Recaps

Yu Ci sought guidance from a mysterious senior after killing a cultivator, learning that his mixed sword intent was impure and that he had passed over a method better suited to him. As they entered a mountain forest, the senior urged him to refine his sword intent in combat so he could approach the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, but a hostile group discovered Yu Ci and attacked.

• Yu Ci asked the mysterious senior about his sword strike, and the senior criticized his impure sword intent for mixing atomization with True Dragon Form Qi.
• The senior explained the principles of pure sword intent and described the unfinished God Slaying Orthodox Method, which could wield the Primordial Formless Sword; Yu Ci regretted choosing the Dragon Slaying Manifesting Gauze instead.
• Yu Ci crossed into a mountain-forest space and learned that his True Dragon Form Qi would prevent him from approaching the Xuan Huang Killing Sword unless he refined it through combat.
• A hidden group discovered Yu Ci, and an icy voice ordered them to slaughter him as frost spread through the forest.

Yu Ci escaped an ambush by the Ice Snow Demon Palace and drew Yuan Wang’s attention, prompting the group to pursue him through the frozen terrain. As the palace’s array closed in, Yu Ci tried the sword-control technique instead of relying on a sword talisman, but his attempt faltered.

• Yu Ci blocked the Ghost Sound Cold Prison and fled deeper into the jungle as the entity beside him counted twenty-one enemies.
• Yuan Wang used the Mysterious Ice Heart Mirror to identify Yu Ci and ordered his disciples to follow him without pushing him too hard.
• A flying sword wounded one of Yuan Wang’s disciples, and Yuan Wang killed the dying man before ordering the remaining group to form an array.
• Yuan Wang directed the array toward Yu Ci, and its wave of cold swept across the hills and disrupted the surrounding Qi.
• The entity criticized Yu Ci’s reliance on a sword talisman, so Yu Ci attempted the Tu family brothers’ Sword Control Technique and nearly lost his sword.

Yu Ci endured the Ice Snow Demon Palace’s pursuit while learning how to refine his sword intent through his clashes with Yuan Wang. After repeatedly crossing Void Rifts, he seized the moment the cultivators followed him through one and counterattacked through the rift they were still crossing.

• Yu Ci fled the Ice Snow Demon Palace’s annihilation cold tide toward a Void Rift, while Yuan Wang directed the formation to drive him onward.
• Yuan Wang crossed the rift after Yu Ci, blocked his attack, and struck him away with the Nine Ren Snow Collapse Sword as another cultivator pursued him.
• Yu Ci continued to flee through two more Void Rifts, suffering injuries but gaining insight into refining his sword intent by discarding traits that did not belong to it.
• At the fourth Void Rift, Yu Ci vanished instead of appearing on the other side, then charged back through the rift as the Ice Snow Demon Palace cultivators were crossing.
• Yu Ci broke through the disordered cultivators and escaped back through the Void Rift before Yuan Wang could stop him.

Yu Ci escaped the Ice Snow Demon Palace pursuers and crossed a Void Rift into the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens under the protection of a mysterious expert. The expert’s voice then vanished, leaving Yu Ci alone in an unfamiliar place and waiting for his return.

• Yu Ci ambushed the Ice Snow Demon Palace cultivators, killed three of them, and escaped Yuan Wang by using Shadow Concealment Evasion and the Grand Unity Star Pivot Clone.
• Yu Ci evaded Yuan Wang and Derong’s repeated pursuit and shook off the remaining cultivators before reaching a Void Rift near Xuanhuang’s location.
• The mysterious expert warned Yu Ci to inspect the rift’s destination, revealing it led to the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens.
• Yu Ci crossed the dangerous outer space in five breaths while the expert’s Sword Qi shielded him from the True Sun Fire and Nine Heavens Gang Wind.
• After Yu Ci passed through the rift, the expert complained about being guarded, said something had come up, and told Yu Ci to wait without acting rashly.

Yu Ci endured the blood-tainted energy of the strange world while searching his memories for the mysterious man he had met before, then studied the changes in his Life and Death Talisman. His reflection on sword intent was interrupted by a vast sword hum and a voice shouting “Kill.”

• Yu Ci arrived in a crimson, barren world where the tainted primordial energy injured him, so he sealed himself off and recovered with a pill.
• Yu Ci used Divine Light Reflection and the Xuan Yuan Gen Ben Qi Fa to reconstruct and sort through nearly two years of memories.
• Yu Ci found no likely identity for the mysterious man who had claimed they had crossed paths before.
• Yu Ci examined the changing Seed True Talisman and realized his talismanic habits kept him from thinking with a swordsman’s purity.
• A powerful sword hum shook the world, and Yu Ci heard a voice repeatedly cry, “Kill.”

Yu Ci endured the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s rampaging baleful intent and raced toward it, while two Void Stepping cultivators entered the Boundary River after the Sword Garden seal collapsed. As the cultivators turned their attention to Yu Ci, he stopped advancing and gathered his sword intent, with a rising sword hum behind him.

• Yu Ci recognized Xuan Huang’s uncontrolled baleful intent and ran toward the Xuan Huang Killing Sword despite the deadly pressure.
• A blood tide surged through the Void Rift, exposing the Sword Garden’s collapsed seal and drawing powerful outsiders into the Boundary River.
• Yu Ci pressed on through the receding tide as Seven Injuries Daoist and another Void Stepping cultivator argued over the sword artifact.
• Seven Injuries Daoist attacked Yu Ci with streams of air, forcing him to dodge and halt within three miles of the sword.
• Yu Ci turned to face the two cultivators and gathered the sword intent within his talismanic fractions as sword hums rose behind him.

Yu Ci awakened the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s slaughtering power, which killed two Void Stepping cultivators but left him struggling to survive the surging blood tide. Outside the Sword Garden, the sword’s power spread toward White Cloud Retreat, forcing Xiao Lu and the others to flee as a beam of light erupted into the heavens.

• Yu Ci used his sword intent to resonate with the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, unleashing a blood tide that killed the two Void Stepping cultivators.
• Yu Ci endured the blood tide by keeping his sword intent pure, but the force overwhelmed him and left him unable to move.
• At White Cloud Retreat, Xiao Lu stopped Li You from rushing back into the Sword Garden to find Yu Ci.
• A rapidly expanding red glow reached the retreat, scorching the surrounding vital essence and alarming the cultivators.
• Xiao Lu and Zhao Fu led the cultivators away on sword flight as the mountain range shook and a brilliant beam pierced the heavens.

Yu Ci used a sword sheath to seal the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s blood-slaughter aura, but the effort left him severely weakened. As he prepared to return to his sect, his companion told him about a debt owed by Xuan Huang and began to explain the Great Brahma Demon King.

• Yu Ci woke after the blood tide’s eruption and found a black sword sheath beside him.
• Following his companion’s instructions, Yu Ci carried the sheath to within a hundred feet of the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.
• A blue thread of light struck the sheath as the Xuan Huang Killing Sword lunged at Yu Ci, and the sheath contained the blade and silenced the blood-colored world.
• Yu Ci used the Half-Mountain Mirage to restore his distorted body while his companion warned him to leave before others arrived.
• Yu Ci chose to return to his sect, but his companion mentioned Xuan Huang’s debt of a Thunder-Slaying Calamity-Averting Token and began telling him about the Great Brahma Demon King.

Xia Boyang’s attempt to recruit Incense Slave was disrupted by a blood storm and the sudden appearance of a coffin, while Yu Ci learned that the Great Brahma Demon King had obtained Lord Yuan Dao’s coffin. Yu Ci’s companion suspected the Demon King had a larger plan and asked about Yu Ci’s relationship with Yu Zhou.

• Xia Boyang questioned Incense Slave about the Great Brahma Demon King and offered his group’s help, believing the Rakshasa Sect knew how to stop him.
• A blood-colored storm erupted from a Void Rift, throwing Xia Boyang’s party into chaos, and Incense Slave refused to lead them.
• Xia Boyang tried to stop Incense Slave from leaving, and the two exchanged attacks as their powers clashed.
• A bloody attack tore apart cultivators on the outskirts, and a huge coffin appeared, prompting Xia Boyang to organize his fighters.
• A companion told Yu Ci about recent clashes and said the Great Brahma Demon King had obtained Lord Yuan Dao’s coffin, possibly to possess his body.
• Yu Ci’s companion questioned whether the Demon King had a broader aim, then asked Yu Ci if he was close to Yu Zhou.

Yu Ci asked about Lord Wujie while following a route through Guixu, and Xia Boyang’s group was attacked by a bronze coffin that forced him to flee through a Void Rift. After recognizing Incense Slave as an old acquaintance, Xia Boyang heard of a terrifying figure whose breathing cleaved through a hundred miles of void, and he considered seeking that person’s help as a guide.

• Yu Ci asked where Lord Wujie was, and his companion said that the chaos would not be happening if Lord Wujie were willing to appear.
• Xia Boyang ordered the cultivators to attack the bronze coffin, but it reappeared and smashed apart their formation.
• Incense Slave fled toward a Void Rift, and Xia Boyang escaped after the coffin opened and shattered his Disaster-Replacing Sorcery Doll.
• Xia Boyang caught up with Incense Slave in another space and recognized her as an old acquaintance from the Eastern Sea.
• Xia Boyang and Incense Slave heard a powerful being’s breathing cleave through a hundred miles of void, and Xia Boyang considered asking that being to lead them.

Yu Ci and the entity reached the sealed source of the Boundary River, where Qu Wujie had once shattered the void, and prepared to draw the Heavy Artifact Sect leader into their plans. Elsewhere, Xia Boyang and Incense Slave followed a powerful, mysterious cultivator whose immense aura was destabilizing a nearby void rift.

• The entity explained that the Boundary River's source held clues to Qu Wujie's whereabouts and the network of shattered void rifts.
• Yu Ci learned that the source was sealed by Qu Wujie's Thunder-Slaying Calamity-Averting sword qi and agreed to enter despite the danger.
• The entity revealed that it had lured the Heavy Artifact Sect leader to the source and said another spark was needed to turn the factions against each other.
• Xia Boyang and Incense Slave secretly tracked a lone cultivator whose overwhelming sword intent and origin qi destabilized a void rift.
• Xia Boyang and Incense Slave wondered whether the cultivator could not control his aura as the rift's structure grew unstable.

Xia Boyang and Incense Slave pursued a target through the void interlayer, where ambushes and clashes turned the darkness into a deadly battleground. Yu Ci saw that the cultivators had gathered as planned, and the person directing him told him to focus on the Heavy Artifact Sect as restriction-breaking began.

• Xia Boyang and Incense Slave entered the void interlayer and were separated after exchanging blows with unseen cultivators.
• Incense Slave avoided a trap set amid the darkness, then became caught in a clash sparked by Night-Illuminating Pearls and killed one cultivator.
• Incense Slave and an unidentified swordsman unexpectedly collided, each recognizing something familiar in the other's techniques before they withdrew.
• The Northern Demonic Sect and other groups entered the interlayer, and fighting spread as dozens of core formation cultivators gathered there.
• Yu Ci traveled through the interlayer and realized the person directing him had drawn the cultivators together; that person told him to lock onto the Heavy Artifact Sect as restriction-breaking began.

Yu Ci and the other cultivators approached the Sunken Sword Cave master as the seal broke, enduring the Thunder-Cleaving Evil-Dispelling Sword’s devastating sound and a bloody tidal wave. Yu Ci survived the blast, while the figure at the light circle vanished.

• Yu Ci learned that the Sunken Sword Cave master was breaking the seal and that the Heavy Artifact Sect leader was among the primary targets.
• The Thunder-Cleaving Evil-Dispelling Sword’s Heavenly Sound pierced the cultivators’ defenses, killing or injuring many; Yu Ci countered it with sword intent stirred from his spirit.
• As the seal’s power surged through the Boundary River, Yu Ci pushed forward with the remaining cultivators and saw a light circle appear and begin to contract.
• A bloody tidal wave erupted from the light circle, dissolving the cultivators closest to it and sweeping Yu Ci back several miles.
• Yu Ci survived by bracing with the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, heard a figure’s mocking laughter, and watched the shadow disappear.

Yu Ci entered the sword garden’s core realm after the Sunken Sword Cave master’s blood tide killed three Heavy Artifact Sect members and their leaders disappeared. Separated from his senior’s support by interference, Yu Ci sensed his own heightened perception and approached Incense Slave to revise his plan.

• Yu Ci learned that the Heavy Artifact Sect leader’s apparent death was only the loss of a projection, while the Sunken Sword Cave master’s attacks had devastated the area.
• As the halo contracted, cultivators rushed into it, and Yu Ci followed after confirming that his fellow disciples had been lured away.
• Yu Ci survived the chaotic void currents with his senior’s protection and reached the calm interior, where the surrounding landscape resembled the Duanjie Mountain Range.
• Yu Ci lost reliable contact with his senior, then discovered that his perception had become far more sensitive than before.
• Yu Ci headed toward a nearby figure and met Incense Slave on a snow peak.

Yu Ci approached Incense Slave and Xia Boyang, using their shared interests and his knowledge of the master of the Sunken Sword Cave to test whether they might cooperate. As they considered the danger, a pillar of light erupted from a nearby mountain and split into blazing beams.

• Yu Ci greeted Incense Slave and Xia Boyang, then used his connection to Murong Qingyan to ease Xia Boyang’s hostility.
• An avalanche shook the mountains, interrupting their conversation and drawing their attention to a distant sword cry.
• Yu Ci described the danger of the mountain region and identified the monster as the master of the Sunken Sword Cave, surprising Incense Slave and Xia Boyang.
• Yu Ci selectively explained how the master of the Sunken Sword Cave had taken possession of a sword cultivator’s dharma body, while concealing details and observing Incense Slave’s reaction.
• Another avalanche struck nearby, and a pillar of light rose from the mountain before splitting into more than a dozen blazing beams.

Yu Ci and the other cultivators saw the master of the Sunken Sword Cave unleash sword immortal legacy treasures, then pursued the one treasure that escaped into the chaotic void streams. As the cave master attacked the surrounding peaks and demanded that Qu Wujie appear, Yu Ci remained on the void’s edge with Incense Slave, who then began to move away.

• The master of the Sunken Sword Cave released several treasures, and his bloody sword Qi killed cultivators who tried to seize them before drawing most of the treasures back.
• One treasure escaped into the chaotic void streams, prompting Yu Ci, Xia Boyang, Incense Slave, and the other cultivators to pursue it.
• Yu Ci steadied himself in a sheltered pocket of the void, while Xia Boyang went deeper and Incense Slave stayed beside him.
• The bloody sword Qi destroyed an ice rock and the cultivator concealed beneath it as Yu Ci and Incense Slave watched from the void’s edge.
• The master of the Sunken Sword Cave battered down the snow peaks and shouted for Qu Wujie to come out, while a hidden voice told Yu Ci that the master was acting out of fear.
• Incense Slave moved toward the edge of the chaotic void streams as the hidden voice speculated that someone was influencing the cave master.

Yu Ci watched Incense Slave confront Sunken Sword Cave's master after Di Tianluo escaped with the treasure. Though divine power from the Rakshasa Ghost King let Incense Slave withstand the sword master's threat, a metallic figure appeared, extinguished her power, and seized her.

• Incense Slave reached into the chaotic void currents, and her Rakshasa Illusory Power triggered a violent attack from Sunken Sword Cave's master that Yu Ci narrowly escaped.
• Someone shouted that Di Tianluo had seized the treasure and fled, prompting most cultivators to retreat from the boundary river source.
• Xia Boyang approached Incense Slave, recognized her face, bowed in fear, and left without speaking.
• Incense Slave stepped out of the chaotic void currents and faced Sunken Sword Cave's master while divine power from the Rakshasa Ghost King strengthened her.
• A metallic figure appeared behind Incense Slave, extinguished her Rakshasa Illusory Power, and lifted her by the neck.

The Heavy Artifact Sect leader restrained Yu and used the Ten Directions Hell Shaking Ghosts and Gods Method to expose her desire to escape the Rakshasa Divine Lord’s control. As the Sunken Sword Cave master opened a tunnel to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor, an unidentified swordsman attacked him and the Heavy Artifact Sect leader moved to intercept.

• The Sunken Sword Cave master began breaking the void tunnel’s one-way structure to open a route to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor while the Heavy Artifact Sect leader held Yu captive.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader used the Ten Directions Hell Shaking Ghosts and Gods Method to probe Yu’s mind and make her confront her longing for freedom.
• Yu’s body and mind erupted with a shockwave, and the Heavy Artifact Sect leader released her before moving to guard the Sunken Sword Cave master.
• A sword attack crossed the void turbulence toward the Sunken Sword Cave master, and the Heavy Artifact Sect leader intercepted it.
• Yu Ci recognized the newcomer and stared at them in shock.

Yu Zhou fought the Heavy Artifact Sect leader and tried to stop the master of the Sunken Sword Cave from opening a tunnel to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor. As the tunnel destabilized the Boundary River, Yu Ci charged toward the ritual and was spotted by the master.

• Yu Ci learned that Yu Zhou had returned despite being drawn away, while Yu Zhou confronted the Heavy Artifact Sect leader over the damaged void tunnels and a captured disciple.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader struck Yu Zhou with the Ten Directions Hell Shaking Ghosts and Gods Method, but he recovered and used sword mist to trap her before attacking the master of the Sunken Sword Cave.
• Yu Zhou disrupted the master's blood-slaughter talismans, recognized the stench of a high-level fiend-demon, and escaped a punch by dissolving into sword Qi.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader questioned who the master was, then agreed to help him open the tunnel to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor before attacking Yu Zhou again.
• The tunnel's red border began to shatter as the Boundary River destabilized, and Yu Ci ran toward the ritual until the master spotted him.

Yu Ci rescued the injured Yu Zhou from the Heavy Artifact Sect leader and tried to flee as the void collapsed, but the master of Sunken Sword Cave transformed the surroundings and declared that the True Realm had arrived. The chapter ended with the world shrinking and previously concealed figures, including Wen Shifei, exposed.

• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader used Tai Xuan Jie Xing Suo to wound Yu Zhou, but Yu Ci disrupted her attack with the Star-Glow Divine Thunder and escaped with the old Daoist.
• Yu Ci and Yu Zhou fled toward the void rift as the collapse intensified, and Yu Zhou revealed that reinforcements were approaching and urged Yu Ci to leave him behind.
• Yu Ci realized the sect's formidable vessel might be from the Sword Garden, but the void currents abruptly stopped before he could ask Yu Zhou more.
• The master of Sunken Sword Cave announced that the True Realm had arrived, and the surrounding heaven and earth folded inward and shrank by half.
• The collapsing realm exposed a Void Stepping cultivator and Wen Shifei, who appeared with a twisted smile.

Yu Ci and the others witnessed the Blood Prison Ghost Manor’s demonic fire consume the Boundary River source as the barrier between realms began to fail. The destruction of the Sword Immortal’s legacy treasures revealed the real master of the Sunken Sword Cave, who sensed a presence connected to Yu Ci’s Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and asked whether it was Shadow Ghost or Brahma.

• The leader of the Heavy Artifact Sect approached the spatial collapse and confirmed her agreement with the being within Yuan Dao's Dharma body to enter the passage freely.
• Hellfire erupted through the collapsing space, turning the Boundary River source into demonic soil and nearly dragging the mountain range into the Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• A blast struck Yuan Dao's Dharma body, which scattered the Sword Immortal's legacy treasures before they exploded and formed a gathering mist of energy.
• Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound dispelled the demonic flames and revealed the real master of the Sunken Sword Cave seated in the void.
• Yu Ci felt the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror burning on his arm as the seated figure asked whether Shadow Ghost or Brahma was present.

Qu Wujie’s lingering shadow and the Great Brahma Demon King clashed as the demon summoned a Black Magic Altar to sacrifice everyone in the Boundary River source area. The demon targeted Yu Ci’s Xuan Huang Killing Sword, but Qu Wujie seized control of the shifting void and provoked a war.

• The Void Stepping cultivator recognized Qu Wujie’s lingering shadow as the Crimson Fire Demonic Flame failed to suppress his Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound.
• The Great Brahma Demon King formed a Black Magic Altar projection and unleashed talismanic formations to consume the cultivators’ flesh and souls.
• Yu Zhou used the Hua Li Sword Art to destroy many talismans and shield Yu Ci, while the Profound Truth Condensing Void Pill’s vitality strengthened him.
• The Great Brahma Demon King recognized Yu Ci’s Xuan Huang Killing Sword and redirected the altar’s attack toward it.
• Qu Wujie exploited the demon’s momentary dizziness to seize control of the shifting void, and the Great Brahma Demon King challenged him to start a war.

Yu Ci drew the Xuan Huang Killing Sword while fighting the Heavy Artifact Sect leader, giving Great Brahma Demon King a chance to seize its bloodslaughter aura. As Yu Ci faced the leader’s counterattack, a bright moon suddenly rose and illuminated the battlefield.

• Great Brahma Demon King shifted the Black Magic Altar’s attack toward Yu Zhou and the Xuan Huang Killing Sword while its battle with the Rakshasa Ghost King threatened its plans.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader struck Yu Zhou, but Yu Ci broke through the Black Magic Altar’s formation and drew her pursuit away from him.
• Yu Ci emerged from underground and drew the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, unleashing its bloodslaughter aura as Great Brahma Demon King began absorbing the blood qi.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader evaded Yu Ci’s sword, pierced him with Tai Xuan Jie Xing Suo, and was wounded when the technique failed and he counterattacked.
• Yu Ci revealed a blue-light wheel, and a bright moon appeared in the sky, bringing Great Brahma Demon King’s laughter to an abrupt stop.

A bright moon revealed that Qu Wujie and the Rakshasa Ghost King had trapped the Great Brahma Demon King, forcing it to retreat from the Boundary River and sacrifice divine intent to strengthen the Shadow Ghost. The Heavy Artifact Sect's leader vanished in a burst of starlight, while Yu Ci collapsed beside the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and sensed that his mirror was hot.

• A bright moon rose over the Boundary River, and the Great Brahma Demon King recognized the Boundless One's power and realized the breach between worlds could not succeed.
• The Great Brahma Demon King tried to escape through the unstable passage, but moonlit strands bound its incarnation and stopped it from severing its connection to its true body.
• The Great Brahma Demon King understood that Qu Wujie's body had been taken over, then heard the Rakshasa Ghost King threaten to seize its Primordial Power.
• The Great Brahma Demon King withdrew after infusing its divine intent and Primordial Power into the Shadow Ghost, which took control of Yuan Dao's Dharma body.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect's leader launched a burst of starlight from her damaged armor and disappeared as Yu Ci collapsed beside the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.
• Yu Ci muttered about repaying kindness with enmity, then noticed that his mirror was hot.

Yu Ci witnessed Qu Wujie’s plan unfold at the Boundary River’s source, where the Shadow Ghost was trapped and its Yang God absorbed by the moon. Xingtian’s azure-blue sword then shattered Qu Wujie’s projection, and the chapter ended with Xingtian asking about the Karmaless Sword Immortal and receiving a convincing lie.

• The Shadow Ghost used Yuan Dao’s dharma body to charge Qu Wujie’s projection, but Qu Wujie’s prearranged mechanism froze the body and trapped its Yang God for the moon to absorb.
• Qu Wujie directed the power from the collapsing void into a passage leading toward a dark gap behind the moon, and the Shadow Ghost accused him of sharing Great Brahma’s fate for the world.
• Yu Zhou arrived to take the exhausted Yu Ci away as the Xingtian Magic Sword approached the Boundary River’s source.
• Xingtian’s azure-blue sword light burst through a spatial fissure and shattered Qu Wujie’s projection, cleaving the small world and destabilizing the passage between spaces.
• Xingtian searched the void worlds for Qu Wujie’s true body but could not reach it, then asked where the Karmaless Sword Immortal was; the answer claimed he had followed them to the Land of Eternal Damnation.