Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox reunited with Frog Daoist, who sought to become the Mountain Spirit beast guarding their thatched cottage. Their mood changed when the World Gate of the Primordial Great World arrived, and they set out to investigate why the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race had destroyed the Qian Kingdom and Five Elements Sect.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox emerged from seclusion, and Frog Daoist greeted them at the thatched cottage.
• Chen Xun teased Frog Daoist and agreed to consider making it the Mountain Spirit beast guarding the mountain if it reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and arranged for the Giant Spirit Rakshasa lineage to repay its debt.
• Chen Xun told Frog Daoist not to torment Yao Fei to death because his old friend had yet to return.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox discussed whether Old Yin had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and how long their remaining Remembrance leaves would last.
• The World Gate of the Primordial Great World arrived, and Chen Xun demanded an explanation for the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race's destruction of the Qian Kingdom and Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox decided to investigate the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, taking travel funds and information tips from the Chen Family.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared for the arrival of a powerful enemy while Xuan Ji sought to join them and learn about the Desolate Heaven Domain’s fate. Three years later, powerful figures across the domain focused on an ominous presence, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox finally joined them in facing it.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox concealed their true bodies and resolved to prioritize survival as they prepared to confront the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s Shi Rongxian.
• Chen Xun noticed the Heaven and Earth Veins converging toward the Desolate Star Sea and predicted that something major was coming.
• Xuan Ji arrived at Chen Xun’s mountain, explained that he had once been the Holy Son of Xuanji Holy Land, and asked to discuss the Dao and become a Mountain Protecting Disciple.
• Chen Xun welcomed Xuan Ji, while Frog Daoist worried that the newcomer might take his place and berated White Spirit for lacking ambition.
• Three years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox joined the domain’s other powerhouses in turning their attention toward a disturbing presence.

An immense Ancient Immortal Corpse descended into the central Desolate Heaven Domain, creating the Ancient Immortal Realm and exposing vast Top-Grade Spirit Stone Mines. Immortal Halls across the Taiyi Great World mobilized to seize a share, while the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance remained silent.

• An Ancient Immortal Corpse descended from the star sea, and Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Xuan Ji watched in shock from the Thatched Cottage.
• The corpse landed in the central Desolate Heaven Domain, reshaping the land and forming a new region named the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• The earth split open around the corpse and revealed immense Top-Grade Spirit Stone Mines, prompting powers across the Desolate Heaven Domain to demand control of them.
• Immortal Hall masters from across the Taiyi Great World agreed to fight for the mines and sent warships through the Space Channel into the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance issued no orders to stop the Immortal Halls, while Jade Terrace Immortal Palace and Star Palace Immortal Palace sent more than a hundred disciples each toward the Ancient Immortal Realm.

The great powers gathered to enter the Ancient Immortal Realm, while a century passed without anyone breaking its formation. The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance then launched a massive campaign against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, beginning a war that would shake the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

• Yin Tianshou and the other Sword Cultivators followed the Sword Revered's signal and entered the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Meng Sheng joined the Yu Family's expedition, vowing to remember the senior who had sacrificed for the younger generation and to open a path ahead.
• Chen DaoTian persuaded Chen Fangsi and the Chen Family members to join the struggle, and the family planned to summon Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian.
• Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian left Xuanji Holy Land after saying goodbye to Jin Bao.
• After a hundred years of failed attempts to breach the Ancient Immortal Realm's formation, Vice Alliance Leader Ye Qingyou led hundreds of millions of cultivators against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race in the Slaying Immortal Ancient Domain.

Qi Xiao confronted Shi Rong over the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s war and learned that the Human Emperor had made a covenant with the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race. Shi Rong revealed that he intended to fight the Boundless Ancient Human Race and rebuild the Immortal Realm Order, leaving Qi Xiao facing the prospect of a world-shaking war.

• Qi Xiao visited Shi Rong in a secluded valley and told him that the war had begun.
• Qi Xiao questioned Shi Rong about his past assault on the Slaying Immortal Ancient Domain, and Shi Rong explained that the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race had hidden descendants in Small Realms.
• Shi Rong revealed that the Human Emperor had promised the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race that it would one day stand above the Immortal Spirit Clan.
• Qi Xiao connected the race’s movements between realms to the Ancient Human Race’s provision of realm coordinates, while Shi Rong said he had once tried to cripple its foundations to buy Realm Lifeforms time.
• Qi Xiao urged Shi Rong to return to his former path and reminded him that Gu Yuexi had waited for him for forty thousand years.
• Shi Rong said he had no road back, condemned the Ancient Human Race’s abandonment of the Realm Lifeforms, and declared his intent to defeat the rebels and rebuild the future Immortal Realm Order.

Shi Rong affirmed his resolve to bear responsibility for destroying the realms and pursue his plan, while Qi Xiao departed to prepare a retreat route. As Ye Qingyou commanded the war against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, news arrived that two Tribulation Stage cultivators had barred the surviving borderland clans, and their names shocked her.

• Shi Rong rejected Qi Xiao’s plea to spare the Realm Lifeforms from the Ancient Human Race’s karma and vowed to follow his Dao Heart, even if it made him a villain.
• Qi Xiao agreed to prepare a retreat route for the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s allied clans and left for the Boundless Great World.
• Shi Rong asked that, if he fell, he be buried beneath the ancient tree in the alley, and Qi Xiao saluted him before departing.
• Ye Qingyou commanded the forces gathering against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race while the wider clans and Immortal Alliances assembled.
• A Nine Heavens Shadowless Race member reported that two Tribulation Stage cultivators had blocked the surviving borderland clans and threatened to slaughter any clan that crossed.
• Ye Qingyou recognized the names World Extinction Old Man and World Extinction Black Ox as Du Shi... Old Man and Ximen Black Ox.

Ye Qingyou learned that two Realm Lifeforms had survived and become powerful Ancestors of Dao Creation, and Wang Chuan offered to confront them. He departed for the Desolate Heaven Domain while Ye Qingyou remained on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, preparing to lead the campaign against the Great Age’s rebels.

• Ye Qingyou reflected on the survivors’ rapid growth and the failed plans to use them against the Great Age.
• Wang Chuan asked whether the pair’s death qi was connected to the Grand Yi Gates of Hell, and Ye Qingyou said they had been reborn after their Immortal Dao Sources fell silent.
• Ye Qingyou ordered Wang Chuan not to kill the pair and warned him that they wielded the Five Elements Immortal Path and were Ancestors of Dao Creation.
• Wang Chuan agreed to delay the pair and bring back the surviving descendants of the Desolate Star Sea, while Ye Qingyou explained her disagreement with Shi Rongxian’s uncompromising plan.
• Wang Chuan opened a strange river above the Starry Sky Ancient Road, stepped into it, and vanished on his way to the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Ye Qingyou confronted Yin Ai over the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s campaign and dismissed her warning as the Alliance’s armies marched toward the Great Age rebels. At the Star Sea Frontier, two powerful cultivators found their forces blocked by World Extinction and a silver-haired cultivator, leaving tens of millions stranded before a deadly sea.

• Ye Qingyou suspected the Yinming Spirit Clan of targeting the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance and threatened to destroy its tribes if it interfered.
• Yin Ai arrived in an incarnation and warned Ye Qingyou against attacking the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, which had two immortals.
• Ye Qingyou rejected Yin Ai’s warning, and Yin Ai cautioned that the Boundless Human Race would intervene if the Alliance caused upheaval.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s billions of troops advanced along nine routes until the Starry Sky Ancient Road lost track of them.
• At the Star Sea Frontier, two Great Celestial Venerables confronted World Extinction over the black sea of death qi blocking their tens of millions of lifeforms.
• The Great Celestial Venerables realized they could not cross the sea or bring reinforcements, while the silver-haired cultivator’s earlier strike kept nearby lifeforms away.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox blocked the Star Sea forces from entering the Desolate Heaven Domain and fought the Otherworldly Spirit Zheng Bo when he challenged them. Zheng Bo’s body was destroyed, but his Primordial Spirit escaped, and Chen Xun resolved to kill him when they entered the Desolate Star Sea.

• Chen Xun threatened to exterminate any clan that crossed into the Desolate Heaven Domain, intimidating the gathered Star Sea cultivators.
• The Three Clans’ Great Celestial Venerable asked Chen Xun to let them pass, but Chen Xun silenced him and warned the crowd not to challenge him.
• Otherworldly Spirit Zheng Bo arrived and attacked Big Black Ox with Town Dao One Finger, but Big Black Ox countered with the Five Elements Array Flags.
• After half an hour of fighting, Zheng Bo’s fleshly body was suppressed into fragments, and his Primordial Spirit fled.
• Chen Xun recognized Zheng Bo as an Otherworldly Spirit and told Big Black Ox they would behead him when they entered the Desolate Star Sea.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox faced more than a hundred Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords and Great Celestial Venerables in a battle that tore apart the frontier. Wang Chuan arrived and was swept into the fight, while Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng fled with the refugees as news of the battle spread and unrest stirred among the major powers.

• Ancient Race leaders rallied more than a hundred Tribulation Stage cultivators to attack Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, who welcomed the combined assault and launched into battle.
• The two sides' clash devastated the frontier, forcing Star Sea lifeforms to flee from the collapsing land, torn firmament, and surging laws.
• Wang Chuan arrived the next day, mistook the battle for a fight against World Extinction Old Man, and joined the melee after being attacked and pressed by the other cultivators.
• Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng fled with the refugees, recognized the Factory Owner among the battle's forces, and joked about reuniting with him and Dog Bro.
• Reports of Chen Xun and Big Black Ox battling the assembled cultivators spread across the Desolate Heaven Domain, while unrest began in several major powers' encampments.

Meng Sheng left the Yu Family to reach the frontier, believing his elders were fighting there, while the Yu Family discussed his origins and the fate of a surviving traitorous clan branch. As Sword Void Ancient City sent Yin Tianshou toward the frontier, Immortal Palace disciples turned their attention to the formidable Chen Family and the danger of becoming entangled in its karma.

• Meng Sheng heard that World Extinction Old Man and World Extinction Black Ox were fighting a hundred Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords, then left the Yu Family to go to the frontier.
• The Yu Family leader revealed that her parents wanted Meng Sheng to stay, but said the family would not keep traitorous clan bloodlines; the Yu Family had sent an organization to search for survivors.
• Yin Tianshou left Sword Void Ancient City's encampment to join the fighting at the frontier, displaying his sword-path sacred body and killing intent.
• Immortal Palace disciples discussed the Chen Family's prodigies and warned one another not to become entangled in the family's karma.
• Other prodigies resolved to grow stronger and defeat Chen DaoTian, while the Immortal Palace prodigies watched the Chen Family's direction.

The Chen Family withdrew from Fallen Extinction Valley after deciding the Ancient Immortal Realm was too dangerous to explore. At the Dark Heaven Alliance headquarters, Ji Yan prepared to strengthen his forces and accelerate his plans against the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

• Chen Yanshu warned the Chen Family that the Old Man was isolating the frontier wasteland and likely preparing to act while the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance and Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race were weakened.
• Chen Fangsi and Chen Fangsheng judged the Ancient Immortal Realm and its corpse too dangerous to investigate, so Chen DaoTian led the Chen Family away and erased their traces.
• Dark Heaven Alliance cultivators found Fallen Extinction Valley empty and reported that the Chen Family had withdrawn.
• Ji Yan told Qian Shan he would meet the Dark Heaven Alliance leader and test a War Magical Artifact with Yuan Ming instead of going to the Star Sea frontier wasteland.
• Ji Yan ordered Qian Shan to bring Shi Jianbai to him so he could undo the bloodline seal, and said they would strike the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance's allied powers when the alliance was weakest.

Ji Yan planned to take the Nine Heavens Alliance Leader’s seat himself, believing the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance was doomed and Du Shi would need support. Meanwhile, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared a vast teleportation, leaving Xuan Ji to guard the mountain as Frog Daoist asked whether Chen Xun would intervene in the war.

• Ji Yan concluded that Du Shi would die if he attacked the Nine Heavens alone and resolved to travel to Boundless and claim the Alliance Leader’s seat himself.
• Ji Yan crossed toward the Deep Sea with Qian Shan as Dark Heaven Alliance cultivators saluted him, and he silently met Chen Xun’s distant gaze.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox gathered Five Elements Divine Light into a formation disk, astonishing White Spirit and Frog Daoist with the laws they displayed.
• Chen Xun entrusted the mountain and the Ghost Face Race youth to Xuan Ji, who agreed to protect the Heavenly Peak Sect disciples and guard the area.
• Frog Daoist asked Chen Xun whether he would intervene against the powerful Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.

After Chen Xun and Big Black Ox vanished from the Desolate Heaven Domain, Frog Daoist decided to head for the Star Sea Frontier while Xuan Ji considered the World Extinction Old Man’s identity. Over ten years, the conflict on the Starry Sky Ancient Road escalated into a vast war involving the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, and the Nine Heavens Shadowless Race, with the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race openly rejecting the Great World Rules.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Desolate Heaven Domain through the Chaos Array Disk, and Frog Daoist reassured White Spirit about the war.
• Frog Daoist decided to summon descendants of his former subordinates at the Star Sea Frontier and warned White Spirit to avoid Xuan Ji.
• Xuan Ji suspected the World Extinction Old Man might have become a Heavenly Immortal and looked toward the Star Sea Frontier.
• The battle at the frontier continued for ten years as the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance advanced along the Starry Sky Ancient Road and fought the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race’s subordinate races.
• The Nine Heavens Shadowless Race entered the war, and an Immortal of the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race descended to intercept them, triggering conflict with the Ancient Human Race of the Boundless Great World.
• The Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race denounced the Great World Rules and called for a return to the Great Slaughter Era.

The Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s war against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race left the human race exposed to the judgment of the Boundless Great World, while the Strongest Myriad Races watched and considered intervening. At the devastated Star Sea Frontier, Wang Chuan admitted defeat to Alliance Leader Ye and warned him to beware of their formidable enemy.

• The Strongest Myriad Races judged the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance’s war reckless and considered the alliance marked for destruction or reorganization, leaving the human race to decide how to resolve it.
• The Jiang Clan focused on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and continued investigating the past tremor of the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board, whose culprit was not from Boundless or the Great Age.
• The Ten-Year Celestial Venerable War ended at the Star Sea Frontier, leaving the landscape devastated and its powerful combatants battered across the battlefield.
• Wang Chuan, gravely wounded and expelling death qi, told Alliance Leader Ye that he had lost and warned him to beware of their enemy.
• Wang Chuan collapsed into the abyss as an illusory river gathered to receive him, while the Black and White Great Axe remained embedded at the battlefield’s center.

After defeating the Star Sea cultivators, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox faced Zheng Bo, who offered to save them while plotting to seize their Immortal Dao Sources. Chen Xun unleashed a devastating reversal technique against him just as Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng arrived and a Chaos Array Disk descended.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox survived the battle against more than two hundred Tribulation Stage Cultivators but sat exhausted and gravely wounded.
• Zheng Bo approached the pair and offered to conceal their Immortal Dao Sources in exchange for a strand of divine soul.
• Chen Xun agreed to let Zheng Bo come closer, while he and Big Black Ox recognized his murderous intent.
• Chen Xun used Yin and Yang reversed, life and death extinguished by the palm, Heaven and Earth Five Elements overturned against Zheng Bo.
• Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng rushed to the battlefield as a Chaos Array Disk descended, and Chen Xun recognized them in shock.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox finished a ten-year battle against the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, then reunited with Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng as Chen Xun’s body burned away. Their revelation that they had fought as a single incarnation left the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Big Black Ox rejoiced when Meng Sheng survived, while Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng watched Chen Xun’s burning body from beyond the chaotic battlefield.
• Chen Xun greeted Yin Tianshou and asked Meng Sheng whether he had protected the Realm Cultivators who followed him; Meng Sheng said he had done all he could.
• Chen Xun told Yin Tianshou that he and Big Black Ox would rest, and described meeting a woman who looked like their Little Junior Sister.
• Yin Tianshou urged Chen Xun not to cling to reincarnation, and Chen Xun revealed that Big Black Ox’s talisman arrays had slain two mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence Celestial Venerables.
• Chen Xun burned away and Big Black Ox returned to the Chaos Array Disk as starlight, leaving the gathered cultivators to realize they had fought a single incarnation.

Yao Qin and Ke Ding discussed the vanished incarnation’s power and the wider conflicts surrounding World Extinction, Shi Rong, and the approaching True Immortal Realm. They agreed to avoid intervening, while Ke Ding remained interested in the secrets of the Tai Yi Immortal Court and the reappearance of Fu Shi.

• Yao Qin and Ke Ding observed that World Extinction and World Extinction Black Ox were Tribulation Stage Cultivators, and they suspected World Extinction was a World Opener with a flawed Dao Heart.
• Yao Qin and Ke Ding connected World Extinction’s circumstances to Shi Rong’s struggle and agreed that Shi Rong’s and Ye Qingyou’s corpses must not be touched.
• Ke Ding said the Jade Terrace Immortal Palace should protect World Extinction’s descendants if his predictions proved true, but both immortals agreed to watch events quietly.
• Yao Qin and Ke Ding discussed an ancient immortal corpse drawn out by the Burial Sky Mound and agreed that the younger generation could contest the Top-Grade Spirit Stone Mine.
• Ke Ding revealed that Fu Shi, the former state religion of the Tai Yi Immortal Court, had emerged and might hold a secret to attaining True Immortality.
• Yao Qin departed, and Ke Ding stayed behind contemplating the Tai Yi Immortal Court and the Ancient Ferocious Beasts’ absence from the gathering.

Frog Daoist arrived at the Borderlands Battlefield and declared himself Chi Immortal Great General, an ancient ally of Chen Xun and Big Black Ox. Kṣetra Saint recognized his identity, while the chapter revealed how the Immortal General and the Ji Clan’s Human Emperor had atoned to the Ten Thousand Clans after the human race’s failed rise.

• Frog Daoist crossed the sands and recognized Chen Xun and Big Black Ox as old friends, while Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng tried to learn more from it.
• Kṣetra Saint warned Frog Daoist that no one could enter the Borderlands Battlefield under Chen Xun’s order.
• Frog Daoist announced that it was Chi Immortal Great General from the Myriad Races Great Slaughter Era and displayed its Immortal General’s Seal and formidable Rules Dharma Idol.
• The Celestial Venerables withdrew after hearing Frog Daoist’s claim, and Kṣetra Saint approached it in shock and excitement.
• Kṣetra Saint recalled that the Immortal General had preserved surviving clans by sending them into the Desolate Star Sea and had severed himself to atone to the Ten Thousand Clans; the Ji Clan’s Human Emperor had done the same.

Frog Daoist paid homage to the Heavenly Wasteland generals and led the assembled races into the Desolate Star Sea, while Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng departed. A hundred years later, the Immortal Alliances launched a war of extermination against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox witnessed its beginning.

• Frog Daoist addressed the Heavenly Wasteland generals and invited Yin Tianshou and Meng Sheng into the Desolate Star Sea, but they declined and left.
• Yin Tianshou gave Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng a sword talisman and told them he would be in Sword Void Ancient City; the two stayed behind to wait for Chen Xun and his magical artifact.
• Song Heng attacked Gu Li Sheng while they waited at the frontier, sending him crashing into a crater.
• As turmoil in the Ancient Immortal Realm spread, factions across the Desolate Heaven Domain entered battles, while powerful forces spared Yin Tianshou because of World Extinction Old Man.
• A hundred years after the frontier battle, the Immortal Alliances gathered armies in the Primordial Great World and declared a war of extermination against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox followed the Immortal Alliances and witnessed the war begin.