Chapter Summaries

As the Eight Sceneries Palace prepared for the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering, Xin Yi, Lian Sidao, and Yun Xing discussed the realm’s worsening crises and the political forces shaping the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. Yun Xing argued that the Palace had lost the initiative and could not defy the momentum of heaven and human hearts, leaving Lian Sidao to consider whether the sect could withstand the coming tide.

• The Eight Sceneries Palace prepared the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram gathering and planned to follow it with the Heaven-Measuring and Yuan-Stabilizing undertaking.
• Xin Yi and Lian Sidao asked Yun Xing for advice on how the Palace should respond to the realm’s upheaval.
• Yun Xing said the Eastern Sea figure’s ambitions were clear and that the Palace had lost its chance to act after the Demon Sect and Sword Discussion Pavilion besieged Lu Chen and triggered the Great Tribulation.
• Yun Xing questioned the Demon Sect’s inaction and warned that the Sword Discussion Pavilion had expanded its power in the southern lands.
• Yun Xing argued that the Xiyu Alliance and other factions were too unstable for the Palace to rely on, and that opposing human hearts was harder than opposing heaven’s momentum.
• Yun Xing explained that the True Realm’s laws resisted the cosmos’s natural drift toward chaos, and questioned whether the Eight Sceneries Palace could withstand the great momentum of the tribulation.

Yun Xing explained why Eight Sceneries Palace had limited room to oppose the forces reshaping the True Realm, then argued that the East Sea power sought to open the realm’s closed system. He concluded that the sect should protect the living beings caught in the upheaval and named the Thirty-Six Heavens as the way forward.

• Yun Xing warned Lianshan and Xin Yi that deploying too many Earth Immortals in the True Realm could trigger its destruction, leaving the sect with little freedom to act.
• Yun Xing described how Shangqing and Ruizhu Palace had aligned and argued that the sect’s choices were constrained by larger forces and accumulated momentum.
• Yun Xing said he was content to guard the Cloud Mountain Range and Heaven Beyond Clouds, and Lianshan asked how he would handle the crisis.
• Yun Xing reasoned that the True Realm’s closed system was stagnating and that the East Sea power sought to transform it by connecting it to the outside.
• Yun Xing argued that the sect had to ensure the True Realm was rebuilt rather than letting its billions of beings perish, then proposed the Thirty-Six Heavens.

Yun Xing persuaded the Eight Sceneries Palace to reconsider its plans and move to win over Ruizhu Palace and Yu Qing Xuan, as Zhu Yang’s emergence heightened the danger of an Eastern Sea strike. In Heavenly Delusion City, the Rakshasa Ghost King comforted Bai Lian and revealed the conflicting visions of disaster troubling her, leaving Bai Lian to recognize the Ghost King’s fascination with the tangled transformations of human hearts.

• Yun Xing argued that the Thirty-Six Heavens could temporarily buffer the true realm’s transition to an open system, then urged the Eight Sceneries Palace to ally with Ruizhu Palace and Yu Qing Xuan.
• Lianshan showed Xin Yi and Yun Xing news about Zhu Yang, and they feared that his assassination ability could enable the Eastern Sea to act ahead of schedule.
• Lianshan sent Xin Yi to visit Yu Qing Xuan, signaling that the Eight Sceneries Palace was shifting from relative neutrality to active involvement.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King explained to Bai Lian why she had given her that name and urged her not to miss the coming opportunity to attain the Dao.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King kissed Bai Lian’s brow, revealing visions of the Three Realms’ destruction and the fears behind Bai Lian’s unease.
• Bai Lian told the Rakshasa Ghost King that she cherished complex human transformations rather than white itself, and the Ghost King agreed.

Bai Lian learned that the Rakshasa Ghost King preferred cooperation with the Eight Sceneries Palace and the Xuan Sect, but Yu Qing Xuan and Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu complicated the plan. After Xin Yi intervened at Ruizhu Palace, the Rakshasa Ghost King turned her attention south and ordered an attack on the Southern Sea.

• The Rakshasa Ghost King explained the difference between forcibly changing the True Realm’s foundations and joining forces with the Eight Sceneries Palace, and Bai Lian chose cooperation.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King modeled the Three Realms Heaven Connection and found that Yu Qing Xuan’s influence disrupted its Three Celestial Methods.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King told Bai Lian to reclaim her favor from Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu and see how he performed.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King showed Bai Lian how Xin Yi disrupted the demon army attacking Ruizhu Palace with the Thirty-Six Heavens.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King spared Ruizhu Palace for the moment and ordered thirteen great demons to attack the Southern Sea within a month.

After Yu Qing Xuan’s battle with Tai'a Mohan opened a safer path near Lan Hai Mountain, the Golden Banner Sect Master’s death destabilized the Xiyu Alliance and left the outer-sea mining zones up for grabs. Yu Ci took command of the region and arranged mineral deals through his allies, using the proceeds to obtain the Star-refined bronze he needed.

• Yu Qing Xuan’s victory over Tai'a Mohan left the Azure Sky Domain near Lan Hai Mountain unusually thin and cleared away the nearby heavenly demons.
• News that Tai'a Mohan had killed the Golden Banner Sect Master exposed the latter’s ties to the Rakshasa Ghost King and plunged the Xiyu Alliance into silence and uncertainty.
• The Golden Banner Sect withdrew from its outer-sea mining zones, and the Xiyu Alliance tacitly let Yu Ci take command and supervise them.
• With Yu Qing Xuan and other powerful figures lending weight to Yu Ci’s position, rival sects and the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect negotiated over the mining zones.
• Yu Ci had Bao Yun and Zhao Xiangshan coordinate mineral sales and exchanges, acquiring Eastern Branch secret-method Star-refined bronze with most of the proceeds.

Yu Ci repaired the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror while considering how to establish a Divine Lord method that could offer Madam Huanyong a genuine path forward without repeating the Primordial Demon Lord’s system. He completed the mirror’s metal form in the Inner Void, where it began to transform the Myriad Demon Pool.

• Yu Ci gathered the materials to repair the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and entered closed-door cultivation.
• Yu Ci studied the risks of the Seed Demon Arts and the Primordial Demon Lord’s vast influence as he sought a sound foundation for his Divine Lord method.
• Yu Ci recognized that Madam Huanyong needed a meaningful reward and a path to advancement if she was to join his new order.
• Yu Ci finished shaping the star-refined bronze and sent it into the Inner Void.
• The mirror’s patterns appeared above the Myriad Demon Pool, silencing the demons and turning the blood sea still beneath the shadowed moon.

The Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror created a moonlit path out of the Myriad Demon Pool, and trapped fiends discovered that they could escape its endless torment by reaching the moon. Zhao Xiangshan watched the trial and recognized it as Yu Ci’s experiment in how a divine master should connect with believers.

• The Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s radiance formed a halo over the sea of blood, and the first fiend entered it and climbed a path of light toward the sky.
• Millions of fiends crowded into the halo, where many were destroyed by the moonlight or lightning, while those who dissolved failed to return to the sea of blood.
• One fiend slaughtered nearby companions, climbed through the lightning, and begged the powerful will for forgiveness until it reached the moon and vanished through a gate in the void.
• The transcendent fiend’s experience reached the others, and the fiends howled as they realized escape from the sea-of-blood prison was possible.
• Zhao Xiangshan observed the path and understood that Yu Ci was testing how a divine master could form a deep connection with believers through Faith Power and resonance.

Yu Ci reconsidered what he could offer potential believers and identified his unique path as helping them transcend their current limits and begin anew. He concluded that he should imitate the open, expandable methods of the Mystical Gate rather than build a closed system.

• Yu Ci reflected on Madam Huanyong’s needs and realized his cultivation knowledge alone could not persuade her to become a believer.
• Yu Ci connected the aims of the demons, Zhao Xiangshan, Madam Huanyong, and other figures through their shared desire for transcendence.
• Yu Ci recognized that his command of the Law of Life and Death and his Inner Void could help others shed the burdens of their existing systems and begin anew.
• Yu Ci distinguished his individual perspective from the macroscopic perspective of a divine master and considered how to reconcile their competing demands.
• Yu Ci decided that the Primordial Demon Lord’s closed system offered no future and that he should imitate the Mystical Gate’s open and expandable methods.

Yu Ci began reforging the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, replacing its demonic patterns and functions with Daoist principles while the Divine Lord Network collapsed. The disruption reached Yu and Li Shan aboard a Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, where Yu urged Zhang Miaolin to study the talisman texts Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu had given him.

• Yu Ci confirmed that building a system of rules required gradual work, while demons he had elevated began settling in the Inner Void's Human World Realm.
• Yu Ci used the Heart Refining Dharma Fire to replace the mirror's demonic patterns with Daoist talisman patterns and planned to replace demon planting with an immortal registry and talisman register.
• As Yu Ci altered the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, the Divine Lord Network began collapsing and affected its believers.
• On a Mountain-Moving Cloud Boat, Zhang Miaolin noticed Yu and Li Shan reacting strangely before Li Shan left to get some air.
• Yu told Zhang Miaolin to study Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu's talisman texts deeply, and Zhang Miaolin eagerly agreed.

Yu Ci completed the initial framework of his Divine Lord System, embedding it into the True Realm’s Heaven and Earth Law System and using Wuyu’s connection as a key reference. He then confronted Madam Huanyong, demanding that she either follow the system’s rules or settle their dispute by force.

• Wuyu entered the Dao realm in meditation, marked a leaf of the Cloud Tower Tree with a seal imprint, and returned to her body as the demonic seed in her soul shattered.
• Yu Ci used Wuyu, Little Five, and other connections to refine his Divine Lord System, while the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s radiance spread spiritual light across the world.
• Yu Ci embedded his system’s principles into the Heaven and Earth Law System, forming an invisible web that could reveal cultivators who touched it.
• Yu Ci’s spreading awareness encountered Madam Huanyong, who had observed his work and understood its methods.
• Xuanhuang raced into the clouds as Yu Qing Xuan froze the outer domain, while Yu Ci took control of the remaining portion of the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror reserved for Madam Huanyong.
• Yu Ci told Madam Huanyong to follow the system’s rules and negotiate, or prove her strength against him.

Yu Ci completed Madam Huanyong’s pact and used Eternal Azure Sky to establish a new Dao realm in the Realm of Truth, provoking the attention of the True Realm’s mighty powers. After more than half a month of work, he passed the first trial and laid the foundations of his system.

• Xuanhuang confronted Madam Huanyong, who agreed to sign Yu Ci’s pact but warned him about the karma he was taking on.
• Madam Huanyong signed the pact on the Cloud Tower Tree, and the last Demonic Sect region in the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror was absorbed into Yu Ci’s system as her demon seed shattered.
• Yu Ci activated Eternal Azure Sky and used its overlapping voids with his Inner Void to raise a new Dao realm in the Realm of Truth.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King’s will and other powerful presences arrived as the Heaven and Earth Law Will began treating Yu Ci as a priority threat, but Yu Qing Xuan sealed the void against them.
• Yu Ci worked for more than half a month to complete the Dao realm’s foundations and advance the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s sigils, passing the first trial.

Yu Ci emerged from seclusion, used his authority as Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu to turn away the gathered powers, and then sought to strengthen his divine system by locating the Taixiao Divine Court. Zhao Xiangshan concluded that the court was trapped in the dangerous boundary between the true realm and the underwater world beneath Xi Yu Lake.

• Yu Ci left the Ju Jing Workshop in the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel and sensed the Shangqing system resonating through the Realm of Truth.
• Yu Qing Xuan withdrew the defenses, and Lianshan of the Eight Sceneries Palace greeted Yu Ci as Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu.
• Yu Ci confirmed his identity but refused to receive the gathered visitors, and the various factions withdrew.
• Yu Ci considered the need to secure a permanent foundation for his system and turned his attention toward the Taixiao Divine Court beneath Xi Yu Lake.
• Yu Ci asked Zhao Xiangshan to assess the three locations where he had sensed the court, and Zhao Xiangshan judged it was trapped in the boundary between the true realm and the water world.

Yu Ci weighed the right moment to seek the Taixiao Divine Court while the Xiyu Alliance tried to keep him tied to Lan Hai Mountain, and he considered the danger Zhu Yang posed. As he improved the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror with Xu Kui’s help, he learned that the Siming Sect and the Hundred Refinements Gate were studying the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon for use against the demonic calamity.

• Yu Ci agreed that his resonance with the heavy artifact and his knowledge of the waters improved his chances of finding the Taixiao Divine Court, though the Xiyu Alliance would resist his salvage efforts.
• The Xiyu Alliance ordered Yu Ci to suppress unrest around Lan Hai Mountain, while Zhai Meng declared that the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect would maintain its sea-sealing measures until Dong Cangzi’s murder was solved.
• Yu Ci stayed alert to the threat of Zhu Yang and resumed patrolling Ju Jing Workshop, where he strengthened ties with the Hundred Refinements Gate and consulted Xu Kui about artifact crafting.
• Yu Ci applied Xu Kui’s advice and advanced the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to roughly thirty percent completion.
• Xu Kui asked Yu Ci about the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon and explained that Yang Zhu had found a possible fuel source that might ease the demonic calamity along the Elephant Mountain line.

Yu Ci negotiated with Xu Kui to lend the Ten Yin Manifesting Gauze and share his cannon insights in exchange for the Heavenly Demon Manifesting Gauze, then learned that Gan Shizhen was traveling south to recover from her injuries. After agreeing to Zhao Xiangshan’s plan, Yu Ci sent the false Yin Yang into action, leaving the Heavenly Evasion Sect guards baffled when he vanished.

• Yu Ci showed Xu Kui the Ten Yin Manifesting Gauze and offered to lend it and share his cannon insights in exchange for the Heavenly Demon Manifesting Gauze, which belonged to Yang Zhu.
• Yu Ci asked about Gan Shizhen and learned that she was badly injured and returning south with her family, while Shen Wan clarified that she had not been traveling on the Three Treasures Ship.
• Shen Wan said Qiu Pei had left the ship at Xi Yu Lake and promised to use the Suixin Pavilion’s channels to guide Gan Shizhen onto the ship and care for her.
• Yu Ci agreed to Zhao Xiangshan’s plan and reached the hidden chamber where his false Yin Yang was secluded.
• The false Yin Yang shattered the chamber and its formations with a burst of sword qi, then disappeared as the Heavenly Evasion Sect guards rushed in.

Yu Ci learned that Qiu Pei’s Sky Domain Shuttle had gone missing and feared she was in danger. Aboard the shuttle, Gan Shizhen subdued Qiu Pei, revealed she knew the journey was a trap, and sent her out to keep the shuttle moving while she remained behind, exhausted and injured.

• Yu Ci sent a message through Bai Xiufeng to arrange a visit to Gan Shizhen, then learned the Sky Domain Shuttle carrying Qiu Pei had lost contact.
• Qiu Pei read Lei Tong’s message ordering her to help capture Gan Shizhen and uncover the Siming Sect’s Great Majesty Profound Heaven Righteous Qi.
• Qiu Pei entered Gan Shizhen’s room, where Gan Shizhen silently restrained her with sword fingers.
• Gan Shizhen told Qiu Pei to make the shuttle land, explaining that she had accepted the journey so she could get out and that they had reached Heaven’s Mandate Gorge.
• Gan Shizhen warned Qiu Pei that their qi was bound through Jiehang and that striking her would kill them both, so Qiu Pei left to keep the shuttle moving.
• After Qiu Pei left, Gan Shizhen leaned against the cabin wall, struggling to hold back her injuries as she quietly recited, “Swallows flying away, soaring up and down...”

Qiu Pei was questioned by Wu Yuanlang and Ying Fen about her conversation with Gan Shizhen and the Siming Sect’s lost secret method. Pressured to recount their meeting, she began improvising just as someone knocked on the cabin door.

• Wu Yuanlang brought Qiu Pei into the Sky Domain Shuttle’s main cabin, where Ying Fen demanded to know what Gan Shizhen had told her.
• Wu Yuanlang explained that the Lei clan suspected Gan Shizhen possessed clues to the Siming Sect’s sealed cultivation method.
• Qiu Pei doubted the Lei clan’s simplistic plan and considered whether someone involved in the Siming Sect’s infighting was using them to exploit the upheaval.
• Ying Fen ordered Qiu Pei to repeat every detail of her forty-five-breath conversation with Gan Shizhen, while Wu Yuanlang urged her to act it out.
• Under their pressure, Qiu Pei began inventing a detailed account of the meeting, but a knock sounded at the cabin door.

Qiu Pei discovered that Gan Shizhen had used the Jiehang art to trigger a fight among the Longevity True Men, then escaped the damaged Sky Domain Shuttle with Wei Ru. The fighting stopped when a Heavenly Demon Tide swept past, but Ying Fen revealed himself as Venerable Sky Eagle and turned against Liang Jian.

• Liang Jian entered the cabin, and Ying Fen and Wu Yuanlang concealed the shuttle’s course deviation and approaching Demon Tide.
• Gan Shizhen’s sudden strike shattered the Jiehang art’s balance, sparking a fight between Ying Fen, Wu Yuanlang, and Liang Jian; Qiu Pei escaped the cabin and warned Liang Jian that they were impostors.
• Gan Shizhen carried Wei Ru through a breach in the shuttle and leapt into the outer realm, while Qiu Pei realized the later effects of the Jiehang art had been a bluff.
• The three Longevity True Men stopped fighting as the Heavenly Demon Tide swept near the shuttle, and they spotted Gan Shizhen surviving inside it with a radiant treasure.
• Wu Yuanlang ordered Ying Fen to finish Liang Jian and Qiu Pei, and Ying Fen transformed his face, prompting Liang Jian to identify him as Venerable Sky Eagle.

Venerable Sky Eagle and True Lord Hundred Battles killed Liang Jian aboard the Sky Domain Shuttle, while Juduoluo’s attempt to assassinate Gan Shizhen failed. As the three conspirators turned to flee and erase Qiu Pei’s memories, an unknown voice spoke to her.

• Venerable Sky Eagle revealed his identity and killed Liang Jian while Qiu Pei was trapped in his domain.
• Venerable Sky Eagle and True Lord Hundred Battles watched Gan Shizhen carry Wei Ru through the Demon Tide and discussed their plot against her.
• Juduoluo, disguised as Wei Ru, attacked Gan Shizhen, but she repelled him with the Demon-Slaying Divine Edge.
• Gan Shizhen accused Juduoluo, Venerable Sky Eagle, and True Lord Hundred Battles of spreading Parasitic Yuan Worms and plotting against Siming Sect.
• Juduoluo said Gan Shizhen had used the Heart Stabilizing Hairpin to protect herself and left with the others to appear in the south.
• Juduoluo sent Heavenly Demons into the shuttle to overwhelm Qiu Pei, but a voice asked her what she had been told before leaving the sect.

Yang Zhu emerged from the delusion realm and confronted Juduoluo, Venerable Sky Eagle, and True Lord Hundred Battles, revealing that she had secretly planted a mental hook in Juduoluo. As they faced the demon tide, Gan Shizhen fought through a demonic dragon, while Yang Zhu explained why she had survived and remained at her side.

• Qiu Pei's memories and Juduoluo's leaked aura intensified the delusion realm until Yang Zhu stepped out and Qiu Pei was drained into ash.
• Juduoluo recognized Yang Zhu's teleportation and realized she had planted a hidden hook in his mind by using memories of Wei Ru.
• Yang Zhu shattered the Sky Domain Shuttle and confronted Juduoluo, Venerable Sky Eagle, and True Lord Hundred Battles in the void.
• A demonic dragon attacked Gan Shizhen, who charged through it, killed a True Man-tier Heavenly Demon Kin, and wounded two Outer Realm Calamity Demons.
• Yang Zhu told Juduoluo that Gan Shizhen had survived because Yan Shihai entrusted her with the Heart Stabilizing Hairpin and she was capable, principled, and clear-headed.

Yang Zhu confronted Extreme Ancestor, who had possessed Xie Kangling, and accused him of orchestrating Shangqing’s fall to seize its systems of cultivation. Extreme Ancestor revealed he had sought Yang Zhu’s tribulation-crossing method, and the two prepared to test their sealing arts and sword technique against each other.

• Yang Zhu recognized that the figure wearing Xie Kangling’s body was Extreme Ancestor and challenged him over the cause of Shangqing’s demonic calamity.
• Yang Zhu argued that Extreme Ancestor had manipulated Xie Kangling’s pride and the Ziwei Emperor’s Command to drive Shangqing toward ruin.
• Extreme Ancestor admitted that he had hoped to seize Shangqing’s Taixiao Divine Court and Thirty-Six Heavens, while noting that many forces had contributed to the destruction.
• Extreme Ancestor explained that meeting Yang Zhu had helped him understand their similar circumstances and that he had wanted to study Yang Zhu’s secret method for crossing tribulations.
• Extreme Ancestor unleashed his law-level freezing seal and challenged Yang Zhu to judge his skill against Taixuan’s.
• Yang Zhu revealed that he had recently mastered a method of his own, became insubstantial, and unleashed a sharp sword intent against Extreme Ancestor.