Chapter Summaries

After Wei He killed two Wushi Sect Inner Court heads, the provincial authorities and the sect prepared to respond, while You Fu saw the incident as a chance to draw Wei He into a broader struggle. The Wushi Sect resolved to send a High Person after him, but its Inner Court showed little willingness to join the pursuit.

• Wang Shaojun returned to the Wang residence and learned from Lord Zhao's aide that Wei He had killed two Wushi Sect Inner Court heads and was suspected of reaching Ming Gan; Wang Zhihe suggested Wei He might be a Bloodline Aberrant.
• You Fu met a gray-robed man by the White River, read a report of Wei He's victory, and planned to help him when the Wushi Sect came after him.
• The Wushi Sect rang the bells for the Nine Truths Court and Song Qinghu Court, and Liu Zhenyuan announced that a High Person from the Three Main Peaks would descend to capture Wei He.
• Only about a dozen disciples, including Yan Jiuzhen's and Song Qinghu's personal disciples, volunteered to pursue the Myriad Poison Sect's remaining members.
• The Green Leaf Head of the Court and the other heads reflected on the deaths and recalled that Wei He had once been rejected as a disciple because of his bone structure.

Wei He stopped to face two Wushi Sect experts from the Three Main Peaks who had come to avenge the Inner Court heads he killed. He fought Song Ting to a stalemate, while Song Xiange joined the battle.

• Qingye reflected on Wei He's fate as two people descended Jade Fang Peak and headed for the Myriad Poison Sect.
• Wei He left the convoy and waited by the road after sensing two pursuers approaching.
• Song Ting and Song Xiange identified Wei He and questioned him about killing the Inner Court heads; Wei He said he had not meant to kill them because they could not withstand a single blow.
• Song Ting revealed himself as the former Taizhou expert and attacked Wei He with Huishan Fist.
• Wei He and Song Ting traded blows but neither could overcome the other's defense, until Song Xiange made his move.

Wei He fought Song Ting while Song Xiange used a strange force to disrupt and restrain him. Wei He wounded Song Ting with a hidden kick, but the two experts remained in the fight as Wei He charged back into the battle.

• Song Xiange planted invisible force in Wei He and detonated it, disrupting his protective force while Wei He exchanged blows with Song Ting.
• Wei He tried to trap Song Ting with the Heart Severing Seal, but Song Ting slipped free using the Flowing Water Style and repeatedly redirected Wei He's attacks.
• Wei He entered the Ascension State and nearly landed a decisive blow, but Song Xiange froze him long enough for Song Ting to strike his right eye.
• Wei He kicked through Song Ting's weakened protection and opened a bloody hole in his abdomen, preventing the punch from destroying Wei He's eye.
• Wei He revealed that he knew more than seal techniques and lunged at the injured Song Ting.

Wei He used his secret art to survive Song Ting and Song Xiange’s joint attack and force the two Wushi Sect experts to retreat. Afterward, he ended his alliance with You Fu and left, choosing to pull himself and the Myriad Poison Sect out of the conflict.

• Song Ting and Song Xiange unleashed their joint secret technique, striking Wei He on both sides of the neck, but his secret art and layered defenses blunted their attack and poisoned their injured arms.
• Wei He charged at the two men while his secret art remained active, but Song Ting and Song Xiange retreated rather than risk further injury.
• You Fu emerged and congratulated Wei He for drawing the Wushi Sect’s attention, while acknowledging how far Wei He’s strength had risen.
• Wei He said he would return Su Zhao and send the Myriad Poison Sect’s remaining supplies to the alliance, declaring that he and You Fu were even.
• Wei He left before his secret art faded, and You Fu realized that Wei He intended to disband the Myriad Poison Sect and withdraw from the conflict.

Wang Shaojun and his family learned that Wei He had driven off two Wushi Sect High Persons, while the sect issued an order to hunt him down. Green Leaf was shaken by Wei He's strength and remembered how the Wushi Sect had once crushed her own sect.

• Wang Shaojun, Wang Yehe, and Wang Zhihe waited anxiously for news of Wei He and the disbanded Myriad Poison Sect.
• You Feng reported that two Wushi Sect High Persons had returned injured and empty-handed after confronting Wei He on the road outside Taizhou.
• Wang Shaojun and his family felt relief that Wei He had survived, though they believed the Myriad Poison Sect's disappearance would keep the Wang Family safe.
• The Wushi Sect issued an order directing its disciples to gather intelligence on Wei He and report his whereabouts without confronting him.
• Su Ruoxue told Green Leaf that Wei He had injured the two High Persons, and Green Leaf recalled how the Wushi Sect had once forced her own sect to collapse.

Wei He settled his family in Weifang City under new identities and enjoyed a peaceful life while continuing to cultivate. As he adapted to his heightened senses, he worried that Jiuying would not survive the coming winter and prepared to attend another private auction.

• Qingye insisted that resisting the Three Main Peaks would bring suffering, while Zhang Qi and Jiang Su were summoned to meet the Myriad Poison Sect master and wondered whether he was Wei He.
• Wei He’s family and the remaining elite members of the Myriad Poison Sect scattered into hiding, and the Wushi Sect was weakened after the Destroy Nest Alliance and Taian Army intervened.
• Wei He and his family settled in Weifang City, where he adopted the identity of a retired military official and enjoyed an ordinary life under guard.
• A year later, Wei He and Wan Qingqing watched their son Wei An play with neighborhood children and discussed Jiuying’s failing health.
• Wei He continued cultivating and adapting to his heightened senses, then agreed to visit an auction at the White Pine Trading Company.

Using the alias Chen Wei, Wei He visited Jiu Ying in Weifang City and learned that Kong An had been massacred by Wu State general Tang Yan. Jiu Ying entrusted him with an Aid token and raised the possibility of Wei He taking Lin Lin and Yuanbao as disciples; Wei He then went to the White Pine Trading Company to inspect old landscape paintings.

• Wei He explored Weifang City and visited Jiu Ying, where he met Yuanbao and Lin Lin studying together.
• Jiu Ying told Wei He that Kong An had been massacred by Tang Yan of Wu State and warned him not to neglect his strength.
• Jiu Ying gave Wei He a blood-marked Aid token and asked him to help whoever presented it, if he could.
• Jiu Ying praised Lin Lin's exceptional comprehension and asked whether Wei He would take her and Yuanbao as disciples, but Wei He declined.
• Wei He left Jiu Ying's house and visited Xiao Jingyun at the White Pine Trading Company to look at old landscape paintings.

Wei He learned that the Moonlit Whale Chart was last seen in Huai Bai Town and set out for Yizhou to find it himself. As he arrived near the war zone, White Skull bandits began terrorizing Huai Bai Town, where the painting’s owners, Song Shixiong and Song Shizhen, were trapped.

• Wei He asked Xiao Jingyun to find the Moonlit Whale Chart, but Xiao later reported that he could not locate the two boys who had sold it.
• Wei He’s intelligence network traced the painting to either the Xu Family Pawnshop or the Wang Family Calligraphy and Painting Shop in Huai Bai Town, and Wei He ordered his forces to search for it.
• Worried that the Whale Flood Art could not advance without the Whale Breath State, Wei He decided to travel to Yizhou himself and left after informing Wan Qingqing.
• Wei He crossed the desolate border region toward Huai Bai Town, passing abandoned settlements and signs of war.
• White Skull bandits demanded food from Huai Bai Town’s residents and began burning houses as Song Shixiong and Song Shizhen hid with their family’s belongings.
• Song Shixiong feared the bandits were not genuine outlaws but agents of one of the nearby armies, while the brothers’ inherited Moonlit Whale Chart remained with them.

Wei He searched burning Huai Bai Town for the Moonlit Whale Chart, but the Xu Family Pawnshop’s study had already burned, leaving him fearing the chart was lost. After finding his guide Zhou Miaoke threatened by White Skull bandits, he killed them in a single strike.

• Wei He entered Huai Bai Town, surveyed its ring-shaped buildings, and decided to find a local guide while the White Skull bandits looted the town.
• Dong Baihua threatened her captains over their lack of food and ordered the town burned after the bandits captured more people.
• Song Shixiong and Song Shizhen escaped their burning home, with Song Shizhen secretly carrying the Moonlit Whale Chart toward the town’s exit.
• Wei He searched the burning Xu Family Pawnshop study but found its scrolls reduced to charcoal and ash.
• Wei He saw two White Skull bandits threatening his guide Zhou Miaoke and killed them with a single palm strike.

Wei He searched Huai Bai Town for the Moonlit Whale Chart while White Skull bandits pursued him. Meanwhile, the Song brothers were captured and Song Shixiong offered the chart to Dong Baihua.

• Wei He killed two White Skull bandits, took Zhou Miaoke to the Wang Family Calligraphy and Painting Shop, and searched its ruined rooms for the Moonlit Whale Chart.
• Dong Baihua examined the bodies and ordered her bandits to capture the tall, powerful outsider.
• Wei He searched the Cheng Family Calligraphy and Painting Shop, killed two more bandits, and escaped before Demon Bear Dong Cheng caught up.
• White Skull bandits captured Song Shixiong and Song Shizhen in an ambush at the rear of town and brought them before Dong Baihua.
• Song Shixiong praised Dong Baihua and presented her with the Moonlit Whale Chart, claiming it was a family heirloom that contained martial arts true intent.

Wei He searched the town for the Moonlit Whale Chart while the White Skull bandits set it ablaze. After killing Demon Bear Dong Cheng and demanding that the bandits fight the fire and find the painting, he faced their chief, Dong Baihua, who offered him the chart in exchange for his departure.

• Dong Baihua inspected the Moonlit Whale Chart and went to hunt the unknown expert who had been killing her men.
• Wei He searched the town's painting shops, then asked Zhou Miaoke about private collections when he found no trace of the chart.
• Demon Bear Dong Cheng and Demon Wolf Dong Xiaochuan led White Skull bandits in surrounding Wei He and Zhou Miaoke.
• Wei He crushed Demon Bear Dong Cheng to death and ordered the bandits to put out the fire and find the Moonlit Whale Chart.
• Dong Xiaochuan urged the bandits to obey, and Dong Baihua arrived with a longbow and offered Wei He the chart if he left.
• Wei He rejected Dong Baihua's bargain and threatened the bandits, having stayed quiet to let his poison spread.

Wei He killed Dong Baihua, forced the poisoned White Skulls to fight the fires, and recovered the Moonlit Whale Chart. Song Shixiong revealed that the painting was his family heirloom and offered to reveal its true image in exchange for a promise, leaving Wei He intrigued.

• Wei He killed Dong Baihua after recognizing her as an agent of the Incense Gathering Cult, then ordered the White Skulls to extinguish the town’s fires under threat of death.
• Several White Skulls tried to flee and collapsed in agony when Wei He’s poison flared, confirming that they could not escape his range.
• Wei He searched Dong Baihua’s spoils, took the Moonlit Whale Chart, and found no visible martial arts secrets in the crude painting.
• Song Shixiong knelt with his younger brother and offered to help Wei He obtain the genuine Moonlit Whale Chart in exchange for one condition.
• Song Shixiong explained that the chart was his family heirloom and that a specially prepared medicinal liquid would reveal the hidden picture, and Wei He promised a condition and safe passage if he succeeded.

Tang Yan’s army besieged Bianzhou, while Wei He used the Moonlit Whale Chart to pursue a breakthrough in the Whale Flood Art. After attending Jiu Ying’s funeral, Wei He rejected an approach from the people connected to him and prepared to study the Whale Breath State.

• Tang Yan and his strategist planned to challenge Li Tong to a duel and use the offer of favorable terms to persuade him to surrender.
• Wei He left Huai Bai Town with the Song Shixiong brothers and White Skull’s bandits, then spread the bandits across the surrounding plains as informants.
• Wei He taught the Song Shixiong brothers the Heart Locking Seal, verified the Moonlit Whale Chart, and discovered that it contained the secret of the Whale Breath State.
• Wei He returned home with the chart and cultivated until winter drew near.
• Wei He attended Jiu Ying’s funeral, where he saw Lin Lin and encountered guards and officials connected to Jiu Ying.
• Wei He refused a private meeting with Jiu Ying’s associates and left, intending to comprehend the Whale Breath State and open the supersense in his left hand after advancing the Whale Flood Art.

Wei He considered how to extend the Overturning Rain Gathering Clouds Technique beyond its limit while continuing to cultivate the Whale Flood Art. A year later, as Great Yuan lost more territory to Wu State, he lived quietly in Weifang City and recorded his first dangerous encounter with the real world's Nine Ghost Winds.

• Wei He studied the Moonlit Whale Chart, advanced the Whale Flood Art, and planned to create a higher-level cultivation method beyond the Overturning Rain Gathering Clouds Technique.
• Over the following year, Li Tong and An Zhan surrendered to Wu State, which seized three provinces and imposed sweeping reforms and a Martial Prohibition Order.
• Wan Qingqing settled into ordinary life in Weifang City and left for an outing while Wei He stayed home to practice.
• Wei He encountered a sudden ghostly chill that frosted his left hand and identified it as the first of the Nine Ghost Winds, Oriole's Laugh.
• Wei He recorded that Oriole's Laugh was extremely cold, ignored protective force, appeared unpredictably, and caused frostbite to his left hand.

Wei He tested Oriole's Laugh Wind by opening Super Sense and discovered that it could freeze his hand despite his protective force. Later, while taking a break in Weifang City, he saw the Song brothers draw Wang Zui into an apparent scheme and noticed several groups secretly watching the young man.

• Wei He opened Super Sense on his left hand and found that Oriole's Laugh Wind repeatedly froze it, leading him to suspect the Wushi Sect's Ming Gan stayed on the mountain for protection from the ghost winds.
• Wei He rested from cultivation and went alone to buy fried tofu near Weifang City's wall.
• The Song brothers fled a group of burly men over an unpaid meal, then appealed to Wang Zui for help.
• Wang Zui paid the men and took the Song brothers with him to a tavern.
• Wei He noticed that a masked watcher and at least three other groups were also keeping their attention on Wang Zui.

The Song brothers warned Wang Zui that Lu Weisheng was orchestrating a threat against the Wang Family to obtain the Heaven Selection Record. Meanwhile, Wei He learned that Dong Ling’s group was tracking him toward Weifang City and set out to eliminate nearby threats; Dong Ling’s party prepared to infiltrate the city after completing its mission.

• The Song brothers told Wang Zui that the White Tiger Gang, Azure Dragon Gang, and Black Hand Society were targeting the Wang Family because of the Heaven Selection Record, and identified Lu Weisheng as the Weifang Spear King behind them.
• Lu Weisheng let Wei He leave, then ordered his men to seize Wang Zui and pressure the Wang Family to surrender the Heaven Selection Record.
• Wei He returned to his residence, learned that Dong Ling and the chaotic cult were investigating him, and left with a subordinate to find them.
• Dong Ling’s group camped outside Weifang City and planned to disguise themselves and wait until their informant confirmed that their mission was complete.

Wei He ambushed the Golden Jade Hall group, killed its fighters, and confirmed that no other hostile Organ Refining experts were nearby. As he prepared to leave, a mysterious woman in a pink dress appeared and addressed him as the Myriad Poison Sect Master.

• Maris mocked the Yuan Nation fighters and demonstrated his blade skills as Dong Ling's group waited by the road.
• Dong Ling realized that the night-clad figures were watching his group, and Wei He revealed himself and identified the Golden Jade Hall members.
• Wei He killed the giant, the one-armed woman, Dong Ling, and the other fighters, then defeated Maris with a palm strike.
• Wei He ordered his night-clad followers to search and dispose of the bodies, but a hidden observer applauded and praised him.
• A mysterious woman in a pink dress emerged from the grass and confronted Wei He.

Wei He met Xia Linghua, the Palace Mistress of Wanfei Palace, and tested his strength against her in a single palm strike. Impressed by his abilities and poison-making talent, she invited him to a gathering of True Persons and offered him a chance to seek guidance in a Daoist Sect's Blessed Land if he agreed to help her.

• Wei He recognized Xia Linghua as the powerful Palace Mistress of Wanfei Palace after she appeared following his fight with Golden Jade Hall's people.
• Xia Linghua asked Wei He to demonstrate the strength that had let him drive back two Ming Gan True Persons, and they exchanged a palm strike.
• Xia Linghua praised Wei He's power and revealed that she valued his poison-making and medicine-development abilities.
• Xia Linghua invited Wei He to a gathering of True Persons the next day to exchange resources and intelligence.
• Xia Linghua offered Wei He a qualification slot to seek the Dao in a Daoist Sect's Blessed Land if he agreed to one matter of hers.

Wei He attended a rare gathering for True Persons at Flower Leaf Residence, where he encountered a world of powerful Ming Gan practitioners and learned more about their medicines, cultivation, and the dangers of the real world. The gathering continued as he began to understand how far their lives and concerns were removed from those of ordinary people.

• Wei He considered his agreement with Xia Linghua to create the poison Flower Non-Flower in exchange for access to the upper circles and a special assessment slot.
• Wei He entered Flower Leaf Residence and passed through strange changes in the air and surroundings before reaching the gathering hall.
• Wei He saw more than ten Ming Gan practitioners at the gathering and realized the strength behind Wanfei Palace and Wushi Sect.
• Wei He introduced himself to Duan Chaosheng as Chen Tang and learned that Wanfei Palace would offer a White Han Turtle shell and Hundred Flower Stabilizing Spirit Dew.
• Duan Chaosheng explained that Fixed Perception practitioners sought to enter the real world, where threats such as the Great Yin Disaster awaited.

Wei He attended Wanfei Palace’s small gathering, learned about the dangers and factions of the True Realm, and saw how difficult life was for independent cultivators. After arranging trade with Wanfei Palace, he looked to an upcoming gathering of independent cultivators for clues about obtaining a Blessed Land assessment slot.

• Wei He listened as Duan Chaosheng explained the True Realm, then watched Wanfei Palace auction equipment and Hundred Flower Stabilizing Spirit Dew.
• Wei He admitted he was a newly arrived independent cultivator with no starstones, and Duan Chaosheng lost interest in speaking with him.
• Wei He met Sun Tanguang and learned that independent cultivators would hold another gathering at Qixia Courtyard during the Three Yang Festival.
• Wei He realized Xia Linghua had used the invitation to show him the hardships of independent cultivators, then formally contacted Wanfei Palace about their trade.
• Wei He finalized Wanfei Palace’s customized Lock Poison research plan but found no lead on the Blessed Land assessment slot and remained stuck in his Real World studies.