Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingchen found Little Tower and the Original True Explanation on the Treasure-Dividing Cliff and gave them to Bear Child. Elsewhere, the Fire Emperor returned to Huo Ling'er with a treasure and warned that a new rule was trapping those below the Array Formation Realm, while Huo Ling'er chose to stay.

• Ye Xingchen led Bear Child to the Treasure-Dividing Cliff after the fighting ended and followed the God-Striking Stone's directions to find Little Tower and the Original True Explanation among the bones.
• Ye Xingchen tested the treasures, discovered that Bear Child could sense a living presence inside Little Tower, and gave both treasures to him.
• Huo Ling'er reassured Yun Xi that the Celestial Human Race would not abandon her.
• The Fire Emperor returned with torn robes and gave Huo Ling'er a treasure he had won for her after fighting three opponents.
• The Fire Emperor warned Huo Ling'er that a new rule would keep those below the Array Formation Realm in the Hundred Broken Mountains and expel stronger experts, but she chose to stay because Ye Xingchen was still there.

Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi stayed in the Hundred Broken Mountains while the powerful cultivators were forced to leave, and Ye Xingchen protected Bear Child from rogue cultivators who attacked them. The chapter left Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi facing a group of scar-faced men who threatened them.

• Huo Ling'er asked the Fire Emperor to take Yun Xi out, but Yun Xi chose to stay and temper herself with her ancestors, elders, and companions.
• After the rules of heaven and earth forced experts above the Formation Array Realm to leave the Hundred Broken Mountains, rogue cultivators began searching for treasures.
• Bear Child discovered that the bone contained a cultivation technique, and Ye Xingchen urged him to strive for a tenth grotto-heaven.
• A scar-faced rogue cultivator attacked Ye Xingchen, but his saber shattered and Ye Xingchen knocked down the attackers with a wave of his hand.
• Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi found corpses and were approached by scar-faced men who threatened them.

Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi fought off rogue cultivators while Ye Xingchen and Bear Child discovered they could not leave the Hundred Broken Mountains. After the group reunited, Ye Xingchen suggested they wait because the mountains still held treasures.

• Yun Xi killed the rogue cultivators who charged Huo Ling'er, using a green Jade Ruyi.
• Ye Xingchen and Bear Child found an invisible barrier blocking their exit, and Bear Child revealed that Little Tower's consciousness had revived.
• Little Tower confronted the God-Striking Stone, which emerged from Ye Xingchen and said it had not wanted to come.
• Shi Hao saw the corpses on a nearby mountaintop and sensed his Supreme Bone shifting as he wondered how much Ye Xingchen had grown.
• Ye Xingchen and Bear Child followed Huo Ling'er's jade token and reunited with Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi; Ye Xingchen told them to wait in the Hundred Broken Mountains for its treasures.

As danger spreads through the Hundred Broken Mountains, Shi Hao confronts a powerful opponent who claims to be his older brother and threatens to kill him. Ye Xingchen leaves Bear Child to fight alone, believing the battle will draw out his potential, and the two Shi Haos clash with their grotto-heavens revealed.

• Ye Xingchen urges Bear Child to cultivate and warns that many geniuses in the Hundred Broken Mountains know the grotto-heaven method.
• Three days later, Shi Hao defeats a group of assassins and detects Bear Child from a hundred li away.
• Shi Hao descends before Bear Child, and their forces collide as nine grotto-heavens appear behind Bear Child.
• Ye Xingchen tells Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi that Shi Hao is Bear Child's older brother and leads them away, refusing to let them interfere.
• Shi Hao's opponent says their mother failed to kill Shi Hao and vows to finish the job himself.
• Shi Hao reveals the position of a tenth grotto-heaven, while his opponent also displays nine grotto-heavens.

Shi Hao battled the older clan brother who had taken his Supreme Bone, while Ye Xingchen intervened and the gathered geniuses watched in alarm. Shi Zhongtian arrived, recognized his grandson as alive, and began breaking the Barrier around the Hundred Broken Mountains.

• Shi Hao and his older clan brother clashed with their nine grotto-heavens, and the older brother taunted him about taking the Supreme Bone.
• Ye Xingchen appeared, warned Shi Hao not to be distracted, and revealed that he had defeated the older brother before.
• The two Shi Haos fought again; the older brother unleashed his double pupils, while Shi Hao charged forward and vowed to surpass him.
• Shi Zhongtian reached the battle, recognized Shi Hao as his grandson, and struck the Barrier to hold the great formation for him.
• Shi Hao sensed his blood connection to Shi Zhongtian and asked if he was his grandfather, as cracks spread across the Barrier.

Shi Zhongtian reunited with Shi Hao and broke through Hundred Break Mountain's Barrier to pursue the enemy who had stolen Shi Hao's Supreme Bone. After the enemy fled, Ye Xingchen explained that he had been using a clone, and Shi Zhongtian offered Shi Hao heavenly treasures to help him grow stronger.

• Shi Zhongtian recognized Shi Hao as his grandson, apologized for leaving him, and Shi Hao happily accepted him.
• Shi Hao taunted the enemy, and Shi Zhongtian ignited his Divine Fire and shattered Hundred Break Mountain's Barrier.
• The enemy fled, and Ye Xingchen told Shi Hao and Shi Zhongtian that the enemy had not been using his true body.
• Shi Zhongtian promised to help Shi Hao grow stronger and offered Ye Xingchen Pixiu Precious Blood, but Ye Xingchen told him to give it to Shi Hao.
• Shi Zhongtian sensed Ye Xingchen's powerful strength and Dao aura and praised him as a friend of his grandson.

Shi Hao reunited with his true body while Bear Child learned about his tragic origins and resolved to grow stronger. Elsewhere, the Heaven Mending Sect prepared for enemies from beyond the lower realm, and Bear Child trained as the Hundred Broken Mountains’ Barrier neared its opening.

• Shi Hao abandoned his attempt to lure pursuers and reunited with his true body in a cave.
• The Great Demon God, Shi Zhongtian, left the Hundred Broken Mountains after telling Shi Hao to meet him in the Stone Kingdom, while Bear Child learned about his stolen Supreme Bone and missing parents.
• Bear Child remembered A Man protecting him in the Ancestral Land and told Ye Xingchen he wanted to return to see her.
• The Dean of the Heaven Mending Sect warned the Elders that enemies from beyond the cage were coming, ordered them to send gifted disciples away, and distributed the sect’s treasures and cultivation methods.
• Three days later, Bear Child calmly began cultivating after hearing Shi Hao had reappeared, and Ye Xingchen promised to help him improve after they left the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Huo Ling'er said the Barrier would open in a few days, following a message from her Father Emperor.

Ye Xingchen confronted Shi Hao after Shi Hao provoked the prodigies in the Hundred Broken Mountains, and the two fought to a standstill before disappearing. Three days later, Ye Xingchen and Bear Child prepared to leave the mountains with Huo Ling'er, while Yun Xi returned to the Heavenly Human Ruins.

• Shi Hao killed treasure-seekers and arrogantly challenged anyone in the Hundred Broken Mountains to face him.
• Ye Xingchen left the cave to fight Shi Hao while Bear Child continued cultivating, telling Huo Ling'er and Yun Xi to inform Bear Child that he needed to defeat Shi Hao to dispel his inner demon.
• Ye Xingchen and Shi Hao exchanged powerful attacks in the sky, then vanished after their clash lit up the mountains.
• Three days later, Bear Child and Ye Xingchen searched for the missing Shi Hao and decided to leave the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Yun Xi returned to the Heavenly Human Ruins, while Huo Ling'er said she would join Ye Xingchen at the Heaven Mending Sect after speaking with her father.

After the Heaven Mending Sect came under repeated attacks, Ye Xingchen agreed to accept the Divine Vine’s remaining life force so he could defend the academy. He reached half-step divine fire and began sensing the threshold of the saint sacrifice realm.

• After leaving Hundred Broken Mountains, Shi Hao emerged from hiding, wounded and resentful toward Ye Xingchen.
• Three days later, Ye Xingchen and Bear Child saw the Heaven Mending Sect Academy being evacuated and went to speak with the Dean.
• The Dean said the academy had suffered several deadly attacks and warned that even a divine fire expert could not defeat the unknown enemy.
• Bear Child vowed to defend the academy, while Ye Xingchen offered to stop the attackers if he received greater strength.
• The Divine Vine gave Ye Xingchen its remaining life force as a green bead containing its fading flame.
• Ye Xingchen swallowed the bead, reached half-step divine fire, and began to comprehend the power of the divine realm.

As Ye Xingchen absorbed Divine Vine’s power, hostile forces attacked the Heaven Mending Sect during its retreat, forcing its defenders into a desperate battle. Bear Child and Wang Ping stood against the invaders, inspiring the disciples to join the fight.

• Divine Vine accepted that passing his power to Ye Xingchen would cost him his life, while the Dean meditated nearby.
• Hostile forces gathered at the Heaven Mending Sect’s borders and launched attacks as Divine Vine’s vitality faded.
• The Elders activated the Barrier, but feared it would not hold; Bear Child rushed to defend the sect with his Golden-Winged Great Peng Flying Technique and Overlord Spear.
• A powerful figure from Divine Heaven confronted Bear Child and urged him to join the invaders, but Bear Child refused and kept fighting.
• Wang Ping declared that he belonged to the Heaven Mending Sect and joined Bear Child, prompting disciples from across the sect to take up arms.

The Heaven Mending Sect fought desperately as the Dean confronted a powerful enemy, while Ye Xingchen completed his absorption of Divine Vine’s power and awakened. He revealed his strength as a half-step Saint Sacrifice realm expert and began killing the invading sect experts.

• The academy elders and teachers fought back against their enemies and praised their returning disciples.
• The Dean left Ye Xingchen in the Backyard, then confronted an enemy who crushed the severed heads of Heaven Mending Sect disciples.
• Invading experts entered the Backyard and found Ye Xingchen beneath Divine Vine as he absorbed the last of its power.
• Ye Xingchen awakened with power beyond the Divine Fire realm, and vines bound and killed the nearest expert.
• Ye Xingchen declared that the invaders had entered his territory and used his vines to bind and drain the remaining experts.

Bear Child fought desperately to defend the Heaven Mending Sect after Wang Ping died, while the Dean faced the invading cultivators. Ye Xingchen emerged from seclusion and drove the enemy leader into a mysterious Barrier, leaving his escape blocked.

• Bear Child returned to Wang Ping, who apologized before dying and asked him to avenge the Heaven Mending Sect.
• Bear Child killed a powerful cultivator with the Little Tower's aid, inspiring the surviving disciples to fight on.
• Bear Child defeated an assassin when the Little Tower protected him from a surprise attack.
• The Dean confronted the invaders, declaring that the Heaven Mending Sect's conviction would endure even if its territory fell.
• Ye Xingchen arrived after defeating powerful cultivators, and the enemy leader fled before crashing into a transparent Barrier.

Ye Xingchen and Bear Child left the Heaven Mending Sect after Ye Xingchen defeated its attackers and protected the survivors. On their journey toward the Stone Kingdom, Bear Child entered the Virtual Realm to grow stronger, while Shi Ziling learned that his son was alive and began hoping to see him again.

• Ye Xingchen unleashed his Divine Fire energy, killed the invaders, and helped the Heaven Mending Sect Dean recover before placing a Barrier around the altar.
• The Dean gave Ye Xingchen and Bear Child a map and urged them to leave the sect and make their way in the world.
• Three days later, Bear Child asked Ye Xingchen how to grow stronger, and Ye Xingchen told him about the Virtual Realm.
• Shi Ziling learned that his son was alive and resolved to go see him.
• Bear Child challenged records throughout the Virtual Realm, drawing Bird Grandpa and Essence Grandpa's attention as his strength grew.

Bear Child returned to the Stone Kingdom with Ye Xingchen and reunited with his grandfather, Shi Zhongtian, at the Prince's Residence. As they discussed Bear Child's coming battle and the world's looming turmoil, Ye Xingchen agreed to keep guiding him.

• Ye Xingchen brought Bear Child to the Prince's Residence, where Bear Child's aura awakened Shi Zhongtian and the two embraced tearfully.
• Shi Zhongtian welcomed Ye Xingchen inside and celebrated Bear Child's return with a feast.
• At another Prince's Residence, a scarlet-robed woman worried about Bear Child's return and resolved to protect her son from him.
• While drinking that night, Shi Zhongtian told Ye Xingchen he would let Bear Child settle his grudge with his brother himself.
• Shi Zhongtian questioned Ye Xingchen's identity and asked him to guide and protect Bear Child as the world grew turbulent; Ye Xingchen silently accepted the challenge of quelling the chaos.

Shi Hao reunited with A Man, the girl who had cared for him after his Supreme Bone was taken, and rescued her from two servants who threatened her. After telling her he had returned to take revenge, he persuaded her to leave the Ancestral Land with him and Shi Zhongtian.

• Shi Hao told Shi Zhongtian that a girl had cared for him as a child, and Shi Zhongtian identified her as A Man and led him to the Ancestral Land.
• Two servants threatened A Man, but Shi Hao rushed in, knocked them down, and warned them to tell their mistress he would confront her.
• Shi Hao revealed his identity to A Man, who realized the grown youth was her long-lost young master.
• A Man urged Shi Hao to leave rather than challenge the powerful family, but Shi Hao showed his nine grotto-heavens and declared he had returned for revenge.
• Shi Zhongtian and Ye Xingchen arrived, and A Man agreed to leave with Shi Hao and his grandfather.

Ye Xingchen left Bear Child and traveled alone toward the emerging Kunpeng Nest, where he learned about beast-taming methods linked to the Upper Realm’s Beast-Taming Sect. At the nest, Qingyi and Witch agreed to ally against other intruders while waiting for it to open.

• Ye Xingchen parted from Bear Child and headed alone for the Kunpeng Nest as rumors of its treasures spread.
• Ye Xingchen visited a teahouse near the nest, where the proprietor warned him that numerous geniuses were seeking its treasures.
• Ye Xingchen studied a beast-taming manual, and the God-Striking Stone identified its methods as linked to the ancient Beast-Taming Sect of the Upper Realm.
• Qingyi and Witch watched the chaotic Kunpeng Nest reveal a World Tree and a giant bird, then agreed that Qingyi would take the World Tree and Witch would take the other treasures.
• Qingyi dismissed the dangers facing the gathered people, and Witch sighed at how merciless Qingyi had become before walking away.

Ye Xingchen entered the Kunpeng Nest by following Black Paper Boats and discovered blood-written messages warning of terrifying experts on the Plateau of Heaven. Deeper inside, he found Ten Crown King seated on an eight-piece lotus platform with the World Tree in hand.

• Witch offered Ye Xingchen a deal for the World Tree, but he said he had come for something else.
• When Black Paper Boats appeared, Ye Xingchen flew into the Kunpeng Nest, while other experts who tried to follow were reduced to ash.
• Ye Xingchen read the boats' blood-written warnings and reflected that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor would need to become the Eternal Emperor to defeat the Plateau's powerful beings.
• Ye Xingchen crossed the Chaos Sea and reached a platform where Ten Crown King held the World Tree.
• Ten Crown King asked how Ye Xingchen had entered, and Ye Xingchen recognized that Ten Crown King had left the World Tree there to refine.

Ye Xingchen defeated the Ten Crown King and claimed the Kunpeng Egg, then used a secret method to restore its vitality and form a contract. Meanwhile, Witch and Qingyi entered the Kunpeng Nest and found Ye Xingchen beside the egg.

• Ye Xingchen told the Ten Crown King he wanted the Kunpeng Egg, then repelled his attacks with the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron Martial Soul and the Immortal Slaying Swords.
• The Ten Crown King lost control of the World Tree and conceded defeat, while Ye Xingchen returned the tree to him and said he wanted only the Kunpeng Egg as his mount.
• Ye Xingchen sat beside the Kunpeng Egg and used a nurturing method to awaken its life force, surprising the Ten Crown King.
• Witch and Qingyi entered the Kunpeng Nest and crossed a dangerous Chaos Sea filled with black paper boats.
• Witch sensed Ye Xingchen nearby, and Qingyi spotted him beside the Kunpeng Egg and exclaimed that he was refining it.

Ye Xingchen hatched the Kun Peng and released it to feed in the Chaos Sea, while Witch and Qingyi searched the Chaos Nest for him. Qingyi then confronted Ten Crown King over the World Tree, but he escaped with it and challenged her to find him in the Upper Realm.

• Witch and Qingyi saw Ye Xingchen beside the Kun Peng egg and attacked, but the image vanished, so they searched for him.
• Ye Xingchen told Ten Crown King about the Kunpeng Immortal King's past, offered him cultivation advice, and hatched the egg; Ten Crown King stayed behind to cultivate.
• Ye Xingchen brought the newborn Kun Peng to the Chaos Sea, where it drank the water as onlookers watched and Witch wondered whether he had hatched it.
• Qingyi found Ten Crown King on a lotus platform and demanded the World Tree, but he took it and flew away after telling her to find him in the Upper Realm.

Ye Xingchen subdued the resurrected Kunpeng at the nest and returned toward Stone Village, while Shi Hao entered the Void Divine Realm to face his rival. The chapter ended with three Immortal Hall Heavenly Gods confronting Ye Xingchen over the Kunpeng, only to discover the power of his divine fire.

• Ye Xingchen named the growing Kunpeng and rode away on its wings as onlookers marveled and the Witch left empty-handed.
• Shi Hao entered the Void Divine Realm, revealed ten grotto-heavens, and challenged his rival to settle who was stronger.
• Shi Hao and Bear Child clashed, shaking the Void Divine Realm with the force of their attack.
• Ye Xingchen returned toward Stone Village, but three Immortal Hall Heavenly Gods appeared and demanded that he hand over the Kunpeng.
• Ye Xingchen recognized the Immortal Hall experts and questioned them about their hidden lord, then released a powerful divine being aura that shocked them.