Recaps

Four clan leaders attacked Stone Village, but the Willow Deity killed most of them and Shi Zhao used a treasure bow to finish the survivors. Shi Zhao then killed the remaining attackers and returned to prepare the village after the Willow Deity warned that a great calamity was coming.

• Shi Zhao prepared beast milk for Little Shi as four clans gathered around Stone Village and the Willow Deity shielded the villagers.
• The lord of Luofu Marsh, Thunder Marquis, the Golden Wolf Tribe's Sacrificial Spirit and chief, and Purple Mountain Marquis attacked the village together.
• The Willow Deity defeated the attackers, and Shi Zhao used her Big Peng Treasure Bow and Roc Feather Arrows to kill Purple Mountain Marquis and the old wolf as they fled.
• Shi Zhao charged out with a Purple-Gold Great Hammer and killed the attackers who remained around the village.
• The Willow Deity called Shi Zhao back, told her to bring the fallen enemies' mounts as food, and warned that a great calamity was coming.

Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village as Venerable-level battles erupted deep in the mountains and the Mountain Treasure appeared. Qiongqi and the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow unleashed a beast tide across the Great Wilderness, while the Little Red Bird and Zhu Yan tried to stop the slaughter.

• Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village with several hundred mounts, and the villagers prepared for the calamity warned of by the Willow Deity.
• Qiongqi and Zhu Yan fought over the sacred object as the Little Red Bird battled the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, with precious bones containing the clash’s shock waves.
• The Mountain Treasure appeared, and Shi Zhao resolved to obtain the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village with the wolf’s carcass, and Little Shi hurried to greet her as the battle deep in the mountains continued for days.
• Qiongqi and the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow ordered a sweeping slaughter, and a beast tide razed villages and destroyed tribes across the Great Wilderness.
• The Little Red Bird and Zhu Yan challenged the creatures for unleashing the massacre.

Shi Zhao left Stone Village as the Willow Deity transported the village to safety, then chose to intervene when the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow threatened the Thunder Clan Territory. She struck the bird with the Bian Precious Technique and fought back against its demonic furnace.

• The Willow Deity sent Shi Zhao away with the Black Cauldron and vanished Stone Village from the battlefield.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow seized the Mountain Treasure and flew to the Thunder Clan Territory to devour its tens of millions of inhabitants.
• Shi Zhao abandoned her plan to wait for the Venerables to exhaust themselves, hid her body in the Black Cauldron, and set out as a Primordial Spirit.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow began drawing the Thunder Clan’s people into its beak, and Shi Zhao struck it with the Bian Precious Technique.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow formed a demonic feather furnace to capture Shi Zhao, but she attacked with her Golden War Spear and a golden Bian.

Shi Zhao used the Bian Battle Spear and her Innate Divine Ability to grievously wound the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow and drive it away, while Qiongqi devastated the Purple Mountain Clan. As Shi Zhao turned to leave, the wounded bird returned from hiding to attack her by surprise.

• Qiongqi swallowed the Purple Mountain Clan and its Sacrificial Spirit despite Little Red Bird's attempt to stop it, until Zhu Yan arrived and helped suppress the beast.
• Shi Zhao fought the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow with the Bian Battle Spear, shattered its Black Feather Demon Furnace, and blasted part of its beak away with her supreme technique.
• Shi Zhao's Innate Divine Ability drained the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow's strength and vital essence, allowing her to smash it into the mountains and nearly sever one wing.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow fled with a grievous wound, and Shi Zhao reflected that her mind had finally been freed of its knots before turning away from the devastation.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow doubled back from hiding and launched a surprise attack on Shi Zhao.

Shi Zhao drove the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow into retreat by attacking its primordial spirit, but her own spirit was weakened by the fight. As the battle over the Mountain Treasure continued, the Bird Saint Honghu intervened through a concealed spiritual body, and the confrontation among the Venerables lasted for several more days.

• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow discovered that Shi Zhao had appeared as a primordial spirit, but she entered its sea of consciousness and battered its primordial spirit with the Suanni Precious Technique.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow detonated part of its primordial spirit, forcing Shi Zhao out before burning its blood essence and fleeing in terror.
• Shi Zhao sensed the Bird Saint Honghu watching from the shadows and suspected it sought the Mountain Treasure.
• With the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow gone, Qiongqi remained at a disadvantage against Zhu Yan and the Vermilion Bird, so Honghu sent a concealed spiritual body to fight the three Venerables.
• The confrontation among the four beasts continued for several days before it finally approached its end.

After recovering from her injuries, Shi Zhao intervened in the battle for the Mountain Treasure and caught it in the Black Cauldron. The treasure resonated with the cauldron and carried her into a dying small world.

• Shi Zhao followed the devastation to Luofu Marsh, where Little Red Bird, Qiongqi, Zhu Yan, and the Bird Saint Honghu fought over the Mountain Treasure.
• The Bird Saint Honghu severed Zhu Yan’s arm, seized the Mountain Treasure, and fled, but Shi Zhao struck it with her Roc Feather Arrows.
• The Mountain Treasure changed hands amid the Venerables’ attacks until an iron staff sent it flying into Shi Zhao’s Black Cauldron.
• The Black Cauldron resonated with the Mountain Treasure, opened a rift in the void, and carried Shi Zhao away before the others could reclaim it.
• Shi Zhao climbed out of the cauldron in a lifeless small world filled with ruins, gray mist, whirlwinds, and blood-red lightning.

Shi Zhao opened the Mountain Treasure and discovered the Supreme Hall’s Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, then comprehended its power and obtained a fragment of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk. Her bow to the Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King triggered the destruction of the small world, and she hid inside the Black Cauldron and bone box as the disk’s chaotic light stabilized the void.

• Shi Zhao opened the bone cube with six Precious Techniques and found the Supreme Hall’s legacy hidden inside.
• Shi Zhao studied the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, but bloodied herself before breaking free of its profound visions.
• Shi Zhao formed an opening seal, tested the heavenly art, and received a fragment of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk.
• Shi Zhao bowed to the Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King, causing the small world to collapse around her.
• Shi Zhao called on the disk, hid inside the Black Cauldron and bone box, and vanished amid the chaos.

Shi Zhao returned to the Great Wilderness, opened her ninth cave heaven, and fought her way toward Stone Village. She found the memoryless, transformed Zhu Yan in a shattered valley and caught him as a silver-winged Green-Scaled Eagle arrived carrying a small figure.

• Shi Zhao emerged from the rubble, and the fragment of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk entered her sea of consciousness before falling dormant in one of her cave heavens.
• Shi Zhao crossed the Great Wilderness, fought beasts, gathered spirit herbs and true blood, and used the Taiyin River to open her ninth cave heaven.
• Shi Zhao defeated and ate a Crocodile Flood Dragon, then followed the river toward home and found the surrounding mountains shattered.
• Shi Zhao discovered Zhu Yan crippled and without his memories, watched him transform into a tiny golden monkey, and caught him by the scruff.
• A silver-winged Green-Scaled Eagle swooped down with a small figure riding on her back.

Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village and reunited with Shi Hao, then spent the following months helping the village recover and advancing her cultivation. She opened a tenth cave heaven and resolved to forge a new cultivation path by combining her cave heavens and opening a physical cave heaven.

• Shi Hao joyfully reunited with Shi Zhao, and she gave him a Zhu Yan as a present.
• Shi Hao told Shi Zhao that the Willow Deity had moved Stone Village to safety and saved the injured Little Red Bird before falling into a deep sleep.
• Shi Zhao returned to the Willow Deity, where the Reincarnation Disk fragment identified it as the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit of Immortal Ancient.
• Stone Village welcomed Shi Zhao home, and the children resumed their studies with renewed determination to become strong.
• Over the next half year, Shi Hao, A Man, and Qingfeng improved their strength while Shi Zhao trained and opened her tenth cave heaven.
• Shi Zhao decided to combine her cave heavens, open a physical cave heaven, and blaze a new trail for cultivation in the current era.

Shi Zhao taught the children in Stone Village, then learned more about the Bone Box and her cultivation from the Willow Deity. In the shattered Great Wilderness, she uncovered the Grass Character Sword Art and its sword mark on the Tattered Cloth.

• Shi Zhao taught the children and told Shi Hao he needed to lift more than fifty thousand jin before reaching his limit.
• The Willow Deity awakened, and Shi Zhao stopped Zhu Yan from trying to eat its new shoot.
• Shi Zhao showed the Willow Deity the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, the Bone Box, and her ten cave heavens.
• Shi Zhao used the Tattered Cloth to neutralize the attack hidden in the beast hide, revealing a silver Metal Page containing the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Shi Zhao saw that a sword-shaped mark and a strand of sword qi had appeared on the Tattered Cloth.

Shi Zhao mastered the Grass Character Sword Art, then injured herself when she combined it with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art. The Willow Deity healed her and taught her a sacrificial dance instead of the Precious Technique she had hoped for, advising her to focus on cultivation until she was strong enough to learn the Willow Deity’s method.

• Shi Zhao studied the Grass Character Sword Art for several weeks and mastered its sword technique.
• Shi Zhao combined the Grass Character Sword Art with five ferocious beasts’ Precious Techniques and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, reducing a mountain forest to an empty basin.
• Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village with a badly wounded arm, and the Willow Deity healed her with drops of sap.
• Shi Zhao offered the Grass Character Sword Art to the Willow Deity in exchange for a Precious Technique.
• The Willow Deity taught Shi Zhao a sacrificial dance for calling upon her and told her to focus on breaking her limits before learning the Willow Deity’s method.

Little Shi Hao asked the Willow Deity how to grow strong enough to protect Shi Zhao and learned about cultivation methods and the possibility of regrowing his lost Supreme Bone. Shi Zhao found him at the village entrance, then began overseeing his harsh training at the Chaotic Stone Waterfall Cluster.

• Little Shi Hao told the Willow Deity that he wanted to become stronger so he could protect Shi Zhao and find his parents.
• The Willow Deity offered Shi Hao an ancient foundation formula and directed him to cultivate at the Chaotic Stone Waterfall Cluster.
• The Willow Deity explained that Shi Hao's Supreme Bone might regrow, but Shi Hao declared he would become supreme through his own effort.
• The Willow Deity revealed that Shi Zhao was nearby, and she carried Shi Hao home after finding him at the village entrance.
• Shi Zhao began supervising Shi Hao's strenuous cultivation at the waterfalls and dangerous cliffs in the Stone Mountains.

Shi Zhao trained Shi Hao with a potent medicinal brew while studying ways to reshape her cave heavens, then decided to return to the Stone Kingdom with A Man and Qingfeng. At the Second Ancestral Land, Qingfeng reunited with his frail grandfather, whom Shi Zhao tried to help with precious medicines.

• Shi Hao endured harsh training, and Shi Zhao prepared a medicinal brew with Furball's golden blood to restore his strength.
• Shi Zhao studied the Primitive True Understanding, considered seeking ingredients from the Human Emperor, and decided to return to the Stone Kingdom with A Man and Qingfeng.
• The three left Stone Village and traveled to the Second Ancestral Land, where Qingfeng found his grandfather alive but gravely aged.
• Shi Zhao gave Qingfeng's grandfather precious medicines and urged him to live long enough to meet Shi Hao and witness their future deeds.

Shi Zhao visited the Void God Realm in disguise and watched Shi Yi challenge records by defeating beast kings. She teased the crowd by calling Shi Yi her little brother, then shouted encouragement that drew his icy glare.

• Shi Zhao secretly concealed her presence in the Second Ancestral Land before entering the Void God Realm's Initial Land.
• Shi Zhao learned that Shi Yi had broken a record and was challenging another, drawing a huge crowd to watch.
• Shi Zhao carried a middle-aged man through the crowd to the battlefield, where Shi Yi fought a succession of beast kings.
• Shi Zhao recognized people from the Martial King Manor and the Rain Clan helping lure beasts toward Shi Yi.
• Shi Zhao claimed she could easily beat Shi Yi, then shouted that she loved him, provoking his cold glare.

Shi Zhao distracted Shi Yi, then stole Lord Bird's Five-Colored Bird and fled, breaking the long-distance running record as the two old men chased her. Shi Yi also broke a major combat record, but his attempt to challenge the speed record was preempted, and he failed to surpass Shi Zhao's distance record.

• Shi Yi's double pupils frightened a girl, but he froze when he saw Shi Zhao and was attacked by a beast; Shi Zhao slipped away while claiming she was from the countryside.
• Shi Yi slaughtered nine beast kings with Double Pupils Heaven-Opening and broke the Void God Realm record for the most kings slain in the Initial Land.
• Shi Zhao tricked Lord Bird and the other old man, seized the Five-Colored Bird, and ran off, prompting Lord Bird to chase her.
• Shi Zhao sprinted so fast that she set a new long-distance running record, while Lord Bird recalled the Five-Colored Bird to himself and the other old man kicked him.
• Shi Yi attempted to challenge the speed record but found it had already been broken, then failed to surpass Shi Zhao's long-distance running record.

Shi Zhao completed and comprehended the Primordial Furnace Spirit-Tempering scripture, then tricked Lord Bird and the old Essence Jade man while they struggled to recall their past lives. News of her record-breaking achievements spread alongside Shi Yi’s, prompting the major powers to search for her as Rain Clan members traveled toward the Second Ancestral Land.

• Shi Zhao joined the two bone fragments of the Primordial Furnace Spirit-Tempering scripture and used its method to refine her Primordial Spirit and strengthen her spiritual sense.
• Lord Bird and the old Essence Jade man confronted Shi Zhao, but the old man began recalling fragments of his past and both men pretended to remember their former lives.
• Shi Zhao invented a shared history for the two old men, naming their past identities, then slipped away while they were confused.
• Shi Zhao left the Second Ancestral Land, keeping her actions and reputation concealed.
• News reached the frontier that Shi Yi had broken records and another person had broken two records on the same day, prompting major powers to investigate the mysterious genius.
• A group of Rain Clan members headed toward the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land.

Shi Zhao disguised herself to confront Yu Meng and the Rain Clan, who had come to the Stone Kingdom's Second Ancestral Land searching for the child with the Supreme Bone. After killing the intruders, she left to take the fight to the Rain Clan.

• Yu Meng learned that the child with the Supreme Bone had last been seen in Cloudsurge Town and decided to investigate the Second Ancestral Land.
• Shi Zhao sensed the Rain Clan's arrival, disguised herself, and demanded that they leave or cripple their cultivation.
• Yu Meng attacked Shi Zhao, but she severed his raised leg with the Grass Character Sword Art and crushed his chest with a kick.
• Shi Zhao unleashed the Bifang Precious Technique, burned away the Rain Clan's water-based attacks, and killed the intruders.
• Shi Zhao left the Second Ancestral Land to seek revenge against the Rain Clan.

Shi Zhao raided Rain Clan holdings in the Western Frontier, stealing black gold ore and rare beasts before fighting off the clan’s pursuers. As an Inscription Realm elder attacked her with lightning, she struck him with an arrow and continued her escape.

• Shi Zhao used the Immortal Silkworm Precious Technique to conceal herself as she infiltrated a Rain Clan black gold mine.
• She smashed the storehouse’s formation, took its ore, and swept rare birds and exotic beasts from Auspicious Beast Ridge into her cauldron.
• Rain Clan pursuers attacked her with linked rain techniques, but Shi Zhao countered with Bifang flames.
• An Inscription Realm elder summoned lightning against Shi Zhao, who dodged and blocked the bolts with a Black Tortoise Shield.
• Shi Zhao formed fiery wings and swords to drive back her attackers, then hit the elder with an arrow that blew apart half his body.

Shi Zhao plundered the Rain Clan’s black gold shipment, then brought Third Grandfather from the Second Ancestral Land to the Imperial Capital. She entered the city in disguise and headed for the Imperial Palace to ask the Stone Emperor for help.

• Shi Zhao escaped after gravely wounding the Rain Clan elder and took refined black gold ore from the clan’s mining district.
• Shi Zhao returned to the Second Ancestral Land, reunited with A Man, Qingfeng, and Third Grandfather, and told them she would take Third Grandfather to the Imperial Capital.
• The Rain Clan investigated the raid and linked it to Yu Meng’s disappearance at the Stone Kingdom’s Ancestral Land.
• Shi Zhao carried the others inside the Black Cauldron and raced to the Imperial Capital, concealing her appearance and aura with runes.
• Shi Zhao entered the Imperial Capital with Third Grandfather and told A Man they would visit the Imperial Palace to ask the Stone Emperor for help.

Shi Zhao told the Stone Emperor she had found the Shi Clan’s true Ancestral Land and recovered its Ancient Alchemy Recipes, then exchanged the inheritance for the medicines and treasures she needed. The Stone Emperor offered her the treasury and even the throne, while he helped prepare her Cave Heaven Realm baptism medicine.

• The Old Guard Captain let Shi Zhao into the Imperial Palace after she revealed she had found the Stone Kingdom’s true Ancestral Land.
• Shi Zhao asked why the Stone Emperor had bestowed a title and Divine Artifact on her, and he explained that she had obtained the Suanni Precious Technique.
• The Stone Emperor offered to adopt Shi Zhao and make her Empress, but she declined to accept the throne.
• Shi Zhao offered the Stone Kingdom the complete Ancient Alchemy Recipes in exchange for the ingredients needed for her Cave Heaven Realm baptism.
• The Stone Emperor gathered the requested medicines and treasures, brought out an ancient Medicine Cauldron, and helped Shi Zhao brew the secret medicine.

Shi Zhao used the Stone Emperor’s Ancient Pill Formula medicine to break past the Cave Heaven Realm’s ultimate limit, creating a flesh cave heaven linked to her primordial spirit cave heaven and ten reshaped cave heavens. After recovering, she advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm at twelve years old.

• The Stone Emperor left Shi Zhao a suanni-bone Magic Sword and a palace, and she entered the cauldron to temper herself with the Ancient Pill Formula medicine.
• Shi Zhao drew on the medicine, her accumulated reserves, the seven stars in her palm, and a nascent primordial spirit cave heaven to fuse and reshape her ten cave heavens.
• A phantom resembling Shi Zhao sacrificed its essence to revive her, allowing her to open a flesh cave heaven and surpass the Cave Heaven Realm’s ultimate limit.
• Shi Zhao discovered that her flesh and primordial spirit cave heavens could not merge with each other, so she used the seven stars to link all three cave heaven formations.
• Each of Shi Zhao’s ten cave heavens began evolving a different Precious Technique, including the Sacrificial Spirit Dance taught by the Willow Deity.
• Shi Zhao stayed in seclusion and entered the Spirit Transformation Realm with ease at the age of twelve.

After leaving the Stone Kingdom’s Imperial Palace, Shi Zhao visited an auction house and began bidding against the Rain Clan for Sea Spirit Liquid. The bidding continued to escalate, setting up a likely clash between her and the clan.

• Shi Zhao left the Imperial Capital’s palace grounds with Third Grandfather and A Man after speaking with the Stone Emperor and examining the Human Emperor Seal.
• Shi Zhao shopped through the Imperial Capital, heard people discussing Shi Yi, and passed Martial King Manor without entering.
• At the Bone Gu Auction House, Shi Zhao’s Tattered Cloth copied the Precious Technique from a Yazi skeleton, and she later won a starstone at auction.
• When the Rain Clan announced it would take the Sea Spirit Liquid, Shi Zhao entered the bidding to spite them.
• Shi Zhao kept raising her bids against Yu Zimo and the Rain Clan, alarming the onlookers as a confrontation seemed inevitable.

Shi Zhao outbid the Rain Clan for Sea Spirit Liquid, clashed with their people, and abducted Yu Zimo for ransom. She reunited with Fourth Grandfather at an inn, where their conversation turned to Shi Hao and Shi Yi’s return and the conflict that might divide the family.

• Shi Zhao raised the auction bid for Sea Spirit Liquid, then used a token to charge the Imperial Palace for her purchases.
• At the auction-house entrance, A Man provoked the Rain Clan, Yu Feng attacked her, and Shi Zhao knocked him unconscious with a slap.
• Yu Zimo challenged Shi Zhao and suffered a backlash; Shi Zhao held her hostage, forced back a Rain Clan elder, and carried her off to demand ransom.
• After returning to the Tongfu Inn, Shi Zhao reunited with Fourth Grandfather, who concealed them with a Magic Formation.
• Shi Zhao asked about Shi Yi’s return, and Fourth Grandfather worried that Shi Hao and Shi Yi might fight; A Man warned that they could fight over Shi Zhao.

Shi Zhao refused to release Yu Zimo and confronted the Rain Clan when they surrounded the inn, revealing her authority as a member of the Shi Clan. The Imperial Guard arrived to protect her, and Shi Zhao ordered the Rain Clan members arrested as Yu Zimo wondered what her clan had missed.

• Yu Zimo's grandfather came to ransom her, but Shi Zhao said she would keep Yu Zimo as her servant.
• Rain Clan elders and elites surrounded the inn, threatened Shi Zhao, and declared they would kill her.
• Yu Zimo glimpsed a fragment of her future and urged the Rain Clan to leave, but Shi Zhao said it was too late.
• The Imperial Guard broke through the formation and addressed Shi Zhao as “Your Highness,” frightening the Rain Clan.
• Shi Zhao ordered the Rain Clan members sent to the Heavenly Prison, revealed her original appearance, and killed the young man who had threatened her.
• Yu Zimo watched Shi Zhao leave and wondered what her clan had missed.

Shi Zhao returned to the Imperial Palace, reunited with the Sixteenth Princess, and learned that Third Grandfather had left for the Western Frontier with Fourth Grandfather. After discovering traces of the God-Striking Stone and hearing that the Double Pupils One had opened an arena at the Rain King Mansion, she headed there to join the challenge.

• Shi Zhao teased the Sixteenth Princess, and the Old Guard Captain reassured her attendants before the Stone Emperor explained that he wanted the two to reconnect.
• Shi Zhao told A Man to refuse the Rain Clan woman who wanted to follow her, then learned Third Grandfather had gone to the Western Frontier with Fourth Grandfather.
• Shi Zhao ordered A Man and Qingfeng to stay and cultivate, then spent a few more days with them before leaving quietly.
• Shi Zhao found a few traces of the God-Striking Stone in the Imperial Palace and considered how its Precious Technique might develop.
• Shi Zhao heard that the Double Pupils One was challenging children under thirteen at the Rain King Mansion and went to watch.