Recaps

Yu Ci discovered that Lu Erniang’s strange armlet might disturb Madam Bai, then overheard Lu Erniang and Flower Lady criticizing the amount of Cloud Born Incense he had provided. He reclaimed the remaining pills and invoked Lu Erniang’s banquet promise before leaving to meet Gao Yunbo, while Lu Erniang decided to dress and comb her hair.

• Yu Ci noticed Lu Erniang’s demonic-looking armlet and advised her to remove it because it could unsettle Madam Bai’s weak spirit.
• After leaving, Yu Ci overheard Lu Erniang and Flower Lady discussing the incense pills and complaining that he had returned only one.
• Yu Ci entered with the remaining seven pills, then took them back after hearing their complaints and reminded Lu Erniang of her promise to help him.
• Lu Erniang agreed to visit Yu Ci that night, but Zhou Hu arrived to announce that Gao Yunbo had requested an audience.
• After Yu Ci left to meet Gao Yunbo, Lu Erniang asked Flower Lady to help her dress and comb her hair.

Lu Erniang resisted Flower Lady’s attempts to reconcile her with Jiu Yan, while the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s actions and the spectacle in the southern heavens heightened tensions aboard the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat. Flower Lady arranged for Yao Niang and the others to visit Jiu Yan, then returned to find Madam Bai awake.

• Flower Lady told Lu Erniang that Jiu Yan had not agreed to join Gao Yunbo’s proposed alliance, while the banquet guests named Ghost Weariness and others as suspects.
• Flower Lady urged Lu Erniang not to let her anger toward Jiu Yan damage her future, but Lu Erniang said he would have to prove he could overcome her if he wanted her.
• Flower Lady observed the stable, self-contained world of wind and snow created in the southern heavens and saw Jiu Yan watching it from the courtyard.
• Flower Lady persuaded Lu Erniang to leave with Yao Niang and the other dancers, who soon visited Jiu Yan as music began to play.
• Flower Lady returned to the bedside of the sleeping Madam Bai and remarked on Lu Erniang’s feelings, whereupon Madam Bai opened her eyes.

Flower Lady helped Lu Suhua conceal her old injuries with Cloud Born Incense, and the two discussed the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s investigation and the Demonic Sect’s involvement. Lu Suhua recognized Jiu Yan as Yu Ci and suspected he was heading toward them, while Flower Lady recounted how Jiu Yan had been brought in to treat her.

• Flower Lady used Cloud Born Incense and Lord Rakshasa’s illusionary abilities to hide Lu Suhua’s old injuries and mask her appearance from the Sword Discussion Pavilion.
• Lu Suhua revealed that she had sensed a woman using Demonic Sect methods when someone examined her chest injury, and Flower Lady realized the visitor impersonating Ling Jiao likely had the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s permission.
• Lu Suhua concluded that the Demonic Sect woman wanted to exploit pressure from the Sword Discussion Pavilion to negotiate with them.
• Flower Lady explained that they had invited Jiu Yan after Lu Suhua’s old injuries flared up and became difficult to conceal.
• Lu Suhua recognized Jiu Yan as Yu Ci, whose identities had included the Soul Chaser and Lu Dun, and suspected he was making his way toward them.

Flower Lady and Lu Suhua discussed Yu Ci’s hidden power and the growing complications surrounding them before Ghost Annoyance abruptly appeared in their room. The chapter ended with him overpowering Flower Lady and moving to assault both women.

• Flower Lady told Lu Suhua that Lu Erniang had been cornered into accepting an appointment and that she suspected Yu Ci had ulterior motives.
• Lu Suhua sensed that an unseen barrier concealed the room where Yu Ci was staying and connected it to the Northern Wastelands battle.
• Lu Suhua and Flower Lady detected an unknown visitor, but Flower Lady could not sense the newcomer’s identity or intentions.
• Ghost Annoyance entered the room, recognized both women, and declared that he intended to spend the night with them.
• Ghost Annoyance used his power to paralyze Flower Lady, stripped away her outer garment, and threw her onto the bed beside Lu Suhua.

Guiyan overpowered Flower Lady and threatened the sickly Lu Suhua, while Flower Lady recognized his uncanny power over the roots of form and spirit. As Guiyan forced himself toward Lu Suhua, a sudden, icy attack surged up from his crotch.

• Guiyan subdued Flower Lady with a bizarre power that disrupted her thoughts and left her unable to resist.
• Flower Lady realized Guiyan’s power reached the roots of form and spirit, and she warned him that the Sword Discussion Pavilion had set a formation to capture him.
• Guiyan dismissed Flower Lady’s warning, pinned her down, and taunted her about Lu Suhua’s frail condition.
• Guiyan reached through the curtains to touch Lu Suhua, then leaned in to kiss her.
• As Guiyan moved closer to Lu Suhua, a trace of chilliness surged upward from his crotch and made his eyes fly wide open.

Lu Suhua attacked Ghost Weariness with her sword and Three Yuan Hammers Fist Intent, but he survived by manipulating space and then raised the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp. The lamp warped distance around him, leaving Lu Suhua unable to reach him with her next strike.

• Lu Suhua freed Flower Lady from Ghost Weariness’s restraint and struck him, but his Nine Hidden Demonic Body let him endure the first sword blow.
• Lu Suhua trapped Ghost Weariness within her domain and pierced the void he created to evade her second strike.
• Ghost Weariness disrupted Lu Suhua’s Rainbow Shadow Sword, but her Fist Intent forced him out of the void.
• Ghost Weariness summoned the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp, drawing Lu Suhua and Flower Lady’s attention with its visions of heaven and earth.
• Lu Suhua’s sword slowed across an immense distorted distance before it could reach Ghost Weariness.

Guiyan fought Lu Suhua aboard the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, but she broke away from close combat and trapped him in a sword formation. As Guiyan’s shout drew reinforcements, Lu Suhua and Flower Lady changed course to escape.

• Guiyan used the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp to hold off Lu Suhua, while Flower Lady anticipated Lu Suhua’s plan to widen the distance.
• Lu Suhua blasted Guiyan out of the room with her fist, destroying much of the courtyard as Flower Lady sounded the alarm across the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat.
• The Flag Sword Heavenly Net sword formation attacked Guiyan, and bell chimes interfered with his demonic arts, preventing him from escaping easily.
• Guiyan shouted a taunt that drew seven or eight True Person sword cultivators from the Gathering Immortals Bridge.
• Lu Suhua and Flower Lady concealed themselves with the Rakshasa Illusory Power and Cloud Born Incense, then Lu Suhua led Flower Lady toward the surviving half of the courtyard.

Flower Lady and Lu Suhua tried to escape Yu Ci’s residence while Gui Yan’s assault threw the Gathering Immortals Bridge and Sword Discussion Pavilion into chaos. Gui Yan’s spiritual attack unsettled everyone, and false kill orders triggered successive waves of flight as the sword formation faltered.

• Flower Lady and Lu Suhua judged that the confusion around Gui Yan gave them their best chance to break away, while Lu Suhua resolved to strike despite lingering uncertainties about Yu Ci.
• Flower Lady realized Gui Yan’s laughter was already disrupting people’s minds and warned herself not to be drawn into it.
• Gui Yan plunged down through the sword formation, whose delayed response sent sword qi tearing through the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat and its rooms.
• An unknown voice shouted accusations and kill orders against the Ten Fiends of the East Sea, prompting cultivators to flee in successive waves.
• Elder Gao Yunbo questioned how the shouted orders matched the banquet’s list, while the formation’s officers struggled to control a sword formation thrown into turmoil.

Gui Yan exploited flaws in the Flag Sword Heavenly Net formation to break through it and reach the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat. Lu Qinghua caught the falling Reverse Five Elements Banner, but Gui Yan vanished before the sword cultivators could retaliate.

• Some sword cultivators fell for the feint and turned their swords toward fleeing figures, creating flaws in the formation.
• Gui Yan adjusted his attacks to exploit those flaws while the chief and deputy stewards struggled to keep the formation intact.
• The demonic sect cultivator withdrew as Gui Yan launched his decisive strike and used the Nine Hidden Demonic Body to evade the formation.
• Gui Yan’s demonic thoughts threw nearly a hundred sword cultivators into chaos, and three stewards were injured when he broke their efforts to restore the formation.
• Gui Yan pierced through the Flag Sword Heavenly Net and reached the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat as the Reverse Five Elements Banner toppled.
• Lu Qinghua caught the banner and vowed to fight Gui Yan again, but Gui Yan had already vanished.

Chaos erupted aboard the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat as fleeing villains slaughtered their way through the ship. Lu Suhua reached Yu Ci’s room and beheaded Lu Erniang, while Guiyan captured Flower Lady and revealed that he and Yu Ci had laid a trap.

• The Ten Fiends of the East Sea, Blood Butcher, Night Roaming God, Li Mingquan, and other villains rampaged through the ship, weakening Sword Discussion Pavilion’s control.
• Flower Lady realized Yu Ci might have attended the Tianhe Sect gathering and followed Lu Suhua toward his room.
• Lu Suhua took back the Rainbow Shadow Sword and burst into the room, while Guiyan appeared behind Flower Lady and rendered her helpless.
• Guiyan carried Flower Lady away, and she concluded that he and Yu Ci had baited her and Lu Suhua with the list.
• Lu Suhua found Yu Ci holding Lu Erniang, cut through Lu Erniang’s neck, and told Yu Ci there was no time for unnecessary talk.

Yu Ci endured Lu Suhua’s attacks with his Three-Party Primordial Energy while they discussed why she had killed Lu Erniang. Just as Lu Suhua prepared to unleash her hidden power, Gui Yan appeared and used the Scripture of Past Solemnity to trigger a devastating pain in Lu Suhua.

• Lu Suhua killed Lu Erniang and repeatedly struck Yu Ci, but his Three-Party Primordial Energy stopped her sword attacks.
• Yu Ci questioned Lu Suhua about killing her former lover, and she explained why Lu Erniang’s suspicious behavior had convinced her to act.
• Lu Suhua secretly unlocked a vital gate to draw out her hidden power while probing Yu Ci about his altered Three-Party Primordial Energy.
• Gui Yan entered and spoke of her affinity for the Scripture of Past Solemnity, causing Lu Suhua intense pain tied to her soul and Dao foundation.

Bao Yun revealed that she had secretly cultivated a Heart Locking Tribulation within Lu Suhua during their intimate encounters, then stabbed her through the heart as the heavenly tribulation ravaged her. Bao Yun explained that revenge had brought her to the Yinan Troupe and left Lu Suhua helpless in her grasp.

• Lu Suhua recognized the woman beside her as Bao Yun, whose transformed appearance stirred her inner demons and weakened her resistance to the tribulation.
• Bao Yun took Rainbow Shadow Sword and drove it through Lu Suhua's heart, knowing her indestructible body would keep her conscious.
• Bao Yun explained that she had deliberately tormented Lu Suhua when she was most vulnerable and had gradually planted the Heart Locking Tribulation inside her.
• Bao Yun embraced Lu Suhua and said she had joined the Yinan Troupe to investigate Hua Niang and the others while seeking revenge for Wan Quan.
• Bao Yun told Lu Suhua they had plenty of time to talk and asked whether she would mind adding more people.

Yu Ci and Bao Yun revealed how Bao Yun had used Lu Erniang’s body to conceal her demonic nature and exploit the Great Tribulation, while Ghost Loathing suppressed Flower Lady. Given a chance to speak, Flower Lady asked Yu Ci whether he had planned the events from the start, hoping to buy time.

• Yu Ci interrupted Bao Yun, and Flower Lady realized Lu Erniang’s body had been refined and absorbed into Bao Yun’s demonic body.
• Bao Yun explained that she had possessed the dying Lu Erniang with a death demon and fused with her over seven or eight years.
• Flower Lady recognized that Bao Yun had used the Past Majestic Tribulation Scripture to develop powers tied to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Ghost Loathing’s pressure weakened enough for Flower Lady to speak, and Yu Ci invited her to say what she wished.
• Flower Lady asked Yu Ci whether he had planned everything from the start, using the question to stall for time.

Yu Ci and Ghost Yan subdued Flower Lady and used his power to invade her memories, seeking the Black Heaven Cult’s hidden plans. Flower Lady’s defenses collapsed, revealing a black lotus at the core of her form and spirit.

• Flower Lady tried to stall while Yu Ci confronted her about the Black Heaven Cult and its schemes.
• Ghost Yan restrained Flower Lady as Yu Ci forced her to answer, revealing that he knew more about the cult than he had let on.
• Yu Ci and Ghost Yan shattered Flower Lady’s mental defenses, causing her memories and information about the cult to surface.
• Yu Ci searched Flower Lady’s memories for the cult’s deepest secrets but found the crucial information guarded at the core of her form and spirit.
• Yu Ci pressed into that final hidden region, and Flower Lady’s defenses collapsed, revealing a black lotus shedding its petals.

Lu Suhua survived Li Bocai’s attempt to throw her into the Flag Sword Heavenly Net and faced Bao Yun’s calamity fire without yielding. Yu Ci hinted to Bao Yun that the next part of their plan depended on understanding what made someone terrifying in a sword duel.

• Li Bocai used the Flag Sword Heavenly Net to displace Lu Suhua out of the array and hurl her from the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat.
• Lu Suhua reappeared above the calamity fire and stood firm as the flames engulfed her, while Li Bocai watched from afar.
• Lu Suhua drew strength from her acceptance of imperfection and her family’s inherited heroic spirit, holding the Heaven and Earth Law Will at bay.
• Bao Yun sensed that the calamity fire was protecting Lu Suhua and worried that Yu Ci’s plan would fail.
• Yu Ci told Bao Yun that she did not know what kind of person was most terrifying in a sword duel, then gestured toward his chest.

Yu Ci and Bao Yun watched Lu Suhua withstand the tribulation and escape, while Yu Ci reflected on the principles behind life-and-death struggles. At the ruins, Li Bocai restrained the Five Guides and identified the fleeing figures as a possible source of clues, just as an old acquaintance of Lu Er appeared.

• Bao Yun questioned Yu Ci about whether his method could stop Lu Suhua, and Yu Ci said he had no answer before telling Bao Yun it was time to run.
• Lu Suhua walked steadily through the tribulation fire as Li Bocai praised the Dingyuan Hammer’s power.
• Lu Qinghua urged Li Bocai to pursue Lu Suhua, but Li Bocai refused and argued that they should investigate those around her instead.
• Li Bocai noticed a little girl fleeing the ruins and then split a figure with his Raised Eyebrow Sword, but the figure re-formed and escaped into the tribulation clouds.
• Li Bocai stopped Lu Qinghua from pursuing the escapee and used Sword Qi to gather several unconscious women for questioning.
• Li Bocai sensed that Lu Er’s old lover had arrived.

Lu Suhua escaped deeper into the tribulation clouds after Green Wave’s ice walls redirected her path, and Green Wave boarded the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat to demand Jiu Yan’s whereabouts and an explanation from Li Bocai. Their exchange was interrupted when a Black Lotus appeared above the ruins and a hazy figure emerged.

• Green Wave raised towering ice walls that sealed Lu Suhua’s route, and Lu Suhua changed course as the walls collapsed.
• Lu Suhua exploited a sudden opening in the tribulation clouds and broke free of their restraint.
• Green Wave emerged from the clouds, boarded the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, and greeted Li Bocai and the sword cultivators.
• Green Wave asked Li Bocai to identify Jiu Yan, then demanded an explanation and compensation after he denied knowing where Jiu Yan was.
• A Black Lotus blossomed above the ruins, and a hazy figure appeared within it and recited a verse about life, death, illusion, and extinction.

Li Bocai and Green Wave confronted a lotus-born figure whose fragrant illusionary technique ensnared the cultivators aboard the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat and the Gathering Immortals Bridge. They realized the black lotuses were illusions formed from stolen soul strength, and Li Bocai suspected he had provoked another dangerous figure.

• A mist-shrouded figure emerged from a black lotus, thwarting Li Bocai’s attempt to trap her in the sword formation.
• Green Wave and Li Bocai exchanged barbs and silently agreed to focus on the forces behind Lu Suhua.
• A strange fragrance soothed the cloud boat’s passengers and drew their thoughts and soul strength into an illusion.
• Green Wave’s freezing wind and snow exposed the fragrance’s apparent pathways, but Li Bocai’s sword strike hit only mist and shattered the illusory lotus.
• Li Bocai and Green Wave recognized that two black lotuses had formed from their captured soul strength and realized they had fallen for the fragrant illusionary technique.
• A far larger black lotus appeared among the vast lotus leaves, and Li Bocai wondered whether he had provoked another piece of trouble.

Yu Ci used the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth to deepen his grasp of its laws and reconnect with the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, where the Fragrant Illusionary Technique had left the cultivators confused. As Bao Yun warned that Lu Suhua was escaping, Yu Ci activated his Law of Life and Death ability, and a discarded armlet in the ruins shattered.

• Bao Yun watched the Black Lotus coexist with the heavenly tribulation, then grew frustrated as Yu Ci continued gesturing instead of pursuing Lu Suhua.
• Yu Ci gathered fragments of heavenly and earthly laws and reasoned that the tribulation made fundamental laws easier to grasp.
• Yu Ci used a thread of law to perceive the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat and saw that the Fragrant Illusionary Technique had left its cultivators confused.
• Yu Ci merged the thread, drawn from the cultivators’ life force and will, back into their intertwined minds and energies.
• Bao Yun warned that Lu Suhua was about to escape, but Yu Ci activated his innate divine ability through the Law of Life and Death.
• A black armlet beneath rubble in the ruins hopped and shattered, releasing dark clouds and mist that quickly vanished.

Yu Ci used the death demon divine ability to disrupt the illusionary technique and threaten the cultivators aboard the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, giving Li Bocai an opening to attack the six-petaled black lotus. Li Bocai found the lotus’s core empty and began to withdraw, but his vision suddenly went dark.

• Bao Yun revealed that the arm bracelet was Yu Ci’s first death demon, and Yu Ci used it to spread the death demon divine ability through the cultivators’ consciousnesses.
• Yu Ci stirred the tribulation clouds beneath the Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, terrifying its tens of thousands of passengers and nourishing the hidden death demons.
• The disturbance shattered the illusionary technique’s hold over the six-petaled black lotus, allowing Li Bocai and Green Wave to attack.
• Li Bocai’s Sword Qi and Green Wave’s divine ability struck the lotus, weakening its power and exposing an empty core.
• Li Bocai began to withdraw his sword intent, then his field of vision suddenly darkened.

Li Bocai and Green Wave pursued the hidden figure into the Black Lotus’s empty core, where a radiant boundary realm appeared and a sixteen-foot golden body emerged. The figure was recognized as Flower Lady, leaving Li Bocai to face the unexpected revelation.

• Li Bocai and Green Wave used the shadow’s movements to identify and attack the hidden opponent with wind, snow, and sword energy.
• A streak of rainbow light escaped into the Black Lotus’s central zone, and a dazzling radiance split the darkness and engulfed the area.
• The radiance transformed the surroundings into a boundary realm that confused most cultivators, while Li Bocai and Green Wave remained unaffected.
• A sixteen-foot golden figure emerged from the light, and Li Bocai recognized signs of a Buddhist manifestation.
• Li Bocai communicated with the figure through thoughts and observed its appearance as Lu Qinghua exclaimed that it was Flower Lady.

Li Bocai identified Flower Lady as the Dream Weaver Celestial while she destroyed Yu Ci’s death demon. Yu Ci’s pursuit of Lu Suhua was interrupted when Flower Lady appeared before him, and she tried to negotiate with Bao Yun and Gu Yan as the chase continued.

• Li Bocai recalled Flower Lady’s verse and named her the Dream Weaver Celestial.
• Flower Lady drew the remnant of Yu Ci’s death demon into her fingertips, and Yu Ci and Bao Yun hurried toward Lu Suhua.
• Flower Lady’s life-and-death connection allowed her to sense Yu Ci as she revived by absorbing the baleful qi from thousands of dead wild creatures.
• Yu Ci summoned Gu Yan and told him to hold Flower Lady back while he continued pursuing Lu Suhua.
• Flower Lady urged Bao Yun and Gu Yan to negotiate a division of their goals and asked Gu Yan to develop his divine ability further.

Flower Lady analyzed the limits of Gui Yan’s divine arts and challenged Yu Ci’s understanding of deduction and tribulation transcendence while discussing Lu Suhua. Before Yu Ci could respond to her, the ground shook and Xiao Wu sprang out, crying that it was hot.

• Yu Ci sent Bao Yun and Xiao Wu to keep track of Lu Suhua while Flower Lady examined Gui Yan’s performance against the Flag Sword Heavenly Net.
• Flower Lady explained that Gui Yan’s source-of-form-and-spirit arts required buffering and argued that he lacked a true understanding of deduction and tribulation transcendence.
• Gui Yan deflected Flower Lady’s challenge by suggesting she wanted a share of the spoils from Lu Suhua, then provoked her to fight.
• Flower Lady turned to address Yu Ci, but a violent shaking interrupted her as Xiao Wu leaped from the ground and shouted that it was hot.

Yu Ci agreed to cooperate with Flower Lady against the Demonic Sect and scouted the battlefield near Lu Suhua. He discovered that the Demonic Sect's Black Robe had emerged from the molten strata, while Flower Lady warned that Suhua was in trouble.

• Yu Ci sensed the molten lava beneath the earth and recognized the Molten Core Prison Technique as the source of the heat.
• Flower Lady proposed that she and Yu Ci unite against the Demonic Sect, and Yu Ci agreed while privately planning to deal with her later.
• Yu Ci led the group toward the earthquake's center and stopped at the edge of the Demonic Sect's ambush circle.
• Yu Ci used divine intent starlight and the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to spy through a Demonic Sect cultivator and identify the emerging Black Robe.
• Flower Lady said Lu Suhua's situation was not good, and Yu Ci asked how she could see.

Flower Lady used deduction from physical traces to assess Lu Suhua’s battle against the Demonic Sect, impressing Yu Ci with her ability and explaining its limits. Yu Ci then brought their discussion back to why he wanted to take Lu Suhua.

• Yu Ci asked how Flower Lady had seen through the battle despite the Absolute Heart Circle array, and she explained how she inferred events from the damaged mountain and altered earth.
• Flower Lady deduced that Lu Suhua was weakening, that her opponent wielding the Molten Core Prison Technique could overpower her while she was injured, and that several accomplices were supporting the attack.
• Yu Ci realized Flower Lady’s powers of deduction were far greater than he had expected and considered how useful they could be to his Black Forest system.
• Flower Lady said her method could not fully calculate the human heart, whose emotions gave the world its color.
• Yu Ci asked what Flower Lady thought of the Demonic Sect’s actions, and she asked why he wanted to take Lu Suhua.