Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing revealed that he had entered the Beiheng Sword Formation, depriving the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor of his leverage over the people inside. When the ancestor attacked him, the formation struck back with a seemingly endless barrage of sword radiance, leaving Sikong Jing confident that he could negotiate from a position of strength.

• The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor searched for Sikong Jing and threatened to keep him out of the Beiheng Sword Formation unless he obeyed.
• Sikong Jing appeared inside the formation and explained that it recognized him and would not attack him.
• Sikong Jing told the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor they could now negotiate face-to-face, but the ancestor refused and charged at him.
• The Beiheng Sword Formation summoned a sword gleam, forcing the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor to defend himself instead of seizing Sikong Jing.
• The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor shattered the first strike, then fought against a continuing rain of sword radiance as Sikong Jing praised the formation’s power.

Sikong Jing used the Beiheng Sword Formation to strip Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor of his leverage and learned why he wanted to reach the Desolate Sea. He refused to take him there and returned to the Azure Dragon Small Domain.

• Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor was forced out of the Beiheng Sword Formation and admitted he doubted Pei Kuang could destroy it.
• Sikong Jing made Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor answer questions, learning he had seen the place from afar and wanted to search its ruins for treasures.
• Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor offered not to interfere against Pei Kuang, but Sikong Jing said he had no terms and would not take him to the place.
• Sikong Jing ignored Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor's threats and insults, then vanished into the Azure Dragon Small Domain.

Sikong Jing returned to the Beiheng Sword Formation as the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land withdrew, then visited Grandpa Su and Grandma Ye while the people prayed for peace. After comforting a little girl who prayed for his safe return, he sensed Pei Kuang’s arrival in the west.

• Sikong Jing ignored Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor’s threats and flew across the Azure Dragon Small Domain toward the Beiheng Sword Formation.
• Sikong Jing saw people praying outside North Dance City and entered the formation to pay his respects to Grandpa Su and Grandma Ye.
• Sikong Jing spoke with Grandpa Su and Grandma Ye about what had happened since he left the Azure Dragon Small Domain.
• The Heavenly Dao Sacred Land withdrew its troops, and the people celebrated while Sikong Jing drank and continued talking beside the sword mountain.
• Little Porridge prayed for the Azure Dragon Small Domain’s peace and Sikong Jing’s safe return, and Sikong Jing reassured her before sensing Pei Kuang’s arrival.

Sikong Jing left the Beiheng Sword Formation to confront Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon, while news of his return spread through Yun Province. As Pei Kuang threatened to destroy the formation and take Su Beiheng's corpse, Ji Shengmang ordered the Long Night forces to stand with Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing spoke with a little girl in North Dance City, then vanished from the formation to face the enemy as his beast-form spirit shadow entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• The girl's parents recognized Sikong Jing and spread news of his return through North Dance City and Yun Province.
• Ning Jingjing suggested that the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land had retreated because Sikong Jing had returned, and Beigong Xianfeng received confirmation that Sikong Jing planned to face a powerful enemy.
• Pei Kuang announced that he would destroy the Beiheng Sword Formation, take Su Beiheng's corpse, and make Sikong Jing share Su Beiheng's fate.
• Old Mo identified Pei Kuang as the master of the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, and Ji Shengmang ordered the Long Night forces to reassure the people and live or die together with Sikong Jing.

Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon planned to break the Beiheng Sword Formation by gathering people for a Blood Demon Grand Formation. Sikong Jing appeared at the formation’s edge and offered Pei Kuang a simpler way to destroy it, leaving Pei Kuang curious rather than immediately attacking.

• Ji Shengmang’s companions left the Divine Shuttle Ship to comfort the people of the Azure Dragon Small Domain and share their fate.
• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon judged that their own strength could break the Beiheng Sword Formation only at great cost, while an Army-Slaying Formation was impractical.
• Madam Raccoon proposed using a Blood Demon Grand Formation, and Pei Kuang decided they would gather people from the Eastern Plains Northern Lands.
• Before they could leave, an unseen man inside the formation announced that he knew a simple way to break it.
• Sikong Jing appeared at the edge of the formation, asked Madam Raccoon whether she had caught the person she sought, and offered Pei Kuang his method.
• Pei Kuang recognized Sikong Jing and said he would spare him for now in order to hear how he planned to break the formation.

Sikong Jing revealed the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor’s presence and intentions to Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon, turning their attention toward him. The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor escaped immediate capture but was left furious and baffled by Sikong Jing’s actions.

• Sikong Jing told Pei Kuang that the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor was nearby and could be thrown into the Beiheng Sword Formation to weaken it.
• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon searched the area, found the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor, and attacked him with a golden sword shadow.
• The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor shattered the attack, emerged, and retreated after realizing Pei Kuang had surpassed him in cultivation.
• Pei Kuang questioned why the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor had come to the Eastern Plains Northern Lands, and he claimed he had come to see the Beiheng Sword Formation.
• Sikong Jing exposed the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor’s plan to capture him and his knowledge of the Blood Demon Grand Formation, prompting Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon to suspect him.
• The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor angrily demanded to know why Sikong Jing had exposed him, insisting that Pei Kuang could not catch him.

Sikong Jing forced Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor to flee, then revealed that he intended to fight Pei Kuang without interference and began entering a demonic state. Su Beiheng suddenly spoke through the sword array, leaving Sikong Jing and Pei Kuang stunned that he was alive.

• Sikong Jing claimed he came from the Blood Demon Grand Formation and exposed Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor’s interest in the formation.
• Sikong Jing suggested Pei Kuang throw Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor into the Beiheng Sword Formation, prompting Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor to flee.
• Pei Kuang praised Sikong Jing’s scheme and offered to make him his adopted son, but Sikong Jing rejected him and said killing all three opponents at once would be difficult.
• Sikong Jing’s eyes reddened and scales began emerging as Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon sensed danger.
• Su Beiheng released Ye Wuyan’s corpse and spoke through the sword array, prompting Pei Kuang to exclaim that Su Old Devil was still alive.

Su Beiheng revealed that he had prepared to return from death when Pei Kuang appeared, and challenged him to settle their old rivalry. As Pei Kuang prepared to fight, Su Beiheng suppressed Sikong Jing’s demonic power and warned him not to waste it.

• Su Beiheng left Little Su Mountain, appeared beside Sikong Jing, and challenged Pei Kuang to another fight.
• Su Beiheng explained that he had truly died but used the Soul-Returning Method to revive when Pei Kuang came, and declared he had been waiting to protect his descendants.
• Su Beiheng taunted Pei Kuang about his old fear of losing, while Pei Kuang retreated and Madam Raccoon also pulled back.
• Pei Kuang overcame his fear, erupted with his peak third major realm Saint Martial Stage power, and vowed to defeat Su Beiheng himself.
• Su Beiheng placed a hand on Sikong Jing’s shoulder, dispersed his demonic power, suppressed his Blood Devour power, and warned him not to waste his limited chances.

Su Beiheng fought Pei Kuang while Sikong Jing honored his request not to enter demonification and studied the battle. Su Beiheng defeated Pei Kuang, and Sikong Jing advanced his understanding of the sword formation as he cultivated toward the Emperor Martial Stage King Realm.

• Su Beiheng told Sikong Jing that Pei Kuang could not be killed without provoking the power behind him, then asked Sikong Jing to carry his fading spiritual shadow back to Grandma Ye.
• Sikong Jing promised not to enter demonification, and Su Beiheng left the Beiheng Sword Formation to confront Pei Kuang.
• Su Beiheng overwhelmed Pei Kuang with black sword shadows and a sword formation, while the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor and Madam Raccoon watched in shock.
• Sikong Jing calmed himself and cultivated, comprehending Su Beiheng's sword formation as his Qianyuan Battle-Killing Diagram reached the seventh level.
• Pei Kuang's golden sword formation shattered, and Su Beiheng defeated him despite being three major realms lower.

Su Beiheng overwhelmed Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon, while the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor refused to help. As Sikong Jing reached the King Realm, Pei Kuang used an ancient stone to summon the power of space, and the chapter left Madam Raccoon entering its white light.

• Madam Raccoon joined Pei Kuang in attacking Su Beiheng, but his sword formation drove them to the brink of defeat.
• Pei Kuang called on the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor for help and offered terms, but the Ancestor refused and waited for him to die.
• Su Beiheng struck Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon into the ground, then trapped them with nine sword-formation phantoms when they tried to flee.
• Pei Kuang told Madam Raccoon to hold off Su Beiheng for ten breaths and poured blood onto an ancient gray stone.
• Sikong Jing completed his comprehension of the Sacred Martial Dark Wing Dragon Eagle's meridians and reached the King Realm, then recognized the stone's white light as the power of space.
• Pei Kuang told Madam Raccoon to enter the white light, which Su Beiheng could not break through.

Pei Kuang summoned the One-Claw Domain and threatened to bring its demonic beast and greater forces into the Bright Dragon Mountain Range. Sikong Jing explained how the spatial passage worked, but Su Beiheng refused to risk him and set out to weaken the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor before the beast arrived.

• Pei Kuang used a white-light barrier to shield himself and Madam Raccoon from Su Beiheng, then declared that he had summoned the One-Claw Domain again.
• Pei Kuang threatened to kill Sikong Jing and everyone in the Beiheng Sword Formation and turn the Bright Dragon Mountain Range into part of the One-Claw Domain.
• Sikong Jing left the Beiheng Sword Formation and told Su Beiheng that Pei Kuang was opening a spatial passage that would take time to bring the demonic beast through.
• Sikong Jing proposed using a demonic beast Army-Slaying Formation to attack Pei Kuang, but Su Beiheng refused because disrupting the passage could provoke more dangerous forces.
• Su Beiheng confirmed that Sikong Jing could cure the One-Claw Domain beast poison and said the sword formation could keep protecting everyone.
• Su Beiheng flew toward the Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor, intending to weaken the One-Claw Domain before the demonic beast arrived.

Sikong Jing prepared the Azure Dragon Small Domain for the arrival of the One-Claw Domain beast while Su Beiheng protected him and drove off Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor. The beast emerged as a Six-Clawed Evilheart Beast, and the Divine Turtle and Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger revealed its betrayal of the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.

• Su Beiheng wounded Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor, who escaped, then returned to Sikong Jing as his spirit shadow began to weaken.
• Sikong Jing sent tiny monster beasts to distribute antidote throughout the Azure Dragon Small Domain while Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon recovered inside the white pillar.
• Ji Shengmang and Beigong Xianfeng comforted the people in North Dance City, while Yang Yi and the others fled farther from the approaching danger.
• After three hours, the One-Claw Domain beast appeared above the Azure Dragon Small Domain, spreading poisonous gas from its body.
• The Divine Turtle identified the beast as a mongrel Six-Clawed Evilheart Beast, and the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger said it had betrayed and attacked the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts before joining the Five Heavenly Emperors.

Sikong Jing learned that the Six-Clawed Evilheart Beast served the Five Heavenly Emperors and could expose the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts. As the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast attacked Su Beiheng and Sikong Jing, Su Beiheng prepared to force the hidden person inside it to emerge.

• The Golden Divine Dragon and Divine Turtle warned Sikong Jing that the Six-Clawed Evilheart Beast’s descendants were trained to find and report the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• Sikong Jing shared the hybrid beast’s weaknesses with Su Beiheng while Pei Kuang knelt and addressed it as the Six-Clawed Sacred Beast.
• Pei Kuang tried to avoid paying the summoning price, but the hybrid beast insisted that he owed payment again and lifted him and another person into the sky.
• The hybrid beast unleashed a giant, poisonous claw strike at Su Beiheng and Sikong Jing, while Pei Kuang taunted them from above.
• Su Beiheng told Sikong Jing he would use the beast’s contempt to force the person hidden inside it to emerge, and Sikong Jing urged him to be careful.

Su Beiheng broke through the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast’s attack and used Sikong Jing’s knowledge of its fatal meridian weak points to strike it. He had hit four of the six targets and charged toward the remaining two.

• Su Beiheng left the Beiheng Sword Formation to attack the hybrid beast while Sikong Jing raced through the claw-force to help.
• The hybrid beast prepared to return using the ancient gray stone, but Su Beiheng appeared on its tail and stabbed a weak point.
• Su Beiheng struck additional weak points on the beast’s tail and back, causing it to howl and thrash as its demonic power lashed out.
• Su Beiheng declared that two more strikes would kill the beast and charged toward its remaining weak points, including one on its neck and one on its forehead.

Su Beiheng struck the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast’s fifth weak point and forced its hidden master to emerge, while Sikong Jing began transforming a King Realm demon serpent with the Nether Lotus Fierce Serpent’s blood. The gray-clad man revealed his peak Saint Martial strength and demanded to know how Su Beiheng had found the beast’s weakness.

• Su Beiheng drove his fifth sword into the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast and used the Beiheng Sword Formation to block its master’s attack.
• Sikong Jing entered a King Realm demon serpent and joined forces with the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent to seize its Spirit Platform consciousness sea.
• Sikong Jing gave the demon serpent a drop of Nether Lotus Fierce Serpent blood and ordered the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent to transform its body.
• A gray-clad middle-aged man emerged from beneath the beast’s final weak point, and Su Beiheng stopped his charge as the man appeared.
• The man revealed his peak Saint Martial cultivation, demanded to know how Su Beiheng discovered his mount’s weakness, and was met with Su Beiheng’s refusal to answer.
• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon watched from afar as Madam Raccoon asked who the hidden man was.

Sikong Jing disguised himself as a Saint Martial Nether Lotus hybrid beast and bluffed the gray-robed man into retreating with the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast. The threat left, but Su Beiheng fell into the One-Claw Domain, and Sikong Jing’s serpent form vanished into the Bright Dragon Mountain Range.

• As the gray-robed man prepared to kill Su Beiheng, Sikong Jing appeared in the form of a Saint Martial Nether Lotus hybrid beast.
• Sikong Jing claimed the gray-robed man would be discovered, frightening him into retreating into the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast.
• The gray-robed man ordered Pei Kuang to come over and used the ancient stone to enter a white pillar of light with the Six-Clawed Evil Heart Hybrid Beast.
• Before leaving, the gray-robed man told Pei Kuang that Su Beiheng had lost the ability to fight and would soon be destroyed in the One-Claw Domain.
• Su Beiheng fell into the One-Claw Domain as the serpent form vanished into the Bright Dragon Mountain Range.

Sikong Jing escaped after disguising himself as a Nether Lotus Sea Serpent to protect Su Beiheng's body, but Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon caught up with him at the edge of the One-Claw Domain. Pei Kuang subdued Sikong Jing and demanded that he become his adopted son.

• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon found the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent hybrid beast comatose and weakened, then realized its impersonator had fled toward the One-Claw Domain.
• Sikong Jing withdrew the Nether Lotus Fierce Serpent's blood from the demon snake and raced toward the One-Claw Domain, relieved that Su Beiheng's body had been preserved.
• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon caught up with Sikong Jing, who sensed a terrifying force approaching and suppressed his rising demonic intent.
• Sikong Jing admitted that he had controlled the demon snake and asked Pei Kuang to explain the mysterious middle-aged man's origins and the force that restrained him.
• Pei Kuang offered to explain if Sikong Jing became his adopted son, then enveloped and subdued him, claiming Su Beiheng had been destroyed.

Su Beiheng emerged from the One-Claw Domain and forced Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon to flee using spatial transmission. Sikong Jing discovered that Su Beiheng had died protecting him and carried his body back toward the Beiheng Sword Formation.

• Su Beiheng walked out of the One-Claw Domain, shattering Pei Kuang's attack with his sword intent.
• Pei Kuang used Bright Core Crystals and Imperial artifacts with the ancient stone to transmit himself and Madam Raccoon away.
• Sikong Jing realized the ancient stone enabled spatial transmission and understood that Pei Kuang had prepared the escape in case of danger.
• Sikong Jing found Su Beiheng standing dead in the poisonous mist and failed to revive him with Multi-Leaf Seals.
• Sikong Jing carried Su Beiheng's corpse toward the Beiheng Sword Formation while protecting it from the One-Claw Domain.

Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon escaped the Azure Dragon Small Domain after their confrontation with Su Beiheng, and Pei Kuang explained that the gray-clad middle-aged man had come from a prison inside the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation. They remained in the Bright Dragon Mountain Range, with Pei Kuang withholding further details about the prison.

• The Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor worried that Sikong Jing might have died and went to gather the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land disciples to watch the One-Claw Domain.
• Pei Kuang and Madam Raccoon emerged from teleportation in the Bright Dragon Mountain Range, and Pei Kuang brooded over his latest humiliation and injuries.
• Pei Kuang told Madam Raccoon that Su Beiheng was likely no longer a threat and concluded that Sikong Jing came from the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
• Madam Raccoon asked about the Six-Clawed Evilheart Sacred Beast, and Pei Kuang initially rebuked her before agreeing to reveal part of the truth.
• Pei Kuang explained that a prison inside the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation held criminals sent by a powerful force, and that he had transmitted the gray-clad middle-aged man out of it using a transmission stone.

Pei Kuang planned to pressure Jiang Wanyou for the Fierce Charm Sacred Body while Sikong Jing carried Su Beiheng through the Azure Dragon Small Domain and restored his body. After honoring Su Beiheng and Ye Wuyan, Sikong Jing took control of the Beiheng Sword Formation and named his sword technique the Beiheng Origin Shadow Sword.

• Pei Kuang asked Madam Raccoon to unlock the Golden Crystal Orb and said he would force Jiang Wanyou to reveal the Fierce Charm Sacred Body.
• Sikong Jing carried Su Beiheng into the Beiheng Sword Formation and used the Multi-Leaf Seal to restore his body as they traveled toward North Dance City.
• The people of the Azure Dragon Small Domain recognized Sikong Jing and Su Beiheng, and Ji Shengmang led them in paying their respects.
• Sikong Jing brought Su Beiheng to Little Su Mountain, reunited his body with Ye Wuyan's, and began memorial rites as the people of the domain knelt in tribute.
• Sikong Jing used the Beiheng Sword Formation to break the One-Claw Domain's cover and named Su Beiheng's inherited sword technique the Beiheng Origin Shadow Sword.