Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying arranged a wager between the Calling Deer Tribe and the Giant Ape Tribe over which tribe would win the Salt Scramble. After both sides swore binding Beast God Oaths, the wager was sealed, and Sang Ying assured Chief He that the Calling Deer Tribe would win.

• A Giant Ape Tribe warrior mocked the Calling Deer Tribe, and Sang Ying challenged him to bet on the Salt Scramble's outcome.
• Sang Ying proposed that the losing tribe hand over all its salt rock to the winner, and she persuaded the Giant Apes that victory would bring them a valuable prize.
• The Giant Ape Tribe agreed to the wager on the condition that both tribes swear Beast God Oaths.
• Chief He worried that the Calling Deer Tribe could not win, but Sang Ying confidently reassured him.
• The Giant Ape Tribe swore first, then Chief He swore on behalf of the Calling Deer Tribe, formally sealing the wager.

The Calling Deer Tribe prepared to challenge the Giant Ape Tribe in the Salt Scramble while Sang Ying questioned the rules that favored the strongest tribes. The match began with the Calling Deer warriors quickly defeating all five Giant Ape opponents, leaving Chieftain He stunned.

• Chieftain He worried about the wager, but Yue Tianze reassured him that the Calling Deer warriors trusted their new strength.
• Sang Ying learned that the Salt Scramble rules required the last-place team to challenge tribes in order, and urged Chieftain He to consider winning first place and changing the rules.
• Chieftain He said the tribe would aim for third place this time and train for another half a year before considering a bid for first.
• The White Lion and Flame Tiger Tribes watched as five Calling Deer Beastmen entered the match against five Giant Ape Beastmen.
• The Giant Ape Beastmen charged, but the Calling Deer warriors stayed standing inside the circle while all five opponents fell unconscious outside it.

The Calling Deer Tribe defeated the Giant Ape Tribe and celebrated their victory, while Chief Gao came to discuss the salt stones wagered in the match. Sang Ying agreed the salt stones could be discussed, but set an as-yet-unrevealed condition.

• Chief He questioned the referee’s silence, and the referee confirmed that the Calling Deer Tribe had won.
• The five Calling Deer Beastmen realized they had defeated the Giant Ape Beastmen and celebrated with flower garlands presented by Yue and the children.
• Chief He reminded the Giant Ape Tribe that they had lost the wager, and Chief Gao regretted having to hand over the salt stones.
• Chief Gao visited the Calling Deer camp and told Chief He and Sang Ying that he wanted to discuss the salt stones, though he would honor the Beast God Oath.
• Sang Ying said the salt stones could be discussed on one condition.

Sang Ying and the Calling Deer Tribe traded their cultivation method to the other tribes for resources, while keeping their training advantage. As the Salt Scramble ended, Sang Ying heard that the White Lion Tribe’s young master had rescued a horned Human and wondered if it was Jiang Zhuoxue.

• Sang Ying agreed to trade the Giant Ape Tribe’s salt stones for resources, and Chief Gao accepted her terms.
• Chief He refused the White Lion Tribe’s offer for the cultivation method at first, then discussed the risks and benefits with Sang Ying and Yue Tianze.
• Yue Tianze argued that the Calling Deer Tribe could keep its lead even if the other tribes learned the method, and Chief He agreed to share it.
• The White Lion, Flame Tiger, and Giant Ape Tribes traded resources for the cultivation method.
• The White Lion Tribe invited Sang Ying and Yue Tianze to its young master’s betrothal ceremony and described her rescued fiancé as a long-haired, horned Human, making Sang Ying suspect he was Jiang Zhuoxue.

Qi Yaoji prepared to marry Gu Huaiwei while tightening her control over the Flowing Light Sword Sect, and she threatened to destroy everything Sang Ying treasured. Meanwhile, Sang Ying and Yue Tianze arrived with Chief He at the White Lion Tribe for its young master's wedding banquet, where the bride-to-be urged her groom to reveal who he was.

• Qi Yaoji's Demonic Qi sealed off the Flowing Light Sword Sect as her steward forced its captured cultivators to labor.
• Qi Yaoji brought wedding robes to Gu Huaiwei, who refused them and questioned whether she could remain rational.
• Qi Yaoji recalled how Gu Huaiwei had deceived her and threatened to destroy the Flowing Light Sword Sect and everything Sang Ying treasured after their wedding.
• Chief He split the Calling Deer Tribe's party, sending one group home with the supplies while he escorted Sang Ying and Yue Tianze to the White Lion Tribe.
• Sang Ying and her companions arrived at the White Lion Tribe, where the bride-to-be tried to persuade her groom to disclose his identity and name.

Bai Ya tried to end her betrothal after the man she rescued refused her and revealed that he loved someone else, but her father insisted the wedding proceed. As she wandered away from the tribe, Bai Ya collided with a beautiful woman and felt love stir in her heart.

• Bai Ya told the rescued man that she wanted to marry him, but he refused, saying he already loved someone.
• Bai Ya was frightened by the man's glare and decided she wanted to call off the marriage.
• The White Lion chief refused to cancel the wedding, explaining that guests had arrived and the feast was due to begin the next day.
• Bai Ya wandered through the tribe, considered running away, and collided with a beautiful woman who apologized.
• Bai Ya was captivated by the woman and felt love stir in her heart.

Sang Ying learned that the White Lion Tribe’s young chief had rescued Jiang Zhuoxue, who was being pressured to marry Bai Ya. She reunited with the injured Jiang Zhuoxue at Bai Ya’s stone house and stayed by his side, while Bai Ya watched jealously.

• Sang Ying questioned Bai Ya about the wedding feast and learned that the young chief’s fiancé had two horns, confirming he was Jiang Zhuoxue.
• Bai Ya brought Sang Ying to the stone house where Jiang Zhuoxue was recovering and told him she no longer wanted to marry him.
• Jiang Zhuoxue heard Bai Ya call Sang Ying by name, leapt from his bed, and reunited with her.
• Sang Ying steadied Jiang Zhuoxue and asked about his injuries, but Bai Ya tried to separate them and offer her own account of his condition.
• Jiang Zhuoxue pretended his wound had reopened, and Sang Ying went to care for him as Bai Ya lamented in jealousy.

Sang Ying helped Bai Ya cancel her wedding by agreeing to teach ten White Lion Tribe Beastmen how to cultivate. Before leaving, she gave Chief He a protective formation disc, which would later save the Calling Deer Tribe from a beast tide.

• Bai Ya took Sang Ying to the White Lion chief to call off the next day's wedding, and the chief changed his mind after recognizing Sang Ying as the creator of the Cultivation Practice Method.
• Sang Ying agreed to stay in the White Lion Tribe and teach ten chosen Beastmen to cultivate, and the chief turned the wedding feast into a feast welcoming her.
• The White Lion chief advised Bai Ya to value Sang Ying's abilities and get along with her, and Bai Ya soothed her father's lingering anger.
• Sang Ying told Chief He she would stay with the White Lion Tribe, and he accepted her decision without resentment.
• Sang Ying gave Chief He a formation disc to protect the Calling Deer Tribe, and he buried it beneath the sacrificial altar.
• Much later, when a beast tide threatened the Calling Deer Tribe, its chief ordered the Beastmen to shelter at the altar, where the formation raised a barrier against the danger.

Sang Ying helped introduce the Cultivation Method to the visiting Beastmen, then explained to Jiang Zhuoxue that they were trapped in a separated world and promised to find a way home. That night, demon wolves attacked the White Lion Tribe, and Sang Ying sensed danger from their towering white leader.

• The White Lion Tribe demonstrated the Cultivation Method in a match, and the Calling Deer Tribe defeated them with ease.
• Yue Tianze reminded Chief He to bury the formation disk Sang Ying had given him, and the banquet ended.
• Sang Ying brought fruit to Jiang Zhuoxue and told him about the separated world, promising they would return to their own world.
• White wolves breached the White Lion Tribe's defenses and attacked as the Beastmen slept.
• Sang Ying rushed from her stone house and saw a towering white wolf watching her from the gate wall.

Sang Ying protected the White Lion Tribe from a night attack by the demon Wolf King and pursued it into the mountains. She followed it to its cave, where she discovered the source of its Demonization.

• The Wolf King summoned more than a dozen white wolves to attack Sang Ying and Bai Ya.
• Sang Ying killed the wolves with a single stroke of the Dragon Abyss Sword, leaving Bai Ya unharmed.
• The Wolf King fled, and Sang Ying told the White Lion chief to look after Jiang Zhuoxue before chasing it.
• Sang Ying deliberately slowed her pursuit, allowing the Wolf King to lead her to its mountain cave.
• When the Wolf King entered the cave and felt a soothing sensation, Sang Ying spoke and revealed that she had found the reason it became a demon.

Sang Ying explored the cave beneath the mountain and discovered a spiritual spring whose formation had concentrated Spiritual Qi there. After she destroyed the spring, Spiritual Qi spread across the world, and she found a strange Spirit Gathering Formation at the bottom of the pool.

• Sang Ying kicked the white wolf away, beat it into submission, and pulled out its fangs.
• Sang Ying followed the white wolf deeper into the cave and learned it had never explored beyond the narrow passage.
• Sang Ying discovered a cavern filled with spiritual stalactites and a pool of spiritual spring water.
• Sang Ying sensed something drawing Spiritual Qi from her palm, drove away nearby living creatures, and sent her spiritual power into the spring.
• The spring exploded, spreading Spiritual Qi across the world and awakening plants, animals, and Beastmen.
• Sang Ying found a strange Spirit Gathering Formation at the bottom of the spring pool.

Sang Ying discovered that a protected Spirit Gathering Formation was draining the world's Spiritual Qi and attacked it with her swords. As the White Lion Tribe faced the returning white wolf king, the cultivator who had created the formation set out to claim its gathered spirit liquid, unaware that Sang Ying had destroyed his defenses.

• The white wolf left for the White Lion Tribe, hoping to prove his value to Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying realized the Spirit Gathering Formation was draining the world's Spiritual Qi and had begun gathering it again.
• Sang Ying failed to break the formation with the Dragon Abyss Sword, then summoned Floating River and the two swords' spirits to help destroy it.
• The formation's destruction caused a massive tremor, and the white wolf king appeared at the White Lion Tribe again.
• A middle-aged cultivator sensed that his defensive formation had been broken and flew toward the site to collect the accumulated spirit liquid.

Sang Ying destroyed Cheng Shan’s Spirit Gathering Formation and captured him when he arrived to investigate. Cheng Shan revealed how he had entered this world and drained its Spiritual Qi, and Sang Ying left him confronting the existence of a barrier between this world and the cultivation world.

• Sang Ying hid in the cavern after destroying its defensive and Spirit Gathering Formations, waiting for their creator to arrive.
• Cheng Shan entered the cavern, blamed the Beastmen for the destruction, and tried to leave, but Sang Ying sealed the passage and kicked him into the wall.
• Sang Ying questioned Cheng Shan and forced him to explain that a vortex in the Endless Sea had brought him to this world fifty thousand years earlier.
• Cheng Shan admitted that he had set up Spirit Gathering Formations out of jealousy toward the Beastmen and used them to restore his cultivation.
• Sang Ying asked whether Cheng Shan had undergone tribulations while advancing his cultivation, then told him she had sensed a barrier beneath the cavern between this world and the cultivation world.

Sang Ying discovered that Cheng Shan’s Spirit Gathering Formation had drawn Spiritual Qi through a weak barrier between worlds, and she stopped him from trying to break it. After she left with Cheng Shan, a damaged voice transmission talisman activated in the cavern, warning a distant Senior Sister of danger.

• Sang Ying explained that Cheng Shan’s formation had endured because it drew Spiritual Qi from both worlds through a weak point in the barrier.
• Cheng Shan urged Sang Ying to break the barrier so they could return to the Cultivation World, but she warned that doing so might destabilize both worlds.
• Sang Ying silenced Cheng Shan, sealed his Spiritual Power, concealed the cavern with a formation, and took him away to discuss his fate with the Beastmen.
• After Sang Ying and Cheng Shan left, a powerful current shook the cavern and a damaged voice transmission talisman emerged from the rubble.
• The talisman activated and faintly warned, “Senior Sister... danger... return...,” but Sang Ying had already gone far away.

Sang Ying returned to the White Lion Tribe with Cheng Shan and told its leaders that Spiritual Liquid and a monster with reason had appeared in the forest. She urged them to consider breaking through the barrier and contacting the Cultivation World.

• Sang Ying pushed away the white wolf and asked the white lion chief to find lodging for Cheng Shan, whom the Beastmen then took away.
• Sang Ying gathered the white lion chief, Yue Tianze, Chief He, and the witch doctor in the chief's stone house, while the white wolf stayed in the tribe.
• Sang Ying revealed that she had found a pool of Spiritual Liquid in a cave, and Yue Tianze explained Spiritual Qi and its importance to cultivation.
• Yue Tianze told the Beastmen that the white wolf was a monster with reason, and Sang Ying reassured them that cultivation could help them face such monsters.
• Sang Ying asked the humans and Beastmen whether they had considered breaking through the barrier to contact the Cultivation World.

Sang Ying explained the white wolf’s attack and the stolen Spiritual Qi, then proposed connecting the Beastmen’s world to the Cultivation World. After the Beastman chiefs agreed, she began preparing a Teleportation Array capable of linking the two worlds.

• The White Lion Tribe's chief promised to discuss how to deal with Cheng Shan after Sang Ying told the Beastmen what he had done.
• Sang Ying told Bai Ya and Jiang Zhuoxue about the white wolf and the restored Spiritual Qi, then privately revealed that she wanted to return to the Cultivation World.
• Jiang Zhuoxue agreed to help Sang Ying find a way through the barrier, and the Beastman chiefs later agreed to connect the worlds.
• Bai Ya took responsibility for settling and taming the white wolf as Beastmen learned to cultivate and some tribes began forming contracts with conscious Demon Beasts.
• Sang Ying devised a plan to open a Teleportation Array like the one that had taken her group from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm.

Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue finished a teleportation formation intended to connect the Beastmen world with the Cultivation World, but discovered a damaged communication talisman carrying news that the Cultivation World was in danger. The message revealed that Dong Fuzhu and the others had been captured and were facing execution at Qi Yaoji and Gu Huaiwei's wedding.

• Sang Ying completed the formation plate with Jiang Zhuoxue and went with him to test it in the cavern.
• Sang Ying found a Cultivation World communication talisman in the sealed cavern and activated it.
• Dong Fuzhu's message told Sang Ying that the Devil Race had survived and Duan Hanyi had burned his lifespan to divine her location.
• Dong Fuzhu and the other cultivators remained bound and weakened on stone pillars, while Lan Fusheng watched over Duan Hanyi.
• Dong Fuzhu feared Qi Yaoji would kill them for amusement at her wedding to Gu Huaiwei the next day.

Qi Yaoji prepared to marry Gu Huaiwei at a banquet in the Flowing Light Sword Sect, prompting alarm and speculation among the gathered cultivators. Ji Fucang decided to attend the ceremony to learn what had happened to the sect members trapped inside.

• Qi Yaoji removed the Demonic Qi around the Flowing Light Sword Sect as red wedding decorations appeared on its main peak.
• A disciple told the cultivators camped outside the sect that the main peak looked prepared for a wedding.
• Qi Yaoji sent invitations to the cultivators, and Ji Fucang discovered that the named groom was Gu Huaiwei, who was believed to be dead.
• Ji Fucang decided that he and his companions would attend the banquet to reach the Flowing Light Sword Sect and see their trapped sect members.
• Qi Yaoji asked the steward how the invitees had reacted and said they would come because they had no choice.

Qi Yaoji forced the invited sects to attend her wedding banquet, then revealed that she meant to slaughter the guests and the captives bound to the pillars. As her sword rain was stopped by a mysterious force, Sang Ying’s familiar voice challenged her.

• The invited cultivators arrived at the Flowing Light Sword Sect and found their sect masters and elders bound to stone pillars.
• Qi Yaoji and the weakened Gu Huaiwei appeared in wedding robes, and Qi Yaoji declared them dao companions without signing a contract.
• Qi Yaoji announced that the guests were the banquet’s main course and summoned Demonic Qi swords to attack the bound captives and assembled cultivators.
• Ji Fucang and other guests tried to stop Qi Yaoji, but she ordered the sword rain to continue and delighted in the slaughter.
• A powerful force halted and dispelled the swords, and Qi Yaoji’s attempt to spread devilish fog was pushed back by Spiritual Qi.
• A familiar voice declared, “I am the one stopping you,” and challenged Qi Yaoji.

Qi Yaoji tried to kill the captives before Sang Ying appeared, but Spiritual Qi overwhelmed her Demonic Qi and freed the cultivators. Qi Yaoji was subdued, and when a wisp of black Qi fled from her chest, an unseen hand caught it.

• Dong Fuzhu and the other captives hoped Sang Ying had returned, while Qi Yaoji prepared to kill them before she could appear.
• Qi Yaoji unleashed Demonic Qi and sent blades toward the captives, but the blades stopped as the Demonic Qi shrank back into her body.
• Spiritual Qi flooded the sect, allowing the chained cultivators to break free and rescue Dong Fuzhu and the others.
• Spiritual Qi chains suppressed Qi Yaoji, and the freed cultivators captured her accomplices, including the steward, and crippled his cultivation.
• Qi Yaoji passed out as the Spiritual Qi stripped away her Demonic Qi, and a white-jade hand caught the black wisp that fled from her chest.