Recaps

Sikong Jing tamed the young Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, named it Little Dark, and set out with Lang Yisuo and Baili Que to confront Shui Bingqu and reclaim the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core. At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Manager Wan learned the cause of the conflict and told the injured Lang Yizhan that Sikong Jing had taken the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle he had acquired.

• Sikong Jing touched the young Dark Wing Dragon Eagle without being harmed, freed it, and named it Little Dark after giving it genuine Dark Wing Dragon Eagle meridians.
• Sikong Jing, Lang Yisuo, and Baili Que left for the Water Family to confront Shui Bingqu and reclaim the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core by force.
• Manager Wan ordered guards to secretly protect the group, then learned from Captain Di that Baili Que had been gravely injured and Lang Yizhan had helped cause the conflict.
• Lang Yizhan asked to be sent back to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion headquarters with the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle he had acquired.
• Manager Wan told Lang Yizhan that Sikong Jing had already tamed and taken away the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle.

At Shui Bingqu’s birthday banquet, Shui Yuyin flaunted a treasure she had seized from the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace and boasted that its students would not dare confront her. Sikong Jing arrived with Baili Que and Lang Yisuo, presented a fine sword, and left Shui Yuyin stunned when she recognized it as He Jia’s.

• Shui Yuyin gave Shui Bingqu a Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core and said she had taken it from the chief disciple of Dark Dragon Mountain.
• Heavenly Dao Palace students mocked the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace, and Shui Yuyin claimed its students would never dare appear before her.
• A servant announced Sikong Jing’s arrival, and he entered the banquet with Baili Que and Lang Yisuo.
• Sikong Jing presented Shui Bingqu with a sword, drawing the guests’ attention with its brilliant radiance.
• Shui Yuyin recognized the sword as He Jia’s and demanded to know why Sikong Jing had it.

At Shui Bingqu’s birthday gathering, Sikong Jing demanded the return of the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core and an apology from Shui Yuyin, offering He Jia’s Blue Sky Sword as a gift. After defeating Shui Yuyin in six moves and holding her at swordpoint, he repeated his demands while surrounded by Water Family experts.

• Sikong Jing explained that he had seized He Jia’s Blue Sky Sword and offered it to Shui Bingqu in exchange for the core and Shui Yuyin kneeling to apologize to Baili Que.
• Sikong Jing threatened to turn Shui Bingqu’s birthday into a funeral if he refused, prompting Shui Yuyin to challenge him.
• Shui Yuyin dismissed Sikong Jing’s strength, but Sikong Jing invoked Lang Yizhan and attacked her with the Dark Wings, Black Flame Sword.
• Sikong Jing pierced Shui Yuyin’s shoulder in six moves, shocking the guests and Shui Bingqu.
• Shui Bingqu attacked, but Sikong Jing held his sword to Shui Yuyin’s throat, and Water Family experts surrounded him and his companions.
• Sikong Jing demanded the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core and Shui Yuyin’s apology again, threatening the Water Family if they refused.

Sikong Jing rejected Shui Bingqu’s threats and challenged him at the Water Family birthday banquet. Riding Little Dark, he slaughtered the Water Family and Heavenly Dao Palace attackers before charging at Shui Bingqu, who began to panic.

• Shui Bingqu refused Sikong Jing’s demands, but Sikong Jing slapped Shui Yuyin aside and declared he would grant Shui Bingqu a funeral.
• Shui Yuyin urged her grandfather to kill Sikong Jing, and Shui Bingqu ordered the Water Family and Heavenly Dao Palace students to attack.
• Sikong Jing, Senior Sister Baili, and Senior Brother Lang mounted their demon dragons and joined the battle.
• Sikong Jing merged with Little Dark and cut down the surrounding attackers as black sword light swept across the banquet.
• Sikong Jing charged Shui Bingqu and declared that his Dao Martial-level mount would not save him, while Shui Bingqu lost confidence.

Sikong Jing killed Shui Bingqu and reclaimed the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core from the Water Family, forcing Shui Yuyin to kneel and apologize to Baili Que. He then left with Baili Que and Lang Yisuo, confident that Heavenly Dao Palace would not pursue them while Ma Daoming and He Jia remained in Holy Dragon Palace.

• Sikong Jing killed Shui Bingqu in their aerial battle and demanded that the Water Family surrender the Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core.
• A Water Family elder handed over the core, which Baili Que confirmed was hers, and Sikong Jing stored it away.
• Sikong Jing knocked Shui Yuyin from her mount and forced her to kneel and apologize to Baili Que.
• Sikong Jing warned Shui Yuyin to tell Long Night Heavenly Dao Palace that Ma Daoming and He Jia were guests at Holy Dragon Palace, then departed with Baili Que and Lang Yisuo.
• Lang Yisuo worried that Heavenly Dao Palace would send pursuers, but Sikong Jing explained that the threat to Ma Daoming and He Jia would deter them and that sparing Shui Yuyin gave them a way to back down.

Sikong Jing returned to Long Night Holy Dragon Palace after exposing his strength, while Chang Wang plotted to exploit the upcoming battle between the Sacred Dragon Palace and Star Luo Palace. Unable to find an alchemist for Su Yuexi’s medicine, Sikong Jing resumed his training and headed for the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path.

• Chang Wang refused to pursue Sikong Jing while Ma Daoming and He Jia remained in Sacred Dragon Palace custody, then planned to sell Star Luo Palace information about Sikong Jing in exchange for half of Seven Dragon Mountain.
• Sikong Jing and his companions returned safely, and Qin Heng warned that Chang Wang would reveal Sikong Jing’s strength and that Star Luo Palace might recruit grand academy disciples for the coming battle.
• Qin Heng agreed to ask Sacred Dragon Central Academy to pressure Star Luo Palace not to borrow disciples, while Sikong Jing asked him to recommend an alchemist to refine Su Yuexi’s medicine.
• Qin Heng explained that Yao Changeng was the empire’s only suitable alchemist and that the other experts were inaccessible, leaving Sikong Jing with no clear way to refine the medicine.
• Sikong Jing continued comprehending the demon dragon’s meridians in Demon Dragon Valley, then left five days later to challenge the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path.

Sikong Jing led the hundred students selected to fight Star Luo Palace onto the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path, where he broke through to the Mystic Riverway Realm. When the others began to falter, he turned back and started carrying them to safety one by one.

• Lang Yisuo brought Qin Luo, Baili Que, Yu Yan, Chen Tong, and the other selected students to ask Sikong Jing to lead them through the trial.
• Sikong Jing led all one hundred students onto the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path, and they advanced through its first two stages without difficulty.
• As they struggled through the third stage, Sikong Jing completed his fifth dragon vein and broke through to the Mystic Riverway Realm.
• Sikong Jing warned the students not to give up, then explained that he would take them to the exit one at a time.
• Sikong Jing walked back down the path without being blasted away and began carrying the weakest student upward, leaving Chen Tong astonished by him.

Sikong Jing guided the exhausted students up Drunken Dragon Mountain, where Qin Luo broke through to the Mystic Sea Realm. At the summit, three instructors introduced themselves as Tan Yue’s cousins and revealed they had stayed behind to watch over the mountain.

• The students asked Qin Luo, Lang Yisuo, Baili Que, and Yu Yan about Sikong Jing, but none of them shared much about him.
• Sikong Jing carried the remaining students up Drunken Dragon Mountain, including Yu Yan and Baili Que, who both clung to his back.
• The students gathered on the platform and recovered from the climb, while Qin Luo broke through to the Mystic Sea Realm.
• Sikong Jing surveyed the overgrown mountain and encountered three instructors who came out from its outer courtyard.
• Tan Yan introduced herself and her brothers, Tan Long and Tan Hu, and explained that they were Tan Yue’s cousins who had stayed behind to watch the mountain.

Sikong Jing tried to join Drunken Dragon Mountain, but the Tan siblings questioned his apprentice status until his points and Mystic Riverway Realm cultivation stunned them. They appointed him chief and learned he had successfully challenged the mountain path, leaving them shocked by his feat.

• Sikong Jing presented Tan Yue's token and his Level-One Baby Dragon apprentice token to the Tan siblings, who initially refused to let him join Drunken Dragon Mountain.
• Tan Hu saw Sikong Jing had twenty-three million points, and Sikong Jing revealed his Mystic Riverway Realm cultivation to prove his credentials.
• The Tan siblings eagerly named Sikong Jing chief of Drunken Dragon Mountain and escorted him toward the outer courtyard, worried the other Six Dragon Mountains might take him away.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had challenged the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path and brought Qin Luo and the others up it, leaving the Tan siblings astonished.

Tan Yan told Sikong Jing the legend of the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon and brought him into the Drunken Dragon Sword Cave to see the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword. As the fourth person ever to challenge the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path successfully, Sikong Jing stood before the sword and asked whether anyone had ever pulled it out.

• Tan Long took Sikong Jing to the Drunken Dragon Sword Cave, where Tan Yan explained that the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon had forged a sword from its own bones and blood to protect Demon Dragon Valley.
• Sikong Jing felt his Beast Heart and true qi grow stronger as he understood the dragon's sacrifice.
• Tan Long showed Sikong Jing the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword and the broken demonic sword inside the cave.
• Tan Long said only three people before Sikong Jing had passed the Drunken Dragon Mountain Path and touched the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword, including Academy Master Tan Yue.
• Sikong Jing approached the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword and asked the Tan siblings whether anyone had ever pulled it out.

Sikong Jing pulled the legendary Six-Elephant Dragon Sword from the ground, learned the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon’s history and meridians, and broke through to the second level of the Mystic Riverway Realm before suppressing his cultivation. The Tan siblings were astonished by his compatibility with the sword, but Sikong Jing claimed he had a zero martial root, leaving them unconvinced.

• Tan Hu encouraged Sikong Jing to try drawing the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword, and Sikong Jing pulled it free with ease as its power yielded to him.
• Sikong Jing infused the sword with True Qi, saw the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon’s life and sword-forging, and absorbed its meridians, briefly breaking through before suppressing his cultivation.
• Sikong Jing put the sword back into the ground, causing its formation to activate and pin the three Tan siblings down, then pulled it out again to free them.
• The Tan siblings marveled that Sikong Jing had drawn a sword no one in the Eastern Plains Northern Lands could pull and asked about his martial root and bloodline.
• Sikong Jing said he had a zero martial root, and the three Tan siblings collapsed in disbelief.

Sikong Jing mastered the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword, led the students through the remaining mountain paths, and began cultivating a new beast technique. On the eve of the battle with Star Luo Palace, Qin Heng returned with Central Academy reinforcements, including the former Long Night student Lu Zhiqian.

• Sikong Jing obtained permission to take the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword and stayed in the sword cave to study it while the Tan siblings kept his feat quiet.
• After the hundred students completed their breakthroughs, Sikong Jing received a nine-wing student token and led them to challenge Wind Dragon Mountain Path and Thunder Dragon Mountain.
• Sikong Jing completed all seven mountain paths, then returned to Drunken Dragon Mountain Path to construct the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon's meridians and create a new beast technique.
• Qin Heng returned from negotiations with Elder Feng Tingfu and three Central Academy students, who were permitted to reinforce the Holy Dragon Palace in the battle against Star Luo Palace.
• Qin Heng introduced Lu Zhiqian, a former Long Night Holy Dragon Palace student who had become a Central Academy elder's disciple, to Qin Luo and the others.

Lu Zhiqian and the other Central Academy students belittled the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace and imposed on its people, while Sikong Jing advanced his cultivation in the Drunken Dragon Sword Cave. After learning of the visitors’ behavior, Sikong Jing headed to the Martial Comprehension Hall, where the Central Academy students continued to insult the palace.

• Lu Zhiqian corrected Qin Heng and Qin Luo for calling him Junior Brother, and Qin Luo was forced to guide the Central Academy students around Holy Dragon Town.
• Wu Ding condemned the visitors’ arrogance, while Qin Heng worried that Sikong Jing might offend them and went looking for him.
• Sikong Jing stopped working on the Six-Elephant Heavenly Dragon meridians to avoid demonic deviation, then broke through to the sixth level of the Mystic Riverway Realm as he descended Drunken Dragon Mountain.
• Sikong Jing learned that three Central Academy students had forced townspeople to close their stalls, then went to the Mission Hall to see them.
• Lu Zhiqian called the Martial Comprehension Hall low-class, and Senior Sister Gao and Senior Brother Shi emerged after inspecting it and disparaged the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace.

Shi Tingxuan's boast about his discovery in Martial Comprehension Hall provoked Senior Sister Gao, who demanded that he mutilate himself as punishment. He challenged her instead and began demonstrating the Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique as she suppressed her strength to the Mystic River Realm.

• Shi Tingxuan emerged from Martial Comprehension Hall and excitedly told Chen Tong he had learned something Central Academy did not possess.
• Senior Sister Gao accused Shi Tingxuan of deliberately insulting her, and he called her an ugly hag.
• Senior Sister Gao slapped Chen Tong when he tried to apologize for Shi Tingxuan, then demanded Shi cut off one hand and tear his mouth apart.
• Qin Luo tried to reason with Senior Sister Gao, but Lu Zhiqian threatened the disciples, and Shi Tingxuan refused to apologize.
• Senior Sister Gao challenged Shi Tingxuan to prove his claim while she suppressed her power to the Mystic River Realm.
• Shi Tingxuan drew his curved blade, announced the Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique, and charged at Senior Sister Gao.

Sikong Jing intervened when Senior Sister Gao nearly killed Shi Tingxuan, then demonstrated the complete Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique and shredded her outer garment. Enraged, Senior Sister Gao raised her power and threatened to kill Sikong Jing and Shi Tingxuan, while Sikong Jing challenged whether she could truly defeat him.

• Senior Sister Gao defeated Shi Tingxuan outside the Martial Comprehension Hall and moved to tear his mouth apart as Qin Luo and the others were held back.
• Sikong Jing arrived, knocked Senior Sister Gao back, and claimed he knew the complete Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique.
• Sikong Jing demonstrated the technique, slicing apart Senior Sister Gao's outer garment without exposing her skin.
• Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi accused Sikong Jing of a sneak attack, while Shi Tingxuan realized he had understood the technique more clearly.
• Senior Sister Gao's power surged to the peak of the Mystic Sea Realm, and she threatened to kill Sikong Jing and Shi Tingxuan.
• Sikong Jing stepped forward and questioned whether Senior Sister Gao could have stopped him from cutting her flesh instead of her clothes.

Sikong Jing forced Senior Sister Gao to suppress her cultivation to the Mystic River Realm, then let Shi Tingxuan challenge her with the Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique. As the Central Academy students relied on a hidden demonic sword, Sikong Jing revealed that he had brought the beast techniques to Long Night Holy Dragon Palace.

• Sikong Jing taunted Senior Sister Gao until she suppressed her true qi to the Mystic River Realm and challenged him to attack.
• Sikong Jing refused to fight Senior Sister Gao and sent Shi Tingxuan to face her instead.
• Shi Tingxuan used the Cloud-Soaring Blade Technique to overpower Senior Sister Gao, while Senior Brother Shi and Lu Zhiqian trusted in her hidden demonic sword.
• Qin Luo and the others discussed the powerful beast techniques, and Sikong Jing said the Central Academy did not possess them.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had brought all the beast techniques to Long Night Holy Dragon Palace, leaving Qin Luo and the others astonished.

A fight between the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace and the Central Academy escalated when Senior Sister Gao drew the demonic sword from the Drunken Dragon Sword Cave. The mentors tried to stop her, but Sikong Jing challenged her as she prepared to strike him.

• Shi Tingxuan taunted Senior Sister Gao until she drew the demonic sword and slashed at him.
• Qin Luo blocked Senior Sister Gao's first strike, then he and the other chief disciples joined forces to withstand her stronger attack and were knocked down.
• Senior Sister Gao raised her power to the peak of the Mystic Sea Realm and threatened the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace mentors when they intervened.
• Senior Sister Gao demanded that Qin Luo and the other chief disciples kneel, Shi Tingxuan mutilate himself, and Sikong Jing die.
• Sikong Jing stepped forward and dared Senior Sister Gao to bring her sword down, and she raised it to strike him.

Sikong Jing defeated Senior Sister Gao, shattered her demonic sword, and killed her despite Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi’s threats and pleas. He rejected the Central Academy’s offer to fight for the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace and ordered its students to leave.

• Sikong Jing used the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword to destroy Senior Sister Gao’s sword strike, break her demonic sword, and pin her at swordpoint.
• A mentor recognized Sikong Jing as the apprentice who had beaten He Jia from the Heavenly Dao Palace, while the onlookers realized he had crushed a peak Mystic Sea Realm opponent in three moves.
• Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi rushed to stop Sikong Jing, but he stabbed Senior Sister Gao in the shoulders after Lu Zhiqian threatened him.
• Senior Sister Gao threatened Sikong Jing with Elder Feng’s retaliation, and he stabbed her other shoulder and then her thigh.
• Lu Zhiqian offered to let the conflict pass if Sikong Jing spared Senior Sister Gao, but Sikong Jing refused and told the Central Academy students to leave the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace.
• Sikong Jing pierced Senior Sister Gao’s brow with his sword, killing her.

Sikong Jing killed Senior Sister Gao, defeated Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi, and returned to the Long Night Black Flame Camp, leaving Qin Heng to face the fallout. As Qin Heng grappled with the killing and the Central Academy’s likely response, Elder Feng Tingfu announced that the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword had disappeared.

• Sikong Jing killed Senior Sister Gao, then defeated Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi before leaving for home.
• Qin Heng hurried to the Martial Comprehension Hall, where Qin Luo told him that Sikong Jing had killed Senior Sister Gao.
• Shi Tingxuan confirmed that Sikong Jing had killed Senior Sister Gao in two strikes and had beaten Lu Zhiqian and Senior Brother Shi together.
• Qin Luo urged Qin Heng to protect Sikong Jing, arguing that Senior Sister Gao had attacked first.
• Elder Feng Tingfu announced that the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword had disappeared.

Qin Heng learned that Sikong Jing had drawn the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword and that Feng Tingfu was coming to claim it. The Long Night Holy Dragon Palace leaders resolved to protect Sikong Jing, while Baili Que urged them to drive Feng Tingfu out.

• Qin Luo showed Qin Heng the broken Demon Sword, and Qin Heng realized Sikong Jing had likely taken the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword.
• The three Tan siblings warned Qin Heng that Feng Tingfu and the Central Academy elders wanted to take the sword, so Qin Heng ordered Holy Dragon Town sealed and summoned the academy masters and elders to Gold Dragon Mountain.
• Huo Yanmei and the gathered leaders agreed that Sikong Jing and the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword must be protected.
• The master of Cloud Dragon Mountain proposed killing the two Central Academy students and blaming a mysterious person, but Baili Que objected and told them to drive Feng Tingfu out.

Baili Que persuaded the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace to take a hard line, and Qin Heng’s forces drove Feng Tingfu out after executing his disciple and imprisoning two others. Feng Tingfu then revealed that the Central Academy had secretly arranged for Star Luo Grand Academy to win the coming battle, whose fighters included students on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking.

• Baili Que urged the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace to punish Lu Zhiqian and the other disciple, expel Feng Tingfu, and stand behind Sikong Jing; Qin Heng agreed.
• Feng Tingfu stormed into the main hall demanding an explanation about the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword, and Qin Heng told him that his disciple surnamed Gao had been executed and two other disciples imprisoned.
• Feng Tingfu attacked Qin Heng, but Wu Ding rallied the academy’s masters and elders to overpower him; Qin Heng threw the wounded Feng Tingfu out of the palace.
• Feng Tingfu warned Qin Heng that the palace risked losing Seven Dragon Mountain and revealed that the Central Academy had privately arranged with Star Luo Grand Academy for Long Night Holy Dragon Palace to lose.
• Feng Tingfu said Star Luo Grand Academy’s students had entered the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, leaving the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace stunned.

The Long Night Holy Dragon Palace’s leaders learned that the Star Luo Grand Academy planned to send elite young fighters to the life-and-death battle, but they regained hope when Qin Luo and Baili Que reminded them that Sikong Jing wielded the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing visited the Dark Wing Camp with Ning Jingjing, leaving Su Yuexi blushing at home.

• Feng Tingfu told Qin Heng that the Grand Academy had abandoned the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace and promised not to kill Lu Zhiqian and two others, then demanded to know who had taken the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword.
• Qin Heng punched Feng Tingfu and sent him away, then returned to Gold Dragon Mountain worried that the students would die in the next day’s battle.
• Chen Tong rejected the idea of fearing the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking geniuses, and Qin Luo and Baili Que reminded the leaders that Sikong Jing held the Six-Elephant Dragon Sword and had fought powerful opponents without losing.
• Sikong Jing shared dinner with Su Yuexi and her family, telling them that her medicinal ingredients had been gathered and an alchemist was still needed to refine them.
• Ning Jingjing visited Sikong Jing and urged him to return to the Dark Wing Camp to guide its new recruits, so he agreed to go with her.
• Sikong Jing teased Su Yuexi before leaving, and Mei Xiaofang told Su Yuexi that it was time for her and Sikong Jing to have a child.

Sikong Jing returned to the Long Night Black Flame Camp and received a mask and command of the Dark Wing Camp after revealing his sixth-level Mystic Riverway Realm cultivation. While reviewing the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, he discovered that Wang Ge had risen to rank 163 and was expected to enter the top hundred.

• Su Yuexian suggested that having a child could keep Sikong Jing devoted, but Su Yuexi said she trusted him.
• Ning Jingjing brought Sikong Jing to meet Beigong Xianfeng, who learned that Sikong Jing had reached the sixth level of the Mystic Riverway Realm.
• Beigong Xianfeng gave Sikong Jing a Profound Heaven treasure mask and entrusted him with command of the Dark Wing Camp.
• Beigong Xianfeng showed Sikong Jing the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking and explained that Wang Qing had been removed after losing an arm.
• Beigong Xianfeng pointed out Wang Ge at rank 163, and Sikong Jing recognized her as a Worry-Forget Sect disciple.

Sikong Jing learned that his younger sister Sikong Ling was known as Wang Ge in the Worry-Forget Sect, then rushed to defend Little Dark from the young prince Ji Han. Sikong Jing and Little Dark joined forces to defeat Ji Han’s guards, leaving Beigong Xianfeng and Ning Jingjing stunned.

• Beigong Xianfeng showed Sikong Jing the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, where Wang Ge was ranked first and Long Night Empire’s Ji Ming ranked beyond five hundred.
• Little Dark cried out as more than a dozen black-robed experts attacked it at the Central Castle mount station.
• Ji Han demanded that Sikong Jing surrender Little Dark, admitting that he had wounded it for resisting him.
• Sikong Jing mounted Little Dark, merged their true qi and demonic power, and attacked Ji Han’s guards.
• Sikong Jing defeated the guards, while Beigong Xianfeng and Ning Jingjing watched in shock and Ning Jingjing identified the young prince as Ji Han.

Sikong Jing confronted Young Prince Ji Han over his attempt to take Little Dark, and Beigong Xianfeng arranged a ten-move duel to decide who would claim the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle. The chapter ended as Sikong Jing faced Ji Han on foot, ready to fight.

• Sikong Jing drove off Ji Han's black-robed experts and vowed to return the six wounds Ji Han had inflicted on Little Dark.
• Beigong Xianfeng intervened and rebuked Ji Han for trying to take a military mount, then slapped him for offering wealth and glory as compensation.
• Beigong Xianfeng proposed that Ji Han could take the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle if he defeated Sikong Jing within ten moves, but would have to take the eagle's six wounds if he failed.
• Beigong Xianfeng warned Sikong Jing that Ji Han ranked 980th on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking and urged him to withstand the ten moves.
• Sikong Jing dismounted and faced the contemptuous Ji Han as his true energy surged.