Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu finished grafting five fruit trees, then searched for the White-Haired Rats’ hidden burrow. He hid from a patrol of demon soldiers and watched the Great Mountain Cat drive them away, leaving the borderland quieter for him to use.

• Wang Wu spent spiritual energy to keep five grafted fruit trees alive, then put aside toxin training to focus on survival.
• Wang Wu searched the hill where the White-Haired Rats had lived and found their concealed rat hole beneath a fitted stone plug.
• Wang Wu hid in a muddy hollow when five Patrolling Demon Soldiers approached, including the Little Mountain Pig and the Little Sika Deer.
• Wang Wu overheard the demon soldiers discussing Human cultivators, Cloud Cauldron City, and Great Snow Mountain as they patrolled the valley.
• The Great Mountain Cat drove the five demon soldiers away with a warning not to cross the border, and Wang Wu concluded they would patrol the area less often.

Wang Wu dug beneath a low hill in search of the Gray Rats’ burrow and discovered nine Berry Seeds in the collapsed tunnels. He planted the seeds and sealed the burrow, leaving him with a possible food source and a shelter for winter.

• Wang Wu dug into the low hill but encountered rock and collapsed earth, then explored cavities left by the Devil Vine’s roots.
• Wang Wu found rat droppings in a collapsed tunnel and realized the Devil Vine had damaged much of the Gray Rats’ burrow.
• Wang Wu discovered and carefully recovered nine Berry Seeds from the soil.
• Wang Wu found abandoned food-storage cavities and a rat hole leading to the hilltop, but no Gray Rats.
• Wang Wu planted the nine Berry Seeds in a moist, sheltered spot and sealed the rat hole for possible use in winter.

As the rainy season arrived, Wang Wu considered using the weakened Danger Sense of other Sprites to hunt for food in the southern forest. At the swollen river, a strange frog-like creature mistook him for prey and froze him with an icy spear.

• Wang Wu spent 780 spirit energy on his attributes, raising his stamina to 300, agility to 15, and defense to 21.
• After days of continuous rain, Wang Wu confirmed the rainy season had begun and noticed that the downpour weakened his Level 6 Danger Sense.
• Wang Wu headed south along the swollen creek, hoping to find food, but stopped when it had become a wide, fast-flowing river.
• A frog-like creature emerged from the river, accused Wang Wu of crossing its border, and decided to send his body to its King.
• The creature threw an ice-infused barbed spear; Wang Wu slipped in the mud, and the attack froze him into a lump of ice.

Wang Wu killed River Demon Lang Li Da Tiao after pretending to be frozen, then devoured most of it and used the spirit energy he gained to raise his Self-Healing Talent to Level 10. He returned to his hiding place with substantial Fullness, spirit energy, Ice Spirit Energy, Growth Rate, and venom resistance, and wondered whether to upgrade his Spiritual Resonance Talent.

• Wang Wu pretended to be dead and frozen until River Demon Lang Li Da Tiao dragged him ashore, then broke free and attacked it.
• River Demon Lang Li Da Tiao froze them both and sprayed venom that corroded Wang Wu and blinded him, but Wang Wu held on and fought back.
• Wang Wu's Self-Healing Talent kept restoring him as he fought, and he eventually killed River Demon Lang Li Da Tiao and ate most of its body.
• Wang Wu spent 420 spirit energy to raise his Self-Healing Talent from Level 7 to Level 10, then ate more to replenish his Fullness.
• Wang Wu washed away his tracks in the rising creek, returned to his rock crevice, and reviewed the rewards before considering whether to upgrade his Spiritual Resonance Talent.

Wang Wu raised his Spiritual Resonance to level 2, spent most of his spiritual energy improving his defense, and fell asleep after exhausting his body. After waking at dusk, he ate Devil Vine roots to build his Paralysis Toxin Resistance.

• Wang Wu raised his Spiritual Resonance to level 2, increasing his spiritual energy limit, then invested 400 points in defense.
• Wang Wu examined his resistances and wondered whether accumulating more Ice Spirit Energy would advance his Ice Spirit Root before exhaustion put him to sleep.
• Three River Patrol Demons blamed the South Mountain Great King's Patrolling Demon Soldiers for capturing and eating their brother, Big Stripe in the Waves, but could not attract help.
• Wang Wu woke after the rain, found his surroundings quiet, and ate ten Devil Vine roots he had hidden in a rock crack.
• Wang Wu's Self-Healing Talent activated after the poison weakened, costing him satiety and raising his Paralysis Toxin Resistance to 7.

Wang Wu stayed hidden after building up his poison resistance, reflected on the plants he had cultivated, and watched another great fireball fall in the distance. After sunrise, he used Level 2 Spiritual Essence to absorb Golden Particles and raised his Defense to 27, leaving him closer to his goal of 30.

• Wang Wu consumed the remaining Devil Vine and gained one more point of Paralysis Toxin Resistance, bringing his total to 8.
• Wang Wu emerged after the rain, checked the plants he had grown, and took comfort in their growth while deciding to hide nearby in case the River Patrol Demon had backing.
• Wang Wu watched the eastern horizon brighten as another great fireball fell far away, and suspected that another migrating Sprite tribe would arrive.
• Wang Wu hid during the Violet Gold Three Minutes, then activated Level 2 Spiritual Essence after the Golden Three Minutes began and absorbed 192 points of spiritual energy.
• Wang Wu raised his Defense from 25 to 27 by spending his spiritual energy, keeping 2 points in reserve.

Wang Wu avoided a new conscription offer from the Little Mountain Pig and kept cautiously cultivating while starving in his valley. As he prepared to hunt, he caught the scent of blood mixed with a strange fragrance that might come from a demon with cultivation.

• Wang Wu explored the barren western valleys, then returned to the cliff in his original valley.
• The Little Mountain Pig offered Wang Wu a position as its demon soldier under the South Mountain Great King, but Wang Wu fled.
• Wang Wu stayed concealed and wary for two days while cautiously absorbing Golden Particles and investing spiritual energy in Basic Defense until his Defense reached 30.
• Still hungry and growing anxious about winter, Wang Wu prepared to hunt near the forest's southern edge.
• An evening breeze carried Wang Wu the scent of blood and an unusual fragrance that suggested a cultivated demon might be nearby.

Wang Wu hid near the border as three old demons crossed into the territory, but their concealment technique accidentally threatened to expose him. He drew the Great Mountain Cat’s attention, prompting the demons to attack it and freeze it in a spiderweb of ice.

• Wang Wu heard three old demons discuss fleeing the Mad Tiger King and crossing the Great Snow Mountain, then watched them conceal their auras with a spiderweb technique.
• The Black Spider Priest’s concealment covered Wang Wu too, granting him temporary invisibility that risked disrupting his Level 8 Passive Stealth when it ended.
• Patrolling Demon Soldiers and the Great Mountain Cat arrived after following the scent of blood, while Wang Wu realized the demons might be exposed if he drew attention to them.
• Wang Wu stared at the Great Mountain Cat until it sensed someone by the boulder and cried out.
• The three old demons attacked the Great Mountain Cat, and a frost spiderweb trapped and froze it.

Wang Wu survived the Black Snake Grand Priest’s poison and joined the Patrolling Demon Soldiers’ fight against three powerful demons, but the Great Mountain Cat used its allies as bait to defeat the fat rat. The Black Spider Priest escaped, while the Great Mountain Cat left with the fat rat and abandoned the wounded and trapped survivors.

• The Black Spider Priest froze the Night Cat and Black Bear Demon Soldier, while the Plum Blossom Fawn, Green Wolf Cub, and Little Mountain Pig tried to rescue their allies.
• Wang Wu attacked the Black Spider Priest, but the Black Snake Grand Priest bit and poisoned him; Wang Wu survived, killed the snake, and ate it to recover.
• The Black Spider Priest trapped Wang Wu and the Green Wolf Cub in webs, while the toad’s venom struck the Plum Blossom Fawn and Great Mountain Cat.
• The Great Mountain Cat freed the Green Wolf Cub, then struck Wang Wu with venom as part of its feints against the demons.
• After the toad exhausted its venom, the Great Mountain Cat killed the fat rat and crippled the Black Spider Priest, which fled west.
• The Great Mountain Cat left with the fat rat, abandoning the web-bound Little Mountain Pig and motionless Wang Wu.

Wang Wu survived the Water Demon Venom attack through his Level 10 Self-Healing and gained new resistances by consuming the Black Snake Grand Priest. After upgrading his defenses and testing the weakened venom, he began eating the Plum Blossom Fawn's corpse to build more resistance.

• The Little Mountain Pig, black bear, and Night Cat escaped the Ice Frost Web and left, believing Wang Wu and the other victims had died.
• Wang Wu's head healed from the Water Demon Venom, and consuming the Black Snake Grand Priest granted him Spirit Energy, Growth Rate, and upgraded Snake Demon Toxin Resistance.
• Wang Wu spent Spirit Energy to raise Basic Defense to 31 and Health to 340, keeping 70 points in reserve.
• After waiting to ensure the Great Mountain Cat would not return, Wang Wu inspected the Plum Blossom Fawn's corpse and found that the venom caused him only minor, temporary harm.
• Wang Wu began eating the Plum Blossom Fawn's hind leg to gain food and increase his Water Demon Venom Resistance.

Wang Wu consumed the poisoned remains of a Plum Blossom Fawn and Green Wolf Cub to build his Water Demon Toxin resistance, enduring severe illness and temporary weakening. After investing his spiritual energy in his attributes and talents, he hid downstream until the danger of an investigation appeared to pass.

• Wang Wu ate a deer leg, suffered extreme poisoning, and gained Water Demon Toxin resistance through his Self-Healing Talent.
• Wang Wu kept eating the toxic remains, increasing his resistance while enduring repeated bouts of illness.
• By dawn, Wang Wu had consumed the Plum Blossom Fawn and Green Wolf Cub, gained 510 spiritual energy, and weakened his talents and stamina temporarily.
• Wang Wu spent 500 spiritual energy to raise his Health Points to 350, Passive Concealment to level 10, and Danger Sense to level 8, while his Water Demon Toxin resistance reached 12/25.
• Wang Wu drifted downstream and hid underwater as he waited for a Giant Eagle to investigate the scene.
• By noon, Wang Wu's talents had recovered and no Giant Eagle had appeared, so he concluded the deaths were unlikely to draw further attention.

Wang Wu gained Level 10 Passive Concealment and Level 8 Passive Danger Sense, then left his barren valley to prepare for winter and seek resistance training. He crossed into a lush plain where powerful Sprite tribes guarded isolated trees, and cautiously advanced under cover of night.

• Wang Wu learned that his upgraded concealment let him move slightly in darkness and certain dynamic environments, while his enhanced senses could detect life auras within one hundred meters.
• Wang Wu ate berries from his nine plants, replenished his satiety, and decided to leave the valley to gather winter supplies and improve his Fire Resistance and Bee Venom Resistance.
• Wang Wu traveled west along the boundary between great demons' territories, avoiding the region devastated by the Devil Vine's spread.
• Wang Wu reached a lush plain filled with towering, widely spaced trees and bustling Sprites, where he recognized the likely strength of the local tribes.
• Wang Wu activated Level 10 Passive Concealment and crept forward through the night, wondering how the Sprite tribes had survived the Iron-Toothed Locust Legion.

Wang Wu secretly surveyed a powerful Black Spider colony and witnessed its leader trade Spider Daughter Red for Fire Resistance training from a squadron of Fire Bats. He then discovered a neighboring Sprite clan with a vast berry orchard and left without provoking either force.

• Wang Wu approached the wasteland under concealment and observed a vast Black Spider colony with giant trees, a powerful leader, and numerous spiders.
• A squadron of ten black bats entered the colony, collected three jars of Spider Daughter Red, and burned a large Black Spider as part of a Fire Resistance trade.
• Wang Wu realized that sprites across the region were training resistance to dangerous effects, though he took comfort in the Black Spider leader's apparent low Fire Resistance.
• Wang Wu recognized that the departing Fire Bats were likely affiliated with the North Mountain Great King and avoided following them.
• Wang Wu found a neighboring Sprite clan with a carefully cleared buffer zone and a berry orchard of roughly two thousand plants, then quietly left.

Wang Wu followed several powerful Sprite clans to a mysterious Rocky Beach and discovered that it concealed a trading market where they exchanged goods for Red Crystals. He ventured into the underground ant tunnels and found a chamber filled with fiery giant ants, including an armored ant as large as a Little Mountain Pig.

• Wang Wu surveyed the buffer zone between the three great demons' territories, then hid near the Armed Wild Bee Clan and watched its enormous swarm take flight at sunrise.
• Wang Wu saw Armed Wild Bees carrying honeycombs north, followed by Black Beetles transporting Red Berries and Black Spider Priestesses carrying wine, and suspected they were traveling to trade.
• Wang Wu left the powerful clans' territories, crossed the plain, and found an ancient, unusually quiet Rocky Beach that he suspected was a hiding place.
• Wang Wu saw the Armed Wild Bees emerge from the rocks without their hives, carrying Red Crystals, and realized the clans were trading at an underground market.
• Wang Wu entered a hole in the Rocky Beach and followed a tunnel into a chamber where hundreds of fiery giant ants gathered around a huge armored ant.

Wang Wu traded Ice Spirit Energy for three Blazing Fire Crystals, then swallowed one after preparing to survive its effects. The crystal severely injured him, but his Self-Healing Talent and Ice Spirit Energy kept him alive as he gained Fire Toxin Resistance and other benefits.

• Wang Wu exchanged 30 points of Ice Spirit Energy for three Blazing Fire Crystals from the giant ant.
• Wang Wu gathered food until he had roughly 1,000 points of fullness, then swallowed a Blazing Fire Crystal.
• The Blazing Fire Crystal exploded inside Wang Wu, causing severe internal burns and leaving him unable to move.
• Wang Wu released 10 points of Ice Spirit Energy to freeze himself and regain some clarity.
• Wang Wu learned that his Self-Healing Talent would slowly repair his internal injuries and that he had gained Fire Toxin Resistance, increased growth rates, and temporary protection from poison and cold erosion.

After recovering from the Blazing Fire Crystal’s effects, Wang Wu planned to raise his growth and resistance before winter. His attempt to trade with the Black Spider Clan instead triggered a fight, and he used another crystal to incinerate the surrounding elites.

• Wang Wu recovered from his injuries and weakened state, then found that his refreshed attributes included 1 point of Fire Toxin Resistance.
• Wang Wu decided to raise his Special Growth Rate before winter and chose to approach the Black Spider Clan after reconsidering a trade with the Armed Wild Bee clan.
• The Black Spider Clan and neighboring Black Beetle Clan attacked when Wang Wu displayed his Blazing Fire Crystal, forcing him to flee.
• A Black Beetle swordsman and a giant Black Widow injured and restrained Wang Wu, but their attacks caused little damage through his defenses.
• Wang Wu crushed a Blazing Fire Crystal, and its flames killed the elite Black Spiders and Black Beetles surrounding him.

Wang Wu survived the Black Spiders’ and Black Beetles’ attacks, ate the roasted spiders, and tried to make peace with their leaders. Madam Spider struck him with a poisoned needle and captured him, leaving him barely conscious as the toxin began to spread.

• Wang Wu endured the Beetle Blade Saint’s attacks and recovered by eating spiders roasted in the Blazing Fire Crystal’s flames.
• The Spider Widow spoke to Wang Wu and proposed that they set aside their conflict.
• Wang Wu raised his claw to reveal another Blazing Fire Crystal, but Madam Spider shot him through the heart with a Soul-Shattering Poison Needle.
• Madam Spider wrapped Wang Wu in Spider Silk while he drifted in and out of consciousness, and he overheard her discussing wine with a fellow Daoist.
• Notifications revealed that the Ninth-Grade Bone-Melting Toxin had inflicted critical damage, though Wang Wu’s resistances and Blazing Fire Crystal slowed its spread.

Wang Wu escaped Madam Spider’s trap, killed her in the burning tree hollow, and consumed Spider Daughter Red to gain spiritual energy and growth. After sleeping through a battle between the goblin clans, he woke to find the Black Spiders gone and remained trapped in the hollow with Madam Spider’s corpse.

• Wang Wu broke free when the Blazing Fire Crystal exploded and attacked Madam Spider, piercing her abdomen and freezing her from within with Ice Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu fell with Madam Spider into a burning tree hollow, drank the Spider Daughter Red, and gained 1,700 points of spiritual energy and 20.1% regular Growth Rate.
• Wang Wu spent his spiritual energy to raise his defense and Health Points, while the inferno increased his Fire Toxin Resistance.
• While Wang Wu slept, the Black Beetle Clan attacked the Black Spider Clan, the Black Sparrow Clan joined in against both sides, and the surviving Black Spiders fled into the wilderness.
• Wang Wu woke at night refreshed, saw his Growth Rate had risen to 68%, and decided not to leave the hollow because he could not take Madam Spider’s corpse with him.

Wang Wu struggled to keep his shelter and Madam Spider's corpse safe from a relentless flood, then ate some of the corpse before it revealed itself to be alive and struck him with the Bone-Melting Soul-Piercing Needle. He survived the toxin attack and gained another point of toxin resistance, but remained trapped in the flooded tree hollow.

• Wang Wu dug a drainage outlet in the tree hollow as heavy rain filled it with water, then repeatedly widened the opening as the water rose.
• The flood backed up through the outlet, and Wang Wu ate part of Madam Spider's corpse rather than risk losing it to the water.
• Madam Spider, still alive, stabbed Wang Wu with the Bone-Melting Soul-Piercing Needle before dying from its injuries.
• Wang Wu endured the needle's damage and Bone-Melting Toxin, then gained one point of toxin resistance through his Level 10 Self-Healing Talent.

Wang Wu survived the West River Great King's Dragon Transformation Ritual and evaded a giant Black Spider, but the Black Spider Captain began searching for him with help from the Mountain Eagle Captain and White Fox Captain. Wang Wu remained hidden nearby as they used their powers to hunt for the killer and the missing Bone-Melting Soul-Piercing Needle.

• Wang Wu offered the Bone-Melting Soul-Piercing Needle to Lang Li Er Tiao, who took it and left after promising to treat him as family.
• The West River Great King's ritual ended, the river flooded and then receded, and Wang Wu hid from a bus-sized Black Spider that appeared by the tree.
• The Mountain Eagle Captain and White Fox Captain arrived and heard the Black Spider Captain describe her daughter's death and the stolen needle.
• The Mountain Eagle Captain flew off to search the surrounding area while White Fox used an Eighth-Rank Mountain Patrolling Seal to track the culprit.
• Wang Wu heard their search plans from nearby and stayed motionless, hoping River Patrol Demon would not return.