Recaps

Absolute Pill Emperor led the Six Absolutes in a desperate attack to destroy the Spirit Root Divine Willow and kill Sikong Jing. Sikong Jing ignited the demonic intent lingering in Absolute Hatred Emperor, who began suffering qi deviation as the destruction closed in.

• Absolute Pill Emperor realized Sikong Jing's Spirit Willow Fragment had grown into the Spirit Root Divine Willow and ordered the Six Absolutes to destroy it.
• The Six Absolutes abandoned their troops, assembled around Absolute Pill Emperor, and launched their strongest attack at Sikong Jing and the divine willow.
• Sword Shatter Emperor and Liu Duoye tried to block the attack while Wen Xuanwu, Chen Lusheng, and Anti-Seal Faction forces joined the defense.
• Sikong Jing ignited the remnants of Nine Heavens Magic Beast essence blood inside Absolute Hatred Emperor.
• Absolute Hatred Emperor vomited black blood, explained that Sikong Jing had triggered the remaining demonic intent, and announced he was about to suffer qi deviation.

Sikong Jing endured Absolute Pill Emperor’s attack as the Anti-Seal Faction held the destructive force back. With Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu’s arrival, the Six Absolutes’ strike failed, and the Anti-Seal Faction pursued them toward the Southern Heavenly Heroic Spirit Divine Region.

• Sikong Jing refused to retreat, and his resolve inspired the Anti-Seal Faction to burn their strength and halt the destructive waves.
• Absolute Hatred Emperor lost control of his true qi, but Absolute Pill Emperor gathered the Six Absolutes’ power into a beam aimed at Sikong Jing.
• Sword Shatter Emperor shielded Sikong Jing, and Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu joined her to break the Six Absolutes’ attack.
• The Six Absolutes spat blood and fled into spacetime, abandoning their troops as Sword Shatter Emperor’s Nine Heavens Sword Form crushed them.
• Sword Shatter Emperor, Chen Lusheng, and Wen Xuanwu led the Anti-Seal Faction in pursuit toward the Southern Heavenly Heroic Spirit Divine Region.

The Anti-Seal Faction used the Spirit Root Divine Willow’s life force to keep fighting, while Sikong Jing proclaimed it proof that the Ten Absolutes were foreign enemies. After a month-long stalemate at Frost God Hall, the Six Absolutes discussed their losses and Absolute Hatred proposed that Absolute Battle use Magic Beast blood essence to enter the Dark Demon Small World.

• Tian Wuchen and Wu Wanfa realized that the Spirit Root Divine Willow was supplying the Anti-Seal Faction with life force, and Liu Shun recognized it as the legendary divine willow of the Willow Race.
• Sikong Jing declared that the Spirit Root Divine Willow had chosen the Anti-Seal Faction and reaffirmed that the Ten Absolutes were foreign enemies, deepening doubts among the Seal Faction.
• Absolute Pill Emperor and the other Six Absolutes held off the Anti-Seal Faction at the former Frost God Hall territory, and the fighting settled into a month-long standoff.
• Absolute Pill Emperor blamed Sikong Jing’s power on discoveries from the Dark Demon Small World, but admitted the Ten Absolutes lacked the strength to destroy it after losing two of their number.
• Tian Wuxiu warned that the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts might attack the Spirit Seal Realm’s seal and that Mystic Jade was still alive.
• Absolute Hatred offered his Magic Beast blood essence to Absolute Battle, who agreed to try fusing with it and entering the Dark Demon Small World.

Sikong Jing made the Spiritless Mountain Range the Anti-Seal Faction’s base and prepared to lead Sword Clan members into the Dark Demon Small World for their tribulations. After leaving his family, he entered the Dark Demon Abyss with the group, while Su Yuexi returned to the Eastern Heaven Dragon God Domain.

• Sikong Jing decided the Spirit Root Divine Willow would remain in the Spiritless Mountain Range, which was becoming the Anti-Seal Faction’s core stronghold.
• Sikong Jing visited Su Yuexi, shared a meal with his family, and prepared to leave for the Burial Emperor Tomb with the Sword Clan members.
• Sikong Jing departed with Sword Clan members above the Three-Tribulation Emperor Venerable level, while Su Yuexi planned to visit her parents and grandparents.
• Su Yuexian stayed beneath the Spirit Root Divine Willow to help Liu Duoye and advance her cultivation, parting ways with Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing led Yu Xianpo and the Sword Clan members into the Dark Demon Small World, where they headed straight for the Dark Demon Abyss.

Sikong Jing entered the eighth level of the Nine Heavens Restriction, where the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy and demonic blood began forcing his transformation. As his allies were sent out to undergo tribulations, his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow in the Spirit Seal Realm ordered the search for the missing War Emperor Divine Flood Dragon remains to continue.

• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit told Sikong Jing he could not leave because the eighth level would grant him the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy and begin transforming him with demonic blood.
• Sikong Jing asked the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit to take Yu Xianpo, Xie Bumian, Old Lady Chen, Falling Beard, Feather Transformation Emperor, Emperor Yu'e, and the other Sword Clan members out so they could undergo tribulations.
• Sikong Jing began cultivating the eighth stage of the Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword while his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow continued developing the Mad Beast Sword Dao.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword carried the Sword Clan members beyond the Nine Heavens Emperor’s defensive formation, where Burial Emperor Tribulations and Yin Spirit Evil Qi drew them to their tribulation sites.
• In the Spirit Seal Realm, Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow learned through Yu Xianpo’s signal pearl that his true body had returned from the Dark Demon Small World.
• After failing to find the War Emperor Divine Flood Dragon’s remains, Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow ordered the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King to demand that whoever had them hand them over.

The Absolute Heart Emperor used Ling Wangjiao to pursue the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and secretly absorbed energy from the Spirit Seal Realm’s seal. Five years later, she reached the Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm and ordered Ling Wangjiao to take her to the edge of the Burial Emperor Tomb for tribulation.

• Ling Wangjiao asked whether they should hand over the War Emperor Divine Flood Dragon’s bones, but the Absolute Heart Emperor told him to remain hidden and obtain more of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao for her.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor ordered Ling Wangjiao to secure the complete Nine Heavens Sword Dao and investigate whether Sikong Jing was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and how he had reached the Spirit Seal Realm.
• Five years passed as factions in the Vast Cosmos Great World and the Spirit Seal Realm accumulated strength, while Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow continued searching for the missing War Emperor Divine Flood Dragon’s remains.
• The Ten Thousand Seas Divine Turtle reported seeing something emerge from the Spirit Seal Realm’s seal, and Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow sensed that an enemy might be hiding nearby.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor revealed that she had absorbed energy from the seal and reached the Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm, then ordered Ling Wangjiao to take her to the edge of the Burial Emperor Tomb for tribulation.

Absolute Heart Emperor entered the Burial Emperor Tomb to undergo her Seven-Tribulation tribulation while Ling Wangjiao plotted to obtain information and strengthen his position. Five years later, Sikong Jing remained in seclusion as the Feather Transformation Emperor and the others waited outside the Dark Demon Small World, where they witnessed a masked woman shatter both the Six-Tribulations and Seven-Tribulations tribulations.

• Absolute Heart Emperor suppressed her aura, entered the Burial Emperor Tomb with Ling Wangjiao, and released her suppression so the Yin Spirit Evil Qi would draw her to her tribulation.
• Ling Wangjiao planned to propose a contest among geniuses under a hundred, with all seven layers of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao as the prize, and returned to find Ling Liaoyuan.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow detected signs that someone had been taken to undergo a tribulation and ordered an investigation, then asked whether Shan Qiansu was nearing the Dark Demon Small World.
• Five years later, Sikong Jing was still attacking the eighth layer of the Nine Heavens Restriction, while Emperor Yu'e, the Feather Transformation Emperor, and the other Sword Clan Emperor Venerables waited outside.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor and the others followed a sudden tribulation aura and found a woman breaking through the Six-Tribulations and then the Seven-Tribulations tribulation with single strikes.

Absolute Heart Emperor ambushed Feather Transformation Emperor and the Sword Clan Emperors after passing the seventh tribulation, overpowering them and trying to force them to reveal Sikong Jing’s location and the passage to the Vast Cosmos Great World. Just as she began controlling their minds, Shan Qiansu intervened with the power of the Mountain Clan.

• Absolute Heart Emperor passed the seventh tribulation and used phantom clones to surround Feather Transformation Emperor and the Sword Clan Emperors.
• Absolute Heart Emperor identified the group as members of the Vast Cosmos Sword Clan and questioned them about Sikong Jing and their route into the Spirit Seal Realm.
• Feather Transformation Emperor ordered the Sword Clan members to attack, but Absolute Heart Emperor shattered their Army-Slaying Formation with a single sword strike.
• Absolute Heart Emperor began controlling the Sword Clan members’ hearts, and one of them started revealing how they had arrived.
• Shan Qiansu roared and sent the Sword Clan Emperors flying, freeing them from Absolute Heart Emperor’s control.

Absolute Heart Emperor escaped after Shan Qiansu intervened, while Sikong Jing learned that Falling Beard was nearly dead and began preparing to leave seclusion. Shan Qiansu and Feather Transformation Emperor discovered Prison Race members attacking the Nine Heavens formation and suspected they had killed Falling Beard and trapped Yu Xianpo’s group.

• Shan Qiansu attacked Absolute Heart Emperor, but she escaped after warning that she would return, and he rescued Feather Transformation Emperor and the other Sword Clan members.
• Sikong Jing saw that Falling Beard’s life lamp showed only one barely surviving Spirit Shadow and used Nine Heavens Magic Beast essence blood to hasten his breakthrough.
• Aboard Shan Qiansu’s ship, Feather Transformation Emperor learned of Falling Beard’s condition, and the group heard that someone had detonated the formation at the Dark Demon Small World’s entrance.
• Shan Qiansu led the group toward the entrance, then concealed their approach to avoid revealing themselves.
• The group saw thousands of Prison Race members attacking the Nine Heavens formation, with some already killed by its defenses.
• Feather Transformation Emperor and Shan Qiansu suspected the Prison Race members from the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array had killed Falling Beard and caused Yu Xianpo’s group to disappear.

Sikong Jing learned that Emperor Yu Mang had sent Prison Race forces into the Burial Emperor Tomb and that they were holding Falling Beard to force him out of the Dark Demon Small World. He agreed to emerge in ten days, but continued cultivating and reached the Fifth Tribulation Emperor level in spirit shadow realm.

• Shan Qiansu deduced that Emperor Yu Mang had used a fragment of the Aurora Sacred Pearl to send Prison Race members out of the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array.
• A Primordial Cosmos man threatened Sikong Jing with Falling Beard’s body and spirit shadow, demanding that Sikong Jing leave the Nine Heavens Emperor’s secret inheritance ground.
• Sikong Jing recognized the shouter as Da Han’s body possessed by Mu Bujun’s spirit shadow and asked the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit to tell the enemy he would emerge in ten days.
• After the enemy threatened to shatter Falling Beard if Sikong Jing did not emerge, Sikong Jing judged that Falling Beard was their only bargaining chip and resumed cultivating.
• Five days later, Sikong Jing merged with his Beast Heart Body, raising his spirit shadow realm to the Fifth Tribulation Emperor level.

Sikong Jing emerged from seclusion and confronted Mu Bujun, who demanded that he leave the Nine Heavens Emperor's formation and threatened Yu Xianpo. Sikong Jing stepped into the formation and instantly overcame his first Burial Emperor Tribulation with one sword strike, leaving Mu Bujun and the hidden onlookers stunned.

• Sikong Jing suppressed his urge to advance to the Fifth-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm until he had passed his first Burial Emperor Tribulation.
• Sikong Jing confronted Mu Bujun outside the formation, and Mu Bujun revealed that he had brought Prison Race experts from the Ancient Ancestor Hell to seek the Nine Heavens Sword Dao inheritance.
• Mu Bujun threatened Falling Beard and Yu Xianpo to force Sikong Jing out, but Sikong Jing suspected the threats did not mean they had captured Yu Xianpo.
• Sikong Jing stepped out from the Dark Demon Small World's entrance and began his Burial Emperor Tribulation inside the Nine Heavens Emperor's formation.
• Sikong Jing destroyed the tribulation with a single strike of the Snow-Tempered Sword, then absorbed the descending spiritual energy as Mu Bujun and the others stared in shock.

Sikong Jing confronted Mu Bujun outside the Nine Heavens Emperor formation and negotiated for Falling Beard’s release in exchange for Mu Bujun’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood. As Mu Bujun tried to lure him farther from the formation, Sikong Jing sensed the Burial Emperor Tribulation descending and wondered whether his punishment had come.

• Shan Qiansu told Feather Transformation Emperor and the others that the Burial Emperor Tribulation had not yet punished Sikong Jing, and they stayed ready for his command.
• Sikong Jing approached Mu Bujun’s Prison Race forces, recognized that Shan Qiansu and Feather Transformation Emperor were nearby, and assessed the strength of the enemy lineup.
• Sikong Jing showed Mu Bujun his original body’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood and offered to exchange it for Falling Beard.
• Mu Bujun demanded that Sikong Jing leave the formation and proposed trading at Longfir Tomb, but Sikong Jing refused to go there and stepped outside the formation.
• Mu Bujun asked Sikong Jing to come closer for the exchange, and Sikong Jing suddenly felt the Burial Emperor Tribulation’s pressure descend.

Sikong Jing rescued Falling Beard while trading him for Mu Bujun’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood, then fought off three Seven-Tribulation Prison Race members with the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall. The chapter left Mu Bujun brandishing an Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment to counter Sikong Jing’s defense.

• Sikong Jing realized the Nine Heavens Emperor’s formation had concealed his aura from the approaching tribulation of punishment, then prepared to face it after rescuing Falling Beard and dealing with Mu Bujun.
• Sikong Jing and Mu Bujun exchanged Falling Beard and the Nine Heavens Essence Blood, while three Seven-Tribulation Prison Race members attacked Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing stored Falling Beard’s body and spirit shadow in the Purple Night Mystic Ring, then used the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and Nine Heavens Sword Dao to shatter the attackers’ dark fists.
• Mu Bujun reclaimed his Nine Heavens Essence Blood and revealed an Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment, which the Prison Race members could use to counter the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.

Sikong Jing and his allies fought Mu Bujun’s Prison Race forces, reclaiming the Nine Heavens Essence Blood and forcing Mu Bujun to pursue them. Sikong Jing then faced three Seventh-Tribulation Prison Race experts alone, while Shan Qiansu and the others held off Mu Bujun’s army.

• Shan Qiansu and the Vast Cosmos Sword Clan ambushed Mu Bujun, and the Feather Transformation Emperor reclaimed the Nine Heavens Essence Blood from him.
• Mu Bujun completed his Army-Slaying Formation and drove Shan Qiansu and the Sword Clan members back as he pursued them.
• Sikong Jing asked Shan Qiansu to buy him time, withdrew the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, and confronted the three Seventh-Tribulation Prison Race experts alone.
• Sikong Jing revealed his complete eighth-level Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword Intent, and the three Prison Race experts attacked him with their domains.
• Shan Qiansu told the Sword Clan members that Sikong Jing could withstand the three experts, while his group continued retreating under Mu Bujun’s assault.

Sikong Jing used his Beast Heart Body and Absolute Slaughter Dao to kill two of the three Seventh-Tribulation Prison Race experts who had surrounded him. The last expert fled to Mu Bujun’s Army-Slaying Formation while Sikong Jing and his allies regrouped near the Nine Heavens Formation.

• Sikong Jing used his Beast Heart Body to ambush and kill one of the three Seventh-Tribulation Prison Race experts.
• Sikong Jing and his Beast Heart Body struck another expert from both sides, wounding him as he tried to escape toward his companion.
• Sikong Jing used the Absolute Slaughter Dao to appear behind the wounded expert and kill him.
• The last Prison Race expert fled into Mu Bujun’s Army-Slaying Formation and urged Mu Bujun to join forces against Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing told Shan Qiansu to retreat, and Shan Qiansu fell back behind him as the Feather Transformation Emperor and Sword Clan members watched in shock.

Sikong Jing faced a sudden punishment tribulation from the Burial Emperor Tomb while Mu Bujun and the Prison Race mistook it for his breakthrough and fled. After Sikong Jing explained the danger and arranged for Falling Beard’s revival, he confronted the first bolt of Mystic Gold Thunder.

• A streak of Mystic Gold Thunder appeared, and Sikong Jing realized the punishment tribulation had arrived before he could kill Mu Bujun.
• Sikong Jing pretended the tribulation signaled a breakthrough, frightening Mu Bujun and the Prison Race into fleeing aboard a Divine Cosmos Ship.
• Sikong Jing warned Shan Qiansu and the others to scatter, then entrusted Falling Beard’s body and spirit shadow to Shan Qiansu for revival.
• Sikong Jing revealed that the tribulation was punishment for his cultivation and said he intended to challenge the rules behind it.
• A human-sized bolt of Mystic Gold Thunder struck at Sikong Jing, and he shattered it with his sword.

Sikong Jing faced a Punishment Tribulation that intensified to the level of seven tribulations while he suppressed his cultivation and absorbed its shattered power. Mu Bujun tried to exploit the unusual tribulation, but Sikong Jing drove his forces away by invoking Falling Beard.

• Sikong Jing shattered the thundercloud’s attacks, absorbed the broken tribulation power, and held back his breakthrough as Yin Beast Evil Shadows began attacking him.
• Shan Qiansu and the others withdrew to find a way to restore Falling Beard’s spirit shadow.
• Mu Bujun berated the Prison Race members for underestimating Sikong Jing, then sent an Emperor Venerable to confirm that Sikong Jing was enduring a seven-tribulation punishment without advancing beyond the four-tribulation realm.
• Mu Bujun and the Prison Race experts returned to interfere with Sikong Jing’s tribulation, intending to strengthen it with their troops.
• Sikong Jing reminded Mu Bujun of Falling Beard, prompting Mu Bujun’s force to flee aboard the Divine Cosmos Ship while Sikong Jing continued facing the tribulation.

Sikong Jing endured a Punishment Tribulation while Falling Beard recounted how the Prison Race had scattered and hunted their companions. The group learned that Yu Xianpo was crossing the Great Emperor Tribulation in the Burial Emperor Battlefield, where the Prison Race was likely to attack him.

• Sikong Jing concluded that his punishment came from helping the Beast Venerables cheat and continued breaking down and absorbing the tribulation power.
• Falling Beard awoke and told the group that Old Lady Chen had protected him from the Prison Race until he finished his Burial Emperor Tribulations.
• Falling Beard explained that Xie Bumian and the others had fought the Prison Race, become lost, and that he had eventually been captured.
• Falling Beard revealed that Yu Xianpo had been dragged into the Burial Emperor Battlefield and was crossing the Great Emperor Tribulation.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor and the others worried that the Prison Race would find Yu Xianpo, but stayed to protect Sikong Jing.
• Mu Bujun ordered his forces to return and kill the two female Sword Clan members before trying to force Sikong Jing out of the Spirit Seal Realm.

Sikong Jing endured a prolonged Punishment Tribulation and finally broke through it after conceiving a path toward the Demonic Path Ninefold Body. The tribulation left him a warning that helping demon beasts undergo tribulations again would double his punishment.

• Mu Bujun sent Prison Race Emperor Venerables to investigate the Spirit Seal Realm’s seal before deciding how to proceed against Sikong Jing.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor attacked the Flame Clan Giant Tomb Cluster and absorbed its spirit-shadow energy, destroying the cluster while releasing Flame Clan bloodline bearers as bait.
• Sikong Jing endured the seven-tribulation Punishment Tribulation for more than half a year, resisting mental attacks that urged him to become a demon and unleash the Mad Beast Sword Strike.
• Sikong Jing conceived the Demonic Path Ninefold Body as a way to become a Blood Devour Magic Beast without losing his consciousness.
• Sikong Jing pierced the tribulation clouds with a sword strike, survived the Punishment Tribulation, and learned that helping demon beasts undergo tribulations again would double his punishment.

Sikong Jing returned to the Vast Cosmos Great World, gathered reinforcements, and headed for the Burial Emperor Battlefield to find Xie Bumian and the others. As he emerged from the Yin Spirit liquid wall to scout ahead, Mu Bujun confronted him in Da Han’s body, backed by Prison Race experts.

• Sikong Jing broke through to the Five-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm without triggering another punishment tribulation, then learned about a masked Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerable from the Origin Universe.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Vast Cosmos Great World and brought three Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerables and twenty lower-level Emperor Venerables into the Dark Demon Small World.
• Sikong Jing sent Shan Qiansu and the Sword Clan members toward the Spirit Seal Realm while Tian Wuchen and the others began their tribulations, then traveled with Falling Beard toward the Yin Spirit liquid wall.
• Sikong Jing and Falling Beard failed to find Xie Bumian, Old Lady Chen, or the others and concluded they had likely entered the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing sent his Beast Heart Body through the Yin Spirit liquid wall to scout, where Mu Bujun appeared in Da Han’s body with a large force of Prison Race experts.

Mu Bujun trapped Sikong Jing and Falling Beard in the passageway, but Sikong Jing recognized that Yu Mang’s consciousness phantom was behind the ambush. Yu Mang appeared and renewed his offer to trade with Sikong Jing.

• Mu Bujun revealed that Xian Po and the two female Sword Clan members were being hunted, then tried to lure Sikong Jing into the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing charged toward the battlefield with Falling Beard, but the two turned back to attack Mu Bujun and were teleported into the passageway by an Eight-Tribulation Prison Race expert.
• Mu Bujun surrounded Sikong Jing and Falling Beard with Prison Race forces and explained that he had prepared a trap for either choice Sikong Jing made.
• Sikong Jing guessed that Mu Bujun had brought out Yu Mang’s consciousness phantom, and Yu Mang emerged from the Eight-Tribulation expert.
• Yu Mang greeted Sikong Jing and asked whether they could finally make a trade.

Sikong Jing rejected Great Emperor Yu Mang’s offer to trade the Nine Heavens Essence Blood for the Sword Clan members, and Yu Mang used an Eight-Tribulation Prison Race expert to unleash overwhelming Great Emperor pressure. As Yu Mang’s black-fist attack drove Sikong Jing back, Sikong Jing challenged the claim that Falling Beard could not act.

• Yu Mang offered Sikong Jing command of the Prison Race for a thousand years if he helped Yu Mang escape the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array.
• Yu Mang proposed exchanging all the Nine Heavens Essence Blood for four Sword Clan members and the withdrawal of his subordinates from the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing attacked Yu Mang’s spiritual projection, but the Prison Race members’ Army-Slaying Formation blocked his strike.
• Yu Mang possessed the Eight-Tribulation Prison Race expert and suppressed Sikong Jing and Falling Beard with Great Emperor pressure.
• Yu Mang demanded half of Mu Bujun’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood in exchange for letting Falling Beard leave, while his black fist pushed back Sikong Jing’s Sword Qi.
• Mu Bujun urged Sikong Jing to stop resisting, but Sikong Jing asked whether Falling Beard truly could not act.

Sikong Jing revealed that his Beast Heart Body had been lying in ambush inside the Burial Emperor Battlefield and unleashed battlefield Yin spirits against the Prison Race. While Yu Mang attacked Sikong Jing’s main body, Sikong Jing coordinated with Falling Beard to force Yu Mang to retreat and link himself to his troops.

• Yu Mang realized Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body was inside the Burial Emperor Battlefield and ordered the Prison Race to form the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body burst through a damaged breach with a mass of battlefield Yin spirits and attacked the Prison Race.
• Yu Mang judged that Sikong Jing could control only eighth-grade Yin spirits, then attacked his main body with Hellfire, Great Emperor pressure, and a Nine Heavens Sword Qi cage.
• Sikong Jing countered with Nine Heavens One Sword and called on Falling Beard to strike Yu Mang.
• Falling Beard’s sword strike combined with Sikong Jing’s attack, forcing Yu Mang to retreat and connect with the Prison Race troops, who screamed under the strain.

Sikong Jing resisted Yu Mang’s pressure and shielded Falling Beard, then revealed that the Beast Heart Body could unleash a sword strike infused with ninth-grade Yin Spirit Evil Qi. The strike broke through Yu Mang’s Army-Slaying Formation, but Sikong Jing’s silence left Falling Beard unsure whether he could attack.

• Sikong Jing explained that his strengthened will and the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ power had freed Falling Beard from Yu Mang’s mental suppression.
• Yu Mang admitted he could not harm Sikong Jing for now, but ordered Mu Bujun to crush a signal pearl and summon Yu Jian.
• Yu Mang offered to release four Sword Clan members if Sikong Jing handed over his Nine Heavens Essence Blood, and threatened Falling Beard if he refused.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had created his own sword dao and that Yu Mang’s projection could not deal with a ninth-grade Yin Spirit.
• The Beast Heart Body unleashed the Mad Beast Sword Strike, driving ninth-grade Yin Spirit Evil Qi through Yu Mang’s Army-Slaying Formation.
• Yu Mang returned to the Eight-Tribulation Prison Race member’s body and called for the Sacred Pearl Fragment, while Sikong Jing remained silent when Falling Beard asked whether they should attack.

Sikong Jing and Falling Beard escaped Yu Mang’s encirclement aboard the snow-white ship and headed deeper into the passageway. Sikong Jing revealed that the Punishment Tribulation had warned him over his Beast Heart Body’s Mad Beast Sword Strike, and said he was drawing Yu Mang’s forces away to help the Sword Clan groups escape and buy time for Xian Po.

• Sikong Jing and Falling Beard joined the Beast Heart Body in attacking Yu Mang’s formation, then broke through it aboard the snow-white ship.
• Yu Mang ordered Mu Bujun and the Prison Race members to pursue Sikong Jing and signal Yu Jian’s group to intercept him at damaged sections of the passageway.
• Yu Mang realized Sikong Jing was heading deeper to draw away the hunters and create an opening for the three Sword Clan groups to escape.
• Sikong Jing told Falling Beard that the Punishment Tribulation had warned him because his Mad Beast Sword Strike violated the rules.
• Sikong Jing explained that he was drawing Yu Mang’s forces away to give Sister Xie and the others a chance to escape and buy time for Xian Po.