Chapter Summaries

Yu Ci studied the altered scriptures in his memories and used the Void Divine Ability to begin deciphering them. While watching Lu Suhua at Lu Chen's Palace, he witnessed the frightening power of her Fist Intent and saw her race back across the ruins.

• Yu Ci realized that the scriptures' meanings depended on advanced Void Divine Ability techniques, though he could decipher only a small portion.
• Little Five urgently warned Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost that Lu Suhua had returned and was in Lu Chen's Palace.
• Yu Ci and Shadow Ghost decided not to attack Lu Suhua because they lacked information, and they reassured Little Five as she hid among the earth veins.
• Yu Ci borrowed Little Five's power to send a concealed avatar near Lu Suhua in the ruins.
• Lu Suhua assumed a boxing stance and collapsed the ground around her into a deep, soundless pit, revealing the overwhelming force of her Fist Intent.
• Lu Suhua headed toward the outskirts, abruptly turned back, and raced across the ruins fast enough that Yu Ci could barely follow her.

Yu Ci watched Lu Suhua retrace Lu Chen’s old battle and resume practicing his fist art, then learned that her renewed training might connect to the Three Realms. Bai Lian and Miao Xiang departed after discussing the Buddha Mother’s offer to take Lu Suhua as a disciple, leaving Yu Ci pondering the meaning of Three Realms Manifestation.

• Yu Ci realized Lu Suhua was reconstructing the route of Lu Chen’s old battle, and saw her fighting stance raise the sunken terrain.
• Bai Lian and Miao Xiang arrived, and Bai Lian asked whether Lu Suhua would accept the Buddha Mother’s offer to become her disciple.
• Lu Suhua declined to decide and changed the subject, so Bai Lian and Miao Xiang left.
• As they traveled away, Miao Xiang asked why Lu Suhua had abandoned and then resumed Lu Chen’s fist art, and Bai Lian explained the risks and her unusual talent.
• Yu Ci used Little Five to ask Miao Xiang about the matter, then heard Bai Lian’s explanation of Three Realms Manifestation and wondered what it meant.

Yu Ci realized Lu Suhua was using a scroll and a bronze bowl containing a Formless Heavenly Demon to threaten Lu Qing, so he attempted to disrupt her preparations with a long-range attack. His talismans instead summoned a celestial being before Lu Suhua, who recognized Yu Ci’s Shangqing Talisman Arts.

• Yu Ci studied a scroll of nine living portraits resembling Lu Suhua and watched her send a Formless Heavenly Demon into it.
• Yu Ci suspected the scroll was tied to the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition and that Lu Suhua was using it to endanger Lu Qing.
• Yu Ci decided to attack Lu Suhua’s artifacts, but Little Five could not safely take the lead.
• Yu Ci linked three talismans and invoked a divine ability from a thousand li away.
• Lu Suhua activated the Sun Concealing Ring, but Yu Ci’s attack opened a rift and brought forth a celestial being riding a white tiger.
• Lu Suhua held back her sword and identified Yu Ci as a practitioner of Shangqing Talisman Arts.

Yu Ci coordinated the Celestial Being Descends talisman art with Little Five to attack Lu Suhua and target the scroll containing the Formless Heavenly Demon. Lu Suhua broke through their assault and suppressed the Five Peaks Origin Spirit, leaving Yu Ci to order Little Five to retreat.

• Lu Suhua recognized Yu Ci and attacked, but the Incarnated Celestial's lotus lamp suppressed the Formless Heavenly Demon and constrained her.
• Lu Suhua cut the Incarnated Celestial apart with the Rainbow Shadow Sword and waited for Yu Ci to reveal himself near the scroll.
• Little Five raised two platforms with the Senluo Underworld God Prohibition, separating Lu Suhua from the scroll and drawing out the Formless Heavenly Demon.
• The Ghost Slaying Saber attacked the demon, but Lu Suhua shattered the platform and saber with her domain, suppressing the Five Peaks Origin Spirit.
• Yu Ci sent a Taiyi Demon Slaying Talisman through the demon and into the scroll, setting them alight before Lu Suhua destroyed the talisman sword.
• Yu Ci ordered Little Five to retreat and added support with a spirit talisman.

Yu Ci used Rakshasa Illusory Power to escape Lu Suhua's pursuit, at the cost of seven or eight years of lifespan. The illusion hid Chengqitian in the Northern Wastes storm, but Bai Lian and Miaoxiang arrived and helped draw Lu Suhua toward its location.

• Yu Ci's talismans badly wounded the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, while Little Five escaped Lu Suhua's attack by fleeing deep underground.
• Lu Suhua used Primordial Purple Qi to trace Yu Ci's Mind Image Clone and locate his direction, despite Little Five dissolving the lightning's force with a talisman.
• Yu Ci deployed Rakshasa Illusory Power to confuse Lu Suhua's divine intent and hide Chengqitian in the black storm, losing seven or eight years of lifespan.
• Bai Lian sensed a familiar method and rose through the earth strata, while Miaoxiang followed and warned Little Five.
• Bai Lian and Miaoxiang searched nearby, and their presence gave the disoriented Lu Suhua a clue that drew her upward toward them.

Yu Ci and Tie Lan faced an Outer Realm Calamity Demon as it dragged Lu Qing’s delusion realm toward the Nine Heavens. Lu Qing turned the realm into a painting and used an image of Lu Chen to buy their escape, then asked Yu Ci to lend her the mirror.

• Bai Lian sensed Lu Suhua approaching, concealed her appearance, and fled, while Lu Suhua sent Primordial Purple Qi through the sky.
• Yu Ci escaped beyond a hundred li as Lu Suhua paused, while Tie Lan discovered that an unseen force was lifting Lu Qing’s delusion realm toward the Outer Domain.
• The delusion realm contracted into a painting scroll in Lu Qing’s hands, and she opened it to release an image of Lu Chen.
• The image of Lu Chen struck the Outer Realm Calamity Demon’s killing intent, and Lu Qing and Tie Lan fled with help from Yu Ci’s Hidden Sky Talismans.
• Yu Ci found that Lu Suhua had disappeared, then demanded to know what Lu Qing was doing; Lu Qing asked to borrow his mirror.

Yu Ci confronted Lu Qing over her distant response to his help, then learned more about her family’s plans and her mother’s research into the Divine Lord of the Void. Lu Qing gave him a letter for Madame Yellow Springs and entrusted him with the Soul Resonance Jade, asking him to suppress it if her demonic corruption surfaced.

• Yu Ci told Lu Qing about the crisis surrounding the jade wall and relayed what he had learned about Lu Suhua, but Lu Qing focused on her blood sister’s fist practice.
• Yu Ci vented his frustration at Lu Qing’s refusal to deal with him directly, then reconsidered his expectations after the shadow ghost reminded him that his bond with Lu Qing could not match the one he had shared with Yu Zhou.
• Lu Qing asked whether Yu Ci intended to obtain Azure Sky Palace, and he said he only needed to keep others from claiming it for now.
• Lu Qing offered to introduce Yu Ci to her mother, Madame Yellow Springs, who lived on Donghua Mountain and had unmatched knowledge of the Divine Lord of the Void.
• Lu Qing gave Yu Ci a letter for Madame Yellow Springs and the Soul Resonance Jade, explaining that it was linked to her foundation and asking him to suppress it if she showed signs of demonic corruption.

Yu Ci tried to plant his demonic seed in Lu Qing but discovered that her Yang God body had no inner foundation, which remained with Lu Suhua. Lu Qing raced toward Wu Tuo City to settle her blood feud with Bao Yun, while Xiao Wu carried Yu Ci’s group there; elsewhere, Liu Guan responded to a sect decree and asked about Lu Suhua’s movements.

• Lu Qing explained that she planned to fight through the delusional realm and asked Yu Ci to suppress its backlash with the Soul Resonance Jade.
• Yu Ci tried to plant a demonic seed in Lu Qing, but found her Yang God body was only an avatar whose foundation lay with Lu Suhua in Chengqitian.
• Lu Qing flew toward Wu Tuo City to settle her feud with Bao Yun, and Xiao Wu expanded the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram to carry Yu Ci’s group after her.
• Kuang Yanqi delivered the Demonic Sect’s decree ordering Liu Guan to support the conquest of the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, and Liu Guan agreed to report his compliance.
• Liu Guan asked Kuang Yanqi where Lu Suhua had gone, and Kuang Yanqi reported that Bao Yun had arrived at Wu Tuo City.

The Heart-Snatching Daoist kept the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion’s Seventeen Heavens jade box for himself and tested its bloodlight power in the black storm. When Chou Wu confronted him, the man’s identity proved false, and the jade box turned its seventeen bloodlights on its master.

• At Heaven-Stealing Tower, Zhan Yi challenged the Heart-Snatching Daoist over the jade box, but the sect master dismissed the meeting and ordered the Heaven Seizing Sect members to disperse.
• The Heart-Snatching Daoist escaped Wu Tuo City, entered the black storm, and used the jade box’s bloodlight to drain a Flying Armored Demon Dragon and other creatures.
• He reflected that the jade box might reveal the secrets of Wu Gui Yu Ke and help him reach the True Person realm.
• The Heart-Snatching Daoist confronted Chou Wu in the storm, but Chou Wu held Zhan Yi’s severed head and declared that the Heaven Seizing Sect meant nothing to him.
• The attacker revealed he was not Chou Wu, and after the Heart-Snatching Daoist killed him, the jade box absorbed the man’s vital essence and unleashed seventeen bloodlights against its master.

After possessing Heart-Snatching Daoist, the demon spirit pieced together its memories and reaffirmed its search for the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace and the Xuan Ling Ruler. Unable to enter the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, it decided to investigate Yu Ci, whose connection to the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror might provide a useful clue.

• The demon spirit finished assimilating Heart-Snatching Daoist and Chou Wu’s remnants, though it still did not know its own identity.
• Heart-Snatching Daoist recalled that finding the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace was his driving purpose and that the Xuan Ling Ruler could lead to it.
• Heart-Snatching Daoist learned from the sand bandits’ intelligence that the Xuan Ling Yin had last been seen with Ling Xi Wanderer before it disappeared.
• Because the conflict involving the Great Brahma Demon King and the current Boundless Void Divine Lord prevented him from visiting the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion, Heart-Snatching Daoist considered the people who had entered it.
• Heart-Snatching Daoist chose Yu Ci as a potential target after learning that Yu Ci was linked to the demonic-seed outbreak and the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.

Yu Ci entered Wu Tuo City and headed toward the Heavy Artifact Sect while the demonic spirit tracked the heavenly tribulation he had provoked. Yu Qing Xuan appeared to him as a projection and asked what he had done to draw it down.

• The demonic spirit returned to Wu Tuo City, traced rumors about Yu Ci and Lu Suhua, and became interested in the history connecting Liu Guan and Lu Chen.
• The demonic spirit sensed a heavenly tribulation forming in the city and worried that it might endanger everyone nearby.
• Yu Ci entered Wu Tuo City, located Bao Yun and Lu Qing, and chose to visit the Heavy Artifact Sect first.
• Yu Ci crossed the city's black-market stalls, where vendors loudly advertised goods supposedly from the Yellow Springs Secret Mansion.
• Yu Qing Xuan appeared behind Yu Ci as a projection and asked what he had done to provoke a tribulation.

Yu Ci learned that Bao Yun’s inner demons had become a demonic calamity tied to his dead demon, and Yu Qing Xuan arranged to seal her until he crossed the calamity. After Yu Ci reached the Heavy Artifact Sect, Yu Qing Xuan told him that Shu Cheng had negotiated an agreement with Donghua Palace to keep Lu Suhua from troubling him if he withdrew from the matter.

• Yu Ci saw Bao Yun’s demonic transformation and learned from Yu Qing Xuan that her calamity was connected to his dead demon and could spread to those nearby.
• Yu Qing Xuan said she could seal Bao Yun’s vitality and soul, and planned to keep her buried in ice until Yu Ci crossed his calamity.
• Yu Ci arrived at the Heavy Artifact Sect, asked Zhu Wenying about Bao Yun, and decided to follow Yu Qing Xuan’s plan rather than visit her.
• Yu Ci asked Zhu Wenying to contact Yu Qing Xuan, who invited him to meet at a high vantage point in Root City.
• Yu Qing Xuan told Yu Ci that Shu Cheng had reached an agreement with Donghua Palace, under which Lu Suhua would leave him alone if he stopped participating in the matter.

Yu Qing Xuan told Yu Ci that he had to leave the Northern Wastes to honor an agreement with Donghua Palace, but she ultimately chose to send him away without making him decide. A demonic spirit eavesdropped on their thoughts and began plotting to intercept him along the underground river.

• Yu Qing Xuan explained that Lu Suhua had likely discovered Jiu Yan's identity and that Yu Ci needed to leave the Northern Wastes to respect the agreement with Donghua Palace.
• Yu Ci struggled with the choice, torn between his wish to stay and his obligations to Yu Qing Xuan, Ruizhu Palace, and Lu Qing.
• Yu Qing Xuan praised Yu Ci, then struck him with Profound Ice Dissolution and sealed him in ice, ordering him to depart that day with the Thirteen Water Mansions of Blackwater River.
• Yu Qing Xuan said Wen Ying would accompany Yu Ci and that the ice seal would lift after four months, by which time he should have reached the Golden Treasury Water Mansion.
• The demonic spirit in Branch City learned that Yu Ci would travel by underground river and considered intercepting him, but chose to proceed slowly to avoid exposing its true form.

Yu Ci’s Profound Ice Dissolution froze his body and soul, spreading through Chengqitian and Tu Ling Prison while the demonic spirit waited to exploit the seal. When its planted thought revived inside Yu Ci, it discovered his vast self-opened void and recognized a resemblance to the Heavenly Demon Hall.

• The Profound Ice Dissolution sealed Yu Ci, and Zhu Wenying carried him away from Wu Tuo City in a lizard-drawn carriage.
• The freezing force spread through Chengqitian and Tu Ling Prison, trapping Shadow Ghost and devastating the dead demons while Xiaowu escaped.
• Shadow Ghost persuaded Xiaowu to free him but leave Yu Ci sealed, then kept her occupied with a story as they waited.
• The demonic spirit followed Yu Ci’s carriage and entered his revived demonic thought near the underground ferry.
• The demonic spirit found itself inside Yu Ci’s vast, partially sealed self-opened void and recognized its resemblance to the Heavenly Demon Hall divine ability.

The demon spirit infiltrated Yu Ci’s self-created void and surveyed its defenses and treasures while considering a future body-seizing attempt. Yu Ci awoke from the Profound Ice Dissolution still trapped in slow, frozen thought, then noticed a divine power in Equality Heaven reacting to a crucial spiritual light.

• The demon spirit explored Tu Ling Prison, discovered sealed combat strengths and a fragment of Hell Path Karmic Fire, then found its way into the manifested void.
• The demon spirit approached the central dharma altar but avoided its demon-dispelling treasure and two nearby figures, then discovered a juvenile Cloud Tower Tree it hoped to transplant.
• Yu Ci regained consciousness earlier than Yu Qing Xuan expected, but the freezing left his thoughts so slow that a day passed as he assessed his condition.
• Shadow Ghost sent Xiao Wu outside and resumed meditating while Yu Ci struggled to find a way to act despite his frozen soul and flesh.
• A spiritual light caused one of Yu Ci’s divine powers in Equality Heaven to react, and the darkest pictographic black mist began assembling strange images.

Yu Ci used the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon to find a way to overcome the frozen state caused by Profound Ice Dissolution. He connected demonic-seed cultivators into a vast, crude web to help process his thoughts, while the demonic spirit secretly studied the canon and began forming a web of its own.

• Yu Ci tried to make Kou Chu think on his behalf through their mental connection, but Kou Chu's efforts only gave him a splitting headache.
• Yu Ci consulted the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon and used its demonic-seeding methods to connect scattered cultivators into a web spanning more than ten thousand miles.
• Yu Ci made Kou Chu the web's temporary center and brought You Rui in to help sort and filter its thoughts.
• As Yu Ci worked to develop a way out of his frozen state, the demonic spirit watched the phenomena in Chengqitian and recognized the Immeasurable Void Divine Reflection Canon.
• After studying the canon for nearly two hours, the demonic spirit turned its intent into a crude, chaotic web hidden amid the surrounding filth.

Yu Ci used the Six Desires Turbid Stream to create a temporary void space that could coordinate distant minds and help melt his frozen seal. The demon spirit realized the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace was linked to the Heavenly Demon Hall, then sought surviving Northern Wasteland believers and hid a fragment of its thought in the Cloud Tower Tree space, where it was nearly blinded by what it saw.

• Yu Ci established an independent temporary space with his Void Divine Ability and left a divided consciousness to guide it.
• Kou Chu and You Rui helped the divided consciousness work faster, while Yu Ci transferred control of most of his Inner Voids to it and the frozen seal began melting more quickly.
• The demon spirit withdrew its thought from the temporary space and realized the Jade Firmament Celestial Palace was the Heavenly Demon Hall manifested through the Void Divine Ability.
• The demon spirit decided to search for surviving Northern Wasteland believers while leaving a fragment of its thought behind to possess Yu Ci later.
• The demon spirit sent its thought into the Cloud Tower Tree space to hide, but was nearly blinded by what it saw upon arrival.

The demonic spirit discovered Yu Ci's Xuan Ling Ruler and planned to search for former adherents of the Boundless Void Divine Lord, but a disturbance in Wu Tuo City drew its attention back to the brewing heavenly tribulation. Lu Qing met Bao Yun, who insisted on living so she could avenge little Wan, and prepared to remove the demonic seal.

• The demonic spirit recognized Yu Ci's Xuan Ling Ruler, settled its demonic thought in the Heaven-Stealing Tower, and planned to search the Northern Wasteland for former adherents of the Boundless Void Divine Lord.
• The demonic spirit sensed that spiritual energy had shifted around the heavenly tribulation in Wu Tuo City and wondered why Yu Qing Xuan had not stopped it.
• Lu Qing reached Bao Yun's cleared courtyard, where Bao Yun said she already knew Lu Qing planned to lift her demonic seal and address the tribulation power.
• Bao Yun told Lu Qing she wanted to live so she could avenge little Wan, and Lu Qing promised that she would survive.
• Bao Yun agreed to trust Lu Qing once more and sat upright, ready for her to begin.

Lu Qing carved the Ten Demon Inner Prohibition out of Bao Yun, then faced Lu Suhua in a battle that carried them into the heavens. As Lu Qing was engulfed by demonic fire, her countermeasure sent the two sisters rising toward the Outer Domain, while Yu Qing Xuan’s ally intercepted Liu Guan.

• Lu Qing knocked Bao Yun unconscious, cut the manifested Ten Demon Inner Prohibition from the Channelling Yin Demon, and drew it into her scroll.
• Lu Suhua confronted Lu Qing, and their scrolls clashed as Lu Qing fled into the illusory realm and Lu Suhua pursued her.
• Lu Suhua trapped Lu Qing with the Myriad Transformations Merit Seal, but Lu Qing’s thought that they should not be fighting caused the seal to falter as a towering figure emerged and punched.
• The clash blasted a hole through the black storm above Wu Tuo City, and Lu Qing and Lu Suhua’s twisted mass of light and shadow shot toward the Azure Sky Domain.
• Liu Guan raced after Lu Suhua but was slowed by a strange cold and intercepted by a sky-blue cloak, whose hidden speaker said Yu Qing Xuan had arranged to keep him there.

Yu Qing Xuan used her avatar and a prepared Star Imprisonment Cage to delay Liu Guan while Lu Suhua fought Lu Qing above Wu Tuo City. Liu Guan began forcibly uprooting the formation’s ley-line foundation, and Yu Qing Xuan estimated it would hold him for only sixty breaths.

• Yu Qing Xuan blocked Liu Guan’s path with her avatar, and Liu Guan revealed that he had recovered the Shadow Demon Blade.
• Liu Guan shredded Yu Qing Xuan’s cloak and battered her avatar, but her heavy armor and concealed Star Imprisonment Cage helped her survive.
• The Star Imprisonment Cage drew power from the stars and ley lines, trapping Liu Guan above the damaged black storm near Wu Tuo City.
• Liu Guan recognized the formation and began attacking its ley-line foundation directly instead of struggling against its transformations.
• Yu Qing Xuan calculated that the formation could hold Liu Guan for only sixty breaths.