Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun invited the orphaned Gu Sheng to stay in the Five Elements Sect as an Outer Sect mountain guarding disciple, and Gu Sheng accepted. As Gu Sheng went to learn about the sect, Ji Mo and other disciples watched him approach and wondered what the Ancestor had brought back.

• Chen Xun asked Gu Sheng about his plans and offered him a place in the Five Elements Sect, warning that staying would mean giving up the chance for revenge.
• Gu Sheng accepted Chen Xun's offer and headed toward the shore to learn about the sect.
• Ji Mo told Man Yi and the other disciples that Gu Sheng appeared to have lost his entire family, claiming he had learned a qi-observation technique.
• Man Yi noticed Gu Sheng approaching, and the disciples quickly hid the melon seed shells and straightened up.

Ji Mo and the Five Elements Sect disciples welcomed Gu Sheng and spent days telling him about their sect while concealing that they were all doppelgängers. When Gu Sheng turned to open a cave abode, the disciples vanished into smoke, leaving him shocked and wondering if he had entered an illusion.

• Ji Mo and the others used secret hand gestures to confirm they were doppelgängers and joked that their disguises had been seen through.
• Gu Sheng arrived at the shore and introduced himself as a Celestial Venerable joining the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
• Ji Mo and Man Yi eagerly began explaining the sect’s history, and Gu Sheng listened for several days.
• Half a month later, Gu Sheng thanked the disciples and offered to guide them in cultivation as he planned to seek a lineage in the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains.
• As Gu Sheng started to leave and open a cave abode, Ji Mo and the other disciples vanished into drifting smoke, stunning him.

Gu Sheng discovered that the Five Elements Sect’s Heavenly Origin Star infused the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range with refined Heavenly Origin Qi, making the sect an immensely valuable target. He committed to joining the sect and keeping its secret, but soon blundered into a Slaughter Array and cried out in alarm.

• Gu Sheng saw the Heavenly Origin Star and realized its refined Heavenly Origin Qi could transform the Five Elements Sect into an immortal realm.
• He understood that the sect’s history resembled the Chaos Clan’s plight, decided to stay, and acknowledged the Five Elements Dao Ancestor as his Old Ancestor.
• Gu Sheng examined the lingering aura of a grass clone, suspected the disciples’ apparent cultivation levels were misleading, and went to find a cave abode.
• A vast flame erupted nearby, and Gu Sheng cried out that someone had set a Slaughter Array upon the Great Dao and deceived him.

The Five Elements Sect gained Heavenly Wheel Immortal as an honorary elder while conflicts erupted across the great worlds. On the blood-soaked Immortal Azure Plains, Xian Jue collapsed after years of fighting, but Chen Xun and the Black-Clothed People arrived to rescue him.

• The sea beasts watched Gu Sheng enter the Li Fire Suspended Sky Great Array and noted that he had not realized he was meant to avoid it.
• Chen Xun ordered the Five Elements Sect’s outside disciples to return within a thousand years as he prepared to sever their karmic ties and lead the sect into the Primordial Chaos River.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal joined the Five Elements Sect as the Mountain Lord of the Fifty Ring Mountains, making it a sect with three immortals.
• Fighting and upheaval spread across the Desolate Heaven Domain and other great worlds as ancient forces and clans entered the conflicts.
• Xian Jue fought alone for years across the Immortal Azure Plains until he collapsed, drained of his Five Elements Qi and barely conscious.
• Chen Xun and the Black-Clothed People charged onto the battlefield, and the reminder that Xian Jue owed the Old Man a debt briefly roused him.

Chen DaoTian intervened on the Immortal Azure Plains to rescue Xian Jue and confronted the Celestial Venerables who had threatened him. After revealing a million-zhang Celestial Venerable Dharma Manifestation, he killed one opponent with a single punch, leaving the battlefield stunned by his power.

• Xian Jue charged back into battle, while black-clothed experts arrived to take him away and the battlefield forces were ordered to let them pass.
• Chen DaoTian refused to stand down and demanded to know who had threatened to bind Xian Jue and hand him over.
• Chen DaoTian manifested a million-zhang Dharma Manifestation, shocking the experts across the Immortal Azure Plains.
• A human-faced, beast-bodied Celestial Venerable insisted that his side had already yielded and demanded mutual respect.
• Chen DaoTian struck the Celestial Venerable with one punch, shattering him and leaving the surrounding experts stunned.

Chen DaoTian drove off the threat to Xian Jue, and the Chen Family carried him away to safety. On the ship, Xian Jue learned that the sect planned to retreat to the Primordial Chaos River, then decided he would stop roaming alone and build a team of his own.

• Chen DaoTian intimidated the gathered cultivators after Xian Jue was nearly killed, then ordered the Chen Family to take Xian Jue and leave while he covered their retreat.
• The Chen Family carried the injured Xian Jue aboard a Universe Stone ship, where he thanked them for saving him again.
• Chen Fangsheng comforted Xian Jue and recalled Meng Sheng’s cautious approach to danger.
• Chen Fangsheng told Xian Jue that the sect planned to enter the Primordial Chaos River and asked him to join them.
• Xian Jue worried that the retreat would keep him from seeing his parents again, but Chen Fangsheng assured him he could return someday.
• Xian Jue decided to stop traveling alone and imagined gathering companions to protect him while he sought powerful opponents to duel.

NanGong HeLing and Big Black Ox kept vigil beside Feng Jinyu’s coffin, and Frog Daoist told her how Chen Xun had planted a crabapple tree over an old burial ground as a sign of life continuing. After He Ling placed flowers in the coffin, Feng Jinyu’s clenched hand appeared to open, and Frog Daoist regarded him with respect.

• NanGong HeLing visited the unburied skeleton and gravestone on Back Mountain, remembering how loneliness had left her with few people to speak freely with.
• Big Black Ox came with Frog Daoist, and He Ling told her Second Brother she had come to keep Feng Jinyu company.
• He Ling said she would take a post in the Sect Main Hall after Jinyu’s burial, following Chen Xun’s plan for her to take up the burden of the Five Elements Sect.
• Frog Daoist told He Ling that Chen Xun had planted a crabapple tree over a burial ground because it symbolized resilience and life taking root among the dead.
• He Ling placed preserved flowers in the coffin, and the skeleton’s clenched hand seemed to loosen as Frog Daoist praised Feng Jinyu’s devotion to his friends.

Big Black Ox entered Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand to investigate the forbidden ground and encountered visions of its past with Chen Xun, followed by a real-seeming appearance of Di Tian. The chapter ended with Big Black Ox questioning who had gone to cultivate at the Five Elements Sect if this Di Tian was real.

• Big Black Ox was suddenly struck by an attack beside the spirit coffin, and He Ling rushed to stabilize its divine soul as Chen Xun and others sensed the crisis.
• Ten years earlier, Big Black Ox entered Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and began walking its seemingly endless road.
• The mirror-like ground showed Big Black Ox scenes from its past with Chen Xun, including Chen Xun silently weeping.
• Big Black Ox rejected the visions as false and continued forward, only to see a Three-Eyed Lifeforms warning its clan not to touch a certain place.
• The Three-Eyed Lifeforms vanished into the void and reappeared moments later, repeating the same warning, leaving Big Black Ox wondering who had gone to the Five Elements Sect.

Big Black Ox investigated the strange scenes beneath a mirror and realized that the sand grains revealed past events while defying the Five Elements. It then encountered a colossal gate and a blooming flower bearing Dao patterns identical to its own Dao essence, as the Heaven and Earth Immortal Dao vanished and the Five Elements were annihilated.

• Big Black Ox tried to reach Di Tian beneath the mirror, but he remained unaware of its calls and attacks.
• Big Black Ox used its Five Elements Divine Light to stir the sand and reveal scenes from different points in time, but it could not break down the grains or recover its lost mana.
• Big Black Ox reconsidered Chen Xun's past indifference toward Di Tian and questioned whether Chen Xun had truly arranged everything for their benefactor.
• Big Black Ox walked along the sandy path through a place where timekeeping failed, until a colossal gate appeared in the distance.
• A huge flower bloomed at the gate, displaying Dao patterns identical to Big Black Ox's own Dao essence as the Immortal Dao was lost and the Five Elements were annihilated.

Big Black Ox passed through the strange sand gates in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground and found himself in a familiar Five Elements Sect from another time. He recognized the scene but remained wary, unsure what the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand had done.

• Big Black Ox found that his punch could not affect the Myriad Races Statues and continued toward the gateway, suspecting the flower was guiding or drawing something.
• He passed through the upside-down sand gates, and the world spun into haze around him.
• Big Black Ox awoke beneath a mountain in the Five Elements Sect, where he recognized familiar landmarks and confirmed that his memories and powers remained intact.
• He overheard disciples say that Liu Yuan was the sect master, Shi Jing was an elder, and the sect was celebrating their wedding.
• Big Black Ox decided to investigate the strange scene despite suspecting it was an illusion created by the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand.

Big Black Ox watched an imagined wedding for Liu Yuan and Shi Jing, seeing Chen Xun and Ji Kun as they had been in the past. It left the celebration with bittersweet relief, while Ji Kun was unsettled by the ox’s strangely familiar gaze.

• Big Black Ox arrived at the sect’s main peak and watched Chen Xun and Ji Kun reunite, though neither recognized it.
• Liu Yuan emerged in wedding attire, and Big Black Ox followed the procession as Shi Jing and Liu Yuan’s wedding celebration began.
• At the Shi Family Ancient Residence, Chen Xun joked that the ox should be fed beef, while Ji Kun offered it wedding candies and promised it a Foundation Establishment Pill if it reached Qi Condensation Tenth Layer.
• Ji Kun sensed the weight of countless years in Big Black Ox’s gaze, but could not understand why it seemed to regard him as an old friend.
• Big Black Ox smiled at Ji Kun and reflected that, if Ji Kun were alive, the real Chen Xun could live freely in the Cultivation World.

Big Black Ox stayed in the Five Elements Sect while a different Chen Xun lived out his life, then rushed overseas after hearing Chen Xun had died. Chen Xun’s death triggered Big Black Ox’s return to the Dark Great Turmoil Era, and his second Primordial Spirit advanced toward the gate of heaven and earth in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand.

• Big Black Ox settled in the Five Elements Sect, guarded it for decades, and destroyed the Three Sects when they invaded the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• Chen Xun and Jin Yu left to explore overseas, and the sect later received news that they had perished.
• Big Black Ox flew overseas, found Chen Xun dead on a battlefield, and discovered the clothes Chen Xun had meant to bring him.
• As Chen Xun’s body burned, a grain of dust entered Big Black Ox’s divine soul and returned him to the Dark Great Turmoil Era, where the Longevity Immortal Venerable’s Five Elements Immortal Eyes looked down upon the living.
• Big Black Ox’s second Primordial Spirit appeared in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and strode toward the distant gate of heaven and earth.

Big Black Ox understood that the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand trapped and replicated beings through the laws of this Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground. Suspecting that the Immortal General of the Heavenly Wasteland had been assimilated and that Frog Daoist was no longer who he had been, Big Black Ox unleashed its power against the sand.

• Big Black Ox realized the Ages Sand and Myriad Races Statues could expose a being’s past and future, erode its Dao heart, and produce a replica more real than the original.
• Big Black Ox decided to keep the sand away from itself while its other Primordial Spirit remained trapped and battered the statue.
• Big Black Ox suspected the Immortal General of the Heavenly Wasteland had been assimilated, making the Frog Daoist who later emerged a different being.
• Big Black Ox questioned whether the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand had been arranged to absorb and replicate the Dao essence and memories of cultivators.
• Big Black Ox awakened its Dao essence and stirred up enormous tornadoes of sand as mysterious power of time flowed through the storm.

Big Black Ox attacked the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground and was surrounded by ancient powerhouses of the Ten Thousand Clans. After its injured main body returned to Chen Xun, Chen Xun went to Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and threatened to destroy the forbidden ground unless it released his blood brother.

• Big Black Ox used its Five Elements Array Disks and Dao essences to challenge the Heaven and Earth gateway, then charged into the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Ancient powerhouses of the Ten Thousand Clans emerged from the Myriad Races Statues, and Big Black Ox killed the first Human Race challenger before the others began to encircle it.
• Big Black Ox’s main body appeared on Jade Bamboo Mountain Range with its Primordial Spirit and laws in disorder, prompting He Ling to channel her Five Elements source into it.
• The Ominous Creature said Big Black Ox seemed to have been struck across the ages, and Heavenly Wheel Immortal urged Chen Xun to save it.
• Three days later, Chen Xun arrived at Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and threatened to raze the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground if it did not release Big Black Ox.

Chen Xun unleashed immense immortal power in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, while the Desolate Heaven Domain’s powers avoided investigating. Si Chen and Si Yuan sensed the disturbance and set out to look, discussing the planned end of the domain’s lawless lands and the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s retreat.

• Chen Xun raised immense Heavenly Origin Starfalls and unleashed Five Elements Qi across the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, alarming experts throughout the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• The Jun Family and other Ancient Races warned their people not to investigate the disturbance because of the forbidden ground’s karmic ties to time.
• Si Chen and Si Yuan sensed the immortal power from the Extreme Cold Ice Plains and decided to go take a look.
• A Flame Sun Fox emerged from beneath a glacier, and Si Yuan and Si Chen left a mysterious pill for it before continuing on; beasts soon fought over the pill.
• Si Chen and Si Yuan criticized the Desolate Heaven Domain’s lawless cultivation customs and said the Desolate Star Sea would help end them within ten thousand years.
• Si Yuan said the Five Elements Dao Ancestor had wisely retreated, then hinted that Venerable Head had told him something about the human race.

Chen Xun forced his way into the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand to demand Big Black Ox’s release, then fought a powerful Immortal Ancient being. The battle’s aftershocks killed Si Yuan and Si Chen, while Ke Ding faced a destructive Five Elements tide.

• Si Yuan told Si Chen that the human race’s assault on the Primordial Myriad Realms Domain was part of a vast scheme and warned them to stay out of it.
• Chen Xun threatened to destroy the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand unless Immortal Ancient released Big Black Ox, then blasted open an entrance and entered.
• Chen Xun confronted a powerful Immortal Ancient being and began a battle that shook the forbidden ground.
• Seven days later, Si Yuan and Si Chen arrived and were killed by the battle’s aftershocks.
• Ke Ding saw the two pseudo-immortals die, then fled as a Five Elements tide swept toward him.

Ke Ding fled the battle between Chen Xun and a mysterious being in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground, but his avatar was destroyed by the aftermath. Back at his Dao field, he speculated that Fu Tian controlled time and wrestled with whether to investigate, while deciding to wait for Chen Xun to explain what had happened.

• Ke Ding fled as the Five Elements tidal wave swept through the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground, and he wondered who Chen Xun was fighting.
• The battle's aftermath incinerated Ke Ding's avatar before it could escape, leaving his main body with no memories from its journey.
• Ke Ding suspected that Fu Tian's control of time had caused the avatar's destruction and mourned the loss of his Immortal Silk Paste.
• Ke Ding recalled that the Immortal River's Fourth Tribulation pseudo-immortals had died because they lacked true immortal bodies.
• Ke Ding considered going to the forbidden ground in his main body, then decided to wait for Chen Xun to tell him what happened.

Ke Ding forced his way through a battle to investigate the shattered Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground, where he witnessed Dao essence clash and realized Chen Xun was fighting Immortal Ancient. As the two unleashed their opposing techniques, World Extinction Immortal Lightning began to gather.

• Ke Ding formed the Heavenly Secrets Grand Array and fought past the Eight Great Emperor Clans and other immortals to pursue the secret.
• Ke Ding reached the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and found the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground collapsed, with its Five Elements in disarray.
• Dao-essence-laden stars and silver streams collided above the forbidden ground, and Ke Ding recognized Chen Xun’s power and speculated about his hidden strength.
• Five Elements formation disks began devouring the essence of heaven and earth, so Ke Ding fled before Chen Xun’s power could consume him.
• Chen Xun and Immortal Ancient faced each other across the Great Dao as Immortal Ancient invoked Six Paths of Impermanence, Ten Thousand Laws Return to One, Inquiring Heavens of Brilliance, and Chen Xun raised his black-and-white Essence Qi Flower.
• World Extinction Immortal Lightning began approaching as Chen Xun and Immortal Ancient remained locked in their confrontation.

Chen Xun battled Immortal Ancient for years within the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, then faced the full power of Immortal Ancient’s Six Tribulation cultivation and Small World. A hundred years passed as their clash continued, transforming the lands around the forbidden ground, with neither side yet victorious.

• Chen Xun and Immortal Ancient fought for years inside the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand while Ke Ding watched from afar and fled.
• Chen Xun threatened to destroy the foundation of Immortal Ancient’s years, but Immortal Ancient dismissed him and revealed his Six Tribulation power over the forbidden ground.
• Immortal Ancient summoned the Six Paths Future Body and unleashed its power against Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun met Immortal Ancient’s strike with his Five Elements power and a vast sea of death qi, causing the forbidden ground to sink and slip from Immortal Ancient’s control.
• A hundred years passed while Chen Xun and Immortal Ancient remained locked in battle, reshaping the surrounding mountains, rivers, stars, and the forbidden ground’s position.

Chen Xun rescued Big Black Ox from the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and confronted Immortal Ancient, who offered to exchange a top-grade mineral vein’s location for Chen Xun’s help restoring the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground. The chapter left Chen Xun accepting the bargain despite his initial anger.

• Ke Ding secluded himself to research the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, while Cheng Yuanxian vowed never to return to the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• Chen Xun found Big Black Ox after the battle, carried him away, and revealed that he had captured Di Tian and White Spirit’s Dao essence.
• Immortal Ancient warned Chen Xun against ushering in a dark era and invited him to enter his immortal sect, but Chen Xun refused.
• Immortal Ancient agreed to let Chen Xun take the Forbidden Ground Divine Soul, and Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to load it up.
• Immortal Ancient offered information about a top-grade mineral vein in exchange for Chen Xun’s help restoring the forbidden ground, and Chen Xun accepted.