Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci and the assembled cultivators watched the Ten Directions Great Venerable use his robe to block the karmic fire and seize a creature from within it. After crushing the creature, he drew the crowd’s attention to a newly appeared figure beneath the fiery canopy, which the Shadow Ghost suspected was a supreme being from the Western Buddhist Kingdom.

• The Shadow Ghost warned Yu Ci that karmic fire could destroy a cultivator’s prospects for longevity even if they survived it.
• The Unimpeded Minor Three Realms Banner brought Zhai Que'er, the Black Robe, and other leaders into the Great Evolution Formation.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived, prompting his followers to kneel, then spread his Dharma robe to block the converging karmic fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable pulled a charred, human-shaped creature out of the flames and crushed it, whereupon it vanished as smoke.
• The crowd saw a new, blood-eyed figure appear among those standing beneath the fiery canopy, and the Shadow Ghost identified it as a karmic manifestation of the Hellish Path.

Yu Ci and the others learned that their surroundings formed an incomplete Hell Path powered by their own karma, and the Ten Directions Great Venerable weakened it by repeatedly destroying the manifested Hell Beings. He then opened a passage through the Karmic Fire and rushed off to seize its hidden source, while Zhai Que'er tried to recruit Lu Dun to help.

• The Shadow Ghost explained that the Hell Beings were manifested from karma and that the hidden enemy had created an incomplete Hell Path by replacing the outside world's laws.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable repeatedly destroyed the Hell Beings, draining the Hell Path's limited supply of karma and suppressing the Karmic Fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable sensed something, swept open a passage through the flames, and left to seize the source of the Hell Path.
• Yu Ci realized Zhai Que'er was eyeing the Tai Xu Green Lotus Robe she had given him as a deposit.
• Zhai Que'er praised the Ten Directions Great Venerable and asked Lu Dun to help pursue the hidden enemy.

Yu Ci endured repeated crossings through the Karmic Fire to rescue the others, then nearly succumbed to its influence when resentment stirred his inner demons. After Shadow Ghost warned him, Yu Ci steadied himself and faced Ke You, who harassed Miao Xiang as she recovered.

• Yu Ci crossed the Karmic Fire repeatedly with the Azure Lotus Robe of the Great Void, rescuing Zhai Que'er, Long, Black Robe, Ke You, and Miao Xiang while the robe lost three of its nine lotuses.
• Yu Ci made a sixth crossing despite the danger because he feared Ke You would bully the weaker survivors, and he emerged with Ke You and Miao Xiang.
• Yu Ci's resentment and malice nearly provoked the Karmic Fire within him, but Shadow Ghost awakened him and he regained control of his thoughts.
• Ke You taunted Yu Ci and boasted that he would share Miao Xiang with him, while Yu Ci secretly connected his mind to the Cloud Tower Tree space.
• Ke You reached out to touch Miao Xiang's head, then screamed and cursed her.

Yu Ci and Miaoxiang drove Ke You away, but he returned with an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to threaten her. As Yu Ci prepared a counterattack, he suddenly sensed his location and the position of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion with startling clarity.

• Miaoxiang revealed that Ke You had been cursed with witch poison, and Ke You fled after recognizing her connection to Flying Soul City.
• Miaoxiang offered to kill Ke You to repay Yu Ci, but a figure approaching across the wilderness made Yu Ci identify it as Abbey Master and Miaoxiang name You Can.
• Yu Ci and Miaoxiang shouted together, dispelling the figure, and Ke You revealed that he had lured an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to exploit Miaoxiang's vulnerability.
• Yu Ci prepared an Upper Azure Star-Glow Induction Divine Thunder Talisman and infused it with White Tiger Baleful Intent, then suddenly sensed his location and the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion's position.

Yu Ci was trapped on a blood-soaked Execution Platform as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition summoned ghost sabers to attack those imprisoned across the land. After Yu Ci survived his saber’s first strike, Miaoxiang warned him that the Ghost Slaying Saber was storing power for a potentially devastating follow-up.

• Yu Ci’s connection to the stars was shattered as high platforms erupted from the ground and dragged him onto one covered in blood.
• Yu Ci spotted Miaoxiang and Ke You trapped on nearby platforms and saw the karmic fire weakened beneath the platforms’ blood eyes.
• A ghost saber rose before Yu Ci, Miaoxiang, Ke You, and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon; the saber before the demon killed it and absorbed its remains.
• Yu Ci resisted the ghost saber’s heart-seizing power, then struck when it appeared to become the Flowing Water Sword, but redirected his attack into a Flawless Sword Circle and survived its counterstrike.
• Miaoxiang explained that the Ghost Slaying Saber attacked its targets’ weaknesses and stored their power to prepare the God Slaying Saber.

Yu Ci survived the Ghost Slaying Saber’s test as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition gathered strength, while Miaoxiang explained that a more powerful God Slaying Saber would target the strongest person. The ordeal appeared to end, but the shrinking safe area around the Karmic Fire forced the trapped cultivators into fresh danger, and the God Slaying Saber still had not fallen.

• Yu Ci and the Shadow Ghost realized the Ghost Slaying Saber grew stronger by killing people within the prohibition, and they saw Ge Da’s death appear on its blade.
• The saber killed Ke You, absorbed power from both victims, and changed its ghostly face as Yu Ci feared it would find his weakness.
• The Ghost Slaying Saber rose away, releasing Yu Ci from the platform, and Miaoxiang said the remaining God Slaying Saber would target the strongest person among them.
• Miaoxiang recounted how Wu Gui Yu Ke had once used the prohibition to slay a hundred thousand heavenly demons before his enemies severed the earth veins.
• Yu Ci and Miaoxiang saw thunderfire erupt around the Karmic Fire, where Ling Xi Wanderer’s group faced a shrinking living space and four talisman cultivators burned to death.
• Miaoxiang wondered why the God Slaying Saber had still not fallen.

Yu Ci stayed behind while Miaoxiang went to aid the others, then secretly used the Xuan Ling Yin to find his own escape route. After boosting it with an earth-qi platform, he awakened a powerful gray-black light that felt like the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.

• Yu Ci told Miaoxiang he wanted to stay behind and find a way to save the Fu cultivator group, and she left to help the others.
• Yu Ci decided he could not rely on the Ten Directions Great Venerable, Zhai Que'er, or Zhao Ziyue and sought to create his own backup route.
• Yu Ci retrieved the Xuan Ling Yin from the Cloud Tower Tree space and exposed its statue form by cutting away its copper covering.
• Yu Ci buried the Xuan Ling Yin and drew earth qi into it, but its golden light spun erratically and the statue would not come free.
• Yu Ci attached his Mysterious Water Obsidian earth-qi platform to the Xuan Ling Yin, greatly accelerating the flow of earth qi.
• The Xuan Ling Yin emitted a gray-black flame-shaped light that dragged Yu Ci forward, reminding him of the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.

Yu Ci discovered that the Xuan Ling Yin contained something linked to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light, but the God Slaying Saber shattered Solitary Hell before he could investigate further. The Senluo Underworld God Prohibition began another round, and as the Ghost Slaying Saber grew stronger, a tremendous roar and the destruction of a box in Yu Ci’s Cloud Tower Tree space left him facing a new crisis.

• Yu Ci realized something was hidden inside the Xuan Ling Yin and pulled the statue free, triggering tremors in the ground.
• The God Slaying Saber struck Karmic Fire Hell, freezing and shattering its flames and collapsing Solitary Hell.
• Yu Ci hid the magnetic-fire-covered Xuan Ling Yin as the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition summoned him back to the execution platform.
• The Ghost Slaying Saber killed more talisman cultivators and grew stronger, its ghost head swelling and gathering pale flames.
• A tremendous roar came from the Ten Directions Great Venerable’s direction, and the box of magic treasure fragments in Yu Ci’s Cloud Tower Tree space burst apart.

The Ten Directions Great Venerable unearthed a black lotus from beneath a monk’s skeleton, while Black Robe and Zhai Que'er tried to escape as the God Slaying Saber returned. Yu Ci dealt with the resulting chaos among the magic treasure fragments, and the chapter ended with the saber pointing at a crawling, mutilated figure.

• The Ten Directions Great Venerable broke free of the high platform, while Black Robe held back under Elder Long’s watch and Zhai Que'er questioned Elder Shi Fang about the treasure.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable uncovered a jade-like monk’s skeleton and swept it aside, revealing a concave pit filled with Karmic Fire.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable summoned an eighteen-petaled black lotus from the pit, and its resonance began changing his demonic physique.
• Zhai Que'er signaled Black Robe, who collapsed his platform to escape just as the God Slaying Saber appeared again.
• Yu Ci severed the connection to the Inner Void to stop the magic treasure fragments from running amok, then saw the saber point toward a figure crawling on scorched arms without its lower limbs.

Yu Ci realized the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition targeted what it considered the greatest threat, and the God Slaying Saber destroyed the ancient Hell Being. A black lotus then revealed the true Hell Path, while a vast disturbance elsewhere made Shadow Ghost suspect the Hungry Ghost Path had also appeared.

• Yu Ci reasoned that an ancient Hell Being had survived inside the Solitary Hell and that the God Slaying Saber judged threats rather than simply targeting the strongest.
• The God Slaying Saber struck again and vaporized the half-bodied Hell Being as Yu Ci watched from the high platform.
• A massive, expanding pillar of gray qi rose near the Ten Directions Great Venerable and the others, seeming to devour its surroundings.
• A black lotus grew from the Hell Being’s remains, displaying the essence of the Hell Path and a struggling mass of gray qi.
• Shadow Ghost recognized the lotus as the true Hell Path, not a Buddhist projection, and then identified the distant anomaly as possibly the Hungry Ghost Path.

Ten Directions Great Venerable unleashed the Hungry Ghost Path, transforming his followers and flooding the area with a monstrous tide as the struggle for the Black Lotus erupted. Yu Ci fled the devastation while Ling Xi Wanderer suddenly moved on its own.

• Zhai Que'er and Miaoxiang watched a filthy tide of monsters pour from the swollen mass of gray energy, and Zhai Que'er ordered their forces to seize the Black Lotus.
• A giant transformed into a Vajra Yaksha Dharma Form attacked the Demonic Sect cultivators at the lotus, while Old Ghost revealed himself as a Void Yaksha and killed one of them.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable empowered seven more followers into Yakshas and Rakshasas, triggering a fierce battle around the Black Lotus.
• The monster tide swept across the land and devoured high platforms, so Yu Ci fled with his Void Movement Talisman as Shadow Ghost warned him about the Hungry Ghost Path’s divine ability.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost noticed that Ling Xi Wanderer had moved without Yu Ci’s command.

Ling Xi Wanderer secretly scraped something from the black lotus before Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived and seized most of its fragments. As the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram expelled the battlefield’s combatants, Yu Ci’s Xuan Ling Yin connected him to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light and left him standing alone.

• Ling Xi Wanderer disguised his escape amid the fighting, scraped the black lotus with his stinger, and fled while Yu Ci recognized the lotus’s influence on him.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable arrived as a Ksitigarbha avatar and sent a giant hand to seize the black lotus, while Elder Long cut the hand with his Heaven Has No Sun technique.
• The severed hand lost its connection to Ten Directions Great Venerable, and the black lotus scattered into eighteen petals that were ground into fragments.
• Shadow Ghost explained that the lotus was only a projection of the Hell Path’s fundamental laws, not a restored Six Paths Samsara.
• The Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram began shifting the battlefield, but the Xuan Ling Yin’s magnetic fire anchored Yu Ci and connected him to the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.
• The battlefield’s combatants were expelled, with Ten Directions Great Venerable claiming most of the lotus fragments, while Yu Ci remained alone on the ground.

Yu Ci learned to steer Xuan Ling Yin through the moving Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light and used his natal star to navigate the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion. He discovered a monk’s skeleton burning in Karmic Fire, and a magic treasure fragment flew into its Buddha bone, igniting a strange golden flame.

• Yu Ci realized Xuan Ling Yin let him escape the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram and ride the flowing magnetic force.
• Yu Ci used his connection to his natal star to determine his direction, steer Xuan Ling Yin, and reach solid ground.
• Yu Ci found a monk’s skeleton burning in Karmic Fire near the Concave Pit, and the shadow ghost identified it as the remains of a high-level Buddhist cultivator.
• The shadow ghost explained that the monk’s death might be linked to a demonic tribulation and discussed Buddhist schemes involving the Ten Dharma Worlds and Six Paths Samsara.
• Yu Ci exposed a magic treasure fragment, which shot into the skeleton’s right-hand Buddha bone and triggered a golden flame.

Yu Ci investigated the golden flame and the skeleton’s finger bone, then sensed Zhao Ziyue arriving to claim the remains. Miao Xiang intercepted Zhao Ziyue and asked for a section of Buddha bone, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Yu Ci fed magical treasure fragments into the skeleton’s golden-flamed finger bone and observed that the fragments were absorbed and transformed within it.
• Yu Ci copied the skeleton into his Inner Void and noticed that it sat in the full lotus position, but distant chains clattering interrupted his investigation.
• Yu Ci severed the skeleton’s right index finger with the Seven Star Sword and sent divine intent toward the approaching disturbance.
• Zhao Ziyue used the Ding Shan Anchor to reach the skeleton, covered it with a bronze bell, and began sealing its Karmic Fire so he could take it away.
• Miao Xiang attacked Zhao Ziyue with Yin Illusion Fire, stopped him from retrieving the remains, and asked him for a section of Buddha bone.

Zhao Ziyue tried to persuade Master Miao Xiang to leave the Buddha skeleton, warning that its vow-power and karmic force could endanger her cultivation. Zhai Que'er arrived and exposed that she and Miao Xiang were together, so Zhao Ziyue activated a prepared beast-spirit technique as the chapter ended.

• Master Miao Xiang cut Zhao Ziyue's iron chain with a jade blade, severing his retreat and inspecting the bronze bell.
• Zhao Ziyue told Miao Xiang that the skeleton belonged to Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha, whose vow to reconstruct Six Paths Samsara had saturated the remains with dangerous vow-power.
• Zhao Ziyue questioned Miao Xiang's use of Buddha bone for her Yin Illusion Sarira and offered to connect her with figures who could help her cultivation.
• Zhai Que'er arrived through the void, and Zhao Ziyue realized she and Master Miao Xiang were together.
• Zhao Ziyue activated his protective artifact and summoned a colossal beast from the ground with Demonic Blood Transforms Jade and Beast Spirit Summoning.

Zhao Ziyue used the Northern Peak Divine Seal’s beasts, a bronze bell, and a sudden breakthrough to wound Miaoxiang and escape with the burning skeleton, while Zhai Que'er and Miaoxiang discussed its connection to the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha. Elsewhere, Yu Ci confirmed the skeleton matched the Great Accomplishment Buddha Shrine of Radiant Glass and discussed their discovery with the Shadow Ghost.

• Zhao Ziyue drew the Northern Peak Divine Seal’s venomous insects and savage beasts toward the battle, then charged through Miaoxiang’s Yin Illusion Fire and was struck by Zhai Que'er’s Blood Defeating Needle.
• Zhao Ziyue shattered the bronze bell covering the burning skeleton, and its blast and Karmic Fire injured Miaoxiang.
• Zhao Ziyue displayed Step into Void cultivation and a powerful scarlet flame ring, forcing Miaoxiang to teleport away before he embraced the skeleton and escaped through a restriction.
• Zhai Que'er warned Miaoxiang that Zhao Ziyue had triggered the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram’s restriction, and they discussed the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha before the Ten Directions Great Venerable appeared.
• Yu Ci’s Mind Image Clone killed a Flying Centipede near the Cloud Tower Tree, while Yu Ci confirmed the skeleton matched the Great Accomplishment Buddha Shrine of Radiant Glass.
• The Shadow Ghost recognized Monk Ci Guang and told Yu Ci that they had made a huge profit.

Yu Ci attempted to receive the vow attached to Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s Buddha bone and witnessed memories revealing how the Buddha reshaped the hell and hungry ghost paths. The memory left him with the discovery that Ci Guang had torn apart the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm to use as material for rebuilding the Six Paths Samsara.

• Shadow Spirit explained that the Buddha bone carried an unfulfilled vow and that Yu Ci could gain power by undertaking it.
• Yu Ci reasoned that Ci Guang’s vow might be transmitted to him on favorable terms, then set up an altar and reached into the Buddha bone.
• Yu Ci bypassed the fragments chanting “Ten Directions” and contacted the faint presence within the bone.
• The Buddha bone showed Yu Ci memories of Ci Guang’s past, including his vow to sacrifice his body and reshape samsara.
• Yu Ci learned that Ci Guang used Heart Refining Dharma Fire and the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm to restore the hell and hungry ghost paths.

Yu Ci uncovered how Lu Chen’s Dingyuan Hammer shattered the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm and learned that the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s second vow required gathering and reforging its scattered fragments. Despite the Shadow Ghost’s protests, Yu Ci accepted the vow and was blessed by a manifestation of Boundless Life Buddha.

• Yu Ci relived the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s battle with Lu Chen and learned that the Dingyuan Hammer had shattered the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm.
• Yu Ci saw that the Buddha had fallen into the demonic path under a powerful figure’s manipulation before recovering his memories in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Yu Ci explained to the Shadow Ghost that the Buddha’s second vow required collecting the scattered fragments of the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm and reforging them in the heart-refining dharma fire.
• The Shadow Ghost rejected the vow as impossible to complete, but Yu Ci solemnly accepted it.
• A Buddha statue appeared in brilliant light, and Yu Ci received a seven-colored blessing as the Shadow Ghost recognized the Buddha sect’s great vow diligent dharma, Cultivating Supreme Vow and Boundless Light.

Yu Ci used the Boundless Buddha Light to shift his natal star into the White Tiger stellar region, transforming his vital breath and completing two talismans. He explained that he would wait until his next tier advancement before shifting again, then prepared to cultivate in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.

• Yu Ci chose to use the Boundless Buddha Light to refine the White Tiger Seven Mansions Induction Heart Art and called upon the White Tiger stellar region.
• Yu Ci severed his life-and-death connection with his old natal star and established a new one in the White Tiger stellar region, gaining the ability to wield White Tiger baleful force through his breath and movements.
• Yu Ci used the remaining Buddha light to complete the Rainbow Cutting Light Extinguishing Method and the Grand Unity Smoke Capital Starfire Talisman, but could not yet form a seed true talisman for the Profound Treasury Flying Star Great Refining Art.
• Yu Ci told Ying Gui that feeding Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm Shards into the metal moth could provide more Buddha light, and that he would wait for his next tier advancement before shifting his stellar palace again.
• Yu Ci said he would cultivate in seclusion in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion for up to three months, then threw the Xuan Ling Yin out of the Cloud Tower Tree space.

Yu Ci used the Heart Refining Dharma Fire to test refining artifacts while scavenging the ruined Solitary Hell. He discovered that the Equality Bead could disrupt his connection to the Magnetic Light Myriad Transformations Bottle, revealing one of Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s blessings.

• Yu Ci moved through the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion while the Ten Directions Great Venerable and Elder Long battled, then drew the Heart Refining Dharma Fire into the Buddha bone finger.
• Yu Ci examined the bead forged from the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm shards and traveled to Solitary Hell.
• Yu Ci collected abandoned magical artifacts and tested the Heart Refining Dharma Fire by refining a flying sword into a crude sword pellet.
• Yu Ci found the Magnetic Light Myriad Transformations Bottle, which had lost one heaven of power after enduring Karmic Fire.
• The bottle linked to Yu Ci and gathered magnetic thunder, but removing the Pratyekabuddha bead broke their connection.
• Yu Ci identified the bead as the Equality Bead, a blessing left by Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha.