Chapter Summaries

Blood Mansion Ancestor collapsed after his plans failed, but Yu Ci reached him through the Crimson Firmament Curse Kill Seal and led his consciousness to Xi Yu Lake. There, Zhao Xiangshan realized that a powerful soul-locking force was targeting him because of the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel.

• Blood Mansion Ancestor's despair triggered a scream that killed his disciples, nether-spirits, and ghosts, and he became absorbed in the lotus pond's mystery of life and death.
• Yu Ci appeared within Blood Mansion Ancestor's vision, and Blood Mansion Ancestor bowed and begged him to save his life.
• Yu Ci told Blood Mansion Ancestor to follow him, and his consciousness traveled through the Crimson Firmament Curse Kill Seal to Xi Yu Lake.
• Zhao Xiangshan sensed that an Earth Immortal God Lord's power had locked onto him and suspected the Later Sage had made a move.
• Zhao Xiangshan received further intelligence and concluded that the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel had caused the soul-locking induction.

Yu Ci publicly accused Zhao Xiangshan and revealed the locations of his hidden forces beneath Xi Yu Lake, forcing Zhao to respond. As Zhao prepared to confront Yu Ci through a communication array, the secret manor’s connection to the outside world was suddenly severed.

• Zhao Xiangshan waited in his heavily fortified secret manor beneath Xi Yu Lake, confident that Yu Ci could not reach him there.
• Yu Ci roared Zhao Xiangshan’s name across the lake, sending his voice through the waters and into the secret manor.
• Divine Lord Cold Bamboo and Xun Yuan saw Yu Ci use the Northern Territory Sentiment Map to publish Zhao’s location and mark about twenty associated sites, many tied to sects with conflicts of interest against Yu Ci.
• Zhao Xiangshan ordered his guards to activate the communication array so he could confront Yu Ci across empty space.
• The manor’s steward reported that its connection with the outside world had been severed.

Yu Ci sealed off Zhao Xiangshan’s communications and marked him with the Treasure Mirror’s starlight while preparing his next move against Wuji Pavilion and the Xiyu Alliance. As Yu Ci expanded his influence beyond the Three Origins Secret Array’s usual limits, Divine Lord Cold Bamboo and Xun Yuan prepared to negotiate, and an unidentified voice asked him to calm his wrath.

• Zhao Xiangshan learned that Yu Ci had cut off communications around the underwater secret mansion, then ordered the secret line opened so he could connect to the Three Origins Secret Array.
• Yu Ci used the Treasure Mirror to send a beam of starlight through the lake and lock onto Zhao Xiangshan, while Zhao rallied his guards against a possible remote attack.
• Cultivators across Xi Yu Lake speculated about the starlight, while Xun Yuan and Divine Lord Cold Bamboo discussed Yu Ci’s abilities and the significance of his actions.
• Yu Ci reflected on controlling the Xiyu Alliance’s reactions and adjusted his rhythm while learning to use the Ziwei Emperor's Command.
• Yu Ci expanded his power across the surrounding waters and struck the Three Origins Secret Array, prompting Divine Lord Cold Bamboo to order Xun Yuan to open communications.
• A clear chime sounded, and an unidentified speaker asked Yu Ci to temporarily restrain his wrath.

Yu Ci used the Northern Territory Sentiment Map to expose the Wuji Pavilion’s suspected role in Zhang Yan’s disappearance and pressure the Xiyu Alliance to answer for it. He declared his feud with Zhao Xiangshan and the Wuji Pavilion irreconcilable, while the alliance’s leadership called a council rather than make a decision.

• Yu Ci wrote on the Northern Territory Sentiment Map that Zhang Yan had disappeared at Xi Yu Lake and accused the Wuji Pavilion of stirring up conflict over Zhang Yan’s fish-dragon.
• Yu Ci challenged the Xiyu Alliance to explain whether it knew of the Wuji Pavilion’s wrongdoing and demanded a face-to-face confrontation with Zhao Xiangshan.
• Yu Ci said he had marked Zhao Xiangshan’s location on the map and mocked the alliance for allowing such a figure to hide at Xi Yu Lake.
• Madam Hua returned and accused a personal attendant tainted by the Wuji Pavilion of participating in the assassination plot against her.
• Yu Ci declared that his grievance with Zhao Xiangshan and the enmity between the Shangqing Sect and Wuji Pavilion could not be reconciled, and invited alliance members to witness their settlement.
• Divine Lord Cold Bamboo received a summons to a high-level Xiyu Alliance council and suspected its leader was trying to spread responsibility for the decision.

Divine Lord Cold Bamboo joined a Xiyu Alliance consultation over Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu and the sealed waters around Zhao Xiangshan, but Liu Taiheng steered the sects toward neutrality and covert reconnaissance. Zhao Xiangshan received the Alliance’s cryptic warning and discovered that the activated array could monitor the waters around his secret mansion across hundreds of miles.

• Madam Xia and Yang Zhu supported an open, decisive stance, while Chu Yuanxiang arrived and declared that the Pure Void Virtue Sect had no objections.
• Chu Yuanxiang challenged the accusations against Yu Ci, and Liu Taiheng persuaded the consultation to maintain neutrality while secretly activating reconnaissance and defense.
• Liu Taiheng assigned Divine Lord Cold Bamboo to watch Yu Ci’s true body and proposed activating reconnaissance arrays around Zhao Xiangshan’s location.
• Zhao Xiangshan received the message “Seek your own blessings!” from his Xiyu Alliance contacts and inferred that Zhao Ziyue’s plan to confront Yu Ci through the Three Origins Secret Array would fail.
• A deacon reported that nearby reconnaissance structures had been activated, and Zhao Xiangshan’s group saw clear images of the surrounding waters across hundreds of miles.

Zhao Xiangshan used the Three Origins Secret Array to search the waters around the underwater mansion and discovered a mysterious screen of patterns. He released thousands of water ghosts to investigate, but they struck a rapidly forming circular talisman that began to stir the surrounding currents.

• Zhao Xiangshan recognized that Yu Ci had seized the initiative and sought to counter his advantage by using the Three Origins Secret Array.
• Zhao Xiangshan ordered his subordinates to search the surrounding waters for traces of vital energy, earth energy, and water veins.
• The array’s shifting view revealed unnatural patterns on a distant layer of water, which reappeared after the currents disrupted them.
• Zhao Xiangshan ordered the release of thousands of water ghosts to find whatever lay behind the patterns.
• The ghosts collided with the patterns as they formed a huge circular talisman, triggering the surrounding water waves to circulate around it.

Zhao Xiangshan sent a fierce chi into Yu Ci’s sealed water domain, where it devastated the Profound Armor Dao Soldiers and disrupted the water-current screens. As the rune patterns shattered and re-formed, Zhao Xiangshan began to understand that they were effects of the water-domain seal, not what sustained it.

• Yu Ci’s Water Virtue Star Lord and Profound Armor Dao Soldiers appeared in the water domain and rapidly destroyed most of the ghosts.
• Zhao Xiangshan ordered the release of the fierce chi, a violent creature bred from fish and beasts with chi dragon bloodlines.
• The fierce chi charged through the Dao Soldier formation, destroying many soldiers and overwhelming the Water Virtue Star Lord’s flood dragons.
• The fierce chi unleashed a roar that shattered thousands of Dao Soldiers and broke the rune-patterned water-current screens, while the Water Virtue Star Lord stabilized part of the domain.
• Zhao Xiangshan studied the changing rune patterns and concluded that they formed because the water domain was sealed, rather than causing the seal.

Zhao Xiangshan witnessed Yu Ci’s void-sealing method absorb the fierce Chi’s explosion and reveal a palace complex with a pool that restored the beast. The scene then showed the Blood Mansion Ancestor undergoing a transformation tied to reincarnation, leaving Zhao Xiangshan’s side unable to dismiss it as an illusion.

• Water Virtue Star Lord’s banner struck the fierce Chi, bound it, and dissolved it despite the beast’s spirit-explosion mechanism activating.
• Zhao Xiangshan realized the water domain’s changing runes reflected the laws of heaven and earth and that Yu Ci’s method controlled the lake water through the void.
• The void-sealing method revealed a vast palace complex and a pool where the fierce Chi regenerated and lost its ferocious appearance.
• The cultivators spotted a badly wounded figure kowtowing toward the hall, and a cyan flame healed the figure’s body.
• A cultivator recognized the figure as the Blood Mansion Ancestor and claimed the scene was an illusion, but the Ancestor’s body was annihilated and then reconstructed through a process of shedding form and body.

Yu Ci’s lingering divine ability planted Dao-rhyme-like truths in the minds of Zhao Xiangshan and his subordinates, overwhelming their defenses and causing a deacon to die after Zhao Xiangshan activated the secret mansion’s third defensive layer. Zhao Xiangshan steadied the shaken group and called on Hong Xiang.

• Yu Ci’s vanished palace visions left runes and faint sounds imprinted in the minds of Zhao Xiangshan and his subordinates.
• Zhao Xiangshan realized Yu Ci was instilling power through a True Text Dao rhyme, and the cultivators began hearing lines about water within their hearts.
• Zhao Xiangshan ordered the secret mansion’s third defensive layer sealed, forcing its arrays to expend most of their reserved vital energy.
• The central deacon who activated the mechanism was drained of moisture and died, while the terrified cultivators unleashed their protective powers and shattered the water mirrors.
• Zhao Xiangshan quelled his subordinates’ panic with a cold gaze and called Hong Xiang by his full name.

Zhao Xiangshan realized Yu Ci had used True Script Dao Rhyme to bypass the Secret Mansion’s defenses, then tried to judge how long Yu Ci could keep up such attacks. The Green Lotus Magic Sword unfolded into a green-robed Daoist who overcame Mountain Thunder True Lord and left Zhao Xiangshan’s group exposed to an unknown next move.

• Zhao Xiangshan ordered the Secret Mansion steward to destroy the Water Virtue Star Lord and report back with a recording, then left the central hub with his followers.
• Zhao Xiangshan concluded that Yu Ci had used True Script Dao Rhyme to break past the Secret Mansion’s defenses, but suspected he could not repeat it many times.
• A green lotus appeared in Zhao Xiangshan’s garden, and his subordinates identified it as the Green Lotus Magic Sword.
• Mountain Thunder True Lord attacked the lotus until its petals opened and a green-robed Daoist emerged from within it.
• Mountain Thunder True Lord charged the Daoist, but the Daoist dispersed into mist, bewildered him with a Dao scripture, and slipped past him as the others fell into a daze.

Yu Ci’s Green Lotus incarnation devastated Zhao Xiangshan’s underwater secret estate, and the ensuing flood left Zhao and his forces fighting to escape. Zhao’s desperate attempt to break through Yu Ci’s void barrier ended with both close guards dead, leaving Zhao to feign a dire condition as the chapter ended.

• The Green Lotus incarnation bypassed the central defenses, wrecked the estate’s control arrays, and escaped through a hole it bored in the wall.
• Yu Ci and Water Virtue Star Lord drove a flood into the damaged estate, forcing Zhao Xiangshan and his scattered subordinates to flee as the structure collapsed.
• Zhao Xiangshan gathered his forces and used eighteen Dead Warriors to freeze the water briefly, creating an opening to break through Yu Ci’s barrier.
• Talisman patterns clung to the yin-yang domains, and the Primordial Formless Sword killed Zhao Xiangshan’s two close guards as their domains collapsed.
• Trapped amid deep-water pressure and approaching Dao Soldiers, Zhao Xiangshan bled from his seven orifices and prepared to make it appear that he was about to speak.

Yu Ci drew on the Three Origins Secret Array and the Dew Bowl to replenish the vast vital Qi needed for an unusual attack on Zhao Xiangshan’s fortified secret mansion. As Divine Lord Cold Bamboo watched the spectacle, Yu Ci prepared to bypass the mansion’s defenses and exploit his realm superiority.

• Yu Ci suspended the Dew Bowl above his head, drawing in vital Qi and turning its liquefied spiritual energy into nourishing rain over Xi Yu Lake.
• Divine Lord Cold Bamboo observed Yu Ci’s immense extraction of vital Qi and ignored demands from sect leaders to execute him.
• Yu Ci sensed the shifting emotions around the lake and used them to judge the situation despite the Three Origins Secret Array restricting his perception.
• Yu Ci relied on Soul Lock to attack Zhao Xiangshan from a distance while Zhao Xiangshan remained cut off inside the secret mansion.
• Yu Ci decided to bypass the fortified mansion and crush Zhao Xiangshan through realm superiority, recalling his battle with the Rakshasa Ghost King.

Yu Ci used the Eternal Azure Sky’s True Script Dao Rhyme to strengthen his Realm of Truth construction and crush the underwater secret manor. As Zhao Xiangshan tried to respond, Yu Ci turned the water domain against him, but Zhao evaded its pressure with a strange movement that Madam Huanyong identified as Dream Wandering Immortal Transformation.

• Yu Ci chose to reinforce the Ziwei Emperor’s Command with the Eternal Azure Sky’s True Script Dao Rhyme, using Shangqing principles and the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel.
• Yu Ci’s new method helped collapse the underwater secret manor, though he knew Zhao Xiangshan and the others remained a threat.
• Yu Ci sealed the surrounding waters and distorted their laws to prevent Zhao Xiangshan from speaking, making him an outsider in the domain.
• Zhao Xiangshan clamped his mouth shut and moved a mile away in a fluid, ghostlike manner that baffled Yu Ci.
• Madam Huanyong told Yu Ci that Zhao Xiangshan was using the magical power called Dream Wandering Immortal Transformation.

Yu Ci refined his void domain as Zhao Xiangshan used Dream Wandering Immortal Transformation to navigate its flaws and escape. Yu Ci reshaped the domain into a seamless landscape, trapping Zhao Xiangshan inside a newly formed corridor.

• Zhao Xiangshan used Dream Wandering Immortal Transformation to slip through gaps in Yu Ci's void structure while building power for a greater teleportation.
• Yu Ci studied Zhao Xiangshan's technique and recognized how it exposed flaws in his own carefully constructed domain.
• Yu Ci ended the trial and unleashed a greater Daoist magic that reshaped the void into a flowing landscape.
• The new landscape erased the rigid flaws Zhao Xiangshan had relied on, leaving him lost inside Yu Ci's domain.
• A corridor appeared just as Zhao Xiangshan's teleportation triggered, and Yu Ci's void laws pulled him inside.

Yu Ci trapped Zhao Xiangshan in an uncanny expanse of buildings and then apparently used Void Teleportation to send him far away. The cultivators watching through the consultation formation debated what had happened and were left wondering how profound Yu Ci’s Void Divine Abilities were.

• Zhao Xiangshan vanished after becoming trapped among buildings that appeared over the lake, prompting the cultivators to fear that Yu Ci had captured him.
• The authorities ordered Divine Lord Cold Bamboo to search for Zhao Xiangshan and negotiate with Yu Ci, but Cold Bamboo objected to the interference.
• Zhao Xiangshan reappeared high above Xi Yu Lake, badly injured and thousands of li from where he had vanished.
• The cultivators realized Zhao Xiangshan had moved closer to Yu Ci, suggesting Yu Ci had forcibly teleported him.
• The cultivators compared Yu Ci’s feat with Yu Qing Xuan’s famous Void Teleportation and wondered how far Yu Ci’s abilities could reach.

Yu Ci’s control of the void and the Dao’s wind chant overwhelmed Zhao Xiangshan, leaving him trapped in the Three Origins Secret Array as Yu Ci’s supreme divine ability began to manifest. The chapter ended with the void frozen and a feather descending amid the revealed Dao song.

• Yu Ci used his control of the void to send Zhao Xiangshan through a hastily formed waterway, then ignored the mediator’s attempts to address him.
• Yu Ci entered a profound Dao state, and his wind chant reached Zhao Xiangshan seven hundred miles away.
• Zhao Xiangshan fell toward the lake and was battered by the wind chant, which undermined his ability to use his hidden divine ability.
• The Three Origins Secret Array struck Zhao Xiangshan as he entered its central area, leaving him injured and terrified.
• The void froze around Zhao Xiangshan, and a descending feather revealed Yu Ci’s Dao song: “To act before it exists, governing before chaos!”

Zhao Xiangshan was trapped by Yu’s Eternal Azure Sky and the Shangqing Sect’s suppressing power as the Three Origins Secret Array joined the Dao Realm. After a shouted warning briefly opened a gap in the seal, Zhao Xiangshan destroyed his body and spirit, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Zhao Xiangshan invoked Eternal Azure Sky, transforming Xi Yu Lake into a Dao Realm that stunned cultivators and drew fish to the surface.
• Zhao Xiangshan found himself cut off from external spiritual qi as the array fused with the Dao Realm and excluded him.
• Zhao Xiangshan struggled to form a small domain, but Yu raised a magical Dharma seal and the array’s suppression crushed his powers and sealed his spiritual apertures.
• An unidentified voice shouted, “Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu, you mustn't go too far!”, briefly shaking the Three Origins Secret Array and opening a tiny gap in the seal.
• Zhao Xiangshan understood the signal, reignited his blood flames, and silently burst his form and spirit into flying dust.

Yu Ci erased the Dao realm and devoured vast amounts of vital Qi, destabilizing the Three Origins Secret Array and drawing tribulation clouds over Xi Yu Lake. In the council array, Chu Yuanxiang challenged those who had provoked him, while Liu Taiheng defused the confrontation by reporting Ji Yong’s injury and urging everyone to consider the larger situation.

• Yu Ci recalled the Dao realm landscape and began swallowing the vital Qi around him, causing the Three Origins Secret Array to collapse in an expanding zone.
• Tribulation clouds gathered above Xi Yu Lake as the Dharma Seal’s power echoed through the secret array and the depths of the lake, disturbing the array’s old arrangements.
• A sect leader accused Yu Ci of using Zhao Xiangshan’s death to undermine the array, and Chu Yuanxiang demanded that the person who had provoked the crisis identify himself.
• Liu Taiheng reported that Ji Yong had been badly injured while working the duty rotation and said the secret array’s backlash had caused it.
• Liu Taiheng acknowledged Chu Yuanxiang’s concerns, then urged the other sect leaders to keep the overall situation in mind.

Liu Taiheng urged the Xiyu Alliance to negotiate with Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu and revealed the reconnaissance array monitoring the Taixiao Divine Court, arguing that Shangqing’s return could destabilize the balance built over centuries. As the alliance considered the Divine Court’s possible reappearance, Yuanxu turned his attention to the jade-white dharma seal suppressing Xi Yu Lake, and it began moving toward him.

• Liu Taiheng called for the alliance to pacify Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu through negotiation rather than risk damaging the Three Origins Secret Array.
• Liu Taiheng redirected the deliberation array’s projection to the deep waters beneath Xi Yu Lake, revealing the reconnaissance array placed near the suspected resting place of the Taixiao Divine Court.
• The array’s abnormal activation reminded the alliance that the Taixiao Divine Court had reacted before during the battle between the Shangqing Later Sage and the Rakshasa Ghost King.
• Liu Taiheng warned that Yuanxu and his unseen supporter sought to restore Shangqing to its former height without accounting for the changes of the past several hundred years.
• Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu looked toward the jade-white dharma seal suppressing Xi Yu Lake, and the seal lifted and began moving toward him.

Yu Ci used Cloud Tower Tree leaves and spiritual liquid to create a nine-layer talisman medium, then stamped it with the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal to capture Eternal Azure Sky and the Dao realm within it. The chapter ended with the onlookers stunned by his seemingly impossible feat as Yu Ci smiled with satisfaction.

• The cultivators recognized the Dharma Seal as the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal and spotted a Cloud Tower Tree leaf in Yu Ci's hand.
• Yu Ci transformed the leaf into talisman paper with spiritual liquid from the Dew Bowl, then layered nine sheets together.
• The Jade God Cave Spirit Seal arrived above Yu Ci, and the tribulation clouds scattered as it approached.
• Yu Ci stamped the seal onto the talisman paper, causing living talisman patterns and a shifting landscape to appear across it.
• The cultivators realized Yu Ci had captured Eternal Azure Sky and its Dao realm on the talisman, leaving them stunned while he smiled.