Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Thatched Cottage with the captured Yao Fei, while the Illusory Moon Immortal Sect failed to discover who had taken him. After punishing Frog Daoist for slacking, Chen Xun learned of a harsher way to break Yao Fei’s Dao Heart and considered it.

• The Illusory Moon Immortal Sect searched for Yao Fei but could not trace his aura or discover who had captured him.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Thatched Cottage with Yao Fei, startling Frog Daoist, who had been resting on the roof.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox charged Frog Daoist three million high-grade spirit stones for losses caused by his alleged neglect, and Frog Daoist reluctantly accepted after reading Chen Xun’s accounts.
• Chen Xun told Frog Daoist that Yao Fei had harmed an old friend and that he was keeping the captive for her.
• Frog Daoist advised Chen Xun to use a Desolate Male Beast to shatter Yao Fei’s Dao Heart, and Chen Xun found the suggestion persuasive.

Chen Xun asked Frog Daoist to deal with Yao Fei and learned about Frog Daoist’s ancient possessions and knowledge of immortal tombs. After Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Thatched Cottage, they continued developing thunder Dao Incarnations while Big Black Ox struggled to cultivate a supreme longevity treasure tree.

• Frog Daoist proposed tormenting Yao Fei and erasing his descendants’ fortune, then offered a Chaotic Five Thunder Stone to repay its debt to Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun declined the stone, said he wanted to collect ancient objects, and listened as Frog Daoist warned that Heaven Concealing Stones could be found near immortal tombs.
• Chen Xun told Frog Daoist to handle Yao Fei well, warning that it would have to carry away any Good Fruits it could not finish.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to the Thatched Cottage and worked on Dao Incarnations that condensed Thunder Dao Runes.
• Big Black Ox continued failing to cultivate a supreme longevity treasure tree, while Frog Daoist stared blankly as if recalling something.

Three years after Frog Daoist’s awakening, it told Chen Xun and Big Black Ox that Defiled Lifespan was karmic punishment created by the Ancient Human Race’s Small Realm scheme. Frog Daoist offered to help attack the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance if Chen Xun could revive the Great General of the Heavenly Wasteland, White Spirit.

• Frog Daoist described how the Ancient Human Race used Small Realms and the Grand Creation Art to accelerate the devouring of the Great World Source.
• Frog Daoist explained that Defiled Lifespan was the Small Realm Source’s hatred made manifest and the karma the Human Race had to repay.
• Chen Xun revealed that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance had ordered the destruction of his realm, and Frog Daoist urged him to pursue vengeance.
• Frog Daoist promised to gather forces and attack the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance if Chen Xun revived White Spirit, the Great General of the Heavenly Wasteland.

Frog Daoist told Chen Xun that a woman’s dormant Dao aura in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground might let him bring her back to life, and Chen Xun agreed to investigate. The next day, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met Chu Zhen outside the Chu Clan Territory and tried to persuade her to travel with them.

• Frog Daoist recounted its past with White Spirit over three days, then asked Chen Xun to save a woman whose Dao aura lay dormant in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Xun accidentally set Frog Daoist’s mouth on fire while lighting Dust Cleansing Grass, then said he would investigate the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and demanded three million high-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent two days watching the bustling Chu Clan Territory from a teahouse before leaving.
• Chu Zhen walked alone along a road outside the Chu Clan Territory, where Chen Xun and Big Black Ox encountered her and introduced themselves again.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox invited Chu Zhen to travel with them, but she pointed out that they were headed in a different direction and began to decline.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox befriended Chu Zhen after hearing her play the qin, then reacted with shock when she named Jun Jing as the senior who had promised to make her a qin. Though Chu Zhen initially left in alarm, repeated encounters brought them closer, and she eventually called them Chen Xun and Black Ox.

• Chu Zhen took Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to the Harmony Rhythm Pavilion and told them she loved the qin because of a senior she had met in childhood.
• Chu Zhen asked about the woman in Chen Xun and Big Black Ox’s hearts, then played a qin piece that moved them deeply.
• Chu Zhen revealed that Jun Jing of the Longevity Family Jun had promised to make her a qin, startling Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, who confused him with Shi Jing and questioned her about reincarnation.
• Chu Zhen left after Chen Xun pressed her about reincarnation, but he and Big Black Ox kept encountering her around True Spirit Ancient City.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Chu Zhen gradually became friends, sharing music and outings until Chu Zhen addressed them by name.

As the Three Thousand Great Worlds entered a flourishing era amid the Extraterritorial Great War, ancient races and hidden powers began stirring, leaving the domains vulnerable. At the Thatched Cottage, Frog Daoist warned White Spirit to stay safe while he sensed a looming calamity he could not yet identify.

• The Boundless Great World joined the war, and the Three Thousand Great Worlds began expanding as spiritual energy, resources, and the Star Pivot flourished.
• Ancient races emerged from the Desolate Star Sea, while Longevity Family elders awakened and prepared to contend for the Immortal Realm’s clan fortune.
• Frog Daoist wondered whether White Spirit had foreseen the coming upheaval and questioned the Human Emperor’s role in White Spirit’s death.
• White Spirit reported that an Ancient Ferocious Beast had passed near the Spiritual Herb Garden, and Frog Daoist told it to leave the creature for Black Ox.
• Frog Daoist warned White Spirit to avoid ancient races and remain at the Thatched Cottage, sensing a great calamity approaching the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox accepted that Chu Zhen was not Liu Yuan, despite her resemblance to their lost Little Junior Sister, and left True Spirit Ancient City. Chu Zhen reunited with Jun Jing, but watching Chen Xun depart brought back memories she could not explain.

• Chen Xun told Chu Zhen that Liu Yuan, his Little Junior Sister, had died ten thousand years earlier and that no traces of her remained, while Chu Zhen was an independent person despite looking and sounding like her.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox not to hurt anyone else, and Big Black Ox unleashed his grief before accepting that Liu Yuan was gone.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox bid farewell to Chu Zhen and walked away from the mountains, while Chen Xun wished her peace.
• Jun Jing arrived to reunite with Chu Zhen and brought her the zither he had made, as the two resumed their conversation.
• Chu Zhen watched Chen Xun and Big Black Ox leave, remembered their earlier meeting, and wept as they disappeared into the distance.

After severing his attachment to the past, Chen Xun resolved to face the coming chaos and pursue immortality alongside Big Black Ox. He questioned Frog Daoist about becoming an immortal, learning that no cultivation method existed and that even immortals faced limits.

• Chen Xun transformed his appearance and Dao Heart, then vowed with Big Black Ox to advance without looking back and fight for immortality by any means.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sensed signs of approaching chaos before vanishing from the desolate land.
• Chen Xun dragged Frog Daoist into its cottage and asked whether it knew how to become an immortal.
• Frog Daoist said that inscribing Dao Resonance into Heaven and Earth might let one glimpse the immortal gate, but there were no shortcuts or established methods for ascension.
• Frog Daoist explained that Great World Immortals lived at least one hundred thousand years, rarely fought, and might be constrained by the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

Chen Xun learned from Frog Daoist that his Ji Clan ancient book was the Water Spirit Art, a forbidden inheritance tied to the Human Emperor and the ancient race’s plan involving Defiled Lifespan. Frog Daoist tried to claim the book, but Chen Xun blasted him out of the Thatched Cottage.

• Chen Xun showed Frog Daoist the ancient book from his Senior Brother Ji and explained it had come from a Small Realm.
• Frog Daoist recognized the book as a forbidden object from the previous Heaven and Earth Reincarnation and identified it as the Water Spirit Art.
• Frog Daoist explained that the Human Emperor had used the art’s Grand Creation Art to raise humanity and that its other powers were connected to Defiled Lifespan.
• Frog Daoist speculated that the art could mobilize Defiled Lifespan troops and urged Chen Xun not to let the Ancient Human Race reclaim it.
• Chen Xun challenged Frog Daoist’s claims and rejected his attempt to take the book.
• Chen Xun blasted Frog Daoist out of the Thatched Cottage, where White Spirit saw him fly past.

Chen Xun confronted Frog Daoist about the Small Realm and learned that the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race was tied to the chaos of the great age. He discovered the race’s lair and rewarded Frog Daoist with a lifespan-extending fruit, leaving Frog Daoist hopeful that he could revive White Spirit.

• Chen Xun warned Frog Daoist not to probe his secrets and asked him about the Small Realm’s destruction and the Ancient Human Race’s plans.
• Frog Daoist explained that a World Opener had likely disrupted the Ancient Human Race’s arrangement and said the Human Emperor’s main lineage or the Crane Spirit Tree might decipher the ancient tome.
• Frog Daoist connected the gathering chaos to the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race and revealed that its lair was in the Slaying Immortal Ancient Domain at the end of the Primordial Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Chen Xun ordered Big Black Ox to reward Frog Daoist with a Good Fruit, and Frog Daoist left holding a Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruit that added three thousand years to his lifespan.
• Frog Daoist resolved to revive White Spirit and thought Chen Xun still had goodness beneath his cold exterior.

After centuries of upheaval in the Desolate Heaven Domain and Desolate Star Sea, Meng Sheng climbed the Yu Family’s Ascension Platform while rival powers and ancient races prepared for conflict. When the Ghost Face Race faced destruction, Chen Xun sent Tai Yu to protect it and gave him permission to act according to his own judgment.

• An Ancient Divine Dragon’s corpse spread a white-fur corruption that prompted the Ancient Divine Dragon Clan and Burial Sky Mound to begin a war, while the Dark Heaven Alliance mobilized to profit from the fighting.
• Three hundred years later, the Yu Family emerged, subdued rival races, and welcomed Meng Sheng and a spirit-body woman onto its Ascension Platform as the Jun Family began fighting the Yu Family.
• Five hundred years later, a supreme power in the Desolate Star Sea ordered several surviving races, including the Ghost Face Race, to send their clan chiefs or face destruction.
• A Burial Sky Mound cultivator continued kneeling before Chen Xun’s thatched cottage, terrified after realizing he had provoked a reclusive expert beyond the Ancient Divine Dragon Clan.
• Chen Xun told Tai Yu to lead the Chen Family in protecting the Ghost Face Race and authorized him to act according to his True Heart.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox studied the Yin Yang Bamboo in their Deep Mountain and considered its power and the dangers posed by ancient families and distant Immortal Palaces. The chapter ended when a strange wood-element incarnation appeared before Burial Nether, who immediately begged forgiveness for an old offense.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to wait before trying to map the vast Desolate Heaven Domain, then examined the rare bamboo linked to the Heavenly Origin Star.
• Chen Xun reflected on the formidable Longevity Families, their hidden strength, and his decision to avoid provoking them while pursuing his own wishes.
• Chen Xun gave Heavenly Origin Pills to two Ancient Ferocious Beasts and recalled how the pills had strengthened Tai Yu and how he shared pills with Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Xun explained that the million-year Yin Yang Bamboo held refined Yin-Yang Laws, which strengthened Big Black Ox's formation into a powerful means of defense.
• A strange incarnation radiating wood-element qi emerged outside the Deep Mountain, and Burial Nether saluted it and pleaded that his past offense had been unintentional.

Chen Xun's incarnation questioned Burial Nether about Burial Sky Mound, then hired him to find an old acquaintance while collecting spirit stones for past damage. Meanwhile, Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng sensed a powerful sign from the Factory Owner and turned back to face their pursuers.

• Chen Xun's incarnation learned that Burial Sky Mound's survivors belonged to the Tai Yi Immortal Court and sought revenge on the Ancient Divine Dragon Clan, then punched Burial Nether for frightening him with talk of the Ancient Immortal Emperor Gu.
• Chen Xun asked Burial Nether to find the Eight Meridians Jiaolong Clan's Mahayana Jiaolong and gave him a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pill in exchange for the task.
• Chen Xun charged Burial Nether one million High-Grade Spirit Stones for damage to his Dao field, accepted the hundred thousand Burial Nether had, and let him leave owing the rest.
• On the Desolate Heaven Domain plains, Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng fled from a small clan's pursuers while complaining about losses from tomb exploration.
• Gu Li Sheng sensed someone invoking the name of his Ten Million Generals, and Song Heng's compass reacted when Starfalls streaked across the sky toward the Factory Owner.
• Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng decided to turn back and charged toward the one hundred thousand cultivators pursuing them.

Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng used overwhelming Dharma Idols to bluff their way past a hundred thousand cultivators after disturbing ancestral tombs, then escaped. The story shifted to the Immortal Azure Plains, where a growing race war drew powerful factions into the Desolate Heaven Domain.

• Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng revealed their Immortal Tomb and heavenly palace Dharma Idols, suppressing the hundred thousand cultivators and several Dao Integration True Lords.
• Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng charged toward the right and escaped, while the minor races held back rather than risk a direct fight.
• The narration described the Immortal Azure Plains as a war-torn region where the Ten Thousand Clans fought amid the upheaval spreading across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• The Garbage Recycling Plant, Myriad Realms Spirit Bank, Mist Nether, Nine Dragons Mystic Sect, Azure Sky Array Dao Palace, and other powers announced they were entering the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Most outside powers avoided the Immortal Azure Plains because of its chaotic factions and proximity to the dangerous Desolate Star Sea.

The Star Sea Lifeforms devastated the Ghost Face Race and cornered its remaining members, while Yu Fangshuo sent a final message calling for vengeance. Chen DaoTian and the Chen Family arrived in Starfalls, halted the massacre, and confronted the invaders as a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord appeared behind the woman holding the portraits.

• The Star Sea Lifeforms slaughtered the Ghost Face Race, and a black-masked Great Vehicle cultivator summoned a black void to finish off the survivors.
• Yu Fangshuo, gravely wounded beneath the ruins, sent a message warning Gui Ming not to return and asking for vengeance against Meng Sheng, Yu Chen, and Yu Yiwei.
• The masked woman seized Yu Fangshuo’s portraits, but Starfalls shattered the black sky and struck the battlefield from all thirty-six directions.
• Chen DaoTian and the other Chen Family members emerged from the Starfall craters and formed a line against the million Star Sea Lifeforms.
• Chen DaoTian demanded to know whether the Star Sea cultivators dared harm the Ghost Face Race protected by the Dao Ancestor, leaving the invaders stunned and silent.
• A Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord appeared behind the woman and warned her not to touch a senior’s portraits.

Tai Yu arrived at the Ghost Face Race ruins, killed Miao Yu, and led the Chen Family and two Ancient Ferocious Beasts against a million Star Sea cultivators. Chen Yanshu treated the wounded Yu Fangshuo and explained that the Dao Ancestor had saved the Ghost Face Race because he valued them, leaving Yu Fangshuo grateful and wary of the power behind their rescue.

• Tai Yu killed Miao Yu in the ruins, triggering a burst of radiant energy and drawing the furious black-masked cultivator into battle.
• The black-masked cultivator summoned his Rules Dharma Idol, but Tai Yu called A'Da and A'Er and ordered the slaughter of the million Star Sea cultivators.
• Chen DaoTian and the Chen Family unleashed their Law Manifestations and fought the surrounded Star Sea forces.
• Chen Yanshu reached Yu Fangshuo beneath the protected ruins, healed him with a medicinal pill, and said the Dao Ancestor could decide whether to save the unconscious fat man.
• Chen Yanshu told Yu Fangshuo that the Dao Ancestor had protected the Ghost Face Race because he thought highly of them, and Yu Fangshuo resolved to remember the rescue with gratitude.

Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox forced Kshatra Saint to withdraw from the Ghost Face Race, securing the race’s future. They planned to return to the Desolate Heaven Domain before venturing into the Desolate Star Sea to seize resources and cultivate.

• Yu Fangshuo learned that Chen Yanshu had prepared to eliminate the threat behind the Star Sea cultivators and resolved that the Ghost Face Race would serve the Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox confronted Kshatra Saint at the edge of the Desolate Star Sea over his claim to the Ghost Face Race.
• Chen Xun threatened to kill Kshatra Saint if he made another threat, and Kshatra Saint left rather than risk a fight to the death.
• Chen Xun told the Big Black Ox to return with him, settle matters in the Desolate Heaven Domain, and then enter the Star Sea to seek Immortal Dao Resources.
• Chen Xun reflected that the gentle, carefree man he had once been had truly died.

After learning that he and Big Black Ox could contend with Great Celestial Venerables, Chen Xun rejected his former ties and turned his attention to the Desolate Star Sea. At the Ghost Face Race encampment, Tai Yu reflected on the terrifying seniors who had concealed their true bodies and seemed to defy heaven and earth.

• Chen Xun dismissed his ties to Old Yin, Lao Mo, Ji Yan, and the others as mutual exploitation, while Big Black Ox tried to comfort him.
• Chen Xun said their test showed they could contend with Great Celestial Venerables, called others burdens, and told Big Black Ox to prepare for their departure.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox transformed into Chaos Aura and vanished from the borderland.
• At the Ghost Face Race encampment, Tai Yu had defeated the masked Great Vehicle Late Stage cultivator while the Chen Family members cleaned up the battlefield.
• Tai Yu sensed the Chen Family members' strange deathly energy and recalled that the seniors he had encountered were not their true bodies and had seemed to deceive heaven and earth.
• Tai Yu buried his fears and resolved to work honestly by seeking more cultivators about to transcend tribulation.

After Tai Yu left, the Chen Family collected the battlefield’s spoils while the Ghost Face Race began rebuilding under Yu Fangshuo. In Black Ox’s formation, Frog Daoist and White Spirit uncovered Yao Fei’s stolen Saint Body and entered the reincarnation illusion, where Yao Fei gained a system and signed in for the Sunflower Manual.

• Chen DaoTian told Tai Yu to repay his debts by finding a Top-Grade Spirit Stone Mine, and Tai Yu departed with the two Ancient Ferocious Beasts.
• The Chen Family gathered Storage Rings with help from the surviving Ghost Face Race, which appointed Yu Fangshuo clan chief and began rebuilding.
• Frog Daoist recognized that Yao Fei had likely used the Foundation-Seizing Art to take another person’s Saint Body, and warned White Spirit against the evil technique.
• Frog Daoist and White Spirit entered Black Ox’s formation to torment Yao Fei, who was trapped in endless reincarnation as a mortal.
• Yao Fei received the Long Aotian Physique from his system, but the Demon Residence’s guards chased him after he was blamed for damaging the celadon floor tiles.
• At sunrise, Yao Fei signed in and received the supreme immortal art, the Sunflower Manual.

Yao Fei’s supposed rise to invincibility ended when Frog Daoist revealed that his world and experiences were an illusion, driving him mad. Outside the formation, Frog Daoist sensed that someone had altered it with two Immortal Dao Sources and suspected that the figures they knew as the two seniors were impostors.

• Yao Fei castrated himself to cultivate the Sunflower Manual, became a feared killer, and eventually defeated the righteous path’s strongest patriarch.
• After Yao Fei killed a monstrous immortal beast, Frog Daoist appeared and told him that his world and everything he had experienced were fake.
• Frog Daoist suppressed Yao Fei and provoked him until he lost his power and sanity.
• White Spirit and Frog Daoist discussed changes to the formation, and Frog Daoist detected the auras of two Immortal Dao Sources.
• Frog Daoist suspected that someone had broken the Immortal Dao Taboo and that the people they had met were not truly the two seniors.
• Frog Daoist ordered White Spirit to erase their discovery from the formation’s world, then resolved to ask the seniors for the title of mountain-guarding spirit beast.