Chapter Summaries

The demonic plant and demon seed escaped the fiend spirit and took control of Heart-Snatching Daoist, adapting to the heavenly tribulation and redirecting the Marrow Burning Blood River to strengthen itself. As the tribulation changed into freezing hail and a heavenly steed, Yu Ci faced fresh danger in Chengqitian and discovered Bai Lian at the underground dark river ferry, where she warned him not to move.

• The fiend spirit fled Heart-Snatching Daoist's shell, escaped into the earth, and seized a Returning Core cultivator in Wu Tuo Root City.
• The demonic plant and demon seed used Heart-Snatching Daoist's branches to catch and divert the tribulation lightning, then drew the Marrow Burning Blood River to boost its strength.
• The Heavenly Heart changed the tribulation into freezing hail and sleet, while a white-gold heavenly steed appeared in the northwest sky.
• The chilling tribulation spread into Chengqitian and shook Yu Ci, who worried that the death fiend and Channelling Yin Demon's curse threatened Little Five and Shadow Ghost.
• Yu Ci noticed Zhu Wenying's tension at the underground dark river ferry, saw Bai Lian, and stopped when she warned him not to move.

Bai Lian shielded Yu Ci’s failing body, allowing him to return his consciousness to Chengqitian and unleash the Nine-Five Thunder Command Method against the Death Demon tide. As the battle began to turn, a piercing cold struck Yu Ci and the Heavenly Dragon True Intent, and a strange ringing sounded across the shrouded heavens.

• Bai Lian offered to protect Yu Ci in exchange for a share of his opportunity and raised a green lotus to shield and nourish him.
• Yu Ci returned his consciousness to Chengqitian and used the Nine-Five Thunder Command Method to blast a gap through the Death Demon tide.
• Old Daoist Xusheng escaped into the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal’s protection with Wan Quan, while Yu Ci released She Mou, Mo Xiao, and Du Hu Shan from Tu Ling Prison.
• Yu Ci focused on the Channelling Yin Demon and the Marrow Burning Blood River as his attacks began to shift the battle’s balance.
• A sudden, soul-piercing chill wounded Yu Ci and tore bloody gashes across the Heavenly Dragon True Intent.
• Bai Lian multiplied her green lotus protection into nine lotuses, then a ringing sounded throughout the heavens and caused them to sway.

The Qian Jin Killing Tribulation wounded the monstrous tree's demonic seed, but it escaped by hiding among the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and evading repeated strikes. As the weakened tribulation continued to affect Yu Ci, a sudden wave of cold left him with heightened awareness but little control over his body.

• The Qian Jin Killing Tribulation struck the Heart-Snatching Daoist, who severed his roots and fled into the black storm before a second strike split his body apart.
• The monstrous tree's demonic seed abandoned the Heart-Snatching Daoist and escaped while his exploding Qi and blood confused the Heaven and Earth Law Will.
• Yu Ci realized the demonic seed's escape was preventing the tribulation from focusing, while the dispersed killing power damaged his Heavenly Dragon True Intent and interrupted the Nine-Five Thunder Command Method.
• Yu Ci detected the demonic seed concealed among the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, prompting the Qian Jin Killing Tribulation to strike again as it moved around Lu Suhua and weakened further.
• A sudden cold wave swept Chengqitian, freezing Yu Ci and breaking two of his nine blue lotuses, while his awareness expanded across several thousand miles.

Yu Ci used Rakshasa Illusory Power to free the demon seed from Heaven’s lock and force the Heaven and Earth Law Will to compromise with him. He regained control of the killing aura, becoming its master as Chengqitian began to collapse.

• Yu Ci endured the Qian Jin Killing Tribulation while Bai Lian watched, and he rejected her suggestion that hearing the Dao before dying might be enough.
• The Channelling Yin Demon destroyed Wan Quan’s spirit body and turned toward Old Daoist Xusheng as Chengqitian’s defenses faltered.
• Heaven used Yu Ci’s Zhaoshen Map to locate the demon seed again, but Rakshasa Illusory Power distorted its perception and let the seed escape.
• The resulting backlash shattered Chengqitian’s outer spatial barrier, while Yu Ci survived in a barely intact state beneath the Wumeng Cicada Molt.
• Yu Ci injected his will into the directionless killing aura and demanded that Heaven let him serve as its eyes and hands.
• The Heaven and Earth Law Will compromised with Yu Ci, who regained control of himself and became the master guiding the killing aura.

Yu Ci used resonance with the Xuan Huang Sword Intent imprint to channel the heavenly tribulation killing Qi, damaging Chengqitian and weakening the pressure threatening him. With his death still imminent and the Channelling Yin Demon nearing a fatal state, he recognized that the time had come to act through the star Bei Luo Shi Men.

• Yu Ci recalled the sixty-four-aperture talisman he had once used to withstand the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s blood-slaughter Qi and formed it inside Chengqitian.
• Yu Ci synchronized the talisman, Chengqitian, and the subjugating martial Qi, then used the Xuan Huang Sword Intent imprint to bear the heavenly tribulation killing Qi.
• The three-way resonance shattered half of Chengqitian and forced Xusheng to join the resonance to avoid being torn apart.
• Yu Ci unleashed the heavenly tribulation killing Qi toward the demonic trees and demon seeds while maintaining the resonance to preserve his lifeline.
• Yu Ci saw the Channelling Yin Demon nearing a fatal state and focused on the bright, isolated Bei Luo Shi Men star, deciding the time was ripe.

Yu Ci forged a new sword intent from his life’s cultivation and used it to evade the Channelling Yin Demon’s attempt to drain his vitality. Elsewhere, the Blood-Slaying Heavenly Tribulation struck the demon tree and demonic seed, disrupting Lu Suhua’s demonic tribulation, while Yu Ci prepared to seize the opening created by the Channelling Yin Demon’s stagger.

• Yu Ci used the final moment of resonance with the Xuan Huang Sword Intent and heavenly tribulation baleful intent to complete his sword intent, then merged it with his vitality.
• Yu Ci’s sword intent crossed paths with the Channelling Yin Demon, leaving it unable to seize his vitality because his killing intent remained contained.
• Miaoxiang saw a blood-red beam scar the sky and continued toward Bai Lian, unaware of the distant heavenly tribulation’s target.
• The Blood-Slaying Heavenly Tribulation drove thousands of heavenly demons away and struck the exposed demon tree and demonic seed, making them spill their accumulated transcendence power.
• Lu Suhua took advantage of the demonic tribulation’s disruption to find flaws in the sky and advance through them.
• The Channelling Yin Demon shuddered as clear sounds rose above Chengqitian, and Yu Ci’s main body smiled, recognizing the opening.

Yu Ci endured catastrophic injuries and depleted his lifespan while using the Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound to fight the Channelling Yin Demon, then harnessed Buddha Light to perfect his Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman. With his body too damaged to break through, he focused on attaining the Yang God and began moving his Life and Death Profound Mechanism among the stars.

• Zhu Wenying used Yu Qing Xuan's talisman on Yu Ci, but the Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound emerged from him and caused his condition to improve at the cost of his vital blood and lifespan.
• Yu Ci resisted unleashing his sword and used the Marrow Burning Curse's forced expenditure of his remaining lifespan to galvanize his vital Qi.
• Yu Ci sacrificed the stored Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm Shards and used the resulting Buddha Light to perfect the Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman.
• Yu Ci's perfected talisman generated Perfection True Meaning, but his battered body prevented him from safely breaking through, so he focused on manifesting Innate Pure Yang to achieve the Yang God.
• Yu Ci used the Zhao Yao Star and the other three stars that had held his Life and Death Profound Mechanism to link their stellar forces and direct them toward the Three Enclosures.

Yu Ci struggled to find a matching star in the Tian Shi Yuan before his lifespan ran out, while Lu Suhua traced the demon seed to him and set out to kill him. As Bai Lian prepared to withdraw, Zhu Wenying activated a talisman that alerted Yu Qing Xuan on Feiquan Mountain to the changes in the stars.

• Yu Ci used the Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound to suppress the death demons and searched the Tian Shi Yuan for a star that could link with his four military-killing astral domains.
• Yu Ci's lifespan dwindled under the Marrow Burning Curse, and a sudden chill from the distant heavens jolted him out of his concentration.
• Lu Suhua discovered a demon seed within the remnants of Lu Qing's consciousness, traced its connection to Yu Ci, and plunged into the void to attack him.
• Bai Lian sensed Lu Suhua's murderous intent and decided to retreat after Jiu Yan's green lotus protection ended.
• Zhu Wenying activated a jade talisman, prompting Yu Qing Xuan at Ruizhu Palace to sense the starry changes and summon Shuicheng.

Yu Qing Xuan used the Extreme Orbit Celestial Beads to send Yu Ci onto the star orbit while Lu Suhua pursued him across the Northern Wilderness. Yu Ci broke through his human limit and severed the Marrow Burning Curse’s blood scars, then struck at the powerful figure behind its deepest imprint.

• Yu Qing Xuan realized Yu Ci had activated the talisman she gave Zhu Wenying and asked Zhan Shuicheng to guard her as she began building the star orbit.
• Yu Qing Xuan released the eighteen rays of essence, causing the sky over the Northern Wilderness to darken briefly as the star orbit formed.
• Lu Suhua sensed two targets linked to Yu Ci, chose to attack both, and concealed the Rainbow Shadow Sword as she flew toward them.
• Yu Ci hurled his mind and soul into Tian Shi Yuan and found a clear trajectory that connected his inner center to the Four Symbols Four Directions Star Domain.
• Yu Ci attained a broader level of perfection, broke through the barrier of form-stationing, and used his sword radiance to sever the Marrow Burning Curse’s blood scars.
• Yu Ci confronted the curse’s deeper imprint, perceived a majestic human figure in its blood-river eyes, and struck with a single sword.

Yu Ci used the Supreme True Nine Heavens Flying Immortal Sword Scripture to destroy Fang Hui’s blood-c curse mark, freeing himself from the Marrow Burning Curse. His body’s vitality then collapsed, but a sevenfold bell chime rekindled light at seven points in him.

• Yu Ci focused his sword intent into a spinning light wheel and forced Fang Hui’s blood shadow out of his body.
• Yu Ci’s sword wheel destroyed Fang Hui’s mark, and Fang Hui sensed the curse’s destruction from the Star Picking Tower.
• Fang Hui recognized the seven-fold clear notes and suspected the involvement of the Twelve Jade Towers Heavenly Sound and the Heavenly Escape Killing Sword.
• Yu Ci’s strength rapidly ebbed after the Marrow Burning Curse’s power faded, and the final petal of his green lotus vanished.
• A bell-like chime sounded, and light reappeared in Yu Ci at seven points aligned like the stars of the Dipper.

Yu Ci used the Seven Star Heavenly Robe to survive the chaotic influx of star power and Essence Profound Truth, while his Yang God left his failing body and entered Chengqitian. As his mind and spirit prepared to follow the star orbits toward Taiyi, he made arrangements for Chengqitian and turned his attention to the Channelling Yin Demon.

• Yu Ci donned the Seven Star Heavenly Robe, which filtered the incoming Essence Profound Truth and replenished his Innate Vital Energy.
• Yu Ci sent his Yang God into the jade talisman Zhu Wenying held, then followed the star-power connection into Chengqitian.
• Yu Ci realized that he had entrusted his Life and Death Profound Mechanism to Tian Shi Yuan’s Emperor Seat star, likely through Yu Qing Xuan’s arrangement.
• Yu Ci decided to leave Chengqitian and his half-complete Yang God behind to maintain his cultivation, while entrusting its affairs to Shadow Ghost and leaving temporary duties to Old Daoist Xusheng.
• Yu Ci pulled She Mou and two other Void Stepping powerhouses back into TuLing Prison, then fixed his attention on the Channelling Yin Demon.

Yu Ci briefly helped Bao Yun regain control of herself before turning to the death demons and preparing to use the Wumeng Cicada Molt to reshape his ruined body. As the star tracks began pulling his mind away, he followed a buried fragment of his consciousness toward the cicada molt.

• Yu Ci stopped himself from striking the Channelling Yin Demon when it acted like Bao Yun, then called out to Xusheng after realizing Wan Quan was gone.
• Yu Ci used the divine intent starlight to reach Bao Yun and sent her the Soul Recovery Star-Fixing Spell and the Life Extension and Calamity Averting Star Spell.
• Bao Yun held onto the talismans and briefly regained control, while Yu Ci recognized that she would have to keep fighting the Channelling Yin Demon's instincts herself.
• Yu Ci fought back the death demons with his Yang God and saw Bao Yun's red light drain their vital energy.
• Yu Ci turned his mind toward the Wumeng Cicada Molt, intending to transform into a heavenly cicada larva and reshape his physical body.
• The star tracks pulled Yu Ci's mind into the starry sky, where a fragment buried deep underground guided him toward the cicada molt as sword qi stirred in the Azure Sky Domain.

Lu Suhua pursued Yu Ci with the Rainbow Shadow Sword, but Miaoxiang and then an unknown ally disrupted her attacks, allowing Yu Ci to survive. After finding the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, Lu Suhua saw Lu Qing’s memory of the Ghost Night Stele and confronted Lu Qing through its fist mark, where he warned her about a dangerous third party before appearing from the shattered vision.

• Yu Ci’s attempt to evade Lu Suhua’s sword disrupted her induction, and Miaoxiang intercepted the Rainbow Shadow Sword with layers of smoke.
• Bai Lian pulled Miaoxiang away, while Zhu Wenying stayed behind to defend Yu Ci and was blasted into the underground river by Lu Suhua’s attack.
• Lu Suhua’s sword missed Yu Ci again despite striking the ferry crossing, and she found the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror in the river.
• The mirror triggered Lu Qing’s memory of Yu Ci seeing the Ghost Night Stele, whose fist mark revealed Lu Qing’s eyes to Lu Suhua.
• Lu Qing told Lu Suhua that Yu Ci had agreed to keep someone alive and warned that another being was different; the vision shattered as Lu Qing stepped out of its fragments.

Lu Suhua recognized a hidden consciousness born from the struggle between her and Lu Qing, and confronted it in her Sea of Consciousness. As their battle for control began, Yu Ci adapted to his new body deep underground.

• Lu Suhua met the Dingyuan Hammer’s fist intent in her Sea of Consciousness and realized it was challenging her control.
• Lu Suhua traced the hidden consciousness’s origins to the split between her and Lu Qing, its growth through the Heavenly Demon Soul Splitting Incarnation, and its awakening during their breakthrough to the True Person realm.
• Lu Suhua understood that Lu Qing had released the entity to drag them both down, but judged that her years of preparation gave her the advantage.
• Lu Suhua assumed a fist stance and invited the hidden consciousness to fight as the final struggle for control began.
• While Lu Suhua remained motionless aboveground, Yu Ci adapted to his new body and crawled through the earth at least thirty miles underground.

Yu Ci adapted to his insect-sized body by merging a fragment of his mind with the Feather Transformation True Intent, then used his new command of earth qi to rescue Zhu Wenying and prepare to recover the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror. As Chengqitian stabilized with the Cloud Tower Tree’s help, Yu Ci noticed the Soul Resonance Jade glowing with golden light as its blood threads intensified.

• Yu Ci sensed vitality in the earth qi and let the Feather Transformation True Intent blend with it, while deciding to postpone retrieving the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.
• Yu Ci found Zhu Wenying unconscious and badly wounded beneath the riverbed, buried her safely, and guided her to a secluded spirit cave where he used spells to heal and conceal her.
• Yu Ci turned back toward the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror while keeping watch on Chengqitian, whose damage was being repaired as the Cloud Tower Tree absorbed vital energy and nourished the void.
• Yu Ci noticed the Soul Resonance Jade shining with golden light as blood threads spread across it.

Yu Ci absorbed a vast influx of Innate Vital Energy from the Soul-Entrusting Jade, ending the death-demon tribulation and stabilizing his foundation. He then discovered he could manifest and empower death demons using imprisoned figures and Bao Yun’s black qi.

• Yu Ci noticed the Soul-Entrusting Jade’s spiritual breath was connected to Lu Suhua’s soul, and Xusheng sensed that energy was being poured into the jade.
• Tie Lan arrived, and Yu Ci sent her to gather the Heavy Artifact Sect cultivators and take Zhu Wenying away.
• The jade overflowed with golden light that the Seven Star Heavenly Robe channeled into Yu Ci as pure Innate Vital Energy, ending his immediate lifespan crisis and the death-demon tribulation.
• Bao Yun destroyed the last death demon, after which Yu Ci’s impulse summoned a new one and revealed that death demons could be derived from people imprisoned in Tu Ling Prison.
• Yu Ci tested his control over Bao Yun, who sent black qi into the new death demon and then produced dark mist that it drew into itself.

Yu Ci realized the Death Demon could let him spread its affliction to others, gaining a new divine ability, while Bao Yun remained in conflict with the Channelling Yin Demon. The chapter ended with Yu Ci redirecting Bao Yun’s smoke arrow away from Lu Suhua and channeling its power toward her demonic seed through the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror.

• Yu Ci observed the Death Demon shrink into a wooden, restrained form and reasoned that its changing nature could let him inflict the Death Demon’s tribulation on people who had not been afflicted.
• Yu Ci recognized this ability as a divine ability gained through his recent series of heavenly tribulations, while the Innate Vital Energy from the Soul Resonance Jade sustained his divided thoughts.
• Bao Yun arrived at the altar, sat on the Death Demon’s shoulder, and transformed a wisp of its black qi into a smoke arrow aimed at Lu Suhua.
• Yu Ci intercepted the arrow with the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror, then redirected its power through their existing connection toward Lu Suhua’s demonic seed.

Lu Suhua merged with the Fist Intent in her Sea of Consciousness, absorbed compatible remnants, and reached a state of complete lucidity. Her inner demon dispelled Yu Ci’s demonic attack and traced it back to him, sending Chengqitian and the Cloud Tower Tree space into violent convulsions.

• Lu Suhua explained that neither side could overpower the other and urged the being within the Fist Intent to join her in climbing toward a higher goal.
• Lu Suhua opened her sealed system and merged with the Fist Intent, absorbing compatible portions while allowing the sharpest conflicts to remain.
• Lu Suhua’s mind and body reached a lucid, complete state as she recited an old lyric and prepared to advance toward Tribulation Law.
• Lu Suhua’s inner-demon-dispelling ability destroyed the demonic aura Yu Ci had sent through the Zhaoshen Bronze Mirror and blasted its force back along the same path.
• Yu Ci’s mirror was sent flying, and the backlash made Chengqitian and the Cloud Tower Tree space convulse violently.

The demonic spirit was caught by Black Robe while Yu Ci struggled to keep Chengqitian intact under Lu Suhua’s divine ability. Yu Ci and the Cloud Tower Tree found a way to divert the pressure, but he lost several days to exhaustion and woke with little of his seven-day window remaining.

• The demonic spirit lured a Core Formation informant into carrying its jade box, but Black Robe appeared, burned the informant to ashes, and seized the box.
• Lu Suhua’s continuing divine ability counterattack battered Chengqitian, leaving Bao Yun and the dead demon badly weakened while the Cloud Tower Tree struggled to hold the void together.
• Yu Ci used the linked Cloud Tower Tree and Chengqitian to guide the pressure outward, and Bao Yun briefly left Chengqitian to reduce the strain before returning for shelter.
• Chengqitian and the Cloud Tower Tree gradually stabilized, but Yu Ci’s mental strength ran out and he slept through several days.
• Yu Ci woke from a cold shudder, realized he had squandered precious time in the seven-day window, and prepared to adjust to the changed Chengqitian.

Yu Ci awoke to find Chengqitian shattered in appearance but still intact through the Cloud Tower Tree and the Jade God Cave Spirit Seal, while its connection to Great Luo Heaven had strengthened. Outside, Void Stepping cultivators gathered around the revealed void, and the chapter ended as someone announced the arrival of a person willing to confront Donghua Palace.

• Yu Ci assessed Chengqitian's condition, found his half-formed Yang God and cultivation resources intact, and realized the Cloud Tower Tree had linked the shattered regions and improved the connection between Chengqitian, Great Luo Heaven, and the outside world.
• Yu Ci noticed dozens of Void Stepping cultivators nearby, drawn by the four days of rosy light and mist, and learned that five experts had died while investigating or fighting over the void.
• Old Daoist Xusheng concealed Yu Ci's Yang God and important items, then blended into the gathering with Tie Lan to divert suspicion from Chengqitian and its guardian.
• Tang He and Tang Zi discussed the treasures within the void and Lu Suhua's presence underground, weighing the danger of acting without a powerful ally to challenge her.
• A voice called out that someone had arrived who dared to confront Donghua Palace.