Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci and Zhu Wenying traced a cannon attack to Yan Luo Hall, where they found Lu Qing had killed the attackers. Lu Qing passed Yu Ci to approach the unconscious Bao Yun, and Yu Ci sensed something had changed in her qi mechanism.

• Yu Ci used the Solar Nine-Radiance Ten-Crow Talisman to disperse the incoming fireball and sent the Three-legged Crow toward its source.
• Yu Ci and Zhu Wenying headed into the forest to investigate the attackers and find new transportation.
• Yu Ci found Lu Qing standing among the bodies of Yan Luo Hall members she had killed.
• Lu Qing explained that the group had attacked them to test mechanism puppets and cause trouble for Evergreen Gate.
• Lu Qing asked after Bao Yun, then passed Yu Ci and said she would wake her and speak with her.
• Yu Ci sensed a drastic change in Lu Qing's qi mechanism as she approached Bao Yun.

Yu Ci confronted Lu Qing after learning that only Bao Yun remained for her Ten Demon Inner Prohibition, and their argument exposed how much she had kept from her allies. Lu Qing asked to borrow Yu Ci’s Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror to restrain heavenly demons, but he refused to lend his fundamental weapon.

• Yu Ci sensed the gloomy aura around Lu Qing and realized she was continuing the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition with only Bao Yun left.
• Yu Ci slapped Lu Qing and demanded to know what she had made of those helping her, while Lu Qing said she could prevent Lu Suhua from winning even if she could not win herself.
• Lu Qing asked to borrow Yu Ci’s Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and revealed that Donghua Palace held its other half, which contained Eighteen Formless Heavenly Demons.
• Lu Qing explained that she intended to use the mirror to restrain heavenly demons that could exploit her vulnerability to demonic disturbance.
• Yu Ci refused to lend Lu Qing the mirror, calling it a fundamental weapon of his.

Yu Ci and Zhu Wenying captured Fan Ruolei and used his Poison Spider Frame to travel through the forest, but news that Bai Lian had joined Miao Xiang complicated their plans. Yu Ci weighed the danger surrounding Bao Yun and Lu Qing, who ended the chapter by asking him to guard her Dharma.

• Yu Ci uncovered Fan Ruolei hiding underground in a mechanism puppet and learned he was a Miao Shou Workshop disciple who had assisted Yan Luo Hall.
• Yu Ci spared Fan Ruolei and asked whether he had a transport tool; Fan Ruolei offered his Poison Spider Frame.
• Zhu Wenying drove the Poison Spider Frame through the forest while Chengqitian followed overhead.
• Miao Xiang reported that Bai Lian insisted on traveling with her, restricting their next moves.
• Yu Ci concluded Bao Yun was the sole target of the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition and considered how Lu Suhua might react if Lu Qing resisted lifting it.
• Lu Qing, holding the sleeping Bao Yun, asked Yu Ci to guard her Dharma.

Lu Qing prepared to detach from her avatar and manifest her Yang God, drawing netherworld entities toward her while Yu Ci protected her. The disturbance attracted a Flying Yaksha, and as it prepared to attack, Lu Qing’s defensive array began to break apart.

• Lu Qing told Yu Ci that her avatar could no longer withstand the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition and asked him to protect her while she manifested her Yang God.
• Lu Qing set up an array that gathered nether-qi and released flags to draw away some of the approaching netherworld entities.
• Yu Ci used the Taiyin Banner and Lunar Restraint Ghost Art to establish a Netherworld Ghost Domain and suppress the ghost tide.
• A Flying Yaksha spotted Yu Ci and appeared to prepare a pounce as Lu Qing’s defensive perimeter destabilized and a human silhouette emerged inside.

Lu Qing manifested her Yang God dharma body in the Graveyard of Grudges and explained that Lu Suhua’s Ten Demon Inner Prohibition could leave her helpless. As Yu Ci confronted the Flying Yaksha, the ghost tide retreated, and a message appeared on Lu Qing’s jade disc hinting at a connection between the Underworld and the Heavenly Palace.

• Lu Suhua sensed Lu Qing’s preparations from the heavenly domain and descended from the clouds.
• Lu Qing completed her transformation into a Yang God dharma body, while Yu Ci guarded her from the Flying Yaksha.
• Lu Qing showed Yu Ci the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition and warned that Lu Suhua could use it, aided by the Formless Heavenly Demon, to defeat her.
• Yu Ci insisted he would interfere despite Lu Qing calling the conflict a family matter of the Lu clan.
• Yu Ci used the Solar Nine-Radiance Ten-Crow Talisman to drive back the Flying Yaksha, and the ghost tide withdrew.
• Yu Ci questioned what was happening, and Lu Qing’s jade disc displayed the characters meaning, “The pass of the Underworld, the gate of the Heavenly Palace.”

Yu Ci and Lu Qing discovered that the jade wall was tied to Lu Qing’s family and Madame Yellow Springs, then confronted a ghost projected by the Ten Directions Great Venerable. As Lu Qing and the Great Venerable argued over repairing his damaged dwelling, both turned to Yu Ci and asked whether he would go.

• Lu Qing explained that her late father had built Northern Wilderness palaces and that Madame Yellow Springs had given one abandoned dwelling to a fortunate cultivator, prompting Yu Ci to connect it to the Ten Directions Great Venerable.
• The Flying Yaksha fled, and Lu Qing reclaimed her formation disk and kept the jade wall as a ghost emerged from the forest to challenge them.
• Yu Ci recognized the ghost as a projection of the Ten Directions Great Venerable, who questioned Lu Qing about the jade wall and her connection to Madame Yellow Springs.
• Lu Qing claimed the dwelling had been bestowed by her mistress and refused the Great Venerable’s demand that she repair its damage, while Yu Ci suspected the exchange was buying time.
• Lu Qing and the projected Great Venerable both looked toward Yu Ci and asked, “He goes?”

Yu Ci accepted Lu Qing’s jade wall and went with the Ten Directions Great Venerable to the ruined settlement, carrying out a secret exchange with Lu Qing before departing. After two days of travel, he examined the ruins and considered how the jade wall could restore the region’s defenses.

• Lu Qing gave Yu Ci the jade wall and taught him its method, then secretly accepted the starlight he sent into her Yang God dharma body.
• Lu Qing left Yu Ci to accompany the Ten Directions Great Venerable, who threatened to take the jade wall if Yu Ci refused to go.
• Yu Ci delayed the journey while carrying Chengqitian through the void, and the Ten Directions Great Venerable sent two Flying Yakshas to escort him.
• Two days later, Yu Ci reached the ruined settlement and inferred that the jade wall could use the earth veins to repair the region’s defensive barriers.
• Yu Ci circled the ruins to check Chengqitian’s position and gauge the Northern Wastes desperadoes’ interest in the site.

Yu Ci used the jade wall to restore the imperial palace’s main hall defenses while secretly monitoring the Northern Wilds and investigating Lu Qing’s intentions. After parting on bad terms with Ten Directions Great Venerable, Yu Ci left the palace with a fragment of memory surfacing in his mind.

• Yu Ci sent Old Daoist Xusheng to spread divine-will starlight through the Northern Wilds and used its network to survey the area.
• Yu Ci used the jade wall’s diagrams and Lu Chen’s mark to restore the main hall’s defensive restrictions for Ten Directions Great Venerable.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable praised the restored palace and tried to recruit Yu Ci, but Yu Ci ignored his appeal.
• Yu Ci monitored Lu Qing as she followed Zhu Wenying and Bao Yun toward Fengdu City, while Miaoxiang and Bai Lian also set out for Fengdu City.
• Yu Ci and Ten Directions Great Venerable parted on bad terms, and Yu Ci stepped outside the palace as a fragment of memory surfaced.

Yu Ci traced a strange reaction from the jade wall to the site where Lu Chen and Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha had ended their battle, then investigated the wall’s ritual refinements. He suspected its true nature was hidden beneath Lu Chen’s aura and began searching for it with his divine will.

• Yu Ci recognized a memory fragment as belonging to Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha and used it to confirm that Lu Chen and the Buddha had fought in the ruins.
• Guided by the memory, Yu Ci identified the battle’s starting point and end point while examining the scars across the palace complex.
• The jade wall changed temperature at the battle’s endpoint, and Yu Ci concealed his surprise while considering whether the reaction related to Lu Qing’s reason for sending him there.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable refused Yu Ci’s request to leave, and Yu Ci stayed in the ruins to investigate the jade wall.
• Yu Ci reasoned that Lu Chen’s aura served as the palace’s key and that the jade wall’s aura was being consumed, then searched beneath it for the wall’s original nature.

Yu Ci used Lu Qing’s mental cultivation method to uncover a hidden mark within the jade bi and tested it with debris recovered from the site of an Earth Immortal battle. He discovered that the mark was connected to Boundless Void Divine Lord’s Primordial Power.

• Yu Ci examined the jade bi and found an ink-like trace concealed beneath Lu Ping’s aura, then asked Shadow Ghost to investigate it.
• Yu Ci had Xusheng direct a Mawless Shadow Rat to retrieve unusual debris from the site of the battle, and he ordered it to keep the scraps hidden until they could be tested.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable returned and pressured Yu Ci to repair the palace restrictions, so Yu Ci reluctantly agreed while concealing his experiments.
• Yu Ci used the repairs to mask seven tests, and the jade bi’s hidden mark deepened in response to the debris.
• Shadow Ghost identified the debris as fragments of a Demonic Sect True Form Dharma Body, and Yu Ci deduced that the mark came from Boundless Void Divine Lord’s Primordial Power.

Yu Ci discovered that the jade disc contained the Divine Lord of the Void’s Primordial Power and began to suspect Lu Qing had misled him about its purpose. Meanwhile, the Ten Directions Great Venerable anticipated Yu Ci’s escape attempt, but Yu Ci fled after triggering the palace restrictions, and the Great Venerable sent an avatar after him.

• Shadow Ghost recognized that the jade disc held Primordial Power and demanded it, but Yu Ci refused to give it up.
• Shadow Ghost and Yu Ci realized the jade disc’s refinement method was incomplete and that Lu Chen’s aura was suppressing the Primordial Power.
• Yu Ci reconsidered Lu Qing’s claim that the jade disc had been bestowed by the Young Master and was meant to be returned intact.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable grew suspicious of Yu Ci’s tougher demands and noticed him secretly tampering with the palace restrictions.
• Yu Ci later repaired the restrictions near the tampered area, triggering them against the Ten Directions Great Venerable, then fled hundreds of miles away.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable smashed the weakened restrictions and sent a streak of white light after Yu Ci’s avatar.

Yu Ci fled the Ten Directions Great Venerable’s pursuit through the earth, fighting karmically transformed creatures and a tide of ghost children with talismanic arts. The Ten Directions Great Venerable spotted the jade bi hidden in one of Yu Ci’s talismanic crows and trapped Yu Ci’s Mind Image Clone in karmic force.

• The Ten Directions Great Venerable transformed an armored beast into a Vajra Yaksha, which Yu Ci cut apart with the Great White Scarlet Blood Killing Curse.
• Yu Ci escaped upward through the earth using the Grand Unity Smoke Capital Starfire Talisman, but the Ten Directions Great Venerable unleashed a vast tide of ghost children.
• Yu Ci used the Solar Nine-Radiance Ten-Crow Talisman to repel the ghost children and discovered that their refined primordial breath nourished his cultivation.
• Ying Gui warned Yu Ci that the ghost children’s nourishment was bait meant to provoke greed, and Yu Ci deliberately let the tide swallow his Mind Image Clone.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable exposed the jade bi hidden in one of Yu Ci’s crows and trapped the still-undispersed clone in Hungry Ghost Path karmic force.

Yu Ci resisted Ten Directions Great Venerable’s attempts to bargain while arranging for Xusheng to keep him occupied and sending Tie Lan to find Lu Qing. Tie Lan located Lu Qing inside a Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm, leaving Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost alarmed by what her presence there implied.

• Yu Ci refused Ten Directions Great Venerable’s offers and sent Xusheng to keep him talking.
• Yu Ci tried to contact Lu Qing and coordinated his agents as Tie Lan approached her location in the upper Azure Sky Domain.
• Yu Ci shared Tie Lan’s vision and spotted a gathering of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• Tie Lan crept closer, and Yu Ci recognized the scene as a Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm.
• Yu Ci confirmed that Lu Qing’s divine intent star mote was inside the delusion realm, and he and Shadow Ghost realized the danger.

Yu Ci held back from intervening in Lu Qing’s dangerous delusional realm and negotiated with the Ten Directions Great Venerable, who restored the palace restrictions using the jade disc. Yu Ci then used the hidden divine-intent spark to trigger a violent reaction in the Primordial Power, and the jade disc exploded as its power burst through space.

• Lu Qing’s delusional realm sent a Daoist figure to tell Tie Lan that she was safe for now and cultivating in seclusion.
• Yu Ci judged that Lu Qing was using heavenly demons to sustain her delusional realm, but withdrew Tie Lan to observe from a distance rather than interfere.
• Yu Ci took over negotiations with the Ten Directions Great Venerable and exchanged the cultivation method for promised benefits and his clone’s freedom.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable used the jade disc and cultivation method to restore the palace restrictions, stirring the earth veins and trapping people in the nearby forest city’s thickening yin mist.
• Yu Ci used the divine-intent spark hidden in the Primordial Power to channel golden flames from Equality Heaven into it.
• The palace shook, the jade disc exploded, and the unleashed Primordial Power sent a strange fluctuation through space.

Yu Ci investigated the shattered jade bi and uncovered a blurred memory of Lu Chen’s ancient battle, then sensed the Great Brahma Demon King’s Crimson Fire Demonic Flame threatening the situation. In the Northern Wastelands, Lu Shuihua deduced that Lu Qing had stirred the surviving Primordial Power of the Boundless Void Divine Lord, then dodged a massive fissure tearing through the Black Storm.

• Yu Ci traced a turbulent aura beneath the site of Lu Chen’s battle with Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha and saw fragments of the fight, including a Daoist whose eyes held the Boundless Void.
• Yu Ci and Ying Gui concluded that the Daoist was likely Wu Gui Yu Ke, possessed by the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s Primordial Power.
• Yu Ci sensed Crimson Fire Demonic Flame around the palace, revealing the Great Brahma Demon King’s interest in the unfolding situation.
• Lu Shuihua chose to investigate the earth-vein tremors rather than approach the dangerous upper sky of the Azure Sky Domain.
• Lu Shuihua reasoned that Lu Qing had disturbed the lone surviving sliver of the Boundless Void Divine Lord’s Primordial Power.
• A vast fissure split the Black Storm where Lu Shuihua had been standing, and she shifted aside to evade it.

Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost prepared to confront Great Brahma Demon King, but Qu Wujie's overwhelming void divine ability shook Chengqitian and suppressed Yu Ci's powers. As Eight Sceneries Palace, Sword Discussion Pavilion, and Heaven's Will reacted to the clash, Yu Ci struggled to find a safe moment to seize an advantage.

• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost agreed to reveal themselves and prepare to act against Great Brahma Demon King.
• The Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon reacted, and Yu Ci recognized the external pressure as the authentic Immeasurable Void Divine Lord's void divine ability.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost realized Qu Wujie's power was suppressing void abilities across the Northern Wasteland, while divine intent battered Lu Chen's Palace.
• Shadow Ghost urged Yu Ci to look south, where Eight Sceneries Palace displayed a Heavenly Book character, and a rainbow bridge revealed Sword Discussion Pavilion's intervention.
• Heaven's Will unleashed lightning and aurora yuan magnetism that interfered with Qu Wujie's power, though Shadow Ghost judged Qu Wujie still held the upper hand.
• Yu Ci concluded that taking advantage of the upheaval would require timing beyond his ability.

Yu Ci struggled to stabilize Chengqitian while observing Qu Wujie and the Great Brahma Demon King battle over the Primordial Power. As Yu Ci learned from the Primordial Power’s defensive Void Divine Ability, the Ten Directions Great Venerable intervened with the Hungry Ghost Path, and blazing red firelight erupted amid the clash.

• Yu Ci used flowing Heavenly Will to steady Chengqitian as the shaking subsided, while Ying Gui reported that the Eight Sceneries Palace had intervened against Qu Wujie’s Void Divine Ability.
• Yu Ci sensed Qu Wujie trying to destroy the Primordial Power and the Great Brahma Demon King trying to seize it, with the Ten Directions Great Venerable trapped between them as a conduit.
• Yu Ci watched the Primordial Power instinctively use a faint Void Divine Ability to defend itself and applied what he learned to strengthen Chengqitian.
• The Ten Directions Great Venerable, unable to withstand the strain, unleashed the white light of the Hungry Ghost Path, and blazing red firelight burst out amid the divine intent impacts.

Ten Directions Great Venerable and the Great Brahma Demon King joined forces to escape the Boundless Void Divine Lord, while Qu Wujie's attack battered Yu Ci through Chengqitian. Yu Ci survived by opening the Cloud Tower Tree's stable space, leaving him with a chance to withstand the assault.

• The Great Brahma Demon King urged Ten Directions Great Venerable to send their Primordial Power into the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion through Solitary Hell.
• Ten Directions Great Venerable opened Solitary Hell, used the earth veins' vital energy to support the Great Brahma Demon King, and escaped into the void under their combined cover.
• The Boundless Void Divine Lord's attack exposed traces of Void Divine Ability, and Qu Wujie's divine power destroyed Yu Ci's Mind Image Clone before striking Chengqitian.
• Yu Ci struggled to preserve Chengqitian as Qu Wujie's root-tracing attack threatened to collapse it and carry the destruction into the Inner Void.
• Yu Ci found a vast space beside Chengqitian, broke through the barrier, and used it to blunt Qu Wujie's pressure.
• Shadow Ghost explained that the Cloud Tower Tree had created and stabilized the space, saving Yu Ci by chance.

Yu Ci used the clash between Qu Wujie and Great Brahma Demon King to destroy the divine intent starlight and sever the hidden connection, though the effort nearly exhausted him. After he recovered, You Rui reported that the Dongyang Orthodox Sect had denounced the Blood Prison Ghost Manor and called on the Primordial Demon Sect to act.

• Yu Ci learned that Qu Wujie had tracked Ten Directions Great Venerable to the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, where Great Brahma Demon King held the advantage.
• Yu Ci positioned Shadow Ghost as a decoy and prepared the Heart Refining Dharma Fire while Qu Wujie and Great Brahma Demon King continued to clash.
• As Qu Wujie withdrew, Yu Ci ignited the Heart Refining Dharma Fire, damaging the Primordial Power and refining the divine intent starlight until their connection was severed.
• Yu Ci recovered from the backlash and nearly exhausted vital energy by meditating.
• You Rui informed Yu Ci that the Dongyang Orthodox Sect had denounced the Blood Prison Ghost Manor and invited the Primordial Demon Sect branches to join its campaign.

Yang Zhu emerged from seclusion to learn that major Demonic Sect powers were condemning the Blood Prison Ghost Manor, while the Earth Fire Demon Palace struggled to decide its stance. As Yu Ci tracked the upheaval and prepared for its consequences, a memory of the Azure Sky Palace suddenly stirred.

• Yang Zhu asked about recent events and learned that several major sects had condemned the Blood Prison Ghost Manor, while the Earth Fire Demon Palace had issued no clear response.
• Feng Wang investigated the clashing powers at the Sacred Canon as Di Tianluo endured the pressure in the Earth Core Abyss, and the Earth Fire Demon Palace released an ambiguous proclamation praising the Devil Master.
• Yu Ci received reports that Qu Wujie had damaged the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion’s protections and opened a passage to the outside, leaving the Great Brahma Demon King’s position increasingly precarious.
• Yu Ci reviewed his allies’ whereabouts and told Shadow Ghost to keep watch near the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, while considering the benefits he had gained from witnessing the clash of divine thoughts.
• A fragment of Yu Ci’s memory showed the Azure Sky Palace’s towering archway and scripture, and the vision suddenly responded.