Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun revealed his overwhelming power and rushed into the Void Beyond the Heavens to face the approaching demon forces and their allies. As the Nine Provinces prepared for war, Gu Qingyan watched him leave with a deepening sense of foreboding.

• Chen Xun's display of time and Dao power shocked the Shenyu Military Court's Marshals, who learned that hostile forces were opening passages into the Taiyi Great World.
• Dongyue recognized Chen Xun as Fu Tian and reflected on the risks of the Spirit Qi Immortal Path and the independent paths pursued by powerful geniuses.
• The Marshals ordered their forces to prepare for battle beyond the heavens and to unite the Nine Provinces against the invading demons and their spies.
• Chen Xun ignored Kunpeng's plea to report to the religion first and departed for the Void Beyond the Heavens, leaving Burial Immortal King shaken by his resolve.
• Across the Nine Provinces, cultivators witnessed Chen Xun's departure, while Gu Qingyan worried about him and wondered why he had marked only the final pages of his books.

Tian Dang led a vast army of cultivators and Immortals toward the Taiyi Great World, determined to reclaim the Heaven Clan’s homeland, while the Fu Shi Religion prepared its Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures. As Tian Dang’s forces celebrated their confidence, a sudden chill alarmed him and the Immortals.

• Baili Qian settled his people in the safe Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, where they could thrive among abundant Meng Wood.
• Tian Qi founded the Heavenly Wheel Sect in the Desolate Heaven Domain and preached the Dao until news of Fu Tian’s return startled him.
• Tian Dang gathered hundreds of millions of cultivators from many Great Worlds and set out to recover the Taiyi Great World and the Heaven Clan’s homeland.
• Supreme Luck confronted Gu Shenyu over his ambition to receive heaven’s mandate, while the Fu Shi Religion’s Immortal Venerables refined the Immortal Spirit Board and Chaos Bell to challenge the Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Tian Dang rallied his army, and the Immortals discussed their plans before a sudden, ominous chill froze their expressions.

Chen Xun confronted Tian Dang’s invading army in the void and demonstrated overwhelming power, leaving the ancient immortals to choose between retreat and battle. The chapter ended as Chen Xun unleashed his immortal techniques and the great battle began.

• Chen Xun’s presence stopped Tian Dang’s billions-strong army and sent its cultivators and war artifacts into chaos.
• Tian Dang rallied his forces and prepared to fight, but Chen Xun appeared alone and overpowered the ten immortals’ first attack.
• Chen Xun used a pitch-black long axe to tear a vast heavenly chasm through the void, stunning Tian Dang and his army.
• The immortals recognized Chen Xun as Fu Tian and decided not to retreat, since abandoning their campaign would undermine their plans against Gu Shenyu.
• Chen Xun summoned the River of Time, invoked his Five Elements Immortal Eyes, and crushed the army’s vital force as the great battle began.

A hundred years after Fu Tian defeated the Yin Yang Mountain’s owner, Xing Bai and Zhi Yun discussed the lost treasure and the danger Fu Tian posed. Zhi Yun revealed that he was hastening Heaven and Earth’s devouring of Fu Tian and had opened the Void Immortal Battlefield.

• Fu Tian defeated the mysterious Immortal Venerable who wielded the Yin Yang Mountain, blasting the treasure into the Void Turbulence and suffering severe injuries himself.
• In the Taihong Great World, Xing Bai grieved over the loss of the Yin Yang Mountain and asked Zhi Yun to help his clan secure the fortune of a Great World.
• Xing Bai warned Zhi Yun that Fu Tian possessed World Power and could threaten the source of Immortal Venerables, then vowed not to fight him again.
• Zhi Yun said the Heavenly Secrets Immortal Friend was restraining the Heavenly Dao Mirror and discussed the conflicts involving Fu Tian, the Fu Shi Religion, Gu Shenyu, and the Moon Mother.
• Zhi Yun said Fu Tian had only two paths: retreat beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds or fall alongside Gu Qingyan, and revealed that he had opened the Void Immortal Battlefield.

Chen Xun fought the Immortal Venerables who sought to stop him while Zhi Yun activated the Luck Extinction Cycle Immortal Array, plunging the Three Thousand Great Worlds into chaos. A thousand years later, the Shenyu Military Court had unified the Nine Provinces and brought peace to the Taiyi Great World, while Chen Xun's battle continued in the outer heavens.

• Xing Bai reflected on Zhi Yun's plans and chose to keep the Yin Yang Clan out of the conflict between Boundless and Taiyi.
• Chen Xun refused the Immortal Venerables' offers to save him and fought them in the outer heavens.
• Ten Great Demon Immortal Venerables joined the battle and summoned the Ending Immortal Sect.
• Zhi Yun activated the Luck Extinction Cycle Immortal Array, and a century later fought Heavenly Secrets Ancestor, who tried to stop it.
• Vast Yin Immortal Venerable blessed the Taiyi Great World while Central Pole Immortal Venerable battled the Heavenly Dao Mirror with the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board.
• A thousand years later, the Shenyu Military Court had unified the Nine Provinces and restored peace to the Taiyi Great World while Chen Xun continued fighting in the outer heavens.

Gu Shenyu announced plans to establish an Immortal Court and ordered the construction of a border pass, while the Shenyu Military Court rose to dominance across the Taiyi Great World. Ancient Seven Realms then revealed the danger looming over the world and took Ying Xiao away, and the two vanished from Taiyi.

• Gu Shenyu declared that he would establish a Luck Immortal Court to rule the Taiyi Great World and spread Immortal Dao Order.
• Gu Shenyu ordered the Nine Provinces Refining Masters to build the Immortal Calamity Suppressing Heaven pass against Extraterritorial Evil Spirits, with Chi Hao and Yue Xuan among its builders.
• The Shenyu Military Court's influence spread, Yu Mi guarded the border pass, and the Fu Tian Venerable Position remained sealed by the Fu Shi Religion.
• Ancient Seven Realms told Ying Xiao that he was still human but that the Water Spirit Art had severed his other paths of cultivation and carried a severe lifespan backlash.
• Ancient Seven Realms warned Ying Xiao that a world-shaking slaughter calamity could strike Taiyi and that Heaven and Earth might restart.
• Ancient Seven Realms led Ying Xiao away from the Taiyi Great World, and they were never seen there again.

Over ten thousand years, Gu Shenyu’s allies and fellow disciples suffered losses, vanished, or pursued distant battles as the Shenyu Military Court expanded its influence. After learning the danger posed by the Luck Clan, Gu Shenyu accepted the Heavenly Dao’s charge to destroy it and vowed to impose order across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

• The Shenyu Military Court reclaimed heavenly domains and suppressed the Absolute Evil Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds, while the Gu Family declined and its two ancestors fell into slumber.
• Yu Mi returned from the Extraterritorial Battlefield carrying Ling Qing Zhi’s coffin after she died saving him from an Evil Spirit King.
• Gu Shenyu’s disciples and allies scattered over the millennia, while Yuan Chengsi’s main body searched beyond heaven for the Outer Heaven Battlefield.
• Gu Shenyu’s parents urged him not to hesitate if the Luck Clan blocked his Dao and told him they were proud of him.
• Gu Shenyu left the ancestral hall without turning back as his parents took their own lives, then endured the grief and resolved to destroy the Luck Clan.
• Gu Shenyu pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao and vowed to suppress the coming great slaughter, spread the Immortal Dao Order, and stabilize the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

After the Tai Yi Immortal Court rose to power, Gu Shenyu drove Zhi Yun from the Three Thousand Great Worlds and sent the court’s immortals to search for Fu Tian. Years later, Fu Tian watched the birth of Gu Li Sheng from an immortal city and waited for Tian Qi and the Ancient Sacred Clan’s people.

• Gu Shenyu established the Tai Yi Immortal Court, proclaimed its mandate, and used its growing destiny to empower its citizens and armies.
• Gu Shenyu fought Zhi Yun in Boundless, shattered the Luck Extinguishing Cycle Great Array, and forced him to leave the Three Thousand Great Worlds with three Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures.
• The Fu Shi Religion presented the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board, which Gu Shenyu renamed the Taiyi Immortal Board and used to grant people beneath its destiny citizenship in the Immortal Court.
• Gu Shenyu and the Tai Yi Immortal Court searched the void battlefield for Fu Tian, learned that he had already departed, and later resolved to punish clans that had attacked Tai Yi while it was weak.
• Moon Mother gave birth to Gu Li Sheng, and Heavenly Secrets Ancestor divined that the child was an unparalleled prodigy whose Immortal Dao Talent might surpass Fu Tian’s.
• Chen Xun watched the Immortal Court’s celestial signs from an immortal city, reflected on its Path of Destiny, and waited for Tian Qi and the Ancient Sacred Clan’s people to arrive.

Tian Qi met Chen Xun, who asked him to carry a Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasure into the Primordial Chaos River because Chen Xun could no longer enter it. The two Dao Ancestors began discussing their different world-building paths, while Chen Xun entrusted Tian Qi with watching over Yin Yang Mountain.

• Tian Qi reflected on the Tai Yi Immortal Court's dominance and the Heavenly Wheel Sect's plans to escape into the Primordial Chaos River.
• Chen Xun met Tian Qi beneath the city wall and teased him about faking his death in an immortal tomb.
• Chen Xun revealed that Yin Yang Mountain lay in the Primordial Chaos River and asked Tian Qi to leave a Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasure there for him.
• Chen Xun explained that the Heaven and Earth Battlefield had rejected him because he had taken too much Profound Yellow Energy, and he asked Tian Qi to watch over Yin Yang Mountain.
• Tian Qi recognized that Chen Xun's Profound Yellow Great World shared a wondrous quality with his Heavenly Wheel Immortal Dao, and they agreed to discuss their paths.

Chen Xun and Tian Qi discussed the Dao, and Chen Xun considered how Tian Qi’s Spirit Wheel World might support the Profound Yellow World. After the visions faded, Chen Xun revealed his later battles and the consequences of destroying several Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures, leaving Tian Qi convinced that Chen Xun had crossed through time.

• Chen Xun questioned whether transcending Heaven and Earth harmed its harmony, and Tian Qi explained the risks and costs of establishing the Spirit Wheel path.
• Tian Qi considered building an Immortal Dao World that generated its own spiritual energy, while Chen Xun saw the Spirit Wheel World as a possible source for the Profound Yellow World.
• After three days of auspicious visions, Tian Qi asked Chen Xun whether he had divined the future and what had happened in the battle beyond the heavens.
• Chen Xun told Tian Qi that he exiled the Devil Race Immortal Venerable to the Land of Ending, the Origin Clan Immortal Venerable fell, and he shattered the Demon Subduing Bell.
• Chen Xun explained that the Great World Source was hostile toward him, but the Tai Yi Immortal Court could protect him as he recovered.
• Tian Qi concluded that Chen Xun must be a being from beyond the heavens who had crossed through the ages.

Chen Xun secured Tian Qi’s trust and arranged for the Heavenly Wheel Sect to leave behind a way to find its path through the Primordial Chaos River. He then summoned Ancient Qijie and threatened the Ancient Sacred Clan and Chaos Clan, leaving their ancestor to declare that he had made his choice.

• Tian Qi agreed to enter the Primordial Chaos River, leaving the Heavenly Wheel Diagram behind to reflect the paths’ coordinates and preserve the sect’s inheritance.
• Ancient Qijie arrived at the border city after Ying Xiao’s transmission summoned him across several Great Worlds.
• Chen Xun revealed that Ancient Qijie was the ancestor of the Ancient Sacred Clan and reminded him of the people Chen Xun’s sect had lost on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Chen Xun threatened to destroy the Ancient Sacred Clan’s scattered members and sever its inheritance unless Ancient Qijie acted to protect the hundred Chaos Ancient Stars.
• After an hour of silence, Ancient Qijie told Chen Xun that he had made his choice.

Three years after confronting Ancient Seven Realms, Chen Xun returned to the Fu Shi Religion as Fu Tian, whose arrival shook the sect and reunited him with his master. He brought a dead wild boar as food and walked into the sect, while the black donkey collapsed outside.

• Ancient Seven Realms accepted Chen Xun's command to sever the Chaos Clan from the Ancient Sacred Clan and departed in desolation.
• Three years later, Chen Xun rode a cart pulled by a black donkey through the transformed Taiyi Great World toward the Fu Shi Religion.
• Chen Xun greeted the sect at its mountain gate as Fu Tian, triggering a commotion among the sect's immortals and disciples.
• Celestial Venerable Chi smashed Crane Spirit Trees in anger at Chen Xun's return, while Chen Xun's senior brother welcomed him from the firmament.
• Chen Xun bowed to his master, hoisted the wild boar demon beast onto his shoulder, left a Storage Bag on the cart, and entered the sect.

Chen Xun returned to the Fu Shi Sect after more than ten thousand years and reunited with his master and junior brothers and sisters. He learned of their new positions in the Immortal Court, then beat Chi Hao into submission when Chi Hao tried to assert his rank.

• Chen Xun entered the Fu Shi Sect, where the disciples greeted him as Eldest Senior Brother and marveled at his presence.
• Chen Xun reunited with the Black Duck, Qing Fu, Yue Xuan, Chi Hao, and the others on the main peak.
• The Black Duck urged Chen Xun to stay and help suppress the sect’s rivals, and Chen Xun agreed he would not leave again.
• Qing Fu explained that Yue Xuan was the Moving Mountain Great Emperor and Chi Hao was the Hao An Spirit King of the Immortal Court.
• Chi Hao challenged Chen Xun’s right to tease him, so Chen Xun seized and beat him until he begged for mercy.

Chen Xun reunited with his fellow disciples and followed Yuan Chengsi through the Immortal Tomb Complex, where he paid respects to his departed senior sister and patriarch. Yuan Chengsi urged him to cherish his life, mend his Dao Heart, and keep walking the immortal path beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

• Chen Xun listened as Yue Xuan recounted the disciples’ lives, then spoke with Chi Hao about the spirit tablets he still carried for their senior sister and third senior brother.
• Yuan Chengsi took Chen Xun to the Immortal Tomb Complex and told him that Yu Mi had brought back many of the religion’s disciples.
• Chen Xun paid respects at Ling Qing Zhi’s tomb, calling her a true seeker of the Dao and bidding her a safe journey.
• Yuan Chengsi and Chen Xun visited Vast Yin Immortal Venerable’s tomb, where Yuan Chengsi recalled her final battle and her promise to Chen Xun.
• Yuan Chengsi confronted Chen Xun about seeking death and urged him to live, attend to his heart, and continue his journey beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

Yuan Chengsi explained the Being from Beyond the Heavens, Immortal Ancient, and the limits of the Great Dao of Ages before advising Chen Xun about an immortal’s courage. Chen Xun realized Yuan Chengsi had seen through his connection to the Being from Beyond the Heavens, and Yuan Chengsi accepted him without hesitation.

• Yuan Chengsi told Chen Xun that the Being from Beyond the Heavens was an unknown figure beyond their era and that the Ancient Living Being in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand had called himself an anomaly of time.
• Yuan Chengsi explained that Immortal Ancient was the ancient being’s reflected shadow and true spirit, created at the cost of an entire era’s years, and that the Great Dao of Ages could not grant immortality.
• Yuan Chengsi described the ancient being as a remnant soul who had integrated with Heaven and said Immortal Ancient was his way of saving himself.
• Yuan Chengsi taught Chen Xun that an immortal’s courage meant preserving his True Heart and continuing forward despite knowing how bleak the future might be.
• Chen Xun realized Yuan Chengsi had seen that he was the Being from Beyond the Heavens, and Yuan Chengsi urged him to follow heaven’s will if that was his fate.

Chen Xun reconciled with Yuan Chengsi and learned that Gu Qingyan had died after leaving him letters and paintings from the years they were apart. Reading her final wish for him to have Eternal Evergreen, he thanked her and quietly remembered her.

• Yuan Chengsi reassured Chen Xun that the Ten Mile Sword Saint had long recognized him and urged him to live freely.
• Chen Xun and Yuan Chengsi spent two days reminiscing and teasing each other by Vast Yin Immortal Venerable’s tomb.
• Yuan Chengsi gave Chen Xun the letters Gu Qingyan had written during his ten thousand years away and explained that she had fallen in the Land of Emptiness.
• Chen Xun opened Gu Qingyan’s letters and studied her paintings of ordinary scenes and the things he had planted at his cave abode.
• Chen Xun read Gu Qingyan’s final wish for him to have Eternal Evergreen, drank Nourishing Life Tea, and thanked her.

Chen Xun demanded that Immortal Emperor Gu Shenyu answer for Gu Qingyan’s fate and threatened to confront him at the Tai Yi Heavenly Palace. As the Immortal Court expanded its rule over the Taiyi Great World, the human race remained marginalized and the Forbidden Ground Ancient Venerables submitted to the Immortal Empress, while fearing Chen Xun’s return.

• Chen Xun put away Gu Qingyan’s letters and called on Gu Shenyu to explain himself in person.
• The Law Enforcement Heavenly Lord came to answer Chen Xun, but Chen Xun dismissed him and threatened to visit the Tai Yi Heavenly Palace if Gu Shenyu did not appear.
• Heavenly might descended against Chen Xun, but he shattered it with a glance as the Fu Shi Religion’s immortals confronted the Law Enforcement Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Xun considered how the Immortal Court’s Path of Destiny gathered a great world’s fortune, then left the immortal tombs to find Black Duck and the others.
• The Immortal Court sent the Nine Provinces Luck Cauldron to improve conditions across the Taiyi Great World, while the human race continued developing quietly without a path to seek the Dao.
• The Immortal Empress suppressed the Forbidden Ground Ancient Venerables and persuaded them to accept the Immortal Court’s order, while they remained most afraid of Chen Xun.

In the Tai Yi Immortal Court, Gu Li Sheng fished up spirit veins and reacted to reports that people at the Ancient Academy and State Religion had spoken against him. He ordered a challenge over the Academy insult, but backed down upon learning Fu Tian had threatened to deal with him, then had Song Heng beaten for bringing it up.

• Gu Li Sheng rewarded Song Heng with a Fourth Grade Spirit Vein for praising his fishing.
• Song Heng reported that foreign-age Heavenly Prides at the Ancient Academy had called Gu Li Sheng famous in name only, and Gu Li Sheng sent immortal soldiers to demand an apology.
• Song Heng revealed that an old Daoist from the State Religion had claimed he would personally deal with Gu Li Sheng.
• After the True Spirit Heavenly Dragon identified the old Daoist as Fu Tian, Gu Li Sheng canceled his visit and claimed he felt unwell.
• Gu Li Sheng ordered the immortal generals to beat Song Heng for disturbing his Dao heart.

After years of peaceful recovery in the Spirit Void Saint Province, Chen Xun examined the Soul-Seizing Bell and prepared to investigate Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures. He reflected on the Ending Immortal Sect’s Dao Integration with Heaven beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds and the ominous events that followed.

• Chen Xun enjoyed a quiet stretch of years in the Fu Shi Religion while the Mountain-Sitting Duck led the Main Lineage Seven Peaks in defending junior disciples.
• Chen Xun sent the puppet Eleven to deliver three ancient fortune treasures to the Mountain Guarding Faction.
• Chen Xun cultivated within his Heaven and Earth Five Elements Formation, drawing forth Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Energy and Five Elements Qi.
• The Soul-Seizing Bell appeared in Chen Xun’s cave abode, and he suppressed its surging Demonic Qi with his Five Elements Profound Yellow Power.
• Chen Xun noted that his injuries had mostly recovered and resolved to investigate the Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures.
• Chen Xun recalled that the Ending Immortal Sect had undergone Dao Integration with Heaven beyond the Three Thousand Great Worlds, where the Land of Ending and an Ominous Creature had appeared.

Chen Xun studied the Soul-Seizing Bell’s inscriptions and connected them to the limits of cultivation, the Heavenly Dao, and the path to the True Immortal Realm. As he planned to keep the Five Elements Sect clear of an impending conflict, he summoned the Qiankun Life and Death Sword and held two Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures at once.

• Chen Xun reflected on the origins of the Ominous Creatures and the rebellious forces tied to the struggle between Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Xun used the Great Dao of Ages to examine the Soul-Seizing Bell’s inscriptions and recognized their resemblance to the Dao runes in his Mahayana Dao essence.
• Chen Xun reasoned that perfecting laws such as Thunder, Chaos, and Five Elements could grant power over the Heavenly Dao, but warned that cultivating a world within oneself reached the limits imposed by Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Xun concluded that the Five Elements Sect must avoid the coming battle and resolved to learn how the Tai Yi Immortal Court’s Heavenly Dao formed and how Heaven destroyed the Immortal Court.
• Chen Xun isolated his cave abode, summoned the Qiankun Life and Death Sword, and revealed that he now possessed two Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures.