Chapter Summaries

Shi Jian entered the Lightless Dead Realm and realized it was a sealed world governed by the Lightless Dao Fruit, much like the Profound Spirit Continent. He uncovered the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan's plan to use lightning cultivators to weaken the realm's barrier, then concealed himself by resonating with its darkness.

• Shi Jian found his Divine Sense and spiritual power suppressed by the Lightless Dead Realm's darkness.
• Shi Jian recognized that the realm's isolation resembled the barrier that had once sealed the Profound Spirit Continent.
• Shi Jian deduced that the Lightless Dao Fruit governed the realm and that the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan had captured it.
• Shi Jian realized the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor was using lightning cultivators to weaken the Lightless Principle and seek the Dao Fruit's inheritance.
• Shi Jian used Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning to resonate with the Lightless laws and vanish into the darkness.

Shi Jian explored the Lightless Realm and learned that it was the ruined Lightless Dao Dynasty, a Dao repository tied to the Lightless Dao Fruit. After confirming the location of the Polar Night Sacred Abyss, he headed for Black Nightmare City to hunt its Spirit Transformation city lord for resources.

• Shi Jian traveled through the desolate Lightless Realm and discovered Black Nightmare City, guarded by four-armed Night Beasts and protected by a black curtain of light.
• Shi Jian secretly captured a Golden Core Night Beast and searched its soul for information about the realm.
• Shi Jian learned that the Lightless Dao Venerable’s uncontrolled Dao Fruit had corrupted the realm and that the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan used it as a hunting ground.
• Shi Jian discovered that the Polar Night Sacred Abyss lay at the realm’s heart and that a Five-Foundation Extreme Realm Night Beast emperor guarded the Lightless Dao Fruit.
• Shi Jian decided to seize the heart core of Black Nightmare City’s Early Spirit Transformation city lord and flew toward the city without hiding himself.

Shi Jian attacked Black Nightmare City with Righteous Yang Lightning, destroyed its defenses, and slaughtered its inhabitants before killing its ruler, Mo Yuan. After collecting Mo Yuan’s Dark Beast Heart Core, Shi Jian assessed the realm’s depleted resources and his ability to face even stronger Night Beasts.

• A guard captain spotted strange golden-red light in the clouds, and a thunderclap shook Black Nightmare City as its Night Beasts began to suffer.
• Shi Jian shattered the city’s defensive core with Righteous Yang Lightning and unleashed Palm Governing the Nine Heavens, reducing the city and its inhabitants to ruin.
• Mo Yuan emerged from his underground palace and attacked Shi Jian with four bone blades powered by his Dao of Darkness Immortal Foundation.
• Shi Jian dispelled Mo Yuan’s attack with the combined power of his three Immortal Foundations, then summoned the Immortal-Slaying Spear.
• Mo Yuan fled, but Shi Jian’s spear pierced him and its Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning destroyed his body and Immortal Foundation.
• Shi Jian retrieved Mo Yuan’s Dark Beast Heart Core and concluded that the realm’s Spirit Transformation cultivators lacked the resources and strength of those in the outside world.

Shi Jian traveled to the Black Weeping Wind Belt after looting Black Nightmare City and killing its Night Beast King. There he reunited with Lei Jin and the other Profound Lightning Imperial Clan prodigies, who sought his help in obtaining the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood.

• Shi Jian searched Black Nightmare City for treasures, then used Lei Jin’s lightning talisman to locate the meeting point north of the city.
• Shi Jian reached the Black Weeping Wind Belt and found Lei Jin and seven other Profound Lightning Imperial Clan prodigies sheltering in a lightning formation.
• Lei Jin explained why Shi Jian was the strongest candidate to help them seize the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood.
• Shi Jian surprised the group by appearing past their defenses and revealing that he had killed a Spirit Transformation Night Beast King in Black Nightmare City.
• Lei Jin welcomed Shi Jian and asked where the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood was and what the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan intended to obtain there.

Lei Jin revealed that the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan planned to seize the physical form of the Lightless Dao Fruit to secure its future, and recruited Shi Jian to help. Shi Jian accepted the dangerous task and found the divine lightning wood and the sleeping Night Beast emperor at the Polar Night Sacred Abyss.

• Lei Jin told Shi Jian that the Profound Lightning ancestor intended to use the Lightless Dao Fruit to help the clan cultivate a new Dao Venerable.
• Lei Jin explained that Shi Jian would hold off the Five-Foundation Extreme Realm Night Beast emperor for half a quarter-hour while the eight Profound Lightning cultivators seized the Dao Fruit.
• Lei Jin offered Shi Jian the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood and the clan's support, and Shi Jian agreed to join the operation.
• Shi Jian and Lei Jin's group concealed themselves at the edge of the Polar Night Sacred Abyss and spotted the divine lightning wood on a cliff.
• Shi Jian recognized the wood's potential to advance his cultivation and saw the sleeping six-winged Night Beast emperor below, with the Lightless Dao Fruit's physical form at its brow.

Lei Jin and the eight Profound Lightning prodigies ambushed the Night Beast Emperor in the Polar Night Sacred Abyss, while Shi Jian joined the attack in his giant Divine Firmament Lightning Bear form. The wounded beast unleashed its five Immortal Foundations as a canopy that enveloped the formation and Shi Jian.

• Lei Jin activated the Nine Lightning Darkness-Breaking Shuttle and drove it into the Night Beast Emperor's chest, pinning him to a mountain of bones.
• Lei Jin led the eight Profound Lightning prodigies in forming the Eight Extremes Profound Lightning Formation and using lightning chains to strip out the attainment's physical form.
• Lei Jin called on Shi Jian, who transformed into a thirty-thousand-zhang Divine Firmament Lightning Bear and attacked with the Immortal-Slaying Spear.
• Shi Jian pierced the Night Beast Emperor's bone wings with the spear, and Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning began shredding the beast's vitality.
• The Night Beast Emperor detached his five Immortal Foundation halos and formed a canopy that engulfed the lightning formation and Shi Jian.

The Night Beast Emperor broke free of its seal and unleashed a darkness that crippled the Profound Lightning cultivators, but Shi Jian overcame it with his Radiant Yang Lightning and struck back. Shi Jian and six surviving cultivators surrounded the weakened beast, and their battle continued as its armor cracked and its origin dwindled.

• The Night Beast Emperor’s jade shuttle shattered, freeing it to unleash a tide of darkness that devoured two Early Spirit Transformation cultivators and wounded Lei Jin.
• Shi Jian activated his Radiant Yang Lightning to break through the darkness, then met the Night Beast Emperor’s six-winged strike with his Immortal-Slaying Spear and tore off one of its wings.
• Shi Jian ordered Lei Jin and the surviving five Profound Lightning cultivators to join him in surrounding the Night Beast Emperor.
• The seven cultivators attacked with lightning and Dao Artifacts while the Night Beast Emperor fought back, killing one cultivator and forcing another to escape by sacrificing an arm.
• The Night Beast Emperor weakened as its origin ran dry and its black crystal armor cracked under the group’s continued assault.

The dying Night Beast Emperor unleashed a final attack that shattered Shi Jian’s Dharma Form and hurled him deep underground. Shi Jian survived with the Wanxiang Barbarian Bone Pearl’s protection and charged back with his Immortal-Slaying Spear as the Night Beast Emperor’s vortex was held at bay.

• The Night Beast Emperor burned his remaining power and fired a Polar Night Death Light at Shi Jian, piercing his lightning shield and blasting through his Dharma Form.
• Shi Jian was flung into a deep cavern, badly injured but still alive.
• The Night Beast Emperor transformed himself into a vast Dao of Darkness vortex and tried to devour Shi Jian and the surrounding earth.
• Shi Jian summoned the Wanxiang Barbarian Bone Pearl, whose giant-bear illusion formed a white-bone Dao Domain that stopped the vortex.
• Shi Jian suppressed his injuries, gripped the Immortal-Slaying Spear, and sprang toward the Night Beast Emperor, shouting, “Die!”

Shi Jian killed the Night Beast Emperor, but its final counterattack devastated the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan’s team. After dividing the spoils with Lei Jin, Shi Jian left alone, while Lei Jin’s survivors set out to protect the Lightless Dao Fruit’s physical manifestation.

• Shi Jian pierced the Night Beast Emperor’s head with the Immortal-Slaying Spear, destroying its source, but its dying attack killed two Profound Lightning cultivators and gravely wounded Lei Jin.
• The Night Beast Emperor’s remains crashed into the abyss, and the Lightless black tide began to recede; only Lei Jin and two other injured cultivators survived from the clan’s seven-person team.
• Shi Jian and Lei Jin divided the spoils: Shi Jian took the Beast Emperor’s bones, heart core, and Divine Lightning Wood, while the clan kept the Lightless Dao Fruit’s physical manifestation and the remaining flesh.
• Lei Jin offered Shi Jian shelter at the clan’s stronghold, but Shi Jian refused and warned him that the Dao Fruit would attract enemies and Night Beasts before leaving alone.
• Lei Jin rebuffed a survivor’s complaint about the Divine Lightning Wood and ordered the remaining cultivators to protect the Dao Fruit’s physical manifestation and leave the area.

After the Night Beast Emperor fell and the Lightless Dao Source was stolen, Ming Jue awakened and ordered the Night Beasts to hunt down every outsider. The Lightless Dead Realm descended into a bloodbath, and hundreds of lightning cultivators were overwhelmed in the Black Weeping Wasteland.

• The Night Beast Emperor's fall shattered the Lightless Dead Realm's Principles and plunged its inhabitants into grief and chaos.
• Ming Jue awakened in the Netherworld Bone Sea, declared himself the Nether Abyss Emperor, and blamed the fallen emperor for losing the Dao Fruit's source.
• Ming Jue ordered all Night Beasts to seal the realm and slaughter the outsider lightning cultivators to reclaim their inherited treasure.
• Billions of Night Beasts and Spirit Transformation kings emerged and charged at the lightning cultivators across the realm.
• In the Black Weeping Wasteland, a Spirit Transformation Night Beast king broke the lightning battle formation, and the black tide killed hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators.

Spirit Transformation lightning cultivators fought the Night Beasts across the realm, while Lei Jin fled with the Lightless Dao Fruit and Shi Jian hid in the Spirit-Severing Mountain Range to recover and cultivate. The chapter left Shi Jian secluded with the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood, strengthening his Immortal Foundations as the conflict raged outside.

• A Supreme Void Lightning Sect elder destroyed Black Tortoise Black Prison City and its Night Beast army, but the wider battle continued to favor the beasts.
• Lei Jin and two surviving Profound Lightning Imperial Clan members fled five Spirit Transformation Night Beast Kings while carrying the Lightless Dao Fruit.
• Shi Jian reached a concealed cavern in the Spirit-Severing Mountain Range, sealed it with formations and Nether Lightning, and collapsed from his injuries.
• Shi Jian reflected that the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan would bear the consequences of taking the Dao Fruit while he pursued secluded cultivation.
• Shi Jian drew pure yang lightning from the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood, healed his injuries, and began solidifying his Immortal Foundations.

The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable warned the dying Profound Lightning Beast Emperor that forcing Lei Jin to inherit the Lightless Dao Fruit could destroy the clan’s identity and provoke the Nether Realm. The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor remained determined, believing the gamble was the only way to protect his clan and descendants after his death.

• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable and the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor watched Shi Jian’s battle through a black mirror, and the Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable praised the young bear’s strength.
• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable criticized the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor for using Lei Jin to absorb the damaged Lightless Dao Fruit and warned that it could undo the Profound Lightning bloodline.
• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable explained that the Nether River Imperial Clan would treat a new Lightless Dao Venerable as a threat, risking the Beast Realm’s alliance with the Nether Realm.
• The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor argued that his clan would lose its Dao Fruit and be preyed upon once he died, since Lei Jin could not inherit the Profound Lightning Dao in time.
• The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor declared that he would rather have his descendants abandon their ancestral teachings than let the clan and its people be destroyed.

The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor revealed that the Peak Mountain Emperor Lord had approved his plan to retrieve the Lightless Dao Fruit as a way to check the Nether River Imperial Clan. When Ming Jue cornered Lei Jin and his companions, the Beast Emperor intervened across realms and struck Ming Jue down, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable questioned how the Profound Lightning Beast Emperor would answer to the Nether River Imperial Clan, and the Beast Emperor revealed that the Peak Mountain Emperor Lord had tacitly approved his plan.
• Ming Jue trapped Lei Jin and his two companions in the dark swamp and prepared to kill them and seize the Dao Fruit.
• Lei Jin tried to detonate his Immortal Foundation to protect the Dao Fruit, but Ming Jue’s restraints sealed his power.
• The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor tore open the Lightless sky and sent his giant hand through the realm wall to protect his direct kin.
• The Profound Lightning Beast Emperor’s strike destroyed Ming Jue’s weapons and hurled him through eight bone mountains, leaving him gravely wounded and possibly dead.

The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor recovered the Lightless Dao Fruit and resolved to use it to cultivate a hidden clan child, while leaving the Lightless Dead Realm sealed for ten years. The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable watched E Gu training in the realm and wondered whether the Lightning Bear might one day inherit the Beast Emperor’s mantle.

• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor pulled Lei Jin and his two companions from the Lightless Dead Realm and took the Lightless Dao Fruit vessel from Lei Jin.
• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor rewarded Lei Jin by naming him the clan’s new successor and sending the three wounded men to heal in Transformation Lei Yuan.
• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor told the Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable that he would use the Lightless Dao Fruit to cultivate a dark-crystal-boned child hidden in the ancestral mausoleum.
• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor refused to reopen the Lightless Dead Realm early, leaving its cultivators to survive until the realm reopened in ten years.
• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable observed E Gu refining divine lightning wood and considered whether the Lightning Bear could one day inherit the Beast Emperor’s mantle.

Shi Jian recovered during eight years of secluded cultivation in the Lightless Dead Realm, refining the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood until his Radiant Yang Lightning foundation passed halfway. As he left the cavern, he sensed that the world’s Qi had changed.

• Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable challenged Profound Lightning Beast Emperor over whether he would give the Profound Lightning legacy to Shi Jian, and the Beast Emperor could not bring himself to surrender his lineage’s authority.
• Eight years passed while Shi Jian cultivated beneath the Spirit-Severing Mountain Range, healing his wounds and tempering his Barbarian Bone physique with the lightning wood’s essence.
• Shi Jian advanced his Radiant Yang Lightning Dao foundation past the halfway point and gained enough strength to tear apart an ordinary Late Spirit Transformation great demon in a direct fight.
• Shi Jian collected the remaining lightning wood essence, the supreme-grade Dark Beast Heart Core, and the protective formation flags, then sensed that the world’s Qi had changed.

Shi Jian discovered that the Lightless Dead Realm was collapsing after the Lightless Dao Fruit had been stripped away, and that most cultivators and Night Beasts had perished in the ensuing slaughter. Seeing the realm’s abandoned treasures as an opportunity, he unleashed his power and charged toward a ruined Night Beast city.

• Shi Jian found that the Lightless Dead Realm’s Divine Sense suppression had weakened and saw that its sky and land were breaking apart as the realm returned to the void.
• Shi Jian realized the Lightless Dao Fruit had supported the realm and that removing it had doomed the world to destruction.
• Shi Jian surveyed battle ruins and found the remains of cultivators and Night Beasts, confirming that most outsiders and nearly all powerful Night Beasts had died.
• Shi Jian decided to loot the realm’s exposed palaces and treasure vaults before they vanished into the void.
• Shi Jian manifested four Divine Firmament Dao Platforms and raced toward the nearest ruined Night Beast city.

Shi Jian destroyed the Ancient Night Royal City, killed its wounded Night Beast king, and plundered its hidden treasury. Over several days, he continued his rampage across the collapsing Lightless Dead Realm, leaving its surviving inhabitants terrified.

• The wounded one-horned Night Beast king lamented the collapse of the Lightless Dead Realm as its barrier failed around the Ancient Night Royal City.
• Shi Jian descended with a lightning-wreathed spear, shattered the king's defense, and killed it with a strike that devastated the city.
• Shi Jian pulled the buried treasury from underground and took its treasures, then hunted down the city's Nascent Soul Night Beasts for their cores.
• Shi Jian flew toward another abyss to continue hunting and plundering across the realm.
• Over several days, Shi Jian destroyed ancient fortresses, killed every Spirit Transformation Night Beast he encountered, and emptied their treasuries, terrifying the surviving Night Beasts and hidden lightning cultivators.

As the Lightless Dead Realm collapsed, Shi Jian plundered its treasures and destroyed Night Beast strongholds. At a top-grade Spirit Vein, cultivators from several realms ambushed him, believing he was gravely weakened, and Shi Jian faced them with contempt.

• Shi Jian destroyed the Nether Sha stronghold and seized its underground treasury, marking it as the thirteenth he had plundered.
• He swept through the collapsing realm, exterminating powerful Night Beasts and stripping underground palaces of their treasures.
• At the former Black Wind Abyss, Shi Jian tried to uproot a top-grade Dark Abyss Spirit Vein from the magma lake.
• A middle-aged Human Race sword cultivator attacked Shi Jian, while three Spirit Transformation cultivators and nearly a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators surrounded him.
• The attackers demanded Shi Jian surrender treasures, claiming he was gravely wounded, and Shi Jian dismissed them as noisy.

Shi Jian unleashed his recovered strength to kill the cultivators and demons who had attacked him, then continued slaughtering the Dead Realm’s forces and claiming its treasures. At Ten Thousand Peaks Bone Mountain, he rejected three Beast Realm allies who demanded a share of a buried armory, regarding them as ants.

• Shi Jian killed the middle-aged Spirit Transformation cultivator with Radiant Yang Lightning and annihilated his body and soul.
• Shi Jian struck down the fleeing Vast Realm demon and two Heaven Realm lightning cultivators, then killed nearly a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators with a wave of lightning.
• Shi Jian collected the fallen cultivators’ treasures and uprooted the Dark Abyss Spirit Vein into his secret realm.
• Shi Jian swept north through the Dead Realm, destroying five Night Beast cities and killing a Middle Spirit Transformation Night Beast king atop Ten Thousand Peaks Bone Mountain.
• A Tiger Sha Clan expert and two Kui Lang Clan elders offered to join Shi Jian and share the realm’s fortunes, including an armory buried beneath the mountain.
• Shi Jian rejected their offer and said he had no reason to share anything with ants.

Shi Jian slaughtered the Tiger Sha expert and two Kui Lang elders, then descended into the northern abyss to confront the gravely wounded Nether Abyss Emperor, Ming Jue. He transformed into his Divine Firmament Lightning Bear form and launched a spear attack as Ming Jue fought to survive.

• Shi Jian killed the Tiger Sha expert and two Kui Lang elders, then emptied the armory beneath Ten Thousand Peaks Bone Mountain.
• Shi Jian headed for the northern abyss, drawn by Ming Jue's Extreme Realm remains and treasure vault.
• Ming Jue struggled with the lingering damage from the Profound Lightning Dao Venerable's strike as Shi Jian broke through the underground rock and confronted him.
• Ming Jue unleashed a tide of darkness, but Shi Jian transformed into his thirty-thousand-zhang Lightning Bear form and used his lightning foundations to resist it.
• Shi Jian charged Ming Jue with the Immortal-Slaying Spear as Ming Jue roared that he would not die there.