Recaps

Sikong Jing fought Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor and two mysterious powerhouses while racing toward the Burial Emperor Battlefield, where Su Yuexi and Vast Universe’s army were being crushed by the Mountain City Lord. As Yin Zhihun and the others moved to seize Su Yuexi, Mystic Jade Emperor appeared and began undergoing a divine tribulation.

• Sikong Jing used his Beast Heart Body to fight off the two mysterious powerhouses as he battled Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor and pushed toward the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• The Burial Emperor Rules tried to unsettle Sikong Jing by telling him Su Yuexi and Vast Universe’s army were in danger, but he continued onward.
• The Mountain City Lord ordered Yin Zhihun, Horse Armor, Li Mei, and Hell Array Heaven-Swallowing Tiger to capture Su Yuexi while his pressure overwhelmed the defending formations.
• Mountain and River Divine General and the other formation masters failed to stop the four attackers, who revealed they still followed the Mountain City Lord in hopes of a new world and the revival of the six surviving souls.
• As Yin Zhihun’s group closed in on Su Yuexi and her Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow, a divine tribulation appeared and Mystic Jade Emperor rose into the sky with Jiuxiao’s Tribulation-Breaking Power surging around him.

Mystic Jade Emperor triggered a divine tribulation to stop the Mountain City Lord’s forces from capturing Su Yuexi, and Sword Shatter Emperor, Wen Xuanwu, and other Vast Universe powerhouses followed suit. As the defenders tried to hold out until Sikong Jing’s true body returned, Su Yuexian and Sikong Ling broke through to the Great Emperor Realm and summoned two more tribulations.

• Mystic Jade Emperor unleashed his Tribulation-Breaking Power and triggered a divine tribulation, placing himself between Su Yuexi’s Army-Slaying Formation and Horse Armor’s group.
• The Mountain City Lord ordered Yin Zhihun and the other three powerhouses to push through the tribulation, but Sword Shatter Emperor triggered a second divine tribulation beside Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow urged the defenders to endure until his true body arrived, and Wen Xuanwu and Hall Master Black Tiger triggered the third and fourth divine tribulations.
• Golden Dragon Wuhai, the King of Night Charms, Xian Po, Bu Mian, Jade Tower, the Cold God Old Hag, Dragon Shield Heavenly Roc, Chen Lusheng, and other Vast Universe powerhouses rose into the sky and triggered divine tribulations.
• Su Yuexian and Sikong Ling advanced to the Great Emperor Realm, bringing down two more Great Emperor tribulations.

Su Yuexian, Sikong Ling, and many Vast Cosmos powerhouses detonated their Great Emperor Tribulations to shield Su Yuexi and weaken the Mountain City Lord. As Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor converged on Sikong Jing, they warned that he might break through and unleash divine tribulations.

• Su Yuexian, Sikong Ling, and numerous peak Nine-Tribulation Emperor Venerables broke through and detonated their Great Emperor Tribulations, surrounding Su Yuexi and Sikong Jing's Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow with tribulations.
• The massed tribulations drained the Mountain City Lord's power, easing the pressure on the Mountain and River Divine General and the other two supreme experts.
• Sikong Jing's Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow told Su Yuexi that her Power of Myriad Daos and strength as a Ten-Tribulation Emperor Venerable made her essential to defeating the Burial Emperor Rules, and she began studying the tribulations.
• The Burial Emperor Rules ordered the Mountain City Lord to join Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor and attack Sikong Jing, so Mountain City Lord withdrew from the Vast Cosmos army and charged with Yin Zhihun and the other four.
• Mountain and River Divine General and the other two supreme experts detonated three super Army-Slaying Formations to disrupt Mountain City Lord's advance, but Mountain City Lord, Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor, and six mysterious experts soon attacked Sikong Jing together.
• Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor warned Mountain City Lord that Sikong Jing might break through to the Emperor Realm and detonate divine tribulations amid their assault.

Sikong Jing used Punishment Tribulations caused by his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow interfering with others’ Great Emperor Tribulations to repel the eight powerhouses trying to kill him. As the shadow helped Sikong Ling and Su Yuexian pass their tribulations and moved toward a third, more Punishment Tribulations descended, until the Mountain and River Divine General arrived and told Sikong Jing to stop.

• The Mountain City Lord and seven other powerhouses attacked Sikong Jing, while the hexagonal remnant soul offered to sacrifice itself to protect him.
• Sikong Jing summoned his Beast Heart Body and used two Mad Beast Sword Strikes to hold off the attackers long enough for a Punishment Tribulation to descend.
• Sikong Jing seized the Punishment Tribulation’s power and fused it with his own attack, scattering the eight powerhouses’ assault across the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Ling explained that Sikong Jing’s Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow had helped her pass her Great Emperor Tribulation, causing a Punishment Tribulation to fall on his true body; she then began her Divine Tribulation.
• Sikong Jing’s spirit shadow helped Su Yuexian pass her Great Emperor Tribulation, bringing down another Punishment Tribulation that Sikong Jing commandeered to keep the attackers at bay.
• Su Yuexian announced that she was about to undergo her Divine Tribulation, and the Mountain and River Divine General arrived and told Sikong Jing to stop.

Sikong Jing returned to Vast Universe’s army with the three wounded Mountain and River Divine Generals and held off the Mountain City Lord and the Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperors through a vast Army-Slaying Formation. With Liu Duoye and the Spirit Root Divine Willow’s aid, he comprehended primordial Heavenly Dao rules and fully fused his powers, leaving him beyond peak Jiuxiao.

• The three Mountain and River Divine Generals helped Sikong Jing escape the Mountain City Lord and the eight Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperors, then collapsed from their injuries.
• Sikong Jing linked himself to Vast Universe’s army with his Army-Slaying Formation and rallied its members to withstand the enemy’s assault.
• Sikong Jing summoned Liu Duoye and the Spirit Root Divine Willow, then used Myriad Beast Essence Blood and Heavenly Dao power to awaken an illusory vision of primordial rules.
• Sikong Jing comprehended the rules as his bloodline and powers fused, causing his Mad Beast Power and Army-Slaying Formation to surge.
• The Six-Horned Magic Beast declared that Sikong Jing had reached peak Jiuxiao and surpassed it when he wielded Heavenly Dao power.

Sikong Jing challenged the Burial Emperor Rules after it dragged the Origin Universe army onto the Burial Emperor Battlefield. He used the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ essence blood and the true rules of the world to cleanse the Aurora Sacred Pearl and Spirit Root Divine Willow, and the two divine artifacts began to coexist in harmony.

• Sikong Jing challenged the Burial Emperor Rules, which summoned Origin Universe troops to support the Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor.
• Sikong Jing announced that he would make the Aurora Sacred Pearl and Spirit Root Divine Willow coexist, despite Sacred Might True Emperor and Absolute Pill Emperor dismissing the idea.
• The Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor formed an Army-Slaying Formation while Sikong Jing linked the two divine artifacts with his essence blood.
• The Burial Emperor Rules ordered the army to bombard the artifacts after realizing Sikong Jing’s plan, but the two divine artifacts’ crimson contamination shattered.
• The Aurora Sacred Pearl’s white light merged with the Spirit Root Divine Willow’s jade-green light, astonishing people from both great worlds.

Sikong Jing purified the Aurora Sacred Pearl and the Spirit Root Divine Willow, proving that the Burial Emperor Rules had manufactured their conflict and turned the two universes against each other. As the artifacts shielded everyone from the Burial Emperor Rules’ attack, Sikong Jing revealed the truth and called on the Origin Universe to unite against their common enemy.

• The Aurora Sacred Pearl joined the Spirit Root Divine Willow, and their combined life force restored and strengthened the Vast Universe forces and those undergoing tribulation.
• Sikong Jing explained that the Burial Emperor Rules had corrupted the artifacts and declared that it was the only enemy of both universes.
• The recovered Vast Universe army regrouped while Sikong Jing began revealing the origins and crimes of the Burial Emperor Rules.
• The Burial Emperor Rules attacked Sikong Jing and the Vast Universe army with a storm of Yin Spirit meteors, but the two divine artifacts rose and formed a barrier to protect them.
• Sikong Jing finished recounting the truth and urged the Origin Universe to stop supporting Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor and the Mountain City Lord and join the fight against the Burial Emperor Rules.

Sikong Jing rallied defectors from the Origin Universe and unleashed his Frenzied Beast Ultimate Sword against the Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor. To answer doubts about the Burial Emperor Rules controlling divine tribulations, he handed his army-slaying formation to the three Mountain and River Divine Generals and headed toward the experts undergoing tribulations.

• Ancient Soul Emperor led the Soul-Slaying Empire to join the Vast Cosmos Great World, and Snow Baleful Sacred Land and many Origin Universe people followed.
• Sikong Jing’s Army-Slaying Formation grew stronger as defectors joined, forcing the Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor’s formation back.
• Sikong Jing unleashed the Frenzied Beast Ultimate Sword, blasting countless Origin Universe fighters to death and grievously injuring their powerhouses.
• The Hell Array Heaven-Swallowing Tiger questioned Sikong Jing’s claim that the Burial Emperor Rules controlled tribulations, and Sikong Jing explained that the rules had altered the true Heavenly Dao’s tribulations.
• Sikong Jing transferred control of his army-slaying formation to the three Mountain and River Divine Generals and headed toward the experts undergoing Divine Tribulations.

Sikong Jing rushed to shatter the divine tribulations threatening Vast Universe’s experts before the divine-artifact canopy collapsed. He broke Xie Bumian’s tribulation and severed the Hell Array chains that tried to seize her, revealing that his strength had surpassed the other powerhouses.

• Prison-Suppressing Shan Wei and God-Devouring Demoness realized Sikong Jing had abandoned the chance to attack Mountain City Lord and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor because he needed to save those undergoing divine tribulations.
• Sikong Jing asked Xie Bumian to be the first test subject, and she agreed despite the danger.
• Sikong Jing entered Xie Bumian’s divine tribulation, endured its blasts, then destroyed it with his Berserk Beast Sword and devoured its power.
• When the Hell Array chains seized Xie Bumian, Sikong Jing cut them apart, allowing her to escape suppression as the eighteenth mysterious powerhouse to break free.
• Mountain City Lord, Yin Zhihun, and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor witnessed Sikong Jing’s feat, and Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor admitted Sikong Jing had surpassed them despite still being a Ten-Tribulation Emperor Venerable.

Sikong Jing saved the Vast Universe powerhouses from their divine tribulations as the Burial Emperor Rules prepared for a final battle. Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor and his fleeing army were pulled into the Burial Emperor Rules’ domain to serve as its troops.

• Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor refused Danyan’s suggestion to surrender and fled with the remaining Origin Universe army, while the Mountain City Lord and his companions also retreated.
• Sikong Jing shattered Yu Xianpo’s divine tribulation and freed him, then ordered the Vast Universe army to reinforce the canopy and support the divine artifacts.
• Sikong Jing continued breaking divine tribulations, and the rescued powerhouses joined the army-slaying formation against the Burial Emperor Rules.
• Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor assured his followers that the Burial Emperor Rules would focus on Sikong Jing, but the Burial Emperor Rules opened a rift and dragged them and their army away to fight for it.
• Sikong Jing noticed the ghost-spirit meteors had stopped and realized the Burial Emperor Rules was gathering Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor’s forces for their final battle.

Sikong Jing refused to enter the rift and fight the Burial Emperor Rules before reaching the Great Emperor Realm, then used the true Heavenly Dao to calm the world’s chaotic phenomena. The Burial Emperor Rules’ suction continued, but heaven and earth began helping Sikong Jing resist as he forced it to descend.

• Sikong Jing shattered the remaining divine tribulations, and the divine artifacts returned to protect the living beings.
• The Burial Emperor Rules opened a vast rift and demanded that Sikong Jing challenge it, but Sikong Jing refused because he had not yet reached the Great Emperor Realm.
• Sikong Jing accused the Burial Emperor Rules of still corrupting the true Heavenly Dao and demanded that it descend to fight him.
• The Burial Emperor Rules unleashed a suction force to drag Sikong Jing and the Vast Universe army into the rift, but Sikong Jing and the divine artifacts resisted it.
• Sikong Jing used the true Heavenly Dao’s power to erase chaotic phenomena, and the Mystic Jade Emperor, Chen Lusheng, the Sword Shatter Emperor, and Tian Qi recognized that the world was returning to its original state.
• As Sikong Jing continued calming the phenomena, heaven and earth began helping him withstand the rift’s suction.

Sikong Jing refused the Burial Emperor Rules’ attempts to lure him into a decisive battle, forcing it to descend before he could grow stronger. The Burial Emperor Rules revealed its war beast true form and restored the powerful enemies it had taken.

• Sikong Jing rejected the Burial Emperor Rules’ threat to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s soul fragment and continued erasing the altered rules.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor explained that the Burial Emperor Rules had underestimated Sikong Jing because it regarded living beings as ants.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Vast Universe and half the Origin Universe armies to prepare as the Burial Emperor Rules decided to descend.
• The Burial Emperor Rules revealed its enormous war beast form, which Sikong Jing recognized as the source of the eyes he had seen in the starry sky.
• Sikong Jing deduced that the Burial Emperor Rules had created the War Beast Clan to balance the Vast Universe and Primordial Cosmos and that descending would restrict its power.
• The Burial Emperor Rules spent the energy of ten Burial Emperor Eras to reshape the battlefield, bringing the Radiant Extinction Sacred Emperor, the Mountain City Lord, Yin Zhihun, and others back down.

Sikong Jing and the Burial Emperor Rules began their decisive battle as their formations shook both Great Worlds and unleashed catastrophic disturbances. After the Burial Emperor Rules shattered the Nine Heavens Emperor’s remnant soul, the Six-Horned Magic Beast joined its fragments with its own restored soul, and a reincarnation vortex swallowed them both.

• The Burial Emperor Rules manifested its controlled army and formed the Starry Sky Army-Slaying Formation against Sikong Jing’s Earth Army-Slaying Formation.
• Jun Yiji, Emperor Yu'e, Spirit Parrot, and Spirit Gull decided to gather and protect the Vast Cosmos’s living beings while the Primordial Cosmos’s remaining experts struggled without leadership.
• The Burial Emperor Rules suppressed the True Heavenly Dao Rules and threatened to destroy the Nine Heavens Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The Burial Emperor Rules blasted the Nine Heavens Emperor’s remnant soul into fragments, prompting the Six-Horned Magic Beast to roar and join its restored soul with the fragments.
• Countless living beings lent their strength to Sikong Jing’s Army-Slaying Formation as a reincarnation vortex swallowed the intertwined souls.

Sikong Jing broke through to the Great Emperor Realm while the Hell Array Ancient Ancestor reclaimed the Reincarnation Tower to protect his allies from the Burial Emperor Rules. After swiftly overcoming his Great Emperor Tribulation, Sikong Jing faced a divine tribulation more than a hundred times stronger than Mystic Jade Emperor’s.

• The Hell Array Ancient Ancestor reclaimed control of the Reincarnation Tower and sent it to shield Sikong Jing’s army.
• Sikong Jing broke through to the Great Emperor Realm and began his Great Emperor Tribulation as the Burial Emperor Rules attacked.
• The Mountain and River Divine General, Su Yuexi, and the others reinforced the Reincarnation Tower while it was battered down to two layers.
• Sikong Jing swiftly shattered his Great Emperor Tribulation, reached the peak of the Nine-Step Great Emperor, and blocked the incoming yin-spirit meteors.
• The Burial Emperor Rules summoned a divine tribulation more than a hundred times stronger than Mystic Jade Emperor’s, leaving Sikong Jing to face its attack.

Sikong Jing faced a hundredfold Emperor-level divine tribulation, while the Burial Emperor Rules’ attacks pushed the defenders toward defeat. He devoured the tribulation and used a conscious Magic Beast Complete Form to form a demonic Army-Slaying Formation, but the Burial Emperor Rules warned that the power could drive him and everyone else mad.

• The Burial Emperor Rules revealed that it had strengthened Sikong Jing’s divine tribulation to the highest standard of the Emperor Realm.
• The Mountain and River Divine General and the other defenders vowed to hold out, but the Burial Emperor Rules’ meteor soldiers shattered the seventeenth layer of the Reincarnation Tower Hell Array.
• Unable to find a way to draw on the Heavenly Dao, Sikong Jing decided to devour the tribulation and enter an Emperor-level Magic Beast Complete Form.
• Sikong Jing devoured the divine tribulation, spread his demonic intent through the formation patterns, and used his Demonic Path Army-Slaying Formation to block the Burial Emperor Rules’ attack.
• The Burial Emperor Rules called Sikong Jing’s conscious Magic Beast Complete Form a loophole and warned that devouring the tribulation would make him and the others lose their minds.

Sikong Jing devoured the hundredfold divine tribulation and transformed into a colossal Blood Devour Magic Beast, apparently losing consciousness. He nevertheless drew the demonic energy away from the living and kept attacking the Burial Emperor Rules, leaving Su Yuexi to explain that his obsession with killing it remained.

• Sikong Jing consumed the divine tribulation, shattered the Qing Ling Sword, and broke his Army-Slaying Formation patterns as his demonic transformation grew uncontrollable.
• The Burial Emperor Rules claimed Sikong Jing had lost consciousness and would devour the living before dying, then prepared to leave with the Mountain City Lord and the people of the Origin Universe.
• Sikong Jing suddenly attacked the Burial Emperor Rules with six giant swords, enduring its Starry Sky Army-Slaying Formation power and drawing the spreading demonic energy away from the living.
• The Mountain and River Divine General and others formed an army-slaying formation to support Sikong Jing, allowing him to trade attacks with the Burial Emperor Rules.
• Su Yuexi told the Burial Emperor Rules that Sikong Jing had indeed lost himself, but his obsession with killing it remained.

Sikong Jing regained his consciousness and overcame his demon, leaving the Burial Emperor Rules unable to kill him through their current battle or retreat. Faced with defeat, the Burial Emperor Rules risked the energy of thirty-seven Burial Emperor Eras to use the Great Dao of Time and send Sikong Jing back into the past.

• Su Yuexi explained that Sikong Jing’s obsession had preserved his will and helped him inherit the Mountain City Lord’s legacy.
• The Burial Emperor Rules considered retreating, but Sikong Jing regained consciousness and warned that he would refuse to pursue it into the starry sky.
• Sikong Jing returned to human form, reconnected his Army-Slaying Formation with the living beings on earth, and declared that he had passed the Burial Emperor Rules’ strongest divine tribulation.
• The Burial Emperor Rules admitted that neither continuing the fight nor retreating could secure victory, and announced it would spend the energy of thirty-seven Burial Emperor Eras to kill Sikong Jing.
• The Burial Emperor Rules revealed that it would use the Great Dao of Time to send Sikong Jing back to the past and kill him there.

The Burial Emperor Rules sent Sikong Jing into the past through the Great Dao of Time, leaving him in his powerless nineteen-year-old body at the Su Clan gates. As the true Heavenly Dao Rules began returning, Su Yuexian noticed that Su Yuexi had disappeared.

• The Burial Emperor Rules used the Great Dao of Time to pull Sikong Jing into the golden vortex and declared that he would die in the past.
• Sikong Jing awoke in his nineteen-year-old body at the Su Mansion in Yunye City, remembering his life but lacking his former power.
• Su Xuefeng demanded that the absent Su Yuexi come out after the escort leader announced Sikong Jing’s marriage to the Su Clan.
• Sikong Jing noticed that events differed from his memories and stayed alert for whoever might try to kill him.
• The true Heavenly Dao Rules began returning at the Burial Emperor Battlefield, and Su Yuexian realized Su Yuexi was gone.

Su Yuexi entered the Great Dao of Time after Sikong Jing and found him in the past, where she used her restored cultivation to protect him from the Su Clan. After killing the clan members who attacked them, she faced her past mother just as an escort arrived with an order to execute Sikong Jing.

• The God-Devouring Demoness concealed Su Yuexi's disappearance by disguising Su Yuexian as her.
• Su Yuexi appeared in the past outside Su Mansion, and Sikong Jing recognized that she had entered the Great Dao of Time.
• Su Yuexi struck Su Yun and Su Yang, then helped Sikong Jing up and said she would protect him.
• Su Yuexi revealed her ninth-level Dark Realm cultivation and killed Su Zhengtao and the Su Clan members who attacked her.
• Mei Xiaofang came outside and froze at the sight of Su Yuexi killing the Su Clan.
• The marriage escort returned with an order revoking Sikong Jing's bestowed marriage and demanding his death.

Su Yuexi followed Sikong Jing into the illusory past using her grasp of the temporal Great Dao, and the pair set out to kill Yan Tianmo and Yan Ruyu so they could return to reality. After discovering Su Yuexi had disrupted its timeline, the Burial Emperor Rules ordered every living being in the world slaughtered.

• Su Yuexi killed the escort convoy, helped Sikong Jing restore his dantian with the Ten Thousand Beasts Blood Bead, and joined him on a flying demon beast bound for the Great Shang Imperial Capital.
• Su Yuexi explained that her Myriad Dao Flower Blood Drop physique had let her grasp a trace of the temporal Great Dao and follow Sikong Jing into the past.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi shared Su Yuexi's Myriad Dao insights while traveling, then encountered Yan Tianmo and Yan Ruyu with a large army.
• Yan Ruyu said a voice had told her Sikong Jing must die, and Sikong Jing prepared to fight her and Yan Tianmo.
• The Burial Emperor Rules discovered that Su Yuexian had been disguised as Su Yuexi and realized the real Su Yuexi had disrupted its timeline.
• The Burial Emperor Rules ordered the slaughter of all living beings, while Yin Zhihun and the others understood that Sikong Jing might survive and return.

With the armies facing defeat, the remnant souls of Hell Array Ancient Ancestor, Nine Heavens Emperor, and the Six-Horned Magic Beast took control of the Mountain City Lord and prepared a counterattack against the Burial Emperor Rules. Nine Heavens Emperor summoned the hidden heroic spirits of the two worlds to wield the strike that had wounded the Burial Emperor Rules before.

• The Burial Emperor Rules' Starry Sky Army-Slaying Formation shattered the Hell Array Reincarnation Tower, the Spirit Root Divine Willow, and the Aurora Sacred Pearl, leaving the defenders exposed.
• Three remnant souls emerged from a vortex and entered the Mountain City Lord, breaking her connection to the Burial Emperor Rules' formation.
• Hell Array Ancient Ancestor explained that he, the Six-Horned Magic Beast, and Nine Heavens Emperor had used the true Heavenly Dao to restore Nine Heavens Emperor's remnant soul.
• Nine Heavens Emperor took control of the Mountain City Lord and linked her to the living beings across the land.
• Nine Heavens Emperor summoned the worlds' hidden yin spirits, revealing that she would use their heroic wills to strike the Burial Emperor Rules.

The Nine Heavens Emperor, Hell Array Ancient Ancestor, and Six-Horned Magic Beast combined their remnant souls to wound the Burial Emperor Rules before fading away. The Mountain City Lord regained control of himself and vowed to hold the battlefield until Sikong Jing returned, while Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi remained trapped in the past with no clear way back.

• The Nine Heavens Emperor, Hell Array Ancient Ancestor, and Six-Horned Magic Beast empowered the Mountain City Lord’s attack with heroic spirits and shattered the Burial Emperor Rules’ assault, wounding it again.
• The heroic spirits burned out, and the three remnant souls departed after asking the Mountain City Lord to hold on until Sikong Jing returned.
• The Mystic Jade Emperor and the battlefield forces mourned the vanished remnant souls as the Mountain City Lord regained his consciousness and rallied everyone to fight.
• The Mountain City Lord and the Army-Slaying Formation held off the weakened Burial Emperor Rules while the Aurora Sacred Pearl and Spirit Root Divine Willow fragments sustained the defenders.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi remained stranded in the Time Dao after defeating past enemies, and Sikong Jing suspected they might have to kill every enemy they had ever faced to return.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi faced the Five Heavenly Emperors in the false past world, but the Nine Heavens Emperor arrived and killed them. She explained that she and the Six-Horned Magic Beast had little energy left, then revealed she had grasped some power over the River of Time that might help them return sooner.

• Sikong Jing sensed that someone important had died and feared the Burial Emperor Rules would send the Five Heavenly Emperors to kill him and Su Yuexi.
• The Five Heavenly Emperors descended and identified Sikong Jing as the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, while he began devouring energy to prepare for battle.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor appeared with the Six-Horned Magic Beast and summoned her divine-intent projection from the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor's projection killed the Five Heavenly Emperors with one sword, then warned Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi to return quickly because the Burial Emperor Battlefield was in danger.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor said she had studied the River of Time while imprisoned and had unknowingly grasped some of its power as she longed to return to before the Six-Horned Magic Beast's demonic corruption.

The Nine Heavens Emperor and the Six-Horned Magic Beast sent Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi into their memories so they could seek insight into the Great Dao of time. As they witnessed the Nine Heavens Emperor challenge the Burial Emperor Rules, Sikong Jing discovered the theft formation and began to perceive the rules he believed could let him pierce through time and space.

• The Nine Heavens Emperor and the Six-Horned Magic Beast enveloped Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi in their memories before their remnant souls faded away.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi witnessed the Nine Heavens Emperor rescue an injured demon beast, lose her village, and survive alongside it as it grew six horns.
• Little Six-Horn transformed into a Blood Devour Magic Beast to save the Nine Heavens Emperor, then devoured their war-torn world, prompting her to take up demon slaying for its sake.
• Su Yuexi entered a state of enlightenment while Sikong Jing reasoned that he wanted to break through the real time and space of his world rather than reach a parallel past.
• Sikong Jing saw the Nine Heavens Emperor confront the Burial Emperor Rules and recognized the starry formation that bound two great worlds and altered their Heavenly Dao rules.
• Sikong Jing studied the theft formation, the Heavenly Dao, and the starry sky until he perceived a point that could tear apart every veil.

Su Yuexi used the time Dao to bring herself and Sikong Jing back to the battlefield, where a true heavenly tribulation descended for her Ten-Tribulation Emperor Venerable breakthrough. After the Nine Heavens Emperor and the Six-Horned Magic Beast bid farewell and faded away, Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi to focus on her tribulation while he faced the Burial Emperor Rules.

• Su Yuexi sensed a thread of time and drew Sikong Jing with her into a golden clock to return to the battlefield.
• The Burial Emperor Rules taunted the exhausted defenders, believing Sikong Jing would need seven or eight days to return.
• A massive true heavenly tribulation appeared, and the Burial Emperor Rules identified it as the highest-grade tribulation for a Ten-Tribulation Emperor Venerable.
• Su Yuexi and Sikong Jing emerged from the golden vortex, and Sikong Jing sent his Beast Heart Body to take over the Mountain City Lord's Army-Slaying Formation.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor and the Six-Horned Magic Beast said farewell to Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi before their residual souls dissipated.
• Su Yuexi realized the heavenly tribulation was hers, and Sikong Jing told her to overcome it while he handled the coming fight.