Chapter Summaries

Lüqiu Qingfeng confessed her guilt and chose to seek Wei Tu’s protection, prompting Dugu Tian to abandon his marriage plans and challenge Wei Tu. As Wei Tu left, Xu Wansun intercepted him, and Wei Tu revealed enough strength to surprise Dugu Tian and the Lüqiu Clan as their battle began.

• Lüqiu Qingfeng confessed her guilt to Wei Tu and declared she would accept punishment rather than let the Extreme Mountain Sect and Lesser Vast Palace become enemies.
• Dugu Tian challenged Wei Tu to a duel, but Wei Tu refused even after Dugu Tian offered to seal his cultivation; Dugu Tian then realized Qingfeng had already chosen Wei Tu over wealth and status.
• Xu Wansun arrived as Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng left Dugu Tian’s cave abode and clashed with them, but Wei Tu’s Nascent Soul Late Stage aura matched the quasi-Spirit Transformation powerhouse’s strength.
• Lüqiu Yeming and the Lüqiu Human King recognized Wei Tu’s formidable power and agreed to help him if he could not withstand Xu Wansun.
• Xu Wansun attacked Wei Tu with a blue needle-ray, but Wei Tu blocked it with Myriad-Lifting Mountain and sent out his Five-Element Nascent Infant, disrupting Xu Wansun’s attempt to overwhelm him with dharma power.
• Wei Tu gained breathing room while Xu Wansun dealt with the Five-Element Nascent Infant and launched several magical artifacts at him.

Wei Tu defeated Xu Wansun by combining his Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans with the Myriad-Lifting Mountain, forcing Xu to honor their agreement and let him leave with Lüqiu Qingfeng. The Lüqiu Human King pursued them afterward, hoping to keep his clan out of the conflict and learn more about Wei Tu’s talismans.

• Xu Wansun invoked a Quasi-Spirit Transformation Dharma Manifestation and destroyed most of Wei Tu’s fourth-tier talismans with his first move.
• Xu Wansun attacked with the Wood Vine Art as his second move, but Wei Tu countered with two Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans that crushed the vines and pinned Xu’s manifestation.
• Wei Tu stood atop one of the violet-gold cauldrons with the Myriad-Lifting Mountain, forcing Xu to use his third move, the Wood Shield Art, to defend himself.
• After the cauldrons dissipated, Xu admitted defeat and stepped aside, allowing Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng to leave.
• The Lüqiu Human King waited until Xu Wansun had left Sovereign Island, then pursued Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng.

Wei Tu insisted that Lüqiu Qingfeng be escorted to Extreme Mountain Sect despite Lüqiu Human King’s attempt to protect her and preserve the marriage alliance. After Lüqiu Qingfeng agreed to follow him, Wei Tu left with her and promised that he could give her a surprise in one hundred and fifty years.

• Wei Tu confronted Lüqiu Human King, framing Lüqiu Qingfeng’s confession as her sole responsibility and warning him not to obstruct her escort to Extreme Mountain Sect.
• Lüqiu Human King offered to persuade Lesser Vast Palace to reject the marriage proposal, but Wei Tu refused to spare Lüqiu Qingfeng from punishment.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng agreed to follow Wei Tu, and Lüqiu Human King accepted her decision and asked to buy Wei Tu’s Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans when they became available.
• Lüqiu Human King requested a communication token, and Wei Tu gave him one before departing the Lüqiu Clan grounds with Lüqiu Qingfeng.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng asked why Wei Tu wanted her to plead guilty, and Wei Tu promised her a surprise in one hundred and fifty years without explaining further.

Wei Tu returned to the Extreme Mountain Sect with Lüqiu Qingfeng and reported his mission to Sect Master Zhu, securing a chance to cultivate in the Layered Rock Secret Realm while agreeing to produce more Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans. He arranged for Lüqiu Qingfeng to be held in the Law Enforcement Hall as protection, where she resolved to wait for the one hundred and fifty years he had promised.

• Wei Tu brought Xu Yuqi and Lüqiu Qingfeng to the Extreme Mountain Sect and reported how Lüqiu Qingfeng had pleaded guilty to prevent the sect from acting against her clan.
• Wei Tu told Sect Master Zhu that he had drawn two Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans and agreed to draw ten more within thirty years.
• Wei Tu asked to cultivate longer in the Layered Rock Secret Realm, and Sect Master Zhu said he would seek approval for two or three additional years.
• Wei Tu obtained Sect Master Zhu's writ and asked Hall Master Luo to confine Lüqiu Qingfeng in a secluded, protected cell.
• Yan Baikui's squad transferred Lüqiu Qingfeng to the prison beneath Iron Hunt Peak, where she recalled Wei Tu's promise and decided to wait one hundred and fifty years.

Venerable Tong ordered Xu Wansun to execute Lüqiu Yeming, while Wei Tu learned of the death and chose to tell Lüqiu Qingfeng rather than conceal it. Lüqiu Qingfeng revealed her lack of affection for her father and reassured Wei Tu, and the two grew closer over food and wine.

• Venerable Tong forgave Xu Wansun for his defeat but ordered him to kill Lüqiu Yeming, leaving Lüqiu Yeming’s descendants’ fate unstated.
• At a sect meeting, Sect Master Zhu secured three years of Layered Rock Secret Realm cultivation time for Wei Tu and arranged for his spirit talismans to be traded first to the sect master's branch.
• Sect Master Zhu told Wei Tu that Venerable Tong had ordered Lüqiu Yeming’s execution and warned him to handle Lüqiu Qingfeng carefully, even authorizing him to execute her if necessary.
• Wei Tu decided to tell Lüqiu Qingfeng the truth instead of hiding her father’s death, despite the risk to his plans for Spirit Transformation.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng said she did not resent Wei Tu and explained that royal family ties had never given her a meaningful bond with Lüqiu Yeming; Wei Tu apologized for doubting her.
• Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng shared spirit food and Seven Immortals Wine, then embraced and kissed.

Wei Tu consummated his marriage with Lüqiu Qingfeng and used her primordial yin to break through to Nascent Soul Peak. After she pledged her support and gave him true Nine-Phoenix God Ancestral Blood, he focused on reaching the limit of his cultivation while continuing to conceal that he could draw the Jun Mountain Talisman.

• Wei Tu promised Lüqiu Qingfeng they would consummate their marriage, then spent years cultivating while withholding his successful Jun Mountain Talisman from Venerable Han Yue.
• Xu Yuqi delivered Fu Zhizhou's message that Wei Yan was preparing to form her Nascent Soul, worrying Wei Tu about whether she would survive the breakthrough.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng dressed in her sovereign's ceremonial robe, and Wei Tu performed the wedding rites with her before using their dual cultivation to advance to Nascent Soul Peak, growing his Nascent Soul to nine inches four.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng gave Wei Tu a drop of true Nine-Phoenix God Ancestral Blood and swore to support him, and Wei Tu vowed not to betray her.
• Wei Tu spent thirty years cultivating and drawing Golden Cauldron Talismans while pretending he could not yet draw the Jun Mountain Talisman.
• Sect Master Zhu offered Wei Tu a chance to make Hall Master Wei a Venerable's direct disciple if he produced the Jun Mountain Talisman, and Wei Tu promised to deliver it within two hundred years.

After crossing the One-Foot Chasm, Wei Tu gathered spiritual crystals and entered the Layered Rock Secret Realm to condense his Sourcewood Dharma Form. He formed a half-Dharma Form and continued cultivating, aiming to turn it solid and reach Spirit Transformation.

• Wei Tu spent sixty years in seclusion, reached the true peak of the Nascent Soul realm, and found that his unusually tall Nascent Soul had consumed all his spiritual crystals.
• Wei Tu chose to sell talismans through Zhuang Shou and borrow spiritual crystals from Lüqiu Qingfeng, while rejecting risky offers from outside cultivators.
• Wei Tu learned from Fu Zhizhou's letter that Wei Yan had successfully formed her Nascent Soul.
• Wei Tu sold talismans, pawned artifacts and medicines, and borrowed at high interest until he had gathered thirty-three hundred spiritual crystals.
• Wei Tu entered the Layered Rock Secret Realm and, after three years of cultivation, condensed a half-Dharma Form from the Sourcewood True Scripture.
• Wei Tu continued his retreat, estimating that he had thirteen more years in the secret realm to make his Dharma Form solid and break through to Spirit Transformation.

Wei Tu condensed his Sourcewood Dharma Form and began his Spirit Transformation tribulation, but the lightning turned blood-red because of ancient demon Pingchen’s residual soul power in his consciousness. He expelled that power and restored the lightning to normal, then used the weakened tribulation to temper his body with the Nine-Phoenix God’s blood essence.

• The Extreme Mountain Sect’s leaders discovered that Wei Tu was attempting to break through to Spirit Transformation and learned he possessed a One-Foot Heavenly Infant.
• Venerable Han Yue questioned whether Wei Tu could be trusted, while Sect Master Zhu vouched for him; Lüqiu Qingfeng then learned of Wei Tu’s breakthrough and rejoiced at their bond.
• Wei Tu condensed his Sourcewood Dharma Form, reaching the final stage before becoming a Spirit Transformation Venerable.
• Blood-red tribulation lightning struck Wei Tu, but the Profound Spirit Golden Chain protected him from most of its force.
• Wei Tu severed the unrefined soul power of the ancient demon Pingchen, causing the tribulation lightning to turn back to azure.
• Wei Tu swallowed the Nine-Phoenix God’s blood essence and began using the tribulation lightning to temper his body.

Wei Tu endured his Spirit Transformation tribulation while using its lightning to advance his body refinement to the late fourth tier, then completed the tribulation and established his standing within the Extreme Mountain Sect. The chapter ended with Venerable Han Yue greeting him as a fellow Daoist.

• Wei Tu faced the third bolt of tribulation lightning with his body and used its power to advance to the peak of middle fourth-tier body refinement.
• Wei Tu endured the following bolts and manifested his spirit body, reaching late fourth-tier body refinement and catching the eighth bolt with one hand.
• Wei Tu deployed the Profound Spirit Golden Chain, Dharma artifacts, and defensive talismans to withstand the ninth bolt and complete his tribulation.
• Wei Tu's lesser Dharma artifacts shattered after the tribulation, while the Profound Spirit Golden Chain remained intact.
• Wei Tu apologized to Sect Master Zhu for concealing his breakthrough, and the Extreme Mountain Sect's cultivators congratulated him on attaining Spirit Transformation.
• Venerable Han Yue saluted Wei Tu and addressed him as Fellow Daoist Wei.

After attaining Spirit Transformation, Wei Tu secured the Extreme Mountain Sect’s support by personally freeing Lüqiu Qingfeng and naming her his equal wife. He accepted a place in the sect’s Layered Rock Secret Realm but rejected authority over its forces, saying he sought ascension rather than power.

• Wei Tu and Venerable Han Yue agreed to address each other as martial brothers, and the Extreme Mountain Sect cultivators began calling Wei Tu their martial uncle.
• Wei Tu insisted on personally freeing Lüqiu Qingfeng, explaining that she had invested three tenths of the spirit crystals he used to attempt Spirit Transformation; Venerable Han Yue and the sect pledged to support him against the Lesser Vast Palace.
• Wei Tu went with the sect’s cultivators to Iron Hunt Peak and welcomed Lüqiu Qingfeng out of prison, then named her his equal wife because he already had a wife in his hometown.
• Venerable Han Yue offered Wei Tu the Layered Rock Secret Realm and proposed that he choose three halls and two peaks as direct-line forces, but Wei Tu declined the appointments and said he cultivated for ascension, not power.

After breaking through to Spirit Transformation, Wei Tu received the Azure Emperor Longevity Art and moved into a former patriarch’s cave residence, where he gave Lüqiu Qingfeng the Purple-Cyan Branch to raise her bloodline. He began consolidating his realm and set three goals before rescuing Wei Xiuwen and Wei Changshou from Sacred Cliff Mountain, while Venerable Tong regretted making an enemy of him.

• Venerable Han Yue gave Wei Tu the latter half of the Sourcewood True Scripture, which continued into the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, and warned him that Extreme Mountain Sect patriarchs remained in the upper realm.
• Sect Master Zhu led Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng to a spacious cave residence where two former Spirit Transformation patriarchs had lived and ascended.
• Wei Tu comforted Lüqiu Qingfeng, then lent her the Purple-Cyan Branch so she could strengthen her true spirit bloodline.
• Wei Tu began consolidating his cultivation and set goals to re-refine two high-grade spirit treasures, draw a triple Golden Cauldron Talisman, and cultivate the Azure Emperor Life-Slaying Sword before confronting Ding Lezheng.
• News of Wei Tu’s breakthrough reached the other sects, and Venerable Tong regretted provoking him and making him a mortal enemy.

Venerable Tong sought an alliance with Ghost Granny against Wei Tu, while Fu Zhizhou advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage through demonic qi. After twenty years of cultivation, Wei Tu tested his new abilities against Venerable Han Yue and chose a fifth-tier escape technique, leaving to begin learning the Myriad Blood Crow Transformation Escape Method.

• Venerable Tong warned Xu Wansun to apologize to Wei Tu at his Spirit Transformation ceremony and visited Ghost Granny to discuss resisting the Extreme Mountain Sect.
• Ghost Granny realized that she had also offended Wei Tu by taking Lüqiu Qing and Lüqiu Yu, and agreed to wait and see how Wei Tu acted after his ceremony.
• Fu Zhizhou absorbed Pingchen's demonic qi for several years, grew a second head and four arms, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Wei Tu spent twenty years refining spirit treasures, drawing triple Golden Cauldron Talismans, and cultivating the Azure Emperor Life-Slaying Sword, then sparred with Venerable Han Yue.
• Wei Tu asked Venerable Han Yue for a fifth-tier escape technique and chose the Myriad Blood Crow Transformation Escape Method.

Wei Tu agreed to hold his Spirit Transformation ceremony five years later and accepted the Extreme Mountain Sect’s terms for dividing the gifts. At the ceremony, Xu Wansun and Dugu Tian came to apologize for their past hostility, but Lüqiu Qingfeng confronted Xu over his recent insult to the Lüqiu Clan, forcing him to apologize publicly.

• Wei Tu agreed to hold his Spirit Transformation ceremony in five years and accepted the sect’s proposed division of congratulatory gifts.
• Five years later, Xu Wansun and Dugu Tian traveled to the ceremony, anxious that Wei Tu might punish them for their past actions against Lüqiu Qingfeng and her clan.
• Xu Wansun tried to enlist Lüqiu Human King’s help, but the Human King ignored him and sailed past his cloud carriage.
• Xu Wansun and Dugu Tian presented lavish gifts and Venerable Tong’s letter to Wei Tu, while Lüqiu Qingfeng asked Wei Tu whether he would accept their apology.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng confronted Xu Wansun over his earlier threat to the Lüqiu Human King, and Xu was forced to apologize to him before the assembled cultivators.

The Lüqiu Human King’s gamble secured Wei Tu’s support for addressing the Lüqiu Clan’s blood debt, though Wei Tu framed the matter as an official dispute between the Extreme Mountain Sect and the Lesser Vast Palace. Xu Wansun accepted the Human King’s challenge, and the two faced off outside the Merit Hall.

• The Lüqiu Human King revealed that he had provoked Xu Wansun to win Wei Tu’s favor and free the Lüqiu Clan from Venerable Tong’s influence.
• Wei Tu accepted Venerable Tong’s gift and letter but declared that he would investigate the slaughter of Lüqiu Clan members as an Extreme Mountain Sect matter.
• Wei Tu said the past dispute with Venerable Tong could be set aside, while the Lüqiu Human King’s accusation against Xu Wansun could not be waived.
• The Lüqiu Human King challenged Xu Wansun to battle, and Xu Wansun agreed after Wei Tu accepted his restrictions on external items.
• Outside the Merit Hall, the Lüqiu Human King summoned his three-headed blood-red divine phoenix Dharma Idol and vowed to avenge the slain members of his clan.

Lüqiu Human King fought Xu Wansun in a deathmatch, but Xu Wansun’s Yin-Yang Twin Banners and spells overcame the talismans Wei Tu had supplied. As Xu Wansun trapped him in a sandstorm, Lüqiu Human King began sacrificing his vital blood to pierce the obscuring mist, leaving Wei Tu uncertain whether he was preparing to risk his life.

• Lüqiu Human King unleashed his three-headed True Spirit Dharma Manifestation and attacked Xu Wansun with the Fire Phoenix Art, but Xu Wansun blocked the flames with his Yin-Yang Twin Banners.
• Lüqiu Qingfeng recognized the banners as quasi-fifth-tier artifacts, and Wei Tu told her he had given Lüqiu Human King ten quasi-fifth-tier talismans.
• Lüqiu Human King used Second-Tier Golden Cauldron Talismans against Xu Wansun, who spent Nascent Soul essence to empower the banners’ dragon and tiger spirits and withstand the attacks.
• Xu Wansun trapped Lüqiu Human King with Water Prison Art and obscured the battlefield with Yellow Sand Art, while Wei Tu learned that Lüqiu Qingfeng had awakened the Phoenix Flame innate divine ability.
• Wei Tu judged that Lüqiu Human King was about to lose and prepared to intervene, but then saw him bleed vital blood into the sand mist to pierce it with his divine sense.

Xu Wansun and the Lüqiu Human King killed each other in a battle that left the Lüqiu Clan weakened and Dugu Tian humbled before Wei Tu. After the Spirit Transformation ceremony, Wei Tu set out with Fu Zhizhou for the spatial tunnel to the Great Cang Cultivation Realm, intending to rescue his family from Sacred Cliff Mountain.

• Xu Wansun used his self-detonating dharma body and blood poison to block the Lüqiu Human King's attacks, while Wei Tu declined to intervene at Lüqiu Qingfeng's request.
• Xu Wansun's Nascent Soul was destroyed by the Lüqiu Human King's azure plume, and the poisoned Lüqiu Human King dissolved himself, leaving both fighters dead.
• Wei Tu told Dugu Tian that the Extreme Mountain Sect would handle the Lüqiu Clan's affairs, and Dugu Tian agreed to report his words to Venerable Tong.
• After the ceremony, Wei Tu gained Venerable Han Yue's permission to travel and arranged for Lüqiu Qingfeng to remain at the Extreme Mountain Sect.
• Wei Tu visited Five Elders Mountain, saw how his family and old companions had advanced, and then left with Fu Zhizhou for Seven Rock Island and its spatial tunnel.

After returning to the Great Cang Cultivation Realm, Wei Tu chose to visit the Yingding Tribe before rescuing his son and grandson, determined to repay its kindness. He revealed his Spirit Transformation cultivation to Dulong Divine Master and removed Ding Lezheng’s soul gu, then prepared to help the tribe’s other Divine Masters.

• Wei Tu promised Red Dragon Ancestor that he would help him seize a body, then decided to go to the Yingding Tribe before Sacred Cliff Mountain because the tribe’s three Divine Masters had helped him in the past.
• Wei Tu and Fu Zhizhou reached Hujie Immortal City and learned that the Yingding Tribe believed Wei Tu, Wei Changshou, and their descendants had died from a curse.
• Wei Tu contacted Dulong Divine Master, who warned him that Ding Lezheng had planted a soul gu inside him and urged him to flee.
• Wei Tu revealed that he had reached Spirit Transformation, reassured Dulong Divine Master, and extracted and destroyed the soul gu.
• Dulong Divine Master asked Wei Tu to forgive Divine Master He Di and Divine Master Donglai if they had sided with Sacred Cliff Mountain, and Wei Tu agreed not to blame them for choosing survival.

Ding Lezheng tracked Wei Tu to the Yingding Tribe, seeking revenge and the Demon-Locking Hall’s treasures, but discovered that Wei Tu had reached Spirit Transformation. Their fight paused when Ding Lezheng threatened Wei Tu’s family and proposed a peace agreement, which suited Wei Tu’s own need to avoid a costly battle.

• Ding Lezheng left Sacred Cliff Mountain after sensing Wei Tu’s return and resolved to seize the Exalted King Palace’s opportunities from him.
• Wei Tu sensed Ding Lezheng tracking him and told Dulong Divine Master he would go out to meet the enemy, while Dulong ordered He Di and Donglai to remain inside.
• Ding Lezheng’s divine sense was severed when he probed Wei Tu, and he realized Wei Tu had become a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Ding Lezheng concluded Wei Tu had used demonic qi body infusion and believed the shortcut had ruined Wei Tu’s future cultivation prospects.
• Ding Lezheng threatened Wei Tu’s son, grandson, and clan descendants, then proposed a gentlemen’s agreement; Wei Tu halted his attack and considered the offer useful.

Wei Tu reunited with Wei Xiuwen and the Wei Family after making a ceasefire agreement with Ding Lezheng, then lured Ding into the Netherdark Dead Sea and sprang a trap. Ding escaped the first attacks badly wounded as Wei Tu’s Azure Great Eagle seized the God-Breaking Nail.

• Wei Tu and Ding Lezheng agreed to release Wei Xiuwen, Wei Changshou, and other Wei Family captives in exchange for a temporary truce, while Ding secretly arranged to summon Spirit Transformation reinforcements.
• Wei Tu stayed outside Sacred Cliff Mountain as Fu Zhizhou escorted the Wei Family out; Wei Tu embraced his aged son and gave Wei Changshou the Nascent Soul-Forming Pill meant for his father.
• Wei Tu and Fu Zhizhou led the family toward the Netherdark Dead Sea, while Ding Lezheng secretly followed them and pursued them beneath its poisonous waters.
• Wei Tu attacked Ding with a false body, the Profound Spirit Golden Chain, and two Triple Golden Cauldron Talismans, then used the Five-Element Demon-Exterminating Ring to cut off Ding’s escape.
• Ding Lezheng fled by detonating an arm, but the five-element formation annihilated much of his body, and Wei Tu’s Azure Great Eagle snatched away the God-Breaking Nail.

Wei Tu pursued Ding Lezheng toward Sacred Cliff Mountain after Ding escaped the Netherdark Dead Sea by abandoning his body. As Ding sacrificed his cultivation and slaughtered cultivators to keep fleeing, Wei Tu continued closing in, while Fu Linglong and other Nascent Soul cultivators headed toward Sacred Cliff Mountain.

• Ding Lezheng escaped the Netherdark Dead Sea in his Nascent Soul spirit body after his body’s self-destruction injured Wei Tu, but Wei Tu healed and pursued him with the Sky-Rending Eagle’s Crimson Spirit Wings.
• Fu Linglong recognized Wei Tu and suspected he was chasing Ding Lezheng, then summoned Fu Dalu and secretly left Clean Lotus Convent to head for Sacred Cliff Mountain.
• Nascent Soul cultivators across Xiao State sensed the pursuit and began gathering near Sacred Cliff Mountain, while Wei Tu worried Ding Lezheng would escape through its ultra-long-distance teleportation array.
• After two days and one night, Wei Tu caught up and lashed Ding Lezheng with the Profound Spirit Golden Chain, but Ding burned his dharma manifestation to evade the strike and boost his speed.
• Ding Lezheng absorbed the blood essence of countless cultivators in a market city, restoring his escape speed as Wei Tu continued pursuing him.