Recaps

After dying in a fall, Zhang Chaoyang’s soul entered an unborn child in the Coiling Dragon Universe and survived a three-element soul mutation. He was born into the Stans Tribe as Lucas, though he remained unconscious as his new life began.

• Zhang Chaoyang fell down a field ridge, struck a utility pole, and died; Hongmeng saw his soul enter the Coiling Dragon Universe.
• Zhang Chaoyang’s soul overwhelmed the unborn child’s consciousness, triggering a three-element soul mutation that nearly destroyed him.
• A streak of light protected Zhang Chaoyang’s weakening soul until the mutation succeeded and Hongmeng took interest in him.
• During the birth, Zhang Chaoyang did not cry until the midwife laid him flat, allowing his lungs to fill with air.
• The child’s father, Abuda, named him Lucas and announced his birth as the son of a sixth-rank warrior in the Stans Tribe.

After being reborn as Lucas in the Stans Tribe, he learned about its warriors and the Tree of Life, then began trying to cultivate using techniques from his previous life. He started visualizing an azure lotus but struggled to quiet his thoughts, and began recalling his childhood lessons from his master.

• Lucas gradually learned that he had been reborn as a child in a primitive age and learned the tribe’s language and writing.
• His father taught him about the Stans Tribe, its warrior ranks, and how fruit from the Tree of Life had helped their ancestor reach the eighth rank.
• Lucas learned that powerful tribes possessed battle qi, but his father had no knowledge of magic.
• At four years old, Lucas decided to resume cultivation with stillness and visualization exercises, choosing to visualize Pangu within an azure lotus.
• Lucas struggled to meditate and began recalling how his master had taught him visualization in his previous life.

After discovering his earth affinity, Lucas planned how to train and asked his father, Abuda, for a dagger so he could practice sculpting. Selina encouraged him to join the other children, and Lucas began rediscovering the pleasures of childhood.

• During meditation, Lucas sensed and grasped earthy-yellow specks of light, realizing he had the same earth affinity as the protagonist of Coiling Dragon.
• Lucas considered the danger of future divine conflicts and planned a routine of exercise, study, sculpting, and meditation.
• Lucas asked Abuda for a short iron dagger to carve stones, and Abuda agreed to forge one.
• Benny invited Lucas to play, and Selina urged him to go instead of staying alone in his room.
• Lucas joined the tribe's children for catch the wolves and smiled as he prepared to be the first wolf catcher.

Lucas joined the tribe’s children in fleeing a Wind Wolf attack, then reunited with his family after the warriors drove the pack away. At home, his father gave him a Wind Wolf Magic Beast Core, and Lucas recognized its value despite the lack of mages in the tribe’s era.

• Lucas lost a game of hide-and-seek after failing to find a shy girl, then encouraged her to be braver.
• An adult warned Benny that magical beasts were attacking, and Benny led Lucas and the children to the tribe’s shelter.
• Selina told Lucas that a pack of Wind Wolves had attacked, but its numbers and strength were no match for the tribe’s warriors.
• After the attack ended, Lucas found Abuda wounded and showed concern, then shared a playful moment with his father.
• Abuda gave Lucas a blue-green crystal from the wolf spoils, and Lucas recognized it as a fifth-level Wind Wolf Magic Beast Core.

Lucas practiced meditation and his Chaos Azure Lotus Visualization Method while learning about the tribe’s losses and training. He received the dagger he had requested, but Abuda found no Magic Beast Cores among the dead bulls.

• Lucas asked Abuda to collect Magic Beast Cores for him and reminded him to bring the dagger.
• Lucas learned that the Wind Wolf attack had cost the tribe more than a dozen Long-Tusked Boars and three Mighty Savage Bulls.
• Lucas tried to sense wind elements, failed, and practiced the Chaos Azure Lotus Visualization Method until his spiritual power was nearly exhausted.
• Lucas exercised and watched a Fifth Rank Warrior teach children that the waist and abdomen were crucial to a warrior’s strength.
• Lucas studied tribal characters with Abuda, who later brought him the dagger and reported that the dead bulls had no Magic Beast Cores.

Lucas devoted himself to Flat Blade Style stone carving, which improved his focus, meditation, and spiritual power. After his father agreed to forge him a better dagger, Lucas considered how to build his strength and advance without battle qi or magic manuals.

• Lucas sensed the patterns in a small stone and carved it into a squirrel, then spent the next month practicing and found that carving helped him enter a meditative state.
• Over the following year, Lucas's spiritual power more than doubled, and he finished carving a recognizable Wind Wolf for his mother, Selina.
• At dinner, Abuda described his successful hunt, and Selina urged him to gather herbs so Lucas could begin medicinal baths when he turned six.
• Lucas explained that carving strengthened his wrists and improved his control, convincing Abuda to forge him a better dagger.
• After visualization, Lucas wondered whether breathing methods from his previous life could help him toughen his body while he waited to develop his spiritual power.

At six years old, Lucas began village morning training after two years of meditation and stone carving had strengthened him. He outlasted most of the children in a horse-stance exercise but collapsed just after Eric, the last child standing, fell.

• Lucas noticed that his spiritual-power growth had slowed, though it had already reached the level of a Third-Rank Magus, and planned to pursue bodily training and comprehend the laws.
• Lucas's father brought him to his first morning training session, where Benny and a shy girl from their earlier games were also present.
• A Sixth-Rank Warrior demonstrated his strength and taught the children basic training exercises, while a Fifth-Rank Warrior praised Lucas's precise horse stance as an example.
• Lucas, Benny, Eric, and an unfamiliar child remained in the horse stance after most of the group had collapsed, and Benny urged Lucas to beat Eric.
• The shy girl and Benny collapsed, then Eric fell after holding on longer than the others, and Lucas collapsed a few seconds later.

After five years of training, Lucas had become a Third-Rank Warrior, while Eric, Benny, and Windsor were Second-Rank Warriors. Lucas recognized Eric’s talent and brought Benny and Windsor to his courtyard to teach them martial techniques.

• Lucas and Eric exchanged taunts after their training, and the warriors ordered the exhausted children back into line.
• The chapter revealed that Lucas had advanced to Third-Rank Warrior and that his spiritual power had grown to an estimated Fourth Rank Magus level.
• Eric confronted Lucas about his breakthrough and admitted that he was close to reaching the third rank.
• Benny challenged Eric, but Windsor reminded him that he could not beat him, and Lucas acknowledged Eric’s talent.
• Lucas took Benny and Windsor to his courtyard to teach them martial techniques, where Benny admired Lucas’s carving of a dragon.

Lucas tried to teach Benny and Windsor martial techniques, but after learning their preferred weapons, he demonstrated Tai Chi Fist instead. He sent Benny flying with its defensive movements, then taught both companions its footwork before they went home for lunch, where Abuda praised Lucas’s Third-Rank Warrior advancement.

• Benny said he liked hammers, while Windsor said she liked whips, but Lucas admitted he knew neither weapon’s techniques.
• Lucas demonstrated Tai Chi Fist, and Benny doubted the soft-looking style could hurt anyone.
• Lucas invited Benny to attack, and Tai Chi Fist sent Benny flying twice without Lucas using extra force.
• Windsor confirmed Lucas had made no extra movements, and Benny asked to learn Tai Chi Fist.
• Lucas drew footwork patterns and spent the morning teaching Benny and Windsor Tai Chi steps.
• At lunch, Abuda asked about Lucas becoming a Third-Rank Warrior, and Lucas said he had advanced a month earlier.

After Lucas reached rank three, Abuda took him to Master Drake to commission a spear and watch the forging process. Lucas proposed a safer way to dissolve Magic Beast Cores, and Drake agreed to experiment with the idea; Lucas then returned to carving stone to pursue understanding the laws of earth.

• Abuda agreed to have a spear forged for Lucas from blood-pattern gold ore and took him to meet the tribe's weaponsmith, Master Drake.
• Lucas asked Drake whether a Wind Wolf Magic Beast Core could be added to a weapon, and Drake explained that his grandfather had lost an arm when one exploded under intense heat.
• Lucas suggested using magic beast blood and special herbs to dissolve the core, and Drake agreed to try the method with the cores Lucas brought.
• Abuda warned Lucas to discuss dangerous plans with him beforehand, then Lucas returned home and resumed stone carving to study the laws of earth.

Lucas let go of his past life as he trained with Benny and Windsor, then received and named his first spear, the Blood Courage Bright Silver Spear. Six months later, all three had reached Third-Rank Warrior, and they helped lead the tribe’s elderly to shelter when wolves returned.

• Lucas thanked Benny and Windsor for staying by him, and he realized he had finally become part of his new society.
• A month later, Abuda gave Lucas the spear Master Drake had forged, and Lucas named it the Blood Courage Bright Silver Spear.
• Benny admired Lucas’s spear and decided he wanted to train with one, but Lucas told him to stick to practicing with a hammer.
• Half a year later, Lucas, Benny, and Windsor had become Third-Rank Warriors, and Lucas’s mother warned them that wolves had returned.
• Lucas and his companions led the tribe’s elderly to shelter, and by evening the tribespeople had driven off the wolves.

Lucas planned to investigate whether he could use his past-life knowledge to cultivate battle aura and began arranging masters for Benny and Windsor. When he sought human corpses for an undisclosed plan, Eric offered to join, and Lucas agreed to form a team of the four talented children.

• Lucas decided to test whether his body could use the meridians and cultivation methods he remembered from his past life.
• Lucas told Benny he would arrange for rank-6 warrior Drake to train him, and he suggested Windsor seek training from her father.
• Lucas asked Benny and Windsor whether they knew where to find human corpses.
• Eric said he knew where corpses were and asked to join Lucas's plan, and Lucas accepted after Eric explained his father wanted the four talented children to work together.
• Benny objected to teaming up with Eric after Eric left, but Lucas had already agreed to contact him when they were ready.

Lucas took Benny, Windsor, and Eric outside their tribe to investigate a place where corpses were dumped, but they encountered a level 4 Green-Striped Python. Lucas fought the beast while his friends overcame their fear and tried to support him.

• Lucas made four masks from linen and cotton soaked in distilled liquor, then gathered weapons and met his friends at the tribe's entrance.
• Eric led the group across a river to a cave near a valley where another tribe dumped corpses, and Windsor spotted signs of snakes.
• A Green-Striped Python appeared, and Lucas organized his friends to defend themselves before charging at it with his spear.
• The python struck Lucas with its tail, and his spear injured it but could not deal a fatal wound.
• Eric and Windsor prepared to distract the python and watch for other beasts, while Benny steadied himself and gripped his blade.

Lucas and his companions fought the Green-Striped Python, and Lucas killed it with a desperate spear thrust after the beast badly injured him and sent Eric and Benny flying. The group survived, and Lucas learned that his strike had briefly produced a powerful technique before Windsor found a Magic Beast Core inside the python’s head.

• The Green-Striped Python overwhelmed Lucas, so Eric fired his remaining arrows and then joined Benny in fighting the beast while Windsor helped Lucas recover.
• The python knocked Eric and Benny away, and Lucas charged it with his last strength, driving his spear into its mouth and killing it.
• Lucas sent Windsor to find Eric and Benny, then realized his final attack had concentrated his strength into a technique he could not yet reproduce.
• Windsor returned with the injured Eric and Benny, who apologized to Lucas and prepared to search the cave for the corpses.
• Lucas gave Eric and Benny cloth masks to protect them from possible poison, while Windsor found a Magic Beast Core in the python’s head.

Lucas returned from the hunt with severe injuries and two corpses for his anatomy studies, while Wilson discovered his daughter Windsor had gone with him and disapproved of their closeness. Back home, Lucas reunited with his worried mother Selina and sensed earth, life, and death elements entering his body to mend his injuries.

• Benny and Eric brought Lucas two fresh corpses, and Lucas promised Eric he would never harm anyone in the Stans Tribe.
• Wilson arrived and learned that Windsor had accompanied Lucas; despite Wilson's anger, Windsor resisted leaving until Lucas reassured her.
• Abuda defended Lucas's freedom to pursue his studies as long as he did not harm the tribe, then took the group and the Green-Striped Python's body back toward the tribe.
• Abuda stored the corpses in an abandoned stone hut, escorted the boys back, and distributed some of the python meat among the households.
• Selina embraced her injured son and cried with relief before sending him to rest and prepare nourishing soup.
• Lucas recalled the battle and sensed his mental power had grown as earth, life, and death elements entered his body and began repairing his internal injuries.

Lucas rested from his injuries, then dissected the bodies with Benny and Eric to study human anatomy and verify the pathways needed to cultivate Battle Qi. After completing a careful examination of an old man’s corpse, he compared his diagrams with his memories while Benny asked what happened to people after death.

• Lucas’s mother let him rest after he woke hungry, and Selina told him not to train because he was injured.
• Benny told Lucas that Windsor’s father had forbidden her from playing with them, and Eric joined Lucas and Benny to see what Lucas would do with the bodies.
• Lucas dissected one corpse, recorded his findings, and buried the man with a rite to send his soul on.
• Lucas skipped meditation to conserve his energy for a more precise dissection, which he believed would help determine whether he could cultivate Battle Qi.
• Lucas dissected an old man’s body and mapped its blood vessels and meridians while Benny and Eric assisted.
• Benny asked Lucas whether people left anything behind after death, and Lucas said their souls remained.

Lucas gained his first insight into the Death Edict while reflecting on death, then recovered from his injuries and broke through to fourth rank warrior. He began experimenting with battle qi cultivation and successfully used his past life's breathing exercises to draw elemental energy into his lower dantian.

• Lucas reflected on death and entered an epiphany about the Death Edict, but Eric interrupted him; Lucas comforted Benny by telling him to face death and grow stronger.
• Lucas buried the magical beast's corpse, then spent a month studying his dissection findings and planning a battle qi cultivation method.
• After half a month of recovery, Lucas's body broke through to fourth rank warrior.
• Lucas shut himself in his room and began experimenting with battle qi by meditating and practicing his old breathing exercises.
• Lucas guided elemental energy into his lower dantian and realized that the breathing method he had learned from his old master worked in this world.

After three months of experiments, Lucas created a battle aura cultivation method and decided to focus on earth-attribute battle aura so he could reach the Saint level sooner. He demonstrated his discovery to Selina and Abuda, then learned that Benny, Eric, and Wilson’s daughter had visited while he was secluded.

• Lucas developed a way to absorb battle aura and discovered that his soul had mutated across three elements, but he abandoned fused cultivation because life-attributed energy absorbed too slowly.
• Lucas reached the second level of battle aura and chose to cultivate earth-attributed energy to pursue the Saint level.
• Lucas emerged after three months and showed Selina how his battle aura strengthened his spear.
• Lucas told Selina that she and Abuda could learn battle aura, though Selina was skeptical about his promise of living forever without aging.
• Lucas demonstrated battle aura for Abuda and promised to teach Benny and Eric as well.
• Abuda told Lucas that Benny, Eric, and Wilson’s daughter had visited, then teased him about courting her until Selina grabbed Abuda by the ear.

After three months in seclusion, Lucas succeeded in his cultivation and taught Windsor, Benny, Eric, and his parents about muscles, acupoints, and meridians to help them understand how martial techniques generated force. Windsor told her father, Wilson, that she liked Lucas, and her mother explained how deeply Wilson cared for her despite his disapproval of Lucas.

• Lucas left the battlefield, gathered Benny, Windsor, and Eric at his home, and told them he had succeeded in cultivation.
• Lucas used diagrams to teach his friends and parents about muscles, then explained how Tai Chi generated force and taught them about acupoints and meridians.
• Windsor visited Lucas regularly, and Wilson confronted her about spending time with him.
• Windsor told Wilson that she liked Lucas, and Wilson angrily said he was washing his hands of the matter.
• Windsor's mother explained Wilson's affection for his daughter and his longstanding rivalry with Lucas's father, Abuda, helping Windsor understand him.

Lucas taught his friends to meditate and cultivate battle qi, then gathered them around his ambition to forge their own legends. He brought Eric and Benny to artificer Drake to learn the craft, where Drake agreed to take Benny as an apprentice and asked Lucas about Wilson's daughter.

• Lucas taught his friends meditation and battle qi cultivation, then learned their magical affinities and advised Eric to consider using daggers.
• Windsor asked whether she could teach her family what Lucas had taught her, and Lucas told her that her family counted as his; his parents then quarreled over his father's joke about marrying other women.
• Lucas focused on his own cultivation and reached third-rank battle qi, while Benny and Eric returned to praise his method.
• Lucas invited his friends to learn artificing from Master Drake; Windsor declined because her father was teaching her archery.
• Benny reluctantly agreed to become Drake's apprentice after Drake revealed his Sixth-Rank Warrior aura, and Drake asked Lucas whether Wilson's daughter liked him.

Drake told Lucas and the others about their families’ ancestors, and Benny accidentally revealed that Lucas had created Battle Qi. Lucas traded a Battle Qi cultivation method for artificing lessons, while Benny left feeling guilty about exposing the secret.

• Drake recounted how Stans founded the tribe and explained the histories of Lucas’s, Benny’s, and Eric’s families.
• Benny told Drake that Lucas had created Battle Qi, and Eric rebuked him for revealing the secret.
• Lucas reassured Eric and offered Drake a fourth-rank Magic Beast Core as Benny’s apprenticeship gift.
• Lucas demonstrated Battle Qi by piercing a stone slab and offered Drake a cultivation method in exchange for artificing lessons for himself and Eric.
• Drake accepted the arrangement and wondered whether Benny could keep up with Lucas as Lucas left with the others.
• Benny apologized to Lucas for accidentally revealing the secret.

After a year of smithing with Master Drake, Lucas left to gain experience, refusing to take Benny, Eric, or Windsor because he considered it too dangerous. Windsor insisted on going with him despite her father Wilson telling her not to make trouble.

• Lucas stopped Eric from attacking Benny after Benny accidentally revealed the Battle Qi cultivation method to Master Drake.
• Lucas, Benny, and Eric trained in smithing with Master Drake for a year, while Lucas advanced to Fifth Rank Warrior and learned to forge equipment.
• Lucas said goodbye to Master Drake and told Benny and Eric he planned to leave to gain experience, but refused to take them along.
• Lucas visited Windsor to say goodbye, and Windsor insisted on joining him despite Lucas and Wilson warning her against it.

Lucas left his tribe to train in the nearby mountains, but a pack of Wind Wolves attacked him during his first night. He escaped the pursuing pack by using his spear technique and jumping between trees, then continued onward after they gave up the chase.

• Lucas packed his supplies and weapons, said goodbye to his parents, and set out east to train near his tribe’s mountain.
• Lucas tied himself to a tall tree to sleep, but a Wind Wolf attack toppled the tree and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Lucas fought the Wind Wolves with his spear and dagger, then realized he could use a nearby fallen tree to climb back into the canopy.
• The Wind Wolf King launched Wind Blades as Lucas leaped, but Lucas struck back with Battle Qi and used the recoil to reach the tree.
• Lucas fled from tree to tree as the wolves pursued him, then kept running for another hour after the pack stopped chasing.

After surviving a Wind Wolves attack, Lucas recovered his belongings and continued east through the Magical Beast Forest, carefully avoiding dangerous beasts. By noon, he had found a tree to rest in after spotting a huge herd of Mighty Magical Bulls.

• Lucas calmed himself after the Wind Wolves attack and cultivated Battle Qi through the rest of the night.
• Lucas waited until daylight, returned to the battlefield, recovered his bundle and dagger, and left before scavengers could threaten him.
• Lucas ate the cooked food he had brought from the tribe and continued east, avoiding a fire that could reveal his location.
• Lucas spotted a huge herd of Mighty Magical Bulls and turned away, wary of the predators likely shadowing them.
• Lucas rested in the fork of a large tree at noon, ate, and sheltered from the sun.

After six months of surviving and training in the forest, Lucas defeated a wild boar king and mastered Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy. He remained in Wind Wolf territory, planning to reach the sixth level before confronting the wolves and protecting his tribe.

• Lucas boiled stream water, replenished his supplies, and continued his daily training after six months of developing his mental power and fifth-level Battle Qi.
• Lucas challenged a pair of fifth-level boar kings, dodged their attacks, and killed the male with Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy.
• Lucas spared the sow, took a foreleg from the dead boar, and left the piglets as a possible food source for the Wind Wolves.
• Lucas reflected on his spear and sledgehammer training and concluded that he had mastered Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy.
• Lucas judged himself strong enough to face some seventh-level magical beasts but chose to train safely until he reached the sixth level before attacking the Wind Wolves.