Recaps

Shi Zhao killed Di Chong’s secondary body and fled, then traveled to the ruins of the Ancient Stone Kingdom in Sin Province. Touching a bloodstained boulder revealed her sin blood to the surrounding world and released a mysterious ball of light, which she took before escaping.

• Shi Zhao killed Di Chong despite his Ninefold Immortality, destroyed the bronze palace, and sealed the Void War Halberd inside the Bone Cauldron.
• Shi Zhao repelled Di Chong’s Immortal Palace curse and killed him after his source essence was exhausted, then concealed his death and fled with the halberd.
• Shi Zhao entered Sin Province and reached the ruins of the Ancient Stone Kingdom, where she learned of the Shi Clan’s destruction and the ancestors’ battle at the Border Wasteland.
• Shi Zhao touched a bloodstained boulder, causing her sin blood to form a radiant character in the sky and alerting sects and ancient beings throughout the region.
• Shi Zhao heard the ancestors’ voices, struck the boulder open, seized the ball of light inside, and escaped through the void.

After the mark of sin blood alarmed the Three Thousand Provinces, Shi Zhao concealed her identity while factions searched for her. Di Chong learned that his secondary body had been slain and set out for Sin Province, while Shi Zhao heard of a newly discovered secret realm near Bluefall Mountain and encountered Lightning Son and Feng Wu.

• Heavenly Gods and other factions investigated the ruins of the Ancient Stone Kingdom after the character [Sin] appeared across the sky, and they began searching for the person responsible.
• Shi Zhao reflected on the injustice done to sin blood, then gained insight that reconciled her Dao principles with the Upper Realm's laws.
• Di Chong discovered that his secondary body had been slain, suspected the killer was the sin-blood bearer, and departed for Sin Province with Immortal Palace protectors.
• Shi Zhao disguised herself as a youth, concealed her sin-blood aura with the Tattered Cloth, and learned that a Primordial Secret Realm Minor World had appeared at Bluefall Mountain.
• Shi Zhao saw Lightning Son fly over the city, then walked away when Feng Wu approached and asked where she was from.

Shi Zhao arrived at Bluefall Mountain, where prodigies gathered to battle, and watched Di Chong accept a challenge. When outsiders from Sword Valley and Fire Cloud Cave attacked youths from Sin Province, she intervened, killed a Fire Cloud Cave disciple, and revealed herself under the name Qin Hao.

• Shi Zhao escaped Feng Wu using Shrinking the Ground to an Inch and reached Bluefall Mountain, where she surveyed the assembled prodigies.
• Teng Yi fought Lightning Son, Feng Wu battled Qing Xian, and other first-generation prodigies arrived at the mountain.
• A mysterious young man challenged Di Chong, and Shi Zhao recognized that many of the gathered prodigies had come to test the Immortal Palace Successor.
• Di Chong fought the mysterious challenger while Shi Zhao watched and considered joining the battles.
• Sword Valley and Fire Cloud Cave disciples drove youths from Sin Province away, and the Fire Cloud Ruler struck them down as they tried to resist.
• Shi Zhao shattered the Fire Cloud Ruler with her Heavenly Meteor Hammer, killed the red-haired Fire Cloud Cave disciple, and introduced herself as Qin Hao before confronting the Sword Valley disciples.

Shi Zhao declared that the descendants of sin blood were innocent, then captured disciples and successors from several powerful factions who targeted them. After overpowering the first-generation prodigies, she recognized Di Chong and seized him before his guardians could intervene.

• Shi Zhao killed a Sword Valley disciple who insulted the descendants of sin blood and told the crowd that sin blood represented honor, while the great sects had falsified history and suppressed its descendants.
• Shi Zhao slapped the gold-robed woman, snapped her Divine Spirit Magic Sword, and imprisoned her in a cauldron after she threatened her.
• Shi Zhao defeated and imprisoned dozens of disciples from Sword Valley, Fire Cloud Cave, and the Demon Dragon Dao Sect, then brushed off Feng Wu and moved on to capture more people.
• Shi Zhao defeated the young man with the golden lamp, overpowering his fire and True Dragon techniques before suppressing him.
• Di Chong recognized Shi Zhao, and she struck him with the Reincarnation Fist, destroyed several of his lives and protective artifacts, then sealed and carried him away.

Shi Zhao lured the Immortal Palace and other powers into the Ancient Stone Kingdom ruins after defeating and abducting Di Chong. Surrounded by their experts, she revealed her Sin Blood identity and summoned a devastating Heavenly Tribulation against them.

• Shi Zhao fled with the wounded Di Chong as Immortal Palace Heavenly Gods pursued her and called on other powers to help capture her.
• Shi Zhao slowed near the Ancient Stone Kingdom ruins, where Heavenly Gods from several sects surrounded her with Divine Formations.
• Shi Zhao realized the enemy might have a sect-master-level expert hidden nearby, but stayed because she had a plan and refused to rely on the Void War Halberd.
• A middle-aged woman accused Shi Zhao of abducting her daughter, and Shi Zhao joked that the woman was her mother-in-law.
• Shi Zhao revealed the Sin Blood mark and her true appearance, then faced seventeen True Gods while the Heavenly Gods watched.
• Shi Zhao unleashed her full power and drew down a vast Heavenly Tribulation, engulfing the ruins and terrifying the surrounding experts.