Chapter Summaries

Zhao Qingluo attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm while imprisoned, forcing Zhao Yuwe to reconsider the consequences for her family and secretly aid her with a defective pill. Meanwhile, Wei Tu traveled through Demon Extremity Sea toward Poison Demon Isle to seek Fourth-Rank Tai Sui flesh for his cultivation.

• Zhao Qingluo began forming a Nascent Soul in her prison, alarming Zhao Yuwe and Situ Yang, who both realized her death could make Wei Tu their enemy.
• Zhao Yuwe recognized that Zhao Qingluo was using the crisis to force a breakthrough and sent her a defective Nascent Soul-Forming Pill to preserve her life.
• Wei Tu traveled toward Poison Demon Isle while seeking Fourth-Rank Tai Sui materials to cultivate the Life-Nurturing Origin Seal and prepare to advance his body refinement.
• Red Dragon Ancestor explained that Poison Demon Isle was protected by a quasi-Fifth-Rank formation and had become a trading market after Poison Demon Elder invited cultivators to barter there.
• Red Dragon Ancestor told Wei Tu that Myriad Saints Pavilion on Poison Demon Isle stocked the Fourth-Rank Tai Sui flesh he needed.

Wei Tu impersonated Six Desires Daoist to buy a Fourth-Rank Tai Sui Stone from Myriad Saints Pavilion, where Lu Xuehu asked him to help her Lu Clan recover Golden Valley Pills from Bone Eye. He purchased the stone but secretly intended to pursue Bone Eye later, after first obtaining the Soul-Refining Banner and killing Qi Chengchu.

• Wei Tu entered Poison Demon Isle disguised as Six Desires Daoist and requested the Fourth-Rank Tai Sui Stone from Myriad Saints Pavilion.
• Lu Xuehu arrived with Granny Qiu, verified Wei Tu's identity, and asked him to help her Lu Clan confront Bone Eye over a furnace of Golden Valley Pills.
• Wei Tu refused Lu Xuehu's request and said he would buy the stone with spirit stones, then paid for it and planned to deal with Bone Eye later.
• Wei Tu left to pursue the Soul-Refining Banner and Qi Chengchu before returning to the matter of Bone Eye and his alchemy knowledge.
• After Wei Tu departed, Lu Xuehu and Granny Qiu discussed seeking another way to resolve their problem and consulting Lu Xuehu's father about the stone's sale.

Wei Tu learned that Qi Chengchu had likely become Young Master Jingchen and planned to marry Wang Sutai to gain access to the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed. Red Dragon Ancestor proposed that Wei Tu enter the Myriad Yin Sect as his disciple and marry Wang Sutai as part of a scheme against Qi Chengchu, leaving Wei Tu willing to consider it after meeting her.

• Lu Xuehu wondered why Granny Qiu had suddenly brought up her father, whose cultivation realm had fallen.
• Wei Tu learned that Young Master Jingchen had broken through to Nascent Soul and would soon marry Seventh Miss Wang Sutai.
• Wei Tu inferred that Young Master Jingchen was likely Qi Chengchu, who intended to use the marriage to gain Madam Jin's trust and learn the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed's whereabouts.
• Red Dragon Ancestor advised Wei Tu to enter the Myriad Yin Sect as his disciple and reassured him that the sect's protections and a teleportation formation could help him escape danger.
• Red Dragon Ancestor proposed that Wei Tu marry Wang Sutai to provoke Qi Chengchu and strengthen their alliance, and Wei Tu said he would first consider her temperament.

Wei Tu infiltrated the Myriad Yin Sect as the newly ascended Nascent Soul cultivator Talisman Daoist and used Red Dragon Ancestor’s token to establish his identity. Madam Jin accepted that Red Dragon Ancestor had arranged for him to marry Wang Sutai, while Qi Chengchu rushed to Wronged Woman Island to find a way to overturn the marriage.

• Wei Tu disguised himself as Talisman Daoist and arrived at the Myriad Yin Sect, where Elder Wu arranged for him to stay while Madam Jin verified his identity.
• Madam Jin learned of Wei Tu’s arrival but delayed meeting him, while Qi Chengchu’s supporters informed him that a new disciple of Red Dragon Ancestor had appeared.
• After Madam Jin confirmed the token’s recent, genuine aura, she agreed that Wei Tu would marry Wang Sutai, prompting Qi Chengchu to travel to Wronged Woman Island and seek an opening with her.
• Wei Tu told Madam Jin that Red Dragon Ancestor had recovered from his injuries but was refining a treasure, then gave her a false location for his secluded cultivation site.
• Wei Tu asked Madam Jin to prepare spiritual items from the Myriad Yin Sect, and a maid announced that Young Master Jingchen had set out for Wronged Woman Island.

Wei Tu and Madam Jin raced toward Wronged Woman Island after Young Master Jingchen arrived there, while Madam Jin grew suspicious of Wei Tu's identity and motives. At Wang Sutai's cave, Qi Chengchu discovered that she had secretly reached the Nascent Soul Realm and planned to kill Wei Tu to strengthen her claim to the Myriad Yin Sect leadership.

• Young Master Jingchen set out for Wronged Woman Island, prompting Madam Jin to suspect that someone had warned him about the marriage plan.
• Madam Jin accused Duan Changjing of potentially informing Jingchen, then ordered Wei Tu to accompany her and stop him.
• Wei Tu outran Madam Jin using the Curse Ghost Blood Escape, leading her to suspect he might be Red Dragon Ancestor in another body.
• Qi Chengchu visited Wang Sutai and told her that Wei Tu was being sent to marry her under Red Dragon Ancestor's command.
• Wang Sutai revealed that she had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and said she intended to kill Wei Tu to improve her chances of becoming Sect Master.

Qi Chengchu and Wang Sutai secretly agreed to kill Wei Tu, but Qi Chengchu then revealed her plot to him and tried to use it to protect himself. Wei Tu pretended to be enraged and set off to confront Wang Sutai, leaving Qi Chengchu to stop him and argue that Red Dragon Ancestor would never kill his own daughter.

• Wang Sutai proposed that she and Qi Chengchu join forces to kill Talisman Daoist and later compete for the Myriad Yin Sect's sect-master position.
• Wei Tu arrived near Wronged Woman Island, and Wang Sutai urged Qi Chengchu to intercept him while she prepared to ambush him.
• Qi Chengchu and Wei Tu began fighting and moved away from the island, where Qi Chengchu privately told Wei Tu that Wang Sutai planned to kill him.
• Wei Tu pretended to be furious and announced that he would confront Wang Sutai, while Qi Chengchu tried to stop him and warned that Red Dragon Ancestor would not kill his daughter.

Wei Tu agreed to Qi Chengchu’s false proposal to excavate the Heavenly Ghost Treasury, then let him escape so he could track him to Scorpio Patriarch’s trap. With Scorpio Patriarch expected at Insect Awakening Island within days, Wei Tu revealed he had secretly marked Qi Chengchu and planned to act quickly.

• Qi Chengchu claimed he wanted to leave the Myriad Yin Sect by splitting the Heavenly Ghost Treasury’s treasures with Wei Tu, and Wei Tu agreed to cooperate.
• Wei Tu defeated Qi Chengchu in a staged fight, allowing him to flee toward the sect’s back mountains while Madam Jin and Wang Sutai watched in shock.
• Madam Jin told Wang Sutai that Wei Tu might be her father, Red Dragon Ancestor, leaving Wang Sutai confused about her new husband.
• Wei Tu recalled that he and Qi Chengchu had arranged to meet at Insect Awakening Island in seven days, where Scorpio Patriarch might be waiting.
• Red Dragon Ancestor worried that Scorpio Patriarch could arrive soon, but Wei Tu said he had planted a hard-to-detect Spirit-Sealing Talisman on Qi Chengchu to track him.

Madam Jin and Wang Sutai visited Wei Tu, where Madam Jin warned him that Duan Changjing might rebel and offered him a powerful escape artifact if he married Wang Sutai early. Wei Tu refused to rush the marriage, grew suspicious of Wang Sutai’s sudden change of heart, and left for Broken Mountain Island, where he retrieved the Soul-Refining Banner.

• Madam Jin questioned Wei Tu about Duan Changjing, and Wei Tu sided with her, agreeing that Duan Changjing might rebel if Red Dragon Ancestor returned.
• Madam Jin offered Wei Tu the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin for him and Wang Sutai to use after cultivating together, but Wei Tu postponed the marriage for a month because he needed to kill Qi Chengchu within three days.
• Madam Jin suspected Wei Tu was Red Dragon Ancestor’s possession body but concealed her suspicions and warned him to beware of Duan Changjing.
• Wei Tu noticed that Wang Sutai had changed her mind about marrying him suspiciously quickly, then set aside his doubts and secretly left for Broken Mountain Island.
• With Red Dragon Ancestor’s help, Wei Tu bypassed the sect’s formations and retrieved the Soul-Refining Banner from its hiding place in a medicinal garden.

Wei Tu accepted Red Dragon Ancestor’s fourth-grade Soul-Refining Banner and learned the Great Evil Art of Spirit and Banner Control before tracking down Qi Chengchu. He ambushed Qi Chengchu beneath a deserted island, leaving him badly injured and hoping to survive until Senior Brother Zhang arrived.

• Red Dragon Ancestor gave Wei Tu the Yellow Springs Withered Wood Soul-Refining Banner and taught him the Great Evil Art of Spirit and Banner Control as an apology concerning Wang Sutai.
• Wei Tu temporarily refined the banner, sensed Qi Chengchu’s location, and secretly approached his hiding place.
• Qi Chengchu brooded over his failed breakthrough and planned to use the Myriad Yin Sect’s Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed to renew his Dao path.
• The Five-Element Nascent Infant warned Qi Chengchu that the approaching cultivator was not Senior Brother Zhang, but Wei Tu forced his way into the underground passage.
• Qi Chengchu tried to escape with an earth-escape art, but Wei Tu tracked him and struck him through the ground, badly weakening him.
• The Five-Element Nascent Infant urged Qi Chengchu to fight above ground and hold out until Senior Brother Zhang arrived.

Wei Tu defeated Qi Chengchu and captured the fleeing Five-Element Nascent Infant, then discussed the aftermath and Wang Sutai’s proposed marriage with Red Dragon Ancestor. After the Sky-Rending Eagle killed Qi Chengchu, it delivered a jade slip bearing a letter addressed to Wei Tu, whose purpose remained unknown.

• Qi Chengchu emerged to confront Wei Tu but was overwhelmed, and the Five-Element Nascent Infant tore out of his abdomen and fled, abandoning him.
• Wei Tu used Curse Ghost Blood Escape to pursue the Five-Element Nascent Infant, while the Sky-Rending Eagle stayed behind and finished off Qi Chengchu.
• Wei Tu trapped the Five-Element Nascent Infant with Origin-Weight Divine Light and sealed it inside the Soul-Refining Banner, promising the evil spirits they could devour it only after he searched its memories.
• Wei Tu and Red Dragon Ancestor agreed to warn Madam Jin and her daughter about the danger and let Wei Tu remain at the Myriad Yin Sect for two years before deciding whether to marry Wang Sutai.
• The Sky-Rending Eagle delivered Qi Chengchu’s newly written jade-slip letter to Wei Tu, who wondered why Qi Chengchu had sent it before dying.

After killing Qi Chengchu, Wei Tu read his warning about Zhang Nanqiu and escaped the pursuer through a hidden teleportation formation. He returned to the Myriad Yin Sect, decided to remain there while danger lingered, and began refining the Fourth-Rank Tai Sui Stone.

• Wei Tu read Qi Chengchu’s final message, collected his corpse, and learned that Zhang Nanqiu was approaching.
• Wei Tu fled, but Zhang Nanqiu pursued him and recognized that he was not the person he appeared to be.
• Red Dragon Ancestor revealed a hidden teleportation formation on Sophora Shade Isle, and Wei Tu headed for it while Zhang Nanqiu attacked with a Nether Wolf Sparrow.
• Wei Tu repelled the Nether Wolf Sparrow, misled Zhang Nanqiu with another person’s blood essence, and escaped through the formation to the Myriad Yin Sect.
• Wei Tu concluded that Zhang Nanqiu and Scorpio Patriarch might lie in wait outside the sect, so he stayed in his cave and swallowed a piece of Fourth-Rank Tai Sui Stone to strengthen his body and cultivate the Life-Nurturing Origin Seal.

Madam Jin learned that Wei Tu had entered seclusion, while Duan Changjing arranged an attack against her and Wang Sutai. After Elder Yuan detonated his Golden Core outside Wei Tu's cave, Madam Jin sought the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin, but Wei Tu remained in seclusion and privately rejected the idea of marrying Wang Sutai for now.

• Madam Jin suspected Wei Tu had entered seclusion to avoid her and Wang Sutai, while Duan Changjing plotted to kill Madam Jin and used the Soul-Severing Seal to control Elder Yuan.
• A month later, Elder Yuan flew to Wei Tu's cave, where Madam Jin and Wang Sutai were waiting, then lost control of his body and detonated his Golden Core under Duan Changjing's influence.
• Madam Jin recognized the attack as Duan Changjing's warning and considered giving Wang Sutai the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin to protect her and Wei Tu.
• Madam Jin sent Wang Sutai to summon Wei Tu, but Wei Tu's reply said he was in seclusion and asked them to return in half a year; Madam Jin left in anger.
• Wei Tu continued cultivating the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing, delayed forming the Life-Nurturing Origin Seal, and decided he would not rush into marrying Wang Sutai.

Wei Tu completed the Life-Nurturing Origin Seal, refined the Soul-Refining Banner, and discovered that Duan Changjing was conspiring with the Spirit Binding Sect. His attempt to escape the Myriad Yin Sect was blocked by a spatial seal, so he warned Madam Jin and asked her to join forces with him.

• Wei Tu finished the Life-Nurturing Origin Seal, then refined the remaining Fourth-Rank Tai Sui Stone and raised his body refinement to major completion of the early fourth rank.
• Wei Tu mastered the Banner-Control Art and used the Evil Spirit-Serving Art to subdue the Five-Element Nascent Infant, then searched its memories.
• Wei Tu learned that Duan Changjing had secretly cooperated with the Spirit Binding Sect and realized that the sect’s enemies might be preparing to trap him.
• Wei Tu and Red Dragon Ancestor tried to flee through the Myriad Yin Sect’s ultra-long-distance teleportation formation, but a spatial sealing formation blocked it.
• Wei Tu went to Madam Jin, revealed Duan Changjing’s conspiracy, and asked her to join forces after she confirmed the warning by searching the Five-Element Nascent Infant’s soul.

Wei Tu and Madam Jin destroyed the Myriad Yin Sect’s spatial restriction arrays while preparing to escape through its ultra-long-distance teleportation array. Duan Changjing revealed Wei Tu’s supposed mortal name, Wang Ergou, severed his arm with a blade technique touching Spirit Transformation power, and then turned against Madam Jin, but Hall Master Chen destroyed the final array.

• Madam Jin agreed to join forces with Wei Tu and brought him and Wang Sutai to the sect’s hidden ultra-long-distance teleportation array, telling Wang Sutai to trust the Talisman Daoist if anything happened to her.
• Wei Tu and Madam Jin split up to destroy the spatial restriction arrays; Wei Tu killed the first array’s guardian and destroyed three arrays while Madam Jin destroyed three others.
• Duan Changjing arrived and attacked Madam Jin, while Wei Tu raced toward the last array; Duan Changjing mistook Wei Tu for Wang Ergou, mocked his origins, and cut off his arm with his ultimate blade technique.
• Wei Tu restored his arm with his First Spirit Bone, and Duan Changjing summoned Zhang Nanqiu to help him defeat Wei Tu after he finished with Madam Jin.
• Hall Master Chen destroyed the final spatial restriction array while Wei Tu, Madam Jin, Duan Changjing, and Zhang Nanqiu faced one another.

Wei Tu and Madam Jin fled toward the ultra-long-distance teleportation array after Master Chen destroyed the spatial confinement array, but a Nascent Soul self-detonation gravely wounded Madam Jin and destroyed their palanquin. As they escaped, Duan Changjing realized Wei Tu was not Red Dragon Ancestor, then pursued them into the teleportation array, while Zhang Nanqiu followed after them.

• Wei Tu and Madam Jin fled with Master Chen after he destroyed the spatial confinement array.
• A Nascent Soul self-detonation inside the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin killed Master Chen and grievously wounded Madam Jin.
• Madam Jin mistook Wei Tu for Red Dragon Ancestor and urged him to use dual cultivation to help control the palanquin, but Wei Tu was unable to meet her expectations.
• The palanquin lost control, and Wei Tu carried the weakened Madam Jin out as they fled toward the teleportation array.
• Duan Changjing realized Wei Tu was not Zhu Tianqi and pursued Wei Tu, Madam Jin, and Wang Sutai into the ultra-long-distance teleportation array.
• Zhang Nanqiu abandoned his plan to open the Myriad Yin Sect's protective array and entered the teleportation array after them.

After Duan Changjing pursued them through the teleportation array, Wei Tu destroyed it, but Madam Jin feared he had landed nearby and asked Wei Tu to protect Wang Sutai. Wei Tu agreed to marry Wang Sutai, and as they prepared to use the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin, he removed his human-skin mask.

• Wei Tu, Madam Jin, and Wang Sutai arrived at a gloomy underground palace, and Wei Tu destroyed the teleportation array to stop Duan Changjing from following them.
• Madam Jin knelt before Wei Tu and asked him to take Wang Sutai as his wife and protect her.
• Wei Tu agreed to marry Wang Sutai, explaining that his doubts about her change of heart had passed and that he needed the marriage and the palanquin to escape danger.
• Wang Sutai accepted the marriage because she and Madam Jin needed Wei Tu's protection from Duan Changjing.
• As Wang Sutai prepared for their bridal chamber inside the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin, Wei Tu removed his human-skin mask and revealed his ordinary face.

Wei Tu and Wang Sutai used dual cultivation to refine the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin while Duan Changjing and Zhang Nanqiu attacked the underground palace. Madam Jin used the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing to confront them, leaving her daughter and Wei Tu to escape, and the chapter ended as Zhang Nanqiu’s Spirit-Binding Talismans exploded against her.

• Wang Sutai began dual cultivation with Wei Tu to gain control of the Golden Ghost Profound Bone Palanquin as Duan Changjing tracked them using Red Dragon Ancestor’s blood.
• Duan Changjing joined forces with Zhang Nanqiu, who summoned a one-eyed giant to batter the fourth-rank formation protecting the underground palace.
• Madam Jin raised her cultivation with the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing and told Wei Tu to take care of Wang Sutai before flying out to face the attackers.
• Wang Sutai continued refining the palanquin, trusting Wei Tu’s promise that Duan Changjing and Zhang Nanqiu would not survive.
• Madam Jin cut down Zhang Nanqiu’s one-eyed giant, then fought Duan Changjing as Zhang Nanqiu unleashed Spirit-Binding Talismans that exploded with Nascent Soul-level force.

Wei Tu used the Joyful Nuo Mask and a body formed from his severed arm to keep helping Wang Sutai refine the Gold Ghost Sedan while he rescued Madam Jin from Duan Changjing and Zhang Nanqiu. The chapter ended with Madam Jin realizing Wei Tu had arranged a false body, while her attackers believed he had abandoned the refinement.

• Zhang Nanqiu struck at Madam Jin's Filthy Blood Coffin with his soul-path bone staff, but a blood needle shattered it and wounded him before he feigned death and recovered.
• Duan Changjing and Zhang Nanqiu fought Madam Jin for hours, gradually wearing down her coffin and injuring her as they demanded the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed.
• Wei Tu's false body continued aiding Wang Sutai's refinement of the Gold Ghost Sedan while the real Wei Tu rescued Madam Jin and carried her into the underground palace.
• Duan Changjing and Zhang Nanqiu mistook Wei Tu's rescue for abandoning the refinement and believed they could prevent Wang Sutai from escaping.
• Madam Jin noticed the stranger aiding Wang Sutai resembled Wei Tu and questioned his changed aura; Wei Tu explained that the Joyful Nuo Mask had enabled his plan.

Wei Tu saved Madam Jin, then killed Zhang Nanqiu after a fierce battle, forcing Duan Changjing to retreat. Scorpio Patriarch sensed Zhang Nanqiu’s death and concluded that Red Dragon Ancestor had survived.

• Madam Jin promised to teach Wei Tu the Jin Family’s Filthy Blood Coffin technique after he rescued her.
• Wei Tu ambushed Zhang Nanqiu, used his Ghost-Eyed Demon Spider to find Zhang Nanqiu’s true body, and defeated his transformations and Nascent Infant techniques.
• Wei Tu trapped and killed Zhang Nanqiu, then watched Duan Changjing flee rather than continue the fight.
• Red Dragon Ancestor said Duan Changjing’s timidity had decided the battle, while Wei Tu took spirit pills to recover from the strain of using the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing.
• Scorpio Patriarch sensed Zhang Nanqiu’s death and suspected that Red Dragon Ancestor was still alive.

After escaping the Myriad Yin Sect, Wei Tu recovered on Northern Origin Island, then returned to Poison Demon Isle and killed You Gongquan with the Soul-Refining Banner. Encouraged by how easily he won, he disguised himself as Six Desires Daoist and met Lu Xuehu to pursue Bone Eye.

• Scorpio Patriarch abandoned the pursuit, and Wei Tu, Madam Jin, and Wang Sutai fled to Northern Origin Island to hide and recover.
• Wei Tu searched Zhang Nanqiu’s possessions, found Myriad Spirits Corpse Liquid, and refined the Two-Polar Nascent Infant into the Soul-Refining Banner.
• Wei Tu left Northern Origin Island and returned to Poison Demon Isle, where he encountered You Gongquan while seeking Bone Eye’s alchemy services.
• You Gongquan left Poison Demon Isle, and Wei Tu ambushed and killed him with the Soul-Refining Banner before taking his storage pouch.
• Wei Tu decided to act more aggressively against Bone Eye, disguised himself as Six Desires Daoist, and asked Lu Xuehu whether the Myriad Saints Pavilion’s former calamity remained.