Chapter Summaries

Mingye, a young Demon Wolf Tribe member who remembered his former life on Earth, reflected on his tribe’s decline and resolved to grow stronger. After a night of hunting and fighting, he dragged a slain black bear demon toward the tribe to prove he was no longer a child.

• Mingye watched the snow outside his cave and recalled that he had lived in the world of Inuyasha for fifty years.
• Mingye sent his younger brother Kōga back to sleep and reflected on his parents’ deaths and the limits of his own strength.
• Mingye considered how the Demon Wolf Tribe had splintered without a great demon to lead it and vowed to become stronger.
• Mingye left the cave to hunt, using his ice demonic power to endure the winter night.
• Mingye fought several creatures, killed a black bear demon, and dragged its body toward the tribe as proof of his strength.

Mingye returned to the Demon Wolf Tribe with a black bear he had killed, revealing strength that astonished the guards. After resting, he went hunting again, while the aging chief watched and wondered whether Mingye could surpass his father and save the weakening tribe.

• Mingye dragged a black bear with a hundred and fifteen years of cultivation into the Demon Wolf Tribe's territory and left it with the guards.
• The guard captain recognized Mingye's strength and reflected on the tribe's decline and its vulnerability to powerful demons.
• Mingye returned to the cave, gave Kōga some meat, and slept for a day while Kōga went out to play.
• After waking at night, Mingye set out to hunt again as the chief watched him from a cliff and recalled his father, Fengxue.
• Mingye sensed that the chief was watching but continued alone, while the chief decided not to protect or advise him and hoped he would become strong enough to aid the tribe.

After two years of fighting and cultivation, Mingye defeated the aging chief and became the new chief of the Demon Wolf Tribe. The former chief gave him a map to the secret grounds where the sacred weapon Five Thunder Finger awaited, and Mingye set out to claim it while promising to lead the tribe to prosperity.

• Mingye challenged the current chief after wiping out demons around Bluestone Mountain and growing powerful through battle.
• Mingye defeated the chief in a brief duel, and the tribespeople cheered as he became their new chief.
• The former chief gave Mingye a map to the tribe's secret grounds and explained that the Three-Headed Demon Wolf guarded the Five Thunder Finger.
• Mingye promised to lead the Demon Wolf Tribe to prosperity and said he would seek the sacred weapon.
• The former chief returned to his dwelling to tend to injuries he knew would never heal.

Mingye explained that his rapid growth came from combining his previous life’s martial arts training with disciplined cultivation and precise control of demonic power. After turning down Kōga’s invitation to train, he planned to improve the tribe and set out to obtain its sacred weapon, the Five Thunder Finger.

• Mingye reflected on how his martial arts experience and fifty years of experimentation had helped him accelerate his growth over the past two years.
• Mingye asked Kōga if he wanted to train, but Kōga refused because he wanted to keep playing.
• Mingye decided that he would eventually build a city for the Demon Wolf Tribe and first improve the tribe members’ clothing.
• Mingye studied the map to the Demon Wolf Burial Grounds, memorized the route, and burned the map so the secret would remain protected.
• Mingye planned to retrieve the Five Thunder Finger while the old man could still protect the tribe.

Mingye left Bluestone Mountain to seek the Five Thunder Finger in the Demon Wolf Graveyard, killing demons and collecting materials along the way. He reached the mist-shrouded valley that served as his Demon Wolf Tribe’s secret ground.

• Mingye set out from Bluestone Mountain after the old man entrusted him with its defense.
• Blue Oni ambushed Mingye, but Mingye froze him with Ice Breath and beheaded him with an ice blade.
• Mingye considered forging the Five Thunder Finger into a lightning demon sword and gathered demon parts and materials during his journey.
• Mingye learned that the Dog Tribe and Leopard Cat Tribe were at war, but decided he was not yet strong enough to join the fighting.
• Mingye rode a subdued mountain ogre to the misty valley of the Demon Wolf Graveyard.

Mingye entered the Demon Wolf Tribe’s burial grounds to claim the Five Thunder Finger and confronted its guardian, the Three-Headed Demon Wolf. After learning Mingye’s name and praising his strength, the guardian renewed its challenge, leaving their battle poised to intensify.

• Mingye led Mountain Ogre through the mist to the burial grounds and ordered him to wait outside.
• Mingye advanced through the burial grounds, where the Three-Headed Demon Wolf formed from the earth and blocked his path.
• Mingye shattered the guardian with a powerful charge, then crushed its earthen spears when it reformed.
• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf asked Mingye’s name, and he identified himself as the leader of the Demon Wolf Tribe of Bluestone Mountain.
• The guardian insisted Mingye still had to defeat it to obtain the Five Thunder Finger, and Mingye accepted the challenge.

Mingye unleashed his combined blood and vital energy, demonic power, and martial force to crush the Three-Headed Demon Wolf’s attack in the transformed burial ground. The wolf survived through its bond with the burial ground and questioned Mingye about his unfamiliar technique as Mingye explained his path.

• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf transformed the burial ground into a mass of wolf-shaped threats that tried to devour Mingye.
• Mingye shattered the ground-born wolves and stomped the Three-Headed Demon Wolf with overwhelming force.
• Mountain Ogre felt the blast from outside the valley and recognized it as his master's work.
• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf re-formed by the treasured mirror and marveled at Mingye's strength and speed.
• Mingye explained how he combined blood and vital energy, demonic power, and force, then described the spiritual essence within blood.

Mingye passed the Demon Wolf Tribe’s trial and claimed the Five Thunder Finger, learning that the Sacred Artifact came from the Underworld and could slay its demons. He left the graveyard with the ancestors’ hopes resting on him and resolved to help the Demon Wolf Tribe rise again.

• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf praised Mingye’s ideas for strengthening demons and awarded him the Five Thunder Finger.
• Mingye claimed the artifact, which unleashed golden lightning, and complained that its appearance was ugly.
• The Three-Headed Demon Wolf revealed that the Five Thunder Finger was formed from the ancestors’ soul power and came from the Underworld.
• Mingye considered melting the artifact into a demon sword, and the Three-Headed Demon Wolf reluctantly accepted that he could do as he wished with it.
• Mingye stored the Five Thunder Finger as a golden wolf-claw mark on his palm and left the graveyard as the ancestors voiced their hopes for the tribe’s future.

The Leopard Cat Tribe sent a horde of evil spirits to attack the Demon Wolf Tribe on Bluestone Mountain while Mingye was away. The old man killed their hidden leader and drove the attackers off, but the tribe suffered heavy losses as he worried about the war’s spread and Mingye’s quest for the Five Thunder Finger.

• The Leopard Cat Tribe’s evil spirits reached Bluestone Mountain and attacked the Demon Wolf Tribe, which had remained neutral in the war.
• The old man led the Demon Wolf Tribe and thousands of demon wolves into battle while searching for the concealed enemy commander.
• The old man used Mingye’s Force-Energy Method to kill the evil spirit leader, sending the disorganized horde fleeing.
• A tribesman reported that five hundred demon wolves had been killed or wounded and several dozen tribesmen had died.
• The old man ordered the battlefield cleared and the fallen buried, then worried about Mingye obtaining the Five Thunder Finger and the Leopard Cat Tribe threatening the region.

Mingye considered the Dog Tribe’s war against Michinaga and other great demons, then reached Hairinbō and commissioned two swords. Hairinbō agreed to forge an evil sword and a lightning sword from the materials Mingye had gathered.

• Mingye learned that Michinaga had led the Leopard Cat Tribe and allied demon forces into the Western Country to fight Tōga.
• Mingye reasoned that Tōga’s accumulated injuries, rather than Setsuna no Takemaru’s attack alone, had left him unable to survive.
• Mountain Ogre brought Mingye to Hairinbō’s home in a gloomy forest.
• Mingye swiftly subdued Hairinbō and asked him to forge an evil sword and a lightning sword.
• Hairinbō agreed to make the swords if Mingye’s materials were good enough.

Mingye gave Hairinbō the Five Thunder Finger and demon remains to forge two swords, then began experimenting with a cultivation method that combined breathing techniques with blood and qi circulation. After injuring himself during the trials, Mingye rested, convinced his approach was close to working.

• Mingye showed Hairinbō the Five Thunder Finger and offered it as material for a lightning sword.
• Mountain Ogre delivered the remains of more than a hundred demons for an evil sword, and Hairinbō agreed to forge both weapons.
• Mingye ordered Hairinbō to forge the lightning sword within three days and sent Mountain Ogre to assist him.
• Mingye considered how demons increased their demonic power and rejected devouring demons because of its impurities and raw flesh.
• Mingye tested combining breathing techniques with blood and qi circulation, but the experiments produced only minor results and injured him.
• Mingye stopped his research for the day and rested to recover, believing he was close to solving the remaining problem.

After discovering a resonance that accelerated his demonic power, Mingye retrieved the lightning sword Hairinbō had forged and subdued its spirit. He named the sword Thunder Rage and demonstrated its immense power, while Hairinbō continued work on the Evil Sword.

• Hairinbō told Mingye that the lightning sword was complete and that forging the Evil Sword would take about seven days.
• Mingye went to the sword-forging pool, where Hairinbō finished tempering the lightning sword amid a burst of golden lightning.
• Mingye caught the sword, resisted its attack, and used his demonic power to subdue its spirit.
• Hairinbō named the lightning sword Thunder Rage and gave Mingye its scabbard.
• Mingye poured demonic power into Thunder Rage and slashed through the clouds, stunning Hairinbō and Mountain Ogre.
• Mingye praised Hairinbō and left after instructing him to forge an impressive Evil Sword.

Mingye tracked the Hundred Demon Bats to their sea cave and confronted their leader, Daiyokumaru, seeking to take their powerful protective barrier for the weak Demon Wolf Tribe. Daiyokumaru refused and attacked Mingye with a blast of demonic energy.

• Mingye reached a coastal fishing village and learned from a little girl that the Hundred Demon Bats attacked the area at night.
• Mingye followed a dangerous cliff path to the bats’ sea cave and walked across the water on ice.
• Daiyokumaru ordered his son Tsukiyomaru to activate the tribe’s purple protective barrier when they sensed Mingye approaching.
• Mingye praised the barrier and demanded that the Hundred Demon Bats hand it over.
• Daiyokumaru angrily gathered his demonic power and fired a massive blast at Mingye.

Mingye destroyed the Hundred Demon Bats’ protective barrier with a devastating lightning attack and obtained their Barrier Secret Art from the sole survivor, Tsukiyomaru. He then killed Tsukiyomaru and left the battlefield.

• Mingye blocked Daiyokumaru’s demonic attack with ice and introduced himself as chief of the Demon Wolf Tribe.
• Mingye unleashed Thunder Prison and a massive lightning sword, overwhelming the Hundred Demon Bats’ barrier despite Tsukiyomaru’s efforts to strengthen it.
• Mingye shattered the barrier and killed the Hundred Demon Bats, deliberately sparing Tsukiyomaru.
• Tsukiyomaru refused to reveal the Barrier Secret Art, so Mingye hypnotized him and obtained it two hours later.
• Mingye killed Tsukiyomaru and left the battlefield.

Mingye defeated Kyora after acquiring the Hundred Demon Bats’ barrier power, but Kyora escaped through his fiery resurrection trick. On Horai Island, Kyora’s companions prepared to revive him with sacrifices, while one elder became curious about the powerful demon who had killed him.

• Mingye used the Blood Jade Coral to strengthen his barrier and blocked Kyora’s firebird attack.
• Kyora demanded Mingye hand over the barrier power, but Mingye sped past him with the Thunder Rage Sword and cut him apart.
• Mingye anticipated Kyora’s fiery claw trick and extinguished the flames, though Kyora’s voice vanished with a threat from the Four War Gods.
• Mingye realized Horai Island had appeared but turned back because the setting sun left too little time to find it.
• On Horai Island, one figure sensed Kyora’s death and ordered his burly younger brother to capture villagers as sacrifices for Kyora’s resurrection.
• The figure beneath the waterfall wondered about the strong demon who had killed Kyora, then closed his eyes and returned to slumber.

Mingye rescued a wounded golden monkey from the Earth Dragon Clan and killed the pursuing lizards before continuing toward the sword-forging pool. There, Hairinbō completed the Evil Sword, but its power began controlling Mountain Ogre before Mingye returned.

• A wounded golden monkey collapsed at Mingye's feet as the Earth Dragon Clan surrounded them and accused him of helping steal their healing jewel.
• Mingye blocked the earth dragons' attacks with a purple barrier and killed them all in an instant.
• The monkey offered Mingye the healing jewel and asked to follow him, but Mingye declined the treasure and walked away; the monkey used the jewel to heal himself and followed.
• Hairinbō completed the Evil Sword after seven days, but its Evil Energy was too powerful for him to approach safely.
• Mountain Ogre succumbed to the sword's influence and walked toward it while Hairinbō warned him to stop.

The Evil Sword possessed Mountain Ogre and drove him to attack Mingye, but Mingye defeated him with the Thunder Rage Sword and claimed the Evil Sword. Hairinbō then joined Mingye on his return to Bluestone Mountain.

• Hairinbō realized the Evil Sword had taken control of Mountain Ogre, who left the forging pool to hunt Mingye.
• Mingye sensed the Evil Sword approaching and stopped as Mountain Ogre attacked him with bloodred sword slashes.
• Mingye used the Thunder Rage Sword to overpower Mountain Ogre, while the Evil Sword drained its host to fuel its hatred.
• Mingye unleashed a torrent of lightning that destroyed Mountain Ogre and broke the Evil Sword's evil energy.
• Mingye took the Evil Sword, praised Hairinbō, and told him to pack for their return to Bluestone Mountain.

The Leopard Tribe attacked the Demon Wolf Tribe on Bluestone Mountain and demanded its submission, but Mingye returned and slaughtered the invaders with a single burst of sword energy. The Demon Wolf Tribe welcomed him back as its champion, and the old chief recognized that Mingye had grown stronger.

• The Leopard Tribe's vanguard demanded that the Demon Wolf Tribe submit to Michinaga, while the old chief and his warriors refused.
• The old chief led the Demon Wolf Tribe and its demon wolves into battle against the Leopard Tribe.
• Mingye appeared and his sword energy killed the Leopard Tribe's vanguard and troops.
• The Demon Wolf Tribe celebrated Mingye's return, and he ordered them to clear the battlefield.
• Mingye pulled the Evil Sword from the ground with a whip of demonic power, and the old chief remarked that he had grown stronger.

Michinaga, leader of the Leopard Cat Tribe, ordered the Leopard King to destroy Mingye and the Demon Wolf Tribe on Bluestone Mountain after their forces were defeated. As the Leopard King gathered troops, Donglan remained uneasy about Mingye while Michinaga sought more human souls to strengthen himself against Tōga.

• Michinaga devoured human souls, and the Leopard King reported that Mingye had wiped out the Leopard troops sent to Bluestone Mountain.
• Donglan recalled Mingye’s growing reputation, while the Leopard King asked permission to avenge his fallen tribesmen.
• Michinaga ordered the Leopard King to mobilize the entire Leopard Tribe and destroy Mingye and the Demon Wolf Tribe.
• The Leopard King left to muster his forces, while Donglan worried that Mingye might be unusually powerful.
• Michinaga ordered Donglan to procure more human offerings and reflected on Tōga’s victory over Kir inmaru.

As the Leopard Cat Tribe’s campaign weakened the Dog Tribe, Tōga considered recruiting Mingye of the Demon Wolf Tribe, whose deeds suggested he had found his own path. Tōga sent Red Evil Ogre to invite Mingye to Bluestone Mountain, leaving his interest in the young demon wolf clear.

• Red Evil Ogre reported that the Leopard Cat Tribe had destroyed more yokai tribes and seized territory from the Dog Tribe.
• Tōga reflected that his injuries from defeating Kir inmaru had left the Dog Tribe vulnerable, while neighboring tribes withheld their support.
• Red Evil Ogre recommended recruiting Mingye after the Demon Wolf leader wiped out expeditionary forces from two major tribes allied with the Leopard Cats.
• Tōga asked how Mingye compared with Sesshomaru, and Red Evil Ogre judged Sesshomaru stronger.
• Tōga concluded that Mingye might have traveled farther along his path than Sesshomaru and ordered Red Evil Ogre to invite him to the Dog Tribe base.