Chapter Summaries

Qian Ta planned to use Yao Yulou as a hostage to force Sikong Jing to appear for the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s inspection. Sikong Jing welcomed the plan as a convenient excuse to appear, while Yao Yulou remained deeply troubled, and Sikong Jing told Murong Jianyun the truth about his origins.

• Qian Ta told Madam Raccoon that a message would test whether Yao Yulou had betrayed the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, and planned to threaten the Reverse Blade Sect or Willow Leaf Holy Manor if necessary.
• At Teng Residence, Yao Yulou reassured Murong Jianyun that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had made no move against them, then received Qian Ta’s order to come to Tyrant Nether Tavern and become a hostage.
• Sikong Jing arrived, read the letter, and told Yao Yulou to go along with the plan because it gave him an excuse to appear at the inspection the next day.
• Yao Yulou left to make preparations, still looking troubled, while Sikong Jing went to meet Murong Jianyun.
• Murong Jianyun asked Sikong Jing about the veiled woman, and Sikong Jing told him the truth about his origins.

Sikong Jing and Murong Jianyun discussed their plans as Yao Yulou struggled with Pei Kuang’s order to assassinate Sikong Jing or see his family suffer. After reconciling with Hua Lidian, Yao Yulou secretly told Yao Yuzhi to flee and hide until Sikong Jing could challenge the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.

• Murong Jianyun learned that Sikong Jing’s parents came from Boundless Sea and agreed to fight alongside him despite the danger.
• Sikong Jing told Murong Jianyun that Yao Yulou served the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, while Yao Yulou faced Pei Kuang’s order to assassinate Sikong Jing within three days or have his sister replace him as a pawn.
• Hua Meixi forgave Hua Lidian for leaving her and Jiang Wanyou, while Jiang Wanyou made clear that she now belonged with Yao Yulou.
• Yao Yulou overheard Hua Lidian and Jiang Wanyou’s conversation, made a private resolve, and went to find Yao Yuzhi.
• Yao Yulou ordered Yao Yuzhi to leave Overlord Heaven City at daybreak and hide until Sikong Jing could contend with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Yao Yulou revealed that their parents were still alive and warned Yao Yuzhi that failing to obey him would cause their deaths.

Yao Yulou decided to sacrifice himself rather than let Thousand Kings Holy Tower use his sister or parents to control her, while Sikong Jing remained unaware of his plan. Sikong Jing went to investigate Tyrant Lotus Venerable’s seclusion and learned that White Protector Venerable had been driven out of the minor mystic realm.

• Yao Yulou told Yao Yuzhi to flee in secret, then left to become Qian Ta’s hostage and face his parents’ fate alone.
• Yao Yuzhi began packing to leave, while Hua Lidian and Hua Meixi discovered that Jiang Wanyou was gone.
• Jiang Wanyou asked Sikong Jing whether Yao Yulou had received an order from Thousand Kings Holy Tower, and Sikong Jing explained his assignment and possible future orders.
• Sikong Jing went to the Teng Residence’s minor mystic realm to check on Tyrant Lotus Venerable.
• White Protector Venerable told Sikong Jing that a force inside the minor mystic realm kept blasting him out, and Sikong Jing asked how to enter.

Sikong Jing entered the small secret realm and discovered that Tyrant Lotus Venerable had reached the Saint Martial Stage but suffered qi deviation. He found her transforming under the influence of a Nether Lotus Sea Serpent spirit hidden in the Stone Pedestal Magic Box, which then tried to take control of him.

• White Protector Venerable opened the small secret realm, and Sikong Jing shielded him from the Saint Martial Stage power inside.
• Sikong Jing recognized Tyrant Lotus Venerable's chaotic aura and used his Nether Lotus Sea Serpent meridians to approach her.
• White Protector Venerable was blasted out of the realm as Sikong Jing continued alone, judging Tyrant Lotus Venerable's power to have surpassed Murong Jianyun's.
• Sikong Jing found Tyrant Lotus Venerable scaled and sprouting serpent-like appendages beside the Stone Pedestal Magic Box.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable warned Sikong Jing that a Saint Martial Stage Nether Lotus Sea Serpent spirit had injected its blood into her and was controlling her.
• The serpent spirit burst from the Stone Pedestal Magic Box and declared that it would control Sikong Jing too.

The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent’s spirit shadow bound Sikong Jing and tried to transform him with its blood. Sikong Jing absorbed the serpent’s blood instead, leaving the spirit shadow stunned and asking for more.

• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent restrained Tyrant Lotus Venerable and dragged Sikong Jing before the stone pedestal, intending to turn him into a half-human, half-snake vessel.
• The serpent injected a drop of its blood into Sikong Jing while Tyrant Lotus Venerable struggled helplessly to protect him.
• Sikong Jing asked the serpent about the Heavenly Pattern Treasure Artifact and learned it planned to use him and Tyrant Lotus Venerable to escape the pedestal.
• The serpent tried to transform Sikong Jing, then realized it could no longer sense the blood it had injected.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had digested and absorbed the blood, then absorbed a second drop and taunted the serpent to send more.

Sikong Jing devoured part of the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent’s spirit shadow and used its power to advance both of his spirit shadows into the King Realm. He then turned to help Tyrant Lotus Venerable absorb the serpent’s blood and recover from her altered state.

• Sikong Jing absorbed the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent’s essence blood and asked whether devouring it could help his spirit shadow reach the King Realm.
• Sikong Jing began devouring the serpent’s spirit shadow while it was trapped by the stone pedestal Heavenly Pattern Treasure Artifact.
• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent severed its own tail and fled into the stone pedestal, leaving Sikong Jing to devour the spirit-shadow power it had shed.
• Sikong Jing’s beast-shaped spirit shadow reached the peak of the King Realm, and his humanoid spirit shadow also entered the King Realm.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable asked whether Sikong Jing had reached the Emperor Martial Stage, and he offered to show her the serpent’s meridians so she could recover.

Sikong Jing helped Tyrant Lotus Venerable reverse her transformation while the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s envoy entered Overlord Heaven City to confront Murong Jianyun. The chapter ended with Sikong Jing leaving the Teng Residence’s small mystic realm as the envoy crisis began.

• Sikong Jing used his knowledge of the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent to help Tyrant Lotus Venerable repair her body and resume cultivating.
• Yao Yulou met Qian Ta at the Tyrant Nether Tavern, where Qian Ta canceled the assassination mission because the Thousand Kings Holy Tower planned to take Sikong Jing away.
• Pei Yugong called on Murong Jianyun to explain himself, and Murong Jianyun challenged him to enter the city and declare war.
• Pei Yugong led the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s envoy delegation into Overlord Heaven City, drawing crowds toward Overlord Heaven Inner City.
• Qian Ta sent a message to Sikong Jing and left with Yao Yulou to join the envoy delegation.
• After assuring Tyrant Lotus Venerable that she was temporarily safe, Sikong Jing took the stone pedestal Heavenly Pattern Treasure Artifact and left the mystic realm.

Sikong Jing learned that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had captured Yao Yulou and set out with Hua Meixi and the others to rescue him. At the negotiation outside Overlord Heaven Inner City, the envoys confronted Murong Jianyun, while the Dark Tower Master, a veiled woman, and Yao Yulou appeared on their flagship.

• White Protector Venerable asked Sikong Jing about Aunt Ba Lian, and Sikong Jing said she was recovering and would soon emerge from seclusion.
• Sikong Jing showed Hua Meixi Qian Ta's message saying Yao Yulou had been captured and would be killed unless Sikong Jing came to negotiate.
• Sikong Jing led Hua Meixi and the others aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship toward Overlord Heaven Inner City, while Jiang Wanyou resolved to trust him and resumed cultivating.
• Murong Jianyun and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce's leaders waited outside the city as Pei Yugong and the Thousand Kings delegation arrived.
• Pei Yugong and the envoys broke through the Overlord generals' blockade and faced Murong Jianyun, then the Dark Tower Master, a veiled woman, and hostage Yao Yulou emerged from their flagship.

Pei Yugong accused Murong Jianyun of knowingly sheltering Sikong Jing, whom he claimed was a demon rather than a Sacred Body, and produced a tool that could supposedly test him. Murong Jianyun said Sikong Jing had already been expelled and could not be tested, leaving the onlookers to suspect the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce was evading the proof.

• Murong Jianyun challenged Pei Yugong’s attempt to brand the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce as a demonic faction and said the Thousand Kings Holy Tower would fall if it turned the whole world against itself.
• Pei Yugong accused Murong Jianyun of knowing Sikong Jing was a remnant of Su Old Devil and of falsely presenting him as a Sacred Body.
• Murong Jianyun said he had learned of Sikong Jing’s connection to Su Old Devil only later and had expelled him because his conduct resembled a demon’s.
• Pei Yugong produced a Sacred Body testing tool and said it could prove Sikong Jing had no Battle Body and expose Murong Jianyun’s deception.
• Murong Jianyun said Sikong Jing had already left the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and could not be found for testing.

Pei Yugong used Yao Yulou to draw Sikong Jing out and force him to face a Sacred Body examination. After Pei Yugong demonstrated that the testing device was genuine, the crowd learned that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s young master possessed a Third-Grade Holy Body.

• Pei Yugong revealed Yao Yulou as a hostage and threatened him to make Sikong Jing appear.
• Sikong Jing emerged from a Divine Shuttle Ship and demanded that Pei Yugong release Yao Yulou.
• Pei Yugong released Yao Yulou, who went to Sikong Jing’s side before leaving.
• Murong Jianyun challenged the validity of the Sacred Body testing device, and Pei Yugong demonstrated it with the Light-Returning Mirror and Battle Body test subjects.
• Pei Yugong’s demonstration convinced the crowd that the device worked and revealed that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s young master had a Third-Grade Holy Body.

Sikong Jing agreed to Pei Yugong’s test, and the artifact identified him as a Third-Grade Holy Body, matching the Thousand Kings young lord. Madam Raccoon insisted she had detected a demonic bloodline in him the previous night, while Sikong Jing denied knowing her and claimed he had stayed in the Teng Residence’s minor secret realm.

• Pei Yugong prepared to test Sikong Jing after the crowd grew convinced the Thousand Kings Holy Tower was formidable.
• Sikong Jing asked whether the testing treasure could detect anything besides Battle Bodies and Holy Bodies, and Pei Yugong denied it.
• Madam Raccoon accused Sikong Jing of hiding the demonic bloodline she had tested the previous night.
• Pei Yugong activated the testing artifact, which revealed Sikong Jing as a Third-Grade Holy Body.
• Madam Raccoon rushed forward and challenged the result, but Sikong Jing denied knowing her and said he had stayed in the Teng Residence’s minor secret realm all night.

Madam Raccoon repeatedly tested Sikong Jing, but the results showed he had no Imperial Bloodline, while Murong Jianyun defended him and confronted the Thousand King envoys. Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi exposed a false Imperial Bloodline aura elsewhere in Overlord Heaven City, leaving Madam Raccoon convinced the real target had escaped and furious at Sikong Jing.

• Murong Jianyun presented Sikong Jing's Third-Grade Holy Body test as proof that he was not the person Madam Raccoon had pursued, and Madam Raccoon retested him without finding an Imperial Bloodline.
• Sikong Ling released her concealed Imperial Bloodline aura elsewhere in Overlord Heaven City while Su Yuexi imitated Sikong Jing's voice, convincing Madam Raccoon that the two were different people.
• Madam Raccoon tried to pursue Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi, but Murong Jianyun blocked her with an Army-Slaying Formation and threatened the Thousand King envoys.
• Qian Ta and Pei Yugong persuaded Madam Raccoon to stop fighting, and the voice impersonating Sikong Jing warned that the real target might leave for the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Madam Raccoon accepted that the son of the Sikong couple had escaped and blamed Sikong Jing for her predicament.

Sikong Jing’s confirmed Holy Body overturned Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s accusations and strengthened the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s position in negotiations. The Thousand Kings delegation left Overlord Heaven City in disgrace, but Qian Ta resumed the assassination mission against Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing argued that he was a Holy Body, not the demon Madam Raccoon sought, and the public recognized that the test cleared him and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Murong Jianyun withdrew the Army-Slaying Formation, mocked Pei Yugong for proving Sikong Jing’s Holy Body, and said they might seek to bring Sikong Jing back after investigating his ties to Su Old Devil’s remnants.
• Sikong Jing left the negotiations as Overlord Heaven’s soldiers and the onlookers parted respectfully for him.
• Murong Jianyun dominated the negotiations, and the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation departed Overlord Heaven City after suffering a string of defeats.
• Qian Ta sent a messenger bird to Yao Yulou, ordering him to resume the assassination mission against Sikong Jing and finish it within three days.

After the negotiations failed, Sikong Jing arranged for Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi to leave for safety, then headed to Teng Residence to speak with Yao Yulou. Yao Yulou received a new message from Qian Ta and secretly went to Hua Lidian's residence after silently parting from Jiang Wanyou.

• Qian Ta assured Pei Yugong that Yao Yulou would assassinate Sikong Jing, while Madam Raccoon failed to find the missing Sima bastard.
• Sikong Jing praised Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi before they departed with Extinguishing Love Venerable for the Thoughtless Sacred Sect.
• Sikong Jing told Sikong Ling they would seek their parents' secret realm after he reached the peak Emperor Realm and discussed how the Green Jade Paper could awaken their Emperor bloodlines.
• Sikong Jing gave Extinguishing Love Venerable treasures linked to the Eternal Night Wolf King's meridians, then watched the women’s Divine Shuttle Ship head north.
• Sikong Jing went to Teng Residence intending to speak with Yao Yulou about a possible assassination mission.
• Yao Yulou received Qian Ta's transmission, left his companions, silently bid farewell to Jiang Wanyou, and went to Hua Lidian's residence.

Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou separately bound Hua Lidian and entrusted their loved ones to him before leaving together, intending to face danger and die rather than disrupt Sikong Jing's plan against the Thousand Prison Tower. When Sikong Jing learned that both had vanished from the Teng Residence, he sensed something was wrong and began searching for them.

• Yao Yulou knocked Hua Lidian unconscious, bound and sealed him, and asked him to care for Jiang Wanyou and Hua Meixi before leaving.
• Jiang Wanyou visited the bound Hua Lidian, asked him to protect Hua Meixi, and told him to warn A-Jing not to alter his plan because of her and Yulou.
• Hua Lidian wept as Jiang Wanyou left, but stayed behind because his daughter Hua Meixi still needed him.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Teng Residence, learned Yao Yulou had left after receiving a message, and grew uneasy when Jiang Wanyou was also missing.
• Sikong Jing found traces of the Fierce Charm Sacred Body in Jiang Wanyou's empty room, searched the residence without finding her, and Hua Meixi said her mother would never leave without telling her.

Sikong Jing discovered that Yao Yulou had taken Hua Lidian and that Jiang Wanyou had followed Yao Yulou, who planned to sacrifice himself to save his parents from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. As Sikong Jing rushed toward Fresh Martial Town to find them, Xiong Tingting's message revealed that Qian Ta was heading to the Tyrant Nether Tavern with her daughter, and Sikong Jing realized Yao Yulou had moved his destination there.

• Hua Meixi suspected Hua Lidian had abducted her mother, but Sikong Jing searched nearby and found Hua Lidian tied up in an inn.
• After Sikong Jing freed him, Hua Lidian explained that Yao Yulou had bound him and that Jiang Wanyou had secretly followed Yao Yulou.
• Sikong Jing told Hua Lidian that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower was forcing Yao Yulou to assassinate him by holding Yao Yulou's parents captive.
• Sikong Jing set out for Fresh Martial Town with Hua Meixi and Yang Yi, hoping they could reach Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou in time.
• Xiong Tingting transmitted that Qian Ta was heading to the Tyrant Nether Tavern with her daughter, and Sikong Jing realized Yao Yulou intended to go there.

Yao Yulou lured Qian Ta to Tyrant Nether Tavern with a fake claim that he had killed Sikong Jing, then used an exploding decoy head to attack him. Yao Yulou tried to stab Qian Ta while the Dark Tower Master was weakened, but Qian Ta survived and seized him.

• Yao Yulou changed course for Tyrant Nether Tavern to keep Sikong Jing from discovering his plan and saving him.
• Yao Yulou entered Qian Ta's private room, where Qian Ta demanded Sikong Jing's head and Xiong Tingting's daughter was present.
• Yao Yulou handed Qian Ta a false head and claimed it belonged to Sikong Jing.
• Qian Ta discovered the head was not Sikong Jing's, and Yao Yulou detonated the Overlord Heaven Divine Thunder hidden inside it.
• Yao Yulou charged Qian Ta with a dagger, but Qian Ta snapped his hand, grabbed his throat, and emerged from the blast unharmed.

Yao Yulou’s assassination attempt failed, and Qian Ta prepared to torture him and use his family to punish his betrayal. Jiang Wanyou arrived and revealed she was Yao Yulou’s wife, leaving him terrified for her as Qian Ta saw a new way to torment him.

• Qian Ta accused Yao Yulou of betrayal and threatened to make him watch his parents suffer in the Thousand Prison Tower.
• Yao Yulou privately planned to detonate the demonic beast poison hidden in his body when he saw his parents, killing them and himself to spare them torture.
• Qian Ta began to channel true energy into Yao Yulou to torture him, but Jiang Wanyou arrived and explained that Yao Yulou had been moved by A-Jing’s willingness to save him.
• Yao Yulou saw Jiang Wanyou and desperately urged her to run, while she calmly declared herself Jiang Bi’s daughter and Yao Yulou’s wife.
• Qian Ta laughed at the chance to use Jiang Wanyou to torment Yao Yulou, who asked her in anguish why she had come.

Jiang Wanyou revealed that she knew where to find the Fierce Charm Sacred Body and used that secret to stop Qian Ta from tormenting Yao Yulou. Sikong Jing arrived after rescuing Xiong Tingting's daughter and prepared to confront Qian Ta while leaving Hua Meixi with Yang Yi.

• Jiang Wanyou told Yao Yulou that she knew of his plan to assassinate A-Jing and insisted on sharing his fate.
• Jiang Wanyou claimed to Qian Ta that she possessed the Blood Charm Demon Cat Battle Body and knew where to find the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, then threatened to kill herself unless he released Yao Yulou.
• Qian Ta bound Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou with true energy but refrained from tormenting them because he wanted the Fierce Charm Sacred Body.
• Qian Ta discovered that Xiong Tingting's daughter had been rescued through a hole beneath the rubble.
• Sikong Jing revealed himself after the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion and little demon rats rescued Xiong Tingting's daughter.
• Sikong Jing asked Yang Yi to look after Hua Meixi, then vanished to confront Qian Ta.

Sikong Jing appeared before Qian Ta and pretended a hidden Saint Martial Stage expert had secretly taken Xiong Tingting's daughter, frightening Qian Ta into summoning Madam Raccoon. Qian Ta then seized Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou as hostages and demanded Sikong Jing kneel, but Sikong Jing laughed and called him naive.

• Sikong Jing emerged from the crowd and confronted Qian Ta, while Yang Yi restrained Hua Meixi at Sikong Jing's request.
• Sikong Jing claimed a hidden expert had secretly taken Xiong Tingting's daughter, and Qian Ta failed to detect the supposed expert or the girl.
• Qian Ta grabbed Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou as hostages, while Sikong Jing kept advancing and warned that Qian Ta would die in Overlord Heaven City.
• Qian Ta summoned Madam Raccoon, whose aura appeared near Overlord Heaven Inner City as Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle also stirred.
• Qian Ta threatened to tear off Yao Yulou's hand unless Sikong Jing knelt, but Sikong Jing laughed and called him naive.