Chapter Summaries

Mister Gai used the Nine Nether World Honored Supreme Dharma to trap Yu Ci in a vast domain and summon four True Person-level Ghost Kings, while Yu Ci endured the pressure and prepared to use a hidden move. The fight was interrupted when a city of millions, already slaughtered, released a searing red killing intent that alarmed Mister Gai and drew Yu Ci’s recognition.

• Mister Gai activated the Nine Nether World Honored Supreme Dharma, transforming the Myriad Worlds Tomb into a vast nether domain around Yu Ci.
• Yu Ci stayed with A Da and the Carefree Birds, testing Mister Gai’s tactics while relying on A Da and a hidden move to survive.
• Mister Gai summoned four True Person-level Ghost Kings to guard the domain’s directions and intensify its pressure on Yu Ci.
• A red light flared from a nearby city where millions of people had been slaughtered, and its burning dead qi reached Mister Gai through his domain.
• Mister Gai recognized the danger, withdrew his domain from the city, and looked toward the distorted sky as Yu Ci found the sensation familiar.

The spectators watched a blood tide destroy Seven River Peak City and learned that Yang Yuanqing, a Lishan Gate elder assigned to monitor the lake, was involved in the premeditated disaster. As the Three Suns Tribulation spread, Mister Gai struggled to protect his domain and suspected the swordsman pursuing him was a tribulation in human form.

• The spectators examined reports about Seven River Peak City and learned that its Green Ink Lake had repeatedly turned red, while Yang Zhu recalled that his sect had investigated the area the previous year.
• The Sky-Piercing Water Mirror showed the city empty and burned, with its residents reduced to black ash, and Yang Zhu identified the ash as the people who had died.
• The lake produced burning human figures that formed an array, and Yang Zhu identified one of them as Yang Yuanqing, the Lishan Gate elder responsible for monitoring the lake.
• The figures used the Three Suns Tribulation to pressure Mister Gai and interfere with his domain, while one tried to lead the calamity toward the Yin Tomb Domain and was destroyed by tribulation fire.
• Mister Gai struggled to shield his Yin soldiers and ghost kings from the tribulation, then watched the swordsman and wondered whether he was a tribulation wearing human skin.

Mister Gai discovered and destroyed a death demon hidden in the Myriad Worlds Tomb, then recognized the crisis Yu Ci had created while the Three Suns Tribulation loomed. He summoned the Sunless Ghost King and unleashed a ghost tide against Yu Ci, whose swords and fire answered from the darkness.

• Mister Gai reassessed Yu Ci and used his renewed perception to locate a death demon feeding on the Yin Tomb ghost soldiers.
• Mister Gai struck the death demon with yin thunder and realized that the Carefree Bird had enabled it to enter the Myriad Worlds Tomb.
• Mister Gai confronted Yu Ci and summoned the Sunless Ghost King, sending a vast ghost tide toward him.
• Mister Gai steadied his Dao heart and recognized that overcoming the inner demon was the first step in breaking through his tribulation.
• Yu Ci and Mister Gai faced each other as the Sunless Ghost King's darkness spread, and the sound of swords clashing rose alongside firelight.

Yu Ci resisted Mister Gai’s ghost horde as Heaven’s Will turned the Three Suns Tribulation against both of them, and he tried to assess the other presence beneath the lake. When Wei Tongyin emerged from the lake and raced east under the tribulation fire, Yang Zhu left to investigate, while the gathered cultivators feared for Siming Sect.

• Yu Ci used the Flawless Sword Circle to hold back the ghost horde as Three Suns Tribulation Fire disrupted Mister Gai’s domain and freed A Da.
• Yu Ci concluded that Heaven’s Will was using him as a bridge to strike Mister Gai and resolved to probe the lake’s other target before making his escape.
• The lake’s water rapidly evaporated, forcing Wei Tongyin to burst out and rush east as the tribulation fire burned around him.
• The pavilion’s spectators recognized Wei Tongyin, a respected Siming Sect elder, and were alarmed by his changed appearance and desperate flight.
• Yang Zhu announced that he would investigate, then vanished while traveling east with his void divine ability.
• The gathered cultivators wondered whether Siming Sect would suffer a disaster like Taixiao’s fall and the loss of three thousand stars.

Wei Tongyin fled while the blood-red lake continued to boil, and Yang Zhu pursued him after rescuing Yu Ci from Mister Gai’s Yin Tomb Domain. A sudden rainbow attack pierced Yang Zhu, but he survived by escaping through the void, leaving the assailant’s identity and the lake’s danger unresolved.

• The cultivators suspected Heavenly Demon influence in Wei Tongyin’s clear-minded flight, while the Three Suns Tribulation pressure and blood-colored water remained in the lake.
• Yang Zhu arrived, threw his jade pendant into Mister Gai’s domain, and used it to draw Yu Ci out with a Stars Shift divine ability.
• Yang Zhu resumed his pursuit of Wei Tongyin across the lake as the water swelled and threatened to flood the city.
• A rainbow light burst from the blood sea and pierced Yang Zhu, spraying blood as the watching True Men feared he had been killed.
• Yang Zhu’s pierced figure vanished, and he reappeared several li away, wounded but alive.

The Xuan Huang Killing Sword unleashed the Primordial Annihilation Sword Style, ravaging Yang Zhu and the Carefree Birds as the onlookers recognized the legendary weapon. Yu Ci approached the blood sea and called the sword toward himself, while Mister Gai moved to exploit Yang Zhu’s distraction.

• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s blood-fueled attacks wounded Yang Zhu and killed another Carefree Bird as the sea of blood engulfed the battlefield.
• True Man Zhang identified the technique as the Primordial Annihilation Sword Style, and the pavilion’s cultivators recognized the blade as the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.
• Mister Gai realized the Three Suns Tribulation was intensifying the sword’s power and began circling the battlefield toward Yu Ci.
• Yu Ci remembered Xuan Huang’s corruption and recognized that Heaven’s Will was driving the sword toward destruction.
• Yu Ci leaped from A Da into the sea of blood, used a crimson talisman to reduce the pressure around him, and called to Xuan Huang.
• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword abruptly turned and pointed at Yu Ci.

Yu Ci used a self-generated faith channel to project his Xuan Huang sword talisman into his avatar and rode the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s charge to steer it away. As the sword and blood sea fled east, the Three Suns Soul Seal appeared on Mister Gai, binding him, the sword, and Yu Ci to the coming tribulation.

• Yu Ci used the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage to establish a faith power connection with his true body and project his Xuan Huang sword talisman above his avatar.
• The talisman resonated with the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, but its pressure battered Yu Ci’s avatar and forced him back.
• Senior Uncle Wei was consumed by the sea of blood, sending the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s power to its peak.
• Yu Ci used Sword Escape to become blood mist, cling to the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, and subtly alter its course as it rushed past Yang Zhu and Mister Gai.
• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword and the raging blood sea sped east, while four suns appeared in the sky.
• Mister Gai received the Three Suns Soul Seal, and he realized the tribulation had also locked onto Yu Ci and the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.

Yu Ci struggled to guide the Xuan Huang Killing Sword east as the Three Suns Tribulation Fire spread and rumors about his motives divided the cultivators of the Three Northern Lakes. By the thirty-fifth day, he neared the Eastern Sea but faced a heavily fortified blockade, while Little Five remained missing.

• Tong Xu fled Madam Xia’s pavilion after the Xuan Huang Killing Sword appeared, and most of the other guests soon departed to pursue their own plans.
• Madam Xia and Yi Jue praised Yu Ci’s talent, and news of his actions spread as the sword’s blood clouds and Three Suns Tribulation Fire devastated the region near the Luan Yun Sect.
• Rumors about Yu Ci’s role in the Sword Garden battle split northern cultivators between those who condemned him and those who believed he was trying to protect lives.
• Yu Ci continued east with You Rui’s route guidance, enduring pursuit by Mister Gai and damage to the body formed from Three-Party Primordial Energy.
• You Rui lost contact with Little Five after their planned meeting near Wu Gou City failed, while Yu Ci realized cultivators had sealed off his escape route to capture the sword and kill him.

Jiang Shangyan and the other cultivators helped Ma Mingchu, Zhu Wanxiang, and Song Gongyuan intercept the Xuan Huang Killing Sword using Soul Extinguishing Incense and a formation. Song Gongyuan’s Zi Wu Magnetic Peak pinned the sword and began dragging it toward the earth, while the attackers prepared to kill its rider.

• Gu Zhi spread Soul Extinguishing Incense across the formation, suppressing the cultivators’ vitality and weakening the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s blood-slaughter aura.
• Jiang Shangyan and the other Void Stepping cultivators rotated through their positions as the sword rainbow and blood surge swept through their formation.
• Zhu Wanxiang activated the formation, and Song Gongyuan summoned the Zi Wu Magnetic Peak to pin the Xuan Huang Killing Sword beneath its weight.
• Ma Mingchu climbed onto the magnetic peak and used a ritual to channel the earth’s magnetic force through the formation, pulling the peak rapidly toward the ground.
• Song Gongyuan launched the Xuanli sword through the mountain to strike the sword’s rider, and blood light burst beneath the peak.

Yu Ci endured the Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain’s assault while Song Gongyuan and Zhu Wanxiang completed the Earthly Official Demon Slaying Great Prison Divine Talisman. As the blood sea vanished, Ma Mingchu realized Yu Ci was refining beneath the mountain and had reached the sixth heaven of the Tiangang Disha Refining Method.

• Song Gongyuan recognized that Yu Ci had redirected part of the magnetic mountain’s impact through a deliberate sword-qi technique.
• Zhu Wanxiang and Ma Mingchu activated the Earthly Official Demon Slaying Great Prison Divine Talisman as the Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain descended.
• Yu Ci’s blood-light attack killed a Void Stepping cultivator, and Zhu Wanxiang adjusted the formation to account for the loss.
• Zhu Wanxiang judged Yu Ci’s resistance to be a dying struggle as the Three Suns Tribulation began to form.
• The blood sea rapidly receded, and Ma Mingchu warned that Yu Ci was refining beneath the mountain and had completed the sixth heaven of the Tiangang Disha Refining Method.

Yu Ci deliberately let the Xuan Huang Killing Sword corrupt and reshape his avatar into a weapon suited to wielding it while the Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain was lowered underground. As the others prepared to descend and inspect the mountain, Yu Ci lay motionless beneath it, waiting for an opportunity.

• Song Gongyuan used Ma Mingchu to guide the Xuan Li Sword and deflect its strike against the falling Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain.
• Zhu Wanxiang aligned the mountain with the Two Forms Circle, which slowed its descent and drew it safely underground.
• Gu Zhi and Jiang Shangyan departed, while Zhu Wanxiang stayed and estimated that the mountain needed to sink 150 miles to isolate the Three Suns Tribulation Fire.
• Song Gongyuan ordered the group to descend and open a water mirror to observe Yu Ci.
• Yu Ci let the Xuan Huang Killing Sword's killing intent mutate his avatar, refining its body into a magical instrument suited to the sword.

Yu Nan arrived and used his Great Returning Heart Mirror to discover that the figure trapped beneath the Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain was not Yu Ci’s true body, though it contained True Dragon Form Qi protecting something that might be his Yang God. The group prepared contingency plans and activated the formation, unleashing the earthcore primordial magnetism.

• Yu Nan arrived underground and praised Song Gongyuan for completing the formation ahead of schedule.
• After Song Gongyuan described the earlier events, Yu Nan determined that the figure beneath the mountain was not flesh and blood and that Yu Ci’s true body was elsewhere.
• Yu Nan sensed True Dragon Form Qi protecting something within the figure and confirmed that Ma Mingchu had sensed Yu Ci’s sixth-heaven refinement.
• Yu Nan ordered the group to proceed with the original plan and lead with overwhelming force, then left to deal with figures arriving from the west.
• Song Gongyuan and the others discussed contingency plans, took their assigned positions, and activated the formation as earthcore primordial magnetism erupted.

Yu Ci’s false body survived within the magnetic-light killing field as the Xuan Huang Sword Talisman slowly adapted to the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and the body’s mistlike state. After the earth layer sank into a deadly region deep underground, Changping emerged to greet the others.

• The sinking earth layer fused with the surrounding rock, forming a magnetic-light killing field that Song Gongyuan and the others had to keep their distance from.
• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword withstood the killing field, while Yu Ci’s false body was blasted apart and became dim gray mist around the sword.
• Yu Ci’s mind avatar remained alive inside True Dragon Form Qi as the Xuan Huang Sword Talisman gradually changed and adapted to the mist and the sword’s killing aura.
• Yu Ci’s cultivated instinct guided the talisman’s refinement while his original consciousness explored the grand void and his other divided thought controlled Gui Yan over the Eastern Sea.
• The earth layer descended thousands of miles into a region of intense magnetism, magma, and poisonous gas, where Changping appeared and greeted Fifth Senior Brother, Senior Brother Mingchu, and Mister Myriad Manifestations.

Shao Changping helped Zhu Wanxiang's group settle into Ancestor Gu Liang's vast lava-furnace formation and revealed that its preparations had begun years earlier. Above ground, Ancestor Gu Liang's defeat and imprisonment of Mister Gai deterred other pursuers, leaving the Xuan Huang Killing Sword hidden beneath the tribulation fire.

• Shao Changping introduced Ma Mingchu and Zhu Wanxiang to the formations as the earth layer settled into the lava pit.
• Shao Changping sealed the forty-li pit with a gigantic cauldron lid, turning it into a pill furnace.
• Song Gongyuan privately asked Shao Changping about the rushed plan, and Shao Changping said preparations had started seven or eight years earlier.
• After five days, the Three Suns Tribulation Fire intensified above the earth layer and revealed the Xuan Huang Killing Sword's location.
• Mister Gai tracked down Yu Nan, but Ancestor Gu Liang intervened, crushed Mister Gai, and bound him within the tribulation's range.
• The other pursuers halted and circled around the Three Suns Tribulation Fire rather than approach.

Shao Changping and Song Gongyuan met Ancestor Gu Liang beneath the earth, where Yuanjun Pingzhi arrived to discuss her disciple and the plans ahead. As Xue Pingzhi departed, Qu Cheng suddenly appeared and blocked her path.

• Shao Changping and Song Gongyuan saluted Ancestor Gu Liang on the cauldron lid.
• Yuanjun Pingzhi arrived, and Ancestor Gu Liang told the two disciples to proceed as planned.
• Ancestor Gu Liang asked Yuanjun Pingzhi about her disciple and promised to look after her when she traveled abroad.
• Yuanjun Pingzhi left the pavilion, and Ma Mingchu, Zhu Wanxiang, and Xu Chang went to pay their respects.
• Xue Pingzhi stopped several li away, where Qu Cheng emerged from the smoke and greeted her.

Qu Cheng failed to obtain the Melting Shadow Escape method from Xue Pingzhi and observed Ancestor Gu Liang preparing to use the Demon Manor Spirit Banner. As the Suanni and Taotie stirred around the cauldron lid, Qu Cheng slipped away, doubtful that Gu Liang’s stated plan explained the banner’s true purpose.

• Qu Cheng offered Xue Pingzhi the Unreturning Wheel secret sword method in exchange for the Melting Shadow Escape, but she rejected it and left.
• Qu Cheng considered how Xue Pingzhi’s damaged Dao foundation and suppressed emotions drove her to seek the Melting Shadow Escape.
• Song Gongyuan and the others returned from paying their respects as Ancestor Gu Liang’s aura changed, stirring the cauldron lid and its lava lake.
• The Suanni departed across the cauldron lid while the Taotie approached from the opposite direction, prompting Qu Cheng to keep his distance.
• Ancestor Gu Liang took out the Demon Manor Spirit Banner, which Qu Cheng recognized as a tool for summoning fiend-and-demon avatars from the Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• Qu Cheng doubted Gu Liang’s stated plan to use the banner as a trump card for the Four-Nine Tribulation, then melted into the darkness.

Ancestor Gu Liang used the Soul-Leaving Cauldron lid and Demon Manor Spirit Banner to reach across the void and summon a being into the magma lake. Yu Ci witnessed a vision of a turbid sea and heard the summoned creature answer, while Qu Cheng recognized it as the Turbid Sea King Beast, the Chaos Demon.

• Song Gongyuan explained to Zhu Wanxiang, Ma Mingchu, Xu Chang, and the others that Ancestor Gu Liang's cauldron lid was a remnant of the ancient Soul-Leaving Cauldron.
• Ancestor Gu Liang struck his divine intent through the Demon Manor Spirit Banner, opening a connection toward the Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• The magma lake erupted into violent waves, awakening Yu Ci and revealing a dark zone surrounded by moving phantom tentacles.
• Yu Ci's divine sense entered a vision of a filthy sea filled with strange living beings, where a voice called for Wu An.
• Nine red lights shone beneath the sea, and a roar shook the magma lake and nearly lifted the cauldron lid.
• Qu Cheng heard the roar and identified its source as the Turbid Sea King Beast, the Chaos Demon.

Qu Cheng recognized Ancestor Gu Liang’s summoned demon as Wu An, the Turbid Sea King Beast, whose Filthy Spirit Turbid Sea had devastated Blood Prison Ghost Manor for ages. As Wu An’s turbid force infiltrated the magma lake, it disrupted Yu Chi’s effort to refine and control Xuan Huang Killing Sword.

• Qu Cheng recalled Wu An’s history of defeats and escapes, while recognizing that his Filthy Spirit Turbid Sea had made him a nightmare to the demons of Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• Qu Cheng worried that Gu Liang might fail to control even Wu An’s avatar and considered how he could escape if things went wrong.
• Wu An’s presence stirred the magma and obscured the connection between the two realms, preventing Yu Chi from probing it with his divine sense.
• The turbid force seeped into Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s blood-slaughter qi, shattered two layers of Yu Chi’s refinement, and briefly left his divided thoughts dizzy.
• Yu Chi regained consciousness with the protection of True Dragon Form Qi, but the blood-slaughter qi dispersed far more severely than before.

Yu Ci’s ritual refining of the avatar’s shell faltered as chaotic power from across the boundary battered the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and threatened to turn it against him. As the system neared collapse, he opened his perception to the main body and recited a mysterious scripture.

• Yu Ci’s avatar shell atomized under the magnetic mountain’s pressure, and the ritual refining level fell as cross-boundary power disrupted its connection to the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.
• A flaw in Yu Ci’s ritual refining let the turbid power strike again, dropping the shell’s level another heaven while the True Dragon Form Qi protected his split thought.
• Demons formed in the lava lake and provoked the Xuan Huang Killing Sword into slaughtering them, worsening its frenzy and weakening Yu Ci’s control.
• As the ritual refining system collapsed and the sword began to reject the Xuan Huang Sword Talisman, Yu Ci released his perception to the main body and silently recited a scripture.

Yu Ci formed a True Man Domain around his avatar, stabilizing the refinement and allowing the Xuan Huang Killing Sword to change as its blood-killing qi dispersed. He drew the sword’s intent toward the bottom of the lava lake as Wu An’s projection emerged, leaving their confrontation imminent.

• Yu Ci used the Analysis Divine Ability within a growing region around his avatar to suppress cross-realm interference and correct his talisman patterns.
• The Xuan Huang Sword Talisman entered the region and continued transforming as Yu Ci gained clear insights into the Xuan Huang Killing Sword.
• Yu Ci interpreted the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage and formed a True Man Domain that covered his avatar.
• As the blood-killing qi dispersed, the Xuan Huang Killing Sword shone, and Yu Ci joined his avatar’s intent with its sword intent to strike toward the bottom of the lava lake.
• Wu An projected its enormous fishlike form through the realms, while the floating corpses’ eyes opened and its image appeared on the Demon Manor Spirit Banner.