Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo’s group searched the White-backed Ape cave, where they found Azure Spirit Fruit Wine and a pit filled with the remains of martial artists. They recovered ancient weapons and armor, collected the wine and fruit, and ended the day sharing a drink.

• Fang Mo led the group into the White-backed Ape cave and sent teams to search its tunnels while he arranged care for the wounded.
• Yue Quan and Mu Yan brought Fang Mo to a mountain hollow, where he identified a pit of human remains, some over three hundred years old, as belonging to martial artists.
• Fang Mo’s group searched the hollow and caves, finding damaged armor, clothing, weapons, and bones but no written records.
• Fang Mo examined an ancient saber and found that its alloy was as hard as their Titanium Zirconium Alloy and conducted inner force better than the Black Steel Blade.
• The group collected over three hundred jin of Azure Spirit Fruit and divided the Monkey Wine, giving each martial artist two jin and each Grandmaster three jin.
• The survivors lit bonfires and shared the remaining wine that night.

Fang Mo’s group found another Safe House and inferred that the shelters were spaced across large regions, while debating whether anyone else had entered the Trial Ground. After they left, jungle natives examined a slain Demon Spider, and their priest concluded that the Sky Demons had descended again.

• Fang Mo’s group hunted hundreds of exotic beasts, found Safe House Number 117, and used its number and location to infer how Safe Houses were distributed.
• Fang Mo’s group debated whether forces affiliated with the secret realm might have entered the Trial Ground, and Fang Mo led them back to the White-backed Ape’s cave.
• More than ten natives ambushed Thorn Wolves at the battlefield, collected the carcasses, and carried them to their treehouse village.
• Tu showed the village priest a Demon Spider with blade wounds and a split head, and the priest declared that the Sky Demons had descended again.

Fang Mo’s team prepared to move east after exploring the surrounding area, but they saw Glaireo’s group suffering heavy casualties on the map. Glaireo’s survivors escaped an attack by indigenous warriors, regrouped, and then had to flee again when their pursuers found them.

• Fang Mo’s team chose to head east and follow the Safe House numbering as they continued exploring.
• Fang Mo noticed Glaireo’s team losing members rapidly, and the group realized they were being scattered by a dangerous attack.
• Glaireo and the others fled indigenous warriors through the jungle, while Glaireo clashed with a powerful giant and broke his weapon.
• Glaireo’s survivors gathered in hiding, argued over their failed defense, and decided to regroup before attempting to defeat the indigenous people for information.
• A scout warned Glaireo that the indigenous warriors were less than a kilometer away, so he led the survivors back into a hurried escape.

Glaireo and his remaining Galactic Alliance warriors fled snow wolves and native warriors, only to be cornered by Kun Yan’s Lionheart Alliance. Kun Yan forced them to surrender their Bone Cards, then sent them away while his team continued searching for the Intermediate Trial Zone teleportation point.

• Glaireo led eleven survivors toward the Lionheart Alliance as snow wolves and native warriors pursued them.
• Kun Yan warned Glaireo’s group to stop and used explosive crossbow bolts to prevent them from redirecting the pursuers toward his formation.
• A horn sounded, causing the snow wolves and native warriors to retreat before either group fought.
• Kun Yan surrounded Glaireo’s group and demanded all their Bone Cards as payment for his help.
• Glaireo handed over more than fifty Bone Cards and led his group away.
• Shi Jian asked why Kun Yan had not wiped out Glaireo’s group, and Kun Yan said avoiding casualties mattered more as they continued hunting and searched for the Intermediate Trial Zone teleportation point.

After Glaireo’s group fled the Lionheart Alliance, he refused to ask Fang Mo for help and proposed stealing Bone Cards from others. Meanwhile, Huang Yuyang asked Fang Mo to rescue his captured fellow disciples, and Fang Mo’s group set out for the Black Stone Tribe.

• Glaireo’s group counted only eleven survivors, argued over losing their Bone Cards, and rejected Clansen’s suggestion to contact Fang Mo.
• Glaireo proposed stealing the Bone Cards back by drawing other forces into a conflict.
• Fang Mo’s group killed three powerful tigers and collected three jade Bone Cards.
• Huang Yuyang contacted Fang Mo and explained that the Black Stone Tribe had killed one of his fellow disciples and captured two others.
• Fang Mo’s group agreed to rescue the captives and headed toward the Black Stone Tribe, a little over two hundred li away.

Huang Yuyang attacked a native tribe to save his two Junior Brothers but was overwhelmed until Fang Mo and the others arrived and defeated the tribe. After the survivors were taken for interrogation, Yue Quan found an old Beast Skin Scroll.

• Huang Yuyang charged into the tribe to rescue his two Junior Brothers, but the natives’ Grandmasters drove him back.
• Fang Mo, Mingzhen, Feng Xuyang, Yue Quan, and Luo Jiangyan arrived and attacked the tribe, turning the battle against the natives.
• Fang Mo defeated the burly Grandmaster, while Feng Xuyang and Mingzhen brought down the other two Grandmasters.
• The surviving natives fled, and Wang Jinlong took the priest and two injured Grandmasters for interrogation.
• Huang Yuyang thanked Fang Mo and his companions for saving his Junior Brothers, and Fang Mo welcomed him into the team.
• Yue Quan brought Fang Mo an old Beast Skin Scroll.

Fang Mo’s group learned that the natives mistook them for Sky Demons and that the Beast Skin Scroll contained a Heaven-grade cultivation technique. They traveled east in search of the Teleportation Array, fought through a Poison Spider nest, and left their native pursuers to summon help from the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe.

• Fang Mo and the Grandmasters translated the Beast Skin Scroll and the priest’s testimony, learning that native tribes were hunting them and that an Eastern Temple might hold the inheritance array.
• Mingzhen warned that the force behind the secret realm might also have descended, but Fang Mo persuaded the group to focus on finding the Teleportation Array and returning home.
• Fang Mo identified the scroll’s technique as the mid-ranked Heaven-grade Bear Gang Jin, and the group agreed to rest before heading east at dawn.
• A group of native warriors found the Black Stone Tribe’s dead and pursued Fang Mo’s team through the forest.
• Fang Mo’s team survived an attack by a Poison Spider swarm, killed dozens of spiders, and collected their Bone Cards.
• The pursuing natives saw the spiders’ corpses, stopped their chase, and sent a message bird toward the medium-sized Savage Flood Dragon Tribe.

After learning that the Teleportation Array was likely east, several groups headed that way while Fang Mo’s team crossed a rain-lashed gorge. Fang Mo and Feng Xuyang saw a flood dragon amid the lightning, and the team emerged onto the Star River Grassland, where they learned of a powerful local tribe.

• Mojina and Seqi translated a message pointing to the Sky Demon, Eastern Temple, and ordered their group to rest before heading east; Aruna also led his tribe east.
• Fang Mo’s team hurried through a gorge as torrential rain began, then sheltered in a cave.
• Fang Mo and Feng Xuyang saw what appeared to be a flood dragon struck by lightning, but kept the sighting from the rest of the team.
• After the rain stopped, Fang Mo’s team crossed the gorge and saw a Heaven Grade Exotic Beast Iron Feather Eagle hunt across the grassland.
• Fang Mo identified the region as the Star River Grassland and warned the team about the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe before leading them onward.

A grassland village mobilized its warriors to hunt as Fang Mo’s group realized they were being watched by scouting birds. Elsewhere, Glaireo’s ambush was exposed when the Lionheart and Star Brilliance Alliances joined forces and attacked the cliff, leaving him and his companions fleeing.

• A cyan bird delivered a message to a grassland village, whose warriors rode out to hunt while more birds spread across the sky.
• After Fang Mo’s group defeated a pack of Swift Dragon Beasts, Fang Mo, Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, and Mingzhen realized someone was tracking them and suspected scouting birds had marked them as prey.
• Glaireo’s group watched the Lionheart Clan battle the natives and planned to attack Kun Yan after both sides were weakened.
• Wenk led the Star Brilliance Alliance into the fight, helping Kun Yan defeat the natives before the two leaders agreed to cooperate and travel east toward the Teleportation Array.
• Kun Yan and Wenk spotted Glaireo’s group on the cliff and charged after them, forcing Glaireo and his companions to flee.

After escaping the two Alliances, Glaireo’s group planned to find a native tribe and learn whether the Teleportation Array lay to the east. Meanwhile, Fang Mo’s team discovered that Zuo Qi, a Beast Language Inheritance heir, might be able to lure down the eagle tracking them, and they prepared to try his plan the next night.

• Glaireo, Guan Yang, and Mo Feiyu argued over their losses before agreeing to regroup their survivors and target a small native tribe for information.
• Glaireo suspected Kun Yan’s group had learned the Teleportation Array’s location from the natives and was heading east.
• Fang Mo’s team discussed how to evade the Red-Eyed Kite Eagle tracking them across the exposed grassland.
• Huang Yuyang revealed that his Junior Brother Zuo Qi was the Tianshan Sect’s Direct Heir to its Beast Language Inheritance.
• Zuo Qi identified the tracking eagle and proposed preparing animals and medicinal herbs to lure it down the following night.
• Fang Mo ordered the team to rest and move early the next morning while he continued cultivating his inner force.

Zuo Qi’s pheromone bait lured a giant eagle into Fang Mo, Feng Xuyang, and Yue Quan’s ambush, and they killed it before it could escape. The team changed course and avoided a native cavalry force, but the cavalry found the eagle’s remains and scattered to hunt them down.

• Zuo Qi prepared pheromone bait, and Fang Mo, Feng Xuyang, and Yue Quan hid in pits while the rest of the group used straw figures to disguise their absence.
• The pheromone lured a gray giant eagle down, and Fang Mo, Feng Xuyang, and Yue Quan attacked and killed it.
• Fang Mo killed the gray heron, and the three fighters rejoined the group, which changed course and headed southeast.
• A native chief led a larger cavalry force toward the team’s former route, unaware that they had already passed elsewhere.
• The cavalry found the Sacred Eagle’s remains, and the chief split his force into several groups to search for the Sky Demons.

Fang Mo led his group along the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe’s horse tracks to hide their trail and move toward the tribe’s territory. Meanwhile, Manyan’s mounted force attacked the Crimson Star Alliance, killing its leader Raimon and leaving the alliance’s fighters surrounded.

• Fang Mo rejected an attack on a native search party and led his group east along the horse tracks toward the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe.
• Manyan refused to let the allied tribal chiefs abandon the search, then ordered his warriors to pursue a report of eighty-nine Sky Demons.
• Raimon detected Manyan’s mounted force approaching the Crimson Star Alliance’s camp and organized his people into battle formations.
• Manyan’s cavalry countered the alliance’s crossbow volley and charged into battle, overwhelming the outnumbered fighters.
• Manyan struck Raimon down and pierced his chest with a spear as the Crimson Star Alliance members cried out in despair.

Kun Yan and Wenk found the Crimson Star Alliance wiped out and buried its dead, while Fang Mo's group avoided a native tribe of women, children, and elders. After spotting a passing cavalry unit, Fang Mo decided to ambush it for its horses, and he and Feng Xuyang found seventy-eight warriors at the tribe and prepared to attack.

• Kun Yan and Wenk found eighty-three headless Crimson Star Alliance corpses and decided not to search for survivors.
• Fang Mo's group spotted a small tribe of women, children, and elders and chose to go around it.
• Bagmu found fresh hoofprints showing a cavalry unit had passed, and Fang Mo proposed taking the warriors' horses to improve the group's mobility.
• Fang Mo and Feng Xuyang scouted the tribe and counted seventy-eight warriors, including four Grandmasters.
• Fang Mo ordered the group to attack and make sure no warrior escaped.

Fang Mo’s group ambushed a native tribe, defeated its leader, and seized horses and records. After interrogating the leader, they learned that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe was pursuing them with a Grandmaster Peak chief and that a Divine Hall lay to the east.

• Fang Mo led the teams in a surprise attack, killed many native warriors, and defeated their leader.
• Fang Mo ordered the captured women and children who could not fight to be held until the group left, while the warriors gathered the horses.
• Fang Mo’s group searched the settlement and found beast-hide records, including a heaven-tier cultivation method called the Iron Casting Technique.
• Wang Jinlong interrogated the native leader and learned that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe had gathered at least four hundred people to hunt the Sky Demons.
• Wang Jinlong revealed that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe’s chief, Manyan, was a Grandmaster Peak expert and that the tribe had another Grandmaster Peak elder.
• Wang Jinlong told the group that a Divine Hall was located to the east.

Fang Mo’s group rode east after breaking through the tribal blockade, while the Lionheart Alliance and Star Brilliance Alliance fought Manyan’s forces on the grasslands. After the Domey Alliance intervened, the natives withdrew, and Manyan learned that Fang Mo’s group had destroyed the Crimson Rhino Tribe’s reinforcements and might be heading for his tribe.

• Fang Mo’s group left the ruined tribe with its horses and continued east toward the Eastern Temple as another native force pursued them.
• Manyan led more than four hundred natives in an attack on the Lionheart Alliance and Star Brilliance Alliance, killing dozens and inflicting heavy losses.
• Glaireo’s group watched the battle and chose to leave rather than help either side.
• Aruna and the Domey Alliance arrived, prompting the natives to withdraw as the alliances pursued them.
• Manyan ordered the tribes to send more fighters, then learned that Fang Mo’s group had destroyed the Crimson Rhino Tribe’s reinforcements and was heading east.

Fang Mo’s team learned of deadly clashes between the natives and rival alliances before settling in for the night. When the Bronze Mirror warned him of danger, Fang Mo followed a suspicious white wolf to a valley and discovered dozens of natives tracking his team.

• Luo Yuan showed the team footage of the natives fighting the Lionheart Alliance and reported that the Crimson Star Alliance had been wiped out.
• Fang Mo learned Guan Yang had sent Luo Yuan the news, but refused to reveal his team’s location or turn back to rescue Guan Yang’s group.
• The Bronze Mirror warned Fang Mo of danger, so he quietly checked the camp with several Grandmasters.
• Fang Mo spotted a white wolf, recognized that it was likely tamed, and followed it more than thirty li to a valley occupied by dozens of natives.
• Fang Mo sensed three Grandmaster-level natives and tried to leave, but the Bronze Mirror warned him again just before a javelin struck where he had been standing.

Fang Mo fought off a native ambush and killed two Grandmasters, but remained locked in battle with their Peak Grandmaster until Yue Quan, Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, and Mu Yan arrived. As the natives fled, Fang Mo pursued their leader.

• Fang Mo charged toward the javelin ambushers, killed two native sentries, and escaped the pursuing White Wolves while sending a message for help.
• The natives surrounded Fang Mo, and he fought three Grandmasters while resisting a hail of javelins and attacks from mounted warriors.
• Fang Mo used his Diamond Wave-Shock Fist to disrupt two Grandmasters, then killed them with Cloud Silence while suffering wounds from the Peak Grandmaster.
• Yue Quan, Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, and Mu Yan arrived and attacked the native ranks, prompting the natives to flee.
• Fang Mo charged after the fleeing Peak Grandmaster as the man tried to reach a horse.

Fang Mo pursued the native leader and defeated him with Ice-Fire Thunderblast, though the attack left Fang Mo severely drained. As Luo Jiangyan stood guard while he recovered, their reinforcements arrived.

• Fang Mo chased the native leader while Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, and Mu Yan dealt with the fleeing natives.
• The native leader consumed Blood-Raging Red Ginseng and overwhelmed Fang Mo with a series of powerful attacks.
• Fang Mo unleashed Ice-Fire Thunderblast, blasting the native leader into a pit and injuring himself in the explosion.
• Luo Jiangyan finished off the dying native leader, and Fang Mo sat down to recover his inner force.
• Luo Jiangyan recognized the approaching riders' signals, answered with a whistle, and announced that their reinforcements had arrived.

Fang Mo recovered from his battle, advanced to Grandmaster Peak, and reviewed the surrounding tribes with the caravan. He decided to attack the nearby Savage Flood Dragon Tribe before Glaireo's group could catch up.

• Fang Mo reflected on his gains from fighting the Grandmaster Peak and circulated the Xiantian Pure Yang Art as the caravan traveled.
• Fang Mo advanced to Grandmaster Peak, shocking Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, Mingzhen, and the other Grandmasters.
• Fang Mo ordered the caravan to stop and showed everyone a map of the native tribes compiled from interrogation intelligence.
• Fang Mo revealed that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe was less than a hundred li ahead and that Glaireo's group was five or six hundred li behind them.
• After Luo Jiangyan asked about his injuries, Fang Mo said he was fit to fight and ordered everyone to prepare for battle against the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe.

Fang Mo and his companions discovered that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe was prepared for their attack, but chose to charge in, believing its main forces had been drawn away. They overwhelmed the defenders until the High Priest and other warriors swallowed pills that greatly increased their strength.

• Fang Mo, Feng Xuyang, and Mu Yan spotted unfamiliar horses and the absence of children, concluding that the Savage Flood Dragon Tribe had prepared an ambush.
• Fang Mo reasoned that the tribe's main forces were likely away and decided to attack for its knowledge of secret realms; his group agreed to fight.
• The High Priest's bone beads snapped, and he declared that the Sky Demons had arrived and ordered the Manjiao Tribe to prepare for battle.
• Fang Mo led the mounted charge, then attacked the High Priest and sent him and two elders flying as his companions cut through the tribe's warriors.
• The High Priest swallowed a pill to boost his strength, and the other native defenders followed suit.