Chapter Summaries

Wan Ling and the other former Heavenly Seal Sect leaders discussed Wei He’s strength and his role in restoring the sect. Meanwhile, Pagoda Master Fu recruited Ruan Qinghong to help her recover and kill Wei He, leaving the two poison experts preparing to target him.

• Xie Yan described how Wei He had defeated Yan Junshan and killed two Water Punishment Department generals, astonishing Wan Ling and the others.
• Granny Zeng and the group assessed Wei He’s speed, strength, cold vigor, and poison arts, concluding that fighting him would be extremely dangerous.
• Pagoda Master Fu confronted Ruan Qinghong in Ghost Scissors Valley, saying Ruan’s poison-cleansing item had failed and her subordinates had died.
• Ruan Qinghong examined Pagoda Master Fu’s poison and agreed to cure her, while Pagoda Master Fu asked her to help kill Wei He after she recovered.
• Pagoda Master Fu warned Ruan Qinghong about Wei He’s abilities, and Ruan Qinghong claimed her White Jade Poison Cleansing Belt could counter most poisons.

Wei He consolidated the Wanqing Sect after taking over as Sect Master, arranged supplies and recruits, and tested martial arts as he prepared to advance his cultivation. News of his rise reached the Wushi Sect, where Ruixiang Head of the Court told Yan Jiuzhen that the Heavenly Seal Sect had faced a major disturbance.

• Wei He praised Hu Zicheng for helping seize Zhou Rong's relatives and agreed to consider Hu Zicheng's sister for Wanqing Sect training.
• Wei He set up a book tower, tested force-entry martial arts for compatibility, and began studying the Clear Mist Art while preparing for the Bone Marrow Transformation Pass.
• The Zhou Family and You family accepted Wei He's compensation demands and sent supplies and exotic breeds to Black House Mountain.
• Wei He welcomed scattered Heavenly Seal Sect disciples, expanded their base, and arranged supply purchases and exotic beast hunts.
• Stories of Wei He's rapid rise spread through Taizhou as the Wushi Sect's academy heads gathered to select Inner Court entrants.
• Ruixiang Head of the Court told Yan Jiuzhen that the Heavenly Seal Sect had encountered a disturbance, drawing Yan Jiuzhen's attention.

Ruixiang Head of the Court reminded Yan Jiuzhen and Green Leaf that Wei He had once been rejected by Wushi Sect before rising to lead Heavenly Seal Sect, but Yan Jiuzhen dismissed his achievements as temporary. At Wanqing Sect, Wei He learned about rebuilding his foundation and continued his Bone Marrow Transformation while overseeing Heavenly Seal Sect’s growing headquarters.

• Ruixiang Head of the Court told Yan Jiuzhen that Wei He had rescued Heavenly Seal Sect and had originally sought to join Wushi Sect, where Yan Jiuzhen and Green Leaf had rejected him.
• Yan Jiuzhen criticized Wei He’s poison arts and predicted that his progress would soon stall, while Green Leaf said she would still have chosen Zhou Xinyi.
• Green Leaf and Ruixiang Head of the Court exchanged words after Yan Jiuzhen left, and Green Leaf reflected that Wei He’s choice to leave the Outer Court left him with little hope of recovery.
• At Wanqing Sect’s headquarters, Xie Yan explained that Bone Marrow Transformation required rebuilding the bone structure prescribed by a cultivation technique and recalled that the Gathering Cloud Bone Structure involved connecting cloud patterns throughout the body.
• Wei He continued using jin force to transform his bone marrow, relying on the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to overcome any obstacles, then surveyed Heavenly Seal Sect’s busy grounds and received respectful salutes from its disciples.

Wei He visited Nine Shadow, helped refine a poison-based body-forging art, and agreed to arrange safe passage into Xuanjing City for Nine Shadow’s friends. After restoring the Heavenly Seal Sect and beginning Bone Marrow Transformation, Wei He sought out Wang Shaojun to learn how he had advanced to Organ Refining so quickly.

• Wei He visited Nine Shadow’s secluded cabin, met Yuanbao, and asked Nine Shadow to help train poison experts for the reestablished Heavenly Seal Sect, but Nine Shadow declined because he was researching poison resistance.
• Nine Shadow showed Wei He his poison-based body-forging art, and they worked together to refine it while discussing the spreading plague and Nine Shadow’s request to help his friends enter Xuanjing City.
• Wei He agreed to arrange the friends’ settlement documents, then returned to the Wanqing Sect residence and replaced its stele with one bearing the name Heavenly Seal Sect.
• Wei He began condensing the bone-structure cloud patterns required for Bone Marrow Transformation and discovered that his Whale Flood Art let him progress more than twice as quickly as other Bone Forging martial masters.
• After making little progress for over a month, Wei He wondered how Wang Shaojun had reached Organ Refining in three years and went to ask him for a special method.

Wang Shaojun explained Silkworm Silk Jin to Wei He and gave him an old scroll containing its principles, while urging him to seek the complete Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal. The chapter ended in Qingqi County, where Old Man Jiu played chess with an old man who suddenly began coughing badly.

• Wang Shaojun watched gangs extort shopkeepers in Xuanjing City and paid off two men threatening an old fruit seller and his grandson.
• Wang Shaojun told Wei He that Silkworm Silk Jin could accelerate Organ Refining and gave him an aged scroll containing the method.
• Wang Shaojun described the Wushi Sect's inherited martial arts knowledge and urged Wei He to gather the complete Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal.
• Wang Shaojun demonstrated Silkworm Silk Jin by sending a faint strand of force into Wei He's hand, then left while Wei He studied the sensation.
• In Qingqi County, Old Man Jiu played rapid chess with an old man, who suddenly broke into a severe coughing fit.

Nine Shadows was warned by the Chaos God Cult to stop supplying poison to Wei He, then was captured by Returning Goose Pagoda’s scheme to lure Wei He out. Wei He recognized the trap and joined forces with Wang Shaojun to turn it against the Pagoda Master, while Wang Yehe prepared a wider assault on Returning Goose Pagoda and the Chaos God Cult.

• Nine Shadows met an elderly woman from the Chaos God Cult, who warned him to stop supplying poison to Wei He.
• The Pagoda Master of Returning Goose Pagoda and two masked martial masters attacked Nine Shadows, intending to use him as bait for Wei He.
• Wei He received word that Nine Shadows was being pursued, recognized the danger as a trap, and went to Xuanjing City to seek Wang Shaojun’s help.
• Wei He and Wang Shaojun agreed to use themselves as bait and mobilize their forces to surround and kill the Pagoda Master.
• Wang Shaojun asked Wang Yehe to join the operation, and Wang Yehe planned to enlist Wang Zhihe and the eminent monks of Jian Zhe Temple to help eradicate Returning Goose Pagoda.

Jiu Ying realized he was being used as bait, and Wei He came to his rescue before facing an ambush by the master of Returning Goose Pagoda, Azure Water Asura, and Ruan Qinghong. Wei He evaded their coordinated attacks with his unusual movement technique, but the three opponents resolved that they could not let him live.

• Jiu Ying stopped fleeing and confronted the master of Returning Goose Pagoda after suspecting she was using him to lure Wei He.
• Wei He arrived and placed himself between Jiu Ying and the pursuers, then let Jiu Ying escape.
• The master of Returning Goose Pagoda revealed that Azure Water Asura and Ruan Qinghong were also waiting to fight Wei He.
• Wei He attacked the master of Returning Goose Pagoda, and the two exchanged rapid blows on the stone bridge.
• Azure Water Asura and Ruan Qinghong joined the fight, but Wei He escaped their three-sided attack by breaking through the bridge and moving beneath it.
• Ruan Qinghong and Azure Water Asura recognized Wei He's formidable movement technique and declared that they could not leave him alive.

Wei He and his allies faced the Returning Goose Pagoda, Lishan Sect, and their assassins at the stone bridge. Wang Zhihe’s arrival turned the fight in their favor, and an old monk struck Ruan Qinghong down as she tried to escape.

• Azure Water Asura, Ruan Qinghong, and the Returning Goose Pagoda Master attacked Wei He together, but Junshan's Swallowfish Armor helped him withstand their blows.
• Wang Shaojun and Xie Yan joined the fight, followed by Wang Yehe and Wang Zhihe; Wang Zhihe confronted Fu Yanling, the Returning Goose Pagoda Master.
• Fu Yanling attacked Wang Zhihe, Wang Yehe fought Jiao Ning, Wang Shaojun and Xie Yan engaged the four Bone Forging assassins, and Wei He faced Ruan Qinghong’s poisons.
• Wei He neutralized Ruan Qinghong’s poisons, destroyed her silver snake, and pursued her after she fled.
• A burly old monk struck Ruan Qinghong with his Buddhist staff, sending her crashing into the woods, and Wei He greeted him as Master.

Wei He and his allies devastated Returning Goose Pagoda, then Wei He learned Old Man Nine Shadows had developed a staged method for cultivating through poison and integrating poison into force. The chapter ended with the two considering the new art as a system of its own.

• Wang Zhihe and Wang Yehe pursued Fu Yanling after she fell into the river, while Wang Shaojun stayed with Wei He and confirmed that Returning Goose Pagoda’s forces had been routed.
• Wei He, Wang Shaojun, and Zen Master Jingmie divided the spoils, and Wei He killed the unconscious Ruan Qinghong instead of detaining him.
• The Wang Family, Myriad Poison Sect, and Jian Zhe Temple destroyed Returning Goose Pagoda’s remaining outposts over the next half month, while the Chijing Army’s war against the rebels remained deadlocked.
• Old Man Nine Shadows told Wei He that his health had worsened and presented a four-stage poison cultivation method based on gathering, accepting, transforming, and assimilating poisons.
• Wei He discussed how the method could strengthen the body and incorporate poison into force, while Old Man Nine Shadows proposed naming it the Old Man Nine Shadows Art.

Wei He named a poison-based body-strengthening technique the Righteous Law Art while Jiu Ying left to treat his sick friend in Qingqi County. Later, Wei He punished a young man who mocked him at Heavenly Seal Lake, then departed after learning the group belonged to Bright Moon Fist Academy.

• Wei He and Jiu Ying discussed the poison-fusing technique and decided to call it the Righteous Law Art.
• A woodpecker summoned Jiu Ying to Qingqi County, where he examined Old Sun and noticed that Madam Sun Li was coughing too.
• Wei He relaxed on Heavenly Seal Lake after the Heavenly Seal Sect’s campaign ended and its reputation spread through Xuanjing.
• Young Master Xu mocked Wei He from the shore, so Wei appeared before him and struck him in the chest with Jin force.
• Chen Rui identified Wei He as the Myriad Poison Sect Master and explained that the youths belonged to Bright Moon Fist Academy.
• Wei He left the group unharmed beyond Young Master Xu’s injury and returned to his boat.

During Xuanjing City's festival, Wei Ying pressed Wei He to consider marriage while he worried about threats to the Heavenly Seal Sect. News of a deadly plague in nearby counties led into Nine Shadows's visit to Qingqi County, where Old Sun had died despite his treatment and Madam Sun Li asked him to protect her grandsons.

• Wei Ying and Zhen Qi urged Wei He to choose a wife, and Wei Ying recorded five possible candidates during the fireworks.
• Wei He overheard guests discussing hundreds of plague deaths in Wanfu County and Jin'an County and saw medicine carts heading out of Xuanjing City.
• In Qingqi County, a family shared the last bowl of symptom-relieving medicine with their sick child, Dong'er.
• Nine Shadows learned from Madam Sun Li that Old Sun had died the previous night despite taking his medicine.
• Madam Sun Li asked Nine Shadows to protect her two grandsons if she died, and he agreed.

Wei He studied the Shadowless Chaos True Art and other leg skills to strengthen his combat ability, but the Lishan Sect's Yu Guangyan challenged him to a battle. Yu Qingyan decided to send the six halls and lead the Lishan Sect's campaign herself, leaving Wei He facing a threat far greater than a duel.

• Wei He tested the Shadowless Chaos True Art for three days and found that it could not be combined with his Overturning Rain Vigor, though the study taught him about the force used by the Demonic Path.
• A disciple delivered Yu Guangyan's challenge for a decisive battle at Mount Fusu on the first day of May, and Wei He weighed the danger of refusing against the Lishan Sect's overwhelming strength.
• Wei He decided he could not accept the challenge and considered hiding in Black House Mountain, but feared the Lishan Sect might raid the Wanqing Sect's base.
• Yu Guangyan told his mother, Sect Master Yu Qingyan, that he planned to kill Wei He to restore the Lishan Sect's reputation and use the fight to break through his bottleneck.
• Yu Qingyan ordered the six halls to accompany Yu Guangyan and declared that she would join the campaign herself, including an advance on Xuanjing.

After Fushan Tower’s twenty-one members vanished, Yu Qingyan ordered an investigation while the Wanqing Sect considered the Lishan Sect’s challenge and its future. Wei He rejected the challenge and gathered the Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal manuals, ending with Li Chenxu recalling an encounter with an Eye Sense martial artist.

• A Silver Scale Team messenger told Yu Qingyan that Fushan Tower had been found empty, and Yu Qingyan ordered Liuqing Hall to investigate within two days.
• Du Han advised Wei He to refuse the Lishan Sect’s challenge, arguing that the Chijing Army and Xuanjing’s Three Great Families would oppose Lishan’s expansion into their territory.
• Wei He decided to gather the nine true techniques and fuse them, and representatives brought nine manuals to Heavenly Seal Hall.
• Xiao Qingyu reported that three manuals were complete through Ming Gan while the other six reached only Bone Forging, and the group discussed the Transformation Realm beyond Ming Gan.
• Li Chenxu said he had once encountered a monk at the Eye Sense level who could perceive what ordinary people could not, and he began recalling the one sentence he still remembered.

Wei He and the others reconstructed a flawed version of Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal, and Wei He began cultivating its nine arts to strengthen his Overturning Rain Vigor. In Qingqi County, Nine Shadows lost Madam Sun Li to the plague, then told Wei He that a sick herb gatherer had found cave carvings related to Silkworm Silk Jin.

• Old Li described how a bowl containing eighty-four thousand insects killed a muntjac in moments, and Wei He urged everyone to focus on reconstructing Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal.
• Wei He, Xie Yan, Granny Zeng, and the others shared their martial knowledge and completed a flawed true art of Nine Felling of Heavenly Seal up to Organ Refining.
• Wan Ling and Xiao Qingyu entered seclusion after gaining insights, while Wan Qingqing began searching for the six missing true arts.
• Wei He started practicing the other eight arts and planned to use their vigor to strengthen his Overturning Rain Vigor rather than switch to the incomplete Nine Felling Vigor.
• Nine Shadows's medical efforts failed to save Madam Sun Li, leaving Sun Yan'er and her younger brother without their grandparents.
• Nine Shadows told Wei He that a plague-stricken herb gatherer had found cave carvings related to Silkworm Silk Jin, but the man was unconscious.

Wei He and Jiuying investigated the epidemic while searching for a cave containing records of the Silkworm Silk Jin, then organized a treatment compound in Qingqi County. The outbreak continued to claim lives, and the chapter ended with a widowed father dying as his two young children waited outside.

• Jiuying led Wei He to a sick hunter who had seen records of the Silkworm Silk Jin and said his squirrel companion, Little Ling, could guide them to the cave.
• After examining the hunter and reviewing his illness notes, Jiuying concluded that the epidemic's cause was not yet understood and that he needed more cases to compare.
• Wei He provided Wanqing Sect workers and supplies as Jiuying established a treatment compound with help from the county yamen.
• Jiuying and his helpers received a flood of patients, while Wei He saw two children waiting as their sick father was brought inside.
• The father coughed up blood and died despite Jiuying's efforts, leaving Jiuying to order that his body be taken out through the side gate.

Wei He witnessed the devastation caused by the plague, then entered Black House Mountain with a hunter to find a cave containing a True Art. At the cave, Taizhou martial artists were being barred from entry by Jinzhou factions, and Lei Wu arrived to confront the dispute.

• Wei He offered to let a brother and sister join the Wanqing Sect after their father disappeared, and left Qingqi County for Xuanjing.
• Wei He saw that Heshan County and nearby villages were also ravaged by the plague and considered leaving the region if conditions worsened.
• After Nine Shadows's medicine improved the hunter's illness, the hunter led Wei He deep into Black House Mountain and pointed out the cave's location.
• Wei He marked a pine tree and went ahead alone to investigate the cave, where Jinzhou martial artists guarded a cave-wall True Art and kept Taizhou martial artists outside.
• Xue Dan grew furious as Jinzhou factions took turns studying the True Art while denying Taizhou access, and Lei Wu arrived to hear his account.

Yue Xiaodie cleared the cave of its occupants, altered the unnamed true art carved on its wall, and threatened Lei Wu before Wei He arrived. Wei He prepared to mark the cave with poison, but Xiao Hong detected his method as Jinzhou onlookers mistook him for an easy target.

• Lei Wu tried to claim a share of the cave, but Yue Xiaodie ignored him and sent Xiao Hong inside to kill or injure everyone there.
• Yue Xiaodie read the unnamed true art, altered several characters in its inscription, and left the cave with Xiao Hong.
• At Yue Xiaodie's command, Xiao Hong attacked Lei Wu but only wounded the skin around his eyes before returning to her side.
• Wei He arrived at the cave and considered killing the gathered martial artists, then decided instead to leave a poisonous mark.
• Xiao Hong detected Wei He's poisonous method, while Jinzhou onlookers mocked him and expected Yue Xiaodie to attack.

Wei He found Silkworm Silk Jin instructions in the cave, but discovered that several passages had been altered and decided to track down whoever changed them. Yue Xiaodie fled from the Jinzhou martial artists, unaware that Wei He had sent an insect after her.

• Wei He explained his poison-incense mark, then tore off the red-robed dwarf’s arm and gave it to Yue Xiaodie as an apology.
• Lei Wu and the Taizhou martial artists fled, while Yue Xiaodie escaped as the Jinzhou crowd turned against her and Genuan led a chase.
• Wei He found and memorized the cave’s Silkworm Silk Jin instructions, considering whether he could cultivate the technique with the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Wei He detected recent alterations to the cave-wall text, copied the contents, destroyed the inscriptions, and decided to find the person who changed them.
• Wei He released a pale-blue mantis-like insect to follow those marked by his incense, including Yue Xiaodie.

Wei He caught Yue Xiaodie and used a drug to make her reveal Silkworm Silk Jin’s cultivation method, but she secretly fabricated most of it. After discovering she had faked being poisoned, Wei He confronted her again and threatened to kill her, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Yue Xiaodie led Genuan and the other Jinzhou martial artists on a chase until Wei He intercepted her and demanded the cave’s true technique.
• Yue Xiaodie scattered manuscript pages and tried to escape, but Wei He drugged her and questioned her about her identity and Silkworm Silk Jin.
• Yue Xiaodie secretly resisted the drug and recited a mostly fabricated Silkworm Silk Jin method, which Wei He carefully recorded.
• Wei He returned to check the method a second time, then watched Yue Xiaodie pretend to remain unconscious before confronting her again.
• Yue Xiaodie panicked and denied deceiving Wei He, who seized her and threatened to beat her to death.

Wei He forced Yue Xiaodie to reveal Silkworm Silk Jin, captured her, and discovered a separate secret technique in a hidden cave. After imprisoning Yue Xiaodie, he used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to nearly master Silkworm Silk Jin, leaving him poised to pursue the next stage of his cultivation.

• Yue Xiaodie gave Wei He the cultivation method for Silkworm Silk Jin and the portion of the Great Sui True Scripture she knew, while Wei He spotted discrepancies in her first account.
• Wei He broke Yue Xiaodie's limbs, forced her to swallow an insect egg, knocked her unconscious, and carried her back toward the hunter.
• Wei He followed the hunter to a concealed cave and found inscriptions describing Silkworm Silk Extreme Profound Jin and a dying man's wish to kill Shangguan Canglu.
• Wei He recorded the secret technique, renamed it Wanqing Extreme Profound Force, destroyed the inscriptions, and imprisoned Yue Xiaodie at the Wanqing Sect.
• Wei He spent half a month cultivating Silkworm Silk Jin with the Boundary-Breaking Pearl and reached its final barrier, preparing to continue toward Organ Refining.