Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion, Shi Yongheng used his Willow Tree technique to help the Gourd Vine and transformed his Chaos cave heaven. He tested his strength across the Great Wilderness, then left with a clearer sense of his standing among the Eight Regions’ Venerables.

• Shi Yongheng emerged from seclusion, greeted Zhuo Yun, and reunited with Xia Youyu, who had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Shi Yongheng used the Nirvana technique he had learned from the Willow Tree engraving on the Gourd Vine, and the Gourd Vine responded with a ray of light that helped him transform and expand his cave heaven.
• Shi Yongheng found that the Gourd Vine had also gained vitality, and he decided to return to cultivate with it again.
• Ghost Grandpa appeared and followed Shi Yongheng, demanding his sword back; Shi Yongheng told him the Bear Boy had gone to Hundred Break Mountain, and Ghost Grandpa vanished.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the Great Wilderness and defeated opponents from the Inscription Realm through the Array Formation Realm, then won a difficult fight against the Venerable Heaven-Devouring Sparrow.
• Shi Yongheng concluded that he could protect himself against Venerable Realm experts in the Eight Regions.

Shi Hao returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion with materials from the Fountain of Youth, and the Pavilion’s Sacrificial Spirit revived after receiving a vast offering of divine treasures. Shi Yongheng recognized that the revival was only temporary, and the Sacrificial Spirit asked him to protect the disciples before it attempted Nirvana.

• Shi Hao returned the Original True Explanation talisman bone to Shi Hao after Shi Yongheng handed it back, and the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master rewarded Shi Hao with unlimited access to the Scripture Depository.
• Shi Yongheng left to temper himself in the Great Wilderness while Shi Hao studied the scriptures and fused three techniques into the Sky-Peng Treasure Technique.
• The Heaven Mending Pavilion’s upper echelons sacrificed precious materials to revive the Gourd Vine, drawing starlight from beyond the heavens as powerful creatures watched for its possible death.
• The revived Sacrificial Spirit filled the Heaven Mending Pavilion with vitality, and news of its return made other great powers wary of challenging the Pavilion.
• Shi Yongheng promised to protect the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, and the Sacrificial Spirit said it would attempt Nirvana afterward.

Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng studied the roc techniques and the Dragon God Technique as the Sacrificial Spirit warned them that a calamity would soon strike the Desolate Region. After Shi Yongheng reached great completion in the Inscription Realm, he began a breakthrough that revealed an extraordinary heavenly passage.

• Shi Hao showed Shi Yongheng his evolving roc technique, and Shi Yongheng recognized that it was developing toward the Kunpeng Technique.
• The Sacrificial Spirit confirmed that Shi Hao was on the right path, warned that the Desolate Region faced a new calamity, and gave him a precious bone.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng spent a month studying the bone, mastering the roc techniques and inscribing the Dragon God Technique runes into Shi Yongheng's body.
• Shi Yongheng reached great completion in the Inscription Realm and asked Shi Hao to guard him as he began a breakthrough.
• Shi Yongheng's heavenly passage manifested a vast world containing images of a Qilin, a dragon, a Willow Tree, a sword, and mysterious eyes, astonishing Shi Hao and the Sacrificial Spirit.

Shi Yongheng broke through to the Array Formation Realm by fusing his Ten Cave Heavens into one Grotto-Heaven, then discussed his extraordinary cultivation plans with Shi Hao and Willow Deity. The chapter left Shi Hao set to receive a secret art from Willow Deity, while Shi Yongheng offered to help him understand precious techniques.

• Shi Yongheng completed his breakthrough to the Array Formation Realm as the Divine Dragon’s seventh claw formed and his aura shook Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Yongheng claimed he could defeat Venerables with ease and urged the Sacrificial Spirit to begin its Nirvana.
• Shi Yongheng explained that he had fused all Ten Cave Heavens into one and hoped to develop worlds within his body’s acupoints.
• Willow Deity appeared, praised Shi Yongheng’s foundation, and offered to pass a secret art to Shi Hao for him to share.
• Shi Yongheng revealed that he had cultivated the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye himself and offered to decipher precious techniques for Shi Hao.

Shi Yongheng studied the Willow Deity Method before emerging from seclusion and helping Shi Hao evade Xia Youyu and the female War God. A catastrophe struck Heaven Mending Pavilion, and while its disciples faced chaos, powerful factions arrived under the pretense of joining and demanded entry.

• Shi Yongheng learned how to cultivate the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye by giving Shi Hao the Willow Deity Method runes, then entered seclusion in the Scripture Depository.
• After half a month, Shi Yongheng emerged and found Shi Hao fleeing Xia Youyu and the female War God after insulting them.
• Shi Yongheng restrained Shi Hao, apologized to the two women on his behalf, and tried to leave, but an earthquake shattered mountains and opened a vast abyss.
• Shi Hao rushed toward the Sacrificial Spirit, Xia Youyu went to calm the disciples, and Shi Yongheng warned the female War God to leave before vanishing.
• Aristocratic clans and Ancient Divine Mountains gathered at Heaven Mending Pavilion to seize its resources, while Shi Hao joined the battle.
• Several arrogant young prodigies claimed they wished to join Heaven Mending Pavilion, using their requests to coerce the pavilion.

Little Dot defended Heaven Mending Pavilion from arrogant young challengers while Shi Yongheng confronted a group of Venerables above the pavilion. Shi Yongheng killed the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow in a single exchange, leaving the other Venerables facing his power.

• The Heaven Mending Pavilion Master refused the factions' demand to join the pavilion, and a young challenger mocked its disciples and demanded that Little Dot submit as his battle servant.
• Little Dot tore through the young man's attack, stole his Five-Colored Treasure Fan, and kicked him away before challenging the other youths to fight him.
• Shi Yongheng returned to his peak and confronted the Venerables attacking Heaven Mending Pavilion, warning them to leave.
• The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow charged Shi Yongheng alone, but he stomped it down and split it in two with sword intent.

Shi Yongheng wiped out the invading Venerables and announced that the Heaven Mending Pavilion would demand compensation from the attacking factions. Later, Shi Hao struggled to reach a tenth cave heaven while Huo Ling'er opened her ninth and challenged him.

• Shi Yongheng killed the remaining Venerables with the fragmentary Qilin Step and warned the invading factions to prepare sacred medicines as compensation.
• Shi Yongheng teased Golden Dog, then received praise from the Heaven Mending Pavilion elders and disciples for saving the sect.
• People across the Eight Regions learned that Shi Yongheng came from the Martial King Manor, and Shi Hao was upset to discover he was his cousin.
• Shi Hao told Patriarch Mu Yan that he still could not find an opportunity to form a tenth cave heaven, and Mu Yan advised him to be patient and seek guidance.
• Huo Ling'er opened her ninth cave heaven, stabilized her breakthrough, and challenged Shi Hao to a fight.

Shi Hao fought Huo Ling'er after Mu Yan sealed his Cave Heavens, and learned to rely on his own strength rather than his cultivation. On Eternal Peak, Shi Yongheng mastered Wuji Lightning Ray so deeply that he summoned a Lightning Tribulation and a mysterious pool in the sky.

• Mu Yan sealed Shi Hao's Cave Heavens and urged Huo Ling'er to attack him, sending Shi Hao back to the Blood Moving Realm.
• Shi Hao stopped fleeing, broke Huo Ling'er's firebird attack with a punch, and fought her Nine Cave Heavens to a standstill.
• Big Red Bird praised Shi Hao's potential, while Golden Dog recalled Shi Hao's ferocity and admitted he feared Shi Yongheng.
• Shi Yongheng cultivated Wuji Lightning Ray on Eternal Peak, impressing the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples with his mastery of the ordinary technique.
• Shi Yongheng's cultivation summoned a Lightning Tribulation, and after dozens of bolts struck him, a pool filled with clear liquid appeared in the sky.

Shi Hao endured the lightning tribulation and formed a Unique Heavenly Passage from his ten Cave Heavens, while Shi Yongheng recovered with Tribulation Lightning Liquid. Shi Yongheng then traveled to meet Willow Deity, arriving at the village she protected.

• Shi Yongheng drank Tribulation Lightning Liquid and urged Shi Hao to endure the lightning and seek a path beyond the Ten Cave Heavens.
• Shi Hao drank the liquid, faced the tribulation with his ten Cave Heavens, and used sacred herbs to survive as they shattered and began to converge.
• Willow Deity shattered a deadly bolt for Shi Hao, who succeeded in forming a Unique Heavenly Passage from his ten Cave Heavens.
• Shi Hao decided to travel to the North Sea and gave Shi Yongheng the address of Willow Deity’s village.
• Shi Yongheng crossed the Great Wilderness, killed Fierce Beasts for gifts, and arrived at the village beneath the great Willow Tree.

Shi Yongheng arrived at Shi Village, reunited with the Willow Deity, and entrusted it with his Human Body Heaven Diagram and several techniques to examine. He settled in and began training the village children, who endured a medicinal bath before he teased them with a dragon transformation technique.

• Shi Yongheng introduced himself to Shi Yunfeng and the villagers as a disciple of the Willow Deity and reassured them that he had little attachment to Martial King Manor.
• Shi Yongheng gave the Willow Deity his Human Body Heaven Diagram, several treasure techniques, and a sacred medicine, and the Willow Deity agreed to study his cultivation path after recovering.
• Shi Yongheng led Shi Village's children into the Great Wilderness, returned with Lightning Dogs, and promised to reward the children who endured a cleansing the next day.
• Shi Yongheng and the villagers forced the children into medicinal cauldrons, where they soaked until the herbs and beast blood had taken effect.
• Shi Yongheng showed the children his dragon claw and teased them with a dragon transformation technique, while Shi Yunfeng asked whether it was safe to teach them.

Shi Yongheng studied the Transcendence Fragment with the Willow Deity and entered seclusion beneath the Willow Tree, advancing his cultivation and receiving new techniques from her. After a year of training, he reached Array Formation perfection and emerged to find a Nose-Drip Kid fleeing from him.

• Shi Yongheng identified the village's stone cauldron as the Original True Explanation: Transcendence Fragment, and the Willow Deity drew out its runes for them to study.
• Shi Yongheng began seclusion beneath the Willow Tree while the Willow Deity meditated on the incomplete Transcendence Chapter.
• Shi Yongheng cultivated for half a year, reached the middle stage of Array Formation, and received the Dragon God Technique's derivation section from the Willow Deity.
• Shi Yongheng continued until his azure divine dragon formed an eighth claw, advancing him to the late stage of Array Formation, and received the Human Body Heaven Diagram with 1,296 blood apertures.
• Shi Yongheng spent another half year opening all 1,296 blood apertures and reached Array Formation perfection before thanking the Willow Deity for her help.
• A Nose-Drip Kid saw Shi Yongheng after he emerged and fled toward the village, calling him the Great Demon King.

Shi Yongheng disciplined the Bear Boys before leaving Shi Village to travel through the Great Wilderness, where he encountered Yue Chan and the Witch, who tried to recruit him. He rejected both sects and continued onward, leaving the two women wondering about his strength and hidden knowledge.

• Shi Yongheng tested the Bear Boys’ rune comprehension and smacked those who could not lift a thousand-jin cauldron.
• Shi Yongheng left Shi Village and traveled through the Great Wilderness, where he found Yue Chan playing the flute by a lakeshore and the Witch arriving in a shower of light.
• The Witch and Yue Chan tried to recruit Shi Yongheng into the Heaven Severing Sect and the Butian Sect, respectively.
• Shi Yongheng said Shi Yi had joined the Butian Sect, criticized his borrowed bone, and warned that Upper Realm lineages that meddled in the great calamity would pay for it.
• Shi Yongheng disappeared, leaving Yue Chan and the Witch surprised that he had recognized their secondary and spiritual bodies and impressed by his confidence and accomplishments.
• Shi Yongheng continued through the Great Wilderness and passed the towering, ancient skeletons of powerful ferocious beasts.

Shi Yongheng defeated Shi Yi in a same-realm contest and then visited Martial King Manor, where he was treated as an outsider despite his ties to the family. He warned Fourth Granduncle not to interfere with Shi Hao and described how far Shi Hao had advanced.

• Shi Yongheng confronted Shi Yi, criticized his cultivation, and defeated him with his unique Cave Heaven.
• Shi Yongheng arrived at Martial King Manor and was challenged by the guards, who tried to drive him away.
• Shi Yu intervened, and Shi Yongheng rebuked him and the manor before leaving the guards behind.
• Fourth Granduncle and the elders came out to greet Shi Yongheng, who warned them not to interfere in Shi Hao's affairs.
• Shi Yongheng told Fourth Granduncle that Shi Hao had reached extraordinary heights despite losing his Supreme Bone and was nearing great completion in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Shi Yongheng attended an auction in the imperial capital, where he reunited with Shi Hao and learned that Shi Hao planned to avenge his grandfather by confronting a Venerable from Demon Spirit Lake. The chapter ended with Shi Yongheng offering Shi Hao a higher-grade fragment of the Original True Explanation and revealing that Shi Hao had once used another fragment for medicinal baths.

• Shi Yongheng arrived at the auction house and recognized the Sky Fox Clan woman who had intercepted him earlier.
• Shi Yongheng and the Witch spotted Shi Hao bidding on a bone fragment and went to his private room.
• Shi Hao reunited with Shi Yongheng, Da Hong, and Golden Dog, then explained that he had come to avenge his grandfather and show him he was alive.
• Shi Yongheng offered to help Shi Hao take on the Venerable from Demon Spirit Lake, but Shi Hao said he wanted to rely on himself.
• Shi Yongheng asked to study Shi Hao's bone fragment and promised to give him a higher-grade fragment he had found.
• Shi Yongheng told Shi Hao that the fragment he had found was the treasure Shi Hao had used for medicinal baths as a child.

After memorizing part of the Original True Explanation, Shi Yongheng went to Rain King Manor, where Shi Hao was confronting the Rain Clan. As the Rain God’s Edict appeared, Little Pagoda took a fragment and the edict began merging with Shi Hao’s Indestructible Golden Body, leaving him chewing on the divine relic again.

• Shi Yongheng emerged from seclusion and headed toward the imperial palace, stopping at Rain King Manor after learning Shi Hao had gone there.
• Shi Yongheng warned Martial King Manor’s men to leave, but they attacked him, and he knocked them aside with one slap.
• The Rain Clan recognized Shi Yongheng and debated using the Rain God’s Edict while Shi Hao prepared to retreat and refused to borrow Little Pagoda’s power.
• Little Pagoda told Shi Hao the edict could help repair his Indestructible Golden Body and took a fragment from the deity’s manifestation.
• Shi Hao found a sheet of golden edict paper attached to him and began biting it, horrifying the Rain Clan members.

Shi Hao disrupted the Rain Clan’s attack by eating pieces of their divine edict while the Little Pagoda stripped away its power. The Rain Clan withdrew the ruined artifact, and the Little Pagoda warned Shi Hao to leave before it upset the balance further.

• Shi Hao used the pottery bowl to swallow the Rain Clan’s precious artifacts and kill several attackers while he chewed up a piece of their divine edict.
• The Little Pagoda removed more edict fragments, some of which fused with Shi Hao’s armor, while Shi Hao ate others and stored one for later.
• The Rain Clan offered up the assembled edict, but more fragments vanished as Shi Hao continued taking them.
• The Rain Clan ancestor ordered the edict withdrawn after it had been reduced to half a sheet.
• The Little Pagoda told Shi Hao it was time to leave and warned that taking more fragments would disrupt the balance.

Shi Hao left the Rain King Manor after threatening the Rain Clan, then attended the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet with Shi Yongheng and their companions. At the crowded celebration, Shi Hao ran into Huo Ling’er and greeted Yun Xi of the Ancient Divine Mountain as an old friend.

• Shi Hao killed several Rain Clan pursuers with the Broken Sword, threatened the clan, and escaped using the Kunpeng Precious Technique.
• Shi Yongheng’s title of King Hengtian spread through the land, but he refused to appear at the Imperial Palace to accept the decree, while the Stone Emperor prepared for his birthday celebration.
• Shi Yongheng, Shi Hao, Da Hong, Er Tuzi, and Golden Dog arrived at the Imperial Palace for the banquet, where Shi Hao angered Rain King Manor and Martial King Manor guests by helping himself to the food.
• Shi Yongheng spoke with Yue Chan while Shi Hao greeted Huo Ling’er, the princess of the Fire Kingdom, with a teasing nickname.
• When a group from the Ancient Divine Mountain arrived, Shi Hao claimed he knew them and warmly greeted Yun Xi, then threatened those who looked down on humans.

Shi Yongheng killed the two Venerables who attacked Shi Hao, and the Stone Emperor rewarded Shi Hao with a noble title. Shi Yongheng then asked the Stone Emperor to change his own title from King Hengtian to King Xuantian.

• Shi Hao provoked the Demon Spirit Lake Venerable and Azure Luan Venerable, so the Stone Emperor moved the banquet to the military drill grounds for their fight.
• The two Venerables beat Shi Hao until he called on Shi Yongheng, who warned them not to kill his fellow disciple.
• Golden Spider Venerable attacked Shi Yongheng, who killed him and Blue Heaven Venerable with a single move.
• The Human Emperor served Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng Nine-Dragon Cups, and the Stone Emperor granted Shi Hao the title of Desolate Heavenly Marquis.
• Shi Yongheng asked the Stone Emperor to change his title from King Hengtian to King Xuantian, arguing that it suited his rank and standing.

Shi Yongheng accepted the title of Mysterious Heaven King, while Shi Hao left the imperial capital to cultivate in the Fire Kingdom's Ancestral Land. Shi Yi returned to the Martial King Manor, and the realm awaited the brothers' next confrontation.

• The Stone Emperor granted Shi Yongheng the title of Mysterious Heaven King and assigned him a manor, while Shi Hao received a marquis's title and the Martial King Manor split into three factions.
• Shi Hao quietly left the imperial capital for the Fire Kingdom's Ancestral Land, where he reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, broke into the Inscription Realm, and learned the incomplete Vermilion Bird Precious Technique.
• At the Ancient Saint Academy, the Double-Pupil Woman awoke and met Shi Yi, who had rebuilt his cultivation; the Golden Spider Venerable greeted her as a deity.
• Shi Yi returned to the Martial King Manor and called for his younger brother, prompting widespread discussion about whether he would return Shi Hao's Supreme Bone.

Shi Hao provoked Shi Yi into descending from the Inscription Realm region, and the two brothers began a devastating battle in the Void God Realm. The Domain Envoy stopped them and ordered them to settle their grievances in the Sky Battlefield when it opened in one month.

• Shi Hao told Huo Ling'er he would keep cultivating before challenging Shi Yi openly and fairly.
• Shi Yi and Shi Hao exchanged taunts across the Spirit Transformation and Inscription Realm regions, while Shi Yi said he had little interest in fighting his younger brother.
• Shi Hao attacked the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake territories to force Shi Yi to descend.
• Shi Yi confronted Shi Hao, and their battle unleashed their powers, injuring spectators and tearing apart the surrounding space.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yi collided fists with enough force to widen the canyon and threaten everyone nearby.
• The Domain Envoy intervened, warned that their combat power disrupted the Void God Realm, and directed them to fight in the Sky Battlefield when it opened in one month.