Recaps

Sikong Jing learned that the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce had ranked him 98th on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking, while students from the three academies gathered at War Soul Star Luo Palace for an exchange meet. After Gongyang Ying left him to work in the stables, Deputy Head Dou tried to make Sikong Jing’s horse give way to Star Luo Grand Academy students, and Sikong Jing threatened to kill him.

• Qiu Baichu revealed Sikong Jing’s rank of 98th, alarming Sikong Jing because the ranking could spread his identity and endanger him.
• Students from War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace, War Soul Star Luo Palace, and War Soul Heavenly Dao Palace argued over their academies’ standing until Gongyang Ying calmed them.
• Gongyang Ying and the academy students entered War Soul Star Luo Palace, while Aunt Mian ordered Sikong Jing to settle and feed the One-Horned Thousand-Stride Horse.
• At the stables, Deputy Head Dou slapped an apprentice for hesitating to remove Sikong Jing’s horse for the arriving Star Luo Grand Academy students.
• Sikong Jing turned on Deputy Head Dou and threatened to kill him if he touched the One-Horned Thousand-Stride Horse.

Sikong Jing defended Gongyang Ying’s horses from Deputy Head Dou and Gong Beiqiang’s Star Luo Grand Academy party. After Gong Beiqiang insulted Gongyang Ying and ordered his junior to kill Sikong Jing, Sikong Jing killed the attacker and warned that anyone who insulted his young miss would die.

• Deputy Head Dou learned that Sikong Jing guarded Gongyang Ying, but Gong Beiqiang ordered him to kill Sikong Jing and boasted that he would make Gongyang Ying his concubine.
• Deputy Head Dou attacked Sikong Jing, who knocked him down twice and learned that he had gained his post through his son, Dou Youchuan.
• Gong Beiqiang dismissed Deputy Head Dou’s defeat and demanded that Sikong Jing either kill himself or face death.
• After Gong Beiqiang repeated his insults toward Gongyang Ying, he ordered Junior Brother Luo to attack Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing killed Junior Brother Luo with a punch and declared that those who insulted Gongyang Ying would die.

Sikong Jing killed five Star Luo Grand Academy students and defeated Gong Beiqiang in mounted combat after they attacked him. As he prepared to kill Gong Beiqiang, two experts from the Imperial Preceptor's Manor intervened and ordered him to spare the man.

• Gong Beiqiang ordered his Star Luo Grand Academy students to kill Sikong Jing after Sikong Jing killed their junior brother.
• Sikong Jing mounted a One-Horned Thousand-Stride Horse and killed the four charging Star Luo Grand Academy students with his staff.
• Gong Beiqiang charged Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing overwhelmed him in repeated mounted clashes and knocked him from his horse.
• Sikong Jing pinned Gong Beiqiang to the ground and prepared to drive his staff through his heart.
• Two Imperial Preceptor's Manor experts rushed out, threw Sikong Jing a Manor token, and ordered him to spare Gong Beiqiang.

Sikong Jing killed Gong Beiqiang after the latter threatened Gongyang Ying, then vanished while the State Preceptor's shadow guards covered up the deaths and fled with the survivors. War Soul Star Luo Palace's experts found the stable emptied and gave chase after the stolen Starlight Warhorses.

• The State Preceptor's shadow guards ordered Sikong Jing to stop, but Gong Beiqiang continued insulting and threatening Gongyang Ying.
• Sikong Jing turned back and killed Gong Beiqiang with a staff strike, then disappeared from his horse.
• The shadow guards knocked Vice Academy Master Dou and several apprentices unconscious, gathered the six corpses, and erased the evidence.
• The shadow guards disguised themselves, took the Starlight Warhorses, and fled with Vice Academy Master Dou and the others.
• War Soul Star Luo Palace's experts arrived to find the stable empty and followed the stolen horses in pursuit.

Lian Zhuiyu humiliated and attacked Gongyang Ying at the exchange gathering, blaming her for Lu Ding's death and daring her to retaliate. A mysterious black-clad figure struck Lian Zhuiyu down, and Gongyang Ying recognized him as Soul Devourer.

• Gongyang Ying and the branch academy students entered Star Luo Hall and found Lian Zhuiyu waiting with Sacred Dragon Central Academy.
• Lian Zhuiyu slapped Gongyang Ying and claimed she hated being overshadowed by her reputation as the Moon Soul Fairy.
• Lian Zhuiyu blamed Gongyang Ying for Lu Ding's death, then struck a Moon Soul Group guard when Gongyang Ying seized her wrist.
• Lian Zhuiyu refused Gongyang Ying's challenge and mocked her for not daring to strike back.
• A black-clad figure appeared, slapped Lian Zhuiyu across the hall, and was recognized by Gongyang Ying as Soul Devourer.

Sikong Jing, posing as Gongyang Ying’s personal guard, brutally retaliated after Lian Zhuiyu struck her and nearly killed Lian Zhuiyu when she threatened them. Gongyang Ying stopped him and then stood her ground against Lian Zhuiyu, accepting that the conflict with Sacred Dragon Central Academy had already escalated.

• Sikong Jing tore away Gongyang Ying’s veil, saw the handprint on her face, and attacked Lian Zhuiyu and the Sacred Dragon Central Academy students.
• Sikong Jing struck Lian Zhuiyu a hundred times and declared that he was Gongyang Ying’s personal guard, Soul Devourer.
• Lian Zhuiyu threatened Gongyang Ying and her grandfather, and Sikong Jing seized her by the throat and prepared to kill her.
• Gongyang Ying ordered Sikong Jing to stop, and he tossed Lian Zhuiyu to the floor without killing her.
• Gongyang Ying confronted Lian Zhuiyu, said she had every right to retaliate, and accused her of refusing to accept a challenge.

Gongyang Ying’s confrontation with Lian Zhuiyu ended the exchange gathering, but news of six Star Luo Grand Academy students being killed created a far greater crisis. As Gongyang Ying left with Sikong Jing, she reprimanded him for making enemies without considering the powerful people behind them.

• Gongyang Ying challenged Lian Zhuiyu to send young fighters against her and warned that Sikong Jing might kill anyone who insulted her again.
• Qiu Baichu shielded Lian Zhuiyu, who withdrew the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace students from the gathering, while Dou Youchuan offered Gongyang Ying Star Luo Academy’s support.
• A messenger reported that Deputy Head Dou had been captured and that six Star Luo Grand Academy students, including Gong Beiqiang, had likely been killed.
• Dou Youchuan ended the gathering and rushed away, while Gongyang Ying led Sikong Jing, Aunt Mian, and the others out of War Soul Star Luo Palace.
• Gongyang Ying scolded Sikong Jing for provoking Sacred Dragon Central Academy and warned that strength alone could not overcome the powerful backing of its students.

Sikong Jing confessed to killing Gong Beiqiang and the Star Luo Grand Academy students, then used the resulting chaos to escape Gongyang Ying and her grandfather’s surveillance. Gongyang Ren explained that Sikong Jing had engineered the situation to break free, while Sikong Jing headed toward War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace to reveal his true identity and target Lian Zhuiyu.

• Sikong Jing told Gongyang Ying, Aunt Mian, and the Moon Soul Group elders that he had killed Gong Beiqiang and every student from Star Luo Grand Academy.
• Sikong Jing claimed two hidden guards had covered up the deaths, and Gongyang Ying hurried back to the Imperial Preceptor's Residence while ordering him off her horse.
• After Gongyang Ying’s party left, Sikong Jing decided to reveal the name Sikong Jing and raise his ranking by killing Lian Zhuiyu in his true identity.
• Gongyang Ren assured Gongyang Ying that War Soul Star Luo Palace would not discover who killed Gong Beiqiang, then asked where Sikong Jing was.
• Gongyang Ren explained that Sikong Jing had killed Gong Beiqiang and beaten Lian Zhuiyu to escape surveillance, leaving Gongyang Ying distraught as Sikong Jing remained at large.

Gongyang Ren concluded that Soul Devourer had another objective and went to warn the War Soul Emperor, while Gongyang Ying regretted being outmaneuvered by him. Sikong Jing arrived at the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace and secretly took control of its gate instructor, leaving the instructor dependent on him to avoid having his meridians detonated.

• Gongyang Ren told Gongyang Ying that the Millennial White Ginseng was not Soul Devourer's only objective and hurried to inform the War Soul Emperor.
• Gongyang Ying admitted to Aunt Mian that Soul Devourer had manipulated her and said she could not kill him while he held the secret of her Moon Soul Battle Body.
• Sikong Jing, disguised in black clothes, arrived at the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace and introduced himself to the wary instructor at its gates.
• Sikong Jing appeared beside the instructor and implanted a new cluster of meridians in his body.
• Sikong Jing told the instructor that the meridians could help him break through or detonate, and that he needed Sikong Jing's circulation method to use them safely.

Sikong Jing entered the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace with Mentor Zhang to find Lian Zhuiyu, who was staying in Sacred Dragon Town. When a Sacred Dragon Central Academy student attacked local disciples for criticizing her, Sikong Jing killed him with one blade strike.

• Sikong Jing made Mentor Zhang take him to Lian Zhuiyu without alerting the Palace Master or anyone else.
• Mentor Zhang led Sikong Jing through the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace and explained that it stood on an ancient demon dragon battlefield.
• Mentor Zhang told Sikong Jing that Lian Zhuiyu and the Sacred Dragon Central Academy students were at the clinic in Sacred Dragon Town.
• War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace students complained that Lian Zhuiyu was punishing them for an injury caused by Gongyang Ying and her guards.
• A Sacred Dragon Central Academy student threatened to cripple the local disciples for speaking ill of Lian Zhuiyu, and Sikong Jing cut him in half.

Sikong Jing killed a Sacred Dragon Central Academy student and set out to confront Lian Zhuiyu, while Instructor Zhang tried to persuade him to spare her. At the medical hall, they found Qiu Baichu and other War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace students beaten after the Central Academy students demanded Gongyang Ying's death.

• Sikong Jing killed a Sacred Dragon Central Academy student and told Instructor Zhang he wanted to challenge and kill Lian Zhuiyu.
• A War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace student agreed to lead Sikong Jing to Lian Zhuiyu, and the others learned Sikong Jing's identity and followed them.
• Instructor Zhang led Sikong Jing and the students through the deserted Sacred Dragon Town toward the medical hall, asking him to spare Lian Zhuiyu if possible.
• Sikong Jing and the others saw Qiu Baichu and several War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace students thrown from the medical hall, badly injured.
• A Sacred Dragon Central Academy student struck a War Soul student for saying they would negotiate with Lian Zhuiyu over Gongyang Ying, declaring that Lian wanted her dead.

Qiu Baichu stood against Sacred Dragon Central Academy students to protect Junior Sister Luan, invoking Sikong Jing as he prepared to fight to the death. Lian Zhuiyu emerged and declared that Qiu Baichu had to die for mentioning Sikong Jing, leaving Palace Lord Qiu Qifeng panicked in the clouds.

• Junior Sister Luan accused the Central Academy students of bullying the weak, and Qiu Baichu knelt to beg them to spare her.
• After a Central Academy student kicked Qiu Baichu aside and threatened Junior Sister Luan, Qiu Baichu unleashed his Fifth Xuantian Realm strength and vowed to follow Sikong Jing's example.
• Sikong Jing told Instructor Zhang that he would bear the consequences alone, and Instructor Zhang led the ordinary students away.
• Junior Sister Luan, the burly man, and two other War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace students rallied behind Qiu Baichu as he faced the Dao Martial Realm opponent.
• Qiu Qifeng and the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace elders watched from above, delaying their rescue while Lian Zhuiyu's anger was vented.
• Lian Zhuiyu came out of the medical hall and declared that Qiu Baichu would die for mentioning Sikong Jing, threatening Qiu Qifeng and his Palace as well.

Sikong Jing arrived as Lian Zhuiyu threatened Qiu Baichu and killed a Sacred Dragon Central Academy student with one slash. After revealing his identity, he faced Lian Zhuiyu and the other students, who dismissed him because of his ranking; the chapter ended as he challenged whether he was truly only ranked ninety-eighth.

• Qiu Baichu taunted Lian Zhuiyu for fearing Sikong Jing, and she claimed she could kill him with one sword.
• Sikong Jing arrived beside Qiu Baichu and killed a charging Central Academy student with one slash.
• Sikong Jing introduced himself, shocking Qiu Baichu, Qiu Qifeng, and the onlookers.
• Lian Zhuiyu vowed to kill Sikong Jing to avenge Lu Ding, while three Central Academy students mocked his ranking.
• Sikong Jing questioned whether he was really only ninety-eighth on the Eastern Plains Thousand Tyrants Ranking and strode toward Lian Zhuiyu with his saber.

Sikong Jing fought Lian Zhuiyu and her three students, defeating the students after they joined forces against him. Lian Zhuiyu mounted her fifth-level Extraordinary Realm Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon, leaving Sikong Jing facing a powerful opponent.

• Sikong Jing held back his strength as he fought Lian Zhuiyu, but Qiu Qifeng saw that he was close to winning.
• Lian Zhuiyu ordered three Central Academy students to attack Sikong Jing together.
• Sikong Jing mounted a small demonic dragon and killed all three students with swift saber strikes.
• Lian Zhuiyu summoned and mounted her Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon, then threatened Sikong Jing as the onlookers feared he could not win.

Sikong Jing overwhelmed Lian Zhuiyu in mounted combat while Qiu Qifeng chose to leave the palace rather than rescue her. With no one left to protect her, Sikong Jing killed Lian Zhuiyu, setting up a confrontation with her powerful father.

• Sikong Jing summoned the Ice Soul Cold Eagle and used mounted combat to suppress Lian Zhuiyu and her Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon.
• Qiu Qifeng decided to leave the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace with its higher-ups and provoke the War Soul Star Luo Palace, ensuring they could not be blamed for failing to save Lian Zhuiyu.
• Sikong Jing’s attacks grievously wounded the Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon, which crashed to the ground and died with Lian Zhuiyu aboard.
• Lian Zhuiyu called for Qiu Qifeng to save her and threatened Sikong Jing with her Soul-Reversal Realm father, but no one answered.
• Sikong Jing told Lian Zhuiyu that Qiu Qifeng had gone to the War Soul Star Luo Palace, then drove his spear through her chest and killed her.

After killing Lian Zhuiyu, Sikong Jing discovered the Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon had been created through demonic methods and took Qiu Baichu to the Dragon Soul Battlefield. He urged Qiu Baichu to blame him and issue a kill order to protect the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace, while promising a possible way to resist the Central Academy.

• Sikong Jing killed Lian Zhuiyu, and the people of Sacred Dragon Town celebrated his victory while fearing the Central Academy's retaliation.
• Sikong Jing examined the Bloodforged Pursuit Dragon's core, learned it had been altered with forcibly fused fierce beast blood, and crushed the core.
• Sikong Jing seized Qiu Baichu and took him away, while Instructor Zhang instructed students not to reveal that he had brought Sikong Jing in.
• Sikong Jing told Qiu Baichu to have the Palace Master blame him and issue a kill order when he left, so the Central Academy would focus its anger on him.
• Qiu Baichu warned that only his grandfather could open the dangerous formation around the Dragon Soul Battlefield, but Sikong Jing still asked him to take him there.

Sikong Jing entered the Dragon Soul Battlefield without triggering its formation, using the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ power to cow the dead dragons’ lingering will. Inside, he considered turning their dragon soul power into a battle soul field for the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace, while those outside waited for the Palace Master’s return.

• Sikong Jing probed the Dragon Soul Battlefield with his consciousness, and its dragon soul power recoiled in fear of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• Sikong Jing gave Instructor Zhang a Green Jade Tube to help him cultivate and break through a minor realm, then entered the battlefield.
• Qiu Baichu and Instructor Zhang retreated when they expected the formation to attack, but saw Sikong Jing walk inside unharmed.
• Qiu Baichu and Instructor Zhang learned more about Sikong Jing’s abilities as instructors and students arrived and waited for the Palace Master.
• Sikong Jing walked among the demon dragon bones and considered using the lingering dragon soul power to create a battle soul field for the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace.

Sikong Jing cultivated the Golden Divine Dragon’s second meridian while the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace and War Soul Star Luo Palace fought over Gong Beiqiang’s death. The fighting stopped when news arrived that Sikong Jing had killed Lian Zhuiyu and five others inside the Sacred Dragon Palace, leaving the Gongyang family to learn that he was in the War Soul Imperial Capital.

• The Golden Divine Dragon told Sikong Jing to study the demonic dragon souls’ battles before attempting to comprehend its second meridian, and Sikong Jing began cultivating.
• Qiu Qifeng taunted the War Soul Star Luo Palace, provoking its leaders into a battle with the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace.
• Gongyang Ren told Gongyang Ying that the conflict between the academies benefited their residence, while Aunt Mian hoped Lian Zhuiyu would die.
• The War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace leaders abruptly withdrew after learning Lian Zhuiyu had been killed, and the Star Luo Palace announced her death to the city.
• Aunt Mian investigated and reported that Sikong Jing had killed Lian Zhuiyu and five others, easing Gongyang Ying’s fears about the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence.

After Sikong Jing entered the Dragon Soul Battlefield, the State Preceptor’s Residence blamed him for Gong Beiqiang’s murder, while Qiu Qifeng and Qiu Baichu prepared to protect him. Mo Ci arrived in the War Soul Imperial Capital and waited in hiding for Sikong Jing to emerge.

• Gongyang Ren issued a wanted notice for Sikong Jing and secretly spread the claim that he had killed Gong Beiqiang.
• Qiu Qifeng pretended to rage over Lian Zhuiyu’s death and secretly planned to let Sikong Jing leave the Dragon Soul Battlefield unnoticed.
• Qiu Baichu objected to killing Sikong Jing, and Qiu Qifeng supported his choice despite warning him that danger lay ahead.
• War Soul Star Luo Palace joined the pressure outside War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace, but Qiu Qifeng refused to let them enter the Dragon Soul Battlefield.
• Mo Ci came to the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace, suspected Sikong Jing was luring her into a trap, and hid nearby to wait for him.

Sikong Jing reached the peak of the fifth Dao Martial Realm, completed a new sword technique, and transformed the Dragon Soul Battlefield and its formation. He showed Qiu Qifeng the changed battlefield, leaving the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace poised for major cultivation breakthroughs.

• Sikong Jing completed his second Golden Divine Dragon meridian, rose to the ninth level of the Dao Pinnacle Realm, and finished an upper cosmic grade Six-Elephant Divine Dragon Sword technique.
• Sikong Jing reorganized the Dragon Soul Battlefield with the Soul Battle Secret Method and altered its natural formation, then sent Qiu Baichu a Green Jade Tube containing instructions.
• Qiu Qifeng learned Sikong Jing's method for entering the battlefield and announced that he had cracked the formation.
• Qiu Qifeng entered the transformed battlefield, where the orderly dragon soul powers made him feel he could break through.
• Sikong Jing explained to Qiu Qifeng that he had only sorted out the battlefield's previously chaotic dragon soul power.

Sikong Jing arranged for Qiu Qifeng to resist the Sacred Dragon Central Academy by secretly using the Dragon Soul Battlefield, then left the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace while Mo Ci searched for him. He traveled with Instructor Zhang toward the War Soul Imperial Capital and prepared to contact Gongyang Ren at the Imperial Preceptor's Manor.

• Sikong Jing advised Qiu Qifeng to keep pretending to hate him, protect Qiu Baichu and the others in the Dragon Soul Battlefield, and seek refuge with the Long Night Holy Dragon Palace if the Sacred Dragon Central Academy attacked.
• Qiu Qifeng staged a search for Sikong Jing, then brought his trusted people into the Dragon Soul Battlefield, where they witnessed its power and began making breakthroughs.
• Mo Ci searched the area around the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace but failed to find Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing disguised himself as a bearded young man and traveled with Instructor Zhang through the pursuit squads toward the War Soul Imperial Capital.
• Sikong Jing told Instructor Zhang to take the War Soul Sacred Dragon Palace's people to the Imperial Preceptor's Manor and tell Gongyang Ren that he might visit soon.

Sikong Jing had Instructor Zhang direct the pursuit force to the State Preceptor's Residence, where Gongyang Ren turned the visit into a public challenge meant to lure Sikong Jing out. Sikong Jing welcomed the banquet notice because he expected Mo Ci to attend, and the chapter left him preparing to act when the gathering took place in three days.

• Sikong Jing told Instructor Zhang to invent a reason for visiting Gongyang Ying, then slipped away from the pursuit force in the streets.
• Instructor Zhang told Gongyang Ren and Gongyang Ying that Sikong Jing intended to challenge and forcibly marry her, enraging them.
• Gongyang Ren announced a banquet for young talents in three days and promised Sikong Jing safe passage from the Imperial Capital if he defeated Gongyang Ying.
• Gongyang Ren and Gongyang Ying expected Sikong Jing either to die at the banquet or lose his reputation by staying away, while the War Soul Star Luo Palace approved of the trap.
• At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Lang Yisuo gave Sikong Jing the banquet notice and confirmed that the demon beasts he had requested had arrived.
• Sikong Jing laughed at the notice because he believed Mo Ci would attend the banquet, giving him a chance to act.

Sikong Jing left the War Soul Imperial Capital, shrank the Steel Bone Flying Vulture into a little vulture, and returned with hundreds of Flowing Cloud Flying Squirrels to infiltrate the State Preceptor's Residence's formation. He disguised himself as Soul Devourer and returned to the residence, where Gongyang Ren ordered him summoned.

• Sikong Jing used the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion's help to leave the War Soul Imperial Capital and compressed the Steel Bone Flying Vulture into a little vulture.
• Sikong Jing promised the Steel Bone Flying Vulture Iron-Wing Divine Vulture blood in return for its cooperation, then returned with it to the imperial capital.
• Sikong Jing had Lang Yisuo release several hundred Flowing Cloud Flying Squirrels, which he controlled and sent into the State Preceptor's Residence to find flaws in its grand formation.
• Sikong Jing told Lang Yisuo to take the Millennial White Ginseng and Six-Elephant Divine Dragon Sword technique to the Long Night Imperial Capital, then went to the State Preceptor's Residence.
• Sikong Jing disguised himself as Soul Devourer, Gongyang Ying's personal guard, and the gate guards reported his return.
• Gongyang Ying told Gongyang Ren that Soul Devourer had returned, and Gongyang Ren ordered him summoned.

Sikong Jing returned to the Imperial Preceptor's Residence as Soul Devourer and faced Gongyang Ren and Gongyang Ying's demands to reveal his purpose. He claimed he was waiting for Wang Ge and had killed Gong Beiqiang to distract them while sending out the Millennial White Ginseng, leaving the Gongyang pair partly persuaded.

• Sikong Jing returned to the Imperial Preceptor's Residence with a seemingly ordinary flying vulture on his shoulder.
• Gongyang Ying and Gongyang Ren threatened Sikong Jing, demanding his true purpose and warning they would reveal the secret of the Moon Soul Battle Body.
• Sikong Jing said he had come to wait for Wang Ge, and his genuine longing for his younger sister surfaced as he spoke her name.
• Gongyang Ying suspected Wang Ge was Sikong Jing's devoted lover and began to believe his explanation, while Gongyang Ren questioned why he had harmed their residence and killed Gong Beiqiang.
• Sikong Jing explained that killing Gong Beiqiang had distracted them so he could send out the Millennial White Ginseng without their surveillance intercepting it.

Sikong Jing secured three days in the State Preceptor's Residence while Gongyang Ren and Gongyang Ying speculated about his motives and planned to keep watching him. On the third evening, the banquet began, and the gathered guests awaited Sikong Jing as new arrivals were announced.

• Sikong Jing defended his actions over the Millennial White Ginseng and asked Gongyang Ren to let him stay in the residence until the Worry-Forget Sect arrived.
• Gongyang Ren and Gongyang Ying speculated that Sikong Jing might be Soul Devourer, seeking a chance to glimpse Wang Ge, but decided to keep him under watch.
• Sikong Jing spent the next three days quietly controlling the Flowing Cloud Flying Squirrel and arranging the residence's grand formation.
• The banquet began, drawing young talents, academy students, palace masters, and nobles from across the War Soul Dynasty.
• Lu Chi arrived and declared that Sikong Jing would not dare attend, while the guests debated whether he would appear.
• A guard announced the arrival of Hua Lidian and Ren Dongmeng of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.