Chapter Summaries

Wei Suo learned that the Yang Zhi Bird had comprehended a cultivation method that absorbed Solar True Fire, while the Heart Devouring Worm advanced and gained the ability to conceal its aura. At Fanying Mountain, Lin Taixu received a Heavenly Water Divine Talisman and began activating it as Xuanfeng Sect prepared to return.

• The Yang Zhi Bird told Wei Suo it could fuse its vital energy with Solar True Fire and use it to strengthen its demon core, astonishing Wei Suo with the advantages of its cultivation method.
• The Green Robe Old Man noticed that the Heart Devouring Worm had awakened and advanced, and Wei Suo explained that it could now conceal its aura.
• After feeding on parts of four Level Seven wind-element demonic beasts, the Heart Devouring Worm fell asleep again, and Wei Suo credited True Person Panlong for providing its food.
• A Golden Core Stage One Xuanfeng Sect disciple delivered the Heavenly Water Divine Talisman to Lin Taixu and relayed the Sect Master's order.
• Lin Taixu told the disciple to notify the others to prepare to return to the sect, then poured True Essence into the talisman as thunder rumbled over Fanying Mountain.

Lin Taixu activated a Heavenly Water Divine Talisman to expose the hidden female cultivator, whose Water Mother Sacred Body reacted uncontrollably to the rain it summoned. Wei Suo absorbed the escaping water spiritual Yuan Qi, giving her a glimmer of hope as Lin Taixu and Xu Qianhuan searched for her.

• Lin Taixu activated the Heavenly Water Divine Talisman and sent rain and water spiritual Yuan Qi across thousands of miles.
• Wei Suo sensed the storm underground, while the female cultivator's body began trembling as she lost control of her water spiritual Yuan Qi.
• The mysterious young man with the Kirin King Watermark sensed the vast water spiritual Yuan Qi from tens of thousands of miles away.
• Lin Taixu explained that the talisman was designed to expose the female cultivator, and Xu Qianhuan noted that the method would harm her.
• Wei Suo reached the female cultivator's chamber and used the Black Water Lotus and his body to absorb the water spiritual Yuan Qi escaping from her.
• The female cultivator saw Wei Suo absorb the Yuan Qi and regained a glimmer of hope.

Wei Suo absorbed the female cultivator’s surging water spiritual energy, advancing the Black Water Lotus and completing his water spiritual root while she regained control. Lin Taixu and Xu Qianhuan fled when an ancient white Heavenly Dragon arrived at Fanying Mountain, and the dragon departed after briefly observing Wei Suo and the female cultivator.

• The female cultivator’s water ribbons began breaking apart, and Wei Suo used his body, Black Water Lotus, and Rolling River Scroll to absorb the released water spiritual energy.
• After six ribbons shattered, the Black Water Lotus advanced, while Lin Taixu and Xu Qianhuan failed to locate the female cultivator with the Heavenly Water Divine Talisman.
• An ancient white Heavenly Dragon arrived at Fanying Mountain, forcing Lin Taixu and Xu Qianhuan to flee in the Xuanfeng Heavenly Palace.
• The eighth ribbon shattered, completing Wei Suo’s water spiritual root and allowing the female cultivator to regain control of her True Essence and water spiritual energy.
• The white Heavenly Dragon glanced toward Wei Suo and the female cultivator, then flew into the sky with the remaining rain following behind it.

Wei Suo gained his fifth spiritual root and agreed to guard Fellow Daoist Lan while she suppressed her unstable Golden Core. Meanwhile, the mysterious young man and Xu Qianhuan made plans to hunt Wei Suo, unaware that he was nearby.

• Wei Suo realized his five spiritual roots had transformed his acupoints and that he needed a Tíhú Sacred Fruit to cultivate the Five Secrets of Immortal Roots.
• Fellow Daoist Lan's Golden Core showed signs of collapse, so Wei Suo promised to guard her while she spent more than ten days suppressing it.
• Wei Suo began refining the Kongtong Dog skeletal remains into a Black Nether Bone Lord, with his existing Bone Lord and Yang Zhi Bird guarding the passage.
• The mysterious young man and the white Kirin sensed the Divine Water Palace's Weak Water and planned to find the person who had used it, unaware that Wei Suo was beneath them.
• Xu Qianhuan told Lin Taixu he would spread false news of danger to lure Wei Suo's Daoist companion out, while Lin Taixu agreed to guard the northern Teleportation Arrays.

Wei Suo discovered that the Heart Devouring Worm had evolved the ability to hover and glide, along with its earlier ability to conceal itself and its aura. He resumed refining the Kongtong Dog skeletal remains, and the chapter ended when a female cultivator finished suppressing her Golden Core and spoke to him.

• After thirteen days of refining the Kongtong Dog skeletal remains, Wei Suo noticed that the Heart Devouring Worm had awakened.
• Wei Suo tested the worm and found that it could hover and glide from heights above two or three zhang, though it could not fly on its own.
• Wei Suo decided the Yang Zhi Bird would carry the Heart Devouring Worm aloft for ambushes, and the bird protested.
• The Heart Devouring Worm showed that it retained its ability to turn invisible and conceal its aura, and Wei Suo fed it the remaining Level Seven Demonic Beasts before continuing his refinement.
• A day and a half later, a female cultivator thanked Wei Suo for standing guard and asked what he was refining as the Black Nether Bone Lord neared completion.

Wei Suo finished refining the Kongtong Dog skeletal remains into a powerful magic treasure and prepared to travel with Fellow Daoist Lan. After testing the treasure, the two left their underground refuge and headed back toward the surface.

• Wei Suo and Fellow Daoist Lan agreed to travel together, with Wei Suo taking her toward True Martial City after visiting North Luo City.
• Wei Suo completed refining the Kongtong Dog skeletal remains as the Heart Devouring Worm fell asleep again.
• Fellow Daoist Lan checked the area above and found no cultivators nearby, then joined Wei Suo in the quiet chamber.
• Wei Suo tested the Kongtong Dog's attack, and he and Fellow Daoist Lan judged its power to be Half-Profound grade.
• Wei Suo put away the Kongtong Dog, and he and Fellow Daoist Lan left the underground refuge.

A waxy-faced cultivator and his pockmarked companion learned that inspectors were checking cultivators returning near Gray Moth City and asked three locals to lend them their identities. After the locals revealed that Golden Kite True Person had captured their companion, the waxy-faced cultivator persuaded them to lead the way to Golden Kite Mountain, while they also mentioned a cultivator imprisoned by the True Martial Sect.

• A young cultivator found Three-leaf Small Spirit Grass while searching the wilderness with Uncle Chen and his companion.
• The waxy-faced cultivator and the pockmarked cultivator appeared and asked the three locals about recent events near Gray Moth City.
• The waxy-faced cultivator proposed borrowing the locals' identities to evade inspectors, but Uncle Chen explained that Golden Kite True Person had captured their companion and forced them to gather herbs.
• The waxy-faced cultivator offered to make Golden Kite True Person release the captive, and Uncle Chen agreed to take the two cultivators to Golden Kite Mountain.
• As Uncle Chen flew ahead on a bamboo-crane flight treasure, he told them that a great cultivator had been captured by the young master of the True Martial Sect and imprisoned at Ink Jade Ridge.

Wei Suo and Fellow Daoist Lan learned that Xu Qianhuan had spread news to lure Wei Suo’s companions toward Ink Jade Ridge, but Wei Suo insisted he had a plan and continued to Golden Kite Mountain. There, Wei Suo confronted one of Golden Kite True Person’s disciples and slapped him twice.

• The old man in yellow robes and two young cultivators told Wei Suo and Fellow Daoist Lan that Overbearing True Person had been captured and that most Teleportation Arrays in northern Tianxuan Continent had been shut down.
• Wei Suo and Fellow Daoist Lan concluded that Xu Qianhuan was using the rumors to draw Wei Suo’s companions and friends into a trap at Ink Jade Ridge.
• Fellow Daoist Lan offered to help wait near Ink Jade Ridge, but Wei Suo said they should continue to North Luo City and hinted that he had a plan.
• The old man in yellow robes led Wei Suo and Fellow Daoist Lan to Golden Kite Mountain, where Golden Kite True Person’s disciples were expected to appear.
• A vicious Sword Cultivator demanded the spiritual herbs from the old man, and Wei Suo challenged him before striking him with two slaps.

Wei Suo overwhelmed Golden Kite True Person and his disciples after learning that the yellow-robed old man’s companion had been killed. He killed the two disciples and began torturing Golden Kite True Person, leaving the old man and the two young men grieving and enraged.

• Wei Suo slapped and stomped the Shoe-Sole Face Cultivator until he fled into the forest.
• Golden Kite True Person arrived and challenged Wei Suo, who defeated and restrained him in a single exchange.
• Wei Suo forced Golden Kite True Person’s disciples from the forest and learned that the Hook-Nose Cultivator had killed their female companion after violating her.
• Wei Suo killed the Shoe-Sole Face Cultivator, then tortured Golden Kite True Person when he threatened him.
• Wei Suo killed the Hook-Nose Cultivator after rejecting his offer to reveal the cave residence’s treasures.

Wei Suo tortured Golden Kite True Person into revealing his possessions and techniques, then killed him and learned that the murdered female cultivator was Chen Shutong’s daughter. After arranging for Chen Shutong and the two young men to carry out a secret plan against Xu Qianhuan, Wei Suo and the disguised female cultivator headed toward North Luo City.

• Wei Suo stopped Golden Kite True Person from self-destructing and tortured him until he confessed the treasures, formations, and cultivation techniques he possessed.
• Wei Suo searched Golden Kite True Person’s cave residence, learned that his disciples had burned the female cultivator’s corpse, and killed him with the Blood-Eating Magic Saber.
• Wei Suo gave Chen Shutong and the two young men Golden Kite True Person’s recording talisman and a secret task, asking them to conceal the deaths and help counter Xu Qianhuan.
• The female cultivator transformed herself into Golden Kite True Person, while Wei Suo used a Disguise Pill to resemble Liu Yuanhao.
• The female cultivator asked what Wei Suo had instructed Chen Shutong to do, but Wei Suo kept the countermeasure secret as they flew toward North Luo City.

Wei Suo and the female cultivator traveled to North Luo City while evading Xuanfeng Sect inspections, then reached Ji Gu Xuan. A cultivator there recognized the female cultivator and remarked that she had arrived a day early.

• The female cultivator warned Wei Suo that Xuanfeng Sect elite disciples were patrolling, and Zhao Rufeng stopped them to question and record their identities.
• Wei Suo and the female cultivator passed another Xuanfeng Sect inspection and flew for two days to North Luo City.
• They saw that Green Poison Vines formed a natural barrier around North Luo City and entered through its northeastern gate.
• Wei Suo hired Lu Dexiu to guide them directly to Ji Gu Xuan instead of seeking lodging.
• A richly dressed cultivator emerged from Ji Gu Xuan, recognized the female cultivator, and said she had arrived a day early.

Wei Suo and the female cultivator impersonated Golden Kite True Person to collect a mysterious black wooden box from a disguised cultivator in North Luo City. After learning that a powerful sect was searching for the missing item, they left to find a secluded place and investigate it.

• A richly dressed cultivator led Wei Suo and the female cultivator to a residence and gave them a black wooden box containing a plain spherical object.
• When the female cultivator tried to store the box in her Treasure Pouch, the cultivator warned that Elder Li had said it could not be placed inside one.
• Wei Suo used a cyan shape-mimicking treasure to disguise the box as a sheathed flying sword.
• The cultivator warned that his sect would investigate the stolen item and arranged a cover story involving green copper essence and Wei Suo's black humanoid ancient treasure.
• Wei Suo and the female cultivator left with the disguised box, concluded that a powerful sect was involved, and asked Lu Dexiu to find them a secluded residence and another cultivator.

Wei Suo and the female cultivator settled into a secluded residence and hired Lu Dexiu and Sun Jin to prepare medicinal liquid. They examined the stolen blue stone sphere, which resisted spiritual sense and pressure, and ended with Wei Suo testing it with his black knife.

• Wei Suo accepted Lu Dexiu's offer of a secluded residence and brought Lu Dexiu and Sun Jin inside.
• Wei Suo paid Lu Dexiu and Sun Jin in High-grade Spirit Stones to prepare medicinal liquid indoors for thirty days.
• Wei Suo and the female cultivator went upstairs, opened the sealed black wooden box, and found a blue sphere that looked like ordinary stone.
• Wei Suo and the female cultivator could not probe the sphere with their spiritual senses, and the Yang Zhi Bird sensed a powerful aura from it.
• Wei Suo found that the sphere resisted his True Essence, then drew his black knife across its surface to test it.

Wei Suo and the female cultivator discovered that the azure stone sphere destroyed an Inscription Pattern Fine Gold dagger and sent its vitality into Wei Suo’s Golden Core, where it formed a motionless azure sphere. After the remaining crystal hurt Wei Suo’s spiritual sense when he probed it, they concealed it and left their residence in disguise, heading toward Ji Gu Xuan.

• Wei Suo’s Inscription Pattern Fine Gold dagger shattered while cutting the azure stone sphere, whose vitality then flowed into his Golden Core and formed an azure sphere inside it.
• The sphere’s outer layer vanished, leaving a date-shaped crystal that the Yang Zhi Bird said carried an aura similar to the Heavenly Dome.
• Wei Suo probed the crystal with his spiritual sense and suffered severe backlash, so he warned the others not to do the same.
• Wei Suo hung the crystal in a silk pouch against his chest, and he and the female cultivator changed their appearances.
• Wei Suo and the female cultivator left the residence and took a detour toward Ji Gu Xuan.

Wei Suo and his companion brought an intact ancient treasure to Ji Gu Xuan for appraisal. Shopkeeper Wen identified the red mirror as Fire Sparrow Jade and activated it to reveal its fire-element power, leaving its exact effects to be explained.

• Wei Suo and the female cultivator entered Ji Gu Xuan and agreed to its appraisal fees and requirement that they stay nearby.
• The glamorous attendant led them underground to meet Shopkeeper Wen, a Mind Splitting Realm Fifth Level cultivator.
• Wei Suo handed Shopkeeper Wen the intact red round mirror from the Qingcheng Ruins, and Wen recognized it as Fire Sparrow Jade.
• Shopkeeper Wen tested the mirror with spell formations, revealing archaic runes and silver veins before awakening its fire-element aura.
• The mirror projected a bright yellow beam containing spinning golden runes, and Shopkeeper Wen stopped the test after confirming its response.

Han Yue'er ordered Xuanfeng Sect disciples to investigate the North Bright Sect, while Ji Ya emerged from seclusion after successfully forming a Golden Core. She learned that Wei Suo had been captured by the True Martial Sect and resolved to seek Xin Youlan's help.

• Han Yue'er told the Xuanfeng Sect disciples to watch the North Bright Sect's movements and urgently summon Lin Taixu, but forbade them from interfering with the people stationed at Teleportation Arrays.
• Ji Ya successfully formed her Golden Core, and a Golden Core phenomenon erupted over Myriad Longevity City.
• Han Weiwei and Nangong Yuqing told Ji Ya that Wei Suo had been captured by the True Martial Sect and was reportedly being tortured at Ink Jade Ridge.
• Ji Ya learned that the True Martial Sect had publicized Wei Suo's capture, and she decided to go find Xin Youlan, who might possess a piece of a Guardian Ancient Talisman.

Ji Ya and her companions learned from Xin Youlan that Wei Suo had been captured by True Martial Sect’s Xu Qianhuan, and they set out to rescue him despite the danger. Meanwhile, Wei Suo arranged for coded messages to be shouted in nearby cities so his companions could find him.

• Ji Ya asked Xin Youlan about Wei Suo and learned that he had been separated from Li Ruohai in the Qingcheng Ruins and was reportedly captured by Xu Qianhuan.
• Xin Youlan explained True Martial Sect’s overwhelming strength, then gave Ji Ya the Guardian Ancient Talisman and Scarlet Cloud Sash to aid the rescue.
• Ji Ya set out with her companions, telling Zhen Chongming, Zhu Xiaochun, and Feng Zhiyou to stay behind and entrusting Feng Zhiyou with the Heaven Mending Pill recipe.
• Outside a northern city, Wei Suo explained to a female cultivator that he was having people broadcast their agreed-upon code words across nearby cities.

Xu Qianhuan strengthened his Ice Spirit Root and vowed revenge on Shui Ling'er and Ji Ya, while the Demon Deer Woman pursued an ancient dragon in hopes of gaining its essence blood. In Liuhuo City, hired cultivators shouted strange love declarations, and several exhausted cultivators emerged from the Teleportation Array.

• Xu Qianhuan used the white bracelet to increase his cultivation, unleashed Ice Star Skyfall, and declared that he could rival Lin Taixu without magic treasures.
• Xu Qianhuan vowed to punish Shui Ling'er for fleeing their marriage and threatened to exploit her Water Mother Sacred Body, then anticipated Ji Ya's arrival.
• The Demon Deer Woman spotted a seemingly weakened ancient Flood Dragon transformed into Dragon and decided to follow it, hoping to claim its essence blood and inheritance.
• For several days, hired groups shouted matching declarations about a beauty in red armor across Liuhuo City and nearby cities.
• Several haggard cultivators emerged from Liuhuo City's Teleportation Array while the rival groups continued shouting.

Ji Ya and the others hurried to Liuhuo City, exhausted and fearing Wei Suo had fallen into True Martial Sect’s hands. They recognized his coded shouts as a message that he was safe and found a fish-shaped mark on a notice at the city’s bulletin board, which pointed them toward a possible clue.

• Ji Ya, Nangong Yuqing, Han Weiwei, Zhang Zhouyu, and Shi Changqing reached Liuhuo City after a grueling journey and headed for the northern exit.
• Two groups shouted phrases about a red-armored beauty, Stone-tailed Wall Lizards, a hot spring, and an old meeting place, startling Ji Ya, Nangong Yuqing, and Han Weiwei.
• Ji Ya and the others realized Wei Suo had likely arranged the shouts to tell them he was safe and warn them not to walk into a trap.
• Nangong Yuqing and Han Weiwei recognized the old meeting place as Lingyue City’s bulletin board and inferred that Wei Suo had left them a clue.
• Shi Changqing led the group to Liuhuo City’s largest bulletin board, where Han Weiwei spotted a fish-shaped mark beneath a notice seeking Green Armored Beetle demon cores.

Wei Suo worked in Taiyuan City on a magic treasure made from the Ancient White Marsh and refined gold for eleven flying swords. The ancient Heavenly Dragon soul sealed in his body suddenly resonated with something passing high above, and Wei Suo rushed outside to investigate.

• Wei Suo continued inscribing formations onto the Ancient White Marsh’s spinal bone while tempering refined gold for flying swords.
• Wei Suo discovered that the Refined Gold Puppet’s shell yielded refined gold far superior to Star White Luo Gold and decided to forge eleven swords from it.
• Wei Suo’s Yang Zhi Bird absorbed Solar True Fire rapidly while his Heart Devouring Worm remained asleep.
• The Heavenly Dragon soul sealed in Wei Suo’s body began to resonate, and he sensed its source passing through the high skies near Taiyuan City.
• Wei Suo stopped the furnace, stored the refined gold, and hurried outside to investigate.