Recaps

Wei He subdued Lu Jiu and learned that she was a Deer Demon who had migrated to Great Moon, now overrun by demons and monsters. After discovering that humans could not wield demon or spiritual power, he questioned her about the new world’s factions and threats, leaving his search for a way forward unresolved.

• Wei He caught Lu Jiu after her poison and Isolation Spell failed, then brought her to a secluded courtyard to question her.
• Lu Jiu explained that she was a Deer Demon who used an Isolation Spell powered by demon power, but she had no other advanced techniques to teach him.
• Wei He learned that Lu Jiu’s demon spells could not be learned by living humans, then asked about the strongest demons she knew, including Old Mother Minshan.
• Lu Jiu described Great Moon as a land ruled by demons and monsters, where warlords traded humans for protection and Moon Haze organized Demon Extermination Squads.
• Wei He learned that Lu Jiu was a Shapeshifting Demon and that she had never heard of powerful human martial artists, then asked why she had come to Great Moon.

Wei He killed Lu Jiu and waited to see which demons her death would attract, while Yun Si sensed Lu Jiu's demonic power vanish and began investigating. After a pair of visitors and a demon girl came to Lu Jiu's courtyard, Wei He dragged the girl into his house and killed her.

• Wei He killed Lu Jiu with a gust of finger wind, searched her belongings, and moved into a rented courtyard to investigate the demons cautiously.
• Master Mifang's ritual appeared to revive Zhong Ling, and Yun Si sensed Lu Jiu's demonic power disappear and ordered Xue Dong to investigate.
• Wei He waited three days for visitors to Lu Jiu's courtyard, then searched Ningzhou for information about the Crow King without success.
• Two people in black vests knocked at Lu Jiu's gate and left, followed later by a little girl who also found the courtyard empty.
• The little girl spotted Wei He through his gate, and he seized her, dragged her inside, and killed her.

Demons across Ningzhou received Yun Si’s order to find Xue Dong and Lu Jiu in exchange for a free blood meal, while Wei He hunted demons to study the source of their power. His research revealed that demon power came from the heart, and information from captured demons showed that Great Yue was fractured by warlords, foreign influence, and a fragile balance with demon forces.

• A white squirrel delivered Yun Si’s bounty order to demons feasting on corpses outside Ningzhou, prompting demons throughout the city and beyond to search for Xue Dong and Lu Jiu.
• Wei He studied a dead demon and concluded that dissection alone revealed little about what distinguished demons from humans.
• Wei He swiftly rescued a young woman from a bull-headed demon and snatched a lantern-bearing demon away from a richly dressed young master.
• Wei He captured more than a dozen low-ranking demons and discovered that their hearts were the source of their demon power.
• Wei He considered adapting the Three Hearts Art to obtain demon power, but worried that doing so might force him to eat people.
• Two captured wandering demons told Wei He that Great Yue’s warlords fought for power, made concessions to foreign powers, and remained in a precarious balance with demon forces.

Wei He identified dark green Demon Factors in demons and experimented with implanting them into animals, then decided to seek intelligence from Ningzhou’s military leaders. Meanwhile, Zhong Jiuguan introduced Master Mifang to the Marshal, unaware that Mifang was preparing to flee.

• Wei He entered the Pain Wind layer of the True Realm and found dark green points concentrated around a demon corpse’s heart and blood vessels, which he named Demon Factor.
• Wei He implanted Demon Factor into rabbits and observed that it caused physical changes, stronger appetites for meat, and increased strength and speed.
• Wei He discovered that different Demon Factors could impart their source demons’ traits and influence an animal’s mind, so he considered adapting the Three Hearts Art to demons.
• Wei He decided to seek demon intelligence from Ningzhou’s military leaders and set out for the Marshal’s Mansion.
• Zhong Jiuguan gave Master Mifang Gold Yuan and asked him to visit the Marshal and Madam Yun Si, while Mifang accepted the offer and planned to flee afterward.

Wei He infiltrated the Marshal's Mansion to meet Chen Youguang and secure his cooperation in capturing demons for research. Yun Si sensed danger and fled before Wei He entered the reception room, where he approached Chen Youguang.

• Chen Youguang and Yun Si discussed keeping Master Mifang and finding Xue Dong, then set out to meet him.
• Yun Si's precognition warned her of danger, so she claimed to feel unwell and left the mansion in a car.
• Wei He watched the Marshal's Mansion, studied its defenses, and decided to recruit its warlord chief as a partner.
• Wei He slipped over the wall, persuaded a maid to lead him to the front hall, and noticed Yun Si's car driving away.
• Wei He entered the reception room, identified Chen Youguang among the guests, and walked toward him.

Wei He forced Chen Youguang to help him gather demons for research into converting demonic power, True Blood, and True Strength. After demonstrating his strength by killing Hong'er, a demon secretly guarding Chen Youguang, he demanded that Chen Youguang change his attitude toward demons.

• Chen Youguang introduced Master Mifang and the Zhong father and son, and Wei He entered the hall and subdued Chen Youguang with a hand on his shoulder.
• Wei He dismissed the guests and told Chen Youguang he wanted to contact the Nine Demon Society and lure demons to Ningzhou for his research.
• Chen Youguang tried to threaten Wei He with a pistol, but Wei He bent a fruit knife against his hand to prove his body could withstand attacks.
• Wei He asked about the Nine Demon Society's leader, then flashed across the hall and fatally tore out Hong'er's throat after revealing she was a demon.
• Wei He told Chen Youguang that demons could not coexist peacefully with humanity, leaving Chen Youguang terrified and thinking of his wife, Yun Si.

Zhong Ling asked Zhou Xingtong about True Blood after recognizing a strange man at the Marshal's Mansion, but Zhou dismissed his suspicions. Meanwhile, Wei He researched demon power and drew the attention of surrounding demon forces, while nearing a breakthrough in converting it into True Force.

• Zhou Xingtong lamented the decline of martial arts as the Old Daoist visited and urged him to drink less.
• Zhong Ling asked Zhou Xingtong whether people could cultivate traces of the legendary True Blood path, but Zhou dismissed his account of Wei He as a mistaken impression.
• Wei He captured more than thirty demons for his research, then ran out of demons to find in Ningzhou City.
• Chen Youguang told Wei He that neighboring regions were watching the decrease in demons, while secretly concealing that Yun Si had coordinated their scouts.
• Wei He said the Demon Extermination Squad in Min Mountain had increased its manpower, then revealed that he had begun to understand how demon power could be converted into True Force.

Wei He discovered how to extract the True Realm Factor and use it to sustain the creation of True Force, then prepared to test a True Qi Conversion Organ on children. After he defeated three demons sent to ambush him, a veiled woman appeared and challenged him over his treatment of demons.

• Wei He used the Origin Tracing Method to break down True Qi and identify the True Realm Factor, which could convert Primal Blood into True Force when protected by Demon Factor.
• Wei He learned that twelve children with spirit-energy constitutions had been gathered and went with Chen Youguang to examine them as potential test subjects.
• Three demons ambushed Wei He, but he drew their attacks onto one finger and smashed them into a wall.
• Wei He reassured the remaining nine children and gave one boy a vial of medicine containing a simplified True Qi Conversion Organ.
• After hearing news of wars between human nations, Wei He told Chen Youguang that people, not demons, caused the world's greatest suffering.
• A veiled woman confronted Wei He about capturing demons, and she vanished after he said they were too weak to stop him.

Wei He confirmed that his experiments had produced children able to retain implanted True Qi Conversion Organs, then confronted the Great Demon Yan Shanxun and assessed her attack. The chapter left them facing off after Wei He withstood her opening strike and measured her abilities.

• The former Alliance Chief discussed military shortages and reports of demon activity with Adjutant Lin Xuan.
• Wei He found that four children had successfully retained implanted True Qi Conversion Organs and considered recruiting surviving martial artists to help him.
• Wei He went to a deserted district and met Yan Shanxun, who arrived with gray wolf demons to investigate his campaign against demons.
• Yan Shanxun realized Wei He was neither a demon nor a Yin Soul, and she ordered her followers to kill him.
• Yan Shanxun attacked with her Wolf Butcher Fang demonic art, but Wei He shattered its fangs and evaluated her speed, strength, and mental attack.

Wei He defeated Yan Shanxun and tested how demon bodies could support his True Qi Conversion Organ research. After preparing an implant for himself, he left the Marshal's Mansion to get food and encountered a familiar young man.

• Yan Shanxun's attacks failed to harm Wei He, and he used gravity to injure her before she escaped by transforming into white light.
• Yan Shanxun met a white-haired elder, described Wei He's strength, and agreed to report him to the Demon Alliance.
• Wei He found that demons accepted the True Qi Conversion Organ with complete success after its True Realm Factor was disguised with Demon Factor.
• Ten days after Yan Shanxun's defeat, Wei He prepared to implant the organ in himself and inspected the conversion pattern on his hand.
• Wei He left the Marshal's Mansion alone to buy Spicy Chicken Noodles, and a familiar young man hurried over to him.

Zhong Ling asked Wei He to guide him in developing a fighting style that combined martial arts with firearms, and Wei He agreed to help. Meanwhile, Lord Huajunzi, Red Hunter, Lord Heshan, and their companions gathered at the Marshal's Mansion to confront the martial artist who had challenged the Demon Alliance.

• Zhong Ling approached Wei He and asked for guidance after explaining his ambition to combine martial arts and firearms into a new fighting style.
• Wei He agreed that Zhong Ling could seek his help with ordinary combat martial arts at the Marshal's Mansion.
• Wei He read a newspaper, planned to visit Minshan after completing the True Strength conversion organization, and considered investigating Old Mother Minshan.
• Lord Huajunzi and two companions appeared at the Marshal's Mansion and spread white ripples across it.
• Red Hunter arrived, then Lord Heshan emerged from a whirlpool in the stone floor with Yan Shanxun and another woman, and the demons prepared to face the martial artist.

Lord Heshan and the other Great Demons discovered a hidden laboratory in the Marshal's Mansion, where a former dynasty martial artist had tortured demons and studied aberrant monsters. Wei He returned to the mansion and found the demons in the underground chamber, where they attacked him.

• Lord Heshan sealed the Marshal's Mansion with a departure ward, and the demons found a passage beneath a desolate rear garden.
• The demons discovered walls covered with dissected demon corpses and jars holding demon heads; Yan Shanxun recognized one tortured wolf demon as her former subordinate.
• Yan Shanxun recalled the Demon Alliance's history of eradicating mutated former dynasty martial artists, while the demons found an aberrant ram-horned monster immune to Red Hunter's attack.
• Wei He finished a riverside walk and returned to the Marshal's Mansion as the demons prepared to leave the underground chamber.
• Wei He appeared behind Lord Heshan, and Lord Heshan, Lord Huajunzi, Red Hunter, and Yan Shanxun attacked him together.

Wei He defeated four Great Demons who attacked his laboratory, killing Red Hunter and capturing the others. The Demon Alliance learned that Lord Heshan and the other demons had disappeared, and its leader was informed of their failed mission in Ning Province.

• Wei He used gravity to redirect the four Great Demons’ attacks, then overpowered Lord Heshan while Heshan’s blows injured Red Hunter.
• Lord Heshan transformed and used his secret art, but Wei He stopped him and tossed him through the basement ceiling before pursuing him outside.
• Lord Huajunzi surrendered, and Wei He dragged the fleeing Lord Heshan back into the basement and suppressed all four demons.
• Wei He crushed Red Hunter’s head after Red Hunter threatened him, then prepared to demand compensation from the surviving demons for his damaged laboratory.
• In Capital City, a suited man told the Demon Alliance leader that Lord Heshan and the demons sent to Ning Province had not returned or made contact.

The Demon Alliance learned that Wei He had emerged in Ningzhou City and announced an investigation into his identity. Meanwhile, Zhong Ling trained under Wei He and visited Zhou Xingtong, whose recognition of Wei He's legendary past left him and the Old Daoist determined to verify who he was.

• The Demon Alliance leader ordered an investigation into Wei He and told the alliance to publicly announce his appearance.
• Wei He advised Zhong Ling on his martial training and abandoned his plan to search for elderly survivors from the previous dynasty.
• Zhong Ling visited Zhou Xingtong and spoke of learning combat from Wei He at the Marshal's Mansion.
• The Old Daoist offered Zhong Ling several techniques, including the Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal, which Zhong Ling said Wei He had also taught him.
• Zhou Xingtong and the Old Daoist recognized Wei He's name and titles, then resolved to confirm whether he was the legendary figure they remembered.

Wei He reunited with Zhou Xingtong and Shangguan Jue, old acquaintances who asked about recovering True Energy. He explained that the process would expose them to danger from demons, and they left to consider whether to accept; the next morning, Wei He enjoyed a meal, pleased that Lord Heshan and the other Great Demons had improved his True Energy conversion tissue.

• Wei He recalled his departed loved ones before Zhong Ling brought Zhou Xingtong and Shangguan Jue to meet him.
• Wei He recognized Zhou Xingtong, and the two old friends shared a warm reunion.
• Shangguan Jue asked whether True Energy could be restored, and Wei He explained that the aging men could regain only limited strength and lifespan.
• Wei He offered Zhou Xingtong and Shangguan Jue the chance to recover some strength, warning that the conversion tissue would put them in danger from demons.
• Zhou Xingtong declined for the moment, Shangguan Jue chose to think it over, and Zhong Ling left after Wei He refused to explain his past.
• The next morning, Wei He ate cheerfully, pleased that Lord Heshan and the other Great Demons had upgraded his True Energy conversion tissue.

Wei He traveled from Ningzhou to Minshan with Lord Huajunzi, reflecting on his plans to gather conversion tissue and open the Great Yue Imperial Tomb. After seeing Minshan’s poverty and foreign influence, he got out to explore, but a car stopped ahead and faint sobbing reached him.

• Wei He concluded that millennia-old great demons might provide the highest-grade conversion tissue he needed to open the Great Yue Imperial Tomb and potentially find Li Rong.
• Chen Youguang watched Wei He leave, then discovered that Yun Si had been returned to him, bloodied and barely alive, with a tag bearing Wei’s message.
• Lord Huajunzi told Wei He that demons had migrated from Linzhou to Yuan Moon for its resources and that Old Mother Minshan kept the wilderness around Minshan safe for ordinary people.
• Wei He and Lord Huajunzi drove toward Minshan, where Wei observed the poverty of the surrounding settlements and the city’s mix of Yuan Moon and Seracla styles.
• Wei He asked Lord Huajunzi to park so they could explore Minshan, but a sedan ahead stopped suddenly and faint sobbing came from the road.

Wei He arrived in Minshan, witnessed foreign privilege and the callous aftermath of a fatal accident, then took over a local demon’s villa and killed its young occupant. He learned the location of Snake Emperor Munala’s Snake Den and planned to hunt the thousand-year demon for materials while pondering what would sustain his future breakthroughs.

• Wei He watched a white driver escape responsibility for killing two children after paying their relatives one hundred Xilin Coins, and Lord Huajunzi explained why the women accepted the money.
• Wei He learned that Snake Emperor Munala was rumored to live in Minshan and that the Snake Den was on Ruolin Street, then said he would kill Munala’s disciples and descendants to draw him out.
• Wei He claimed a local demon’s villa as his temporary residence, and the demon who had been inside fled when he saw Lord Huajunzi.
• Wei He ordered Lord Huajunzi to find servants and local demons, then beheaded a terrified young Bear Demon who protested that the villa was her home.
• Wei He considered how he could obtain stronger conversion tissue and extend his life, then decided to focus first on capturing Munala.

The Demon Alliance prepared an ambush for Wei He, with Snake Emperor Munala planning to capture him for research. Wei He discovered Lord Huajunzi's secret message but mistook its Demon Script for ordinary writing, then continued investigating longevity and ways to develop a new martial realm.

• Snake Emperor Munala and four demons planned to lure Wei He to a prepared battlefield and kill or capture him.
• Li Fan warned his daughter to avoid trouble as the Demon Alliance grew more active, while she assured him that Afei and others protected her.
• Lord Huajunzi secretly asked the Demon Alliance whether to reveal the Snake Den's location and poison Wei He, but Wei He interrupted him before he could receive further instructions.
• Wei He told Lord Huajunzi to prepare for a trip to the Snake Den and to catch avian demons for his experiments.
• Wei He reviewed his tissue experiments and considered using gravity to increase his body's density and strength as he sought a new martial realm.

Wei He raided a hidden Snake Den, killed most of its inhabitants, and captured the Snake Emperor’s descendants before returning to study a new way to strengthen his body. The chapter left him testing whether increased gravitational strain could enhance human flesh and tissue.

• Wei He broke into a secluded estate on Mount Min and used his force abilities to kill the guards and a serpent demon.
• Wei He tore through the estate, while Lord Huajunzi realized it was the Snake Emperor’s genuine hidden Snake Den.
• Wei He restrained the Snake Princesses Elune and Lingsha, and Lord Huajunzi recognized them as the Snake Emperor’s pure-blooded descendants.
• Wei He and Lord Huajunzi captured more than thirty serpent demons, killed most of the estate’s inhabitants, and took its valuable items and secret manuals.
• Wei He returned to his residence, secured the Snake Princesses, and began investigating how gravitational load could strengthen his flesh and tissues.

Wei He developed a possible martial path based on pure Primal Blood and went to meet Old Mother Minshan at the Grand World Ballroom. There, he learned she was Wen Ling, backed by the Xilin Austin Family, and accepted an invitation to meet the family’s heir, Cordewif.

• Wei He reasoned that he could use Void Mist and pure Primal Blood force to strengthen his body, and began planning experiments to restore his peak condition.
• Lord Huajunzi told Wei He that he had located Old Mother Minshan at the Grand World Ballroom.
• Snake Emperor Munala returned to find Snake Den devastated and Snake Princess missing, then learned Wei He had attacked demon strongholds across the region.
• Wei He and Lord Huajunzi arrived at the Grand World Ballroom, where Wen Ling identified herself as Old Mother Minshan and welcomed him on behalf of the Xilin Austin Family.
• Wen Ling invited Wei He to a banquet with Cordewif in the Golden Rose Hall, and Wei He agreed to go.

Wei He met with Xilin leader Andis to negotiate cooperation and learn about the Crow King. After demonstrating his overwhelming strength and poisoning the hall, he left Andis facing the consequences of refusing his terms.

• Wei He met Andis, who offered support for rebuilding Yuan Yue's forces in exchange for the secret of how Wei He had preserved his strength.
• Andis claimed the Crow King had been killed by Great Knight Mon and showed Wei He a feather, which Wei He recognized as not belonging to Eldest Senior Sister Yuan Du Zi.
• Wei He rejected Andis's proposed terms and suspended everyone in the hall except Andis with an invisible force.
• Wei He released the captives and told Andis to take an antidote because he had poisoned the hall with colorless gas.
• Andis swallowed the pill, then saw more than half the people in the hall collapse from the poison.

Wei He took control of two knights, then headed to Elm Street with Lord Huajunzi to collect the Snake Princess and secure demon tissue for his plans. Meanwhile, the Demon Alliance and Liu Xinyan’s Demon Extermination Squad gathered there, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Wei He poisoned two Austen Family knights and ordered them to report back within a day, while Andis recognized how dangerous he was.
• Wei He told Lord Huajunzi to bring the Snake Princess to Elm Street and planned to obtain a thousand-year demon’s tissue to produce demon flesh farms and rescue those trapped in the imperial mausoleum.
• Tree Dragon and other Demon Alliance leaders gathered in Elm Street, where the Snake Den and neutral faction had assembled to kill Wei He.
• Liu Xinyan arrived with the Demon Extermination Squad, learned that at least a hundred demons had gathered, and ordered the residents evacuated while investigating the demons’ purpose.

Wei He and Lord Huajunzi made their way toward the sealed Elm Street as demons and the Demon Extermination Squad fought across Minshan. A faint sound reached the demons on Elm Street, prompting them to abandon their battles and hurry toward its source.

• Wei He left his stalled car with Lord Huajunzi and the two Snake Princesses, then headed on foot toward Elm Street through the cordon.
• Three Demon Extermination Squad members fought a Serpent-headed, Human-bodied Demon in an alley, while other squads battled demons on the outskirts of Minshan.
• Two Minshan District Demon Extermination Squad captains fought a powerful Bear Demon inside an Elm Street tavern, but their attacks barely wounded it.
• A faint sound from outside reached the Bear Demon, which fled deeper into Elm Street, and more than a hundred demons across the district moved toward the sound.

The Demon Extermination Squad’s wounded Yuan Qing voiced his faith in Director Liu Xinyan’s stories about the Xuanmiao Sect, while his bespectacled companion remained skeptical. At Elm Street, Wei He betrayed and killed Lord Huajunzi, then broke free of the demons’ sealing formation and unleashed the True World’s Oriole’s Laugh Wind.

• The bespectacled man treated Yuan Qing’s wounds as Yuan Qing praised Director Liu Xinyan and insisted the Xuanmiao Sect’s ancient masters might still survive.
• Wei He met the Snake Emperor and his generals beneath the Elm Street clock tower, with the two Snake Princesses and Lord Huajunzi in his custody.
• Wei He suddenly pierced Lord Huajunzi through the abdomen, saying he no longer had any value.
• The Snake Emperor and the surrounding demons formed a vast demon-power seal around Wei He to capture him alive.
• Wei He grew enormous inside the cocoon until it cracked and shattered, releasing Oriole’s Laugh Wind and causing weaker demons to mutate.
• Tree Dragon identified the True World contamination and ordered everyone below Great Demon rank to withdraw.

Wei He unleashed his monstrous form and fought the Great Demons surrounding him, overwhelming them with gravity, speed, and the Black Goat bloodline. As Tree Dragon charged in his enormous wooden-dragon form, Wei He acknowledged the attack’s destructive power, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Wei He revealed his six-meter-tall body as Oriole's Laugh Wind contaminated the demons and disrupted their formation.
• Tree Dragon, Snake Emperor, Horse King, and the other Great Demons surrounded Wei He, but his gravity and appearance unsettled them.
• Snake Emperor’s demon arts failed to harm Wei He, and Tree Dragon’s Flower Cage was pierced by Wei He’s living hair before Wei He struck Tree Dragon into an apothecary.
• Wei He killed Tie Long and two other Snake Den Great Demons, then pierced Snake Emperor’s chest with a single punch.
• Tree Dragon transformed into a huge wooden dragon and charged Wei He, who judged the attack powerful but began to dismiss it.