Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu explored a demon territory, rejected plans to raid human lands, and met a mysterious demon who gave him precious Sea God Spirit Wine. After the wine greatly enhanced his abilities, Wang Wu learned the stranger wanted him to contact Yu Jinyan about obtaining Water Essence Spirit Pills.

• Wang Wu saw human families living and working in a demon village, then learned from his maid that the demons kept captured humans as laborers and raided human lands for Half-Demon soldiers and Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu told the maid that Leopard Big Foot, Wolf Second Egg, and Eagle Three Hairs could leave his service without penalty, and he refused to join raids because he planned to enter seclusion.
• Wang Wu left the maid and wandered through a market, where a disguised stranger found him and said the banquet was discussing an alliance to seize Wu Shui City.
• The stranger shared fifth-grade Sea God Spirit Wine with Wang Wu, whose attributes and divine art talents rose temporarily and whose Demon King-grade resistance increased permanently.
• Wang Wu tried to make the stranger his foster father to get more wine, but the stranger instead asked him to visit Yu Jinyan and try to buy Water Essence Spirit Pills for improving Sea God Spirit Wine.

Wang Wu discussed Water Essence Spirit Pills and the planned attack on Wu Shui City with the Left Demon Emperor’s brother, learning about the Three Calamities and the Snake Emperor’s orders. He tried to avoid joining the battle so he could enter seclusion, then claimed Yu Jinyan was his sister-in-law to explain his pills.

• Wang Wu promised to seek Water Essence Spirit Pills through Yu Jinyan and questioned why demons kept launching costly raids on Wu Shui City.
• The man explained that the raids supplied resources and battle experience, and that the Snake Emperor’s Super First-Rank strength deterred the human race.
• The man revealed that heavenly tribulation consisted of Yang Thunder, Yin Fire, and Evil Wind, and that Sea God Spirit Wine eased the Evil Wind Bone Plague.
• Wang Wu offered the man ten Seventh-Rank Water Essence Spirit Pills and asked him to excuse Wang Wu from the attack so he could enter seclusion.
• The man said the Snake Emperor had ordered attacks on Wu Shui City and Mountain Sea City and had provided two dragon scales that could raise demons to Super First-Rank.
• When pressed about his supply of pills, Wang Wu claimed he and Yu Jinyan were mutually in love, then swore she was his sister-in-law.

Wang Wu spent a year in seclusion completing key units of the Five Aggregates Spirit Array while the demon army departed for Wu Shui City. When he emerged, he discovered the array had integrated his abilities and granted him precise control over his blood qi, concealment, and appearance.

• Wang Wu drank the three jars of Fifth-grade Sea God Spirit Wine, maxed out his Demon King Level Toxin Resistance, and completed five crucial matrix units in a month.
• Wang Wu continued cultivating in seclusion for a year and completed seventeen more matrix units, bringing the Five Aggregates Spirit Array to one-fifth completion.
• Wang Wu discovered that the Left Demon Emperor's army had departed ten days earlier for Wu Shui City with five Demon Emperors and ten million troops, while Princess Lark and his little maid had joined them.
• Wang Wu planned to help Ape Bupuo and the others overcome their trauma, then noticed that his demon wind had become faint and examined the changes in his blood qi.
• Wang Wu realized the matrix units had integrated his abilities, accelerated his blood qi circulation, and let him adjust his presence and transform into other demons.

Wang Wu tricked Ape Bupuo and the other demons into taking over Xiong Wu’s territory, using a fabricated message to draw them out of their grief and give them a role. After they agreed to guard the territory, Wang Wu approached Bear Sixteen about helping him cultivate a third demon core, and Bear Sixteen offered to support Ape Bupuo instead.

• Wang Wu disguised himself as a hunter, provoked Old Pig into a fight, and claimed he had come to inspect the territory for Xiong Wu.
• Wang Wu fabricated a story about Steward Cherry appointing Ape Bupuo as steward, prompting Bear Sixteen and the others to question him.
• Under pressure from Ape Bupuo, Wang Wu admitted he had been trying to skim spiritual energy and claimed a captain named Frog Bupuo had arranged the deception.
• Old Ox, Old Pig, Niu Xiaocao, and Ape Bupuo decided to help Xiong Wu by guarding the territory rather than rushing to the front lines.
• Ape Bupuo and the others verified the Mountain Patrolling Seal and took over management of the territory.
• Wang Wu privately asked Bear Sixteen to help him cultivate a third demon core, and Bear Sixteen agreed to support Ape Bupuo instead of seeking the benefit for itself.

Wang Wu used his Companion Demonic Vine to alter Bear Sixteen and improve the bloodline potential of his allies, then disguised himself as a messenger to deliver orders that would prepare his fief for the future. He returned to secluded cultivation after instructing them to train, conserve no excess spiritual energy, and raise three thousand servant demons.

• Wang Wu petrified Bear Sixteen with his third-grade Companion Demonic Vine, examined its bloodline, and used his maxed-out toxin resistance to raise its projected Bloodline Evolution to 49%.
• Wang Wu warned Bear Sixteen not to rely on Five Poisons, then secretly operated on Ape Bupuo, Wolf Bu'er, Old Ox, Old Pig, and Niu Xiaocao to improve their bloodline potential and demon-core prospects.
• Wang Wu left his fief, learned the proper messenger signals in Xuanwu King City, and disguised himself as a lesser demon carrying a royal command flag.
• Wang Wu delivered a recorded order from King Bear Wu telling Ape Bupuo, Old Ox, and Old Pig to cultivate for the front lines, use surplus spiritual energy freely, heed Bear Sixteen's cultivation advice, and train three thousand servant lesser demons.
• Wang Wu left the fief and returned to his rocky hideaway to continue secluded cultivation.

Wang Wu learned that the demon alliance had captured Wu Shui City, renamed it Dragon Snake City, and suffered devastating losses. Princess Lark returned to appoint him Grand General of Xuanwu King City and asked him to marry her so he could help stabilize the rear while her injured father recovered.

• Over two years, Wang Wu enhanced the bloodlines of three thousand demon soldiers and helped Bear Sixteen, Ape Bupuo, Old Ox, Old Pig, and Niu Xiaocao advance their cultivation, while Wolf Bu'er made no progress.
• Wang Wu received news that the allied forces had captured Wu Shui City, killed three million humans, taken two million prisoners, and renamed the city Dragon Snake City.
• As South Sea Sea Monsters migrated toward Dragon Snake City, Wang Wu noticed that the Left Demon Emperor's Peacock Feather had darkened and realized the emperor's old injuries had worsened.
• Wang Wu agreed to marry Princess Lark after she told him her father would need a hundred years to recover and she needed help maintaining order in the Southern Wilderness.
• Princess Lark appointed Wang Wu Grand General of Xuanwu King City and explained that the war had cost her father's and her own legions, while she needed ten million more demons and most of the city's formation arrays for Dragon Snake City.

Wang Wu took charge of Xuanwu King City’s tax collection and began organizing a larger army while the Left Demon Emperor was injured and Princess Lark assumed authority. In seclusion, his array linked his innate and acquired powers, briefly clearing his mind and forming a strand of clear qi before he stopped the cycle to avoid triggering heavenly tribulation.

• Princess Lark told Wang Wu that the Right Demon Emperor had shirked during the siege of Wu Shui City and was now trying to arrange a marriage with its fifth son.
• Princess Lark appointed Wang Wu grand general guarding Xuanwu King City, entrusted him with its seals and command banners, and assigned him to collect taxes for the Left Demon Emperor.
• Wang Wu ordered Ape Bupuo to command an army expanded to thirty thousand and appointed Bear Sixteen and others to military roles, while warning them to take responsibility for their own futures.
• Wang Wu entered seclusion and advanced both his Ice and Fire Spirit Pills from Ninth Rank to Seventh Rank as his array formed matching sets of forty-two matrix units.
• The completed resonance briefly cleared Wang Wu’s mind and formed a strand of clear qi, but he severed the connection and stopped the great heavenly cycle to avoid heavenly tribulation.

Wang Wu concealed the secrets behind his rapid cultivation gains and resolved to avoid drawing the Heavenly Tribulation while preparing Bear Sixteen to become the Demon Emperor of the Southern Wilderness. After confronting Wolf Bu’er and watching Princess Lark move Xuanwu King City north, he arrived at the abandoned King City Tax Department, where the remaining demons greeted him as the Great General.

• Wang Wu’s Ice Fire Spirit Pill advanced to Seventh Rank, his Demon Cores advanced, and his attributes rose sharply, but he refused to share the mysterious information he had learned.
• Wang Wu concluded that a hidden restriction could provoke the Heavenly Tribulation, decided not to ascend or draw attention before mastering the Three Calamities, and planned to raise Bear Sixteen into his substitute.
• Wang Wu confronted Wolf Bu’er in Snow Wolf Valley and urged it to settle its relationship with Bear Sixteen so Bear Sixteen could overcome its past and become a Demon Emperor.
• Wang Wu watched Princess Lark and Old Turtle oversee the relocation of Xuanwu King City, along with thirty million demons, northward.
• After the fleet departed, Wang Wu entered the King City Tax Department, where four Third-grade Great Demons and the gathered demons bowed and greeted him as the Great General.

Wang Wu confronted the King City Tax Department and learned that the Southern Wilderness Nine Clans opposed Princess Lark’s relocation and the collection of spiritual essence taxes. After using a Blood Qi Divine Talisman to restrain Swallow True Person, he declared Xuanwu King City under his command and gave the clans until sunset to offer counsel before taxes resumed.

• Wang Wu questioned the four bird-demon stewards and learned that General Ming Guang, the Left Demon Emperor’s son, had died in the battle for Wu Shui City.
• Wang Wu pressured Crow True Person into revealing that the Nine Clans opposed Princess Lark’s relocation and had decided to restructure the King City Tax Department.
• Crane True Person argued that the Nine Clans would no longer pay taxes shipped to Dragon Snake City, while Swallow True Person accused Xiong Wu of being Princess Lark’s pawn.
• Wang Wu formed a Blood Qi Divine Talisman and fixed Swallow True Person’s blood qi, Demon Cores, and life in place.
• Wang Wu announced that Xuanwu King City was under his command and warned that taxes would be collected the next day, with any resistance punished by death.

Wang Wu pressed the Southern Wilderness bird clans to pay taxes, but learned that the Nine Clans threatened anyone who paid first. After promising General Iron Waist’s widows that they could pay later, Wang Wu unleashed his full demon wind and set out to confront the clans.

• Yan Feichen arrived, failed to break Wang Wu’s Blood Qi Divine Talisman, and promised the Swallow Tribe would pay its forest fief taxes before taking Swallow True Person away.
• Crane True Person offered a reduced tax rate on behalf of the Southern Wilderness Nine Clans, but Wang Wu refused and insisted the clans either pay taxes or serve on the front lines.
• Crow True Person told Wang Wu that the Nine Clans were avian clans led by the Peacock Clan and that their refusal to pay had encouraged the other clans to follow suit.
• Wang Wu used the King City Great Seal to collect spiritual essence and headed toward General Iron Waist’s neighboring fief.
• General Iron Waist’s widows explained that the Nine Clans had threatened to isolate anyone who paid taxes first, so Wang Wu postponed their payment and promised to deal with the clans.
• Wang Wu transformed into a vast, blood-qi-filled demon wind and headed out to confront the Southern Wilderness Nine Clans.

Wang Wu fought the Southern Wilderness Nine Clans’ forces and annihilated the Crane Tribe after defeating its ultimate attack. He ordered the tribe’s territory confiscated and its surviving demon citizens sent to the Death Seekers Camp for three death battles.

• As twenty-five legions gathered to protect the Crane Tribe, Wang Wu vanished and ambushed Diao Zhi Mao, sealing his powers and killing him with one blow.
• He Qianqiu and tens of thousands of Crane Tribe demons unleashed White Crane Spreads Its Wings, concentrating their attack into a devastating feather blade.
• Wang Wu survived the feather blade by repeatedly activating Level 6 Golden Body and then shattered the attack.
• Wang Wu charged his Heavenly Sixth-grade Destined Demonic Weapon and wiped out the Crane Tribe’s elite forces, then killed He Qianqiu.
• The surviving feathered cranes surrendered, and Wang Wu confiscated the Crane Tribe’s territory and ordered its demon citizens sent to the Death Seekers Camp for three death battles.

Wang Wu restored tax collection, assigned Bear Sixteen to serve as Xiong Wu’s stand-in under the Companion Demonic Vine’s watch, and focused on tempering his Destined Demonic Weapon. The chapter left him considering an offer from Kong Zhen, Ya Bufan, and Yan Feichen: a secret realm once used by the Peacock Emperor to temper a Heavenly Fifth-grade Destined Demonic Weapon.

• Wang Wu reinstated tax collection in Xuanwu King City, waived most taxes, and ordered monthly deliveries of spiritual energy to Dragon Snake City.
• Wang Wu put Ape Bupuo in charge of the Crane Tribe’s Death Seekers Camp and left Bear Sixteen in the Crane Tribe’s fief to cultivate as Xiong Wu’s stand-in, watched by the Companion Demonic Vine.
• The Companion Demonic Vine repeatedly whipped Bear Sixteen as it tried to negotiate, while Wang Wu reflected on hiding from the Immortal Alliance and strengthening himself.
• Wang Wu used black iron to temper his Heavenly Sixth-grade Destined Demonic Weapon, accidentally destroying vegetation and shortening a mountain with its Spirit Gold Qi.
• Crow True Person brought Kong Zhen, Ya Bufan, and Yan Feichen’s offer to present Wang Wu with the secret realm the Peacock Emperor had used to temper a Heavenly Fifth-grade Destined Demonic Weapon.

Wang Wu entered the Peacock Emperor’s Blackiron Secret Realm to temper his Destined Demonic Weapon, only to discover that the Peacock Emperor’s demon soul still lingered there. He learned the realm’s blackiron would unleash a dangerous surge of Spirit Gold Qi and that he might be trapped until it was exhausted.

• Kong Zhen told Wang Wu that the Peacock Emperor’s secret realm could temper a Destined Demonic Weapon, and Wang Wu agreed to enter it.
• Kong Zhen opened the mechanisms beneath the King City Tax Department, and Wang Wu used the King City Great Seal to activate a teleportation array.
• Wang Wu arrived in a vast cave filled with Spirit Gold Qi-saturated blackiron blocks, and the teleportation array beneath him went dark.
• The Peacock Emperor’s demon soul revealed itself and recognized the Soul Jade Wang Wu carried as one forged for Xiong Pi.
• The Peacock Emperor explained that the Soul Jade held twelve muddled demon souls that had become Soul Worms and warned Wang Wu about Great Illusion King Worms.
• The Peacock Emperor warned Wang Wu that activating any of the 18,964 blackiron blocks would trigger them all and leave him trapped until their Spirit Gold Qi was depleted.

Wang Wu tempered his forepaws with the cavern’s Spirit Gold Qi while the Peacock Emperor warned him that advancing a Destined Demonic Weapon to Heavenly Fifth-grade could bring heavenly tribulation. Wang Wu learned of the Snake Emperor’s possible influence over his bloodline and remained trapped in the cavern, with his left forepaw tempered to Heavenly Sixth-grade but his right unable to advance.

• Wang Wu built a mystic iron hut and used it to shelter from the Spirit Gold sword qi filling the cavern as he tempered both forepaws.
• The Peacock Emperor warned Wang Wu that Heavenly Fifth-grade weapons attracted heavenly tribulation and recounted how Yin Fire had consumed his remaining lifespan.
• Wang Wu told the Peacock Emperor that the Left Demon Emperor had captured Wu Shui City, and the Peacock Emperor said the Snake Emperor’s orders had led Xiong Pi and others into disaster.
• The Peacock Emperor warned Wang Wu that the Snake Emperor might influence him through their shared bloodline, prompting Wang Wu to question his past premonitions and the Snake Emperor’s motives.
• Wang Wu resumed tempering after recovering, but despite consuming more spirit liquid, he only brought his left forepaw to Heavenly Sixth-grade and could not advance his right forepaw.

Wang Wu began tempering Lu Wuchen's unnamed disciple's Heavenly Ninth-grade Destined Flying Sword into a Natal Sword Artifact, exposing to the Peacock Emperor that he was human. He persisted despite the Peacock Emperor's furious abuse and warnings that he lacked enough resources to finish.

• Wang Wu pulled Lu Wuchen's unnamed disciple's Destined Flying Sword from the void and decided to temper it using the abundant Spirit Gold Qi.
• Wang Wu revealed his Seventh Rank Ice Spirit Pill and Fire Spirit Pill, prompting the Peacock Emperor to realize he was human and rage at the deception.
• Wang Wu spent three months tempering a black iron sword with his Ice Fire Spirit Pills, bringing the Natal Sword Artifact to Ninth-grade (200/1000).
• Wang Wu decided to keep working toward a Heavenly Ninth-grade sword and postpone worrying about events outside the secret realm.
• The Peacock Emperor calculated that Wang Wu lacked enough Ice Fire Spirit Energy to temper the sword and break the Fire Sword's blood-essence divine talisman, then threatened to seal the secret realm if Wang Wu escaped.

Wang Wu cultivated the highest-grade Ruyi Ice and Fire Spirit Pills, triggering major improvements and warnings about heavenly tribulation. The Peacock Emperor attacked him with Yin Fire, but Wang Wu survived, comprehended the Great Dao, and captured the last of the fire as his resistance surged.

• Wang Wu used his understanding of ice and fire spirit energy and the Five Aggregates Spirit Array to cultivate Ruyi Ice Spirit Pills and Ruyi Fire Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu’s status panel recorded increased bloodline evolution, lifespan, health, stamina, and base attributes, while warning that heavenly tribulation would descend if his thresholds were exceeded.
• The Peacock Emperor attacked Wang Wu with its skeletal frame and Yin Fire, then died as its Soul Jade was absorbed by Wang Wu’s Soul Jade.
• Wang Wu was burned down to five Demon Cores and two spirit pills, and he briefly comprehended the Great Dao as the innate and acquired systems were exposed.
• Wang Wu resisted the Yin Fire’s assault as it consumed 3,000 years of his lifespan, then drank spirit liquid and captured its final wisp after losing 3,100 years.
• Wang Wu’s Yin Fire Resistance rose to 4000/10000.

Wang Wu merged with the Peacock Emperor’s Soul Jade, learned that his former sudden intuition likely came from the Snake Emperor’s bloodline induction, and completed his Ice Sword as a Destined Flying Sword. He continued binding it to Yue Shan’s Fire Sword while reflecting on the Demon Race’s weakness in large-scale battles.

• Wang Wu merged with the Peacock Emperor’s Soul Jade, strengthening his demon soul and gaining four separate sources of information and appraisal.
• The Peacock Emperor identified Wang Wu’s former sudden intuition as likely caused by the Snake Emperor’s long-range bloodline induction, which Wang Wu believed he could now resist.
• Wang Wu finished tempering the Ice Sword, bound it to himself with a divine talisman, and made it a Destined Flying Sword.
• Wang Wu used the Ice Sword to overpower Yue Shan’s Fire Sword and began binding the two swords with the Ruyi Ice Fire Spirit Pill.
• Wang Wu learned the Fire Sword’s history and concluded Yue Shan would kill him to recover it, so he resolved to use Destined Flying Swords mainly for ambushes and assassinations.
• Wang Wu considered the Crane Tribe’s White Crane Spreads Its Wings technique and judged it difficult to use in large-scale battles because the Human race could interrupt its lengthy setup.

After spending more than six years in the cave secret realm, Wang Wu completed and tempered his Destined Ice-Fire Flying Sword before returning to the Southern Wilderness and checking on his forces. He learned that his substitute Bear Sixteen had maintained his public identity, while Ape Bupuo warned him that Five Poisons might be plotting against him through Bu Er’s wolf cubs.

• Wang Wu completed the fusion of the Fire Sword and Ice Sword, then tempered his Destined Ice-Fire Flying Sword to Heavenly Eighth-Rank before leaving the cave secret realm.
• Wang Wu emerged near Xuanwu King City, confirmed that the Southern Wilderness had remained peaceful, and learned that Bear Sixteen had been acting as his substitute in public.
• Wang Wu visited his fief and found that Ape Bupuo had built a formidable force from three thousand demonic soldiers and more than a hundred thousand Crane Tribe members.
• Wang Wu entrusted Ape Bupuo with plans for his future rise and revealed that Bear Sixteen was his substitute.
• Ape Bupuo reported that Five Poisons might be using Bu Er’s ten cubs to locate Wang Wu, and Wang Wu said he would deal with the threat.

Wang Wu checked on Bear Sixteen and the Companion Demonic Vine, praised their work, and told them to build their own strength as King Bear Wu and Tree Second. He left the Southern Wilderness for the Evil Wind Desert after realizing his high base attributes were drawing an approaching Heavenly Tribulation.

• Wang Wu found Bear Sixteen cultivating in the Spiritual Essence lake while the Companion Demonic Vine served as its physician and King Bear Wu double.
• Bear Sixteen and the Companion Demonic Vine discussed their plans and fears, and Wang Wu revealed himself, startling both of them.
• Wang Wu told Bear Sixteen to act as King Bear Wu and face his own risks, while he freed the Companion Demonic Vine and named it Tree Second.
• Bear Sixteen and the Companion Demonic Vine gave up their thoughts of escape after Wang Wu disappeared with the filled little cauldron.
• Wang Wu left for the Evil Wind Desert to grind Evil Wind Resistance and lower his base attributes before the Heavenly Tribulation arrived.

Wang Wu traveled to the Western Wilderness to endure the Evil Wind Bone Plague while evading the heavenly tribulation. After using Pale Fire to recover and reduce the cost of the plague, he discovered that a strand of his Bear Fur could be refined into a powerful bloodline treasure—or even another bear demon like himself.

• Wang Wu ignored the Snake Emperor's bloodline guidance to travel to the Eastern Wilderness and headed west instead.
• Wang Wu crossed the human-controlled Western Wilderness and reached the Evil Wind Desert while keeping his speed up to reduce the heavenly tribulation's pressure.
• Wang Wu contracted the Evil Wind Bone Plague, hid beneath the desert in a black-iron hut, and used Pale Fire to greatly lessen his pain.
• Wang Wu recovered from the plague after half a month and gained Evil Wind Resistance, though his lifespan and base attributes permanently decreased.
• Wang Wu plucked a strand of Bear Fur, which the databases appraised as a powerful bloodline treasure that could become an Innate Treasure or a bear demon identical to him.