Recaps

Yu Ci watched Zhan Shuicheng and Xin Yi’s contest through a water mirror, gathering fragments of insight before True Man Guangwei summoned him to the next round. The first round went to Zhan Shuicheng, and Yu Ci arrived in the Dragon Transformation Brahma Degree Heaven as she scratched Xin Yi awake.

• Yu Ci realized that fully analyzing the vast rune-fractal realm would exhaust his Innate Vital Energy, so he watched Zhan Shuicheng’s movements instead and collected scattered insights.
• As Zhan Shuicheng and the two black cats entered another void, its strange sounds startled Yu Ci, and the water mirror disappeared.
• True Man Guangwei invited Yu Ci onto a rainbow bridge, questioned him about his sect, and accepted his claim that he was an unaffiliated spirit.
• True Man Guangwei explained that Zhan Shuicheng had located Xin Yi’s true form, winning the first round, and brought Yu Ci to the Dragon Transformation Brahma Degree Heaven.
• Zhan Shuicheng pounced on Xin Yi and scratched his face, scolding him for fighting while injured, as Xin Yi insisted he could not wake up.

Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng played Go using Karmic Fire as the pieces, while Yu Ci watched and tried to understand their motives. After Zhan Shuicheng captured several of Xin Yi’s pieces, she challenged Yu Ci and ordered him to finish the game in Xin Yi’s place.

• Xin Yi chose Go as the contest and offered Yu Ci an immortal fruit, which eased his fatigue.
• Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng began playing with Karmic Fire and star-like white stones on a board carved into the table.
• Zhan Shuicheng captured several of Xin Yi’s Karmic Fire pieces and questioned whether he could keep up with her.
• Zhan Shuicheng invited Yu Ci to play, saying that competing against Xin Yi felt unfairly easy.
• Zhan Shuicheng climbed onto Yu Ci’s head and told him to sit down and finish the game with Xin Yi.

Yu Ci was made to play chess between Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng, serving as a buffer for their dangerous powers while they used the game to declare their positions. Xin Yi won and swept away the Karmic Fire, but the scene vanished into a black sandstorm as Zhan Shuicheng accused him of abandoning the battle.

• Yu Ci used starlit white stones to suppress the Karmic Fire and played chess by copying Xin Yi’s moves beside him.
• Zhan Shuicheng noted that Yu Ci’s qi channels adapted well to the palace’s sealing methods.
• As Xin Yi captured Yu Ci’s stones, Yu Ci endured the clashing qi of Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng, which the chessboard and Yu Ci helped buffer.
• Xin Yi defeated Yu Ci, and Yu Ci realized the game had declared the positions of Mount Bajing and Ruizhu Palace toward the Karmic Fire.
• Xin Yi swept away the Karmic Fire and departed as a black sandstorm swallowed the scenery, prompting Zhan Shuicheng to accuse him of deserting before the battle.

Yu Ci studied the Nine Nether Prison and waited for his Primordial Spirit's deduction to resume. Through the demonic seed's residual spirit, he discovered that Xin Yi's sealed Yellow Springs Secret Mansion had become a vast Karmic Fire realm filled with Hell Beings, suggesting it could turn into a miniature Hell Path.

• Yu Ci returned to his cave dwelling, gave Gu Zhi refined Infant Tongue Incense for Su Yu, and began studying the Nine Nether Prison in seclusion.
• Yu Ci learned that his Primordial Spirit had delayed its deduction to process new insights, so he joined in the ongoing cultivation and analysis.
• The Shadow Ghost and Five Peaks Origin Spirit returned after failing to find Lu Qing and reported that hundreds of cultivators had died trying to reach the sealed Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Yu Ci used the demonic seed's residual spirit to examine the secret mansion and saw that Karmic Fire had spread across a radius of three hundred li.
• Yu Ci observed beings within the flames and guessed that the Karmic Fire had absorbed the mansion's tribulation victims and heavenly demons, forming a growing population of Hell Beings.

Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost weighed how to cross the Yellow Springs and reach each other without alerting Xin Yi, while Yu Ci studied the expanding Hell Path. They discovered a Solitary Hell forming in the Deathly Yin Desolate Cave, and Yu Ci recognized that its victim could remanifest within the Hell Path.

• Yu Ci studied the laws of the expanding Hell Path and noted details for reference before meeting Shadow Ghost across the Yellow Springs River.
• Little Five explained that the Yellow Springs and Yellow Dragon could be temporarily suppressed, but crossing would risk alerting Xin Yi and require facing the Nether Void Thunder Sword Array.
• Shadow Ghost proposed trapping Lu Suhua, but Yu Ci rejected the plan and favored a safer approach.
• Shadow Ghost spotted a person falling into the Deathly Yin Desolate Cave and hid with Little Five while Yu Ci watched through their shared perspective.
• A hideous ghost fused with the corpse and dragged it into a Solitary Hell, where the victim began groaning again.
• Shadow Ghost explained that a person trapped in the Solitary Hell could remanifest within the Hell Path, and Yu Ci told it to stand by.

Yu Ci entered a profound state of cultivation and used the Life and Death Talisman to open a miniature astral world within his mind. He declared himself heaven and began establishing a foundation for the world, while a disturbance in the sky caught the attention of a black cat in the Yuangguang Pavilion.

• Yu Ci’s essence, qi, and spirit converged as he entered deep stillness, and his magical artifacts detached from him.
• Yu Ci formed the Life and Death Talisman, whose explosive power opened the void and revealed the starry world he had constructed.
• Yu Ci rose above the miniature firmament, surveyed its stars, and declared himself heaven with everything beneath him as earth.
• Yu Ci’s Equality Bead and Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror sent a beam through the earth into the sky, where it burst into falling starlight.
• A black cat in the Yuangguang Pavilion noticed the astral disturbance, wondered if someone was masking heavenly secrets, and decided to sleep before contacting her senior sister.

Yu Ci used the Equality Bead and the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to extend his divine-intent starlight across the human realm and open countless Inner Voids. As a new heaven formed between the stars and the human realm, Bai Lian approached Qiongqi amid the Northern Wastes’ turmoil.

• The creatures of the Northern Wastes sensed a disturbance and fled as a flying vessel passed through the storms.
• Yuan Haifei urged Bai Lian to investigate the disturbance, but she left the vessel and descended into the black storm.
• Bai Lian found Qiongqi and explained that a demonic sect’s domain was trying to corrupt the surrounding creatures, offering to help him recover.
• Yu Ci spread divine-intent starlight through the human realm, using its inhabitants’ perceptions to complete the Zhaoshen Map.
• Yu Ci used the starlight to open Inner Voids within countless targets, and their colored lights gathered into a new heaven beneath the stars.

Yu Ci tested his newly formed realm by drawing in cultivators, but Du Hushuan resisted being expelled and began devouring its contents. Yu Ci used the disruption to introduce a treasure seal into Chengqitian to suppress its shifting desires.

• Yu Ci expelled several cultivators whose true spirits entered his realm, then questioned the dying cultivator Xusheng, who begged for an opportunity.
• Du Hushuan arrived, protected his true spirit from Yu Ci’s attempt to dismiss him, and revealed himself as the mid-stage Void Stepping cultivator known as the Sky Swallowing Hound.
• Du Hushuan rejected Yu Ci’s explanation and began devouring the realm’s shifting images and turbid Qi.
• Yu Ci let Du Hushuan rampage as he prepared Chengqitian, the realm’s middle layer where his own cultivation foundation met the world manifested through the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.
• Yu Ci called down a treasure seal and pressed it into the center of Chengqitian to restrain its unstable flows of desire.

Du Hu Shan tried to seize a powerful Dharma treasure but discovered his opponent had assembled a layered Void Stepping Domain that overwhelmed his projected true spirit. He escaped back to his body, only to be killed by a celestial voice that named him Cheng Qi and sent him to Tu Ling.

• Du Hu Shan saw the treasure seal suppress the Six Desires Turbid Stream and rushed toward it, hoping to defile it and steal the treasure.
• A dharma altar and ritual implements appeared, and a dragon-like beast placed a talisman bead at the altar's center, strengthening the surrounding spiritual formation.
• A giant turtle and a giant tiger manifested in the northern and western realms, adding further layers to the Void Stepping Domain and trapping Du Hu Shan's projected true spirit.
• Du Hu Shan abandoned his attempt to seize the treasure and pulled his true spirit back into his body when a celestial light threatened to shatter it.
• Du Hu Shan decided to investigate his mysterious opponent, but a voice declared him Cheng Qi and sent him to Tu Ling, killing him as dark green light burst from his face and apertures.

Yu Ci completed the basic four-layer framework of Chengqitian and subdued Du Hu Shan by trapping his soul in Tu Ling Prison. He then began inviting powerful presences to ascend their seats, while Old Daoist Xusheng watched in awe and terror.

• Yu Ci sent Du Hu Shan's soul into Tu Ling Prison and suppressed him with an imitation Void Stepping Domain.
• Yu Ci noted that the Equality Bead's ten-breath effect had ended and turned his attention from organizing Chengqitian to an unavoidable matter.
• Yu Ci manifested himself atop the vault of heaven and invited a pale-blue, shape-shifting flame to ascend its seat.
• Yu Ci invited a presence marked by an invisible sword-hum and ripples in the void to ascend its seat.
• Old Daoist Xusheng watched the manifestations and knelt under the sword pressure as Du Hu Shan cried out from below.
• Yu Ci invited another presence associated with black mist, filth, and demonic forms to ascend its seat.

Yu Ci created Equality Heaven to stabilize his inner void by offering up several powerful forces, but the Tai Xuan Seal manifested in an unexpected way. He then contacted Tie Lan and tested a technique that caused sword qi to rise within Chengqitian.

• Yu Ci offered up the Nether Sun Illusory Light, the Jade Tower Sword Sound, and the demonic text, but their clashing power threatened the inner void’s stability.
• Yu Ci bowed toward the south to offer up the Tai Xuan Seal, which appeared without a dharma aspect and instead made the new celestial domain glow throughout.
• Yu Ci sensed how Zhan Shuicheng’s past use of the Tai Xuan Seal had left bodily memories that helped him understand its operation.
• The inner void stabilized and gained a new layer that Yu Ci named Equality Heaven.
• Yu Ci contacted Tie Lan through the Shadow Ghost and asked him to assist with a technique.
• After Yu Ci and Tie Lan meditated, sword qi surged from Chengqitian, and Yu Ci shifted his mind toward it.

True Man Guangwei investigated Du Hu Shan’s unexplained death and heard accounts of others disturbed during meditation. In the Dead Yin Abyss, Yu Ci demonstrated his new Mind Image Clone ability and sought the Shadow Ghost’s advice, leaving the Shadow Ghost strangely unsettled after hearing that Yu Ci had fought Du Hu Shan.

• Jiang Wang led True Man Guangwei to inspect Du Hu Shan’s untouched corpse, which bore no external wounds but showed signs of an attack in his brain palace.
• Zhi Shui and Hong An told Guangwei that they had been disturbed during meditation by an unusual realm, and Guangwei noted that Du Hu Shan’s death made the incidents serious.
• Yu Ci appeared in the Dead Yin Abyss through his Mind Image Clone, astonishing the Shadow Ghost and Tie Lan.
• Yu Ci explained that his ability let him travel through people connected to Chengqitian, but it required both him and his host to expend vital strength.
• Yu Ci described his battle with Du Hu Shan and asked the Shadow Ghost for guidance on the Void Stepping Domain, prompting an unusually strange reaction.

Yu Ci tried to learn how to use his domain from Shadow Ghost while a group of cultivators approached the Yellow Springs River and a powerful attack disturbed the area. Shadow Ghost pushed Yu Ci to test his domain in combat, and Yu Ci discovered he could control an enemy’s breathing.

• Shadow Ghost explained that using a domain for defense demanded an extremely high level of technique, then paused to consider how to guide Yu Ci.
• Eight cultivators gathered by the Yellow Springs River, spread out to investigate, and killed newcomers who provoked them.
• A fire dragon blasted a node in the river’s aura flow, triggering a backlash that swept Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost away despite the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost returned toward the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, where the group attacked them; Shadow Ghost used Little Five to repel the magical artifacts and suggested Yu Ci practice his domain.
• Yu Ci expanded his starry domain to trap six cultivators and summoned the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect, then used control over the domain to make one enemy choke and bleed.

Yu Ci used Shadow Ghost’s instruction to conceal himself within his domain and combine it with the Rainbow Cutting Light Extinguishing Method to kill Gao Yong and his subordinates. Shadow Ghost warned that a stronger expert had arrived, leaving Yu Ci to decide how to respond.

• Yu Ci disrupted an enemy’s blood and qi circulation through his domain, and Shadow Ghost urged him to conceal his true position and exploit the domain more fully.
• Gao Yong led his remaining subordinates in a charge, but Yu Ci vanished from their perception beneath the starry domain.
• Gao Yong sensed Lord Hun Liao approaching and redirected his group toward a disturbance in the spiritual light.
• Yu Ci unleashed the Rainbow Cutting Light Extinguishing Method with the tiger Dharma Aspect, killing Gao Yong’s group and destroying their escaping primordial spirits.
• Shadow Ghost praised Yu Ci’s use of the domain and talisman, then pointed out that an expert had arrived.

Yu Ci and his companions concealed themselves while observing Hun Liao, whose sword intent had revealed a hidden expert with power at least equal to a Longevity True Man. As the expert attacked Hun Liao with Crimson Fire Demonic Flame, Hun Liao unleashed a strange sword domain that opened a patch of space in the boiling strata.

• Yu Ci withdrew his domain, then used Xiao Wu’s earth-qi barrier and Grand Unity Star Pivot Clones to hide his group and mislead the approaching swordsman.
• Yu Ci recognized the swordsman as Hun Liao, whom he had fought before, and watched him ignore the clones’ false trails.
• A distant clone detected a hidden expert, so Yu Ci made it explode and drew Hun Liao toward the expert’s location.
• The hidden expert revealed overwhelming power and attacked Hun Liao with a giant flaming hand, which Shadow Ghost identified as Crimson Fire Demonic Flame.
• Shadow Ghost said Yu Ci might survive such a threat by using his domain, then watched Hun Liao’s sword light twist into a fierce ghostlike form and carve out space in the boiling strata.

Yu Ci, Little Five, and the Shadow Ghost watched “Hun Liao” escape a giant hand, only for Zhao Ziyue’s Karmic Fire domain to engulf him. The opposing domains withdrew before they could identify one another, and Karmic Fire then spread toward Little Five and the others.

• The Shadow Ghost recognized “Hun Liao” as a skilled wielder of Spirit-Infused Sword Intent as he escaped the giant hand and used a fire dragon’s attack on the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion to cover his flight.
• A second domain of Karmic Fire appeared, fused with the giant hand’s domain, and burned “Hun Liao” to death.
• The expanding domains reached Little Five, but both sides abruptly withdrew instead of fighting, preventing Yu Ci and the others from identifying their opponent.
• Yu Ci concluded that Zhao Ziyue had escaped Solitary Hell with Karmic Fire and that his symbiotic cat had received him outside; the Shadow Ghost remembered Yu Ci’s devil seed was still inside the secret mansion.
• Karmic Fire spread along the edge of Little Five’s domain, and Yu Ci stopped Little Five as it prepared to seal the flame away.

Yu Ci tested a way to borrow the Grand Profound Seal, then brought Shadow Ghost into his Inner Void. Shadow Ghost saw a way to perfect Yu Ci’s domain, but demanded an oath before helping him.

• Yu Ci invited divine intent into his domain and borrowed the Grand Profound Seal to suppress the Karmic Fire, though the attempt drained him heavily and remained difficult to control.
• Shadow Ghost recognized that Yu Ci had imitated Xin Yi’s method of inviting divine intent and offered to advise him inside the Inner Void.
• Yu Ci brought Shadow Ghost’s true spirit into the Inner Void and showed him Equality Heaven and its manifested sword scripture.
• Shadow Ghost praised the potential of Yu Ci’s void divine ability combined with his domain and said he could help perfect it if Yu Ci swore an oath.

Yu Ci questioned Shadow Ghost’s demand for an oath, and Shadow Ghost revealed that he wanted to replace the Karmaless Sword Immortal. Shadow Ghost argued that Yu Ci needed to establish a Great Luo Heaven in his Inner Void to connect it to the heavenly Dao, then offered to help him do so.

• Shadow Ghost asked Yu Ci to help him become the Karmaless Sword Immortal and replace him.
• Yu Ci challenged Shadow Ghost’s ambition, pointing out the vast gap between their current position and the Karmaless Sword Immortal’s.
• Shadow Ghost promised to aid Yu Ci and asked only for future freedom to pursue his goal without Yu Ci obstructing him.
• Shadow Ghost said Yu Ci’s Inner Void lacked a Great Luo Heaven, which was necessary to communicate with the heavenly Dao and develop profound mysteries.
• Yu Ci admitted he could not establish the Great Luo Heaven, and Shadow Ghost offered to help.

Old Daoist Xusheng reported the inspection of the Sanlian Bastions to a timid girl at the Celestial Immortal’s altar, where a celestial phenomenon began to reveal the Azure Heavens. Meanwhile, Yu Chi prepared to use Yinggui’s theory of the Great Luo Heaven to manifest the internal scenery externally.

• Old Daoist Xusheng waited for the inspectors to leave and used his mind-will to reach the Celestial Immortal’s realm.
• Old Daoist Xusheng found a little girl at the altar and reported that True Man Guangwei and other cultivators were inspecting the Sanlian Bastions over the Du Hu Shan affair.
• The little girl said Senior Apprentice Brother was cultivating, then noticed the star Bei Luo Shi Men growing brighter as the altar’s ritual implements and golden-horned black dragon responded.
• The little girl warned Old Daoist Xusheng that the scene would manifest and told him to work hard; a beam of light cleared the clouds and revealed the Azure Heavens.
• Yinggui called for preparations as Yu Chi considered Yinggui’s theory that the Great Luo Heaven was the root of divine power.

Yu Ci used the Jade Chen Spirit Opening Opens Heaven and Earth Gate Method to draw power from beyond the realms into his inner void, reinforcing its separation from his physical body while risking the destruction of Chengqitian. After the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal transformed the destructive energy, Dian Dian urged Old Daoist Xusheng to go outside and help Yu Ci succeed.

• Yu Ci prepared to widen the disconnection between his inner void and physical body by making the inner void grow faster.
• Yu Ci manifested the Jade Chen Spirit Opening Opens Heaven and Earth Gate Method and opened a gateway to draw power from beyond the realms.
• The resulting rosy light ravaged Chengqitian and destroyed more than half of its newly formed scenery.
• The Jade God Cave Spirit Seal divided and transformed the destructive light, leaving Chengqitian scarred but more vivid.
• Dian Dian asked Old Daoist Xusheng to go outside, saying it would improve Senior Brother's chances of success.

Yu Ci used Little Wu and Old Daoist Xusheng to make the Inner Void interact with the Azure Sky Domain, finding key atmospheric nodes for his attempt to manifest it outward. Shadow Ghost copied those nodes and prepared to use them to deceive heaven.

• Little Wu demonstrated that she could send the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light beyond Chengqitian, and Old Daoist Xusheng realized he needed to cross into the Azure Sky Domain himself.
• Yu Ci recognized that Little Wu’s manifestation strengthened the Inner Void’s connection to the outside world and considered how to approximate Great Luo Heaven without its supreme mental formula.
• Old Daoist Xusheng crossed the five-colored clouds into the Azure Sky Domain, where the gang winds nearly dispersed his manifested phantom.
• Little Wu rescued Old Daoist Xusheng, and Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost identified the atmospheric change caused by his passage as a critical node.
• Shadow Ghost copied the key atmospheric conditions and began using them as a framework to deceive heaven.

Feng Wang investigated a surge in demonic intent at the Earth Fire Demon Palace and discovered a trace of the Devil Master's Yama Seal in the Sacred Canon. He left the cause unresolved, with the sign pointing to a connection involving Blood Prison Ghost Manor.

• Feng Wang hurried to the Earth Fire Demon Palace after its demonic intent intensified, and learned that Di Tianluo was inside.
• Feng Wang entered the abyss platform and asked Di Tianluo what had caused the change; she said she had seen mysterious light from the Sacred Canon.
• Feng Wang used the platform's restrictions to examine the Sacred Canon and traced the light to the Blood Prison Division, linked to the Great Brahma Demon King.
• Feng Wang noticed a faint pattern in the Blood Prison Division and recognized it as a Yama Seal, a trace of the Devil Master's divine awareness.

Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost tricked Heaven’s Will into recognizing Chengqitian as part of the Azure Sky Domain, then endured the backlash and brought the Inner Void to completion. The Azure Sky Domain settled with a new city-like expanse among its clouds.

• Feng Wang reacted with alarm to the appearance of a Yama Seal and hurried away, while Di Tianluo resumed her ritual.
• Shadow Ghost gathered Chengqitian’s auras and spread a false mark as Yu Ci sealed away the realm’s true traces.
• Yu Ci’s plan made Chengqitian pass Heaven’s Will’s judgment, but the resulting backlash scattered Shadow Ghost’s true spirit and threatened Yu Ci.
• Yu Ci invoked the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal to disrupt the forming vortex, exhausting his vital energy and injuring his main body.
• Yu Ci called on Little Five, whose Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram subdued the turbulent vital energy.
• The restored flow of vital energy completed Yu Ci’s Inner Void, and colorful clouds formed a city-like area in the Azure Sky Domain.

The cultivators investigating the fiend in Fengdu City reached Jiu Yan’s cave residence, where Yu Ci had just emerged from seclusion. After he answered their routine questions without drawing suspicion, Xin Yi noticed something unusual in his image and asked how much lifespan he had left.

• The sect cultivators argued over how to investigate the fiend, and Daoist Yang Yin led them to Jiu Yan’s cave residence.
• Guan Zheng arrived and urged the group not to disturb Jiu Yan, explaining that he was a fragrance master and an honored guest at Yuangguang Pavilion.
• Jiu Yan opened the door, and Tai Heng explained the search and asked him to answer questions.
• Yu Ci answered the investigators while concealing his identity and intentions, and his image was sent to the senior figures for review.
• Xin Yi stopped the water-mirror image and asked the others to estimate how much lifespan Jiu Yan had left.

True Man Guangwei suspected that a demon had drained Jiu Yan’s Innate Vital Energy, while Zhan Shuicheng confronted Jiu Yan about his recent seclusion. Yu Ci tried to conceal his identity by claiming his seclusion followed an insight from a sealing wager, leaving the onlookers astonished by his implied connection to Zhan Shuicheng and Xin Yi.

• True Man Guangwei estimated that Jiu Yan had only twenty years of life left, but Xin Yi and Zhan Shuicheng said he should have decades more.
• True Man Guangwei suspected the demon had harvested Jiu Yan’s Innate Vital Energy, and Zhan Shuicheng went to question him.
• Huang Zhao tried to praise Jiu Yan’s supposed favor with Zhan Shuicheng, but Zhan Shuicheng rebuked him and demanded to know why Jiu Yan had secluded himself.
• Yu Ci claimed he had gained an insight after playing chess with Zhan Shuicheng and Xin Yi, then said it concerned sealing.
• The people nearby were stunned by Yu Ci’s claim to have gained insight from the sealing wager of two celebrated masters.