Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhu and Gan Shizhen fought Juduoluo and the other demons as the Extreme Ancestor watched from within the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom. After Gan Shizhen was trapped in a battle array, Yang Zhu abruptly switched targets and attacked the Extreme Ancestor, revealing an unfamiliar sword technique.

• Yang Zhu struck Venerable Sky Eagle with one sword, shattering his boundary domain and destabilizing his realm.
• Yang Zhu appeared beside Gan Shizhen, and Juduoluo was wounded when he dodged Yang Zhu’s sword into the Demon-Slaying Divine Edge.
• True Lord Hundred Battles formed the Heavenly Demon Battle Array from the demon tide, trapping Gan Shizhen and forcing her to rely on the Heart Stabilizing Hairpin.
• Juduoluo kept Yang Zhu occupied and taunted him and Gan Shizhen while the Extreme Ancestor held back.
• Yang Zhu reappeared beside the Extreme Ancestor and unleashed a boundary domain that vaporized tens of thousands of heavenly demons, leaving the Extreme Ancestor puzzled by his sword technique.

Extreme Ancestor tested Yang Zhu’s strange balance of demonic contamination, sword intent, and cultivation, then attacked to expose its weaknesses. Yang Zhu escaped the Seven Annihilation Tribulation Hand but was trapped in the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom’s cold tide, where he broke his balance and began cutting through the encirclement.

• Xie Kangling disappeared into the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom as Extreme Ancestor studied Yang Zhu’s concealed sword intent and distorted cultivation.
• Yang Zhu devoured the heavenly demons’ mixed qi, leading Extreme Ancestor to identify his method as a fusion of the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon’s principles and the God Slaying Thorn sword intent.
• Extreme Ancestor struck Yang Zhu with the Seven Annihilation Tribulation Hand, causing Yang Zhu’s realm and sword intent to separate and his realm to collapse.
• Yang Zhu used the God Slaying Thorn to escape the palm’s annihilation, but Extreme Ancestor recognized that his sword technique was an imperfect imitation.
• Extreme Ancestor surrounded Yang Zhu with a freezing tide, and Yang Zhu broke his balance with a piercing howl before splitting the tide with a palm strike.

Yang Zhu’s demonic transformation formed a domain as he maintained a dangerous balance, while Extreme Ancestor expanded the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom to threaten Gan Shizhen. Yang Zhu stopped moving, and Juduoluo landed a near-fatal strike on Gan Shizhen.

• Yang Zhu’s sword intent failed to strike Xie Kangling’s true body, while Extreme Ancestor watched Yang Zhu’s changing state.
• Extreme Ancestor observed that Yang Zhu’s demonic resonance had formed a domain, and Yang Zhu used the demon tide to search for him while maintaining a precarious balance.
• Extreme Ancestor expanded the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom to encompass Gan Shizhen’s battlefield, forcing Yang Zhu to stop his sword attack.
• Yang Zhu stood in the demon tide with his body and spirit irreversibly transforming, while Extreme Ancestor hid Xie Kangling deeper within the kingdom.
• Juduoluo exploited the distorted void to pierce through Gan Shizhen’s Heart Stabilizing Hairpin defense, nearly severing her spine.

The Extreme Ancestor discovered that Yang Zhu’s words had drawn Madam Huanyong into the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom, where she challenged his control of the situation. After they exchanged views and identified Yang Zhu and Gan Shizhen, Huanyong revealed she had come to the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens on someone else’s behalf; another will then arrived.

• The Extreme Ancestor traced Yang Zhu’s words through a legal vein and raised a barrier when he sensed an outside consciousness approaching.
• Madam Huanyong used the Heavenly Desire Stain Soul Searching Method to reach into the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom, but the Extreme Ancestor identified her and confronted her.
• The Extreme Ancestor criticized the Yuran-centered Original Meaning Faction method, and Madam Huanyong’s momentum weakened as she listened.
• The Extreme Ancestor congratulated Huanyong on escaping the sacred canon’s name registry and warned her not to get entangled in trouble.
• Huanyong asked whether Yang Zhu and Gan Shizhen had offended the Extreme Ancestor, and he admitted he had set a trap for them.
• Huanyong said she had been entrusted to handle matters in the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens, then another will arrived through the legal veins.

Yang Zhu received a divine decree that strengthened his sword strikes, killing Venerable Sky Eagle and badly wounding Juduoluo before Yu Ci entered the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom. Madam Huanyong helped drive back the demons, and Yu Ci reunited with Gan Shizhen, leaving the confrontation with the Extreme Ancestor unresolved.

• Yang Zhu accepted a decree from a law structure linked to Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu's work, and its blessing transformed his demon-tainted power into sharper sword strikes.
• Yang Zhu's sword intent nearly severed Juduoluo's head and killed Venerable Sky Eagle, while True Lord Hundred Battles retreated into his battle array.
• The Extreme Ancestor recognized the decree's law structure as a derivative of Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu's earlier work and watched Yu Ci arrive through the Law of Life and Death.
• Yu Ci greeted the Extreme Ancestor and questioned Yang Zhu for drawing him into the confrontation before the outer domain had been combed.
• Madam Huanyong used her Lust-Taint Divine Power to disable the heavenly demons, badly injure True Lord Hundred Battles, and drive Juduoluo away while protecting Gan Shizhen.
• Yu Ci bowed to Gan Shizhen and apologized for letting her see him in a poor state, and she returned his greeting.

Yu Ci examined the Heavenly Demon Manifesting Gauze and discovered that its imitated sword intent had worsened Yang Zhu’s demon taint when combined with the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon. As they considered who had set the trap and why Yang Zhu had escalated the situation, Yu Ci recognized that they still had to resolve the crisis at hand.

• Yu Ci sent Madam Huanyong to escort Gan Shizhen to rest, but Gan Shizhen stayed to seek a response from Yang Zhu.
• Yang Zhu revealed the Heavenly Demon Manifesting Gauze he had used to control his demon taint and explained that Gan Shizhen had recognized its flaw in time.
• Yu Ci found that the gauze imitated the God Slaying Thorn’s sword intent, and that its use with the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon had magnified the danger to Yang Zhu.
• Yu Ci considered whether the gauze and cannon had been arranged as a trap, possibly involving the Rakshasa Ghost King, but found no evidence or clear motive.
• Zhao Xiangshan suggested that drawing Yu Ci into the affair was itself a significant achievement, and Yu Ci inferred that Yang Zhu had intensified the crisis to force the Siming Sect to survive amid chaos.

Yu Ci demanded that Extreme Ancestor surrender Xie Kangling’s remains so he could bury his senior brother, but Extreme Ancestor refused and prepared to leave with the body. As the Huayang Spear arrived from Huayang Cave, Yu Ci faced the enemy under the weight of representing the Shangqing system.

• Yu Ci identified Xie Kangling’s connection to Old Mr. Zhu and resolved to bring his remains back for proper burial.
• Yu Ci asked Extreme Ancestor to hand over Xie Kangling’s remains, but Extreme Ancestor proposed taking them to the Tai Xiao Divine Court and then burying them there.
• Yu Ci rejected Extreme Ancestor’s proposal, making conflict unavoidable.
• Extreme Ancestor summoned the Huayang Spear from Huayang Cave, where Xie Kangling’s remnant had been cultivating demonic arts.
• “Xie Kangling” took the spear and announced his departure, while Yu Ci realized he was facing a foe comparable to the Rakshasa Ghost King.
• As the Huayang Spear pointed at him, a mournful bell rang from the high platform spread through the Realm of Truth.

Yu Ci resonated with the remnants of the Shangqing system and witnessed the fall of Huayang Mountain through the memories of its cultivators. As Extreme Ancestor tested the revived system by attacking Yang Zhu, the Huayang Demonic Spear overwhelmed Yang Zhu’s defenses and left him nailed in midair.

• Yu Ci’s consciousness resonated with remnants of the Shangqing system across the Three Northern Lakes and revealed its damaged, fragmented state.
• Yu Ci entered the memories of the Shangqing cultivators and witnessed Ancestor Yang Yue ring the Huayang Bell as Shangqing fell to the demonic tribulation.
• Xie Kangling wielded the Huayang Demonic Spear as Extreme Ancestor combined the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom with the Huayang Demon Kingdom.
• Extreme Ancestor sent the spear against Yang Zhu to test the strength of the revived Shangqing system and the sides’ law-structures.
• Yang Zhu failed to break through the reinforced demon kingdom, and the spear struck him, pinning him in midair as the impact disrupted the laws within his Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon.

Yu Ci used Yang Zhu’s resonance with the emotions of the Shangqing cultivators to shift the battle against Extreme Ancestor and create an opening. As the chapter ended, the Equality Bead disrupted the Huayang Demonic Spear, and Madam Huanyong’s desire-contamination divine ability cracked it.

• Extreme Ancestor battered Yang Zhu with the Huayang Demonic Spear while Yu Ci realized Yang Zhu was waiting for a Later Sage.
• Yang Zhu’s despair resonated with the emotions of countless Shangqing cultivators, allowing Yu Ci to channel their power into the Great Abyss Soul Shock Cannon’s laws.
• Yang Zhu broke free of Frozen Silence and the Huayang Demon Kingdom with a self-wounding sword strike and clashed with Extreme Ancestor.
• Yu Ci sent the Equality Bead through the clash, causing the Huayang Demonic Spear’s power to rebound against Xie Kangling.
• Yang Zhu struck Xie Kangling’s mind and spirit, and Yu Ci directed Madam Huanyong’s desire-contamination divine ability at the spear.
• Madam Huanyong’s divine ability cracked the Huayang Demonic Spear.

Yu Ci and Yang Zhu gained an advantage after Yu Ci’s attacks cracked the Huayang Demonic Spear, forcing the Extreme Ancestor to reassess Yu Ci’s abilities and seek a way to exploit his lower realm. The Extreme Ancestor withdrew the demon kingdom’s pressure, but the resulting distortion disrupted Yang Zhu’s Heavenly Demon Void boundary, and Xie Kangling launched a fist strike.

• Yu Ci’s three attacks struck Xie Kangling’s spirit and mystery, cracked the Huayang Demonic Spear, and stirred the forces within his demon-stained soul.
• The Extreme Ancestor recognized that Yu Ci used the Shangqing system without depending on it and considered Yu Ci’s low realm and Dao foundation potential weaknesses.
• Yu Ci retreated while Yang Zhu interfered with the demon kingdom’s operation, and they waited for the Eight Sceneries Palace and Xiyu Alliance to intervene.
• The Extreme Ancestor contracted the Frozen Silence Demon Kingdom and expelled Yang Zhu, intensifying distortion in the extraterritorial laws around Xie Kangling.
• Yang Zhu escaped the demon kingdom’s restrictions but remained affected by the distorted laws, as Xie Kangling let the damaged spear drift away and struck with his fist.

Extreme Ancestor’s attack exposed weaknesses in Yu Ci’s Dao foundation, but Yu Ci devised a counterattack by projecting a Cloud Tower Tree leaf into the battle. Its Dao rhyme opened a view of the Dao Realm, from which Ge Patriarch emerged, leaving Yang Zhu stunned and Xie Kangling frozen.

• Extreme Ancestor’s fist force devastated the heavenly demon tide and tested the connection between Yu Ci and the Heaven and Earth Law System.
• Yu Qing Xuan explained that Yu Ci’s unusually rigid Dao foundation lacked the toughness needed to respond to celestial combat, while Yu Ci weighed the danger of leaving Zhu Yang unaccounted for.
• Yu Ci used the Cloud Tower Tree leaf to project Dao rhyme into the outer-territory starry sky, suppressing Yang Zhu, Xie Kangling, and the heavenly demons.
• The leaf’s projection revealed the Dao Realm, and Ge Patriarch stepped out into the battlefield.
• Yang Zhu recognized Ge Patriarch from an image in the Shangqing Ancestor Hall, while Xie Kangling froze as a heartbeat sounded within him.

Yu Ci summoned Patriarch Ge’s image through the Shangqing system, awakening Xie Kangling’s buried Shangqing instincts and causing his spiritual awareness to begin destroying itself. Extreme Ancestor fled with Xie Kangling, while Yu Ci returned to Huayang Cave and used his believers to revive the Shangqing system there.

• Yu Ci used the memories and devotion of Shangqing cultivators to form an illusory Patriarch Ge whose presence revealed the Shangqing system’s structure and concealed Yu Ci’s flaws.
• Patriarch Ge walked through Xie Kangling, triggering Xie Kangling’s Shangqing instincts and a fatal conflict with his demonic taint.
• Extreme Ancestor used the Huayang Demonic Spear to seize Xie Kangling and retreat, while Juduoluo held Yang Zhu back.
• Yu Ci left Yang Zhu to deal with Juduoluo and returned to the True Realm, where Extreme Ancestor’s demonic Qi was surging toward the extraterritorial realms.
• Yu Ci’s believers near Huayang Cave prayed, reviving the Shangqing portion of the Huayang Demon Kingdom and setting it against the demon kingdom’s power.

Yu Ci used the reawakened Shangqing system to break Extreme Ancestor’s hold over Xie Kangling and force him to withdraw. Afterward, Yu Ci and Yang Zhu gave the arriving alliance leaders an account of the battle and presented their divine link as a temporary Outer Dao ability for Xiyu Alliance members.

• Yu Ci activated the remnants of the Shangqing system, causing Xie Kangling to break free of the demonic flood dragon and plunge into Huayang Cave as the Huayang Demon Kingdom collapsed.
• Extreme Ancestor withdrew his divine will after losing Xie Kangling as his fulcrum, but left a message meant to implicate Yang Zhu and Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu.
• Yang Zhu arrived above Huayang Cave, suppressed the outward signs of demonic taint, and joined Yu Ci as Lianshan and Heavenly Venerate Boyang arrived.
• Yang Zhu told the alliance leaders that Extreme Ancestor had targeted the Siming Sect and that he had fought him after discovering the scheme.
• Yu Ci dissolved his divine link with Yang Zhu and explained it as a temporary Outer Dao ability that Xiyu Alliance members could borrow to fight demons.

Yu Ci entered the ruined formations beneath Huayang Cave to investigate the Shangqing system and recover Xie Kangling’s remains. He discovered a demonic passage leading to a deep location in Xi Yu Lake and prepared to investigate it.

• Yu Ci defended his empowerment system, then refused to let Heavenly Venerate Boyang accompany him into Huayang Cave.
• Yu Ci used the Shangqing system to pass through the damaged formations, recording broken pathways and clearing away remnants of other sects’ seals.
• Yu Ci found Madam Huanyong holding the heavenly demons in check and collected Xie Kangling’s purified blood traces.
• Yu Ci discovered a chamber filled with demonic patterns that formed a void passageway leading deep beneath Xi Yu Lake.
• Yu Ci decided to make arrangements to investigate the passage, despite his true body being restrained at Lan Hai Mountain.

Yu Ci investigated the ruins of Extreme Ancestor’s underwater hideout, hoping to find clues about the Taixiao Divine Court. As he searched the lake bottom, an unknown expert deliberately made contact with his divine intent.

• Xiao Wu abruptly left after saying Senior Brother was looking for her, and Lu Wan told Xiao Jiu that Ye Chi had also gone out in a hurry.
• The Sword Discussion Pavilion arrived at Xi Yu Lake to investigate Wuji Pavilion and Ling Jiao’s disappearance, while Venerable Yu Xu came to assist them.
• Yu Ci used a Faith Power anchor point to reach the lake bottom and found the recently destroyed secret mansion where Extreme Ancestor had been searching for the Taixiao Divine Court.
• Yu Ci avoided the undersea demons and searched the surrounding waters for traces linking Extreme Ancestor’s Shangqing methods to the Taixiao Divine Court.
• An unknown person deliberately collided with Yu Ci’s probing divine intent, and Yu Ci recognized the newcomer as a true expert.

Yu Ci fled the exposed ruins of Extreme Ancestor’s secret territory and entered the dangerous void intersection between the True Realm and the water world, where he investigated how its laws favored Sorcerer techniques. An urgent message from You Rui revealed that Su Shuanghe’s plot had been exposed and the Sword Discussion Pavilion had launched an attack, leaving Yu Ci to seek the full details.

• Yu Ci realized the Xiyu Alliance’s observers and lake-bottom demons had converged on Extreme Ancestor’s ruined secret territory, then had Madam Huanyong destroy the void passage before he escaped into the void intersection.
• Yu Ci tested the distorted laws with help from You Rui and found that Sorcerer techniques gained more than double their power there while True Realm techniques were suppressed.
• Yu Ci and Zhao Xiangshan investigated the region’s laws and discussed the Sorcerer Gods, the Xia family, and the Sorcerer bloodline.
• A tremor resonated through the void intersection, and You Rui urgently told Yu Ci that Su Shuanghe’s plot had been exposed and the Sword Discussion Pavilion was attacking.
• Yu Ci ordered Zhao Xiangshan to determine what had happened, and Zhao Xiangshan began compiling reports through the Divine Lord Network.

Yu Ci observed Li Bocai and the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword cultivators pursue Su Shuanghe’s second Primordial Spirit through the waters toward the Water World. Su Shuanghe escaped the sword array in a burst of speed, but a mysterious shadow seized his sorcery treasure just as he neared the portal.

• The Sword Discussion Pavilion’s sword cultivators, led by Li Bocai, pursued Su Shuanghe into the vast intersection between the true realm and the Water World.
• Yu Ci watched Li Bocai use the law of Creation to disrupt the surrounding legal system and learned how the sword cultivators’ group sword array strengthened their attack.
• The sword array overwhelmed Su Shuanghe, forcing him deeper into the waters as his second Primordial Spirit weakened and his sorcery treasure was exposed.
• Li Bocai caused the gathered great demons to part, and Su Shuanghe dispersed his second Primordial Spirit into a speck of spiritual light inside the sorcery treasure to escape.
• Su Shuanghe reached the blue-lit portal to the Water World, but a giant shadow grabbed his sorcery treasure and crushed its spiritual light.

Yu Ci witnessed Su Shuanghe’s second primordial spirit being consumed in the depths of Xi Yu Lake, then uncovered clues suggesting a tacit connection between the Sword Discussion Pavilion and the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect. As Flying Soul City faced turmoil over Madam Xia’s rumored secret, Yu Ci observed You Rui and Murong Qingyan’s exchange, which ended with Murong revealing a bird Yu Ci recognized.

• A hidden entity devoured Su Shuanghe’s second primordial spirit, and Yu Ci sensed that the deep waters belonged to the entity known as the old friend of Extreme Ancestor.
• Li Bocai swept his divine will through the waters, subtly altered the local law systems, and withdrew while Yu Ci suspected he was positioning himself.
• Yu Ci connected the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect’s absence from the Xi Yu Lake crisis to Zhai Que’er’s past impersonation of Ling Jiao and suspected an understanding with the Sword Discussion Pavilion.
• News of Su Shuanghe’s destruction spread, drawing scrutiny toward Madam Xia and Flying Soul City as rumors about her secret unsettled the city.
• Yu Ci observed You Rui and Murong Qingyan discuss the spirit witches’ purpose and their personal allegiances.
• Murong Qingyan showed You Rui a hawk-like water-aspect bird and compared it unfavorably with You Rui’s great roc, while Yu Ci recognized the bird from long ago.

As the Sword Discussion Pavilion moved against Flying Soul City over Su Shuanghe’s accusations, Madam Xia consolidated power and You Huang ordered You Rui and Murong Qingyan to prepare a Lake Sacrifice in five days. Murong Qingyan proposed that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu attend as an observer, leaving the sacrifice’s political maneuvering unresolved.

• Su Shuanghe accused Madam Xia of secretly merging great witch bloodlines in a fetus to bring about the Witch God’s reincarnation, giving the Sword Discussion Pavilion grounds to intervene.
• Madam Xia had the Ancestral Witch Hall suppress and remove Elder Su, revealing that she had regained firm control of Flying Soul City.
• You Huang summoned You Rui and ordered her and Murong Qingyan to preside over a Lake Sacrifice at Xi Yu Lake in five days, with Madam Xia leading the ritual for her unborn child.
• You Rui realized the sacrifice would publicly test the child’s bloodline and could undermine Madam Xia’s authority if the expected sign failed to appear.
• Murong Qingyan met You Rui and suggested that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu must attend the sacrifice as an observer.

Murong Qingyan and You Rui negotiated over whether Yu Ci would meet Madam Xia, and Yu Ci decided to use the crisis surrounding her unborn child to secure leverage while investigating the fetus. Zhao Xiangshan warned that any cooperation with Madam Xia would be temporary, then proposed using lost Heavenly Evasion Sect treasures to track down Zhu Yang.

• Murong Qingyan proposed that You Rui invite Yu Ci to the Lake Sacrifice, and You Rui demanded that Madam Xia offer greater sincerity and explain the Xia clan’s practice of Embracing Jade.
• You Rui agreed to notify Yu Ci, while Yu Ci concluded that Madam Xia had no other allies and that he could use negotiations to investigate the fetus and pressure her.
• Zhao Xiangshan explained why the Shaman God’s rebirth was unlikely and argued that the factions cared more about what they could gain from the fetus.
• Yu Ci agreed to pursue only temporary cooperation with Madam Xia and to warn her not to rely on Embracing Jade.
• Zhao Xiangshan raised the danger posed by Zhu Yang and proposed tracing him through treasures once belonging to Shadow Step, including the Ghost King Lock Ring and Shadow Step Cloak.
• Zhao Xiangshan revealed that Su Shuanghe possessed the Shadow Step Cloak.