Chapter Summaries

Wei He continued cultivating while concealing the dangers he faced from Wan Qingqing, then visited the White Pine Trading Company to inspect ancient paintings. There, Wang Zui and the Song Shixiong brothers were cornered by Lu Weisheng’s fighters over a clue to the missing Heaven Selection Record, and they began evading the attack.

• Wei He reassured Wan Qingqing that he was approaching a breakthrough and refused her invitation to the lantern festival.
• Wei He went to the White Pine Trading Company to examine newly arrived ancient paintings.
• Wang Zui and the Song Shixiong brothers arrived to search the exhibition for clues to the real Heaven Selection Record.
• Lu Weisheng confronted the three and demanded they explain the riddle in a painting, while Xiao Jingyun tried to stop a fight inside the trading company.
• Lu Weisheng ordered Iron Bead Monk, Iron Sand Hand Chen Shou, and the other martial artists to seize the three, but Wang Zui and the Song Shixiong brothers dodged the encirclement with strange movements.

Wei He took the Heaven Selection Record from Song Shixiong and discovered that its Five Revolutions Dragon Breath technique had no instructions. When Lu Weisheng tried to claim the booklet, Wei He revealed his hidden strength and allies, then attacked the gathered experts.

• Lu Weisheng ordered Chen Shou to use poisoned iron sand, but Song Shixiong led Wang Zui and Song Shizhen to Wei He and begged him for help.
• Song Shixiong handed Wei He the Heaven Selection Record, claiming it contained the Five Revolutions Dragon Breath technique; Wei He found the technique's pages blank.
• Lu Weisheng demanded the booklet, but Wei He said he wanted it after learning about the technique and summoned a force of Martial Arts Cultivation masters.
• An unidentified voice revealed Wei He as the grand master of the Myriad Poison Sect, and Wei He struck Lu Weisheng, breaking the arms of Iron Bead Monk and Chen Shou in the process.
• Wei He escaped through a window, scattered Chen Shou's iron sand to bring down pursuing attackers, and killed a red-dressed Incense Gathering Cult woman who attacked him.

Wei He killed Lu Weisheng and the Incense Gathering Cult fighters, then forced the exhibition’s witnesses to take poison to keep them quiet. After obtaining the Five Revolutions Dragon Breath technique, he headed to Qixia Courtyard during the Three Yang Festival to seek the materials needed to cultivate it.

• Wei He returned to the exhibition hall with Lu Weisheng’s corpse and told the gathered guests he would spare them if they kept his identity secret, then had them take Myriad Green Lock Poison Pills.
• Wei He took Song Shixiong, Song Shizhen, and Wang Zui to a teahouse, where Song Shixiong explained how to reveal the Heaven Selection Record’s secret method and shared a movement technique fragment.
• Wei He gave the three men pills and claimed they were poison before revealing that he had been joking, then had Song Shixiong uncover and copy the Five Revolutions Dragon Breath technique.
• Wei He learned that cultivating Five Revolutions Dragon Breath required fluid from Life Aspect Fruits found on Three-eyed Doves, and decided to seek the material at a gathering.
• Half a month later, Wei He left Weifang City during the Three Yang Festival and went directly to Qixia Courtyard.

Wei He attended an independents’ gathering at Qixia Temple, where he learned about True Realm strange beasts, ghost wind, and the difficulty of obtaining Star Stones. After failing to find the Life Aspect Fruit or exchange anything, he asked to join the hunt for a Night-Illuminating Green Forest Tiger.

• Wei He met Sun Tanguang and Xu Miaoran, who revealed his background and invited him to discuss hunting a nearby True Realm strange beast.
• Xu Miaoran explained the two kinds of True Realm strange beasts, and Sun Tanguang described their effects on ordinary people and ways to resist ghost wind.
• Ouyang Wen, Wang Cheng, and a violet-haired, blue-eyed woman joined the gathering, where the attendees exchanged True Realm items.
• Wei He asked for the Life Aspect Fruit but found no one who had it, and Ouyang Wen questioned why Wei He had taken a place without trading.
• After Wang Cheng declined to hunt the Night-Illuminating Green Forest Tiger, Wei He volunteered to join the hunt.

Wei He reached the critical point of the Whale Flood Art and began breaking through with the Boundary-Breaking Pearl. As he concentrated in seclusion, two men from the Holy Cult approached Weifang City intending to deal with him while avoiding Wanfei Palace.

• Wei He agreed to join Sun Tanguang's hunt for the Night-Illuminating Green Forest Tiger five months later, and traded Ice Silkworm Poison with Xu Miaoran for three months of Ziqing Poison Leaf.
• Wei He returned home and devoted himself to cultivating the Whale Flood Art as war disrupted trade across Yuan Nation.
• Wan Qingqing took Wei An to visit Wei He's parents, while Wei He checked his son's lessons and training before returning to his cultivation room.
• Wei He recognized that he had reached the Whale Flood Art's third-level breakthrough point, lit Concentration Incense, and focused his mental force on the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• A muscular man in a bamboo hat and an old man called Brother Ximen entered a caravan approaching Weifang City and discussed how to kill Wei He without drawing Wanfei Palace into the conflict.

Wei He completed the third layer of the Whale Flood Art, gaining immense strength that he decided to keep hidden. After learning that someone was investigating his residence, he prepared to confront the threat himself.

• Ximen Xing and Zhao Qing planned to lure Wei He into a trap by seizing his wife and children, disguising themselves as ordinary Organ Refining experts, and attacking him together.
• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl and blood-replenishing pills to complete the third layer of the Whale Flood Art, forming a third blood sac.
• Wei He tested his greatly increased strength by crushing and lifting a ten-thousand-jin artificial hill, then resolved to conceal his newfound power.
• A maid told Wei He that someone was secretly investigating the residence, and he ordered clothes and a carriage so he could investigate personally.

Wei He was ambushed outside Weifang City by Chaos God Cult True Persons Ximen Xing and Zhao Qing, who had prepared to counter his strength. Their coordinated attacks repeatedly put him in danger, and the chapter ended with Wei He activating his Ascension State.

• Wei He noticed Ximen Xing and Zhao Qing following him through the city and led them beyond the gates to avoid fighting near his family.
• Ximen Xing and Zhao Qing intercepted Wei He beside a marsh, revealed their knowledge of his abilities, and attacked together.
• Ximen Xing used powerful ground-shaking force to stun Wei He while Zhao Qing pierced his defenses with deadly strikes.
• Wei He struggled against their coordinated assault and realized the two True Persons had anticipated his transformation.
• Wei He unleashed his Ascension State, swelling to over three meters as his clothes burst apart.

Wei He lured Zhao Qing and Ximen Xing away from the main road, then unleashed the Whale Flood Art and killed both True Persons. After searching their bodies, he realized their deaths had made lasting enemies of the Incense Gathering Cult and the Chaos God Cult, and considered fleeing or seeking shelter through Palace Mistress Wanfei’s recommendation.

• Zhao Qing and Ximen Xing drove Wei He back with their attacks and Ximen Xing’s Ice Muscle Jade Bone powder, so Wei He led them toward the hills to avoid revealing his trump card near the main road.
• Zhao Qing’s force cones and Ximen Xing’s blows struck Wei He against a tree, where he suddenly unleashed the Whale Flood Art and killed Zhao Qing.
• Wei He turned on Ximen Xing, overwhelmed his defenses, and killed him with a palm strike through the chest.
• Wei He searched both corpses and found identity plaques showing that Zhao Qing belonged to the Incense Gathering Cult and Ximen Xing to the Chaos God Cult.
• Wei He recognized that the two deaths had created a grave feud and considered fleeing or seeking protection through Palace Mistress Wanfei’s promised recommendation.

After killing two True Persons, Wei He sought Wanfei Palace’s protection for his family and secured Xia Linghua’s recommendation to the Xuanmiao Sect in Haizhou. He reached Tianhai Island by ship, where he prepared to begin his assessment and met another prospective student.

• Wei He moved his family under Wanfei Palace’s protection and gave Xia Linghua his prepared prescription and medicinal powder.
• Xia Linghua recommended Wei He to the Xuanmiao Sect, explaining its beliefs, assessment, and the challenges of entering a Blessed Land.
• Wei He left Jinzhou for Haizhou, avoiding dangerous exotic beasts along the way, and reached Zhentao City after a day’s journey.
• Wei He boarded a passenger ship at Bluewater Bay and sailed toward Tianhai Island, listening to other passengers discuss the island.
• As Tianhai Island came into view, Wei He told a fellow passenger he had come to study at the Xuanmiao Sect, and the man said he and his sister also planned to enter.

Wei He arrived at the Xuanmiao Sect to seek a path into the True Realm and began the sect’s examinations. While waiting, he learned that he and other martial experts would have to master the difficult Seven Marvelous True Skill before they could seek entry to the Blessed Land.

• Wei He met a brother and sister on the ship, learned about the Xuanmiao Sect’s assessments, and traveled with them to its volcano-built main sect on Tianhai Island.
• At Daode Palace, Wei He presented his recommendation from Wanfei Palace and told the recruiting Old Daoist that he was thirty-one and at the Organ Refining limit.
• Wei He passed examinations of his martial art’s attributes and hidden strength, received a room, and was told to wait for the sect’s decision.
• Wei He met Liang Huyao, Zhou Muqing, and Shangguan Xing, who were also waiting to enter the sect with martial arts already established.
• Liang Huyao and Zhou Muqing explained that the newcomers would need to cultivate the Seven Marvelous True Skill and complete it before applying for an assessment mission to enter the Inner Mountain.
• Liang Huyao warned that few people succeeded at the Seven Marvelous True Skill, but Wei He and the others remained determined to try.

Wei He explored the Xuanmiao Sect, sent a letter summoning his family, and learned that the Wu State was advancing against Great Yuan and its sects. After his probation ended, he received the Seven Marvelous True Skill manual and began studying its requirements.

• Wei He explored the Xuanmiao Sect and learned that he needed an Inner Mountain token to travel farther up the mountain.
• At Longwan, Wei He sent his family a letter asking them to relocate to him, then read reports about the Wu State's conquests and its True Blood generals.
• A Daoist explained to Wei He that the Wu State's True Blood system differed from Great Yuan's Force system and that the Wu State had the advantage in the growing conflict.
• Wei He spent more than ten days cultivating the Whale Flood Art, which reached saturation and had increased his strength by over twenty thousand jin.
• Thousand Crane Master told Wei He, Zhou Muqing, Liang Huyao, and Shangguan Xing that their review had ended and gave them the Seven Marvelous True Skill manuals.
• Wei He studied the manual and concluded that its difficult Bone Forging requirements would be manageable because of the Primal Blood he had gained from the Whale Flood Art.

Three Xuanmiao Sect chiefs reviewed the dwindling pool of candidates as Wei He and the others cultivated the Seven Marvelous True Skill. After Shangguan Xing approached Wei He on Ouyang Luo’s behalf, asking him to surrender half his Sea Kelp Paste in exchange for future protection, Wei He refused to commit.

• Green Plum, Hundred Grains, and Yuan Du Zi reviewed candidate plaques and worried that fewer people were completing the Seven Marvelous True Skill and entering the inner mountain.
• Wei He began cultivating the Seven Marvelous True Skill, while Liang Huyao entered the gate in one night and later advanced toward the second layer faster than the others.
• Wei He’s family arrived in Zhentao City, and he spent time with them before returning to sect cultivation.
• Shen Yifei told Wei He that Ouyang Luo had reached the second layer and that Shangguan Xing had been speaking with him.
• Shangguan Xing approached Wei He and asked him to transfer half his Sea Kelp Paste to Ouyang Luo in exchange for his future support, but Wei He said he did not lack money.

Wei He refused offers to sell his Sea Kelp Paste to Ouyang Luo and Feng Han, then discovered the hidden beastlike meaning of the Seven Marvelous True Skill and broke through its first level. Two months later, while Ouyang Luo and Feng Han had reached the fourth level, Wei He had steadily reached the third and continued building his foundation.

• Wei He rejected Shangguan Xing's offer to trade his Sea Kelp Paste for Ouyang Luo's friendship and refused Zhao Guanyi's request on Feng Han's behalf.
• Shen Yifei explained that Ouyang Luo and Feng Han were racing to gather Sea Kelp Paste before the Dharma Protector assessment, while Shangguan Xing tried to recruit Zhou Muqing, who declined.
• Wei He sensed that the Seven Marvelous True Skill's movements imitated a ferocious sea beast and broke through to the first level without using the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Two months passed, and Ouyang Luo and Feng Han reached the fourth level as other practitioners struggled with the increasing demands of the skill.
• Wei He emerged from the sea with three marks on his back, showing that he had reached the third level while prioritizing a firm foundation.

Wei He advanced to the fourth level of the Seven Marvelous True Skill after receiving high-concentration Sea Kelp Paste from a powerful senior sister. Yuan Du Zi ordered her disciples to protect Wei He and his family from factions seeking revenge, while Wei He’s encounter with Shangguan Xing showed that she had aligned herself with Ouyang Luo.

• A blindfolded senior sister praised Wei He’s potential, warned him that Sea Kelp Paste would eventually lose its effect, and left him a bottle of stronger paste.
• Yuan Du Zi learned that the Wushi Sect had not responded to the crisis and ordered Chen Yan and Meng Yun Tu to protect Wei He and his family from the Incense Gathering Cult and the Chaos God Cult.
• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to break through to the fourth level of the Seven Marvelous True Skill and found that its force did not conflict with the other forces in his body.
• Wei He encountered Shangguan Xing, Ouyang Luo, and an unidentified woman at Daode Palace; Shangguan Xing ignored his greeting and walked past with Ouyang Luo.

Wei He and his fellow cultivators struggled with the slow progress of the Seven Marvelous True Skill as newcomers arrived and others left Daode Palace. After learning that Sea Kelp Paste could speed True Force circulation, Wei He hurried off to test whether it could help him overcome his cultivation hurdles.

• Wei He found Shangguan Xing's residence locked, and Liang Huyao said she had joined Ouyang Luo in pursuit of revenge and a breakthrough.
• Zhou Muqing and Liang Huyao discussed their difficult pasts and the slow Seven Marvelous True Skill while Wei He kept his reasons for coming to Daode Palace to himself.
• Wei He reached the fifth level of the Seven Marvelous True Skill and discovered that its Marvelous True Body required an especially complex bone restructuring.
• Wei He continued practicing the Whale Flood Art but found its progress slow, then learned from Zhou Muqing that Sea Kelp Paste could accelerate True Force circulation.
• Wei He left to test the high-concentration Sea Kelp Paste he had received, while Zhou Muqing considered seeking a Warrior Attendant slot.

Zhou Muqing despaired over her stalled cultivation and prepared to leave, while Wei He completed the Seven Marvelous True Skill and considered whom to appoint as his Warrior Attendants. When Wei He offered Zhou Muqing a slot, she abruptly reconsidered leaving and suspected he had romantic feelings for her.

• Zhou Muqing spent two months searching for a promising candidate while remaining stuck at the second level, and Wei He completed the seventh level of the Seven Marvelous True Skill.
• Wei He ruled out his family as Warrior Attendant candidates and considered selecting suitable Organ Refining martial artists from Daode Palace.
• Zhou Muqing decided to return home and leave the mountain the next day, believing she had only a few years left and wanting to make amends with those who cared for her.
• Wei He revealed that he had wanted to reserve a Warrior Attendant position for Zhou Muqing, and she smashed the stone table as she asked him to repeat his offer.
• Wei He confirmed that he wanted Zhou Muqing as one of his Warrior Attendants, and she concluded that he was offering the precious position because he had romantic feelings for her.

Wei He attended the Xuanmiao Sect’s bi-monthly assessment and concealed his strength until his match against Situ Chen revealed that he had reached seventh-level perfection in the Seven Marvelous True Skill. The revelation stunned the outer-line disciples and drew attention from the sect’s elders and Ouyang Luo.

• Wei He traveled with Liang Huyao, Zhou Muqing, Wang Lu, and other outer-line disciples to Dening Hall for the assessment and tournament.
• Young Qingzi announced the assessment and tournament, while Zhou Muqing told Wei He that Ouyang Luo was a prodigy who had defeated powerful opponents beyond his level.
• After the Direct Lineage tournament, the outer-line assessment began with paired fights using only the Seven Marvelous True Skill.
• Wei He was matched against Situ Chen, whose Three Blood cultivation fell far short of Wei He’s strength.
• Situ Chen’s punch stopped against Wei He’s invisible force, and Wei He asked whether he still wanted to fight.
• Young Qingzi and the other disciples recognized that Wei He had reached seventh-level perfection, leaving Liang Huyao stunned.

Wei He and Ouyang Luo reached the seventh level and qualified as Inner Mountain seeds. After choosing their lineages, Wei He took Yuan Du Zi’s hand and began to see the real world.

• Wei He and Ouyang Luo revealed their seventh-level cultivation, and Young Qingzi confirmed they would enter Inner Mountain.
• Wei He considered offers for his Warrior Attendant positions, while Zhou Muqing openly stood by him and Shangguan Xing remained with Ouyang Luo.
• Young Qingzi led Wei He and Ouyang Luo through the Mysterious Violet Jade Wall and into a dark Taoist temple to meet the three Grand-Martial Ancestors.
• Ouyang Luo chose the Ghost Head lineage, and Wei He chose the Mountain Lock lineage.
• Yuan Du Zi explained that she had obscured the others’ sensory presence, then took Wei He’s hand to show him reality.

Li Rong explained his plan to test the Public Law System in Deer City, while Yuan Du Zi showed Wei He the dangers and safe points of the Xuanmiao Sect’s blessed land. The chapter left Wei He preparing to learn the Thousand Mountains Ten Thousand Locks Art from Yao Wan after supersensing his left hand.

• Li Rong told Xue Wenyuan that he had come to Deer City to pilot the Public Law System among Great Wu’s immigrants.
• Xue Wenyuan realized the system could strengthen Great Wu by channeling Great Yuan’s resources and turning Wu State’s civilians into martial artists.
• Yuan Du Zi shared her supersense with Wei He, revealing her monstrous form, the altered Mysterious View, and a gigantic eye outside the window.
• Yuan Du Zi showed Wei He the Forbidden Gate and explained that he could enter and leave the blessed land freely once he could form door rings there.
• Yao Wan introduced herself as Wei He’s instructor, learned that he had supersensed his left hand, and led him to begin training.

Yao Wan taught Wei He the Thousand Mountains Ten Thousand Locks Art, Xuanmiao Sect’s foundational sealing technique, and explained how Fixed Perception cultivators learn talents from True Beasts. Wei He chose to descend the mountain and hunt a True Beast himself, leaving to prepare for the search.

• Yao Wan gave Wei He a Mysterious View token and demonstrated how the Thousand Mountains Ten Thousand Locks Art could seal his force and senses.
• Yao Wan explained that Xuanmiao Sect’s arts were designed to suppress the True Beasts imprisoned in the Abyssal Prison, and described the twelve levels of the Thousand Mountains Ten Thousand Locks Art.
• Yao Wan told Wei He that a Fixed Perception cultivator could learn one True Beast talent by personally killing the beast and using an Amber Bead to capture its ability.
• Yao Wan gave Wei He inner mountain martial attire, ten Mysterious Heart Pills, and a Signal Smoke Bamboo for emergencies.
• Wei He chose to go down the mountain to hunt a True Beast, and Yao Wan advised him to research his target and judge the danger against his own strength.