Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and his companions charged into the Extraterritorial Battlefield as the Great World Immortal Historians recorded the opening campaign. In the Great World Star Pivot, ancient powers confirmed that Heaven and Earth Reincarnation had been severed and planned to gather at the Myriad Races Bridge three months later.

• Chen Xun killed more than a dozen Spirit Transformation evil spirits with a sweeping axe strike, then briefly met Mountain Moving Daoist.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson advanced into battle, with Little Crimson collecting corpses and Little Crane overseeing the Foul Longevity Turtle.
• The Great World Immortal Historians recorded the battlefield and lingered on the image of Chen Xun and his companions.
• Ancient voices in the Great World Star Pivot discussed the returning powers, the coming True Immortal Realm, and the arrival of a prosperous age.
• The ancient powers agreed to meet at the Myriad Races Bridge of the Boundless Great World in three months.

After ten years on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, Chen Xun and his companions faced a devastating Evil God Light attack. Chen Xun unleashed his long-hidden Five Elements Yin Yang Great Axe and sent its Axe Light surging toward the attacker.

• Chen Xun encouraged Little Crane to face the battlefield’s horrors, and she said she would follow wherever he went.
• Little Crimson reported that their corpse-collecting haul exceeded ten million Evil Spirit Crystals and three million Evil Marrow Crystals.
• An Evil God Light blast devastated the fallen star, forcing Chen Xun and his companions to evade the initial shockwave.
• A vast Evil God Light targeted Chen Xun’s group, and Chen Xun gathered the power of the Five Elements as his companions’ mana was suppressed.
• Chen Xun declared that he had endured enough after ten years and swung his Five Elements Yin Yang Great Axe, splitting the Evil God Light and driving his Axe Light along its path.

Ling Wutian, the revived Blood-Clad Immortal King, appeared on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and confronted an Evil Spirit King. A mysterious axe strike destroyed the Evil Spirits’ cannon and forced their retreat, leading Baili Wentian and Yuan Yi to suspect that Chen Xun had arrived.

• Ling Wutian appeared amid bloody lightning, killing hundreds of thousands of Evil Spirits and forcing the battlefield to fall silent.
• The Evil Spirit King confronted Ling Wutian, who summoned a blood-colored spear and challenged it to fight.
• A devastating Axe Light swept across the battlefield, crushed the Evil Spirits blocking it, and destroyed the Evil God Cannon platform.
• The Evil Spirit King sensed power beyond the myriad Daos, ordered a retreat, and left after taunting Ling Wutian.
• Ling Wutian chose not to pursue the retreating Evil Spirits and disappeared, curious about the axe strike and the Immortal Dao behind it.
• Baili Wentian asked Yuan Yi whether the Axe Light belonged to Chen Xun, and Yuan Yi confirmed its resemblance to the Heaven-Opening Axe Light as Baili Wentian hoped to meet Chen Xun.

The War Realm Camp honored the realm’s pioneers and advanced toward the central battlefield, while Chen Xun found Evil God Light’s lair and learned that the Blood-Clad Immortal King Ling Wutian was an ancient figure from a previous era. After Little Crane explained the possibility of an Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground Divine Soul, Chen Xun and his companions chose to leave the fighting and resume their restocking operation.

• Baili Wentian ordered the War Realm Camp’s blood-soaked military banners raised and led the army toward the central battlefield.
• Chen Xun found Evil God Light’s lair and recognized the Blood-Clad Immortal King as Ling Wutian.
• Little Crane revealed that Ling Wutian had lived since the Myriad Races Great Slaughter Era, based on the historical records she had read.
• Little Crane suggested that Ling Wutian might be an ancient existence sealed within an Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground Divine Soul.
• Chen Xun decided that he, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane would leave the battlefield and resume their restocking operation.

As the Great Age’s Extraterritorial Battlefield erupted into war, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox used the chaos to set out for a breakthrough and the star fragments held by evil spirits. Three years later, a figure wielding immense power attacked the Chaos Clan’s forbidden domain and introduced himself to Tuo She as World-Saving Old Man.

• Ancient Great Clans and evil spirits entered the battlefield, leaving Chen Xun and his companions stunned by the spectacle.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided to break through to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and pursue the star fragments refined by evil spirits.
• Big Black Ox unleashed the Power of Rules, and the four companions vanished from the Fallen Star battlefield.
• Three years later, Tuo She invited visiting cultivators to kneel and kowtow to enter the Chaos Clan and transform their bloodlines.
• A black-clad figure empowered a thousand Heavenly Origin Starfalls with one hundred thousand strands of the Power of Rules, devastating the ancient star.
• Tuo She asked the figure’s name, and the voice from the distant sky identified himself as World-Saving Old Man of the human race.

Chen Xun overwhelmed Tuo She’s defense of the Chaos Ancient Star and revealed a colossal Immortal Venerable Dharma Idol. He destroyed Tuo She’s Dharma Idol with one finger, blasted him beyond the ancient star, and left with Big Black Ox.

• Tuo She drove the Chaos Ancient Star’s power to form a Chaos Law barrier that resisted Chen Xun’s Heavenly Origin Starfall.
• Chen Xun intensified the Starfall, forcing Tuo She to summon his Rules Dharma Idol and raise his Rules of Power to five thousand strands.
• Chen Xun manifested an immense Immortal Venerable Dharma Idol, shocking Tuo She, who suspected he was trapped in a Heart Demon Illusion.
• Chen Xun’s giant finger destroyed Tuo She’s Dharma Idol and sent Tuo She flying hundreds of thousands of miles, gravely wounded.
• Big Black Ox watched in disbelief as Chen Xun told it to leave, and they vanished in a streak of light.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recruited Tuo She, who offered his clan’s help in exchange for survival, then began harvesting ancient stars and killing Extraterritorial Evil Spirits. Their Star Hunter and Corpse Collector legends spread through the widening war, which eventually drew the attention of the Blood-Clad Immortal King and gave rise to the mysterious World-Saving Old Man.

• Tuo She offered to guide Chen Xun and help his clan survive if Chen Xun spared them and accepted their information about Extraterritorial Evil Spirits.
• Chen Xun accepted Tuo She's offer, and Big Black Ox refined the ancient star as the group set off aboard the giant turtle.
• With Tuo She guiding them, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox harvested ancient stars and killed hundreds of Great Vehicle Honored Ones, earning Chen Xun the name Star Hunter.
• The Star Hunter's legend spread through the Extraterritorial Battlefield, and the Blood-Clad Immortal King left seclusion to seek him out but later vanished as a Corpse Collector appeared.
• After another hundred years of war, the World-Saving Old Man appeared as a terrifying independent cultivator and astonished a region of the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

Tian Yun traveled alone through the Extraterritorial Battlefield after the cultivators he had joined departed for Nanqing, while Big Black Ox and the others continued cultivating on a Star Fragment. The chapter left Tian Yun lost amid the battlefield and Chen Xun refining immortal puppets alone.

• Cultivators on the battlefield discussed the mysterious World-Saving Old Man and his feats against Evil Spirits.
• Senior Wu urged Tian Yun to leave the battlefield, but Tian Yun insisted that his Fushi Sect would not harm him and that he had to complete his sect trial.
• Wu and his companions departed for Nanqing after learning that Artifact Celestial Venerable planned to refine the Great Age's territory there, leaving Tian Yun behind.
• Tian Yun realized he did not know how to reach the Star Heaven Domain or Star Plucking Sect, then fled with an Evil Spirit corpse to refine.
• Little Crane and Little Crimson entered seclusion on a Star Fragment as Big Black Ox set up an array to extract Evil Spirit Crystals and worried about Chen Xun, who was refining immortal puppets alone.

Chen Xun learned from Tuo She that the Chaos Clan had survived the previous Heaven and Earth Reincarnation and feared the Crane Spirit Trees that had consumed its world. Tuo She also revealed the Ancient Sacred Clan’s betrayal of the Chaos Clan, while Chen Xun concluded that its rise had come at the cost of its former kin.

• Chen Xun asked Tuo She why he had feared NanGong, and Tuo She explained that she carried the aura of a Crane Spirit Tree.
• Tuo She recounted how the Crane Spirit Trees had devoured the previous Great Thousand World during the Era of Silent Myriad Spirits, while the Chaos Clan survived in Chaotic Emptiness.
• Tuo She said the Chaos Clan had been excluded from the Three Thousand Great Worlds and feared the Crane Spirit Trees because of its inherited memories of the world's destruction.
• Tuo She revealed that the Ancient Sacred Clan had betrayed the Chaos Clan by exposing its secrets and weaknesses to the Eternal Ancient Immortal Kingdoms.
• Tuo She said the Ancient Sacred Clan had risen among the Strongest Myriad Races and now sought to wipe out the Chaos Clan and open the Boundless True Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun reflected that the Ancient Sacred Clan had risen like dawn while carrying the corpses of its own kin.

Chen Xun learned that Tuo She’s Chaos Clan believed its ancestors had sacrificed themselves to help open the Immortal Realm, then revealed he had never trusted Tuo She and had used his guidance to refine ancient stars. As Tuo She confessed his failure, the Chaos Celestial Venerable descended onto the Star Fragment.

• Tuo She told Chen Xun that the Chaos Clan had altered the Three Thousand Great Worlds’ reincarnation and speculated that its ancestors had helped the Ancient Sacred Clan merge into those worlds.
• Tuo She explained that his clan reproduced by devouring Chaotic Emptiness and believed the Eternal Ancient Immortal Kingdom’s extermination war served a greater purpose than refining artifacts.
• Chen Xun accused Tuo She of betraying his clansmen and crushed him with his overwhelming might.
• Chen Xun revealed that he had suspected Tuo She since refining the ancient star and had used Tuo She’s help to reach the stars he needed.
• The Chaos Celestial Venerable descended above the Star Fragment, and Tuo She prostrated himself and admitted he had failed in his duty.

The Chaos Celestial Venerable attacked Chen Xun’s companions to force them into the Chaos Clan, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox answered by unleashing a world-destroying tribulation. The Chaos Celestial Venerable, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and their companions all perished, leaving four names fallen from the Longevity Genealogy.

• The Chaos Celestial Venerable demanded that Chen Xun join the Chaos Clan and threatened his companions, but Chen Xun refused and vowed to protect them.
• Chen Xun broke through the Chaos Celestial Venerable’s pressure, revealing his Great Vehicle Late Stage cultivation, while Tuo She realized Chen Xun had been using him too.
• The Chaos Celestial Venerable erased Little Crane, Little Crimson, and the Foul Longevity Turtle with a Chaos Law attack, prompting Big Black Ox to unleash its deathly rules.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox summoned the Chaos Nine Heavens Immortal Lightning Tribulation, a world-destroying tribulation that struck the deep space.
• The tribulation killed the Chaos Celestial Venerable, Tuo She, Chen Xun, Ximen Black Ox, NanGong HeLing, Northern Darkness Red Lion, and the Foul Longevity Turtle, and the Chaos Clan could find no trace of them.

The Chaos Celestial Venerable Gu Wanjun recovered from the tribulation that killed Chen Xun and another future Immortal Venerable, leaving him severely wounded and unable to fight. Gu Jiu revealed the failed plan had involved Ye Qingyou of the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, then departed to pursue the Chaos Clan’s future as Gu Wanjun’s ancient star was sealed away.

• Gu Wanjun awoke injured after the World Extinction Heavenly Tribulation, which had destroyed the two ascenders’ immortal bodies and left him at the early Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Gu Jiu confirmed the two future Immortal Venerables could not be resurrected, and he and Gu Wanjun agreed to keep their deaths secret from the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Gu Jiu told Gu Wanjun that the Chaos Clan’s destruction plan would proceed alone after its attempt to capture Chen Xun failed and its chance to cooperate was lost.
• Gu Jiu revealed that Ye Qingyou, vice leader of the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, had been behind the effort to guide Chen Xun, though her exact purpose remained unknown.
• Gu Jiu called Gu Wanjun Big Brother, promised to preserve his Immortal Dao, and left through a river of Chaos.
• Gu Wanjun watched as a great formation sealed the Chaos Ancient Star and sent it into the void.

After Du Shi, Black Ox, and the others were declared dead, Ji Yan chose to strengthen the Garbage Recycling Plant rather than risk an immediate search, while Tian Li, Demon Moon, and Yun Ying set out for the Extraterritorial Battlefield. A month later, the Plant held a grand funeral, and a mysterious voice beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds wondered why the Dao Ancestor had been experiencing sudden whims.

• Demon Moon told Ji Yan that Du Shi’s and Black Ox’s portraits and Immortal Dao Sources had vanished, while Tian Li and Yuan Ming argued over what had happened.
• Ji Yan ordered a funeral and insisted the Garbage Recycling Plant must grow stronger before anyone searched the Extraterritorial Battlefield; Tian Li, Demon Moon, and Yun Ying left to search anyway.
• One month later, Song Heng presided over a three-day funeral for Du Shi, Black Ox, NanGong, and Dog Bro at Spotless Immortal Ridge.
• After the tomb was completed, Ji Yan raised a cup to Du Shi and said he understood his intentions.
• Beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds, a voice wondered why the Dao Ancestor had been getting sudden whims so often.

Chen Xun explained to Big Black Ox that they had faked their deaths and deceived Tuo She to escape the powerful experts manipulating their cultivation. He planned to start over with Big Black Ox and their absent companions, leaving the story with the brothers resolved to face the future together.

• Chen Xun reassured Big Black Ox that their Essence Qi Flowers had rebuilt them without reducing their realm, though their combat power had fallen.
• Chen Xun revealed that he had used immortal puppets and exchanged blood with Ancient Lifeforms to fool Tuo She into thinking he had seen their real bodies.
• Chen Xun recalled the Upright Official’s warning to strike at the strongest and explained that powerful experts had been watching and guiding their growth.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that they had to fake their deaths and step outside the game rather than follow the experts’ plans.
• Big Black Ox showed Chen Xun their familiar pots and utensils, and Chen Xun took comfort in knowing their family was still together.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sealed their companions away to keep them safe, then separated so Chen Xun could attempt Tribulation Transcendence. Meanwhile, the Azure Sky Dao Orbit mourned Ximen Array Honored One and demanded an investigation into his supposed death on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

• Chen Xun explained that he and Big Black Ox had planned to hide their companions until they became Heavenly Immortals and could reunite with them safely.
• Big Black Ox grew suspicious of Chen Xun’s sudden rise to unrivaled genius, sniffed him, and drew an angry response.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left aboard a World Breaking Ship carrying only Jin Yu’s Storage Ring, and Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to wait outside the range of his heavenly tribulation.
• Feng Ju heard that Ximen Array Honored One had fallen on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and questioned whether he had led them into danger.
• Long Huang declared that the Azure Sky Array Dao Palace would avenge Ximen Array Honored One, whether cultivators or Extraterritorial Evil Spirits were responsible.
• News of Ximen Array Honored One’s reported death spread across the Nine Heavens Immortal Sound Array Disk, drawing scrutiny from the Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Kingdom and pressure on the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall and Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

Ye Qingyou revealed that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had secretly guided Chen Xun and Big Black Ox toward the Extraterritorial Battlefield as part of a plan to transform them into Chaos immortals and use the Chaos Clan in a wider struggle. She believed the two had ultimately perished in the World-Destroying Tribulation, though their extinction remained a thorn in her heart.

• Ye Qingyou examined a water curtain showing Chen Xun's family, then recognized Chen Xun and Ximen Black Ox as twenty-year-old World Openers whose realm's lost source might be with them.
• Ye Qingyou recalled that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had monitored Chen Xun's family and arranged events to guide them toward the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Ye Qingyou explained that the Alliance and the Chaos Clan planned to use Chaos Aura to make Chen Xun and Big Black Ox the Chaos Clan's only potential immortals.
• Ye Qingyou intended to use the Chaos Clan's future upheaval to advance the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance's plans across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Ye Qingyou concluded that Chen Xun and Big Black Ox had been completely extinguished by the World-Destroying Tribulation, though their unexplained fate troubled her.

Chen Xun’s past terror and ruthlessness were revealed as the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance dismissed his apparent death and prepared to attack the Slaying Immortal Ancient Domain. Meanwhile, Chen Xun stood before a vast heavenly tribulation in Chaotic Emptiness, ready to face it with his great axe.

• The chapter recounted how Chen Xun’s brutal experiences in the Cultivation World shaped his distrust and resolve to cast aside his past and confront the Chaos Clan at any cost.
• Ye Qingyou erased Chen Xun and his companions’ names, then learned that Chen Xun, Ximen Black Ox, and Gu Wanjun had perished in the Chaos Nine Heavens Immortal Lightning Tribulation.
• Ye Qingyou dismissed the Azure Sky Array Dao Palace’s demand for an explanation and ordered Cang Chen, Godlock, Jue Feng, and the Three Clans’ rulers to prepare an attack on the Slaying Immortal Ancient Domain.
• Ye Qingyou declared that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s war against the human race of the Boundless Great World had begun.
• Big Black Ox searched the immense sea of lightning in Chaotic Emptiness but could not find Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun appeared above the converging tribulation, summoned the Death Qi Fiend, drew his great axe, and challenged the heavenly lightning.

Chen Xun discovered that the Chaotic Heavenly Tribulation erased his Rules of Power, then fought back by refining its Thunder Dragons with his Five Elements Rules. He uncovered the tribulation’s true gift as his Rules began transforming into Heaven and Earth Laws.

• Chen Xun struck a Purple Thunder Dragon with his axe and found that the lightning had erased one of his Rules of Power.
• The Death Qi Fiend caught and crushed several Thunder Dragons, but their attacks caused more of Chen Xun’s Rules to dissipate.
• Chen Xun charged into the chaotic lightning sea and used his Five Elements Rules to refine the Thunder Dragons.
• Chen Xun realized the tribulation’s gift lay within the Thunder Dragons and began forcing their essence back into his body.
• Chen Xun’s Rules of Power regressed and were replenished through refinement, gradually transforming into Heaven and Earth Laws.

Chen Xun endured the World-Destroying Tribulation and emerged as the Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord, while Big Black Ox feared he had perished. The chapter then consisted of Zi Ling’s explanation of earlier worldbuilding and plot details.

• Chen Xun gathered the Five Elements Laws and merged them with the Yin-Yang Laws, suppressing the Chaos Thunder Sea as he advanced through tribulation.
• Big Black Ox watched from beyond the thunder sea, overwhelmed by Chen Xun’s power and excited that he had entered the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• A world-destroying lightning bolt descended, and Chen Xun’s life and death powers devoured the immortal lightning as the tribulation raged for three days.
• When the thunder fell silent and no sign of Chen Xun appeared, Big Black Ox despaired and walked into the Chaotic Emptiness.
• Chen Xun reappeared as the Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord, and Zi Ling followed with an extensive note clarifying the novel’s factions, world structure, and earlier chapter.

Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox after surviving the Chaotic Heavenly Tribulation and explained that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence realm by mastering six laws. He prepared Big Black Ox to face its own tribulation, then waited outside while examining the changes in his body and reflecting on his absent companions.

• Chen Xun used his command of chaos to bring Big Black Ox to him and revealed that the Chaos, Force, Thunder, Five Elements, Yin Yang, and Life and Death Laws had entered his body.
• Chen Xun warned Big Black Ox that the Chaotic Heavenly Tribulation was designed to erase them and told it to absorb the thunder as a cultivation resource.
• Chen Xun took Big Black Ox's 136 incense burners so it would not rely on them during the tribulation, then sent it to face the lightning alone.
• Big Black Ox's aura surged as pillars of lightning descended, while Chen Xun waited outside the tribulation on the World Breaking Ship.
• Chen Xun put on his mended robes, thought of Little Crane and Little Crimson, and began examining the changes in his Immortal Dao Source as a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord.