Chapter Summaries

After receiving his sect resources, Wei He entered the inner mountain and began cultivating the Mysterious Lock Skill, discovering that supersense worked safely in the blessed land. He struggled with the mountain’s lack of basic supplies, then arranged for Zhou Muqing to manage logistics and seek resources for his next layer of the Whale Flood Art.

• Yao Wan showed Wei He the inner mountain’s three paths and gave him a token to claim his residence.
• Wei He found a cramped cave in the honeycomb mountain, cleaned it, made a stone door, and began studying the Mysterious Lock Skill.
• Wei He used his left-hand supersense while cultivating and found that the blessed land had no ghost wind to harm it.
• Wei He found that the mountain’s water, food, and clothing points provided no usable supplies, so he arranged to bring provisions from outside.
• Wei He gave Zhou Muqing an inner mountain entry token as a Warrior Attendant and tasked her with managing supplies and selecting another attendant.
• Wei He offered resources in exchange for what he needed and sought the whale oil required to reach the Sky-Sea Line for the fourth layer of the Whale Flood Art.

Wei He opened his left-hand supersense and began the first stage of Fixed Sense, then spent three months dispersing most of his old techniques to build up Primal Blood. Overloaded with blood and qi, he started converting it into Mysterious Lock Vigor and absorbing true qi to strengthen it.

• Wei He tasked Zhou Muqing with offering a Warrior Attendant slot to anyone who found a Blackline Whale and obtained its whale oil.
• After discovering that a Mysterious Heart Pill could not let him endure supersense outside the blessed land, Wei He focused on cultivating the Mysterious Lock Skill.
• Wei He opened the supersense in his left hand and converted his Seven Marvelous True Force into Mysterious Lock Vigor.
• Wei He decided to disperse most of his old techniques into Primal Blood, using Cloud Smoke Transformation and the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Over three months, Wei He dispersed numerous techniques, leaving Overturning Rain Vigor and supplementary techniques intact as his Primal Blood grew dangerously abundant.
• Wei He began converting the accumulated Primal Blood into Mysterious Lock Vigor and rapidly absorbed external true qi through his open supersense.

Wei He completed his conversion to Returning True Force, reaching the vigor level of the first layer of Mysterious Lock Skill and naming his new condition the Returning True Ascension State. Yao Wan explained life and procedures in the Inner Mountain, assigned Chang Xuezong to guide him on a hunt, and gave him a map of Haizhou’s dangerous wind belts as he prepared to seek a True Beast.

• Wei He’s body transformed as his Primal Blood became Mysterious Lock Vigor, and he discovered his strength, defense, and vigor had increased despite losing some speed.
• Wei He spent several days consolidating his cultivation, then named his completed state the Returning True Ascension State.
• Yao Wan visited Wei He, gave him Chang Xuezong’s name and details as a hunting guide, and advised him to obtain an innate talent as soon as possible.
• Yao Wan explained Inner Mountain customs, how to use his token, and where to go for exchanges, lectures, and miscellaneous matters.
• Yao Wan gave Wei He a map marking Haizhou’s wind belts and True Beast sightings, including the extremely dangerous North Sea.

Wei He traveled with Chang Xuezong to Shuangshi County to hunt his first True Beast, relying on his supersensed left hand to find it at the Green Vine Stone Bridge. Chang Xuezong’s attempt to frighten him backfired when Wei He instantly destroyed the invisible True Beast with a single punch.

• Wei He met Chang Xuezong, his assigned guide, and they rode toward Shuangshi County to investigate a suspected True Beast.
• After reaching the Green Vine Stone Bridge, Wei He lit Mist Incense and cautiously searched the bridge by touch.
• Wei He felt an invisible, hair-covered figure, then discovered Chang Xuezong had vanished from his side.
• A blood-robed Yin Soul True Beast seized Wei He’s hand while Chang Xuezong watched from hiding.
• Wei He smashed the True Beast apart with a fraction of his strength, leaving Chang Xuezong stunned when he emerged to help.

Wei He hunted true beasts with Chang Xuezong, concealing most of his Returning True Force while testing which innate abilities were worth absorbing. After killing a Twin-Headed Turtle and taking its skin-hardening ability, they continued toward their next hunting site.

• Chang Xuezong explained Ren Chi’s illusion-poison ability, but Wei He declined to absorb it and resolved to hide most of his strength.
• Chang Xuezong told Wei He that Ren Chi’s starmetal had likely been shattered, prompting Wei He to be more careful when hunting.
• At Fei Yun Valley, Wei He used supersense to detect the charging Twin-Headed Turtle and killed it with two punches.
• Wei He absorbed the Twin-Headed Turtle’s skin-hardening ability and collected eight taels of starmetal.
• Chang Xuezong remarked that Wei He could hunt alone, and the two headed toward their next destination.

Wei He hunted True Beasts with Chang Xuezong and discovered the Triangular Fire Bull’s Berserk talent before a Great Hidden Thorn Leopard appeared. As Wei He withdrew and Chang Xuezong drew the beast away, Chaos God Cult members tried to ambush Wei He, but Yao Wan intervened and killed them.

• Wei He killed a Triangular Fire Bull after a difficult fight, and Chang Xuezong realized Wei He’s strength rivaled his own.
• Chang Xuezong identified the bull’s talent as Berserk, which raised its physical abilities by about thirty percent while affecting its mind.
• A Great Hidden Thorn Leopard approached, so Chang Xuezong stayed to lure it away while Wei He retreated toward the horses.
• Yuan Fei and Lin Yinuo revealed they had been watching Wei He and planned to kill him with two Great Hidden Thorn Leopards.
• Yao Wan confronted Yuan Fei and Lin Yinuo, killed them and their two beasts, and left Chang Xuezong unconscious nearby.

Wei He and Chang Xuezong survived an encounter with a Great Hidden Thorn Leopard, then learned about the Haideng Division and the conflict spreading through Haizhou. After discovering that a Man-faced Bird could store vast reserves of Returning True Force, Wei He chose to preserve its innate talent.

• Wei He returned to the pine forest and found Chang Xuezong unconscious, while the Great Hidden Thorn Leopard had disappeared; Yao Wan later emerged and followed them.
• In Xuanlong City, Hua Biqing explained the Haideng Division's limits and described the growing conflict involving the Guangci Cult and Wu State.
• Wei He and Chang Xuezong encountered Guangci missionaries and Wu State guerrillas as government forces fought to protect Haizhou's people.
• After Wei He killed a Man-faced Bird, Chang Xuezong identified its innate talent as an organ that stored extra Returning True Force and some vital blood.
• Wei He found three blood sacs in the bird's body and used the Amber Bead to preserve its storage innate talent.

Wei He hunted Man-faced Birds on the frozen lake, obtained an innate ability, and killed two freelance hunters who tried to ambush him. After Chang Xuezong returned, Wei He resolved to hunt alone and test the limits of his strength as war between the Great Yuan Daoist Sect and Wu State’s True Blood cultivators appeared increasingly likely.

• Chang Xuezong guided Wei He toward the center of the lake, where they found a flock of Man-faced Birds and its leaders.
• Wei He fought one Man-faced Bird leader while Chang Xuezong drew away its mate, and Yao Wan killed a Mad Eagle that had tried to attack Wei He.
• Wei He tore the Man-faced Bird leader apart and absorbed its innate ability, then killed two freelance hunters who had approached to ambush him.
• Wei He took the starstone, hid his strength, and decided to hunt true beasts alone to test his limits.
• Chang Xuezong returned safely and advised Wei He to keep cultivating and gain combat experience because conflict with Wu State’s True Blood cultivators seemed inevitable.

Wei He killed a powerful Man-faced Bird and absorbed its force-storage talent while Chang Xuezong warned him of Wu State’s attacks on the Daoist sects. At Xuanmiao Sect, the Mountain Locking Daoist returned injured and entered secret seclusion, while Yuan Du Zi and Xiao Li suspected his return signaled a shift in the conflict.

• Chang Xuezong told Wei He that Wu State’s State Preceptor, Modo, had defeated the ancestors of the three Daoist sects and that the Wu Army had already attacked the Wushi Sect.
• Wei He fought and killed a stronger Man-faced Bird leader, then absorbed its force-storage talent with the Amber Bead.
• The Mountain Locking Daoist told Yuan Du Zi and the other Mountain Lock lineage True Persons that he had been injured and would enter seclusion without being disturbed.
• Yuan Du Zi and Xiao Li privately recognized that their teacher’s abrupt return and seclusion seemed suspicious.
• Xiao Li left the temple, resolved to send word of the Mountain Locking Daoist’s return, and hoped the change would let him return to his homeland.

Yao Wan brought Wei He to the Mysterious View headquarters and secured him a room to absorb his Amber Bead and stabilize his cultivation. As Wei He reached the crucial stage of fusing his innate ability, news of a dangerous conflict with the Guangci Cult spread among the sect.

• Yao Wan showed Wei He the underground Mysterious View headquarters and explained its facilities for members of the three lineages.
• Yao Wan pushed to the front of the room-assignment queue and obtained a vacant room for Wei He.
• Yao Wan told Wei He to absorb his Amber Bead and stabilize his cultivation, then warned him not to disgrace her compared with Qingping.
• Yao Wan stayed below while news spread that she was personally teaching Wei He, a level of attention that drew curiosity from the three lineages.
• Daoist Ming Ding hurried out with a group, and a handsome Daoist told Yao Wan that the Guangci Cult had attacked Haizhou and that Flowing Stream forces had gone to the border.
• Wei He began fusing his innate ability in the room as Yao Wan worried that the Guangci Cult conflict could prove perilous.

Wei An met a visitor from Wan Ling’s Central Province family, who had come seeking her as their branch’s last hope. After absorbing the Amber Bead, Wei He hurried home to learn why his family had summoned him, while Wan Qingqing and the others waited to decide whether Wan Ling and her daughter would return to Central Province.

• Wei An slipped out of Wei Mansion, played with Lu Daoran and another boy, and told them he knew little about his father, Wei He.
• A young man arrived looking for Wei Mansion, recognized Wei An, and revealed that his family wanted to reconnect with Wan Ling because their bloodline was declining.
• Wei He absorbed the Man-faced Bird chieftain’s talent from the Amber Bead, gaining the potential to store Returning True Force, and learned from Yao Wan that someone had urgently summoned him home.
• Wei He left Xuanmiao Sect’s Inner Mountain and traveled toward Zhentao City without delay.
• Wan Ling, Wan Qingqing, Wei Ying, and Wei Chun gathered at Wei Mansion after visitors from Central Province asked to take Wan Ling and Wan Qingqing back.
• Wan Qingqing insisted they wait for Wei He before deciding whether to accept the visitors’ request.

Wan Xuetian urged Wan Ling to return to Central Province, warning that the Wan family’s enemies would target her and Wei Mansion because she could continue the family bloodline. As Wei He weighed the threat of Ming Gan experts, Yao Wan ambushed and killed two of the pursuers near Wei Mansion.

• Wan Ling hesitated to leave her family in Haizhou, while Wan Qingqing and Wei An objected to abandoning their peaceful life.
• Wan Xuetian privately discussed forcing Wan Ling to return if she refused, and Ah Wu noted that her Scale Yin Blood could preserve the Wan family bloodline.
• Wei He met Wan Xuetian in the eastern study, where Wan Xuetian warned that enemies had learned Wan Ling’s location and might send Ming Gan experts after her.
• Wan Xuetian told Wan Ling and Wei He that he had survived several assassination attempts, including an encounter with a Ming Gan expert hired to kill him.
• Yao Wan revealed that she had captured two pursuers near Wei Mansion, mocked them, and killed them before returning toward Wei He.

Wei He settled his family’s move to Tianhai Island and completed a year of cultivation, preparing to enter the fixed-sense stage. Meanwhile, Yuan Du Zi and her companions learned that Guangci’s actions might force the Xuanmiao Sect to respond, and Wei He ended the chapter planning to undertake his first sect mission alone.

• Wei He decided to move his family to Tianhai Island, while Wan Ling agreed to return to the Central Provinces with Wan Xuetian to see her critically ill parents and transfer her Scale Yin Blood through a dangerous secret method.
• Wei He received word that Yao Wan had killed the two Ming Gan experts from the Central Provinces, and the next day Wan Ling and Wan Xuetian departed for the Central Provinces.
• Yuan Du Zi discussed Guangci’s threat to Haizhou with Xu Ran and Zhong Yuanlin, and warned that the Xuanmiao Sect might have to descend the mountain again.
• Over the following year, Wei He completed the supersensory transformation of both eyes and developed five additional blood sacs, bringing his total to eight.
• Chang Xuezong explained that Wei He’s fixed-sense stage required a dangerous sect mission in the Fire Pool Secret Realm, and Wei He chose to go alone.

Wei He left Xuanmiao Sect to undergo Sense Stabilization, while a passing group of battered sect experts hinted at danger on the border. At the border of Haizhou, Guangci Cult forces killed Zhao Menheng as he tried to help Junior Brother Quan escape with news that more than half the outposts had fallen.

• Chang Xuezong gave Wei He a device to watch over his surroundings and saw him off before his descent from the mountain.
• Wei He met Zhou Muqing at Longwan Dock, and they sailed toward Zhentao City as he looked forward to testing his strength without Yao Wan guarding him.
• Wei He noticed a bloodied Xuanmiao Sect vessel pass them and suspected its returning experts were too exhausted to conceal their condition.
• At the Haizhou border, Zhao Menheng told Junior Brother Quan that Guangci Cult forces had captured more than half the outposts and ordered him to carry the warning back to the sect.
• Zhao Menheng unleashed the Thousand Mountain Splitting Tiger Cone against Xu Dingchun, but Xu Dingchun endured it and crushed Zhao Menheng's head with his hands.

While traveling toward Haizhou, Wei He and Zhou Muqing stopped at an eatery where Zhou Muqing intervened against Guangci Cult attackers and killed two of them. As Zhou Muqing treated the family they had rescued, Wei He sensed a powerful figure approaching the eatery.

• Wei He and Zhou Muqing heard Mo Family Village's father and two children discuss a gathering of heroes to hunt the Guangci Cult's Ghost Hand.
• Three Guangci Cult men attacked the Mo Family Village family, breaking the father's chest and threatening his daughter while the other diners held back.
• At Wei He's signal, Zhou Muqing attacked the three men, killing two and wounding their yellow-haired leader.
• Proprietor Zhan warned Zhou Muqing and Wei He that Yellow Brow Arhat would retaliate, while Zhou Muqing treated the injured father and spoke with his children.
• Wei He sensed someone outside whose blood vitality exceeded that of ordinary people and Bone Forging experts, then warned Zhou Muqing that someone had arrived.

Wei He and Zhou Muqing fought the Guangci Cult in Quan'an County, while Wei deliberately left survivors to draw out stronger True Blood martial artists. As Yellow Brow Arhat prepared to intercept them, Yao Wan appeared to protect Wei He during his Fixed Perception.

• Four-armed Black Ape Qin Zhong arrived at the eatery after Wei He and Zhou Muqing killed three Guangci Cult members, then left to summon help.
• Wei He stopped Zhou Muqing from pursuing Qin Zhong, explaining that he wanted to study the Guangci Cult's True Blood martial arts.
• The Mo Family girl asked Wei He and Zhou Muqing to stay at Mo Family Village, but Zhou Muqing ignored her and left with Wei He.
• A group of Yellow Brow men attacked Wei He and Zhou Muqing on the road, and Zhou Muqing wounded them before letting them live.
• Yellow Brow Arhat learned that his disciples had failed to stop the pair and set out to intercept them.
• Yao Wan appeared before Yellow Brow Arhat, intending to protect Wei He while he was undergoing Fixed Perception.

Yao Wan warned Wei He about the rising conflict and the danger of the Guangci Cult, then let him continue his patrol mission. At Black Pine Town, Yao Wan discovered that Guangci Cult agents had taken over Xuanmiao Sect’s border station and were killing its Patrol Envoys.

• Yao Wan told Wei He that Yuan Nation’s feudal lords were preparing a coalition against Wu State and urged him to complete Stabilization before worrying about the conflict.
• Yao Wan warned Wei He that the Guangci Cult might be plotting something and left to investigate Yellow Brow Arhat’s allies.
• Wei He and Zhou Muqing traveled to Black Pine Town, where Zhang Runian received them as the local station contact.
• Three Phases Bodhisattva ordered Huang Yu to surround and kill Wei He and Zhou Muqing, then dispose of their bodies.
• Yao Wan entered the Guangci Cult’s manor and confronted Three Phases Bodhisattva after discovering the cult had occupied Xuanmiao Sect’s border station.

Yao Wan confronted Three Phases Bodhisattva while Wei He and Zhou Muqing were lured into a trap by the Guangci Cult. Wei He killed Huang Yu and captured another attacker, who revealed that Three Phases Bodhisattva was ambushing the Xuanmiao Sect outpost.

• Yao Wan fought Three Phases Bodhisattva, then withdrew to draw her away from Wei He.
• Zhang Runian led Wei He and Zhou Muqing to a secluded slope, where Huang Yu ambushed Wei He and another man attacked Zhou Muqing.
• Wei He struck Huang Yu with Returning True Force and killed him, then took a booklet and money pouch from the remains.
• Wei He returned and captured Zhou Muqing's opponent as the man tried to flee.
• The captive revealed that Three Phases Bodhisattva had been ordered to ambush the Xuanmiao Sect outpost and urged Wei He and Zhou Muqing to escape.

Yao Wan fought Three Phases Bodhisattva in the forest and entered the True Realm as their battle escalated. Wei He split from Zhou Muqing to draw the Guangci Cult pursuers away, but after defeating several attackers, he encountered an injured Yao Wan, who took him with her to flee.

• Yao Wan's Mysterious Lock Vigor failed to seal Three Phases Bodhisattva, and its backlash injured her.
• Yao Wan entered the True Realm, and Three Phases Bodhisattva turned into black smoke as their battle unleashed a violent gale through the forest.
• Wei He and Zhou Muqing left Black Pine Town to report the Guangci Cult's occupation of the outpost, while Wei He's Returning True Force killed the captured heretic.
• When pursuers approached, Wei He told Zhou Muqing to flee and report while he drew the Guangci Cult forces away.
• Wei He killed six charging experts and their bald leader with Returning True Force before continuing through the forest.
• An injured Yao Wan appeared, warned Wei He that Three Phases Bodhisattva was too strong to face, and dragged him away.

Yao Wan tried to get Wei He safely out of the pine forest, but the Three Phases Bodhisattva pursued them. Wei He unleashed overwhelming Returning True Force to defeat her, then claimed to Yao Wan that his secret method had cost him decades of life.

• Yao Wan carried the injured Wei He through the forest while the Three Phases Bodhisattva attacked them from behind.
• Yao Wan threw Wei He ahead and stayed behind to hold off the Three Phases Bodhisattva, who used a secret method to accelerate after him.
• As the Three Phases Bodhisattva waited to intercept him, Wei He released six-tenths of his Returning True Force and blasted her to her knees.
• The Three Phases Bodhisattva entered her Complete Truth mutation and attacked Wei He with Bone Blades, but his black force blocked them.
• Wei He increased his release to seven-tenths and engulfed the Three Phases Bodhisattva in black qi, leaving only scraps of her clothing.
• Wei He told Yao Wan that using his life-risking secret method had halved his lifespan, but she silently doubted his explanation.