Recaps

Gong Ying stripped Fan Kui of his captaincy, disbanded the Heavenly Wolf Team, and demanded that they repay nearly all their rewards or become slaves. Duanmu Chun chose to endure her provocation, but someone at the gates suddenly shouted that they refused to accept it.

• Gong Ying ordered the Heavenly Wolf Team disbanded and demanded that its members repay every reward they had received within half a month or be enslaved.
• Fan Kui challenged Gong Ying, arguing that his team had earned its rewards through honorable service, but Gong Ying and the former Eastern Tyrant Branch leaders dismissed his protest.
• Gong Ying offered to let the team keep one-tenth of its rewards, while Yang Li and the other captains mocked Fan Kui.
• Duanmu Chun watched from a nearby building as Yao Yulou urged him to endure the insult and offered to repay the team's rewards for him.
• Yao Yulou pointed out that Duanmu Chun had once treated the Heavenly Wolf Team as a tool, and Duanmu Chun realized Sikong Jing had changed how he viewed them.
• Duanmu Chun decided to endure Gong Ying's provocation, but an enraged voice at the gates suddenly cried, "I refuse to accept this!"

Fan Kui challenged Gong Ying’s discriminatory rules to defend the Heavenly Wolf Team, while the other captains mocked him and demanded that he cross a deadly nail board. The chapter revealed that Sikong Jing was the team’s intended new captain, and ended with Gong Ying and Jin Liwu exploiting the rumor of his capture to discredit Duanmu Chun.

• Fan Kui accused Gong Ying of confiscating the non-battle bodies’ achievements and agreed to challenge the other captains.
• Gong Ying demanded that Fan Kui cross a refined nail board before challenging anyone, with failure risking the destruction of his meridians and dantian.
• Duanmu Chun worried that Gong Ying’s rules would destroy the non-battle bodies’ willingness to fight, while Yao Yulou explained her desire to privilege battle bodies.
• Yang Li, Jin Liwu, and the other captains taunted Fan Kui, who hesitated because the nail board could ruin his feet and end the Heavenly Wolf Team’s hopes.
• The captains revealed that Sikong Jing was the team’s intended new captain and mocked the belief that he might return after being taken away by a powerful expert.
• Jin Liwu accused Duanmu Chun of concealing Sikong Jing’s capture, and Gong Ying approved his remark as Duanmu Chun listened angrily from a nearby building.

Duanmu Chun and Yao Yulou feared that Sikong Jing had died after hearing confused reports from Ten Thousand Ice City. As Fan Kui prepared to challenge the captains, Yang Yi resolved to intervene, but Sikong Jing appeared and took over.

• Duanmu Chun and Yao Yulou discussed the reports that Sikong Buwang had killed Yin Henzi and concluded that Sikong Jing was probably dead.
• Fan Kui stepped forward to face the challenge as the captains mocked and pressured him.
• Weng Ting and the Zhang siblings tried to stop Yang Yi from intervening, warning that his actions could bring more trouble to the Heavenly Wolf Team.
• Yang Yi decided to stop Fan Kui and challenge the new Grand Tyrant Judge's disciple, despite the risk of dying.
• Sikong Jing appeared, forced Yang Yi's sword back into its sheath, and headed toward the Eastern Tyrant Branch entrance to stop Fan Kui.

Sikong Jing returned to the Eastern Tyrant Branch and stopped Fan Kui from stepping onto Gong Ying’s nail board. He claimed his place as the Heavenly Wolf Team’s new captain, then stepped onto the board himself as Duanmu Chun and Yao Yulou watched.

• Sikong Jing found Yang Yi, Duanmu Chun, and Yao Yulou, then rushed to the Eastern Tyrant Branch’s gates as Fan Kui was about to step on the nail board.
• Sikong Jing appeared beside Fan Kui, pulled him back, and announced that he was the Heavenly Wolf Team’s new captain.
• Sikong Jing asked Gong Ying for the right to challenge the other teams’ captains, and Gong Ying told him to proceed immediately.
• Sikong Jing stepped onto the nail board, and its spikes pierced his foot as Fan Kui, Yang Yi, and the others watched in distress.
• Yao Yulou declared that none of the captains could defeat Sikong Jing, even if he lost both legs.

Sikong Jing crossed Gong Ying’s nail board and demanded to face every captain at once, despite his bleeding feet. Di Geng halted the fight by claiming Sikong Jing relied on an Emperor-grade artifact, then insisted on searching him, and Sikong Jing challenged him to use the same forced interrogation as before.

• Sikong Jing crossed the nail board and asked Gong Ying to let him challenge the captains.
• Gong Ying announced that the Heavenly Wolf Team had to defeat ten captains in succession to continue existing.
• Sikong Jing demanded that all the captains fight him at once, and Jin Liwu and the others drew their weapons.
• Di Geng stopped the battle and claimed Yao Yulou had given Sikong Jing an Emperor-grade artifact that enhanced his combat power.
• Gong Ying ordered Sikong Jing to surrender his treasures, and he handed them to Fan Kui for safekeeping.
• Di Geng refused to let Sikong Jing proceed and demanded a full-body search, prompting Sikong Jing to taunt him about forcibly interrogating his consciousness.

Sikong Jing let Nether Protector Venerable forcibly interrogate him, then claimed he had no confidence against the captains, convincing them his earlier defiance had been a bluff. When all ninety-seven captains attacked, Sikong Jing revealed his strength with one sword strike that sent them flying, leaving only Yang Li standing.

• Gong Ying ordered Nether Protector Venerable to forcibly interrogate Sikong Jing, who concealed his secrets and answered that he had no confidence against a hundred captains.
• Sikong Jing said he would fight to the death for the Heavenly Wolf Team, but the captains and onlookers took his answer as proof that his earlier confidence was an act.
• Gong Ying limited the challenge to ten captains, but Sikong Jing claimed he had regained his confidence and invited them all to attack.
• Yang Li urged the captains to charge, and Jin Liwu led all ninety-seven of them toward Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing seized Jin Liwu's sword and used Azure Cloud Ten Dragon Sword to blast every captain away, leaving Yang Li at the back as the sole person still standing.

Sikong Jing defeated nearly all the captains with one sword and claimed he had just achieved spirit-martial fusion, forcing Gong Ying to honor her promise to let the Heavenly Wolf Team continue. Gong Ying then barred him from being its captain, declaring him guilty.

• Sikong Jing advanced on Yang Li, but Nether Protector Venerable blocked him and challenged his claim that he had been controlled.
• Sikong Jing revealed spirit-martial fusion and credited Nether Protector Venerable and Di Geng with stimulating his breakthrough, though he had achieved it long before.
• Sikong Jing reminded Gong Ying that he had completed her challenge, and she agreed that the Heavenly Wolf Team could continue to exist.
• Ju Dan whispered to Gong Ying, who then declared that Sikong Jing could not remain captain because he was guilty.

Gong Ying tried to use an old accusation to have Sikong Jing seized, but Sikong Jing announced that the Heavenly Wolf Team would leave the Eastern Tyrant Branch and follow Duanmu Chun. Duanmu Chun appeared to defend them, and Sikong Jing argued that their departure was permitted rather than betrayal.

• Gong Ying revived the accusation that Sikong Jing had killed Ju Dan’s daughter and ordered two Spirit Martial Stage experts to seize him.
• Sikong Jing recalled that the Eastern Tyrant Judges had previously declared him innocent, then announced the Heavenly Wolf Team’s withdrawal from the Eastern Tyrant Branch.
• Duanmu Chun appeared and declared Sikong Jing innocent, arguing that the Heavenly Wolf Team was no longer under Gong Ying’s authority.
• Gong Ying called the team’s departure betrayal and threatened to have them executed.
• Sikong Jing argued that the team remained within the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and was simply following Duanmu Chun.

Sikong Jing used Gong Ying’s own words and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s rules to help several people withdraw from the Eastern Tyrant Branch and follow Duanmu Chun. When Gong Ying ordered Sikong Jing’s execution, he broke free and challenged her for ignoring the rules despite his past service.

• Duanmu Chun declared that he would take away people who had been treated unfairly, and Sikong Jing warned Gong Ying that blocking him would violate the branch’s rules.
• Sikong Jing called out Yang Yi, Weng Ting, and the Zhang siblings, who withdrew from the Eastern Tyrant Branch and chose to follow Duanmu Chun.
• Yao Yulou also withdrew and announced that willing members of the Raging Flower Battle Team could leave with his stepdaughter Hua Meixi and follow Duanmu Chun.
• Gong Ying allowed the departures but ordered two Spirit Martial Stage experts to kill Sikong Jing, calling him guilty.
• Sikong Jing blasted the two captors away, joined Duanmu Chun, and accused Gong Ying of disregarding the rules and trying to execute a man of merit.

Duanmu Chun used his Army-Slaying Formations to protect Sikong Jing from Gong Ying and lead the Heavenly Wolf Team and Raging Flower Battle Team out of the Eastern Tyrant Branch. Gong Ying could only watch them leave, then ordered her people to gather information on Sikong Jing.

• Duanmu Chun demanded evidence that Sikong Jing was guilty and refused to let Gong Ying harm him without proof.
• When Gong Ying threatened to attack anyway, Duanmu Chun revealed that he was a mid-tier Emperor-grade formation master who could use Forced Troop Control.
• Duanmu Chun called on the Heavenly Wolf Team and Raging Flower Battle Team, and their members released their true energy and joined him.
• Duanmu Chun's formations drew Sikong Jing, Yao Yulou, and the willing battle-team members out of the Eastern Tyrant Branch while Gong Ying's forces could not stop them.
• Duanmu Chun warned Gong Ying not to trust Di Geng too deeply before departing, and Gong Ying ordered her people to find every scrap of information on Sikong Jing.

At Yao Yulou’s residence, Duanmu Chun and the others celebrated their escape before noticing Sikong Jing’s wounded feet and treating them. Sikong Jing then revealed that he was Sikong Buwang and began explaining how he had survived Yin Henzi, leaving the gathered group stunned by the dangers he had faced.

• Duanmu Chun led the group to Yao Yulou’s residence and asked Sikong Jing how he had survived Yin Henzi.
• Sikong Jing pointed out that his feet were still injured, so Duanmu Chun carried him to the main hall and treated the wounds.
• Sikong Jing reassured Zhang Duiyin that the special nails had little effect on him and told the group he trusted them.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he was Sikong Buwang and explained that Yin Henzi had abducted him to search his spirit platform for an Imperial or Saint artifact.
• Sikong Jing recounted how he killed Yin Henzi, subdued the Eternal Night Demon Wolf, and saved Master Wuji, leaving the listeners shocked.

Sikong Jing told Duanmu Chun, Yao Yulou, and the others how he had acted as Sikong Buwang in Ten Thousand Ice City, hiding his identity and faking his death. He then offered a safer cover story, which he said the Ancient Sacred Peak Master could verify because Sikong Jing had struck the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone twelve times.

• Sikong Jing explained that he had disguised himself as Sikong Buwang, a Thoughtless Sacred Sect errand disciple, after Yin Henzi died.
• Sikong Jing recounted his public actions in Ten Thousand Ice City, including deceiving Pei Yufeng into believing he had a ninth-grade battle body.
• Sikong Jing said the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had been fed false news of Sikong Buwang's death so he could return to Chaos-Shaking City unnoticed.
• Duanmu Chun asked Sikong Jing to give them a safer lie, and Sikong Jing claimed an expert at Ancient Sacred Peak had rescued him and that he had recovered in Ancient City.
• Sikong Jing said the Ancient Sacred Peak Master could confirm his story because he had struck the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone twelve times, shocking everyone.

Sikong Jing explained how his actions in Ancient City had drawn the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s ire, while Yao Yulou pledged to protect him. The group learned that Tyrant Lotus Venerable had retired after losing hope of finding Tyrant Soul Venerable, and Duanmu Chun revealed that Yang Yi had inherited Tyrant Soul Venerable’s legacy.

• Sikong Jing told Duanmu Chun and the others that he had struck the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone twelve times and offended the Thousand Kings Holy Tower through his clash with Pei Yuzheng.
• Yao Yulou said the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce should protect Sikong Jing, but Duanmu Chun noted that he no longer held the post of Grand Tyrant Judge.
• Duanmu Chun revealed that Tyrant Lotus Venerable had retired and said her heart was dead because she had despaired of finding Tyrant Soul Venerable.
• Yang Yi disclosed that Tyrant Lotus Venerable’s despair was connected to him, and Duanmu Chun explained that Yang Yi had obtained Tyrant Soul Venerable’s inheritance in the eastern secret realm.
• Duanmu Chun explained that inheritances from the central, southern, and eastern secret realms had yielded no clue to Tyrant Soul Venerable, and Zhang Duiyin asked about the western and northern realms.

Yao Yulou proposed using the District-Seizing War to restore the Yao Residence’s influence and draw the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s attention to Duanmu Chun. As the hall weighed the contests and their opponents, Yao Yulou revealed his breakthrough, and Sikong Jing said he could reach the Spirit Martial Stage before the war.

• The group discussed Tyrant Lotus Venerable giving up her search for Tyrant Soul Venerable, and Duanmu Chun told Yang Yi not to blame himself for inheriting Tyrant Soul Venerable’s legacy.
• Yao Yulou proposed that Sikong Jing, Yang Yi, and Weng Ting represent the Yao Residence in the District-Seizing War and defeat the East Tyrant Branch.
• Weng Ting and Zhang Duiyi explained that the war had contests for young fighters, those below the Emperor Martial Stage, and military formation masters, all of which had to be won to seize Shaking One District’s position.
• Yao Yulou revealed that he had advanced to the third major realm of the Emperor Martial Stage and said he intended to defeat Nether Protector Venerable.
• Duanmu Chun warned that the young fighters would face powerful geniuses, including a disciple of Gong Ying with a sixth-grade battle body, and that Sikong Jing risked being branded a demon if he fought too far above his realm.
• Sikong Jing learned that the District-Seizing War was about half a month away and said he could reach the Spirit Martial Stage by then.

Sikong Jing learned that Hua Meixi had reached the Shadow Wielding Realm but was suffering from a dangerous bodily problem, and he promised to treat her. After hearing the military formation master contest rules, he declared that he was confident in that event as well.

• Sikong Jing said reaching the Shadow Wielding Realm would let him defeat a Heavenly King Realm expert without being branded a demon, but Duanmu Chun warned that the younger generation's allied opponents would still be formidable.
• Yao Yulou revealed that Hua Meixi had reached the Shadow Wielding Realm through rapid cultivation, but her body was in trouble and her ability to fight was uncertain.
• Sikong Jing promised to resolve Hua Meixi's condition using his knowledge of the Blood Charm Demon Cat's meridians, and Yao Yulou said she could then contend with ordinary Heavenly King Realm experts.
• Duanmu Chun raised the shortage of military formation masters, and Yao Yulou explained that their contest involved basic Army-Slaying Formations, Army-Slaying War Chess, and the Army-Slaying Illusion Realm.
• After Duanmu Chun admitted they lacked confidence in the military formation master event, Sikong Jing said he was confident.

Sikong Jing revealed that he had earned a high-grade Spirit-level formation badge by solving Ancient City's Nine-Star Battle Diagram, convincing the Yao Residence that he could dominate the Army-Slaying Formation fundamentals. He then went to treat Hua Meixi, while Yao Yulou wondered whether Sikong Jing's Bloodforged Patriarch inheritance could solve her condition.

• Sikong Jing showed Duanmu Chun and the others his high-grade Spirit-level badge and revealed that he had solved the Nine-Star Battle Diagram.
• Sikong Jing assured Yao Yulou he would resolve Hua Meixi's dangerous condition, then left with a steward to visit her.
• Duanmu Chun explained that solving the Nine-Star Battle Diagram demonstrated foundations comparable to Cang Lin's, and Yao Yulou revealed that Sikong Jing had killed the Bloodforged Patriarch and claimed his inheritance.
• Duanmu Chun laughed that Xiu Hanzhi would regret not taking Sikong Jing in, while Yao Yulou grew alarmed by a troubling thought.

Jiang Wanyou feared Hua Meixi’s rapidly advancing Demonic Charm Battle Body would expose her Fierce Charm Sacred Body and force her family to flee. Her hopes of finding help faded until Sikong Jing returned to the Yao Residence, where Old Xiu and the others greeted him as the Young Master.

• Duanmu Chun vowed to have Sikong Jing slap Xiu Hanzhi’s face bloody, unaware that Old Xiu was nearby in the Yao Residence.
• Old Xiu told Jiang Wanyou that Hua Meixi had reached an eighth-grade battle body and offered to help her and Meixi leave if she could not stay.
• Master Wuji failed to resolve Meixi’s problem, leaving Jiang Wanyou torn between revealing the truth to Yao Yulou and fleeing with Old Xiu.
• Jiang Wanyou hoped the Young Master would return and solve Meixi’s problem, though Old Xiu and the others feared he might not come back.
• The steward announced that Yao Yulou’s friend had come to visit Meixi, and Sikong Jing identified himself at the courtyard gate.
• Jiang Wanyou welcomed Sikong Jing and brought him inside, where Old Xiu, Master Wuji, and the others greeted him as the Young Master.

Sikong Jing examined Hua Meixi and chose to disguise her Fierce Charm Sacred Body as the bloodline of a Blood Charm Demon Cat. He began the dangerous procedure by mixing his own blood with hers, leaving Jiang Wanyou and the elders stunned by the change in his aura.

• Sikong Jing found that Hua Meixi's Night Charm bloodline had erupted further and explained two ways to address it.
• Sikong Jing recommended preserving Hua Meixi's battle-body strength while hiding her Fierce Charm Sacred Body by disguising her as a Blood Charm Demon Cat descendant.
• Jiang Wanyou confirmed that a subspecies bloodline descended from Night Charm would not make Hua Meixi a target to be devoured.
• Sikong Jing asked Old Xiu to draw out Hua Meixi's essence blood and then added his own Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts blood.
• Sikong Jing circulated the Blood Charm Demon Cat meridians, allowing his blood to merge with Hua Meixi's and changing his aura.

Sikong Jing concealed Hua Meixi’s Night Charm bloodline by carving Blood Charm Demon Cat meridians into her and giving her a cultivation technique. He then offered the elders an antidote for their beast poison, leaving them with twenty doses in case the Thousand Kings Holy Tower used its poison again.

• Sikong Jing fused his blood with Hua Meixi’s essence blood and carved the Blood Charm Demon Cat’s core meridians into her body to conceal her Night Charm bloodline.
• Sikong Jing gave Jiang Wanyou the Blood Charm Demon Cat Art and accompanying beast techniques, explaining that Hua Meixi would need to cultivate them for ten days to half a month.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had created the Blood Charm Demon Cat Art by taking the beast’s meridians and adapting them for human cultivation, astonishing the three elders.
• Sikong Jing told the elders he could resolve their beast poison using an antidote developed from the poison Pei Yufeng had injected into the humanoid ferocious beast.
• Sikong Jing gave Old Xiu twenty doses of the antidote because the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had collected the beast poison.

Sikong Jing gave the elders antidotes and a peak Emperor-grade martial skill for the Spirit Sparrow Clan, then reassured Yao Yulou that Hua Meixi would recover in time for the District-Seizing War. He revealed to Duanmu Chun that Hua Meixi had reached an eighth-grade battle body and warned him to keep it secret.

• Old Xiu accepted the antidotes, and Sikong Jing gave Master Wuji the peak Emperor-grade Golden Cold Twin Swords martial skill for the Spirit Sparrow Clan.
• Sikong Jing told Jiang Wanyou and the elders to stay hidden, said the humanoid ferocious beast was his loyal friend, and left after asking Old He for help.
• Old Xiu and the other elders vowed to protect Sikong Jing so he could grow strong enough to avenge Boss Su.
• Sikong Jing assured Yao Yulou that Hua Meixi would recover in ten days to half a month and make it to the District-Seizing War.
• Sikong Jing told Duanmu Chun that Hua Meixi had advanced to an eighth-grade battle body and warned him to keep her strength secret.

Sikong Jing prepared to infiltrate the Eastern Tyrant Branch and challenge the Tyrant Soul Secret Realm, while Yao Yulou grew increasingly suspicious about Sikong Jing and the secrets surrounding Hua Meixi. The chapter ended with Sikong Jing asking Old He to secretly bring Aunt Jiang after him.

• Sikong Jing asked Duanmu Chun whether the Tyrant Soul Secret Realm remained worth challenging after Yang Yi obtained its inheritance, and decided to sneak into the Eastern Tyrant Branch that night.
• Yao Yulou wondered whether Sikong Jing knew about Hua Meixi’s Fierce Charm Sacred Body and visited Jiang Wanyou, who told him Meixi had entered seclusion.
• Yao Yulou received a mechanical message bird at midnight, crushed it, and left the study as two bats secretly followed him.
• Sikong Jing drank with the Heavenly Wolf Team and his companions before following a bat out of Yao Residence.
• Sikong Jing met Old He outside Yao Residence and told him to bring Aunt Jiang along secretly and follow him.

Sikong Jing secretly followed Yao Yulou to a lakeside meeting so Jiang Wanyou could hear whether Yao had betrayed them. Yao denied receiving an order from his lord to approach Gong Ying, but revealed that people from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had given that order.

• Sikong Jing told Old He to bring Jiang Wanyou and keep her quiet while he investigated Yao Yulou's meeting.
• Sikong Jing, Old He, and Jiang Wanyou hid near Yao Yulou at a lake in the Shaking Second District.
• Pei Feishan arrived, and Jiang Wanyou recognized him as the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce president who had once attacked her.
• Pei Feishan accused Yao Yulou of betraying their lord by leaving Gong Ying's side and withdrawing from the Eastern Tyrant Branch.
• Yao Yulou rejected Pei Feishan's accusation and said that certain people from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, not their lord, had ordered him to approach Gong Ying.

Sikong Jing secretly watched Yao Yulou confront Pei Feishan, learning that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had known Jiang Wanyou’s identity and that Yao Yulou had pursued the Fierce Charm Sacred Body. Yao Yulou denied that Sikong Jing was Sikong Buwang, but Pei Feishan vowed to investigate by showing Sikong Jing’s portrait to people who had seen Buwang.

• Yao Yulou told Pei Feishan that his orders allowed him to act as he saw fit and that his actions had served the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, devastating Jiang Wanyou.
• Pei Feishan accused Yao Yulou of betrayal and revealed that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had known Jiang Wanyou was Jiang Bi’s daughter.
• Pei Feishan asked whether Sikong Jing was Sikong Buwang, and Yao Yulou firmly denied it, citing their different cultivation and the coincidence of their shared surname.
• Yao Yulou said Pei Feishan would learn where Sikong Jing had been during the District-Seizing War, then tried to leave.
• Pei Feishan vowed to investigate Sikong Jing’s identity by taking his portrait to northern Central Plains geniuses who had seen Sikong Buwang, and Sikong Jing felt killing intent rise.

Yao Yulou tried to kill Pei Feishan to keep him from exposing Sikong Jing, but Pei Feishan survived the surprise attack with a hidden protective Emperor Artifact. As they fought over the lake, Sikong Jing ordered Old He and Jiang Wanyou to stay hidden while he went to resolve his remaining doubts about Yao Yulou.

• Pei Feishan revealed that he had not reported his suspicions about Sikong Jing to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower or told anyone else.
• Yao Yulou struck Pei Feishan from behind and sealed the area with an Emperor Artifact, but Pei Feishan survived and accused him of betrayal.
• Pei Feishan concluded that Sikong Jing was Sikong Buwang and that Yao Yulou had attacked to protect him, then fought Yao Yulou above the lake.
• Sikong Jing believed Yao Yulou was acting for his sake, but told Old He and Jiang Wanyou to remain hidden while he went to clarify his final doubt.

Sikong Jing killed Pei Feishan after Yao Yulou weakened him, then revealed that he had long known Yao Yulou was a defector from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. Yao Yulou began to understand Sikong Jing’s connection to the remnants of Su Old Devil and the truth behind his own role in the Sikong Buwang incident.

• Yao Yulou severely injured Pei Feishan, but Pei Feishan escaped the Imperial artifact blockade using artifacts of his own.
• As Pei Feishan turned to flee, Sikong Jing stabbed him from hiding and killed him with a sword thrust through his brow.
• Yao Yulou freed himself and confronted Sikong Jing, asking when he had begun to suspect him.
• Sikong Jing said he had seen Yao Yulou kill a Thousand Kings Holy Tower envoy at the Healing Clinic in Chaos District Eight and had known the truth ever since.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had not exposed Yao Yulou because he opposed the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and would have been killed if he had spoken up.
• Yao Yulou connected Sikong Jing’s grudge to the remnants of Su Old Devil and realized Xiu Hanzhi had deliberately left him in the Eastern Tyrant Branch while he helped Master Wuji.