Chapter Summaries

Qingyang Huan ventured into the ancient forest to test the mysterious stone spear, which drained the blood and flesh of fierce beasts. After the spear consumed a bloodline-awakened Scale-Horned Eagle before he could extract its bone rune, it suddenly struck him and seemed to answer his accusation.

• Qingyang Huan hunted in the ancient forest and recalled how the stone spear had come into his possession after a Qiongqi beast fled from him three years earlier.
• He explained that he was the Qingyang Clan's young master, had reached the Body Forging Realm at thirteen, and carried a Qiongqi bone rune.
• A Scale-Horned Eagle with awakened bloodline power attacked Qingyang Huan, who killed it with the stone spear.
• The stone spear drained the eagle despite Qingyang Huan's attempts to stop it, absorbing the blood Qi essence that might have yielded a bone rune.
• The spear flared with purple light, knocked Qingyang Huan into a tree, and floated before him as he protested that it had absorbed the blood Qi through its own ability.

Qingyang Huan realized the stone spear was alive and had been purging impurities from his body, then clung to it after it taught him deeper versions of the Qingyang Clan’s Five Body Forging Methods. The spear repeatedly challenged his worth and beat him down, but Qingyang refused to settle for the methods alone and insisted on holding onto the opportunity.

• The stone spear battered Qingyang Huan and expelled foul blood from his body, and he realized it was alive and cleansing him.
• Qingyang Huan grabbed the spear and refused to release it, reasoning that its intelligence and power surpassed an ordinary Totem weapon.
• The spear sent Qingyang Huan the Qingyang Clan’s Five Body Forging Methods in a more profound form and said they could prepare him to open five divine treasures.
• Qingyang Huan offered to hunt stronger beasts for the spear, but it questioned whether he deserved further fortune and criticized his fighting skills.
• The spear repeatedly struck Qingyang Huan as it argued that the methods were enough, but he kept insisting they were not and vowed to seize the opportunity without letting go.

Qingyang Huan survived the stone spear’s test and was promised a method for opening at least six treasures if he reached the body casting extreme realm within two years. Back in the Qingyang Tribe, he received blood Qi essence for training and began considering the immense challenge ahead.

• The dormant stone spear offered Qingyang Huan a method for opening at least six treasures if he reached the body casting extreme realm within two years.
• Qingyang Huan left the dangerous ancient forest and reunited with Qingyang Luan and the Qingyang Clan’s hunting party.
• Qingyang Luan carried his injured younger brother home while the hunters teased Qingyang Huan about finding a wife in the Wandering Cloud Tribe.
• Qingyang Huan returned to the Qingyang settlement, saw his mother, and received blood Qi essence from a Divine Treasure Realm beast.
• Qingyang Huan studied the stages of body forging and resolved to pursue the body casting extreme realm despite the difficulty.

Qingyang Huan learned from the stone spear that his cultivation and Qiongqi Bone Rune were crude, then left the Qingyang Mountain Range to temper himself in the wilderness. After rebuilding his cultivation and reforging the rune through deadly battles, he awakened a crescent-shaped Slaughter Bone Rune and wondered what power it held.

• The stone spear taught Qingyang Huan how bone runes could be fused with the body to manifest the Dao's laws.
• Qingyang Huan left the Qingyang Mountain Range alone, determined to reach the Body Casting Extreme Realm through hardship and combat.
• Qingyang Huan fought and killed a Kite Dagger-Axe Bird, then used the blood Qi he had gathered to sever his previous cultivation.
• Qingyang Huan asked the stone spear to help him comprehend the Qiongqi Bone Rune anew, and it refined the rune into a dark mass of light.
• For three days and nights, Qingyang Huan absorbed blood Qi from beasts killed by the stone spear while the rune transformed within him.
• Qingyang Huan opened his palm to reveal a crescent-shaped rune of savagery and slaughter, which he recognized as Qiongqi's Slaughter Bone Rune.

Qingyang Huan merged the Slaughter Bone Rune into his body and advanced his Body Casting cultivation through relentless battles in the ancient forest. A strange tree drained a beast of its blood, and the stone spear identified it as a foreign race and prepared to attack.

• Qingyang Huan learned from the stone spear to use the Slaughter Bone Rune as a means to comprehend the Dao, though his first attempt to merge with it failed.
• Qingyang Huan fought ferocious beasts with the stone spear and drew in their blood Qi, gradually sensing the Slaughter Rune's power.
• Qingyang Huan discovered that his skin had reached the wrinkled-skin stage and gained confidence that he could reach the Body Casting Extreme Realm within two years.
• Qingyang Huan was swept along with a fleeing beast tide toward a swamp by a Purple Lightning Silver-Patterned Marten.
• Qingyang Huan watched a Blood-Sucking Tree drain a Red-Tailed Fire Rhinoceros, and the stone spear declared the tree a foreign race that deserved death.

Qingyang Huan learned that the blood-drinking ancient tree was a member of the Wood Race, a mortal enemy of humanity, and waited to attack it. The Wood Race man ambushed and wounded him, but Qingyang Huan struck back as the enemy held him.

• The stone spear identified the blood-drinking tree as a member of the Wood Race, and Qingyang Huan recognized the danger of an enemy appearing near Qingyang territory.
• Qingyang Huan spotted human bones beneath the tree and decided to kill the Wood Race member to protect humanity and temper his flesh and blood.
• Qingyang Huan hid in the swamp, but the Wood Race member sensed him through the surrounding trees and pierced his shoulder.
• The Wood Race man attacked Qingyang Huan repeatedly, overpowering him and knocking the stone spear from his hand.
• The Wood Race man lifted the wounded Qingyang Huan, and Qingyang Huan struck toward his chest.

Qingyang Huan killed a Wood Race warrior, absorbed its blood and bone essence, and increased his strength to six thousand jin before returning to the Qingyang Clan. His father, Qingyang Jue, welcomed him home but ordered him to wash and see his worried mother.

• Qingyang Huan killed the Wood Race warrior in the swamp and escaped to a cave, where he absorbed the corpse’s blood and bone essence.
• Qingyang Huan’s strength reached six thousand jin, and the stone spear explained that mortal combat had awakened the Slaughter Bone Rune’s power.
• Qingyang Huan headed back toward the tribe, hunted a red-eyed green wolf along the way, and encountered a Qingyang Guard warrior who escorted him home.
• Qingyang Huan returned to the Qingyang Mountain Range near nightfall and tried to reach his mother before his father found him.
• Qingyang Jue praised Qingyang Huan for his courage, then flung him into the valley and told him to wash before visiting his worried mother.

Qingyang Huan returned to the Qingyang Clan, reported the Wood Race in its territory, and revealed an improved version of the clan’s Five Body Forging Methods. The chapter left his family celebrating the clan’s prospects after discovering that Huan had reached the Body Casting Extreme Realm and begun comprehending the Dao of Slaughter.

• Qingyang Huan returned home, reassured his worried mother, and then went to the clan hall to meet Qingyang Jue, Qingyang Rong, and Qingyang Luan.
• Qingyang Huan told the clan leaders that he had seen hundreds of Wood Race members searching in a swamp, and Qingyang Rong called for them to be killed.
• Qingyang Jue ordered Qingyang Huan to hunt blood food for the clan after the Wood Race matter was settled.
• Qingyang Huan recited an improved version of the Five Body Forging Methods, and Qingyang Rong ordered the clan’s children to relearn it and arranged more hunting and instruction.
• Qingyang Huan showed the wrinkles on his skin membrane and a crescent moon of slaughter in his palm, revealing his Body Casting Extreme Realm cultivation and his contact with the Dao of Slaughter.

Qingyang Jue ordered Qingyang Luan and Qingyang Huan to attack the Wood Race and seize the suspected plant essence. The Qingyang forces ambushed the Wood Race in its swamp, killing many and surrounding the survivors as Qingyang Luan confronted a bloodied elder.

• Qingyang Jue ordered Qingyang Luan to lead Qingyang Huan and soldiers against the Wood Race to claim its treasure.
• Qingyang Luan led a thousand soldiers through the forest and attacked the swamp with bone spears and fire arrows.
• The Qingyang soldiers charged into the swamp, surrounded the Wood Race, and killed many of its warriors.
• Qingyang Huan joined the slaughter and killed an injured Wood Race warrior with his stone spear.
• The Wood Race elder killed several Qingyang soldiers and seized a young Wood Race member as Qingyang Luan attacked him with his white-bone spear.

Qingyang Huan pursued a fleeing Wood Race warrior and seized the Thousand-Year Tree Heart, a treasure that might help the Qingyang clan’s grand elder advance. After the battle, Qingyang Luan led the bloodied clan soldiers and their captives back toward the tribe, reaching the mountains by nightfall.

• Qingyang Huan chased the young Wood Race warrior into the ancient forest while Qingyang’s soldiers overwhelmed the Wood Race band.
• Qingyang Huan ordered his men to set the forest ablaze, then crushed the warrior who emerged from a tree.
• Qingyang Huan found the Thousand-Year Tree Heart in the warrior’s chest and took it, hoping it could help the grand elder advance.
• Qingyang Luan regrouped the soldiers, who gathered their fallen clansmen, wounded, and more than fifty Wood Race captives before heading home.
• The Qingyang clan soldiers joined the guards of the Scale-Horned Horses and reached the Qingyang Mountain Range by nightfall.

After the Qingyang Clan returned from its victory over the Wood Race, Qingyang Jue and the Grand Elder pledged the tribe’s full support to Qingyang Huan and prepared to use the thousand-year tree heart to heal the Grand Elder. Qingyang Huan began absorbing the Wood Race’s blood Qi to prepare to temper his body and enter the Body Casting Extreme Realm.

• The Qingyang Clan returned with twenty-three warriors dead and more than a hundred wounded, and Qingyang Huan mourned a fallen uncle alongside the man’s grieving son.
• Qingyang Jue gave the thousand-year tree heart to the Grand Elder, then arranged to help him refine its plant essence in seclusion and pursue the Spirit Seizing Realm.
• The Grand Elder and Qingyang Jue promised to protect Qingyang Huan and support his cultivation, while Qingyang Luan was told to handle the tribe’s affairs.
• Qingyang Jue told Qingyang Huan he could choose blood Qi essence from the hunt to temper his body, and his eldest brother promised to stand with him against his enemies.
• Qingyang Huan went to the Wood Race’s blood and bones and absorbed their gentle blood Qi, storing it until he could use the Slaughter Bone Rune to refine his flesh and blood.

Qingyang Huan forced his blood Qi to its limits beneath a waterfall, using its force and the Slaughter Bone Rune to break through to Radiance Born of Flesh and Blood. After his strength rose from eight thousand to nine thousand jin, he absorbed five more streams of essence, and rosy lights began to flicker within his flesh.

• Qingyang Huan worried that the Slaughter Bone Rune was turning his growing delight in killing into an uncontrollable bloodthirst, but continued cultivating to increase his strength.
• Qingyang Huan went beneath a waterfall and used its current to suppress his raging blood Qi while absorbing thirty-three streams of pure blood Qi essence overnight.
• At dawn, the accumulated blood Qi exploded through Qingyang Huan's flesh as the Slaughter Bone Rune tore at it, helping him reach eight thousand jin of strength.
• Qingyang Huan endured the rune's piercing pain beneath the waterfall and punched through the falling water as his strength climbed to nine thousand jin.
• Qingyang Huan absorbed five remaining streams of blood Qi essence, and pinpoints of rosy light began appearing within his flesh.

Qingyang Huan became stuck just short of completing the second step of Body Casting, even as he began Blood Refining. After hunting beasts to repay the stone spear, he learned that he needed to hone his unrealized strength through combat and set out to make his cultivation real.

• Qingyang Huan failed to unite the dawnlight specks in his flesh and realized that Blood Refining had begun before he perfected the second step of Body Casting.
• Qingyang Huan remembered his debt to the stone spear, told Qingyang Luan he was leaving the tribe, and rode into the ancient forest to hunt.
• Qingyang Huan hunted twenty-three Body Casting fierce beasts over three days and saw the dawnlight specks in his flesh begin to connect.
• The stone spear told Qingyang Huan that his flesh had reached the waterfall’s limits and that fighting was necessary to control and solidify his strength.
• Qingyang Huan agreed to hunt one hundred Body Casting fierce beasts within ten days, then charged down the mountain with the stone spear.

Qingyang Huan reached Blood Refining while hunting the purple sable through the ancient forest. He overheard two men from the Inkstone Mountain Tribe discussing a copper ore vein in the buffer zone between their tribe and Qingyang.

• Qingyang Huan hunted ferocious beasts for eight days, consolidating his strength and advancing into Blood Refining.
• Qingyang Huan fought the purple sable, dodged its lightning attack, and pursued it deeper into the forest after it fled.
• Qingyang Huan concealed himself when he heard movement in the forest.
• Two Inkstone Mountain Tribe men passed by carrying tusked boars and discussed claiming a copper deposit in the buffer zone.
• Qingyang Huan recognized the ore vein as an opportunity and watched the men with keen interest.

Qingyang Huan discovered that the Inkstone Mountain Tribe had found a purple copper mine and ambushed their soldiers to keep the ore vein for the Qingyang Clan. After capturing or defeating several men, he was caught off guard by an attacker as he left the cave where he had hidden them.

• Qingyang Huan followed two Inkstone Mountain soldiers to their mine and confirmed that it contained purple copper ore.
• Qingyang Huan waited overnight, then ambushed two soldiers carrying a report and bound them in a hidden cave.
• Qingyang Huan ambushed more soldiers sent along the route, repeatedly striking the captives to keep them unconscious.
• Qingyang Huan fought another group of Inkstone Mountain soldiers, leaving three more men defeated and estimating that only a few remained at the mine.
• Qingyang Huan prepared to leave and inform Eldest Brother about the ore vein, but an unseen attacker struck him and sent him flying from the cave.

Qingyang Huan was ambushed by Inkstone Mountain tribal soldiers who sought to kill him for his talent, and he fought back with his stone spear. After killing the attackers and realizing the blood signal would summon reinforcements, he abandoned the native copper mine and fled toward the Qingyang Clan.

• A burly Inkstone Mountain soldier emerged from the cave and attacked Qingyang Huan, but Qingyang Huan matched his strength with the Severing the Void spear technique.
• A black-robed archer and another tribal soldier joined the fight, and their coordinated attacks wounded Qingyang Huan.
• Qingyang Huan charged the archer, shattered his bone arrow with his spear, and killed him before striking down the other two soldiers.
• Qingyang Huan killed the soldier who released a blood-smoke signal, then chose to abandon the mine and run toward the Qingyang Clan before reinforcements arrived.

After killing Inkstone Mountain Tribe soldiers, Qingyang Huan hid in a cave, recovered his strength with Blood Qi from the Stone Spear, and considered how he needed to improve his combat skills. A young man from the tribe tracked the blood trail to the copper vein but sealed it and continued north without finding Qingyang Huan.

• Qingyang Huan fled over a hundred li and sealed himself inside a secluded cave to rest after fighting the Inkstone Mountain Tribe soldiers.
• Qingyang Huan questioned the Stone Spear about not warning him that the soldiers were alive, and it told him survival depended on killing or being killed.
• Qingyang Huan used the Stone Spear's stored Blood Qi essence to replenish himself and reflected that he needed more combat training.
• A young man in green armor followed the blood trail, found the dead soldiers and beasts, and absorbed the beasts' Blood Qi essence.
• The young man found five pieces of copper ore, sealed the copper vein's entrance, and headed north without discovering Qingyang Huan.

Qingyang Huan returned after killing Yanshan tribal soldiers and told Qingyang Jue that he had found a purple copper deposit. Qingyang Jue explained that Qingyang could let the Inkstone Mountain Tribe occupy it for now because the Grand Elder’s breakthrough had given their clan two Spirit Seizing Realm experts.

• Yan Qingsong reported the deaths of Yanshan tribal soldiers near a purple copper deposit, and the Inkstone Mountain clan chief ordered troops to seize and guard the vein.
• Qingyang Huan returned to the Qingyang Clan after advancing to the third step of Body Casting and reunited with Qingyang Luan and Qingyang Jue.
• Qingyang Huan told Qingyang Jue and Qingyang Luan that he had killed more than a dozen Yanshan tribal soldiers and recounted discovering the deposit.
• Qingyang Jue told Qingyang Huan that the Grand Elder had advanced to the Spirit Seizing Realm, giving Qingyang two such experts and the strength to wait before contesting the deposit.

Qingyang Huan agreed to hunt blood food for the tribe’s children as they began cultivating with his new Body Casting method, while honing his combat skills in the wilderness. After practicing the first three forms of the Kui Ox Spear Technique, he returned to the Qingyang Mountain Range with three fierce beasts for the children.

• Qingyang Jue told Qingyang Huan not to worry about the ore vein yet and reminded him that martial cultivation required combat; Qingyang Huan said he would hunt blood food for the tribe’s children.
• Qingyang Huan practiced the Kui Ox Spear Technique in the hills south of the Qingyang Mountain Range and used its first three forms to shatter a tree and unleash a spear blast.
• Qingyang Huan recognized that he had not yet mastered the transitions among the first three forms and vowed to capture a Kui Ox someday so the clan could study its divine form.
• After hunting for more than half a month, Qingyang Huan returned to the mountain range at dusk, dragging three fierce beasts behind him.
• The tribe’s children rushed to greet Qingyang Huan, and some climbed onto the beasts as he dragged them along.

Qingyang Huan returned to the Qingyang Clan with three fierce beasts, helped prepare the children’s blood Qi baptism, and continued honing his spear technique in the wild. Three months later, he had mastered the first three moves of the Kui Ox Spear Technique and killed a Black-Spotted Python.

• Qingyang Huan brought wild fruits to the tribe’s children and led them to the ancestral valley, where he presented three peak Body Casting fierce beasts to Great-Uncle.
• Great-Uncle and the elders prepared the beasts’ blood Qi for the children’s baptism, while the children teased Qingyang Huan about wetting an elder’s arms as a baby.
• Qingyang Huan caught a dozen children and placed them in the stone vats for their first blood Qi baptism.
• Over the next few days, Qingyang Huan returned from hunting with fierce beasts, and the children fled whenever he approached.
• Three months later, Qingyang Huan deflected a Black-Spotted Python’s attack with the Kui Ox Spear Technique, killed it with Surging Thunder, and absorbed its blood Qi.