Chapter Summaries

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.

Shi Zhao attended Shi Yi’s public exhibition in disguise and watched him defeat every challenger. After she revealed herself, Shi Yi challenged his long-lost sister, leaving the crowd shocked by their relationship.

• Shi Yi dominated the youths and noble heirs who challenged him at the Rain King Mansion.
• Shi Zhao, disguised as a boy, praised Shi Yi from the crowd while secretly observing him.
• Shi Yi recognized Shi Zhao and hurled a precious sword toward her; she shattered it and sent a fragment back, which he destroyed with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Shi Yi used his double pupils to see through Shi Zhao’s disguise and challenged her to fight.
• Shi Zhao revealed her identity and greeted Shi Yi as her younger brother, while the crowd and Martial King Manor relatives reacted with surprise and suspicion.
• Shi Yi told Shi Zhao he had waited for this day and declared that he would challenge her.

Shi Yi challenged Shi Zhao after their reunion, determined to prove how much he had grown, but she overwhelmed his attacks with ease. The chapter ended as Shi Yi unleashed his strongest trump card, drawing in the essence of heaven and earth to continue the fight.

• Shi Zhao told Shi Yi he was not ready to fight her, but he showed her the stone pendant she had left behind and insisted they battle.
• Shi Zhao accepted Shi Yi's challenge and sent him flying with a single slap as he charged at her.
• Shi Yi rose and unleashed his Bian Precious Technique, but Shi Zhao's stronger version shattered his attack and struck back.
• Shi Yi locked down the void to halt Shi Zhao's Golden Bian, then surged forward and gathered heaven and earth's vital essence for his final trump card.

Shi Zhao and Shi Yi unleashed their world-shaking divine abilities in a duel at the Rain King Mansion, with Shi Zhao ultimately carrying off her exhausted little brother. The onlookers celebrated the siblings’ strength while the Rain Clan and Shi Yi’s branch of the Martial King Manor resented how the match had turned out.

• Shi Yi opened his double pupils and used Double Pupils Heaven-Opening against Shi Zhao.
• Shi Zhao darkened the sky and brought down a storm of enormous stars, forcing the Rain Clan to activate its protective Magic Formation.
• Shi Yi answered with Double Pupils Heaven-Opening, and the siblings’ divine abilities tore through the formation as Shi Yi struggled to stay standing.
• Shi Zhao praised Shi Yi, then carried him away despite his pleading, while he gave up struggling in embarrassment.
• The crowd laughed and celebrated the siblings, while the Rain Clan and Shi Yi’s branch of the Martial King Manor blamed Shi Zhao and dismissed her power as the Supreme Bone’s ability.

Shi Zhao left the Rain King Mansion with Shi Yi, reunited with him in the Martial King Manor, and shared a peaceful night teaching him cultivation and urging him to follow his own heart. When she prepared to leave the Imperial Capital, Shi Yi asked her to help him claim an opportunity at the Primordial Divine Mountain, and she agreed to go with him.

• Shi Zhao used Shi Yi as leverage to leave the Rain King Mansion despite the Rain Clan's protests, and the spectators concluded that the siblings were close and that she opposed the clan.
• After leaving the mansion, Shi Yi healed himself with his double pupils, accepted candied hawthorns from Shi Zhao, and stayed close to her.
• On the Back Mountain, Shi Zhao taught Shi Yi the incomplete Bian Precious Technique and told him not to rely too heavily on his double pupils or live by others' expectations.
• Shi Zhao and Shi Yi spent the night talking together beneath the stars, and she planned to leave the Imperial Capital the next morning.
• Shi Yi asked Shi Zhao to accompany him to the Primordial Divine Mountain to claim an opportunity, and she agreed.

Shi Yi brought Shi Zhao to Demon Spirit Lake so she could join the coming search for an opportunity at Qilin Cliff. After Demon Spirit Lake’s forces treated her coldly, Shi Zhao settled in on her own, and the chapter ended with a crowd of creatures gathering outside her dwelling to confront her.

• Shi Yi used the Void War Halberd to take Shi Zhao through the void to Demon Spirit Lake.
• Shi Yi introduced Shi Zhao to a demonic spider at the Spiderweb Sacred Gate and explained that she had come to help him obtain an opportunity.
• The great golden spider allowed Shi Zhao to join the expedition, warning that descendants of many divine mountains would gather and that each would face their own fortune.
• After Shi Yi left to have his injuries treated, Shi Zhao moved into a silver demonic spider’s dwelling and learned that Qilin Cliff was about to open.
• A crowd of flying and ground-dwelling creatures arrived outside Shi Zhao’s dwelling, and she realized they had come to pick a fight.

Shi Zhao defeated a Spirit Transformation challenger and forced the creatures of the Primordial Divine Mountains to acknowledge her strength. She befriended Yun Xi and the other girls before arriving at the majestic Qilin Cliff.

• Shi Zhao invited a young challenger to survive one palm strike, then killed him with a single blow.
• Shi Zhao struck the Azure Luan and injured the old Golden Beast who tried to protect him, forcing the Golden Beast to yield and withdraw with the Azure Luan.
• Shi Zhao met Yun Xi and quickly formed friendly relations with several girls from the Primordial Divine Mountains.
• Shi Zhao traveled through the Great Wilderness aboard a warship and arrived at Qilin Cliff.

Shi Zhao and Shi Yi led the divine-mountain gathering into Qilin Cliff, where a hidden cave held deadly purple flames and a secret-realm world. After revealing her Ten Cave Heavens and defeating the pure-blooded creatures who attacked her, Shi Zhao pushed Shi Yi and several captives into the cave as the valley’s pressure and flames surged.

• Shi Zhao and Shi Yi joined the divine-mountain gathering at Qilin Cliff and passed through a pressure field that tested their foundations.
• Shi Yi used his Double Pupils to guide the group to a cave entrance and a treasure tree bearing fruits marked with Qilin patterns.
• Purple flames erupted from the cave, killing two creatures and burning others as the survivors fled the valley.
• A blue-haired youth incited the pure-blooded creatures to attack Shi Zhao and Shi Yi, but Shi Zhao revealed her Ten Cave Heavens and overwhelmed them.
• Jin Yunteng and several others fled into the cave while Shi Zhao beat the attackers into their true forms and mocked their claim that the danger had passed.
• When purple flames spread through the valley, Shi Zhao pushed Shi Yi and several captured creatures into the cave and told him to help keep them for ransom.

Shi Zhao cultivated at Qilin Cliff, used the purple flames and vermilion fruits to advance to the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and gained a bead of qilin blood for the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk. She left the cave entrance ready to extort the young creatures inside and the Primordial Divine Mountains outside.

• Shi Zhao took a vermilion fruit from the ancient cave and learned from the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk that immortal qilin blood had seeped into the rock.
• Shi Zhao sat on the rock and cultivated with the purple flames and vermilion fruits, transforming her flesh and advancing to the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Shi Zhao’s spiritual heavenly eye fully condensed as her body completed a major transformation.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk gave Shi Zhao the purest essence of the qilin blood and kept the rest to restore some of its power.
• Shi Zhao stirred up the remaining purple flames, alarming the young creatures in the cave and the people of the Primordial Divine Mountains outside.
• Shi Zhao blocked the cave entrance and planned to collect tolls from the young creatures and extort the Primordial Divine Mountains.

Shi Zhao rescued Shi Yi from the Ancient Cave, then robbed the divine mountain creatures inside and demanded ransom from their clans. As the Purple Fire faded, she escaped through a passage opened by the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk fragment, leaving her pursuers injured and empty-handed.

• Shi Zhao entered the Ancient Cave, found the injured Shi Yi, and learned that he had lured their attackers inside and obtained two forms of the Qilin Precious Technique.
• Shi Zhao captured groups of creatures in the cave and stripped them of their spirit herbs and treasures, while Hou Tian helped her locate the divine mountain creatures.
• Shi Zhao robbed nearly twenty young creatures, spared Hou Tian and the friendly Yun Xi and other girls, and held several attackers for ransom.
• Shi Yi chose to follow his own path, and Shi Zhao directed him toward the Heaven Mending Pavilion and the Ancient Sacred Academy.
• Shi Zhao demanded ransom from the clans outside and cut off one of Azure Luan's wings to prove her threat, forcing kings and marquises to pay heavily.
• When the Purple Fire faded, Shi Zhao uprooted the mutated Vermilion Fruit Tree and escaped through a passage opened by the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk fragment, blasting away her attackers.

Shi Zhao returned to the Imperial Capital, exchanged her loot for equipment, and traveled into the Great Wilderness to complete her Spirit Transformation Realm breakthrough. After perfecting her Cave Heaven Realm through a new method of nurturing spirits, she left Little Shi to begin his own trials in Stone Village.

• Shi Zhao traded the goods she had extorted for Venerable armor and Earth-Shrinking Talismans, had black gold forged into nine Law-Breaking Arrows, and obtained a Purple-Gold Great Hammer for Fourth Grandfather.
• The Stone Emperor gave Shi Zhao a Bian named Biling as a mount, and she subdued it with a single slap before returning to the Second Ancestral Land.
• Shi Zhao watched Biling defeat Crocodile Flood Dragons by the Taiyin River, then cooked one of them before continuing into the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Zhao battled a great ferocious beast, merged her ten cave heavens, and used her own spiritual will to nurture spirits and complete the three stages of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• After half a year of cultivation, Shi Zhao perfected her Cave Heaven Realm, while seven-year-old Shi Hao completed his cultivation and left Stone Village to begin his own trials.