Recaps

Sikong Jing left the Spirit Seal Realm for the Dark Demon Small World with the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, while the Anti-Seal Faction prepared its next move. The Absolute Pill Emperor resolved to activate the Ten Absolutes’ rebirth plan and destroy the Dark Demon Small World if Sikong Jing grew too powerful there.

• Sikong Jing stored the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall in the First Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, bid farewell to his allies, and entered the Dark Demon Small World.
• Jing Yuan, Su Yuexian, and Yao Yulou urged the people and beasts of the Spirit Seal Realm to grow stronger before Sikong Jing returned.
• Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu ordered the Anti-Seal Faction to keep retreating and prepare to invade the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain.
• The Absolute Pill Emperor told the Three Absolutes Spirit Shadows that the Spirit Root Divine Willow had survived as a fragment and had protected Sikong Jing from his fatal strike.
• The Absolute Pill Emperor ordered the rebirth plan activated and threatened to destroy the Dark Demon Small World if Sikong Jing used the Divine Willow to grow stronger.
• Absolute Beast Emperor chose Yu Cangmeng as his intended vessel, while Absolute Sword Emperor chose Hai Yuan.

Sikong Jing entered the Dark Demon Small World and used the Spirit Root Divine Willow to shield himself and Tian Wuan’s group from demonic qi. He opened the Sacred Wall Gate, found the true Divine Willow sapling, and left Liu Duoye and Qianyuan War Emperor’s coffins inside; the chapter ended with him releasing Gan Wumie from the shattered Divine Martial Shadow Pearl.

• Absolute Pill Emperor rejected Absolute Sword Emperor’s request to take Hai Yuan, prompting Absolute Sword Emperor to consider another genius.
• Sikong Jing found that the Spirit Root Divine Willow could protect him from demonic qi and moved Tian Wuan and the other two into its shelter.
• Sikong Jing opened the Sacred Wall Gate, swept away Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s power, and discovered the true Spirit Root Divine Willow sapling inside.
• Sikong Jing meditated beside the sapling to deepen his understanding of vitality, then decided to continue the sixth-layer Nine Heavens Restriction trial.
• Sikong Jing placed Liu Duoye and Qianyuan War Emperor’s coffins inside the Sacred Wall Gate and shattered the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl, releasing Gan Wumie.

Sikong Jing resurrected Gan Wumie and assigned him to guard the First Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison while he entered the sixth layer of the Nine Heavens Restriction to cultivate. After receiving news that the Anti-Seal Faction had escaped pursuit, he completed the sixth-layer Magic Beast trial and returned to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trial.

• Sikong Jing told Gan Wumie that he had reached the Divine Lord Stage, then resurrected him using essence blood from Tian Wuan and two other captives.
• Sikong Jing ordered Gan Wumie to watch Tian Wuan and the others in the First Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and report any changes.
• Gan Wumie learned that his captives were Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerables and became deeply afraid of Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing returned to the sixth layer of the Nine Heavens Restriction and immersed himself in the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trial.
• Sikong Jing received Su Yuexi’s signal that the Anti-Seal Faction had escaped the Ancient Ten Absolutes and was heading to the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain.
• Sikong Jing endured the sixth-layer Nine Heavens Magic Beast trial, then returned to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s illusionary trial.

Sikong Jing completed the sixth layer of the Nine Heavens Restriction, then paused to cultivate before entering the seventh layer. The Anti-Seal Faction seized the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain, while Sikong Jing faced a trial requiring him to cultivate two inheritances at once.

• Sikong Jing realized the sixth layer demanded repeated switching between the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and the magic beasts’ trials, and continued his cultivation.
• Over the following months, Sikong Jing received signals that the Anti-Seal Faction had stabilized the Sea Clan, gained support from half the Celestial Race, and still could not safely leave the Dark Demon Small World.
• Sikong Jing completed the sixth layer after more than a year, then checked on the Spirit Root Divine Willow and discovered vitality flowing into Liu Duoye’s corpse without signs of revival.
• After three months of cultivating beside the clear spring, Sikong Jing learned the Anti-Seal Faction had taken the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain and entered the seventh layer.
• Sikong Jing began cultivating the Nine Heavens Emperor’s and Nine Heavens Magic Beast’s inheritances simultaneously and found he had to keep their powers balanced.

Sikong Jing endured the seventh-level trial, balancing the Nine Heavens Sword Dao against the Nine Heavens Magic Beast’s demonic power until he broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm and successfully severed the beast’s demonic nature. He completed the level and learned that ten years had passed while he was inside, finding Gan Wumie and the Spirit Root Divine Willow both aged and withered.

• Sikong Jing kept cultivating the Nine Heavens Sword Dao to suppress the Nine Heavens Magic Beast’s power, unable to stop or rest without risking demonic corruption.
• Sikong Jing broke through the Divine Lord realm into the Quasi-Emperor realm in both his human-meridian and beast-meridian dantians.
• Sikong Jing used the Nine Heavens Emperor’s shifting illusion to destroy the demonic nature of the Nine Heavens Magic Beast, completing the seventh level.
• Sikong Jing saw the restored Six-Horned Puppy form grow indistinct, then realized the Nine Heavens Emperor had never known what it would look like as an adult.
• Sikong Jing entered the First Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and found the Spirit Root Divine Willow withered back into the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Gan Wumie told Sikong Jing that ten years had passed and asked why he had ignored the signal bead he crushed years earlier.

Sikong Jing reached the seventh level and found Liu Duoye reborn with an exceptionally pure Spirit Race bloodline. After checking on his allies and the Spirit Root Divine Willow, he entered the eighth level, where the sword spirit Snowforge told him to go to the Burial Emperor Tomb and reach Emperor Venerable.

• Gan Wumie told Sikong Jing that the demonic energy had nearly killed him and badly weakened the Spirit Root Divine Willow.
• Sikong Jing found Liu Duoye protecting the sprout, recognized her as a reborn Spirit Race member, and told her who he was.
• Liu Duoye thanked Sikong Jing for bringing her back to life and asked about her realm, the passing years, and Su Yuexian.
• Sikong Jing checked the signal bead and life lamps, then concluded that the Anti-Seal Faction remained in the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain and his loved ones were alive.
• Sikong Jing invited the Magic Beast sword spirit to join him, but it refused because it had to guide the experiment until he passed all nine restrictions.
• Sikong Jing entered the eighth level, where Snowforge appeared and gave him a white sword, saying she would accompany him to the Burial Emperor Tomb until he reached Emperor Venerable.

Sikong Jing received the Snow-Tempered Divine Sword’s warning that resurrection could cost him his memories, then entered the Burial Emperor Tomb and signaled Su Yuexi. In the twelfth year after his departure, the Spirit Seal Realm celebrated a new Emperor Venerable, but the Anti-Seal Faction faced a renewed threat when the Absolute Beast Emperor revealed he had possessed Yu Cangmeng.

• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit told Sikong Jing she would reconstruct him if he died, though he might lose his memories or cease to be himself.
• The Snow-Tempered Divine Sword carried Sikong Jing through the eighth-layer restriction into a passage toward the Burial Emperor Tomb, and he crushed a signal pearl for Su Yuexi.
• Twelve years after Sikong Jing left, the Flying Cloud Colorful Butterfly broke through to the Emperor Venerable realm as Yao Yulou and others watched.
• Su Yuexi arrived and told Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu that Sikong Jing had entered the Burial Emperor Tomb.
• Yu Xianpo brought the gravely wounded Yu Xianbao to Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu and revealed that the Absolute Beast Emperor had possessed Yu Cangmeng.
• The Absolute Beast Emperor taunted the Anti-Seal Faction and vowed to return to the Great Emperor Realm and reclaim the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain.

After the Absolute Beast Emperor departed, the Anti-Seal Faction prepared to hold its ground while Sikong Jing returned to the Burial Emperor Tomb. Sikong Jing emerged into the Fire Evil Spirit region, where the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit challenged him to use his Nine Heavens Sword Dao to escape.

• Wen Xuanwu urged the Anti-Seal Faction to defend the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain until Sikong Jing could help attack the Spirit Race's Heroic Spirit Hall.
• Su Yuexi told Yu Xianpo that Sikong Jing had returned to the Burial Emperor Tomb, and Yu Xianpo's Sword Qi surged as he held on to the Sword Enlightenment Fragments.
• Chen Lusheng warned the others that Sikong Jing must not be held back, while Su Yuexi resolved to rally more of the Demon Race and worried about the dangers he faced.
• After several days of flight, Sikong Jing emerged from the Dark Demon Small World into the third turn of the Burial Emperor Nine-Turn Hall, surrounded by Fire Evil Spirits.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit explained that the Nine Heavens Emperor had placed the Fire Evil Spirits to conceal the entrance to the using demons to restrain demons experiment.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit told Sikong Jing that his first trial was to escape the region by using the Nine Heavens Sword Dao to frighten away its Yin Spirit creatures.

Sikong Jing discovered that Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin had triggered the Burial Emperor Tribulation after entering the Burial Emperor Tomb. He used the deadly lightning and their Black Tortoise Divine Armor to force them to accept his control, and Shan Qiansu agreed first.

• Sikong Jing recognized the Dark Gold Thunder as a tribulation and realized it had targeted Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin.
• Sikong Jing brought the three Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerables out of the number-one Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and explained that they faced at least four Burial Emperor Tribulations.
• Sikong Jing demanded that the three open their Spirit Platforms and seas of consciousness to his control in exchange for removing their Black Tortoise Divine Armor.
• Dark Gold lightning struck Tian Wuan, then Shan Qiansu and Xue Lin, while their armor prevented the first bolts from killing them.
• Shan Qiansu agreed to submit and opened his Spirit Platform consciousness sea, and Sikong Jing moved farther into the Fire Evil Spirits.

Sikong Jing captured fire evil spirits and used them to force Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin out of the Nine Heavens Emperor’s dangerous trial grounds. After removing their Black Tortoise Divine Armor, he left them with a lethal threat inside their spirit platforms and seas of consciousness, preventing them from attacking him.

• Shan Qiansu, Tian Wuan, and Xue Lin secretly planned to kill Sikong Jing once he removed their Black Tortoise Divine Armor, while they endured the Mysterious Gold Lightning tribulation.
• Sikong Jing captured fire evil spirits with his Nine Heavens Sword Formation after learning they could threaten even powerful Emperor Venerables when placed inside their spirit platforms and seas of consciousness.
• Sikong Jing fought through fire evil spirits and Yin Beast Evil Shadows, repeatedly striking the three elders to drive them away from the Dark Demon entrance as their tribulations continued.
• Sikong Jing infused the elders’ spirit platforms and seas of consciousness with his sword qi, fire evil spirits, and Yin Beast Evil Shadows, then removed their Black Tortoise Divine Armor.
• Tian Wuan tried to attack Sikong Jing, but Shan Qiansu and Xue Lin stopped him when he realized the creatures inside him could kill him if Sikong Jing’s sword qi broke.

Sikong Jing waited for Tian Wuan and the other two to undergo their Burial Emperor Tribulations, then searched for a giant tomb whose soil might save the withering Spirit Root Divine Willow shoot. He told Liu Duoye about the changes in the world and her possible Spirit Race origins, and the chapter ended as he approached a dark mountain amid strangely shifting evil baleful gas.

• Sikong Jing learned from the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit that the Burial Emperor Tribulations might take the three elders a long time, so he returned to temper his sword dao while they endured them.
• Sikong Jing found the Spirit Root Divine Willow shoot rapidly withering and told Liu Duoye that they needed to find ordinary soil to save it.
• Sikong Jing recounted recent events to Liu Duoye, explained the legends surrounding the Willow Race, and suggested she might be the founder of a new pure Spirit Race bloodline.
• Sikong Jing shared his understanding of vitality and left Liu Duoye cultivation techniques and secret manuals.
• Sikong Jing searched for six days, spotted a massive dark mountain that appeared to be a giant tomb, and noticed the surrounding evil baleful gas moving strangely as he approached.

Sikong Jing discovered that an Emperor Venerable from the Primordial Cosmos Great World had crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield into the Vast Cosmos side of the Burial Emperor Tomb. He hid nearby to learn how they had crossed and whether they had reached the Spirit Seal Realm, as the group set out to explore a giant tomb.

• Sikong Jing sensed another being driving evil Killing Intent with Yin Spirit Evil Qi and hid himself in the currents.
• A Yin Spirit Evil Baleful ship arrived, and Sikong Jing recognized the middle-aged leader as an Emperor Venerable from the Primordial Cosmos Great World.
• A young armored man told his master that the Vast Cosmos Great World had been sealed by the Ten Absolutes Great Emperor, so no one from there could have reached the tomb.
• Sikong Jing realized the visitors had crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield to reach the Vast Cosmos side and feared they could threaten the Spirit Seal Realm.
• The middle-aged Emperor Venerable led the group toward a giant tomb belonging to an Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable of the Vast Cosmos.

Sikong Jing watched a Primordial Cosmos force test the Yin Spirit Evil Qi and discovered that its members wielded the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. He suspected the Nine Heavens Emperor had crossed into the Primordial Cosmos and left behind a sword lineage, but the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit could not confirm it.

• A young man suggested that the group leave the Divine Cosmos Ship to experience the Vast Cosmos's Yin Spirit Evil Qi, and the middle-aged Emperor agreed.
• The middle-aged Emperor put away the Divine Cosmos Ship, revealing hundreds of thousands of powerful subordinates, then formed a sword formation to shelter those who could no longer endure the Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
• Sikong Jing recognized the middle-aged Emperor's sword formation as carrying the aura of the Nine Heavens Emperor, and saw that all the subordinates wielded the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Yin Spirit Evil Qi attacked the group, killing some members, driving others into the sword formation, and forcing the rest to resist with their sword Dao.
• Sikong Jing reasoned that the Nine Heavens Emperor might have crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield into the Primordial Cosmos and passed down her sword Dao there.
• Sikong Jing asked the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit about the Nine Heavens Emperor, but it said it did not know whether she had entered the Primordial Cosmos.

Sikong Jing decided to infiltrate the Primordial Cosmos Great World party to learn how its people crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield and acquired the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. He disguised himself as a survivor who had broken through to quasi-Emperor after being torn apart by Yin Spirit Evil Qi, and the Emperor Venerable questioned him aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship.

• Sikong Jing watched the Primordial Cosmos group travel toward the colossal tomb after more than ten thousand people died in the Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
• Sikong Jing donned a dead soldier's armor and resolved to investigate the group's invasion, its knowledge of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, and its route across the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing lowered his sword aura, covered himself in Yin Spirit Evil Qi, and altered his appearance to pose as a badly injured survivor.
• The middle-aged Emperor Venerable sensed Sikong Jing near the colossal tomb and pulled him aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship.
• The Emperor Venerable removed the Yin Spirit Evil Qi and asked Sikong Jing how his Nine Heavens Sword Dao had grown so strong and how he had survived.
• Sikong Jing claimed that he had gained insight, revived, and reached the quasi-Emperor Realm after his body was destroyed.

Sikong Jing was exposed as an intruder and left aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship under Fu Lun’s guard while Golden Bright Emperor and his forces entered Longfir Emperor’s tomb. The tomb’s defenses revealed signs that the Nine Heavens Emperor had left sword marks inside, and Sikong Jing faced interrogation as the expedition advanced.

• Mingzhu and Golden Bright Emperor saw through Sikong Jing’s claim of amnesia and questioned where he came from.
• Sikong Jing revealed the Absolute Sword Dao, and Golden Bright Emperor recognized that he was not from the Vast Cosmos Great World.
• Golden Bright Emperor ordered Fu Lun to interrogate Sikong Jing, then led Mingzhu and his forces to break into Longfir Emperor’s tomb.
• Longfir Emperor’s consciousness projection attacked the intruders, but Golden Bright Emperor inferred that the tomb held the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword marks and pushed forward with the Army-Slaying Formation.
• Fu Lun warned Sikong Jing not to entertain fantasies and remained aboard the ship with his squad to guard him.

Sikong Jing defeated Fu Lun and the Golden Bright Emperor’s remaining subordinates aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship, then interrogated Fu Lun about crossing the Burial Emperor Battlefield. Fu Lun realized Sikong Jing was from the Vast Cosmos Great World and asked why he was there.

• Fu Lun prepared his torture instruments and boasted that his nine-hundred-spring cultivation made him far stronger than Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing cut through Fu Lun’s true energy with one strike of Absolute Sword Sword Qi and immobilized everyone aboard the ship.
• Sikong Jing pierced Fu Lun’s dantian and took up the Hundred Blade Remnant, frightening Fu Lun into offering to talk.
• Sikong Jing asked Fu Lun how he had crossed the Burial Emperor Battlefield to reach the Vast Cosmos Great World.
• After answering Sikong Jing’s questions, Fu Lun realized Sikong Jing was from Vast Cosmos and asked why he had come.

Sikong Jing learned how the Primordial Cosmos Great World had begun sending forces into the Vast Cosmos Great World using the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. After killing Fu Lun and the other intruders, he concluded that at least five groups had already entered the Vast Cosmos.

• Sikong Jing pieced together Fu Lun's account of the Ten Absolutes' infiltration and the Primordial Cosmos Great World's discovery that the Nine Heavens Sword Dao could repel Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
• Fu Lun explained that major Primordial Cosmos forces had independently forged Nine Heavens treasures to send their people through the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Fu Lun said the Seven Decree Sect had sent two groups and that at least three other groups had entered, while Great Emperors could not cross the battlefield.
• Sikong Jing killed Fu Lun and every other Primordial Cosmos person aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship.
• Fu Lun warned that more powerhouses would cross over and the Vast Cosmos would be destroyed before his spirit shadow exploded.

Sikong Jing entered Longfir Tomb and revealed to Longfir Emperor that Golden Bright Emperor’s forces came from the Primordial Cosmos Great World, provoking the tomb’s defenses. Mingzhu then falsely exposed Sikong Jing as an invader too, and Longfir Emperor turned his fury on him.

• Sikong Jing decided to eliminate Golden Bright Emperor and entered Longfir Tomb through a breach in its formation.
• Golden Bright Emperor sent a War Puppet after Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing destroyed its consciousness with Nine Heavens Sword Qi and a Fire Evil Spirit.
• Sikong Jing told Longfir Emperor that Golden Bright Emperor’s forces had come from the Primordial Cosmos Great World, causing Longfir Emperor to unleash the tomb’s formations against them.
• Golden Bright Emperor explained the situation to Mingzhu, who tried to accuse Sikong Jing of also being from the Primordial Cosmos Great World; Golden Bright Emperor slapped and rebuked him.
• Mingzhu’s accusation prompted Longfir Emperor’s thought-spirit projection to appear at the tomb’s edge and attack Sikong Jing as an alleged invader.

Sikong Jing convinced Longfir Emperor that he was a native of the Vast Cosmos and showed him the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, prompting Longfir Emperor to use his tomb’s fir forest to nourish the Spirit Root Divine Willow. As Golden Bright Emperor broke through the tomb’s defenses, Longfir Emperor prepared to sacrifice his remaining strength and sent Liu Duoye out, lamenting that he could not pass on his inheritance.

• Sikong Jing displayed Sword Clan power, Divine Dragon meridian power, and the Vast Cosmos vitality he had gained from the Spirit Root Divine Willow to prove his origins to Longfir Emperor.
• Sikong Jing showed Longfir Emperor the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and explained the Spirit Root Divine Willow’s condition.
• Longfir Emperor brought Sikong Jing and the Sacred Wall to the center of his tomb and planted it, drawing vitality from the giant fir forest to nourish the Willow.
• Golden Bright Emperor’s attacks weakened Longfir Emperor’s defenses, and Longfir Emperor told Sikong Jing to escape with the Spirit Root Divine Willow when the tomb fell.
• Longfir Emperor sent Liu Duoye out of the Sacred Wall Gate and regretted that he could not give her his inheritance before the tomb was destroyed.

Sikong Jing sought a way to stop Golden Bright Emperor from destroying Longfir Tomb and interrupting Liu Duoye’s inheritance. After studying the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trace, he proposed trapping Golden Bright Emperor and his forces inside it with the Fire Evil Spirits.

• Longfir Emperor began passing his inheritance to Liu Duoye as Golden Bright Emperor’s forces fought their way toward the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing revealed his Nine Heavens Sword Qi and asked whether the Fire Evil Spirits he had gathered could defeat Golden Bright Emperor, but Longfir Emperor said there were too few to overcome his hundreds of thousands of troops.
• Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor to take him to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword trace, where Longfir Emperor recounted her visit and explained that her sword strike had helped preserve his consciousness.
• Sikong Jing concluded that the sword trace carried Longfir Emperor’s power and may have protected the tomb while offering insight to those experimenting with demons.
• Sikong Jing proposed luring Golden Bright Emperor and his forces into the Nine Heavens Emperor’s Sword Qi cave, then releasing the Fire Evil Spirits inside.

Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor trapped Golden Bright Emperor and his hundreds of thousands of followers inside the Nine Heavens Sword Qi cavern with formations and evil spirits. Golden Bright Emperor realized they were trapped, but dismissed Mingzhu’s suspicion that Absolute Sword’s sect was responsible.

• Sikong Jing proposed surrounding the Nine Heavens One Sword with Nine Heavens Sword Qi formations and evil spirits to delay Golden Bright Emperor while Longfir Emperor passed on his inheritance.
• Longfir Emperor agreed to the plan, and Sikong Jing began building the formations as Longfir Emperor offered Golden Bright Emperor a chance to observe the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword strike.
• Longfir Emperor led Golden Bright Emperor and his followers into the Nine Heavens Sword Qi cavern, where Golden Bright Emperor ordered them to study the sword strike and planned to remove it afterward.
• After a quarter-hour, Fire Evil Spirits, other mutated creatures, and Yin Spirit Evil Qi appeared around the cavern, and Golden Bright Emperor failed to break through the surrounding formation.
• Mingzhu suspected Absolute Sword’s sect had set the trap, but Golden Bright Emperor rejected the idea because his barrier had detected no intruders.

Sikong Jing kept Golden Bright Emperor and his forces trapped in the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave while collecting more Fire Evil Spirits, but Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin struggled through their tribulations. He returned to find Longfir Emperor’s spirit fading and prepared to strengthen the blockade around Golden Bright Emperor.

• Longfir Emperor taunted Golden Bright Emperor by claiming Sikong Jing was dead, then persuaded his trapped forces to keep cultivating rather than risk a deadly breakout.
• Sikong Jing left Longfir Emperor to watch Many-Leaf Patriarch and the Spirit Root Divine Willow, then went to gather more Fire Evil Spirits and check on Tian Wuan, Shan Qiansu, and Xue Lin.
• Sikong Jing found Tian Wuan undergoing a second tribulation while Shan Qiansu and Xue Lin were still facing their first, and realized they could not help him yet.
• Sikong Jing gathered more Fire Evil Spirits and returned to Longfir Tomb twelve days later, where Liu Duoye had reached the Divine Martial Stage and Longfir Emperor’s spirit shadow had grown faint.
• Sikong Jing proposed using the doubled supply of Fire Evil Spirits to strengthen the blockade and possibly destroy Golden Bright Emperor and his forces inside the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave.

Golden Bright Emperor led his forces out of the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Cave, only to be driven back by a fresh surge of Fire Evil Spirits and lose a third of his subordinates. Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor chose to abandon the attempt to kill him for now, and Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor to explain how the war between the Origin Universe and the Vast Universe began.

• After twelve days of observing Nine Heavens One Sword, Golden Bright Emperor led hundreds of thousands of troops out of the sword qi cave and attacked the surrounding Fire Evil Spirits.
• A crack opened in the Nine Heavens Sword Qi Formation, allowing another torrent of Fire Evil Spirits to attack Golden Bright Emperor's forces.
• Longfir Emperor claimed he had broken a treasure belonging to the dead Absolute Sword brat and sent the creatures inside it as reinforcements.
• Golden Bright Emperor retreated into the sword qi cave, but Fire Evil Spirits killed a third of his subordinates on the way.
• Sikong Jing and Longfir Emperor decided against another trip to gather more Fire Evil Spirits, and Longfir Emperor said they needed the Spirit Root Divine Willow to revive.
• Sikong Jing asked Longfir Emperor how the war between the Origin Universe and the Vast Universe had begun.

Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye departed Longfir Tomb aboard Golden Bright Emperor’s seized Divine Cosmos Ship after Longfir Emperor revived the Spirit Root Divine Willow and entrusted them with his remains and treasures. Longfir Emperor stayed behind to attack Golden Bright Emperor, and his tomb collapsed after leaving the enemy badly wounded.

• After three days, the Spirit Root Divine Willow had revived, and Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye bowed farewell to Longfir Emperor.
• Liu Duoye promised Longfir Emperor she would restore the Spirit Race, and Longfir Emperor seized Golden Bright Emperor’s Divine Cosmos Ship, replaced its ship spirit, and gave it to Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye left with Longfir Emperor’s remains and treasures while Longfir Emperor stayed behind to attack Golden Bright Emperor and his forces.
• Aboard the ship, Liu Duoye asked whether the Vast Cosmos and Primordial Cosmos truly had to fight, and Sikong Jing said each side faced destruction if the other survived.
• Longfir Tomb collapsed after Longfir Emperor’s assault severely wounded Golden Bright Emperor and reduced his forces to fewer than ten thousand; Longfir Emperor then dispersed completely.
• Sikong Jing accelerated toward the Spirit Seal Realm, planning to collect Fire Evil Spirits and other resources along the way.

Golden Bright Emperor survived the destruction of Longfir Tomb but lost his Divine Cosmos Ship and Nine Heavens Spirit Passage Shield, leaving him stranded with fewer than ten thousand subordinates and vowing revenge on the unknown sect of the Absolute Sword brat. A year later, Sikong Jing reached the area near the Sword Extinction Giant Tomb, but Gan Wumie could not find it.

• Golden Bright Emperor blamed Mingzhu for provoking Longfir Emperor, struck him, and vowed to hunt down the Absolute Sword brat's sect.
• The Fire Evil Spirits drifted away, but the Nine Heavens Spirit Passage Shield split apart, preventing Golden Bright Emperor's group from returning to the Primordial Cosmos soon.
• One month later, Sikong Jing and Gan Wumie inspected a giant tomb and found its formation shattered and its Nine Heavens Emperor sword strike dug out.
• Sikong Jing continued toward the Spirit Seal Realm, hoping the Primordial Cosmos factions' search for giant tombs would delay their arrival.
• After another year of travel, Gan Wumie reported that he had searched for ten days but still could not locate the nearby Sword Extinction Giant Tomb.