Chapter Summaries

Fu Zhizhou investigated Sect Master Gu’s whereabouts and lured the Earth Spider Matriarch out of the Spiderheart Sect with a staged claim about Gu’s illegitimate son. He learned that Gu had likely escaped and hurried to alert Wei Tu that the Matriarch was heading toward Cloudsun Island.

• Fu Zhizhou arrived near the Divine Stone Sect and secretly posed as a Foundation Establishment cultivator while investigating Sect Master Gu.
• The Earth Spider Matriarch learned that a Foundation Establishment cultivator claimed to be Gu’s illegitimate son and ordered her subordinates to capture him.
• The supposed son self-detonated while fleeing, leaving a mangled body whose blood essence let the Matriarch use the Blood-Guiding Secret Art to track a trail toward Cloudsun Island.
• Fu Zhizhou watched the Earth Spider Matriarch leave the Spiderheart Sect and concluded that Gu had not been captured and his whereabouts remained unknown.
• Fu Zhizhou hurried toward Cloudsun Island, intending to use his communication artifact to warn Wei Tu that the Matriarch was on her way.

The Earth Spider Matriarch tracked Sect Master Gu to Cloudsun Island, where Wei Tu and Cao Mi trapped her and fought her together. After Cao Mi endured the Matriarch’s attacks and revealed the power of the Yin-Yang Demon Corpse, Wei Tu intervened to protect her, leaving the Matriarch terrified by his strength.

• The Earth Spider Matriarch disguised herself and approached Cloudsun Island, but Wei Tu appeared in her path and she realized she had been lured into a trap.
• Cao Mi trapped the Matriarch in a dark-blue fire domain, while the Yin Corpse blocked her escape and forced her to fight.
• The Matriarch unleashed her blood-colored spiders and spider-man puppets, but Cao Mi summoned the Solar Corpse and merged it with the Yin Corpse into a Red-Haired Corpse Demon.
• The Matriarch overwhelmed Cao Mi with waves of spider-man puppets, pushing her defenses and spiritual power to their limits.
• Wei Tu rushed into the fire domain, swept away the puppets threatening Cao Mi, and praised her for enduring the battle.
• The Earth Spider Matriarch recognized Wei Tu’s mid fourth-rank body refinement and was overcome with fear.

Wei Tu captured Earth Spider Matriarch and discovered her ties to Ruyi Tower and Lüqiu Jinyuan. After rejecting a likely trap, he planned to lure Lüqiu Jinyuan out with the Soul-Devouring Wood, and Fu Zhizhou and Cao Mi agreed to help.

• Wei Tu trapped Earth Spider Matriarch’s Nascent Soul with Origin-Weight Divine Light, bound her, and Cao Mi froze her as a precaution.
• Wei Tu searched Earth Spider Matriarch’s soul and learned she was a Ruyi Tower elder who had been recruited by Lüqiu Jinyuan.
• Wei Tu found that Lüqiu Jinyuan’s visits to Blazing Cloud Island for Demonblood Pills were likely a trap, then decided to use the Soul-Devouring Wood as bait.
• Fu Zhizhou returned to Five Elders Mountain and agreed to risk himself in the plan, so Wei Tu gave him the Soul-Devouring Wood and forgave his debt for it.
• Wei Tu told Cao Mi about Earth Spider Matriarch and offered to help rescue Ancestor Luo from Ruyi Tower; Cao Mi agreed to join the plan against Lüqiu Jinyuan.

Lüqiu Jinyuan pursued a lead on the Soul-Devouring Wood, unaware that Wei Tu had planted it as bait to draw him into a trap. After Lüqiu Guangheng encountered a powerful Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator while chasing Fu Zhizhou, Lüqiu Jinyuan flew to the battlefield to aid his father.

• Lüqiu Jinyuan found a report of a cultivator suspected of possessing the Soul-Devouring Wood and ordered the Fox-Eagle Guard to locate him.
• Wei Tu revealed that Fu Zhizhou was posing as the Soul-Devouring Wood cultivator to lure Lüqiu Jinyuan, and reassured Earth Spider Matriarch that he would spare her if she helped him.
• Fu Zhizhou fought Black Fox and more than ten Golden Core cultivators, severed Black Fox's arm, and forced him to flee with his Nascent Soul.
• Lüqiu Jinyuan sent his biological father, Lüqiu Guangheng, to capture Fu Zhizhou, while suspecting that Fu Zhizhou's possession of the Soul-Devouring Wood was connected to Wu Fang's death.
• Lüqiu Guangheng reported that an unfamiliar Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator had blocked his pursuit and requested reinforcements.
• Lüqiu Jinyuan concluded that the stranger had killed Wu Fang for the Soul-Devouring Wood and flew toward the battlefield to help Lüqiu Guangheng.

Wei Tu and his allies ambushed Lüqiu Jinyuan and Elder Guang over the Soul-Devouring Wood, but Lüqiu Jinyuan’s Crimson Spirit Wings initially let him evade their trap. Wei Tu killed Elder Guang and trapped Lüqiu Jinyuan in the Azure Flame Domain, where Lüqiu Jinyuan burned his Ancestral Blood and transformed as the Second Mountain Lord attacked.

• Lüqiu Jinyuan joined Elder Guang’s battle with Wei Tu and learned that Wei Tu had killed his incarnation Wu Fang and taken the Soul-Devouring Wood.
• Wei Tu launched his ambush as Second Mountain Lord and Fu Zhizhou engaged Elder Guang, but Lüqiu Jinyuan used the Crimson Spirit Wings to rescue him and evade the attack.
• Wei Tu pursued Lüqiu Jinyuan, landed a heavy blow, and used his knowledge of the Crimson Spirit Wings to exploit the limits of Lüqiu Jinyuan’s escape art.
• Lüqiu Jinyuan abandoned Elder Guang and attacked Second Mountain Lord and Fu Zhizhou, but Wei Tu killed Elder Guang with Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation.
• Wei Tu’s Azure Flame Domain trapped Lüqiu Jinyuan, who burned his Ancestral Blood and transformed into a three-headed Nine-Phoenix God as the Second Mountain Lord attacked with Five Ghosts Carrying Mountains Art.

Wei Tu and his allies trapped Lüqiu Jinyuan and killed him after he failed to escape their ambush. The battle ended with Wei Tu revealing the power of his fourth-rank body refiner spirit body, while Second Mountain Master reflected on Lüqiu Qingfeng’s investment in him.

• Lüqiu Jinyuan used the [Crimson Spirit Wings] to attack Second Mountain Master and Cao Mi, but Second Mountain Master evaded him and Cao Mi was protected by a Red-Haired Corpse Demon.
• Lüqiu Jinyuan fled the Azure Flame Domain, only to be caught in a formation from the Mystic Spider Robe that Wei Tu and his allies had prepared.
• Wei Tu tore off Lüqiu Jinyuan’s newly formed blood-colored head and wings, then ignored his threats and offers of payment.
• Lüqiu Jinyuan attempted to self-destruct, but Wei Tu’s spirit body killed him within the Flesh Extreme Domain.
• Second Mountain Master recognized the power of Wei Tu’s spirit body and thought that Lüqiu Qingfeng had made a tremendous profit.

Wei Tu killed Lüqiu Jinyuan and discovered a purple-green branch that stirred his Golden Purple Destiny before escaping with his allies. After learning of Lüqiu Jinyuan’s death, Lüqiu Qingfeng celebrated her rival’s fall and began planning how to keep Wei Tu in the Eastern Glory Demon Kingdom.

• Wei Tu searched Lüqiu Jinyuan’s corpse and found a tiny purple-green branch clutched in the dead Nascent Soul.
• When Wei Tu touched the branch, his Golden Purple Destiny trembled, so he concealed the treasure and left with the Second Mountain Lord, Cao Mi, and Fu Zhizhou.
• A Lüqiu Clan elder arrived at the battlefield too late to find the killers or trace their auras.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng learned that Lüqiu Jinyuan had died and rejoiced at the news.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng considered how to bind Wei Tu more closely to her and keep him in the Eastern Glory Demon Kingdom.

Lüqiu Qingfeng planned to cultivate her cousin, the Seventeenth Imperial Daughter, as a future marriage-alliance partner for Wei Tu. While investigating Lüqiu Jinyuan’s Purple-Cyan Branch, Wei Tu discovered that it could strengthen true spirit power by consuming its own spirituality, and he suspected it was a peripheral object of his Golden Purple Destiny.

• Lüqiu Qingfeng decided to sponsor the Seventeenth Imperial Daughter until she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, hoping to use her to befriend Wei Tu.
• Wei Tu tried conventional methods to refine the Purple-Cyan Branch but failed, then studied Lüqiu Jinyuan’s life for clues.
• Wei Tu connected Lüqiu Jinyuan’s awakened bloodline talent to the Purple-Cyan Branch and tested the branch with Lüqiu Jinyuan’s essence blood, but saw no change.
• Wei Tu tested the branch with Elder Guang’s essence blood and found that it consumed some spirituality while slightly improving the blood’s potency.
• Wei Tu deduced that the Purple-Cyan Branch enhanced true spirit power, wondered why it had no effect on his own bloodline, and sensed that it was a lesser peripheral object of his Golden Purple Destiny.

Wei Tu used Elder Guang’s true spirit bloodline and his First Spirit Bone to attempt a dangerous blood exchange that could transform the Sky-Rending Eagle. As the eagle struggled to survive, Wei Tu learned that the Lüqiu Clan had issued a first-class pursuit order for Lüqiu Jinyuan’s killer, but the threat seemed limited, leaving him to await Lüqiu Qingfeng’s contact.

• Wei Tu decided to use the Inverse Spirit Blood-Exchange Art on the Sky-Rending Eagle, and the eagle agreed after misunderstanding his warning.
• Wei Tu exchanged the Sky-Rending Eagle’s blood using Elder Guang’s corpse, but the eagle’s body began to collapse under the strain.
• Wei Tu used his First Spirit Bone’s regeneration ability to bind the eagle’s shattered body and keep it alive while its bloodline transformation began.
• Wei Tu asked the Earth Spider Matriarch to gather news about the aftermath of Lüqiu Jinyuan’s death.
• The Lüqiu Human King issued a first-class pursuit order for Wei Tu, but Xue Hongmian judged it mostly a show of force.
• Wei Tu concluded that the immediate danger was limited and waited for Lüqiu Qingfeng to contact him.

Over the years after Lüqiu Jinyuan’s death, Wei Tu maintained his alliance with Lüqiu Qingfeng and watched the Sky-Rending Eagle’s bloodline change. Xue Hongmian later brought him two leads about Ancestor Luo, including the possibility that she was Luo Mingzhen, a concubine of an elder of the Yin Ghost Sect.

• Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng maintained their alliance through Nangong Zhe, who promised that Wei Tu could become an honored guest of the Lüqiu Clan after her breakthrough.
• Wei Tu observed the Sky-Rending Eagle recovering from its bloodline transformation and wondered whether it would develop the [Crimson Spirit Wings] divine ability.
• Wei Tu considered that Lüqiu Qingfeng might gain the same divine ability by refining Lüqiu Jinyuan’s bloodline.
• Xue Hongmian brought Wei Tu intelligence gathered through Ruyi Tower about Ancestor Luo.
• Wei Tu learned that Ancestor Luo might have perished after being exploited by Nascent Soul cultivators, or might be Luo Mingzhen, who had been sold to the Yin Ghost Sect and made an elder’s concubine.

Wei Tu cautiously pursued a plan to rescue Luo Mingzhen, securing Lüqiu Qingfeng’s support after she emerged from seclusion as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator. He prepared to return to Five Elders Mountain and join the Lüqiu Clan as an offering, while treating his growing distance from Nangong Zhe with cold detachment.

• Wei Tu told Cao Mi that he would try to rescue Luo Mingzhen but would not risk a dangerous clash with the Yin Ghost Sect and Ruyi Tower, and Cao Mi accepted his limits.
• Wei Tu asked Nangong Zhe to seek the Lüqiu Clan’s help, and Nangong Zhe said the matter would wait until Lüqiu Qingfeng emerged from seclusion.
• After more than a decade in seclusion, Lüqiu Qingfeng broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and agreed to help Wei Tu with Luo Mingzhen’s rescue.
• Nangong Zhe informed Wei Tu that Lüqiu Qingfeng would recruit him as an offering in half a year and asked him to return to Five Elders Mountain.
• Wei Tu thanked Lüqiu Qingfeng through Nangong Zhe and recognized that Nangong Zhe felt the change in their status, but he offered no comfort.

Wei Tu waited for the Sky-Rending Eagle to complete its bloodline advancement, then bound it with the Blood Puppet Art and gave it the Purple-Cyan Branch. Months later, he and the Second Mountain Lord joined the Lüqiu Clan as retainers, and Lüqiu Qingfeng escorted them to meet the Lüqiu Human King.

• Wei Tu found the Sky-Rending Eagle had advanced to the peak of the third order after absorbing Elder Guang's essence blood.
• Wei Tu bound the Sky-Rending Eagle with the Blood Puppet Art as a safeguard and gave it the Purple-Cyan Branch to strengthen its true spirit bloodline.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng invited Wei Tu and the Second Mountain Lord to become Lüqiu Clan retainers at Wei Tu's insistence.
• Lüqiu Yeming welcomed the two men and urged Lüqiu Qingfeng to win Wei Tu over, while showing little concern for the Second Mountain Lord.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng told Wei Tu the Lüqiu Human King would overlook his role in Lüqiu Jinyuan's assassination, then led both men to meet him.

After learning that Ancestor Luo had been tortured to death by Ruyi Tower, Wei Tu told Cao Mi in person, and she resolved to grow stronger and seek revenge. He agreed to take her into the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm, then prepared for the journey and learned that the Lüqiu Clan expected him to attend its upcoming Entering the Ruins to Pay Homage.

• The Lüqiu Human King mistook Wei Tu for Lüqiu Qingfeng’s admirer and advised her to treat him as a male concubine rather than a Dao companion.
• Wei Tu settled into the Lüqiu Clan’s Consecrated Hall, shared talisman insights with Second Mountain Master, and developed his alchemy and talisman skills through the clan’s resources.
• After reviewing intelligence, Wei Tu realized that the real Ancestor Luo had died in Ruyi Tower and asked Lüqiu Qingfeng to stop trying to rescue Luo Mingzhen.
• Wei Tu returned to Cloudsun Island and told Cao Mi about Ancestor Luo’s death; Cao Mi swore revenge and asked to enter the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm with him.
• Wei Tu agreed to take Cao Mi, gathered pills and talisman-making materials, and requested leave from Lüqiu Qingfeng.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng approved Wei Tu’s departure but urged him to return for Entering the Ruins to Pay Homage, prompting him to reconsider using the Divine Ascension Token.

Wei Tu returned from the Returning Ruins Sea and discovered that his old friend Si Tu You was attempting to form a Nascent Soul. He then went to deal with Ji Zhang, whom he had imprisoned for nearly a century, and carried him toward the border of Kang and Xiao States.

• Wei Tu and Cao Mi returned to the Great Azure Cultivation Realm, while Fu Zhizhou remained at Five Elders Mountain to manage the Righteous Society’s foothold.
• Passing Ancient Sword Mountain, Wei Tu saw that Si Tu You was forming a Nascent Soul and suspected he would settle accounts with Tian Qiuyun afterward.
• Wei Tu left without confronting Tian Qiuyun, deciding instead to resolve his long-standing matter with Ji Zhang and Ji Yifeng.
• Wei Tu entered his underground prison, where Ji Zhang begged for his life and threatened him with the Mother-and-Child Heart-Link Talisman.
• Wei Tu ignored Ji Zhang’s threats, wrapped him in his sleeve, and headed toward the border between Kang and Xiao States.

Wei Tu killed Ji Zhang on the Kang-Chu border and used the death talisman to lure Ji Yifeng into an ambush. After a fierce battle, Wei Tu killed Ji Yifeng but suffered severe injuries.

• Wei Tu killed Ji Zhang at the Kang-Chu border, where the Mother-and-Child Heart-Link Talisman left a Nascent Soul mark on him and flew toward Ji Yifeng.
• Ji Yifeng sensed his son’s death, followed the talisman’s direction, and hurried away from Heavenly Intent Sect to seek revenge.
• Heavenly Intent Sect’s cultivators later discovered Ji Yifeng’s soul lamp had gone out, and news of his death reached Lian Shourang at Sacred Cliff Mountain.
• Wei Tu surveyed his badly burned dharma body and Ji Yifeng’s corpse, then took a healing pill and used the First Spirit Bone’s power to recover.

Wei Tu killed Ji Yifeng, looted his preparations for the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm, and weighed the One-Qi Herb against his plans to revive Bai Zhi. Years later, he received an invitation to Si Tu You’s Nascent Soul Ascension Ceremony and grew suspicious that Tian Qiuyun was still alive, but decided to wait until the ceremony to investigate.

• Wei Tu recovered from his injuries and searched Ji Yifeng’s corpse, finding magic artifacts, talismans, a formation, and records about the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm.
• Wei Tu learned that the One-Qi Herb in the Primordial Yang Treasure Land could help him advance his cultivation, though competing for it might hinder Bai Zhi’s revival.
• Wei Tu erased the traces of the battle, returned to the Yingding Tribe, and concealed his cultivation while the Heavenly Intent Sect kept Ji Yifeng’s death secret.
• Several years later, Wei Tu received an invitation to Si Tu You’s Nascent Soul Ascension Ceremony and saw that Tian Qiuyun was listed as a host.
• Wei Tu suspected that an unexpected circumstance had forced Si Tu You to keep forgiving Tian Qiuyun, but chose to attend the ceremony rather than investigate immediately.

Si Tu You and Tian Qiuyun helped Ji Wuya plan to lure Wei Tu to Ancient Sword Mountain, where Ji Wuya intended to capture him. Wei Tu arrived alone and discovered that Tian Qiuyun’s unborn child was a demonic-path creature, leaving him on guard.

• Si Tu You tried to dissuade Ji Wuya from ambushing Wei Tu, but Ji Wuya insisted that Wei Tu would die if he came to the ceremony.
• Tian Qiuyun privately told Ji Wuya she wanted to use the Demon Womb Nascent Soul-Borrowing Canon to steal Si Tu You’s Nascent Soul, and Ji Wuya promised to help after Wei Tu was captured.
• Three days later, Wei Tu attended Si Tu You’s Nascent Soul formation ceremony alone and was welcomed by the gathered cultivators.
• Wei Tu noticed Tian Qiuyun was pregnant and wondered why she had conceived only after Si Tu You emerged from seclusion.
• Wei Tu used the Ghost-Eyed Demon Spider and his Sun-Gazing Golden Eyes to inspect Tian Qiuyun’s belly and saw a black, rune-marked fetus unlike a normal infant.

Wei Tu uncovered the Acacia Sect’s plot to capture him through Tian Qiuyun and secretly turned the scheme against its conspirators. After Tian Qiuyun exposed Ji Wuya at Ancient Sword Mountain and died, Si Tu You called the sect and its allies to hunt him, while Wei Tu sealed the mountain.

• Red Dragon Ancestor identified Tian Qiuyun’s demonic art as resembling the Acacia Sect’s lineage, leading Wei Tu to suspect she was part of a plan against him.
• Wei Tu lured Tian Qiuyun away from the mountain gate, immobilized her, and searched her memories, discovering Ji Wuya’s ambush plan and the Demon Womb Nascent Soul-Borrowing Canon.
• Wei Tu used Nightmare Insects to control Tian Qiuyun and sent her back to the gathered cultivators with a storage pouch.
• Tian Qiuyun accused Ji Wuya of threatening her family and forcing her and Si Tu You to submit, then died when her head exploded.
• Si Tu You ordered Ancient Sword Mountain’s disciples to eradicate Ji Wuya, and Wei Tu covered the mountain with his Fire Cloud Shield while dissolving the Nightmare Insects.

Wei Tu rallied the Nascent Soul Cultivators at Ancient Sword Mountain to surround Ji Wuya after Tian Qiuyun’s death, but Ji Wuya broke through the sect’s defenses and escaped. Wei Tu pursued him in a streak of thunder and called on the righteous path to join the chase.

• Wei Tu declared that he would help Si Tu You kill Ji Wuya, prompting the visiting Nascent Soul Cultivators to seal off Ancient Sword Mountain.
• Si Tu You exposed Ji Wuya’s hiding place, and the cultivators bombarded the side hall where he was concealed in a yellow gourd.
• Si Tu You used the Sword Lord Token to activate Ancient Sword Mountain’s sword formation, but Ji Wuya used a bronze seal to break through it and the cultivators’ barriers.
• Ji Wuya smashed through Wei Tu’s Fire Cloud Shield and escaped, believing Wei Tu’s defenses were less formidable than he had feared.
• Wei Tu transformed into a streak of thunder and pursued Ji Wuya, urging the cultivators to contact righteous path experts and help stop his escape from Kang State.

Wei Tu pursued Ji Wuya alone after luring him away from Ancient Sword Mountain, hoping to kill him without revealing his secrets or sharing the spoils. After Wei Tu destroyed Ji Wuya’s Nether Ghost Woman with his Flesh Extreme Domain, Ji Wuya pleaded to submit, but Red Dragon Ancestor warned that he could not be trusted; Wei Tu instead eyed Ji Wuya’s Yellow Sky Gourd.

• Wei Tu used Curse Ghost Blood Escape to catch up with Ji Wuya, who recognized the technique and mistook him for Red Dragon Ancestor’s possession body.
• Ji Wuya summoned the Nether Ghost Woman and sent her to attack Wei Tu, but Wei Tu’s Flesh Extreme Domain destroyed her before she could reach him.
• Realizing he was badly outmatched, Ji Wuya pleaded to submit to Wei Tu and asked him to spare his life.
• Red Dragon Ancestor warned Wei Tu that Nascent Soul cultivators from the five demonic path sects could not easily be subdued because their sects had ways to counter soul oaths and restrictions.
• Wei Tu dismissed Ji Wuya’s usefulness and looked toward the Yellow Sky Gourd, prompting Ji Wuya to hesitate at the implied demand to surrender it.