Chapter Summaries

Wei Tu killed Ji Wuya, concealed his identity by posing as Talisman Daoist, and convinced the arriving cultivators that Talisman Daoist had slain the devil. He returned to Ancient Sword Mountain, where Si Tu You greeted him with deliberately white hair after Tian Qiuyun’s death.

• Ji Wuya offered the Yellow Sky Gourd in exchange for his life, but Wei Tu tore through its barrier, seized him, and captured his Nascent Soul with the Soul-Refining Banner.
• Wei Tu took the Yellow Sky Gourd and Ji Wuya’s storage bag, then decided to keep his fourth-rank body cultivation secret and let Talisman Daoist take the blame for the killings.
• Jiuli Superior and Feng Yunqi arrived, and Wei Tu posed as Talisman Daoist and claimed he had killed the wounded Ji Wuya; Jiuli Superior chose not to investigate his suspicions.
• Feng Yunqi asked where Wei Tu had gone, and the disguised Wei Tu said the junior had wisely fled before departing himself.
• Wei Tu returned to Ancient Sword Mountain, where Si Tu You thanked him and explained his white hair as grief for Tian Qiuyun, though Wei Tu recognized it as an act.

Wei Tu attended Si Tu You’s Nascent Soul Ceremony, where Jiuli Superior and Feng Tianqi befriended him, while Si Tu You concealed their broken friendship behind formal courtesies. After Wei Tu departed, Si Tu You relinquished his position as Sword Lord and withdrew to the rear mountain to guard the Sword Sect.

• Si Tu You welcomed Wei Tu at Ancient Sword Mountain and seated him near Jiuli Superior and Feng Tianqi at the ceremony.
• Feng Tianqi and Jiuli Superior struck up conversations with Wei Tu, and Jiuli Superior privately concluded that Wei Tu was the Talisman Daoist’s junior brother.
• The ceremony ended early because Tian Qiuyun had died, and Wei Tu formally consoled Si Tu You before leaving.
• Wei Tu and Si Tu You exchanged farewells, recognizing that their friendship had ended.
• Si Tu You returned to the Sword Sect, hung up its inherited spirit sword, and announced that he would relinquish his position and guard the sect from the rear mountain.

Wei Tu secluded himself to prepare for the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm while Sacred Cliff Mountain and the Acacia Sect reacted to Ji Wuya’s death. During his cultivation, the Sky-Rending Eagle broke through to become a fourth-order great demon, giving the Yingding Tribe hope for a future sacred beast.

• Wei Tu returned to the Yingding Tribe and began cultivating with the spirit crystals he had taken from Lüqiu Jinyuan, aiming to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage before the secret realm opened.
• Lian Shourang warned Feng Tianqi and Jiuli Superior not to associate with Wei Tu, while Gongsu Chou questioned Lotus Madam Yin about her plans for a spirit treasure in the secret realm.
• Madam Jin told Wang Sutai that she intended to enter the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm to find her husband and claim the opportunity Gold Ghost King had left for her.
• The Sky-Rending Eagle broke through while Wei Tu was in seclusion, and the Yingding Tribe’s cultivators celebrated its emergence as a fourth-order great demon and potential sacred beast.

Dulong Divine Master and Divine Master He Di agreed to support Wei Changshou as the Yingding Tribe’s new Right Worthy King, while Su Bing'er left to seek a Nascent Soul opportunity after sharing a farewell kiss with Wei Tu. Two years later, the Sky-Rending Eagle chose ancestral reversion, received the name Wei Changqing, and faced its Nascent Soul transformation lightning tribulation.

• Divine Master He Di persuaded Dulong Divine Master that the Wei Family’s strength justified making Wei Changshou the new Right Worthy King.
• Su Bing'er decided to leave the Divine Master Manor to seek an opportunity, and Wei Tu gave her protective treasures and offered to help exchange a suitable treasure for a Nascent Soul-Forming Pill.
• Su Bing'er kissed Wei Tu goodbye and left the Yingding Tribe, while Wei Tu chose not to respond to her feelings.
• Two years later, Wei Tu learned that the Sky-Rending Eagle had chosen ancestral reversion and that its true spirit bloodline would mature far sooner than expected.
• Wei Tu named the Sky-Rending Eagle Wei Changqing and equipped it with a fourth-rank defensive artifact as its Nascent Soul transformation lightning tribulation began.

Wei Tu concealed the Sky-Rending Eagle’s tribulation as it broke through to the fourth tier, then held a family banquet to celebrate. After learning about the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm and refusing Huyan Tu’s proposed deal, Wei Tu resumed cultivating and, seven years later, reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• The Sky-Rending Eagle resisted and absorbed tribulation lightning, becoming a fourth-tier great demon, while Wei Tu concealed its breakthrough from nearby cultivators.
• Wei Tu invited friends and relatives to a family banquet, named the Sky-Rending Eagle Wei Changqing, and let it accept female eagles brought by Huyan Tu.
• Huyan Tu told Wei Tu that Sacred Cliff Mountain had ordered sects to withhold information about the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm from him and offered secret-realm intelligence in exchange for a Cicada God Flower.
• Wei Tu refused to retrieve the flower during the coming secret-realm cycle, and the banquet ended before he returned to closed-door cultivation.
• Seven years later, Wei Tu broke through to the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

After stabilizing his cultivation and reaching supreme-grade spiritual roots, Wei Tu traveled with Cao Mi to the hidden entrance of the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm. He discovered that powerful sea-beast demons occupied the entrance and, after promising Cao Mi help with Huyan Tu’s Cicada God Flower, entered the realm with her.

• Wei Tu considered how he might improve his aptitude beyond supreme-grade spiritual roots, then decided to revisit the question after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Wei Tu summoned the Sky-Rending Eagle, gave Wei Yan and her younger brother instructions, and left for the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm with Cao Mi.
• Wei Tu saw through an illusion concealing the deserted island entrance and learned from the Sky-Rending Eagle that sea-beast demons had entered the secret realm.
• Wei Tu warned Cao Mi that powerful sea beasts guarded the entrance, but she refused to turn back because she wanted to advance and avenge her martial uncle.
• Wei Tu planned to use Huyan Tu’s Cicada God Flower to help Cao Mi break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Cao Mi agreed to settle the resulting debt with Huyan Tu later.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi teleported into the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm and arrived in a vast white-jade hall where more than ten cultivators were already meditating.

Wei Tu entered the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm in disguise, avoided drawing the attention of powerful cultivators, and helped Cao Mi obtain the Cicada God Flower. He reached Primordial Yang Palace ahead of the Heavenly Intent Sect and began purging Bai Zhi’s demonic soul while searching for the One-Qi Herb.

• Wei Tu and Cao Mi joined the rogue cultivators, and Wei Tu privately revealed his identity as Talisman Daoist to Jiuli Superior.
• Lotus Madam Yin challenged Madam Jin with mockery after recognizing her, and Wei Tu warned Madam Jin that the Acacia Sect was targeting her because he had killed Six Desires Daoist and Ji Wuya.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi chose the Giant Demon Cave checkpoint, where Wei Tu swiftly killed a rhinoceros-like magic beast and waited until the Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators had departed before leaving.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi found the Cicada God Flower, and Cao Mi estimated that she would need at most seven years to break through before Wei Tu proceeded toward the inner palace.
• Wei Tu reached Primordial Yang Palace, concealed himself in a small room, and used its primordial yang qi to purge Bai Zhi’s demonic soul while watching for visitors.

Wei Tu waited for Heavenly Intent Sect elder Shi Fei and Spirit-Cutting Sect elder Luo to reveal the hidden One-Qi Herb, then defeated both Nascent Soul cultivators and took the treasure. After Bai Zhi awakened, Wei Tu offered her a place as the main soul of his Soul-Refining Banner or the chance to possess a body after they left the secret realm.

• Wei Tu waited in the Primordial Yang Palace while he slowly purified the demon soul possessing Bai Zhi, expecting her to awaken in about two months.
• Shi Fei and Elder Luo opened an alternate space containing the One-Qi Herb, and Shi Fei escaped with a Greater Teleportation Talisman as Wei Tu attacked.
• Wei Tu sent the Sky-Rending Eagle after Shi Fei and killed Elder Luo, taking the One-Qi Herb and Elder Luo's Nascent Infant.
• Wei Tu pursued and killed Shi Fei, then returned to the Primordial Yang Palace to await Bai Zhi's awakening.
• Bai Zhi awoke after the demon soul was removed, and Wei Tu explained the secret realm and offered her the choice of becoming his Soul-Refining Banner's main soul or possessing a body after they left.

Bai Zhi chose to be reborn as a human rather than become the Soul-Refining Banner’s artifact spirit, and Wei Tu agreed to help her find a body. He then headed for the Demon-Locking Hall, where Red Dragon Ancestor suspected Divine Official Sang was a visitor from another realm, and Wei Tu began assessing the palace’s treasures and sealed chambers.

• Bai Zhi rejected the artifact-spirit path and asked Wei Tu to arrange for her rebirth as a human, and he agreed.
• Wei Tu flew toward the core three palaces and asked Red Dragon Ancestor whether his Origin-Weight Divine Light could open the Demon-Locking Hall.
• Red Dragon Ancestor explained that the divine light could disrupt the hall’s Midnight-Noon Strange Restriction, but warned that nearby Nascent Soul cultivators made an attempt risky.
• Wei Tu and Red Dragon Ancestor saw Divine Official Sang arrive two months late, and Red Dragon Ancestor suspected that he was a visitor from another realm.
• Wei Tu said they could kill Divine Official Sang and search his soul, then arrived at the Demon-Locking Hall several days later.
• Wei Tu found Nascent Soul cultivators attacking fourth-tier treasures in the open chambers while the inner chambers remained sealed behind a crimson-black barrier.

Wei Tu used the Origin-Weight Divine Light to break into the Demon-Locking Hall’s sealed main palace chamber while the other cultivators were distracted by a struggle over the Weapon-Forging Hall. Ding Lezheng and Lian Shourang discovered his entry and guarded the exit, leaving Wei Tu inside worried that they might use Cao Mi against him.

• Wei Tu spent years wearing down a treasure’s restriction in the Demon-Locking Hall, while Ding Lezheng obtained a Moonlight Pearl and demonstrated his formidable strength.
• Cao Mi told Wei Tu that the Weapon-Forging Hall’s main chamber had been opened, drawing the cultivators away from the Demon-Locking Hall as righteous and demonic forces clashed there.
• Wei Tu left Cao Mi to watch the battle, returned to the Demon-Locking Hall, and used the Origin-Weight Divine Light and his enhanced cultivation to break through the Midnight-Noon Strange Restriction.
• Ding Lezheng and Lian Shourang arrived too late to follow Wei Tu inside, so Ding Lezheng sent Lian Shourang to guard the exit while he returned to fight at the Weapon-Forging Hall.
• Wei Tu worried that Ding Lezheng might seize Cao Mi to pressure him and vowed to destroy Sacred Cliff Mountain if it resorted to holding her hostage.

Wei Tu and Bai Zhi uncovered a concealed fifth-rank treasure beneath the Demon-Locking Hall, then sent the Imperial Heaven Sword Lord puppet to explore its black stone tower. There, Wei Tu discovered a surviving Spirit Transformation-level remnant soul and sent his Soul-Refining Banner to capture it.

• Bai Zhi identified a reversed spirit-gathering formation, and she revealed a five-element bracelet hidden beneath the rooms.
• Wei Tu left the bracelet untouched and sent the Imperial Heaven Sword Lord puppet to investigate the black stone tower.
• The puppet found a chained flood-dragon beast on the tower's fourth floor and severed its apparently lifeless head.
• Wei Tu spotted a human-faced, flood-dragon-headed remnant soul with the Ghost-Eyed Demon Spider and suspected it intended to possess him.
• Wei Tu sent the puppet back carrying the Soul-Refining Banner, whose two chief souls attacked the remnant soul.

Wei Tu trapped the human-faced, dragon-headed remnant soul with Demon-Suppressing Talismans and captured it in the Soul-Refining Banner, then used his Golden Purple Destiny to dissolve it and gain soul power. Elsewhere, Madam Jin rescued Cao Mi from Ding Lezheng, and Cao Mi realized Wei Tu had secretly married Wang Sutai.

• Wei Tu’s Nascent Infants, Imperial Heaven Sword Lord, and Solar Corpse fought the remnant soul inside the stone tower as it offered him a bargain for its freedom.
• Wei Tu pretended to accept the deal, then used four fourth-grade superior Demon-Suppressing Talismans to trap the remnant soul.
• Imperial Heaven Sword Lord delayed the dragon corpse’s claw long enough for the Soul-Refining Banner to draw in the trapped remnant soul, though the puppet was smashed apart.
• After several days of fighting within the banner, the remnant soul weakened and fell asleep, while the Two-Polar Nascent Infant was gravely damaged.
• Wei Tu divided the demon soul, branded it with the Spirit-Command Seal, and sent it into his sea of consciousness, where his Golden Purple Destiny dissolved it into soul power and fragments.
• Madam Jin confronted Ding Lezheng after rescuing Cao Mi, and Cao Mi realized that Wei Tu was Fu’er and that Madam Jin’s daughter, Wang Sutai, was his wife.

Wei Tu absorbed the demon dragon Pingchen’s remnant soul, formed the Life-Nurturing Soul Seal, and claimed the Profound Spirit Golden Chain. As he refined the chain in the Demon-Locking Hall, Lian Shourang attacked Madam Jin, her daughter, and Cao Mi outside and threatened Wei Tu into opening the hall’s restriction.

• Cao Mi resolved to treat Wei Tu as a comrade-in-arms, while Ding Lezheng negotiated with Lotus Madam Yin about taking Wei Tu’s Demon-Locking Hall treasures and using hostages to force his cooperation.
• A golden light identified as Divine Official Sang shot into the Weapon-Forging Hall, prompting Ding Lezheng and the other cultivators to pursue it.
• Wei Tu used Pingchen’s soul power to form the Life-Nurturing Soul Seal, then collected the seven ancient lamps and the Profound Spirit Golden Chain from the stone tower.
• Wei Tu sent Bai Zhi to decipher the Demon-Refining Formation and began refining the Profound Spirit Golden Chain himself.
• Madam Jin, her daughter, and Cao Mi arrived at the Demon-Locking Hall in the Gold Ghost Sedan, but Lian Shourang struck them down and threatened Wei Tu into opening the restriction.
• As Lian Shourang moved to attack the three women, powerful cultivators approached the Demon-Locking Hall.

Wei Tu rescued Madam Jin and the other women from Lian Shourang’s trap, then killed the Sacred Cliff Mountain sect leader when he tried to block their escape. He threatened Ding Lezheng and the others with further deaths if they attacked his companions again, leaving them uncertain how to respond.

• Wei Tu opened a passage through the Midnight-Noon Strange Restriction and charged Lian Shourang, but Lian Shourang blocked the passage with Myriad-Lifting Mountain.
• Wei Tu used the Profound Spirit Golden Chain and his physical strength to drag Myriad-Lifting Mountain into the Demon-Locking Hall, then pulled Lian Shourang inside as well.
• Wei Tu fought Lian Shourang and killed him, capturing his fleeing Nascent Soul with the Soul-Refining Banner.
• Wei Tu warned Ding Lezheng that more Sacred Cliff Mountain cultivators would die if the group attacked Madam Jin and the others again.
• Ding Lezheng, Lotus Madam Yin, and Gongsu Chou hesitated to pursue Wei Tu, and Lotus Madam Yin asked Ding Lezheng what they should do.

After defeating Lian Shourang, Wei Tu accepted a temporary gentlemen's pact with Ding Lezheng and the others, then reunited with Madam Jin, Wang Sutai, and Cao Mi in Demon-Locking Hall. Five years later, he obtained the Five-Element Demon-Exterminating Ring but could not activate it, and Red Dragon Ancestor suspected it required a special Treasure-Activation Formula.

• Ding Lezheng, Gongsu Chou, Lotus Madam Yin, and Wei Tu agreed to a gentlemen's pact to avoid involving their relatives and sects in their feud.
• Wei Tu gave healing pills to Madam Jin, Wang Sutai, and Cao Mi, revealed his identity, and learned that Jiuli Superior had been captured and died after revealing his alias.
• Wei Tu remembered his contract with Jiuli Superior and resolved to kill Nine Rivers Old Devil, then spoke privately with Wang Sutai at Madam Jin's urging.
• Several days later, Wang Sutai returned with Wei Tu, and Madam Jin teased her about their renewed intimacy while Cao Mi watched quietly.
• Five years later, Wei Tu secretly claimed the Five-Element Demon-Exterminating Ring, but his mana could not activate it.
• Red Dragon Ancestor told Wei Tu that the ring likely required a Treasure-Activation Formula implanted by the master of the Exalted King Palace.

Wei Tu learned that the Five-Element Demon-Exterminating Ring was a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure and prepared for the secret realm’s closure while pursuing further cultivation. When he and Cao Mi returned to the outer sea, the two sea beast demons attacked them.

• The Red Dragon Ancestor gave Wei Tu the Three-Yang Blood Sacrifice and explained that the Scripture Pavilion’s Bifeng Divine Restriction required a Spirit Transformation-grade body or a powerful defensive treasure to withstand.
• Divine Official Sang nearly used a favor from Xuanling Immortal to learn who opened the Demon-Locking Hall, but relinquished it after she warned that Wei Tu might become her inheritor and that she would reveal Sang Huai’s covetous intentions.
• Wei Tu assessed his Nascent Infant’s progress toward the Nascent Soul Middle Stage limit and considered using a Qi-Shaping Pill to reach that limit before advancing.
• Before the secret realm closed, Wei Tu urged Wang Sutai and Madam Jin to remain in seclusion on Northern Origin Island, and Madam Jin gave him the Gold Ghost King’s demonic arts.
• Wei Tu and Cao Mi emerged from the secret realm beside two sea beast demons, who attacked them with a demon-wind storm and concealed flying swords.

Wei Tu and Cao Mi defeated two powerful demons, then learned that Kou Hongying had formed her Nascent Soul. Concerned about threats to his family and the Yingding Tribe, Wei Tu arranged to move some relatives overseas while Wei Changshou and Wei Xiuwen remained behind to protect their cover, giving them a Yellow Sky Gourd to escape danger.

• Wei Tu and Cao Mi trapped and defeated the turtle demon and sea serpent demon, then Wei Tu fed their flesh and blood to the Two-Polar Nascent Infant.
• Wei Tu learned from Wei Yan that Kou Hongying had successfully formed her Nascent Soul.
• Wei Tu told Wei Yan about the Overseas Cultivation Realm and proposed relocating relatives there to guard against future threats.
• Wei Tu decided Wei Changshou would remain Right Worthy Prince in the Yingding Tribe to deflect suspicion while Wei Yan and other relatives left.
• Wei Yan reported that Wei Changshou and Wei Xiuwen had agreed to stay, and Wei Tu gave Wei Xiuwen the Yellow Sky Gourd as an escape artifact.

Wei Tu arranged for the Wei Family and his allies to flee to the Overseas Cultivation Realm, while restricting who could come and concealing the passage between realms. After bringing the refugees safely across, he erased and altered their memories so they could not reveal the Great Azure Cultivation Realm.

• Wei Tu instructed Wei Xiuwen to prepare selected Wei Family members for relocation and agreed with Kou Hongying and Cao Mi to withdraw a carefully limited group to the Overseas Cultivation Realm.
• Kou Hongying and Cao Mi agreed to bring only a few close dependents, and Wei Tu promised to retrieve Wei Fei's descendants from Xiao State.
• Wei Tu brought Wei Xian'er and Wei Ping to the secret realm, where they reunited with Wei Yan and met the Wei Family descendants being relocated.
• Wei Tu gave the assembled cultivators Spirit-Stabilizing Talismans and led them through the spatial tunnel to Seven Rock Island.
• On the journey toward Cloudsun Island, Wei Tu knocked the refugees unconscious and used the Nightmare Insect Mind-Control Art to erase their memories of the passage and replace them with false ones.

After moving his relatives to Cloudsun Island, Wei Tu returned to Sovereign Island to prepare for an audience with a Spirit Transformation Venerable alongside the Lüqiu Clan. Lüqiu Qingfeng tried to bring him closer to her younger sister Lüqiu Qing, but Wei Tu rejected the match and then advanced his Nascent Soul and Sky-Rending Eagle’s bloodline on the journey to the Inner Ruins Sea.

• Wei Tu, Cao Mi, and Kou Hongying brought their memory-sealed relatives to Cloudsun Island, where Fu Zhizhou learned why they had been moved and revealed his rapid cultivation progress.
• Fu Zhizhou gave Wei Tu a reminder from Lüqiu Qingfeng to attend the gathering at the Inner Ruins Sea, and Wei Tu asked him to have Xue Hongmian collect ingredients for Qi-Shaping Pills.
• Wei Tu returned to Sovereign Island, where Lüqiu Qingfeng visited him and introduced her younger sister, Lüqiu Qing, under the pretext of preparing for the journey to pay homage to a Spirit Transformation Venerable.
• After Lüqiu Qing left, Wei Tu confronted Lüqiu Qingfeng about her matchmaking scheme and told her he already admired someone, so she promised not to send Lüqiu Qing to trouble him.
• On the journey to the Inner Ruins Sea, Wei Tu used demon corpses to advance the Five-Element Nascent Infant to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and observed the Sky-Rending Eagle’s bloodline beginning to transform.

Wei Tu helped Bai Zhi seize Xu Yuqi’s body, and years later the Sky-Rending Eagle awakened Lüqiu Jinyuan’s Crimson Spirit Wings. As the Lyuqiu Clan prepared to visit the Spirit Transformation Venerables, Lüqiu Yeming promised Wei Tu the right to request marriage to an imperial princess, leaving Wei Tu poised to join the diplomatic mission and advance his ties to the clan.

• Wei Tu arranged Bai Zhi’s body seizure using Xu Yuqi, a dying cultivator who had volunteered to secure her sister’s future, and Bai Zhi preserved Xu Yuqi’s soul within the body.
• Bai Zhi remained in Wei Tu’s cave abode, where she told Xu Yuqi that she could continue as Wei Tu’s soul servant after Bai Zhi died.
• The Sky-Rending Eagle demonstrated its spatial escape technique, and Wei Tu recognized it as Crimson Spirit Wings after its bloodline transformation.
• Seven years later, Lüqiu Yeming appointed Lüqiu Qingfeng chief envoy for the Lyuqiu Clan’s visit to the Inner Ruins Sea and promised Wei Tu a marriage to an imperial princess of his choice.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng told Wei Tu that Lüqiu Qing had sought a direct marriage decree, and Wei Tu reassured her that he valued Lüqiu Yeming’s offer.