Recaps

Madame Yellow Springs explained that Yu Ci’s rapid, disruptive approach differed from the long rhythms of other cultivators, and advised him to judge events on the scale of the world’s largest developments. She connected the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering and Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing to efforts to restrain the Eastern Sea Divine Lord, then left Yu Ci asking how he could act quickly within those events.

• Madame Yellow Springs told Yu Ci that his unusually fast rise and habit of disrupting situations before leaving gave him an advantage over slower cultivators.
• Madame Yellow Springs warned that restoring the Shangqing lineage would require sustained work, so Yu Ci could not simply act and depart as he had before.
• Madame Yellow Springs said Yu Ci should assess the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering and Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing as the broadest events shaping the world.
• Madame Yellow Springs explained that the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering was meant to divide the Eastern Sea Divine Lord’s authority and restrain her before Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing.
• Yu Ci asked Madame Yellow Springs how he could make himself fast in dealing with the two gatherings.

Madame Yellow Springs advised Yu Ci to delay rebuilding Shangqing so the Xiyu Alliance could not bind the sect to its existing order. She urged him to establish it at Huayang Mountain and take the lead against the great devils, leaving Yu Ci to consider her proposal.

• Yu Ci asked Madame Yellow Springs how to maintain a fast pace, and she explained that he needed a clear objective and advance preparations.
• Madame Yellow Springs argued that Yu Ci could not simply follow the rising tide of Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing because he lacked the time and strength to act as a latter sage.
• Madame Yellow Springs warned that rebuilding Shangqing too soon would let the Xiyu Alliance and Eight Sceneries Palace bind the sect to their existing framework for centuries.
• Yu Ci said the original site would be best, and Madame Yellow Springs identified it as Huayang Mountain.
• Madame Yellow Springs urged Yu Ci to lead from the front against the great devils, saying that only the End Law Lord could likely resist him in demonic territory.

As cultivators dwindled outside Yi Shui Ju, a heated argument aboard a pleasure boat exposed Qiu Shi’s contempt for those waiting there and Dong Yan’s ties to the Buyun Society. Dong Yan revealed the society had joined Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu’s Death Star effort and was heading north with Demon Locking Tokens, leaving Qiu Shi mocked by the other passengers.

• Passengers aboard a pleasure boat debated whether Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu was still at Yi Shui Ju and whether he had gone north to face the demonic calamity.
• Dong Yan criticized sects for failing to defend against the demons, and Qiu Shi of the Luan Yun Sect challenged him to go north himself.
• Dong Yan produced a Buyun Society token and announced that the society had returned and was heading north.
• Passengers explained that the Buyun Society, Xiyu Alliance, and Suixin Pavilion were managing access to the Death Star on Yuanxu’s behalf.
• Dong Yan identified his token as a Demon Locking Token, which could store heavenly demon essence qi and be used to enter the Death Star or exchange for goods.
• The passengers mocked Qiu Shi, joking that he would have to change his surname to Dong Shi.

Wu Jing and Dong Yan decided to head north with the Buyun Society, hoping to join Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu and reach Huayang Cave. News of Yuanxu’s victories and sudden turn toward Qingfeng Mountain redirected attention, but the group still planned to depart for Huayang Cave ten days later.

• Qiu Shi left the ship in humiliation after others challenged him over his refusal to trade for passage.
• Wu Jing told Lin Shuangmu he intended to travel north and seek a chance to join the Shangqing Sect.
• The drunken Dong Yan offered to recommend Wu Jing, and the two agreed to travel together to Huayang Cave.
• News spread that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu had broken the Demon Tide at Fulong River and slain fourteen powerful demons in one day and night.
• Further reports said Yuanxu had turned northwest toward Qingfeng Mountain and the ruins of Yujing Gate.
• Wu Jing and Dong Yan planned to join the Buyun Society’s northbound vanguard, but ten days later news from the north changed again.

Yu Ci’s campaigns against the Heavenly Demons made him the focus of attention across Xi Yu Lake, and he reached Huayang Cave while continuing to elude his pursuers. With Madame Yellow Springs’s guidance, he was linking northern battlefronts into a bounded war against the demonic tribulation.

• Yu Ci ambushed the southbound Demon Tide with his Great Sun divine ability and killed three Outer Realm Calamity Demons, prompting a massive force of Heavenly Demons to pursue him for more than two months.
• Yu Ci arrived near Huayang Cave in his Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel while Xuanhuang drove and Madame Yellow Springs traveled with him.
• Yu Ci asked Madame Yellow Springs about Huayang Cave and told her of a hidden Demonic Sect figure who was at least a Calamity Law Grandmaster.
• Madame Yellow Springs suggested that Yu Ci provoke the hidden figure so she could observe, but Yu Ci declined to seek another fight while pursuers remained nearby.
• Yu Ci reflected that Madame Yellow Springs had helped him connect key battlefronts into a large-scale conflict against the demonic tribulation without trapping himself in an open-ended northern campaign.

Yu Ci’s campaign helped the Xiyu Alliance seize the initiative against the demon tide and complete a handover in the Pingdu Xuanyang Realm. As pursuers closed in, he and Madame Yellow Springs discussed her ambitions and chose to head southwest.

• Yu Ci’s attacks killed nearly ten outer realm calamity demons, helping the Yin Mountain Sect and Thirteen Water Mansions join the Pure Void Virtue Sect’s reinforcements and establish a northwest defense line.
• The Xiyu Alliance completed the territorial handover of the Pingdu Xuanyang Realm and built another defensive line, while the demon tide’s eastward shift increased pressure on the East Sea Defense Line.
• Yu Ci recognized how Madame Yellow Springs’s influence through the Buyun Society and her connections had helped shape events across the Northern Wasteland and Xiyu Alliance.
• Yu Ci asked Madame Yellow Springs whether she feared the extreme trials of Dao Integration or Nirvana, and she explained her interest in researching them rather than pursuing transcendence.
• Yu Ci connected Madame Yellow Springs to the mysteries surrounding the Donghua Void, the replica Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, and other figures and forces.
• With pursuers approaching, Madame Yellow Springs advised going southwest through the demon tide’s southward route, and Yu Ci agreed.

Yu Ci and Xuan Huang fought through a demon tide led by the Calamity Demon King, relying on their divine abilities and the great sun’s power to break through its encirclement. After their reputation and battle record grew, a real mountain suddenly came crashing down toward them.

• Yu Ci and Xuan Huang charged through the encircling cloud walls, using the golden bell to clear demons and Yu Ci’s void ability to evade a demonic spear.
• Yu Ci reflected on his growing combat experience and focused his attention on mastering the battles he could control.
• Yu Ci and Xuan Huang burned through the demon tide with the great sun’s fire and killed more True Person-level dependents.
• A different demonic roar sounded, and a real mountain came crashing down toward Yu Ci and the chariot.

Yu Ci and Xuanhuang fled the Demon Tide while confronting a Calamity Law Grandmaster-level Vajra Demon Figurine. They plunged into the tribulation clouds, where Yu Ci led their pursuer toward a boiling expanse of jade-green water that erupted with electric plasma.

• Xuanhuang deflected a hurled mountain by disrupting the laws around its path, and its crash swept away much of the Demon Tide.
• Yu Ci identified the armored pursuer as a Vajra Demon Figurine and recalled its role in the destruction at Qingfeng Mountain.
• Yu Ci steered the carriage down into the tribulation clouds to escape the Vajra Demon Figurine and the Calamity Demon King's coordinated attacks.
• The Vajra Demon Figurine pursued through the lightning and fire, while Yu Ci gauged Madame Yellow Springs's condition and waited for an opening.
• Yu Ci accelerated the carriage diagonally downward, causing the Vajra Demon Figurine to overshoot into a hundred-zhang expanse of jade-green water that boiled with electric plasma.

Xuanhuang trapped and wounded the Vajra Demon Figurine in a thunder pool while Yu Ci’s group fled through the tribulation clouds. The Calamity Demon King then redirected the Heaven and Earth Law Will and used a Demon Tide formation, revealing that the Heavenly Demons had joined forces with the Demon Sect to invoke the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s power and seal the region.

• Xuanhuang secretly returned from the carriage and struck the Vajra Demon Figurine while it was trapped in the thunder pool, badly wounding the Heavenly Demon inside it.
• The Heaven and Earth Law Will unleashed a vast storm of electrical plasma, but the Vajra Demon Figurine’s armor healed and it endured the assault in a stalemate.
• Xuanhuang rejoined Yu Ci and the others as they rode deeper through the tribulation clouds, avoiding lightning while the Calamity Demon King rearranged the Demon Tide.
• The Calamity Demon King redirected the Heaven and Earth Law Will’s attention toward the demon kingdom around Huayang Cave, then sent millions of Heavenly Demons to reclaim the outskirts of the tribulation clouds.
• Yu Ci recognized the expanding starry sky above the Demon Tide as the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s power and sensed that Demon Sect practitioners were cooperating with the Heavenly Demons to seal the region.

Yu Ci and his companions were trapped by the Calamity Demon King’s overwhelming divine-intent assault, which drew power from the Boundless Void Divine Lord. After escaping the attack with a talisman, Yu Ci discovered that Madame Yellow Springs’s core life force remained unchanged despite her grave injuries.

• The Calamity Demon King formed a fortified city from the Demon Tide and used a human collaborator to channel the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s power against Yu Ci.
• Xuanhuang severed the laws carrying the divine-intent assault, but the void’s laws regenerated, leaving him unable to protect Yu Ci and Madame Yellow Springs from the relentless attacks.
• Yu Ci hung a protective talisman around Madame Yellow Springs’s neck, shielding her from the assault’s lingering shockwaves.
• As the fortified city and black tide closed in, Yu Ci’s avatar vanished, and Xuanhuang failed to find his core thought.
• The Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman transformed into a small figure of Yu Ci, letting him escape the divine-intent lock, while Madame Yellow Springs collapsed near death.
• Linked to Madame Yellow Springs through the talisman, Yu Ci sensed that her core life force and inner rhythm had remained unchanged despite her injuries.

Yu Ci witnessed Lu Chen’s Fist Intent emerge from Madame Yellow Springs and clash with the demonic cultivator’s divine-intent technique. As the battle shifted toward the lightning pool, Bao Yun’s talisman activated the Celestial Spirit Drum True Talisman, leaving the Vajra Demon Figurine immobilized.

• Madame Yellow Springs’s failing life force exposed Lu Chen’s hidden Fist Intent, which blasted Yu Ci away and forced back the demonic cultivator’s divine intent.
• The demonic cultivator summoned the Boundless Bitter Wheel Impermanence Method, while its altered void exposed Bao Yun in the lightning pool to the Vajra Demon Figurine.
• Yu Ci signaled Bao Yun, who escaped into the calamity clouds after tossing a talisman into the lightning pool; Yu Ci’s avatar and Xuanhuang also withdrew.
• Lu Chen’s Fist Intent drove back the Demon Tide, and the Calamity Demon King recognized it as Donghua True Lord’s power.
• Bao Yun’s talisman sounded the Celestial Spirit Drum, whose thunder immobilized the Vajra Demon Figurine and struck at its core.

Yu Ci manifested the Thunder Lord, used its thunder methods to suppress the Vajra Demon Figurine, and expanded his control over the tribulation clouds with Bao Yun’s help. With the rear secured, he turned toward the distant battle as Lu Chen’s fist intent began to wane.

• Yu Ci merged his core thought into the Thunder Lord Manifestation and rapidly took control of the tribulation clouds with Bao Yun’s aid.
• The Thunder Lord struck the Vajra Demon Figurine with the Five Curses Thunder Method, destroying the outer realm calamity demon within it.
• Yu Ci used the Five Emperors Inner Seizing Thunder Seal to immobilize and suppress the Vajra Demon Figurine beneath the plasma thunder pool.
• The Thunder Lord beat the Celestial Spirit Drum and summoned thunder department deities to help control the expanding domain.
• Bao Yun praised the talisman and asked Yu Ci to teach it to her, and Yu Ci agreed before turning his attention to Lu Chen’s waning fist intent.

Yu Ci pressed the demonic sect cultivator and the Calamity Demon King with the Thunder Lord domain while watching Madam Yellow Springs’s weakening confinement reveal her strange, undifferentiated true intent. As Lu Chen’s Fist Intent vanished, the demonic sect cultivator launched a new attack to disrupt Yu Ci’s control of the Heaven and Earth Law Will.

• The Calamity Demon King contracted the Demon Tide as the Thunder Lord domain’s lightning killed heavenly demons and swept toward the clash between immeasurable divine intent and Lu Chen’s Fist Intent.
• Yu Ci’s Thunder Lord Baleful Intent passed harmlessly through Lu Chen’s Fist Intent while striking immeasurable divine intent, prompting the demonic sect cultivator to call Tumoluo for aid.
• The Calamity Demon King and the demonic sect cultivator suspected Yu Ci was using Madam Yellow Springs and prepared a blessed flying spear to kill her.
• Madam Yellow Springs’s confinement loosened as Lu Chen’s Fist Intent weakened, revealing a crystalline true intent that Yu Ci recognized as emotion distributed equally toward all things.
• Lu Chen’s Fist Intent dispersed, and the demonic sect cultivator invoked the Bitter Wheel Boundless Impermanence Method while calling for the Calamity Demon King to attack Yu Ci.

Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to intercept the Heavenly Demons’ Faith Power, then joined forces with Xuan Huang to defeat Kuang Yanqi and drive off the Demon Tide. After the Boundless Void Divine Lord revealed Yu Ci’s true body before withdrawing, Yu Ci went to the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel, where Madame Yellow Springs weakened and noticed something unusual about his gaze.

• The Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror intercepted the million Heavenly Demons’ Faith Power, leaving Kuang Yanqi unable to empower his Bitter Wheel Boundless Impermanence Dharma.
• Kuang Yanqi recognized Yu Ci’s presence, and Xuan Huang appeared and cut apart his dharma body as his root demon seed fled toward the moon.
• The Boundless Void Divine Lord revealed Yu Ci’s true body and the Calamity Demon King, then withdrew without attacking; the Calamity Demon King retreated with the Demon Tide.
• Yu Ci left Bao Yun and the Thunder Lord Manifestation to guard the restrained Vajra Demon Figurine, then boarded the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel.
• Yu Ci found Madame Yellow Springs weakening as the principles sustaining her failed, and she began to comment on his true body before noticing his unusual gaze.

Yu Ci delivered Lu Qing’s Soul-Entrusting Jade to Madame Yellow Springs, then killed her and used You Rui’s Spirit Shaman abilities to begin preparing her revival within the Inner Void. In the Myriad Demon Pool, he examined the captured Kuang Yanqi and found a worm resembling one held inside a mysterious pearl.

• Yu Ci gave Madame Yellow Springs the Soul-Entrusting Jade and Lu Qing’s letter, which she discarded after explaining its purpose.
• Yu Ci strangled Madame Yellow Springs and destroyed her body with baleful energy and heavenly thunder.
• Yu Ci entered the Myriad Demon Pool and saw You Rui forming a spiritual figure resembling Madame Yellow Springs.
• Yu Ci inspected Kuang Yanqi, whose remains had become a demonic worm, and compared it with a similar worm inside a pearl.

Yu Ci investigated the demonic insect in the Illusory Realm Pearl while Zhao Xiangshan finally begged for a chance to transfer his spiritual pivot and revealed his ties to Canluona. Zhao Xiangshan’s oath curse burned away his remaining flesh, and Yu Ci became the target of Canluona’s destructive attention.

• Yu Ci continued studying the demonic insect inside the Illusory Realm Pearl and considered how to learn its purpose.
• Zhao Xiangshan repeatedly sought contact with Yu Ci, and You Rui eventually relayed his plea after letting him struggle.
• Zhao Xiangshan asked to transfer his spiritual pivot like Madame Yellow Springs and offered to share what he knew.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that he had served the Darkness Demon Lord Canluona and had entered the True Realm to protect its demonic spirit’s rebirth.
• An oath curse ignited Zhao Xiangshan’s remaining flesh, and Canluona fixed its destructive intent on Yu Ci.

Yu Ci blocked Canluona’s assault on Zhao Xiangshan, then questioned Zhao about its reincarnation scheme and its alliance with Void Infinity. Zhao’s revelations led Yu Ci to connect several factions’ strange actions to a plan to change the True Realm through the Shaman God.

• Canluona attacked Zhao Xiangshan across the Realm of Truth, but Yu Ci used his Inner Void and Supreme Clarity secret arts to repel it.
• You Rui rebuked Zhao Xiangshan for breaking its oath, and Zhao explained that it had misjudged Canluona’s condition and described its split-spirit reincarnation.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that Canluona and Void Infinity had allied twelve kalpas earlier, then Void Infinity betrayed them and destroyed much of Canluona’s reincarnated spiritual nature.
• Zhao offered Yu Ci a way to extract stored information from the Star Gleam Insects, which connected to Void Infinity, and explained that it wanted freedom from the True Realm’s constraints.
• Yu Ci concluded that Canluona’s plan to change the True Realm would have to work through the Shaman God, linking that idea to the strange actions of Zhai Que'er, Su Shuanghe, the Rakshasa Ghost King, the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, and Madam Xia.

Yu Ci learned that the Witch God lay beneath Xi Yu Lake and that the Witch Sect planned to awaken it through sword cultivator sacrifices. By exploring a Star Gleam Insect’s memories, he traced its demon spirit to the Chaos Origin Box and suspected Madame Yellow Springs had given it intelligence, connecting her actions to the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and the Boundless Void Divine Lord.

• Zhao Xiangshan told Yu Ci that the Witch God had merged with the spirit waters beneath Xi Yu Lake and that Zhai Que'er planned to awaken it using sword cultivators as sacrifices.
• Yu Ci used Zhao Xiangshan’s internalization technique to enter the memories of a Star Gleam Insect and learned it had entered the Inner Void from the jade box held by Black Robe.
• Yu Ci discovered that the jade box was the Chaos Origin Box, designed to suppress Canluona’s reincarnated spirituality and prevent it from developing independent intelligence.
• Zhao Xiangshan recalled that Madame Yellow Springs had visited the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion during the period when the demon spirit gained intelligence.
• Yu Ci concluded that Madame Yellow Springs may have altered the demon spirit while seeking the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and the Boundless Void Divine Lord.

Yu Ci examined the Star Gleam Insect’s memories and uncovered the demonic spirit’s quiet expansion through Black Robe and Kuang Yanqi. He then entered Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot, discovering that her memories contained no personal thoughts or feelings, and wondered whether she was emotionless or had transcended emotion.

• Yu Ci learned that the Star Gleam Insects shared an origin and that the demonic spirit had turned Black Robe into its puppet before parasitizing Kuang Yanqi.
• Yu Ci suspected Liu Guan’s actions toward Kuang Yanqi might have been connected to Madame Yellow Springs.
• Following a sudden premonition, Yu Ci used his internalization technique to inspect Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot and memories.
• Yu Ci found that he could observe Madame Yellow Springs’s experiences but could not perceive her thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
• Yu Ci sensed that Madame Yellow Springs’s spirituality had concentrated entirely into the core of life and death, leaving him questioning whether she was beyond emotion or unable to reach it.

Yu Ci traced how Wu Gui Yu Ke's soul became trapped in the Chaos Origin Box and how Madame Yellow Springs' observation helped awaken Canluona's reincarnated spiritual essence. Following Madame Yellow Springs into the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, he saw her battle the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit and lose part of her Yang God, which the demon spirit carried away on the Buddha Mother's decree.

• Yu Ci saw that Wu Gui Yu Ke had opened the Chaos Origin Box while dying, and his soul had been absorbed into the primordial substance inside.
• Madame Yellow Springs approached the jade box, but its seventeen rays of blood light attacked her and flung the box away, causing the demon spirit's memories to overlap with hers.
• Yu Ci realized Wu Gui Yu Ke's remnant intent and Madame Yellow Springs' observation had helped Canluona's reincarnated spiritual essence develop independent intelligence.
• Madame Yellow Springs wandered through the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, meditated for several days, and was drawn into the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• The Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit confronted Madame Yellow Springs and badly damaged her Yang God, forcing her to divide her soul and flee with her main body.
• The Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit took Madame Yellow Springs' stranded wisp of divided soul after receiving the Buddha Mother's decree.

Yu Ci explored Madame Yellow Springs’s memories and questioned Zhao Xiangshan about the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, the Six Paths Samsara, and Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva. Zhao Xiangshan traced the Black Heaven Cult’s origins to an early Northern Wastes cult whose surviving foundation became Three Families Market.

• Yu Ci watched Madame Yellow Springs leave her sect, marry Lu Chen, and face the Demon Sect’s outrage after abandoning her role as chief sacrificer of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.
• Zhao Xiangshan explained that Boundless had held the origin imprints of the heaven, human, asura, and beast paths in the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace while studying the Six Paths Samsara.
• Zhao Xiangshan said Boundless and Canluona became enemies over their differing plans to transform the True Realm, and that Lu Chen’s battle with Boundless gave Zhao Xiangshan a chance to escape notice.
• Zhao Xiangshan linked the Black Heaven Cult to a clumsy Northern Wastes cult that established three deities and left behind the foundation of Three Families Market.

Zhao Xiangshan traced the Three Venerables Cult’s possible origins to the Black Heaven Cult and linked its hidden patron to the Demonic Sect, the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and Yu Ci. It ended by revealing that Yu Ci’s Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe had once belonged to the Three Venerables Cult and asking what insight he drew from its strange history.

• Zhao Xiangshan explained how the Three Venerables Cult’s doctrines and structure may have developed into the Black Heaven Cult.
• Zhao Xiangshan argued that the He family’s ties to the Demonic Sect suggested the Three Venerables Cult had a powerful patron among the sect’s Northern Wastes rulers.
• Zhao Xiangshan noted that Demon Lord Mei, Demoness Feng, Consort Taiyin, and Madame Yellow Springs had all served as chief sacrificers of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, but could not identify the mysterious figure behind the cult.
• Zhao Xiangshan connected Yu Ci’s past entry into the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as Lu Dun to the Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe he had obtained from the Eastern Branch.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that the robe had belonged to the Three Venerables Cult and recounted how its artifact spirit once abandoned Zhou Yi to serve the deity True Splendor, then asked Yu Ci what he inferred.

Yu Ci examined Madame Yellow Springs’s memories and concluded that her emotionless nature had been acquired and her memories deliberately trimmed. Preparing to transfer her Spiritual Pivot, he recognized the dangers involved and, with You Rui’s guidance, chose to approach it through communication rather than force.

• Yu Ci reconsidered the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and decided that the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva might have inspired its spirit to abandon its foundation.
• Yu Ci reviewed Madame Yellow Springs’s early memories and found that they had been stripped of emotion and thought, with the changes beginning after her first ritual sacrifice.
• Yu Ci assessed the three trials required to transfer Madame Yellow Springs’s Spiritual Pivot and worried that the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva could interfere with the process.
• You Rui compared Madame Yellow Springs’s Spiritual Pivot to a sword cultivator’s Sword Embryo and warned Yu Ci against forcing his way into it.
• Yu Ci decided to contact the Spiritual Pivot through guidance and asked You Rui to help; she knelt before him, and he placed his hand on her head to extend his mind through her.

Yu Ci infiltrated Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot with distorted laws and discovered that her seed held a self-sufficient system of thought that could let her survive even if her memories were lost. He threatened to shatter the seed, and Madame Yellow Springs responded by connecting it to every memory, exposing all her secrets to him.

• Yu Ci used his control over the Inner Void to surround Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot with an illusion of altered laws and attempted to plant a demonic seed.
• Madame Yellow Springs detected the distorted laws and began rejecting them, revealing that she remained aware and that her spiritual pivot could judge its surroundings.
• Yu Ci and You Rui examined the seed and realized that Madame Yellow Springs processed observations through a complete system of thought grounded in the laws of the Nine Celestial Methods.
• Yu Ci concluded that the seed could preserve Madame Yellow Springs and eventually restore her, then decided he could still break it by force.
• Yu Ci pressed his malice into the seed, and Madame Yellow Springs linked it to her memories, opening every secret to him.

Yu Ci reconstructed the origins of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s monstrous spirit and learned why it had targeted Madame Yellow Springs as a possible replacement. The chapter left the mirror’s creature identified as the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, whose latest target had been Madame Yellow Springs.

• Yu Ci connected Madame Yellow Springs’s unusual resonance with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to a long history of spiritually gifted women being selected and disappearing.
• Yu Ci determined that the mirror contained a malformed monster formed from the accumulated consciousnesses and powers within it, rather than a true artifact spirit.
• The monster escaped the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror after Qu Wujie possessed the Boundless Void Divine Lord and became master of the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• The monster adopted the Six Paths Samsara as its foundation under the Rakshasa Ghost King’s guidance and became the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva sought a replacement for its tainted root of spirituality and most recently targeted Madame Yellow Springs.