Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi studied the Royal Court shaman inheritances and uncovered clues about the power of Grand Shamans and Source Totems. When E and Chang tried to seize his treasures, Lu Xingshi beat them and left them crawling on the ground, while both vowed revenge.

• Lu Xingshi studied the Bronze and Silver Royal Court inheritances and inferred that Grand Shamans controlled Source Totems and could direct Totem Warriors.
• E and Chang confronted Lu Xingshi and demanded treasures they claimed Qing Ling Shaman had given him.
• Lu Xingshi challenged Chang's claims and exposed that Chang had been using E to pursue the treasures for his own benefit.
• E decided to take the treasures anyway, and Lu Xingshi attacked, dislocating E's joints and beating Chang.
• Lu Xingshi left as E and Chang lay humiliated before a growing crowd, with E blaming Chang and both men plotting against Lu Xingshi.

After planning to study Silver Bloodline, Lu Xingshi left his Royal Court residence to find a safe place for experiments. When a Royal Court Enforcement Guard tried to punish him for defending himself against robbers, Lu Xingshi accepted expulsion and walked out, leaving the guard afraid of the fallout.

• Lu Xingshi considered obtaining Silver Bloodline captives for experiments and decided to start with a small number in a remote laboratory.
• Lu Xingshi set out to scout for a secluded location, but a Royal Court Enforcement Guard confronted him over injuring the people who had robbed him.
• The guard announced that Lu Xingshi would be expelled from the Royal Court, and Lu Xingshi immediately agreed to leave.
• The guard tried to reverse the decision by demanding that Lu Xingshi apologize to E, but Lu Xingshi packed his belongings and departed.
• Lu Xingshi planned to use the incident to damage the alliance between the Bronze Tree Tribe and the Bronze Royal Court, while the guard went to seek E's help.

Jiu returned to the Royal Court, confronted E over Lu’s expulsion, and moved to repair the damage while the Enforcement Guard took E in. Meanwhile, Hui struck Ke from the Bronze Tree Tribe’s rolls, causing Ke’s bloodline to fade as he realized he had lost his standing.

• Jiu learned that Lu had been expelled using her name and questioned E about his role in the incident.
• Jiu cut ties with E, ordered him to explain himself to the Enforcement Guard, and left to find a way to bring Lu back.
• E blamed Chang, but the Enforcement Guard arrived and told him Chang had fled and been struck from the rolls.
• Hui used the Bronze Tree Totem to erase Ke’s name because Ke had defected with Lu Xingshi’s Bright Pearl.
• Ke’s bloodline began fading, and he realized Hui had struck him from the rolls.

Lu Xingshi prepared explosives to throw the Bronze Royal Court into chaos, hoping to seize a Bronze Totem Fragment and Silver Bloodline while protecting his identity. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King decided Lu would be publicly blamed for the scandal, leaving Jiu to carry the decision back to him.

• Lu Xingshi extracted concentrated Silver Bloodline from more than a hundred prisoners, while his experiment on Chang ended in Chang's death from bloodline conflict.
• Lu Xingshi tested gunpowder, found that it worked but left a detectable smell, and arranged for Yan Kingdom to make sealed explosives with reduced power.
• Lu Xingshi collected the explosives and waited for nightfall before planning to place them around the Bronze Royal Court.
• Jiu asked the Bronze Shaman King to let her bring Lu back, but he said the Royal Court had to answer the Tribes' dissatisfaction first.
• The Bronze Shaman King decided Lu would publicly take the blame and privately receive compensation, while the Bronze Tree Tribe would face a reduced conscription quota in the coming Royal Court War.

Lu Xingshi stole Silver bloodlines and a piece of the Bronze Totem during the chaos he caused at the Bronze Royal Court, while the Bronze Shaman King blamed the Golden Royal Court and began investigating. Ke, stripped of his bloodline, agreed to help a Snake Spirit agent in exchange for the chance to regain it.

• Lu Xingshi used the explosions as cover to drain more than a thousand Silver slaves, steal a Bronze Totem fragment, and escape the Royal Court.
• The Bronze Shaman King failed to find Lu Xingshi and concluded that a spy from the Golden Royal Court had caused the chaos to drain the slaves’ blood.
• The Bronze Shaman King captured a fleeing shaman with his Bronze Suppression Beast and summoned Jiu for questioning.
• Ke despaired over losing his bloodline and refused to return to the Bronze Tree Tribe.
• A Snake Spirit agent offered Ke the chance to regain his bloodline if he helped damage the Bronze Royal Court, and Ke accepted.

On his way back to the Bronze Tree Tribe, Lu Xingshi found a giant, wriggling egg and fought the Snake Spirit Bloodline bearer who claimed it. Lu Xingshi defeated the Seven-Mark Totem Warrior and prepared to question him about the egg and his plan to unleash a plague on the Bronze Royal Court.

• Lu Xingshi found a giant, snake-scaled egg with a human figure inside, picked it up, and decided to take it with him.
• A Snake Spirit Bloodline bearer attacked Lu Xingshi and demanded that he return the egg, explaining that it contained a plague meant to devastate the Bronze Royal Court.
• Lu Xingshi refused to surrender the egg and easily knocked the Seven-Mark Totem Warrior down twice, then overwhelmed him with a powerful punch that shattered his arms and badly injured him.
• The Snake Spirit Bloodline bearer guessed that Lu Xingshi was the Bronze Shaman King's son, but Lu Xingshi denied it and explained that strength depended on the Bloodline.
• Lu Xingshi seized the injured man and said it was his turn to ask questions.

Lu Xingshi uncovered and killed a Snake Spirit Royal Court agent who planned to unleash a plague on the Bronze Bloodline, then found Bright Pearl on the corpse and realized the traitor in the egg was Ke. Meanwhile, Hui learned that Lu had been expelled from the Bronze Royal Court and recognized that Jiu had framed him.

• Lu Xingshi tortured the Snake Spirit agent until he revealed that he had created a plague using a Bronze Bloodline traitor as its vessel.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the agent’s offer to provide information about other infiltrators and crushed his head, then extracted his Snake Spirit Bloodline.
• Lu Xingshi found Bright Pearl on the corpse and realized that Ke was the traitor inside the giant egg.
• Hui learned from a Royal Court Envoy that Lu had been expelled after supposedly stealing a treasure and attacking its holder.
• Hui concluded that Jiu had framed Lu and suspected other shamans had shared in the scheme.

Lu Xingshi rescued Ke from a giant egg and discovered that Ke carried a Betrayer Plague capable of threatening the Bronze Tree Tribe. He decided to destroy Ke before the plague could spread, but the plague began activating as Ke lost consciousness.

• Ke woke inside a giant egg, and Lu Xingshi helped him escape while Ke warned that a Seven Blood Marks warrior was nearby.
• Ke noticed Lu Xingshi had reached three Blood Marks and realized something was wrong, but Lu Xingshi seized him when he tried to leave.
• Lu Xingshi explained that Ke had been turned into a plague source targeting the Bronze Bloodline and said he could not let Ke live.
• Ke offered Lu Xingshi knowledge of future opportunities and promised to leave the Bronze Royal Court's lands, but Lu Xingshi refused because Ke was too dangerous.
• Ke cursed Lu Xingshi, who knocked him unconscious after sensing that the Betrayer Plague was activating.
• Lu Xingshi realized the plague had been triggered and that he could no longer wait to find a suitable place to deal with Ke.

Lu Xingshi destroyed the Betrayer Plague in Ke but discovered a powerful, unknown bloodline hidden within him. A Royal Court Envoy arrived too late to rescue Ke, then infected himself by digging up the remains, leaving Lu Xingshi to deal with the consequences.

• Lu Xingshi extracted a dormant, powerful bloodline from Ke and wondered why Ke had failed to escape despite seeming to have protagonist's luck.
• A Royal Court Envoy encountered Lu Xingshi and questioned him about what he was doing alone in the wilderness.
• Lu Xingshi taunted the envoy about the suspicious ground where Ke's corpse was buried, warning him not to dig.
• The Royal Court Envoy dug up the mummified corpse, triggering the remaining Betrayer Plague and losing one Blood Mark.
• Lu Xingshi told the infected envoy to stay calm as he vomited black blood and demanded to know what had infected him.

Lu Xingshi learned that Royal Court Envoys had been withholding treasures tribes bought with War Merits and traveled toward the Bronze Tree Tribe with Xi of the Fire Copper Tribe. The Bronze Shaman King learned that tribal delegations had been obstructed and attacked while seeking answers, and promised to investigate before the Royal Court lost the tribes’ support.

• Lu Xingshi burned the Royal Court Envoy’s corpse and suspected the Royal Court would conceal the truth and blame him.
• Lu Xingshi met Xi, who was traveling to the Bronze Tree Tribe to investigate treasures the Fire Copper Tribe had exchanged for with War Merits but never received.
• Lu Xingshi told Xi that the Royal Court had likely intercepted the tribes’ treasures and advised him to bring other affected tribes when seeking an explanation.
• Lu Xingshi and Xi continued toward the Bronze Tree Tribe together, and Xi agreed to report Lu Xingshi’s account to Chu Shaman.
• Several Totem Warriors told the Bronze Shaman King that the Royal Court had declared their treasures lost, obstructed their audience, and attacked or expelled people seeking answers.
• The Bronze Shaman King realized his earlier cover-up had helped the perpetrators and promised the tribal delegations an explanation.

Lu Xingshi returned to the Bronze Tree Tribe, where he and Hui decided the Tribe would migrate because the Black White Calamity was spreading and the Royal Court would not help them. As Lu Xingshi learned more about Ke’s mysterious parents, Hui prepared the Tribe for migration while Lu Xingshi focused on mastering the Bronze Tree Totem.

• Hui learned that Lu Xingshi had survived the Royal Court’s expulsion by consuming all the treasures the Tribe had sent him, and Lu Xingshi showed him his elemental might.
• Lu Xingshi and Hui agreed that the Tribe had to migrate as the Black White Calamity threatened its settlement, and Hui explained they could plant a Totem Seed at their new home after the old Bronze Tree Totem died from being moved.
• Lu Xingshi gave Hui Bright Pearl and told him he had encountered Ke, while concealing details about the Betrayer Plague and the Royal Court Envoys.
• Lu Xingshi asked about Ke’s parents, and Hui explained that Ke’s gifted father had left the Tribe with an unknown woman who was likely from a powerful Royal Court.
• Lu Xingshi wondered what they would say if Ke’s parents returned, but Hui dismissed the concern and blamed them for abandoning Ke and the Tribe.

Lu Xingshi gained a mutated Totem Spell and developed a limited sense of the Bronze Tree Tribe’s territory, then assessed the costs and limits of advancing his bloodline. After entering Totem Space to search for Ke’s father, he discovered that his own name on the Bronze Tree was barely painted on and had begun to rub away.

• Lu Xingshi harnessed the Bronze Tree Totem, gained Healing Protection · Slow, and guided his bloodline again, breaking three roots in the process.
• Lu Xingshi gained Strategic Sense, which let him perceive outsiders in Tribal territory and cast Totem Spells precisely across it, but his spells’ Bronze Bloodline restrictions limited their usefulness.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that repeated bloodline guidance would make advancement increasingly difficult, estimated that he could reach Four Blood Stripes in about ten days, and chose to help the Tribe find a suitable home before investigating the Black White Calamity.
• Lu Xingshi entered Totem Space to look for Ke’s father but found no trace of him.
• Lu Xingshi noticed his name looked poorly painted on the Bronze Tree, touched it, and discovered that one stroke had rubbed away, so he hurried to repair it before Hui noticed.

Lu Xingshi learned that the Royal Court had accused multiple Tribes of stealing their treasures, giving the Bronze Tree Tribe a chance to seek compensation and relocation aid. He persuaded Hui to let him leave the Tribe to search for a place to relocate, while the Tribe prepared to demand its lost treasures.

• Lu Xingshi spent ten days controlling the totem, became a Four Blood Stripes Totem Warrior, and slightly strengthened his three Totem Spells.
• Hui told Lu Xingshi that Chu and the surrounding Tribes planned to confront the Royal Court after its guards accused their representatives of stealing treasures and expelled them.
• Lu Xingshi realized the Royal Court might now pay relocation compensation, and Hui said he had sent Wo to demand compensation for the Bronze Tree Tribe's supposedly lost treasures.
• Hui explained that Wo had changed the compensation list to include Blood Copper, Bone Copper, and Flesh Copper for Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi asked to leave and search for a relocation site, and Hui agreed after telling him to be careful and return early.

Lu Xingshi searched for a new place for the Bronze Tree Tribe while studying bloodlines, totems, and Flower Body Red Copper. His attempts to transfer samples to Bodhi Enlightenment True Lord failed because they could not survive outside the Wild World, so he planned to rely on the data and experiments he could conduct himself.

• Lu Xingshi left the Bronze Tree Tribe’s Hunting Area to seek a settlement with water, copper, vicious beasts, and fertile land, but found no White Calamity Insects.
• Lu Xingshi reasoned that Flower Body Red Copper functioned as a public network and considered whether merging totem fragments could make it evolve.
• Lu Xingshi sent bloodline samples and Silver and Bronze Totem fragments to Bodhi Enlightenment True Lord, but the bloodlines rotted and the fragments turned to powder outside the Wild World.
• Lu Xingshi used Returning Wind Reversing Fire to restore and freeze the samples, then decided to use Bodhi Enlightenment True Lord’s research data to guide his own experiments.
• Lu Xingshi considered seeking Golden Bloodline and Golden Totem fragments if the Golden Royal Court moved against the Bronze Royal Court, then practiced controlling his totem and bloodline with Flower Body Red Copper.

The Bronze Shaman King acknowledged that Lu had been falsely blamed for the missing Elemental Refined Copper and ordered compensation for him and the Bronze Tree Tribe. As Wo left with the tribe’s demands approved, the Bronze Shaman King began planning new oversight and punishments to prevent further losses.

• Wo confronted the Bronze Shaman King over the Bronze Tree Tribe’s missing treasures and Lu’s false accusation.
• The Bronze Shaman King admitted that the treasures had been lost at the Royal Court, ordered Lu’s name cleared, and approved compensation for Lu and the tribe.
• Wo secured Blood Copper, Bone Copper, and Flesh Copper for the tribe, along with compensation for Lu’s study quota.
• Xi and members of other tribes backed Wo when a shaman challenged him, and the shaman withdrew.
• The Bronze Shaman King considered creating a supervisory guard, purging the Royal Court Enforcement Guard, and adding punishments to the laws.

Lu Xingshi found a suitable new homeland for the Bronze Tree Tribe and learned that war with the Golden Royal Court was approaching. He headed back with Colorful Light Copper and plans for developing his three bloodlines, while Wo prepared to escort the tribe’s supplies home.

• Lu Xingshi found a resource-rich area with no nearby Tribes and confirmed it could support the Bronze Tree Tribe.
• Bodhi Enlightenment True Lord sent Lu Xingshi a half-complete Artificial Totem project intended to help him fuse his gold, silver, and bronze bloodlines.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that a Golden Royal Court scout had been sent to recruit him as an informant, and he rejected the idea of defecting.
• Lu Xingshi brought back Colorful Light Copper, used ten portions to gain about five percent progress toward condensing Four Blood Stripes, and considered seeking silver treasures in the Silver Royal Court ruins.
• Wo checked the Royal Court’s supplies before setting out for the Bronze Tree Tribe, wary that goods might go missing during the long journey.

Lu Xingshi ate the Bronze Tree Totem’s discarded bronze shell and sensed a new Bloodline Ability beginning to form, but he concealed the result from Hui. As Lu Xingshi and Hui finished preparing the totem for the Bronze Tree Tribe’s migration, they heard the White Calamity stirring abnormally and fled.

• Hui explained that the Bronze Tree Totem could be replanted from its fruit and proposed that Lu Xingshi eat the shell it left behind.
• Lu Xingshi ate the shell, felt a new Bloodline Ability starting to gestate, and realized it needed the Bronze Tree Fruit to be completed.
• Lu Xingshi told Hui that eating the shell had done nothing, while privately considering whether Flower Body Red Copper could help complete or alter the ability.
• Lu Xingshi confirmed that he could still cast weaker Totem Spells through the Bronze Tree Fruit, which Hui planned to carry during the migration.
• Lu Xingshi and Hui heard the White Calamity Insects waking outside their normal season, learned the Black Calamity was also behaving abnormally, and ran.

Lu Xingshi and Hui discovered that the Black White Calamity was pursuing them because of the Bronze Tree Totem and Fruit, and they fled toward the Royal Court as the threat grew. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King divined that danger was approaching from the north and prepared to send Totem Warriors to deal with it.

• Lu Xingshi identified the White Calamity Insects as Devouring Dragon Ants and realized the Black Calamity Worms were Phoenix Eating Centipedes.
• Hui concluded that the calamity was pursuing them because Lu Xingshi had eaten the Bronze Tree Totem and Hui had taken the Bronze Tree Fruit.
• Lu Xingshi and Hui tried to flee, but the White Calamity Insects attacked Lu Xingshi and a Black Calamity Worm burst from the ground.
• Lu Xingshi kicked the first Black Calamity Worm back underground, but a much larger second worm appeared, so Hui urged them to run to the Royal Court.
• The Bronze Shaman King divined that danger was approaching the Royal Court from the north and ordered Totem Warriors with Nine Blood Stripes to respond.

Lu Xingshi and Hui were rescued from the Black White Calamity by twelve Royal Court Envoys, who destroyed the pursuing worms before continuing north on the Shaman King's orders. Afterward, Hui explained how the Envoys served the Royal Court, and Lu Xingshi and Hui wondered what urgent threat had prompted the Royal Court to send so many warriors north.

• On the seventh day of their flight, Hui ran out of strength, and Lu Xingshi carried him while searching for food.
• Twelve Nine-Mark Totem Warriors arrived, identified themselves as Royal Court Envoys, and attacked the Black White Calamity Worms as Hui explained how he and Lu Xingshi had encountered them.
• The Envoys destroyed the Black Calamity Worms and White Calamity Insects, warned Lu Xingshi and Hui to be careful, then asked about the north before continuing their journey.
• After finding Hui food, Lu Xingshi asked about the Envoys, and Hui explained that the Royal Court recruited Totem Warriors from tribes to serve voluntarily in exchange for resources.
• Lu Xingshi and Hui questioned why the Shaman King had sent twelve Nine-Mark Totem Warriors north, and Hui suggested it might relate to the Snake Spirit Royal Court's poisoning plot.

After waiting at the Bronze Tree Tribe’s old settlement, Lu Xingshi reunited with Wo, who returned from the Royal Court with compensation and supplies. They prepared to travel to the tribe’s new home, while Lu Xingshi kept his strength and research secret from the Royal Court Envoys.

• Lu Xingshi stayed behind to study Flower Body Red Copper and experiment with evolving his Bronze Body, but he postponed the final step to avoid risking his spellcasting.
• Wo returned early with Blood Copper, Flesh Copper, Bone Copper, and other goods, and Lu Xingshi confirmed that Hui and the tribe had settled at a new location.
• Lu Xingshi told Wo that Royal Court Envoys had destroyed the Black White Calamity, concealing how powerful he was from the people traveling with them.
• Wo explained that the Shaman King had compensated Lu Xingshi with valuable copper treasures, including Shadowfiend Copper and Spirit Mysterious Copper, and that he had followed Hui’s instructions.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Wo had brought no Silver slaves and decided to delay consuming the compensation so the Royal Court Envoys would not discover his unusual strength.