Recaps

Yu Ci and You Gongquan defeated Fu Long’s bandits, but a concealed accomplice used a God Slaying Thorn and escaped with Lake and Sea Wanderer. You Gongquan survived the attack, while Yu Ci sensed a strange presence from afar as he returned to the Cloud-Spreading Floating Carriage.

• Fu Long fled when the aerial restriction formation failed, and the remaining bandits scattered after You Gongquan defeated them.
• Yu Ci found Lake and Sea Wanderer captured and heard him offer a secret about a hidden manor in exchange for his life.
• An accomplice attacked the hunting party with fine needles, seized Lake and Sea Wanderer, and escaped after striking You Gongquan and Yu Ci with a God Slaying Thorn.
• Yu Ci blocked the God Slaying Thorn with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and You Gongquan dissolved the weaker radiant qi before it could break his Core Formation.
• Yu Ci returned to the Cloud-Spreading Floating Carriage and focused on a strange sensation rising within him from afar.

Yu Ci watched Chu Yan refine the red gauze and realized it was connected to the God Slaying Thorn, then used the insight to reconsider Nan Songzi’s gauze. After Uncle-Master Gan awakened, she took Yu Ci to Juebi City, where Aunt Qing flew up to greet her.

• A shadow carried the unconscious Lake and Sea Wanderer to a valley, where Fu Long searched him before taking him away.
• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to observe Chu Yan and was struck by a heart demon, which he suppressed with Clear and Still Void and True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade.
• Yu Ci watched Chu Yan refine her red gauze and realized it produced the God Slaying Thorn, then recognized that Nan Songzi’s gauze might work similarly.
• Uncle-Master Gan woke in Yu Ci’s carriage, and Yu Ci greeted her.
• After resting, Uncle-Master Gan took Yu Ci to Juebi City on Mudball, where Aunt Qing flew up and greeted her.

Yu Ci returned to Juebi City after the battle at Sky Rift Valley, where he learned that Bi Chao’s lavish banquet had become a major event. He practiced leaving his body as a yin god, and He Qing summoned him at night to discuss his cultivation and the Void Assimilation Method.

• He Qing praised Gan Shizhen for entering the Void-Stepping Realm and questioned Yu Ci about his reckless fight with the ghost beast and rapid cultivation progress.
• Yu Ci arrived in Juebi City, where sect leaders visited him, while the city focused on Bi Chao’s upcoming banquet and the return of the Suixin Pavilion caravan.
• Yu Ci decided to attend the banquet and practiced sending his yin god out of his body at the former Bai Ri Mansion.
• He Qing summoned Yu Ci’s roaming yin god to her garden, remarked on his progress after absorbing the True Dragon Form Qi, and asked whether he had studied the Void Assimilation Method.

He Qing taught Yu Ci the Great Dream Yin Yang Method, which improved his cultivation and perception of external qi. After two nights of instruction, Yu Ci learned that a message from Suixin Pavilion addressed to Xie Liang had arrived with his name attached.

• Yu Ci told He Qing he wanted to advance the Xuan Yuan Gen Ben Qi Fa by resonating with external qi, and she taught him the Great Dream Yin Yang Method.
• He Qing guided Yu Ci in reshaping his yin spirit with yin and yang qi, and Yu Ci mastered the technique after experiencing an intense sensation of fulfillment.
• Yu Ci practiced the method with He Qing's guidance over two nights, improving his perception of external primordial qi and refining his inner void and dragon-fish mental image.
• Bao De visited Yu Ci to ask his opinion of the Xuan Yin Sect's upcoming Tianyi Tower banquet, and Yu Ci agreed to attend without opposing it.
• Bao De gave Yu Ci a jade slip sent from Suixin Pavilion for Xie Liang, explaining that Xie Liang was away and Yu Ci's name had been appended to the message.

Yu Ci learned that a life-extending treasure for Yu Zhou would arrive at the April fifth banquet, but Xie Yan and Xie Liang were away and Yu Ci lacked a suitable item to trade. He sought help from He Qing, who explained why the sect restricted using its resources to prolong a disciple’s life.

• Yu Ci received word from Suixin Pavilion that an alternative item would arrive with its caravan and be presented at the April fifth banquet.
• Yu Ci realized Xie Yan and Xie Liang had gone north and that the fish-dragon’s diminished quality left him without a valuable trade item.
• Yu Ci reclaimed the fine gauze from Gan Shizhen, who had cleansed its evil qi and identified it as the Five-Hues Bewitching Spirit Barrier, formerly refined with the Tiangang Disha Refining Method.
• Gan Shizhen advised Yu Ci to heed He Qing’s guidance and not neglect the slow refinement of his Yin spirit.
• Yu Ci told He Qing about the life-extending treasure and his predicament, and He Qing explained that the sect prohibited using its resources to extend disciples’ lives because doing so risked demonic cultivation.

Yu Ci sought a way to obtain a life-prolonging treasure for Yu Zhou, and He Qing lent him her top-tier fish-dragon Shan Gu to search the Sky Rift Valley. After arranging a backup deal with Elder Zhu, Yu Ci flew into the valley and spotted people ahead through Shan Gu’s senses.

• He Qing explained that a thirty-year life-prolonging pill was expensive, then lent Yu Ci her fish-dragon Shan Gu to aid his search in the Sky Rift Valley.
• After four fruitless days in the valley, Elder Zhu offered to raise Ruyi Money for the treasure in exchange for Yu Ci’s guidance on nourishing the divine soul.
• Yu Ci agreed to make both preparations, promising to exchange pointers if they secured the treasure through either a fish-dragon or Ruyi Money.
• Yu Ci set a seven-day deadline, mounted Shan Gu, and plunged into the clouds while using the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to extend his perception into the Inner Void.
• Yu Ci’s fish-dragon mental image spotted mountain scenery ahead, and he wondered why they had encountered those people again.

Yu Ci searched Sky Rift Valley for a fish-dragon while observing Lake and Sea Wanderer and Chu Yan’s hunt for the hidden estate’s Xuan Ling Yin. He learned that the pair were seeking the same prize, then watched Lake and Sea Wanderer vanish while Chu Yan waited nearby.

• Yu Ci followed Shan Gu’s perception across the cloud-sea peaks, but found only Shrimp Whisker Grass and Fish Dragon Grass instead of a fish-dragon.
• Yu Ci stopped to cultivate and worried that his progress in the Great Dream Yin Yang Method had slowed without He Qing’s guidance, while also considering the possibility of heart demons.
• Yu Ci overheard Lake and Sea Wanderer and Chu Yan searching for the Xuan Ling Yin, which Lake and Sea Wanderer believed would let them open a hidden estate together.
• Lake and Sea Wanderer went behind a rock, and Chu Yan discovered after waiting that he had disappeared.

Yu Ci watched Chu Yan use a curse to track down Lake and Sea Wanderer, then torture him for the location of the Xuan Ling Yin. The chapter ended as Fu Long tried to attack Chu Yan but was struck by a sudden, agonizing pain.

• Lake and Sea Wanderer hid nearby in a soul-confounding formation, while Yu Ci used Little Guy to watch Chu Yan search for him.
• Chu Yan summoned Fu Long and performed a curse using Lake and Sea Wanderer's belongings, forcing him from hiding and leaving him incapacitated.
• Chu Yan and Fu Long found Lake and Sea Wanderer, and Chu Yan demanded to know how he had discovered her deception and where he had hidden the Xuan Ling Yin.
• Chu Yan tortured Lake and Sea Wanderer with the sect's Hundred and Eight Marrow Searching Hands until he revealed that the Xuan Ling Yin was in his Storage Ring.
• Fu Long reached toward Chu Yan after she took the Storage Ring, but a sudden pain in his lower abdomen made his attack miss.

Chu Yan and Fu Long fought over the Xuan Ling Yin, but Fu Long defeated her despite being injured by her God Slaying Thorn. Yu Ci arrived after luring Fu Long away and found Chu Yan wounded; when she asked for help, he challenged her to state what she wanted before Fu Long returned.

• Chu Yan wounded Fu Long with the God Slaying Thorn and fled, but Fu Long trapped her with his true baleful intent and summoned a tiger fiend using the Ten Manifestations of Fiendish Energy Technique.
• Chu Yan's Hundred Spirits Manifesting Gauze injured Fu Long again, but the tiger fiend struck her down and Fu Long took the gauze and the storage ring from the Lake and Sea Wanderer.
• Fu Long sensed a creature fleeing nearby and chased it into the mist, leaving Chu Yan restrained on the mountain.
• Yu Ci arrived with Shan Gu and found Chu Yan injured; when she begged him to save her, he warned that he might help Fu Long instead if she was acting.
• Chu Yan stopped pretending and asked Yu Ci what he wanted as Fu Long was due to return.

Yu Ci questioned Chu Yan about the God Slaying Thorn and the Hundred Spirits Manifesting Gauze, then chose to confront Fu Long to seize the gauze and pursue the Xuan Ling Yin’s secrets. Though Fu Long’s fiendish spirits badly wounded him, Yu Ci fought on and ended the chapter leaping into mid-air.

• Yu Ci asked Chu Yan how she had obtained and used the God Slaying Thorn and the Hundred Spirits Manifesting Gauze, and she explained its method and incantations.
• Chu Yan tried to exploit Yu Ci’s apparent interest in her as Fu Long returned and attacked them with his Ten Manifestations of Fiendish Energy Technique.
• Yu Ci decided to fight Fu Long to obtain the Hundred Spirits Manifesting Gauze and learn the God Slaying Thorn, while also pursuing the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion linked to the Xuan Ling Yin.
• Yu Ci evaded Fu Long’s eagle-shaped fiendish spirit with the Breath-Light Evasion Technique, but Fu Long summoned a tiger-shaped spirit and tore Yu Ci’s flesh with their combined baleful energy.
• Yu Ci judged that Fu Long was weakened and that his own swordsmanship had improved, then leaped from the mountain body into mid-air.

Yu Ci survived Fu Long’s landslide and struck him with the Xiguang Sword, while Fu Long’s injuries from Chu Yan’s God Slaying Thorn worsened. Both men continued fighting at close range, covered in wounds, with neither willing to retreat.

• Fu Long caused a landslide to bury Yu Ci, but Yu Ci used the falling rubble to climb back toward him.
• Yu Ci attacked Fu Long with the Xiguang Sword, breaking through his protective true Baleful Intent and wounding him, though the counterattack injured Yu Ci as well.
• Fu Long unleashed his true Baleful Intent and searched for Yu Ci, whose Breath-Light Evasion Technique concealed his aura as he gathered power.
• Fu Long charged Yu Ci, and they wounded each other in a head-on clash.
• Yu Ci and Fu Long continued their brutal close-range fight, trading wounds without retreating.

Yu Ci's battle with Fu Long pushed his body and spiritual soul to their limits, allowing him to kill Fu Long with help from Shan Gu. Afterward, Yu Ci confronted Chu Yan and revealed a strange power in his eyes before forcing her to show her tongue.

• Yu Ci and Fu Long fought with escalating force, each suffering severe injuries as their battle filled the mountain with blood and destruction.
• Yu Ci's spiritual soul reacted to the strain in his body, and he sensed a hazy connection to something outside himself.
• Shan Gu struck Fu Long with its Soul Devour ability, distracting him long enough for Yu Ci to pierce his neck with the Xiguang Sword.
• Fu Long's battered meridians caused his true Baleful Intent to backfire, and Yu Ci cut off his head after his body collapsed.
• Yu Ci took Fu Long's Storage Ring and the Lake and Sea Wanderer's Storage Ring, then approached Chu Yan.
• Yu Ci's eyes briefly displayed a strange, overwhelming power that shook Chu Yan's spiritual soul, and he used a technique to force her tongue out.

Yu Ci questioned Chu Yan about the incense she had used, then turned to study Lake and Sea Wanderer’s damaged soul through the Divine Intent Starlight. Their connection revealed Lake and Sea Wanderer’s sudden realization that someone he believed dead was still alive.

• Yu Ci implanted Divine Intent Starlight in Chu Yan and sensed that she had used Burning Jade Incense, but she claimed there was no antidote.
• Yu Ci resisted the incense’s effects and left Chu Yan alone when he feared he might lose control.
• Yu Ci sensed Lake and Sea Wanderer’s resentment through the Divine Intent Starlight and decided to study his dying soul.
• Yu Ci strengthened his connection to Lake and Sea Wanderer’s soul and drew it out of the body, discovering a new way to perceive and affect it.
• Lake and Sea Wanderer recognized that someone he had thought dead was still alive and tried to communicate this to Yu Ci.

Yu Ci discovered the pleasure of controlling and consuming souls, first destroying Lake and Sea Wanderer and then turning his power on Chu Yan. After killing her and absorbing her vitality and spiritual essence, he howled as the overwhelming pleasure nearly caused his body to burst.

• Lake and Sea Wanderer blamed a man for deceiving him, and Yu Ci overwhelmed his weakened soul to extract fragments about deception, the secret mansion, and Xuan Ling Yin.
• Yu Ci erased Lake and Sea Wanderer's soul and reveled in the sensation of having absolute control over life and death.
• Yu Ci turned to Chu Yan, who tried to escape while using her charms to seduce him.
• Yu Ci seized Chu Yan by the neck and began harvesting her soul source as she struggled and displayed her beauty.
• Yu Ci's pleasure surged until his body nearly burst, and Chu Yan's vitality and spiritual essence were devoured, leaving her a hollow corpse.

Yu Ci halted the dangerous expansion of his soul and met Bichao, who hired him to lead her to a ghost-beast nest in exchange for a valuable jade tablet. As the carriage reached their destination, Yu Ci continued seeking a way to deal with the Burning Jade Incense poisoning his body.

• Yu Ci sensed danger in his expanding soul, stopped the outburst, and realized his spiritual shock had drawn someone toward him.
• Bichao arrived, asked Yu Ci to help her find a ghost-beast nest, and invited him into her carriage.
• Yu Ci accepted Bichao's offer of a Ruyi Jade Tablet redeemable for fifty thousand Ruyi Money and boarded the carriage with her.
• Yu Ci recognized that the Burning Jade Incense was making his body burn through its own potential and vitality, and reflected on Chu Yan's scheme.
• The black-clad coachman knocked on the carriage compartment to announce that they had reached their destination.

Yu Ci used the Burning Jade Incense’s dangerous surge of power to understand his life’s limits and begin controlling his cultivation more carefully. After Bi Chao investigated the demon nest, she remained inside, and Yu Ci entered a side cave after noticing a familiar light.

• Yu Ci learned from Chu Yan’s memories that the Burning Jade Incense had no antidote and recognized how close he had come to burning himself to ashes.
• Yu Ci used the experience to gain a clearer understanding of his life’s limits and chose steady study of the Xuan Yuan Gen Ben Qi Fa over rapid advancement.
• Bi Chao returned from searching the ruins and asked Yu Ci to take her to the otherworldly demons’ nest.
• Bi Chao followed two surviving demons to their cave nest and went inside to investigate while Yu Ci rested in the carriage.
• After Bi Chao failed to emerge for two hours, Yu Ci noticed a familiar light in a side cave and stepped inside.

Yu Ci discovered seven Star Shards in the demons’ cave and learned from Bi Chao that they could help create a superior-grade artifact. As they left, Bi Chao revealed that they were heading to erase traces left by a scheme, and Yu Ci realized their destination was where demons had encircled Gan Shizhen.

• Yu Ci found a glowing fragment in the cave and recognized its connection to another fragment he had discovered earlier.
• Yu Ci followed the fragments’ connection into a stone chamber and collected seven Star Shards from its walls.
• Bi Chao examined the Star Shards and explained that they could serve as key nodes in an artifact’s talisman array, potentially producing a superior-grade artifact.
• Yu Ci and Bi Chao left the cave together, and Bi Chao said they needed to erase traces left by a group’s scheme.
• Bi Chao said a captured prisoner had identified an encirclement site on the mountain, and Yu Ci recognized it as the place where demons had surrounded Gan Shizhen.

Yu Ci accompanied Bi Chao to the battlefield, where she uncovered an unfinished one-way passageway leading toward Blood Prison Ghost Manor. Bi Chao sent a warning through it before destroying it, then invited Yu Ci to travel with her, but he refused because he still had important matters to handle.

• Bi Chao explained that her sect’s intelligence came from special channels, and described how some Divine Lords could treat favored mortals like pets.
• Yu Ci and Bi Chao crossed the ruined battlefield, where Bi Chao exposed a hidden, unfinished passageway beneath the cliff.
• Bi Chao identified the passageway as leading to the Black Magic Altar of the Great Brahma Demon King in Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• Bi Chao sent a warning through the passageway, whose immense force briefly opened it before the passageway collapsed.
• Bi Chao thanked Yu Ci and invited him to travel with her on the fifth day of the fourth month, but Yu Ci declined and insisted on pursuing his own matters.

You Gongquan attended a banquet at Tianyi Tower, where sect leaders gathered amid unspoken tensions over Master Bichao’s attempt to restore relations. The feast began with Master Bichao remarking that an absent person made the wine less enjoyable, prompting many guests to react.

• You Gongquan met Fan Lao at Tianyi Tower and agreed to take him up to the third floor.
• You Gongquan recognized his old friend Hu Dan, who introduced him to Shi Xin and Monk Zhengyan.
• Hu Dan brought You Gongquan to the top-floor banquet, where You Gongquan sensed that the gathered sect leaders were reluctant to discuss their positions.
• Master Bichao toasted the guests, then said the wine lacked flavor with one person absent, and many guests changed expression.

At the Treasure Exchange Banquet, Shen Wan opened Suixin Pavilion’s treasure trading while the guests discussed the absent Yu Ci. Yu Ci finally arrived in dramatic fashion, accompanied by Shan Gu, just as the banquet’s second treasure was revealed.

• Shen Wan asked whether Xie Yan and Yu Ci of Li Chen Sect would attend, and He Qing explained that Xie Yan could not come while Yu Ci would decide for himself.
• He Qing and Gan Shizhen wondered whether Yu Ci had encountered trouble, and He Qing said Shan Gu could help him escape danger.
• Shen Wan began the Treasure Exchange Banquet and presented a Cloud-Weaving Shawl, which Bicho traded for East Sea Poison Dragon Incense.
• As the next treasure appeared, Shan Gu burst through a window, and Yu Ci arrived from the Cloud Bamboo Garden, prompting the guests to announce his arrival.

Yu Ci arrived at Bi Chao’s banquet, learned that Zhou Youde and his entire caravan had been killed, and watched Shen Wan present a rare sword pellet. When Yu Ci realized the treasure matched a small sword he had obtained from Daoist Yan, he revealed it and offered to sell it through Shen Wan.

• Yu Ci arrived late at the banquet, greeted the assembled cultivators, and drank the wine Bi Chao offered him.
• Shen Wan told Yu Ci that Zhou Youde and all thirty-five members of his caravan had been killed by bandits near Yuema Lake.
• Shen Wan displayed a sword pellet that Dong Yan and the other cultivators examined and discussed.
• Yu Ci recognized that the sword pellet resembled the small sword he had obtained from Daoist Yan.
• After Bao De explained how sword intent could be detected inside a sword pellet, Yu Ci’s small sword rang beneath the table, and he revealed it to the guests.
• Yu Ci told Shen Wan he would part with his sword pellet and offered her one-tenth of the proceeds.

Yu Ci attended Shen Wan’s treasure exchange, where a Frost Extreme Sword Pellet was sold and a mysterious Storage Ring drew the gathering’s attention. The ring was identified as the Mysterious Azure Ring, a treasure that could help cultivators locate Secret Mansions and Grotto-Heavens, and its value remained to be determined.

• Yu Ci offered Shen Wan a share of his proceeds, and she declined, then priced Gan Shizhen’s Frost Extreme Sword Pellet at thirteen thousand Ruyi Money.
• Dong Yan traded a forty-eight-layer Purple Gold Sky-Reaching Staff and three thousand Ruyi Money for the sword pellet.
• Shen Wan sold five more high-grade magical artifacts as the treasure exchange proceeded.
• Fan Lao and Monk Zhengyan arrived with a Storage Ring, after Monk Zhengyan stopped Fan Lao from selling it cheaply.
• Gan Shizhen identified the ring as the Mysterious Azure Ring and explained that it could help locate minor worlds, Secret Mansions, and Grotto-Heavens.

At the Treasure-Swapping Banquet, the Mysterious Azure Ring was appraised as a valuable magic tool but had no connection to a Secret Mansion and Grotto-Heaven. Fan Lao sought a spiritual bird for his son in exchange, and when Yu Ci refused to trade Dumpling, Gan Shizhen offered the bird along with two Heavenly Revelation Pills.

• The appraisers confirmed the Mysterious Azure Ring was genuine but held no mark of a Secret Mansion and Grotto-Heaven, and valued it at fifteen thousand Ruyi Money.
• Lu Wan warned that treasures associated with a Secret Mansion could bring danger to those without the strength to protect them.
• Fan Lao explained that he wanted a spiritual bird to help his son, who had joined the Tianfa Ling Sect, cultivate.
• Fan Lao asked Yu Ci to trade Dumpling for the ring, but Yu Ci refused and said his other items were reserved for Steward Shen.
• Gan Shizhen offered Fan Lao a spiritual bird and two Heavenly Revelation Pills, gesturing toward He Qing as she stepped in to help Yu Ci.

Yu Ci agreed to let Fan Lao buy back the Mysterious Azure Ring after He Qing promised sect merit and help obtaining a life-extending treasure. He Qing then examined Yu Ci’s sword pellet and asked what he thought of Monk Yi Xin, leaving Yu Ci to wonder at the reason for her question.

• He Qing eased her pressure on Yu Ci and offered him merit and help with a life-extending treasure if he bought back the Mysterious Azure Ring.
• Yu Ci accepted Fan Lao’s offer, while Bi Chao and Shen Wan declined to raise the price; Shen Wan explained that Yu Ci’s spirit bird and Heavenly Revelation Pills already exceeded the ring’s value.
• Yu Ci sent Fan Lao to Dan Cliff to await Muddlehead and received two Heavenly Revelation Pills from Gan Shizhen.
• He Qing stopped Monk Zhengyan from leaving and praised his insight, then summoned Yu Ci to inspect his sword pellet.
• He Qing told Yu Ci to grow accustomed to serving the sect and asked him what he thought of Monk Yi Xin.

At the Treasure Exchange Banquet, He Qing urged Yu Ci to deal with Monk Zhengyan after the event, while the gathering’s final treasure proved to be a Profound Truth Condensing Void Pill. Shen Wan revealed the pill and opened bidding at 120,000 Ruyi Money, putting Yu Ci’s prior agreement with Manager Zhou at a disadvantage.

• He Qing asked Yu Ci about his past clash with Monk Zheng De and advised him to deal with Monk Zhengyan after the banquet.
• Yu Ci returned to his seat and wondered whether Shen Wan would offer him the life-extending treasure privately.
• Shen Wan presented a pill sealed in a Deep Sea Casket and staged its revelation with a burst of spiritual qi resembling a river of stars.
• Shen Wan identified the pill as a Profound Truth Condensing Void Pill and explained its benefits for cultivation, stabilizing one’s foundation, and extending lifespan.
• Shen Wan invoked the pavilion’s rules and Manager Zhou’s final wish to deny Yu Ci an advantage from his prior agreement, then set the pill’s opening price at 120,000 Ruyi Money.