Chapter Summaries

Mado confronted Emperor Dingyuan in the imperial study, but Yuan Du Zi intervened and revealed herself as another supreme Grandmaster. Meanwhile, Wei He entered a hidden underwater chamber and found sacred weapons and a letter from someone who called him Little He, only to be trapped inside by an impenetrable barrier.

• Mado arrived at the imperial study, incapacitated Bai Shanxin, and suppressed the imperial palace’s defenses before moving to kill Emperor Dingyuan.
• Yuan Du Zi appeared behind Emperor Dingyuan and blocked Mado’s attack with her Returning True Force.
• Wei He followed Patriarch Xiao Ling’s directions to a trench and found an entrance concealed by a Returning True Force formation.
• Wei He entered a hidden chamber containing Seraclan-style boxes, covered objects, three True Beast Star Cores, and a letter addressed to Little He.
• Wei He uncovered rows of sacred weapons, but the entrance sealed, and his strongest attacks failed to break through the barrier.

Emperor Dingyuan learned that Yuan Du Zi was Tide’s ally when she confronted Modo and stopped his attempt to seize power. Sealed in a cave, Wei He absorbed a sacred artifact to strengthen his Returning True Force, reached the Bone Corroding Wind level of the True World, and discovered hollows consuming the black smoke around him.

• Emperor Dingyuan recognized Yuan Du Zi as the Tide higher-up who had promised to help him, while Modo and Yuan Du Zi discussed their opposing responses to the coming changes.
• Modo abandoned his plan and vanished, and Yuan Du Zi disappeared before Emperor Dingyuan could question her.
• Wei He reasoned that Yuan Du Zi had sealed him away because of dangerous changes outside, but decided he needed to leave and warn his family and Li Rong.
• Wei He absorbed Holy Liquid from a sacred artifact, strengthening his Returning True Force and senses until he could perceive the Bone Corroding Wind level of the True World.
• Wei He saw that the cave was filled with black smoke that dispersed his strength and found hollows that consumed the smoke, one of which painfully severed part of his finger.

Wei He advanced his Returning True Force cultivation in the ocean trench while news of his disappearance spread across Great Moon. Yuan Du Zi tightened her control over the imperial palace and prepared to act, as Wei He sensed that absorbing the surrounding true qi had become difficult.

• Wei He recovered from his super-sensory state, cultivated the Mysterious Lock Skill, and absorbed Bone Corroding true qi as he pursued the Complete Purity Sixth Step.
• Searchers failed to find Wang Xuan, and rumors blamed Seracla for his disappearance.
• Li Rong learned that Bai Shanxin had gone to the Royal Capital and set out there to investigate Wang Xuan's disappearance.
• Yuan Du Zi revealed her overwhelming power by gravely injuring Ling Chongyan and ordered the red-crowned elder to take over the Demonic Sect's affairs.
• Yuan Du Zi watched a blue-lit face form and then vanish in the True World, and she wondered where it could flee.
• Wei He opened his eyes after draining two sacred artifact crystals and found that absorbing external true qi had slowed, though he continued cultivating toward the Complete Purity Sixth Step.

Wei He strengthened his Returning True Force while trying to escape the sealed cave, as the True World's energy grew increasingly scarce. Li Rong investigated the cultivation decline spreading through Great Yue and resolved to enter the palace, while Wan Qingqing and Wan Ling watched a large construction project in Haizhou.

• Wei He absorbed Sacred Artifacts and repeatedly battered Yuan Du Zi's cave seal, gradually making it fade as his sensory fixation advanced.
• Wei He reached the sixth step of Complete Reality and gained the ability to absorb Bone Corroding Wind-level true energy, though his Returning True Force could not transform into Returning True Energy.
• Li Rong heard that True Blood martial artists across Great Yue were suffering cultivation regression and confirmed that True World energy had fallen by at least half.
• Li Rong connected the True World's changes to Wang Xuan's disappearance and decided to enter the imperial palace that night to investigate Emperor Dingyuan and Wang Xuan.
• In Haizhou, Wan Qingqing and Wan Ling watched Wei He's family and Myriad Poison Sect personnel build scattered triangular structures, and a mysterious figure suddenly arrived to inspect the work.

Wei He absorbed the remaining Holy Liquid and shattered the cavern’s sealing formation, then emerged to find True Energy rapidly vanishing from the world. As he hurried toward Haizhou to contact Moon Haze, he saw dead True Beasts covering the sea and feared the crisis Yuan Du Zi had warned him about.

• Yan Wujiu told Wan Qingqing that Wei He was cultivating in a secret location and reassured her that the sect would look after her.
• Wei He saw a strange human-faced grub emerge from a hole in the cavern’s True World layer, and it burst apart when he focused on it.
• Wei He rapidly absorbed the Holy Liquid from the remaining Holy Artifacts, enduring wounds as his Returning True Force strengthened.
• Wei He repeatedly struck the cavern’s sealing formation until it shattered, then swam out and sensed that the world’s True Energy had become dangerously scarce.
• Wei He headed toward Haizhou to contact Moon Haze and found dead Deepwater Sharks and other creatures floating across the sea.

Wei He sealed dying True Beast overlords escaping the depths of the True World, gathering Bone Corroding Wind True Energy and strengthening the Gravity God before heading toward the Royal Capital. There, Li Rong learned from Emperor Dingyuan that Void Mist was driving the True World turmoil, just as an unidentified woman arrived and declared that the endless tide could not be stopped.

• Wei He sealed a dying centaur True Beast, absorbing its Bone Corroding Wind True Energy and spirit to strengthen his Gravity God.
• Wei He sealed more escaped True Beasts, including fourteen Three-Eyed Minotaurs, and gathered nearly enough True Energy to digest the Holy Liquid and approach the final level of the Mysterious Lock Skill.
• Wei He left the Sea Domain and rushed toward the Royal Capital of Great Yue.
• Li Rong met Emperor Dingyuan, who explained that turmoil in the deeper True World had caused widespread martial decline.
• Emperor Dingyuan showed Li Rong a strange substance called Void Mist and said it opposed True Energy and was linked to the turmoil.
• An approaching woman told Li Rong and Emperor Dingyuan that the Void Mist was infinite and its tide of fate could not be stopped.

Li Rong learned that Wang Xuan was Wei He, a Xuanmiao Sect Daozi, and that Yuan Du Zi had come to the imperial garden as the sect’s leader. As Yuan Du Zi considered killing Li Rong, Wei He reached the final transformation of the Mysterious Lock Skill and prepared to break through to the seventh step of Complete Truth.

• Yuan Du Zi appeared before Li Rong and Emperor Dingyuan, then announced that the Tide and Xuanmiao Sect would soon withdraw as the True World changed.
• Emperor Dingyuan told Li Rong that Wang Xuan’s real name was Wei He, that he was a Xuanmiao Sect Daozi, and that he was safe, though his whereabouts were unknown.
• Li Rong feared Wei He had abandoned Great Moon without a word, but Yuan Du Zi suddenly returned, restrained her, and considered killing her out of jealousy over Wei He’s affection for her.
• Wei He sealed and absorbed more than a hundred Black Armored Rhino Kings, completing the digestion of his Holy Liquid.
• Wei He ignited all his Returning True Force through the twelfth layer of the Mysterious Lock Skill and prepared to break through to the seventh step of Complete Truth, already wielding strength beyond a Grandmaster’s.

Wei He returned to Wang Cheng and found the Void Mist stripping True Blood experts of their power while the imperial court’s strongest figures had taken refuge at the Linglong Tower. After learning that Yuan Du Zi had taken Marshal Li Rong there, Wei He set out to investigate, but a vast torrent of Void Mist swept toward the palace.

• Wei He entered Wang Cheng and found the streets nearly empty as the Void Mist weakened bloodlines and drained True Energy.
• At the imperial study, Wei He received Emperor Dingyuan’s unsigned letter, which directed officials to the Linglong Tower.
• Princess Han Quan reunited with Wei He and explained that the Buddhist Sect had attacked the palace, Yuan Du Zi had intervened, and the Daoist Sect and Great Yue had built the Linglong Tower to escape the Void Mist.
• Wei He learned that Yuan Du Zi had taken Marshal Li Rong to the Linglong Tower, gave Princess Han Quan medicines for protection, and decided to go there.
• Wei He sensed a vast wave of Void Mist rushing toward the palace from the west and leaped up to see it approaching.

Wei He crossed a capital devastated by the Void Mist while seeking his loved ones, as Maduo confronted the Ancestral Court and Yuan Du Zi prepared to defend Linglong Tower. The chapter ended with Yuan Du Zi transforming into a giant Black Seal Kunpeng and charging the approaching mist.

• Wei He sealed his True Energy, rescued Hanquan, and headed toward Linglong Tower through camps and settlements devastated by the Void Mist.
• Maduo met Kong Nian at the Ancestral Court, opened the cliff to reveal a three-eyed Buddha statue, and was swallowed by the Void Mist along with Kong Nian and the statue.
• Yuan Du Zi told Emperor Dingyuan and the other Grandmasters that the Void Mist poisoned those with True Blood or True Strength, and she prepared to use the Blood Pool to protect them.
• As the Void Mist surged toward Linglong Tower, Yuan Du Zi invoked her Dharma Body and transformed into a giant Black Seal Kunpeng to charge the mist.

Wei He found the Great Yue royal mausoleum sealed against the Void Mist and learned that Yuan Du Zi had fought the tide as Black Seal Kunpeng, but her fate remained unknown. He left to check on his family and move them near the mausoleum, while the chapter ended at the grieving Xuanmiao Sect, where only a small remnant of its three lineages remained.

• Wei He and Han Quan reached the sealed mausoleum, found Yuan Du Zi’s veil, and decided not to open the door for fear of exposing those inside to the Void Mist.
• Wei He and Han Quan searched nearby and questioned Chen Xiong, who said Black Seal Kunpeng had fought the Void Mist tide and then disappeared when the fog cleared.
• Wei He found traces of blood and black feathers that were turning to sand, but no sign of what had happened to Yuan Du Zi.
• Han Quan urged Wei He to send a letter with the next supply delivery, and Wei He resolved to trust those inside and support the people still alive.
• Wei He told Han Quan his real name and left to check on his family and move them near the mausoleum.
• At Xuanmiao Sect, Cai Menghuan and his companions stood among rows of spirit tablets, mourning the sect’s many dead after its blessed land collapsed.

After returning to his family, Wei He settled near the Great Yue imperial mausoleum as the Void Mist brought down empires and erased martial cultivation. Decades later, with his loved ones dead or elderly and no word from those inside the mausoleum, Wei He disappeared from his home, leaving his descendants to wonder where he had gone.

• Wei He found Cai Menghuan, who had dispersed his cultivation and stayed outside to protect his younger sisters, then hurried home after Cai told him to return.
• Wei He reunited with Wan Qingqing and promised to stay with her and his family as the Void Mist spread across the world.
• Wei He led the Xuanmiao Sect's remnants and Princess Han Quan to settle near the Great Yue imperial mausoleum, where he waited for the people inside and reached the seventh step of Complete Truth.
• Wei He's parents, Wan Qingqing, and Princess Han Quan died over the years, while Wei He remained youthful and lived quietly near his aging family.
• At a mourning hall more than thirty years after Great Yue fell, Wei An learned that Wei He had disappeared, and Wei Chun and Wei Ying said he could not have been stopped if he chose to leave.

Wei He left the royal mausoleum after years of caring for Wan Qingqing and Hanquan, hoping to find a way past the collapse of cultivation and investigate stories of a giant black bird resembling Yuan Du Zi. He arrived in Ningzhou City, learned the bird was said to have rested on Mount Yuewu, and set out to investigate.

• Wei He concluded that martial arts, True Force, True Blood, and Seracla's warrior system could no longer help him advance in a world without true energy or exotic beasts.
• After learning that Wan Qingqing and Hanquan had died, Wei He decided to travel and search for clues about Yuan Du Zi and strange incidents across the world.
• Wei He reached Ningzhou City in two hours and learned from a sweet-soup peddler that the Crow King had once perched on Dengxian Terrace on Mount Yuewu.
• Wei He asked about places to practice martial arts and learned that the city's martial arts hall had burned down and its practitioners had disappeared.
• Wei He left the peddler and headed toward the city gates to investigate the Crow King's legend.

Zhong Ling brought his companions to Mount Yuewu to seek a martial arts master, while Wei He searched the summit for evidence that Yuan Du Zi had passed through. In the True World, Wei He found old, enormous claw marks that might have been left by his senior sister, along with a faint fishy stench.

• Zhong Ling arrived at Mount Yuewu after hearing that Xue Hanwu had defeated foreign boxers, and He Xiaoguang reported seeing a remarkably sturdy passerby who soon vanished.
• He Xiaoguang and Xiao Qiao warned Zhong Ling that people passing through Mount Yuewu had gone missing, and Zhong Ling continued toward the summit to meet the supposed master.
• Wei He reached Dengxian Terrace and searched the plaza for traces of Yuan Du Zi, finding nothing in the ordinary world.
• Wei He entered the True World using his stored Returning True Force and found two old, enormous birdlike claw prints near the cliff railing.
• Wei He wondered whether Yuan Du Zi had left the claw marks, then detected a faint smell of fish and decay on his hand.

Wei He investigated the claw marks on Dengxian Terrace as a murderous creature struck nearby, while a demon named Yun Si’s elder sister hunted outsiders around Ningzhou. Several days later, an old Daoist and his young companion entered Ningzhou City looking for work involving supernatural cases.

• Wei He questioned Zhong Ling about the Crow King legend and left Dengxian Terrace after learning that outsiders had recently been disappearing around Mount Yuewu.
• A chilling wind swept through the martial arts performers’ camp, where the mute girl found Hong Changqun dead with the back half of his body missing.
• White smoke emerged from the corpse and entered Zhong Ling, who fled down the mountain with He Xiaoguang and another attendant.
• A dull-faced demon woman washed blood from her arm after hunting an outsider, while Yun Si warned her that she had targeted someone Yun Si had been preparing to claim.
• Several days later, the Old Daoist and his young companion entered Ningzhou City carrying mountain goods and hoped to find cases that could earn them money.

Wei He searched Ningzhou City for the Crow King and encountered a strange woman who tried to drag him into the True World and eat him. He remained unharmed while she injured herself trying to lift him.

• An Old Daoist and his young disciple passed through Ningzhou City and discussed seeking refuge with Zhou Xingtong, prompting Wei He to wonder if he had heard a familiar name.
• Wei He continued investigating the Crow King and noticed Zhong Ling looking gravely ill in a passing car, while a plain middle-aged woman stared at him with intense hunger.
• At the Zhong residence, Zhong Jiuguan hired Master Mifang to exorcise the evil afflicting Zhong Ling, though Mifang secretly lacked real exorcism skills.
• Wei He went downstairs and confronted the woman, who summoned white lights and pulled them into the True World before lunging at him with a black claw.
• The woman could not lift Wei He despite using all her strength; she damaged her own waist, dropped to her knees, and began to cry.

Wei He subdued Lu Jiu and learned that she was a Deer Demon who had migrated to Great Moon, now overrun by demons and monsters. After discovering that humans could not wield demon or spiritual power, he questioned her about the new world’s factions and threats, leaving his search for a way forward unresolved.

• Wei He caught Lu Jiu after her poison and Isolation Spell failed, then brought her to a secluded courtyard to question her.
• Lu Jiu explained that she was a Deer Demon who used an Isolation Spell powered by demon power, but she had no other advanced techniques to teach him.
• Wei He learned that Lu Jiu’s demon spells could not be learned by living humans, then asked about the strongest demons she knew, including Old Mother Minshan.
• Lu Jiu described Great Moon as a land ruled by demons and monsters, where warlords traded humans for protection and Moon Haze organized Demon Extermination Squads.
• Wei He learned that Lu Jiu was a Shapeshifting Demon and that she had never heard of powerful human martial artists, then asked why she had come to Great Moon.

Wei He killed Lu Jiu and waited to see which demons her death would attract, while Yun Si sensed Lu Jiu's demonic power vanish and began investigating. After a pair of visitors and a demon girl came to Lu Jiu's courtyard, Wei He dragged the girl into his house and killed her.

• Wei He killed Lu Jiu with a gust of finger wind, searched her belongings, and moved into a rented courtyard to investigate the demons cautiously.
• Master Mifang's ritual appeared to revive Zhong Ling, and Yun Si sensed Lu Jiu's demonic power disappear and ordered Xue Dong to investigate.
• Wei He waited three days for visitors to Lu Jiu's courtyard, then searched Ningzhou for information about the Crow King without success.
• Two people in black vests knocked at Lu Jiu's gate and left, followed later by a little girl who also found the courtyard empty.
• The little girl spotted Wei He through his gate, and he seized her, dragged her inside, and killed her.

Demons across Ningzhou received Yun Si’s order to find Xue Dong and Lu Jiu in exchange for a free blood meal, while Wei He hunted demons to study the source of their power. His research revealed that demon power came from the heart, and information from captured demons showed that Great Yue was fractured by warlords, foreign influence, and a fragile balance with demon forces.

• A white squirrel delivered Yun Si’s bounty order to demons feasting on corpses outside Ningzhou, prompting demons throughout the city and beyond to search for Xue Dong and Lu Jiu.
• Wei He studied a dead demon and concluded that dissection alone revealed little about what distinguished demons from humans.
• Wei He swiftly rescued a young woman from a bull-headed demon and snatched a lantern-bearing demon away from a richly dressed young master.
• Wei He captured more than a dozen low-ranking demons and discovered that their hearts were the source of their demon power.
• Wei He considered adapting the Three Hearts Art to obtain demon power, but worried that doing so might force him to eat people.
• Two captured wandering demons told Wei He that Great Yue’s warlords fought for power, made concessions to foreign powers, and remained in a precarious balance with demon forces.

Wei He identified dark green Demon Factors in demons and experimented with implanting them into animals, then decided to seek intelligence from Ningzhou’s military leaders. Meanwhile, Zhong Jiuguan introduced Master Mifang to the Marshal, unaware that Mifang was preparing to flee.

• Wei He entered the Pain Wind layer of the True Realm and found dark green points concentrated around a demon corpse’s heart and blood vessels, which he named Demon Factor.
• Wei He implanted Demon Factor into rabbits and observed that it caused physical changes, stronger appetites for meat, and increased strength and speed.
• Wei He discovered that different Demon Factors could impart their source demons’ traits and influence an animal’s mind, so he considered adapting the Three Hearts Art to demons.
• Wei He decided to seek demon intelligence from Ningzhou’s military leaders and set out for the Marshal’s Mansion.
• Zhong Jiuguan gave Master Mifang Gold Yuan and asked him to visit the Marshal and Madam Yun Si, while Mifang accepted the offer and planned to flee afterward.

Wei He infiltrated the Marshal's Mansion to meet Chen Youguang and secure his cooperation in capturing demons for research. Yun Si sensed danger and fled before Wei He entered the reception room, where he approached Chen Youguang.

• Chen Youguang and Yun Si discussed keeping Master Mifang and finding Xue Dong, then set out to meet him.
• Yun Si's precognition warned her of danger, so she claimed to feel unwell and left the mansion in a car.
• Wei He watched the Marshal's Mansion, studied its defenses, and decided to recruit its warlord chief as a partner.
• Wei He slipped over the wall, persuaded a maid to lead him to the front hall, and noticed Yun Si's car driving away.
• Wei He entered the reception room, identified Chen Youguang among the guests, and walked toward him.