Chapter Summaries

Jing Yuxing learned that his father had watched over him and left a letter waiting for his return, but he reached Tianxuan Holy Land tens of thousands of years too late and found Jing Xianghong’s tomb. After witnessing Jing Yuxing’s story, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the mine’s treasures undisturbed, and the secret realm sank from the world.

• Jing Yuxing broke through to the Great Ascension Stage by refining Reverse Five Elements Qi, but the mine bound him as its artifact spirit and left him trapped for thousands of years.
• Jing Yuxing recovered his memories after finding his father’s bloodline letter and read of Jing Xianghong’s enduring care and invitation to return home.
• Jing Yuxing entered Xuanji Holy Land and learned that Tianxuan and Tianji Holy Lands had merged, then found Jing Xianghong’s tomb beside his preserved cave dwelling and died after returning to his father.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched Jing Yuxing’s story in the mine, and Jing Yuxing’s phantom thanked them before dispersing.
• Chen Xun returned Jing Yuxing’s Storage Ring, left the jade stones behind, and took the Tianxuan Holy Land Jade Token as he and Big Black Ox departed.
• A grand formation enveloped the secret realm after Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left, and it sank out of sight.

Chen Xun watched from Peach Blossom Spring as Shen Shi hurried toward the mine and was repeatedly struck by unexplained heavenly lightning. Shen Shi was left battered and helpless on the road, still trying to reach the mine to save its cultivators.

• Chen Xun fished in Peach Blossom Spring while noticing Shen Shi rushing toward the mine.
• Shen Shi wondered whether Tai Yu and the Holy Land were plotting against him as he traveled through the Longevity Mountain Range.
• A sudden lightning strike blasted Shen Shi into a crater, but he found no trace of its source and continued onward cautiously.
• Another bolt struck Shen Shi and hurled him into a mountain wall, making him fear that he had violated Heavenly Laws.
• Shen Shi worshipped the heavens, summoned protective treasures, and resumed his journey to save the mine cultivators.
• A third lightning strike knocked Shen Shi flat, leaving him battered and helpless.

Shen Shi reached Xuanji Holy Land’s collapsing mine, rescued the mine cultivators, and recruited Ru Tang as his registered disciple. Five days later, he led them out of the Longevity Mountain Range, while the fishing man and Old Ox prepared to visit the Desolate Heaven Domain.

• Shen Shi arrived at the sinking mine, where the disciples recognized him despite his charred appearance and heard that the casualties were limited.
• Shen Shi ordered the disciples to evacuate the mine cultivators and report the broken earth vein to Xuanji Holy Land.
• Ru Tang offered Shen Shi Daoist robes, and he accepted her as a registered disciple and gave her the Ming Xiao Art.
• Shen Shi led the disciples and mine cultivators out of the Longevity Mountain Range five days later, using Xuanji Holy Land treasures to protect them.
• The fishing man told Old Ox that they had found Xuanji Holy Land and that it was time to see the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Chen Xun secretly observed Xuanji Holy Land through the mark on Shen Shi, then sent an avatar to scout a nearby market. The avatar blended into the crowd while Chen Xun considered looking for Shi Jianbai’s clan in the future.

• Chen Xun used the Five Elements Mark in Shen Shi to observe Xuanji Holy Land and saw its formidable barriers, Rainbow Bridge, and vast immortal mountain.
• Chen Xun withdrew his observation when the Rainbow Bridge inspected Shen Shi, then told Big Black Ox what he had seen.
• Chen Xun sent a Five Elements Avatar to scout Xuanji Holy Land while he and Big Black Ox stayed behind in Peach Blossom Spring.
• Chen Xun’s avatar disguised itself as an ordinary cultivator and entered the market outside the Holy Land, noting its obsidian walls and fierce crowd.
• Chen Xun thought of Senior Shi Jianbai and resolved to investigate his clan when the opportunity arose.

Chen Xun explored the city, sold spirit herbs to Mysterious Spirit Pavilion, and opened a blacksmith shop resembling his old one. He ended the day sitting outside the shop, reflecting on his return to a familiar beginning.

• Chen Xun browsed the city’s stalls, recalled buying Heaven Concealing Stones in the past, and noted that buying them at the source would be cheaper.
• Chen Xun recognized the exotic beasts following cultivators as Desolate Ancient Beasts and considered their potential to inherit Ancient Ferocious Beast bloodlines.
• Chen Xun entered Mysterious Spirit Pavilion and sold his spirit herbs to Qi Yongbin for eleven thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun bought a storefront on a secluded street and renovated it into a simple blacksmith shop with two Crane Spirit Trees at the entrance.
• Chen Xun sat outside the shop in an old wooden chair at dusk and reflected on returning to a place like his starting point.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox opened an artifact-refining shop, earned a reputation for fine, affordable work, and befriended Zhou Xing. After more than a decade of refining artifacts and studying immortal puppets, they began crafting one.

• Chen Xun brought Big Black Ox to the shop, where it used formations to enhance the furnace and help open the Artifact Refining Pavilion.
• The shop gained renown for its affordable, high-quality artifacts, and Zhou Xing began placing orders with Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun agreed to forge Zhou Xing a Void Refinement Realm magical treasure in three months and delivered one with power thirty percent greater than comparable treasures.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent over a decade refining artifacts by day and studying immortal puppets by night.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided the time was right to make an immortal puppet, and Chen Xun raised the Evil Marrow Crystals with the power of the Five Elements Laws.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox refined a Dao Integration Realm immortal puppet, then spent ten years building their artifact-refining shop and placing Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu there. The chapter ended when Ru Tang of Xuanji Holy Land arrived to meet the shopkeeper, and Chen Xun greeted her as Oriental Xun.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox refined a Dao Integration Realm immortal puppet and gave it a Five Elements Mark to imitate a living cultivator.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided the puppet was a defective first attempt and planned to refine more, while Chen Xun studied an Array Palace method and Big Black Ox worked on the puppet.
• Ten years passed as Chen Xun's artifact-refining shop gained a reputation, and Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu began working there as apparent blood brothers.
• Chen Yanshu told Chen Xun that Ru Tang, an outer sect steward of Xuanji Holy Land and Elder Shen's registered disciple, had come to meet him.
• Chen Xun made a dramatic entrance, introduced himself as Oriental Xun, and welcomed Ru Tang and her companions into the shop.

Ru Tang visited Chen Xun to commission a Dao Integration Realm magic treasure and told him that Zhou Xing had disappeared after an immortal tomb emerged in the Desolate Plains. A year later, she returned to collect the completed treasure and was astonished when she inspected it.

• Ru Tang told Chen Xun that Zhou Xing had gone to the Desolate Plains for Heaven Concealing Stones and had not been heard from since an immortal tomb emerged there.
• Ru Tang suggested that Chen Yanshu try his luck at Xuanji Holy Land, and Chen Xun said he would consider it.
• Ru Tang gave Chen Xun valuable materials and refining requirements for an offensive Dao Integration Realm magic treasure, and he accepted the commission.
• Chen Xun completed the magic treasure within a few months but kept it hidden until a year had passed.
• Ru Tang returned to the Artifact Refining Shop, received the treasure from Chen Xun, and stared at it in astonishment.

Chen Xun agreed to let Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu join Xuanji Holy Land through Ru Tang’s recommendations, and the two passed the entry test. As the Holy Land’s disciple test began, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched through their immortal puppets and planned to investigate the sect before making their move.

• Ru Tang offered Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu recommendation slots at Xuanji Holy Land, and Chen Xun accepted after learning they still had to pass the required test.
• Several days later, Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu passed the entry test and joined the gathered candidates at Xuanji Holy Land’s inner sect plaza.
• The two concealed their cultivation and mingled calmly with the other candidates while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox observed through their immortal puppets.
• Chen Xun studied the Holy Land’s Spirit Veins and cultivation grounds, then told Big Black Ox to have the puppets investigate the sect before they acted themselves.
• Cultivators with terrifying auras descended into the plaza, officially beginning Xuanji Holy Land’s disciple test.

Ji Daoxiu began the Xuanji Holy Land entry test by sending the Foundation Establishment cultivators into the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven, where Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu prepared to fight without concealing their strength. The chapter ended as a black figure pounced on Chen Ba Tian.

• Ji Daoxiu warned the Foundation Establishment cultivators about the dangers of the test before activating a stone sphere that transported them into the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven.
• Chen Ba Tian revealed the sword Gloomy Darkness, while Chen Yanshu encouraged him to make a name for himself in Xuanji.
• Chen Ba Tian became tempted by Jin Bao's generous gifts, but Chen Yanshu stopped him from accepting spirit stones or owing Jin Bao a favor.
• Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu regrouped in the cave heaven and noted its Golden Core Beast nests and the observers outside.
• Chen Yanshu told Chen Ba Tian to kill anyone or anything that stood in their way, and a black figure suddenly pounced on Chen Ba Tian.

Chen Ba Tian rose to fame in the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven by killing beasts and defeating Jin Bao with his swift sword, while Ru Tang arranged for him and Chen Yanshu to enter the Xuanji Holy Land. Back at their quiet Artifact Refining Shop, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox missed the two young cultivators and reflected on the loneliness of immortality.

• Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu traveled through the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven as Chen Ba Tian slew ferocious beasts with clean sword strikes, earning a fearsome reputation.
• Chen Ba Tian answered Jin Bao's challenge and wounded him with a single sword strike before leaving without killing him.
• Ji Daoxiu watched Chen Ba Tian's exploits, and Ru Tang told him to keep Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu as disciples of the Xuanji Holy Land and help them if they faced danger.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox ate in the quiet Artifact Refining Shop, missed Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu, and spoke of their former juniors.
• Chen Xun set down his bowl and said that immortality was lonely as snow.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reflected on their immortal puppets and their plans to influence the Desolate Heaven Domain while keeping their true bodies hidden. In the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven, Chen Yanshu used formations concealed in his booklet to hunt Golden Core Beasts, surpassing Chen Ba Tian’s kill count.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox resumed work on immortal puppets, discussing how Ba Tian and Yanshu were projections infused with their split souls.
• Chen Xun planned to use their incarnations to control Xuanji Holy Land while their true bodies remained concealed in Peach Blossom Spring.
• A brutal Foundation Establishment trial continued in the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven, where one powerful swordsman slaughtered beasts and destroyed Golden Core Beast nests.
• Chen Yanshu approached a Golden Core Beast besieged by disciples and used a formation from his booklet to kill it instantly.
• Chen Yanshu continued raiding Golden Core Beast nests, and his kill count eventually exceeded Chen Ba Tian’s.

Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian passed Xuanji Holy Land’s entrance trial and spirit-root test, then registered as disciples. On their way back to their cave dwelling, Jin Bao approached them to offer friendship and cultivation resources.

• Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian finished the trial after the beasts in the Slaughter Dao Cave Heaven were defeated, and the disciples returned to the plaza.
• Ji Daoxiu announced the spirit-root test, and Chen Ba Tian was revealed to have a Top-Grade Fire Spirit Root while Chen Yanshu had a Top-Grade Water Spirit Root.
• The disciples registered at the Sect Main Hall, received their tokens, and were assigned cave dwellings.
• Jin Bao caught up with Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu, thanked them for sparing his life, and offered them a Storage Ring of spirit stones.
• Jin Bao proposed that they become friends and offered to help them, while Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu accepted his goodwill and continued toward their cave dwelling.

After three years at Xuanji Holy Land, Chen Ba Tian’s breakthrough triggered a powerful heavenly phenomenon as the immortal puppet’s arrays began reversing under the influence of Reverse Five Elements Power. Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered the cause but chose to watch and see whether the changes would reveal more about the strange power or bring Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu an opportunity.

• Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu spent their early days in Xuanji Holy Land waiting for orders from Chen Xun and Big Black Ox while focusing on cultivation.
• A month later, Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu became disciples of Qiu Hai Ping, and three years of cultivation at Water Flame Peak raised them to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• A terrifying aura and sea-of-fire phenomenon erupted from Chen Ba Tian’s cave, alarming nearby cultivators and prompting Qiu Hai Ping to activate the mountain’s protective array.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox investigated and discovered that Reverse Five Elements Power had altered and begun reversing the immortal puppet’s Five Elements Arrays.
• Chen Xun decided to observe the changes rather than intervene, hoping to learn more about Reverse Five Elements Power and leaving the outcome to fate.

Chen Ba Tian awakened after Reverse Five Elements Power transformed his body and spirit roots, while Chen Xun revealed that Chen Yanshu was undergoing the same mutation. The two tested the power in a spar, discovering that it could devour and refine ordinary Five Elements Power.

• Reverse Five Elements Power consumed the vitality around Chen Ba Tian, transformed his body into a Reverse Five Elements Body, and mutated his spirit roots.
• Qiu Hai Ping examined Chen Ba Tian but could find no clear explanation for his changed aura, then left after Chen Ba Tian said he had sensed nothing during the transformation.
• Chen Xun told Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu that Reverse Five Elements Power had caused the changes and that Chen Yanshu was also mutating toward a Reverse Five Elements Body.
• Chen Ba Tian and Chen Yanshu agreed to let the changes run their course and went outside to test Reverse Five Elements Power in a spar.
• Chen Ba Tian's fire dragon devoured and refined Chen Yanshu's Water Sword, showing that Reverse Five Elements Power could suppress ordinary Five Elements Power.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent a quiet day at their Artifact Refining Shop with You Yuan, a little girl who often visited them. After she revealed her family lived in You Immortal Garden within Star Palace Immortal Palace Territory, they realized her background was far greater than they had assumed.

• You Yuan visited Chen Xun and Big Black Ox and asked Chen Xun to make her another pair of Goggles.
• Chen Xun teased You Yuan and distracted her with melon seeds instead of making the Goggles.
• You Yuan asked about Chen Xun and Big Black Ox's life and learned they had been separated from their younger sister, whom they hoped to find.
• Chen Xun stopped You Yuan from recklessly channeling spiritual power and promised to make Goggles once she learned to cast a barrier while flying.
• You Yuan revealed that her family lived in You Immortal Garden, which had been granted a title by an Ancient Immortal in Star Palace Immortal Palace Territory.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent centuries running their Artifact Refining Shop before leaving to travel, while You Yuan later returned and found them gone. Far away, powerful figures sensed Yin Tianshou’s impending breakthrough, and a man at Southern Yu Immortal Hall spoke his name with murderous intent.

• You Yuan visited Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, who reassured her about the Immortal Palace and said they would someday visit their friend at Jade Terrace Immortal Palace.
• Over three hundred years, You Yuan visited less often, Chen Heaven Tyrant and Chen Yanshu grew formidable at Xuanji Holy Land, and Shen Shi watched them closely.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Artifact Refining Shop to search for resources, posting a notice that they had gone traveling.
• After emerging from seclusion, You Yuan visited the marketplace with her mother but found the shop closed and its familiar owners gone.
• In Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, powerful figures discussed Yin Tianshou’s impending breakthrough and Southern Yu Immortal Hall’s need to answer for his disciple’s death.
• At Southern Yu Immortal Hall, a powerful man opened his eyes and thundered Yin Tianshou’s name.

Yin Tianshou faced a vast heavenly tribulation in the Mengmu Great Sea Region as powerful cultivators gathered to witness his rise. After overcoming the tribulation and becoming a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord, he challenged Celestial Venerable Yan Che, who heard him but did not respond with action.

• Powerful cultivators from the Southern Yu Continent and the other sea regions gathered to watch Yin Tianshou undergo his tribulation.
• Yin Tianshou unleashed his Sword Dao against the lightning tribulation, overwhelming it with torrents of sword qi and Sword Light.
• Yin Tianshou overcame the tribulation and emerged as a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord, youthful and transformed by his power.
• Yin Tianshou challenged Celestial Venerable Yan Che to battle, and Yan Che sensed the challenge from within the Immortal Hall but remained composed.

Yin Tianshou broke through to become a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord and celebrated by rewarding the cultivators who witnessed his tribulation. When he tried to contact Chen Xun, he discovered Chen Xun’s Divine Sense had been annihilated, and his grief and fury shook the Mengmu Great Sea Region.

• Yin Tianshou’s breakthrough astonished cultivators across the Mengmu Great Sea Region, and Wei Yue bowed to him in fear.
• Xian Jue left for the Extraterritorial Battlefield, while Mo Fuyang stayed to guard Spotless Immortal Ridge and Mo Yehan prepared to enter the Supreme Unity Dao Palace.
• Yin Tianshou gifted pills to the cultivators who had witnessed his tribulation, then used a Void Transmission Disc to seek Chen Xun and Black Ox.
• Yin Tianshou found Chen Xun’s Divine Sense aura faint, then watched it vanish because Chen Xun’s Divine Sense had been annihilated.
• Yin Tianshou’s killing intent filled the region, and he said that Chen Xun’s death was impossible.

Yin Tianshou learned from Mo Fuyang that Chen Xun’s family had died on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, and his overwhelming sword aura receded into stunned grief. Mo Fuyang doubted that Chen Xun had truly perished there and revealed that Ji Yan had dismissed his concerns while taking Black Ox’s Decomposition Array.

• Yin Tianshou unleashed a vast Sword Dao Field across the sea, frightening cultivators into fleeing as Mo Fuyang approached him.
• Mo Fuyang told Yin Tianshou that Chen Xun’s family had perished centuries ago on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and that graves had been erected at Spotless Immortal Ridge.
• Yin Tianshou asked who had killed them and learned they had traveled through the Three Great Heavenly Domains to the battlefield.
• Yin Tianshou asked about the Wood Clan and learned that it had sealed itself away after NanGong’s death, though Ji Yan’s people had saved its survivors.
• Yin Tianshou asked whether Chen Xun had left any final words, and Mo Fuyang replied that there had been none.
• Mo Fuyang insisted Chen Xun could not have gone to the battlefield, accused Ji Yan of dismissing his concerns and taking Black Ox’s Decomposition Array, and said he planted a Crane Spirit Tree every day in hopes of welcoming Chen Xun’s soul home.