Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci opened Mist Shadow Heaven to cultivators seeking the sword intent of eight thousand sword cultivators and began planning how to deal with the thief. Meanwhile, Pan Chang seized control of the first seal, drove away his rivals, and turned his attention to the second and third seals.

• Yu Ci disrupted the first seal's transition, allowing dozens of cultivators to enter Mist Shadow Heaven and leaving the seal prone to further flaws.
• After four days of sleep, Yu Ci learned that hundreds of cultivators had gathered in Mist Shadow Heaven to hunt for sword intent, while the thief had disappeared into the sword cultivators' shadows.
• Yu Ci and Xuanhuang discussed the thief's likely plan to pursue Lord Yuan Dao's dharma body and decided to act against it.
• Pan Chang's simplified seal won control of the first seal, and he resolved to continue cooperating with Elder Ma's group to claim the secret realm's treasures.
• Pan Chang unleashed the first seal's power against rival seal-makers, then used the Heavenly Evolution Pearl to deduce how to control the second and third seals.
• Yu Ci sensed Pan Chang's breakthrough and recognized that the moment had come.

Yu Ci and Lord Xuan Huang discovered that Pan Chang had been bewitched by a demonic scheme tied to the Heavenly Evolution Pearl and the talisman seal. Yu Ci drove the invading power from his induction channel, but the demonized soul slipped into the first-layer talisman seal’s core.

• Yu Ci and Lord Xuan Huang used Pan Chang’s flawed control of the first-layer talisman seal to observe his condition and recognized that he had been bewitched.
• Yu Ci traced the attack to the Heavenly Evolution Pearl and a trap laid around the talisman seal’s core, while Lord Xuan Huang suspected a demonic method.
• Pan Chang’s body withered as the Heavenly Evolution Pearl blazed, and the bead vanished after Elder Ma and the others crushed his remains.
• Lord Xuan Huang warned Yu Ci to cut off the induction channel when Pan Chang’s demonized soul seeped toward him, but Yu Ci attacked it with the Heavenly River Auspicious Prayer Curse and True Dragon Form Qi.
• Yu Ci’s counterattack drove the invading power away, but the demonized soul slipped into the first-layer talisman seal’s core, prompting Lord Xuan Huang to identify the Plague Demon method.

Yu Ci discovered that the Plague Demon had infected the secret realm and seized control of the first-layer seal to search for whoever released it. As the master of the Sunken Sword Cave attacked, Yu Ci found the hidden source and escaped to a passageway, where he encountered Senior Brother Ge.

• Yu Ci learned that the Plague Demon spread Pan Chang’s obsession as disease seeds, threatening to infect most cultivators in the secret realm.
• Dozens of cultivators rushed to claim the first-layer seal, and Yu Ci used primordial qi to regain control and drive them away.
• The master of the Sunken Sword Cave attacked Yu Ci, who countered with the seal’s sword intent and endured severe injuries.
• Yu Ci scanned Mist Shadow Heaven and the secret realm with Xuanhuang’s help, then used a newly opened inner sight to locate the Plague Demon’s controller.
• As the master of the Sunken Sword Cave struck again, Yu Ci vanished with his simplified seal and divine sense imprint, awakening in a passageway beside Senior Brother Ge.

Yu Ci reunited with Ge Hui, Nie Zong, and Dong Ji in Donghou Tomb, but discovered that demons had possessed them and subdued them with talismans. After confronting a stronger attacker and three more arrivals, he recognized their use of the Yin Yang Disk and accused Fellow Daoist Bu of coming to acknowledge his ancestral lineage.

• Ge Hui, Nie Zong, and Dong Ji told Yu Ci they had entered Donghou Tomb after being separated from their fellow disciples.
• Yu Ci warned the three about the Plague Demon and used talismans to expose demonic possession in their souls.
• Yu Ci restrained the three with talismanic sword qi and demanded that they stop controlling the Plague Demon.
• Xuanhuang warned Yu Ci about an attacker beneath the earth, and Yu Ci clashed with the newcomer and two companions.
• Yu Ci recognized the newcomers' Yin Yang Disk and accused Fellow Daoist Bu of seeking to acknowledge his ancestral lineage.

Yu Ci and the Pan Huang Three Swords clashed over the secrets of Donghou Tomb, but Hua Xifeng intervened and helped Yu Ci escape to the tomb’s center. There, Yu Ci discovered that most of the Li Chen Sect disciples had been afflicted by demonic tribulations.

• Yu Ci questioned the Pan Huang Three Swords about their cautious tactics and rejected Bu Cuo’s offer to divide the sword immortal’s inheritance.
• The Pan Huang Three Swords attacked Yu Ci with the Heavenly Evolution Pearl’s Heavenly Demon Fire, and Yu Ci defended himself to protect Ge Hui and the others.
• Hua Xifeng used the Ethereal Heavenly Sound to injure the Pan Huang Three Swords, who fled with the pearl.
• Hua Xifeng led Yu Ci, Ge Hui, Dong Ji, and Nie Zong through the stone chambers to the center of Donghou Tomb.
• Yu Ci saw that twenty-four of the twenty-nine Li Chen Sect disciples in the sword garden had suffered demonic tribulations, while several Huan Dan cultivators maintained a Heavenly Capital Altar to protect them.

Yu Ci treated the Plague Demon’s victims and learned that the Pan Huang Three Swords were heading for the Great Sun Main Hall. Xuanhuang realized the hall contained a shortcut to the secret realm’s core, Guixu, just as the Three Swords began burning through space to reach it.

• Yu Ci used talismans and the Nameless Tribulation Star Soul Shattering Divine Light to treat the afflicted disciples, including Zhang Yan, whose will to live was dangerously weak.
• Yu Ci learned from Hua Xifeng that the Pan Huang Three Swords were moving toward the Great Sun Main Hall, and the group rushed there.
• Li Hong explained that the Plague Demon’s poison seeds had struck during the disciples’ rites, while the hall’s righteous sword intent had shielded them from the worst of the attack.
• Xuanhuang realized Donghou’s Great Sun Main Hall had once held a gateway into the secret realm that led directly to Guixu.
• The Pan Huang Three Swords used Heavenly Demon Fire to tear through space above the hall, and Xuanhuang urged Yu Ci to stop them.

Yu Ci stopped Hua Xifeng and the others from attacking the Pan Huang Three Swords after revealing that their Heavenly Demon Fire came from cultivators trapped in the secret realm. He followed the swords through a Void Rift into Guixu, where Xuanhuang sensed its main body, but an unseen figure confronted Yu Ci before he could reach it.

• Hua Xifeng, Li Hong, Wang Jiu, and the others attacked the Pan Huang Three Swords, but the swords countered with threads of Heavenly Demon Fire.
• Yu Ci called for the fighting to stop and explained that the fire drew on cultivators' life force, persuading the group to pause.
• The Pan Huang Three Swords opened a Void Rift above the bronze hall and fled through it, and Yu Ci followed with Hua Xifeng and the others.
• Yu Ci emerged in a lightless void alone, and Xuanhuang sensed that its main body was nearby in Guixu.
• Yu Ci refused to move until Xuanhuang admitted it needed his help, then followed its directions toward the main body.
• A figure appeared in the darkness and accused Yu Ci of deceiving Xuanhuang while working with a Rakshasa Sect paramour.

Yu Ci refused the Sunken Sword Cave master's offer to cooperate and escaped its attack by slipping through a void interlayer. He arrived in Guixu, where Xuanhuang warned him about deadly void rifts and guided him toward its true body in the Sky Vault Sword Pool.

• The Sunken Sword Cave master offered to join forces with Yu Ci, but Yu Ci refused after learning it had caused thousands of deaths in Mist Shadow Heaven.
• The Sunken Sword Cave master attacked Yu Ci, but Guixu's suppression weakened its strike and Yu Ci escaped through a void interlayer.
• The Sunken Sword Cave master realized Yu Ci was familiar with Guixu and suspected he had been to the Sunken Sword Cave, then ordered the Pan Huang Three Swords to track him.
• Yu Ci arrived amid the ruins of Guixu's Grand Luo Hall, and Xuanhuang explained that void backlash had shattered the realm and left deadly rifts throughout it.
• Xuanhuang told Yu Ci that its true body should be in the Sky Vault Sword Pool, and they prepared to travel carefully as distant sword sounds rang out.

Yu Ci joined Hua Xifeng and Wang Jiu in fighting a horde of ghostly monsters in a void ruin, and the three used the Three-Element Sword Array to defeat their leader. The leader turned out to be a magical artifact, leaving Xuanhuang suspicious of the box’s unknown origins.

• Yu Ci arrived as Hua Xifeng and Wang Jiu held off waves of ghostly monsters near the void rifts.
• Hua Xifeng asked Yu Ci to take the center of the Three-Element Sword Array and warned that a powerful ghost was strengthening the others.
• The three coordinated their sword attacks, and Yu Ci’s well-timed strikes helped direct the array’s momentum against the gray ghost.
• Their combined attack shattered the gray ghost, which vanished and left behind an intricately carved iron box.
• Hua Xifeng gave Yu Ci the box, and Yu Ci agreed to share future spoils with his senior brothers and the other disciples.
• Xuanhuang said the box was not among the treasures he knew of in Guixu and warned Yu Ci that its origins were suspicious.

Yu Ci, Hua Xifeng, and Wang Jiu found an entrance to the Unlocking Hall in Guixu, but the Heavy Artifact Sect leader appeared and overwhelmed them. After sparing them and leaving, he took Yu Ci away, leaving the story with Yu Ci separated from Hua Xifeng and Wang Jiu.

• Yu Ci evaded Hua Xifeng’s questions about Guixu by pointing out a newly exposed portal to the Unlocking Hall.
• Hua Xifeng decided to reunite with Xiao Lu and Li Hong before exploring, and the three began walking away from the ruins.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader appeared at the hall entrance, crossed the distance instantly, and knocked Wang Jiu, Yu Ci, and Hua Xifeng down.
• Yu Ci recognized the armored stranger as the Heavy Artifact Sect leader and told Hua Xifeng and Wang Jiu about the slaughter he had witnessed in the Sword Garden.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader asked whether they belonged to Li Chen Sect, then left without explaining himself.
• A voice ordered someone to lend a hand, and Yu Ci was carried away as Hua Xifeng and Wang Jiu’s shouts faded behind him.

Yu Ci was brought to the edge of the Garden of Life and Death by the Heavy Artifact Sect leader, who asked him to locate void rifts leading to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor. While Yu Ci searched through the rifts with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, Xuanhuang realized the area offered a chance to exploit the approaching scoundrel near the Sky Vault Sword Pool.

• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader carried Yu Ci to the Star Track Sword Domain at the edge of the Garden of Life and Death and said he would not strike Yu Ci again because he owed a debt to the Li Chen Sect.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader asked Yu Ci to use his distant-viewing technique to find void rifts and tunnels leading to the Blood Prison Ghost Manor, then mapped nearby barriers and rifts for him.
• Yu Ci left to inspect the rifts, while the Heavy Artifact Sect leader stayed behind to study the Star Track Sword Domain and prepare to enter Guixu's center.
• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to send his divine sense through the rifts, and Xuanhuang recognized the artifact as one of the Primordial Demon Sect's five major sacrificial artifacts.
• Xuanhuang noted that the Garden of Life and Death was the route into Guixu's central region and that the Sky Vault Sword Pool was nearby, then warned Yu Ci that an approaching scoundrel would come through.

Yu Ci learned that the Heavy Artifact Sect leader was trying to reach the center of Guixu, while the master of Sunken Sword Cave arrived and slipped through the Star Track Sword Domain using a devil art. The chapter ended as the Heavy Artifact Sect leader struck the deceived sword domain, apparently alerting it to the intruders.

• Yu Ci reported that he found no fiends or demons beyond the Void Rifts, and the Heavy Artifact Sect leader used an Invisibility Talisman to conceal him.
• A powerful shockwave spread through Guixu, drawing the master of Sunken Sword Cave to the Star Track Sword Domain.
• The master of Sunken Sword Cave attacked the domain, then used Essence Washing and Form Shifting to become vapor and pass through its boundary.
• Xuanhuang realized the master of Sunken Sword Cave had joined the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and had perfected the devil art to enter the domain.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader's iron fist punched the Star Track Sword Domain, striking it awake.

Yu Ci tried to enter the Star Track Sword Domain with Lord Xuan Huang’s help, but Bu Cuo and the Pan Huang Three Swords ambushed him before he could get inside. Wounded and cut off from the domain, Yu Ci prepared to force the three swordsmen to reveal their hidden abilities.

• The Star Track Sword Domain exposed the Sunken Sword Cave's master, who fled toward the central region, while the Heavy Artifact Sect's leader used changing armor runes to enter the seal.
• Lord Xuan Huang guided Yu Ci as he imitated Supreme True Nine Heavens sword intent and began connecting with the Star Track Sword Domain.
• An invisible sword struck Yu Ci, badly wounding him and severing his connection to the domain; he recognized the attacker as Bu Cuo and the Pan Huang Three Swords.
• Bu Cuo, Xiao Bo, and Chen Guang joined their auras and demanded to see Lord Xuan Huang, while Yu Ci resolved to draw out their trump cards.
• Yu Ci slammed himself backward into the Star Track Sword Domain's barrier as sword qi erupted.

Yu Ci countered the three Pan Huang Sect members by drawing on the Star Track Sword Domain, then unexpectedly grasped the Primordial Formless Sword and used its power against Bu Cuo. Bu Cuo fled after Yu Ci struck his face, while the battle’s outcome for the other two remained uncertain.

• The Primordial Formless Sword wounded Yu Ci twice, but his iron fragment shielded him from most of its power.
• The Pan Huang Sect members attacked with the Two Forms Divine Light, and Yu Ci evaded it before dragging their formation into the Star Track Sword Domain’s killing force.
• Yu Ci used the Nine Luminaries Dragon Abyss Sword Talisman to damage the Yin Yang Disk, but the talisman shattered and the three Pan Huang members turned their formation into a blood-grinding millstone.
• Yu Ci grabbed the Primordial Formless Sword when it appeared within the distorted air, and Xuan Huang sent him a cultivation formula for the sword art.
• Yu Ci used the sword’s power to cut Bu Cuo across the face, and Bu Cuo fled in silence.

Yu Ci fought the fused red-light fiend that emerged after Bu Cuo died and the Yin Yang Disk broke apart. He used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to overcome its Heavenly Demon Fire and draw the fiend into the mirror.

• Yu Ci killed Bu Cuo with the Primordial Formless Sword, but Bu Cuo's body withered as the Yin Yang Disk gave rise to a fused red light.
• The red light merged the three streaks from Bu Cuo, Xiao Bo, and Chen Guang, then attacked Yu Ci with Heavenly Demon Fire and demonic sound.
• Yu Ci struggled against the fiend's attacks, using blood-infused sword intent and True Dragon Form Qi to defend himself.
• Xuanhuang explained that the fiend likely came from an evil art that combined a heavenly demon with other forces, and Yu Ci realized it had no physical body.
• Yu Ci activated the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror with a spell formula, and its azure light swept up the red-light fiend and drew it inside.

Yu Ci subdued the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s wild power and used it to extinguish the Heavenly Demon Fire, gaining much finer control of the mirror. He entered the Star Track Sword Domain and reached the Sky Vault Sword Pool, where Xuanhuang fell silent.

• Yu Ci recognized fragments of the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon as the cause of the mirror’s uncontrolled reaction and held on until its power settled.
• The Heavenly Evolution Pearl reignited the Heavenly Demon Fire, but Yu Ci’s mirror blasted it away and sent its azure light through a void rift, stirring the Star Track Sword Domain.
• Yu Ci confirmed the Pan Huang Three Swords were dead, then followed Xuanhuang’s directions to retrieve the Primordial Formless Sword and the mutated Heavenly Evolution Pearl.
• Yu Ci crossed the Star Track Sword Domain and saw eight enormous void rifts, including the expanding Boundless Rift.
• Yu Ci followed Xuanhuang’s senses to the Sky Vault Sword Pool, where Xuanhuang abruptly fell silent.

Yu Ci followed Xuan Huang to the Sky Vault Sword Pool’s lakebed, where Xuan Huang’s true body lay at the secret realm’s talisman-seal core. After Xuan Huang left his body to confront a thief, Yu Ci reached the altar and found the Heavy Artifact Sect leader waiting there, preparing to face him.

• Yu Ci entered the Sword Qi-filled lake and followed Xuan Huang’s directions to the fissure containing the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s true body.
• Xuan Huang explained that the secret realm’s seals would be vulnerable while he left to slay a thief, then merged his primordial spirit with his true body as Yu Ci followed his senses through the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.
• Yu Ci felt the force of Xuan Huang’s sword strike through their shared perception, then descended through the fissure to the four-tiered altar controlling the talisman seals.
• Yu Ci found the Heavy Artifact Sect leader at the altar, drew Dragon-Slayer, and used the Star Track Sword Domain to see through the leader’s armored shell.

At the Dharma altar, Yu Ci tried to stop the Heavy Artifact Sect leader from taking control of the Sword Immortal Secret Realm’s barriers while Xuan Huang fought the master of the Sunken Sword Cave. Yu Ci recognized the leader’s seal as the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal and crushed a powerful Shangqing Sect spirit talisman to oppose him.

• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader revealed that he had come to reach a deeper layer of the Blood Prison Ghost Manor and climbed onto the Dharma altar while Xuan Huang began fighting the master of the Sunken Sword Cave.
• Yu Ci attacked the Heavy Artifact Sect leader, but the leader blocked his sword and planted two iron flags at the altar’s northern and southern poles, summoning a gale.
• The leader raised a white Dharma seal and began drawing the earth-vein spiritual qi into it, threatening to take control of the Sword Immortal Secret Realm’s barriers.
• Yu Ci identified the seal as the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal and decided to counter it with a Shangqing Sect spirit talisman.
• Yu Ci crushed the jade talisman, and lightning burst from his hand.

Yu Ci used the Upper Azure Star-Glow Induction Divine Thunder to destroy the altar and disrupt the earth veins, then discovered that the Heavy Artifact Sect leader’s armor had been empty. The leader had been acting through a projection, leaving Yu Ci to confront the true nature of his opponent.

• Yu Ci activated the Upper Azure Star-Glow Induction Divine Thunder, but the Heavy Artifact Sect leader trapped him inside a spatial fault and blocked the thunder’s guidance.
• Yu Ci used the Dragon Slaying Sword to break through the spatial barrier and guide the thunder toward the altar.
• The thunder destroyed the altar, destabilizing the earth veins and causing violent surges that shattered the three layers of secret realm talismans.
• Yu Ci sensed an attack through the thunder’s lingering connection and struck the armored Heavy Artifact Sect leader with the Primordial Formless Sword.
• Yu Ci realized the armor was empty and that the Heavy Artifact Sect leader was only a projection, a wisp of divided spirit.

Yu Ci escaped the Heavy Artifact Sect leader’s grip by awakening his Life and Death Talisman and using his fish-dragon avatar, Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, and Primordial Formless Sword. He vanished into the magma, while the leader recorded information about him and learned that the Sword Immortal Secret Realm’s seals had broken.

• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader choked Yu Ci while magma and turbid currents erupted through the lake.
• Yu Ci’s rage stirred the Life and Death Talisman and awakened his fish-dragon avatar, letting him unleash a silent True Dragon roar.
• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and Primordial Formless Sword to disrupt the leader’s grip and tear himself free, badly injuring his throat.
• Yu Ci plunged into the magma and concealed his aura, so the Heavy Artifact Sect leader decided not to pursue him.
• The Heavy Artifact Sect leader recorded Yu Ci’s abilities in a jade talisman, then received word that the three layers of seals had shattered and thousands of cultivators were entering.