Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu raised Passive Concealment to level 15 and learned that Bear Mom had reached the same level before being hunted. He then spent himself training until the human cultivators’ food stores ran out, gaining strength and coordination and ending the chapter confident in his transformed body.

• Wang Wu used his remaining food reserves to raise Passive Concealment to level 15 and learned its improved concealment abilities and limits.
• Wang Wu realized Bear Mom had also only raised Passive Concealment to level 15 and wondered why the Snow Mountain Great Ape King and Mad Tiger King had not intervened when she was hunted.
• Wang Wu turned the protective formation into a training ground, practicing strenuous movements and repeatedly pushing himself through exhaustion and injury.
• Wang Wu raised Self-Healing to level 12 and Danger Sense to level 13, then consumed all the human cultivators’ stored food.
• Wang Wu received a free attribute point, increased his base agility and strength by five points each, gained fifty stamina points, and celebrated his improved physique.

After raising his Base Defense to 61, Wang Wu endured a terrifying transformation and awakened the Bronze Head Iron Bones Bloodline Secret Technique. He spent much of the Spiritual Essence Gourd’s energy boosting his attributes and talents, then prepared to leave after destroying evidence of the human cultivators.

• Wang Wu survived the painful breakthrough in Base Defense and awakened Bronze Head Iron Bones, which could briefly protect him from overwhelming physical attacks.
• Wang Wu raised Spiritual Essence to Level 4 and used the gourd’s energy to increase his Health, stamina, strength, and agility.
• Wang Wu upgraded Plant Affinity and Passive Frost to Level 3, then reviewed his greatly improved attributes and concluded he could likely defeat Hei You Liang.
• Wang Wu burned the human cultivators’ clothing and evidence, packed the Spiritual Essence Gourd and broken sword artifact in the middle-aged cultivator’s concealing cloak, and prepared to leave.

Wang Wu reunited with the starving Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig, escaped the concealment formation, and learned that its wood chips were valuable food for Old Ox. Old Ox urged the three brothers to hide through winter and migrate west in spring, then proposed that they claim a mountain next year.

• Wang Wu heard Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig in the tree-root tunnel, revealed himself, and watched them crash into the formation’s protective barrier.
• Old Ox explained how to break the formation from within, and Wang Wu chopped a protrusion from the tree stump until the barrier disappeared.
• Old Ox recognized the wood chips as sixth-grade Tree Heart and ate them, while Little Mountain Pig accidentally swallowed one.
• Old Ox told Wang Wu that the brothers should hide through winter and migrate west in spring because the Snow Mountain Great Ape King might send them to the Death Seekers Camp.
• Old Ox described his studies at Monster Academy, and Wang Wu gave a brief account of how he had survived.
• Old Ox used Spiritual Essence to help Little Mountain Pig and told Wang Wu that the Western Mountain Trinity would claim a mountain next year.

Wang Wu, Old Ox, and Little Mountain Pig gained a chance to grow stronger from the Tree Heart and agreed to leave west when the snow melted rather than join the Plant Demon Soldiers. After Old Ox demonstrated how to temper a Destined Demonic Weapon, Wang Wu agreed to spend the winter cultivating with his brothers.

• Old Ox used his accompanying Ninth-grade Spirit Vine to turn cow dung into three Spirit Fruits, which he and Little Mountain Pig ate while Wang Wu declined his share.
• Old Ox explained that the Tree Heart came from Grandpa Tree’s incarnation at West Mountain Temple and that Human cultivators had secretly dug out a large piece of it.
• Old Ox proposed reporting the discovery to the Little Tree Spirits, but Wang Wu refused to become a Plant Demon Soldier, and the three brothers planned to migrate west after the snow melted.
• Wang Wu said he wanted to go out and cultivate his Ice Spirit Root, but Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig warned that the Snow Mountain Great Ape King controlled the region’s Ice Spirit Energy.
• Old Ox demonstrated how his horns and Little Mountain Pig’s tusks could pierce bark, then advised Wang Wu to temper his claws with Mysterious Iron Essence and cultivate a Destined Demonic Weapon.
• Wang Wu agreed to cultivate in seclusion with Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig over winter, then helped free them after their horns and tusks became stuck in the bark.

Snow Wolf General conscripted West Mountain Temple and captured demons for the coming war against Cloud Cauldron City. Meanwhile, Wang Wu stayed underground to temper Mysterious Iron and discovered that his charged strike could carve deep grooves into a Mysterious Iron Urn.

• Snow Wolf General explained that Hei You Liang and the other captured demons would be sent to the Death Seekers Camp, then ordered Cao Liwu and West Mountain Temple's Plant Demon Soldiers to join the army.
• Cao Liwu accepted the conscription, hoping the Great Ape King would help save Grandpa Tree's branch.
• Old Ox taught Wang Wu how to temper Mysterious Iron and warned him to flee if he encountered Plant Zombies.
• Wang Wu climbed the tree-root tunnel, reached the blocked passage, and used his own bloodline's Internal Breathing Technique to prepare a Charged Heavy Strike.
• Wang Wu struck the Mysterious Iron Urn and left five deep, lengthy claw marks in it.

Wang Wu endured a grueling day of tempering his right bear claw on the Mysterious Iron Urn and discovered how to fuse it with Spirit Gold Qi, advancing his Destined Demonic Weapon cultivation. Afterward, he fell down the vertical tunnel and crashed into Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig.

• Wang Wu spent his stamina, satiety, and vitality rubbing his charged right bear claw against the Mysterious Iron Urn, struggling through the pain until he completed three thousand rubs.
• Wang Wu used the Internal Breathing Technique to ease his swollen claw and realized he needed to absorb the refined killing qi within the mysterious iron rather than merely fuse with its powder.
• Wang Wu received confirmation that he had fused with one trace of Spirit Gold Qi and begun cultivating a Ninth-Rank Destined Demonic Weapon, with progress at 1/1000.
• Wang Wu noticed his newly tempered claw could leave deep marks in bark, then jumped into the vertical tunnel and lost control as he fell.
• Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig tried to catch Wang Wu, but he crashed into them, suffering six bloody holes while both were knocked unconscious.

After reuniting with Old Ox and the Little Mountain Pig, Wang Wu learned that ten days had passed while he tempered Mystic Iron and saw that both companions had grown stronger. He used the spirit fruits they had saved to raise his spiritual energy to 4,100 points, then began extracting his Fire Toxin Resistance.

• Wang Wu returned from the pit, ate three spirit fruits, and learned from Old Ox that he had been gone for ten days.
• Old Ox and the Little Mountain Pig recovered from their injuries and said their cultivation had advanced during Wang Wu's absence.
• Wang Wu told them he had tempered Mystic Iron 3,000 times in ten days, and they encouraged him to keep working hard.
• Wang Wu ate the six remaining spirit fruits, raising his spiritual energy to 4,100 points, and decided not to risk spending it on a strength upgrade.
• Wang Wu began extracting his perfect second-stage Fire Toxin Resistance, manifesting its dangerously scorching power.

Wang Wu extracted Fire Toxin Resistance and unexpectedly opened a meridian for Crimson Flame Spirit Energy, beginning to cultivate an Elementary Fire Spirit Root. After his bloodline buffered the opposing water and fire powers, he gained the ability to control both, leaving Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig astonished and unconvinced by his explanation.

• Wang Wu exhausted 4,100 spirit energy points to extract Fire Toxin Resistance, then endured flames that engulfed his body while his bloodline evolved.
• Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig tried to understand Wang Wu’s burning body, and Little Mountain Pig’s hoof caught fire when it touched the flames.
• Wang Wu woke unharmed and discovered that he had gained the Passive Burning talent and opened a meridian for Crimson Flame Spirit Energy, beginning an Elementary Fire Spirit Root.
• Wang Wu controlled flame in one paw and snow in the other, while the attribute panel reported that his bloodline had buffered water and fire and his Bloodline Evolution had reached 39.6%.
• Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig questioned Wang Wu about his unusual bloodline, and he claimed he had adapted to fire toxins by eating them.
• Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig doubted Wang Wu until he swore on the honor of the Western Mountain Trinity that he was not Great King Crimson Horn’s illegitimate demon child.

Old Ox warned Wang Wu that demons should prioritize their bloodlines and condensing an Aperture-Opening Demon Core over cultivating spirit roots, then shared information about powerful scouting demons. Little Mountain Pig tried to teach Wang Wu about tempering mystic iron, but Wang Wu realized his own training was far more effective than either brother’s.

• Old Ox advised Wang Wu that spirit-root cultivation could distract demons from developing their bloodlines and condensing an Aperture-Opening Demon Core, and admitted he did not know the exact method.
• Old Ox told Wang Wu about the Snow Wolf General’s Eagle Vision Wolf Glance and warned him that a rumored Eagle Vision General might be a threat during a westward migration.
• Old Ox explained that Black Mountain King had many illegitimate demon spawn but only one legitimate heir, then left Wang Wu with a sorrowful expression.
• Little Mountain Pig offered to teach Wang Wu mystic-iron tempering and boasted that seven years and six months of work had nearly brought his tusks to the starting point of Ninth Rank.
• Wang Wu compared Little Mountain Pig’s slow progress with his own powerful tempering technique and realized each of his sessions pushed his vitality to its limit.

Wang Wu recovered his strength, then spent sixteen days watching a stealthy wood borer before capturing it and swallowing it. The borer’s hallucinogenic toxin nearly made him kill himself, but he used his talents and newly cultivated weapon to cut it apart.

• Wang Wu slept for three days and ate Ninth-grade Fast-Growth Spirit Fruits until his Rapid Self-Healing returned to ten consecutive activations.
• Wang Wu sensed a faint sound in Grandpa Tree’s roots and found a tiny hole made by a hidden Stealthy Wood Borer.
• Wang Wu waited sixteen days for the borer to emerge, then trapped it with Ninth-grade Deep Freeze.
• Wang Wu swallowed the borer when it began dissolving, but its Hallucinogenic Toxin trapped him in an illusion and made him claw at his own throat.
• Wang Wu used level 13 Danger Sense and level 2 Heart of the Earth to resist the toxin, then unleashed a charged strike with his newly cultivated Ninth-grade Demonic Weapon and sliced the borer apart.

Wang Wu killed and consumed a Sixth-Rank Great Illusion King Worm, gained new resistance and abilities, and discovered its memories revealed the Myriad Demon Alliance had been captured. After absorbing the worm’s soul essence and advancing his demon soul to Ninth Rank, he learned why Great Illusion King Worms were prized and feared across the Cultivation World.

• Wang Wu broke free of the Great Illusion King Worm’s control, killed it, and gained toxin resistance, bloodline progress, and resources from consuming it.
• Wang Wu upgraded Bronze Head Iron Bones to Level 2 and noticed the Myriad Transformation Wishful Demon Leaf absorbing the Azure Wood Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu dreamed through the Great Illusion King Worm’s memories and saw Cao Liheng and Cao Liwu, then discovered the Myriad Demon Alliance imprisoned in cage wagons.
• Wang Wu witnessed a Snow Wolf General order Ice Slave to seal off West Mountain and guard the juvenile Great Illusion King Worm until spring.
• Wang Wu woke after absorbing the worm’s soul essence, repaired his damaged soul, and advanced his demon soul to Ninth Rank.
• A gentle voice explained that Great Illusion King Worms possessed rare soul essence and peerless hallucinogenic toxin, and that their existence had fueled a legend of a Human cultivator conspiracy.

Wang Wu discovered that Wolf Extinguisher had marked the Great Illusion King Worm’s shed skin, leaving him worried about the danger to himself, Old Ox, and Little Pig. After enhancing his concealment and training hard, he returned to his companions, upgraded Danger Sense, and showed them the marked skin.

• Wang Wu realized the Great Illusion King Worm’s shed skin bore Wolf Extinguisher’s mark, then used the Myriad Transformation Wishful Demon Leaf to conceal his bloodline more effectively.
• Wang Wu spent over ten days tempering himself at the Mysterious Iron Urn, gained three points of Spirit Gold Qi, and carved a deep claw mark into the urn.
• Wang Wu returned to Old Ox and Little Pig, ate spirit fruit, and spent 5,000 spirit energy to raise Danger Sense to level fifteen.
• Wang Wu showed Old Ox and Little Pig the Great Illusion King Worm’s skin, but they could not recognize the wolf-head mark on it.

Wang Wu told Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig that Ice Slaves had sealed off West Mountain because of a wolf-marked hide, and the three planned to escape underground while leaving it behind. They began choosing a route to dig, but Old Ox warned that Eagle Vision’s search and the coming war could still threaten them.

• Wang Wu revealed that Ice Slaves had surrounded West Mountain and explained that a wolf mark on a hide had likely made the three of them scapegoats.
• Old Ox and Little Mountain Pig pressed Wang Wu for the truth, then agreed to help him evade the blockade rather than flee alone.
• Wang Wu proposed leaving the hide in place and digging a passage underground before Wolf Extinguisher could track them by scent.
• Old Ox said his Spirit Vine could conceal their scent, while Little Mountain Pig offered to dig in exchange for two spirit fruits each day.
• Old Ox warned that Eagle Vision and the coming conflict could still trap them, and the Western Mountain Trinity vowed to face the danger together.
• After sharing spirit fruits, the three began selecting a place to dig, with Little Mountain Pig guiding them through areas he had already rooted.

Little Mountain Pig found a route through the buried Tree Heart and began tunneling while Old Ox and Wang Wu prepared for their escape. Wang Wu pushed himself through thousands of Mysterious Iron temperings, gaining Spirit Gold Qi at the cost of severe weakness as the brothers’ departure drew near.

• Little Mountain Pig located a suitable section of Tree Heart and demonstrated that it could dig a tunnel through the surrounding earth with vibration-based attacks.
• Old Ox agreed to save Spirit Fruits for Little Mountain Pig and told Wang Wu to return every ten days for replenishment while he tempered Mysterious Iron.
• Wang Wu focused on tempering the Mysterious Iron Urn, wearing away evidence of his earlier claw marks and refining his technique to reduce the cost.
• Old Ox consumed Tree Heart and sensed that it was nearing Seventh Rank, while Wang Wu continued tempering inside the urn.
• After another ten days, Wang Wu had completed six thousand more temperings, gained five points of Spirit Gold Qi, and weakened himself enough to trigger a warning about permanent damage without high-quality food.

Wang Wu, Old Ox, and Little Mountain Pig strengthened themselves at the Tree Heart while preparing to escape before winter ended. As Wolf Extinguisher’s possible return drew near, they considered hiding in Little Mountain Pig’s unfinished tunnel, but its lack of air made the plan dangerous.

• Old Ox supplied Wang Wu with spirit fruits, and Wang Wu raised his strength, satiety, and Passive Burning talent before sleeping to recover.
• Little Mountain Pig returned from digging with an Earth Spirit Root, while Old Ox continued gathering Tree Heart fragments and Wang Wu rested.
• Wang Wu spent seven days tempering black iron, gained three points of Spirit Gold Qi, and returned as the group grew anxious about winter ending and Wolf Extinguisher returning.
• Wang Wu proposed that they enter the tunnel and give their spirit fruits to Little Mountain Pig, but Little Mountain Pig warned the sealed tunnel would not have enough air for ten days.
• Old Ox said he could hold his breath for half a month, Wang Wu estimated six days, and Little Mountain Pig admitted he could last only three.

Little Mountain Pig and Wang Wu dug an escape tunnel through the sealed underground region, and Wang Wu’s claws proved powerful enough to cut through a massive rock layer. Just as they prepared to widen the passage for Old Ox, a violent quake split the rock and collapsed the tunnel behind them.

• Little Mountain Pig explained that he needed to dig at least 150 li to escape Ice Slave’s seal and that Old Ox was too large to fit through the tunnel.
• Wang Wu joined Little Mountain Pig in digging, and they traveled roughly eighty or ninety li underground before encountering a massive rock layer.
• Wang Wu took over the excavation and cut through the rock layer with his claws, astonishing Little Mountain Pig, who believed they were a Rank Nine Destined Demonic Weapon.
• Little Mountain Pig told Wang Wu to stop digging forward and said he would widen the passage for Old Ox instead.
• The earth shook violently, the tunnel behind them collapsed, and enormous cracks split the rock layer as Wang Wu lunged to shield Little Mountain Pig.

Wang Wu and Little Mountain Pig escaped from deep underground after a giant fireball obliterated West Mountain, then endured a second blast that darkened the sky with dust. Wang Wu realized the Human cultivators were using Scorched Earth Tactics to strip Great Snow Mountain of life and resources, and he connected their strategy to Grandpa Tree’s Withered Death.

• Wang Wu calmed Little Mountain Pig and led it digging upward, reasoning that Old Ox was safest at the Tree Heart and might need to reach the Death Seekers Camp to survive.
• Wang Wu reached the surface and discovered that West Mountain had been erased, while North Mountain and South Mountain had also been flattened by the blast.
• Wang Wu knocked out the panicking Little Mountain Pig, then carried it toward the crater’s center in hopes of finding Old Ox and avoiding another impact.
• Wang Wu spotted a second giant fireball falling far to the south and sheltered Little Mountain Pig beneath him as its shockwave swept across the land.
• Wang Wu concluded that the Human cultivators were destroying the region’s ecosystem to starve and isolate their enemies, and he realized Grandpa Tree’s branch undergoing Withered Death had been key.

After the three brothers reunited in the scorched wasteland, Old Ox explained that Heavenly Annihilation had turned the region around Great Snow Mountain into a battlefield and urged them to return there. Wang Wu accepted that they could not avoid the war and led the group onward using concealment.

• Little Mountain Pig used Iron Mouth Tremor to find their direction and later sensed Old Ox emerging from beneath West Mountain.
• Old Ox reunited with Wang Wu and Little Mountain Pig, carrying the Great Illusion King Worm's shed skin.
• Old Ox explained that the humans had unleashed Heavenly Annihilation three times and argued that the brothers should return to Great Snow Mountain through the Death Seekers Camp.
• Wang Wu considered seeking refuge with Mad Tiger King, but Old Ox persuaded him that the journey was too dangerous and that the group should head for Great Snow Mountain.
• Wang Wu had Old Ox wear the shed skin, sent Little Mountain Pig underground, and concealed himself with the Myriad Transformation Wishful Demon Leaf as they prepared to travel.

Wang Wu, Old Ox, and Little Mountain Pig crossed the devastated former territories while avoiding a Human cultivator hunting squad, then reached Black Mountain as Human and demon forces began a major battle. Old Ox led them toward the mountain, and Wang Wu realized their earlier route had been sealed by a Sword Light Bead Curtain Array.

• Wang Wu sensed a silent flying scout and hid himself, Old Ox, and Little Mountain Pig beneath the ground until a Human cultivator hunting squad passed.
• The trio traveled through the ruined South Mountain territory and reached Black Mountain, where thousands of demons had gathered on the summit.
• A powerful sword light from North Mountain clashed with the Black Mountain forces, and Old Ox urged Wang Wu to join his father and the other Great Kings.
• Old Ox carried Wang Wu and Little Mountain Pig toward Black Mountain at tremendous speed, abandoning their cautious approach.
• Crimson pillars rose from South Mountain and North Mountain, forming a bridge from which sword lights descended to seal the route the trio had planned to take.

Wang Wu was branded and assigned to the Death Seekers Camp, where he discovered his resistances had nullified most of the branding’s damage. Leopard Big Spring treated him as an ally, but the camp was soon ordered to charge into battle.

• Old Ox carried Wang Wu and Little Mountain Pig back to the demon side, where Black Bear Commander had Old Ox beaten and sent the others to the Death Seekers Camp.
• The demons carrying Wang Wu handed Little Mountain Pig to an old pig head, which smashed its teeth and tied its snout shut.
• White Wolf Captain assigned Wang Wu to Leopard Big Spring’s Ninth Death Seekers Battalion and ordered Leopard Big Spring to brand him with a Seventh Rank tool.
• Wang Wu’s resistances prevented the branding from causing meaningful harm, and Leopard Big Spring secretly untied him and offered to look out for him.
• Leopard Big Spring gave Wang Wu three Ninth Rank wild chickens and explained that surviving three battles could earn him a transfer to an ordinary demon camp.
• War drums sounded, and a voice ordered the Death Seekers Camp to prepare to charge the formation.