Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun crushed the Demon Allied Army’s threat, killed three Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground immortals, and began repairing the shattered Mystic Micro Heaven Domain. He encountered a battered human named Ying Xiao on the battlefield and told him to raise his head.

• Chen Xun let Po Hu escape after taking an interest in his art, but razed Cursed Emperor Burning Mountain of the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Three Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds became abysses and three immortals fell, forcing the Demon Allied Army to abandon its ambitions against the Taiyi Nine Provinces.
• Chen Xun used Heaven and Earth Creation from the Heavenly Origin Star to repair the Mystic Micro Firmament and took the foundations of the three forbidden grounds.
• Chen Xun found no Forbidden Ground Divine Souls and considered investigating true Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds to bring their secrets back to the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun noticed Ying Xiao gnawing on demon flesh at the battlefield’s edge, then told the terrified man to raise his head.
• Ying Xiao raised his head and introduced himself to Chen Xun as he paid homage to the Exalted One.

Chen Xun learned from Ying Xiao’s memories how a small Human tribe struggled under the oppression of stronger races and realized that the demons and devils’ devastation was part of a larger struggle over the fortune of all races. His suspicions about the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board, the Gu Family, and the coming calamity deepened, so he decided to stay hidden and head for the Primordial Chaos River.

• Ying Xiao explained that he had run to the blood-soaked place, and Chen Xun identified his Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root and dying Blood Infant.
• When Chen Xun sensed that Ying Xiao wanted to shelter his clansmen, Ying Xiao tried to attack him but was pinned down by the wind and rain.
• Chen Xun saw Ying Xiao’s memories of a small Human tribe descended from people who had smuggled themselves into the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, where they survived on spirit herbs and unsuitable cultivation methods.
• Chen Xun concluded that demons and devils were ravaging the Three Thousand Great Worlds as part of a plan to suppress races and gather their fortune for powerful clans.
• Chen Xun connected the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board and the Gu Family’s Luck Clan to the wider scheme, worried about Sixth Junior Brother, and resolved to stay hidden and go to the Primordial Chaos River.

Chen Xun spared the wounded Ying Xiao in the Ancient Era and left him with a chance to survive, then reunited with Yuan Chengsi outside the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower. As the two headed back toward their sect, Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, and others arrived to rescue Chen Xun and discovered him alive.

• Chen Xun left Ying Xiao alive without healing him, and Ying Xiao found the Water Spirit Art and a spirit herb book among the demon remains.
• Chen Xun met Yuan Chengsi outside the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower, where Yuan Chengsi angrily attacked him for watching the battle.
• Chen Xun calmed Yuan Chengsi, and the two walked toward the sect while arguing about the battle and the immortals.
• The Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion, Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, and several mountain gods charged to rescue Chen Xun.
• Yue Xuan spotted Chen Xun and Yuan Chengsi and announced that they were still alive.

Yuan Chengsi gathered Chen Xun, Yue Xuan, Qing Fu, and the others aboard his stone vessel and took them away from the dangerous conflict between immortals. As they traveled toward the sect, Chen Xun reassured Yue Xuan and praised his sincerity, while keeping his own thoughts about the battle to himself.

• Yue Xuan and Qing Fu reunited with Yuan Chengsi and Chen Xun, and Yuan Chengsi reprimanded them for leaving the sect amid the demons’ and fiends’ attacks.
• Qing Fu explained that Yin Jiu Mei had arranged their journey, and Yuan Chengsi summoned a stone vessel to take everyone back.
• The mountain gods departed, and Yuan Chengsi looked over the turbulent landscape before deciding not to investigate the immortal conflict further.
• Yue Xuan offered Chen Xun a precious pill, but Chen Xun declined it and told Yue Xuan not to risk rescuing others without sufficient strength.
• Yue Xuan said he would still come to help his fellow disciples, and Chen Xun learned that Yue Xuan had practiced the body-refining technique he had left behind.

Chen Xun welcomed Qing Fu and the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lions into Fu Shi Religion Territory, then pieced together a possible ancient conspiracy involving the Human Race, the Azure Ancient Holy Spirit Clan, the Chaos Clan, and the Ancient Immortal Clan. He resolved to claim the Great Thousand World Source for his Third Sister and protect Gu Sheng, the Azure Ancient Holy Spirits, and the Baili Clan.

• Qing Fu arrived with Big Head and a group of Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lions, and Chen Xun offered to let them remain in Fu Shi Religion Territory.
• News spread through the Taiyi Nine Provinces that Fu Tian had slaughtered demons and fiends across the Three Great Heavenly Domains.
• Chen Xun suspected the Azure Ancient Holy Spirit Clan and the Human Race had conspired to use the Great Thousand World Source against the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• Chen Xun decided to prepare for the source's manifestation, reserve it for his Third Sister, and kill anyone who tried to interfere.
• Chen Xun learned that Gu Shenyu had led the Human Race's vanguard during the Myriad Races Great Slaughter Era and vowed to help the Baili Clan prosper.

Qing Fu and Yue Xuan planned to persuade Chi Hao to attend the Ancient Academy and pursue the Gu Family girl, hoping to resolve Chen Xun’s marriage alliance. As the boat drifted on, Chen Xun reflected on his resentment toward the Boundless Human Race and his envy of the sheltered life Ouyang Boxiao had received.

• Qing Fu guessed that Chen Xun was troubled by the Gu Family marriage contract and proposed that Chi Hao could marry the Gu Family girl instead.
• Yue Xuan agreed to help arrange a meeting with the Gu Family girl at the Ancient Academy, while Qing Fu warned him not to contact the Gu Family directly.
• Chen Xun overheard their plan and felt awkward about Qing Fu’s description of him, though he appreciated their good intentions.
• Chen Xun reflected that he did not hate all humans, but resented the lack of support and apology from the Boundless Human Race.
• Chen Xun envied Ouyang Boxiao’s secure life among the Five Elements Sect, and the stone boat drifted onward as he remained silent.

Five years after returning to the Fu Shi Religion Territory, Chen Xun caught Chi Hao pretending to mourn him and turned the shrine into a spectacle before joining Mo Ruoxiao’s gathering. A year later, Chi Hao learned he had been sent to meet the Gu Family’s Direct Daughter and eagerly prepared to leave for the Ancient Academy.

• Chi Hao held an incense ceremony for the supposedly dead Chen Xun, using an image stone that showed Chen Xun with White Duck sitting on his face.
• Chen Xun appeared, dragged Chi Hao out to discipline him, and made the younger disciples offer incense to the bruised Chi Hao as the first recipient.
• Mo Ruoxiao invited Chen Xun to Embrace Origin Cave, where they spent three days with fellow disciples discussing the Dao.
• Chen Xun asked Mo Ruoxiao for a guide to the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool so he could paint, fish, and admire the scenery.
• A year later, Chi Hao learned that his Master wanted him to meet the Gu Family’s Direct Daughter at the Ancient Academy, and he hurried to prepare for the journey.

Chi Hao took Qing Fu and Yue Xuan to the Ancient Academy to meet a Gu Family direct daughter, while Ling Qing Zhi allowed them to go and Yuan Chengsi ordered them confined for ten years after their return. In Contemplation Hall, Yuan Chengsi warned Yin Jiu Mei to keep her hardline views about clans and the weak to herself as he worried over the Boundless Great World's gathering by clans.

• Chi Hao hurried Qing Fu and Yue Xuan down the mountain to seek the Gu Family's direct daughter at the Ancient Academy.
• Ling Qing Zhi dismissed concerns about the trio's trip, then departed Cloud Deer Platform on a Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Yuan Chengsi learned that Chi Hao, Qing Fu, and Yue Xuan had gone to the Ancient Academy and ordered them confined at the Back Mountain for ten years upon their return, while ensuring their safety.
• Yuan Chengsi worried that clans gathering in the Boundless Great World would damage the Immortal Dao, while Yin Jiu Mei argued that clans should join forces against demons and abandon the weak.
• Yuan Chengsi sternly warned Yin Jiu Mei not to voice her views before outsiders, and she fell silent.

Chen Xun painted and planned his future at the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool while studying Profound Yellow Energy. At the Cloud Tower, the Fu Shi Religion’s reclusive Immortal Venerables uncovered signs that an Ancient Living Being was plotting against Bo Xiao and resolved to enter the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground, prepared to kill Bo Xiao if he could not be saved.

• Chen Xun visited the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool, painted with its water, and considered how to obtain more Profound Yellow Energy.
• Chen Xun planned his future cultivation and hoped to learn from the ancient powerhouses of the Tai Yi Immortal Court.
• Central Pole Immortal Venerable and Vast Yin Immortal Venerable discussed the mysterious effects of the Heaven Worship Ceremony on Bo Xiao.
• Vast Yin Immortal Venerable identified an Ancient Living Being sleeping in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground as the likely force plotting against Bo Xiao.
• Central Pole Immortal Venerable said he would battle in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground and kill Bo Xiao if there was no hope of saving him.
• Vast Yin Immortal Venerable revealed that Bo Xiao had suppressed the Myriad Laws Pavilion’s true spirit and turned cultivation methods into Slaughter Great Techniques.

Vast Yin Immortal Venerable and Central Pole Immortal Venerable debated whether Ouyang Boxiao should be saved and speculated about the ancient immortals’ power and fate. Chen Xun realized the Ancient Era’s immortals were not bound by the later lifespan limit, while White Duck heard that Fu Tian was secluded at the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool and became interested in its waters.

• Vast Yin Immortal Venerable warned Central Pole Immortal Venerable that Ouyang Boxiao might become a calamity, but Central Pole insisted that the Fu Shi Religion should try to save its disciple.
• Vast Yin suggested that Ouyang Boxiao might have slain the three Forbidden Ground Ancient Venerables, and Central Pole rejected the idea before leaving.
• Chen Xun sensed an ancient being spying on him and realized the Ancient Era’s immortals did not need to Suppress the Great World Source or obey a hundred-thousand-year lifespan limit.
• Chen Xun considered the different paths by which ancient immortals had ascended, then resumed painting a landscape of destruction.
• White Duck heard that Fu Tian was cultivating in seclusion at the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool and wanted to taste its forbidden waters.

White Duck visited Chen Xun at the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool and glimpsed a disturbing vision in his painting, then criticized it and was dunked in the pool. It emerged permanently black, becoming Black Duck.

• White Duck taunted Zhang Daoyou about his failed breakthrough and Yang Langzi, then fled when Zhang Daoyou charged from his cave.
• White Duck arrived at the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool, where Chen Xun was painting, and saw a peaceful world in the painting turn into a landscape of death.
• Chen Xun boasted of his painting talent, but White Duck praised the painting at first and then called its brushwork chaotic and unbearable.
• Chen Xun pressed White Duck into the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool for two days, recalling that White Duck had plotted against him before.
• White Duck crawled ashore blackened by the pool water, and its attempt to cleanse itself left it transformed into Black Duck.

Mountain-Sitting Duck insulted Chen Xun’s paintings and was struck by lightning, then spent months hiding from its fellow cultivators. Two years later, at the Ancient Academy, Gu Qingyan’s friends warned her about secretly meeting her fiancé, Fu Tian, but she confirmed the meeting was set for that night.

• Mountain-Sitting Duck took water from the Ink Spirit Immortal Pool, insulted Chen Xun’s paintings, and was struck by lightning.
• Mountain-Sitting Duck hid in its cave for months while fellow cultivators taunted it, and Ling Qing Zhi let the incident serve as a warning.
• Two years later, the chapter described the Ancient Academy as a vast center of learning that drew disciples from across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Gu Qingyan sat in a pavilion at the Ancient Academy as snow fell around her.
• Kong Yan and four other women told Gu Qingyan that Fu Tian wanted to meet her privately and urged her not to go.
• Gu Qingyan said Fu Tian was her fiancé, arranged to marry her when they were ten, and confirmed that they would meet that night.

Gu Qingyan secretly waited on the Snowy Plains to meet her fiancé, Fu Tian, but Chi Hao mistakenly approached her and left believing she preferred neither him nor Fu Tian. As Chi Hao, Qing Fu, and Yue Xuan headed toward the immortal city, a powerful stranger confronted them and demanded that Fu Tian take his palm strike.

• Gu Qingyan decided to visit the Snowy Plains quietly despite warnings that the Ancient Academy’s Martial Madman might interfere.
• Gu Qingyan waited beneath the moon, recalling childhood promises to her future husband, while Chi Hao approached her with an umbrella and tried to charm her.
• Gu Qingyan gently told Chi Hao she was waiting for someone else, and Qing Fu and Yue Xuan watched from the shadows as he continued trying to win her over.
• After half an hour, Chi Hao gave up and left, privately concluding that Gu Qingyan would never choose Fu Tian; he then offered to take Qing Fu and Yue Xuan shopping while refusing to buy anything for Fu Tian.
• A cold-faced man on a nearby rocky mountain released a terrifying aura, identified Chi Hao as Fu Tian, and demanded that he take one palm strike.

Immortal Ancient attacked Chi Hao and his companions, mistaking them for members of Fu Shi Religion, but Gu Qingyan intervened and fought him. Qing Fu and Yue Xuan took the wounded Chi Hao back to their mountain, planning to ask their Senior Apprentice-Sister to uphold their faction’s honor.

• Immortal Ancient struck Chi Hao, Qing Fu, and Yue Xuan, leaving Chi Hao badly wounded and dismissing them as fakes.
• Chi Hao tried to stop Immortal Ancient from attacking again, while Immortal Ancient warned Fu Tian and challenged the unseen Dao Protector.
• Qing Fu and Yue Xuan protested Immortal Ancient’s conduct, and Gu Qingyan arrived to shield them and confront him.
• Immortal Ancient said Kong Yan had been sent by Gu Qingyan and declared that her actions counted as issuing a Challenge Letter, then battled her in a Silver River World.
• Qing Fu and Yue Xuan carried Chi Hao away with a Heavenly Mansion Mysterious Pill and resolved to seek their Senior Apprentice-Sister’s support.

Three years after Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, and Chi Hao returned to the mountain, the Fu Shi Religion prepared to challenge the Ancient Academy over their dispute. Chen Xun initially refused to join the younger generation’s battle, but changed his mind after learning that Immortal Ancient was the one who had injured his fellow disciples, and headed for the academy.

• Yuan Chengsi reprimanded Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, and Chi Hao while the Punishment Elders condemned the Ancient Academy’s conduct.
• Ling Qing Zhi was ordered to lead the Fu Shi Religion’s heavenly prides to the Ancient Academy and demand a written apology.
• Ao Renge, Di Tuo, the blood-clad youth, and other disciples emerged from seclusion and joined the challenge, while Mountain-Sitting Duck rallied the religion’s anger.
• Chen Xun told Gu Ji that the three disciples deserved their beating and refused to take part in the contest between younger heavenly prides.
• After Gu Ji revealed that Immortal Ancient had injured the disciples, Chen Xun summoned a thundercloud and announced that he was going to the Ancient Academy to watch the battle.

More than a hundred thousand Fu Shi Religion disciples surrounded the Ancient Academy and demanded that Immortal Ancient answer for injuring their juniors. The academy prepared to face their challenge as its disciples grew anxious, while Gu Qingyan asked those around her not to make her engagement to Fu Tian part of the dispute.

• Mountain-Sitting Duck led the Fu Shi Religion disciples to the Ancient Academy, where they shouted for Immortal Ancient to come out and fight.
• Tian Qi and other powerful academy figures watched the gathering and recognized the seriousness of the Fu Shi Religion's challenge.
• Ancient Academy disciples accused the Fu Shi Religion of using Immortal Ancient's actions as a pretext to undermine the academy and exchanged hostile taunts with the visitors.
• Academy disciples across the immortal cities feared the Fu Shi Religion's battle-hardened forces, revealing divisions and a weaker sense of belonging than the religion's disciples had.
• Gu Qingyan's fellow disciples urged her to fight Fu Tian, but she asked them to stay calm and not use her engagement as an issue.

The Fu Shi Religion challenged the Ancient Academy over Immortal Ancient’s attack on one of its disciples, while the Academy’s elder refused to let the younger generation dictate terms. Both sides gathered on the Snowy Plains, where insults and anger mounted as the Academy disciples prepared to answer the provocation.

• Ten Combat Immortal Platforms descended onto the Snowy Plains, drawing powerful observers from across the provinces.
• Immortal Ancient begged the Dean to let him fight, admitted his offenses, and argued that Gu Qingyan had attacked him first, but the Dean kept him imprisoned beneath the Ancient River.
• Ao Changge arrived for the Fu Shi Religion and challenged the Academy disciples to fight, while the Academy’s Celestial Venerable elder warned the visitors not to make trouble.
• Ling Qing Zhi argued that the Fu Shi Religion had come because an Academy disciple injured one of theirs, and demanded that the Academy face the challenge.
• The Academy elder told the Fu Shi Religion disciples to return with their elders, prompting Mountain-Sitting Duck to curse him and the Academy disciples to demand a chance to fight.

Chen Xun arrived above the snowy plains in a vast display of lightning and demanded that the Ancient Academy bring out Immortal Ancient. When Immortal Ancient emerged to challenge him, a World Extinction thunderbolt instantly struck him down, and Chen Xun ordered the war to begin.

• Ling Qing Zhi stopped Mountain-Sitting Duck's taunts and declared that the Fu Shi Religion would wait for the Ancient Academy's disciples to face them.
• Chen Xun descended through a thundercloud vortex, terrifying the assembled cultivators and thrilling the Fu Shi Religion disciples.
• Chen Xun ordered an Ancient Academy elder to summon Immortal Ancient, and the elder reluctantly agreed.
• Immortal Ancient charged out to challenge Chen Xun but was struck down by a World Extinction thunderbolt as soon as he left the Academy's territory.
• Chen Xun told Immortal Ancient to lie beneath the combat arena and watch and learn, then declared that the war would begin.

Chen Xun struck Immortal Ancient down with a single blow and declared war on the Ancient Academy, leaving its cultivators stunned and his own allies emboldened. Immortal Ancient vowed to surpass Fu Tian someday, but Mountain-Sitting Duck secretly spat on him as he lay helpless.

• Chen Xun's lightning strike knocked Immortal Ancient onto the snowy plains, and he challenged the Ancient Academy to war.
• The Old Dean suspected something was wrong with Fu Tian's power, while Vast Yin Immortal Venerable praised his restraint and considered protecting him.
• Tian Qi, Tai Xuan You, and the Qilin feared facing Chen Xun, while Cang Ye urged them to fight.
• The Fu Shi Religion's powerhouses assembled in ten Combat Arenas as Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, and Ling Qing Zhi praised Chen Xun, and Mountain-Sitting Duck taunted the Ancient Academy.
• Immortal Ancient vowed to surpass Fu Tian even if it took a hundred million years, then raged helplessly after Mountain-Sitting Duck spat on him.

Chen Xun entered the Ancient Academy to study the Heaven and Earth Immortal Realm at Ancient Mountain, while the Fu Shi Religion and academy disciples fought on the Snowy Plains. There, Gu Qingyan met him and he tried to end their engagement, but the arrival of Vast Yin Immortal Venerable and the Gu Family's Old Ancestor interrupted them.

• The Ancient Academy disciples rallied after Chen Xun left, then clashed with the Fu Shi Religion on the Snowy Plains while Mountain-Sitting Duck mocked them instead of joining the battle.
• Chen Xun traveled through the Ancient Academy and reached Ancient Mountain, where he spent days studying and painting its inscriptions.
• Gu Qingyan waited near Chen Xun as he worked, and he told her they were unsuitable and asked to end their marriage agreement.
• Chen Xun gave Gu Qingyan a document to deliver to the Gu Family, but Vast Yin Immortal Venerable and the Gu Family's Old Ancestor suddenly arrived.
• Chen Xun challenged the white-haired old woman before learning she was his grandmaster, and his anger immediately subsided.