Chapter Summaries

Shi Hou prepared spicy poached Golden Frog with Big Red’s help, and the group devoured the spiritually potent meal. Afterward, Shi Hao wondered aloud whether they had forgotten something.

• Big Red showed Shi Hou his eggshell pot, and Shi Hou promised him the frog feet for helping.
• Shi Hou cut up the Golden Frog and used three drops of taiyi true water and mutated leek to enrich the broth.
• Big Red rendered beast fat with his innate true fire while Shi Hou cooked the Golden Frog in the Black Pot.
• Shi Hou shared the meal among Shi Hao, Furball, Kang, and Big Red, and they ate until the pot was empty.
• After more than an hour, Shi Hao asked Shi Hou whether they had forgotten something.

Shi Hao's Supreme Bone was reborn after absorbing the resources that had fueled his growth, and the group continued exploring the Hundred Broken Mountains after he recovered. They entered a Golden Passage that might hold new ingredients and dangers.

• Shi Hao collapsed as his Supreme Bone began to regrow, unleashing a golden light and great dao pressure that subdued Big Red, Furball, and Kang.
• Shi Hou recognized the bone's rebirth and stayed awake until the golden light receded, wary of the divine ability within it.
• Shi Hao woke the next morning with a renewed bearing, then asked Shi Hou for meat; Big Red cooked breakfast and earned a larger serving.
• Big Red adapted to life as the group's cook and scout while Shi Hou, Shi Hao, Furball, and Kang traveled deeper into the Hundred Broken Mountains.
• Shi Hao spotted a Golden Passage and led the group inside in search of better ingredients.

Shi Hao and Shi Hou encountered youths from the Martial King Manor attacking a wounded purple marten, and the youths tried to force Shi Hou to serve as their chef. Furball and Kang struck first and quickly defeated them, while Big Red resolved to work harder as the team’s assistant.

• Shi Hou prepared spicy seasoning as Shi Hao and the others entered a primeval forest and came upon Martial King Manor youths attacking a wounded purple marten.
• The youths’ leader recognized Shi Hou as the Black-Skinned Chef and demanded that he become a personal spirit chef, then ordered his companions to seize him when Shi Hou ignored him.
• Shi Hao recognized the attackers as members of the Martial King Manor and prepared to discipline them after recalling his clan’s betrayal.
• Furball called on Kang for help, and Kang’s blue light froze the youths’ blood qi and runes.
• Furball battered the Martial King Manor youths with a beast-bone club, leaving them beaten within five breaths.
• Big Red realized Furball had revealed a powerful savage-beast aura and decided to take on more kitchen work to remain useful.

Shi Hao and Shi Hou followed Purple Marten to the Treasure-Splitting Cliff, where the gathered clans’ prodigies waited to enter the ruins. Shi Hao reunited with the wounded Nine-Headed Lion and gave him a tiny scrap of Golden Frog meat that unexpectedly healed his wounds and restored his blood qi.

• Shi Hou spared Purple Marten because he was too small and stringy, and Purple Marten offered to lead the group to the Treasure-Splitting Cliff in exchange for his life.
• Shi Hao and Shi Hou traveled with Purple Marten through the Hundred Broken Mountains, eating the primordial creatures that challenged them.
• The group reached the Treasure-Splitting Cliff, where prodigies and powerful creatures had gathered, and the crowd made way for the feared Black-Skinned Chef and Chubby White Bear Child.
• Shi Hao spotted the injured Nine-Headed Lion, whom he called Little Gold, and insisted he eat the scrap of Golden Frog meat he had saved for him.
• The tiny scrap unleashed potent medicinal power that healed Nine-Headed Lion’s wounds and boosted his blood qi, and he thanked Shi Hao sincerely.

Shi Hou tried to find the Nine-Headed Lion’s assailant, provoking the Luan Bird and Feiyi with his appetite for their meat. Shi Hao defended his little brother by overpowering and killing the Feiyi, leaving the gathering to face the aftermath of the fight.

• Shi Hou examined the Nine-Headed Lion’s injuries and asked who had bullied it, joking that several powerful creatures looked delicious.
• The Nine-Headed Lion named the Feiyi as its attacker and insisted that the Luan Bird was an old family friend.
• The Luan Bird and Feiyi attacked Shi Hou’s group with wind blades and black flames.
• Shi Hao used the Suanni Precious Technique to break through both attacks and strike the Feiyi’s head.
• Shi Hao threw the Feiyi to the ground and killed it with a pillar of golden lightning.

Shi Hou defeated a pureblood Feiyi and forced the Nine-Headed Lion to contribute one of his heads in exchange for sparing the Luan Bird. He cooked all three creatures in Taiyi True Water, leaving the assembled onlookers stunned as he declared the hot pot ready.

• Shi Hou killed the Feiyi with a punch and Golden Lightning, then chased the fleeing Luan Bird and held his blade to its neck.
• The Nine-Headed Lion agreed to offer one of his heads as a stake, and Shi Hou cut a slab of belly meat from the Luan Bird before kicking it away.
• Big Red prepared the Luan Bird meat and Feiyi carcass while Shi Hou brought out his Black Pot and added Taiyi True Water.
• The Nine-Headed Lion severed one of his own heads and tossed it into the pot.
• Shi Hou added the meats, spirit medicines, and seasonings while dancing around the pot, then announced that it was time to eat.

Shi Hou’s feast of the three remnant beasts restored and empowered the diners, even convincing the wounded Luan Bird to eat its own cooked flesh. As Shi Hou received a huge blood qi reward, Bifang and a Chi Dragon arrived and demanded the precious medicine.

• Shi Hao and the others ate the meat and broth, while the Nine-Headed Lion urged the reluctant Luan Bird to join them.
• The Luan Bird gave in to its hunger and ate a slice of its own belly meat.
• The Purple Marten recovered and broke through its cultivation barrier, while Big Red and the Nine-Headed Lion gained strength and the Nine-Headed Lion regrew its severed head.
• Shi Hou’s system awarded him five million blood qi, raising his total to 105 million.
• Bifang and a Chi Dragon emerged from the black fog, and the Chi Dragon demanded the precious medicine.

Four pureblood creatures abandoned their attempt to seize Shi Hou’s cooking when countless treasure weapons emerged from the Treasure-Splitting Cliff. Shi Hou’s group entered the ruins to hunt for treasures, where Shi Hao was ambushed by a hidden Seal-Breaker.

• The Chi Dragon, Blue-Maned Pixiu, Golden Divine Bird, and Bifang surrounded Shi Hou’s group, but a burst of golden light revealed a vast treasure inheritance and drew them away.
• Shi Hou packed up the pot, then formed a team with the Nine-Headed Lion, Fire Crow, the Three-Eyed Demon brothers, Big Red, Purple Marten, and the Luan Bird.
• The group entered the Treasure-Splitting Cliff and found a shattered world filled with bones, suspended palaces, and sentient treasure weapons.
• Shi Hao pursued a Bone Mirror, but a blue-robed Seal-Breaker struck at his back with a concealed sword attack.

Shi Hao’s Black Pot saved him from an assassin, and his Primordial Remnant companions routed the attackers and dominated the Treasure-Splitting Cliff. After days of pursuing Treasure Weapons, the group saw a Divine Tide erupt across the ruins as thousands of beings fled toward them.

• An Azure-Robed Youth ambushed Shi Hao, but the Black Pot blocked his sword strike, and the Primordial Remnants drove him off with their Treasure Arts.
• Shi Hao spotted four more Seal-Breakers, and his companions overwhelmed them and took their Treasure Bags.
• Over the next few days, Shi Hao’s group became a dominant force on the Treasure-Splitting Cliff and chased sentient Treasure Weapons without managing to catch most of them.
• A brilliant eruption dispersed the black fog at the far end of the ruins, and fleeing beasts and people warned that the Divine Tide was coming.

Shi Hao attempted to claim a Bone Tower in the Secret Realm, but a White Tiger and its attendants attacked him. Shi Hou blocked the attack and charged the White Tiger, eager to turn it into a meal.

• Ancient treasure weapons massacred cultivators across the ruins, and Shi Hao and Shi Hou survived by hiding until the divine tide ended.
• A month later, Shi Hao found a Bone Tower in a valley and used the Suanni Treasure Mirror and Golden Bone Shears to try to capture it.
• The White Tiger and its attendants arrived in a carriage and attacked Shi Hao while he was occupied with the Bone Tower.
• Shi Hou blocked the gray-robed elder's saber strike with his Black Pot and declared that the White Tiger would make a fine meal.
• Shi Hou launched himself toward the White Tiger's carriage with his Purple Thunder Stone Knife.

Shi Hou fought White Tiger with overwhelming physical strength, while Shi Hao kept the bone tower suppressed and admired White Tiger’s treasure. White Tiger unleashed the White Tiger Seal, but Kang answered with a mysterious blue beam, leaving the clash unresolved as Shi Hou threatened to turn White Tiger’s fur into coats for his mother.

• White Tiger and the gray-robed old man attacked Shi Hou with the carriage’s formation, but Shi Hou cut apart its light whips with his stone knife.
• White Tiger summoned a massive rune paw, which Shi Hou shattered with his punch and the Day Tiger technique.
• Shi Hao urged Shi Hou to preserve White Tiger’s paws and asked him to teach him the technique.
• Enraged, White Tiger brought out the White Tiger Seal and sent it crashing down toward Shi Hou.
• Shi Hou woke Kang, whose blue beam drifted into the White Tiger Seal, and then told White Tiger he wanted its fur for his mother’s winter coats.

Shi Hou stripped White Tiger of its White Tiger Seal and nearly killed it, but a life-saving rune bone rescued White Tiger and sent it fleeing. Shi Hou pursued it, while Shi Hao chased after the fleeing Bone Tower in the opposite direction.

• Kang severed White Tiger’s bond with the White Tiger Seal, and Shi Hao caught the fallen treasure.
• Shi Hou boarded the Carriage, gathered its spices, cleared away the attendants, and overpowered White Tiger.
• A life-saving rune bone rescued White Tiger from Shi Hou’s killing blow and carried it a hundred li away.
• Shi Hou destroyed the Carriage and pursued White Tiger, ignoring Shi Hao’s call to return.
• The Bone Tower escaped the valley, and Shi Hao pursued it on the Suanni Treasure Mirror as the brothers raced in opposite directions.
• Shi Hou continued chasing White Tiger through the sky, struggling to keep up with the rune bone’s speed.

Shi Hou caught White Tiger in the White Bone Forbidden Land, where Shi Yi was about to claim the wounded Pureblood Archaic Species as his mount. After Shi Hou challenged Shi Yi over the bone stolen from his younger cousin, the two prepared to face off.

• Shi Hou used his Black Pot to stomp-hop through the air and pursue White Tiger into the White Bone Forbidden Land.
• White Tiger’s life-saving runes failed, leaving it surrounded by Bone Beasts until Shi Yi appeared and forced them to submit with his double pupils.
• Shi Yi offered to take White Tiger as his mount, and White Tiger was about to accept when Shi Hou’s Black Pot crashed into the sea of bones.
• Shi Hou arrived, confronted Shi Yi over claiming his quarry, and identified him as the man who had stolen a bone from his younger cousin.
• Shi Yi erupted with killing intent after Shi Hou called him a thief, while Shi Hou said he had watched Little One grow up and meant to collect interest on his behalf.

Shi Hou fought Shi Yi in the White Bone Forbidden Land, using Kang and his Black Pot to overcome the double-pupiled youth. When a giant claw descended, Shi Hou knocked Shi Yi into its path, then escaped on White Tiger.

• Shi Yi attacked Shi Hou with the power of his double pupils, but Kang’s beams dismantled the attack.
• Shi Hou clashed with Shi Yi using his Stone Knife, and Shi Yi was forced back despite striking with the Ancient Qilin Art.
• Shi Hou used his heavenly cave to hide from Shi Yi and ambushed him with the Black Pot.
• A giant claw descended over the White Bone Forbidden Land, and Shi Yi tried to flee as the black fog surged back.
• Shi Hou struck Shi Yi with the Black Pot, sending him into the giant claw; Shi Yi’s Sacred Rune Bone shattered, and he escaped while injured.
• Shi Hou mounted White Tiger and threatened it with the Stone Knife, ordering it to run.

Shi Hou forced White Tiger to carry him through the White Bone Forbidden Land while monstrous undead pursued them. They escaped into the sunlight, and Shi Hou fed the exhausted White Tiger a vitality-rich leek leaf to restore it.

• Shi Hou threatened White Tiger into fleeing from the giant skeletal claw and directed it through the fog, though his directions led them deeper into the Forbidden Land.
• White Tiger stopped before a Venerable-level Skeletal Giant Ape, then escaped its club strike by following its own instincts while Shi Hou kept the Stone Knife at its neck.
• White Tiger carried Shi Hou and the Black Pig through the Forbidden Land for hours, fighting past Bone Beasts until they reached the exit.
• White Tiger collapsed outside the Forbidden Land, and Shi Hou fed it a golden-marked leek leaf that rapidly healed its wounds and restored its vitality.

Shi Hou restored the White Tiger with medicinal power, then forced it to help him hunt and cook creatures it called sworn enemies while searching for Shi Hao. After a month of roaming the Hundred Broken Mountains, they came upon three wounded human cultivators hiding in the grass.

• The White Tiger recovered its strength, but Shi Hou climbed onto its back and threatened it until it named the Rosy Cloud-Winged Dragon as a sworn enemy.
• The White Tiger killed the Rosy Cloud-Winged Dragon, and Shi Hou cooked its meat while feeding the leftover soup to Kang.
• Shi Hou and the White Tiger continued searching for Shi Hao, and the tiger gradually grew accustomed to accusing creatures of being its sworn enemies.
• After more than a month of hunting across the Hundred Broken Mountains, Shi Hou stopped when he spotted three bloodied human cultivators hiding in the grass.

Shi Hou learned that Shi Hao had been cornered at the Treasure-Splitting Cliff and rushed there with the White Tiger. He arrived as Shi Hao fought the Golden-Winged Peng Bird, which launched a small black mountain at him.

• Shi Hou demanded directions from three fleeing cultivators and learned that Shi Hao was surrounded at the Treasure-Splitting Cliff.
• The cultivators said Shi Hao had killed several remnant beasts while the Golden-Winged Peng Bird and its allies wounded his companions.
• Shi Hou rode the White Tiger toward the cliff, following the signs of battle and a golden blaze on the horizon.
• At the battlefield, Shi Hou found Shi Hao and his injured companions facing the Golden-Winged Peng Bird and the surviving remnant beasts.
• Shi Hao taunted the Golden-Winged Peng Bird and cut through its golden rune attack with the Broken Sword, but it hurled a small black mountain at him.

Shi Hao fought the Golden-Winged Peng Bird while Shi Hou collected the fallen remnants and sent him the Black Pot for protection. With the pot strapped to his back, Shi Hao charged through the bird’s fire and magnetic attacks to strike at its chest.

• The Golden-Winged Peng Bird attacked Shi Hao with its Magnetic Peak and Golden Crow Fan, while Shi Hao fought back with his fists, Suanni Thunder, Vermilion Bird fire, and Broken Sword.
• Shi Hou arrived with the White Tiger, checked the wounded Nine-Headed Lion, and joined Shi Hao at the battlefield.
• Shi Hou collected the six fallen Primordial Remnant corpses as the White Tiger held back their allies.
• Shi Hao and the Golden-Winged Peng Bird continued their close-range battle, trading blows amid the bird’s treasure-weapon attacks.
• Shi Hou threw the Black Pot to Shi Hao, and it fastened itself to his back, absorbing much of the Golden Crow fire and blocking a sneak attack.
• Shi Hao charged through the attacks and used the force of a blocked strike to drive forward, punching toward the Golden-Winged Peng Bird’s chest.

Shi Hou sacrificed himself to destroy the ten Strange Ancestors and the source of the black fog, saving the heavens. Shi Hao was left holding the Black Pot and vowed to bring him back.

• Shi Hou's black-hole heavenly cave began consuming Shi Hao until a finger from another world drove the hidden corruption out of him and revealed the Tenth Ancestor inside Kang.
• Shi Hou remembered his life in Stone Village and rejected the Tenth Ancestor's influence as the ten Ancestors gathered against him and Shi Hao.
• Shi Hou sacrificed all his Blood Qi Value and devoured the ten Ancestors, the Plateau, and the source of the black fog while Shi Hao and their allies held off the counterattack.
• The Plateau collapsed, the black fog dispersed, and the ten Ancestors did not return, but Shi Hou's body crumbled as his black hole closed.
• Shi Hou returned the Black Pot to Shi Hao before disappearing, and Shi Hao promised to bring him back.