Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan explored a Northern Plains marketplace, reflected on Ma Hongyun’s rise through extraordinary luck, and bought several Wolf Taming and other Gu worms. He learned that a Man Family outsider elder had bought up all the Bone Bamboo Gu in the marketplace.

• Fang Yuan saw the slave trade and recalled how Ma Hongyun rose from slavery to become a Northern Plains overlord and Gu Immortal through repeated strokes of good luck.
• Fang Yuan passed a Gambling Stone House without entering and bought Wolf Taming Gu recipes up to Rank 3 in the marketplace’s Gu Master district.
• Fang Yuan bought a Rank 4 Wolf Taming Gu, five rank 3 and thirty-eight rank 2 Wolf Taming Gu, then purchased an Eagle Wing Gu after rejecting the shop’s Cloud Soaring Gu.
• Fang Yuan asked for Bone Bamboo Gu and Ghost Fire Gu to repair his War Bone Wheel, but the shopkeeper said an outsider elder recruited by the Man Family had bought all the Bone Bamboo Gu.
• Fang Yuan asked the shopkeeper who the Man Family’s outsider elder was.

Fang Yuan bought strength, soul, and wolf-taming Gu worms while preparing to develop his wolf packs, then returned with the Ge Family Tribe and cultivated. He learned that Ge Yao had died on Corrupt Poison Grassland, apparently killed by Poisonous Vine Wolves.

• Fang Yuan chose to cultivate strength path alongside enslavement path and ordered a Rank 4 Ten Jun Strength Gu.
• Fang Yuan bought all eight Wolf Soul Gu in the shop and continued purchasing wolf-related Gu across the market.
• Fang Yuan discovered a mutated beast among a batch of water wolves and bought the pack without revealing what he had found.
• Fang Yuan spent most of his primeval stones on Gu, wolves, materials, and food before leaving the market and returning with the Ge Family Tribe.
• Fang Yuan condensed his soul and refined a Rank 3 Golden Back Wolf Skin Gu into a Rank 4 Azure Wolf Skin Gu.
• A guard Gu Master told Fang Yuan that Ge Yao had died on Corrupt Poison Grassland, where Poisonous Vine Wolves had killed her.

Fang Yuan refined his soul and strengthened his body while Ge Guang faced a violent challenge from Man Duo after Ge Yao's death. Fang Yuan stepped into the arena to defend the Ge family, leaving Man Duo startled by the unexpected Rank 4 Gu Master.

• Fang Yuan refined his Hundred Man Soul with his ninth Wolf Soul Gu, bringing it closer to becoming a Werewolf Soul.
• Fang Yuan used his third Ten Jun Strength Gu, raising his strength to twenty jun.
• Ge Guang told Fang Yuan that Man Duo had challenged the Ge family over Ge Yao, killing three elders and defeating Ge Guang.
• Fang Yuan agreed to help Ge Guang and went with him to confront Man Duo and Shi Wu.
• Fang Yuan entered the arena, and Man Duo realized the Ge family had an unexpected Rank 4 Gu Master.

Fang Yuan defeated Shi Wu in a challenge, sparing him and helping the Ge family resist Man Duo. The Man Family Clan Leader recognized the name Chang Shan Yin and later invited Fang Yuan to visit his clan.

• Fang Yuan rejected Man Duo's offer of five hundred thousand primeval stones and accepted the Ge family's challenge according to Northern Plains custom.
• Fang Yuan easily overcame Shi Wu with his Rank 4 strength but spared him, then Man Duo led his group away in disgrace.
• Man Duo reported the defeat to his father, and the Man Family Clan Leader became alarmed when he heard the opponent was called Chang Shan Yin.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader gave Fang Yuan five hundred thousand primeval stones as thanks, and a messenger delivered the Man Family Clan Leader's invitation for Fang Yuan to visit.

Fang Yuan began repairing the badly damaged War Bone Wheel with Bone Bamboo Gu before joining the Man family’s banquet. Man Tu welcomed him warmly in the grasslands, but Fang Yuan grew wary when strange clouds swept across the moon, fearing nearby Gu Masters might discover the buried Immortal Travel Settling Gu.

• Man Tu sent Fang Yuan an invitation and more than a hundred Bone Bamboo Gu as an apology gift, and Fang Yuan promised the Ge Family Clan Leader he would try to ease tensions between the Ge and Man families.
• Fang Yuan used ghost fire to burn over thirty Bone Bamboo Gu into bone smoke, repairing the War Bone Wheel’s deepest crack while leaving its other wounds untreated.
• Man Duo escorted Fang Yuan and the Ge family father and son toward Man Tu’s banquet, and Man Tu rode out to welcome them according to Northern Plains custom.
• After the moon was obscured by a passing dark cloud, Man Duo joked that the gathering of heroes had stirred the weather, easing Man Tu’s embarrassment.
• Fang Yuan and Man Tu exchanged praise, and the Ge Family Clan Leader complimented their cordial meeting before Man Tu invited everyone to the banquet.
• Fang Yuan agreed to go but worried that the rapidly passing clouds signaled nearby Gu Masters who might discover the buried Immortal Travel Settling Gu.

Ghost King traded 3.5 million Lava Bats to Crimson Jade Wanderer in exchange for help attacking Lang Ya Blessed Land, then followed the faint aura of Immortal Wanderer across the grassland while plundering wild Gu. At the banquet, Fang Yuan pressed Man Tu to spare the Ge Family, but Man Tu cited their broken marriage agreement as a reason to resist.

• Ghost King delivered 3.5 million Lava Bats to Crimson Jade Wanderer, who agreed to join the attack on Lang Ya Blessed Land in one month; Ghost King said he had also recruited the Three Immortals of the Sea of Flowers.
• Ghost King sensed the faint aura of an Immortal Gu at the place where Fang Yuan and Ge Yao had met, and followed it, seizing a field of Ghost Face Sunflowers and their wild Gu along the way.
• Ghost King fought through Shadow Ravens and Earth Spike Rats as he tracked the aura, which grew fainter and seemed to move from place to place.
• At the banquet, Fang Yuan asked Man Tu to make allowances for the Ge Family, but Man Tu objected that Red Flame Valley could not support them and accused them of breaking their marriage promise.

Man Duo used the Chasing Smoke Gu to expose smoke clinging to Fang Yuan, raising suspicion that he had met Ge Yao. Fang Yuan traced the smoke to his Poisonous Vine Wolves, but Ge Guang proposed a new test using Spider Silk Traces Gu to determine whether Ge Yao had been killed.

• Man Duo activated the Chasing Smoke Gu, revealing dense black smoke around Fang Yuan and prompting Man Tu and Ge Guang to question him.
• Fang Yuan claimed that one of his Poisonous Vine Wolves had devoured Ge Yao and invited everyone to inspect his wolf pack.
• The group found several Poisonous Vine Wolves carrying even denser chasing smoke, and Fang Yuan offered them to the Ge Family to deal with.
• Man Tu urged the group to follow the smoke deeper into the Corrupt Poison Grassland to keep investigating Ge Yao's fate.
• Ge Guang said Spider Silk Traces Gu could reveal whether Ge Yao's marked Water Dao Gu worms had been left behind, and looked directly at Fang Yuan.

The Ghost King failed to find the Immortal Travel Settling Gu and wrongly concluded Scorpion Lady had taken it. At the Ge family pasture, Fang Yuan cleared himself of suspicion over Ge Yao’s death, accepted a Rank 5 Gu, and left with the Ge family; afterward, the Ge Family Old Clan Leader warned Ge Guang that the Man family’s marriage proposal had been part of a plan to absorb their clan.

• The Ghost King followed the fading Immortal Gu aura to a snow willow, suspected Scorpion Lady had taken the Gu, and abandoned the search without finding it buried along his route.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader activated the Spider Silk Traces Gu, which failed to reveal any marked Gu worms in Fang Yuan’s possession, and Ge Guang apologized to Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan recalled killing Ge Yao and refusing to take her Gu worms, then accepted the Spider Silk Traces Gu as the Ge family’s apology.
• Man Tu and Man Duo watched Fang Yuan depart with the Ge family, and Man Tu concluded Ge Yao was probably dead while Man Duo resolved to compete for the clan leadership.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader scolded Ge Guang in private and explained that Man Tu had supported Man Duo’s proposal to marry Ge Yao as part of his plan to swallow the Ge family.

The Ge Family Old Clan Leader explained how he used Chang Shan Yin to foil the Man Family’s attempt to seize the Ge Family, then decided to leave for the Hero Conference with Chang Shan Yin. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan repaired the War Bone Wheel and assessed the tribes’ political struggle, concluding that strength was the foundation of survival as he prepared to adapt to the Northern Plains.

• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader told Ge Guang that he had used Chang Shan Yin to protect them from the Man Family and explained why he had given him the Spider Silk Traces Gu.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader decided that the Ge Family would leave for the Hero Conference alongside Chang Shan Yin, and Ge Guang agreed to learn from his father.
• Fang Yuan used the last of his Bone Bamboo Gu to repair the War Bone Wheel’s worst damage and inspected his cultivation and Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan considered how the Man Family had tried to exploit Ge Yao’s death to swallow the Ge Family and how the Ge Family had relied on him to resist.
• Fang Yuan concluded that strength determined survival and suspected the Ge Family Old Clan Leader planned to migrate the tribe and rely on the Royal Court to escape the great blizzard.

Fang Yuan arranged to migrate with the Ge family while sending the Man family a letter that disguised a bid for friendship as a trade. As the Ge family departed, the Man family revealed its plan to use wolf packs to force a rescue and annex them, though Chang Shan Yin remained an uncertain obstacle.

• Fang Yuan agreed to travel with the Ge family, advised the Ge Family Old Clan Leader to leave quickly, and gave him a letter explaining his absence from the Man family and requesting Gu and materials.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader realized Fang Yuan had benefited from the conflict between the Ge and Man families and predicted the Man family would fulfill the request to cultivate goodwill.
• Three days later, Man Tu watched the Ge family migrate and told Man Duo that Man Hao would explain why he had sent them provisions.
• Man Hao revealed that the provisions contained wolf-luring Gu and that three Ten Thousand Wolf Packs had been positioned to attack the Ge family so the Man family could later claim to rescue and annex them.
• Man Duo questioned whether the wolf packs could overcome Chang Shan Yin, and Man Hao dismissed his weakened cultivation and limited wolf forces as inadequate to stop them.

The Ge family prepared to defend against a pack of more than thirty-eight thousand Tortoise Shell Wolves, using Chang Shan Yin’s advice to draw river water into defensive channels. As the battle turned against them, Chang Shan Yin tamed a Hundred Wolf King and led its wolves into the camp, drawing Man Hong’s attention.

• A Scout Gu Master reported that a huge Tortoise Shell Wolf Pack was approaching the Ge family camp, and the Ge Family Old Clan Leader ordered scouts to continue monitoring it.
• Chang Shan Yin advised the Ge family to dig channels from a nearby river, and the Old Clan Leader assigned teams to carry out the plan.
• The Ge family completed its defenses as the wolf pack approached, then fought off its attacks on several sides of the camp.
• Man Hong and Man Hao watched the battle from a concealed hill as Hundred Wolf Kings broke through the Ge family’s defenses and casualties rose.
• Chang Shan Yin planted a Wolf Taming Gu on a Hundred Wolf King, turning it and its wolves to his side, while Man Hong identified him as Chang Shan Yin.

Fang Yuan led Ge family Gu Masters across the battlefield, subduing wolf kings and turning the wolf tide to the Ge family's advantage. After capturing a Thousand Wolf King, he faced an attack from the Ten Thousand Wolf King while Ge family elders protected him.

• Fang Yuan subdued a wounded Hundred Wolf King and let Ge Can's squad continue fighting after Ge Can mourned his slain brother.
• Fang Yuan took command against three Hundred Wolf Kings, assigned teams to weaken them, and subdued all three despite losing one Wolf Taming Gu.
• Fang Yuan rested to steady his soul, then captured three more Hundred Wolf Kings and over eight hundred Tortoise Shell Wolves.
• Fang Yuan and Ge Guang fought a Thousand Wolf King with help from three Ge Family Elders, and Fang Yuan subdued it, drawing its wolves into the Ge Family Camp.
• The Ten Thousand Wolf King attacked Fang Yuan with a Four-Leaf Wind Blade, and three Ge Family Elders used their Gu to weaken and disperse it while protecting him.

Fang Yuan gathered and healed his wolf army while the Ge family fell back under the Ten Thousand Wolf King's assault. He led nearly ten thousand wolves into battle, breaking the enemy's southern attack and capturing another Thousand Wolf King.

• Fang Yuan avoided a Thousand Wolf King protected by Burning Body Gu and subdued seventeen Hundred Wolf Kings and two Thousand Wolf Kings elsewhere on the battlefield.
• The Ten Thousand Wolf King launched a frenzied assault, forcing the Ge family to retreat from its second defensive line to its last.
• Fang Yuan used a young White Eyed Wolf and Wolf's Gaze Gu to watch the battlefield while searching his wolf kings for Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan healed and strengthened his wolves, then led them out of the pasture as fresh reinforcements.
• Fang Yuan's wolf army broke the southern assault and captured a fifth Thousand Wolf King, pacifying the southeastern battle line.

Fang Yuan turned the battle in the Ge Family’s favor by building a massive wolf pack and killing the Ten Thousand Wolf King. After receiving a Rank 4 Wolf Taming Gu, he refined it and transformed his Hundred Man Soul into a Werewolf Soul, leaving him ready to control even more wolves.

• Fang Yuan subdued three more Thousand Wolf Kings, bringing his total to eight, and grew his pack to more than twelve thousand wolves.
• Fang Yuan rested while monitoring the Ge Family’s leaders, then returned and used eight Thousand Wolf Kings to wear down and kill the Ten Thousand Wolf King.
• The Ge Family celebrated Fang Yuan’s victory, while Man Hong abandoned his plans to swallow the Ge Family; the Ge Family Old Clan Leader gave Fang Yuan a Rank 4 Wolf Taming Gu found on the Ten Thousand Wolf King’s corpse.
• Fang Yuan declined the victory banquet and used a Ten Jun Strength Gu before fusing his last Wolf Soul Gu with his Hundred Man Soul to form a Werewolf Soul.
• Fang Yuan recognized that his new soul could control more than three times as many wolf kings and anticipated expanding his pack on the way to the Hero Conference.

The Man family launched a surprise attack with a Ten Thousand Wolf Pack, plunging Ge Family Camp into chaos and near collapse. Fang Yuan urged the surviving Ge Family elites to charge through the wolves and subdue the Ten Thousand Wolf King with his Rank 4 Wolf Taming Gu.

• Shi Wu and Man family Gu Masters ambushed and killed two Ge Family scouts while leading night wolves toward the camp.
• The Ten Thousand Wolf Pack reached Ge Family Camp before the defenders could prepare, and its attack killed mortals and scattered the camp into panic.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader gathered a small group of elders and elite Gu Masters at the royal tent as the camp's counterattack fell apart.
• Fang Yuan entered the royal tent and proposed that the elites charge directly at the Ten Thousand Wolf King so he could tame it.
• The clan elders hesitated at Fang Yuan's dangerous plan, recognizing that the charge would likely cost most of their lives.

Fang Yuan persuaded the Ge Family to charge through the Night Wolf Pack and attack its Ten Thousand Wolf King, using their desperation and his heroic speech to secure their help. The charge began with heavy losses, and the Ge Family Old Clan Leader watched a clan elder die to destroy a Thousand Wolf King.

• Fang Yuan rallied the hesitant Ge Family by urging them to fight for their relatives and their clan, and Ge Guang and the elders joined the charge.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader agreed to follow Fang Yuan, who led the Gu Masters out while claiming that his scattered wolf pack would soon support them.
• Fang Yuan kept his own wolf kings out of the initial attack and led the Ge Family forces through the Night Wolf Pack toward the Ten Thousand Wolf King.
• The Ten Thousand Wolf King gathered its Hundred Wolf Kings and Thousand Wolf Kings to meet the attackers, and the Ge Family advance slowed as many rank 2 Gu Masters died.
• A Ge Family clan elder sacrificed himself with a Self-Destruction Gu, killing a Thousand Wolf King and leaving the Old Clan Leader grieving over the clan's losses.

Fang Yuan urged the Ge family to fight the Night Wolf King while repeatedly promising reinforcements that never arrived. The Ge Family Old Clan Leader broke the Night Wolf King's Golden Gang Gu, but the exhausted elder was knocked down and faced its continued attack.

• Fang Yuan charged toward the front line as the Ge Family Old Clan Leader demanded to know where the reinforcements were.
• The War Hall Elder transformed into a stone giant and sacrificed his life to hold back the wolf kings while the Ge family attacked the Night Wolf King.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader swallowed the Night Wolf King's ghost fire and bound it with Vine Claw Gu, but the beast tore off his fingers.
• Fang Yuan pretended to shield the Old Clan Leader from the Night Wolf King's tail, then feigned unconsciousness as the battle continued without him.
• The Old Clan Leader broke the Night Wolf King's Golden Gang Gu with Dragon Head Drill, but the beast's Fighting Spirit Gu drove it into a stronger frenzy.
• The exhausted Old Clan Leader fell beneath the Night Wolf King's attack, and the Ge family rushed to save him.

Fang Yuan saved the Ge Family by taming the Night Wolf King, but the Ge Family Old Clan Leader died and Ge Guang inherited leadership. After Fang Yuan expanded his wolf army and offered to reduce its burden on the clan, he left the weakened Ge Family dependent on his protection.

• Fang Yuan tamed the injured Night Wolf King and drove the night wolf pack into retreat, ending the attack on the Ge Family.
• The Ge Family Old Clan Leader died after warning Ge Guang to lead carefully, and Ge Guang succeeded him as clan leader.
• Man Tu learned that the Ge Family had survived and rejected Man Duo's plan to turn the clan against Chang Shan Yin, but ordered the final wind wolf wave sent onward.
• Fang Yuan defeated the wind wolf pack, killed its Beast King, and increased his wolf army to thirty-five thousand.
• Ge Guang offered Fang Yuan the Rank 4 Unchanging Bone Gu and explained the Ge Family's shortages; Fang Yuan promised to forage with his wolves and reduce their numbers while staying with the clan.

Fang Yuan reflected on the limits of his cultivation and the burden of feeding his wolf pack as the Ge lineage traveled toward Crescent Lake. At the lake, Ghost King and Crimson Jade Wanderer located Lang Ya Blessed Land and waited for its earthly calamity before making their move.

• Two Scout Gu Masters hunted a pollen rabbit and worried about the Ge lineage's dwindling food supplies as its main force continued moving.
• Fang Yuan inspected his Gu worms and considered how his soul, strength, cultivation, and wolf pack had reached various limits.
• Fang Yuan considered using Star Gate Gu to feed his wolves in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, but Charming Blue Lightning made opening the blessed land's gates too dangerous.
• Fang Yuan decided to seek a solution from Lang Ya Blessed Land and expected to reach Crescent Lake in about seven days.
• Ghost King and Crimson Jade Wanderer arrived at Crescent Lake, confirmed Lang Ya Blessed Land was hidden there, and planned to act when it faced its earthly calamity.

Ghost King, Crimson Jade Wanderer, and the Three Immortals of the Sea of Flowers weakened Lang Ya Blessed Land by exhausting its Immortal Essence during the Myriad Lightning Rain. They entered and discovered the Twelve Cloud Pavilions, then raced to claim their formulas.

• The earthly calamity Myriad Lightning Rain tore breaches into Lang Ya Blessed Land, alarming the five Gu Immortals waiting above Crescent Lake.
• Ghost King persuaded the others to pour their Green Grape Immortal Essence into the breaches until Lang Ya Blessed Land's Immortal Essence was exhausted.
• Ghost King charged into the blessed land first, followed by Crimson Jade Wanderer and the Three Immortals of the Sea of Flowers.
• The intruders crossed the lightning rain and found the Twelve Cloud Pavilions standing amid a vast sea of cloud soil.
• Ghost King and Crimson Jade Wanderer flew toward separate pavilions, while the Three Immortals of the Sea of Flowers split up to pursue three others.