Chapter Summaries

Han drove off five beastmen who had been talking about pursuing Qiao, then brought her feathers, Sweet Fruit, and a Terror Beast’s tail. Qiao remembered she had mentioned wanting the tail meat and told Han she would accompany him next time he hunted Terror Beasts rather than let him go alone.

• Han threatened the five beastmen who had joked about pursuing Qiao, and they fled.
• Han showed Qiao the colorful feathers he had brought, remembering she had wanted feathers for clothing.
• Han brought Qiao an adult Terror Beast’s tail because he remembered her saying she wanted to eat its meat.
• Qiao recalled that she had only mentioned the meat to scare some children who had thrown stones at Han.
• Qiao told Han to take her along the next time he hunted Terror Beasts in the Dense Forest and not go alone.

Su Qiao cooked with Han, then taught him combat moves after he commented that she had gotten thinner. As Han practiced, Wizard Yi and the elders came to discuss the Old Chieftain’s long absence and decided Han should take over as chieftain.

• Han brought back a terror beast tail, and he and Su Qiao prepared grilled meat and vegetable-and-meat soup together.
• Su Qiao struggled to eat the tough tail meat and filled her stomach with soup and a Sweet Fruit instead.
• Han said Su Qiao looked thinner and preferred her with more weight, prompting her to attack him and teach him how to kill an opponent quickly.
• Han learned Su Qiao’s moves quickly, and she watched as he practiced.
• Wizard Yi and several elders met with Han and Su Qiao and decided Han would immediately become chieftain.

After becoming chief, Han trained the tribe and hunted with Su Qiao. When 444 warned her that trouble had begun, Su Qiao learned Roland was trying to pass off a staged miracle as the Beast God’s will and prepared to return to the tribe.

• Han became chief and celebrated with the tribe, though Xize, Roland, and their followers were unhappy.
• Han led the tribe’s hunts and began systematically training its members, while Su Qiao continued hunting with him.
• Han and Su Qiao went to the Poison Mist Forest to search for more spiritual fruit, but 444 warned Su Qiao that something had happened in the tribe.
• Su Qiao learned that the shaman had died and supposedly passed his position to Roland, who was praying at the altar for a divine miracle.
• Su Qiao realized Roland planned to use phosphorus and potassium hydroxide to fake ghostly flames and asked 444 whether the Beast God could interfere.

Su Qiao and Han returned to the tribe after learning someone was trying to seize power. They found Roland presenting herself as a Divine Emissary, while Xize and his followers knelt before her.

• Su Qiao told Han that someone was trying to seize power in the tribe, and they hurried back together.
• Su Qiao and Han slipped into the tribe without alerting anyone.
• Roland used blue-green flames during a prayer before the Beast God's statue, startling the tribe members.
• Roland claimed she came from a more advanced civilization and had a mission to bring prosperity and safety to the beastmen.
• Xize and several of his followers knelt before Roland.

Su Qiao confronted Roland and the people who insisted she was the Divine Emissary, challenging the Beast God to punish her. When nothing happened, she began exposing Roland’s tricks by extinguishing the Will-o’-the-wisps around the platform.

• Shi and the others welcomed Su Qiao back and learned Han would arrive soon.
• Su Qiao called Roland a fake Divine Emissary, while Gu and others accused her of disrespecting the Beast God.
• Su Qiao leaped onto the platform and challenged the Beast God to punish her, but the statue did not react.
• Su Qiao announced she would expose Roland’s tricks and waved out all the Will-o’-the-wisps, astonishing the tribesmen.

Su Qiao exposed Roland’s strange knowledge and belongings, making Xize and the Wolf Clan question whether Roland was truly a beastman and Divine Emissary. The chapter ended with Su Qiao claiming there were genuine gods in the Beastman Continent.

• Su Qiao explained that she had extinguished the will-o'-the-wisp by removing the oxygen around it, while Roland tried to reassert her authority.
• Su Qiao showed Roland her glowing phone, and the watching beastmen began to doubt Roland’s identity.
• Xize confronted Roland about lying, and Roland insisted she came from a distant Ape Clan and had been chosen as the Divine Emissary.
• Roland claimed her unusual clothes, knife, and phone came from her more advanced tribe, while Su Qiao waited for her explanation to end.
• Su Qiao told Roland that genuine gods existed in the Beastman Continent.

Su Qiao challenged the Beast God to stop Roland from dragging the continent into war, betting that he would appear. The Beast God manifested above his statue, leaving Roland and the wolf clan stunned and kneeling.

• Su Qiao warned Roland that the Beast God truly existed and could kill her easily.
• Su Qiao told the Beast God that Roland’s ambitions could plunge the Beastman Continent into war, and vowed to stop her because she had killed Su Qiao’s father and clansmen.
• Su Qiao and 444 prepared for the possibility that the Beast God might support Roland, with 444 activating Level One Safety Protection.
• Roland tried to dismiss Su Qiao’s claims, but a vivid golden dragon phantom appeared above the statue.
• The wolf clan bowed to the Beast God, and Roland fell to her knees in terror.

Su Qiao confronted the Beast God and demanded that he expose Roland as a fake Divine Emissary. The Beast God agreed, but warned Su Qiao not to run wild in the plane he had protected for tens of thousands of years.

• The golden dragon transformed into a man, isolated himself and Su Qiao's group with a barrier, and demanded to know why Su Qiao had not knelt before him.
• Su Qiao mocked the Beast God for having eye gunk and accused him of hiding away on his treasure instead of answering her calls.
• The Beast God awkwardly asked Su Qiao what she wanted, while Su Qiao explained that she had forced him to appear because he could not act against them.
• Su Qiao described her own violent reputation and joked that she should at least wait for people to attack her before wiping them out.
• The Beast God agreed to tell his people that Roland was a fake Divine Emissary, but warned Su Qiao not to run wild in his protected plane.

Su Qiao questioned the Beast God about his intentions and learned he cared only about his spatial realm and uninterrupted sleep. After he left, she speculated about her own origins before turning back to the watching tribe members.

• Su Qiao asked the Beast God why he was friendly instead of attacking her, and he said he wanted to sleep rather than fight.
• Su Qiao told the Beast God she still intended to take revenge on Roland, and he allowed her to do as she wanted as long as she did not disrupt his spatial realm.
• The Beast God vanished, and Su Qiao wondered whether she came from an important background.
• 444 reminded Su Qiao that the tribe members were watching her, and she told them the Beast God had said she could do whatever she wanted.
• The tribe members were surprised by Su Qiao's account of the Beast God's instructions.

Su Qiao exposed Roland’s false claim to be the Beast God’s Divine Emissary and warned that she had lost his protection. Wizard Yi then revealed Roland had poisoned him and accused her of plotting to kill the Old Chieftain and tribesmen, leaving the tribe ready to punish her.

• Su Qiao told the tribe that the Beast God had never sent Roland as a Divine Emissary, and Roland and Gu challenged her claim.
• Su Qiao said the Beast God’s withdrawal of protection was already a punishment that would leave Roland vulnerable to danger.
• Wizard Yi appeared with Han and revealed that he had survived severe poisoning because Su Qiao and Han returned in time.
• Wizard Yi accused Roland of poisoning him and scheming to kill the Old Chieftain and other tribesmen to seize control of the Wolf Clan.
• The tribesmen turned on Roland and called for her to be beaten to death.

Roland's schemes were exposed, and the Wolf Clan Tribe turned against her and Xize's group. Han ordered them expelled before the Snow Season, and Xize left with the five beastmen who had followed him.

• Roland tried to keep the tribespeople away by claiming she was the Divine Emissary, but Wizard Yi and the tribe rejected her.
• Wizard Yi accused Xize and the five beastmen of helping Roland harm their fellow tribespeople, and they could not defend themselves.
• Su Qiao chose not to let Roland die yet, and Han agreed with her plan to drive Roland's group out of the tribe.
• Han declared that Roland, Xize, and the five beastmen had to leave before the Snow Season, while the tribespeople denounced them.
• Xize left the tribe, and the five beastmen followed him after their relatives and the tribe turned against them.

After Roland and Gu burned the tribe’s food store, Su Qiao promised a quick way to gather enough meat and furs before Snow Season. The next day, she and Han began preparing a hunting plan in a grassland clearing.

• Su Qiao and Wizard Yi treated the two guards wounded when Gu set fire to the food cave, and Han reported that most of the meat and furs were ruined.
• The furious tribe members wanted to attack Roland and the others, but Wizard Yi urged them to focus on preparing for Snow Season.
• Han proposed round-the-clock hunting, but Su Qiao said she could teach them a faster method and promised to stockpile enough food and furs within ten days.
• Su Qiao and Han led the tribe to a level stretch of ground, where they dug a circular trench, filled it with bamboo spikes, and burned dried herbs to send smoke toward the forest.

Su Qiao’s Beast-Attracting Powder and anesthetic traps let the Wolf Tribe hunt a small Beast Tide with little effort, and the tribe quickly gathered enough food for winter. She also taught the Female Beasts how to preserve meat, process hides, and make warm clothes, using a fluffy cotton-like material she and Han had found.

• Su Qiao lured wild beasts to anesthetic-coated trenches, and Han led the beastmen down from the trees to kill and collect the trapped prey.
• The beastmen returned to the tribe with a large haul, and Shi told Wizard Yi that Han and Su Qiao had stayed behind to spread more medicine.
• Shi gave Wizard Yi Anesthetic Powder from Su Qiao to use against anyone who might attack the tribe.
• Wizard Yi sent most of the clansmen to join Han and Su Qiao, leaving ten disabled beastmen to guard the tribe.
• Over three days, more than two hundred beastmen brought back enough prey to fill the largest Stone Cave, while Su Qiao taught the Female Beasts to make sausages, treat hides, and sew winter clothes.

Su Qiao prepared the Wolf Clan Tribe for winter by making pottery, gathering herbs, and building heated beds. Meanwhile, Roland and Xize reached the Tiger Clan Tribe, where Roland’s behavior drove a wounded Xize into a dilemma.

• Su Qiao remembered the tribe needed pottery and arranged with Han for beastmen to build kilns and fire bowls and pots.
• Su Qiao gathered medicinal herbs and led older beastmen in building heated beds with chimneys for every cave, with Wizard Yi joining the work.
• Roland and Xize arrived at the Tiger Clan Tribe after four of their companions died fleeing wild beasts, and Roland persuaded the chief to accept them.
• Roland began flirting with the Tiger Clan chief and slept with him, enraging Xize, who could not leave because his arm and abdomen were injured.

Roland and Xize argued over her relationship with Hu and her decision to remain with the Tiger Clan Tribe. Xize left in disappointment, while Roland stayed determined to use Hu and the tribe’s power against the wolf clan and Qiao.

• Xize confronted Roland after Gu told him she had entered Hu’s cave with him.
• Roland admitted she had been with Hu once and claimed she had done it to protect Xize from the Tiger Clan Tribe.
• Xize said he would rather die than have Roland sacrifice herself for him and urged her to leave the tribe with him.
• Roland refused to leave, arguing that she needed to stay close to Hu and that other female beastmen also had multiple mates.
• Xize told Roland she had changed and walked away, while she resolved to rely on the Tiger Clan Tribe to defeat the wolf clan and Qiao.

Su Qiao and Han led the Wolf Clan to the final Trade Fair of the year, bringing ceramics and cured sausages to trade for salt. At the meadow, Su Qiao cooked rabbit soup as other tribes arrived and drew attention from the gathered beastmen.

• After half a month passed, the final Trade Fair of the year began with only half of Snow Season remaining.
• Su Qiao and Han led twenty-one Wolf Clan members, carrying ceramics and cured sausages, toward the trade gathering six mountains away.
• The group hunted prey near the meadow before entering, then set up camp among the tribes already gathered there.
• Su Qiao simmered rabbit soup with seasonings, and its aroma spread across the meadow.
• Beastmen from other tribes admired Su Qiao and recognized her as the daughter of the Wolf Clan leader Enda.

Su Qiao confronted Gu at the trading grounds and crippled him for burning down the Food Cave. The wolf-clan and tiger-clan beastmen prepared to fight as Han blocked Tiger Clan Leader Hu.

• Su Qiao and Han arrived at the trading grounds, where Roland appeared with Hu and the tiger-clan beastmen.
• Su Qiao spotted Gu hiding among the tiger-clan group and rushed over to attack him.
• Han blocked Hu while the wolf-clan beastmen drew their bone knives to stop the tiger-clan from joining the fight.
• Su Qiao broke Gu’s arms and legs, then declared she was sparing his life for his parents’ sake.

Su Qiao confronted Roland at the Trade Fair, accusing her of arranging an attack on the Wolf Tribe and impersonating the Divine Emissary. As the surrounding tribes demanded an explanation, Su Qiao recounted Roland’s crimes and said she and Han had exposed her and summoned the Beast God to judge her.

• Han carried Su Qiao back to the Wolf Tribe’s tent while the Wolf Tribe beastmen retreated into their territory on guard.
• Roland challenged Su Qiao for crippling Gu, and Su Qiao accused Roland of plotting to burn the Wolf Tribe’s Food Cave.
• Su Qiao mocked Roland for pretending to be the Divine Emissary after being driven from the Wolf Tribe.
• The beastmen questioned whether Roland had impersonated the Divine Emissary, and the Tiger Tribe chief asked Su Qiao to explain.
• Su Qiao claimed Roland had drugged and killed her father and more than a dozen Wolf Tribe members, poisoned the shaman, and impersonated the Divine Emissary.
• Su Qiao said she and Han had saved the shaman, exposed Roland, and summoned the Beast God to preside over justice.

Su Qiao exposed Roland as a liar by claiming the Beast God had spoken to her and no longer protected Roland. Roland defended herself, but Su Qiao challenged her story while Han and Shi looked after Su Qiao.

• Su Qiao claimed the Beast God had spared Roland but would no longer protect her, making the Tiger Tribe members back away from Roland.
• Roland denied Su Qiao's accusation and recalled how she had earned the Tiger Tribe's trust by teaching them useful skills after fleeing the Wolf Tribe.
• Su Qiao challenged Roland to explain why the Beast God had supposedly spoken only to Su Qiao and claimed he had sent her instructions.
• Han squeezed Su Qiao's waist, then offered her meat soup and asked Shi to bring her a stone stool.
• Su Qiao sat down and drank the meat soup while the argument continued.

Su Qiao forced Roland to agree to ask the Beast God to appear, while Hu escorted Roland back toward the Tiger Clan Tribe. The Wolf Clan completed its trades, exchanging pottery for salt and acquiring wheat seeds and a petroleum-like substance.

• Su Qiao challenged Roland to summon the Beast God, and Roland agreed to pray for him to appear upon returning to the Tiger Clan Tribe.
• Hu threatened Su Qiao and escorted Roland back, while Xize stayed with Roland because he had nowhere else to go.
• Su Qiao teased Han about forming a bond, and Han happily picked her up before setting her down to protect her soup.
• Han sent Shi and others to trade with the Sea Clan, and the Wolf Clan exchanged eight baskets of pottery for eight baskets of salt.
• Su Qiao traded the remaining goods with the Eagle Clan for wheat seeds and with the Fox Clan for twenty bamboo tubes of a petroleum-like substance.