Chapter Summaries

Su Wanwan and the others entered the inner tomb, where Bai Xi revealed that Yuehua had sealed a powerful Wolf Clan behind the rock wall. Bai Xi asked Su Wanwan to cultivate beside the Moon Heart to restore the weakening seal, but warned that the wolves would sense and attack her through its gaps.

• Su Wanwan led Chu Yang, Sun Wukong, and Tang Monk through the opened passage into the inner tomb, where White Donkey struggled with the dense Moon Qi.
• Bai Xi explained that Yuehua had sealed her cultivation into her bones to imprison the Wolf Clan behind the rock wall, and that Su Wanwan's Fox Clan blood allowed her to open the door.
• Bai Xi revealed that the seal would collapse within three years, unleashing the wolves on the surrounding area.
• Bai Xi said Su Wanwan could strengthen the seal by cultivating beside the Moon Heart, but warned that the wolves would sense her as the seal and try to attack through its gaps.

Su Wanwan, Chu Yang, and Sun Wukong entered the sealed inner tomb so she could cultivate beside the Moon Heart while they protected her from the Wolf Clan’s power. As Su Wanwan began using the Moon Breath Guide, the wolf skeletons awakened and summoned shadowy forces around the protective circle.

• Bai Xi explained that Chu Yang and Sun Wukong had to guard Su Wanwan during ten days of cultivation, and Chu Yang agreed to help.
• Bai Xi opened the stone door behind Yuehua’s remains, revealing a stairway into the Wolf Clan’s sealed tomb.
• Su Wanwan led Chu Yang, Sun Wukong, and Tang Monk down the stairs and found a vast Moon Heart above the remains of three wolf skeletons.
• The largest wolf skeleton awakened, identified the Moon Qi on Su Wanwan, and silently called shapeless forces toward the Moon Heart’s protective circle.
• Su Wanwan sat beneath the Moon Heart and followed the Moon Breath Guide, releasing excess Moon Qi for the Heart to absorb.

Su Wanwan cultivated beneath the Moon Heart while Sun Wukong and Chu Yang fought the Mist Wolves attacking the seal. As Yuehua’s lingering will recognized Su Wanwan and withdrew, she sensed a faint message urging her to return.

• Su Wanwan continued repairing the seal as black mist struck the ring, and Bai Xi warned that the attacks would drain the Moon Heart’s energy.
• Sun Wukong stepped outside the ring and fought the black mist, then destroyed the three Mist Wolves with a golden shockwave, but Bai Xi warned they would revive while the Wolf King remained.
• Chu Yang took over the fight as Su Wanwan cultivated inside the ring and felt her body and meridians becoming more complete.
• Chu Yang damaged the Mist Wolves with precise attacks that slowed their regeneration, while Sun Wukong and Tang Monk watched from the ring’s edge.
• During her cultivation, Su Wanwan felt Yuehua’s lingering will touch her head, recognize her, and leave her with a faint thought: return.

Su Wanwan strengthened the ancient Fox’s seal by cultivating with Moon Qi for seven days, then faced a Wolf Clan scout that was stronger than she was. Chu Yang and Sun Wukong made her fight it herself, and the chapter left her sensing its movements with Breath Listening as it attacked.

• Su Wanwan continued cultivating while Chu Yang and Sun Wukong held off the Mist Wolves, and the strengthening seal slowed their rebirths.
• After seven days, Su Wanwan noticed the Wolf King's bones moving, and Bai Xi warned that a real wolf demon was approaching through an expanding fissure.
• A Wolf Clan scout with a physical body and a realm at least one level above Su Wanwan emerged and studied her from the edge of the light circle.
• Chu Yang and Sun Wukong stepped aside, and Su Wanwan left the circle to fight the scout herself.
• The wolf demon easily outmaneuvered Su Wanwan, so she closed her eyes and used Breath Listening to sense its position as it moved again.

Su Wanwan fought a wolf demon, emptied her Moon Qi to blast it back, and then awakened a new power by understanding the bond between Moon Qi and wolf qi. After wounding the demon and driving it away, she glimpsed the Dao and was flooded with memories of Yuehua, the stone wall, the wolf demon, and the land.

• Su Wanwan returned to fight the wolf demon, but it struck her through the Light Wall and left her shoulder numb.
• Su Wanwan unleashed all her Moon Qi through her body, blasting the wolf demon into a stone wall and shocking it.
• The wolf demon grew into a higher-ranked creature and charged Su Wanwan as Chu Yang urgently told her to fall back.
• Moon Heart shattered into silver fragments, and Su Wanwan realized Moon Qi and wolf qi complemented and restrained each other.
• Su Wanwan absorbed a fragment and slashed the wolf demon, wounding it; the demon acknowledged her and retreated as the crack in the seal closed.
• Su Wanwan glimpsed the Dao and was overwhelmed by memories of Yuehua, the stone wall, the wolf demon, and the land.

Su Wanwan entered a deep meditation after the wolf demon fight while Chu Yang and the others guarded her. On the third night, the seal opened and two White Wolves led Chu Yang and Sun Wukong to meet the Wolf King, who greeted them with a faint smile.

• Su Wanwan began meditating, and Chu Yang, Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, and the White Donkey stayed nearby to protect her.
• For two days, Bai Xi checked on Su Wanwan and warned the others not to disturb her.
• On the third night, Chu Yang and Sun Wukong sensed a powerful presence behind the rune-covered wall as its runes lit up and opened a passage.
• Two White Wolves invited Chu Yang and Sun Wukong to meet the Wolf King, while the White Donkey stayed behind to guard Su Wanwan.
• The White Wolves led Chu Yang and Sun Wukong underground to the Wolf King, who opened his golden eyes and smiled at them.

Chu Yang negotiated with the Wolf King over the imprisoned wolves’ possible release and proposed strict restrictions to protect the Fox Clan and human world. The Wolf King accepted the terms, but the wolves had to remain imprisoned until Su Wanwan finished cultivating and stabilized the seal.

• The Wolf King told Chu Yang that Yuehua had trapped the wolves in a cage and asked him to help them get out.
• Chu Yang said he could pass the request to the decision-makers and proposed a restriction that would kill any wolf that attacked the Fox Clan, harmed innocents, or tried to evade the restriction.
• The Wolf King accepted Chu Yang’s proposed conditions, and his glance silenced the two angry White Wolves.
• Chu Yang explained that Su Wanwan had to finish meditating and reinforce the seal before the wolves could leave.
• The Wolf King said Yuehua’s successor would survive and offered to let Chu Yang and Sun Wukong stay while Su Wanwan meditated.

Chu Yang and Sun Wukong returned from meeting the Wolf King, who agreed that the Wolf Clan could leave if they accepted restrictions. After meditating for five days, Su Wanwan woke with five tails and steadier Moon Qi, then went to meet the Wolf King.

• Chu Yang told Tang Monk that the Wolf Clan wanted to leave and had agreed to accept restrictions, and he resolved to help arrange and verify them.
• Su Wanwan woke on the fifth day of meditation with five tails and Moon Qi that lingered longer in the air.
• Sun Wukong observed that Su Wanwan’s roots had grown deeper, and Tang Monk welcomed her progress.
• Su Wanwan walked to the underground chamber, where the White Wolves instinctively stepped back from her Yuehua aura.
• The Wolf King noticed Su Wanwan’s five tails and asked whether she had come to challenge him.

Su Wanwan challenged the Wolf King and defeated Qingya, the Wolf Clan’s strongest warrior under a hundred, despite being at a lower realm. The Wolf King acknowledged that she had broken the usual rule that a lower-realm cultivator could not defeat a higher one.

• Su Wanwan told the Wolf King she had come to challenge it, and the Wolf King sent Qingya to face her.
• Su Wanwan read Qingya’s movements and interrupted its attacks by striking at the weak points in its flow of force.
• Qingya used a summoned wolf and a pincer attack, but Su Wanwan blocked both attackers with her tails and used Moon Qi to deprive Qingya of its senses.
• Qingya recovered, lowered its head to acknowledge Su Wanwan, and the Wolf King revealed that Qingya was the strongest warrior in its clan under a hundred.
• The Wolf King said Su Wanwan was the first lower-realm opponent to defeat Qingya.

Su Wanwan defeated Qingya and left the Wolf Clan’s underground space after the Wolf King named her the clan’s nemesis. She strengthened Yuehua’s seal, accepted Bai Xi as her master, and prepared to leave the valley at dawn.

• The Wolf King declared that Su Wanwan’s existence would keep the Wolf Clan from rising again, and Chu Yang called her to leave for breakfast.
• Su Wanwan patted Qingya on the head before leaving the underground space with Chu Yang, Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, and White Donkey.
• Su Wanwan spent five more days learning to actively guide Moon Qi and helped stabilize Yuehua’s seal for twenty years.
• Bai Xi told Su Wanwan it was time to leave, and Su Wanwan asked to call her Master; Bai Xi accepted.
• Su Wanwan left a small fox drawing on Bai Xi’s blanket, then met Bai Xi at the valley entrance after its mist had vanished.

Su Wanwan said goodbye to Bai Xi and left Moon-Perch Ridge with Chu Yang and their companions. At the mountain’s foot, she accepted a young white wolf sent by the Wolf King into their group, and the wolf experienced sunlight for the first time as they headed toward Peaceful Market.

• Su Wanwan told Bai Xi not to skip meals, and Bai Xi later found the two jars of Osmanthus Wine Su Wanwan had hidden beneath the stone slab.
• Bai Xi told Chu Yang that Su Wanwan would one day become stronger than him, and Chu Yang welcomed the prospect.
• A young white wolf caught up with Su Wanwan and explained that the Wolf King had sent it to see whether the Fox Clan outside would accept it.
• Su Wanwan welcomed the nameless wolf into the party, and Chu Yang agreed they should continue together.
• The white wolf stopped to bask in sunlight, which it had never seen before, while Su Wanwan turned back to check on it.

Su Wanwan's group reached the edge of the Mingsha Desert, where Sun Wukong recognized an old legend about a dragon and a vanished grassland. A band of demons confronted the travelers, including two thousand-year Great Demons who declared that no one would leave, and Chu Yang asked what they wanted to discuss.

• Su Wanwan, Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, Chu Yang, the White Donkey, and the white wolf continued west into the dry, barren land near the Mingsha Desert.
• Sun Wukong recalled a fragmentary legend that a dragon's departure had turned the grassland around a river into a desert.
• Sun Wukong, Chu Yang, Su Wanwan, and the white wolf sensed approaching creatures, and Tang Monk spotted a shadow spreading across the horizon.
• A sand scorpion, several Imps, and two humanoid Great Demons emerged from the desert and confronted the travelers.
• The Black-Robed Demon said he had been waiting for Tang Monk, studied Chu Yang, and threatened that none of them would leave.
• Chu Yang asked the Black-Robed Demon what he wanted to discuss.

Sun Wukong, Chu Yang, and Su Wanwan fought off a probing attack by the Black-Robed Demon’s companions on the saline ground. The demons withdrew after assessing the group, warning that more enemies would come next time.

• The Black-Robed Demon demanded that the group surrender Tang Monk, but Sun Wukong refused and claimed the land as his own.
• Flat-Face attacked Chu Yang, who redirected his charge and left his wrist numb.
• The Black-Robed Demon sent the sand scorpion after Su Wanwan, but White Wolf pinned its tail and Su Wanwan disabled it with Moon Qi.
• The Black-Robed Demon called off the fight and left with Flat-Face and the Imps, warning that they would meet again with more forces.
• Sun Wukong and Chu Yang concluded that the attack had been a test, while Tang Monk neutralized the scorpion’s venom and recited a mantra.

Chu Yang and his companions continued through the desert while Feilian and Quqi reported their encounter to the black dragon, who ordered them to gather forces and attack again. On the third day of the journey, the group struggled across the soft sand.

• Su Wanwan asked when the group’s enemies would return, and Sun Wukong said they would deal with them when they came.
• Feilian told Quqi that Chu Yang and the others were too dangerous to confront, noting the Fox’s inherited Moon Qi and the White Wolf’s ancient aura.
• Feilian and Quqi reported to the black dragon, who ordered them to bring enough demons to attack the group again.
• Quqi eagerly prepared for the coming fight while Feilian went to gather demons across the Western Regions.
• On the third day in the desert, the White Donkey struggled through the sand while the White Wolf watched over Su Wanwan.

Su Wanwan and her companions were ambushed in the desert by a vast demon horde led by Feilian and Quqi. Sun Wukong and Chu Yang slaughtered the demons, while Feilian attacked Tang Monk and was struck by Sun Wukong, leaving his left arm shattered.

• On the fourth day in the desert, Chu Yang and Sun Wukong sensed a large group of demons approaching from the west.
• A horde of desert demons emerged from the sand, with Feilian and Quqi standing behind them.
• Sun Wukong and Chu Yang fought the demon horde while White Wolf protected Su Wanwan, and Tang Monk waited nearby.
• Feilian used his ability to disappear from his opponents' perception and attacked Tang Monk, but something protecting the monk deflected his claws.
• Sun Wukong struck at Feilian with the Golden Staff, shattering the bones in Feilian's left arm.

Feilian withdrew after observing Su Wanwan’s power and White Wolf’s ancient bloodline, while Quqi fled badly wounded and the demons scattered. Chu Yang treated White Wolf’s injuries, and Sun Wukong watched the western horizon, sensing the danger was not over.

• Feilian regenerated his severed arm and sent Quqi after Su Wanwan, but White Wolf shielded her and bit Quqi’s wrist.
• Su Wanwan unleashed her Moon Qi, badly corroding Quqi and forcing him to retreat, while Feilian observed the group and then disappeared into the desert.
• Sun Wukong spared the injured Quqi, who threatened them before burrowing into the sand, and the remaining demons fled.
• Su Wanwan grieved over White Wolf’s wounds as Chu Yang treated them, with Tang Monk and Sun Wukong helping.
• Sun Wukong looked west at the unchanged yellow line on the horizon and knew the danger had not ended.

After fleeing Feilian, the travelers reached a poor Western Regions village and learned that its people made monthly offerings to Shiva. The next morning, Su Wanwan saw the little girl’s mother kneeling before a lifeless-looking figure at the courtyard entrance.

• Sun Wukong and Chu Yang agreed to switch opponents if they fought Feilian and the other attacker again.
• Chu Yang led the group to a village, where an old woman directed them to her home and Su Wanwan noticed her drawing people and a snake in the dirt.
• The middle-aged woman let the travelers stay, and the little girl refused Su Wanwan’s bread before telling Chu Yang that the village had to make monthly offerings to Shiva.
• Su Wanwan heard the little girl crying in the night, then woke to find the old woman and a wax-skinned figure outside the courtyard.
• The little girl’s mother knelt before the figure, which stood silently with its eyes closed.

Chu Yang stopped the ocher-red-robed being from taking the little girl to make up her family’s offering, and the being withdrew. Sun Wukong and Tang Monk identified it as an Evil God, leaving the group facing a threat beyond an ordinary demon.

• The ocher-red-robed being declared the family's offering insufficient and levitated the little girl toward him.
• Chu Yang stepped in, seized the being's dark-red line of power, and demanded that he release the child.
• The being lowered the little girl, whom Chu Yang caught, then departed without taking anyone.
• The old woman helped the middle-aged woman up as the girl reunited with her cat and White Wolf comforted her.
• Chu Yang kept Su Wanwan's handkerchief for next time, while Sun Wukong and Tang Monk said the being was an Evil God.