Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya persuaded the Four Friends of the Wang to take him through the teleportation array into Demon Beast Valley, though they refused to accompany him afterward. The group reached the array, where Wang Ding went to fetch the teleportation talismans.

• Li Xiaoya pleaded with Wang Ding, Wang Xuanyu, Wang Ling, and Wang Feiyu until Wang Ding agreed to take him through the array, on the condition that they part ways at the valley’s outskirts.
• Li Xiaoya paid Wang Ding two low-grade spirit stones and learned that the four disciples were known as the Four Friends of the Wang.
• Wang Ding recognized Li Xiaoya as Supreme Patriarch Daoling’s disciple, and the others exchanged strange glances.
• Wang Ding paid the silver-armored cultivator ten spirit stones and led the group into the teleportation hall.
• Wang Ding told the others to stand inside the formation while he went to retrieve the teleportation talismans.

Wang Ding’s group teleported to Demon Beast Valley and parted from Li Xiaoya at its outskirts. Li Xiaoya ignored the suggested route for gathering herbs and ventured deeper into the foggy forest to search for the green-yellow fruit, resolving to keep going despite losing his way.

• Wang Ding teleported the group to a gorge outside Demon Beast Valley and explained the valley’s flight prohibition and sealed entrance.
• At the forest’s edge, Wang Ding sent Li Xiaoya southwest to gather herbs and gave him an invisibility talisman before taking the others deeper to hunt a third-tier demon beast and avenge Fifth Sister.
• Wang Ling asked how Wang Ding had obtained the talisman, and Wang Ding revealed that someone had given it to him to pass to Li Xiaoya.
• After the others disappeared from sight, Li Xiaoya changed course and headed deeper into the forest in search of the green-yellow fruit.
• Li Xiaoya worried that the fog would make him lose his way, but he rejected turning back and continued forward.

Li Xiaoya encountered a first-rank Earth Yellow Rat in Demon Beast Valley and struggled to survive its ambushes and powerful attacks. The rat charged him again as he considered how to exploit its weaknesses.

• Li Xiaoya killed an ordinary wild boar with a fireball talisman while searching Demon Beast Valley for demon beasts and cultivators.
• A fast, dark creature ambushed Li Xiaoya, clawed his shoulder, and escaped into the woods.
• Li Xiaoya burned the creature's hiding place with a talisman, revealing a giant ratlike demon beast that dodged his fireball and struck him with its tail.
• Li Xiaoya recognized the creature as a first-rank Earth Yellow Rat and recalled that it had strong defenses but a vulnerable abdomen and weakness to wood-element spells.
• The Earth Yellow Rat repeatedly lunged and lashed at Li Xiaoya, who dodged and retreated before the beast charged him again.

After killing the Earth Yellow Rat with a trap of fire talismans, Li Xiaoya fled deeper into Demon Beast Valley to find a safe place to recover. He settled in a hollow high in a tree and began healing, unaware that someone was following him.

• Li Xiaoya dodged the Earth Yellow Rat’s attack and blasted its belly with fire talismans, killing it while worsening his own injuries.
• Li Xiaoya took the rat’s severed tail as a possible source of spirit stones and walked deeper into the woods, while a pair of bright eyes silently followed him.
• Li Xiaoya cleaned his shoulder wound, applied Healing Medicine, and worried that the smell of blood might attract another demon beast.
• Li Xiaoya climbed a towering tree and discovered a hollow containing dry grass and a meditation cushion.
• Li Xiaoya swallowed a pill and circulated the True Sun Formula to heal his damaged organs and meridians.

After healing from the Giant-Horned Lizard’s attack, Li Xiaoya broke through to the third level of true cultivation and set off to leave Demon Beast Valley. He remained lost for several days, fighting demon beasts and running low on talismans, then sheltered in a tree hollow to recover.

• Li Xiaoya used a Restoration Pill and meditation to heal his injuries, and his sharpened senses revealed that he had broken through to the third level.
• Li Xiaoya celebrated his breakthrough, nearly fell from the tree, then safely landed using the Wind-Riding Art.
• Li Xiaoya decided to stop searching for Green-Yellow Fruit and head back, but became lost in Demon Beast Valley.
• Li Xiaoya fought and killed several first-tier demon beasts, including a Giant-Horned Lizard, while gathering spirit herbs and exhausting most of his talismans.
• Li Xiaoya realized he had encountered no fellow disciples in several days and worried that he would die if he could not escape.
• Li Xiaoya climbed into a tree hollow to replenish his depleted magic power.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Mist Forest and entered the Beast Cliff Lands, where a hidden attacker ambushed him. The chapter ended with him facing a massive purple snake-like demon beast after narrowly dodging its strike.

• The Wang companions worked together to kill a White Stone Monster and collect its Yellow Stone Milk as they searched for something in Demon Beast Valley.
• Li Xiaoya recovered his magic power, left the forest, and reached the rocky Beast Cliff Lands, believing he was closer to escaping the valley.
• Li Xiaoya swallowed a Grain-Avoidance Pill and used his cultivation technique to manage its side effects.
• A hidden demon beast attacked Li Xiaoya, who rolled clear of its crushing blow and saw that the weapon-like iron ball was the head of a huge purple snake-like beast.

Li Xiaoya struggled to escape a second-rank Iron-Tailed Snake, using talismans and the terrain to slow the beast. He slipped through a narrow crevice, but the snake followed and snapped at him as the chapter ended.

• Li Xiaoya recognized the Iron-Tailed Snake as a dangerous second-rank demon beast and fled its first tail-hammer strike.
• Li Xiaoya used lightning and fire talismans to knock the snake back, but his attacks only enraged it and he began running low on talismans.
• Li Xiaoya lured the pursuing snake toward a narrow crevice between two boulders and slid through it.
• The Iron-Tailed Snake forced its head through the crevice and snapped at Li Xiaoya, who kicked sand and stones into its mouth and rolled aside.

Li Xiaoya trapped an Iron-Tailed Snake but spared it, then used Wang Ding’s Invisibility Talisman to attempt to sneak past a Twin-Tailed Wolf. He had nearly passed the wolf when a falling stone drew its attention, but it did not detect him.

• Li Xiaoya wedged the Iron-Tailed Snake between boulders, considered attacking it, then decided to conserve his talismans and leave it trapped beneath a pile of rocks.
• An unseen figure appeared beside the snake, killed it with a streak of red light, and vanished.
• Li Xiaoya spotted a Twin-Tailed Wolf guarding the route ahead and decided to use the Invisibility Talisman Wang Ding had given him.
• Li Xiaoya activated the talisman, concealed himself, and cautiously approached the gorge while holding three Lightning Talismans.
• Li Xiaoya dislodged a small stone within twenty zhang of the wolf, but it only glanced toward the sound and howled before he continued forward.

Li Xiaoya used his Invisibility Talisman to steal ripe White Elixir Fruit from a White-necked Bear’s cave and continued through Demon Beast Valley, hoping to find a way out. Meanwhile, the Four Friends of the Wang fought two Twin-Tailed Wolves, and Wang Ling was badly injured.

• Li Xiaoya slipped past the Twin-Tailed Wolf and saw it leap away across the gorge, then inspected the Invisibility Talisman as it began to lose potency.
• Two days later, Li Xiaoya secretly stole the White Elixir Fruit from the sleeping White-necked Bear’s cave and stored it in a jade box.
• Li Xiaoya continued through second-tier demonic beast territory, avoiding beasts and stealing spirit herbs while worrying about finding an exit.
• The Four Friends of the Wang struggled against two Twin-Tailed Wolves, and Wang Ding refused to use the item they had been saving for another foe.
• A Twin-Tailed Wolf knocked Wang Ling down and shattered her shield with a barrage of Wind Blades, leaving her seriously injured.

An unseen senior saved Wang Ling and the others from the Twin-Tailed Wolves, and Wang Feiyu reunited with Wang Ling. After deciding to recover their Magic Power, the siblings reconsidered their search for the thing connected to Fifth Sister.

• A Twin-Tailed Wolf attacked Wang Ling, but an unseen senior’s red light stopped it and helped the others decapitate it with their Dharma Artifacts.
• The remaining wolf charged the group, overpowering Wang Xuanyu’s white light and breaking free when Wang Ding’s earthen hands failed; the unseen senior then killed it with another red flash.
• Wang Feiyu caught Wang Ling as she drifted down, and the two embraced and wept while Wang Ding and Wang Xuanyu realized the senior had saved them.
• Wang Ding collected the wolves’ corpses, teased Wang Feiyu and Wang Ling, and decided the group should recover their Magic Power before returning.
• Wang Xuanyu urged Wang Ding to continue searching for the thing, but he argued that they should not risk more siblings’ lives to avenge Fifth Sister; Wang Feiyu then proposed searching the last area after they recovered.

Wang Feiyu and the others renewed their determination to avenge Fifth Sister as five outsiders headed toward Li Xiaoya. When the Green Wild Boar nearly killed Li Xiaoya, the Disciple Token Heavenly Venerable Daoling had given him formed a blue barrier that repelled the beast, drawing the five cultivators’ attention.

• Wang Feiyu apologized to Wang Ding for opposing the hunt, and Wang Ling and Wang Xuanyu urged Wang Ding to continue pursuing their shared wish for revenge.
• Wang Ding vowed that they would avenge Fifth Sister, and the Wang siblings followed him onward.
• Five unfamiliar cultivators ignored Li Xiaoya’s pleas for help and continued toward their destination as he fled the Green Wild Boar.
• The Green Wild Boar accelerated and charged at Li Xiaoya, but his Disciple Token released a blue barrier that sent the beast flying.
• The five cultivators noticed the artifact protecting Li Xiaoya and stopped to watch as the Green Wild Boar prepared to attack again.

Li Xiaoya used a blue barrier from the ring Master gave him to withstand the Green Wild Boar’s repeated charges, until five cultivators killed the beast with their Dharma Artifacts. After they claimed to be Heavenly Dao Sect disciples from Rainbow Rosy Peak, Li Xiaoya recognized their story as a ruse but concealed his suspicions.

• Li Xiaoya taunted the Green Wild Boar as the blue barrier repeatedly repelled its charges.
• The five cultivators attacked the weakened Green Wild Boar with their Dharma Artifacts and killed it.
• Li Xiaoya thanked the cultivators and said he was a Heavenly Capital Peak disciple who had gotten lost while gathering spirit herbs.
• The five cultivators claimed to be from Rainbow Rosy Peak, and Li Xiaoya tested their story by asking whether they knew Lin Xian'er.
• Li Xiaoya realized the cultivators were impostors but calmly asked them to pass his regards to Lin Xian'er.

Li Xiaoya was ambushed by the Five Fiends of Huangling after they tricked him into lowering his protective barrier, but his ring shielded him from their next attack. As the fiends restrained him and mocked his claim that he was Heavenly Venerable Daoling’s disciple, a hidden observer intervened.

• The sallow-faced cultivator persuaded Li Xiaoya to lower his barrier, and the Five Fiends of Huangling attacked him when he refused to join them.
• Li Xiaoya dodged one Dharma Artifact but was badly wounded; his ring then raised a blue barrier that repelled the fiends’ follow-up attacks.
• The Five Fiends demanded Li Xiaoya’s ring, and he fled using the Wind-Riding Art.
• The blue-robed cultivator sent vines to trap Li Xiaoya after the bald burly man blocked his escape with a stone pillar.
• Li Xiaoya invoked Heavenly Venerable Daoling and the Three Immortals of the Heavenly Dao, but the Five Fiends laughed at him.
• A hidden figure pointed toward Li Xiaoya, and an explosion followed.

Li Xiaoya escaped the Five Fiends of Huangling with the help of his blue barrier, but he tumbled down a slope into a cave and was struck by a Third-Tier Demon Beast. The barrier shattered, and Li Xiaoya lost consciousness after hitting a rock wall.

• Li Xiaoya's ring unleashed a blue barrier that freed him from the vines, and he fled as the Five Fiends of Huangling pursued him.
• The Five Fiends attacked Li Xiaoya repeatedly, but his blue barrier resisted their spells and artifacts.
• Li Xiaoya leaped over what he thought was a cliff, only to tumble down a steep slope while the Five Fiends chased him.
• Wang Ding heard Li Xiaoya's screams and led the Four Friends of the Wang toward the noise.
• A Third-Tier Demon Beast charged out of a cave and struck Li Xiaoya, shattering his barrier and sending him into a rock wall unconscious.

The enormous third-rank Claw Beast chased the Five Fiends of Huangling, who tried to flee and fight back. A mysterious figure killed the beast and the fiends, aided Li Xiaoya, and vanished as others approached.

• The Five Fiends of Huangling recognized the enormous Claw Beast and fled, but it quickly caught up with them.
• The pockmarked cultivator and the scrawny white-robed cultivator abandoned the others, while the Claw Beast broke the bald burly man's arm and knocked him unconscious.
• A streak of red light beheaded the blue-robed cultivator, and the mysterious figure descending from the sky killed the other three fiends.
• The mysterious figure cut the Claw Beast apart with red light and remarked that it was likely the beast that had killed a cultivator in Demon Beast Valley.
• As others approached, the mysterious figure sent a ball of white light toward Li Xiaoya and vanished.

Li Xiaoya hid from the arriving Four Friends of the Wang in the cave where he discovered a pool of ripe Yellowblood Fruits. As he cautiously tested the pool, the Four Friends identified the dead Claw Beast and the slain Five Fiends of Huangling outside.

• Li Xiaoya woke among the dead Five Fiends of Huangling and the shattered Claw Beast, then hid in the cave when he heard people approaching.
• Li Xiaoya ventured deeper into the cave and found glowing Yellowblood Fruits growing on an island in a pool, but stopped before approaching it.
• The Four Friends of the Wang found the Claw Beast’s corpse and wondered who had killed it with a single blow.
• Wang Xuanyu, Wang Feiyu, and Wang Ding identified the bodies as members of the Five Fiends of Huangling, while Wang Ding wondered where their leader was.
• Li Xiaoya hid behind a rock, tossed a small stone into the pool to test it, and waited when nothing happened.

Li Xiaoya recognized the pool guarding the Yellowblood Fruit as sinkwood water, crossed it with the Lightness Art, and gathered the fruit. Meanwhile, the Four Friends of the Wang collected the Five Fiends of Huangling’s belongings and headed into the Claw Beast’s lair, leaving Li Xiaoya panicked as they approached.

• Li Xiaoya tested the mysterious pool with a stone and a piece of wood, then identified it as sinkwood water.
• Li Xiaoya used the Lightness Art to cross the pool and began picking the Yellowblood Fruit.
• The Four Friends of the Wang concluded that the same cultivator had killed most of the Five Fiends of Huangling and that Evil Vajra had been killed by the Claw Beast.
• The Four Friends of the Wang collected the Five Fiends of Huangling’s Storage Pouches and Dharma Artifacts, and Wang Ding stored the Claw Beast’s corpse.
• The Four Friends of the Wang entered the Claw Beast’s lair to search for treasures as Li Xiaoya heard them approach and worried they would discover the Yellowblood Fruit.

Li Xiaoya hid the uprooted Yellowblood Fruit saplings by throwing them into the pool, then pretended to be unconscious when the Four Friends of the Wang entered the cavern. After waking, he gave them a false account of how he had reached the cavern while they speculated that an unnamed senior had saved them.

• Li Xiaoya picked the remaining Yellowblood Fruits, uprooted every sapling, and tossed them into the pool.
• Li Xiaoya lay on the ground pretending to be unconscious as the Four Friends of the Wang entered the cavern and cautiously crossed the pool.
• Wang Ding and the others recognized Li Xiaoya, who woke and acted surprised to see them.
• The Four Friends of the Wang concluded that an unnamed senior had killed the demon beasts and saved them.
• Li Xiaoya claimed that demon beasts had chased him through the woods and that a dark shadow had knocked him unconscious near the cavern.

Li Xiaoya joined the Four Friends of the Wang as they traveled out of Demon Beast Valley, and later found Wang Ding playing a sorrowful flute at night. Wang Ding revealed that the group had once been the Five Friends of the Wang and said they had come to the valley for revenge, leaving the reason unexplained.

• Li Xiaoya eagerly agreed to travel with the Four Friends of the Wang, and Wang Ding welcomed him along.
• Wang Xuanyu explained that they treated Li Xiaoya well because of the powerful senior connected to him, while Wang Feiyu complained about lending him clothes.
• Li Xiaoya changed into Wang Feiyu's clothes, joked with the group, and followed Wang Ding as they set out.
• Li Xiaoya found Wang Ding playing the flute at night and asked what troubled him.
• Wang Ding told Li Xiaoya that the group had once been the Five Friends of the Wang and revealed that they had come to Demon Beast Valley for revenge.

Wang Ding told Li Xiaoya how his greed led the Five Friends of the Wang into danger, where Wang Qingyu died protecting the others from a third-tier Claw Beast. He avoided revealing who had killed the beast and the Five Fiends of Huangling, then gave Li Xiaoya the Thunderclap Pearl before leaving to rest.

• Wang Ding recalled that Wang Qingyu was a gifted young disciple who guided the Five Friends of the Wang in cultivation and demon-beast hunts.
• Wang Ding explained that he led the group deeper into Demon Beast Valley to hunt stronger beasts despite Wang Qingyu's objections.
• Wang Ding said Wang Qingyu held off a third-tier Claw Beast so the others could escape, but she died in the attempt.
• Li Xiaoya realized that Wang Ding's group had struggled to find companions because they planned to split up inside the valley.
• Wang Ding evaded Li Xiaoya's questions about who killed the Claw Beast and the Five Fiends of Huangling, then gave him a Thunderclap Pearl and went to rest.