Recaps

Lin Yi woke naked in an unfamiliar forest, suffered a severe headache, and blacked out before discovering his thinking and senses had become dramatically sharper. He was left facing an unusually large red fox whose watchful, almost amused gaze made him wonder what it wanted.

• Lin Yi woke up naked in a strange forest and realized he had no idea how he got there.
• Lin Yi developed an intense pain deep in his brain and fainted.
• A large red fox licked Lin Yi's face, and he woke up to find it watching him.
• Lin Yi noticed that his thoughts and senses had become unusually clear and fast after the ordeal.
• Lin Yi studied the fox's unusual features and wondered why it had stayed beside him while he was unconscious.
• Lin Yi met the fox's gaze as its mouth seemed to twitch into a smile.

Lin Yi fashioned a crude grass skirt and followed the unusually intelligent Red Fox through the forest, discovering a primitive tribe in the valley. As the fox urged him toward the settlement, Lin Yi noticed a glinting object on a post that seemed to face him.

• Lin Yi repeatedly failed to weave leaves into a skirt before using his Super Brain to make a crude covering.
• Red Fox responded to Lin Yi's question by gesturing for him to follow, and he accepted its lead.
• As they climbed through the forest, Lin Yi realized his stamina and physical abilities had improved.
• Red Fox led Lin Yi to a hillside overlooking a settlement of primitive buildings and people, confirming that he had transmigrated to an unfamiliar world.
• Lin Yi spotted something reflecting light atop a post in the tribe, and Red Fox urged him to continue down toward the settlement.

Lin Yi arrived at the Bluestone Tribe with Little Flame, where the tribe’s elder welcomed him despite sensing that his story was false. As the elder led him inside, Lin Yi noticed signs that Little Flame and something atop a central pillar might be watching or maneuvering around him.

• A boy sprinted to Red Fox, called her Little Flame, and excitedly carried her while the Bluestone Tribe gathered around Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi felt the tribe members’ strange pressure and faced the sharp-eyed elder, who asked where he came from.
• Lin Yi claimed he had woken in the forest with no memory and said Little Flame had led him to the tribe.
• The elder welcomed Lin Yi as Little Flame’s guest and invited him inside to change clothes, easing the crowd’s suspicion.
• The boy told Lin Yi that Little Flame never brought outsiders back, while Lin Yi noticed her knowing look and a metal glint atop the tribe’s central pillar.

Lin Yi learned that Little Flame had judged him harmless and unusually talented, prompting the Village Chief to welcome him into the Bluestone Tribe and offer to teach him its cultivation method. The Village Chief asked Lin Yi to help the tribe if it faced danger, then handed him an old beast-hide scroll.

• The Village Chief explained that Little Flame could sense goodwill, malice, and talent, and had brought Lin Yi to the tribe because it judged him harmless.
• Lin Yi promised the Village Chief he would help the Bluestone Tribe if it faced danger, and the Village Chief agreed to let him stay in an empty stone house.
• The Village Chief described the dangers of the Great Wilderness and explained that the tribe possessed a cultivation method, though not everyone could cultivate.
• The Village Chief offered to teach Lin Yi, saying Little Flame had sensed his exceptional talent and that he hoped Lin Yi would repay the tribe's trust in the future.
• The Village Chief took an old beast-hide scroll from a rack and extended it toward Lin Yi.

Lin Yi memorized the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method, and the village chief explained the Blood-Qi Realm and gave him Ferocious Beast meat to support his cultivation. Xiao Hu then led Lin Yi to an empty stone house to settle in.

• Lin Yi read and memorized the three body-tempering methods in the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method.
• The village chief explained the four Blood-Qi realms and said Biao, Xiao Hu's father, had reached Blood-Qi Mountain Sinking.
• Lin Yi wondered how far cultivation in this world could ultimately go.
• The village chief gave Lin Yi two pieces of dried Ferocious Beast meat to replenish his blood-qi.
• The village chief asked Xiao Hu to take Lin Yi to the empty stone house and get him clean clothes, and Lin Yi followed Xiao Hu and Red Fox outside.

Lin Yi settled into his stone house and found that studying the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method improved his comprehension. Xiao Hu brought him to Biao’s home for breakfast, then led him to the Bluestone Grounds, where Lin Yi chose a small stone to begin training.

• Lin Yi reviewed the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method and noticed his comprehension improving.
• Xiao Hu visited Lin Yi at dawn and took him to eat at Biao’s house.
• Biao welcomed Lin Yi and encouraged him to train after Lin Yi finished a huge meal of beast meat and flatbread.
• Xiao Hu led Lin Yi to the Bluestone Grounds, where Lin Yi surveyed the training and focused on a small gray stone.

Lin Yi used his Super Brain to refine the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method and achieved Initial Blood Resonance after four days. The village chief invited him to join Biao’s Hunting Team, and Lin Yi agreed to leave for the Great Wilderness with them the next morning.

• Lin Yi adjusted his stone strikes and breathing after his Super Brain identified how careless blows disrupted his blood and qi.
• After three days of practice, Lin Yi refined the method’s circulation route and sensed his blood and qi gathering along it.
• On the fourth day, Lin Yi reached Initial Blood Resonance and cracked his bluestone with his newfound strength.
• Xiao Hu noticed Lin Yi’s breakthrough, drawing the attention of the other cultivators and the village chief.
• The village chief invited Lin Yi to join Biao’s thirteen-member Hunting Team, and Lin Yi agreed to set out with them the next morning.

Lin Yi prepared for his first hunt with Biao, learned the dangers and rules of the Great Wilderness, and traveled with the hunters toward their hunting grounds. The party stopped near the grounds after hearing a heavy noise from the thicket.

• Biao told Lin Yi they would leave at sunrise, warned him that the wilderness became far more dangerous at night, and promised to keep him close during the hunt.
• Lin Yi spent the afternoon reviewing the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method, then met Biao and the armed hunters at the tribe entrance the next morning.
• Biao gave Lin Yi a bone-tipped spear and explained hunting rules as the party entered the forest.
• Biao told Lin Yi that the eye of the exotic beast Zheng protected the area around Bluestone Tribe from weaker Ferocious Beasts.
• After running for about two hours, the hunters neared the hunting grounds, paired off to search, and heard a heavy sound from the thicket.

Lin Yi and Biao’s Hunting Team attacked a herd of eleven Savage Bulls, only to discover that the leader was an aberrant Savage Bull King with a Bloodline Divine Ability. After the team killed the other ten bulls, Lin Yi memorized the King’s Divine Markings as it charged into the final fight.

• Biao led the Hunting Team toward eleven Savage Bulls and ordered the group to attack the herd together.
• The Savage Bull King rallied the herd and revealed glowing Divine Markings, allowing it to withstand Biao’s powerful saber strike.
• Lin Yi and a clansman killed one Savage Bull, then worked with the other hunters to bring down the remaining ordinary bulls.
• Lin Yi used his Super Brain to record the Divine Markings while the team surrounded the Savage Bull King.
• Biao ordered the hunters to kill the King, which charged at them as Lin Yi stepped forward with his spear.

Lin Yi helped Biao and the tribesmen defeat the Savage Bull King while recording its Divine Markings and beginning to comprehend their structure. The hunting party carried the slain bulls back to the tribe, and Lin Yi resolved to uncover the markings’ secrets.

• Lin Yi watched the Savage Bull King's Divine Markings flare and recorded their paths as the beast overpowered Biao.
• Lin Yi stabbed the Savage Bull King's vulnerable fatal gate, giving Biao an opening to knock it down.
• The Savage Bull King charged after Lin Yi, whose comprehension surged as he fled and began to understand the recorded Divine-Pattern Diagram.
• Biao and the tribesmen struck the Savage Bull King's wounds and joints until its Divine Markings faded and it collapsed dead.
• Biao regretted losing the markings, while Lin Yi kept quiet about his complete record and planned to consult the village chief.
• The hunting party gathered the eleven savage bulls and carried them home as Lin Yi reflected on the Divine Markings in his mind.

Lin Yi and the Hunting Team returned to the tribe with a Savage Bull King, and the village chief learned that the mutant beast had nearly cost them their lives. The tribe welcomed the hunters with a bonfire celebration, while Lin Yi reflected on the dangers of the Great Wilderness and received the village chief’s encouragement.

• The Hunting Team returned to the tribe carrying Savage Bulls, and Xiao Hu and the tribesmen gathered to see the enormous Savage Bull King.
• The village chief examined the beast, and Biao explained that it was a mutant with an Innate Divine Ability and that Lin Yi’s quick thinking had helped save the hunters.
• Biao’s wife found his injuries despite his protests and led him away to tend to him.
• The village chief called for the prey to be processed and announced a bonfire celebration.
• Lin Yi told the village chief how dangerous the hunt had been, and the village chief urged him to stay vigilant on the Dao Path.
• The tribesmen lit a bonfire in the center of the tribe as night fell.

Lin Yi asked the village chief about Ferocious Beasts’ bloodline talents and learned how humans had developed martial techniques by studying their Divine Markings. The village chief hoped Lin Yi could create a technique for the Bluestone Tribe, and Lin Yi promised to teach it to them if he succeeded.

• Lin Yi left the bonfire gathering and asked the village chief how Ferocious Beasts awakened Bloodline Divine Abilities.
• The village chief explained that Divine Abilities came from ancestral bloodlines and that their Divine Markings had inspired human martial techniques.
• The village chief realized Lin Yi might be developing a technique and asked him to pass it on to the Bluestone Tribe if he succeeded.
• Lin Yi promised to share his creation with the tribe in return for the kindness they had shown him.

Lin Yi fully understood the Savage Bull Divine-Pattern Diagram and spent the night adapting it to human acupoints and meridians. He successfully created and activated a human-compatible pattern, then told the village chief it had worked.

• Lin Yi grasped the complete logic of the Savage Bull Divine-Pattern Diagram.
• Lin Yi discovered that copying the Savage Bull markings directly failed because their bodies had different structures, so he began redesigning the pattern for humans.
• Lin Yi endured repeated pain and backlash as he adjusted the markings, using each failure to refine their routes and nodes.
• Lin Yi completed a closed blood-and-qi circuit, activated the new markings, and felt his strength surge as a Savage Bull phantom appeared around him.
• Lin Yi opened the stone house door the next afternoon and told the village chief, Biao, and Xiao Hu that his work had succeeded.

Lin Yi tested the Savage Bull Diagram on the Bluestone Grounds and discovered it more than doubled his strength, letting him lift a forty-five-thousand-jin boulder. He named the technique and promised to teach it to the tribe, while Biao struggled to grasp how it worked.

• The village chief took Lin Yi to the Bluestone Grounds to test the Savage Bull Diagram, with Biao and Xiao Hu following.
• Lin Yi activated the diagram and easily lifted a thirty-thousand-jin boulder, startling Biao with its blood-colored markings.
• Lin Yi used the diagram to lift a forty-five-thousand-jin boulder and determined that it amplified his strength to more than twice his foundation.
• The village chief asked the technique's name, and Lin Yi called it the Savage Bull Diagram.
• Lin Yi explained how he had developed the technique and promised to teach it to the tribe after more practice, leaving Biao unsure he could learn it.

Lin Yi drew a clear instructional diagram of the Savage Bull Diagram for the Bluestone Tribe and began designing a safer, more efficient cultivation method based on its markings. He expected to finish deducing the new method within two days and went to sleep with plans to improve the tribe’s cultivation.

• Lin Yi asked the village chief for a fine beast hide and promised to complete the martial skill diagram by the next day.
• Lin Yi drew the human apertures and the Savage Bull Diagram’s markings on the Red-Maned Deer hide, adding instructions and mnemonic verses.
• After eating his remaining ferocious beast jerky, Lin Yi realized his appetite had grown nearly tenfold as his cultivation progressed.
• Lin Yi planned to combine the Savage Bull markings’ autonomous qi-and-blood circulation with the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method to reduce injuries and eliminate external pounding.
• Lin Yi estimated that he could finish deducing the new cultivation method in about two days, then fell asleep.

Lin Yi presented the village chief with a martial technique diagram and explained how Aperture Points worked. Biao carried Lin Yi to the Bluestone Grounds, eager for him to teach the villagers martial techniques.

• The village chief arrived with Biao and Xiao Hu to see Lin Yi’s diagram, and Lin Yi handed him the finished beast-hide scroll.
• The village chief asked what Aperture Points were, so Lin Yi explained how they regulated qi and blood and improved cultivation when targeted precisely.
• Biao asked to see the scroll, but the village chief refused and told him to wait for Lin Yi to teach him.
• After the village chief left, Lin Yi laughed at Biao, who carried him over his shoulder toward the training grounds despite Lin Yi’s protests.
• Biao, Lin Yi, and Xiao Hu reached the Bluestone Grounds, where Lin Yi looked up and paused.

Lin Yi gathered the Bluestone Tribe hunting team to teach them the Savage Bull Diagram, a martial skill he had created. When the hunters struggled to control their blood qi well enough to form its patterns, he decided to train their control first.

• Lin Yi told the hunting team he would teach them a martial skill, and Biao confirmed that Lin Yi had created it himself.
• Lin Yi demonstrated the Savage Bull Diagram and explained its stages, breathing rhythm, and blood-qi pathways.
• The hunters tried to activate the diagram, but none could form even a basic pattern, and Biao nearly lost control of his abundant blood qi.
• Lin Yi realized that precise blood-qi control was a talent he possessed but the hunters lacked.
• Lin Yi stopped the practice and promised to teach the hunters blood-qi control before they tried the diagram again.

Lin Yi taught the Hunting Team to refine their qi-and-blood control by practicing walking on water, while he completed a new cultivation method combining the Savage Bull Divine Markings and the Bluestone Blood-Transporting Method. The chapter left him ready to begin using the completed method.

• Lin Yi demonstrated how to walk across the stream by controlling the qi and blood beneath his feet, then told the Hunting Team to practice.
• The thirteen hunters repeatedly fell into the water as they tried the exercise, and Biao managed to stand for two breaths before crashing into the stream.
• Lin Yi promised to teach the next step of the Savage Bull Diagram once the hunters could run across the stream without falling, spurring them to keep training.
• Over three days, Lin Yi coached the hunters at the stream while refining his new cultivation method.
• On the third night, Lin Yi finished deducing the method’s qi-and-blood pathways and confirmed that its Savage Bull patterns could create permanent circulation routes to temper the body.

Lin Yi named his new self-circulating cultivation method the Savage Bull Art and broke through to Blood-Qi Tidal Surge, reaching fifty thousand jin of strength. After defeating Biao, he was recognized as the Hunting Team’s leader and agreed to join the next hunt as the tribe ran low on Savage Bull meat.

• Lin Yi decided to keep the Savage Bull Art to himself until the Hunting Team had mastered the Savage Bull Diagram, and he realized he needed more methods and Divine Markings to develop new techniques.
• Biao successfully walked across the stream but was told by Lin Yi to keep training until he could run across it.
• Lin Yi broke through to Blood-Qi Tidal Surge and challenged Biao, overpowering him in front of the Hunting Team.
• Biao accepted Lin Yi’s strength and declared that Lin Yi would lead the Hunting Team, while the others welcomed him as their boss.
• Biao told Lin Yi that the tribe was nearly out of Savage Bull meat, and Lin Yi agreed to go hunting the next day; Xiao Hu asked to come along, and Lin Yi invited Little Flame too.

Lin Yi joined Biao’s hunting party and learned to track prey alongside Mang before an emergency whistle led them to Falcon being crushed by a giant python. Lin Yi stopped the python’s escape while Biao wounded its head, but the enraged beast prepared to fight back.

• Lin Yi asked Biao to lead the hunt, and Biao organized the thirteen hunters into pairs to search for prey.
• Lin Yi partnered with Mang and studied how he identified beasts from tracks, trails, and dung.
• Lin Yi and Mang rushed toward an emergency whistle and found Falcon trapped in a giant python’s coils.
• Biao charged the python as Lin Yi activated the Savage Bull Diagram and seized its tail to stop it escaping.
• Biao’s saber wounded the python’s head, but the beast’s scales protected its skull and it turned to fight back.

Lin Yi and Biao worked together to tear open the giant python and rescue Falcon, who was still alive but gravely injured. With Falcon’s pulse barely holding, they decided to return to the tribe.

• Lin Yi and Biao attacked the python, but its speed and scales kept them from landing effective blows.
• Lin Yi seized the python’s tail while Biao pinned its head, then the two of them pried its jaws apart and tore the python in half.
• Falcon fell from the python’s body, and a tribesman confirmed that he was still breathing.
• Biao ordered the tribesmen to carry Falcon back, and Lin Yi found his pulse barely detectable.
• Lin Yi told the hunting party to return to the tribe.

Lin Yi used his precise control over qi and blood to reset Falcon’s shattered bones and remove bone fragments, giving him a chance to recover instead of remaining paralyzed. Falcon was left immobilized for at least three months, and his mother and tribesmen thanked Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi and the tribesmen carried the gravely injured Falcon back to the tribe, where the village chief treated his wounds and said nearly every bone in his body was shattered or dislocated.
• Lin Yi offered to reset Falcon’s bones with qi and blood, and the village chief agreed that trying was their only chance to prevent lifelong paralysis.
• Lin Yi carefully realigned Falcon’s broken bones and joints, then directed the tribesmen to secure his body with wooden boards and cloth.
• Lin Yi guided bone fragments out through Falcon’s mouth and said Falcon would need to remain still for at least three months while his bones healed.
• Falcon’s mother thanked Lin Yi for saving her son, and Biao silently clasped Lin Yi’s hand in gratitude.

After Falcon was gravely injured on the hunt, Lin Yi comforted Biao, who struggled with guilt over Falcon's father having died to save him. The hunters set out again at dawn, and Lin Yi resolved to grow stronger and defy the dangers of the Great Wilderness.

• Biao and two tribesmen carried the injured Falcon to his mother's dwelling, and Biao told Lin Yi that the tribe needed to hunt again the next day.
• At dawn, Biao told Lin Yi how Falcon's father had died saving him ten years earlier and confessed his guilt over Falcon's injury.
• Lin Yi reassured Biao that Falcon was stable and would recover, and Mang reminded the hunters that they accepted death to provide for the tribe.
• The hunters declared, “Though death comes, no regrets,” while Lin Yi resolved to grow stronger and reject the idea that fate dictated his life.
• Biao led the hunting team out into the Great Wilderness, with Lin Yi at his side.

Lin Yi and the hunters tracked down and killed a herd of eleven Earth Gnawers, bringing home enough meat to feed the tribe for half a month. As the group departed, an unseen watcher with dark green eyes observed them from the canopy.

• Mang identified fresh hoofprints by the stream as belonging to a herd of about eleven Earth Gnawers, and Biao organized the hunters into an encirclement.
• Lin Yi killed the largest Earth Gnawer with a spear throw as the hunters launched their coordinated attack.
• Lin Yi killed two more Earth Gnawers, including one that Mang could not bring down, then helped finish off the herd.
• Biao praised Lin Yi's strength, and Mang and the other hunters took over carrying the prey while Lin Yi walked among them.
• A pair of dark green eyes watched the hunters leave from high in the trees before vanishing into the shadows.

On the way back from hunting, Lin Yi was ambushed by an Inkshadow Leopard, but his body instinctively dodged its lethal strike. After learning the beast had targeted him, Lin Yi stayed behind with Biao while Mang and the rest of the hunting team fled to seek help, leaving the leopard poised to attack.

• The hunting team headed home with eleven Earth Gnawers, and Biao began praising Lin Yi's spear.
• An Inkshadow Leopard sprang from the forest and nearly struck Lin Yi, but he dodged with an instinctive, lightning-fast movement.
• Biao identified the leopard as a Dragonlike Blood-Qi Realm beast with a Mengji Bloodline and warned that it possessed a Bloodline Divine Ability.
• Lin Yi realized the leopard had singled him out after witnessing his strength while they hunted the Earth Gnawers, and he urged Biao to let the others escape.
• Biao ordered Mang to take the hunting team back to the tribe and bring the village chief for support, while he stayed with Lin Yi.
• After Mang and the others disappeared, the Inkshadow Leopard lowered its hind legs and prepared to attack Lin Yi and Biao.