Affairs in the Hundred Broken Mountains Range Concluded, Shi Hao Transcended the Cave Heaven Realm

"With matters here settled, you can roam freely now," the Willow Deity's voice came from the willow branch. "After this, I can recover faster. I have also extracted the Pu Demon King's method, and can teach it to you once we return."

The wooden staff lost its luster completely and crumbled into ash. The willow branch returned to Chen Yao.

The immortal qi seemed to have grown exponentially stronger, but Chen Yao still struggled to wield it.

"All right, let's look around and see what interesting things we can find!" Chen Yao waved a hand, beginning his recreational fish-in-a-barrel shooting spree. He was in the late Spirit Transformation Realm. How many of the prodigies here could match him?

Shi Hao's fortune remained astonishing. He still found the Little Pagoda inside a volcano, and also discovered an Everlasting Spring that had gained sentience and a God-Striking Stone in the Medicine Garden.

Afterward, he still ran into Huo Ling'er. Since Chen Yao had warned him to watch out for a female demon, Shi Hao opened his mouth and asked whether the fat girl was a female demon, adding that his big sister Aman was not as fat as her and had a better figure.

Unsurprisingly, Aman, furious with embarrassment, pinned Shi Hao down and spanked him. Huo Ling'er took the second round.

While they were acting separately, Shi Hao also ran into Yun Xi. This time, thanks to his outstanding cultivation, he did not bite her ear but simply robbed her of her earrings. He even went to Aman to claim credit.

"Aaah! That's a female fierce beast from the Primordial Sacred Mountain! She must be a female demon who wants to take me home and keep me as her pretty boy! I don't want to go! They're so scary!" Shi Hao put up a token struggle as Aman hauled him back to apologize to Yun Xi.

"Stop calling her a fierce beast. She's from Heavenly God Mountain and belongs to the Celestial Clan. They're a people who became distinct from ordinary humans after some supreme human experts of the past passed their Dao arts down through their bloodlines. In theory, the Celestial Clan is a branch of humanity. Rumor has it that if they awaken their ancestors' true inheritance, they can manifest the heavenly mandate myth, forming heavenly armor, heavenly horns, and heavenly wings, with formidable divine abilities." Chen Yao explained the Celestial Clan to Shi Hao.

"They grow horns and wings! Doesn't that still make them fierce beasts? Anyway, can you eat the wings from the heavenly mandate myth? Can their horns be used as medicine like deer antlers?" Shi Hao posed his soul-piercing questions.

"Bear Child, shut your mouth!" Yun Xi, who had grown familiar enough with them to join the group, ground her teeth.

"You're remarkably well-read, young friend. Even I didn't know such things." Baldy, the Peacock Venerable, had drunk the diluted sacred medicine Chen Yao had given him, recovering much of his strength and growing a coat of five-colored divine feathers. Swaying leisurely, he took a bite of meat.

"Fat girl, can't you really sell me the void beast hide? It's the perfect weapon for swindling and cheating people. I'll trade you an unrivaled precious technique!" Shi Hao turned to Huo Ling'er again.

"Little Hao~" Aman smiled and delivered a knife-hand chop. This little brother of his was still taking roundabout jabs at his figure.

"Big Brother Aman! What are you angry about? You're not fat." Shi Hao looked utterly aggrieved.

"Don't call people fat!" Aman kneaded Shi Hao's cheeks with a kindly expression, gradually applying more force.

"O... okay, okay, mmmph~" Shi Hao could only nod.

"Everything has its nemesis. Even the Bear Child who turned the Heaven Mending Pavilion upside down gets suppressed sometimes. So big brothers really are little brothers' bane?" Huo Ling'er seized the chance to pinch the milk-drinking brat.

"Hmph! I'm blessed with unmatched martial might! One day, I'll turn the tables and become the master! I'll suppress everything." Shi Hao clenched his fists.

"We're here." Chen Yao pointed ahead. They had reached the divine monkeys' settlement, with the Monkey Wine and half-sacred medicine close at hand. At that moment, the monkey whose strength rivaled kings and marquises was locked in a fierce battle with enemies and could spare no attention for those below.

"Ah! It's Shi Yi!" Shi Hao pointed at a figure collecting Monkey Wine and peach trees.

"Come on! Let's rob him!"

"Roar!" The Golden Divine Monkey roared in fury, but could not catch those ants as they fled through the void.

"Kill! Kill all the outsiders!" He swept his arm, and the other Beast Kings answered his call, beginning their pursuit of the outsiders.

After many twists and turns, the group finally held out until Hundred Broken Mountains closed and its exit passage opened. Using the void beast hide and the Fire Emperor's protection, they escaped the Hundred Broken Mountains Range with a bountiful haul.

After returning the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples they had gathered and sheltered in Hundred Broken Mountains to the pavilion, the trio planned to return to Stone Village and help Shi Hao achieve extreme realm transcendence in his cave heavens.

He had opened ten cave heavens in the Hundred Broken Mountains Range, shocking everyone except Chen Yao and Aman.

Shi Yi's cultivation was also confirmed: he was in the Spirit Transformation Realm. By combining the paths of spirit transformation and cave heavens, he had achieved a degree of transcendence, reshaping his cave heavens into tangible fierce beast divine embryos. He had already completed five. Their divine abilities were unknown, but the speculation was that he had cultivated avatars possessing power beyond ordinary spirit bodies, then used the divine embryos to nourish himself as their sacrificial spirit, transcending above them.

Some in the Upper Realm's Extreme Realm Method Sacred Academy also cultivated this path, but they merely nurtured the embryos inside their cave heavens, rather than turning entire cave heavens into divine embryos as Shi Yi had.

When Shi Yi returned to the Heaven Mending Pavilion's Ancient Sacred Academy, he came face-to-face with Aman.

Shi Xiaoman's expression was calm, but her tone was firm. "I'll wait until you've fully transcended above them. Then we'll fight at the same level in the Void God Realm. I consider Little Hao my little brother. I won't be able to vent my hatred unless I beat you up myself."

Shi Yi fell silent for a long while before nodding. "You'll regret it."

He gave Aman a long look, then stepped onto the path through the chaos. "A bunch of childish fools."

Shi Hao brought the temporarily homeless Peacock Venerable, Big Red Bird, and the others back to Stone Village.

The Willow Deity and the Phoenix Egg on the mutated wutong wood, which had been moved to the rear of the village, nearly scared them to death.

Then they watched the Everlasting Spring's silt nourish the land, witnessed the spring's spirit joyfully settle in, and saw the half-sacred medicine transform into true sacred medicine and take root in Stone Village. Every few days, the villagers stir-fried spirit medicines for their meals. They were practically dripping with wealth.

"What kind of village is this?! Even a Heavenly God would be scared to death!" Baldy was stunned.

Beneath Stone Village's willow tree, there was no need to recount the now-standard reshaping of cave heavens. Only the outsiders were frightened. The villagers were used to it, and Aman had done it before.

After completing the reshaping and resting, Shi Hao began his breakthrough.

"Open!" Shi Hao made his ten cave heavens collide. Divine energy surged like an ocean as they resonated, seeking to link all ten into one.

Then he gathered the power that had nowhere to vent inside his cave heavens into his chest, concentrating it where his Supreme Bone had been nurtured. Following Chen Yao and Aman's experience of opening cave heavens within their bodies, he transformed himself into an eleventh cave heaven.

He did not want to separate his physical cave heaven from his primordial spirit cave heaven. All those mighty powers should be gathered into one body. He himself would be the eleventh cave heaven, with primordial spirit and flesh united to form his own cave heaven together!

This went a step beyond the original story, where he had only opened a physical cave heaven. Now, Shi Hao wanted his primordial spirit and body to construct his own cave heaven together. The supreme blood in his chest radiated strange fluctuations, making the ten colliding cave heavens resonate, merge into one, and begin to rotate.

With a hum, the ten cave heavens transformed into a Divine Ring that nourished him, standing like a divine sun, sacred and serene.

His body and primordial spirit shone, joining into a whole and transforming him into a different kind of cave heaven.

The Divine Ring also gave birth to divine abilities: Void Imprisonment and Sacrifice.

If enemies attacked with fewer than ten cave heavens, he could control their cave heavens to sacrifice them, turning them into nourishment for himself.

"It's still not enough. Sacrifice! I can't sacrifice myself. I'll sacrifice you instead, making everything one! Spirit bodies don't need to be nurtured in cave heavens. I am a cave heaven myself, so you might as well fulfill me!" Shi Hao pressed onward, taking another step.

This nearly sacrificed him alive. Relying on Aman's constant supply of vital essence from the Six Treasury Immortal Thief to stay alive, Shi Hao turned his ten cave heavens into offerings to forge a unique cave heaven!

A spherical screen of light appeared, shimmering in myriad colors, as though an Immortal Domain lay within it.

The barrier was formed by his own cave heaven projecting outward onto the world. The cave heaven within his body and the one outside it became unified, merging completely.

Shi Hao had cultivated a unique cave heaven ahead of time!