Chapter Summaries

Yin Tianshou prepared to investigate Chen Xun’s fate and confronted Southern Yu Immortal Hall’s Yan Che, who mocked Chen Xun and challenged him to battle. Mo Fuyang struck at Yan Che and accused him of destroying the Dao Ancestor’s tomb, leaving Yan Che suddenly alarmed.

• Yin Tianshou sent the Three Sword Slaves to protect Leaving Dust Island and vowed to investigate Chen Xun’s fate.
• Yan Che arrived with Southern Yu Immortal Hall, and he and Yin Tianshou faced each other across the Sword Sea Star River.
• Yan Che mocked Chen Xun and demanded that Yin Tianshou fight him, despite Yin Tianshou saying he had more important business.
• Mo Fuyang’s Five Elements Divine Light was struck down before it could reach Yan Che’s Qilin.
• Mo Fuyang confronted Yan Che and accused him of destroying the Dao Ancestor’s tomb, provoking shock and a sudden sense of alarm in Yan Che.

Mo Fuyang defied Yan Che to protect the reputation of the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, and Yan Che spared Spotless Immortal Ridge before fighting Yin Tianshou. After the seven-day battle, Yin Tianshou left the Mengmu Great Sea Region grieving for the junior he had failed to protect and resolved to destroy the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

• Mo Fuyang stood against Yan Che, declaring that he feared no Spirit Qi Immortal Path cultivator under the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.
• Yan Che promised not to harm Spotless Immortal Ridge or the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain for ten thousand years, and Mo Fuyang accepted his challenge to stand as Yan Che's equal.
• Yin Tianshou told Mo Fuyang to withdraw and challenged Yan Che to fight in the void beneath the heavens.
• Yan Che and Yin Tianshou battled for seven days, after which Yan Che left and the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall restored Yin Tianshou's freedom.
• Yin Tianshou watched a recording of Xun Kid and the Old Ox, mourned his inability to protect the junior, and vowed to destroy the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

Ji Yan launched the Southern Yu Continent Whale Devour Plan, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued their search for old friends in the Desolate Heaven Domain. After Tai Yu reported that a Great Vehicle Late Stage cultivator was undergoing tribulation while facing disaster from his sect, Chen Xun set out to intervene.

• The Southern Yu Immortal Hall rebuilt an island destroyed by the battle between the two Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords and compensated its former inhabitants.
• Ji Yan began the Whale Devour Plan, and hundreds of extremely evil Sinful Spirits left the Refining Void Immortal Prison under the Garbage Recycling Plant system’s command.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox settled in the Azure Sky Forest Sea while Tai Yu searched for the living beings in Chen Xun’s portraits.
• Tai Yu reported that two Great Vehicle Honored Ones of the Ghost Face Race were seeking those same beings and that a Great Vehicle Late Stage cultivator’s sect faced disaster as he prepared to undergo tribulation.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Tai Yu flew toward the sect dojo to protect the cultivator from anyone trying to interrupt his tribulation.

Tai Yu halted the battle between Tian Shu Holy Land and Heavenly Peak Sect by summoning two Ancient Ferocious Beasts, while Chen Xun approached Heavenly Peak Sect’s embattled cultivator and offered help with his heavenly tribulation. The cultivator accepted and began preparing to transcend tribulation, despite the risk of provoking an even more powerful calamity.

• Tai Yu and Chen Xun reached the battle between Tian Shu Holy Land and Heavenly Peak Sect, and Chen Xun left Tai Yu to handle the battlefield while he went to speak with a cultivator inside the sect.
• Tai Yu summoned two Ancient Ferocious Beasts and forced both sides to cease fighting until Heavenly Peak Sect’s cultivator completed his breakthrough.
• Chen Xun, calling himself World Extinction Old Man, told the cultivator that his unstable Dao heart and inadequate treasures left him unable to withstand the heavenly tribulation.
• The cultivator agreed to accept Chen Xun’s help, choosing to invoke the heavenly tribulation to protect his Sect Dao Lineage despite the danger of a stronger calamity.
• The cultivator released his aura, causing the river to churn and an ancient peal of thunder to sound across the sky.

Xuan Ji faced a heavenly tribulation while Heavenly Peak Sect fought Tian Shu Holy Land, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox secretly harvested the tribulation’s essence. After Xuan Ji succeeded, he unleashed his new power against the fleeing Holy Land cultivators and paid respects to World Extinction Celestial Venerable, who revealed himself as Oriental Xun.

• Xuan Ji declared that Heavenly Peak Sect would invade Tian Shu Holy Land if he survived tribulation, and the sect’s disciples rallied behind him.
• As the tribulation struck, Tai Yu and the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts fled its reach while Xuan Ji resisted the lightning with his crimson pagoda.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that heavenly tribulation contained essence they could harvest, and gathered several clusters of it.
• After three days, Xuan Ji completed his tribulation, then used a vast formation of fallen-leaf Sword Light to attack the fleeing Tian Shu Holy Land cultivators.
• Xuan Ji cupped his fists toward the sky and paid respects to World Extinction Celestial Venerable, who identified himself as Oriental Xun.

After leaving Heavenly Peak Sect, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled home with Tai Yu, who worried that Chen Xun had weakened Xuan Ji’s heavenly tribulation. Tai Yu asked to undergo a tribulation himself and was immediately struck by lightning, while Chen Xun denied swallowing Xuan Ji’s tribulation power.

• Chen Xun refused to interfere in Xuan Ji’s conflict with Tian Shu Holy Land and departed with Big Black Ox, followed by Tai Yu.
• Xuan Ji declared that he had entered the Tribulation Transcendence realm, ordered the sect to announce it in ten years, and planned to visit Tian Shu Holy Land.
• On the journey home, Tai Yu asked whether Xuan Ji had truly overcome his tribulation and said he feared Chen Xun had weakened its power.
• Tai Yu offered to bear the heavenly tribulation alone, and a bolt of thunder blasted him into a crater.
• Chen Xun told Tai Yu he had not swallowed Xuan Ji’s tribulation, while Big Black Ox scolded him; Tai Yu acknowledged that he understood.

Chen Xun explained why he would not recruit Tai Yu or interfere further with his sect, then discussed his plans with Big Black Ox as they traveled. After learning the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall had ordered an attack on their realm, Chen Xun vowed to kill everyone connected to it.

• Chen Xun told Tai Yu that the tribulation survivor owed him no loyalty and that he would not control the man or his sect.
• Chen Xun rejected Tai Yu’s suggestion to take powerful cultivators as subordinates and invited him to bring information to the Thatched Cottage for payment.
• While traveling with Big Black Ox, Chen Xun explained that Tai Yu was too entangled in his sect’s affairs to trust and warned against meddling in the sect’s future.
• Chen Xun reviewed their cultivation leads and plans to gather information about Meng Sheng, the Old Jiaolong, the Moonlit Radiance Race, Senior Shi’s clan territory, and the three-eyed monsters’ lair.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall had ordered three Integration Dao cultivators to bombard their realm with Nascent Extinction Cannons.
• Chen Xun vowed to kill everyone connected to the attack and spare no one.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched the Desolate Ancient Beasts battle in the Desolate Heaven Domain and prepared to learn from them. When White Spirit and Frog Daoist spotted them, Frog Daoist urged White Spirit to attack their Small Broken Boat.

• Chen Xun reassured Big Black Ox that they could cultivate peacefully in the Desolate Heaven Domain and plant spiritual rice.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched the Desolate Ancient Beasts fight, and Chen Xun saved fleeing living beings while Big Black Ox recorded merit.
• White Spirit arrived to prey on the battling beasts, carrying Frog Daoist and a small pond on its back.
• Frog Daoist warned White Spirit about the dangers of entangling itself with the Strongest Myriad Races, especially the Human Race.
• Frog Daoist took offense at Chen Xun and Big Black Ox staring at it and ordered White Spirit to move in.
• White Spirit turned its fear into fury and pounced toward the Small Broken Boat.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox subdued Frog Daoist and White Spirit, then forced them to guard the Back Mountain behind the Thatched Cottage for ten thousand years. Frog Daoist accepted the punishment and began tending the land, hoping to cultivate there.

• Chen Xun used the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Array Disk to freeze White Spirit and Frog Daoist, then he and Big Black Ox carried them away.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox slapped Frog Daoist repeatedly while White Spirit stayed quiet to avoid being hit.
• At the Thatched Cottage, Chen Xun ordered Frog Daoist and White Spirit to guard the Back Mountain for ten thousand years or be killed, and they agreed.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left, while Frog Daoist told White Spirit to clear weeds and plant flowers and grasses on the Back Mountain.

Chen Xun began refining pills by drawing qi from Heaven and Earth into his furnace, creating a vast anomaly that left Frog Daoist and White Spirit unable to use their qi. As Frog Daoist explained Dao essence and immortals to White Spirit, Big Black Ox joined them, and Frog Daoist eagerly tried to learn about its lineage.

• Chen Xun formally started refining pills without ingredients, drawing Heavenly Origin Qi and the qi of mountains and rivers into his furnace.
• The pill-refining anomaly spread across a thousand li, causing tens of thousands of Crane Spirit Trees to collapse and preventing White Spirit from mobilizing its qi and Great Dao Power.
• Frog Daoist told White Spirit that Chen Xun was cultivating a method beyond the Spirit Qi Immortal Path and explained Dao essence, Celestial Venerables, and immortals.
• Big Black Ox interrupted Frog Daoist and White Spirit, then listened as Frog Daoist tried to identify its clan.
• Big Black Ox nodded when Frog Daoist asked if it belonged to the Ox Clan, leaving Frog Daoist wary of asking more about its ancient lineage.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent a century cultivating their secluded home before leaving for a Tribulation Transcendence Ceremony in True Spirit Ancient City. Left behind among the precious medicines, Frog Daoist revealed that Heavenly Strategy had personally invested it as Chi Immortal Great General.

• Frog Daoist and White Spirit helped Big Black Ox move the fallen Crane Spirit Trees while Chen Xun refined pills, and Chen Xun's failed attempt caused an explosion and a day of cursing.
• A hundred years passed as Chen Xun and Big Black Ox tended the Back Mountain and its cemetery.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that Tai Yu had sent word of a Tribulation Transcendence Ceremony in True Spirit Ancient City, and they departed to see it.
• Frog Daoist and White Spirit marveled at the Ten Thousand Year Precious Medicines in the Spiritual Herb Garden, and White Spirit resolved to protect the land.
• After White Spirit asked about its past, Frog Daoist declared that it had commanded tribes across thirteen Great Worlds and been personally invested by Heavenly Strategy as Chi Immortal Great General.

Frog Daoist relived his past with White Spirit, including her sacrifice in the ancient war and his long, fruitless wait for her rebirth. Back in the Spiritual Herb Garden, he concluded that a junior who had comprehended Dao essence might be able to help revive her.

• Frog Daoist recalled how White Spirit sent him through a Space Channel while she stayed behind to fight in the extermination war.
• He remembered their first meeting and how White Spirit had taken him away to roam the Cultivation World of the Great Age.
• After hearing that White Spirit's army had been wiped out, Frog Daoist fled to the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground and waited for her rebirth.
• White Spirit's Dao essence suppressed Frog Daoist into slumber, leaving him unaware that she never returned.
• Frog Daoist returned to the present and decided that a junior's Dao essence might help bring White Spirit back.

Frog Daoist urged White Spirit to cultivate toward the Great Ascension Stage while they waited for Ox Daoist. In True Spirit Ancient City, Yu Fangshuo continued searching for the people in his portrait and crossed paths with a mysterious cultivator who seemed familiar.

• Frog Daoist told White Spirit that reaching the Great Ascension Stage required three thousand Great Dao Power and promised to seek help from Ox Daoist.
• A linen-clad young man wearing a battered bamboo hat entered True Spirit Ancient City, where crowds had gathered for the Chu Clan's Tribulation Transcendence Ceremony.
• Yu Fangshuo told his companion he would keep searching for the living beings in the portrait even if the employer had died, because he had accepted the task.
• Yu Fangshuo and the fat man passed the bamboo-hatted cultivator and sensed his immense power; Yu Fangshuo thought he resembled an old acquaintance.
• Yu Fangshuo and the fat man dispersed into the crowd, while Yu Fangshuo continued searching for the people in the portrait.

Chen Xun encountered Chu Zhen, whose face and voice reminded him of his long-lost Little Junior Sister Liu Yuan, and followed her through the city while trying to get acquainted. Chu Zhen left for the Chu Clan, believing he had mistaken her for someone else, while Chen Xun watched her go with his old memories stirred.

• Chen Xun saw Chu Zhen riding in a carriage with the Chu Clan procession and was struck by her resemblance to Liu Yuan, his Little Junior Sister.
• Chu Zhen asked whether she and Chen Xun knew each other, and he asked her name and tried to become friends with her.
• Chen Xun introduced himself and chatted with Chu Zhen as they traveled through the street from noon until dusk.
• At the Chu Clan’s territory, Chu Zhen told Chen Xun they had likely never met and asked him to treat their encounter as a brief crossing of paths.
• Chen Xun quietly bid Chu Zhen farewell as her carriage continued toward the setting sun.

After parting from Chen Xun, Chu Zhen was summoned to meet Yao Fei of the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect as the Chu Clan sought a path for her future. Yao Fei hesitated to take her as a disciple, but the Chu Family Head pressed the request and offered Moon Condensing Sand.

• Chen Xun and Chu Zhen exchanged a final smile across Sunset Avenue before continuing on separate paths.
• At the Chu Clan, Chu Zhen reflected on her meeting with Chen Xun and was told that the Family Head wanted her to meet Yao Fei.
• Chu Zhen agreed to meet Yao Fei after her servant explained that joining the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect could help her reach the Immortal Palace.
• The Chu Family Head praised Chu Zhen's talent and asked Yao Fei to take her as a disciple.
• Yao Fei cited his reluctance to take another disciple and Chu Zhen's Human Race background, but the Chu Family Head insisted and offered Moon Condensing Sand as an apprenticeship gift.

Chu Zhen joined Yao Fei’s Illusory Moon Immortal Sect, while Big Black Ox secretly investigated Yao Fei’s background and reflected on the return of departed friends. Elsewhere, Chen DaoTian blocked the Heavenly Mystery Ancient Road, leaving gathered prodigies wary of how to proceed.

• Chu Zhen accepted Yao Fei’s invitation to enter his sect, and he promised to escort her there after Senior Chu’s tribulation.
• Big Black Ox watched Chu Zhen and sent a Five Elements Mark to demand a full report on Yao Fei’s identity within a day.
• Big Black Ox resolved to keep suppressing evil cultivators and repaying heaven and earth as it anticipated old friends returning through reincarnation.
• In the Heavenly Mystery Ancient Road, Chen DaoTian emerged from the Purgatory Fire Sea among the headless corpses of those he had beaten to death.
• An Immortal Spirit Clan man and woman discussed Chen DaoTian, Di Tian, and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance before considering how to get past him.

Chen DaoTian killed an Immortal Spirit Clan woman on the Heavenly Mystery Ancient Road, then left after receiving a summons from Ox Ancestor to investigate Yao Fei of the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect. In True Spirit Ancient City, Chen Xun investigated Chu Zhen, who looked exactly like Junior Sister Liu Yuan, but Big Black Ox’s message made him suddenly turn cold and leave the teahouse.

• Chen DaoTian revealed his overwhelming power, destroyed the Immortal Spirit Clan woman, and took her Storage Ring while the surrounding prodigies watched in shock.
• Three Devil Race prodigies assessed Chen DaoTian’s strength and discussed using a Heavenly Mystery Suppression Kill rather than fighting him directly.
• Ox Ancestor ordered Chen DaoTian and an aged Chen Family member to investigate Yao Fei of the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect within one day, and Chen DaoTian immediately left the ancient road.
• Chen Xun studied his Merit Ledger and investigated Chu Zhen, whose appearance and voice matched Junior Sister Liu Yuan, while learning about the Chu Clan’s upcoming ceremony.
• Big Black Ox sent Chen Xun a message about Junior Sister Liu Yuan, and Chen Xun abruptly left the teahouse after setting down his tea.

Yao Fei reminisced over his abuse of his niece Demon Moon before Chen Xun and Big Black Ox invaded his grotto heaven. They identified Yao Fei as their target, and Chen Xun asked whether he knew Demon Moon.

• Yao Fei watched an Image Recording Stone depicting Demon Moon’s childhood and later abuse at his hands.
• Yao Fei put away the recording and sensed an overwhelming aura descend upon his grotto heaven.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared in black robes and masks, crushing Yao Fei with their presence.
• Yao Fei pleaded that he was an elder of the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect and appealed to Moon Hao Celestial Venerable.
• Chen Xun asked Yao Fei whether he knew Demon Moon.

Chen Xun seized Yao Fei and attacked him after threatening to ruin his bloodline, destroying Yao Fei’s Blessed Grotto Heavens and terrifying the Chu Clan. As Chen Xun held the unconscious Yao Fei, a bell rang over True Spirit Ancient City and a vast True Spirit appeared in the sky.

• Chen Xun seized Yao Fei with an unknown formation and asked whether he carried all the Image Recording Stones.
• Yao Fei taunted Chen Xun and threatened him with retaliation from the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect, but Chen Xun threatened to disgrace him and target his bloodline.
• Yao Fei admitted his error, but Chen Xun flew into a rage and struck him, destroying the Blessed Grotto Heavens and creating a vast Thunder Abyss.
• The Chu Clan Ancestor ordered the clan to stay silent and not disturb Chen Xun, while Chu Zhen watched in horror.
• A bell rang over True Spirit Ancient City, and a huge True Spirit phantom appeared as day turned to night.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox suppressed the True Spirit Remnant Soul after it appeared over the ancient city, then secretly weakened the Chu Clan ancestor’s heavenly tribulation so he could survive. The Chu Clan celebrated his successful ascension, and Chu Zhen became its protected favorite while her ancestor sought a suitable master for her.

• Big Black Ox confronted the True Spirit Remnant Soul with his gaze, and a peerless powerhouse’s pressure made it disperse.
• Powerful figures connected the incident to the Chu Clan, whose territory had become a renowned Place of Enlightenment around the Thunder Abyss.
• The Chu Clan ancestor’s Tribulation Transcendence Ceremony began, but the heavenly tribulation overwhelmed him and blasted out his Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Xun agreed to help the Chu Clan ancestor for Liu Yuan’s sake, and he and Big Black Ox altered the tribulation despite the cost to their merit.
• The Chu Clan ancestor successfully transcended tribulation two days later and resolved to find a suitable master for Chu Zhen.