Chapter Summaries

Shi Zhao awakened memories of her past life and discovered the seven-star mark and unusual primordial spirit within her. On the way to the clan’s medicinal-bath baptism, she met young Shi Yi and decided to treat him kindly despite knowing the future might bring tragedy.

• Shi Zhao recalled that she had reincarnated into the Chaotic Antiquity era and realized she was Shi Yi’s older cousin.
• Seven stars manifested in Shi Zhao’s palm, and she understood that a fragment in her sea of consciousness had strengthened her primordial spirit.
• A Man hurried Shi Zhao to prepare for the clan’s medicinal-bath baptism.
• Shi Zhao rode with Sixth Aunt and took the infant Shi Yi into her arms, making him call her big sister.
• Shi Zhao resolved to try to prevent future tragedy, and her primordial spirit began transforming.
• At the baptism grounds, Shi Zhao left after patting Shi Yi’s head and promising to play with him again.

Shi Zhao excelled at the Martial King Manor’s annual baptism, absorbing the cauldron’s medicinal power and impressing the clan elders. Fifteenth Master took her into his family’s care, where she quickly began teasing Shi Ziling and Qin Yining about having a child.

• The Martial King Manor’s children began their baptism, and Shi Zhao entered a cauldron alongside two other girls.
• Shi Zhao cultivated bone texts in the boiling medicinal mixture, drawing in its potency until the other girls complained that she had taken it all.
• Shi Zhongtian recognized Shi Zhao and added rare medicines and Remnant blood to her cauldron, strengthening the baptism and leaving her exhausted.
• Shi Zhongtian told Shi Ziling and Qin Yining to treat Shi Zhao like their own daughter, and they agreed.
• Shi Zhao joined Fifteenth Master in urging Shi Ziling and Qin Yining to have a younger brother for her.

Shi Zhao continued guiding Shi Yi and tried to shape his character, while their playful bond grew stronger. After she defeated him in a spar, she rushed to Qin Yining’s side when labor began and welcomed the newborn boy.

• Shi Zhao trained under Qin Yining’s guidance and used her strength to shield Shi Yi while they raided the manor’s spiritual pool for fish.
• Shi Yi challenged Shi Zhao to a fight, but she defeated him with one slap and encouraged him to trust in his double pupils.
• Shi Yi vowed to surpass Shi Zhao, while she worried about how his character might develop.
• A Man told Shi Zhao that Qin Yining was giving birth, and Shi Zhao hurried back using her peacock-wing technique.
• Qin Yining gave birth to a son, whom the Fifteenth Master held first, and she asked Shi Zhao to help care for her little brother.

During the heavenly sacrifice and a hunt in the Great Wilderness, Shi Zhao continued to encourage and look after Shi Yi and the baby Shi Hao. The Fifteenth Master later vanished after a fierce battle on the Hundred Clans Battlefield, leaving his fate unknown.

• At the heavenly sacrifice, Shi Yi's mother and Shi Yuan urged him to focus on cultivation and treat Shi Zhao as someone beneath his station, but Shi Yi decided his own path was his to choose.
• During the hunt, the Fifteenth Master killed a powerful remnant and fed some of its precious blood to the baby Shi Hao, whom Shi Zhao praised as a future supreme being.
• Shi Zhao teased Shi Yi about being jealous of the attention Shi Hao received, then shared the precious blood with him; Shi Yi drank most of it and smiled.
• The Fifteenth Master left the imperial capital for the southern frontier to gather resources and build a foundation for Shi Hao.
• On the Hundred Clans Battlefield, the Fifteenth Master killed a nearly pure-blood young pixiu, was pursued by an old beast, and escaped through a divine formation after suffering grievous wounds and losing an arm; his whereabouts remained unknown.

Shi Ziling and Qin Yining left the Imperial Capital to search for Shi Ziling’s father, entrusting Shi Hao to Shi Zhao. Months later, Shi Zhao confronted Shi Yi when he sensed Shi Hao’s unusual nature, and the chapter ended with Shi Hao cheerfully calling Shi Yi a new big brother.

• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining left to search for Shi Ziling’s father, while Shi Zhao promised to protect Little Shi Hao.
• Shi Zhao moved with Shi Hao to a clan elder’s secluded residence and kept him inside, where he grew attached to her and learned to call her sister.
• Shi Yi visited Shi Hao and sensed something unusual within him, but Shi Zhao struck aside the beams from Shi Yi’s awakened double pupils.
• Shi Yi accused Shi Zhao of hiding her abilities, and Shi Zhao denied it before ruffling his hair.
• Shi Hao ran to Shi Zhao, called Shi Yi a new big brother, and circled them happily; Shi Zhao reassured Shi Yi that she treated him the same way.

After Shi Ziling and Qin Yining returned, Shi Zhao feared that Shi Hao’s fate had not truly changed, and Shi Yi’s mother abducted the two boys and extracted Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone. The chapter ended with Shi Ziling and Qin Yining finding their wounded son while Shi Yi’s mother claimed the bone had already fused with Shi Yi.

• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining returned to the Martial King Manor without finding the Fifteenth Master, and Shi Hao recognized only Shi Zhao.
• Shi Yi’s mother learned that Shi Hao had a Supreme Bone and secretly began plotting against him.
• Shi Zhao felt a sudden foreboding and learned that Shi Hao had disappeared while Shi Ziling and Qin Yining searched for him.
• Shi Ziling, Qin Yining, Shi Zhao, and the Fourth Great Elder found Shi Hao and Shi Yi unconscious in an underground chamber, with Shi Yi’s mother guarding them.
• Shi Ziling killed the shadowy knife-wielder and pinned Shi Yi’s mother to the wall with his golden battle spear.
• Shi Yi’s mother revealed that she had extracted Shi Hao’s Supreme Bone and fused it with Shi Yi.

Shi Ziling and Qin Yining reclaimed the Supreme Bone from Shi Yi and implanted it into Shi Zhao, while their young son Hao'er remained gravely ill. After returning to Martial King Manor, Shi Ziling began investigating who had conspired against his son.

• Shi Ziling attacked Shi Yi's protectors, and Qin Yining extracted Shi Yi's Supreme Bone as the ancestors tried to stop the fight.
• Shi Yi's mother killed herself, and Qin Yining explained that the bone's true blood could not save Hao'er because it had been tainted.
• Qin Yining and Shi Ziling pressured Shi Zhao to receive the Supreme Bone, and the unconscious girl was given the bone as it transformed into the Unique Supreme Origin Bone.
• The ancestors accepted that the bone had been preserved, while Shi Yuan suspected Shi Ziling and Qin Yining had outmaneuvered the clan.
• At Martial King Manor, Hao'er remained frail despite medicinal treasures, and Shi Ziling learned that children from his wife's lineage and figures from the Rain Clan might have been involved in the plot.

After waking from the Supreme Bone grafting, Shi Zhao grieved for Little Shi Hao and resolved to become stronger while helping him recover. Shi Ziling and Qin Yining took Hao to seek the Shi Clan’s Ancestral Land, while Shi Zhao remained under guard at the Martial King Manor and prepared to study the Stone Kingdom’s Precious Techniques.

• Shi Zhao woke after witnessing the Supreme Bone grafting and blamed her weakness for leaving her unable to control her fate.
• Shi Zhao asked Qin Yining why she and Shi Ziling had failed to protect Little Shi Hao, then used her vital essence to comfort him despite Fourth Grandfather’s warning.
• Shi Zhao suggested that the Shi Clan’s true Ancestral Land might help Hao recover, and Fourth Grandfather gave Shi Ziling a Fragmentary Map to find it.
• Shi Ziling and Qin Yining left for the Great Wilderness with Little Shi, while Shi Zhao said goodbye and urged him to recover.
• Shi Zhao stayed at the Martial King Manor as the ancestors watched over her, and the Martial King affirmed her standing amid divisions between supporters of the Supreme Bone and the Double Pupils.
• Shi Zhao planned to enter the Imperial Palace Ancestral Temple and study its Bone Scriptures and Precious Techniques, especially the Bian Precious Technique.

Shi Zhao entered the Scripture Temple and resonated with its ancient Dao, strengthening and refining her primordial spirit and body. While studying a Golden-Winged Roc diagram, she awakened a hidden reaction in the tattered cloth, which recorded the roc as a rune, and she continued browsing the temple without revealing it.

• Shi Zhao reached the Scripture Temple and fell into enlightenment as its ancient Dao resonated with her primordial spirit.
• The enlightenment condensed her primordial spirit, improved her spiritual perception, and subtly nourished her physical body.
• The guard captain guided Shi Zhao through the temple and explained its Golden-Winged Roc and Suanni diagrams, along with the kingdom-guarding techniques.
• As Shi Zhao studied the Golden-Winged Roc diagram, the tattered cloth in her sea of consciousness stirred and inscribed the roc as a rune.
• Shi Zhao concealed the cloth's reaction and continued through the temple, eventually stopping before a Peacock Diagram.

Shi Zhao studied the Bian Precious Technique and used the mysterious rag to draw out the Suanni Precious Technique in the Scripture Temple. After spending nearly half a year mastering scriptures and both techniques, she left seclusion ready to attempt the Blood-Moving Limit.

• The elderly guard captain gave Shi Zhao a Bian precious bone and a roc feather to help her study the Golden-Winged Roc Soaring to the Heavens Diagram.
• Shi Zhao learned the incomplete Bian Precious Technique in less than half a day and manifested a Bian with her left hand.
• Shi Zhao asked the rag for the Suanni Great Method, and it drew the Suanni Precious Technique from the chamber wall.
• Shi Zhao studied Bone Text and Precious Techniques so intensely that the elderly royal venerable had to take her out of the Scripture Temple; the Human Emperor then granted her permission to come and go freely.
• Shi Zhao spent nearly half a year studying in the Scripture Temple while Fourth Grandfather worried about her, then emerged from seclusion intending to break the Blood-Moving Limit.

After leaving the Scripture Temple, Shi Zhao returned to the Martial King Manor and trained relentlessly, using medicinal resources and the Supreme Bone’s painful tempering to push past the limits of her body. By age eight, she had reached a strength of 129,600 jin in one hand, the number of years in a cosmic cycle.

• Shi Zhao returned to the Martial King Manor, where Fourth Grandfather arranged her medicinal baths and worried that the incomplete Supreme Bone was wearing away her blood essence.
• Shi Zhao explained that she had deliberately kept the Supreme Bone from fully merging and used it to temper herself, despite the pain.
• The Human Emperor bestowed the title Princess Zhaoyang and a cauldron of precious medicinal liquid on Shi Zhao, who began using it to strengthen her body.
• Shi Zhao trained for months, broke past the hundred-thousand-jin limit, and then used starlight to continue pushing her strength further.
• At over eight years old, Shi Zhao lifted a stone hill with one hand and measured her strength at 129,600 jin, astonishing Fourth Grandfather.

Shi Zhao broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm, opening an embryonic primordial spirit cave heaven and three ordinary cave heavens. After discovering that the primordial spirit cave heaven held a world formed from the Tattered Cloth’s Precious Technique imprints, she told Fourth Grandfather she wanted to go to the Ancestral Land, but planned to prepare first.

• Shi Zhao entered enlightenment beneath the stars and broke through to the Cave Heaven Realm.
• Shi Zhao opened an embryonic primordial spirit cave heaven in her sea of consciousness, which resonated with the Tattered Cloth.
• Shi Zhao sent part of her Primordial Spirit into the cave heaven and found a desolate world where the Precious Technique imprints appeared as vicious beasts.
• Shi Zhao opened three ordinary cave heavens, bringing her total to four cave heavens, and gained a further transformation in her spiritual power.
• Fourth Grandfather told Shi Zhao he would keep her breakthrough secret and asked what she planned to do next.
• Shi Zhao said she wanted to go to the Ancestral Land to see Hao'er, while assuring Fourth Grandfather she would prepare and not act rashly.

Shi Zhao confronted Shi Yi’s branch of the family and met her younger brother before his departure to the Primordial Divine Mountain. After they challenged each other over the earlier incident, Shi Yi admitted he was jealous, and Shi Zhao apologized and embraced him.

• Shi Zhao arrived at the Martial King Manor and defeated Shi Yi’s eighth elder brother with her Bian technique after matching his three heavenly grottoes.
• Shi Zhao entered the rear courtyard and found Shi Yi waiting there, then teased him by pinching his cheeks.
• Shi Zhao asked Shi Yi whether he had been involved in the incident, and their gazes clashed briefly before he questioned her motives.
• Shi Zhao admitted she had first approached Shi Yi deliberately but later came to regard him as her little brother.
• Shi Yi said he was jealous that Shi Zhao had hovered around another boy from birth and now demanded justice for him.
• Shi Zhao apologized for overlooking Shi Yi’s feelings and not fully trusting him, then pulled him into an embrace.

Shi Zhao and Shi Yi reconciled enough to explore the Void God Realm together, where Shi Zhao broke the Initial Land’s speed record and gained a fragment of a primordial-spirit technique. Back in the Martial King Manor, she prepared to leave on a journey toward the Ancestral Land while telling Fourth Grandfather she only wanted to see the world.

• Shi Yi told Shi Zhao that his mother had arranged the Supreme Bone extraction and offered to settle their younger clansman’s grievance in a duel ten years later.
• Shi Zhao dragged Shi Yi around the Initial Land, then broke its speed record and named herself “Eat, Sleep, Beat Up My Little Brother.”
• Shi Zhao received an incomplete Precious Technique fragment concerning the primordial spirit and logged out of the Void God Realm.
• News of the broken speed record spread through the Void God Realm, drawing attention to Shi Zhao’s unusual title.
• Shi Zhao told Fourth Grandfather she wanted to travel, while secretly planning to reach the Ancestral Land.

Shi Zhao returned from her wilderness training, opened her sixth Cave Heaven, and visited the Shi Clan’s Second Ancestral Land. There, she met an unnamed child whom she named Shi Qingfeng and prepared to take with her.

• Shi Zhao returned safely to Cloudsurge Town after crossing the Western Frontier wilderness, and Fourth Grandfather welcomed her.
• Shi Zhao secluded herself and opened her sixth Cave Heaven, then asked Fourth Grandfather to take her to the Second Ancestral Land.
• Shi Zhao examined Cloudsurge Town’s Sacrificial Spirit and traded it a secret swordsmanship text for insight into how it nurtured weapons within its body.
• Shi Zhao and Fourth Grandfather arrived at the dilapidated Second Ancestral Land, where its old residents gathered around her and asked her to take away a child they had adopted.
• Shi Zhao learned that the child had no name and called him Shi Qingfeng.

Shi Zhao and her family finally reached Stone Village while searching for the true Ancestral Land, and reunited with Little One after rescuing him and the other children from a Green-Scaled Eagle. They followed the children into the village, where Fourth Grandfather noticed the mysterious charred willow at its entrance.

• Shi Zhao, Little Qingfeng, and A Man slipped away to search for the Ancestral Land, and Fourth Grandfather caught up with them at the Taiyin River before agreeing to escort them.
• After two and a half months of cautious travel, the group found Bei Village and continued toward Stone Village.
• Shi Zhao wounded a rampaging Green-Scaled Eagle with her bow, driving it away from the village children it had been chasing.
• Shi Zhao recognized Little One as her younger brother, embraced him, and told him she had come to find him.
• The children led Shi Zhao and the others back to Stone Village, where Fourth Grandfather sensed that the charred willow at the entrance was extraordinary.

Shi Zhao reached Stone Village with Little One and revealed that she had come to find him, but chose not to take him away. After the village returned the Green-Scaled Eagle’s eggs, the eagle left all three with them, hoping to benefit from the transformation of one egg.

• Shi Zhao told Shi Yunfeng that she was Little One’s older sister and had come to find him, but said he was not ready to return.
• Shi Zhao shared Spirit Fruits and snacks with Little One and the village children, while the villagers learned she had spared the Green-Scaled Eagle.
• The Green-Scaled Eagle arrived at Stone Village, and the villagers decided to return its three eggs.
• The village’s charred old willow touched one egg, transforming it and making the eagle eager to approach the village.
• Shi Zhao helped return the eggs, but the Green-Scaled Eagle pushed all three back, hoping its young would benefit from staying near the willow.

Shi Zhao stayed in Stone Village with A Man and Qingfeng after Fourth Grandfather returned alone to the Stone Kingdom. When the Willow Deity sensed that Shi Zhao did not quite belong to this ancient history, the village chief appointed her to serve the deity.

• Shi Zhao persuaded Fourth Grandfather to let her stay, and A Man and Qingfeng chose to remain with her.
• Fourth Grandfather left supplies and hunted vicious beasts for Stone Village before returning alone to the Stone Kingdom and severing his memories of the route.
• Shi Zhao built a stone house in Stone Village, where little Shi Hao began spending his days close beside her.
• During the village's offering ceremony, the Willow Deity addressed Shi Zhao as someone who seemed not to belong to this ancient history, yet also seemed to belong.
• The Willow Deity's power stirred the village's ancient cauldrons, and Shi Yunfeng declared that Shi Zhao would serve the deity.

Shi Zhao helped Stone Village process a bounty of ferocious beasts, prepared medicinal baths for the children, and revealed that the village’s five Ancient Alchemy Recipes were priceless inheritances. She remained intent on seeking the Mountain Treasure in the Great Wilderness, then held the exhausted Shi Hao as he fell asleep.

• Shi Zhao butchered the ferocious beasts and helped the villagers preserve their meat and prepare powerful medicinal baths for the children.
• Shi Zhao cooked beast meat in her Medicine Cauldron while the villagers celebrated their abundant feast.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Yunfeng that Stone Village possessed five Ancient Alchemy Recipes, prompting him to realize the village had preserved an invaluable inheritance.
• Shi Zhao said she had not come for the recipes and revealed that she sought the Mountain Treasure, despite Shi Yunfeng warning her about the dangers.
• Shi Zhao stayed beside Shi Hao during the medicinal bath, then lifted him from the Black Cauldron and held him as he drifted to sleep.

Shi Zhao taught Bone Text to the children of Stone Village while Little Shi Hao learned the Green-Scaled Eagle’s Precious Technique. After Bei Village injured a hunter, Shi Zhao accepted Stone Village’s Ancestral Artifact and went to kill its sacrificial spirit, the Old Warg.

• Shi Zhao began teaching Bone Text to Stone Village’s children, and Little Shi Hao grew close to the three Green-Scaled Eagle chicks.
• Little Shi Hao learned to manifest the Green-Scaled Eagle’s crescent-moon Precious Technique, which Shi Zhao helped him control.
• Shi Linhu returned from a hunt with Skinny Monkey’s father badly wounded by an arrow from a youth of Bei Village, and Shi Zhao healed the injured villagers.
• Shi Yunfeng gave Shi Zhao Stone Village’s bloodstained Ancestral Artifact, which resonated with her Bian Precious Technique.
• Shi Zhao tracked the Old Warg to a valley and used the artifact to manifest a golden Bian that tore the sacrificial spirit apart.