Recaps

Yang Yi and the Yao Residence fighters killed the wounded Black Mist Pavilion expert, but the last Emperor Martial Stage enemy captured Sikong Jing and demanded the Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation. Sikong Jing asked about his battle body and judged that he might be able to defeat him.

• Yang Yi ambushed the Black Mist Pavilion expert with the Army-Slaying Formation, and the Yao Residence fighters finished him off after Hua Meixi tore out his heart.
• The Yao Residence guards gathered, confident after killing three Emperor Martial Stage experts, but the fourth enemy trapped Sikong Jing in his true energy.
• The fourth expert threatened to kill Sikong Jing if the others formed the Army-Slaying Formation and offered to spare him if he handed over the formation.
• Sikong Jing asked the expert’s battle-body rank, learned it was third-grade, and decided he could try to defeat an opponent at that level.

Sikong Jing broke free from an Emperor Martial Stage expert’s true-energy cage and killed him, stunning the onlookers. When a Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce expert arrived and tried to leave, Sikong Jing led the Yao Residence’s hundred-man formation in pursuit and fatally wounded him.

• Sikong Jing broke the Emperor Martial Stage expert’s true-energy cage and killed him with a halberd strike.
• The spectators were stunned that Sikong Jing had slain an Emperor Martial Stage expert despite being at the peak of the Spirit Movement Realm and lacking a battle body.
• A Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce expert arrived, saw the dead experts, and said he had no interest in fighting the hundred-man formation.
• Sikong Jing accused the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce of serving the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and ordered the Yao Residence fighters to pursue the fleeing expert.
• Sikong Jing led the hundred-man formation through successive battle forms and pierced the Jade Appraisal expert through the chest.

Sikong Jing and his hundred companions killed a Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce Emperor Martial Stage expert with their formation and escaped to recover. Pei Yuzheng learned that Pei Feie's cousin had died and ordered the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce to keep Sikong Jing out of rival forces’ hands until he could confront him in Shaking One District.

• Sikong Jing led his hundred companions to kill the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce expert, who warned that others would covet their formation before dying.
• Sikong Jing ordered his group to move covertly and recover their true qi, while nearby onlookers realized that a hundred young fighters had killed an Emperor Martial Stage expert.
• Pei Feie told Pei Yuzheng that his cousin had been killed, and Pei Yuzheng concluded that Sikong Jing’s formation could defeat an expert in the second major realm of the Emperor Martial Stage.
• Pei Yuzheng chose to prioritize winning the District-Seizing War rather than immediately pursuing Sikong Jing, but ordered Pei Feie to keep Sikong Jing from falling into another major power’s hands and ensure he reached Shaking One District.

Pei Yuzheng sent Pei Feie to hunt Sikong Jing while leading the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s Emperor Martial experts toward Shaking One District. As spectators followed the battle, they found the corpses of several factions’ experts and learned that Sikong Jing’s formation could kill second-major-realm Emperor Martial experts, then saw hundreds of powerful fighters converging on his route.

• Pei Yuzheng refused to trust the factions that had pledged allegiance, ordered Pei Feie to track down Sikong Jing, and led ten Emperor Martial experts toward Shaking One District.
• After Chang Ao allowed the spectators to enter, more than a thousand Divine Shuttle Ships followed the route toward the third entry point, where the He family head threatened Duanmu Chun and the Yao Residence.
• The spectators discovered the corpses of the Black Mist Pavilion and other factions, and realized Sikong Jing’s formation had killed at least four Emperor Martial experts without losing anyone from the Yao Residence.
• Yao Yuzhi told Duanmu Chun that the formation had performed as Sikong Jing promised, but Duanmu Chun urged the Yao Residence to keep pursuing them until they could join up with Brother Jade Tower and the four reclusive experts.
• The spectators found a dead Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce expert, then spotted hundreds or thousands of Emperor Martial experts gathering toward Sikong Jing as they reached the edge of Shaking Seven District.

Sikong Jing led the Yao Residence guards through Shaking Districts while hundreds of Emperor Martial Stage experts hunted them, using hidden routes and surprise attacks to avoid capture. After nearly a hundred pursuers died and others withdrew, an elderly couple approached the remaining hunters.

• Sikong Jing told the Yao Residence guards they would travel to Shaking Second District to meet Yao Yulou and promised they would evade the pursuing experts.
• Sikong Jing used scouting beasts and concealed routes to lead the group from Shaking Eighth District into Shaking Seventh District without being discovered.
• Sikong Jing offered to attack three nearby Emperor Martial Stage experts, and the Yao Residence guards killed them before more than a hundred pursuers arrived and found only their corpses.
• Over the next two days and nights, Sikong Jing’s group repeatedly killed isolated Emperor Martial Stage experts and disappeared, leaving nearly a hundred dead and prompting some hunters to withdraw.
• The remaining hunters argued over whether to continue pursuing Sikong Jing as an elderly couple carrying hoes walked toward them.

An elderly couple secretly aided Sikong Jing by killing more than twenty Emperor Martial Stage experts, while observers struggled to track his hundred-man group. Sikong Jing then appeared openly in Shaking Third District, where he reassured frightened factions that he had come to find someone, not claim their battle flag.

• An elderly couple killed more than twenty Emperor Martial Stage experts with their hoes, then discussed Sikong Jing’s mysterious movements as they departed.
• The Divine Shuttle Ships discovered the corpses and concluded that Sikong Jing’s hundred-man group had reached Shaking Fourth District, while observers speculated about who had killed the victims.
• Duanmu Chun recognized the elderly couple’s handiwork and told Yao Yuzhi that Tyrant Soul Venerable’s two subordinates were nearby to help Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing and the Yao Residence’s hundred men appeared openly at a courtyard in Shaking Third District where several factions were fighting over a battle flag.
• The terrified fighters offered Sikong Jing the battle flag, but he entered the courtyard and said that he had come to find someone.

Sikong Jing used the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation to kill a Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce expert who had been tracking him. He left the young contestants too frightened to send messages, then vanished again as spectators watched, while the District-Seizing War advanced toward its decisive battle.

• Sikong Jing used Shadow Moon Flash Strike to force a Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce Emperor Martial Stage expert out of hiding beneath the Yao Residence courtyard.
• Sikong Jing reminded the expert that Jade Appraisal and Overlord Heaven were already mortal enemies, then killed him with a formation-powered halberd strike.
• Yao Residence guards retrieved the expert's corpse, and Sikong Jing left the young contestants to continue fighting over the battle flag.
• Sikong Jing asked whether anyone planned to send a message, and the contestants shook their heads, afraid he would kill them all.
• Spectators aboard Divine Shuttle Ships watched Sikong Jing and his group vanish again despite hundreds of Emperor Martial Stage experts searching for them.
• Observers noted that the contestants had entered Shaking Third District and that a major battle was approaching at the border of Shaking Second District and Shaking One District.

Pei Feie’s reckless pursuit of Sikong Jing left the Jade Appraisal Chamber’s geniuses exposed, and four Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce elders wiped them out. The massacre ended the Chamber’s District-Seizing War and set up a confrontation between Gong Ying and Sikong Jing in Shaking Second District.

• Pei Feie learned that two of his subordinates had died, then left the Jade Appraisal experts and geniuses to pursue Sikong Jing.
• Four elders from the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce ambushed the Jade Appraisal group and killed all six Emperor Martial Stage experts and one hundred geniuses.
• Pei Feie discovered their shattered life lamps and realized the Jade Appraisal Chamber had lost the war and would fall to Shaking Eight District for ten years.
• News of the massacre spread across Chaos-Shaking City, where factions anticipated the Jade Appraisal Chamber’s territory being divided among its rivals.
• Gong Ying vowed to kill Sikong Jing in Shaking Second District and exchanged a knowing glance with an elder from the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect.

Sikong Jing’s group discovered that Gong Ying had allied with the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect to trap them before the Yao Residence, where Yao Yulou was surrounded and held as leverage. As the group advanced to confront the ambush, Duanmu Chun recognized the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect among the attackers.

• Sikong Jing used little demon beasts to learn that Emperor Martial Stage experts from the Eastern Tyrant Branch, the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect, and other pursuing forces were waiting before the Yao Residence.
• Di Geng threatened to kill Yao Yulou unless Sikong Jing and his group came to the residence, forcing them to approach the trap.
• Sikong Jing led the group toward the Yao Residence and prepared to unleash the Beast Slaughter Array if necessary.
• Yao Yuzhi and the others saw Yao Yulou surrounded, while Di Geng and Li Feng stood at the residence gates.
• Duanmu Chun identified three Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect experts beside Di Geng and Li Feng and challenged the sect over its alliance with Gong Ying.

Sikong Jing and the Yao Residence group arrived to face more than a thousand Emperor Martial Stage experts, while Yao Yulou could not retaliate without violating the District-Seizing War's rules. Di Geng revealed that the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect had poisoned the people inside the Yao Residence and threatened their lives, leaving Sikong Jing and his allies confronting a fresh crisis.

• Five Herbs Venerable and Gong Ying dismissed Duanmu Chun as Sikong Jing and the Yao Residence group appeared below.
• Di Geng mocked Yao Yulou's inability to use an Army-Slaying Formation, while the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect and Li Feng claimed their poison was no violation of the rules.
• Sikong Jing and his group reached the Yao Residence gates and faced the pressure of more than a thousand Emperor Martial Stage experts.
• A maid brought out the unconscious Xiao Min and warned Yao Yulou and Sikong Jing that she was about to die, prompting Yang Yi to try to reach her.
• A Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect expert said Xiao Min would not die immediately, and Di Geng revealed that the old, weak, sick, and disabled residents were also being poisoned.

Di Geng threatened the Yao Residence with poison and demanded that Sikong Jing kneel and trade the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation for an antidote formula. Sikong Jing stalled while secretly preparing the Beast Slaughter Array and waiting for Old Xiu, as hidden allies gathered nearby.

• Sikong Jing realized the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect had poisoned the Yao Residence, while Di Geng claimed the poison had seeped into its formation by accident.
• Di Geng warned that opening the formation could get the residents killed and demanded Sikong Jing hand over the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation for the antidote formula.
• Sikong Jing stayed silent as Xiao Min's condition worsened, secretly waiting for more monster beasts to assemble and hoping Old Xiu could produce an antidote.
• Four hidden old allies discussed protecting Sikong Jing and the formation, while the old farm woman noticed unusual numbers of little demon birds gathering nearby.

Sikong Jing prepared to unleash the Beast Slaughter Array as Li Feng threatened Yao Yulou, but Jiang Wanyou arrived with an antidote that cured Xiao Min and the other poisoned residents. With the Yao Residence gates closed, Sikong Jing withdrew some of his army patterns but left the patterns on Yang Yi and the others as he prepared to fight without using the array at its greatest power.

• Sikong Jing stood firm against Li Feng’s demand to kneel and spread black army patterns across the battlefield, linking them to nearby demon beasts and insects.
• Li Feng threatened to kill Yao Yulou unless Sikong Jing withdrew his patterns, while Sikong Jing claimed he was recording the Army-Slaying Formation and began forming a sword shadow.
• Jiang Wanyou gave Xiao Min an antidote at the Yao Residence gates, and Xiao Min woke, proving the poison had been cured.
• Jiang Wanyou told Sikong Jing the other victims had recovered, then closed the gates with Yao Yulou still held at swordpoint.
• Sikong Jing withdrew the patterns around him but kept them on Yang Yi and the others, deciding not to unleash the Beast Slaughter Array at its greatest power.

Sikong Jing unleashed the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation to break the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect’s hostage threat, while Yao Yulou revealed his hidden strength and struck back at Li Feng. The battle split into two desperate fronts, and Duanmu Chun challenged Gong Ying to explain how the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce had been wiped out.

• After the poison plot failed, Li Feng and Di Geng threatened to kill Yao Yulou unless Sikong Jing handed over the formation and Tyrant Soul Inheritance.
• Sikong Jing answered with Furious Dragon Roar, blasting many Emperor Martial Stage experts away from the Yao Residence gates.
• Li Feng tried to stab Yao Yulou, but Yao Yulou revealed he had reached the third realm of the Emperor Martial Stage and sent Li Feng flying with his sword energy.
• Yao Yulou pierced Li Feng with a blazing sword strike as Di Geng called on the three Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect experts to attack him.
• More than a thousand Emperor Martial Stage experts surrounded Sikong Jing’s group, while Di Geng and the three sect experts closed in on Yao Yulou.
• Gong Ying laughed at the resistance, and Duanmu Chun coldly asked her how the Jade Appraisal Chamber of Commerce had been wiped out.

The Four Great Mad Demons arrived to fight for the Yao Residence, and Sikong Jing used their arrival to draw the thousand-plus Emperor Martial Stage pursuers away from the gates. After the Four Great Mad Demons and Yao Yulou defeated the remaining enemies, Yao Yulou hurried after Sikong Jing.

• The Four Great Mad Demons introduced themselves as Yao Residence allies and asked Sikong Jing for orders.
• Sikong Jing told the Four Great Mad Demons to protect his allies, attacked the surrounding cultivators, and fled toward the rear of the Yao Residence.
• Nearly all the Emperor Martial Stage cultivators pursued Sikong Jing, leaving Di Geng and the Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect experts behind.
• Yang Yi recognized Sikong Jing's plan, and the Four Great Mad Demons joined Yao Yulou in attacking the remaining enemies.
• Yao Yulou killed Di Geng and the three Ten Thousand Herbs Holy Sect experts, left Li Feng to Yang Yi, and rushed after Sikong Jing.

The Four Great Mad Demons chose to escort the Yao Residence survivors to Shaking One District while trusting Sikong Jing to evade his pursuers, and Yang Yi killed Li Feng for his past abuses of the Heavenly Wolf Team. The chapter ended with Sikong Jing trapped between two Emperor Martial Stage experts as Yao Yulou faced a blockade of more than a hundred others.

• The Four Great Mad Demons refused to pursue Sikong Jing and prepared to take the Yao Residence survivors to Shaking One District.
• Yang Yi confronted Li Feng over the deaths and injuries caused by his missions and killed him with a sword.
• The Four Great Mad Demons escorted the Yao Residence survivors away while Cang Lin taunted Five Herbs Venerable and Gong Ying blamed Duanmu Chun for Sikong Jing's abilities.
• Observers spotted Sikong Jing surrounded above a lake by two Emperor Martial Stage experts as more pursuers closed in.
• Yao Yulou found his path blocked by more than a hundred Emperor Martial Stage experts and demanded to know why they were not pursuing Sikong Jing.

Yao Yulou fought a coalition of over a hundred Emperor Martial Stage experts while Sikong Jing killed two injured pursuers and escaped a larger group by hiding inside a demon fish. After striking from within the fish, Sikong Jing killed one of the pursuers, leaving the others searching for an unseen assassin.

• A leader revealed that over a hundred Emperor Martial Stage experts had allied to capture Yao Yulou and use him to threaten Sikong Jing, then they charged at Yao Yulou.
• Sikong Jing identified the injuries of two martial brothers who had tracked him with medicinal powder and killed them with the Tyrant War King Halberd.
• More than a dozen Emperor Martial Stage experts attacked Sikong Jing, so he plunged into the lake and concealed his aura inside a demon fish.
• Sikong Jing thrust a sword from inside the fish and pierced an Emperor Martial Stage expert through the skull.
• The remaining pursuers found the floating corpse and concluded that an assassin had struck.

Sikong Jing trapped several dozen Emperor Martial Stage experts underwater with a Beast Slaughter Array formed by the lake’s demon fish and began killing them while disguising the array as an assassination. As more pursuers gathered above the lake, the first corpse floated to the surface, revealing that something had gone wrong below.

• Several dozen Emperor Martial Stage experts sealed the lake above and below, then entered to search for Sikong Jing.
• The experts found Sikong Jing sitting openly on an ice-blue lake turtle, but black military patterns linked to the demon fish bound them all.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had formed a Beast Slaughter Array in the lake and attacked the trapped experts with his sword.
• Sikong Jing pierced one expert’s skull, freed the corpse from the array, and continued stabbing the others while they struggled to break free.
• Gong Ying predicted that the experts would capture Sikong Jing, as several dozen more pursuers arrived above the lake.
• A string of bubbles rose from the lake, and a corpse slowly floated to the surface.

Sikong Jing escaped the lake after killing dozens of Emperor Martial Stage experts, while Yao Yulou slaughtered over a hundred more. As the experts formed an alliance to besiege them, Sikong Jing traveled toward Shaking One District and broke through to the Shadow Wielding Realm.

• Dozens of Emperor Martial Stage experts surfaced dead, and the survivors suspected a terrifying powerhouse lurked beneath the lake.
• Duanmu Chun spotted Tyrant Lotus Venerable aboard a Divine Shuttle Ship but kept her presence secret.
• Yao Yulou appeared after killing over a hundred Emperor Martial Stage experts and charged toward the lake, prompting the gathered experts to form an alliance against him and Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing escaped through an undercurrent on the lake turtle and sent a demon bird to tell Yao Yulou he was safe and to support Captain Hua and the others without fighting.
• Sikong Jing continued toward Shaking One District and broke through to the Shadow Wielding Realm beneath the river.

Sikong Jing secretly entered Shaking One District as Yao Yulou escaped the forces surrounding him. When Thousand Kings Holy Tower swept into the district, the other factions rushed to follow, leaving Yao Yuzhi uncertain what to do.

• Sikong Jing broke through to the third major realm of the Spirit Martial Stage, reached the Heavenly King Realm with both spirit shadows, and slipped into Shaking One District underwater.
• Yao Yulou read Sikong Jing's message on a little monster bird, then used his sword light to escape the encirclement instead of letting the enemy use him to threaten Sikong Jing.
• Gong Ying and the other fighters debated whether Sikong Jing had escaped, while the Emperor Martial Stage fighters refused to enter the dangerous lake to look for him.
• The factions learned that Thousand Kings Holy Tower and its allies had entered Shaking One District with several thousand people to seize its battle flags.
• Cang Lin and the other faction leaders ordered their forces into Shaking One District, while Yao Yuzhi asked Chief Duanmu what the Yao Residence should do.

Duanmu Chun learned from Tyrant Lotus Venerable that Sikong Jing had already reached Shaking One District, and hurried there with the others. Sikong Jing hid near the river as Pei Yuzheng arrived with thousands of followers to claim the district’s banners.

• Tyrant Lotus Venerable returned to the Yao Residence's Divine Shuttle Ship and told Duanmu Chun that Sikong Jing had left long ago and was likely in Shaking One District.
• Duanmu Chun piloted the Divine Shuttle Ship toward Shaking One District, while Tyrant Lotus Venerable also rushed there to search for Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing emerged from a river in Shaking One District, saw thousands of people arriving from Shaking Second District, and concealed himself.
• Pei Yuzheng told his followers to spread out and seize the battle flags, while he planned to claim the Chaos-Shaking Sacred Banner.
• A follower lamented that Sikong Jing had prevented Thousand Kings Holy Tower from claiming all ninety-nine Chaos-Shaking Imperial Banners, causing the celebratory mood to falter.

Pei Yuzheng sent his followers to seize battle banners while planning to deal with Sikong Jing later, believing Sikong would not reach Shaking One District. Sikong Jing secretly overheard him and went to an ordinary banner courtyard, where he moved to intercept Xiaotai as the young man tried to claim its banner.

• Pei Yuzheng told his followers he would delay claiming the sacred banner so they could capture more ordinary battle banners, then sent them across Shaking One District.
• Pei Yuzheng learned that Sikong Jing was reportedly trapped beneath a lake by nearly a thousand Emperor Martial Stage experts and discussed Yao Yulou's actions with his subordinates.
• Pei Yuzheng and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower members headed toward the center of Shaking One District to locate the Chaos-Shaking Sacred Banner.
• Sikong Jing emerged from hiding after overhearing them and went to a nearby courtyard containing an ordinary battle banner.
• A group affiliated with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower solved the courtyard's challenge, and Xiaotai prepared to bind the banner with his blood.
• An arrow-light suddenly shot into the courtyard as Xiaotai was about to touch the banner.

Sikong Jing secretly hunted forces that had pledged allegiance to Thousand Kings Holy Tower, killing their flag-seizing teams to limit the number of battle flags the tower could claim. As Shaking One District descended into chaos, newcomers discovered his first massacre and found its battle flag untouched.

• Sikong Jing ambushed Xiao Tai’s group, killing ten young geniuses with hidden arrows before slaying their Emperor Martial Stage leader with a sword.
• Sikong Jing tracked another team to a courtyard where its flag had already been claimed, then killed the remaining nine geniuses and their Emperor Martial Stage leader.
• Sikong Jing continued assassinating Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s allies across Shaking One District, avoiding formidable third-realm Emperor Martial experts and leaving claimed flags untouched.
• The major forces charged into Shaking One District, ordering their people to hunt Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s defectors and seize the Holy Flag and Emperor Flag.
• Newcomers found eleven corpses in Sikong Jing’s first courtyard and wondered why the battle flag remained unclaimed.

After an unseen killer slaughtered disciples of the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s allied sects while leaving their battle flags untouched, the factions gathered above Shaking One District debated the Holy Tower’s growing power. Venerable Falling Night’s boast that its forces would soon wave their flags together collapsed as he saw corpses being carried from courtyards across the district.

• An elderly Emperor Martial Stage expert concluded that a lone Emperor Martial Stage killer had targeted followers of the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, and the factions denied responsibility when a bloodshot Emperor Martial Stage powerhouse arrived to claim eleven bodies.
• More Emperor Martial Stage powerhouses emerged across Chaos-Shaking City, discovering that their disciples had been killed in similar attacks by hidden arrows.
• The factions gathered above Shaking One District, where a Venerable lamented their inability to unite against the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and Venerable Falling Night argued that submission was inevitable.
• Cang Lin rebuked Venerable Falling Night for betraying his sect’s principles, but Falling Night boasted that allied forces would soon control many courtyards and wave their battle flags together.
• An unseen woman said she had seen corpses rather than waving flags, and Venerable Falling Night looked down to see people grieving over bodies across the district.

Sikong Jing’s hidden assassinations killed a third of the followers aligned with Thousand Kings Holy Tower, ruining their early advantage in Shaking One District. As battle erupted over the central flags, Sikong Jing prepared to leave but gave a nearby woman the battle flag from the courtyard behind him.

• Falling Night Venerable and the other factions discovered that many Thousand Kings Holy Tower followers had been killed by arrows and sword strikes, but Chang Ao said no one could have entered the district ahead of time.
• Cang Lin and another Venerable mocked Falling Night Venerable as the deaths crippled his faction’s chances of seizing half the courtyards, while Tyrant Lotus Venerable recognized Sikong Jing as the assassin.
• Pei Yuzheng received reports that a third of his followers had been killed and ordered his people to seize the Imperial Flags and solve the Sacred Flag formation puzzles.
• Tie Ti'er led Ancient Sacred Peak into battle against Thousand Kings Holy Tower and its allies, and other major sects joined the fight.
• Sikong Jing left a courtyard near the center, saw the fighting begin, and offered its battle flag to a frightened woman who called his name.

Sikong Jing left Yan Zhengzheng with a battle flag after she discovered the corpses of the people he had assassinated. When an Emperor Martial Stage expert attacked her, the flag’s connection to the Chaos-Shaking City Grand Formation protected her, and Sikong Jing killed the expert from the rear courtyard.

• Sikong Jing walked past Yan Zhengzheng and left her to discover ten bodies in a courtyard, including an Emperor Martial Stage expert and nine young geniuses.
• Sikong Jing returned and asked Yan Zhengzheng what would happen if someone attacked a battle-flag holder, then warned her to claim the flag or die.
• Yan Zhengzheng claimed the battle flag just as a third-major-realm Emperor Martial Stage expert arrived and accused her of killing his disciples.
• The expert attacked Yan Zhengzheng, but the Chaos-Shaking City Grand Formation blasted him back after the battle flag protected her.
• As the wounded expert prepared to leave with the corpses, Sikong Jing struck from the rear courtyard and pierced his brow with a sword.