Chapter Summaries

After treating their wounds and resting on a shallow riverbank, Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing prepared to survive in the wild with his carefully stored supplies. Fang Yuan lent Bai Ning Bing two Gu Worms for the night, while she remained dependent on him for the Yang Gu and her future safety.

• Fang Yuan used his Doushuai Flower to provide medicine and fresh clothes, and he and Bai Ning Bing treated their wounds and changed.
• Bai Ning Bing demanded to know when Fang Yuan would give her the Yang Gu, and Fang Yuan said she would have to wait until he reached Rank 3.
• Fang Yuan brought out dried meat, an iron pot, coal, and cooking tools, then made a meal while refusing Bai Ning Bing's request for more food.
• Fang Yuan chose the shallow bank as a relatively safe place to spend the night and arranged for them to take turns keeping watch.
• Fang Yuan lent Bai Ning Bing the Serrated Golden Centipede and the Heavenly Peng Gu so she could use them with her Rank 3 cultivation.

Fang Yuan assessed his new A-grade Aptitude, Gu worms, and resource shortages while traveling with Bai Ning Bing, but their pause on a beach ended when a Six-legged Crocodile pack attacked. Meanwhile, Tie Ruo Nan returned to the frozen ruins of Qing Mao Mountain and accepted that Tie Xue Leng had died.

• Bai Ning Bing practiced using Fang Yuan's Serrated Golden Centipede and Heavenly Peng Gu while Fang Yuan examined his cultivation and Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan recognized that his many Gu worms would strain his supplies and that he lacked healing and mobility Gu.
• Bai Ning Bing found a broken egg beneath the beach, and Fang Yuan identified it as a Six-legged Crocodile egg.
• A Six-legged Crocodile pack climbed ashore and charged at Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing.
• Tie Ruo Nan returned to Qing Mao Mountain with Tie family reinforcements, searched for several days, and accepted that Tie Xue Leng was dead.

Tie Ruo Nan vowed to investigate her father’s death as a young Gu Master sent her back to the village, while Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing fought a pack of Six-legged Crocodiles by the Yellow Dragon River. Bai Ning Bing was nearly exhausted when Fang Yuan lent him the Blood Moon Gu, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tie Ruo Nan learned that survivors had escaped the battlefield and vowed to pursue them to discover how and by whom her father had been killed.
• The young Gu Master had Gui Yi escort Tie Ruo Nan back to the village while he continued following the Yellow Dragon River.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing were cornered by a pack of Six-legged Crocodiles, and Fang Yuan directed Bai Ning Bing to attack their soft bellies.
• Bai Ning Bing slaughtered many crocodiles but grew exhausted, while privately considering how to obtain Gu worms of his own.
• Fang Yuan gave Bai Ning Bing the Blood Moon Gu, allowing him to drive back the crocodiles as his primeval essence began to run low.

Fang Yuan coached Bai Ning Bing through a battle against a Six-legged Crocodile pack, then secretly supported her fight against its king. After Bai Ning Bing killed the king, Fang Yuan claimed its Back Armor Gu and Crocodile Strength Gu, leaving her increasingly suspicious of his abilities.

• Fang Yuan criticized Bai Ning Bing's wasteful fighting and taught her to conserve primeval essence, helping her defeat or wound more than half the Six-legged Crocodiles.
• The Male Crocodile King emerged, and Fang Yuan lent Bai Ning Bing a Heavenly Origin Treasure Lotus before hiding with Hidden Scale Gu.
• Bai Ning Bing fought the Male Crocodile King, used the cliff to injure it, and killed it with the help of Blood Moon Gu.
• Fang Yuan searched the king's corpse, found its Back Armor Gu and Crocodile Strength Gu, and refined both immediately.
• Bai Ning Bing forgot her anger as she watched Fang Yuan refine the Gu and wondered what other abilities he had concealed.

After the crocodile battle, Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing left the bloody shallows and sought shelter in a dark forest. Fang Yuan found a way to spend the night inside crocodile carcasses caught by Beast-catching Trees, while Bai Ning Bing fell asleep and Fang Yuan cultivated before resting.

• Fang Yuan gave Bai Ning Bing the Crocodile Strength Gu and gathered crocodile meat and blood before they left the shallows.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing entered the forest at night and found a grove of Beast-catching Trees.
• Fang Yuan chose the grove as a campsite and showed Bai Ning Bing how to hide inside crocodile carcasses so the trees would lift them out of reach.
• Bai Ning Bing climbed into a crocodile carcass and fell asleep as the Beast-catching Tree began secreting acid around it.
• Fang Yuan used clothes from the Doushuai Flower to keep warm, cultivated his aperture for part of the night, and then went to sleep.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing traveled southeast through the forest, but Bai Ning Bing fell ill and had to rely on Fang Yuan to nurse her back to health. After recovering, she spoke less, and Fang Yuan gradually became the leader between them.

• Bai Ning Bing escaped from a Beast-catching Tree and later released Fang Yuan from another leaf cage.
• Fang Yuan cooked mushroom meat soup, and the pair set off through the forest with Bai Ning Bing leading the way.
• Fang Yuan used the Earth Hearing Flesh Ear Grass to avoid danger while Bai Ning Bing fought through threats they could not bypass.
• Bai Ning Bing caught a chill and fell seriously ill, so Fang Yuan stopped their journey and treated her for six days.
• After recovering, Bai Ning Bing acknowledged that Fang Yuan had helped her survive, and his authority over their travels grew.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing searched for a way to defeat the Molten Crocodile King, but found no suitable beast to lure into a fight. As they prepared to leave for White Bone Mountain, the Xuanyuan Divine Chicken appeared and attacked the crocodile king.

• Bai Ning Bing tested the Molten Crocodile King's strength, and Fang Yuan identified its Lava Burst Gu, Flame Armor Gu, and Ash Accumulation Gu.
• Fang Yuan proposed luring another Beast King to fight the crocodile king, and Bai Ning Bing agreed to search for a suitable target.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing explored the surrounding lands but rejected a white ape pack, a poisonous marsh, and a hive of Mad Needle Bees as too dangerous or unsuitable.
• Fang Yuan decided they would leave for White Bone Mountain because they could not find a workable plan to kill the crocodile king.
• The Xuanyuan Divine Chicken appeared above the valley, and Fang Yuan warned Bai Ning Bing that the flying Beast King was about to attack the Molten Crocodile King.

After the Xuanyuan Divine Chicken devastated the valley, Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing gathered supplies and fled a Mad Needle Bee swarm. They escaped through a lake, then found signs of a campfire on the shore.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing inspected the dead Molten Crocodile King and collected its remaining meat for the Doushuai Flower.
• Fang Yuan stopped Bai Ning Bing from attacking the grieving white ape troop, and they left the dangerous, disrupted swamp behind.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing gathered pieces of the collapsed Mad Needle Bee hive to use as food.
• The Mad Needle Bee swarm attacked Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing, forcing them to run as Bai Ning Bing endured stings and Fang Yuan used his Back Armor Gu.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing escaped the swarm by diving into a lake, then climbed ashore and spotted the remains of a campfire.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing tracked an injured Demonic Path Gu Master toward White Bone Mountain, hoping to avoid a fight until her poison killed her. When she drew them into an encounter, Bai Ning Bing drove her back into the cave and pursued despite Fang Yuan's warning.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing treated their injuries by the lake and discussed their dwindling medical supplies and Bai Ning Bing's plan to bind her chest.
• After resting in a cliffside cave, they resumed their journey toward White Bone Mountain and followed signs left by a Demonic Path Gu Master.
• Fang Yuan found evidence that the Gu Master had fought a green python and later deduced that its venom was worsening her injuries.
• Fang Yuan heard the injured Gu Master breathing inside a cave, but she called out to them and offered her primeval stones and Gu worms.
• The Gu Master sprang from the cave and attacked; Fang Yuan vanished while Bai Ning Bing fought her and forced her back inside.
• Bai Ning Bing pursued the Gu Master into the cave despite Fang Yuan's warning not to chase a cornered enemy.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing confronted the poisoned demonic path Gu Master Chen Cui Hua, but Fang Yuan chose to withdraw rather than risk losing their lives or the Gu Worms they hoped to seize. He planned to monitor her until she left the cave, while Chen Cui Hua waited inside, believing the two might still be nearby.

• Chen Cui Hua's Scorched Thunder Potato Gu exploded beneath Bai Ning Bing, but her Heavenly Peng Gu protected her from harm.
• Fang Yuan pretended to abandon the confrontation, and Bai Ning Bing played along before they left the cave's sight.
• Bai Ning Bing proposed using wild beasts to test Chen Cui Hua's defenses, but Fang Yuan argued that provoking her could cost them their lives and the chance to obtain her Gu Worms.
• Fang Yuan deduced that Chen Cui Hua was a cautious former farmwife whose Scorched Thunder Potato Gu would make her stay in the cave, and he proposed monitoring her with Earth Hearing Flesh Ear Grass in shifts.
• Chen Cui Hua recalled how she became a Gu Master and survived past dangers, then decided to wait three days before leaving the cave.

Immortal Master Tian He secured He Fengyang’s approval to bring Fang Zheng into the Immortal Crane Sect and shape him into a weapon against Fang Yuan, while Tie Ruo Nan vowed to continue her father’s fight against evil. In the mountains, Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing killed Chen Cui Hua and discovered that a Three More Gu had accelerated her time and worsened her poison; they continued onward despite lacking a Healing Gu.

• Immortal Master Tian He reported his failed mission to He Fengyang and explained his plan to guide Fang Zheng into killing Fang Yuan and recovering the Blood Skull Gu.
• He Fengyang granted Immortal Master Tian He one final chance to carry out his plan before his lifespan ran out.
• Tie Ruo Nan asked the Clan Leader of Tie Family to let her pursue her father’s path, and she vowed to continue his mission against criminals.
• Fang Yuan stopped Bai Ning Bing from cutting off his ear when he sensed Chen Cui Hua had emerged, and the two followed her to a battle with a Two-headed Mountain Boar.
• Bai Ning Bing killed the exhausted Chen Cui Hua after she defeated the Two-headed Mountain Boar, and Fang Yuan seized several of her Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan identified the Three More Gu on Chen Cui Hua’s chest and explained how it had accelerated her cultivation and poison, then encouraged Bai Ning Bing to keep walking his own road despite their lack of a Healing Gu.

Fang Yuan advanced to Rank 1 Mid Stage and introduced Bai Ning Bing to eating raw Grass Skirt Monkey brains. After they feasted, Bai Ning Bing reported that three monkey kings guarded the forest’s center, where the wine Fang Yuan wanted was located.

• Fang Yuan advanced from Rank 1 Initial Stage to Mid Stage after cultivating for over twenty days.
• Bai Ning Bing arrived wearing armor formed from Iron Thorn Bramble Gu and complained about Fang Yuan’s Scorched Thunder Potato Gus.
• Fang Yuan used Blood Moon Gu to open a Grass Skirt Monkey’s skull and showed Bai Ning Bing how to eat its brain raw.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing ate monkey brains, roasted monkey meat, and rice grown from Fang Yuan’s Rice Pouch Grass.
• Bai Ning Bing told Fang Yuan that three monkey kings appeared deeper in the forest, blocking access to the wine at its center.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing devised a cautious plan to defeat the Grass Skirt Monkey Tribe and obtain its Monkey Wine. After their traps killed two monkey kings and drove the tribe away, Fang Yuan insisted they clean up the battlefield before leaving.

• Fang Yuan explained that the monkey tribe was too numerous to attack directly, so he took Bai Ning Bing to prepare traps near its territory.
• Fang Yuan used Thunderous Bean Mother Gu to produce Scorched Thunder Potato Gu, then buried them in a large pit as Bai Ning Bing helped fill it.
• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing spent several days preparing five pits, with Fang Yuan insisting on backup traps.
• Fang Yuan lured the Grass Skirt Monkeys into the traps, killing two monkey kings and injuring the third, who led the tribe away.
• Fang Yuan collected enough Monkey Wine to feed the Wine Worm Gu for two years and potentially reverse-refine the Four Flavors Wine Bug.
• Fang Yuan ordered Bai Ning Bing to clean the battlefield and fill the blasted pits, reminding him that they had tracked a demonic path Gu Master by following traces.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing reached White Bone Mountain, where Fang Yuan planned to claim the Bone-Gristle Master's inheritance. Tie Ao Tian's pursuit team also closed in, and an explosion suddenly erupted as they approached the hillside.

• Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing escaped a family of Steel Gas Pigs and arrived within sight of White Bone Mountain.
• Fang Yuan recalled the inheritance hidden on the mountain and planned to obtain its Jade Bone Gu, healing Gu, and Bone and Flesh Reunion Gu.
• Four Righteous Path Gu Masters approached Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing, while Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing recognized the danger.
• Tie Ao Tian's pursuit team tracked Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing despite losing five companions to beasts and poor luck along the way.
• Tie Ao Tian found the buried corpses of Grass Skirt Monkeys and believed he was close to capturing the fugitives.
• Tie Ao Tian climbed a hillside with his companions watching, and a violent explosion suddenly erupted.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing encountered Bai Family Gu Masters, and Fang Yuan disguised himself as Gu Yue Fang Zheng to conceal their situation and learn about the Bai Family. At a banquet, he wept over their supposed hardships and prompted the Bai Family Matriarch to ask what had happened on Qing Mao Mountain.

• Bai Mo Xing encountered Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing, and Fang Yuan introduced himself as Gu Yue Fang Zheng, a young master of the Gu Yue Clan.
• Fang Yuan learned that Bai Mo Xing's group belonged to Bai Family Village and revealed that he and Bai Ning Bing were heading to White Bone Mountain with their separated clan.
• Bai Mo Xing invited Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing to the Bai Family's gathering, wary that the Gu Yue survivors might compete with his clan for White Bone Mountain.
• The Bai Family Matriarch hosted Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing at a banquet and served them roasted lamb.
• Fang Yuan began shedding tears over the Gu Yue Clan's supposed hardship, and the Bai Family Matriarch asked him to explain the destruction of Qing Mao Mountain.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing remained under guard in the Bai family camp while the Bai Family Matriarch planned to exploit their knowledge of a primeval spring. The next morning, she invited Fang Yuan to join the Hunting Competition and offered him a Bronze Sari Gu if he hunted an adult black bear.

• Fang Yuan feigned grief at the banquet, and the Bai Family Matriarch and Bai Mo Xing discussed using him and Bai Ning Bing to learn the location of a primeval spring.
• The Bai Family Matriarch revealed a plan to Bai Mo Xing, who believed Fang Yuan's apparent devotion to his clan would make him easy to manipulate.
• Fang Yuan pretended to be drunk, tested the camp's strict security, and returned to the tent, where Bai Ning Bing worried that they would be in danger once the Gu Yue clansmen failed to appear.
• The Bai Family Matriarch opened the seven-day Hunting Competition, and Fang Yuan declined to participate because he claimed his cultivation had fallen to Rank 1 Mid Stage.
• The Bai Family Matriarch offered Fang Yuan a Bronze Sari Gu if he hunted an adult black bear, and he accepted while hiding his true reaction.

Fang Yuan used Scorched Thunder Potato Gu to win the Bai family's hunting trials and gained Gu that improved his cultivation and covered his weakness against poison. At the banquets, he deliberately gave the Bai family reason to think he was interested in Bai Lian, while assessing their plans and recalling the future importance of Bai Sheng and Bai Hua.

• Fang Yuan defeated a black bear with buried Scorched Thunder Potato Gu, and the Bai Family Matriarch and Bai Mo Xing watched the battle and discussed his character.
• The Bai Family Matriarch rewarded Fang Yuan with Bronze Sari Gu, which he used to advance from Rank 1 middle stage to upper stage.
• At the banquet, Fang Yuan met Bai Mo Ting, Bai Cao Shuai, Bai Lian, and Bai Zhan Lie, who insulted the Gu Yue Clan and focused his attention on Bai Ning Bing.
• Fang Yuan concluded that the Bai family was trying to manipulate him, so he began deliberately glancing at Bai Lian to create a false weakness for them to exploit.
• Fang Yuan hunted an Earth Corner Rhinoceros with Scorched Thunder Potato Gu and received a Heat Clearing Gu from the Bai Family Matriarch.
• At the bonfire banquet, Fang Yuan recognized Bai Sheng and Bai Hua as future Rank 5 Gu Masters and heirs to the White Bone Mountain inheritance, while Bai Zhan Lie continued to provoke him and Bai Mo Ting watched Bai Ning Bing.

Fang Yuan played along with the Bai Family’s attempts to uncover the Gu Yue Clan’s plans, then agreed to compete in the Hunting Competition after Bai Lian asked him to help fend off Bai Zhan Lie. As Bai Lian described White Bone Mountain’s dangers, Fang Yuan feigned growing concern and asked pointed questions about its rear mountain, while the Bai Family Matriarch watched and believed he had taken the bait.

• The Bai Family Matriarch gave Fang Yuan Primeval Stones, and Fang Yuan lent Bai Lian his Heat Clearing Gu for her poisoned friend.
• The Bai Family Matriarch and Bai Mo Xing questioned Fang Yuan about whether the Gu Yue Clan planned to settle on White Bone Mountain, but he denied it.
• Bai Zhan Lie challenged Fang Yuan, and Bai Lian asked Fang Yuan to compete in the Hunting Competition to help her escape Bai Zhan Lie’s harassment.
• Fang Yuan joined Bai Lian’s team, which included Bai Ning Bing, Bai Sheng Jing, and two other female Gu Masters, and they returned with valuable prey.
• Bai Lian used Accumulating Worry Gu while warning Fang Yuan about White Bone Mountain, and he asked about the mountain’s rear section as the Bai Family Matriarch watched from her tent.

Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing used the Bai family's contest and a staged hunt on White Bone Mountain to approach the Righteous Path Inheritance while the Bai Family Matriarch tried to uncover the primeval spring's location. The chapter ended as Fang Yuan led the group into a cave and the matriarch received word that a scout had captured an Iron clan Gu Master.

• The Bai Family Matriarch planned to locate the primeval spring and exploit the Gu Yue remnants, while Fang Yuan learned from Bai Lian that the inheritance lay in White Bone Mountain's rear mountain.
• Fang Yuan's team narrowly beat Bai Zhan Lie in the hunt, and Bai Ning Bing grew more anxious about the pair's worsening situation among the Bai family.
• The Bai Family Matriarch and Bai Mo Xing devised a scheme to provoke Fang Yuan into seeking intelligence about the primeval spring.
• After Bai Zhan Lie captured a rare Wandering Dragon Butterfly Gu, Bai Lian proposed taking the group to White Bone Mountain, and Fang Yuan agreed.
• The Bai family secretly cleared a dangerous route up White Bone Mountain, and Fang Yuan guided the group toward the inheritance site while Bai Ning Bing worried that his search looked too obvious.
• Fang Yuan led the party into a cave near the inheritance, as the matriarch learned that a scout had captured an Iron clan Gu Master.

The Bai Family Matriarch learned that Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing were likely the Demonic Path Gu Masters pursued by the Tie family, while questioning the captured Tie Dao Ku. After seeing Fang Yuan threaten Bai Sheng and Bai Hua in the smoky image, she realized the youths had deceived her and flew into a rage.

• A Scout Gu Master reported that the three villages of Qing Mao Mountain had been destroyed and that the Tie family was pursuing escaped Demonic Path Gu Masters.
• The Bai Family Matriarch questioned the captured Tie Dao Ku, who insisted he belonged to the Tie family and had lost his companions in a Scorched Thunder Potato Gu explosion.
• Tie Dao Ku recognized Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing as the likely culprits when the Bai Family Matriarch mentioned two Gu Yue youths staying with her clan.
• Tie Dao Ku refused to reveal where his companions were buried, convincing the Bai Family Matriarch that he was likely telling the truth.
• The Bai Family Matriarch showed Tie Dao Ku the smoky image of Fang Yuan holding Bai Sheng and Bai Hua hostage, then realized the youths had been Demonic Path scoundrels.