Shi Hao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Shi Hao belongs to a lineage of the Martial King Manor that suffers increasing suppression from Shi Yi’s faction. After Shi Ziling leaves, ancestral elders continue protecting the remaining members. Shi Yi’s supporters also exercise restraint because Shi Hao’s grandfather, the Great Demon God Shi Zhongtian, has yet to return from seeking precious blood for his grandson 2.

Shi Qingfeng suffers in Shi Hao’s place: the Rain Clan and Martial King Manor keep him under surveillance in the Second Ancestral Land while believing him to be Shi Hao 2.

Shi Hao grows up in Stone Village under Willow Deity’s protection. He later credits the guardian spirit with keeping the settlement safe from Ferocious Beasts. His early journeys include a bloody crossing of a hundred thousand li of the Great Wilderness while still in the Blood Transformation Realm 109.

At Heaven Mending Pavilion, he helps Shi Qingfeng cultivate. The Pavilion’s destruction deeply affects him, forcing him toward greater maturity and strengthening his desire for power. After its fall, both return to Stone Village 77 97.

Appearance

• Childhood features: Chubby cheeks and large, expressive eyes 60 97.
• Physique: Strong arms and vigorous blood energy, displayed prominently during close combat 78 121.
• Later appearance: White-haired and dressed in white when confronting Jin Zhan at Heavenly Deity Academy 218.
• Battle manifestations: Frequently appears with a Kunpeng phantom, lightning, or rune-created wings; these are techniques rather than permanent physical features 70 78 218.

Personality

Shi Hao actively seeks strong opponents and treats defeat as an opportunity to improve. After losing repeatedly to Shi Qingyun, he returns for more spars because the battles benefit his cultivation. Even when clearly outmatched, his immediate ambition is to make Shi Qingyun fight seriously next time 79 110 233.

His confidence extends to threats far beyond his current cultivation. He mocks hostile Venerables, refuses recruitment into the Netherworld, and declares that he does not fear the coming Great Calamity 109 121.

Food and treasure readily capture his attention. He buys seasonings for his travels, drools while imagining future meals, and eagerly enters the Primordial Treasure Realm after hearing about its possible riches 63 151.

Beneath his teasing manner, he is fiercely loyal. The destruction of Heaven Mending Pavilion and the massacre at Ravine-Below City provoke grief and anger. Later, he accepts captivity in the Foreign Realm in Demoness’s place, choosing to protect someone close to Shi Qingyun after receiving his friend’s help so often 97 123 279.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Combat and Body Tempering

Shi Hao combines tremendous physical strength with continuous, adaptable close-range attacks 78.

• Uses punches, palm strikes, kicks, and elbows in uninterrupted combinations 78.
• Matches Shi Yi in physical strength during their duel, although his Precious Technique mastery initially falls short 115.
• Tempers his body in the Yang Extreme Cave by dismissing his protective barrier and enduring extreme yang heat directly 98.
• Continues challenging Shi Qingyun despite the latter repeatedly holding back to avoid seriously injuring him 79 110 233.

Kunpeng Precious Technique

One of the Ten Fiends Precious Techniques, the Kunpeng inheritance provides exceptional movement speed and manifests alongside Yin-Yang Qi 115 116.

• Uses Kunpeng Divine Speed to reach the enormous eye sustaining Shi Yi’s double-pupiled world 115.
• Evades attacks from multiple Venerables and weaves through Chains of Order with the technique 116 117.
• Avoids Jin Zhan’s densely packed golden feathers with a Kunpeng phantom behind him 218.
• Its value makes him a target for cultivators seeking the inheritance 116 122.

Supreme Bone and Reincarnation

Shi Hao develops a new Precious Technique within his Supreme Bone that wields the power of reincarnation 156.

• His still-forming bone resonates with the Supreme Bone inside Shi Yi, whose resulting backlash decides their duel 115.
• Uses his newly nurtured technique against the Five-Colored Deer, rapidly draining its vitality 156.
• Later channels reincarnation through sword attacks, causing surrounding vegetation to pass through flourishing and withering 251.

Lightning and Other Precious Techniques

• Suanni Precious Technique: Manifests a lightning-wreathed Suanni and uses it in battles against Shi Qingyun, Youyan, and pursuing cultivators 70 122 154.
• Lightning Dao divine ability: Combines lightning attacks with the Reincarnation Technique during the arena melee 198.
• Green-Scaled Eagle Precious Technique: Uses it to intercept Shi Qingyun’s palm strike 70.
• Azure Wings: Generates wings for aerial recovery, acceleration, and renewed attacks 78 79.
• Golden wings: Uses a separate golden-winged manifestation for rapid travel 98.

Sword Techniques

• Shatters Shi Yi’s double-pupiled world with a sword strike after burning his essence blood 115.
• Defeats Jin Zhan with a strike described as Shatter the Void and Break Bones 218.
• Manifests divine grass and uses one of its leaves to release a red-and-white sword ray, splitting a continental fragment and reducing attacking Foreign Realm cultivators to ash 269.

Taking the Self as a Seed

Shi Hao follows the path of taking himself as his cultivation seed rather than relying entirely on an external connection to the Great Dao 251.

• Resists the full binding effect of Shi Qingyun’s law-based suppression.
• Uses sword intent to sever the remaining invisible shackles.
• Still loses the exchange when Shi Qingyun’s movement technique carries him behind Shi Hao 251.

Cooking

• Skillfully prepares Ferocious Beast meat with seasonings and treasure medicines 70 78.
• Cooks the White Tiger meal whose medicinal essence enables his ninth Cave Heaven breakthrough 70.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Broken Ancient Sword — Used against Shi Yi, Youyan, and the Iron-Blood Ancient Tree’s attacking root 114 115 122 154 155.
• Great Luo Sword Embryo — Wielded against Jin Zhan at Heavenly Deity Academy 218.
• Slashing Body — A Dao weapon fused with fragments of the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine; Shi Hao tests it while sparring with Shi Qingyun 251.
• Divine Guidance Chapter of the Original True Explanation — Shares it with Shi Qingyun in exchange for an Ancient Scripture 154 156.
• Paper talisman — Credits its assistance with helping him endure the circumstances surrounding the Immortal Dao Flower Bud’s opening 185.

Relationships

• Shi Qingyun — Close friend, cultivation companion, and recurring sparring partner. Qingyun repeatedly protects him; Shi Hao later accepts captivity to protect Demoness in return for that friendship. They eventually travel Above the Heavens together 109 116 218 279 315.
• Shi Qingfeng — Close companion whom he helps cultivate at Heaven Mending Pavilion. Both return to Stone Village after the Pavilion falls 77 97.
• Willow Deity — Stone Village’s guardian spirit, whom Shi Hao regards with gratitude. He entrusts his parents’ return to the village to Willow Deity 109 151.
• Shi Yi — Older relative and rival. Shi Hao defeats him in their long-awaited duel and declares their karma erased; they later fight on the same side against the Foreign Realm 111 115 255.
• Qin Hao — Younger brother. Shi Hao allows him to challenge Shi Qingyun, hoping defeat will curb his arrogance 149.
• Little Pagoda — Powerful companion who supplies crucial assistance against the Venerables and Youyan, while acknowledging limits on direct intervention 109 122.
• God-Striking Stone — Traveling companion who strongly objects to Shi Hao’s plan to enter the Heavenly Bone Forbidden Zone 70.
• Huo Ling’er — Junior martial sister and frequent target of his teasing. She worries during his battles and invites him to explore an opportunity in the Fire Kingdom 78 79 109 111 115.
• Demoness — Longstanding acquaintance who teases him and resents his repeated interruptions of her time with Shi Qingyun. He later volunteers to replace her as the Foreign Realm’s hostage 109 110 279.
• Yuan Qing — Enemy who captured him and threw him into the Primordial Ancient Mine; later attacks him from behind at Heavenly Deity Academy 218.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Hundred Broken Mountains

Shi Hao initially encounters Shi Qingyun as a dangerous masked cultivator and becomes eager to challenge him. Their confrontation over the White Tiger ends when they recognize one another. After sharing the medicinal meal that opens his ninth Cave Heaven, Shi Hao leaves for the Heavenly Bone Forbidden Zone despite the God-Striking Stone’s objections 60 64 70.

Desolate Heaven Marquis and the Duel with Shi Yi

At the Stone Emperor’s birthday banquet, Shi Qingyun blocks a Venerable’s sneak attack on Shi Hao. Shi Hao then challenges several hostile Venerables, wins with Little Pagoda’s assistance, and receives the title Desolate Heaven Marquis 109.

His subsequent duel with Shi Yi culminates in his escape from the double-pupiled world and the Supreme Bone’s backlash against Shi Yi. Exhausted after victory, Shi Hao becomes vulnerable to treasure-seeking spectators; Shi Qingyun stops Granny Xihua’s Soul-Extinguishing Needle before it strikes his brow 115 116.

Great Calamity and Stone Kingdom Rule

Shi Hao attends Youyan’s Heavenly Genius Gathering to learn about the approaching calamity. He rejects recruitment and fights after the gathering becomes a trap. Little Pagoda empowers him against Youyan, while news of the city’s slaughter drives him into a furious assault on Youyan’s allies 120 121 122 123.

By the time he reunites with Shi Qingyun, he has become emperor of the Stone Kingdom. His responsibilities include protecting its people during the Great Calamity and resisting Upper Realm incursions. He subsequently asks Shi Qingyun to accompany him to Immortal Mountain 144.

Heavenly Deity Academy

After returning from the Primordial Ancient Mine, Shi Hao confronts attempts by the Jin and Feng clans to bar him from Heavenly Deity Academy. He defeats Jin Zhan, then recognizes Yuan Qing when the latter launches a sneak attack 218.

He continues refining his cultivation through spars with Shi Qingyun before entering seclusion and surviving the brutal tribulation that carries him into Void Dao 223 233 234.

Border Wasteland and Foreign Realm Captivity

Shi Hao joins the Nine Heavens’ younger generation on the front lines. He answers Shi Qingyun’s summons during the confrontation with Chi Ling and later sends wounded companions back to the Imperial Pass so he can continue fighting alone 251 255 269.

After Shi Qingyun draws the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings into the Boundary Sea, Shi Hao volunteers to replace Demoness as a hostage. His departure accompanies a five-hundred-year ceasefire, while his peers resolve to cultivate and repay the humiliation 279.

Dark Calamity and Above the Heavens

During the Dark Calamity, Shi Hao becomes the second Emperor. After Shi Qingyun returns from defeating three Quasi-Emperors, they reunite. Shi Hao later joins him and the Boundary Sea’s Immortal Kings on a journey Above the Heavens to seek the source of darkness 315.

Notable Quotes

“So this is a true prodigy? Next time, I'll make you go all out.” 79

“I, Shi Hao, have never feared anyone!” 121

“You were always the one helping me before. This time, let me protect those by your side.” 279