Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi encountered Lord Essence Coin and Lord Bird, who tried to sell him overpriced, ordinary artifacts by warning him about dangers in the Void God Realm. After Shi Yi exposed their tricks, a voice nearby called out, “Xuan Yi of the Mystic Domain?”

• People who had been swindled by Lord Essence Coin and Lord Bird confronted them but retreated after the two old men demonstrated their strength.
• Lord Essence Coin and Lord Bird recognized that Shi Yi was new to the Void God Realm and offered to explain its dangers.
• Lord Bird presented a supposed Dragon-Slaying Sword, while Lord Essence Coin showed off a supposed Black Tortoise Shield, and they quoted Shi Yi an inflated price.
• Shi Yi identified the sword’s ordinary material and decorative Flood Dragon symbols, then explained that the shield was made the same way.
• Lord Essence Coin and Lord Bird claimed they had only been testing Shi Yi’s discernment, and a nearby voice called out, “Xuan Yi of the Mystic Domain?”

After witnesses revealed that Shi Yi had passed the Heaven Mending Pavilion's trials through physical strength alone, his reputation as Xuan Yi of the Mystic Domain spread and drew powerful, hostile factions to the Land of Origin. Shi Yi then joined Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin in planning a betting scheme, securing a sixty-percent share by intimidating Lord Bird's five-colored bird.

• A youth in animal hides recognized Shi Yi as Xuan Yi of the Mystic Domain and told the crowd that he had passed the Heaven Mending Pavilion's trials using physical strength alone.
• Other witnesses confirmed the story, and news of Shi Yi's feat spread through the Void God Realm and the real world, drawing powerful creatures to the Land of Origin.
• Golden Beasts from Primordial Divine Mountains and hostile ancient clans watched Shi Yi, suspecting that his arrival might be connected to the Heaven Mending Pavilion's plans.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin proposed a betting scheme, and Shi Yi demanded sixty percent of the proceeds in exchange for helping stir up opponents.
• Shi Yi focused a terrifying pressure on Lord Bird's five-colored bird, causing it to nearly collapse, and Lord Bird accepted Shi Yi's proposed split.

Shi Yi arranged with Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin to profit by provoking the Desolate Region’s cultivators into challenging him. As the crowd grew enraged, Li Gu paid the entry fee and prepared to fight Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi agreed to Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin’s sixty-twenty-twenty split for organizing the bets.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin loudly portrayed Shi Yi as an arrogant Mystic Domain genius who could defeat the Desolate Region’s cultivators, stirring widespread anger.
• A disciple from an Ancient Era family challenged Shi Yi, but Shi Yi told him to pay the registration fee first.
• Lord Essence Coin offered a jar of precious blood as the entry fee and promised an equal reward if a challenger won.
• The disciple, Li Gu, paid with a jar of precious blood and boasted that defeating Shi Yi would be easy.

Shi Yi, posing as Xuan Yi, defeated one Ancient Era clan prodigy after another in the Void God Realm and collected their precious blood and Rune Bones. His growing fame drew powerful factions and Pure-Blooded Creatures, who disputed his claim and recalled the supposedly dead bearer of Double Pupils.

• Li Gu challenged Shi Yi, but Shi Yi pretended to struggle before defeating him, and Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin forced Li Gu to eat dirt while standing on his hands as he had promised.
• A Kun Clan prodigy paid a jar of precious blood to fight Shi Yi, who again staged a close battle before winning and encouraging more Ancient Era clan disciples to challenge him.
• Shi Yi defeated twenty-three prodigies in succession, earning twenty jars of precious blood and three Rune Bones as Lord Essence Coin proclaimed his record.
• The Martial King Manor and Rain Clan scoffed at Xuan Yi’s title, while the Rain Clan’s twin prodigies Yu Ze and Yu Zimo arrived to observe him.
• Pure-Blooded Creatures debated Xuan Yi’s claim and recalled the bearer of Double Pupils’ feats in the Qilin Secret Realm, including rumors that he had escaped with the complete Ten Fiends Technique.

Shi Yi continued defeating challengers while pretending to be exhausted, drawing in increasingly powerful opponents for their precious blood. As a Three-Eyed Race Youngling attacked him, Shi Yi smiled beneath his mask, poised to reveal the gap between them.

• Pure-blooded younglings entered the Void God Realm and headed for the Land of Origin to punish the Mystic Domain madman, while the Azure Luan and Gray Flood Dragon younglings recalled Shi Yi’s terrifying strength.
• Shi Yi defeated more than a dozen disciples from ancient families, deliberately making each victory look narrow and leaving the crowd convinced he was close to exhaustion.
• The Thunder Clan’s Pearl and other elders realized Shi Yi was hiding his strength to lure challengers into paying precious blood, so the number of opponents dwindled and the ancient families grew hostile.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin urged Shi Yi to flee with the resources they had gathered, but he refused, saying the real big fish had yet to enter the arena.
• A Three-Eyed Race Youngling paid the entry fee and attacked Shi Yi with a blue beam from his third eye, which Shi Yi blocked with a rune-covered sword.
• The Three-Eyed Race Youngling charged down toward Shi Yi, confident of victory, while Shi Yi smiled beneath his mask and surveyed the watching crowd with his double pupils.

Shi Yi revealed his strength as Xuan Yi, defeated the Three-Eyed Race cub, and demanded a ransom before its servant escaped with it. The Ancient Era Families then turned their anger on Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin and prepared to confront Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi broke the Three-Eyed Race cub’s leg, struck its abdomen, and grabbed it by the neck, shocking the arena with his strength.
• The Ancient Era Families accused Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin of swindling them and demanded ninety jars of Primordial Remnant Precious Blood.
• The Desolate Region’s prodigies and the Martial King Manor expert reassessed Xuan Yi after seeing him defeat the cub with ease.
• Yu Zimo used her Spirit-Sensing ability on Shi Yi, saw only chaos and mist, and warned that the Rain Clan should avoid his karmic entanglements.
• Shi Yi demanded two jars of Primordial Remnant Precious Blood to release the Three-Eyed Race cub, and its servant paid before fleeing with it.
• The Ancient Era Families, having surrounded Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin, made clear they would not let Shi Yi go unchallenged.

The Heaven Mending Pavilion arrived to support Xuan Yi as the Ancient Era Families and Primordial Divine Mountain creatures surrounded him. Xuan Yi refused the Pavilion's intervention, reclaimed his share of the spoils, and prepared to fight the gathered enemies as a sword cultivator.

• The Heaven Mending Pavilion elders decided to back Xuan Yi and arrived at the Initial Ground with Tao Ye and a group of prodigies.
• The Ancient Era Families threatened Xuan Yi, while Pure-Blooded Younglings from the Primordial Divine Mountain watched from a distance.
• Xuan Yi thanked the Pavilion elders but insisted that they withdraw, and Tao Ye reluctantly agreed.
• A member of an Ancient Era Family displayed a Soul-Erasing Needle and demanded Xuan Yi surrender, making clear the fight would end in death.
• Xuan Yi manifested a black-and-white sword with Yin-Yang Qi and reclaimed his agreed share of the Precious Blood from Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin.
• As the enemies grew furious, Xuan Yi faced the Ancient Era Families and the distant Divine Mountain creatures, ready to fight.

Shi Yi broke the Void God Realm record, then slaughtered hundreds of Ancient Era Families’ cultivators and destroyed their arrays with the Heavens Tribulation Sword. After leaving many survivors sealed in rune arrays, he charged toward the Primordial Divine Mountain, where its younglings debated whether to face him.

• Shi Yi broke the greatest single-combat streak record, received a treasure bone, and engraved the name Xuan Yi and the defeated clans on the Record Stele.
• Shi Yi attacked the Ancient Era Families’ gathering and killed the Tuoba Family youth, Li Gu, Li Gu’s elder, and many others.
• The Lightning Clan trapped Shi Yi in a Lightning Array, and the other clans layered more arrays around him.
• Shi Yi used the Heavens Tribulation Sword to shatter the arrays and kill six or seven hundred creatures, then sealed roughly forty percent of the survivors in rune arrays.
• Shi Yi rushed toward the Primordial Divine Mountain, and the Golden Beast warned the Chi Dragon youngling that they should avoid his blade.

Shi Yi defeated and subdued three pure-blooded younglings from the Primordial Divine Mountain, forcing the Ancient Era Families to pay Precious Blood to ransom their people. After setting a new plundering record in the Void God Realm, he received a fragment of the Primordial Divine Book, whose full value remained unknown.

• Shi Yi killed two Golden Beasts and grievously wounded a third when they tried to block his advance.
• Shi Yi overwhelmed the Chi Dragon, Azure Luan, and Gray Flood Dragon, then ordered the surviving Golden Beast to demand Precious Blood from their elders as ransom.
• The Ancient Era Families abandoned plans to attack again and prepared Precious Blood to rescue their people trapped in the Void God Realm.
• Shi Yi plundered resources in the Initial Ground and set the Greatest Plunderer record, receiving a fragment of the Primordial Divine Book as his reward.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin offered to appraise the fragment, and Shi Yi asked what he could obtain by collecting all ten pieces.

Shi Yi collected ransom from the Ancient Era Families and the Primordial Divine Mountain, defeating a gray flood dragon adult and facing its Venerable in the Void God Realm. After the Venerable tested his strength and withdrew, Shi Yi left with the cultivation resources he had won.

• The Ancient Era Families brought Shi Yi the demanded ransom, and he let them reclaim their Human Mountains after checking their offerings.
• Three Adult Pure-Blooded Creatures from the Primordial Divine Mountain arrived to ransom their younglings, but the gray flood dragon challenged Shi Yi and had its tail-crushed youngling and itself beaten.
• The adult Azure Luan and adult Chi Dragon paid for their younglings and left, while the injured gray flood dragon youngling returned to report what had happened.
• The Gray Flood Dragon Clan's Venerable paid Shi Yi additional Precious Blood, then challenged him to a single exchange and was wounded by Shi Yi's Heavenly Tribulation Light.
• The gray flood dragon Venerable left with the adult gray flood dragon, and Shi Yi departed alone with his spoils, keeping his distance from the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

Shi Yi entered the Central Mountain Range, claimed a Divine Lotus, and broke six records by defeating ten beast kings. After collecting his rewards, he began cultivating in the Cave Heaven Realm and opened his first Starry Cave Heaven, an immense star, before starting on a second.

• Shi Yi left his pursuers behind and traveled deep into the Great Wilderness, where he found a Divine Lotus drawing beast kings to the Central Mountain Range.
• Shi Yi fought the gathering beasts, killed ten beast kings, and took the Divine Lotus and some of their blood essence.
• The Void God Realm announced six records broken by Xuan Yi, including feats of strength, swordsmanship, speed, blood and qi, and slaying ten beast kings.
• Shi Yi collected his record-breaking rewards, including another Primordial Treasure Tome fragment, and prepared to enter the Cave Heaven Realm.
• After more than ten days of cultivation, Shi Yi broke through and formed an immense star as his first Starry Cave Heaven.
• Shi Yi began opening a second star because his accumulated foundation made one cave heaven insufficient.

Shi Yi advanced into the Cave Heaven Realm, returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion, and cultivated until the Ancient Era Families tried to lure him into a curse trap. After thwarting the attack, he chose to ignore their invitation and went to the Initial Ground.

• Shi Yi opened three starry cave heavens, reached the Cave Heaven Realm region, and returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion to consolidate his cultivation.
• As Shi Yi cultivated in seclusion, Tao Ye learned that the Ancient Era Families had sent watchers to target him, but decided not to interrupt him.
• An invitation from the Ancient Era Families reached Shi Yi, who used his double pupils to discover a hidden curse inside it.
• Shi Yi blocked the curse with his Yin-Yang Qi and starry cave heavens, then recognized that the families wanted his Heavenly Tribulation Light.
• Shi Yi told Tao Ye what had happened, declined to meet the Ancient Era Families, and left for the Initial Ground.

Shi Yi helped Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin suppress some of the dark power clouding their minds by breaking fifteen Void God Realm records, earning the third fragment of the Primordial Treasure Tome. The two elders led him to the Beast Prison, a deadly trial ground where no one had ever escaped alive.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin left their marketplace stall after receiving Shi Yi’s summons and met him in the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Yi offered the elders precious blood and Rune Bones in exchange for information about trial grounds, stirring the dark power and seals within them.
• Shi Yi broke fifteen Blood Moving Realm records in succession, and the Void God Realm’s divine light suppressed some of the dark power affecting the elders.
• Shi Yi received the third fragment of the Primordial Treasure Tome, and Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin regained some clarity and agreed to help him.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin guided Shi Yi through the Chaos Zone to the Beast Prison, where they explained that vicious Fierce Beasts were imprisoned and no one had ever escaped alive.

Shi Yi entered the Beast Prison to undergo the Ultimate Trial, where he hunted powerful pure-blooded Beast Kings to survive. After defeating a White Spider King and a Lizard Beast King, he faced a six-cave-heaven Chi Dragon king.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin told Shi Yi that the Beast Prison was a deadly outpost of the Ultimate Trial Ground, and Shi Yi chose to enter it.
• Shi Yi descended into the Beast Prison and killed a five-cave-heaven Pure-Blooded White Spider King, collecting its precious blood.
• Shi Yi survived an ambush by a concealed Pure-Blooded Lizard Beast King and killed it with the Qilin Precious Technique, though the Beast King destroyed its Primordial Talisman Bone.
• Shi Yi continued through the harsh prison, wary of its scarce resources and the madness-tainted precious blood of its Beast Kings.
• Shi Yi entered the territory of a six-cave-heaven pure-blooded Chi Dragon king, activated his double pupils, and prepared to meet its charge.

Shi Yi fought his way through the Beast Prison for a year, growing into an eight-cave-heaven expert while refining his Treasure Techniques and awakening more of his Qilin blood. As Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin waited outside, the world remained uncertain whether Xuan Yi was alive, while his enemies feared his return.

• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils, chaotic world domain, and Purple Heart to defeat the six-cave-heaven Pure-Blooded Chi Dragon King and continue deeper into the Beast Prison.
• Over the following months, Shi Yi killed powerful Beast Kings, opened his fourth through seventh starry cave heavens, and survived increasingly large groups of attackers.
• During an eight-month beast tide, Shi Yi took refuge in a pure-blooded Beast King's cavern, killed the Beast King, and fought off the Fierce Beasts that entered.
• After a year of combat, Shi Yi had reached eight cave heavens at age seven, refined his Treasure Techniques, and spread the purple Qilin blood from his Purple Heart into his lungs and liver.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin waited for Shi Yi at the Beast Prison's exit while rumors about Xuan Yi's fate spread and the Ancient Era Families and Primordial Divine Mountains searched for him.

Shi Yi endured a year and a half of battles in the Beast Prison, advancing to nine cave heavens and escaping with his life. Outside, he replenished his strength and burned away the madness accumulated from Beast King blood.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin waited for Xuan Yi, fearing he had perished in the Beast Prison.
• Shi Yi ran out of pure precious blood, survived by consuming Beast King blood, and opened his ninth cave heaven.
• Shi Yi fought through the final beast tide and reached the Beast Prison's exit after a year and six months.
• Shi Yi transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc and emerged before Lord Bird, Lord Essence Coin, and the Five-Colored Bird, who were shocked to see him alive and at nine cave heavens.
• Shi Yi devoured the surrounding essence to restore himself, then used a purple sun to burn away the madness in his mind.

After clearing the Beast Prison, Shi Yi returned to the real world with nine cave heavens and discussed his next steps with the Pavilion Master. He decided to go to the Hundred Clans Battlefield to grow stronger.

• Shi Yi received five Primordial Treasure Tome Divine Gold Fragments for clearing the Beast Prison, bringing his total to eight, and learned he could unlock the next trial stage.
• News spread that Xuan Yi was the first to escape the Beast Prison, alarming his enemies and prompting the Tuoba Family, other Ancient Era Families, and several Primordial Divine Mountains to join forces against him.
• Shi Yi told Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin that he would postpone revenge until he reached the summit of the Cave Heaven Realm, and promised to collect the remaining divine gold fragments.
• Shi Yi left the Void God Realm and awakened in his body at the Heaven Mending Pavilion, where his nine cave heavens manifested and he began recovering from his prolonged separation from his body.
• The Pavilion Master praised Shi Yi and asked about his plans, and Shi Yi declared that he wanted to go to the Hundred Clans Battlefield.

Shi Yi left the Heaven Mending Pavilion through a hidden teleportation array and traveled to the Hundred Clans Battlefield to temper himself. He arrived at the battlefield knowing its route to the Upper Realm was a trap he had no intention of entering.

• The Pavilion Master warned Shi Yi that the Hundred Clans Battlefield was dangerous and that its victors became slaves in the Upper Realm, but Shi Yi insisted he only wanted to train.
• The Pavilion Master sent Shi Yi away with an Ancient Jade, a map, and a head ornament that concealed his face, using a hidden teleportation array to evade the watchers outside the Pure Land.
• Two watchers sensed a faint spatial fluctuation but failed to find Shi Yi, who had already been transported millions of li away.
• Shi Yi crossed the Great Wilderness for over a month, reached an entrance to the Hundred Clans Battlefield, and entered through its teleportation array.
• Shi Yi learned that competitors had to win in the Gladiatorial Arena and clear ten Ancient Passes to reach the Upper Realm, but he rejected that goal.

Shi Yi followed two cultivators to an ancient mighty cultivator’s cave abode, where one betrayed and sacrificed his junior brother to break its seal. After avoiding the man’s attempt to kill him, Shi Yi fought the peak Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator and searched for an opening to strike back.

• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to navigate the Dark Forest, avoid Ancient Beasts, and gather medicinal plants while seeking resources to open his tenth Cave Heaven.
• Shi Yi overheard two young cultivators following an ancient disc and secretly trailed them to an ancient mighty cultivator’s cave abode.
• The senior brother killed his junior brother to awaken a Demonic Artifact, then used it with the ancient disc to crack open the cave abode’s seal.
• Shi Yi saw through the senior brother’s laughing distraction and evaded a concealed attack by transforming into a Golden-Winged Roc.
• The senior brother revealed his spirit bodies and attacked Shi Yi, who dodged their assaults before suddenly charging toward the man’s true body.

Shi Yi defeated a powerful spirit transformation realm opponent, took the Ancient Disc, and entered the Dao Palace hidden within Gray Stone Mountain. He looted its treasures and learned that its master, an Upper Realm expert, had died after being grievously wounded in the Ancient Era War.

• Shi Yi used Qilin Step and Heaven-Opening Double Pupils to catch the young man off guard, then killed him with the Qilin Precious Technique and claimed the Ancient Disc.
• Shi Yi used the Ancient Disc to enter the small world inside Gray Stone Mountain and found the Dao Palace of an Ancient Era Great Expert.
• Shi Yi cleared the Treasure Room, taking the Divine Light Mirror and numerous other treasures, then collected a Divine Pill, a pill furnace, divine abilities, sacred medicines, and cultivation resources from the palace.
• Shi Yi found the palace master's ashes and read that the Upper Realm expert had suffered grievous wounds in the Ancient Era War and died after his faction lost and his return became impossible.
• Shi Yi reflected on the forgotten causes of the Ancient Era War, recalling its connections to the Supreme Hall, the Pu Demon Tree, the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman, and the Sacrificial Spirit Divine Tree of Heaven Mending Pavilion.