Shi Hao

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Encounter with the Dark-Gold Scale

Shi Hao enters the Sin Province border while fleeing a Heavenly Human Clan Heavenly God elder. Using his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, he recognizes that the apparent dark-gold mountain ahead is part of a living creature. The elder attacks both Shi Hao and the formation, only to be reduced to ash by its passive recoil 27.

After seeing the Ancient Barbarian Tribe benefit from the formation’s leaked life essence, Shi Hao has the God-Striking Stone investigate. Its body cracks from the pressure without touching the surface. Shi Hao bows to the formation and withdraws rather than provoke it 27.

When a Heavenly Human Clan warship arrives, he deliberately shelters behind the scale. Its cannon fire triggers another recoil, destroying the ship, its Self-Severing Realm elder, and its crew. Shi Hao subsequently considers using the outskirts to recuperate 28.

Liu Shen’s Warning

Liu Shen arrives and traces the formation to the sleeping Gu Xian. She explains that the immense structure is merely the edge of a barb on a single scale, connected to a body spanning countless star domains 28 29.

Rather than abandoning his ambitions, Shi Hao takes the creature’s existence as evidence that cultivation reaches far beyond the realms he knows. Nevertheless, he accepts Liu Shen’s warning that its origin aura could assimilate his Great Dao and abandons his plan to study it directly 29.

Pursuit Through the Mist

Renewed pursuit drives the wounded Shi Hao into Sin Province’s mist-covered No-Man’s Land. There, dark-gold dust suppresses spiritual energy and kills cultivators through its extraordinary mass. He discovers an eighteen-breath interval in its movements and tests a safe passage with a thrown branch 31.

Following the gaps, he reaches a pit containing a fist-sized fragment made from the same material as the scale. The fragment’s humming disrupts the dust’s rhythm, making the refuge increasingly unstable 31.

As Gu Xian’s influence changes the world’s laws, Shi Hao loses access to his magical techniques but adapts his breathing to the Mass Field. He turns back on his immobilized pursuers, killing disciples through direct physical attacks and by exploiting the lethal dust. The Heavenly God elder is left to die under intensifying gravity 35 36.

Cultivation on the Crystalline Plain

A pulse from the fragment flattens the wasteland into a glasslike plain. Shi Hao survives by matching his breathing to the pulse and resolves to travel to Boundless Heaven and the Celestial God Academy, believing his current strength insufficient against the Heavenly Human Clan’s older experts 36.

The spreading pulses follow him regardless of his retreat, forcing him to strengthen his body instead. He later escapes the fragment’s immediate pull as it liquefies, becomes a perfect sphere, and sinks into the core of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces 37 38.

Shi Hao then uses the crystalline plain for secluded cultivation, knowing the Heavenly Human Clan’s old experts dare not enter. After synchronizing with Gu Xian’s heartbeat and transforming his marrow, he rises unhindered by the local gravity and heads toward the plain’s edge 39.

Appearance

• Youthful build: Initially described as a youth in ragged clothing carrying a broken sword 27.
• Blue-green robes: During his later flight, his robes are bloodstained and his chest bears a wound deep enough to expose bone 31.
• Tempered physique: After prolonged gravitational training, he is bare-chested with sharply defined muscles; his footsteps leave deep impressions in crystalline ground 38 39.

Personality

Shi Hao combines caution with tactical opportunism. He refuses to attack the scale after witnessing its power, yet uses it as cover when pursued. In the mist, he studies the dust’s movements and tests a route before risking his body 27 28 31.

His ambition survives encounters that initially terrify him. Learning Gu Xian’s scale only strengthens his resolve to reach cultivation’s summit. When escape from the physical pulses becomes impossible, he commits to adapting rather than retreating 29 37.

He is ruthless toward the Heavenly Human Clan’s pursuers. Once the Mass Field reverses their advantage, he kills them without mercy, including a disciple who begs for his life 36.

Abilities & Skills

Taking the Self as the Seed

Shi Hao’s cultivation places his own flesh at the center of his strength, allowing him to keep fighting when external spiritual energy and magical techniques become unusable 35 36.

• Tempers muscles, bones, blood, and marrow under extreme gravity 37 39.
• Uses the intervals between pulses to alternate resistance, recovery, and movement 39.
• Eventually produces enough physical force to slightly distort nearby space 39.
• His victories over higher-realm pursuers occur while their magical power is suppressed, not under ordinary combat conditions 36.

Rhythm and Mass Field Adaptation

Shi Hao learns to coordinate his movements and bodily rhythms with Gu Xian’s physical influence.

• Identifies the dust’s eighteen-breath movement cycle and passes through its temporary gaps 31.
• Synchronizes breathing with the Mass Field to reduce its pressure 36.
• Survives a landscape-flattening pulse by lying low and matching its frequency 36.
• Later synchronizes his heartbeat and blood flow with the distant pulses, triggering marrow transformation 39.

Supreme Blood and Supreme Bone

His Supreme Blood and Supreme Bone remain important during the transition from rune-based cultivation to physical tempering.

• Supreme Blood: Repairs muscle fibers torn by gravitational pressure 37 39.
• Supreme Bone: Warns him of danger near the dark-gold dust 31.
• Physical restructuring: Under the new conditions, the bone stops developing intricate runes and instead grows denser 37 39.

Martial Dao Heavenly Eye

His eye technique reveals details obscured by the mist surrounding the dark-gold formation.

• Golden runes appear within his eyes when activated 27.
• Allows him to recognize the supposed mountain’s surface as belonging to a living creature 27.

Movement and Precious Techniques

Equipment

• Broken sword — Carried during his initial flight from the Heavenly Human Clan 27.

Relationships

• Liu Shen — Trusted guide. Shi Hao greets her arrival with joy and accepts her warning against studying the scale’s origin aura 28 29.
• God-Striking Stone — Talking companion whom Shi Hao asks to assess the scale. Its injury from the formation’s distant pressure confirms the danger 27.
• Gu Xian — An overwhelming, indirect influence rather than a personal acquaintance. His scale shelters Shi Hao from attacks, while his shed fragment and bodily pulses create both mortal dangers and opportunities for physical cultivation 27 28 36 39.
• Heavenly Human Clan — Persistent enemies seeking the fortune Shi Hao carries. Their pursuit drives him into the forbidden wasteland, where he eventually turns the environment against them 31 36.
• Ancient Barbarian Tribe — Worshippers of the scale whose rituals and physical rejuvenation Shi Hao observes; he does not join their worship 27 28.

Notable Quotes

“One day, I too will reach that summit overlooking all eternity!” 29

“Magical power has failed, and the Great Dao is gone.”
“But what I cultivate is Taking the Self as the Seed!”
“My flesh is my greatest asset!” 35