Arc 7Chapters 151–175
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Su Yuexi resisted Yan Ao’s attempt to claim her, and Sikong Jing arrived in time to confront him. Sikong Jing’s punch forced Yan Ao back, but Yan Ao’s forces and the Yun Province City War Office troops faced off in the courtyard.
Sikong Jing’s reunion with the Five Dragon Generals revealed that they had been shackled and publicly condemned as battlefield criminals. Though they recognized him as their surviving Marshal, Sikong Jing silently signaled that they could not acknowledge each other yet.
The million battlefield criminals recognized Sikong Jing and knelt to honor him, but Yan Ao mistook their gesture for worship of himself and demanded Sikong Jing surrender his wife. Their battle aura killed Yan Ao and his allies, while Sikong Jing resolved to save them all and broke through to the Earth Realm.
After Yan Ao was killed, Sikong Jing persuaded Fan Zhong to support his plan to gather one hundred thousand troops, while concealing his true identity. The Su Clan remained under guard, but Sikong Jing assured Su Zhenglong that the Yun-Suppressing King could not harm him.
Sikong Jing prepared for the conflict surrounding his million soldiers while his family reunited, then the Lord of Yun Province came to escort him to meet Yan Ruyu. The chapter ended with Sikong Jing being carried to Yun Province Residence, where the Ninth Princess was waiting.
Yan Ruyu taunted Sikong Jing about his suffering and his imprisoned brothers before taking him to see thousands of caged demonic beasts. She revealed that she intended to feed the beasts a million battlefield criminals, leaving Sikong Jing to suppress his rage and conceal his power.
Yan Ruyu told Sikong Jing that Yuwen Guan would use his title and dantian to win glory before a victory banquet where the million battlefield criminals would be fed to demon beasts. As thousands of captive beasts recognized Sikong Jing as their Beast King and begged for rescue, he promised to save them and received their demon-power circulation methods.
Sikong Jing endured the extraordinary demon beasts’ spiritual pressure and began organizing their power-circulation methods by inscribing them onto Green Jade Slates. At Luoshui Jade Firm’s warehouse, his rapid attempts drew the attention of Luo Ning and Xiaohuan, and Xiaohuan was injured after examining his first successful slate.
Sikong Jing inscribed 107 Green Jade Slates with powerful Earth-grade martial skills, astonishing Luo Ning and Luo Shuizhe. As he finished, his cultivation surged from the Earth Realm’s third level to its fifth, leaving them stunned.
Sikong Jing reached the peak of the Earth Realm but could not break through, so he returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison for answers. The beasts revealed that he had to fuse the circulation methods of 108 extraordinary demon beasts to pass the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art’s first hurdle.
Sikong Jing observed the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and nearly awakened his Beast Heart before the Golden Divine Dragon sent him away. Outside the Luoshui Jade Firm warehouse, the Lei Ying Merchant Guild cornered Luo Shuizhe and Luo Ning, but Sikong Jing's terrifying presence emerged from within.
Sikong Jing accidentally killed Lei Ying and the Lei Ying Merchant Guild with a beast-like aura while defending himself, then offered Luo Ning 107 Earth-grade Green Jade Slates in exchange for Green Jade Paper. Luo Ning and Luo Shuizhe concealed what happened from the firm’s people, who were left stunned by the unexpected windfall.
Sikong Jing began secluded research into combining the demonic power circulation of 108 extraordinary demonic beasts while the Yun Province Grand Competition was postponed. At Yanyun City, Xia Dielian crushed Yuwen Guan’s assaults and taunted him by naming Sikong Jing, leaving Yuwen stunned that the supposedly crippled man had become a Yun Province commander.
Xia Dielian learned that Sikong Jing was the true Invincible Divine General and sent her army toward Yun Province City, while Sui Yu returned to persuade her to help him. As the Yun Province Grand Competition began, Sikong Jing prepared to face what was coming and protect his family.
Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi attended the Yun Province Grand Competition, where Yan Ruyu announced that a divine being had bestowed 107 Earth-grade Green Jade Slates upon the people of Yun Province. Sikong Jing realized the slates were the ones he had inscribed, but Luo Shuizhe explained that he had publicly credited them to a divine being and had not told Yan Ruyu Sikong Jing's identity.
Sikong Jing watched Yan Ruyu’s martial arts demonstration and sensed a breakthrough, while a messenger reported that Yuwen Guan had suffered a catastrophic defeat beneath Yanyun City. Yan Ruyu killed the messenger, concealed the defeat from the crowd, and ordered the execution of one hundred thousand battlefield criminals.
Yan Ruyu ordered one hundred thousand battlefield criminals executed to break Sikong Jing, but he turned the execution into a revolt. The shackles were severed, and the freed soldiers gathered around him as he ordered them to rescue their nine hundred thousand brothers.
Sikong Jing openly declared war on Yan Ruyu and revealed that she had crippled him, while stalling for time as his forces worked to free the battlefield convicts. He summoned a thousand Brocade Sect experts, and Yan Ruyu was shocked to find them alive.
Sikong Jing rallied the Brocade Sect, Fan Zhong, and Yun Province’s imprisoned soldiers against Yan Ruyu, but ordered them to hold their positions rather than waste their lives while their true qi remained locked. Yan Ruyu waited for Yuwen Guan’s arrival and resumed the Yun Province Grand Competition, where Su Yuexi began her match.
As Su Yuexi won her match, Sikong Jing used her performance of the 108th beast technique to begin merging the techniques and prepare to free the demon beasts. Yan Ruyu took Su Yuexi aside and revealed that Sikong Jing was the Invincible Divine General of Great Shang.
Su Yuexi learned that Yan Ruyu had ruined Sikong Jing after his military victories and slapped the princess twice for humiliating him. When Yan Ruyu ordered Su Yuexi thrown to the demonic beasts, Su Yuexi revealed her beauty and challenged Yan Ruyu’s claim to be Great Shang’s number one beauty, leaving Yan Ruyu to order Leng Huo beheaded.
Sikong Jing broke through to the Heaven Realm after Su Yuexi jumped into the trench, then used his blood to free the extraordinary demonic beasts Yan Ruyu had chained. The beasts protected Su Yuexi and emerged with her alive, while Sikong Jing declared they would answer his call and execute Yan Ruyu.
Sikong Jing revealed that Yan Ruyu had unknowingly helped him master the beast techniques that freed thousands of Extraordinary demon beasts, then led his forces in an assault on her army. Yan Ruyu began to lose ground until Steward Nian arrived and explained that Sikong Jing had also caused Yuwen Guan to return to Yun Province.
Sikong Jing evacuated his family and forces from Yun Province City before Yuwen Guan arrived, but Yuwen Guan caught up with him outside the city. Their confrontation ended with Yuwen Guan claiming he had taken Sikong Jing’s title of Invincible Divine General and that Sikong Jing’s dantian was inside his body.
Yuwen Guan revealed that he had stolen Sikong Jing’s dantian, but Sui Yu stabbed him and escaped to Sikong Jing’s side. Sikong Jing led his forces across Yun Province City toward another gate, where a second Yuwen Guan army awaited them.