Chapter Summaries

Bei Caochuan rejected a risky attempt to rescue the Bei family’s captives and urged his clan to preserve its strength for a decisive strike against Chang Shan Yin and the Ge family. Meanwhile, the Ge family finished plundering the Zheng camp and asked Fang Yuan what they should do next.

• Bei Caochuan and the other Bei elders watched the Zheng family collapse after Chang Shan Yin’s wolves killed its clan leader and nearly wiped out its Electric Spear Legion.
• Bei Caochuan refused to lead the depleted Bei survivors back to reclaim their camp, arguing that their clansmen were safer as captives than in a renewed battle.
• Bei Caochuan rebuked proposals to raid the Ge family camp and said they should save their strength to kill Chang Shan Yin and defeat the Ge family’s main force.
• The chapter recounted how Bei Caochuan endured hardship to obtain a Gu that saved the old clan leader, then rose to become the Bei family’s respected leader.
• A Ge clan elder reported that the Ge family had seized over eight million Primeval Stones, thousands of Gu worms, and other valuables from the Zheng camp.
• The Ge family asked Fang Yuan what they should do next.

Fang Yuan led the Ge Family’s assault on the Pei Family but was held back by Pei Yanfei’s powerful attacks and mobility. After Fang Yuan’s wolves broke through a damaged section of wall, Pei Yanfei badly injured the Turtle Shell Ten Thousand Wolf King, and Fang Yuan asked whether any bad news had come from the allied camps.

• Pei Yanfei killed three Ge Family elders and forced Fang Yuan to keep the Wind Wolf Beast King near him, weakening the attack on the Pei Family.
• Fang Yuan considered expanding his beast group and sent his wolves into a fresh assault while the Gu Masters on both sides recovered their primeval essence.
• Fang Yuan healed and strengthened the wolf pack, then sent it against a section of wall already damaged by Fist Stone Gu.
• The Turtle Shell Ten Thousand Wolf King broke through the wall, and Pei Yanfei used Golden Rainbow Strike to pierce its shell and severely injure it.
• Ge Guang urged Fang Yuan to attack Pei Yanfei, but Fang Yuan asked whether bad news had arrived from the Ge Family, Zheng Family, or Bei Family camps.

Bei Caochuan waited for a chance to kill Chang Shan Yin, but Fang Yuan withdrew from the Pei Family Camp before the ambush could succeed. When Pei Yanfei joined the pursuit, Fang Yuan revealed the White Eyed Wolf, forcing both pursuers to stop as the Ge Family army retreated safely.

• Bei Caochuan held his forces back, waiting for Chang Shan Yin to commit his wolves against the Pei Family so he could attack from behind.
• Fang Yuan broke the Pei Family’s wall, but after Pei Yanfei’s Golden Rainbow Strike injured the Turtle Shell Ten Thousand Wolf King, Fang Yuan chose to retreat.
• Bei Caochuan led twelve experts in a surprise attack on the Ge Family army, and Fang Yuan organized the wolves to cover the withdrawal.
• Pei Yanfei used Shatter the Cauldron and Sink the Boats Gu to pursue Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan revealed the White Eyed Wolf alongside the two Beast Kings.
• Pei Yanfei and Bei Caochuan halted their pursuit, and Fang Yuan’s army withdrew unscathed.

After the Ge Family’s campaign against three families, Fang Yuan returned home with spoils and captives, but his wolf pack had suffered heavy losses. News of the victory spread across Crescent Lake, while the Wang Family weighed its options and Bei Caochuan arrived seeking support.

• The Ge Family army withdrew safely with plunder, captives, and thirty Azure Field Slug Gus, then returned to its main camp to a jubilant welcome.
• Fang Yuan reflected that his display of strength had deterred pursuit, assessed the wolf pack’s heavy losses, and rested after deciding the battle had secured his plans and bought him time.
• Reports of the battle reached the surrounding tribal leaders, making the Ge Family and Wolf King Chang Shan Yin the focus of discussion.
• Ge Guang sent nearby forces a letter claiming the Ge Family had acted in self-defense and explaining Chang Shan Yin’s grievance against the Yan Family and Chang Family.
• The Wang Family Clan Leader concluded that the Ge Family’s victory made outside intervention unlikely and declined to meet Bei Caochuan.
• Bei Cao Sheng told Bei Caochuan that the Wang Family had refused an alliance and claimed the Bei Family could handle the Ge Family with its three-family strength.

Fang Yuan built up his wolf army around Crescent Lake, then learned that Lang Ya Earth Spirit had survived a second attack and was gathering materials to refine Second Aperture Gu. He returned to Lang Ya Blessed Land and invoked his inherited promise, forcing Lang Ya Earth Spirit to refine the Gu for him.

• Fang Yuan stayed at Crescent Lake while the Ge tribe recovered and expanded, then led a wolf pack out to hunt water wolves and other packs.
• Fang Yuan sent injured wolves and the weakened Turtle Shell Ten Thousand Wolf King through Star Gate Gu into Fox Immortal Blessed Land, where Little Fox Immortal told him Lang Ya Earth Spirit was buying Second Aperture Gu materials.
• Fang Yuan returned to Lang Ya Blessed Land and saw the damage from the attack, including the dead Nine-Colored Spirit Deer.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit explained that enemies had tampered with the Spirit Wander Gu he bought, opening a passage for attackers, but said he had preserved the Gu and defeated them.
• Fang Yuan asked Lang Ya Earth Spirit to refine Second Aperture Gu using one of Heavenly Thief Demon Venerable's remaining opportunities, and Lang Ya Earth Spirit had to accept.

Fang Yuan watched Lang Ya Earth Spirit refine Second Aperture Gu while secretly using the process to recover Spirit Wander Gu. He left with both Immortal Gu and asked Lang Ya Earth Spirit to take him as a disciple.

• Lang Ya Earth Spirit agreed to let Fang Yuan observe the refinement and brought him to a vast hall where thousands of skilled hairy men worked on Gu.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit directed the hairy men, then refined the semi-finished Second Aperture Gu himself using the damaged Spirit Wander Gu and rare materials.
• Fang Yuan activated Spirit Clear Gu and Awakening Cloud Gu, then drank prepared fine wines while watching the refinement to keep his mind clear and recover Spirit Wander Gu.
• When Lang Ya Earth Spirit completed Second Aperture Gu, Fang Yuan's accumulated drunkenness condensed into Spirit Wander Gu, leaving him with two Immortal Gu.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit accused Fang Yuan of calculating against him, and Fang Yuan bowed, praised what he had learned, and asked to become his disciple.

Fang Yuan traded the Spirit Wander Gu and his semi-finished Second Aperture Gu with Lang Ya Earth Spirit for the Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu and Wolf Taming Gu recipes. He then offered information about when he would use the Second Aperture Gu in exchange for everything Lang Ya Earth Spirit knew about Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

• Lang Ya Earth Spirit refused Fang Yuan's request to become his disciple but handed over the Second Aperture Gu under their agreement.
• Fang Yuan offered the Spirit Wander Gu and his semi-finished Second Aperture Gu, then exchanged the Spirit Wander Gu for the Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan tried to buy Lang Ya Earth Spirit's hairy men, but the earth spirit refused and gave him Wolf Taming Gu recipes instead.
• Fang Yuan offered information about when he would use the Second Aperture Gu in exchange for everything Lang Ya Earth Spirit knew about Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Fei Qing sacrificed himself to help his son Fei Cai escape after Fei Chang poisoned and pursued them. While Fei Chang abandoned the hunt to defend the Fei Family from the Ma Family’s surprise invasion, the Fei Family was destroyed, and Ma Yingjie was praised for engineering its downfall.

• Fei Qing hid in the marsh with Fei Cai, then urged his son to flee and seek the legacy in the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• Fei Cai ran in the wrong directions before finally taking the route Fei Qing had indicated, while Fei Chang returned and captured Fei Qing.
• Fei Chang used Soul Searching Gu on Fei Qing and learned of a hidden path, but found no trace of Fei Cai there.
• A messenger reported that the Ma Family had launched a surprise attack, so Fei Chang rushed back to defend the Fei Family camp.
• The Ma Family defeated the Fei Family and seized Warm Marsh Valley, while Ma Yingjie’s elders praised his plan to sow discord and weaken their enemy.

After defeating the Fei Family, Ma Yingjie rallied the Ma Family around its plans to seize the Imperial Court Blessed Land and assessed the growing competition from Chang Shan Yin. He ordered his people to take a bereaved child as his personal slave, but the child realized the corpse he had mourned was not his father.

• Ma Yingjie invoked Ma Zun’s supposed hopes for him to inspire the Ma Family, though he had invented Ma Zun’s words.
• The Ma Family leaders discussed their plans for the Hero Conferences and learned that Chang Shan Yin had emerged as a major force at Yutian.
• Ma Yingjie contrasted Chang Shan Yin’s wolf packs with Ma Zun’s vast horse herds, then warned that Chang Shan Yin could grow stronger by joining a Golden Family.
• Ma Yingjie ordered his attendants to bring a grieving child to serve as his personal slave after the child’s father had supposedly died in battle.
• The child examined the corpse, realized it was not his father, and resumed crying as the Ma Family members looked on in silence.

Fang Yuan obtained information about the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building from Lang Ya Earth Spirit and received the Second Aperture Gu, which Lang Ya activated for him. He returned to Fox Immortal Blessed Land, where his expanding food chain and Starlight Firefly supply continued to develop.

• Fang Yuan claimed he had Wisdom Dao methods to explain how he knew the secret of the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, softening Lang Ya Earth Spirit's attitude.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit gave Fang Yuan the information stored in an East Window Gu, then insisted on activating the Second Aperture Gu himself before completing their handover.
• The Second Aperture Gu entered Fang Yuan's body and formed a new aperture in his chest.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit considered asking Fang Yuan to help deduce unfinished Gu recipes, then realized he had used immortal essence to activate the Second Aperture Gu.
• Fang Yuan returned to Fox Immortal Blessed Land and surveyed its flourishing wolf and fox populations, Iron Shell Flowers, Pollen Rabbits, lakes, and livestock.
• Fang Yuan noted that repeated use of Star Gate Gu was consuming Starlight Firefly Gu faster than the swarm could produce them.

Fang Yuan inspected his Bubble Fish and traded in Yellow Treasure Heaven for a Muddying the Waters Gu formula, hairy men, and a greatly expanded wolf pack. He left the pack poised for the coming Hero Conference, while Soul-Shaking Mountain continued to deteriorate.

• Fang Yuan inspected the Bubble Fish lakes, praised Xuan Xian, and noted that Soul-Shaking Mountain was still declining.
• Fang Yuan traded with Mudfoot Immortal for a sixty-percent Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu formula and more than ten thousand hairy men, including over three thousand old ones.
• Fang Yuan bought an injured Night Wolf Emperor and more than eighteen thousand Night Wolves, then added other wolf packs and several Beast Kings.
• Fang Yuan purchased eighty thousand Crimson Flame Wolves and tasked Xuan Xian with finding another twenty thousand.
• Fang Yuan calculated that his wolf pack had grown to one hundred thousand wolves, with greatly increased high-end combat strength ahead of the Hero Conference.

Fang Yuan expanded his wolf army by buying exotic wolves, while Elder Yan Shi investigated his plans and chose not to risk using Heavenly Mystery Gu. Yan Shi then obstructed Fang Yuan’s purchases of Wolf Taming Gu materials, but Fang Yuan realized he could use alternative secret recipes.

• Fang Yuan bought a Blood Forest Wolf, three Fin Wolves, two Berserk Wolves, and five White Eyed Wolves in Yellow Treasure Heaven.
• Elder Yan Shi failed to determine Fang Yuan’s purpose through ordinary deductions and considered using Heavenly Mystery Gu, whose backlash could cost him decades of lifespan.
• Elder Yan Shi decided against using Heavenly Mystery Gu and resolved to wait for Fang Yuan’s predicted return to Southern Border, while warning that he would make things difficult for him.
• Elder Yan Shi arranged for Gu Immortals to buy up Wolf Taming Gu materials and drive up prices, blocking Fang Yuan’s purchases.
• Fang Yuan recognized the obstruction as a likely move by Elder Yan Shi and relied on his many alternative Wolf Taming Gu recipes, including secret recipes from Lang Ya Earth Spirit.

Fang Yuan identified the hidden force behind the Gu Immortals who had tried to obstruct his purchases and recognized that his safety depended on keeping others uncertain about his backing. Facing mounting threats and a shortage of Immortal Essence Stones, he redirected his resources toward cultivation and ended with his Second Aperture at peak Rank 3.

• Fang Yuan realized Elder Yan Shi and a far-reaching hidden force had targeted him, but they had withdrawn to avoid revealing themselves.
• Fang Yuan reasoned that Immortal Crane Sect and the hidden force would hesitate to attack while they believed a powerful expert stood behind him, though he knew this protection was temporary.
• Finding himself with only four Immortal Essence Stones, Fang Yuan halted further investment in his wolf pack and purchased cultivation materials, eighteen rank 5 Wolf Soul Gu, Sari Gu, and body-strengthening Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan used Courageous Gall Gu on Soul-Shaking Mountain until his soul reached the Thousand Man Soul, despite the mountain producing fewer good Gu.
• Fang Yuan used Silver Sari Gu to raise his Second Aperture to peak Rank 3 and noted that it gave him another slot for a Destined Gu.

Fang Yuan chose All-Out Gu as his Second Aperture's Destined Gu, then returned to Northern Plains and continued gathering water wolves. At Crescent Lake, he used his enormous wolf pack to drive away two quarreling families and take control of a water wolf den.

• Fang Yuan chose rank three All-Out Gu as his second Destined Gu so he could protect it from Refining Gu failure.
• Fang Yuan returned from Fox Immortal Blessed Land to Northern Plains with a replenished pack of more than ten thousand water wolves and continued gathering them.
• Chai Zhang and Zhong Feiyou argued over supplies and the boundary between their families as Chai Family prepared to travel to the Hero Conference.
• Fang Yuan arrived with a vast mixed wolf pack that surrounded both families, prompting Chai Zhang and Zhong Feiyou to abandon their dispute and withdraw.
• Fang Yuan ignored the abandoned Black Skin Fat Beetles and sent his water wolves to surround the lake's water wolf den.

Fang Yuan defeated a wild water wolf pack, returned to Ge Family Camp with many supplies, and resumed cultivation while examining the Chai Family’s Gray-White Stone Slabs. As he handled one slab, an unexpected incident occurred, leaving the chapter on a sudden mystery.

• Fang Yuan’s wolves defeated the water wolf pack, and he took the supplies from the three Black Skin Fat Beetles.
• Chai Zhang led the Chai Family away, while Zhong Feiyou accepted that his family could not challenge Chang Shan Yin and vowed to seek redress later.
• Fang Yuan returned to Ge Family Camp with a greatly enlarged wolf pack and revealed that his cultivation had recovered to Peak Rank 4.
• Fang Yuan entered seclusion to cultivate his Second Aperture, strengthen his Werewolf Soul, and improve his strength path.
• Fang Yuan examined the Chai Family’s Gray-White Stone Slabs, and an accident occurred as he rubbed one between his fingers.

Fang Yuan uncovered a map to an Earth Mound inheritance, then refined his Eagle Wing Gu into a Rank 4 Soaring Eagle Gu and reviewed news about the Imperial Court Struggle. When Ge Guang urged the Ge Family to attend the Yutian Hero Conference, Fang Yuan instead planned to visit Scallion Valley to retrieve his roaming wolf pack.

• Fang Yuan used identification methods on a Gray-White Stone Slab and discovered a map labeled Earth Mound with four cryptic lines, then let the uncertain inheritance clue slip from his mind.
• Fang Yuan refined his Rank 3 Eagle Wing Gu into a Rank 4 Soaring Eagle Gu and kept his flight mastery secret.
• Ge Guang brought Fang Yuan intelligence about the Hero Conferences, including the Ma Family's growing strength and the leading factions at Yutian.
• Ge Guang asked Fang Yuan when the Ge Family would set out for the Yutian Hero Conference, and Fang Yuan said they should first go to Scallion Valley to find the wolf pack he had released there.

At the Jade Fields Hero Conference, Water Demon Hao Jiliu killed Chai Ming with a water-image trick, giving Hei Lou Lan’s side a victory over Liu Wenwu’s faction. When Liu Wenwu struggled to choose another fighter, his sworn brother Ink Lion Mad arrived and instantly killed Viper Lord with a peak Rank 4 qi-path attack.

• Chai Ming appeared to defeat Water Demon Hao Jiliu, but Hao Jiliu’s water image vanished and the real Hao Jiliu killed Chai Ming from behind.
• Hei Lou Lan rewarded Hao Jiliu with wine and used Yan Cui'er, Liu Wenwu’s abducted fiancée, to taunt Liu Wenwu.
• Liu Wenwu refused to concede, but Hei Lou Lan challenged him to send out another fighter, leaving Liu Wenwu short of strong combatants.
• Ink Lion Mad arrived, and Liu Wenwu introduced him as his sworn brother.
• Viper Lord challenged Ink Lion Mad and was crushed into pulp by Ink Lion Mad’s single qi-path attack.

Hei Lou Lan’s attempt to test Ink Lion Mad with Black Embroidered Robe turned into a devastating battle when Ink Lion Mad revealed overwhelming qi-path strength and the Hero Conference erupted into a melee. As Liu Wenwu and Hei Lou Lan failed to stop the fighting, a desolate wolf howled in the distance.

• Hei Lou Lan sent Black Embroidered Robe to test Ink Lion Mad, who withstood the defense Gu Master's attacks before crushing him with a giant qi foot.
• Hei Lou Lan ordered two Rank 3 Gu Masters to retrieve Black Embroidered Robe, but Ink Lion Mad swept them aside with a gigantic qi arm and struck the gathered Gu Masters.
• Hei Lou Lan's side and Liu Wenwu's side joined the battle, while the Chai clan attacked the wounded Water Demon Haojiliu.
• Liu Wenwu and Hei Lou Lan realized the melee risked leaving their clans too weak to contend for the Royal Court, but neither could stop it.
• A desolate wolf howled from afar as the battlefield descended into chaos.

Fang Yuan arrived at the Yutian Hero Conference with a vast wolf tide and joined forces with Hei Lou Lan, shifting the balance of power in the Imperial Court Struggle. Hei Lou Lan gifted him a Rank 5 Turtle Jade Wolf Skin Gu, while Liu Wenwu planned to build strength before confronting them.

• Fang Yuan's enormous wolf tide, including a Night Wolf Emperor and eighty thousand crimson flame wolves, arrived at the conference and stunned the assembled leaders.
• Fang Yuan agreed to join Hei Lou Lan, and he spared Water Demon Haojiliu despite their earlier conflict.
• The Wang, Fang, and Ye families chose to side with Hei Lou Lan, while the remaining tribes followed Liu Wenwu.
• Liu Wenwu ordered a thorough investigation into the origins of Fang Yuan's wolves and planned to sweep across the west before challenging the Hei family.
• Fang Yuan claimed he had released wolf packs in Scallion Valley years earlier, concealing that he had brought them from Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Hei Lou Lan gave Fang Yuan a Rank 5 Turtle Jade Wolf Skin Gu, which Fang Yuan accepted.

Fang Yuan completed his Turtle Jade Wolf Skin cultivation and continued building strength while weighing the many threats surrounding him. He joined Hei Lou Lan’s alliance, which agreed to expand his wolf pack by absorbing wild wolves.

• Fang Yuan destroyed the Turtle Jade Wolf Skin Gu after it refined his skin, then used Ten Jun Strength Gu to raise his strength to sixty jun.
• Fang Yuan considered the limits of cultivating strength and enslavement paths and noted the threats pressing in on him, including the recovering Spring Autumn Cicada and dangers to Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan accepted Hei Lou Lan’s invitation and attended a banquet where the tribes formalized their alliance with Poison Oath Gu.
• Hei Lou Lan proposed absorbing wild wolves rather than annexing weaker forces, and Fang Yuan agreed to expand his wolf pack.
• The alliance began contributing resources and Gu Masters to help Fang Yuan grow his wolf pack.