Arc 20Lightning Bear Ascendancy
Shi Jian reached Spirit Transformation, recovered his surviving followers, and established the Lightning Bear Line as the Giant Bear Clan’s eighth main lineage. He then accompanied Shan Li into the Dao Realm, where they seized a stronghold and gathered resources before standing guard over her stirring Earth Dao force.
- Shi Jian broke through to early Spirit Transformation and returned to his homeland to find his former followers.
- Shi Jian found the Bear Race survivors with the Frostwing Clan, apologized for his absence, and brought them to Divine Firmament Peak while Shan Li arranged treatment for Shi Pan.
- Shi Jian won recognition from the lineage ancestors and formally established the Lightning Bear Line as the eighth main branch during his ceremony.
- Shi Jian accepted minor clans as outer forces and entered the Dao Realm with Shan Li, Shan Yue, Cang Wuji, and fifty Nascent Souls.
- Shi Jian and the Giant Bear Clan allied with the Crimson Scale Clan to kill the Flying Soar Clan’s Spirit Transformation cultivators and seize its island.
- Shi Yin took control of surrendered cultivators while Shan Yue secured the mountain stronghold and lesser clans sought the Giant Bear Clan’s protection.
- Shi Jian gathered Earth Dao resources and fought a gray-robed Human cultivator, whose body Shan Yue helped him destroy before the man's soul escaped.
- Shi Jian healed while Shan Li cultivated with the gathered treasures for more than ten years, then joined Shan Yue and Cang Wuji in guarding her as her Earth Dao force began to churn.