Chapter Summaries

Shi Jian fought the Purple Lightning Lion King after killing its kin, overwhelming it with his superior cultivation and Purple Pivot Lightning. As he prepared to finish it, two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak lightning lions emerged from Thunderclap Valley, and Shi Jian challenged them.

• The Purple Lightning Lion King descended and attacked Shi Jian with a net of Azure Profound Lightning.
• Shi Jian revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation and broke the lightning net with his Purple Pivot Lightning.
• The Purple Lightning Lion King transformed into a gigantic lightning lion, but Shi Jian met its attack in giant bear form and badly wounded it.
• Shi Jian pierced the Purple Lightning Lion King's shoulder with a Thunder Firmament Dragon-Slaying Spear and beat it until it was near death.
• Two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak lightning lions emerged from the depths of Thunderclap Valley, and Shi Jian turned to face them while standing on the dying Purple Lightning Lion King.

Shi Jian fought the three Nascent Soul lion kings in Thunderclap Valley and overcame their lightning restriction by drawing in the valley’s Lightning Qi. After killing all three, he refined the Yin Void Lightning Lion King’s Dao of Lightning source into his spear while his wounds began to heal.

• The three lion kings trapped Shi Jian and formed a lightning restriction around him after deciding he had come to attack them.
• Shi Jian battled the three lions, resisting their lightning attacks and disrupting the natural Lightning Qi sustaining their restriction.
• Shi Jian killed the Azure Profound Lightning Lion King, creating a gap that caused the lightning restriction to collapse.
• Shi Jian pinned the old lion on the left to a cliff with his spear, then struck down the fleeing Yin Void Lightning Lion King and seized his Nascent Soul.
• Shi Jian refined the Yin Void Lightning source into his spear as violet-gold lightning began repairing his wounds.

Shi Jian destroyed the Frenzied Thunder Purple Lion Clan’s forces at Thunderclap Valley, seized its treasures, and took its young lions and lightning peaks. He returned to Three Kings Mountain with plans to raise the lions as captive resources for cultivating Dao Pills.

• Shi Jian killed the fleeing purple lions and searched a peak Golden Core lion’s soul to learn about the world’s lightning attainments and the risks of advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Jian raided Thunderclap Valley’s treasury, taking more than two thousand stalks of blood marrow grass and hundreds of lightning treasures.
• Shi Jian branded hundreds of young Foundation Establishment purple lions with lightning shackles, intending to cultivate them as Dao Pill seedlings.
• Shi Jian uprooted Thunderclap Valley’s three lightning peaks and carried them, along with the captive lions, to Three Kings Mountain.
• Shi Jian set the young lions on one of the peaks and declared that their descendants would be raised as his cultivation resources.

Shi Jian faced the Blazing Fire Lion King, who came to avenge the Frenzied Lion Clan and reclaim its territory. Their battle escalated across Six Kings Mountain, and Shi Jian trapped the lion king with lightning and thrust at his throat.

• The Heavenly Serpent Race's serpent king ordered his forces to withdraw and let the Frenzied Lion Clan deal with Shi Jian.
• The Frenzied Lion Clan's Spirit Transformation ancestor sent the Blazing Fire Lion King to kill Shi Jian and reclaim Three Kings Mountain and the clan's resources.
• Shi Jian sensed the Blazing Fire Lion King's approach and met him above Six Kings Mountain.
• The Blazing Fire Lion King attacked with his Heaven-Burning Flame, but Shi Jian broke through the fire claw with his Purple Pivot Lightning Immortal Foundation.
• The two fought in the sky; the lion king wounded and blasted Shi Jian away, but Shi Jian seized his saber and bound him with lightning chains.
• Shi Jian compressed his lightning into a point and stabbed toward the Blazing Fire Lion King's throat.

Shi Jian overwhelmed the Blazing Fire Lion King in close combat, then used Soul Lightning to break the Lion King's control of his Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda. The chapter ended with Shi Jian's spear rushing toward the Lion King's heart as the wounded Lion King realized he could not escape.

• The Blazing Fire Lion King survived Shi Jian's first spear strike by using Essence Blood to deflect it, but Shi Jian pressed his attack in Lightning Bear form.
• Shi Jian and the Blazing Fire Lion King fought a brutal aerial melee, and Shi Jian battered the stronger-ranked Lion King into a vast crater.
• The Blazing Fire Lion King retreated and summoned the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, which suppressed Shi Jian beneath its power.
• Shi Jian combined his Purple Pivot Lightning with his formidable soul to strike the Lion King's consciousness with Soul Lightning.
• As the Lion King's control over the pagoda faltered, Shi Jian broke free and thrust his spear toward the Lion King's heart.

Shi Jian battled the Blazing Fire Lion King, who burned his Nascent Soul and fused his life force with the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda to unleash a world-destroying fire lotus. Shi Jian used a fragment of the [Spaceless] Attainment to carry the attack away, leaving the pagoda behind and wondering whether the exchange had been worth it.

• The Blazing Fire Lion King ignited his Nascent Soul and attacked Shi Jian with dark-red flames.
• Shi Jian and the Blazing Fire Lion King fought a brutal battle that devastated the area around Six Kings Mountain.
• The Blazing Fire Lion King sacrificed his burning Nascent Soul and ruined body to the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, creating a world-destroying fire lotus.
• Shi Jian sent a fragment of the [Spaceless] Attainment into the sky and used silver light to carry the fire lotus away.
• The fire lotus vanished, and the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda descended as Shi Jian weighed the cost of his sacrifice.

Shi Jian killed the Blazing Fire Lion King and claimed the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda, while spies and the Frenzied Lion Clan learned of the defeat. The clan’s Spirit Transformation ancestors decided to investigate Shi Jian’s origins before choosing how to retaliate.

• Shi Jian used Purple Pivot Lightning to erase the Blazing Fire Lion King’s remaining Divine Sense, claimed the pagoda, and lamented the loss of his Spaceless Dao Fruit fragment.
• Two Heavenly Serpent Race spies witnessed the aftermath and fled underground after realizing the Blazing Fire Lion King had died.
• An old lion discovered that the Blazing Fire Lion King’s life plaque had shattered, and the news reached the Frenzied Lion Clan’s ancestors.
• The Frenzied Lion Clan’s Spirit Transformation ancestors debated the danger of provoking the Giant Bear Clan and ordered an investigation into Shi Jian’s origins.

Shi Jian refined the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda into a barren peak, turning it into a Fire Dao Blessed Land and strengthening Six Kings Mountain. Shan Li of the Mountain Bear Lineage arrived with a marriage decree and offered him a place in the lineage, leaving Shi Jian stunned.

• Shi Jian used the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda and Purple Pivot Lightning to transform a barren peak into a middle-grade Fire Dao Blessed Land.
• A bone ship bearing the Giant Bear Clan's Mountain Bear totem arrived above Six Kings Mountain with four Nascent Soul cultivators aboard.
• Shan Li, a Nascent Soul Late Stage direct descendant of the Mountain Bear Lineage, introduced herself to Shi Jian.
• Shan Li read her lineage patriarch's decree, promising gifts and protection while admitting Shi Jian into the Mountain Bear Lineage and betrothing Shan Li to him.
• Shi Jian froze in surprise at the unexpected marriage contract.

Shi Jian accepted Shan Li and the Mountain Bear Lineage’s lavish offer, then fought Shan Li to settle who would rule Six Kings Mountain. Shan Li ultimately overpowered him, and she left him with a challenge to become strong enough to pin her next time.

• Shi Jian accepted the Mountain Bear Lineage’s offer and received Purple Firmament Golden Lightning Essence, a Giant Spirit Warship, and two Nascent Soul retainers.
• Shan Li criticized Six Kings Mountain’s layout and challenged Shi Jian over who made the rules there.
• Shi Jian and Shan Li fought from daylight until nightfall, with neither willing to concede.
• Shan Li visited Shi Jian’s cave and told him the Mountain Bear Lineage expected them to have offspring within three hundred years.
• Shan Li overpowered Shi Jian in the cave and told him to surpass her before she found another husband.

Shan Li used her Mountain Bear Lineage status and a Spirit Transformation jade token to drive the Frenzied Lion Clan’s envoys away from Six Kings Mountain. Shi Jian thanked her, but she warned him that he would have to face future challengers himself.

• Shan Li finished strengthening Six Kings Mountain’s defenses while Shi Jian cultivated with Purple Firmament Golden Lightning Essence.
• Five Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions arrived and demanded the Nine Flames Ridge-Suppressing Pagoda and Thunderclap Valley’s three lightning peaks.
• Shan Li blocked Shi Jian from confronting them and revealed a jade token bearing Spirit Transformation Dao might.
• Shan Li identified herself as a direct daughter of the Mountain Bear Lineage and declared that Shi Jian and Six Kings Mountain belonged to her lineage.
• Jin Yan led the Frenzied Lions away after Shan Li challenged them to fight Shi Jian one-on-one.
• Shi Jian thanked Shan Li, who warned him to rely on himself when future enemies came.

Shan Li established the Lightning Bear Line and renamed Six Kings Mountain the Divine Firmament Plain, then organized the territory and its Mountain Bear clansmen. The Frenzied Lion Clan fortified the western border to block expansion, while Shi Jian focused on cultivation and Shan Li let the standoff continue.

• Shan Li named the new lineage the Lightning Bear Line and its territory the Divine Firmament Plain, giving Shi Jian final authority over the land while reserving internal affairs for herself.
• Shan Li organized more than a thousand Mountain Bears to settle the plain, manage its resources, and cultivate Blood Marrow Grass for the clan.
• Shi Jian left mundane affairs to Shan Li and secluded himself on Divine Firmament Peak to pursue cultivation and a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation.
• The Lightning Bear Line's founding spread through Three Kings Mountain, and its non-bear Demon Generals remained obedient under the new banner.
• The Frenzied Lion Clan established three Nascent Soul-guarded strongholds along the western border, and Shan Li chose to let the stand-off persist while the Lightning Bear Line strengthened its foundation.

After a century of cultivation, Shi Jian reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage and became a father when Shan Li gave birth to Shi Xiao, a cub born with lightning patterns. Shan Li then told Shi Jian that Ancestor E Gu was preparing to claim the [Barbarian Bone] Dao Fruit, a move that could transform the Giant Bear Clan’s standing and draw opposition from other powers.

• Over a hundred years, Shi Jian refined lightning treasures and Dao Pills, advancing to the Nascent Soul Late Stage while the Lightning Bear Line grew to more than ten thousand members.
• Shan Li gave birth to a white-furred cub with purple-gold lightning patterns, and Shi Jian named him Shi Xiao.
• Shi Jian secretly used a hundred Enlightenment points on Shi Xiao, awakening the newborn cub’s Divine Sense and making Shan Li suspect that something was unusual about his eyes.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that Ancestor E Gu had entered seclusion to seek the [Barbarian Bone] Dao Fruit and would make his attempt within fifty years.
• Shi Jian realized that E Gu’s bid could alert a hidden Dao Venerable or provoke other clans and powers to obstruct him.

Shi Jian learned that the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables had crushed internal opposition while Ancestor Egu pursued [Barbarian Bone] fruition, and he chose to keep the Lightning Bear Line secluded. The chapter left him with a report of bloodied snake demons breaching the eastern border, prompting a possible investigation.

• Shi Jian cultivated on Divine Firmament Peak while Shi Xiao gnawed on a Lightning Spirit Stone and showed unusual intelligence.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that the eight Dao Venerables had jointly forbidden unrest as Ancestor Egu sought [Barbarian Bone] fruition.
• Shan Li reported that the Giant Bear Clan had destroyed three southern clans and two Dao Venerables had crushed resistance among major northwestern clans.
• Shi Jian decided to seal the mountain, reinforce the restrictions, and focus on the Lightning Bear Line’s foundations while Shan Li handled internal affairs.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that Xiong Gang had reported bloodied snake demons breaking through the eastern border formations.

Shi Jian discovered evidence that an outside force was infiltrating the Beast Realm through a strange jade talisman. In the Mystic Realm, the Sword Origin sent an envoy to the Human Realm to propose a deal to its Sword Dao expert.

• Shi Jian killed the last serpent demon, searched its memories, and found that the serpents had carried a message for an unknown figure.
• Shi Jian examined a jade talisman containing a fusion of Sword Dao and Metal Dao origins and concluded that an outside force had deeply infiltrated the Beast Realm.
• The Sword Origin discussed E Gu's possible attainment of [Barbarian Bone] and reassured its disciple that E Gu had not yet succeeded.
• The Sword Origin ordered a hidden figure to visit the Human Realm and offer a deal to its Sword Dao fellow practitioner.
• The envoy reached the white-haired Sword Dao expert in the Human Realm, who recognized him as an emissary from the Mystic Realm and remarked that the Evergreen Race had come seeking help.

Returning Earth Dao Venerable negotiated with Kan Water Dragon Venerable for the True Dragon Clan to help counter the Human and Mystic Realms in exchange for access to the Barbarian Bone cultivation methods. Meanwhile, a gray vulture carrying intelligence about E Gu’s impending breakthrough was killed before he could escape the Beast Realm, marking the seventh intercepted spy.

• Returning Earth Dao Venerable offered the True Dragon Clan the six Barbarian Bone Immortal Foundation methods after E Gu attained the Dao.
• Kan Water Dragon Venerable agreed to have two Dao Venerables watch the Human Realm in exchange for access to the Barbarian Bone Dao.
• Kan Water Dragon Venerable sent out dragon breath, awakening two powerful presences in the Vast Realm’s East Sea and North Sea.
• A gray vulture demon immortal tried to carry intelligence about E Gu’s breakthrough from the Beast Realm to the Mystic Realm.
• An unseen Earth Dao wielder crushed the gray vulture and seized his jade talisman, saying he was the seventh.

Dao Venerable Xuan Tu eliminated the remaining spies in the Beast Realm as the Vast Realm’s dragons moved to restrain the Human Realm’s Sword Dao. Thirty years into E Gu’s seclusion, signs of his attempt to attain the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit transformed the Beast Realm and strengthened the Lightning Bear Line.

• Dao Venerable Xuan Tu found and killed three Spirit Transformation spies after the Beast Realm’s void routes were sealed.
• Two Vast Realm dragon Dao Venerables agreed to watch the Human Realm’s venerables and stop the Sword Dao from intervening, in exchange for access to the Physical Body Dao’s six Immortal Foundations after E Gu attained Barbarian Bone.
• A white-haired elder on the Human Realm’s sword peak decided not to join the bargain and hoped to claim Sword Origin’s Sword Dao Fruit if Sword Origin died.
• Over thirty years, E Gu’s attempt to attain the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit caused strange physical transformations and phenomena throughout the Beast Realm.
• The Lightning Bear Line grew in numbers and strength, while bone-armored mutations appeared among its bear demons.

As Ancestor E Gu’s attempt to attain the Dao transformed the Beast Realm, Shi Jian learned that the Evergreen Race had infiltrated the region to find and sabotage the attempt. When five Evergreen cultivators passed over Divine Firmament Plain, Shi Jian and three other Nascent Soul experts surrounded them.

• Shi Jian felt the Dao of the Physical Body transform his body as E Gu’s attempt to attain the Dao reached its final stage.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that the Mystic Realm had opened hidden passages and sent cultivators into the Beast Realm to locate E Gu.
• Shi Jian ordered his territory locked down and directed Golden Core and stronger Demon Generals to kill outsiders on sight.
• Five Evergreen Race cultivators entered Divine Firmament Plain, intending to search north for E Gu’s place of Dao attainment.
• Shi Jian detected the intruders and signaled Shan Li, Xiong Gang, and Xiong Lei to surround them in the air.

Shi Jian and his allies killed five Evergreen Race infiltrators and discovered that the Mystic Realm had secretly sent more than a thousand Nascent Soul cultivators, including over twenty Spirit Transformation experts, into the Beast Realm. They sent the intelligence to the Mountain Bear Lineage and worried that the Human Realm might soon join the conflict.

• Shi Jian killed the Evergreen Race leader with Purple Pivot Lightning and seized his shattered Nascent Soul to search his memories.
• Shan Li, Xiong Gang, and Xiong Lei stopped the other infiltrators as they fled, while Shi Jian destroyed one man's message talisman and killed him.
• Shi Jian learned that Sword Origin Dao Venerable had concealed the Qi signatures of more than a thousand infiltrators, who were scattered across the Beast Realm to locate Ancestor Egu.
• Shi Jian killed Shan Li's captive after gathering what information he could, and Shan Li sent the infiltration intelligence to the Mountain Bear Lineage.
• Shi Jian and Shan Li feared the infiltrators would be difficult to find and wondered whether the Human Realm would enter the conflict.

The Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan used its Earth Dao authority to expose and destroy the Mystic Realm infiltrators across the Beast Realm. Sword Origin Dao Venerable then led an open invasion to stop Egu from attaining Barbarian Bone, and the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables confronted him as the battle left the heavens in chaos.

• Shan Li identified the three earth-yellow barriers sealing the Beast Realm as the work of the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan, whose Dao Embryo had mobilized the Earth Dao.
• The clan’s three Dao Venerables turned the Beast Realm into an Earth Dao domain and hunted down nearly a thousand Mystic Realm infiltrators, killing them all within an hour.
• Sword Origin Dao Venerable tore open the boundary between the Mystic Realm and the Beast Realm and led dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators through the breach.
• The Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables manifested their Dharma Aspects and challenged Sword Origin, who said he was acting to protect his disciple’s Dao Path and lineage from Egu’s attainment.
• Sword Origin unleashed his Dao Attainment against the Beast Realm’s defenders, and his sword river fought the Dharma Aspects of Ultimate Force, Returning Earth, Conjoined Fire, and Profound Lightning without losing ground.

An old Human Realm sword cultivator waited for Sword Origin to die in the Beast Realm, hoping to claim his vacant Fruition Rank and rise to Dao Embryo. In the Beast Realm, Sword Origin and three Evergreen Race Metal Dao Venerables broke through the Beast Realm forces’ blockade, allowing a group of Spirit Transformation cultivators to enter the heartland as the battle escalated.

• Two True Dragon Dao Venerables arrived at Ten Thousand Ren Sword Peak to keep the old Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable from interfering, and he revealed he planned to wait for Sword Origin’s death and claim the Sword Origin Fruition Rank.
• The chapter explained that the Human Realm’s powerful figures sought to use Sword Origin’s likely death to leave his Fruition Rank vacant, while the Beast Realm aimed to secure E Gu’s attainment of the Dao.
• In the Beast Realm, Sword Origin fought four Dao Venerables at the realm-barrier rift while a Spirit Transformation cultivator led a group toward the heartland.
• Metal Slayer, Geng Metal, and Dui Metal arrived to support Sword Origin, despite his insistence that losing the Sword Origin Fruition Rank would benefit the Evergreen Race.
• The combined Sword Dao and Metal Dao forces opened a passage, and the Spirit Transformation cultivators entered the Beast Realm’s heartland as eight Dao Venerables fought four others and their clashes devastated the realm.