Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discovered that the village resembling Double Tree Alley lay within the lingering aura of the immortal Roaring Sky Worm. They entered Fallen Spirit Village, where its inhabitants mistook them for the Roaring Sky Worm’s subordinates, and met the Dao Integration cultivator Si Kongyan.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that the village’s familiar alleys reflected the Roaring Sky Worm’s immortal aura and recalled fighting alongside it.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found Fallen Spirit Village, recognized Shi Rongxian’s enduring inscriptions, and saw children playing with a beetle they called a little Sky Worm.
• The village’s hidden insect-race cultivators mistook Chen Xun and Big Black Ox for the Roaring Sky Worm’s subordinates and called them a Human Slave and an Ox Clan spirit beast.
• Si Kongyan approached and respectfully introduced himself to Chen Xun and Big Black Ox.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited Fallen Spirit Village to see the old residence of Roaring Sky Worm and learned about the village’s history and its ties to an immortal known as the Sacred Worm. At the end, Chen Xun encountered the young painter Nie Chang and watched her paint, stirred by an inexplicable hope.

• Si Kongyan recognized Chen Xun and Big Black Ox as powerful visitors and offered to show them around Fallen Spirit Village.
• Si Kongyan explained that the village had endured for twenty thousand years under an immortal’s protection, and that the insect race called the immortal’s follower Boss while the villagers called it the Sacred Worm.
• Chen Xun told Si Kongyan that Roaring Sky Worm was well and had sent them to visit, then recorded the village scenery to show it.
• Chen Xun paused at an alley corner and found Nie Chang painting beside a little insectoid.
• Nie Chang said everyone in the village knew how to paint, and Chen Xun quietly watched as she continued drawing.

Chen Xun met Nie Chang and used his painting to teach her about the Dao of painting. His brush brought a changing world to life, leaving Si Kongyan and Big Black Ox astonished.

• Nie Chang told Chen Xun that she was drawing Gou Dan carrying her family across the mountains, and Chen Xun praised the story in her painting.
• Nie Chang told Chen Xun about a masterpiece by her distant ancestor that she believed depicted people rather than landscapes.
• Chen Xun recalled having a disciple surnamed Nie and offered to give Nie Chang pointers on painting.
• Chen Xun taught Nie Chang that a painting should not be bound by outward appearances or other people's judgments, then painted mountains and rivers.
• Gou Dan became absorbed in the world within Chen Xun's painting, while Si Kongyan and Big Black Ox were stunned by its reality.
• Chen Xun swept his brush across the painting, bringing its mountains, rivers, grass, and flying orioles to life.

Chen Xun revisited Fallen Spirit Village, guided Nie Chang through a painting, and left resources for the village before departing. As he and Big Black Ox passed an old man entering the village, the elder remarked that the Young Hero had splendid bearing.

• Nie Chang saw Fallen Spirit Village and her family in Chen Xun's painting, then accepted a Five Elements Talisman and asked to learn painting from him when she grew up.
• Chen Xun told Si Kongyan he would provide resources for villagers who began cultivating and gave him spirit stones sent by the Heavenly Worm.
• Chen Xun said he and Big Black Ox would leave without disturbing the village, then dragged Big Black Ox back from the fields.
• At the village entrance, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox passed a young man supporting an aged elder, who called Chen Xun a Young Hero with splendid bearing.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Fallen Spirit Village after realizing the old man had achieved the Great Accomplishment of the Mortal Dao, then explored One Origin Immortal City and stocked up on pill formulas and immortal materials. They contacted Baili Fengyao, who revealed that only Qin Yu had been found among the missing disciples.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox not to disturb the Old Blind Man, who had become mortal and achieved the Great Accomplishment of the Mortal Dao.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived in One Origin Immortal City and marveled at its size and abundance of goods.
• Chen Xun bought pill formulas, spirit seals, and ten sets of immortal materials for Pill Refining Furnaces from an Immortal Pavilion.
• Chen Xun let Big Black Ox choose formation materials before using an earth-grade Sound Transmission Disc to contact Baili Fengyao.
• Chen Xun asked Baili Fengyao whether he had found the disciples, and Baili Fengyao said only Qin Yu had been located.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met Baili Fengyao and tried to persuade him to join them, but he chose to remain in Zen Heart Heavenly Domain and continue his Buddhist path. After they arranged for him to make them Nine Buddha Beads, they activated Baili Wentian's Void Transmission Disc and saw the Baili Clan facing the Salamander Demon General's army.

• Chen Xun asked Baili Fengyao about the Baili Clan, and Baili Fengyao confirmed they had left the Extraterrorial Battlefield and Immortal Kingdom Military Court to wage war in the Great Demon World.
• Chen Xun told Baili Fengyao that the age-spanning grand plan to elevate the True Immortal Realm was real and urged him to join the Five Elements Sect, but Baili Fengyao refused to leave Great Zen Temple.
• Chen Xun told Baili Fengyao to collect the Good Fruits he had left at the spirit academy and asked him to light Buddhist incense; Baili Fengyao promised to refine Nine Buddha Beads for Chen Xun and Big Black Ox without charge.
• After speaking for an hour, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox activated Baili Wentian's Void Transmission Disc and saw the Baili Clan preparing to fight the Salamander Demon General.
• The Salamander Demon General ordered his forces to attack, but he stopped when a transmission light curtain opened and a pair of terrifying eyes stared at him.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited the Baili Clan during its war against demons, but Baili Wentian chose to keep fighting in the Great Demon World rather than retreat with them to the True Immortal Realm. Thirty years later, Chen Xun arrived at the Yinming Spirit Clan’s ancestral mountain to demand an explanation for their past plot against him and his sect.

• Big Black Ox frightened the Salamander Demon General into calling for a truce, but Baili Wentian ordered the War Realm Camp to press its attack.
• Chen Xun invited Baili Wentian to join his sect in building the True Immortal Realm, but Baili Wentian said the War Realm Camp would remain in the Great Demon World and forge its own path to immortality.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the beast race immortal city and headed for the Taiyin Great World to confront the Yinming Spirit Clan and collect interest on their spirit stones.
• Thirty years later, Chen Xun reached Chao Yuan Mountain and accused the Yinming Clan of plotting against the Five Elements Immortal Sect, threatening to sink their immortal mountain if they did not answer.
• A Yinming Clan immortal declared that the clan’s immortal tombs must not be harmed and went to speak with Chen Xun.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox confronted Yin Bo at Chao Yuan Immortal Mountain over the Yinming Spirit Clan’s role in spreading rumors about their sect. Yin Bo offered Big Black Ox an ancient formation inheritance and promised an investigation, leaving Chen Xun without a clear excuse to escalate the dispute.

• Yin Bo greeted Chen Xun and Big Black Ox as the Yinming Spirit Clan prepared its defenses at Chao Yuan Immortal Mountain.
• Yin Bo offered Big Black Ox the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Array Chapter, and Big Black Ox’s anger faded as it became fascinated by the inheritance.
• Chen Xun demanded an explanation and entry to the mountain, but Yin Bo said an immortal was meditating there and asked him to speak calmly.
• Yin Bo admitted Star Pivot had fabricated rumors about Chen Xun’s sect and promised a result within a hundred years, offering to apologize personally if the truth remained unknown.
• Chen Xun agreed not to trouble the clan’s juniors, and Yin Bo’s composure briefly faltered at the implied threat.

Yin Bo proposed that Chen Xun help establish a second Spirit Estate to rival the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank, and Chen Xun rejected his initial invitation to destroy the existing bank. The chapter ended with Yin Bo asking Chen Xun to lend the Esteemed Immortal Sect’s name to a coalition of the hundred greatest Top Powers.

• Yin Bo invited Chen Xun and Big Black Ox to discuss the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank, suggesting they join forces to destroy it.
• Chen Xun refused, saying the bank had neither wronged him nor sent anyone to the Battle of the Heavenly River, and his Dao pressure overwhelmed Yin Bo’s immortal incarnation.
• Yin Bo revealed that he wanted to establish a second Spirit Estate with the Top Powers, taking advantage of the coming growth in spirit stone mines and spirit veins.
• Chen Xun said he lacked the spirit stones and forces to join the plan, while Yin Bo insisted the proposal was his own and not his clan’s.
• Yin Bo asked Chen Xun to lend the Esteemed Immortal Sect’s name while he gathered the hundred greatest Top Powers to establish the second Ancient Spirit Estate.

Chen Xun weighed Yin Bo’s offer to make the Five Elements Sect a founding force behind a new spirit bank and showed interest in joining. Yin Bo presented a valuable array inheritance and agreed to arrange Jade Void Nether Soil, but Chen Xun’s enormous requested quantity surprised him.

• Chen Xun asked Yin Bo what long-term benefits the Five Elements Sect would receive, and Yin Bo offered a share of the spirit bank’s profits and a seat among its estate masters.
• Chen Xun requested a charter and said he would consider signing an Immortal Dao Covenant within the proposed arrangement; Yin Bo gave him a communication artifact.
• Yin Bo revealed a Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Array Chapter inheritance stele, which delighted Big Black Ox, and Chen Xun thanked him.
• Chen Xun asked to buy authentic Jade Void Nether Soil from Yin Bo’s clan rather than trust the supply sold in Star Pivot.
• Chen Xun requested up to one hundred thousand cubic units of Jade Void Nether Soil, stunning Yin Bo with the scale of the order.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox bargained with Yin Bo for Jade Void Nether Soil, then tracked down God Tai to reclaim their spirit stones. They left with the stones after threatening his Dao field, while God Tai banned them from his clan’s territories and Spirit Bank jurisdictions.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox haggled with Yin Bo and departed with eighty thousand cubic units of Jade Void Nether Soil in exchange for Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruits.
• Fifty years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox found God Tai in the Star Pivot and demanded the spirit stones held by the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank.
• God Tai denied taking the stones and threatened to show the bank’s strength, so Chen Xun challenged him to summon its hidden immortals.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox appeared above God Tai Dao Field and threatened its mountains, rivers, and Ancestral Tomb until God Tai sent them a Storage Ring of spirit stones.
• God Tai ordered that Chen Xun and Ximen Black Ox be forbidden from his clan’s Dao fields and the territories under Spirit Bank branches.

Ten years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited Demon Moon’s grave on Tea Mountain before preparing to leave for a distant place. After honoring her and securing the mountain, they departed amid a shower of camellia flowers and Chen Xun’s farewell.

• Big Black Ox performed rites for Demon Moon while Chen Xun gathered camellia flowers and told her they had been away handling important matters.
• Chen Xun said they would soon leave for a distant place, and he decided to leave Tea Mountain where it was and protect it with his Five Elements Avatar and formations.
• Chen Xun remembered Demon Moon, raised a pot of tea to her grave, and endured a brief surge of grief.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left Tea Mountain as camellia flowers rose around the mountain after Chen Xun called out, “Demon Moon, the flowers bloomed!”
• On the road, Chen Xun finally contacted Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu, who appeared to be in a Primeval Forest after many life-and-death battles.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox reunited with Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu, then traveled toward the Desolate Heaven Domain. There, they learned You Yuan had been plotted against and the Burial Sky Mound destroyed, and Chen Xun discovered the Undying Spirit Coffin amid two immense immortal corpses.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox greeted Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu, and Chen Xun promised to help Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu secure their future in the True Immortal Realm.
• Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu agreed to Chen Xun’s plans, and the group drank and talked through the Sound Transmission Disc.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled toward the Desolate Heaven Domain as cultivators retreated to the Three Thousand Great Worlds and rumors spread about shifting powers.
• Two years later, Big Black Ox told Chen Xun that You Yuan had been plotted against and the Burial Sky Mound destroyed.
• Chen Xun used his Five Elements Immortal Eyes to peer into the void and saw two immense immortal corpses and the Undying Spirit Coffin.

Chen Xun used the Heavenly Secret Dao Arts to investigate the immortals who had destroyed the Burial Sky Mound and discovered that one of Young Master Gu’s souls was there. He began rewinding time to reveal the immortals’ past actions, while Big Black Ox prepared to guard Tian Yun and prevent You Yuan from entering the sect.

• Chen Xun recognized Burial Immortal among the figures connected to the destroyed Burial Sky Mound and concluded that a Six Tribulation Peak Immortal had forced its two immortals into slumber.
• Chen Xun invoked the Heavenly Secret Dao Arts, and Ke Ding sensed the technique’s power from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace and understood that Chen Xun’s message meant the time had come.
• Chen Xun traced the plot around Young Master Gu and discovered that one of his divine souls was in the Burial Sky Mound, while Fu Tian had arranged for Chen Xun to protect him.
• Chen Xun ordered Big Black Ox to have Ominous watch Tian Yun and keep You Yuan out of the sect; Big Black Ox replied that Heavenly Wheel Old Brat had already stopped them.
• Chen Xun commanded the Desolate Heaven Domain to rewind the sight of immortals, opening a rift in time that revealed the Burial Sky Mound and its history as Burial Immortal King’s Land of Immortal Fall.

Chen Xun witnessed the destruction of Burial Sky Mound and erupted with fury, while Big Black Ox prepared for battle beside him. As the Five Elements Sect welcomed its guests in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, an immortal voice suddenly thundered through the region.

• A retrospective vision showed the Eastern Wasteland forces and a mysterious Peak Immortal annihilating Burial Sky Mound, enslaving its cultivators and suppressing Burial Immortal and another immortal.
• The spirit coffin 'Undying' emerged and attacked the Peak Immortal, then rescued the two sleeping immortals before vanishing with the pursuer.
• Chen Xun withdrew from the vision, unleashed his power, and turned his attention toward the Eastern Wasteland; Big Black Ox gathered its strength to fight.
• At the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, Yun Jin, Luo Shuang, Yun XiHan, and the other guests enjoyed the Five Elements Sect's lively hospitality.
• An immortal voice suddenly thundered throughout the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.

After hearing that the Eastern Wasteland’s forces had launched a war against Burial Sky Mound, the Five Elements Sect mobilized its hidden strength and prepared to invade. Frog Daoist and White Spirit organized the armies as warships departed, leaving the sect’s forces poised to strike.

• You Yuan begged Elder Chen to save the Ancient Immortal Garden, revealing that the Star Palace Immortal Palace was in chaos and its palace master planned to destroy Burial Sky Mound.
• Sect Master Xuan Ji declared that the Five Elements Sect would retaliate for the Eastern Wasteland’s attack on its ally and ordered cultivators at the Great Vehicle Honored One Realm and above to deploy.
• The Five Elements Sect’s disciples, hidden powerhouses, and allied forces gathered to march on the Eastern Wasteland.
• Frog Daoist ordered forces to attack from Qishan, Barbarian Hill, and the Silent Sea, while White Spirit led fierce beasts to block the Eastern Wilderness Gateway and destroy its Teleportation Arrays.
• Warship magical artifacts set sail as Heavenly Wheel Immortal prepared to guide the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range through space toward the Eastern Wasteland.

The Five Elements Immortal Sect and its allies launched a massive expedition toward the Eastern Wasteland, while the Taiyi Great World focused on the contest for Immortal Hong Road. News of the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s intervention and armies mobilizing across the Desolate Heaven Domain left its great powers realizing that a vast war was beginning.

• Yun XiHan ordered the clans to join the Eastern Wasteland campaign, and the Old Dragon King set out alone while the Profound Azure Sea Dragons stayed behind.
• NanGong HeLing traveled on the Foul Longevity Turtle with the Ominous Immortal to seek the Five Ghosts Burning Sky Dao, while Big Black Ox and the sect’s forces marched with refined avatars and select true bodies.
• The great powers gathered in Supreme Royal Heaven watched the eighteen pass masters advance toward Immortal Hong Road, hoping Tai Xiao would ultimately emerge victorious.
• Tang Xing reported the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s expedition to the gathered elders, and the news of the sect’s identity stunned them.
• Reports arrived that remnant clans, Sword Revered Xuan Yuan, and the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace were heading to the Eastern Wasteland, while the Five Elements Dao Ancestor crushed the Eight Great Emperor Clans and other ancestors halted or attacked rival forces.
• Further reports described fighting in Supreme Royal Heaven, the Eastern Wasteland Wang Family withdrawing, and the Ancient Immortal Realm stirring as the Desolate Heaven Domain braced for a grand riot.

The Ancient Immortal Realm awakened and rose into the heavens, revealing itself as an Immortal King Palace from the Tai Yi Ancient Immortal Court. Meanwhile, the Longevity Yu Family fought Boundless visitors and chose to stake its future on Meng Sheng and the Five Elements Immortal Sect, leaving the entire clan committed to that camp.

• The Ancient Immortal Realm erupted with Primordial Power, rose into the heavens, and manifested as an Immortal King Palace that awed Supreme Royal Heaven.
• The Longevity Yu Family's Seventh Ancestor, Yu Chenyou, refused to let the Boundless visitors leave after they destroyed the Yu Family's Ascension Platform.
• A Yu Family ancestor returned from the Grand Void, and the renewed battle trapped the Boundless visitors in the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• The Yu Family elders agreed to abandon their plans for opportunities in the Three Thousand Great Worlds and stake everything on Meng Sheng and the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
• The Yu Family issued decrees committing the entire clan to the Five Elements Immortal Sect's camp.

Chen Xun blocked immortals from the Taiyi Great World from entering the Desolate Heaven Domain and declared his intent to protect Gu Li Sheng. He suppressed the Longevity Ye Family beneath the Ancient Immortal Realm for ten thousand ages, then an immortal figure emerged and headed for the Eastern Wasteland.

• Chen Xun manifested a towering immortal form and used a wall of crimson flames to bar the Taiyi Great World immortals from the Desolate Heaven Domain.
• The Taiyi immortals realized Chen Xun had not sacrificed his Dao and sent urgent messages to the Boundless Great World for reinforcements.
• Chen Xun arrived at the Longevity Ye Family on a Great Sun Star and confronted its ancestors over their attack on the Burial Immortal King’s Dao lineage.
• Chen Xun declared that he would protect Ancient Crown Prince Gu Li Sheng and suppress the Longevity Ye Family, then brought down the Ancient Immortal Realm upon its Dao grounds.
• Five days later, the Longevity Ye Family had vanished beneath the Ancient Immortal Realm, and an immortal figure stepped out and entered the Eastern Wasteland.

The Five Elements Immortal Sect launched a devastating assault on the Eastern Wasteland, catching its ghost cultivators unprepared with a barrage of World Extinction Dao Artifacts. The attack revealed that the invasion had begun from inside the region, while Frog Daoist directed the campaign from Qishan.

• The patriarch of the Blood-Smeared Blind Heavenly Dao ordered Luo Xiu to evacuate the sect's seeds after sensing that an immortal had entered the fray.
• Trails of light descended over the Eastern Wasteland, and ghost cultivators realized the World Extinction Dao Artifacts had emerged from within their territory, exposing a traitor.
• Frog Daoist commanded tens of millions of Immortal Slaves from Qishan and used battlefield Dao Artifacts to disrupt the ghost cultivators' arrays and counterattacks.
• A ghost cultivator Celestial Venerable emerged from seclusion to find his cave dwelling destroyed and himself injured by the bombardment.