Wang Shi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Wang Shi (王石)
Alias(es)	Stone Spirit; Spirit of Buzhou Mountain; Little Shi; Kara Lord; Dao Venerable 183 222 246
Species/Race	Originally human; transmigrated into the spirit of Buzhou Mountain and possesses the Pangu bloodline 4 206 257
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Primordial World; guardian deity of the Human Race; formerly the shared disciple of the Three Pure Ones 4 243 248
Occupation/Role	Cultivator of the Pangu Great Dao; defender of the Primordial World; teacher; co-creator of the Demon Realm 4 122 257
Cultivation	Attainment of sainthood in the flesh recognized by the Saints; his precise later realm is not specified 236
Residence	Buzhou Mountain Divine Hall 16 91
Status	Alive; continues clearing dark lifeforms and guiding other cultivators 268
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Partial transformation; Golden Immortal	2 3 4	Cannot initially transform his entire mountain body because Buzhou Mountain supports heaven and earth. Manifests a stone body, survives the Transformation Tribulation, and awakens the Pangu Great Dao. Claims ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals cannot harm him.
Primordial Unity Golden Immortal	8	Reaches the realm after a thousand years of the Three Pure Ones’ instruction, medicinal baths, and body-tempering exercises. His practical strength increases by more than tenfold.
Physical strengthening through dragon origin essence	13	Absorbs the West Sea Dragon Transformation Pool’s origin essence for three days without injury, substantially weakening the pool. No realm breakthrough is stated.
Perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal	16	Refines eleven Ancestral Witches’ blood essence over a thousand years, incorporating its Pangu lineage. Reaches the perfected realm immediately below Daluo Golden Immortal.
Daluo Golden Immortal	25	Breaks through after a century-long discourse on the Pangu Great Dao. Receives merit for enlightening the assembled beings.
Peak Daluo Golden Immortal	38 50	Absorbs violent, unusual energy at the former Purple Firmament Palace site until nearly exhausting its center. Reaches the threshold of Quasi-Saint.
Further growth through avatar fusion	51	Merges his main manifested body with an avatar. Observers sense another increase in cultivation, although he has not yet broken through.
Quasi-Saint	52 54	Pangu bloodline ignition and sudden enlightenment trigger an eighty-one-strike Destruction Divine Thunder tribulation. Completes the breakthrough through Proving Dao by Force rather than severing corpses.
Increased Origin Source	93	Receives a substantial increase in Origin Source after identifying the suspected alien presence in the Three Kingdoms world.
Broad mastery of the Great Daos	121	Uses multiple manifestations to study the Three Thousand Great Daos in the Primordial Origin Sea for ten thousand years, mastering successive paths.
Quasi-Saint with power beyond Saints	168 175	Deliberately postpones sainthood to transform his original Buzhou Mountain body completely. Continual avatar cultivation allows his strength to grow despite the realm bottleneck.
Complete original-body transformation	220 221 222	Buzhou Mountain rises as a stone giant and defeats Pangu’s tribulation manifestation. Wang Shi completes his human-form transformation; Pangu describes it as granting a seat of true godhood. This is distinct from conventional sainthood, which Wang Shi still discusses pursuing afterward.
Sainthood in the flesh recognized	236	The attacking Saints identify his attainment after he physically withstands their treasures and breaks the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation. The exact breakthrough chapter is not provided.

Background / History

Wang Shi was human before transmigrating into Buzhou Mountain. His human origins remain central to his identity and explain his lasting loyalty to the Human Race, even after becoming a mountain spirit 206 243 257.

As the mountain spirit, he discussed the Dao with the Three Pure Ones for hundreds of thousands of years. He knew that Buzhou Mountain was expected to fall during the Witch–Demon Tribulation and feared that its destruction would kill him. Taking form offered a means of escaping that fate, but the mountain’s Heaven-Opening Merit and responsibility for supporting the world obstructed his transformation 1 8.

His explanation that “following” and “defying” Heaven were judgments rather than separate paths enlightened all three brothers, advancing them to peak Daluo Golden Immortal. In gratitude, they guarded his transformation. When transforming the entire mountain proved impossible, they advised him to manifest only partially 1 2.

Laozi initially claimed Wang Shi was their disciple to deter interference from the gathered cultivators. After surviving his tribulation, Wang Shi sincerely accepted all three as masters. Beyond gratitude and friendship, he hoped to change their eventual fates and prevent the Primordial World from declining into a pawn of the Heavenly Dao 2 3 4.

Appearance

• Stone manifestation: Initially emerges as a towering, metallic stone giant 2.
• Variable size: Can enlarge himself into an ancient demon-god-like figure or a giant battlefield form 19 39 175.
• Stone shell: His Quasi-Saint tribulation shatters the stone shell surrounding his body 52.
• Layered defenses: Can form expanding stone bodies around himself; the Myriad Immortals Formation’s attacks break away stone without penetrating his defenses 247.
• Human form: Completes the transformation of his original body into human form after confronting Pangu’s Spirit 220 221.
• Dong Chun incarnation: Temporarily inhabits an ordinary human body in the Three Kingdoms world and loses its right hand to a flying sword 92.

Personality

Wang Shi combines irreverent humor with careful calculation. He flatters his masters when requesting sparring, launches a sneak attack during a formal bow, and invokes their backing to pressure the Ancestral Witches into surrendering blood essence. His exaggeratedly large collection bowl is a deliberate negotiating joke rather than a genuine demand 8 9 15.

Freedom is one of his strongest motivations. His first tribulation releases anger accumulated through ages of confinement, and he later refuses to let the Three Pure Ones place tracking auras inside him. He also rejects cultivation offered in exchange for kneeling and crawling, recognizing humiliation and dependence as instruments of conquest 3 38 87.

He remembers kindness as an obligation. Gifts received after taking form become karmic debts to repay, and he acknowledges help during his later tribulation by promising favors. Even after the Three Pure Ones attack him, he holds back against them and leaves their eventual separation without retaliation 4 54 247 248.

His compassion does not exclude coercion or ruthlessness. He shields strangers fleeing a collapsing world and treats ordinary soldiers informally, but destroys enemies he regards as weapons of slaughter. As the Primordial World’s crisis worsens, he advocates conquest, resource extraction, and enslavement as necessary measures for survival 91 176 257 268.

Abilities & Skills

Pangu Great Dao — Proving Dao by Force

• Strengthens the self and the body rather than following the contemporary method of severing the Three Corpses 4 52.
• Uses overwhelming force to break techniques, formations, and even sealed space 9.
• Later strikes carry law-breaking power capable of damaging the laws of darkness and grievously injuring Dark Deities 168.
• Remains difficult to cultivate with ordinary spiritual energy; unusual energy sources provide much greater gains 38.
• Initially lacks versatility: Tongtian warns that raw strength does not remove the need to learn other Daoist arts 9.

Physical Strength, Speed, and Resilience

• As a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, withstands almost any Quasi-Saint Daoist art and escapes a spatial blockade established by all three masters 9.
• Endures a Chaos storm through his Pangu bloodline and treasure-like body, tearing an opening through it with his hands 19.
• Repeatedly revives after Purple Thunder Dragons destroy his body during the conclusion of his Quasi-Saint tribulation 54.
• Compresses an already-spreading explosion into a tiny sphere and launches it back into dark lifeforms 161.
• Physically withstands Saint-level attacks and handles the Immortal-Slaying Swords while breaking their formation 236.

Stone Clones and Soul-Splitting Avatars

• Splits into numerous stones, each carrying his true-body aura; neither the Three Pure Ones nor Shen Ni can identify the original 38.
• Sends avatars to distant battlefields while another manifestation cultivates elsewhere 39 50.
• Merges separately cultivated manifestations to increase his cultivation 51.
• Creates both Golden Immortal stone fighters and Quasi-Saint counterparts capable of protecting his disciple 174.
• Repeatedly creates cultivating avatars to continue growing beyond his bottleneck. Laozi later explains that these powerful clones are formed by splitting his soul 175 248.

Spatial Manipulation

• Demonstrates exceptional spatial control against the otherworldly Saint-level Luohu, whose sword formation and spear attacks fail to hit him 47.
• Opens routes through barriers between worlds and becomes increasingly proficient at crossing them 211 257.
• Hides within spatial folds and redirects the Three Pure Ones’ spells into ripples while accumulating power 246 247.
• Uses spatial protection strategically rather than relying on it indefinitely; voluntarily emerges to confront the Myriad Immortals Formation’s full assault 247.

Earth Control and Reconstruction

• Shakes the land around Wuzhuang Temple during a misunderstanding with Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi 32.
• Locates buried jade essence by touching the ground 88.
• Restores Mount Sumeru, its palaces, and its spiritual energy after his tribulation, adding a vast Spirit-Gathering Array 54.
• Erects an ordinary replacement Buzhou Mountain after transforming his original body, preserving the pillar connecting to the Celestial River 222.

Origin-Essence Absorption

• Refines Pangu lineage from Ancestral Witch blood essence to improve his body and cultivation 16.
• Absorbs Chaos Aura and the unusual energy at the ruined Purple Firmament Palace 38 85.
• Devours Fierce Beasts and extracts their Pangu origin; can separate useful power from corrupting blood baleful qi 30 40.
• Must discharge accumulated harmful qi. One release inadvertently creates a lethal Baleful Qi Swamp and kills the marsh’s creatures 40.
• Uses world-origin power to destroy the bacteria-like system lifeforms consuming Taiyi 252.

Dao Instruction and World-Building

• Teaches the Method of Severing the Three Corpses to the Three Pure Ones, enabling their Quasi-Saint breakthroughs. His claim that a mysterious willow tree taught him is an invented cover story 7.
• Guides Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones toward sainthood and becomes renowned for helping cultivators attain it 78 122.
• Helps Dijun create the Demon Realm by supplying resources and weaving together its foundational Great Daos 122.
• Teaches that mastering a path requires understanding its purpose; repeated killing without insight leads toward madness rather than enlightenment 176.
• Studies the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man while seeking an alternative to Houtu sacrificing herself to establish reincarnation 83 94.

Perception and Foreknowledge

• Uses knowledge of expected events to recognize altered history, guide cultivation, and investigate hidden threats 62 93.
• His Eye of the Origin Source exposes Hong’s changing forms and clones 236.
• After receiving the Human Race’s recognition, can perceive people’s inner monologues while traveling through human territory 243 244.
• Foreknowledge is fallible: events increasingly diverge from his expectations, and his early theory about Shen Ni being a transmigrator is only partly correct 39 51.

Supreme Yang Power and Soul Protection

• Burns attacking Dark Deities with supreme yang power and teaches the Starry Sky Emperor how to activate it against darkness 174 184.
• Shennong discovers an inaccessible, hazy radiance protecting Wang Shi’s soul from contamination; its precise source is not identified 128.
• This does not make every encounter with darkness harmless: the Chaos Bead’s dark power nearly overwhelms him before the Pangu Axe intervenes 91 92.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Pangu Divine Axe — Companion Divine Artifact once used by Pangu to open heaven. Too heavy for Tongtian to lift; demon-god blood on it preserves traces of the Three Thousand Great Daos. Independently protects Wang Shi from darkness 5 85 92.
• Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls — Complete set bestowed by Tongtian after Wang Shi’s first transformation 3.
• Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner — Defensive supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure given by Yuanshi; one of the Five-Phase Banners 3.
• Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner — Another Five-Phase Banner, given by Laozi 3.
• Blood-Dropper — Minghe’s gift, capable of creating an external incarnation 4.
• Immortal Slaying Flying Knife — Refines it after threatening its uncooperative spirit with the Pangu Divine Axe 23.
• Chaos Bead — Seized from the fallen parallel Primordial World. Initially dangerous to his soul; later discovered to be a bridge connecting myriad worlds rather than a self-contained world 91 92 93.
• Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man — Studies them to understand reincarnation, the Chaos Bead, and the nature of worlds 83 94.
• Demon-Refining Pot — Innate Spiritual Treasure proposed as a future anchor for Demon Tribe fortune after Dijun refines it with merit 120.
• Nine heavens breathing soil — Collects enormous quantities for constructing the Demon Realm, including supplies gathered with Yang Mei and in Chaos 122.
• Sea-Calming Needle — Gives it to the West Sea Dragon King as compensation for depleting the Dragon Transformation Pool 13.

Relationships

• Taishang Laozi — Former master who gives him the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner and advises him on reincarnation. Eventually acknowledges that jealousy contributed to their estrangement and explains Wang Shi’s avatar cultivation 3 94 248.
• Yuanshi — Former master who guards his initial transformation and gives him the Apricot Yellow Banner. Later joins the attacks against Wang Shi and the Myriad Immortals Formation challenge 1 3 236 246.
• Tongtian — Former master, generous protector, and demanding sparring partner. Secures gifts for Wang Shi, tests his strength, and later fights him alongside his brothers 3 4 9 247.
• Houtu / Little Tu — Close companion with mutual attraction. Shares his ability to absorb useful power from Fierce Beast qi; Wang Shi works to prevent her being trapped through reincarnation. She is hurt when she learns he concealed his transmigrator identity 30 62 236.
• Dijiang — Houtu’s protective brother and Wang Shi’s frequently antagonistic neighbor. Their dealings involve blood-essence negotiations, suspicions about Houtu, and a humiliating “cultivation lesson” 15 16 62.
• Ao Xi — Dragon maiden who develops an interest in him and later becomes his battlefield partner. Her survival of the Dragon Tomb and acquisition of the Ancestral Dragon’s legacy impress him 13 39 40.
• Shennong — Disciple and future Flame Emperor. Examines Wang Shi’s soul for corruption and supports his efforts to unify the Human Race 109 128 223.
• Lu Ya — Disciple whom Wang Shi protects from Dark Deities and instructs during the Demon Realm campaign 174 175 176.
• Fuxi — Rescued traveling companion and later Human Emperor ally. Supports Wang Shi’s leadership, promises to protect him even at the cost of his life, and learns the secret of his human origins 17 246 248 257.
• Nuwa — Rescued alongside Fuxi; Wang Shi later invites both to his hall and helps guide her toward sainthood 17 57 78.
• Hongjun — Initially praises and nurtures Wang Shi, then attacks him after his identity is exposed. After defeat, accepts Wang Shi’s supremacy and agrees to follow him 51 236 246.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei — Adviser and rescuer who helps him enter a parallel world and saves him from the withered giant hand. Warns him not to overestimate victory over a mass-produced Saint 85 91.
• Dijun and Taiyi — Political allies despite earlier confrontations. Wang Shi helps Dijun build the Demon Realm, rescues Taiyi from system infection, and later removes both emperors’ titles over the realm’s near-separation 73 122 252 268.
• Luohu — Distinct from the otherworldly Saint-level attacker. Wang Shi saves him from mistaken punishment, later escapes with him, and guides him when relentless slaughter brings him close to madness 51 236 268.
• Hong — Displaced Dao Ancestor from a destroyed Primordial World. His disclosures enable the Saints to identify Wang Shi as an outsider; Wang Shi pursues him and forces him to remain nearby 236.
• Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi — Allies whose temple Wang Shi helps defend. Accept his proposal to relocate Wuzhuang Temple to Buzhou Mountain and cooperate against the Fierce Beasts 32.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Training and Establishing Buzhou Mountain

Wang Shi’s companion axe gives the Three Pure Ones insight into the demon-god Daos, accelerating their progress. When their breakthroughs become dangerous, he teaches them corpse-severing and enables them to reach Quasi-Saint. They reciprocate with intensive training on the Three Immortal Islands, then send him traveling after discovering the strength concealed beneath his low realm 5 7 8 9.

His travels secure dragon origin essence and Ancestral Witch blood essence. Returning home, he establishes the Buzhou Mountain Divine Hall. He later mediates a Witch–Demon accord dividing the earth and heavens between them, then hosts Dao teachings that advance his cultivation and make Buzhou Mountain a major gathering place for spiritual instruction 13 16 25.

Fierce Beast Crisis and Parallel-World Intrusion

Wang Shi discovers that Fierce Beasts can supply Pangu origin and becomes a central defender of threatened fronts. Shen Ni targets him personally, uses controlled Bai Ze to attack him, and attempts to hunt him down. Wang Shi counters with clones, warnings to the Ancestral Witches, and a bluff that drives Shen Ni away 30 34 38 39 40.

He confronts a Saint-level Luohu whose origins lie in another Primordial World. His apparently impossible combat performance partly depends on concealed assistance. Hongjun subsequently confirms the parallel-world invasion, while Wang Shi prevents the local Luohu from being punished for the other figure’s actions 47 50 51.

Protecting Houtu and Challenging the Witch–Demon War

After reaching Quasi-Saint, Wang Shi turns toward strengthening the world’s defenders and changing Houtu’s expected fate. He searches for a way to establish reincarnation without requiring her to sacrifice herself, studying both the Three Books and the Chaos Bead 54 62 83 94.

When the Saints decline to stop renewed Witch–Demon fighting, he intervenes directly with the Pangu Divine Axe. He sends Taiyi flying despite the Chaos Bell and destroys Dijun’s Celestial Star Dou Great Array, demonstrating power the Saints themselves find alarming 72 73 74.

Chaos Bead and the Myriad Worlds

Seeking the Chaos Bead, Wang Shi enters a fallen parallel Primordial World and conceals himself among enslaved inhabitants. He rejects humiliating cultivation handouts, earns an overseer position through his knowledge, and eventually shields surviving fighters as they escape the collapsing world 85 87 91.

The bead then draws his consciousness into a powerful Three Kingdoms world as Dong Chun. He kills Li Ru to attract its world will, investigates an alien presence, and identifies He Jin as the likely anomaly. Returning with increased Origin Source, he learns that the bead links myriad worlds 92 93.

Realm Creation and War Against Darkness

Wang Shi studies the Great Daos with multiple manifestations and helps Dijun build the Demon Realm. Its unexpected properties suggest that the Jade Disc of Creation and Hongjun’s concealed intentions have influenced the result 121 122.

Still officially a Quasi-Saint, he overwhelms Saint-comparable enemies, drives off Dark Deities, and clears Otherworlder forces alongside younger cultivators. He also coordinates resistance beyond his own world, including the Starry Sky Great World, while retaining the full transformation of Buzhou Mountain as his long-term goal 168 175 176 191.

Complete Transformation and Estrangement from the Saints

After stabilizing the Darkness Boundary with the Elves and Saints, Wang Shi returns home and transforms his original mountain body. His tribulation takes Pangu’s form, and the Saints protect the surrounding world while he defeats it 220 221.

Reduced external pressure exposes conflicts among the Saints over interests and the creation of additional Saints. Their hostility escalates after his transmigrator identity becomes known. Wang Shi escapes with Houtu and Luohu rather than fighting his former teachers to the finish, then pursues Hong to discover how the revelation occurred 222 223 236.

Dao Venerable and Unified Leadership

Following Hongjun’s defeat and submission, Wang Shi accepts the title Dao Venerable. He withstands the Myriad Immortals Formation and obtains its surrender without releasing his accumulated destructive strike. Although he still honors the Three Pure Ones as masters, they formally terminate their discipleship bond 246 247 248.

He subsequently rescues Taiyi from system lifeforms, urges Fuxi to establish the Human Dao, and organizes interworld conquest to replenish the weakened Primordial World. His authority extends to removing Dijun and Taiyi as Demon Emperors, while his regular duties still include clearing dark lifeforms and mentoring cultivators such as Luohu 252 257 268.

Notable Quotes

“The Heavenly Dao has its order. As the saying goes, those who have attained mastery may teach. My three masters possess profound cultivation, and your ideals align with mine. Naturally, you are my masters.” 4

“I'll open the Darkness Passage for you. Flee into Chaos. There may still be a thread of hope for survival.” 91

“Three Masters, why must you be so resolute? I know what happened before was due to the System Lifeforms' manipulation. I never blamed you.” 248