Chapter Summaries

Ji Kun reflected on how the Human Race had abandoned its former defiant spirit, leaving ordinary cultivators and geniuses like Chen Xun to suffer while powerful clans prospered. As he judged the present descendants unworthy of discussing the Dao with him, ten Human Race Immortals, including representatives of all Eight Great Ancient Clans, appeared behind him.

• Ji Kun recalled the Human Race's ancient solidarity and condemned its present descendants for failing to protect their young and for allowing Chen Xun to be driven away.
• Ji Kun recognized Chen Xun and Shi Rongxian's followers as the only ones who still embodied the old Dao of Humanity.
• Ji Kun concluded that generations of schemes had weakened the Human Race and that its current decline was harming ordinary cultivators while leaving its powerful elites untouched.
• Ji Kun silently judged the present Human Race descendants unworthy of discussing the Dao with him and turned toward the depths of Ji City.
• Ten Human Race Immortals, including representatives of all Eight Great Ancient Clans, appeared behind Ji Kun.

Ji Kun revealed himself as an ancient Human Race Peak Immortal suppressed by Ji Jiuxiao, then forced the Human Race immortals to make way and struck the heavens with his sword. The sword exposed three Peak Immortals, whom Ji Kun accused of coercing his Junior Brother Chen Xun.

• Jiang Ji Xiu recognized Ji Kun as a senior of the Ji Clan, and Ji Kun said there was no need for them to know each other.
• Ji Kun revealed that Ji Jiuxiao had suppressed him and declared that he would not cling to life at the pinnacle of the Human Race's immortal Dao.
• Jiang Ji Xiu asked whether Ji Kun intended to abandon the Human Race, but Ji Kun ordered the Human Race immortals to make way.
• Jiang Ji Xiu stepped aside as Ji Kun drew and resheathed his sword, sending an immense sword aura through the heavens.
• Ji Kun's sword revealed three Peak Immortals at the horizon, and he accused them of coercing Chen Xun.

Ji Kun revealed the Human Dao Supreme Sword and summoned the lost Unrestrained Self-Mastery Immortal Gate, confronting the Ten Thousand Clans and their Peak Immortals. Far away, Fu Tian realized someone had returned to the past and altered its karma, then decided to let events unfold naturally as he prepared for his own return.

• Ji Kun drew the Human Dao Supreme Sword and recounted how it had once defeated the Ancient Immortal Clan and the Immortal Spirit Clan.
• Jiang Ji Xiu bowed, and the Human Race Immortals saluted Ji Kun as he declared the sword embodied the Human Race's rise and would prevent the Ten Thousand Clans from bullying them.
• Ji Kun condemned the Ten Thousand Clans for entering the Human Race Heavenly River and summoned the Unrestrained Self-Mastery Immortal Gate, directing his Sword Intent at the three Peak Immortals.
• Zu Shou recognized that Ji Kun had summoned a Human Race trump card, while Immortals across the Great Worlds rushed toward the Human Ancestor Domain.
• Fu Tian realized the chaotic karmic lines meant someone had returned to the past and changed history, suspected Five Elements Dao Ancestor was involved, and chose not to interfere.

Fu Tian investigated the mysterious cultivator who had swallowed part of the ancient stars, while Ji Kun unleashed a belated sword against the three Peak Immortals for the unjustly dead of the human race. The sword’s strike engulfed heaven and earth, and years later an Immortal Fall Phenomenon shook the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

• Fu Tian learned that a mysterious person had swallowed one ten-thousandth of the ancient stars and ordered Tuo Mo Na to find and bring him to the Land of Emptiness.
• The Peak Immortals left the Immortal Valley and headed toward the Human Ancestor Domain as Ji Kun prepared to strike.
• Ji Kun declared that his sword was for the human race’s unjustly dead and summoned the power of his Unrestrained Self-Mastery Immortal Gate.
• Ji Kun opened his eyes and swung his sword at the three Peak Immortals, filling the heavens with blinding Sword Light.
• Years later, an Immortal Fall Phenomenon descended and shook the Boundless Great World and the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

After a human Peak Immortal killed an Ancient Immortal Clan Peak Immortal and departed wounded, both sides hid the truth while the other clans weighed how to exploit the clash. Outside Ji City, Jiang Ji Xiu grieved over the elder’s silence and tried to explain that the human race’s long endurance was part of a plan to protect its people when the True Immortal Realm opened.

• The human Peak Immortal vanished after drawing his sword, leaving the Myriad Races afraid to provoke him and the human race still committed to forbearance.
• The wounded Ancient Immortal Clan Peak Immortal died, and his clan concealed that the human elder had killed him while mourning his death.
• The great clans recognized that the human race and the other clans had all endured in preparation for opening the True Immortal Realm, and they considered how to benefit from the elder’s actions.
• Jiang Ji Xiu sat alone beyond Ji City, remembering the wounded forebear’s silence and feeling the pain of the divide between the two eras.
• Jiang Ji Xiu tried to explain that the human race had endured and schemed to protect its descendants, preserve its people, and create a prosperous age after the True Immortal Realm opened.

Ji Kun left Ji City after rejecting Jiang Ji Xiu’s plea, but the human race’s bell and united oath showed him that he still had hope for them. Meanwhile, Ke Ding told Chen Xun that a human Supreme Strong One had killed the three Peak Immortals who had threatened him.

• Ji Kun walked away from Ji City as Jiang Ji Xiu bowed and bid farewell to the human race’s sage of old.
• A bell rang through Ji City, and Ji Kun called for the human path to possess the Inheritance of Immortality; Jiang Ji Xiu and human immortals across the worlds echoed his words.
• Jiang Ji Xiu understood that Ji Kun was disappointed in the human race but still held hope for it, then issued a series of human race decrees.
• In True Spirit Ancient City, Ke Ding found Chen Xun lying in the street and told him that a human Supreme Strong One had beheaded the three Peak Immortals who had threatened him.
• Chen Xun, jolted by Ke Ding’s slap and news, stared at him in bewilderment and asked what had happened.

Ke Ding told Chen Xun that one of the three Peak Immortals who had haunted him had died, and revealed that a Supreme Strong One had used Karma Great Art to pull them to the Boundless Human Ancestor Domain. Chen Xun stayed calm and dismissed the outside world, while Ke Ding pressed him for the secret behind their karmic connection; a Yinming Spirit Clan cultivator then approached them.

• Ke Ding told Chen Xun that an Ancient Immortal Clan expert had died, though the clan publicly described it as a peaceful passing.
• Chen Xun said he no longer cared about the human race or the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and Ke Ding agreed that he too would not care if his clan were exterminated.
• Ke Ding explained that a Supreme Strong One had used Karma Great Art to bring the three Peak Immortals to the Boundless Human Ancestor Domain.
• Ke Ding connected the karma to Chen Xun's sacrifice to the Dao in the Heavenly River Battle and to the Supreme Strong One calling Chen Xun Senior Brother.
• Chen Xun asked to be left alone, while Ke Ding recorded Chen Xun's great secret as his final wish and joked about Chen Xun's battered cart.
• A Yinming Spirit Clan cultivator and several Dao-protecting servants approached Chen Xun and Ke Ding in True Spirit Ancient City.

Yin Lin tried to take an ancient jade slip from Ke Ding and Chen Xun, unaware they were powerful immortals, and the two beat him and his servants. Chen Xun then said he needed to return to his sect, while Yin Lin crawled out of the alley admitting his mistake.

• Yin Lin confronted Ke Ding and Chen Xun and demanded that they name a price for the jade slip, while his servant threatened them.
• Yin Lin reached for the slip, and Ke Ding and Chen Xun revealed their power and ordered his group into an alley for a beating.
• Ke Ding and Chen Xun emerged after the one-sided fight, and Chen Xun secretly kept a Storage Ring he had picked up.
• Chen Xun told Ke Ding that he felt better but needed to return to his sect, and the two departed in shifting disguises.
• Yin Lin crawled out of the alley, disheveled and injured, and admitted that he had made a mistake.

After two Immortals took Yin Lin’s Storage Ring and beat him, he accepted their mercy and resolved to enter the Eighteen Immortal Passes alone. His Dao Protectors feared his chances against Tai Xiao, the Ancient Immortal Clan’s top genius, whose past victories had destroyed another genius’s path to immortality.

• Yin Lin thanked the Immortals for sparing his life and ordered his Dao Protectors not to discuss the incident.
• Yin Lin and his Dao Protectors recalled their dangerous journey through the Desolate Heaven Domain, including nearly entering the Ten Despairs Strange Domain.
• Yin Lin explained the dangers of the Eighteen Immortal Passes and gave his jade hairpin to his Dao Protectors in case he did not return.
• Yin Lin rejected his Dao Protectors’ concerns about traveling without his Storage Ring and set out alone toward the Eighteen Immortal Passes.
• Yin Lin’s Dao Protectors worried that he would face Tai Xiao, who had shattered a rival genius’s Dao heart and cut off his path to immortality.

Chen Xun learned that Senior Brother Ji Kun had awakened and was gravely wounded, so he hurried back to the Five Elements Sect. Meanwhile, a mysterious man confronted Fu Tian in the Extraterritorial Battlefield and demanded that he release the remnant souls or face death.

• Ning Qiong and Shou Kui realized the unfamiliar Human Race immortal might have come from a Small Realm and bowed to him before leaving.
• Chen Xun parted from Ke Ding, then slapped Ke Ding’s incarnation across the face in retaliation for his distraction.
• Chen Xun opened a void road and set off for the Five Elements Sect, revealing that he had fought the Jiang Family Immortal alone and had held back in past battles.
• News reached Chen Xun that Senior Brother Ji Kun had awakened and departed while severely wounded, and Chen Xun urged him not to die.
• A man confronted Fu Tian at the Extraterritorial Battlefield and demanded that he withdraw his immortal power or be killed.

Ji Kun confronted Fu Tian and threatened to use the Grand Creation Art to destroy himself and force Fu Tian into slumber, hoping to sever Fu Tian’s karmic ties to his Junior Brothers. Fu Tian urged him to return to them, while memories of his own days as a Senior Brother resurfaced.

• Fu Tian dispersed Ji Kun’s Spirit Severing starlight with a casual wave and dismissed him as unworthy to challenge him.
• Ji Kun refused to draw the Human Dao Supreme Sword and told Fu Tian he had anticipated even his own death.
• Ji Kun revealed that he was prepared to use the Life Sacrificing Art to cut Fu Tian down and sever the great karma between Fu Tian and his Junior Brother.
• Fu Tian warned Ji Kun to visit his two Junior Brothers, saying Ji Kun could not kill him and could only make him fall into slumber.
• Ji Kun rose into the air and declared that protecting those who had shared his immortal path mattered more to him than his former role as a pillar of the human race.
• Fu Tian recalled being the eldest Senior Brother of the Fu Shi Religion and remembered gathering his Junior Brothers to confront anyone who wronged them.

Fu Tian persuaded Ji Kun to accept a three-way agreement that would send Ji Kun’s remnant soul through reincarnation and let Fu Tian meet Chen Xun, at the cost of Fu Tian’s name and existence. After Fu Tian began the art and fell into slumber, a white-haired man headed for the Five Elements Sect.

• Fu Tian agreed to reclaim his Laws Immortal Power but said Ji Kun first needed to meet Chen Xun and receive transferred karma.
• Fu Tian explained that Ji Kun could either accept the agreement or risk dying and leaving Chen Xun on an uncontrollable path.
• Ji Kun agreed to separate his remnant soul from his immortal fortune and enter reincarnation, asking that his two Junior Brothers be told.
• Fu Tian began the art, sent Ji Kun’s remnant soul into the River of Time, and fell into slumber as his body merged with Heaven and earth.
• Half a day later, a white-haired man headed toward the Five Elements Sect in the Azure Sky Forest Sea.

Fu Tian severed his karma with Ji Kun and planned further moves in the Extraterritorial Battlefield, while the Three-Eyed Emperor revealed that his race had chosen to back the Five Elements Dao Ancestor. Fu Tian then explained that he wanted to reclaim the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board and recover the Immortal Court's remaining luck.

• Fu Tian revealed that he had transferred Chen Xun's karma to Ji Kun and considered severing his connection with the Five Elements Dao Ancestor as another contingency.
• Fu Tian resolved to exploit the war on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, where the Chaos Clan and Ancient Sacred Clan might help open the Chaos Ancient Road and travel against time.
• The Three-Eyed Emperor told Fu Tian that his race had placed its hopes on the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and would no longer follow Fu Tian's will.
• Fu Tian asked whether Chen Xun had fought a thousand immortals alone, and the Three-Eyed Emperor confirmed it while suggesting that Fu Tian had intended that outcome.
• Fu Tian asked the Three-Eyed Emperor to throw the Tai Ling Great World into turmoil and said he wanted to reclaim the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board to restore the Immortal Court's luck.
• The Three-Eyed Emperor warned that Fu Tian's plan did not seem like his nature and suspected he was preparing another reckless, world-shaking deed.

Ji Kun traveled through the Desolate Heaven Domain to sever karmic ties connected to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, compelling the Five Ghosts Burning Sky Dao and the Jun Family to release those he sought. He returned to the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range and reunited with Chen Xun, who had been waiting outside the mountain gate.

• Fu Tian promised the Three-Eyed Emperor that he would free Chen Xun, and the two secretly discussed their plans before their incarnations vanished.
• Ji Kun arrived at the Five Ghosts Burning Sky Dao and ordered its Dao Master Jin Tian to bring him the Chu Clan members.
• Ji Kun went to the Jun Family, where the ancestors let him take the unconscious Jun Yi after a warning from beyond the heavens.
• Ji Kun spent half a month removing calamity roots linked to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox across the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Ji Kun returned to the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, where Chen Xun greeted him from a mountain outside the Five Elements Sect.

Chen Xun confronted Ji Kun, whose Immortal Dao was failing and whose life was nearly over, and angrily rejected his attempt to make a final farewell. After Ji Kun revealed he had recovered the remnant soul imprints of Liu Yuan and Shi Jing, Chen Xun softened, and Ji Kun asked about junior brother Ox.

• Chen Xun saw that Ji Kun’s Immortal Dao foundation was unstable and his immortal body was barely prolonging his life.
• Chen Xun offered life-extending fruits and proposed taking the Life Essence of Myriad Race Immortals, but Ji Kun refused and warned of the consequences.
• Ji Kun blasted Chen Xun away and demanded to know why he would not accept his decision to die.
• Chen Xun accused Ji Kun of returning only to stage a bitter farewell and told him to leave for his human homeland.
• Ji Kun explained that he had brought back the remnant soul imprints of Liu Yuan and Shi Jing and had come only to see everyone before leaving.
• Chen Xun accepted Ji Kun’s explanation, and Ji Kun asked where junior brother Ox was.

Ji Kun told Chen Xun that he had secretly moved against Fu Tian’s schemes and intended to protect the human race and his junior brother. As the two walked toward the Five Elements Sect, Chen Xun gave Ji Kun the ancient text of the Grand Creation Art and agreed that he should seek the human race’s help.

• Ji Kun said he had cut down Ye Qingyou’s memorial tablet and left a contingency of the Grand Creation Art within Fu Tian’s immortal power laws.
• Ji Kun reflected that he had entered Fu Tian’s game to sever its hold over Chen Xun and intended to shoulder the human race’s karma himself.
• Chen Xun told Ji Kun that he already had friends and fellow Daoists around him, and did not need Ji Kun to trouble himself further.
• Chen Xun asked how long Ji Kun could live, and Ji Kun said he had only a few years and would soon attend to major affairs of the human race.
• Chen Xun handed Ji Kun the ancient text and agreed that Ji Kun should draw on the human race’s strength to pursue another life.

Chen Xun confronted Ji Kun about the risks of using an ancient cultivation art and demanded proof that he would survive his coming departure. Ji Kun accepted the ancient tome and promised to return, while Chen Xun placed one last measure of trust in the human race despite their differing paths.

• Ji Kun explained that the ancient art came from the previous Heaven and Earth Reincarnation and that its first human cultivator, Zu Shou, suffered a terrible backlash.
• Chen Xun told Ji Kun he feared the human race would not protect him and warned that he would blame them if Ji Kun died or failed to return.
• Ji Kun offered Chen Xun a strand of his Immortal Dao Source's mark as assurance that he would endure, and Chen Xun agreed.
• Chen Xun handed the ancient tome back to Ji Kun and said he would trust the human race and Ji Kun's identity as Human Emperor Changzun one last time.
• Ji Kun promised to return after awakening, and Chen Xun accepted his guilt toward the deceased World Openers before walking on with him.

Big Black Ox emerged from seclusion with overwhelming Dao essence, and Chen Xun rushed to meet him before angrily hurling him out of the Five Elements Sect. In the crater, Big Black Ox recognized Ji Kun, who greeted him as Junior Brother Ox.

• Frog Daoist spent a month calling for Big Black Ox to emerge, hoping he could help with Big White Spirit’s matter.
• Big Black Ox came out of seclusion amid lightning and divine radiance, stunning Frog Daoist and prompting the Five Elements Sect disciples to pay homage.
• Chen Xun abandoned Ji Kun and charged toward Big Black Ox, who welcomed him warmly.
• Chen Xun grabbed Big Black Ox by the horns and hurled him beyond the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• Big Black Ox lay dazed in a crater until Ji Kun appeared and greeted him as Junior Brother Ox.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Ji Kun, who had returned after Chen awakened him. As they traveled back to the Five Elements Sect, Big Black Ox learned Ji Kun might soon die again and feared Chen Xun would lose another old friend, but Chen Xun said they had made an Immortal Oath.

• Ji Kun appeared before Big Black Ox and revealed that Chen Xun had awakened him, prompting Big Black Ox to joyfully reunite with him.
• Chen Xun questioned whether Ji Kun was himself or a Reincarnation Body, and Ji Kun affirmed his identity while refusing to speak of the Human Race.
• Chen Xun summoned a World Breaking Ship, and he, Ji Kun, and Big Black Ox set off for the Five Elements Sect.
• Ji Kun told Big Black Ox that his lifespan was in danger and that the Human Race's foundations would save him, alarming Big Black Ox.
• Big Black Ox warned Ji Kun that the Human Race would only use him, while Chen Xun said Ji Kun had promised by Immortal Oath that nothing would happen.

Ji Kun brought Liu Yuan and Shi Jing’s remnant souls to Ninety-Nine Ring Mountain Peak, where Chen Xun admitted he could not resurrect them. Ji Kun used his immortal power to free their souls, and Liu Yuan and Shi Jing awakened as spirit bodies before Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.

• Ji Kun told Big Black Ox that he had brought back Liu Yuan and Shi Jing’s remnant souls, while Chen Xun silently considered how to save Ji Kun.
• Di Tian and Frog Daoist sensed an ancient human aura, and a fearsome gaze left both shaken.
• Chen Xun told Ji Kun that he could not resurrect Liu Yuan and Shi Jing, and Ji Kun warned him that their remnant souls could not remain in another body without suffering.
• Ji Kun released an imprint containing Fu Tian’s immortal power and used an azure dragon to keep the remnant souls from dispersing.
• Liu Yuan and Shi Jing emerged as spirit bodies, recognized Chen Xun and Big Black Ox, and called out to them.