Chapter Summaries

Shi Zhao killed Bei Feng after destroying Bei Village’s Sacrificial Spirit, then explored the deep mountains and returned to Stone Village. She opened her seventh Cave Heaven, revealing precious artifacts within them, and hinted that her true trump cards lay elsewhere.

• Shi Zhao caught Bei Feng’s arrow, identified herself, and killed him when he demanded to know why she had slain Bei Village’s Sacrificial Spirit.
• Shi Zhao went deeper into the mountains to observe an aged Suanni, then killed a powerful hou-like leopard with the Bian Technique and gathered beast milk.
• After more than half a month, Shi Zhao prepared to break through while Stone Village stayed peaceful and the deep mountains grew increasingly dangerous.
• Shi Zhao opened her seventh Cave Heaven, astonishing Shi Yunfeng and little Shi with her achievement.
• Little Shi spotted precious artifacts inside Shi Zhao’s Cave Heavens, and Shi Yunfeng warned him to keep them secret.
• Shi Zhao said the artifacts were not her trump cards and noticed that the seven red moles on her left palm had begun to reveal their extraordinary nature.

Shi Zhao took Little Shi and A Man to watch the battle over the Suanni, keeping Stone Village’s people out of danger. After the old Suanni’s ambush left it dead and the other powerful beasts fled, Shi Zhao set out to claim the spoils.

• Shi Zhao studied the village’s treasured first volume of the Primitive True Understanding and learned that it was called Divine Guidance.
• Shi Zhao refused to let Stone Village’s villagers join the hunt, but agreed to bring Little Shi and A Man to watch from a safe distance.
• Shi Zhao used her Five-Colored Peacock technique to disrupt three groups competing for the Suanni, and Little Shi killed two Biao Beasts at her instruction.
• Shi Zhao showed Little Shi that she could wield lightning, while powerful beasts gathered to fight over the supposedly dead Suanni.
• The Suanni sprang its ambush on the Demon Ape King and Li Fire Bull Demon, then died after they fled; Shi Zhao led her companions toward the spoils.

Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village with Little Shi and a haul of beasts, rare ingredients, and ancient treasures, then prepared medicinal bath baptisms for the village children. Little Shi emerged transformed, while Shi Zhao looked ahead to the calamities she believed awaited them.

• Shi Zhao extracted the old Suanni's treasure bone, true blood, heart, and other remains while A Man and Little Shi gathered spoils from the battlefield.
• Shi Zhao and her companions fled the clash between the Little Red Bird and a golden-clawed Venerable being and returned safely to Stone Village.
• Shi Zhao collected rare ancestral objects from the villagers, including blood dragon wood and the body of a Black-Gold Insect, and brewed medicine in the Black Cauldron.
• Shi Zhao placed Little Shi in the cauldron with potent ingredients from the Suanni, Demon Ape King, and Li Fire Bull Demon for a three-day medicinal bath.
• Shi Zhao also helped the other village children undergo medicinal bath baptisms, and Little Shi emerged with a transformed body before the villagers examined him.

Shi Zhao showed Little Shi’s growing strength as outsiders arrived in Stone Village, mistook the Willow Deity’s tender branch for a treasure, and were tricked into paying respects. Little Shi defeated their young prodigies, but Jiao Peng ordered Fei Jiao to kill him, prompting Shi Zhao to summon her Purple-Gold Great Hammer.

• Little Shi lifted the eight-thousand-jin Hòu-Patterned Cauldron, while Shi Zhao told him to study the Suanni precious technique at his own pace.
• Tribes sent elders and young prodigies into the Great Wilderness, where they spotted the Willow Deity’s tender branch and gathered outside Stone Village.
• Shi Zhao persuaded the visitors to pay respects to the Willow Deity, and Little Shi sent Jiao Peng flying with a slap.
• Little Shi defeated the visiting prodigies with the Green-Scaled Eagle’s precious technique after they became angry at being deceived.
• Jiao Peng ordered Fei Jiao to kill Little Shi and destroy the village, so Shi Zhao appeared with a lightning-wreathed Purple-Gold Great Hammer.

Shi Zhao slaughtered the Luofu Marsh attackers who came to Stone Village and drove the other visiting clans away. After she tried to claim credit, Willow Deity unexpectedly lifted her down from the altar.

• Shi Zhao killed Fei Jiao with her Purple-Gold Great Hammer and crushed the Luofu Marsh reinforcements who attacked her.
• Jiao Peng fled in terror as Shi Linhu and the villagers stared at Shi Zhao’s fierce display.
• Shi Zhao revealed her Dark-Gold Longbow, wounded the Luofu Marsh middle-aged man, and ordered the visiting clans to leave.
• After the outsiders threatened to return with stronger clan members, Shi Zhao’s arrow pursued them and pierced those who spoke viciously.
• Shi Zhao returned to Stone Village and tried to win Willow Deity’s favor, but Willow Deity lifted her down from the altar.

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.