Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun rejected the human race’s pleas for mercy and struck at both the Human Race Mountains and Rivers Backbone and the Overlord Clans’ territories. As the Overlord Clan immortals charged in despair and Big Black Ox led the counterattack, Chen Xun’s blows ended their age of rule.

• Zhuang Shiyuan and the human race’s survivors begged Chen Xun to spare the Human Race Mountains and Rivers Backbone, while Meng Sheng trembled and laughed in fear.
• Despairing Overlord Clan immortals charged toward the Human Ancestor Domain, and some exploded themselves when Eternal Immortal Frontier experts tried to stop them.
• Big Black Ox drove the shattered Black Coffin into the central battlefield and led the immortals, the Ending Immortal Sect, and the Five Vices of Misfortune Old Ancestor into battle.
• Chen Xun answered the pleas by condemning the Overlord Clans for their treatment of other races and declaring that the Immortal Realm did not belong to them alone.
• Chen Xun swung the Human Dao Supreme Sword at the Human Race Mountains and Rivers Backbone as the Lava Heavenly Star crashed into the Overlord Clans’ territories.
• Gu Li Sheng watched as Chen Xun’s attack ended the era of the Overlord Clans ruling the world.

The Immortal Realm’s war against the Boundless Hegemon Clans ended with Chen Xun’s strike, and later generations remembered it as the opening battle of the Golden Prosperity Era. Three years after the fighting, Chen Xun and Ke Ding left the Boundless Immortal Domain and looked back at Sheng Chang'an, who still stood alone at Human Ancestor Mountain.

• The living beings of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories hailed Chen Xun as the Dao Ancestor, and the Boundless Hegemon Clans’ attempt to rule all Spirits was extinguished.
• The Immortal Realm’s races established their own Immortal Domain rules after the war, and later histories named the conflict the opening battle of the Golden Prosperity Era.
• Later powerhouses debated why the Human Race had joined the Overlord Clans and why Chen Xun had waited four hundred thousand years before acting.
• Three years after Chen Xun destroyed the Boundless Hegemon Clans’ Mountains and Rivers Backbone, the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s army finished clearing the battlefield after a war that had lasted over a hundred years.
• Chen Xun and Ke Ding turned back toward the collapsed peak of Human Ancestor Mountain and saw Sheng Chang'an still standing there alone.

After the Human Race suffered a crushing defeat, Sheng Chang'an used the last remnant of the Mountains and Rivers Decree to reveal the buried history of his people. He began recounting their past betrayals and failures as Zhuang Shiyuan tried to stop him, and the chapter ended with Sheng Chang'an continuing his account.

• Zhuang Shiyuan grieved over the Human Race’s defeat and warned Sheng Chang'an not to undermine their spirits.
• Sheng Chang'an revealed that he had preserved the Mountains and Rivers Decree’s final power so the entire Human Race could hear him.
• Sheng Chang'an described episodes from the Human Race’s history, including its internal strife, arrogance, and mistreatment of the Baili Clan.
• Zhuang Shiyuan accused Sheng Chang'an of trying to destroy the Human Race, but Sheng Chang'an ignored him and continued recounting their history.
• Sheng Chang'an began describing how Human Emperor Ji Jiuxiao repaid the Human Race’s debts by slaughtering allied races.

Sheng Chang'an publicly cleared the names of the Star Sea Remnant Race and exposed the Human Race’s crimes against the Realm Lifeforms, calling for the Human Dao to abandon its hegemonic identity and stop the war. As cultivators echoed his vow that the Human Dao would endure, a long-sealed letter containing Jiang Ji Xiu’s final words drifted toward Chen Xun.

• Sheng Chang'an invoked the Mountains and Rivers Decree to clear the names of the Star Sea Remnant Race, moving Bai Mengli to tears.
• Sheng Chang'an silenced Zhuang Shiyuan and revealed how the Human Race had exploited and persecuted the Realm Lifeforms for its own ambition.
• Sheng Chang'an renounced the Human Race’s status as a hegemon clan and called for the race to stop the war and uphold the Human Dao.
• Human Race cultivators echoed Sheng Chang'an’s vow, while the surviving Yinming Spirit Clan immortals feared the possibility of the Human Race’s rebirth.
• Ke Ding praised Sheng Chang'an’s bearing, and Chen Xun mourned the fallen as Jiang Ji Xiu’s sealed final letter drifted over.

Chen Xun read Jiang Ji Xiu’s letter affirming his place in the human path and vowed to settle the Boundless Hegemon Clans’ blood debt without letting the hatred continue into the Eternal Immortal Frontier. Yue Lingyan then explained why she had founded the Three Lifetimes Dao Palace and fought in the war, leaving Chen Xun to let Ke Ding decide what to do about her.

• Chen Xun read Jiang Ji Xiu’s letter, whose words supported his path and rejected the idea that the Boundless Human Race alone represented all humanity.
• Chen Xun promised Ke Ding that, after the Realm Cataclysm, he would settle matters with the Boundless Hegemon Clans and end the cycle of hatred in the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Ke Ding warned that Sheng Chang'an would face danger for speaking out, and Chen Xun doubted Sheng Chang'an would survive the conflict within the Human Race.
• Yue Lingyan arrived, and Ke Ding questioned her about Yao Qin’s death and her decision to remain behind when Boundless Immortal Valley fled.
• Yue Lingyan explained that she had rescued Jade Terrace Immortal Palace’s disciples, founded the Three Lifetimes Dao Palace, and fought the Boundless Hegemon Clans to keep the Three Thousand Immortal Territories from being crushed.
• Chen Xun acknowledged Yue Lingyan’s role in the war and left the matter of her fate to Ke Ding.

Chen Xun and Ji Yan reflected on the devastating battle and the Eternal Immortal Frontier’s future as its battered army departed. In the Human Ancestor Domain, Ke Ding attacked Bai Mengli with the Heavenly Dao Mirror for betraying her fellow Daoists.

• Ke Ding accepted Boundless Immortal Ancient’s historical records from Yue Lingyan, who then departed to travel the Immortal Realm.
• Yuan Ming thanked Chen Xun for helping him refine the Overlord Clan’s Mountains and Rivers Backbone, and Chen Xun ordered him to keep it secret.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan discussed the battle’s immense losses and how it had disrupted Chen Xun’s plan to wait for a later, less costly assault on the Boundless Immortal Domain.
• Chen Xun and Ji Yan decided to return to the ancestral land and acknowledged that the Immortal Realm’s future would need to be planned anew.
• In the Human Ancestor Domain, Ke Ding used the Heavenly Dao Mirror to attack Bai Mengli, condemning her betrayal of her fellow Daoists.

After the battle, Ke Ding mourned the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace's dead and ordered its survivors to forget the war and rebuild. Chen Xun surveyed the wounded immortals and forgave the Ominous Old Ancestor for using the Ending Immortal Sect's Ominous Immortals as shields, leaving him with three Longevity Immortal Herbs to strengthen his race.

• Ke Ding returned to the Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace's crippled platform and ordered Wan Qing, Yan Xi, Si Han, Ruo Chu, and Gu Ci to be buried on Jade Bamboo Continent.
• Ke Ding forbade his disciples from preserving the battle in their Dao tradition's history and told them to recuperate, rebuild, and seek the Great Dao.
• Chen Xun surveyed the badly injured Meng Sheng, Ni Canghuan, Xian Jue, and Mo Fuyang, whose conditions left them needing rare remedies or unable to advance further.
• Chen Xun questioned the Ominous Old Ancestor about the deaths of the Ending Immortal Sect's Ominous Immortals, and the Old Ancestor explained that he had used them to protect dying immortals.
• Chen Xun forgave the Ominous Old Ancestor, told him to arrive earlier next time, and let him keep three Longevity Immortal Herbs to build up his race's foundation.

Chen Xun reversed time by ten years, reviving more than a hundred fallen immortals but losing his perception of the Immortal Realm Great Dao. After ordering Big Black Ox to use the Longevity Immortal Herbs to heal the survivors, he severed his ties with Gu Li Sheng and the Fu Shi Religion.

• Chen Xun used the River of Time and the Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable’s Life origin to reverse time and restore fallen immortals to life.
• Big Black Ox stabilized the Heaven and Earth Laws as Chen Xun turned time back ten years, though the world collapsed and left a blank expanse.
• Chen Xun lost his perception of the Immortal Realm Great Dao and could no longer enter the Dao or cultivate.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to give all the Longevity Immortal Herbs to the wounded immortals, while the survivors began recovering from the battle.
• Chen Xun ordered Song Heng to take the Immortal Court Remnants to Gu Li Sheng and declare that their bond was severed, excluding Gu Li Sheng and the Fu Shi Religion from future Eternal Immortal Frontier banquets.

Song Heng broke with Gu Li Sheng and the Taiyi Immortal Domain, choosing to head toward the Boundless Immortal Domain. Meanwhile, Chen Xun reached the wounded Qian Wuhen, who was near death and tried to reassure his father that he would avenge him.

• Song Heng left with the remnants of the Tai Yi Immortal Court after realizing his bond with Gu Li Sheng and the Fu Shi Religion had ended.
• Song Heng recalled choosing the Boundless Immortal Domain over the Taiyi Immortal Domain and accelerated away from the Eternal Immortal Frontier.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal stayed beside the dying Qian Wuhen and promised to find a way to save him.
• Shi Dian rushed to Chen Xun and begged him to save Qian Wuhen, while Heavenly Wheel Immortal acknowledged Chen Xun without hostility.
• Chen Xun went to Qian Wuhen, who called him Old Dad and said he would avenge the destruction of Chen Xun’s past.

Qian Wuhen died in Chen Xun’s arms after fighting to protect him, while the war’s survivors mourned across the Immortal Realm. A thousand years later, Song Heng severed ties between Chen Xun’s group and Gu Li Sheng’s Tai Yi Immortal Court, leaving Gu Li Sheng to face their irreversible parting.

• Qian Wuhen told Chen Xun he had fought to protect him, and Chen Xun said he was proud of his son before Qian Wuhen died.
• Heavenly Wheel Immortal, Lightning Arrow, and Bai Xinghan reacted to Qian Wuhen’s death as grief spread through the Heavenly Wheel Sect and beyond.
• A thousand years later, Gu Li Sheng celebrated the Tai Yi Immortal Court’s return and the allied army’s victory in the Taiyi Immortal Domain.
• Song Heng confronted Gu Li Sheng, saying the Three-Eyed Immortal Clan had been overlooked and the Eternal Immortal Frontier would no longer welcome him or the Fu Shi Religion.
• Song Heng told Gu Li Sheng that Chen Xun had released the debts owed by the Heavenly Palace, and Gu Li Sheng realized their paths had permanently diverged.
• Yue Xuan bid farewell to the Fu Shi Religion and set off alone for the Immortal Soil Beyond the Domains.

The Eternal Immortal Frontier celebrated the victorious army’s return as Heavenly Secrets revealed the war’s history and the immortals began carrying out their long-term plans. In the Heaven Deficient Southern Earth, the badly wounded Chong Que returned to the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace with a transformed, formidable bearing.

• Little Crimson led the returning army into the Eternal Immortal Frontier, where beings across the lands welcomed them.
• Heavenly Secrets revealed the origins and scale of the war, while immortal voices declared the victory a foundation for the frontier’s future.
• The immortals departed to settle matters in their ancestral lands, and Ke Ding noted that the frontier’s defenses had deterred outsiders.
• Wang Jiang mourned the likely loss of his avatar, which had fought in the Tai Yao Immortal Domain.
• Chong Que returned wounded to the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace, astonishing its disciples and senior brothers and sisters with his calm, powerful bearing.

Chong Que returned to the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace and told Nanhua he would enter the Eternal Immortal Frontier, urging his master to stop persecuting other Daos. Shi Hong likewise prepared to leave for the Frontier after dismissing Dao Ancestor Ji, who was left stunned by Shi Hong’s overwhelming bearing.

• Chong Que greeted Nanhua and announced that he was entering the Eternal Immortal Frontier, startling the immortals of the Great Violet Luo Heaven Palace.
• Nanhua gave Chong Que a healing immortal artifact and allowed him to leave after Chong Que urged him to stop annihilating other Daos.
• Chong Que told Nanhua that he might one day surpass him and pass the Dao on to him, then departed.
• Shi Hong packed up his Dao field as Dao Ancestor Ji arrived seeking a contest, but Shi Hong refused to fight him.
• Shi Hong uprooted his immortal mountain and set off toward the Eternal Immortal Frontier, leaving Dao Ancestor Ji shocked by his strength and presence.

One year after the battle, the Eternal Immortal Frontier began shaping a shared future from the sacrifices of the fallen. At the graves of his sectmates, Chen Xun promised to seek the Immortal Dao with Big Black Ox, while acknowledging that his severe wounds had left his perception and control of the Dao greatly diminished.

• Ji watched Shi Hong retreat and struggled to understand his condition and the apparent change in his cultivation.
• In the year after the battle, the Eternal Immortal Frontier grew more solemn, and cultivators began to set aside old rivalries and pursue a shared future.
• Chen Xun guarded the Five Elements Sect Disciples' and Qian Wuheng's tombs for a year and promised to restore the fallen when he reached the True Immortal Realm.
• Big Black Ox urged Chen Xun and their companions to avoid future wars and blood feuds, and Chen Xun agreed to seek the Immortal Dao with him.
• Chen Xun revealed that his wounds had badly damaged his Dao essence patterns and dulled his perception, though his cultivation and realm had not declined.

After losing his perception of the Immortal Path, Chen Xun found renewed clarity in the ordinary sight of mountains and rivers. He reassured Frog Daoist that Bai Mengli would survive but said they could no longer meet, then invited Frog Daoist to join him in taking on a major task in the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox that losing some perception had let him see the mountains and rivers as they were again.
• Frog Daoist arrived, worried about Chen Xun and guilty over Bai Mengli's role in the war.
• Chen Xun said he had spared Bai Mengli partly for Frog Daoist's sake and understood why she had sided with the Boundless Human Race.
• Frog Daoist said he would sever ties with Bai Mengli, and Chen Xun assured him she would meet a good end but that they should no longer see each other.
• Chen Xun invited Frog Daoist to leave Myriad Beasts Mountain and join him in taking on a major job in the Immortal Realm.

Chen Xun and Black Ox left the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range with their companions, while He Ling learned that Bai Mengli had died and heard how to cultivate Longevity Immortal Herbs. A hundred years later, Song Heng abandoned his treasure shop to lead Qionghua Shuiyu and Kong Kui to build tombs for the Xuanfu Race.

• Chen Xun agreed to leave the Immortal Tombs with Frog Daoist, Little Crimson, Mountain-Sitting Duck, and Big Black Ox, and they traveled toward the Jade Bamboo Mountain Range.
• Foul Beast Turtle told He Ling that Bai Mengli had died and an immortal had erased the traces; He Ling decided to let the matter end and discussed the Human Race’s destroyed Heavenly River.
• Liu Han told He Ling that Qi Hao had found a method to cultivate Longevity Immortal Herbs using Golden Sea, Dao-seed sources, and a strand of Heavenly Secrets.
• A hundred years later, Song Heng appraised treasures in an immortal city while Qionghua Shuiyu worked at his shop.
• After hearing that the Xuanfu Race had built Immortal Tombs across ten thousand miles, Song Heng closed the shop and set off with Qionghua Shuiyu and Kong Kui to build tombs.

After the great battle, the survivors of the Eternal Immortal Frontier settled into new pursuits, while Chen Xun and his companions took on work constructing a Dao field at Tempering Dao Mountain. Their lavish design and materials transformed Jian Nan’s Dao field into a spectacle that drew praise from a Dao Ancestor.

• Song Heng, Qionghua Shuiyu, and many elders of the Eternal Immortal Frontier retired into seclusion, while Meng Sheng recovered and later ventured alone into the Immortal Sky Starry Sky.
• Ke Ding organized immortal histories, Yin Tianshou and Cui Ying recruited sword disciples, and Bai Xinghan, Lightning Arrow, Sea Macaque, and Heavenly Wheel Immortal each coped with Qian Wuhen’s death in different ways.
• Chen Xun’s team advised Jian Nan on his Dao field and sold him materials, formations, Dao soil, and maintenance puppets, adding each purchase to Old Ox’s tab.
• Two years later, Jian Nan’s completed Dao field amazed Tempering Dao Mountain’s disciples and earned praise from a Dao Ancestor.

Jian Nan accepted Chen Xun’s completed daoist grounds and signed a bill he expected to repay within ten thousand years. Chen Xun’s team began taking more construction jobs across Tempering Dao Mountain, drawing attention from the mountain’s three Dao Ancestors.

• Jian Nan admired his new daoist grounds, signed the bill with his Soul Imprint, and promised to repay it within ten thousand years.
• Mountain-Sitting Duck warned Jian Nan not to die before repaying the debt, and Big Black Ox silenced the duck with a snort.
• Little Crimson gave Jian Nan a Coordinate Box containing a secret escape passage that could be activated with his essence blood.
• Featherless Bird arrived to collect leftover immortal materials for the Turbid Spirit Factory, and Chen Xun let it take the scraps.
• Cai Wei hired Chen Xun to build daoist grounds, and he began accepting construction jobs throughout Tempering Dao Mountain.
• The construction work became famous across Tempering Dao Mountain, and its three Dao Ancestors could no longer sit still.

Chen Xun and his companions traveled across the Immortal Realm, mining its abundant resources and eventually reaching the Six Harmonies Immortal Territory. After a strange encounter with a drunken traveler, they were arrested for trespassing in the Heavenly Decree Realm and taken away in a prison cart.

• Chen Xun and his companions spent a thousand years taking construction jobs, then roamed the Immortal Realm and struggled to mine a vast mineral vein with their limited workforce.
• In Immortal Realm Calendar year 420,000, Chen Xun and his companions entered the Six Harmonies Immortal Territory and marveled at its unusual landscapes and glimpses of the past.
• A drunken man riding an immortal beast told them they were in the Heavenly Decree Realm of Immortal Devil Gate before riding away with his mount, Di Huo.
• Three days later, a group of immortals and cultivators found Chen Xun and his companions and accused them of trespassing.
• Chen Xun and his companions were enclosed in a Dao Arts Cage and carried away in a prison cart while laughing.

Chen Xun and his companions reached the Immortal Devil Gate, where Big Black Ox recognized that local cultivators used the laws of the Six Harmonies Immortal Territory to cross vast distances. Their observations sparked a plan to make travel and wilderness exploration across the Eternal Immortal Frontier much easier.

• Chen Xun and his companions crossed a strange sea of clouds and watched the past and present mingle across the sky.
• They arrived at the Rainbow Bridge and saw millions of cultivators entering the Immortal Devil Gate.
• Little Mu Feng marveled at the cultivators' speed, and Big Black Ox explained that they were borrowing time nodes to shorten distances within the Six Harmonies Immortal Territory.
• Frog Daoist and Mountain-Sitting Duck quarreled while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed adapting the distance-crossing method to help open up distant lands.
• Big Black Ox began sketching a possible method, and Chen Xun realized the idea involved the Great Path of Time, which existed outside the Immortality System.

Chen Xun and his companions arrived at the Immortal Devil Gate, where he observed the lively, unconventional Six Harmonies Immortal Territory. As they waited outside a tent, the First Elder sensed the arrival of the Immortal Realm Natives and warned that the Immortal Dao Overseers had descended.

• Chen Xun listened to cultivators teaching and watched the varied activity and mobile homes across the Six Harmonies Immortal Territory.
• Chen Xun kicked Little Mu Feng for teasing him, and Big Black Ox eventually stopped him from continuing to beat her.
• The prison cart stopped outside a great tent, but Chen Xun and his companions stayed outside while the guards entered.
• Chen Xun peered into the tent and saw seven Great Dao Immortals discussing the weak demonic path and the Demon Domain’s possible return.
• The First Elder sensed the Immortal Realm Natives beyond the cave heaven and announced that the Immortal Dao Overseers had descended.