Chapter Summaries

Shi Yi killed a Heavenly Kingdom assassin, then tracked Upper Realm intruders through the Lower Realm. At the Fire Kingdom’s Imperial Capital, he ambushed and killed a Sword Valley expert beneath the Fire God Tree.

• Shi Yi shattered the Heavenly Kingdom assassin’s Primordial Spirit Crystal Needle, killed him with the Grass Character Sword Art, and took his divine body.
• A divine flame youth entered the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital intending to seize Shi Yi’s relatives, but the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk trapped him in a black hole and returned him to his childhood memories.
• Guided by karma, Shi Yi reached the Fire Kingdom and found a Sword Valley youth preparing to strike the Fire God Tree.
• Shi Yi ambushed the Sword Valley youth with the Sword Dao Treasure Book and left him gravely injured as the Fire Emperor ordered the city guards to stand down.
• Shi Yi overwhelmed the wounded youth with the Lunar Essence Sword, Solar Essence Sword, and Kunpeng Method, then killed him with a sword strike to the forehead.

Shi Yi hunted Divine Flame experts across the Lower Realm and confronted the Immortal Palace Old Servant, who had come searching for the Supreme Hall’s inheritance. Their fierce battle left the old servant’s thumb-ring artifact and arm severed, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Shi Yi killed the Divine Flame Giant Python and later slew two more Divine Flame beings as he continued his hunt across the Desolate Region.
• The Immortal Palace Old Servant searched the Great Wilderness for the Supreme Hall’s inheritance and coveted the Kunpeng Method.
• Shi Yi ambushed the old servant, but the ancient ferocious bird escaped the first strike and recognized Shi Yi’s Kunpeng wings.
• Shi Yi and the Immortal Palace Old Servant fought fiercely, with the old servant’s thumb ring giving his attacks enough force to injure Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi drew the Heaven-Pacifying Sect’s Sect Master’s Sword and used the Grass Character Sword Art to cleave the old servant’s thumb ring in half and sever his arm.

Shi Yi defeated the Immortal Palace Old Servant with the Heaven-Splitting Sword and exposed the hidden weapons and tricks he had planned to use. After absorbing the Cursed Flower with his Six Paths of Reincarnation power, Shi Yi killed him and prepared to return as the heavenly change approached.

• Shi Yi repeatedly struck the Immortal Palace Old Servant with the Heaven-Splitting Sword, shattering his defenses and leaving him badly wounded.
• The Immortal Palace Old Servant healed with a Divine Pill and tried to ambush Shi Yi, but Shi Yi exposed his hidden Life-Bound Artifact, Bronze Immortal Palace phantom, and Cursed Flower.
• Shi Yi destroyed the golden crane's artifacts and Bronze Immortal Palace phantom, then pursued him when he fled.
• The Immortal Palace Old Servant launched the Cursed Flower at Shi Yi, but Shi Yi's sealing rune and six paths of reincarnation swallowed it.
• Shi Yi used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to tear apart the Immortal Palace Old Servant's body and primordial spirit.
• The One-Corner Six Paths Reincarnation Disk told Shi Yi that the god-slaying journey was nearly over and the heavenly change was near, and Shi Yi agreed to return.

Shi Yi prepared Peerless Hall for the approaching heavenly upheaval, then left the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital to seek opportunities in the coming changes to the Great Dao. As the Upper Realm’s forces began competing to enter the Lower Realm, Peerless Hall vanished under the Reincarnation Disk’s array.

• Shi Yi returned to Peerless Hall and warned its experts that the heavenly upheaval was near, ordering them to stay hidden and forbidding them from abusing the resources he gave them.
• Shi Yi distributed divine bodies and artifacts to Peerless Hall and Demon Spirit Lake, while the Two-Corner Six Paths Reincarnation Disk revealed that it had imprisoned other divine spirits who infiltrated the capital.
• Shi Yi chose to leave Peerless Hall’s protective array and seek Dao opportunities; the One-Corner Reincarnation Disk began activating the array to conceal the hall.
• Shi Yi left the capital and wandered across the land as the first Upper Realm gateways appeared and repeatedly shattered amid fierce competition among the descending powers.
• Peerless Hall disappeared overnight, and the Stone Emperor was unsurprised because he had already seen infiltrating divine spirits vanish near it.

Shi Yi witnessed the Upper Realm begin harvesting the Lower Realm, as three Chaos Artifacts used an illusion of falling stars to lure Venerables and divine flame beings into their grasp. The calamity continued even after the illusion ended, leaving Shi Yi aware that the survivors were still being hunted.

• The Fire Emperor and his daughter ascended to the Upper Realm with the factions gathered at Heavenly God Mountain, while Willow Deity concealed Stone Village in the void.
• A breach opened in the heavens, and a great bell, Little Pagoda, and two recovered corners of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk descended to scan the Desolate Region.
• The artifacts announced the start of the great calamity and created an illusion of falling stars that drove Venerables and divine flame beings toward the sky, where Order Divine Chains seized them.
• Shi Yi resisted the illusion and watched the stars vanish without harming the land, while the artifacts scanned cultivators who had fled upward.
• Order Divine Chains continued capturing Venerables who thought they had escaped, and Shi Yi heard a cold, contemptuous laugh from above.

Shi Yi survived the great tribulation, advanced to Late Venerable, and returned to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital to expose those coveting the throne. He spread a false report of his death, stirring the capital’s rivals into action as Shi Hao set out to protect the Stone Kingdom’s legacy.

• As the great tribulation swept the Desolate Region, Shi Yi guided the Dao into his body under the Two-Corner Six Paths Reincarnation Disk’s protection and forged a stronger foundation from Dao Rule Fragments.
• After the tribulation ended, Shi Yi completed his refinement, advanced from Mid Venerable to Late Venerable, and decided to return to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.
• Shi Yi found the imperial palace empty, received the Stone Emperor’s blank edict entrusting him to choose a successor, and ordered a palace guard to spread news that he had died.
• The false report unsettled the princes, princesses, King Marquises, and Outer Domain forces, while the Demoness and Yue Chan doubted it; a further rumor claimed a Forbidden Being had destroyed Peerless Hall.
• Shi Hao heard that Shi Yi had died, rejected the report, and set out to ensure the Stone Kingdom’s legacy did not fall into others’ hands.

Shi Yi returned to the Stone Kingdom’s Central Heavenly Palace as the rival factions fought over the throne, revealing that the reports of his death had been a trap. His effortless slaughter of the Outer Domain Venerables left the assembled claimants frozen in terror.

• Yue Chan doubted reports that Shi Yi had died, while the Heaven Mending Sect offered support to Shi Chong in his bid for the Stone Kingdom’s throne.
• Shi Chong, the Kun King, the Orchid King, and the War King’s faction converged on the imperial palace, and the palace guard opened the gates as fighting broke out.
• Shi Hao joined the battle to stop the throne from falling to factions allied with outside powers, and he fought off assaults from Yue Chan, Qin Lun, Zhang Liu, and their forces.
• The rival claimants fought their way into the Central Heavenly Palace and advanced toward the throne and Imperial Jade Seal, while Shi Hao drew attacks from every side.
• Shi Yi appeared on the throne, revealing that he had survived and that the reports of his death had been a trap.
• Granny Xihua and the Outer Domain Venerables tried to escape with Yue Chan, but Shi Yi killed them instantly without moving from the throne.

Shi Yi crushed the Stone Kingdom’s traitors and invaders, then named the War King as the new Stone Emperor before leaving the capital. As the next great tribulation began, Upper Realm Giants descended for the Supreme Divine Treasury and were caught in the Third Killing Array, where Heavenly Desolation struck the silver Giant.

• Shi Yi killed the king marquises and Upper Realm cultivators who had invaded the Central Heavenly Palace, banished the princes and princesses, and spared Yue Chan because she had served as bait at Demon Spirit Lake.
• Shi Hao rejected Qin Lun’s claim of kinship, refused the Stone Emperor’s throne, and left the Central Heavenly Palace; Shi Yi then appointed the War King as Stone Emperor and announced the succession across the imperial city.
• Shi Yi left the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital and waited in the wilderness, where the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk showed Upper Realm Giants forcing their way into the Lower Realm.
• Three Giants descended at the Fire Kingdom Imperial Capital Ruins and entered the underground lair of the giant turtle carrying the Supreme Divine Treasury.
• The Innate Third Killing Array trapped and wounded the Giants, and the Heavenly Desolation Great Halberd struck the silver Giant, driving it back beneath the ruins.

Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman escaped the Medicine Capital’s battle after she seized a mysterious Dao Flower from the First Spirit Root of the Desolate Region. She gave it to Shi Yi as the promised gift, and they planned to travel to the Upper Realm together.

• Two creatures escaped the Third Killing Array, while the silver creature was slain; in the Medicine Capital, the First Spirit Root’s arrays killed one of the creatures seeking its life-extending power.
• The mastermind tried to claim the First Spirit Root, but a Dao Flower detached and fled as the Double Pupils Woman used her double pupils to seize it.
• The Double Pupils Woman escaped aboard a black paper boat while Shi Yi and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk intervened to hinder her pursuers, then fled before the forbidden-zone creature could find them.
• The Double Pupils Woman met Shi Yi in the wilderness and gave him the Dao Flower, whose power resonated with his Forbidden Sea of Bitterness and could help him establish an extraordinary foundation.
• Shi Yi joked about marrying the Double Pupils Woman, then agreed to travel with her to the Upper Realm; the Reincarnation Disk warned that the coming conflict would leave him little time to grow stronger.
• The great bell’s owner secured the First Spirit Root, while Upper Realm Giants continued battling across the Desolate Region and seized living medicines and rare creatures.

After the great battle, Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman went to Immortal Mountain to free Kunpeng Son and repay Shi Yi’s karmic debt. They helped him awaken, while Shi Hao reunited with his parents and renewed his resolve to settle his own grievance with Shi Yi.

• Shi Yi told the Double Pupils Woman he would wait for the great tribulation to end, then explained his debt to Kunpeng and set out with her for Immortal Mountain.
• Shi Hao arrived at Immortal Mountain, defeated a Qin Clan prodigy, and, with Little Pagoda, knocked the Five Elements Mountain away from Kunpeng Son.
• Shi Yi and the Double Pupils Woman broke through Immortal Mountain’s array and joined the battle, with the Two-Corner Reincarnation Disk forcing back the Five Elements Mountain.
• Little Pagoda led Shi Hao to his imprisoned parents, and Shi Hao stood between Shi Yi and Shi Ziling, insisting that his conflict with Shi Yi belonged to him.
• Shi Yi gave the Dragon Tooth Dagger to the Double Pupils Woman, who cut the Five Elements chains and awakened Kunpeng Son.
• Kunpeng Son absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, began recovering, and unfurled his golden chaos wings.

Kunpeng Son escaped his altar, and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk fought off Immortal Mountain and its allies as a Primordial Treasure Realm appeared. The group entered the realm, defeated the pursuing projections, and found that Willow Deity had already approached the deadly Gate of Origin.

• Kunpeng Son shattered the altar and emerged, then joined Shi Yi and the others in trying to leave before Immortal Mountain's reinforcements arrived.
• Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable, the Western Sect Leader, and the Sword Valley Master joined Five Elements Mountain against Kunpeng Son's group, but the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk overwhelmed them.
• When the Primordial Treasure Realm appeared, the Reincarnation Disk left one corner beside Shi Yi for protection and sent the other corner inside with the others.
• Willow Deity, Little Pagoda, the Undying Being, the Double Pupils Woman, and the Reincarnation Disk defeated the enemy projections; the Reincarnation Disk swallowed Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable's fleeing projection.
• Willow Deity revealed that she had entered the Gate of Origin, while Little Pagoda and the Undying Being discussed the Undying Being's golden wings with Shi Hao.

Willow Deity and the other powerful beings entered the Chaos Realm to seek the Gate of Origin, leaving Shi Hao and Shi Yi to travel together through the Primordial Treasure Realm. When the Golden Crow ancestral land opened to reveal the legendary Sun God Tree, Upper Realm cultivators gathered there, and the Reincarnation Disk warned that they were plotting against the brothers.

• Shi Yi argued that each cultivator had to find a path suited to them, and Willow Deity and the others turned their attention to the Primordial Treasure Realm.
• Willow Deity, the Reincarnation Disk, Little Pagoda, the Undying Being, and the Double Pupils Woman entered the Chaos Realm, while Shi Hao and Shi Yi stayed behind under the Reincarnation Disk's protection.
• Shi Yi and Shi Hao followed a Venerable Golden Crow toward its ancestral land, then separately absorbed earthfire liquid while Shi Yi glimpsed the evolving runes of Shi Hao's Supreme Bone.
• The Golden Crow Venerable triggered an ancient array, revealing a vast magma sea and the Sun God Tree with a palace atop its canopy.
• Upper Realm cultivators recognized Shi Hao and Shi Yi at the newly revealed divine land, while Shi Yi noticed a mysterious figure among them and the Reincarnation Disk confirmed that the Upper Realm was plotting dirty tricks.

Shi Yi and the Reincarnation Disk destroyed three Upper Realm sect master clones and cleared the way to the Golden Crow ancestral land’s Sun God Tree. Shi Yi reached the tree first and discovered it was evolving toward a World Tree, while Shi Hao and the other contenders continued crossing the magma sea.

• Shi Yi used the Reincarnation Cave to devour three hidden Upper Realm sect master clones, then killed the Upper Realm prodigies involved in their plot.
• Shi Yi set off across the magma sea toward the Sun God Tree, and Shi Hao followed after boarding an Upper Realm noblewomen’s treasure ship and activating the Indestructible Golden Body.
• Shi Yi passed through cursed ghost warships by unleashing the Golden Crow Treasure Fan, then continued across the sea for several days.
• Shi Yi reached the Sun God Tree, entered its inner space, and learned from the Reincarnation Disk that the tree was evolving toward becoming a World Tree.

Shi Yi explored the Sun God Tree’s crown, took a piece of World Mountain and two drops of Golden Divine Liquid, then descended to search the tree’s roots for richer treasures. Shi Hao arrived at the crown as Shi Yi headed down, while Shi Yi began devouring the essence beneath the tree.

• Shi Yi reached the Sun God Tree’s crown and found World Mountain beside the Chaos Hall, which the Reincarnation Disk warned was dangerous to approach.
• Shi Yi used the Dragon Tooth Dagger and Heaven-Measuring Ruler, empowered by the Reincarnation Disk, to cut a piece of world stone from World Mountain without waking the being inside the divine flower.
• Shi Yi collected two drops of Golden Divine Liquid in the Jade Cauldron and planned to return for more after it replenished.
• Shi Yi met Shi Hao on the mountainside and continued downward, then disintegrated a Feather-Robed Daoist who attacked him with flames.
• Shi Yi plunged into the earthfire liquid at the tree’s base, devoured its essence, and transformed into a true phoenix to seek richer spirit liquid near the roots.

Shi Yi absorbed the Sun God Tree’s spirit liquid, awakened memories and soul power from his past life, and developed new abilities in his double pupils. He seized the Golden Divine Flower’s divine liquid, killing one challenger and giving two drops to Shi Hao as repayment for a future debt.

• Shi Yi swallowed a mass of concentrated spirit power beneath the Sun God Tree, and his hidden past-life soul power merged with his primordial spirit as memories from several years awakened.
• Shi Yi’s double pupils developed the ability to read hearts and attack primordial spirits, and he absorbed more spirit liquid before heading toward the Golden Divine Flower.
• Shi Yi found Shi Hao completing the transformation of his Supreme Bone and revealed that he could read Shi Hao’s thoughts, then invited him to follow to the canopy.
• Shi Yi claimed the best position near the Golden Divine Flower, killed a Silver Lion who challenged him, and intimidated the other cultivators into silence.
• Shi Yi caught three drops of divine liquid in the Jade Cauldron and sent the remaining two drops to Shi Hao as repayment for a future debt involving the Willow Deity and the Reincarnation Disk.

Shi Yi and Shi Hao entered the Ancient Chaos Palace after the golden divine flower revealed a mysterious woman who killed three Venerables. As Shi Yi recognized that the woman seemed to know him, the two Bone Scriptures were drawn into the flower, with Shi Hao managing to memorize some of the second one first.

• Shi Hao realized Shi Yi had yielded him two drops of divine liquid, while Shi Yi demonstrated that he could read Shi Hao’s thoughts and drove many creatures away from the Sun God Tree’s crown.
• The Golden Divine Flower bloomed around a crystal-clear egg containing a golden-haired woman, and her beams killed three Venerables who sent her divine thoughts.
• The flower-bearing branch moved toward the Ancient Chaos Palace, and Shi Hao and Shi Yi followed the other creatures inside.
• The creatures fought over two Bone Scriptures while Shi Yi watched the woman in the egg, whose gaze suggested she recognized him.
• The woman’s flower drew both Bone Scriptures toward it; Shi Hao memorized over a hundred characters from one before it escaped his Unique Cave Heaven and entered the flower.

Shi Yi was trapped by the Golden-Haired Woman and carried to the Upper Realm with the departing Sun God Tree, while Shi Hao returned to his family and learned his cousin was gone. As the others prepared for the final battle in the Lower Realm, Shi Yi crossed the World Barrier and entered the Upper Realm.

• The Golden-Haired Woman bound Shi Yi with golden laws, and the One-Corner Reincarnation Disk could not free him.
• The Sun God Tree uprooted itself and carried the Ancient Chaos Palace and World Mountain into the void, leaving Shi Hao and the others behind.
• The Reincarnation Disk and its companions returned to the Chaos Realm, learned Shi Yi had departed, and planned to fight the final Conferment of the Gods Battle before pursuing him.
• Shi Hao fought off the Venerables demanding the Immortal Scriptures, reached the Little Pagoda's Magic Array, and reunited with his family after the array opened.
• The Double Pupils Woman chose to accompany the Reincarnation Disk to the Upper Realm, while the others prepared for the coming battle.
• Shi Yi watched the Sun God Tree break through the World Barrier and entered the Upper Realm.

Shi Yi chose the dangerous Yin-yang body method to pursue the Immortal Ancient and Present Age cultivation systems through separate bodies. As the Sun God Tree reached the Star Grave to absorb stellar power, the golden-haired woman emerged from her golden shell.

• Shi Yi told the Reincarnation Disk he wanted to cultivate the Immortal Ancient and Present Age methods separately, and it showed him several body-separation techniques.
• Shi Yi chose the Yin-yang body method, and the Reincarnation Disk warned him that every previous practitioner had died during separation or reunion.
• The Sun God Tree entered the Star Grave and rooted itself among dead stars to absorb their remaining stellar power.
• The golden-haired woman’s shell cracked, and she emerged with a pair of wings as Shi Yi watched.

Shi Yi met Lin Ni, an old acquaintance from the Emperorfall Era who had awakened from a golden egg in the Ancient Chaos Palace. After the Quasi-World Tree strengthened his body, primordial spirit, and double pupils, Shi Yi chose to head for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and sought terrain to cultivate a yin-yang body; he began cultivating on the Sun God Tree’s Golden Divine Flower.

• Lin Ni emerged from the golden egg, recognized Shi Yi as someone she had known in the Emperorfall Era, and wondered whether he had traveled through time or been reincarnated.
• The Reincarnation Disk told Shi Yi that the Land of Heaven-Reaching could send people across time and space, and concluded that it had brought him to Emperorfall.
• Lin Ni invited Shi Yi to sit on a meditation cushion, where the Great Dao laws refined his flesh, primordial spirit, and double pupils.
• Shi Yi learned that the baptism had brought him to the level of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, and Lin Ni introduced herself by name.
• Shi Yi chose to leave for the Three Thousand Dao Provinces to seek the Immortal Ancient Bud and cultivate a yin-yang body in the region’s Yin and Yang Domains.
• Lin Ni gave Shi Yi the Sun God Tree’s Golden Divine Flower as a cultivation site, where he began comprehending the mysteries of opening heaven and earth.

Shi Yi comprehended the Great Dao through the Quasi-World Tree’s memories, greatly advancing his Treasure Techniques and receiving the Heaven-Covering Immortal-Burning Scripture: Founding Draft. He emerged from seclusion at the perfected Venerable realm with strength that could rival a True God.

• The Quasi-World Tree shared its laws and memories with Shi Yi, who focused his comprehension on the techniques he already knew.
• Shi Yi relived an Immortal King-level Qilin’s battle and deepened his mastery of the Qilin Precious Technique, transforming his five viscera.
• Shi Yi comprehended the True Phoenix and Kunpeng Precious Techniques, then improved his other Treasure Techniques and combat strength.
• Shi Yi witnessed the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s power and received the Heaven-Covering Immortal-Burning Scripture: Founding Draft.
• The Reincarnation Disk learned that Lin Ni belonged to Butcher’s clan and identified the Sun God Tree as one connected to the Crow Emperor.
• Shi Yi tempered himself in a furnace of Great Dao rules and advanced from late Venerable to perfected Venerable, reaching strength comparable to a True God.