Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci trapped the Rakshasa Ghost King's Li Huantian projection inside the chaotic Myriad Demon Pool and studied how its laws formed, hoping to develop his own independent domain. As the projection adapted and manifested a sturdy city above the blood sea, Yu Ci recognized that it looked familiar.

• Yu Ci used the Myriad Demon Pool to contain the Li Huantian projection, relying on the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to suppress the realm’s unstable laws.
• Yu Ci considered using the Myriad Demon Pool to develop an independent domain, since its chaotic laws offered a chance to innovate beyond his existing abilities.
• Yu Ci observed broken laws returning to the blood sea and sought to understand how the pool’s foundations and structures worked.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King changed tactics and spread the projection’s power through the Myriad Demon Pool as threads of rain.
• The projection’s laws accumulated above the blood sea and formed an illusory but sturdy city, which Yu Ci found familiar.

Yu Ci recognized Li Huantian as a defense system built with the sea-human alien race’s techniques and realized the Rakshasa Ghost King had used the Myriad Demon Pool’s demons to power a Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon. After diverting the cannon’s strike away from his inner void, he understood that the Rakshasa Ghost King had found the array eye and was trying to destroy the Myriad Demon Pool.

• Yu Ci recognized Li Huantian’s architecture and talisman patterns as the work of the sea-human alien race, whom the Rakshasa Ghost King had conquered and brought to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor.
• Yu Ci sensed an abnormal current near Li Huantian as millions of demons flared with killing intent, then watched the city drain the front ranks and illuminate its cannon-like talisman formations.
• Yu Ci identified the weapon as a Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon as Li Huantian consumed the demons’ evil thoughts and fired a blast that extinguished the Myriad Demon Pool’s bright moon.
• Yu Ci diverted the cannon’s force through several realms and out of his inner void, while the resulting moonlight and thunder engulfed the Earth Bone Array and alarmed the watching cultivators.
• Yu Ci concluded that the Rakshasa Ghost King had discovered the Myriad Demon Pool’s array eye and intended to destroy it.

Yu Ci, badly wounded by the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon, summoned a red-robed boy whose sword strike shattered the Earth Bone Array and gravely wounded You Ziwo, turning the battle against the Rakshasa Sect forces. You Ziwo and Wan Feiluo fled as darkness spread across the cloud sea.

• Yu Ci endured the cannon blast's damage and the True Realm's suction while the fortress cannon prepared to fire again.
• Yu Ci summoned the red-robed boy, who answered with a sword strike across the void.
• The sword broke two bone pillars, pierced the Earth Bone Array, and wounded You Ziwo through the body.
• You Ziwo escaped in a rainbow while Wu Yuanchen struck the injured Wan Feiluo, who fled in blood-red cloud vapor.
• Xiao Shenguang suffered backlash from the sword intent as the void darkened and swallowed the light.

Yu Ci used the Profound Ice Dissolution to freeze the Myriad Demon Pool and stop the Rakshasa Ghost King's Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon from firing, but his inner void was badly damaged and the threats against him remained. The frozen demonic intent contained the immediate danger, while the Rakshasa Ghost King's attack and the wider pressure from the Rakshasa Sect and Black Heaven Cult still threatened Yu Ci.

• Xiao Shenguang became isolated beneath the strange moonlight, unable to use his power, and fell into the blood sea of the Myriad Demon Pool.
• As the blood sea's demonic intent overcame Xiao Shenguang, he joined the fiends in chanting for entry into the demonic path, enlarging a rift in the void and hastening the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon's charge.
• Yu Ci sent a line of ice through the realms and into the Myriad Demon Pool, freezing the blood sea, its fiends, and the cannon's firing mechanisms.
• Yu Ci realized his inner void had been damaged by the cannon and that he had narrowly avoided being driven into another battle by his demonic thoughts.
• Yu Ci recognized that the Rakshasa Ghost King remained in the Myriad Demon Pool and that he still faced the Rakshasa Sect, the Black Heaven Cult, and further dangers.

Yu Ci retrieved a section of Taiyuan City's ancient wall and assembled it into a powerful relic linked to the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon. He pressed it into the fading Li Huantian phantom, causing the wall's talismanic patterns to blaze and stir the battlefield's lingering spirits.

• Yu Ci discovered that the separated bricks aboard the Three Treasures Ship formed a nearly complete Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon pattern.
• Yu Ci drew the bricks into the Myriad Demon Pool and assembled them into a seven-zhang section of Taiyuan City's wall.
• Yu Ci sensed the wall's blood-forged power and lowered it through a fissure in the ice onto the vanishing Li Huantian city.
• The wall's patterns lit up, and incomplete figures emerged from it as battle cries rang above the frozen sea of blood.

Yu Ci used the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon and the Grand Profound Seal to understand the Rakshasa Ghost King’s emotional power and expose her position. He ended his defensive retreat by firing seven shots toward the Ziwei Enclosure and the Northern Dipper, turning its seven stars dark red.

• Yu Ci redirected the demonic intent and malicious thoughts from the Myriad Demon Pool into Taiyuan City’s ruined walls, reviving the phantoms and studying the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon.
• Yu Ci recognized that the cannon’s principles resembled those of the God Slaying Thorn and realized that he could not avoid confronting the Rakshasa Ghost King through emotions.
• Yu Ci sensed a resonance between Grand Profound and Great Abyss, then used the movement-and-stillness laws of the Grand Profound Seal to expose the Rakshasa Ghost King’s position.
• Yu Ci unleashed seven shots from the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon toward the Starry Sky Heaven, causing the Northern Dipper’s seven stars to turn dark red.

Yu Ci’s mastery of the Realm of Truth deepened as his star talismans and sealing arts resonated, letting him turn the true world and transform its celestial laws. He emerged beneath a sky ruled by the Northern Dipper, while the world’s law will struck back against his manipulation.

• Yu Ci’s North Star Soul Control and Death Infliction Art, Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon, and Tai Xuan Jie Xing Suo arose together as he controlled Great Abyss and Grand Profound.
• The Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon destroyed Demonic Beasts in the Myriad Demon Pool, feeding their slaughtering force into Starry Sky Heaven and helping suppress the pool’s rebellion.
• Yu Ci used his grasp of the Realm of Truth to turn the true world, drawing down star power and plunging the sky into darkness.
• Zhang Tianji and Zhou Chu witnessed Yu Ci emerge from the void and Zhang Tianji recognized his talismanic arts as the Northern Dipper’s seven stars turned red.
• Yu Ci turned the Dipper’s handle and twisted the laws of the seasons into a tribulation of slaughter, provoking the Heaven and Earth Law Will to unleash storms and lightning against him.

Xiao Jiu and Ye Chi rescued Dian Dian, Xiao Wu, and Lu Ya from vicious cultivators along the East Sea. As strange celestial forces gathered overhead, stars fell through the tribulation clouds and the sea froze into silence.

• Xiao Jiu killed several cultivators who had surrounded Dian Dian, Xiao Wu, and Lu Ya to seize the Hand-Cutting Token.
• Xiao Jiu and Ye Chi met the three women and learned that Dian Dian was gathering strength to refine an inner demon.
• Tribulation clouds gathered as Ye Chi's sword sounded an alarm, and Dian Dian rose into the air to face the sea and sky.
• Xiao Jiu sent her Thunder Roc above the clouds and saw stars falling toward the horizon.
• Six more vermilion beams pierced the clouds, forming fixed gaps in the shape of the Northern Dipper as the waves and sea became unnaturally still.

Xiao Jiu and Ye Chi witnessed a cataclysmic clash over the East Sea as Heavenly Delusion City appeared, and Dian Dian revealed her formidable sword intent. Yu Ci sensed Dian Dian assisting him from afar, then glimpsed a person and a cat playing Go beneath the stars.

• Xiao Jiu sensed opposing forces beneath the sea, and Ye Chi shielded her from the pressure as the waters and seabed convulsed.
• The storm split open the tribulation clouds, and the Thunder Roc was pinned, lost consciousness, and was battered apart by the waves.
• Dian Dian stared beyond the tsunami as Heavenly Delusion City emerged, distorting the crimson rays descending from the heavens.
• Dian Dian took Ye Chi's sword, criticized the Rakshasa Sect's ambitions, and pointed the blade toward Heavenly Delusion City.
• Dian Dian poured her sword intent into the clash over the East Sea and called to the general store to keep up.
• Yu Ci sensed Dian Dian's aid across the void, then saw a person and a cat playing Go in a star-lit courtyard.

Yu Ci drew on the resonance between the Shangqing and Tai Xuan lineages to deepen his understanding of the laws of motion, stillness, life, and death. As Yu Qing Xuan renewed her resolve, Yu Ci’s power shaped the starry sky into a majestic Dharma form, leaving Zhang Tianji stunned.

• Zhan Mao'er questioned whether the event over the Eastern Sea was truly Yu Ci's work as it played chess with Yu Qing Xuan.
• Yu Qing Xuan recalled her benefactor’s teachings and felt a renewed resonance with the starry sky’s transformations.
• Yu Qing Xuan set down a chess piece and declared that she would demonstrate the true orthodox Tai Xuan Jie Xing Suo.
• Yu Ci used the resonance between the distant locations to grasp how the laws of motion and stillness and of life and death centered on the True Master.
• Yu Ci’s influence bent the starry sky and formed a vast Dharma form, which Zhang Tianji recognized as Ziwei Emperor's Command, Tai Xiao True Master.

Yu Ci maintained his focus on confronting the Rakshasa Ghost King as the Ziwei Emperor's Command manifested and the heavens' laws poured into him. He called for his sword, and the resulting sword intent destroyed Heavenly Delusion City above the East Sea.

• Zhang Tianji recalled the fall of the Taixiao Divine Court and was shaken by the possibility of its return when he witnessed the Ziwei Emperor's Command manifest.
• Yu Ci endured the collapsing Heaven and Earth Law System without wavering from his goal of mastering the power to face the Rakshasa Ghost King directly.
• Yu Ci's sword intent swept across the heavens as he demanded, "Where is my sword!"
• Yu Ci's sword intents resonated across a hundred million miles, splitting the tribulation clouds and forming a vast heavenly scar.
• Xiao Jiu pulled Ye Chi away from the shoreline as the Grand Profound Seal's cold mist shattered and assimilated the coastline.
• Yu Ci's sword intent, fused with the Big Dipper starlight, destroyed Heavenly Delusion City above the East Sea.

Yu Ci pierced through the Rakshasa Ghost King's layered defenses with the Northern Dipper's power and struck her in her hidden realm. The Rakshasa Ghost King blocked the attack but suffered its effects as Yu Ci invoked Ziwei Emperor's Command, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yu Ci focused the Northern Dipper's power into a beam that broke through layers of the sea and void, drawing the attention of distant cultivators.
• Yu Ci's sword intent reached the Rakshasa Ghost King's hidden world and identified her among her many avatars in a vast temple.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King met Yu Ci's attack with a palm strike, and seven red marks appeared on her palm after the collision.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King dispersed most of the attack's force, but Yu Ci recognized that her technique could not neutralize its underlying talismanic and secret arts.
• Yu Ci invoked Ziwei Emperor's Command and transformed the attack, causing the Rakshasa Ghost King to tremble as her pale-flamed eyes appeared.

Yu Ci resisted the Rakshasa Ghost King’s emotional assault and discovered that she had been wounded, while her fury spread through the True Realm and turned its inhabitants against him. He countered by focusing on the Realm of Truth, where he began imprinting a new world into existence through Ziwei Emperor's Command.

• The Rakshasa Ghost King used her fury to block Yu Ci’s sword intent and blast him out of her world and above the clouds.
• Yu Ci merged his divine intent with Ziwei Emperor's Command and sensed that the Rakshasa Ghost King had been wounded.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King spread her negative emotions through the True Realm, cultivating hostility toward Yu Ci and threatening to influence the Heaven and Earth Law Will.
• Yu Ci resisted the True Realm’s rejection by turning his attention to the Realm of Truth and launching a counterattack.
• Yu Ci’s brush-like power stirred the Realm of Truth, and a vast new world began taking shape around Ziwei Emperor's Command.

Yu Ci and the Rakshasa Ghost King’s battle in the Realm of Truth sent fragments of their laws into the True Realm, where they altered the Heaven and Earth Law System. Yu Ci used the Ziwei Emperor's Command dharma manifestation to counter the Ghost King’s influence, and the chapter ended with Yu Ci’s changes rippling across the world as a declaration of his presence.

• Yu Ci and the Rakshasa Ghost King clashed in the Realm of Truth, and shattered laws from their unfinished worlds fell into the True Realm.
• The Heaven and Earth Law System transformed some fragments into bizarre creatures and weapons, which cultivators across the realm witnessed as a supernatural war.
• Yu Ci used the Ziwei Emperor's Command dharma manifestation to inspire awe in elite cultivators and blunt the Rakshasa Ghost King’s influence.
• As Yu Ci’s framework grew more complete, pressure on the Heaven and Earth Law System increased until the Ziwei Emperor's Command world contracted into a stable wheel of light.
• The altered laws spread through the True Realm, briefly affecting countless beings and changing their fortunes, abilities, and lives.
• Yu Ci used the changes to proclaim, “I am here!”

Yu Ci established a foothold in the Realm of Truth as the True Realm’s clans, sects, and Western Buddhist Kingdom responded to the upheaval. He sensed that only he and the Rakshasa Ghost King were causing major collapses in the law system, before a figure appeared to offer mediation.

• Zhang Tianji witnessed the Heart-Knocking Bell and the three major clans’ treasures respond to changes in the laws.
• Spiritual lights and Buddhist chants rose across the True Realm and western celestial domain, stirring its powerful figures.
• Yu Ci’s avatar echoed the responses from the Central Heaven Star Domain as his Self-Created World resisted the turbid intents of living beings.
• Yu Ci sensed two major collapses in the True Realm’s law system, caused by himself and the Rakshasa Ghost King.
• A projection appeared in the Realm of Truth and offered to act as a peacemaker in the conflict between Li Huantian and the Inner Void.

Yu Ci encountered Xiao Sen, the Sect Master Saint of the Eight Sceneries Palace, when he intervened in the battle with the Rakshasa Ghost King. Their exchange revealed Xiao Sen's connection to Xiao Lei, and Yu Ci was left wondering why the Rakshasa Ghost King had exposed his identity so readily.

• Yu Ci compared Xiao Sen's unusual presence in the Realm of Truth with the methods used by the Rakshasa Ghost King and other powerful beings.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King and Xiao Sen discussed the danger to the realm and the timing of rebuilding its laws, while Yu Ci reconsidered how much of the wider reality her plans involved.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King introduced Xiao Sen as the Sect Master of the Eight Sceneries Palace and revealed that he was Xiao Lei's older brother.
• Xiao Sen introduced himself and asked Yu Ci's name, and Yu Ci replied that he was a survivor of the tribulation.
• Xiao Sen identified Yu Ci as the possible Later Sage, and Yu Ci wondered whether the Rakshasa Ghost King had revealed Xiao Sen's identity to remind him of something.

Yu Ci accepted Daoist Xiao’s invitation to attend the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering and invited him to the Shangqing Sect’s future mountain-gate reopening. At the Eight Sceneries Palace, the elders discussed the mysterious Later Sage, You Rui, and the changes to the realm’s laws, but they could not determine whether the Later Sage had become an earthly immortal or a divine lord.

• Yu Ci answered Daoist Xiao’s formal invitation by agreeing that the Shangqing Sect would attend the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering.
• Daoist Xiao and Yu Ci compared the coming gathering with the Shangqing Sect’s planned mountain-gate reopening, while the Rakshasa Ghost King approved.
• At the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram, the Eight Sceneries Palace’s observers discussed the Later Sage and considered approaching You Rui through her connection to Yu Ci.
• Daoist Xiao returned to the palace and entered seclusion after two disruptions in the Heaven and Earth Law System smoothed over.
• The Eight Sceneries Palace elders wondered whether the Later Sage had taken the supreme seat of an earthly immortal or the throne of a divine lord.

The Eight Sceneries Palace cultivators deduced that Yu Ci was the foundation for a divine descent and speculated about the Later Sage’s origins and future. By the East Sea, Dian Dian withdrew her overpowered sword, which crumbled, while Ye Chi coughed up blood.

• The Eight Sceneries Palace cultivators concluded that Yu Ci’s cultivation and laws allowed him to serve as the foundation for the art of Descent of the Gods.
• The cultivators debated whether the Later Sage came from outside the realm or a great world, and wondered how he had attained divine lord status.
• They resolved to investigate Zhu Tai Yi’s clues through the Li Chen Sect and to look into Ruizhu Palace and the powerful sword cultivator by the East Sea.
• Dian Dian carefully withdrew her sword after its force exceeded the weapon’s limits.
• The sword lost its form and scattered like fine sand, while Ye Chi failed to suppress a mouthful of dark blood.

After Ye Chi was injured and the others fell asleep, Lu Ya fled with Xiao Jiu as hostile cultivators pursued them. As the sun returned and Lu Ya feared her backer had lost a battle in the heavens, a Golden Armored Divine Being appeared with an imperial decree ordering their party to rendezvous at Xi Yu Lake.

• Dian Dian told Xiao Jiu to ask Little Five for a replacement sword, then collapsed asleep with Little Five after exhausting her strength.
• Ye Chi entered a half-meditative state to recover, leaving Lu Ya and Xiao Jiu awake on the beach.
• More than twenty hostile cultivators, including over ten Step Void experts, approached, and Lu Ya fled with Xiao Jiu, Little Five, and Dian Dian.
• The starry darkness receded and sunlight returned, making Lu Ya fear that her backer had lost the battle beyond the heavens.
• A Golden Armored Divine Being appeared ahead of the fleeing group and ordered Lu Ya's party to turn northwest and rendezvous at Xi Yu Lake.

Lu Ya accepted the Emperor’s decree and summoned a black-armored warrior that annihilated the Sea Cliff Sect pursuers, then took Xiao Jiu and the others toward Xi Yu Lake in the Netherworld Patrol Chariot. As the journey began, Yu Ci used his sword intent to stabilize Ye Chi’s Sword Embryo and discovered that a trace of his former Divine Lord-level thought persisted in the Realm of Truth.

• Lu Ya accepted the Golden Armored Divine Being’s decree, received its rune on her wrist, and summoned a black-armored warrior from the Eastern Sea.
• The warrior unleashed freezing mist and a chain, destroying the Sea Cliff Sect array and killing the pursuers who had followed Lu Ya and Xiao Jiu.
• A Netherworld Patrol Chariot drawn by Three-Path Birds appeared, and Lu Ya ushered Xiao Jiu, Shen Ya, Xiao Wu, Dian Dian, and Ye Chi aboard to travel toward Xi Yu Lake.
• Lu Ya said Yu Ci could help treat Ye Chi’s Sword Embryo and shorten the journey; Yu Ci’s resonating sword intent stabilized Ye Chi and improved her condition.
• Yu Ci realized that part of his thinking had entered the Realm of Truth, where the lingering trace of his Ziwei Emperor’s Command let him think with a Divine Lord’s perspective.