Recaps

Sikong Jing broke through Yan Ruyu’s forces and continued his retreat, while Yan Su brought Yan Ruyu news that the Yun-Suppressing King had captured Su Yuexi’s family. When Sikong Jing learned that Su Yuexi had been captured, his true qi surged to the fourth level of the Heaven Realm.

• Sikong Jing used the demonic beasts’ roars to throw Yan Ruyu’s army into chaos, then led his million-strong force through the enemy ranks and seized horses as they fled.
• Yan Ruyu blamed herself to placate Yuwen Guan, who pursued Sikong Jing and sent messages ordering the remaining troops to encircle him.
• Yan Su arrived with Luo Shuizhe in a cage and told Yan Ruyu that the Yun-Suppressing King was pursuing Su Yuexi’s family; Yan Ruyu promised the estate imperial service if they captured Su Yuexi.
• Yan Su received word that the Yun-Suppressing King had captured Su Yuexi’s family, and Yan Ruyu rejoiced at the chance to use Su Yuexi against Sikong Jing.
• A Brocade Sect expert reached Sikong Jing’s force and reported that the Yun-Suppressing King had captured Su Yuexi before collapsing and dying.
• Sikong Jing was stunned and furious, and his true qi surged from the first to the fourth level of the Heaven Realm.

Sikong Jing tried to return to Yun Province City alone to save Su Yuexi, but Sui Yu and the soldiers disobeyed him and charged Yuwen Guan's army to protect him. Their sacrifice awakened Sikong Jing's Beast Heart, and the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison feared he would become a Bloodthirsty Magic Beast.

• Sikong Jing ordered his forces to break out while he rode back toward Yun Province City with the beast monsters.
• Sui Yu defied Sikong Jing's order and charged Yuwen Guan's army, followed by his personal guards, nearly a million soldiers, A-Hu, Old Zhang, and Fan Zhong.
• Sikong Jing watched his comrades risk their lives and demanded power, causing his Beast Heart to awaken as he charged into battle.
• The beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison realized Sikong Jing's newly awakened Beast Heart could drive him into demonic corruption, and the Divine Turtle saw that many people were dying for him.
• The Divine Turtle said the soldiers' true qi seals had to be broken, and the spider offered a shed leg whose toxin could undo the seals of at least half of them.

Sikong Jing used a giant spider leg to undo the true-energy locks on many of his soldiers while fighting Yuwen Guan's army. After giving orders to protect those still locked, he led several thousand demon beasts toward Yun Province City.

• Sikong Jing fought through Yuwen Guan's forces as his Beast Heart awakened and black and dark-blue scales appeared on his back.
• The Golden Divine Dragon told Sikong Jing to seize one leg of the Colorless Spider and swing it to undo the true-energy locks on his subordinates.
• Sikong Jing summoned the enormous spider leg and swung it down, scattering starlike fragments across the battlefield as Yuwen Guan's soldiers mistook the display for an illusion.
• Zhe Qiangwei and more than five hundred thousand soldiers reported that their true-energy locks had been undone.
• Sikong Jing ordered the newly unlocked soldiers to hold Yuwen Guan's forces, assigned A-Hu, Old Zhang, Fan Zhong, and Mo Yang to protect those still locked, and led several thousand demon beasts toward Yun Province City.

Sikong Jing’s army broke through Yuwen Guan’s forces, while Lü Ji broke his true qi lock and joined Guan Dadao in holding Yuwen Guan back. Sikong Jing reached Yun Province City, where Steward Nian threatened his loved ones and revealed that Su Yuexi was being held inside, leaving Sikong Jing facing an impossible choice.

• Sikong Jing’s soldiers cleared a path through Yuwen Guan’s army, and Guan Dadao blocked Yuwen Guan from pursuing him.
• Lü Ji broke his true qi lock and joined the bloodied Guan Dadao in fighting Yuwen Guan.
• The beasts realized Sikong Jing’s demonic corruption had only been temporarily stopped, and he rushed toward Yun Province City while still covered in demonic scales.
• Sikong Jing found Luo Shuizhe, Luo Ning, Su Zhenglong, Mei Xiaosu, Su Yuexian, and others bound above the city wall, but Su Yuexi was missing.
• Steward Nian brought Su Yuexi onto the city tower, then warned Sikong Jing that rescuing anyone on the wall would cost his wife her life.
• Su Yuexi pleaded with Sikong Jing to save her parents, while her family urged him to save her and the others.

Sikong Jing killed the Yun-Suppressing King and sent Su Zhenglong and the others away as he began transforming into a beast. At the Yun Province Governor's Residence, Su Yuexi drank Yan Ruyu's poisonous soup, and Steward Nian rushed her toward Sikong Jing.

• The Yun-Suppressing King revealed that he had captured Sikong Jing's family, and Sikong Jing killed him and the other people on the city wall.
• Sikong Jing freed Su Zhenglong, Mei Xiaofang, and the others, then asked them to build a grave for him and Su Yuexi if he did not return.
• The beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison could find no way to help Sikong Jing and prayed that Su Yuexi would survive.
• Yan Ruyu taunted Su Yuexi and threatened to disfigure her with Hundred Herbs Thousand Insects Soup.
• Su Yuexi drank the soup and collapsed, telling Yan Ruyu that Jing Gege would never despise her.
• Yan Ruyu ordered Steward Nian to take Su Yuexi to Sikong Jing, and Steward Nian carried her toward the city gate.

Sikong Jing rescued Su Yuexi from Steward Nian while nearly transformed into a demonic beast, and she recognized him despite their monstrous appearances. His blood neutralized the beast poison in her body but revealed another, deadlier poison, leaving the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison searching for an antidote.

• Steward Nian carried Su Yuexi through Yun Province City until Sikong Jing appeared and overwhelmed him, taking Su Yuexi back.
• Su Yuexi recognized Sikong Jing and explained that Yan Ruyu had given her poisoned soup, which she drank to keep Yan Ruyu from using her against him.
• Sikong Jing gave Su Yuexi his Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, but she screamed in pain as he discovered that she had been given another poison.
• Sikong Jing roared for Yan Ruyu to provide an antidote and vanished with Su Yuexi, while the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison realized his blood could not cure the remaining poison.
• A multicolored butterfly offered to gather the blood of a thousand beasts to cure her, but the beasts worried it would be too potent for a human even if diluted with water.

Sikong Jing reached Yun Province City with Su Yuexi, but learned that Yan Ruyu had poisoned her with a fatal concoction and fled. As Su Yuexi’s life faded, Sikong Jing began a terrifying transformation, while his army learned of her condition and charged back toward the city.

• Colorful Butterfly proposed diluting the blood of a thousand beasts, but the Golden Divine Dragon warned it could worsen the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ demonization and ordered the blood gathered first.
• Steward Nian fled Yun Province City with Yan Ruyu, claiming that Sikong Jing had brought a speaking demon beast and taken Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing arrived with Su Yuexi, killed the guards who attacked him, and learned from a maid commander that Yan Ruyu had escaped with Steward Nian.
• The maid commander revealed that Yan Ruyu had poisoned Su Yuexi with Hundred Herbs Thousand Insects Soup and that no antidote existed, so Sikong Jing crushed her and began transforming.
• The beasts across Yun Province and the armies on the battlefield sensed Sikong Jing’s terrifying change as Su Zhenglong told the generals that Su Yuexi might die and Sikong Jing did not want to live without her.
• Sui Yu ordered Sikong Jing’s million-strong army to break their true-energy seals and charge back toward Yun Province City.

Sikong Jing nearly completed his transformation into a Blood-Devouring Magic Beast, but Su Yuexi’s pleas helped him regain some consciousness, and the Golden Divine Dragon told him how to save her. As Sikong Jing rushed toward the nearest large lake, Xia Dielian learned of his predicament and hurried toward Yun Province City, where a black wind suddenly swept past her army.

• Yuwen Guan’s army routed under the million-strong force’s assault, and he fled while the soldiers charged back toward Yun Province City.
• Su Yuexi pleaded with the transformed Sikong Jing, and he regained enough awareness to speak her name.
• The Golden Divine Dragon told Sikong Jing to find the nearest large lake because the beasts could save Su Yuexi, and Sikong Jing flew away from the city.
• Xia Dielian learned that Sikong Jing had returned to Yun Province City to confront Yan Ruyu and ordered her army to hurry there so she could make him owe her a favor.
• A black wind passed over Xia Dielian’s army, terrifying its warhorses and sending soldiers tumbling from their saddles.

A half-demonized Sikong Jing rescued Su Yuexi and began an urgent, dangerous attempt to detoxify her with a powerful blood remedy. The chapter left him preparing to consume the remedy and dilute it with his Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, risking another fall into demonhood to save his wife.

• A black-gale demon beast frightened the Xia Kingdom army, and its experts warned that it was far beyond the Extraordinary Realm.
• A Xia Kingdom expert feared the beast had taken a beautiful woman to breed, alarming Xia Dielian.
• The demon beast returned, knocked Xia Dielian from her warhorse, and flew off riding the horse instead of taking her.
• Xia Dielian felt insulted that the beast had not chosen her and continued toward Yun Province City on another horse.
• Sikong Jing laid Su Yuexi across an extraordinary warhorse and prepared to use a Thousand-Beast Flower Blood Drop to detoxify her.
• The Golden Divine Dragon warned Sikong Jing to suppress the remedy's effects and dilute it with his Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, or Su Yuexi would die.

Sikong Jing endured the Thousand-Beast Flower Blood Drop’s power and diluted it to save Su Yuexi from the Hundred Herbs Poison. After three days, she recovered and woke, and they prepared to return to Yun Province City.

• Sikong Jing forced the Thousand-Beast Flower Blood Drop through his body, resisted the temptation to turn demonic, and fed the diluted blood to Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing diluted the remaining blood in a lake and fed it to Su Yuexi drop by drop, weakening her poison as his demonic scales and wings receded.
• After three days, Sikong Jing completely cured Su Yuexi’s poison, though the Golden Divine Dragon warned that she had lost her martial cultivation and would need time and medical help to recover.
• Su Yuexi opened her eyes on the fourth morning, and Sikong Jing embraced her after she recognized him.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi decided to return to Yun Province City and tell Father and Mother that they were alive.

Sikong Jing returned to Yun Province City with Su Yuexi after reviving her and bringing her to a lake in Entering Cloud Mountain. His arrival ended four days of uncertainty for the besieged city, while Xia Dielian demanded to know why he had her Blood-Flying Gorgeous-Winged Horse.

• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi they were at an unnamed lake in Entering Cloud Mountain and promised she could live wherever she wished once they controlled Yun Province.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi flew toward Yun Province City on Xia Dielian's Blood-Flying Gorgeous-Winged Horse.
• Xia Dielian confronted Sui Yu outside the city, demanding Sikong Jing surrender, while Sui Yu admitted he did not know where Sikong Jing had gone.
• Sikong Jing appeared in the sky above Yun Province City and announced that he had returned alive, prompting the city's soldiers to cheer.
• Su Zhenglong and Mei Xiaofang rushed toward the city walls, hoping to learn whether Su Yuexi had returned with Sikong Jing.
• Xia Dielian recognized her horse beneath Sikong Jing and demanded to know why he had it again.

Sikong Jing denied Xia Dielian’s claim to his Blood-Flying Gorgeous-Winged Horse and refused to join the Xia Kingdom, prompting her to surround him and threaten to capture him. He proved he could withstand a fifth-level Transcendent Realm expert’s attack, then broke through into the first level of the Extraordinary Realm.

• Xia Dielian recognized Second Red beneath Sikong Jing and ordered the horse to return, but it ignored her.
• Sikong Jing rejected Xia Dielian’s invitation and stopped the Five Dragon Generals from coming to his aid.
• Xia Dielian ordered several fifth Transcendent Realm experts to surround Sikong Jing and threatened to seize him outside Yun Province City.
• Sikong Jing used the Fusion Beast Skill: Heavenly Gang Spear to pierce the elder’s palm attack, astonishing the Xia Kingdom experts.
• When the elder challenged his cultivation, Sikong Jing used the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art and entered the first level of the Extraordinary Realm.

Sikong Jing broke through several Transcendent realms during the battle and seized Xia Dielian as a hostage, then reunited Su Yuexi with her family atop the city wall. He left Xia Dielian in his grasp as she demanded to know why he was repaying her this way.

• Sikong Jing rapidly advanced from the True Martial Realm to the peak of the Star Martial Realm, then said he had reached the Moon Martial Realm.
• Sikong Jing repelled the Xia Kingdom elder’s full-force attack with his Heavenly Gang Spear.
• Xia Dielian ordered several fifth-level Transcendent Realm experts to attack Sikong Jing, but he used Flowing Cloud Flying Blood to slip past them and seize her.
• Sikong Jing carried Xia Dielian to the city wall and held his spear to her throat, forcing the Xia Kingdom experts to stop.
• Su Yuexi reunited with Su Zhenglong, his wife, and Su Yuexian, and the family embraced in tears.
• Xia Dielian gritted her teeth and asked Sikong Jing if this was how he repaid her.

Sikong Jing held Xia Dielian in Yun Province City as the Xia Kingdom gathered troops outside, while he focused on strengthening his cultivation and finding a way to heal Su Yuexi. When Yuwen Guan and Yan Ruyu arrived with the Great Shang Dynasty’s ten-million-strong army, the forces formed a three-way standoff around the city.

• Sikong Jing kept Xia Dielian in the city and warned the Xia Kingdom forces that an attack would leave them vulnerable to the approaching Shang Kingdom army.
• Sikong Jing called Su Zhenglong and Mei Xiaofang his parents and reunited with them.
• Sikong Jing learned that physicians could not repair Su Yuexi’s damaged meridians, which might require a powerhouse above the extraordinary.
• Xia Dielian asked Sikong Jing about Erhong and the humanoid monster, but he dismissed her and prepared to train his personal guards in beast techniques.
• After hearing that the Shang Kingdom army had entered Yun Province, Sikong Jing ordered Xia Dielian bound and went to the city wall.
• Yuwen Guan and Yan Ruyu arrived with the Great Shang Dynasty’s army, which camped opposite the Xia Kingdom forces and created a three-way standoff around Yun Province City.

Sikong Jing confronted Yan Ruyu as the armies of Shang and Xia gathered outside Yun Province City, and Su Yuexi revealed that she had survived the poison. As Yan Ruyu tried to recruit Xia Kingdom with promises of territory, Sikong Jing countered by revealing that he held Xia Dielian captive.

• Yan Ruyu taunted Sikong Jing about Su Yuexi, but Su Yuexi appeared alive and beautiful and rebuked her before leaving the wall.
• Sikong Jing challenged Yan Ruyu to a fight, while she urged Xia Kingdom to join Shang and promised to cede Yun Province.
• Sui Yu declared that no one in Xia Kingdom could sign Yan Ruyu’s proposed agreement, and Xia Dielian was brought onto the wall as a prisoner.
• Sikong Jing asked Xia Kingdom’s temporary commander to ally with him against Yan Ruyu, while Yan Ruyu tried to turn the army against Sui Yu for killing the First Prince.
• Sikong Jing answered Yan Ruyu and Yuwen Guan by declaring that he had Xia Dielian.

Sikong Jing refused Xia Dielian’s demands, but Yan Ruyu revealed that the Sui Clan had been captured and threatened with execution. To save Sui Yu’s family, Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi offered themselves in exchange and descended from the city walls.

• Sikong Jing rejected Xia Dielian’s demands that Yun Province become a vassal territory and that Sui Yu be handed over.
• Yan Ruyu announced that the Sui Clan had been captured, then forced tens of thousands of its members to kneel under executioners’ blades.
• Sui Yu panicked at the sight of his family, and Sikong Jing promised to trade his own life for theirs.
• Sikong Jing offered himself to Yan Ruyu, and Su Yuexi joined him when Yan Ruyu demanded another hostage.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi clasped hands and descended from the walls, while Sikong Jing ordered everyone not to follow without his permission.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi entered Yan Ruyu’s army to force her to release the Sui Clan hostages, while Xia Dielian threatened to join Sikong Jing if they were not freed. Yan Ruyu ordered the hostages killed, but Sikong Jing used demonic beasts and a spider-leg fragment to free them, leaving Sui Wenzhan ready to lead them back to the city.

• Sikong Jing walked toward Yan Ruyu’s army with Su Yuexi, using his awakened Beast Heart to command demonic beasts.
• Yan Ruyu surrounded Sikong Jing and threatened to keep the Sui Clan hostages, while Sikong Jing ordered the Five Dragon Generals to stay on the city wall.
• Xia Dielian ordered the Xia Kingdom army to prepare to attack if Yan Ruyu refused to release the Sui Clan, and revealed that Yan Ruyu had arranged her eldest imperial brother’s death.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi entered the range of Yan Ruyu’s army, but Yan Ruyu ordered the butchers to kill the Sui Clan members.
• Sikong Jing made a pit open beneath the butchers, then used a fragment of the Colorless Great Spider’s shed leg to break the Sui Clan members’ true-energy locks.
• Sikong Jing told Sui Wenzhan to lead the freed Sui Clan members back to the city.

Sikong Jing used the Battle-Blood Beast Heart to withstand Yuwen Guan and protect the Sui Clan, then faced a million archers. Just as the arrows were about to fire, an enormous flying ship emerged from the clouds and stunned everyone.

• Sikong Jing killed a Desolate Martial Realm warrior, entrusted Su Yuexi to Sui Wenzhan's wife, and held off the Shang Kingdom army so the Sui Clan could escape.
• Sikong Jing awakened the Battle-Blood Beast Heart and blocked Yuwen Guan's attack, then fought him for a thousand moves without being defeated.
• Steward Nian warned Yan Ruyu that Sikong Jing could destroy the Great Shang Dynasty if he kept growing stronger, and Yan Ruyu ordered a million archers to fire.
• Sui Yu called for Sikong Jing to retreat, while Yuwen Guan demanded the chance to kill him himself.
• A huge wooden ship broke through the clouds and appeared in the sky, leaving everyone inside and outside Yun Province City stunned.

A Divine Void Ship from the Long Night Empire arrived at Yun Province City, revealing that outsiders beyond the Azure Dragon Domain came every two hundred years to recruit talented martial artists. Sikong Jing connected its arrival to the empires’ recurring upheavals, while Sui Yu was chosen to board the ship.

• Sikong Jing recalled the Golden Wild Kingdom ruler’s warning that the Divine Void Ship arrived every two hundred years and that those without Great Shang royal blood were in danger.
• A black-robed expert and General Ning arrived aboard the ship, and Sikong Jing realized they were powerful figures from beyond the Azure Dragon Domain.
• Elder Wei and General Ning sensed the Colorless Spider’s aura, but decided it came from a shed shell and stopped searching.
• General Ning said the Long Night Empire visited the Azure Dragon Small Domain every two hundred years to recruit martial artists with sufficient talent.
• Elder Wei selected Sui Yu to board the ship, and Sikong Jing connected the recruitment visit to the great reshuffling and the ruler’s warning.

Elder Wei and General Ning revealed that the Long Night Empire had come to recruit young people with strong martial roots, and Sui Yu and Xia Dielian were selected. Su Yuexian was chosen as well, but Elder Wei found her martial root impossible to measure.

• Elder Wei tested Sui Yu, found his martial root barely fourth-grade, and selected him to go to the Long Night Empire with his parents.
• Elder Wei explained the Empire's power and its recruitment mission, and Sui Yu agreed to go after Sikong Jing urged him.
• Elder Wei freed Xia Dielian, tested her upper fourth-grade martial root, and accepted her onto the ship.
• Elder Wei selected Su Yuexian, and Zhe Qiangwei carried her onto the Divine Void Ship.
• Elder Wei tested Su Yuexian and told General Ning that he could not measure her martial root.

Su Yuexian was revealed to have a martial root above the fifth grade, while Su Yuexi was dismissed as worthless because of her damaged meridians and dantian. Sikong Jing endured a Black Armor Warrior’s deadly strike to board the ship and seek a cure for Su Yuexi, but Elder Wei judged his martial root to be zero.

• General Ning tested Su Yuexian and discovered that her martial root surpassed the fifth grade, then summoned Su Yuexi and her parents aboard the Divine Void Ship.
• General Ning dismissed Su Yuexi after finding her meridians and dantian severely damaged, but Sikong Jing argued that she could become a powerful battle body once healed.
• A Black Armor Warrior attacked Sikong Jing for speaking out, and Sikong Jing survived the sword strike despite his spear shattering and blood appearing at his mouth.
• General Ning ordered the warrior to stop and allowed Sikong Jing aboard, while Sikong Jing resolved to endure so he could find a way to restore Su Yuexi.
• Elder Wei tested Sikong Jing and said his talent and martial comprehension were strong, but his rebuilt dantian had left his martial root at zero and made him worthless.

After Sikong Jing was rejected for having no martial root, General Ning ordered him and Su Yuexi off the ship and refused Su Yuexian’s request to bring them along. Su Yuexian and Su Zhenglong were chosen despite their objections, and the family faced an impossible choice over who could accompany them to the Long Night Empire.

• The Golden Divine Dragon explained that ordinary people could not detect Sikong Jing’s remolded dantian, true qi, or blood, while Elder Wei and General Ning dismissed his value because he had no martial root.
• General Ning ordered Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi off the Divine Void Ship and refused Su Yuexian’s request to bring them as family.
• When General Ning said selected people could not refuse, Su Yuexian chose to travel without her parents so they could remain in their homeland.
• Elder Wei tested Su Zhenglong, discovered his martial root exceeded the fifth grade, and General Ning selected him to travel.
• General Ning allowed Su Zhenglong to bring only two people, while Su Yuexian and her father could bring only two between them, leaving the family unable to decide who would be separated.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi were left behind as the Divine Void Ship departed, and Sikong Jing uncovered the dynasties’ scheme to control recruitment for the Long Night Empire. Yan Ruyu confirmed the truth and revealed that the royal families planned to erase everyone who knew about the ship’s arrival.

• Su Yuexi said goodbye to Su Zhenglong and his wife, and Sikong Jing promised to bring her to them again as the Divine Void Ship departed with its chosen passengers.
• Yuwen Guan demanded to know why he had not been selected, and Elder Wei explained that fusing Sikong Jing’s dantian had ruined his talent.
• Sikong Jing told Yuwen Guan that Yan Ruyu had deliberately prevented both of them from being selected and explained that the dynasties concealed the Long Night Empire’s recruitment.
• Yan Ruyu admitted that the dynasties destroyed non-royal geniuses to prevent them from gaining power, while Yuwen Guan realized she had deceived him.
• Yan Ruyu confirmed that the dynasties would make everyone who knew about the Divine Void Ship forget its arrival over time.

Sikong Jing secured Yun Province after Yan Ruyu and Yuwen Guan left, then built up its army while waiting for the great dynasties’ response. A month and a half later, Yan Ruyu revealed that the Divine Void Ship remained in Great Shang because Su Yuexian’s Seventh-Grade Martial Root had prompted General Ning to arrange a domain-wide selection.

• Yan Ruyu escaped to Great Shang Imperial City with Steward Nian and warned that the great dynasties might unite to destroy Yun Province.
• Yuwen Guan chose to return to Great Shang and serve Yan Ruyu, while Sikong Jing invited the armies to stay and fight for Yun Province.
• The Xia Kingdom’s troops withdrew, while nearly three million Shang Kingdom soldiers stayed and seven million moved to the border.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Five Dragon Generals to train the army in 108 beast skills and recruit across Yun Province.
• Over the next month and a half, Sikong Jing fortified Yun Province and built an army of six million soldiers.
• Yan Ruyu told Yan Tianmo that Su Yuexian’s Seventh-Grade Martial Root had led General Ning to begin a comprehensive selection across the Azure Dragon Domain.

Yan Tianmo prepared Great Shang for the Long Night Empire’s selection of ten million youths and ordered a smear campaign against Sikong Jing. Sikong Jing traveled to the Great Shang Imperial City alone, while Yan Tianmo rallied the gathered youths on the eve of the test.

• Yan Tianmo learned that the Long Night Empire would hold a domain-wide selection and ordered the Great Shang Dynasty to gather one million youths, while telling Yan Ruyu to kill Su Yuexian.
• Yan Tianmo ordered his officials to portray Sikong Jing as a traitor and urge Great Shang’s youths to make killing him their goal.
• After hearing about the selection, Sikong Jing left Yun Province in the Five Dragon Generals’ care, said goodbye to Su Yuexi, and rode to the Great Shang Imperial City.
• Sikong Jing flew over the city wall and identified himself to the imperial knights, then vanished as their commander sent word to Yan Tianmo.
• Yan Tianmo addressed the million youths gathered in the imperial city, promising rewards for their families and praising Great Shang on the eve of the test.