Recaps

Sikong Jing activated the Beast Slaughter Array and shattered the Thousand Kings Golden Light Tower’s formation, forcing Pei Kuang to rally troops and order beasts slaughtered across the city. As the battle spread, Qian Ta broke the traitorous pawns’ formation and challenged Sikong Jing to come fight for them.

• The Golden Storm War Dragon admitted Sikong Jing’s bloodline was too pure to suppress, while Sikong Jing activated the Beast Slaughter Array and broke the Golden Light Tower’s crushing force.
• Pei Kuang ordered all Thousand Kings troops to assemble and commanded his people to slaughter beasts throughout the city to stop Sikong Jing from controlling more of them.
• Sikong Jing directed the Beast Slaughter Array against the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s forces, while Pei Yugong and two veteran Saint Martial experts joined the defense.
• The Thousand Kings troops began forming Army-Slaying formations as their soldiers killed the beasts gathering around the city.
• Qian Ta broke the Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation of the pawns who had betrayed the Thousand Kings and challenged Sikong Jing to fight for them.
• Sikong Jing opened his eyes in his demonic beast form after Qian Ta called out to him.

Sikong Jing split his spirit shadow from his Magic Beast body, urging the Thousand Prison Tower pawns to break free and rescue their families as he fought Pei Kuang. Fu Miaoling’s plea moved the remaining pawns to join the resistance against Qian Ta, leaving all the pawns ready to storm the tower.

• Sikong Jing sent his beast-shaped spirit shadow into the carriage-pulling beast and urged the remaining pawns to charge into the Thousand Prison Tower for their families.
• Sikong Jing’s Magic Beast body unleashed the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation against Pei Kuang’s forces, forcing Pei Kuang to meet it with his own formation.
• Pei Kuang ordered Qian Ta to capture Sikong Jing, but the forty percent of pawns who had already rebelled rose again to block Qian Ta.
• Fu Miaoling revealed her identity and pleaded with the remaining pawns to fight rather than wait for death.
• One by one, the remaining pawns crushed their masks and joined the resistance until all of them were holding back Qian Ta and waiting for Sikong Jing to enter the tower.

Sikong Jing controlled the carriage-pulling monster beast, driving it into demonization and the Saint Martial Stage to hold Qian Ta back while the chess pieces stormed the Thousand Prison Tower. Jiang Wanyou awakened the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, reunited with Yao Yulou, and the chapter ended with Qian Ta attacking the fallen Magic Beast to reach Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing told the weakened Yao Yulou to find Jiang Wanyou, then drove the carriage-pulling monster beast into demonization to raise its strength.
• Jiang Wanyou awakened the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, killed the two Thousand Kings experts escorting her, and ran back to embrace Yao Yulou.
• Sikong Jing used the Saint Martial Stage Magic Beast to blast Qian Ta and ordered the chess pieces to enter the Thousand Prison Tower and rescue their families.
• The chess pieces tore through the tower’s protective formation, fought the guards, and began reuniting with their loved ones.
• Qian Ta knocked the Magic Beast away, then charged at it, intent on tearing it open and dragging Sikong Jing out.

Sikong Jing fought Qian Ta to buy time for the Thousand Prison Tower pawns while Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou faced a desperate choice. Jiang Wanyou revealed her awakened Fierce Charm Sacred Body, drawing Pei Kuang’s attention, and Sikong Jing kept Qian Ta from reaching them as the battle continued.

• Sikong Jing controlled the wounded carriage-pulling Magic Beast and fought Qian Ta while the Thousand Prison Tower pawns rescued their family members.
• Jiang Wanyou urged Yao Yulou to devour her so he could reach the Saint Martial Stage, but he refused.
• Sikong Jing sensed that Jiang Wanyou had awakened her Fierce Charm Sacred Body, and the Golden Storm War Dragon alerted Pei Kuang to her identity.
• Pei Kuang ordered Qian Ta to seize Jiang Wanyou, then tried to reach her himself but was held back by Sikong Jing’s Beast Slaughter Array.
• Qian Ta turned toward Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou, but Sikong Jing blocked his path with the carriage-pulling Magic Beast and resumed their fight.

Sikong Jing tried to protect Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou from Qian Ta while Pei Kuang’s forces pressed the attack. As Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou fled toward the Thousand Prison Tower, Hundred Tower appeared with Yao Yulou’s parents, giving Qian Ta new leverage.

• Jiang Wanyou prepared to sacrifice herself so Yao Yulou could gain strength and help Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing urged her to stay alive.
• Qian Ta split the magic beast pulling the carriage, and Sikong Jing’s true body struck back through the Beast Slaughter Array while Pei Kuang formed the Army-Slaying Formation to block further attacks.
• Sikong Jing escaped the destroyed beast and used the remaining eight golden demonic beasts to hold off Qian Ta while Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou fled.
• Sikong Jing ordered the beasts to turn demonic, using the destroyed beast’s corpse to fuel their transformations as they repeatedly blocked Qian Ta.
• Hundred Tower brought Yao Yulou’s elderly parents to the top of the Thousand Prison Tower, and Yao Yulou stopped in shock as Qian Ta praised Hundred Tower.

Sikong Jing’s allies fought to protect the Thousand Prison Tower’s chess pieces and their families as enemy forces closed in. Jiang Wanyou persuaded Yao Yulou to devour her so he could gain the power to turn the battle, and he began absorbing her.

• Hundred Tower threatened Yao Yulou’s parents, but an elderly Thousand Prison Tower chess piece stabbed Hundred Tower and rescued them.
• Sikong Jing continued holding off Qian Ta while the fighting inside the Thousand Prison Tower intensified and Pei Kuang’s forces gathered outside.
• Yao Yulou prepared to enter the tower with Jiang Wanyou, but she urged him to devour her to help save the people fighting inside.
• Yao Yulou promised to be with Jiang Wanyou after the battle, then bit her arm and began absorbing her Fierce Charm Sacred Body.

Jiang Wanyou sacrificed herself to awaken Yao Yulou’s Fierce Charm Sacred Body, while Sikong Jing broke through to the second major realm of the Saint Martial Stage to stop Pei Kuang from reaching them. Sikong Jing held Pei Kuang back with an empowered Beast Slaughter Array, but his dwindling Pure Spirit Heart left him only two hours to act.

• Jiang Wanyou gave Sikong Jing a final message for Mei Xi as her Fierce Charm Sacred Body transformed Yao Yulou and affected the battlefield.
• Pei Kuang ordered his Thousand Kings troops to break through Sikong Jing’s Beast Slaughter Array and kill Yao Yulou so he could seize the Fierce Charm Sacred Body.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his demonic energy, devoured the surrounding power, and reached the second major realm of the Saint Martial Stage.
• Sikong Jing forced several Emperor Realm demon beasts into his formation and used the strengthened Beast Slaughter Array to block Pei Kuang again.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had used his demon blood to suppress Jiang Wanyou’s Fierce Charm Sacred Body earlier, leaving Pei Kuang furious at the deception.

Jiang Wanyou continued to be consumed by Yao Yulou, urging him to break through while Pei Kuang’s forces fought to stop him. She revealed that willingly devouring a Fierce Charm Sacred Body multiplied its power many times over, then vanished into Yao Yulou, leaving him poised to face Pei Kuang and protect Sikong Jing.

• Pei Kuang attacked Sikong Jing’s beast form and ordered Qian Ta and the gathered forces to stop Yao Yulou, but Madam Raccoon remained focused on Pei Yusheng.
• Jiang Wanyou’s body and hand began dissolving into starlight as her Fierce Charm power flowed into Yao Yulou, and he could not stop the devouring.
• Sikong Jing sought help from the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, but Divine Turtle and the Blood Charm Demon Cat said they knew no way to intervene.
• At Jiang Wanyou’s urging, Yao Yulou broke through to the pinnacle Emperor Realm and then the Saint Martial Stage, approaching Qian Ta with her in his arms.
• Jiang Wanyou revealed that a willingly devoured Fierce Charm Sacred Body could multiply its power tenfold or even a hundredfold, then exploded into seven-colored starlight and merged completely into Yao Yulou.

Jiang Wanyou’s sacrifice drove Yao Yulou to the peak of the third major realm of Saint Martial, while Sikong Jing found a possible way to preserve her soul through Gan Wumie and the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl. Yao Yulou turned on Qian Ta, who tried to flee into the Thousand Prison Tower, and dragged him back with his blood-red true qi.

• Jiang Wanyou’s starlight merged into Yao Yulou, pushing him into the third major realm of Saint Martial as her dreamlike aura entranced those nearby.
• Sikong Jing threatened Gan Wumie inside the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl and demanded a way to save Jiang Wanyou’s soul and spirit shadow.
• Gan Wumie explained that the pearl could gather the Fierce Charm Sacred Body after her body and spirit were extinguished, though he did not know how she could recover.
• Sikong Jing sent the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl toward Yao Yulou, while Pei Kuang emerged from his daze and realized he could no longer devour Jiang Wanyou.
• Yao Yulou confronted Qian Ta over Jiang Wanyou’s death, and Qian Ta fled into the Thousand Prison Tower after threatening Yao Yulou’s parents.
• Yao Yulou used his blood-red true qi to drag Qian Ta back from inside the Thousand Prison Tower.

Yao Yulou killed Qian Ta and began fighting Madam Raccoon while Sikong Jing guarded the Thousand Prison Tower and tried to restore Jiang Wanyou with the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl. The pearl gathered a faint, mixed spirit-and-flesh form of Jiang Wanyou, but Gan Wumie said the rest of her had dissipated.

• Yao Yulou cut off Qian Ta’s arm and leg, then killed him as Madam Raccoon ignored his pleas for help.
• Madam Raccoon revived Pei Yusheng, who ordered her to capture Sikong Jing alive, and she sealed him inside a Saint artifact before attacking Yao Yulou.
• Sikong Jing ordered the surviving carriage-pulling demon beasts to guard him and the Thousand Prison Tower against the advancing Thousand Kings forces.
• Sikong Jing threatened Gan Wumie into using the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl to gather Jiang Wanyou’s remains.
• The pearl drew seven-colored starlight together and formed an incomplete figure of Jiang Wanyou, but Gan Wumie said the rest of her had dissipated.

Sikong Jing learned that Jiang Wanyou might be resurrected, but her fragile half-spirit, half-flesh body had to be protected, so he hid her in a storage ring before returning to the battle. He reached the upper floors of the Thousand Prison Tower, where he witnessed allies dying and found Fu Miaoling trying to save her younger brother.

• Gan Wumie told Sikong Jing that Jiang Wanyou might be revived, though her current form was so fragile that even a trace of power could destroy her.
• Sikong Jing shielded Jiang Wanyou, placed her in a storage ring, and hid it with the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl inside a carriage-pulling demon beast.
• Sikong Jing entered the Thousand Prison Tower and found a dying man and woman embracing; they urged him to save others before they died together.
• Sikong Jing promised to take the couple home once he had helped more people survive, then continued toward the upper floors.
• Sikong Jing found Fu Miaoling defending her younger brother from Thousand Prison Tower guards while urging him to escape and preserve the Fu Family inheritance.

Sikong Jing rescued the Fu Clan siblings and led the Thousand Prison Tower pawns in defending their families while fighting the expert guards. In Thousand Kings Holy City, Pei Kuang ordered the slaughter of demon beasts, forcing the crowd to choose sides as Qu Hanming waited for the Golden Light Tower’s formation to fall.

• Sikong Jing crushed the Thousand Prison Tower guards threatening Fu Miaoling and her brother, then told them to hide and stay alive.
• Sikong Jing fought through the tower, urging the pawns to protect their families while they gathered and joined the battle.
• Pei Kuang’s order to slaughter demon beasts plunged Thousand Kings Holy City into chaos as owners resisted and demanded the city gates be opened.
• Qu Hanming told Brother Zhang’s grandfather and the other opponents to wait for the Golden Light Tower’s formation to be destroyed.
• Pei Kuang renewed the order, threatening those who refused and promising rewards to those who killed beasts.
• Qu Hanming concluded that Pei Kuang expected wavering people to slaughter their mounts and temporarily side with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.

Qu Hanming turned resistance to Pei Kuang’s order into chaos across Thousand Kings Holy City, arguing that Pei Kuang was afraid of losing. Pei Kuang summoned the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast while Sikong Jing advanced his formation and fought to reach the Thousand Prison Tower, where soldiers broke through and entered.

• Qu Hanming told the city’s powerhouses that Pei Kuang’s order to slaughter demon beasts would help the Thousand Kings Holy Tower identify its enemies, then claimed the order showed Pei Kuang was about to lose.
• Qu Hanming’s words stirred resistance across Thousand Kings Holy City, and people with demon beast mounts fought Thousand Kings forces as the city descended into chaos.
• Pei Kuang received reports of the unrest and decided to use the city’s opponents as the price for summoning the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast.
• Pei Kuang summoned the beast for the third time, and Sikong Jing responded by advancing the Qianyuan Beast Slaughter Array to the eighth layer.
• Sikong Jing and Pei Kuang drove their formations toward the Thousand Prison Tower, clashing as Sikong Jing tried to stop Pei Kuang from destroying it.
• Soldiers beneath the Thousand Prison Tower broke through the demon beasts blocking them and charged inside.

Sikong Jing gathered the fallen pawns’ bodies and chose to stay behind in the Thousand Prison Tower to draw away Pei Kuang’s forces. He entrusted Fu Miaoling with three items and promised to return before leading everyone atop the tower into the Beast Slaughter Array.

• Sikong Jing killed the deputy tower master, then collected the bodies of the fallen pawns while the survivors climbed toward the tower’s top.
• Sikong Jing told Fu Miaoling and her brother he would stay behind to weaken Pei Kuang’s Army-Slaying Formation and entrusted them with two storage rings and a pitch-black pearl.
• Sikong Jing charged back into the Thousand Kings troops, while Fu Miaoling carried his message and the three items to the other pawns.
• Sikong Jing arrived at the top of the tower through the Beast Slaughter Array and dragged the gathered pawns into the array.

Sikong Jing used Forced Troop Control to seize Thousand Kings soldiers and drive them toward a Heavy Gate while Pei Kuang tried to contain the crisis. Pei Kuang chose not to send someone after him, and Madam Raccoon reported that Yao Yulou had grown to the mid-stage of the third major realm of the Saint Martial Stage.

• Sikong Jing brought the Thousand Prison Tower survivors into the Beast Slaughter Array, then devoured energy to recover, further consuming the Pure Spirit Heart’s remaining time.
• Sikong Jing led the Beast Slaughter Array in a breakout attempt as it clashed with Pei Kuang’s Battle-Killing Formation, and the battle’s shockwaves destroyed Thousand Prison Tower.
• Sikong Jing used Forced Troop Control to seize nearby wounded and dazed Thousand Kings soldiers and ordered them to charge the nearest Heavy Gate.
• Sikong Jing told Pei Kuang he planned to break the gate, spread the Humanoid Fierce Beast’s power, and weaken Pei Kuang’s formation, forcing him to choose between pursuing Sikong Jing and protecting the city.
• Pei Kuang refused to send anyone after Sikong Jing before the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast appeared, then ordered Madam Raccoon to capture Sikong Jing after killing Yao Yulou.
• Madam Raccoon reported that Yao Yulou had devoured the Fierce Charm Sacred Body and reached the mid-stage of the third major realm of the Saint Martial Stage.

Sikong Jing and Yao Yulou worked together to break the Golden Light Tower formation and open the Heavy Gate, allowing Sikong Jing to call the city’s demon beasts to attack. The chapter ended with Thousand Kings Holy Tower supporters threatening a little girl who refused to let them kill her demon beast.

• Sikong Jing bombarded the Heavy Gate while his Magic Beast form forced Pei Kuang to expend the Golden Light Tower formation’s power.
• Yao Yulou attacked the formation’s edge while fighting Madam Raccoon, drawing her strikes onto the formation despite being badly wounded.
• Sikong Jing urged Yao Yulou to stay alive, and Yao Yulou told him to avenge Wan You if he died.
• Sikong Jing and Yao Yulou’s attacks shattered the Heavy Gate and the formation around it.
• Sikong Jing called on every demon beast in the city to gather and attack the Thousand Kings Golden Light Tower.
• Thousand Kings Holy Tower supporters ordered the execution of a little girl and her demon beast after she refused to let them kill Big White.

Sikong Jing’s beastly summons awakened the demon beasts across Thousand Kings Holy City, turning them against the slaughter ordered by the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. As the beasts rushed toward the Golden Light Tower complex, Qu Hanming’s growing resistance remained confident that Sikong Jing had prepared a way to escape if they could not win.

• Thousand Kings collaborators attacked Xiao Yuan and Big White after Little Bell Lake’s elders had submitted and slaughtered their other demon beast mounts.
• Sikong Jing’s roar stirred demon beasts throughout the city, and powerful beasts rose to rescue the little demon beasts being targeted for slaughter.
• A powerful demon beast knocked away the collaborators threatening Xiao Yuan, and Big White chose to leap onto its back and join the charge toward the Thousand Kings Golden Light Tower.
• A Little Bell Lake elder helped Xiao Yuan flee as demon beasts across the city surged toward the Golden Light Tower complex.
• Qu Hanming and his allies noted that the Golden Light Towers had fallen after an hour of fighting and reassured their growing ranks that Sikong Jing had planned a retreat route through Wind Thunder City.

Sikong Jing broke out of the Thousand Kings Golden Light Tower and led the demonic beasts away from Pei Kuang’s forces after deciding their mission was complete. As the beasts began retreating, Pei Kuang ordered Thousand Kings Holy City’s grand formation to seal in every remaining enemy, anticipating the arrival of the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast.

• Pei Kuang called on his supporters to enter the Golden Light Tower and offered a reward for capturing Sikong Jing alive.
• Sikong Jing escaped the tower as a beast-form spirit shadow and possessed another small demonic beast, leaving pursuers unable to find him in the carriage-pulling beast.
• Sikong Jing ordered the demonic beasts to continue breaking out, and Pei Kuang retreated as the Beast Slaughter Array gained the advantage over his Army-Slaying Formation.
• After the two forces separated, Sikong Jing chose to leave Thousand Kings Holy City rather than risk a battle near the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast.
• Pei Kuang said the hybrid beast was about to arrive and ordered the city’s grand formation to trap all remaining enemies inside Thousand Kings Holy City.

Pei Kuang revealed that he had trapped the Thousand Kings Holy City’s enemies beneath golden pillars to use their spirit shadows as the price for summoning the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast and its hidden rider. The beast arrived, and Pei Kuang offered the trapped people as payment for six Sacred Martial spirit shadows.

• Pei Kuang ordered the formations throughout Thousand Kings Holy City changed, and golden pillars pinned down people across the city, including Qu Hanming and the Thousand Kings Tower’s dissenters.
• Pei Kuang revealed that summoning the beast had cost three Saint Martial spirit shadows before, and Sikong Jing accused him of sacrificing his father, which Pei Kuang claimed had been his father’s own choice.
• Sikong Jing realized Pei Kuang intended to use the trapped enemies as the price for this summoning, while Pei Kuang declared that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower would dominate the Central Plains afterward.
• The Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast appeared, and Pei Kuang told its hidden gray-robed rider that he had prepared the living spirit shadows beneath the pillars as payment for six Sacred Martial spirit shadows.

Pei Kuang summoned the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast to destroy Sikong Jing, and its overwhelming aura left the trapped experts despairing as the beast horde began to break free of Sikong Jing’s control. The hybrid beast recognized Sikong Jing as the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and rejoiced at the chance to devour him and escape its prison.

• Pei Kuang pointed out Sikong Jing as the target, and the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast stared at him in apparent terror.
• The hybrid beast’s aura made the beast horde tremble, while the trapped experts struggled in vain to break the Holy City’s formation pillars.
• Pei Kuang laughed at the crowd’s despair as Sikong Jing silently gathered and sealed the energy left from the battle.
• The gray-robed middle-aged man asked what was wrong, and the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast howled that they could finally escape their prison by devouring Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing understood that the hybrid beast had recognized him as the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and wanted to devour him to serve the Five Heavenly Emperors.

Sikong Jing devoured the energy he had stored during the battle and reached the peak of Saint Martial, then tore the six-clawed hybrid beast apart in front of the Thousand Kings forces. Ba Zhun tried to flee, but Sikong Jing called after him.

• Sikong Jing began devouring his stored energy, consuming the Pure Spirit Heart's third chance as he advanced to the third major realm of Saint Martial.
• Ba Zhun revealed himself atop the six-clawed mongrel beast and declared that he and Six-Claw would devour Sikong Jing.
• The six-clawed mongrel beast ordered the demon beasts to retreat, leaving Sikong Jing alone as Ba Zhun and the beast attacked.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had reached the peak of Saint Martial and suppressed their attack with his demonic power.
• Sikong Jing seized the six-clawed hybrid beast and ripped it in two, while its poisonous blood killed Thousand Kings troops.
• Sikong Jing called out to Ba Zhun as the gray-robed man tried to escape.

Sikong Jing destroyed Ba Zhun’s body and spirit shadow, then vanished after reaching the Divine Martial Stage as the Pure Spirit Heart neared shattering. Pei Kuang survived and concluded that Sikong Jing had fled to fight the demonic madness threatening to consume him.

• Sikong Jing crushed Ba Zhun’s body after destroying the Six-Clawed Hybrid Beast, but Ba Zhun’s spirit shadow seized the transmission stone and entered its spatial passage.
• Sikong Jing reached the Divine Martial Stage and shattered the protective pillar, annihilating Ba Zhun’s spirit shadow and the transmission passage.
• The Pure Spirit Heart began to fail, and the beasts warned Sikong Jing that he would succumb to madness unless he withdrew from the Divine Martial Stage.
• Sikong Jing vanished before he could kill Pei Kuang, unwilling to risk losing control of the demonic intent.
• Pei Yugong asked what had happened, and Pei Kuang explained that Sikong Jing had left to battle the madness consuming him.

Sikong Jing’s departure seemed to leave Pei Kuang with the advantage, but Sikong Jing returned through the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast to rebuild the Beast Slaughter Array. He drove the beast into deeper demonic corruption and continued the breakout battle, though his own beast-form spirit shadow was also at risk.

• Pei Kuang declared that the Humanoid Fierce Beast had lost his intelligence and would soon die from demonic corruption, then taunted the defenders for being spared when Sikong Jing left.
• Pei Kuang ordered the Golden Storm War Dragon to suppress the monster beasts after claiming victory over the remaining enemies.
• The Wind Thunder Roaring Beast arrived from outside the city and announced that it had fallen into demonic corruption after encountering Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had entered the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast and ordered the monster beasts to form the Beast Slaughter Array against the Holy City formation.
• Sikong Jing raised the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast to the third major realm of Sacred Martial, leaving it without its sanity but under his control.

Sikong Jing freed the Thousand Kings opponents and demon beasts from Thousand Kings Holy City, then fought Pei Kuang with the beasts that remained. He lured Pei Kuang into the city’s grand formation, which blasted apart the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast, leaving everyone believing Sikong Jing had died.

• Sikong Jing used the Qianyuan Beast Slaughter Array to break the golden pillars and free Qu Hanming and the other Thousand Kings opponents.
• Sikong Jing told Mountain Lord Qu to lead the freed opponents out, then asked Yao Yulou to escort the Thousand Prison Tower chess pieces and their families to safety.
• Sikong Jing released the opponents’ demon beast mounts, and Big White returned to Xiao Yuan before the Little Bell Lake group departed.
• Sikong Jing used the remaining demon beasts to attack Pei Kuang’s Army-Slaying Formation, but Pei Kuang shattered the Beast Slaughter Array and pursued him.
• Sikong Jing struck a formation base, causing the grand array’s golden light to blast the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast apart as Pei Kuang and the fleeing crowd believed Sikong Jing had died.
• Fu Miaoling insisted Sikong Jing would return alive, and Yao Yulou urged everyone to keep moving.

Sikong Jing escaped the Thousand Kings Holy City after helping Yao Yulou’s group flee, while Pei Kuang remained unsure whether he had survived. Now back at the peak of the Saint Martial Stage but still consumed by demonic energy, Sikong Jing decided to seek the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to keep himself lucid.

• Yao Yulou led the escaping group toward Wind Thunder City as Pei Kuang searched for Sikong Jing among the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast’s remains.
• The Wind Thunder Roaring Beast’s spirit shadow suggested that Sikong Jing might have entered its body only as a spirit shadow, but Pei Kuang tore it apart before it could explain further.
• Pei Kuang ordered his forces to pursue Yao Yulou’s group and search for the Humanoid Fierce Beast, while defectors concluded that the battle had weakened Thousand Kings Holy Tower and strengthened the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had used the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast’s body and the destruction of his beast-form spirit shadow to fall from the Divine Martial Stage to the peak of the Saint Martial Stage.
• Sikong Jing realized the Pure Spirit Heart would not sustain him for long and chose the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation as a place to bombard his demonic body.