Recaps

Extreme Ancestor’s attack exposed weaknesses in Yu Ci’s Dao foundation, but Yu Ci devised a counterattack by projecting a Cloud Tower Tree leaf into the battle. Its Dao rhyme opened a view of the Dao Realm, from which Ge Patriarch emerged, leaving Yang Zhu stunned and Xie Kangling frozen.

• Extreme Ancestor’s fist force devastated the heavenly demon tide and tested the connection between Yu Ci and the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Qing Xuan explained that Yu Ci’s unusually rigid Dao foundation lacked the toughness needed to respond to celestial combat, while Yu Ci weighed the danger of leaving Zhu Yang unaccounted for.
• Yu Ci used the Cloud Tower Tree leaf to project Dao rhyme into the outer-territory starry sky, suppressing Yang Zhu, Xie Kangling, and the heavenly demons.
• The leaf’s projection revealed the Dao Realm, and Ge Patriarch stepped out into the battlefield.
• Yang Zhu recognized Ge Patriarch from an image in the Shangqing Ancestor Hall, while Xie Kangling froze as a heartbeat sounded within him.

Yu Ci summoned Patriarch Ge’s image through the Shangqing system, awakening Xie Kangling’s buried Shangqing instincts and causing his spiritual awareness to begin destroying itself. Extreme Ancestor fled with Xie Kangling, while Yu Ci returned to Huayang Cave and used his believers to revive the Shangqing system there.

• Yu Ci used the memories and devotion of Shangqing cultivators to form an illusory Patriarch Ge whose presence revealed the Shangqing system’s structure and concealed Yu Ci’s flaws.
• Patriarch Ge walked through Xie Kangling, triggering Xie Kangling’s Shangqing instincts and a fatal conflict with his demonic taint.
• Extreme Ancestor used the Huayang Demonic Spear to seize Xie Kangling and retreat, while Juduoluo held Yang Zhu back.
• Yu Ci left Yang Zhu to deal with Juduoluo and returned to the True Realm, where Extreme Ancestor’s demonic Qi was surging toward the extraterritorial realms.
• Yu Ci’s believers near Huayang Cave prayed, reviving the Shangqing portion of the Huayang Demon Kingdom and setting it against the demon kingdom’s power.

Yu Ci used the reawakened Shangqing system to break Extreme Ancestor’s hold over Xie Kangling and force him to withdraw. Afterward, Yu Ci and Yang Zhu gave the arriving alliance leaders an account of the battle and presented their divine link as a temporary Outer Dao ability for Xiyu Alliance members.

• Yu Ci activated the remnants of the Shangqing system, causing Xie Kangling to break free of the demonic flood dragon and plunge into Huayang Cave as the Huayang Demon Kingdom collapsed.
• Extreme Ancestor withdrew his divine will after losing Xie Kangling as his fulcrum, but left a message meant to implicate Yang Zhu and Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu.
• Yang Zhu arrived above Huayang Cave, suppressed the outward signs of demonic taint, and joined Yu Ci as Lianshan and Heavenly Venerate Boyang arrived.
• Yang Zhu told the alliance leaders that Extreme Ancestor had targeted the Siming Sect and that he had fought him after discovering the scheme.
• Yu Ci dissolved his divine link with Yang Zhu and explained it as a temporary Outer Dao ability that Xiyu Alliance members could borrow to fight demons.

Yu Ci entered the ruined formations beneath Huayang Cave to investigate the Shangqing system and recover Xie Kangling’s remains. He discovered a demonic passage leading to a deep location in Xi Yu Lake and prepared to investigate it.

• Yu Ci defended his empowerment system, then refused to let Heavenly Venerate Boyang accompany him into Huayang Cave.
• Yu Ci used the Shangqing system to pass through the damaged formations, recording broken pathways and clearing away remnants of other sects’ seals.
• Yu Ci found Madam Huanyong holding the heavenly demons in check and collected Xie Kangling’s purified blood traces.
• Yu Ci discovered a chamber filled with demonic patterns that formed a void passageway leading deep beneath Xi Yu Lake.
• Yu Ci decided to make arrangements to investigate the passage, despite his true body being restrained at Lan Hai Mountain.

Yu Ci investigated the ruins of Extreme Ancestor’s underwater hideout, hoping to find clues about the Taixiao Divine Court. As he searched the lake bottom, an unknown expert deliberately made contact with his divine intent.

• Xiao Wu abruptly left after saying Senior Brother was looking for her, and Lu Wan told Xiao Jiu that Ye Chi had also gone out in a hurry.
• The Sword Discussion Pavilion arrived at Xi Yu Lake to investigate Wuji Pavilion and Ling Jiao’s disappearance, while Venerable Yu Xu came to assist them.
• Yu Ci used a Faith Power anchor point to reach the lake bottom and found the recently destroyed secret mansion where Extreme Ancestor had been searching for the Taixiao Divine Court.
• Yu Ci avoided the undersea demons and searched the surrounding waters for traces linking Extreme Ancestor’s Shangqing methods to the Taixiao Divine Court.
• An unknown person deliberately collided with Yu Ci’s probing divine intent, and Yu Ci recognized the newcomer as a true expert.

Yu Ci fled the exposed ruins of Extreme Ancestor’s secret territory and entered the dangerous void intersection between the True Realm and the water world, where he investigated how its laws favored Sorcerer techniques. An urgent message from You Rui revealed that Su Shuanghe’s plot had been exposed and the Sword Discussion Pavilion had launched an attack, leaving Yu Ci to seek the full details.

• Yu Ci realized the Xiyu Alliance’s observers and lake-bottom demons had converged on Extreme Ancestor’s ruined secret territory, then had Madam Huanyong destroy the void passage before he escaped into the void intersection.
• Yu Ci tested the distorted laws with help from You Rui and found that Sorcerer techniques gained more than double their power there while True Realm techniques were suppressed.
• Yu Ci and Zhao Xiangshan investigated the region’s laws and discussed the Sorcerer Gods, the Xia family, and the Sorcerer bloodline.
• A tremor resonated through the void intersection, and You Rui urgently told Yu Ci that Su Shuanghe’s plot had been exposed and the Sword Discussion Pavilion was attacking.
• Yu Ci ordered Zhao Xiangshan to determine what had happened, and Zhao Xiangshan began compiling reports through the Divine Lord Network.

Yu Ci observed Li Bocai and the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword cultivators pursue Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit through the waters toward the Water World. Su Shuanghe escaped the sword array in a burst of speed, but a mysterious shadow seized his sorcery treasure just as he neared the portal.

• The Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword cultivators, led by Li Bocai, pursued Su Shuanghe into the vast intersection between the true realm and the Water World.
• Yu Ci watched Li Bocai use the law of Creation to disrupt the surrounding legal system and learned how the sword cultivators’ group sword array strengthened their attack.
• The sword array overwhelmed Su Shuanghe, forcing him deeper into the waters as his second Primordial Spirit weakened and his sorcery treasure was exposed.
• Li Bocai caused the gathered great demons to part, and Su Shuanghe dispersed his second Primordial Spirit into a speck of spiritual light inside the sorcery treasure to escape.
• Su Shuanghe reached the blue-lit portal to the Water World, but a giant shadow grabbed his sorcery treasure and crushed its spiritual light.

Yu Ci witnessed Su Shuanghe’s second primordial spirit being consumed in the depths of Xi Yu Lake, then uncovered clues suggesting a tacit connection between the Sword Discussion Pavilion and the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect. As Flying Soul City faced turmoil over Madam Xia’s rumored secret, Yu Ci observed You Rui and Murong Qingyan’s exchange, which ended with Murong revealing a bird Yu Ci recognized.

• A hidden entity devoured Su Shuanghe’s second primordial spirit, and Yu Ci sensed that the deep waters belonged to the entity known as the old friend of Extreme Ancestor.
• Li Bocai swept his divine will through the waters, subtly altered the local law systems, and withdrew while Yu Ci suspected he was positioning himself.
• Yu Ci connected the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect’s absence from the Xi Yu Lake crisis to Zhai Que’er’s past impersonation of Ling Jiao and suspected an understanding with the Sword Discussion Pavilion.
• News of Su Shuanghe’s destruction spread, drawing scrutiny toward Madam Xia and Flying Soul City as rumors about her secret unsettled the city.
• Yu Ci observed You Rui and Murong Qingyan discuss the spirit witches’ purpose and their personal allegiances.
• Murong Qingyan showed You Rui a hawk-like water-aspect bird and compared it unfavorably with You Rui’s great roc, while Yu Ci recognized the bird from long ago.

As the Sword Discussion Pavilion moved against Flying Soul City over Su Shuanghe’s accusations, Madam Xia consolidated power and You Huang ordered You Rui and Murong Qingyan to prepare a Lake Sacrifice in five days. Murong Qingyan proposed that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu attend as an observer, leaving the sacrifice’s political maneuvering unresolved.

• Su Shuanghe accused Madam Xia of secretly merging great witch bloodlines in a fetus to bring about the Witch God’s reincarnation, giving the Sword Discussion Pavilion grounds to intervene.
• Madam Xia had the Ancestral Witch Hall suppress and remove Elder Su, revealing that she had regained firm control of Flying Soul City.
• You Huang summoned You Rui and ordered her and Murong Qingyan to preside over a Lake Sacrifice at Xi Yu Lake in five days, with Madam Xia leading the ritual for her unborn child.
• You Rui realized the sacrifice would publicly test the child’s bloodline and could undermine Madam Xia’s authority if the expected sign failed to appear.
• Murong Qingyan met You Rui and suggested that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu must attend the sacrifice as an observer.

Murong Qingyan and You Rui negotiated over whether Yu Ci would meet Madam Xia, and Yu Ci decided to use the crisis surrounding her unborn child to secure leverage while investigating the fetus. Zhao Xiangshan warned that any cooperation with Madam Xia would be temporary, then proposed using lost Heavenly Evasion Sect treasures to track down Zhu Yang.

• Murong Qingyan proposed that You Rui invite Yu Ci to the Lake Sacrifice, and You Rui demanded that Madam Xia offer greater sincerity and explain the Xia clan’s practice of Embracing Jade.
• You Rui agreed to notify Yu Ci, while Yu Ci concluded that Madam Xia had no other allies and that he could use negotiations to investigate the fetus and pressure her.
• Zhao Xiangshan explained why the Shaman God’s rebirth was unlikely and argued that the factions cared more about what they could gain from the fetus.
• Yu Ci agreed to pursue only temporary cooperation with Madam Xia and to warn her not to rely on Embracing Jade.
• Zhao Xiangshan raised the danger posed by Zhu Yang and proposed tracing him through treasures once belonging to Shadow Step, including the Ghost King Lock Ring and Shadow Step Cloak.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that Su Shuanghe possessed the Shadow Step Cloak.

Yu Ci uncovered evidence in a lake-bottom manor that linked the Creation Sword Immortal’s research into the Witch God to Yang Zhu’s Manifesting Gauze. The chapter left Yu Ci waiting for Yang Zhu’s explanation while Shadow Ghost concluded that the Creation Sword Immortal had ultimately been forced to rely on outside help.

• Yu Ci learned that Zhang Yan had been seized by Li Bocai after being found with Ling Jiao, and he used the fish-dragon’s memories to inspect their hidden manor.
• Yu Ci discovered that the manor’s sword marks had preserved it for over a millennium and inferred that the Creation Sword Immortal had been studying the Witch God there.
• Yu Ci recognized that the sword intent in the manor matched the brushwork of Yang Zhu’s high-imitation Manifesting Gauze.
• Yu Ci contacted Madam Huanyong to seek an explanation from Yang Zhu, while Shadow Ghost examined the manor through the fish-dragon’s perspective.
• Shadow Ghost said the Creation Sword Immortal had failed to deal with the Witch God and had been forced to borrow external strength.

Yu Ci investigated the Creation Sword Immortal’s influence on Yang Zhu and the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s history, while Shadow Ghost fell into a deep silence over the revelations. Meanwhile, Xue Zhi fled the Su Family Manor with Baiyi and was brought before a powerful female cultivator who claimed to have known Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu for sixty years.

• Shadow Ghost taught Yu Ci how to read the sword scars and infer the Creation Sword Immortal’s designs from the changes in them.
• Yang Zhu sent word that he recognized sects but would not be influenced by Creation, and revealed that the Creation Sword Immortal and Extreme Ancestor had both played roles in the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s journey through the northern lands.
• Yu Ci wondered whether Shadow Ghost knew what had happened to Xuan Huang at the Sword Garden, but Shadow Ghost gave no answer and grew more withdrawn.
• Yu Ci returned to his true body to seek Yu Qing Xuan’s help with the journey to Xi Yu Lake and to discuss Zhao Xiangshan’s trap for Zhu Yang.
• Xue Zhi left the Su Family Manor with Baiyi, who restrained her and revealed a female cultivator waiting aboard the boat.
• The female cultivator greeted Xue Zhi and said she had known Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu for sixty years.

Crimson Yin and Baiyi revealed their connection to the notorious Flower Demon and used a memory-altering divine ability to erase or rewrite Xue Zhi’s memories. Xue Zhi awoke believing she had spent the night with Baiyi and was heading to Baiyi’s residence at Yuanjun Pingzhi’s home, unaware of what had been done to her.

• Crimson Yin introduced herself to Xue Zhi and, with Baiyi, exposed the Hundred Flower Brand on Xue Zhi’s arm, revealing Baiyi as the Flower Demon.
• Crimson Yin explained that a divine ability could alter or sever memories by changing the brain palace, and said it had helped conceal Baiyi’s identity from Madam Xia and Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu.
• Xue Zhi questioned Crimson Yin’s intentions and began asking whether they planned to act against Yuanxu, but Baiyi silenced her.
• Crimson Yin put Xue Zhi to sleep after warning her not to disturb the Heavenly Monarch.
• Xue Zhi awoke believing she had spent the night with Baiyi after fleeing her master and was traveling with her toward Baiyi’s residence at Yuanjun Pingzhi’s home.

Xue Zhi stayed at Xue Pingzhi’s residence under Baiyi’s protection while Xue Pingzhi questioned Baiyi and Crimson Yin about their actions and Madam Xia’s plans. At Yi Shui Ju, Xue Pingzhi studied the deduction traces from Xi Yu Lake, recognized the Method of Creation, and reacted sharply when Yu Ci revealed the Creation Sword Intent within them.

• Baiyi brought Xue Zhi to meet Xue Pingzhi and arranged a place for her to stay, explaining that protecting her would avoid trouble with Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu.
• Xue Pingzhi warned Baiyi about her unknown motives and questioned Crimson Yin, who reported Madam Xia’s agreement with Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu to invite him to the Witch Sect’s Lake Sacrifice Ceremony.
• Xue Pingzhi went to Yi Shui Ju, briefly met the awakened Ye Chi, and joined Yu Ci at the cold spring.
• Yu Ci showed Xue Pingzhi the deduction traces found at the bottom of Xi Yu Lake, and she spent hours studying their layered images.
• Xue Pingzhi identified the traces as the Method of Creation and asked about the true intent within them.
• Yu Ci revealed the Creation Sword Intent, causing Xue Pingzhi’s markings to shatter; she then ground the displayed scenes into dust.

Yu Ci and Xue Pingzhi deduced that the Creation Sword Immortal’s plan would alter the Yin Yang Method, transforming how spiritual subtlety and the world interacted. They concluded the scheme could reshape the True Realm’s cultivation system and might be launched around Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing, possibly using the Sorcerer Gods and the Thirty-Six Heavens as a springboard.

• Yu Ci showed Xue Pingzhi the Creation Sword Immortal’s deduced traces and asked her to interpret them.
• Xue Pingzhi explained that the Creation Sword Immortal aimed to let spiritual subtlety directly affect creation by changing the Yin Yang Method’s restrictions.
• Yu Ci and Xue Pingzhi considered how changing the Yin Yang Method could reshape the Nine Celestial Methods, cultivation, and society across the True Realm.
• Xue Pingzhi said the matter should be disclosed to the Xiyu Alliance and the Eight Sceneries Palace before the imminent gatherings.
• Yu Ci suspected the Creation Sword Immortal might use the Sorcerer Gods and the Thirty-Six Heavens of Shangqing to put the plan into motion around Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing.

Yu Ci and Xue Pingzhi discussed how to navigate the growing struggle around the Xi Yu Lake and prepared to meet Madam Xia in Flying Soul City. After empowering Xue Pingzhi to share perceptions, Yu Ci surveyed the city and saw that Madam Xia’s position had weakened against You Huang before appearing before her.

• Xue Pingzhi and Yu Ci agreed to assess which forces they could borrow as the lake sacrifice drew the factions toward Xi Yu Lake.
• Yu Ci connected Crimson Yin and Murong Qingyan to Madame Yellow Springs, then ordered You Rui to investigate Xue Zhi and reveal selected clues to Murong and others.
• Madam Xia accepted Yu Ci’s proposed conditions, and Yu Ci arranged to meet her in Flying Soul City in half an hour.
• Yu Ci offered Xue Pingzhi a chance to experience Yang Zhu’s Outer Path Deity empowerment method, and they tested how it could let them share perceptions.
• Yu Ci projected his will into Flying Soul City and saw that Madam Xia’s influence was weaker than You Huang’s and continuing to decline.
• Yu Ci located Madam Xia alone atop a central pavilion and appeared openly before her.

Yu Ci confronted Madam Xia about her unborn shaman fetus and uncovered a plan to combine the You, Xia, Su, and Tang bloodlines. Madam Xia admitted the preparations and begged him to help preserve the child, leaving Yu Ci to decide whether to intervene.

• Yu Ci demanded that Madam Xia confirm whether she carried a shaman fetus, and she admitted that the fetus had been created through the shaman-fetus method.
• Yu Ci explained that shaman fetuses were part of a plan to combine bloodlines, then deduced that another fetus had been prepared from the Su and Tang bloodlines.
• Madam Xia's reaction confirmed that Su Qizhe was involved, and she admitted that she had been making preparations with him and the other families.
• Madam Xia revealed that Ge Qiuniang carried a pure Tang bloodline and that Xue Zhi bore Xia blood markers, explaining their roles in the preparations.
• Madam Xia prostrated herself before Yu Ci and begged him to help preserve the shaman fetus in her womb.

Yu Ci questioned Madam Xia about her shamanic embryo and her request that he protect her bloodline, learning that she believed the Lake Sacrifice in four days could trigger a shamanic god’s reincarnation. He challenged her account and her motives, then began to force a final resolution as time ran short.

• Madam Xia knelt before Yu Ci and asked him to protect her bloodline, prompting him to question whether she truly trusted him and the Shangqing Sect.
• Madam Xia explained that the Lake Sacrifice was only four days away and claimed that preparations could make even an embryo bearing only the You and Xia bloodlines sufficient to bring about reincarnation.
• Yu Ci asked where You Can was, and Madam Xia said she did not know, though she believed he had become an Earth Immortal before disappearing after leaving behind a bloodline.
• Yu Ci reasoned that You Can had likely planted the shamanic embryo scheme in Madam Xia’s mind, leaving her to pursue it alone as the world’s upheaval disrupted her plans.
• Yu Ci told Madam Xia that her answers and attitude did not satisfy him, then loosened her hair and said they should reach a final conclusion immediately.

Yu Ci pressed Madam Xia to reveal her plans and allegiance, then she ordered Flying Soul City to begin preparations for the Lake Sacrifice. The group reached Xi Yu Lake, where Madam Xia placed Huangdi and the three elders in charge of inspecting the arrangements.

• Yu Ci tested Madam Xia’s defenses and pressured her to explain what she and You Can intended to do.
• When Madam Xia tried to evade his questions, Yu Ci made their clashing powers visible across the city and warned that her support among the Witch people could fade.
• Madam Xia emerged before her retainers and ordered them to prepare to set off for the Lake Sacrifice.
• Flying Soul City linked its guiding array to the Three Origins Secret Array at Xi Yu Lake.
• You Huang, You Rui, Murong Qingyan, and three elders of the Ancestral Witch Hall traveled with Madam Xia to Xi Yu Lake, where she told everyone to rest and assigned Huangdi and the elders to inspect the sacrificial arrangements.

Madam Xia sent You Huang to manage Flying Soul City's confrontation with Sword Discussion Pavilion while she entered seclusion for the Lake Sacrifice. After a secret room revealed that Su Shuanghe’s Shadow Step Cloak was missing, Li Bocai negotiated the sword cultivators’ withdrawal, and You Huang headed beneath Xi Yu Lake to inspect the sacrificial altar.

• Madam Xia ordered You Huang to stay out of the lake and handle Sword Discussion Pavilion’s search of Su Shuanghe’s estate.
• You Huang entered the estate, where Peng Suo blocked him, but an unseen presence slipped into and out of a newly opened secret room.
• You Huang and Peng Suo found a Mirage Jade Slip showing that the Shadow Step Cloak had vanished from the chamber.
• Li Bocai arrived and spent fifteen hours negotiating with You Huang until Sword Discussion Pavilion withdrew from the estate.
• You Huang checked the lake and its altar before traveling toward the lakebed demon kingdom to inspect the site where Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit had perished.

You Huang investigated the pursuit of Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit while Chu Yuanxiang questioned him about the battle beneath Xi Yu Lake. Meanwhile, Yu Ci learned that Zhao Xiangshan’s fabricated evidence had steered You Huang’s suspicions, and news arrived that Miss Rui had survived an attack in the manor.

• You Huang inspected a Mirage Shell listing powerful factions heading toward the Water World, then diverted into Flying Soul City’s secret mansion after sensing something there.
• Chu Yuanxiang entered the mansion to investigate Su Shuanghe’s escape and destruction, but You Huang declined his invitation to explore the lake bottom together.
• After Chu Yuanxiang left, You Huang reviewed the chain of events and wondered whether Su Shuanghe had learned something about the truth.
• Yu Ci praised Zhao Xiangshan for planting false evidence about the Shadow Step Cloak, and Zhao explained how You Huang’s habits made him vulnerable to manipulation.
• Zhao Xiangshan received word that Miss Rui had been attacked in the manor but was unharmed, and Yu Ci identified the incident as a way of releasing information.

Yu Ci and Zhao Xiangshan discussed how rumors about the Shadow Step arts could force the Heavenly Evasion Sect to act, while You Huang grew alarmed that an unknown mastermind was steering events around Madam Xia and the witch embryo. You Huang inspected the Lake Sacrifice preparations, then descended into Xi Yu Lake’s demon kingdom and contacted someone hidden in the water veins.

• Yu Ci considered how rumors about the Ghost King Lock Ring and Shadow Step arts could draw the Heavenly Evasion Sect into the conflict and leave it scrambling for control.
• You Huang concluded that the mastermind might be manipulating events and feared Madam Xia could not be protected once the Lake Sacrifice began.
• You Huang inspected the altar preparations with You Lou and two Longevity Realm elders, then continued deeper into Xi Yu Lake to assess the surrounding activity.
• You Huang used his resemblance to the lakebed demons to conceal his divine intent as he entered a special layer of the water veins and received a greeting from an unseen contact.

You Huang learned that his elder brother You Can, trapped between the Water World and the True Realm by a corrupted Dao Integration, planned to be reborn through a sorcery fetus. With their original Lake Sacrifice plan compromised, You Can ordered You Huang to use Ge Qiuniang and Su Qizhe’s nearly ready fetus instead.

• You Huang recalled how You Can had used Sorcerer God Spiritual Water to survive the Four-Nine Tribulation, leaving him mutated and unable to remain safely in either world.
• You Can told You Huang that Sword Discussion Pavilion might have noticed traces of him after he devoured Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit, but said Zaohua was unlikely to be behind a hidden scheme.
• You Can abandoned their compromised plan involving Madam Xia’s sorcery fetus and proposed using Ge Qiuniang and Su Qizhe’s nearly ready fetus to begin his rebirth.
• You Can revealed that the Sorcery Treasure taken from Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit contained foundational Su clan bloodline that could support the new plan.
• You Can warned You Huang to watch Huaiyu, then ordered him to begin while there was still time to change course.
• After ending their exchange, You Huang inspected the demon kingdom beneath the lake and the place where Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit had died, then accepted You Can’s resolve.

Yu Ci confirmed that Madam Xia had secretly transferred the vital essence of a witch fetus into Xue Zhi, whose Xia-family bloodline could sustain it. Xue Zhi left the decision to Yu Ci, who remained distrustful of Madam Xia.

• Yu Ci examined Xue Zhi and found traces of Clear Spirit Dream Powder, supporting Baiyi's account of her impaired memories.
• Yu Ci told Xue Zhi that she carried a sealed fetus, and she initially mistook his words as an accusation of infidelity.
• Yu Ci explained that Madam Xia and Murong Qingyan had transferred the witch fetus's vital essence into Xue Zhi during the night of the ship visit.
• Yu Ci revealed that Xue Zhi's Xia-family witch bloodline could preserve the fetus and that Madam Xia's plan involved Xue Pingzhi's participation.
• Xue Zhi said she had no opinion and would submit to Yu Ci's decision, while Yu Ci reaffirmed his distrust of Madam Xia.

Yu Ci recognized Madam Xia’s schemes and tightened control over the witch fetus and those connected to it. Zhao Xiangshan warned him that the fetuses’ gestation and Su Qizhe’s disappearance suggested further plots, leaving Yu Ci focused on questioning Madam Xia once his true body arrived.

• Yu Ci concluded that Madam Xia had implanted the witch fetus in Xue Zhi to protect her own position and evade the dangers surrounding Flying Soul City.
• Yu Ci summoned Xue Pingzhi to take Xue Zhi away and keep her and the witch fetus safe.
• Zhao Xiangshan warned Yu Ci that the witch fetus was still at an early stage of development and that the other fetus, belonging to Su Qizhe and Ge Qiuniang, also needed protection.
• Zhao Xiangshan urged Yu Ci to control Ge Qiuniang and investigate the connection between Su Qizhe and Miaoxiang.
• Yu Ci acknowledged that Su Qizhe had vanished despite the search, and Zhao Xiangshan advised questioning Madam Xia as soon as Yu Ci’s true body arrived.