Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and discovered that his Five Elements Immortal Path followed an unprecedented path of cultivating Dao patterns and laws. Testing his new ability from afar, he summoned a heavenly tribulation that annihilated an army of three hundred thousand Extraterritorial Evil Spirits, then silently wished Baili Clan and Nine Heavens Demon Sealing Ape Clan well.

• Chen Xun entered the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, awakening six laws and ten thousand dim Dao patterns on his Immortal Dao Source.
• Chen Xun realized his system had advanced from embodying Rules of Power to embodying Law Power, and that he could control a heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Xun sent his divine sense to the Extraterritorial Battlefield and sensed Baili Wentian and the War Realm Camp facing three hundred thousand evil spirits.
• The Evil Spirit Warlord halted his army after sensing danger, but a pillar of heavenly lightning struck the canyon and destroyed the entire force.
• Baili Wentian and the War Realm Camp watched in shock as the battlefield fell silent, while Chen Xun departed the deep void and wished the Baili Clan and Nine Heavens Demon Sealing Ape Clan well.

Big Black Ox faced the World-Destroying Immortal Lightning, overcame the tribulation with the power of seven Heaven and Earth Laws, and became the Supreme of its heavenly domain. It then opened a spatial rift and emerged beside Chen Xun.

• Chen Xun watched Big Black Ox gather the Five Elements Laws and withstand the Chaotic Heavenly Tribulation.
• Big Black Ox swallowed and refined the tribulation’s thunder, then used the Heaven Restricting Earth Severing Array to endure the World-Destroying Immortal Lightning.
• Big Black Ox unleashed Six Paths Laws and Heaven and Earth Array Dao Laws, splitting the tribulation and successfully ascending as the Supreme of the heavenly domain.
• Chen Xun celebrated Big Black Ox’s success and accepted the incense offerings while pretending to revere Chaos Heaven.
• Big Black Ox opened a spatial rift, crossed through the void, and emerged before Chen Xun.

After breaking through to Tribulation Transcendence, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox set out aboard the World Breaking Ship for the Desolate Heaven Domain, a vast realm ruled by ancient and powerful forces. As they crossed Chaotic Emptiness, the Blood-Clad Immortal King remained troubled that they had not been found.

• Chen Xun discovered that Big Black Ox's transformed body had grown stronger and could refine Chaos Law into its flesh.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox shared a joyful moment together, then decided to travel to the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• A Five-Colored Light Pillar brought down the World Breaking Ship, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox boarded it.
• The World Breaking Ship crossed Chaotic Emptiness with a huge black coffin following behind, while Chen Xun studied an ancient book and Big Black Ox kept watch.
• The chapter described the Desolate Heaven Domain's ancient lineages, palaces, and rival powers as Chen Xun and Big Black Ox approached.
• In the Extraterritorial Battlefield, the Blood-Clad Immortal King asked the World-Saving Old Man why they still had not found Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.

Ling Wutian failed to find the World-Saving Old Man and resolved to attack the Chaos Clan’s heartland, but sensed Du Shi and went to investigate. On a quiet sea island, Feng Jinyu continued cultivating while thinking of NanGong HeLing, and planned to grow stronger before meeting her again.

• Ling Wutian suspected the Ancient Sacred Clan and the Chaos Clan were pursuing the Chaos Immortal Path, and decided to enter the Chaos Clan’s heartland.
• Ling Wutian sensed Du Shi in the Extraterritorial Battlefield and sliced open a rift to investigate.
• Feng Jinyu cultivated on a nameless island with a Vermilion Bird Pill and watched an image of NanGong HeLing.
• Feng Jinyu killed a sea beast that had been drawn by the pill and collected its Demon Core and Primordial Spirit.
• Feng Jinyu continued gathering Demon Cores to prepare for the Heavenly Passage Tower, hoping to meet NanGong HeLing with greater confidence.

Feng Jinyu learned that He Ling had died on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, while visitors investigated the strange tombs at Spotless Immortal Ridge. Ji Yan revealed plans to expand his forces and establish a foothold in the Desolate Heaven Domain.

• A Feng Family member told Feng Jinyu that He Ling and the others had fallen beyond the realm, leaving him devastated.
• Yu Xuan questioned Mo Fuyang about Chen Xun's death and pledged to investigate with the Jade Terrace Immortal Palace and the Ling Clan.
• Qionghua Shuiyu examined the tombs, recognized signs of an ancient immortal tomb formation, and urged Mo Fuyang to keep the matter secret.
• Feng Jinyu placed flowers at He Ling's grave, vowed to grow strong enough to avenge her family, and left the Great Sea Region.
• Ji Yan told Qian Shan that they would use their wealth and War Magical Artifacts to expand their business, destroy the Chi Clan, and establish themselves in the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Qian Shan reflected on Ji Yan’s growing power and hidden motives as Ji Yan prepared to travel to Star Heaven Domain with a group of Great Vehicle cultivators tied to the Dark Heaven Alliance. The group departed through the Garbage Recycling Plant’s Space Channel, while Ji Yan looked toward the distant Desolate Heaven Domain.

• Qian Shan worried about Ji Yan’s untraceable origins, secretive dealings, and influence over Great Vehicle Honored Ones.
• Ji Yan told Qian Shan to visit Du Shi’s family each year and announced their departure for Star Heaven Domain.
• Ten Great Vehicle Honored Ones appeared, and Qian Shan recognized their formation as suggesting a connection to the Dark Heaven Alliance.
• Qian Shan feared Ji Yan had been cultivating ties with the Dark Heaven Alliance since his early days in Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• Ji Yan departed with the ten cultivators and Desolate Gold and the others through the Garbage Recycling Plant’s Space Channel.
• Ji Yan looked toward the Desolate Heaven Domain as the group vanished from the island.

Ten years after entering the Taiyi Great World, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox were flung into the Desolate Heaven Domain and began gathering information by working in a mine. They introduced themselves as the World Extinction Old Man and his brother, and Chen Xun focused his attention on the powerful Xuanji Holy Land.

• Five years earlier, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tried to break into the Desolate Heaven Domain but were caught between the Heaven Domain's will and the Void Will and sent flying into the world.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox ended up working among millions of Immortal Slave cultivators in a Xuanji Holy Land mineral vein.
• When a distant battle between Ancient Ferocious Beasts shook the mine, the miners took shelter and argued about their dangerous lives.
• Chen Xun calmed the argument, introduced himself as the World Extinction Old Man from Green Mountain Daoist Temple, and prompted laughter from the miners and Big Black Ox.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued collecting information about the Desolate Heaven Domain, and Chen Xun turned his attention to Xuanji Holy Land.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox mined Heavenly Purity Jade Stones in the Longevity Mountain Range while considering a journey into the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand. After a Xuanji Holy Land disciple ordered the miners back to work amid the Ancient Ferocious Beasts’ battle, Wan Zeqian approached Chen Xun and hinted that he knew stories about the unstable mine.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox mined Heavenly Purity Jade Stones and discussed the dangers and treasures of the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand.
• A Xuanji Holy Land disciple rebuked the miners for lingering in the tunnel and ordered them to resume work.
• The disciple worried that the Ancient Ferocious Beasts were fighting over a treasure and that their battle could force the holy land to abandon the vein.
• Chen Xun introduced himself to Wan Zeqian as Oriental Xun, and Wan Zeqian said the mine was no longer stable and hinted at stories Chen Xun did not know.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox considered how to refine immortal puppets while secretly learning about the Xuanji Holy Land and the Desolate Heaven Domain. When Tai Yu arrived with two Ancient Ferocious Beasts to claim the mine and threaten its cultivators, Chen Xun appeared amid overwhelming heavenly tribulation lightning and confronted him.

• Wan Zeqian warned Chen Xun that the Holy Land might be sacrificing mine cultivators to contain leaking Mine Earth Qi and urged him to flee, but Chen Xun declined.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed using the mine’s resources to refine stronger immortal puppets and noted that puppets still lacked an Immortal Dao Source and Life Imprint.
• Chen Xun reflected on the Desolate Heaven Domain’s unusual strength and began planning his cultivation while he and Big Black Ox listened to Holy Land disciples in the mine.
• An enormous Ancient Ferocious Beast appeared over the mine, followed by Tai Yu standing on another beast, and Tai Yu declared that the Xuanji Holy Land must return the treasured land.
• Tai Yu ordered A'Da and A'Er to attack the mine cultivators and threatened to leave them as blood food.
• Heavenly tribulation lightning struck beside Tai Yu, and Chen Xun appeared in the storm, challenging him and his two Ancient Ferocious Beasts.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox overwhelmed Tai Yu and two Ancient Ferocious Beasts beneath a tribulation Chen Xun controlled, then captured them before restoring the devastated landscape. They left with Tai Yu in their possession, and Chen Xun recognized his connection to the Ancient Demon lineage as potentially useful.

• Tai Yu and two Ancient Ferocious Beasts fought back against Chen Xun’s vast heavenly tribulation, but their attacks failed to break through it.
• Chen Xun amplified the tribulation’s power and descended behind the three opponents as a gigantic thunder pillar fell.
• Chen Xun deflected the thunder pillar and restrained Tai Yu, while Big Black Ox pierced the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts through their chests.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox subdued Tai Yu and the beasts, and Chen Xun realized Tai Yu’s strength and Ancient Demon connection could benefit him.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox departed with their captives, and the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Formation restored the destroyed landscape.

Chen Xun confronted Tai Yu after defeating him and the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts, then settled their grudge with a demand for compensation and a promise to protect Tai Yu during his tribulation. The chapter ended with Chen Xun giving his name as World Extinction Old Man.

• Tai Yu awoke beside the healed A'Da and A'Er and realized Chen Xun had brought them to a secluded riverside.
• Chen Xun explained that he had fought in self-defense after Tai Yu attacked the miners, and Tai Yu admitted his fault and explained his hatred of Xuanji Holy Land.
• Chen Xun demanded one Million High-Grade Spirit Stones for lost mining wages and required A'Da and A'Er to each pull out a bone to repay the life they had nearly taken.
• Chen Xun warned Tai Yu against slaughter and gave him a Five Elements Laws Imprint, promising to protect him when he crossed his heavenly tribulation.
• Tai Yu accepted the imprint and asked Chen Xun's name, and Chen Xun introduced himself as World Extinction Old Man.

Chen Xun questioned Tai Yu about the Desolate Heaven Domain, its Six Holy Lands, and True Spirit Ancient City. Tai Yu explained the region’s powers and the origin of the city, while Big Black Ox hoped to meet a true spirit and got splashed by Chen Xun.

• Tai Yu and the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts feared Chen Xun’s World Extinction Old Man title and agreed to repay their debt of Million High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun asked Tai Yu for directions and information about the Desolate Heaven Domain, Xuanji Holy Land, and Longevity Mountain Range.
• Tai Yu described the Six Holy Lands, their strength, and their location around True Spirit Ancient City.
• Tai Yu explained that fallen Heaven and Earth True Spirits shaped regions into cities, mountains, and seas.
• Big Black Ox imagined befriending a true spirit, and Chen Xun hit it with a ball of water.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox settled into a quiet life in the Longevity Mountain Range after sending Tai Yu to search for Chen Xun’s old acquaintances. Their peace was interrupted by a vast military operation targeting Xuanji Holy Land, whose participants mentioned the Dark Heaven Alliance and Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Xun gave Tai Yu portraits of his old acquaintances and told him to find them and crush a Five Elements Mark; Tai Yu departed with the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts, leaving their massive bones behind.
• Big Black Ox inspected the Ancient Ferocious Beast bones while Chen Xun resumed painting and remembered the old blind man from the mortal realm.
• The next day, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox built a quiet routine of fishing in the Longevity Mountain Range and discussed repaying a debt to an Old Jiaolong.
• Chen Xun mentioned a Moonlit Radiance Race elder who had humiliated Demon Moon and regretted missing the Immortal Nation’s grand painting Dao event with Big Black Ox.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sensed black-robed cultivators deploying hundreds of War Magical Artifacts near Xuanji Holy Land’s mineral vein and draining the mountain range’s vital energy.
• Chen Xun heard the cultivators mention the Dark Heaven Alliance and Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and his expression darkened with killing intent.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered the Dark Heaven Alliance preparing to attack Xuanji Holy Land’s depleted mineral vein, then sealed the area before the alliance could escape. Lin Xuanyou and his men were overwhelmed by a vast divine sense as thousands of thunder dragons gathered above them.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sensed signs of a realm-destroying attack and spread an array across Boundless Heaven.
• Lin Xuanyou and the Dark Heaven Alliance’s black-robed cultivators prepared to seize the mineral vein and ordered their War Magical Artifacts to fire.
• The War Magical Artifacts failed when heaven and earth essence qi and Great Dao Power were suppressed.
• Lin Xuanyou ordered the cultivators to flee with Great Evolution Teleportation Talismans, but a grand array sealed the area and stopped them.
• A vast divine sense suppressed the Dark Heaven Alliance cultivators, and thousands of thunder dragons formed overhead as Lin Xuanyou flew towards the sky.

Chen Xun destroyed the Dark Heaven Alliance’s War Magical Artifacts after mistaking the group for the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, then offered compensation and arranged to meet the Alliance’s leaders. Lin Xuanyou led the cultivators into the Longevity Mountain Range with Chen Xun’s Water Incarnation, while Chen Xun stayed behind to fish.

• Chen Xun unleashed lightning that destroyed the Dark Heaven Alliance’s War Magical Artifacts and declared that he was reason and rules in the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Lin Xuanyou explained that his group belonged to the Dark Heaven Alliance, the enemy of the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and offered the artifacts as compensation.
• Chen Xun realized he had mistaken the group and decided the Dark Heaven Alliance could help him gather intelligence and find his way.
• Chen Xun sent Lin Xuanyou a Five Elements Mark and a Water Incarnation, which asked to meet the Dark Heaven Alliance’s upper-ranking cultivators.
• Lin Xuanyou and the Dark Heaven Alliance cultivators departed with the Water Incarnation, while Chen Xun returned to fishing in the Peach Blossom Spring.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox waited by the river while cultivators at the Heavenly Purity Jade Stone mine feared Tai Yu and wondered who had secretly stopped him. Days later, the mine’s earth qi erupted amid widespread collapses, killing miners and Xuanji Holy Land cultivators and engulfing much of the site.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox calmly fished as disturbances around the Heavenly Purity Jade Stone mine unsettled the Longevity Mountain Range.
• Xuanji Holy Land disciples at the mine recalled Tai Yu’s attack and feared he would return to take revenge.
• The disciples concluded that an unknown expert had suppressed Tai Yu and the Ancient Ferocious Beasts, then kept silent about the mysterious intervention.
• Over the following days, mine collapses released eerie earth qi, and Xuanji Holy Land cultivators sealed the sites and removed the dead.
• Cracks spread through the mine, major tunnels collapsed, and a surge of earth qi engulfed more than half the mine as miners and Xuanji Holy Land cultivators died.

A mysterious reddish-brown mist engulfed the mine, killing the miners and blocking divine senses. Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered to investigate, discovered the mist was made from unusual Five Elements Qi, and found Wan Zeqian dead in the tunnel.

• The mine vein vanished beneath a deadly mist, and Xuanji Holy Land survivors evacuated while nearby cultivators failed to probe it with divine sense.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sent law clones into the mist, where it shattered Chen Xun's lightning and refined its Law of Thunder.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox captured and refined strands of mist, realizing it was formed from an unfamiliar kind of Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered the mine tunnel to search for the mist's source.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found Wan Zeqian's desiccated corpse and decided to give him a burial with a suona and Crane Spirit Tree offerings.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox buried Wan Zeqian, then pushed deeper into the mist-filled mine and discovered that consuming the haze strengthened their Five Elements Laws. They descended to the mist’s source, finding a secret realm with a mountain made entirely of supreme-grade Heavenly Purity Jade Stone.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox held a funeral for Wan Zeqian, buried him, and protected his grave with an array.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox struggled against the oppressive mist, then devoured it and found that it improved their Five Elements Laws.
• Chen Xun decided they should descend toward the mist’s source before other factions arrived, and Big Black Ox agreed.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox broke through the mine’s rock layers and discovered a secret realm beneath it.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox surveyed the realm and realized its central mountain was made of supreme-grade Heavenly Purity Jade Stone.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tried to harvest a mountain of valuable ore in a mist-filled mystic realm, but the mountain resisted their attacks with strange crimson Rules of Power. After Big Black Ox battered it for a day and night until its protective power collapsed, Chen Xun stopped it, apparently having noticed something.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided to take all the ore from the mountain, which they believed contained valuable Heavenly Purity Jade Stone and High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Big Black Ox used Five Elements Law Power and Array Dao runes to lift the land and stone into a vortex, but the mountain's crimson Rules of Power shattered the array.
• Big Black Ox summoned the Big Black Coffin and attacked the mountain with Death Qi Laws, but the mountain remained intact and the Black Sea collapsed.
• Chen Xun prepared to attack with his great axe, but Big Black Ox charged the mountain first and made its protective light flicker.
• Big Black Ox rammed the mountain tens of thousands of times over a day and night until its crimson Rules of Power collapsed, then Chen Xun ordered it to stop.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found the remains of Jing Yuxing, a former Great Ascension cultivator whose records revealed his Five Elements path and painful past. Chen Xun was shaken by Jing Yuxing’s account of the Desolate Star Sea becoming a Universe, while the story ended with Jing Yuxing still striving to reach Great Ascension and return to Tianxuan Holy Land.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered a mountain cave abode and found Jing Yuxing’s preserved corpse.
• Chen Xun took Jing Yuxing’s Storage Ring and discovered jade slips that revealed he had been a Great Ascension cultivator from before Xuanji Holy Land’s merger.
• Chen Xun read that Jing Yuxing had been neglected and ridiculed in Tianxuan Holy Land for his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root, then left to explore the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Jing Yuxing’s records described the Desolate Star Sea’s evolution into a Universe, leaving Chen Xun trembling as he wondered about his own origins.
• Jing Yuxing had mastered Five Elements spells and advanced to the peak of Dao Integration, but he remained trapped at a bottleneck while cultivating in a Mysterious Mine, determined to reach Great Ascension and return to Tianxuan Holy Land.