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Yu Ziyu expanded his dense fog across the Canyon and strengthened Dense Fog Shroud, envisioning a vast, perilous Land of Fog. He left the beasts to adapt to the spreading fog as he prepared to make it their natural hunting ground.

• Yu Ziyu actively spread his mist across most of the Canyon and sensed the honey badger digging at its root cage.
• Yu Ziyu considered taming the honey badger and observed the intelligence of the evolving animals around him.
• Yu Ziyu spent 10 Evolution Points to upgrade Dense Fog Shroud, increasing its range and making the fog difficult for wind to disperse.
• Yu Ziyu watched the fog unsettle the beasts and decided not to clear it, expecting them to adapt and become hunters within it.

Yan Gaoyuan warned a lieutenant general that mutant beast attacks and spiritual energy surges were intensifying, while the nation struggled to contain dangerous creatures around Penghu. A map revealed eight provincial locations above a spiritual energy peak of 5,000, including Beiyu Canyon at 18,000, leaving the commander confronting the possibility of an exceptionally powerful mutant beast.

• Yan Gaoyuan reported that mutant beast unrest had intensified and pointed out locations where spiritual energy concentrations had risen.
• The lieutenant general considered the deadly mutant crows and sea beasts around Penghu, which had caused numerous plane crashes and missing ships.
• The lieutenant general ordered Yan Gaoyuan to compile all areas with spiritual energy peaks above 5,000.
• Yan Gaoyuan presented results showing eight such locations, including Beiyu Canyon with a peak of 18,000.
• The lieutenant general studied Beiyu Canyon as the chapter outlined how an 18,000 peak compared with established power tiers.

Yu Ziyu used a beating to frighten the captive animals into submission, then broke a branch whose sap drew their attention. The animals began moving toward the enticing substance.

• Yu Ziyu admired the Spiritual Qi and looked forward to making the Canyon his hunting ground as his mist-enhanced perception improved.
• Several hungry gray wolves howled and eyed the Golden Giant Eagle's corpse, so Yu Ziyu baited one with a branch.
• When the wolf tried to bite his branch, Yu Ziyu whipped it twice, leaving deep bloody welts and frightening the other animals.
• Yu Ziyu saw the captive animals fall silent and judged that his display had made an example of one to warn the others.
• Yu Ziyu snapped a branch, and its glistening sap drew the attention of the caged animals, the little monkey, and the honey badger.

Yu Ziyu disciplined the animals gathered around his life essence and rewarded Gray Wolf for obeying. Honey Badger retreated into his hole after sensing the vast difference between his strength and Yu Ziyu’s, while the chapter ended with an author’s note about the women in the story.

• Gray Wolf lunged for Yu Ziyu’s life essence, but Yu Ziyu lashed him into the tree cage and warned that the animals had to obey.
• Yu Ziyu explained to He Qing'er that he needed to be harsh to tame mutated animals, then split a huge rock with a branch to demonstrate his strength.
• Gray Wolf stayed still despite his hunger, so Yu Ziyu rewarded him by dripping life essence down to him.
• Yu Ziyu stopped Wild Ox and startled Golden Monkey when they rushed toward the life essence.
• Honey Badger withdrew into his hole after sensing Yu Ziyu’s overwhelming spiritual energy and recalling how his parents had disappeared after challenging a monster.

The scarred gray wolf mutated into a Wind Wolf after receiving Yu Ziyu’s Life Essence, awakening the ability to control wind and demonstrating it with a wind blade. The Wind Wolf and the other gray wolves submitted to Yu Ziyu, who strengthened all his new branches and was left with 40 Evolution Points.

• The scarred gray wolf absorbed Yu Ziyu’s Life Essence, grew larger, healed, and awakened the power to control wind as a Wind Wolf.
• The Wind Wolf fired a blue-green wind blade, then cowered and signaled its submission to Yu Ziyu.
• Qing'er used her spiritual power to interpret the Wind Wolf’s signal, and Yu Ziyu accepted its submission.
• The other three gray wolves prostrated themselves before Yu Ziyu, and he gave them diluted Life Essence.
• Yu Ziyu spent 52 of his 92 Evolution Points to strengthen all his new branches.

Yu Ziyu saved his remaining evolution points and sheltered the animals in the Canyon from a sudden downpour. Meanwhile, Yan Gaoyuan and a military convoy arrived near the mountains and headed toward a nearby village to wait out the weather and gather information.

• Yu Ziyu decided to keep his 40 evolution points in reserve after learning that upgrading Hallucination or Dense Fog Spread would cost 100 points.
• As heavy rain fell, Yu Ziyu used branches and roots to shelter the bird's nest and the mutated beasts in their cages.
• The wild bull left its shelter to enjoy the rain, and a clear voice explained to Yu Ziyu that cattle loved rainy days.
• Yan Gaoyuan and a regiment commander stopped their convoy at the foot of the mountains, where rain and thick fog made surveying difficult.
• The regiment commander directed the convoy to a nearby village, telling the soldiers not to trouble the villagers as they sought shelter and information.

Yan Gaoyuan and the regiment commander hurried toward a village after hearing cries of grief, while the commander warned his soldiers about the dangers of the mountain mission. Deep in the mountains, Yu Ziyu sensed a human with spiritual energy and feared that people had discovered him, though he remained convinced his existence was still secret.

• The convoy halted on a rain-soaked mountain road, and Yan Gaoyuan ordered most of the soldiers to accompany him to the village while others guarded the vehicles.
• The regiment commander armed himself with a modified Small Armor-Piercing Round and recalled the deadly mission he had joined ten days earlier.
• Yan Gaoyuan heard villagers grieving and sprinted ahead with a burst of spiritual energy, while the regiment commander warned the recruits to flee if danger arose.
• Yu Ziyu sensed a human figure through the mist and worried that humans had found him, but convinced himself that the witnesses to his existence could not expose him.
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Yu Ziyu learned that He Qing'er had absorbed fragments of He Ling'er's soul while erasing the girl's memories. He gave Qing'er life essence to strengthen her, leaving her at entry-level level 5 with new physical immunity and a telepathic connection to a similar flower.

• Yu Ziyu asked Xiao Qing whether she had erased the girl's memories, and she said that He Ling'er's soul fragments had burrowed into her while she crushed the phantom.
• Yu Ziyu noticed Xiao Qing had become more solid and considered whether she had absorbed He Ling'er's soul.
• Yu Ziyu gave Qing'er concentrated life essence and told her to grow stronger and help him.
• Qing'er grew to a height of 1.6 meters and advanced to entry-level level 5, gaining physical attack immunity and telepathy.

Yan Gaoyuan discovered that the village chief’s unconscious granddaughter was undergoing an awakening after being bitten by a Mutant Green Snake. He identified her emerging talent as fire-elemental and realized her awakening could attract the attention of the research institute.

• The village chief told Yan Gaoyuan and the regimental commander that a Mutant Green Snake had killed one granddaughter and left the other unconscious after she swallowed its gallbladder.
• The village chief led Yan Gaoyuan to see the girl, who had been unconscious for three days.
• Yan Gaoyuan sensed spiritual energy enveloping the girl and recognized that she was undergoing an awakening.
• Yan Gaoyuan identified the girl’s talent as fire-elemental and realized that the research institute would eagerly seek to awaken her.

Yu Ziyu’s subordinate possessed He Ling’er and questioned the soldiers in the village, while Yan Gaoyuan confirmed that Ling’er had awakened a fire-element talent and arranged to take her with him. The soldiers revealed that a Spiritual Energy Monitoring Satellite had detected unusual fluctuations in the mountains, and Yan Gaoyuan urged the villagers to leave.

• Yu Ziyu told the woman inhabiting He Ling’er to casually ask the soldiers why they had come, how they had found the area, and what was happening.
• Yan Gaoyuan confirmed that He Ling’er had awakened a fire-element talent and offered to take her with him and find a doctor for her memory loss.
• The village chief agreed to let He Ling’er go with Yan Gaoyuan, trusting his promise to protect her.
• He Ling’er asked the soldiers why they had come and how they had detected the mutated beasts.
• Yan Gaoyuan explained that a Spiritual Energy Monitoring Satellite had detected unusual spiritual energy fluctuations and warned the village chief to move out of the mountains.

After learning that a Spiritual Energy Monitoring Satellite had detected an unusual area, Yu Ziyu feared humans would discover and capture him. Qing'er confirmed the satellite only measured local spiritual energy concentration, and Yu Ziyu began using the surrounding fog to conceal his presence.

• Yu Ziyu worried that humans would locate him through the Spiritual Energy Monitoring Satellite and considered how to evade detection.
• The eight Peregrine Falcons sensed Yu Ziyu's distress and circled his true body.
• Yu Ziyu asked Qing'er to learn how the satellite worked, and she reported that it measured spiritual energy concentration to guide field investigations.
• Yu Ziyu concluded that the investigators had not confirmed his existence and considered adapting his Turtle-Breathing Technique to avoid surveillance.
• Yu Ziyu realized the thick fog might conceal his aura and mobilized it, causing the pressure throughout the Canyon to diminish.

Yu Ziyu concealed his presence with mist, then subdued and empowered the honey badger to keep intruders out of the mountains. Meanwhile, Yan Gaoyuan led soldiers into the thick mist to investigate the area’s high spiritual energy, unaware of the danger ahead.

• Yu Ziyu tested how effectively the mist hid his presence and decided he would kill anyone who discovered him before he was ready.
• The honey badger, white crane, and golden monkey grew unruly as Yu Ziyu’s oppressive aura faded, so Yu Ziyu struck the honey badger down.
• Yu Ziyu infused the injured honey badger with life essence, lengthened its claws, and used Hallucination to order it to keep intruders out of the mountains.
• Yan Gaoyuan led more than a dozen armed soldiers into the mountains before dawn to survey the area, where thick mist reduced visibility to a few meters.
• Yan Gaoyuan explained that rising spiritual energy could cause unusual mutations, and the soldiers hoped the area’s high readings came from a mutation rather than a powerful mutated beast.

Yu Ziyu used the mist and hallucinations to trap Yan Gaoyuan’s group, then sent the Wind Wolves and a brainwashed Honey Badger to attack them. The soldiers came under assault in the fog, and Yan Gaoyuan began to suspect the mist itself was alive.

• Yan Gaoyuan realized the group had been walking in a loop, while Yu Ziyu watched them through the mist and considered forcing them out of the mountains.
• Yu Ziyu prepared the Wind Wolves and Honey Badger to stop the group, having advanced Honey Badger to an Entry-Level six Mutated Beast and brainwashed it into viewing them as enemies.
• After escaping the loop, Yan Gaoyuan’s group heard wolves howling, and the Regiment Commander warned the soldiers to keep hold of their weapons.
• A Wind Wolf attacked and severed a soldier’s arm, prompting the soldiers to fire as Yan Gaoyuan kicked the wolf back.
• As screams sounded from the mist, Yan Gaoyuan sensed that the fog might be alive.

Yan Gaoyuan and the Regiment Commander’s group fought their way out of Mist Mountain after encountering a mutated Honey Badger and other Mutated Beasts, losing six men. Yu Ziyu let them escape so their report would deter further investigations and give him time to develop in secret.

• Yan Gaoyuan sensed a middle-tier Mutated Beast and recognized it as a mutated Honey Badger after it split a thick tree with its claws.
• Yan Gaoyuan charged the Honey Badger, and he and the Regiment Commander’s group later escaped the mountain badly injured, with six men lost.
• The Regiment Commander’s group retreated after shaking off the Blue Giant Wolves and the Honey Badger, fearing the Honey Badger would pursue them for revenge.
• Yu Ziyu watched from a distant canyon and chose not to kill the group, hoping their report would keep humanity’s higher-ups from investigating for a while.
• Yu Ziyu decided to remain hidden and use the fog and Mutated Beasts to protect his mountain and develop in peace.

Yu Ziyu arranged for Qing'er to keep controlling He Ling'er's body, giving her life essence as a reward while Ling'er traveled with human special forces. Later, the Wind Wolves returned with the badly wounded honey badger, and Yu Ziyu began removing shell fragments from its wounds.

• Yu Ziyu confirmed Qing'er could control He Ling'er's body for over ten hours and promised her regular life essence as a reward.
• Qing'er happily accepted, while the special forces soldiers joked about Ling'er's sudden bouts of sleep and suggested the name Yanfei.
• Yu Ziyu sensed four wounded Wind Wolves returning through the fog with the nearly dead honey badger they had rescued from the battlefield.
• Yu Ziyu restrained the struggling honey badger and used his branches to extract shell fragments lodged in its wounds.

Yu Ziyu treated Honey Badger and the Wind Wolves in a newly made lake with Life Essence, while his roots drew power from an underground Spiritual River. Elsewhere, Yan Gaoyuan reported the dangerous mountains to an old man, who designated them a Yellow Warning Zone under priority surveillance.

• Yu Ziyu dug a large pit, diverted a mountain stream into it, and made a lake.
• Yu Ziyu lowered Honey Badger and several Wind Wolves into the lake, then added Life Essence to help them recover.
• Yu Ziyu observed his underground roots growing rapidly as they absorbed energy from a Spiritual River and concluded that Spiritual Qi-rich resources would become highly prized.
• Several days later, Yan Gaoyuan told an old man that the mountains had persistent mind-affecting fog and might contain a mutation or powerful Mutated Beasts.
• The old man designated the mountains a Yellow Warning Zone under priority surveillance and ordered that they be upgraded to a Red Danger Zone if unusual activity appeared.

Yu Ziyu considered the dangers of the post-revival world and watched his Mutated Beasts spar in Beiyu Canyon. After the red fox defeated the Honey Badger, Yu Ziyu named it Nine-Tails, leaving the fox as his most valued companion.

• Yan Gaoyuan told the old man that Ling'er had awakened a fire-element talent and agreed to bring her to visit.
• Yu Ziyu concluded that the lack of recent human reconnaissance meant Beiyu Canyon was unlikely to face trouble.
• Yu Ziyu assessed his own strength and the red fox's growth among the Mutated Beasts he had raised.
• The Honey Badger challenged the red fox, which knocked it to the ground with one paw.
• Yu Ziyu stroked the red fox and named it Nine-Tails.

Yu Ziyu named the black bison Bull Demon and carved its name into its horns to provoke future human speculation. Nine-Tails and the Wind Wolves brought their prey back to the canyon, where Yu Ziyu killed the animals to gain Evolution Points.

• Yu Ziyu named the black bison Bull Demon and carved the characters for its name into its two horns.
• Yu Ziyu planned to let humans discover the horn inscriptions once Bull Demon grew powerful, hoping to confuse them.
• Nine-Tails subdued a porcupine by a lake and carried it back toward the canyon.
• Nine-Tails encountered four Wind Wolves returning with prey of their own.
• Yu Ziyu killed the five surviving prey animals with his branches and received Evolution Points.

Yu Ziyu reflected on how to grow stronger and survive alongside humanity, deciding to build an empire of Mutated Beasts that could deter humans while leaving room for peaceful coexistence. He planned to nurture only the strongest members of certain species, gaining their groups’ loyalty without excessive cost.

• Yu Ziyu gained 60 Evolution Points from Nine-Tails and the Wind Wolves bringing prey back, bringing his total to 172.
• The White Crane reached Entry-Level Level 2, while the Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey reached the third tier and awakened Extreme Absorption after consuming Yu Ziyu’s leaves.
• Yu Ziyu considered teaching Nine-Tails and the Wind Wolves to eat cooked food and develop their intelligence through human customs.
• Yu Ziyu concluded that humans and Mutated Beasts would struggle for survival unless he became powerful enough to deter humanity, so he resolved to build an empire of Mutated Beasts.
• Yu Ziyu decided to nurture the strongest Bull Demons and Wind Wolves so they could lead their own groups and provide him with herds and packs.

Yu Ziyu strengthened one of his branches and discovered it could secrete a paralyzing toxin. He tested it on Honey Badger, but the beast quickly recovered and resumed digging.

• Yu Ziyu spent 5 Evolution Points to strengthen a branch, which became tougher and gained the ability to secrete toxin.
• Yu Ziyu considered how strengthening all his branches could greatly improve his combat power, though he remained unable to leave the ground.
• Yu Ziyu noticed Honey Badger digging beneath the Tree Cage and decided to test the new toxin on it.
• Yu Ziyu pricked Honey Badger with the branch, briefly paralyzing it before it shook off the effect and continued digging.

Qing'er explained the honey badger’s greatly increased toxin resistance after mutation, revealing how much she had learned while controlling He Ling'er at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute. Yu Ziyu saw that He Ling'er had become a heavily favored prodigy there, while Qing'er rested in his roots.

• Qing'er teased Yu Ziyu for trying to use toxins against a honey badger and explained that mutated ones had extreme toxin resistance.
• Qing'er shared her memories of He Ling'er arriving at an underground city called the Spiritual Energy Research Institute.
• Yu Ziyu learned that the Institute researched spiritual energy and trained Transcendents, and that He Ling'er had attracted the professors’ attention.
• He Ling'er’s psychic talent let her master a human language and a difficult cultivation method in hours, earning her more resources and close supervision.
• Yu Ziyu realized Qing'er had been burdened with intense study, and Qing'er fell asleep in his roots.

Yu Ziyu continued nurturing Qing'er, confident that her dependence on his roots made her a trusted ally, while he spent months expanding his fog and strengthening his branches. By winter, his branches reached a hundred meters and gave him overwhelming close-range strength, leaving him confident that no equal could survive within his reach.

• Yu Ziyu watched Qing'er sleep and concluded that her human and nonhuman advantages, combined with her resources, would make her powerful.
• Yu Ziyu continued nurturing Qing'er's soul with his roots and life essence, believing she depended on him and would become his trusted confidante.
• Months passed as Yu Ziyu maintained the fog across hundreds of mountain ranges and used evolution points to strengthen his branches.
• Yu Ziyu's branches reached Lv2, extended about a hundred meters, and numbered over a hundred, giving him confidence that he could kill any comparable foe who entered his range.

Yu Ziyu considered how the emergence of First, Second, and Third Order Transcendents threatened humanity and imagined his own rise to a powerful Second Order. The chapter ended with humanity facing an uncertain future as mutated creatures continued to evolve.

• Yu Ziyu reflected that he was near the peak of the First Order and could approach the Second Order after strengthening his roots and using Evolution Points.
• Humans had learned that First Order Transcendents could resist most firearms, after a mutated octopus near Sakura Country sank a cargo ship.
• Researchers from hundreds of nations concluded that becoming a First Order Transcendent was extremely difficult, but the Huaxia Federation and the Free Alliance discovered that Second Order Transcendents existed.
• Yu Ziyu considered how powerful Second Order beings could destroy cities and how Third Order Transcendents might threaten entire nations or require great powers to respond.
• Yu Ziyu concluded that humanity’s weapons gave it an advantage for now, but humans risked being overtaken by evolving Transcendent creatures.

Yu Ziyu worried that a transcendent third-order beast would draw humanity’s attention and considered the risks of his own coming breakthrough. He then observed He Qing’er’s rapid growth and increasingly complicated feelings toward him.

• Yu Ziyu anticipated that a disaster-level mutated beast might reach the transcendent third order and distract humanity from him.
• Yu Ziyu considered how his roots could unleash a devastating earthquake, though using that trump card could leave him nearly finished.
• He Qing’er asked Yu Ziyu whether he liked snow and approached his true body.
• Yu Ziyu reflected that He Qing’er had grown powerful and famous as He Ling’er, while her human persona had made her feelings toward him increasingly complex.

Yu Ziyu learned that humans had discovered a Spirit Stone Mine in the Northwest Region, potentially allowing them to accelerate cultivation and catch up with transcendent creatures. Alarmed, he assessed his powerful aerial pets and decided to send them hunting as he prepared to strengthen his forces.

• Qing'er told Yu Ziyu that more than a dozen Spiritual Energy Research Institutes were fighting over a newly discovered Spirit Stone Mine in the Northwest Region.
• Qing'er explained that spirit stones contained pure spiritual energy that humans could absorb to accelerate cultivation, and Yu Ziyu feared humans would soon catch up with other transcendent creatures.
• Yu Ziyu considered the threat and concluded that he needed to speed up his own progress and make preparations.
• Eight Peregrine Falcons, all entry-level seven, arrived in the sky above Yu Ziyu, while the entry-level six White Crane rested in the Spirit Lake.
• Yu Ziyu sent information through his branches, ordering his pets to go hunting.