Recaps

Sikong Jing and the Spirit Race rallied against Absolute Hatred Emperor, revealing the Ten Absolutes’ plan to destroy them and turning many Spirit Race members against Ling Dao. Absolute Hatred called for help as the chapter left the battle at Divine Spirit Main Island escalating and the Anti-Seal Faction questioning Absolute Pill Emperor’s account of Sikong Jing.

• The Beast Heart Body and Spirit Magpie’s fellow Emperors gathered Spirit Race members to confront Absolute Hatred, whose attempt to control them with Army-Slaying Formation patterns failed.
• Sikong Jing sent the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall to the Beast Heart Body, while Ling Zhun revealed the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments and warned that the Ten Absolutes were foreign enemies seeking to exterminate the Spirit Race.
• The Beast Heart Body used its formation and the Spirit Root’s power to rally and forcibly gather Spirit Race soldiers, while many members rejected Ling Dao’s orders and returned to support Sikong Jing.
• Facing the growing Spirit Race army alongside Sikong Jing’s demon beast troops, Absolute Hatred called his senior brother for help.
• At Frost God Hall, Chen Lusheng and the other Anti-Seal Faction Emperors questioned Absolute Pill Emperor’s claim that Sikong Jing had ascended from the Spirit Seal Realm and fallen into demonhood.

Sikong Jing led the Spirit Race and demon beasts in a desperate breakout as Tian Wuxiu returned to the Spirit Seal Realm. He escaped into the Dark Demon Small World with the New Purple Night Mystic Jade, taking the gathered forces with him.

• Su Yuexi emerged from the Dark Demon passage and warned the three Great Emperors that Jing Gege was in danger.
• After learning of Absolute Hatred Emperor’s defeat, Absolute Pill Emperor sent Tian Wuxiu back to the Spirit Race while Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanyu attacked the Frost God Hall to hold him off.
• Sword Shatter Emperor warned Sikong Jing that Tian Wuxiu was returning, so Sikong Jing gathered the Spirit Race and demon beasts to break through the restrictions.
• Sikong Jing used demon beast essence blood to frighten Absolute Hatred Emperor into withdrawing the Blood Grudge Grand Formation, then led the combined formations through a gap in the restrictions.
• As Tian Wuxiu approached, Sikong Jing used the New Purple Night Mystic Jade and Dark Demon passage to take the Spirit Race members and demon beasts into the Dark Demon Small World.

Sikong Jing escaped Tian Wuxiu and Absolute Hatred Emperor by entering the Dark Demon Small World, where the Seal Faction’s demon beasts surrounded him. Su Yuexi and Ao Jiuyou joined the Anti-Seal forces to help him break out, and Sikong Jing began turning the battle against his attackers.

• Sikong Jing entered the Dark Demon Small World, while Tian Wuxiu and Absolute Hatred Emperor returned to Frost God Hall and Absolute Hatred Emperor sent an avatar to recruit Ling Dao and the surviving Spirit Race members.
• The Anti-Seal Faction overran Frost God Hall as Absolute Pill Emperor retreated, and Ao Jiuyou reported that Sikong Jing was trapped inside the Dark Demon Small World.
• Absolute Pill Emperor ordered Absolute Battle Emperor to return to the Spirit Race’s location and enter the Dark Demon Small World, prompting Su Yuexi and Ao Jiuyou to go help Sikong Jing.
• Several Nine-Tribulation demon beasts and the Seal Faction’s army attacked Sikong Jing, but he used Mad Beast Roar and his Sword Qi to withstand them.
• Black Tiger and the Anti-Seal demon beasts charged into the battle with Su Yuexi and Ao Jiuyou, forcing the Seal Faction to split its forces; Sikong Jing then struck back and sent a Nine-Tribulation demon beast flying.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi used their combined Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts pressure to rout the Seal Faction beasts in the Dark Demon Small World. Sikong Jing followed the fleeing beasts back to the Vast Cosmos, where he rejoined the Spirit Race and faced Absolute Battle Emperor.

• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi unleashed their beastly might together, allowing the Anti-Seal Faction to overwhelm the Seal Faction beasts.
• The Seal Faction's Nine Tribulations beasts crushed signal beads and fled through Dark Demon passages, and Sikong Jing followed them while telling Su Yuexi and Black Tiger to prepare to join him.
• Su Yuexi explained that Sikong Jing had emerged near Spirit Race territory, then led the Anti-Seal Faction toward the passage he could open.
• Sikong Jing emerged in the Vast Cosmos and learned that Absolute Battle Emperor had opened the passage for the fleeing beasts.
• Sikong Jing revealed himself to Absolute Battle Emperor, released Spirit Gull and the Spirit Race troops from the New Purple Night Mystic Jade, and formed an Army-Slaying Formation for battle.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi emerged from the Dark Demon Small World with the demon-beast army and overwhelmed the Ten Absolutes’ forces. As the Seal Faction retreated toward Spirit Race territory, Sikong Jing attacked Ling Dao’s forces and gave the remaining Spirit Race members a chance to surrender; Ling Dao ordered them to run.

• Absolute Hatred’s spirit-shadow avatar and Ling Dao’s Spirit Race troops joined Absolute Battle Emperor in attacking Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing opened a Dark Demon passage, and Black Tiger, Su Yuexi, and the demon-beast army surged out to join him.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi revealed complete Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts auras, forcing Absolute Battle Emperor’s forces back and alarming the Ten Absolutes.
• Absolute Pill Emperor ordered the Seal Faction to abandon Frost God Hall and retreat toward Spirit Race territory, while Chen Lusheng’s Anti-Seal Faction pursued them.
• Sikong Jing led the demon-beast army against Absolute Battle Emperor, Absolute Hatred’s avatar, and Ling Dao’s forces, then gave the remaining Spirit Race members three breaths to defect.
• Ling Dao panicked and screamed for his followers to run.

Sikong Jing defeated Absolute Hate's forces and left Spirit Gull to evacuate the Spirit Race as he and Su Yuexi entered the Dark Demon Small World. At the Dark Demon Abyss, they discussed the God-Devouring Demoness's connection to Sikong Jing and the mysterious powerhouses trapped in the Hell Array.

• Absolute Hate's avatar detonated itself, killing many Spirit Race members, while the remaining Seal Faction forces fled and Sikong Jing's Anti-Seal Faction army held the territory.
• Sikong Jing ordered Spirit Gull and Black Tiger to evacuate the Spirit Race, then entered the Dark Demon Small World with Su Yuexi to investigate the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Spirit Gull and the others tied up Ling Dao, gathered Spirit Race members into treasure spaces, beheaded Ling Dao, and announced that the Spirit Race was joining the Anti-Seal Faction.
• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi that the God-Devouring Demoness may have sought her out because Sikong Jing had unleashed the Mad Beast Sword Dao and violated the Hell Array's rules.
• Su Yuexi asked whether the mysterious person who possessed Grandpa Su was one of the Hell Array's powerhouses, and Sikong Jing agreed that it was likely the same person who had warned and guided them.

Sikong Jing rescued the Spirit Race survivors and confronted Absolute Pill Emperor by exposing Absolute Sword Emperor’s spirit projection and the Ten Absolutes’ crimes. After Absolute Pill refused to meet his demand, Sikong Jing killed Absolute Sword, leaving seven of the Ten Absolutes as the Anti-Seal Faction surged forward.

• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi met Black Tiger and the others, protected the Spirit Race survivors with the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, and led them through the Dark Demon Passage to the Anti-Seal Faction army.
• Sikong Jing displayed Absolute Sword Emperor’s spirit projection and demanded that Absolute Pill Emperor publicly admit the Ten Absolutes came from the Primordial Cosmos Great World, but Absolute Pill denied it.
• Sikong Jing pressed Absolute Sword Emperor’s spirit projection against the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, while Spirit Gull, Zhe Ying, and Liu Duoye exposed the Ten Absolutes’ persecution of the Spirit Race and restored the survivors’ vitality.
• Absolute Pill Emperor ordered his army to fight to stop the Spirit Race from swaying the Seal Faction forces.
• Sikong Jing killed Absolute Sword Emperor’s spirit projection and declared that seven of the Ten Absolutes remained, boosting the Anti-Seal Faction’s morale.

Sikong Jing was blocked from entering the eighth level of the Dark Demon Abyss and prepared to face its favored challenger, while Su Yuexi began challenging the Nine Heavens Emperor's restrictions. As the Ten Absolutes lost support and considered retreating, Absolute Hatred Emperor and the others began suspecting that Sikong Jing was connected to the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.

• Sikong Jing learned from the sword spirits that the Nine Heavens Emperor's rules barred him from the eighth level until its favored challenger finished, so he waited at the restriction and prepared to contend for the ninth level.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Vast Cosmos Great World and had Su Yuexi challenge the Nine Heavens Emperor's restrictions to further complicate the struggle over the demon-control experiment.
• Over the next month, the Ten Absolutes lost support as clans and halls defected to the Anti-Seal Faction and other forces joined its campaign.
• At a gathering in the Spirit Race's territory, Tian Wuxiu panicked over the Celestial Race's defections, while Absolute Pill Emperor said they might retreat to the Origin Universe and target the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and the Spirit Root Divine Willow.
• Absolute Hatred Emperor and the other Absolutes connected the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts to Sikong Jing through the Spirit Root Divine Willow fragment, sword dao, and Magic Beast essence blood, and questioned why Sikong Jing had not appeared in the recent battles.

The Five Absolutes learned that Sikong Jing was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, then welcomed the unexpected awakening of Absolute Soul. He brought them a powerful mutated War Beast body, a Nine Heavens Sword Dao, and a warning that the Nine Heavens Emperor’s secret inheritance ground was important.

• Absolute Pill Emperor concluded that Sikong Jing was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and had hidden the Dark Demon Small World’s connection to the Burial Emperor Tomb and Spirit Seal Realm.
• Absolute Soul appeared before the Five Absolutes, revealing that he had awakened early with soul and bloodline talents rivaling Sikong Jing’s.
• Absolute Soul said a mysterious powerhouse from the Ancient Ancestor Hell Array of the Vast Universe Prison Race had altered his talents and given him a mutated War Beast Clan body and a Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Absolute Soul explained that the mysterious powerhouse had instructed him to deliver the War Beast body to Absolute Battle and stressed the importance of the Nine Heavens Emperor’s secret inheritance ground.
• The Five Absolutes ordered Absolute Battle to possess the War Beast body so he could return to the Emperor Realm and help breach the Dark Demon Small World.

Absolute Battle Emperor abandoned his demon body and possessed a battle beast, while the Anti-Seal Faction prepared for his possible return to the Emperor realm. After a year of war and training in the Dark Demon Small World, Sikong Jing learned that the person below had completed the eighth layer’s trial and prepared to descend.

• Absolute Battle Emperor possessed a battle beast, and Absolute Pill Emperor focused on the Dark Demon Small World and learning Absolute Soul’s incomplete Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Chen Lusheng and Wen Xuanwu suspected Absolute Battle Emperor was recovering his Emperor realm, so Wen Xuanwu chose to sever his former bloodline and become fully a divine beast.
• Sikong Jing worried that Absolute Pill Emperor would discover his identity as the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and the connection between the Dark Demon Small World and the Spirit Seal Realm.
• Over the following year, the Anti-Seal Faction pushed Ten Absolutes’ forces back toward the Spirit Race’s territory, while Su Yuexi struggled to suppress the God-Devouring Demoness bloodline.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit announced that the person below had completed the eighth layer’s trial and that Sikong Jing could descend, so he told Su Yuexi to wait for his signal bead.

Sikong Jing met Cheng Yin on the eighth level of the Nine Heavens Restriction, where the Sword Spirits declared Cheng Yin the more suitable candidate for the Nine Heavens Emperor’s experiment. Sikong Jing refused to yield and challenged Cheng Yin, leaving their battle beginning.

• Sikong Jing and the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit descended to the eighth level and faced Cheng Yin, who had reached the middle stage of the Sixth Tribulation and the eighth level of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit and Magic Beast Sword Spirit explained the experiment to Cheng Yin and said the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules favored him over Sikong Jing.
• Cheng Yin taunted Sikong Jing and demanded that he kneel, while the Sword Spirits confirmed that Sikong Jing remained a reserve candidate but they would support Cheng Yin.
• Sikong Jing declared that he would prove the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules wrong, then raised a pitch-black sword formed from a fragment of a Magic Beast.
• Cheng Yin attacked with his Emperor Bloodline and a domain of ten thousand galloping horses, and Sikong Jing answered with Rampaging Beast, Sword Slash.

Sikong Jing defeated Cheng Yin in a clash of their domains and challenged the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules for favoring Cheng Yin’s altered Emperor Vein. He then attacked Cheng Yin again, using his full power to suppress him.

• Sikong Jing entered the initial stage of the Demonic Path Ninefold Body and broke Cheng Yin’s domain, forcing both domains to collapse.
• Sikong Jing questioned the Magic Beast Sword Spirit about why the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules favored Cheng Yin, and it said the rules had told it so.
• Sikong Jing concluded that the rules favored Cheng Yin’s Emperor Vein because it had been altered by a mysterious powerhouse from the Hell Array.
• Sikong Jing pointed his sword at Cheng Yin and attacked, while Cheng Yin insisted he had not yet mastered the eighth layer.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his self-created ninth layer of the Nine Heavens, his full Mad Beast Sword Dao, and the Demonic Path Ninefold Body to suppress Cheng Yin.

Sikong Jing repeatedly killed Cheng Yin after the Nine Heavens Emperor’s experiment reconstructed him, while people outside the formation mistook Cheng Yin’s revived life lamp for progress. As Cheng Yin faced a third defeat, Sikong Jing insisted the Nine Heavens Emperor did not represent everything.

• Sikong Jing defeated and killed Cheng Yin, then learned the experiment would reconstruct Cheng Yin’s body and pushed Sikong Jing back to the seventh level.
• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi that Cheng Yin had been modified by the Hell Array and wondered whether her God-Devouring Demoness Emperor bloodline would earn her recognition too.
• Yu Mang and the Absolute Heart Emperor saw Cheng Yin’s life lamp break and brighten again, while Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian learned Cheng Yin had gained greater recognition and prepared for Sikong Jing’s possible return.
• After Cheng Yin’s first reconstruction, Sikong Jing killed him a second time and resolved to keep fighting until the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules changed.
• Cheng Yin’s life lamp revived again outside the formation, but Sikong Jing began a third fight and quickly overwhelmed him; Cheng Yin questioned why he still could not win, and Sikong Jing said the Nine Heavens Emperor did not represent everything.

Sikong Jing killed Cheng Yin for the third time, triggering the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rule that opened the ninth level early and sent them both inside. Meanwhile, Su Yuexi fought Absolute Soul on the seventh level, where Absolute Battle Emperor arrived after recovering his Emperor realm.

• Sikong Jing killed Cheng Yin for the third time and went to the seventh level, leaving the sword spirits to summon him after Cheng Yin reconstructed.
• After Cheng Yin’s third reconstruction, the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit revealed that the ninth level had to open early because the chosen one had been crushed and killed three times.
• The eighth-level restriction dragged Sikong Jing and Cheng Yin into the ninth level, where Sikong Jing began comprehending the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inheritance while worrying about Su Yuexi’s emergency signal.
• Su Yuexi confronted Absolute Soul on the seventh level, fought him to a standstill, and learned that he had come with Absolute Battle Emperor.
• Absolute Battle Emperor descended to the seventh level after recovering to the Emperor realm, and Absolute Soul asked Su Yuexi how she would deal with him.

Su Yuexi entered the eighth level while Absolute Soul Emperor and Absolute Battle Emperor pursued her, but the Magic Beast Sword Spirit stopped them and explained the Dark Demon Small World's connection to the Burial Emperor Tomb. Absolute Soul realized Sikong Jing was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and wondered whether the eighth-level rules would recognize him too.

• Absolute Soul Emperor learned that Wen Xuanwu had entered the Dark Demon Small World and, with Absolute Battle Emperor, prepared to capture Su Yuexi.
• Su Yuexi broke through the restriction and descended to the eighth level, and Absolute Soul attempted to follow her.
• The Magic Beast Sword Spirit blocked Absolute Soul, while Absolute Battle Emperor became trapped in the seventh level's trial.
• The Magic Beast Sword Spirit explained that the Dark Demon Small World had been the Nine Heavens Emperor's experimental site and was connected to the Burial Emperor Tomb.
• Absolute Soul deduced that Sikong Jing was the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and had used the Burial Emperor Tomb's tribulations to grow stronger.
• Absolute Soul asked when he could enter the eighth level and whether its rules would protect him; the Magic Beast Sword Spirit said it depended on his recognition and talent.

Emperor Absolute Soul remained trapped on the seventh layer while Wen Xuanwu adapted to the demon blood on the sixth. On the ninth layer, Sikong Jing comprehended the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword dao and realized it was meant to slay demons while defying the world’s rules and withstanding divine tribulation.

• Emperor Absolute Soul decided he could not leave the seventh layer while Wen Xuanwu occupied the sixth and the eighth-layer trial remained undisturbed.
• The Magic Beast Sword Spirit went to guide the Emperor-level demonic beast on the sixth layer, then warned Absolute Soul that the seventh-layer trial was extremely difficult.
• Wen Xuanwu learned that Absolute Battle was undergoing the seventh-layer trial and continued adapting to his beast body while guarding against demonic corruption.
• Sikong Jing studied the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword techniques in the ninth-layer illusion, comparing their domineering intent with his own Qing Ling Sword.
• Sikong Jing realized the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword dao challenged the Burial Emperor Rules, and he began to grasp its purpose of slaying demons, overcoming punishments, and enduring divine tribulation.

Sikong Jing left the ninth level without discovering the cause of his internal injuries, while Cheng Yin emerged with a powerful new sword technique. The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit named Su Yuexi the primary candidate, and Sikong Jing and Cheng Yin began their life-or-death fight.

• Sikong Jing suffered internal injuries while studying the Nine Heavens Emperor's swordsmanship, but the three-day trial ended before he found the cause.
• Sikong Jing emerged in the passage with Cheng Yin, whose body had transformed under the influence of the Nine Heavens Magic Beast.
• The Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit revealed that Su Yuexi had entered the eighth level and was now the primary candidate, while Sikong Jing and Cheng Yin could no longer reshape their bodies.
• Sikong Jing pointed a sword at Cheng Yin and declared that only one of them would live.
• Cheng Yin unleashed the Nine Heavens God-Trampling Sword, shattering Sikong Jing's domain, and Sikong Jing realized Cheng Yin had understood the sword intent behind his injuries.

Sikong Jing discovered that his Mad Beast Sword Dao could block the invisible power of the ninth-level Sword Dao, allowing him to overpower Cheng Yin and force him to flee. As they chased through the passage, Sikong Jing studied the power and began to understand it as a force of the mind and an unyielding momentum.

• Cheng Yin used inherited memories in his Emperor Bloodline to reveal that they had guided him to the ninth-level Sword Dao's essence, but Sikong Jing remained unmoved.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his Mad Beast Sword Dao and found that it could block the invisible attacks Cheng Yin wielded.
• Sikong Jing and his Beast Heart Body tore through Cheng Yin's domain, forcing Cheng Yin to flee toward the Dark Demon entrance and exit.
• Sikong Jing pursued Cheng Yin through the passage while studying the invisible power in the attacks and recalling the ninth level's illusionary world.
• After one month of pursuit and observation, Sikong Jing concluded that the power seemed to come from the mind and resemble an unyielding momentum.

Sikong Jing comprehended the Mind Sword while pursuing Cheng Yin through the passage, but the Nine Heavens Emperor’s rules swept them out and forced Cheng Yin to undergo his Burial Emperor Tribulation. Cheng Yin passed the tribulation and emerged stronger, while Sikong Jing still faced him outside the formation.

• Sikong Jing formed an illusory Mind Sword in his spirit platform and began resisting Cheng Yin’s mind-shaking attacks.
• Sikong Jing pursued Cheng Yin for another month and tried to learn the name of the power he had comprehended, but Cheng Yin refused to answer.
• Yin Spirit Evil Qi swept Sikong Jing and Cheng Yin out of the passage, and the Snow-Tempered Sword Spirit explained that Cheng Yin had to reach his strongest state before Sikong Jing could kill him.
• Sikong Jing worked to fuse the Mind Sword into the ninth level of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao as the Yin Spirit Evil Qi carried them toward the exit.
• Cheng Yin underwent and passed his Six Tribulations Burial Emperor Tribulation, then declared that he would behead Sikong Jing.
• Yu Mang, the Absolute Heart Emperor, and the Nine Heavens Alliance recognized Cheng Yin and reacted with shock at his strength.

Cheng Yin rejected Yu Mang’s authority and attacked Sikong Jing, suppressing him while Sikong Jing struggled to use only the Nine Heavens Sword Dao. After an hour, Sikong Jing finally comprehended the ninth level’s true essence and broke through Cheng Yin’s attack.

• Yu Jian warned that Sikong Jing might have shattered Cheng Yin’s three life lamps, prompting Yu Mang to order Cheng Yin out of the array.
• Cheng Yin defied Yu Mang, offered to share the Nine Heavens Sword Dao with Absolute Heart Emperor, and charged back into the array to kill Sikong Jing.
• Cheng Yin’s domain and mental attacks overwhelmed Sikong Jing, who could not use his Mad Beast Sword Dao and defended with the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Yu Xianpo, Xie Bumian, and the onlookers watched Cheng Yin suppress Sikong Jing and wondered how Cheng Yin’s bloodline and sword dao surpassed Sikong Jing’s.
• After defending for an hour, Sikong Jing infused his mind-soul sword with Nine Heavens Sword Intent and tore through Cheng Yin’s mental stomp and sword dao domain.

Sikong Jing overwhelmed Cheng Yin and was about to kill him when Yin Spirit Evil Qi pulled Cheng Yin out of the Nine Heavens Emperor's array. A mysterious Punishment Tribulation then descended on Cheng Yin, leaving Sikong Jing and the onlookers unsure why it had appeared.

• Sikong Jing used the pure Ninth Layer Sword Dao to break Cheng Yin's defense and force him to flee.
• Sikong Jing trapped Cheng Yin with his domain and Beast Heart Body, then attacked alongside his true body.
• Yin Spirit Evil Qi swept Cheng Yin out of the array just before Sikong Jing's swords struck.
• Tribulation clouds gathered above Cheng Yin, and Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian suspected he had triggered a Punishment Tribulation.
• Cheng Yin blocked the tribulation's first strike and challenged Sikong Jing to come outside.

Sikong Jing realized Cheng Yin’s tribulation was caused by a power that could break tribulations, and suspected his own consciousness sword was forbidden by the rules as well. He left the Nine Heavens Formation and struck at Cheng Yin, ending the chapter inside the Burial Emperor Tribulation with Cheng Yin explaining that his power was called Tribulation-Breaking Power.

• Sikong Jing concluded that the rules had saved Cheng Yin while targeting him, and feared Cheng Yin’s Nine Heavens Sword Dao could help Yu Mang escape the Hell Array.
• Cheng Yin demanded to know what rule he had violated and called the power in his Imperial Vein inheritance Tribulation-Breaking Power.
• Sikong Jing tested the danger outside the formation, felt a punishment tribulation building, and ordered Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian to distract Yu Mang’s group.
• Sikong Jing used his Beast Heart Body to obscure his true body, slipped past Yu Jian, and charged into Cheng Yin’s Burial Emperor Tribulation.
• Cheng Yin questioned why his Tribulation-Breaking Power had been labeled forbidden, and Sikong Jing explained that the rules treated tribulation-breaking power as forbidden.

Sikong Jing killed Cheng Yin inside his Burial Emperor Tribulation and faced the resulting punishment tribulation. Outside, Absolute Heart Emperor and Yu Mang tried to force him to surrender the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, but the Nine Heavens Alliance intervened when Yu Mang hurled its members into the tribulation.

• Sikong Jing killed Cheng Yin, destroyed his spirit shadow, and challenged the Burial Emperor Rules as his third punishment tribulation began.
• The Nine Heavens Alliance mourned Cheng Yin, while Absolute Heart Emperor blamed Yu Mang for losing the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.
• Absolute Heart Emperor threatened to throw people into Sikong Jing's tribulation unless he carved the complete Nine Heavens Sword Dao into a Green Jade Stone Brick, and Yu Mang threatened to throw Yu Jian in as well.
• Sikong Jing urged Yu Jian and the Prison Race members to reconsider following Yu Mang, warning that Yu Mang treated them as expendable.
• Yu Mang tossed dozens of Nine Heavens Alliance members toward Sikong Jing's tribulation, but two Nine-Tribulation powerhouses caught them, prompting Yu Mang to demand an explanation.

Yu Tong and Yu Jian rebelled against Yu Mang during Sikong Jing’s tribulation, forcing Absolute Heart Emperor to face three newly ascended Emperors and the Prison Race forces. Yu Mang failed to regain control of his subordinates, and some Prison Race Emperor Venerables urged him to remain in the Vast Cosmos Great World.

• Yu Tong expelled Yu Mang’s spiritual projection from his body, linked the Prison Race and Nine Heavens Alliance forces with his Army-Slaying Formation, and called on Yu Jian to rebel.
• Yu Jian attacked Absolute Heart Emperor but was nearly killed by her; Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian returned and helped him break free.
• Following Sikong Jing’s warning, Yu Jian used the Army-Slaying Formation to kill most of the Nine Heavens Alliance forces and prevent Absolute Heart Emperor from taking command of them.
• Yu Mang asked the Nine Heavens Alliance Emperor Venerables and Absolute Heart Emperor to let him possess them, but none agreed to help him fight Yu Jian and Yu Tong.
• Several Prison Race Emperor Venerables urged Yu Mang to remain in the Vast Cosmos Great World, but he angrily cut them off.

Sikong Jing’s allies turned Yu Mang’s Prison Race followers against him, but Yu Mang retaliated by hurling injured Nine Heavens Alliance fighters into Sikong Jing’s Punishment Tribulation. The Absolute Heart Emperor escaped toward the Burial Emperor Battlefield while Sikong Jing endured the strengthened tribulation and began his limit-breaking demonic transformation.

• Yu Tong warned the wavering Prison Race members that Yu Mang would sacrifice them, and Yu Xianpo killed those who tried to return to Yu Mang’s side.
• Yu Mang possessed an injured Emperor Venerable and threw the injured fighters into Sikong Jing’s tribulation; the Absolute Heart Emperor blocked Yu Xianpo and Xie Bumian and sent a Ninth Tribulation fighter in after them.
• The Absolute Heart Emperor fled with Yu Mang’s consciousness phantom and Cheng Yin’s master, then heard Sikong Jing announce that Absolute Sword was dead.
• Sikong Jing’s tribulation killed the injured Emperor Venerables and the Ninth Tribulation fighter, while Sikong Jing continued to endure it and thanked Yu Jian, Yu Tong, and the Prison Race members.
• Sikong Jing entered his limit-breaking demonic transformation as Yu Xianpo identified the ordeal as a Punishment Tribulation, and the rules’ will declared every part of him taboo.