Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun remained in secluded cultivation as Tai Yi Immortal Court rose to prominence, the human race began organizing its expansion, and Chi Hao became immortal and recovered a Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasure. The chapter ended with Moon Mother’s proposed marriage agreement between Gu Li Sheng and the Chi Clan leaving the Crown Prince upset at the prospect of an arranged match.

• Chen Xun secluded himself after learning that the Ancient Sacred Clan had severed ties with the Chaos Clan, while Gu Shenyu still did not visit him.
• Over the next five thousand years, trade flourished across Heaven Domains, Gu Li Sheng bowed to Fu Tian in seclusion, and he dominated the Heavenly Pride Battlefield.
• Tai Yi Immortal Court expanded its campaigns, while the Baili Clan gathered intelligence and human ancestral elders planned to build a base in the Small Realms.
• After ten thousand years, Chi Hao proved Dao, became immortal, and returned from the Extraterritorial Battlefield with the Chaos Clan’s Di Seal, which he gave to Tai Yi Immortal Court as its Imperial Seal.
• Moon Mother proposed a marriage agreement between Gu Li Sheng and the Chi Clan, and Gu Li Sheng resented the prospect of giving up his other romantic interests.

At the Nine Provinces Heavenly Palace banquet celebrating the rise of new immortals, the Burial Immortal King reunited with old allies and asked after Fu Tian. The Immortal Emperor and Immortal Empress were announced as the guests awaited their arrival.

• Yue Xuan and Qing Fu proved Dao and became immortals, bringing their clans and the Immortal Court great renown.
• The Burial Immortal King arrived at the Heavenly Palace, where Gu Li Sheng welcomed him and discussed his plans to bring small realms under Immortal Court rule.
• The Burial Immortal King warned Gu Li Sheng that absorbing the small realms would hasten their destruction, and Gu Li Sheng agreed to set the plan aside.
• Yue Xuan offered to have the Fu Shi Religion help the Burial Immortal King in the Grand Micro Great World, but he declined and asked after Fu Tian instead.
• Yue Xuan told the Burial Immortal King that Fu Tian had recovered from his injuries and was in Secluded Meditation and Dao Enlightenment.
• The banquet guests rose solemnly when the Immortal Emperor and Immortal Empress were announced.

At the Immortal Pool banquet, Gu Shenyu celebrated three Fu Shi State Religion figures proving Dao and urged cultivators across Taiyi to pursue the immortal path. Fu Shi Supreme Elder later discussed the Rebirth Immortal Scripture, which still needed time and the purification of the Ghost River before it could revive the dead.

• Gu Shenyu and Moon Mother arrived at the Heavenly Palace, where Gu Li Sheng and the gathered immortals paid them homage.
• Gu Shenyu proclaimed the ascension of Moving Mountain Great Emperor, Great Emperor Fu Guang, and Hao An Spirit King, and called on cultivators to follow their example.
• Moon Mother welcomed the guests, and the Immortal Court hosted a lavish banquet attended by Heavenly Secrets Ancestor, Fu Shi Supreme Elder, the Old Dean, and others.
• Heavenly Secrets Ancestor praised Yuan Chengsi as a spirit blessed by innate luck, while Fu Shi Supreme Elder and the Old Dean urged him to move his Dao lineage to Taiyi.
• The Old Dean and Heavenly Secrets Ancestor asked Fu Shi Supreme Elder about the Rebirth Immortal Scripture and their wish to revive old friends and disciples.
• Fu Shi Supreme Elder explained that the scripture still required the natural sitting meditation of generations of living beings and the cleansing of the Ghost River.

Immortal Ancient clashed with Chi Hao at the Immortal Court banquet until Yuan Chengsi stopped the dispute. The banquet was then shaken by Fu Tian’s arrival, as he confronted Gu Shenyu from the depths of space.

• Chi Hao publicly belittled Immortal Ancient, but Yuan Chengsi ordered Chi Hao and Mountain-Sitting Duck to stop provoking him.
• Immortal Ancient stayed at the banquet, while Gu Li Sheng greeted guests and the gathering continued.
• Golden providence light spread across the Nine Provinces as the laws of heaven and earth fell into chaos, alarming the immortals.
• A gigantic axe emerged from the depths of space with Fu Tian seated on its handle and a Heavenly Dao Law Mark between his brows.
• Fu Tian addressed Gu Shenyu and declared that he had come to the Heavenly Palace to find him.

Fu Tian revealed power that seemed to place him at the Immortal Realm Sixth Step and subdued Marshal Dongyue when he tried to stop him. Immortal Emperor Gu accepted Fu Tian’s challenge and departed through a fissure to fight beyond the heavens.

• The State Religion disciples and visitors in the Heavenly Palace reacted with alarm as Fu Tian publicly pressured the Tai Yi Immortal Court.
• A Celestial Observation Immortal Official concluded that Fu Tian had likely reached the legendary Immortal Realm Sixth Step.
• Marshal Dongyue tried to bar Fu Tian’s way with the Demon Slaying Dao Weapon, but Fu Tian’s Heavenly Dao Power overwhelmed the weapon and sealed Dongyue’s immortal power.
• Huang Gu told Dongyue that he was no match for Fu Tian, who had grasped the authority of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
• Immortal Emperor Gu granted Fu Tian a battle beyond the heavens and summoned the Heavenly Dao Karma Sword.
• Immortal Emperor Gu entered the fissure beyond the heavens as the Heavenly Palace erupted in alarm.

Chen Xun and Immortal Emperor Gu began a cataclysmic battle beyond the heavens, each wielding the power of a great world. Their clash devastated the surrounding void while other worlds sensed the battle and its strange creation opportunities.

• The Immortal Empress reassured the gathered immortals that the Immortal Court would prosper after the battle and that the Immortal Emperor could bear the Gu Family’s karma.
• Burial Immortal King realized that the Gu Family’s past had angered Fu Tian and dissatisfied the State Religion’s elders, who tacitly allowed the confrontation.
• Chen Xun and Immortal Emperor Gu clashed with the axe and Heavenly Dao Karma Sword, shattering dead stars and collapsing distant galaxies.
• Chen Xun empowered himself with the Profound Yellow Great World and attacked with Dao laws, while Gu Shenyu summoned Taiyi’s destiny and met him with the power of an entire world.
• The two continued trading world-destroying blows as creation descended around their battle, alarming nearby worlds and drawing the attention of the Boundless Great World’s Immortal Venerables.

Chen Xun confronted Gu Shenyu over the killing of Gu Qingyan and the destruction of the Gu Family and Luck Clan, rejecting the Immortal Emperor’s explanation and grand plans. He drew on the River of Time and the Profound Yellow Great World’s power, shaking the foundation of the Taiyi Great World as he prepared to seek justice for his old friend.

• Chen Xun and Gu Shenyu discussed Gu Qingyan’s death, with Gu Shenyu admitting he had killed her because Zhi Yun controlled her.
• Gu Shenyu defended his choices as necessary to save the Tai Yi Great World and said he had waited for Chen Xun to come challenge him.
• Chen Xun declared that he had come only to seek justice for his old friend and that he could protect Taiyi’s beings without the Immortal Court.
• Chen Xun drew the River of Time’s power into the Profound Yellow Great World, causing it to expand and sending world-creating power across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Gu Shenyu felt the Taiyi Great World’s foundation tremble and the source of his Immortal Emperor power collapse as Chen Xun formed a miniature reflection of the world in his palm.

Chen Xun defeated Gu Shenyu, learned why Gu Shenyu opposed Zhi Yun, and pursued Zhi Yun through the void for a hundred years. The chapter ended with Chen Xun insisting there was no immortal realm, enraging Zhi Yun.

• Chen Xun overwhelmed Gu Shenyu with the Dao of the Great World Source, destroyed his Heavenly Dao Karma Sword, and blasted him into a dead star.
• Immortal Ancient challenged Chen Xun at the Heavenly Palace banquet but was struck down by immortal lightning before he could fight.
• Gu Shenyu told Chen Xun that the corpses of the Gu Family were sealed within a Star Core, then explained that his conflict with Zhi Yun was both a strife of Dao and a strife of Heaven.
• Chen Xun rejected Gu Shenyu’s belief that the Heavenly Dao branded the Luck Clan as rebels, but Gu Shenyu defended his Dao and promised to debate Chen Xun again after reaching the True Immortal Realm.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun caught up with Zhi Yun in the void, where Zhi Yun invited him to explore the immortal realm together.
• Chen Xun told Zhi Yun there was no immortal realm, and Zhi Yun angrily called him an ignorant child.

Chen Xun confronted Zhi Yun in the void over the immense karmic debts between them, while Zhi Yun used the Heavenly Dao Mirror to conclude that Chen Xun came from beyond their world and that the Immortal Realm existed. Zhi Yun departed to seek its entrance, promising to wait for Chen Xun for one hundred years.

• Chen Xun recounted how Zhi Yun had caused deaths and chaos across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and Zhi Yun dismissed those matters as insignificant.
• Zhi Yun summoned the Heavenly Dao Mirror and explained that it had revealed the path toward the Immortal Dao.
• Zhi Yun reasoned that Chen Xun was a being from the Immortal Realm, and Chen Xun replied that the Immortal Realm did not exist.
• Zhi Yun took Chen Xun's words as confirmation that they shared a quest to seek immortality, and promised to wait one hundred years after finding the entrance.
• Zhi Yun saluted Chen Xun and vanished into the Heavenly Dao Mirror.

Chen Xun reflected on Zhi Yun’s past and waited for the formidable immortal to die, while the Tai Yi Immortal Court flourished amid growing conflict across the Three Thousand Great Worlds. After ten thousand years of retirement, Chen Xun met Gu Li Sheng and challenged the self-proclaimed All Heavens Angler to fish as a strange breeze of passing years stirred.

• Chen Xun concluded that Zhi Yun’s Heavenly Dao Mirror made him too dangerous to confront directly, so he decided to wait for Zhi Yun to die and claim his three Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures.
• The Tai Yi Immortal Court prospered as the Great Worlds fell into conflict, while the Demon Race and Devil Race formed and Limitless Child recruited cultivators and Dao sects for the Court.
• Chen Xun spent ten thousand years quietly in the religious sect and learned that the Immortal Court had established the Taiyi Immortal Prison and issued an Immortal Dao Order enforced by the Chaos Immortal Spirit Board.
• Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng visited Chen Xun, and Song Heng brought ancient treasures for him to appraise while Mountain-Sitting Duck joined them.
• Chen Xun invited Gu Li Sheng to fish; Gu Li Sheng declared himself an All Heavens Angler, and Chen Xun answered that the Fishing Emperor would test his skill as a strange breeze stirred.

Chen Xun took Gu Li Sheng fishing at Shichahai, where he showed him an old scene from the Dao sect’s past and teased him with an unfair fishing contest. Gu Li Sheng sought Chen Xun’s advice on the world’s grand currents, but Chen Xun made him call him Taiye first.

• Chen Xun brought Gu Li Sheng, Song Heng, and Mountain-Sitting Duck to Shichahai and invited Gu Li Sheng to compete in fishing.
• Gu Li Sheng revealed his karmic fishing rod, and Chen Xun praised his mastery while discussing the Three-Eyed Immortal Clan.
• Chen Xun recreated a scene from Embrace Origin Cave and told Gu Li Sheng about the ancient generation’s battles against demons and the Heaven Clan.
• Chen Xun caught the sea beasts by relying on his influence over the teaching sect’s territory, leaving Gu Li Sheng unable to compete fairly.
• Gu Li Sheng asked Chen Xun for guidance about the world’s grand currents, but Chen Xun told him to call him Taiye first.

Chen Xun warned Gu Li Sheng about threats to the Tai Yi Immortal Court, then traveled with the Mountain-Sitting Duck to plunder the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds and help the duck attain Pseudo-Immortality. At a feast, Chen Xun drove off an Ancient Immortal Clan envoy and blamed the Immortal Empress for inviting a future danger into the Immortal Court.

• Chen Xun advised Gu Li Sheng to hide the Tai Yi Immortal Court’s treasures and asked him to search for the Enlightenment Ancient Tree before Gu Li Sheng departed.
• After thirty thousand years, Chen Xun left the sect with the aging Mountain-Sitting Duck to visit the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds.
• The Mountain-Sitting Duck provoked the hundred Forbidden Grounds, and Chen Xun suppressed them; a century later, he took half their accumulated foundations.
• Chen Xun swallowed the Immortal Lightning Great Tribulation to help the Mountain-Sitting Duck enter Pseudo-Immortality, and Yuan Chengsi held an Immortal Ascension Ceremony for it.
• At the feast, Chen Xun berated an Ancient Immortal Clan envoy who sought the Dao, forcing him to retreat, then glared at the Immortal Empress for bringing the clan into the Tai Yi Immortal Court.

Chen Xun lived quietly after Mountain-Sitting Duck entered seclusion, while Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng left to seek immortality. When Burial Immortal King ascended in the Desolate Star Sea, he recognized that Chen Xun had returned from the River of Time and said Chen Xun had already passed away.

• Mountain-Sitting Duck thanked Chen Xun, then entered seclusion to stabilize its newly attained pseudo-immortal realm.
• Chen Xun resumed his quiet life, learned that Song Heng was a unique being from Void Heaven and Earth, and watched Gu Li Sheng and Song Heng depart the Taiyi Great World.
• In Immortal Court Calendar year forty thousand, Burial Immortal King entered the Desolate Star Sea and ascended to immortality, opening the path of the Life and Death Great Dao.
• Chen Xun met Burial Immortal King ten years later, and Burial Immortal King said Chen Xun had returned from within time and had already passed away.
• Chen Xun warned that Reverse Five Elements Power separated the desolate universe from the outside world, and Burial Immortal King promised to guard Taiyi.

Chen Xun endured the Desolate Star Sea’s suppression while exploring the Reverse Five Elements Dao as Tai Yi Immortal Court expanded and rose to prominence. After 120,000 years, he finally found a way to cultivate Five Elements Immortality, but Immortal Emperor Gu Shenyu appeared and claimed he had saved him again.

• Chen Xun entered the Desolate Star Sea to resist its will, while Burial Immortal King and the Longevity Yu Family gained strength and supported him from beyond.
• Chen Xun spent years studying the Reverse Five Elements Dao, with Mountain-Sitting Duck, Burial Immortal King, Yue Xuan, and Qing Fu visiting him; he punished Chi Hao for revealing that he had invented the Immortal Prison.
• Over the next 100,000 years, Tai Yi Immortal Court won major battles, guarded the Extraterritorial Battlefield, aided weaker races, and expanded its influence across the Great Worlds.
• Immortal Emperor Gu Shenyu completed his luck-based Immortal Dao, entered the Boundless Great World, and returned a thousand years later after forcing its myriad races into silence.
• At 120,000 years, Chen Xun broke through heaven and earth’s shackles and opened a path for Five Elements Immortality, but Immortal Emperor Gu Shenyu appeared and said he had saved him again.

Chen Xun met Gu Shenyu, who revealed his plan to unify the Three Thousand Great Worlds and suppress its origin so he could transcend as a True Immortal. Gu Shenyu entrusted the Taiyi Great World and his imperial son to Chen Xun before departing, while Chen Xun resolved to protect his home; Immortal Ancient then appeared in the frontier wasteland.

• Chen Xun realized Gu Shenyu had taken the path of Heavenly Dao and that the Immortal Court had suppressed Taiyi Heaven and Earth's origin and will.
• Gu Shenyu explained that he intended to suppress the Ten Thousand Clans, unify the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and control its origin to pursue the True Immortal Realm.
• Gu Shenyu entrusted the Taiyi Great World and his imperial son to Chen Xun, promising to help him break the limits on his Immortal Dao if he found a way forward.
• After Gu Shenyu departed, Chen Xun resolved to protect the Taiyi Great World and returned toward his sect with Mountain-Sitting Duck.
• Immortal Ancient appeared in the distance as the frontier wasteland trembled and Heaven and Earth's True Qi surged.

Immortal Ancient challenged Chen Xun to a final battle, hoping to test the martial arts he had cultivated for a hundred thousand years. After Chen Xun defeated him, Immortal Ancient died laughing at Chen Xun’s terrible suona, then reincarnated in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and vowed to suppress Fu Tian.

• Immortal Ancient confronted Chen Xun and demanded a battle, revealing the martial prowess he had forged through countless trials.
• Chen Xun accepted, and their fight showed that Immortal Ancient could not match Chen Xun’s strength or speed.
• Chen Xun struck Immortal Ancient into an abyss, where the defeated warrior lamented the limits imposed by his spiritual roots.
• Chen Xun brought out his suona and played a dreadful funeral tune while the Mountain-Sitting Duck struggled to set out incense.
• Immortal Ancient cursed Chen Xun, then died laughing as his body became grains of sand that drifted toward the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• In the Immortal Court Calendar year 130,000, Immortal Ancient discovered he had reincarnated and vowed to suppress Fu Tian.

Chen Xun set out to extend the Mountain-Sitting Duck’s life with his Life Imprint art, then left the Taiyi Great World to harvest lives beyond the heavens. He opened a passage through the void and traveled with the Profound Yellow Great World toward an unknown destination.

• The Mountain-Sitting Duck reflected on its long life and told Chen Xun it had lived long enough, while Chen Xun promised to find a way to extend its life.
• Chen Xun revealed his Life Imprint painting, made with powerful immortal and demonic materials, and used it to suppress the duck’s pseudo-immortal source and slow its aging.
• Chen Xun said he would take the Mountain-Sitting Duck to hide in the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground if he did not return soon, then departed to harvest lives beyond the heavens.
• Beyond the heavens, Chen Xun formed a passage through the void and moved swiftly with the Profound Yellow Great World.

Chen Xun found Zhi Yun in the void, where the dying cultivator recounted how the search for the Immortal Realm had led him into a war between two worlds and cost him his treasures. After listening to Chen Xun expound the Dao, Zhi Yun accepted his fate, gave him the Big Dipper Immortal Stele, and died peacefully; Chen Xun remained without a path home.

• Chen Xun traveled through the boundless void and reached Zhi Yun, who had waited for him atop the Big Dipper Immortal Stele.
• Zhi Yun told Chen Xun how the Heavenly Dao Mirror had guided him toward the Immortal Realm, only for him to be caught in the war between two worlds and lose the mirror and Nine Tribulations Luck Chart.
• Zhi Yun explained that he had searched the void for thirty thousand years, was gravely wounded and near the end of his lifespan, and had failed to find the Immortal Realm.
• Zhi Yun asked Chen Xun to expound the Dao, then reflected on his life and accepted that he had been born at the wrong time.
• Zhi Yun gave the Big Dipper Immortal Stele to Chen Xun as thanks and died peacefully after saying he had no regrets.
• Chen Xun watched Zhi Yun's body and immortal power fade in the void, still unable to find a path home.

Chen Xun considered how heaven and earth reclaimed Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures and resolved to expand the Profound Yellow Great World while the Tai Yi Immortal Court remained strong. Five hundred years later, he attacked the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand to seize an ancient Dao Ancestor's immortal body, prompting the Ancient Academy to appeal to the Immortal Empress.

• Chen Xun learned from Zhi Yun's memories that the Heavenly Dao Mirror and other Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasures had been reclaimed as part of heaven and earth's preparations.
• Chen Xun stored the Big Dipper Immortal Stele, sent Zhi Yun's damaged immortal body drifting through the void, and decided to expand the Profound Yellow Great World.
• Chen Xun traveled to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand and attacked to obtain an ancient Dao Ancestor's immortal body.
• The battle alarmed the Desolate Heaven Domain, and the Longevity Yu Family and Longevity Lao Wang Family prepared to enter the court.
• The Old Dean of the Ancient Academy and Fu Shi the Old Daoist went to the Nine Provinces Heavenly Palace, where the Old Dean told the Immortal Empress that Fu Tian's attack on Immortal Ancient was inappropriate.

The Immortal Court and its elders argued over Fu Tian’s assault on the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground, but Yuan Chengsi’s support and the Old Dean’s efforts to summon allies delayed Moon Mother’s intervention. When she finally joined the fight, Chen Xun battled her in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, and Crown Prince Gu Li Sheng ordered troops to break them up.

• Moon Mother promised the Old Dean that the Immortal Court would address Fu Tian’s attack, while Chi Hao warned an Ancient Divine Dragon official not to interfere.
• Yuan Chengsi refused to withdraw his support for Fu Tian, and the Old Dean summoned allies as factions pressured the State Religion over the next several days.
• Moon Mother traveled to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, where Chen Xun dismissed her before she entered the forbidden ground and attacked him.
• Chen Xun confronted Moon Mother as their powerful battle shook the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Gu Li Sheng misunderstood Song Heng’s report as saying Fu Tian had killed Moon Mother, then ordered troops to break up the fight.