Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci learned that the Equality Bead could override the refinement of magical treasures, though it could only be used once a day for ten breaths. He discussed the vow’s demands and the mystery of the Six Paths with the shadow ghost, then prepared to stay within the Northern Peak Divine Restriction for three months.

• Yu Ci explained that the Equality Bead could unleash a treasure’s full power regardless of its owner or refinement, but it required a day to recharge after ten breaths.
• Yu Ci told the shadow ghost that the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s vow involved gathering fragments, finding the other four paths of the Six Paths, and passing their whereabouts to the Western Buddhist Kingdom.
• Yu Ci and the shadow ghost considered whether the missing paths and fragments of the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm were hidden above the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• The shadow ghost explained why sword cultivators opposed the Buddhist Ten Dharma Worlds, and Yu Ci shared the Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha’s warning about Buddhist Dharma becoming a cosmic cage.
• As the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram began cleansing the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion again, Yu Ci said he would remain within the Northern Peak Divine Restriction for three months.

Yu Ci refined his long-term plan for growing stronger while avoiding a direct confrontation with the demonic spirit from Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha. In the Northern Peak Divine Seal, he tested his strengthened talismans against waves of ferocious spirits, while Black Robe sought Zhai Que'er’s help in the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.

• Yu Ci decided to gather Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm Shards and advance his cultivation before risking a fight against the powerful demonic spirit.
• Black Robe reasoned that the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram might have developed self-interest and ordered Ling Xi Wanderer to find Zhai Que'er.
• Yu Ci used the Profound Treasury Flying Star Great Salvation Art to kill the toad-like spirit and the flying insects that were guiding a wave of beasts toward him.
• Yu Ci destroyed the approaching spirits with his Nine Luminaries Dragon Abyss Sword Talisman and Grand Unity Smoke Capital Starfire Talismans, bringing his count to a hundred spirits.

Yu Ci completed the first God Slaying Thorn by gathering the spirits of Core Formation-level beasts, then used Gu Diao’s inner core to strengthen it and temper his White Tiger killing intent. He began the final thousandfold forging that could help him advance toward the Xuanwu stage.

• Yu Ci killed three Core Formation-level venomous insects and savage beasts with the God Slaying Thorn and absorbed their resentful spirits.
• Yu Ci retreated into the Cloud Tower Tree space and confirmed that his Hundred Spirits Manifesting Gauze had formed a God Slaying Thorn.
• Yu Ci felt the White Tiger’s baleful influence intensify his urge to fight, then steadied himself and explained how forging the thorn could temper his killing intent.
• Yu Ci pierced Gu Diao’s inner core with the God Slaying Thorn and absorbed the demon’s phantom after subduing it with his White Tiger balefulness.
• Yu Ci poured his accumulated killing intent into the God Slaying Thorn and began forging it a thousand times.

Yu Ci stabilized the collapsing God Slaying Thorn with the Primordial Formless Sword and Heart Refining Dharma Fire, then investigated why the beasts were drawn away from the Northern Peak Divine Seal. He discovered Miaoxiang releasing witch poison to attract and feed the beasts, though the process was consuming her life force and risking her foundation.

• Yu Ci's overtempering caused some of the Hundred Spirits Killing Intent to collapse, so he used the Primordial Formless Sword to support the God Slaying Thorn.
• Yu Ci hunted poisonous insects and savage beasts, then pursued the migrating tide and gathered enough resentful Baleful Intent to restore the Thorn's structure.
• Yu Ci refined the God Slaying Thorn with Heart Refining Dharma Fire, stabilizing it and bringing it closer to his mind and spirit.
• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and a flying insect carrying his divine intent to trace the migrating creatures to a patch of gray mist.
• Yu Ci recognized Miaoxiang in the mist and realized she was using witch poison to lure the beasts, while sacrificing her life force and risking further harm to her foundation.

Yu Ci watched a powerful intruder break into the Northern Peak region and rescue Miaoxiang from the witch poison. Miaoxiang recognized the newcomer as Female Immortal Zhao Yang, and Yu Ci fled as Zhao Yang’s rainbow bridge appeared overhead.

• Yu Ci considered helping Miaoxiang but judged that he could not safely reach her through the swarms of venomous insects and savage beasts.
• A mysterious figure shattered the Northern Peak’s defenses with thunder and opened a passage through the witch-poison mist to Miaoxiang.
• The figure questioned Miaoxiang about her agreement with the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram and the Demonic Sect’s actions in the forbidden zone.
• The figure unleashed the Rainbow Shadow Sword and Sun Concealing Ring, scattering the creatures and injuring Miaoxiang through the backlash.
• Miaoxiang identified the newcomer as Female Immortal Zhao Yang, and Yu Ci fled toward the depths of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as a rainbow bridge spanned the sky.

Zhao Yang used Miao Xiang and a bronze alms bowl to open a path into the Five Sacred Peaks’ forbidden zone, leaving Miao Xiang under attack by a Formless Heavenly Demon. Yu Ci survived Zhao Yang’s sword strike with a Mind Image Clone, then emerged from hiding to find Miao Xiang and the longevity True Man gone and the surrounding atmosphere changed.

• Zhao Yang shielded herself and Miao Xiang from the Four Extremes Celestial Star Divine Prohibition with the Sun Concealing Ring and led Miao Xiang toward the Central Peak.
• Zhao Yang made Miao Xiang hold a bronze alms bowl that drained her vital essence and revealed Apsara figures resembling her.
• Zhao Yang commanded the Five Sacred Peaks Origin Spirit to open a passage into the Mystic Talisman Spirit Sealing Divine Ability Forbidden Zone, then left Miao Xiang behind with the bowl.
• The Formless Heavenly Demon invaded Miao Xiang through the bowl and their linked vital energies, while the Five Sacred Peaks Origin Spirit panicked as the old remnants began to stir.
• Yu Ci revealed that his Mind Image Clone had taken Zhao Yang’s sword strike in his place, and he stayed hidden in the Cloud Tower Tree space until the danger passed.
• Yu Ci emerged to find Miao Xiang and the longevity True Man gone, and sensed that the surrounding atmospheric conditions had become strange.

Tushan led the Great Evolution Formation toward the Central Peak, but a heavenly demon infiltrated the formation through Ge Fu and overwhelmed the linked cultivators. Meanwhile, Yu Ci prepared to fuse the Six Talismans of the Primordial Stars, and the chapter ended as he asked whether the hour had arrived.

• Tushan guided the Great Evolution Formation through the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram toward the Central Peak.
• Ge Fu emerged from a temporary tunnel and charged at the formation, where Tushan killed him with the Heaven-Piercing Dharma Palm.
• A heavenly demon used Ge Fu as a blood sacrifice to penetrate the Heavenly Evolution Pearl and overwhelm Tushan and the linked talisman cultivators.
• Yu Ci's Profound Truth Star-Crossing Great Refining Technique formed a seed true talisman, completing the Six Talismans of the Primordial Stars.
• Yu Ci continued preparing to fuse the talismans while Shadow Ghost worried about his distracted state and his thoughts about Miaoxiang.
• Yu Ci asked whether the hour had arrived.

Yu Ci advanced his Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman into his purple palace and confronted the buried frustration and powerlessness exposed by the breakthrough. He sealed those emotions into the God Slaying Thorn long enough to advance, then began shifting his life-and-death mechanism away from Bi Xiu toward the void.

• Yu Ci finished tempering the God Slaying Thorn and discussed its strength and the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s methods with Shadow Ghost.
• Yu Ci decided to raise his Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman into his purple palace and activated the Six Talismans of the Primordial Stars.
• As the golden talisman illuminated his divine soul, Yu Ci’s suppressed anger, unwillingness, powerlessness, and sorrow surged into view.
• Yu Ci used the God Slaying Thorn to suppress and seal his negative emotions, breaking through the barrier and advancing to a new level.
• The breakthrough propelled Yu Ci’s palace-shifting method, moving his life-and-death profound mechanism away from Bi Xiu and into the void.

Yu Ci sealed away the sword-related power within him and completed his shift from the White Tiger Star Region into the Black Tortoise. He arrived at the Chamber Mansion’s Bei Luo Shi Men, where a bright star began pouring Black Tortoise star power into his Life and Death Profound Mechanism.

• Yu Ci used the God Slaying Thorn, the Breath-Light Evasion Technique, and Black Tortoise star power to gather his qi inward and suppress the White Tiger’s baleful edge.
• The Shadow Ghost realized Yu Ci was forging a cultivation method and watched as he steadily refined it.
• Yu Ci sensed the Black Tortoise’s form but refused to rely on the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm Shards to secure his passage.
• Recalling the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s instruction to compress his power until he could kill, Yu Ci sealed away his sword intents and other sword-related powers.
• Yu Ci awoke inside the Black Tortoise Star Region, where a bright star in the Chamber Mansion received his Life and Death Profound Mechanism and infused it with star power.

Yu Ci refined the God Slaying Thorn inside a vow-bound furnace and discovered that his new upper Returning Core cultivation resonated with the Black Tortoise as he fought off the Nine Springs Affliction Prison. The chapter ended with Yu Ci detecting a heavenly demon and preparing to kill it with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.

• Yu Ci discussed his furnace for refining the God Slaying Thorn with Shadow Ghost and explained that his vow prevented him from drawing his sword until it could kill its target.
• Yu Ci sensed ghost soldiers and spectral pawns pursuing the Cloud Tower Tree, then used his Natal Golden Talisman and Nameless Tribulation Star Soul Shattering Divine Light to destroy their formations and Yin Sha pythons.
• Yu Ci noticed a new Black Tortoise resonance arising from his entrusted star while his Natal Golden Talisman stirred the surrounding vitality.
• A hidden attack pierced Yu Ci's protective robe, but the True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade shielded him from its cold power.
• Yu Ci revealed the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and identified the attacker as a heavenly demon.

Yu Ci discovered that heavenly demons were appearing within the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and decided to leave before the area became more dangerous. Before departing, he received a Shangqing Sect legacy containing the Four Spirits Dharma Aspect, then recalled the woman trapped in the Mystic Talisman Spirit Sealing Divine Ability Forbidden Zone.

• Yu Ci captured a weak heavenly demon in the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, then destroyed another that emerged from the Nine Heavens Yuan Magnetism Divine Light.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost suspected the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram was becoming a demon cave and agreed that Yu Ci should leave the secret mansion.
• Yu Ci received a Shangqing Sect practitioner's transmitted legacy and learned the Four Spirits Dharma Aspect, an auxiliary technique suited to his cultivation.
• Yu Ci compared the technique with Fu Long's Ten Manifestations of Fiendish Energy Technique and noticed similarities in how they operated manifested true sha.
• Yu Ci sensed that the woman who had triggered the trouble remained trapped in the Mystic Talisman Spirit Sealing Divine Ability Forbidden Zone.

Ling Xi Wanderer connected through the Future Star Tribulation Scripture with a nun who was cultivating the same technique, and their chanting helped both of them advance. After she transmitted the missing title of the great Buddha, a distant divine power answered their invocation, and Ling Xi Wanderer felt an overwhelming urge to flee.

• Ling Xi Wanderer sensed another practitioner chanting the Future Star Tribulation Scripture and secretly investigated the connection while the group rested in the Mystic Talisman Spirit Sealing Divine Ability Forbidden Zone.
• He and the other practitioner harmonized their chanting, exchanging insights as she rapidly completed the Lotus Seed tier.
• Ling Xi Wanderer recognized that the other practitioner was a nun and grew anxious when she began withdrawing into her lotus seed before his rest period ended.
• The nun transmitted the title Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, mending Ling Xi Wanderer's incomplete scripture and causing both practitioners to invoke the name.
• A distant mighty being answered their invocation with divine power, and Ling Xi Wanderer was overcome by the thought that he had to run.

The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva killed Ling Xi Wanderer by drawing the Hell Path petal from his Primordial Spirit lotus, while Yu Ci’s divine intent starlight remained inside his corpse. A Donghua Palace female cultivator later turned the body into a puppet and sent it away, leaving Yu Ci hidden within it.

• The Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva’s power withered Ling Xi Wanderer’s Primordial Spirit lotus and removed its Hell Path petal, killing him.
• Zhai Que'er confirmed Ling Xi Wanderer was truly dead as Black Robe planted a chain fire seed in the corpse before the group left.
• Yu Ci discovered his divine intent starlight remained in Ling Xi Wanderer’s brain palace and absorbed information from the dead cultivator’s consciousness.
• A Donghua Palace female cultivator arrived, recognized Black Robe’s tracking method, and used Old Man Zhang’s remnant soul to animate Ling Xi Wanderer’s corpse as a puppet.
• The female cultivator sent the puppet away, while Yu Ci’s divine intent starlight traveled with it and escaped her notice.

Zhang Yan alerted Dan Chu that a fish-dragon offered at the Suixin Dharma Assembly might be Yu Ci’s lost pet, while Yang Yin reported a severe demonic taint spreading through the Graveyard of Grudges. As the Li Chen Sect delegation prepared to respond alongside Xin Tianjun, Yu Ci severed his link to a puppet and readied his true body to leave the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.

• After escorting the Sword Garden relic treasures, Zhang Yan showed Dan Chu an auction notice for a fish-dragon that he recognized as Little Fellow, Yu Ci’s former pet.
• Zhang Yan told Dan Chu that Little Fellow had been lost during the Sword Garden gathering, raising concerns about the security of the jointly controlled site.
• Yang Yin arrived with news that Heavenly Demon Seeds had tainted the Graveyard of Grudges and spread through the earthly qi, affecting more than ten thousand ghost creatures.
• Yang Yin said Xin Tianjun had driven off Liu Guan and proposed that the Li Chen Sect delegation join the response; Dan Chu agreed, while Zhang Yan stayed behind to investigate the fish-dragon.
• Yu Ci judged that the puppet’s mixed soul fragments could provide little intelligence and severed his connection to the Divine Intent Starlight.
• Yu Ci’s Mind Image Clone carried the Cloud Tower Tree toward the edge of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, and Yu Ci prepared to leave.

Yu Ci reached the Central Peak and witnessed Ma Huai being overwhelmed by restriction arts and heavenly demons despite the protection of the Heavenly King Umbrella. As Ma Huai’s desires became a delusional realm that fed and strengthened the demons, they sensed Yu Ci nearby and lunged at him.

• Yu Ci was flung into the Central Peak position after the chaotic Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram disrupted his attempt to escape with the Cloud Tower Tree.
• Yu Ci spotted Ma Huai beneath the Heavenly King Umbrella’s Treasure Banner Buddha Light, besieged by heavenly demons and the diagram’s restriction arts.
• The Geng Metal sword lights pierced Ma Huai’s defenses, and a hidden heavenly demon broke through his mind, causing him to lose control.
• Ma Huai’s demonic delusions formed a small world of imagined pleasures that drained his essence and strengthened the heavenly demons.
• The Shadow Ghost warned Yu Ci about the demons’ danger, but they detected him and rushed to attack.

Yu Ci fought off the heavenly demons and destroyed Ma Huai’s demonic Yang God, causing most of the delusional realm to collapse. He discovered a damaged Wumeng Cicada Molt among Ma Huai’s remains and put it in the Buddha Bone Furnace, hoping to repair it with the Heart Refining Dharma Fire.

• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, Soul Shattering Divine Light, and True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade to fend off the heavenly demons and purge the demonic intent clinging to his brain palace.
• Yu Ci followed the heavenly demons’ source into the delusional realm and destroyed Ma Huai’s demonic Yang God, causing most of the realm to collapse.
• Yu Ci collected Ma Huai’s Heavenly King Umbrella and examined the remains, discovering that the apparent corpse was a damaged Wumeng Cicada Molt.
• The Shadow Ghost explained that the molt could disguise a body or serve as a shell for a bodiless being, and Yu Ci realized it explained how Ma Huai had continued using his qi channels as a ghost cultivator.
• Yu Ci placed the damaged molt in the Buddha Bone Furnace and began trying to repair it with the Heart Refining Dharma Fire.

Yu Ci escaped the rapidly shrinking Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram, only to find himself surrounded by a vast host of heavenly demons. As his Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror began to falter, he used the Equality Bead to extend its power and perceived an overwhelming tide of thoughts and desires.

• Yu Ci concealed the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s illumination and used his mind image clone to destroy heavenly demons within its five-mile range.
• The Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram shrank drastically, forcing Yu Ci to cross its violent primordial qi boundary with his defensive talismans and escape.
• Yu Ci discovered countless heavenly demons surging out from beneath the ground and gathering around him as the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror’s light grew unstable.
• Shadow Ghost urged the others to attack, and Yu Ci judged that the mirror could not hold out much longer against the surrounding demons.
• Yu Ci opened a vertical eye and used the Equality Bead to expand the mirror’s green light, then sensed an immense flood of thoughts, desires, and visions of death and madness.

Xin Yi organized the sects’ search for Heavenly Demons after sensing someone use the Boundless Void Soul Searching Demonization Art. Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to discover how demonic seeds formed and connected beings through fulfilled desires, then experienced a sudden awakening as the Equality Bead’s power ended.

• Xin Yi sensed the Boundless Void Soul Searching Demonization Art and gave sect disciples Yellow Turban Warrior Talismans to help search for Heavenly Demons.
• Yu Ci used the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to survey the void world and found a vast tide of negative thoughts and desires.
• Yu Ci recognized that the thoughts and desires shared a drive to seek something, and saw them gather into candle-like demonic seeds.
• Yu Ci recalled that empowering a demonic seed to fulfill a being’s desire would create a connection between them, like a Divine Path method.
• The Equality Bead’s time limit expired, and Yu Ci’s natal golden talisman, Primordial Spirit, and Inner Void icebergs stirred with light.

Yu Ci’s Primordial Spirit used the Grand Profound Seal to remove a hidden danger in his divine soul, but the effort consumed vital energy and triggered the Marrow Burning Curse. As the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram expelled corrupted Heavenly Demon Kin and Tushan attacked, Yu Ci tried to escape the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, only for a familiar figure to spread a forbidden zone across the sky.

• The iceberg drew the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon and its inner demons out of Yu Ci’s mind, but the effort left him exhausted and triggered the Marrow Burning Curse.
• Yu Ci realized his Primordial Spirit had invoked the Grand Profound Seal to address the iceberg’s threat to his future cultivation, at the cost of his innate vital energy.
• The Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram shrank and expelled people corrupted into Heavenly Demon Kin, followed by Tushan and the Great Evolution Formation.
• Yu Ci scattered into clones to evade Tushan’s Heaven-Piercing Dharma Palm, then burned through the Great Evolution Formation’s cloud qi and climbed toward an escape route.
• Yu Ci saw a familiar figure appear below as a ring of shadows spread across the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, and Shadow Ghost warned him not to enter the forbidden zone.

Yu Ci escaped the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and discovered the Wumeng Cicada Molt’s remarkable powers. In the Graveyard of Grudges, Master Miao Xiang confronted him with a fragrance that disrupted his senses, and Yu Ci prepared to face her.

• Yu Ci fled the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, extinguished the magnetic fire on the Xuan Ling Yin, and escaped through the earth as the ground shook behind him.
• Yu Ci sensed that the Buddha Bone Furnace had repaired the Wumeng Cicada Molt and learned that it could alter his form, give flesh and blood to spirits, or transform him into a Wumeng Heavenly Cicada larva.
• Yu Ci spotted Master Miao Xiang nearby and tried to escape by splitting into Grand Unity Star Pivot Clones.
• Miao Xiang’s fragrance overwhelmed Yu Ci’s senses, but the Heavenly Dragon True Intent awakened him and revealed that the fragrance had marked him.
• Yu Ci abandoned his escape attempt, summoned Black Tortoise star power, and faced Miao Xiang as she approached with a bronze alms bowl.