Chapter Summaries

Vast Yin Immortal Venerable explained that Fu Tian’s life depended on his marriage to Gu Qingyan, whose family and the Fu Shi Religion had joined forces to resist heaven and earth. Chen Xun accepted the marriage agreement, then watched Vast Yin and Gu Qianhui depart with a gift and a blessing before turning his thoughts to his disciples’ long lives.

• Vast Yin Immortal Venerable told Chen Xun that Fu Tian’s unusual existence made him vulnerable to being reclaimed by heaven and earth, and that Gu Qingyan’s survival protected him.
• Vast Yin revealed that the Fu Shi Religion and Gu Family had forged a hidden alliance during the Heaven Worship Ceremony, with Gu Qingyan’s marriage to Fu Tian helping stabilize his fate.
• Gu Qianhui demanded an explanation for Fu Tian’s insult to Gu Qingyan, but Gu Qingyan said she did not feel wronged and Vast Yin assured him Fu Tian would not break the agreement.
• Chen Xun said he would not interfere with Gu Qingyan’s feelings, but accepted Vast Yin’s counsel that Dao companions could treat each other with respect without romantic attachment.
• Vast Yin gave Chen Xun a True Spirit Heavenly Dragon Hair painting brush and left with Gu Qianhui, blessing Chen Xun on his search for the Dao.
• Chen Xun used his immortal essence to preserve the departing immortals’ faces in his memory and reflected that his disciples might live for a very long time.

Immortal Ancient left the Ancient Academy with the Old Dean to travel the Three Thousand Great Worlds, while Chen Xun emerged from fifty years of seclusion and received long-delayed letters from his sect. He learned that Mo Lin had fallen in battle as immortal wars spread across Three Provinces, leaving him wondering whether the Ancient Era’s great upheaval was beginning.

• The Old Dean mocked Immortal Ancient for losing to Fu Tian, then took him away from the Ancient Academy to roam the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Fifty years later, Ancient Mountain expelled Chen Xun after his seclusion, and Gu Qingyan delivered tea, letters, and Voice Recording Talismans from his sect.
• Chen Xun and Gu Qingyan exchanged restrained farewells, and he reassured her that his earlier harsh words had not been directed at her.
• Chen Xun read letters sent thirteen years earlier and learned that Mo Lin had fallen in battle in the Central Heaven Divine Province, while Chi Hao was recovering from injuries.
• Chen Xun learned that immortal wars had erupted across Three Provinces and that most of his sect’s Immortal Exalted Ones had left, then wondered whether the Ancient Era’s great upheaval was about to begin.

Chen Xun disappeared from the Ancient Academy as war and the extermination of weak races spread across the Great Worlds. Gu Shenyu led the Shenyu Military Court against the immortals and the Seven Great God Clans, while five centuries later Chen Xun read messages from his Fu Shi Religion companions.

• Chen Xun put away his letters and Voice Recording Talismans, then vanished into the night and was never seen again at the Ancient Academy or by the Fu Shi Religion.
• War spread through the Nine Provinces as the Seven Great God Clans attacked the Shenyu Military Court and weak races were exterminated across many Great Worlds.
• Gu Shenyu vowed to build an Immortal Dao domain where all races could live side by side, drawing cultivators and allies to the Shenyu Military Court.
• The Gu Family fractured under pressure from the Boundless Great World, and its three immortals fought beyond the heavens; the Shenyu Military Court lost nearly half its strength.
• Shi Fuyao and the Divine Radiance Hall joined the Shenyu Military Court, while Gu Shenyu continued fighting despite doubts and mounting hardship.
• Five hundred years after leaving the Ancient Academy, Chen Xun read letters and watched recordings from Yuan Chengsi and his fellow disciples in the Fu Shi Religion.

Chen Xun read Gu Qingyan’s wordless painting before arriving at a Myriad Races Hunting Ground, where he unleashed a devastating lightning storm against the demons and devils who had gathered to watch and bet. As Ying Xiao fled, he saw Chen Xun seated calmly above the slain Demon Kings and realized the man was looking toward him.

• Chen Xun examined Gu Qingyan’s painting and carefully put away her letter and the others’ notes.
• Several hundred thousand cultivators were forced into a Myriad Races Hunting Ground, where demons and devils gathered to watch and wager on their survival.
• Ying Xiao, who had cultivated the Water Spirit Art into his body and lost his tribe, prepared to escape with a group of captives.
• Chen Xun recognized Ying Xiao at the hunting ground, where demons and devils had assembled their Spirit Stones and resources for bets.
• When the battle began, Chen Xun unleashed pillars of destructive lightning that killed demons and devils across the hunting ground.
• Ying Xiao fled through the storm and saw Chen Xun sitting unharmed above the dead Demon Kings, watching him.

Chen Xun witnessed the demons and devils’ devastation, then spent years striking at their forces, leaving the Taiyi Great World’s forbidden grounds and invaders afraid. Three thousand years after he left the Ancient Academy, civil war erupted in the Taiyi Nine Provinces, where Tian Dang and the Heaven Clan set their sights on Gu Shenyu and the Fu Shi Religion.

• Chen Xun watched an unseen man freeze the thunderstorm, collect the Storage Rings, and let Ying Xiao escape with the Immortal Slaves.
• Chen Xun considered the demons and devils’ plundering and ambitions, then burned the remains in a chaotic burial abyss with Great Sun True Fire before disappearing.
• Three years later, demons and devils in the Boundless Heaven Domain were barred from undergoing tribulation, and twenty years afterward a third Ancient Venerable fell in the Taiyi Great World.
• The demons and devils retreated, the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds fell silent, and the Fu Shi Religion prospered by buying Immortal Dao Resources from other Great Worlds.
• Three thousand years after Chen Xun left the Ancient Academy, the Taiyi Nine Provinces erupted into civil war, and Gu Shenyu faced Tian Dang of the Heaven Clan.
• Tian Dang planned to suppress the Fu Shi Religion and defeat Gu Shenyu, while fearing Fu Tian’s eventual return.

After centuries of upheaval in the Taiyi Great World, Chen Xun left for the Great Phoenix World with a black ox demon, killing Extraterritorial Evil Spirits along the way. He left behind an Immortal Dharma Manifestation and revealed that he had founded the demon Immortal Alliance to gather and eliminate demon powerhouses.

• Gu Shenyu fled the Nine Provinces as the Gu Family fell, while new figures rose across the Taiyi Great World and the Yu Family and Wang Family prepared to support his return.
• A Demon Immortal Venerable formed an Immortal Alliance beyond the Nine Provinces and claimed responsibility for the deaths of three Ancient Venerables.
• Yuan Chengsi worried that Chen Xun had vanished, unaware that Chen Xun had spent ages in the Heaven and Earth Immortal Realms before deciding to leave the Taiyi Great World.
• Chen Xun rode a black ox demon toward the Great Phoenix World and slaughtered the Extraterritorial Evil Spirits at the border despite a moonlit woman's objection.
• Chen Xun left an Immortal Dharma Manifestation behind and disclosed that he had established the Immortal Alliance to gather and exterminate demon powerhouses.

A catastrophic upheaval swept through the Three Thousand Great Worlds as heaven and earth underwent sublimation, while Chen Xun calmly watched and painted amid the Great Phoenix World's disasters. Ten years later, the Demon Immortal Venerable stabilized the Taiyi Great World by bestowing Heavenly Origin Stars, and Yu Mi tended his grandparents’ corn in a village unaware of the wider events.

• Heaven-and-earth upheavals devastated the Three Thousand Great Worlds, severing their connections and forcing powerful beings to protect their domains.
• Chen Xun watched the Great Phoenix World's floods and falling stars from a small boat with the Black Ox demon, then painted the spectacle.
• Ten years later, the Demon Immortal Venerable bestowed Heavenly Origin Stars across the Taiyi Great World, stabilizing its Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• The Immortal Venerables and cultivators of Taiyi were astonished as azure light spread across the sky and the upheaval stopped.
• In a remote village, Yu Mi harvested corn and counted the copper coins he hoped to earn at the market.

Yu Mi grew up ostracized in his village but was loved by his grandparents, before later entering a martial hall and attracting the attention of evil cultivators. Years later, Ghost Face Honored One led his people to find Yu Mi, killed the monstrous bird ravaging the Human Race, and summoned Fu Tian as Chen Xun arrived and witnessed a suffering figure running across the ruined land.

• Yu Mi's grandparents comforted him after older children mocked him and told him he would find people who treated him well beyond their village.
• The following year, Yu Mi's grandparents' son and daughter-in-law arrived, and six months later Yu Mi entered a martial hall in town and drew the secret attention of evil cultivators.
• Three years later, the injured monstrous bird ravaged the territory and devoured hundreds of thousands of people.
• Ghost Face Honored One learned that Yu Mi and a Human Race village had been found, then led the Ghost Face Race there and ordered the monstrous bird killed.
• Ghost Face Honored One and the Ghost Face Race beseeched Supreme One Fu Tian, and Chen Xun descended into the region.
• Chen Xun saw a towering being running through the ruined mountains and rivers and recognized him as Burial Immortal King.

Yu Mi grew from a grief-stricken runner into a powerful protector, joined Gu Shenyu, and fought with him against Tian Dang’s forces at Dangtian Mountain. As the great battle began, Chen Xun was battling three demon Immortal Venerables in the Great Demon World and could not return.

• Chen Xun told Ghost Face Honored One to watch Yu Mi and let him continue his path, while Yu Mi ran on through his grief.
• Over the following years, Yu Mi grew stronger, rescued weak creatures, and the Ghost Face Race fought to protect his path.
• Seven hundred years later, Gu Shenyu met Yu Mi, and the two formed a bond before Yu Mi left with him.
• Two thousand years later, Tian Dang demanded Gu Shenyu submit at Dangtian Mountain, but Gu Shenyu refused and led his army into battle with Yu Mi beside him.
• As the Nine Provinces lay exposed, Chen Xun lured the demons into his Essence Qi Flower and absorbed their power, while fighting three demon Immortal Venerables in the Great Demon World.

After years of conflict and wandering, Chen Xun reached the Boundless Great World with an embryonic Profound Yellow Great World within him, while remaining unable to advance beyond the One Tribulation Immortal Realm. He read news from his sect and old companions before effortlessly suppressing Immortal Ancient and welcoming the Heavenly Secrets Ancestor.

• Chen Xun fought the three demonic Immortal Venerables for years until they retreated and agreed to stop interfering in Taiyi Great World's affairs.
• After Heaven and Earth Sublimation, the little black Ox Demon died peacefully, and Chen Xun buried it before continuing his travels.
• In the Boundless Great World, Chen Xun learned that twelve thousand years had passed since he left the Ancient Academy and that he had forged an embryonic Profound Yellow Great World within himself.
• Chen Xun read letters reporting his master's ascension to immortality, Gu Shenyu's return to the Nine Provinces, and the progress of his fellow disciples and Gu Qingyan's completed painting.
• Immortal Ancient charged at Chen Xun, who suppressed him with a wave of his sleeve, while the Dean of the Ancient Academy followed him into the teahouse.
• Chen Xun invited the Heavenly Secrets Ancestor to sit, and the Ancestor was shaken by the weariness in Chen Xun's eyes.

Chen Xun told Heavenly Secrets Ancestor that he could not find his way home or escape the feeling of being alive, and his words provoked a dangerous response from heaven and earth. He revealed that the Boundless Luck Clan had recruited him for its scheme to steal the world's fortune and seek the Immortal World, leaving Heavenly Secrets Ancestor warning him to stay away from the Boundless Great World.

• Heavenly Secrets Ancestor met Chen Xun and learned that he missed home but could not find his way back.
• Chen Xun said his powerful body kept him from sealing himself into slumber, and his words triggered a sinister resonance from heaven and earth.
• Heavenly Secrets Ancestor warned Chen Xun that he had touched a heavenly taboo and urged him not to speak such things again.
• Chen Xun told Heavenly Secrets Ancestor that the Boundless Luck Clan had approached him and sought to steal heaven and earth's fortune while pursuing the Immortal World.
• Heavenly Secrets Ancestor told Chen Xun that he must not return to the Boundless Great World.

Chen Xun met with Heavenly Secrets Ancestor and the Old Dean, who realized he had become an immortal and left behind an image from the past to reassure them. In the Boundless Great World, Chen Xun retrieved Po Hu’s Dao art and left him to choose his own end.

• Heavenly Secrets Ancestor warned Chen Xun to avoid the powerful clan in the Boundless Great World, and the Old Dean later suspected Chen Xun was tired of living.
• The Old Dean told Heavenly Secrets Ancestor that Chen Xun had become an immortal and that the figure they met was an image left behind in the past; Heavenly Secrets Ancestor left to enter seclusion.
• Chen Xun found Po Hu beneath a giant tree and demanded the Dao art that Po Hu had guarded.
• After Chen Xun took the bone stele and departed, Po Hu bowed to him and killed himself with a piece of the tree trunk.
• Po Hu’s death sent a vast blood-colored phenomenon across the world, shocking living beings, immortals, and Immortal Venerables.

Chen Xun discovered that the Profound Yellow Great World could expand by eroding the void, though the process consumed his immortal power and required vast resources. He reflected on the Great Worlds, immortal lifespans, and the Luck Clan’s ambitions before deciding to leave.

• Chen Xun tested his Reverse Five Elements Power and found that it could connect realms and let the Profound Yellow Energy erode the void into new territory.
• Chen Xun realized that expanding his Great World this way backlashed on him and required resources such as celestial bodies, laws, and immortal lands.
• Chen Xun considered how abandoned Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds differed from living Great Worlds and why they limited immortals’ advancement.
• Chen Xun reflected on the Luck Clan’s strongest immortal, who sought an Immortal Realm to escape the limits of Great World authority and lifespan.
• Chen Xun acknowledged his own confusion and desire to keep living, then turned and ran as if he had made a decision.

After a century away, Chen Xun returned to the Taiyi Great World, where the Fu Shi Religion's disciples and old companions came to find him. They discovered him watching a quarrel at the Soaring Dragon Pillar, surrounded by powerful figures whose gathering Black Duck inadvertently exposed.

• Several dozen Fu Shi Religion cultivators rushed to meet Chen Xun after receiving a letter from Fu Tian.
• Black Duck, Yue Xuan, Qing Fu, and others traveled to the immortal city, while the chapter noted how the religion's members had scattered across the Nine Provinces.
• Cang Ye asked how they would find Chen Xun, and Black Duck used the letter's aura to locate him among a crowd at the Soaring Dragon Pillar.
• Black Duck shouted for Sixth Junior Brother, revealing Chen Xun's identity to the powerful cultivators gathered nearby.
• Chen Xun set down his watermelon, turned toward his returning companions, and greeted everyone after a long absence.

Chen Xun reunited with his grown junior brothers and sisters, but his distant demeanor showed how much time had changed him. He learned where the Baili Tribe was and declined to return to the sect, while noticing that the Yu Family possessed an Immortal Bloodline.

• Chen Xun calmly stopped Black Duck’s playful attack and greeted Yue Xuan, Qing Fu, and the others, whose reunion with him felt strained by his unfamiliar distance.
• Limitless Child introduced himself, and Chen Xun asked whether the Baili Tribe remained with the Military Court; Limitless Child said they were likely at the Gu Family and sent a message to find out.
• Chen Xun warmly acknowledged the Ghost Face Honored One, who thanked him for the Ghost Face Clan’s place in the Great Wasteland and promised to repay his debt.
• Kunpeng came to bring Chen Xun back to the sect, but Chen Xun said he would not return yet and agreed to let Kunpeng carry him wherever he wished within the Taiyi Great World.
• Chen Xun noticed the Yu Family’s Immortal Bloodline, and Black Duck warned him that the family was an ancient Longevity Family that had once supported Gu Shenyu against the Heaven Clan.

Chen Xun dismissed the Longevity Families as they angrily departed, while Gu Qingyan saw that he had returned safely and left without disturbing him. As Chen Xun flew off to meet the Baili Clan and the Burial Immortal King, a powerful cultivator took an interest in Gu Qingyan and ordered someone to investigate her.

• Chen Xun explained that the ancient prominent families had survived by relying on their strength and careful choices, then mocked them for being quick to flee.
• The Longevity Yu Family and Wang Family experts stormed away without confronting Chen Xun, who continued laughing at them.
• Gu Qingyan declined Kong Yan's invitation to approach Chen Xun, saying she was satisfied to see him return safely and had matters to handle with the Immortal Voyage.
• Chen Xun rode a Kunpeng across the immortal city toward the Baili Clan and the Burial Immortal King as Gu Qingyan watched him depart.
• A distinguished cultivator tried to speak with Gu Qingyan, but she politely passed him by, prompting him to order an investigation into her identity.

Baili Qian learned that the Gu Family no longer wanted the Baili lineage on its territory and would not let them serve Gu Shenyu again. He ordered his people to leave the Nine Provinces and seek a place where they could survive, beginning a perilous journey beyond the Divine Firmament Immortal Pass.

• The Gu Family Elder told Baili Qian that his people must leave Gu Family territory and that Gu Shenyu no longer needed their service.
• Baili Qian asked to see Gu Shenyu once more, but the Elder refused and warned him not to burden the Young Master.
• After the Elder departed, Baili Qian sat alone and reflected on his clan's uncertain fate.
• A Hu told Baili Qian he could lift five hundred jin and hoped to join him in battle, and Baili Qian explained that their coming battles would be for survival.
• Baili Qian gathered the Baili clansmen and announced they would leave the Nine Provinces to find a place to live and cultivate in peace.
• The Baili clansmen accepted Baili Qian's orders and began packing for the journey.

Chen Xun found Baili Qian after the Gu Family rejected his hopes for a safe home, and helped him plan a refuge for the Baili Clan. He left Baili Qian with guidance, recognition, and a promise to defend his people.

• Baili Qian despaired over the Gu Family Elder's words but resolved to find a way out for his clan.
• Chen Xun introduced himself to Baili Qian and praised the Baili Clan's past sacrifices alongside his sect's disciples.
• Chen Xun gave Baili Qian a map and advised him to settle in the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, offering his name and affiliated forces as protection.
• Chen Xun explained the state of the Taiyi Great World and told Baili Qian that the human race would endure and the Blood Food Race title would disappear.
• Chen Xun promised to be the Baili race's last line of defense before departing on the True Spirit Kunpeng.

Chen Xun left the Gu Family and traveled with Kunpeng to the Shenyu Military Court, where he reflected on his identity and the memories stirred by Kunpeng’s claim to be his father. At the Military Court, three Marshals learned of his arrival and chose not to interfere with his visit.

• Chen Xun left the Gu Family after warning the Gu Family Elder, while Limitless Child told the Elder he had a chance of surviving if he had rendered military merits.
• Kunpeng told Chen Xun that it had raised him and claimed it was half his father, stirring memories that reminded Chen Xun he was Chen Xun, not Ouyang Boxiao or Fu Tian.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun arrived at the Shenyu Military Court and saw its vast armies, powerful cultivators, advanced artifacts, and expanding military preparations.
• Marshal Zhan Kong, Marshal Huang Gu, and Marshal Dong Yue discussed Chen Xun’s arrival and decided to let him pass without disturbance.

Chen Xun, calling himself Fu Tian, befriended Yu Mi and promised to protect the Taiyi Great World. After revealing his immortal power, he left to face the Heaven Clan’s invading forces alone.

• Yu Mi emerged from the river, and Chen Xun introduced himself as Fu Tian while Kunpeng watched warily.
• Chen Xun gave Yu Mi corn, and the two talked for several days about protecting ordinary living beings from demons, devils, and oppression.
• Chen Xun told Yu Mi he had promised to protect the Taiyi Great World, and Yu Mi accepted him as a friend.
• Yu Mi asked whether they had known each other before, and Chen Xun confirmed they had met long ago on a night of roaring wind and lightning.
• Chen Xun revealed his immortal power and told Kunpeng that the Heaven Clan was leading forces from the Nine Great Worlds across the Land of Emptiness.
• Chen Xun ordered Kunpeng to inform the sect and declared that he would guard the Taiyi Great World’s outer void alone.