Recaps

Wei He passed intelligence about the Purple Snow Qilin Horn to Yu Xin while advancing rapidly in his True Blood cultivation. Meanwhile, Xisa revealed a plan to awaken Yuan Du Zi’s sealed beast nature, and Wei He broke through twice on the way to complete his bloodline purification.

• Wei He learned details about the convoy carrying the Purple Snow Qilin Horn and secretly sent the information to Yu Xin of the Demonic Sect.
• Xisa told his ghost-masked master that Yuan Du Zi’s attachment to the dead Ansha Lu had led her to seal her beast nature, and proposed using something that could awaken it.
• The ghost-masked man agreed to support Xisa’s plan, which could help Lingfeng Temple gain the Imperial Preceptor position and undermine the Guangci Cult.
• Li Chengji brought Wei He into the Burning Heaven Army Department’s secret realm to complete an advanced True Blood purification using materials gathered by Li Rong.
• As Li Chengji explained how True Beast bloodlines could fuse and mutate, Wei He broke through to Body Opening and then immediately advanced to mid-stage Body Opening, astonishing Li Chengji.

Wei He arrived at Secret Realm Number Nine to undergo bloodline purification and fusion in a nine-compartment medicinal cauldron, where he received the most advantageous position and a special medicine from Li Chengji. As the other participants began the ritual, Wei He recognized something familiar about Liu Chengxi and realized his own bloodline situation was not what he had assumed.

• Li Chengji brought Wei He to a vast underground breeding cavern and explained that the bloodline fusion would be shared among nine participants, including Wei He and people from the Guangci Cult and other departments.
• Wei He entered the first compartment of the bronze cauldron and found three tubes of special golden medicine prepared for him.
• Li Chengji warned the other eight participants about the dangers of entering the wrong compartment and instructed them to endure the ritual.
• Liu Chengxi entered the third compartment, while Wei He noticed that she seemed familiar but could not recall why.
• Wei He reconsidered his assumption that he had no other bloodlines after discovering that his purification had become a fusion ritual.

Wei He purified and fused his bloodlines, leaving behind an unknown pattern formed from the Spider Turtle and giant whale bloodlines. The process also pushed his True Force cultivation into Full Reality, and he left with Li Chengji to investigate his new bloodline.

• Wei He discovered that countless mixed bloodlines filled his left arm, then watched the purification reduce them to the Spider Turtle and giant whale bloodlines.
• Wei He drank the second dose, fused the two bloodlines into an unfamiliar pattern, and took the final dose to complete the ritual.
• Li Chengji announced that five of the nine participants had succeeded in fusion and that one girl, Liu Chengxi, had failed purification.
• Li Chengji observed Wei He's changed appearance and led him back through the tunnels after Wei He confirmed his fusion had succeeded.
• Wei He realized that the purification and fusion had also advanced his True Force cultivation into Full Reality.
• Wei He learned that the failed participant was Liu Chengxi, Song Shixiong's daughter, and Li Chengji suggested he inspect his bloodline diagram after they returned.

Wei He tested the strength of his newly fused bloodline in the Marshal’s Mansion, proving that his Body Opening body could rival much higher-level martial artists. Li Rong examined his bloodline pattern and asked about its effects, leaving Wei He’s ongoing changes under her assessment.

• Wei He sparred with Long Wufu and, using only his bloodline-enhanced body, showed strength just below Long Wufu’s True Blood limit.
• Qin Han and several other disciples challenged Wei He, but his Copper Skin Iron Bones and overwhelming strength let him defeat them with ease.
• Li Rong revealed that she had obtained Five Spirits Blood for Wei He, surprising Long Wufu.
• Li Rong examined the red pattern on Wei He’s arm and identified traces of the Spider Turtle and Peng Yu giant whale in his fused bloodline.
• Wei He told Li Rong that his strength was still rising and that his body had hardened, his appetite had grown, and his reactions had become faster.

Wei He trained under Li Rong in the Seven Phoenix True Martial while building a life in Great Yue and shifting his efforts from stalled True Force cultivation to rapidly growing True Blood. At a banquet in Xizhou, he discussed a coming campaign against the Demon Faction and watched the True Blood elite abuse a commoner.

• Li Rong began teaching Wei He the Seven Phoenix True Martial and warned him that people would seek him out and covet his bloodline.
• In Haizhou, a strange man and woman examined pipa player An Xi and decided she could be altered to resemble someone, intending to create a weakness for Yuan Du Zi.
• Over more than a year in Great Yue, Wei He reached Bone Forging and immense physical strength, but his True Force and spirit preservation stagnated, so he focused on True Blood.
• At Prince Yi’s residence, Wei He told Gong Lingyun that Li Rong’s senior disciple brother would lead a campaign against remnants of the Demon Faction and offered to notify him of a safer chance to earn military credentials.
• A drunken noble slapped a young guqin player and dismissed her suffering, while Wei He observed the deep divide between True Blood nobles and commoners.

At Prince Yi’s banquet, Wei He intervened when Fatty Zhao attacked a musician and Liu Chengxi, while Gong Lingyun forced Zhao to back down. The banquet ended with Wei He leaving alongside Gong Lingyun after the heir apparent helped bring the confrontation to a close.

• Fatty Zhao tried to kick Liu Chengxi, but Wei He blocked him and Gong Lingyun revealed that Wei He was Wang Xuan, the Burning Heaven Marshal’s new personal disciple.
• Fatty Zhao apologized and slapped himself at Gong Lingyun’s demand, while Wei He told Liu Chengxi to take the injured musician for treatment.
• Wei He noticed someone following Liu Chengxi, so Gong Lingyun seized Fatty Zhao and held him until Sima Yushan intervened.
• Wei He asked Gong Lingyun to release Fatty Zhao, and the heir apparent exchanged greetings with Wei He before returning to his conversation.
• Wei He declined the princess’s maidens and left the banquet in a dragon-blood carriage with Gong Lingyun.

Wei He met with Cai Menghuan, who planned to leave Great Moon, but Wei He chose to stay. After Moon Haze agents overheard them and mistook Wei He for a True Strength spy, Wei He killed them, and Xue Huo confronted him.

• Wei He received a message about Cai Menghuan and went to meet him outside White Elephant City.
• Cai Menghuan brought Qing'er to the meeting after she threatened to kill herself if he left without her.
• Cai Menghuan asked Wei He to return with him, but Wei He refused and said he would remain in Great Moon.
• Three Moon Haze agents overheard their conversation and decided to report Wei He as a True Strength spy.
• Wei He suffocated the three agents, then called out Xue Huo, who emerged in disbelief at what he had done.

Wei He dealt with the Moon Haze scouts and helped Cai Menghuan confront Qing'er, then returned to his orderly life as Great Moon focused on a Buddhist tournament to select a new State Preceptor. Two months later, he met Li Chengji at Phantom Water Autumn Moon Tower, where Li Chengji introduced him to an elaborate tea.

• Xue Huo accepted Wei He's explanation for killing the Moon Haze scouts and warned him to keep a low profile.
• Cai Menghuan questioned Qing'er, then left her behind after deciding she had betrayed him.
• Wei He poisoned Qing'er and neutralized the traces before leaving her body in the forest.
• Cai Menghuan sent Wei He a note thanking him, and Wei He returned to White Elephant City.
• Over the next two months, Wei He cultivated while Great Moon arranged a Buddhist Martial Arts Tournament to choose the next State Preceptor.
• Li Chengji met Wei He at Phantom Water Autumn Moon Tower and described the tea he served.

Wei He learned that Princess Han Quan, Sima Wuque, would soon come to study under Li Rong, while growing more troubled by Great Moon’s class divide and suppression of True Force. After Li Chengji confronted Wu Taizhong over Li Rong’s insult to his father, Anqiguoluo Gulan challenged Wei He and invoked his grandfather, Imperial Preceptor Modo.

• Li Chengji explained to Wei He that True Blood’s purified bloodlines made mutation easier to control than the mixed bloodlines of True Force, and said Princess Han Quan, Sima Wuque, would soon cultivate under Li Rong.
• Wei He saw a True Blood martial artist kill two ordinary people over an argument and learned from Li Chengji that the culprit would likely serve only about a month in prison.
• Wei He reflected on public resentment and Great Moon’s suppression of True Force, including its refusal to develop low-threshold weapons such as firearms and artillery.
• Wu Taizhong confronted Li Chengji over Li Rong’s insult to his father, and Li Chengji left to face him outside.
• Anqiguoluo Gulan challenged Wei He to fight and revealed that his grandfather was Imperial Preceptor Modo.

Wei He faced Anqiguoluo Gulan, who attacked him after hearing rumors that Wei He might surpass Moduo. Wei He struggled to contain Gulan’s powerful techniques without revealing his own strength, and the chapter ended as Gulan unleashed his Thousand-Hand Tathagata secret technique at full force.

• Anqiguoluo Gulan challenged Wei He over rumors comparing him to Moduo and attacked him in the tavern.
• Wei He blocked Gulan’s strikes but found that Gulan’s unusual martial rhythm weakened his defense and let the force pierce through.
• Gulan’s explosive punch sent Wei He through a tavern window and then drove him backward across the street.
• Wei He tried to calm Gulan, but his words reminded Gulan of Xisa and reignited his anger.
• Gulan expanded his body and unleashed the secret technique Buddha Seal Thousand Palms, reaching nearly the speed of sound.

Wei He defeated Gu Lan and the Anqiguluo Family’s guard, then learned from Li Chengji that the clash had likely been an assessment arranged by the military and Imperial Family. The chapter left Wei He considering the resources and influence he might gain if his meeting with Princess Han Quan went well.

• Wei He used the Whale Flood Art to overpower Gu Lan, smashed him into a stone building, and buried him beneath its collapsing upper floor.
• Wei He fought the Golden Pattern-robed guard, forcing him to transform and retreat, until Li Chengji struck the guard down and broke his spine.
• Li Chengji told Wei He that his performance had earned him bargaining chips and could strengthen Master Li Rong’s case for benefits in the Nine Great Army Departments.
• Wei He concluded that the military and Imperial Family had likely arranged the fight to test his strength and assess him as a potential candidate against the Buddhist Sect.
• Li Chengji explained that Wei He was a backup candidate who might receive more resources and authority, and could enter the Supreme Emperor’s Treasury if things went well with Princess Han Quan.

Wei He read about Great Yue’s factions and Gulan’s stalled cultivation, then spoke with Xue Huo about the military’s test and his bloodline enhancements. Xue Huo reassured him that the Burning Heaven Army Department would protect him and revealed that the military had placed him in a reserve plan.

• Unable to sleep while Li Rong was away on a mission, Wei He went to the Scripture Pavilion and read periodicals to learn about Great Yue’s major forces.
• Wei He learned that the Imperial Family, the military, and the Buddhist sects stood behind most of Great Yue’s factions.
• Wei He read that Gulan had reached Bone Forging at fifteen and could advance no further after his bloodline developed prematurely; Wei He suspected someone had deliberately crippled him.
• Wei He watched Long Wufu practice Seven Phoenix True Martial and spoke with Xue Huo, who said the Burning Heaven Army Department would not harm him and that the military had approved him for a reserve plan.
• Xue Huo asked about Wei He’s enhancements, and he said he had chosen strength for both Enlightenment and Body Opening.

Wei He began developing a secret technique combining True Blood and True Force, then was ordered to show Princess Han Quan around the Marshal’s Mansion as a potential bride. After receiving a secret message from Yuan Du Zi, he learned she would soon meet him in Great Yue and that the military was discussing his marriage prospects.

• Wei He told Xue Huo he was still at Bone Forging and focused on improving his defense while preparing to create a secret technique suited to both his True Blood and True Force.
• Wei He studied secret techniques in the Scripture Pavilion and used Boundary-Breaking Pearl opportunities to build up his Primal Blood.
• Li Rong introduced Princess Han Quan, Sima Wuque, to her disciples and ordered Wei He to show her around the Marshal’s Mansion.
• Sima Wuque walked into Wei He’s back, mistook his hardness for a sign of intimidating strength, and continued the tour with him.
• A disguised messenger delivered Wei He a note from Yuan Du Zi, asking him to protect a key figure and warning that she would soon come to Great Yue to meet him secretly.
• Wei He read the note’s additional information about the military’s discussions of his possible marriage to Princess Han Quan.

Wei He met Yuan Du Zi in White Elephant City, received a precious pill, and explored how the Three Hearts Art might overcome his limits in aptitude. He then asked Sima Wuque about opportunities to fight True Beasts, learning that she had ties to gladiatorial arenas.

• Wei He met Yuan Du Zi, who asked him to help Ding Yan if he encountered her and gave him a Five Hearts Cauldron Primordial Pill.
• Yuan Du Zi said Wei He had reached the limit of his aptitude, prompting him to consider using the Three Hearts Art to rebuild his bone structure and bloodline.
• Wei He returned to the Marshal's Mansion and continued spending time with Sima Wuque while considering how to find high-level True Beasts to fight.
• Wei He asked Sima Wuque about joining the True Beast cleanup efforts, and she suggested gladiatorial combat instead.
• Sima Wuque revealed that her maternal relatives had given her shares in several chain Gladiator Arenas.

Wei He broke through from Bone Forging to Organ Refining and sought fresh hearts from powerful True Beasts for the Three Hearts Art, but learned Great Yue had few beasts left to hunt. At Princess Han Quan’s gladiator arena, he recognized Xia Linghua among the chained Wanfei Palace slaves and realized she had been captured.

• Wei He used the Burning Heaven True Skill and medicinal power to break through to Organ Refining, choosing to strengthen his defense.
• Wei He asked Sima Wuque about obtaining powerful True Beast parts, but learned she could not provide the fresh hearts he needed.
• Gong Lingyun visited Wei He, and Sima Wuque invited them to her Gladiator Arena to watch matches involving slaves from Wanfei Palace.
• On the way to the arena, Wei He recognized the shackled women as Wanfei Palace martial artists and found none familiar in the first group.
• At the arena, Wei He spotted Xia Linghua among the captured slaves and was shocked that the Wanfei Palace mistress had been taken prisoner.

Wei He watched Wanfei Palace’s fighters being brought into the Gladiator Arena and realized Xia Linghua might have entered deliberately to rescue her disciples. After Xia Linghua and seven women were taken to a private room, she decided she would have to act before they were bought and taken away.

• Wei He asked Princess Han Quan about the Wanfei Palace prisoners and declined her offer to give them to him.
• The host announced a clan battle between the Spiked Iron Eagle Family and Wanfei Palace, while Xia Linghua waited for a chance to rescue the captured disciples.
• A skinny old man ordered Xia Linghua and seven women taken to private rooms after a noble expressed interest in them.
• Xia Linghua considered seizing the noble in the central private room but decided the risks were too great.
• Xia Linghua resolved to act that day, hoping to defeat the arena’s commanders quickly and escape with the Wanfei Palace women.

Xia Linghua led Wanfei Palace members in a staged breakout from the Gladiator Arena, while Wei He recognized her and chose to watch for a chance to help. As True Blood experts closed in from both directions, Xia Linghua found a ventilation shaft and prepared to change their escape route.

• Xia Linghua used the arena crowd’s distraction to overpower the slave warriors and begin freeing Wanfei Palace members.
• Wei He sensed Xia Linghua’s operation next door and decided he would help if she ran into trouble.
• Xia Linghua led disguised Wanfei Palace members through the arena, sending one group out before returning for the next.
• Ji Wufeng detected signs of a disturbance, and Princess Han Quan left her private room to investigate the trouble at her venue.
• Wei He pretended he had left something behind so he could stay and observe Xia Linghua’s escape attempt.
• Xia Linghua refused Xie Shaoguang’s suggestion to seize VIPs, then spotted a ventilation shaft as powerful pursuers approached from both directions.

Xia Linghua and the Wanfei Palace group escaped the Gladiator Arena through the ventilation shafts, but Ji Wufeng tracked them to Wei He's carriage and demanded to search it. The guards hesitated to obey, leaving Wei He and the hidden women facing an imminent inspection.

• Xia Linghua led her group through the ventilation shafts, while Ji Wufeng ordered the vents and sewer exits guarded after learning they were possible escape routes.
• Ji Wufeng followed signs in the shafts to a second passage, but Wei He guided Xia Linghua's group into a VIP room and helped them leave in his carriage.
• Wei He used Princess Han Quan's travel permit and Wang Xuan's standing to pass the checkpoints with the Wanfei Palace women concealed inside.
• Ji Wufeng stopped the carriage and demanded an inspection after his detection box continued reacting to a nearby True Force martial artist.
• Wei He warned that the carriage held private matters and said he would remember the offense, while Grand Commander Sima Ji reminded Ji Wufeng that Wei He was Princess Han Quan's guest.

Wei He helped Xia Linghua and the others escape Ji Wufeng’s inspection, but Ji Wufeng followed the carriage and found evidence of True Force users inside. Wei He then ambushed and killed Ji Wufeng before he could raise the alarm.

• Ji Wufeng opened Wei He’s carriage and saw the naked women inside, then fought Wei He and drove him back with his superior Golden Body strength.
• Ji Wufeng withdrew, intending to investigate Wang Xuan’s suspected ties to True Force, while Wei He drove the carriage away with Xia Linghua and the others.
• Wei He stopped near a grove and let Xia Linghua’s group leave the carriage, which they emptied before departing.
• Ji Wufeng returned and examined the carriage, concluding that Wang Xuan had released several True Force experts, including one at Complete Truth level.
• Wei He appeared behind Ji Wufeng, struck him with a blackening attack, and crushed his head with his enlarged hand.

Wei He covered up Ji Wufeng’s death, received a Blood Awakening Pill, and began awakening the Mount Sumeru Whale King’s innate ability as Moon Haze investigated. Meanwhile, Emperor Dingyuan confronted Modo about the Buddhist sect and revealed his plan to unite everyone through the Blood Planting Method.

• Wei He dissolved Ji Wufeng’s body, hid the traces of his actions, and returned to the Marshal’s Mansion, where Han Quan questioned him and gave him a Blood Awakening Pill.
• Wei He learned that Ji Wufeng had been a powerful Moon Haze official connected to Xiao Fuyue, then concealed his involvement as Moon Haze investigators searched nearby.
• Wei He cultivated with medicinal resources and the Blood Awakening Pill until the Mount Sumeru Whale King’s innate ability began to awaken.
• Emperor Dingyuan met Modo at the Hall of Buddhist Worship and asked about the Buddhist sect’s leadership and whether Modo would help him.
• Emperor Dingyuan declared that he wanted to use the Blood Planting Method to fuse all people into one.

Emperor Dingyuan sought Maduo’s help with a blood-planting plan that would distribute controlled True Blood lineages and strengthen the imperial clan, but Maduo declined to involve himself. Meanwhile, Moonveil searched for the missing Ji Wufeng, and Wei He advanced in his training before learning that an upcoming campaign might target a Demonic Sect Grandmaster.

• Emperor Dingyuan explained how distributing low-, middle-, and high-grade True Blood lineages could empower Great Moon and asked Maduo to help, but Maduo refused to interfere in worldly affairs.
• Xiao Fuyue discovered that Ji Wufeng had failed to report to Moonveil, and Zhan Qing said no one knew where he was; Gongsun He pledged to search for him in White Elephant City.
• Wei He demonstrated how quickly he had learned Li Rong’s grappling technique, while Princess Han Quan and the others watched in astonishment.
• Li Rong said Wei He’s Organ Refining progress would slow while his body recovered from extensive medicinal supplements, then invited him to a temple fair and an upcoming military campaign against the high-wind zone.
• Wei He learned that the campaign had originally been aimed at a mutated True Force Grandmaster, whom Li Rong’s group suspected was a Demonic Sect Grandmaster.

Wei He watched Great Moon’s elite soldiers use Astral Arrays and coordinated strength to encircle a wounded lord-class True Beast in the Desolate Silence Forest Sea. The fight continued behind dense mist as Li Chengji reassured him that Li Rong was overseeing the battle and the Black Goat was nearly finished.

• Wei He learned from Li Chengji that Great Moon’s elite soldiers could combine their strength through Astral Arrays to threaten even Grandmasters.
• Li Rong led the expedition away from White Elephant City and into the mist-covered Desolate Silence Forest Sea.
• The soldiers formed ranks and activated an Astral Array, revealing the colossal Black Goat to Wei He.
• The soldiers bound the Black Goat with chained spears and combined their strength, while Li Rong hurled a spear through its head.
• The Black Goat survived and unleashed dense white mist as the battle’s impacts continued out of sight.
• Li Chengji told Wei He that Li Rong was overseeing the fight and that the wounded Black Goat was near defeat.

Wei He saw how Great Yue’s elite armies could suppress powerful True Beasts and used the Black Goat’s heart to advance his Three Hearts Art, though he remained stuck at a bottleneck. Elsewhere, Yuan Du Zi encountered a woman who resembled Ansha Lu and had been poisoned with the same incurable poison; back in White Elephant City, Wei He began considering a journey to obtain more True Beast materials.

• Li Rong’s tower-shield soldiers helped kill the Black Goat, and Wei He chose its heart as his share of the spoils.
• Wei He watched further hunts and saw elite armies overwhelm even a True Beast at the limit of Complete Truth; over the following month, he absorbed the Black Goat heart’s essence.
• During Great Yue’s famine and unrest, Yuan Du Zi killed bandits who attacked her carriage, then found a woman who resembled Ansha Lu and recognized the Myriad Lock Heartbreak Poison in her body.
• Wei He assessed that his True Force and True Blood had both reached bottlenecks, with the Three Hearts Art appearing to be his path forward.
• When Princess Han Quan invited him on an outing, Wei He asked about her channels for trading True Beast materials and considered traveling to continue his cultivation.

Wei He gathered Demonic Sect intelligence from Yu Xin and traveled in disguise to a remote pavilion in Eastern Continent to pursue a breakthrough in the Three Hearts Art. There, he encountered a fleeing Demonic Sect elder and his disciples, who mistook him for a fellow sect member and sought his help against Moon Shadow pursuers.

• Wei He declined Princess Han Quan’s suggestion but arranged a channel to buy True Beast materials, then left the Marshal’s Mansion to meet Yu Xin in disguise.
• Yu Xin told Wei He that the Black Goat Dharma Body belonged to the Ming Yi Sect, identified Horned Demon Du Lan as its leader, and promised details about a captured person’s convoy route.
• Li Rong learned that Wei He had slipped away again and allowed him to go, reasoning that he needed to experience the world for himself.
• After shaking off his pursuers, Wei He traveled to a remote pavilion in Eastern Continent to work toward breaking through the Three Hearts Art.
• Duan Chenghuan, Ming Xin, and Ming Jue fled four Moon Shadow experts and spotted Wei He in the pavilion; Duan Chenghuan asked him to help hold off their pursuers.

Wei He rescued Duan Chenghuan and set out for the Ming Yi Sect, seeking hearts to advance his Three Hearts Art. At the Xuanmiao Sect, Yuan Du Zi hesitated over whether to save a poisoned mortal who resembled Ansha Lu, and Yan Wujiu offered to take her place.

• Wei He watched Xiao Lin and the Moonlight Veil capture Duan Chenghuan, then learned from him that he was an elder of the Ming Yi Sect.
• Wei He killed Xiao Lin and the other Moonlight Veil members with his Black Pythons, freed Duan Chenghuan, and removed the tracking drugs from his body.
• Duan Chenghuan agreed to lead Wei He to the Ming Yi Sect, whose members Wei He hoped to use to cultivate his second heart.
• At the Xuanmiao Sect, a medical elder warned Yuan Du Zi that the poisoned mortal resembling Ansha Lu had only three months to live.
• Yan Wujiu stopped Yuan Du Zi from reaching for the woman and offered to try to save her himself.