Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi confronted Yue and Chuan over abandoning Ke, while they sought his body and asked Hui to remove their names from the Bronze Tree Totem. After Lu removed Yue’s name, Yue revealed he could change bloodlines and left with Chuan to seek an explanation from the Snake Spirit Royal Court.

• Lu Xingshi argued with Yue and Chuan, rejecting their attempt to blame him for Ke’s death and telling them to seek the Snake Spirit Royal Court for Ke’s body.
• Yue asked Hui to remove his and Ke’s names from the totem, and Chuan disparaged the Bronze Bloodline as a burden.
• Lu Xingshi challenged Yue to compensate the tribe for the resources spent raising him and Ke, and Yue gave Hui a crystalline jade stone.
• Hui sent Lu Xingshi to remove Yue’s name from the Bronze Tree Totem, and Yue briefly weakened before recovering with a changed bloodline.
• Yue and Chuan left the Bronze Tree Tribe to demand an explanation from the Snake Spirit Royal Court, despite Hui’s warning about traveling without the Bronze Bloodline.

Lu Xingshi learned that Yue and Chuan had returned hoping to use Ke to heal their other child, while Hui explained the couple’s powerful, mysterious Royal Court connections. As Yue and Chuan left, they clashed with the Twelve Royal Court Envoys, and Yue’s attempt to conceal his past turned into a fight.

• Hui told Lu Xingshi that Chuan was Ke’s aunt, that Ke’s mother was dead, and that Yue and Chuan wanted to use Ke to address their other child’s flawed bloodline.
• Hui explained that Yue had cultivated a powerful new bloodline using his Bronze Bloodline and had returned to remove his name, while Lu Xingshi considered the couple’s wealth and unknown Royal Court backing.
• Hui said Yue’s patrons might possess powerful divination abilities, but reassured Lu Xingshi that the Bronze Royal Court could defend its tribes against foreign attackers.
• As Yue and Chuan departed, the Twelve Royal Court Envoys questioned them, and Yue claimed he had left the Bronze Tree Tribe eight years earlier and was now departing for good.
• When Chuan challenged the Envoys’ questioning, Yue killed two of them with his Bloodline Ability, and the remaining ten attacked after accusing the pair of being Snake Spirit Royal Court spies.

Yue and Chuan fled the Bronze Royal Court after killing its twelve envoys, while arguing over their son Xu and the bloodline conflict that threatened him. The Bronze Shaman King identified their Radiance bloodline, spread warnings along their route, and began investigating what they had come to do.

• Yue rebuked Chuan for her behavior, and she lashed out over her dead sister Ai and their son Ke.
• Chuan demanded that Yue destroy the Bronze Royal Court to avenge Xu, but Yue abandoned her demand and left with her.
• Yue blamed Chuan for delaying their search for Ke and told her to have another child now that his Bronze Bloodline was gone.
• Yue and Chuan fled the Bronze Royal Court, knowing the Bronze Shaman King would not spare them for killing his envoys.
• The Bronze Shaman King used Totem Spells to identify the killers as bearers of the Radiance Bloodline and spread warnings to hostile Royal Courts along their route.
• The Bronze Shaman King concluded that the pair had caused the northern crisis and ordered an investigation, while mourning the loss of twelve Nine-Mark Totem Warriors.

Lu Xingshi strengthened the Bronze Tree Tribe with a new Totem Spell before a Royal Court Envoy revealed that Yue and Chuan had killed twelve Royal Court Envoys and came from the Radiance Royal Court. Lu rejected Jiu’s invitation to study at the Royal Court and remained in the Tribe, while keeping his grudge against those who had wronged him.

• Lu Xingshi ate Three-in-One Bronze and gained the Bloody Massacre · Frenzy Totem Spell, boosting the Tribe’s combat strength.
• Shi arrived at the Bronze Tree Tribe and showed Lu Xingshi and Hui silhouettes they recognized as Yue and Chuan.
• Shi revealed that Yue and Chuan had killed twelve Royal Court Envoys, and that Chuan was the Radiance Shaman King’s daughter while Yue had taken the Radiance Bloodline.
• Shi said Jiu had invited Lu Xingshi to study at the Royal Court and offered to resolve his quota issue, but Lu declined and chose to stay in the Tribe.
• Shi clarified that Jiu’s nephew E had been responsible for the earlier trouble involving Lu and the Tribes; Lu said the matter was in the past but continued to remember the grievance.

Lu Xingshi demonstrated that his Five Blood Stripes gave him the strength of a Nine-Stripe Totem Warrior, while discussing how the Bronze Tree Tribe’s resources had been spent supporting him. Hui warned that another war with the Golden Royal Court might be approaching, and the chapter ended with the tribe expecting to send fifty people to the front.

• Lu Xingshi explained that his powerful bloodline required far more resources to advance, then showed Hui that he could shatter a Nine-Stripe-strength defensive spell with one punch.
• Hui admitted that the Bronze Tree Tribe could not afford to keep supplying Lu Xingshi, and Lu Xingshi promised to find his own resources and eventually help the tribe prosper.
• Hui revealed that his divination suggested a new war connected to the Royal Court’s lost treasure and the recent deaths of twelve Royal Court Envoys.
• Lu Xingshi asked whether the tribe could avoid conscription, and Hui said his compensation might exempt some members but that fifty people would still have to go.

After Dai disappeared from the fields, Lu Xingshi traced his tracks and discovered that a fast-flying peng had taken him. Lu Xingshi protected the tribe from another attack and planned to hunt the young beast before clearing other dangers from the area.

• Lu Xingshi investigated Dai's disappearance and concluded that a flying ferocious beast had snatched him from the fields.
• A black shadow swooped toward a tribe member, but Lu Xingshi struck at it and drove it back into the clouds.
• Lu Xingshi identified the attacker as a young peng and told Hui that they could track its nest and kill it.
• Hui agreed to forge thumb-sized ingots for Lu Xingshi to throw and asked him to protect the tribe from the peng.
• Lu Xingshi refused to wait for Royal Court Envoys and planned to deal with the peng before searching the area for other ferocious beasts.

Lu Xingshi killed a young Peng that attacked the Bronze Tree Tribe, then defeated its furious parent when it came to avenge it. Afterward, Hui explained how rare such powerful beasts were and warned that Shaman Kings were on an entirely different level; Lu Xingshi remained curious about his chances against one.

• The young Peng attacked a Bronze Tree Tribe worker, but Lu Xingshi blasted its wings, caught it, and tore off its head.
• Hui urged Lu Xingshi to find and eliminate the Peng Birds raising the young one, and Lu Xingshi prepared to go alone.
• The adult Peng Bird arrived and threatened to destroy the tribe, but Lu Xingshi punched it out of the sky and Hui finished it with a Totem Spell.
• Hui said the Peng Bird was likely around Nine Patterns and explained that most tribes would need a Royal Court Envoy to deal with such a beast.
• Lu Xingshi asked about his chances against a Shaman King, and Hui estimated five percent, explaining that Shaman Kings were Grand Shamans who generally required another Shaman King to defeat.

Lu Xingshi searched for threats and food in the tribe’s Hunting Area, killed an ancient Land Turtle, and learned that its body could not be eaten. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King answered the Golden Royal Court’s declaration of war by ordering the conscription of two-thirds of the population, leaving both sides preparing for battle.

• Lu Xingshi found the abandoned Peng Bird nest, destroyed it, and decided not to pursue the surviving Peng Bird.
• Lu Xingshi sensed something watching him, uncovered an ancient Land Turtle buried beneath a cliff, and killed it by attacking its remaining flesh-and-blood parts.
• The Gold Shaman King’s golden spear shattered the Bronze Shaman King’s response to the Golden Royal Court’s declaration of war.
• The Bronze Shaman King ordered the tribes to provide two-thirds of their population for the coming war, and Jiu’s attempt to object was cut short.
• The shamans dispatched Royal Court Envoys as both Royal Courts entered preparations for war.

Lu Xingshi learned that the Bronze Tree Tribe had to send two-thirds of its Totem Warriors to fight the Golden Royal Court, and he agreed to prepare Three-in-One Bronze to help them survive. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King rejected the Snake Spirit Royal Court’s offer of an alliance and ordered its envoy to leave.

• Shi told Lu Xingshi and Hui that the Shaman King’s summons required the Bronze Tree Tribe to send two-thirds of its Totem Warriors to the war against the Golden Royal Court.
• Hui accepted the summons, explaining that the Bronze Tree Tribe could not escape the consequences of either refusing or losing the war.
• Lu Xingshi agreed to produce a batch of Three-in-One Bronze by the next morning to strengthen the warriors being sent to battle.
• Hui saw Shi off with food, then explained to Lu Xingshi that the tribe could not avoid contributing to the Royal Court’s war.
• The Snake Spirit Royal Court envoy offered the Bronze Shaman King an alliance, but the Bronze Shaman King refused and warned him to leave the Bronze Territory.
• The envoy agreed to leave and report the refusal to the Snake Spirit Shaman King.

Lu Xingshi fused Flower Body Red Copper and his unborn second bloodline ability into the Bronze Body, creating the Great Saint Body and greatly increasing his power. He discovered that the Bronze Tree Totem now barred him from its space, leaving him unable to acquire new Totem Spells until he found another way.

• With the tribe weakened after a hundred Totem Warriors departed, Lu Xingshi continued his experiments and decided to modify his Bronze Body using Flower Body Red Copper and his unborn second bloodline ability.
• Lu Xingshi forced the two incompatible powers into the Bronze Body, which shattered; he rearranged the fragments into a new bloodline ability called the Great Saint Body.
• Lu Xingshi found that the Great Saint Body retained the Bronze Body’s abilities, gained Forgotten Totem, and let his strength grow even without controlling a totem.
• Lu Xingshi realized the Great Saint Body remained incomplete and that the Bronze Tree Totem had blacklisted him from its space, blocking him from obtaining new Totem Spells.
• When Hui asked what was wrong, Lu Xingshi concealed the problem and considered using fragments of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Source Totems to unlock their spells.

Lu Xingshi collected the final Golden Bloodline he needed while enduring the brutal spell clashes between the Bronze and Golden Shaman Kings, then escaped the battlefield to fuse his Bloodlines. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King received Bai, an envoy from the Eagle Shadow Royal Court, who promised to restrain the Snake Spirit Royal Court within three days.

• Lu Xingshi finished condensing a bottle of perfectly concentrated Golden Bloodline after spending more than a month on the battlefield.
• The Bronze and Gold Shaman Kings exchanged powerful Totem Spells that devastated their armies, and Lu Xingshi withdrew from the battlefield under cover of the bombardment.
• Lu Xingshi decided to find a safe place to fuse his three Bloodlines and strengthen his Great Saint Body.
• The Bronze Shaman King explained that his Totem Spell exchanges with the Gold Shaman King involved predicting and countering each other's choices.
• Bai told the Bronze Shaman King that the Eagle Shadow Royal Court would hold back the Snake Spirit Royal Court, and the Bronze Shaman King demanded results within three days.

Lu Xingshi failed to synthesize the bloodlines and killed Snake Spirit Spies who tried to establish a base above his underground laboratory. After killing an Eagle Shadow scout who witnessed the fight, he left Bai to investigate the scout’s disappearance and prepare to intercept Snake Spirit forces.

• Lu Xingshi concluded that obtaining the Golden Totem Fragment would require fusing the other bloodlines first, but his experiment failed again.
• Lu Xingshi discovered Snake Spirit Spies above his laboratory and attacked them after warning them away.
• Lu Xingshi killed the Snake Spirit Spies, then spotted and killed an Eagle Shadow scout who had been watching them.
• Bai learned that one of his Eagle People had disappeared and ordered an investigation, suspecting the Snake Spirit Royal Court.
• Bai prepared to lead Eagle Shadow forces into Golden Royal Court territory to intercept Snake Spirit Spies.

Lu Xingshi successfully fused the perfect Bronze Bloodline with the Gold and Silver Bloodlines, completing the second stage of his Great Saint Body and creating the Crown Bloodline. As his body continued to metalize, he concealed the new bloodline as a Golden Bloodline and planned to infiltrate the Golden Royal Court.

• An Eagle Shadow Envoy investigated Lu Xingshi’s hideout and left, while the main battlefield entered a lull after the Eagle Shadow Royal Court joined the war.
• Lu Xingshi crushed the solid Gold and Silver Bloodlines into particles and injected them into his body, using his Great Saint Body to guide their fusion with his Bronze Bloodline.
• After three days, Lu Xingshi completed the fusion, doubling his Totem Spell effects and improving their growth, while his Bloodline Abilities and armor evolved.
• Lu Xingshi found that two-thirds of his body had become living metal and concluded that full metalization would awaken his bloodline and allow him to grow stronger independently.
• Lu Xingshi named his new bloodline the Crown Bloodline, disguised it as a Golden Bloodline, and planned to enchant its armor with the Radiance Bloodline before pursuing Snake Spirit and Eagle Shadow bloodlines.

Lu Xingshi slaughtered the Snake Spirit Spies to perfect his Snake Spirit Bloodline, then refused Bai’s offer to cooperate and prepared to continue toward the Golden Royal Court. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King detected a Radiance Royal Court spy and ordered another purge of infiltrators as the war’s intensity began to fall again.

• Lu Xingshi revealed his disguise and killed the Snake Spirit Spies, devouring their bloodlines until his Snake Spirit Bloodline reached perfect concentration.
• Bai arrived in the body of an Eagle Person, praised Lu Xingshi for killing the spies, and mistook his fabricated story about the missing Royal Court treasure for an explanation of his hidden past.
• Lu Xingshi declined Bai’s offer to work together, and Bai left without learning his identity.
• Lu Xingshi sensed a wide-area surveillance spell and suspected it was monitoring the Bronze Royal Court’s territory rather than targeting him.
• The Bronze Shaman King detected a spy from the Radiance Royal Court, worried that other Royal Courts might seize the war’s spoils, and ordered another purge of spies.

Lu Xingshi tried to reach the Golden Totem, but the Gold Shaman King detected the threat and attacked him with Golden Light. Lu Xingshi survived and fled, while the Gold Shaman King mistakenly concluded that the Bronze Shaman King was behind the attack.

• A Golden Royal Court Envoy confronted Lu Xingshi and demanded that he accompany him to the Gold Shaman King.
• Lu Xingshi agreed, then caught the Envoy off guard and killed him with a punch.
• Lu Xingshi considered using other Royal Court spies to distract the Gold Shaman King, but the Gold Shaman King struck first with Golden Light.
• Lu Xingshi survived the blast by regenerating his body and fled rather than continue fighting.
• The Gold Shaman King realized the Golden Totem remained in danger and blamed the Bronze Shaman King for the attack.

Lu Xingshi stole a Golden Totem Fragment but was caught by the Gold Shaman King, who tried to kill him and steal his undying Bloodline Ability. Unable to digest Lu Xingshi or absorb his power without provoking the Golden Totem, the Gold Shaman King imprisoned him, while Lu Xingshi viewed confinement as a chance to conduct research and wait for an opportunity.

• Lu Xingshi stopped after fleeing with a Golden Totem Fragment, and the Gold Shaman King appeared and attacked him.
• The Gold Shaman King smashed Lu Xingshi apart, but Lu Xingshi regenerated because of his Great Saint Body.
• The Gold Shaman King ripped out and swallowed Lu Xingshi's heart to claim his Bloodline Ability, but Lu Xingshi's living metal tore through him and emerged undigested.
• Lu Xingshi explained that the Golden Totem would reject his ability, and he collected a tissue sample from the Gold Shaman King.
• The Gold Shaman King restrained Lu Xingshi and decided to imprison him in darkness, while Lu Xingshi looked forward to using the time for research.

After three months in the Gold Royal Court’s dungeon, Lu Xingshi agreed to help the Gold Shaman King fight the Bronze Shaman King in exchange for access to the Gold Shaman inheritance and eventual freedom. Meanwhile, the Bronze Shaman King faced a desperate deadline as the Radiance Shaman King pressured the Eagle Shadow Royal Court to withdraw its reinforcements.

• The Gold Shaman King offered Lu Xingshi freedom in exchange for shielding him from the Bronze Shaman King, and Lu Xingshi negotiated access to the Gold Shaman inheritance before accepting.
• The Gold Shaman King kept Lu Xingshi’s strength sealed, took him out of the dungeon, and arranged his lodging and supplies.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that the Gold Royal Court treated tribe people with the same superiority he had seen in the Bronze Royal Court.
• Jiu warned the Bronze Shaman King that the timing was unfavorable, but the Bronze Shaman King explained that the Radiance Shaman King had declared war on the Eagle Shadow Royal Court and could force it to withdraw reinforcements.
• The Bronze Shaman King concluded that his Royal Court had to defeat the Gold Royal Court quickly, while acknowledging that their coming battle would decide life or death.

Lu Xingshi fused three totem fragments, completing an evolution that integrated his totem and bloodline powers and freed him from the Gold Shaman King's seal. The wary Gold Shaman King agreed to let him choose treasures from the Golden Royal Court's vault, while Lu Xingshi considered whether he could grow strong enough to defeat both the Gold and Bronze Shaman Kings.

• After studying the Golden Royal Court's inheritance, Lu Xingshi swallowed three totem fragments and completed his evolution into a powerful Spiral Giant.
• Lu Xingshi explained that he could now combine Totem Power and Bloodline Power, cast Totem Spells with his own energy, and pursue a cultivation path beyond the old bloodline and totem limits.
• The Gold Shaman King recognized Lu Xingshi's increased strength and tried to win him over, while Lu Xingshi promised not to act recklessly and asked to visit the treasure vault.
• The Gold Shaman King led Lu Xingshi to the vault, where Lu Xingshi ate vast quantities of gold-type treasures and grew more Spiral Spikes.
• As he consumed the treasures, Lu Xingshi wondered whether gathering materials tied to all three bloodlines could let him defeat both Shaman Kings and rule their Royal Courts.

Lu Xingshi searched the former Silver Royal Court territory for silver-type treasures while continuing to struggle with fusing his bloodline and totem. When a Silver Wave Dragon arrived seeking vengeance for its offspring, Lu Xingshi killed it before it could reveal its allies, and an unseen voice challenged him.

• Lu Xingshi reassured the two Golden Royal Court envoys that he had no intention of fleeing and continued searching for silver-type Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• Lu Xingshi considered whether ferocious beasts could help fuse his bloodline and totem when a Silver Wave Dragon arrived and asked who had killed its offspring.
• The envoys explained that the dragon's offspring had formed a Blood Pact with the Silver Shaman King and died beneath his Totem Spell.
• Lu Xingshi struck the Silver Wave Dragon before it could attack, then killed it with a punch to the forehead as it tried to name its backing.
• Lu Xingshi warned the dragon not to involve the Grand Shaman behind it, but an unseen speaker called him arrogant.

Lu Xingshi crushed Old Dragon after the Blood Beast Shaman King tried to threaten him through her Blood Pact Ferocious Beast. After learning about her isolated Royal Court and the danger of her retaliation, he joined the Gold Shaman King to confront the Bronze Shaman King, while Yue and Chuan remained alive.

• Lu Xingshi destroyed the flesh incarnation on Old Dragon and stomped Old Dragon's head apart before the Blood Beast Shaman King withdrew when she sensed the Gold Shaman King.
• The Gold Shaman King explained that the Blood Beast Shaman King ruled a territory populated by ferocious beasts and rarely left because she would be killed if she did.
• Lu Xingshi said he would welcome her revenge, while the Gold Shaman King warned that she could still retaliate without leaving her territory.
• The Gold Shaman King told Lu Xingshi that the Radiance Royal Court had declared war on the Eagle Shadow Royal Court, leaving the Bronze Shaman King to face him.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Yue and Chuan had escaped with serious injuries, then set off with the Gold Shaman King to fulfill their agreement.
• The Gold Shaman King asked which Royal Court Lu Xingshi came from, but Lu Xingshi refused to explain his bloodline.