Chapter Summaries

Wei Tu used the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing to close in on the depleted Ding Lezheng, who slaughtered townspeople and cultivators to fuel his escape. As Ding approached Sacred Cliff Mountain, its Nascent Soul elders debated whether to shelter him or flee, and Situ Yang urged them to preserve the sect by escaping.

• Wei Tu activated the Nine Secrets of Life-Nurturing, boosting his escape speed and drawing nearer to Ding Lezheng.
• Ding Lezheng threatened to slaughter everyone along the route, then continued draining nearby mortals and cultivators to replenish his strength.
• Dying cultivators sent reports of Ding Lezheng’s massacres to Sacred Cliff Mountain, which had lost people in four towns under its jurisdiction.
• Sect Master Fang Xingduan convened Sacred Cliff Mountain’s Nascent Soul cultivators to discuss whether to shelter Ding Lezheng and whether to flee the sect.
• Situ Yang argued that they should escape in advance and preserve Sacred Cliff Mountain’s foundation.

Sacred Cliff Mountain’s Nascent Soul elders abandoned Ding Lezheng and fled as Wei Tu killed him outside the sect. Fang Xingduan tried to take responsibility and spare the sect’s cultivators, but a woman behind Wei Tu challenged why the other Nascent Soul Cultivators had not also come forward.

• Situ Yang persuaded Sacred Cliff Mountain’s Nascent Soul elders to abandon Ding Lezheng, and Fang Xingduan ordered them to flee through the ultra-long-distance teleportation array.
• Fang Xingduan stayed behind as sect master, while Ding Lezheng fled toward Sacred Cliff Mountain and called on him for help.
• Wei Tu intercepted Ding Lezheng, overcame his attempts to escape and possess him, and killed him while preserving one remnant soul for a later search.
• Fang Xingduan pleaded with Wei Tu to punish only him, then crippled his cultivation twice in an effort to spare Sacred Cliff Mountain’s cultivators.
• A woman in a plain white palace robe challenged Fang Xingduan for accepting punishment while the other Nascent Soul Cultivators remained absent.

Wei Tu prepared to break Sacred Cliff Mountain's formation with fifth-rank talismans after realizing heaven and earth's shackles limited his Spirit Transformation power. As the sect's elites escaped and its abandoned cultivators learned the truth, Fang Xingduan killed himself, leaving Wei Tu poised to attack.

• Fang Xingduan tried to contain unrest among Sacred Cliff Mountain's cultivators while secretly buying time for the sect's Nascent Soul higher-ups to escape.
• Wei Tu realized that heaven and earth's shackles hindered his use of the Dharma Idol, so he chose to make talismans that relied on their own power.
• Wei Tu refined Ding Lezheng's Nascent Soul spirit body into five talisman blanks and began drawing Triple Golden Cauldron Talismans, while Fu Linglong and Fu Dalu spoke nearby.
• Fang Xingduan stayed silent when a cultivator urged an attack, since the formation lacked the Nascent Soul cultivators needed to strike back and the sect's elites were already fleeing.
• Sacred Cliff Mountain's cultivators sensed the teleportation formation and realized Fang Xingduan had deceived them; he apologized, then killed himself as Wei Tu prepared to attack.

Wei Tu destroyed Sacred Cliff Mountain’s formation and ordered its Foundation Establishment and higher cultivators to die, then pursued a plan to recover and hunt down the survivors. After learning from Ding Lezheng’s remnant soul that Feng Yuan knew about the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm, Wei Tu decided to deal with Feng Yuan before pursuing the remaining Sacred Cliff Mountain cultivators.

• Wei Tu shattered Sacred Cliff Mountain’s formation, spared its lower-level cultivators and mortals if its elites took their own lives, and exempted the Sacred Cliff Zhao Family and its subordinate clans.
• Sacred Cliff Mountain’s Foundation Establishment and higher cultivators killed themselves, while Wei Tu trapped those who tried to flee and left Fu Dalu and Fu Linglong to oversee the aftermath.
• Wei Tu used Sacred Cliff Mountain’s teleportation formation to travel to Demon Extremity Sea, intending to help Red Dragon Ancestor revive as a Heavenly Ghost and track the escaped Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Wei Tu recovered from his injuries and extracted Ding Lezheng’s hidden arrangements and intelligence about the Great Yan Cultivation Realm from his remnant soul.
• Wei Tu learned that Ding Lezheng had told Feng Yuan about the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm and decided to confront Feng Yuan before hunting down Sacred Cliff Mountain’s survivors.

Wei Tu arrived at the Myriad Yin Sect and found Gong Shulan working with Scorpio Patriarch to locate the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed. He and Red Dragon Ancestor devised a way to free Gong Shulan while letting Red Dragon Ancestor use Scorpio Patriarch’s soul power for his rebirth.

• Wei Tu refined the God-Breaking Nail and Myriad-Lifting Mountain, then found the Netherwater Escape Technique among Ding Lezheng’s possessions.
• Wei Tu discovered Scorpio Patriarch and Gong Shulan outside the Myriad Yin Sect, where Gong Shulan was impersonating Madam Jin to open the sect’s formation.
• Wei Tu told Gong Shulan he had reached Spirit Transformation and had come to save her, but learned that Scorpio Patriarch’s divided soul and restriction would kill her if she strayed too far from him.
• Gong Shulan explained that she and Scorpio Patriarch planned to seize the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed after Duan Changjing’s investigation narrowed down its location.
• Red Dragon Ancestor proposed letting Scorpio Patriarch obtain the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed so he could devour Scorpio’s soul and reincarnate as a Heavenly Ghost.
• Wei Tu told Gong Shulan that Scorpio Patriarch’s reincarnation would let Red Dragon Ancestor remove the restriction and free her.

Wei Tu and Gong Shulan arranged to use the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed to make Scorpio Patriarch withdraw the soul fragment he had planted in Gong Shulan. As Scorpio Patriarch attacked Duan Changjing at the Myriad Yin Sect, Duan revealed he had only narrowed down the Soul Seed’s location, leaving its true whereabouts unresolved.

• Wei Tu and Gong Shulan planned to lure Scorpio Patriarch to the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed and injure his divine soul with the God-Breaking Nail so he would retrieve his soul fragment from Gong Shulan.
• Scorpio Patriarch and Gong Shulan entered the Myriad Yin Sect disguised as Madam Jin, while Wei Tu and Red Dragon Ancestor secretly destroyed the sect-protecting array.
• Duan Changjing appeared at Nascent Soul Late Stage and taunted Madam Jin, but Scorpio Patriarch confronted him and demanded the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed.
• Duan Changjing tried to sow distrust by revealing that Wei Tu had killed Scorpio Patriarch’s disciple Zhang Nanqiu, then insisted Scorpio Patriarch kill Madam Jin before receiving the Soul Seed.
• Scorpio Patriarch and Gong Shulan attacked Duan Changjing; Scorpio Patriarch poisoned and cursed him, forcing Duan to retreat and admit he had only identified the area where the Soul Seed might be.

Scorpio Patriarch found the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed with Duan Changjing, but Wei Tu, disguised as Fang Xingduan, ambushed him and forced him to flee with severe soul injuries. Two months later, Scorpio Patriarch brought Gong Shulan to Abyssal Marsh Immortal City, where he revealed that Alliance Leader Tan was his son, leaving Gong Shulan to realize he was guarding against her.

• Duan Changjing and Scorpio Patriarch swore mutual soul oaths to cooperate in finding the Heavenly Ghost Soul Seed.
• Scorpio Patriarch found the soul seed at the fourth suspected location and left the Myriad Yin Sect with Gong Shulan.
• Wei Tu, disguised as Fang Xingduan, attacked Scorpio Patriarch with a mountain artifact and a Spirit Transformation treasure, grievously wounding his soul.
• Gong Shulan's human-puppet body self-destructed to delay Fang Xingduan, while Scorpio Patriarch escaped using Blood Escape and later reunited with her.
• Scorpio Patriarch resolved to seek opportunities to attain Spirit Transformation and traveled south with Gong Shulan.
• At Abyssal Marsh Immortal City, Scorpio Patriarch revealed that Alliance Leader Tan was his son, and Gong Shulan realized he was guarding against her.

Wei Tu confronted Alliance Leader Tan with the plan to deceive Scorpio Patriarch and asked him to help kill his father. Tan agreed in exchange for a practical path to Spirit Transformation, and Wei Tu shared information about opportunities in the Great Flame Cultivation Realm.

• Gong Shulan warned Wei Tu that Alliance Leader Tan was Scorpio Patriarch’s son and that their plan risked being exposed in Wushan State.
• Wei Tu arrived at Alliance Leader Tan’s cave abode and revealed the scheme, asking whether Tan was willing to kill his father.
• Alliance Leader Tan agreed to conceal Wei Tu’s identity and help deceive Scorpio Patriarch, but requested a feasible path to Spirit Transformation and Wei Tu’s breakthrough experiences.
• Wei Tu accepted Tan’s terms and gave him a jade slip containing information about the Great Flame Cultivation Realm and its Spirit Transformation opportunities.

Alliance Leader Tan agreed to help Wei Tu kill Scorpio Patriarch after receiving a route to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm, while Scorpio Patriarch brought Gong Shulan to Tan’s cave residence to prepare for reincarnation as a Heavenly Ghost. As Scorpio Patriarch began the ritual, Wei Tu appeared and immobilized him with Spirit Transformation-level divine sense.

• Alliance Leader Tan accepted Wei Tu’s jade slip, swore a soul oath to help him, and gave him a Heavenly Nether True Page.
• Scorpio Patriarch arrived with Gong Shulan, revealed their relationship to Alliance Leader Tan, and asked to use his secluded cultivation chamber for his reincarnation preparations.
• Scorpio Patriarch tested Gong Shulan’s loyalty, removed his split soul from her, and sent her outside while he activated the chamber’s formation.
• Scorpio Patriarch opened a jade box containing a black-jade object with eight apertures and began preparing to reincarnate as a Heavenly Ghost.
• Wei Tu appeared inside the sealed chamber and froze Scorpio Patriarch with his powerful divine sense, revealing that he had achieved Spirit Transformation.

Wei Tu arranged Red Dragon Ancestor’s rebirth after Red Dragon Ancestor devoured Scorpio Patriarch, then decided to leave the Great Cang Cultivation Realm for the Great Flame Cultivation Realm with several allies. He invited Fu Linglong and Fu Dalu to go with him, but Fu Linglong’s coy submission left him unsure how to respond.

• Red Dragon Ancestor devoured Scorpio Patriarch’s divine soul, while Scorpio Patriarch revealed that Alliance Leader Tan had betrayed him and urged Wei Tu to kill Chen Tan.
• Wei Tu examined Scorpio Patriarch’s treasures, lost the Ghost-Eyed Demon Spider when the eerie vertical eye swallowed it, and discovered advanced talisman methods and a Second Nascent Soul technique.
• Gong Shulan returned to Wei Tu’s cave abode, accepted his invitation to travel with him to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm, and agreed to meet him in five years.
• Wei Tu decided to bring Fu Zhizhou and the Fu Linglong siblings to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm, while relocating Madam Jin and her daughter to the Returning Ruins Sea Cultivation Realm.
• At Sacred Cliff Mountain, Wei Tu invited Fu Linglong and Fu Dalu to leave with him; after Wei Tu mistook Fu Linglong’s reluctance for refusal, she apologized and invited him into the inner chamber to discipline her.

Wei Tu and Fu Linglong reconciled on terms that preserved her independence, and he agreed to take her and Fu Dalu to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm. He then traveled to the Myriad Yin Sect to kill Duan Changjing, only to find that his enemy had fled.

• Wei Tu and Fu Linglong entered a side hall, where she served him a spirit-water bath and the two became intimate.
• Fu Linglong told Wei Tu she would not change her personality or become his concubine, and asked him to take Fu Dalu with him if she stayed behind.
• Wei Tu agreed not to force Fu Linglong into concubinage and promised to take her and Fu Dalu to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm.
• Wei Tu recalled Zhao Qingluo's grave and worried that Su Bing'er might have died before he could help her form her Nascent Soul.
• Wei Tu teleported to Demon Extremity Sea and found that Duan Changjing had already fled the Myriad Yin Sect.

Wei Tu tracked down Duan Changjing and found that the Acacia Sect had captured him to curry favor, so he spared the sect and urged it to hunt Sacred Cliff Mountain’s remnants instead. After bringing Duan Changjing to Northern Origin Island, Wei Tu revealed his Spirit Transformation realm and Red Dragon Ancestor’s survival, but Madam Jin privately warned him to guard against his master.

• Wei Tu used Red Dragon Ancestor’s preserved essence blood to track Duan Changjing to the Acacia Sect.
• Gongsu Chou and Lotus Madam Yin presented the captured Duan Changjing to Wei Tu, who told them to earn merit by capturing Sacred Cliff Mountain’s escaped Nascent Soul elders.
• Wei Tu took Duan Changjing to Northern Origin Island, where Madam Jin and Sutai welcomed him.
• Wei Tu revealed that he had reached Spirit Transformation, astonishing Madam Jin.
• Wei Tu told Madam Jin and Sutai that Red Dragon Ancestor was alive and reincarnating as a Heavenly Ghost.
• Madam Jin privately warned Wei Tu that Red Dragon Ancestor might turn against him if he became weak.

Wei Tu and Madam Jin agreed to place controlling measures on Red Dragon Ancestor to protect their family and prevent him from becoming a threat. Red Dragon Ancestor accepted the plan but demanded guarantees for Wang Sutai’s place as Wei Tu’s principal wife and for his future share of resources.

• Madam Jin warned Wei Tu that Red Dragon Ancestor might betray him if he regained his strength, and urged him to restrain or kill Red Dragon Ancestor if necessary.
• Wei Tu agreed with Madam Jin and took Red Dragon Ancestor’s Heavenly Ghost Flesh Womb to a secret chamber, where they planned to impose control measures.
• Madam Jin provoked Red Dragon Ancestor and revealed that she and Wei Tu intended to restrain him; Red Dragon Ancestor accused her of betraying her household.
• Wei Tu told Red Dragon Ancestor he could leave if Wei Tu erased more than four hundred years of his memories, leaving Red Dragon Ancestor silent.
• Red Dragon Ancestor accepted staying with Wei Tu and demanded that Wang Sutai remain his principal wife and that he be allowed to give future resources to Madam Jin and Wang Sutai.

Wei Tu placed Red Dragon Ancestor under a Divine Soul Fate Tablet and brought Madam Jin and Wang Sutai to the Overseas Cultivation Realm, where Fu Zhizhou reported on the relocated cultivators. After arranging their settlement, Wei Tu discovered Lüqiu Qingfeng was nearing the quasi-Spirit Transformation realm and promised to seek her breakthrough opportunity through the Lesser Vast Palace, leaving her hopeful that Venerable Tong would eventually fall.

• Wei Tu took part of Red Dragon Ancestor’s divine soul and bound him with a Divine Soul Fate Tablet, then agreed to treat him as a master so long as he behaved.
• Wei Tu brought Madam Jin and Wang Sutai through the spatial tunnel to Seven Rock Island, where Fu Zhizhou reported that the relocated Yingding Tribe cultivators remained undiscovered.
• Wei Tu praised Fu Zhizhou’s work and agreed to take him to the Great Flame Cultivation Realm to seek breakthrough resources.
• Wei Tu settled Madam Jin and Wang Sutai at the Spiderheart Sect rather than bringing them to the Extreme Mountain Sect, where Lüqiu Qingfeng already managed his affairs.
• Wei Tu returned to the Extreme Mountain Sect, discovered Lüqiu Qingfeng was close to the quasi-Spirit Transformation realm, and refused to seek resources from his own sect on her behalf.
• Wei Tu promised Lüqiu Qingfeng an opportunity through the Lesser Vast Palace and said he might be able to kill Venerable Tong in two or three hundred years.

Wei Tu visited Wei Fei’s grave with Fu Zhizhou, then confronted Ni Shihuang over an old promise concerning Ni Meixian. He offered Ni Meixian a choice between becoming his concubine and accepting spirit crystals, and the chapter ended as Ni Shihuang tried to interfere and was injured by Wei Tu’s cold snort.

• Wei Tu left the Extreme Mountain Sect and, two months later, joined Fu Zhizhou in paying respects at Wei Fei’s grave.
• Fu Zhizhou and Wei Tu gave the Wei Family a Nascent Soul-Forming Pill as their final gift and discussed Wei Fei’s descendants.
• Ni Shihuang approached Wei Tu and reminded him of his old promise to take Ni Meixian as a concubine if she formed her Golden Core.
• Wei Tu agreed to meet Ni Meixian, then asked whether she wanted the concubine title or spirit crystals as compensation for her years of waiting.
• Ni Meixian reacted eagerly to the spirit crystals, but Ni Shihuang urged her not to give up the concubine title, prompting Wei Tu to injure Ni Shihuang with a cold snort.

Wei Tu confronted Ni Shihuang over her attempt to manipulate Ni Meixian, then learned the Celestial Maiden Sect was involved and sought its Dragon Chant Pill formula and ingredients. He arrived at the sect with Ni Shihuang, where its elders activated their protective formation and learned that the sect had indeed schemed against him.

• Ni Meixian chose Wei Tu’s spirit crystal resources over the Ni Family’s promised concubine arrangement, and Wei Tu demanded an explanation from Ni Shihuang.
• Ni Shihuang offered her family’s treasury resources, then revealed the Celestial Maiden Sect’s strength and its Dragon Chant Pill formula and materials.
• Wei Tu rejected Ni Shihuang’s request to claim she was his fated partner and take her as a concubine, then traveled with her toward the sect.
• Wei Tu and Ni Shihuang used a secret teleportation array to reach the Celestial Maiden Sect, whose Golden Core guard reported their arrival.
• The Celestial Maiden Sect’s three Nascent Soul ancestors activated the sect-protecting formation, and a white-haired elder asked Wei Tu why he had come.
• Wei Tu accused the sect of scheming against him, and Ni Shihuang’s account confirmed to the elders that it had been involved.

Ni Shihuang exposed Shouke Heavenly Maiden’s plan to sacrifice her, and Wei Tu refused to play along, forcing the Celestial Maiden Sect to negotiate. Shouke offered the sect’s Dragon Chant Pill formula and collected herbs, then considered directing Wei Tu against an enemy holding the missing ingredients.

• Shouke Heavenly Maiden proposed that Wei Tu kill Ni Shihuang as an apology for the Celestial Maiden Sect’s offense.
• Ni Shihuang realized the sect intended to sacrifice her, told Wei Tu of the plan, and begged to become his maidservant.
• Wei Tu decided not to kill Ni Shihuang and started to leave, warning the sect with the threat of his power and influence.
• Shouke Heavenly Maiden admitted her mistake and offered the Celestial Maiden Sect’s resources to win Wei Tu’s favor.
• Wei Tu demanded the Dragon Chant Pill formula and every herb the sect had collected to refine it.
• Shouke Heavenly Maiden considered sending Wei Tu after an enemy in the Great Flame Cultivation Realm that possessed the two missing ingredients.

Wei Tu obtained the Dragon Chant Pill formula and its spirit medicines from the Celestial Maiden Sect, learning that the Divine Sun Sect and Ghost Shadow Palace stood between him and two other ingredients. He compensated the Celestial Maiden Sect and made Ni Shihuang his maidservant, leaving her protected from the sect’s reprisals.

• Shouke Heavenly Maiden told Wei Tu that the Divine Sun Sect held two ingredients he needed and was protected by Ghost Shadow Palace.
• Wei Tu accepted the Dragon Chant Pill formula and spirit medicines, then gave Shouke Heavenly Maiden a pouch containing twenty spirit crystals.
• Shouke Heavenly Maiden recognized the crystals’ value and praised Wei Tu as a righteous cultivator.
• On the way to Cloud Crane Mountain, Ni Shihuang asked Wei Tu to bind her with a slave seal, and he placed a soul restriction in her sea of consciousness.
• Ni Shihuang asked about the Celestial Maiden Sect’s response to her becoming Wei Tu’s servant, and Wei Tu explained that his compensation would ease tensions and protect her.

Wei Tu stayed in Zheng State, honored old ties by giving the Rosy Cliff Liu Family a powerful inheritance, and set out with Fu Zhizhou and their companions for the Great Flame Cultivation Realm. As Wei Tu pursued Chen Tan across a spiritual-energy-depleted wasteland, Feng Yuan learned of Wei Tu’s Spirit Transformation and hurried toward the Great Cang Cultivation Realm to kill him.

• Wei Tu warned Ni Shihuang that the Cloud Marsh Secret Realm housed a formidable ancient devil, and she agreed to have the Ni Family seal its herb garden; she also reported that the Celestial Maiden Sect had no news of Old Man Chongming.
• Wei Tu visited Huang Fang and Huang Juzhi’s graves, told Huang Juzhi that he had killed Qi Chengchu, and gave the Rosy Cliff Liu Family an iron stele containing a Nascent Soul cultivation technique and a fourth-tier talisman-master inheritance.
• Wei Tu left Cloud Crane Mountain with Fu Zhizhou, met Gong Shulan and the Fu siblings at Cinnabar Hill, and headed with them toward the Great Flame Cultivation Realm; Fu Linglong and Gong Shulan assessed one another warily.
• Wei Zhongliang delivered Ding Lezheng’s decree to Feng Yuan at Supreme Truth Abbey, and Feng Yuan learned that Wei Tu had become a Spirit Transformation Venerable before setting out alone for the Great Cang Cultivation Realm.
• While crossing the wasteland between the Great Cang and Great Flame Cultivation Realms, Wei Tu used Scorpio Patriarch’s essence blood to track Chen Tan, learned that Chen Tan had severed their bloodline connection, and resolved to pursue him slowly.

Feng Yuan entered the Great Cang Cultivation Realm while Chen Tan encountered him and received a token to seek help from the Nine Nations Alliance. Meanwhile, Wei Tu refined the Chaotic Calamity Evil Eye, then reached the Great Flame Cultivation Realm with his companions and agreed to arrange future meetings to exchange spiritual items.

• Feng Yuan passed Chen Tan in the Great Flame Cultivation Realm, gave him a Supreme Truth token, and continued toward the Great Cang Cultivation Realm to confront a Spirit Transformation Venerable.
• Chen Tan resolved to seek greater power and revenge against Wei Tu and Gong Shulan, while Wei Tu avoided the main route and examined his Azure Emperor Life-Slaying Sword's progress.
• Wei Tu learned the origins and abilities of the Chaotic Calamity Evil Eye from Red Dragon Ancestor, then refined it and tested its ability to see through space with Fu Linglong and Fu Dalu.
• Wei Tu chose not to use the eye to investigate Gong Shulan's true body and continued traveling with his companions.
• After reaching Badger Kingdom in the southern domain, Wei Tu proposed parting ways, but Gong Shulan suggested scheduled gatherings to exchange spiritual items, and Wei Tu agreed.