Chapter Summaries

Shi Qingyun opened the bone fragment and was drawn into visions of an ancient war, where a wounded white-robed youth fought pursuers and gathered power from the dead. The vision ended with the youth kneeling among corpses, while a black wound consumed the five-colored egg.

• Shi Qingyun manifested four chains of opposing Yin-Yang powers and sensed that his Yin-Yang Dao Body was nearing minor mastery.
• Shi Qingyun poured Divine Power into the bone fragment, briefly opening a fissure before a pillar of white light struck him.
• Shi Qingyun witnessed two figures battling across a blood-red river as the Great Daos clashed and a third presence appeared.
• A wounded white-robed youth fled armed pursuers, using an octagonal disc to create formations that delayed them.
• Shi Qingyun saw the youth kneeling among corpses with a damaged Compass, drawing blood-colored energy from the dead while a black wound spread across the five-colored egg.

Shi Qingyun witnessed the white-robed youth’s death and saw the youth’s remains form the Qilin Secret Realm before he returned to the cave with Xiaobai and a transformed bone shard. When he examined his Dao Diagram, a golden light and gray rune entered his brow, triggering a vast formation around him as the nearby Ferocious Beasts fled.

• The youth absorbed blood-colored energy, gathered power from fallen corpses, and vanished through a spatial gateway with the five-colored egg.
• Shi Qingyun saw the youth’s corpse, heart, and bones transform into the Qilin Secret Realm, then heard a voice tell him to take good care of the egg.
• Runes from the bone shard merged into Xiaobai, while Shi Qingyun’s Dao Diagram absorbed the river of Dao essence and he returned to the cave.
• Shi Qingyun found the bone shard had turned white and heavy, secured the cave entrance with a formation, and inspected his Dao Diagram.
• A golden beam and gray rune shot from the Dao Diagram into Shi Qingyun, and strange runes formed a dangerous formation around him, driving away the Ferocious Beasts.

Shi Qingyun tested his Echo technique, traveled through the forest with Xiaobai, and finally found people fighting ahead. He watched the War Goddess unleash Phoenix Dance Scorches the Plains against a ferocious beast.

• Shi Qingyun tested Echo, but the technique injured him before the gray thread dissolved into black mist.
• Shi Qingyun and Xiaobai traveled through the forest for several days, where he fought attacking beasts and practiced formations.
• Shi Qingyun sensed a battle ahead and hurried toward it, hoping the people there could lead him out of the forest.
• The War Goddess faced an enormous ferocious beast and summoned a fire phoenix with Phoenix Dance Scorches the Plains.
• The War Goddess's fire phoenix coiled around her spear, imbuing it with fierce sharpness and soul-piercing chill.

Shi Qingyun encountered the War Goddess after watching her defeat a Ferocious Beast, then introduced himself under the alias Wan Muyun. After they shared a meal, the War Goddess invited him to join the Deer-Chasing Academy, leaving him to weigh the offer against his plan to visit the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

• The War Goddess defeated a huge Ferocious Beast with her flaming spear, then attacked Shi Qingyun after discovering him nearby.
• Little Green's sound-wave attack missed Shi Qingyun, who blocked the War Goddess's spear with his Fan and revealed his four Cave Heavens.
• Shi Qingyun claimed his name was Wan Muyun and said he had gotten lost while training; the War Goddess introduced herself as the Deer-Chasing Academy's senior sister.
• Shi Qingyun and the War Goddess shared roasted Ferocious Beast while Little White befriended Little Green.
• The War Goddess invited Shi Qingyun to join the Deer-Chasing Academy, and he considered the offer against his plan to seek the Heaven Mending Pavilion.

Shi Qingyun and the War Goddess attacked a late Spirit Transformation Realm Ferocious Beast to seize a maturing Five-Petal Golden Lotus. After trapping the beast in Shi Qingyun’s formation, he fled and reunited with the War Goddess and the others on a mountain.

• Little Green reported finding a Treasure Medicine guarded by a Ferocious Beast, and the War Goddess invited Shi Qingyun to help retrieve it.
• Shi Qingyun spotted a Five-Petal Golden Lotus nearing maturity beside a pool and agreed with the War Goddess on a plan to take it.
• Shi Qingyun hurled a massive black spear into the Ferocious Beast’s back, drawing its attention and exposing the lotus’s medicinal fragrance.
• Shi Qingyun circled the Ferocious Beast, planted runes with his chains, and triggered a formation that bound and attacked it with golden spears.
• Shi Qingyun fled as other powerful beasts rushed toward the battlefield, then crossed a river and found the War Goddess and the others atop a mountain.

Shi Qingyun accepted the War Goddess’s invitation to join Deer-Chasing Academy after they shared the Golden Lotus’s benefits with their spirit beasts. They reached the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, where the War Goddess planned to visit Martial King Manor and asked whether Shi Qingyun wanted to see Shi Yi.

• The War Goddess gave Shi Qingyun three petals of the Golden Lotus, and they helped Little White and Little Green refine its medicinal power.
• Little White absorbed the Golden Lotus and grew as its damaged runes began to repair themselves.
• The War Goddess explained that Deer-Chasing Academy wanted to recruit Shi Yi, though she was reluctant after he had ignored her, and Shi Qingyun agreed to join the academy.
• Shi Qingyun cultivated on the journey as Little White and Little Green showed the benefits of the Golden Lotus.
• The group arrived at the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital, and the War Goddess said they would visit Martial King Manor the next day.
• The War Goddess asked Shi Qingyun whether he wanted to see Shi Yi, but Shi Qingyun refused.

Shi Qingyun refused the Demoness’s maid’s invitation, but the Demoness later confronted him and persuaded him to come apologize. He followed her back to the inn where the women had surrounded him the day before.

• Shi Qingyun fled from the fox-tailed women and returned to the inn, warning Little White to watch out for them.
• The War Goddess asked why he had rushed back the previous night, then left for Martial King Manor while Shi Qingyun stayed in the capital to arrange a weapon.
• A maid summoned Shi Qingyun to meet her young lady, but he refused and vanished, leaving her in tears.
• The Demoness descended into the street amid pink petals and confronted Shi Qingyun about making her maid cry.
• Shi Qingyun admitted he had teased the maid, then followed the Demoness to the inn to apologize as the women recognized him.

Shi Qingyun befriended the Witch, who directed him to Godfall Mountain so he could forge artifacts using its volcanic heat. He plunged into the magma to begin, while the Witch watched from the pavilion.

• The Witch returned to the pavilion and teased Shi Qingyun after Yaya left, then introduced herself as Wan Muyun and offered him her friendship.
• Shi Qingyun asked the Witch for a place where he could forge artifacts himself, explaining that he could not risk exposing his precious materials to others.
• The Witch showed Shi Qingyun a map marking Godfall Mountain and identified it as a suitable place for forging.
• Shi Qingyun reached the volcano with Little White, raised a protective shield against the heat, and plunged into the magma.
• The Witch lounged in the pavilion as an aged voice suddenly sounded from the void.

Shi Qingyun reached an isolated Dao Platform beneath the magma and used the Azure Flame there to refine an immortal bone, while runes from Little White transformed the fire and allowed the bone to melt. He began forging a weapon from the melted bone and a black fan, but the fan started swallowing the violet fire, threatening the cracked Dao Platform.

• Shi Qingyun and Little White passed through a white barrier and arrived on a black Dao Platform surrounded by magma.
• Shi Qingyun approached the Azure Flame with protection from the precious jade, then discovered the space beneath the flame was cool.
• Shi Qingyun placed the immortal bone in the Azure Flame, but it resisted melting until runes emerged from Little White and turned the fire violet.
• Shi Qingyun fed golden runes into the melting bone, refined away its impurities, and plunged the black fan into the silvery liquid.
• The black fan released vapor and markings, opened a small black hole, and began devouring the violet fire as cracks spread across the Dao Platform.

Shi Qingyun survived the heavenly lightning baptism and claimed the newly forged Two Worlds Fan, which could transform into two swords. As Shi Hong and the other treasure seekers fought their way toward Godfall Mountain, Shi Qingyun remained inside with the fan and a piece of iron that had survived the lightning.

• Shi Qingyun fled the lightning strike as the pillar of light engulfed the Dao Platform and baptized the bone fan.
• When the lightning faded, Shi Qingyun summoned the fan, tested its powers, and named it the Two Worlds Fan.
• Shi Qingyun found a lightning-sparking black chunk of iron among the slag beneath the purple flames.
• Shi Hong and the others rushed toward the volcanic crater after the thunderclouds receded.
• Shi Hong attacked the people around him, and the treasure seekers slaughtered one another as they raced toward Godfall Mountain.

Shi Qingyun emerged from the magma and fought the treasure-seeking crowd, killing many while completing a formation beneath them. He activated the formation’s Ice Shackles technique, trapping the remaining attackers in a moonlit expanse of water.

• Shi Qingyun burst from the magma wearing a mask and carrying two swords, then killed a saber-wielding attacker who demanded his treasure.
• The crowd charged Shi Qingyun together, and he used Eight Directions Step to evade their attacks and kill many of them.
• As the attackers burned their blood essence and pressed their assault, Shi Qingyun retreated to a stone pillar and declared that the formation was ready.
• Shi Qingyun transformed his swords into the Two Worlds Fan and activated Myriad Encompassment · Supreme Yin Limitless · Ice Shackles.
• The formation trapped the attackers in a vast expanse of water beneath a bright moon, and Shi Qingyun commanded it to crush them.

Shi Qingyun killed Shi Hong after surviving the attack, then waited at Godfall Mountain for powerful cultivators drawn by the deaths of their clansmen and rumors of treasure. As they tried to seize him and claim his body, he activated a formation fueled by the corpses, and the elder lunged to stop him.

• Shi Qingyun caught Shi Hong's arrow, then killed him when he begged for mercy.
• Several powerful Inscription Realm cultivators arrived, and a white-bearded elder recognized a dead clansman among the bodies and blamed Shi Qingyun.
• The newcomers argued over the treasure, while the elder offered to search Shi Qingyun's soul and secretly planned to possess his body.
• Shi Qingyun completed the runes he had been laying into the ground and rose under the elder's pressure.
• Shi Qingyun activated a vast formation that drained the corpses into skeletons and gathered their energy in blood-red runes.
• The elder formed a giant golden hand and clawed toward Shi Qingyun as someone shouted that he was escaping.

After escaping the explosion at Godfall Mountain, Shi Qingyun survived his journey through the void with Little White’s help and recovered from his injuries. He learned that he had gained a remnant Qilin technique, then set out for the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

• Shi Qingyun emerged from the void ten thousand li from Godfall Mountain, where Little White dragged him from the river and fed him its five-colored blood to revive him.
• The Stone Emperor suppressed the Azure Flame beneath Godfall Mountain and found nothing left at the site of the explosion.
• Shi Qingyun awoke beneath a tree and used his divine power to heal himself and Little White, while energy from his cultivation accelerated their recovery.
• Shi Qingyun realized the Sacrifice Formation had transported him far away, judged that using it again was too dangerous for his body, and recognized that he had comprehended a Qilin Remnant Move.
• After healing further and checking his map, Shi Qingyun confirmed he was still in the Stone Kingdom and used the Eight Directions Step to travel toward the Imperial Capital.

Shi Qingyun arrived at Deer-Chasing Academy with the War Goddess and was accepted by its Mountain Master, who sensed an approaching calamity. After leaving the hall, Shi Qingyun faced Tuoba Qing’s demand to stay away from the War Goddess.

• Shi Qingyun returned to the Imperial Capital, visited No-Envy Pavilion hoping to thank Demoness, and found she had already left.
• The War Goddess found Shi Qingyun and took him to Deer-Chasing Academy, where the disciples warmly welcomed her.
• The War Goddess introduced Shi Qingyun to the Mountain Master and explained that he wanted to join the academy.
• The Mountain Master accepted Shi Qingyun and directed him to study at the Book Repository, then reflected on a coming great calamity.
• Tuoba Qing’s lackeys confronted Shi Qingyun and warned him to stay away from the War Goddess, and Tuoba Qing demanded that he understand their meaning.

A year after joining the Deer-Chasing Academy, Shi Qingyun strengthened his cultivation and mastered new uses of his lightning techniques. After learning that the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land was burning, he reflected on his next breakthrough, then caught an arrow bearing a message demanding his return.

• Shi Qingyun manifested ten Yin-Yang Cave Heavens, absorbed their Yin-Yang qi, and promised Little White more the next time he activated his Dao Body.
• Shi Qingyun trained in a storm, using lightning to cultivate the Thunderbird Precious Technique and enhance his Eight Directions Step and qilin strike.
• Shi Qingyun asked academy disciples about the burning of the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land, then left to consider the year he had spent cultivating and his approaching Spirit Transformation Realm breakthrough.
• An arrow wrapped in golden light flew toward Shi Qingyun, who caught it and watched its runes form several lines of text.

Shi Qingyun confronted Tuoba Hai and his masked followers outside the Deer-Chasing Academy, defeating them with his lightning powers and Two Worlds Fan. After killing Tuoba Hai, he sensed a shackle on himself and decided to find the woman who had helped him.

• Shi Qingyun left the Deer-Chasing Academy after deciding to settle matters with Tuoba Hai.
• Tuoba Hai and his men waited in the mountains, posing as bandits to conceal their ties to the Tuoba Family.
• Shi Qingyun dodged Tuoba Hai's opening attack and destroyed the rhinoceros summoned by his Precious Technique.
• Shi Qingyun fought off Tuoba Hai's followers, killed one of them, and wounded Tuoba Hai in their clash.
• Shi Qingyun appeared behind Tuoba Hai and stabbed through his torso before he could finish charging up, killing him.
• Shi Qingyun sensed a shackle on himself and vanished, intending to find the woman who had helped him.

Shi Qingyun used the Yin-Yang terrain at a lake between a snowy mountain and a volcano to draw on its forces and attempt to break through the limit of the Cave Heaven realm. He completed the formation and summoned two enormous dragons, then began drawing his ten Cave Heavens together as heavenly might gathered overhead.

• Shi Qingyun met the Demoness at the No-Envy Tower, received a map to a Yin-Yang convergence site, and promised to repay her two favors.
• Shi Qingyun reached the lake between the snowy mountain and volcano and used his divine power to calm its volatile energy.
• Shi Qingyun formed a Yin-Yang formation around the lake and meditated, drawing in the world's Dao essence through his ten Cave Heavens.
• Shi Qingyun broke the chains of Yin-Yang Qi around himself and declared that his own momentum would move the momentum of heaven and earth.
• Shi Qingyun's formation awakened two enormous red and gold dragons from the mountains, while storms gathered above the lake.
• Shi Qingyun joined his hands and began drawing his ten Cave Heavens together as the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram faded and the lake became still.

Shi Qingyun shattered his ten cave heavens and merged their fragments into a Taiji Cave Heaven, surviving the transformation as his Dao Body healed and his protective formation broke. He then faced the descending Thunder Dragons with his new power, turning the surrounding area pitch-black as time seemed to slow.

• Shi Qingyun endured the collision of his Yin-Yang Cave Heavens and shattered them one by one while lightning and dragons fought overhead.
• Shi Qingyun’s cave heaven fragments assembled into a Chaos Cave Heaven, which merged with his Taiji Dao Diagram to form a Taiji Cave Heaven.
• A White-Robed Immortal entered the Yin-Yang Fish, sending distilled cultivation insights into Shi Qingyun’s mind as his Dao Body transformed and healed.
• Shi Qingyun’s formation shattered, the Golden-Red Twin Dragons exploded, and the Thunder Dragons descended toward him.
• Shi Qingyun summoned his Taiji Cave Heaven and turned the area pitch-black, slowing the wind and seemingly slowing time.