Chapter Summaries

Shi Zhao extorted Qin Changsheng, joined Kunpeng Son in hunting the Upper Realm sects that had once persecuted him, and helped him consider how to preserve Heavenly Desolation. After hearing about Shi Hao and Shi Yi’s coming duel, she split into three bodies at Three Lives Mountain to cultivate, while the strongest prepared to watch the cousins fight.

• Shi Zhao demanded compensation and protection fees from Qin Changsheng, who offered an Immortal Bone before his Dao projection faded and the Qin Clan’s people were released.
• Kunpeng Son hunted and captured Divine Fire Realm elders from the sects that had once suppressed him, while Shi Zhao followed and urged him to keep some alive for her to practice on.
• Shi Zhao and Kunpeng Son exchanged techniques and insights, then reached the Kunpeng Nest and learned that Heavenly Desolation’s remnant consciousness was failing.
• Kunpeng Son gave Shi Zhao a golden feather and said she should seek him in the Upper Realm after he recovered and went there for revenge.
• Shi Zhao heard that Shi Hao and Shi Yi had fought in the Void God Realm and were expected to face each other again, then split into three bodies at Three Lives Mountain to cultivate.
• The three Shi Zhao bodies strengthened their cultivation, and the strongest decided they would soon go watch Shi Hao and Shi Yi’s duel.

Shi Hao returned to Stone Village and reunited with his parents, while Shi Zhao took Qin Hao in hand and began training him harshly. As the long-awaited battle approached, the Void God Realm filled with spectators, and Shi Yi arrived looking for his younger brother.

• Shi Hao returned to Stone Village and reunited with Shi Ziling and Qin Yining after more than a decade apart.
• Shi Hao learned that Shi Zhao had overturned Immortal Mountain, leading to his parents’ return to the Desolate Region.
• Shi Zhao claimed Qin Hao as a half-disciple, scolded him for Immortal Mountain’s influence, and ordered him to follow her cultivation plan.
• The decisive battle day arrived, and countless forces gathered in the Void God Realm to watch.
• Shi Yi entered the Pure Land, drawing fearful attention from the gathered powers, and called out for Shi Hao.

Shi Hao and Shi Yi fought on the Sky Battlefield, unleashing their supreme techniques until Shi Hao rose as the victor. He spared Shi Yi despite their grudge and challenged him to live on and one day catch up.

• Shi Hao arrived to face Shi Yi, while Shi Zhao secretly watched from a higher plane and exchanged blows with the Double Pupils Woman.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yi began their duel with the Qilin Law and Vermilion Bird technique, then clashed with sword arts and other divine abilities.
• Both fighters suffered grave wounds as their techniques collided, and their final powers destroyed the battlefield.
• Shi Hao stood first, his regenerated Supreme Bone nearing completion, and declared that Shi Yi had lost.
• Shi Yi invited Shi Hao to kill him, but Shi Hao refused and said Shi Yi owed Shi Zhao his life.
• Shi Hao told Shi Yi to live with his humiliation and catch up to him someday.

After Shi Hao won the battle against Shi, Shi Zhao appeared and confronted the divine-flame-clad man who had come for Yue Chan. She defeated him with a six-path art that matched his own, leaving him shocked and demanding to know how she had learned it.

• Shi Hao recovered from his injuries with the Undying Silkworm Rebirth Art and demanded his promised reward as the crowd watched warily.
• Shi Zhao appeared beside Yue Chan, killed Granny Xihua, and refined her True Spirit before she could escape.
• The divine-flame-clad man attacked Yue Chan, but Shi Zhao slapped him away and drew Yue Chan into her arms.
• The man erupted in anger and attacked Shi Zhao with six Precious Techniques united as one.
• Shi Zhao answered with a similar six-path art and wounded him, prompting him to demand how she knew his great art.

Shi Zhao defeated Cang Chi and claimed his Reincarnation Disk fragment, then returned to the Desolate Region to confront him again. In the Void God Realm, hostile Venerables attacked Shi Hao and Shi Yi while both were wounded, and Shi Yi vanished in a shower of light as Shi Hao fought on.

• Cang Chi used his Reincarnation Disk fragment against Shi Zhao, but she unleashed the complete Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and killed him.
• Shi Zhao joined her fragment with Cang Chi's, entered a passage with the resulting half-sized disk, and appeared in the Desolate Region to block Cang Chi's escape.
• After Shi Zhao left the Void God Realm, hostile Venerables attacked the wounded Shi Hao and Shi Yi, while the Fire Emperor and Stone Emperor held back from intervening.
• Shi Hao used his Kun Peng Precious Technique and Soul-Suppressing Pagoda to kill a Venerable who attacked him.
• Shi Yi fought off his attackers with his remaining Double Pupils, then dissolved into a shower of light as Shi Hao charged forward.

After Shi Hao and Shi Yi’s battle, Shi Zhao’s punitive campaign against the factions that attacked them became the talk of the Desolate Region. She brushed off the Witch’s teasing and set out with all three of her bodies to punish the responsible factions, leaving her first targets facing her challenge.

• News spread that Shi Hao had recovered his Supreme Bone and that Shi Yi had suppressed his Array Formation Realm cultivation before dying to clear a path for Shi Hao.
• People learned that Shi Zhao had overturned the Immortal Mountain and joined an ally in crushing other great sects, while her decree offered rewards for information and the culprits’ heads.
• Yue Chan realized that two Divine Artifacts in Shi Zhao’s reward display had belonged to the Heaven Mending Sect and feared being captured for a bounty.
• The Witch teased Shi Zhao while they walked together, but Shi Zhao turned the tables, threatened to take her seriously, and left her gasping on the ground.
• Shi Zhao sent all three of her bodies across the Desolate Region to punish the factions that had attacked Shi Hao and Shi Yi, and challenged her first targets to survive one move.

After bringing her three bodies to the perfected Venerable Realm, Shi Zhao united their powers and broke beyond the realm’s limits, drawing heavenly lightning. She joined Kunpeng Son and the others on his journey to the Upper Realm, where they intended to confront old enemies.

• Shi Zhao spent more than half a year cultivating after destroying the factions that had attacked Big Shi and Little Shi.
• Shi Zhao formed the Three Powers Magic Formation and united her three cave heaven divine rings, breaking beyond the Venerable Realm and provoking heavenly lightning.
• Kunpeng Son explained that the lightning had appeared because Shi Zhao had surpassed the bounds of reason and announced that he was leaving for the Upper Realm.
• Shi Zhao agreed to accompany Kunpeng Son, intending to settle accounts with those who had harmed him and slandered the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland.
• The Double Pupils Woman, Yun Qingyao, and Shi Yi joined them, and Kunpeng Son led the group through the heavens toward the Upper Realm.

Shi Zhao and her companions arrived in the Upper Realm, where its dense spiritual energy and unfamiliar laws constrained their powers. After her companions departed to follow their own paths, Shi Zhao planted her medicines and prepared to complete the laws within her body.

• The Willow Deity watched Shi Zhao leave the Lower Realm after she took Stone Village's medicines and left the taiyi true water and other spoils behind to protect and enrich the village.
• Kunpeng Son sheltered Shi Zhao, Shi Yi, and Yun Qingyao from the chaos of their ascent into the Upper Realm, where they discovered that its laws restricted their movement and abilities.
• Shi Yi parted from Shi Zhao, resolving to break down and rebuild himself so he could rise again.
• Yun Qingyao completed her understanding of the Upper Realm's laws, embraced Shi Zhao goodbye, and left to wander the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Kunpeng Son sealed the area with a Magic Formation before leaving to visit sects and stir up trouble in the Upper Realm.
• Shi Zhao planted her spirit medicines and Sacred Medicines, contemplated the Upper Realm's Great Dao, and prepared to complete the laws within her body.

Shi Zhao cultivated Sacred Medicines and used their essence to undergo a dangerous nirvana transformation, rebuilding her body with the laws of the Upper Realm. As she recovered, the Immortal Palace's successor and a Heavenly God attacked the Magic Formation protecting her refuge.

• More than a hundred of Shi Zhao's Spirit Medicines transformed into Sacred Medicines, and she studied their changes to comprehend a withering-and-flourishing nirvana method.
• Shi Zhao gathered ingredients from her medicines and Immortality Spring to brew Nirvana Liquid in the Bone Cauldron.
• She shattered her bones, replaced her blood, and used the Golden Cicada Shell-Shedding Art, the Undying Silkworm Rebirth Art, and her new nirvana method to rebuild her body over three days and nights.
• After completing the transformation, Shi Zhao sensed attackers striking the Magic Formation outside her refuge.
• The Immortal Palace's successor and a Heavenly God attacked the formation, suspecting that a divine medicine lay within.

Shi Zhao confronted the Immortal Palace Successor Di Chong after his forces broke her magic formation and discovered her medicinal garden. She revealed her Supreme Hall inheritance, then used Kun Peng wings and the Dragon Fang Dagger to kill Di Chong’s secondary body.

• The Immortal Palace Heavenly God used the Void War Halberd to shatter Shi Zhao’s magic formation and expose her cultivation site.
• The Heavenly God died when a strand of sword qi released from Shi Zhao’s Tattered Cloth pierced his forehead, while Di Chong survived behind his armor and the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Shi Zhao used the Black Paper Boat to repel Di Chong’s attacks, then identified herself as a successor of the Supreme Hall.
• Di Chong recognized Shi Zhao as a visitor from the Lower Realm and declared that the Immortal Palace would destroy the Supreme Hall’s remaining inheritance.
• Shi Zhao summoned Kun Peng wings and the Dragon Fang Dagger, then split Di Chong’s secondary body in two.

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.