Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi mastered the sword dao in the Sword Tombs, gathered their swords into the Sword Dao Treasure Book, and continued through regions that deepened his understanding of space and other great daos. In the eighteenth region, he entered a ruined Buddhist kingdom and listened to its scriptures, including teachings on reincarnation, before spotting a dazzling golden light.

• Shi Yi subdued the swords in the Sword Tombs and stored them in a Sword Dao Treasure Book derived from the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Shi Yi crossed the space dao region, deepened his mastery of spatial power, and retrieved the Void War Halberd from a dangerous rift.
• Shi Yi passed through more regions and gained insights into the five elements, yin-yang, and numerous other great daos.
• Shi Yi entered a ruined Buddhist kingdom, resisted scriptures that sought to convert him, and listened closely to teachings on the six paths of reincarnation.
• Shi Yi wandered through the Buddhist dao region until he noticed a burst of dazzling golden light and headed toward it.

Shi Yi reached the Ruined Buddhist Kingdom’s diamond-liquid pool, broke into the Inscription realm, and advanced through the Ancient Sacred Academy. In the Heaven Mending Sect Ruins, he gained a complete Heaven Mending Technique and began studying its mysteries.

• Shi Yi resisted the Buddhist scriptures’ influence, found the diamond-liquid pool, and absorbed it all, tempering his body and breaking into the Inscription realm.
• Shi Yi continued through Great Dao regions, gained insights, and reached the middle stage of the Inscription realm over nine months in the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Shi Yi encountered a living being trapped off the ancient road but ignored its attempt to lure him closer and continued onward cautiously.
• Shi Yi entered the Heaven Mending Sect Ruins and experienced an enlightenment that unified and strengthened his cultivation.
• Shi Yi used his double pupils to reveal the complete Heaven Mending Technique hidden in the ruins, memorized it, and contemplated its power and limitations.

Shi Yi mastered the Heaven Mending Technique, explored the Heaven Mending Sect Ruins, and followed fate’s guidance through the Ancient Sacred Academy in search of the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman. After months of cultivation and gathering treasures, he reached the pinnacle of the inscription realm and prepared to advance to the next realm.

• Shi Yi tested the Heaven Mending Technique by restoring a severed stone pillar, then explored the Heaven Mending Sect Ruins and collected a furnace full of golden body liquid.
• Shi Yi found the ancient path ended at the ruins and used the forbidden sea of bitterness to guide him onward in search of the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman.
• Over three months, Shi Yi explored more than a dozen regions, gained powerful treasures and inheritances, and advanced to the late inscription realm.
• Shi Yi consumed a pool of divine liquid and broke through to perfection in the inscription realm, inscribing patterns across his body and ten starry cave heavens.
• Shi Yi continued cultivating with the forbidden sea’s power until karma, fate, and time patterns appeared throughout his body, bringing his inscription realm to its pinnacle.

Shi Yi reached the pinnacle of the Inscription Realm and followed fate into a misty Magic Array, where the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman saved him and welcomed him to her home. He introduced her to his mysterious cultivation method and the Forbidden Sea of Bitterness, beginning the conversation that could lead her to become his backer.

• Shi Yi left the divine pool and used fate and karma to guide him through dangerous regions toward the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman.
• Shi Yi entered a mist-filled Magic Array, triggered its defenses, and was saved when a Double Pupils secret art destroyed the law-beast attacking him.
• The Ancient Double-Pupil Woman summoned Shi Yi along a shining path to her secluded home and invited him to talk.
• The Ancient Double-Pupil Woman read Shi Yi's unusual thoughts, and he apologized and called her big sister, earning her amusement.
• Shi Yi showed her his Ten Cave Heavens and explained that the Forbidden Sea of Bitterness was a formless ocean of powers including time, fate, and karma.

Shi Yi showed the Double Pupils Woman his Forbidden Sea of Bitterness, then persuaded her to guard his path in exchange for his promise to help her escape a future descent into darkness. After agreeing, she dismantled her hidden pure land and hurried with Shi Yi toward the Ancient Sacred Academy’s entrance as hostile remnants approached.

• The Double Pupils Woman tried to see into Shi Yi’s Forbidden Sea of Bitterness, but tribulation punishment forced her to stop.
• Shi Yi explained why he had become a target and asked the Double Pupils Woman to leave the Ancient Sacred Academy and protect him.
• Shi Yi promised to help the Double Pupils Woman cross the Sea of Bitterness and escape sinking into darkness, and she agreed to guard his path.
• The Double Pupils Woman used her Double Pupils to withdraw her defenses and reveal the Ancient Sacred Academy around them.
• The Double Pupils Woman sensed hostile remnants approaching and carried Shi Yi toward the entrance.

After escaping the Ancient Sacred Academy with the Double Pupils Woman, Shi Yi rushed to Hundred Broken Mountains and entered the secret realm in disguise. He arrived at the Hundred Herb Garden seeking its rare medicines, the Everlasting Spring’s little dragon, and the ancient coffin beneath the spring.

• The Double Pupils Woman fought through the Ancient Sacred Academy’s seal guardians with Shi Yi and escaped after half a month of battle.
• The Double Pupils Woman brought Shi Yi to Broken Void City, where he entered Hundred Broken Mountains while wearing Xuan Yi’s disguise.
• The Tuoba family, the Li Clan, and other Ancient Era Families recognized Xuan Yi and planned to ambush him when he left the secret realm.
• The Double Pupils Woman stayed outside to recover, vowing to intervene only if Shi Yi’s life was in danger.
• Shi Yi used his double pupils to choose a passage into the Hundred Herb Garden, where he sought its remaining treasures and the ancient coffin beneath the Everlasting Spring Pool.

Shi Yi tracked the Spirit-Connecting Divine Flower to the Immortal Spring Eye and discovered a sealed immortal corpse hidden inside it. He captured both the flower and the tailless little golden dragon, then began absorbing the spring’s divine liquid.

• Shi Yi crushed a Purple Vine and used its pollen-derived substances with the power of karma to track the Spirit-Connecting Divine Flower.
• Shi Yi found the flower drinking golden spring water beside the hidden pool and saw the tailless little golden dragon hiding behind cracks in the Immortal Spring Eye.
• Shi Yi recognized the body inside the spring as a sealed immortal corpse whose primordial spirit he had previously fought in the Void God Realm.
• Shi Yi seized the Spirit-Connecting Divine Flower, broke through the cracks, and captured the little golden dragon in a container.
• Shi Yi sat on the immortal corpse and began devouring the golden divine liquid.

Shi Yi absorbed the golden divine liquid, perfected his first four cultivation realms, and broke into the array formation realm before securing the immortal corpse and sweeping the Hundred Herb Garden. He reached the battle for the Silver Peach Trees and forcefully intervened, drawing the fury of the beast kings and the Divine Monkey King.

• Shi Yi completed a transformation of his body and double pupils, then broke through to the array formation realm before turning thirteen.
• Shi Yi collected the golden divine liquid, strapped the sealed immortal corpse to his back, and seized two camouflaged old sacred medicines along with the other valuable plants in the Hundred Herb Garden.
• As the secret realm's regions merged and its native creatures hunted the outside prodigies, Shi Yi followed karma's guidance in deciding whom to save and headed toward the battle for the Silver Peach Trees.
• Shi Yi saw the Divine Monkey King fighting several beast kings over four quasi-sacred peach trees while Shi Hao and other prodigies waited nearby for a chance to act.
• Shi Yi charged into the battlefield and blasted a path toward the trees with his great hand, scattering the beast kings and enraging the Divine Monkey King.

Shi Yi revealed overwhelming strength in the Hundred Broken Mountains, defeating the Divine Monkey King and slaughtering several Beast Kings as he reached for the Silver Peach Trees. Just as he moved to claim them, the ancient Pu Demon Tree’s charred staff emerged to confront him, while white fluff silently surrounded the settlement.

• Shi Yi shattered the Divine Monkey King's golden spear with one palm strike and severely wounded him, shocking the natives and revealing himself to outside prodigies as Xuan Yi.
• The Pu Demon Tree recognized the Immortal Corpse in Shi Yi's Coffin and learned from its ancestor that the corpse was their target; the ancestor ordered the young tree to kill everyone present.
• The Divine Monkey King activated his Magic Array and rallied the Beast Kings against Shi Yi, but Shi Yi killed a Golden-Winged Roc and broke the array with a strike aimed at its weakness.
• Shi Yi saw through the concealment of an old wolf king and a powerful magpie, killed them, and drove the remaining hidden Beast Kings to flee.
• As Shi Yi reached for the four Silver Peach Trees, he sensed danger and withdrew when a mass of demonic light appeared, revealing a charred black staff; white fluff silently spread around the settlement.

Shi Yi fled the Ancient Era Pu Demon Tree’s attack with the Immortal Corpse, then turned to fight when the secret realm’s boundary blocked his escape. He used the Sect Master’s Sword to break the charred black staff, leaving the Pu Demon King’s fate unresolved.

• The charred black staff’s Pu Demon seeds killed creatures around the Silver Peach Trees, while Shi Hao waited for a chance to move.
• Shi Yi escaped with the Immortal Corpse, and the charred black staff pursued him as the remaining creatures fought over the quasi-sacred medicine.
• Shi Yi reached the edge of the secret realm and faced the Pu Demon King’s remnant, countering its runic flames with his double pupils, treasure techniques, and divine artifacts.
• Shi Yi used his double pupils’ Yin and Yang Swords to stagger the staff, then concealed the Sect Master’s Sword among his flying weapons.
• Shi Yi named the Pu Demon King and invoked Immortal King Wuzhong to distract him, allowing the Sect Master’s Sword to split the charred black staff in two.

Shi Yi fought the Remnant Thought of the Pu Demon King, but the enemy’s Reincarnation Disk fragments awakened when Shi Yi used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and turned against their wielder. After the Reincarnation Disk spirit killed the Pu Demon King and pledged to serve Shi Yi, Shi Yi claimed the Pu Demon Tree Seed and stored it and the Immortal Corpse away.

• Shi Yi used the Sect Master's Sword and Grass Character Sword Art to damage the Charred Staff, then tried to frighten the Remnant Thought of the Pu Demon King with a supposedly Immortal King-bestowed treasure.
• The Remnant Thought of the Pu Demon King unleashed two fragments of the Reincarnation Disk, forcing Shi Yi to use the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to survive.
• Shi Yi's heavenly art awakened the Reincarnation Disk's spirit, which took control of the fragments and destroyed the Pu Demon King's demonic light and Charred Staff.
• The Reincarnation Disk recognized Shi Yi as a descendant of the Stone King and swore to serve him until he could protect himself.
• Shi Yi discovered the Pu Demon King had been reduced to a Pu Demon Tree Seed, possessed it with his blood essence, and considered the possibility of claiming the giant's power.
• Shi Yi stored the seed and the Immortal Corpse in the Reincarnation Disk's Chaos Space, and the two fragments imprinted themselves on his wrist.

Shi Yi used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to hunt down the Pu Demon Tree’s last descendant, then claimed the final Silver Peach Tree and eliminated the Divine Monkey King and nearby Beast Kings. He subdued the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast as his mount and reached the dead magpie’s cave, where he encountered a Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly he intended to subdue.

• Shi Yi learned that the Reincarnation Disk could help him leave the Hundred Broken Mountains outside the opening period, but chose to remain and explore its opportunities.
• Shi Yi found and killed the young Pu Demon Tree, the Pu Demon King’s only surviving descendant.
• Shi Yi killed the Divine Monkey King and the remaining divine monkeys, transplanted the last Silver Peach Tree, and slaughtered the Beast Kings hiding nearby.
• Shi Yi caught the fleeing Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast, forced it to submit, and accepted its blood essence and soul imprint to control it.
• Shi Yi sent his spirit bodies to search the dead Beast Kings’ lairs while riding the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast to the magpie’s cave.
• Shi Yi found a Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly outside the chaos nest and decided to subdue it rather than kill it.

Shi Yi captured the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly, plundered Magpie’s nest, and waited out the closing of the Hundred Broken Mountains passage while his Spirit Body escaped as a Golden-Winged Roc. After the passage shut, Shi Yi remained alone in the Secret Realm, intent on claiming its remaining treasures.

• Shi Yi destroyed the Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly’s Treasure Artifact, captured her, and stored her in a vessel after she refused to submit.
• Shi Yi broke the Magic Array around Magpie’s nest and took its treasures, including the divine liquid that had helped Magpie become a Beast King.
• Shi Yi and other mysterious experts hunted Beast Kings across the Hundred Broken Mountains, spreading fear among the remaining creatures and outside prodigies.
• The passage opened, and surviving prodigies fled the Secret Realm as the Ancient Era Families waited outside to capture Xuan Yi and Bear Child.
• Shi Yi’s Golden-Winged Roc Spirit Body emerged, killed a King Marquis, and revealed himself to the Double Pupils Woman, while Shi Hao and the bald bird recognized him as Xuan Yi.
• Shi Yi stayed behind as the passage closed, then rode the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast into the mist to explore the Secret Realm’s remaining treasures.

Shi Yi returned from the Hundred Broken Mountains as the Heaven Mending Pavilion faced destruction, then charged into the battle to defend the people who had helped him. He killed two Beast Kings and drew the Ancient Era Families’ King Marquises toward him.

• Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman prepared to spend half a year recovering while Shi Yi’s Spirit Body plundered the Hundred Broken Mountains’ Beast King lairs and Secret Realms.
• The Divine Vine revived after the Heaven Mending Pavilion used Shi Hao’s golden mud and sand, but it revealed that it was dying, prompting the pavilion to evacuate its disciples.
• A Venerable who attacked the Divine Vine was pinned and killed, giving the Pure Land a brief respite before Shi Yi emerged from the Hundred Broken Mountains and hurried toward the battle.
• Shi Yi reunited with his Golden-Winged Roc Spirit Body and ordered the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast to charge into the Pure Land’s central battlefield to aid the Pavilion Master and his allies.
• Shi Yi and the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast killed a Beast King and a White Tiger Beast King, raising the pavilion’s morale and attracting the Ancient Era Families’ King Marquises.

Shi Yi fought off more than a dozen peak King Marquises who had gathered to kill him, slaying the Li King and the Tuoba Family’s King Marquis and driving the rest to flee. As he turned toward the four Ancient Era Families, the Divine Vine was torn apart by the Beast Venerables, and its Divine Spirit Rain began to fall.

• Shi Yi and the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast slew two Beast Kings and fought toward the center of the Pure Land, where Elders Xiong Fei and Zhuo Yun saw them arrive.
• Shi Yi told the Pavilion Master of the Heaven Mending Pavilion that he would protect him, then faced more than a dozen peak King Marquises who had joined forces to kill him.
• Shi Yi defeated the Li King with true phoenix flame and killed the Tuoba Family’s King Marquis with Grass Character Sword Art, taking his golden divine sword.
• The remaining King Marquises fled after Shi Yi broke their encirclement, leaving the four Ancient Era Families without their allies.
• Shi Yi charged toward the peak King Marquises of the four Ancient Era Families as the Beast Venerables tore apart the Divine Vine, whose Divine Spirit Rain began falling over the battlefield.

As the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Pure Land collapsed and the Divine Vine died, Shi Yi forced the Pavilion Master and several elders to escape rather than perish in the battle. Shi Yi's group broke out with survivors, while Ghost Master stayed behind to confront the Beast Venerables.

• With the Divine Vine gravely wounded and enemies closing in, Shi Yi urged the Pavilion Master to escape, but the Pavilion Master refused to abandon his disciples.
• Shi Yi killed the Kun Clan Chief with the Void War Halberd, seized a divine flag, and cleared a path through the opposing forces.
• The Divine Vine died, and reinforcements including the Stone Kingdom's War King arrived to aid the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils and physical strength to subdue the Pavilion Master, then took him away from the battlefield.
• Ghost Master appeared, sent the Divine Vine's Green-Skinned Gourd away, and fought the Beast Venerables with the Broken Sword.
• Shi Yi rescued the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast and forcibly led Tao Ye, Zhuo Yun, Xiong Fei, and other survivors out of the Pure Land.

Shi Yi rescued the Pavilion Master, Tao Ye, and many Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, then reunited them with survivors saved by the Double Pupils Woman. After months of seclusion and pill-assisted cultivation, he reached late-stage Array Formation and prepared to seek the Kunpeng Method in the soon-opening North Sea.

• Shi Yi carried the Pavilion Master, Tao Ye, and rescued disciples away from the battlefield, and the Double Pupils Woman transported them to a hidden valley.
• Tao Ye and the Pavilion Master learned that the Double Pupils Woman had saved three of the four remaining strongholds, while the fourth had been overrun.
• The Pavilion Master and elders thanked the Double Pupils Woman, then resolved to protect the survivors and search for the Divine Vine’s green-skinned gourd.
• Shi Yi asked the Double Pupils Woman for pill formulas, and she used his spirit herbs to refine three kinds of ancient pills.
• Shi Yi cultivated with the pills for eight months, advanced two stages to late-stage Array Formation, and planned to pursue the Kunpeng Method when the North Sea opened.

Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman traveled toward the Kunpeng Nest, where Shi Yi fought off sea beasts and destroyed a Sea Demon blockade. In the Sea of Death, Shi Yi killed an ancient Headless Knight, then caught the attention of a treasure ship from the Primordial Divine Mountain.

• Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman left for the North Sea aboard the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast, then took a skiff into the perilous waters.
• Shi Yi killed attacking sea beasts as they traveled, including a King Marquis-level beast.
• Shi Yi destroyed the Sea Demon Race's Undersea Array and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Sea Demons who attacked the skiff.
• Shi Yi killed the Headless Knight in the Sea of Death and burned its corpse and ancient obsession to ash.
• A treasure ship from the Primordial Divine Mountain witnessed the battle, and its passengers recognized Shi Yi as Xuan Yi.

Shi Yi destroyed a treasure ship carrying factions hostile to him and discovered Kunpeng down that could help him enter the Kunpeng Nest early. After killing the Sea Demon Venerable’s spirit body, he sailed deeper into the Sea of Death and encountered a fleet of ghost ships whose power threatened him.

• The creatures aboard the treasure ship tried to flee from Shi Yi, but he stopped the vessel and killed everyone on board.
• Shi Yi found a piece of Kunpeng down and learned from the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk that enough Kunpeng relics could earn the nest’s recognition and allow early entry.
• The Sea Demon Venerable’s spirit body attacked Shi Yi, who destroyed it with the Void War Halberd.
• The Sea Demon Venerable learned its spirit body had been slain and chose not to send its main body after Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi sailed farther into the Sea of Death, where mist gathered and a huge ghost ship appeared among a fleet of vessels.

Shi Yi sailed toward the Kunpeng Nest after the Double Pupils Woman boarded a Ghost Ship to investigate its power. At the nest, the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow attacked him, and Shi Yi destroyed its Spirit Body with the Void War Halberd.

• The Double Pupils Woman boarded the largest Ghost Ship and told Shi Yi to continue toward the Kunpeng Nest without trying to rescue her.
• Shi Yi crossed the North Sea amid clashes between cultivators and arrived at the Withered Cliff, where the Kunpeng Nest drew countless challengers.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow recognized Xuan Yi and charged at Shi Yi’s boat, intent on devouring him.
• Shi Yi revealed the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s identity and used the Qilin Step and Void War Halberd to pierce its Spirit Body.
• Shi Yi shattered the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s Spirit Body with a tremor of his halberd.