Recaps

Sikong Jing planned to keep Yu Mang occupied while his allies searched for Yu Xianpo and prepared to strike the Prison Race. After entering the Burial Emperor Battlefield, Sikong Jing escaped one interception, but Yu Jian pursued him to block his detour.

• Sikong Jing explained that Yu Mang wanted to keep him and Falling Beard alive to control Yu Xianpo, and proposed buying time for Yu Xianpo to complete his tribulation.
• Sikong Jing sent his Beast Heart Body and Falling Beard into the Burial Emperor Battlefield to find Xie Bumian and Old Lady Chen, while his true body stayed in the passageway to draw out Yu Mang and the Prison Race.
• Sikong Jing's true body broke through three Eighth-Tribulation Prison Race members with the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, his ship's formations, and Yin Spirit Evil Qi.
• Yu Mang ordered the three Prison Race members back into the battlefield and warned Yu Jian to watch for Sikong Jing using damaged passageway sections to detour.
• Sikong Jing sensed a Ninth-Tribulation Prison Race member ahead and entered the battlefield through a damaged point, but Yu Jian followed him into the battlefield to intercept him.

Sikong Jing fled deeper into the Burial Emperor Battlefield while Yu Jian pursued him, each struggling against the increasingly deadly Yin spirits. Yu Mang possessed Yu Jian and offered Sikong Jing one last chance to make a deal, threatening to become a Great Emperor and capture him if he refused.

• Yu Jian sensed Sikong Jing hiding nearby and forced him to descend into the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing triggered a small Yin spirit storm, released the snow-white ship, and raced deeper before the ship's formation failed and he continued on foot.
• Sikong Jing and Yu Jian spent ten days pursuing each other as the Yin spirits grew stronger, while Yu Jian's spirit-shadow clone and Yu Mang's forces guarded the way above.
• After another half month, Sikong Jing confronted Yu Jian, who had reached his limit, and said he was buying time for Yu Xianpo to pass the Great Emperor Tribulation.
• Yu Mang used a Sacred Pearl Fragment to possess Yu Jian, revealed that he had sensed the Great Emperor Tribulation deeper in the battlefield, and demanded a deal or threatened to become a Great Emperor and capture Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing resisted Yu Mang’s ultimatum and nearly destroyed his Spirit Platform, but Mu Bujun’s warning about new Primordial Cosmos invaders distracted Yu Mang and Yu Jian, allowing the battlefield Yin spirits to drag Yu Jian away. Sikong Jing survived and secretly approached the Prison Race forces, where he learned the newcomers might be a Nine Heavens Sword Son.

• Yu Mang gave Sikong Jing ten breaths to hand over the Nine Heavens Essence Blood and his sword principles, threatening to make Yu Jian break through if he refused.
• Sikong Jing stabbed himself with the Snow-Tempered Sword rather than surrender, and Yu Jian began releasing an Emperor’s aura.
• Mu Bujun announced that someone from the Origin Universe had arrived, briefly distracting Yu Mang and Yu Jian as Sikong Jing prepared to shatter his Spirit Platform.
• Tenth-level Yin spirits swept Yu Jian away, while the Aurora Sacred Pearl fragment pulled Yu Mang’s spirit projection out of Yu Jian and toward the passage.
• Sikong Jing recovered, escaped through a damaged gap, and followed Yu Mang’s voice toward the Prison Race forces.
• Mu Bujun said he had sensed the aura of a Nine Heavens Sword Son, prompting Sikong Jing to suspect the new invaders belonged to the Nine Heavens Alliance.

Yu Mang confronted four invading Primordial Cosmos factions after Mu Bujun sensed a Nine Heavens Sword Son among them. Two Nine Heavens heirs appeared, and the Zither Sword Maiden recognized the Sword Maiden as her half-sister and Shi Feng as her fiancé.

• Yu Mang ordered the Prison Race to prepare for the invaders and said he would seize the Nine Heavens Essence Blood from them.
• Sikong Jing realized Yu Mang could recall Yu Tong and Yu Gang, potentially freeing Xie Bumian and her companions from pursuit.
• Four Divine Cosmos Ships arrived, carrying forces from the Seven Decree Sect, the Soul-Slaying Empire, the Myriad Flame Sect, and the Snow Baleful Sacred Land.
• Sikong Jing released the Zither Sword Maiden's spirit projection, who said she did not know why Mu Bujun had sensed a Nine Heavens Sword Son among the factions.
• Four Ninth-Tribulation powerhouses emerged, followed by Shi Feng and a Nine Heavens Sword Maiden who accused Yu Mang of killing her elder sister.
• The Zither Sword Maiden identified the Sword Maiden as her half-sister and Shi Feng as her fiancé, while Yu Mang denied killing her and blamed Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing emerged to stall Yu Mang and the Primordial Cosmos factions, while Qin Luoluo’s spirit projection appeared and uncovered Shi Feng and Qin Jiaojiao’s betrayal. The chapter ended with Shi Feng trapping Qin Luoluo in Sword Qi as the four factions’ Army-Slaying Formations threatened Yu Mang’s forces.

• Yu Mang revealed that Sikong Jing had taken Qin Luoluo and Mu Bujun’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood, and Qin Jiaojiao admitted she wanted her sister’s blood rather than revenge.
• Sikong Jing emerged and pretended he and Yu Mang were united against the Primordial Cosmos invaders, while both men tried to stall for time.
• Shi Feng suspected Sikong Jing and Yu Mang were acting together and ordered Huan Li to kill them and seize Qin Luoluo’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood for Qin Jiaojiao.
• Qin Luoluo’s spirit projection appeared and accused Shi Feng of betraying her, while Butler Duan recognized her and she demanded to know what had happened to the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce.
• Shi Feng said he had tortured the Zither Treasure Patriarch to death and that Qin Jiaojiao was now his woman, then trapped Qin Luoluo in layers of Sword Qi.
• Mu Bujun realized Shi Feng had reached the Five-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm as the four factions’ Army-Slaying Formations bore down on Yu Mang and the Prison Race.

Shi Feng revealed how he betrayed Qin Luoluo and the Nine Heavens Alliance, while Sikong Jing questioned him about escaping the alliance’s oaths. Shi Feng explained that the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce suffered devastating losses and would now be controlled by him and Qin Jiaojiao under the Seven Decree Sect and the other powers.

• Shi Feng told Qin Luoluo that the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce had held back his rise, so he joined the Seven Decree Sect and other major powers, then shared her Nine Heavens Essence Blood with Qin Jiaojiao.
• Shi Feng admitted that he had killed a Nine Heavens Sword Maiden and used her essence blood to make Qin Jiaojiao a Sword Maiden, then demanded Qin Luoluo kneel and serve them.
• Sikong Jing laughed and asked Shi Feng how he had escaped the Nine Heavens Alliance’s poison oaths, blood oaths, and secret safeguards.
• Shi Feng said the oaths and safeguards had devastated the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce after his defection, while the other powers had already removed them from him.
• Shi Feng said Qin Jiaojiao had persuaded the major powers to spare Qin Luoluo’s father, but most of the Chamber’s core people had died and its survivors would be ruled by him and Qin Jiaojiao.

Qin Luoluo renounced the Primordial Cosmos and offered Sikong Jing the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce in exchange for killing Shi Feng, but Sikong Jing turned Shi Feng’s Sword Intent back on him and pierced his brow. Shi Feng’s protective token blocked the fatal blow, leaving him trapped between Sikong Jing and the charging Prison Race as Yu Mang restrained the Origin Universe’s defenders.

• Qin Luoluo knelt before Sikong Jing and offered herself and the Zither Treasure Chamber of Commerce if he killed Shi Feng and Mu Bujun’s enemies.
• Shi Feng dismissed Sikong Jing as weak, unleashed his Sword Intent against him, and vowed to take the Nine Heavens Essence Blood within him.
• Sikong Jing swallowed Shi Feng’s Sword Intent and returned it, then struck Shi Feng’s brow with a Nine Heavens One Sword.
• A Seven Decree Sect protective token blocked Sikong Jing’s strike, and Yu Mang ordered the Prison Race to seize Shi Feng.
• Yu Mang suppressed Huan Li and the other Origin Universe Nine-Tribulation Emperor Venerables while tens of thousands of Prison Race members charged Shi Feng.
• Huan Li and Qin Jiaojiao shouted for Shi Feng to run as he realized he was trapped between Sikong Jing and the approaching Prison Race.

Sikong Jing subdued Shi Feng and began extracting his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline, while Yu Mang also claimed the bloodline and drew it from Shi Feng. Huan Li’s forces attacked, but Yu Mang shifted everyone to a nearby passage and formed an Army-Slaying Formation to shield them.

• Shi Feng tried to escape Sikong Jing by charging into the Prison Race members, and Sikong Jing trapped him behind a sword net.
• Shi Feng broke through the net and slaughtered Prison Race members as Yu Mang accused Sikong Jing of deliberately allowing the massacre.
• Sikong Jing transformed into a gigantic beastly foot, crushed Shi Feng, and used a claw to devour his Nine Heavens Essence Blood.
• Mu Bujun and the Prison Race members tried to stop Sikong Jing, while Huan Li’s forces broke through Yu Mang’s pressure and attacked with their Army-Slaying Formation.
• Yu Mang used Shifting Wind, Ghost Shadow to move everyone to a nearby damaged passage, then formed an Army-Slaying Formation and began drawing Shi Feng’s bloodline from him too.

Yu Mang’s Prison Race forces fled the Burial Emperor Battlefield after Sikong Jing left Shi Feng with almost none of his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline. Huan Li’s faction rescued Shi Feng, but his allies turned cold toward him and ordered the pursuit of Yu Mang while protecting Qin Jiaojiao.

• Yin Spirit Evil Qi attacked Yu Mang’s Prison Race forces as they descended, and Mu Bujun’s Sacred Pearl Fragment began melting under its pressure.
• Sikong Jing withdrew the last of Shi Feng’s Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline, left less than half a percent behind, and retreated into the battlefield as Yu Mang attacked.
• Huan Li and the other invaders struck with their Army-Slaying Formations, forcing Yu Mang to flee; he threw Shi Feng toward them to distract them and escaped with his subordinates.
• Huan Li’s group rescued the badly wounded Shi Feng, who cried that his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline and essence blood were nearly gone.
• Shi Feng demanded Qin Jiaojiao’s Nine Heavens Essence Blood, but a Snow Baleful Sacred Land Nine-Tribulation Emperor Venerable refused and said his talent was only so-so.
• Huan Li ordered the four factions to pursue Yu Mang and protect Qin Jiaojiao from the Great Emperor spirit shadow’s pressure.

Sikong Jing gathered Shi Feng’s essence blood and hurried toward the Vast Universe to search for Xie and the others while Yu Mang’s group fled with Qin Jiaojiao. When Yu Mang’s reinforcements arrived, he tried to negotiate with the Primordial Cosmos forces, but they attacked the Prison Race instead.

• The Primordial Cosmos invaders concluded that Sikong Jing was a dangerous enemy whose own imperial bloodline might have been cultivated from the Nine Heavens Legacy.
• Sikong Jing collected Shi Feng’s essence blood in the Snow-Tempered Sword, then set out to search for Elder Sister Xie and the others while staying wary of Yu Mang.
• Yu Mang ordered his group to test whether they could seize Qin Jiaojiao’s essence blood, and he considered negotiating with the Primordial Cosmos forces once his Nine-Tribulation members returned.
• Twenty days later, Yu Gang and Yu Tong rejoined Yu Mang, who used an Emperor’s pressure to let Mu Bujun explain their situation to the four major forces.
• After Mu Bujun described Sikong Jing, the Prison Race, and the coming Emperor Tribulation, Huan Li and the others rejected cooperation and launched a surprise attack on the Prison Race.

Yu Mang abandoned his hunt and withdrew from the Burial Emperor Battlefield, while Huan Li’s group planned to lure Sikong Jing into an ambush outside it. Sikong Jing hurried to find Xie Bumian and return to the Spirit Seal Realm, where his allies gathered before the ruined Flame Clan Giant Tomb Cluster.

• Yu Mang failed to seize Qin Jiaojiao and led the Prison Race members toward the Hell Array, leaving Yu Gang behind to watch the battlefield.
• Yu Mang explained that caution mattered more than pursuing Sikong Jing and planned to use the essence blood to develop a spirit-shadow avatar.
• Huan Li rejected chasing Yu Mang and led his group toward the Spirit Seal Realm, intending to wait outside the battlefield and ambush Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing suspected Huan Li’s plan and sent the Beast Heart Body out to check the situation while he and Falling Beard searched separately for Xie Bumian and the other woman.
• Sikong Jing’s allies arrived outside the Flame Clan Giant Tomb Cluster and found its protective array gone and its tombs reduced to fragments.

Absolute Heart Emperor emerged from the destroyed Flame Clan Giant Tomb Cluster and attacked the Spirit Seal Realm forces with mind-piercing threads that drained their energy. Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow helped the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King break free, and the chapter ended as he counterattacked her.

• Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow gathered the Emperor Venerables and Beast Venerables at the ruined tomb cluster, where Absolute Heart Emperor revealed she had lured them there.
• Absolute Heart Emperor unleashed her peak Ninth-Tribulation power and used an Emperor-level spirit attack to disrupt the forces’ minds and break their Army-Slaying Formations.
• Absolute Heart Emperor drained the forces’ true energy and demon power through invisible threads, then questioned the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King about Sikong Jing.
• Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow entered the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King’s sea of consciousness and helped him resist Absolute Heart Emperor’s attack.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King restored the Army-Slaying Formation and struck Absolute Heart Emperor with his Burial Emperor technique, Wild Beast Fang.

The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow used the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King to break Absolute Heart Emperor’s control over the Spirit Seal Realm’s forces, but she renewed her assault with strange ripples and competing Army-Slaying Formation patterns. The chapter ended with both sides locked in a battle of wills and troop control.

• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow shattered Absolute Heart Emperor’s mental restraints through the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King and linked the freed fighters with the Army-Slaying Formation.
• Absolute Heart Emperor recognized that Sikong Jing’s presence was likely a spirit shadow clone and questioned whether he was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts; the spirit shadow asked if she was one of the Ten Absolutes.
• Absolute Heart Emperor released strange ripples that disrupted the formation and attacked the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King’s consciousness, while explaining that absorbing energy had strengthened her.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow ordered the beasts to enter a half-demonic state, pooling their demonic intent through the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King to resist her soul power.
• Absolute Heart Emperor used Forced Troop Control as Tian Wuan urged the humans to resist, and both sides’ formation patterns collided amid the beasts’ demonic intent and her ripples.

Absolute Heart Emperor tried to capture Shan Qiansu, Feather Transformation Emperor, and the Sword Clan members, but Sikong Jing’s spirit shadow forced her to flee. The spirit shadow entered Emperor Yu'e during the ensuing Burial Emperor Tribulation, while Sikong Jing’s true body unexpectedly found the tribulation clouds targeting him.

• Absolute Heart Emperor sensed Shan Qiansu and Feather Transformation Emperor approaching, abandoned her battle with the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow, and went to capture them.
• Absolute Heart Emperor overwhelmed the newcomers, but the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow’s Nine Heavens Sword Form pursued her and prevented her from taking them away.
• Feather Transformation Emperor broke through to the sixth tribulation and threatened to undergo the Burial Emperor Tribulation with Absolute Heart Emperor, while the Sword Clan members resisted her attack.
• Absolute Heart Emperor fled rather than face the group’s tribulation, but Emperor Yu'e and several injured Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerables could not escape its range.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow entered Emperor Yu'e and took control of her, then heard a voice declare that the punishment would be doubled.
• Sikong Jing’s true body found traces of Xie Bumian and Old Lady Chen, but Burial Emperor Tribulation clouds appeared above him and seemed to target him.

Sikong Jing endured a wildly intensified Burial Emperor Tribulation while Xie Bumian and Old Lady Chen found him and learned about the Prison Race and the Origin Universe invaders. Meanwhile, the Absolute Heart Emperor was swept away by battlefield yin spirits, and the Spirit Seal Realm group decided to return home as four Divine Cosmos Ships emerged from the yin-spirit liquid.

• Sikong Jing was struck by enormous Mystic Gold Thunder, and Xie Bumian and Old Lady Chen arrived to investigate the tribulation.
• Sikong Jing told Xie Bumian and Old Lady Chen what had happened and sent them to join Falling Beard and his Beast Heart Body, while Old Lady Chen learned that Mystic Jade was in the Hell Array.
• Shan Qiansu and the others realized the masked woman was likely the Absolute Heart Emperor and decided to return to the Spirit Seal Realm.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor was swept away by battlefield yin spirits after vowing to destroy the Spirit Seal Realm once she recovered.
• Four Divine Cosmos Ships burst out through the wall of yin-spirit liquid outside the Burial Emperor Battlefield.

The Absolute Heart Emperor appeared before Huan Li’s Primordial Cosmos forces and revealed her plan to hunt Sikong Jing and claim the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. As she began her Nine-Tribulation tribulation, Sikong Jing learned she was the masked woman from Feather Transformation Emperor’s encounter and hurried to strengthen himself against the danger she posed.

• Huan Li’s forces prepared to ambush Sikong Jing, but the Absolute Heart Emperor was swept into their midst while undergoing tribulation.
• Huan Li recognized the Absolute Heart Emperor, and his subordinates, including Shi Feng and Qin Jiaojiao, bowed to her.
• Huan Li told the Absolute Heart Emperor about Sikong Jing, the Hell Array, and the essence blood he had obtained; she agreed that cooperation with Yu Mang was possible and planned to search for Sikong Jing.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor took the last wisps of Nine Heavens essence blood from Shi Feng and declared that the power would help her break through within a month.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow realized the Spirit Seal Realm would be in danger if the Absolute Heart Emperor reached the Emperor Realm and sought a countermeasure.
• Sikong Jing learned the masked woman was the Absolute Heart Emperor and used tribulation power to devour, determined to advance faster.

Yu Mang found Yu Xianpo in the Burial Emperor Battlefield and threatened to disrupt his Emperor Tribulation unless Sikong Jing responded. After Yu Mang sent thousands of Prison Race members into the tribulation, Sikong Jing could only hope Yu Xianpo survived; ten days later, Sikong Jing met the Sword Clan siblings and called for a plan to delay Absolute Heart Emperor’s return to the Emperor Realm.

• Yu Xianpo was nearing the end of his years-long Emperor Tribulation when Yu Mang contacted him through a spiritual projection and demanded that he recognize him as his old clan chief.
• Yu Xianpo refused to betray the Vast Universe, so Yu Mang used Yu Gang to threaten Sikong Jing and promised to interfere with Yu Xianpo’s tribulation if Sikong Jing did not respond within half an hour.
• When Sikong Jing did not answer, Yu Mang sent several thousand Prison Race members into Yu Xianpo’s tribulation, intensifying it as the newcomers were instantly killed.
• Sikong Jing remained silent because his true body was undergoing the Punishment Tribulation, while Yu Xianpo faced the strengthened tribulation alone.
• Ten days later, Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body met with the three Sword Clan siblings and said they needed to delay Absolute Heart Emperor’s recovery to the Emperor Realm.

The Beast Heart Body and three Sword Clan members captured Yu Gang and set a trap to lure the Origin Universe invaders into the Yin Spirit Liquid Wall. As the invaders pursued the Sword Clan members, Huan Li and Soul Rend suspected a counter-ambush but worried the other faction leaders would not heed them.

• The Beast Heart Body and the three Sword Clan members decided to capture Yu Mang’s lurking Nine-Tribulation Prison Race member and throw him into Absolute Heart Emperor’s tribulation.
• Falling Beard, Xie Bumian, and Old Lady Chen clubbed Yu Gang unconscious, and the Beast Heart Body stored him in a spatial treasure.
• Near the end of Absolute Heart Emperor’s month-long tribulation, Falling Beard and Old Lady Chen feigned surprise outside the liquid wall and rushed back in, drawing the invaders after them.
• Xue Yuan and Wan Benqi pursued the two Sword Clan members with troops, while Huan Li warned them that Sikong Jing’s group might be lying in ambush.
• Soul Rend urged Huan Li to recall the pursuers, but Huan Li doubted that Xue Yuan and Wan Benqi would listen and insisted they prioritize the bigger picture.

Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body emerged from the yin spirit liquid and baited Primordial Cosmos invaders into pursuing him, helping Xie Bumian carry out a plan against Absolute Heart Emperor’s tribulation. Absolute Heart Emperor recognized the trap and called the pursuers back, but Xie Bumian said they had returned too late.

• Huan Li went to Absolute Heart Emperor and activated a communication stone so she could call back the invaders pursuing Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body burst from the yin spirit liquid, and the Primordial Cosmos invaders mistook him for the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• The Beast Heart Body unleashed Mad Beast Roar, killing some weaker Emperor Venerables and drawing Soul Rend and Huan Li into pursuit.
• The Beast Heart Body returned to the yin spirit liquid after confirming that the two Ninth Tribulations had been lured away for Xie Bumian’s operation.
• Absolute Heart Emperor warned everyone that the invaders were being drawn away to interfere with her Burial Emperor Tribulation, and Wan Benqi and Xue Yuan turned back.
• Xie Bumian told Absolute Heart Emperor that she had called them back too late.

Xie Bumian failed to send Yu Gang into Absolute Heart Emperor’s tribulation, then entered it herself to fight Absolute Heart Emperor and force her into the Burial Emperor Battlefield. As Yin spirits dragged both women away, Absolute Heart Emperor ordered Huan Li and the others to go to the Spirit Seal Realm and wait for her.

• Xie Bumian tried to push the unconscious Yu Gang into Absolute Heart Emperor’s tribulation, but Huan Li blocked her with a command-token shield.
• Yu Gang woke between the forces of the Nine-Tribulation cultivators and died after Soul Rend struck him.
• Xue Yuan and Wan Benqi joined Huan Li and Soul Rend in surrounding Xie Bumian, but she entered Absolute Heart Emperor’s tribulation of her own accord.
• Xie Bumian fought Absolute Heart Emperor inside the tribulation, resisting her mental attacks as both women faced the tribulation’s power.
• Battlefield Yin spirits dragged Xie Bumian and Absolute Heart Emperor into the Burial Emperor Battlefield, whereupon Absolute Heart Emperor told Huan Li and the others to wait for her in the Spirit Seal Realm.

Sikong Jing faced his second, escalating punishment tribulation and pushed himself to the brink of demonization to forge the ninth layer of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. The chapter left him fighting the tribulation as the Origin Universe invaders discovered the snow-white ship carrying the Beast Heart Body, Old Lady Chen, and Falling Beard.

• Sikong Jing sent the Beast Heart Body, Old Lady Chen, and Falling Beard away aboard the snow-white ship to draw the Origin Universe invaders from his tribulation site.
• Sikong Jing resolved to withstand the tribulation through controlled demonization and create the Pure Spirit Ninth Heart and the ninth layer of the Nine Heavens Dark Demon.
• Sikong Jing challenged the world’s rules, insisting that a magic beast could exist without a demon in its heart, but the tribulation answered with fiercer attacks and temptations.
• Sikong Jing wielded the Nine Heavens Sword Dao against the tribulation as he searched for the Nine Heavens Emperor and the Nine Heavens Magic Beast.
• The Beast Heart Body aboard the ship felt Sikong Jing’s demonic intent, and the Origin Universe invaders spotted the ship and began pursuing it.

Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian fought through their Emperor Tribulations in the Burial Emperor Battlefield, while Yu Mang learned that absorbing Nine Heavens Essence Blood gave him no inheritance memories. A year after Sikong Jing’s punishment, Tian Wuchen led twenty-two tribulation-crossers toward the Spirit Seal Realm, where they discovered Feather Transformation Emperor and others undergoing tribulation together.

• Yu Xianpo endured the strengthened Emperor Tribulation and sensed Xie Bumian and another person undergoing tribulation deeper in the battlefield.
• Xie Bumian fought the Absolute Heart Emperor beneath their Emperor Tribulation and sought to master the eighth level of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Yu Mang learned from Mu Bujun that older-generation powerhouses could not awaken inheritance memories from Nine Heavens Essence Blood, then ordered his subordinates to intercept future Sword Sons and Sword Maidens.
• Tian Wuchen led twenty-two newly finished tribulation-crossers toward the Spirit Seal Realm, but the group stopped after sensing an Emperor Tribulation ahead.
• Tian Wuchen and the others found Feather Transformation Emperor and several companions crossing the tribulation together, a great taboo of the Burial Emperor Tribulation.

Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow broke the year-long tribulation and led the Spirit Seal Realm’s defenders toward a showdown with the pursuing Origin Universe invaders. As the defenders prepared their defenses, Sikong Jing’s main body fell into grave danger.

• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow entered Feather Transformation Emperor’s body, used the eighth level of Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword, and shattered the tribulation clouds.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow told Tian Wuchen and the others that Origin Universe invaders were hunting Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body, Brother Falling Beard, and another, then chose to defend the Spirit Seal Realm rather than summon an Emperor from the Vast Cosmos Great World.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow gathered Yin Spirit aberrations and set an interception formation while the snow-white ship arrived; Sikong Jing’s Beast Heart Body dispersed after reaching the Dark Demon Small World entrance.
• Falling Beard and Old Lady Chen steered the ship through the formation, and the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow brought Feather Transformation Emperor, Tian Wuchen, and the others aboard as the invaders were delayed.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow urged the King of Night Charms and others to move ancient giant tombs around the Spirit Seal Realm as a defensive line.
• Eight months later, with the ship still months from the Spirit Seal Realm, Sikong Jing’s main body heard a voice urging him to lose consciousness and accept that he was a Blood Devour Magic Beast.

Sikong Jing resisted complete demonization during the second Punishment Tribulation, formed the Sword of Pure Spirit, and broke the tribulation with his power. He then set out deeper into the Burial Emperor Battlefield to help Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian.

• As Sikong Jing neared losing himself to demonization, Su Yuexi's remembered promise helped him regain clarity and resist the Mad Beast Sword Strike.
• Sikong Jing formed the Sword of Pure Spirit in his consciousness, anchoring his mind and allowing him to maintain his magic beast form.
• Sikong Jing reached the peak of the Fifth Tribulation and used his techniques and twin horn-swords to destroy the tribulation clouds and silence the wills within them.
• After the rules warned that any future punishment would double, Sikong Jing returned to human form and recognized that he still had to purge the demonic intent to achieve the Demonic Path Ninefold Body.
• Sikong Jing checked the life lamps of Xie Bumian and Yu Xianpo, then chose to venture deeper into the Burial Emperor Battlefield to help them undergo their tribulations.

Yu Mang’s spirit-shadow incarnation and Cheng Yin arrived at the Emperor Tribulation where Xie Bumian and Absolute Heart Emperor were fighting, and Absolute Heart Emperor agreed to cooperate with them. As the three prepared to study Xie Bumian’s swordsmanship, Yu Mang sensed another arrival.

• Sikong Jing saw Yu Xianpo’s life lamp shine brightly and hurried deeper into the Burial Emperor Battlefield, hoping Yu Xianpo had passed his Emperor Tribulation.
• Yu Xianpo reached the eighth level of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and worried that Xie Bumian was still battling another tribulation transcender.
• Absolute Heart Emperor admitted she had been studying Xie Bumian’s sword and intended to kill her after learning it in full.
• Yu Mang’s spirit-shadow incarnation and Nine Heavens Alliance Sword Son Cheng Yin arrived, and Cheng Yin identified Yu Mang to Absolute Heart Emperor.
• Yu Mang asked Absolute Heart Emperor to cooperate, and she agreed while continuing to attack Xie Bumian so he and Cheng Yin could study her sword.
• Xie Bumian tried to turn the tribulation against Absolute Heart Emperor, but Yu Mang suddenly announced that another junior had arrived.