Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci watched Tai'a Mohan’s demonic intent tear through the Heaven and Earth Law System, disrupting the mold and severing its connection to Yu Ci’s “deity.” Tai'a Mohan then used the backlash to enter the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, where Yu Ci’s attempts to control him met resistance.

• Yu Ci considered using the mold to control Young Master Di and perhaps the distant demonic tribulation, but stopped himself.
• Tai'a Mohan’s surging demonic intent suppressed the Heaven and Earth Law Will, tore through the law system, and battered the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• The mold contracted, collapsing parts of its structures and severing Yu Ci’s connection to the fringe region of his “deity.”
• As the Heaven and Earth Law System counterattacked, the Myriad Transformation Demon Pool sent demonic intent through the Heavenly Demon law region and into the palace.
• Tai'a Mohan used the backlash to establish himself in a dim region beside Madame Miao’s rainbow-light region, and Yu Ci failed to fully suppress his changes.

Yu Ci assessed his contest with Tai'a Mohan over the mold, the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and the Donghua Void, concluding that he had to work within Madame Yellow Springs' rules for now. He confirmed that the woman at the center of the heavenly tribulation was Madame Yellow Springs and sent a new command through the mold.

• Yu Ci recognized that Tai'a Mohan's indomitable will would let him resist assimilation by the Nine Truths Immortal Palace for a long time.
• Yu Ci examined how the mold's control over the Heaven and Earth Law System could counter the heavenly tribulation's great trend, while noting that Madame Yellow Springs' incomplete rules limited his control.
• Yu Ci rejected the idea of using Young Master Di's demon body, deciding that breaking the established rules would only give Tai'a Mohan an advantage.
• Yu Ci used the mold to observe the tribulation's center and confirmed that the woman there was Madame Yellow Springs.
• Yu Ci exchanged a brief look and message with Madame Yellow Springs, clarified the key points of the conflict, and sent a new command through the mold.

Yu Ci used Young Master Di’s demon body to strengthen the Nine Truths Immortal Palace’s control over the gloomy region, disrupting Tai'a Mohan’s hold and allowing Young Master Di to take his place. As Tai'a Mohan attacked, Ye Bin’s sword intent found his true location, turning their long-standing contest into a mutual struggle for advancement.

• Yu Ci released Young Master Di’s demon body into the gloomy region, where it merged with the palace’s demon intent and caused many heavenly demons to dissolve.
• Young Master Di appeared in a clear human form, erased the shadow, and claimed the seat in the hall.
• Tai'a Mohan’s demon pressure struck the hall, while Ye Bin’s Half-Mountain Mirage sword intent locked onto his hidden true location.
• Tai'a Mohan realized Ye Bin had used each opening to advance her sword cultivation and break his control over their contest.

Tai'a Mohan realized the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace had trapped and weakened him, while Ye Bin and Young Master Di held him in place from opposite sides. As the Donghua Void’s regions began merging, Yu Ci suspected Madame Yellow Springs had arranged the crisis and watched Liu Guan as a possible counterweight, before discovering a beam of spiritual light escaping the collapsing Myriad Transformation Demon Domain.

• Tai'a Mohan recognized the hidden restrictions in the Donghua Void and unleashed a demonic backlash that triggered inner demons and killed cultivators.
• Yu Ci led the mold out of Cooling Hall, told Lu Ya to find Xiao Wu and hide, and sensed Ye Bin battling Tai'a Mohan within the heavenly tribulation.
• Yu Ci concluded that Ye Bin’s arrival and actions were part of Madame Yellow Springs’s plans, and that the events in the Donghua Void had entered the course she intended.
• Yu Ci spotted Liu Guan searching the outer regions and considered whether Madame Yellow Springs meant to draw him into confronting Tai'a Mohan.
• Young Master Di’s return weakened the Myriad Transformation Demon Domain, and Yu Ci discovered a beam of spiritual light breaking through its demonic obstruction.

Yu Ci discovered that the seven landscape scrolls resonated with one another and realized the one sealed inside the Nine Truths Immortal Palace could reveal the secrets of Madame Yellow Springs. Black Robe and Zhai Que'er raced to collect Jiu Yan’s two scrolls, but Jiu Yan offered to hand them over in exchange for a request.

• Yu Ci brought out his two landscape scrolls and confirmed that seven existed, with the final one sealed deep inside the Nine Truths Immortal Palace.
• Zhai Que'er followed Black Robe toward the palace’s central region after Liu Guan ordered her to gather all seven scrolls within a quarter of an hour.
• Black Robe told Zhai Que'er that Jiu Yan held two scrolls and warned that Tai'a Mohan might make everyone perish if they failed.
• Zhai Que'er demanded that Black Robe get her in front of Jiu Yan within half a quarter of an hour, and Black Robe carried her forward as Dragon Scar fell behind.
• After Black Robe and Zhai Que'er had traveled seven or eight miles, Jiu Yan chuckled and offered them his two scrolls if they fulfilled one request.

Guiyan and Liu Guan reached an agreement over Madame Yellow Springs’s research and reunited their scrolls, triggering a powerful reaction in the Nine Truths Immortal Palace. As the scrolls burned away, Yu Ci and Liu Guan realized the missing presence they awaited had arrived.

• Guiyan offered Zhai Que'er a deal: his faction would take Madame Yellow Springs’s physical research materials while both sides received copies of her findings on the Dao of the Divine Lord.
• Liu Guan declared that Madame Yellow Springs was his, and Zhai Que'er accepted the deal as Guiyan and Liu Guan sent their scrolls toward the palace’s spiritual light.
• The reunited scrolls loosened a restriction, causing the spiritual light and strange fluctuations inside the Nine Truths Immortal Palace to intensify.
• Guiyan spotted Wan Tengshan’s group and Duanmu Senqiu’s faction approaching the palace, while Yu Ci and Liu Guan watched the reaction to the scrolls.
• The six scrolls projected onto the glowing site burned to ash, and Yu Ci and Liu Guan exclaimed that the awaited presence had arrived.

Yu Ci realized the scrolls were feeding an invisible crucible in the Nine Truths Immortal Palace and suspected Madame Yellow Springs had arranged the convergence of the key players. As a shadow resembling the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror began forming inside the crucible, he consulted the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon to understand what was being forged.

• Yu Ci used the mold to observe an invisible crucible melting the scrolls and transforming energy in the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, while Liu Guan rushed toward it.
• Yu Ci felt the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror react and concluded that the painted screens and scrolls had been made partly from the mirror’s second half.
• Yu Ci recognized that Madame Yellow Springs had guided Tai'a Mohan, Liu Guan, Ye Bin, and others into converging on the same events, though he could not determine his own role as mold-holder.
• Yu Ci retrieved the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and sensed it resonating remotely with the crucible, which reassured him that Madame Yellow Springs might not have accounted for his half of the mirror.
• Yu Ci saw a circular shadow with a mirror-like knob taking shape in the crucible and turned to the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon for knowledge of mirror-refining methods.

Yu Ci watched the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror being reforged and saw a spiritual-qi disturbance resist its formation. Zhai Que'er identified the disturbance as the Devil Master's lingering mark manifesting the Sovereign Sky Demon Soul Capturing Scripture, and Liu Guan reached into the mark as Yu Ci studied it.

• Yu Ci observed the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror forming and noticed an explosive disturbance disrupting the process.
• Flame and smoke erupted from the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and Yu Ci asked Zhai Que'er what she recognized.
• Zhai Que'er explained that the mirror's reshaping had provoked the Devil Master's lingering spiritual mark and the Sovereign Sky Demon Soul Capturing Scripture.
• Zhai Que'er urged the group to approach and seize the rare opportunity to observe the scripture's manifestation.
• Yu Ci focused on the lingering mark, while Liu Guan pushed his divine intent directly into it.

Yu Ci watched the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s latter half take shape as Liu Guan was grievously injured by the dark flame surrounding the demon consciousness lingering marks. The completed mirror seized Yu Ci’s cloud-qi mold and pulled it toward the crucible, leaving Yu Ci to arrive amid the gathered cultivators with the mold still shielding his perception.

• Liu Guan tried to force his divine intent through the dark flame and collapsed, while Zhai Que'er, Black Robe, and the newly freed Qi Baiyi and his companions arrived near the crucible.
• Ghost A left to intercept Wan Tengshan, Duanmu Senqiu, and their group and warn them away from the Hundred Arrow Vines.
• The dark flame gathered around the demon consciousness lingering marks as the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s shadow took shape, and the flame burned away the section of divine intent Liu Guan had inserted, severely injuring him.
• Yu Ci noticed the dark flame grow fiercer after it consumed Liu Guan’s divine intent and wondered what power the demon consciousness lingering marks were burning.
• The Sovereign Sky Demon Soul Capturing Scripture’s evolution ended, and the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s latter half finished reshaping inside the crucible.
• The newly formed mirror flooded Yu Ci’s cloud-qi mold with qi and dragged it to the crucible; Yu Ci followed and found that his divine intent now kept the others from probing the mold.

Yu Ci realized that Madame Yellow Springs had fused the mold, the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and the Donghua Void into a unified mechanism, while the Primordial Demon Lord’s lingering consciousness remained separate. Liu Guan exposed the mold as the mechanism’s pivot and attacked Yu Ci, but a sudden ring of dark fire beneath him began drawing the mold downward as something rose from below.

• Yu Ci followed the descending mold into the main hall, where the cultivators searched for the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror beneath the hardened floor.
• Yu Ci realized that the furnace’s changes had fused the mold, the Nine Truths Immortal Palace, and the Donghua Void, while the Primordial Demon Lord’s lingering demonic consciousness remained outside that fusion.
• Liu Guan warned Yu Ci that Madame Yellow Springs’s apparent near-successes concealed a dangerous final trap, then sent shadows to sever Yu Ci’s connection to the mold.
• Yu Ci’s demon-breaking shout and the two returned Immortal True Persons’ aid freed him from Liu Guan’s shadows, while a demonic-intent tide pressed Liu Guan back.
• Liu Guan identified the mold as the mechanism’s pivot, and a ring of dark fire opened beneath Yu Ci as the mold was pulled downward and something rose from deep underground.

The Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror reacted to Liu Guan and Young Master Di’s demonic power, revealing a changing black granule that drew Yu Ci into a vision of despair. Yu Ci broke free with his Inner Void Dharma domain and Primordial Power, but the chapter left him shaken by what he had seen.

• The half of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror rose through the cloud-vapor mold, bearing a gloomy flame, a green demonic-consciousness trace, and a silver-white granule.
• The mirror drew demonic power from Liu Guan and Young Master Di, creating a wind vortex, while Yu Ci traced its fuel to Young Master Di.
• The granule’s silver-white surface burned away to reveal a boundless, pitch-black substance that seized Yu Ci’s attention.
• Yu Ci was engulfed by a vision of destruction and despair as a voice praised the Primordial Heavenly Demon King.
• Yu Ci cursed, burst open his Inner Void Dharma domain, and gathered its spiritual light and qi into a golden talismanic pearl.
• Yu Ci recovered, drenched in cold sweat, and recognized the power he had used as Primordial Power.

Yu Ci and the others struggled to survive when the Primordial Power in the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror unleashed demonic fire, while Tai'a Mohan tried and failed to seize it. The Primordial Power resonated with Donghua Void’s laws and rose to the law system’s highest tier.

• Yu Ci broke free of the demonic erosion as demonic fire consumed a Rogue Cultivator and harmed many others in the great hall.
• Qi Baiyi rescued Lei Tonghao, Ghost God Sword, Daohua, Shenghui, and others by breaking through the hall’s outer wall, while Zhai Que'er collapsed under the protection of the Nine Ghost Heart Bells.
• Yu Ci realized that the revealed Primordial Power would soon be sensed by the Primordial Demon Lord and considered fleeing.
• Tai'a Mohan reached for the Primordial Power, but Ye Bin’s sword intent and the Nine Truths Immortal Palace disrupted his Demon Tide, which the dark flames swallowed.
• Yu Ci understood that the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and its surrounding system could not contain the Primordial Power, which resonated with the laws of Donghua Void and rose to their highest tier.

Yu Ci traced how the Primordial Power drew energy from the Donghua Void and wondered what it was trying to achieve. He watched it reach beyond the highest layer of the law system, glimpsing a mystery beyond his understanding that he committed to memory as a future guide.

• Yu Ci understood that the Primordial Power disrupted the Donghua Void's laws and caused the system and its inhabitants to funnel energy into it.
• Yu Ci realized that Young Master Di and Tai'a Mohan served as especially potent fuel, prolonging the Primordial Power's existence.
• Yu Ci questioned why the Primordial Power kept gathering energy after reaching the peak of the law system.
• Yu Ci watched the Primordial Power cross beyond his known limits and touch an undetermined plane.
• Yu Ci and the other qualified figures became absorbed in the Primordial Power's approach to transcendence.

As Primordial Power evolved, Tai'a Mohan’s demonic fire consumed the Heavenly Demons across the Donghua Void to feed it. The transformation then became too heavy for the Heaven and Earth Law System, which collapsed and dragged everything toward the Primordial Power.

• Tai'a Mohan’s emotions ignited the Heavenly Demons and their power was funneled through him and Young Master Di into the evolving Primordial Power.
• The Donghua Void poured its primordial energy and law-system support into the transformation as Yu Ci watched, unable to understand its mysteries.
• Yu Ci sensed that the evolution had crossed a boundary and imagined Primordial Power taking flight.
• The Primordial Power grew too heavy, causing the Heaven and Earth Law System to collapse downward and drag everything toward its center.
• Yu Ci resisted the pull with the Three-Party Primordial Energy, while Dragon Scar’s flesh was torn away as he shielded Zhai Que'er and swept toward the Primordial Power.

The Primordial Power’s destructive gravity tore apart Dragon Scar and began dissolving the Heaven and Earth Law System within the Donghua Void. Yu Ci realized the danger was spreading through his Divine Lord Network and prepared to flee through the Two Realms Passage.

• The Primordial Power’s gravity melted Dragon Scar’s body, and its force hurled Zhai Que'er out of the hall.
• Dragon Scar’s demonic cultivation became fuel for the Primordial Power as Yu Ci endured the destructive force with the Three-Party Primordial Energy.
• Yu Ci reflected that the Primordial Demon Lord’s transcendence meant sinking into the world and devouring its laws rather than escaping beyond them.
• Yu Ci concluded that Tai'a Mohan had likely anticipated this outcome and continued watching the Primordial Power’s evolution.
• Yu Ci sensed his Divine Lord Network collapsing and decided to escape through the Two Realms Passage while the destruction remained confined to the Donghua Void.

Yu Ci realized Madame Yellow Springs’s experiment had trapped his spiritual will inside the mold, leaving him with only one chance to escape. He inferred that she was testing whether a cultivator could surpass the Heaven and Earth Law System, and began searching for the channel through which she observed the experiment.

• Yu Ci tried to use the mold to affect the situation, but the system had already squeezed him out and trapped his spiritual will inside it.
• Yu Ci considered severing his spiritual will to escape, but recognized that doing so could gravely injure or kill him.
• Yu Ci used his remaining preparations to reason that Madame Yellow Springs was testing the Primordial Demon Lord’s power and the possibility of evolution beyond the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Ci concluded that Madame Yellow Springs needed an observer and a channel for watching the experiment, and resolved to account for that connection.

As Primordial Power distorted the Donghua Void and warped what different observers could perceive, Yu Ci resisted its pull and prepared to seize control of the Three-Party Primordial Energy. The chapter left him focused on that effort as Black Robe was forced out of the hall and a fragment of his robe remained suspended in midair.

• Ghost Weariness saw Yu Ci frozen in his original pose while the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror seemed to vanish, revealing a discrepancy between sight and the mold's perception.
• Yu Ci sent Ye Bin a message to interrupt Tai'a Mohan's transmission, but Ye Bin did not respond, and Yu Ci realized she would not oppose Madame Yellow Springs's plan.
• Yu Ci decided to wait for Tai'a Mohan's chance to escape while using the Inner Void domain to analyze the Three-Party Primordial Energy and seek control of it.
• Black Robe's blood-red blades clashed with an unseen force, tearing his robe as the pressure in the hall intensified.
• Liu Guan struck Black Robe and blasted him out of the hall, while a torn piece of Black Robe's robe remained motionless in midair.

Liu Guan explained that Primordial Power was twisting the void, prompting the cultivators to retreat as the distortion expanded. Ghost Aversion uncovered a link between space and time before his ruined body was struck by a sudden sword-light, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Black Robe reasoned that the strange vanishing images came from the void collapsing and twisting, and Liu Guan struck him to teach him to consider the wider changes in heaven, earth, and void.
• Liu Guan argued that the distortion consumed far more power than the scene could supply and concluded that much of it was simulated in the Donghua Void, while Ghost Aversion suspected a real separation between the Heaven and Earth Law System and the void.
• Ghost Aversion connected the distortion to competing attempts to reshape the Heaven and Earth Law System, then lost control of his core thought as its flow of time diverged from his own.
• The expanding distortion caught Ghost Aversion before he could retreat, scattering his form and spirit while his thoughts continued and led him to a realization about space and time.
• A white sword-light cleaved into Ghost Aversion's ruined form and spirit, and his thoughts stopped.

Ye Bin used the Wu Wang Sword to halt the expansion of the distorted void and disrupt Tai'a Mohan’s use of Primordial Power, provoking its fury. Tai'a Mohan then discovered that Ye Bin had sworn a Primordial Spirit blood curse and believed she had doomed herself.

• Ghost God Sword recognized the sword embedded in the ground as Ye Bin’s Wu Wang Sword.
• Black Robe and Liu Guan realized the sword had broken a fulcrum in the Heaven and Earth Law System, stopping the void’s distortion from expanding past it.
• Tai'a Mohan roared at Ye Bin for ruining its opportunity to prove the Dao, and Ye Bin replied that proving it was no different from proving herself.
• Tai'a Mohan formed a demon domain from its rage and exposed weaknesses in Ye Bin’s body and mind.
• Tai'a Mohan sensed Ye Bin’s Primordial Spirit blood curse and declared that she was seeking her own death.

Liu Guan explained how the Primordial Power distorted the void, and Ghost Weariness realized that space and time were being altered together. Ghost Weariness’s projected thought became separated from his true body, and after his body was destroyed, a sudden sword strike ended his thoughts.

• Black Robe reasoned that the Primordial Power was swallowing laws, energy, and light, while Liu Guan taught him to focus on the collapse and twisting of the void.
• Liu Guan concluded that the vast distortion required more power than anyone present could supply and suggested that much of what they saw might be simulated.
• Ghost Weariness disagreed, recognizing that the laws were real and deducing that the Primordial Power had separated the Heaven and Earth Law System from the Donghua Void.
• Ghost Weariness discovered that his core thought and true body had become separated by distortions in space and time, leaving him unable to react to the expanding void.
• The distorted void destroyed Ghost Weariness’s body and spirit, and he realized that space and time were closely linked before a streak of sword-light struck him and his thoughts stopped.