Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci took command as the sword and blade formations trapped the cultivators, uniting them to charge through the deadly clash. The group followed his sword intent toward the place where a cultivator had been killed.

• Qi Baiyi led the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s array in resisting the Heavenly Demon’s strike as the blade ants formed a matching blade formation.
• A cultivator caught between the formations was cut in two, and a Blade Ant consumed the essence of his Yang God.
• Yu Ci called the scattered cultivators to take him as their axis, creating a refuge amid the colliding sword and blade forces.
• Gui Yan rescued two lagging Void Stepping cultivators, while Duanmu Senqiu, Golden Cauldron True Man, Shang He, and Kui Dou helped gather the others.
• Another cultivator was swept away and killed before the group could reach him.
• Yu Ci ordered the thirteen remaining cultivators to charge together, and they followed the direction of his sword intent.

Yu Ci led the Void Stepping cultivators through the deadly clash between Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword formations and the Blade Ants, using precise commands to keep them alive. The group followed his directions through repeated dangers until Jiu Yan ordered them to stop.

• Jiu Yan turned the formation aside and swept a cultivator who had seemed to die back into their ranks, raising the group’s morale.
• The rescued cultivator thanked Jiu Yan, while Shang He and the others realized that sword intent conveyed his commands with uncanny clarity.
• Yu Ci assessed Wan Tengshan’s exceptional control of the sword formation and recognized that the Void Stepping cultivators could not keep pace with the battle on their own.
• Yu Ci led the cultivators through several hazardous turns, using Sword Discussion Pavilion’s fighters as cover and surviving each clash without losing anyone.
• Jiu Yan suddenly ordered the formation to stop.

Yu Ci guided his group through the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword array to its safe nexus, where they adapted to its rhythm and helped destroy blade ants. Wan Tengshan allowed them to remain despite the strain their presence placed on the formation, leaving their cooperation dependent on mutual trust.

• Jiu Yan halted the cultivators in the sword array’s quiet nexus, and the group realized they had reached its safest point.
• Yu Ci directed two Void Stepping cultivators to intercept a blade ant, and the sword array struck it from behind and destroyed it.
• Yu Ci coordinated more cultivators in joint attacks, helping the sword array eliminate additional blade ants.
• Yu Ci thanked Wan Tengshan for allowing the group into the nexus, and Wan Tengshan warned that they must not disrupt the formation.
• Yu Ci cooperated with the sword array to demonstrate his group’s usefulness, while Wan Tengshan restrained himself from expelling them because of Jiu Yan’s skill and understanding.

Yu Ci guided the cultivators through Wan Tengshan’s shifting sword formation as Sword Discussion Pavilion attacked the Kui Yin Demonic Nest, but a hidden second Blade Ant squad ambushed them just as their forces were about to unite. The formation collapsed into chaos, leaving at least ten cultivators dead.

• Wan Tengshan told Yu Ci that Sword Discussion Pavilion had located the Kui Yin Demonic Nest and planned to attack it.
• Wan Tengshan changed the sword formation, and Yu Ci directed the scattered cultivators through its shifting central hub as Blade Ants pushed inward.
• A cultivator was torn apart by Blade Ants, while Yu Ci continued coordinating the others despite nearing his mental limit.
• A second squad of Sword Discussion Pavilion cultivators arrived and attacked the Blade Ants from behind, preparing to merge formations with Wan Tengshan’s squad.
• A hidden force of at least a hundred Blade Ants struck during the attempted merger, throwing the sword formation into chaos and dismembering at least ten cultivators.

Yu Ci and Wan Tengshan coordinated to stabilize the sword formation against the Blade Ant swarms, then Wan Tengshan unleashed an icy domain that froze the battlefield. Yu Ci recognized that the domain twisted the laws of heaven and earth and wondered whether Sword Discussion Pavilion’s method of creation could produce such an effect.

• The Blade Ant swarms repeatedly attacked the weakened sword formation, killing sword cultivators and badly injuring Golden Cauldron True Man.
• Wan Tengshan emerged from the broken formation and used the sword intent of scattered cultivators to block the next blade wave and take command.
• Yu Ci and Wan Tengshan coordinated their sword intents, with Yu Ci helping his companions survive the formation’s lethal pressure while driving Duanmu Senqiu and the other True Persons out.
• Wan Tengshan struck for the first time, freezing the Blade Ant tide and surrounding beings across a hundred li.
• Yu Ci sensed that Wan Tengshan’s sword had created an icy domain by distorting heaven-and-earth laws and questioned how it related to Sword Discussion Pavilion’s method of creation.

Yu Ci and the cultivators fought the Blade Ants in Wan Tengshan’s icy-snow domain while Donghua Main Peak struck the ruins with a sword formation. A special Blade Ant target escaped beyond the domain, and Jiu Yan and Qi Baiyi appeared in its path as Yu Ci watched.

• Yu Ci sent Ghost Loathing, Duanmu Senqiu, Golden Cauldron True Man, Shang He, and Kui Dou to intercept the Blade Ants, while Qi Baiyi broke through their charge formation.
• Wan Tengshan drove the disrupted Blade Ant formation into the cultivators’ encirclement as a long rainbow from Donghua Main Peak carved a sword-scar formation into the ruins.
• The Blade Ants scattered and escaped in smaller groups, and demonic flames from a special target melted through the icy-snow domain and freed several of them.
• The Blade Ants distracted Wan Tengshan and helped the special target cross the domain’s boundary before he could pursue it.
• Jiu Yan appeared behind the fleeing Blade Ants, and Qi Baiyi descended nearby as Yu Ci met her gaze.

Yu Ci discovered that a blade ant held a wildly powerful force at the boundary between its form and spirit, and his probing caused it to transform into a volatile magma-like creature. He decided to capture it and began preparing his Blood Sha Thunder Pool as the chapter ended.

• Qi Baiyi unleashed a sword beam that destroyed the blade ants around Jiu Yan, but Jiu Yan remained unharmed inside his domain.
• Wan Tengshan refocused on the sword formation while Qi Baiyi assessed the situation near Jiu Yan.
• Yu Ci probed the remaining blade ant’s form-and-spirit boundary with his mind intent, disrupting its fragile equilibrium.
• The blade ant’s body melted into a demonic-fire-lit magma form as its uncontrolled power surged.
• Yu Ci decided he needed the creature and began forming the Blood Sha Thunder Pool within his Inner Void.

Yu Ci suppressed the lava monster and searched its chaotic memories while the Sword Discussion Pavilion watched him. A tremor shook the Eastern Splendor Peaks after landscape table screens were recovered, suggesting the screens were important pivot objects and that Madame Yellow Springs’ plan was beginning to emerge.

• Yu Ci used the Taiyin Blood Sha Thunder Pool to contain the lava monster and searched its deepest memories for useful information.
• Yu Ci withdrew his Inner Void Dharma Realm as Qi Baiyi watched him from the air.
• A deep vibration shook the ruins and surrounding void, injuring cultivators and destabilizing the Eastern Splendor Peaks.
• Communication flying swords arrived, and Qi Baiyi flew toward the Donghua Main Peak after reading one.
• Wan Tengshan reported that landscape table screens had been recovered near the southern and eastern Kui Yin Demonic Nest sites, then asked Yu Ci what he thought.

Yu Ci and Wan Tengshan clashed over the battle’s aftermath, while Duanmu Senqiu and the other cultivators demanded their share rather than continue fighting. After the Sword Discussion Pavilion left for Donghua Main Peak, the survivors began scavenging the battlefield, and Duanmu Senqiu turned to Yu Ci for their next move.

• Yu Ci rebuffed Wan Tengshan’s claims about the overall situation, and Wan Tengshan reconsidered Yu Ci’s formidable strength and connections.
• Duanmu Senqiu challenged the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s attempt to clear the field, prompting the other cultivators to support negotiating for rewards and leaving.
• Wan Tengshan released the ice-and-snow domain and led the Sword Discussion Pavilion group toward Donghua Main Peak, leaving the battlefield’s aftermath to Yu Ci’s group.
• The cultivators scattered to scour the battlefield as Duanmu Senqiu warned them to watch for Heavenly Fiends on the perimeter.
• Duanmu Senqiu, Golden Cauldron True Man, and Shang He joined Yu Ci, and Duanmu Senqiu asked him to decide what everyone should do next.

Yu Ci persuaded Shang He and the other cultivators to join forces rather than seek a risky retreat from Donghua Mountain. The group prepared to head for the main peak, but Yu Ci's attention shifted to news from Zhai Que'er.

• Yu Ci asked Shang He and the others what arrangements they had for leaving, exposing that Sword Discussion Pavilion controlled the exits and the Void Rifts offered no way out.
• Yu Ci proposed going to the main peak to assess the situation instead of serving as Sword Discussion Pavilion's spearhead.
• Golden Cauldron True Man urged Shang He to unite with Yu Ci's group, arguing that a shared force would be safer and stronger than a scattered retreat.
• Shang He accepted Golden Cauldron True Man's advice and changed his position.
• Yu Ci received news from Zhai Que'er, drawing his attention away from the negotiations.

Yu Ci organized the cultivators amid the ongoing void disturbances, then examined a cloud-like object taken from the ruins. Lu Ya identified it as a mold prepared by Her Ladyship for the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and began to demonstrate its function.

• Yu Ci ended his disrupted communication, told the cultivators to explore the ruins, and assigned Gui Yan to stand guard with the recovering Kui Dou.
• Yu Ci gave Shang He a Taiyin Refining Form Talisman, which Shang He passed to Gui Yan for Kui Dou’s use.
• Kui Dou entered the moon-like talisman to recuperate while Gui Yan guarded him above the ruined devil nest.
• Yu Ci showed Lu Ya the cloud-like object Gui Yan had taken from the vapors above the ruins.
• Lu Ya recognized the object as a mold refined by Her Ladyship for the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and tapped it, causing its appearance to change.

Yu Ci studied Lu Ya’s cloud model of the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and concluded that the lava creature was likely Young Master Di, whose accumulated power he began refining. After the cultivators and demons gathered amid the ruins, Yu Ci led his group toward the main peak to seek a way out as a shadow spread across the sky.

• Lu Ya revealed a miniature model of the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and Yu Ci found that its layout included the Heavenly Gate before storing the cloud mold.
• Lu Ya identified the creature that had emerged from the blade ants as Young Master Di, and Yu Ci agreed that a backlash had transformed his accumulated power into the lava-like mass.
• Yu Ci sensed that the Blood Sha Thunder Pool was slowly refining Young Master Di’s power and estimated that the process would take decades without a higher cultivation realm.
• Cultivators climbed out of the ruins as heavenly demons and other creatures gathered around them, deterring anyone from fleeing with their spoils.
• Yu Ci joined Gui Yan and led Shang He, Duanmu Senqiu, and the others toward the main peak to find a way out, just as a shadow spread across the firmament.

As demonic qi spread over Donghua Mountain and the Void Rifts shifted, Xiang Yiran and the others discussed the coming Heavenly Demon invasion and the mystery of Lu Chen and Madame Yellow Springs’ mechanisms. Lei Tonghao found that the landscape scrolls were made from Star-refined bronze but revealed no scripture, leaving Sage Wisdom’s work on the captured Formless Heavenly Demon as their best hope for answers.

• Dao Hua True Man and Xiang Yiran observed the demonic shadow and converging changes in the Void Rifts from Donghua Palace’s Star Observation Platform.
• Wan Tengshan returned after helping clear demon nests and asked Xiang Yiran how he planned to handle the approaching Heavenly Demon invasion.
• Xiang Yiran said the group needed to investigate Lu Chen and Madame Yellow Springs’ mechanisms and the imbalance in Three-Party Primordial Energy, while seeking aid tied to the three landscape scrolls.
• Wan Tengshan suspected that Zhai Que’er wanted the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and Xiang Yiran left the question to Lei Tonghao’s investigation.
• Lei Tonghao reported that the three blank scrolls were made from Star-refined bronze but contained no traces of the Sovereign Sky Demon Soul Capturing Scripture.
• Sage Wisdom continued transforming the captured Formless Heavenly Demon, which began to manifest as a small bhikkhu listening to the scriptures.

Sage Wisdom Walker showed the gathered cultivators the Formless Heavenly Demon's memories, but they found no direct clue to the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror's missing half. They identified talismans used in the demon's past as Shangqing Sect arts, linking the attacker to the remnant lineage suspected of acting on Danxiao Peak.

• Sage Wisdom Walker converted the Formless Heavenly Demon and displayed its memories through the Round Light Technique.
• Ghost God Sword and the others saw that the demon had been sealed inside the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, but its memories did not reveal how the mirror's latter half had been dismantled.
• The memories showed the demon being drawn out by Madame Yellow Springs and later suffering a severe talismanic attack.
• Wan Tengshan noted that the talisman arts resembled those used on Danxiao Peak, and Lei Tonghao identified them as the Yujing Three Lights Yuan-Breaking Demon-Dispelling Talisman and the Taiyi Demon Slaying Talisman.
• Ghost God Sword and the other cultivators concluded that a remnant of the Shangqing Sect lineage had acted on Danxiao Peak, but further memories yielded no direct clue to the person's identity.

The cultivators investigated gaps in the Formless Heavenly Demon's memories and discovered that its memories came from four separate demons, potentially offering a way to track the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror. They concluded that restoring the mirror from the three scrolls was impossible, then decided to trade the scrolls to Zhai Que'er and turned to the problem of Jiu Yan.

• Sage Wisdom Walker and Ghost God Sword questioned why memories surrounding Lu Suhua's use of the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition had been erased, then continued reviewing the remaining memories.
• Sage Wisdom Walker replayed blurred memory fragments and found that two interwoven sequences came from different Formless Heavenly Demons, which had both perished.
• Sage Wisdom Walker concluded that four demons had been separated from the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and said their locations might be found if new information emerged.
• Lei Tonghao explained that the three scrolls could not restore the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror without its first half and the Boundless Void Soul Searching Demonization Art as a reference.
• Ghost God Sword decided to give the three scrolls to Zhai Que'er in exchange for cooperation, then asked Wan Tengshan how to handle Jiu Yan.

Ghost God Sword and the Sword Discussion Pavilion debated how to cooperate with Jiu Yan and speculated that Ruizhu Palace might be behind him. Their discussion ended when the sky’s shadow changed violently, signaling an imminent threat as Qi Baiyi approached to investigate.

• Wan Tengshan described Jiu Yan’s hidden power, profound sword attainments, and potentially influential backer to Ghost God Sword and the other cultivators.
• Ghost God Sword argued that Jiu Yan’s backer might be Ruizhu Palace, citing Green Wave’s support and Jiu Yan’s past connections to the palace.
• Dao Hua True Man urged the cultivators to pursue cooperation without expecting too much from Jiu Yan or his backer.
• The sky’s shadow swelled and the winds and haze vanished, prompting Ghost God Sword to ask whether the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s defenses were ready.
• Qi Baiyi flew toward the abnormal shadow, but a roar from within it shook the sky canopy as if it might tear free.

A sudden darkness began transforming Donghua Mountain under the laws of the Outer Domain, while demonic intent threatened the cultivators’ minds. The chapter left Wan Tengshan raising a sword formation to summon aid as Yu Ci’s group tested whether they had entered the outer domain.

• Qi Baiyi vanished into the spreading darkness, and a messenger sword reached the Star Observation Platform asking for aid.
• Ghost God Sword left with Dao Hua True Man and Sage Wisdom Walker to support Qi Baiyi, while Wan Tengshan sent messages to the sect and organized defenses.
• The darkness transformed Eastern Splendor Peaks, thinning the air and allowing the Outer Domain’s laws to seep into the mountain.
• Demonic intent affected Wan Tengshan and Lei Tonghao, so Wan Tengshan raised the sword formation and sent its signal across the region.
• Yu Ci’s group saw a sky full of stars, and Duanmu Senqiu revealed star-like lights at several acupoints with Essence Profound Truth.

Yu Ci tested a talismanic method for gathering Essence Profound Truth while the cultivators found themselves in a strangely empty stretch of the outer realm. As Yu Ci sensed demonic intent gathering, he discovered an immense complex of palaces hidden in the starry depths.

• Duanmu Senqiu and the other cultivators absorbed Essence Profound Truth as they examined their surroundings.
• Yu Ci concealed his talismanic experiment within his Inner Void and combined three talismans to conjure a Dew Bowl that began transforming the energies drawn through his Heavenly Gate.
• Duanmu Senqiu received a message from the main peak and noticed that its journey had taken nearly half an hour, suggesting temporal and spatial distortion.
• When someone asked why there were no heavenly demons, Yu Ci sensed that demonic intent blanketed the starfield and began forming the Divine Lord Network.
• Yu Ci perceived the demonic intent erupting and saw endless towers and palaces beneath clouds of demonic qi and flame.

Yu Ci and the cultivators discovered that the palaces above the Thirty-Three Peaks of Eastern Splendor concealed an outer-realm invasion effort to turn a one-way passage into a two-way route. Yu Ci searched for the demons’ strongest leaders and found no earth-immortal-level grand masters, though more than thirty Outer Realm Calamity Demons were present.

• Shang He asked Duanmu Senqiu to examine the void, and Duanmu Senqiu found a one-way passage to the outer realms that the demons were trying to make two-way.
• Duanmu Senqiu compared the passage to the one once formed near Sky Rift Valley and warned that Eastern Splendor Peaks could become a sheltered base for demons to spread across the True Realm.
• The cultivators realized the invasion threatened the True Realm’s survival, and many who had come seeking opportunities became alarmed.
• Yu Ci used the Divine Lord Network and his understanding of heaven-and-earth laws to search the palaces for powerful demons.
• Yu Ci found no grand masters who reached the highest tier of the Heaven and Earth Law System, but counted at least thirty Outer Realm Calamity Demons, including Heavenly Demon Kin.

Yu Ci uncovered the passage’s connection to the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and concluded Lu Chen had built it to locate the Primordial Demon Lord. As the Outer Domain threatened to swallow Donghua Thirty-Three Peaks, the cultivators prepared to follow a Sword Discussion Pavilion marker and regroup.

• Yu Ci saw that the two-realm passage ran through the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, a counterfeit modeled on the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• Yu Ci recognized the marks of Lu Chen’s Three Yuan Hammers and inferred that Lu Chen had carved the unidirectional passage to find the Primordial Demon Lord.
• The cultivators spotted a distant sword-light dao marker set up by the Sword Discussion Pavilion.
• Duanmu Senqiu urged the group to follow the marker and reunite before the Outer Domain swallowed Donghua Thirty-Three Peaks.
• Yu Ci recognized Shang He and Duanmu Senqiu were trying to unite the cultivators, then searched for the shortest route through the distorted void.