Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox avoided a wounded Foundation Establishment cultivator and continued to Chenhui Great Snow Mountain. They explored the snowy peaks, painted a picture, and surveyed the remote area as a possible place to cultivate in seclusion.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spotted a severely wounded woman descending toward them, then fled before she could finish speaking.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached Chenhui Great Snow Mountain a month later and admired its vast snowy peaks.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent three days painting the mountain and celebrated their finished picture.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox rode an immortal sword toward the summit, checking that the area was remote and free of sects and cultivators.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sat atop the mountain beneath a magical barrier and looked over the sea of clouds.

After years of cautious preparation and peaceful life on Chenhui Great Snow Mountain, Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox began their Core Formation breakthrough. The chapter left them amid a powerful formation, ready to face the dangers of forming their cores.

• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox tried skiing down Chenhui Great Snow Mountain, mastered it, and escaped an avalanche with their swords.
• Chen Xun found the Big Black Ox fertile land beside a glacial stream, where they built a house and spent years farming and exploring.
• Chen Xun reflected that attempting Core Formation without absolute certainty was like marching to their deaths, so they spent ten years confirming the surroundings were safe.
• Chen Xun and the Big Black Ox donned the Bandit Set and prepared for Core Formation at a snow mountain summit, with five Medicine Boxes and over a hundred formation flags.
• The Big Black Ox stood beside the Big Black Coffin as Chen Xun entrusted the next step to it.

Chen Xun began forming his core on Snow Peak, but the process summoned a powerful heavenly tribulation that struck his formation and engulfed him in lightning. He endured the storm and formed a second golden core, preparing to face the next bolt while thinking of Big Black Ox.

• Chen Xun swallowed a Gold Essence Pill, and its power violently expanded and compressed his dantian as an inverted vortex formed in the clouds.
• Thunderclouds and purple lightning gathered over Snow Peak as Chen Xun's first golden core began to form, and a lightning bolt destroyed one of Big Black Ox's formation flags.
• Chen Xun swallowed a Wood Essence Pill, drawing down a fierce heavenly tribulation that locked onto him and engulfed him in lightning.
• Big Black Ox lost contact with Chen Xun but heard him defy the tribulation, then sensed that he was still alive.
• Chen Xun formed a second golden core, resolved to remember the process so Big Black Ox could undergo tribulation, and swallowed a Water Essence Pill to face the next bolt.

Chen Xun fought through a terrifying lightning tribulation atop Chenhui Great Snow Mountain while Big Black Ox guarded him from approaching cultivators. The chapter left Big Black Ox battling dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators after one of them was swallowed by its Black Coffin.

• Chen Xun punched into the heavenly lightning as his fireballs met the tribulation, and he vanished into the thunder and flames.
• Big Black Ox fled to the mountain’s foot and watched as the tribulation spread across Chenhui Great Snow Mountain, drawing cultivators from afar.
• Senior Brother Hu warned his two Junior Brothers not to investigate, but they flew toward the mountain anyway.
• Big Black Ox, wearing a Bandit Set and carrying the Big Black Coffin, fought cultivators who had rushed toward the summit, despite keeping watch for anyone sneaking past it.
• Big Black Ox’s Dao Incarnations confused the attackers, and its Black Coffin swallowed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.
• The gathered cultivators joined forces and launched a fierce attack on Big Black Ox.

Chen Xun emerged from his tribulation and killed Meng Hong with a single spell, then unleashed a fiery assault on the cultivators who had attacked Big Black Ox. He and Big Black Ox left the melted Snow Peak behind, while witnesses and the Red Sun Sect feared speaking or investigating what had happened.

• Big Black Ox held off waves of Foundation Establishment cultivators until Meng Hong, a Golden Core Great Cultivator of the Red Sun Sect, arrived and headed toward the snowy summit.
• Chen Xun completed his breakthrough, and a massive fireball struck Meng Hong from the sky, killing him in one blow.
• Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox and told it to stay behind him as he confronted the assembled cultivators.
• Chen Xun summoned countless meteorite fireballs and killed the cultivators on the ground, melting Snow Peak before he and Big Black Ox departed.
• Senior Brother Hu and the Red Sun Sect learned of the destruction, but the witnesses stayed silent and the sect did not dare investigate.

After fleeing Qian Kingdom, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox crossed the desolate Heaven Severing Great Plains in search of a place to lie low and continue pursuing Core Formation. They remained lost in the endless sands, but turned their journey into an adventure by repeatedly free-falling from the clouds.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox fled west after the commotion at Chenhui Great Snow Mountain, and Chen Xun warned that they should be more cautious in the future.
• Chen Xun suspected their tribulation abnormalities were connected to the Foundation Establishment Pill’s effect on their dantians and explained his thoughts to Big Black Ox through divine sense.
• Three months later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered Heaven Severing Great Plains, carrying about a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones because they could not replenish spiritual power there.
• After traveling for two more months without finding the plains’ end or any habitation, Chen Xun complained about their slow progress and sang across the sand.
• Chen Xun urged Big Black Ox to jump from the clouds for fun, caught it after it fainted, and then repeated the free-falls with it.

Big Black Ox survived his Golden Core tribulation and underwent a bodily transformation before returning to normal. He and Chen Xun settled in the desolate Heaven Severing Great Plains, where they began reclaiming land and building a secluded home.

• Big Black Ox swallowed a Gold Essence Pill and faced a fierce heavenly tribulation while Chen Xun watched anxiously and encouraged him.
• After the thunderclouds passed, Big Black Ox recovered inside a Blood Cocoon and emerged with fur and evolved front hooves before returning to normal.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox cleared the scorched ground, flew across the barren plains, and decided to settle there and keep a low profile for decades.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox fenced off land, used formations to shelter it from the wind and sand, and planted Crane Spirit Trees as they built a small house.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stabilized their five Golden Cores and spent twenty years cultivating Crane Spirit Trees in the Heaven Severing Great Plains. Chen Xun tested their newly forged Mountain-Splitting Axes, and they consecrated the three weapons under the name Windbreaker.

• Chen Xun tested his tribulation-tempered physique and tried to offer incense and merit, but Big Black Ox interrupted him, leading to a fight that ended when Chen Xun gave him ten merit points.
• Chen Xun wondered about the unusual pill patterns and their five dim, unstable Golden Cores, then wrote plans for their future.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent their days stabilizing their Golden Cores, cultivating Crane Spirit Trees, studying spells, and nurturing the Black Coffin into a Natal Supreme Treasure.
• After twenty years in the Heaven Severing Great Plains, Big Black Ox used his stronger array skills to conceal their home and flourishing grove.
• Chen Xun used the enhanced Water Spirit Art and a Mountain-Splitting Axe to destroy a Crane Spirit Tree, demonstrating how well their magic and weapons worked together.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox consecrated three axes forged from a Crane Spirit Tree King and named them Windbreaker.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox finished preparing their enhanced treasures and left the desert after twenty-one years, setting out toward home through the Qian Kingdom. Three months later, they arrived as ordinary travelers in the bustling border city of Bailing City.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued refining their treasures and planting Crane Spirit Trees in the desert.
• Twenty-one years after the Crane Spirit Tree King returned to heaven, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox packed their belongings and prepared to leave.
• Chen Xun showed off his self-created Greater Fireball Spell while Big Black Ox gathered their damaged formation flags.
• They marked the desert as a place to return to and left for the Qian Kingdom to prepare for crossing the Heaven Severing Great Plains.
• Three months later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered Bailing City with no trace of spiritual power.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to city life, then resumed wandering through Qian Kingdom, enjoying the mortal world and practicing their skills. After years of peaceful travel and searching for treasures, they stumbled into a cave just as a pair of Dao companions arrived to use it as a secret meeting place.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to Bailing City, traded herbs, ate meat buns, and spent five days enjoying the city.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Bailing City and discussed how the sects might have claimed all the Iron Essence in Qian Kingdom.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled through mountains and villages, treating the sick, displaying their blacksmithing skills, and helping at weddings and funerals.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox admired the scenery, painted, and searched caves and cliffs for hidden treasures while staying ahead of trouble.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox searched an empty mountain cave, then saw two Foundation Establishment Early Stage Dao companions arrive and begin setting up a Concealment Array nearby.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled through the Mortal World, enjoying ordinary life before reaching Qian Imperial City seven years after returning home. As they watched the city, two cultivator sisters approached Chen Xun to make his acquaintance, but his distant manner made them uneasy.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox surprised a Daoist couple in a cave dwelling, suppressed their fears with their presence, and advised them to dismiss their formation safely.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox continued through the Mortal World, watching chess, visiting villages and temples, and spending most of their money on offerings and scriptures.
• After crossing several provinces, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived in Brocade Phoenix Province and admired Qian Imperial City from outside its walls.
• Two sisters at the fifth layer of the Qi Condensation Stage approached Chen Xun and said they wished to meet him.
• Chen Xun invited the sisters to speak plainly, and they felt uncomfortable beneath his intense, distant air.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Qian Kingdom’s Mortal Realm and reached Imperial Void City, beginning their journey into the Cultivation World. After marveling at the city, they were approached by a Qi Condensation Stage man.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Qian Imperial City after wandering through it and having matching Gray Linen Clothes made.
• Half a year later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spotted Imperial Void City and charged toward it in excitement, concealing their Golden Core Stage cultivation beneath a Foundation Establishment Early Stage appearance.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered Imperial Void City through a small gate and gaped at its vast streets, shops, and towering pavilions.
• A Qi Condensation Stage man called out to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.
• The author explained that Chen Xun and Old Ox had begun their journey into the Cultivation World and that the story’s updates would slow while the outline was organized.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox explored Imperial Void City and hired Li Miao to guide them. They learned the city had distinct districts and began asking about the powerful groups that controlled West City.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met Li Miao, who offered to guide them around Imperial Void City, and they accepted his Sound Transmission Talisman before exploring on their own.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed finding a place to live, acquiring cultivation resources, and selling medicinal herbs to established sect-affiliated shops.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spotted Danxin Pavilion, recognized the Pill Cauldron Sect emblem, and noted it as a promising place to sell medicinal herbs.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox stopped at Jinxing Restaurant, smelled demon beast meat, and promised to return for a meal once they had earned Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun summoned Li Miao with the Sound Transmission Talisman and paid him one Low-Grade Spirit Stone to guide them.
• Li Miao explained that Imperial Void City had five sections, including South City for shops, East City for residences and gatherings, and West City for Immortal Sects and major powers; Chen Xun asked about those powers.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned about Imperial Void City’s powers and explored East City, where they discovered the steep cost of buying a cave dwelling on Soaked Immortal Mountain. They left Li Miao with a generous tip and, beneath the mountain, remembered the man they had once called “Big Brother” in Nine Stars Valley.

• Li Miao explained the city’s three great powers and described the districts where cultivators gathered.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox considered buying a cave dwelling on Soaked Immortal Mountain, then learned a Yellow Grade dwelling cost two thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for two hundred years.
• Li Miao led them to East City, where they saw Soaked Immortal Mountain and its busy marketplace.
• Chen Xun gave Li Miao four Low-Grade Spirit Stones and a Sound Transmission Talisman, and Li Miao gratefully hurried away.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recalled the “Big Brother” they had met in Nine Stars Valley, and Chen Xun wished he could meet him again.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sold their century-old spirit herbs around South City, built up three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and then visited Ink Feather Pavilion to look for cultivation methods. They explored the pavilion’s wares and noted its access to demon-beast materials unavailable in the Qian Kingdom.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sold three spirit herbs to a pill shop for five hundred and fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun proposed selling pills as well, boasting about his pill-refining skill while Big Black Ox believed him.
• Over two months, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sold herbs at shops across South City until they had three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then stopped selling.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sought cultivation methods and went to the large Ink Feather Pavilion in South City.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox browsed talisman supplies and observed that Ink Feather Pavilion had access to demon-beast materials from beyond the Qian Kingdom.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox fled after discovering the prices at a formation shop, then went to Cultivation Heart Pavilion to buy a cave dwelling. They purchased Yellow Grade Cave Dwelling number 3587 and received the token for entering it.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox browsed a formation shop, panicked at the prices, and ran out after asking about cultivation techniques for Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided to buy a cave dwelling and went to Cultivation Heart Pavilion at the foot of Soaked Immortal Mountain.
• A Foundation Establishment Middle Stage attendant showed Chen Xun and Big Black Ox the available Yellow Grade Cave Dwellings and explained their restrictions.
• Chen Xun chose Yellow Grade Cave Dwelling number 3587, which cost 2,400 Low-Grade Spirit Stones for 200 years of use.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox paid the spirit stones, and the attendant gave Chen Xun the Restriction Token for the mountain and dwelling.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox secured a cave dwelling on Soaked Immortal Mountain and eagerly made it their home. After settling in, Chen Xun began refining Frigid Spirit Pills while Big Black Ox watched his boastful preparations.

• The young man at the Cultivation Heart Pavilion told Chen Xun that paying for a thousand years would prevent the cave dwelling from being reclaimed, and Chen Xun thanked him before leaving with Big Black Ox.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox followed the token through Soaked Immortal Mountain and delighted in finding their secluded cave dwelling, complete with a medicine field and crafting rooms.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox explored and decorated their home, while Big Black Ox dug a concealed space in the Spirit Beast Room and arranged protective arrays.
• After two days of work, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox rested outside their finished cave dwelling, content with their new home.
• Over the next month, Chen Xun began refining Frigid Spirit Pills and declared the task easy; Big Black Ox worshipped him at an altar until Chen Xun punched it into the cave wall.

Big Black Ox strengthened its layered formations while Chen Xun practiced swinging a Mountain-Splitting Axe and quietly built a life in Imperial Void City. Fifty years after their arrival, as the Centennial Grand Meet approached, Chen Xun found a natural rhythm in his axe practice, and Big Black Ox sensed that he had begun a different kind of cultivation.

• Big Black Ox developed a way to strengthen formations by stacking more array flags, and its formations could withstand the first heavenly tribulation of Core Formation.
• Chen Xun practiced swinging his axe without mana, then caught Big Black Ox laughing at him and punished it before they settled into daily routines of training, alchemy, herb cultivation, and array study.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox sold Mid-Grade Frigid Spirit Pills around Imperial Void City, reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and decided to cook for themselves after an expensive restaurant meal.
• Fifty years after their arrival, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox heard that the Centennial Grand Meet would be held the following year, and Imperial Void City filled with visiting cultivators and rising excitement.
• Beside a stream, Chen Xun swung his axe in time with nature, and Big Black Ox realized that his practice had taken on a natural, unforced quality.

After decades of cultivating and gathering resources, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned that Yuan Chen Ginseng would be offered at an East City auction and exchange gathering. They arrived at the mountaintop gathering, where Chen Xun presented himself as a Golden Core cultivator.

• Big Black Ox inventoried their wealth and cultivation supplies, while Chen Xun’s Longevity Points remained bottlenecked at 140 Mana.
• After seven times seven, forty-nine years, Chen Xun found a trace of the feeling he had sought and told Big Black Ox to prepare to leave in three days.
• Chen Xun bought information from a Four Symbols Alliance branch store and learned that Yuan Chen Ginseng would appear at an East City gathering alongside two other herbs they needed for the True Essence Pill.
• Big Black Ox revealed the layers of formations it had built around their cave dwelling, and the pair set out for East City.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reached the gathering, where Chen Xun displayed Golden Core mana and was welcomed by an early Golden Core woman in palace attire.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox attended an auction, where they watched cultivators compete for treasures and waited for the five-hundred-year Yuan Chen Ginseng. The auctioneer revealed that the seller wanted a Thousand Year Spiritual Herb in exchange, leaving the interested bidders hesitant.

• A woman in a palace dress seated Chen Xun and Big Black Ox and gave them the auction list, where they spotted the Yuan Chen Ginseng and several valuable treasures.
• A middle-aged Foundation Establishment cultivator opened the auction, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator bought the Mountain Spirit Sword for five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xun bid 3,500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones for the Eight Treasures Scarlet Gold, but a Golden Core woman outbid him at 5,000.
• Golden Core Cultivators bought several treasures, including the three bottles of True Essence Pills, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox watched.
• The auctioneer presented the five-hundred-year Yuan Chen Ginseng and announced that its seller wanted a Thousand Year Spiritual Herb in exchange, prompting the interested cultivators to hesitate.