Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao discovered spiritual energy and quickly completed Qi Induction before heading to the tribe’s square to see Xize’s challenge for chief. Xize stood injured before the crowd and asked whether anyone else would challenge him.

• Su Qiao and 444 discussed how strength determined who made the rules on the Beastman Continent.
• Su Qiao sat down to sense the air and found that spiritual energy existed.
• Su Qiao completed Qi Induction within minutes, surprising 444.
• Su Qiao arrived at the tribe’s square and saw Xize standing as the crowd’s favored candidate for chief.
• Xize asked whether anyone else would challenge him.

Su Qiao interrupted Xize’s appointment as chieftain and challenged him, despite the tribe’s ridicule and Wizard Yi’s concern. Roland then confronted Su Qiao about wearing her clothes and carrying her knife.

• Xize’s followers praised him as the tribe’s strongest and urged him to become chieftain, so Wizard Yi began announcing his appointment.
• Su Qiao interrupted the announcement and challenged Xize, while Xize and Wizard Yi tried to dissuade her.
• The tribe’s beastmen and female beastmen mocked Su Qiao, and she recognized some older members as parents of hunters who had died with Old Chieftain.
• Roland noticed Su Qiao wearing her clothes and carrying her knife, then demanded to know where Su Qiao had gotten them.

Su Qiao confronted Roland over the stolen bag, then demanded the right to challenge Xize for leadership of the Wolf Clan Tribe. The chapter ended with Su Qiao stepping into the field, while Xize hesitated to fight her.

• Su Qiao admitted she had found Roland’s bag and refused to return it, saying she would ask Roland how to use its contents.
• Su Qiao asked Wizard Yi whether Female Beastmen could challenge Male Beastmen or become chieftain, and he confirmed there was no such rule.
• Su Qiao challenged Xize, the strongest beastman in the Wolf Clan Tribe, and insisted her father would have supported her.
• Su Qiao drew her dagger, entered the field, and called for a proper match with Xize.
• Xize hesitated to fight Su Qiao because she was a Female Beastman and they had grown up together, while Roland hoped he would accept the challenge.

Su Qiao challenged Xize to a fight after dismissing his offer to make amends, while the watching beastmen mocked her and urged Xize not to hurt her. She focused on attacking him, intent on dealing with the men who had mistreated her in her previous life.

• Su Qiao kicked Xize back and warned him not to underestimate her.
• Xize offered to make up for his past betrayal, but Su Qiao refused and challenged him to fight seriously.
• Wizard Yi and the watching beastmen told Xize to treat the fight as a show and avoid hurting Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao recognized that the men mocking her had once urged Roland to imprison her as a breeding tool and vowed to deal with them.
• Su Qiao stopped paying attention to the crowd and focused entirely on attacking Xize.

Su Qiao overwhelmed Xize in their fight, leaving the tribe members impressed by her strength and skill. As the crowd’s respect for her grew, Roland became increasingly suspicious of her abilities.

• Xize stopped holding back and took Su Qiao’s attacks seriously, but she grew even fiercer.
• Su Qiao dodged Xize’s attempts to grab her and repeatedly cut him with her bone knife, leaving him bloodied.
• The watching tribe members shifted from mocking Su Qiao to admiring her after seeing her overpower Xize.
• Roland watched with a troubled expression and wondered how Su Qiao could have such unusual fighting skills.
• Su Qiao dismissed Xize as unimpressive despite his reputation as the strongest wolf beastman.

Su Qiao challenged Xize’s fitness to become clan chief, arguing that the Beast Tide that killed her father and his hunting party was suspicious because it occurred in Wind Season. She revealed that her father had told her someone sprinkled medicinal powder on him and the others.

• Su Qiao defeated Xize in their fight and taunted him to transform if he hoped to win.
• Xize asked why Su Qiao opposed him, and she declared that anyone in the tribe could become clan chief except him.
• Su Qiao questioned how a Beast Tide could have attacked during Wind Season, when such events usually came after winter.
• Xize’s followers mocked Su Qiao, but Wizard Yi silenced them and demanded an explanation.
• Su Qiao said her father had secretly told her that someone had sprinkled medicinal powder on him and his hunting party.

Su Qiao revealed that a powder had caused the Beast Tide that killed her father’s group, prompting the tribe to suspect foul play. She left Xize and Roland under suspicion by revealing her father’s warning that Xize must never become chieftain.

• Su Qiao explained that someone could have used beast-attracting powder to cause the Beast Tide that killed her father’s group and left many survivors crippled or sick.
• Wizard Yi believed Su Qiao, and the tribe members who had lost family grew angry and demanded to know who was responsible.
• Several tribe members suspected Xize, who swore before the Beast God that he had not harmed the Old Chieftain.
• When Wizard Yi asked whether her father had named the culprit, Su Qiao said he had not been certain, then revealed his warning that Xize must not become chieftain or the wolf tribe and beastmen across the continent would face destruction.

Su Qiao accused Roland of lying about her origins and suggested she was not from the Beastman Continent. Roland realized Su Qiao had changed and remained confident that no one could prove she was a stranger to the world.

• Su Qiao swore that Xize’s father had sent her to challenge him and said Xize’s oath did not clear the people around him.
• Su Qiao pointed out that Roland was the tribe’s only other person who knew medicine and accused her of lying about coming from the Ape-men Tribe.
• Xize tried to defend Roland, but Su Qiao insisted that her accusations had nothing to do with him.
• Su Qiao declared that Roland was not from the continent and was not a subject of the Beast God, making her oath meaningless.
• Roland recognized that Su Qiao was no longer the original Qiao, but trusted that the tribe had no evidence of her true origins.

Su Qiao questioned Roland’s intentions and learned from 444 that the Beast God truly existed, though 444 believed it could protect them. Roland abandoned her plan to claim she was a Divine Emissary and insisted she had never harmed the tribe, while Su Qiao accused her of targeting Su Qiao’s father and the hunters.

• Su Qiao recognized Roland’s contempt and mocked the idea that she might claim to be a Divine Emissary.
• 444 told Su Qiao that the Beast God existed but claimed it could not harm them.
• Su Qiao reassured herself that she would not go too far, while 444 doubted her restraint.
• Roland gave up on claiming to be a Divine Emissary and swore she had never acted against the tribe.
• Su Qiao accused Roland of possibly harming her father and the beastmen who had gone hunting with him.

Su Qiao challenged Roland and Xize over their place in the wolf tribe, while Roland threatened to leave. Su Qiao then called on the Beast God to intervene, but the statue remained silent.

• Su Qiao asked whether leaving the wolf tribe would end the trouble, and Xize anxiously grabbed Roland's hand and objected.
• Xize ended the duel by pulling Roland away, and Su Qiao mocked him for refusing to admit defeat.
• Roland said she would leave for another tribe, prompting wolf tribe members to recall her contributions and some to grow dissatisfied with Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao addressed the Beast God statue and warned that its people could face war and disappearance if it continued to ignore them.

Su Qiao challenged Xize to defeat her before claiming the wolf clan chieftaincy, then left the tribe to reconsider its leadership. The tribe members began to suspect Roland of poisoning the Old Chieftain and feared the consequences of trusting her.

• Wizard Yi scolded Su Qiao for speaking disrespectfully to the Beast God, but she pointed out that the statue had not reacted and said she was relieved.
• Su Qiao declared that Xize could pursue the chieftaincy only after he beat her, and left the crowd.
• Wizard Yi postponed choosing a chieftain and said he would pray to the Beast God for guidance.
• Tribe members discussed Su Qiao's accusations that the Old Chieftain and others had been poisoned and killed, and some suspected Roland because she knew how to compound medicine.
• The tribe members recalled Su Qiao's warnings about Roland and grew wary of her, no longer believing everything she said.

Su Qiao encountered Han, a white wolf who had failed to transform into a beastman twice and was nearing his final chance. She learned that the tribe had abandoned him to live alone at its edge.

• Su Qiao headed toward the woods to find medicinal herbs and food.
• 444 detected the Great Demon King's soul fluctuation and pointed Su Qiao toward a white wolf beneath a tree.
• Su Qiao mistook Han for a big white dog, and Han gave her a cold glance before closing his eyes again.
• 444 explained that Han had failed to transform twice and would be cast out if he failed his final attempt.
• Su Qiao recalled that Han's parents were dead and learned that he lived alone in a cave beneath a cliff at the tribe's edge.

Su Qiao chose an empty cave near Han’s home as her new place to stay, hoping its stronger spiritual energy would help her cultivate and bring her closer to him. She left the tribe to hunt and gather medicinal herbs, while wondering what Demonic Beasts ate when they transformed into humans.

• Su Qiao defended Han after learning that tribe members bullied him and withheld food, though she remembered she had mocked him too.
• Su Qiao left Han and searched for a suitable cave, while Han watched her suspiciously before going back to sleep.
• Su Qiao found an empty cave with denser spiritual energy about thirty meters from Han’s cave and decided to live there.
• Su Qiao left the tribe to hunt and search for medicinal herbs instead of returning to pack her belongings.

Su Qiao searched the forest for medicinal herbs while dismissing the tribe’s gossip and the male beastmen’s interest in her. She found what she identified as a giant ginseng root and continued gathering plants.

• Su Qiao said she did not care what the tribe thought and explained that she had no time for their chores.
• Su Qiao stabbed a large centipede while warning herself to stay alert for dangerous animals and insects.
• 444 told Su Qiao that male beastmen were likely to leave offerings at her cave, but she ignored the news.
• Su Qiao pulled up a root she first mistook for a giant white radish, then recognized it as an enormous ginseng root.
• Su Qiao tossed the ginseng aside and began cutting vines from a tree.

Su Qiao gathered herbs in the forest while Xize comforted Roland after she apologized for the trouble surrounding his loss of the chieftain position. Roland planned to leave the tribe the next morning, but Xize urged her to stay.

• Su Qiao made a vine basket and set off through the Dense Forest to gather herbs.
• Su Qiao ignored a large rabbit-like beast and continued collecting plants.
• Roland apologized to Xize, blaming herself for Qiao's hostility and his loss of the chieftain position.
• Xize reassured Roland that Qiao had acted out of grief and said he did not blame her.
• Roland said she would leave the next morning, but Xize hugged her and urged her to stay in the tribe.

Xize persuaded Roland to stay in the Wolf Clan Tribe by agreeing to bond with her, and the shaman and elders approved. Su Qiao returned to the tribe and found Han being used as a target by four boys, leaving her to confront them.

• Xize told Roland he would leave the tribe with her, then urged her to bond with him so she could stay.
• Roland agreed, and Xize went to the shaman to arrange the bonding ceremony.
• The shaman and several elders discussed Roland’s case and decided she could remain in the Wolf Clan Tribe.
• Su Qiao returned carrying herbs and a large wild boar, then discovered four boys throwing stones at Han beneath a tree.
• Su Qiao dropped the boar and confronted the boys, and one of them warned the others that she had arrived.

Su Qiao confronted four boys for bullying Han and warned them not to bother him again. The boys backed down, then eagerly tried to win Su Qiao’s favor.

• The boys greeted Su Qiao and praised her after seeing the huge wild boar she had brought back.
• Su Qiao questioned the boys about what they had been doing, then threw stones at them when they denied causing trouble.
• Su Qiao told the boys that Han was under her protection and threatened to pluck out their fur if they bullied him again.
• The boys recalled Xize’s beating and assured Su Qiao they would leave Han alone.
• Meng and the other boys tried to appease Su Qiao by offering to pick fruit and flowers for her.

Su Qiao sent away four young beastmen who wanted to become her mates, then gave Han the boar she had hunted. Han was caught off guard and visibly angered by the gift.

• Su Qiao told the four boys she liked Terror Beast tail meat, and they eagerly promised to hunt one for her when they grew stronger.
• Shi, Meng, and the others each tried to court Su Qiao, but she told them to get lost because they could not even beat her.
• The boys left reluctantly, with one saying he would grow stronger than Xize, and Han silently doubted that Su Qiao had defeated him.
• Su Qiao noticed Han's disbelief but did not explain herself.
• Su Qiao dragged the boar in front of Han and told him to take it, leaving him surprised and angry.

Su Qiao tried to help Han by giving him a wild boar, but her words wounded his pride and he rejected it. She reframed the gift as a loan and urged him to build up his body so he could transform, hoping to win him over.

• Han told Su Qiao to stay away from him, and she confronted him for refusing to thank her after she brought him prey.
• Han explained that her offer of food had insulted his pride because beastmen were expected to hunt for themselves.
• Su Qiao followed Han to his cave and left a wild boar there as a loan he could repay later.
• Han refused the boar, and 444 pointed out that Su Qiao's promise he would become powerful had sounded like mockery of his inability to transform.
• Su Qiao told Han to build up his body so he could transform and asked him to repay her with five boars.

Su Qiao moved into a quieter cave after leaving Han with the Lulu Pig she had hunted for him. Han ate it and silently vowed to repay her, then came over to ask why she had moved.

• Su Qiao left Han and told him to throw away the Lulu Pig if he did not want it, reminding him she had nearly lost her life hunting it.
• Han decided not to waste the Lulu Pig and ate it, swearing to repay Su Qiao with five Lulu Pigs after his transformation attempt at Heavenly Lake.
• Su Qiao moved her belongings into a Small Cave, cleaned it, and settled in while beastmen who offered help were deterred by her cold expression.
• Su Qiao washed and spread herbs outside her cave, and Han asked why she had moved there.
• Su Qiao told Han she had moved because the cave was quieter.