Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi reassured Shi Hao about Qin Yining and discussed the tensions between her and Yu Yuexian before turning to the valuable corpses of the three slain ferocious beasts. When the Stone Country Human Emperor asked what he would do with them, Shi Yi paused to think.

• The Stone Country Human Emperor acknowledged Shi Yi's talent but noted that he was only thirteen and too young to take the Human Emperor's position.
• Shi Hao asked after Qin Yining, and Shi Yi assured him she was well and that he kept Yu Yuexian from mistreating her.
• Shi Yi explained that Yu Yuexian and Qin Yining often argued, and that Qin Yining handled most of the Martial King Manor's affairs.
• Shi Hao teased Shi Yi for calling Yu Yuexian "Mother," while Shi Yi said he did not mind coaxing her to keep the peace.
• Shi Yi considered the valuable corpses of Bi An, Ya Zi, and the Adult Pixiu as hidden forces in the Great Wilderness watched them.
• The Stone Country Human Emperor asked Shi Yi how he would deal with the three corpses, and Shi Yi said he would think about it.

Shi Yi returned to Stone Village with Shi Hao after avenging the blood feud and distributing the ferocious beasts’ remains. He faced his former companions and the arrival of a transformed Hu Niu, who asked if he was finally willing to come back.

• Shi Yi assigned Bi An to the Stone Kingdom, Ya Zi to the Fire Kingdom, and Pixiu to Martial King Manor, while Vermilion Bird and Zhu Yan claimed the first two corpses.
• Shi Yi declined the Stone Country Human Emperor’s offer to return with him and invited Shi Hao to visit Stone Village.
• Shi Yi stored Adult Pixiu’s remains to help Stone Village grow stronger, remembering how its people had supported him.
• Shi Yi and Shi Hao arrived at Stone Village, where they found a new jade-white sacrificial spirit in place of the Willow Deity.
• Stone Village residents welcomed Shi Yi and warned him that Hu Niu might beat him; Hu Niu appeared and asked if he was finally willing to come back.

Shi Yi returned to Stone Village and was ambushed by Hu Niu, who beat him under the influence of a mysterious woman wielding the Great Dao Treasure Bottle. After the beating, Shi Yi introduced his cousin Shi Hao to Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng and the village youths.

• Hu Niu appeared before Shi Yi and said that an unnamed woman had called him a menace and ordered her to beat him.
• Hu Niu suppressed Shi Yi with the Great Dao Treasure Bottle and beat him while warning Shi Hao to worry about his mother.
• Hu Niu revealed that she had changed after learning Shi Yi would not spare his own aunt, then continued beating him until she finally let him go.
• Shi Yi glimpsed a masked, peerlessly graceful woman before Shi Hao interrupted his view and severed the connection between the two spacetime realms.
• Stone Village youths gathered around Shi Yi, and Old Clan Leader Shi Yunfeng welcomed him and met Shi Hao, whom Shi Yi introduced as his cousin.

Shi Yi returned to Stone Village with Shi Hao and told Shi Yunfeng he had brought back the corpse of an Adult Pixiu, proposing to share it between the village and his home. As evening fell, Shi Yi, Shi Hao, Hu Niu, and the village children gathered to eat the beast meat, which Shi Yi said would help heal Shi Hao's chest bone.

• Stone Village's children teased Shi Hao about his name before warmly welcoming him into the village.
• Shi Yunfeng worried that Shi Yi had returned after suffering a grievance, but Shi Yi claimed he had found an Adult Pixiu's corpse in the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Yi told Shi Yunfeng that he planned to leave half of the Pixiu in Stone Village and take the other half home, and Shi Yunfeng accepted his decision.
• That evening, Shi Yi and the others gathered around a cauldron of Pixiu meat, which Shi Yi urged Shi Hao to eat to help heal his injured chest bone.

Shi Yi fed Shi Hao and the Stone Village youths medicinal meatballs made from an Adult Pixiu, and Shi Hao’s chest began to heal as he ate. Hu Niu revealed that a future vision had prompted her to beat Shi Yi, and her warning about Aunt Qin Yining left him reconsidering her behavior.

• Shi Yi served meatballs made from an Adult Pixiu to Shi Hao and the Stone Village youths, who struggled to digest their powerful Life Essence.
• Shi Hao ate until he fell asleep, while Hu Niu stayed with Shi Yi after the others returned home.
• Hu Niu told Shi Yi that someone from the future had asked her to beat him because he would become a shameless womanizer.
• Shi Yi denied that he would ever desire Aunt Qin Yining, but Hu Niu remarked that Aunt Qin Yining seemed to have him wrapped around her finger.
• Shi Yi began to reconsider Hu Niu’s accusation when he recalled that Aunt Qin Yining had been acting strangely.

Shi Yi wondered why Qin Yining had begun treating him differently, while Hu Niu teased him about being beaten over his aunt’s feelings. He recalled studying the Script of Salvation with the Willow Deity a year earlier, ending with him embracing her after she warned him not to pursue the scripture’s distant promise of immortality.

• Hu Niu told Shi Yi that Qin Yining had other intentions toward him, and he complained that he had been beaten despite doing nothing wrong.
• Shi Yi asked when Qin Yining’s feelings had changed, and Hu Niu urged him to consider how he had treated her over the past two years.
• In a memory from a year earlier, Shi Yi recited the Script of Salvation inside his Tenth Celestial Passage as the Willow Deity listened.
• Shi Yi explained the scripture’s remarkable effects and its legend of attaining the Dao through ten consecutive recitations.
• The Willow Deity cautioned Shi Yi that he could manage only three recitations before exhausting his mind, and Shi Yi replied that he was just saying before embracing her waist.

Shi Yi comforted his aunt Qin Yining after she cried over Yu Yuexian’s taunts about her son, Shi Hao. Qin Yining began considering how she might make Yu Yuexian regret underestimating her, while Shi Yi later concluded that Hu Niu had probably invented the warning about his aunt’s changed feelings.

• After reciting scripture, Shi Yi found Qin Yining crying and asked whether Yu Yuexian had wronged her.
• Qin Yining explained that Yu Yuexian had taunted her by comparing Shi Hao unfavorably with Shi Yi and saying Shi Hao had abandoned her.
• Shi Yi comforted Qin Yining and offered to let her vent her anger, prompting her to consider pursuing him as revenge against Yu Yuexian.
• Shi Yi recalled the incident and decided Hu Niu had likely been messing with him rather than predicting the future.

Shi Yi recognized the masked woman as the Ruthless Great Emperor, then set aside his unanswered questions and rested beside Hu Niu and Shi Hao. The next morning, he began teaching Stone Village’s young people that humanity should develop its own Treasure Techniques.

• Shi Yi realized the masked woman with the Great Dao Treasure Bottle might be the Ruthless Great Emperor, but he could not understand why she had crossed time to have Hu Niu beat him up.
• Shi Yi covered the sleeping Hu Niu with a tiger pelt and went to sleep while Shi Hao rested on his old bed.
• Shi Hao woke safely for the first time in two years, noticed Shi Yi above Stone Village, and hurried outside to join him.
• Shi Yi told the village youths that true strength came from the rise of an entire clan and proposed creating Treasure Techniques for humanity.
• The young villagers eagerly questioned Shi Yi, while Shi Hao reflected that he had only ever known Treasure Techniques passed down from ferocious beasts.

Shi Yi proposed that humanity should develop its own Treasure Techniques, prompting Shi Hao to suggest that humans also needed their own cultivation system. Shi Yi agreed that humanity had to forge its own path, leaving Shi Hao’s ambition to create the Human Body Mystical Realm Cultivation System taking root.

• Shi Yi proposed that the human race should have its own Treasure Techniques, and Shi Hao wondered whether humans also needed their own cultivation system.
• Shi Hao considered how the existing cultivation path favored ferocious beasts and asked Shi Yi if humans should forge a path of their own.
• Shi Yi agreed that humanity could not keep relying on other races’ techniques and cultivation systems, though he did not know how to create a new system.
• Shi Yi believed he could use his knowledge and the Treasure Bones available to him to create Treasure Techniques suited to humans.
• The Stone Village youths described how difficult it was to learn other races’ Treasure Techniques and voiced their desire for techniques belonging to humanity.

Shi Yi announced that he would create the human race’s own Treasure Techniques and cultivation system, then unveiled the Form and Will Method he had developed. Shi Hao questioned whether Shi Yi was serious, still troubled by his desire to surpass his brother and the promise that he would protect him.

• Shi Yi promised Stone Village that the human race would gain its own Treasure Techniques and cultivation system, while he expected Shi Hao to help develop the system.
• The Willow Deity reflected on Shi Yi’s devotion to her and her growing attachment to him despite suspecting his intentions were impure.
• Shi Yi joked that he would make the young people of Stone Village kings after unifying the Lower Realm, and they debated whether he could conquer the Upper Realm too.
• Shi Yi introduced the Form and Will Method, a human Treasure Technique he had created by combining the foundations of techniques from many races.
• Shi Hao challenged Shi Yi’s seriousness and recalled his wish to grow stronger than his brother after losing to him and hearing that he should protect Shi Yi.

Shi Yi taught Stone Village the Form and Will Method, a human Treasure Technique he had created, while Shi Hao recognized its profound potential. After half a month, Shi Yi took Shi Hao back to Martial King Manor, leaving the village youths behind to continue practicing.

• Shi Yi explained the Form and Will Method and demonstrated how it could imitate the Treasure Techniques of other races.
• Shi Yi taught the Stone Village youths twelve basic methods and encouraged them to practice, while Shi Hao quickly grasped the technique’s deeper potential.
• Over the following days, Shi Yi stayed in Stone Village to teach, noticing that Shi Hao learned far more quickly than the other youths.
• After about half a month, Shi Yi agreed to take Shi Hao back to Martial King Manor, while Hu Niu changed her mind about going and the Stone Village youths stayed behind.

After returning to Martial King Manor with Shi Hao, Shi Yi avoided Qin Yining’s flirtations and encountered Heavenly Fox Fairy, who offered him a place in the Heaven Intercepting Sect. He asked what benefits the sect offered, leaving the invitation unresolved.

• Shi Yi returned to Martial King Manor with Shi Hao, where Qin Yining thanked him and clung to his arm until he escaped.
• Shi Hao went into seclusion to cultivate after nearing the Ten Celestial Passages during the Great Wilderness battle.
• Heavenly Fox Fairy caught Shi Yi as he fled and teased him about running from someone.
• Heavenly Fox Fairy invited Shi Yi to join the Heaven Intercepting Sect and explained that his battle feats had attracted Upper Realm sects.
• Shi Yi asked Heavenly Fox Fairy what benefits he would receive by joining the Heaven Intercepting Sect.

Shi Yi demanded concrete benefits from the Heaven Intercepting Sect and Heaven Mending Sect while resisting the Heavenly Fox Fairy’s advances. Meanwhile, Immortality Mountain’s representatives asked Qin Yining to persuade him to join them, but she rejected their approach.

• Shi Yi rejected the Heavenly Fox Fairy’s offer to join the Heaven Intercepting Sect because she offered herself as the benefit.
• The Heavenly Fox Fairy caught up with Shi Yi as he met Moon Chan Fairy, then flirted with him while he asked about tangible rewards from the Heaven Mending Sect.
• Moon Chan Fairy praised Shi Yi’s restraint and realized he was not acting solely for himself.
• Representatives of Immortality Mountain visited Qin Yining and offered to make Shi Yi their Holy Son while devoting their resources to him.
• Qin Yining rebuked the visitors and said Shi Yi was already discussing offers with the Heaven Intercepting Sect and the Heaven Mending Sect.

Shi Yi protected Qin Yining when two Immortality Mountain visitors argued with her, and Qin Yining admitted that she could only rely on him. Half a month later, Heaven Mending Sect figures debated Shi Yi’s demand for benefits and whether to make him Holy Son.

• Qin Yining and an Immortality Mountain woman quarreled over Qin Yining’s past and her marriage to Sin Blood.
• Shi Yi sensed trouble, left the Heavenly Fox Fairy and Moon Chan Fairy, and came to Qin Yining’s side.
• Qin Yining acted frightened behind Shi Yi, who warned the two visitors to leave Martial King Manor.
• The middle-aged man pulled the angry woman away rather than risk provoking Shi Yi or failing the Immortality Mountain Old Ancestor.
• Qin Yining told Shi Yi that she could only rely on him, and he promised to protect her.
• Half a month later, Heaven Mending Sect figures discussed Shi Yi’s request for benefits and proposed making him Holy Son alongside the Holy Maiden.

The Upper Realm’s powerful figures discussed Shi Yi’s potential and the Immortality Mountain elders plotted to tie him to Qin Yining, while a disgraced visitor was ordered to leave the Lower Realm. At the Martial King Manor, Shi Hao proudly told Shi Yi that he had reached Ten Celestial Passages, but Shi Yi stayed focused on planning his next cultivation realms.

• Figures from the Heaven Intercepting Sect praised Shi Yi’s practical nature and considered recruiting him.
• Elders from Immortality Mountain discussed Qin Yining’s family line and saw Shi Yi as her only possible choice to continue it.
• An elder from Lower Realm Immortality Mountain scolded the middle-aged woman who had offended Qin Yining, and she left with her husband.
• After half a month of secluded cultivation, Shi Hao crossed into Ten Celestial Passages and eagerly told Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi gave Shi Hao a brief acknowledgment and continued studying which runes and formations to use in the Inscription and Array Formation Realms.

Shi Yi considered which of the Four Great Killing Arrays of the Primordial Chaos he could inscribe, then chose the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and the Primal Chaos River Luo Array as complementary formations suited to him. He turned to his sulking younger brother, Shi Hao, and offered to help him rise from darkness into the light.

• Shi Yi ruled out the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation because he lacked its four swords and formation diagram, and dismissed the Twelve Divine Heavens Great Astral Array because he had no Witch Clan bloodline or eleven siblings.
• Shi Hao sought his brother’s praise for having Ten Celestial Passages, but Shi Yi casually told him that anyone with hands could achieve that.
• Shi Yi studied the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens and realized he could begin with a lesser version and gradually perfect it.
• Shi Yi connected the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens with the Primal Chaos River Luo Array, deciding the two formations complemented each other and suited him.
• Shi Yi noticed Shi Hao sulking and told him he had a way to bring him from darkness back into the light.

Shi Yi gave Shi Hao the Runic Bone Fragment containing the Original True Understanding and urged him to cultivate it carefully. He then encouraged Shi Hao to use the fragment and his Supreme Bone to derive a new array, setting Shi Hao on a path of study and experimentation.

• Shi Yi explained the Original True Understanding and warned Shi Hao not to force himself to comprehend its profound runes.
• Shi Hao accepted the Runic Bone Fragment and hurried off to study it in seclusion.
• Shi Yi stopped Shi Hao and advised him to prepare for the Inscription and Array Formation Realm by deriving new arrays from the Original True Understanding and his Supreme Bone.
• Shi Yi taught Shi Hao that nature could provide the principles for arrays and encouraged him to pursue the Primal Chaos River Luo Array.
• Shi Hao trusted Shi Yi's guidance and decided to study array theory.

Shi Yi reflected on Shi Hao’s Supreme Precious Techniques and trusted him to deduce the Primal Chaos River Luo Array, while Shi Yi planned to handle the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens. Later, Shi Yi told the women gathered at the Martial King Manor that he would accept the Heaven Mending Sect’s Holy Son title but remain in the Lower Realm for now.

• Shi Hao left believing Shi Yi genuinely cared for him and resolved to grow strong enough to protect his older brother.
• Shi Yi recalled Shi Hao’s three Supreme Precious Techniques and hoped the brothers would use their respective arrays to suppress the heavens together.
• Half a month later, the Sixteenth Princess, Huo Ling'er, Yu Zimo, Yu Yuexian, Qin Yining, Moon Chan Fairy, and Heavenly Fox Fairy gathered in the Martial King Manor’s back garden.
• Moon Chan Fairy asked Shi Yi how he would handle the Lower Realm after the Heaven Mending Sect crowned him Holy Son.
• Shi Yi said he would remain in the Lower Realm after his coronation and go to the Upper Realm only when his cultivation could no longer advance.
• Moon Chan Fairy warned Shi Yi that the Heaven Mending Sect would not want its Holy Son to stay in the Lower Realm forever, where cultivation could reach only the Venerable Realm.

Shi Yi asked Moon Chan Fairy to help him deduce a formation from the stars, and she agreed after he addressed her as Senior Sister. At midnight, she revealed her Main and Secondary Bodies to him, leaving him stunned by her icy demeanor.

• Shi Yi asked Moon Chan Fairy to help him use the starry sky to deduce a new formation, and she agreed.
• Moon Chan Fairy asked Shi Yi to call her Senior Sister, and he readily did so.
• Huo Ling'er complained that Shi Yi was spending time with Moon Chan Fairy, while the Sixteenth Princess reminded her that they were betrothed to him.
• Yu Yuexian celebrated Shi Yi's coming appointment as Holy Son, while Yu Zimo supported her and Qin Yining sat alone in a secluded corner.
• At midnight, Moon Chan Fairy showed Shi Yi her identical Main and Secondary Bodies and asked whether he was surprised.

Shi Yi discussed his idea for a formation using the sun, moon, and stars with Moon Chan Fairy’s Main Body. She offered him her Secondary Body in marriage or the True Dragon Precious Technique, leaving Shi Yi to ask whether he could have both.

• Shi Yi compared Moon Chan Fairy’s cold, reason-driven Main Body with her more human Secondary Body and considered how their technique split emotion from reason.
• Moon Chan Fairy’s Main Body asked Shi Yi how he would use the sun, moon, and stars to form the Great Stellar Array of the Heavens, and he invited both bodies to sit and discuss it.
• Moon Chan Fairy’s Main Body offered her Secondary Body to Shi Yi if he helped derive the formation, then offered the True Dragon Precious Technique when she thought he was uninterested in women.
• Shi Yi asked if he could have both the Secondary Body and the True Dragon Precious Technique, prompting both bodies to scorn him.
• Moon Chan Fairy’s Main Body set aside the offer and pressed Shi Yi to explain how he would turn the heavens’ stars into a great formation.