Recaps

Shi Jian led the Demon Kings into the Kunyuan Secret Realm and shattered the Spaceless Dao Fruit, freeing Profound Spirit Island from its seal but drawing the attention of the nine realms. Taken to the Beast Realm, he claimed territory at Three Kings Mountain, seized Thunderclap Valley, and fought the Blazing Fire Lion King.

• Shi Jian killed True Lord Hanyue and True Lord Qingxu, uncovered the secret realm’s map and prison records, and persuaded the Demon Kings to join his plan to break the seal.
• Shi Jian and six Demon Kings entered the Kunyuan tower, where they defeated a silver tiger and fought through the skeleton formation, losing the Mountain-Moving Demon King, the Vast Sea Demon King, and the Eight-Tentacled Demon King.
• Shi Jian learned from Kunyuan’s stele that the Spaceless Dao Fruit sealed Profound Spirit Island away from the nine realms, then shattered it with Yuan Shan and White Crane’s help.
• Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane emerged into the outside world, where the Dao Venerable and Spirit Transformation beings discovered them, and Xiong Sha, a giant ape, and a cloud crane took the three to the Beast Realm.
• Xiong Sha assigned Shi Jian territory at Three Kings Mountain, where Shi Jian killed Mosuo Venomous Snake and Demon King Shihu and forced the surviving demons to serve him.
• Shi Jian killed the Frenzied Thunder Purple Lions guarding Thunderclap Valley, defeated their three lion kings, and took the valley’s resources and young lions back to Three Kings Mountain.
• The Frenzied Lion Clan sent the Blazing Fire Lion King to reclaim its territory, and Shi Jian fought him, escaped the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda with Soul Lightning, and thrust his spear toward the Lion King’s heart.

Shi Jian established the Lightning Bear Line, then weathered the Beast Realm’s struggle over E Gu’s attainment of the Barbarian Bone Dao. After E Gu became the Beast Realm’s ninth ruler, the Giant Bear Imperial Clan launched a western campaign, leaving Shi Jian fighting the Frenzied Lions at Burning Lion City.

• Shi Jian killed the Blazing Fire Lion King, claimed the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, and accepted Shan Li’s offer to join the Mountain Bear Lineage.
• Shi Jian and Shan Li founded the Lightning Bear Line on Divine Firmament Plain, where Shi Jian advanced his cultivation and named their cub Shi Xiao.
• As E Gu prepared to attain the Barbarian Bone Dao, Shi Jian defended his territory from Mystic Realm infiltrators and learned that Sword Origin had sent them to obstruct E Gu.
• Sword Origin and the Beast Realm’s Dao Venerables battled while E Gu completed his breakthrough, then E Gu and the other rulers killed Life Body Dao Venerable.
• E Gu annihilated the Barbarian Bone cultivators across seven realms, while Immortal Slayer and his allies killed Sword Origin to seize the Sword Origin Dao Fruit.
• E Gu’s attainment strengthened Shi Jian and the Giant Bear Clan, and Shan Li delivered his order for the seven lineages to attack neighboring races.
• Shi Jian led the Lightning Bear vanguard against the Frenzied Lions, killing their Nascent Soul defenders at Red Rock Mountain as the Mountain Bear army advanced.
• Shi Jian led the attack on Burning Lion City, where five Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions surrounded him and attacked together.

Shi Jian helped the Mountain Bear Lineage destroy the Frenzied Lion Clan, then returned to strengthen the Lightning Bear Line and prepare for Spirit Transformation. After decades of cultivation, he sensed the Great Dao of Lightning calling and began his breakthrough as purple-gold lightning clouds spread across the Divine Firmament Plain.

• Shi Jian killed the Frenzied Lion Spirit Transformation patriarch’s forces, survived the clan’s fifteen-lion trap, and slew fourteen attackers while their gray-maned leader escaped.
• Dao Venerable E Gu destroyed the Frenzied Lion army, and the Mountain Bear Lineage killed the survivors and sealed the clan’s remaining bloodline potential.
• Shan Yue rewarded Shi Jian’s Lightning Bear Line with territory and status, and Shi Jian later reached Nascent Soul Perfection after more than a decade of cultivation.
• At the ancestral court, Shi Jian received Shan Wanling’s Spirit Transformation guidance, took command of seven lightning-attribute bear branches, and defeated their Bear Kings when they challenged his authority.
• Dao Venerable E Gu strengthened Shi Jian’s bloodline and Root Bone, gave him a protective mark, and revealed that he could contend for the Divine Firmament Dao Fruit by comprehending all six Immortal Foundations.
• Shi Jian began comprehending Purple Pivot Lightning while Shan Li built a Lightning-Attracting Essence-Gathering Grand Formation around his cave and organized the seven branches’ relocation.
• Shi Xiao reunited with Shi Lei, whose lightning talent impressed Lei Ya and Lei Li, while the brothers resolved to follow their different paths and help the Lightning Bear Line.
• After thirty years of cultivation, Shi Jian sensed the Great Dao of Lightning calling, entered the void to attempt Spirit Transformation, and spread vast purple-gold lightning clouds over the Divine Firmament Plain.

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.