Chapter Summaries

After the trade fair, Wei Suo parted from True Person Black Wolf and Lu Qi and left with Nangong Yuqing. As they discussed True Person Bliss and their reunion, Wei Suo sensed someone behind them before he could explain how he had gained his cultivation.

• Wei Suo failed to trade for a spiritual medicine to complete his water spiritual root and did not seek a spiritual sense attack technique.
• Wei Suo exchanged a jade talisman with True Person Black Wolf and Lu Qi before departing Bliss Palace with Nangong Yuqing.
• Black Wolf and Lu Qi discussed Wei Suo’s character and agreed they had parted from him to avoid becoming a burden if his enemies attacked.
• Wei Suo asked Nangong Yuqing whether True Person Bliss might pursue them, and she explained the truth behind the rumor of his cruel punishment.
• Wei Suo teased Nangong Yuqing about soaking in a hot spring together, but paused when he sensed someone behind them.

While fleeing with Nangong Yuqing, Wei Suo discovered that True Person Fahua was following them and heard his invitation to explore an ancient sect’s mountain-gate ruins. Wei Suo refused until Fahua revealed that Li Ruohai had news about the Qingxu Vine Wei Suo sought.

• Wei Suo switched to the Pure Flower Flying Lotus, gave Nangong Yuqing an Invisibility Magic Robe, and waited in hiding for the cultivators pursuing them.
• Wei Suo recognized the pursuer as Cai Kui, also known as True Person Fahua, and chose to meet him.
• True Person Fahua invited Wei Suo to explore an ancient sect’s mountain-gate ruins, but Wei Suo declined because he had other plans and did not trust him.
• As Wei Suo prepared to leave, True Person Fahua said Li Ruohai had sent word that he knew news about the Qingxu Vine Wei Suo was seeking.
• True Person Fahua revealed that Li Ruohai, Qi Longwang, and Qing Ping were waiting together.

Wei Suo met Li Ruohai and his companions, who invited him to explore Qingcheng Ruins and offered information about the Qingxu Vine he needed. He learned that their target was guarded by a powerful Demon Deer Woman, and the group explained why they needed his abilities.

• Wei Suo agreed to let the bald yellow-robed cultivator signal Li Ruohai’s party, while keeping him within fifty zhang and forbidding him from releasing magic artifacts.
• Li Ruohai, Qi Longshan, and Qing Ping arrived, and Wei Suo asked whether their invitation and their information about the Qingxu Vine were genuine.
• Li Ruohai confirmed that the group wanted Wei Suo’s help exploring an ancient ruin and knew where the Qingxu Vine grew, though not who possessed it.
• Li Ruohai revealed that the ruin was Qingcheng Ruins, and Qi Longshan explained that the group had explored part of it before and had an ancient map.
• Li Ruohai said Wei Suo’s top-grade Guardian Ancient Talisman could help the party travel safely through the ruin’s arrays and save time on the journey.
• Li Ruohai explained that a twice-advanced Demon Deer Woman occupied their target area and that its demonic sound could overwhelm ordinary cultivators’ divine senses.

Wei Suo agreed to join Li Ruohai and the others in exploring the Qingcheng Ruins, negotiating help for his Yang Zhi Bird and a beast-controlling technique in return. Li Ruohai warned that the Heaven’s Dome was weakening more severely than expected, leaving the group to prepare for the worst as they awaited Wei Suo.

• Qi Longshan explained that the evolved Level 8 Demon Deer Woman guarding the ruins could only be defeated with a cultivator who could withstand its demonic sound, and Wei Suo negotiated for a share of the expedition’s benefits.
• Wei Suo asked Li Ruohai to help his Yang Zhi Bird reform its demon core and teach him a technique for controlling up to three demon beasts; Li Ruohai agreed to provide both.
• Wei Suo agreed to meet the group at the Spirit Beast Palace in three days, after the bird recovered, and then flew away to prepare.
• Li Ruohai and the others discussed the turmoil in the north and decided the worsening Heaven’s Dome made their trip to the Qingcheng Ruins more urgent.
• Li Ruohai revealed that the North Bright Sect had produced a Divine Profound Realm cultivator decades earlier, and the group realized the Heaven’s Dome might be near a critical crisis.

Wei Suo and Nangong Yuqing discussed their reunion, his relationship with Ji Ya, and whether Nangong Yuqing would become his Dao companion. As the Pure Flower Flying Lotus continued toward Myriad Pill Mountain, Wei Suo prepared to tell her how he had gained his cultivation and introduced a cursing voice from a pitch-black object.

• Wei Suo told Nangong Yuqing that they were heading to Myriad Pill Mountain to visit his friends before returning to his base in Myriad Longevity City.
• Nangong Yuqing explained that she had heard rumors about Wei Suo and had used her communication jade talisman in hopes of reaching him.
• Wei Suo asked Nangong Yuqing to become his Dao companion, and she agreed to consider their bond on the condition that he remain sincere toward her.
• Nangong Yuqing explained how she had become True Person Bliss's disciple and demonstrated the deceptive Blissful Treasure Birth Light spell.
• Nangong Yuqing asked Wei Suo how he had gained his Golden Core cultivation, and Wei Suo brought out a pitch-black object whose occupant cursed him.

Wei Suo shared Heaven Mending Pills with his trusted friends to help them strengthen their Divine Seas and prepare for Golden Core cultivation. After deciding to investigate the Heavenly Dome’s condition while traveling toward the Qingcheng Ruins, he was left with Ji Ya and Nangong Yuqing as Ji Ya asked to speak with Nangong Yuqing alone about becoming Wei Suo’s Dao companion.

• Wei Suo clarified that Feng Zhiyou, Zhang Zhouyu, and Shi Changqing were trusted friends, then ordered Zhen Chongming to include them and Nangong Yuqing in the Heaven Mending Pills he refined.
• Zhang Zhouyu, Feng Zhiyou, and Shi Changqing took Heaven Mending Pills and learned they could expand the Divine Sea; Wei Suo explained their benefits and the need to remove medicinal residue before forming Golden Cores.
• Wei Suo decided to travel toward the Qingcheng Ruins with Li Ruohai and use the journey to learn what was happening to the Heavenly Dome, while Ji Ya arranged for Zhu Xiaochun to prepare more Immortal Exterminating Vine medicinal liquid.
• Ji Ya sent Han Weiwei away and spoke privately with Nangong Yuqing, asking her to become Wei Suo’s Dao companion and saying she had important reasons for the request.
• When Nangong Yuqing asked about those reasons, Ji Ya sent Wei Suo away too so she could explain them privately.

Wei Suo learned that Nangong Yuqing had inherited her mother's rare Mysterious Cauldron constitution and that she had come to become his cultivation partner before his dangerous journey to Qingcheng Ruins. He used the Kui Water Bamboo and Black Water Lotus to make a warm water orb, then took Nangong Yuqing into it for their hot spring together.

• Nangong Yuqing told Wei Suo that her parents had eloped from Luojiao City and that she had inherited her mother's Mysterious Cauldron constitution.
• The Green Robe Old Man urged Wei Suo to cultivate with Nangong Yuqing and reminded him that the Yang-boosting Ganoderma could benefit them during dual cultivation.
• Nangong Yuqing admitted she had come to become Wei Suo's true cultivation partner before his dangerous trip to Qingcheng Ruins.
• Wei Suo refined the Kui Water Bamboo into a huge orb of warm water and used the Black Water Lotus to hold it.
• Wei Suo set the Black Nether Bone Lord to guard the door and entered the water orb with Nangong Yuqing.

Wei Suo and Nangong Yuqing practiced the Mysterious Fiend Great Method, and he discovered that her constitution could nourish and strengthen his golden core. After Nangong Yuqing became too exhausted to continue, she brought Ji Ya to Wei Suo so he could refine the Yang-boosting Ganoderma with her instead.

• Wei Suo and Nangong Yuqing joined their yin and yang essences to cultivate the Mysterious Fiend Great Method.
• Wei Suo sensed Nangong Yuqing's spiritual energy healing the damage to his golden core and realized her constitution could nourish it.
• Nangong Yuqing stopped their cultivation when she became too weak to continue, and she went to put on her robes.
• Nangong Yuqing brought Ji Ya into the quiet chamber and told her to help Wei Suo refine the remaining medicinal power of the Yang-boosting Ganoderma.
• Wei Suo embraced Ji Ya, and she went limp with embarrassment as Nangong Yuqing's teasing voice faded outside.

Wei Suo and Ji Ya’s dual cultivation strengthened Wei Suo’s Profound Fiend Ghost Claw, while his Black Water Lotus absorbed the remaining water spiritual qi and grew more powerful. Ji Ya left to cultivate in seclusion, and Wei Suo began training the Heavenly Dragon Star Body Tempering Technique before his journey to the Qingcheng Ruins and the Vast Desolate Plains of the Sky Vault.

• Wei Suo discovered that dual cultivation had greatly increased his Profound Fiend Yin Qi and transformed his Profound Fiend Ghost Claw into a Dao Tier Mid-grade-level attack.
• Wei Suo and Ji Ya examined their techniques, and Ji Ya’s Cold Pill showed weaker changes because Wei Suo had also cultivated with Nangong Yuqing.
• Ji Ya urged Wei Suo to be careful on his upcoming journey, and Wei Suo promised to return before they spent more time together.
• Wei Suo refined the remaining materials, allowing the Black Water Lotus to absorb their water spiritual qi and surpass Dao Tier Mid-grade power.
• Ji Ya left to cultivate in seclusion, and Wei Suo began cultivating the Heavenly Dragon Star Body Tempering Technique.

Wei Suo cultivated the Heavenly Dragon Star Body Tempering Technique for more than two days and found that it had already greatly strengthened his body. He went to meet Li Ruohai and the others for their journey, where he spotted Xin Youlan outside the Spirit Beast Palace.

• Wei Suo stopped cultivating when the Green Robe Old Man warned him that it was nearly time for his appointment with Li Ruohai and the others.
• Wei Suo tested his newfound physical strength and discovered that his strength and vitality had nearly doubled after just over two days of cultivation.
• Wei Suo left his residence and headed to the Spirit Beast Palace, while Li Ruohai and the others decided to meet him outside after a silver monkey reported his arrival.
• Li Ruohai, Qi Longshan, Qing Ping, and True Person Fahua left the hall to meet Wei Suo, with Qing Ping reminding Qi Longshan to treat him courteously.
• Wei Suo waited outside the Spirit Beast Palace's restricted zone and recognized Xin Youlan riding a Water Patterned Green Ox, then looked her over.

Wei Suo teased Xin Youlan outside the Spirit Beast Palace while waiting for Li Ruohai, then prepared to travel with Li Ruohai and the other Golden Core cultivators. After Wei Suo gave Xin Youlan a High-grade Spirit Artifact and Human-faced Ice Spider hide, she realized he might be the cultivator she had met years ago.

• Wei Suo openly stared at Xin Youlan and joked about paying her for her services, angering her into preparing to attack him.
• Wei Suo claimed Li Ruohai would come out to meet him, and Li Ruohai soon appeared with Qi Longshan, Qingping, and True Person Fahua.
• Wei Suo joked about marrying Xin Youlan, then explained that she reminded him of a fellow Daoist who had once offered to take him as a disciple.
• Li Ruohai and the others took pills to conceal their identities, and Wei Suo agreed to set out with them for Taisu City.
• Wei Suo gave Xin Youlan a High-grade Spirit Artifact bracelet and Human-faced Ice Spider hide before departing with Li Ruohai and the others.
• Xin Youlan recognized the hide and recalled the fellow Daoist who had offered to take Wei Suo as a disciple, realizing he might be that person.

Wei Suo and his companions learned that a third rift had opened in the sky vault, outside Huangdao City, and decided to investigate it. After reaching Guizhen City, they witnessed strange insects destroy the Teleportation Array and hurried toward the wreckage.

• A crimson-robed elder at Four Symbols City’s Teleportation Array ordered cultivators of Mind Splitting Realm Third Level or higher to go first, threatening anyone who caused trouble.
• Wei Suo, Li Ruohai, Qi Longshan, Qing Ping, and True Person Fahua heard that a third sky vault rift had opened outside Huangdao City and chose to investigate it.
• Li Ruohai used his spiritual pressure to get the group passage through the crowded array, and they transferred to Guizhen City.
• Wei Suo and his companions arrived in Guizhen City and saw True Person Yuchi of the Guizhen Sect reach the Teleportation Array leading to Huangdao City.
• Strange insects destroyed the array shortly after True Person Yuchi arrived, and Wei Suo and the others flew toward it.

Wei Suo and his companions encountered a swarm of more than ten thousand Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures attacking a cultivator from the Illusion Beast Sect. They joined the battle to rescue Yu Buji and began cutting down the beasts, with Wei Suo collecting their corpses as the fight continued.

• Wei Suo spotted a vast mass approaching and led the group toward it to investigate.
• The group discovered that a gale packed with Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures was besieging a cultivator wielding a Bewildering Beast Horn.
• Li Ruohai called out to the trapped cultivator, and Yu Buji identified himself as a member of the Illusion Beast Sect.
• Li Ruohai and True Person Fahua raised defensive treasures while Wei Suo released the Black Nether Bone Lord and attacked with his golden lightning treasure and Door-plank Flying Sword.
• Wei Suo used the Profound Fiend Ghost Claw to retrieve the vultures he killed, quickly collecting more than ten.

Wei Suo and his companions fought through a horde of Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures and rescued Yu Buji, who reported that Huangdao City was likely lost after the Sky Vault Rift remained open. The group continued toward Huangdao City, while Wei Suo collected the slain beasts to feed his Heart Devouring Worm.

• Wei Suo, Li Ruohai, True Person Fahua, Qi Longshan, and Qing Ping killed the Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures attacking the Li Huo Boat.
• The group reached Yu Buji, who entered the boat and introduced himself as the third disciple of Illusion Beast Sect Master Li Yuanqi.
• Yu Buji told Li Ruohai that Huangdao City was surrounded by a vast demonic-beast horde and could not be held, and said the North Bright Sect had warned that the Sky Vault might split again.
• Wei Suo explained that the Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures could nurture his Heart Devouring Worm, and Qi Longshan, Qing Ping, True Person Fahua, and Li Ruohai gave him the beasts they killed.

Wei Suo and his companions reached Huangdao City and found it overrun by a vast demon-beast tide while the city’s protective barrier weakened. They entered the battle and aimed for three mature Emperor Black Flood Dragons, but spotted dozens of Fire Feather Cloud Cranes rampaging through the city as another threat.

• Wei Suo collected more than four thousand Wind Emperor Four-Legged Vultures before the surviving beasts scattered, then continued toward Huangdao City with his companions and Yu Buji.
• Wei Suo and the others saw that Huangdao City was surrounded by countless demon beasts and that the Huangdao Sect’s barrier was under heavy assault.
• Li Ruohai left Yu Buji outside the battlefield, and Wei Suo noticed three mid-stage Level Seven Emperor Black Flood Dragons above the barrier.
• Qi Longshan proposed killing the three Emperor Black Flood Dragons, and Wei Suo and True Person Fahua agreed as the Li Huo Boat charged into the battle.
• Wei Suo and his companions fought through the demon beasts toward the dragons, then saw at least seventy or eighty Fire Feather Cloud Cranes rampaging through Huangdao City.

Wei Suo and Li Ruohai’s group fought through the Fire Feather Cloud Cranes, but Li Ruohai’s powerful spirit beasts and their attacks proved only a prelude to a greater danger. The Ancient White Marsh and an Emperor Black Flood Dragon appeared, leaving the group facing two terrifying threats.

• Wei Suo attacked the Fire Feather Cloud Cranes with the Rolling River Scroll and Profound Fiend Ghost Claw, killing three while the others charged back.
• Li Ruohai released a Heavenly Frost Snow Centipede, a mutated Wolf-headed Bat, and an Extreme Heaven Ice Phoenix, which helped the group kill more than twenty cranes.
• Wei Suo sensed a dangerous presence and saw an enormous white-furred Ancient White Marsh entering Huangdao City, while its disease-carrying fleas killed nearby cultivators.
• Li Ruohai identified the Ancient White Marsh as a Level 8 Low Grade beast and warned that its miasma could infect cultivators and taint their magic treasures.
• Wei Suo looked up as an enormous shadow descended and recognized an Emperor Black Flood Dragon.

Wei Suo and his allies were caught between several powerful demonic beasts, and the Ancient White Marsh’s miasma separated him from the others. The Level Eight beast singled Wei Suo out and attacked him, leaving him to face it alone.

• The Emperor Black Flood Dragon and an Earth-Origin Skin Mound attacked the Li Huo Boat, so Wei Suo put it away after the boat’s barrier shattered.
• Li Ruohai identified the Earth-Origin Skin Mound and warned the group about its yellow radiance and the Ancient White Marsh’s miasma.
• Wei Suo dodged the Ancient White Marsh’s spreading miasma torrents, which blocked his spiritual sense and separated him from Li Ruohai and the others.
• Wei Suo used Primordial Fierce Fire and the Rolling River Scroll to burn back and repel the miasma, but the Ancient White Marsh emerged from a vortex and fixed its attention on him.
• Unable to reach Li Ruohai amid the surrounding battles, Wei Suo tried to persuade the Ancient White Marsh to leave him alone and prepared to flee, but it struck at him with a white pillar of light.

Wei Suo used an Annihilation Golden Core to gravely wound Ancient White Marsh, then attacked while the Level Eight beast was weakened. Before he could finish it off, a powerful Black Tortoise-shaped flying treasure appeared and seized the beast with a golden hand.

• Ancient White Marsh drew Wei Suo toward its mouth with white miasma, but Wei Suo endured the miasma and detonated an Annihilation Golden Core beside its head.
• Wei Suo glimpsed Li Ruohai and the white tiger fighting Emperor Black Flood Dragons through the dispersing miasma.
• Ancient White Marsh survived the blast by covering its shattered head with giant fleas, and Wei Suo attacked it with the Rolling River Scroll, the Black Nether Bone Lord, and Primordial Fierce Fire.
• Ancient White Marsh used its demon core to shatter Wei Suo's attacks, but the exchange left it gravely weakened.
• A Black Tortoise-shaped flying magic treasure arrived above Huangdao City and used a giant golden hand to seize Ancient White Marsh.

True Person Xuanwu and Xu Qianhuan pursued Wei Suo after he escaped into the miasma, while Xu Qianhuan demonstrated overwhelming power by killing and collecting several high-level demonic beasts. Wei Suo fled far from Huangdao City, but True Person Xuanwu continued closing in behind him.

• Xu Qianhuan spotted Wei Suo’s transparent escape trail and directed True Person Xuanwu to pursue him.
• Li Ruohai used a small yellow demonic beast to kill an Emperor Black Flood Dragon and collected its corpse and demon core.
• Xu Qianhuan killed and collected another Emperor Black Flood Dragon and a giant earth-element demonic beast while Qi Longshan, Qing Ping, and True Person Fahua fought nearby.
• Xu Qianhuan caught and collected the teleporting silver bat-like demonic beast with his powerful magic treasure and ice spell.
• Wei Suo flew away from Huangdao City on the Li Huo Boat, but True Person Xuanwu’s black tortoise-shaped flying treasure stayed close and began catching up.

Wei Suo lured True Person Xuanwu away from Huangdao City and fought him in a remote valley, where Xuanwu’s lightning formation and powerful attacks kept him at bay. Wei Suo forced his way close enough to unleash the Annihilation Golden Core, but True Person Xuanwu anticipated the attack and pierced Wei Suo with his Sword Qi.

• Wei Suo used ice spells, talismans, and the Law King Butterfly to slow True Person Xuanwu while fleeing from Huangdao City.
• Wei Suo provoked True Person Xuanwu into allowing him to flee three thousand li, then descended into a mountain valley before reaching that distance.
• Wei Suo lied that he was the North Bright Sect leader’s disciple and launched a surprise attack, but True Person Xuanwu blocked it with his giant turtle artifact.
• True Person Xuanwu scattered lightning spheres to form a formation that restrained Wei Suo and attacked him with his Golden Core, bronze ship, and Sword Qi.
• Wei Suo broke through True Person Xuanwu’s attacks at the cost of his own defenses and brought out the Annihilation Golden Core.
• True Person Xuanwu anticipated the Annihilation Golden Core’s activation and pierced Wei Suo’s Earth-Yellow Spiritual Light Barrier and body with dark golden Sword Qi.