Chapter Summaries

Shi Rongxian confronted Xing Xian and Kong Qingxian at the Human Race Heavenly River, insisting that the Ancient Human Race stop targeting the Realm Myriad Spirits. When they refused, he seized the origins of the Nine Great Worlds, triggering upheaval across them and leaving the immortals horrified.

• Xing Xian told the Human Emperor Hall that he could only hold Shi Rongxian back while the human race quelled the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race rebellion.
• Gu Yuexi told Gu Yao that Shi Rong had a plan and that she would intervene if Ke Ding dared to act.
• Three hundred years later, Shi Rongxian demanded that the Ancient Human Race stop targeting the Realm Myriad Spirits, but Xing Xian and Kong Qingxian refused to compromise.
• Shi Rongxian grasped the heavens and the Human Race Heavenly River, setting off upheaval across the Nine Great Worlds and causing the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board to roar.
• Qi Xiao, Ke Ding, Xing Xian, and Kong Qingxian realized that Shi Rongxian had seized the origins of the Nine Great Worlds.

Shi Rong activated the sources of the Nine Great Worlds and unleashed his immortal art, World in a Painting, as the strongest races converged to stop him. His art spread across the Great World, turning mountains, rivers, and living beings into a terrifying painted realm while the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race and Nine Heavens Shadowless Race continued their war.

• The Nine Heavens Shadowless Race condemned Shi Rong for activating the Great World Source, while the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race declared war and attacked them.
• Battles erupted across the Nine Great Worlds as powerful races, immortals, and reinforcements gathered to confront Shi Rong and the upheaval he caused.
• At the Bank of the Milky Way, Shi Rong told the assembled powers he had come to test whether his brush could open an immortal path and make Great Age lifeforms suffer as realm lifeforms had.
• Shi Rong invoked Immortal Art: World in a Painting, and his voice spread through the Great World, transforming its landscapes and trapping its inhabitants inside paintings.
• Immortals joined forces to suppress the spreading disaster, but the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race and Nine Heavens Shadowless Race continued fighting.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Ancient Immortal Realm for the Desolate Star Sea as immortal power threw the Taiyi Great World into chaos. The chapter ended with Chen Xun reaching the Ancient Immortal Corpse and placing his palm against it.

• Qi Xiao realized Shi Rong had deceived him and rose to protect the Great Age’s living beings and the Dao Palace’s younger generation.
• A Black Ox manifestation appeared over the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range as factions across the Desolate Heaven Domain scrambled to respond to the upheaval.
• Chen Xun learned that an immortal’s power was overturning a Heavenly Domain and decided to travel with Big Black Ox to the Desolate Star Sea to prove Dao and become immortal.
• Big Black Ox opened a path out of the Ancient Immortal Realm, and Chen Xun ordered it to retrieve its Primordial Spirit while leaving one behind.
• Chen Xun walked for three days and nights to the Ancient Immortal Corpse, then pressed his palm against it.

Chen Xun drained the Ancient Immortal’s life essence and immersed himself in its memories to refine its remaining will. As Gu Li Sheng rushed toward the Ancient Immortal Realm, Chen Xun’s memory journey began with the childhood of Yu Mi.

• Chen Xun’s Five Elements Divine Light devastated the Ancient Immortal Realm and drained the energy from the surrounding world.
• A cultivator from the Burial Sky Mound accused World Extinction Old Man of betraying his master and damaging the Ancient Immortal Corpse, then left in fury.
• Gu Li Sheng awakened a terrifying aura, blamed Chen Xun, and flew toward the Ancient Immortal Realm while Song Heng worried about the Factory Owner.
• Chen Xun extracted the Ancient Immortal’s Life Essence and merged with its body to seek out and devour its remaining will.
• Ten years later, Chen Xun destroyed his foundation and immersed his divine sense in the Ancient Immortal’s memories.
• Chen Xun experienced a memory of Yu Mi, a strong little boy raised by his grandparents after they found him in a cornfield.

Yu Mi’s life unfolded from a childhood spent with his loving grandparents into millennia of solitary cultivation and battle against ferocious beasts and Extraterritorial Evil Spirits. At the Immortal Calamity Suppressing Heavenly Pass, he found peace in guarding the Taiyi Great World as he once guarded his grandparents’ cornfield.

• Yu Mi grew up with his grandparents, attacked their children when they stole the old couple’s savings, and left to learn martial arts with their last copper coins.
• After an immortal tried to seize his body and soul, Yu Mi escaped a monstrous bird’s destruction, but found his village, grandparents, and cornfield gone.
• Yu Mi roamed the Great Wasteland, grew stronger by fighting ferocious beasts, and eventually joined a campaign led by a man surnamed Gu to restore order to the Immortal Dao.
• Over thousands of years, Yu Mi fought across the heavenly domains and became a feared powerhouse despite remaining solitary and taciturn.
• Ten thousand years later, Yu Mi guarded the Immortal Calamity Suppressing Heavenly Pass alone and kept the Extraterritorial Evil Spirits from invading the Taiyi Great World.
• As gentle winds blew beyond the domain, Yu Mi remembered his grandparents and found peace in protecting the world’s people as though they were the cornfield he had once guarded.

Yu Mi helped end the Extraterritorial Evil Spirit calamity, then watched the Tai Yi Immortal Court rise and traveled across the Three Thousand Great Worlds as its Coffin-Bearing Immortal King. When he returned to break through the immortal barrier, he chose the perilous Desolate Star Sea, and the Immortal Court’s experts prepared to support him.

• Yu Mi led the final battle against the evil spirits, returned with the surviving cultivators and a coffin of fragments, and remained at the Immortal Calamity Suppressing Heavenly Pass as the calamity ended.
• A hundred years later, the Tai Yi Immortal Court unified the Taiyi Great World, and Yu Mi received the title Region-Suppressing Immortal King, Burial.
• Yu Mi befriended the young Crown Prince Gu Li Sheng and his companion, a little fatty, before leaving the peaceful Taiyi Great World to hunt ferocious beasts in other Great Worlds.
• After ten thousand years of campaigning, Yu Mi returned and chose to attain the Dao in the Desolate Star Sea, despite warnings from the Immortal Court’s experts.
• Yu Mi gave corn to the experts who advised him, and they accepted it and gathered detailed information to prepare for his journey.

Yu Mi attained the Life and Death Immortal Dao in the Desolate Star Sea, but became bound to its laws and unable to imprint his Dao upon it. Across time, Burial spoke with Chen Xun, offered him his corpse or a perilous inheritance path, and Chen Xun chose the path toward ascension.

• A thousand years after Yu Mi departed, Gu Li Sheng watched him leave while Song Heng was beaten by a crowd of Immortal Generals.
• Yu Mi spent ten thousand years in the Desolate Star Sea before uniting his Dao with it and declaring himself an Immortal named Burial.
• Burial spoke to Chen Xun across the River of Time and refused to let him use an evil technique to revive him.
• Burial offered Chen Xun his corpse in exchange for protecting the Crown Prince and the Taiyi Great World, but Chen Xun declined the corpse.
• Burial revealed an inheritance path through the Desolate Star Sea, and Chen Xun agreed to attempt it.
• Before following Burial’s remaining thought, Chen Xun gathered thousands of Storage Rings and began collecting the Top-Grade Spirit Stones in the Golden Sea.

Chen Xun returned to the border wilderness, where Gu Li Sheng confronted him over Uncle Burial before realizing Burial had not been refined. After Chen Xun left, Burial and Gu Li Sheng discussed the fall of the Tai Yi Immortal Court and the forces that had brought it down.

• Chen Xun left the Ancient Immortal Realm and traveled to the border wilderness, where Gu Li Sheng appeared and accused him of touching Uncle Burial.
• A voice from the sky warned the Factory Owner to run, but Gu Li Sheng discovered that Uncle Burial had not been refined and softened his stance toward Chen Xun.
• Song Heng scolded Gu Li Sheng for nearly turning the Factory Owner against them, and Burial addressed Gu Li Sheng as the Crown Prince.
• Burial sent Chen Xun a strand of divine sense, and Chen Xun flew toward the Desolate Star Sea as the border wilderness was sealed as a forbidden region.
• Gu Li Sheng told Burial that the Tai Yi Immortal Court had fallen amid internal strife and pressure from the Ten Thousand Clans, while Burial explained that the Immortal Emperor had foreseen the Court's possible decline.

Gu Li Sheng reunited with Burial, who confirmed that the Immortal Dao Rules had been established and urged him to fuse his Three Souls and Seven Spirits before his lifespan ran out. Burial departed after entrusting the future to Gu Li Sheng, whose power then began to fade as he thanked Song Heng.

• Gu Li Sheng recalled how the Immortal Court fell and how Song Heng died protecting him in that past era.
• Burial told Gu Li Sheng that the Immortal Court’s legacy endured in the flourishing Immortal Dao, and warned him to fuse his emerged Three Souls and Seven Spirits soon.
• Burial said he would help Chen Xun instead of lending Gu Li Sheng his final strand of Life and Death Immortal Power, and Gu Li Sheng agreed because he trusted Chen Xun.
• Burial bid Gu Li Sheng farewell and vanished into starlight, leaving him to grieve the departed members of the Immortal Court.
• Gu Li Sheng seized Song Heng, thanked him, and began losing his aura and realm as tears fell from his eyes.

Chen Xun followed Burial Immortal King’s guidance in the Desolate Star Sea, where he began inscribing his Life and Death Dao Runes and fighting the Star Sea’s will to pursue immortality. As Chen Xun set out to ascend through battle, Big Black Ox stayed behind to cultivate and prepare to follow his own immortal Dao.

• Song Heng watched over the sleeping Gu Li Sheng and declared that the true Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth was only beginning.
• Burial Immortal King summoned Chen Xun to his place of Dao realization and offered to help inscribe Chen Xun’s Life and Death Dao Rune into the Star Sea.
• Chen Xun inscribed hundreds of Dao Runes into the Star Sea, summoned the Five Elements Sea, and battled the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s will.
• Burial Immortal King recognized that Chen Xun needed a guide to become immortal and directed him toward the Star Sea Immortal Gate as the Ominous Creature approached.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox he would borrow Burial Immortal King’s Dao to become immortal, then flew off while Big Black Ox stayed behind to cultivate.

The Great Age’s upheavals reshaped the Three Thousand Great Worlds as the Ancient Immortal Clan entered the war and new powers rose. Five hundred years later, Shi Rongxian faced hundreds of immortals alone at the Heavenly River until armies and immortal forces arrived behind him.

• Shi Rongxian led the Realm Myriad Spirits against Boundless, and the resulting slaughter became known as the Day of Bloody Heavenly Change.
• A thousand years later, an obscure minor race displaced a powerful race on the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board while the Nine Heavens Shadowless Race weakened.
• The Ancient Immortal Clan deployed its World Extinction Warship against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race, beginning a three-way war.
• Meng Sheng rose to Celestial Venerable in the Desolate Heaven Domain, while Yin Tianshou advanced in sword cultivation and Ji Yan expanded the Garbage Recycling Plant and Dark Alliance.
• Five hundred years later, Shi Rongxian charged alone against Boundless’s forces at the Heavenly River, insisting that he represented the Realm Myriad Spirits.
• The Military Court of the Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Kingdom, several other powers, and armies led by Gu Yuexi and Ye Qingyou appeared behind Shi Rongxian, leaving him stunned.

Shi Rong’s former allies gathered to fight beside him against the Boundless Myriad Races, despite his declining strength and the danger of the battle. As Ye Qingyou warned that the Boundless Ancient Immortal Clan had mobilized and time was running out, Gu Yuexi wondered who Shi Rong was waiting for.

• Ling Muyan and other former comrades arrived, declaring that they would fight alongside Shi Rong again.
• The Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Emperor joined the battle and realized that none of the Boundless Myriad Races’ Old Monsters had appeared.
• Qi Xiao and Feng Ju followed Shi Rong, while Ke Ding arrived with Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace disciples to collect his corpse.
• Yao Qin and Gu Yuexi clashed over who had supported Shi Rong, while Ke Ding watched their argument.
• Ye Qingyou told Shi Rong that the Boundless Ancient Immortal Clan had mobilized and that only battle could give the realm a chance to survive.
• Gu Yuexi looked at Shi Rong and wondered what he was stalling for and whom he was waiting for.

Shi Rong led the Cultivation World’s forces into battle against the Boundless Myriad Races, while the Immortal Dao’s foremost figures allowed the wider upheaval to unfold as part of their plans for founding the True Immortal Realm. In the Desolate Star Sea, Chen Xun awakened as a supreme existence and found that the aura of the Immortal Dao Source remained within him, before his soul entered the familiar Small Realm.

• Shi Rong answered the immortals’ calls and led cultivators and spirit beasts into battle against the Boundless Myriad Races across the Heavenly River.
• The Immortal Dao’s leading figures revealed that they had permitted the Three Thousand Great Worlds’ chaos to expose hidden threats and weaken unstable factions ahead of the True Immortal Realm’s founding.
• Ling YunShen sought to join the True Immortal Realm Founding Plan, but Old Ancestor Chen Xun and Old Ancestor Ximen disagreed with him.
• Big Black Ox worshipped toward the center of the Desolate Star Sea as the stars and living beings bowed before an emerging supreme presence.
• Chen Xun awakened in the Desolate Star Sea, received the Ominous Creature’s worship, and discovered that the aura of the Immortal Dao Source remained within him.
• Chen Xun’s divine soul entered the Small Realm, his homeland.

Chen Xun relived the realm’s destruction and the deaths of its people before suppressing the Immortal Lightning tribulation and becoming immortal. His ascension was witnessed across the Desolate Star Sea and the Ten Desolations, as his allies prepared for World Crossing.

• Chen Xun witnessed the destruction of the realm and the deaths of its people, including the Ning Family, Five Elements Sect cultivators, and Great Li’s defenders.
• Chen Xun rose in the Desolate Star Sea, suppressed the Immortal Lightning tribulation, and became immortal as the system’s shackling power shattered.
• Cultivators across the Desolate Star Sea prostrated themselves before Chen Xun, while Frog Daoist, Kṣetra Saint, and Big Black Ox offered their respect.
• The ascension phenomenon spread across the Desolate Heaven Domain, where the Five Elements Sect, Xian Jue, Mo Fuyang, and Xuan Ji saluted the heavens.
• Ji Yan celebrated the coming World Crossing, Tian Li and Qian Shan welcomed Chen Xun’s ascension, and Yin Tianshou, Meng Sheng, and others prepared for what followed.

After Chen Xun attained immortality, he declared war on the Boundless Myriad Races and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and his Yin-Yang Axe struck the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall. Forces across the realm rallied to fight beside him, while the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race prepared to charge into the Boundless Great World as the great battle in the Heavenly River began.

• Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng pledged to follow Chen Xun after the Years Yin Yang Great Axe rose from the border wilderness, and thunderous reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Xun took the Yin-Yang Axe, declared war, and sent it tearing toward the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain.
• The axe devastated the Southern Yu Continent and destroyed the Mystic Micro Immortal Hall, while the Ominous Creature swore to fight beside Chen Xun.
• Frog Daoist, Tai Yu, Xuan Ji, and forces from across the Desolate Heaven Domain rallied to join the Slaying Heaven War, while Ji Yan took Tian Li toward the Boundless Great World.
• Baili Wentian called the Baili Clan to reinforce the realm, and figures in the depths of chaos answered the realm's reawakened legacy.
• Chen Xun's axe split the World Destroyer Dharma Warship in the Primordial Great World, and the Three-Eyed Emperor ordered his clan to fight beside the Dao Ancestor and charge into the Heavenly River.

At the Heavenly River War, the Gates of Hell opened a passage linking the Ghost River to the Human Race Heavenly River, while Shi Rongxian neared his long-planned fall. As powerful factions watched Chen Xun’s approach, the experts in Star Pivot reacted with sudden fear upon seeing the Taiyi Great World’s outline.

• An immortal at the Gates of Hell linked the Ghost River to the Human Race Heavenly River and declared that the Gates of Hell would open the way for the Dao Ancestor and the Crown Prince.
• The passage’s appearance halted the fighting at the Heavenly River as the Boundless Myriad Races, the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Emperor watched warily.
• Shi Rongxian, weakened by drawing on the Nine Great Worlds to fight a hundred immortals, sensed a peerless immortal approaching and reaffirmed his resolve to open the road for the Realm Myriad Spirits through his fall.
• Experts in Star Pivot discussed Shi Rongxian’s impact and learned that Chen Xun, an unknown Dao Ancestor from Taiyi Great World, had led billions of soldiers out of the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• After an expert mocked Chen Xun and displayed the outline of Taiyi Great World, the gathered experts fell silent and felt a chill.

Chen Xun and his allies broke into the Human Race Heavenly River, where Tao Yan warned the assembled armies that they had arrived. Facing the Boundless Myriad Races and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, Chen Xun declared that the Heavenly River would become their burial ground and the sacrifice for his realm’s myriad spirits.

• The Taiyi Great World was overwhelmed by Five Elements power, and powerful figures in the Star Pivot saw an immortal presence beyond the Great World’s constraints.
• Three days later, Tao Yan was blasted through a passage into the Human Race Heavenly River and warned the armies that the invaders had arrived.
• Chen Xun appeared aboard a vast warship, while the Ling Xiao Heavenly Palace, the Ghost River forces, the Burial Sky Mound, and the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race arrived around him.
• The Boundless Myriad Races accused Chen Xun of making himself their enemy, and Gu Yuexi proposed that the factions join forces against the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race.
• Chen Xun rejected any further discussion and vowed to make the Heavenly River the burial ground of his enemies and offer their blood to his realm’s myriad spirits.

Chen Xun unleashed Starfall against the Ten Thousand Clans, beginning a vast battle between the allied forces and the Boundless Immortals. Big Black Ox challenged Ye Qingyou, while Chen Xun began his own killing rampage.

• Chen Xun summoned hundreds of thousands of transforming stars with Starfall, and the armies of the Ten Thousand Clans charged the Boundless Immortals.
• Gu Li Sheng and his companions attacked the Boundless Immortals, while Song Heng drove his immortal tomb into battle.
• Big Black Ox and the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race attacked Ye Qingyou and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance.
• Yin Tianshou led the Myriad Realms cultivators into fierce combat, and Frog Daoist led the Remnant Race in slaughter formations.
• Big Black Ox struck Ye Qingyou with the Black Coffin, then manifested a five-headed, ten-armed dharma form to face her in battle.
• Chen Xun went on a killing rampage as Big Black Ox and Ye Qingyou began their fight.

Chen Xun led the Human Race into a devastating battle at the Heavenly River, and ten years later an immortal corpse signaled that the conflict had grown beyond control. At the Myriad Races Bridge, Ji Yan and Tian Li endured a perilous crossing to seek an audience with an immortal, and Ji Yan was finally granted entry.

• Chen Xun fought alone against the Boundless Immortals at the Heavenly River and began invoking the Burial Word Art as they attacked him together.
• A year later, immortal blood fell into the Great Worlds, and ten years later an immortal corpse crossed the Taihua Great World, prompting powerful figures to head toward the Heavenly River.
• Ji Yan and Tian Li waited five years outside the Myriad Races Bridge, asking to meet an immortal on behalf of the Immortal Alliance.
• When the bridge stopped short of the cliff, Tian Li led Ji Yan through the disorderly laws, protecting him as they struggled forward for months.
• Tian Li collapsed from his wounds after clearing the path, and Ji Yan placed him on the bridge before requesting an audience again; an immortal granted it.

Ji Yan faced the gathered powers of the Ten Thousand Clans at the Ancient Immortal Hall, announcing that he would continue Du Shi’s unfinished plan. Meanwhile, more than a thousand immortals arrived at the Human Race Heavenly River, halting the battle as Chen Xun stood ready to face them.

• Ji Yan told Du Shi that he would walk the road he had left unfinished and continue scheming against the Boundless Myriad Races.
• The Ten Thousand Clans’ power holders gathered at the Ancient Immortal Hall, ignored Ji Yan, and left him to face their scrutiny alone.
• More than a thousand immortals entered the Human Race Heavenly River, and the Chaos Celestial Venerable recognized Chen Xun and welcomed the conflict.
• The arriving immortals’ power stilled the battlefield, and Big Brother ordered Big Black Ox to stop fighting Ye Qingyou.
• Chen Xun thanked the allies who had fought beside him as the Three-Eyed Emperor stood at his side, while NanGong HeLing prepared to supply him with Five Elements Qi.