Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun reunited with He Ling and the others on Cloud Land, where He Ling brought back Cloud Rainbows and Cloud Wing Immortal Grass. After settling in and gathering Cloud Soil and Cloud Ore, Chen Xun spent peaceful days with his companions and guided Xing Jun and Xing Yao in their studies.

• Xing Yao and Xing Jun urged Chen Xun to worship the Ripple Beast, which greeted him respectfully as He Ling, Little Mu Feng, and the others rode on its back.
• He Ling presented Chen Xun with Cloud Rainbows, their seeds, and a Cloud Wing Immortal Grass she had obtained from a Xing Lan Storm vent.
• Xing Jun and Xing Yao left to return home, while Big Black Ox told Chen Xun that Cloud Ore could serve as a natural foundation for formations.
• Chen Xun gathered Cloud Soil and planted two Crane Spirit Trees as Little Crimson scattered the soil, prompting Chen Xun to chase it away.
• Xing Jun and Xing Yao returned seeking guidance, and Chen Xun taught them by painting scenes of distant lands.

After returning to the Xing Lan Region, Chen Xun gave Xing Jun and Xing Yao a cultivation manual and an image-recording artifact. When upper-layer Star Ripple Clan envoys arrived to collect tribute, Chen Xun watched the clan’s hierarchy play out and refused to interfere.

• During a year of visits, Xing Jun and Xing Yao admired Chen Xun’s paintings and asked Little Crimson to teach them how to mine cloud ore.
• After returning from a ten-year expedition, Chen Xun gave Xing Jun and Xing Yao his Nourishing Cloud Contemplation and an Image Recording Stone, asking them to bring him local specialties if they reached the land.
• Three days later, Star Ripple Clan envoys descended to collect tribute, and the clan members gathered to deliver cloud ore.
• Mu Feng criticized the clan’s tribute system, but Chen Xun explained that strong clans enslaved their own people and other races as part of their rise, and said the Five Elements Sect’s situation was different.
• Little Crimson urged Chen Xun to bring the Xing Lan Region into the Five Elements Sect’s territory, but Chen Xun told it to wait until the clan advanced beyond the Primeval Forest.

Chen Xun’s family faced down an overbearing Star Ripple Clan Honored Envoy, then spent ten years traveling and training with Xing Jun and Xing Yao. The story introduced Ni Canghuan, who ordered the enslavement of countless beings, while Chen Xun noticed him and judged that he had the bearing to come to Jade Bamboo Continent to temper himself.

• The Honored Envoy confronted Little Crimson and demanded the cloud ore, but Chen Xun handed over one massive piece and the envoy withdrew.
• Mu Feng questioned why Chen Xun had let the envoy leave, and He Ling explained that Chen Xun did not need to flaunt his strength before lesser beings.
• Xing Jun and Xing Yao continued learning from Chen Xun, Little Crimson, and Big Black Ox, rapidly advancing in cultivation and array formations over ten years.
• Ni Canghuan ordered his forces to invade every Immortal Sky Star Territory and enslave its countless lifeforms.
• Chen Xun noticed Ni Canghuan and decided the young man had the bearing to visit Jade Bamboo Continent and temper himself.

Natural phenomena repeatedly disrupted the Star Ripple Feather Clan’s campaigns until Ni Canghuan prepared to abandon the Xing Lan Region. When Xing Jun and Xing Yao were brought before him and a clan powerhouse tried to kill them, a tremendous bolt of lightning struck, and Ni Canghuan made Chen Xun’s group vanish.

• Strange natural phenomena trapped or obstructed the Star Ripple Feather Clan’s armies, and eventually all its armies lost contact.
• Ni Canghuan waited for the phenomena to pass, then gathered resources and prepared to leave the Xing Lan Region when they persisted.
• A century later, Xing Jun and Xing Yao were seized after speaking of the world beneath the clouds and were brought to the Heavenly Sovereign Mansion.
• Ni Canghuan became interested in the siblings’ knowledge of the outside world and recognized Chen Xun’s group nearby.
• A Star Ripple Clan powerhouse raised his Cloud Saber to kill Xing Jun and Xing Yao, but a massive bolt of lightning struck him.
• Ni Canghuan shifted his gaze, and Chen Xun’s group vanished.

Chen Xun and his companions descended upon the Heavenly Sovereign Mansion and defeated Ni Canghuan, ending his rule over the Xing Lan Region. The region’s people watched the mansion fall and bowed before Chen Xun as he affirmed that no one could enslave living beings.

• Chen Xun arrived at the Heavenly Sovereign Mansion with Big Black Ox and the others, astonishing Xing Jun and Xing Yao.
• A Star Ripple Clan expert attacked Chen Xun, but the cloud-ore formation disks shattered the man’s chains and killed the attacking experts.
• He Ling blocked Ni Canghuan’s aura, while Ni Canghuan recognized Chen Xun as a powerful being from before the old era.
• Chen Xun suppressed Ni Canghuan with Five-Colored Immortal Qi and destroyed the Heavenly Sovereign Mansion in the ensuing clash.
• Ni Canghuan fell wounded and unconscious on the Cloud Land, and Chen Xun told Xing Jun and Xing Yao that all living beings should be free.
• The beings of the Xing Lan Region prostrated themselves before Chen Xun.

Chen Xun defeated Ni Canghuan, freed the Star Ripple Clan from his rule, and returned their stolen resources to Xing Jun and Xing Yao. He stayed in the Xing Lan Region to teach the clan through his paintings, then invited them to give whatever they liked as thanks.

• Chen Xun took Ni Canghuan away and warned the Star Ripple Clan not to wage war again.
• Chen Xun rejected Little Crimson’s suggestion to claim the Xing Lan Region and left with Xing Jun and Xing Yao.
• Chen Xun returned the resources Ni Canghuan had taken from the clan, telling the siblings to restore them to their people when they reached the clan’s pinnacle.
• Half a year later, Chen Xun spent a month teaching the Star Ripple Clan about heaven and earth through his paintings while Big Black Ox, Mu Feng, and Little Crimson slipped away.
• After the lecture, Chen Xun invited the Star Ripple Clan to give whatever they liked, and its members assumed he was about to bestow treasures.

Chen Xun and his family departed the Star Ripple Clan’s home after years of friendship, leaving Xing Jun and Xing Yao a letter and asking them to care for the Crane Spirit Trees. Twenty thousand years later, they appeared in an Immortal Realm city, where Chen Xun had opened a shop.

• He Ling collected offerings from the Star Ripple Clan Spirits after Chen Xun’s month-long lecture, and the five Star Ripple Saint Rulers departed with new insight.
• Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Mu Feng, then scolded and chased them after their return.
• Chen Xun’s family spent half a year in peace with Xing Yao and the Star Ripple Clan before leaving during a starry rain.
• Xing Jun and Xing Yao found the family’s letter, read their farewell, and promised to care for the Crane Spirit Trees.
• Many years later, Xing Jun and Xing Yao became prominent in the Xing Lan Region, while Chen Xun’s family never returned.
• After twenty thousand years of recovery in the Immortal Realm, Chen Xun had a shop in a city of the Giant Spirit Clan.

Chen Xun’s spirit-pill shop continued doing business in Giant Spirit City while the Giant Spirit Old Ancestor tried to warn customers away. Chen Xun advised Ni Canghuan about his unstable Dao foundation, leaving him reflecting on the Dao Ancestor’s knowledge.

• A white-haired man warned a passerby that entering Chen Xun’s shop would bring misfortune, then revealed himself as the Giant Spirit Old Ancestor when Chen Xun called him out.
• Chen Xun mocked the Giant Spirit Old Ancestor for repeatedly trying to ruin his shop’s business, and the ancestor fled in fear.
• Ni Canghuan told Chen Xun that the Giant Spirit Clan could serve as Battle Slaves, but Chen Xun ordered him to guard the door and tend to his injuries.
• Chen Xun warned Ni Canghuan that his unstable Dao foundation would make an attempt to reach the Second Tribulation Immortal realm fatal.
• Ni Canghuan reflected on Chen Xun’s guidance and recognized that his own path to immortality had gone astray.

Chen Xun ran a pill shop in Giant Spirit City while Ni Canghuan watched the Giant Spirit Clan hunt and trade for pills. The shop’s steep prices sent curious customers fleeing, while Chen Xun remained confident in his business.

• Ni Canghuan offered to help enslave the Giant Spirit Clan, but Chen Xun told him to stay and cultivate instead.
• Chen Xun recalled how Little Crimson had killed the Giant Spirit Old Ancestor after the ancestor refused to share scraps of a Chen Dragon.
• Three Giant Spirits brought Chen Xun a Grand Duke Jupiter Immortal Ganoderma in exchange for a refined pill, and Chen Xun accepted it.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox and Mu Feng to refine the pills while curious Innate Lifeforms entered the shop.
• Customers fled after discovering that a cup of Nourishing Spirit Tea cost one Immortal Spirit Mine and a pill cost one immortal herb.

Chen Xun met Di Yang, an Underground Lifeform who ate Immortal Soil, and invited him to sit at the shop. After learning Di Yang had come to gather soil, Chen Xun let him dig beneath the trees he had planted.

• Big Black Ox took the Grand Duke Jupiter Immortal Ganoderma away to simmer into medicinal liquid for pills.
• Ni Canghuan asked whether Big Black Ox needed to condense an immortal body, and Chen Xun explained why the ganoderma was better for tempering the body.
• Chen Xun spotted Di Yang eating Immortal Soil and called him over, learning that he came from underground and had a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root.
• Di Yang told Chen Xun he could identify the quality of Great Earth Immortal Soil by tasting it, and Chen Xun warned him not to dig up all the soil beneath the trees.
• Chen Xun allowed Di Yang to gather more Immortal Soil, and Di Yang returned to the trees and collected only a small amount.

Chen Xun studied the Immortal Realm’s varied cultivation paths while Di Yang prospered in his shop and Tai Shan sought instruction from him. When disciples of the Heaven Ruins Sect arrived in Giant Spirit City seeking fragments from an ancient battle, their attempt to approach Tai Shan ended in disaster.

• Chen Xun saw that Di Yang had survived the dangers underground and brought him into the shop, where he later worked alongside Little Mu Feng for Immortal Soil.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun mapped the immortal veins of different lifeforms and reflected on learning their many paths to cultivation.
• Tai Shan asked Chen Xun to teach him how to make his physical body fly on rosy clouds, but Chen Xun refused.
• Disciples of the Heaven Ruins Sect arrived in Giant Spirit City and flew toward the distant Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains, angering Ni Canghuan.
• Three days later, a Heaven Ruins Sect junior approached the sleeping Tai Shan and was seized when Tai Shan awoke in fury.

Xiao Che offered Tai Shan a fragment of the Heavenly Foundation Stone and invited the Giant Spirit Clan to travel with the Heaven Ruins Sect. Sky Ruins arrived on Cang Lin to negotiate, but his wind-and-thunder powers failed, and Tai Shan called out to Ancestor Xun, who was approaching in a wooden cart.

• Tai Shan recognized the Spirit Cloud Clan cultivators and grabbed Xiao Che's Junior Brother, threatening to eat them.
• Xiao Che introduced himself as a Heaven Ruins Sect disciple and showed Tai Shan a sharp fragment of the Heavenly Foundation Stone.
• Xiao Che invited Tai Shan and the Giant Spirit Clan to join the Heaven Ruins Sect in seeking the fragment's origin near a celestial phenomenon.
• Sky Ruins arrived atop Cang Lin, while the Giant Spirit Clan stared at the immortal beast as if it were prey.
• Sky Ruins tried to summon wind and thunder, but his powers produced only a drop of rain.
• Tai Shan called for Ancestor Xun, who appeared in the distance riding a wooden cart.

Sky Ruins Patriarch and his disciples met Chen Xun in Giant Spirit City, where Chen Xun allowed Tai Shan to keep a fragment from his old home. The Heaven Ruins Sect later went to confront a notorious shop, only to find Chen Xun running it and flee after Cang Lin was left behind as collateral.

• Sky Ruins Patriarch realized Chen Xun was an ancient survivor and respectfully accepted his offer to keep the fragment, which Tai Shan then claimed for himself.
• Chen Xun invited Sky Ruins Patriarch to visit his mountain gate, and Sky Ruins gave the fragment to Tai Shan to build goodwill with the Giant Spirit Clan.
• Xiao Che urged Sky Ruins Patriarch to deal with a notorious Black Shop, so the patriarch led his disciples there three days later.
• Sky Ruins Patriarch discovered Chen Xun at the shop and changed his claim that they had come to suppress it, saying they had come to visit him instead.
• Chen Xun ushered the Heaven Ruins Sect into the shop and locked Cang Lin outside with the Five Elements Chains.
• Sky Ruins Patriarch and the disciples fled after half a day, leaving Cang Lin behind as collateral until he could redeem it.

Chen Xun used his completed Dao of Painting to create a real Spirit Cloud Clan lifeform and sent it to join the Heaven Ruins Sect to investigate its cultivation and the Heaven and Earth Rules. The figure disappeared into the crowd, while Chen Xun reflected that he could only paint ordinary lifeforms, not powerful beings like immortal beasts or Ni Canghuan.

• Chen Xun revealed an Empty Realm and gathered the Five Elements Qi to form a faceless figure before Cang Lin and Ni Canghuan.
• Using a brush made from Heavenly Foundation Stone material, Chen Xun painted the figure into a living Spirit Cloud Clan lifeform.
• Ni Canghuan was shocked to sense the figure's independent life origin, while Chen Xun understood it as a Person in the Painting that changed with the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun ordered the new lifeform to enter the Heaven Ruins Sect and investigate the Spirit Cloud Clan's cultivation and the rules behind it.
• The lifeform blended into the crowd beneath the city gate, and Cang Lin bowed its head to Chen Xun in awe.
• Chen Xun concluded that he could not paint exceptional beings such as immortal beasts or Ni Canghuan.

He Ling recognized that Chen Xun’s painting Dao had spread living beings throughout the Immortal Realm as part of his long plan to gather its myriad Daos. As Chen Xun’s family prepared to leave Giant Spirit City, they said farewell to Di Yang and departed by cart into the snowy wilderness.

• He Ling observed painting Dao beings living among the Immortal Realm’s races and understood that Chen Xun had been laying plans across ten thousand ages to gather the world’s Daos.
• As the family packed the shop, Little Crimson and Big Black Ox argued over what to bring, while Ni Canghuan tried to make the chained Cang Lin his servant.
• Big Black Ox removed Cang Lin’s chains and told it to return to Heaven Ruins Sect, leaving Ni Canghuan to frighten the released beast.
• Di Yang brought Mu Feng a bundle of Immortal Soil as a parting gift, and Chen Xun returned to receive Di Yang’s grateful farewell.
• The next day, Chen Xun’s family left Giant Spirit City in their three-wheeled wooden cart, heading into the snow-covered wilderness.

Three years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and their companions traveled through the Cold Frontier, where countless immortal beasts gathered to watch them. As they crossed the icy realm, Little Crimson said the Void Sea and Cosmic Navigation should lie ahead.

• Mu Feng rowed across Ice Lake with He Ling and Ni Canghuan as they admired the Cold Frontier.
• Immortal beasts emerged across the glaciers and watched the travelers, while Ni Canghuan began considering how to bring them under his command.
• Little Crimson roared at the beasts and ordered them to pay homage, prompting cries to echo across the Cold Frontier.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox laughed at the gathering and noted that the beasts' Root Bone surpassed that of the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• Little Crimson said the group would reach the Void Sea beyond the Cold Frontier and asked whether Cosmic Navigation was stationed at its edge.

Chen Xun and his companions settled beside an Ice Lake in the Cold Frontier, where they spent their days playing and cultivating. An immortal deer brought He Ling an herb and accepted her scroll in return before asking for help by pointing toward the Void Sea.

• Chen Xun plunged into the Ice Lake for a swim, and Big Black Ox, Little Mu Feng, Little Crimson, and Ni Canghuan followed him into the water.
• The group settled beside the Ice Lake and built a Snow House, where they each took up their own activities while Ni Canghuan guarded the door.
• An immortal deer approached He Ling with an immortal herb, and she thanked it and offered it her scroll in return.
• The immortal deer pointed toward the Void Sea, signaling that it had something to ask He Ling.

He Ling learned that the Void Sea fiends were led by three Venerables and preyed on Immortal Realm Beings. When the fiends advanced into the frozen frontier, Chen Xun confronted them and annihilated them with World Extinction Thunder.

• An immortal deer warned He Ling that the Void Sea fiends and their three Venerables had slaughtered many Immortal Realm Beings, but Chen Xun said they should not interfere with the natural order.
• Ni Canghuan dismissed the threat as an interesting destination while Old Turtle silently mocked his claim that the Dao Ancestor cherished life.
• A terrifying presence shook the frozen frontier, and crimson rain fell as immortal beasts sensed the danger and stared toward Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun told the approaching attackers to retreat within three breaths or die, then summoned five-colored lightning to seal the frontier.
• The Void Sea fiends discovered that their Spirit King had been killed and debated retreating, but they failed to escape before World Extinction Thunder annihilated them.

Chen Xun claimed the Cold Frontier for the Five Elements Immortal Sect and marked its immortal beasts as affiliated members, promising them safety and a place to cultivate. Half a year later, he drove his cart into the Dao Comprehension Hall where three Void Sea Venerables were hiding from Gu Qingyan.

• Chen Xun explained to He Ling that Void Sea creatures and other Innate Lifeforms needed guidance and protection from the dangers of the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xun declared the Cold Frontier territory of the Five Elements Immortal Domain and offered its immortal beasts protection and access to Jade Bamboo Continent.
• Little Crimson stamped the immortal beasts with Five Elements Sect marks that improved their perception of the Immortal Dao.
• Chen Xun said he would bring the Void Sea under the Five Elements Immortal Domain’s protection.
• Six months later, Royal Venerable, Dao Venerable, and Soul Venerable discussed how to break their deadlock with Gu Qingyan in the Dao Comprehension Hall.
• Chen Xun crashed through the hall’s entrance in his wooden cart and asked the three Venerables why they had not invited him to eat.

Chen Xun and his companions stormed a Void Sea stronghold and swiftly subdued its three Venerables. He claimed the Void Sea for the Five Elements Immortal Domain and ordered Ni Canghuan to guard it and relocate its inhabitants.

• Little Crimson pinned Royal Venerable down while the Big Black Coffin suppressed Soul Venerable, and the group’s aura forced Dao Venerable to the floor.
• Chen Xun accused the three Venerables of slaughtering and eating immortal beasts, while Little Crimson casually ate a Dao Fruit before them.
• Royal Venerable pleaded with Chen Xun, who said he already knew their origins and stored their wooden carts in his Storage Ring.
• Chen Xun declared the Void Sea territory of the Five Elements Immortal Domain and ordered Ni Canghuan to take its inhabitants to the Divine Mountain Continent and guard the region.