Shi Hou

Biodata

Power Progression

Shi Hou advances through accumulated Blood Qi Value, rather than bone-text cultivation. He explicitly equates 110,000 Blood Qi Value with 110,000 jin of physical strength 12 13.

Background / History

Before transmigration, Shi Hou had achieved financial freedom, only for his friend and girlfriend to betray him and take the proceeds of his life’s work. The experience left him distrustful and self-serving, with eating as his remaining hobby 1.

He transmigrated into an eight-year-old boy in Stone Village and recognized the setting as the Perfect World he already knew. Remembering Shi Hao’s future appetite for primordial remnants, he decided to sample the boy’s beloved beast milk. The theft led to his public spanking and the activation of the Stew Anything system 1.

His cooking quickly became a village resource. After the Willow Deity declared the Stone Pot harmless, Shi Yunfeng promised him first choice of the hunting team’s best ingredients to strengthen the children and share surplus food with the adults 5.

Appearance

Shi Hou initially retains a scrawny boy’s appearance despite possessing extraordinary strength 5.

• Beast-hide clothing: Wears beast-hide garments, including clothing in which Kang nests 5 8.
• Darkening skin: His complexion progresses from bronze to deep charcoal gray as his blood qi recovers and grows 18 19.
• Metallic texture: His mature black skin has a hard, matte sheen and feels like polished pig iron 33.
• Dark-gold patterns: Briefly appear beneath his skin after the Suanni feast, then disappear 42.
• White teeth: His grin contrasts sharply with his dark face 18 40.

Personality

Shi Hou is an obsessive gourmet who routinely evaluates dangerous beasts as potential ingredients. Even the newly hatched eagle chicks prompt thoughts of roasting and dry-frying rather than admiration for their inherited techniques. He is also miserly about blood-qi expenditure, repeatedly treating the cost of nurturing the Green-Scaled Eagle’s offspring as a debt 14 25.

He is cunning and opportunistic when dealing with outsiders. He demands stakes before accepting a wager, takes defeated opponents’ treasures, and charges hostile visitors for supposedly watching the fight and damaging the village 35 37 40.

His attachment to Stone Village steadily breaks through the distrust left by his previous life. His parents’ care moves him, injuries to the hunting team provoke genuine fury, and his father’s willingness to die shielding him tears apart his lingering sense of isolation. By the rune-soup feast, he enjoys seeing the villagers become stronger even without receiving Hundredfold Return himself 10 14 38 50.

Abilities & Skills

Stew Anything System

The system turns ingredients into spiritual food through compulsory, music-driven cooking routines. Shi Hou hears the accompanying music privately, while villagers interpret his movements as a Primordial Sacrificial Dance or Divine Art 2 3.

• Transforms ordinary One-Horned Pig scraps into grade-one spiritual food 3.
• Produces nourishing dishes that replenish blood energy, soothe injuries, and help villagers overcome cultivation bottlenecks 15 34.
• Uses Suanni meat and lightning broth to help Shi Hao absorb lightning power 42.
• Brews rune soup from the Suanni treasure bone and the Demon Ape and Li Fire Bull Demon’s heart blood, enabling villagers to gain lightning-related runes 49 50.
• Requires blood qi or vitality to cook: a Black-Scaled Goat costs 50 vitality, while preparing the Suanni costs 500,000 Blood Qi Value 10 41.
• Refuses recipes he cannot afford. Cooking a Gold-Patterned Jade Egg requires 10,000 vitality when he has only 66 10.
• Can seize control of his movements during preparation, making the dance involuntary 2 10.

Hundredfold Return

When the designated diner, Shi Hao, finishes qualifying spiritual food, Shi Hou receives a hundredfold blood-qi return 11.

• Shi Hao’s 80-point benefit from Black-Scaled Goat becomes an 8,000-point gain for Shi Hou 11.
• Repeated feeding drives his rapid physical growth; he describes the talent as triggering once each day during his village routine 14.
• Does not accompany every meal: the rune-soup feast produces no Hundredfold Return for him 50.

Physical Strength and Rune-Resistant Flesh

Shi Hou’s body rejects conventional bone-text cultivation. His blood qi destroys runes before they can form, and even Shi Yunfeng cannot construct one inside him 12.

• Uses raw strength to pulverize stone, carry a Dragon-Scaled Elephant, and strike with the massive Stone Pot 5 17 33.
• Resists Bei Feng’s bone needle without suffering a puncture; the needle breaks against his palm 20.
• Survives the old bei’s corrosive venomous breath without it breaking his defenses 30 31.
• Absorbs or blunts treasure-technique attacks through skin containing imprisoned rune fragments 33.
• At 1.2 million jin of strength, meets the wounded Li Fire Bull Demon’s charge head-on using the pot 47.
• Limits: His defenses are not absolute. Heavy impacts split the webbing of his hands, and the Spirit Transformation Realm elder’s lightning spear pierces his outer protective blood energy before the Stone Pot intercepts it 26 39 48.

Bloodline and Plant Nurturing

Living things placed in the Stone Pot can absorb its gray mist, consuming Shi Hou’s blood qi 13 16.

• Nurtures the Green-Scaled Eagle’s eggs into three mutated Heaven-Tier chicks 14.
• Mutates Kang into a black, heavier beast with enlarged wings and a rare qi-disrupting attack 16.
• Grows plants at very low blood-qi cost and cultivates vegetables with medicinal properties 13 15 21.
• Risks uncontrolled depletion: Kang’s unsupervised entry drains more than 50,000 Blood Qi Value 16.

Hunting and Battlefield Coordination

Shi Hou combines his strength and equipment with Shi Hao’s techniques and Kang’s disabling attacks 17 23 25.

• Handles Kang like a rapid-fire weapon, directing blue-light barrages that paralyze groups of beasts 17.
• Collects corpses while Shi Hao kills incoming enemies, keeping their hunting party supplied 23.
• Exploits the Demon Ape’s backlash to tear out its heart 47.
• Accepts Shi Hao’s tracking deductions when Kang follows a deliberately planted blood-energy decoy 45.
• Avoids unnecessary exposure by choosing a small party for the hunt of the wounded primordial remnants 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Stone Pot / black pot — System treasure used for cooking, storage, transport, shielding, and blunt-force attacks. It expands enough to carry the children down a cliff or enclose Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the Green-Scaled Eagle against incoming arrows 7 28.
  • Stores dead beasts without blood-qi expenditure and preserves them without decay; Shi Hou describes its capacity as unlimited 23.
  • Shrinks enormous corpses as they enter, allowing him to take the Suanni’s body 28.
  • Responds to Shi Hao’s wish to enlarge it as well as to Shi Hou’s commands 1 28.
  • Is identified by the Willow Deity as an object outside the present realm and age, carrying no baleful aura 5.
• Stone Knife — Size-changing system blade used for cooking and combat. Shi Hou expands it to forty meters while attacking Bei Village’s Sacrificial Spirit 2 30.
• Nurtured vegetables — Carries blood-qi-infused plants in the pot for medicinal use; produces a fragrant, crystalline-rooted cabbage when attending to his father’s poisoned wound 15 21.
• Healing pills — Taken from the Purple Mountain Marquis Estate and consumed after the Li Fire Bull Demon battle to treat his injured hands 48.

Relationships

• Shi Hao — Close companion and the system’s sole diner. His meals fuel Shi Hou’s growth; the two fight and hunt together. Shi Hou protects him from Bei Feng’s sneak attack and teaches him not to show mercy to enemies 1 11 20 21.
• Shi Shoushan — Father in Stone Village. Alternates stern scolding with fierce protectiveness, including attempting to shield Shi Hou from a Spirit Transformation Realm attack 2 15 31 38.
• Lin Yun — Mother in Stone Village. Cares for him during his collapse and recovery; her concern helps him experience familial warmth 9 10 15.
• Shi Yunfeng — Village chief, cooking supporter, and attempted bone-text teacher. Secures ingredients for Shi Hou and later authorizes his expedition for the rune-soup catalysts 5 12 44.
• Willow Deity — Stone Village’s Sacrificial Spirit. Endorses his pot, guides him toward a strength-based path, and explains his unusual skin 5 12 33.
• Kang / Black Pig — Food-loving beast companion, nurtured through the Stone Pot. Frequently rides on Shi Hou and becomes his disabling weapon and tracking assistant 8 14 16 17 45.
• Green-Scaled Eagle — Initially an enemy during the egg raid, later an ingredient supplier, mount, and hunting ally after Shi Hou nurtures her offspring 7 13 25 44.
• Ermeng, Dazhuang, and Snot Boy — Village companions who comfort him when he cannot cultivate and assist in testing Kang and hauling prey 12 17 18.
• Bei Feng — Hostile Bei Village prodigy. Shi Hou breaks his wrist while stopping an assassination attempt and later destroys his Sacrificial Spirit artifact 20 29.
• Zi Chen — Rival prodigy who insults his appearance and demands his pot. Shi Hou knocks him unconscious with one slap and takes his treasures 36 37.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“If I can't be a mage, I'll be the tankiest tank and the most brutal warrior.” 12

“Keep this boy healed up and let him deal the damage. All I need to do is clean up the battlefield, collect the corpses, and while I'm at it... Be a proper supplier.” 23

“In this Great Wilderness, no meat ever lands safely in your mouth.” 44