Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi shared Laozi’s teachings with Yun Xi, who felt enlightened by his words. When Yun Xi called him a born saint because of his Double Pupils, Shi Yi fell silent.

• Stone Village’s young people summoned phantom beasts behind them and prepared to face the humanoid creatures together rather than fight alone.
• In Silent Valley, Yun Xi admired the beauty of the night sky while Shi Yi rested on the Willow Deity’s lap and spoke about conflict and wisdom.
• Shi Yi recited Laozi’s teachings, and Yun Xi respectfully thanked him for enlightening her.
• Yun Xi called Shi Yi a born saint because he was a Double Pupil User, and Shi Yi fell silent.

Shi Yi realized that his Double Pupils let him perceive the lines underlying the world and that Daoist scriptures could serve as levers to manipulate it. As Yun Xi worried over his half-hour trance, he asked about holding back in a fight, while Shi Hao continued sparring with the Nine-Headed Golden Lion ten thousand li away.

• Shi Yi examined the lines of karma, fate, and life with his Double Pupils and understood how the Thirteen Supreme Dao Scriptures let him influence the world's essence.
• After Yun Xi touched his forehead and asked whether he was all right, Shi Yi woke and complained about people who held back against weaker opponents.
• Yun Xi suggested that such fighters might be seeking fairness and the enjoyment of an even battle.
• On the grassland, Shi Hao fought the Nine-Headed Golden Lion while deliberately suppressing his cultivation and using the beast as a sparring partner.
• Spectators watched from beyond the battlefield and gossiped about Shi Yi, Shi Hao, and Yun Xi.

Shi Hao fought the Nine-Headed Golden Lion across the grasslands, matching its strength and weapons before bringing out the Golden Dragon Bone Scissor. The lion’s desperate attempt to block the scissors failed, and the blade swept across its neck, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Shi Hao clashed with the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, meeting its physical attacks with his fists and deflecting its nine flying swords with the Treasure Mirror.
• Shi Hao summoned his Ten Celestial Passages to absorb the world’s essence as he continued fighting.
• Shi Hao released the Golden Dragon Bone Scissor, and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion accused him of pretending to be weak before fleeing across the grasslands.
• The Golden Dragon Bone Scissor narrowly missed the lion’s neck, leaving it badly wounded and carving a thousand-meter ravine into the earth.
• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion sacrificed its nine prayer beads to attack the scissors, but they shattered, and the scissors swept across the lion’s neck.

Shi Hao defeated the young Nine-Headed Golden Lion’s Fearless Lion Seal and beat it into submission, though the lion refused to become his mount. Meanwhile, Stone Village’s young fighters killed an Ancient Descendant in the Hundred Shattered Mountains and prepared to turn it into Flesh Treasure Medicine.

• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion used its Fearless Lion Seal, but Shi Hao summoned the Form and Will Method’s Dragon Form and shattered the divine ability.
• Shi Hao chased down the weakened Golden Lion, climbed onto its back, and beat it while demanding that it submit.
• The Golden Lion refused to become a human’s slave, and Shi Hao praised its backbone.
• In the Hundred Shattered Mountains, Stone Village’s young fighters killed a huge silver humanoid Ancient Descendant that had tried to enslave them.
• The Stone Village group agreed to butcher the creature for its Ancient Descendant Flesh Treasure Medicine.

Huo Ling'er, Yu Zimo, and Hu Niu found a golden giant egg in a cavern that turned out to be the Wolf God’s lair, provoking a vast pack of Giant Wolves. They escaped the collapsing cave, but Yu Zimo vowed never to explore with the other two again.

• Huo Ling'er triggered an altar and uncovered a golden giant egg, while she and Hu Niu argued over whether to eat it or hatch it.
• The egg’s activation drew a huge pack of Giant Wolves, including powerful Alpha Wolves, toward the cave.
• Yu Zimo identified the cavern as the Wolf God’s resting place and shielded Huo Ling'er and Hu Niu with her One Lifetime Scroll.
• Huo Ling'er used a crimson Phoenix flame to drive the wolves back as the three girls fled, while Hu Niu punched attacking Alpha Wolves into bloody mist.
• The girls escaped the cave just before it collapsed and buried the remaining wolves, and Yu Zimo swore not to team up with them again.

Huo Ling'er, Yu Zimo, and Hu Niu escaped the pursuing Giant Wolves and decided to hatch the golden egg, whose life force revived in response to Huo Ling'er’s fire phoenix. Elsewhere, Shi Hao prepared Golden Lion Head Flesh Treasure Medicine while Shi Yi’s Daoist verses began transforming Yun Xi.

• Yu Zimo carried Huo Ling'er and Hu Niu away from the Giant Wolves on the One Lifetime Scroll until they escaped the pack’s pursuit.
• Huo Ling'er refused to give up the golden giant egg, and the three women discussed whether to stew or hatch it.
• Huo Ling'er lay on the egg, and a fire phoenix phantom revived the life force inside it.
• Shi Hao drove off thieves trying to steal the Nine-Headed Golden Lion’s heads, then cooked them with four Ten Thousand Year Old Spirit Medicines.
• Shi Yi recited verses from Rootless Tree to Yun Xi, and her body and soul began to undergo sublimation.

Shi Yi reunited with Shi Hao and the Heaven Mending Pavilion group as they prepared a feast from the Nine-Headed Golden Lion’s heads. After they drank the powerful broth, Shi Hao slept beside his brother while the others refined its essence and broke through.

• Yun Xi recited Shi Yi’s words and noticed the fragrant Golden Lion Head soup being prepared by the Heaven Mending Pavilion group.
• Shi Hao invited Shi Yi to share the meal, and Shi Yi used his power to straighten the Pavilion members as they greeted him.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Yun Xi, and the Heaven Mending Pavilion group drank the soup made from the Nine-Headed Golden Lion’s heads and four Ten Thousand Year Old Spirit Medicines.
• Shi Hao said he had reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, then fell asleep beside Shi Yi after absorbing the soup’s vital essence.
• Several hours later, the Heaven Mending Pavilion group and Yun Xi emerged stronger after refining the divine essence, and the group members broke through one after another.

Huo Ling'er incubated a golden egg that hatched into a winged wolf cub, which she named Little Wolf God. At the Martial King Manor, Yu Yuexian confronted Qin Yining over being in Shi Yi's room, while Shi Yi watched Yun Xi sleep beside him.

• The golden egg cracked and hatched into a small gray, winged creature that first feared Hu Niu and Yu Zimo but warmed to Huo Ling'er.
• Hu Niu inspected the creature and passed it to Huo Ling'er, who named it Little Wolf God as it ate pieces of its eggshell.
• Yu Zimo pondered whether wolves could lay eggs and blushed as she imagined an egg belonging to Shi Yi.
• Yu Yuexian found Qin Yining in Shi Yi's room and called in A Man, who defended Qin Yining as Shi Yi's aunt.
• After Yu Yuexian left, Qin Yining complained about Shi Yi's mother and remarked that A Man was his personal maid and bedmaid.
• A Man wondered when Shi Yi would return, while Shi Yi watched Yun Xi sleep against his shoulder and wondered whether she feared bearing his children.

After the group recovered from refining the Golden Lion Head soup, Yun Xi revealed she knew the location of the Undying Divine Spring. The Mending Heaven Pavilion disciples rejoiced because finding it was their mission and could help save their aging sacrificial spirit.

• Shi Hao and the Mending Heaven Pavilion disciples fell asleep after exhausting themselves refining the soup, and Yun Xi eventually fell asleep against Shi Yi.
• Shi Hao woke early and ran around howling, prompting the Mending Heaven Pavilion senior brothers and sisters to chase him.
• Xia Youyu apologized to Shi Yi for the group’s unruly behavior, and Shi Yi reassured her that their bickering showed their bond as fellow disciples.
• Xia Youyu admitted the group felt indebted to Shi Hao for carrying them through the journey, and Shi Yi told her they should work together without worrying over it.
• Yun Xi woke and said she knew where the Undying Divine Spring was, making Xia Youyu and the Mending Heaven Pavilion group excited about their mission.

Shi Hao and Shi Yi pursued the Undying Divine Spring while Shi Hao tried to make the Nine-Headed Golden Lion his mount. The group gathered to share their discoveries, and Yun Xi and Hu Niu ended their conversation with very different impressions of Shi Hao.

• Shi Hao celebrated the prospect of studying at the Mending Heaven Pavilion and deducing the Small Primal Chaos River Luo Array, while Yun Xi warned that many Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts knew where the Undying Divine Spring was.
• Shi Hao boasted that he and Shi Yi could claim any opportunity in the Hundred Shattered Mountains, and Shi Yi dropped a meteorite on him to quiet him.
• Shi Hao dragged the Nine-Headed Golden Lion out of a swamp and challenged it to fight, insisting it would become his mount if it lost.
• Huo Ling'er explained that she had helped Shi Hao track down the Nine-Headed Golden Lion because she wanted to test the Little Wolf God's tracking ability.
• Hu Niu asked Yun Xi how she had met Shi Hao, then told her that she was not the sort of woman he liked; Yun Xi insisted they were only discussing the Dao and privately worried about her figure.

Shi Hao subdued the Nine-Headed Golden Lion and insisted on keeping it as his mount despite its claims that it could evolve into an Ancient Ferocious Beast. Shi Yi promised Yun Xi that he would take Shi Hao to the Ancient God Mountain to confront the Nine Spirits King, the lion’s grandfather.

• After three hours of fighting, Shi Hao exhausted the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, which offered to become his sworn brother.
• Shi Hao rejected the offer and demanded that the Nine-Headed Golden Lion become his mount, even after it revealed its clan’s method for evolving its bloodline.
• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion roared in anger, but Shi Hao struck it and forced it to submit for the time being.
• Yun Xi warned Shi Yi that the Nine Spirits King would not accept his grandson becoming a human’s mount.
• Shi Yi said he would visit the Ancient God Mountain with Shi Hao after they left the Hundred Shattered Mountains and speak with the Nine Spirits King.

Shi Hao extorted spirit medicines from the exhausted Nine-Headed Golden Lion, then rode it across the Hundred Shattered Mountains while Shi Yi’s group set out to search for the Undying Divine Spring. The chapter ended with Shi Hao enjoying the Golden Lion’s imposing presence as other creatures fled before them.

• Shi Hao demanded several hundred jin of Ten Thousand Year Old Spirit Medicine from the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, then offered to help heal its lost heads with the Fountain of Youth in exchange for finding divine treasures.
• Shi Yi ordered the group to rest before searching for the Undying Divine Spring, and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion stayed quiet under his intimidating presence.
• Yu Zimo flew ahead with Shi Yi’s group, while Xia Youyu carried the Mending Heaven Pavilion group and Stone Village youths behind them; Shi Hao set off alone atop the Nine-Headed Golden Lion.
• Creatures across the Hundred Shattered Mountains were shocked to see Shi Hao riding the Golden Lion and feared the Nine Spirits King’s possible retaliation, though Shi Yi’s strength and status made them hesitate.
• After a day of travel, Shi Hao praised the Nine-Headed Golden Lion for frightening away every creature they encountered, and the lion proudly raised its head.

Shi Hao captured the Fiery Red Bird and threatened to eat it, but Shi Yi spared it after learning it had never eaten humans. The Fiery Red Bird remained confused about Shi Yi’s identity as the group continued on their way.

• Shi Hao encountered the Fiery Red Bird again and chased it down using his Form and Will Method.
• Shi Hao captured the Fiery Red Bird and threatened to eat it, while the bird pleaded to become his mount.
• Shi Hao brought the bird before Shi Yi, whose Vermillion Bird Plume made it mistake him for the Vermilion Bird.
• Yu Zimo explained that the Fiery Red Bird had never eaten humans, and Shi Yi decided to spare it.
• Yun Xi clarified that Shi Yi was the Heaven Mending Sect’s Holy Son, but the Fiery Red Bird still wondered whether he was the Vermilion Bird.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao followed the Fiery Red Bird to hunt a man-eating Ferocious Bird, while their companions followed behind and continued toward the Undying Divine Spring. They arrived at the bird’s nest and found human bones, but the Ferocious Bird was absent.

• The Fiery Red Bird begged Shi Yi to spare its life and offered to lead him to a stronger Ferocious Bird that ate people.
• Shi Yi rode the Fiery Red Bird while Shi Hao rode the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, and their companions followed on flying treasures and mounts.
• Yun Xi said they could search for the Undying Divine Spring as they traveled, while the Mending Heaven Pavilion group and Stone Village people followed behind.
• Stone Village youths praised Shi Yi’s talent and said Shi Hao was unlikely to surpass him.
• Shi Yi reached an icy cliff lined with human bones, and the Fiery Red Bird noticed that the Ferocious Bird was not in its nest.

After Yu Zimo used her One Lifetime Scroll to reveal that a Black Ferocious Bird had tortured and eaten people alive, Shi Yi sent the Stone Village youths and Mending Heaven Pavilion disciples to pursue it. Shi Yi stopped Shi Hao from joining, urging him to trust his companions, while the Fiery Red Bird tried to flatter him and was mocked by the Nine-Headed Golden Lion.

• Shi Yi and Shi Hao found human bones in a Ferocious Nest, and Shi Hao noted that the blood on them was fresh.
• Yu Zimo used her One Lifetime Scroll to show the Black Ferocious Bird torturing and eating a woman before fleeing east from the approaching lion roars.
• Shi Yi ordered Pi Houzi and the others to bring back the Black Ferocious Bird, and the Stone Village youths and Mending Heaven Pavilion disciples set off after it.
• Shi Hao tried to join the pursuit, but Shi Yi stopped him and urged him to trust his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters to handle the danger themselves.
• The Fiery Red Bird began flattering Shi Yi, and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion called it a bootlicker and told it to have some shame.

Shi Yi explained that the Form and Will Method was a human Treasure Technique anyone could learn, shocking Yun Xi, the Nine-Headed Golden Lion, and the Fiery Red Bird. Meanwhile, the Stone Village and Mending Heaven Pavilion groups cornered the Black Ferocious Bird and began overwhelming it together.

• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion claimed the transforming Treasure Technique was the Zhu Yan Treasure Technique, but Shi Yi told Yun Xi it was humanity’s own technique, one anyone could learn.
• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion and the Fiery Red Bird doubted that ordinary humans could possess their own Treasure Techniques, while Yun Xi began to understand Shi Yi’s explanation.
• At a marshy lake in the Hundred Shattered Mountains, the Stone Village group and the Mending Heaven Pavilion group caught up with the Black Ferocious Bird.
• The Stone Village group used the Form and Will Method to transform into Golden Eagles and attack the Black Ferocious Bird, while the Mending Heaven Pavilion group bombarded it with Treasure Techniques.
• The Black Ferocious Bird suffered severe wounds and failed to break through the groups surrounding it.

Pi Houzi used the TuLong Form to kill the Black Ferocious Bird, while Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Yu Zimo left to search for Taiyi True Water. Yu Zimo sensed that the valuable divine liquid was somewhere in the marshes and lakes, but still needed to pinpoint its location.

• Pi Houzi activated the TuLong Form with help from the Stone Village and Mending Heaven Pavilion groups, then killed the Black Ferocious Bird with an Infinite Death Roll.
• Huo Ling'er ordered the Black Ferocious Bird roasted and divided after she burned the Ferocious Nest and cremated the bones inside.
• Hu Niu told the others that Shi Hao and Shi Yi had gone with Yu Zimo to search for Taiyi True Water.
• Yu Zimo led Shi Yi and Shi Hao to marshes and lakes in the Hundred Shattered Mountains where the Rain Clan had previously sensed Taiyi True Water.
• The Nine-Headed Golden Lion explained the divine liquid's many uses, and Yu Zimo closed her eyes to sense its exact location.

Shi Yi followed Yu Zimo’s sensing and found Taiyi True Water in a barren desert, despite Shi Hao, the Fiery Red Bird, and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion doubting her. The group reached a divine pool of the treasure, leaving them astonished by its presence and immense value.

• Shi Hao rode the Nine-Headed Golden Lion impatiently while Yu Zimo searched for the Taiyi True Water.
• Yu Zimo identified the barren desert as the treasure’s location, but the Fiery Red Bird and Shi Hao doubted her.
• Shi Yi trusted Yu Zimo and led the group into the desert to verify her claim.
• The group discovered a clear pool of Taiyi True Water bubbling with divine liquid and auspicious mist.
• Shi Hao, the Fiery Red Bird, and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion reacted with disbelief at the treasure’s location.

Shi Yi, Shi Hao, and Yu Zimo found a pool of Taiyi True Water in the Barren Desert, and Yu Zimo tried to approach it through the Rain Clan’s water-affinity method. The water defended itself by raising illusions and animating ancient bones, while the group tried to avoid driving it away.

• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Yu Zimo examined the rare pool of Taiyi True Water, and Yu Zimo warned them not to approach it by force.
• Yu Zimo recited the Rain Clan’s ancient method and cautiously approached the pool to communicate with it.
• A rune-formed black beast and tornado appeared, but Shi Yi saw through the illusion and destroyed it.
• Taiyi True Water raised the bones of ancient creatures from the sand, and Yu Zimo explained that powerful beings had died in the desert long ago.
• Shi Hao admired the preserved runes on the bones, while Yu Zimo stopped the Fiery Red Bird and Nine-Headed Golden Lion from attacking and frightening the water away.
• Shi Yi recognized that Taiyi True Water had revived the bones’ runes and wondered whether it surpassed the Undying Divine Spring.

Yu Zimo used the Rain God Decree to convince Taiyi True Water and the young Divine Vine that she meant them no harm. Taiyi True Water agreed to leave with her, and Shi Hao asked for the powerful creatures’ bones.

• Shi Yi realized Mending Heaven Pavilion might have sought the Undying Divine Spring because it could not find Taiyi True Water, and the group approached the pool.
• Taiyi True Water grew frightened as Shi Yi’s group came closer, but Yu Zimo calmed it by claiming kinship as a descendant of the Rain God.
• A young Divine Vine appeared and warned Taiyi True Water that the outsiders would eat it.
• Yu Zimo showed the Rain God Decree, proving her identity and persuading Taiyi True Water and the Divine Vine that she meant no harm.
• Taiyi True Water agreed to leave with Yu Zimo, and Shi Hao asked it to give him the bones of the powerful creatures that had died there.
• Taiyi True Water agreed to let Shi Hao take the bones.