Chapter Summaries

Shi Jian left the Purple Pivot Secret Realm and destroyed the Grand Purity Sect’s last defenders, preparing to face the Kunyuan Secret Realm when it opened. The Human Race lost its final Nascent Soul cultivators, and Shi Jian turned his attention to the secret realm.

• Shi Jian mastered the Thunder Firmament Dragon-Slaying Spear and set out alone to eliminate hidden threats before the Kunyuan Secret Realm opened.
• Shi Jian arrived at the Grand Purity Mountain Range, where True Lord Hanyue and True Lord Qingxu prepared to defend the besieged sect.
• True Lord Hanyue and True Lord Qingxu burned their origins and attacked Shi Jian with their strongest techniques.
• Shi Jian shattered their attacks, killed True Lord Hanyue with his spear, and killed True Lord Qingxu after interrupting his attempt to detonate his Nascent Soul.
• Shi Jian left the surviving low-level cultivators to the Demon Generals and focused on the Kunyuan Secret Realm.

Shi Jian searched the Grand Purity Sect’s hidden archive and discovered a complete map of the Kunyuan Secret Realm, along with records of the Human Race’s failed plan to destroy it. He returned to Purple Firmament Peak determined to prepare for the secret realm’s opening, and White Crane mocked the ancient cultivators who had abandoned their chance to break the world’s prison.

• Shi Jian searched the Grand Purity Sect’s ruins, broke into a hidden underground archive, and collected its valuable inheritances.
• Shi Jian found a complete map of the Kunyuan Secret Realm and notes suggesting the Profound Spirit Continent was a sealed prison.
• Shi Jian learned that more than seventy Nascent Soul cultivators had once planned to destroy the secret realm, but abandoned the attempt over fear of losing treasures and resources.
• Shi Jian took the three golden Jade Slips and flew west to prepare for the secret realm’s opening in more than ten years.
• White Crane examined the Jade Slips and laughed at the Human Race’s forebears for failing to act.

Five years after the Grand Purity Sect's destruction, Shi Jian summoned the five remaining Nascent Soul Demon Kings to reveal evidence that the Profound Spirit Continent might be a cage and urge them to break the Kunyuan Secret Realm. He left them agreeing to join his dangerous plan after he overwhelmed them with his power and threatened to kill anyone who refused.

• Shi Jian finished surveying the Kunyuan Mountain Range using the Grand Purity Sect's secret map and summoned the five Demon Kings.
• Shi Jian presented Jade Slips describing the possibility that their world was a cage or Dao tomb and proposed tearing apart the Kunyuan Secret Realm.
• Shi Jian argued that the Demon Kings would eventually die if they stayed trapped, while the Mountain-Moving Demon King warned that destroying the realm could doom them all.
• Shi Jian suppressed the five Demon Kings with his Dao pressure and threatened to kill them unless they joined him.
• Yuan Shan agreed on behalf of the Heavenly Ape Domain, and the Eight-Tentacled Demon King pledged the Sea Beast Demon Domain's support.

Shi Jian and six Demon Kings joined forces to eliminate the West Sea Devil Cultivators before attempting to break the Kunyuan Secret Realm. They destroyed the Yama Archipelago’s defenses and killed its leaders, leaving the Demon Race poised to pursue its greater plan.

• Shi Jian persuaded the other Demon Kings to wipe out the West Sea Devil Cultivators and the Human Race’s remaining Dao lineage before risking their lives in the Kunyuan Secret Realm.
• White Crane joined Shi Jian and the other six Demon Kings, and they flew together toward the Yama Archipelago.
• Youquan, Xuanlie, and True Lord Zhaohuo trusted the archipelago’s grand formation to protect them from Shi Jian and the Demon Race.
• Shi Jian shattered the island-protecting formation with his spear and ordered the demons to kill everyone, while the Demon Kings slaughtered the Devil Cultivators across the islands.
• Shi Jian killed Youquan with one thrust of his spear, and the Abyss Fish Demon King swallowed Zhaohuo after Mountain-Moving blocked his escape.
• Shi Jian used Soul Lightning to immobilize Xuanlie, then hurled his spear through Xuanlie’s head and destroyed his Nascent Soul.

After confirming the Kunyuan Secret Realm held a path beyond the sealed world, Shi Jian secured the Demon Kings’ agreement to break into it when it opened in ten years. The Demon Race spent the intervening years preparing, and the secret realm began to open in the Kunyuan Mountain Range.

• Shi Jian found records in the Devil Cultivators’ inheritance stele confirming the Kunyuan Secret Realm was real and that its opening might break the world’s restrictions.
• Shi Jian and the other six Demon Kings agreed to gather at the Kunyuan Mountain Range in ten years and join forces to open the secret realm.
• Shi Jian sealed the Purple Pivot Secret Realm and spent the next decade refining his Immortal Foundation and plundered Law Treasures.
• White Crane ordered Shu Baoshan and the Demon Generals to search human ruins for defensive Law Treasures, talismans, and other supplies.
• Ten years later, the gray mist over the Kunyuan Mountain Range churned and drew inward as a vast spiritual vortex formed and a spatial gateway opened.

Shi Jian and six Demon Kings shattered the gateway to the Kunyuan Secret Realm and discovered a hidden space containing an ancient tower. Inside, they were trapped in an arena and confronted by a chained silver tiger whose power exceeded the Nascent Soul middle stage.

• Shi Jian and the six Demon Kings combined their attacks to destroy the spatial gateway, then entered the rift into a hidden space between spaces.
• Shi Jian led the demons to a tower formed from Space Dao rules, and they entered its vast, silent world.
• The demons found a massive arena, where the entrance sealed behind them and silver formation patterns enclosed the grounds.
• A silver giant tiger emerged from distorted space, broke its five chains, and unleashed a Nascent Soul late-stage presence.

Shi Jian and the other Demon Kings fought a Nascent Soul Late Stage silver tiger that used the Space Dao, while the spatial barrier trapped them in the arena. After the tiger killed the Mountain-Moving Demon King and gravely wounded two others, Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane worked together to slay it.

• The silver tiger killed the Mountain-Moving Demon King with a single spatial slash, then blocked the Eight-Tentacled Demon King and Abyss Fish Demon King from escaping.
• Shi Jian and Yuan Shan failed to hit the tiger as it shifted between solid and intangible, and the tiger gravely wounded the Eight-Tentacled Demon King and swallowed half of the Abyss Fish Demon King.
• Shi Jian forced the Eight-Tentacled Demon King to act as bait and struck the tiger when it solidified to attack.
• Shi Jian held the tiger in place with his lightning spear while Yuan Shan smashed it with his pillar, and White Crane bound it with cloud chains.
• Shi Jian detonated the lightning inside the tiger and pierced its head, destroying its Nascent Soul.

Shi Jian and the others reached the tower’s second level, where they found more than a hundred ancient Human and Demon experts’ remains gathered on a vast altar. The skeletons awakened as powerful ghostly puppets, and Shi Jian recognized that they were guarding the tomb with an array.

• Shi Jian killed the giant tiger with his lightning spear and collected the silver orb containing Space Dao origin.
• The first level’s barriers vanished, and Shi Jian refused to save the badly injured Abyss Fish Demon King unless he followed the others onward.
• Shi Jian, White Crane, Yuan Shan, and the Eight-Tentacled Demon King climbed to the tower’s second level and discovered an altar covered in ancient skeletons.
• White Crane recognized a Feather Race senior among the remains, while Shi Jian identified the robes of a Grand Purity Sect expert and suspected the altar held ten thousand years of Human and Demon experts.
• Green flames ignited in the skeletons’ eye sockets, and Shi Jian identified them as puppets created by an array to guard the tomb.

Shi Jian and the demons battled a formation of Nascent Soul skeletons guarding the altar, but the puppets overwhelmed them and drove several to the brink. Shi Jian discovered the dim star controlling the formation and launched an attack while White Crane held the skeletons back.

• Shi Jian charged the skeleton formation, but its coordinated attacks forced him to retreat after his spear damaged only one puppet.
• White Crane tried to bind the skeletons with cloud chains, but their Sword Qi shattered the chains and injured him.
• Yuan Shan crushed three skeletons with his pillar, then a giant exotic-beast skeleton struck him and left him badly wounded.
• The skeleton formation split apart the five demons and cornered the Vast Sea Demon King and Eight-Tentacled Demon King at the altar's edge.
• Shi Jian found a dim star above the altar that controlled the formation and asked White Crane to hold the skeletons for ten breaths.
• White Crane burned his Essence Blood to trap the skeletons in a Heaven and Earth Furnace as Shi Jian launched himself toward the star and shouted for it to shatter.

The Vast Sea Demon King was killed by the altar’s skeletons, whose formation grew stronger after absorbing his essence. Shi Jian pressed toward the glowing central star and faced a fiend-god phantom’s devastating axe strike.

• Shi Jian let the three halberd puppets test their Void-Piercing Dao Runes against the Vast Sea Demon King’s water technique.
• The halberd puppets pierced and pinned the Vast Sea Demon King, while the formation’s skeletons blocked Yuan Shan from rescuing him.
• The skeletons burned away the Vast Sea Demon King’s soul and origin, absorbing his essence and strengthening the altar’s formation.
• Shi Jian destroyed the death Qi chains around the central star, but the skeletons gathered their power into a fiend-god phantom that struck at him.
• Shi Jian poured his lightning origin into the Thunder Firmament Dragon-Slaying Spear and unleashed “Purple Pivot, break the heavens!”

Shi Jian destroyed the skeletal demon god and its formation, then killed and devoured the Eight-Tentacled Demon King. After taking a Space Dao crystal, he joined Yuan Shan and White Crane at the passage leading to the Spirit Transformation Immortal Lord’s Dao tomb.

• Shi Jian struck the skeletal demon god with his lightning spear, destroying the dim star and tearing the demon god apart.
• The formation collapsed, and the remaining skeletons crumbled into bone powder as White Crane and Yuan Shan survived their injuries.
• Shi Jian refused the Eight-Tentacled Demon King’s offer to submit and killed him with Purple Pivot Lightning, then swallowed his Nascent Soul.
• Shi Jian collected the Space Dao crystal left by the shattered star.
• A passage opened beneath the altar, and Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane prepared to enter the Dao tomb.

Shi Jian and the two demon kings reached Kunyuan’s burial chamber and found the Spaceless Dao Fruit, which sustained the seal trapping the Profound Spirit Continent and the Boundless Sea. Shi Jian concluded that destroying the Dao Fruit was their only way to escape, and prepared to break it.

• Shi Jian led Yuan Shan and White Crane through the passage into a bronze burial chamber containing Kunyuan’s corpse and a diamond-shaped crystal.
• White Crane recognized the crystal as the manifested authority of a Space Dao Fruit, and Yuan Shan and White Crane nearly gave in to greed before Shi Jian shocked them back to their senses.
• Shi Jian read the bronze stele and learned that Kunyuan had sealed the Profound Spirit Continent and Boundless Sea into a realm cut off from the nine realms before dying from his wounds.
• Shi Jian explained that the Spaceless Dao Fruit maintained the sealing array and that the realm’s cultivators could not refine it or advance to Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Jian declared that destroying the Dao Fruit was their only way to break the seal and escape.

Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane joined forces to shatter the Spaceless Dao Fruit, freeing the Profound Spirit Continent from its ten-thousand-year suppression. The burial chamber collapsed around them, and spatial turbulence swallowed the three demons, leaving their survival unknown.

• Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane attacked the Spaceless Dao Fruit, but its spatial backlash badly wounded Yuan Shan and White Crane.
• Shi Jian unleashed the full power of his Immortal Foundation and drove his lightning spear into the Dao Fruit while Yuan Shan and White Crane supported him.
• Shi Jian cracked and shattered the Spaceless Dao Fruit, reconnecting the heavenly secrets of the Profound Spirit Continent to the nine outside realms and secretly gathering a wisp of Space Dao essence.
• The grand formation collapsed with the burial chamber, and Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane were swept into violent spatial turbulence.

After the seal broke, Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane discovered that the Profound Spirit Continent was only a small island in a lake surrounded by an immense wilderness. As they faced the terrifying world beyond, a beast’s roar shook the island and erased the spatial formation.

• Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane were spat from the spatial turbulence into the Kunyuan Mountain Range as the sky split open and a blood-red sun appeared.
• Pure Spiritual Qi poured through the fissure, healing the demons, while Shi Jian cautiously refined a wisp of Space Dao origin and investigated beyond the shattered barrier.
• Shi Jian discovered that the Boundless Sea was a lake and the Profound Spirit Continent was merely an island within it.
• White Crane and Yuan Shan examined the outside world and were devastated to learn how small their home was; Shi Jian urged them to stay alive and keep fighting.
• A beast roared from the wild mountains beyond the sky, shaking the island and erasing the spatial formation.

Dozens of Spirit Transformation beings and a Dao Venerable descended on Profound Spirit Island seeking the Spaceless Dao Fruit, but Shi Jian convinced them it had shattered and returned to heaven and earth. The savage bear, giant ape, and cloud crane took Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane to the Beast Realm, leaving Shi Jian headed into a wider world while his descendants remained behind.

• The Dao Venerable and dozens of Spirit Transformation beings descended on Profound Spirit Island, crushing Shi Jian, Yuan Shan, and White Crane beneath their pressure.
• The savage bear demanded to know where the Spaceless Dao Fruit was, and Shi Jian claimed it had shattered and scattered across heaven and earth.
• The Dao Venerable confirmed the signs of the Dao Fruit's collapse and withdrew, after which the Spirit Transformation beings prepared to leave.
• The savage bear recognized Shi Jian's Purple Pivot Lightning cultivation, the giant ape noticed Yuan Shan's bloodline and Heaven-Shaking Strength, and the cloud crane judged White Crane worth nurturing.
• The savage bear seized Shi Jian and sealed his Nascent Soul, while the giant ape and cloud crane took Yuan Shan and White Crane.
• The three beings carried them through a spatial rift toward the Beast Realm as Shi Jian reflected on leaving Profound Spirit Island and his descendants behind.

Shi Jian arrived in the Beast Realm, learned about the Giant Bear Clan and its demands, and received an eighty-thousand-li territory to govern. He reached the wasteland and began planning to clear its peaks and establish a base.

• Shi Jian survived the journey into the Beast Realm, where Xiong Sha introduced himself as an ancestor of the Giant Bear Clan and explained the Nine Realms’ hierarchy.
• Xiong Sha gave Shi Jian a jade identity token and territory, requiring him to provide a thousand third-tier spirit medicines or equivalent Nascent Soul-level flesh and blood every hundred years.
• Shi Jian accepted the clan’s rules, examined the dangerous territory on his map, and flew south toward it.
• After several days, Shi Jian reached the wasteland enclosed by three peaks and decided to clear them, establish a cave abode, and recruit Demon Beasts as servants.
• Shi Jian found a natural cavern on the central peak and considered moving resources from Profound Spirit Island to his new territory.

Shi Jian arrived at a mountain in the Beast Realm and discovered that Mosuo Venomous Snake and Demon King Shihu had laid a poison formation to ambush him. He destroyed the formation’s poisonous miasma with his lightning, while the two demons prepared to attack him together and nearby beasts watched the fight.

• Shi Jian sensed a killing formation and two Nascent Soul demons hidden near the mountain’s cave.
• Mosuo Venomous Snake and Demon King Shihu mistook Shi Jian for a Giant Bear Clan challenger and planned to kill him for his flesh and blood.
• Shi Jian entered the Thousand Spider Myriad Poison Formation, and his purple-gold lightning vaporized its poisonous miasma.
• Mosuo Venomous Snake recognized Shi Jian’s lightning as a counter to poison, but urged Demon King Shihu to ambush him together.
• Nearby Golden Core Demon Beasts watched the apparent ambush, while snake and tiger clan Demon Generals recorded it and sent word to their clans.

Shi Jian defeated the two demon kings ambushing him at Three Kings Mountain and learned through soul-searching that the region was contested by three great clans over a rare Spirit Vein. He accepted the bloody struggle awaiting him and stored the demons’ corpses for later cultivation.

• Mosuo Venomous Snake and Demon King Shihu attacked Shi Jian from the air and underground, but Shi Jian’s Lightning Gang held off their combined assault.
• Demon King Shihu trapped Shi Jian in a mire by drawing on the earth vein, and Shi Jian unleashed his Purple Pivot Lightning to break free and kill him.
• Shi Jian struck Mosuo Venomous Snake with lightning as he fled, then killed him while searching his soul for information.
• Shi Jian learned that Three Kings Mountain was a buffer zone contested by the Giant Bear, Heavenly Serpent, and Frenzied Lion clans for its Spirit Vein and Blood Marrow Grass.
• Shi Jian resolved to fight for the resources he needed and stored both demon kings’ bodies in his storage Law Treasure.

Shi Jian seized Three Kings Mountain, forced its demons to gather Blood Marrow Grass, and learned that Profound Spirit Island was too distant and dangerous for him to reach. He decided to focus on cultivation and set his sights on Thunderclap Valley, a lightning-rich treasure land guarded by Frenzied Thunder Purple Lions.

• Shi Jian killed the fleeing Golden Core Demon Generals and forced the remaining demons to submit to him.
• Shi Jian ordered the demons to gather a thousand stalks of Blood Marrow Grass within a hundred years, threatening to devour them if they failed.
• Shi Jian searched Mosuo Venomous Snake and Demon King Shihu's possessions and learned from a map that reaching Profound Spirit Island would require crossing many powerful clans' territories.
• Shi Jian concluded he needed to reach the Spirit Transformation realm before attempting to bring his kin from Profound Spirit Island to the Beast Realm.
• Shi Jian identified Thunderclap Valley, guarded by Frenzied Thunder Purple Lions, as a rich source of Blood Marrow Grass and a natural lightning Dao Blessed Land.

Shi Jian disguised himself as an Early Golden Core bear demon and infiltrated Thunderclap Valley to investigate its restrictions and seize the Frenzied Thunder Purple Lion Clan’s lightning origin. He killed three lion guards and swallowed their Demon Cores, then wondered about the Dao of Lightning’s Immortal Foundations and how to reach Spirit Transformation.

• Shi Jian flew toward Thunderclap Valley, hoping to gather lightning origin and break through to Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Three Golden Core Frenzied Thunder Purple Lions patrolled the valley and discussed guarding it against the newly arrived Giant Bear demon at Three Kings Mountain.
• Shi Jian concealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation and [Purple Pivot Lightning], disguising himself as an Early Golden Core bear demon to inspect the valley’s restrictions.
• The scarred lion attacked Shi Jian after the guards surrounded him, but Shi Jian summoned lightning and killed all three lions.
• Shi Jian swallowed the three lions’ Demon Cores and pondered the Dao of Lightning’s Immortal Foundations and the path to Spirit Transformation.