Chapter Summaries

Shi Zhao argued with Heavenly Desolation, then agreed to fight alongside it in exchange for its help as she tried to win it over. Meanwhile, the Kun Peng inheritance was divided amid bloody battles, and the Venerables waited outside the cave abode for the returning survivors.

• Heavenly Desolation accused Shi Zhao of being too merciful and urged her to kill, while Shi Zhao insisted she was not Kun Peng.
• Venerables and other supreme experts gathered outside the Northern Sea, waiting to intercept those returning from the Kun Peng Cave Abode.
• The factions inside the cave abode fought over six Kun Peng bones, and the resulting battles killed far more than a million beings before the bones were divided among major powers.
• Shi Zhao agreed to fight after Heavenly Desolation promised to help her once or twice, then charged out with her weapons and found Shi Liu and Biling.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Liu and Biling that her red eyes, hair, and murderous aura were deliberate, then resumed trying to lure Heavenly Desolation away.

Shi Zhao persuaded Heavenly Desolation with her heritage and treasures, then collected Kun Peng's artifacts and went to check on Xiao Hao. She reached a rune-filled Blood Pool and called on Bubu to imprint the Kun Peng Precious Technique.

• Shi Zhao revealed her descent from the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland, her ties to Willow Deity and the Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal King, and that Kunpeng Son was alive in the Lower Realm.
• Shi Zhao failed to convince Heavenly Desolation to leave with her, so she took Kun Peng's ruler, fan, dagger, and five artifact embryos instead.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Liu and Biling to loot the hall while she went to check on Xiao Hao.
• The broken Great Halberd asked whether it should follow Shi Zhao, and Heavenly Desolation answered, "Revenge..."
• Shi Zhao reached a sacred chamber deep in the Demon Transformation Cave and asked Bubu to imprint the Kun Peng Precious Technique.

Shi Zhao found her grandfather, Shi Zhongtian, in the black forest and reunited with him before they explored its ancient ruins. She entered the first arena of the Wall of Gods and Demons, a dangerous training ground built by survivors of the Primordial Age.

• Shi Zhao waited near Shi Hao as he comprehended the Kun Peng Precious Technique, then left for the black forest to find her family.
• Shi Zhao recited a poem while exploring, and the wounded Fifteenth Master recognized her as his granddaughter.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Zhongtian she had come to take him home, then explained the upheavals at the Martial King Manor, leaving him grief-stricken.
• Shi Zhao and Shi Zhongtian explored the forest together, discovering ancient cave dwellings and a damaged Stone Cauldron.
• Shi Zhao found the Wall of Gods and Demons and explained that it was an ancient training ground with 108 arenas.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Zhongtian to wait outside and entered the first stone gate, which closed behind her.

Shi Zhao tempered herself by battling increasingly powerful creatures in the Wall of Gods and Demons, eventually slaying a True Dragon. She discovered a hidden space containing another scrap of cloth like the one she owned, but taking it triggered a mysterious force that began to refine her.

• Shi Zhao fought her way through powerful beasts and divine birds in the Wall of Gods and Demons, using each battle to hone her abilities.
• After enduring repeated defeats and injuries, Shi Zhao killed a True Dragon with her full strength.
• Shi Zhao rested, searched the arena, and found a faint engraving of a woman that transported her to a sacred hidden space.
• Shi Zhao discovered a Sacrificial Altar and took a palm-sized scrap of cloth bearing images of grasses and trees.
• Immortal Sword-like beams and Chaos Qi surged from the altar, immobilizing Shi Zhao as an unknown power began trying to refine her.

Shi Zhao survived the altar’s brutal trial, then began cultivating the Willow Deity’s method despite its danger. After enduring another near-fatal transformation, she emerged from the Wall of Gods and Demons and told Shi Zhongtian they should go to the Northern Sea.

• The altar’s powers nearly destroyed Shi Zhao’s body and Primordial Spirit, but she survived and took the mysterious scrap of cloth.
• Shi Zhao used the Undying Silkworm regeneration technique and the Void Golden Cicada’s Golden Cicada Shell-Shedding Art to restore herself.
• After recovering, Shi Zhao decided she was ready to cultivate the Willow Deity’s method, drawing on her experience with life, death, and nirvana.
• Shi Zhao manifested the method, and her body and Primordial Spirit broke apart as golden vital essence engulfed her.
• A golden willow appeared amid surging blood qi, and Shi Zhao emerged from the Wall of Gods and Demons to reunite with Shi Zhongtian.
• Shi Zhao told Shi Zhongtian they should go to the Northern Sea.

As the Kun Peng Treasure Bones drew rival factions into battle, Yue Chan and the Heaven Severing Sect prepared for the coming struggle. Shi Zhao boarded the Witch’s ship and turned their flirtatious reunion into a playful contest, leaving the sect’s Venerables to interrupt them.

• Several Venerables fought over the first Kun Peng Treasure Bone, trapping fleeing factions between the battle outside and creatures inside the Forbidden Sea.
• Yue Chan and Granny Xihua watched from concealment, planned to wait for the six Treasure Bone portions, and discussed the Witch and the dangerous man who had come to the region.
• The Witch suspected her charming nemesis was nearby and wondered what had happened to the beautiful woman she had met two years earlier.
• Shi Zhao appeared on the Heaven Severing Sect’s treasure ship, bypassed its protective wards, and greeted the Witch.
• The Witch flirted with Shi Zhao, but Shi Zhao teased her in return, embraced her, and claimed she would take her away even if she had to sink the Northern Sea.
• A female Venerable approached to speak with Shi Zhao, who cut her off with a joking warning to the Heaven Severing Sect.

Shi Zhao entered the Northern Sea battle for the Kun Peng precious bones and overwhelmed the assembled Venerables, gathering five bones and challenging an ancient god. As the old god confronted her, Shi Zhao healed her injuries with the Willow Deity Method and declared she would fight him.

• An ancient god overturned the Heaven Mending Sect's God-Slaying Formation, drawing the attention of the Northern Sea's fighters.
• Shi Zhao left Witch's treasure ship, arrived above the battlefield, and attacked the Venerables with her sword.
• Shi Zhao broke through several alliances, seized three precious bones, and defeated or drove off many Venerables.
• A Bi Kuang caught Shi Zhao as she swayed, while the old god confronted her and held the final precious bone.
• Shi Zhao taunted the old god, used the Willow Deity Method to heal herself, and challenged him to fight.

Shi Zhao challenged an Ancient God above the Northern Sea and fought him with powerful techniques despite being only a Venerable. After drawing him into pursuit, she vanished with him, and he never returned.

• Shi Zhao confronted the old god, who manifested and struck at her with an enormous palm.
• Shi Zhao used the Qilin Step, a True Dragon tail strike, and her Eye of the Heavens to break the god's attacks and wound him.
• Shi Zhao pushed the Willow Deity Method and Grass Character Sword Art to their limits, trading hundreds of blows with the old god as her strength rose.
• The old god summoned his life-refined divine sword, and Shi Zhao abruptly fled, cursing him for using a weapon.
• The old god pursued Shi Zhao, who drew him away; neither returned, and rumors later claimed they fought beyond the Nine Heavens and across realms.

After completing Spirit Transformation, Shi Hao reunited with Shi Zhao in the Kunpeng Nest, while she uncovered Kun Peng’s damaged eggs and remains. Heavenly Desolation nearly dragged Shi Zhao into darkness, but her mysterious cloth absorbed the dark aura; she vowed to avenge Kun Peng as they prepared to leave.

• Shi Hao completed Spirit Transformation and went to share the Kun Peng Precious Technique with his sister, but cried when Shi Zhao demonstrated it before he could give it to her.
• Shi Hao tested himself in the Yang Extreme Cave, Mystic Ice Abyss, and Falling Star Mound, proving he had reached perfection in Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Zhao questioned Heavenly Desolation about leaving and discovered Kun Peng’s damaged eggs and the broken bones left by Kun Peng of the Ten Fiends.
• Heavenly Desolation’s resentment surged and began to darken Shi Zhao, but the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk awakened and her mysterious scrap of cloth absorbed the dark aura.
• Shi Zhao promised Heavenly Desolation she would avenge Kun Peng and wash away her grievances.

Shi Zhongtian reunited with Shi Hao in the Northern Sea and returned with him to the Stone Kingdom to confront those responsible for the family’s past crimes. After punishing the guilty members of the Martial King Manor, Shi Zhongtian took Shi Hao to seek justice from the Rain Clan.

• Shi Zhongtian arrived in the Northern Sea, confirmed Biling’s fused bloodline was powerful, and reunited tearfully with his grandson Shi Hao.
• Shi Zhongtian brought Shi Hao and their companions back to the imperial city, where he openly announced his return at the Martial King Manor.
• Shi Zhongtian entered the manor with Shi Hao and confronted the clan over its role in Shi Hao’s abduction and the removal of his Supreme Bone.
• Shi Hao defeated the manor’s elders and crippled those involved, sparing them because he did not want to make things difficult for his sister.
• When the Martial King failed to appear, Shi Zhongtian led Shi Hao toward the Rain Clan to settle accounts with them.

Shi Zhao refused the Martial King’s appeal to govern the manor, while Shi Zhongtian and Shi Hao confronted the Rain Clan over its past crimes. Shi Ziteng and a Demon Spirit Lake Venerable confirmed that Shi Zhao was the Sword Immortal, and she ordered the Venerable to end his own life.

• Shi Zhao warned the Martial King not to interfere in the manor’s affairs, and he withdrew from power.
• Shi Zhao revealed the manor’s past as Shi Hao announced his identity, stirring the Imperial Capital with news of the family’s three Supreme Beings and Shi Zhao’s Sword Immortal feats.
• Shi Zhongtian and Shi Hao attacked the Rain King Mansion, but the Rain Clan summoned a Rain God projection that sealed its divine soil and ended the battle.
• Shi Ziteng brought a Demon Spirit Lake Venerable to the Martial King Manor, where they recognized Shi Zhao as the Sword Immortal.
• Shi Zhao accused the Venerable of attacking her in the Northern Sea and demanded that he end his life; he agreed to slit his own throat and return to heaven.

Shi Zhao returned to the Stone Kingdom, where the Stone Emperor moved to give her the throne and the capital filled with powers drawn by her reputation. She left to meet those emerging from the Ancient Sacred Academy and reunited with Shi Yi, while the Double Pupils Woman responded enigmatically to Shi Zhao’s invitation to stay by her side.

• Shi Zhao forced the Venerable from Demon Spirit Lake to end his life, then confronted the Stone Emperor, who appeared as a phantom and hinted that the kingdom should belong to her.
• News spread that Shi Zhao had returned and that the Stone Emperor planned to pass the throne to her; Shi Zhao sent Shi Hao and Shi Zhongtian back to Stone Village.
• Major powers from across the Desolate Region gathered in the Imperial Capital for the Stone Emperor’s upcoming birthday celebration, drawn largely by Shi Zhao’s reputation.
• Disciples from the Heaven Mending Pavilion told Shi Zhao that Shi Yi was about to emerge from the Ancient Sacred Academy, so she opened a passage through space and went to meet him.
• A gray-clad Double Pupils Woman and Shi Yi emerged from the academy’s ruined passages, and Shi Yi was surprised to see Shi Zhao waiting.
• Shi Zhao wondered whether the weary Double Pupils Woman might stay by her side, and the woman replied that she might, depending on whether Shi Zhao could afford the price.

Shi Zhao reunited with Shi Yi and Yun Qingyao, gave them treasures, and brought them to the Black Forest to train while she investigated the Wall of Gods and Demons. Meanwhile, her incarnations studied the Heaven-Mending Art, and the village incarnation set out with Shi Hao for the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

• Shi Zhao offered Yun Qingyao the Dragon Fang Dagger, learned her name, and received the dagger back after Yun Qingyao warned her against testing people with such a valuable treasure.
• Shi Zhao gave Shi Yi a Dragon Bone Iron Sword Embryo and Yun Qingyao a ring-shaped Artifact Embryo, which Yun Qingyao joked was a token of love.
• Shi Zhao and the others rested at the Heaven Mending Pavilion, checked on the recovering Gourd Vine, and left discreetly.
• Shi Yi declared that he and Shi Hao were destined to fight, so Shi Zhao offered to teach him the Grass Character Sword Art, and he offered her the Heaven-Mending Art in return.
• Shi Zhao took Shi Yi and Yun Qingyao to the Black Forest, where they attempted the Wall of Gods and Demons trials; Shi Zhao found no sign of the hidden stage she had encountered before.
• Shi Zhao's incarnations studied the Heaven-Mending Art together, and the black-clad Shi Zhao left Stone Village with Shi Hao, Qingfeng, Big Red, and the villagers heading for the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital.

Shi Hao attended the Stone Emperor’s birthday celebration as powerful guests gathered to court Shi Zhao, whom many expected to rule the Desolate Region. While Shi Zhao stayed away, Shi Hao confronted old rivals and defeated challengers, leaving the feast’s guests uneasy about what might happen next.

• Shi Zhao met Yue Chan and the Witch at Moon Gazing Tower, where they discussed the coming turmoil and attempts to win her support.
• After drinking, Shi Zhao returned to the Martial King Manor to cultivate, while Shi Hao explored the Imperial Capital and attended gatherings.
• The Stone Emperor’s birthday brought powerful figures from across the Desolate Region to the Imperial Palace, many hoping to learn which faction Shi Zhao would support.
• Shi Hao left for the palace ahead of Shi Zhao and provoked old enemies, then greeted Huo Ling’er and Yun Xi.
• Several challengers attacked Shi Hao with hidden killing weapons, but he defeated them, prompting guests to suspect that a major event was coming.

Shi Zhao confronted six Venerables who came to the Martial King Manor seeking to recruit or suppress her and stood against outside powers trying to control the Desolate Region. She crippled them and brought them before the Stone Emperor, while Shi Hao celebrated her defiance.

• After Shi Hao revealed that he had reached the Inscription Realm, hostile powers secretly discussed killing him before he could become a greater threat.
• Six Venerables arrived at the Martial King Manor with divine decrees, formations, and artifacts, and the Immortal Mountain Venerable tried to recruit Shi Zhao through her ties to Qin Yining.
• The Venerables argued over recruiting Shi Zhao, but she rejected their offers and challenged them to fight.
• Shi Zhao snapped her fingers, shattering their formation and divine decrees and extinguishing the light of their Divine Artifacts; the Double Pupils Woman watched from afar.
• An unseen force immobilized the six Venerables, and Shi Zhao crippled them before taking them to the Stone Emperor’s palace.
• Shi Zhao declared that outside powers would not control the Desolate Region, and Shi Hao praised his big sister.

After Shi Zhao’s actions made her the focus of the Desolate Region, Shi Hao left the Imperial Capital and publicly challenged Shi Yi, while trying to reassure his sister about their estrangement. Back in Stone Village, Shi Zhao reunited her three selves, distributed her treasures, and began cultivating a dangerous Kun Peng devouring method.

• Shi Zhao refused to become the Stone Emperor’s heir, while Shi Hao decided to leave the Imperial Capital for the Fire Kingdom Ancestral Land.
• Shi Hao asked whether Shi Zhao had sent someone to find Shi Yi, embraced her, and then left without hearing her full response.
• Shi Hao publicly challenged Shi Yi, stirring discussion across the Stone Kingdom about their inevitable battle and the divided siblings.
• Shi Zhao’s three selves reunited in Stone Village, redistributed their treasures, and planted more than a thousand spirit medicines beside the Willow Deity.
• White-Clothed Shi Zhao explained her Great Devouring Technique, and the Willow Deity warned her that using it recklessly could invite demonic influence and heavenly punishment.
• White-Clothed Shi Zhao absorbed the purified essence of the dead Kun Peng Eggs through seven black holes, causing her aura to rise as she transformed toward a humanoid Kun Peng.

Shi Zhao arrived in the Mystic Domain and stormed Immortal Mountain, where she confronted the Qin Clan’s divine experts. She wounded one of them with the Grass Character Sword Art and mocked him as a false god.

• Shi Zhao crossed from the Desolate Region into the Mystic Domain, intending to retaliate against Immortal Mountain and free Kunpeng Son.
• Shi Zhao traveled to Immortal Mountain with Heavenly Desolation, then flew the rest of the way with her Kun Peng wings.
• Shi Zhao arrived at Immortal Mountain and walked toward Five Elements Mountain along a Golden Light Great Dao, alarming the Qin Clan.
• The Qin Clan activated its protective formation, and its Divine Fire Realm experts challenged Shi Zhao for attacking their gates.
• Shi Zhao wounded a Divine Fire Realm expert’s arm with the Grass Character Sword Art and taunted him as a false god.

Shi Zhao stormed Immortal Mountain with Heavenly Desolation and a Divine Spirit Magic Sword, leaving the Qin Clan’s gods wounded and fleeing. As Five Elements Mountain awakened its True God ancestor, she shattered Immortal Mountain’s protective formation, and the mountain’s peaks reacted too late to stop her.

• A Qin Clan Venerable recognized Shi Zhao as the woman from the Desolate Region who had crippled six Venerables, while Qin Wu and the silver-clad god confronted her.
• Shi Zhao transformed her hairpin into Heavenly Desolation, declared she would overturn Immortal Mountain, and attacked with her Battle Sword as the halberd’s power cowed the gods.
• Shi Zhao’s Sword Domain wounded the Qin Clan’s gods, who fled toward Five Elements Mountain after recognizing Heavenly Desolation as Kun Peng’s weapon.
• The Qin Clan’s people called for their True God ancestor, and a True God awakened from an Ancient Hall as Five Elements Mountain trembled.
• Shi Zhao combined the Divine Spirit Magic Sword with Heavenly Desolation’s edge and crushed Immortal Mountain’s protective formation before Five Elements Mountain’s peaks could stop her.

Shi Zhao helped free Kunpeng Son by wielding Heavenly Desolation against Five Elements Mountain, then seized the Qin Clan and raided Immortal Mountain’s treasury while Kunpeng Son recovered. As Qin Changsheng forced his way down from the Upper Realm, he attacked Shi Zhao, who stood her ground.

• Shi Zhao struck Five Elements Mountain with Heavenly Desolation, overturning it and freeing the skeletal Kunpeng Son from his chains.
• Heavenly Desolation and Five Elements Mountain clashed as Kunpeng Son absorbed the Mystic Domain’s essence and regained his strength.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk suppressed the Qin Clan’s gods and true god, allowing Shi Zhao to capture the clan and enter Immortal Mountain’s treasury.
• Shi Zhao took the treasury’s treasures and a fragment of the Primitive True Understanding, then headed for the medicinal fields as the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk warned that Qin Changsheng was descending.
• Shi Zhao destroyed the Ancient Hall serving as Qin Changsheng’s descent coordinate, but Qin Changsheng forced his projection into the Mystic Domain and struck at her.

Kunpeng Son and Shi Zhao used the Kun Peng Precious Technique and the Seven-Star Mark to defeat Qin Changsheng’s projection and seal the Mystic Domain. The seal cut off the Upper Realm’s access for three years, and Qin Changsheng asked Shi Zhao to make peace.

• Kunpeng Son borrowed Shi Zhao’s power to unleash the Kun Peng Precious Technique, shattering the void and blowing up one of Qin Changsheng’s arms.
• Shi Zhao transferred her Seven-Star Mark and summoned seven demon stars, whose illusory hand crushed Qin Changsheng’s projection into Immortal Mountain and destroyed his formation diagram.
• Two Upper Realm sect leaders began descending as Qin Changsheng’s projection weakened, while Kunpeng Son considered retreating.
• Shi Zhao commanded the seven stars to seal the Mystic Domain, severing its connections to the Upper Realm and forcing the two sect leaders to withdraw.
• Five Elements Mountain broke through the seal and fled to the Upper Realm, but the seven stars sealed the heavens again; Qin Changsheng asked Shi Zhao if they could make peace.
• That night, cultivators across the Mystic Domain saw seven exceptionally bright stars in the sky.