Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi reached the Hundred Clans Battlefield and entered the Gladiatorial Arena to earn the fifty consecutive victories needed to qualify for the Upper Realm’s ten trials. His first opponent was a black-clad prodigy with nine heavenly caves and thirty-seven wins, and the two faced each other amid a deadly killing intent.

• Shi Yi left the collapsing Dao palace and crossed the dark forest to reach the heart of the Hundred Clans Battlefield.
• Shi Yi collected a Cave Heaven Realm token and joined the Gladiatorial Arena’s challenger queue, concealing himself from probing senses with chaotic mist.
• A black-clad Human Race prodigy with nine heavenly caves defeated every opponent ahead of Shi Yi, earning thirty-seven consecutive victories while following a rule of sparing odd-numbered opponents and killing even-numbered ones.
• Shi Yi entered the arena as the next challenger, and the black-clad youth’s killing intent swept toward him.
• Shi Yi stood firm and revealed visions of heaven and earth splitting within his eyes.

Shi Yi defeated and killed a prodigy from the Blood God Tower in the Hundred Clans Battlefield’s Gladiatorial Arena. His victory left the dead youth’s elder thirsting for revenge, while the arena selected Shi Yi another opponent.

• The black-clad youth challenged Shi Yi with his yin sword, and the two sword cultivators fought to a standstill.
• Shi Yi trapped the black-clad youth in a Five-Element Sword Formation and wounded him, forcing him to reveal the Blood God Tower’s assassination art.
• The black-clad youth vanished and attempted to assassinate Shi Yi, but Shi Yi anticipated the attack and impaled him with his five-element sword.
• Shi Yi destroyed the youth’s primordial spirit, killing the Blood God Tower prodigy as his elder watched helplessly from the stands.
• Shi Yi noticed the elder’s murderous glare, was declared the victor, and remained in the arena for another opponent.

Shi Yi won fifty consecutive battles in the Gladiatorial Arena and entered the Path to Heaven, where he survived five increasingly difficult trials against powerful puppets. After healing his injuries, he sensed that the sixth trial could be fatal and hesitated before advancing.

• Spectators speculated that Shi Yi belonged to Immortal Mountain's Qin Clan after he killed the black-clad youth and defeated the next challengers.
• Shi Yi won forty-nine consecutive victories, then defeated his fiftieth opponent and was transported to the Path to Heaven.
• Shi Yi cleared the first trial by destroying five nine-heavenly-caves puppets and the second by defeating ten.
• Shi Yi defeated fifteen puppets in the third trial and continued through the fourth and fifth trials, suffering severe injuries against thirty puppets in the fifth.
• Shi Yi used the life-giving power of his left eye to heal, then sensed that entering the sixth trial might lead to his death and paused before its altar.

Shi Yi repeatedly challenged the passes to break through to ten cave heavens, then fought his way to the Ninth Pass. He survived its eight puppets by awakening a purple liver and stood victorious, reviewing the battle before continuing.

• Shi Yi returned to the Fourth Pass and reentered the Fifth Pass, repeatedly fighting its thirty puppets until he sensed an opportunity to advance.
• Shi Yi swallowed an Ancient Pill and opened his tenth cave heaven, transforming his strength.
• Shi Yi defeated two ten-cave-heaven puppets at the Sixth Pass, four at the Seventh Pass, and six at the Eighth Pass before stopping to recover and review his battles.
• Shi Yi challenged the Ninth Pass, where eight puppets overwhelmed him with coordinated attacks and forced him to unleash Heaven-Opening Double Pupils and his other techniques.
• Under pressure, Shi Yi's liver transformed into a purple liver, greatly increasing his vitality and helping him defeat all eight puppets.
• Shi Yi sat among the wreckage and reviewed the battle after barely clearing the Ninth Pass.

Shi Yi cleared the tenth trial of the Path to Heaven, then refused to enter the great teleportation array after reading its warning about the Upper Realm. He stayed behind to reforge all ten of his cave heavens, emerging much stronger and with new insights from his double pupils.

• Shi Yi entered the tenth trial and destroyed its ten powerful puppets after a prolonged, brutal battle, collapsing as the last one fell.
• After recovering, Shi Yi reached the great teleportation array, read the warning about the Hundred Clans Battlefield, and chose not to travel to the Upper Realm.
• Shi Yi reviewed his battle, swallowed an ancient pill, and began reforging his cave heavens by shattering and rebuilding them one at a time.
• Shi Yi reforged all nine smaller cave heavens until all ten stars matched the size and power of his tenth cave heaven.
• Shi Yi grew considerably stronger and discovered new applications of his double pupils by observing the reforging process.

Shi Yi consolidated his Cave Heaven Realm cultivation, then pursued a path beyond the ten cave heavens instead of trying to merge them into one. After months of probing the void with his double pupils, he sensed the great dao’s ripples but had not yet discovered what lay beyond the cave heavens.

• Shi Yi linked his ten starry cave heavens into a divine ring, strengthened his flesh, and completed the evolution of his purple spleen.
• Shi Yi concluded that merging ten cave heavens into one did not suit him and chose to seek a different path, while hoping Shi Hao would grow into a worthy rival.
• Shi Yi spent several months consolidating his cultivation and reached the peak of the Cave Heaven Realm, becoming exceptionally powerful in the Lower Realm.
• Shi Yi used his essence, qi, and spirit to explore the divine ring and gained insight into a mysterious region beyond the ten cave heavens.
• Shi Yi meditated beneath the divine ring for months, heard waves that grew steadily louder, and finally perceived great dao ripples following their rhythm.

Shi Yi made a single, carefully prepared attempt to break into the forbidden region above his cave heavens, using his Supreme Bone to tear through the barrier. He succeeded, endured the resulting tribulation, and emerged healed with greatly enhanced pupil power and new abilities.

• Shi Yi spent months preparing for his ultimate leap and forcibly took control of the Supreme Bone, inscribing runes and feeding it power.
• Shi Yi merged his ten cave heavens into the Astral Ring, perfected his purple five viscera, and used medicines and double-pupil techniques to assault the barrier above his cave heavens.
• Shi Yi unleashed the Supreme Bone, and its Supreme Figure charged through the barrier with a Five Elements Sword empowered by the Astral Ring.
• Shi Yi glimpsed the forbidden region, a vast sea of time, karma, and fate, and drew the attention of a terrifying tribulation.
• Shi Yi transferred his karma to the ruined Supreme Figure, which took the tribulation and crumbled to ash.
• The energy from the fissure healed Shi Yi's chest and greatly strengthened his double pupils, granting him new abilities including a powerful perception of karma and the future.

After mastering his new abilities in the Hundred Clans Battlefield, Shi Yi returned to the Lower Realm and set out to claim the Mountain Treasure. He reached the Great Wilderness with help from the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Pavilion Master and began tracking the battle between the four Venerables.

• Shi Yi consolidated his cultivation, mastered his Forbidden Region abilities, and defeated the ten puppets at the Tenth Pass with ease.
• He left the Hundred Clans Battlefield and returned to the Desolate Region, where he decided to pursue the Mountain Treasure after divining a favorable outcome.
• Shi Yi crushed the Ancient Jade and summoned the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Pavilion Master Spirit Body, asking for help reaching the Great Wilderness.
• The Pavilion Master's Spirit Body transported Shi Yi to the Stone Kingdom and searched for Little Solitary Mountain Town, finding that a beast tide had destroyed it.
• Shi Yi revealed that four Venerables were fighting over the Mountain Treasure and asked to approach their battlefield.
• The Pavilion Master's Spirit Body detected traces of the Venerables' battle and prepared to guide Shi Yi closer.

Shi Yi reached the battlefield where the beast Venerables had fought and found the Mountain Treasure Zhu Yan had hidden. He escaped the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s search and eventually left the Great Wilderness for the Stone Kingdom’s border.

• The Pavilion Master brought Shi Yi to the Venerables’ devastated battlefield, where they sensed a living beast Venerable recovering beneath dark mist.
• Shi Yi identified the creature as the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow and continued alone, using his fate-related abilities to search for Zhu Yan and the Mountain Treasure.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow emerged from its retreat as Shi Yi found the hidden bone cube beside a drying lake and seized the Mountain Treasure.
• Shi Yi hid in a fissure while the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow searched the battlefield, then watched it attack Stone Village and flee after the Willow Deity struck back.
• After hiding underground for a month and checking that the danger had passed, Shi Yi traveled through the Great Wilderness and reached the Stone Kingdom’s border.

Shi Yi secluded himself in the Great Wilderness to master the Supreme Hall's inheritance, including the Grass Character Sword Art and a weakened version of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art. After leaving the ruins of his training cave, he entered the Void God Realm and appeared at the Land of Origin.

• Shi Yi opened the Mountain Treasure and studied the complete Six Paths of Reincarnation Book and the other techniques recorded on ancient beast hides.
• Shi Yi triggered the Grass Character Sword Art from a damaged hide, seized the Silver Metal Page it revealed, and mastered the sword art's initial stages.
• Shi Yi devised a stripped-down Six Paths of Reincarnation technique that could summon two stable treasure techniques, then tested its devastating power in a strike that destroyed his cave abode.
• Shi Yi erased his traces and traveled to a medium tribe, where he built a hidden cave abode and cautiously prepared to enter the Void God Realm.
• Shi Yi sensed the Void God Realm and arrived at the edge of the Land of Origin, where he had left words on the Record Stele years earlier.

Shi Yi returned to the Void God Realm as Xuan Yi, now powerful enough to dominate the Cave Heaven Realm, and sought the Pavilion Master’s help before beginning his revenge. After arranging to act alone, he left the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s blessed land and started killing the spies watching it.

• Shi Yi disguised himself as Xuan Yi and returned to the Initial Ground, where Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin recognized him and hurried toward the Cave Heaven Realm region.
• Shi Yi secretly entered the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s blessed land and met Tao Ye, who brought the Pavilion Master to see him in the Void God Realm.
• Shi Yi told the Pavilion Master he intended to punish the forces that had plotted against him, agreed to wait until the Spirit Transformation Realm summit before entering the Ancient Sacred Academy, and promised to act alone.
• Shi Yi left the blessed land despite the Pavilion Master’s warning and confronted two Tuoba Family elders spying outside the mountain gate.
• Shi Yi killed the two Tuoba Family elders’ spiritual forms, then continued slaughtering the other spies gathered around the Pure Land.

Shi Yi massacred the Kun Clan in the Void God Realm, killed its Array Formation King Marquis with a Demon-Exterminating Needle, and laid a Sword Formation for the arriving Ancient Era Families. The Sword Formation trapped and slaughtered their forces until they used Divine Spirit Artifacts and Divine Spirit Edicts to protect themselves, leaving them preparing to attack Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi entered the Kun Clan's grotto-heaven paradise and slaughtered its guards and cultivators with his Yin-Yang Longsword.
• Shi Yi broke the Ancient Era Demon-Trapping Grand Formation, killed the Kun Clan's Array Formation King Marquis with a Demon-Exterminating Needle, and continued his massacre.
• The other Ancient Era Families arrived to find the Kun Clan's grotto-heaven paradise filled with corpses and Shi Yi seated atop a mountain of bodies.
• Shi Yi activated a Sword Formation he had laid throughout the grotto-heaven paradise, trapping the forces of several Ancient Era Families while the Primordial Divine Mountain beings escaped.
• The Sword Formation killed many of the trapped cultivators, forcing the Ancient Era Families to use Divine Spirit Artifacts and Divine Spirit Edicts for protection.
• The surviving family forces urged one another to break Shi Yi's Sword Formation and kill him.

Shi Yi tested the divine edicts and artifacts brought by six Ancient Era Families, then shattered their defenses and massacred their forces. The survivors fled the Kun Clan's Grotto-Heaven Paradise, while Shi Yi pursued them and killed a King Marquis from each family.

• The Li, Meng, Yuan, and Kun Clans awakened four restraining divine edicts, while the Lightning Clan and Tuoba Family brought Divine Artifacts and the Tuoba Family also unleashed a killing edict.
• Outside the Grotto-Heaven Paradise, Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin opened a betting pool as a veiled girl bet precious blood on the Ancient Era Families.
• The six families' attacks destroyed Shi Yi's Sword Formation and layered their restraints around him, but Shi Yi revealed his ten starry cave heavens and broke free.
• Shi Yi shattered the Tuoba Family's killing edict, destroyed both Divine Artifacts, and killed the Tuoba and Lightning King Marquises.
• The remaining forces fled, but Shi Yi pursued them and killed a King Marquis from each of the six Ancient Era Families.
• The onlookers stood stunned by Shi Yi's victory, while Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin celebrated their winnings.

Shi Yi swept through six Ancient Era Families, then settled his karmic debts with the Azure Luan, Flood Dragon, and Chi Dragon races. After collecting all ten Ancient Lamp fragments, he confronted Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin for the promised Ten Fiends Treasure Technique, and they began considering whether to take him somewhere to prove why they could not retrieve it.

• Shi Yi gathered resources by slaughtering the defenders of six Ancient Era Families’ grotto-heaven paradises, then completed the Ancient Lamp with the final two fragments awarded for breaking records.
• Shi Yi visited Luan Mountain, Flood Dragon Mountain, and Chi Dragon Mountain, where their Venerables compensated him for past wrongs and agreed to end their grudges.
• Shi Yi found Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin and demanded the Ten Fiends Treasure Technique in exchange for the restored Ancient Lamp.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin discussed taking Shi Yi to a place connected to the technique, and Shi Yi revealed he had overheard them.

Shi Yi entered the Ultimate Trial Ground to claim the Ten Fiends Treasure Technique, despite Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin warning him of the danger. After surviving the attacks of the Dark Immortal Kings and the beings in the earthen jars, he escaped with both pieces of the True Phoenix Rune Bone, gravely wounded but victorious.

• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin led Shi Yi to the Dark Hall and explained that the Ten Fiends Treasure Technique was held there in two Rune Bone fragments guarded by terrifying beings.
• Shi Yi rejected their advice to wait until he was stronger and prepared to challenge the Dark Hall using his double pupils, secret arts, and Qilin Step.
• Shi Yi evaded the four stone statues' attacks, seized the first True Phoenix Rune Bone, and rushed into the altars behind the hall.
• Shi Yi dodged the blood-red hands reaching from the earthen jars, endured several blows, and took the second Rune Bone.
• Shi Yi fought his way back through the altars and Dark Hall, then collapsed outside, gravely injured but carrying the True Phoenix Treasure Technique.
• Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin stared in shock as they realized Shi Yi had survived the Ultimate Trial Ground and taken the treasure technique.

After surviving the Dark Hall, Shi Yi mastered the True Phoenix Treasure Technique and spent months honing his combat skills against the Dark Immortal Kings’ stone statues. He left the Void God Realm, entered the Spirit Transformation Realm at ten years old, and began pursuing perfect flesh becoming spirit.

• Shi Yi recovered from his injuries, studied the True Phoenix rune treasure bones, and gained an initial grasp of the Nirvana Divine Ability.
• Shi Yi repeatedly fought the Dark Hall’s stone statues for several months, using the True Phoenix Treasure Technique to survive and steadily sharpening his combat instincts.
• Shi Yi left the Dark Hall and returned to the Cave Heaven Realm Area, where he cultivated until he broke through into the Spirit Transformation Realm at ten years old.
• Shi Yi entered the higher-level area quietly and settled into a secluded cave dwelling to cultivate while preparing to challenge the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Shi Yi resolved to perfect the Spirit Transformation Realm’s first step, flesh becoming spirit, building on the foundation of his flesh cave heaven.

Shi Yi completed the legendary state of flesh becoming spirit and began reshaping his true self through repeated nirvana rebirths. After reaching the legendary state, he underwent a powerful tenth transformation, leaving his Primordial Spirit reborn as a true phoenix.

• Shi Yi spent half a year cultivating until his flesh neared becoming spirit, then searched the Great Wilderness for a spiritually rich treasured land.
• After slaying the land's guardian, Shi Yi cultivated there for two months and completed flesh becoming spirit.
• Shi Yi extracted and recombined the essential runes from the techniques he had mastered, perfecting his own arrangements and greatly increasing his battle prowess.
• Shi Yi began spiritually reshaping his true self by burning his Primordial Spirit with spiritual flames and letting it perish before being reborn through nirvana.
• Shi Yi repeated the nirvana transformations until he reached the legendary state, then underwent a tenth transformation that made his Primordial Spirit a true phoenix.

Shi Yi completed the Spirit Transformation Realm’s three stages at legendary levels, then cultivated his flesh cave heaven, myriad transformations, and new Double Pupils abilities. At the summit of the realm, he left the Void God Realm to visit the Ancient Sacred Academy as a gifted youth arrived at the Land of Origin.

• Shi Yi broke through the extreme realm of nurturing spirits in his cave heavens and brought all three Spirit Transformation stages to grand completion.
• He nurtured his flesh cave heaven, unlocking its potential and surpassing the limits of the realm.
• Shi Yi used his divine radiance to embody weapons and fierce beasts, evolving their Great Dao laws and awakening two divine spears within his Double Pupils.
• He reached the summit of the Spirit Transformation Realm at eleven years and nine months, then left the Void God Realm to go to the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• As Shi Yi departed, a willow branch carried an extraordinarily gifted youth into the Void God Realm and guided him to the Land of Origin.

Shi Hao entered the Void God Realm, learned of Xuan Yi’s overwhelming reputation, and vowed to catch up to him before being expelled for damaging the realm. Meanwhile, Shi Yi returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion and entered the Ancient Sacred Academy to seek its legendary inheritance.

• Shi Hao heard that Shi Yi had vanished from public view and that the Martial King Manor had declined, then declared that he would one day catch up to Xuan Yi and fight him.
• The Void God Realm expelled Shi Hao for prying out a Treasure Bone and barred him from returning for two years; after he returned to Stone Village, the Willow Deity warned him how far he still had to go to match Xuan Yi.
• Shi Yi completed his cultivation in seclusion, traveled to the agreed meeting place, and met the Heaven Mending Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, who arranged a secret teleportation back to the Pure Land.
• The Pavilion Master praised Shi Yi’s cultivation, cautioned him about relying too heavily on ancient sages’ insights, and led him toward the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• The Pavilion Master opened a gap in the ruined wall, and Shi Yi stepped onto the stone path into the sea of chaos as the wall closed behind him.

Shi Yi broke through the sages’ trials and entered the Ancient Sacred Academy, where he began exploring its dangerous landscapes and absorbing the insights of ancient experts. After improving his mastery of the earth Great Dao, he reached the Sword Tomb and began transforming his understanding of the Sword Dao.

• Shi Yi pressed through the ancient road’s growing pressure, destroyed the sages’ manifested attacks, and shattered the final barrier to enter the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Shi Yi used his double pupils to identify hidden dangers and the reliable path through the Academy, then chose to explore its landscapes himself.
• Shi Yi crossed a region filled with earth-attribute laws and ancient experts’ insights, greatly deepening his mastery of earth among the five elements.
• Shi Yi entered the Sword Tomb, where the swords and peaks unleashed a storm of sword qi against him.
• Shi Yi fought through the Sword Tomb’s attacks and immersed himself in ancient sword sages’ insights, transforming his understanding of the Sword Dao.