Recaps

Sikong Jing worked to create an Emperor-grade Eternal Night Love Art while trying to save Weng Yinke, as the Elder Family waited outside the frost-sealed house. Weng Yindu declared them dead and moved to take charge, but Sikong Jing’s voice suddenly came from inside, leaving his rivals stunned.

• Sikong Jing began studying Weng Yinke’s Supreme Emotionless power and the Eternal Night Wolf King’s meridians to create a stronger cultivation art.
• After days passed with the house sealed in frost, Weng Ting and the Elder Family waited anxiously as the Spirit-Seizing War approached.
• Weng Yindu emerged from confinement with Weng Wu and claimed he had sensed that Weng Yinke and Sikong Jing had died.
• Weng Wu taunted Weng Ting and urged the Dongba geniuses to enter the Spirit-Seizing War, while Weng Ting broke down and tried to reach the house.
• Sikong Jing spoke from inside the house, accusing Weng Yindu of disregarding family ties and shocking him and Weng Wu.

Sikong Jing helped Weng Yinke overcome the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s power and break through to the second major realm of the Emperor Martial Stage. Weng Yinke captured Weng Yindu and then led the Elder Family in honoring Sikong Jing.

• Weng Yinke emerged from the house free of frost and revealed that he had reached the second major realm of the Emperor Martial Stage.
• Weng Yinke defeated Weng Yindu, then took him away to pay respects to their ancestors before crippling him.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had guided Weng Yinke to fuse emotion with emotionlessness and provoke a breakthrough using Weng Yindu’s betrayal.
• Zhang Duiyin asked Sikong Jing for advice, but he clarified that his guidance had only worked for Weng Yinke’s particular cultivation and circumstances.
• Weng Yinke returned, ordered the Elder Family to salute Sikong Jing, and knelt before him.

After Sikong Jing saved Weng Yinke and helped him reach the second major realm of the Emperor Martial Stage, the Elder Family knelt to thank him. Sikong Jing rallied his allies against the Thoughtless Sacred Sect, then joined the young fighters heading to the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield for the war that would decide Eastern Spirit City's lord.

• Weng Yinke and the Elder Family knelt before Sikong Jing in gratitude, and Weng Ting joined them.
• Sikong Jing told Weng Ting, Zhang Duiyi, Zhang Duiyin, and Hua Meixi to keep Weng Yinke hidden until the Spirit-Seizing War ended and the Grand Overlord Commander arrived.
• Sikong Jing reassured the group that they could face the Thoughtless Sacred Sect's five geniuses, and said he had obtained a fragmentary Supreme Emotionless Art after killing a sect master in the Eastern Plains Northern Lands.
• The five spent the day touring Eastern Spirit City, then set out the next morning with several hundred young members of the Elder Family while Weng Yinke remained hidden.
• Weng Ting explained the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield and the Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow to Sikong Jing's group as they reached the black mist surrounding the battlefield.

The Elder Family entered the palace before the Spirit-Seizing War, where Sikong Jing and the others faced the assembled factions and the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s old monster. Weng Ting concealed Weng Yinke’s death while answering the mocking head of Desert Dust Academy.

• Weng Ting explained that only those at the Spirit Battle Realm or below could enter the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield and said the Elder Family’s main goal was the Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow.
• Sikong Jing and the Elder Family entered the palace and saw the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s old monster surrounded by four of Eastern Spirit City’s great factions.
• Weng Ting identified the factions and their reinforcements as the Elder Family surveyed the hostile assembly.
• Sikong Jing walked calmly under the gathered factions’ pressure, and Zhang Duiyin remarked on his unshakable composure.
• Academy Master Chen mocked the Elder Family for arriving without Weng Yinke, and Weng Ting said her grandfather was unwell and invited Chen to visit him soon.

As the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield opened, the old monster revealed that Desert Dust Academy sought a specific Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow and threatened everyone who challenged it. Pei Fenyi then exposed Sikong Jing’s Emperor-grade artifact, prompting the Righteous Spirit Sect to enter while secretly plotting to take it.

• Chang E asked Weng Ting whether Weng Yinke was dead, and Weng Ting refused to answer directly as the hall speculated about the Elder Family’s vulnerability.
• The old monster sensed the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield and identified the Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow as something that could restore her youthful beauty.
• The old monster ordered A Shi to succeed, threatened to annihilate any sect or clan that contested the spirit shadow, and sent Desert Dust Academy into the battlefield.
• A Shi warned Sikong Jing and the others that they would all be annihilated inside the battlefield before entering with his group.
• Pei Fenyi announced that Sikong Jing carried an Emperor-grade artifact and threatened anyone who tried to take it from her.
• The Righteous Spirit Sect entered the battlefield after acknowledging Pei Fenyi’s warning, while its strongest genius privately planned to seize and hide Sikong Jing’s artifact.

Sikong Jing entered the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield with the Elder Family but found himself separated from everyone else and immediately confronted by real spirit shadows. He rescued a young Elder Family member, defeated two spirit shadows—including one at the Sea Soaring Realm—and was left wondering why the battlefield had separated them and exposed them to such powerful enemies at once.

• Sikong Jing reassured Zhang Duiyin and the Elder Family members before leading all five hundred of them into the battlefield.
• The old woman from Desert Dust Academy asked the old monster about the Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow, and he said it was related to the Night Charm beast.
• Sikong Jing appeared alone on a hill and heard a young Elder Family member ask why he could not sense Weng Ting or the others.
• A spirit shadow attacked the young man, and Sikong Jing let another spirit shadow enter his body while rushing to save him.
• The first spirit shadow broke away from the young man and joined the attack on Sikong Jing, who fought both spirits within his consciousness and destroyed them.
• Sikong Jing confirmed that he and the young man were unharmed, while the young man questioned why they had encountered Sea Soaring Realm spirit shadows immediately after entering.

Sikong Jing realized the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield had changed, leaving its participants scattered among spirit shadows of wildly different strengths. While searching for Weng Ting and the others, he was ambushed by a Copper Refining Manor disciple seeking his imperial artifact, and the attacker fired a third arrow.

• Sikong Jing considered whether the battlefield’s altered rules had sent everyone near its center or scattered the spirit shadows randomly.
• An Elder Family youth told Sikong Jing that mechanism messenger birds could help locate their companions, but Sikong Jing chose to scout first and avoid revealing their position.
• Sikong Jing dodged a hidden arrow and caught a second arrow aimed at the Elder Family youth.
• A Copper Refining Manor disciple appeared with a bow and admitted he had attacked to take Sikong Jing’s imperial artifact.
• As the disciple backed away and claimed he could escape, he abruptly fired a third arrow.

A Copper Refining Manor disciple lured spirit shadows toward Sikong Jing and Weng Ting, hoping they would be devoured so he could claim Sikong Jing’s imperial weapon. Sikong Jing restrained the attacking shadows, while the disciple was killed and became an ownerless spirit shadow.

• The Copper Refining Manor disciple detonated an arrow carrying his spirit platform consciousness-sea power, drawing dozens of spirit shadows toward Sikong Jing and Weng Ting.
• As the disciple fled, Sikong Jing shot an arrow into his arm and detonated it, drawing more spirit shadows toward him.
• Sikong Jing used his spirit platform consciousness-sea power and finger strikes to restrain all the spirit shadows attacking him and Weng Ting.
• The Copper Refining Manor disciple realized Sikong Jing had already fused spirit and martial, but spirit shadows overwhelmed and killed him.
• The disciple’s spirit shadow emerged from his body and joined the wandering shadows in the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield.

Sikong Jing protected the Elder Family's young man in the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield and continued toward their planned destination, but they found several dead companions along the way. Outside the battlefield, life lamps showed that many participants had already died, while the survivors' families could only wait and fear what the next two months would bring.

• Sikong Jing destroyed the spirit shadows attacking him and the Elder Family's young man, then took treasures from the Copper Refining Manor disciple's corpse.
• Sikong Jing and the Elder Family's young man traveled toward the highest point and found the corpses of A Li and Brother Han, whom the young man stored in his treasure space.
• In the palace outside the battlefield, leaders saw that hundreds of life lamps had gone out, and a small-faction leader wept after all his disciples died.
• The old monster blamed the mass deaths on an Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow that had changed the Spirit-Seizing rules and scattered everyone.
• At the Elder Family, Weng Yinke and the others watched more than a hundred lamps go out and prayed that Duanmu Grand Tyrant Judge would respond to Weng Ting's message.

Sikong Jing and Weng Xie reached a hilltop in the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield and recognized the ruins as an ancient war zone. They were confronted by Chen Er, a Copper Refining Mountain aide, and a powerful Thoughtless Sacred Sect disciple, while learning that Desert Dust Academy had brought five Spirit Battle Realm reinforcements.

• Sikong Jing and Weng Xie climbed to the summit, where Sikong Jing identified the battlefield’s ruined fortifications and lingering Army-Slaying Formations as evidence of ancient wars.
• Sikong Jing sensed people hiding near a withered tree before Weng Xie could release a mechanism message bird.
• Chen Er of Desert Dust Academy emerged and admitted he had planned to use their message birds to find Weng Ting.
• A Copper Refining Mountain aide and a cold Thoughtless Sacred Sect woman also revealed themselves, and the woman’s aura showed she was at the peak of the Spirit Battle Realm.
• Chen Er told Weng Xie that Desert Dust Academy had received permission to bring five Spirit Battle Realm outside reinforcements, leaving Weng Xie shocked and Sikong Jing unsurprised.

Sikong Jing took the eight mechanical message birds and sent A Xie fleeing while he faced Chen Er and the others alone. He shattered Chen Er’s wind-and-sand attack with the Iron-Wing Sky-Soaring Spear and launched a counterattack.

• A Xie tried to destroy the mechanical message birds, but Chen Er’s Spirit Battle Realm aura stopped him.
• Sikong Jing took the eight birds, stored them inside the Blood Devour Dragon Pearl, and ordered A Xie to escape down the mountain.
• A Xie fled as Chen Er sent the Copper Refining Manor helper after him and prepared to fight Sikong Jing himself.
• Chen Er unleashed a sword attack empowered by his fifth-grade battle body, surrounding Sikong Jing with a dust-filled tornado.
• Sikong Jing used the Iron-Wing Sky-Soaring Spear to tear apart the windstorm and swept a line of iron-like feathers toward Chen Er.

Sikong Jing overpowered Chen Er in their spear-and-sword battle, leaving him gravely injured and unable to move. Before Sikong Jing could finish him, A Xie was trapped by the Copper Refining Manor reinforcement, and Sikong Jing intervened with a distant spear strike.

• A Xie fled downhill while the Copper Refining Manor reinforcement pursued him, and he prepared to kill himself rather than be captured.
• Sikong Jing's attack forced Chen Er back, and Chen Er wrongly concluded that an imperial weapon amplified Sikong Jing's strength.
• Sikong Jing overwhelmed Chen Er with the Iron-Wing Divine Vulture spear technique, breaking his wind vortex and burying his legs in a crater.
• Sikong Jing aimed his spear at the grievously injured Chen Er, but halted when the reinforcement trapped A Xie near the foot of the mountain.
• A Xie prepared to detonate the true qi at his heart, but Sikong Jing told him not to despair and ordered the Copper Refining Manor reinforcement to take his spear strike.

Sikong Jing used a spear carrying spiritual platform sea consciousness to draw spirit shadows onto the Copper Refining Manor reinforcement, allowing A Xie to kill him with an arrow and escape. Sikong Jing then turned back to face Chen Er, who questioned why he had been spared while the weaker reinforcement was killed first.

• Sikong Jing threw his spear toward A Xie and used its apparent failure to distract Copper Refining Manor's reinforcements.
• Sikong Jing told A Xie to flee as the exploding spear drew dozens of spirit shadows onto Copper Refining Manor's reinforcements.
• A Xie shot Copper Refining Manor's reinforcements in the forehead, and the spirit shadows overwhelmed him.
• Sikong Jing praised A Xie and told him to keep running, while A Xie escaped with his bow.
• Chen Er appeared beside the woman carrying the sedan chair and asked Sikong Jing why he had killed the reinforcement instead of him.

Sikong Jing broke through Third Beauty’s ice blockade and defeated Chen Er with his Eternal Night Ice Dance Blade. He revealed that he had advanced to the second realm of Battle Martial after killing Copper Refining Manor’s reinforcements.

• Chen Er asked Third Beauty to let him pursue the Elder Family weakling, and she agreed while moving to restrain Sikong Jing.
• Third Beauty trapped Sikong Jing with Frozen Heaven Snow Prison, but Sikong Jing used Eternal Night Ice Dance Blade to break through her ice.
• Sikong Jing caught up to Chen Er and blasted apart his sword force, sending him tumbling back up the mountainside.
• Sikong Jing blocked Chen Er with his saber and explained that his breakthrough had strengthened the power granted by the Emperor Weapon.

Sikong Jing fought Third Beauty in a concealed sword battle amid ice and snow, while Chen Er pursued A Xie. The chapter left Chen Er charging after A Xie after the old man returned and nearly shot him with a hidden arrow.

• Third Beauty froze Chen Er and threw him away, then sent him to continue pursuing the Elder Family's weaklings without fear of an attack from behind.
• Third Beauty demanded to know how Sikong Jing used the Supreme Emotionless Art, and attacked him when he denied that it was the source of his power.
• Sikong Jing fought back with the Six-Elephant Divine Dragon Sword Technique and Ten Dragon Chaos-Slaying Sword, then used Shadow Moon as Third Beauty vanished into the snow.
• Chen Er watched the battle and wondered whether Sikong Jing's Imperial weapon explained his strength, then turned to resume the chase after A Xie.
• A Xie returned and shot an arrow that grazed Chen Er's scalp, prompting Chen Er to charge after him as A Xie fled.

A Xie and Weng Xiang ambushed and killed Chen Er, then hid rather than risk becoming a burden to Sikong Jing. Sikong Jing faced Third Beauty again, who unleashed her fifth-grade Cold Dragonfly Battle Body and sent ice-colored dragonflies sweeping toward him.

• Weng Xiang revealed herself as A Xie’s disguised companion and helped him trap Chen Er, while she struck him with her hammer and A Xie severed his legs and hacked him to death.
• Weng Xiang calmed A Xie, and the two hid behind a boulder after deciding they could not help Sikong Jing without becoming a burden.
• Third Beauty and Sikong Jing reappeared from their clash, both wounded, with Sikong Jing slightly outmatched by her greater cultivation and battle body.
• Third Beauty insulted Sikong Jing and unleashed her fifth-grade Cold Dragonfly Battle Body, sending a swarm of ice-colored dragonflies toward him.

Sikong Jing fought Third Beauty, revealing his Eternal Night Wolf King power and advancing to the peak of the Battle Martial Third Realm. After a day and a half of combat, he judged Third Beauty more badly injured and began a saber technique to finish her.

• Sikong Jing broke through to the Battle Martial Third Realm and challenged Third Beauty with his saber and Eternal Night Wolf Fang.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he was an Eternal Night Wolf King, but Third Beauty dismissed his claim and continued attacking him.
• A Xie and A Xiang watched from behind a boulder and feared that the reinforcements and the Wengs would be doomed if Sikong Jing lost.
• Sikong Jing and Third Beauty fought for a day and a half, both sustaining injuries as Sikong Jing continued to grow stronger.
• Sikong Jing reached the peak of the Battle Martial Third Realm, declared that he would defeat Third Beauty within half an hour, and unleashed Eternal Night Ice Dance.

Sikong Jing defeated Third Beauty and tried to question her, but she sacrificed her left hand in an explosion and escaped, threatening his family and friends. Wounded and surrounded by a thousand spirit shadows, he destroyed them all with the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger’s Heaven-Swallowing Tiger Roar.

• Sikong Jing defeated Third Beauty and held her at swordpoint, then asked about her master and the Thoughtless Sacred Sect.
• Third Beauty detonated her left hand to blast Sikong Jing away, then fled after threatening to kill his family and friends.
• Sikong Jing stayed behind to heal, while A Xie and A Xiang called out to him from the rocks.
• A thousand spirit shadows rushed Sikong Jing, but he used the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger Roar to reduce them all to powder.

After defeating Third Beauty, Sikong Jing was badly injured and prepared for an approaching siege while trying to unlock the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger’s power with A Xiang’s hammer. The chapter ended as disciples from Wrath Mountain arrived to confront him.

• Sikong Jing recovered from his clash with Third Beauty long enough to warn A Xie and A Xiang that other Spirit-Seizing War participants were approaching for his Imperial weapon.
• Sikong Jing sent A Xie and A Xiang to release mechanical message birds for the Elder Family and to delay Third Beauty, then asked A Xiang to lend him her hammer.
• Sikong Jing realized a hammer could help him unravel the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger’s meridians and began developing the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Hammer.
• Several Wrath Mountain disciples reached the slope, and one urged Senior Brother Chang to observe Sikong Jing before deciding what to do.

Sikong Jing healed while the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger’s meridian power shielded him from Chang Fei and the Eastern Spirit City factions’ attacks. When Chang Fei’s group threatened A Xie and A Xiang, Sikong Jing opened his eyes and unleashed the first move of the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Hammer.

• Chang Fei threw a Wrath Mountain disciple at Sikong Jing to test whether he could fight, but hammer shadows blocked the attack.
• Chang Fei led Wrath Mountain disciples and dozens of Eastern Spirit City faction disciples in attacking Sikong Jing, who remained protected while he healed.
• Chang Fei detonated a mid-grade spirit artifact beside Sikong Jing, but the blast left him unharmed.
• A Xie and A Xiang arrived and found Sikong Jing under siege, so Chang Fei ordered his group to seize them as hostages.
• Sikong Jing reached the fourth Realm of War Martial, opened his eyes, and unleashed “Black Prison appears, Heaven-Swallowing Blast” as a terrifying black tiger appeared above Chang Fei and the others.

Sikong Jing used a devastating hammer strike to kill Chang Fei and dozens of pursuers, then escaped with A Xie and A Xiang. In the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield palace, the old monster sensed that a second Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow had awakened.

• Sikong Jing smashed Chang Fei and dozens of attackers to pieces with a hammer strike, terrifying the remaining pursuers into fleeing.
• Third Beauty’s pursuers returned and called Sikong Jing a monster; Third Beauty was left alone and fled the area.
• A Xie carried the weakened Sikong Jing away with A Xiang, following the mechanical messenger bird’s direction.
• Chang E learned that Chang Fei had died, while several dozen life lamps shattered at the same time.
• The old monster sensed a second Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow and said its aura seemed to belong to another ferocious beast.

A Two-Horned War Demon Tiger and a spirit shadow bearing Lord Night Charm's bloodline separately investigated the aura of a Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger, while Hua Meixi remained captive in a blood-pattern array. Meanwhile, A Xie recounted Sikong Jing's battles to the young members of the Elder Family gathered near the fortress where Sikong Jing was healing.

• A Two-Horned War Demon Tiger awakened on a dark mountain and sent an Emperor Martial Stage spirit shadow to find the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger's aura.
• A giant crimson cat spirit shadow questioned captive Hua Meixi about the tiger's aura and ordered another spirit shadow to retrieve or destroy its source before the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger could find it.
• Hua Meixi recognized the crimson cat as a being with Lord Night Charm's bloodline, and it told her that it had died long ago and no longer possessed that bloodline.
• More than a dozen young members of the Elder Family gathered in a ruined battle fortress and listened as A Xie praised Sikong Jing's battles.
• Sikong Jing remained in the fortress basement, healing his injuries in seclusion.

Sikong Jing led the Elder Family survivors through the Spirit-Seizing Battlefield at night, protecting them from an ambush and teaching them assassin techniques while healing. Half a month later, the group had grown to more than sixty members and was moving through the battlefield under Sikong Jing’s lead.

• The Elder Family survivors feared they would not make it back alive, but A Xie urged them to trust Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing emerged from seclusion and ordered the group to travel at night, explaining that darkness favored their assassin techniques and that he would handle the spirit shadows.
• After an enemy destroyed their messenger bird, Sikong Jing identified dozens of nearby attackers and sent the Elder Family members into battle while he protected them.
• The group killed every attacker, collected their treasures, and continued onward without releasing more messenger birds.
• At dawn, Sikong Jing taught the Elder Family members how to adapt their martial techniques using assassin methods, then returned to seclusion to heal.
• Half a month later, Sikong Jing led a group of more than sixty Elder Family members through the battlefield; each had killed at least a dozen enemies along the way.

Sikong Jing reunited with the blinded Zhang Duiyin and learned that Er Yan and Chen Wu had attacked her after she witnessed their secret affair. When Er Yan used Zhang Duiyin’s brother to draw her out, she discovered Sikong Jing and the Elder Family’s group and ordered Chen Wu’s forces to surround them.

• Sikong Jing recognized Zhang Duiyin in the darkness and caught her as she stumbled toward him, discovering that her eyes had been gouged out.
• Zhang Duiyin told Sikong Jing that Er Yan and Chen Wu had blinded her after she caught them together, and that her brother had stayed behind to help her escape.
• Sikong Jing reassured Zhang Duiyin that her brother might still be alive and promised to rescue him.
• Er Yan threatened Zhang Duiyin by torturing her brother, causing Zhang Duiyin to cry out and reveal where she was hiding.
• Er Yan sensed Sikong Jing and the Elder Family’s group nearby, then ordered Chen Wu to seal off the area as two hundred fighters surrounded them.

Sikong Jing defeated Chen Wu with two blows from his heavy hammer while A Xie and the Elder Family youths prepared to fight Er Yan’s forces. He advanced toward Er Yan, determined to save Zhang Duiyi and gouge out her eyes.

• Sikong Jing assigned A Xie and the Elder Family youths to protect Zhang Duiyin and kill the surrounding enemies while he faced Er Yan and Chen Wu.
• Chen Wu attacked Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing shattered his sword strike and defenses with two hammer blows, leaving him badly wounded and unable to fight.
• A Xiang told Zhang Duiyin that Sikong Jing had defeated Chen Wu, and A Xie led the Elder Family youths into battle against the other enemies.
• Sikong Jing saw Zhang Duiyi badly injured at Er Yan’s feet and continued toward Er Yan with his hammer.
• Er Yan asked about Sikong Jing’s imperial artifact, and Sikong Jing vowed to dig out both her eyes.