Chapter Summaries

Wei Tu arranged for Myriad Saints Pavilion to lure Bone Eye out and killed him, then returned to the Yingding Tribe and learned that Zhao Qingluo had formed a false Nascent Soul. He accepted Situ Yang’s challenge at the Yingding Tribe and demanded that Sacred Cliff Mountain leave him alone afterward.

• Wei Tu agreed to kill Bone Eye in exchange for his treasures, while promising Lu Xuehu two Golden Valley Pills if Myriad Saints Pavilion helped lure him out.
• Lu Xuehu and her birth father arranged a plan to draw Bone Eye away from Poison Demon Isle, and Wei Tu killed him in an ambush.
• After hearing that Bone Eye had died, Sun Pei fled his cave abode in fear of the calamity that might follow his master’s death.
• Wei Tu returned to the Yingding Tribe and learned from Divine Master Dulong that Zhao Qingluo had formed a false Nascent Soul and that Situ Yang had challenged him.
• Wei Tu told Divine Master Dulong that he held no grudge against the Sacred Cliff Zhao Family, accepted Situ Yang’s challenge at the Yingding Tribe, and warned Sacred Cliff Mountain not to trouble him afterward.

Wei Tu prepared for his challenge against Situ Yang while recovering from his injuries and planning a future trip overseas. Divine Master Dulong returned with Sacred Cliff Mountain's agreement to the duel, but its choice of Earth Sword Mountain as the venue revealed conflicting intentions within the sect.

• Divine Master Dulong agreed to travel to Sacred Cliff Mountain and negotiate after Wei Tu challenged Situ Yang.
• Wei Tu read letters from Kou Hongying, Fu Zhizhou, and Cao Mi, then urged Fu Zhizhou to postpone his Nascent Soul breakthrough until they went overseas.
• Wei Tu studied Master Bone Eye's alchemy inheritance, used a Golden Valley Pill to heal, and set out to practice alchemy and study Qi Chengchu's formation.
• Divine Master Dulong returned and reported that Sacred Cliff Mountain and Situ Yang accepted the challenge under a spirit contract limiting the dispute to Wei Tu and Situ Yang.
• Divine Master Dulong told Wei Tu that Sacred Cliff Mountain had chosen Earth Sword Mountain as the duel's location, and Wei Tu recognized the choice as a contradictory signal of dissatisfaction.

Wei Tu rejected Sacred Cliff Mountain’s proposed battle location and chose Earth Sword Mountain for his duel with Situ Yang. Sacred Cliff Mountain’s sect master Lian Shourang misjudged Wei Tu’s cultivation before they signed a soul oath, leaving the battle set for two years later.

• Wei Tu recognized Sacred Cliff Mountain’s calculated compromise and selected Earth Sword Mountain as the site of his battle with Situ Yang.
• Divine Master Dulong returned to the Yingding Tribe with Zhao Yuwe and Sacred Cliff Mountain’s sect master, Lian Shourang.
• Lian Shourang used his Purple Light Dharma Eye to assess Wei Tu, but saw the lower cultivation realm Wei Tu had deliberately displayed.
• Wei Tu accepted the spirit contract and made a soul oath with Lian Shourang, confirming their battle at Earth Sword Mountain in two years.
• Zhao Yuwe told Wei Tu that Situ Yang would try to spare him if he was defeated, then left with Lian Shourang.

Wei Tu refined two Bloodwing Pills, advanced his cultivation, and traveled to Earth Sword Mountain for his duel with Situ Yang. The chapter ends as the two face each other at the training grounds, with the battle about to begin.

• Wei Tu successfully refined two Bloodwing Pills and consumed them to strengthen his cultivation.
• A month before the appointed duel, Wei Tu broke through and then set out for Earth Sword Mountain.
• Cao Mi welcomed Wei Tu at Earth Sword Mountain while many other Nascent Soul patriarchs openly courted Situ Yang and his Sacred Cliff Mountain allies.
• Situ Yang arrived, acknowledged Wei Tu, and insisted on beginning the duel without resting, saying he would disgrace Sacred Cliff Mountain if he could not win within a hundred moves.
• At the training grounds, Situ Yang promised to stop if Wei Tu admitted defeat, while Wei Tu questioned the claim that Situ Yang was an ancient gentleman.

Wei Tu overwhelmed Situ Yang in their arranged duel, revealing that he cultivated both dharma and body at the fourth rank. Situ Yang used a restorative pill and unleashed his Heavenly Origin Sword Talisman, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Wei Tu answered Situ Yang’s challenge defiantly, drawing criticism from cultivators who feared offending Sacred Cliff Mountain.
• Wei Tu’s Koi-Dragon Yin Blade forced Situ Yang onto the defensive, and Situ Yang tried to turn the fight with light escape and a barrage of dharma arrows.
• Wei Tu dodged the arrows and struck Situ Yang with a punch, revealing his fourth-rank body cultivation and sending Situ Yang flying while bleeding.
• Situ Yang swallowed a restorative pill despite Wei Tu’s warning, then invoked the Heavenly Origin Sacred Technique and fused his Nascent Soul with the All-Heavens Dharma Wheel to form a golden greatsword.
• Lian Shourang watched from above and judged that Situ Yang’s Heavenly Origin Sword Talisman might wound Wei Tu and force a draw.

Wei Tu used the Lightning Escape Technique and overwhelming strength to defeat Situ Yang, shattering his All-Heavens Dharma Wheel and crippling his spirit body. Lian Shourang accepted the loss and promised Sacred Cliff Mountain would no longer trouble Wei Tu or his family, while Earth Sword Mountain’s Mo Old Ghost and Jade Child apologized and offered him a gift.

• Situ Yang’s Heavenly Origin Sword Talisman missed Wei Tu, who evaded it with the Lightning Escape Technique and rushed into close combat.
• Wei Tu battered Situ Yang, then destroyed the All-Heavens Dharma Wheel when he discovered Situ Yang was preparing a sneak attack.
• Lian Shourang rescued the grievously wounded Situ Yang and condemned Wei Tu, but Wei Tu defended his actions and reminded him of their binding agreement.
• Lian Shourang promised Sacred Cliff Mountain would no longer trouble Wei Tu or his family, then left with Situ Yang.
• Mo Old Ghost and Jade Child apologized to Wei Tu, and Mo Old Ghost offered him a jade casket after Wei Tu declined his invitation to tea.

After defeating Situ Yang, Wei Tu spared Mo Old Ghost and Jade Child, using the aftermath to build his reputation while Sacred Cliff Mountain considered how to contain him. He then traveled overseas with Cao Mi and Fu Zhizhou, reaching Cloudsun Island and seeking cave abodes under the name the Cave Ghosts of Kang Mountain.

• Wei Tu accepted a lightning-element demon core from Mo Old Ghost and a fourth-tier Earthflame Silkworm from Jade Child, then warned them not to offend him again.
• Wei Tu spared Mo Old Ghost and Jade Child, and used the battle’s aftermath to turn would-be private allies into public friends and protect his reputation.
• Lian Shourang consulted Martial Uncle Ding, who advised against directly attacking Wei Tu and proposed limiting his access to outside experts and resources instead.
• Wei Tu traveled overseas with Cao Mi and Fu Zhizhou, leaving Kou Hongying behind to cultivate the Inverse Spirit Blood-Exchange Art.
• The three arrived at Cloudsun Island and requested four specialized cave abodes; Cao Mi introduced them to the brokerage manager as the Cave Ghosts of Kang Mountain.

Wei Tu, Cao Mi, and Fu Zhizhou joined Five Elders Mountain as it faced decline, and Wei Tu’s strength quickly helped stabilize the faction. With a foothold secured, Wei Tu planned to approach Lüqiu Qingfeng as a potential collaborator and seek Ancestral Blood to advance his body cultivation.

• Wei Tu confirmed that Five Elders Mountain was the only faction on Cloudsun Island eager to accept all three cultivators, and Cao Mi and Fu Zhizhou agreed to join despite the faction’s troubles.
• Wei Tu revealed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage aura to the Third Mountain Lord and claimed that his group had fled the Southern Swallow Sea Region after offending a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Second Mountain Lord accepted Wei Tu, Cao Mi, and Fu Zhizhou into Five Elders Mountain, hoping Wei Tu’s strength could keep the declining faction from collapsing.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi became the Sixth and Seventh Mountain Lords, while Fu Zhizhou received a discounted Nascent Soul-Forming Pill and a chance to break through without an assigned position.
• Wei Tu helped resolve Five Elders Mountain’s visible troubles and began nurturing the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse with Cao Mi.
• Wei Tu decided to contact Lüqiu Qingfeng as a collaborator and considered seeking Ancestral Blood from her to advance his body cultivation.

Lüqiu Qingfeng considered Wei Tu’s proposal to kill Lüqiu Jinyuan and decided to meet him to negotiate a contract. Two years later, Fu Zhizhou began forming his Nascent Soul, while Wei Tu drove off cultivators spying on Five Elders Mountain.

• Lüqiu Qingfeng read Wei Tu’s letter describing his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation and his killing of Yan Gongcheng, the Dharma Radiance Saint Son, and Lüqiu Jinyuan’s avatar.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng judged that Wei Tu’s combined Dharma and body cultivation could give them a chance to kill Lüqiu Jinyuan, and resolved to meet him and discuss a contract involving ancestral blood.
• Two years later, Fu Zhizhou shattered his core and began condensing his Nascent Soul spirit body at Five Elders Mountain.
• Wei Tu hid his confidence in Fu Zhizhou’s spirit awakening from the Second Mountain Lord, who feared Fu Zhizhou might fail.
• Wei Tu used his divine sense and Koi-Dragon Yin Blade to drive off Nascent Soul cultivators probing Five Elders Mountain, prompting Liu Heihai to retreat.

Wei Tu confronted the Flame-Burning Sect and Barbarian God Sect patriarchs when they challenged Five Elders Mountain, then revealed overwhelming strength in battle and drove them away. The Second Mountain Master reconsidered the balance of power within the sect, while Wei Tu turned his attention to the Flame-Burning Sect.

• Wei Tu severed the Flame-Burning Sect and Barbarian God Sect patriarchs' probing divine senses, prompting them to appear above Five Elders Mountain.
• Wei Tu chose to fight the Flame-Burning Sect patriarch while the Second Mountain Master engaged the Barbarian God Sect patriarch.
• Wei Tu used the Five-Element Nascent Infant and Two-Polar Nascent Infant to pressure the Flame-Burning Sect patriarch, then expanded his dharma body and crushed the patriarch's fire lotus.
• The Flame-Burning Sect patriarch escaped Wei Tu's grasp and fled, and the Barbarian God Sect patriarch also withdrew; the watching Nascent Soul Cultivators scattered.
• The Second Mountain Master recognized Wei Tu's formidable strength and weighed the consequences of leaving Five Elders Mountain's legacy to him.
• Wei Tu rubbed the Mystic Marvel Treasure Realm in his robes and fixed his attention on the Flame-Burning Sect.

Wei Tu accepted Second Mountain Lord’s offer to lead Five Elders Mountain, then secretly infiltrated the Flame-Burning Sect to assassinate its wounded ancestor, Wen Yuan. He found Wen Yuan’s false cave abode empty and located him recovering in an inconspicuous courtyard.

• Second Mountain Lord offered Wei Tu the leadership of Five Elders Mountain, and Wei Tu accepted.
• Second Mountain Lord transferred the sect’s authority to Wei Tu, who appointed Cao Mi as his deputy to oversee it.
• Wei Tu left Five Elders Mountain at night and used the Mystic Marvel Treasure Realm to breach the Flame-Burning Sect’s formation.
• Wei Tu found Wen Yuan’s grand hall empty and deduced that it was a false cave abode.
• Wen Yuan took Everlasting Spring Pills to recover from his injuries while cursing Wei Tu for wounding him.

Wei Tu infiltrated the Flame-Burning Sect and trapped Wen Yuan in a formation designed to counter his Spirit-Flame Avatar. After killing Wen Yuan, Wei Tu’s true appearance was revealed to him.

• Wen Yuan agreed to pay Ruyi Tower three spirit crystals to rent a Nascent Soul furnace cauldron and treat his injuries.
• Wei Tu killed Wen Yuan’s beam-crowned disciple and trapped Wen Yuan inside a formation that kept the sect’s reinforcements out.
• Wen Yuan expanded his fire domain and tried to escape as a Spirit-Flame Avatar, but Wei Tu blocked the gap with Origin-Weight Divine Light.
• Wei Tu used the Filthy Blood Coffin and Spirit-Sealing Talismans to seal Wen Yuan’s Spirit-Flame Avatar and weaken his escape technique.
• Wen Yuan feigned surrender, then trapped Wei Tu inside a purple Fire Lotus, but Wei Tu escaped and killed him.
• Wen Yuan saw Wei Tu’s true appearance as a dwarf before he died.

After killing the Flame-Burning Sect Ancestor and Cultivator Liang Guan, Wei Tu concealed his identity, examined their spoils, and discovered clues about Ruyi Pavilion. The memories he extracted suggested that Cao Mi’s missing martial uncle, Ancestor Luo, might be connected to the secretive organization.

• Wei Tu deliberately exposed a false identity before fleeing, leaving the Flame-Burning Sect cultivators unable to trace him.
• Wei Tu inspected the two storage artifacts and found spirit crystals, an Everlasting Spring Pill, and the Three-Flame Fire-Control Art, which he considered giving to Cao Mi.
• Wei Tu summoned his Soul-Refining Banner and extracted memories from the sleeping Nascent Souls of Cultivator Liang Guan and the Flame-Burning Sect Ancestor.
• Wei Tu learned that Ruyi Pavilion rented out Nascent Soul cultivators as dual-cultivation furnaces and suspected its victims had been abducted.
• Wei Tu connected Ruyi Pavilion to Cao Mi’s martial uncle, Ancestor Luo, but recognized that the organization likely had powerful backing.

Wei Tu told Cao Mi that Ancestor Luo might have been abducted by Ruyi Tower, then gave her the Three-Flame Fire-Control Art and repaid her spirit crystals twofold. Wei Tu returned to cultivation, and Fu Zhizhou began facing his Nascent Soul-forming lightning tribulation.

• Wei Tu told Cao Mi that Ruyi Tower might have abducted Ancestor Luo, and Cao Mi vowed to avenge him without endangering herself or the Righteous Society.
• Wei Tu gave Cao Mi the Flame-Burning Sect’s Three-Flame Fire-Control Art and repaid her loan twofold, reassuring her that he still valued their partnership.
• Wei Tu left Cao Mi’s cave abode and noticed the spiritual energy vortex above Fu Zhizhou’s cave, estimating that Fu Zhizhou was preparing for his lightning tribulation.
• Wei Tu returned to his cave abode and began cultivating with the spirit crystals he had on hand.
• Two months later, Fu Zhizhou faced his Nascent Soul-forming lightning tribulation.

Fu Zhizhou survived a blood-lightning tribulation and reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while Wei Tu secured Second Mountain Lord’s agreement to join a sensitive meeting on Cloudsun Island. As Wei Tu and Cao Mi continued refining the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse, Lüqiu Qingfeng’s arrival remained two months away.

• Fu Zhizhou used his Three Corpses to weaken the blood lightning and endured the final strike, successfully forming his Nascent Soul.
• Second Mountain Lord and the other mountain lords congratulated Fu Zhizhou, who thanked Wei Tu for helping him reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Fu Zhizhou declined a public Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, and Second Mountain Lord agreed to hold only a small gathering within the sect.
• Wei Tu invited Second Mountain Lord to meet a sensitive contact, showed him the Flame-Burning Sect Patriarch’s corpse, and promised benefits; Second Mountain Lord agreed to go.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi refined the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse in Five Elders Mountain’s Corpse Refining Cave, and Wei Tu judged Cao Mi’s Dark Nether Yin Flame might speed its progress.

Wei Tu promised Cao Mi permanent ownership of the Yin Corpse and met Lüqiu Qingfeng to negotiate support for assassinating Lüqiu Jinyuan. After Wei Tu revealed evidence that he had killed three Nascent Soul Middle Stage experts, Lüqiu Qingfeng investigated his record and reconsidered his strength.

• Wei Tu promised Cao Mi that the Yin Corpse would remain hers unless unforeseen circumstances arose, and she thanked him for his trust.
• Wei Tu and the Second Mountain Lord waited at the Flying Luan Immortal Inn, where Lüqiu Qingfeng arrived and startled the Second Mountain Lord.
• Wei Tu asked Lüqiu Qingfeng for resources to advance his body-refining cultivation, explaining that he needed greater strength to deal with Lüqiu Jinyuan.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng said she required certainty of success before committing substantial resources, so Wei Tu handed her a storage pouch containing three Nascent Soul Middle Stage corpses.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng summoned Nangong Zhe to verify Wei Tu's claims, then learned from the intelligence reports that Wei Tu had killed the Flame-Burning Sect Patriarch in two encounters.
• Wei Tu asked Lüqiu Qingfeng whether his record had earned her full support.

Lüqiu Qingfeng agreed to fund Wei Tu’s advance to the middle stage of the fourth body-refinement realm in exchange for his help killing Lüqiu Jinyuan, and recruited him as an honorary elder for two hundred years. Wei Tu also secured a reward for the Second Mountain Lord and considered investigating a Divine Ascension Token tied to the Inner Ruins Sea.

• Lüqiu Qingfeng weighed refusing Wei Tu’s terms against supplying enough ancestral blood to help him advance, then chose to fully support him.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng asked Wei Tu to serve as an honorary elder of the Eastern Glory Demon Kingdom for at least two hundred years after Lüqiu Jinyuan’s death, and Wei Tu agreed.
• Wei Tu recalled that a Divine Ascension Token qualified its holder to enter the Inner Ruins Sea and pay homage to Spirit Transformation Venerables, but he remained wary of its purpose.
• Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng finalized a spiritual contract for their cooperation.
• Wei Tu asked the Second Mountain Lord what reward he wanted, and the Second Mountain Lord requested a longevity-increasing pill, which Lüqiu Qingfeng agreed to provide.

Lüqiu Qingfeng gave Wei Tu ancestral blood and warned him that his disguise could be seen through by powerful spiritual eye techniques. Wei Tu began refining the blood, and after three years his body-refinement cultivation advanced as his bones gained spirituality.

• Lüqiu Qingfeng asked Wei Tu to show her around Cloudsun Island, questioned him about his origins, and warned him that Lüqiu Jinyuan might see through his disguise.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng gave Wei Tu two taels of ancestral blood and said Nangong Zhe would deliver the rest within ten years.
• Wei Tu returned to Five Elders Mountain, where the Red Dragon Ancestor identified the blood as Spirit Transformation essence blood carrying a true spirit bloodline.
• Wei Tu swallowed drops of ancestral blood and felt his physical strength and First Spirit Bone rapidly grow stronger.
• After three years of cultivation, radiance emerged from Wei Tu's body as his other bones began to acquire spirituality.

Wei Tu received the remaining ancestral blood from Nangong Zhe and learned that Lüqiu Qingfeng needed Lüqiu Jinyuan’s corpse to fulfill her cover story. After months of preparation and a grueling breakthrough, Wei Tu reached mid fourth-tier body refinement.

• More than ten days after consuming the first bottle of ancestral blood, Wei Tu reached the peak of early fourth-tier body refinement and waited for the rest to arrive.
• In the ninth year, Nangong Zhe delivered the remaining ancestral blood and explained that Elder Guang had challenged Lüqiu Qingfeng’s transfer of it.
• Nangong Zhe told Wei Tu that Lüqiu Qingfeng had claimed she needed fifty years to break through and demanded Lüqiu Jinyuan’s corpse to refine for his vital essence.
• Wei Tu accepted the demand and returned to his secluded chamber to cultivate with the ancestral blood.
• After enduring a painful transformation, Wei Tu formed a Spirit-Body Bone Imprint and broke through to mid fourth-tier body refinement.

Wei Tu strengthened his body-refinement cultivation and began arranging an assassination of Lüqiu Jinyuan, while he and Cao Mi tested their newly nourished Yin-Yang Demon Corpse. After seeing its power, Second Mountain Master became more confident in their plan and pitied Lüqiu Jinyuan.

• Wei Tu reached the middle stage of the fourth body-refinement realm and decided he could contend for opportunities in the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm.
• Wei Tu planned to use the Earth Spider Matriarch to create an opening to assassinate Lüqiu Jinyuan and sent Fu Zhizhou to investigate whether she knew they had killed Dharma Radiance Saint Son.
• Wei Tu visited Cao Mi in the Corpse-Nurturing Cave, where they summoned the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse and practiced their combat tactics.
• Wei Tu tested the fused Yin-Yang Demon Corpse in battle and found that it could withstand his attacks and rival a peak Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• Second Mountain Master watched the battle, admired Wei Tu's strength and resources, and judged Lüqiu Jinyuan unlucky to have provoked him.