Chapter Summaries

Gui Yan struggled to understand the hidden threat behind Supreme Good Demon Lord and Madam Huanyong as their conflict loomed. His perspective then expanded through Chengqitian, where Yu Ci glimpsed the workings of the Dao and wondered why cultivation began with communicating with the spirit.

• Supreme Good Demon Lord explained that challenging Great Brahma Demon King was necessary to establish his foundation, but said he could take his time suppressing Madam Huanyong.
• Gui Yan wished Supreme Good Demon Lord success, then remained troubled by an unseen threat beyond the two Devil Lords and worried about Xiao Wu imprisoned under the Nine Palaces Demon Domain.
• Gui Yan watched the water mirror show cultivators struggling to matter beneath the vast sea of fire surrounding the Burning Heaven event.
• Gui Yan’s perspective expanded beyond his avatar and shifted through his sealed true body to Chengqitian, where Yu Ci’s consciousness took shape at the central Dharma altar.
• Yu Ci sensed the Dao more clearly as his divine intent moved freely through heaven and earth, and wondered whether this explained why spiritual communication was the threshold of cultivation.

Yu Ci examined how cultivation realms shaped the laws of heaven and earth, realizing that the laws formed layered restraints that higher-tier cultivators could exploit. His thoughts then reached the battlefield of the seven earth immortals, where he sensed the laws burning and being reconstructed—a sign of a Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

• Yu Ci concluded that the laws of heaven and earth formed layered restraints, with higher cultivation realms breaking or replacing lower-tier laws.
• Yu Ci considered ways to use those laws to overwhelm lower-tier opponents and reflected that his past enemies had failed to fully exploit their realm advantages.
• Yu Ci wondered why he could perceive the laws so clearly, while recognizing that major-sect disciples also applied dharma principles in combat.
• Yu Ci's scattered thoughts touched a region where the laws of heaven and earth were burning, distorted, and destroyed in several blank spaces.
• Yu Ci realized the region was the battlefield of the seven earth immortals and feared that their fighting had triggered a Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

Yu Ci studied the Heaven and Earth laws through the battle of seven Earth Immortals and the divine intents of nearby Longevity True Men. After restoring the structure that let him perceive the laws comfortably, he suddenly sensed danger again.

• Yu Ci detected that a powerful master had targeted him and hurriedly withdrew his divine intent from the battlefield near Donghua Mountain.
• Yu Ci found himself among dozens of Longevity True Men observing the upheaval in the Heaven and Earth laws, and he used their methods to test his own conclusions.
• Yu Ci realized his unusual perception depended on both his Divine Lord foundation and the special conditions created by the seven Earth Immortals’ battle.
• Yu Ci recognized that his broad, structured view of the laws helped him handle the flood of information, while disrupting that structure brought back overwhelming pressure.
• Yu Ci rearranged his divine intent into its former comfortable pattern, widened his perception beyond the nearby Longevity True Men, and then felt a sharp warning in his heart.

Yu Ci recognized that the battlefield’s collapsing laws threatened to unleash a catastrophic eruption and warned the nearby Longevity cultivators to flee. As he withdrew his divine intent, a mysterious power invaded it and tried to trace him through a dependent, but Yu Ci severed the connection with Heart Refining Dharma Fire.

• Yu Ci saw the lawless blanks expanding around the battlefield and realized the nearby cultivators were unknowingly approaching a deadly eruption.
• Yu Ci decided to retreat and noticed that his divine intent withdrew like a net rather than the linear fishing line used by ordinary cultivators.
• After sensing a reaction to the name Rakshasa Ghost King, Yu Ci sent a message through the void warning everyone that a great calamity was coming.
• A mysterious voice told Yu Ci that a spider’s web could not be swallowed back and questioned whether he was Qu Wuliang.
• The mysterious power invaded Yu Ci’s divine intent through a node, causing his dependent at a platform near Donghua Mountain to suffer a fatal attack.
• Yu Ci used Heart Refining Dharma Fire through his dependent to erase the traces linking the invader to him, breaking the pressure.

Yu Ci survived the Rakshasa Ghost King’s sweeping search but suffered severe spiritual injuries and feared the trouble caused by being branded the “Gecko Divine Lord.” He absorbed the transcendent demonic seed in Chengqitian and discovered a Life and Death Talisman at its core.

• Yu Ci concealed himself from the Rakshasa Ghost King’s realm-spanning search and kept his dependents and avatars hidden behind his sealed system.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King mocked Yu Ci as the “Gecko Divine Lord” and warned that he had chosen a dangerous time to act.
• Yu Ci’s Chengqitian projection collapsed, and his two avatars spat blood from the oppressive force of the Rakshasa Ghost King’s call.
• Yu Ci used the Guiyan avatar to transfer the transcendent demonic seed from the Nine Palaces Demon Domain to Chengqitian.
• Yu Ci consumed the seed’s outer shell, gaining insight into the laws of heaven and earth and relief from his injuries.
• Yu Ci touched the seed’s innermost essence and found a Life and Death Talisman within it.

Yu Ci swallowed the transcendent demonic seed and briefly returned to a pre-celestial state, where he comprehended the fundamental Law of Life and Death and clarified the path of his cultivation. He fell back to his proper realm with new insight, while the resulting surge of heaven-and-earth power shook Chengqitian and threatened the balance of the Three-Party Primordial Energy.

• Yu Ci used his secret art to identify the essence as the Life and Death Talisman, then swallowed it within Chengqitian.
• The seed drew Yu Ci's thoughts together and sent him through the reversal of his life, reducing him to an indistinct spiritual light before he awoke at the separation of primordial chaos into Yin and Yang.
• Yu Ci realized that his Life and Death Talisman had developed from a branch of the fundamental law governing life, death, survival, destruction, and transformation.
• Yu Ci understood that the transcendent demonic seed offered a temporary return to the pre-celestial state and revealed the path his cultivation needed to follow.
• Yu Ci lost his temporary pre-celestial comprehension and returned to his proper realm, assessing his understanding of heaven-and-earth laws as top tier.
• The power of heaven and earth shook Chengqitian, echoed the Rakshasa Ghost King's control of the laws, and began to disrupt the balance of the Three-Party Primordial Energy.

Yu Ci used the upheaval in Chengqitian to deepen his control and share the Law of Life and Death with his avatars and dependants, while starlight from the Five Emperors' Seats advanced his main body's cultivation. His new understanding of how cultivators weave connections through heaven and earth laws led him to compare Madam Huanyong's and the Supreme Good Demon Lord's methods in the Nine Palaces Demon Domain.

• Yu Ci adjusted Chengqitian's structure to guide the scouring force of the Law of Life and Death and spread its benefits among his avatars and dependants.
• The swordsman avatar and Gui Yan cultivated as they absorbed insights from the natural forces, while Yu Ci's spirit sensed the Law of Life and Death beyond the starry sky.
• Starlight flowed into Yu Ci's locked main body, and You Ming saw the Dao Intent Jade Cicada nearly break free of its shell.
• Yu Ci used his expanded perception to reason that divine lords wove useful laws into a personal web, unlike earth immortals, who sought to sever their ties to those laws.
• Yu Ci examined the conflict between Madam Huanyong and the Supreme Good Demon Lord and saw Madam Huanyong building a web around five palaces, while the Supreme Good Demon Lord showed no such approach.

Yu Ci realized that Old Crow’s influence might lie behind Supreme Good Demon Lord’s actions and directed Gui Yan to prepare a flesh-womb. Old Crow appeared in the undersea valley, attacked Gui Yan’s mind, and examined the creature inside the womb as Gui Yan tore himself apart.

• Yu Ci concluded that Supreme Good Demon Lord’s claims about becoming the Five Pass Demon Lord were likely a lie and suspected Old Crow was behind them.
• Gui Yan implanted a plan in the life inside a flesh-womb, but Old Crow appeared and ordered him to stop.
• Old Crow demanded to examine how Gui Yan had escaped the Code’s restraint, then unleashed a tide of heart demons to suppress him.
• Old Crow opened the flesh-womb and identified its wolf-headed, human-shaped creature as the result of a self-contained method of transformation.
• Gui Yan seized his chest and tore himself in two while Old Crow examined the creature.

Gui Yan survived Old Crow’s attack by splitting into two forms through his death demon divine ability, leaving Old Crow unable to distinguish his true body. Old Crow then trapped him in a Heavenly Demon Void, but Gui Yan’s spiritual brilliance remained intact and his divine ability opened a tiny crack in the void.

• Gui Yan transformed the mind demon attacking him into a death demon and manifested two nearly identical forms.
• Old Crow recognized Gui Yan’s life-and-death ability and wondered how he had mastered such a profound law before the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yu Ci understood that his main body was safe from the demonic taint affecting the clone and let Old Crow remain puzzled by the two forms.
• Old Crow spoke through the crow and created a Heavenly Demon Void that twisted the laws of heaven and earth, stripping Gui Yan of his usual powers and perceptions.
• Gui Yan relied on the Three-Party Primordial Energy and the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament’s Profound Passage method to preserve his reason, then opened a tiny crack in Old Crow’s void.

Yu Ci used his connection to Ghost Aversion to exploit a flaw in Old Crow’s Heavenly Demon Void and gather information, but Old Crow ultimately tracked Ghost Aversion’s hidden void and attacked it with the Grand Origin Hidden Star. As Ghost Aversion’s form and spirit began to collapse, Old Crow detected the mysterious force behind the flaw and demanded to know which fellow Daoist was interfering.

• Yu Ci used Ghost Aversion’s connection to enter a tiny self-created void and preserve it long enough for the two Ghost Aversions to transform into light and disappear inside.
• Old Crow replaced the half-dead monster’s Primordial Spirit true seed and recognized its altered origin as connected to the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and the Law of Life and Death.
• Yu Ci’s projection realized that Old Crow’s avatar had been misled, while Old Crow concluded that Ghost Aversion’s unusual consciousness and courage were no ordinary result of entering immortality.
• Old Crow summoned the Grand Origin Hidden Star and used its deductions to expose and collapse Ghost Aversion’s hidden void, releasing a massive black flood dragon and scattering its contents.
• Old Crow locked onto Ghost Aversion’s aura as it dissolved, then sensed the mysterious force that had disrupted its Heavenly Demon Void and identified it as Divine Spider Spins Silk.
• Old Crow suppressed its anger and demanded that the unknown fellow Daoist reveal themself as dozens of streams of smoke converged through the seawater.

Yu Ci used Guiyan to bluff Old Crow and negotiate over the Black Flood Dragon and the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram, while Old Crow tried to identify his opponent. A new voice offered an exchange, and Guiyan immediately accepted as the deep sea trembled.

• Guiyan reformed from streams of smoke, revived the wounded Black Flood Dragon, and stood over its head.
• Yu Ci spoke through Guiyan and accused Wu Yu of ruining the Azure Wolf and Black Flood Dragon, while hinting at a connection to Rakshasa Ghost King.
• Old Crow considered Guiyan’s ties to the Six Barbarian Mountains and the Southern Lands, then asked Yu Ci what he proposed.
• Yu Ci offered several changing bargains involving Guiyan, the Black Flood Dragon, another sea junior, and the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram.
• An unknown voice offered to make an exchange, and Guiyan laughed and declared the deal settled as the deep sea trembled.

Yu Ci worked with Madam Huanyong to break Old Crow’s Heavenly Demon Void so they could add a retainer to her Nine Palaces Demon Domain, but Old Crow answered by bringing in powerful projections and claiming more positions. The Heavenly Demon Void shattered, yet nine lights appeared across the domain, leaving the struggle unresolved.

• Yu Ci contacted Madam Huanyong through the weakening Heavenly Demon Void and planned to send Gui Yan or the black flood dragon into the Nine Palaces Demon Domain.
• Madam Huanyong attacked the Heavenly Demon Void while fighting Supreme Good Demon Lord, and Yu Ci used his void arts to help crack Old Crow’s defenses.
• Old Crow summoned projections of the End Law Wings and sent them into the Night Yama Position and the Void Position.
• Old Crow transformed his crow avatar into light and sent it into the Other Transformation Position.
• The Heavenly Demon Void shattered, and nine points of light appeared across the dim void.

Yu Ci and Madam Huanyong realized Old Crow had seized the Nine Palaces Demon Domain and was attempting to become the Hehua Demon Lord. With the domain closing around them, Yu Ci used the black flood dragon to trigger its dragon tribulation and disrupt Old Crow’s plans.

• Old Crow activated the Nine Palaces Demon Domain, revealed his shifting form beneath an Auspicious Star, and trapped Yu Ci and Madam Huanyong in its darkness.
• Madam Huanyong explained that Old Crow’s Hehua Zizai Heaven was a demon lord technique and recalled that Lu Chen had once struck down Xuande at the cost of five kalpas of cultivation.
• Old Crow defended his ambition to forge a new Dao path, while Yu Ci mocked him and prepared to fight back.
• Yu Ci summoned the black flood dragon and used the Heavenly Dragon True Intent he had cultivated with help from Chengqitian and his sword cultivator avatar.
• The black flood dragon’s dragon-transformation intent seeped into the Nine Palaces Demon Domain and triggered its Future Star Tribulation Scripture, prompting Old Crow to curse in frustration.

Yu Ci recognized that the black flood dragon’s breakthrough had ignited an irreversible Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, while Old Crow and Madam Huanyong fought over the Nine Palaces Demon Domain. The Five Peaks Origin Spirit appeared as Xiao Wu, but a figure emerging from behind her launched the Jing Tian Sword and froze everyone Yu Ci could perceive.

• Yu Ci identified the storm of Xuanming True Water, wind, fire, and thunder as the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, triggered when the black flood dragon broke through amid the Earth Immortals’ battle.
• Old Crow decided to strengthen the Nine Palaces Demon Domain as he realized the tribulation could not be reversed.
• The black flood dragon surged toward the Emperor of Heaven Palace, and Guiyan called for the release of the Five Peaks Origin Spirit.
• Madam Huanyong released the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram, clashing with Old Crow and suffering the backlash as a five-colored peak emerged.
• The Five Peaks Origin Spirit transformed into Xiao Wu, who recognized Yu Ci before crouching in fear of the tribulation.
• A figure sprang from behind Xiao Wu and unleashed the Jing Tian Sword, freezing Yu Ci’s perceptions and emotions.

A devastating sword intent pierced Old Crow’s defenses and shattered his Other Transformation True Intent, while Yu Ci realized the sword had reached the pinnacle of the Striking the Void method. A tiny sword wielder then emerged from glittering red light and struck Old Crow’s clone before abruptly stopping.

• Gui Yan experienced the sword intent passing through him and saw it force the laws of the Nine Palaces Demon Domain to yield.
• The sword intent broke through Old Crow’s defenses and shattered his Other Transformation True Intent, splitting his clone from head to abdomen.
• Yu Ci recognized the strike as the culmination of the Striking the Void method and saw the demon master reinforcements arrive too late to save Old Crow.
• Glittering red light emerged from the items in the seabed valley and formed a sword that slashed Old Crow’s clone across the body.
• The sword became a three-foot azure blade, severed the void and long river, and sent its power surging toward Yu Ci before stopping.
• A tiny person tossed aside the red fine gauze, stretched lazily, and appeared to say the attack had felt good.

Yu Ci recognized the sword-wielding toddler as Hao Dian, who had emerged from the Land of Eternal Damnation and helped Xiao Wu defeat Old Crow’s clone, but she fell asleep after unleashing her sealed power. After settling beside Hao Dian and Xiao Wu in a peaceful landscape, Yu Ci finally felt he had fulfilled his obligation to Qu Wujie, while a furious roar sounded from beyond the void and Gui Yan remembered something important.

• Hao Dian used a sword strike to destroy Old Crow’s Other Transformation True Intent and then entered Xiao Wu’s self-manifested void.
• Yu Ci followed Hao Dian into the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram and found her collapsed asleep at the riverbank.
• Xiao Wu told Yu Ci that Hao Dian had reincarnated after escaping the Land of Eternal Damnation and explained that releasing her sealed cultivation made her sleep afterward.
• Yu Ci rested beside the sleeping Hao Dian and Xiao Wu, then laughed with relief that he had settled what he owed Qu Wujie.
• A furious roar came from beyond the void, and Gui Yan sat up, realizing he had forgotten something.

Madam Huanyong defeated the Supreme Good Demon Lord and gathered the powers of several demon lords as she prepared to become the Demon Lord Yuran. Just as she began the transformation, Old Crow’s hidden Aperture-Sealing Lock trapped her and triggered a renewed onslaught from the Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm.

• Madam Huanyong endured the Great Tribulation while the defeated Supreme Good Demon Lord manifested as the Demon Lord Jimiao.
• Madam Huanyong joined the Cave Dwelling and Taohuang palaces, then transformed Qin Xing into a Demon Lord Yuran Dharma body.
• Yu Ci brought Ghost Hatred and the Five Peaks Origin Spirit to the Jade Emperor Palace, and Madam Huanyong transformed the black dragon into the Demon Lord Wuwei Dharma body.
• Madam Huanyong asked Yu Ci to intercept the Wuming true intent and began her transformation at the Zhenji Palace.
• Old Crow’s hidden Aperture-Sealing Lock bound Madam Huanyong and disrupted her transformation, while the Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm surged back over her.

Yu Ci watched Madam Huanyong struggle against the Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm while Little Five absorbed the Xuanming True Water and seized control of the earth veins. As Jian Ziyu arrived at Ultimate Truth Palace carrying the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp, she asked Guiyan for help.

• Little Five absorbed the Xuanming True Water and used the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram to take control of the surrounding earth veins.
• Madam Huanyong failed to form the Dharma manifestation of the Demon Lord Yuran as Outer Realm Heavenly Demons poured into the delusion realm and attacked her.
• Little Five asked Yu Ci whether they should save Madam Huanyong, but Yu Ci weighed the consequences without intervening.
• Jian Ziyu arrived with the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp, passed through the Heavenly Demons, and entered Ultimate Truth Palace.
• Jian Ziyu bowed before Guiyan and asked him to aid her.

Jian Ziyu exposed how Madam Huanyong had used Red Dust as a hidden clone and asked Yu Ci to hear her request. She revealed that she intended to claim the Demon Lord Yuran seat, though not yet.

• Jian Ziyu used the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp to reveal that Purple Dust was its artifact spirit and Red Dust was Madam Huanyong’s clone.
• Madam Huanyong’s clone attacked Jian Ziyu, but Little Five restrained her with Xuanming True Water and the Eastern Peak Divine Prohibition.
• Jian Ziyu explained that she had uncovered Madam Huanyong’s plan to use her as a vessel and had secretly controlled Red Dust with the Taiyuan Hidden Star Art.
• Yu Ci released Jian Ziyu from her obligation after restraining the clone, but she said she wanted more than revenge or escape.
• Jian Ziyu told Yu Ci that she wanted to claim the Demon Lord Yuran seat, though not immediately.

Jian Ziyu proposed using the damaged treasure spirit Zimo to take the Devil Master position, preserve the Nine Palaces Demon Domain, and eventually help Jian Ziyu ascend. Yu Ci instead offered Madam Huanyong a place under his command, and Hongchen appeared willing to accept, leaving Yu Ci wondering how the negotiations had turned this way.

• Jian Ziyu explained that the Purple Dust Red Dust Lamp’s connection between her and Hongchen could be used to make a lasting change.
• Jian Ziyu proposed making Zimo the Devil Master so the four true intents could converge and the Nine Palaces Demon Domain could be preserved within the treasure lamp.
• Yu Ci challenged Jian Ziyu’s proposal and offered to take Madam Huanyong under his command, promising to help her attain the honored seat of the Demon Lord Yuran.
• Hongchen warned that breaking Old Crow’s Seal Aperture Lock required breaking the earth veins, which would destroy the Nine Palaces Demon Domain.
• Yu Ci claimed the Five Peaks Origin Spirit could handle the earth veins and hinted that he had another method, prompting Hongchen to say she might enter beneath his command.