Recaps

Yu Ci solved Zhai Que'er's talisman scroll and learned that the promised business deal involved the Longevity True Man, though she insisted the risks were manageable. As Yu Ci demonstrated his finished talisman, Ge Fu, Third Master He, Miaoxiang, and You Rui arrived.

• Yu Ci showed Zhai Que'er his analysis of the upper scroll's nine fractal structures, and she revealed that he needed to combine them with the lower scroll's seven structures.
• Zhai Que'er admitted the business deal was connected to the Longevity True Man and said he was her senior martial brother who would now join their group.
• Yu Ci asked about compensation, then studied the two scrolls and began refining a talisman.
• Yu Ci completed a talisman using the Great Evolution Diagram's analysis method and the Heavenly Evolution Pearl.
• Ge Fu entered with Third Master He, Miaoxiang, and You Rui, and Yu Ci recognized the two women.

Yu Ci joined Zhai Que’er’s talisman cultivators and learned how the Great Evolution Diagram worked. Zhai Que’er then announced that the group would leave immediately to handle their business, surprising Yu Ci and unsettling Ge Fu.

• Zhai Que’er introduced Ge Fu and Tushan as the leaders of the talisman cultivators and revealed that Master Miao Xiang and You Rui had joined the group.
• Yu Ci explained that Soul Chaser was his nickname and Lu Dun was his real name, and Master Miao Xiang confirmed that he had helped her in Huayan City.
• Tushan showed Yu Ci the Great Evolution Diagram, a brocade handkerchief that combined talisman cultivators’ mental efforts to deduce talisman patterns.
• Zhai Que’er explained that the Great Evolution Diagram could work with fifty Heavenly Evolution Pearls, and Yu Ci promised to help if the group faced a difficult problem.
• Zhai Que’er ordered the group to leave at once, leaving Yu Ci surprised and Ge Fu visibly unsettled.

Yu Ci joined Zhai Que'er’s sudden expedition to the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and was assigned to lead Group B in the Great Evolution Formation. As the rune cultivators prepared to begin their deductions, Tushan gave Yu Ci his advance payment.

• Zhai Que'er set out for the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion well before the Rune Combat Assembly, catching Zhao Ziyue, the Ten Directions Great Venerable, and Yu Ci unprepared.
• Yu Ci left the city with Tushan and traveled with the expanding group of rune cultivators and ghost cultivators into the Graveyard of Grudges.
• Ge Fu organized fifty cultivators into three groups for the Great Evolution Formation, and Yu Ci became Group B’s Talisman Commander.
• Yu Ci assigned his new subordinates code names and appointed the Returning Elixir middle-stage cultivator as his deputy.
• Tushan handed Yu Ci Heavenly Evolution Pearls and another item as an advance deposit for his participation.

Yu Ci joined Ge Fu's group as they descended into the strata to use the Great Evolution Formation and locate the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion. Their attempt revealed a ring of Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light, confirming that the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect had found the mansion's location without the Xuan Ling Yin.

• Yu Ci donned the Azure Lotus Robe of the Great Void and received the Heavenly Evolution Pearl from Tushan.
• Ge Fu warned the cultivators not to disrupt the Great Evolution Formation, while Miao Xiang and Gao Ji led guards around the formation's perimeter.
• The group traveled through the woods to meet the leaders and elite forces, where Yu Ci exchanged a brief glance with Ling Xi Wanderer and confirmed his control remained firm.
• Ge Fu used Earth-Escape Dragon Talismans to protect the cultivators, and Gao Ji used the Heavenly Escape Treasure Mirror to guide their descent through the strata.
• Tushan raised the Great Evolution Diagram as the cultivators channeled their Heavenly Evolution Pearls into it.
• The Heavenly Escape Treasure Mirror's light struck an unseen barrier and revealed a ring of Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light around the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.

The cultivators used the Great Evolution Formation to probe the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and identify an approach through the Southern Peak direction of the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram. As they began their planned entry, the diagram activated and a boundless sea of stars appeared before them.

• An elder of the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect used the Magnetic Light Myriad Transformations Bottle to absorb the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light and fire Primordial Magnetic Divine Thunder, creating an opening for the formation to advance.
• Ge Fu and the other cultivators gathered talisman fragments revealed by the magnetic light, then arranged the talisman cultivators into four layers to combine their mental strength and analyze the patterns.
• Gao Ji used the Heavenly Escape Mirror to locate another part of the secret mansion, and Ge Fu identified the direction as the Southern Peak of the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram.
• Zhai Que'er and the others began their planned assault from the Southern Peak direction, while the elder of the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect blasted a path through the hardened earth with Primordial Magnetic Divine Thunder.
• The Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light abruptly contracted, and Zhai Que'er and Tushan warned that the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram had activated.
• A boundless sea of stars appeared before the cultivators.

The Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition trapped Yu Ci and the cultivators in the Great Evolution Formation, while the Northern Dipper’s deadly power killed two experts. The Great Evolution Formation opened a rift and helped the main force escape, but shifted Five Sacred Peaks and ghostly shadows appeared as Yu Ci’s group tried to follow.

• Tushan identified the starry restriction as the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition and ordered the cultivators to hold their positions and restrain their auras.
• A warning about Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light disrupted the cultivators’ deductions, and the restriction reshaped its stars into familiar constellations.
• The Northern Dipper’s death-inflicting power turned the Eastern Branch elder and another cultivator to ash when they tried to take the Magnetic Light Myriad Transformations Bottle.
• Zhai Que'er recognized magnetic induction as the trigger, and Yu Ci and the talisman cultivators used the Great Evolution Formation to form a cloud-hand that opened a rift through the prohibition.
• Zhai Que'er led the main force through the rift, and Ge Fu’s group began following before dark cyan lights and ghostly shadows emerged from the shifted Eastern Peak.

Ge Fu, Tushan, Miaoxiang, and Gao Ji struggled to lead their group through a shifting prohibition as ghostly attacks and Primordial Magnetic Divine Thunder tore apart their formation. They forced their way through the fissure, but a piercing sound triggered a new assault by the ghost cultivators.

• Miaoxiang used her Yin Illusion Sarira to burn away ghostly figures, while Gao Ji revealed the fissure with the Heavenly Escape Mirror.
• Ge Fu and Tushan ordered a retreat, but strange darkness and crimson flames obscured the fissure as the group tried to escape.
• A figure resembling the dead Elder Hong attacked with Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Thunder, ripping apart the Great Evolution Formation and causing casualties.
• Tushan steadied the panicking cultivators, and Ge Fu struck Elder Hong with the Heaven-Piercing Dharma Palm, widening the fissure so more than a hundred people could charge through.
• A piercing sound rang out again, and Yu Ci heard screams as the ghost cultivators attacked the people crowded inside the five-colored cloudy vapor.

Yu Ci and the others fought off a wave of maddened ghost cultivators and Yin entities inside a strange realm, while figures resembling Elder Hong and Feng Ting appeared and vanished. The group concluded they might be trapped in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and planned to find a way toward the Southern Peak, while Yu Ci secretly placed starlight points into five ghost cultivators.

• Maddened ghost cultivators attacked the crowd as Yin entities surged into the Great Evolution Formation, and figures resembling Elder Hong and Feng Ting joined the assault.
• Miaoxiang struck the transformed ghost cultivators, whose bodies melted into crimson flames and smoke that spread through the formation.
• Yu Ci used the Taiyin Banner and Five Thunder Command to restrain the ghost cultivators, helping the four Void-Jumping experts and their guards repel the Yin tide.
• Tushan used a golden eagle talisman to scout the realm, then suggested that they had entered the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Ge Fu and Tushan reasoned that the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram had drawn them into a real realm and agreed to seek a route toward the Southern Peak.
• As Yu Ci lifted the restraint on the remaining ghost cultivators, he secretly flicked starlight points into five of their bodies.

Yu Ci watched the Great Evolution Formation’s deduction as Spirit Devouring Fire filled the realm and the dead appeared in the sky. When the Ten Directions Great Venerable’s followers began making a marker for his Unimpeded Minor Three Realms Banner, Yu Ci secretly focused on Gui Yi and recognized the Divine Path’s familiar aura.

• Tushan’s golden eagle talisman vanished in the flames, while his arrow and Ge Fu’s summoned ghost passed through unharmed, revealing that the barrier was Spirit Devouring Fire.
• Elder Hong, Feng Ting, and the dead talisman cultivators appeared embedded in the flaming sky; a sixteenth figure joined them, and Ge Fu identified him as Fan Hu, who had died at the Southern Peak Divine Prohibition.
• Ge Fu announced that the Ten Directions Great Venerable was coming, and Yu Ci learned that his Unimpeded Minor Three Realms Banner required a marker to bypass formations and prohibitions.
• Yu Ci secretly planted divine intent in Gui Yi as Ge Fu and You Songzi began creating the Great Venerable’s marker with his aura and impression.
• Yu Ci recognized the aura being invoked as the same one he had sensed before.

Yu Ci watched the Ten Directions Great Venerable empower Gui Yi and sensed that the magical treasure fragments were connected to the Great Venerable and Zhao Ziyue. A sudden Karmic Fire trapped the cultivators, leaving Tu Shan and Ge Fu to lead them in resisting the flames and deducing a way through the restriction.

• Yu Ci sensed power flow from the Ten Directions Great Venerable into Gui Yi and detected a corresponding change in Gui Yi’s inner void.
• The metallic moth fragments in Yu Ci’s Cloud Tower Tree space began trembling, strengthening his suspicion that they were connected to the Ten Directions Great Venerable and Zhao Ziyue.
• Blazing fire erupted from underground, killing more than twenty cultivators and trapping the survivors beneath a canopy of flames.
• Ge Fu urged the talisman cultivators to form their array in the air, while Tu Shan took control of the Great Evolution Formation and rallied the group.
• Ge Fu identified the restriction as Buddhist magical power, allowing the cultivators to adjust their deductions and work together to find a way out.
• Yu Ci continued monitoring Gui Yi and the flames before learning that the fire was Karmic Fire.

Yu Ci and the assembled cultivators watched the Ten Directions Great Venerable use his robe to block the karmic fire and seize a creature from within it. After crushing the creature, he drew the crowd’s attention to a newly appeared figure beneath the fiery canopy, which the Shadow Ghost suspected was a supreme being from the Western Buddhist Kingdom.

• The Shadow Ghost warned Yu Ci that karmic fire could destroy a cultivator’s prospects for longevity even if they survived it.
• The Unimpeded Minor Three Realms Banner brought Zhai Que'er, the Black Robe, and other leaders into the Great Evolution Formation.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived, prompting his followers to kneel, then spread his Dharma robe to block the converging karmic fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable pulled a charred, human-shaped creature out of the flames and crushed it, whereupon it vanished as smoke.
• The crowd saw a new, blood-eyed figure appear among those standing beneath the fiery canopy, and the Shadow Ghost identified it as a karmic manifestation of the Hellish Path.

Yu Ci and the others learned that their surroundings formed an incomplete Hell Path powered by their own karma, and the Ten Directions Great Venerable weakened it by repeatedly destroying the manifested Hell Beings. He then opened a passage through the Karmic Fire and rushed off to seize its hidden source, while Zhai Que'er tried to recruit Lu Dun to help.

• The Shadow Ghost explained that the Hell Beings were manifested from karma and that the hidden enemy had created an incomplete Hell Path by replacing the outside world's laws.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable repeatedly destroyed the Hell Beings, draining the Hell Path's limited supply of karma and suppressing the Karmic Fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable sensed something, swept open a passage through the flames, and left to seize the source of the Hell Path.
• Yu Ci realized Zhai Que'er was eyeing the Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe she had given him as a deposit.
• Zhai Que'er praised the Ten Directions Great Venerable and asked Lu Dun to help pursue the hidden enemy.

Yu Ci endured repeated crossings through the Karmic Fire to rescue the others, then nearly succumbed to its influence when resentment stirred his inner demons. After Shadow Ghost warned him, Yu Ci steadied himself and faced Ke You, who harassed Miao Xiang as she recovered.

• Yu Ci crossed the Karmic Fire repeatedly with the Azure Lotus Robe of the Great Void, rescuing Zhai Que'er, Long, Black Robe, Ke You, and Miao Xiang while the robe lost three of its nine lotuses.
• Yu Ci made a sixth crossing despite the danger because he feared Ke You would bully the weaker survivors, and he emerged with Ke You and Miao Xiang.
• Yu Ci's resentment and malice nearly provoked the Karmic Fire within him, but Shadow Ghost awakened him and he regained control of his thoughts.
• Ke You taunted Yu Ci and boasted that he would share Miao Xiang with him, while Yu Ci secretly connected his mind to the Cloud Tower Tree space.
• Ke You reached out to touch Miao Xiang's head, then screamed and cursed her.

Yu Ci and Miaoxiang drove Ke You away, but he returned with an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to threaten her. As Yu Ci prepared a counterattack, he suddenly sensed his location and the position of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion with startling clarity.

• Miaoxiang revealed that Ke You had been cursed with witch poison, and Ke You fled after recognizing her connection to Flying Soul City.
• Miaoxiang offered to kill Ke You to repay Yu Ci, but a figure approaching across the wilderness made Yu Ci identify it as Abbey Master and Miaoxiang name You Can.
• Yu Ci and Miaoxiang shouted together, dispelling the figure, and Ke You revealed that he had lured an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to exploit Miaoxiang's vulnerability.
• Yu Ci prepared an Upper Azure Star-Glow Induction Divine Thunder Talisman and infused it with White Tiger Baleful Intent, then suddenly sensed his location and the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion's position.

Yu Ci was trapped on a blood-soaked Execution Platform as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition summoned ghost sabers to attack those imprisoned across the land. After Yu Ci survived his saber’s first strike, Miaoxiang warned him that the Ghost Slaying Saber was storing power for a potentially devastating follow-up.

• Yu Ci’s connection to the stars was shattered as high platforms erupted from the ground and dragged him onto one covered in blood.
• Yu Ci spotted Miaoxiang and Ke You trapped on nearby platforms and saw the karmic fire weakened beneath the platforms’ blood eyes.
• A ghost saber rose before Yu Ci, Miaoxiang, Ke You, and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon; the saber before the demon killed it and absorbed its remains.
• Yu Ci resisted the ghost saber’s heart-seizing power, then struck when it appeared to become the Flowing Water Sword, but redirected his attack into a Flawless Sword Circle and survived its counterstrike.
• Miaoxiang explained that the Ghost Slaying Saber attacked its targets’ weaknesses and stored their power to prepare the God Slaying Saber.

Yu Ci survived the Ghost Slaying Saber’s test as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition gathered strength, while Miaoxiang explained that a more powerful God Slaying Saber would target the strongest person. The ordeal appeared to end, but the shrinking safe area around the Karmic Fire forced the trapped cultivators into fresh danger, and the God Slaying Saber still had not fallen.

• Yu Ci and the Shadow Ghost realized the Ghost Slaying Saber grew stronger by killing people within the prohibition, and they saw Ge Da’s death appear on its blade.
• The saber killed Ke You, absorbed power from both victims, and changed its ghostly face as Yu Ci feared it would find his weakness.
• The Ghost Slaying Saber rose away, releasing Yu Ci from the platform, and Miaoxiang said the remaining God Slaying Saber would target the strongest person among them.
• Miaoxiang recounted how Wu Gui Yu Ke had once used the prohibition to slay a hundred thousand heavenly demons before his enemies severed the earth veins.
• Yu Ci and Miaoxiang saw thunderfire erupt around the Karmic Fire, where Ling Xi Wanderer’s group faced a shrinking living space and four talisman cultivators burned to death.
• Miaoxiang wondered why the God Slaying Saber had still not fallen.

Yu Ci stayed behind while Miaoxiang went to aid the others, then secretly used the Xuan Ling Yin to find his own escape route. After boosting it with an earth-qi platform, he awakened a powerful gray-black light that felt like the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.

• Yu Ci told Miaoxiang he wanted to stay behind and find a way to save the Fu cultivator group, and she left to help the others.
• Yu Ci decided he could not rely on the Ten Directions Great Venerable, Zhai Que'er, or Zhao Ziyue and sought to create his own backup route.
• Yu Ci retrieved the Xuan Ling Yin from the Cloud Tower Tree space and exposed its statue form by cutting away its copper covering.
• Yu Ci buried the Xuan Ling Yin and drew earth qi into it, but its golden light spun erratically and the statue would not come free.
• Yu Ci attached his Mysterious Water Obsidian earth-qi platform to the Xuan Ling Yin, greatly accelerating the flow of earth qi.
• The Xuan Ling Yin emitted a gray-black flame-shaped light that dragged Yu Ci forward, reminding him of the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.

Yu Ci discovered that the Xuan Ling Yin contained something linked to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light, but the God Slaying Saber shattered Solitary Hell before he could investigate further. The Senluo Underworld God Prohibition began another round, and as the Ghost Slaying Saber grew stronger, a tremendous roar and the destruction of a box in Yu Ci’s Cloud Tower Tree space left him facing a new crisis.

• Yu Ci realized something was hidden inside the Xuan Ling Yin and pulled the statue free, triggering tremors in the ground.
• The God Slaying Saber struck Karmic Fire Hell, freezing and shattering its flames and collapsing Solitary Hell.
• Yu Ci hid the magnetic-fire-covered Xuan Ling Yin as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition summoned him back to the execution platform.
• The Ghost Slaying Saber killed more talisman cultivators and grew stronger, its ghost head swelling and gathering pale flames.
• A tremendous roar came from the Ten Directions Great Venerable’s direction, and the box of magic treasure fragments in Yu Ci’s Cloud Tower Tree space burst apart.

The Ten Directions Great Venerable unearthed a black lotus from beneath a monk’s skeleton, while Black Robe and Zhai Que'er tried to escape as the God Slaying Saber returned. Yu Ci dealt with the resulting chaos among the magic treasure fragments, and the chapter ended with the saber pointing at a crawling, mutilated figure.

• The Ten Directions Great Venerable broke free of the high platform, while Black Robe held back under Elder Long’s watch and Zhai Que'er questioned Elder Shi Fang about the treasure.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable uncovered a jade-like monk’s skeleton and swept it aside, revealing a concave pit filled with Karmic Fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable summoned an eighteen-petaled black lotus from the pit, and its resonance began changing his demonic physique.
• Zhai Que'er signaled Black Robe, who collapsed his platform to escape just as the God Slaying Saber appeared again.
• Yu Ci severed the connection to the Inner Void to stop the magic treasure fragments from running amok, then saw the saber point toward a figure crawling on scorched arms without its lower limbs.

Yu Ci realized the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition targeted what it considered the greatest threat, and the God Slaying Saber destroyed the ancient Hell Being. A black lotus then revealed the true Hell Path, while a vast disturbance elsewhere made Shadow Ghost suspect the Hungry Ghost Path had also appeared.

• Yu Ci reasoned that an ancient Hell Being had survived inside the Solitary Hell and that the God Slaying Saber judged threats rather than simply targeting the strongest.
• The God Slaying Saber struck again and vaporized the half-bodied Hell Being as Yu Ci watched from the high platform.
• A massive, expanding pillar of gray qi rose near the Ten Directions Great Venerable and the others, seeming to devour its surroundings.
• A black lotus grew from the Hell Being’s remains, displaying the essence of the Hell Path and a struggling mass of gray qi.
• Shadow Ghost recognized the lotus as the true Hell Path, not a Buddhist projection, and then identified the distant anomaly as possibly the Hungry Ghost Path.

Ten Directions Great Venerable unleashed the Hungry Ghost Path, transforming his followers and flooding the area with a monstrous tide as the struggle for the Black Lotus erupted. Yu Ci fled the devastation while Ling Xi Wanderer suddenly moved on its own.

• Zhai Que'er and Miaoxiang watched a filthy tide of monsters pour from the swollen mass of gray energy, and Zhai Que'er ordered their forces to seize the Black Lotus.
• A giant transformed into a Vajra Yaksha Dharma Form attacked the Demonic Sect cultivators at the lotus, while Old Ghost revealed himself as a Void Yaksha and killed one of them.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable empowered seven more followers into Yakshas and Rakshasas, triggering a fierce battle around the Black Lotus.
• The monster tide swept across the land and devoured high platforms, so Yu Ci fled with his Void Movement Talisman as Shadow Ghost warned him about the Hungry Ghost Path’s divine ability.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost noticed that Ling Xi Wanderer had moved without Yu Ci’s command.

Ling Xi Wanderer secretly scraped something from the black lotus before Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived and seized most of its fragments. As the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram expelled the battlefield’s combatants, Yu Ci’s Xuan Ling Yin connected him to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light and left him standing alone.

• Ling Xi Wanderer disguised his escape amid the fighting, scraped the black lotus with his stinger, and fled while Yu Ci recognized the lotus’s influence on him.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived as a Ksitigarbha avatar and sent a giant hand to seize the black lotus, while Elder Long cut the hand with his Heaven Has No Sun technique.
• The severed hand lost its connection to Ten Directions Great Venerable, and the black lotus scattered into eighteen petals that were ground into fragments.
• Shadow Ghost explained that the lotus was only a projection of the Hell Path’s fundamental laws, not a restored Six Paths Samsara.
• The Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram began shifting the battlefield, but the Xuan Ling Yin’s magnetic fire anchored Yu Ci and connected him to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.
• The battlefield’s combatants were expelled, with Ten Directions Great Venerable claiming most of the lotus fragments, while Yu Ci remained alone on the ground.

Yu Ci learned to steer Xuan Ling Yin through the moving Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light and used his natal star to navigate the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion. He discovered a monk’s skeleton burning in Karmic Fire, and a magic treasure fragment flew into its Buddha bone, igniting a strange golden flame.

• Yu Ci realized Xuan Ling Yin let him escape the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram and ride the flowing magnetic force.
• Yu Ci used his connection to his natal star to determine his direction, steer Xuan Ling Yin, and reach solid ground.
• Yu Ci found a monk’s skeleton burning in Karmic Fire near the Concave Pit, and the shadow ghost identified it as the remains of a high-level Buddhist cultivator.
• The shadow ghost explained that the monk’s death might be linked to a demonic tribulation and discussed Buddhist schemes involving the Ten Dharma Worlds and Six Paths Samsara.
• Yu Ci exposed a magic treasure fragment, which shot into the skeleton’s right-hand Buddha bone and triggered a golden flame.

Yu Ci investigated the golden flame and the skeleton’s finger bone, then sensed Zhao Ziyue arriving to claim the remains. Miao Xiang intercepted Zhao Ziyue and asked for a section of Buddha bone, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Yu Ci fed magical treasure fragments into the skeleton’s golden-flamed finger bone and observed that the fragments were absorbed and transformed within it.
• Yu Ci copied the skeleton into his Inner Void and noticed that it sat in the full lotus position, but distant chains clattering interrupted his investigation.
• Yu Ci severed the skeleton’s right index finger with the Seven Star Sword and sent divine intent toward the approaching disturbance.
• Zhao Ziyue used the Ding Shan Anchor to reach the skeleton, covered it with a bronze bell, and began sealing its Karmic Fire so he could take it away.
• Miao Xiang attacked Zhao Ziyue with Yin Illusion Fire, stopped him from retrieving the remains, and asked him for a section of Buddha bone.

Zhao Ziyue tried to persuade Master Miao Xiang to leave the Buddha skeleton, warning that its vow-power and karmic force could endanger her cultivation. Zhai Que'er arrived and exposed that she and Miao Xiang were together, so Zhao Ziyue activated a prepared beast-spirit technique as the chapter ended.

• Master Miao Xiang cut Zhao Ziyue's iron chain with a jade blade, severing his retreat and inspecting the bronze bell.
• Zhao Ziyue told Miao Xiang that the skeleton belonged to Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha, whose vow to reconstruct Six Paths Samsara had saturated the remains with dangerous vow-power.
• Zhao Ziyue questioned Miao Xiang's use of Buddha bone for her Yin Illusion Sarira and offered to connect her with figures who could help her cultivation.
• Zhai Que'er arrived through the void, and Zhao Ziyue realized she and Master Miao Xiang were together.
• Zhao Ziyue activated his protective artifact and summoned a colossal beast from the ground with Demonic Blood Transforms Jade and Beast Spirit Summoning.