Recaps

Sikong Jing assassinated Da Han, then revealed himself to the Zither Sword Maiden as a Divine Son. The chapter left him exposed in the square as he declared that, like her, he was only pretending to be a descended Divine Son.

• Sikong Jing pierced Da Han through the Spirit Platform and returned to the burning square without letting the Zither Sword Maiden detect him.
• The Zither Sword Maiden stabilized Da Han, while Sikong Jing watched to see whether she would summon hidden guards.
• Da Han handed the Zither Sword Maiden a glazed bottle containing Mu Bujun's spirit image, but his outburst had scattered it again.
• Sikong Jing released the Spirit Root Divine Willow's life force, healing the people trapped in the burning square.
• Yu Xiweng announced that the Beastman Race and Spirit Willow Clan had Divine Sons, and the Zither Sword Maiden spotted Sikong Jing in the square.
• Sikong Jing rose into the air and told the Zither Sword Maiden that he was a Divine Son pretending to have descended, just like her.

Sikong Jing revealed that he came from Vast Cosmos and challenged the Zither Sword Maiden to a wagered duel after they sent their world-destroying mechanisms and keys outside the World-within-a-World. The Zither Sword Maiden revealed that her twelve sword attendants were opening the Spirit Willow Clan’s forbidden grounds with a duplicated key, but Sikong Jing hinted that something had appeared there.

• The Zither Sword Maiden recognized Sikong Jing as a Two-Tribulation Emperor Venerable from Vast Cosmos and realized he was the Divine Son of the Spirit Willow Clan.
• Sikong Jing confronted the Zither Sword Maiden over her plans to seize the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ bloodline, fragments of the Spirit Root Divine Willow, and the Nine Heavens Emperor’s belongings.
• Sikong Jing and the Zither Sword Maiden agreed to a duel and threw their six destruction mechanisms and keys outside the World-within-a-World so neither could destroy it during their fight.
• The Zither Sword Maiden revealed that her twelve sword attendants were at the Spirit Willow Clan with a duplicated forbidden-ground key, and ordered them to seize the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments.
• After the Zither Sword Maiden showed the attendants opening the forbidden grounds, Sikong Jing told everyone to look at what had appeared there.

Sikong Jing confronted the Zither Sword Maiden while his Beast Heart Body fought her twelve female sword attendants at the Spirit Willow Clan. The Zither Sword Maiden pursued him into the sky, and their battle began as she ordered her attendants to sacrifice themselves if necessary.

• Sikong Jing revealed that the Beast Heart Body had been left at the Spirit Willow Clan, and the illusion mirror shattered as its battle with the twelve female sword attendants began.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his Nine Heavens Sword Intent, and the Zither Sword Maiden suspected he was the Nine Heavens Emperor's direct successor.
• Sikong Jing sent the Beastman Race and Spirit Willow Clan members out of Aurora City before racing toward the sky, and the Zither Sword Maiden followed to stop him from reaching the six items first.
• The Aurora Divine Lord guarded Da Han as he recovered, while the people below watched Sikong Jing and the Zither Sword Maiden's sword domains collide overhead.
• Sikong Jing told the Zither Sword Maiden that one of her attendants had already fallen, and she ordered the remaining attendants to stake their lives against the Beast Heart Body if they could not win.

Sikong Jing battled the Zither Sword Maiden, whose Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline revealed his inheritance and whose interest in his Nine Heavens Demon Vein grew when he described taking the former Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ treasures. The Zither Sword Maiden then unleashed her own zither-and-sword technique, while the fighting around the Spirit Willow Clan continued to turn against her attendants.

• Sikong Jing told the Zither Sword Maiden he had once placed first in a Vast Cosmos genius trial held by the Ten Absolute Emperor.
• The Zither Sword Maiden recognized that Sikong Jing inherited the Nine Heavens Emperor’s bloodline from his early Emperor Venerable period, and Sikong Jing revealed his much stronger Nine Heavens Demon Vein.
• Sikong Jing said he had taken everything from the former Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ forbidden ground and explained that strong Nine Heavens Sword Dao could suppress Nine Heavens Demon Blood.
• Sikong Jing offered to teach the Zither Sword Maiden how to develop a Demon Vein in exchange for her Nine Heavens Magic Beast essence blood, but she vowed to kill him and take what she wanted.
• Sikong Jing reported that three Second Tribulation and two Third Tribulation fighters had died, leaving only seven of the Zither Sword Maiden’s twelve attendants alive.
• The Zither Sword Maiden summoned an ancient zither and attacked Sikong Jing with her Supreme Zither Sword Sound.

Sikong Jing battled the Zither Sword Maiden, who combined her zither arts with the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and used alluring phantoms to overwhelm her opponents. After he shattered her first phantoms, she conjured seductive images of the Nine Heavens Emperor around him.

• The Zither Sword Maiden attacked Sikong Jing with spacetime-rending zither sword-notes, and he blocked them with his Nine Heavens Sword Shield.
• Sikong Jing merged the Burial Emperor Sword and then the Demon Vein with the Nine Heavens Sword Dao to counter her attacks.
• The Zither Sword Maiden created alluring clones that sent Da Han, the Aurora Divine Lord, Ling Qiuyuan, and others into delirium.
• Sikong Jing dismissed the phantoms and crushed them with demonic sword qi, causing people throughout Aurora City and the surrounding ships to regain their senses injured.
• The Zither Sword Maiden summoned seductive phantoms of the Nine Heavens Emperor around Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing defeated the Zither Sword Maiden’s seductive attacks and shattered her zither with his Mad Beast Sword Strike, but his Beast Heart Body was destroyed during a battle at the Spirit Willow Clan. The chapter ended with the Zither Sword Maiden learning that the Humanoid Fierce Beast was dead.

• The Zither Sword Maiden tried to seduce Sikong Jing with an image of the Nine Heavens Emperor, but Sikong Jing broke the illusion and explained why it could not sway the Nine Heavens Magic Beast’s will.
• The Zither Sword Maiden intensified her attack, but Sikong Jing fused Absolute Sword Dao with Nine Heavens Sword Qi and destroyed her zither, sending her crashing into Aurora City.
• Da Han blocked Sikong Jing’s follow-up strike, while Sikong Jing spat blood after his Beast Heart Body was destroyed by the Zither Sword Maiden’s female sword attendants.
• Sikong Jing realized the Beast Heart Body had been distracted by a chaotic death aura in the Spirit Willow Clan’s forbidden ground, where something had happened to Ancestor Duoye.
• The Zither Sword Maiden received a report from her remaining attendants that the Humanoid Fierce Beast was dead.

Sikong Jing killed the Zither Sword Maiden and her allies, then raced toward the Spirit Willow Clan as the Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment pursued him with destructive holy light. He used the Sword Extinction Totem to block the light, but the Spirit Willow Clan was already half consumed by an aura of death.

• The Zither Sword Maiden regrouped with Da Han and two female sword attendants, then taunted Sikong Jing, who revealed that the Humanoid Fierce Beast had been his avatar.
• Sikong Jing killed Da Han and the two female sword attendants, then struck down the Zither Sword Maiden despite her offer of Nine Heavens Magic Beast essence blood.
• The Zither Sword Maiden summoned the Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment, and Sikong Jing killed her before its holy light could reach them, taking her corpse and spiritual shadow with him.
• Sikong Jing tore open a space-time tunnel toward the Spirit Willow Clan while the holy light pursued him.
• Sikong Jing thrust the Sword Extinction Totem behind him to block the holy light as an aura of death spread across half the Spirit Willow Clan.

Sikong Jing raced to the Spirit Willow Clan while the Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment’s destructive holy light pursued him, and the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment answered his call. In the forbidden ground, a black-robed figure continued corrupting Liu Duoye and prepared to attack the arriving Two-Tribulation Emperor Venerable.

• The Sword Extinction Totem shattered, and Sikong Jing weighed sacrificing the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall or destroying the Zither Sword Maiden’s spirit image to escape the pursuing holy light.
• The old Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ remnant soul blocked the holy light and sacrificed itself to buy Sikong Jing time.
• Sikong Jing reached the Spirit Willow Clan and called on Ancestor Duoye and the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment to withstand the attack.
• A jade-green pillar of light struck the destructive holy light, and Sikong Jing used the recoil to rush toward the forbidden ground.
• A black-robed figure continued pouring death energy into Liu Duoye, trying to turn the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments into the Death Demon Willow.
• The black-robed figure sensed a wounded Two-Tribulation Emperor Venerable approaching, withdrew his finger from Liu Duoye, and unleashed corrupted death energy toward the newcomer.

Sikong Jing discovered that a black-robed One-Tribulation Emperor Venerable had tried to corrupt the Spirit Root Divine Willow and fled into the Dead Silence Small World. He restored Liu Duoye’s vitality, then went outside and found living Prison Race members holding four of the six keys and destruction mechanisms.

• Sikong Jing fought off the black-robed figure’s death energy, but the stranger escaped through the world’s boundary wall.
• Liu Duoye told Sikong Jing that the stranger had tried to corrupt her bloodline and turn the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments into a Death Demon Willow, and she reversed the pollution.
• Sikong Jing condensed a Beast Heart Body to protect Liu Duoye, then broke through the boundary wall to search for the six items.
• Sikong Jing sensed four items belonging to the Spirit Willow Clan and Beastman Race and found more than a dozen living Prison Race members who had collected them.
• Sikong Jing suppressed the Prison Race members and reclaimed the four items, then continued searching for the two Aurora Human Race items.

Sikong Jing confronted Yu Hai and learned that the World Within a World was the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array containing the Prison Race. Yu Mang, the imprisoned Prison Race Great Emperor, offered Sikong Jing a deal to help turn the Spirit Root Divine Willow into a Death Demon Willow, but Sikong Jing rejected his terms and was threatened with the Aurora Human Race's destruction mechanism.

• Yu Hai warned Sikong Jing that using spirit shadow power or staying outside the Life Small World could summon a terrifying monster from the seventeenth level, then revealed the forbidden-land key and destruction mechanism.
• Yu Hai confirmed that the world was the Eighteen Levels of Hell and admitted the Prison Race had deliberately contaminated the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments to create a Death Demon Willow.
• Yu Hai summoned Yu Mang, a chained Prison Race Great Emperor who said he had lived through seven eras of the Burial Emperor War and needed the Death Demon Willow to escape the array.
• Yu Mang offered Sikong Jing command of the Prison Race for a thousand years if he stopped opposing the plan, claiming the willow's vitality could be restored afterward.
• Sikong Jing asked Yu Mang how he had reached the central region of the Burial Emperor Battlefield, and when Yu Mang could not answer, Sikong Jing prepared to leave.
• Yu Mang stopped Sikong Jing by threatening to have Yu Hai crush the Aurora Human Race's destruction mechanism.

Sikong Jing challenged Yu Mang’s claims and tried to recover the Aurora Human Race’s destruction mechanism while healing, but Prison Radiance threatened to destroy the Life Small World unless Sikong Jing submitted. A voice from the seventeenth level revealed that Prison Radiance had betrayed the Vast Cosmos Great World by colluding with the Primordial Cosmos Great World.

• Sikong Jing questioned Yu Mang’s loyalty and demanded that he return the Aurora Human Race’s destruction mechanism as proof of his good intentions.
• Yu Mang refused and grew furious, while the man in black backed away with the destruction mechanism.
• Sikong Jing continued questioning Yu Mang as his vitality healed his injuries and he prepared to seize the mechanism.
• The man in black warned Yu Mang that Sikong Jing was stalling, so Prison Radiance threatened to have Yu Hai crush the mechanism and demanded control over Sikong Jing’s life and death.
• A voice from the seventeenth level told Sikong Jing not to fear the Life Small World’s destruction and warned him not to agree to Prison Radiance.
• The voice revealed that Prison Radiance had been imprisoned for colluding with the Primordial Cosmos Great World and betraying the Vast Cosmos Great World.

Sikong Jing escaped Yu Mang’s attempt to seize the Spirit Root Divine Willow after the Mystic Jade Emperor appeared and warned him. He returned to Aurora City with news that the World Within a World was about to be destroyed.

• The Mystic Jade Emperor revealed he was alive and told Sikong Jing to return to the Life Small World with the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments.
• Yu Mang tried to persuade Sikong Jing that the Mystic Jade Emperor was an enemy, but Sikong Jing recognized the lie and returned to the World Within a World.
• Yu Mang ordered the Prison Race army on the seventeenth level to gather and seize the Spirit Root Divine Willow, while telling the black-robed man not to crush the destruction mechanism yet.
• In Aurora City, Ling Chuju claimed the replicated key had let the Aurora Divine Maiden’s subordinates destroy the Spirit Root Divine Willow, while Ling Qiuyuan and Yu Xiweng worried over the battle.
• Sikong Jing arrived and warned the two prison masters that the World Within a World was about to be destroyed, urging them to alert their clansmen and prepare.

Sikong Jing raced to save the Spirit Willow Clan and Beastman Race as the World-within-a-World began collapsing, but he could not store the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments in his spatial treasures. The collapse opened a breach into the Dead Silence Small World, where the Nine Tribulations Bone Beast appeared.

• Sikong Jing warned the two clan chiefs to flee Aurora City, revealed that he had killed the Aurora Divine Maiden, and rushed toward the Spirit Willow Clan.
• Sikong Jing cut out the ground surrounding the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments, but neither the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison nor his other treasures could contain it.
• Sikong Jing and his Beast Heart Body began gathering the Spirit Willow Clan and Beastman Race into spatial treasures while the clan chiefs evacuated their people.
• Yu Mang ordered the black-robed man to crush the Aurora Human Race's destruction mechanism, tearing open the World-within-a-World's barrier.
• The World-within-a-World collapsed around Aurora City, swallowing Da Han and many Aurora Human Race members into the Dead Silence Small World.
• The Nine Tribulations Bone Beast tore open the sky of the Dead Silence Small World as Sikong Jing continued rescuing the Spirit Willow Clan.

Sikong Jing rescued the living beings of the Spirit Willow Clan as the World Within a World collapsed under the invasion of the Dead Silence Small World. The Mystic Jade Emperor and the Prison Race army fought the invading monsters, leaving Sikong Jing to find a way to escape through the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment.

• Sikong Jing used his Beast Heart Body to take people into his treasure's space while the Aurora Sacred Pearl and Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments protected others.
• A Nine Tribulations Bone Beast descended on the World Within a World, but the Mystic Jade Emperor pierced it with purple sword radiance and attacked the bone beasts around it.
• An armored humanoid creature attacked the Mystic Jade Emperor and kept him occupied on the seventeenth level, while its army charged toward the World Within a World.
• The Prison Race army arrived and clashed with the armored army, seeking the Spirit Root Divine Willow for the Great Emperor's formation-breaking.
• Sikong Jing gathered every living being of the Spirit Willow Clan and planned to use the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment to open a life vortex and return to the Burial Emperor Battlefield.

Sikong Jing carried the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment through the collapsing Burial Emperor Battlefield, battling monsters and pursuing Prison Race forces as he raced toward the exit. He reached a second Prison Race army led by an Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable, who revealed that the fragment had been altered with their death aura.

• Sikong Jing gathered the Beastman Race and their ships, then carried the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment out of the collapsing World Within a World.
• Sikong Jing killed a wounded Seven Tribulation Bone Beast and continued toward the exit as the World Within a World crumbled completely.
• The Aurora Sacred Pearl fragments destroyed approaching monsters, while Sikong Jing relied on the Spirit Willow fragment to hold back other attackers and fought his way onward.
• A giant Seven Tribulation Emperor Realm tree attacked Sikong Jing, but the Spirit Willow fragment restrained it and Sikong Jing chopped it apart.
• A second Prison Race army led by an Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable confronted Sikong Jing and demanded the Spirit Willow fragment and Liu Duoye.
• Sikong Jing struck at the Prison Race leader, who blocked his attack and revealed that the Spirit Willow fragments had been infused with the Prison Race's death aura.

Sikong Jing fought through monsters and the Prison Race army while dragging the Spirit Willow Fragment toward the exit, aided by Mystic Jade Emperor. He opened the exit vortex, but Yu Mang cut it apart, leaving Sikong Jing trapped as he faced the Great Emperor’s next attack.

• The Prison Race Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable attacked Sikong Jing with the Army-Slaying Formation, forcing Sikong Jing to defend the Spirit Willow Fragment while Liu Duoye purified its roots.
• Mystic Jade Emperor killed the Prison Race Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable with a purple sword strike and confronted Yu Mang, whose betrayal had led to the Prison Race’s imprisonment.
• Sikong Jing fought his way toward the exit with the Spirit Willow Fragment as Mystic Jade Emperor battled Yu Mang and the remaining threats slowed their pursuit.
• Sikong Jing used the Spirit Willow Fragment to connect with the Vast Universe aura and open the exit vortex.
• Yu Mang severed the whirlwind carrying Sikong Jing and the fragment, making the exit vanish, and threatened to kill Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing tried to escape with the Spirit Willow fragment as Yu Mang’s attack allowed six chained Emperor-level monsters to descend. The Mystic Jade Emperor gave Sikong Jing a new Purple Night Mystic Jade and held off the monsters, while Sikong Jing reached the exit just as countless more monsters poured in.

• Sikong Jing saw through Yu Mang’s claim that he could attack freely, and Yu Mang admitted he wanted Vast Cosmos to lose the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment so the Primordial Cosmos might free him.
• An Emperor-level bone beast destroyed Sikong Jing’s second exit and pulled him and the Divine Willow fragment toward it.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor descended to rescue Sikong Jing, revealing that he too was chained, as six chained Emperor-level monsters appeared.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor gave Sikong Jing a newly forged Purple Night Mystic Jade, told him when to store the Spirit Willow fragment, and said it held his consciousness projection and martial arts inheritance.
• Sikong Jing reached the exit, but the six Emperor-level monsters roared as a black hole opened and countless monsters surged down.

Sikong Jing escaped the seventeenth level with the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment while Mystic Jade Emperor stayed behind to face the monsters and Prison Race army. Back in the Burial Emperor Battlefield, Sikong Jing marked the vortex and continued toward the passage with the fragment.

• Mystic Jade Emperor told Sikong Jing that the chains binding him prevented him from leaving, so Sikong Jing gave him a Green Jade Stone Brick containing the first seven levels of the Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword.
• Sikong Jing introduced himself, shared news of the Vast Cosmos Great World's renewed resistance, and gave Mystic Jade Emperor Emperor Danjiu's dead spirit qi.
• Sikong Jing transformed into a Humanoid Fierce Beast and used the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts' roar to frighten some of the charging monsters, helping Mystic Jade Emperor hold them back.
• Mystic Jade Emperor shielded Sikong Jing from Yu Mang's blade attack and urged him to leave through the vortex with the Divine Willow fragment.
• Sikong Jing escaped to the Burial Emperor Battlefield, marked the vortex entrance and exit, and rushed toward the passage carrying the fragment.

Sikong Jing escaped the eighteenth level with the Spirit Willow Fragment, then questioned the Mystic Jade Emperor’s consciousness about the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array and its prisoners. He learned the array’s history and rules, but the Mystic Jade Emperor could no longer sense whether his true body had survived.

• Sikong Jing fled the damaged breach with the Spirit Willow Fragment as Yin Spirit Evil Qi attacked it, and he found Mu Bujun and Elder Gong’s Divine Cosmos Ship destroyed with its people gone.
• Sikong Jing bound the new Purple Night Mystic Jade to himself and stored the Spirit Willow Fragment inside it, then sent his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow to speak with the Mystic Jade Emperor’s consciousness.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor told Sikong Jing he could no longer sense his true body, though he believed it would survive if it returned to the seventeenth level.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor explained that the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array was built by Vast Cosmos experts in an unknown Burial Emperor era, then reclaimed by a force of rules and turned into a prison.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor explained that many monsters on the seventeenth level had transformed after entering it, and that Great Emperor-level beings were shackled, with stronger ones bound more tightly.

The Mystic Jade Emperor told Sikong Jing how Yu Mang and the Hell Array had trapped him, and warned him against attempting a rescue. Sikong Jing suspected the Nine Heavens Sword Dao could pierce the array’s rules, then destroyed the Zither Sword Maiden’s body and demanded to learn about the Nine Heavens Emperor’s arrangements in the Primordial Cosmos.

• The Mystic Jade Emperor recounted how the Hell Array dragged him away, how Yu Mang took his Spirit Willow Fragment, and how he survived after fusing with a strange treasure.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor warned Sikong Jing not to try to rescue him, while Sikong Jing reasoned that the Nine Heavens Sword Dao might pierce the array’s rules.
• Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow returned to the First Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and told Yu Xiweng and the others about the situation.
• Sikong Jing destroyed the Zither Sword Maiden’s body, extracted its Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline essence blood, and entrusted it to the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit.
• Sikong Jing demanded that the Zither Sword Maiden reveal the Nine Heavens Emperor’s arrangements in the Primordial Cosmos, but her spirit shadow refused to speak.

Sikong Jing returned toward Vast Universe while Yu Mang learned the Nine Heavens Sword Dao from Mu Bujun, who possessed Da Han’s body, and Mystic Jade Emperor recovered and began cultivating the sword dao. Three months later, Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye neared the passage’s exit, but a surge of Yin Spirit Evil Qi jolted Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing decided to wait until he reached the Third Tribulation before forcing the Zither Sword Maiden to answer him, then cultivated as he traveled toward Vast Universe.
• Yu Mang questioned the Aurora Divine Lord about Sikong Jing’s arrival and the sword dao that could repel Yin Spirit Evil Qi, then restored Mu Bujun’s spirit shadow from a glazed bottle.
• Yu Mang put Mu Bujun’s spirit shadow into Da Han’s corpse, and Mu Bujun taught Yu Mang the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Mystic Jade Emperor recovered beside the lava after swallowing a fiery fruit, mourned Emperor Danjiu, and began cultivating the first seven layers of Sikong Jing’s Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword.
• After three months, Liu Duoye finished purifying the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments and reached the Divine Dao Stage as she and Sikong Jing traveled toward the passage’s exit.
• Sikong Jing sensed the Yin Spirit Evil Qi surging across the battlefield.

Sikong Jing saw battlefield yin spirits pull away three Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerables as he left the Burial Emperor Battlefield and headed home. Meanwhile, the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow received reports that Snow Venerable and Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor had been taken to undergo tribulation, while Golden Bright Emperor had found shelter in a Flame Clan tomb.

• Sikong Jing learned that an Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable was being drawn away to undergo tribulation, then saw a second surge of yin spirits before leaving the battlefield.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow learned that Snow Venerable had reached the Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm and been taken away to undergo tribulation.
• The Eternal Night Wolf King reported that Golden Bright Emperor and his troops had entered a massive tomb belonging to a Nine-Tribulation Flame Clan Emperor Venerable.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow suspected Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor had survived in an ancestral tomb and ordered Flame Prison Palace defectors placed under control.
• Xue Lin's spirit shadow reported that Tian Wuan and the others had arrived three months earlier, shifting the war against Snow Venerable and Golden Bright Emperor in their favor.
• A third report revealed that Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor had emerged from Green Leaf Palace's seal and been pulled away by Yin Spirit Evil Qi to undergo tribulation.

Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow ordered attacks against Snow Baleful Sacred Land and the Flame Clan tomb, but Flame Prison escaped with the Four Heavenly Emperors after revealing that he had reached the Sixth Tribulation by devouring Golden Bright Emperor’s power. The chapter ended with Golden Bright Emperor unharmed and privately praising Flame Prison’s performance as the two continued toward the Burial Emperor Tomb.

• Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow ordered the Spirit Seal Realm forces to crush Snow Baleful Sacred Land and break into the Flame Clan’s Nine-Tribulation Emperor Venerable’s Tomb to kill Golden Bright Emperor.
• Two months later, Flame Prison, Sky Slayer, Gan Miao, and Nether Thunder emerged from the tomb as it broke through the encirclement, and Flame Prison announced that he would undergo the Sixth Tribulation.
• Flame Prison told Shan Qiansu that he had tricked Golden Bright Emperor into the tomb and devoured his power, then urged the Vast Cosmos experts to support his rule of the Spirit Seal Realm.
• Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow warned Shan Qiansu that the Four Heavenly Emperors could not be trusted, and Tian Wuan arrived with a Divine Cosmos Ship to pursue the giant tomb.
• Golden Dragon Wuhai and the other Demon Race members prepared to avenge their fallen, while the pursuing forces chased Flame Prison toward the depths of the Burial Emperor Tomb.
• Inside the giant tomb, Golden Bright Emperor sat unharmed and praised Flame Prison’s performance, revealing that their apparent conflict had been an act.

Flame Prison revealed that he had only pretended to devour Golden Bright Emperor’s power and planned to betray the Vast Universe in exchange for Primordial Cosmos’s support. He intended to exploit Shan Qiansu and Tian Wuan, then devour Yan Wang’s trapped spirit shadow and corpse to advance his cultivation.

• Flame Prison told Nether Thunder that Shan Qiansu and Tian Wuan would support him if he proved valuable, and admitted they planned to learn how the two had returned to the Spirit Seal Realm before killing them.
• Flame Prison and the other Heavenly Emperors plotted to rule the Spirit Seal Realm, capture Sikong Jing after his revival, and take the Nine Heavens Sword Dao fragments and Spirit Root Divine Willow from him.
• Golden Bright Emperor promised Flame Prison and the other Heavenly Emperors positions as core disciples of the Seven Decree Sect and a chance to have their Vast Cosmos bloodlines cleansed.
• Yan Wang’s spirit shadow condemned Flame Prison for betraying the Vast Universe after Yan Wang had saved him and entrusted him with the tomb.
• Flame Prison announced that he would devour Yan Wang’s spirit shadow and corpse to seek the sixth tribulation, then approached the helpless ancestor while the other Heavenly Emperors watched.

Sikong Jing encountered Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor after Green Leaf survived the Eighth-Tribulation trial and questioned whether he was Green Leaf or Absolute Spirit. Sikong Jing deduced that Green Leaf had resisted Absolute Spirit’s possession, and Green Leaf proposed that they cooperate.

• Aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship, Sikong Jing sensed an approaching Eight-Tribulation Emperor Venerable and prepared to defend himself.
• Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor appeared and pursued Sikong Jing’s ship, revealing that he wanted Sikong Jing’s treasures and secrets.
• Sikong Jing asked whether Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor was Green Leaf or Absolute Spirit, but Green Leaf taunted him instead of answering.
• Sikong Jing displayed the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and explained that it was a Spirit Willow Fragment once refined by Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor.
• Sikong Jing accused Green Leaf of having discarded the fragment without recognizing it, concluding that Green Leaf—not Absolute Spirit—stood before him.
• Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor regained his composure and proposed that he and Sikong Jing cooperate.