Chapter Summaries

After Taiyi divided his treasures among his disciples, his body collapsed and revealed that he was A’Fu, who had impersonated the original Taiyi to fulfill his final wish. A’Fu died beside Tu Shan Jun, and the sect learned that its Patriarch had passed away as Yu Long moved to take control of the Ancestral Hall.

• Taiyi offered incense with Tu Shan Jun and assigned his remaining spirit treasures to his nine disciples.
• Taiyi warned Tu Shan Jun to protect himself and the sect, then admitted he was not the original Taiyi as his body began to break apart.
• Taiyi vanished, revealing A’Fu beneath his disguise; A’Fu asked Tu Shan Jun whether he looked like Taiyi, and Tu Shan Jun affirmed that he did.
• A’Fu died beside Tu Shan Jun, shrinking into a jade doll as Tu Shan Jun’s soul banner remained in the room.
• The Jade Palace elders announced Taiyi’s death, and the Bell and Drum Tower sounded a mournful toll.
• Yu Long headed to the Ancestral Hall, declared himself the next sect master, and ordered everyone to stay outside before someone called, “Wait!”

Wu Rong persuaded Yu Long and the Attendant elders to let him enter the Ancestral Hall, insisting that he needed to reach the Soul Banner. Inside, Wu Rong revealed he knew a secret about the banner and made a captured criminal approach it, leaving the group waiting to see what would happen.

• Wu Rong demanded entry to the Ancestral Hall, and Yu Long agreed after True Lord Golden Turtle and other Attendants supported him.
• Wu Rong asked the three-inch demon to accompany him, and he entered the Ancestral Hall with Yu Long and Qiu Wandao.
• Inside, the group found the sect's treasures and a towering Soul Banner, but no trace of Taiyi's body.
• Wu Rong admitted he wanted the Soul Banner and said they needed someone to command it to hear Martial Uncle speak.
• Wu Rong pulled a captured criminal from a cloth bag and ordered him to pick up the Soul Banner for a chance to live.

Tu Shan Jun revealed that Venerable Chuijun would soon attack Taiyi Sect and called on Qiu Wandao to wield the Soul Banner, prompting Wu Rong to challenge him over taking it away. Their confrontation was interrupted by the arrival of Xia Feng, who identified himself as Taiyi’s fellow sect senior brother and learned that Taiyi had died.

• Wang Zhizhi picked up the Soul Banner, which seized his Golden Core yin spirit and transformed his body into Tu Shan Jun’s appearance.
• Tu Shan Jun explained that Venerable Chuijun would attack the sect and that the Soul Banner’s wielder would need to resist him and support Tu Shan Jun through the heavenly tribulation.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed that Qiu Wandao had already reached late-stage Nascent Soul, and Qiu Wandao agreed to wield the Soul Banner.
• Wu Rong insisted that he would take the Soul Banner, and Qiu Wandao stepped forward to stop him.
• Xia Feng arrived at the Ancestral Hall, learned that Taiyi had died, and introduced himself as Taiyi’s fellow sect senior brother, Venerable Taihua.

Tu Shan Jun identified himself as Taiyi’s junior brother, but Venerable Taihua mistook him for a demon who had stolen the sect’s inheritance and attacked. After restraining Wu Rong and investigating the sect, Taihua eased his pressure but remained wary as Tu Shan Jun urged him to recognize his true origins.

• Tu Shan Jun revealed his name and claimed to be Taiyi’s junior brother, leaving Qiu Wandao, Yu Long, and Wu Rong stunned.
• Venerable Taihua used the Spirit Official Dharma Eye, mistook Tu Shan Jun for a demon who had taken someone’s form, and attacked him.
• Tu Shan Jun emerged from the Soul Banner at peak Nascent Soul strength, while Wu Rong tried to resist Taihua’s suppression.
• Venerable Taihua subdued Wu Rong, and Qiu Wandao and Yu Long pleaded with him to hear Tu Shan Jun out.
• Taihua inspected the three juniors and the sect, then withdrew his pressure while remaining suspicious of Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun stopped Wu Rong and asked Taihua to acknowledge that he had seen Tu Shan Jun’s origins.

Tu Shan Jun revealed the truth about Taiyi’s death and the identity of the current Taiyi, provoking Venerable Taihua to condemn him and expel him from the sect. As Tu Shan Jun left, Wu Rong chased after him and called him Master.

• Venerable Taihua learned that Tu Shan Jun’s Soul Banner held ten Nascent Soul Yin Spirits and asked to inspect them.
• Venerable Taihua recognized Taiyi’s Yin Spirit and accused Tu Shan Jun of turning his junior brother into a bound soul servant.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed that Taiyi had died more than two hundred years earlier and that Ah Fu had taken his identity after eating his body.
• Venerable Taihua denounced Tu Shan Jun and dismissed him from the sect, while Tu Shan Jun asked him to protect the disciples and keep the truth hidden.
• Venerable Taihua gave Tu Shan Jun a jade doll, and Tu Shan Jun departed with the fiend.
• Wu Rong chased after Tu Shan Jun at the mountain gate and called him Master.

Tu Shan Jun prepared to leave the Taiyi Sect for the Eastern Wasteland, parting from Wu Rong and receiving a mysterious intervention from the Patriarch Statue. After he departed, Venerable Taihua ordered the sect to spread a false account of why he had left.

• Tu Shan Jun gave Wu Rong his resources and inheritances, and Wu Rong offered him a captured Demon Cultivator to protect him on the road.
• Tu Shan Jun urged Wu Rong to stay and watch over Zhou Xinglie, then departed with his demon attendant for the Eastern Wasteland.
• The Patriarch Statue appeared before Tu Shan Jun, empowered the blood-jade gourd with white qi, and returned it to his sea of consciousness.
• Tu Shan Jun chose to seek a route to the Eastern Wasteland through the Pill Alliance and Artifact Alliance.
• Venerable Taihua ordered Qiu Wandao and Yu Long to spread the claim that Tu Shan Jun had left over a dispute about the next sect master.

Tu Shan Jun traveled away from the Taiyi Sect, but Venerable Chuiyun intercepted his spirit vessel, seeking the Daoist weapon with a weapon spirit. Venerable Taihua arrived to confront Chuiyun, who revealed he had refined the Kunpeng inheritance and refused to let Tu Shan Jun leave.

• Tu Shan Jun and the demon traveled aboard a spirit vessel while passengers gossiped about the Taiyi Sect and bought Mo Ji's book about Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun told Mo Ji that the book was not real, and Venerable Chuiyun appeared to block the spirit vessel.
• Venerable Chuiyun revealed that he had refined the Kunpeng inheritance and urged Tu Shan Jun to surrender and join him.
• Tu Shan Jun explained to the demon that someone had deliberately spread news of his departure, and that Venerable Taihua was the person he had been waiting for.
• Venerable Taihua arrived and demanded that Chuiyun let Tu Shan Jun leave, but Chuiyun refused and summoned a cauldron, preparing to fight.

Venerable Taihua and Venerable Chuiyun fought while the spirit vessel carrying Tu Shan Jun and Mo Ji struggled against the battle’s shockwaves. The chapter left the duel unresolved as Chuiyun wiped blood from his cheek and the fiend wondered whether Taihua had won.

• Tu Shan Jun and the fiend waited aboard the spirit vessel while its steward sent for help and the Venerables faced off outside.
• Venerable Chuiyun revealed his Kunpeng inheritance and challenged Venerable Taihua, who let the spirit vessel move away from them.
• Tu Shan Jun assessed Chuiyun’s strength, while the fiend suggested fleeing and Tu Shan Jun explained why that would put it at risk.
• Venerable Taihua drew his ancient sword and destroyed Chuiyun’s probing attack with a single slash.
• Chuiyun unleashed his full small world and attacked Taihua as Ancient Immortal Tower’s cultivators activated the spirit vessel’s defensive formation.
• The battle’s shockwaves rocked the spirit vessel, and Chuiyun wiped his cheek as the fiend asked whether Taihua had won.

Venerable Taihua fought Venerable Chuiyun over the Soul Banner but could neither kill him nor force him to keep its secret. Tu Shan Jun rejected Chuiyun’s offer to join his plans and chose to leave Star Luo, while Taihua ordered both men to depart.

• The Star Luo Ancient Immortal Tower’s Tower Master prepared to protect its spirit vessel as the cultivators worried over the battle and the Taiyi Sect ancestor’s presence.
• Venerable Taihua wounded Venerable Chuiyun with his sword, but Chuiyun warned that killing him would reveal the secret to the world.
• Venerable Chuiyun tried to persuade Tu Shan Jun to wield the Soul Banner and join his expansion plans, promising security and shared power.
• Tu Shan Jun refused, explaining that he had served the Taiyi Sect because of a promise and would not surrender control of his life.
• Venerable Chuiyun threatened to expose the Soul Banner if Tu Shan Jun left Star Luo, but Tu Shan Jun stood by his decision.
• Venerable Taihua tossed Chuiyun a storage pouch and ordered him to leave, then told Tu Shan Jun to depart as well.

Tu Shan Jun and the devilhead traveled aboard the Ancient Immortal Tower’s spirit vessel toward the Eastern Wasteland after Taihua let them leave, while Venerable Chuiyun realized the soul banner could grow into a Dao weapon. Chuiyun then hired a mysterious figure to intercept them at the Ancient Immortal Tower of Fanghu Continent.

• Tu Shan Jun and the devilhead left Starry Net Sea aboard the Ancient Immortal Tower’s spirit vessel, while Taihua stayed behind and Venerable Chuiyun later told him that the soul banner needed no resources to grow into a Dao weapon.
• Venerable Chuiyun concluded that Taiyi had used the soul banner to kill Lord East Sea at Red Mountain, and Taihua regretted underestimating the treasure but returned to the Taiyi Sect.
• Tu Shan Jun explained to the devilhead that Taihua had spared Chuiyun so he could witness their departure and help sever the sect’s ties to them.
• Tu Shan Jun said they would reach the Eastern Wasteland in at most half a year, and the devilhead asked what Taihua had placed in the storage pouch.
• Venerable Chuiyun gave a mysterious figure the spirit vessel’s destination and offered a desired treasure in exchange for help, proposing a contract instead of a Heavenly Dao oath.

Wu Rong told Zhou Xinglie that he planned to leave the sect within thirty years to pursue immortality, while Venerable Taihua reported the Stellar Sea’s situation to his elder and received orders to develop the region. As Tu Shan Jun traveled toward the Eastern Wasteland Realm aboard an Ancient Immortal Tower spirit vessel, a middle-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator intercepted it and demanded that he come out.

• Wu Rong told Zhou Xinglie that he would leave the sect within thirty years to pursue the Dao, and Zhou Xinglie admitted that he had been drifting without purpose.
• Venerable Taihua reported the Stellar Sea’s circumstances and the secrets involving the earth dog and Tu Shan Jun to an elder, who ordered him to unify the region and develop it as a potential sect base.
• Tu Shan Jun considered avoiding a visit to the Ancient Immortal Tower in Fanghu Continent and buying its intelligence instead.
• A concealed cultivator arranged to ambush an Ancient Immortal Tower spirit vessel, then boarded it as it emerged from the domain wall and searched for Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun identified himself and asked whether Venerable Chuiyun had sent the attacker, who then declared, “Then die!”

Tu Shan Jun revealed his Indestructible Bone Dao body and fought Burning Heaven Venerable inside the Void Heaven Otherrealm. He unleashed the Ten Directions Ghost King Power to reach early-stage Spirit Transformation strength, but after their clash he remained standing only as a burning skeleton with newly formed eyes.

• Tu Shan Jun exchanged places with the Banner Slave and manifested his Nascent Soul peak Indestructible Bone Dao body to confront Burning Heaven Venerable.
• Burning Heaven Venerable revealed his identity as a Firecloud Sect Venerable and trapped Tu Shan Jun inside his bronze lamp’s Void Heaven Otherrealm.
• A devil escaped the small world, while the Ancient Immortal Tower cultivator activated the spirit vessel’s defensive formation and its passengers watched the battle in alarm.
• Tu Shan Jun used Ghost King Reborn and merged nine Nascent Soul yin gods with a million yin spirits, raising his strength to early-stage Spirit Transformation.
• Tu Shan Jun charged into Burning Heaven Venerable’s Heaven and Earth Burn Together attack, and the aftermath left Tu Shan Jun’s skeleton standing amid the flames as black-red vapor formed his eyes.

Tu Shan Jun survived Venerable Burning Heaven’s attack with his Indestructible Bone, then fought to escape the Void Heaven Otherworld. As Venerable Burning Heaven offered to cooperate, Venerable Five Viscera ambushed Tu Shan Jun and badly damaged him and the Soul Banner, leaving Tu Shan Jun retreating into the domain barrier with Tai Hua’s storage pouch and a small boat.

• Tu Shan Jun restored his body with Baleful Intent and used the Soul Banner and the Ten-Directional Ghost Kings’ power to tear apart Venerable Burning Heaven’s Void Heaven Otherworld.
• Venerable Burning Heaven withdrew the domain and proposed that he and Tu Shan Jun cooperate to seek immortality, while Tu Shan Jun considered leaving Star Luo to protect Jinghong.
• Venerable Burning Heaven discovered Venerable Five Viscera hiding behind Tu Shan Jun as he tried to seize the Soul Banner, and the two Venerables confronted each other.
• Venerable Five Viscera struck Tu Shan Jun with Firefrost Pus, melting much of his body and damaging the Soul Banner before Tu Shan Jun escaped into the domain barrier.
• Tu Shan Jun retrieved Tai Hua’s storage pouch from the damaged Soul Banner and took out a small boat.

Tu Shan Jun was left gravely damaged and stranded in the domain barrier after fighting Venerable Fen Tian, while the hunt for the weapon-spirit treasure became a rumor. Tu Shan Jinghong returned as a Spirit Transformation Venerable to search for her missing father, and her retracing of the Blood Fiend Sect battle ended with a shocking discovery.

• Tu Shan Jun tore away the dissolving Soul Banner fabric, reduced the remaining banner to a ring, and fell motionless as his mana ran out.
• Venerable Fen Tian searched the domain barrier for the weapon-spirit treasure, then left after Venerable Five Viscera confirmed he had not obtained it.
• Six months later, rumors that a weapon-spirit treasure had vanished into the domain barrier drew cultivators to Fanghu Continent.
• Tu Shan Jinghong visited True Lord Wuya, revealed that she had become a Venerable, and asked him about Tu Shan Jun.
• At the former Blood Fiend Sect, Tu Shan Jinghong used her double pupils to retrace her father's battle and was stunned by what she read from his exchange with the sect master.

Wang Qianxing’s Spirit Boat encountered a drifting boat carrying a half-skeletal cultivator and rare treasures in the domain barrier. After the treasures were brought aboard, Zhao Wu’s bandits confronted Wang Qianxing, and Lu Jing revealed that he had switched sides, leaving Wang outnumbered.

• Wang Qianxing ordered Lu Jing to bring the Star Gold Merchant Association’s Spirit Boat closer to a drifting boat spotted in the domain barrier.
• Wang Qianxing forced a female cultivator to board the small boat, where she found a dead, horned half-skeleton and confirmed its presence to him.
• The crew brought the small boat, bronze lamp, and corpse aboard, and Wang Qianxing reached for the corpse’s storage rings.
• Zhao Wu and three companions revealed themselves aboard the Spirit Boat and demanded money from Wang Qianxing.
• Wang Qianxing counted his guards to match the bandits, but Lu Jing declared that he had joined Zhao Wu, making it five against four, and Wang surrendered the treasures.

Tu Shan Jinghong learned the truth about her father and accepted that he was still the same person, while the scene shifted to Wang Qianxing and his companions being robbed aboard a spirit vessel. The robbers turned on Wang and the escorting cultivators after looting the vessel, and the chapter ended as battle began.

• Tu Shan Jinghong understood that Tu Shan Jun had once been an ordinary young man and asked where her father had gone, but the black-robed figure vanished.
• Zhao Wu demanded that Wang Qianxing's group surrender their possessions, while Wang refused to let his companions seal their dantians.
• Zhao Wu's men stripped the spirit vessel and took the bronze lamp boat and the rings from the skeletal corpse.
• Zhao Wu revealed that he intended to kill Wang Qianxing to prevent future retaliation, and Lu Jing and the other robbers launched an attack.

Lu Jing and his allies defeated Wang Qianxing and the Xingjin Merchant Guild’s attendants, but Zhao Wu turned on his companions after finding a fortune in Wang’s storage ring. Lu Jing revealed his hidden strength and killed Zhao Wu, then learned that the rusted ring Zhao Wu had ignored was a Dao weapon.

• Wang Qianxing killed the skinny Golden Core cultivator, while Mu Qing and Baldy joined the battle against him.
• Zhao Wu and Lu Jing killed the three Golden Core attendants, and Wang Qianxing consumed a pill to raise his cultivation before they overwhelmed him.
• Zhao Wu killed Mu Qing and Baldy, then admitted he intended to keep the entire treasure from Wang Qianxing’s storage ring for himself.
• Lu Jing revealed his late Golden Core cultivation and his connection to the Organization, then dissolved Zhao Wu’s domain and cut him into four pieces.
• An elder told Lu Jing that the rusted ring Zhao Wu had overlooked was a Dao weapon, a treasure normally wielded only by Venerables.

Lu Jing examined the enormous fortune in a storage ring and discovered that the rust-speckled ring was a damaged Dao Armament capable of changing into many forms. He left the domain aboard his small boat, intending to complete his mission before deciding how to handle the treasure.

• Lu Jing left the surviving cultivators aboard the spirit vessel alive and escaped into the domain barrier on his hidden small boat.
• Lu Jing opened the storage ring and found a vast hoard of Spirit Stones, materials, and medicinal pills, shocking both him and Elder Wu.
• Lu Jing transformed the rust-speckled ring into a short blade and easily used it to cut through one of his own treasure weapons.
• Lu Jing discovered that the Dao Armament could change into forms such as a sword, stele, bell, and armor, though he could not activate its spells or divine abilities.
• Lu Jing put the ring on, let Elder Wu's cloak settle over his shoulders, and steered toward a place where bright light flickered; an eye briefly opened on the ring.

Lu Jing met with the organization, handed over the spirit vessel’s spoils and two treasures from his fortunate encounter, and received a new assignment. He postponed his trip to the Great Artifact Sect to hunt a Demon Cultivator in the Northern Plains, while his black iron ring began to heal itself.

• Lu Jing gave the organization’s representative the looted storage items, but resisted handing over his suspected Venerable’s storage ring.
• Elder Wu warned Lu Jing that the organization might be testing his loyalty, and Lu Jing traveled to Falling Feather City to visit the Great Artifact Sect and repair his Dao soldier.
• Lu Jing spent time at Alum Tower before meeting a woman from the organization, who gave him his mission reward and demanded an account of his fortunate encounter.
• Lu Jing surrendered a small boat and bronze lamp, then accepted a mission to rescue children abducted by a Demon Cultivator in the Northern Plains.
• Lu Jing noticed that the damage on his black iron ring had shrunk and decided to handle the mission before heading to Heavenly Mechanism City.

Wei Huo captured a woman from the Organization and tried to learn its name, but Lu Jing arrived at Northern Plains Green Mountain to retrieve her. Lu Jing killed Wei Huo, and his mysterious short blade devoured the body and Yin Spirit before a ghost eye opened on it.

• Wei Huo questioned the shackled woman about the Organization, but she revealed only that it was called the Organization and warned him of its reach.
• Lu Jing searched Northern Plains Green Mountain with his divine sense and demanded that Wei Huo hand over the Organization member.
• Wei Huo fled when he realized Lu Jing was a late Golden Core cultivator, but Lu Jing caught and killed him with his short blade.
• Lu Jing discovered that the short blade had absorbed Wei Huo's body and Yin Spirit, repairing some of its damage.
• A black-pupiled ghost eye opened on the blade, and Lu Jing stared at it in shock.