Recaps

Yu Ci led Xiao Wu and his followers through Donghua’s sword formations before warning the cultivators that the Thirty-Three Peaks would soon be cast into the outer realm, likely near a heavenly demon stronghold. He proposed that Wan Tengshan lead the battle and offered formation diagrams to help everyone coordinate.

• Yu Ci met Xiao Wu as she swept through the heavenly demons with Primordial Magnetic Divine Thunder, then led her and his group on a detour past several Sword Discussion Pavilion formations.
• Wan Tengshan let Yu Ci’s group observe the sword formations, and the cultivators on the peak recognized Yu Ci’s growing authority with the Pavilion’s tacit approval.
• Yu Ci warned Wan Tengshan and the others that Donghua’s peaks would become an isolated island in the outer realm within two hours and might be torn into an unfamiliar star domain.
• The cultivators reacted with fear and complaints before asking Yu Ci for a plan.
• Yu Ci proposed that Wan Tengshan command the battle and said he had formation diagrams to coordinate the group with the sword formations.

Yu Ci used the Five Peaks Origin Spirit to create a starry formation that linked the cultivators and bolstered their confidence. Zhai Que'er gave him a traditional Iron Eight Trigrams array diagram and proposed holding their position until Sword Discussion Pavilion sent reinforcements, leaving Yu Ci to weigh her bid for command against the danger inside the heavenly palaces.

• Yu Ci proposed using the Five Peaks Origin Spirit to strengthen and coordinate the cultivators rather than trying to stop the void's devouring or rescue those trapped in the heavenly palaces.
• At the cultivators' urging, Yu Ci activated a starry formation that connected their qi mechanisms and instructed them to advance and retreat according to his orders.
• Zhai Que'er recognized that Yu Ci's formation resembled the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition and warned that Wan Tengshan might move to rescue Ghost God Sword and the others.
• Zhai Que'er secretly gave Yu Ci an Iron Eight Trigrams array diagram, signaling that she intended to intervene in command.
• Zhai Que'er urged Yu Ci to hold their position and wait for Sword Discussion Pavilion's reinforcements, asking whether he truly believed they were already in the Outer Domain.

Yu Ci challenged Zhai Que'er’s call to hold out for reinforcements and urged the cultivators to prepare to enter his array as the void invasion neared its final stage. He left the arrangements to Brother Duanmu.

• Zhai Que'er proposed that the cultivators stay put and await rescue, drawing support from those wary of venturing into the outer realms.
• Yu Ci suspected her plan served Liu Guan’s interest in gathering information about Madame Yellow Springs and questioned whether it was a gamble the group could survive.
• Yu Ci asked where they could hold their ground once the two realms opened, and Wan Tengshan said his sect’s sword array was better suited to offense than defense.
• As the void devouring neared completion and demon strongholds appeared in the starry darkness, Wan Tengshan warned that there was little time to drill Yu Ci’s array diagram.
• Yu Ci put away the Iron Eight Trigrams, invited those who trusted him to join the array, and asked Brother Duanmu to organize them.

Yu Ci struggled to devise a way to fit the cultivators into Little Wu's Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition, then slipped into an unexpected meditation. He awoke to find the others questioning his plan and his authority as a battle approached.

• Yu Ci studied Little Wu's Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition and decided to coordinate its periphery rather than alter the perfected divine prohibition itself.
• Yu Ci searched his knowledge of talismans and formation arrays for a workable system, but failed to find a solution and drifted into thoughts of the Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman.
• A mysterious sensation stirred the scripture branded into Yu Ci's soul, and he entered a brief meditation.
• Duanmu Senqiu roused Yu Ci and told him that several cultivators wanted to speak with him.
• Zhan Ji asked Yu Ci how he would arrange Dongyang Orthodox Sect's disciples in the formation diagram, and other cultivators voiced doubts about the plan.
• The cultivators grew uneasy as Yu Ci struggled to respond, while Duanmu Senqiu and Wan Tengshan questioned what he was doing.

Yu Ci revealed and transformed the Iron Eight Trigrams into an unfamiliar five-petaled array diagram, then organized the cultivators into teams and assigned them positions. As the darkness deepened, he activated the diagram’s brilliant starlit center and began the drill.

• Yu Ci presented the Iron Eight Trigrams and answered Zuo Xianzheng’s doubts by reshaping it into a hovering, five-petaled array diagram.
• Yu Ci directed Zhan Ji and the Dongyang Orthodox Sect to assemble where the diagram’s sharp tip pointed, with Zhan Ji linking his mind to it.
• Duanmu Senqiu reported the cultivators’ abilities, and Yu Ci divided them into five teams corresponding to the diagram’s petals.
• Yu Ci assigned the cultivators to link their minds to their respective petals, while Zhan Ji alone represented the Dongyang Orthodox Sect.
• Yu Ci suspended the diagram above his head and lit its center with a dazzling, starlit glow as the drill began.

Yu Ci guided the cultivators through a shifting formation that drew power from the Star Cloud Treasure Bead and strengthened them. As thunder rolled overhead, Wan Tengshan ordered everyone to prepare.

• Yu Ci raised the Star Cloud Treasure Bead and directed the cultivators to move through a shifting pattern, forming and tightening Qi Mechanism Coils.
• The Star Cloud Treasure Bead drew power from the coils and distributed enhancements among the cultivators as their positions changed.
• Yu Ci halted the exercise, and Wan Tengshan praised the formation’s power while Zuo Xianzheng noticed its talismanic markings and unusual control over the cultivators’ qi mechanisms.
• Yu Ci recognized that the pattern was a Talisman Diagram built from Spirit Summoning Talismans linked by the cultivators’ imprints of divine consciousness.
• Thunder rumbled overhead, and Wan Tengshan roared for everyone to prepare.

As the intersecting void realms unleashed a catastrophic tidal force, Yu Ci worked to reshape his array while the cultivators struggled to survive. The Outer Realm Heavenly Demons stabilized the void with their forces, then sent a dark wisp straight toward the gathered cultivators.

• The tidal force battered Donghua Main Peak, and Wan Tengshan raised eight sword formations to protect the Sword Discussion Pavilion cultivators.
• Yu Ci guided Jiu Yan's group in a slow circle while secretly dismantling and reshaping the array into a complex talisman.
• Donghua Main Peak split apart and collapsed under the alternating tidal force, leaving the cultivators with no foothold or shelter.
• Hundreds of fiend-filled wisps scattered to assigned positions in the void, where their presence weakened the tide and began stabilizing the void's structure.
• An ink-colored wisp streamed down from above and headed directly for Yu Ci's group.

Yu Ci and Wan Tengshan coordinated the cultivators to resist the celestial demons’ Myriad Transformation Demon Domain. Yu Ci’s talisman-guided formation drew on Little Wu’s divine prohibition to unleash a resonant combined strike that dispersed the demon mist.

• Wan Tengshan and Yu Ci split the eight sword arrays to tear through the descending celestial demon mist, while Yu Ci’s faction held the core positions.
• Yu Ci accelerated the cultivators’ rotations and used his talismans to channel power from Little Wu’s Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition.
• The five squads struck in carefully timed sequence, combining their stellar baleful intents through the qi mechanism coils.
• The combined attack distorted the void, severed the demon mist, and annihilated countless celestial demons.

Wan Tengshan’s sword array broke through the Heavenly Demon smoke while Yu Ci refined the Talisman Diagram through the cultivators’ growing coordination. The Sword Discussion Pavilion turned toward the Nine Truths Immortal Palace to rescue its disciples, where a mass of blade ants appeared overhead.

• Wan Tengshan encouraged the cultivators after their coordinated strike broke through the Heavenly Demon smoke.
• Yu Ci streamlined the Talisman Diagram as the cultivators’ combat rhythm and teamwork improved.
• The Sword Discussion Pavilion’s cultivators urged their group to rescue their fellow disciples, and their array turned toward the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Yu Ci agreed to approach the palace gates, and the sword array charged toward them.
• A cloud spread above the cultivators and revealed a dense mass of blade ants.

Yu Ci’s formation unleashed a devastating Big Dipper Thunder strike that tore through the Blade Ant vanguard, but the Blade Ants recovered and counterattacked the Sword Discussion Pavilion formations with overwhelming force. The clash left both sides badly wounded, and another thunderous strike began as the battle continued.

• The Blade Ant army formation emerged close ahead of the charging cultivators, forcing Wan Tengshan to arrange six sword formations into an ice-and-snow domain while two others moved to flank the ants.
• Yu Ci’s Talisman Diagram gathered the cultivators’ stored star power and unleashed a Big Dipper Thunder strike that blasted a wide corridor through the Blade Ant vanguard.
• The Sword Discussion Pavilion’s ice-and-snow domain froze and shredded the Blade Ants at the front as the two formations collided.
• The Blade Ant central army restored its momentum with layered blade-waves, killing more than a fifth of Sword Discussion Pavilion’s cultivators in the exchange.
• Thunder roared again as the clash continued.

Yu Ci and Wan Tengshan’s forces broke through the blade ants’ formation, but the unexpectedly vast ant army forced the Sword Discussion Pavilion to abandon its advance toward the palace. As the formation turned away and the palace fell behind them, Wan Tengshan considered the plea for help from Qi Baiyi.

• Yu Ci’s Big Dipper Thunder and the sword arrays’ coordinated attack devastated the blade ants and disrupted their combined strike.
• Wan Tengshan used the opening to break through the ant formation, and the Sword Discussion Pavilion reorganized into seven arrays as Yu Ci’s group took the Kaiyang Auxiliary Star position.
• Zhai Que'er urged her master to split the group and avoid the palace corridors, unsettling the cultivators’ morale; Yu Ci suspected Liu Guan had put her up to it.
• The blade ants stopped pursuing, and the Sword Discussion Pavilion turned sideways, moving away from the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Wan Tengshan told Yu Ci they could not continue toward the palace because the blade ant army was too powerful, then said he was thinking about Senior Uncle Qi’s plea for help.

Wan Tengshan reasoned that the demons’ restraint suggested they feared a powerful figure hidden in the shadows, who might be pursuing the mysteries of the Nine Truths Immortal Palace. He accused Zhai Que'er of knowing something, and the Seven Star Sword Array turned its focus on her.

• Wan Tengshan argued that Qi Baiyi’s urgent plea for help meant the forces at the palace could still be resisted and were occupied with something else.
• Wan Tengshan and Yu Ci considered why Xiang and True Man Dao Hua had sent no further reports, and Wan Tengshan suggested their communications had been blocked.
• Wan Tengshan concluded that the heavenly demons were wary of a hidden expert who might be interfering with contact between Qi Baiyi’s group and the others.
• Wan Tengshan connected the hidden figure to the mysteries of the palace established by Lu Chen and demanded that Zhai Que'er explain herself.
• The Seven Star Sword Array shifted its focus toward Zhai Que'er, astonishing the surrounding cultivators.

Yu Ci and the other cultivators were caught in Liu Guan’s Shadow Void as Wan Tengshan accused Liu Guan of endangering them. As Liu Guan withdrew and a hand reached for Yu Ci, the chapter ended with Yu Ci defending himself and Liu Guan addressing him as Jiu Yan.

• Wan Tengshan accused Liu Guan of searching the peaks and risking everyone’s safety, turning the cultivators against one another.
• Liu Guan engulfed the gathering in the Shadow Void, disrupting the Talisman Diagram and severing several cultivators from its formation.
• Liu Guan announced that those who agreed could come and that his niece and nephew were entrusted to the others, then began to leave.
• Yu Ci’s Divine Lord Network detected a drastic change in the laws of heaven and earth, so he retreated and activated the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition.
• Liu Guan’s pale hand pierced the starry defense and reached for Yu Ci’s chest as he called him Jiu Yan.

Liu Guan attacked Yu Ci and revealed that Lu Suhua had died, then tried to seize Yu Ci by exploiting his curiosity about Heart Hut. Ghost Weary and Madam Huanyong’s Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp disrupted Liu Guan’s strike, forcing him to retreat with Zhai Que'er, Dragon Scar, and Black Robe.

• Liu Guan praised Yu Ci for opposing Lu Suhua and revealed that she had died beneath the heavenly tribulation, shocking the assembled cultivators.
• Liu Guan asked Yu Ci what he had obtained inside Heart Hut and broke through the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition, but Yu Ci’s Three-Party Primordial Energy stopped his claw.
• Liu Guan redirected his shadows toward Ghost Weary, Ye Chi, and Lu Ya, and Ghost Weary rose to meet the attack.
• Liu Guan’s blow seemed to shatter Ghost Weary, but Ghost Weary’s apparent destruction opened a void that released the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp and Madam Huanyong’s protection.
• Liu Guan recognized the lamp, cursed Madam Huanyong, and withdrew with Zhai Que'er, Dragon Scar, and Black Robe as Shadow Void faded.

Liu Guan drew the heavenly demons toward the cultivators and forced Wan Tengshan to order a joint breakthrough before they scattered. As the demonic tide attacked and casualties mounted, Yu Ci decided to answer Liu Guan’s pressure by having little Wu make a move.

• Liu Guan taunted Yu Ci and drew the heavenly demons’ attention by charging through their tide while keeping his whereabouts obvious.
• Yu Ci recognized that Liu Guan was intensifying the danger to force the cultivators into diverting the heavenly demons for him.
• Wan Tengshan ordered the cultivators to break through the demonic barrier together and then scatter.
• Yu Ci refused Wan Tengshan’s invitation to retreat together, saying Liu Guan had targeted him too.
• The heavenly demons attacked the weakened cultivators, and Yu Ci told little Wu to make a move.

Xiaowu unleashed the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition, slaughtering tens of thousands of heavenly devils and forcing the tide to retreat. After confirming Liu Guan had left, Yu Ci told the cultivators to disperse and prepared to act independently.

• Xiaowu raised thousands of blood-red execution platforms and used ghost-head sabers to kill tens of thousands of heavenly devils.
• The heavenly devil tide recoiled, and Xiaowu withdrew the god prohibition while keeping the God Slaying Saber.
• Yu Ci confirmed that a person lingering in the devil tide had vanished and told everyone to disperse.
• Yu Ci decided to separate from Wan Tengshan's group so he could avoid Liu Guan's schemes and investigate the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Wan Tengshan led his sword cultivators away, leaving thirty-eight cultivators, including Yu Ci, behind.

After escaping Liu Guan, Yu Ci tried to part ways with the cultivators, but Duanmu Senqiu and others urged the group to stay together. As the others went to scout and decide, Yu Ci reflected on his Talisman Diagram and clarified its core purpose.

• Yu Ci led the thirty-eight cultivators away from the weakened void tide and proposed that they separate.
• Duanmu Senqiu, Golden Cauldron True Man, and Shang He argued that the cultivators should remain together, but Yu Ci said everyone could choose after scouting the area.
• Duanmu Senqiu and the others went to scout while Yu Ci had Gui Yan tend to the wounded and Little Five care for Ye Chi and Lu Ya.
• Yu Ci examined the Talisman Diagram and realized it should prioritize general usefulness over accommodating every possible function.
• Yu Ci identified the diagram’s three core functions and, inspired by the Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman, awakened a strange phenomenon within his Mud Pill Palace.

Yu Ci refined his understanding of the Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter and created a new talisman diagram, then recognized that its true purpose required more than perfect structure. He began testing the diagram with the art of point-illumination.

• Yu Ci understood how talismans could be combined like characters to form new magical powers, and recognized that his earlier practice had relied on overly basic formulas.
• Yu Ci reshaped the Iron Eight Trigrams diagram into a hollow sphere built from three talisman types and thousands of linked patterns.
• Yu Ci asked Xiaowu to send the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition’s power into the sphere, making the diagram shine with a translucent glow.
• Yu Ci crossed the threshold of the Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter and obtained the beginning of the Cave Origin Jade Chapter Three Qi Wondrous Transformation Talisman Scripture inheritance.
• Yu Ci realized that the diagram needed to generate new meaning, not merely achieve a flawless structure, and struck it with the power of point-illumination.

Yu Ci created a tiny, faceless deity from the talisman diagram and recognized its connection to the Shangqing Sect’s method for creating heavenly deities. The deity was drawn into the Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold, where it settled into a left outer position and caused that region to light up.

• Yu Ci activated the talisman diagram, revealing a detailed but hollow and faceless humanoid figure within it.
• Yu Ci recognized that the figure’s power came from the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition and resembled the Celestial Being Descends talismanic divine power.
• Yu Ci concluded that the Shangqing Sect’s Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter described a method for creating deities of the heavens.
• The Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold began drawing the deity toward it, so Yu Ci released the figure and suppressed the talisman diagram’s pull.
• The deity shrank and entered the left outer position of the palace mold, causing that region to light up.

Yu Ci tested how the gods created through the Talisman Diagram interacted with the Nine Truths Immortal Palace model, discovering that their rank determined where they were assigned. He then gave Duanmu Senqiu the reorganized diagram, directed the cultivators toward a safer retreat, and left to pursue his own clue.

• Yu Ci found that the first god entered a side-chamber dwelling and meditated, then confirmed that the Talisman Diagram could create another god.
• Yu Ci used Celestial Being Descends on the model, and the higher-ranked celestial being traveled closer to the palace center before taking a guard's post outside a grand hall.
• Yu Ci concluded that gods were guided to different palace regions according to their rank, then put away the model and returned to the cultivators.
• Yu Ci handed the reorganized Talisman Diagram to Duanmu Senqiu and announced that he would separate from the group to pursue his own purpose.
• Yu Ci directed the cultivators toward the Western Eight Peaks or the passage between the two realms, then departed with Little Five, Gui Yan, Ye Chi, Lu Ya, and the others.

Yu Ci assessed the heavenly demons’ defenses around the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and learned from Ye Chi that they might belong to Tai'a Mohan, the End Law Lord. He resolved to plan for Tai'a Mohan’s possible presence, and Ye Chi began asking him for a favor.

• Yu Ci judged that escaping through the Two Realms Passage was possible but that the heavenly demons’ defenses around the Nine Truths Immortal Palace were extremely difficult to breach.
• Ye Chi asked Yu Ci why he had brought her along after refusing to join Duanmu Senqiu and the others, and Yu Ci said he had chosen a risk he could control.
• Ye Chi identified the heavenly demon forces as likely belonging to Tai'a Mohan based on their tactics and use of blade ant army arrays.
• Yu Ci considered that Tai'a Mohan might be present and decided to plan as though the End Law Lord had entered the palace.
• Ye Chi told Yu Ci she had a matter she wished to ask his help with.

Yu Ci agreed to help Ye Chi find a place to cultivate, but she revealed she needed seven days in the dangerous Donghua Void and said they should part ways. When he tried to stop her, he discovered the Ye Chi before him had been an illusion and the real Ye Chi had already vanished into the darkness.

• Yu Ci agreed to hear Ye Chi's request and asked how she thought he could enter the palace complex.
• Ye Chi suggested that Yu Ci might find his opportunity by jumping outside the Donghua Void.
• Ye Chi asked to use Little Five's Self-Created World for seven days of secluded cultivation, explaining that her breakthrough required a place within the Outer Domain but distinct from it.
• Ye Chi announced that she intended to leave on her own, and Yu Ci reached out to stop her.
• Ye Chi dissolved into watery mist laced with Sword Qi, and Yu Ci realized the real Ye Chi had already flown away.
• Little Five arrived, saw Ye Chi was gone, and apologized to Yu Ci.

Yu Ci and Little Five concealed themselves in a small rock fragment and approached the passageway between the two realms, timing their entry to evade the Heavenly Demons. As they entered, a sword cry rang out from the Donghua Void and shook the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, giving Yu Ci the opportunity he had anticipated.

• Yu Ci suspected Madame Yellow Springs had arranged Ye Chi's guidance and told Little Five to hurry after finding a suitable lodestone fragment.
• Yu Ci and Little Five hid inside the fragment and drifted through the Heavenly Demons' delusion realm toward the passageway.
• Yu Ci assessed the Nine Truths Immortal Palace's defenses and determined it stood apart from, but could interfere with, the passageway.
• Yu Ci had Little Five guide the fragment into the passageway as the faint sensation between his fingertips vanished.
• A sword cry sounded from the Donghua Void, and the passageway shook as the Nine Truths Immortal Palace was struck; Yu Ci realized his opportunity had arrived.

Yu Ci breached the barrier connecting the passage between realms to the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, only to be caught in a barrage from a Hundred Arrow Vine. Despite the relentless attack, he recognized the vine as something he could use.

• Yu Ci studied the passage between realms and identified the junction with the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Yu Ci used a void art to melt the barrier and opened a crack, letting chaotic currents sweep him out of the passage.
• The rock Yu Ci inhabited shattered as a Hundred Arrow Vine struck him with hundreds of light arrows.
• Yu Ci recognized the vine and realized that it could serve his purposes.

Yu Ci exploited the Hundred Arrow Vine’s targeting method to escape its bombardment and broke through the heavenly demons toward the Nine Truths Immortal Palace’s edge. When he unfolded the palace mold beside a hidden row of houses, the motionless divine spirit within it awoke and began gathering immense primordial energy.

• Yu Ci shrank and shifted under the Hundred Arrow Vine’s light arrows, causing its missed shots to devastate the surrounding demons and attendants.
• Yu Ci used the opening to charge through the shattered delusion realm, following the layout of the Nine Truths Immortal Palace toward its outer edge.
• Yu Ci unleashed the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition to tear through the demons’ array and reach the ordinary row of houses.
• Yu Ci unfolded the Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold, but the figure in its corresponding chamber remained still at first.
• The divine spirit opened its eyes, rose, and walked out, growing larger as it drew primordial energy from the surroundings.