Chapter Summaries

Shi Jian witnessed Dao Venerable E Gu erase the Frenzied Lion Clan and its army with one palm, ending the battle on the Heaven-Burning Plain. The victory left Shi Jian shaken by the gulf between Nascent Soul and Dao Venerable power as the Mountain Bear Lineage advanced to finish the aftermath.

• The Frenzied Lion Clan committed its full strength to the battle and drove the Mountain Bear Lineage's army into retreat.
• Shi Jian considered breaking the deadlock as the Mountain Bear ancestors struggled against the four Frenzied Lion Spirit Transformation experts.
• Dao Venerable E Gu opened a rift in the sky and pressed down with a white-bone claw, destroying the Frenzied Lion experts and army while leaving the Mountain Bear survivors unharmed.
• Shan Li marveled at Ancestor Egu's strength, while Shi Jian realized his Nascent Soul cultivation was insignificant beside a Dao Venerable.
• The Mountain Bear Lineage ordered its army to advance and kill every surviving enemy at Nascent Soul and above.

After E Gu Dao Venerable’s devastating strike wiped out four Spirit Transformation experts, Kuang Zhan survived and fought Shan Yue while another Mountain Bear expert slaughtered the Frenzied Lion Nascent Soul Demon Kings. Kuang Zhan was left crushed beneath Shan Yue’s attack, while the massacre of the remaining lions continued.

• Kuang Zhan emerged alive from underground after sacrificing half his body to survive E Gu Dao Venerable’s strike.
• Shan Yue attacked Kuang Zhan with his three Earth Dao Immortal Foundations and smashed him into a deep crater.
• Kuang Zhan burned his lifespan, lifted a mountain range against Shan Yue, and fought back with his two Dao of Strength Immortal Foundations.
• Shan Yue overwhelmed Kuang Zhan with Ten-Thousand-Layered Edge and stomped him into the ground, breaking both his arms.
• The bone-white Mountain Bear Spirit Transformation expert killed the Frenzied Lion Nascent Soul Demon Kings one by one as Shi Jian watched.

Shan Yue killed Kuang Zhan, and the Giant Bear Clan wiped out the Frenzied Lions on the Heaven-Burning Plain. Days later, Shan Li told Shi Jian that White Bone Ancestor had sealed the Frenzied Lion bloodline, weakening all its descendants and preventing them from reaching Nascent Soul and above.

• Shan Yue crushed Kuang Zhan's Immortal Foundations and killed him after Kuang Zhan warned that a spark of the Frenzied Lion bloodline had escaped.
• White Bone's Spirit Transformation cultivator killed the remaining Frenzied Lion Nascent Soul Demon Kings, erasing the clan from the Beast Realm.
• Shi Jian left the Heaven-Burning Plain with Shan Li as the Giant Bear army gathered spoils and celebrated its victory.
• Several days later, Shan Li told Shi Jian that White Bone Ancestor had used the Supreme Bone to seal the Frenzied Lion bloodline's physical potential.
• Shan Li explained that the surviving Frenzied Lion descendants would have frail bodies, shorter lifespans, and little chance of producing cultivators above Nascent Soul.

After the Frenzied Lion Clan fell, Shan Yue rewarded Shi Jian and the other Bear Kings, elevating the Lightning Bear Line to an inner-domain branch and expanding its territory. As Shi Jian began consolidating his new domain, the Giant Bear Clan continued its conquest of the Beast Realm, leaving it a dominant imperial power.

• Shan Yue distributed territory and resources according to merit, granting Shi Jian's Lightning Bear Line three hundred thousand li, tax exemption, self-governance, clan protection, and inner-domain status.
• Shi Jian led the Lightning Bear Line back to the Divine Firmament Plain and found its expanded territory being developed, though the lineage had too few Nascent Souls to guard its new holdings.
• Shi Jian resolved to strengthen the younger generation and hoped to reunite with his old subordinates, including Shi Pan, Shi Yin, and Brother Bai.
• During Shi Jian's three years in seclusion, the Mountain Bear Main Lineage destroyed the Heavenly Serpent Race and the Mysterious Horse Clan.
• The Giant Bear Clan exterminated or subjugated clans across the surrounding regions, expanding its territory and establishing itself as an imperial power in the Beast Realm.

Shi Jian completed his secluded cultivation and reached Nascent Soul Perfection while the Giant Bear Clan established its expanded territory. After reuniting with Shan Li and meeting his younger son, he learned that the Lightning Bear Lineage had been summoned to the Mountain Bear Ancestral Court for a Territory Enfeoffment Ceremony in three months.

• After more than a decade of cultivation, Shi Jian formed thirty-six strands of origin Qi and reached Nascent Soul Perfection, with Divine Sense strength on par with a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Shan Li welcomed Shi Jian out of seclusion and told him that their eldest son, Shi Xiao, had reached the Golden Core Realm and was training away from home.
• Shan Li introduced Shi Jian to their younger son, Shi Lei, whose talent for the Dao of Lightning surpassed Shi Xiao's at the same age and suited the Dao of Frenzied Thunder.
• Shan Li gave Shi Jian a token summoning the Lightning Bear Lineage to the Mountain Bear Ancestral Court's Territory Enfeoffment Ceremony in three months.

Several months after Shi Jian and Shan Li left their cub with Xiong Gang, they traveled to the Giant Bear Ancestral Court. Shan Li showed Shi Jian the floating continent and explained the seven main lineages as they headed to meet her father.

• Shi Jian and Shan Li departed for the ancestral court, leaving Shi Lei in Xiong Gang's care.
• After several days of travel, Shi Jian and Shan Li reached the floating continent and entered through a spiritual passageway.
• Shi Jian felt the ancestral court's immense spiritual vitality and saw its mountains, palaces, and powerful cultivators.
• Shan Li described the territories, strengths, and Spirit Transformation experts of the seven main lineages.
• Shan Li took Shi Jian toward the Mountain Bear Lineage to meet her father.

Shi Jian received guidance from Shan Wanling on advancing to Spirit Transformation and cultivating the Divine Firmament Dao Fruit. As Shan Li showed him around the ancestral court, she warned that the Giant Bear Lineage planned to reorder the inner-territory branches and challenge their territory.

• Shan Li brought Shi Jian to meet her father, Shan Wanling, who praised Shi Jian's strength and gave him a Jade Slip of Spirit Transformation insights.
• Shan Wanling explained the hurdles of Spirit Transformation and the six Immortal Foundations under the Divine Firmament Dao Fruit, noting that the Giant Bear Clan had complete methods for four.
• Shan Wanling advised Shi Jian to cultivate Purple Firmament Lightning after breaking through, since it complemented Purple Pivot Lightning and strengthened his ability to endure attacks.
• Shan Wanling accepted Shi Jian as Shan Li's partner and warned him that he needed Spirit Transformation strength to protect his clan.
• Shan Li took Shi Jian to explore the ancestral court and told him the Giant Bear Lineage planned to reorder the inner-territory branches, threatening their territory.

At the Territory Enfeoffment Ceremony, the Giant Bear Clan rewarded lineages for their military achievements, then placed seven Dao of Lightning lineages under Shi Jian’s command. The Lightning Bear Line was elevated to ninth among the inner-territory branch lineages and given a Spirit Transformation slot, leaving Shi Jian at the head of a greatly strengthened lineage.

• Shan Yue began the ceremony and announced that the clan’s territory had expanded by ten million li before rewards were read out.
• The clan named Shi Jian the campaign’s top achiever for slaying thirty-seven Nascent Soul cultivators, but kept the Lightning Bear Line’s territory unchanged.
• A clan order disbanded seven Dao of Lightning minor lineages and placed their Bear Kings under Shi Jian’s command.
• Shi Jian welcomed the seven Bear Kings, who bowed to him but remained silent.
• Shan Yue ranked the Lightning Bear Line ninth among the inner-territory branch lineages and granted it resources, protection, and one Spirit Transformation slot.

Shi Jian ordered the seven bear kings of the Dao of Lightning to move their tribes to the Divine Firmament Plain and submit their inherited cultivation methods for compilation, but they challenged his authority. He offered to settle the dispute in a fight, and the chapter ended as the seven surrounded him on a wasteland battlefield.

• Shi Jian summoned Lei Ya, Lei Li, Baoting Hong, Xuanlei Min, Lei Yuan, Xiong Wanjun, and Xiong Jun and ordered their tribes to relocate within three years.
• Shi Jian told the bear kings to provide copies of their inherited lightning cultivation methods so he could compile them for the tribes to share.
• Xuanlei Min questioned why the bear kings should submit to Shi Jian, and Shi Jian offered to fight all seven at once to decide whether they would follow his orders.
• Shi Jian and the seven bear kings arrived at a wasteland outside the ancestral court, where the bear kings formed a partial encirclement and Shi Jian challenged them to attack.

Shi Jian defeated the seven Lightning Bear leaders and secured their submission and agreement to unite under the Lightning Bear Line. After the Territory Enfeoffment Ceremony, Shan Li told him that someone at Myriad Bones Ridge wanted to see him.

• Lei Ya and the other six Nascent Soul cultivators attacked Shi Jian together, but he overwhelmed them with his spear and lightning.
• The seven bears assumed their true forms and unleashed their Immortal Foundations, but Shi Jian defeated them one by one with his giant bear form and Purple Pivot Lightning.
• Lei Ya admitted defeat, and Shan Li gave the injured bears pills.
• Shi Jian ordered every branch to move to the Divine Firmament Plain within three years and to compile its inherited Cultivation Methods within a month.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that someone at Myriad Bones Ridge wanted to see him.

Shi Jian met Dao Venerable E Gu at Myriad Bones Ridge, where E Gu refined Shi Jian’s bloodline and Root Bone and gave him a life-saving mark. E Gu set a three-hundred-year deadline for Shi Jian to reach Spirit Transformation and urged him to contend for the unclaimed Divine Firmament Dao Fruit, leaving Shi Jian to pursue cultivation with the Giant Bear Clan’s support.

• Shi Jian entered Myriad Bones Ridge and paid his respects to Dao Venerable E Gu, who praised his strength, resolve, and potential.
• E Gu explained that Shi Jian’s Pale Lightning Bear bloodline and Root Bone needed strengthening, then gave him a mark that would protect him once from a life-or-death crisis.
• E Gu used a formation and Barbarian Bone Dao resonance to shatter and remake Shi Jian’s body, strengthening his bloodline, Root Bone, meridians, and Dantian.
• E Gu told Shi Jian to reach Spirit Transformation within three hundred years and said the Giant Bear Clan needed him to help secure its future.
• E Gu revealed that Shi Jian could contend for the unclaimed Divine Firmament Dao Fruit if he comprehended all six Immortal Foundations, and warned that the struggle would be bloody.
• Shi Jian accepted E Gu’s expectations and left to cultivate, while E Gu’s avatar dissipated.

After returning to the Divine Firmament Plain, Shi Jian settled disputes over the relocated branches’ resources and entered seclusion to prepare for Spirit Transformation. He began studying Shan Wanling’s guidance and cultivating the resonance of Purple Firmament Lightning, but still needed to fully comprehend Purple Pivot Lightning before attempting the breakthrough.

• Shi Jian returned from Myriad Bones Ridge, and Shan Li discovered that the Giant Bear Ancestral Court had strengthened his bloodline and Root Bone.
• Shan Li reported that the seven branches had settled in the Divine Firmament Plain and that Lei Ya was disputing control of the western lightning-attribute Spirit Vein.
• Shi Jian said each tribe could keep its existing Spirit Vein and offered Lei Ya an exchange; he refused to grant special treatment if Lei Ya rejected the arrangement.
• Shan Li gave Shi Jian a Jade Slip from the main branch listing spirit materials intended to support his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, and Shi Jian entered seclusion.
• Shi Jian studied Shan Wanling’s guidance and absorbed Purple Firmament Lightning Dao resonance from a crystal, finding that it harmonized with his Purple Pivot Lightning.
• Shi Jian began comprehending the final profundity of the Purple Pivot Lightning Immortal Foundation, knowing he had to master it before seeking confirmation from heaven and earth.

While Shi Jian remained in seclusion to attempt Spirit Transformation, Shan Li governed the Lightning Bear Line and transformed Divine Firmament Plain into a lightning-rich cultivation ground to support his breakthrough. The core region became known among the bear demons as the Lightning Domain.

• Shan Li assigned resources and duties to the seven bear kings, ordered every tribe to complete its relocation within three years, and warned them to bring serious trouble to her.
• Shan Li worried that Shi Jian had attempted Spirit Transformation as soon as he reached Nascent Soul Perfection, despite the danger and the centuries her father had needed before making the same attempt.
• Shan Li bought lightning-attribute spirit objects and hired Nascent Soul formation masters to build a Lightning-Attracting Essence-Gathering Grand Formation around Shi Jian's cave abode.
• Shan Li replaced nearby spirit trees with lightning-attribute trees, buried Dao of Lightning minerals beneath Divine Firmament Peak, and added lightning-based Nascent Soul Law Treasures to the formation.
• Shan Li's work made Divine Firmament Plain's core region so rich in Dao of Lightning Qi that weaker bear demons could not endure it, and the lineage began calling the area the Lightning Domain.

After returning from a long absence, Shi Xiao learned that his younger brother Shi Lei had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and displayed extraordinary talent for the Dao of Lightning. Shi Lei absorbed a trace of Azure Profound Lightning and gained the attention of the seven tribes’ bear kings, while Shi Xiao resolved to grow stronger and prepare to lead the Lightning Bear Line.

• Shi Xiao returned to Shan Li after spending more than a decade away, bringing her pearls from the Golden Core black Flood Dragons he had slain.
• Shan Li told Shi Xiao that Shi Lei had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and asked him to keep an eye on his younger brother.
• At the Azure Profound Tribe’s settlement, Shi Lei defeated a Foundation Establishment bear cub, and Lei Ya and Lei Li recognized his exceptional affinity for lightning Dao arts.
• Lei Ya gave Shi Lei a trace of Azure Profound Lightning, which Shi Lei absorbed without harm and manifested as a tiny arc of azure lightning.
• Shi Xiao arrived, reunited with Shi Lei, and brought him back after recognizing his younger brother’s talent.
• Shi Xiao accepted that he and Shi Lei followed different lightning paths and resolved to grow stronger so he could help lead the Lightning Bear Line.

Thirty years after the bear demon tribes settled across the Divine Firmament Plain, Shi Jian completed his Purple Pivot Lightning Immortal Foundation and waited for the opportunity to break through to Spirit Transformation. When he sensed the Great Dao calling, he began his breakthrough, filling the sky with purple-gold lightning and drawing the attention of the other tribes.

• Over thirty years, Shan Li managed the territories and resources of the seven bear demon tribes, which prospered through cooperation and shared inheritances.
• Shi Jian spent thirty years comprehending the Purple Pivot Lightning Immortal Foundation until he could command the Qi of the Dao of Lightning within a hundred li.
• Shi Jian studied Shan Wanling's insights on Spirit Transformation and waited for the elusive opportunity to arrive.
• Several months after the lightning resonance in his Dantian intensified, Shi Jian sensed the Great Dao of Lightning calling to him.
• Shi Jian escaped into the void to begin his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, causing vast purple-gold lightning clouds to spread across the Divine Firmament Plain.
• Lei Ya and Lei Li sensed Shi Jian's immense presence and realized he was attempting to break through to Spirit Transformation.

Shi Jian underwent the Spirit Transformation tribulation on Divine Firmament Peak, enduring the Great Dao of Lightning’s tempering and its attempt to assimilate his soul. He emerged as an early Spirit Transformation cultivator and claimed command over lightning, while Shan Li and the bear tribes witnessed his breakthrough.

• Shan Li ordered the Nascent Soul bear kings to seal off Divine Firmament Peak and evacuate tribespeople from the core area.
• Shi Jian summoned the Great Dao of Lightning and endured its resonance remaking his Nascent Soul and Immortal Foundation.
• Shi Jian resisted the Great Dao’s attempt to assimilate his soul and left his mark on its essence as a bear’s head in a tree of lightning.
• Shi Jian completed his breakthrough to early Spirit Transformation, and his Dao pressure burst apart the thunderclouds over the Divine Firmament Plain.
• Shan Li celebrated Shi Jian’s success after only thirty years as he grew to ten thousand zhang tall and declared that all lightning would answer his command.

After breaking through to Spirit Transformation, Shi Jian prepared to leave Divine Firmament Peak and return west to bring his old subordinates to his homeland. He raced across the Beast Domain and reached the Sha Tiger Imperial Clan’s territory, where he was identified as a newly advanced Giant Bear Clan immortal.

• Shi Jian completed his transformation into a Spirit Transformation cultivator and sensed his connection to the Dao of Lightning across his vast territory.
• Shan Li told Shi Jian that the clan was well and accepted his token and orders to manage the seven tribes and report his breakthrough to Ancestor Shanyue.
• Shi Jian said he was returning to his homeland to bring his old subordinates, then stepped through a spatial fissure and traveled west at great speed.
• Spirit Transformation cultivators sensed Shi Jian’s Dao pressure as he crossed the void, but he passed them before they could greet him.
• At the edge of the Sha Tiger Imperial Clan’s territory, Shi Jian encountered a Middle Spirit Transformation blood tiger and identified himself as a member of the Giant Bear Clan.
• The blood tiger let Shi Jian pass and returned to report that the Giant Bear Clan had gained a new Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Dao of Lightning.

Shi Jian returned to Boundless Lake to search for his old acquaintances, only to learn that a black flood dragon had massacred the native demons two hundred years earlier. After hearing that a branch of the Bear Race had fled north to seek refuge with the Frost Wing Clan, Shi Jian set out to find them.

• Shi Jian reached Boundless Lake and discovered that the native demons were gone and the island was occupied by three Azure Fox Clan Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Qing Jian told Shi Jian that the native demons had left and that a past upheaval had driven them away or forced them to submit to stronger clans.
• An Azure Fox elder explained that a Spirit Transformation black flood dragon had slaughtered the native Demon Race and the Sea Race two hundred years earlier before leaving for the Eastern Territory Abyss.
• The Azure Fox elder told Shi Jian that a branch of the Bear Race had fled north to seek refuge with the Frost Wing Clan, about a million li away.
• Shi Jian gave Qing Jian a Jade Slip for any Bear Race cultivators who came looking for him, then flew north toward the Frost Wing Clan.

Shi Jian reunited with Kuang Dou, Shi Yin, and Shi Pan in the Frostwing Clan’s territory after learning they had survived the massacre on Profound Spirit Island. He found that only a few dozen of his former bear subordinates remained, and the reunion ended in heavy silence as they harbored resentment.

• Shi Jian met Shuang Yu, the Frostwing Clan patriarch, and learned that Bear Race survivors from Profound Spirit Island had taken refuge in Ice Abyss Valley.
• Shuang Yu led Shi Jian to the valley, where Kuang Dou recognized him and greeted him as his lord.
• Kuang Dou summoned Shi Yin, who had reached Nascent Soul, and the aging Shi Pan, who had little lifespan left.
• Shi Jian saw that only thirty or forty bear demons remained from his once-thriving forces and asked Shi Pan what had happened.
• Shuang Yu left Shi Jian alone with his former subordinates, who remained silent and visibly resentful.

Shi Jian reunited with the surviving bear demons and heard how the black flood dragon and other disasters had devastated their people during his centuries away. He accepted responsibility, restored Shi Yin and Kuang Dou to the clan, promised to help Shi Pan, and recovered three important inheritances and treasures.

• Shi Yin described the losses and hardships the bear demons endured while Shi Jian was gone, then asked why he had taken so long to return.
• Shi Jian admitted his mistakes, apologized, and promised to protect the survivors from further suffering.
• Shi Jian gave Shi Yin the Lightning Bear Line elder's token and invited Kuang Dou to return with him; he also promised to seek ways to restore Shi Pan's depleted origin.
• Kuang Dou recounted how Nascent Soul Demon Kings, the black flood dragon, and other enemies had devastated the continent and its races.
• Shi Yin presented Shi Jian with the stone stele of six Immortal Foundation inheritances, Purple Firmament Peak, and the secret realm containing the Purple Pivot Lightning inheritance.