Chapter Summaries

Su Changsheng fought off six tiger Yao, then clashed with a Pureblood White Wolf summoned by Bai Cang, whose attack he countered with a devastating Ice Explosion. After the Wolf Pack withdrew, Su Changsheng decided to use his injuries and the growing danger as a reason to enter seclusion and grow stronger.

• Su Changsheng defeated six tiger Yao with a Stone-Shattering Art strike and drove away their Wailing Ghosts with Finger Condemnation.
• Bai Cang tried to recruit Su Changsheng, then unleashed his seventh-level power and exposed and burned the hidden Yao Humans in the camp.
• Bai Cang summoned a Pureblood White Wolf, and Su Changsheng broke its spatial seal with a nine-layer Stone-Shattering Art that triggered an Ice Explosion.
• Bai Cang withdrew with the injured tiger Yao and white wolf after acknowledging Su Changsheng's strength.
• Su Changsheng pretended to be seriously hurt, resolved to enter seclusion, and considered how to advance beyond the sixth level.

After the battle with the Wolf Pack, Su Changsheng learned more about the dangers of Visualization Methods and the true status of the Three Great Yao. He chose to postpone visualization and began a period of secluded cultivation, starting with the Stone-Forging Art.

• The Temporary Camp recovered and the Yao spread increasingly extravagant rumors about Su Changsheng, while Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal discussed his fight with the pureblood White Wolf.
• Yellow Immortal explained that Su Changsheng’s arrival had been a test of his loyalty, and Su Changsheng suspected that Bai Ling held a secret beyond her connection to White Madam.
• Yellow Immortal warned that a Visualization Method could cause a yao’s nature to merge with its visualization object, and said White Madam’s human and yao bodies could provide a balanced path toward advancement.
• Bai Ling revealed that White Madam and Zhou Hu King were not true Great Yao, and that the only known Great Yao in the outskirts of the Black Mountain Range was the Black Mountain Yao King.
• Su Changsheng decided to delay choosing a visualization subject, improve his cultivation techniques, and begin secluded training with the Stone-Forging Art.

Su Changsheng prepared for an extended seclusion, planned his training, and used the Stone-Forging Art to temper his yao body until the art broke through to lesser mastery. The breakthrough made him grow close to thirty meters long and bound his body, bloodline, demon power, and qi and blood in nine mysterious chains.

• Su Changsheng organized his supplies and training plans, relying on the Fox Book Yao Alliance and iron bean sales to support his seclusion.
• He decided to focus on advancing the Flame Rune and Ice Rune while weighing which demon art crafts he could improve with his limited survival points.
• Su Changsheng sealed his cave and spent six days absorbing the stone demon's shell and metal ores to forge his yao body, using Purification Talisman Runes to refine it further.
• His Stone-Forging Art reached the proficient limit, and his body grew bulkier and stronger as he continued tempering it.
• Su Changsheng broke through to lesser mastery in the Stone-Forging Art, grew to nearly thirty meters long, and saw nine radiant chains seal his body and its power.

Su Changsheng advanced the Stone-Forging Art and discovered that its nine chains suppressed contamination while protecting and tempering his yao body. He then strengthened the Ice and Flame Runes, gaining powerful elemental abilities, and ended by preparing to use them against a possible Insect Swarm.

• Su Changsheng learned that the Stone-Forging Art’s nine chains suppressed contamination in his yao body and allowed him to temper it with a wider range of materials.
• Su Changsheng tested the chains’ shrinking effect and decided to conceal his true size by presenting himself as fourteen meters tall.
• After resting, Su Changsheng received 800 survival points and chose to improve the Ice and Flame Runes rather than his cultivation method or Authority over Life and Death.
• Su Changsheng infused Candleflame into the Flame Rune and Minor Poison Breath into the Ice Rune, but his experiments stalled when the innate power reached a ninety-three-percent limit.
• Su Changsheng spent survival points to advance both runes to maximum proficiency, and their advancement strengthened his elemental talents, resistance, and affinity.
• Su Changsheng found that his new Lesser Mastery runes were over thirty times stronger, though their crafting success rate was below one percent, and he resolved to use fire and ice if the Insect Swarm arrived.

After completing his secluded cultivation, Su Changsheng reached half-step seventh level and learned that a flood and strange beasts were threatening the Fox Book Yao Alliance’s Temporary Camp. He rushed to the camp and froze its surroundings, arriving as Bai Ling and the others struggled to defend it.

• Su Changsheng finished adapting to the Stone-Forging Art’s improvements, and his body, Demon Power, and innate abilities grew strong enough to rival a half-step seventh-level yao.
• Su Changsheng studied Bai Ling’s Visualization Method scroll but resolved to use it only if other ways of discovering his Yao Nature failed.
• A third-level lesser yao told Su Changsheng that the Black Mountain River had flooded and that strange creatures were overwhelming the Temporary Camp.
• Su Changsheng sealed his cave, carried the lesser yao through the flooded marshes, and froze creatures that attacked along the way.
• Su Changsheng arrived at the Temporary Camp, reunited with Bai Ling, and spread an Ice Ring that froze the camp and nearly a hundred mu of marshland.

Su Changsheng returned from seclusion to find the Temporary Camp threatened by catastrophic flooding and unknown dangers, forcing Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal to plan their escape. The Fox Book Yao Alliance would disband and enter the Right Stronghold as unaffiliated yao people, while Su Changsheng began considering a future departure from the alliance.

• Su Changsheng used his ice talent to freeze and shatter mutants attacking the camp, and Bai Ling noticed his increased strength and offered him a difficult Stone Demon art from Elder Huang.
• Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal told Su Changsheng that the Black Mountain River had burst its banks, flooding the Right Stronghold Plain and bringing dangerous creatures that had already killed several seventh-level demons.
• Bai Ling tested Su Changsheng by asking his view on whether the camp should stay, return to the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, or enter the Right Stronghold; he avoided choosing and agreed to follow her.
• Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal decided to disband the Fox Book Yao Alliance's migration contingent so its members could enter the Right Stronghold as unaffiliated yao people.
• Su Changsheng suspected Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal still distrusted him and resolved to prepare a stand-in and eventually leave the alliance.

Su Changsheng settled in the Right Stronghold’s Outer Ring as the flood isolated the strongholds and brought growing danger. After two months of quiet cultivation, he began his third shedding, which might open the way to the seventh level.

• The Fox Book Yao Alliance disbanded, and Su Changsheng entered the Right Stronghold while Bai Ling and Yellow Immortal went to its Core Region.
• Su Changsheng rented a home near the city wall, resolved to keep a low profile, and planned to abandon his Half-Demon Black Snake identity after reaching the seventh level.
• The relentless floods cut off communication with the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, where the Insect Swarm and other disasters threatened its survival.
• Over two months, Su Changsheng focused on cultivation, improved his Green Snake Breathing Method and Authority over Life and Death, and struggled to find a suitable object for the Visualization Method.
• Su Changsheng suddenly felt the pain and drowsiness of hibernation and realized that his third shedding had begun, possibly giving him a path to the seventh level.

During his third shedding, Su Changsheng transformed his mind, discovered that his Yao Nature was immortality, and greatly strengthened his body. After seeing fissures in the storm clouds, he returned to his cave to pursue the seventh level, while White Madam and Zhou Hu King uncovered a mysterious Heaven-Collapse Method.

• Su Changsheng prepared for his sudden third shedding, endured its pain, and recorded the changes to his body as best he could.
• His Spinal Snake Bone, bloodline, skeleton, digestive system, and innate ice, fire, and poison powers transformed as his mind sublimated.
• Su Changsheng faced a vision of his own death, declared that he wanted immortality, and manifested immortality as his Yao Nature.
• After half a month, Su Changsheng awoke with greatly increased strength and saw vast fissures in the storm clouds, then returned underground to study his Yao Nature and prepare to advance.
• White Madam taught a young Snake Yao from a human book, and Zhou Hu King revealed that its text described the Heaven-Collapse Method.

White Madam and Zhou Hu King traced the latest Heaven’s Rift to Black Mountain Yao King’s treasure hunt fifteen years earlier, while Su Changsheng prepared to leave the city and break through to seventh level. After staging his apparent death as a Half-Demon Black Snake, Su Changsheng reached seventh level as a Half-Demon White Snake.

• White Madam told Zhou Hu King that an uncanny book recorded three Heaven’s Collapses, including one tied to Black Mountain Yao King’s treasure hunt, then burned the book.
• Su Changsheng calculated that he needed twenty days to gather enough yao nature experience, upgraded his Shrinking Rune, and prepared to break through outside the city.
• Su Changsheng freed Big Toad and Stone Man, left them supplies, and told them he was going outside the city to seek seventh level, asking them to pass a message to White Immortal if he died.
• Su Changsheng left the city, and rumors spread that a wounded Half-Demon Black Snake had died; a month later, Big Toad found the snake’s remains and mourned Master Diao.
• In a distant grotto, Su Changsheng reached full sixth-level experience and broke through, forming a golden-core-like substance in his sea of consciousness and becoming a seventh-level demon.

Su Changsheng reached the seventh level and unleashed its overwhelming power against a bizarre Turtle Yao that had followed him into the wetlands. After killing it with a single strike, he watched it reform from black blood and grow even more twisted, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Su Changsheng broke through to the seventh level, gained flight and greatly strengthened his innate demon abilities, then flew into the wetlands to adapt to his new power.
• Su Changsheng sensed a forbidden presence beneath the wetlands and split the waters open, releasing a huge eight-faced head amid spreading black blood and contamination.
• The head transformed into a Turtle Yao that called Su Changsheng a traitor and attacked his body and sea of consciousness, but Su Changsheng's golden core resisted its contamination.
• Su Changsheng struck the Turtle Yao with a powerful ice-and-fire arrow, killing it in an explosion that stunned the demons rushing from the Right Stronghold.
• The Turtle Yao reformed from the black blood, swallowed a demon's heart, and began radiating an even more twisted aura, so Su Changsheng prepared to kill it again.

Su Changsheng defeated the uncanny Turtle Yao, then drew the three seventh-level yao into the fight and helped destroy the Human Yao. By presenting the victory as theirs and giving them the spoils, he secured a place in Bai Cang's Wolf Pack and entered the Right Stronghold's upper ranks as King Xi.

• Su Changsheng struck down the Turtle Yao, but it returned with an even more powerful uncanny aura and resisted his flames.
• Bai Cang and the Snake Yao and Tiger Yao concluded that the creature was a Human Yao fused with a dangerous taboo entity and prepared to fight it.
• Su Changsheng fled toward the three seventh-level yao, claimed he was exhausted, and left them to battle the pursuing Human Yao.
• When Bai Cang and the other two yao pinned the Human Yao, Su Changsheng attacked with a flaming arrow and recovered its damaged black blood crystal.
• Su Changsheng handed Bai Cang the crystal and the black blood, credited the three yao with the victory, and introduced himself as Xi, a newly advanced member of the Wolf Pack.
• Bai Cang accepted Su Changsheng into the Wolf Pack as King Xi, while the Snake Yao and Tiger Yao agreed to share the spoils and celebrate.

Su Changsheng gained Bai Cang’s confidence by presenting himself as a cautious, rune-skilled seventh-level yao and explaining his fabricated history. After a week of waiting while the Wolf Pack investigated him, he expected to enter the Right Stronghold’s inner city soon and examined his new attributes, including a five-hundred-year lifespan.

• Bai Cang questioned Su Changsheng about his talisman skills and past, and Su Changsheng showed him runes while recounting his Half-Demon White Snake identity and escape from the Fox Book Yao Alliance.
• Su Changsheng demonstrated his Concealment Rune and explained his growth in size, preparing explanations for discrepancies in his history and cultivation.
• Bai Cang arranged for lesser yao to help Su Changsheng pack and sent him home to await permission to enter the inner city.
• Over seven days, Wolf Pack yao investigated Su Changsheng while posing as visitors, and their visits gradually dwindled.
• Su Changsheng checked his attribute panel and saw that his Longevity Seventh Level realm came with a lifespan of five hundred years.

Su Changsheng assessed the bloodline, qi, and spirit obstacles blocking his advancement to the eighth level and resolved to learn alchemy and improve his Demon Art Runes. Meanwhile, the Wolf King’s investigation cleared him of human contamination, and Bai Cang went to recruit him into the Wolf Pack as tensions mounted around Black Mountain Demon Stockade.

• Su Changsheng realized that his weak Half-Demon bloodline made gathering the essence blood required for the eighth level his greatest obstacle, and he considered ways to strengthen it.
• Su Changsheng planned to study alchemy and improve his runes, then returned to cultivating cautiously while he remained under investigation.
• In the Wolf Pack’s Inner Ring, Bai Cang absorbed the fragmentary Human Persona he had obtained with Su Changsheng’s help.
• A wolf woman told Bai Cang that the investigation had confirmed Su Changsheng’s identity and found no human contamination, and that the Wolf King had personally cleared him.
• The wolf woman warned that Black Mountain Demon Stockade was in turmoil and that the Wolf King planned to go there after the Black Tiger Yao gave birth; she assigned Su Changsheng to Bai Cang’s command.
• Bai Cang hurried to find Su Changsheng, eager to recruit him into the Wolf Pack.

Su Changsheng settled into life as a seventh-level yao in the Right Stronghold, choosing to cultivate and study demon art runes while the floods worsened. Bai Cang arrived with news that the Wolf King had assigned Su Changsheng a spirit field, and hurried him underground to learn about it.

• As the rain continued to threaten the stronghold, Su Changsheng reflected on the Inner Ring’s hierarchy and resolved to adapt to his new seventh-level strength cautiously.
• Su Changsheng chose to stay home, cultivate, and improve the Green Snake Breathing Method rather than rush into the Wolf Pack’s affairs.
• Su Changsheng studied how the Shedding Talisman and Hair-Shedding Talisman might be combined when he sensed Bai Cang approaching.
• Bai Cang visited Su Changsheng, praised his diligence, and showed him a bottle of black spirit liquid from the Wolf Pack’s underground spirit fields.
• Bai Cang told Su Changsheng that the Wolf King had assigned him the Turtle Breath Field and took him underground to harvest its spirit liquid.

Su Changsheng entered the Human Tomb beneath the Right Stronghold with Bai Cang and learned about its dangers and the underground city built below it. After registering to manage a spirit field, he discovered that its formation contained a thriving human cultivation sect.

• Bai Cang showed Su Changsheng the Human Tomb and explained its dangers, its Human Remains, and the four human-related taboos of the Wilds.
• Su Changsheng followed Bai Cang through the Human Tomb, where eerie forces affected him until his Candleflame and Stone-Forging Art broke their influence.
• Bai Cang welcomed Su Changsheng to the underground city and explained that entering the Human Tomb helped identify Yao Humans and those contaminated by Forked Path Demon Arts.
• Bai Cang and Su Changsheng registered him to manage the Turtle-Breathing Spirit Field, then went there with a Lesser Yao guide.
• Su Changsheng looked inside the field's formation and saw a thriving human cultivation sect, complete with cultivators, buildings, and ordinary life.

Su Changsheng learned that the Wolf Pack’s spirit fields imprisoned Demon Race practitioners in a false human world to harvest spirit blood, then began overseeing the Turtle-Breathing Spirit Field. After dividing his first harvest, he suspected his appointment might be connected to the formation or Wolf Maiden Shui Yu and decided to watch both carefully.

• Bai Cang showed Su Changsheng the spirit field and explained how the Wolf Pack used human aura and illusions to cultivate and harvest spirit blood from imprisoned Demon Race practitioners.
• Bai Cang warned Su Changsheng about the dangers of managing a spirit field, including uprisings, eerie phenomena, and the strict rule never to enter the formation.
• Su Changsheng reviewed the management rules and tended the Turtle-Breathing Spirit Field, which yielded two hundred measures of spirit blood.
• Su Changsheng handed over the required 150 measures, distributed much of the surplus to Bai Cang and other yao, and kept ten drops for himself.
• Su Changsheng considered whether his appointment was tied to a bond coupling phenomenon, a problem with the formation, or Wolf Maiden Shui Yu, and resolved to observe them without acting rashly.

Su Changsheng went to the underground Yao Market to seek pills and Demon Arts, then returned to find his spirit field under attack by human-aura weirdness and Yin Palace agents. Badly wounded, he purified the black mist and exposed disguised enemies before Wu Lie and another Seventh Level demon confronted him, leaving him to launch a desperate fight.

• Su Changsheng visited the Yao Market, rejected the costly Blood Essence Pills, and bought the Stone-Stacking Art and its accompanying Stone-Forging Art after selling runes.
• Su Changsheng saw Bai Cang and Wolf Girl Shui Yu near the Turtle Breathing Spirit Field, then was ambushed by black mist that inflicted severe wounds and drained his strength.
• Su Changsheng trapped the human-aura weirdness inside his body and used his purifying power and Purification Talisman Runes to weaken and destroy it.
• Su Changsheng struck Bai Cang and Shui Yu, revealing that they were disguised weird entities, as a phantom Yin Palace appeared in the black mist with five human figures inside.
• Wu Lie and another Seventh Level demon emerged from the black mist, demanded the Formation Control Device, and threatened Su Changsheng.
• Su Changsheng refused to surrender and unleashed his power against Wu Lie and the other demon despite his injuries.

Su Changsheng defeated a Yin Palace assault on the Turtle-Breathing Spirit Field, killing Wu Lie and driving off the other seventh-level yao. After a strange man appeared and vanished on the formation barrier, Su Changsheng staged his injuries and waited for Bai Cang to arrive.

• Wu Lie and another seventh-level yao attacked Su Changsheng while he was weakened, using Yin Palace artifacts and black mist to try to breach the formation.
• Su Changsheng resisted their contamination with his purifying powers, broke through the black mist blockade, and drew the underground city's attention.
• Su Changsheng destroyed the gravestone artifact, trapped Wu Lie in the blood-red coffin, and killed him with flames and purification runes.
• The other seventh-level yao fled, and Su Changsheng saw a man on the formation barrier declare that his people would cross the Gray Wall before breaking apart and disappearing.
• Su Changsheng chose not to investigate the formation, smeared Wu Lie's blood on himself to look more injured, and complained to Bai Cang when he arrived.

After the Yin Palace attack, Su Changsheng avoided the Wolf Pack’s power struggles by choosing alchemy knowledge instead of a cultivation method and withdrew to recover and study pills. Nearly a year later, he fulfilled the conditions for Advancement to the Eighth Level and prepared to pursue the Path of Myth.

• Su Changsheng handed Wu Lie’s corpse and the Red Coffin to the Wolf King, chose low-level alchemy knowledge as his reward, and persuaded Bai Cang that he wanted to focus on technical work rather than advancement or power.
• Su Changsheng left the Turtle-Breathing Spirit Field and Human Tomb, returned home to recover, and received alchemy knowledge and supplies from Wolf Maiden Shui Yu.
• Shui Yu hinted that she was Su Changsheng’s kindred, urged him to reach the ninth level before Heaven’s Collapse returned in five years, and left him unsettled about her connection to the Yin Palace.
• Su Changsheng studied alchemy for more than eight months, refined Essence Blood Pills, and used them to fill his Qi, Essence, and Spirit to their limits.
• Su Changsheng reached the conditions for Advancement to the Eighth Level and set his sights on the Path of Myth.

After more than two hundred days of cultivation, Su Changsheng reached the peak of the seventh level but could not figure out how to cross into the eighth. As winter worsened the Right Stronghold’s shortages and raised the cost of supplies, he reviewed his progress and decided to seek knowledge about the eighth level from the Wolf Pack’s scroll administrator.

• Su Changsheng observed that winter had arrived after the flood, leaving the Right Stronghold short of people and supplies and driving up the price of blood food and crafting materials.
• Su Changsheng assessed his dwindling wraith beast meat reserves and concluded that he needed more middle-level flesh to prepare for a breakthrough, while high-level flesh remained out of reach.
• Su Changsheng reviewed his status and noted improvements to his crafts, runes, and attributes, while his study of pills remained just short of the beginner stage.
• Su Changsheng considered selling some of the Three Pills he had refined to buy blood food, since his qi, essence, and spirit had reached their limits.
• Su Changsheng resolved to seek information from the Wolf Pack Knowledge-Scroll Administrator because he did not know how the Three Flowers of essence, qi, and spirit bloomed at the eighth level.