Chapter Summaries

Three-year-old Shi Hao used his Beast Milk System to grow stronger in the demon-haunted world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, while living with his wealthy family in Guobei County. After collecting goat milk at home, he received an unexpected invitation to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.

• Shi Hao checked his Beast Milk System and saw that drinking goat milk had raised his skill points to sixty-four.
• Shi Hao reflected that he had mastered Arhat Fist and gained immense strength, and vowed to defeat the demons and ghosts of the world.
• Shi Hao returned to the Shi residence, where Tang Wanying warned him to stay home because things had become chaotic.
• Shi Hao went to the kitchen, drank some goat milk, and poured the rest into his milk gourd.
• Shi Hao heard a notification welcoming the Desolate Heaven Emperor to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.

Three-year-old Shi Hao discovered that he had joined the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, where the group leader identified him as the future Desolate Heaven Emperor. Li Xiang decided to invest in Shi Hao while he was young, hoping to receive a Heavenly God Fruit in return.

• Shi Hao returned to his room, dismissed Zhang San and Zhang Si, and examined the chat group after drinking goat's milk.
• Shi Hao met Xiongba, Zhang Sanfeng, and group leader Great Immortal Li in the chat, but insisted he was only Shi Hao, not the Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• Great Immortal Li claimed he could see Shi Hao's future and offered to help him in exchange for a Heavenly God Fruit someday.
• Li Xiang checked Shi Hao's profile, saw his age, beast-milk hobby, and unlimited potential, and decided to invest in him.

Shi Hao read the chat history, realized Great Immortal Li had been tricking other members, and decided to pretend to be the future Desolate Heaven Emperor to get benefits from him. Li Xiang promised Shi Hao abundant beast milk in exchange for a Heavenly God Fruit, while telling the group about Shi Hao’s future power.

• Shi Hao reviewed the chat history and concluded that Great Immortal Li had used plot spoilers to trick Wuyazi, Guo Jing, and Zhang Sanfeng.
• Shi Hao decided to pose as the young Desolate Heaven Emperor and get beast milk and other benefits from Great Immortal Li.
• Shi Hao agreed to give Li Xiang a Heavenly God Fruit in the future in exchange for as much beast milk as he wanted.
• Li Xiang promised to send Shi Hao the beast milk in a red envelope and reminded him to keep his promise.
• Xiongba and Zhang Sanfeng asked about Shi Hao’s future, and Li Xiang claimed the Desolate Heaven Emperor would become a supreme existence on the level of the Three Pure Ones Dao Ancestors.

Shi Hao pretended to be a confused three-year-old in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group and accepted Wuyazi’s Northern Darkness Divine Art. Great Immortal Li warned Shi Hao not to waste time on it, then revealed that Shi Hao’s strength at three could already surpass Wuyazi’s, leaving Wuyazi to concede.

• Shi Hao pretended he had just read the chat history and praised Great Immortal Li in the group.
• Wuyazi offered to teach Shi Hao the Northern Darkness Divine Art and sent him the file.
• Great Immortal Li told Shi Hao that the martial-arts technique was not worth learning in his world.
• Great Immortal Li said Wuyazi might not beat Shi Hao even when Shi Hao was three years old.
• Shi Hao said he could lift a thousand-jin stone cauldron, and Wuyazi admitted he had been presumptuous.

Shi Hao used the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to obtain Wuyazi’s Northern Darkness Divine Art manual and upgraded it with his Beast Milk System. He reached the Xiantian Realm, leaving the promised beast milk still undelivered.

• Great Immortal Li warned Shi Hao not to cultivate the Northern Darkness Divine Art because he was already exceptionally strong for his age.
• Shi Hao left the chat after the Village Chief called him to eat, then read the Northern Darkness Divine Art that Wuyazi had sent.
• Shi Hao saw the Northern Darkness Divine Art appear on his Beast Milk System panel and decided to spend skill points upgrading it.
• Shi Hao spent 60 skill points to raise the Northern Darkness Divine Art to major completion and reached the Xiantian Realm.

Shi Hao used the Northern Darkness Divine Art to reach the Xiantian Realm and greatly increase his strength, then received a thousand jin of milk from Li Xiang through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Shi Hao confirmed the milk was safe and wondered what Li Xiang did in his world.

• Shi Hao raised the Northern Darkness Divine Art to major mastery, gained Innate True Qi, and estimated his strength had increased severalfold.
• Li Xiang decided to buy a thousand jin of milk for Shi Hao and packed it into ten wooden crates to avoid revealing his identity as an Earthling.
• Li Xiang sent the milk to Shi Hao through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, and Shi Hao thanked him and promised to remember the Heavenly God Fruit.
• Xiongba told the chat group that he had sent people to Lingyun Cave to fetch the Blood Bodhi.
• Shi Hao appraised the red envelope before claiming it and confirmed that it contained ten crates of fresh, clean milk.

Shi Hao drank the thousand jin of beast milk Li Xiang had sent and gained only twelve skill points, then asked for more in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Li Xiang spent all his savings to send Shi Hao ten thousand jin of fresh milk, hoping to earn a Heavenly God Fruit in the future.

• Shi Hao finished drinking the thousand jin of milk and found that it had added only twelve skill points to his Beast Milk System.
• The next morning, Shi Hao told Li Xiang that he had drunk all the milk and asked him to send more.
• Shi Hao requested ten thousand jin of beast milk, and Li Xiang agreed despite the cost.
• Li Xiang spent all his savings buying fresh milk and sent ten thousand jin to Shi Hao in a group red envelope.

Shi Hao received ten thousand jin of milk from Great Immortal Li and drank it to gain skill points. After raising his total to 138, he began adding points to the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

• Great Immortal Li sent Shi Hao ten thousand jin of milk through the chat group, and Xiongba offered to treat him to more.
• Shi Hao stored the milk in the group’s built-in storage and calculated that drinking it would yield about a hundred skill points.
• Shi Hao spent the day drinking the milk, using Innate True Qi to help him finish all ten thousand jin.
• Shi Hao’s skill points rose from sixteen to 138, and he began using them to improve the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

Three-year-old Shi Hao perfected the Northern Darkness Divine Art, reaching Innate Great Perfection and gaining over ten thousand jin of one-handed strength and the ability to project True Qi. At dinner, he learned that Guobei County’s new magistrate wanted his family’s three-colored deer, whose milk supplied his skill points.

• Shi Hao spent sixty skill points to raise the Northern Darkness Divine Art to great perfection, bringing his Xiantian Realm to Innate Great Perfection.
• Shi Hao tested his strength and projected Innate True Qi, confirming he could crush the air and pierce the ground with a flick of his finger.
• Shi Hao decided against seeking more martial arts from the Myriad Worlds Chat Group because he considered beast milk and future immortal cultivation more important.
• A servant summoned Shi Hao to dinner, where he learned that Guobei County’s new magistrate had set his sights on the Shi family’s three-colored deer.
• Shi Hao recognized that losing the deer would cost him the valuable milk that earned him skill points.

Shi Hao decided not to kill the newly appointed magistrate over the Three-Colored Deer after judging its milk was not worth the trouble. When Umaru Doma joined the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, Li Xiang permanently muted her to prevent her from exposing his charlatan act.

• Shi Wenjun and Tang Wanying told Shi Hao that they would present the Three-Colored Deer to the magistrate, and Shi Hao accepted their decision.
• Shi Hao considered assassinating the magistrate but abandoned the idea because the deer’s milk offered too few skill points to justify the risk.
• Umaru Doma joined the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, and Li Xiang immediately permanently muted her while claiming she was a barbarian from Fusang.
• Umaru Doma grew angry as she read the chat, unaware that Li Xiang had muted her because she came from modern Earth and could expose him.

Shi Hao received over twenty thousand jin of beast milk from Xiongba and began drinking it to gain skill points. The next morning, Shi Wenjun announced that Guobei County’s newly appointed magistrate had died, leaving Shi Hao wondering what had happened to the three-colored deer.

• Li Xiang avoided borrowing money for more beast milk after Xiongba offered to send Shi Hao over twenty thousand jin.
• Shi Hao appraised Xiongba’s red packet, claimed the beast milk, and stored the barrels before drinking through the night.
• Shi Hao drank goat’s milk the next morning and saw his Beast Milk System skill points increase.
• Shi Wenjun told Shi Hao and Tang Wanying that Guobei County’s newly appointed magistrate had died.
• Shi Hao asked how the magistrate had died and whether the three-colored deer had been presented to him.

Shi Hao learned that a monster had killed Guobei County’s magistrate, but stayed home drinking beast milk to gain skill points. The Myriad Worlds Chat Group welcomed Heavenly Blade Song Que, whom Shi Hao recognized as a powerful Grand Master.

• Shi Wenjun told Shi Hao and Tang Wanying that a monster had killed the county magistrate and that the yamen had sent constables to Lanruo Temple for help.
• Shi Hao learned that the three-colored deer was still at the Shi residence and decided he was not worried about the monster unless it was powerful.
• Tang Wanying warned Shi Hao to stay inside, and Zhang San and Zhang Si promised to watch over him.
• Shi Hao spent the day drinking Xiongba’s beast milk, converting it into skill points and planning to ask the group owner for more.
• The Myriad Worlds Chat Group announced that Heavenly Blade Song Que had joined, and Shi Hao considered Song Que’s Grand Master-level strength.

Elderly Song Que offered Shi Hao his Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques, hoping a future Heaven Emperor would inherit his life's work. After sending Shi Hao the techniques, Song Que died of old age, and Zhang Sanfeng offered to teach Shi Hao his martial arts too.

• Song Que, who was over ninety and near the end of his life, asked Shi Hao to learn his blade techniques.
• Shi Hao agreed, and Song Que sent him the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• Song Que urged Shi Hao to carry his techniques forward, then died before finishing his message.
• Great Immortal Li explained that Song Que had died of old age after fulfilling his wish, and Zhang Sanfeng offered Shi Hao his martial arts.

Shi Hao obtained Taijiquan from Zhang Sanfeng after pretending to be the young Desolate Heaven Emperor in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, adding it to the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques he had received from Song Que. After finishing Xiongba’s beast milk, he had 332 skill points and considered upgrading one of his new martial arts.

• Shi Hao agreed to learn Zhang Sanfeng’s Taijiquan, and Zhang Sanfeng sent him the technique through the chat group.
• Song Que died peacefully of old age, while Zhang Sanfeng felt satisfied that he had passed his martial art to the future Heaven Emperor.
• Shi Hao realized that Wuyazi, Song Que, and Zhang Sanfeng had all eagerly offered him divine art manuals because he was posing as the young Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• Shi Hao finished drinking more than 20,000 jin of Xiongba’s beast milk and gained 254 skill points, bringing his total to 332.
• Shi Hao checked his system panel and wondered whether he could use his skill points to bring Taijiquan or the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques to great perfection.

Shi Hao used nearly all his skill points to raise Song Que’s Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques to pinnacle mastery, making him a peak Grandmaster-realm martial artist. After sleeping, he woke early and went to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to ask Great Immortal Divine Charlatan for beast milk.

• Shi Hao decided to spend his skill points improving Song Que’s Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques.
• Shi Hao raised the techniques to pinnacle mastery, becoming a peak Grandmaster with Innate Gang Qi and manifested spiritual will.
• Shi Hao checked his system panel and found he had only one skill point left after spending 321 points.
• Shi Hao went to bed, satisfied that he could unleash nearly a hundred thousand jin of force.
• Shi Hao woke early and entered the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to ask Great Immortal Divine Charlatan for beast milk.

Li Xiang and Xiongba agreed to supply Shi Hao with more beast milk after Guo Jing sent him several thousand jin. At breakfast, Shi Hao suspected the little fox in his mother Tang Wanying’s arms was a fox spirit and worried it might harm her.

• Shi Hao told Li Xiang that he had run out of beast milk, and Li Xiang agreed to prepare more for him.
• Guo Jing sent Shi Hao several thousand jin of beast milk, and Shi Hao accepted it and declared Guo Jing his friend.
• Xiongba offered to supply Shi Hao with beast milk too, and Li Xiang let him take the opportunity to befriend Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao appraised Guo Jing’s red packet, then drank the fresh milk and estimated it would earn him about sixty skill points.
• At breakfast, Shi Hao noticed a little red fox Tang Wanying had brought home and suspected it was a fox spirit after it stiffened at his words.

Shi Hao killed a fox spirit that had entered the Shi residence while he was holding her, exposing her monstrous form and alarming his family and guards. Afterward, he wondered whether her relatives might seek revenge and began preparing for more demons.

• At breakfast, Shi Hao asked to hold the little fox Tang Wanying had brought home.
• Shi Hao secretly used his Innate Gang Qi and spiritual will to kill the fox spirit in his arms.
• The dead fox spirit transformed into a four- or five-year-old girl with fox ears and a tail, frightening Shi Wenjun and Tang Wanying.
• Household guards rushed in and beat the fox spirit's corpse while Shi Hao watched.
• Shi Hao worried that the fox spirit's family might retaliate and resolved to prepare for other demons.

After killing Yun Meng, Shi Hao worried that her fox-spirit family would retaliate and focused on becoming stronger. Yun Meng’s sister Yun Rong set out to avenge her, while Shi Hao finished his beast milk and sought more from the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.

• Shi Wenjun took two or thirty Shi family members to Lanruo Temple to ask Master Ciyun to protect the household after the fox spirit’s death.
• Shi Hao drank beast milk and resolved to grow stronger, refusing to regret killing Yun Meng to protect Tang Wanying.
• Yun Rong learned that her younger sister Yun Meng had died and took the Soul-Bewitching Banner and Red Embroidered Parasol to seek revenge.
• Shi Hao finished the five or six thousand jin of beast milk Guo Jing had given him, gaining sixty-one skill points.
• Shi Hao went to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to ask Great Immortal Divine Charlatan for more beast milk.

Shi Hao drank Xiongba’s huge shipment of beast milk to build his strength and, after spending all his skill points, perfected the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques. He became a three-year-old Supreme Grandmaster and went to sleep, while the Shi residence prepared to rely on Master Ciyun against monsters.

• Xiongba sent Desolate Heaven Emperor more than thirty thousand jin of beast milk, and Shi Hao claimed it after checking the shipment.
• Shi Hao drank beast milk to earn skill points, hoping to perfect the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques and strengthen himself against the monsters threatening the Shi residence.
• Shi Wenjun told the family he had invited Master Ciyun from Lanruo Temple, but Shi Hao remained wary and trusted his own strength.
• After drinking through the night, Shi Hao spent 185 skill points to raise the Eight Heavenly Blade Techniques to Great Perfection.
• Shi Hao gained Song Que’s lifetime insights, became a Supreme Grandmaster in the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man, and went to sleep.

Yun Rong learned that her sister Yun Meng had been beaten to death by servants of the Shi Clan and sought City God Xu Liang’s permission to take revenge. Xu Liang approved her plan to kill only those responsible, while Shi Hao confidently prepared for any fox spirits who might come after him.

• Yun Rong concluded that villagers had captured Yun Meng and sold her to the Shi Clan, whose servants beat her to death after she revealed her fox form.
• Yun Rong went to Guobei County’s City God Temple and told Xu Liang that she wanted revenge for Yun Meng.
• Xu Liang allowed Yun Rong to kill those involved but warned her not to harm anyone else, and suggested she act at night.
• Shi Hao woke in high spirits, confident that his martial arts strength would let him defeat any fox spirits who came for him.