Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci witnessed Lu Chen’s Fist Intent emerge from Madame Yellow Springs and clash with the demonic cultivator’s divine-intent technique. As the battle shifted toward the lightning pool, Bao Yun’s talisman activated the Celestial Spirit Drum True Talisman, leaving the Vajra Demon Figurine immobilized.

• Madame Yellow Springs’s failing life force exposed Lu Chen’s hidden Fist Intent, which blasted Yu Ci away and forced back the demonic cultivator’s divine intent.
• The demonic cultivator summoned the Boundless Bitter Wheel Impermanence Method, while its altered void exposed Bao Yun in the lightning pool to the Vajra Demon Figurine.
• Yu Ci signaled Bao Yun, who escaped into the calamity clouds after tossing a talisman into the lightning pool; Yu Ci’s avatar and Xuanhuang also withdrew.
• Lu Chen’s Fist Intent drove back the Demon Tide, and the Calamity Demon King recognized it as Donghua True Lord’s power.
• Bao Yun’s talisman sounded the Celestial Spirit Drum, whose thunder immobilized the Vajra Demon Figurine and struck at its core.

Yu Ci manifested the Thunder Lord, used its thunder methods to suppress the Vajra Demon Figurine, and expanded his control over the tribulation clouds with Bao Yun’s help. With the rear secured, he turned toward the distant battle as Lu Chen’s fist intent began to wane.

• Yu Ci merged his core thought into the Thunder Lord Manifestation and rapidly took control of the tribulation clouds with Bao Yun’s aid.
• The Thunder Lord struck the Vajra Demon Figurine with the Five Curses Thunder Method, destroying the outer realm calamity demon within it.
• Yu Ci used the Five Emperors Inner Seizing Thunder Seal to immobilize and suppress the Vajra Demon Figurine beneath the plasma thunder pool.
• The Thunder Lord beat the Celestial Spirit Drum and summoned thunder department deities to help control the expanding domain.
• Bao Yun praised the talisman and asked Yu Ci to teach it to her, and Yu Ci agreed before turning his attention to Lu Chen’s waning fist intent.

Yu Ci pressed the demonic sect cultivator and the Calamity Demon King with the Thunder Lord domain while watching Madam Yellow Springs’s weakening confinement reveal her strange, undifferentiated true intent. As Lu Chen’s Fist Intent vanished, the demonic sect cultivator launched a new attack to disrupt Yu Ci’s control of the Heaven and Earth Law Will.

• The Calamity Demon King contracted the Demon Tide as the Thunder Lord domain’s lightning killed heavenly demons and swept toward the clash between immeasurable divine intent and Lu Chen’s Fist Intent.
• Yu Ci’s Thunder Lord Baleful Intent passed harmlessly through Lu Chen’s Fist Intent while striking immeasurable divine intent, prompting the demonic sect cultivator to call Tumoluo for aid.
• The Calamity Demon King and the demonic sect cultivator suspected Yu Ci was using Madam Yellow Springs and prepared a blessed flying spear to kill her.
• Madam Yellow Springs’s confinement loosened as Lu Chen’s Fist Intent weakened, revealing a crystalline true intent that Yu Ci recognized as emotion distributed equally toward all things.
• Lu Chen’s Fist Intent dispersed, and the demonic sect cultivator invoked the Bitter Wheel Boundless Impermanence Method while calling for the Calamity Demon King to attack Yu Ci.

Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to intercept the Heavenly Demons’ Faith Power, then joined forces with Xuan Huang to defeat Kuang Yanqi and drive off the Demon Tide. After the Boundless Void Divine Lord revealed Yu Ci’s true body before withdrawing, Yu Ci went to the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel, where Madame Yellow Springs weakened and noticed something unusual about his gaze.

• The Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror intercepted the million Heavenly Demons’ Faith Power, leaving Kuang Yanqi unable to empower his Bitter Wheel Boundless Impermanence Dharma.
• Kuang Yanqi recognized Yu Ci’s presence, and Xuan Huang appeared and cut apart his dharma body as his root demon seed fled toward the moon.
• The Boundless Void Divine Lord revealed Yu Ci’s true body and the Calamity Demon King, then withdrew without attacking; the Calamity Demon King retreated with the Demon Tide.
• Yu Ci left Bao Yun and the Thunder Lord Manifestation to guard the restrained Vajra Demon Figurine, then boarded the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel.
• Yu Ci found Madame Yellow Springs weakening as the principles sustaining her failed, and she began to comment on his true body before noticing his unusual gaze.

Yu Ci delivered Lu Qing’s Soul-Entrusting Jade to Madame Yellow Springs, then killed her and used You Rui’s Spirit Shaman abilities to begin preparing her revival within the Inner Void. In the Myriad Demon Pool, he examined the captured Kuang Yanqi and found a worm resembling one held inside a mysterious pearl.

• Yu Ci gave Madame Yellow Springs the Soul-Entrusting Jade and Lu Qing’s letter, which she discarded after explaining its purpose.
• Yu Ci strangled Madame Yellow Springs and destroyed her body with baleful energy and heavenly thunder.
• Yu Ci entered the Myriad Demon Pool and saw You Rui forming a spiritual figure resembling Madame Yellow Springs.
• Yu Ci inspected Kuang Yanqi, whose remains had become a demonic worm, and compared it with a similar worm inside a pearl.

Yu Ci investigated the demonic insect in the Illusory Realm Pearl while Zhao Xiangshan finally begged for a chance to transfer his spiritual pivot and revealed his ties to Canluona. Zhao Xiangshan’s oath curse burned away his remaining flesh, and Yu Ci became the target of Canluona’s destructive attention.

• Yu Ci continued studying the demonic insect inside the Illusory Realm Pearl and considered how to learn its purpose.
• Zhao Xiangshan repeatedly sought contact with Yu Ci, and You Rui eventually relayed his plea after letting him struggle.
• Zhao Xiangshan asked to transfer his spiritual pivot like Madame Yellow Springs and offered to share what he knew.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that he had served the Darkness Demon Lord Canluona and had entered the True Realm to protect its demonic spirit’s rebirth.
• An oath curse ignited Zhao Xiangshan’s remaining flesh, and Canluona fixed its destructive intent on Yu Ci.

Yu Ci blocked Canluona’s assault on Zhao Xiangshan, then questioned Zhao about its reincarnation scheme and its alliance with Void Infinity. Zhao’s revelations led Yu Ci to connect several factions’ strange actions to a plan to change the True Realm through the Shaman God.

• Canluona attacked Zhao Xiangshan across the Realm of Truth, but Yu Ci used his Inner Void and Supreme Clarity secret arts to repel it.
• You Rui rebuked Zhao Xiangshan for breaking its oath, and Zhao explained that it had misjudged Canluona’s condition and described its split-spirit reincarnation.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that Canluona and Void Infinity had allied twelve kalpas earlier, then Void Infinity betrayed them and destroyed much of Canluona’s reincarnated spiritual nature.
• Zhao offered Yu Ci a way to extract stored information from the Star Gleam Insects, which connected to Void Infinity, and explained that it wanted freedom from the True Realm’s constraints.
• Yu Ci concluded that Canluona’s plan to change the True Realm would have to work through the Shaman God, linking that idea to the strange actions of Zhai Que'er, Su Shuanghe, the Rakshasa Ghost King, the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, and Madam Xia.

Yu Ci learned that the Witch God lay beneath Xi Yu Lake and that the Witch Sect planned to awaken it through sword cultivator sacrifices. By exploring a Star Gleam Insect’s memories, he traced its demon spirit to the Chaos Origin Box and suspected Madame Yellow Springs had given it intelligence, connecting her actions to the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and the Boundless Void Divine Lord.

• Zhao Xiangshan told Yu Ci that the Witch God had merged with the spirit waters beneath Xi Yu Lake and that Zhai Que'er planned to awaken it using sword cultivators as sacrifices.
• Yu Ci used Zhao Xiangshan’s internalization technique to enter the memories of a Star Gleam Insect and learned it had entered the Inner Void from the jade box held by Black Robe.
• Yu Ci discovered that the jade box was the Chaos Origin Box, designed to suppress Canluona’s reincarnated spirituality and prevent it from developing independent intelligence.
• Zhao Xiangshan recalled that Madame Yellow Springs had visited the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion during the period when the demon spirit gained intelligence.
• Yu Ci concluded that Madame Yellow Springs may have altered the demon spirit while seeking the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and the Boundless Void Divine Lord.

Yu Ci examined the Star Gleam Insect’s memories and uncovered the demonic spirit’s quiet expansion through Black Robe and Kuang Yanqi. He then entered Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot, discovering that her memories contained no personal thoughts or feelings, and wondered whether she was emotionless or had transcended emotion.

• Yu Ci learned that the Star Gleam Insects shared an origin and that the demonic spirit had turned Black Robe into its puppet before parasitizing Kuang Yanqi.
• Yu Ci suspected Liu Guan’s actions toward Kuang Yanqi might have been connected to Madame Yellow Springs.
• Following a sudden premonition, Yu Ci used his internalization technique to inspect Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot and memories.
• Yu Ci found that he could observe Madame Yellow Springs’s experiences but could not perceive her thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
• Yu Ci sensed that Madame Yellow Springs’s spirituality had concentrated entirely into the core of life and death, leaving him questioning whether she was beyond emotion or unable to reach it.

Yu Ci traced how Wu Gui Yu Ke's soul became trapped in the Chaos Origin Box and how Madame Yellow Springs' observation helped awaken Canluona's reincarnated spiritual essence. Following Madame Yellow Springs into the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, he saw her battle the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit and lose part of her Yang God, which the demon spirit carried away on the Buddha Mother's decree.

• Yu Ci saw that Wu Gui Yu Ke had opened the Chaos Origin Box while dying, and his soul had been absorbed into the primordial substance inside.
• Madame Yellow Springs approached the jade box, but its seventeen rays of blood light attacked her and flung the box away, causing the demon spirit's memories to overlap with hers.
• Yu Ci realized Wu Gui Yu Ke's remnant intent and Madame Yellow Springs' observation had helped Canluona's reincarnated spiritual essence develop independent intelligence.
• Madame Yellow Springs wandered through the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, meditated for several days, and was drawn into the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• The Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit confronted Madame Yellow Springs and badly damaged her Yang God, forcing her to divide her soul and flee with her main body.
• The Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha demon spirit took Madame Yellow Springs' stranded wisp of divided soul after receiving the Buddha Mother's decree.

Yu Ci explored Madame Yellow Springs’s memories and questioned Zhao Xiangshan about the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace, the Six Paths Samsara, and Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva. Zhao Xiangshan traced the Black Heaven Cult’s origins to an early Northern Wastes cult whose surviving foundation became Three Families Market.

• Yu Ci watched Madame Yellow Springs leave her sect, marry Lu Chen, and face the Demon Sect’s outrage after abandoning her role as chief sacrificer of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.
• Zhao Xiangshan explained that Boundless had held the origin imprints of the heaven, human, asura, and beast paths in the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace while studying the Six Paths Samsara.
• Zhao Xiangshan said Boundless and Canluona became enemies over their differing plans to transform the True Realm, and that Lu Chen’s battle with Boundless gave Zhao Xiangshan a chance to escape notice.
• Zhao Xiangshan linked the Black Heaven Cult to a clumsy Northern Wastes cult that established three deities and left behind the foundation of Three Families Market.

Zhao Xiangshan traced the Three Venerables Cult’s possible origins to the Black Heaven Cult and linked its hidden patron to the Demonic Sect, the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and Yu Ci. It ended by revealing that Yu Ci’s Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe had once belonged to the Three Venerables Cult and asking what insight he drew from its strange history.

• Zhao Xiangshan explained how the Three Venerables Cult’s doctrines and structure may have developed into the Black Heaven Cult.
• Zhao Xiangshan argued that the He family’s ties to the Demonic Sect suggested the Three Venerables Cult had a powerful patron among the sect’s Northern Wastes rulers.
• Zhao Xiangshan noted that Demon Lord Mei, Demoness Feng, Consort Taiyin, and Madame Yellow Springs had all served as chief sacrificers of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, but could not identify the mysterious figure behind the cult.
• Zhao Xiangshan connected Yu Ci’s past entry into the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as Lu Dun to the Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe he had obtained from the Eastern Branch.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that the robe had belonged to the Three Venerables Cult and recounted how its artifact spirit once abandoned Zhou Yi to serve the deity True Splendor, then asked Yu Ci what he inferred.

Yu Ci examined Madame Yellow Springs’s memories and concluded that her emotionless nature had been acquired and her memories deliberately trimmed. Preparing to transfer her Spiritual Pivot, he recognized the dangers involved and, with You Rui’s guidance, chose to approach it through communication rather than force.

• Yu Ci reconsidered the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and decided that the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva might have inspired its spirit to abandon its foundation.
• Yu Ci reviewed Madame Yellow Springs’s early memories and found that they had been stripped of emotion and thought, with the changes beginning after her first ritual sacrifice.
• Yu Ci assessed the three trials required to transfer Madame Yellow Springs’s Spiritual Pivot and worried that the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva could interfere with the process.
• You Rui compared Madame Yellow Springs’s Spiritual Pivot to a sword cultivator’s Sword Embryo and warned Yu Ci against forcing his way into it.
• Yu Ci decided to contact the Spiritual Pivot through guidance and asked You Rui to help; she knelt before him, and he placed his hand on her head to extend his mind through her.

Yu Ci infiltrated Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot with distorted laws and discovered that her seed held a self-sufficient system of thought that could let her survive even if her memories were lost. He threatened to shatter the seed, and Madame Yellow Springs responded by connecting it to every memory, exposing all her secrets to him.

• Yu Ci used his control over the Inner Void to surround Madame Yellow Springs’s spiritual pivot with an illusion of altered laws and attempted to plant a demonic seed.
• Madame Yellow Springs detected the distorted laws and began rejecting them, revealing that she remained aware and that her spiritual pivot could judge its surroundings.
• Yu Ci and You Rui examined the seed and realized that Madame Yellow Springs processed observations through a complete system of thought grounded in the laws of the Nine Celestial Methods.
• Yu Ci concluded that the seed could preserve Madame Yellow Springs and eventually restore her, then decided he could still break it by force.
• Yu Ci pressed his malice into the seed, and Madame Yellow Springs linked it to her memories, opening every secret to him.

Yu Ci reconstructed the origins of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s monstrous spirit and learned why it had targeted Madame Yellow Springs as a possible replacement. The chapter left the mirror’s creature identified as the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, whose latest target had been Madame Yellow Springs.

• Yu Ci connected Madame Yellow Springs’s unusual resonance with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to a long history of spiritually gifted women being selected and disappearing.
• Yu Ci determined that the mirror contained a malformed monster formed from the accumulated consciousnesses and powers within it, rather than a true artifact spirit.
• The monster escaped the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror after Qu Wujie possessed the Boundless Void Divine Lord and became master of the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace.
• The monster adopted the Six Paths Samsara as its foundation under the Rakshasa Ghost King’s guidance and became the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva sought a replacement for its tainted root of spirituality and most recently targeted Madame Yellow Springs.

Yu Ci uncovered Madame Yellow Springs's calculated past and realized that his examination of her memories had exposed her to the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva. The two Divine Lords connected through the Law of Life and Death and faced an immediate battle despite standing at opposite ends of the world.

• Yu Ci learned how Madame Yellow Springs had used her damaged Dao foundation, ties to Lu Chen, and the destruction of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to complete her True Seed and break from the demonic path.
• Madame Yellow Springs experimented on her family and surroundings while pursuing a way to alter the True Realm, and Lu Chen eventually imprisoned her in the Heart Hut before leaving to fight the Primordial Demon Lord.
• Yu Ci discovered that destroying Madame Yellow Springs's body and opening her True Seed had broken Lu Chen's seal and sent information about her through the Law of Life and Death.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva found Yu Ci through that connection, and their shared Law of Life and Death brought the two Divine Lords into direct conflict.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva unleashed her killing force at Yu Ci, and a fight to the death began across their vast distance.

Bao Yun and Xuanhuang were caught in the shockwaves of a divine-intent battle between Yu Ci and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, and Yu Ci drew them into the Inner Void. After the first clash, Yu Ci faced the Bodhisattva again and realized the Rakshasa Ghost King was coming to join the fight.

• Bao Yun and Xuanhuang felt the divine-intent shockwaves approaching and fled through the tribulation clouds, with Xuanhuang shielding Bao Yun from much of the pressure.
• The Inner Void opened and drew Bao Yun, Xuanhuang, and the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel inside as the Realm of Truth shuddered from the clash.
• Yu Ci assessed the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva's Law of Life and Death and used the Inner Void's legal structure to blunt her attack.
• Yu Ci left the Inner Void and prepared to confront the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva again, but she launched another clash that nearly pulled him into reincarnation.
• Yu Ci sensed that the Rakshasa Ghost King was watching through the Bodhisattva and concluded that she was coming to join the battle.

Yu Ci used the Vajra Demon Figurine to disrupt the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s attack, then drew her pursuit toward Huayang Cave. As their battle ravaged the Demon Kingdom, Yu Ci revealed his star-map Dao manifestation and continued manipulating the Law of Life and Death.

• Yu Ci used the Thunder Lord Manifestation to bind the Vajra Demon Figurine and make it a battlefield against the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, then fled while Bao Yun helped shield him.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva pursued Yu Ci toward Huayang Cave as the freed Vajra Demon Figurine chased the Thunder Lord Manifestation into the cave’s core.
• Yu Ci and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva clashed through the Law of Life and Death, killing countless demons and laying waste to the area around Huayang Cave.
• Yu Ci drew surviving demons into the Myriad Demon Pool with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and traded taunts with the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva.
• Yu Ci manifested a star map that gathered and refined death qi, revealing his continued mastery of the Law of Life and Death.

Yu Ci killed a Rakshasa Sect follower to foil the Rakshasa Ghost King’s approach, but the battle at Huayang Cave drew a powerful demon sect powerhouse into the conflict. The newcomer attacked Yu Ci and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva together, compressing their room to maneuver in the Realm of Truth.

• Yu Ci used the North Star Soul Control and Death Infliction Art to trigger a distant follower’s death tribulation, preventing the Rakshasa Ghost King from using him as a springboard.
• The Thunder Lord Manifestation and the Vajra Demon Figurine crashed into Huayang Cave, where the Demon Kingdom’s surging demonic qi blasted them back out.
• The Vajra Demon Figurine clashed with Huayang Cave’s tyrannical demonic intent, shaking the surrounding Demon Kingdom and interrupting Yu Ci and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s conflict.
• Yu Ci and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva sensed a third powerhouse enter the Realm of Truth and confront them with a domain formed by his true intent.
• The demon sect powerhouse rejected the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s overture and attacked both her and Yu Ci, sharply compressing the space in which they could use their laws.

Yu Ci used the Demonic cultivator’s assault and the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s defenses to unveil a new law-bound realm based on the great sun and the Method of the Great Void. As the True Realm’s laws twisted around his attack, Yu Ci focused on understanding what shape the Heaven and Earth Law System would take.

• The Demonic cultivator battered Yu Ci’s law-bound realm while the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva pressed against it with her Wheel of Life and Death.
• Yu Ci revealed the Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound, forcing the Demonic cultivator to retreat and striking the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva deflected the sword intent, but it tore through Huayang Cave and destabilized the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Ci abandoned his damaged law-bound realm and rebuilt its foundation around a great sun, using the Xuan Huang Sword Intent to create an opening.
• Yu Ci’s new realm suppressed the nearby void and twisted the surrounding laws, prompting the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva to recognize his mastery of the Method of the Great Void.
• Yu Ci connected his insight to Madame Yellow Springs’ seed and turned his attention to the altered Heaven and Earth Law System.