Chapter Summaries

Shi Hou drove Bei Village’s surviving youths away after Bei Feng’s Sacrificial Spirit safeguard blocked his attack, then used vegetables from his black pot to heal the injured Shi Shoushan and villagers. Shi Hao resolved not to show mercy next time, and the group returned to the village with their spoils.

• Bei Feng’s shattered bone token released a Sacrificial Spirit phantom that knocked Shi Hou’s palm aside, and the surviving youths fled with Bei Feng and their dead companions.
• Shi Hou reminded Shi Hao that mercy to an enemy was cruelty to oneself, and Shi Hao decided he would not hesitate next time.
• Shi Hou used a cabbage leaf from his black pot to heal Shi Shoushan’s poisoned shoulder, then shared magical vegetables that healed the other villagers’ wounds.
• Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the villagers gathered the giant wolf and other spoils and headed home to cook.

Shi Hou returned to Stone Village with the Hunting Team and prepared a feast from their spoils, but Shi Hao’s appetite showed that ordinary fierce-beast meat could no longer keep up with his cultivation. Shi Hou resolved to seek out better prey in the dark mountains.

• Shi Linhu led the Hunting Team back to Stone Village with Dirt Wolf carcasses and the Redflame Bull and Dragon-Horned Elephant, while Shi Hou dragged the Dirt Wolf King's body.
• Lin Yun discovered that Shi Hou's dark, metallic-looking skin was not dirt, and the village women joked about his toughness and ability to father children.
• Shi Hou cooked a Tenfold Tonic stew, and Shi Hao ate three basins before asking for more.
• The system credited Shi Hou with 50,000 Blood Qi, raising his total to 250,500.
• Seeing that Shi Hao's appetite was outgrowing the energy in ordinary fierce-beast meat, Shi Hou decided he needed to plunder better prey in the mountains.

Shi Hou joined Stone Village’s hunting party as they ventured into the Great Wilderness, where Shi Hao swiftly killed fierce beasts and Shi Hou stored their corpses in his black pot. As rival clans gathered near the Suanni’s territory, the Thunder Clan demanded Kang, and Shi Hou offered to trade the Suanni’s corpse for the pig.

• Shi Yunfeng chose Shi Hao and Shi Hou to join Stone Village’s elite fighters, while refusing the other children who wanted to come.
• Shi Hao killed a charging two-headed Fire Rhinoceros with one strike of the Green-Scaled Eagle’s treasure art, and Shi Hou stored its corpse without spending blood qi.
• Shi Hao continued killing fierce beasts as the hunting party advanced, while Shi Hou collected their bodies in his pot.
• Stone Village encountered the hostile Bei Village and the powerful Thunder Clan in the Rocky Forest, where Bei Feng recognized Shi Hao and the Thunder Clan coveted Kang.
• The Thunder Clan elder demanded Kang in exchange for Stone Village’s safe passage, and Shi Hou offered the Suanni’s corpse as a trade.

Shi Hou and Shi Hao fought the Thunder Clan and Bei Village, then Kang’s carrot-fueled blast incapacitated their enemies and let Shi Hou loot them. When Suanni died and a beast tide surged toward its lair, the Stone Village group set off to join the rush for the spoils.

• Shi Hao blocked the Thunder Clan elder’s lightning strike with the Green-Scaled Eagle clan’s Primitive Treasure Technique and taunted him.
• The Thunder Clan elder summoned his thunder beast treasure technique, but Kang’s uncontrolled energy storm knocked down the Thunder Clan and Bei Village fighters.
• Shi Hou gathered the Thunder Clan’s staff and supplies and stripped the fallen enemies of their valuables.
• A golden pillar rose from Suanni’s lair, and Shi Linhu recognized that Suanni had died and called for everyone to run.
• Shi Hou set Shi Hao on the black pot and charged toward the beast tide with the Stone Village group.

Shi Hou and Shi Hao fought through the beast tide toward the dying Suanni, with Shi Hou using the black pot to smash beasts and even a group of Luofu Marsh youths aside. The Green-Scaled Eagle carried them toward the heart of the battlefield, where Shi Hou prepared to seize whatever treasures he could find.

• Shi Hou and Shi Hao charged through the beast tide, killing beasts and collecting their bodies as they went.
• Shi Hou smashed Young Master Jiao Peng’s flying carpet and sent the Luofu Marsh youths crashing into the woods.
• Blocked by the packed beast tide, Shi Hou decided they would need another way to reach the fading golden light of the Suanni.
• The Green-Scaled Eagle landed, and Shi Hou demanded treasure bones to repay the cost of hatching her eggs before Shi Hao hurried them onto her back.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yunfeng and the others to return, and the Green-Scaled Eagle flew with Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the unconscious Black Pig toward the battlefield’s heart.
• As they approached the battlefield, Shi Hou said he intended to stock up rather than give anything away.

Shi Hao and Shi Hou fought off savage beasts while the Green-Scaled Eagle carried them deeper into the mountains. They reached a hollow where a dead Suanni lay surrounded by a waiting beast tide, and Shi Hou eyed the corpse as food.

• Shi Hao knocked back a Purple Gold Snake with an azure moon, while Shi Hou killed an ambushing Blood Sable with the black pot.
• Shi Hou swallowed the Purple Gold Snake's poison mist with the black pot, and Shi Hao sliced the snake in half with a lightning-coated azure moon.
• A giant crocodile attacked the Green-Scaled Eagle with a torrent of bone spikes, but Shi Hou blocked them with the black pot while Shi Hao stabbed the crocodile's eye with the Broken Sword.
• The wounded crocodile fell into the river and was devoured by aquatic beasts, allowing the Green-Scaled Eagle to escape.
• Shi Hao and Shi Hou spotted a dead Suanni surrounded by a ring of savage beasts, and Shi Hou wondered whether he could stew it.

Shi Hou recognized that the Suanni was feigning death and led Shi Hao and the Green-Scaled Eagle to hide while the beasts rushed toward its corpse. The Suanni unleashed a devastating final attack on the Demon Ape, the Li Fire Bull Demon, and the surrounding beast tide, leaving Shi Hou to remark that it was finally cooked through.

• Shi Hou stopped the Green-Scaled Eagle and convinced Shi Hao that the Suanni was still alive, then guided them behind a distant cliff.
• A Demon Ape and a Li Fire Bull Demon arrived and fought over access to the Suanni's corpse.
• The two overlords began reaching for the corpse, and the Suanni suddenly revealed it was alive and unleashed golden lightning.
• The Suanni's lightning blasted the Demon Ape and Li Fire Bull Demon and annihilated the surrounding beast tide.
• Shi Hao realized Shi Hou's warning had saved them, and Shi Hou shielded them with his black wok before declaring the Suanni cooked through.

Shi Hou and Shi Hao salvaged the Demon Ape's severed arm, the Lihuo Demon Bull's horn, and the Suanni's corpse with the black pot, then escaped a barrage of arrows inside it. The pot carried them safely away, leaving the attackers stunned.

• Shi Hou and Shi Hao rode the Green-Scaled Eagle to the battlefield after the Demon Ape and Lihuo Demon Bull fled and the Suanni died.
• Shi Hou collected the Demon Ape's severed arm and the Lihuo Demon Bull's broken horn in the black pot.
• Shi Hou and Shi Hao enlarged the black pot and pushed the Suanni's corpse inside, where it shrank and disappeared.
• The human experts attacked as Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the Green-Scaled Eagle tried to flee with the treasures.
• Shi Hou enlarged the pot over the group, and it withstood a Flood Dragon arrow and a rain of arrows as the eagle escaped.

Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and the Green-Scaled Eagle crashed into the forest after a mysterious wing spasm and were ambushed by Bei Feng and Bei Village. Shi Hou destroyed Bei Feng’s Sacrificial Spirit artifact, and Shi Hao struck Bei Feng down as the Green-Scaled Eagle routed his men.

• The Green-Scaled Eagle’s wing spasmed in flight, sending her and Shi Hou and Shi Hao crashing into the forest.
• Shi Hou recognized the ambush as a plot correction and called out Bei Feng and the Bei Village fighters surrounding them.
• Bei Feng summoned an old bei phantom with a bone artifact, but Shi Hou smashed it with the black pot.
• The Green-Scaled Eagle attacked the Bei Village fighters with wind blades, while Bei Feng’s artifact shielded him from the first strike.
• Shi Hao kicked Bei Feng in the face and drove his head into the dirt.

After Shi Hou survived the Bei Village Sacrificial Spirit’s poisonous breath, Kang paralyzed the wolf with a blast, allowing Shi Hou to strike it with an enormous stone knife. The wolf was left reduced to a piece of its hind leg in a deep trench.

• Shi Hou collected Bei Feng’s Treasure Bone and Broken Bow, then teased the Green-Scaled Eagle until she knocked him into the air.
• The Bei Village Sacrificial Spirit ambushed Shi Hou with poisonous breath, apparently dissolving him, while Shi Hao and the Green-Scaled Eagle charged the wolf.
• Shi Hou emerged unharmed from the poison mist, and Kang blasted the wolf with a beam that paralyzed it.
• Shi Hou enlarged his stone knife to forty meters and chopped down at the immobilized wolf, leaving a deep trench and a piece of its hind leg.

Shi Hou survived the old bei’s attack, but refused to take its severed leg because he found it too disgusting, so Shi Linhu carried it back to Stone Village. The old bei pursued the group to the village, where the Willow Deity killed it with a single branch, and Shi Hou decided its hide and meat could go to Big Yellow.

• Shi Shoushan scolded Shi Hou for risking his life against the old bei, while Shi Hao clung to him in relief.
• Shi Linhu wanted to take the severed wolf leg back as precious medicinal meat, but Shi Hou rejected it as too foul-smelling and ugly.
• Shi Linhu and the others carried the wolf leg toward Stone Village as the group hurried home.
• The old bei caught up with them near the village, and the Willow Deity pierced its forehead with a branch and killed it.
• Shi Hou accepted the old bei’s corpse as a gift from the Willow Deity and proposed using its hide for Big Yellow’s bed and its meat for an extra meal.

Shi Hou reluctantly used his system to purify and cook the Sacrificial Spirit, producing a powerful meatball and rune-filled broth. Shi Hao and the villagers gained great benefits, while the Willow Deity told Shi Hou that his body was drawing runes on its own.

• Shi Hou agreed to cook the Sacrificial Spirit after Shi Yunfeng and Shi Linhu urged him, though he warned that the meat was contaminated.
• Shi Hou spent 100,000 blood qi to activate purification cooking and carved away the Sacrificial Spirit's impurities while dancing to the system's music.
• Shi Hao swallowed the condensed meatball, gained 400,000 blood qi, and began transforming as mysterious symbols appeared on his skin.
• A villager drank the remaining rune-filled broth and entered enlightenment, prompting the rest of Stone Village to drink and meditate.
• The Willow Deity told Shi Hou that his path differed from the villagers' and that his body seemed to be drawing runes on its own.

Shi Hou discovered that his strange black skin could absorb or blunt treasure techniques, then tested it against Shi Hao, who was overwhelmed by the sacrificial spirit dao fruit’s energy and demanded a fight. As Shi Hao unleashed a powerful lightning attack, Shi Hou swung his massive Stone Pot at him.

• Shi Hou let Shi Linhu strike him with the wolf bone’s blood-red attack, and his black skin absorbed it without leaving a mark.
• Shi Yunfeng assigned the Suanni’s primordial treasure bone and the Li Fire Bull Demon’s horn to the ancestral hall and entrusted the ancient beasts’ flesh to Shi Hou.
• Shi Hao, burning with excess energy from the sacrificial spirit dao fruit, rushed at Shi Hou and attacked him.
• Shi Hou caught and crushed Shi Hao’s azure-gold treasure technique, then fought him in close combat as Shi Hao tried to release his energy.
• Shi Hao unleashed a golden lightning attack, and Shi Hou swung the several-thousand-jin Stone Pot at him.

Shi Hou used the black pot to knock Shi Hao out of his raging lightning state, while the Sacrificial Spirit broth strengthened Stone Village and transformed Green-Scaled Eagle. With the villagers and their new ally empowered, Shi Hou announced that the Suanni feast would begin in three days.

• Shi Hou struck Shi Hao with the black pot, and Shi Hao recovered from his overheated state in a haystack.
• Shi Feijiao and the other villagers awakened after drinking the Sacrificial Spirit broth, with Shi Feijiao breaking through to the late-stage Blood Moving Realm.
• Shi Yunfeng awakened younger and stronger, and Shi Hou gave the broth residue to Green-Scaled Eagle.
• Green-Scaled Eagle underwent atavism, growing bluish-purple scales and gaining the pressure of a Primordial Remnant.
• Shi Hou told the village not to slack off and announced that the Suanni feast would start in three days.

Stone Village faced several major clans who demanded a wager for the Suanni meat, proposing that their young prodigies fight Shi Hou and Shi Hao. Shi Hou accepted and insisted the clans put up stakes of their own.

• Shi Hou prepared to cook the Suanni while Shi Hao and Kang waited eagerly for the meat.
• Several major clans arrived at Stone Village, but their mounts froze in fear when they saw the Willow Deity.
• A Thunder Clan elder demanded the Suanni meat, and Shi Hou refused to give it up.
• The Purple Mountain Marquis's representative proposed that the clans' prodigies fight Shi Hou and Shi Hao for the meat.
• Shi Hou agreed to the wager but told the clans they had to put up stakes.

Shi Hao defeated the Golden Wolf Tribe youth and countered Lei Ming’s lightning with the Suanni Precious Technique, impressing the gathered factions. When a white-clad youth insulted Shi Hou and demanded his pot, Shi Hou stood up to confront him.

• Shi Hou demanded equal-value stakes for sharing the Suanni, and the factions offered spiritwood, thunder source stone, and a spirit herb.
• Shi Hao crippled the Golden Wolf Tribe youth with one punch, then challenged the remaining geniuses.
• Lei Ming summoned lightning with his shortsword, but Shi Hao’s lightning-wreathed azure moons absorbed it and cut the sword in half.
• The white-clad youth dismissed Shi Hao and insulted Shi Hou, demanding that he surrender the pot.
• Shi Hao bristled at the insult, but Shi Hou stood up and asked whether the youth had called him a lump of charcoal come to life.

Shi Hou challenged the rival factions to a three-match wager and knocked Zi Chen unconscious with a single slap, humiliating him and taking his treasures. The Thunder Clan chose Snotty for the next match, and Shi Hou urged him to fight at full strength.

• Shi Hou wagered Suanni and his black pot against the factions’ treasure pouches, then chose Ermeng, Dazhuang, and Snotty to fight.
• Zi Chen accepted the wager and chose Shi Hou for the first match, while Shi Yunfeng warned Shi Hou not to kill him.
• Shi Hou slapped Zi Chen unconscious, smeared soot across his face, and took his treasures.
• The Thunder Clan elder chose Snotty for the second match, and Shi Hou told him to use all his strength.

Snotbug defeated Lei Kun, securing Stone Village's wager and prompting the Golden Wolf Tribe leader to accuse the village of using dangerous spirit food. When the Thunder Clan elder attacked Shi Hou, Shi Shoushan stepped in to protect his son, and Shi Hou's desperate attempt to save him ended as a deep black light appeared.

• Snotbug used a powerful swing to break Lei Kun's copper rings and send him crashing into a tree.
• Shi Yunfeng claimed the wager's goods for Stone Village, while the Golden Wolf Tribe leader accused the village of using spirit food to boost the children's strength.
• Shi Hou ordered the visitors to leave, but the Thunder Clan elder attacked him with a purple lightning spear.
• Shi Shoushan rushed in front of Shi Hou to shield him from the strike, and Shi Hou lunged to pull him away.
• As the lightning spear reached Shi Shoushan, Shi Hou saw an unfathomably deep black light flash behind him.

Shi Hou rescued Shi Shoushan from the Thunder Clan elder’s attack, defeated the elder with Kang’s rapid-fire charge and a blow from the black pot, and demanded compensation from the remaining Thunder Clan members. The other factions backed away as Shi Hou confronted them.

• Kang struck Shi Shoushan in the kidneys, sending him into a woodpile, while the Thunder Clan elder’s lightning spear threatened Shi Hou.
• Shi Hou blocked the spear with the black pot, then used Kang’s Gatling-mode charge to break down the elder’s lightning shield.
• After Kang ran out of ammunition, Shi Hou smashed the elder through the shield with the black pot and knocked him unconscious.
• Shi Hou checked on Shi Shoushan, who scolded him and praised Kang’s strength.
• Shi Hou pulled the unconscious elder from the dirt and demanded compensation from the remaining Thunder Clan members for the elder’s defeat and injury to his father.

Shi Hou extorted the Thunder Clan, the Purple Mountain Marquis Estate, and the Golden Wolf Tribe after defeating their leaders and relying on the village willow’s overwhelming power. With the powers driven off and the spoils gathered, he prepared a Suanni feast for the village.

• Shi Hou forced the Thunder Clan to surrender their treasures, blaming their elder for injuring Shi Shoushan and frightening Kang.
• Shi Hou demanded payment from the Purple Mountain Marquis Estate and the Golden Wolf Tribe for watching the fight, and the Golden Wolf chief attacked him.
• The village willow shattered the Golden Wolf chief’s cave heaven and forced him and his mount to the ground, after which he paid Shi Hou to appease the Sacrificial Spirit.
• Shi Hou and Shi Hao collected the spoils as the visiting powers fled, while Shi Yunfeng worried that the village had made powerful enemies.
• Shi Hou released the Suanni corpse and ordered the villagers to prepare a full banquet.