Chapter Summaries

Ancestor Egu began proving the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit in the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan's territory as the Dao Venerables fought to stop him. His ritual drew on the Dao of the Physical Body throughout the Beast Realm, while Shi Jian and the bear demons felt their bodies change under its influence.

• The Dao Venerables' battle froze when the Beast Realm fell silent and a bone-white pillar of light appeared, revealing that E Gu had begun proving his Dao.
• A vast bone mountain rose in the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan's territory as the Dao of the Physical Body flowed into it.
• Ancestor Egu sat atop the mountain and endured the painful transformation as he sought heaven and earth's recognition of the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit.
• At Divine Firmament Peak, Shi Jian and more than ten thousand bear demons felt their bones and bodies react to Ancestor Egu's power.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that Ancestor Egu had chosen the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan's territory, suggesting the clan had prepared to protect his ritual in exchange for a share of its benefits.

As E Gu neared attainment of the Barbarian Bone Dao Position, Sword Origin Dao Venerable launched a final strike, but Peak and Mountain Supreme intervened to protect him. Life Body Dao Venerable then appeared to stop E Gu, only to be ambushed by the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables and Peak and Mountain Supreme, revealing the scheme to seize the Dao of the Physical Body.

• Sword Origin Dao Venerable concentrated his power into a single strike aimed at E Gu as E Gu reshaped his bones atop Bone Mountain.
• Peak and Mountain Supreme reached from beneath the earth and crushed Sword Origin Dao Venerable’s sword before it could hit E Gu.
• Life Body Dao Venerable emerged from a rift and severed the Dao of the Physical Body’s Qi presence, causing E Gu’s bones to begin disintegrating.
• Peak and Mountain Supreme attacked Life Body Dao Venerable, and the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables joined the assault.
• The Beast Realm’s plan was revealed: E Gu’s attainment had been bait to draw out Life Body Dao Venerable so they could kill him and claim the Dao of the Physical Body.

Ancestor Egu overcame Life Body Dao Venerable’s attempt to prevent his breakthrough and attained the Barbarian Bone Dao. He stood above the nine heavens as the bone mountain vanished into him.

• Life Body Dao Venerable attacked the bone mountain and used his Life Body power to disrupt Ancestor Egu’s six Immortal Foundations while the other Beast Realm Dao Venerables struck at him.
• Life Body Dao Venerable revealed that he had secretly obstructed E Gu for seven thousand years and insisted that Barbarian Bone could not be attained.
• E Gu explained that he had repeatedly rebuilt his six Immortal Foundations, then drew on their perfected power to break Life Body’s severing force.
• E Gu pulled the suppressed Qi of the Dao of the Physical Body into himself, halted the bone mountain’s collapse, and rose beyond the Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage.
• The Barbarian Bone Dao attainment descended, and the bone mountain dissolved into light that entered E Gu as he completed his breakthrough.
• E Gu stood above the nine heavens with the Barbarian Bone Dao attainment completely mastered.

E Gu ascended to Dao Venerable by claiming the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit, then joined the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerables to kill Life Body Dao Venerable. Life Body secretly survived through his Dao Fruit in the Measure Realm and planned to reclaim it before E Gu could seize it.

• E Gu claimed Barbarian Bone as the Beast Realm’s eight Dao Venerable manifestations recognized him as its ninth ruler.
• Peak and Mountain Supreme expelled the Evergreen Race’s four Dao Venerables and a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Beast Realm, while Sword Origin Dao Venerable accepted defeat.
• E Gu and the other eight Dao Venerables surrounded and killed Life Body Dao Venerable, leaving the Life Body Dao Fruit vacant.
• E Gu sensed that Life Body could return through his Dao Fruit and realized he had to seize it before Life Body reclaimed it.
• In the Measure Realm, Life Body took over a Transformation Camel Race cultivator’s body and suspected that someone had arranged for Sword Origin and himself to be targeted by the Human and Beast Realms.

E Gu claimed the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit and killed all 372 Spirit Transformation cultivators across seven realms who practiced its Immortal Foundations. In the Human Realm, Immortal Slayer and five allies killed Sword Origin Dao Venerable, leaving his Dao Fruit vacant for the white-haired elder to claim.

• E Gu sensed that Life Body had not been completely destroyed, then declared that all who cultivated Barbarian Bone would die.
• E Gu used the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit's authority to annihilate all 372 Spirit Transformation cultivators across seven realms who practiced its six Immortal Foundations.
• Converging Water and Clear Water left the boundary after completing the True Dragon Clan's transaction with the Beast Realm.
• Immortal Slayer and five allied Dao Venerables attacked and killed Sword Origin Dao Venerable, leaving the Sword Origin Dao Fruit vacant.
• Immortal Slayer prepared to refine the vacant Sword Origin Dao Fruit and ascend to the Dao Embryo realm.
• The Metal Dao supreme expert forbade the Evergreen Race from cultivating Barbarian Bone Immortal Foundations or scheming for the Sword Dao.

After E Gu attained the Barbarian Bone Dao, the Great Dao’s blessing transformed the Giant Bear Clan and elevated it to an imperial clan. Shi Jian and Shan Li prepared for the clan’s new role as the Beast Realm’s powers reacted to the upheaval.

• E Gu’s attainment of the Barbarian Bone Dao sent a signal across the Nine Realms, stirring the bones of cultivators who practiced the Dao of the Physical Body.
• Shi Jian and the Giant Bear Clan received the Dao’s blessing, doubling their physical strength as bear Demon Beasts across Divine Firmament Plain underwent transformations.
• Shan Li’s body was strengthened by the blessing, and she and Shi Jian recognized that the Giant Bear Clan had become an imperial clan whose rise would alter the Beast Realm’s order.
• Shan Li reported that the seven main lineages would convene for a grand ceremony and that the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan had invited E Gu to discuss their arrangement.
• Shi Jian entered seclusion to absorb the changes and considered the future conflict he might face with the Profound Lightning Dao Venerable over the Dao of Lightning.
• Clans across the Beast Realm adjusted their plans, while spies from other realms withdrew after confirming E Gu’s success.

After E Gu’s attainment transformed the Giant Bear Clan and its territory, the clan launched a western campaign to seize land and settle old grudges. Shi Jian led the Lightning Bear Line as the vanguard against a Frenzied Lion stronghold, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage Chihuo Frenzied Lion rose to challenge him.

• E Gu’s Barbarian Bone Dao resonance strengthened the Divine Firmament Plain and helped bear demons and Bone-Armored Giant Bears break through their limits.
• Shan Li delivered Egu’s decree ordering the Giant Bear Imperial Clan’s seven lineages to attack neighboring races, with the Mountain Bear army marching west alongside the Lightning Bear Line.
• Shi Jian learned that the western campaign aimed to destroy five Spirit Transformation races and more than thirty minor races, pushing the border a million li west.
• Shi Jian and Shan Li assessed the Frenzied Lion Clan’s Red Rock Mountain Range defenses as the Mountain Bear army arrived with two Spirit Transformation cultivators and hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers.
• Shi Jian volunteered to lead the Lightning Bear contingent as the vanguard and challenged the Frenzied Lion defenders at the eastern mine entrance.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage Chihuo Frenzied Lion flew out to confront Shi Jian.

Shi Jian fought and killed the Chihuo Frenzied Lion in a one-on-one battle, overcoming his fire attacks with his tempered body and Purple Pivot Lightning. After the Frenzied Lion’s Nascent Soul was destroyed, Shi Jian ordered the remaining Frenzied Lion Clan members at the eastern mine entrance to surrender or die.

• The Chihuo Frenzied Lion attacked Shi Jian with his Heaven-Burning Flame, but Shi Jian pierced through the sea of fire and blocked the lion’s fire beasts with lightning.
• The Chihuo Frenzied Lion swung his saber at Shi Jian, who stood firm and knocked the weapon away with a spear thrust.
• Shi Jian pressed the attack, and the Chihuo Frenzied Lion used his natal essence fire, but Shi Jian countered it with Purple Pivot Lightning.
• Shi Jian pierced the Chihuo Frenzied Lion’s chest, then destroyed his Nascent Soul and divine soul with lightning.
• Shi Jian addressed the stunned Frenzied Lion Clan contingent at the eastern mine entrance and ordered them to surrender or be killed.

Shi Jian led the assault at the eastern mine entrance, killing four Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions as the Giant Bear army invaded the Red Rock Mountain Range. With the Frenzied Lion defenses collapsing, Shan Li ordered the army to wipe out the remaining defenders.

• Shi Jian refused the four Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions' challenge to surrender and broke through their fiery cage with his physical strength.
• Shi Jian tore apart a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Frenzied Lion and destroyed its Nascent Soul with a slap.
• Shan Li arrived with the Mountain Bear Lineage's army and ordered the forces to seal off all escape routes.
• Shi Jian shattered the three surviving lions' Law Treasures, killed two of them with his lightning spear, and prepared to pursue the last as it fled.
• Shan Li stopped Shi Jian from chasing the fleeing lion and ordered the Giant Bear army to attack the scattered Frenzied Lion forces.
• Shi Jian's performance earned the other bear kings' admiration after he killed four Nascent Soul enemies at the stronghold.

Shi Jian and the Mountain Bear army conquered the Red Rock Mountain Range, then advanced on the Frenzied Lion Clan’s western stronghold at Yellow Sand Lion Plain. As the battle for Burning Lion City began, Shi Jian faced five Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions at once.

• Shi Jian helped defeat the Frenzied Lion defenders at Red Rock Mountain, where all ten Nascent Soul cultivators were killed and the victors feasted on their corpses.
• Five days later, the Mountain Bear army marched toward Burning Lion City, and Shi Jian planned to lead the vanguard again to earn more merits.
• The old Spirit Transformation Frenzied Lion patriarch learned that the city had no escape and ordered his forces to fight to the death.
• Shi Jian led the Lightning Bear elites into battle, smashing through the Frenzied Lion forward ranks as the Mountain Bear army attacked from the east and south.
• Five Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions surrounded Shi Jian in the sky and attacked him together.

Shi Jian defeated five Frenzied Lion Nascent Soul cultivators, first killing one with Soul Lightning and then destroying the rest with his Lightning Domain. The old Spirit Transformation lion in Burning Lion City decided Shi Jian could not be allowed to live.

• The five Frenzied Lions combined their Fire, Earth, and Wind Immortal Foundations to trap and assault Shi Jian, but he endured their attacks and broke out of their sand furnace.
• Shi Jian killed the Dao of Wind Frenzied Lion with Soul Lightning, erasing his divine soul and Nascent Soul.
• Shi Jian summoned a vast Lightning Domain and killed two more Frenzied Lions with its lightning strikes.
• Shi Jian killed the red-maned and white-maned Frenzied Lions after they refused to surrender, leaving all five Nascent Soul cultivators dead.
• The Mountain Bear Lineage patriarchs praised Shi Jian's potential, while the old Spirit Transformation lion in Burning Lion City resolved to kill him and released his Dao might.

The Spirit Transformation old lion attacked Shi Jian, but the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit protected him from death. Two Spirit Transformation patriarchs of the Mountain Bear Lineage arrived and counterattacked the old lion, leaving him caught off guard.

• The old lion unleashed a Spirit Transformation strike against Shi Jian, who was pinned down by the Dao pressure and raised his lightning spear to defend himself.
• The old lion's fire spear shattered Shi Jian's defense and drove him through the earth, gravely injuring him.
• Barbarian Bone Dao rhythm formed a shell around Shi Jian, and an illusory giant bear's gaze helped him survive the strike.
• The old lion prepared another attack, but two Spirit Transformation patriarchs of the Mountain Bear Lineage arrived and destroyed his heavenly fire.
• The bone-white patriarch struck the old lion's Dharma body and forced him back, making him realize the Mountain Bear Lineage had lured him out.

Shan Li’s forces defeated the Frenzied Lions and captured Burning Lion City after their patriarch fled from two Spirit Transformation experts. Shi Jian survived the patriarch’s strike, recovered enough to kill five attackers, and found a Lightning Fire Mystic Pearl among the spoils.

• Two Spirit Transformation Law Bodies battered the old lion, who burned his Essence Blood to escape through a spatial rift; they ordered the army to breach Burning Lion City.
• Shan Li led the attack that broke the city’s defenses, and the giant bear army captured Burning Lion City in less than half a day.
• Shi Jian awoke severely injured in a ravine and used Purple Firmament Lightning to begin healing while the battle continued nearby.
• Five Golden Core Frenzied Lions attacked Shi Jian, but he killed them with one sweep of his lightning spear and swallowed their Demon Cores.
• Shan Li found Shi Jian, confirmed the city had fallen, gave him healing medicines, and brought him the storage rings from the battle.
• Shi Jian identified and kept a Lightning Fire Mystic Pearl, while Shan Li teased him about taking all the spoils.

Shi Jian recovered from his wounds and led the Lightning Bear Line west, earning the name Tyrant by killing twenty-three Frenzied Lion Nascent Soul cultivators. At the Frenzied Lion Clan’s ancestral land, its ancestor ordered ten Nascent Soul late-stage cultivators to lure Shi Jian into a killing formation, hoping to eliminate him before the clan fell.

• Shi Jian healed for over a month while Shan Li cared for him, and the Mountain Bear army later resumed its westward advance.
• At Red Sand Gorge, Shi Jian killed three Nascent Soul middle-stage Frenzied Lions who attacked his contingent.
• Shi Jian spearheaded the army’s next battles, killing fourteen more Nascent Soul cultivators and gaining the title Tyrant across the western frontier.
• The Frenzied Lion ancestor learned that Shi Jian had killed twenty-three of the clan’s Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered a ten-member killing formation assembled to trap him.
• The ancestor revealed that the clan had sent its people’s surviving sparks to another realm and intended to take revenge on Shi Jian before its destruction.

Several months after the army reached the Frenzied Lion Clan's ancestral grounds, Shi Jian pursued a supply convoy into Fallen Fire Valley and discovered the Frenzied Lions had lured him into a trap. The chapter left him trapped by Space Dao restrictions and surrounded by fifteen Nascent Soul Demon Kings.

• Shan Li joined Shi Jian for roasted Frenzied Lion meat and discussed the unborn cub's potential Dao paths and Shi Xiao's need for pressure.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that scouts had found a Frenzied Lion supply convoy, and he volunteered to intercept it while she stayed behind because she was pregnant.
• Shi Jian pursued the convoy's two Nascent Soul Late Stage escorts north, sensed something suspicious, and requested reinforcements before continuing the chase.
• The two escorts fled into Fallen Fire Valley, where Shi Jian recognized that he had been lured into a trap but entered anyway after crushing a jade token.
• The valley entrance collapsed and Space Dao restrictions sealed the gorge, while Fire Dao inscriptions turned it into a blazing furnace.
• Fifteen Nascent Soul Demon Kings surrounded Shi Jian, and their gray-maned Nascent Soul Late Stage leader ordered them to kill him for the Frenzied Lion Clan's twenty-three dead.

Shi Jian battled fifteen Nascent Soul Late Stage Frenzied Lions in Fallen Fire Valley, where their coordinated formation and Space Dao cultivators were meant to prevent his escape. After summoning the Lightning Fire Mystic Pearl and killing one Space Dao cultivator, he charged at the second as the remaining fourteen closed in.

• Shi Jian recognized how the fifteen Frenzied Lions’ seven Dao arts and soul-protecting treasures formed a trap designed to kill him.
• Shi Jian charged the formation, but the Frenzied Lions combined Fire, Earth, Metal, Wind, and Physical Body attacks to wound and pin him beneath a pillar of flames.
• Shi Jian summoned the Lightning Fire Mystic Pearl, whose lightning-fire beast drove back two Physical Body cultivators and opened a path toward the rear.
• Shi Jian killed one Space Dao Frenzied Lion with his lightning spear, weakening the spatial confinement by thirty percent.
• The remaining fourteen Frenzied Lions renewed their barrage, and Shi Jian turned his spear toward the second Space Dao cultivator.

Shi Jian fought the fifteen Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions in Fallen Fire Valley and killed six of them, including both Space Dao Frenzied Lions. With the spatial lockdown broken, he still refused to retreat and faced the nine survivors, declaring that they would all die.

• Shi Jian killed the second Space Dao Frenzied Lion, destroying its body and Nascent Soul and breaking the spatial lockdown over Fallen Fire Valley.
• The gray-maned old lion ordered the remaining Frenzied Lions to attack Shi Jian, whose spear and lightning shattered their fire assault and damaged the valley.
• Shi Jian sent lightning pillars erupting from the ground, killing a Fire Dao Frenzied Lion, then used Soul Lightning to annihilate a Metal Dao Frenzied Lion.
• Shi Jian pursued and killed a Dao of Wind Frenzied Lion, bringing his total kills to six of the fifteen attackers.
• Shi Jian faced the nine remaining Frenzied Lions amid the ruined valley and vowed that they would all die.

Shi Jian trapped the nine Frenzied Lion Demon Kings in his Lightning Domain and attacked them in his colossal pale bear form. He killed four of them, while the remaining five were left sealed inside the domain as he unleashed another wave of lightning.

• Shi Jian covered Fallen Fire Valley with his Lightning Domain, sealing the sky and earth and preventing the Frenzied Lion Demon Kings from escaping.
• Shi Jian transformed into a colossal pale bear and shattered the lions’ defenses with a rain of purple-gold lightning, badly wounding one Fire Dao Frenzied Lion.
• Shi Jian crushed an Earth Dao Frenzied Lion in his claws and destroyed its Nascent Soul with lightning.
• Shi Jian used a divine-soul roar to stop two Dao of Strength Frenzied Lions and killed them with a single strike.
• A Dao of Wind Frenzied Lion tried to escape underground, but Shi Jian’s lightning filled the earth, and Shi Jian burned him to death.
• Shi Jian commanded countless lightning bolts to strike the five remaining Frenzied Lions.

Shi Jian killed fourteen Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions at Fallen Fire Valley, though their gray-maned leader escaped. After the clan rewarded him for the victory, Shi Jian prepared for the more difficult battles ahead.

• Shi Jian’s Lightning Domain trapped the Frenzied Lions, and he killed their wounded fighters as their gray-maned leader escaped by exploiting a companion’s self-destruction.
• Two Frenzied Lions stayed behind to delay Shi Jian, but he killed them with lightning and Soul Lightning before the gray-maned leader fled west.
• Shi Jian collected the spoils from the fourteen fallen Nascent Soul Frenzied Lions and returned to the Mountain Bear army’s encampment.
• News of Shi Jian’s victory spread, earning him the name Tyrant and frightening the Frenzied Lion Clan’s remaining forces.
• A Mountain Bear Spirit Transformation ancestor rewarded Shi Jian with the Myriad Lightning Sect Record, resources, and three lightning pills.
• Shi Jian dismissed his fame and vowed to kill any Frenzied Lions who came after him.

The Frenzied Lion Clan prepared to make a final stand after its defeat, while the Mountain Bear leaders ordered Shi Jian to remain behind and protect the clan’s future. Shi Jian accepted the order as the armies prepared for the last battle.

• The Frenzied Lion clan leader reported that collateral bloodlines had fled and that thirty direct-line cubs had been sent to the Measure Realm.
• The Dark Gold old lion ordered the clan to distribute its remaining treasures and defend the Heaven-Burning Plain to the death.
• Shi Jian cultivated the Myriad Lightning Sect Record and increased his condensed Dao of Lightning Qi Dynamic origin to twenty strands.
• Shan Li gave Shi Jian the Mountain Bear Main Lineage’s decree forbidding him from joining the battle and explained that the Frenzied Lion experts might try to take him down with them.
• Shi Jian agreed to secure the rear, recognizing his importance to the Mountain Bear Clan and the support he received through Shan Li’s lineage.