Chapter Summaries

Wei He defeated Gu Lan and the Anqiguluo Family’s guard, then learned from Li Chengji that the clash had likely been an assessment arranged by the military and Imperial Family. The chapter left Wei He considering the resources and influence he might gain if his meeting with Princess Han Quan went well.

• Wei He used the Whale Flood Art to overpower Gu Lan, smashed him into a stone building, and buried him beneath its collapsing upper floor.
• Wei He fought the Golden Pattern-robed guard, forcing him to transform and retreat, until Li Chengji struck the guard down and broke his spine.
• Li Chengji told Wei He that his performance had earned him bargaining chips and could strengthen Master Li Rong’s case for benefits in the Nine Great Army Departments.
• Wei He concluded that the military and Imperial Family had likely arranged the fight to test his strength and assess him as a potential candidate against the Buddhist Sect.
• Li Chengji explained that Wei He was a backup candidate who might receive more resources and authority, and could enter the Supreme Emperor’s Treasury if things went well with Princess Han Quan.

Wei He read about Great Yue’s factions and Gulan’s stalled cultivation, then spoke with Xue Huo about the military’s test and his bloodline enhancements. Xue Huo reassured him that the Burning Heaven Army Department would protect him and revealed that the military had placed him in a reserve plan.

• Unable to sleep while Li Rong was away on a mission, Wei He went to the Scripture Pavilion and read periodicals to learn about Great Yue’s major forces.
• Wei He learned that the Imperial Family, the military, and the Buddhist sects stood behind most of Great Yue’s factions.
• Wei He read that Gulan had reached Bone Forging at fifteen and could advance no further after his bloodline developed prematurely; Wei He suspected someone had deliberately crippled him.
• Wei He watched Long Wufu practice Seven Phoenix True Martial and spoke with Xue Huo, who said the Burning Heaven Army Department would not harm him and that the military had approved him for a reserve plan.
• Xue Huo asked about Wei He’s enhancements, and he said he had chosen strength for both Enlightenment and Body Opening.

Wei He began developing a secret technique combining True Blood and True Force, then was ordered to show Princess Han Quan around the Marshal’s Mansion as a potential bride. After receiving a secret message from Yuan Du Zi, he learned she would soon meet him in Great Yue and that the military was discussing his marriage prospects.

• Wei He told Xue Huo he was still at Bone Forging and focused on improving his defense while preparing to create a secret technique suited to both his True Blood and True Force.
• Wei He studied secret techniques in the Scripture Pavilion and used Boundary-Breaking Pearl opportunities to build up his Primal Blood.
• Li Rong introduced Princess Han Quan, Sima Wuque, to her disciples and ordered Wei He to show her around the Marshal’s Mansion.
• Sima Wuque walked into Wei He’s back, mistook his hardness for a sign of intimidating strength, and continued the tour with him.
• A disguised messenger delivered Wei He a note from Yuan Du Zi, asking him to protect a key figure and warning that she would soon come to Great Yue to meet him secretly.
• Wei He read the note’s additional information about the military’s discussions of his possible marriage to Princess Han Quan.

Wei He met Yuan Du Zi in White Elephant City, received a precious pill, and explored how the Three Hearts Art might overcome his limits in aptitude. He then asked Sima Wuque about opportunities to fight True Beasts, learning that she had ties to gladiatorial arenas.

• Wei He met Yuan Du Zi, who asked him to help Ding Yan if he encountered her and gave him a Five Hearts Cauldron Primordial Pill.
• Yuan Du Zi said Wei He had reached the limit of his aptitude, prompting him to consider using the Three Hearts Art to rebuild his bone structure and bloodline.
• Wei He returned to the Marshal's Mansion and continued spending time with Sima Wuque while considering how to find high-level True Beasts to fight.
• Wei He asked Sima Wuque about joining the True Beast cleanup efforts, and she suggested gladiatorial combat instead.
• Sima Wuque revealed that her maternal relatives had given her shares in several chain Gladiator Arenas.

Wei He broke through from Bone Forging to Organ Refining and sought fresh hearts from powerful True Beasts for the Three Hearts Art, but learned Great Yue had few beasts left to hunt. At Princess Han Quan’s gladiator arena, he recognized Xia Linghua among the chained Wanfei Palace slaves and realized she had been captured.

• Wei He used the Burning Heaven True Skill and medicinal power to break through to Organ Refining, choosing to strengthen his defense.
• Wei He asked Sima Wuque about obtaining powerful True Beast parts, but learned she could not provide the fresh hearts he needed.
• Gong Lingyun visited Wei He, and Sima Wuque invited them to her Gladiator Arena to watch matches involving slaves from Wanfei Palace.
• On the way to the arena, Wei He recognized the shackled women as Wanfei Palace martial artists and found none familiar in the first group.
• At the arena, Wei He spotted Xia Linghua among the captured slaves and was shocked that the Wanfei Palace mistress had been taken prisoner.

Wei He watched Wanfei Palace’s fighters being brought into the Gladiator Arena and realized Xia Linghua might have entered deliberately to rescue her disciples. After Xia Linghua and seven women were taken to a private room, she decided she would have to act before they were bought and taken away.

• Wei He asked Princess Han Quan about the Wanfei Palace prisoners and declined her offer to give them to him.
• The host announced a clan battle between the Spiked Iron Eagle Family and Wanfei Palace, while Xia Linghua waited for a chance to rescue the captured disciples.
• A skinny old man ordered Xia Linghua and seven women taken to private rooms after a noble expressed interest in them.
• Xia Linghua considered seizing the noble in the central private room but decided the risks were too great.
• Xia Linghua resolved to act that day, hoping to defeat the arena’s commanders quickly and escape with the Wanfei Palace women.

Xia Linghua led Wanfei Palace members in a staged breakout from the Gladiator Arena, while Wei He recognized her and chose to watch for a chance to help. As True Blood experts closed in from both directions, Xia Linghua found a ventilation shaft and prepared to change their escape route.

• Xia Linghua used the arena crowd’s distraction to overpower the slave warriors and begin freeing Wanfei Palace members.
• Wei He sensed Xia Linghua’s operation next door and decided he would help if she ran into trouble.
• Xia Linghua led disguised Wanfei Palace members through the arena, sending one group out before returning for the next.
• Ji Wufeng detected signs of a disturbance, and Princess Han Quan left her private room to investigate the trouble at her venue.
• Wei He pretended he had left something behind so he could stay and observe Xia Linghua’s escape attempt.
• Xia Linghua refused Xie Shaoguang’s suggestion to seize VIPs, then spotted a ventilation shaft as powerful pursuers approached from both directions.

Xia Linghua and the Wanfei Palace group escaped the Gladiator Arena through the ventilation shafts, but Ji Wufeng tracked them to Wei He's carriage and demanded to search it. The guards hesitated to obey, leaving Wei He and the hidden women facing an imminent inspection.

• Xia Linghua led her group through the ventilation shafts, while Ji Wufeng ordered the vents and sewer exits guarded after learning they were possible escape routes.
• Ji Wufeng followed signs in the shafts to a second passage, but Wei He guided Xia Linghua's group into a VIP room and helped them leave in his carriage.
• Wei He used Princess Han Quan's travel permit and Wang Xuan's standing to pass the checkpoints with the Wanfei Palace women concealed inside.
• Ji Wufeng stopped the carriage and demanded an inspection after his detection box continued reacting to a nearby True Force martial artist.
• Wei He warned that the carriage held private matters and said he would remember the offense, while Grand Commander Sima Ji reminded Ji Wufeng that Wei He was Princess Han Quan's guest.

Wei He helped Xia Linghua and the others escape Ji Wufeng’s inspection, but Ji Wufeng followed the carriage and found evidence of True Force users inside. Wei He then ambushed and killed Ji Wufeng before he could raise the alarm.

• Ji Wufeng opened Wei He’s carriage and saw the naked women inside, then fought Wei He and drove him back with his superior Golden Body strength.
• Ji Wufeng withdrew, intending to investigate Wang Xuan’s suspected ties to True Force, while Wei He drove the carriage away with Xia Linghua and the others.
• Wei He stopped near a grove and let Xia Linghua’s group leave the carriage, which they emptied before departing.
• Ji Wufeng returned and examined the carriage, concluding that Wang Xuan had released several True Force experts, including one at Complete Truth level.
• Wei He appeared behind Ji Wufeng, struck him with a blackening attack, and crushed his head with his enlarged hand.

Wei He covered up Ji Wufeng’s death, received a Blood Awakening Pill, and began awakening the Mount Sumeru Whale King’s innate ability as Moon Haze investigated. Meanwhile, Emperor Dingyuan confronted Modo about the Buddhist sect and revealed his plan to unite everyone through the Blood Planting Method.

• Wei He dissolved Ji Wufeng’s body, hid the traces of his actions, and returned to the Marshal’s Mansion, where Han Quan questioned him and gave him a Blood Awakening Pill.
• Wei He learned that Ji Wufeng had been a powerful Moon Haze official connected to Xiao Fuyue, then concealed his involvement as Moon Haze investigators searched nearby.
• Wei He cultivated with medicinal resources and the Blood Awakening Pill until the Mount Sumeru Whale King’s innate ability began to awaken.
• Emperor Dingyuan met Modo at the Hall of Buddhist Worship and asked about the Buddhist sect’s leadership and whether Modo would help him.
• Emperor Dingyuan declared that he wanted to use the Blood Planting Method to fuse all people into one.

Emperor Dingyuan sought Maduo’s help with a blood-planting plan that would distribute controlled True Blood lineages and strengthen the imperial clan, but Maduo declined to involve himself. Meanwhile, Moonveil searched for the missing Ji Wufeng, and Wei He advanced in his training before learning that an upcoming campaign might target a Demonic Sect Grandmaster.

• Emperor Dingyuan explained how distributing low-, middle-, and high-grade True Blood lineages could empower Great Moon and asked Maduo to help, but Maduo refused to interfere in worldly affairs.
• Xiao Fuyue discovered that Ji Wufeng had failed to report to Moonveil, and Zhan Qing said no one knew where he was; Gongsun He pledged to search for him in White Elephant City.
• Wei He demonstrated how quickly he had learned Li Rong’s grappling technique, while Princess Han Quan and the others watched in astonishment.
• Li Rong said Wei He’s Organ Refining progress would slow while his body recovered from extensive medicinal supplements, then invited him to a temple fair and an upcoming military campaign against the high-wind zone.
• Wei He learned that the campaign had originally been aimed at a mutated True Force Grandmaster, whom Li Rong’s group suspected was a Demonic Sect Grandmaster.

Wei He watched Great Moon’s elite soldiers use Astral Arrays and coordinated strength to encircle a wounded lord-class True Beast in the Desolate Silence Forest Sea. The fight continued behind dense mist as Li Chengji reassured him that Li Rong was overseeing the battle and the Black Goat was nearly finished.

• Wei He learned from Li Chengji that Great Moon’s elite soldiers could combine their strength through Astral Arrays to threaten even Grandmasters.
• Li Rong led the expedition away from White Elephant City and into the mist-covered Desolate Silence Forest Sea.
• The soldiers formed ranks and activated an Astral Array, revealing the colossal Black Goat to Wei He.
• The soldiers bound the Black Goat with chained spears and combined their strength, while Li Rong hurled a spear through its head.
• The Black Goat survived and unleashed dense white mist as the battle’s impacts continued out of sight.
• Li Chengji told Wei He that Li Rong was overseeing the fight and that the wounded Black Goat was near defeat.

Wei He saw how Great Yue’s elite armies could suppress powerful True Beasts and used the Black Goat’s heart to advance his Three Hearts Art, though he remained stuck at a bottleneck. Elsewhere, Yuan Du Zi encountered a woman who resembled Ansha Lu and had been poisoned with the same incurable poison; back in White Elephant City, Wei He began considering a journey to obtain more True Beast materials.

• Li Rong’s tower-shield soldiers helped kill the Black Goat, and Wei He chose its heart as his share of the spoils.
• Wei He watched further hunts and saw elite armies overwhelm even a True Beast at the limit of Complete Truth; over the following month, he absorbed the Black Goat heart’s essence.
• During Great Yue’s famine and unrest, Yuan Du Zi killed bandits who attacked her carriage, then found a woman who resembled Ansha Lu and recognized the Myriad Lock Heartbreak Poison in her body.
• Wei He assessed that his True Force and True Blood had both reached bottlenecks, with the Three Hearts Art appearing to be his path forward.
• When Princess Han Quan invited him on an outing, Wei He asked about her channels for trading True Beast materials and considered traveling to continue his cultivation.

Wei He gathered Demonic Sect intelligence from Yu Xin and traveled in disguise to a remote pavilion in Eastern Continent to pursue a breakthrough in the Three Hearts Art. There, he encountered a fleeing Demonic Sect elder and his disciples, who mistook him for a fellow sect member and sought his help against Moon Shadow pursuers.

• Wei He declined Princess Han Quan’s suggestion but arranged a channel to buy True Beast materials, then left the Marshal’s Mansion to meet Yu Xin in disguise.
• Yu Xin told Wei He that the Black Goat Dharma Body belonged to the Ming Yi Sect, identified Horned Demon Du Lan as its leader, and promised details about a captured person’s convoy route.
• Li Rong learned that Wei He had slipped away again and allowed him to go, reasoning that he needed to experience the world for himself.
• After shaking off his pursuers, Wei He traveled to a remote pavilion in Eastern Continent to work toward breaking through the Three Hearts Art.
• Duan Chenghuan, Ming Xin, and Ming Jue fled four Moon Shadow experts and spotted Wei He in the pavilion; Duan Chenghuan asked him to help hold off their pursuers.

Wei He rescued Duan Chenghuan and set out for the Ming Yi Sect, seeking hearts to advance his Three Hearts Art. At the Xuanmiao Sect, Yuan Du Zi hesitated over whether to save a poisoned mortal who resembled Ansha Lu, and Yan Wujiu offered to take her place.

• Wei He watched Xiao Lin and the Moonlight Veil capture Duan Chenghuan, then learned from him that he was an elder of the Ming Yi Sect.
• Wei He killed Xiao Lin and the other Moonlight Veil members with his Black Pythons, freed Duan Chenghuan, and removed the tracking drugs from his body.
• Duan Chenghuan agreed to lead Wei He to the Ming Yi Sect, whose members Wei He hoped to use to cultivate his second heart.
• At the Xuanmiao Sect, a medical elder warned Yuan Du Zi that the poisoned mortal resembling Ansha Lu had only three months to live.
• Yan Wujiu stopped Yuan Du Zi from reaching for the woman and offered to try to save her himself.

Wei He infiltrated the Ming Yi Sect’s snow-cave hideout, killed Duan Chenghuan and several experts, and absorbed their hearts to strengthen his third Black Goat Heart. As he pursued the sect’s remaining members, he broke into Liu Cheng’s chamber, leaving the deputy sect master and his guest facing him.

• Duan Chenghuan led Wei He to the Ming Yi Sect’s mountain hideout and revealed that the sect shared the snow cave with two other Sacred Sect forces.
• Wei He noticed the sect had laid Star Arrays and stationed experts around him, then attacked Duan Chenghuan and absorbed his heart’s essence blood.
• Wei He killed three more ambushers and absorbed their hearts, advancing his third Black Goat Heart by another sixth.
• The Ming Yi Sect’s disciples fled as Wei He pursued them, using Soul Chasing Incense to track their locations.
• Liu Cheng heard the alarm and urged his guest to escape through a secret passage, but Wei He smashed through the stone door into their chamber.

Wei He killed Liu Cheng and the remaining marked Ming Yi Sect experts in the snow cave, completing the nourishment of his third Black Goat Heart. After meeting You Fu again, he learned that Great Yue had attacked True Force sects and that the Demonic Sect planned a counterattack, though he declined to visit its headquarters for now.

• Wei He entered the snow cave, overcame Liu Cheng's secret technique, and killed him in front of You Fu.
• Wei He asked You Fu where he could find another Ming Yi Sect expert, and You Fu pointed him toward Han Chun, who was cultivating elsewhere.
• Wei He asked about Zhen Qi and learned that he had entered death seclusion to seek a breakthrough to Ming Gan.
• Wei He left the cave and killed the remaining marked Ming Yi Sect experts, completing his third Black Goat Heart as the sect's disciples fled.
• Wei He met You Fu at the foot of Snow Cave Mountain, and You Fu told him Great Yue's Great Lingfeng Temple had attacked overseas True Force sects and that the Demonic Sect intended to counterattack.
• You Fu invited Wei He to the Demonic Sect headquarters to discuss an alliance, but Wei He said he might go later and declined for the present.

After completing the Three Hearts Art’s second layer, Wei He learned that Marshal Li Rong had secured him a chance to use Great Yue’s rare True Blood treasures. During a spring outing with Princess Han Quan, assassins attacked the group and killed Peng Chengyu.

• Wei He returned to White Elephant City and used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to break through to the second stage of the Three Hearts Art.
• Two months later, Wei He joined Princess Han Quan and other noble youths on a spring outing to Nine Thoughts Valley.
• Han Quan told Wei He that Li Rong had won him a slot to use one of Great Yue’s Thirteen True Blood Exotic Treasures, displacing Chen Yanshan.
• Five masked assassins attacked the outing party, and one killed Peng Chengyu while four fought the guards.

Wei He protected Princess Han Quan and Gong Lingyun from a deadly ambush, only for the monk Yue Chen to intervene and demand that Wei He go to Great Snow Mountain. As Yue Chen attacked to force his compliance, Wei He prepared to resist rather than be taken by Great Lingfeng Temple.

• Wei He saved Princess Han Quan from a flying blade as black-clad True Realm attackers ambushed the spring outing party and killed or captured its members.
• Wei He rescued Gong Lingyun and led him and Princess Han Quan into the forest, where six attackers pursued and surrounded them.
• The six men in black attacked with unstable, corrosive Returning True Force, but the monk Yue Chen appeared and dispersed their strikes, driving them away.
• Yue Chen revealed he had come from Great Lingfeng Temple to take Wei He to Great Snow Mountain, then trapped the group inside a powerful Stellar Array.
• Yue Chen struck at Wei He, who decided he could not allow the Buddhist Sect to take him and raised his head as red lines filled his eyes.

Wei He fought Yue Chen, a powerful Buddhist monk using the Earth Split Leg, but could not overpower him and struggled to escape. Yue Chen intensified his attacks and began launching Prayer Beads at Wei He as the fight continued near White Elephant City.

• Wei He charged Yue Chen with a powerful punch, but Yue Chen countered with fissures created by his Earth Split Leg.
• Yue Chen’s attacks overwhelmed Wei He, who realized his hidden protector was occupied fighting another Buddhist expert nearby.
• Wei He tried to flee, but Yue Chen pursued him at greater speed and drove him back with increasingly powerful attacks.
• Yue Chen pinned Wei He with a crushing palm, but Wei He secretly used Returning True Force to break free and escape diagonally.
• Yue Chen stomped after Wei He, enlarged his legs, spun his arms, and fired Prayer Beads in every direction.