Chapter Summaries

He Fengyang assessed Fang Yuan’s trade request and supplied him with many of the requested goods in exchange for the Muddy Marsh Crab corpse. Fang Yuan used three Spring Egg Gu to create primeval springs near the Stone People clan, which rapidly multiplied after strengthening their souls on Soul-Shaking Mountain’s gallstones.

• He Fengyang reviewed Fang Yuan’s requests, suspected he intended to refine Gu, and decided to limit the Sari Gu and rare materials he provided.
• The Immortal Crane Sect traded goods to Fang Yuan for the complete Muddy Marsh Crab corpse, including three Spring Egg Gu.
• Fang Yuan and Little Fox Immortal planted the three Spring Egg Gu near the Stone People’s homeland, creating primeval springs that would nourish the blessed land and clan.
• The Stone People smashed Soul-Shaking Mountain’s gallstones, strengthening their souls and expanding their population from several hundred to hundreds of thousands.
• After the gallstones were exhausted, the Stone People left Soul-Shaking Mountain and returned to their homeland, where the three primeval springs awaited them.

Fang Yuan refined storage Gu, strengthened his soul to the Hundred Man Soul limit, and advanced to Peak Rank 4. He then enslaved the Stone People’s three tribes, bringing all three hundred thousand Stone People under his control.

• Fang Yuan spent three days refining 159 Rank 3 Silver Goblet Gu with Little Fox Immortal’s help.
• Fang Yuan used Courageous Gall Gu from Soul-Shaking Mountain to strengthen his soul to one hundred times its normal strength, then stopped before it could explode.
• Fang Yuan decided a Hundred Man Soul was sufficient for now and focused on plans to trade Stone People rather than sell gallstones to the Immortal Crane Sect.
• Over the next month, Fang Yuan reached Peak Rank 4, refined 155 Golden Cup Gu, and combined them with Silver Goblet Gu to make three Rank 4 Golden Cup Silver Goblet Gu.
• After the Stone People split into three tribes, Fang Yuan used Rank 3 Slave Gu to enslave their chiefs and elders, taking control of all three hundred thousand Stone People.

Fang Yuan negotiated with He Fengyang over a large sale of rockmen while refusing to trade Courageous Gall Gu or let him enter Fox Immortal Blessed Land. He Fengyang tried to uncover Fang Yuan’s supposed improved Earth Tunneling Gu recipe, only to discover Fang Yuan had sent him the ordinary recipe.

• He Fengyang was tempted by Fang Yuan’s offer to sell sixty thousand rockmen, though he refused to provide Sari Gu unless Fang Yuan traded Courageous Gall Gu.
• Fang Yuan rejected He Fengyang’s offer of help and arranged to sell the rockmen without opening Fox Immortal Blessed Land’s entrance.
• Fang Yuan claimed he needed materials to refine an improved Earth Tunneling Gu, and He Fengyang repeatedly bargained over the lists to investigate the recipe.
• After many exchanges, He Fengyang sent some of the requested materials and later received the Earth Tunneling Gu child Gu from Fang Yuan.
• He Fengyang reverse-engineered the recipe and realized Fang Yuan had given him the ordinary Earth Tunneling Gu recipe, then angrily cursed him.

Fang Yuan used the Earth Tunneling Gu to trick and sell sixty thousand Stone People, then returned to cultivating in Fox Immortal Blessed Land. He planned to strengthen the Stone People and prepare for the seventh earthly calamity, but a major upheaval forced him to leave the blessed land a little over a month later.

• Fang Yuan and Little Fox Immortal placed and fed the Earth Tunneling Gu, creating a passage between Fox Immortal Blessed Land and Flying Crane Mountain.
• Little Fox Immortal impersonated Earth Mother, and Yan Yong led sixty thousand Stone People into the tunnel, where Immortal Crane Sect disciples captured them.
• Fang Yuan completed the sale of the Stone People and received a little over one million six hundred thousand Primeval Stones.
• Fang Yuan sealed away the Nine-eyed Wine Bug after reaching Peak Rank 4 and calculated that he needed to prepare for the seventh earthly calamity and the Spring Autumn Cicada’s danger.
• A major upheaval forced Fang Yuan to leave Fox Immortal Blessed Land ahead of schedule.

Fang Yuan discovered that the Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu was destroying Soul-Shaking Mountain and decided to seek a way to save it in Northern Plains. After preparing Gu and entrusting Fox Immortal Blessed Land to Little Fox Immortal, he departed using Immortal Travel Settling Gu.

• Fang Yuan found that yellow mud from the Muddy Marsh Crab was turning Soul-Shaking Mountain and its guts stones into mud, and explained that the hidden force was likely the rank 6 Muddying the Waters Gu.
• Fang Yuan ordered Little Fox Immortal to remove the yellow mud, but realized that saving the mountain required another Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan considered Stone Transformation, Rising Again, and Land as Before, then chose to seek Tai Bai Yun Sheng in Northern Plains because it was less restrictive than Western Desert or Eastern Sea.
• Fang Yuan changed his plans and spent several months refining Push Cup Change Goblet Gu and other Gu for his expedition.
• Fang Yuan gave Little Fox Immortal instructions for his absence, and she activated Immortal Travel Settling Gu to send him away.

Fang Yuan arrived in the Northern Plains and rescued Ge Yao from a Poisonous Vine Wolf pack, then introduced himself as Chang Shan Yin. Aware that his strength was suppressed in the foreign region, he headed deeper into the Corrupt Poison Grassland and persuaded Ge Yao to accompany him.

• Ge Yao ran out of primeval essence while facing a Poisonous Vine Wolf pack, and Fang Yuan appeared in an emerald flash just as the wolves attacked.
• Fang Yuan killed the Poisonous Whisker Wolf King with two strikes from his Gold Dragon Gu, driving the remaining wolves away.
• Fang Yuan told Ge Yao to call him Chang Shan Yin and used a storage Gu to take out clothes.
• Fang Yuan searched the Wolf King's corpse but found only fragments of its Acid Water Gu and Poison Needle Gu.
• Fang Yuan headed deeper into the Corrupt Poison Grassland, and Ge Yao offered to travel with him.
• Fang Yuan welcomed Ge Yao's offer because he needed Northern Plains Gu worms to strengthen himself.

Fang Yuan continued across the Corrupt Poison Grassland with Ge Yao, who revealed that she had fled an arranged marriage and urged him to marry into her family. When a huge Poisonous Vine Wolf pack attacked, Fang Yuan killed its powerful wolf king while Ge Yao fought off the surrounding wolves.

• Ge Yao explained how her Gu could protect them from the grassland’s poison and guide them, then admitted she had fled because her father planned to marry her to Man Duo.
• Fang Yuan gave Ge Yao food and primeval stones, but refused her proposals to become her husband or marry into the Ge Family.
• As the pair traveled deeper into the grassland, Ge Yao detected a wolf pack of nearly a thousand Poisonous Vine Wolves.
• Fang Yuan charged into the pack while Ge Yao defended herself with her water Gu and then joined the fight.
• Fang Yuan maneuvered around the wolf king’s abilities, broke through its defenses, and beat it to death.

After defeating the wolf king, Fang Yuan healed himself and taught Ge Yao to fight more effectively as they crossed the Corrupt Poison Grassland. He led her into a vast Ghost Face Sunflower Sea, where he used grass puppets to clear a path toward the battlefield he sought.

• Fang Yuan healed his wounds with the Gold Wind Sending Coolness Gu after Ge Yao offered to treat him.
• Fang Yuan scolded Ge Yao for disrupting the fight and then instructed her in using her Gu as they crossed the grassland.
• Ge Yao improved in battle, revealed her Gu collection, and tried to recruit Fang Yuan as an external elder of the Ge family, but he refused.
• Fang Yuan recognized the Ghost Face Sunflower Sea as confirmation that he was following the right route to the old battlefield and its abandoned Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan summoned nearly a thousand Vine Armor Grass Soldiers and led Ge Yao into the sunflower sea, using the puppets to draw the ghost faces away.

Fang Yuan and Ge Yao crossed the Ghost Face Sunflower Sea and ventured deeper into the Corrupt Poison Grassland, where Fang Yuan sealed the Immortal Travel Settling Gu and used his wings to bypass an Earth Spike Rat swarm. They fought three Shadow Ravens in the air, and Fang Yuan left Ge Yao to steady herself for the dangers ahead.

• Ge Yao reflected on their easy passage through the sunflower sea, while Fang Yuan regretted being unable to capture the Ghost Cry Gu and Ghost Face Gu.
• Fang Yuan sealed the Immortal Travel Settling Gu inside a Bright Pearl Gu to weaken its leaking aura.
• Fang Yuan and Ge Yao reached an Earth Spike Rat burrow, and Fang Yuan flew them over it with his bone wings.
• Three Shadow Ravens attacked, and Fang Yuan maneuvered behind one so Ge Yao could kill it with a Spiral Water Arrow.
• Ge Yao killed the other two Shadow Ravens after Fang Yuan reprimanded her for missing, then calmed down when he encouraged her to focus.

Fang Yuan and Ge Yao crossed the Corrupt Poison Grassland while searching an old battlefield tied to Chang Shan Yin. They encountered Ha Tugu’s White Bone Wheel, defeated it, and Fang Yuan subdued the Rank 5 Gu.

• Fang Yuan and Ge Yao survived attacks by Shadow Ravens and Earth Spike Rats, then continued through the poisonous grassland as Fang Yuan concealed Immortal Wanderer’s aura with Dusty Gu.
• Ge Yao found human remains and recalled a story about Wolf King Chang Shan Yin, realizing Fang Yuan was using his identity and wondering whether he was Chang Shan Yin’s son.
• The White Bone Wheel emerged from the purple fog, knocked Fang Yuan down, and attacked Ge Yao after her water arrows drew its attention.
• Fang Yuan and Ge Yao fought the White Bone Wheel for two hours, exploiting its lack of intelligence until it collapsed.
• Fang Yuan poured primeval essence into the damaged Rank 5 White Bone Wheel and subdued it.

Fang Yuan searched the battlefield where Chang Shan Yin and Ha Tugu had fought, found Chang Shan Yin preserved inside a wolf-fetus Gu, and killed him before he could be rescued. He claimed Chang Shan Yin’s sealed enslavement Gu and left with a valuable Northern Plains Gu set.

• Fang Yuan inspected the damaged White Bone Wheel and concealed the aura of Immortal Wanderer with Dark Throw Gu while Ge Yao watched.
• Fang Yuan recalled how Chang Shan Yin and Ha Tugu had fought to the death, after which Chang Shan Yin used Wolf Fetus Earth Burial Gu to survive underground.
• Fang Yuan found and pulled up the enormous mother wolf that was actually a Gu, then cut it open and revealed Chang Shan Yin inside.
• Fang Yuan secretly strangled the unconscious Chang Shan Yin, ending the future Heavenly Wolf General’s life before Ma Hongyun could save him.
• Fang Yuan discovered Chang Shan Yin’s Turtle Breath Gu, refined them with the Spring Autumn Cicada’s aura, and took the eight valuable Rank 4 enslavement Gu they contained.

Fang Yuan refined Human Skin Gu using Chang Shan Yin’s corpse and transformed himself into Chang Shan Yin. When Ge Yao confronted him about his identity, Fang Yuan claimed he had possessed an outsider Gu Master after wandering as a soul for more than twenty years.

• Fang Yuan and Ge Yao detoxified Chang Shan Yin’s corpse, and Fang Yuan ordered Ge Yao to help with her Wash Gu.
• Fang Yuan used black ants and a strange flower to refine Human Skin Gu from Chang Shan Yin’s skin.
• Fang Yuan peeled off his own skin and used Human Skin Gu to reproduce Chang Shan Yin’s appearance and features.
• Ge Yao recoiled in horror and demanded to know who Fang Yuan really was.
• Fang Yuan told Ge Yao that his soul had wandered for more than twenty years before possessing an outsider, and insisted he had never deceived her.

Fang Yuan convinced Ge Yao to follow him deeper into the Corrupt Poison Grassland, where they found Snow Wash Gu and he secretly buried Immortal Gu Immortal Wanderer. On their return, he subdued more wolf packs and began removing the Southern Border Gu worms that could expose his identity.

• Fang Yuan persuaded Ge Yao that he was Chang Shan Yin and promised to help her find Snow Wash Gu and speak to her father.
• Fang Yuan led Ge Yao through the poisonous grassland to a Snow Willow, where they found three Snow Wash Gu and he gave her two.
• Fang Yuan sealed Immortal Gu Immortal Wanderer in an Iron Cabinet Gu and hid it underground inside the Earth Hiding Flower King Gu.
• Fang Yuan and Ge Yao returned by another route, enduring wolf attacks along the way.
• Fang Yuan used Wolf Taming Gu and his Hundred Man Soul to subdue another Hundred Beast Wolf King, expanding his pack to over two thousand wolves.
• After leaving the Corrupt Poison Grassland, Fang Yuan began dealing with his Southern Border Gu worms to avoid exposing his identity.

Fang Yuan used the Push Cup Change Goblet Gu to exchange messages and Gu worms with Little Fox Immortal in Fox Immortal Blessed Land while he camped with Ge Yao in the Northern Plains. As Ge Yao reflected on Chang Shan Yin’s past and grew attached to him, she asked him to be her husband, and he was caught off guard.

• Fang Yuan demonstrated that the paired Push Cup Change Goblet Gu could exchange objects through the Empty Hole between the Northern Plains and Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan received Little Fox Immortal’s letter, learned the blessed land was mostly well, and sent her a reply along with three Rank 4 Gu.
• Fang Yuan continued exchanging supplies with Little Fox Immortal while Ge Yao grew frustrated that he ignored her questions.
• Ge Yao recalled Chang Shan Yin’s heroic past and the painful events she believed he had endured, then became enamored with him.
• Ge Yao declared that Chang Shan Yin should be her husband, and Fang Yuan replied that he was too old for her and suggested his son instead.

Ge Yao confessed her love to Fang Yuan, who promised to marry her if she killed a Thousand Beast Wolf King. After she fulfilled the task, Fang Yuan stabbed her to death, saying she had blocked his road to success.

• Ge Yao professed her love to Fang Yuan, but he repeatedly rejected her and said he would not marry again.
• A Thousand Wolf Pack attacked, and Fang Yuan asked Ge Yao to restrain its Thousand Beast Wolf King while he replenished his primeval essence.
• Fang Yuan promised to marry Ge Yao if she killed the Thousand Beast Wolf King, and she charged into battle.
• Ge Yao returned wounded with the wolf king's head, and Fang Yuan embraced her before stabbing her in the chest.
• Fang Yuan explained that Ge Yao had blocked his road to success, and he watched as she died.

Fang Yuan captured a Camel Wolf after weakening it with his Poisonous Vine Wolves and reflected on why he had killed Ge Yao. He remained committed to pursuing eternal life, even if the road ended in his death.

• A Camel Wolf killed a gray rabbit, returned to its nest, and found its mate and cubs dead, then fought Fang Yuan's ambushing Poisonous Vine Wolf pack.
• Fang Yuan wore down the Camel Wolf and used a Rank 2 Wolf Taming Gu to subdue it.
• Fang Yuan healed the Camel Wolf and injured wolves with Wolf Smoke Gu, then made them eat the corpses while he ate his rations.
• Fang Yuan recalled that he had killed Ge Yao, destroyed her soul, and erased the traces of her death because she threatened his secrets and plans.
• Fang Yuan reaffirmed that he would pursue eternal life without regret, even if he died on the way.

Fang Yuan left the Corrupt Poison Grassland, adapted to the Northern Plains, and began recovering his cultivation. Nearby, Ge Guang’s group was surrounded by wind wolves and faced the Wind Wolf King, until Fang Yuan’s Poisonous Vine Wolf pack approached.

• Fang Yuan inspected his Gu worms, planned to travel under Chang Shan Yin’s identity, and rode his camel wolf toward the edge of the Corrupt Poison Grassland.
• Fang Yuan left the Corrupt Poison Grassland, felt his restraint weaken, and recovered from peak Rank 3 to early Rank 4 cultivation.
• Ge Guang led his Gu Masters in a desperate battle against thousands of wind wolves and ordered the slaves to cover their retreat.
• Ge Guang’s westward breakout failed when a wind blade killed a loyal Gu Master, shattered Ge Guang’s horse saber, and knocked him from his camel wolf.
• The Wind Wolf King approached Ge Guang’s surrounded group, then turned toward Fang Yuan’s approaching Poisonous Vine Wolf pack.

Fang Yuan used his wolf-taming skills to save the Ge Family Tribe Gu Masters from a Wind Wolf pack and subdued its king. He introduced himself as Chang Shan Yin and accepted Ge Guang’s invitation to the tribe’s tents, where he could rest and replenish his supplies.

• Fang Yuan arrived with a Poisonous Vine Wolf pack, scattering it before the Wind Wolves and alarming the Ge Family Tribe Gu Masters.
• Fang Yuan used Rank 4 Wolf Howl Gu to strengthen his wolves, then led them to drive back the Wind Wolf pack.
• Fang Yuan outmaneuvered the Wind Wolf King and subdued it with Rank 3 Wolf Taming Gu, bringing the remaining Wind Wolves under his command.
• Ge Guang approached Fang Yuan, who identified himself as Chang Shan Yin and reassured the Ge Family Tribe Gu Masters that he meant them no harm.
• Ge Guang invited Chang Shan Yin to the tribe’s tents, and Fang Yuan accepted, mentioning that he needed Primeval Stones and Gu worms.

Fang Yuan returned to the Ge Family camp with Ge Guang and was welcomed as the hero who had saved the Young Clan Leader. At the feast, Fang Yuan revealed his family background, and the Ge Family Old Clan Leader realized he was the legendary warrior Chang Shan Yin.

• Fang Yuan and Ge Guang traveled west for five days, growing close as Fang Yuan guided Ge Guang and commanded the wolf pack.
• Fang Yuan and the group arrived at the Ge Family camp, where the residents welcomed Ge Guang and showed curiosity about Fang Yuan and his wolves.
• Ge Guang introduced Fang Yuan to the Ge Family Clan Leader, who welcomed him and hosted a feast in his honor.
• Fang Yuan accepted the Clan Leader's food and wine and drank every toast, winning the Ge Family's approval.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader asked about Fang Yuan's connection to the Chang Family, and Fang Yuan named his parents and branch, prompting the Clan Leader to recognize him as Chang Shan Yin.

After Ge Guang recognized Fang Yuan as the legendary Chang Shan Yin, the Ge Family welcomed him and gave him a million primeval stones. Fang Yuan stayed with the tribe, which later traveled to a large market while he entered it alone.

• Ge Guang and the Ge Family elders praised Fang Yuan after he confirmed he was Chang Shan Yin, and Fang Yuan accepted their welcome while concealing his true identity.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader gave Fang Yuan one million primeval stones, and Fang Yuan told the clan elders a prepared story about his past and reduced cultivation.
• Ge Guang asked whether Fang Yuan had seen Ge Yao, and Fang Yuan calmly denied encountering her despite having killed her.
• Fang Yuan advised the Ge Family to migrate north for the coming blizzard, but the Old Clan Leader explained that the tribe hoped to negotiate access to Red Flame Valley through the Man Family.
• Fang Yuan agreed to stay as a guest while preparing for the Hero Conference, and the Ge Family later traveled southwest to join nearby tribes at a market.
• Fang Yuan declined Ge Guang's invitation and entered the bustling marketplace alone.