Recaps

After waking in a primeval world as an eight-year-old tribal child, Li Yuanchu used his medical knowledge and quick thinking to help save the tribe chief during a battle with Pig Demons. As Li Yuanchu prepared clean water and made fire to treat the chief, he received 100,000 Merit Points and a prompt to activate the Merit Mall.

• Li Yuanchu dreamed of meeting an old Daoist in a palace before awakening as a child in the Great Wilderness.
• Li Yuanchu returned toward his tribe and found its warriors fighting a herd of boars led by seven Pig Demons.
• The chief rescued Li Yuanchu from falling rocks, and Li Yuanchu threw the chief's spear to him so he could kill the leading Pig Demon and drive off the herd.
• The chief collapsed with a severe wound, and the tribe members blamed Li Yuanchu and prepared to sacrifice him.
• Li Yuanchu persuaded the chief's mother to let him try to save the chief, then gathered water and made fire by drilling wood.
• Li Yuanchu received 100,000 Merit Points and a prompt asking whether to activate the Merit Mall.

Li Yuanchu treated the chief’s severe wound, then taught the tribe to make fire and cook meat while disputes over his actions grew. The second-in-command split from the tribe with the able-bodied men, but the chief awakened and began recovering under Li Yuanchu’s care.

• Li Yuanchu stitched the chief’s intestine with a bone needle and Pig Demon tendon, stopped the bleeding, and gave the chief’s mother and younger brother instructions for his recovery.
• Li Yuanchu examined the Merit Mall and realized that teaching useful skills and saving lives could earn Merit Points.
• The second-in-command tried to drive Li Yuanchu away for making fire, but the chief’s younger brother blocked him as Li Yuanchu taught the tribe to use fire and cook meat.
• The chief developed a fever overnight, and the second-in-command persuaded the able-bodied men to leave with him, splitting the tribe.
• Li Yuanchu directed the remaining tribe members to butcher and preserve the Pig Demons, and the chief awakened at noon.
• Li Yuanchu examined the chief, found that his wound had healed, and cautiously fed him soup.

Li Yuanchu taught the tribe pottery-making and writing, took the name Feng Xu, and became its wise man. After organizing plans to grow the tribe, he exchanged Merit Points for the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and learned how demanding its cultivation was.

• Li Yuanchu led the chief's younger brother and another person to gather silt, then taught them to shape clay vessels and dry them for firing.
• Li Yuanchu claimed the Holy Mother had taught him his new skills, and Feng Ling accepted his explanation.
• Li Yuanchu created a script, named the tribe Feng, gave the chief the name Feng Sui and his younger brother the name Feng Xi, then renamed himself Feng Xu.
• Feng Xu fired the tribe's first pottery, improved the kilns after most pieces failed, and showed the survivors how to store food and water.
• Feng Sui declared Feng Xu the tribe's wise man, and Feng Xu proposed trading for women and children, making more pottery, and having more children.
• Feng Xu exchanged Merit Points for the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and learned its stages and immense demands, while its price in the Merit Mall rose to one million points.

Feng Xu organized the Wind-Fire Tribe’s work around making bricks and pottery while preparing to travel with Feng Xi to trade with other tribes. He left Feng Sui in charge of protecting the tribe and its children as the expedition set out the next day.

• Yuanshi Tianzun gained Merit and learned from his Teacher that the karmic debt would be repaid later.
• Feng Xu cultivated the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and Spirit Sense, then practiced Taiji Fist as Feng Xi went to gather clay.
• Feng Xu planned a brick kiln and assigned the tribe to prepare molds, clay, firewood, and pottery for production.
• Feng Xu and Feng Sui agreed that Feng Xi would lead ten healthy elders on the expedition, with Feng Xu joining while Feng Sui stayed to guard the tribe.
• Feng Xu instructed Feng Sui to supervise the tribe’s children and use a vine switch gently when necessary.

Feng Xu and Feng Xi traveled to a tree-dwelling tribe and traded meat for women and children. Feng Xu taught the tribe to use fire and gave its people names, leaving Lin Sen to consider how the Lin Tribe could learn more characters.

• Feng Xu guided the Wind-Fire group through the Great Wilderness Mountains to a tree-dwelling tribe, where Feng Xi negotiated a trade of eight hundred jin of meat for five women and sixteen children.
• Feng Xu roasted meat over a campfire, explained fire to the tribe leader, and taught him how to make it while warning him that cooking could attract beasts.
• Feng Xu named the tribe leader Lin Sen, declared the settlement the Lin Tribe, and gave names to its adults.
• Lin Sen asked how the tribe could name people in the future, and Feng Xu offered to teach him characters and provide food when he visited the Wind-Fire Tribe.
• Feng Xu checked the Merit Mall, found that the names earned him only a few Merit Points, and began cultivating for the night.

Feng Xu helped the Lin Tribe build safer treehouses, but the smell of his roasted meat attracted a giant Snake Demon that killed several people. He joined Feng Xi and Lin Sen to track it down, and they found it attacking the Eagle King; their intervention sent Lin Sen rolling toward a cliff.

• Feng Xu organized the construction of treehouses, a lifting device, and fire-safety measures, earning Merit as the Lin Tribe expanded its homes.
• While Feng Xu roasted meat, a giant Snake Demon attacked the Lin Tribe and swallowed three treehouses with their occupants before Feng Xi and the others drove it away.
• Feng Xu, Feng Xi, and Lin Sen set out to find the Snake Demon's lair, following its trail for two days until they heard the Eagle King fighting nearby.
• The three found the Snake Demon attacking the Eagle King's nest and rushed to help, striking it with boulders until it released the Eagle King.
• The Snake Demon flung Feng Xi and Lin Sen aside, and Lin Sen rolled toward the edge of a precipice.

Feng Xu, Feng Xi, and Lin Sen killed a Snake Demon, befriended the Eagle King, and returned to the Lin Tribe with its remains and feathers. Days later, they reached a marsh tribe to negotiate a trade, but Feng Xu paused the talks and proposed resting first.

• Feng Xu rescued Lin Sen, and Feng Xi and the Giant Eagle killed the Snake Demon; the Eagle King let them take its remains.
• Feng Xu crafted a snakeskin Storage Bag, and Lin Sen offered the Eagle King the remaining snake meat in exchange for his goodwill and a feather.
• Feng Xu and his companions returned to the Lin Tribe, then set out again and found rice growing in a marsh.
• Feng Xu's group returned the rice they had gathered and was brought to the marsh tribe, where Feng Xi began negotiating a trade for people and rice.
• Feng Xu interrupted the bargaining and suggested they rest before discussing the trade further.

Feng Xu and Feng Xi stayed with a river tribe, taught its chief to cook rice and control fire, and began making a fishing net. When they discovered the tribe was sacrificing four children to a giant Water God, Feng Xu intervened at the last moment, leaving the demon circling their raft in anger.

• Feng Xu cooked rice and roasted meat for the chief, then taught the tribe how to make and safely use fire.
• Feng Xu caught a huge fish and offered to teach the tribe to make a fishing net, so Feng Xi and the others began preparing rope.
• Feng Xi recognized that the tribe was conducting its annual sacrifice of four children to the Water God, and Feng Xu decided to watch.
• The chief explained that the Water God was a giant creature beneath the water that could speak directly into people's minds.
• As the creature surfaced to swallow the children's raft, Feng Xu kicked the raft away and leaped off its mouth, while Feng Xi followed; the enraged creature circled their raft.

Feng Xu used his Merit to forge a net that captured the Golden Carp threatening the tribe, while Feng Xi survived being dragged underwater. Feng Xu spared the carp only after it swore to protect the people, then asked the chief how many people it had eaten.

• Feng Xu spent his Merit refining a golden net as Feng Xi fought the Golden Carp and sent the children safely to shore.
• Feng Xu used the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to pull the river water and Golden Carp into the air, allowing Feng Xi to escape.
• Feng Xu returned with Feng Xi and the children, ordered the captured fish processed, and refused the carp's pleas for mercy.
• The chief apologized to Feng Xu and let him decide the Golden Carp's fate, while the carp warned that other demons might attack the tribe.
• Feng Xu required the Golden Carp to swear to the Heavenly Dao that it would stop eating people and protect the tribe, then asked the chief how many people it had eaten.

Feng Xu punished the Golden Carp for past human sacrifices, traded food for people and seeds, and helped the Marsh Tribe build raised houses and fishing nets. After the Windfire Squad left for another tribe, Feng Xu found and fed an injured wolf cub, who revealed that he was the son of the Heavenly Demon Wolf King.

• Feng Xu pulled scales and fin bones from the Golden Carp, ordered it to protect humans, and arranged for the Marsh Tribe to offer it land meat as tribute.
• Feng Xu traded four thousand jin of meat with Chief Jiang Ze for twenty women, thirty children, and five hundred jin of rice seeds, then named the chief and the place Jiang Ze and the Marsh Tribe.
• Feng Xu led the Marsh Tribe in building raised houses and weaving fishing nets, earning Merit as the people settled into their new homes.
• Feng Xu gave the Giant Golden Carp the title Carp King, and the Windfire Squad left the Marsh Tribe on the eighth day with forty-two adults and forty-seven children.
• Feng Xu found an injured wolf cub and fed it, despite Feng Xi warning that it might attack them once it recovered.
• The wolf cub spoke and claimed to be the son of the Heavenly Demon Wolf King, demanding that Feng Xu and Feng Xi kneel.

Feng Xu and Feng Xi rescued a group of former tribesmen from a wolf pack and reunited with the second-in-command, who learned that Chief Feng Sui was alive. Feng Xu discovered an iron-rich mountain and began preparing to smelt ore while planning how to defeat the Wolf King.

• Feng Xu forced the white wolf cub to call itself a dog, fed it, and put a rope around its neck.
• Feng Xu and Feng Xi found a group of more than twenty tribesmen fighting an Earth Immortal Wolf King and its pack, then used rolling logs and boulders to disrupt the wolves and help the humans drive them back.
• The second-in-command learned that Feng Sui had recovered and that Feng Xi had become the tribe's wise one, then led the group to a nearby cave.
• Feng Xu ignored the second-in-command's warning and discovered that the strangely colored mountain contained iron ore; he collected ore and cut trees with Feng Xi.
• Feng Xu began making charcoal at the camp and considered how to eliminate the Wolf King and its remaining wolves.

Feng Xu organized a new settlement, won the second-in-command’s support, and established the Red Iron Tribe while developing iron smelting and weapons. With the wolf pack gathering outside the defenses, he prepared to delay the fight and find a chance to capture the Wolf King.

• Feng Xu offered the second-in-command a chance to lead a settlement by the mountain, and the man agreed to remain there as its chief.
• Feng Xu named the settlement the Red Iron Tribe and gave the second-in-command the name Iron Mountain, then organized the people to build walls and scout the terrain.
• Feng Xu and the tribesmen smelted iron and forged the first iron axe, which Feng Xu named the Mountain-Cleaving Axe.
• Feng Xu directed the people to make more iron furnaces, hammers, and weapons while planning defenses against the wolf pack.
• The wolf pack gathered outside the walls, but trenches and barriers kept it at bay as Feng Xu relied on time and the scouts’ map to prepare for a chance to catch the Wolf King.

Feng Yuqi and Tie Song traveled through the Great Wilderness to seek aid for the Wind-Fire Tribe, but a wolf pack discovered them and gave chase. They escaped up a tree, where they faced the arrival of a colossal Earth Immortal Realm wolf king.

• Feng Yuqi remembered how Feng Xu had rescued her from sacrifice, welcomed her into the Wind-Fire Tribe, and named her Feng Yuqi.
• Feng Yuqi volunteered to join Tie Song on a mission to seek aid, and Feng Xu agreed after she insisted she wanted to help him.
• Feng Xu instructed Feng Yuqi and Tie Song on the mission and urged them to return alive, even if they failed to bring back help.
• Feng Yuqi and Tie Song hid in a burrow as wolves sniffed around outside, but Yuqi sensed that more wolves were gathering.
• Tie Song led Yuqi out of the burrow and fled with her as the pack pursued them, growing larger by dawn.
• Tie Song climbed a giant tree with Yuqi as wolves surrounded it, and a colossal wolf king from the Earth Immortal Realm appeared.

Tie Song and Feng Yuqi escaped the Wolf King with the Eagle King's help while Feng Xu prepared his people to mine iron and defend their camp. As work continued, Feng Xu worried that progress might distance him from the people he hoped to protect.

• Tie Song transformed and fought the Wolf King, but it overwhelmed him and flung Feng Yuqi and Tie Song aside.
• The Eagle King wounded the Wolf King, rescued Feng Yuqi and Tie Song, and carried them to safety; Yuqi recognized its feather as matching the one she wore.
• Feng Xu discussed seeking help from a nearby tribe, offering them most of the spoils in exchange for joining the wolf hunt.
• Feng Xu organized cart-making so the warriors could transport ore from the nearby mine more easily.
• Feng Xu asked Feng Xi to warn him if he ever did wrong, then left to teach the children while Feng Xi went to help the workers.

Feng Xu forged the Dragon-Snake Bow and led the camp through a wolf-pack attack, using fire, arrows, and the spear formation to inflict heavy losses. The Wolf King stayed out of the battle, and Feng Xu planned to search for the wolves’ den and seek help if reinforcements did not arrive.

• Feng Xu forged the Dragon-Snake Bow from golden carp fin bones, snake tendons, and eagle feathers.
• Feng Xi told Feng Xu that the Wolf King had returned and the missing people sent to seek aid were likely in danger.
• Feng Xu ordered boar meat placed outside the camp walls to distract the wolf pack and prepared the warriors for battle.
• Feng Xu used a flaming arrow and the Mysterious Feather Arrows as the wolf pack charged, while the warriors defended the walls with long spears.
• The wolf pack retreated after losing more than thirty wolves, while the Wolf King never entered the fight.
• Feng Xu ordered a search for the wolf den and said he and Feng Xi would visit nearby tribes if reinforcements failed to arrive within three days.

Feng Xu oversaw the processing of wolf hides and meat while Little White settled into life under his household rules. He later reached an underground tribe, where he reunited with Tie Song and Yuqi and found its people too weak and hungry to help with the wolf threat.

• Feng Xu taught the women to tan wolf hides and had the men prepare meat, bones, and other materials.
• Little White said it preferred cooked wolf meat and recited Feng Xu’s seven household rules.
• After three days without reinforcements, Feng Xu, Feng Xi, and Little White followed Tie Song and Yuqi’s trail, but it disappeared near a fallen tree.
• Feng Xu and his companions reached a hidden underground tribe and discovered that Tie Song and Yuqi had arrived there the day before.
• The tribe’s chief explained that the people had stayed in their pits to avoid the wolves and were too hungry to offer support, so Feng Xu shared raw fish with them.

Feng Xu persuaded the Lukun Tribe to join the Red Iron Tribe in a campaign against the wolf pack, then organized weapons and equipment for the battle. After scouts found the pack, Feng Xu planned an ambush in a valley and put Tie Song in command of the Lukun warriors.

• Feng Xu learned that the Eagle King had rescued Feng Xi and Feng Yuqi, then heard how Tie Song and Feng Xi had failed to persuade the Lukun chief to cooperate.
• Feng Xu convinced Kun Tai to join the fight by warning that the wolf pack could discover the tribe and promising food and half the wolves after victory.
• Feng Xu named the tribe the Lukun Tribe, left it provisions, and returned with its warriors to the Red Iron Tribe.
• Feng Xu organized weapon-making, strict discipline, javelins, catapults, stone shot, and incendiary projectiles to prepare for the battle.
• Scouts located a wolf pack of more than five hundred across two mountain ridges, and Feng Xu planned to drive it into a valley ambush.
• Feng Xu assigned Tie Song to command the Lukun Tribe during the battle.

Feng Xu and the tribes used trebuchets and javelins to devastate the wolf pack, then captured many wolves with his Dharma Treasure. The Wolf King escaped, and the warriors drove the survivors toward an ambush site while Little White led the captured cubs back to the Red Iron Tribe.

• Feng Yuqi gave Feng Xu a short knife made from polished wolf fangs before the team set out for the wolf pack.
• The Wolf King sent the pack to attack after scouts found the Human Race building defenses, and Feng Xu’s team assembled trebuchets and prepared to meet them.
• Feng Xu’s warriors bombarded the charging wolves with stone shot, Bone Caltrop Bombs, Shrapnel Bombs, and Fire-Scale Bombs, then attacked with javelins.
• Feng Xu used Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to capture twenty wolves, but the Wolf King escaped and the warriors killed the remaining battle wolves still charging them.
• The warriors pursued the fleeing pack toward the ambush site, while Little White led more than twenty captured cubs back to the Red Iron Tribe.

Feng Xu’s forces ambushed the fleeing Wolf King in a valley, crippled him, and captured him with a Dharma Treasure after the Eagle King intervened. The Eagle King asked to receive the Wolf King’s internal organs in return for his help.

• The Wolf King led his battered pack into a valley toward Ape Demon territory, but Feng Xu’s forces struck them with catapults, rolling logs, and boulders.
• A concealed pit trapped many wolves, and Feng Xi and Iron Mountain wounded the Wolf King’s hind legs with spears.
• Feng Xu pursued the Wolf King while Tie Song and the warriors tried to block his escape; the Wolf King broke through the earthen wall and continued toward the forest.
• The Eagle King attacked the injured Wolf King from the air, and the Wolf King’s hind-leg bones shattered as he tried to flee.
• Feng Xu captured the Wolf King in a golden net and thanked the Eagle King, who requested the demon’s internal organs as payment.

After the wolf pack was defeated, Feng Xu oversaw the division of its spoils and returned to camp to consider how to strengthen the Human Race. He acquired the Witchblood Secret Art and Zhen Yuanzi’s herbal compendium, while Zhen Yuanzi unexpectedly gained Merit.

• Feng Xi killed the captured Wolf King after Feng Xu returned to the valley.
• Feng Xu rejected Kun Tai’s demand for the promised reward, then assigned the Wind-Fire Tribe the Wolf King, sixty pelts, and the cubs, and allowed the Lukun Tribe two cartloads of spoils.
• The Lukun Tribe accepted Feng Xu’s distribution, and Feng Xu stored the Wolf King before returning to camp to cultivate.
• Feng Xu exchanged Merit for the Witchblood Secret Art, then realized its fierce beast-blood remedies needed adapting for human bodies.
• Feng Xu acquired Zhen Yuanzi’s Ginseng Compendium of a Hundred Medicines to learn medicinal properties and preparation methods.
• Zhen Yuanzi sensed that he had unexpectedly gained Merit at Wuzhuang Temple.

Feng Xu completed the initial stage of Third-Turn Blood Refinement and awakened his Bloodline Power, then settled a dispute over the wolf carcasses and ordered Little White to train the wolf cubs. He left the wolf cubs in Little White’s care as the tribe continued preparing supplies.

• Feng Xu spent five days refining his blood and awakened his Bloodline Power, which transformed him into an eight-zhang giant and destroyed his grass skirt.
• Feng Yuqi arrived to ask whether Kun Tai could remove the wolf bones before loading the carts, startling the exposed Feng Xu.
• Feng Xu allowed Kun Tai to remove the bones on the condition that the Lukun Tribe take at most thirty wolf pelts and fill the rest of its carts with wolf meat.
• Feng Xu checked the wolf cubs and told Little White to make them obedient, threatening to castrate them if they kept baring their teeth.

Feng Xu helped the Red Iron and Lukun Tribes build houses from wolf bones and earthen walls, then returned to the Wind-Fire Tribe as its own housing project neared completion. The chapter ended with the tribe preparing a large, deep construction pit.

• Feng Xu persuaded Iron Mountain to build a trial house from a giant wolf’s skeleton and hide, then received permission to take the wild boar back to the Wind-Fire Tribe.
• Feng Xu exchanged Merit for the Devouring ability but discovered that humans could not digest raw meat with it as Fierce Beasts did.
• Feng Xu traveled with the Lukun Tribe and helped Kun Tai’s people construct earthen houses before winter.
• Feng Xu and the Windfire Squad returned to the Wind-Fire Tribe and found that Feng Sui had nearly finished clearing a large area and digging a deep pit.

Feng Xu oversaw construction, chose materials for making thread, and prepared a Blood Pool to strengthen the tribe's warriors. After testing it himself, he found that it improved his cultivation, but he stayed in its shallow section.

• Feng Xu finished planning the houses beneath the Wolf King's skeleton, checked the brick firing, and arranged for a pottery kiln to be built.
• Feng Sui told Feng Xu about the flat land beyond Wild Boar Ridge and the river near other Human Race tribes, while Feng Xu considered the boars a threat to future farming.
• Feng Xu reviewed Feng Ling's threads, named a useful plant Cloud Hemp, and taught her how to make its fibers into thread for clothing.
• Feng Xu had warriors dig a pit in the cave and made a Blood Pool from Wolf King blood, boar demon essence blood, and medicinal herbs.
• Feng Xu tested the Blood Pool, found it strengthened his bloodline and sped up Three-Turn Blood Refinement, then cultivated in its shallow section.

Feng Sui broke through to Earth Immortal using Feng Xu’s Blood Pool, while Feng Xu improved it for Feng Xi and began developing clothes and measuring tools for the tribe. The chapter ended with Feng Xu dreaming of a ruler engraved with the words “Measuring Heaven.”

• Feng Sui endured the Blood Pool and successfully activated his Bloodline Power, becoming an Earth Immortal who could control his strength and grow to enormous size.
• Feng Sui demonstrated his power to the tribe, and Feng Xi gave him the Mountain-Cleaving Axe before Feng Sui warned that Wild Boar Ridge held a danger beyond the Pig Demon.
• Feng Xu improved the Blood Pool with stronger herbs, and Feng Xi entered it to attempt his own breakthrough.
• Feng Xu made clothes from wolf hides and hemp thread, standardized measurements, and refined a wooden ruler into a Merit Spirit Treasure.
• Feng Xu dreamed that a ruler could shrink to the size of a hair or grow to blot out the sky, with “Measuring Heaven” engraved on it.

Feng Xu successfully cultivated a Primordial Spirit and completed its circuit, then resumed work in the tribe and sterilized the wolf pups that had shown aggression. The chapter left him separating the treated wolves for recovery under Little White’s care.

• Feng Xi broke through to Earth Immortal, giving the tribe two Earth Immortal experts.
• Feng Xu secluded himself to cultivate his Second-Turn Primordial Spirit and, after many days, completed the Primordial Spirit Circuit despite exhausting his vitality.
• Feng Xi carried the weakened Feng Xu back to the tribe, where hot soup and food restored him.
• Feng Xu inspected the tamed wolf pups and beat the ones that bared their fangs or tried to ambush him.
• Feng Xu drugged the five aggressive wolf pups, sterilized them, and isolated them to recover while Little White watched.