Chapter Summaries

Zuo Fu was killed when the water world's law system collided with the Shangqing system, while Yu Ci faced You Huang's growing power and the Rakshasa Ghost King's attack on Ye Bin. Shadow Ghost arrived to help Yu Ci, and You Huang reacted to him by shouting Qu Wujie's name.

• Zuo Fu fled the Dragon Slaying Platform and Execution God Generals, but the collision between two law systems twisted him apart and killed him.
• Yu Ci realized the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva was using You Huang to force a collision between the water world's law system and Taixiao Divine Court.
• Zhu Yang struck Yu Ci with the Heavenly Escape Killing Sword and revealed that the Rakshasa Ghost King had joined the assault on Ye Bin.
• You Huang advanced like a fortress of water-world law, shattering Yu Ci's first Cloud Tower Tree leaf and forcing him to escape with a second.
• Zhu Yang attacked Yu Ci again, but Shadow Ghost arrived and intercepted the sword; You Huang recognized him as Qu Wujie and roared his name.

Yu Ci endured Zhu Yang's Heavenly Escape Killing Sword and understood how it used Heavenly Dao projections to strike across law systems. He resolved to disrupt the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva's plans by extending the turmoil through the threefold void, and sent his thoughts toward Great Luo Heaven.

• Yu Ci refused to let Shadow Ghost interfere as Zhu Yang struck him again, and inferred that Ye Bin had endured many more attacks.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost fled the spreading upheaval in the water world's law system while Yu Ci noticed the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva's influence over the Taixiao Divine Court was declining.
• Yu Ci let Zhu Yang's Sword Qi enter his body and Inner Void, then recognized that the Heavenly Escape Killing Method attacked through shifting projections of the True Realm.
• Yu Ci concluded that he should treat the threefold void as a whole and deny the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva whatever she sought.
• Yu Ci sent his thoughts through Equality Heaven toward Great Luo Heaven, where the laws of the inner and outer voids met.

Dragon King Candle, Zhu Yang, and Rakshasa Ghost King fought Ye Bin, who remained composed despite grievous wounds and repeatedly slipped beyond their reach. Meanwhile, Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu’s actions connected the Great Luo Heaven to the True Realm’s law system, provoking the Heaven and Earth Law Will to strike at him.

• Dragon King Candle and Zhu Yang waited for Rakshasa Ghost King to create an opening against Ye Bin, but Zhu Yang reached his limit and could no longer keep up.
• Ye Bin stood wounded after the battle, while Dragon King Candle brooded over her resilience and Rakshasa Ghost King praised her purity and discussed her swords.
• Rakshasa Ghost King revealed that she had given Ye Bin the Smoky Waters and Rainbows sword after Ye Bin’s Wu Wang Sword was destroyed.
• The law system shifted across the battlefield, and Dragon King Candle and Zhu Yang recognized that the True Realm’s laws had become involved.
• Yu Ci’s divine will crossed from the Great Luo Heaven into the True Realm’s law system, which the Heaven and Earth Law Will treated as a provocation and moved to annihilate.

Yu Ci drew the True Realm’s heavenly tribulation into the Inner Void, expanding the law system and disrupting Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s plans. He set out for the Taixiao Divine Court’s core region, while Flower Lady entered the Lotus Pond to answer the Bodhisattva’s summons.

• Yu Ci provoked the True Realm’s Heaven and Earth Law Will, enduring its lightning as the law system spread through the Inner Void and connected with the Shangqing system.
• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva withdrew her pressure from the Taixiao Divine Court as the water world’s law system showed a faint trace of vitality, complicating her control of it.
• The shadow ghost urged Yu Ci’s allies to keep the Rakshasa Ghost King occupied, and Zhao Xiangshan showed Yu Ci a route back to the Taixiao Divine Court’s core region.
• Yu Ci asked Madam Huanyong about Ye Bin’s situation, sent her a strange object for delivery, and flew along Zhao Xiangshan’s route while You Huang pursued him.
• Flower Lady went to Five Elders Mountain and entered the Lotus Pond, where she bowed before the Bodhisattva.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva showed Flower Lady Miao Xiang’s role in the Three Realms Heaven Connection and explained the plan’s intended rulers and sacrifices. She revealed that she would personally undertake the final three sacrifices and one pillar.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva showed Flower Lady a hidden world in the lotus pond, where Miao Xiang lay pregnant beneath a bodhi tree.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva explained that Miao Xiang carried You Can’s sorcerer fetus and had been cultivated to prepare it for the Three Realms Heaven Connection.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva told Flower Lady that she would rule the new world, while the Rakshasa Ghost King planned to escape the True Realm and enter the starry sky.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva described the Seven Sacrifices and Five Pillars, naming several sacrifices already arranged by herself and the Rakshasa Ghost King.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva declared that she would undertake the final three sacrifices and one pillar herself.

Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva revealed that her plans to fuse three voids had become too dangerous and that she needed Flower Lady’s help. By making Flower Lady relive the memories of Madame Yellow Springs’s severed spirit, she exposed Flower Lady’s true origin and then sacrificed her spirituality to repair her own deficient spiritual awareness.

• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva explained that the upheaval involving the True Realm, Water World, and Taixiao Divine Court had made her planned fusion exceed her limits.
• Flower Lady suggested abandoning the Taixiao Divine Court, and Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva agreed it was expendable but said she could no longer withdraw from the plan.
• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva showed Flower Lady Madame Yellow Springs entering the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and forced their viewpoints to overlap as Flower Lady relived the divided spirit’s memories.
• Flower Lady witnessed how Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva had captured Madame Yellow Springs’s divided spirit, transformed it into Flower Lady, and cultivated her as a disciple.
• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva declared that she would use Flower Lady’s—or Madame Yellow Springs’s—spirituality to repair her own defect, then sent Flower Lady sinking into the Lotus Pond as a streak of spiritual light.

Bai Lian watched the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva prepare for reincarnation through Miaoxiang and the bodhi tree while analyzing the crisis among the three voids. She decided she needed to delay Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu, but when she contacted the Rakshasa Ghost King, she found him caught in a fierce battle with Ye Bin and the Candle Dragon King.

• Bai Lian sensed Flower Lady’s spiritual light enter the bodhi tree, completing the preparations for the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva to reincarnate through Miaoxiang’s witch fetus.
• Bai Lian informed the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva that the Sorcerer God’s disturbance was burning Miaoxiang’s Great Witch bloodline and threatening the fetus.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva studied the Water World law system, concluded that analyzing any single system would be futile, and decided that delaying Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu was essential.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva contacted the Rakshasa Ghost King to ask when they should use their prepared contingencies, and he asked her to help him first.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva sensed Ye Bin cutting through the unstable void with her sword intent as the Candle Dragon King unleashed his Time Secret Art.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva and the Rakshasa Ghost King discussed whether to follow the grand trend and expand the conflict with Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu, exposing a fatal rift in their alliance. The Rakshasa Ghost King offered to use her avatar against Yu Ci, while the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva secretly activated a backup plan and accepted that her chance to become the Common Lord of Humans and Gods had slipped away for now.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva and the Rakshasa Ghost King observed Lu Suhua's sword fight with the Candle Dragon King, and the Rakshasa Ghost King criticized the Candle Dragon King's lack of combat experience.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King confronted Madam Huanyong, then asked the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva whether she still believed in prioritizing their grand plan as the Three Realms merged into One.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King urged the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva to challenge Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu directly and follow the grand trend, while she worried about protecting her Dao foundation.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva recognized that she and the Rakshasa Ghost King had reached a fundamental conflict over whether to pursue the grand trend or secure her future cultivation.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva agreed to consider expanding the battlefield, and the Rakshasa Ghost King proposed using her avatar to trouble Yu Ci.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva secretly activated a long-prepared backup plan and realized that her alliance with the Rakshasa Ghost King had begun to collapse.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva joined forces with the Shifang Demon Spirit and unleashed her law across several realms, clashing with Yu Ci and disrupting the water world. As Yu Ci fled You Huang, her strike suppressed the sorcerer god sentience’s attempted revival.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva absorbed the Shifang Demon Spirit’s law region and advanced into the Realm of Truth, while the Rakshasa Ghost King backed her.
• Yu Qing Xuan and Heavenly Venerable Shao stopped pressing the Shifang Demon Spirit as the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva and the Rakshasa Ghost King redirected their efforts.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva spread her law across Xi Yu Lake, the underwater demon kingdom, the Taixiao Divine Court, and the water world, clashing with Yu Ci’s laws and the True Realm system.
• The sorcerer god sentience revived in part of the water world and rejected the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s control.
• Yu Ci entered the Taihuan Jiyao Heaven while You Huang pursued him, his body dissolving under the sorcerer god laws.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva used life-and-death samsara to strike You Huang and suppress the sorcerer god sentience’s upheaval.

Yu Ci and the Shadow Ghost fled You Huang, whose power had been transformed by Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s new methods. As they neared the Taixiao Divine Court, Yu Ci unleashed the Inner Void and swept away her domain.

• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva suppressed the Water World law system and empowered You Huang with a phantom sun, making his attacks faster and more efficient.
• The Shadow Ghost tested You Huang with several sword strikes, then told Yu Ci that You Huang controlled laws within a hundred feet and had formidable command of multiple methods.
• Yu Ci and the Shadow Ghost hurried toward the Taixiao Divine Court’s core as Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva altered the surrounding laws and pursued them through her domain.
• At the gateway marked by a fiery sea and mountain range, Yu Ci stopped and expanded the Inner Void, extinguishing the firelight and crushing the life-and-death samsara domain.

Yu Ci entered Chengqitian and the Taixiao Divine Court’s Dao realm, where he accepted a talisman decree and was escorted away in the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel. Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva invaded the Inner Void, but Yu Ci left that conflict aside and continued toward matters tied to the greater trend.

• Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s law domain broke into the Inner Void, consumed You Huang’s remaining traits, and clashed with Yu Ci’s domain.
• Yu Ci chose not to engage with the invasion and headed directly for Chengqitian, judging the Taixiao Divine Court’s expansion more important.
• Yu Ci arrived in Chengqitian, where Zhao Xiangshan and the Blood Mansion Ancestor greeted him and Xu Sheng lay unconscious from absorbing spiritual qi.
• The Cloud Tower Tree drew Yu Ci into the Taixiao Divine Court’s Dao realm, where he saw You Rui, Murong Qingyan, Madam Xia, and Xue Pingzhi maintaining or observing its workings.
• Yu Ci received a crimson-gold talisman decree, boarded the Tiger Chariot Jade Carriage Hidden Wheel, and traveled with a crane boy toward a lower realm.

Yu Ci explored the breach between the water world and the true realm as Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother joined Candle Dragon King to her side, worsening the standoff among the Earth Immortals. His journey through Taixiao Divine Court’s dreamlike rituals culminated at the Platform of Investiture of the Gods, where he realized he had arrived at a frozen scene of a real ancient battle.

• Yu Ci viewed the water world’s overflow into the true realm and found Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother had incorporated Candle Dragon King and his Time Secret Art into her system.
• Ye Bin and Madam Huanyong joined Yu Qing Xuan, Heavenly Venerable Shao, and the others, bringing more than eight Earth Immortals into a tense standoff against Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother’s faction.
• Yu Ci briefly sensed Li Bocai and others in a deep region of the water world before his perspective shifted to a dreamlike journey through Taixiao Divine Court.
• At the Fourfold Imperial Gate, Yu Ci’s tally and decree took on his Eternal Azure Sky’s true intent, and Taixiao Divine Court silently accepted his Dao realm authority.
• Yu Ci reached the bloodstained Platform of Investiture of the Gods, saw a Daoist priest beside a severed head, and recognized the scene as reality rather than a dream.

Yu Ci confronted a mysterious Shangqing Daoist bound on the Platform of Investiture of the Gods, who claimed that devils were sealed within him and asked Yu Ci to execute him. After the Dragon Slaying Platform’s power failed to overcome the Daoist’s self-protective divine art, Yu Ci prepared to use the True Script Dao Rhyme to make the blade fall.

• Yu Ci approached the bound Daoist and asked his identity, then confirmed he could control the Dragon Slaying Platform.
• The Daoist revealed that devils were sealed within him and that he was close to demonic contamination, and asked Yu Ci whether the execution blade could strike.
• Yu Ci consulted Zhao Xiangshan and Shadow Ghost, weighed the risks, and asked whether the Daoist was the guide; the Daoist said the truth would emerge once the blade fell.
• Yu Ci ordered the talisman edict brought to the platform, where the Daoist willingly lay across the Dragon Severing Stone.
• The Daoist’s divine light kept the platform’s blood light and killing intent from descending, so Yu Ci formed an azure lotus with the True Script Dao Rhyme.

Yu Ci witnessed the Yang Clan Daoist die on the Dragon Slaying Platform, breaking the time distortion and revealing the events that led to the beheading. The daoist was revealed as Yang Hezi, founder of the Shangqing sect, while the demon Canluona escaped.

• Yu Ci used the decree’s green lotus to suppress and absorb the Yang Clan Daoist’s dao foundation, helping destroy the demons within him as the daoist was beheaded.
• The daoist’s death released the time distortion, and Yu Ci saw him battle demons, restrain his own corruption, and behead the person he had dragged to the platform.
• Zhao Xiangshan identified the victim as Yang Duanming, the final Ziwei Emperor’s Command, whose head crumbled away as time resumed.
• Yu Ci, Zhao Xiangshan, Shadow Ghost, and the Blood Mansion Ancestor recognized the daoist as Yang Hezi, also known as Mr. Chaoyang and the founder of the Shangqing sect.
• A seventeen-legged spider-shaped demon emerged from the daoist’s body and fled into the void, and Yu Ci recognized it as Canluona.

Yu Ci and Zhao Xiangshan recognized Canluona’s natal avatar and trapped it in the Dao realm, where it was sealed and cast into the Myriad Demon Pool. Ancestor Yang’s remains then transformed into a ritual-bound figure that greeted Yu Ci and invited him to follow.

• Zhao Xiangshan identified Canluona’s appearance as his natal avatar and urged everyone to stop it from escaping.
• Yu Ci attacked with the Dragon Slaying Platform, splitting Canluona’s avatar, then used the tally mandate’s cyan light to catch both halves.
• Canluona’s avatar was swept into the Dao realm, where immortals and true ones attacked it before it was sealed and knocked into the Myriad Demon Pool.
• The green lotus absorbed Ancestor Yang’s emerald blood and refined his remains into a figure bearing his face.
• The transformed Ancestor Yang welcomed Yu Ci to the Platform of Investiture of the Gods and asked him to follow.

Yu Ci learned how the ruined Taixiao Divine Court had survived the demon tribulation and how its damaged core and Four Directions Eight Heavens complicated his plans to reunite the system. Meanwhile, Yun Xing argued with Xiao Sen over whether to resist the True Realm’s impending transformation, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

• Ancestor Yang guided Yu Ci across a rainbow bridge to the Central Ziwei Position and explained the shifting arrangement of the Four Emperors’ positions.
• Ancestor Yang told Yu Ci that Pure Hermit had destroyed the void markers to save fellow disciples, then sacrificed his pure dharma body to restrain Canluona and preserve the Divine Court.
• Yu Ci learned that remains occupied the Gouchen and Houtu positions, making the Divine Court’s power harder for him to command until his realm advanced.
• Yu Ci considered how controlling the central region and Four Directions Eight Heavens depended on one another, and Ancestor Yang asked him to make a decision.
• Yun Xing told Xiao Sen that the True Realm could not withstand a war among more than eight earth immortals and questioned the cost of forcing its transformation.
• Xiao Sen asked whether Yun Xing intended to resist and worsen the conflict, while Yun Xing said they differed over the timing.

Xiao Sen explained why the Eight Sceneries Palace could no longer preserve the True World's old order and issued an edict calling on Divine Path practitioners to protect people during the tribulation. At the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram, he found the recorded divine sovereigns and saw signs of an unresolved struggle beneath the Rakshasa Ghost King's name.

• Xiao Sen told Yun Xing that the Rakshasa Ghost King sought change rather than control of the True World, leaving the Eight Sceneries Palace to respond on her terms.
• Xiao Sen ordered the palace to withdraw from the northern lands and Sky Rift Valley, notify nearby sects, and prepare relief for the people suffering through the tribulation.
• Xiao Sen issued an Edict from the Mouth of Heaven, promising a place on the Yellow Diagram to those who protected a region and its people during the chaos.
• Xiao Sen went with Yun Xing to Heavenly Pole Peak and entered the radiance of the Purple Extreme Yellow Diagram, where he inspected its recorded names.
• Yun Xing saw the divine sovereigns' names on the violet stone and noticed the threads beneath the Rakshasa Ghost King's name twisting together without settling into place.

Xiao Sen and Yun Xing examined the Violet Pole Contention and suspected that the Primordial Demon Lord was involved alongside the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva. In the water world, Su Shuanghe’s sudden arrival and the Sword Discussion Pavilion’s battle with him disrupted the Bodhisattva’s plans, leaving her to question whether Li Bocai’s side was helping Su Shuanghe mutate.

• Xiao Sen explained the history and significance of the Violet Pole Contention to Yun Xing as they studied the purple stone.
• Xiao Sen struck the purple stone, causing its divine patterns to fluctuate and drawing blood from his fingertip.
• Yun Xing noticed patterns resembling the Primordial Demon Lord’s strokes, while Xiao Sen ruled out Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu as a current contender.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva found that Su Shuanghe had appeared in the water world and drawn on Sorcerer God Spiritual Water, nearing the earth immortal realm.
• Li Bocai and Sword Discussion Pavilion cultivators fought Su Shuanghe, disrupting the Bodhisattva’s efforts to control him.
• The Bodhisattva’s power of life, death, and reincarnation was shredded by Li Bocai’s sword intent, prompting her to suspect the Sword Discussion Pavilion was helping Su Shuanghe’s mutation deepen.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva questioned the Rakshasa Ghost King about the upheaval in the water world and learned that she was only one contender in the planned Violet Pole Contention. She continued investigating the Demon Sect’s role and the hidden purpose behind the demonic patterns on Su Shuanghe.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva asked the Rakshasa Ghost King why the water world was changing, and the Rakshasa Ghost King said the Three Realms Heaven Connection had to proceed before the Eight Sceneries Palace Earth Immortals returned.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva asked which forces were involved and who had placed demonic patterns on Su Shuanghe; the Rakshasa Ghost King identified the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens and said a backup plan had replaced Tai'a Mohan.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva accused the Rakshasa Ghost King of trapping her in a scheme that could damage her future attainment of the Dao.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King revealed that the plan involved a Violet Pole Contention and that other candidates had also been chosen as common sovereigns of men and gods.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva considered her control of the Seven Sacrifices and Five Pillars and examined the demonic patterns on Su Shuanghe, which seemed to avoid domains tied to the Primordial Demon Lord.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva deduced that the Violet Pole Contention involved sacrificing the Wu God to empower the Boundless Void Divine Lord, though she remained uncertain about the plan and the Rakshasa Ghost King's claims. The Rakshasa Ghost King revealed that the sacrifice would take place at the lake, while the heavens would tilt at Lan Hai Mountain, putting Yu Qing Xuan's sky-mending technique to the test.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva realized that the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect and the Sword Discussion Pavilion were likely involved in a sacrifice meant to empower the Boundless Void Divine Lord.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King admitted that the Boundless Void Divine Lord had influence in the Outer Domain and had become an enemy of Canluona.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva questioned whether the Boundless Void Divine Lord was truly behind the plan and concluded that the demonic runes concerned spiritual perception.
• The Rakshasa Ghost King explained that the lake was only the site of the sacrifice and that the heavens would tilt at Lan Hai Mountain.
• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva realized the plan would test Yu Qing Xuan's sky-mending technique and understood that Yu Qing Xuan was in danger.