Chapter Summaries

Big Black Ox underwent the Great Dao Immortal Tribulation, using the collision of its power with the Immortal Realm Origin to forge the Black Coffin and attain perfect immortality. After a century of stabilizing its Great Dao, it was interrupted by Ji Dao, whom it sent away without fighting.

• Big Black Ox confronted the Great Dao Immortal Tribulation while Chen Xun and He Ling aided it from the Jade Bamboo Continent.
• The clash between Big Black Ox and the Immortal Realm Origin gave birth to the Black Coffin, reforging its first Natal Magical Artifact.
• Ten years later, Big Black Ox continued enduring the tribulation, wearing the Great Dao Fetal Garment and bearing the Great Dao Immortal Mountains.
• A hundred years later, Big Black Ox stabilized its Great Dao atop the Black Coffin and prepared to fight alongside Chen Xun.
• Ji Dao emerged from the depths of the Dao Sea and attacked Big Black Ox with a long spear, but the Black Coffin trapped him in an unfamiliar space.
• Big Black Ox chose not to fight Ji Dao and sent him away so it could stabilize its cultivation.

Big Black Ox became an immortal whose power overwhelmed the immortals of the Eternal Night Western Land, while Chen Xun prepared to advance through the Five Elements Dao. A year later, Chen Xun suddenly reappeared atop the Ring Mountains, startling Big Black Ox, He Ling, and Little Crimson.

• Big Black Ox ascended and used his immense strength to strike down the immortals arriving from the Eternal Night Western Land.
• Chen Xun and He Ling realized that Big Black Ox had become a Great Dao-level lifeform, surpassing the immortal realm's life level.
• Chen Xun revealed an unopened Dao Seed and said he would return after the Five Elements bloomed, then began dispersing his immortal qi into heaven and earth.
• The Eternal Immortal Frontier grew stronger as elders retired and younger figures, including Liu Han and Ke Yuanxu, took over positions of power.
• Song Heng retired from affairs in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and settled with Qionghua Shuiyu in an immortal city in the Primitive Forest Sea.
• One year later, Chen Xun suddenly appeared on the Ring Mountains, startling Big Black Ox, He Ling, and Little Crimson.

Chen Xun reunited with his companions after his divine Dao sense split into billions, then hosted a feast where he learned the Heavenly Court and Fu Shi Religion had gone to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. As the gathered powers pressed him about the coming battle and his past, he chose to discuss it privately with Ji Yan, leaving Ke Ding to eavesdrop.

• Chen Xun explained that his Five Elements Great Dao was gone and asked his companions to watch over Mu Feng, who had gone underground with Di Yang.
• Half a year later, Chen Xun welcomed Bai Mengli and other immortals to a feast in the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• Chen Xun learned from Ji Yan and Ke Ding that the Heavenly Court and Fu Shi Religion had gone to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, and he let them proceed.
• Ji Yan asked Chen Xun how he viewed the battle, while Bai Mengli and the gathered powers watched for his response.
• Chen Xun asked Ji Yan to sit and talk, then privately asked Ji Yan for his view of the battle as Ke Ding and Big Black Ox tried to eavesdrop.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The banquet attendees discuss the ongoing war in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, which is orchestrated by the Boundless Hegemon Clans to gather momentum and subdue major races.
• Ji Yan believes this war is a prelude to a larger conflict that will eventually engulf the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan discuss the possibility of the Eternal Immortal Frontier joining the war in the future.
• Ke Ding warns Chen Xun against joining the war, and Chen Xun reassures him that he won't drag his people into it.
• The banquet ends abruptly, and Chen Xun begins preparing for something.
• A hundred years later, the war intensifies: Qi Xiao fights against the Boundless Hegemon Clans, and Gu Heng seeks to avenge his ancestors.

Character Developments

• Chen Xun: He remains indifferent to the grand scheme of the war but is influenced by Ji Yan's perspective. He considers the possibility of his territory joining the war in the future but reassures Ke Ding that he won't involve his people.
• Ji Yan: He shows political acumen and strategic thinking, predicting the war's progression and its potential impact on the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains.
• Ke Ding: He remains focused on his personal life and friendships, showing little interest in the war or revenge. He warns Chen Xun against joining the war.

Significant Themes

• War and its consequences: The war in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories is portrayed as a complex, manipulative event with far-reaching implications.
• Loyalty and friendship: Ke Ding's loyalty to his friends and his disinterest in the war contrast with Chen Xun's strategic thinking and Ji Yan's political awareness.
• The burden of the past: The characters grapple with the legacy of past conflicts and the potential for future wars.

Character Interactions

• Chen Xun and Ji Yan: They engage in a thoughtful discussion about the war's implications and the potential involvement of the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding: Chen Xun reassures Ke Ding that he won't join the war, understanding Ke Ding's desire to live in the present and avoid past conflicts.
• Ji Yan and Ke Ding: Ji Yan's perspective on the war clashes with Ke Ding's disinterest, leading to a tense moment between them.

The Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable attacked the Three Lifetimes Dao Palace, and Yu Xuan was mortally wounded while calling for Chen Xun. Chen Xun returned as the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, drove back the threat, and reversed time to restore Yu Xuan’s body.

• The Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable trapped Yu Xuan and the remaining immortals beneath his Immortal Refining cauldrons.
• Yu Xuan was pierced by the Dao Venerable and called out Chen Xun’s name before she died.
• Chen Xun descended as the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, suppressing the million cultivators and startling the Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable.
• Chen Xun ordered the survivors to withdraw behind him and reversed time around Yu Xuan, restoring her shattered body.

Chen Xun defeated Yuan Ze, then entered the Origin Clan’s Immortal Borderland to protect the Three Lifetimes Dao Palace and claim Azure Water Earth Fire. After he returned, Yu Xuan woke and grabbed his robe before he could finish speaking.

• Chen Xun used his Ten-Armed Dharma Idol and five-colored axe to defeat Yuan Ze, sending him beyond the Boundless Immortal Domain.
• Experts across the Immortal Realm discussed Chen Xun’s strength, while Yuan Ze concluded that he could no longer kill Nine Tribulation Immortals outright.
• A month later, Chen Xun entered the Origin Clan’s Immortal Borderland and declared that he would protect the Three Lifetimes Dao Palace and take them away.
• Yuan Zhihe agreed to stop opposing Chen Xun and offered him the Origin Clan’s Azure Water Earth Fire.
• After Chen Xun returned to the shattered Three Lifetimes Dao Palace, Yu Xuan woke and seized his robe as he spoke to her.

Chen Xun rescued Yu Xuan from the ruined Three Lifetimes Dao Palace and invited her to the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains. She agreed to leave with him, while the other Dao Palace immortals chose their own destination, and Chen Xun warned that the Three Lifetimes Dao Lord owed him an explanation.

• Chen Xun appeared before Yu Xuan and offered to take her to the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains, but she lamented that she had failed to protect the prodigy he favored.
• Chen Xun explained that he could not restore the life origins of the other immortals, and Yu Xuan confessed that she had liked him for years before claiming she had been joking.
• Yu Xuan agreed to go with Chen Xun, while the other Dao Palace immortals declined and accepted his suggestion to travel to the Taiyi Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun accused the Three Lifetimes Dao Lord of using Yu Xuan and the others as chess pieces, and vowed to demand an explanation if the Lord visited the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains.
• Chen Xun and Yu Xuan left the hall bickering, but they had not yet fully departed the secret realm.

Chen Xun brought Yu Xuan home after burying the fallen Dao Palace Disciples, and their long journey eased her grief as they reminisced about old friends. At Giant Spirit City, Yu Xuan reunited with Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu, met Gu Qingyan amid a subtle tension, and then Chen Xun hurried off after hearing that an unusual being had ascended from the universe.

• Chen Xun and Yu Xuan buried the fallen Dao Palace Disciples, then Chen Xun sealed the ruined realm and took Yu Xuan home.
• A hundred years later, Chen Xun met Old Turtle in the Void Sea and continued toward the Eternal Immortal Frontier with Yu Xuan aboard the World Breaking Ship.
• During their thousand-year journey, Chen Xun shared stories about his friends and lifted much of the gloom from Yu Xuan's heart.
• At Giant Spirit City, Yu Xuan reunited with Mo Yehan and Ling Qiuchu, then met Gu Qingyan as the two women exchanged courteous but pointed compliments.
• Xian Jue told Chen Xun that an extraordinary being from the universe had arrived through the Ascension Passage, and Chen Xun rushed to see them.

Chen Xun and Xian Jue listened to the newly ascended Gong Yu recount his lucrative Earth Croton and artifact-refining ventures. After learning that the realm passage was weakening amid a clash between two worlds, Chen Xun agreed that the Five Elements Immortal Sect should help lower-realm ascenders reach the Eternal Immortal Frontier safely.

• Chen Xun hurriedly left Ke Ding to arrange a territory for Yu Xuan, citing an urgent, world-shaking matter.
• Gong Yu entertained the disciples at the Primitive Forest Sea tea stall with tales of earning fortunes through Earth Croton and artifact refinement.
• Chen Xun and Xian Jue watched Gong Yu, and Xian Jue explained his unusual background, young soul age, and early Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Xian Jue revealed that he had helped Gong Yu survive ascension and sensed the Heaven and Earth Origins of two worlds colliding.
• Chen Xun warned that the collision threatened nearby living beings, then approved comforting and supporting future ascenders as the passage weakened.

Gong Yu tried to prove his value to the Immortal Realm cultivators by describing his universe and offering his inventions, only to discover that they already surpassed or understood them. As Chen Xun considered Xian Jue taking Gong Yu under his wing, Ji Mo remarked that Gong Yu’s blue skin resembled Cheng Yuan’s, leaving Chen Xun quietly thoughtful.

• Gong Yu praised the Heavenly God Human Race and offered to refine devices, but the disciples of the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace and Five Elements Sect revealed they already had similar technology.
• Gong Yu claimed he could create Machine Life, and the immortal puppet explained that Butler Mo’s puppets were a lower realm below its race.
• The Five Elements Sect’s eldest senior brother redirected Gong Yu to tell them about Earth Croton, while Gong Yu worried that the cultivators might enslave or dissect him.
• Chen Xun and Xian Jue discussed the changes in Gong Yu’s universe, and Xian Jue asked to take Gong Yu under his wing.
• Ji Mo arrived after hearing about Gong Yu and told Chen Xun that Gong Yu’s skin resembled Cheng Yuan’s; Chen Xun responded with a quiet smile.

Gong Yu witnessed the immense Five Elements Immortal Domain before being sent to mine, while Little Crimson told Chen Xun about the Spirit Estate’s vast expansion and abundant resources. The chapter left Chen Xun studying the Estate’s far-reaching holdings as its people prospered in the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Xun sent Xian Jue to take Gong Yu to the mine and temper his body.
• Xian Jue carried Gong Yu through the forest, where Gong Yu saw the grandeur of the Five Elements Immortal Domain and celebrated his ascension.
• Xian Jue threw Gong Yu into a mine, where the Mountain God ordered him to collect a tool and start mining.
• Little Crimson showed Chen Xun a coordinate artifact marking rich resources and a Spirit Realm populated by at least a hundred billion beings who had joined the Spirit Estate.
• Little Crimson explained that Ji Yan’s rules ensured the Spirit Realm beings worked for wages, while the Estate expanded across the Immortal Realm and other planes.

Chen Xun wandered through the Immortal Realm as its revered Dao Ancestor, then the Second Session Heavenly Pride Gathering began drawing factions and challengers from across the Immortal Realm. Three years later, Outer Domain immortals and their heavenly prides finally arrived at the Eternal Immortal Frontier and were stunned by its vast splendor.

• Chen Xun walked beneath the moon, greeted the reverent beings who recognized him as the Dao Ancestor, and continued on his way.
• One year later, the Second Session Heavenly Pride Gathering began, and factions across the Immortal Realm sent their heavenly prides to compete.
• Liu Han ordered the Five Elements Sect’s Fourth Generation Disciples to join the battle, while the Heavenly Wheel Sect proclaimed its ambition to suppress them.
• Outer Domain heavenly prides and immortals traveled toward the Eternal Immortal Frontier aboard Space-Time Leap Transport Warships, while their elders dismissed the borderland as unimpressive.
• Three years later, the warships’ barriers turned transparent, and their passengers saw the Eternal Immortal Frontier and gasped in astonishment.

Immortals gathered to watch the second Heavenly Pride Gathering on Jade Bamboo Continent, while Chen Xun and Ke Ding reflected on how their generation had grown older. The gathering began as Chen Xun and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal reignited an old feud, turning the viewing platform into a loud verbal battle.

• Cultivators and Immortals from across the Immortal Realm arrived at Jade Bamboo Continent and were stunned by the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s scale and power.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding watched the young participants and recalled their own generation’s gathering and the friends they had lost or parted from.
• The Heavenly Wheel Immortal accused Chen Xun of causing a flaw in his sect, and the two traded accusations about their past misdeeds.
• As the second Heavenly Pride Gathering began, Chen Xun and the Heavenly Wheel Immortal criticized each other’s disciples, and Big Black Ox and Little Crimson joined the escalating fray.
• Ni Canghuan and Mountain-Sitting Duck entered the argument, overwhelming Big Black Ox with their rapid-fire insults.

The Four Extremes Immortal Soil’s Heavenly Prides were crushed by the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s cultivators, while Heng Que stunned the gathering by challenging the Five Elements Immortal Sect. As Chen Xun watched, a spirit from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace told him that Fate Clan cultivators were seeking an audience, and he agreed to receive them.

• The Four Extremes Immortal Soil’s competitors suffered repeated defeats, and the Immortal Nation Crown Prince and a cultivator from Tempering Dao Mountain learned that the Eternal Immortal Frontier counted cultivators with immortal bodies as Heavenly Prides.
• After the fifth round, nearly all the Four Extremes Immortal Soil cultivators had been eliminated, prompting uproar among their Dao Lineages; the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace had no one advance past the first round.
• Yu Xuan remarked that Mo Yehan would have been overwhelmed at the gathering, and he replied that growing up in the Immortal World would have given him at least some talent mutation.
• Heng Que of the Nine Extremes Immortal Domain challenged the Five Elements Immortal Sect, displaying five Half Immortal Realm Dharma Manifestations and five Five Elements avatars.
• The Immortal Nation Crown Prince recognized Heng Que as the monster who had crushed his Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth.
• A Longevity Race spirit from the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace told Chen Xun that Fate Clan cultivators had come seeking an audience, and Chen Xun agreed.

Chen Xun met Ming Guhong of the Fate Clan and learned that his clan could help resurrect the dead, though doing so for immortals risked bringing a Great Dao Omen that could destroy the clan. Hoping to save someone dear to him, Chen Xun asked to learn the Fate Dao, and Ming Guhong agreed to transmit what he knew.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Viewing Platform to meet Ming Guhong at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace.
• Ming Guhong asked Chen Xun to save his clan, whose members had been captured after an Immortal Venerable shattered their innate fortune.
• Ming Guhong explained the costs of resurrection and warned that resurrecting an immortal could bring a Great Dao Omen that might erase the Fate Clan.
• Chen Xun respectfully asked how resurrection worked and offered to bear the calamities himself while severing his karma with the Fate Clan.
• Chen Xun offered a Longevity Immortal Herb, but Ming Guhong said the Fate Clan could not extend its lifespan.
• Ming Guhong refused to take Chen Xun as a disciple but agreed to transmit the Fate Dao to him.

Chen Xun arranged for the Fate Clan to be rescued and settled in the Eternal Immortal Frontier, then returned to the grand gathering on Jade Bamboo Continent. There, he watched a Heavenly Wheel Immortal disciple reveal a Celestial Wheel Great World and saw the Five Elements Sect’s Fourth Generation Disciples miss the top three.

• Chen Xun sent Ming Guhong, Meng Sheng, Ke Ding, and others aboard the world-breaking ship to rescue the Fate Clan and bring them to the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Chen Xun, the Big Black Ox, and Ke Ding stayed behind, and Chen Xun concluded that the Immortal Realm Rules allowed resurrection from death.
• An eruption of immortal qi on Jade Bamboo Continent revealed that a Heavenly Wheel Immortal disciple had cultivated an Internal Celestial Wheel Great World and defeated a Five Elements Sect disciple’s avatar.
• Chen Xun kicked the Heavenly Wheel Immortal off the viewing platform when he arrived with the Big Black Ox, then watched the gathering continue.
• Mountain, a Heaven and Earth Giant Spirit with an immortal mountain as his Natal Magical Artifact, defeated Heng Que, while no Five Elements Sect Fourth Generation Disciple took a top-three seat.
• Liu Han explained that the Fourth Generation Disciples were training through avatars, with some fighting in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and others selling snacks at night.

Chen Xun stepped back from overseeing the Eternal Immortal Frontier as its younger generation prospered, while the Fate Clan joined the distant Three Walls Immortal Court. He accepted that the Fate Clan was safe for now, but Meng Sheng and the others returned furious after clashing with the Court.

• Chen Xun told Liu Han he would spend less time directing the Eternal Immortal Frontier and focus on seeking a path to the Great Dao Immortal Second Step.
• Ten years later, Tao Sheng won the top scorer's position, the Celestial Wheel Immortal Sect dominated the rankings, and the Eternal Immortal Frontier's merchants began selling Immortal Dao artifacts across distant regions.
• Meng Sheng reported that the Fate Clan had voluntarily joined the Three Walls Immortal Court, whose powerful Immortal Emperor wielded the fortunes of all living beings.
• Ke Ding warned Chen Xun that the Three Walls Immortal Court sheltered many ancient first-generation Innate Lifeforms, but Chen Xun decided not to pursue the distant Fate Clan.
• One month later, Meng Sheng and the others returned aboard the World Breaking Ship, angry that the Three Walls Immortal Court had treated them with contempt.

Chen Xun accepted Ming Guhong’s teaching of the Fate Dao, but Ming died after a hundred years, leaving Chen Xun to promise that he would spare the Fate Clan. After discussing his ongoing cultivation and news of upheaval across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, Chen Xun decided to return there and retrieve the Demon Moon Immortal Tomb and Tea Mountain.

• Ni Canghuan demanded another attack on the Three Walls Immortal Court, but Chen Xun ordered everyone to rest and ended the matter.
• Ming Guhong agreed to teach Chen Xun the Fate Dao, and Chen Xun cultivated alongside him for a hundred years.
• Ming Guhong died beneath the newly appeared Fate Wheel No Return gateway, and Chen Xun vowed to give the Fate Clan a way to live and never attack them.
• He Ling told Chen Xun that she had found no Immortal Realm Origin, while Chen Xun said he was still entering the Dao and was not in a hurry.
• Ke Ding questioned Chen Xun about longevity and reported unrest across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, including conflicts involving the Boundless Human Race and the Ancient Immortal Clan.
• Chen Xun said he would go to the Three Thousand Immortal Territories and bring back the Demon Moon Immortal Tomb and Tea Mountain.

A thousand years after Chen Xun left, Gu Li Sheng prepared to reclaim the Tai Yi Immortal Court’s remnants and the Di Seal, bringing him into open conflict with the Ten Thousand Clans. Allies from across the Three Thousand Immortal Territories rallied to his cause, and Chen Xun arrived there as the war gathered force.

• Chen Xun left after telling Ke Ding and He Ling about his years with Red Beauty.
• Gu Li Sheng told Yuan Chengsi that the human race had taken the Immortal Court and Heavenly River, and declared that he would reclaim the Immortal Court’s remnants and the Di Seal.
• Nine Tribulations Dao Venerables and immortals of the Ten Thousand Clans warned Gu Li Sheng to leave the Three Thousand Immortal Territories, but he refused and accepted war.
• The immortals withdrew after a mysterious aura of karma shook the region, and forces including ancient powers and the Myriad Realms Spirit Bank rallied to the Tai Yi Immortal Court’s cause.
• Chen Xun arrived in the Three Thousand Immortal Territories.

Chen Xun traveled through the war-torn Immortal Realm, protected a young cultivator, and forced Evil Lord Shi Guan to reveal the truth behind a besieged blessed land. Years later, he reached the human realm in the Taiyi Immortal Domain and found its surviving mortals gathered beneath Tea Mountain amid widespread slaughter.

• Chen Xun saw a young cultivator mourning his destroyed sect and secretly gave him Protective Immortal Qi to shield him from the aftermath of battle.
• Chen Xun encountered Zhang Tianlin and Shi Guan as more than ten million beings fled a blessed land, then stopped Shi Guan from leaving and made him explain his schemes.
• Zhang Tianlin learned the truth about the blessed land and thanked Chen Xun, who left the survivors to continue their cultivation.
• Years later, Chen Xun reached the human realm in the Taiyi Immortal Domain and found it devastated by the war between the Boundless Hegemon Clans.
• The surviving human mortals had gathered beneath Tea Mountain, the holy land stained with immortal blood.