Chapter Summaries

Shi Hou used the Black Pot to devour the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s poisonous breath as the Sparrow fought Little Red above Stone Village. The breath ruined his snake stock, and he and Shi Hao turned their anger toward the bird overhead.

• Shi Hou fed the villagers snake soup, gaining 500,000 blood qi and bringing his total to 2,500,000.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow and Little Red battled across the sky toward Stone Village, where the Sparrow targeted the village with its poisonous breath.
• Shi Hou enlarged the Black Pot and swallowed the breath, spending 100,000 blood qi to protect the village.
• Little Red struck the Sparrow while it was distracted by the Black Pot, forcing it to resume the aerial battle.
• Shi Hou discovered that the Sparrow’s poison had ruined his snake stock, then raised his knife as Shi Hao and Kang joined him in glaring at the bird.

Shi Hou and Shi Hao combined Stone Village’s strength, Shi Hao’s Suanni technique, and Kang’s lightning to wound the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, while Shi Hou carved a piece of meat from the Supreme Being. The Willow Deity rescued Stone Village from the bird’s counterattack by carrying everyone through a rift in space, and Shi Hou revealed that the meat he took was a poisonous cut called Seven-Mile Fragrance.

• Shi Hao fed Kang the villagers’ blood and qi, his Suanni phantom, and the Titan Python’s gallbladder, then aimed the pig’s explosive beam at the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
• Little Red blocked the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s escape, allowing the beam to strike and briefly paralyze the bird.
• Shi Hou charged into the sky and cut a large piece of meat from the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s tail, storing it in the Black Pot.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow attacked Shi Hou with a world-annihilating beam, but the Willow Deity pulled him back and transported Stone Village through a spatial rift.
• Inside the Willow Deity’s protective dome, Shi Hao asked Shi Hou about the meat, and Shi Hou said he had cut the poisonous Seven-Mile Fragrance.

The Willow Deity used Void Relocation to save Stone Village from the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, carrying the village through the void for two months. The barrier eventually vanished as Stone Village arrived in a lush, essence-rich new world, while the Willow Deity weakened from the journey.

• Shi Hou stored the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow's poisoned remains in the Stone Pot after the Willow Deity relocated Stone Village inside a protective barrier.
• Shi Yunfeng reassured the villagers and explained that the Willow Deity had used Void Relocation to escape the calamity.
• Shi Hou cooked the Golden Lion and other vicious beasts, and the villagers feasted and grew stronger during the journey.
• Shi Hou accumulated five million jin of blood qi over two months as Stone Village traveled through the void.
• The barrier dissolved, the Willow Deity's branch drooped from exhaustion, and Stone Village landed in a verdant new world rich in heaven and earth essence.

Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and Kang explored the new territory and prepared to hunt its unusual fish and birds until the wounded Little Red crashed into the lakeshore. Recognizing Shi Hou as the terrifying cook who had cut the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, Little Red feared being eaten and pleaded for help; Shi Hou began reaching into the Black Pot to assist it.

• Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and Kang found Dragon-Whisker Fish and Five-Colored Chickens by a lake and planned to catch some for dinner.
• Shi Yunfeng and the Hunting Team stopped Shi Hou from taking too many creatures, reminding him to leave enough to breed.
• A crimson meteor struck the lakeshore, revealing the gravely wounded Supreme Divine Bird Little Red.
• Shi Hao recognized Little Red, while Little Red recognized Shi Hou and recoiled in fear of being cooked.
• Little Red silently pleaded for help, and Shi Hou crouched down and took something from the Black Pot.

Shi Hou force-fed Little Red a Mutated Leek, which healed its wounds but filled it with uncontrollable lust, forcing it to flee after giving Shi Hou its True Life Feather. Shi Hao's blunt explanation of the grass's side effects embarrassed Shi Linhu and the other men, whom Shi Yunfeng sent to scout the forest.

• Shi Hou tricked Little Red into swallowing a Mutated Leek, and its primal true flames erupted in rage.
• The leek's vitality destroyed the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow's poisonous miasma and completely healed Little Red's injuries.
• Little Red felt the leek's lustful side effect, suppressed its urge to attack Shi Hou, and fled into the mountains after giving him a True Life Feather.
• Shi Hou handed the feather to Shi Hao, who described how the grass had made Shi Linhu and the other men act lustfully.
• Shi Yunfeng sent Shi Linhu, Fei Jiao, and the other men to scout the nearby forest before dark.

Shi Hao learned from Shi Yunfeng that his parents had left to find a Primordial Divine Medicine after he was brought to Stone Village near death, and they had never returned. He refused to believe they were dead and began eating to grow strong enough to find them.

• Shi Hao gave Shi Hou the Vermilion Bird feather because he could not focus on comprehending it.
• Shi Hao asked Shi Yunfeng about his parents and why he lived in Stone Village, while Shi Hou left them alone to hunt Five-Colored Chickens.
• Shi Yunfeng told Shi Hao that Shi Ziling and his wife had brought him to the village in terrible condition and gone searching for a Primordial Divine Medicine.
• Shi Hao insisted that his parents were alive and vowed to find them.
• Shi Hou cooked the Five-Colored Chickens with spirit medicine and urged Shi Hao to eat and grow strong enough to bring his parents back.
• Shi Hao devoured the meat and declared he would find his parents once he was full.

Shi Hou defeated the Unicorn King and frightened its herd into becoming mounts for New Stone Village. After Shi Hao worried that his parents would think he had died, Shi Hou promised to return with him to the Great Wilderness Ruins and leave them a mark.

• Shi Hou arrived while Dazhuang and Snot Boy were trying to capture the Unicorns, then charged through the Unicorn King's lightning and pinned it in a crater.
• Shi Hou prepared to butcher the Unicorn King, but Shi Hao stopped him and argued that the herd could serve as mounts for the village's hunters.
• The Unicorn King and its herd surrendered, and Shi Hou agreed to spare them for Shi Hao's sake.
• That night, Shi Hao worried that his parents would mistake the ruined site for proof that he had died.
• Shi Hou promised to take Shi Hao, Kang, and the Green-Scaled Eagle back to the Great Wilderness Ruins to carve a message for Shi Hao's parents.

After more than a year of training in Stone Village, Shi Hao surpassed the Blood Moving Realm’s limit, while Shi Hou’s Blood Qi reached over ten million. The Willow Deity awakened and Shi Hao asked about his parents and lost memories, but Shi Hou stopped the examination and brought out the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s body to feed him first.

• Shi Hao carved a Willow Tree totem at Stone Village’s ruined site and vowed to train so he could reach his parents.
• More than a year later, Shi Hao carried a huge mountain into the village square and tossed it down, demonstrating strength beyond the Blood Moving Realm’s limit.
• Shi Hou’s Blood Qi value passed ten million, and Shi Hao introduced a golden, amnesiac three-headed monkey he had named Furball.
• The Willow Deity awakened, and Shi Hao asked it to help recover his memories and learn where his parents had gone.
• Shi Hou stopped the Willow Deity from examining Shi Hao, warning that it could harm his weakened body, and produced the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s corpse to prepare a nourishing meal.

Shi Hou cooked the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow’s Seven-Mile Fragrance with spirit medicines and mutated leeks, serving the Willow Deity first and then feeding Shi Hao. Shi Hao’s first bite unleashed a surge of Supreme vital essence, while Shi Hou received a hundredfold blood-qi return that left him in tearing pain.

• The Willow Deity sealed the meat’s aura beneath an emerald dome, and Shi Hou began preparing it in the Black Pot.
• Shi Hou rendered the Seven-Mile Fragrance in the pot, added spirit medicines and mutated leeks, then simmered the ingredients under a lid.
• Kang knocked the golden furball monkey away when it tried to reach the pot.
• Shi Hou served the Willow Deity first, and its divine thought thanked him as the cracks in its trunk healed.
• Shi Hao ate a piece of meat, triggering a powerful surge of vital essence that strengthened his Suanni phantom.
• Shi Hou received a hundredfold return of 6,000,000 Blood Qi Value, and agony surged through his marrow.

Shi Hao's Supreme Being essence triggered a violent breakthrough, and the Willow Deity revealed the memory of his stolen bone and parents' sacrifice. When Shi Hao succumbed to rage and an inner demon, Shi Hou took him into the forest to fight, leaving their battle underway.

• Shi Hao's medicinal essence erupted, and the Willow Deity calmed it and revealed that he had reached the Blood Moving Realm's limit with strength nearing a hundred and seventy thousand jin.
• The Willow Deity showed the villagers Shi Hao's stolen bone and his parents' desperate escape, and Shi Hao awakened in grief and rage.
• Shi Hao lost control and attacked Shi Yunfeng, so Shi Hou kicked him and caught his lightning-wreathed fist.
• Shi Hou carried Shi Hao into the forest to fight, while Shi Yunfeng stopped Shi Linhu and the others from following.
• Shi Hao rose from a dry riverbed and fired a bolt of golden lightning at Shi Hou's throat.

Shi Hao fought Shi Hou, gradually refining his combat skills until their final clash left both of them exhausted. He emerged from the battle resolved to find his parents, then admitted he was hungry.

• Shi Hao charged Shi Hou with Suanni lightning and Vermilion Bird fire, but Shi Hou's constitution resisted both techniques and his punches.
• Shi Hao branded his runes onto his body and used their force to strike Shi Hou with increasingly powerful, refined attacks.
• Shi Hou adapted by copying Shi Hao's force-delivery methods and countered him, prompting the two to trade blows across the valley.
• After fighting until both were exhausted, Shi Hao and Shi Hou shared a laugh and Shi Hao declared that he would find his missing parents when he grew up.
• Shi Hao's stomach rumbled, and he told Shi Hou that he was hungry.

After returning to Stone Village, Shi Hao received the Primordial True Explanation and entered a deep meditation to comprehend it. Kang also reacted to the bone and began absorbing essence while unconscious, as Shi Hou left the villagers to keep watch over Shi Hao.

• Shi Hou and Shi Hao returned to Stone Village after training, and Shi Yunfeng checked that Shi Hao was unharmed.
• Shi Yunfeng opened the wooden box and revealed the Primordial True Explanation, which the Willow Deity said belonged to Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao touched the bone, fell into meditation, and was surrounded by visions and symbols from its carvings.
• Kang stared at the bone, began glowing with matching patterns, then passed out and snored as it absorbed heaven and earth essence.
• Shi Hou put Kang into the Black Pot Space, told the villagers to keep the fires away from Shi Hao, and walked back to his stone house.

After mastering the threshold of the Primordial True Explanation, Shi Hao set out with Shi Hou to search for clues about his parents at the Second Ancestral Land. As the villagers farewelled them, Shi Hou prepared a spectacular way to travel, leaving everyone stunned.

• Shi Hao recovered from seven days of studying the white bone, and the Willow Deity told him to travel west to the Second Ancestral Land to seek clues about his parents.
• The Willow Deity ordered Shi Hou to accompany Shi Hao, protect his life without interfering too much, and help him on the perilous journey.
• Lin Yun packed supplies for Shi Hou while Shi Shoushan reassured her, and Shi Hou accepted her concern before leaving with a sack of provisions.
• Shi Yunfeng gave Shi Hao medicines and maps, Shi Linhu lent him the Unicorn King, and Hu Niu gave Shi Hou a handmade Fire Rhinoceros-hide belt.
• Shi Hao mounted the Unicorn King, but Shi Hou refused to ride and lifted a massive stone pillar over his head as the villagers watched in shock.

Shi Hou rode a stone pillar through the sky, thrilling at the flight until he encountered a Black-Feathered Feather King Sparrow and a terrifying claw from an ancient fiend beneath the mountains. The pillar crumbled in the shock wave, leaving Shi Hou falling toward the forest.

• Shi Hou launched a stone pillar and leaped onto it, while Shi Hao chased after him on the Unicorn King.
• Shi Hou enjoyed the high-speed flight and stuffed wind-battered Kang into the Black Pot.
• A Black-Feathered Feather King Sparrow blocked Shi Hou's path, but a gigantic claw burst from the mountain and killed the bird instantly.
• Shi Hou recognized the claw's owner as a supreme Primordial Great Fiend imprisoned underground.
• The shock wave from the claw's retreat shattered the stone pillar, and Shi Hou began plummeting toward the forest.

After surviving a fall caused by the Cyan Giant Claw, Shi Hou continued west with Shi Hao and their companions. Shi Hao killed a mutated white tiger, and Shi Hou began preparing it for dinner.

• Shi Hou landed in the Black Pot after the Cyan Giant Claw shattered his pillar, then vowed to return and cut off the claw once his Blood Qi grew stronger.
• Shi Hou fed purple radishes to the Unicorn King and Kang, then joined Shi Hao and Furball on the horse as they continued west.
• A mutated white tiger ambushed the group, and Shi Hao struck it down and battered it to death.
• Shi Hou carved tenderloin from the tiger and described how he would prepare poached meat slices for dinner.

Shi Hou prepared a spicy white tiger meal that boosted Shi Hao’s blood qi, then Shi Hao studied the Primordial True Explanation by the campfire. At dawn, Furball and Kang secretly followed a scent toward an extraordinary fortune in the forest.

• Shi Hou cooked poached white tiger slices and served them with rice to Shi Hao, Furball, and Kang.
• The group finished the meal, and the system credited Shi Hou with 500,000 blood qi from Shi Hao’s meal.
• That night, Shi Hao studied the Primordial True Explanation and told Shi Hou he was struggling to understand a bird’s use of physical power.
• At dawn, Furball woke Kang and signaled that it had scented an extraordinary fortune nearby.
• Furball and Kang silently slipped into the misty forest without waking Shi Hou or Shi Hao.

Shi Hou, Shi Hao, and their companions escaped a Five-Colored Peacock by fleeing into the Taiyin River, where the Black Pot protected them at the cost of two million of Shi Hou’s blood qi. Afterward, Furball saved Little White with a drop of its Primordial Zhu Yan blood, while Shi Hou eyed the precious blood hungrily.

• Furball and Kang brought a Five-Colored Peacock egg to Shi Hou, who hid them in the Black Pot as the furious parent attacked.
• Shi Hao escaped on Little White with Furball, and the Black Pot flew after them when Shi Hao called, leaving Shi Hou exposed to the Peacock’s strike.
• Shi Hou survived, fought back with a giant stone blade, and caught up with Shi Hao as they fled the pursuing Peacock.
• Shi Hao and his companions plunged into the Taiyin River, and the Black Pot shielded them from the cold while draining two million of Shi Hou’s blood qi.
• Shi Hou found Shi Hao downstream and discovered Kang had been eating the Peacock egg inside the pot.
• Furball gave Little White a drop of Primordial Zhu Yan blood, restoring it, as Shi Hou reached toward Furball’s remaining blood.

Shi Hou prepared a medicinal egg custard from a Five-Colored Peacock egg and Furball’s Zhu Yan true blood, replenishing his companions and earning a large Blood Qi reward. As the group finished eating in a hidden cavern, Kang and Furball sensed someone approaching the entrance.

• Shi Hou squeezed a drop of true blood from Furball and fed it Spirit Fruits, while Little White recovered after swallowing true blood and a radish.
• Shi Hou led Shi Hao and the others to a concealed cavern, where he took the partly gnawed Five-Colored Peacock egg away from Kang.
• Shi Hou used the egg, Furball’s true blood, cold pool water, mushrooms, scallions, and salt to cook steamed custard with the Black Pot.
• Shi Hao, Furball, Kang, and Shi Hou ate the custard, and Furball’s depleted true blood was restored.
• The system returned five million Blood Qi to Shi Hou, then Kang and Furball reacted to faint footsteps and a snapped vine at the cavern entrance.

Shi Hao and Shi Hou encountered Xia Youyu’s group in a cave after the group followed the scent of their meal. When a blue-robed young man attacked Shi Hou, Shi Hou knocked him unconscious with one slap and turned his pressure on the rest.

• Shi Hou hid in the cave with Kang while Xia Youyu and her companions entered, drawn by the lingering fragrance.
• Shi Hao claimed his name was Haotian, said his grandpa was nearby, and warned the visitors not to steal their food.
• The blue-robed young man mocked Shi Hou and attacked him with a rune-lit bronze sword.
• Shi Hou slapped the young man through a rock wall, leaving him unconscious in a crater.
• Shi Hou stepped toward Xia Youyu and the others as his overwhelming blood-qi pressure bore down on them.

Shi Hou forced the Heaven Mending Pavilion group to compensate him after their blue-robed swordsman attacked him, then accepted an Assessment Token when Xia Youyu mentioned the Pavilion’s rare ingredients. The group fled, while Xia Youyu resolved to recruit Shi Hao before the Deer-Chasing Academy could; Shi Hou and Shi Hao stayed behind to inspect the stolen Treasure Bag.

• Shi Hou’s blood qi pressure overwhelmed the intruders, and he demanded compensation from the blue-robed young man for attacking him and frightening Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao pretended to be scared and displayed the Golden Lightning Suanni technique, while Shi Hou threatened the blue-robed young man until he surrendered his Treasure Bag.
• Shi Hao searched the Treasure Bag as Shi Hou warned the old woman against insulting him, and Xia Youyu offered them a Heaven Mending Pavilion Assessment Token.
• Shi Hou refused the invitation until Xia Youyu described the Pavilion’s rare beasts and premium ingredients, then accepted the token and let the group leave.
• After fleeing, Xia Youyu urged the old woman to help recruit Shi Hao before the Deer-Chasing Academy, while the old woman worried that Shi Hou was dangerous.
• Back in the cavern, Shi Hou watched Shi Hao empty the Treasure Bag and complained that the blue-robed young man had been pretending to be rich.