Chapter Summaries

Zhao Ziyue arranged for the black cat to seal and protect two people in exchange for fresh Rakshasa intelligence, while Yu Ci attended an auction with Gu Zhi and learned that Xin Yi had made a move in the Graveyard of Grudges. The auction hall then shook violently, and Lu Suhua blamed the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect for destabilizing the earth veins around the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.

• Zhao Ziyue asked the black cat to protect the souls of two people, and she agreed in exchange for Rakshasa intelligence from about ten days earlier.
• Zhan Shuicheng recognized the presence as the Great Brahma Demon King and wondered why he had begun using karmic force.
• Gu Zhi brought Yu Ci to an auction, where Yu Ci bought Dragon-Attracting Incense and Gu Zhi won a small medicine cauldron.
• Gu Zhi told Yu Ci that Xin Yi had made a major move in the Graveyard of Grudges and began explaining the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• The auction hall shook, and Lu Suhua blamed the Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect for destabilizing the earth veins around the secret mansion.

The Eastern Branch of the Demonic Sect set the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion loose from Xin Yi’s restrictions, while the Pan Huang Sect prepared to exploit the growing disorder. In Fengdu City, Yu Ci avoided rushing back to the mansion and was approached by Shen Wan with a business proposal.

• Zhai Que'er’s group waited for Ten Directions Great Venerable and Lu Suhua as the earthquake disrupted the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and a cultivator was thrown back by the sects’ search.
• Ci Qu and Po Jie instructed the Pan Huang Sect disciples to unite and planned to steer another group into the crisis while avoiding evidence that would expose their sect.
• Yu Ci declined to join the rush toward the mansion, and Gu Zhi explained that he could not afford to risk it either.
• Huangfu Jie arrived with Shen Wan and argued that the Suixin Dharma Assembly could continue; bidders returned to the auction hall.
• Shen Wan asked Yu Ci to do business with her, and Gu Zhi reminded her that Yu Ci was a guest of the Evergreen Gate.

Yu Ci accompanied Shen Wan and Gu Zhi to meet Su Yu of Half-Mountain Island, who wanted him to purify a batch of impure Infant Tongue Incense. He agreed to test the ingredient first and began examining it in a quiet room.

• Shen Wan took Yu Ci and Gu Zhi to the Heavenly Script Branch to discuss a business arrangement with Su Yu.
• Guan Zheng greeted them, and Gu Zhi recognized Su Yu as Azure Wave Flying Flame, whom Yu Ci had met in the Sword Garden.
• Su Yu explained that Half-Mountain Island needed an incense master to refine a batch of impure Infant Tongue Incense.
• Yu Ci agreed to help if the compensation was suitable, then asked to inspect the ingredient before making a commitment.
• Su Yu gave Yu Ci a box of Infant Tongue Incense, and he put a pellet in the Buddha Bone Furnace while consulting the Unnamed Incense Scripture.

Yu Ci studied the Unnamed Incense Scripture and used the Heart Refining Dharma Fire to refine a pure piece of Infant Tongue Incense. Discovering that Sea Crossing Fragrance could conceal a person from heavenly sensing and tribulations, he realized its significance, then showed Su Yu both the ruined piece and his successful refinement.

• Yu Ci learned that Infant Tongue Incense came from the East China Sea and that the piece he was refining had been spoiled by the sea worm's corpse poison.
• Yu Ci used the Heart Refining Dharma Fire to produce a new piece of pure Infant Tongue Incense.
• Yu Ci found that Sea Crossing Fragrance could hide and deceive heaven, disrupting divine sensing and evading heavenly tribulations.
• Yu Ci apologized to Su Yu for ruining one piece, then revealed the successful piece for her inspection.
• Guan Zheng celebrated Yu Ci's success, while Gu Zhi remarked to Shen Wan that he seemed to have come for nothing.

Yu Ci secured a long-term business arrangement with Su Yu and learned why Half-Mountain Island urgently needed infant tongue incense to shield Ye Bin from tribulation. As the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion descended deeper underground, escalating conflict and demonic surges pushed the Graveyard of Grudges toward catastrophe.

• Yu Ci explained his special incense-refining method to Su Yu, and they agreed that he would continue refining the remaining infant tongue incense as part of a long-term partnership.
• Gu Zhi warned Yu Ci against becoming too involved in Eastern Sea affairs, while Shen Wan invited him to do business in the southern lands.
• Yu Ci used spiritual will to overhear Su Yu explain that Half-Mountain Island depended on sea crossing incense to conceal Ye Bin's growing tribulation threat until the Old Ancestor recovered.
• Yu Ci concluded that Ye Bin's tribulation was tied to a Devil Master and resolved to prepare countermeasures while refining another block of infant tongue incense.
• At the Graveyard of Grudges, a Pan Huang Sect disciple's death sparked clashes between sects, while the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion broke free of its restrictions and unleashed stronger heavenly demons.

Yang Zhu struggled to contain the heavenly demons and the swelling crowd as the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion opened, but greed sparked a demonic tribulation that overwhelmed the sect cultivators. As Zhao Ziyue and Ci Qu prepared to seize the mansion’s central hub, a void-rending red light appeared, revealing that a Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation had begun.

• Yang Zhu failed to reach Xin Yi at first, fought the heavenly demons, and broke the spell obstructing his transmission talisman to Xin Tianjun.
• The earth shook again, the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion opened, and Northern Wastes outlaws surged toward it as greed spread into a demonic tribulation.
• Tang He recognized that hidden forces were using the crowd, but chose to gather his men and rush into the secret mansion with the advancing horde.
• Ci Qu and Zhao Ziyue discussed how Xin Yi would bear the karma of the tribulation and decided to prioritize seizing the mansion’s central hub.
• A rift opened above the tornado, and Ci Qu recognized the red light as the Void-Piercing Demonic Thought and Soul-Swaying Divine Light of the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation.
• Zhao Ziyue transformed into black light and charged toward the opening.

Zhai Que'er, the black robe, and Dragon Elder entered the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as its defenses failed, while the black robe abandoned them to seek the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage. Zhao Ziyue redirected him toward the masters' burial site, and Daoist Duanyang fought Po Jie into the mansion, where their clash struck down an unknown cultivator.

• Zhai Que'er guessed that Lu Suhua had allowed Xin Yi to break the forbidden zone, then split the group so Gao Ji could lead the others along the normal route while she, Dragon Elder, and the black robe took a hidden route.
• Zhai Que'er, Dragon Elder, and the black robe entered the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion as its divided voids merged and the soul-swaying divine light intensified.
• The black robe tunneled away from Zhai Que'er and Dragon Elder to search the central peaks, but Zhao Ziyue told him the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage was kept at the masters' burial site in a black stone hall to the northwest.
• The black robe abandoned his attack on a peak's restrictions and headed toward the burial site after Zhao Ziyue warned him that combining the Molten Core Prison Technique with the secret method would be difficult.
• Daoist Duanyang defended himself against Po Jie's formless sword as they fought down into the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, and their sword Qi shattered the bones of a nearby cultivator.
• Thousands of miles away, a cultivator undergoing routine cultivation groaned, sat upright, and stared toward the western sky.

Yu Ci traced the White Tiger stellar power to a remnant spirit and discovered that his divine-intent starlight had taken root as a magic seed, revealing valuable incense-blending knowledge. A demonic sacrifice then drew heavenly demons into the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, where a Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation began as Black Robe moved to claim the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage.

• Yu Ci followed the tiny flow of White Tiger stellar power to Ling Xi Wanderer's ruined corpse and found the broken remnant spirit that had survived through the divine-intent starlight.
• Yu Ci tried to remove the starlight but discovered that it had rooted throughout the remnant spirit as a magic seed, stirring memories of Ling Xi Wanderer and Old Man Zhang.
• The magic seed revealed Ling Xi Wanderer's extensive incense-blending knowledge, including information that helped Yu Ci resolve questions from the Unnamed Incense Scripture.
• A heavenly demon tried to devour the remnant spirit, but strange red light swept through the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and drew in demons that burned amid descending incantations.
• Yu Ci recognized the red light and the demons' destruction as a sacrifice that had triggered the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation, while Black Robe declared his intent to claim the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage.
• Female Immortal Zhao Yang appeared outside the dark building and asked Black Robe which prize he wanted.

Lu Suhua tricked Black Robe into opening the black stone hall, where she left him only one True Form Immortal Molt as Heavenly Demons began claiming the others. After learning she had already extracted the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage, Black Robe fled, while Zhai Que'er decided to withdraw from the secret mansion contest and visit the hall first.

• Lu Suhua offered Black Robe half of the remains in the black stone hall, then divided the hall with her sword and let him choose a side.
• As the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation intensified, Lu Suhua vanished and Heavenly Demons began possessing the six True Form Immortal Molts.
• Black Robe discovered that the remains had empty brain palaces and realized Lu Suhua had already extracted the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage.
• Black Robe took one remain, uncovered traces of Lu Suhua's spirit-drawing art, and fled underground as his fury left him vulnerable to Heavenly Demon corruption.
• Zhai Que'er explained to Elder Long that their mission was a test from her master and that their party had become the weakest competitor.
• Zhai Que'er decided to withdraw with Elder Long, but first proposed visiting the black stone hall.

Zhai Que'er and Elder Long investigated the Heavenly Demon Puppets while Yu Ci hid in the black stone hall and sorted through memories in the demon seed. As the hall began to buckle under the turmoil outside, Xin Yi’s tribulation drew challenges from other cultivators, and the Five Thunder Department answered a command from Tianjun.

• Zhai Que'er and Elder Long entered the black stone hall, where Zhai Que'er examined the awakening puppets and discussed the origins and purpose of the Twelve Heavens of Jade Firmament's Profound Passage.
• Yu Ci overheard their conversation and settled in a sheltered corner, determined to preserve the demon seed and organize Ling Xi Wanderer's incense-related memories.
• The pressure around the secret mansion surged, shaking the black stone hall as Yang Zhu ordered everyone to retreat a hundred li while Xin Tianjun underwent the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation.
• A familiar voice, which Yu Ci suspected belonged to Zhao Ziyue, refused to retreat and said they would watch from outside.
• Yang Zhu confronted a puppet demonic beast, another cultivator dismissed the creatures formed from Killing Intent, and thunderous golden light filled the hall as the Five Thunder Department answered Tianjun's command.

Zhao Ziyue sealed the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion and trapped Xin Yi’s enemies inside, while Xin Yi answered with a lightning prison and refused Zhao’s bargain. The End Law Lord then used the six Heavenly Demon Puppets to seal Xin Yi and challenged him with the threat of harm to his fellow disciples.

• Xin Yi’s Five Thunder Department fought the Heavenly Demon Puppets as Yang Zhu and Zhao Ziyue confronted each other.
• After Baoguang burst from the southwestern peak, Zhao Ziyue shook the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, sealed its exits, and trapped the cultivators inside.
• Yang Zhu tried to attack Zhao Ziyue, but Zhao fled into the peaks as Xin Yi unleashed lightning that pinned thousands of cultivators down.
• Xin Yi’s lightning talisman imprisoned Zhao Ziyue, who offered to leave Xin Yi the core if Xin Yi yielded the surrounding area.
• Xin Yi rejected Zhao Ziyue’s offer, and the End Law Lord’s giant hand destroyed the six Heavenly Demon Puppets and sealed Xin Yi.
• The End Law Lord threatened Xin Yi with the fate of his fellow disciples, testing whether that appeal to righteousness could disturb him.

Xin Yi resisted the giant hand prison and began an extraordinary ascent of aura, while Zhao Ziyue and Ci Qu seized control of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion. The chapter ended as Xin Yi’s power revealed the Thirty-Six Heavens, dwarfing the demonic tribulation and prison around him.

• The Void-Piercing Demonic Thought imprisoned Xin Yi and shifted its pressure toward Yang Zhu and Zhao Ziyue, while Zhao Ziyue broke free of the Five Thunder Department’s prison.
• Zhao Ziyue activated the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion’s central hub with his blood, then fought Yang Zhu while Ci Qu refined the stone stele and installed an emergency array disk.
• Xin Yi struck the giant hand prison and declared that one who could not shoulder righteousness had no face to cross a tribulation.
• Xin Yi released clear light into the void vortex, triggering successive layers of aura cleansing that Yang Zhu and Zhao Ziyue watched rise above the demonic tribulation.
• Xin Yi’s ascent reached thirty-six heavens, and the giant hand prison became tiny and distant beside the worlds unfolding above him.

Yu Ci watched Xin Yi transform the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion into the Thirty-Six Heavens, driving the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation down through its tiers. The spectacle gave Yu Ci new insight into developing his Inner Void, while Zhai Que'er and Elder Long wondered whether Xin Yi had truly created the legendary heavens from his Yang God.

• Xin Yi transformed the secret mansion into a layered heavenly realm that categorized its inhabitants and surroundings.
• Xin Yi shouted “Cast down!” and sent the Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation plunging through more than twenty tiers until most of it vanished.
• Yu Ci recognized Xin Yi’s technique as an expression of Inner Void and Inner Scenery Outer Manifestation, and reconsidered how to organize his own Inner Void.
• Yu Ci recalled the Xuan Sect’s Thirty-Six Heavens conception after hearing Yang Zhu name it.
• Zhai Que'er recognized the Thirty-Six Heavens outside the secret mansion, and she and Elder Long discussed Xin Yi’s history and the rumor that he had fashioned the heavens from his Yang God.

Xin Yi used the Thirty-Six Heavens to overcome Potadi’s demonic tribulation, but Potadi’s final warning revealed that the heavens’ growth was destabilizing Xin Yi’s Glazed Golden Body. As Xin Yi’s light distorted and the heavens continued evolving, someone saw an opportunity.

• Zhai Que'er and Elder Long watched the Thirty-Six Heavens expand and discussed the danger of Xin Yi manifesting the Three Pure Realms and achieving celestial enterprise.
• Potadi protested its placement in the twenty-eighth heaven and tried to distract Xin Yi while searching for a way to escape.
• Xin Yi threatened to reveal Potadi’s true name, then shouted it down through the heavens, destroying its Void-Piercing Demonic Thought and collapsing its cage.
• Potadi’s remaining thought warned that Xin Yi’s Yang God had made the Thirty-Six Heavens top-heavy before his talisman artifacts and physical womb could prove the Dao.
• Yang Zhu saw Xin Yi’s Glazed Golden Body distort as the heavens kept evolving, while someone else secretly recognized an opportunity.

Xin Yi used the Thirty-Six Heavens to suppress Zhao Ziyue, while Ci Qu restored the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion’s earth veins and restarted its formation. Zhao Ziyue was reduced to ash by Karmic Fire, but a human figure began to form in the flames as Xin Yi and the others remained locked in the struggle.

• Zhao Ziyue tried to escape the Thirty-Six Heavens, but Xin Yi drew him into the Dragon Transformation Brahma Degree Heaven.
• Zhao Ziyue used moving mountains and filling seas to reconnect the earth veins outside the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Ci Qu restarted the array disk as the restored earth veins increased the burden on Xin Yi and the Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Xin Yi cast Zhao Ziyue down through the heavens and into the mortal world, where Karmic Fire consumed his body.
• Xin Yi warned Yang Zhu to stay back and said that he could keep bearing the Thirty-Six Heavens despite the strain.
• Black flames rose from the spot where Zhao Ziyue had turned to ash, and a human figure began to take shape within them.

Xin Yi and Zhao Ziyue clashed inside the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion while Ci Qu used a powerful sword token and array to escape underground. True Man Guangwei arrived to aid Xin Yi, and Zhao Ziyue fled after Xin Yi discovered that a seal had concealed his true depths.

• Xin Yi and Zhao Ziyue exchanged attacks and taunts as their divine intents clashed, with Zhao Ziyue’s black flames pressing Xin Yi back.
• Ci Qu activated the Nether Void Thunder Sword Array with the Thunder-Slaying Calamity-Averting Token and plunged the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion underground.
• Yang Zhu could not stop Ci Qu and flew toward the gathered cultivators to organize a response.
• True Man Guangwei entered through the Thirty-Six Heavens and enclosed Xin Yi in a talisman array.
• Xin Yi sensed that a seal had concealed Zhao Ziyue’s true depths, prompting Zhao Ziyue to flee underground.

Xin Yi invoked Empress Earth to seal the Five Elements and unleash the Yellow Springs against Zhao Ziyue and Ci Qu underground. Zhao Ziyue planted his Black Lotus in the central stele, and Ci Qu prepared the Nether Void Thunder Sword Array to strike back as Xin Yi’s divine ability began to fail.

• Ci Qu drew Earth Lung Poisonous Gas into the secret mansion, releasing poisonous mist and yin fire among the cultivators.
• True Man Guangwei stabilized Xin Yi’s Talisman Artifact body as Xin Yi invoked Empress Earth and used Point Earth to Become Steel across the seven central peaks.
• The divine ability sealed Ci Qu’s thoughts and left him vulnerable while a torrent of Yellow Springs death qi surged underground.
• Ci Qu activated the Thunder-Slaying Calamity-Averting Token to resist the Yellow Springs, while Zhao Ziyue gave him a Black Lotus to plant in the central stone stele.
• Zhao Ziyue drove back the Yellow Springs with Karmic Fire, and Ci Qu unleashed Sword Qi and nether thunder from underground as Point Earth to Become Steel weakened.

Xin Yi used the Thirty-Six Heavens and Empress Earth's power to destroy Zhao Ziyue and seal the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion. The secret mansion sank beneath the earth, bound by a vast chain of talisman sub-forms.

• Xin Yi exploited the flaws in Zhao Ziyue's combination of karmic manifestation and the Grand Profound Seal, then Empress Earth's divine pupils crushed him to powder.
• Zhao Ziyue's consciousness briefly re-formed, but the Grand Profound Seal was destroyed and evil karma consumed his remaining awareness.
• Zhao Ziyue's hidden mechanism unleashed spreading karmic fire that threatened to burn through the Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Empress Earth's dharma image descended a baoguang seal onto the hub of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, while a figure escaped from underground amid Purple Thunder and sword qi.
• Xin Yi, True Man Guangwei, and Yang Zhu left the secret mansion and watched it sink, wrapped in a chain of bright yellow light and talisman sub-forms.

Xin Yi sealed the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion deep underground, relying on the Yellow Springs and its guardians to deter intruders while acknowledging that the defenses could not stop every plot. Yu Ci remained inside to protect the remnant demon seed and discovered Zhao Ziyue transformed by karmic fire into a Hell Being.

• True Man Guangwei identified a dead-yin chasm, and Xin Yi locked the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion more than five hundred li beneath the surface.
• The Yellow Springs encircled the mansion, and two ley-line yellow dragons guarded it, while True Man Guangwei warned that determined schemers could still get through.
• Yang Zhu argued that intruders who tried anything beyond theft would expose themselves, and Xin Yi agreed the defenses could serve as an alarm.
• Xin Yi complained that Potadi had forced him to expend his Thirty-Six Heavens and damage his cultivation, prompting Yu Ci's remnant demon seed to doubt his account.
• Yu Ci decided to find a safe refuge for the remnant demon seed and seek help from his primary body or the shadow ghost.
• Yu Ci spotted Zhao Ziyue standing in the black karmic fire and recognized that he had become a Hell Being after Karmic Manifestation.

Yu Ci attended an auction with Gu Zhi and Guan Zheng while waiting for Shadow Ghost, and learned that his consigned treasures were being sold at the Suixin Dharma Assembly. After others noticed he seemed fatigued, Yu Ci examined himself and received a message from the true nature of his Primordial Spirit.

• Yu Ci waited for Shadow Ghost, then accepted Gu Zhi's invitation to an auction and brought Guan Zheng along.
• Gu Zhi and Guan Zheng both remarked that Yu Ci seemed less spirited, and Gu Zhi suspected he had exhausted himself refining Infant Tongue Incense.
• Yu Ci reviewed the auction listings and saw that the Nine Nether Prison was scheduled to be auctioned that day, while his Eight Flames Flag of Swift Wind had sold for less than it might have because of its unclear origins.
• Gu Zhi asked Shen Wan about a possible Yellow Springs Secret Mansion auction, and Shen Wan said the pavilion was still in contact with clients.
• Shen Wan also noticed Yu Ci seemed fatigued, so he examined himself in the private room and received a message from his Primordial Spirit.