Arc 136Chapters 3376–3400
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Ling Zhe escaped with the Green Rhino Demon Emperor and the Shadow Moon Rat into the Dark Demon Small World, while the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor could only abandon their pursuit. Ling Zhe planned to capture the rat later through humans who could enter the world, and the Green Rhino Demon Emperor proposed using a human test subject for an experiment.
Ling Zhe sent the little Shadow Moon Rat and Fang Sword into the Dark Demon Small World, where demonic energy threatened to corrupt them. The chapter ended with armed people arriving and ordering Fang Sword killed before it became a Blood Devour Magic Beast.
Sikong Jing revealed himself to Fang Sword and passed on the Pure Spirit First Heart, temporarily stopping Fang Sword from falling into demonhood. He asked Fang Sword to explain the Dark Demon Small World, leaving his origins undisclosed.
Sikong Jing and Fang Sword learned that the Dark Demon Small World was now inhabited by exiles rather than the demonic beasts of legend, and they began gathering information while trying to resist its corruption. They remained trapped, expecting Ling Zhe to send Spirit Race members after Sikong Jing and hoping the master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall might rescue them.
In the Dark Demon Small World, Sikong Jing hid Fang Sword inside his Spirit Platform and began transforming his Shadow Moon Rat body through demonic cultivation. He kept refining the Demon Emperors’ blood and absorbing demonic aura as he worked to grow stronger without losing consciousness.
Sikong Jing used the four Demon Emperors’ blood to strengthen the little Shadow Moon Rat, then hid from humans while trying to force the Spirit Race to send captors into the Dark Demon Small World. After learning the rat was to be captured alive, Ling Zhe ordered the clans and halls to select Extreme Prison Stage geniuses for a tempering expedition.
Ling Zhe ordered the Spirit Race’s Extreme Prison Stage geniuses to enter the Dark Demon Small World and capture the Shadow Moon Rat, while the Ten Thousand Demon Hall sought a way to rescue Fang Sword and the rat. Three days later, Senior Sister Yu prepared to enter the trial, knowing Su Jingyi and the Su Family had arranged for her to go in his place.
Senior Sister Yu, Su Yuexian, and other selected cultivators entered the Dark Demon Small World as part of the Spirit Race’s trial, while Imperial Venerable Menhang revealed she had forced Su Yuexi into the trial to kill her. The Shadow Moon Rat sensed the arrivals and prepared to begin its operation.
Sikong Jing tried to escape the Dark Demon Small World through a shrinking vortex but was spotted by Zhe Ying, who alerted Ling Zhe. Realizing Ling Zhe would be waiting outside, Sikong Jing retreated back into the Dark Demon Small World and plunged toward the Spirit Race geniuses.
Sikong Jing’s failed escape alerted the Spirit Race to possible intruders, and Voyaging Heart Hall’s trial-takers entered and sealed the small-world entrance. Sikong Jing slipped over to observe them and spotted Su Yuexi among them.
Sikong Jing discovered that Su Yuexi had entered the Dark Demon Small World and secretly approached her, only to witness Voyaging Heart Hall disciples turn against her. As Senior Sister Luo prepared to kill Su Yuexi, Sikong Jing appeared in his demonic beast form and halted the attack.
The little Shadow Moon Rat completely fell into demonhood after Su Yuexi appeared, and he used powers from several beast clans to devastate the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples. Su Yuexi recognized him as Sikong Jing, who briefly regained consciousness and promised to defeat their attackers before severing his demonhood.
Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi fought the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples together in the Dark Demon Small World. After the Shadow Moon Demon Rat killed Senior Sister Luo, Sikong Jing sensed people approaching and fled with Su Yuexi.
Zhe Ying investigated the slaughter of the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples and concluded that the Shadow Moon Magic Rat had killed them. Hidden nearby, Sikong Jing struggled against deepening demonization until Su Yuexi revealed that the Purple Night Mystic Jade held abundant Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
Su Yuexi revealed that Purple Night Mystic Jade had stored the Yin Spirit evil qi, and Sikong Jing sent his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow inside to temper its Extreme Prison Stage. Meanwhile, Zhe Ying grew furious when the arriving geniuses proved weak and reported to Ling Zhe that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had not appeared.
Ling Zhe investigated how the demonized little Shadow Moon Rat retained its intelligence and ordered Spirit Gull to question the clans and halls over their weak trial candidates. At Voyaging Heart Hall, Imperial Venerable Jinghang took Xiao Moli for the trial, while Imperial Venerable Menhang’s attempt to accuse Jinghang backfired when the elders learned Su Yuexi was alive and condemned Menhang.
Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow broke through to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, reunited with Su Yuexi, and continued hiding in the Dark Demon Small World. Meanwhile, his main body reached the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm and left the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, where a Yu Family member summoned him to meet their family head.
Sikong Jing left the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and learned that his father and the Boundless Sea group were staying with the Yu Family, whose attitude toward them had turned hostile. As Sikong Jing headed to the Yu Family, its head confronted Sikong Ding and demanded to know whether the group would stay or leave.
After emerging from the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, Sikong Jing learned that Yu Tang had been sent into the Dark Demon Small World and that Yu Diejin wanted him to kill Su Jingyi. Su Jingyi challenged him to a public fight to the death, but Sikong Jing proposed that they enter the Dark Demon Small World together for the Spirit Race’s trial.
Sikong Jing rejected Su Jingyi’s public life-and-death challenge and proposed settling things inside the Dark Demon Small World, where Su Jingyi lacked the courage to follow. When Lady Ruo arrived to demand a new group of Extreme Prison Stage geniuses for the trial, Sikong Jing asked to enter, leaving Su Jingyi trembling.
Sikong Jing secured a place in the Dark Demon Small World by asking Lady Ruo, then named Su Jingyi as the close friend who should go with him. Su Jingyi was forced into the expedition, while the Feather Transformation Emperor gave Sikong Jing a core disciple token and told him to await further orders.
Sikong Jing forced Su Jingyi to enter the Dark Demon Small World, winning Yu Diejin’s support while Feather Alliance Hall and Lord Ruo dismissed him as doomed. He told Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian that he had chosen the trial to reunite his Spirit Shadows and stop Ling Zhe from capturing his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow.
Sikong Jing went to the Feather Transformation Emperor Hall with the young geniuses who would enter the Dark Demon Small World, where they began adapting to its demonic aura. When he asked about the Shadow Moon Demon Rat they were ordered to capture, everyone was stunned that he could still speak calmly.
Sikong Jing’s immunity to demonic energy drew Feather Transformation Emperor’s attention, who brought him to a secret sword-cultivation space and revealed his connection to the mysterious Sword Clan. Feather Transformation Emperor offered him five days to study two ancient Sword Clan corpses, promising support and a life-saving treasure if he gained something special.
Sikong Jing meditated in the Feather Alliance Sword Corpse Cave while Feather Transformation Emperor and Emperor Yu'e hoped he might uncover Sword Clan secrets that could help their hall escape dependence on the Spirit Race. On the fifth day, Sikong Jing used the Burial Emperor Sword to glimpse the Sword Extinction Emperor and his disciples at the Burial Emperor Battlefield, but the vision’s sword strike blasted him away as Emperor Yu'e arrived.