Recaps

Yu Ci confronted He Qing over the Heart Splitting Sword Lock, escaped the sect after her death, and traveled to Black Sand City. There he settled into cultivation before fighting off Chu He’s group and encountering the stronger swordsman Hun Liao.

• Yu Ci escaped the Empirical Branch’s deduction and confronted He Qing, who revealed her oath and used the Heart Splitting Sword Lock against him.
• Yu Ci fought He Qing in the Inner Void and collapsed it, badly damaging her Dao foundation before Tie Lan and Xingtian helped him escape.
• Fang Hui killed He Qing during the heart-demon tribulation and ordered Yu Ci to return within a month or be treated as a traitor.
• Yu Ci refused Xie Liang’s offer to return, then traveled to Black Sand City and hired Wan Quan to guide him through the local factions and markets.
• Yu Ci revived Ghost Hand Zhou’s breathing by gathering remnants of his shattered soul, then sought a quiet place to cultivate in Yinkui City.
• Yu Ci cultivated above the Northern Wilderness as Chu He’s group attacked, and he killed three men with God Slaying Thorns before escaping their ship.
• Hun Liao tracked Yu Ci’s fish-dragon manifestation with his sword intent, but Yu Ci disrupted his stance and fled into the storm, resolving to form his core quickly.

Yu Ci pursued the theft of Shen Wan’s mysterious copper object, became entangled in the deaths of the investigators, and refined the Taiyin Banner amid growing danger around Yinkui City. The arc left him investigating the abandoned mining district with Third Master He’s group, where Zhai Que'er exposed his unfamiliarity with talisman duels and Layered Aperture Form Integration.

• Yu Ci tracked Ling Xi Wanderer, who killed his former allies, then fought and killed him to recover the Xuan Ling Yin.
• Yu Ci failed to summon Master Zhang Ye’s soul and discovered that spirit-shaman incense connected him to a strand of the Primordial Demon Lord.
• Yu Ci accepted Shen Wan’s offer to consign rare Sword Garden treasures through Suixin Pavilion in exchange for help obtaining materials for his Seven Stars Altar of Footwork.
• Yu Ci used the newly crafted Taiyin Banner to absorb and suppress the souls unleashed by the Soul Capturing Orb at Red Fang Workshop.
• Third Master He forced Yu Ci to accompany his group to the abandoned mining district, where Yu Ci marked faint soul traces and Mr. Xia recovered a preserved eyeball and the Luminous Bug.
• Yu Ci negotiated a half-price supply deal with Third Master He after making a requested talisman, while the Shadow Ghost identified the eyeball as a Primordial Demon Sect tracking tool.
• Zhai Que'er disguised as He Wan arrived and questioned Yu Ci about talisman duels before asking him to accompany the group to investigate places where Black Robe had stayed.
• Yu Ci explained that Water Strike Three Thousand Miles was a traditional talisman, and Zhai Que'er tested its power and introduced him to Layered Aperture Form Integration.

Yu Ci survived the battle underground, helped Lu Qing and Tie Lan defeat two demons, and secured Mysterious Water Obsidian for his talisman work. He and Lu Qing reached Huayan City seeking treatment, where Yu Ci crossed paths with You Rui over a piece of Yin ore.

• Yu Ci escaped the True Person battle, sensed Ling Xi Wanderer stirring, and later found Lu Qing fighting Old Gu and a nine-foot-tall brute.
• Yu Ci aided Lu Qing and Tie Lan in defeating the demons, but Gu Diao’s feathers poisoned his leg and Qiongqi remained a threat.
• Lu Qing brought Yu Ci Mysterious Water Obsidian, copied his talisman array onto it, and took him toward Huayan City by flying boat.
• Yu Ci and Lu Qing killed a Flying Armored Demon Dragon before it could threaten a city, then traveled underground toward Huayan City.
• Lu Qing guided Yu Ci through Huayan City, where they arranged treatment for his legs and went shopping at Three Families Market.
• You Rui and Yu Ci met at a stall while seeking the same Yin ore, and Yu Ci introduced himself as Lu Dun.
• You Rui offered the ghost cultivator a remnant of the Impermanence Method Explanation, while Lu Qing offered a Yin Luo Pill, and Yu Ci withdrew from the trade.

Yu Ci purged the demonic poison from his leg through an earth-qi ritual and joined scattered fragments into a moth-shaped treasure whose power advanced his life-preserving art. After rescuing Kou Chu and agreeing to escort You Rui toward Black Moon Lake, Yu Ci continued searching for the treasure’s remaining fragments on the road.

• Yu Ci cured the ghost cultivator’s Yin Fire, then encountered Zhao Fang and learned that Cai Xuan belonged to the Haoran Sect and wanted him to explore the Graveyard of Grudges.
• After Mr. Qingsong was attacked and the Evergreen Gate withdrew, Yu Ci confronted a madman who had bewitched cultivators, and a snow-white lion cat killed the man and swallowed his escaping yin spirit.
• Yu Ci discovered that a metal fragment bearing the intent “Ten Directions” could absorb earth-qi, then used an altar to cleanse the demonic poison from his injured leg and refine his ritual implements.
• Fragments converged on Yu Ci and joined into a moth-shaped object, whose five-colored threads drained cultivators’ primordial qi, and the earth-qi ritual also strengthened Yu Ci’s Life Extension and Calamity Averting Star Spell.
• Yu Ci helped Zhao Fang, Zou Bo, and Cai Xuan escape an ambush by the Heaven Seizing Sect, then recovered at the Cai residence and learned that Cai Xuan’s family planned to migrate to the Three Northern Lakes.
• Yu Ci remotely aided Kou Chu with a starfire talisman, and Kou Chu escaped its attackers as Yu Ci realized a five-colored thread linked their powers.
• Yu Ci agreed to escort You Rui out of Huayan City, take her to Black Moon Lake, and deliver a letter to Third Master He in Fengdu City.
• As they traveled, Yu Ci found another magical treasure fragment, bringing his collected fragments to more than twenty while over two hundred landscape lights appeared in his Inner Void.