Black Ox donned its robes and took the chief seat as Que Yan explained the inspector’s duties, resources, and rewards.
• Que Yan told Big Black Ox to attend a major discussion at the Azure Sky Hall the next day.
• Cang Xinyun sensed Chen Xun’s strength and concluded that he was the group’s true leader and a powerful human cultivator.

Chen Xun and his companions left the Array Palace after Chen Xun secured Shan Zhuo’s goodwill and expanded his network. At the Azure Sky Hall, they joined powerful figures from across the Three Great Heavenly Domains and heard the Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable declare that the effort to establish the Azure Sky Dao Orbit could bring either an unprecedented immortal flourishing age or total ruin.

• Chen Xun asked Que Yan not to blame Shan Zhuo for their earlier misunderstanding, and Que Yan agreed to reward Shan Zhuo for his service.
• Chen Xun tried to collect spirit stones for the Forty Thousand Dao Lengths, then mingled with the Array Palace cultivators while Little Crimson worried about their compensation.
• Que Yan personally saw Chen Xun and his group off, inviting them to visit the Vermillion Bird Clan’s ancestral grounds and giving Chen Xun a Sound Transmission Disc connection.
• The next day, Chen Xun and his companions entered the Azure Sky Hall, where Big Black Ox received a seat while Chen Xun, Little Crane, and Little Crimson stood.
• The Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable appeared before the gathered powers and said the Azure Sky Dao Orbit could usher in an unprecedented age of immortal prosperity, but failure would mean Death and Dao Dissipation.

Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable revealed that the Azure Sky Dao Orbit would connect the Three Great Heavenly Domains and prepare them to ascend, with the Desolate Heaven Domain becoming the center of the future Taiyi Immortal Domain. Chen Xun and his companions privately concluded that the powerful factions were using the Great World’s resources to open a True Immortal Realm, and Chen Xun decided they would avoid joining the plan.

• A Great Vehicle Honored One asked Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable whether the Azure Sky Dao Orbit had reached its intended stage, and she confirmed that it could bear the Laws of Chaos and Devouring.
• Qi Ying warned that the orbit’s construction could bring great tribulation to the Three Great Heavenly Domains, and Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable said the Immortal Halls had prepared to protect their living beings.
• Qi Ying asked about the orbit’s significance and the expansion of the Taiyi Great World and Desolate Heaven Domain, so Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable explained that the orbit would prepare Heaven and Earth to ascend in later generations.
• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable announced that the Desolate Heaven Domain would become the center of the Taiyi Immortal Domain and that the True Immortal Realm would surely be opened.
• Chen Xun privately told Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson that the powerful figures planned to use the Great World’s resources to create an upper realm, and he decided they would leave the Azure Sky Dao Orbit effort and refuse to ascend.

Chen Xun and his companions refused to help with the Azure Sky Dao Orbit project, but Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable kept them behind and urged them to contribute their formation methods. She challenged Chen Xun and Ximen Black Ox by asking whether they were afraid to face the powers behind the Immortal Hall and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane agreed to cultivate elsewhere rather than help build the Azure Sky Dao Orbit.
• After a month of planning discussions, Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable asked Chen Xun and his companions to stay behind.
• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable recounted their past and said the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall and Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance owed them an explanation.
• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable explained that Chen Xun's improved formation diagrams could speed up the Dao Orbit's construction and earn him a place in immortal history.
• Chen Xun insisted that he and his companions only wanted to cultivate in peace, and Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable asked Chen Xun and Ximen Black Ox whether they were afraid.

Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable told Chen Xun and Big Black Ox that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had preserved their realm’s source and Life Imprints, but Chen Xun remained wary and insisted they preferred freedom. She clarified the Azure Sky Dao Orbit’s role in opening ascension passages across the realms, then accepted Big Black Ox’s array diagram for review and a possible Immortal Dao Covenant.

• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable revealed that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had collected dispersed Realm Sources and Life Imprints, describing how Shi Rongxian rose to become Alliance Leader.
• Chen Xun rejected her offer to intervene in their realm’s fate and said that he and his family still preferred to go wherever they wished.
• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable explained that the Azure Sky Dao Orbit was part of a wider plan to open the realms’ Ascension Passages, not to open a separate immortal realm.
• Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable said she valued Chen Xun’s potential and Big Black Ox’s Formation Dao, and asked whether they would remain at the Azure Sky Dao Orbit.
• Big Black Ox gave Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable its array diagram, and she promised to assess it and sign an Immortal Dao Covenant if it proved feasible.
• Chen Xun and his companions saluted Spirit Phoenix Celestial Venerable and left the Azure Sky Hall.