Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun buried his apparently dead clone, but Fu Tian’s true spirit emerged from the corpse and revealed his plans to begin anew. Black Robed Chen Xun then climbed from the grave, exposing that he had faked his death to draw Fu Tian out, while Chen Xun’s main body returned to confront him.

• Chen Xun buried Black Robed Chen Xun beneath Green Mountain and left with the little yellow dog beside the gravestone.
• Fu Tian’s true spirit emerged from Black Robed Chen Xun’s corpse and explained that he had used the clone’s death to free himself and escape his karmic burdens.
• Fu Tian considered continuing his cultivation and choosing a new body, with the Chaos Clan as his first choice.
• Black Robed Chen Xun burst from the grave and revealed that he had pretended to die to lure Fu Tian out, beginning his deception when he learned of his childhood dream.
• Chen Xun’s main body returned through the River of Time and confronted Fu Tian, saying he had considered giving him another chance but no longer would.

Chen Xun revealed that Fu Tian’s true spirit had remained in his incarnation and confronted him over the identity behind Sui and the Chaos Ancient Road. As Chen Xun explained his plan to sever the incarnation from the Ancient Era, he unleashed a prepared axe strike against Fu Tian.

• Chen Xun warned that Fu Tian might possess his incarnation, then challenged him by asking whether he was truly Ouyang Boxiao.
• Chen Xun’s black- and white-robed selves merged, and he explained that he had kept his incarnation in a dead slumber to prevent Fu Tian from emerging.
• Fu Tian threatened to sever the River of Time and leave the Three Thousand Great Worlds, but Chen Xun identified him as the Heaven and Earth Saint Sui’s true master.
• Chen Xun revealed that he had used the Immortal Ancient Forbidden Grounds to block Sui’s perception and had once intended to dismember and refine him before his Master intervened.
• Chen Xun declared that the matter was between him and Fu Tian, then unleashed a prepared axe strike as his Five Elements Immortal Eyes carved through space-time.

Chen Xun unleashed the complete Five Elements Immortal Path against Fu Tian, striking not only at him but at the Heaven and Earth Veins of the Three Thousand Great Worlds. His axe shattered world after world, leaving the Three Thousand Great Worlds in darkness and silence.

• Chen Xun confronted Fu Tian as both their auras rose to their peak.
• Fu Tian formed a vast Dao diagram from countless Dao arts and laws, preparing to fight Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun reversed his Five Elements Immortal Eyes, causing the Taiyi Great World and its Great Dao to wither and collapse.
• Chen Xun merged the Dharma Forms of his yin-yang incarnations into a colossal axe and explained that the complete Five Elements Immortal Path countered heaven and earth's mutual generation and restraint.
• Fu Tian opened the star mark between his brows and sent a beam of Time toward the Primordial Chaos River, while Chen Xun brought down his axe.
• Chen Xun's Axe Light severed the Heaven and Earth Veins across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, destroying worlds and plunging the realm into darkness and silence.

Chen Xun killed Fu Tian in the Chaos Ancient Road and returned to the Primordial Chaos River, where the Five Elements Sect struggled to protect the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range. He left the others relieved by his return, though the danger surrounding them remained.

• Chen Xun's Axe Light pierced Fu Tian's true spirit and severed his River of Time, leaving him unable to sense the immortal path or Great Dao.
• Fu Tian repeatedly demanded to know what was inside Chen Xun's body, but Chen Xun questioned him about his connection to Immortal Ancient and learned that Fu Tian could no longer remember.
• Chen Xun used his immortal pupils to grind away Fu Tian's true spirit and every trace of his existence, then set out on the road home.
• At the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, Heavenly Wheel Immortal, Ke Ding, Big Black Ox, and the Ominous Creature struggled to shield the Five Elements Sect from the Primordial Chaos River's aura.
• The Five Elements Sect immortals sensed that their connection to the Ancient Era had been severed, and Chen Xun finally returned to the mountain range.

Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range after merging with his avatar, feeling renewed and seeing the familiar world with youthful fervor. He promised to help restore the Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lion Clan and left his companions marveling that he seemed to have returned to youth.

• Big Black Ox recognized Chen Xun and greeted him, while Heavenly Wheel Immortal cursed him and struggled to repair the Heavenly Wheel Diagram's coordinates.
• Chen Xun took in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range with fresh wonder and realized he understood Gu Qingyan's artistic intent and blessing.
• Little Crimson reunited with Chen Xun, who promised to bring Flame Radiance Crimson Ancient Lions to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun regretted that the opportunities from the Chaos Ancient Road had gone to Gu Li and He Ling, and Big Black Ox reassured him that He Ling's outcome was what mattered.
• Little Crimson remarked that Chen Xun seemed younger and joked that he had returned to youth, making Chen Xun and Big Black Ox react.

After escaping the Chaos Ancient Road, Chen Xun suffered backlash and began recovering while he and Ke Ding discussed Immortal Ancient and Fu Tian’s connection to a calamity in the Immortal Court. Ke Ding suddenly claimed to have uncovered a crucial link among the ancient secrets.

• Chen Xun explained that leaving the Chaos Ancient Road had weakened the illusory Great Dao Immortal Power sustaining him, and he sent Big Black Ox to help Heavenly Wheel Old Man and Little Crimson to watch Third Sister.
• Chen Xun coughed up Five Elements immortal blood and realized that the backlash had worsened old injuries from burning his blood and qi to destroy a Peak Immortal’s avatar.
• Ke Ding arrived, and Chen Xun recounted his past encounter with Immortal Ancient and asked Ke Ding about the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand.
• Ke Ding reasoned that Immortal Ancient and Fu Tian, possibly Sui, had been erased from history after triggering the Heavenly Dao Slaughter Tribulation, and that the calamity may have split them into separate beings.
• Ke Ding suddenly cried out that he had found a connection among the ancient secrets.

Chen Xun and Ke Ding deciphered the Heavenly Secrets Scroll and realized that Immortal Ancient was the original Sui, who had deceived history and survived the Ancient Immortal Court’s destruction by becoming Fu Tian. They ended with a clearer understanding of Sui’s immense schemes and Ke Ding eager to ponder the revelation.

• Ke Ding read the Heavenly Secrets Scroll and found the words “Sui’s end... Tian’s birth,” while warning Chen Xun not to tamper with the sacred artifact.
• Ke Ding theorized that Immortal Ancient and Fu Tian had once been one being, and that the real Sui had escaped the World-Destroying Tribulation by transferring his identity and karma.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding connected Sui’s plan to Immortal Ancient devouring Fu Tian’s Great Path of Time before the Chaos Ancient Road, and Chen Xun recalled that Fu Tian had tried to keep him from entering it.
• Chen Xun concluded that Fu Tian had remained clear-headed and had likely intended to bring him into the Fu Shi State Religion, while Ke Ding praised the figure’s efforts to preserve the State Religion and Crown Prince Gu.
• Ke Ding judged that only the Boundless Overlord Clans could contend with someone like Sui, then resolved to spend several days digesting the secret.

Chen Xun learned that the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand concealed the tomb of the Fu Shi State Religion and remnants of the Ancient Academy, and he considered Sui’s plan to revive the creatures of the past. He then revealed that his strike had destroyed the Chaos Ancient Road, the Three Thousand Great Worlds of that age, and two pursuers, leaving Ke Ding stunned.

• Chen Xun told Gu Li Sheng that he would not pursue his karmic ties with Fu Tian, but would separately settle the matter of Big Black Ox’s imprisoned Primordial Spirit.
• Gu Li Sheng promised to protect Big Black Ox’s Primordial Spirit and give Chen Xun an explanation, then returned to seclusion.
• Song Heng revealed that the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand held the Immortal Tomb Complex of the Fu Shi State Religion and the remnants of the Ancient Academy.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding reasoned that Sui had copied the immortal Dao of the Ten Thousand Clans to revive the creatures of the past.
• Chen Xun told Ke Ding that his axe strike had destroyed the Chaos Ancient Road and the Three Thousand Great Worlds of that age, killing two pursuers near the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.

A beam of killing light from the Primordial Chaos River struck the Extraterritorial Battlefield, and Yue Lingyan fought it off before concluding that the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and the Five Elements Immortal Sect had gone into the river. After the Chaos Ancient Road was destroyed, Yue Lingyan called on the Myriad Races and other powers to stop their wars and resume the plan to elevate the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

• Chen Xun told Ke Ding that he would take him to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, while a beam of light surged from the Primordial Chaos River toward the Taiyi Great World.
• Yue Lingyan sent out her spirit body to intercept the beam, and it vanished after a battle that left her bleeding.
• Yue Lingyan identified the killing light as carrying the Five Elements Dao Ancestor’s aura and urged the Ten Thousand Clans to stop pursuing the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
• A second beam shattered a Chaos Ancient Star and the Chaos Ancient Road, leaving no trace of its origin.
• Yue Lingyan ordered the powers to resume the plan to connect and elevate the Three Thousand Great Worlds, demanding an end to local wars.

A thousand years after the Three Thousand Great Worlds’ transformation accelerated, the Azure Sky Dao Orbit and its central hub emerged, ushering in a new age of cultivation. As the new order spread and the heavenly domains changed, the Cold-Faced Man visited newborn land, recalled a mountain that once stood there, and left after revealing the name Fu Tian.

• The human race joined the construction of the Three Thousand Great Worlds as Immortal Dao resources poured in and the world’s sublimation accelerated.
• A thousand years later, the Azure Sky Dao Orbit appeared in the Taiyi Great World, and the Azure Sky Dao Palace’s central hub took shape in new territory beyond the Three Great Heavenly Domains.
• Immortals congratulated the cultivators who built the Dao Orbit, including Ximen Black Ox, while transformations began in other heavenly domains.
• Powerful clans from the Boundless Great World arrived in the Desolate Heaven Domain and enforced Immortal Dao Order, banning free slaughter in special heavenly domains.
• In newborn land beyond the Mystic Micro Heaven Domain, the Cold-Faced Man declined a young man’s invitation to build a sect, saying he had seen the place before and that a mountain once stood there.
• The Cold-Faced Man vanished into the crowd after murmuring that he had once been called Fu Tian.

The Cold-Faced Man revealed himself as the real Ouyang Boxiao, who had returned to his homeland and reflected on his history with Saint Sui and Immortal Ancient. He regretted his treatment of Immortal Ancient, whose latest copy could never be the original.

• The Cold-Faced Man visited an immortal city’s tea house and asked its Origin Clan shopkeeper for Cloud Hidden Sprout, the tea of his sect.
• The shopkeeper recognized the Cold-Faced Man as an unfathomably powerful senior, bought the old tea at a high price, and served him; Ouyang Boxiao tipped him three High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ouyang Boxiao revealed that Sui had passed him an inheritance rather than tried to possess him, and that he had remained himself throughout their shared experiences.
• Ouyang Boxiao recalled entering the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand to punish Immortal Ancient, but the Immortal Empress stopped him and Immortal Ancient was later exiled after the Immortal Court severed his Heaven and Earth Karma.
• Ouyang Boxiao reflected that his guilt over Immortal Ancient had led to generations of copies in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Time Sand, but none could be the original Immortal Ancient.

Ouyang Boxiao revealed himself as Eternal Fu Tian, a hidden loyalist of the Ancient Immortal Court who had quietly prepared a vast legacy for the Crown Prince. He continued down the river after sending messages across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, resolved to preserve the court’s inheritance and aid the Crown Prince and those meant to be revived.

• Ouyang Boxiao reflected on why he had stayed out of past wars and concluded that Chen Xun could stand beside the Crown Prince as a trusted friend.
• Ouyang Boxiao wished the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range a smooth journey along the Primordial Chaos River, then paid for his tea and left.
• Ouyang Boxiao boarded A Leaf Skiff and sent messages through his Immortal Sense to powerful organizations across the Three Thousand Great Worlds.
• Ouyang Boxiao’s accumulated resources and the organizations he had supported were revealed as a legacy for the Crown Prince, not a plan to disrupt heaven and earth.
• Ouyang Boxiao continued working to preserve the Ancient Immortal Court’s inheritance and support efforts to revive the deceased true spirits sought by the Rebirth Immortal Scripture.

The Jade Bamboo Mountain Range took root on the Primordial Chaos River as it waited for He Ling to prove the Dao and become immortal. Chen Xun reassured Heavenly Wheel Immortal that he would repair the ruined Heavenly Wheel Diagram, then noticed the river was filled with Profound Yellow Qi.

• A divine tree took root beside the Primordial Chaos River, and the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range entered the river’s proper course to await He Ling’s ascension.
• Most of the mountain range’s inhabitants entered the Forbidden Ground Divine Soul, leaving Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Heavenly Wheel Immortal, and a few others behind.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox marveled at how vast the Primordial Chaos River was and wondered whether the True Immortal Realm might be even larger.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal told Chen Xun that the Heavenly Wheel Diagram was destroyed and warned that the mountain range could not wander aimlessly for long.
• Chen Xun promised to help repair the diagram after his Third Sister became immortal, then noticed Profound Yellow Qi in the Primordial Chaos River.

Chen Xun recovered from his injuries and prepared to cultivate in the Primordial Chaos River, ordering Big Black Ox and the others to widen the Mountain Protecting Stream so they could bring river water into the mountains. Meanwhile, Gu Sheng escaped the sect’s formation only to learn he had mistaken a killing formation for a trial, while Song Heng asked Gu Li Sheng when he would get into a coffin.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox he could cultivate Profound Yellow Energy in the Primordial Chaos River and ordered him, the Ominous Creature, and Ji Zhao’s group to widen the Mountain Protecting Stream.
• Ke Ding objected to Chen Xun’s plan to bring in Primordial Chaos River water, but Chen Xun reassured him and revealed that his injuries had healed in a thousand years.
• Big Black Ox sent the Ominous Creature to help with the work as Chen Xun flew off with a Dark Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Gu Sheng broke out of a formation and celebrated, but Frog Daoist told him he had taken the wrong path and explained what had happened over the past years.
• Song Heng, Gu Li Sheng, Tian Yun, two awakened immortals, and Ke Ding sat around a great coffin in the East Sea, where Song Heng asked Gu Li Sheng when he would get into it.

Gu Li Sheng identified the attacker as a returned Six Tribulation Immortal Lord of the Ancient Sacred Clan and explained how the Chaos Ancient Road had reshaped the Three Thousand Great Worlds. He revealed that his Lifespan Tribulation remained tied to the Immortal Court’s residual luck, then declared his intention to forge his own Immortal Dao of fortune.

• Gu Li Sheng told Burial Immortal and Xia Lingchuan that the attacker belonged to the Chaos Clan and had used a Dao technique inherited from the Ancient Seven Realms.
• Gu Li Sheng explained that a Six Tribulation Immortal Lord of the Ancient Sacred Clan had returned ahead of time and that the Chaos Ancient Road had released the Heaven and Earth Origin behind the great eruption of spiritual energy.
• Burial Immortal asked Gu Li Sheng about his plans, and he said that his Lifespan Tribulation persisted because heaven and earth were still eroding the Immortal Court’s luck.
• Gu Li Sheng recalled that the Immortal Emperor’s immortal body had merged with the Great World Source and that the Gu Family had used longevity methods to protect him and Fu Tian.
• Gu Li Sheng declared that he would forge his own Immortal Dao of fortune, and Song Heng urged him to let him devour the Ancient Immortal Court’s remnant luck.

Gu Li Sheng resolved to rebuild the Tai Yi Immortal Court and stayed in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, while Chen Xun began refining the Primordial Chaos River to extract Profound Yellow Energy. Over the next thousand years, Chen Xun slowly gathered river water and endured repeated setbacks, while He Ling remained unconscious.

• Gu Li Sheng declared that he would rebuild the Tai Yi Immortal Court and accepted Burial Immortal and Xia Lingchuan's allegiance.
• Gu Li Sheng asked to borrow resources to rebuild the Heavenly Palace, and Chen Xun agreed on the condition that he repay them ten thousandfold.
• Chen Xun began refining Primordial Chaos River water to extract Profound Yellow Energy, but returned empty-handed after his first year.
• By the fourth year, Chen Xun had obtained his first strand of Profound Yellow Energy, and by the tenth he seized the river's first drop of water for the Mountain Protecting River.
• Over the following hundred years, Chen Xun continued his cultivation and often scolded the Ominous Creature, while Gu Li Sheng and others worked on the Heavenly Palace Foundation.
• Another thousand years passed as Chen Xun leaped between the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range and the Primordial Chaos River, while He Ling remained unconscious.

Chen Xun purified water from the Primordial Chaos River through repeated self-harm and sent a drop toward the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range. Big Black Ox and the others prepared to receive it, while Frog Daoist reflected on Chen Xun’s achievements and Big Black Ox pointed him toward Chen Xun’s hidden Small Spiritual Herb Garden.

• Chen Xun endured the Primordial Chaos River’s assaults, purified its water, and grew more accustomed to staying in the river.
• Chen Xun contained a purified drop of river water and sent it along Big Black Ox’s Great Dao toward the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• Big Black Ox, the Chen Family, and the Ominous Creatures activated their preparations as the water drop approached.
• Frog Daoist reflected on Chen Xun’s repeated journeys into the forbidden river and wondered whether he would live to see Big White Spirit revived.
• Big Black Ox startled Frog Daoist, then pointed him toward Chen Xun’s privately raised Small Spiritual Herb Garden.

After five thousand years at the Primordial Chaos River, Chen Xun drew its waters back toward the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range to form the Primordial Chaos Protecting Mountains and Rivers. The river burst through the mountain’s formations as Chen Xun announced his success.

• Big Black Ox forced Frog Daoist into the territory near the Ring Mountains so it could sit beneath the growing Enlightenment Ancient Tree and comprehend the Dao.
• Big Black Ox inspected the vast Mountain Protection Ditch dug around the Ninety-Nine Ring Mountains and insisted it was not too large for the Primordial Chaos River water Chen Xun would bring back.
• Gu Li Sheng and Ke Ding discussed Chen Xun’s achievements while work continued on the land outside the Five Elements Sect and the Heavenly Palace Foundation.
• Chen Xun spent five thousand years at the Primordial Chaos River, returning often to visit Big Black Ox, teach the Chen Family’s younger generation, and feast with the people of the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• The Primordial Chaos River surged, tore through the formations above the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, and poured in as Chen Xun declared that the Primordial Chaos Protecting Mountains and Rivers was about to take shape.

Chen Xun drew water from the Primordial Chaos River into the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range, astonishing the Five Elements Sect and its guests. As he continued filling the Mountain Protecting River, Heavenly Wheel Immortal asked him to help find traces of his sect.

• Chen Xun drew the Primordial Chaos River into the Mountain Protection Ditches, and Big Black Ox watched as the river's creative aura began nourishing the Chen Family.
• Gu Li Sheng, Burial Immortal, Xia Lingchuan, Song Heng, and Ke Ding arrived or watched the spectacle, while Gu Li Sheng praised Chen Xun's potential.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal realized the river could hold immortal-realm opportunities and asked Chen Xun to find traces of the Heavenly Wheel Sect and promised to spread the Dao in the Five Elements Sect.
• Chen Xun teased Heavenly Wheel Immortal, then solemnly continued filling the Mountain Protecting River as Five Elements Sect disciples watched from the fiftieth mountain.

Chen Xun brought Primordial Chaos River water to the Five Elements Sect and filled half the mountain-protecting ditches, explaining to Big Black Ox that the river could sublimate Great Dao Origins and lead to immortality. When a Five-Colored Divine Light appeared, signaling Third Sister’s progress toward becoming immortal, Chen Xun ordered the Ominous Creature to capture the Ghostly Thing from the Ending Immortal Sect.

• The Primordial Chaos River water made the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range sink, so Chen Xun used Profound Yellow Energy to stabilize its earth veins.
• Over three months, Chen Xun guided the river water into the Mountain Protecting River ditches until he exhausted his Great Dao Power and immortal power.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that the river’s Great Dao aura could sublimate Great Dao Origins and help cultivators break into the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun said he had comprehended the true method of the Five Elements Immortal Path on the Chaos Ancient Road.
• A Five-Colored Divine Light rose beyond the heavens, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox recognized it as a sign that Third Sister might become immortal.
• Chen Xun ordered the Ominous Creature to capture the Ghostly Thing born from the Ending Immortal Sect.