Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing pretended to reject loyalty and affection as Qian Ta threatened Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou, then stabbed Jiang Wanyou to secretly pass her a meridian diagram and signal his agreement with their plan. He left Qian Ta believing he had no emotional weaknesses, while inwardly accepting the sacrifices needed for their mission.

• Qian Ta confronted Sikong Jing with what he had learned about his loyalty to friends and family, then tore off Yao Yulou’s arm to test him.
• Qian Ta threatened Jiang Wanyou and ordered Sikong Jing to kneel, while Hua Meixi watched helplessly from hiding.
• Sikong Jing called for hidden help and lunged, but his sword turned and pierced Jiang Wanyou in the chest.
• Jiang Wanyou recognized that Sikong Jing had sent her the complete Emperor-level Blood Charm Demon Cat meridian diagram and agreed to let her and Yao Yulou pursue their plan.
• Sikong Jing withdrew his sword and taunted Qian Ta, concealing his grief as Qian Ta believed he had no weakness to exploit.

Sikong Jing made himself appear cruel by striking Jiang Wanyou so the Thousand Kings Holy Tower would believe she knew the whereabouts of the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, while secretly preserving her life with his essence blood. After explaining his plan to Yang Yi and Hua Meixi, he set his sights on blowing up the Thousand Prison Tower to rescue Jiang Wanyou, Yao Yulou, and Yao Yulou’s parents.

• Sikong Jing’s sword strike made Qian Ta believe Jiang Wanyou was dying, so Qian Ta hurriedly took her and Yao Yulou away to find Madam Raccoon.
• Sikong Jing sent Xiong Tingting a message that Yao Yulou had been rescued, then left the ruins with Yang Yi and Hua Meixi on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Yang Yi and Hua Meixi challenged Sikong Jing over his treatment of Jiang Wanyou, and Sikong Jing assured them that she would survive.
• Sikong Jing explained that Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou could not be rescued openly because Yao Yulou’s parents were imprisoned in the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and the Fierce Charm Sacred Body was involved.
• Sikong Jing revealed that his sword strike was meant to preserve Jiang Wanyou’s and Yao Yulou’s lives, then announced that he would blow up the Thousand Prison Tower and rescue them and Yao Yulou’s parents.

Sikong Jing rescued Xiong Tingting’s daughter and learned more about the Thousand Prison Tower, while telling Hua Meixi the truth about Yao Yulou. As Jiang Wanyou’s life continued to fade, Yao Yulou tried to reach her, and a faint sign of life appeared.

• Sikong Jing healed Xiong Tingting’s daughter and brought her to the Teng Residence, where Hua Meixi spoke with her about the Thousand Prison Tower.
• Hua Meixi learned that Yao Yulou had been made a pawn of the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and heard how he had protected her before turning against them.
• Murong Jianyun joined Sikong Jing at the Teng Residence, and the two drank together as Sikong Jing grieved over Jiang Wanyou and Yao Yulou.
• Xiong Tingting received word that Sikong Jing had saved her daughter, but two streams of light from Overlord Heaven City made her fear for the women at Fragrance Inquiry House.
• Qian Ta and Madam Raccoon failed to save Jiang Wanyou, so Yao Yulou took her hand and called to her; her body trembled and a faint breath of life stirred within her.

Yao Yulou stayed beside Jiang Wanyou as her life force stabilized, while Qian Ta questioned him about his betrayal and Sikong Jing. Qian Ta grew wary of Sikong Jing and headed to eliminate Xiong Tingting, who was already planning to help the girls of Fragrance Inquiry House escape Fresh Martial Town.

• Sikong Jing's power within Jiang Wanyou stabilized her life force, though she remained unconscious.
• Yao Yulou told Qian Ta that he had decided to betray the Thousand Kings Holy Tower only that day, after Sikong Jing risked the demon bloodline test to save him.
• Qian Ta left Yao Yulou under guard and discussed Sikong Jing's Third-Grade Holy Body and possible origins with Madam Raccoon and Pei Yugong.
• Qian Ta ordered an investigation into Sikong Jing's background and decided Xiong Tingting had to be eliminated because her daughter could identify her to Sikong Jing.
• Xiong Tingting resolved to find a way to help all the girls of Fragrance Inquiry House escape Fresh Martial Town.

Xiong Tingting tried to flee Fresh Martial Town after rescuing her daughter, but Qian Ta caught up just as Ye Wuzhi and Shi Douxing arrived to confront the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation. Qian Ta struck Xiong Tingting down, but she survived the blow long enough for Ye Wuzhi to reach her and offer aid.

• Xiong Tingting ordered the Fragrance Inquiry House girls to disguise themselves and slip out of Fresh Martial Town before Qian Ta found them.
• Ye Wuzhi of Willow Leaf Holy Manor and Shi Douxing of the Reverse Blade Sect arrived with Army-Slaying Formation auras and announced they would wipe out the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation.
• Qian Ta realized the delegation risked being trapped by the arriving forces and accused Xiong Tingting of preparing to flee after Sikong Jing learned she was his pawn.
• Xiong Tingting fled toward Ye Wuzhi, but Qian Ta shot her through the back with a finger-force strike and returned to the delegation.
• Xiong Tingting survived because she had reached the Venerable Realm, and Ye Wuzhi landed beside her and told her to circulate her true energy with his vitality.

After Xiong Tingting was rescued and the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation fled, Sikong Jing planned to seek out the Thousand Prison Tower’s chess pieces. The owner of Tyrant Nether Tavern came to join the resistance, and Sikong Jing told him to remain hidden until the time came to destroy the tower.

• Ye Wuzhi healed Xiong Tingting, then took her toward Overlord Heaven City as the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation escaped with Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou.
• Sikong Jing told Murong Jianyun he planned to find and subdue the Thousand Prison Tower’s known chess pieces before destroying the tower.
• Fan Kui reported that the owner of Tyrant Nether Tavern had come to see Sikong Jing, and Sikong Jing realized the man was another chess piece stirred by Yao Yulou’s resistance.
• Boss Ba You knelt before Sikong Jing and declared that he wanted to resist the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, admitting he had acted on impulse and could no longer endure his situation.
• Sikong Jing judged Boss Ba You sincere, helped him up, and told him to stay hidden until the day he moved against the Thousand Prison Tower.

Sikong Jing secretly recruited the owner of Tyrant Nether Tavern and subdued the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent while the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation departed believing it had gained the Fierce Charm Sacred Body. Jiang Wanyou revealed to Yao Yulou that she planned to let him devour her after she achieved the Sacred Body so he could enter the Saint Martial Stage and help Sikong Jing destroy the Thousand Prison Tower.

• Sikong Jing told the owner of Tyrant Nether Tavern to remain hidden, then promised to improve his cultivation and potential; the owner learned that Sikong Jing had rescued Xiong Tingting's daughter.
• Ye Wuzhi brought the weakened Xiong Tingting to the Teng Residence, where Sikong Jing treated her and reunited her with her daughter.
• Sikong Jing intimidated the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent's spirit shadow with his ferocious-beast aura, won its submission, and learned how to crack the stone-stool Heavenly Pattern Treasure Artifact.
• Qian Ta left Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou believing the delegation had secured the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, while Jiang Wanyou awoke and reunited with Yao Yulou.
• Jiang Wanyou explained that Sikong Jing's sword would help her hide until she achieved the Fierce Charm Sacred Body, then told Yao Yulou to devour her so he could enter the Saint Martial Stage and aid Sikong Jing.

Jiang Wanyou urged Yao Yulou to swallow her so she could help Sikong Jing break the Thousand Prison Tower and save her family, leaving Yao Yulou distraught. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing unraveled the stone pedestal treasure’s heavenly patterns and entered it, discovering that he had broken into an inheritance vault without becoming its owner.

• Jiang Wanyou told Yao Yulou that swallowing her was the only way to help Sikong Jing save her family and evade Pei Kuang, but Yao Yulou could not bring himself to do it.
• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent explained that the stone pedestal came from the Desolate Sea Snake Rock Sect and that a dishonest Heavenly Pattern Master had hidden its spirit shadow inside.
• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent guided Sikong Jing through the artifact’s heavenly patterns, and Sikong Jing steadily unraveled their knots through the night.
• At dawn, Sikong Jing finished smoothing the heavenly patterns and drove his consciousness into the stone pedestal.
• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent revealed that the green jade bricks stored inheritances, and Sikong Jing realized he had cracked the artifact without becoming its owner.

Sikong Jing uncovered nine Saint-grade techniques from the Desolate Sea Snake Rock Sect’s stone pedestal treasure artifact, copied them, and left detailed instructions for Tyrant Lotus Venerable. After saying farewell to Xiong Tingting and her mother, he prepared to act on the urgent matter of the Thousand Prison Tower, but refused Hua Meixi’s request to accompany him.

• Sikong Jing discovered that the Green Jade Stone Bricks held the Saint-grade Wild Sea Sacred Rock Art and eight Saint-grade martial techniques and secret arts.
• Sikong Jing freed the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent’s spirit shadow from the stone pedestal treasure artifact and sent it into the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• Sikong Jing obtained raw jade stones from Murong Jianyun and spent two hours making two copies of the sect’s techniques, keeping one and leaving the other for Tyrant Lotus Venerable.
• Sikong Jing left Tyrant Lotus Venerable a note explaining the treasure artifact, its cracking method, and the copied techniques before departing the Teng Residence’s minor secret realm.
• Sikong Jing bid farewell to Xiong Tingting and her mother, then told Hua Meixi he was leaving to prepare to break the Thousand Prison Tower.
• Hua Meixi asked to go with Sikong Jing, but he refused because his mission could bring pursuit by powerful experts.

Sikong Jing arranged for his companions to return to the Eastern Plains Northern Lands, protect his connections there, and prepare for threats from the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. Before leaving, he healed Yang Yi and equipped Leng Sha and Bai Xiaojin with resources and a way to escape danger, then departed as they feared their next meeting might come in the final battle.

• Sikong Jing gave Hua Meixi the Blood Charm Demon Cat’s meridians and told her to cultivate while suppressing her Fierce Charm Sacred Body.
• Sikong Jing assigned Gongyang Ying to return with Chou Zhan, Lang, and Old Mo, erase traces of him in the Eastern Plains Northern Lands, and protect his friends; Hua Meixi joined the group with Yang Yi and the Four Great Mad Demons.
• Sikong Jing arranged for the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to wait in the Bright Dragon Mountain Range and warned the departing group to avoid enemies they could not defeat.
• Sikong Jing used a Multi-Leaf Seal to repair Yang Yi’s eyes and entrusted Captain Hua’s care to him.
• Sikong Jing gave Leng Sha a Tyrant Soul Token and beast techniques, gave Bai Xiaojin techniques for the Heaven-Devouring Hammer and War Demon Hammer, and urged both disciples to forge their own paths.
• Leng Sha and Bai Xiaojin knelt with tearful eyes as Sikong Jing left after entrusting them with their task.

Sikong Jing left Teng Residence after bidding farewell to his companions and ambushed Thousand Kings Holy Tower defectors who planned to assassinate him. He publicly claimed to lead Su Old Devil's surviving followers, and Murong Jianyun ordered him to leave Overlord Heaven City.

• Bai Xiaojin rejected Leng Sha's challenge to marry him if she lost, while White Protector Venerable encouraged Leng Sha to keep trying.
• Sikong Jing repaired the Heavenly Wolf Team and the Raging Flower Battle Team, then departed as they called out their farewells.
• A Thousand Kings Holy Tower Emperor Realm expert and several Venerables planned to bait Murong Jianyun into rescuing them during an attempted probe of Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing burst into the inn, revealed that his Northern Balance remnant forces had found the plotters, and slaughtered them in Overlord Heaven Outer City.
• Murong Jianyun confronted Sikong Jing over the massacre, and Sikong Jing said he no longer belonged to the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Murong Jianyun declared Sikong Jing unwelcome and ordered him to leave Overlord Heaven City.

Sikong Jing left Overlord Heaven City after publicly severing ties with the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, while Tyrant Lotus Venerable emerged from seclusion and misunderstood Murong Jianyun’s words as proof that he had betrayed Sikong Jing. She attacked Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, leaving them battered as Murong fled toward the inner city.

• Sikong Jing announced that he would take over the remnants under his Grandpa Su and departed Overlord Heaven City on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable left seclusion and asked White Protector Venerable where Sikong Jing was.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable heard Murong Jianyun call Sikong Jing an enemy of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and erupted in anger.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable confronted Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, revealing that she had reached the second major realm of the Saint Martial Stage.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable battered Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle with Nether Lotus and sea-snake attacks as Murong tried to explain.
• Murong Jianyun escaped toward the inner city while Tyrant Lotus Venerable accused him of bullying Sikong Jing.

Tyrant Lotus Venerable attacked Murong Jianyun after learning he had called Sikong Jing a devil, then heard from Bei Cang about Sikong Jing’s departure and the conflict with the Thousand Kings Holy Tower. She suspected Sikong Jing’s promised surprise and the green jade rawstones were connected to a discovery in the Teng Residence Minor Mystic Realm.

• Tyrant Lotus Venerable chased and whipped Murong Jianyun and the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, while visitors to Overlord Heaven City debated Sikong Jing and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Murong Jianyun trapped Tyrant Lotus Venerable in the Army-Slaying Formation, and Bei Cang arrived to explain what had happened during her seclusion.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable learned that Sikong Jing had left the chamber of commerce to stage a demon-lord act with Murong Jianyun and questioned Murong Jianyun about his newfound resolve.
• Murong Jianyun wondered whether Tyrant Lotus Venerable’s cultivation breakthrough was Sikong Jing’s promised surprise and whether the green jade rawstones had helped cause it.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable asked everyone to accompany her to the Teng Residence Minor Mystic Realm, where she believed Sikong Jing might have left a message about the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent and the stone pedestal.

Tyrant Lotus Venerable found Sikong Jing’s gifts and confirmed Murong Jianyun had told the truth, though she grew alarmed that Tyrant Soul Venerable might be in Boundless Sea. Sikong Jing began his solo mission to target Thousand Prison Tower pawns in the eastern Central Plains, while the Thousand Kings Envoy Delegation mistook Tyrant Lotus’s actions for a show of strength.

• Tyrant Lotus Venerable found Sikong Jing’s note and ten azure jade slabs, then gave their contents to Murong Jianyun and the others after confirming his account.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable realized the Wild Sea Sacred Rock Art and treasure artifact were tied to Boundless Sea and wondered if Tyrant Soul Venerable had gone there.
• Sikong Jing sent Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion east and prepared to target Thousand Prison Tower pawns in the eastern Central Plains while allies handled the other regions.
• Sikong Jing compiled the identities of his pursuers, left the information and the Multi-Leaf Seal with Ye Wuzhi, and then set out east alone.
• Qian Ta and Pei Yugong concluded that Tyrant Lotus Venerable’s beating of Murong Jianyun had been a staged display of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s might.

Qian Ta learned that Nan Feng and the other planted agents had been exposed, while Sikong Jing traveled to Fire Artisan City to pursue his plans at Ripple Lake. He reached the city and learned that Holy Artisan Mountain was pressuring local factions to cut ties with Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.

• Qian Ta received news that Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce would publicly execute Nan Feng and the other defectors, then ordered his forces to seek a chance to buy the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.
• Sikong Jing arrived in Fire Artisan City, where Holy Artisan Mountain had recently ended its trade with Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce in support of Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Holy Artisan Mountain's men beat the Black Copper Manor lord and ordered him to retrieve goods shipped to Overlord Heaven City.
• The Black Copper Manor lord said he would retrieve the goods, leave Fire Artisan City, and continue supplying Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce elsewhere.
• Sikong Jing approached the Black Copper Manor group and asked how to reach Ripple Lake, his destination; the lord told him it lay east of the city at Holy Artisan Mountain and admitted ordinary people could not enter.

Sikong Jing learned that the Fu Family of Ripple Lake were the former rulers of Holy Artisan Mountain and still held the secret behind its finest mechanical message birds. He left Black Copper Manor with his goals of recruiting a Ripple Lake pawn and learning the bird-forging secret unexpectedly tied to the same family.

• Sikong Jing asked Black Copper Manor’s elders whether the Fu Family of Ripple Lake had once ruled Holy Artisan Mountain, and reassured them that their overheard criticism of the You Family made them even.
• The black-robed elder brought Sikong Jing into the shop and confirmed that the You Family seized power three hundred years earlier, slaughtered most of the Fu Family, and forced the survivors into humble labor and prostitution at Ripple Lake.
• The elder explained that the Fu Family survived because it alone knew how to forge Holy Artisan Mountain’s fastest mechanical message birds and refused to share the secret with the You Family.
• Sikong Jing realized that the Fu Family connected his plans to recruit a Ripple Lake pawn and obtain the mechanism-message-bird forging secret.
• The elder revealed that the You Family had killed major factions that knew the secret, and Sikong Jing asked why Black Copper Manor had dared tell him about it.

Sikong Jing learned that Fu Miaoling, the Ripple Lake Fairy, carried the secret of the Mechanism Messenger Bird and went to Ripple Lake to investigate her. As her Ethereal Melody began, he sensed the sorrow behind it, while the lake’s banquet for Thousand Kings Holy Tower supporters was underway.

• Sikong Jing told the Black Copper Manor elder to seek the Bai Clan in Overlord Heaven City, then left the shop.
• The Black Copper Manor elder prepared to leave Fire Artisan City and secretly contacted the Heavenly Tyrant Branch.
• Sikong Jing headed to Ripple Lake, intending to investigate Fu Miaoling and the Mechanism Messenger Bird secret.
• Sikong Jing learned from the lakeside crowd that the Holy Craftsman You Family was hosting a banquet for forces supporting the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Fu Miaoling began playing her Ethereal Melody, and Sikong Jing heard anguish and desolation in the music as its notes swelled across the lake.

Sikong Jing realized Fu Miaoling’s unusually loud, stringless zither music carried a message and infiltrated the banquet island to find her. He witnessed an Emperor Realm old woman burst into Fu Miaoling’s lounge and demand to know what she had done.

• Sikong Jing recognized that the zither music had been amplified through folded space and suspected Fu Miaoling was signaling that she faced a crisis.
• Sikong Jing transformed his aura, entered Ripple Lake, and slipped past the guards and formations onto the central island.
• Sikong Jing infiltrated the banquet buildings and found Fu Miaoling in a gloomy lounge, holding a stringless white-jade zither.
• A hunchbacked old woman with Emperor Realm power stormed into the lounge and blasted everyone except Fu Miaoling into the walls.
• The old woman demanded to know what Fu Miaoling had done, and her force injured Fu Miaoling, who remained seated and silent.

Fu Miaoling defied You Yao and used the secret of the Mechanism Messenger Bird and her own life to protect the Holy Craftsman Fu Family. The chapter ended with You Yao announcing that Fu Miaoling would be offered to the gathered guests for one night.

• You Yao confronted Fu Miaoling for performing a stringless spatial melody and threatened to kill thirty percent of the Fu Family.
• Fu Miaoling held a dagger to her throat and revealed that her younger brother was no longer in You Yao's hands.
• You Yao threatened Fu Miaoling with her brother's suffering, but Fu Miaoling pressed the dagger deeper and challenged the You Family to risk losing the messenger bird secret.
• Fu Miaoling revealed that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had taken her brother and locked him in the Thousand Prison Tower, leaving him alive.
• You Yao introduced herself as Holy Artisan Mountain's Third Elder and announced that Fu Miaoling would be offered to the guests for one night.

Sikong Jing witnessed Fu Miaoling accept You Yao’s threats to protect the Fu Clan, then entered the banquet under a stolen golden invitation card. He won the right to spend the night with Fu Miaoling by posing as a youth with a seventh-grade battle body, leaving the guests puzzled about his claimed Shen Family.

• You Yao threatened to punish Fu Miaoling and the Fu Clan, and Fu Miaoling lowered her dagger to prevent further bloodshed.
• The Fu Clan members resented Fu Miaoling after You Yao left, while Sikong Jing slipped away unseen and considered her situation.
• Sikong Jing obtained a golden invitation card by taking it from an expert and returned to the banquet.
• The banquet host announced that the young man with the highest-grade battle body would spend the night with Fu Miaoling.
• Sikong Jing, disguised as a scruffy Black-Clothed Youth with a seventh-grade battle body, won and went with Fu Miaoling to the rear courtyard.
• When elders questioned his identity, the host said the youth came from the Shen Family in the central region of the Central Plains, unaware that his invitation had belonged to someone from the Tian Family.