Recaps

Jian Mo and his companions returned to the Xingchu Tribe with a plentiful seafood haul and enjoyed grilled sea urchin, crab, and shrimp. Jian Mo praised the crab as the best he had ever eaten.

• Jian Mo and the others found large crabs, arm shrimp, and sea urchins while diving near the reef.
• The group gathered the seafood and returned to the Xingchu Tribe to cook it.
• The tribe members grilled the seafood and served it with sour and salty sauce.
• Jian Mo shared sea urchin with Jiujiu while Wu Jiong fed Ying'ao.
• Jian Mo tasted freshly grilled crab and praised its tender, sweet meat.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong enjoyed the Xingchu Tribe’s seafood and learned about its traditional remedies before joining Xing Jiu to gather seaweed. They reached a shallow coastal area rich in seaweed, where Jian Mo began harvesting it and spotted unusually large abalone-like shellfish.

• Xing Jiu offered Jian Mo dried seafood and explained that the tribe used seaweed to treat swollen necks.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong checked on Fen Hui, who was recovering, and reassured him that he could rest before helping carry supplies later.
• Xing Jiu led Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, Jiujiu, and Ying'ao along the coast to a shallow stretch dotted with small islands.
• Jiujiu and Ying'ao waited under a tree while Jian Mo and the others dived to gather seaweed.
• Jian Mo cut a large pile of seaweed and noticed palm-sized abalone-like shellfish beneath it.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong gathered abalone and seaweed with the Stored Star Tribe, then Jian Mo prepared the abalone while studying medicinal recipes with Xing Jiu. After teaching and cooking late into the night, Jian Mo planned to go out to sea with the tribe again.

• Jian Mo learned that the Stored Star Tribe considered abalone unappetizing, but collected two baskets of it to take home.
• Wu Jiong prepared the abalone while Jian Mo copied medicinal recipes and studied with Xing Jiu.
• Xing Jiu and Jian Mo finished their lessons, and Xing Jiu praised Jian Mo for learning quickly.
• Jian Mo slowly cooked the abalone before drying it, explaining that the method would help it stay tender and keep from spoiling.
• Xing Jiu left for the night, and Jian Mo planned to join the tribe on more trips out to sea.

Jian Mo accompanied Xing Yi to study Yan Sui’s twin pregnancy and helped deliver the cubs after a difficult labor. The twins and Yan Sui stabilized, and Jian Mo later visited them as they recovered.

• Xing Yi took Jian Mo and Xing Jiu to Yan Sui’s tribe, where Jian Mo learned that Yan Sui was carrying twins and would likely give birth that night.
• Xing Yi taught Jian Mo and his other students how to assess and manage the birth, while Jian Mo explained episiotomies and his delivery forceps.
• Yan Sui went into labor that evening, but the twins’ difficult delivery stalled until Xing Yi let Jian Mo take over.
• Jian Mo performed an episiotomy and used forceps to deliver a struggling feline cub, then learned alongside the others as they cared for the newborns and helped deliver the second cub.
• By dawn, Yan Sui and both cubs had stabilized, and the exhausted helpers rested at the tribe.
• Jian Mo woke before noon, washed, and visited Yan Sui and the healthy yellow and black leopard cubs.

Jian Mo checked on Yan Sui, then traveled back toward the Stored Star Tribe with Wu Jiong and Xing Yi's group. Along the way, they met the Cypress Branch Tribe youths, who had brought supplies and began discussing trade, and the story left with Xing Yi examining the fat chirpers.

• Jian Mo examined Yan Sui and reassured him that his swelling should improve within a few days.
• Jian Mo told Xing Yi that the Long-Tailed Beast sinew stitches would be absorbed and would not need removal.
• Jian Mo and his companions headed back after confirming Yan Sui was recovering well.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong encountered the Cypress Branch Tribe youths, who had brought supplies and traded many goods along the way.
• Xing Yi introduced himself to the Cypress Branch Tribe youths and examined the fat chirpers with Jian Mo and the others.

Jian Mo and Xing Jiu began treating patients’ teeth and sharing their medical knowledge while the chubby chirps traded with nearby tribes. The chubby chirps then found the Green Forest Tribe, where Xing Yuan’s two fathers had come from, and Jian Mo considered telling Xing Yuan about it when he was older.

• Xing Yi examined the chubby chirps and explained that their digestive troubles were not an illness, though they could improve their gut health.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong planned to resume dental treatment, and Xing Jiu agreed to spread the word and learn the procedures and medicine formulas from Jian Mo.
• Jian Mo taught Xing Jiu tooth extractions and fillings, and Xing Jiu soon began performing the simpler procedures himself.
• The chubby chirps traded with nearby tribes and brought back metal, unusual medicinal herbs, and news of the Green Forest Tribe.
• Wu Jiong identified the Green Forest Tribe as the one Xing Yuan’s two fathers had come from, and the chubby chirps confirmed they had not revealed Xing Yuan’s connection to the tribe.

Jian Mo and his companions prepared to leave the Xingchu Tribe after finishing their studies, while the fat chirps completed a successful trading trip. Before heading home, Jian Mo joined the Xingchu Tribe youths and the fat chirps for a day of surfing, where the group quickly bonded.

• The fat chirps traded with nearby tribes until they had little left to acquire, and Jian Mo and his companions prepared to return home with them.
• The people of the Xingchu Tribe asked Jian Mo to stay, but he said he and his companions missed home and would visit again.
• The Xingchu Tribe youths invited Jian Mo and his companions to try surfing, and Jian Mo eagerly accepted.
• The fat chirps insisted on joining the outing, and nearly a hundred people set off together under the guidance of two dependable youths.
• The fat chirps quickly befriended the group, and Wan Zheng said the Cypress Branch Tribe now got along well even with the Rain Rising Tribe.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong joined the Xingchu Tribe in surfing, with Jiujiu turning the game into exhilarating flights over the water. When Haiqin appeared, Jian Mo learned they were intelligent and friendly, then rode on Wu Jiong’s wolf form to feed and pet them.

• Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, and the fat jiujius learned to surf with the Xingchu Tribe.
• Jiujiu pushed Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, and the others across the water, and the group later took turns flying while holding a rope.
• Jian Mo spotted a fin, and an Xingchu Tribe member identified the creature as a friendly Haiqin.
• Wu Jiong carried Jian Mo toward the Haiqin in his giant wolf form while Ying'ao watched over them.
• Jian Mo fed dried meat to the Haiqin and stroked them as more gathered around to beg for food.

Jian Mo and his companions enjoyed one last day by the sea before the nearby tribes sent them off with gifts and promises of friendship. As they flew home from the Stored Star Tribe, Jian Mo realized how attached he had become to the places and people along the way.

• Jian Mo and the others rode Haiqin, gathered seafood, and shared a grilled dinner on the beach.
• Jian Mo told the others he had learned most of what he could and planned to return home, saving difficult medical cases to ask about later.
• More than ten nearby tribes gave Jian Mo and his companions gifts and saw them off, while Wu Jiong invited them to visit his tribe.
• Fen Hui rode with a fat chirper from the Cypress Branch Tribe, while Jiujiu and Ying'ao carried Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, and their supplies away from the Stored Star Tribe.
• Jian Mo told Wu Jiong that the region seemed less distant than before, and Wu Jiong said it was because Jian Mo had grown attached.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned to the Riverside Tribe in the middle of the night after nearly a month away. Their friends and the cubs gathered to welcome them, and Jian Mo reassured everyone that his health had improved and Fen Hui had nearly recovered.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong chose to fly home overnight rather than rest in the wild, and the patrollers rushed to announce their return.
• The Fat Chius declined Jian Mo's offer to stay, while Fen Hui left with them and said he would return to thank the tribe.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong found their home clean and prepared, bathed, and then greeted Qing Kuo and the others who came to see them.
• Jian Mo told Qing Kuo, Ye Luo, and the others that his health was better, Fen Hui had almost recovered, and they had met skilled, kind witch doctors.
• The cubs crowded around Jian Mo, who welcomed them and joined the tribe members in sharing stories beneath the moonlight.

Jian Mo returned from his journey and examined Dan Guan, confirming that his bald patches were likely caused by seborrheic dermatitis. He prepared medicine for Dan Guan and left him to grind the ingredients while he went to fetch cotton cloth.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong shared stories about their journey, and the group discussed raising Flying-Winged Beasts for future travel and trade.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned home, rested, and agreed to join the others for a bonfire party that evening.
• Dan Guan visited Jian Mo after hearing he had returned and asked whether his bald patches could be treated.
• Jian Mo examined Dan Guan in beast form and diagnosed symptoms of seborrheic dermatitis.
• Jian Mo weighed black knife grass and white clay, then asked Dan Guan to grind them while he fetched cotton cloth.

Jian Mo treated Dan Guan’s bald patches, then joined the Riverside Tribe’s bonfire feast celebrating his return. After eating, singing, and dancing with Wu Jiong and the others, Jian Mo went home with Wu Jiong and suggested trading with the Mengshui Tribe for their salve.

• Jian Mo applied medicine to Dan Guan’s bald patches and invited him to stay for the tribe’s bonfire party.
• Jian Mo helped season fish balls and meatballs while the tribe prepared hotpot and grilled meat for the feast.
• Wu Jiong returned from a hunt and gave Jian Mo berries, and the two ate hotpot while sharing stories with the others.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong listened to an epic, watched people dance, and stayed at the feast until late at night.
• Wu Jiong carried a tipsy Jian Mo home, where they used their salve, and Jian Mo suggested trading for salve from the Mengshui Tribe.

Jian Mo harvested tubers with the tribe’s little ones, welcomed Haizuo Tribe members who came to thank him for healing Fen Hui, and spent the following days trading and treating patients. Restless after nearly ten days in the tribe, he set out with Wu Jiong to gather Kunzhi Tree sap, herbs, nuts, and mushrooms, accompanied by Jiujiu and Ying'ao.

• Jian Mo dug up ripe tubers with the little ones and told them about the sea as they worked.
• The Haizuo Tribe came to thank Jian Mo for treating Fen Hui and brought him supplies, but he insisted they take them home again.
• Jian Mo hosted the Haizuo tribespeople, discussed cultivation and travel, and let the little ones listen in.
• Jian Mo and the others traded with visiting tribes and used his new medical techniques to treat patients over the next several days.
• Jian Mo persuaded Wu Jiong to go gather Kunzhi Tree sap, and Jiujiu and Ying'ao joined their outing.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong gathered supplies with Jiujiu and Ying'ao, then shared a promise to stay together. Wu Jiong later told Jian Mo that the tribes had agreed to hold this year's Hunting Gathering at their tribe's new arena.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong collected Liankunzhi sap and gathered herbs, vegetables, fruit, and mushrooms with Jiujiu and Ying'ao.
• Jiujiu led Jian Mo and Wu Jiong to an alpine meadow, where they found and picked mushrooms.
• Jian Mo promised Wu Jiong he would not leave him behind, and Wu Jiong embraced him.
• Wu Jiong returned late from a meeting with other tribe chiefs and told Jian Mo they had discussed the Hunting Gathering.
• Wu Jiong explained that the Hunting Gathering would be held at their tribe's new arena instead of the Mengshui Tribe.

Jian Mo traveled to the Cypress Branch Tribe with Wu Jiong to examine the ailing chief, Zhou Zhi, after his people reported that he had fainted, lost weight, and struggled to eat. Zhou Zhi revealed that cold weather aggravated an old ailment, and Jian Mo began examining him, hearing something unusual inside his body.

• Wu Jiong said the Hunting Gathering would likely alternate between the Riverside Tribe and the Mengshui Tribe, and Jian Mo credited the tribe’s growth to everyone’s work.
• Wan Zheng and other people from the Cypress Branch Tribe asked Jian Mo to examine Zhou Zhi, who had fainted, lost weight, and looked pale.
• Jian Mo prepared herbs and agreed to travel with the chubby chirps, while Wu Jiong decided to accompany him and leave De Jiang in charge of the Hunting Gathering.
• At the Cypress Branch Tribe, Zhou Zhi privately told Jian Mo that cold weather worsened an old lower-abdominal ailment from his delayed development.
• Jian Mo used his stethoscope to examine Zhou Zhi and heard strange sounds inside his body.

Jian Mo discovered that Zhou Zhi was pregnant by Qi Ming, the chief of the Rain Rising Tribe, and advised him to consider his health and whether to keep the cub. After Qi Ming asked Zhou Zhi to become his partner, Zhou Zhi decided to keep the cub and asked Jian Mo for care; Jian Mo and Wu Jiong ended the day betting on the cub’s beast form.

• Jian Mo examined Zhou Zhi and realized that he was pregnant, then advised him about nourishing himself and offered a safe way to end the pregnancy if he chose.
• Zhou Zhi said he needed time to think, and Jian Mo promised to keep his condition confidential while staying in the Cypress Branch Tribe.
• Qi Ming arrived that afternoon and asked Zhou Zhi to become his partner, prompting an angry confrontation between the Cypress Branch Tribe and the Rain Rising Tribe.
• Qi Ming offered to live in the Cypress Branch Tribe, but Zhou Zhi said he would think about it, and the Cypress Branch Tribe rejected Qi Ming’s supplies.
• Zhou Zhi told Jian Mo he wanted to keep the cub, so Jian Mo planned a food-based regimen to support his health.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong speculated about the cub’s beast form and made a bet.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned from the Cypress Branch Tribe after confirming Zhou Zhi was well, and Qi Ming met them along the way to ask Jian Mo how to care for a pregnant sub-beastman. Back at the Riverside Tribe, the tribes agreed to add a cubs’ combat competition to the Hunting Gathering, and Ban Ming teased Banjiu about giving him special training.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong left the Cypress Branch Tribe after Zhou Zhi thanked them for visiting.
• Qi Ming joined Jian Mo’s group at their campsite and asked how to care for a pregnant sub-beastman, especially one in poor health.
• Qi Ming thanked Jian Mo and left that night, while Jian Mo and Wu Jiong guessed he was hurrying back to care for Zhou Zhi.
• After Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned to the Riverside Tribe, De Jiang told them the tribes were considering a cubs’ competition at the Hunting Gathering.
• Wu Jiong and De Jiang helped the tribes agree to let the cubs fight in the arena, with the event to be reconsidered next year.
• Ban Ming offered to give Banjiu special combat training, and Banjiu suspected he only wanted an excuse to hit him.

The Riverside Tribe hosted a large Hunting Gathering, welcoming participants from nineteen tribes and preparing meals for the arrivals. With too many guests for the available houses, the visitors agreed to camp on the open ground and eat mala tang cooked by the Riverside Tribe.

• The Riverside Tribe's cubs practiced combat under Mo A, and Jian Mo watched them spar.
• Jian Mo made sweet soup to encourage the cubs, while Jiujiu enjoyed some too.
• Jian Mo observed that Jiang Xing was the strongest cub fighter, and Wu Jiong suggested a sub-beastman might become the tribe's next chief.
• Swift-footed young people including Ban Ming notified nearby tribes about the Hunting Gathering.
• People from the participating tribes arrived, and the Riverside Tribe asked them to stay on the open ground because its houses were full.
• The Riverside Tribe prepared more than ten pots of mostly clear mala tang broth and offered meals to the guests without charge.

The Riverside Tribe welcomed visitors arriving early for the Hunting Gathering and served them malatang, a new specialty that quickly impressed the Jintuo Tribe and other guests. Jin Shi and his people tried the food, while the gathering grew livelier around the popular meal.

• Yan Dun greeted Jin Shi and the Jintuo Tribe, explaining that several nearby tribes had arrived early for the gathering.
• Jin Shi and his people watched Mu Chu of the Ice River Tribe eagerly eat malatang, and Yan Dun told them they could try it.
• Ye Luo warned the Jintuo Tribe that Mu Chu's bowl contained chili, but Ying Ji asked to taste some anyway.
• Ye Luo served the Jintuo Tribe malatang, and Jin Shi praised its flavor after trying it.
• The Riverside Tribe's malatang drew enthusiastic crowds from the major tribes, who had heard about it from the cubs attending classes.

The visiting tribes admired the Riverside Tribe’s food, homes, and progress, then asked to see how its classroom worked. Jian Mo and the tribe’s leaders agreed to host a demonstration and organized volunteers, whose wooden brooches would bear the first year’s date and tribal marks.

• Jin Shi and other Jintuo Tribe members praised the Riverside Tribe’s food and asked for extra servings, while visitors from other tribes marveled at its improvements.
• Tribes asked Wu Jiong and the others to show them the Riverside Tribe’s classroom and explain its changes.
• Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, Qing Kuo, and De Jiang agreed to demonstrate the classes and let local people guide visiting volunteers.
• Jian Mo suggested making volunteer brooches and marking them with the year, and Wu Jiong agreed to call the current year the first.
• Jian Mo asked the Dianxin Tribe to make wooden brooches, and its members proposed carving tribal beast forms or other chosen designs as identifying marks.

Jian Mo watched the Hunting Gathering’s sub-beastman fighting matches and cheered as Qing Kuo defeated his opponent with a powerful spinning kick. He planned to watch Ye Luo’s match the next morning and asked Qing Kuo to teach him the move, learning that Wu Jiong could teach it even better.

• Ban Ming invited Jian Mo to watch the Riverside Tribe’s competitors, and Jian Mo agreed after finishing his volunteer work.
• Jian Mo ate at home, then joined Ye Luo at the arena to watch a Dianxin Tribe fighter lose to a Xiongying Tribe fighter.
• Qing Kuo fought an Ice River Tribe sub-beastman and knocked him unconscious with a spinning kick.
• Jian Mo promised to watch Ye Luo’s match the next morning and went with Ye Luo to congratulate Qing Kuo.
• Jian Mo asked Qing Kuo to teach him the spinning kick, and Qing Kuo told him to ask Wu Jiong, who performed it even better.

Jian Mo traded for a mysterious fruit that might be a medicinal ingredient and prepared a scar-removing plaster for Bei Ya. The plaster was left to cool while Wu Jiong urged Jian Mo to rest.

• Qing Kuo, Ye Luo, and Jian Mo went to the Hunting Gathering stalls to trade for ingredients.
• Jian Mo traded cloth for sweet yellow berries and unusual blackish fruit from a young sub-beastman of the Thick Flow Tribe.
• Jian Mo suspected the fruit might be Throat Eyeball, gathered other herbs with Ying'ao, and set out to test it as a treatment for skin disease.
• When Wu Jiong returned home, Jian Mo explained that he was making a medicinal plaster to try on Bei Ya's scars.
• Jian Mo combined the medicinal liquid with processed Kunzhi Tree sap, spread the mixture out to cool, and Wu Jiong encouraged him to rest.

Jian Mo tested his medicinal plaster by applying it to Wu Jiong’s old scar, then watched the Hunting Gathering matches and talked with Ji Xun. The plaster’s effect remained unknown, while Ji Xun inferred that Zhou Zhi was pregnant with Qi Ming’s child.

• Jian Mo persuaded Wu Jiong to let him shave a narrow strip of leg hair and apply medicinal plaster to his childhood scar.
• Jian Mo watched Ye Luo decisively win his match against a fighter from the Qin Sea Tribe.
• Jian Mo stayed to watch the other matches after Ye Luo and Qing Kuo left to help oversee them.
• Ji Xun joined Jian Mo in the stands and said he had come with Mo A for an exhibition match.
• Ji Xun guessed that Zhou Zhi was pregnant with Qi Ming’s child, and Jian Mo realized Ji Xun had used his reaction to confirm the guess.

Mo A and Huo Meng held an exhibition match before the official bouts began, and Jiu Yin defeated Ya Zheng in a close fight. Jian Mo then discussed the Riverside Tribe’s fighting classes and the medicinal and culinary uses of throat eyeballs with Ji Xun and Mo A.

• Mo A and Huo Meng fought to a draw in their exhibition match, then bowed to the cheering crowd.
• Jiu Yin defeated Ya Zheng by using the Giant Armor Beast’s momentum to flip it onto its back, and Zhou Fu cheered him on.
• Ji Xun remarked that the Riverside Tribe’s fighters had improved, and Jian Mo and Mo A explained that their fighting classes helped everyone learn.
• Jian Mo offered to send Ji Xun throat eyeballs if they proved effective against scars, and Ji Xun explained that the fruit could also flavor cured meat.
• Ji Xun advised Jian Mo to ask the Thick Flow Tribe about gathering more throat eyeballs after the Hunting Gathering.

After the Hunting Gathering, Jian Mo arranged to visit nearby tribes and treat their people, then continued caring for Bei Ya’s facial scars. The gathering ended successfully, and Jian Mo and Wu Jiong began collecting autumn supplies.

• Jian Mo asked the Sharp Teeth Tribe, the Meng'an Tribe, the Thick Flow Tribe, the Fanbing Tribe, and the Mountain Bright Tribe about visiting their territories, and they welcomed him and Wu Jiong.
• The Hunting Gathering ended smoothly, with the Riverside Tribe impressing the visiting tribes and nearby groups helping repair and clean up.
• Jian Mo examined Bei Ya’s fading facial scars, applied medicinal plasters, and gave him extra plasters and care instructions.
• Bei Ya offered Jian Mo and Wu Jiong a place to stay and promised to take them gathering when they visited his area.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong gathered autumn fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, and tubers until they had filled half a storeroom.