Chapter Summaries

Xiaowu unleashed the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition, slaughtering tens of thousands of heavenly devils and forcing the tide to retreat. After confirming Liu Guan had left, Yu Ci told the cultivators to disperse and prepared to act independently.

• Xiaowu raised thousands of blood-red execution platforms and used ghost-head sabers to kill tens of thousands of heavenly devils.
• The heavenly devil tide recoiled, and Xiaowu withdrew the god prohibition while keeping the God Slaying Saber.
• Yu Ci confirmed that a person lingering in the devil tide had vanished and told everyone to disperse.
• Yu Ci decided to separate from Wan Tengshan's group so he could avoid Liu Guan's schemes and investigate the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Wan Tengshan led his sword cultivators away, leaving thirty-eight cultivators, including Yu Ci, behind.

After escaping Liu Guan, Yu Ci tried to part ways with the cultivators, but Duanmu Senqiu and others urged the group to stay together. As the others went to scout and decide, Yu Ci reflected on his Talisman Diagram and clarified its core purpose.

• Yu Ci led the thirty-eight cultivators away from the weakened void tide and proposed that they separate.
• Duanmu Senqiu, Golden Cauldron True Man, and Shang He argued that the cultivators should remain together, but Yu Ci said everyone could choose after scouting the area.
• Duanmu Senqiu and the others went to scout while Yu Ci had Gui Yan tend to the wounded and Little Five care for Ye Chi and Lu Ya.
• Yu Ci examined the Talisman Diagram and realized it should prioritize general usefulness over accommodating every possible function.
• Yu Ci identified the diagram’s three core functions and, inspired by the Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman, awakened a strange phenomenon within his Mud Pill Palace.

Yu Ci refined his understanding of the Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter and created a new talisman diagram, then recognized that its true purpose required more than perfect structure. He began testing the diagram with the art of point-illumination.

• Yu Ci understood how talismans could be combined like characters to form new magical powers, and recognized that his earlier practice had relied on overly basic formulas.
• Yu Ci reshaped the Iron Eight Trigrams diagram into a hollow sphere built from three talisman types and thousands of linked patterns.
• Yu Ci asked Xiaowu to send the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition’s power into the sphere, making the diagram shine with a translucent glow.
• Yu Ci crossed the threshold of the Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter and obtained the beginning of the Cave Origin Jade Chapter Three Qi Wondrous Transformation Talisman Scripture inheritance.
• Yu Ci realized that the diagram needed to generate new meaning, not merely achieve a flawless structure, and struck it with the power of point-illumination.

Yu Ci created a tiny, faceless deity from the talisman diagram and recognized its connection to the Shangqing Sect’s method for creating heavenly deities. The deity was drawn into the Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold, where it settled into a left outer position and caused that region to light up.

• Yu Ci activated the talisman diagram, revealing a detailed but hollow and faceless humanoid figure within it.
• Yu Ci recognized that the figure’s power came from the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition and resembled the Celestial Being Descends talismanic divine power.
• Yu Ci concluded that the Shangqing Sect’s Structure and Evolution Jade Chapter described a method for creating deities of the heavens.
• The Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold began drawing the deity toward it, so Yu Ci released the figure and suppressed the talisman diagram’s pull.
• The deity shrank and entered the left outer position of the palace mold, causing that region to light up.

Yu Ci tested how the gods created through the Talisman Diagram interacted with the Nine Truths Immortal Palace model, discovering that their rank determined where they were assigned. He then gave Duanmu Senqiu the reorganized diagram, directed the cultivators toward a safer retreat, and left to pursue his own clue.

• Yu Ci found that the first god entered a side-chamber dwelling and meditated, then confirmed that the Talisman Diagram could create another god.
• Yu Ci used Celestial Being Descends on the model, and the higher-ranked celestial being traveled closer to the palace center before taking a guard's post outside a grand hall.
• Yu Ci concluded that gods were guided to different palace regions according to their rank, then put away the model and returned to the cultivators.
• Yu Ci handed the reorganized Talisman Diagram to Duanmu Senqiu and announced that he would separate from the group to pursue his own purpose.
• Yu Ci directed the cultivators toward the Western Eight Peaks or the passage between the two realms, then departed with Little Five, Gui Yan, Ye Chi, Lu Ya, and the others.

Yu Ci assessed the heavenly demons’ defenses around the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and learned from Ye Chi that they might belong to Tai'a Mohan, the End Law Lord. He resolved to plan for Tai'a Mohan’s possible presence, and Ye Chi began asking him for a favor.

• Yu Ci judged that escaping through the Two Realms Passage was possible but that the heavenly demons’ defenses around the Nine Truths Immortal Palace were extremely difficult to breach.
• Ye Chi asked Yu Ci why he had brought her along after refusing to join Duanmu Senqiu and the others, and Yu Ci said he had chosen a risk he could control.
• Ye Chi identified the heavenly demon forces as likely belonging to Tai'a Mohan based on their tactics and use of blade ant army arrays.
• Yu Ci considered that Tai'a Mohan might be present and decided to plan as though the End Law Lord had entered the palace.
• Ye Chi told Yu Ci she had a matter she wished to ask his help with.

Yu Ci agreed to help Ye Chi find a place to cultivate, but she revealed she needed seven days in the dangerous Donghua Void and said they should part ways. When he tried to stop her, he discovered the Ye Chi before him had been an illusion and the real Ye Chi had already vanished into the darkness.

• Yu Ci agreed to hear Ye Chi's request and asked how she thought he could enter the palace complex.
• Ye Chi suggested that Yu Ci might find his opportunity by jumping outside the Donghua Void.
• Ye Chi asked to use Little Five's Self-Created World for seven days of secluded cultivation, explaining that her breakthrough required a place within the Outer Domain but distinct from it.
• Ye Chi announced that she intended to leave on her own, and Yu Ci reached out to stop her.
• Ye Chi dissolved into watery mist laced with Sword Qi, and Yu Ci realized the real Ye Chi had already flown away.
• Little Five arrived, saw Ye Chi was gone, and apologized to Yu Ci.

Yu Ci and Little Five concealed themselves in a small rock fragment and approached the passageway between the two realms, timing their entry to evade the Heavenly Demons. As they entered, a sword cry rang out from the Donghua Void and shook the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, giving Yu Ci the opportunity he had anticipated.

• Yu Ci suspected Madame Yellow Springs had arranged Ye Chi's guidance and told Little Five to hurry after finding a suitable lodestone fragment.
• Yu Ci and Little Five hid inside the fragment and drifted through the Heavenly Demons' delusion realm toward the passageway.
• Yu Ci assessed the Nine Truths Immortal Palace's defenses and determined it stood apart from, but could interfere with, the passageway.
• Yu Ci had Little Five guide the fragment into the passageway as the faint sensation between his fingertips vanished.
• A sword cry sounded from the Donghua Void, and the passageway shook as the Nine Truths Immortal Palace was struck; Yu Ci realized his opportunity had arrived.

Yu Ci breached the barrier connecting the passage between realms to the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, only to be caught in a barrage from a Hundred Arrow Vine. Despite the relentless attack, he recognized the vine as something he could use.

• Yu Ci studied the passage between realms and identified the junction with the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Yu Ci used a void art to melt the barrier and opened a crack, letting chaotic currents sweep him out of the passage.
• The rock Yu Ci inhabited shattered as a Hundred Arrow Vine struck him with hundreds of light arrows.
• Yu Ci recognized the vine and realized that it could serve his purposes.

Yu Ci exploited the Hundred Arrow Vine’s targeting method to escape its bombardment and broke through the heavenly demons toward the Nine Truths Immortal Palace’s edge. When he unfolded the palace mold beside a hidden row of houses, the motionless divine spirit within it awoke and began gathering immense primordial energy.

• Yu Ci shrank and shifted under the Hundred Arrow Vine’s light arrows, causing its missed shots to devastate the surrounding demons and attendants.
• Yu Ci used the opening to charge through the shattered delusion realm, following the layout of the Nine Truths Immortal Palace toward its outer edge.
• Yu Ci unleashed the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition to tear through the demons’ array and reach the ordinary row of houses.
• Yu Ci unfolded the Nine Truths Immortal Palace mold, but the figure in its corresponding chamber remained still at first.
• The divine spirit opened its eyes, rose, and walked out, growing larger as it drew primordial energy from the surroundings.

Yu Ci watched the shattered deity rebuild itself through the laws of heaven and earth, then realized that the laws’ natural changes could also bring it to life. As Little Five’s strength began to fail, he summoned her back, gave the deity its first command, and flew away.

• The deity Yu Ci had formed exploded, then reconstructed itself directly from a fragment of the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Ci saw that the deity had become a node connecting multiple laws and understood that its movements could influence them.
• The deity opened its eyes, and Yu Ci realized that changes in the laws could also affect it and give it a unique pulse of life.
• Little Five warned Yu Ci that she could not hold on much longer, so he summoned her back as the heavenly demons overwhelmed the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition.
• Yu Ci gave the deity its first command, watched it rise and prepare itself with starlike radiance, then flew into the sky.

Liu Guan infiltrated the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace amid the chaos caused by Tai'a Mohan and searched the ruins for clues about Jiu Yan. He discovered a strange gathering of vital energy beneath the rubble, where a giant suddenly manifested.

• Liu Guan used the heavenly demons' sweeping demonic intent to slip into the palace, leaving Zhai Que'er, Black Robe, and the others fighting outside.
• After suffering a minor injury from Hundred Arrow Vine, Liu Guan hid in the palace ruins and decided to follow strange changes rather than interfere with Madame Yellow Springs's plans.
• Liu Guan detected traces of Jiu Yan's formation diagram and Tai'a Mohan's aura at the ruins where the palace's upheaval had begun.
• Liu Guan noticed vital energy gathering beneath the rubble and saw a giant over a zhang tall appear with vacant, unblinking eyes.

Liu Guan watched Tai'a Mohan study and imitate the giant formed by the palace's laws, hoping to learn how its structure controlled the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace. After Tai'a Mohan's shadow destroyed the giant, the giant reformed and destroyed the shadow, leaving Liu Guan satisfied as the ruins fell still.

• Tai'a Mohan tried to imitate the giant with demonic fire, but his first construct disintegrated.
• Tai'a Mohan studied the giant's structure and formed a second shadow from Heaven and Earth Laws, but it failed to resonate with the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• Liu Guan sensed Jiu Yan stirring trouble near the palace's center and considered moving toward him, but Tai'a Mohan's shadow attacked and pulverized the giant.
• The giant reformed after about thirty breaths and struck back with starlight lightning, eventually shattering Tai'a Mohan's shadow.
• Liu Guan waited through two more intervals of thirty breaths and saw that the shadow did not recover.

Yu Ci discovered that the mold connected his deity to the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and its laws, then used Miao Hua Xian Niang’s idol to activate a rainbow that swept Heavenly Demons aside. He fled into the rainbow’s reach with Gui Yan, who battled a powerful Heavenly Demon Kin, but the enemy suddenly pinpointed Gui Yan through the mist and attacked him.

• Yu Ci realized the deity’s strength came from the mold linking it to the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, though each rebirth weakened his control over it.
• Yu Ci placed the damaged Miao Hua Xian Niang idol on the mold, and it shattered as a rainbow streaked into the palace’s northeastern region, clearing Heavenly Demons from its path.
• Yu Ci followed the rainbow and found that its light slowed the Heavenly Demon army, while Gui Yan engaged a Longevity True Man-level Heavenly Demon Kin.
• Gui Yan used the Middle Wheel Fire method and blue-green Sword Qi to overwhelm the Heavenly Demon Kin and shatter its True Form Dharma Body.
• As the Heavenly Demon army pressed in, Yu Ci spread a mist using power from Equality Heaven, and Gui Yan joined him inside it.
• The wounded Heavenly Demon Kin summoned a sphere of phantom shadow that locked onto Gui Yan and dropped toward him.

Yu Ci and Ghost Loathing fought the Heavenly Demons while Yu Ci learned how incantations could invoke the Nine Truths Immortal Palace’s aberrant laws. Tai'a Mohan withdrew after a sword strike tore open the Outer Domain, leaving the palace suddenly desolate.

• Ghost Loathing killed a Heavenly Demon Kin with Five Injuries Qi and sword intent, then retreated when the weakened Heavenly Demon formation failed to form its Delusion Realm.
• Two Thousand Poison Dragons spread a venomous mist, but Yu Ci summoned wind and rain with Lu Ya’s incantation to blow it back and dilute the poison.
• Yu Ci realized that divinities, heavenly beings, and Immortal Truths were aberrant knots in the Heaven and Earth Law System that could be invoked through incantations.
• Tai'a Mohan disrupted Miao Hua Xian Niang’s rainbow light by shifting its attack, and Yu Ci deduced that it was using a palace hall to undermine her power.
• A sword strike tore open the Outer Domain’s void laws and revealed the blue sky; Tai'a Mohan abandoned its attack, leaving the Nine Truths Immortal Palace desolate.

Yu Ci left Xiaowu to hold off the heavenly demon army and entered the Cooling Hall to examine the dormant Miao Hua Xian Niang. He asked Lu Ya to determine whether she was in her original body, and Lu Ya began searching for a rumored mark left by Lu Suhua.

• Yu Ci observed that Xiaowu and Guiyan were keeping the demon forces at bay, while powerful calamity demons remained absent.
• Yu Ci had Xiaowu release Lu Ya and brought her along toward the palace that had emitted seven-colored light.
• Yu Ci entered the Cooling Hall and found Miao Hua Xian Niang lying unconscious on a brocade couch amid illusory banquet scenes.
• Yu Ci examined Miao Hua Xian Niang and explained that her existence was sustained by faith power and had reached the limits of its transformations.
• Lu Ya recalled a rumor that Lu Suhua had tormented Miao Hua Xian Niang and left a mark, then began to untie her skirt to look for it.

Yu Ci examined Madame Miao’s body and the palace model, then reasoned that Madame Yellow Springs may have designed the model as bait to draw a cultivator into a trap. He began using it to communicate with the three Spirit Immortals, but still did not know how to control the model completely.

• Lu Ya confirmed that Madame Miao’s body bore the mark of a real physical body, leading Yu Ci to suspect Madame Yellow Springs had hidden her research in this place.
• Yu Ci reconsidered the palace model’s purpose and worried that its apparent path of discovery might conceal a trap prepared by Madame Yellow Springs.
• Yu Ci deduced that Young Master Di’s demonic body may have been placed near the model as a conspicuous hint or key for whoever found it.
• Yu Ci resolved to keep Young Master Di imprisoned until the situation became clear.
• Yu Ci used the model to communicate with the three Spirit Immortals and concluded that the model was their central hub, though he could not yet control it completely.

Yu Ci used the mold to see through the Myriad Transformation Demon Domain and discovered he could command Madame Miao within the rainbow light’s territory. He left the story observing Tai'a Mohan’s heavily guarded hub at the center of the Demon Domain.

• Yu Ci filled the mold with divine intent and used it to see the heavenly demons and their formations throughout the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Yu Ci detected traces of the Myriad Transformation Demon Domain and tested whether Madame Miao could be controlled through the mold.
• Madame Miao’s power unleashed wind, rain, thunder, and lightning outside Cooling Hall, destroying more than half the attacking heavenly demons.
• Yu Ci discovered that he could only issue commands through Madame Miao within the rainbow light’s range, which covered one-ninth of the palace.
• Yu Ci followed a shadow trace to Tai'a Mohan’s hub and saw the powerful heavenly demons and dense demonic qi guarding it.

Yu Ci used the mold to survey the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and found Qi Baiyi, Ghost God Sword, and the others trapped in the Myriad Transformation Demon Domain. As Madame Miao awakened under the Heaven and Earth Law Will, Yu Ci joined his perception with it and saw a blurred figure at the center of the lightning tribulation, while Tai'a Mohan waited at its edge.

• Yu Ci found Qi Baiyi, Ghost God Sword, Dao Hua True Man, Sage Wisdom Walker, and their followers trapped near the core of the Myriad Transformation Demon Domain, where the followers were being corrupted.
• Yu Ci suspected Tai'a Mohan planned to use the trapped experts as fuel and began considering how to turn their situation to his advantage.
• The lightning tribulation caused the Heaven and Earth Law Will to surge, and Madame Miao awakened as its power pulled at her.
• Yu Ci shielded Lu Ya with his Inner Void domain and joined his perception to the Heaven and Earth Law Will across the Donghua Void.
• Yu Ci saw an indistinct figure at the center of the lightning tribulation, while Tai'a Mohan prowled along its edge.

Yu Ci used Madame Miao’s radiance to influence the heavenly tribulation while Tai'a Mohan attacked its center with demonic intent. As a sword cultivator broke through the Law System’s restraints, Yu Ci’s commands helped expose and weaken the demonic assault, though the Cooling Hall was badly damaged.

• Madame Miao projected radiance that revealed the central figure in the tribulation and exposed her sword movements.
• Yu Ci commanded Madame Miao to stop, allowing Tai'a Mohan to seize the moment and engulf the tribulation’s core in demonic intent.
• Yu Ci redirected Madame Miao’s radiance, then cut it off as a sword strike from the central figure snapped a connection in the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Ci used Madame Miao’s radiance to wash away Tai'a Mohan’s undercurrent after another sword strike weakened the Law System’s restraints.
• The counter-surging Heaven and Earth Laws swept away half of the Cooling Hall, and Yu Ci laughed at the swordsman’s tacit understanding.