Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing’s staged killing of Pei Xie turned public opinion in Overlord Heaven City toward the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and against the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. Murong Jianyun demanded an explanation, and Sikong Jing defended the killing by invoking the Chamber’s role in protecting Willow Leaf City.

• Su Yuexi and Sikong Ling guided the crowd to question the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s accusations, while respected figures quietly voiced their distrust of the Tower.
• Qian Ta realized Sikong Jing had killed Pei Xie to provoke the Chamber’s condemnation and make the crowd believe it; he ordered his allies to call the scene an act and urged Young Master Yugong to hurry.
• Sikong Jing noticed public opinion turning in the Chamber’s favor, and Murong Jianyun stopped Dong Wu and the others before demanding an explanation for Pei Xie’s death.
• Sikong Jing argued that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower defined who counted as a demon, while the Chamber had protected Willow Leaf City’s people, and said Pei Xie had been killed for threatening countless lives.

Sikong Jing rallied Willow Leaf City residents and Dragon Controlling Mountain disciples to support his account, but Tyrant Fierce Venerable then accused him of being Su Old Devil’s remnant and causing chaos. As Tyrant Fierce Venerable’s accusations seemed to turn the crowd against Sikong Jing, an unseen attacker pierced his heart with a sword.

• Sikong Jing’s words prompted people from Willow Leaf City and Dragon Controlling Mountain to speak up in support of him and condemn the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Tyrant Fierce Venerable, urged by Qian Ta to take the battlements, accused Sikong Jing of killing Pei Xie and conspiring against the Central Plains.
• Tyrant Fierce Venerable revealed that Sikong Jing was Su Old Devil’s grandson-in-law and successor, stirring the crowd against him.
• Tyrant Fierce Venerable accused Sikong Jing of creating the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall and plotting to restore Su Old Devil’s remnants.
• A streak of sword light pierced Tyrant Fierce Venerable’s heart as he celebrated turning the crowd against Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing killed Tyrant Fierce Venerable in public, then claimed Tyrant Fierce had colluded with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and threatened Overlord Heaven City. Murong Jianyun questioned Sikong Jing before the gathered crowd and feigned suspicion, leaving Sikong Jing poised to be branded a devil.

• Sikong Jing revealed that he had planned to kill Tyrant Fierce Venerable publicly, then killed him with a sword strike that shattered his meridians and Spirit Platform sea of consciousness.
• Murong Jianyun and Sikong Jing silently acknowledged their shared plan, while Dong Wu failed to revive Tyrant Fierce Venerable and accused Sikong Jing of being a devil.
• Sikong Jing told South Wind that he had killed Nan Hedun, then accused Tyrant Fierce Venerable of colluding with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Murong Jianyun demanded evidence, but Sikong Jing said he had none and insisted his record of saving the region should be enough.
• Murong Jianyun publicly challenged Sikong Jing's actions and questioned whether he was a remnant of Su Old Devil, while privately trembling at the prospect of pushing him into becoming a devil.

Sikong Jing and Murong Jianyun staged a public break between Sikong Jing and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce to protect their struggle against the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. Sikong Jing left Overlord Heaven City, while the onlookers were left confused about what had happened.

• Murong Jianyun publicly questioned Sikong Jing’s actions and accused him of possibly being a devil, while denying that the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce had ties to the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.
• Sikong Jing declared that Murong Jianyun had never trusted him, threw him black jade papers containing parts of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation, and renounced his place in the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Nan Feng demanded that Sikong Jing be stopped, but Murong Jianyun ordered everyone to let him go and formally expelled him while acknowledging his help in the Willow Leaf City war.
• Sikong Jing warned that he would show no mercy if they met as enemies, then rode away on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Xiong Tingting asked Dark Tower Master what the public rupture meant as the crowd watched Sikong Jing depart in confusion.

Qian Ta realized Sikong Jing had arranged his expulsion to protect the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, then pursued him while Murong Jianyun announced an auction of the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram. Qian Ta found Sikong Jing by a lake and confronted him about the plan.

• Qian Ta inferred that Sikong Jing had deliberately become a target to prevent the Thousand Kings Holy Tower from declaring war on the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Qian Ta left Xiong Tingting and raced after Sikong Jing, while Murong Jianyun apologized to the crowd and announced the sale of a second batch of formation papers.
• Murong Jianyun announced that the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram Sikong Jing had left behind would be auctioned, stunning the crowd and halting Qian Ta’s pursuit briefly.
• People spread news of the auction, while others began searching for Sikong Jing to capture him and claim the diagram.
• Qian Ta found Sikong Jing sitting beside a lake with the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion and sealed off the area with true-energy barriers.
• Sikong Jing asked whether Qian Ta wanted his life or the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram, and Qian Ta accused him of planning both his expulsion and the auction.

Sikong Jing revealed how he had orchestrated the auction and his expulsion from the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, then used the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle to foil Qian Ta’s ambush. After Qian Ta fled, powerful pursuers demanded the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram, and Sikong Jing invited them to take it.

• Sikong Jing explained that he had planned the formation sale, the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram auction, and his expulsion to draw attention and protect the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Sikong Jing summoned the concealed Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, revealing that he had prepared for Qian Ta to attack him after his expulsion.
• Sikong Jing told Qian Ta that Tyrant Fierce Venerable had revealed his presence and intentions, and thanked Qian Ta for inadvertently helping him kill Tyrant Fierce Venerable.
• Qian Ta warned Sikong Jing that he would make him suffer within three days and that an unimaginable enemy awaited him, then withdrew to avoid a fight and Murong Jianyun’s intervention.
• Several powerful figures confronted Sikong Jing and demanded the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram, claiming they would help the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce oppose Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Sikong Jing calmly told the pursuers to come and take the diagram.

Sikong Jing slaughtered the pursuers who tried to seize the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram and left as witnesses began calling him Sikong Devil. In the Heavenly Judgment Hall, Murong Jianyun had Nan Feng seized after he demanded Sikong Jing’s death, leaving Dong Wu and the other Venerables stunned.

• Sikong Jing killed the pursuing Venerable Realm fighters with his demonic claws while the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion defeated their Emperor Realm expert, whom Sikong Jing then finished off.
• Sikong Jing warned the hidden onlookers to remember his full name and that he wanted nothing to do with the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, then rode away as the witnesses spread tales of Sikong Devil.
• The Dark Wing Dragon Eagle left the lake and flew toward Overlord Heaven Inner City while Murong Jianyun and the others gathered in the Heavenly Judgment Hall with Tyrant Fierce Venerable’s corpse.
• Dong Wu and Nan Feng accused Murong Jianyun of letting Sikong Jing go, and several Venerables supported their demand to pursue and kill him.
• Murong Jianyun asked Dong Wu whether he supported Nan Feng’s position, then ordered Bei Cang and Xi Tu to seize Nan Feng, leaving Dong Wu and the Venerables stunned.

Murong Jianyun exposed Nan Feng and three Venerables as traitors colluding with Thousand Kings Holy Tower, then ordered their arrest and execution. Dong Wu admitted he still believed Sikong Jing had to be dealt with, despite Sikong Jing exposing the betrayal.

• Yu Liman presented letters, a Light-Returning Mirror recording, and testimony proving Nan Feng had colluded with Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Murong Jianyun questioned Dong Wu, who knelt and denied knowing about Nan Feng’s betrayal.
• Murong Jianyun revealed that Sikong Jing had forced confessions from Pei Yuxian and Pei Yushan, leading him to investigate Nan Feng and uncover three more moles.
• Leng Chan and two Earth Deciders seized the three Venerables, while Murong Jianyun ordered Nan Feng and the traitors taken to the death cells for interrogation and public execution.
• Murong Jianyun asked Dong Wu whether he still wanted Sikong Jing punished, and Dong Wu insisted that Sikong Jing could not be spared.

Murong Jianyun used the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle’s report to convince the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s leaders that Sikong Jing had exposed Tyrant Fierce Venerable as a traitor and was buying them time. As the Chamber united to prepare for war, Sikong Jing remained hidden in Overlord Heaven Outer City while news arrived that a Thousand Kings Holy Tower envoy had reached Fresh Martial Town.

• The Dark Wing Dragon Eagle reported that Sikong Jing had defeated pursuers, encountered the master of the Dark Tower, and summoned it to scare him away, then recounted Sikong Jing and Qian Ta’s conversation.
• Murong Jianyun told Dong Wu that the report proved Tyrant Fierce Venerable’s betrayal and challenged Dong Wu’s distrust of Sikong Jing.
• Dong Wu accepted that the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce must prepare to fight the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, while Murong Jianyun appointed Yu Liman as the new Southern Heavenly Judgment, Nan Man.
• Sikong Jing sat concealed in a restaurant in Overlord Heaven Outer City as the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation’s first batches sold out.
• A man announced that an envoy from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had arrived at Fresh Martial Town, and the restaurant erupted in alarm.

Sikong Jing waited for Su Yuexi and Sikong Ling as Overlord Heaven City debated the conflict between the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. After reuniting with his sister, he opened their parents’ second letter, which revealed that both siblings had to be together and care for each other to read it.

• Sikong Jing listened as people debated the coming envoy, the Willow Leaf City war, and whether he or the Thousand Kings Holy Tower was evil.
• Sikong Jing met with Su Yuexi and Sikong Ling in the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s courtyard, where Su Yuexi said she would have to leave when the envoy arrived.
• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling tried opening their parents’ second letter, but neither could activate it alone.
• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling dripped their blood onto the envelope together, causing it to dissolve and reveal their parents’ letter.
• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling read their father’s words, which said they would have needed to reach the Saint Martial Stage if either had failed to protect or care for the other.

Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling read their parents’ letter and learned that Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian came from Boundless Sea, beyond the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land. Their parents revealed why they had fled there and left the children behind, but the letter ended before explaining what happened next.

• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling read their parents’ warnings to protect one another and avoid acting rashly.
• Sikong Ding revealed his and Ling Xiaotian’s real names and explained that the Central Plains lay within the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Sikong Ding described the deadly Boundless Sea Grand Formation, which had killed many who tried to enter the forbidden land.
• Ling Xiaotian teased Sikong Ding for his vulgar wording before explaining that she and Sikong Ding had fled into the forbidden land to escape pursuit.
• Sikong Ding said their pursuers crossed the formation and arrived when Sikong Jing was eight and Sikong Ling was four, forcing their parents to leave them in a small secret realm.

Sikong Jing read his parents’ letters and learned how their forbidden relationship and his father’s inheritance of the Nine Heavens Emperor’s blood essence led the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family to hunt them. He also discovered that he and Sikong Ling both possessed dual Imperial Bloodlines, with his hidden and hers revealed.

• Ling Xiaotian warned that Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling would inevitably awaken their Imperial Bloodline talents if they advanced in martial cultivation, drawing them toward their parents’ enemies in the Boundless Sea.
• Ling Xiaotian explained that she carried the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s bloodline while Sikong Ding had inherited the Nine Heavens Emperor, the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s sworn enemy.
• Sikong Ding recounted how a fabricated charge led to his imprisonment, how he escaped and swallowed the Nine Heavens Emperor’s blood essence, and how he met Ling Xiaotian while fleeing.
• Sikong Ding warned the siblings never to expect the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family to treat them with mercy or be moved by their Imperial Bloodlines.
• Sikong Jing learned that he and Sikong Ling each had dual Imperial Bloodlines: he had a hidden vein, while she had a revealed vein, and their Nine Heavens bloodlines were especially pure.

Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling read their parents’ final instructions, including a warning to conceal their Imperial Bloodlines and a promise of a hidden sanctuary in the Northern Wasteland. After Sikong Ling began concealing her bloodline, a strange force swept through Overlord Heaven City and triggered a powerful reaction in her and Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing learned that his parents had withheld cultivation arts to protect the siblings and left him a method to disguise an Imperial Bloodline as a Saint Body.
• Sikong Jing gave the Green Jade Paper to Sikong Ling, explaining that the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts bloodline meant he did not need the concealment method.
• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling read their mother’s letter, which said their parents were leaving to draw away pursuers and had prepared a secret realm and life lamps for them.
• Sikong Jing promised Su Yuexi that he and Sikong Ling would find their parents, and Su Yuexi embraced him.
• A strange force spread through Overlord Heaven City, causing blood-red light to burst from Sikong Ling’s room and drawing out hidden bloodline powers in Sikong Jing before his Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts bloodline suppressed them.

Sikong Jing rushed Sikong Ling away from the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s courtyard when her Imperial Bloodline began responding to a detection tool, then helped her suppress it in a grove. Suspecting his parents’ pursuers were among the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s envoys, he sent Ling'er away with the Extinguishing Love Venerable and hid to identify the enemy as a veiled woman arrived.

• Sikong Jing tried to suppress Sikong Ling’s erupting Imperial Bloodline, then carried her away from the courtyard to keep its location from being exposed.
• Sikong Ling’s Imperial Bloodline erupted in a grove, drawing the attention of Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle.
• Sikong Jing helped Sikong Ling master the concealment method and concluded that his parents’ pursuers had used an Imperial Bloodline Detection tool to locate him.
• Sikong Jing asked the Extinguishing Love Venerable to take Sikong Ling away while he stayed behind to investigate the pursuers.
• Sikong Jing erased their traces and hid in a rock crevice as a veiled woman arrived above the grove and swept it with her spiritual shadow.

Sikong Jing diverted Madam Raccoon from searching for Extinguishing Love Venerable and his sister while trying to make her detection tool trigger his hidden dual dark veins. Madam Raccoon still could not locate him, so she used the tool again to search the woodland.

• Sikong Jing decided to avoid confronting Madam Raccoon and used a drop of Saint Martial Stage Dark Wing Dragon Eagle blood essence to stir the monster beasts and distract her.
• Madam Raccoon recognized the blood essence ploy and suppressed the beasts, while Sikong Jing stopped among them and remained concealed.
• Sikong Jing judged that Extinguishing Love Venerable and his sister needed more time to escape and resolved to provoke another test with the detection tool.
• Madam Raccoon swept the woodland with her spiritual shadow power but could not find Sikong Jing, then struck the Imperial Bloodline detection tool toward the forest.
• Madam Raccoon recalled that she had tracked Sikong Jing after confirming his pure Imperial Bloodline and moved to capture him.

Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling struggled to hide their Emperor Bloodlines from Madam Raccoon’s detection tool. Sikong Jing drew the pursuer away from his sister, but Madam Raccoon sealed the area around him.

• Madam Raccoon scanned the small forest again, but Sikong Jing kept his Emperor Bloodline suppressed and she began widening the search.
• Extinguishing Love Venerable sensed the detection power following her and Sikong Ling through Overlord Heaven City, and Sikong Ling concealed her bloodlines before the power withdrew.
• Sikong Ling sensed Sikong Jing release a trace of his dual bloodlines to draw the detection power away from her, then urged Extinguishing Love Venerable to take her farther away.
• Madam Raccoon detected Sikong Jing’s bloodline eruption and rushed toward him, while he suppressed it again, changed his build, and burrowed underground as a small demon beast.
• Madam Raccoon pursued Sikong Jing underground and sealed the surrounding area with a barrier.

Sikong Jing used a bluff and the falling earth to escape Madam Raccoon, then reached the crowded streets of Overlord Heaven City and used Forced Troop Control to resist her pursuit. Madam Raccoon began tearing apart the people caught in the formation as Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle rushed toward them.

• Sikong Jing realized Madam Raccoon had trapped him with a Saint Martial barrier and tried to stall until Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle arrived.
• Sikong Jing pretended his parents were nearby, making Madam Raccoon withdraw the barrier and allowing him to flee toward Overlord Heaven Inner City.
• Madam Raccoon realized Sikong Jing had tricked her, but Sikong Jing used the Little Demon Bugs and Little Monster Rats to bring the earth and rocks down on her as he escaped.
• Sikong Jing entered the crowded city and used his Sikong Army-Slaying Formation to connect the people in the streets and mobilize their true qi.
• Madam Raccoon used suction to pull Sikong Jing and the connected people into the air, while Sikong Jing used their combined strength to resist her.
• Madam Raccoon added a tearing force to her attack, shredding some objects in the air and terrifying the people caught in the formation.

Madam Raccoon attacked Sikong Jing in Overlord Heaven City, but Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle intervened and protected him. Sikong Jing concealed his identity, and Madam Raccoon withdrew when Murong Jianyun gathered enough strength to threaten her; Murong Jianyun then received a message bird from Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing used the Army-Slaying Formation to shield the people around him from Madam Raccoon's suction force and the aftershocks of Murong Jianyun's sword strike.
• Murong Jianyun arrived with the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle and challenged Madam Raccoon, who demanded that he stay out of her pursuit of Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing denied being the person Madam Raccoon sought, and Murong Jianyun backed his claim while declaring everyone in Overlord Heaven City his guest.
• Murong Jianyun completed Forced Troop Control and joined forces with the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle to confront Madam Raccoon.
• Madam Raccoon withdrew from the city after warning the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and threatening Sikong Jing.
• Murong Jianyun prepared to search for Sikong Jing, then received a message bird from him.

Murong Jianyun headed covertly to Teng Residence after Sikong Jing warned him that Thousand Kings Holy Tower might target his allies. Sikong Jing returned to Sikong Ling and revealed that their parents’ enemy was hunting them, then asked Extinguishing Love Venerable to help conceal Ling’er’s Imperial Bloodline by presenting her as a Sacred Body genius.

• Murong Jianyun ordered Bei Cang and the others to stop rushing over, then secretly made for Teng Residence while the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle and Tyrant Heaven's troops prepared to follow.
• Bystanders argued over whether the man hunted by the masked woman was Sikong Devil, and arriving powerhouses sensed the lingering Saint Martial Stage aura.
• Sikong Jing hurried back to Sikong Ling, reasoning that the masked woman might be among his parents’ pursuers and suspecting she could be connected to Pei Yusheng.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s courtyard, where Extinguishing Love Venerable and Su Yuexi asked what had happened.
• Sikong Jing told Extinguishing Love Venerable that his parents’ enemy had come to hunt him and Ling’er, then asked her to help disguise Ling’er as a Sacred Body genius.

Sikong Jing hid Sikong Ling’s Emperor’s Bloodline and planned to prove that he was not the Sikong couple’s son by making the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation test his bloodline repeatedly. After Madam Raccoon’s failed search, Qian Ta devised a way to force Sikong Jing to submit to a test tomorrow, and she resolved to take him away publicly.

• Sikong Jing told Extinguishing Love Venerable about his and Sikong Ling’s situation and asked her to keep their origins secret.
• Sikong Jing and Sikong Ling concealed her Emperor’s Bloodline so testing tools would detect only her Sacred Body.
• Sikong Ling worried that people would connect her to Sikong Jing, so Sikong Jing resolved to prove that he was not the Sikong couple’s son by undergoing repeated bloodline tests.
• Qian Ta reproached Madam Raccoon for exposing herself and failing to capture Sikong Jing during her search of Overlord Heaven City.
• Qian Ta said he could make Sikong Jing accept a bloodline test by sending a message that threatened people Sikong Jing cared about.
• Madam Raccoon decided to force Sikong Jing to undergo the test tomorrow and take him away publicly before redefining an Emperor’s Bloodline as a devil.