Arc 12Chapters 276–300
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Yu Ci received the restored Shooting Star Disk, but Old Mr. Zhu criticized his neglected talisman arts and weak magical implements as he prepared for the Sword Garden. He agreed to teach Yu Ci the Flying Stars of the Heavens talisman art, leaving Yu Ci with a daily lesson to attend.
Yu Ci, Zhang Yan, and the Tu family brothers crossed the Fa Tian Spirit Sea and emerged through a sluice gate beyond the Li Chen Sect’s mountain gate. They reached the dangerous gang-wind belt, where Yu Ci searched for Mist Flow Beasts to earn the Good Deeds he needed before the next day’s deadline.
Yu Ci and his companions hunted Azure Void Demonic Shadows in the gale-wind belt, where he captured one using a talisman and stored it for Good Deeds. When a vast swarm attacked as they headed toward the Tongtian River, Zhang Yan fought to clear their path and Yu Ci unleashed a sword light from his Shooting Star Disk.
Yu Ci used his new Nine Luminaries Dragon Abyss Sword Talisman to fight off the Azure Void Demonic Shadows and spotted a Light Demon Sect intruder hiding among them. As Zhang Yan engaged the intruder, Senior Brother Wang Jiu arrived and killed him with the Abyssal Ice Pure Snow Sword.
Wang Jiu rescued Yu Ci and the others from the Azure Void Demonic Shadows, then explained that Di She had been scouting for Di Tianluo ahead of the Sword Garden Grand Event. After four months of cultivation aboard the flying boat, Yu Ci had refined his Dao Scripture Master Treasure Seal to the Second Heaven, and the party was nearing the Sword Garden.
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Character Developments
Significant Themes
Character Interactions
Yu Ci reunited with Yu Zhou at the Li Chen Sect retreat before the sword garden opened, and learned more about the gathering’s rival factions and the history of Mr. Zhu. The sword garden opened unexpectedly, leaving Yu Zhou asking whether the disciples were prepared.
Yu Ci and the Li Chen Sect disciples entered the Sword Garden, but an ambush disrupted their formation and scattered them across the vast, distorted space. Hua Xifeng gathered most of the group and sensed that Yu Ci had entered too, though he was more than a thousand miles away.
Yu Ci entered the Sword Garden and repelled an ambush by marauding thieves, killing their leader with the Nine Luminaries Dragon Abyss Sword Talisman. The sword strike carried him to a confrontation with members of the Heavy Artifact Sect, whose imposing appearance left him stunned.
Yu Ci watched a heavily armored group from the Heavy Artifact Sect inspect Pang Ji’s corpse and discovered that its leader could strike him through the Fish-Dragon from ten li away. When the two armored cultivators left behind turned toward him, Yu Ci realized they were both Core Formation cultivators and fled.
Yu Ci escaped two Core Formation cultivators by hiding underground, but the sword garden’s hostile metal Qi left him badly injured. After he spotted the abandoned Curse Sword Conch, a new cultivator arrived, claimed it, and was struck by sudden blue lightning.
Yu Ci escaped Xiao Fuyun’s attacks, but Xiao used a soul-capturing smoke pot to strike him down while seeking the location of the Donghou Tomb. A Heavy Artifact Sect cultivator intervened, and Yu Ci vanished beneath the earth as another Core Formation cultivator arrived to confront Xiao.
Yu Ci escaped the three core formation cultivators by using the Grand Unity Star Pivot to lure the Heavy Artifact Sect cultivator away, then hid in a poisonous swamp and meditated. After emerging, he found Pang Ji’s remains and the Curse Sword Conch at the battle site, where something suddenly caught his attention.
Yu Ci found a token on Pang Ji that explained how the thieves had passed through the Sword Garden’s outer seal, then used a ruined sword cultivator’s tomb as a hiding place. While meditating nearby, he sensed a group of people appearing from the void and searching for the Rakshasa fiend.
Yu Ci hid in a mountain crevice as Half-Mountain Island, Pan Huang Sect, and Dongyang Orthodox Sect cultivators gathered nearby and discussed their rivalries and the Heavy Artifact Sect. After the others left, someone concealed in the rock strata called out to Yu Ci.
Incense Slave awakened in Yu Ci’s hiding place after escaping Ye Ming’s attack, and Yu Ci followed her group toward the other sects while investigating his suspicions about her. Meanwhile, Xiao Fuyun used the Void Mirror Disk to search for his quarry, but its revelation drew an armored figure from the sky, who immediately destroyed it.
An armored cultivator slaughtered the Dongyang Orthodox Sect party with the Ten Directions Hell Shaking Ghosts and Gods Method, then left Yu Ci to confront the lingering curse. Yu Ci overcame the attack and transformed his inner void, but the armored cultivator struck him down from a hundred miles away, burying him beneath the earth.
Buried beneath the earth by a distant cultivator, Yu Ci used his hard-won insight into life and death to rebuild his Inner Void around a new Life and Death Talisman. He remained trapped underground, but his reorganized spirit essence began absorbing the essence of the outside world.
Yu Ci escaped the underground prison after the Life and Death Talisman refined the sword garden’s dangerous qi into power that replenished his own. He recovered the Void Mirror Disk from Ji Long and set out to pursue Xiao Fuyun, but something went wrong in his body along the way.
Yu Ci used the Flawless Sword Circle to ease the pressure from the Life and Death Talisman’s surging primordial qi while traveling toward Xiao Fuyun. He was ambushed near Xiao Fuyun’s hidden healing site and recognized the powerful man commanding the attackers as Di She of the Light Demon Sect just as their auras closed in.
Yu Ci fought off Di She and his puppet avatars, then joined a red-clad cultivator who came to his aid. The two faced Di She’s group together, and the woman asked whether Yu Ci was a disciple of Half-Mountain.
Yu Ci escaped Di She's encirclement, defeated a Core Formation cultivator guarding Xiao Fuyun, and attacked the talisman formation to reach him. The chapter ended as Yu Ci sent a star-dust talisman into the ground, making Xiao Fuyun scream under the effect of the Nameless Tribulation Star Soul Shattering Divine Light.
Yu Ci defeated Xiao Fuyun, but Di Tianluo’s remote control turned Xiao into a blood-mist attack while a lean woman wielding Aurora Yuan Magnetism ambushed Yu Ci. Yu Ci struck back before crashing at the cliff’s base, where a vast collapse revealed a powerful sword-cultivator secret treasure.
A newly opened Sword Garden cavern drew Ye Ming’s group and Di Tianluo’s forces into its depths, while Yu Ci hid among the caves after wounding Di Tianluo. His Life and Death Talisman quickly restored his qi and formed another coil in his dantian, and his inward exploration opened a vision of the Inner Void.
Yu Ci studied the Life and Death Talisman in his Inner Void and discovered how it was linked to the qi mechanisms in his dantian. He used that insight to create another Upper Azure Star-Glow Induction Divine Thunder, then watched his qi mechanisms regather around what he recognized as a Seed True Talisman.