Chapter Summaries

Nether Abyss Emperor Ming Jue burned his origin and activated his five Immortal Foundations, but Shi Jian overcame the darkness and fought him in a brutal battle. Shi Jian pierced and pinned Ming Jue, who began to detonate his Immortal Foundations as a final attack.

• Ming Jue devoured Dao of Darkness treasures to heal himself, then activated his five Immortal Foundations to engulf the battlefield in absolute darkness.
• Shi Jian used his Radiant Yang Lightning Immortal Foundation to break through Ming Jue’s darkness and restored his sight, hearing, and Divine Sense.
• Ming Jue attacked Shi Jian with eight heavy weapons, but Shi Jian blocked them with the Wanxiang Barbarian Bone Pearl and counterattacked with the Immortal-Slaying Spear.
• Shi Jian and Ming Jue fought fiercely until Shi Jian broke one of Ming Jue’s war halberds and drove his spear into Ming Jue’s old chest wound.
• Shi Jian pinned Ming Jue with the Immortal-Slaying Spear and suppressed him with the Wanxiang Barbarian Bone Pearl, while Ming Jue began to detonate his Immortal Foundations.

Shi Jian killed the Nether Abyss Emperor with a fusion of five supreme Thunder Methods, then plundered his treasure vault as the Lightless Dead Realm neared collapse. He waited among the ruins for the realm gate to open, eager to claim the promised lightning pool baptism and advance his cultivation.

• Shi Jian fused five kinds of true lightning and annihilated Ming Jue, leaving behind his Dao of Darkness heart core, damaged Extreme Realm remains, and weapons.
• Shi Jian collected Ming Jue’s remains and weapons, then broke through the formations guarding the abyssal lair.
• Shi Jian discovered mountains of treasures and a pool of Great Void Bone-Cleansing Marrow in the underground palace and took everything, even the dark gold in its walls.
• As chaos storms swallowed the Lightless Dead Realm, Shi Jian withdrew his presence and waited for the realm gate to open.
• Shi Jian looked forward to the promised lightning pool baptism and planned to complete his fourth Immortal Foundation, study the fifth, and reach the Extreme Realm.

As the Lightless Dead Realm neared destruction, Shi Jian gathered tens of thousands of young Night Beasts into his portable secret realm to preserve and control their bloodline. The ten-year term then ended and the realm gate opened, and Shi Jian followed the fleeing survivors toward it.

• Shi Jian watched the dying Lightless Dead Realm and decided to save its surviving Night Beast bloodline.
• Shi Jian opened his portable secret realm and drew tens of thousands of young Night Beasts into a sealed habitat.
• The Lightless Dao resonance collapsed, and a Profound Lightning realm gate opened between the realms.
• Surviving cultivators rushed toward the gate as the Lightless Dead Realm began to fall apart.
• Shi Jian followed behind the fleeing cultivators and headed for the realm gate.

After the Lightless Dead Realm trial devastated the Nine Realms’ cultivators, Shi Jian emerged uninjured and far more powerful, astonishing the survivors and the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan. He reached the clan’s reckoning platform as its elders explained the rewards for exchanging Night Beast Heart Cores.

• Fewer than two hundred cultivators returned from the trial, and survivors reported that beast tides and collapsing realms had killed most of their companions.
• Shi Jian stepped through the realm gate uninjured, displaying four layers of lightning Dao manifestations and terrifying the battle-worn survivors.
• The Heavenly Wind Dao Venerable recognized that Shi Jian had condensed his fourth Immortal Foundation to fifty percent and gained abundant Qi and Blood.
• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor realized Shi Jian had razed ancient cities and emptied treasuries throughout the Lightless Dead Realm.
• Shi Jian ignored the crowd’s reactions and strode to the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan’s platform.
• A leading Profound Lightning elder described the clan’s rewards for exchanging Night Beast Heart Cores, including an ancestral empowerment for an Extreme Realm Spirit Transformation core.

Shi Jian presented his spoils to the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan and earned six hundred and sixty years in its Transformation Lightning Pool, along with the Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor’s promise to protect his Dao. He entered the deepest lightning realm and began seclusion, vowing to break through to the Perfected Spirit Transformation realm before leaving.

• Shi Jian revealed thousands of fourth-tier Night Beast cores and more than thirty Spirit Transformation heart cores, shocking the gathered cultivators.
• The Profound Lightning elders calculated that Shi Jian’s battle merits earned him exactly six hundred and sixty years in the Transformation Lightning Pool.
• The Old Profound Lightning Beast Emperor granted Shi Jian access to the Nine Heavens Extreme Lightning Realm and promised that his clan would protect Shi Jian when he faced the Dao tribulation.
• Shi Jian accepted the Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Talisman, handed over the heart cores, and flew into the Transformation Lei Yuan.
• Shi Jian sealed himself in the lightning abyss and vowed not to leave until he reached the Perfected Spirit Transformation realm.

After Shi Jian emerged from the Lightless Dead Realm with immense spoils and the Profound Lightning Dao Venerable’s protection, the Nine Realms’ major powers began weighing the threat posed by his Divine Firmament path. The Human Race sought to contain him through the Space Heaven Clan, which prepared to challenge him when he emerged from Lei Yuan six hundred years later.

• The Human Race’s three Supreme Void Lightning Sect elders confirmed that Elder Qingjue and thirty Nascent Soul sword seeds had died, then discussed Shi Jian’s growing strength and his potential to undermine their lightning-sword lineage.
• The Human Race elders decided to approach the Space Heaven Clan and encourage it to oppose Shi Jian without drawing the Human Race into conflict with the Peak Mountain Imperial Clan.
• A Space Heaven Clan Spirit Transformation expert warned two twelve-winged divine generals that Shi Jian’s body, weapon, and Radiant Yang Lightning could make him a major threat.
• One divine general dismissed the warning, ordered thirty-six battalions of Wind and Lightning Heavenly Guards to patrol the realm barriers, and said they would confront Shi Jian when he left Lei Yuan six hundred years later.
• The great clans and imperial powers across the Nine Realms sought information about Shi Jian, whose potential to claim a vacant Dao of Lightning position could give the Beast Realm a second such inheritance.

The Giant Bear Ancestral Court celebrated Shi Jian’s rise and recognized the chance for the clan to gain a second Dao Venerable. The chapter ended with Ancestor Egu elevating the Lightning Bear Line and ordering the clan to protect Shi Jian and the Divine Firmament Plain.

• Shi Pan represented the Lightning Bear Line before the assembled Spirit Transformation leaders of the Giant Bear lineages.
• Man Hengkong praised Shi Jian for taking the Profound Lightning Ancestral Court’s foundations and securing Profound Lightning Dao Venerable’s promise to protect his Dao.
• Ancestor Shanyue explained that Shi Jian could give the Giant Bear Clan a powerful second Dao Venerable if he forged his sixth Divine Firmament Immortal Foundation.
• The Savage Sha and Mysterious Bear lineages offered Shi Pan supplies and resources for the Divine Firmament Plain.
• Man Hengkong announced Ancestor Egu’s decree elevating the Lightning Bear Line to equal rank with the ancestral mountain and granting it access to the secret treasury.
• Man Hengkong ordered the eight lineages to conceal Shi Jian’s powers and hunt down anyone who attacked the Divine Firmament Plain.

Shi Pan received a decree as the Giant Bear Clan transformed the Divine Firmament Plain into a fortified territory. Shi Fangting and Shi Pan surveyed the newly forged Dao Spirit Bear Human warriors and looked ahead to supporting the ancestor’s rise.

• Shi Pan received the decree and vowed to build an immortal divine city for the ancestor.
• The Giant Bear Clan turned the lightning-scarred Divine Firmament Plain into fertile land centered on Divine Firmament Lightning City.
• Shi Fangting and Shi Pan inspected the third batch of Dao Spirit Bear Humans, including thousands of young warriors who had awakened the Barbarian Bone Lightning Mark.
• Shi Fangting explained that he had promoted intermarriage between the Dao Spirit Human Race and the Lightning Bear Tribes to strengthen and secure his people.
• Shi Fangting declared that the plain’s inhabitants would become an army for the ancestor, while Shi Pan agreed that the clan was ready for the ancestor’s return.

Shi Xiao secretly returned from the Dao Realm to Divine Firmament Peak, where he revealed that he had reached Nascent Soul Perfection and was ready to break through to Spirit Transformation. Shi Lei agreed to guard him as he drew on the ancestral land’s lightning Qi to forge his Dao platform.

• Shi Xiao and Shi Lei discussed Divine Firmament Peak’s growth under Shi Pan and the clan system Shi Lei had helped build.
• Shi Xiao reported that their mother had advanced to Middle Spirit Transformation and secured the Li Bear Plains, though outsiders continued trying to infiltrate their territory.
• Shi Lei pointed out that the Lightning Bear Line needed more strength and asked why Shi Xiao had secretly returned from the Dao Realm.
• Shi Xiao revealed his Purple Firmament Lightning and said he had reached Nascent Soul Perfection after decades of fighting in the Dao Realm.
• Shi Xiao announced that he would use Divine Firmament Peak’s lightning Qi to strike the heavenly gate and forge his Spirit Transformation Dao platform, while Shi Lei promised to guard the summit.

Shi Xiao attempted to break through to Spirit Transformation while the Divine Firmament Plain’s tribes guarded the mountain, and his Primordial Spirit entered the river of the Great Dao of Lightning. As the Principles began to dissolve him, Shi Xiao defied their call to merge with heaven and earth.

• Shi Pan and Shi Lei ordered the Divine Firmament Plain’s tribes to seal off approaches while Shi Xiao entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• For fifteen years, Shi Lei guarded the passage to the summit as the thunderclouds above Divine Firmament Peak grew into a sea of purple lightning.
• A vortex opened in the sky, and the river of the Great Dao of Lightning appeared as Shi Xiao’s Primordial Spirit emerged to face the Tribulation of Dao Dissolution.
• The Great Dao’s Principles scoured Shi Xiao’s memories and began dissolving his Primordial Spirit into Purple Firmament Lightning.
• As his soul neared dissolution, Shi Xiao declared that he would ascend to the pinnacle of the Dao of Lightning and would not seek peace by merging with heaven and earth.

After surviving Dao Dissolution, Shi Xiao forged the Purple Firmament Lightning Immortal Foundation and entered Spirit Transformation, making the Lightning Bear Line a family with three Spirit Transformation experts. His breakthrough drew attention from the Beast Realm’s major clans and reached Shi Jian in his distant seclusion, where his fourth Immortal Foundation stirred.

• Shi Xiao refused to surrender his feelings and will to the Dao, devoured the Purple Firmament Lightning Principles, and carved his own divine soul imprint into them.
• Shi Xiao forged the Purple Firmament Lightning Dao platform, emerged from his sealed chamber, and ascended to Early Spirit Transformation as a colossal Lightning Bear manifestation appeared above Divine Firmament Peak.
• Shi Pan and the Lightning Bear Line celebrated Shi Xiao’s breakthrough, while Shi Lei praised his elder brother and declared that the Giant Bear Lineage would command respect.
• Man Hengkong ordered Shi Xiao’s name entered into the imperial clan’s sacred register and sent gifts, while ancient presences from other Beast Realm clans stirred with wariness.
• Shi Jian sensed Shi Xiao’s breakthrough from his seclusion in the Nine Heavens Extreme Lightning Realm, and his Radiant Yang Lightning Immortal Foundation suddenly flared with pure Yang power.

At his Spirit Transformation ceremony, Shi Xiao welcomed the Beast Realm’s great powers and demonstrated the strength of his Purple Firmament Lightning Immortal Foundation. He expounded the Dao of Divine Firmament, helping cultivators across the plain break through as a Black Eagle general declared the Lightning Bear Line’s fortunes secure.

• Three months after Shi Xiao’s ascension, Divine Firmament Plain prepared for his ceremony with a vast city, lightning formations, and troops on guard.
• Ancestor Shanyue and other Giant Bear lineages arrived with valuable gifts, followed by envoys from the Black Eagle, Kui Lang, and other imperial clans.
• Shi Xiao hosted the assembled Spirit Transformation experts and Nascent Soul cultivators in Divine Firmament Heavenly Hall.
• After Kui Wood Flame asked him to reveal his Dao, Shi Xiao transformed into a giant bear Dharma Form and expounded the Dao of Divine Firmament across the plain.
• Lei Ya broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage, other cultivators advanced, and Divine General Jinyu remarked that the Lightning Bear Line’s fortunes were made.

Shi Xiao hosted the Spirit Transformation elders after his breakthrough and asked Kui Wood Flame to help Kuang Dou, the loyal leader of the Sun Devourer Black Hound Clan. He argued that Kuang Dou’s service to the Lightning Bear Line had held back his prospects, leaving the nature of his request unresolved.

• Shi Xiao received praise from the gathered elders for his understanding of the Divine Firmament True Intention and slaughter principles.
• The Profound Lightning Imperial Clan guest elder offered Shi Xiao a place to cultivate at the ancestral court, and Shi Xiao accepted the invitation.
• Shi Xiao asked Kui Wood Flame for a favor on behalf of the Kui Lang Clan and summoned Kuang Dou into the hall.
• Kuang Dou knelt before Shi Xiao, who praised his long service and the Sun Devourer Black Hounds’ loyalty to his father and the Lightning Bear Line.
• Kui Wood Flame praised Kuang Dou’s strength, and Shi Xiao said the Lightning Bear Line had held back the general’s prospects.

At his Spirit Transformation ceremony, Shi Xiao arranged for Kuang Dou to join the Kui Lang Imperial Clan and pursue a chance at Spirit Transformation, securing a bond between their clans. After the feast, Shi Xiao told Shi Lei that he was placing pieces for the Lightning Bears’ future across the Nine Realms.

• Shi Xiao explained that Kuang Dou’s cultivation had stalled because Divine Firmament Peak’s lightning Qi hindered his fire-based Dao, and he refused to let his loyal subordinate abandon the pursuit of the Dao.
• Shi Xiao asked Kui Wood Flame to accept Kuang Dou into the Kui Lang Imperial Clan in exchange for the Lightning Bear Line’s future support.
• Kui Wood Flame agreed to take Kuang Dou as his disciple, provide Fire Dao resources and teachings, and protect his attempt at Spirit Transformation.
• Kuang Dou thanked Shi Xiao, promised to strive for Spirit Transformation, and departed with Kui Wood Flame.
• After the feast, Shi Xiao told Shi Lei that the Lightning Bears needed to cultivate strength in multiple Daos and that their clan was making advance plans for the coming age.

A century after Shi Xiao forged his [Purple Firmament Lightning] Immortal Foundation, the Lightning Bear Line transformed the Divine Firmament Plain into a powerful, orderly realm. The plain’s population, agriculture, clans, and military structure flourished under Shi Xiao, Shi Lei, and Shi Pan.

• A hundred years passed, and the Lightning Bear Line’s authority spread across the Divine Firmament Plain under Shi Xiao, Shi Lei, and Shi Pan.
• The Dao Spirit Human Race grew to tens of millions and cultivated lightning-rich crops and spirit medicines across the plain.
• Dao Spirit Bear Humans became the backbone of the plain’s farms, cities, formations, and patrols after Shi Fangting’s bloodline-fusion efforts took hold.
• The four Lightning Bear lines and their twenty-four tribes filled their Nascent Soul commander positions with pureblood cultivators.
• Shi Lei attracted the Thunder Leopard, Thunder Owl, Thunder Rat, Thunder Tiger, and Thunder Elephant clans, which joined the order around Divine Firmament Peak.

Shi Pan oversaw the Divine Firmament Plain’s ten-year spirit-tax collection, then ordered a share of the tribute sent to support newly advanced Lightning Bear cultivators. The chapter ended by introducing Purple Firmament Peak, a cultivation sanctuary for the tribes’ most promising young disciples.

• Shi Pan presided over the grand spirit-tax collection in Divine Firmament Lightning City as the twenty-four tribes presented their tribute.
• Lei Ya presented the Frenzied Thunder Azure Profound Tribe’s tribute, which an accounting officer recorded as fully paid and upper rank.
• Observers from the Thunder Elephant Race and Thunder Tiger Race praised the Divine Firmament Line’s system of collecting resources and rewarding young prodigies.
• Shi Pan ordered thirty percent of the spirit marrow set aside for the Blessed Lands and distributed among Lightning Bears who had recently advanced.
• The chapter described the Divine Firmament Plain’s newly developed cultivation peaks and introduced the eastern subsidiary peak, Purple Firmament Peak.

Over a hundred years, the Lightning Bear Line grew its strength and established Divine Firmament Lightning City as a thriving trade center while Shi Xiao and Shi Lei guarded their clan’s expanding territory. As Shi Xiao awaited his father’s return from seclusion, he ordered his brothers to keep building their foundation and biding their time.

• A new Lightning Spirit emerged on Purple Firmament Peak, ignored the gathered young Lightning Bears, and flew into the back mountain clouds.
• Divine Firmament Lightning City prospered as cultivators and merchants from across the Nine Realms traded rare goods and increased the Lightning Bear Line’s influence.
• Shi Lei told Shi Xiao that their mother had secured the Li Bear Plains, the clan’s tax revenues had more than doubled, and over eighty foreign Nascent Souls were under their protection.
• Shi Lei reported that the clan had killed Human Realm spies, uncovered Heaven Realm shadow guards, and suffered caravan attacks from underlings of Tiger Sha and Black Eagle.
• Shi Xiao said the clan’s enemies feared its rise and ordered Shi Lei to protect their territory, bide their time, and prepare for their father’s return from seclusion.

The Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable rejected his disciples’ demand for revenge against the Lightning Bear Line, prioritizing his plan to complete the Sword Origin fruition and form a Sword Dao Dao Embryo. He ordered the Hidden Sword Dao Palace to seal its mountain for two thousand years, leaving the Lightning Bear Line unchallenged for now.

• A white-haired Sword Venerable reported Shi Xiao’s breakthrough and the Lightning Bear Line’s growing strength, then urged the Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable to authorize retaliation against Shi Jian.
• The Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable rebuked the sword cultivators for blaming Shi Jian for Qingjue’s death and dismissed their call for revenge as foolish.
• The Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable revealed that he had mastered the Immortal Slayer Dao and acquired three Sword Origin foundations, and said he expected to form a Sword Dao Dao Embryo within two thousand years.
• The Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable warned that attacking the Lightning Bear Line would benefit the Space Heaven Clan and provoke the Peak and Mountain Imperial Clan’s emperor.
• The Immortal Slayer Dao Venerable ordered the Hidden Sword Dao Palace to seal its mountain and forbid its True Disciples from entering the Beast Realm for two thousand years.

In the Azure Extremity Heaven Domain, Mu Kurong and other Spirit Race leaders lamented their losses in the battle for the Dao Realm and the Beast Realm’s rising strength. With most of their forces committed against the Nether River Clan, they chose espionage and diplomacy over an invasion, leaving their agents to prepare reports for the Space Heaven Clan.

• Mu Kurong destroyed an ornamental jade mountain in anger over the Beast Realm and its gains.
• A Spirit Race woman recalled how the Myriad Spirits Imperial Clan had failed to seize the [Treasured Earth] and lost more than a hundred Spirit Transformation Grand Venerables and thousands of Nascent Soul clansmen.
• The Spirit Race leaders discussed how Shi Jian’s emergence in the Beast Realm threatened them while the Nether Realm’s incursions occupied most of their forces.
• Mu Kurong ordered Spirit Transformation elites from the Hundred Flowers and Formless lineages to infiltrate the Beast Realm and document the Divine Firmament Plain’s defenses and deployments.
• Mu Kurong directed that a copy of the intelligence be sent to the Space Heaven Clan so the two realms might clash and ease pressure on the Spirit Race.

Feng Xiaoting learned that the Yu Tian Imperial Clan’s agents had failed to infiltrate Divine Firmament Lightning City and reflected on the growing power of rival realms. He resolved that the clan must prioritize claiming the Primal Lightning position as the Nine Realms moved toward a period of upheaval.

• Feng Xiaoting berated three divine generals after their Wind and Lightning deathsworn were exposed and killed near Divine Firmament Lightning City.
• A divine general explained that Shi Xiao’s lightning network and the Dao Spirit Bear Humans had thwarted all three infiltration attempts.
• Feng Xiaoting lamented that Profound Lightning had rejected the Yu Tian Imperial Clan’s marriage alliance and passed the Lightning opportunity to the Giant Bear Clan.
• An old servant warned Feng Xiaoting that attacking the Beast Realm directly would risk provoking its Dao Venerables and Peak Mountain Emperor Lord.
• Feng Xiaoting assessed the rising strength and ambitions of the Nether, Human, Spirit, and Beast Realms, and feared another world-ending conflict.
• The old servant reassured Feng Xiaoting that the clan was close to producing a Space Dao Ancestor, but said claiming the Primal Lightning position still took priority.