Chapter Summaries

At Huo Ling'er's gathering, the Black Feather Tribe and an elder from Immortal Mountain targeted the Nine-Headed Lion and Big Red Bird because of their ties to Shi Hao. The Nine-Headed Lion resisted the elder's attack, and Huo Ling'er tried to intervene as Big Red Bird openly defied Immortal Mountain.

• The Black Feather Tribe demanded that the Nine-Headed Lion become their mount, but an unseen force killed one of their Venerable Realm powerhouses.
• Those present suspected Shi Hao was protecting his friends, while a middle-aged man from Immortal Mountain voiced hostility toward him and challenged the Nine-Headed Lion.
• Big Red Bird arrived beside the Nine-Headed Lion and insulted the Immortal Mountain elder, who attacked him with a powerful strike.
• The Nine-Headed Lion blocked the elder's silver shuttle with nine golden symbols but was nearly knocked from the arena.
• Huo Ling'er's clan uncle asked the elder to stop, but the elder refused to heed the Fire Nation's request.
• Big Red Bird urged Huo Ling'er not to worry and declared that they could fight the elder despite his connection to Immortal Mountain.

Shi Hao secretly wounded an Immortal Mountain king, then revealed himself at an artifact exchange after recognizing a valuable Sun Stone. He crippled a Fire Ox Tribe king and confronted the returning Immortal Mountain man, leaving the gathered cultivators watching a new clash take shape.

• Big Red Bird gave the black broken sword to the Nine-Headed Lion, but Shi Hao secretly struck the Immortal Mountain king with two streaks of Heaven-Reaching Sword Qi, cutting his waist and severing his arm.
• The Nine-Headed Lion wounded the Immortal Mountain king with the broken sword, and the king withdrew with his people despite Big Red Bird mocking him.
• Shi Hao recognized a pitch-black stone as a Sun Stone, traded a Formation Arrangement Realm magical artifact for it, and stored it in Little Pagoda.
• After several cultivators recognized Shi Hao, a Fire Ox Tribe king attacked him, and Shi Hao crippled the king's arm with one blow.
• Shi Hao revealed himself and warned the Fire Ox Tribe experts to leave, while the returning Immortal Mountain man threatened him and then recoiled when Shi Hao appeared close before him.

Shi Hao returned to the world and stunned the gathered cultivators by injuring an Immortal Mountain king with his aura and killing a Flame Python Tribe elder. When Qin Chao insulted him and Big Red Bird mocked Qin in return, tensions with Immortal Mountain rose as Huo Ling'er, the Nine-Headed Lion, and Princess Qianqian watched.

• Shi Hao's aura injured the middle-aged man from Immortal Mountain, revealing that Shi Hao himself had previously severed the man's arm and dispelling rumors that he was crippled.
• Qin Shouchang criticized Shi Hao's violence and hinted at hostility, while Shi Hao warned that this was his second chance.
• Shi Hao killed the Flame Python Tribe elder who demanded his life for killing the tribe's descendant in Hundred Break Mountain.
• Qin Chao arrived with Immortal Mountain's people and insulted Shi Hao, who ignored him while Big Red Bird mocked him.
• Huo Ling'er and the Nine-Headed Lion joined Shi Hao, while Princess Qianqian watched to see how he would face Immortal Mountain.

Shi Hao killed Qin Shouchang, Qin Chao, and their companion after they threatened him, then reunited with old friends and discussed the looming calamity and Fairy Yuechan’s plans. As the gathering continued, the White Tiger King of Western Mausoleum Beast Mountain hurried past, raising suspicions that it knew about the white tigers Shi Hao and his companions had killed in Hundred Break Mountain.

• Shi Hao killed Qin Shouchang, Qin Chao, and the middle-aged man who had accompanied them after Qin Shouchang refused his warning.
• Shi Hao reunited with the Nine-Headed Lion, Fire Crow, the Five-Colored Luan Bird, the Purple Sable, the Three-Eyed Race brothers, and Huo Ling'er.
• Fire Crow warned Shi Hao that Fairy Yuechan had entered the Formation Arrangement King Realm and was preparing for nirvana, while Shi Hao revealed why he had spared Immortal Mountain no further consideration.
• Shi Hao told his friends that the approaching great calamity mattered more than possible retaliation from Immortal Mountain or the Heaven-Mending Sect, and he said he was waiting for Qingyi rather than Fairy Yuechan.
• The White Tiger King of Western Mausoleum Beast Mountain passed the courtyard, prompting the Nine-Headed Lion to wonder whether it knew Shi Hao's group had killed its grandson in Hundred Break Mountain.

Shi Hao met Yun Xi in a medicinal garden, where she asked him to return a Divine Artifact while a Golden-Winged Great Peng youth challenged him on her behalf. As the youth’s powerful elder brother arrived and Yun Xi rejected his advances, Shi Hao bit her ear again, leaving her embarrassed and angry.

• Shi Hao led his companions to a medicinal garden, where he encountered Yun Xi and she grabbed his arm while asking for her race’s Divine Artifact.
• A golden-haired youth of the Golden-Winged Great Peng race demanded that Shi Hao return Yun Xi’s treasure, but Shi Hao refused and warned him to stop interfering.
• The youth claimed Yun Xi would become his elder brother’s wife, and those present learned that his elder brother had returned after years of training beyond the region.
• The elder brother appeared with a display of extreme speed, but Yun Xi rejected him and clung to Shi Hao’s arm.
• Shi Hao put his arm around Yun Xi and bit her ear, prompting her to cry out and call him a little thief.

Shi Hao’s encounter with Yun Xi angered the youths of the Archaic Divine Mountains, but Jin Yunteng restrained his brother and left without a fight. Shi Hao then departed the Fire Nation Imperial Capital with Huo Ling’er, Yun Xi, and his companions to travel the Desolate Region, where they learned the Blood God Tower had refused a contract on his life.

• Yun Xi rejected Jin Yunxiao’s claim that she belonged to Peng Mountain, and Jin Yunteng stopped his brother from challenging Shi Hao before leading him away.
• Yun Xi tried to trade for Shi Hao’s Divine Artifact, but he refused her offers, and Huo Ling’er later served pig ears at a banquet, embarrassing Yun Xi and Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao announced that he would travel through the Desolate Region, and Huo Ling’er, Yun Xi, the Nine-Headed Lion, and others joined him as they left the capital.
• The group traveled without being attacked, and Huo Ling’er reported that the Blood God Tower had rejected a large payment to assassinate Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao asked Huo Ling’er where to gather herbs, and she advised him to buy spiritual medicines from specialists instead.

Shi Hao and his companions arrived in Medicine Capital, a legendary city filled with rare medicines and strange, powerful plants. As they explored its markets and wonders, Shi Hao spotted a saint’s bone that others had mistaken for a valuable treasure.

• Huo Ling'er used the Void Beast Hide to bring the group near Medicine Capital, and they completed the journey to the ancient city on foot.
• The group saw a Golden Medicine Butterfly in the fields outside the city and learned about Medicine Capital’s medicinal abundance and the Medicine God’s legacy.
• Inside the city, they encountered a spirit medicine tree that inspected visitors and a Fire-Metal Vine whose bronze flowers refined medicine.
• Shi Hao recognized Tianhuo bound within the Fire-Metal Vine but chose to leave it alone, while the Fire Crow used its cauldron to refine medicine.
• At a market stall, the group examined a bone advertised as dragon bone, and Shi Hao identified it as an ordinary saint’s bone with little divinity remaining.

Shi Hao and his companions investigated a sealed divine valley in Medicine Capital, where they discovered a mysterious spiritual tree guarded by ancient formations. Shi Hao secretly took the World Tree Sapling while preserving the scene, and the group left anticipating a fierce struggle over the valley when it opened.

• Shi Hao led his companions to the divine valley after they learned it might contain a sacred medicine, but he warned them that its linked formations were too powerful to break.
• At a Dao platform, the Grand Elder of Divine Medicine Gate examined a recovered bone and confirmed it came from a Heavenly Rank Divine Bird, though its divine essence had nearly faded.
• Shi Hao saw that the valley's mysterious tree produced three flowers that transformed into a little person and a magical artifact, and he recognized it as a World Tree Sapling.
• Shi Hao secretly transferred the World Tree Sapling to himself and replaced it with a segment from the past so the events would continue undisturbed.
• The formations loosened and revealed the tree's wonders to the others, who speculated that it was the Desolate Region's First Spiritual Root and feared that its eventual opening would bring a deadly battle.

Shi Hao gathered rare medicines in Medicine Capital and began refining Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Nine-Headed Lion, and the others in cauldrons to strengthen their bodies and cultivate golden core body apertures. The process grew intense as lightning and spiritual energy forged golden cores around them, while their bodies cracked under the transformation.

• After learning that a great calamity might engulf the Desolate Region, Shi Hao left the inn to seek ingredients for Nirvana Pills for Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Nine-Headed Lion, and the others.
• Shi Hao and his companions bought forty-eight precious medicines, then rented old, spiritually potent Medicine Cauldrons in a quiet courtyard.
• Shi Hao had everyone enter separate cauldrons and added medicines, poisonous insects, beast bones, and flood dragon tendons before sealing the lids.
• Shi Hao concealed the gathering heaven-and-earth energy with formations and fed the cauldrons with Spirit Stones and underground spiritual flames.
• Lightning, flames, and dense spiritual energy forged pale-gold medicinal cores around the people in the cauldrons as their bodies cracked and healed during the violent refinement.

Shi Hao’s companions completed a violent breakthrough through the Great Cauldrons, while Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Big Red Bird, and the Nine-Headed Lion reached the Formation Arrangement Realm. After Shi Hao drove off the Divine Medicine Gate’s provocation, the Gate’s Grand Elder learned from a mysterious woman that Shi Hao had destroyed several major forces and warned his sect not to oppose him.

• Shi Hao refined his companions in the Great Cauldrons, and Huo Ling'er, Yun Xi, Big Red Bird, and the Nine-Headed Lion broke through to the Formation Arrangement Realm while the others reached the Cave Heaven Realm’s perfection.
• Ade and a fierce middle-aged man reported Shi Hao’s pill refining to a young man from the Divine Medicine Gate, who demanded a golden pill and tried to seize the pills and medicinal paste.
• Shi Hao kicked the young man unconscious, then crippled him when the Divine Medicine Gate’s Grand Elder attacked; the Grand Elder recognized Shi Hao’s strength and left after apologizing.
• The Grand Elder crippled Ade and the middle-aged man for inciting his descendant, then sought help from a gray-clothed woman at the Ancestral Well.
• The gray-clothed woman warned the Grand Elder not to harm Shi Hao and revealed that he had destroyed the Demonic Spirit Lake, Southern Meteorite Divine Mountain, and several other powerful forces.
• The Grand Elder, Lin Kun, withdrew in alarm, while the gray-clothed woman opened her dual-pupiled eyes and said events had followed the path of fate.

Shi Hao refined golden pills, refused Yun Xi’s offer to trade for his inherited object, and learned that Immortal Mountain had issued a decree to bring him back. In the Medicine Capital, he extorted four rare medicines from Lin Kun and pressed him to reveal the Golden Medicine Butterfly’s whereabouts.

• Shi Hao distributed golden pills to his companions and demanded a sacred medicine from Yun Xi in exchange for her clan’s inherited object.
• Immortal Mountain’s elders decided to search for Shi Hao and bring him back peacefully, then issued a decree stamped with the Divine Seal.
• Huo Ling’er led the group through the Medicine Capital, where Lin Kun approached Shi Hao and offered compensation for his earlier behavior.
• Shi Hao accompanied Lin Kun to his medicinal field and claimed his Golden Grass, Falling Moon Flower, Purple Star Orchid, and Flowing Golden Years.
• Lin Kun revealed that he knew where the Golden Medicine Butterfly was, and Shi Hao pretended to doubt its value while asking for more.

Lin Kun revealed that a bronze fragment could lead to the legendary Imperial Butterfly, and brought Shi Hao and his companions to the Ancient Divine Valley to search for the other half. They entered its first three formations and found the remains of the Son of Medicine God, who had died after reaching the divine level.

• Lin Kun explained that his Divine Medicine Gate possessed half of a bronze artifact linked to the Imperial Butterfly, and said the other half might be found among the Medicine God’s descendant’s remains.
• Lin Kun led Shi Hao and the others to the Ancient Divine Valley after revealing that a newly discovered cave opened a passage through its formations.
• Shi Hao’s group passed through the first two vast, barren formations and entered the third, where Medicine Capital cultivators were searching among broken artifacts.
• Lin Kun identified a corpse as the Son of Medicine God, and an old man revealed that the deceased had likely reached the divine level before entering the valley.

Shi Hao and his companions recovered the two halves of an Archaic Treasure Box from a deadly Heavenly God Formation, but none of them could open it. They withdrew to a mountain range, where Shi Hao prepared to try opening it and exchanged a bet with Yun Xi.

• Shi Hao spotted a Bronze Shard inside the formation, and the Five-Colored Luan Bird was injured when he tested the formation with his divine light.
• Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi identified Shi Hao's shard as part of a World Treasure Box, and the two halves resonated until the one inside the formation flew out and joined it.
• Shi Hao used the Kunpeng Method to take everyone away from the formation, but no one could open the World Treasure Box.
• Shi Hao led the group into a nearby mountain range and said he would open the box, while Yun Xi challenged his confidence and refused to bet her holy medicine or guard his village.
• Shi Hao teased Yun Xi about bringing a powerful Pure-Blood Creature back to guard his village, and Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi exchanged glares.

Shi Hao opened the World Treasure Box and retrieved the Divine Ice Jar, which held the legendary Imperial Butterfly. The divine insect emerged in the form of a golden pill, transformed into a silkworm-like creature, and bonded with Shi Hao as he fed it Immortality Spring liquid.

• Shi Hao used chaotic energy to open the World Treasure Box and found records explaining that the Imperial Butterfly was being nourished beneath Short Mountain in Medicine Capital.
• Shi Hao and the others activated eight underground altars, and the formation transported the Divine Ice Jar from the Earth Vein Ancestral Root to the Medicine God's ruined garden.
• Shi Hao placed the Divine Ice Jar in the World Treasure Box and brought it to the hidden world, where the jar's intense cold astonished his companions.
• Shi Hao opened the jar, and the group first mistook the golden, fragrant creature inside for a divine pill.
• The golden pill transformed into a plump golden divine insect, hid beneath Shi Hao's collar, and eagerly drank two drops of Immortality Spring liquid he offered.

Shi Hao examined the Divine Silkworm, which devoured rare treasures and grew stronger, while rumors spread that Immortal Mountain had summoned him to the Fire Nation Imperial Capital. Angered by the decree, Shi Hao sent Big Red Bird toward the Fire Nation Ancestral Land with a sealed scarlet feather.

• Shi Hao put the Divine Silkworm in his Cosmic Bag, where it chose Kun Wood and Willow God’s branch over Immortality Spring and Taiyi True Water, then fell asleep after eating three buds.
• Three days later, the Divine Silkworm ate much of Shi Hao’s rare medicines, pierced a magical artifact jar, and hid in his hair as a golden bead; Shi Hao considered using it to raid an Archaic Divine Mountain’s spirit medicine fields.
• News arrived that Immortal Mountain had sent a decree demanding Shi Hao present himself, and he dismissed the rumors until reports confirmed a messenger was waiting in the Fire Nation Imperial Capital.
• Shi Hao grew angry at Immortal Mountain’s order and told Big Red Bird to go learn arts at the Fire Nation Ancestral Land, presenting it with a sealed scarlet feather left by Little Red.

Shi Hao sent Big Red Bird to the Fire Clan Ancestral Land, then defied Immortal Mountain and prepared to travel to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital after receiving a letter. He set out with his friends and Yun Xi, whom he teased and carried off as Huo Ling'er grew jealous.

• Shi Hao persuaded Huo Ling'er to send Big Red Bird to the Fire Clan Ancestral Land, where the sacrificial spirit beat it and demanded to know about the Mountain Treasure.
• Shi Hao told the Nine-Headed Lion, Fire Crow, and their companions to return home, then answered Immortal Mountain's summons by demanding that its people visit him with nine kowtows and ten bows.
• Shi Hao received gifts from Medicine Capital's visitors, agreed to look after the Pill Cauldron Sect master's son, and learned of a letter awaiting him at the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.
• Shi Hao decided to go to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital and agreed to travel with Huo Ling'er, the Nine-Headed Lion, Fire Crow, Purple Sable, and the others.
• Shi Hao carried Yun Xi and threatened to take her back to his village, while Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi exchanged jealous looks.

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.