Shi Chuankong

Shi Chuankong is a Devil Race prince, a senior figure of the Vast Origin House, and one of Han Li's closest Immortal Realm traveling companions. First introduced as Jin Tong's newly made gambling friend, he combines a merchant's knowledge of routes and resources with spatial-law cultivation and a taste for books, wine, and fine food. His guardedness about royal politics initially strains his bond with Han, but shared captivity, escape, and pursuit turn cooperation into acknowledged trust. (Chapters 2991–2992, 3138–3251)

Biography

Primordial journey and an alliance of convenience

Shi Chuankong meets Han in Primordial Origin City after befriending Jin Tong at an arena. Calling himself a primordial hunter, he proposes that they travel together through the primordial land and quickly proves knowledgeable about ships, trade routes, and local dangers. Han remains wary of his background, but Shi's social ease and practical information make him useful, while his willingness to treat the mischievous Jin Tong as a friend gives the group an immediate personal connection. (Chapters 2991–2993)

The journey exposes qualities beneath Shi's cultivated leisure. He uses spatial concealment, escape treasures, and commercial contacts to keep the group moving under danger, while his pride in Vast Origin House resources often becomes genuine material support. As stronger Gold Devouring enemies pursue Jin Tong and Han, Shi repeatedly stays with them rather than taking a safer route alone. Their partnership remains conditional, but the accumulation of shared risks creates a debt and familiarity that neither can dismiss as a single business arrangement. (Chapters 2994–3060)

The Virata Lute and Gray Realm captivity

In the True Mantra Sect ruins, Shi risks himself to save a wounded subordinate and reaches for the spatial treasure at the center of a collapsing palace. When the Virata Lute falls into an enormous spatial rift, he activates black-and-silver armor, enters the rift, and seizes it despite severe backlash. The choice nearly kills him, but it secures a treasure aligned with his laws and later gives the party binding, cutting, and escape options that ordinary teleportation tools cannot provide. (Chapters 3138–3150)

The expedition ends with Shi, Han, and their allies trapped in the Gray Realm and eventually imprisoned. Weeping Soul infiltrates the prison, removes their restrictions, and returns their confiscated belongings; Shi responds with open gratitude and chooses retaliation rather than abandoning the companions still at risk. His father's costly intervention finally brings him back toward the Devil Realm, but that rescue changes his political position: attention from the throne makes his eldest half-brother regard him as a rival for the Holy Race inheritance. (Chapters 3193–3250)

Royal pursuit and earned trust

Once the group reaches the Devil Realm, Shi's concealed identity becomes impossible to ignore. He admits that he is a prince and that Shi Zhanfeng has ordered his death, likely because recovering the Virata Lute and receiving their father's extraordinary rescue made him appear to be a succession threat. Han objects less to the danger than to being kept ignorant of it. Shi apologizes, promises no further concealment, and relies on his full brother Shi Pokong and his old Vast Origin House network to seek a safe road to Night Sun City. (Chapters 3247–3251)

The confession changes the partnership. Han decides that their lives are already intertwined and continues protecting Shi, while Shi uses his access, money, and spatial tools to help Han search the Devil Realm. He later brings Han into royal territory under a guarded identity and shares the risks of exile, ambush, and the Scalptia Spatial Domain. Assassination attempts by Gu Qianxun and Shi Zhanfeng show that Shi cannot withdraw from the succession conflict merely by claiming no ambition; survival itself has become political. (Chapters 3251–3433)

Later advancement and the final alliance

Royal resources later accelerate Shi Chuankong's cultivation until he reaches Great Encompassment, though the story warns that such rapid gains leave an unstable foundation. His higher rank increases his usefulness in the wars surrounding the Reincarnation Palace and Heavenly Court, but it does not erase his reliance on artifacts or allied planning. He continues to contribute through movement, information, and spatial control rather than presenting himself as the party's dominant combatant. (Chapters 3723–3764)

Shi's family ties also broaden the meaning of the final conflict. He is the nephew of Daoist Xie, whose earlier identity connects the destroyed Scalptia order to the Night Sun royal family, and he remains concerned for his uncle as Heavenly Dao assimilation damages Daoist Xie's body. By the latest confirmed events, Shi is alive among the allied resistance, having developed from a guarded merchant-prince into a companion who openly shares danger and responsibility with Han's circle. (Chapters 3433–3442, 3763–3832)

Abilities and cultivation

Shi Chuankong cultivates the laws of space. He is already a Golden Immortal during his first travels with Han and later reaches Great Encompassment through accelerated royal support. His most characteristic strengths are spatial movement, concealment, and the tactical use of specialized treasures. Those abilities are excellent for survival and extraction, but strong restrictions, hostile domains, and repeated overuse of the Virata Lute can still trap or injure him. (Chapters 2991–3060, 3138–3150, 3723–3764)

Spatial movement and concealment

Shi can vanish across short distances, hide himself through warped space, and use spatial plates, mirrors, shuttles, and armor to create escape routes. He applies these methods to rescue allies, evade Gray Immortal pursuers, and cross places where ordinary movement is blocked. His escape projections can split into many false paths, but the technique does not guarantee safety against stronger law users or prepared restrictions; several journeys end with him exhausted, captured, or dependent on outside rescue. (Chapters 2992–3060, 3138–3150, 3193–3250)

Virata Lute

The Virata Lute is a spatial-law treasure that Shi claims from the collapsing True Mantra palace. Its sound can bind surrounding space, release invisible spatial waves or silver wind blades, and assist large-scale escape. Shi can activate it with his law powers and, in desperate circumstances, with his own blood, but forcing the lute produces severe physical backlash. The instrument expands his control beyond personal teleportation while remaining an equipment-derived capability that can fail or injure him under extreme resistance. (Chapters 3150, 3195, 3260–3261)

Commerce, intelligence, and diplomacy

Shi's Vast Origin House experience gives him knowledge of markets, teleportation networks, regional factions, and the value of rare resources. He can secure lodging, identities, information, and transport where brute strength would attract unwanted attention. His cultivated courtesy helps him negotiate with dangerous figures such as the Black Weasel King, yet political caution can become secrecy; withholding the truth about Shi Zhanfeng's pursuit nearly costs him Han's trust. His later promise of candor is therefore a meaningful development in how he uses information. (Chapters 2991–2993, 3247–3251)

Power progression

Relationships

• Han Li: Shi begins as a useful but guarded traveling companion. Shared journeys, captivity, and escape deepen the bond, while Han's anger at the concealed succession crisis forces Shi to choose honesty. Han continues protecting him after that confession, and Shi repeatedly supplies routes, resources, and spatial support in return. (Chapters 2991–3060, 3138–3251, 3251–3433)
• Jin Tong: Jin Tong befriends Shi before Han does, largely through arena gambling and shared amusement. Her easy trust helps introduce him to Han's group, and Shi continues treating her as an independent companion even after learning how dangerous her Gold Devouring identity can be. (Chapters 2991–2992, 3043–3060)
• Daoist Xie: Daoist Xie is Shi's uncle, though the family connection becomes clear only after Daoist Xie's former identity and Scalptia history are revealed. Shi shows genuine concern for him during the final war, particularly as puppet destruction and Heavenly Dao assimilation worsen Daoist Xie's condition. (Chapters 3433–3442, 3763–3832)
• Shi Pokong: Shi Pokong is Shi Chuankong's full brother and the royal sibling he trusts most. Shi relies on him for reinforcements after Shi Zhanfeng's pursuit becomes explicit, believing their shared mother and past loyalty make him the only dependable brother within the succession struggle. (Chapters 3249–3251)
• Shi Zhanfeng: The eldest half-brother sees Shi as a potential rival after he recovers the Virata Lute and receives their father's expensive rescue. Shi professes no desire for the inheritance, but Shi Zhanfeng's attempts on his life force him into the political conflict regardless of his intentions. (Chapters 3247–3251, 3391–3433)
• Weeping Soul: Weeping Soul frees Shi from Infernal prison, restores his possessions, and later travels with him through hostile territory. Shi's formal gratitude reflects a real debt, while their later coordination places them within the same trusted companion network around Han. (Chapters 3193–3197, 3249–3250)

Items

• Virata Lute: Shi retrieves the spatial-law lute from a collapsing palace by entering a huge spatial rift. It becomes his signature treasure, enabling spatial binding, cutting waves, and emergency escape at the cost of potentially severe backlash. (Chapters 3150, 3195, 3260–3261)
• Black-and-silver armor: The armor distorts space around Shi and lets him enter otherwise lethal spatial rifts. Its stored power can be exhausted, leaving the armor dull and Shi exposed after extreme use. (Chapter 3150)