Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu reached 20% Growth Rate and discovered that his attributes increased across the board. Believing Extra Growth Rate might unlock further evolution, he decided to seek Fire Resistance by challenging the weakened Flame Scorpion King, and ended the chapter engulfed in a fireball.

• Wang Wu watched Armed Wild Bees gather nectar, then rushed out at night and seized two Gray Rat corpses amid a scramble of valley Sprites.
• Wang Wu dreamed of defeating his enemies and falling from a cliff, then woke to find his Growth Rate had surpassed 20% and his basic attributes had risen.
• Wang Wu reasoned that Extra Growth Rate might help him surpass natural growth limits and activate Bloodline Evolution, and he decided to collect Fire Resistance from the Flame Scorpion King.
• Wang Wu climbed to a cliff ledge and took the Flame Scorpion King's weakened fireball head-on, bursting into flames and rolling down the cliff.

Wang Wu tested the weakened Flame Scorpion King’s fire and then waited for the valley’s golden feeding period, where Grasshopper Bandits appeared and fought the Wandering Mantis Swordsmen. He ambushed the flying grasshoppers as they left the cliff, earning their hostility before they finally withdrew.

• Wang Wu survived the Flame Scorpion King’s weakened fireball and concluded its spiritual energy was running low.
• Wang Wu watched the Gray Rat Knights and other Sprites gather for the golden period, then spotted more than a hundred Grasshopper Bandits.
• The Wandering Mantis Swordsmen attacked the Grasshopper Bandits on the cliff, but the grasshoppers killed them and lost only six of their own.
• Wang Wu pretended to struggle up the cliff until the Grasshopper Bandits took flight, then leaped up and knocked more than thirty of them to the ground.
• Wang Wu scavenged five fallen Grasshopper Bandits while the other Sprites seized the rest, and he knocked down another dozen when the survivors retaliated with dark green fluid.
• The remaining Grasshopper Bandits flew away resentfully after their attack, leaving Wang Wu with a new grudge against them.

Wang Wu survived the Flame Scorpion King's revenge attack in his rock-crevice refuge, but realized he could not remain at the cliff. After recovering his Health Points, he planned to flee the valley under cover of darkness.

• Wang Wu ate the Grasshopper Bandits, gained Spiritual Qi, and spent 40 points to raise his Health Points from 110 to 130.
• A Giant Eagle circled the cliff, filling Wang Wu with fear before eventually flying away.
• The Flame Scorpion King returned and fired a fireball into Wang Wu's crevice, damaging him and igniting the enclosed space.
• Wang Wu entered Stealth and endured the flames while the Flame Scorpion King waited outside and sent two little scorpions to inspect the crevice.
• The Flame Scorpion King attacked the nearby White-Haired Rats' hill with nine fireballs, and Wang Wu stayed hidden.
• By dusk, Wang Wu had recovered his Health Points and gained Fire Resistance, then decided to flee the valley that night.

Wang Wu fled the Flame Scorpion King’s territory but was ambushed and frozen by the Wandering White-Browed Rat King. He survived the attack by eating the Mystic Ice to restore his health, while the rat king and its Gray Rat Knights could only watch.

• Wang Wu cautiously left the cliff and crept to a stream, relying on Stealth and Danger Sense to avoid the Flame Scorpion King.
• The Wandering White-Browed Rat King froze Wang Wu in the stream and struck him with ice spikes, but failed to kill him.
• Wang Wu recognized the rat king as another creature driven from its home by the Scorpion King and began eating the Mystic Ice around him.
• The exhausted rat king summoned twenty or thirty Gray Rat Knights, but they stayed back as Wang Wu healed himself by consuming the ice.

Wang Wu followed the creek upstream, discovered vast Sprite legions gathering near the Black Centipede’s hill, and noticed a new flag above the Flame Scorpion King. He suspected a Great Demon was recruiting troops and watched as the Gray Rat Knights and Mantis Swordsman Legion headed toward the Scorpion King’s cliff.

• The white-haired rat fled with twenty or thirty Gray Rat Knights, and Wang Wu ate the mystic ice, gaining Satiety and Spiritual Qi before raising his Danger Sense to Level 4.
• Wang Wu followed the creek upstream past the buried Berry Plains and hid in the grass near the low hill where a Black Centipede lived.
• At dawn, Wang Wu watched large Sprite legions, including thousands of Black Ants and hundreds of Mantis Swordsmen, travel in disciplined processions toward the hill.
• Wang Wu spotted a new flag on the boulder above the Flame Scorpion King and suspected a Great Demon was recruiting for a conflict between factions.
• The white-haired rat returned with dozens of Gray Rat Knights, and the Mantis Swordsman Legion followed them toward the Scorpion King’s cliff.

Wang Wu witnessed the Scorpion King, White-Haired Rat, and Mantis Swordsman leaders gathering around a Bearhide Banner that greatly enhanced their Spiritual Qi. He fled upstream, only to see two Giant Eagles fight over another flag, leaving him fearing a war between Great Demon forces would engulf the valley.

• The White-Haired Rat, Gray Rat Knights, and Mantis Swordsman Legion gathered at the cliff, where the Scorpion King allowed their leaders to approach the flag.
• When Violet Gold Three Minutes began, Wang Wu recognized the flag as Ancient Giant Bear hide, whose power drew Golden Particles and strengthened the Scorpion King and the gathered armies.
• Wang Wu absorbed Spiritual Qi from the sun, then escaped upstream and spent 20 Spiritual Qi to raise his Danger Sense talent to Level 5.
• A Brown Giant Eagle left a flag on a distant peak, then fought the Black Giant Eagle in a fierce aerial battle before both flew away injured.
• Wang Wu realized that a war between the forces of two Great Demons might break out in the valley and worried about what to do.

Wang Wu tried to avoid joining the war between the Great Demons, but an Armed Bee Swarm stung him and left him paralyzed. A colony of Black Widow spiders carried him to their tree and injected him with toxin, while the bee venom in his body began interacting with his other resistances in an unknown way.

• Wang Wu decided to seek a hiding place rather than join the Great Demons' war, but realized Sprites could be used to search the land thoroughly.
• An Armed Bee Swarm found Wang Wu in the grass and repeatedly stung him, leaving him paralyzed with stacked bee venom.
• Black Spiders found Wang Wu and carried him to their tree, where they hung him among other prey as food.
• A large Widow Spider injected Wang Wu with Spider Toxin, but his venom resistance and the bee venom already in his body began neutralizing the toxins and causing unknown changes.

Wang Wu survived the toxins and gained substantial attributes and Spiritual Qi, only to be poisoned unconscious again by the widow spider. Meanwhile, a Silver Fox and a gray weasel registered the region’s Sprites, revealing that the expected war had not begun.

• Wang Wu woke after being poisoned and discovered that he had gained toxin resistance, restored Health Points, Satiety, Spiritual Qi, and Growth Rate from the toxins and Royal Jelly.
• Wang Wu absorbed Golden Particles during Violet Gold Three Minutes and spent Spiritual Qi to raise his Defense and Health Points.
• The widow spider injected Wang Wu with more Spider Toxin, knocking him unconscious again.
• A Brown Giant Eagle brought a Silver Fox to register the Sprites around the low mountain, marking powerful leaders with blood seals and recording weaker groups.
• The Silver Fox inspected the Black Spider Clan and ignored Wang Wu among the hanging prey, then departed with the eagle.
• A Brown Giant Eagle and a gray weasel conducted similar registrations downstream, and the Silver Fox greeted the weasel amicably.

Wang Wu escaped the Black Spider Clan’s web during the Golden Three Minutes and stole a slab of Spider Daughter Red. After drinking it, he gained Satiety, Spiritual Qi, and Growth Rate, but became drunk and temporarily lost access to Level 5 Stealth.

• Wang Wu endured the night suspended in the Black Spider Clan’s web as his Spider Toxin Resistance rose to 4 points.
• The old widow spider injected Wang Wu with more Spider Toxin before climbing to the canopy for the sunrise blessing.
• Wang Wu raised his strength to 8 points and tore open his Spider Silk cage, alerting the Black Spiders.
• Wang Wu fell from the tree, lost 30 health points, then returned to grab a slab of cured meat when the Black Spiders did not pursue him.
• Wang Wu drank Spider Daughter Red and gained 300 Satiety, 10 Spiritual Qi, and increased Growth Rate, while becoming drunk for sixty minutes.

After Spider Daughter Red attracted a swarm of Green-headed Flies, Wang Wu escaped underwater and was rescued when Little Red Birds devoured the swarm. He returned for his abandoned wine jar, but the Black Spiders reclaimed it and used another Green-headed Fly to drive him away.

• Wang Wu raised his Health Points to 170, then a Green-headed Fly swarmed his Spider Silk wine jar and filled it with maggots.
• Wang Wu fled to a creek and submerged himself, but a swarm of Green-headed Flies kept attacking him because the wine scent lingered.
• More than a dozen Little Red Birds swooped down and ate the Green-headed Flies, allowing Wang Wu to emerge safely.
• Wang Wu returned for the wine jar but saw several Black Spiders dragging it back to their great tree.
• A Green-headed Fly chased Wang Wu away from the Black Spiders, then returned to the tree after he fled.

Wang Wu suspected an unseen tracker was following him and prepared to fight rather than keep changing hiding places. A storm revealed the tracker as the White-Browed Rat King, who froze him and struck him with a devastating ice attack, leaving him badly wounded.

• Wang Wu avoided three Armed Bee Swarms and remained unsettled by the feeling that someone was watching him.
• Wang Wu suspected the Black Spiders were tracking him and decided to hold his position and prepare for a fight at dusk.
• Wang Wu tried to flee during a violent rainstorm, but his Danger Sense warned him of an attack.
• The White-Haired Rat appeared, froze Wang Wu in a block of ice, and formed an ice spear from the rain.
• The White-Browed Rat King attacked Wang Wu with an Ice Spike Talisman and ice magic, inflicting 103 points of damage.

Wang Wu survived the White-Browed Rat King’s ice attack, killed and ate it, then hid from the Giant Eagles searching the valley. He remained in hiding as the eagles’ search continued, choosing caution over gathering food or Spiritual Qi.

• Wang Wu endured the White-Haired Rat’s barrage of ice spikes until it exhausted its mana, then killed it with one slap and ate it.
• Wang Wu gained ice resistance and Growth Rate from consuming the White-Browed Rat King, then spent 40 Spiritual Qi to raise his Health Points to 190.
• Wang Wu stayed hidden through the night and skipped the Sprites’ morning blessing, drinking from the creek and eating berries and plants instead.
• The Black Giant Eagle and Brown Giant Eagle searched the valley while Wang Wu hid in Level 5 Stealth, then returned the next morning to inspect the sunny slope.
• Wang Wu changed his feeding time to night and avoided ambushing Sprites, and after the eagles did not return on the third day, he continued hiding.

Wang Wu survived by foraging in the valley while planning a safer home for the coming winter. After surveying nearby Sprite territories, he chose a shady hillside and began secretly digging a hidden cave entrance.

• Wang Wu used Level 5 Danger Sense to reach the stream, satisfy his hunger, and search for Yellow Ginger and mushrooms.
• Wang Wu concluded that his exposed hiding place would not protect him in winter and began looking for a suitable cave site.
• Wang Wu surveyed the eastern valley and chose a low shady hillock away from the Flame Scorpion King, Black Centipede, Black Spider colony, and mountain cat.
• Wang Wu endured poisonous mushrooms and scarce food, building Plant Toxin Resistance to (3/10) and raising his Growth Rate to 30.4%.
• Wang Wu dug a concealed pit beneath a patch of grass, covered its entrance with branches and turf, and erased the traces before hiding until dawn.

As autumn turned to winter, Wang Wu prepared his underground cave for the cold while the valley’s Sprite leaders were gathered and led away by Giant Eagles. After confirming that Golden Particles still fell at sunrise through the snow, he stayed hidden to protect himself during his first winter.

• Wang Wu finished his cave, stocked and dried food, and stored Yellow Ginger as autumn grew colder.
• Wang Wu noticed that the valley’s Sprites, including the Flame Scorpion King, seemed anxious about winter.
• A black Giant Eagle and a brown Giant Eagle took away bearskin banners and led Sprite leaders from the valley, while similar gatherings took place across the region.
• After the first snowfall, Wang Wu’s Growth Rate reached 75.9%, and he checked his status and attributes.
• Wang Wu cautiously opened his hidden door at sunrise and confirmed that Golden Particles still fell, then chose to remain hidden until winter deepened.

Wang Wu ventured into a minus-fifty-five-degree blizzard to train his ice resistance, but the escalating Frostbite nearly killed him. After two days of painful recovery, his Level 5 Self-Healing Talent began healing his wounds, though most of his fur had fallen out.

• Wang Wu raised his Self-Healing Talent to Level 5, filled his Satiety, and prepared to leave his cave dwelling.
• Wang Wu endured the cold outside and learned that seven points of ice resistance negated Frostbite damage in still air, though the cold consumed Satiety faster.
• Wang Wu stood in a Cold Air Gale, where his Frostbite damage climbed each second and drove his Health Points below ten before he escaped to his cave.
• Wang Wu spent two days enduring severe pain, chilblains, and ulceration while his Self-Healing Talent consumed food to keep him alive.
• Wang Wu ate again on the third day, and his Health Points and ulcerated chilblains began to recover as most of his fur remained lost.

Wang Wu braved the severe Cold Air Gale to raise his ice resistance, suffering serious frostbite before recovering. After healing, he reached perfect ice resistance and gained increased growth rates.

• Wang Wu recovered from his previous frostbite and decided to risk another exposure to raise his ice resistance from 9 points to 10.
• As Wang Wu prepared to face the Cold Air Gale, a distant avalanche-like roar terrified him, and he retreated into his cave dwelling for several days.
• Wang Wu finally stepped into the gale, but it inflicted severe frostbite and left him unable to move after six seconds.
• Wang Wu returned to his cave, ate dried grasshopper meat to replenish Satiety, and endured nearly two days of frostbite pain while his body healed.
• Wang Wu's ice resistance reached perfection at 10/10, and he gained 10% Growth Rate and 10% Special Growth Rate.

After perfecting his ice resistance, Wang Wu tested how long he could endure the Cold Air Gale and discovered that its cold energy lingered inside him without reducing his Health Points. Repeated exposure and painful self-impact eventually let him tame a trace of Ice Spirit Energy and begin cultivating the Beginner Ice Spirit Root.

• Wang Wu recovered in his cave dwelling, then tested his improved ice resistance by enduring the Cold Air Gale for ten seconds.
• He found that the invading cold air caused stabbing pain but did not reduce his Health Points, and it faded after he rested.
• Wang Wu repeatedly endured the gale for longer stretches, suffering increasing pain while the cold energy eventually dissipated each time.
• After nearly 500 seconds of accumulated exposure, Wang Wu slammed himself against the tunnel walls and discovered that impacts helped guide the cold energy through his body.
• Wang Wu received notifications that he had tamed a trace of Ice Spirit Energy, opened a branch meridian, and begun cultivating the Beginner Ice Spirit Root at 1/10 progress.

After discovering that he could cultivate Ice Spirit Energy, Wang Wu endured the Cold Air Gale to gather more and compared acquired cultivation with innate Bloodline Talent. He developed Bear Mountain Lean as a way to release Ice Spirit Energy and left the chapter eager to refine the new attack.

• Wang Wu realized the Cold Air Gale would soon disappear and hurried to cultivate Ice Spirit Energy while it lasted.
• Wang Wu gathered cold air into his branch meridian by enduring the gale and colliding with the tunnel walls, harvesting a small amount of Ice Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu compared acquired cultivation with innate Bloodline Talent and concluded that he would pursue both paths while keeping a low profile.
• Wang Wu studied the White-Haired Rat’s ice attacks and reasoned that his own Ice Spirit Energy should be released through natural attack movements.
• Wang Wu tested Bear Mountain Right Lean and successfully released his stored Ice Spirit Energy, coating the tunnel wall in ice.

Wang Wu spent the winter absorbing Ice Spirit Energy until his food ran out, then watched Gray Rat Knights and Little Red Birds cooperate near his cave. The birds dragged a hibernating serpent from beneath the snow, leaving Wang Wu to realize the clans were joining forces to hunt one another.

• Wang Wu developed three attack techniques called the Bear Bear Three Methods, but set them aside to focus on absorbing Ice Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu rationed his food and gained one point of Ice Spirit Energy each day, accumulating thirty-one points by the time winter’s Cold Air Gale ended.
• After his food stores ran out, Wang Wu survived by eating snow and watched two squads of Gray Rat Knights race across the snowy plain.
• Gray Rat Knights gathered at a nearby hill, dug beneath the snow, and drew more rat squads and Little Red Birds to the area.
• A dozen Little Red Birds joined forces to drag a great serpent from beneath the snow, and Wang Wu realized the clans were waging coordinated hunts.

Wang Wu survived the winter by eating snow and waited for the valley to thaw so he could hunt. As new Sprites gathered in the valley, an upright Gray Fox and a Green Wolf ambushed the formidable Wild Chicken clan, leaving Wang Wu hidden and alarmed.

• Wang Wu intimidated the Gray Rat Knights into giving him two Great Serpents, then ate them and slept in his snow hollow.
• After discovering his tracks could expose his dwelling, Wang Wu stayed hidden through the winter and endured hunger rather than risk hunting in the snow.
• As spring arrived, Wang Wu observed the valley’s Sprites, including a new Flame Scorpion King, a winged Black Centipede, and a flock of fierce wild chickens.
• Wang Wu planned to hunt a wild chicken once the snow melted, but the flock suddenly scattered in terror.
• A Gray Fox walking upright frightened the chickens toward an ambush, where a human-like Green Wolf captured five Wild Chicken kings.