Recaps

Wei He killed the Sky-Flipping Ray and helped hold off the beast tide until it ended, then traveled with the Xuanmiao Sect team to Yinxu Port for the factions’ gathering. As the group headed toward the central restaurant, a golden-haired woman approached and asked whether he was Wei He.

• Wei He used his Gravity Pythons and Returning True Force to capture and kill the Sky-Flipping Ray, then sealed its body and had Meng Chunhan retrieve its star core.
• Wei He ordered the group to preserve a dead junior brother’s corpse and return it to his Lineage, then waited with Cai Menghuan as True Beasts attacked the island.
• The two-month beast tide ended with Cai Menghuan earning 132 points and Wei He earning 135; both received Sea Stabilizing Primordial Essence after handing in their star cores.
• Wei He and the Xuanmiao Sect team sailed to Yinxu Port, where factions gathered to exchange martial insights and trade resources.
• As the procession headed toward the central restaurant, a golden-haired woman approached Wei He and asked if he was Senior Brother Wei He of the Mountain Lock lineage.

Wei He arrived at Twin Eyes with the Xuanmiao Sect party, avoided a challenge by downplaying his role in killing a Grandmaster, and went to explore the island’s markets. He began inspecting cheap stone slabs containing incomplete ancient martial arts, leaving their value uncertain.

• Dishaman approached Wei He, who denied rumors that he and Cai Menghuan had killed the Thousand-Faced Demon Lord; Meng Chunhan later explained Dishaman’s importance through the Xidona Empire’s ties to the Haining Alliance.
• Cai Menghuan accepted a challenge from a Haining Alliance fighter, while Wei He turned away from the battle and refused Xu Shengyan’s demand to spar by claiming he was badly injured and had only played a minor role against the Grandmaster.
• After Cai Menghuan defeated his opponent, Wei He told the group to explore freely and return to the ship in three days.
• Wei He followed a local girl to a market stall selling ancient martial arts manuals and examined a cheap, incomplete Thousand Water True Skill carved on a stone slab.
• Wei He continued inspecting more than ten slabs, each bearing a different true skill.

Wei He bought the Three Hearts Art and other ancient techniques that could improve innate physique, then met Xu Chengtiao, who offered to recruit him for a True Beast hunt. Wei He declined for now and planned to use his free time before the competition review to hunt True Beasts and begin testing the Three Hearts Art.

• Wei He examined three ancient physique-enhancing arts at a stall and chose the Three Hearts Art, which required a legendary Blood-Coagulating Skin Demon to establish its first level.
• Wei He bought several more technique slabs and planned to ask Yuan Du Zi about methods for breaking through the limits of innate physique.
• Wei He encountered Xu Chengtiao, whom he had once helped kill an Undying Treant, and accepted his invitation to share a meal.
• Xu Chengtiao offered Wei He a share of the reward for hunting a powerful regenerating True Beast, but Wei He declined because he wanted True Beasts to seal rather than star stones.
• Xu Chengtiao invited Wei He to a sea auction in two days, while Wei He planned to hunt and seal True Beasts and begin cultivating the Three Hearts Art before the competition review.

Wei He hunted Full Realization Sea Beasts to strengthen his Mysterious Lock Skill and gather Spider Turtle heart essence for the Three Hearts Art. He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to complete the art’s first Foundation Establishment, gaining a second heart and beginning to discover what abilities it might grant him.

• Wei He lured out and sealed a Thousand-Legged Hunter Beast, collecting its Star Core and spiritual-awareness feedback.
• Wei He sealed a Spider Turtle and realized gravity could isolate the beast’s heart essence; he extracted its heart and began preparing the Three Hearts Art.
• Wei He hunted more Sea Beasts and collected the heart essence of ten Spider Turtles before returning to his ship near Yinxu Island.
• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to turn his simulated heart into a functioning second heart, completing the first level’s Foundation Establishment.
• Wei He planned to develop the new heart’s blood vessels and meridians and anticipated gaining abilities from the Spider Turtle heart.

Emperor Dingyuan began cultivating Xisa as a potential rival to Modo while the empire moved against the Jinlian Sect. At sea, Wei He tested the Three Hearts Art, completed the fifth layer of Mysterious Lock Vigor, and discovered a major increase in his physical strength.

• Emperor Dingyuan watched the martial candidates endure the star array, learned that Xisa had ninety-seven percent True Blood, and ordered the empire to cultivate him as a counterweight to Modo.
• Golden Winged Buddha Lord led soldiers into the Jinlian Sect's Daoist palace to arrest Po Jun Lian Jiu, who challenged the commander to a fight.
• Wei He tested the Spider Turtle heart's effects and found that it slightly improved his speed and strength while granting him Tough Hide.
• Wei He sealed the last true beast needed for the fifth layer of Mysterious Lock Vigor and decided to wait three months for the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to refill.
• Wei He compared his strength before and after his cultivation and estimated that his physical power had increased by at least ten thousand jin.

After the beast tide competition, Wei He’s strength continued to grow as his second heart transformed his body. During the award ceremony, Shangguan Qiulin attacked and abducted many competitors, then demanded the Abyssal Eye at Black Feather Abyss, leaving Xiao Ling to order the Xuanmiao Sect disciples home.

• Wei He returned to Yinxu Island and learned that his physical strength and appetite were still increasing because of the Three Hearts Art.
• The Haining Alliance and Xuanmiao Sect announced the competition results, placing Wei He seventh, Cai Menghuan sixth, Shangguan Qiulin second, and Sun Fengzhu first.
• As the top twenty approached the platform, Shangguan Qiulin released white threads that bound and carried off more than a dozen True Persons, while Wei He evaded capture.
• Shangguan Qiulin rebuffed attacks from three Grandmasters and demanded that the captives be ransomed with the Abyssal Eye at Black Feather Abyss before vanishing with them.
• Xiao Ling recognized the attack as an old debt of the Haining Alliance and ordered Wei He, Cai Menghuan, and the other Xuanmiao Sect disciples to return to the sect.

After Tide reappeared and destabilized Far Hope, Wei He strengthened his body and prepared to break through the Mysterious Lock Skill. Yuan Du Zi assigned him and Cai Menghuan to escort evacuees from Great Moon, then secretly met Tide’s Yu Zan, who sought her help obtaining the Abyssal Eye.

• Xiao Ling identified Shangguan Qiulin as a Grandmaster from Tide, an organization Far Hope’s factions had once hunted down, and warned everyone to flee if they encountered him.
• Tide resurfaced across Far Hope, while Wei He gained sixty thousand jin of strength through the Three Hearts Art and, three months later, filled his Boundary-Breaking Pearl again.
• Yuan Du Zi tasked Wei He and Cai Menghuan with helping escort about two hundred people withdrawing from Great Moon, including members of the Daoist Sect, Wanfei Palace, and the Demon Faction.
• Cai Menghuan told Wei He that Yuan Du Zi had seemed strange lately, and Wei He returned to his cave to prepare for breaking through to the fifth level of the Mysterious Lock Skill.
• Yu Zan met Yuan Du Zi on Black Cliff and argued that the Abyssal Eye could open a new path for True Force; Yuan Du Zi demanded proof and sincerity before she would consider helping Tide.

Yuan Du Zi agreed to pursue a new path offered by Tide but delayed acting while she risked being weakened. She led Wei He and Cai Menghuan toward Great Moon to receive its remaining True Force Daoist Sect forces, and their flight revealed the dangers and mysteries of the True World above the skies.

• Yuan Du Zi considered Tide’s new direction for breaking through her stalled cultivation but decided she could not risk weakening herself yet.
• Wei He achieved Five-layered Fixed Perception, then prepared to leave for Great Moon with Cai Menghuan under Yuan Du Zi’s command.
• Yuan Du Zi gave Wei He and Cai Menghuan emergency signals and took them aboard giant Crested Cranes instead of traveling by ship.
• Yuan Du Zi instructed Wei He and Cai Menghuan to enter the True World, where they saw a vast gray sea of living things and a huge Sky Beast approaching.
• Yuan Du Zi explained that Sky Beasts could conceal dangerous ruins and warned them that Grandmasters often vanished while exploring such places.

Yuan Du Zi received Jin Lian Zi and his Jinlian Sect followers at a Haizhou bay as they prepared to flee overseas, while the Wushi Sect’s scattered groups were still on the way. Near Yu Bian Town, Qing Ye persuaded Lin Hua Zhenren to delay rejoining them and use the Xuanmiao Sect’s contact token to test for an ambush.

• Yuan Du Zi welcomed Jin Lian Zi and the Jinlian Sect refugees as two Xuanmiao Sect ships arrived offshore.
• Yuan Du Zi learned that the Wushi Sect’s groups were delayed and that Great Yue was watching their routes and buried resources.
• Yuan Du Zi sent a message warning the Wushi Sect group near Yu Bian Town to abandon its treasure and head to the meeting point, then sent Wei He and Cai Menghuan to receive another group.
• Wei He told Cai Menghuan about his past connections to the Wushi Sect as they traveled toward their assigned location.
• Lin Hua Zhenren received the order to abandon the treasure near Yu Bian Town, but Qing Ye persuaded her to retrieve it before leaving.
• Qing Ye proposed placing the Xuanmiao Sect’s contact token in Yu Bian Town so its experts would test the area for an ambush.

Qingye persuaded Lin Hua Zhenren to use the Xuanmiao Sect’s receiving party to draw away Great Yue Dynasty experts while the Wushi Sect recovered its buried valuables. Wei He and Cai Menghuan killed Zhou Lan and wounded Bodhisattva Haizhu, who escaped, as the Wushi Sect group began digging up the cache.

• Qingye convinced Lin Hua Zhenren to send the Xuanmiao Sect’s receiving True Persons toward Yu Bian Town as a distraction while the Wushi Sect retrieved its valuables.
• Huang Zhen, Bodhisattva Haizhu, and Zhou Lan waited at the abandoned courtyard, then mistook Cai Menghuan and Wei He for pursuers after the Wushi Sect members.
• Cai Menghuan and Wei He fled when they saw the three Great Yue Dynasty men, prompting them to give chase.
• After Qingye signaled them, Lin Hua Zhenren and the Wushi Sect disciples entered the courtyard and began digging up the buried valuables.
• Cai Menghuan and Wei He turned to fight; Wei He killed Zhou Lan, while Cai Menghuan and Wei He injured Bodhisattva Haizhu, who escaped using a self-damaging secret art.

Lin Hua Zhenren’s group reached the meeting point too late and discovered that the Xuanmiao Sect ships had already departed, leaving them stranded in Great Yue. As Yuelong pursuers attacked, Lin Hua escaped by using her own people as a delay, while Wei He and Cai Menghuan continued west with the Xuanmiao Sect fleet.

• Lin Hua Zhenren’s group buried the valuables they had taken and hurried to the agreed meeting point, where they found the shore empty.
• Lin Hua sent an insect to contact the Xuanmiao Sect and learned that its ships had already sailed, leaving her group without passage overseas.
• Lü E blamed their delay over the buried goods, while Lin Hua tried to reassure the group that they could contact the sect again and find another route.
• A Yuelong force led by a one-eyed bald man emerged from the woods, and Lin Hua fled after using a smoke bomb to slow the pursuers with her companions.
• Qingye and the other women scattered and used secret techniques to keep the Yuelong pursuers at a distance as they fled.
• Aboard the Xuanmiao Sect ships, Cai Menghuan and Wei He told Du Hanjun they had not encountered Lin Hua’s group, and Yuan Du Zi told them their mission was complete and they could pursue their own plans.

Wei He and Cai Menghuan entered Great Yue under disguise, then split up to pursue their own plans. On the road, Wei He discovered Jiang Su among prisoners being sold as human merchandise and decided to buy her freedom without drawing attention.

• Yuan Du Zi sent Wei He to accompany Cai Menghuan into Great Yue and cautioned them to conceal their Xuanmiao Sect identities.
• Wei He and Cai Menghuan reached shore, divided the belongings taken from Zhou Lan, and agreed to meet later before heading in different directions.
• Traveling toward Western Province, Wei He encountered Great Yue convoys transporting prisoners, including broken-cultivation martial artists and Wushi Sect True Persons being sold as slaves.
• Wei He recognized Jiang Su in a cage of imprisoned women and resolved to save her by posing as a buyer.

Wei He attended a slave auction in Wulian City and bought Jiang Su after recognizing her among the former Wushi Sect martial artists. He passed the authorities’ strength test and also asked to buy the similar-looking girl behind her.

• Wei He observed how Great Moon’s Martial Prohibition Order had changed the common people before watching slaves be auctioned.
• The auctioned Wushi Sect women included Qingye, who was sold for 150 taels and carried away by a buyer who planned to mutilate her.
• Wei He recognized Jiang Su, disguised his appearance, and outbid others until he bought her for 100 taels.
• Wei He passed a physical-strength test administered by a Great Moon official, who judged him to be a powerful True Blood expert.
• Wei He pointed out the girl behind Jiang Su and asked to buy her as well.

Wei He bought Jiang Su and her daughter Tang Yinlian from Feiyun Tower, brought them to an inn, and quietly arranged for their safety while concealing his identity. After confirming that a blood-testing needle detected aberrant blood in him, he planned to enlist in Great Yue’s army and pursue True Blood cultivation.

• Wei He bought Jiang Su and Number Seven, later learning that the latter was Jiang Su’s daughter, Tang Yinlian.
• Wei He took the women to an inn, avoided revealing that he knew Jiang Su, and arranged a private room and clean clothes for them.
• Wei He learned where to rent a house and enlist in the army, deciding that military service offered the fastest route to Great Yue’s cultivation resources.
• Wei He bought a blood-testing needle and confirmed that his blood tested as aberrant.
• Wei He resolved to report to the army the next day, obtain a cultivation method, and use a Blood Artifact to purify his bloodline.

Pang Sha ordered a hunt for two True Force practitioners who had entered Great Moon, and learned one was heading toward Wulian City. The next morning, Wei He observed Wulian City’s military recruitment and joined a line to apply, where he overheard two girls arguing about enlistment.

• Pang Sha ordered the Moon Shroud people to track the two True Force practitioners and called for identity checks and secret blood lures across nearby cities.
• A message reported that one fugitive was heading to Wulian City and the other to Ranxing, so Pang Sha set out to hunt the Wulian City fugitive herself.
• Wei He visited Wulian City’s recruitment square and watched Wei Xiaochang pass the physical examination and blood test despite having thin disorderly blood.
• After seeing how the recruitment screening worked, Wei He joined a line to apply for military service.
• Wei He overheard a burly girl urging Xiaorong to use her family connections while Xiaorong insisted on following the rules.

Wei He faced a sweeping search for True Force martial artists while trying to pass himself off as Wang Xuan and enlist in Wulian City. After Saint Sect Nine Weaves killed Master Tie Fa and drew the search forces away, Wei He passed the blood test—only for officials to declare him a double top-grade talent and escort him to the general's residence.

• Wei He realized that Great Yue's Iron Man Team was checking identity documents and feared his borrowed document would expose him as a True Force martial artist.
• A white-clad woman attacked and killed Master Tie Fa, identified herself as Saint Sect Nine Weaves, and escaped while the Iron Man Team pursued her.
• Someone bumped Wei He in the line and slipped him a note inviting him to the Black Bamboo Forest outside the city at four in the afternoon.
• Wei He registered as Wang Xuan, gave a false age and place of origin, and entered the men's inspection room.
• The blood-testing needle turned blackish red, and the examiner and her teacher announced that Wei He had double top-grade concentration and aptitude.
• The officials summoned General Zi Yin, ordered the nearby recruitment stations sealed, and escorted Wei He toward the general's residence as a future Grandmaster.

Wei He, posing as Wang Xuan, was taken to Wulian City’s General’s Residence after displaying exceptional blood-test aptitude. General Zi Yin recruited him into the Burning Heaven Army Department and gave him a foundational art, leaving Zi Yin’s daughter Jun’er to guide him.

• A giant monk from the Guangci Cult followed a blood trace to Wulian City but could not find clear clues amid the crowds and suspected Demonic Sect interference.
• Mo Qiuyi and Zhou Murong watched the Giant Bodhisattva depart and discussed her ambition to become a powerful expert.
• Zi Yin welcomed Wei He at the General’s Residence after confirming his dual superior aptitude and offered him a place in the Burning Heaven Army Department.
• Wei He accepted Zi Yin’s offer, and Zi Yin gave him gold, property deeds, and the Dragon Cauldron Pagoda Lifting Skill.
• Zi Yin summoned his daughter Jun’er and instructed her to explain the art to Wei He before he went to the army department headquarters.

Wei He began cultivating the Dragon Cauldron Pagoda Lifting Skill at Zi Yin's manor, rapidly completing its first stage and increasing his strength. He met Zhen Qi of the Saint Sect, who offered a concealment method in exchange for intelligence, leaving him willing to cooperate if it worked.

• Zi Linjun arranged for Wei He to stay at Flower Delight Garden and explained the basics of True Blood cultivation.
• Wei He studied the Dragon Cauldron Pagoda Lifting Skill and quickly completed its first stage, causing his physical strength and force to increase.
• Wei He brought Jiang Su and her daughter from the inn and had Zi Linjun arrange for them to serve him at the manor.
• Suspecting the Saint Sect had deliberately helped him evade investigation, Wei He went to the meeting place named in the secret note.
• Wei He recognized Zhen Qi, who warned that the Guangci Cult could track his aura and offered cooperation and a concealment method in exchange for intelligence.
• Wei He agreed to cooperate if the Saint Sect's concealment method worked.

Zi Linjun discussed Wei He’s prospects with her friends while they learned that Hu Shaonong’s corruption case had been settled and his family’s marriage arrangement was ruined. Wei He learned he would meet Grandmaster Li Rong in three days, sought the Demonic Sect’s help concealing his power, and began cultivating the Dragon Cauldron Pagoda Lifting Skill.

• Zi Linjun told Chen Qinglin and Xie Yu that Wei He had joined the Burning Heaven Army Department, and Xie Yu urged her to consider him as a future match.
• Chen Qinglin reported that Hu Shaonong had been found guilty of embezzlement and bribery, ending Sister Yinzhu’s marriage arrangement with the Hu family.
• Wei He studied the Dingkong Lan breath-concealing technique and resolved to master it before meeting a Grandmaster.
• Ziyin told Wei He that in three days he would report to the Burning Heaven Army Department and meet Marshal Li Rong, who would accept him as her disciple.
• Wei He sent a message to the Demonic Sect asking for help concealing his power, then began cultivating the Dragon Cauldron Pagoda Lifting Skill and formed more than ten Blood Wheels.

Wei He rejected Jiang Su and Tang Yinlian’s attempt to win his favor, then stabilized his cultivation at the second stage of Dawn. At the general’s residence, he narrowly avoided being identified by Master Shuiyue and received Phoenix Spirit Blood from Zi Yin before his planned departure.

• Jiang Su and Tang Yinlian entered Wei He’s bath to serve him, but Wei He told them to leave.
• Wei He replenished his blood vitality in a medicinal bath and stabilized his true-blood cultivation at the second stage of Dawn.
• Zi Yin told Master Shuiyue that Wang Xuan had reached the second stage of Dawn after only two days of cultivation, but Master Shuiyue left when a summons arrived.
• Wei He asked Zi Linjun about Master Shuiyue and learned that he was a powerful friend of Zi Yin’s father who had qualified to advance to Bodhisattva.
• Zi Yin gave Wei He Spirit Phoenix Blood made from his master’s true blood and told him to consume it within three days.

Wei He drank Phoenix Spirit Blood and joined the Burning Heaven Army Department, then endured a family banquet designed to pair him with women of the Zi Lineage. Xie Yu secretly gave him a concealment item and warned him about bloodline detectors and Shui Yue.

• Zi Yin gave Wei He Phoenix Spirit Blood, which Wei He drank and which bound him more firmly to the Burning Heaven Army Department.
• Zi Linjun brought Wei He to a banquet attended by young women of the Zi Lineage, where they served him drugged wine and food.
• Xie Yu stayed behind after Zi Linjun and Chen Qinglin left, then handed Wei He a concealed item and departed.
• Wei He returned to his room, inspected the item, and read Xie Yu's warning about targeted Bloodline Detectors and Shui Yue.

Wei He studied the Dingkong Lan concealment technique and learned how Great Yue’s True Blood system developed bloodlines through enhancements and martial training. After sparring with Zi Linjun, he heard that the Enlightenment stage required choosing between muscle accumulation and bodily density enhancement.

• Wei He put away the Demonic Sect’s incense-like object and spent the night practicing Dingkong Lan, making slight progress.
• Zi Linjun visited Wei He to explain the True Blood system, including bloodline ranks, enhancement opportunities, and how bloodline choices shaped a martial artist’s abilities.
• Xie Yu explained that bloodline grades could be raised through marriage alliances or Blood Artifact purification.
• Zi Linjun sparred with Wei He, but his basic physical strength overwhelmed her attacks and left her shaken.
• Zi Linjun explained that Enlightenment-stage martial artists chose between muscle accumulation for rapid strength or density enhancement for greater later-stage power and agility.

Wei He trained with Zi Linjun in Wulian City, rapidly mastering True Blood techniques and breaking through the third stage of Enlightenment before learning the Burning Heaven True Skill’s Body Opening exercises. After saying goodbye to Zi Linjun, he met Xie Yu at his courtyard and prepared to hear what the Demonic Sect agent wanted.

• Zi Linjun tested Wei He's strength with training stones, and he effortlessly lifted the thirty-thousand-jin sphere.
• Wei He quickly mastered Zi Linjun's True Blood lessons and broke through the third stage of Enlightenment.
• Zi Linjun taught Wei He the Burning Heaven True Skill's Body Opening movements, which he mastered before the evening ended.
• Wei He promised to keep in touch with Zi Linjun and departed after she wished him well on his journey to the Burning Heaven Army Department.
• Xie Yu waited outside Wei He's courtyard, followed him inside, and spoke with him after he dismissed the servants.

Wei He traveled to White Elephant City and met his senior disciple brother Li Chengji before arriving at the Burning Heaven Army Department. Li Rong accepted him as her fifth disciple and immediately ordered her other disciples to prepare an elaborate welcome for him.

• Yu Xin told Wei He she would accompany him to White Elephant City under another identity and asked him to learn the route and schedule of important goods passing through the city.
• Ziyin escorted Wei He to White Elephant City, where Li Chengji met them and revealed he planned to enter the Flower Festival contest disguised as a woman.
• Li Chengji brought Wei He to the Burning Heaven Army Department, where Wei He met Grandmaster Li Rong and paid his respects.
• Li Rong accepted Wei He as her fifth disciple and ordered Xue Huo, Wu Fu, and Li Chengji to prepare bathing water, his room, and Kunshan Fire Jade for him.
• After her disciples hurried off to obey, Li Rong reassured Wei He that she would discipline them if they failed to care for him.

Wei He attended lessons at Western Continent Wende Academy while his True Blood cultivation helped his Mysterious Lock Skill advance. He arranged to visit a secret realm and learned that a convoy carrying the Purple Snow Qilin Horn would soon pass through the city.

• Wei He reflected on Great Yue's growing True Blood strength and discovered that reaching the Dawn stage had pushed his Mysterious Lock Skill toward Full Reality.
• Li Heng offered to show Wei He the city's entertainments, but Wei He declined, and Ouyang Ruoning challenged Li Heng to a duel.
• Wei He agreed to eat and read with Ouyang Ruoning before heading to the secret realm with Senior Brother.
• Ouyang Ruoning told Wei He that the convoy carrying the Purple Snow Qilin Horn would arrive in two days and stop briefly before traveling to the Royal Capital.