Chapter Summaries

After restoring a balance among the continent’s powers, Shi Jian discussed separating Purple Firmament from his body and rebuilding the Lightning Spirit’s foundation in a Blessed Land at Purple Firmament Peak. He planned to turn the peak into a vast lightning trump card that could channel its accumulated power to him in battle.

• Shi Jian assessed the reshuffled forces on the Profound Spirit Continent and concluded that the new balance could prevent major wars for centuries.
• Shi Jian told Purple Firmament that his spirit could no longer safely remain inside him because Shi Jian’s Immortal Foundation was growing too powerful.
• Shi Jian proposed separating Purple Firmament and making him the master of a high-grade Blessed Land of the Dao of Lightning formed from four peaks and the earth veins of Huang Province and Transformation Province.
• Shi Jian promised that Purple Firmament could use the Blessed Land to strengthen his source, command its Lightning Qi, and help the young of Shi Jian’s race cultivate.
• Shi Jian revealed that he wanted Purple Firmament to channel the Blessed Land’s accumulated lightning power into a secret art capable of turning the surrounding region into a lightning purgatory.

Shi Jian merged the damaged earth veins into Purple Firmament Peak, turning it into a middle-grade Dao of Lightning Blessed Land and freeing Purple Firmament to inhabit a new body. Five years later, the Lightning Bear Line and Myriad Demon Domain had grown stronger, while Shi Jian waited for Lu Xun’s Dao Pill to mature so he could use it to advance his cultivation.

• Shi Jian drew the lightning serpent from his Nascent Soul and merged the damaged earth veins of Huang Province and Transformation Province into the Myriad Demon Mountain Range.
• Shi Jian and the lightning dragon established Purple Firmament Peak as a middle-grade Dao of Lightning Blessed Land, while the three subsidiary peaks began forming their own Blessed Lands.
• Purple Firmament formed a new body from the mountain range, thanked Shi Jian for his freedom, and accepted his promise to forge another body someday.
• Over the next five years, the Blessed Lands strengthened the Lightning Bear Line and the Myriad Demon Domain, and a young Lightning Bear reached Foundation Establishment.
• Shi Jian calculated that Lu Xun’s Dao Pill could provide the origin power he needed to advance, so he planned to wait for it to mature while continuing to make preparations across the continent.

Over fifteen years, the Myriad Demon Domain expanded as eight peak Demon Beasts attempted to form cores without Heaven and Earth Qi, and Wandering Lightning and Jiuyin emerged as Golden Core Demon Generals. Shu Baoshan then found Gold Marrow Transmuting Metal Qi and formed a core, leaving all three Rat Race lines with Demon General leaders.

• Eight peak Demon Beasts attempted to form cores without Qi; six died, while the Thunder Leopard and Shu Jiuyin survived and reached the Golden Core realm.
• Shi Jian named the Thunder Leopard Wandering Lightning and charged him with founding the Thunder Leopard Clan.
• Shi Jian named Shu Jiuyin Jiuyin and appointed him and Changfeng as the Demon Domain's eyes, ears, and hidden soldiers.
• A golden light rose from Transformation Province, where Shu Baoshan had uncovered Gold Marrow Transmuting Metal Qi in an abandoned mine.
• Shu Baoshan absorbed the Metal Qi and formed a Golden Core with the Divine Ability to turn stone into gold, making the Rat Race the Myriad Demon Domain's third-largest group.

After reaching the Golden Core realm, Shu Baoshan decided to gather Space Dao materials to build a secret realm for the ancestor. He mobilized the Treasure-Seeking Rat lineage and pressured Zhao Xuanqing to supply materials, then headed for the Boundless Sea in search of a suitable foundation stone.

• Shu Baoshan formed a Golden Core and ordered the Treasure-Seeking Rat lineage to search across the continent for Space Dao materials and Void Realm Stones.
• Shu Baoshan visited Zhao Xuanqing in Heavenly Demon City and demanded materials to build a secret realm for the ancestor.
• Zhao Xuanqing agreed to surrender the city's Void Spirit Crystals and ordered his guards to purchase high-grade Space Dao materials from Devil Province merchants.
• Shu Baoshan left for the Boundless Sea to seek Mirage Sea Realm Stone as a foundation for the secret realm.

Shu Baoshan raided a Grand Purity Sect ore shipment and continued searching the Heavenly Ape Domain for fourth-tier Space Dao materials. Yuan Gang told him that the East Sea might hold a lead, leaving Shu Baoshan with a possible destination for his search.

• Shu Baoshan killed five Grand Purity Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators and took their storage bags, flying boat, and ore.
• Shu Baoshan reflected that he needed fourth-tier Space Dao materials for the old ancestor's secret realm and considered asking the sea apes for help.
• Shu Baoshan met Yuan Gang at an undersea ice cave and gave him the heads of Grand Purity Sect disciples as a gift.
• Shu Baoshan asked Yuan Gang where to find high-tier Space Dao materials, and Yuan Gang said the East Sea might contain Space Dao spirit metal and Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

Shu Baoshan reached the East Sea and joined forces with Mo Chu to attack a Righteous Qi Gate mining site protected by a third-tier array. The sea beasts’ assault began, but the Gate’s disciples counterattacked and slaughtered hundreds of demons.

• Shu Baoshan traveled from the Heavenly Ape Domain to the East Sea, leaving destruction in his wake as Grand Purity Sect cultivators pursued him.
• Shu Baoshan discovered an ancient mineral vein behind a third-tier Water-Repelling Illusion Array and sensed Space Dao material within it.
• Mo Chu ambushed Shu Baoshan, but Shu Baoshan turned his tentacle gold and introduced himself as a demon from the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shu Baoshan showed Mo Chu Array-Breaking Talismans and persuaded him to join forces against the Righteous Qi Gate miners.
• Mo Chu summoned tens of thousands of sea beasts to attack the array, but a Righteous Qi Gate elder strengthened its defenses and sent disciples out to kill the demons.

Shu Baoshan and Mo Chu destroyed the Righteous Qi Gate’s undersea array, killed its Golden Core elder, and looted the mine. Shu Baoshan then discovered the mine’s prized fourth-tier Space Dao treasure, a Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

• Shu Baoshan used Array-Breaking Talismans to corrode the Righteous Qi Gate’s array, flooding the mine ruins and killing many cultivators and mine slaves.
• The Golden Core elder attacked Shu Baoshan, but Mo Chu emerged from the abyss and trapped the elder in underwater whirlpools.
• Mo Chu wore down the elder while Shu Baoshan struck from behind and pierced his chest with golden claws.
• Mo Chu bound the wounded elder and crushed him, and Shu Baoshan took his Golden Core.
• Shu Baoshan looted the mine’s jade boxes of third-tier Space Dao materials and found a fourth-tier Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

After taking the Mirage Sea Realm Stone, Shu Baoshan plundered the Righteous Qi Gate’s holdings in Little Yu Kingdom and escaped its pursuit. He then sneaked into the Flood Dragon Domain, where he discovered a Profound Root Water Spring that could help stabilize the patriarch’s secret realm.

• Shu Baoshan and Mo Chu divided the spoils from the East Sea, then parted ways before the Righteous Qi Gate could respond.
• Shu Baoshan invaded Azure Gold City, killed Li Changhong, and devoured the Li Household’s Geng Metal Essence Mother and treasures.
• Over half a month, Shu Baoshan destroyed seven cultivation lineages and three artifact-refining sects in northern Little Yu Kingdom, then evaded the Righteous Qi Gate’s pursuers and crossed the border.
• Shu Baoshan entered the Flood Dragon Domain in disguise and secretly made his way through its guarded waterways to the Auspicious Dragon Great Marsh.
• Shu Baoshan found a Profound Root Water Spring at the bottom of a trench and recognized it as a valuable resource for the patriarch’s secret realm.

Shu Baoshan stole the Profound Root Water Spring and several other treasures from the Flood Dragon Domain, escaping detection as the Dragon Lords searched for him. After gathering water- and metal-attribute materials, he set his sights on the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion to acquire Space Dao treasures.

• Shu Baoshan severed the Profound Root Water Spring’s connection to the earth veins, swallowed it, and escaped into the silt as the marsh’s restrictions erupted.
• Ao Hai arrived at the ruined spring and searched the marsh, but Shu Baoshan concealed himself as an ordinary water beetle and went undetected.
• Over the next three months, Shu Baoshan stole more spiritual treasures across the Flood Dragon Domain, leaving its Dragon Lords unable to find him.
• Shu Baoshan gathered his stolen treasures at a small lake and decided he still needed more Space Dao materials.
• Shu Baoshan headed toward the Supreme Purity Sect, intending to raid its Void Pavilion for Space Dao inheritance and treasures.

Shu Baoshan infiltrated the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion and stole six Space Dao inheritances and three precious spirit items. He escaped without taking the other treasures, leaving the sect unaware of the theft.

• Shu Baoshan used secret intelligence and an abandoned Spirit Vein passage to bypass the Supreme Purity Sect’s formations and reach the Void Pavilion.
• Shu Baoshan waited a month for the Golden Core elder to send the required all-clear signal, then slipped through the restrictions while the elder’s Divine Sense briefly slackened.
• Shu Baoshan found six Space Dao inheritances on the pavilion’s top floor and swallowed all six Jade Slips.
• Shu Baoshan carefully weakened the restrictions around three fourth-tier Space Dao spirit items and swallowed their crystal cases.
• Shu Baoshan resisted taking the treasures on the lower floors and escaped underground when the restrictions next slackened.

Shi Jian rewarded Shu Baoshan for raiding the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion by expanding the Rat Race’s Jiuyin Secret Realm and enriching its foundation. Studying the stolen Space Dao inheritances, Shi Jian recognized that they pointed toward a Dao Venerable Dao Fruit and feared Xuanling might be a sealed world with no way out.

• Shu Baoshan presented Shi Jian with treasures and six Space Dao inheritances stolen from the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion, and Shi Jian praised his daring.
• Shi Jian brought Shu Baoshan to Three Line Mountain and used the Mirage Sea Realm Stone and a seized Spirit Vein to expand and strengthen the Jiuyin Secret Realm for the Rat Race.
• Shu Changfeng, Shu Jiuyin, Shu Baoshan, and the Rat Race bowed to Shi Jian and pledged their loyalty.
• Shi Jian studied the six Void Pavilion inheritances and realized their Immortal Foundations fit together as paths toward a single Dao Venerable Dao Fruit.
• Shi Jian wondered whether Xuanling and the Boundless Sea were a secret realm that trapped everyone within it and limited cultivators to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Shi Jian used three space treasures and his Purple Pivot Lightning to create and stabilize a secret realm, then named it the Purple Pivot Secret Realm. He left it ready to shelter the Lightning Bear Line and support its cultivation.

• Shi Jian recalled the Kunyuan Secret Realm and the possibility that the Profound Spirit Continent was a cage, but decided to focus on strengthening the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shi Jian tore open the void above Purple Firmament Peak and used Great Void Divine Sand, Void Nether Stone Marrow, and Realm King Crystal to form a spatial framework.
• Shi Jian channeled Purple Pivot Lightning into the new space, expanding it to a hundred and ten li before stopping it from collapsing.
• Shi Jian filled the realm with Spirit Veins, lightning-attribute spirit trees, Spirit Stones, and a sun formed from Purple Firmament's origin power.
• Shi Jian named the realm the Purple Pivot Secret Realm and designated it as a refuge and cultivation ground for the Lightning Bear Line.
• Shi Jian reflected that only Kuang Dou, Thunder Leopard, and Shu Jiuyin had succeeded at Qi-less Core Formation among at least thirty Lightning Bears who had attempted it.

Shi Jian established Space-Rending Valley as a place where the demons could study the Space Dao, and Hui Liu risked his life entering it in hopes of changing his fate. Trapped in a spatial fault, Hui Liu began resonating with spatial Dao power, but his survival remained uncertain.

• Shi Jian used Space Dao materials and cultivation methods to create Space-Rending Valley and opened it to all races in the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Hui Liu, a lowly Wind Rat with a weak bloodline, set out for Space-Rending Valley in search of a chance to advance.
• Hui Liu endured spatial rifts as he crawled through the valley toward a stele bearing part of the Great Luo Transposition Method.
• A spatial fault swallowed Hui Liu and began grinding his body apart in the endless void.
• Hui Liu instinctively circulated the method he had glimpsed, and a fragment of Void Profound Crystal fused with him as spatial Dao resonance entered his Dantian.

Hui Liu survived Space-Rending Valley and remade himself through the Space Dao, while other survivors founded the Valley Guardians. After ten years, Shi Jian watched the Myriad Demon Domain flourish and defended the cost of the valley’s deadly trials.

• Hui Liu broke through to Foundation Establishment, chose the name Hui in memory of his mother, and settled in the spatial fault rather than return to the Wind Rat clan.
• Over the next ten years, Hui Liu and other demons gained Space Dao powers in Space-Rending Valley, while nearly ten thousand entrants perished and only seventeen emerged as mutated Space Dao Demon Beasts.
• The seventeen survivors gathered in the valley, named themselves the Valley Guardians, and established Space-Rending Valley as the Myriad Demon Domain’s Space Dao sacred land.
• Shu Changfeng reported the valley’s heavy losses to Shi Jian, who said the sacrifice was necessary to produce powerful Space Dao Great Demons.
• Shi Jian surveyed the thriving Myriad Demon Domain, including the restored Huang and Hua provinces and the rapidly growing Lightning Bear Line.

Jin Kuang broke through to Core Formation and restored the Dark Gold Line’s standing, while Lei Dahan won the Lightning Bears’ contest and received Essence Blood from Shi Jian. In Heavenly Demon City, Shu Baoshan gave Xiong Man information about rare physical-body Heaven and Earth Qi and encouraged him to advance his Dao.

• Jin Kuang endured the destructive metal Qi on Dark Gold’s main peak and condensed a Demon Core, becoming a Fifth-Level Demon General and breaking the Dark Gold Line’s bloodline shackle.
• Lei Dahan fought through the Lightning Bears’ deadly contest, killing or disabling his challengers until he was the last one standing.
• Shi Jian gave Lei Dahan purple-gold Essence Blood to strengthen his bloodline and improve his chances of reaching Core Formation.
• Shu Baoshan told Xiong Man that Grand Purity Sect miners had discovered Black-Yellow Tyrant Body Qi in the heart cavity of an ancient sea ape in the Grand Mystery Plain.
• Xiong Man thanked Shu Baoshan, who asked him to help guide the Rat Race’s younger generation in the physical-body Dao if he succeeded.

White Crane refined Yun Du into a Dao Pill and consumed it, gaining five strands of Cloud Dao Qi Dynamic and nearing a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. He then welcomed Yun Xiaoshan, a talented young Yun Clan descendant, intending to raise him as his next Dao Pill.

• Yun Du entered the Chihuo Furnace willingly, and White Crane refined him into a Dao Pill over three days.
• White Crane swallowed the pill, gained five strands of Cloud Dao Qi Dynamic, and reached seven strands toward the nine needed for a breakthrough.
• White Crane declared that refining people into Dao Pills was the fastest path to power and summoned Demon General Yunhui with Yun Xiaoshan.
• White Crane gave Yun Xiaoshan a life-extending pill, told him to cultivate toward the Golden Core realm, and privately planned to raise him as a future Dao Pill.

Several days later, Shi Jian and White Crane discussed the Myriad Demon Domain’s growing power and the threat posed by the Flood Dragon Clan. Shi Jian proposed courting the Heavenly Ape Domain and the Eight-Tentacled Giant Beast Clan, but he remained concerned that their enemies might strike before the alliances were secured.

• White Crane described how consuming Daoist Yun Du as a Dao Pill had greatly strengthened his cultivation, and Shi Jian discussed raising Lu Xun for the same purpose.
• Shi Jian and White Crane agreed that the Myriad Demon Domain needed a third Nascent Soul cultivator and considered Kuang Dou, Shi Pan, Flame Brown Bear, and Shu Baoshan as possible candidates.
• White Crane warned that the Flood Dragon Clan remained powerful and might attack while the Grand Purity and Supreme Purity Sects were weakened.
• Shi Jian proposed allying with Yuan Shan’s Heavenly Ape Domain in the north and contacting the Eight-Tentacled Giant Beast Clan in the East Sea.
• Shi Jian said the long-term goal was to unite allies under the Myriad Demon Domain, defeat the human powers, and subdue the Flood Dragon Domain, but he feared the Flood Dragons or human kingdoms might act first.

Thirteen Human Race Nascent Soul True Lords met in secret to confront the Demon Race’s encirclement and argued over their sects’ past losses and responsibilities. True Lord Fang Yi proposed attacking the Myriad Demon Domain, but the meeting ended with Grand Purity limiting its promised support and the risks still unresolved.

• True Lord Wenxuan and Qingxuan traded accusations over their sects’ failures to aid one another against the Demon Race.
• True Lord Zhengyi and True Lord Jianling described the devastation in their kingdoms, and True Lord Fang Yi warned that the Human Race’s inheritance would disappear if the kingdoms stayed divided.
• Qingxuan suggested Supreme Purity contribute more because its strength remained intact, prompting True Lord Fang Yi to accuse Grand Purity of consuming its own disciples and grand-disciples.
• True Lord Wenxuan called for the sects of the four kingdoms to form an alliance, share resources, and punish anyone who betrayed it.
• True Lord Fang Yi proposed concentrating their forces on destroying the Myriad Demon Domain, killing Shi Jian, and reclaiming the three provinces of Huang, Hua, and Ming.
• Grand Purity warned that Shi Jian and White Crane might join forces against them and said it could send only one Nascent Soul cultivator because of pressure from the Heavenly Ape Domain.

The Human Race’s Nascent Soul leaders formed an alliance to attack the Myriad Demon Domain in twenty years, while Ao Qin planned to exploit the war to strike the Supreme Purity Sect and expand the Flood Dragon Clan’s territory. Sensing danger, Shi Jian asked Purple Firmament to build up its lightning reserves for a possible battle.

• Wenxuan, Zhengyi, Fang Yi, and Xuanqing agreed that their sects would contribute six Nascent Souls and fifty Golden Cores for an attack on the Myriad Demon Domain in twenty years.
• The Nascent Soul leaders sealed their alliance with Essence Blood, and a hidden talisman carried a record of their meeting to the South Sea.
• Ao Qin learned of the alliance and decided the Flood Dragon Clan would let the Human Race and Shi Jian weaken each other before attacking the Supreme Purity Sect.
• Ao Qin ordered the Flood Dragon forces to gather naval supplies and prepare to invade through the Duan River, destroy the Supreme Purity Sect, and seize land from the Human Race and Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shi Jian asked Purple Firmament how much power its stored lightning could provide, then told it to gather more origin power as a precaution.

Shi Jian entered the Purple Pivot Secret Realm to refine his lightning cultivation method and create an inheritance for the Lightning Bear Line. After establishing a complete path from Qi Refining through Golden Core, he summoned enlightened Lightning Bears to hear the Dao.

• Shi Jian entered the Purple Pivot Secret Realm to prepare for the threat he sensed and reconsidered the crude Mad Lightning Demon Codex he had created in the Golden Core Realm.
• Shi Jian comprehended the Dao of Lightning and created the Purple Pivot Lightning-Controlling Heart Sutra, a method focused on mastering lightning through the mind and soul.
• Shi Jian devised simplified methods for Lightning Bears, creating the Lightning-Guiding Instruction for Qi Refining, the True Explanation of Lightning Tempering for Foundation Establishment, and the Mad Lightning Demon Codex for Golden Core.
• Shi Jian raised three lightning inheritance steles and explained that other bear branches could adapt their foundational methods to their own paths.
• Shi Jian called all enlightened members of the Lightning Bear Line to the foot of Purple Pivot Peak to listen to the Dao.