Chapter Summaries

Bai Xinghan and Lightning Arrow recalled how Old Beggar had drawn them into the impoverished Nameless Sect and its unusual Heavenly Wheel Diagram cultivation. A child arrived in a wooden cart seeking a master through his family’s supposed connection to Old Beggar, who was about to challenge the claim.

• Old Beggar examined Bai Xinghan’s carved treasure, told him to put it away, and gazed toward the mountains.
• Bai Xinghan recalled joining the Nameless Sect with Lightning Arrow and learning that their cultivation required scarce resources or taking them from other worlds.
• Old Beggar detected an approaching visitor and asked who had come, what they sought, and where they came from.
• A child rolled up in a foot-pedaled wooden cart and said his father had sent him to take a master because their family had connections to Old Beggar.
• Old Beggar suspected the child’s family had fabricated their connection and prepared to rebuke him.

Little Wuhen joined the Nameless Sect under the Old Beggar, who recognized his father as Chen Xun and accepted him as a disciple. Wuhen settled into the sect’s humble, difficult training, still hoping to learn flight and take his father into the sky.

• Little Wuhen introduced himself to the Old Beggar as Qian Wuhen, the son of Chen Xun, and the Old Beggar claimed he and Chen Xun had once begged for food together.
• Little Wuhen reunited with Bai Xinghan and Lightning Arrow, and the Old Beggar named Bai Xinghan his Eldest Senior Brother and Foolish Eagle his Second Senior Brother.
• Bai Xinghan protested the Old Beggar’s claim that they would simply muddle through their days, and a bolt of lightning struck him into a crater.
• Lightning Arrow carried Bai Xinghan to the Small Stream to recover, while Little Wuhen settled into life at the Nameless Sect.
• Little Wuhen endured the sect’s meager, arduous cultivation and dreamed of learning to fly so he could take Chen Xun into the sky.

Little Wuhen began cultivating the Heavenly Wheel Diagram under Old Beggar’s harsh training, while Bai Xinghan and Foolish Eagle endured his ambushes too. The chapter ended with all three bloodied and Little Wuhen’s path of immortality officially underway.

• Little Wuhen patiently cultivated the Heavenly Wheel Diagram and dodged Old Beggar’s first thrown stone without moving his body.
• Old Beggar tested Little Wuhen by spitting fruit pits at him, and Little Wuhen evaded them all while one struck Bai Xinghan in the face.
• Old Beggar warned Bai Xinghan that cultivation in the Desolate Heaven Domain was dangerous and required a Dao heart forged through adversity.
• Old Beggar sent blade-like leaves raining down on Little Wuhen, Bai Xinghan, and Foolish Eagle, leaving all three wounded and unable to meditate.
• Little Wuhen accepted that his chaotic days of training had begun and officially started his path of immortality.

Chen Xun entrusted Little Wuhen’s future to the Heavenly Wheel Immortal and continued his quiet life as three thousand years passed. The Great Age flourished across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, while conflicts and upheavals spread through the Desolate Heaven Domain and A'Er guarded the Five Elements Sect.

• Chen Xun decided Little Wuhen could not cultivate at the Five Elements Sect and entrusted him to the Heavenly Wheel Immortal, trusting that his future had been arranged.
• Chen Xun waited for the cow to emerge from seclusion, then returned to tempering a strange stone and practicing beneath the flying waterfall.
• Three thousand years passed as the Immortal Dao prospered, the Star Pivot grew into a bustling center for recruitment and trade, and the Demon Court and Three-Eyed Ancient Immortal Race joined its activity.
• The Desolate Heaven Domain saw battles and disasters, including the Ye Family Heavenly Son facing the Eight Desolations Heavenly Pride, the Jade Zither Immortal defending her lineage, and an unknown cultivator piercing the Yu Family’s Ascension Platform.
• A'Er stood beneath a malevolent aura at the Five Elements Sect’s mountain gate, though no one was paying the sect any attention.

Xian Jue confronted Jade Bone Celestial Venerable on the blood-soaked Immortal Azure Plains to avenge the Yao Race junior the older cultivator had killed. Their battle began, and Xian Jue summoned a vast Five Elements Dharma Idol as a powerful Dao resonance descended.

• Xian Jue became a supreme Celestial Venerable amid the Immortal Azure Plains conflict, earning the title Battle Maniac Celestial Venerable.
• Xian Jue raided the rear of a foreign-race force and confronted Jade Bone Celestial Venerable over the killing of his Yao Race friend.
• Xian Jue and Jade Bone Celestial Venerable declared their intent to kill each other, and their auras collided across the battlefield.
• Jade Bone Celestial Venerable manifested a ten-thousand-zhang jade bone, while Xian Jue summoned a towering Five Elements Dharma Idol.
• A vast Dao resonance descended from the Ninth Heavens, startling Jade Bone Celestial Venerable as the confrontation escalated.

Xian Jue battled Jade Bone Celestial Venerable until the arrival of a mysterious, overwhelmingly powerful expert turned the fight around. The newcomer revealed himself as Yuan Ming, leaving Xian Jue stunned and convinced that Yuan Ming needed the Dao Ancestor’s help.

• Xian Jue and Jade Bone Celestial Venerable fought across the sky as the other cultivators fled and the alien Celestial Venerables watched from afar.
• Xian Jue struggled to land a blow on Jade Bone, whose speed and techniques kept him out of reach.
• A powerful newcomer arrived, forcing the watching Celestial Venerables to bow beneath his pressure.
• The silver-robed expert stepped onto Jade Bone’s head and kicked him into the ground, shattering his enormous Jade Bone Dao Artifact.
• The newcomer greeted Xian Jue, who recognized him as Yuan Ming and promised to ask the Dao Ancestor to save him.

Jade Bone Celestial Venerable tried to escape after Yuan Ming and Xian Jue suppressed him, but Xian Jue’s Five Elements barrier forced him to burn his Law Power to break free. He fled badly weakened, while Yuan Ming explained that they had let him escape to avoid trouble and planned to take his body later.

• Jade Bone Celestial Venerable attempted to escape with his law incarnation, but Xian Jue trapped it with Heaven Sealing Earth Locking.
• Jade Bone Celestial Venerable burned his Law Power and endured severe injuries as he struggled against the Five Elements barrier.
• Jade Bone Celestial Venerable blasted a hole through the barrier and escaped into the void.
• Xian Jue scolded Yuan Ming for watching instead of helping, and Yuan Ming explained that someone was waiting to receive Jade Bone and that weakening him would make a later kill safer.
• Xian Jue asked to keep Jade Bone’s Storage Ring so he could bring things back to the Dao Ancestor and repay his debts.

Yuan Ming reunited with Xian Jue, revealed that he had been building a force in Star Pivot, and helped him deal with Jade Bone’s physical body. Qian Wuhen arrived at the Heavenly Peak Sect to collect a debt, while neither he nor Han Xuan recognized their past connection.

• Yuan Ming sent the foreign-race Celestial Venerables away before resuming his conversation with Xian Jue.
• Yuan Ming told Xian Jue that he had secretly built a force in Star Pivot with Ji Yan’s financial support and had gained power through fortuitous opportunities there.
• Yuan Ming said he would visit the Five Elements Sect to pay respects to the World Crossing Great One, then turned with Xian Jue to handle Jade Bone’s physical body and Ji Yan’s debts.
• Qian Wuhen arrived at the Heavenly Peak Sect, devouring the spiritual energy around him before suppressing his aura near the mountain gate.
• Han Xuan and Qian Wuhen exchanged greetings without recognizing one another, and Qian Wuhen approached the sect to collect the Million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones the Old Beggar said it owed him.

Qian Wuhen reunited with Han Xuan outside the Heavenly Peak Sect, and the two reminisced about their childhood before parting to follow their separate lives. He entered the sect to handle his master's business and was confronted by Huangfu Duyan and Chou Li.

• Qian Wuhen and Han Xuan recognized each other outside the Heavenly Peak Sect and caught up after many years apart.
• Han Xuan told Qian Wuhen that she had a Dao companion and a daughter, and that the sect had become her home.
• Qian Wuhen and Han Xuan recalled their childhood, then exchanged farewells and went their separate ways.
• Han Xuan's daughter arrived to meet her, while Qian Wuhen glanced back once before entering the sect.
• Huangfu Duyan and Chou Li descended before Qian Wuhen, and Huangfu Duyan asked why he had come to the Heavenly Peak Sect.

Qian Wuhen visited the Heavenly Peak Sect to collect a debt of one million mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Huangfu Duyan paid him while Chou Li suspected the demand came from Qian Wuhen’s master. Elsewhere, Chen Xun stayed with Demon Moon on a familiar tea mountain in the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain as her lifespan neared its end.

• Chou Li impressed Qian Wuhen with a grand display and praised his aptitude, while Qian mistook the two seniors for reclusive powerhouses.
• Qian Wuhen said his master had sent him to collect one million mid-grade Spirit Stones owed by the Heavenly Peak Sect, but he had no proof beyond a verbal message.
• Huangfu Duyan gave Qian a Storage Ring containing the Spirit Stones and gifted him the ring, and Qian left in gratitude.
• Chou Li urged Huangfu Duyan to report Qian’s master to the Dao Ancestor, but they agreed to wait until the Dao Ancestor returned.
• Chen Xun remained with Demon Moon on the tea mountain as her lifespan drew to a close.

Chen Xun sat with Demon Moon in the terraced fields and learned that her Immortal Dao Source was decaying, leaving her unlikely to survive the night. Demon Moon said she had no regrets or unfinished business, while Chen Xun struggled to find any way to help her.

• Chen Xun and Demon Moon shared tea and reminisced about their lives and the years they had spent together.
• Chen Xun noticed that Demon Moon's body appeared healthy even though her Dao heart had withered and her Immortal Dao Source was decaying.
• Chen Xun asked where Demon Moon planned to go and whether she believed in reincarnation, and he said living beings did not reincarnate.
• Chen Xun offered to help with anything she had left unfinished, but Demon Moon said she had no regrets.
• Chen Xun looked at Demon Moon and felt powerless as he faced her approaching death.

As Demon Moon neared the end of her life, she asked Chen Xun whether he had ever loved someone, and he told her that his beloved had died on the battlefield. She shared one last pot of tea and danced for him beneath the moon before her body and Immortal Dao Source began to wither away.

• Demon Moon asked Chen Xun if he had ever met a woman who made his heart flutter, and Chen Xun revealed that his beloved had died on the battlefield.
• Demon Moon brewed Chen Xun a final pot of tea, and he insisted on drinking it despite her tears falling into it.
• Demon Moon told Chen Xun that the moon had come to take her, asked him to bury her there, and confessed that she had grown to like him.
• Demon Moon told Chen Xun that praising him was the last thing she had yet to accomplish, then danced for him among the drifting Camellia Flowers.
• Demon Moon’s body withered beneath the moonlight as her Immortal Dao Source broke apart, and she closed her eyes with a camellia in her hair.

Chen Xun buried Demon Moon beneath a flower coffin on the tea mountain and kept vigil at her grave. A month later, Tian Li arrived to pay his respects and told Chen Xun that Ji Yan and the others were on their way.

• After Demon Moon died, Chen Xun gathered every scattered camellia flower on the tea mountain and carved a flower coffin.
• Chen Xun buried Demon Moon beneath the camellias, placed her linen clothes over her gravestone, and carved a wooden statue of her.
• Chen Xun sat silently by Demon Moon's grave for a month.
• Tian Li arrived with exotic flowers and incense to visit Demon Moon's grave.
• Tian Li told Chen Xun that Ji Yan and the others were on their way, and Chen Xun said there was no need to force the story behind Demon Moon's departure.

Chen Xun mourned Demon Moon with Ji Yan before leaving her grave and promising to protect the tea mountain. In the Desolate Heaven Domain’s Fallen Sky Island, Chen Yanshu and nine masked companions arrived to seek the treasures Chen Xun had ordered them to find, then discovered a skeleton clutching an Image Recording Stone.

• Tian Li visited Demon Moon’s grave, and three months later Ji Yan arrived to keep Chen Xun company as they mourned her.
• Ji Yan stayed with Chen Xun until the third anniversary of Demon Moon’s death, when he took Tian Li away to return to his duties in the Immortal Alliance.
• Chen Xun left a camellia at Demon Moon’s tomb, promised to protect the tea mountain, and vanished into the mountain mist.
• Chen Xun’s people entered Fallen Sky Island, where they sought Soul-Chasing Purple Ghost Essence and the Zhongnan Mushroom amid deadly ghost miasma and thunderstorms.
• Chen Yanshu and nine black-robed companions discussed the unrest beyond the island and their mission before spotting a skeleton holding an Image Recording Stone.

Chen Yanshu examined a dead cultivator’s Image Recording Stone and discovered that the man, Feng Jinyu, had journeyed toward the Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Kingdom and entered the Extraterritorial Battlefield. The recording ended with Feng Jinyu grievously wounded after being caught in the aftermath of a battle.

• Chen DaoTian and Chen Yanshu identified the skeleton’s Arm-Extending Ghost Stone as a funerary treasure connected to an immortal tomb near Xuanji Holy Land.
• Chen DaoTian went to retrieve the Zhongnan Mushroom while Chen Yanshu approached the skeleton to take its Image Recording Stone.
• Chen Yanshu found that the skeleton’s fingers kept clenching around the stone, then activated it and saw a vision that shocked him.
• The recording showed Feng Jinyu traveling across the Southern Yu Continent toward Cloud Heaven Immortal Splendor, then planning a route to the Heavenly Rhythm Immortal Kingdom.
• Feng Jinyu entered the Extraterritorial Battlefield at the Refining Void Stage and rapidly advanced to the Late Stage Refining Void.
• Feng Jinyu was struck by the aftermath of a great battle and lay wounded among corpses, filled with indignation.

Chen Yanshu watched Feng Jinyu’s recorded memories and learned how Feng became a skeletal guardian of the Bronze Ancient Hall after repeated attempts to escape and the passage of ages. After Chen Xun became an Immortal Venerable, Feng’s skeleton fled to Fallen Sky Island and remained there, clutching his Image Recording Stone, until Chen Yanshu recognized and paid homage to him.

• Feng Jinyu entered the Dao Integration Stage, guarded the Bronze Ancient Hall as his body became skeletal, and later tried to escape using the Arm-Extending Ghost Stone.
• A ghost cultivation powerhouse killed Feng Jinyu, but his Arm-Extending Ghost Stone carried his Image Recording Stone toward Fallen Sky Island, where Feng later became another skeleton guarding the hall.
• When Chen Xun proved Dao and became an Immortal Venerable, Feng’s skeleton received immortal light and fled with the Arm-Extending Ghost Stone into Fallen Sky Island’s thunderstorm.
• The Arm-Extending Ghost Stone lost its spirituality, and Feng’s skeleton watched his old recordings before collapsing with the Image Recording Stone clutched in its hands.
• Chen Yanshu recognized the skeleton as Feng Jinyu and solemnly paid homage to him.

Chen Yanshu recovered Feng Jinyu’s remains and found no secrets on Fallen Sky Island, then joined Chen DaoTian in gathering resources and preparing to connect the two domains. The next day, Chen Xun rode a Three-Wheeled Cart through the Desolate Heaven Domain, admiring the scenery and the passing magical artifacts.

• Chen Yanshu was shaken by the ordinary cultivator’s final memories, but found no opportunity or secret left behind.
• Chen DaoTian arrived, and Chen Yanshu told him the memories had some connection to the old man.
• Chen DaoTian and Chen Yanshu planned to place Ox Ancestor’s Chaos Array Stones, gather ghostly miasma, and leave Fallen Sky Island without further exploration.
• Chen Yanshu carried Feng Jinyu’s remains and the massive boulder away, while the group began a huge upheaval across the surrounding area.
• The following day, Chen Xun rode his Three-Wheeled Cart through the Desolate Heaven Domain and admired the wilderness and the Ten Thousand Clans’ magical artifacts.

Chen Xun leisurely traveled through the Desolate Heaven Domain and was recognized by Tong Jin and An Yao as the Dao Ancestor. Ten years later, he arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace to watch the forces surrounding it, bringing his three-wheeled cart to a nearby mountaintop.

• Tong Jin and An Yao recognized Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor and paid their respects from a distance.
• Chen Xun greeted the pair and wished them safety, leaving Tong Jin overcome by emotions he had suppressed for thousands of years.
• Chen Xun began to call for Demon Moon out of habit, then stopped when he remembered her absence.
• Ten years later, Chen Xun arrived at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, where ten external Heaven-Covering Great Powers had surrounded it.
• Chen Xun parked his three-wheeled cart on a barren mountaintop to watch the standoff, while the gathered experts warned one another not to damage it.

Three immortals cornered Ke Ding and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace over the Tai Yi Ancient Immortal Court, while Chen Xun watched from Barren Mountain. Nearby, Tai Xiao and Long Yuan discussed their journey, Tai Xiao’s search for two Black-Clothed Experts, and his recent near-defeat of Ancient Star Sea.

• Cheng Yuanxian declared that the investigation into the Tai Yi Ancient Immortal Court was over, and Chen Xun recognized him as an old enemy.
• A Jiang Clan immortal warned Ke Ding about the Heavenly Secrets Main Dao Palace’s remnants, while a third immortal mocked the Dao Palace’s failure to foresee its predicament.
• Three immortals and the Ten Directions Forces pressured Ke Ding as the Dao Palace’s one hundred thousand disciples watched in grief and anger.
• Tai Xiao told Long Yuan not to interfere in the immortals’ confrontation, saying they were only observing the imperial clan.
• Tai Xiao refused to ask his elders to investigate the two Black-Clothed Experts, insisting that he would find them himself.
• Long Yuan recalled that Tai Xiao had nearly killed Ancient Star Sea in the Extraterritorial Battlefield before sparing him as an unworthy opponent.

Tai Xiao and Long Yuan learned that Meng Sheng was wanted by the Eight Great Emperor Clans, then witnessed Ke Ding defend the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace as Chen Xun arrived. After a veiled immortal mocked Chen Xun, Chen Xun calmly asked whether he wanted to die.

• Tai Xiao decided to investigate the Eight Great Emperor Clans and fight them if he found them pursuing Old Devil Meng.
• Ke Ding unleashed the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace's power and warned the gathered forces not to harm his disciples or threaten his lineage.
• Chen Xun arrived at the Dao Palace on a battered Three-Wheeled Cart, and Ke Ding recognized him as a long-awaited friend.
• The veiled immortal called Chen Xun a non-human Qi Condensation Stage cultivator who had withdrawn from the human race, while Tai Xiao declared he would kill that immortal someday.
• Chen Xun met the veiled immortal's gaze and asked, "Do you want to die?"