Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun returned to the Barren Mountain Range and watched Chou Li stage an elaborate heavenly spectacle with the Special Effects Great Dao. Impressed, Chen Xun rewarded him with Five Elements Creation Immortal Lightning, leaving the mountains newly filled with life.

• Chen Xun noticed Di Yang outside a shop and recognized how carefully he had learned to endure and handle affairs.
• The Giant Spirit Clan welcomed Chen Xun's return with roars, and Chou Li's Heavenly Peak Sect staged a grand display of auspicious phenomena.
• Xuan Ji realized Chou Li had created the spectacle through the Special Effects Great Dao, while the surrounding people mistook it for a true heavenly phenomenon.
• Chou Li continued restoring his Law Power by consuming immortal stones, and the Great Elder agreed to provide more.
• Chen Xun praised Chou Li, then summoned Five Elements Creation Immortal Lightning that brought spiritual plants to life across the Barren Mountain Range.

Chen Xun returned to the Primitive Forest Sea and was welcomed by its Innate Lifeforms, but a message abruptly changed the mood. A flashback showed Frog Daoist and the ferocious beasts of Myriad Beasts Mountain interrogating a captured Innate Lifeform about a missing Profound Azure Sea Dragon.

• The Featherless Bird witnessed Chou Li's Great Dao Laws and decided it had to become his disciple.
• Chen Xun returned to the Primitive Forest Sea, where Earth Fatty, the little immortal crane, and many other Innate Lifeforms greeted him joyfully.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox received a message, and their expressions turned cold.
• Half a month earlier, ferocious beasts brought a bloodied Innate Lifeform from the southern Myriad Mountains to Frog Daoist at Myriad Beasts Mountain.
• A beast reported that a Profound Azure Sea Dragon at the Great Vehicle Middle Stage had gone missing a hundred years earlier, and Frog Daoist released scorching red mist as the captive trembled in fear.

Frog Daoist learned that Desolate Tomb City had captured a Profound Azure Sea Dragon and demanded a ransom, prompting him to lead the Five Elements Immortal Domain’s beasts south to destroy the city. Meanwhile, Xian Jue awakened from seclusion in the Five Elements Sea and continued strengthening his foundation at the Half Immortal Realm.

• A messenger reported that Desolate Tomb City had captured a Profound Azure Sea Dragon, torn off its reverse scale, and demanded ten Immortal Grade Mines as ransom.
• Frog Daoist and the other great beasts resolved to march on Desolate Tomb City, while the messenger from the south was trampled to death amid their departure.
• Frog Daoist told Hidden Dragon that humanity did not bind the Five Elements Immortal Domain’s forces beyond their borders and declared that they needed only humanity’s destruction against their enemies.
• Xian Jue opened his eyes in the Five Elements Sea of the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range after a long period of seclusion.
• Xian Jue continued using the Five Elements Sea to temper his body and crush his immortal locks, seeking to reach Ten Thousand Daos Resonating before entering the Immortal Realm.

Xian Jue led a vast horde of ferocious beasts from the Five Elements Immortal Domain into the Myriad Mountains after its forces captured a Profound Azure Sea Dragon. The invasion swept aside local resistance and reached Desolate Tomb City, where the City Lord was holding the dragon captive.

• Xian Jue announced that he would confront the Innate Lifeforms of the Immortal Realm's south, then led the beast horde through spatial rifts toward the Myriad Mountains.
• Frog Daoist struck down a city lord who challenged the vanguard and brushed aside investigators as the invasion spread panic through the Myriad Mountains.
• Chang Xi and her father realized the Five Elements Immortal Domain's Exalted Ones had been roused by the capture of a lifeform, and her father urged her to flee.
• In Desolate Tomb City, the City Lord ordered his men to kill the badly injured Profound Azure Sea Dragon after their attempts to search its soul failed.
• A rift opened above Desolate Tomb City, and a million Jade Bamboo Continent immortal beasts descended upon the city.

Xian Jue and the forces of Myriad Beasts Mountain destroyed Desolate Tomb City and purged the Myriad Mountains’ evil factions after they harmed a living being from the Five Elements Immortal Domain. When Chen Xun returned, the mountains’ inhabitants bowed before him, and Frog Daoist discovered that Little Crimson had also become an immortal.

• Xian Jue crushed the Barren Tomb City Lord, and ferocious beasts from Myriad Beasts Mountain slaughtered the cultivators of Desolate Tomb City.
• Frog Daoist ordered a wider purge of the Myriad Mountains’ factions, while Che Ming and his companion resolved to seek immortality in the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Frog Daoist learned that Chen Xun was returning and considered claiming the Myriad Mountains as a gift for him.
• Chen Xun arrived with Little Crimson, and the inhabitants of the Myriad Mountains prostrated themselves before the Dao Ancestor.
• Frog Daoist recognized Little Crimson’s immortal aura and realized that he had become an immortal too.

Chen Xun returned from the Myriad Mountains after the Five Elements Immortal Domain’s expedition and addressed Profound Azure Sea Dragon’s reckless scouting. He and Big Black Ox then reached Jade Bamboo Continent, where they were stunned by its transformation into a vast, diverse settlement among the stars.

• Chen Xun judged the Myriad Mountains’ terrain unsuitable for developing the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance but recognized its value as a natural barrier and a place for cave dwellings and spiritual herbs.
• Chen Xun reassured Profound Azure Sea Dragon, then ordered it to learn from its experience and protect younger members of the Immortal Domain in future dangers.
• Chen Xun told Third Sister to hold the Old Dragon King of the East Sea accountable for the incident and warned against failing to report trouble or fighting alone.
• Big Black Ox gave Profound Azure Sea Dragon a pill to repair its Dao foundation before Chen Xun led everyone back to the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Half a month later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to Jade Bamboo Continent, saw its star rings, settlements, and cloud-top structures, and marveled at how much it had changed.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox welcomed old friends and powerful figures to the Nine Evolutions Star Tower’s unveiling, then hosted a years-long banquet that reunited the Jade Bamboo Continent’s forces. Ten years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox inspected a true immortal field beneath the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.

• The Nine Evolutions Star Tower appeared above the stars, and Chen Xun welcomed the many powerful figures who gathered, including Old Yin, newly become an immortal.
• Chen Xun held a great banquet at the Five Elements Immortal Platform, where Ji Yan reunited with Prison Pavilion cultivators and forces from across Jade Bamboo Continent celebrated.
• Chen Xun called Big Black Ox over to examine Ji Zhao’s Immune to All Laws Dao body, and Big Black Ox recognized its significance for body cultivation.
• After the celebrations, Ji Yan led the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance through the immortal gate toward the Primeval Forest and established plans to expand into the Qian Yuan Immortal Domain.
• Ten years later, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox visited an immortal field, where Lü Ran explained that its Immortal Realm soil and immortal ore allowed immortal plants to grow.

Chen Xun backed the Five Elements Sect as its disciples developed immortal rice and built new systems for travel, communication, trade, and exploration. Fifty thousand years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and a lion arrived in the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain to investigate reports of a peerless immortal medicine and a treasure like a Primordial Chaos Immortal Treasure.

• Lü Ran showed Chen Xun and Big Black Ox the Five Elements Immortal Rice, developed by the disciples to nourish Qi Condensation Stage cultivators and help them adapt to Jade Bamboo Continent.
• Chen Xun rewarded the disciples who worked on the rice, and the following year immortal fields were established in sixteen Super Immortal Cities.
• Over the next centuries, the Five Elements Immortal Domain developed Flying Talismans, Flying Array Flags, and All Heavens Sound Transmission Stones, expanding travel and communication across the domain.
• Five hundred years later, trade flourished and Ji Mo and other disciples created Heavenly Foundation Immortal Puppets to support a large expedition into Jade Bamboo Continent.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year fifty thousand, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and a lion entered the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain to investigate its reported immortal medicine and treasure.

Chen Xun and his companions settled in an immortal city while he studied immortal patterns and Big Black Ox explored the surrounding momentum. A year later, the Nine Suns Immortal Grass fled into the mountains as powerful factions and beasts fought to claim it, and Wu Yong declared it prey of the Wu Race.

• Chen Xun chose to settle in the immortal city, expecting an intelligent immortal herb to seek his help while he explored the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson built a cottage beside Crescent Spring, where Chen Xun began recording immortal patterns and Big Black Ox studied the momentum of nature.
• A year later, Di Zhu fled through the mountains in azure light as the World Abyss Dao Palace and Heng Ye's Heng Race pursued the Nine Suns Immortal Grass.
• A Golden Howler and a black-winged Kunpeng fought over the fleeing immortal herb, drawing the attention of cultivators in the city.
• Wu Yong struck the Golden Howler and Kunpeng with his stone axe and declared the immortal herb prey of the Wu Race.

Wu Yong and the Thunder Clan woman fought over the Nine Suns Immortal Grass until a hidden sect Senior Sister struck Wu Yong down with one punch. As the city’s cultivators mistook the attacker for Tun Shi, Qian Wuhen entered the city to suppress the World Abyss Dao Palace’s master, while a startling scene unfolded in the mountains.

• Wu Yong challenged the Thunder Clan woman for the Nine Suns Immortal Grass, and battles broke out throughout the immortal city.
• A sect Senior Sister shielded her teahouse and its fleeing neighbors from falling spells before charging into the sky.
• The Senior Sister punched Wu Yong away, prompting the Thunder Clan woman and other cultivators to retreat and suspect Tun Shi had arrived.
• Tun Shi, hiding outside the city, denied making the attack and complained that his fellow disciples kept being mistaken for him.
• Qian Wuhen entered the city and agreed with Bai Xinghan to suppress the World Abyss Dao Palace’s master as Bai Xinghan searched for its base.
• A startling scene unfolded in the mountains near the immortal city.

A formation transformed the mountain around Nine Suns Immortal Grass, and Chen Xun and Little Crimson watched as Nine Suns sought refuge beneath their Crane Spirit Trees. Chen Xun had the tree spirit lend Nine Suns cultivation resources on a bill, leaving him free to explore Nine Extremes Immortal Domain.

• The Five Elements Sect Disciples recognized that a formation, rather than natural law, had transformed the mountain to protect the immortal herb.
• Qian Wuhen saw Uncle Ox and realized that Old Dad had also come to Nine Extremes Immortal Domain.
• Nine Suns knelt before the Crane Spirit Trees and thanked the seniors for giving him a chance at survival.
• Chen Xun told Little Crimson he would let Nine Suns try his luck in Nine Extremes Immortal Domain before considering bringing his true body back to Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun summoned a tree spirit, which gave Nine Suns Dao teachings and a bill for cultivation resources, explaining that Five Elements Immortal Domain was a Regular Lending Immortal Domain.

Nine Suns encountered Chen Xun while seeking a way to escape pursuit and learned that the Immortal Realm was far greater than the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain. Chen Xun sent him away with an invitation to return once he had truly escaped, while continuing to contemplate the remnants of the world’s former dusk.

• After half a year, the cultivators who had searched for Nine Suns gave up and returned to their dojos, blaming Tun Shi for ruining their pursuit.
• Nine Suns healed in the mountains and gathered Immortal Dew until he repeatedly glimpsed Chen Xun beside a Crescent Spring.
• After a month, Nine Suns approached Chen Xun and asked what he had been watching; Chen Xun explained that the dusky light was a remnant of the Immortal Realm’s lost dusk.
• Chen Xun told Nine Suns that the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain and even the Five Elements Immortal Domain were only small parts of the Immortal Realm.
• When Nine Suns asked to stay and watch dusk with him, Chen Xun told him to return after he had truly escaped pursuit, and Nine Suns departed without finding the Crescent Spring again.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled to Tai Chu Valley to seek the Five Elements Spirit Root and encountered the Heng Race and the powerful Candle Dragon clan in the Sky Plains Secret Realm. Chen Xun tried to persuade the Candle Dragon to migrate to the Five Elements Immortal Domain, but it refused.

• Chen Xun completed an immortal-pattern script and learned that Old Turtle had gone to the Void Sea to comprehend the Dao.
• Chen Xun chose to visit the Heng Race's territory, believing the Five Elements Spirit Root was fated with him.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson arrived at Tai Chu Valley and observed the Heng Race competing with the Progenitor Dragon Nest in the Sky Plains Secret Realm.
• Candle Dragon introduced Heng Ye as the Heng Race's Young Clan Leader while Chen Xun watched a battle from a tea table atop Sky Plains Mountain.
• Chen Xun insisted that the Progenitor Dragon Nest change its name and urged Candle Dragon's clan to migrate to the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Candle Dragon considered Chen Xun's offer but refused to leave Tai Chu Valley.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson left Tai Chu Valley after Chen Xun used the name Tun Shi to claim responsibility for a display of power. Centuries later, they settled among a Wu Race tribe as instructors, where Xiao Heizi eventually left the tribe and returned with a huge savage beast.

• Chen Xun ordered Candle Dragon to leave Tai Chu Valley with him and Little Crimson, and his power halted the attacking cultivators before Candle Dragon carried them away.
• Two hundred years later, Big Black Ox underwent a Formation Dao tribulation, and Chen Xun laughed as it inscribed “I am Tun Shi!” in the thunderclouds.
• Three hundred years later, Chen Xun became a Wu Race tribe's Great Instructor, Big Black Ox its Second Instructor, and Little Crimson its Guardian Instructor.
• Wu Hao offered Chen Xun thirty widows to choose from, but Chen Xun refused and said he already had a marriage agreement.
• Ten years later, Xiao Heizi returned to the tribe bloodied but smiling, carrying a hundred-zhang-long Transformation God Stage infant savage beast called Xie Sui.

Chen Xun and his companions left Mist Wasteland River after learning the Wu Race’s legend of a Great Ancestor, then traveled to Imperial Sky Capital. They entered the city and learned that the World Abyss Dao Palace had once been called the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace.

• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson watched Xiao Heizi and the other children grow up, then left the tribe as Wu Hao led its people to join the Wu Race.
• While traveling through Mist Wasteland River, Chen Xun heard the Wu Race’s legend that the Great Ancestor had descended forty thousand years earlier and suspected the figure was a cultivator’s corpse.
• Chen Xun and his companions arrived at Imperial Sky Capital and remarked on its name, its abundance of mineral veins, and its imposing appearance.
• The group entered Imperial Sky Capital and learned that the World Abyss Dao Palace had originated as the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, which had spread its teachings and inspired many Dao Palaces across the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain.

Chen Xun traced the Imperial Palace’s destruction to Bai Xinghan’s battle with Old Ancestor Shiyuan and arranged protection for the freed grotto-heaven beings. He then found the injured Shiyuan Dao Lord beside an Undying Immortal Corpse and confronted him as he vowed revenge against the Five Elements Immortal Domain.

• Chen Xun used the Time Void Realm to see Bai Xinghan defeat Old Ancestor Shiyuan, destroy his dojo, and free the Ten Thousand Clans grotto-heavens.
• Chen Xun asked Little Crimson to have the Ghost Face Race protect the grotto-heaven beings and ordered the Heavenly Wheel Sect’s leader to visit Jade Clarity Palace.
• Chen Xun and his companions reached the Imperial Palace, where he opened a path into the hidden place beneath it.
• The injured Shiyuan Dao Lord sat beside an Undying Immortal Corpse and vowed to seize its power and take revenge on the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun’s voice reached Shiyuan and challenged his wish to suppress the Dao of the Five Elements Immortal Domain.

Chen Xun appeared in Imperial Sky Capital, overwhelmed Shi Yuan, and took control of the immortal corpse Shi Yuan had hoped to use. After sending Shi Yuan away with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, Chen Xun recognized the corpse as an old acquaintance from the Chaos Ancient Road and called it Zhi Yun.

• Chen Xun's arrival suppressed Shi Yuan and the immortal corpse, and he questioned Shi Yuan's plan to bring Immortal Dao Talent into the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Little Crimson warned Shi Yuan about the immense karma he had incurred, and Shi Yuan accepted that he had been targeted again.
• Chen Xun called Shi Yuan a promising seedling, offered him a fortune in exchange for the immortal corpse, and Shi Yuan agreed.
• Chen Xun sent Little Crimson and Big Black Ox away with Shi Yuan, then examined the corpse in its secluded Grave Realm.
• Chen Xun identified the corpse as Zhi Yun and said that it had influenced Shi Yuan's will.

Chen Xun calmed Zhi Yun’s immortal corpse, recognized the ancient immortal’s fulfilled wish, and buried him in Heavenly Capital with Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Shi Yuan. A hundred years later, Chen Xun and his companions watched the Thunder Clan’s strange command over tribulation lightning as they planned their return home to address the many ventures their allies had begun.

• Chen Xun suppressed Zhi Yun’s corpse and realized it had come to the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain for Gu Li Sheng, before soothing it with a cup of tea and letting its aura settle.
• Chen Xun carried Zhi Yun’s corpse out of the Grave Realm, and he, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson buried it on an uninhabited Green Mountain in Imperial Sky Capital.
• Shi Yuan bowed before Zhi Yun’s grave in gratitude for the senior who had once guided him on the immortal path.
• A hundred years later, Big Black Ox devoured lightning in the Immortal Firmament Thunder Pool while a Thunder Clan woman struggled to reach the skies during a tribulation.
• Chen Xun decided they would return home after Big Black Ox completed his thunder Dao patterns, and he listed the plans underway among their allies across the Immortal Realm.

Five hundred years after Chen Xun set out across the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain, Tun Shi was falsely blamed for a host of old grievances and challenged by its powerful cultivators. He defeated them all, while Heng Ye resolved to seek stronger means to rescue his father and Lei Yaoguang silently reckoned with the gap between their strength and Tun Shi’s.

• Heng Ye accused Tun Shi of causing trouble in Tai Chu Valley and challenged him, while Lei Yaoguang and other cultivators blamed Tun Shi for unrelated past misfortunes.
• Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace disciples and Five Elements Sect disciples watched the gathering battle and discussed the different paths of Immortal Dao cultivation.
• Tun Shi swept away the attackers without suffering harm, and the defeated cultivators vowed to keep fighting and grow stronger.
• Heng Ye decided the Tai Chu Divine Herb was not enough and resolved to seek the Tai Chu Immortal Herb to cultivate a Primordial Spirit Dao art capable of defeating Tun Shi.
• Lei Yaoguang returned to her human form after being beaten into a ball of lightning and silently considered Tun Shi’s growing strength.

Tun Shi fled Central Immortal City, unaware that his departure cemented his reputation as the hidden hand behind the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain’s troubles, while the Heavenly Wheel Sect rose to prominence. Five hundred years later, miners in the Five Elements Immortal Domain encountered Candle Dragons brought to work in a mine, where the Mysterious Firmament Old Dragon King appeared and claimed them as his descendants.

• Tun Shi left Central Immortal City after gathering everything from his cave, planning to travel to Chaos Inlet and eventually create an Extraterrestrial Clone.
• The Nine Extremes Immortal Domain blamed Tun Shi for its major upheavals, while the Heavenly Wheel Sect established itself as the strongest sect in the Myriad Mountains.
• Two miners discussed their cultivation and prospects, and a veteran miner advised them to sever seven thousand immortal locks before venturing to Divine Mountain Continent.
• Mountain God told Torch Dragon Old Ancestor and Shi Yuan that the Candle Dragons had been brought to the Five Elements Immortal Domain to mine.
• The Mysterious Firmament Old Dragon King arrived and called the Candle Dragons his descendants, urging them to recognize their ancestor and return to the clan.