Chapter Summaries

Su Changsheng fought the wounded White Tiger King, who attacked him with the Yin Palace Blood Stele amid a crisis in the Black Mountain Demon Stockade. Facing death, Su Changsheng reversed his five qi to force his way into the ninth level, defeated the White Tiger King, and killed him, but the greater upheaval was only beginning.

• The White Tiger King and his allies ambushed Su Changsheng, and the White Tiger King revealed that the Wolf King's Wolf Whiskers could not protect him.
• The White Tiger King attacked Su Changsheng with Bloody Wind and Rain, then summoned the Yin Palace Six Treasures Blood-Dropping Stele to crush him.
• Su Changsheng reversed his five qi and forced his way into the ninth level, awakening the divine ability Flying Sand and Rolling Stones.
• Su Changsheng's attack drove back the Blood Stele and left the White Tiger King gravely wounded; Su Changsheng caught the stele.
• Su Changsheng expanded his yao body and killed the White Tiger King and the nearby Yao Humans.
• The account recorded the White Tiger King's death in late May of the seventeenth year and warned that a greater crisis was approaching.

Su Changsheng killed the White Tiger King and drove off three demons, but the Nine Fox King’s arrival and White Madam’s display of power revealed a far greater conflict at the Black Mountain Demon Stockade. After White Madam urged the survivors to flee, Su Changsheng escaped as the Yao Humans launched a devastating attack on the stockade and targeted her.

• Su Changsheng used the reversed five energies to reach the ninth level, killed the White Tiger King, and suffered severe damage to his foundation and Yao Body.
• The Three-Eyed Green Fox King, the Amethyst Snake King, and the Bat King ambushed Su Changsheng, but he wounded them and killed the Bat King before the other two fled.
• The Nine Fox King transformed the Black Mountain Demon Stockade with a peach-blossom Divine Ability, but White Madam appeared, broke the illusion, seized the Nine Fox King, and tore off all nine tails.
• White Madam sent a fox tail that eased Su Changsheng’s injuries and told the survivors to run, so he fled into the Wilderness carrying the White Tiger King’s and Bat King’s bodies.
• A portal to Fallen Dragon Valley opened above the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, and a Light Feather struck and devastated the area as three more Light Feather figures appeared to confront White Madam.

White Madam fought the forces of Fallen Dragon Ridge to defend Black Mountain Demon Stockade, but Green Mountain Yao King killed her, leaving the stockade in ruins. As survivors sought a new beginning, Su Changsheng watched from the Wilderness and faced life as a homeless Wild Yao.

• The Wolf King, Venom Dragon King, and Violent Tiger King attacked Black Mountain Demon Stockade under the influence of White Demon Fire, but White Madam broke their assault and shattered their formation.
• Green Mountain Yao King manifested through the Yao dragon projection and struck at White Madam; she sent the Nine Fox King away before facing him alone.
• White Madam’s enormous Yao Body destroyed Green Mountain Yao King’s projection, but she then disintegrated and warned the Nine Fox King to beware of Black Mountain Yao King, That City, and anything connected to Changsheng.
• The Wolf King, Venom Dragon King, and Violent Tiger King declared themselves free from White Madam’s control and decided to go to the Right Stronghold; elsewhere, the black turtle and its human figure discussed how the destruction served their plans.
• Bai Ling emerged in human form and concluded that White Madam’s death had enabled her transformation, while the Turtle Yao at the Right Stronghold vowed to use Fallen Dragon Ridge as a pawn.
• Su Changsheng watched the battle’s aftermath from the Wilderness, realized he had lost his home, and decided to heal where he was before considering a return to the ruins.

After months of recovering from the backlash of forcing himself to the ninth level, Su Changsheng assessed his gains and prepared to strengthen his powers. He spent all his Survival Points advancing Minor Poison Breath, which triggered a startling transformation in his body.

• Su Changsheng treated his injuries in hiding with his breathing method, the Healing Rune, blood food, and the Nine Fox King's tail.
• Over five months, Su Changsheng recovered most of his injuries and rebuilt his five qi with the flesh of the White Tiger King and Bat King.
• Su Changsheng reviewed his attributes and realized Flying Sand and Rolling Stones might let him form another Demon Art Divine Ability when he reached the ninth level again.
• Su Changsheng set Concealment Runes around his cave, ate Blood Food, and spent all his Survival Points on Minor Poison Breath.
• Ice and poison erupted from Su Changsheng's Spinal Snake Bone and engulfed the cave as a strange transformation began.

Su Changsheng destroyed his collapsing bloodline and forced Candleflame and Minor Poison Breath to exhaust their conflicting powers, then fused their remaining essences with stone power to create a bloodline of his own. After a long recovery, he awoke transformed into a Great Rock Snake King.

• As Minor Poison Breath advanced, Su Changsheng’s damaged bloodline began to collapse, so he deliberately destroyed it and expelled its hidden black blood, revealing visions of ancient catastrophes.
• Su Changsheng confined Candleflame and Minor Poison Breath within his Spinal Snake Bone until their powers clashed and nearly annihilated each other.
• Su Changsheng merged the remaining ice, fire, and poison essences, then used Flying Sand and Rolling Stones to stabilize them and create a newborn bloodline.
• The new bloodline repaired Su Changsheng’s body and strengthened him as he slept, while his growing aura drove wild yao away from his rocky mountain.
• After an unknown stretch of time, Su Changsheng awoke covered in stone armor and discovered that he had become a Great Rock Snake King.

After his bloodline rebirth, Su Changsheng discovered that his body and powers had unified, his bones were beginning to petrify, and his divine abilities had grown stronger. He uncovered evidence that the Wolf King had secretly planted a Pledge of Allegiance in him, then spotted a half-demon snake in the Wild Yao Village who looked like White Madam.

• Su Changsheng awoke in a newly evolved body, inspected his rock armor and deep-azure powers, and found that his bones were gradually petrifying.
• He examined his bloodline space and realized that his newborn bloodline unified his yao body and could support further evolution, though it remained weak.
• Su Changsheng tested Candleflame and found that its gossamer threads resembled threads he had once seen inside the purification power, prompting him to suspect a hidden trap.
• He recalled the Wolf King's demon power entering him through crocodile yao essence blood and concluded that the Wolf King had secretly planted a Pledge of Allegiance in him.
• Su Changsheng considered the Wolf King's possible schemes involving the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, then left his cavern and noticed a Wild Yao Village below.
• He saw a half-demon snake organizing the villagers and was shocked when she turned out to look like White Madam.

Su Changsheng disguised himself as a wild yao and settled in White Mountain Village to learn about wilderness communities and investigate a snake yao who resembled White Madam. He confirmed she likely had no connection to White Madam, then watched her and Black Cat choose the names Bai and Zhou.

• Su Changsheng inspected the half-demon white snake woman, decided she only resembled White Madam, and entered White Mountain Village disguised as a wounded wild yao.
• The half-demon white snake woman and Black Cat welcomed Su Changsheng under the protection of Lord White Mountain, and he drank their muddy water before settling in the village.
• Su Changsheng learned about wild yao villages, their precarious lives, and how their breeding and numbers differed from the cultivation-focused inhabitants of yao strongholds.
• After building a house, Su Changsheng asked the half-demon white snake woman and Black Cat for their names, and she explained that she chose names to honor White Mountain Village.
• The half-demon white snake woman named Black Cat Zhou after Zhou Hu King and called herself Bai after White Madam.

Su Changsheng experimented with his azure threads, watched White Mountain Village endure a worsening drought, and considered returning to the Black Mountain Demon Stockade for resources and knowledge. After learning the stockade had reopened as a Yao Market, he agreed to travel there with Little Snake Girl Bai and Hei Maozhou, but first suggested they seek Lord White Mountain’s guidance.

• Su Changsheng discovered that his azure threads could faintly sense the condition and location of demons they entered, and he gave Little Snake Girl Bai a Shrinking Rune to study.
• As the drought worsened and White Mountain Village’s population grew to about three hundred, Su Changsheng planted azure threads in Bai while she practiced the rune and considered seeking supplies and knowledge at the Black Mountain Demon Stockade.
• A refugee told Su Changsheng that the rebuilt Black Mountain Demon Stockade had opened a Yao Market where wild yao could trade resources for Yao Coins and potentially buy cultivation methods or travel opportunities to Fallen Dragon Ridge.
• Little Snake Girl Bai and Hei Maozhou asked Su Changsheng to travel with them to the market, and he agreed while warning them about the dangers of the journey.
• Su Changsheng suggested that the three of them seek guidance from Lord White Mountain before leaving.

Su Changsheng left White Mountain with Bai and Zhou and returned to the battered Black Mountain Demon Stockade, where they began building new lives in its yao market. After seeing Bai Su settle in alongside Fox Woman Little Four, Su Changsheng returned home and faced a white tiger yao demanding rent, echoing his first days after transmigrating.

• Su Changsheng accepted the azure-flamed white stone from the lord of White Mountain and led Bai and Zhou toward the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, wary of the apparent repetition of fate.
• The three reached Black Mountain Yao Market, where Su Changsheng learned that the Wolf King, Violent Tiger King, and Poison Dragon King ruled the ruins after the great battle.
• Su Changsheng reunited with Bai and Zhou, learned that Bai had taken the name Bai Su and befriended Fox Woman Little Four, and encouraged her to pursue her dream.
• Su Changsheng returned to his home in the Loose Yao Quarter and found a white tiger yao demanding rent, a scene that recalled Black Tiger Yao's first visit after his transmigration.

After more than a year of quiet cultivation, Su Changsheng’s bloodline and innate Divine Ability fully developed, revealing him as a Half-Demon Azure Snake. As drought threatened the Black Mountain Yao Market, Little Snake Girl arrived to tell him that a caravan led by the Great Yao Bai Ling had come from Fallen Dragon Ridge.

• Su Changsheng’s peaceful cultivation strengthened his body and helped restore the balance between his Yao Nature and Human Nature.
• A severe drought dried up rivers around Black Mountain, and Little Snake Girl, Hei Maozhou, and the other Yao struggled to find water as migration became a possibility.
• Su Changsheng’s bloodline finished transforming his body, and his talent evolved into the Azure Snake Breath · Azure Flame Divine Ability.
• Su Changsheng considered using his Survival Points to improve the Black Tortoise Breathing Method so he could advance faster.
• Little Snake Girl and Fox Woman Little Four hurried to Su Changsheng’s door and announced that a caravan led by the Great Yao Bai Ling had arrived from Fallen Dragon Ridge.

A caravan from Fallen Dragon Ridge arrived at the Black Mountain Yao Market, where Bai Ling Yao King discovered Bai Su and took her as a disciple. As the caravan stayed to trade and offered passage to Fallen Dragon Ridge, Su Changsheng gained new knowledge and Fox Woman Little Four urged him to consider joining the migration.

• A caravan led by Bai Ling Yao King arrived at the Black Mountain Yao Market, and Bai Ling Yao King pressured Nine Fox King to explain the history of White Madam and the strongholds.
• Bai Ling Yao King struck the Green Grass Clump Array, recognized the Black Tortoise Grand Formation, and summoned Bai Su before offering to make her a disciple.
• Bai Ling Yao King announced that the caravan would stay for a month, offer discounted goods and a Great Yao cultivation method, and carry eligible yao to Fallen Dragon Ridge.
• The caravan’s trade brought knowledge and goods to the market, while Su Changsheng bought information about his three-lights ability and the Dao of Alchemy.
• Fox Woman Little Four and Hei Maozhou told Su Changsheng that passage to Fallen Dragon Ridge was free for Seventh-Level Yao and above, and Little Four urged him to go.

Su Changsheng investigated how to migrate to Fallen Dragon Ridge with the caravan, rejected the dangerous option of posing as a high-level demon, and learned that caravan demons were raiding small strongholds for information. He left a merchant’s stall pretending to be outraged, intending to see whether the attendant demon would take his bait.

• Fox Woman Little Four explained that migrating with the caravan cost thousands of demon coins, while high-level demons traveled free in exchange for guarding it.
• Hei Maozhou warned that high-level demons without giant beasts were dying while serving as caravan guards, so Su Changsheng chose to travel disguised as a low-level demon.
• Su Changsheng and his companions divided their work: Hei Maozhou would contact Bai Ling, Fox Woman Little Four would watch the stronghold’s leaders, and Su Changsheng would question caravan merchants.
• Su Changsheng questioned an attendant demon at a stall, who revealed that caravan lords were offering rewards for the locations of small strongholds they could raid.
• Su Changsheng pretended to reject the offer angrily and left, planning to see whether the attendant demon would take his bait.

Su Changsheng infiltrated the Three-Eyed Green Fox King and Amethyst King's hunting scheme and planned to expand it beyond their control while his companions gathered migration news. Bai Ling Yao King later confronted the Bai Ling Yao Body, revealing her longstanding identity in Fallen Dragon Ridge and prompting recognition of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

• Su Changsheng posed as a third-level yao and helped the Three-Eyed Green Fox King and Amethyst King spread false stronghold information to lure caravan yao into a mutual hunt.
• Su Changsheng planned to spread the information further himself, enlarging the hunt while waiting safely for an opportunity.
• Su Changsheng and his companions learned more about Fallen Dragon Ridge, and Fox Woman Little Four revealed that the Nine Fox King had offered her a free migration spot.
• Hei Maozhou relayed Bai Su's request to meet after the caravan departed so she could share important information about the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and White Madam.
• Bai Ling Yao King visited Yellow Immortal and the Bai Ling Yao Body, confirmed that White Madam had truly died, and stated that she had been a Void Lodge Yao King for a hundred years.
• The Bai Ling Yao Body identified One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and Bai Ling Yao King confirmed her deduction while saying that her human identity was the more important reason for her ignorance.

Bai Ling Great Yao revealed how the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities Method split the Great Yao and exposed the schemes behind Black Mountain’s history. She spared the Bai Ling Yao Body and planned to use her as bait for Longevity Dao Lord, while Su Changsheng and the others debated whether Bai Su was White Madam’s reincarnation.

• Bai Ling Great Yao explained that the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities Method divided her into a human body, a yao body, and a true self, and that the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and tomb were central to her experiments.
• Bai Ling Great Yao revealed that Black Tiger Yao was likely Zhou Hu King’s separated body and that Green Mountain Yao King was Black Mountain Yao King’s true self.
• Bai Ling Great Yao described how Longevity Dao Lord had disrupted the separation eighteen years earlier, and she told the Bai Ling Yao Body that she could not be destroyed and would be left as an object of study.
• Bai Ling Great Yao said she had sensed Longevity Dao Lord on the Bai Ling Yao Body and planned to use her and Bai Su to draw him out.
• Black Cat Zhou, Su Changsheng, and Fox Woman Little Four discussed Bai Ling Great Yao’s claim that Bai Su was White Madam’s reincarnation and agreed to keep the matter from Black Mountain’s leaders and the Nine Fox King.

Su Changsheng rejected his companions’ yao coins and concealed his plan to join the caravan, while Fox Woman Little Four warned him about the Nine Fox King and That City. On the final night before departure, he watched a battle unfold, then confronted the Illusion King after the Amethyst King and Three-Eyed Green Fox King were killed.

• Bai Su and Fox Woman Little Four offered Su Changsheng their yao coins to help him migrate, but he claimed he had arranged a caravan slot with an advanced-level yao and accepted only Little Four’s contribution.
• Su Changsheng asked whether Fox Woman Little Four would accompany the Nine Fox King to That City; she avoided answering and warned him not to enter the city.
• After Hei Maozhou and Fox Woman Little Four joined the caravan, Su Changsheng waited outside the market for the Amethyst Snake King and other yao to act.
• The Amethyst King and Three-Eyed Green Fox King fought the Illusion King’s group, then lured the Illusion King into an ambush with help from the Earthworm King.
• The Illusion King killed the Amethyst King and Three-Eyed Green Fox King, but Su Changsheng blocked his escape and unleashed his Flying Sand and Rolling Stones divine ability.

Su Changsheng defeated the Illusion King, forced him to accept Azure Flame Threads, and made him secure Su a place in the migrating caravan. As the caravan departed the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, the Illusion King explained that its return route would pass through Heavenly River Red Water and Zhuyin Academy.

• Su Changsheng beat the Illusion King and rejected his offer of Yao Coins, then forced him to accept Azure Flame Threads as a Pledge of Allegiance.
• Su Changsheng shrank into a level three Yao and asked the Illusion King to use his Attendant Yao slot; the Illusion King agreed to find another way after explaining that his slot was occupied.
• The caravan’s fighting ended after Great Yao Bai Ling intervened, and the Illusion King gained a fearsome reputation after others believed he had killed the Three-Eyed Green Fox King, the Amethyst Snake King, and the Earthworm King.
• The Illusion King killed his concubine and her lover, then took Su Changsheng as his Attendant Yao, prompting gossip across the caravan.
• The caravan departed the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, and Su Changsheng asked the Illusion King about the return route.
• The Illusion King told Su Changsheng that the caravan would travel along Heavenly River Red Water to the Immortal Palace, also called Zhuyin Academy.

The Turtle Yao met with the original Zhou Hu King in an underground palace, where they discussed their failed plans, the approaching Heaven's Rift, and their search for Longevity Dao Lord. Meanwhile, Wolf Maiden Shui Yu urged Werewolf Shui Huan to pass an invitation to the Yao King, and after three months of travel, Su Changsheng sensed that he was about to undergo his Fourth Shedding.

• The Turtle Yao reported to the chained figure that White Madam was dead, Zhou Hu King was missing, and their attempts to lure out Longevity Dao Lord had failed.
• The figure told the Turtle Yao to seek shelter in Yin Palace, continue searching for Longevity Dao Lord, and pursue the Forked Path Demon Art plan while investigating the Human Tomb and Tushan Demon Race.
• The Turtle Yao left the underground palace with a Black Crystal and vowed to tear White Mountain and Black Mountain out by the roots.
• Wolf Maiden Shui Yu met Werewolf Shui Huan in the Insect Swarm and asked her to tell the Yao King that the Tushan Demon Race was heading toward Fallen Dragon Ridge and wanted him to explore the Immortal City with them.
• Werewolf Shui Huan refused to send the Yao King immediately, warning that Green Mountain Yao King remained a concern despite Bai Ling's departure.
• After three months of travel, Su Changsheng awoke from cultivation and sensed the opportunity for his Fourth Shedding after raising the Black Tortoise Breathing Technique to Lesser Mastery.

Su Changsheng began his fourth shedding after the Black Tortoise Breathing Method and his accumulated bloodline power triggered the rare blessing. During the transformation, the key pierced the new azure eye on his forehead, breaking a growth shackle as his body grew beyond fifty meters and received a surge of creation power and inherited information.

• Su Changsheng reviewed his cultivation gains and decided to put aside learning new demon arts so he could prepare for his fourth shedding.
• Su Changsheng had the Illusion King buy blood food and spirit plants, then secretly dug a guarded underground shelter away from the caravan.
• Su Changsheng's fourth shedding began suddenly, plunging him into sleep as azure flames spread and his body grew to forty-nine meters.
• A sky-azure eye formed on Su Changsheng's forehead, and the key emerged from his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and stabbed it.
• The key broke the shackle limiting Su Changsheng's growth, and his body expanded beyond fifty meters as creation power and inherited information surged into him.

During his fourth shedding, Su Changsheng broke the shackles on his growth, survived a dangerous surge of Azure Snake inheritance by destroying the extra eyes that formed across his body, and gained powerful new defenses and an Azure Divine Eye. He awoke on the thirteenth day before the caravan’s departure and began questioning the source of the azure energy and the danger he had sensed.

• A mysterious key pierced the azure eye on Su Changsheng’s forehead, breaking his growth restriction and causing his body, bloodline, and abilities to transform as he grew to fifty-five meters.
• Excess azure energy mutated Su Changsheng, causing strange eyes to sprout across his scales, so he repeatedly used the key to pierce them and shed the dangerous power.
• After the energy stopped pouring in, Su Changsheng repaired his defenses, ate blood food and spirit plants, and collapsed; creation energy then strengthened his body and restored a pure eye on his forehead.
• Rocks awakened Su Changsheng on the thirteenth day, and he examined his gains, including greatly improved five qi, fortified bones that repelled contamination, stronger demon arts, and continued growth.
• Su Changsheng identified his new third eye as the Azure Divine Eye and pondered whether breaking his growth shackles or the key had attracted the azure power and the danger he had sensed.

Su Changsheng awakened the Azure Divine Eye and used it to read fortune and danger, then returned to the Caravan and discovered that the Illusion King was entangled in ominous black qi. Their investigation led the Illusion King to reveal a Forget Emotions Pill, leaving Su Changsheng wondering where it had come from.

• Su Changsheng used the Azure Divine Eye to see dangerous signs in the wilderness and the fortune surrounding Great Yao Bai Ling and the Caravan.
• Su Changsheng deduced that the Key had helped him break through his bloodline’s size limit during shedding, and he resolved to conceal his increased size and investigate the Key cautiously.
• Su Changsheng trained for two days, then destroyed his cavern and returned to the Caravan before it departed.
• Su Changsheng found the Illusion King sleeping in his bed, woke him with slaps, and noticed ominous black qi and scarlet fortune around him.
• Su Changsheng questioned the Illusion King and secretly examined the yao he had recently spent time with, finding something wrong with three seventh-level yao.
• The Illusion King produced a Forget Emotions Pill, and Su Changsheng demanded to know where he had obtained it.