Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun comforted Nine Suns over losing his Dao friends, then guided him in the Dao and encouraged him to travel to the Myriad Mountains. Nine Suns left with his loneliness eased, while Chen Xun reflected that he did not need to take him as a disciple for him to learn and grow.

• Nine Suns told Chen Xun that all his companions had died in secret realms, and Chen Xun urged him to honor their hopes by living well.
• Nine Suns said he planned to travel to the Myriad Mountains rather than risk returning to the Five Elements Immortal Domain while Tun Shi remained there.
• Chen Xun encouraged Nine Suns to make friends on his journey and agreed to answer his questions about the Dao.
• Chen Xun and Nine Suns discussed cultivation through the night, and Nine Suns left the next day wearing a bamboo hat Chen Xun had given him.
• Big Black Ox wondered if Chen Xun would take Nine Suns as a disciple, but Chen Xun said he preferred to let beings explore the world freely.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson continued wandering the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain while keeping track of the Fu Shi Religion’s migration through letters. At Phantom Sound Fairy’s wedding, Chen Xun unexpectedly came face to face with Gu Qingyan.

• A teahouse owner discovered that the melon seed shells left behind by Chen Xun and his companions carried traces of the Great Dao and carefully saved them as heirlooms.
• Over the next hundred years, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson traveled around the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain, taking odd jobs and watching battles.
• Chen Xun read letters reporting that the Fu Shi Religion had reached the Shui Mo Mountain Range and planned to migrate onward, then felt reassured that their journey remained within reach.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson arrived at the Mystical Sound Sect to serve as master of ceremonies at Phantom Sound Fairy’s wedding.
• Chen Xun noticed Gu Qingyan staring at him, and both were stunned to recognize each other.

Chen Xun overcame his embarrassment and officiated at Huan Yin and Zang Hui’s wedding, but the ceremony was interrupted by Qin Nian, whose arrival revealed he had reached the Half Immortal Realm. Huan Yin’s tenderness toward Qin Nian and Zang Hui’s excitement left Chen Xun and his companions wondering which newlywed Qin Nian had come for.

• The Mystical Sound Sect Master praised Chen Xun as a renowned master of ceremonies, while Gu Qingyan watched him with amused interest.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson urged Chen Xun to begin, and he set aside his embarrassment to perform the ceremony.
• Zang Hui questioned Chen Xun’s cheerful demeanor, Huan Yin defended him, and Chen Xun went with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson to eat.
• The crowd feared Tun Shi had attacked, but the Mystical Sound Sect Master identified the challenger as Qin Nian, who unleashed powerful immortal radiance.
• The crowd discovered Qin Nian had reached the Half Immortal Realm; Zang Hui reacted with excitement, while Huan Yin looked at Qin Nian tenderly.

Qin Nian crashed Huan Yin’s wedding to take her away, but his battle with Zang Hui was interrupted when he attacked Chen Xun and drew the attention of a Ghost Face Exalted One. The Exalted One showed deference to Chen Xun as a Dao Ancestor, and Gu Qingyan finally confronted him.

• Qin Nian appeared at the Mystical Sound Sect wedding and demanded that Huan Yin leave with him, prompting Zang Hui to challenge him.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson left the wedding platform to eat at the banquet while Qin Nian and Zang Hui fought.
• Qin Nian defeated Zang Hui, then condemned the Mystical Sound Sect and launched a silver attack at Chen Xun for his role as master of ceremonies.
• A Ghost Face Exalted One named Yu Fangshuo stopped Qin Nian’s attack and ordered him to go to the Immortal Domain’s place of seclusion, which Qin Nian accepted.
• Yu Fangshuo saluted Chen Xun as a Dao Ancestor, and Gu Qingyan rose to address him while the Mystical Sound Sect Master fainted.

At the wedding banquet, Chen Xun arranged for the Ghost Face Race to guide Qin Nian and asked Gu Qingyan whether she would leave the Five Elements Immortal Domain. Gu Qingyan said she planned to stay, and Chen Xun dismissed the gathered cultivators as Mystical Sound Sect’s disciples watched in stunned silence.

• Gu Qingyan joined Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson for a meal, easing Chen Xun’s awkwardness.
• Chen Xun instructed Yu Fangshuo to guide Qin Nian and keep him from straying onto a crooked path, and Yu Fangshuo left with Qin Nian.
• Huan Yin watched Qin Nian depart with longing, while Chen Xun said the marriage could not proceed and Gu Qingyan promised to handle the matter.
• Chen Xun asked whether Gu Qingyan would leave for the outer regions, and she said she would remain in the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun invited the gathered cultivators to disperse, and they hurried away while Mystical Sound Sect’s disciples remained stunned.

Chen Xun left Myriad Sound Mountain with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, then settled in a Nine Extremes Immortal Domain city to sell paintings. Heaven Ruins Sect disciples confronted him over his prices, but accepted his explanation and his free paintings, while their Supreme Elder recognized Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor.

• Gu Qingyan packed the leftover food and left to reassure the Mystical Sound Sect disciples, while Chen Xun thanked her and prepared to depart with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson traveled down the mountain, where they joked around and Chen Xun chopped up a wild Crane Spirit Tree.
• A year later, Chen Xun sold paintings for one Immortal Spirit Stone each in a city of the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain.
• Heaven Ruins Sect disciples arrived to challenge Chen Xun over his painting prices, but he explained the paintings' materials and craftsmanship until they praised them.
• Chen Xun gave each Heaven Ruins Sect disciple a painting, and they promised to return with others to support his shop.
• The Heaven Ruins Sect's Supreme Elder recognized Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor and feared their past encounter in Giant Spirit City had drawn his attention again.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled through Water Heaven City, where Xiao Che recognized him and received a cryptic hint before the group moved on. Years later, Chen Xun reunited with Ke Ding, who reported that explorers had discovered three vast regions beyond the Qian Yuan Immortal Domain, leaving Chen Xun wondering whether the Immortal Realm had any end.

• Xiao Che recognized Chen Xun at the painting shop, bowed to him, and understood his remark about Water Heaven City as guidance.
• Ten years later, Heaven Ruins Sect disciples returned with immortal stones to buy paintings, but Chen Xun closed the shop and vanished after their purchases.
• Chen Xun, Black Ox, and Little Crimson visited Ke Ding at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace, where Chen Xun joked about taking the palace.
• Ke Ding told Chen Xun that explorers from Jade Bamboo Continent, the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance, and the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom had discovered three regions beyond the Qian Yuan Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun wondered whether the Immortal Realm had no end.

Ke Ding told Chen Xun about the Azure Mysterious, Purple Mansion, and Primordial Chaos Immortal Domains, including the Primordial Chaos Dao Court’s origins, and asked how to handle their rising powers. Chen Xun rejected suppressing them but admitted he would slaughter immortals to extend their lives, leaving Ke Ding alarmed about the turmoil he might cause.

• Ke Ding showed Chen Xun a map of the Three Domains and described their cultivators, resources, and powerful forces.
• Ke Ding explained that beings who sought the Dao in the Primordial Chaos River established the Primordial Chaos Dao Court after Chen Xun’s Third Sister became an immortal.
• Ke Ding proposed assimilating or suppressing the Three Domains to prevent future conflict, but Chen Xun declared that his own enduring power would keep heaven and earth stable.
• Chen Xun said the Three Domains’ powers did not have to become enemies and left with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, taking Ke Ding’s tea.
• Ke Ding warned Chen Xun that immortals faced a million-year limit and asked whether he would slaughter immortals to extend their lives; Chen Xun answered that he would.

Chen Xun and Ke Ding discussed the dangerous plans Chen Xun had made for the Immortal Realm, leaving Ke Ding troubled by what he suspected. A hundred and twenty thousand years later, the family celebrated an Immortal Dao festival as Chen Xun read letters describing the chaotic outer domains and the risks facing the Fu Shi Religion and Heavenly Palace.

• Chen Xun warned Ke Ding that he would act without reservations if the worst came, and Ke Ding vowed not to let him down.
• After Chen Xun and his companions left, Ke Ding wondered whether he had ever truly understood Chen Xun’s intentions.
• On the Immortal Dao festival, Chen Xun read Gu Li Sheng’s letter describing the outer domains’ vast resources, strange races, and ongoing chaos.
• Chen Xun read Song Heng’s warning that three Fu Shi Religion disciples had died and that the religion’s growing conflicts could draw the Heavenly Palace into war.
• Song Heng’s letter explained that exposed regions attracted powerful experts who enslaved their inhabitants, leaving even the Fu Shi Religion unable to protect its fallen disciples.

Chen Xun weighed the Fu Shi Religion’s plans to restore the Immortal Court and refused to let Qian Wuhen join its affairs. He then announced that the family would attend the Six Domains Banquet to discuss the division of the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent.

• Chen Xun read letters describing support for Gu Li Sheng’s restoration of the Immortal Court and Black Duck’s fierce opposition.
• Chen Xun reflected on the Fu Shi Religion’s ambitions and remembered how Black Duck had stayed with him through desolate ages.
• Qian Wuhen offered to travel to the outer domain, but Chen Xun forbade him from getting involved.
• Qian Wuhen reported that the Heavenly Wheel Sect dominated the Myriad Mountains and that his senior brothers had become immortals.
• Chen Xun told Qian Wuhen to leave with the family after their Immortal Domain festival and prepare for a distant journey.
• Chen Xun announced that they would attend the Six Domains Banquet and discuss dividing the Ancient Divine Mountain Continent.

The Three Immortal Domains’ Dao Struggle grew more intense, and the Primordial Chaos Dao Court redirected their rivalry toward the Five Elements Ancestral Domain. Chen Xun agreed to attend their banquet, where they planned to divide his ancestral land, and set out with He Ling and Big Black Ox.

• The Tri-Finger Race remained loyal to the Nine Heavens Immortal Alliance while reserving the right to seize power if the alliance could no longer lead them.
• After the Great Contact, cultivators of the Three Domains clashed over whose Immortal Dao orthodoxy was strongest, and their Dao Struggle spread from powerful cultivators to those below.
• The Primordial Chaos Dao Court emerged from seclusion and shifted the Three Domains’ conflicts toward the distant Divine Mountain Continent, which they believed held valuable treasures.
• The Primordial Chaos Dao Court invited the Five Elements Immortal Domain to divide the Five Elements Ancestral Domain, provoking Chen Xun’s interest.
• Chen Xun set out for the banquet with He Ling and Big Black Ox, saying he would tolerate challengers so long as they did not launch a major invasion of his domain.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled toward the Azure Mysterious Immortal Domain, while Meng Sheng took charge of guarding the Five Elements Immortal Domain after defeating Ni Canghuan. A thousand years later, Tun Shi accidentally knocked out a challenger at the Six Domains Banquet, provoking the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain and prompting a call for the other domains' strongest disciples.

• Chen Xun chose to visit the Azure Mysterious Immortal Domain to see its pill gatherings and find the Pill Lord, then departed aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• Meng Sheng confronted Ni Canghuan about a clansman who had descended to the lower realm and defeated him when Ni Canghuan challenged his authority.
• Meng Sheng agreed to guard the Five Elements Immortal Domain while Ni Canghuan claimed the right to deal with juniors from the Thirty-Three Immortal Realms.
• A thousand years later, Cave Heaven Peak of the Azure Mysterious Immortal Domain challenged the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain at the Six Domains Banquet.
• Tun Shi struck the arena with such force that Cave Heaven Peak's pill artifact broke and Cave Heaven Peak was knocked unconscious into the Azure Sky Sea.
• Nine Extremes Immortal Domain cultivators accused Tun Shi of sneak-attacking, and a speaker urged the three domains to summon their strongest disciples.

Tun Shi fought challengers from the Outer Domains and overwhelmed them with his strength. After three days of increasingly intense battles, he reached one hundred victories.

• Qiu and the Azure Mysterious Immortal Domain's ancestor questioned Tun Shi's age and origins, while suspecting the distant Outer Domain elders had ties to the Primordial Chaos Dao Court.
• An Azure-Clad Woman challenged Tun Shi, but he defeated her with a single punch to claim his second victory.
• A noble-looking cultivator from the Primordial Chaos Dao Court challenged Tun Shi and lost after reaching the arena, giving Tun Shi his third victory.
• Cultivators from the three great Immortal Domains sent increasingly powerful challengers as the battles intensified.
• Three days later, Tun Shi claimed one hundred victories.

Jiu Jian challenged Zhou Xiao after mistaking his calmness for disrespect, but Zhou Xiao effortlessly evaded his sword and overwhelmed him with devastating attacks. The Six Domains’ banquet fell silent as Jiu Jian’s bloodied sword flew from the sea, leaving his fate unclear.

• Qiu called for the Dao discussion to end, but Jiu Jian of the Primordial Chaos Dao Court challenged a Five Elements Sect disciple from the melon-seed-eating group.
• Zhou Xiao calmly accepted Jiu Jian’s challenge and descended onto the arena as Tun Shi returned to the Five Elements Immortal Domain’s platform.
• Jiu Jian’s sword split the arena and unleashed Primordial Chaos laws, but Zhou Xiao stood unharmed and said the attack was too slow.
• Zhou Xiao struck Jiu Jian into the distance and summoned a roaming dragon that transformed into five powerful figures wielding towering immortal trees.
• Zhou Xiao pressed down with two fingers, unleashing five beams of immortal light; Jiu Jian screamed as his bloodied sword flew out of the sea and the Six Domains fell silent.

Jiu Jian was defeated by a Five Elements Immortal Domain cultivator, prompting the Primordial Chaos Seven Ancestors to recognize the threat posed by the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and his domain. The rival domains withdrew from the confrontation and challenged one another to meet again at the Six Domains Dao Convention.

• Jiu Jian sank toward the seabed after his Primordial Chaos Immortal Sword failed to overcome his opponent, whose five independent avatars and immense power astonished the Primordial Chaos Dao Court.
• The Primordial Chaos Seven Ancestors discussed the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, the Eternal Heaven and Earth Stone, and their need to slay the Heaven Stealing Bandit.
• The Purple Mansion and Azure Mysterious Immortal Ancestors began retreating, then argued that their domains' true prodigies had not attended and that the Six Domains Dao Convention would be a fairer test.
• The Heavenly Wheel Immortal accepted the challenge and warned the other domains not to retreat when the convention took place.
• Ke Ding and an elderly man from the Longevity Yu Family declared that the Five Elements Immortal Domain would send its own powerful cultivators to the convention.

Ji Yan’s schemes against Wuliang continued as the Immortal Domains prepared an ambush and sent Hidden Ant to retrieve Wuliang’s Great Dao immortal essence. Chen Xun arrived at the Six Domains Banquet, where the assembled cultivators recognized him as the Five Elements Dao Ancestor and he confirmed his identity.

• Xing Jun reported that the Thirty-Three Immortal Realms’ invaders had been slaughtered, including a Second Tribulation Immortal whose corpse was hung by the Dao Sea.
• Qian Shan told Ji Yan that five Three Tribulations Immortals had prepared an Immortal Slaying Killing Scheme for Wuliang, and Ji Yan ordered them to leave Wuliang’s immortal essence a chance to escape.
• Ji Yan commanded Hidden Ant to retrieve Wuliang’s Great Dao immortal essence, and Hidden Ant accepted the order.
• The cultivators at the Six Domains Banquet noticed a boat approaching and rose in solemn salute as the great clans and Immortal Domains reacted to its passenger.
• Tai Yi identified the man on the boat as Five Elements Dao Ancestor Chen Xun, who confirmed, “Indeed, it is I.”

Gu Jin and the Primordial Chaos forces launched a plan to sever Chen Xun’s Five Elements Immortal Path with the Nine Great Dao Pillars. As Tian Rui invoked the myriad Daos to suppress Chen Xun’s Dao Seed, Ke Ding urged the other immortals to act, but they continued to wait for the right moment.

• Gu Jin used his Dao Sound to unsettle the Azure Sky Sea’s inhabitants, and Ke Ding sent Qi Xin and Ding Yao to protect them.
• The Nine Great Dao Pillars rose from the seabed, revealing themselves as the Annihilate the Dao Heavenly Passage Pillars prepared to sever Chen Xun’s connection to the Heaven and Earth Five Elements.
• Gu Jin activated the Nine Mirrors as the Five Elements Array Disks attacked, and the resulting clash severed a part of the Five Elements Qi while slicing Gu Jin’s immortal body in two.
• Tian Rui used Primordial Chaos Immortal blood to call forth the resonance of the Heaven and Earth Myriad Daos and suppress Chen Xun’s Five Elements Dao Seed.
• Ke Ding called on Heavenly Wheel Immortal and the others to intervene, but Heavenly Wheel Immortal waited for Tai Yi to act, while Ke Ding said he would move at the crucial moment.

Yuan Luo unleashed a sword art that slashed at Chen Xun’s peak and lifespan while the Primordial Chaos Dao Court’s barriers kept the Five Elements forces at bay. Just as the strike reached its target, the Defiled Beast Old Turtle appeared and swallowed the Life Severing Sword Light.

• Ji Yan restrained Tian Li from escalating the conflict and said he would hunt down the remnants of the Great World Heavenly Dao.
• Yuan Luo reclaimed the Primordial Chaos Immortal Sword and formed a vast Great Dao Immortal Body to perform the Slashing Time art against Chen Xun.
• Ji Zhao and more than a hundred immortals from the Five Elements Immortal Domain arrived and attacked the Nine Great Dao Pillars to open a passage.
• Yuan Luo invoked Tian Rui, Defy the Dao, and sent his Life Severing Sword Light toward Chen Xun.
• The Defiled Beast Old Turtle appeared, swallowed the sword light, and spoke of Slashing Time as a Defiled Blood River surged in.

Chen Xun overcame Cang Xiang and Tian Rui’s Defiant Dao attack and revealed that he had already become the Dao Ancestor of the Five Elements. As Tai Yi launched a Primordial Chaos killing formation and called upon the Heavenly Dao, Chen Xun faced a new threat above the Azure Sky Sea.

• Defiled Blood engulfed Yuan Luo, whose immortal body withered into a skeleton under the backlash of the Great Dao of Ages.
• Cang Xiang broke through Chen Xun’s Five Elements defenses while Tian Rui lent him strength, and the two unleashed the Defiant Dao to drain Chen Xun’s power.
• Chen Xun reversed the Five Elements and restored his immortal power, declaring that he had transcended the Five Elements Immortal Path and claimed its Great Dao authority.
• Tai Yi raised an immortal banner, summoned the Primordial Chaos Killing Formation, and called on the Heavenly Dao to help kill Chen Xun.

Chen Xun survived Tai Yi’s attack and overwhelmed the Primordial Chaos Seven Ancestors, sparing Tai Yi while Wuliang was captured. The Five Elements Immortal Domain’s influence spread across the other domains, and a thousand years later the Primordial Chaos Dao Court still endured.

• Tai Yi unleashed his immortal body as the Primordial Chaos Killing Formation, shattering the Nine Great Dao Pillars and striking at Chen Xun.
• Chen Xun revealed the Profound Yellow World and erased the Heavenly Dao Will’s lingering power, then took the seat behind Tai Yi and Wuliang.
• A rain of Starfall fireballs fell from a crimson rift as cultivators across the Immortal Domains witnessed Chen Xun’s overwhelming might.
• Tai Yi accepted defeat, but Wuliang fled and was seized by a pair of giant hands reaching down from the heavens.
• The Major Dao Lineages honored the Five Elements Main Immortal Domain, and cultivators from other domains came to study its many Immortal Paths.
• A thousand years later, Tai Yi reflected on the Dao Ancestor’s mercy while the Primordial Chaos Dao Court continued to exist.