Chapter Summaries

A masked customer pawned the Cui Family’s Nether Lightning Mirror for a breakthrough method, and Su Yi helped Cui Jingyan discover that the transaction was tied to a traitor inside her clan. As they resolved to investigate quietly, a familiar Daoist Robe Old Man and White Robe Young Man arrived seeking the jade tablet left by the Ten Yama Kings.

• The Black Robe Woman left after exchanging for a spirit pill, and a masked man then pawned a wooden box at the All Heavens Pawnshop.
• The Measuring Scale identified the box’s contents as the Cui Family’s Nether Lightning Mirror, and Su Yi arranged for the man to receive a breakthrough method in exchange.
• Su Yi explained that losing the mirror would weaken the Cui Family’s Clan Protecting Forbidden Array and urged Cui Jingyan to investigate without alerting the traitor.
• The pawnshop’s artifacts revealed the masked customer’s portrait, and Cui Jingyan recognized him as the Cui Family’s Third Elder.
• A Daoist Robe Old Man and White Robe Young Man entered the pawnshop and asked to exchange for the jade tablet left by the Ten Yama Kings.

A Daoist Robe Old Man tried to obtain the Ten Yama Kings' inheritance for Wang Ting, but the pawnshop demanded an almost impossible contract. Su Yi then revealed himself and was offered the inheritance for only a written note, leaving the others astonished.

• The Daoist Robe Old Man offered the Overturning Water Seal, the Primal Lock, and the Fallen Flying Knife, but the Measuring Scale judged them insufficient for the Inheritance Jade Decree.
• Old Shopkeeper explained the dangers and value of the Ten Yama Kings' inheritance, and the Star-Measuring Abacus set a price of nine Dao armaments within a hundred years under a deadly divine soul contract.
• The Daoist Robe Old Man accepted the terms so Wang Ting could pursue the inheritance, despite Wang Ting's urgent objections.
• Su Yi stepped forward and asked the Star-Measuring Abacus what price he would have to pay for the Inheritance Jade Decree.
• The Star-Measuring Abacus and the other artifact spirits told Su Yi he only needed to leave a written note, then eagerly prepared paper and ink for him.

Su Yi gave the Ten Yama Kings’ Inheritance Jade Decree to a Daoist master and his disciple after securing their promises to protect the disciple, gather a favorite snack for the pawnshop owner, and help him kill enemies at the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival. After parting from Cui Jingyan in Violet Luo City, Su Yi entered the desolate Judgment Division Ruins.

• Su Yi wrote a note giving away the Inheritance Jade Decree and presented it to the Daoist Robe Old Man and the White Robe Young Man in exchange for three promises.
• Su Yi warned the Daoist Robe Old Man not to let his disciple attempt to prove the Dao without finding the ruins of Senluo Hall, and asked them to collect Galuo Fish if they reached the Nine Nether Underworld River.
• Su Yi asked the Daoist Robe Old Man to help him kill some blind fools during the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival, and the master and disciple agreed.
• Su Yi and Cui Jingyan left the pawnshop and returned to Violet Luo City; Cui Jingyan went home to inform her father about the Third Elder’s treachery.
• Su Yi crossed the city to the abandoned Judgment Division territory and entered its ruins at night.

Cui Chang'an learned that Cui Weizhong was a traitor and suspected he had colluded with the Qu Family to enter the Judgment Division Ruins. At the ruins, Cui Weizhong and Qu Mingwei waited for a Cui servant, but Su Yi arrived instead, and their companions planned to follow him inside.

• Cui Jingyan told Cui Chang'an that the Third Elder had betrayed the clan and that Su Yi had taken the Nether Lightning Mirror.
• Cui Chang'an recalled Cui Weizhong's earlier request to investigate the Judgment Division Ruins and suspected he was working with the Qu Family.
• Cui Chang'an sent Old Tao to investigate the Third Elder's relatives, then went to the Judgment Division Ruins himself.
• Cui Weizhong met Qu Mingwei and three mysterious companions near the ruins, expecting one of Cui Chang'an's servants to arrive.
• Qu Mingwei recognized Su Yi as he approached, and Cui Weizhong warned them not to capture him or risk exposing their plan.
• A gray-robed man proposed following Su Yi into the ruins and erasing his memories if he noticed them.

Su Yi led Qu Mingwei, Cui Weizhong, and three mysterious visitors into the Judgment Division’s prison beneath the palace. On the Third Floor, the Gray Robe Man sensed his clan ancestor’s aura among the prisoners bound to the Chaos Heaven Demon Suppression Pillars.

• Su Yi opened the palace entrance with the bronze key, but Qu Mingwei and Cui Weizhong arrived with three unfamiliar figures and demanded that he cooperate.
• The group entered the palace, where Cui Weizhong explained the prison’s three levels and the Gray Robe Man ordered his companions to search for its entrance.
• When the search failed, Su Yi revealed the entrance beneath their feet and opened it with a secret art.
• Su Yi guided the group through the empty first and second levels to the Third Floor, where they saw towering pillars and imprisoned criminals.
• The Gray Robe Man sensed his clan ancestor’s aura and declared that the ancestor had survived the ages of suppression.

Su Yi and Fei Changting’s group visited the prisoners in the Judgment Division’s underground prison and then approached Heaven Cauldron Mountain, where Fei Changting sought the Demon Hou Clan’s Old Ancestor. The Old Ancestor agreed to wait until the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival, but Su Yi’s sudden snicker drew everyone’s attention.

• Fei Changting told the prisoners on the Bronze Pillars that they would be freed during the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival and asked them to keep his visit secret.
• The group traveled to Heaven Cauldron Mountain, where Cui Weizhong explained that Xuan Jun Sword Master and Cui Longxiang had sealed it anew roughly thirty thousand years earlier.
• Fei Changting revealed himself as a ninth-generation descendant of the Demon Hou Clan and called out to the Old Ancestor imprisoned beneath the mountain.
• The Old Ancestor manifested a Willpower Dharma Form and agreed to wait a month while Fei Changting prepared a plan to gather allies and break the seal.
• Fei Changting vowed that the Demon Hou Clan would free the Old Ancestor and destroy the Cui Family, but Su Yi snickered and drew everyone’s gaze.

Su Yi revealed that he had seized control of Heaven Cauldron Mountain’s ancient forbidden formation and used its power to repel the emperors who had confronted him. After shattering their combined attack, he charged back into battle as the five kings attacked again.

• Cui Weizhong tried to force Su Yi to kneel, but Su Yi calmly withstood his pressure, then used forbidden power to send Qu Mingwei flying.
• Su Yi called on Heaven Cauldron Mountain’s divine chains to destroy a distant figure formed from the power of will.
• Fei Changting attacked Su Yi, but Su Yi shattered his strike and revealed his control over the mountain’s forbidden formation.
• Su Yi summoned a blood-red Dao Sword, and Fei Changting led four other emperors in a combined assault.
• Su Yi’s sword strike blasted away the five emperors’ weapons and scattered their united attack.
• The five kings attacked again, and Su Yi charged toward them with the forbidden sword.

Su Yi used the Zhou Tian Exorcising Formation to defeat and imprison five Emperors who had attacked him, then waited beside Heaven Cauldron Mountain for the Cui Clan patriarch. Cui Chang'an arrived as the five captives realized they had no hope of escape.

• Su Yi used the formation's power to repel Fei Changting, the Beast Robe Man, Qu Mingwei, and the others, then wounded and imprisoned Qu Mingwei and Cui Weizhong.
• Fei Changting and the other two surviving attackers fled, but Su Yi activated the formation across the Third Floor prison world and trapped them.
• Su Yi suppressed Fei Changting, the Beast Robe Man, and the Black Robe Woman, then brought them before Heaven Cauldron Mountain with the other two Emperors.
• Su Yi said he would not kill the five Emperors for now, settled into a Rattan Chair, and waited while they remained imprisoned.
• Cui Chang'an arrived before Heaven Cauldron Mountain, leaving the five captive Emperors convinced they could not escape.

Su Yi reached the summit of Heaven Cauldron Mountain and found the Clear Shadow Sword, which held a Bearing Dao Stone containing some of his former cultivation. After he opened the sealed passage beneath the Dao Platform, the Demon Hou Clan’s Old Ancestor urgently asked whether Fei Changting was still there.

• Cui Chang'an took charge of the five captured Emperors, knocked Cui Weizhong and Qu Mingwei unconscious, and threatened Qu Mingwei with imprisonment and torment.
• Cui Chang'an used the Judgment Blade to destroy the Beast Robe Man and the Black Robe Woman, then prepared to interrogate Fei Changting about the forbidden formation.
• Su Yi examined the Clear Shadow Sword and recalled that its Bearing Dao Stone held a portion of his past Dao cultivation, but he chose not to draw the sword and weaken the suppression below the mountain.
• Su Yi scattered the blood-colored forbidden chains and opened the passage beneath the Dao Platform.
• The Demon Hou Clan's Old Ancestor called from below and asked whether Fei Changting was still there.

Su Yi confronted the ancient demons imprisoned beneath Heaven Cauldron Mountain and forced them into the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp. He continued subduing them, leaving the captured Demon Emperor Tianji bound and at his mercy.

• Su Yi revealed that he knew the imprisoned demons and commanded them to help him, despite their demands to identify himself.
• Su Yi used the Zhou Tian Exorcising Formation to pull Fei Kongtong from the depths and imprison him in the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp.
• Su Yi dragged out the old scholar and imprisoned him in the lamp as well.
• Demon Emperor Tianji tried to flee, but a blood-colored divine chain struck her down and bound her.
• Tianji begged Su Yi for mercy, but he ordered another divine-chain lash against her.

Su Yi suppressed four imprisoned old monsters in the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp and reclaimed the Clear Shadow Sword from Heaven Cauldron Mountain. He left the Judgment Division Ruins believing his newly assembled treasures and allies could help him handle any catastrophe at the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival a month later.

• Su Yi forced the Purple Robe Woman into the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp, then used the Zhou Tian Exorcising Formation and sword intent to punish Old Crawler and make him submit.
• Old Crawler emerged from his cave and entered the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp, where Buddhist light suppressed him alongside the Purple Robe Woman, the Confucian-robed Old Poor Scholar, and Fei Kongtong.
• Su Yi pulled the Clear Shadow Sword from the Dao platform and placed its shrunken form atop the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp to strengthen its power.
• Su Yi ordered Cui Chang'an to keep the night's events secret, then departed while Cui Chang'an continued his encounter with Fei Changting.
• Su Yi left the Judgment Division Ruins with the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp, the All Heavens Blood Furnace, and the Clear Shadow Sword, and considered his preparations for the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival.

Su Yi brought the Old Blind Man to the Cui Clan’s Myriad Dao Tree so he could repair his Dao Injury, while the tree’s spirit recognized Su Yi and discussed his reincarnation. The spirit left Su Yi’s invitation unanswered as the chapter ended.

• Cui Chang'an told Su Yi that the Demon Hou Clan, the Ancient Clan Qu, and Cui Weizhong had plotted against the Cui Clan because they believed Cui Longxiang would not return.
• Su Yi warned Cui Chang'an to investigate the Cui Clan for other traitors before the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival.
• Cui Chang'an led Su Yi and the Old Blind Man into Golden Luo Cave Heaven to visit the Myriad Dao Tree.
• Su Yi instructed the Old Blind Man to meditate beneath the tree and use its power to repair his Dao Injury.
• Su Yi summoned the Myriad Dao Tree’s spirit, who recognized him and discussed his Secret of Reincarnation.
• Su Yi reminded the spirit that she had once said she might leave with him if he found the Secret of Reincarnation, and she reacted with a peculiar expression.

Su Yi met Po Suo beneath the Myriad Dao Tree and asked to stay while he cultivated, while she considered whether to join him in the future. As Su Yi meditated, he began fusing three Great Dao profundities, drawing on the tree’s origin power as Po Suo watched in astonishment.

• Su Yi invited Po Suo to visit his Supreme Mystery Grotto-heaven someday, and she said she would consider it while warning him that Cui Longxiang would object.
• Po Suo relayed Cui Longxiang’s warnings about Su Xuanjun’s romantic debts, and Su Yi dismissed them before asking to remain by the Myriad Dao Tree.
• Po Suo arranged wine, tea, and pastries for Su Yi, who sat down to meditate while she served him.
• Po Suo realized Su Yi’s youthful form was the reincarnated Xuan Jun Sword Master and wondered why he was only eighteen despite having died five hundred years earlier.
• Su Yi’s Primal Beginning, Taiwei, and Hun Xu Dao Intents began merging, producing immense phenomena that drew in the Myriad Dao Tree’s origin aura.
• Po Suo watched the fusion continue for days, increasingly curious about the new Great Dao Su Yi would form.

Su Yi merged Primordial Origin, Taiwei, and Hun Xu into the unprecedented Primal Extremity Great Dao, whose power astonished Po Suo. The chapter ended with Cui Chang'an reporting that the Nine Netherworld Crow had emerged from Unjustly Dead City after thirty thousand years.

• Su Yi refined the Primal Extremity Great Dao, and the Nine Hells Sword and its nine chains resonated as he did so.
• Po Suo tested Su Yi's new Dao by attacking him with a complete Profound Illumination Realm water-element law, which he seized and shattered.
• Su Yi explained that his Primal Extremity Dao Intent could contend with an early-stage Profound Illumination Realm Emperor and said his renewed cultivation would let him pursue a path beyond the Imperial path.
• Su Yi invited Po Suo to leave with him for the Great Wilderness, but she teased him about his age before sensing Cui Chang'an's arrival and vanishing.
• Cui Chang'an told Su Yi that the Nine Netherworld Crow had emerged from Unjustly Dead City after thirty thousand years.

Su Yi learned that the Nine Netherworld Crow foretold a catastrophe for Violet Luo City during the approaching Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival, and he asked Cui Chang'an to investigate the bird while promising to help the Cui Family. As Su Yi prepared to break through outside the Golden Luo Secret Realm, Cui Chang'an reported that the crow had appeared at Crimson Cloud Ridge.

• Cui Chang'an told Su Yi that the Nine Netherworld Crow had appeared before and that its return threatened Violet Luo City with a calamity during the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival.
• Su Yi asked Cui Chang'an to investigate the crow and told him he would help protect the Cui Family; he also asked Po Suo to make the old monsters in the Heavenly Decree Lotus Lamp obey him.
• Old Blind Man Yun Zhi Jiu awakened after ten days of cultivation, having repaired his Dao Injury and gained hope of reaching the Emperor Realm.
• Rumors that Cui Longxiang had died and Violet Luo City would fall spread panic, prompting many residents to flee the city.
• Cui Chang'an exposed Third Elder Cui Weizhong's betrayal and executed him before the clan's major figures, then assured them the Cui Family was prepared for the coming disaster.
• Su Yi left seclusion to seek a place outside the Golden Luo Secret Realm to undergo his tribulation, and Cui Chang'an told him the Nine Netherworld Crow had been seen at Crimson Cloud Ridge.

Su Yi left Violet Luo City to undergo a tribulation and hunt the Nine Netherworld Crow, which was expected to appear near the city during the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival. In Crimson Cloud Ridge, he baited the hidden crow with rotten meat, and it became determined to punish him during his tribulation.

• Cui Chang'an told Su Yi that the Nine Netherworld Crow had appeared near Violet Luo City during the previous Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival and was likely to return.
• Su Yi left the increasingly deserted Violet Luo City to undergo a tribulation and look for the Nine Netherworld Crow, while Cui Family elders mistook his departure for cowardice.
• Su Yi and Po Suo searched Crimson Cloud Ridge, where Su Yi inspected a dead elk and then secretly placed a talisman in its carcass as bait.
• The Nine Netherworld Crow appeared after Su Yi and Po Suo left, then returned when Su Yi came back to set the trap.
• The Nine Netherworld Crow realized Su Yi had deliberately provoked it and decided to make him die during his tribulation.

Su Yi used Po Suo as bait to draw out the Nine Netherworld Crow while preparing to undergo his Spirit Wheel Great Tribulation. He shattered the unprecedented tribulation with his sword, leaving the Nine Netherworld Crow stunned as it prepared to attack.

• Su Yi explained to Po Suo that he had provoked the Nine Netherworld Crow and brought her along to lure it out.
• Su Yi's Spirit Wheel Great Tribulation gathered over Crimson Cloud Ridge, astonishing Po Suo and attracting the Nine Netherworld Crow.
• Su Yi shattered the first wave of tribulation lightning and charged into the Tribulation Cloud, cutting through it with his sword intent.
• The Nine Netherworld Crows appeared and attacked Po Suo while one used the Netherworld Sound Heart-Disrupting Curse against Su Yi.
• Su Yi unleashed a brilliant strand of Sword Qi that destroyed the Tribulation Cloud and ended the forbidden tribulation.

Su Yi survived a forbidden tribulation, entered the Spirit Wheel Realm, and confronted the Nine Netherworld Crow before leaving with Po Suo. He expected the crow to seek him out again because its calamity aura was linked to the White Bone Emperor, then invited Po Suo for a drink in Violet Luo City.

• Su Yi used the Nine Hells Sword to shatter his forbidden tribulation and break through to the Spirit Wheel Realm.
• Su Yi questioned the Nine Netherworld Crow about its origins and hinted that he knew secrets of the Unjustly Dead City.
• The Nine Netherworld Crow warned that the Festival of Ten Thousand Lanterns would bring destruction to Violet Luo City and the Cui Family, while Su Yi promised it would not escape him.
• Su Yi told Po Suo that the crow's true body was elsewhere and that it would come to him if it wanted to rescue the White Bone Emperor.
• Su Yi and Po Suo returned toward Violet Luo City, and he invited her to drink at Cloud Fragrance Restaurant.

Su Yi returned to Violet Luo City with Po Suo as four powerful emperors arrived to pressure the Cui Family over Qu Mingwei. After discussing the threat to the city with Cui Chang'an, Su Yi proposed using the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival to trap and destroy their enemies, and Cui Chang'an agreed.

• Su Yi and Po Suo entered Violet Luo City as four emperors from rival factions arrived and Qu Bohou demanded that Cui Chang'an release Qu Mingwei.
• Su Yi left with Po Suo, later returned to the Cui Family, and meditated beneath the Myriad Dao Tree to consolidate his new Spirit Wheel Realm.
• Cui Chang'an told Su Yi that the rival factions had made harsher demands, and Su Yi warned that the Nine Netherworld Crow could turn the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival into a crisis.
• Su Yi assured Cui Chang'an that the Nine Netherworld Crow posed no threat with him present and proposed letting their enemies enter an evacuated Violet Luo City so the Cui Family could trap and destroy them.
• After weighing the risks, Cui Chang'an agreed to follow Su Yi's plan.

As the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival approached, Su Yi prepared to defend Violet Luo City’s East City Gate alongside Cui Chang'an. On Ghost Festival, Su Yi concluded that the Netherworld’s Heavenly Dao lacked reincarnation, then faced the first arrivals gathering outside the city.

• Su Yi inspected Violet Luo City’s defenses with Cui Chang'an and decided they would hold the East City Gate while the rest of the Cui Clan stayed behind.
• Su Yi reassured Cui Chang'an and ordered Old Blind Man to remain with the Cui Family during the coming calamity.
• On Ghost Festival, Su Yi and Cui Chang'an headed for the East City Gate as the Netherworld grew dark and ominous.
• Su Yi explained that the Netherworld’s source power was troubled and deduced that its Heavenly Dao was missing the order of reincarnation.
• Su Yi reached the city wall with Cui Chang'an, where imposing figures arrived outside the gate before nightfall.