Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun gave Song Heng Heavenly Origin Treasure Pills and asked him to explain the destiny contained in an ancient treasure. Song Heng clarified its workings, while Qionghua Shuiyu reflected on her uncomplicated desire to explore the Tomb Fortune Dao alongside Chen Xun and the others.

• Chen Xun handed Song Heng a low-grade Storage Bag filled with Heavenly Origin Treasure Pills, which Qionghua Shuiyu recognized as legendary pills.
• Chen Xun revealed that he had scattered pills from an earlier batch across the regions, prompting Song Heng to praise his generosity and power.
• Gu Li Sheng challenged Chen Xun to go fishing, but Chen Xun’s calm reply left Gu Li Sheng imagining that another scheme was underway.
• Chen Xun asked Song Heng what destiny did and whether he and Old Ox possessed it, and Song Heng explained that living beings’ innate destiny could help them survive danger and that the ancient treasure held three strands.
• Chen Xun identified the strange patterns on the Kunwu Diancang Lamp as manifested destiny, startling Song Heng with his insight.
• Qionghua Shuiyu reflected on her wish to travel and study the Tomb Fortune Dao rather than pursue power, and realized her family had secretly supplied her with Storage Rings.

Chen Xun showed Song Heng and the others the Venerable Martial, a powerful World Crossing Space Ship that he presented as Tianyun’s national gift. He tried to take them on a ride through the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, but the ship failed to move, leaving him to claim it needed repairs.

• Song Heng explained that ancient treasures held strands of luck that could turn spiritual mountains and waters into immortal mountains and waters.
• Chen Xun took one ancient treasure and brought Little Crimson, Song Heng, Gu Li Sheng, and Qionghua Shuiyu to see the Venerable Martial.
• Qionghua Shuiyu recognized the ship’s Void Ancient Beast bone keel, while the others marveled at its power and luxurious interior.
• Chen Xun loaded High-Grade Spirit Stones into the formation and tried to launch the ship with everyone aboard.
• Venerable Martial trembled but stayed grounded, and Chen Xun blamed its failure on disrepair and old ailments.

Chen Xun arranged for Gu Li Sheng to meet Tian Yun after the Venerable Martial sent them out, while the Extraterritorial Battlefield’s growing conflict eclipsed other news across the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Tian Yun was summoned to meet the returning Crown Prince and eagerly prepared to leave the Five Elements Sect.

• Little Crimson persuaded Chen Xun to wait for Brother Ox and Sister Crane before setting out with the Venerable Martial.
• Chen Xun sent Gu Li Sheng and the others outside the ship berth, then called for Tian Yun across the Five Elements Sect.
• Tian Yun spent his quiet days reading Chen Xun’s crudely printed cultivation guides at Little Ten Peak, where he had been kept for years.
• The Extraterritorial Battlefield drew powerful figures and younger talents from across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, while news of its battles overshadowed the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s sacrifice to the Dao.
• Chu Zhen told Tian Yun that the Crown Prince had returned and Senior Brother wanted to see him, and Tian Yun hurried off with her.

Tian Yun reunited with Gu Li Sheng at the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains, while Chen Xun prepared the Five Elements Sect’s first Fishing Extravaganza. The chapter ended as tens of thousands gathered at the East Sea Illusion for the grand fishing competition.

• Chu Zhen accompanied Tian Yun to the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains, where he and Gu Li Sheng recognized each other and asked to speak alone.
• Tian Yun addressed Gu Li Sheng as the Crown Prince, and Chen Xun left them together with the others.
• Mo Fuyang arrived with an Earth Tremor Immortal Puppet, and Chen Xun ordered him to organize the Fishing Extravaganza at the East Sea Illusion.
• Half a month later, tens of thousands of disciples, spirit beasts, elders, and visitors gathered at the East Sea Illusion as the competition began.

A grand event at the Five Elements Immortal Sect drew powerful figures from across the Azure Sky Forest Sea, who interpreted its auspicious signs as evidence of an Immortal Dao Prodigy. At the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, Ke Ding prepared to visit the sect with Qi Xin, who hoped to meet Alliance Leader Ji Yan.

• Inner Sect Disciples and spirit beasts worried that Old Ancestor might lose the Fishing Extravaganza without Ox Ancestor, while they noted that Senior Qi Ming had gone to help.
• Auspicious signs spread around the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, prompting powerhouses from the Azure Sky Forest Sea to investigate or bring gifts to the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
• Ke Ding received news of the sect’s activity and decided that it was time for the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace to make contact.
• Ke Ding summoned Qi Xin and invited him to accompany him to the Five Elements Sect after more than five thousand years at East Crossing Mountain.
• Qi Xin asked to have the Five Elements Dao Ancestor introduce him to Alliance Leader Ji Yan, and Ke Ding warned him that the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance was dangerous.

Qi Xin recounted his rise from Yinming imperial clansman to a far-reaching power broker and explained his ambition to become the Enlightened Mind Dao Ancestor. After Ke Ding warned him about the dangers surrounding Ji Yan, Qi Xin remained resolute, and Ke Ding offered to expel him from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace if he could arrange an introduction.

• Qi Xin traced his life from founding Foolish Wisdom Manor and Void Nether Pavilion to rebuilding his family's Mist Nether Heaven power across several Great Worlds.
• Qi Xin explained that he had joined the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace to pursue Immortal Dao and hoped to reopen it as the Enlightened Mind Dao Ancestor.
• Ke Ding challenged Qi Xin's claim that he had cast aside his Yinming imperial identity and warned him about becoming involved with Ji Yan and other dangerous figures.
• Qi Xin told Ke Ding that he had prepared arrangements for the next ten thousand years and would not retreat from his path.
• Ke Ding offered to expel Qi Xin from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace if Qi Xin could introduce him to Ji Yan, and Qi Xin thanked him for the opportunity.

Qi Xin set out with Ke Ding, who eagerly headed toward the Five Elements Sect while hiding his excitement. At the Azure Sky Forest Sea, Chen Xun and the others prepared for a fishing competition beneath the True Dragon Nest, while Little Crimson plotted to sabotage the event.

• Ke Ding sent Qi Xin away from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace and carried him toward the Azure Sky Forest Sea on a yellow leaf.
• Ke Ding secretly rejoiced at the chance to visit the Five Elements Sect and its ancient secrets.
• Chen Xun and Mo Fuyang claimed fishing spots beneath the True Dragon Nest as the Five Elements Sect Disciples gathered for the competition.
• Chu Zhen played the zither, while Song Heng moved to a spot rich in dragon aura and kept watch for the Lion Dog.
• Little Crimson dug up bait and planned to sabotage everyone except Chen Xun.
• Frog Daoist brought White Spirit to a Dragon Vein and settled in, confident he had never lost at fishing.

The Five Elements Sect began its first Fishing Extravaganza, drawing powerful guests into a chaotic competition. Meanwhile, Chen DaoTian led the Chen Family through the Nether Shadow Ghost Domain and launched a sudden assault, leaving Lu Li with an order to loot its cultivation manuals before reinforcements arrived.

• Frog Daoist and White Spirit lured fish toward their spot, hoping to win the extravaganza’s rare rewards.
• Mo Fuyang announced the event, and Chen Xun and a host of powerful guests began fishing amid cheering and commotion.
• Gu Li Sheng noticed Little Crimson and Song Heng fighting near his fish bucket and went to intervene, while Tian Yun and Qionghua Shuiyu fished nearby.
• The Chen Family encountered Nether Shadows in the Ghost Domain, and Chen DaoTian struck down their leader before ordering the Inverted Five Elements Array deployed.
• The Chen Family attacked the Ghost Domain’s forces, and Lu Li was told to retrieve their cultivation manuals before Eastern Wilderness reinforcements arrived.

Lu Li charged into the Underground Palace as Black Mountain was destroyed, and Nether Shadow Ghost Domain was left in ruins. The Lord of Nether Shadow Ghost Domain restored the mountain range and dismissed Lan Feng’s warning to flee, but the chaotic law still destroying Black Mountain’s core made him realize the danger was not over.

• Lu Li charged into the Underground Palace, and Black Mountain exploded, killing ghostly figures and driving the Black-Clothed People into the darkness.
• The Lord of Nether Shadow Ghost Domain emerged through a teleportation gate and restored the shattered mountain range with a black shackle Dao artifact.
• Lan Feng warned Nether Shadow that powerful experts were targeting his Law of Life and urged him to flee before he became a pawn in a greater scheme.
• Nether Shadow mocked Lan Feng’s warning and insisted that outsiders could not dictate events in Eastern Wasteland.
• After Lan Feng departed, Nether Shadow’s confidence gave way to unease as he sensed chaos at Black Mountain’s core, where heavenly qi, death qi, and life qi continued to destroy it.

Nether Shadow died in a mysterious killing formation, while the Five Elements Sect used its Fishing Extravaganza to trick visiting powerhouses into leaving congratulatory gifts. The visitors realized the sect’s Heavenly Pride Gathering and purple-qi signs had been staged, and a Heavenly Peak Sect special-effects master grasped the Heaven-and-Earth Deception Dao.

• Nether Shadow secretly prepared to flee Black Mountain, but half a month later his corpse was found bearing thousands of fatal wounds, and the Ten Directions Heavenly Dao Sect’s investigation found no answers.
• Lan Feng collected Nether Shadow’s corpse, while the Eastern Wasteland treated the Great Celestial Venerable’s silent death as a taboo and unsolved case.
• The Chen Family returned to the Five Elements Sect and found its Fishing Extravaganza underway, while visiting Celestial Venerable powerhouses were stopped at the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• A sea spirit’s roar caused the sect’s supposed Foundation Establishment gate guards to collapse, and Five Elements Sect members accused the visitors of harming disciples and damaging spirit plants.
• The Azure Sea spirits apologized and handed over congratulatory gifts to settle the supposed offense, while Sui Sui and He Zhi realized the Heavenly Pride Gathering and purple qi had been staged.
• A special-effects master from the Heavenly Peak Sect declared that he had finally understood the Heaven-and-Earth Deception Dao.

The Five Elements Sect’s gathering left powerful visitors frustrated and wary as they assessed the sect’s hidden strength and watched Chen Xun’s allies. You Yuan recognized Old Xun’s handwriting at the mountain gate, while her arrival with a Star Palace Immortal Palace Ancient Lineage drew the attention of the gathered Celestial Venerables.

• Ke Ding sensed that the Five Elements Dao Ancestor had a scheme and hurriedly left, claiming his pill furnace was about to explode.
• Sui Sui and He Zhi quietly withdrew, while other visitors and factions exchanged reports about the Five Elements Sect and its apparent lack of threat.
• The hidden observers took extra precautions around the Chen Family, whose members were known for lethal ambushes and group attacks.
• A dignified Celestial Venerable woman arrived with You Yuan, leading a Star Palace Immortal Palace Ancient Lineage delegation.
• You Yuan recognized the inscription on the Five Elements Sect’s mountain gate as Old Xun’s handwriting, and her companion warned her not to trespass in the Dao Ancestor’s dojo.

You Yuan and Madam Xi He arrived at the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, where Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian recognized them and sought permission for them to stay. Chen Xun called out to You Yuan, who joyfully answered him.

• Sui Sui and He Zhi saw the You Family arrive and decided to leave rather than get caught up in the Five Elements Sect’s affairs.
• You Yuan showed Madam Xi He the Goggles and a saved sign, confirming that Old Xun was at the mountain range.
• You Yuan reunited with Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian, who respectfully greeted Madam Xi He and offered to inform the Old Man of their arrival.
• Chen Yanshu went to seek permission while Chen Ba Tian recalled the Old Man’s warning about the visitors and the sect’s plan to deal with outsiders.
• The Jade Bamboo Mountain Range resonated with Chen Xun’s voice calling for You Yuan, and she cried out to him with joy.

You Yuan and her companions entered the Five Elements Sect, where the Five Elements Dao Ancestor welcomed them to witness the sect’s grand event. Meanwhile, the Fishing Extravaganza continued, with Frog Celestial Venerable leading and Chen Xun greeting the disciples who had returned.

• You Yuan passed the Ancient Ferocious Beast at the mountain gate after it recognized her connection to Senior Black Ox and made way for her.
• Madam Xi He and the two celestial foxes entered the Mountain Protecting Array, marveled at the sect’s immortal handiwork, and waited for the Dao Ancestor’s summons.
• The Five Elements Dao Ancestor invited Madam Xi He and You Yuan to join the grand event, and the celestial foxes reacted with reverence.
• Mo Fuyang announced that Frog Celestial Venerable had caught ten thousand jin of spirit fish and was far ahead in the Fishing Extravaganza.
• Chen Xun welcomed Chen Ba Tian, Chen Yanshu, and the returning disciples with tea, then scolded Chen Ba Tian for copying Ox Ancestor’s habits.

Chen Xun reunited with You Yuan during the fishing gathering and welcomed her back, while she mistakenly assumed he had a motherless child. The chapter ended with You Yuan offering to make her mother the infant’s mother and her mother angrily shouting from behind the waterway.

• Chen Yanshu reported that the expedition’s harvest rivaled the foundations of two holy lands and that the evidence had been cleaned up.
• Chen Xun invited Chen Yanshu and Chen Ba Tian to return more often, then continued fishing with the family.
• You Yuan arrived on the Seven-Tailed Celestial Fox and playfully confronted Chen Xun about forgetting her.
• Chen Xun gave You Yuan a sect Restriction Token and promised to do woodworking for her again.
• You Yuan saw the male infant and offered to have her mother become the child’s mother, prompting an angry roar from behind the waterway.

Chen Xun reunited with You Yuan at the Five Elements Sect and welcomed her and Madam Xi He as guests. After giving You Yuan a gentle warning and calming her mother, he arranged for their party to visit the Viewing Platform and rewarded You Yuan’s spirit beast, Yuan Yuan, with a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pill.

• You Yuan teased Chen Xun about finding a Dao companion and having children, and he warned her not to speak carelessly in public.
• Madam Xi He arrived in anger and tried to slap You Yuan, but the Chen Family stopped her; she apologized to Chen Xun and threatened to send You Yuan back to the Immortal Garden Sect Ancestral Hall.
• Chen Xun accepted You Yuan’s behavior and reassured Madam Xi He that she was welcome in the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun ordered Chen DaoTian to escort Madam Xi He and the two Heavenly Fox Demon Beasts to the Viewing Platform.
• Chen Xun learned that the Seven-Tailed Celestial Fox was You Yuan’s spirit beast, Yuan Yuan, and gave it a Heavenly Origin Treasure Pill.

Madam Xi He realized that the Heavenly Origin Dao Pill came from the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, then watched Chen Xun win the Fishing Extravaganza through a concealed scheme. The ceremony’s spectacle gave way to a solemn display of the Five Elements Sect’s history and unity, leaving Madam Xi He shaken by the sect’s disciples.

• Madam Xi He recognized the Heavenly Origin Dao Pill as the work of the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and left with the Nine-Tailed and Seven-Tailed Celestial Foxes.
• The Fishing Extravaganza continued, and the Chen Family collected gifts from visiting cultivators while the Five Elements Sect Disciples watched.
• On the final day, Chen Xun hooked a hundred-thousand-jin sea beast, securing victory and drawing cheers from the Five Elements Sect Disciples.
• Frog Daoist accused Chen Xun of secretly arranging the sea beast’s appearance and complained that the contest had been rigged.
• The Heavenly Peak Sect activated elaborate effects as the Five Elements Immortal Flag rose, prompting the sect to salute and mourn its history of Heavenfall.
• Madam Xi He was overwhelmed by the disciples’ resolve and described the Five Elements Immortal Sect as terrifying.

Madam Xi He and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox left the Five Elements Sect after You Yuan stayed behind with Chen Xun. The sect’s disciples and residents continued their lives in its vast territory, while You Yuan spent time with Qian Wuhen as Chen Xun trained beneath a waterfall.

• Madam Xi He bid farewell to Chen Xun and departed through the Five Elements Teleportation Array with the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, reassured that You Yuan would be treated well.
• You Yuan stayed at the Five Elements Sect with the Seven-Tailed Celestial Fox and promised to attend the gathering at the Supreme Royal Heaven.
• The great demons and Barbarian Race cultivators continued tending Chen Xun’s medicinal herbs in the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains, while the sect’s disciples cultivated, worked, and raised spirit beasts.
• You Yuan held Qian Wuhen and asked Chen Xun whether she had been well-behaved as a child, and Chen Xun recalled how he had once secretly saved her from ferocious beasts.
• Chen Xun continued striking the Seven Treasures Spirit Turtle Stone beneath the waterfall as You Yuan teased Qian Wuhen, who smiled and babbled in her arms.

Chen Xun saw his friends off from the Five Elements Sect and gave them gifts for their journey. As Gu Li Sheng left, the sight of an ordinary cornfield seemed to reveal something profound to him, and he thanked Chen Xun before the group set out toward an emerging immortal tomb.

• Chu Zhen offered to help Chen Xun care for the child, and Chen Xun quietly reflected on whether she was connected to Liu Yuan.
• Little Crimson returned from the Heaven Severing Great Plains, confirmed the land was its territory, and decided to remain in the Five Elements Sect.
• Song Heng, Qionghua Shuiyu, and Gu Li Sheng prepared to leave, while Tian Yun stayed behind in the sect; Chen Xun gave the departing group Storage Bags of melon seeds.
• As the group passed an ordinary cornfield, Gu Li Sheng was struck by its appearance, smiled, and thanked Chen Xun from afar.
• Song Heng's Treasure Hunting Compass detected an emerging immortal tomb, and the group headed northeast to explore it.

Chen Xun watched an image of NanGong HeLing with You Yuan and Chu Zhen, then reflected on his old life and his growing weariness with the pursuit of immortality. He resolved not to make more promises to his absent companions until he could free himself from his burdens, while He Ling remained away and Chen Xun spent his days in frustration.

• Chen Xun explained the Zhongnan Mushroom and other Longevity Precious Medicines, and thought eagerly about the Three Thousand Great Worlds becoming the True Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun showed You Yuan and Chu Zhen an image of NanGong HeLing, who listened calmly as Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson talked together.
• You Yuan and Chu Zhen admired He Ling, while Chen Xun recalled his earlier promises and felt weary of the path to immortality.
• Chen Xun vowed inwardly not to paint Big Black Ox, Third Sister, and Little Crimson another pie until he could extricate himself from his burdens.
• Chen Xun told You Yuan that He Ling would return someday, then grew frustrated by Big Black Ox's absence and vented on the Seven Treasures Spirit Turtle Stone as the days passed.

Chen Xun raised Qian Wuhen, visited Demon Moon, and reflected on Ji Yan’s schemes before the story leapt five hundred years into a transformed Three Thousand Great Worlds. The chapter ended with a poor young child practicing writing on the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountain Peak while his father trained in boxing beneath a waterfall.

• You Yuan, the Seven-Tailed Celestial Fox, Chen Ba Tian, Chen Yanshu, and the others left the Five Elements Sect to pursue their own immortal paths.
• Chen Xun raised Qian Wuhen alone, then visited Demon Moon in the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain and learned that Ji Yan had deliberately let the child come into his care.
• Chen Xun stayed with Demon Moon for several months before leaving with camellias for Qian Wuhen.
• Five hundred years passed as the Nine Heavens Dao Academy expanded, the Boundless Human Race planned realm ascensions, and devastating battlefield losses were memorialized across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• A poor young child practiced writing on the ground at the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountain Peak while his father practiced boxing beneath a waterfall.