Arc 56Chapters 1376–1400
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Sikong Jing decided to obtain a battle-array master badge to help the Heavenly Wolf Team recruit members, but he learned the first-stage exam would not be held for another month. After dismissing a guild attendant’s sales pitch and insults, he asked to buy a complete Army-Slaying Diagram and stunned the guild by laying down several hundred Bright Core Crystals.
Sikong Jing visited the Ancient City Military Formation Masters Guild to buy Spirit-grade Army-Slaying Diagrams and discovered a chance to earn a military formation master badge by solving the chairman’s starry remnant formations. He entered the first diagram and saw its formation unfold before him.
Sikong Jing entered the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram’s illusion battlefield and began analyzing the fight, while Pei Yuzheng visited Ancient Sacred Peak to propose marriage to Tie Ti'er and seek its diagram fragment. After Tie Binghun and Cang Lin rejected his requests, Pei Yuzheng asked to see Ancient City's three great challenges and asked whether solving them would earn him a request.
Pei Yuzheng threatened Ancient Sacred Peak with demands involving the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram and marriage, leaving its elders fearful of Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s plans. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing rapidly solved Cang Lin’s Starry Diagrams, and Cang Lin arrived to discover the young formation master was no older than twenty-five.
Sikong Jing deciphered all nine Starry Sky Diagrams, impressing their creator, Cang Lin, with his command of Army-Slaying Formations. As Brother Lu falsely accused Sikong Jing and A Lian before the steward, an aged voice declared that it believed Sikong Jing.
Cang Lin arrived at the Battle Array Masters' Guild and confirmed that Sikong Jing had solved all nine Starry Diagrams. Sikong Jing introduced himself as a member of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and received a Spirit-level mid-rank military formation master's badge.
Cang Lin awarded Sikong Jing a mid-level Spirit-grade badge and offered him six Army-Slaying Diagrams, then asked him to improve the ninth Starry Diagram in exchange for an Imperial-grade diagram. Sikong Jing agreed and entered the guild’s VIP room to study it, while Cang Lin hoped his advice would make the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s problems harder to solve.
Sikong Jing used the ninth Starry Diagram to create a complex Army-Slaying layout that impressed Cang Lin, who rewarded him with diagrams and a high-tier spirit-grade formation master badge. Sikong Jing declined Cang Lin’s invitation to join Ancient Sacred Peak, left as his friend, and Cang Lin wondered how the guild could recruit such a genius.
Sikong Jing went to study the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone, where he learned that an unnamed young genius had rung it seven times and that Su Old Devil held the record with thirteen. As crowds rushed to watch the genius attempt Ancient City's third challenge, Sikong Jing stayed behind and began examining the stone.
Sikong Jing entered the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone’s illusion and fought through its increasingly difficult trials, ringing it four times. As he prepared for the fifth resonance, Cang Yuan and the onlookers hoped he would surpass Pei Yuzheng’s record of seven.
Sikong Jing rang the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone twelve times, matching Pei Yuzheng but choosing not to claim Su Old Devil’s thirteen-chime record. As Tie Binghun hurried to Ancient City to meet the mysterious young man, the onlookers waited in vain for a thirteenth chime.
Sikong Jing cleared the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone trial and met Iron Cang’s projection, who offered him a gift in exchange for a binding promise. Sikong Jing refused the conditions but accepted Iron Cang’s offer to deduce the Golden Cold Twin-Blade Sword to at least Emperor grade.
Sikong Jing had Iron Cang calculate his Golden Cold Twin Swords to the pinnacle of Emperor grade, then escaped Ancient Sacred Peak while its people were distracted. Tie Binghun ordered a search for the young man in black, unaware that his pale marks were fading demonic scales rather than birthmarks.
Sikong Jing learned that the Canggu Myriad Dragon Chant held the soul of a peak Emperor Martial Stage Azure Cloud Sword Dragon and decided to attempt the challenge before leaving Ancient City. As he secretly cultivated nearby, Tie Binghun arrived searching for him, unaware that Sikong Jing was hidden in the grove.
Sikong Jing realized Ancient Sacred Peak needed help dealing with Pei Yuzheng and decided to repay Iron Cang by surpassing him at the Canggu Myriad Dragon Chant. As Pei Yuzheng protested his failure at the guild, Sikong Jing entered the challenge and sent his beast-form spirit shadow into the dragon pit.
At the Army Formation Masters Guild, Pei Yuzheng failed the ninth Starry Diagram and demanded an explanation from Tie Binghun. Cang Lin admitted he had increased the diagram’s difficulty, but insisted Pei Yuzheng’s failure showed his cultivation was lacking.
Cang Lin defended the ninth Starry Diagram as a foundational puzzle and explained that he had raised its difficulty after a black-clad young man solved the original nine diagrams. Tie Binghun revealed that the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone had rung twelve times the previous day, leaving Pei Yuzheng unconvinced but able to investigate.
Pei Yuzheng refused to believe Tie Binghun’s account of the black-clad young man until a dragon chant louder than his own shook the city. The Soul-Returning Mirror then showed the young man at the Canggu Myriad Dragon Chant, confirming he had been there, though his identity remained hidden.
Sikong Jing’s planted Soul-Returning Mirror scene revealed that he had reached the peak of the War Martial Realm and mocked Pei Yuzheng, who still denied the evidence until the demon dragons cursed him and he fainted. After learning that 106 was Young Master Pei 106, Pei Yufeng’s younger brother, Sikong Jing realized the Thousand Kings Holy Tower was plotting against Ancient Sacred Peak and continued toward the Divine Shuttle Ship.
Sikong Jing left Ancient City for Chaos-Shaking City, intending to cultivate aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship and approach the Spirit Martial Stage. Back at the Army Formation Masters Guild, Cang Lin concealed Sikong Jing’s identity from Ancient Sacred Peak, then revealed that Sikong Jing had created the ninth Starry Diagram.
Tie Binghun and Cang Lin discovered that the black-clad youth was Sikong Jing, a rising talent from the Eastern Tyrant Branch with a possible indirect connection to Su Old Devil. Tie Binghun decided to send Tie Ti'er to Chaos-Shaking City to meet Sikong Jing and take part in the approaching District-Seizing War.
Tie Binghun sent Tie Ti'er and Granny Kui to Chaos-Shaking City ahead of its District-Seizing War, while Pei Yuzheng vowed to find the black-clad man who haunted him. After months away, Sikong Jing returned to Chaos-Shaking City and planned to tell Duanmu Chun he was alive.
Sikong Jing returned to Chaos-Shaking City to find Duanmu Chun being replaced as Grand Tyrant Judge, putting the Heavenly Wolf Team’s future at risk. The new Grand Overlord Commander arrived, and Sikong Jing recognized him as the Nether Protector Venerable sent to seize him.
Gong Ying arrived in Chaos-Shaking City as the Eastern Tyrant Branch’s new Grand Overlord Commander, backed by Nether Protector Venerable and her gathered followers. As she summoned the hundred team captains, Sikong Jing noticed Hua Meixi and Yang Yi were missing, and Gong Ying questioned why only ninety-nine captains had assembled.
Gong Ying used Fan Kui and the Heavenly Wolf Team’s lack of battle bodies to attack Duanmu Chun’s judgment in front of Chaos-Shaking City. Sikong Jing learned that Yang Yi had broken through to the Spirit Martial Stage and watched as Gong Ying publicly blamed Duanmu Chun for forming the team.