Chapter Summaries

After the Willow Deity protected Stone Village from a night assault, the villagers gathered the dead beasts and prepared an Ancient Descendant True Blood Baptism for their children. Shi Yi watched the painful ceremony from beneath the willow tree, refusing to help the children share the pain.

• The Willow Deity’s protection left many dead ferocious beasts outside Stone Village, and the villagers thanked her before collecting them.
• Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng directed the villagers to bring in the beasts and then arranged a baptism for the village children.
• The villagers heated eight bronze cauldrons with small amounts of Ancient Descendant true blood and began immersing the children.
• The children cried out and tried to escape as the baptism began, while Shi Yi watched and refused a boy’s request to share the pain.
• The adults scolded the children for fearing the pain and urged them to endure the baptism so they could grow stronger.

Shi Yi taught Stone Village’s children cultivation methods and reproduced two Demon Beast Treasure Techniques, prompting the elders to entrust him with their Ancestral Artifacts. He returned home with the artifacts and a Black Cauldron, then examined the Beast Bone and Beast Hide with his Double Pupils.

• Shi Yi resented Martial King Manor for leaving him in Stone Village and asked the Willow Deity about sharing cultivation methods with the villagers.
• The Willow Deity said Stone Village’s cultivation methods were crude and agreed that Shi Yi could teach them better ones.
• Shi Yi taught the village children Martial King Manor’s cultivation methods and used his Double Pupils to reveal the King-level Demon Ape and Li Fire Bull Demon’s Treasure Techniques.
• Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng offered Shi Yi Stone Village’s Beast Bone and Beast Hide Ancestral Artifacts in gratitude for his help.
• Shi Yi asked for the unused Black Cauldron to replace his broken cooking pot, and Shi Yunfeng gave him the cauldron along with the artifacts.
• Shi Yi returned home and examined the Beast Bone and Beast Hide with his Double Pupils.

Shi Yi failed to uncover the secrets of the Beast Bone and Beast Hide, and the Willow Deity warned him not to probe beyond his abilities. As he cooked beef hotpot in Stone Village, she joined him, leaving him to wonder whether she had always been alone.

• Shi Yi strained his Double Pupils examining the Beast Bone and Beast Hide, but the Willow Deity warned him that they came from the Upper Realm's Nine Heavens Ten Earths and were beyond his current ability to inspect.
• Shi Yi asked what Stone Village was hiding, and the Willow Deity said the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm were considered sinners by those above before falling silent.
• Shi Yi cleaned the Black Cauldron and prepared beef hotpot with meat, chili peppers, and vegetables from his Cavern Heavens.
• Shi Yi invited the Willow Deity to share his meal, and she appeared beside him as a human Law Body and advised him to use fewer chili peppers.
• Shi Yi watched the Willow Deity cook and wondered whether she had always been alone.

After Stone Village destroyed Bei Village in retaliation for the deaths of three children, Shi Yi questioned whether humans were more cruel than ferocious beasts. Half a month later, he witnessed two mature Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts battling in the distant Great Wilderness, and the spectacle rekindled his desire for power.

• Bei Village's hunting party killed three Stone Village children, while the seven survivors escaped and reported what happened.
• Shi Yi used Kirin Steps to kill Bei Village's Desolate Variant sacrificial spirit, and Stone Village slaughtered the village in revenge.
• The destruction of Bei Village led Shi Yi to question whether humans, rather than ferocious beasts, were truly cruel.
• Half a month later, Shi Yi watched a Little Red Bird battle a massive creature wielding a golden claw in the distant Great Wilderness.
• Recognizing the combatants as mature Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts, Shi Yi felt his blood boil and resolved to become stronger.

Over two years of secluded cultivation, Shi Yi advanced from Six Celestial Passages to Nine and insisted he could reach Ten to earn the Willow Deity’s promise of contact with her humanoid Law Body. The Willow Deity doubted he could achieve it without danger and fortuitous opportunities, leaving Shi Yi determined to prove her wrong.

• Golden Great Claw and Little Red Bird continued fighting in the skies for two years, while the Great Wilderness’s guardian spirits shielded the Tribal Clans from their attacks.
• Shi Yi told the Willow Deity he felt abandoned by Martial King Manor after five years in Stone Village, and she explained that his two secret protectors had left two years earlier.
• The Willow Deity said she would honor her promise if Shi Yi reached Ten Celestial Passages, but she did not believe he could do so through secluded cultivation.
• Shi Yi recalled that he had advanced from Six to Nine Celestial Passages in two years without outside aid and had delayed advancing realms to pursue the tenth passage.
• The Willow Deity warned Shi Yi that Ten Celestial Passages marked a true Young Supreme and depended on more than persistence, while Shi Yi vowed to keep cultivating until he reached it.

Shi Yi told the Willow Deity he could reach Ten Celestial Passages without gambling his life and asked her to give him three months. He left with Hu Niu, while the Willow Deity grew curious about how he planned to succeed.

• Shi Yi explained that he intended to find a way to open Ten Celestial Passages and activated his Nine Celestial Passages before the Willow Deity.
• Shi Yi asked the Willow Deity to give him three months to break through and fulfill her promise to let him remain by her side.
• Shi Yi joined Hu Niu, who complained that she could not master the Suan Ni Precious Technique, and advised her to stabilize her cultivation first.
• Shi Yi noted that Stone Village's young people had reached the Celestial Passage Realm after their Ancient Descendant blood baptisms and hoped they could learn to protect themselves.
• The Willow Deity watched Shi Yi leave and wondered what method he had found.

Shi Yi used Daoist concepts from his previous life to seek a way to open the Tenth Celestial Passage, and his analysis began transforming the passages into an astonishing formation. The chapter left Stone Village and the Vast Mountain Range enveloped by the phenomenon while the Willow Deity and villagers watched in confusion.

• For half a month, Shi Yi drew in heaven and earth energy through his Nine Celestial Passages while using his Double Pupils to study his memories and seek the key to the Tenth Passage.
• Shi Yi realized that understanding how a breakthrough worked mattered more than forcing it through life-and-death combat, and the faint Tenth Celestial Passage began to take shape.
• Shi Yi recalled Daoist concepts from One Origin through the Eight Trigrams, causing his Celestial Passages to tremble and an Innate Eight Trigrams Formation to spread across Stone Village and the Vast Mountain Range.
• The Willow Deity, the Golden Giant Claw, and Little Red Bird watched the immense phenomenon, while Stone Village residents marveled at Shi Yi and Hu Niu rebuffed a teasing villager.

Shi Yi opened his unusual Tenth Celestial Passage and became a cultivator with Ten Celestial Passages. After he said he wanted to return home, the Willow Deity made him her disciple and entered his Tenth Celestial Passage to inspect it, leaving him puzzled beneath a Little Red Bird.

• Hu Niu frightened a youth who taunted her about Shi Yi abandoning her.
• Shi Yi used the ninth Dao sound and the Innate Eight Trigrams Formation to open a massive Tenth Celestial Passage at the center of his other nine.
• The Willow Deity watched Shi Yi's breakthrough from her concealed human Law Body and decided he would attend to her daily needs.
• Shi Yi told the Willow Deity that he wanted to return home, and she said he could travel east toward the Stone Kingdom or west toward the Fire Kingdom.
• The Willow Deity declared Shi Yi her disciple and entered his Tenth Celestial Passage to examine it, while Shi Yi wondered whether he was being forced into discipleship and spotted a Little Red Bird.

Shi Yi was bullied by the Little Red Bird, which forced him into an engagement with the Fire Country Princess before leaving the Great Wilderness. The Willow Deity later offered Shi Yi good and bad news about his Ten Celestial Passages, but the exhausted Shi Yi had not yet heard either.

• The Little Red Bird learned Shi Yi's name and that he came from Martial King Manor, then decided to arrange his marriage to the Fire Country Princess.
• The Little Red Bird forced Shi Yi to nod, threatened Martial King Manor, and left him a crimson feather that would let him travel unhindered through the Great Wilderness.
• A golden, three-headed, six-armed being behind Golden Great Claw left the Great Wilderness and considered asking the Stone Country Human Emperor about a princess for Shi Yi.
• Half a day later, the Willow Deity offered Shi Yi good and bad news about his Ten Celestial Passages, and Shi Yi reluctantly raised his head when the Willow Deity tugged his ear.

Willow Deity warned Shi Yi that his unprecedented Ten Celestial Passages could leave him unable to advance unless she helped him master their powers, and accepted him as her disciple. As a Mountain Treasure emerged in the Great Wilderness and clans and ferocious beasts prepared to investigate, Willow Deity challenged Shi Yi to seize the opportunity, leaving him wary but asking her to protect him.

• Willow Deity explained that Shi Yi’s Ten Celestial Passages contained immense, mixed powers that could trap him in his current realm, and agreed to help him as his teacher.
• Several days later, treasure light appeared deep in the Great Wilderness after two supreme creatures left, prompting powerful clans to consider sending people to investigate.
• A prosperous Tribal Clan sent a messenger to its Clan Chief, who ordered talented youngsters to visit the Mountain Treasure but forbade anyone from acting without his command.
• At a lake and in a grand city, other clans also prepared to explore the Mountain Treasure, while the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi wondered whether the event was a trap.
• At Stone Village, Willow Deity asked Shi Yi whether he dared fight for the opportunity, and he questioned whether she would protect him from danger.

Shi Yi traveled into the Great Wilderness to seize the Mountain Treasure, with Willow Deity accompanying him and teaching him the Willow Deity Method. As Shi Yi neared the treasure, he sensed danger from the Great Wilderness’s most powerful vicious beasts.

• Shi Yi changed his route after leaving Stone Village and headed into the Great Wilderness to claim the Mountain Treasure.
• Willow Deity left an array to protect Stone Village and agreed to accompany Shi Yi, while warning that she would not intervene unless he faced certain death.
• Willow Deity taught Shi Yi her secret art, Unceasing Growth, and told him to prepare for brutal battles over the Mountain Treasure.
• Willow Deity entered Shi Yi’s Ten Celestial Passages to study them while Shi Yi continued toward the Mountain Treasure alone.
• The Crimson Feather kept most vicious beasts from approaching Shi Yi, but he sensed that the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi still lurked in the Great Wilderness.

As Tribal Clans and hidden beasts reacted to the Mountain Treasure’s appearance, Shi Yi traveled under the alias Yun Potian with the Snow Clan. The Snow Clan’s girls invited him to join them, while the other clans prepared to compete for the treasure.

• The Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi agreed to watch the Mountain Treasure from hiding until they knew the Vermilion Bird and Zhu Yan posed no threat.
• The Thunder Clan chief ordered Lei Kun to take his younger brothers and beat up the Purple Mountain Clan’s descendants when they met.
• Snow Clan elders discussed the danger of competing for the Mountain Treasure and let their young people go to broaden their horizons.
• Six Tribal Clans dispatched experts and young prodigies to explore the Mountain Treasure, while Shi Yi encountered several clans and concealed his cultivation as Yun Potian.
• Traveling with the Snow Clan, Shi Yi asked an elder about an ancient passage, but the clan’s young girls pulled him away and invited him to join them.

Shi Yi joined the Snow Clan’s journey toward Lonely Mountain Town while concealing much of his strength. There, rival Tribal Clans gathered and prepared to have their juniors duel, and the Golden Wolf Tribe’s leader recognized Shi Yi and asked his name.

• Shi Yi politely refused the Snow Clan girls’ offers and traveled with their group toward the depths of the Great Wilderness.
• Several Tribal Clans arrived at Lonely Mountain Town, including the Golden Wolf Tribe, Flood Dragon Clan, Purple Mountain Clan, and Thunder Clan.
• The elders of the Flood Dragon Clan and Purple Mountain Clan argued, and the Thunder Clan proposed a junior duel with Precious Blood as the wager.
• Luofu Great Marsh joined the gathering and insisted that only Precious Blood from an Ancient Descendant would make a worthy wager.
• Shi Yi arrived with the Snow Clan, and the gathered experts noticed that his displayed strength had risen sharply since they had last seen him.
• The Golden Wolf Tribe’s leader recognized Shi Yi from a previous encounter and asked him to give his name.

Shi Yi avoided interfering in the six Tribal Clans’ contests and endured the Snow Clan girls’ attempts to court him. When Jiao Peng threatened Lonely Mountain Town’s sacrificial spirit, its power punished him, and the town’s spirit later knelt before the Willow Deity carried by Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi declined to join the six Tribal Clans’ contests, which ended with the Thunder Clan winning decisively and the Snow Clan winning narrowly.
• A Snow Clan girl complained that Shi Yi had not defended her, then tried to draw his attention with flirtatious claims of pain.
• A Thunder Clan youth discovered that Lonely Mountain Town’s sacrificial spirit was the mountain beneath the town.
• Jiao Peng urged his grandfather to kill the sacrificial spirit for its True Blood, but an invisible pressure made him vomit blood, and the Flood Dragon Clan old man forced him to apologize.
• The sacrificial spirit of Lonely Mountain Town knelt before the Willow Deity’s branch in Shi Yi’s hand and paid respects to the immortal.

Shi Yi questioned a white-haired stone spirit about the Mountain Treasure and learned that it came from the Upper Realm, while the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi watched from hiding. His attempt to recall Perfect World through his Double Pupils revealed little useful foreknowledge, so he left town alone to seek the Mountain Treasure.

• Shi Yi asked the white-haired old man in green about the fighting, the Tribal Clans, and the Mountain Treasure, learning that it was an Upper Realm treasure and that the Heaven Swallowing Sparrow and Qiongqi were watching secretly.
• Shi Yi sent the old man's spirit body back to its true body and reflected on how the Cavern Heaven formed the foundation of a cultivator.
• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to search his past-life memories, but discovered he had watched little of Perfect World and remembered more about its women than its plot.
• Shi Yi recalled thirteen Daoist scriptures in full, which formed a protective circle around his soul and had helped him open Ten Celestial Passages.
• Shi Yi saw that the townspeople planned to return home, then left town alone and headed toward the Mountain Treasure.

Shi Yi witnessed the slaughter over the Mountain Treasure in the Great Wilderness and was exposed when an Adult Pixiu wiped out the human Tribal Clans. After Shi Yi unleashed the power of his Ten Celestial Passages, the Pixiu recognized him as the Vermilion Bird’s envoy, but Shi Yi still claimed the Mountain Treasure and faced the beast’s warning.

• Shi Yi watched humans, Ancient Descendants, and ferocious beasts fight over the Mountain Treasure as several Tribal Clans began retreating.
• An Adult Pixiu appeared, killed the human fighters from the Golden Wolf Tribe, Luofu Great Marsh, Purple Mountain Clan, Flood Dragon Clan, and Thunder Clan, and ordered ferocious beasts to attack Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi emerged from his spatial hiding place and used the Suan Ni Precious Technique with his Ten Celestial Passages to kill the attacking beasts with lightning.
• The Adult Pixiu recognized Shi Yi’s Crimson Feather and identified him as the Vermilion Bird’s envoy.
• Shi Yi declared the Mountain Treasure was fated to be his, and the Adult Pixiu warned him to leave.

Shi Yi confronted the Adult Pixiu over the Mountain Treasure, refusing its offer to become its adopted son. As the Pixiu turned hostile, a mysterious gate blocked a bloody hand that tried to erase Shi Yi from the River of Time.

• Shi Yi challenged the Adult Pixiu and advanced toward the Mountain Treasure, while the Pixiu offered him the treasure and its complete technique if he became its adopted son.
• A bloody hand reached across the River of Time to erase Shi Yi, but the Gate of Myriad Mysteries appeared and stopped it; the Willow Deity sensed someone was targeting him.
• Shi Yi rejected the Adult Pixiu's adoption offer, and the Pixiu threatened to kill him and make him its true son.
• Shi Yi mocked the Pixiu, gave the false name Yun Potian, and refused to back down as the Pixiu prepared to attack.

Shi Yi used Stone Village’s Ancestral Artifacts and his Ten Celestial Passages to fight the Adult Pixiu, enduring severe strain as he broke through its defenses with five Kirin Steps. He revealed that he was Shi Yi of Martial King Manor, and the Adult Pixiu recognized that their feud could end only in death.

• Shi Yi fused the Beast Bone and Beast Hide into his body, using them with his Ten Celestial Passages to contend with the Adult Pixiu despite the damage to his body.
• Shi Yi launched five increasingly powerful Kirin Steps, cracking the Adult Pixiu’s Seven-Colored Light Shield with the fifth strike.
• The Adult Pixiu dismissed Shi Yi’s enhanced strength as borrowed power, but Shi Yi said only his ability to use it mattered.
• Shi Yi revealed his Double Pupils and identified himself as Shi Yi of Martial King Manor, exposing Yun Potian as a false name.
• The Adult Pixiu recalled devouring Shi Yi’s biological father, Shi Ziteng, and Shi Ziling, and declared that it and Shi Yi could only fight to the death.

Shi Yi fought Adult Pixiu over the Mountain Treasure, using the Suan Ni Precious Technique and his Double Pupils to hold it off. After ten days of battle, Adult Pixiu fled and promised to visit Martial King Manor, while Shi Yi headed toward the Mountain Treasure’s pillar of light.

• Shi Yi struck Adult Pixiu with lightning, but it dodged and warned him that their conflict went beyond the Mountain Treasure.
• Adult Pixiu struck Shi Yi into a mountain, and Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to search for its fatal weakness but could not find it.
• Adult Pixiu tried to bite Shi Yi, but he stuffed a lightning sphere into its mouth and resumed bombarding it with lightning.
• Shi Yi and Adult Pixiu fought for ten days, and Shi Yi grew stronger and gained better control of his power.
• Adult Pixiu fled after knocking Shi Yi away, saying it would visit him at Martial King Manor and abandoning its plans to take the Mountain Treasure or kill him.
• Shi Yi pondered Adult Pixiu’s words, then flew toward the pillar of light containing a rune-covered black sphere.

Shi Yi obtained the Mountain Treasure with Willow Deity’s help and returned from the Great Wilderness to Martial King Manor, where he found a tearful youth and his mother being driven out. His own mother welcomed him home, but two familiar voices called to him from behind.

• Shi Yi drew the Mountain Treasure from its pillar, and Willow Deity took it and explained that it held Upper Realm inheritance he should study only after reaching the Venerable Realm.
• Shi Yi met the Snow Clan and Flood Dragon Clan groups, whose members dismissed him as a ragged beggar rather than recognizing him as the expert who fought the Pixiu.
• Shi Yi left the Great Wilderness and entered the Stone Kingdom, sensing the Human Emperor’s Imperial Dragon Qi protecting its people.
• At Martial King Manor, Shi Yi saw a crimson-robed woman order another woman and her tearful son, Hao'er, to leave, then his mother rushed to welcome him.
• As Shi Yi asked his mother what had happened, someone behind him called, “Yi Gege,” and another voice called, “Nephew?”