Recaps

Wang Wu, disguised as Yue Shan, acquired Iron Essence and resources from Chen Damao before leaving for Cloud Cauldron City. Five Poisons suspected him of being Xiong Wu, then uncovered that his recurring episodes had predicted Xiong Wu’s rise and decided to report the latest prophecy to Mistress.

• Wang Wu asked Chen Damao about treasures and accepted Iron Essence, ten million dou of spiritual energy, and three treasures to support his attempt to advance to First Grade.
• Chen Damao directed Wang Wu to find Grandpa Huang in Cloud Cauldron City and help him obtain Five Aggregates Spirit Pills.
• After Wang Wu left, Five Poisons told Chen Damao he believed Yue Shan was Xiong Wu in disguise and planned to follow him to Cloud Cauldron City.
• Five Poisons suffered an episode, accused Yue Shan of being Xiong Wu, then took a pill and used a bronze mirror to review what he had said.
• Five Poisons recalled that his earlier episodes had foretold Xiong Wu’s emergence and concluded that his tenth episode confirmed the prophecy.
• Five Poisons decided he had to report his vision to Master and resolved to find Mistress because Master was in the North Sea.

Wang Wu arrived in Cloud Cauldron City disguised as Yue Shan and passed Grandpa Huang’s inspection, then reunited with Yue Shan’s fellow disciples. He began preparing a meeting gift for Wu Yiner by examining her flying sword.

• Wang Wu left Mysterious Iron City for Cloud Cauldron City while remaining wary of Five Poisons and the unresolved spy in the Southern Wilderness.
• Grandpa Huang greeted Wang Wu, inspected his cultivation, and found no sign that he was impersonating Yue Shan.
• Grandpa Huang took Wang Wu to Lu Wuchen’s former teaching grounds, where Zhenhai and Feng Yang welcomed him after more than a century apart.
• Zhenhai introduced his disciple Wu Yiner, and Wang Wu agreed to give her a meeting gift despite not carrying Yue Shan’s belongings.
• Wang Wu took Wu Yiner’s earthly third-grade flying sword to examine it.

Wang Wu gave Wu Yiner’s mentor the Five Aggregates Spirit Pills and displayed extraordinary divine-talisman skill, drawing the attention of Madam Lu. She then urged him to compete for the top five of the Heavenly Pride Ranking to help relieve Lu Wuchen’s political pressure, leaving Wang Wu trapped in preparations as Five Poisons arrived.

• Wang Wu agreed to give Third Senior Brother Zhenhai the Five Aggregates Spirit Pills as a meeting gift for Wu Yiner, who had begun cultivating a Metal Spirit Root to pursue revenge for her family.
• Wang Wu drew an Ice Divine Talisman with power that overwhelmed Zhenhai, Feng Yang, and Wu Yiner, and Zhenhai praised it as a first-rank talisman.
• Madam Lu arrived with Qin'er and another companion, greeted Wang Wu and the senior disciples, and expressed concern about Wang Wu’s past injuries and recovery.
• Madam Lu told Wang Wu to challenge the top five of the Heavenly Pride Ranking so he could help defend Lu Wuchen’s reputation, and Wang Wu pledged to spare no effort.
• Grandpa Huang promised Wang Wu personal guidance and whatever resources he needed for the ranking challenge, then Wang Wu spotted Five Poisons arriving.

Wang Wu tried to convince Madam Lu’s household that Yue Shan was determined to reach the top five of the Heavenly Pride Ranking, then received her support and was assigned to prepare for a match against Mu Qingli. He ended in the Lu Family’s mysterious treasury, where Grandpa Huang allowed him to choose rare treasures and one cultivation technique.

• Wang Wu pretended not to notice Five Poisons and vowed before Grandpa Huang to reach the top five of the Heavenly Pride Ranking, earning Grandpa Huang’s approval.
• Madam Lu sent Wang Wu a divine talisman and advised him not to put too much pressure on himself.
• Wang Wu returned to find Pine Skin apologizing for failing to notice his emergence from seclusion, and Grandpa Huang ordered Pine Skin to prepare a cultivation realm and gather information on Mu Qingli.
• Grandpa Huang teleported Wang Wu to the World- trấn giữ Treasure Cauldron and offered to lend him one magical treasure, but Wang Wu said he needed rare treasures and cultivation techniques instead.
• Grandpa Huang allowed Wang Wu to choose three rare treasures and one cultivation technique, then teleported him to another area.

Wang Wu entered the Enlightenment Divine Talisman and comprehended the Chaotic Sword Stance, then returned to the Peach Garden as the talisman crumbled. As the Heavenly Pride Ranking contest neared, Five Poisons secretly warned Wang Wu that he had to win or die.

• Wang Wu realized the empty city and its countless buildings were inside the Divine Talisman, then used his sword to comprehend the Chaotic Sword Stance and create the Borrowing Sword Stance.
• Wang Wu emerged from the talisman, which crumbled to ash, and Madam Lu praised him for comprehending one of the three sword arts in nine days.
• Madam Lu refused Five Poisons permission to enter the Heavenly Pride Ranking contest and ordered him to return to Mysterious Iron City to reflect.
• Five Poisons secured permission to remain in Peach Garden, then slipped a beetle into Wang Wu's hand before leaving for Mysterious Iron City.
• The beetle delivered Five Poisons' warning to Wang Wu: win the contest or die.

Five Poisons attacked Yue Shan’s secluded cultivation site, only for Yue Shan’s exposure to Five Poisons’ blood and poison to awaken his Ancient Bear Bloodline. Five Poisons then revealed that he was the Snake Emperor’s grandson and that Yue Shan and he were distant relatives, leaving both men stunned by the schemes behind their identities.

• Five Poisons decided to conceal Yue Shan’s impersonation until the Heavenly Pride Ranking contest ended and went to check whether the real Yue Shan was dead.
• Five Poisons flooded Yue Shan’s secluded cultivation site with his poison, dissolving its defenses and forcing Yue Shan to emerge badly injured.
• Five Poisons suffered a severe episode and fell into the poison, so Yue Shan dragged him out while the Five Poisons Spirit Energy nearly corroded Yue Shan to death.
• Yue Shan drank Five Poisons’ blood, awakening an Ancient Bear Bloodline that healed him and transformed him into a giant bear.
• Five Poisons told Yue Shan that Master was his father, the Snake Emperor’s daughter was his mother, and the two men were distant relatives caught up in the Snake Emperor’s scheme.

Yue Shan and Five Poisons uncovered their Snake Emperor heritage and learned that Lu Wuchen had killed Yuchi Qianshan, leaving them unsure whom to trust. After Yue Shan awakened as a powerful bear demon, the Divine Martial Demon Emperor urged them to attack Mysterious Iron City, but they chose to take resources and pursue their own freedom instead.

• Five Poisons revealed that his mother was the Snake Emperor's second daughter and that Yue Shan was a sealed bear whose mother had been killed by Lu Wuchen.
• Yue Shan and Five Poisons learned their family connections, discussed Lu Wuchen's secrets, and decided to head toward the Southern Wilderness rather than seek out Xiong Wu.
• Five Poisons revealed that Lu Wuchen had killed Yuchi Qianshan, and he foresaw that the First Madam and Grandpa Huang might pursue them.
• Yue Shan condensed three sixth-grade demon cores and transformed back into human form.
• The Divine Martial Demon Emperor welcomed Yue Shan's awakening and asked the pair to help take Mysterious Iron City.
• Yue Shan and Five Poisons rejected the attack, deciding to take resources, grow stronger, and live freely.

Lu Wuchen explained how he had used the Snake Emperor’s Hidden Dragons to trap it and revealed his ambitions to escape the prison. Wang Wu arrived at the Heavenly Pride Ranking battlefield and saw immense statues in the sky, leading him to suspect that powerful cultivators were captured and drained for Spiritual Essence.

• Lu Wuchen told Liu Wujiu and another vice leader that the Snake Emperor had been lured into the North Sea trap through its greed and the fate of its Hidden Dragons.
• Lu Wuchen revealed that Yue Shan was the true Hidden Dragon behind Xiong Wu, and that Five Poisons’ episodes and Yue Shan’s bloodline seal were connected parts of his plan.
• Lu Wuchen said he wanted to escape the prison rather than become a jailer, and hoped Yue Shan and Five Poisons would help create enough powerful, rebellious prisoners.
• Grandpa Huang gave Wang Wu the jade badge for ninth place and explained that he had to fight at least three battles in the Heavenly Pride Ranking contest.
• Wang Wu teleported with the other contestants to a vast formation high above the ground and spotted gigantic statues of humans, demons, dragons, and other beings in the dark sky.
• Wang Wu suspected that the heavenly prides would eventually be captured and drained for Spiritual Essence, as he believed had happened to other powerful cultivators.

Wang Wu realized that powerful beings could be captured and bled to replenish the prison world's dwindling Spiritual Essence, so he resolved to escape before the Heavenly Pride Ranking competition ended. He entered the ninth-place battlefield intending to exploit its turtle-shell arena, but the competition began with Liu Zongbai challenging him.

• Wang Wu suspected that Lu Wuchen and other prison guards captured powerful beings to replenish the heavens' declining Spiritual Essence, and worried that Guardian Spirit Beasts such as Chen Damao and Pine Skin could be next.
• Wang Wu decided to escape before the Heavenly Pride Ranking competition ended and noticed that Yu Jinyan had appeared among the competitors.
• The contestants followed the violet-gold banner to a gigantic turtle shell, where the ranking battles would take place behind separate curtains.
• Wang Wu entered the ninth-place battlefield and discovered that its First Rank turtle shell was weak enough for him to bore through.
• Liu Zongbai defeated Lu Yishu and immediately challenged Wang Wu for ninth place, prompting the ranking's rules to be announced.

On the Heavenly Pride Ranking battlefield, Wang Wu impersonated Yue Shan and faced Liu Zongbai, while a hidden alliance launched its long-planned jailbreak in the North Sea. The Snake Emperor and his allies attacked as the chapter ended with Liu Zongbai unleashing a sea of sword light at Wang Wu.

• Madam Lu and Grandpa Huang watched Liu Zongbai defeat Lu Yishu and discussed whether Yue Shan should concede against him.
• Lu Wuchen, Liu Wujiu, and Shen Wusheng watched the ranking battle while preparing to face the Snake Emperor, and Lu Wuchen realized Yue Shan was actually Xiong Wu.
• Yue Shan asked to concede, but Lu Wuchen sensed danger and warned the others that the Snake Emperor was about to break through.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Demon killed Liu Wujiu, Shen Wusheng, and more than a million elite human cultivators with a sweeping sword strike.
• Snake Nineteen revealed herself as the Snake Emperor's fourth daughter, and the Snake Emperor, a Nine-tailed White Fox, and their allies began their jailbreak.
• Liu Zongbai demanded Yue Shan's Purple Flag Fragment, then attacked Wang Wu with countless streaks of sword light when Wang Wu could not produce it.

Wang Wu fought Liu Zongbai inside the Curtain Battlefield, overcoming the Exquisite Pagoda’s suppression and turning Liu Zongbai’s charged sword strike against him. He left Liu Zongbai dead and kept the Storage Pouch, while the lack of a response from above the pagoda remained unexplained.

• Liu Zongbai discovered Wang Wu was a Half-Demon and attacked him with a Heavenly Sixth-grade Destined Flying Sword.
• Wang Wu used Danger Sense, Ancient Bear Form, and Pure Spirit Platform Energy to catch the sword and destroy the Curtain Battlefield with his Destined Demonic Weapons.
• Liu Zongbai trapped Wang Wu inside the Exquisite Pagoda, suppressed his abilities with divine talismans, and tried to call for help from his Duty Uncle-Master.
• Wang Wu neutralized the talismans with Bear Fur, resisted the pagoda’s suppression, and stacked Ice-Fire Shields while charging his weapons as Liu Zongbai prepared a powerful sword strike.
• Wang Wu escaped beneath a turtle shell and launched hundreds of basic attacks while Liu Zongbai’s sword was committed to its charge.
• Wang Wu’s barrage stripped away Liu Zongbai’s defenses and killed him, leaving only the Storage Pouch behind.

Snake Emperor and the other leaders launched a massive prison break, and Wang Wu escaped through the opening into the outside world. After leaving, he destroyed Liu Zongbai’s soul fragments to avoid being tracked and continued onward.

• Lu Wuchen resisted Lu Ji’s attempt to take control of him, maiming himself to stay awake and witness the prison break.
• Snake Emperor, Stone Demon, Grandpa Tree, and Nine-Tailed Emperor led demons and Human cultivators in a united assault that shattered the prison’s outer barrier, while the Heavenly Pride Ranking faltered.
• A powerful attacker seized the damaged purple-gold banner and slaughtered several top contenders, while Wang Wu hid and avoided confronting them.
• Wang Wu reached the shrinking fissure, saw Snake Emperor hold it open, and escaped into the outside world through the Great Desolation Sin Prison.
• Wang Wu rejected the chance to absorb Liu Zongbai’s Divine Soul fragments, burned them away with Pale Fire, and continued on his way.

After escaping the Great Desolation Sin Prison, Wang Wu found a world with scarce spiritual energy and no cultivators nearby, then assessed the dangers facing the escapees. He hid deep underground in a heavily concealed shelter and prepared to inspect Liu Zongbai's Storage Pouch.

• Wang Wu and the four stinkers deduced that the outside world had little spiritual energy, powerful cultivators, and likely no daily Spiritual Essence for escaped prisoners.
• Wang Wu decided to hide, traveled three thousand li through the mountains, and found more than a thousand escapees gathering information in a mortal town.
• Wang Wu descended thirty thousand meters underground and built a small shelter from profound iron, then strengthened his concealment and Danger Sense.
• Wang Wu sensed a brief chill that suggested someone with a similar bloodline had stronger Danger Sense, but he waited and felt no further danger.
• Wang Wu took out Liu Zongbai's high-quality Storage Pouch, which could determine how well he would fare in the outside world.

Wang Wu dismantled Liu Zongbai’s trapped storage pouch and discovered its treasures, including vast spiritual energy resources and cultivation materials that confirmed outsiders were draining the Great Desolation Sin Prison. He concluded that breaking out of prison was the right choice, while the outside world might prove dangerous for most escapees.

• Wang Wu neutralized the pouch’s Pale Fire, Evil Wind, and Yang Thunder traps, then opened it and found an enormous storage space.
• Wang Wu discovered Refined Mysterious Iron and 637 spirit stones, and Grandpa Tree Information Database explained that outside cultivators were stealing the prison’s spiritual energy resources.
• Wang Wu found a dragon-scale copy of the Five Aggregates Heaven Mending Art, eighteen jade slips containing diaries, maps, pill formulas, and Dao arts, plus divine talismans and thousands of Spirit Plant Seedlings.
• Wang Wu identified Madam Lu’s Forget Each Other in the Jianghu Divine Talismans and decided that the outside Cultivation World was not as impressive as he had imagined.
• Wang Wu concluded that outsiders’ resource harvesting threatened the Great Desolation Sin Prison and that breaking out of prison had been the right choice.

Wang Wu reviewed his supplies and explained how his inner and outer circulations formed Pure Spirit Platform Energy, which he understood as the guiding principle of his cultivation. The appraisal revealed that he had cultivated Divine Sense and begun developing a ninth-rank Divine Soul, while warning him about the risks of damaging or projecting it.

• Wang Wu confirmed that his newly acquired Storage Pouch contained no tracking artifact and decided to keep it.
• Wang Wu counted his spirit liquid and other supplies, then postponed bonding with the Iron Essence cub until after upgrading his Demon Cores.
• Wang Wu described how his qi-and-blood and ice-fire spiritual-energy circulations worked together through the Five Aggregates Spirit Array.
• Wang Wu defined Pure Spirit Platform Energy as a force that warded off evil and kept his cultivation aligned with his Humble Dao.
• The appraisal reported that Wang Wu had cultivated Divine Sense and was progressing toward a ninth-rank Divine Soul, and it explained their abilities and risks.

Wang Wu spent eleven years and eighty mouthfuls of spirit liquid upgrading his three Dominant Body Demon Cores into Ruyi Demon Cores, earning the Great Wilderness Third accomplishment. After considering the Four Clowns’ advice, he decided to inscribe Passive Concealment on one blank core and leave Danger Sense off the others.

• Wang Wu used the Heart of the Earth to restrain his three fifth-rank Dominant Body Demon Cores while he slowly improved their quality with spirit liquid.
• After five years of cultivation and another five years of work, Wang Wu upgraded the three cores into Ruyi Demon Cores, then recovered from the dangerous upheaval in one year.
• The Four Clowns congratulated Wang Wu on cultivating five fifth-rank Ruyi Demon Cores and achieving the Great Wilderness Third accomplishment, which made him the third known person to do so.
• Wang Wu asked the Four Clowns how to inscribe his three blank Ruyi Demon Cores, and the Attribute Panel explained that Divine Sense aided combat more than danger prediction.
• Wang Wu concluded that Passive Concealment and Danger Sense mattered less at his current stage, and planned to inscribe Passive Concealment on one core while leaving the others blank.

Wang Wu raised his Hegemon Body Divine Ability to level 11 by spending 60% of his Bloodline Evolution, then bonded with and painstakingly nurtured a Companion Iron Essence to Seventh Rank. After nearly fifteen years underground, he returned to the surface and discovered escaped demons and human cultivators fighting among mortal armies.

• Wang Wu inscribed Hegemon Body onto two Ruyi Demon Cores and used blood and qi to overcome his bloodline limit, unlocking its level 11 form at great cost.
• The appraisals revealed that level 11 Hegemon Body lasted three seconds, resisted powerful interruption and immobilization arts, and consumed 100,000 vitality or blood and qi per use.
• Wang Wu spent twenty-four days coaxing the Companion Iron Essence from its box, then bonded with it and fed it for three years until it reached Seventh Rank.
• Wang Wu used up much of his spirit liquid and darksteel raising the Iron Essence, leaving only 255 mouthfuls of spirit liquid and forcing him to seek a way to earn spirit stones.
• Wang Wu dismantled his underground shelter and returned to the surface, where he found two mortal armies fighting with escaped Demon Race members and human cultivators among their ranks.

Wang Wu investigated a battlefield and discovered that escaped prisoners were being lured into a deadly trap by powerful demons disguised as soldiers. After fleeing underground, he cautiously began reading Liu Zongbai’s diary and found the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance’s collective diary practice suspicious.

• Wang Wu sent a crude External Incarnation toward a battlefield, where patrol demons captured it in a sack after explaining that escaped prisoners had to atone for their crimes.
• The patrol demons sensed Wang Wu watching and unleashed a Heavenly Sixth-grade sword formation that erased the battlefield, city, and surrounding mountains, revealing the entire scene had been an illusion.
• Wang Wu escaped underground, hid in his Darksteel Hut, and decided to study Liu Zongbai’s diary and a compendium of Daoist arts before venturing out again.
• After waiting seven or eight days, Wang Wu carefully deciphered Liu Zongbai’s diary and learned that Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance disciples were encouraged to record their daily thoughts and experiences.
• Wang Wu suspected the Alliance’s collective diary practice was a trap and refused to read the jade slips directly with his Divine Sense.

Wang Wu studied Liu Zongbai’s diary about a mission that turned him toward formation mastery, then used the Four Craftsmen’s analysis to infer how the outside world differed from the Great Desolation Sin Prison. The chapter ended with the group recommending that they keep gathering information.

• Liu Zongbai recorded taking an Earth-grade mission with a friend, discovering Nightshade Grass, and traveling to his hometown in the Gray Mist Zone.
• Liu Zongbai described the deacon disciples exploiting mortal women for resources and joining the hunt for a Sinister Demon.
• Liu Zongbai’s team found more than a hundred Sixth-grade Sinister Demons, survived the battle with formation support, and received only half a percent of the reward from his friend.
• Liu Zongbai decided to pursue formation mastery rather than become an all-round cultivator.
• Wang Wu asked the Four Craftsmen to analyze the diary, and they drew conclusions about the outside world’s eras, Immortal Alliances, cultivation specialization, mist zones, and widespread formations.

Wang Wu destroyed Liu Zongbai’s records and confirmed that they had enabled a group of spiritual energy thieves to track him. After reaching a river, he reconnected with old companions and learned that many were alive, while Five Poisons revealed an unexpected family connection.

• Wang Wu burned Liu Zongbai’s jade slips and dragon scale, then tested his concealment and found that the spiritual energy thieves could no longer track him.
• Wang Wu followed a sudden intuition to a river, where the Snake Guard Mark connected him to A Qing.
• A Qing told Wang Wu that she was the Snake Emperor’s granddaughter, and Five Poisons warned that the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance had sealed the border.
• The Snow Wolf General told Wang Wu that she and several former companions had escaped petrification and were alive, and she revealed that Snake Nineteen was alive as the Snake Emperor’s fourth daughter.
• Five Poisons explained that his father was Lu Wuchen and his mother was the Snake Emperor’s second daughter, making him Wang Wu’s granduncle.

Wang Wu learned that his escaped allies had survived under the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance, then spent ten years in the Gray Mist Zone searching for a way into the cultivator world. He entered a hidden gateway disguised as a fish and found himself ordered to cultivate for ten years or be eaten.

• Five Poisons, Yue Shan, and Snake Nineteen contacted Wang Wu through the Snake Guard Mark, explained their lives in the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance, and urged him to stay alive before the connection was destroyed.
• Wang Wu explored the ordinary human settlements along the river, concluded that the region was the Gray Mist Zone, and waited there for cultivators to arrive.
• After ten years, Wang Wu watched officials select two youths for a mysterious journey, but lost sight of them when they vanished near a mountain.
• Wang Wu noticed ten-year-old fish swimming upstream, transformed himself into a fish, and followed them through a hidden underwater gateway into an area with stronger spiritual energy.
• Yu Ermu, a naval commandant under the West River Great King, ordered the fish to cultivate for ten years to qualify as River Patrol Demons or be eaten.

Wang Wu entered the West River Navy Camp selection and discovered that its Dao arts drew power through a Spirit Network. After Yu Ermu chose him as a White Feather River Patrol Guard, the group reached a stretch of river guarded by monkeys and laden with Ninth-grade Spirit Fruits.

• Wang Wu followed Yu Ermu downstream through the Spirit Mist Zone as the fish selection eliminated those unable to keep pace.
• Yu Ermu rang a bell that awakened the fish’s intelligence, then gave Wang Wu and other promising fish White Feather flags.
• Yu Ermu taught the Wave Rider Dao art, and Wang Wu realized its mantra connected practitioners to a Spirit Network that supplied spiritual energy.
• Wang Wu practiced Wave Rider, leaping more than twenty zhang while keeping his progress among the top twenty.
• Yu Ermu named the flagged fish his White Feather River Patrol Guards and led them to cliffs where monkeys guarded Ninth-grade Spirit Fruits.
• Yu Ermu urged the guards to jump for the fruits.

Wang Wu used the Spiritual Fruit training to establish himself as an unusually capable but plausible big fish, then joined Yu Ermu’s White Feather Guards. Yu Ermu led the group to learn the Ride the Wind Dao Method, leaving Wang Wu to practice his next step toward a legitimate identity.

• Wang Wu drew the monkeys’ attention by evading their vine lassos, knocking Spiritual Fruits from the bridge, and rallying the big fish to collect them.
• Wang Wu distributed the fallen fruits among the fish and observed their growth so he could gauge how much talent to display.
• Wang Wu returned to the West River Navy Camp, where Yu Ermu said nothing about taking him to the West River Great King.
• After a night of cultivation, Wang Wu joined Yu Ermu’s White Feather Guards for more training, while Yu Ermu seemed preoccupied.
• Yu Ermu led the guards past the monkeys’ bridge and demonstrated the Ride the Wind Dao Method, instructing them to practice until they could fly a hundred zhang.

Wang Wu mastered the Ride the Wind Dao Method, deciphered its true incantation, and found insights that could greatly improve his Demon Wind Divine Ability. He then led the big carp through Yu Ermu’s second trial, helping all 112 cross a dangerous waterfall and leaving them safely beyond it with some Purple Diamond Grass.

• Wang Wu practiced linking Wave Rider with Ride the Wind and used the Spirit Network to reverse-engineer the Dao Method’s true essence.
• By the end of the morning, Wang Wu could fly more than a hundred zhang and had formed plans to optimize his Demon Wind Divine Ability.
• Yu Ermu led Wang Wu and the big carp to a dangerous waterfall guarded by hundreds of taunting crabs carrying Purple Diamond Grass.
• Wang Wu smashed through a crab’s ice wall, struck the leading Big Crab, and used the opening to fly over the waterfall with Purple Diamond Grass in his mouth.
• The other big carp followed Wang Wu’s example and crossed the waterfall, and all 112 cleared the trial without injury.

Wang Wu trained with the carp for a Dragon Gate challenge while learning about the West River Great King’s ambitions and the rival Mount Master Muyang. When Big Crab unleashed dragon might to test the carp, Wang Wu pretended to falter, then tried again and maneuvered back into the air, keeping his real intentions hidden.

• Wang Wu fed the big carp Purple Diamond Grass, and their physical abilities surged as they trained for the upstream leap.
• Wang Wu overheard Yu Ermu, Big Monkey, and Big Crab discuss the West River Great King’s plan to cross the Dragon Gate for True Dragon Ancient Blood and the possible territories under Mount Master Muyang.
• Wang Wu spent the next few days practicing Wave Rider and Ride the Wind until the carp were ready to attempt the waterfall.
• As Wang Wu began his leap, Big Crab activated a bone mark that released dragon might, and Wang Wu pretended to be terrified and fell.
• Wang Wu tried again, feigned another struggle against the dragon might, and used the current and Wave Rider to soar upward once more.