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After being framed, stripped of his power, and exiled, Sikong Jing woke in Yun Province to find Su Yuexi caring for him as his wife. When a mysterious Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts appeared and Su Yuexi was attacked, he swallowed it, choosing rebirth despite the risk of losing his humanity.

• Sikong Jing recalled how Yan Tianmo and Yan Ruyu had framed him, destroyed his dantian and meridians, and exiled him to Yun Province.
• Su Yuexi told Sikong Jing she was his wife and that she had cared for him during the five days he was unconscious.
• Sikong Jing tried to summon his true qi, but a glowing bead formed from his blood and a voice urged him to swallow the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• A burly woman accused Su Yuexi of stealing a pig from the Su Family Pig Farm and struck her while Sikong Jing watched helplessly.
• Sikong Jing declared that he feared nothing, swallowed the blood bead, and felt the beast blood boil within him.

Sikong Jing recovered after absorbing the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts and rescued Su Yuexi from the shrew who was tormenting her. He uncovered Su Yuexi’s face and recognized the condition covering it as Crimson Spider Poison.

• Sikong Jing’s shattered meridians and dantian healed as the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts transformed his body.
• The shrew attacked Su Yuexi and threatened to crush Sikong Jing, forcing Su Yuexi to offer to kneel to protect him.
• Sikong Jing awoke, seized the shrew, tore off her arm, severed her leg, and threw her outside.
• Sikong Jing thanked Su Yuexi for caring for him and asked why she had been willing to kneel for his sake.
• Sikong Jing lifted Su Yuexi’s veil, examined her spider-marked face, and identified her condition as Crimson Spider Poison.

Sikong Jing discovered that Su Yuexi’s appearance was caused by Crimson Spider Poison, then awakened the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison through his blood. The prison’s beasts revealed that he was their new human Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and they attacked him in fury but remained bound by chains.

• Sikong Jing recognized Su Yuexi’s symptoms as Crimson Spider Poison and realized she had been poisoned, but she misunderstood his reaction and ran away in tears.
• Sikong Jing uncovered the blood-drawn beast’s head beneath the thatch and realized his blood had awakened it and formed the Ten Thousand Beasts Blood Bead.
• The beast’s head became an emblem that entered Sikong Jing’s brow, transporting his consciousness to the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• The imprisoned beasts rejoiced at the arrival of a new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, then turned furious when they discovered Sikong Jing was human.
• The Golden Divine Dragon, the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger, and countless other beasts charged at Sikong Jing but were stopped by enormous chains.

Sikong Jing received the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art from the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and learned he could use his blood to cure Crimson Spider Poison after reaching the ninth level of the Bright Realm. He began rapidly rebuilding his cultivation, but an angry shout accusing Su Yuexi of maiming a servant interrupted him.

• Sikong Jing agreed to save the chained beasts, and the Golden Divine Dragon gave him the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art as a test of whether he could become their master.
• Sikong Jing asked how to cure Crimson Spider Poison, and the giant spider told him his blood could cure it once he reached the ninth level of the Bright Realm.
• The Golden Divine Dragon explained that mastering the art would awaken a Beast Heart in Sikong Jing and make him unwilling to submit to the Five Heavenly Emperors.
• Sikong Jing returned to the thatched cottage, resolved to cultivate the art and take revenge on Yan Tianmo and Yan Ruyu.
• Sikong Jing quickly reached the first and second levels of the Bright Realm before hearing someone accuse Su Yuexi of cutting off a servant’s hands and feet; he went outside.

Sikong Jing defended Su Yuexi when Su Yun accused her of injuring Aunt Dou and ordered her punished. After Su Yun’s men attacked, Sikong Jing defeated them and stood between Su Yuexi and her assailants.

• Su Yuexi claimed she had chopped off Aunt Dou’s hands and feet after Aunt Dou attacked her, while Sikong Jing realized she was trying to protect him.
• Su Yun ordered her maid to slap Su Yuexi and take her to the Su Clan Enforcement Hall, but Sikong Jing stepped in and struck the maid.
• Sikong Jing admitted that he had injured Aunt Dou, and Su Yuexi anxiously tried to take the blame for him.
• Su Yun insulted the couple and ordered her men to beat them, while her maid attacked Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing knocked down Su Yun’s thugs and slapped her maid again, then stood in front of Su Yuexi as the clearing fell silent.

Sikong Jing learned that Su Yuexi was mistreated by her wealthy clan and had been forced to live in a ruined hut after marrying him. When an injured servant threatened them, Su Yuexi killed her with a dagger, leaving the consequences uncertain.

• Sikong Jing prepared to strike Su Yun, but Su Yuexi stopped him, and Su Yun fled with her maid and thugs, threatening to report them to the Su Clan Enforcement Hall.
• Su Yuexi explained that Su Yun was her cousin and that the Su Clan despised her for her appearance.
• Su Yuexi revealed that the Su Clan was one of Yunye City's four great clans and that she had been moved to the hut after her marriage to Sikong Jing brought the clan shame.
• A wounded servant shouted threats at Su Yuexi and Sikong Jing, and Su Yuexi rushed to her with a dagger.
• Su Yuexi overcame her fear and plunged the dagger into the servant's heart.

Su Yuexi killed Aunt Dou and took full responsibility to protect Sikong Jing, then hid him from the Su Clan Enforcement Hall. Sikong Jing chose to follow her back rather than let her suffer alone, while Su Zhengtao ordered guards to capture him and began questioning Su Yuexi.

• Su Yuexi killed Aunt Dou and told Sikong Jing to deny involvement so the Su Clan would not punish him.
• Su Yuexi hid Sikong Jing in a secluded cave, warning him to stay there while she faced the Law Enforcement Hall.
• After Su Yuexi left, Sikong Jing followed her, determined not to let her bear the consequences alone.
• At the Enforcement Hall, Su Yun accused Su Yuexi's husband of fleeing, and Su Zhengtao ordered guards to capture him, killing him if he resisted.
• Su Zhengtao questioned Su Yuexi about Aunt Dou, and she admitted that she had maimed and killed her.

Su Yuexi was sentenced to a hundred strokes after Su Zhengtao and Su Yun framed her for stealing a pig and killing Aunt Dou, while Sikong Jing was ordered to take two hundred strokes. Sikong Jing arrived to protect her and defeated the Law Enforcement Hall enforcers, leaving Su Yuexi stunned.

• Su Zhengtao accused Su Yuexi of stealing a pig and killing Aunt Dou, then sentenced her to a hundred strokes and Sikong Jing to two hundred.
• Su Yuexi admitted to the theft and murder to protect Sikong Jing, but Su Zhengtao ordered the punishment to proceed.
• Sikong Jing entered the Law Enforcement Hall as the enforcers surrounded him, despite Su Yuexi pleading for him to leave.
• Sikong Jing fought back with an Execution Staff and knocked every enforcer to the ground, shocking Su Yuexi.

After Sikong Jing defeated the Su family’s elite guards in the Disciplinary Hall, Su Zhengtao moved to kill him. Su Yuexi’s father, Su Zhenglong, arrived and revealed power reaching the Human Realm as he confronted his younger brother.

• Sikong Jing used the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art to defeat more than a dozen Su family Disciplinary Hall members.
• Su Yun demanded that Su Zhengtao kill Sikong Jing, and Su Zhengtao advanced on him with Dark Realm true qi.
• Sikong Jing charged into the fourth level of the Bright Realm and prepared to fight Su Zhengtao despite the gap in their strength.
• Su Zhenglong arrived at the Disciplinary Hall, and Su Yuexi went to help her injured father.
• Su Zhenglong challenged Su Zhengtao for targeting his daughter and Sikong Jing, then released an aura that rose into the Human Realm.

Su Zhenglong rescued Su Yuexi from the Law Enforcement Hall and took her home despite his severe injuries. Su Zhengtao plotted revenge while Su Zhenglong learned more about his new son-in-law, Sikong Jing.

• Su Zhenglong forced Su Zhengtao to release Su Yuexi, then left the Law Enforcement Hall with her and Sikong Jing.
• Su Zhengtao revealed that he had framed Su Yuexi to provoke Su Zhenglong and ordered Su Yun to fetch her second brother to challenge Sikong Jing.
• Su Yuexi asked her father when he had awakened, and he explained that he had secretly left to rescue her after learning she was at the Pig Farm.
• Su Zhenglong learned that Su Yuexi had married Sikong Jing and asked why he had dared to fight a Dark Realm opponent while at the fourth level of the Bright Realm.

Sikong Jing reassured Su Yuexi that he would protect her and make her tormentors pay, while Su Zhenglong approved of his devotion despite his reckless confidence. At the Su family’s dilapidated residence, Mei Xiaofang blamed Su Yuexi for bringing her sick father home, and Su Yuexi asked Sikong Jing not to argue with her mother.

• Sikong Jing told Su Zhenglong that he had not feared Su Zhengtao because he believed he could win, then told Su Yuexi he did not want her to suffer and would make those who humiliated her pay.
• Su Zhenglong was pleased by Sikong Jing’s affection for Su Yuexi, though he worried that his son-in-law was stubborn and impulsive.
• Sikong Jing, Su Zhenglong, and Su Yuexi arrived at the family’s run-down old residence, where Su Yuexi explained how poorly her household was treated in the Su Mansion.
• Mei Xiaofang rushed out, scolded Su Zhenglong for leaving without telling her, and accused Su Yuexi of endangering her father by bringing him back from the Pig Farm.
• After Mei Xiaofang took Su Zhenglong inside, Su Yuexi asked Sikong Jing not to talk back to her mother, and he reluctantly agreed to try.

Sikong Jing stopped Mei Xiaofang from beating Su Yuexi and confronted her over abandoning Yuexi when the Su Clan Enforcement Hall mistreated her. He exposed the injuries Aunt Dou had inflicted and challenged Mei Xiaofang’s treatment of her daughter, leaving her unable to answer.

• Mei Xiaofang ordered Su Yuexi to kneel and raised a ruler to beat her, but Sikong Jing caught her hand.
• Sikong Jing declared that Yuexi was his wife first and challenged Mei Xiaofang’s right to discipline her without regard for him.
• Sikong Jing revealed Yuexi’s injured face and explained that Aunt Dou had trampled her at the Su Clan Enforcement Hall.
• Sikong Jing questioned where Mei Xiaofang had been while Yuexi was humiliated and threatened with a hundred strokes, and Mei Xiaofang fell silent.
• Mei Xiaofang blamed Sikong Jing for Yuexi’s trouble, but he argued that the pig-theft charge had been a pretext and challenged her for calling Yuexi a jinx and ugly.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi shared a simple wedding feast, and Sikong Jing vowed to protect her. Their family discussed the trouble Su Yuexi’s return from the Pig Farm might cause, just as Su Yang and Su Yun arrived with news that Su Xuefeng would not punish her.

• Mei Xiaofang stormed out after arguing with Sikong Jing, and Su Zhenglong told him she was only hiding her concern for Yuexi behind her pride.
• Su Yuexi showed Sikong Jing their humble room, and he promised to help her escape their predicament and restore her looks.
• Mei Xiaofang prepared a wedding feast, then had Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi kneel and bow before covering Yuexi’s head with red cloth.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi completed their wedding with three bows and wine, and he silently vowed to protect her for life.
• Su Zhenglong said he would cripple Su Zhengtao if Su Yuexi’s grandfather caused trouble, but Su Yang and Su Yun arrived and said Su Xuefeng would not hold Yuexi’s departure against her.

Su Yang challenged Sikong Jing on his wedding day, threatening to send him and Su Yuexi back to the Pig Farm if he refused. Sikong Jing accepted to protect his wife and immediately knocked Su Yang down with a single punch.

• Su Yang and Su Yun mocked Su Yuexi’s wedding and revealed that Su Yang intended to cripple Sikong Jing.
• Su Yang challenged Sikong Jing, threatening that Su Yuexi would be sent back to the Pig Farm if he refused.
• Su Yuexi tried to stop Sikong Jing from accepting, but he said he would protect her and accepted the challenge.
• Sikong Jing struck Su Yang in the face, sending him flying as Su Yuexi and her family stared in disbelief.

Sikong Jing defeated Su Yang despite Su Yang’s greater cultivation, then caught Su Yang’s blade and held it to his neck. The chapter left Su Zhenglong, Su Yuexi, and Mei Xiaofang stunned by Sikong Jing’s strength.

• Su Yang rose after Sikong Jing’s first punch and accused him of ambushing him, while Sikong Jing said he had held back.
• Su Yang attacked Sikong Jing with Falling Peak Fist, but Sikong Jing caught his punch and kneed him into the ground.
• Su Yang attacked Sikong Jing from behind with the Su Clan’s Golden Thunder Eight Blades, and Su Zhenglong warned Sikong Jing not to catch the blade barehanded.
• Sikong Jing caught Su Yang’s blade, slapped him flying, and pressed the blade against his neck.

Sikong Jing defeated Su Yang and crippled all four of his limbs despite warnings that Su Shan would return in ten days to challenge him. His in-laws feared Su Xuefeng would use the coming birthday banquet to destroy their family, and Mei Xiaofang forbade Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi from sharing a room.

• Sikong Jing knocked Su Yang down and held a sword to his throat after defeating him.
• Su Zhenglong, Su Yun, and Su Yuexi warned Sikong Jing that Su Shan would return in ten days from the Dark Realm, but Sikong Jing said the third tier was nothing.
• Sikong Jing broke Su Yang's arms and legs, and Su Yun called servants to carry her unconscious brother away.
• Mei Xiaofang berated Sikong Jing and warned that Su Xuefeng could use his birthday banquet to wipe out their family.
• Mei Xiaofang ordered Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi not to share a room, while Su Zhenglong returned to his room in despair.

After Sikong Jing comforted Su Yuexi and cultivated through the night, Su Xuefeng learned that Su Yang had been crippled and planned revenge. By dawn, servants had begun seizing Mei Xiaofang's belongings over unpaid wages.

• Sikong Jing comforted Su Yuexi, promised to win in ten days, and cultivated in a separate room.
• Su Xuefeng told Su Zhengtao that he would wait to see why the Lord of Yun Province arranged Sikong Jing's marriage.
• A servant reported that Su Yang's arms and legs had been broken, and Su Yun blamed Sikong Jing for ambushing him.
• Su Xuefeng ordered the Su Mansion to cut off financial support to Su Zhenglong's family and planned to have Xiaoshan kill Sikong Jing in ten days.
• Sikong Jing cultivated to the fifth level of the Bright Realm, then went with Su Yuexi to find servants taking Mei Xiaofang's silk over unpaid wages.

Sikong Jing intervened when servants tried to take Mei Xiaofang’s silk over unpaid wages, then learned Su Mansion had cut off the family’s allowance. After Aunt Li stirred up the servants against Mei Xiaofang and Su Yuexi, Sikong Jing struck her and promised to repay the wages tenfold in three days.

• A male servant snatched Mei Xiaofang’s silk, and Sikong Jing caught her before she fell and demanded it back.
• Mei Xiaofang and Su Yuexi argued with the servants over half a month of unpaid wages, but Aunt Li insulted them and claimed Su Mansion had ended their allowance.
• Aunt Li threatened to clear out the home, and Sikong Jing slapped her when she refused to acknowledge Mei Xiaofang’s past gifts.
• Aunt Li falsely told the arriving servants that Mei Xiaofang had sent Sikong Jing to beat her, prompting the onlookers to denounce Mei Xiaofang and Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing slapped Aunt Li a third time, promised the servants tenfold repayment in three days, and ordered them to leave.

Sikong Jing promised to ease the Su family’s poverty within three days after the servants turned against them, while Su Yuexi revealed why her family blamed her for her father’s injury and sister’s disappearance. On the third day, Sikong Jing went to Heaven Martial Pavilion to sell martial techniques for money.

• Sikong Jing made the servants leave the stolen silk behind and promised tenfold compensation, angering Mei Xiaofang, who blamed him for the family’s hardship.
• Sikong Jing promised Mei Xiaofang he would support the household without Su Clan money within three days, and she told Su Yuexi not to distress her unconscious father.
• Su Yuexi told Sikong Jing that a Noble Young Master had tried to take her as a maid when she was eight, and her older sister Su Yuexian had been taken in her place after Su Yuexi’s appearance changed.
• Su Yuexi explained that her father was gravely injured after the Noble Young Master punished the family, and Sikong Jing suspected Su Yuexian had caused Su Yuexi’s condition to protect her.
• After spending two days cultivating, Sikong Jing left the Su Mansion on the third day and went to Heaven Martial Pavilion to sell martial techniques.

Sikong Jing visited the Heaven Martial Pavilion to buy cheap Green Jade Slates so he could inscribe a martial art, but the shop assistant refused to trust him without payment. Chu Bo funded the slates and bet that Sikong Jing would fail; Sikong Jing inscribed the martial art successfully on his first try, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Sikong Jing asked about the Pavilion’s martial arts prices, then requested three cheap Green Jade Slates despite having no money.
• The shop assistant rejected Sikong Jing’s offer to pay after inscribing a martial art and ordered him to leave.
• Chu Bo offered to pay for the slates on the condition that Sikong Jing kneel and praise him if he failed.
• Sikong Jing changed the bet so Chu Bo would praise Su Yuexi if Sikong Jing succeeded, and Chu Bo agreed.
• Sikong Jing used the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art to inscribe a Yellow Grade High Tier martial art onto the slates in three breaths.
• Sikong Jing announced that he had succeeded on his first attempt, silencing the crowd.

Sikong Jing successfully inscribed a technique on a Green Jade Slate and demanded that Chu Bo honor their bet, but Chu Bo tried to cheat and humiliate him. Sikong Jing forced Chu Bo to his knees, then asked Pavilion Master Lu Zhao to appraise the slate, whose reaction suggested its inscription was extraordinary.

• Sikong Jing revealed the inscribed Green Jade Slate and demanded that Chu Bo honor their bet, but Chu Bo offered him a coin and ordered his servant to take and smash the slate.
• Sikong Jing struck Chu Bo’s servant, kicked Chu Bo into the street, and damaged his knees with true qi until Chu Bo knelt before him.
• Sikong Jing demanded that Chu Bo honor the bet, while Chu Bo tried to rise and suffered worsening pain.
• Lu Zhao warned Sikong Jing to back down because he was in Yunye City and Chu Bo belonged to the Chu Family.
• Sikong Jing asked Lu Zhao to appraise the Green Jade Slate, but Lu Zhao’s true qi surged uncontrollably and his face reddened as he examined it.
• The shop assistant accused Sikong Jing of cheating and insisted he could not have successfully inscribed the slate.

Sikong Jing sold a Green Jade Slate containing Martial Intent to Lu Zhao for the ordinary price, then settled his bet with Chu Bo and left with money for Su Yuexi. The crowd realized he was Su Mansion's son-in-law, while Lu Zhao chose not to provoke him.

• Lu Zhao struck the clerk for calling Sikong Jing a fraud, then recognized Martial Intent on the Green Jade Slate and mistook Sikong Jing for a hidden Transcendent powerhouse.
• Sikong Jing sold the slate at the standard price for a Yellow Grade High Tier technique and warned Lu Zhao to keep its contents secret.
• Sikong Jing made Chu Bo declare three times that Su Yuexi was the most beautiful woman in the world, then returned the Copper Crystal Plates he owed him.
• Lu Zhao paid Sikong Jing and ordered the guards to take Chu Bo back to the Chu Family instead of pursuing Sikong Jing.
• The clerk urged Lu Zhao to capture Sikong Jing, but the crowd identified him as the Su Mansion's son-in-law from his bet about Su Yuexi.

Sikong Jing returned to Su Mansion and found Mei Xiaofang begging Madam Liu for money to save him and Su Yuexi. After learning the Liu couple had mocked Mei Xiaofang and plotted to exploit Su Yuexi, he killed them.

• Lu Zhao decided to hide the Green Jade Slate and keep Sikong Jing's secret to himself.
• Sikong Jing saw Mei Xiaofang accept ten Copper Crystal Plates from Madam Liu, who humiliated her and refused to lend more.
• Mei Xiaofang pleaded with Madam Liu to help prevent Sikong Jing from being forced to die, but Madam Liu slammed the gate in her face.
• After Mei Xiaofang left, Madam Liu and Liu Neng revealed they wanted to please Su Zhengtao and planned to exploit Su Yuexi once Su Zhenglong was dead.
• Sikong Jing appeared inside the Liu family courtyard, paid back the ten Copper Crystal Plates with one Gold Crystal Coin, and killed Liu Neng and Madam Liu.

Sikong Jing returned to Su Mansion after killing the Liu couple, but before he could reveal his money to Mei Xiaofang, Su Zhenglong collapsed from his old injuries. Su Yuexi arrived with three Gold Crystal Coins to pay for medicine, while her father remained in critical condition.

• Sikong Jing told Mei Xiaofang that the Liu couple had been killed, and she celebrated their deaths before briefly suspecting him.
• Su Zhenglong coughed up blood and collapsed, so Sikong Jing carried him to bed and discovered that his internal organs were badly damaged by a strand of Earth Realm true qi.
• While unconscious, Su Zhenglong said Su Yuexian had poisoned Su Yuexi with Crimson Spider Poison and that he had never blamed her.
• Mei Xiaofang fetched Doctor Sun, who said strong medicine would cost three Gold Crystal Coins, and she prepared to beg Su Xuefeng for the money.
• Su Yuexi rushed in with three Gold Crystal Coins and asked Doctor Sun to save Su Zhenglong.

Su Yuexi pawned her Jadeite Hairpin to pay for her father's medicine and Sikong Jing's debts, but Hengyu Pawnshop had already sold it. Sikong Jing fought the shop's guards and forced the shopkeeper to retrieve the hairpin, leaving its return unresolved.

• Su Yuexi confessed that she had pawned the Jadeite Hairpin to pay for Su Zhenglong's treatment and the wages owed, and Mei Xiaofang was devastated.
• Sikong Jing showed Su Yuexi a pouch of Gold Crystal Coins and took her to Hengyu Pawnshop to redeem the hairpin.
• The shopkeeper said he had already sold the Jadeite Hairpin and insulted Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing struck the shopkeeper and defeated the guards who rushed in to attack them.
• Sikong Jing held a cleaver to the shopkeeper's neck and offered twenty Gold Crystal Coins, demanding that he retrieve the hairpin.