Chapter Summaries

Fu Tian recorded fading memories of his Tai Yi Immortal Court companions and resolved to recover its remnants and save them, while preparing to visit the Chaos Clan. Chen Xun overheard the conversation and learned that Fu Tian stood behind the realm’s resurrection arts and long-running schemes, leaving Chen Xun to consider sacrificing his Dao as a form of rebirth.

• Fu Tian reasoned that the Human Race might have a way to suppress the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, but acknowledged that he had come to offer Chen Xun a chance to resurrect old friends.
• Fu Tian wrote down the names and memories of his lost companions on a stone stele, fearing that time would erase his memories and identity.
• Fu Tian decided to visit the Chaos Clan and vowed to recover the remnants of the Tai Yi Immortal Court and save its people from their era.
• Chen Xun’s immortal eyes appeared in the void, and he realized that Fu Tian was the source of the resurrection arts and had long manipulated events around the Small Realm.
• Chen Xun accepted the past revelations without fear and regarded sacrificing his Dao as a chance to be reborn beyond the powerful immortals’ shadow.

After learning the truth, Chen Xun remained unshaken and returned to the Five Elements Sect, where he set the sect to expanding and rebuilding. As time began to pass, Chen Xun withdrew to cultivate while the sect grew increasingly lively.

• Chen Xun left Chu Zhen with Big Black Ox in the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains and told them not to leave the sect without need.
• Chen Xun instructed Tai Yu and A'Da to build the East Sea Illusion and arrange to acquire sea spirits, then claimed the Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Kingdom had sent no spirit stones.
• Chen Fangsi explained that sect disciples had to earn their own funds when leaving the mountain, and he and Tai Yu planned to search for unclaimed mines.
• Chen Xun went to the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountain Peak and practiced his punches while the Five Elements Sect expanded and grew busy.
• Time began to pass, and a quiet, powerful momentum rose behind the sect gate.

Five hundred years later, Meng Sheng visited the transformed Five Elements Sect and saw how its disciples trained under the sect’s eccentric but protective traditions. He and Tai Yu became friends, and Meng Sheng recognized the sect’s unspoken legacy of treating its members as family.

• Meng Sheng returned to the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range and was astonished by how much the Five Elements Sect had changed.
• Tai Yu told Meng Sheng that the sect had picked up an abandoned Divine Dragon Nest and turned it into a training ground.
• Meng Sheng watched a Spirit Transformation disciple use a Crane Spirit Tree branch as a substitute while facing an unexpected training ordeal.
• Tai Yu stopped Meng Sheng from intervening and explained that the perilous exercise was a minor training activity arranged by the sect.
• After the disciple escaped the danger, Meng Sheng reflected on the care the seniors showed their disciples and became friends with Tai Yu.

Meng Sheng returned to the Five Elements Sect, shared his travels with Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, and departed for the Primordial Great World. Five hundred years later, Chen Xun continued his carefree life at the sect and welcomed disciple Ji Mo to share melon seeds.

• Meng Sheng admired the Five Elements Sect’s flourishing grounds and told Chen Xun and Big Black Ox about his travels through the Star Pivot and his plans to seek an immortal treasure in a special Heaven Domain of the Primordial Great World.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox welcomed Meng Sheng’s ordinary souvenirs, took a picture with him, and gave him formation stones and tea leaves before seeing him off toward the World Gate of the Taiyi Great World.
• Demon Moon spent five hundred years waiting for Chen Xun and Big Black Ox’s yearly visits, growing accustomed to their returns.
• Big Black Ox entered seclusion to consume the Top-Grade Spirit Stones Chen Xun had left behind, while Chen Xun relaxed around the Five Elements Sect and watched its disciples train.
• Chen Xun invited Ji Mo to eat melon seeds and taught him that the sect’s disciples could carry them while watching the excitement on their future travels.

Chen Xun joked with Ji Mo as the Five Elements Sect disciples hunted him, then wondered at the cultivators’ hidden realms. The story shifted to the Extraterritorial Battlefield, where NanGong HeLing faced an assault by the Chaos Clan.

• Chen Xun praised Ji Mo’s Great Breath Concealment Art, and Ji Mo said he had secretly observed his masters at Nine Palaces Mountain without being detected.
• Five Elements Sect disciples searched for Ji Mo, who tunneled away after Chen Xun warned him their talk might be bait.
• The disciples discussed Ji Mo’s rumored Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation cultivation and denied that their own cultivation was as high as rumored, leaving Chen Xun stunned by how little he could discern.
• On the Extraterritorial Battlefield, NanGong HeLing stood with Desolate Gold, Desolate Wood, and other Great Ascension powerhouses as Grandmother Yun Ying warned her that the Chaos Clan had appeared.
• A giant black turtle emerged beneath them, and NanGong HeLing drew the Yin Yang Five Elements Sword to face the advancing Chaos Clan.
• Chaos Clan powerhouses accused NanGong HeLing of entering their heartland and launched a coordinated attack against her.

NanGong HeLing wiped out Chaos Clan forces with a single sword strike and led her army deeper into their heartland, while the Extraterritorial Battlefield's war continued. After five hundred years in seclusion, Song Heng, Little Crimson, and their companions emerged from an underwater immortal tomb with treasures and clues to the Tai Yi Immortal Court.

• NanGong HeLing summoned the Crane Spirit Five Elements Yin Yang Tree and destroyed the Chaos Clan experts with one sword strike that devoured their Immortal Dao Sources and lifespans.
• The surviving Chaos Primordial Spirits fled to report NanGong HeLing to a Celestial Venerable, while she ordered her companions to gather Chaos Stones and Evil Marrow Crystals for Big Brother and Second Brother.
• NanGong HeLing led her army on raids through the Chaos Clan heartland, concealing their movements with her Tree Realm as she prepared to become a Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lord.
• A Big Black Ox fought Chaos Clan Celestial Venerables in the Chaos Sea as the decisive battle on the Extraterritorial Battlefield continued.
• Song Heng, Little Crimson, and their companions emerged from an underwater immortal tomb with God Extinction Grass and a Jade Tile fragment bearing the aura of the Tai Yi Immortal Court.

Song Heng led Gu Li Sheng, Little Crimson, and Qionghua Shuiyu through an ancient Sea Tomb, where Gu Li Sheng found a fragment of the Tai Yi Immortal Court. The group left with treasures and planned to rest before their next tomb raid.

• Little Crimson helped Song Heng, Qionghua Shuiyu, and Gu Li Sheng navigate the Sea Tomb’s dangerous arrays and barriers.
• Song Heng revealed that he had brought Gu Li Sheng tomb-raiding to recover fragments of the Tai Yi Ancient Immortal Court and restore his lost fortune.
• Little Crimson accused Song Heng of scheming against Brother Xun, but Song Heng deflected the accusation and argued with it.
• Gu Li Sheng touched the Jade Tile fragment, absorbed bluish-white mist, and appeared to regain a measure of clarity.
• Qionghua Shuiyu took a piece of Tomb wood, while the group gathered old artifacts and sealed the underwater stone gate behind them.
• The four left with the sea currents and planned to rest for several months before carrying out Shifting Stars Positioning.

Qian Shan escaped a sacred land with his infant younger brother and headed for the Five Elements Sect. As the Great Age opened to lifeforms from the Myriad Small Realms, Di Tian set out to join that same sect, while the Three-Eyed Emperor sensed intriguing great karma there.

• Qian Shan crossed the stormy ice plains with his infant younger brother after battling a sacred land, and a woman at the middle stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm let him pass rather than confront him.
• Qian Shan continued south toward the Five Elements Sect in the Azure Jade Forest Sea, while the infant grew healthier in his arms.
• Cultivators from the Myriad Small Realms entered the Great Age, grateful to the Five Elements Immortal for destroying the Defiled Lifespan and enabling them to explore the Great World.
• The Nine Heavens Immortal Sound Array Disk announced that a main array foundation of the Azure Sky Dao Orbit was connecting to the realm gates, linking the Three Great Heavenly Domains.
• The Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race began integrating into the Primordial Great World, and Di Tian bid farewell to the Emperor to join the Five Elements Sect.
• The Three-Eyed Emperor agreed to Di Tian's plan and sensed intriguing great karma connected to the Five Elements Sect.

Frog Daoist and White Spirit began organizing the Five Elements Sect’s Spiritual Herb Garden into domains for medicines of different cultivation realms, while Frog Daoist explained spirit loam and immortal soil. A month later, Frog Daoist visited Chen Xun and was stunned by the pale-golden radiance flowing over his body.

• Frog Daoist instructed White Spirit to divide the Spiritual Herb Garden into three thousand six hundred minor domains and nine major domains for spiritual medicines of different realms.
• Frog Daoist explained the ranks of spirit soil, spirit loam, and immortal soil, and described how immortal soil could form and produce precious Dao Medicine.
• Frog Daoist discovered that he still had ten thousand years to live after consuming two Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruits and resolved to cultivate the garden properly.
• Frog Daoist and White Spirit began dividing the garden with signs and magic power restrictions, planning to obtain suitable spiritual medicines from beyond the mountain gate.
• A month later, Chen Xun received Frog Daoist at the White Jade Bridge, where Frog Daoist saw golden radiance flowing across Chen Xun’s body and was astonished.

Frog Daoist witnessed Chen Xun cultivating the first layer of the Five Elements Body Tempering Method and apologized for their old conflict before presenting a plan to expand the Spiritual Herb Garden. Chen Xun suspected Frog Daoist of trying to skim kickbacks, leaving Frog Daoist protesting its innocence.

• Frog Daoist recognized Chen Xun's cultivation as the long-lost Innate Strength Dao Law and learned he was developing the Five Elements Body Tempering Method.
• Frog Daoist apologized to Chen Xun for its past behavior and thanked him for caring for it and White Spirit.
• Chen Xun said he had forgotten their old conflict and agreed to let bygones be bygones.
• Frog Daoist gave Chen Xun a booklet proposing an expansion of the Spiritual Herb Garden.
• Chen Xun questioned the booklet's costly jobs and accused Frog Daoist of planning to skim kickbacks, which Frog Daoist vehemently denied.

Chen Xun rewarded Frog Daoist for its help and learned more about immortal soil, then learned that Qian Shan had brought a male infant to the Five Elements Sect after fighting his way across the sacred lands. He blamed Ji Yan for letting Qian Shan act alone and condemned the dangerous decision.

• Chen Xun told Frog Daoist to seek spirit herbs in the Desolate Heaven Domain and promised to make inquiries at Star Pivot.
• Chen Xun gave Frog Daoist two Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruits and told it to bring one to White Spirit.
• Frog Daoist shared detailed information about the immortal soil with Chen Xun before fleeing his request to become an offering guardian.
• Three months later, Liu Han, Ji Zhao, and Shi Wujun reported that Qian Shan had flattened half the sacred lands and escorted a male infant to the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun angrily blamed Ji Yan for allowing Qian Shan to travel alone and warned that Qian Shan could be hunted down.

Chen Xun sent the Five Elements Sect’s Celestial Venerables to rescue Qian Shan, who was being hunted over the Dao medicine infant he escorted. In the Vast Sea Law Domain, powerful cultivators gathered to seize the Dao medicine while Qian Shan neared exhaustion, and an ambush threatened Song Heng, Gu Li Sheng, Qionghua Shuiyu, and Little Crimson.

• Chen Xun ordered the Five Elements Sect’s Celestial Venerables to rescue Qian Shan and bring back his pursuers alive or dead.
• Several dozen experts departed the Five Elements Sect, while Frog Daoist watched enviously from behind.
• Half a month later, Qian Shan struggled through the Vast Sea Law Domain as cultivators gathered to claim the infant, whom they recognized as a Dao medicine.
• Celestial Venerable Hongxing said he wanted the Dao medicine but would not risk entanglement with Chen Xun’s karmic ties.
• Qionghua Shuiyu sensed several Celestial Venerables hiding nearby, while Gu Li Sheng boasted and Song Heng mocked him.
• Little Crimson recognized that cultivators were trying to ambush them and steal their ancient treasures.

Gu Li Sheng and his companions discovered that Qian Shan was being hunted while protecting a male infant who was actually Dao medicine. As they considered rescuing him, a sealed net of danger closed around them and a mysterious eye demanded Gu Li Sheng's name.

• Song Heng, Qionghua Shuiyu, Gu Li Sheng, and Little Crimson sensed powerful sea spirits and realized they were pursuing someone else.
• The group recognized the figure protecting an infant as Qian Shan, a friend from the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and Little Crimson warned that Chen Xun and Ximen Niu Niu would defend him.
• Qionghua Shuiyu and Song Heng identified the infant as newly transformed Dao medicine that Qian Shan had intercepted from its intended Celestial Venerable consumer.
• Song Heng detected a sealed net of killing intent around them, while Gu Li Sheng declared that anyone who attacked them would face him.
• A giant eye appeared overhead and demanded that Gu Li Sheng state his name.

Gu Li Sheng and his companions encountered a hostile Immortal Dao powerhouse, who fled after recognizing Gu Li Sheng’s lineage. As a peerless presence descended on the Vast Sea Law Domain, dozens of Bandit Mask powerhouses arrived to protect Qian Shan and confront the gathered pursuers.

• Gu Li Sheng insulted the manifested pupil, which recognized him as a descendant of the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and fled.
• Little Crimson sensed an overwhelming presence approaching and warned Song Heng and the others to leave Qian Shan behind.
• The descending aura silenced the Heavenly Domain and halted Qian Shan as powerhouses from across the region sensed the coming upheaval.
• Dozens of Bandit Mask powerhouses surged into the Vast Sea Law Domain and gathered where Qian Shan stood.
• The masked leader told Qian Shan to leave with Little Crimson and the others, declared the Bandit Mask powerhouses their opponents, and ordered them to kill.

Black Masked People ambushed the gathered cultivators to secure Qian Shan, while Little Crimson and the others rescued him and escaped the battlefield. The group reached safety, and Qian Shan accepted healing pills from Qionghua Shuiyu.

• More than a hundred Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords were exposed, and the Surname Celestial Venerable Hong realized the Black Masked People intended to attack them.
• The Black Masked People surrounded and slaughtered the cultivators, focusing especially on those from the Extreme Cold Ice Plains, while Chen Yanshu's allies waited on an eastern island to catch anyone who escaped.
• Little Crimson, Song Heng, Gu Li Sheng, and the others reached Qian Shan and carried him away amid the chaos.
• Half a day later, Little Crimson's group escaped the battlefield, and Qian Shan thanked them for rescuing him.
• Qionghua Shuiyu offered Qian Shan life-saving spirit pills and privately admired the male infant's extraordinary appearance and bearing.

Little Crimson and the others rescued Qian Shan, but he refused to return to the Five Elements Sect and entrusted his infant younger brother to them. After revealing that the Immortal Spirit Clan was behind his brother’s transformation, Qian Shan left to investigate its ancestral land in the Tai Ling Great World.

• Qian Shan told Little Crimson that he would not return to the Five Elements Sect because he felt ashamed to face World Crossing Great One.
• Qian Shan entrusted his infant younger brother and a jade token containing the child’s origins to Little Crimson, asking him to deliver them to World Crossing Great One.
• Qian Shan revealed that the Immortal Spirit Clan had transformed his younger brother into a Dao medicine and that he intended to investigate the clan in the Tai Ling Great World.
• Little Crimson and Song Heng tried to dissuade Qian Shan, but he insisted that pursuing this danger was part of his Dao heart.
• Gu Li Sheng encouraged Qian Shan and promised that invoking his name would protect him, while Song Heng mocked the boast.
• Qian Shan departed for the Tai Ling Great World as his younger brother watched from Little Crimson’s back.

After Little Crimson, Song Heng, and Gu Li Sheng left with the male infant, several Black-Clothed People finished recovering from the Celestial Venerable battle and prepared to invade the Extreme Cold Ice Plains. Other ancient powerhouses recognized the danger of provoking the Old Man and the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, while the Black-Clothed People set out to destroy the enemy holy land’s Dao lineage.

• Qionghua Shuiyu carried the male infant as Song Heng and Little Crimson discussed taking him back to the Five Elements Sect, then Little Crimson flew away with the group.
• Half a year later, the Black-Clothed People surveyed the battlefield, where Celestial Venerable blood had enriched the sea and the Lanwu Haihua Unicorn’s remains had been stripped of its treasures.
• The Black-Clothed People concluded that the Extreme Cold Ice Plains had tested the Old Man’s limits and agreed to invade it and destroy its holy land’s Dao lineage.
• Ancient powerhouses watching the aftermath compared the battle to the clash at the Star Sea Frontier and discussed how other forces avoided becoming entangled with the Old Man.
• The ancient powerhouses decided to restrain their disciples and avoid provoking the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance in the Desolate Heaven Domain.

Xing Heng was punished by his master after his reckless gamble against the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, while hooded Black-Clothed People continued raiding powerful forces. Chen Xun welcomed Little Crimson home, then was shocked to see Qionghua Shuiyu carrying a baby alone.

• Xing Heng’s master ordered him to cultivate at Star Sea Cliff for a thousand years and later apologize to the Five Elements Dao Ancestor.
• The Black-Clothed People destroyed the Dao Spirit Holy Land and seized its accumulated treasures while nearby forces stayed silent.
• Little Crimson and the others returned to the Five Elements Sect with Qian Shan’s younger brother.
• Chen Xun greeted Little Crimson and celebrated his return with Song Heng and Gu Li Sheng.
• Chen Xun saw the infant in Qionghua Shuiyu’s arms and asked whose child it was.

Chen Xun learned that Qian Shan had entrusted him with his younger brother, Qian Wuhen, and warned him about the Immortal Spirit Clan’s schemes. Chen Xun accepted the responsibility, though he still wanted to withdraw from the world and wait out his lifespan.

• Qionghua Shuiyu explained that the infant was Qian Shan’s younger brother, while Qian Shan had fled after entrusting the child to them.
• Gu Li Sheng recognized Chen Xun as the Fishing Emperor, and the others urged Chen Xun to raise the infant.
• Chen Xun considered the brothers’ difficult past, including Qian Shan’s imprisonment and Qian Wuhen’s extraordinary Dao Spirit Root.
• Chen Xun examined Qian Shan’s jade token and learned the infant’s name was Qian Wuhen and that the Immortal Spirit Clan had used Dao arts to alter his blood and erase his memories.
• Qian Shan’s message warned Chen Xun about the Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race and the Immortal Spirit Clan, explaining that he was heading to the Tai Ling Great World to fight them.
• Chen Xun recognized the danger behind Qian Shan’s message but remained more interested in retreating from the world and waiting out his lifespan.

Chen Xun welcomed Qian Wuhen into the Five Elements Sect and began caring for him. While appraising ancient treasures with his companions, he took a liking to the Kunwu Diancang Lamp and asked Little Crimson to give it to him, leaving Song Heng protesting that no one had consulted him.

• Chen Xun invited Qian Wuhen to join the Five Elements Sect after learning that two Immortal Dao Sources were entangled within the infant's body.
• Chen Xun rebuked Song Heng for calling Qian Wuhen a Dao medicine, then carried the child into the sect.
• Three days later, Chen Xun carried Qian Wuhen on his back and struggled to accommodate the infant's preference for medicinal-pill paste.
• At the Back Mountain, Song Heng explained the origins and features of ancient treasures recovered from an immortal tomb.
• Chen Xun admired the Kunwu Diancang Lamp and asked Little Crimson to sell it to him, but Little Crimson offered it freely and Song Heng protested.