Recaps

Lin Yi and Biao fought the Inkshadow Leopard, whose speed and claws left both men badly injured. Lin Yi learned the beast’s Divine Markings, exploited its fading strength to kill it, and collapsed beside Biao after claiming victory.

• Lin Yi charged the Inkshadow Leopard, but it vanished and struck him from behind, breaking his spear and hurling him through two trees.
• Biao attacked the beast and suffered a shattered arm and a head wound before Lin Yi caught him as he fell.
• Lin Yi punched the Inkshadow Leopard away from Biao, breaking bones in his fist while noticing the beast’s strength was fading.
• Lin Yi completed a record of the Inkshadow Leopard’s Divine Markings, grabbed its tail when its speed faltered, and repeatedly slammed it into the ground.
• Lin Yi pounded the injured Inkshadow Leopard until it died, then collapsed near the unconscious Biao and closed his eyes to rest.

After defeating the Inkshadow Leopard, Lin Yi tried to carry the unconscious Biao away but was surrounded by a pack of Xie Wolves. Biao woke and joined Lin Yi in fighting them, while a hidden wolf king waited deeper in the forest.

• Lin Yi heard wolf howls gathering in response to the blood scent and carried the unconscious Biao away from the Inkshadow Leopard's corpse.
• A pack of Xie Wolves surrounded Lin Yi and Biao, leaving Lin Yi to face them with his strength nearly spent.
• Lin Yi lowered Biao beside a tree and shielded him as the Xie Wolves began their attack.
• Biao woke, knocked away one Xie Wolf, crushed another's skull, and stood back-to-back with Lin Yi.
• Biao identified the beasts as Xie Wolves and warned Lin Yi that their wolf king was still waiting in the forest.

Lin Yi and Biao were overwhelmed by the Xie Wolf pack until the village chief arrived and drove the wolves away with the Eye of Zheng. Both men were carried back to the tribe, and the Hunting Team discovered that they had killed an Inkshadow Leopard.

• Biao protected Lin Yi from the Xie Wolves, refusing to abandon him as both grew weaker and sustained severe injuries.
• The Xie Wolf King emerged and prepared to attack the exhausted pair.
• The village chief arrived with the Eye of Zheng, whose aura forced the Xie Wolves to flee.
• Mang and the Hunting Team members caught Lin Yi and Biao as they lost consciousness, and Lin Yi pointed them toward the Inkshadow Leopard's Corpse.
• Mang found the Inkshadow Leopard's Corpse, and the village chief ordered the group to carry the injured men and the corpses back to the tribe.

While Lin Yi lay unconscious, his Super Brain absorbed spiritual energy, healed his injuries, and evolved Platinum Divine Markings that spread to his eyes. He woke in his stone house and discovered that his vision had become extraordinarily sharp.

• Lin Yi's Super Brain instinctively absorbed spiritual energy and used some of it to repair his injured body.
• The village chief treated Biao and Lin Yi, and told the clansmen that Biao's shattered arm would have to wait until Lin Yi woke.
• As Lin Yi rested, Platinum Divine Markings formed in his brain, spread to his eyes, and eventually completed a closed cycle.
• Lin Yi woke, sat up despite the pain in his chest, and noticed he could see the wood grain and dust near the door in startling detail.

After awakening Spirit Eyes, Lin Yi discovered that he could see through flesh, track movement, and observe spiritual energy and qi and blood. He used the new ability to set Biao’s shattered arm, then wondered whether it could reveal the hidden Divine Markings of Ferocious Beasts.

• Lin Yi awakened Spirit Eyes, which let him see through objects, follow fast-moving creatures, and observe spiritual energy.
• Lin Yi rushed to Biao’s home after learning that Biao’s left arm was badly fractured and only he could set the bones.
• Lin Yi used Spirit Eyes to examine Biao’s arm and precisely realigned the broken bones with his qi and blood.
• The village chief secured Biao’s arm with splints, while Xiao Hu and his mother thanked Lin Yi.
• Back in his home, Lin Yi considered using Spirit Eyes to study the hidden Divine Markings of Ferocious Beasts without waiting for them to activate their abilities.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Yi ate Inkshadow Leopard meat and reached an estimated strength of 75,000 jin. He wondered whether humans could awaken bloodline abilities, then began studying the leopard's Divine Markings.

• Lin Yi woke ravenously hungry and went to the village chief's home for breakfast.
• The village chief explained that the Inkshadow Leopard meat contained far more blood-qi than ordinary prey, and Lin Yi ate the entire pot.
• The village chief offered Lin Yi half the leopard meat, and Lin Yi agreed to share the rest with Biao and the hunting party.
• Lin Yi asked whether humans could awaken Bloodline Innate Divine Abilities, and the village chief said he knew of no such cases among humans.
• Lin Yi took half the leopard meat home, cultivated until his strength reached about 75,000 jin, and began comprehending the Inkshadow Leopard's Divine Markings.

Lin Yi modified the Inkshadow Leopard's Divine Markings into a two-layer speed skill called Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow. After testing its sustained and burst speeds, he decided to break through to the Blood-Qi Mountain Sinking Realm.

• Lin Yi quickly comprehended the Inkshadow Leopard's Divine Markings and adapted them to his legs.
• Lin Yi tested the markings outside and found that their explosive burst reached about three times his normal speed but rapidly consumed blood-qi.
• Lin Yi divided the skill into Flowing Light for sustained movement and Fleeting Shadow for short, extreme bursts.
• Lin Yi tested both layers and found that Fleeting Shadow reached nearly four times his usual speed, while Flowing Light used little blood-qi.
• Lin Yi considered how the Inkshadow Leopard's stamina had limited it in battle and prepared to advance to the Blood-Qi Mountain Sinking Realm.

Lin Yi cared for the injured Biao, refined the Savage Bull Art, and used Inkshadow Leopard meat to cultivate until he broke through to Blood-Qi Mountain Sinking. After the village chief brought him bone soup, Lin Yi announced that he wanted to hunt alone.

• Lin Yi visited Biao, noticed his worry about the hunting grounds, and promised to handle everything while Biao recovered.
• Lin Yi adjusted the Savage Bull Art using insights from the Inkshadow Leopard Divine Markings, improving its efficiency by around thirty percent.
• Lin Yi ate Inkshadow Leopard meat over the next two days, strengthening his blood qi as his injuries healed.
• Lin Yi broke through to Blood-Qi Mountain Sinking and reached eighty thousand jin of strength, amplified to at least one hundred and sixty thousand jin by the Savage Bull Diagram.
• The village chief congratulated Lin Yi and brought him bone soup, and Lin Yi said he wanted to go hunting alone.

Lin Yi convinced the village chief to let him hunt alone, then used his new Spirit Eyes to explore beyond the Hunting Team’s usual grounds. He found a sleeping giant bear with Dragonlike Blood-Qi and began planning to test his skills against it.

• Lin Yi argued that hunting alone would keep the injured Biao and the weaker Hunting Team members safe, and the village chief reluctantly agreed.
• Lin Yi gave the village chief the beast-hide scrolls for Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow, and Savage Bull Art, then left the tribe to hunt alone.
• At the hunting grounds, Lin Yi activated Spirit Eyes and used it with his Super Brain to read tracks and other traces in detail.
• Lin Yi followed a beast trail beyond the Hunting Team’s usual range, passing several groups of low-level Ferocious Beasts without engaging them.
• Lin Yi spotted a cave and used Spirit Eyes to identify a massive sleeping bear with Dragonlike Blood-Qi, then prepared to test his skills on it.

Lin Yi tested his Savage Bull Diagram against a giant bear, killed it, and continued exploring until he entered the ominous Dark Forest. There, he spotted an unknown spider with active Divine Markings stalking him.

• Lin Yi awakened the giant bear with a punch and subdued it with the Savage Bull Diagram’s force.
• Lin Yi confirmed the bear had no Innate Divine Ability, killed it, and hid its corpse in the cave to deal with later.
• Lin Yi entered the Dark Forest despite his unease and used his Spirit Eyes to search the shadowy woods.
• Lin Yi spotted an enormous spider behind him and saw complex Divine Markings circulating through its body.
• The spider began creeping toward Lin Yi as its Divine Markings sped up, and Lin Yi prepared to fight.

Lin Yi recorded the Divine Markings of a powerful spider in the Dark Forest, then killed it after uncovering the piercing force of its legs. He fled when more spiders closed in and sensed a still stronger creature deeper in the forest.

• Lin Yi evaded the spider's surprise attack with Fleeting Shadow and studied how its Divine Markings strengthened its leg tips.
• After completing his record of the spider's markings, Lin Yi attacked, but the spider escaped into the canopy and tried to ambush him again.
• Lin Yi used Fleeting Shadow to catch the spider on a branch and crushed its head with a punch.
• More than a dozen spiders converged as Lin Yi sensed a stronger presence deeper in the Dark Forest.
• Lin Yi grabbed the spider's Corpse and escaped the forest; the pursuing spiders stopped at its boundary.

Lin Yi returned to the cave, ate roasted bear paw, and derived the Breath-Concealing Art from the spider’s Divine-Mark Diagram. He spotted a horde of Lava Giant Apes crossing the lowland and wondered whether to record their Divine Markings.

• Lin Yi returned to the cave, confirmed it had not been disturbed, and roasted and ate the brown bear’s paw.
• Lin Yi comprehended the Spider Divine-Mark Diagram and identified its piercing and aura-concealing functions.
• Lin Yi derived the Breath-Concealing Art, which reduced his aura from Mountain-Sinking to First Cry.
• Lin Yi heard heavy footsteps and used his Spirit Eyes to spot more than thirty Lava Giant Apes marching across a distant lowland.
• Lin Yi considered recording the Lava Giant Apes’ Divine Markings.

Lin Yi recorded part of a Lava Giant Ape’s Divine Markings before the troop left, then cautiously explored the Great Wilderness after sunrise. He killed a camouflaged beast guarding nine red fruits and uprooted the fruit tree to take back to the village chief.

• Lin Yi used Spirit Eyes to record about one-tenth of a Lava Giant Ape’s complex Divine Markings as the troop passed, then stayed alert in his cave overnight.
• After daylight, Lin Yi avoided the Dark Forest and found a short tree bearing red fruits.
• Lin Yi spotted a camouflaged boar-like Ferocious Beast buried beside the tree and killed it with a Savage Bull Diagram-enhanced kick when it ambushed him.
• Lin Yi collected nine fruits and decided to ask the village chief what they were before eating them.
• Lin Yi uprooted the tree, carried it and the beast’s corpse back toward the cave, and worried that the village chief might be concerned.

Lin Yi returned to Bluestone Tribe with three Ferocious Beasts and tricked the village chief and Hunting Team into thinking he was badly injured, then apologized and shared the prey. He showed the village chief nine Blood Essence Fruits, learning that they increased Blood-Qi but were unripe.

• Lin Yi approached Bluestone Tribe with the Corpse bodies of a brown bear, a spider, and a ground pig, then staged an injury to tease the village chief.
• The village chief and Hunting Team rushed Lin Yi into the stone house, where Lin Yi revealed that he was unharmed and had only been pretending.
• Lin Yi apologized for frightening everyone and offered the three Ferocious Beasts for a shared feast.
• Lin Yi gave the village chief nine red fruits and learned they were immature Blood Essence Fruits that could increase Blood-Qi, especially for those in the Blood-Qi Realm.

Lin Yi learned about the upcoming Tribal Exchange Gathering and prepared to attend, while the Village Chief gave him compendiums to study and warned him to conceal valuable techniques. The chapter ended with Lin Yi studying Ferocious Beasts and herbs as he prepared to advance before the tribe departed.

• The Village Chief insisted Lin Yi keep all nine Blood Essence Fruits and explained that the uprooted tree could not survive, though its leaves could be used to stop bleeding or traded.
• The Village Chief told Lin Yi that the Tribal Exchange Gathering would begin in seven days and that the tribe would leave five days early, traveling along the Great Wilderness's edge for safety.
• The Village Chief warned Lin Yi not to reveal his self-created cultivation methods and martial techniques, since others might kill him for valuable possessions.
• The Village Chief gave Lin Yi several generations' worth of Ferocious Beast and herb compendiums to study.
• Mang brought Lin Yi a generous share of meat saved by the tribe, and Lin Yi felt grateful for the people he had met.
• Lin Yi returned home, opened the compendiums, and began studying so he could advance toward the Dragonlike Realm before the tribe set out.

Lin Yi began refining Blood Essence Fruits in seclusion, aiming to break through from the Mountain-Sinking Realm into the Dragonlike Realm. As he cultivated through the night, Little Flame revealed mysterious Divine Markings, then chose to remain with Xiao Hu.

• Lin Yi memorized the Ferocious Beast Compendium and used a Blood Essence Fruit to test how quickly he could refine its energy.
• Lin Yi told the village chief he planned to enter seclusion for two days and break through into the Dragonlike Blood-Qi realm.
• The village chief checked that Lin Yi's blood-qi was stable, agreed to keep others from disturbing him, and fed him bear meat soup.
• Lin Yi returned to his stone house and swallowed seven Blood Essence Fruits before circulating the Savage Bull Art at full force.
• Little Flame watched the Great Wilderness Forest from Xiao Hu's roof as ancient Divine Markings appeared on its fur, then suppressed them and returned to sleep beside Xiao Hu.

Lin Yi broke through to the Dragonlike Blood-Qi Realm, becoming the first expert of that level in Bluestone Tribe. As the tribe prepared to leave for the Tribal Exchange Gathering, he began using his Spirit Eyes to inspect Little Flame for Divine Markings.

• Lin Yi consumed his last two Blood Essence Fruits and shattered the barrier at the peak of the Mountain-Sinking Realm, transforming his blood qi into Dragonlike Blood-Qi.
• The village chief, Biao, Mang, and the Hunting Team celebrated Lin Yi’s breakthrough as he emerged from his stone house.
• The village chief assigned the injured Biao to guard Bluestone Tribe and organized the Hunting Team’s departure for the Tribal Exchange Gathering.
• Lin Yi packed animal hides and the Gloom Spider’s legs, then joined the group at the village entrance with Little Flame on his shoulder.
• Lin Yi coaxed Little Flame with jerky and activated his Spirit Eyes to inspect the spirit fox’s Divine Markings.

Lin Yi discovered that Little Flame’s body held an intricate Gilded Divine Mark Diagram and recorded it as the Bluestone Tribe traveled toward the Trade Gathering. The group reached a cave occupied by the Gray Wolf Tribe, and both tribes agreed to share it peacefully for the night.

• Lin Yi examined and memorized the Gilded Divine Markings across Little Flame’s body, especially the complex patterns around its eyes.
• The village chief caught Lin Yi staring closely at Little Flame and warned him not to make the fox angry.
• Mang killed two small Ferocious Beasts along the trail as the Bluestone Tribe continued through the Great Wilderness.
• The village chief led the group to a cave where they encountered Cang Lan and the Gray Wolf Tribe, and the two sides cautiously lowered their weapons after recognizing each other.
• The village chief and Cang Lan agreed to divide the cave between their tribes, while Lin Yi privately remarked that Little Flame’s bloodline was unusual.

Lin Yi discovered a Bluemane Horse herd while traveling with the Bluestone Tribe and used his speed and strength to knock out every horse. The tribe planned to choose mounts and sell the rest at the Tribal Exchange Gathering.

• Lin Yi struggled to comprehend the Gilded Divine Markings, then spent the night advancing his understanding of the incomplete Lava Giant Ape Divine Mark Diagram by one-tenth.
• The Gray Wolf Tribe left the cave first, and the Bluestone Tribe set out after eating breakfast.
• Lin Yi spotted more than twenty Bluemane Horses on a hillside and agreed to catch them for the village chief.
• Lin Yi used Flowing Light, Fleeting Shadow to knock out the entire herd, including its leading stallion.
• Lin Yi told the village chief and Mang that they could keep their chosen horses and sell the rest at the Tribal Exchange Gathering.

Lin Yi tamed the Bluemane Horses by punching them into submission, letting the Hunting Team reach their rest stop far ahead of schedule. There, the village chief explained that the Flamewaste Tribe recruited promising youths and could give Lin Yi access to deeper cultivation knowledge, leaving him to consider whether to join.

• Lin Yi subdued the lead Bluemane Horse, named it Xiao Qing, and quickly forced the rest of the herd to submit as well.
• The Hunting Team rode the horses to the second rest stop in under two hours, arriving a day earlier than expected.
• The village chief told Lin Yi that the Flamewaste Tribe hosted the Tribal Exchange Gathering to recruit talented young people.
• The village chief explained that joining the Flamewaste Tribe could provide Lin Yi with systematic cultivation knowledge unavailable to the Bluestone Tribe.
• Lin Yi asked for time to consider joining, and the village chief told him the tribe would support his decision.

Lin Yi traveled with Bluestone Tribe to Flamewaste Tribe for the Trade Gathering, while remaining unsure whether to join the larger tribe. After arriving, he settled into temporary lodging and planned to explore the stalls the next day.

• Lin Yi spent the night studying the Lava Divine Marking and decided to postpone choosing whether to join Flamewaste Tribe until after the Trade Gathering.
• Bluestone Tribe rode to Flamewaste Tribe, and the village chief advised Lin Yi to conceal his Dragonlike Realm strength.
• Lin Yi suppressed his aura to appear to be in the Tidal Surge Realm before Bluestone Tribe entered Flamewaste Tribe.
• A Dragonlike Realm leader welcomed Bluestone Tribe and assigned them wooden houses in the lodging area with other visiting tribes.
• The village chief told Lin Yi that stalls were already appearing, and Lin Yi returned to his room to study the Lava Divine Marking.

Lin Yi explored the Flamewaste Tribe’s Trade Gathering and used his Spirit Eyes to spot a gray-black stone concealing a large amount of spiritual energy. He traded a piece of Tidal Surge Realm Ferocious Beast meat for the stone and returned to his hut to examine it.

• Lin Yi entered the Flamewaste Tribe’s Trade Gathering and browsed the early stalls with his Spirit Eyes.
• Lin Yi spotted a gray-black stone full of dormant spiritual energy among a remote stall’s junk.
• Lin Yi persuaded the young stallkeeper to trade several stones and ores for a piece of Tidal Surge Realm Ferocious Beast meat.
• Lin Yi returned to the wooden hut and examined the gray-black stone, pleased by the spiritual energy hidden inside it.

Lin Yi discovered that absorbing a Spirit Stone greatly accelerated his comprehension, then spent a day and a half studying the Lava Divine Markings before the Trade Gathering began. After helping Mang prepare the Bluestone Tribe’s goods for sale, Lin Yi heard that someone was trading cultivation techniques and headed to investigate.

• Lin Yi broke open a Spirit Stone and absorbed its spiritual energy through his temples, gaining the equivalent of three days of natural comprehension growth.
• Lin Yi returned to his hut and studied the Lava Divine Markings until the village chief announced that the Trade Gathering had begun.
• Lin Yi brought beast hides, dried herbs, and Gloom Spider legs to Mang and asked him to sell them alongside the Bluemane Horses.
• Lin Yi searched the crowded Trade Gathering with his Spirit Eyes, hoping to find more Spirit Stones.
• Lin Yi heard hunters say that cultivation techniques were being traded and went to see for himself.

Lin Yi spotted a damaged Sword Embryo with hidden Divine Markings among the belongings of a tribe devastated by a Ferocious Beast. He alerted the Bluestone Tribe's village chief, who traded extra supplies for the Sword Embryo and other discarded items, leaving Lin Yi carrying his prize back to their stall.

• Lin Yi found a refugee tribe offering its inherited Blood-Transfusion Method for Ferocious Beast meat and hides, and noticed a Sword Embryo with deliberately severed Divine Markings.
• Lin Yi told the Bluestone Tribe's village chief about the tribe's plight and the Sword Embryo's hidden markings.
• The village chief brought more supplies than the refugees had requested and persuaded their elder to accept them.
• The village chief used the elder's gratitude as an opening to take two pieces of Bone-Shard Ore and the Sword Embryo in exchange for supplies.
• Lin Yi praised the village chief's tactics as they returned to their stall with the Sword Embryo.

Lin Yi was approached by Chi Ye, who invited him to join the Flamewaste Tribe and explained its resources and cultivation inheritance. At the tribe’s stall, Lin Yi secretly memorized the Realm Compendium and the Divine Markings on several Spirit Artifacts, then left with new knowledge of the Spirit-Nurturing Realm.

• Lin Yi left his Sword Embryo and an empty Spirit Stone shell at his stall, then wandered through the Trade Gathering.
• Chi Ye introduced himself and invited Lin Yi to join the Flamewaste Tribe, describing its resources and access to inherited arts and the Spirit-Nurturing Realm.
• Lin Yi told Chi Ye he would discuss the invitation with his village chief, and Chi Ye directed him to the Flamewaste Tribe’s stall.
• Lin Yi used his Spirit Eyes to read and memorize the Realm Compendium, including the Spirit-Nurturing Realm’s cultivation path.
• Lin Yi recorded the Divine Markings on several Spirit Artifacts and walked away while contemplating how the Spirit-Nurturing Realm worked.