Chapter Summaries

Wei He overwhelmed the Demon Alliance’s Great Demons in Elm Street, then survived a planned bombardment that leveled the district. He killed the Tree Dragon and identified himself as the Xuanmiao Sect Daoist Son, Wei He.

• Wei He dodged the Tree Dragon and Horse King, then struck the nearby demons with six compressed air shockwaves.
• The Tree Dragon crashed through the formation surrounding Elm Street, revealing Wei He to Liu Xinyan, Yuan Qing, Liu Ning'an, and the Demon Extermination Squad.
• Li Fan's garrison bombarded Elm Street, triggering buried explosives and engulfing the district in a chain of explosions.
• Wei He walked unharmed through the flames, while the Tree Dragon knelt in despair.
• The Tree Dragon challenged Wei He and was killed by his finger strikes; Wei He gave his name as the Xuanmiao Sect Daoist Son.

Wei He destroyed much of Li Fan’s artillery regiment after it bombarded Elm Street, then spared the surviving soldiers when Li Fan explained they had been manipulated by demons. Liu Xinyan recognized Wei He as her long-lost master, revealed herself as Liu Chengxi, and broke down in his arms.

• Wei He rushed to the artillery regiment and killed or injured many soldiers and destroyed its cannons before Li Fan asked him to spare the coerced troops.
• Wei He lowered the surviving artillerymen, demanded the responsible officer, and agreed to let the rest go when Li Fan said the commander had already been dealt with.
• Liu Xinyan arrived with Yuan Qing and Liu Ning'an, recognized Wei He, and called him her master.
• Liu Xinyan revealed that she was Liu Chengxi, Wei He's former disciple, and collapsed sobbing as he comforted her.
• Wei He apologized for arriving too late while Liu Chengxi wept over the losses and hardships she had endured.

Wei He reunited with the Demon Extermination Squad and helped eliminate the organized demons in Yuan Yue. After pursuing Zhong Ning, a human-sparing Great Demon, Wei He learned that Linzhou was ruled by powerful demon clans and that the Void Mist was weakening, possibly because it had clashed with true energy deep in the True Realm.

• Wei He told the Demon Extermination Squad that he had arrived and killed the demons who had attacked him, then led the squad in wiping out the remaining organized demon factions in Yuan Yue.
• Wei He pursued the fleeing Zhong Ning in the Yunmao Mountain Range, spared him, and asked him about Linzhou.
• Zhong Ning explained that he had refused to eat humans after falling in love with a human woman, and that he had intervened to protect the remaining Canine Demons from Wei He.
• Zhong Ning described Linzhou's Void Sea, the oppressive Deer, Tiger, and Sheep clans, and the Void Demons that threatened the region.
• Zhong Ning said the Void Realm had nine layers and that the Void Sea originated deep within the True Realm.
• Zhong Ning revealed that Void Demons and the rifts between Linzhou and Yuan Yue had sharply declined decades earlier, and that the Void Mist had continued weakening; Wei He considered whether it had clashed with true energy deep in the True Realm.

Wei He learned about Demon Kings and the dangers of Linzhou and the Void Sea, then focused on opening the Great Yue Imperial Tomb to find powerful allies and a future for True Martial practitioners. After assembling a sealed True Qi buffer around the tomb entrance, he ordered one final inspection before opening it.

• Wei He questioned Zhong Ning about Demon Kings and the Void Sea, and Zhong Ning warned him that demon arts grew stronger in Linzhou and near the Void Sea.
• Wei He spared Zhong Ning, planned to add him to the Demon Race whitelist, and decided to prioritize opening the Great Yue Imperial Tomb and finding a path for ordinary people like Liu Chengxi.
• Half a month later, Wei He gathered manpower and demon conversion organs to build a sealed True Qi buffer around the imperial tomb entrance, while the Demon Extermination Squad became the Xuanmiao Sect.
• Wei He prepared to open the tomb, hoping to reunite with Li Rong, as Liu Xinyan resumed her original name, Liu Chengxi, and Yao Chenghui and Yao Jun attended.
• After Liu Ning'an reported that the preparations were complete, Wei He ordered the workers to inspect every gap once more before opening the tomb.

Wei He opened the imperial mausoleum to find Great Yue’s people missing, then searched its halls and the True World for clues. In the Pain Wind layer, he discovered signs of a struggle and a distortion in the air.

• Wei He broke open the mausoleum’s stone gate and entered as Void Mist rushed through the doorway.
• Wei He found an imperial clan member’s skeleton in the first hall, but no sign of the Great Yue Emperor or anyone else.
• Wei He searched nine large halls and more than a dozen smaller ones, finding no living people or bodies.
• Wei He entered the True World layers and found no traces in the first layer, faint disorder in the second, and bloodstains and signs of struggle in the third.
• Wei He noticed a transparent, twisting presence in the center of the Pain Wind hall and moved closer to inspect it.

Wei He searched the imperial mausoleum for Li Rong and found a note suggesting she and other survivors had entered a passage to a deeper layer of the True World. After studying the passage effigy, he followed a lead to Yuan Du Zi’s traces and concluded she had headed toward Linzhou.

• Wei He found a transparent effigy made from the fused bodies of Great Moon experts, but he found no trace of Li Rong, Sima Ling, or Ling Chongyan.
• Wei He discovered a hidden letter explaining that a mysterious man had used the effigy to open a passage into a deeper layer of the True World, and survivors had entered it.
• Wei He preserved the dissolving effigy and researched it, discovering that its wax-like material could preserve souls, though the faces within it were empty shells.
• Liu Chengxi reported suspected traces of Yuan Du Zi’s true body, and Wei He rushed to Zhushan to investigate.
• Wei He examined a massive claw print on Spirit-Controlling Peak and inferred that an injured Yuan Du Zi had traveled toward Linzhou.

Wei He found Yuan Du Zi’s claw marks near Linzhou and decided he needed greater strength before pursuing her trail. After two years of research, he discovered a promising way to use spiritual power and the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to control cancer cells and grow organs, potentially removing the limits on pure Primal Blood martial arts.

• Wei He identified the claw marks as Yuan Du Zi’s and told Liu Chengxi to report any others they found.
• Wei He concluded he needed to advance toward the Grandmaster level before searching deeper True World layers or risking a journey to Linzhou.
• In January 1843, Wei He conducted experiments at Min Mountain while researching how cancer cells could overcome the limits on cell division.
• Wei He used spiritual power and the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to produce tissue samples that grew into designated organs.
• Wei He celebrated the results as a promising first step toward removing the upper limit on pure Primal Blood martial arts.

Wei He learned that Spirit Demons in Linzhou could teach him to develop Spiritual Power, which he needed to pursue his own path to Grandmaster. After arranging for Liu Chengxi and the others to protect Xuanmiao Sect and the Demon Extermination Squad, he left for Linzhou and reached the Misty Mountain Range at its border.

• Wei He learned from Ge Enla that Spirit Demons, especially the Spirit Clan in Linzhou, possessed powerful Spiritual Power.
• Wei He assigned Liu Chengxi responsibility for the transformed tissue and Xuanmiao Sect’s inheritance, and told her to preserve lives if he failed to return.
• Wei He gathered information about Linzhou and reduced the Demon Extermination Squad’s presence to help it withdraw from the struggle for power.
• Wei He visited his descendants at Wei Mansion, then departed quietly for Linzhou.
• Wei He reached the Misty Mountain Range, identified it as the border to Linzhou, and headed into the mountains.

Wei He entered Linzhou to investigate the Spirit Race’s spirit-power cultivation and infiltrated it by taking the identity of Yan Yuxin, a Spirit-Severed man who had drowned. The chapter ended with Yan Ziyou finding him, while Wei He prepared to pretend he had lost his memory.

• Wei He encountered a translucent Void Demon leopard, killed it, and watched its body vanish without entering the True World.
• Wei He chose to conceal his identity in Linzhou and investigate the Spirit Race rather than challenge its demon clans openly.
• Yan Ziyou and Zhou Han searched for Yan Yuxin, who had disappeared after his arranged engagement was rejected.
• Wei He used the Three Hearts Art to take Yan Yuxin’s heart and assume his identity, relying on their shared Spirit-Severed Physique.
• Two Spirit Demons found Wei He floating unconscious in a river, and Yan Ziyou recognized him as her missing brother.

Wei He entered Lingyun City disguised as Yan Yuxin and used his supposed amnesia to conceal his identity from the Yan family. After learning about the Spirit Race and its city, he discovered that Yan Yuxin’s Spirit-Severed Physique blocked the inheritance ceremony he had come to use, but he found a possible way to awaken spiritual power anyway.

• Yan Ziyou and Zhou Han rescued Wei He from the water, and Wei He pretended to have lost his memory.
• Yan Ziyou brought Wei He to the Yan Residence, where Yan Chiyu welcomed him and a doctor found him healthy.
• Spirit Race inspectors checked Wei He for possession and verified that he was Yan Yuxin, easing Yan Chiyu and Yan Ziyou’s worries.
• Wei He read the Yan family’s books and learned about Lingyun City, the Spirit Pagodas, and the Spirit Race’s ruling families.
• Wei He realized Yan Yuxin’s Spirit-Severed Physique prevented him from performing the inheritance ceremony, then found a method that might forcibly awaken spiritual power.

Wei He asked the Yan family to arrange a Spirit Awakening Ritual, then searched Lingyun City for records that might reveal where Yuan Du Zi had gone. He found a possible clue in an account of a giant demon entering the Void Sea, and left the bookstore after poisoning Situ Han and Xue Yixuan.

• Wei He told Yan Chiyu and Yan Ziyou that he wanted to undergo the Spirit Awakening Ritual, and Yan Chiyu agreed to prepare it.
• Wei He visited Thousand Words Bookstore and found a record from Void Sea Calendar 11513 describing a giant demon that flew into the Void Sea.
• Situ Han recognized Wei He as Yan Yuxin, mocked him over his failed engagement to Xue Yixuan, and left the bookstore coughing after Wei He poisoned him.
• Wei He saw Xue Yixuan and her sister outside the bookstore, attached poisonous smoke to Xue Yixuan, and headed back to the Yan Residence.

Wei He searched for information about Demon King Bai Ling and continued scouting Lingyun City while awaiting a Spirit Awakening Ritual. Yan Ziyou grew alarmed by Yan Yuxin’s changed behavior, and Yan Chiyu discovered the ritual’s cost exceeded the Yan Family’s available funds.

• Wei He found a hidden account identifying Demon King Bai Ling as a legendary Deer Tribe figure and learned from Yan Ziyou that little was known about him.
• Yan Ziyou sensed that Yan Yuxin’s gentle manner felt unfamiliar and dangerous, and she worried that his personality had changed too much after losing his memories.
• Yan Chiyu told Yan Ziyou he would apply for a Spirit Awakening Ritual and mentioned that Xue Yixuan had fallen seriously ill.
• Wei He finished scouting Lingyun City and avoided drawing the attention of the Spirit Arts Towers as he waited for the ritual.
• At the Third Spirit Arts Tower, Yan Chiyu learned the ritual would cost 210,000 Spirit Yuan, more than the Yan Family could afford, and offered his Spirit Mark Card.

Yan Chiyu used his Spirit Mark Card to secure Wei He a Spirit Awakening Ritual, which Wei He completed at the Third Spirit Arts Tower. Meanwhile, Lu Gan tracked a Mutated Martial Artist from Yuanyue to Lingyun City and sought information for Demon King Bai Ling, who remained focused on the giant demon he had once fought.

• Yan Chiyu gave up his remaining medicinal-ingredient claims to obtain an application voucher for Wei He's Spirit Awakening Ritual.
• Yan Chiyu told Wei He and Yan Ziyou that Wei He could undergo the ritual the next day, and Wei He accepted the voucher.
• Yan Chiyu and Yan Ziyou accompanied Wei He to the Third Spirit Arts Tower, where a gray-robed man began the ritual.
• Wei He let the formation's demon power strike a tiny thread of his consciousness until it gained a trace of spirit power.
• Lu Gan reported to Bai Ling that a Mutated Martial Artist from Yuanyue had entered Linzhou and left faint radiation traces leading toward Lingyun City.
• Bai Ling told Lu Gan to return once he had found the Mutated Martial Artist, then recalled his battle with the giant demon.

Wei He completed the Yan family's spirit-power inheritance ritual, giving him the knowledge he sought and bringing his preparations in Lingyun City to a close. Meanwhile, Lin Yuanxiu learned a Mutated Martial Artist had entered the city and ordered a hunt, while Wei He began planning how to repay the Yan family before acting on his own plan.

• Yan Chiyu prepared the inheritance ritual while Yan Ziyou and Ade guarded the rear courtyard, and Wei He agreed to receive the family's incomplete inheritance.
• Yan Chiyu passed the inheritance to Wei He, who opened his eyes less than two minutes later and claimed he had digested only a small portion.
• Three Black Deer Tribe envoys told Lin Yuanxiu that a Mutated Martial Artist had entered Lingyun City, and Lin Yuanxiu confirmed the radiation trail in their black metal box.
• Lin Yuanxiu ordered his forces to investigate every Spirit-Severed Physique, while an envoy offered to use the Grand Elder's demon art to track the target.
• Wei He rose after the ritual, resolved to carry out his plan, and decided to repay Yan Chiyu and Yan Ziyou for their help.

Wei He revealed himself as an impostor, attacked the Yan family and Spirit Arts Tower inspectors, and fled to seize the Light Spirit Seed from Lingyun City’s spirit arts repository. As powerful spirit race forces surrounded him, they tried to hold him for five minutes until His Highness Bai Ling arrived.

• Yan Ziyou feared Wei He would do something reckless, but Wei He struck Yan Chiyu and revealed his true form when Spirit Arts Tower inspectors arrived.
• Wei He killed one inspector and broke through the inspectors’ spirit power cocoon with a Black Python before escaping the Yan Residence.
• Yan Chiyu survived and learned that the attacker was a monster from Yuanyue, while a cloaked figure located Wei He near the city’s spirit arts repository.
• Wei He took the Light Spirit Seed and destroyed a stone dragon attack with his Black Pythons.
• A horned man and powerful Great Spirit experts surrounded Wei He, planning to hold him until His Highness Bai Ling arrived from Luling.

Wei He defeated six of the seven Great Demons surrounding him, but Bai Ling arrived and wounded him with a lightning-fast trident strike. Recognizing Wei He's connection to Daoist Yuan Du, Bai Ling launched his Hundred Images Chaos God Strike, leaving Wei He facing a formidable attack.

• Bai Ling learned the Mutated Martial Artist's location and teleported toward Linzhou, confident he could defeat him.
• The Spirit Arts Tower Masters and seven Great Demons trapped Wei He with aerial, ground, and movement restraints, then attacked him together.
• Wei He shattered the demon arts, pulled the seven Great Demons into his Burning Heaven True Skill, and incapacitated six of them.
• Bai Ling appeared behind Wei He, struck him with his trident, and sent Qiong Lin retreating.
• Wei He recognized Bai Ling as the Demon King of Luling, and Bai Ling began his Hundred Images Chaos God Strike.

Wei He broke the Spirit Arts Towers’ suppression and fought Bai Ling at close range, pushing his awakened strength beyond three million jin. Bai Ling injured him with the broken trident and began unleashing his third face, Myriad Phenomena Spirit Extremes.

• Wei He secretly used Returning True Force and gravity to hurl three broken wall sections into the Spirit Arts Towers, destroying them and lifting their pressure on Lingyun City.
• Wei He healed his wounds and faced Bai Ling, who accelerated to four times the speed of sound and attacked him again.
• Wei He used Flowing Water Style to divert Bai Ling’s strike, seized him, and entered his Three-Bloodline Awakening state.
• Wei He combined True Blood and True Force, overpowered Bai Ling in close combat, and drove him into the ground with a barrage of punches.
• Bai Ling’s trident broke, but its tip pierced Wei He’s chest; Bai Ling then invoked his third face, Myriad Phenomena Spirit Extremes, and vanished in brilliant rainbow light.

Wei He fought Bai Ling, whose aurora form gave him overwhelming speed and power, while the Spirit Arts Tower Masters evacuated Lingyun City. Wei He finally slowed Bai Ling with a toxin hidden in his gravity net and pierced his chest, leaving their fight at a turning point.

• Lin Yuanxiu and Yao Zhongji ordered the evacuation of Lingyun City as Bai Ling’s aurora threatened the city.
• Bai Ling attacked Wei He at extreme speed, pierced one of his hearts, and repeatedly battered him through the city.
• Wei He released a gravity net to slow Bai Ling, but Bai Ling still struck him faster than he could react.
• Wei He revealed that the gravity net had also carried toxins, which finally slowed Bai Ling enough for Wei He to catch his hand.
• Wei He pierced Bai Ling’s chest and sent his hair into the wounds to destroy his internal organs.

Wei He and Bai Ling fought to a standstill after both unleashed their strongest attacks, leaving each severely injured. As Bai Ling withdrew with the Spirit Clan, Yan Chiyu concluded that Wei He was connected to his missing grandson and set out with Yan Ziyou to find Yan Yuxin.

• Bai Ling used his Aurora State to bombard Wei He, but Wei He endured the attacks and grew stronger through his Secret Method.
• Wei He charged Bai Ling, and their clash of physical power and the Great Demonic Art: Vacuum left both badly wounded.
• Wei He regenerated his missing arm, retreated to a lake to heal, and fed on a nearby demon while vowing to face Bai Ling again.
• Lin Yuanxiu and Qiong Lin arrived, and Bai Ling told them he was only slightly injured before disappearing in a flash of white light.
• Yan Chiyu recalled Wei He healing his old injuries and suspected that Wei He was connected to Yan Yuxin.
• Yan Chiyu told Yan Ziyou that Yan Yuxin was likely alive, then said he knew where to look for him.

Wei He met Bai Ling and agreed to explore the Void Sea together in search of Yuan Du Zi, learning that its deepest vortices lead to higher levels of the True World. After following Bai Ling’s map to the Void Sea, Wei He discovered that even its water was deadly.

• Wei He encountered Bai Ling, who offered to cooperate in finding Yuan Du Zi by exploring the Void Sea.
• Bai Ling explained that the Void Sea contained three vortices leading to higher True World levels, including the Suffocation Layer, and said Yuan Du Zi might have entered one.
• Wei He pressed Bai Ling about his supposed fight with Yuan Du Zi, learning that Bai Ling had followed her trail but failed to catch up.
• Bai Ling gave Wei He a map to their meeting point, and Wei He traveled toward the Void Sea’s edge.
• At the Void Sea, Wei He sensed dangerous Void Demons nearby and concealed his aura.
• Wei He touched the lake water, which burned his finger and left it charred.