Recaps

Fan Lingrong tried to draw Gui Yan into her plans while Yu Ci examined her mind and confirmed she had formed an Advancement Demonic Seed. Yu Ci uncovered the dark line behind her scheme and faced a choice: preserve the seed or consume it.

• Fan Lingrong tested Gui Yan's reactions and considered using beauty, Dragon Heart Hall's resources, or the force behind the dark line to win his support.
• Gui Yan's power overwhelmed Fan Lingrong's body, and she slumped onto his lap while continuing to plan how to make him control the schemers outside.
• Yu Ci classified demonic seeds and determined that Fan Lingrong's clear-minded ambition had formed an Advancement Demonic Seed.
• Yu Ci used the seed to capture Fan Lingrong's thoughts, uncovered the dark line, and considered whether to keep or swallow the seed.

Yu Ci chose to forcibly replace Fan Lingrong’s true seed with a demonic seed, sacrificing her chance at longevity for the immediate gains. He left the multi-storied boat undetected to find a place to digest the seed.

• Yu Ci weighed the slow cultivation and forced-swallowing methods for demonic seeds, concluding that his lack of mental strength and suitable methods ruled out the former.
• Fan Lingrong warned Guiyan that his actions could expose the danger surrounding her and Dragon Heart Hall, but he saw through her attempt to raise the hall’s value.
• The maidservants dragged Fan Lingrong away from Guiyan and tore open her robes as the Six Desires Turbid Stream overwhelmed her clarity.
• Yu Ci chose to swallow Fan Lingrong’s true seed, then left the multi-storied boat unseen to find a place to digest it.

Lu Qian reconsidered Tianhai Sect’s fragile business alliance and grew wary of the forces manipulating it. After Gui Yan and Fan Lingrong left the tower ship, the merchants found Fan Lingrong had killed several maidservants, while Lu Qian realized a merchant had escaped to report to Suixin Pavilion.

• Lu Qian reflected on Tianhai Sect’s lost backing, its alliance with Dragon Heart Hall, and the East Sea and South Sea merchants’ failed attempt to challenge the Sea Merchant Guild.
• Fan Lingrong cried out “Devil Lord” from above, and Lu Qian left the meeting place rather than endure the merchants’ suspicious glances.
• A servant told Lu Qian that Fan Lingrong had left the ship, and he saw a merchant’s Five Spirits Flying Wheel depart soon afterward.
• Lu Qian found the merchants gathered around several dead maidservants and learned from Hu Sihai that Fan Lingrong had killed them herself.
• Hu Sihai said Fan Lingrong had suffered a loss of vital essence after facing Gui Yan, while Lu Qian suspected the departing merchant had gone to inform Suixin Pavilion.
• Lu Qian realized that Hu Sihai had let the merchant go and warned himself that Suixin Pavilion’s channels did not necessarily speak for the pavilion.

Yu Ci weighed how to use the exchanged True Seed while searching his scattered memories for a crucial clue, but Fan Lingrong’s arrival interrupted him. Fan Lingrong went to meet Lei Tong on the East River and found Suixin Pavilion’s Myriad Transformation Boat waiting there.

• Yu Ci considered whether to use the True Seed on his true body, divided thought, Gui Yan, or the black flood dragon’s remains, and concluded he could not connect it to his true body.
• A flash of spiritual light led Yu Ci to a mysterious fragment in his scattered memories, and he sat in the heavenly domain to trace its meaning.
• Fan Lingrong arrived at the East River after a day and night of travel and used incense to signal the person she had come to meet.
• Suixin Pavilion’s Myriad Transformation Boat appeared in a vast fog, so Fan Lingrong sent her maid away and walked across the water toward it.
• Lei Tong called out from the boat, asking why Fan Lingrong had arrived late after he had waited for her.

Fan Lingrong arrived at the Suixin Pavilion and was caught between Lei Tong’s attempt to receive and inspect her and Bai Qinghui’s efforts to take her in. After Qiu Pei’s sword found no demonic trace, Fan Lingrong entered the pleasure boat and greeted Fairy Murong.

• Fan Lingrong ignored the reception boat’s cloud bridge and boarded Bai Qinghui’s pleasure boat instead.
• Bai Qinghui rebuked the manager and told him to tell Lei Tong that she had received Fan Lingrong.
• Lei Tong sent Lei Yi and Qiu Pei to use the Violet Splendor Demon Subduing Canopy and a Demon Slaying Sword to check Fan Lingrong for demonic traces.
• Qiu Pei’s sword passed untainted, and she returned to the pavilion while Bai Qinghui angrily pulled Fan Lingrong inside.
• Fan Lingrong entered the cabin and greeted Fairy Murong.

Fan Lingrong met with Murong Qingyan, who explained Flying Soul City’s plans to work with Suixin Pavilion and use Dragon Heart Hall as a foothold in the Southern Lands. Murong then delivered Master Wansi’s greeting to Mister Ghost Abomination, alarming Yu Ci from afar as he wondered whether his demonic substitution had been exposed.

• Bai Qinghui complained to Murong Qingyan that Lei Tong had treated her rudely, then left the cabin to deal with him.
• The chapter described Flying Soul City’s offer of Mirage Tower slots to Suixin Pavilion and Murong Qingyan’s role as its envoy and spirit witch.
• Fan Lingrong realized Bai Qinghui had left her alone with Murong Qingyan so they could discuss Flying Soul City’s plans to use Dragon Heart Hall as an agent in the Southern Lands.
• Murong Qingyan told Fan Lingrong that Master Wansi of the Nine Profound Demonic Sect had asked her to greet Mister Ghost Abomination.
• Yu Ci, listening from afar, feared that Murong Qingyan had discovered his demonic substitution, while Fan Lingrong asked whether the visitor was Wansi Wuming.

Yu Ci, acting through Gui Yan, learned that Wan Wuming expected Gui Yan’s name to appear on the Demonic Sect’s Sacred Canon, though Gui Yan’s altered state made that seem impossible. Fairy Murong gave Fan Lingrong a passage about a rebellious Free Heavenly Demon, stirring Gui Yan’s sealed memories and revealing the Demonic Sect’s long-standing struggle between reliance on the Primordial Demon Lord and the desire to break free.

• Fairy Murong explained that Wan Wuming expected Gui Yan’s true name to fall upon his branch of the Sacred Canon.
• Yu Ci questioned how Gui Yan’s name could remain on the Sacred Canon after his connection to the Primordial Demon Sect had been severed.
• Fan Lingrong asked Fairy Murong to clarify the matter, and Fairy Murong handed her a geographic gazette.
• Fan Lingrong read about a Free Heavenly Demon who betrayed the Demonic Sect and perished after fighting former disciples above the northern glaciers.
• The passage stirred Gui Yan’s sealed memories of powerful Demonic Sect cultivators seeking to escape their dependence on the Primordial Demon Lord.
• Gui Yan realized that Wan Wuming had misunderstood the situation.

Yu Ci recognized the Dao Intent Jade Cicada shell Murong Qingyan brought as a chance to capture another fragment of his divided consciousness, while Fan Lingrong used Guiyan’s guidance to crack it and secretly collect the fragment. Murong Qingyan then offered to mediate between Guiyan and the Flower Demon, but Fan Lingrong rejected her approach and asked what she thought Guiyan should pursue.

• Yu Ci connected Wanwan Wuming’s suspicions about Guiyan to the Dao Intent Jade Cicada and considered Murong Qingyan’s unusual neutrality.
• Murong Qingyan revealed the Dao Intent Jade Cicada’s molted shell and said another person had asked her to deliver a message to Guiyan.
• Fan Lingrong identified the shell as a mere layer of skin, cracked it with a precisely aimed flick, and secretly collected the divided consciousness inside.
• Murong Qingyan offered to mediate between Guiyan and the Flower Demon, but Fan Lingrong rebuffed her by invoking the Primordial Demon Lord’s wishes.
• Murong Qingyan suggested that Guiyan’s pursuits should have changed after attaining longevity, and Fan Lingrong asked what she believed he ought to pursue.

Murong Qingyan hinted that Flying Soul City could help Ghost Aversion advance beyond the Netherworld Nine Hidden Secret Art, while Fan Lingrong and Yu Ci interpreted her layered words differently. Yu Ci’s investigation of a recovered memory revealed the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and mysterious text above its entrance.

• Murong Qingyan discussed Ghost Aversion’s prospects with Fan Lingrong and suggested that her adoptive father, You Can, and Flying Soul City might be relevant.
• Fan Lingrong reread the “Chronicles of the Glaciers” and considered whether Flying Soul City could help Ghost Aversion cross a barrier in the devil path.
• Yu Ci connected the book’s account of the Sand Demon Lord’s death to the place where Lu Chen had fought the two great devil masters and considered what Murong Qingyan was signaling.
• Yu Ci’s spiritual perception recovered a memory of the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, where he saw a vast arch beneath the celestial architecture and mysterious characters appearing above it.

Yu Ci deciphered the key elements of the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s cultivation method and realized a devil seed had infiltrated Ghost-Weariness. The threat triggered a sudden breakthrough in his understanding, revealing the passage’s title: Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament’s Profound Passage.

• Yu Ci examined the newly revealed passage and identified Void and Divine Lord as two key elements of its design.
• Yu Ci concluded that avoiding demons was a crucial prerequisite, and the passage’s qi mechanisms responded to his insight.
• Yu Ci discovered a devil seed planted in Ghost-Weariness’s brain palace, but it failed to penetrate the Three-Party Primordial Energy sealing his true body.
• Yu Ci’s reaction to the devil seed caused the passage to link together, revealing its title as Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament’s Profound Passage.

Yu Ci discovered that the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage planted demon seeds in its users, but realized its insights might still help him break through Three-Party Primordial Energy's confinement. He postponed entering the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and set out to rescue Li Shan; more than half a year later, Li Shan was summoned by his Sword Discussion Pavilion guard.

• Yu Ci expelled and refined the demon seed, then tested the Profound Passage and concluded that it made readers generate seeds themselves.
• Yu Ci realized his knowledge of demon evasion, void, divine lord, and demon seeds gave him the key to the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, but decided not to enter yet.
• Yu Ci resolved to study the Profound Passage and begin rescuing Li Shan by approaching Fan Lingrong, then flew away.
• Over half a year later, Li Shan advanced his Nine Sheddings of the Heavenly Serpent while imprisoned, reaching Eight Sheddings.
• The Sword Discussion Pavilion guard maintained his sword intent unusually long, then ordered Li Shan to come out.

After Li Shan was released from captivity, he drifted downriver until a storm triggered his breakthrough into the Pill-Return realm. He reached Sky Horse City to gather news and overheard a claim that Great Immortal Sword Li had nearly killed Lu Suhua while Lu Chen was absent.

• Li Shan woke on a riverbank, found no sign of Sun Jie, and jumped into the river to escape.
• Li Shan traveled east underwater, sustaining himself with the Heavenly Serpent Method and eating fish and shrimp.
• Thunder and lightning stirred Li Shan’s vital breath, and he established his cardinal pivot, entering the Pill-Return realm.
• Li Shan reached the northern district of Sky Horse City, stole clothes and rain gear, and headed into the city to gather information.
• At a teahouse, Li Shan overheard someone claim that Great Immortal Sword Li had pierced Lu Suhua and crashed her into Donghua Mountain while Lu Chen failed to appear.

As rumors spread that the Donghua Palace was falling, Yu Ci was reminded of Lu Qing’s undelivered message to Madame Yellow Springs and decided he could no longer delay. After analyzing how the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage had transformed Kou Chu’s cultivation, Yu Ci judged the method safe enough for his own use and prepared to make an attempt.

• Li Shan entered a teahouse where cultivators debated the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s victory over the Donghua Palace and speculated about Madame Yellow Springs’s fate.
• Gui Yan opened his eyes as information from Li Shan stirred Yu Ci’s split thought and brought back Lu Qing’s request to deliver a Soul Resonance Jade and letter to Madame Yellow Springs.
• Yu Ci recalled that Kou Chu had little potential as a cultivator, so he had taught him the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage.
• Kou Chu’s cultivation improved rapidly as the method merged with the divine intent starlight in his soul, prompting Yu Ci to analyze why it worked.
• Yu Ci concluded that the method fit his circumstances, passed it to Fan Lingrong, and decided to attempt it himself.

Yu Ci formed a projection linked directly to his true body and summoned You Rui to discuss her abilities as a spirit sorcerer. The conversation ended with him affirming that her loyalty and usefulness mattered more to him than matching Murong Qingyan’s standing.

• Yu Ci used the gathered Advancement Demonic Seeds to break the Three-Party Primordial Energy’s attempt to trap his split power and formed a projection connected to his true body.
• Yu Ci found that Shadow Ghost was in seclusion, Xiao Wu could not be reached, Tie Lan was recovering, and Bao Yun’s consciousness was elsewhere, so he summoned You Rui.
• You Rui crossed directly through a fissure in the void and paid respects to Yu Ci.
• Yu Ci asked You Rui to compare herself with Murong Qingyan, and You Rui explained that Murong was superior because she could communicate with divine masters without restrictions.
• Yu Ci told You Rui that her loyalty and service made her valuable to him despite her inferiority to Murong Qingyan.

Yu Ci learned how You Rui’s spirit-witch abilities could connect him with others, then used them to contact Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu was somewhere on the ocean with a new friend and pursuers, leaving Yu Ci to choose a rendezvous point.

• You Rui explained that spirit witches could bridge divine lords and their believers, but faith also restrained a divine lord’s cultivation.
• You Rui offered to connect Yu Ci’s thoughts with anyone whose Qi-field she could recognize, and Yu Ci asked her to reach Xiao Wu.
• Yu Ci and You Rui established contact with Xiao Wu, who was in a noisy, dangerous place and cried out in pain before recognizing her senior brother.
• Xiao Wu told Yu Ci that she was far away on the ocean with her new friend Dian Dian and could not identify her location.
• Xiao Wu suggested that she and Dian Dian head to a place Yu Ci named once they shook off their pursuers.

You Rui told Yu Ci that riding the migratory Carefree Birds could carry them swiftly toward the Cang River estuary, though controlling the birds and enduring their dangerous flight posed risks. Meanwhile, the Five United Clans of Southern Wilds prepared a major Carefree Bird hunt in the Northern Wilds, where Su Tong struggled to manage competing factions; the chapter ended as he approached the snare and heard shouting in the clouds.

• You Rui explained that Carefree Birds followed a route through the Northern Wilds and described their extraordinary speed, void-shuttling ability, and the dangers of riding them.
• Cultivators from many factions gathered in the Northern Wilds for the Five United Clans of Southern Wilds’ plan to hunt Carefree Birds where changes to the void might restrict their abilities.
• Su Tong worked to coordinate the gathering, which the Five United Clans hoped would win recognition from established sects and factions.
• Xia Shuqi challenged the appointment of Master You to oversee the snare, and Su Tong deflected him before reporting the dispute to his superiors.
• Su Tong saw the agreed marker announcing You Rui’s arrival and flew toward the snare, where he heard shouting and spotted disorder before reaching it.

Su Tong witnessed a mysterious swordsman defeat Xia Shuqi while protecting Master You, then visited the Thousand Peaks Sect camp at Xia Boyang’s invitation. He learned the sect had prepared to deal with Master You, but remained uncertain about the identity of Xia Boyang’s enigmatic Senior Sister and the swordsman.

• Su Tong saw the gray-robed swordsman strike Xia Shuqi down with one blow while defending Master You.
• Su Tong met Master You’s bodyguard, then left the scene after Hou Dongli arrived.
• Xia Shuqi summoned Su Tong to Xia Boyang, who questioned him about Master You and the swordsman.
• Xia Boyang consulted his hidden Senior Sister, who said she had come to observe Master You’s abilities.
• As Xia Shuqi escorted Su Tong away, he asked whether Su Tong knew the swordsman’s name.

Su Tong and the Yin Mountain Sect cultivators prepared a soul-based snare for the migrating Carefree Birds, while Mister Gai steadied the group with the Myriad Worlds Tomb. The trap slowed two birds long enough for Xia Boyang to mark them, but the flock escaped the formation and Mister Gai pursued them.

• Su Tong and Xia Shuqi received an early warning that the Carefree Bird flock was approaching and hurried to their assigned positions.
• Mister Gai manifested the Myriad Worlds Tomb, calming the cultivators and settling their unruly yin entities.
• The flock's scorching winds reached the snare, killing one cultivator beside Su Tong as the hunters endured the heat.
• Su Tong and more than a hundred cultivators triggered their soul-slaying techniques, disrupting two Carefree Birds and making them collide.
• Xia Boyang marked the two birds, but the flock escaped the formation's range, and Mister Gai pursued them into the sky.

Mister Gai’s layered Bird Hunt nearly trapped a Carefree Bird, but You Rui and a swordsman intervened as the bird’s flight was slowed. The bird then used its Void Divine Ability to escape above the azure heavens and leave Mister Gai far behind.

• Mister Gai coordinated the gale-belt snare and isolated one Carefree Bird from its flock.
• A long cry and an alluring witch-sect chant disrupted the bird and drew the flock’s attention back.
• A swordsman struck the isolated Carefree Bird, then used a circle of Sword Qi to withstand its wind-and-fire power and frigid mist.
• You Rui crossed into the circle of Sword Qi, prompting Mister Gai to suspect her motives and send his yin soldiers to attack.
• The Carefree Bird escaped the ghost formation by traversing the void, reappeared above the azure heavens, and surged ahead of the flock.

Mister Gai pursued You Rui and her companion on a Carefree Bird, using the Myriad Worlds Tomb to catch up and attack them. The swordsman disrupted his ghost formation, but Mister Gai brought out the Ghost Blood Shadowless Lamp as a dragonlike shadow lunged toward the pair.

• The Carefree Bird flock turned away from the Azure Sky Domain, and Mister Gai used the Myriad Worlds Tomb to burn and pursue one of the birds.
• Mister Gai compressed the tomb and forced his way through the void, emerging beside the flock and mounting a Carefree Bird.
• Mister Gai sent several hundred yin soldiers after You Rui and the swordsman, but their Carefree Bird used wind and fire to scatter the soldiers’ attack.
• The swordsman drew his sword and destroyed a Ghost Marquis, throwing Mister Gai’s formation into chaos.
• Mister Gai summoned the Ghost Blood Shadowless Lamp, and a long shadow carrying dragonlike might lunged toward You Rui and the swordsman.

Mister Gai pursued Yu Ci and the Carefree Birds through repeated void traversals, then fought Yu Ci inside his True Man Domain. Yu Ci’s strange sword technique injured Mister Gai’s Dao foundation before Mister Gai blasted him away, and the chapter ended with the two men exchanging names.

• Mister Gai watched the Golden Horned Black Dragon dispel much of his ghost formation, then followed Yu Ci and the Carefree Birds into repeated void traversals.
• After nine traversals, Mister Gai trapped the Carefree Bird in his Myriad Worlds Tomb domain, but Yu Ci charged through the ghosts with the Heavenly Dragon’s power.
• Yu Ci struck Mister Gai with an unfamiliar sword technique that broke through his defenses and shook his Dao foundation.
• Mister Gai unleashed his full power, blasting Yu Ci and the Carefree Bird away, but Yu Ci recovered from his grievous injuries and continued fleeing.
• Mister Gai acknowledged Yu Ci as his match and asked his name, and Yu Ci identified himself as wandering cultivator Yu Ci.

At a spring gathering above the Three Northern Lakes, Yu Ci confronted the powerful Mister Gai and struggled against his nine-bend jade-water attack. With You Rui’s help, A Da awakened a new level of power, freezing the waters as they surged toward them.

• Master Yi and Daoist Zhang’s talisman-and-cloud contest was interrupted when a dark-green gale swept away the spring scenery.
• Yu Ci greeted Mister Gai, and the two began fighting in the sky.
• Mister Gai unleashed his Myriad Worlds Tomb domain, sending nine-bend jade waters at Yu Ci and the Carefree Birds.
• Yu Ci used the Seven Star Sword and Flawless Sword Circle to split the waters, but Mister Gai’s sword force trapped him and A Da in a vortex.
• You Rui told Yu Ci that A Da’s qi and blood had entered a new stage, and Yu Ci ordered her to use him.
• A Da awakened the power of his bloodline, spread rippling waterlight, and froze Mister Gai’s advancing jade waters.

Yu Ci and the Carefree Bird fought Mister Gai inside his Myriad Worlds Tomb domain, as the Carefree Bird’s newly awakened wind-and-water ability briefly disrupted his attacks. After Mister Gai trapped them and struck with the Nine Nether Wheel Finger, You Rui escaped through the void, giving Yu Ci an opening to attack.

• The Carefree Bird used its wind-and-water divine ability to disrupt the Nine-Winding Azure Water and protect Yu Ci.
• Onlookers in an airborne tower-pavilion watched the battle, and Yi Jue bet that Yu Ci would escape safely and become famous.
• Yu Ci’s connection with the Carefree Bird routed its bloodline-change information through Chengqitian and formed a direct mental link between them.
• Mister Gai shrank his domain to imprison the void, stopped the Carefree Bird’s attempted escape, and made it crash into summoned rocks.
• Mister Gai attacked Yu Ci, You Rui, and the Carefree Bird with the Nine Nether Wheel Finger, but You Rui escaped through the void after Yu Ci shouted for her to go.
• You Rui’s escape opened a gap in Mister Gai’s domain, and Yu Ci sent the Primordial Formless Sword toward the back of Mister Gai’s head.

Yu Ci and the Carefree Bird escaped Mister Gai’s control by combining their movements with Yu Ci’s Void Divine Ability. Mister Gai resolved to pursue them with the speed of a Carefree Bird, but his own bird began to collapse from the strain.

• Mister Gai released the four Carefree Birds he had trapped, while Yu Ci continued resisting the Nine Nether Wheel Finger on the remaining bird.
• Yu Ci cleared ghosts from the Carefree Bird’s body and coordinated with it to shift the pressure of Mister Gai’s attack and build up speed.
• Yu Ci used a Void Divine Ability in harmony with the Carefree Bird’s spatial shuttles, revealing his ability to the observers watching through the Sky-Piercing Water Mirror.
• Yu Ci and the Carefree Bird completed their tenth spatial shuttle and escaped Mister Gai’s Yin Tomb Domain.
• Mister Gai resolved to fly with the speed of a Carefree Bird, but his bird began bleeding and rapidly losing vitality as it started its own tenth spatial shuttle.

Mister Gai forced the Carefree Bird through repeated void-travels, damaging it and himself as he pursued Yu Ci. The Sky-Piercing Water Mirror lost track of them, but Mister Gai survived the final passage by retreating into Myriad Worlds Tomb and emerged in the original world ahead of Yu Ci.

• Mister Gai used Myriad Worlds Tomb to suppress the Carefree Bird and force it through the void, while observers on the suspended balcony watched its image disappear.
• A woman presented information about Yu Ci, prompting the guests to discuss his past as a Li Chen Sect disciple and his connection to the Sword Garden battle.
• Tong Xu and Yi Jue learned that Yu Ci and Mister Gai had traveled beyond the Sky-Piercing Water Mirror’s range, and the mirror showed a sea of blood and only five Carefree Birds.
• The Carefree Bird’s vitality failed during the final void-travel, so Mister Gai absorbed its essence and sent his Yang God and dissolving body into Myriad Worlds Tomb.
• Mister Gai’s Myriad Worlds Tomb broke through the void into the original world ahead of Yu Ci, and Tong Xu recognized his Nine Nether Yin Venerable Supreme Law.