Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao learned from Yun Xi that a coming calamity would make Venerables and sacred beings disappear, while its truth would later be erased. He refused to flee immediately and instead led Yun Xi and the others toward Stone Village, where he planned to discuss the danger with Willow God and the village chief.

• Shi Hao carried Yun Xi toward his home until she revealed that her armguards could open an Archaic Formation and leave the Great Domain Cage.
• Yun Xi explained that an approaching calamity would sweep across the Lower Realm, causing most Venerables and sacred beings to vanish and erasing knowledge of what happened.
• Yun Xi offered to let Shi Hao and his clansmen escape with the Heavenly Human Race through the formation, but Shi Hao hesitated to leave before handling other matters.
• Shi Hao refused to hurry to Heavenly God Mountain and chose to take Yun Xi, Huo Ling'er, and the others to Stone Village instead.

Shi Hao brought Yun Xi, Huo Ling'er, and their companions to Stone Village, where the villagers greeted them and mistakenly began arranging a wedding for the two women. After a few days in the village, the group set out for Heavenly God Mountain to pursue its inheritance and seek a way to escape the coming Desolate Region Great Calamity.

• Shi Hao led his companions across the Great Wilderness and reached Stone Village, where they were astonished by the village's peaceful surroundings and Willow God.
• Shi Hao carried Yun Xi and Huo Ling'er into the village, prompting the villagers to tease them and start planning a wedding before Shi Hao put a stop to it.
• Shi Hao showed his guests around Stone Village and gave Shi Yunfeng resources to help cultivate the village's younger generation.
• After spending a few days in the village, Shi Hao and the others left because the Desolate Region Great Calamity and the Stone Kingdom crisis demanded urgent action.
• The group traveled millions of li by Void Beast Hide and approached Heavenly God Mountain, where Yun Xi's inheritance and the escape formation awaited them.

Yun Xi brought Shi Hao and Baldy Two to Heavenly God Mountain, where Baldy Two confronted Yun Canghai over an old feud and his knowledge of the Ancient Formation. After negotiating with the mountain’s experts, Baldy Two claimed Yun Canghai had agreed to betroth Yun Xi to Shi Hao.

• Heavenly God Mountain’s Fourth Master accused Shi Hao of stealing an ancestral artifact, while Baldy Two insulted him and demanded that Yun Canghai come out.
• Baldy Two revealed his identity as Kong Qiuji and argued with Yun Canghai about their shared past and the Ancient Formation.
• Yun Canghai stopped Fourth Master from attacking and brought Shi Hao’s group up the mountain to discuss the damaged formation with Baldy Two.
• Yun Canghai yielded to Baldy Two’s demands, and the group explored Heavenly God Mountain’s medicinal fields and grounds.
• Baldy Two told Shi Hao that Yun Canghai had agreed to betroth Yun Xi to him, leaving Yun Xi shocked.

Shi Hao and Baldy Two confronted Heavenly God Mountain’s elders over the formation, Yun Xi’s marriage, and the ancestral armguard, before Yun Canghai led them to inspect the damaged formation. As Baldy Two listed the divine materials needed to repair it, Shi Hao focused on a hidden figure and vowed to turn the coming Desolate Region calamity into a reckoning for the upper realm.

• Yun Canghai said he would not oppose Yun Xi choosing Shi Hao, while Jin Yunhai and Second Master demanded the armguard and pushed for Yun Xi to marry into the Golden-Winged Great Peng clan.
• Shi Hao and Baldy Two rejected Heavenly God Mountain’s threats, and Shi Hao secretly empowered Baldy Two to repel Jin Yunhai twice.
• Yun Xi warned Yun Canghai that a divine dao expert might be present, and Yun Canghai realized Shi Hao had intervened before taking charge of the negotiations.
• Baldy Two examined the ancient formation in the rear mountain and said his formation diagram could supply its missing portion, but repairing it would require rare divine materials.
• Baldy Two renewed his demand for Yun Xi to leave with Shi Hao, while Yun Canghai left the choice to her and Huo Ling'er offered to help her.
• Shi Hao watched a hidden figure being worshiped in a vision and vowed to settle accounts with those who had betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and condemned his Shi Clan.

Shi Hao and his friends waited at Heavenly God Mountain while the races gathered resources and debated who could use the ancient cross-realm Formation. When the Golden-Winged Great Pengs provoked him, Shi Hao killed two of them and effortlessly subdued their Venerable, leaving the other races to arrive and begin arguing over the Formation’s quotas.

• The Nine-Headed Lion and the others worried that weaker clans would be shut out of the Formation, but Shi Hao assured them that none of them would be harmed in the great calamity.
• Shi Hao and his friends stayed in the Heavenly Human Pavilion, where servants questioned why ordinary outsiders had been given such prestigious lodging.
• Jin Yunxiao and the Golden-Winged Great Pengs confronted Shi Hao, and Shi Hao crushed Jin Yunxiao and another Peng expert while pinning Jin Yunhai to the ground with his aura.
• Jin Yunhai fled after realizing Shi Hao had defeated them through his own strength, and Huo Ling'er and the others wondered whether Shi Hao could stop the great calamity himself.
• The True Hou, Qing Luan, and other races arrived to contribute resources and discuss Formation quotas, while Hou Tian clashed with another race before an old Hou elder intervened.