Chapter Summaries

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.

Sikong Jing forced the Space Sacred Key to acknowledge him as its master and used it to teleport north, hoping to reach the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation before his demonic corruption consumed his mind. He reached the Northern Wasteland but remained far from his destination, with his consciousness continuing to fade.

• Sikong Jing used his peak Saint Martial strength and demonic energy to force the Space Sacred Key to recognize him as its master.
• Sikong Jing filled the Sacred Key with Bright Core Crystals and began repeatedly teleporting north, while a pair of icy eyes recognized him as the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• Sikong Jing’s Pure Spirit Heart shattered, but his fallen cultivation and efforts to suppress his demonization let him retain a trace of clarity.
• Sikong Jing crossed into the Northern Wasteland and continued teleporting, seeking forces powerful enough to blast away another major realm and weaken his demonic intent.

Sikong Jing sensed his parents’ secret realm in the Northern Wasteland, but pursuers waiting there attacked him with a lightning formation. The lightning restored his clarity, and he teleported away to continue toward the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation as the pursuers followed.

• Sikong Jing sensed the secret realm his parents had left in the Northern Wasteland and rushed toward it without using spatial teleportation.
• At the snowy peak, a formation’s lightning struck Sikong Jing and knocked his realm back to the fourth major realm of the Saint Martial Stage, restoring his clarity.
• Sikong Jing recognized the figures atop the cliff as his parents’ pursuers and struggled against his urge to devour them.
• Sikong Jing used the Space Sacred Key to teleport away, deciding to reach the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and dispel his Magic Beast body first.
• The beast-pelt-clad old man ordered the pursuers to follow Sikong Jing into the spatial passage and seize his treasures.

Sikong Jing entered the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to suppress his demonic state, but the old man in beast hide and his companions followed him and provoked him into attacking. After killing two of them, Sikong Jing forced himself deeper into the formation to keep the demonic intent at bay, while the three survivors prepared to pursue him again.

• Sikong Jing reached the Boundless Sea and entered the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, whose power began consuming his demonic energy.
• The old man in beast hide and his companions followed Sikong Jing into the formation, intending to keep him in sight and claim his spatial sacred artifact.
• As the formation's bombardment weakened him, Sikong Jing's cultivation fell to the third great realm of Saint Martial, giving him hope of escaping demonhood.
• One of the pursuers demanded Sikong Jing hand over his spatial sacred artifact, reigniting his rage and prompting him to attack the group.
• Sikong Jing killed two pursuers, including one he devoured, then stopped at the formation's edge and turned back to go deeper.
• The three survivors blamed the man who had provoked Sikong Jing, but the old man in beast skins decided they would continue pursuing him.

Sikong Jing fled deeper into the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to escape the old man in beast-hide clothing and his companions, then lost consciousness as the formation battered him. The pursuers assumed he had died and returned to the Sikong couple’s secret realm, while Sikong Jing drifted deeper under the protection of fish; elsewhere, Old Xiu’s group prepared a formation to help Yao Yulou’s fleeing allies.

• Sikong Jing charged deeper into the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to escape the old man in beast-hide clothing and his two companions, who pursued him until the formation became too dangerous.
• The formation battered Sikong Jing down to the Emperor Martial Realm and knocked him unconscious, but nearby fish and demon beasts surrounded him and carried him onward.
• The old man in beast-hide clothing assumed Sikong Jing had been crushed to death, abandoned the search for his spatial sacred artifact, and returned with his companions to the Sikong couple’s secret realm.
• Yao Yulou’s group escaped Wind Thunder City under Everlasting Love Venerable’s guidance and reached a mountain forest beyond Thousand Kings’ territory.
• Old Xiu, He Congsheng, Qi Wuji, Old Fat Head, Su Yuexian, Jade Luan, and the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion gathered to join the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.

Old Xiu’s Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation forced Pei Kuang to retreat, allowing Yao Yulou and the others to escape Thousand King territory. They joined Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s forces, and the two powers began an all-out war that ended in a deadlock.

• Old Xiu used the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation to counter Pei Kuang’s ambush and drive him, Madam Raccoon, and the Golden Storm War Dragon away.
• Pei Kuang blamed Madam Raccoon for failing to stop Yao Yulou and demanded an explanation about Pei Yusheng’s ability to devour bodies of the same origin.
• Yao Yulou and the others broke out of Thousand King territory, while Pei Kuang ordered his main army to pursue them.
• Yao Yulou’s force joined Murong Jianyun and Tyrant Lotus Venerable’s Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce troops, and Pei Kuang launched an attack.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable, Murong Jianyun, the Dark Wing Dragon Eagle, and Bei Cang Heavenly Decider revealed their Saint Martial strength as both sides entered an all-out war.
• Major sects joined either Thousand Kings Holy Tower or Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, and their reinforcements brought the fighting to a deadlock.

After a month of war, Sikong Jing remained missing, though Murong Jianyun and a few others knew he was alive. Sikong Jing awoke in a hut on Demon-Scale Island, where a scaled girl treated his demonic appearance as ordinary.

• The Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower withdrew their forces, while both sides kept troops stationed between them.
• Rumors spread that Sikong Jing and the Humanoid Fierce Beast had died, but Murong Jianyun kept Sikong Jing’s survival secret from all but trusted allies.
• Sikong Jing awoke in a thatched hut after recalling that strange black fish had carried him through the sea.
• A young girl brought Sikong Jing medicinal broth and showed no fear of his demonic scales.
• The girl revealed her own scales and horns and told Sikong Jing that they were ordinary demonfolk from Demon-Scale Island.

Sikong Jing awakened on Demon-Scale Island after surviving the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and found himself severely injured, still covered in demonic scales. As he began investigating his condition, he discovered a mass of black mist inside his Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness.

• Yinlu left with Big Ox to meet the village elders, while Big Ox told Sikong Jing to return to his own village once he could get out of bed.
• Sikong Jing realized he had drifted to Demon-Scale Island, where the scaled inhabitants had mistaken him for one of their own.
• Sikong Jing examined his body and found his dantian nearly empty, his meridians shattered, and lingering Magic Beast energy throughout him.
• Sikong Jing entered his Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness and found his beast-shaped spiritual shadow destroyed and his humanoid shadow nearly invisible.
• Sikong Jing learned from the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison that more than a month had passed since he was blasted into the sea.
• Sikong Jing noticed a mass of black mist in his Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness and wondered whether Magic Beast energy had invaded it.

Sikong Jing discovered that a demonic spirit shadow might be forming, then awakened his suppressed dual dark Emperor Veins after taking medicine. He decided to cultivate a separate human meridian with the Wild Sea Sacred Rock Art to balance his Emperor Bloodline against his beast bloodline, while Pei Kuang celebrated unlocking the Golden Crystal Orb.

• Sikong Jing suspected the black demonic mist in his Spirit Platform was forming a third spirit shadow, but the Divine Turtle warned that it could be dangerous.
• Sikong Jing took a mild restorative pill, and its medicinal power triggered his suppressed dual dark Emperor Veins to erupt and try to seize his body.
• Sikong Jing consulted the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, and they advised him to make his Emperor Bloodline and beast bloodline coexist in balance.
• Sikong Jing chose to open a human main meridian and began cultivating the Wild Sea Sacred Rock Art to strengthen his Emperor Bloodline without overwhelming his beast bloodline.
• Pei Kuang returned to Thousand Kings Holy Tower, where Madam Raccoon had fully unlocked the Golden Crystal Orb and revealed its Saint-grade cultivation arts and martial skills.

Pei Kuang explained that the Golden Crystal Orb was a reward from a Vast Sea Great Sect that was using him to investigate an ancient prison within the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation. He revealed how the prison and its wardens worked, then left Madam Raccoon alarmed by the existence of natives who could help outsiders pass through the formation.

• Pei Kuang valued the ultimate saint-grade inheritance in the Golden Crystal Orb and expected it to help him reach the fourth major realm of the Saint Martial Stage and crush the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Madam Raccoon thanked Pei Kuang for not blaming her and Desire Saint, then asked where he had obtained the Golden Crystal Orb.
• Pei Kuang told Madam Raccoon that the prison had been left by an ancient mighty expert and later occupied by a great sect from Boundless Sea, whose War Puppets still guarded it.
• Pei Kuang explained that the great sect had sent him a transmission stone to summon powerful prisoners and test the wardens, while the Golden Crystal Orb was his reward for cooperating.
• Madam Raccoon asked whether the Vast Sea Great Sect could easily enter the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land, and Pei Kuang said natives within the formation could help outsiders pass through it.

Pei Kuang revealed his theory about the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and plotted to strengthen the Thousand Kings Holy Tower by targeting the Sikong couple’s pursuers. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing opened a second dantian and began rebuilding his human-race cultivation from the beginning.

• Pei Kuang told Madam Raccoon that the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and its prison may have been built by an ancient power, and that controlling the prison could grant them control of the formation.
• Pei Kuang urged Madam Raccoon to find and capture or kill other pursuers of the Sikong couple, especially those in the Northern Wasteland, and lure them to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Pei Kuang revealed that he planned to use a disciple’s blood to create a Fierce Charm Sacred Body and devour him.
• Sikong Jing opened a second dantian so his human-race and beast-race powers could remain balanced.
• Sikong Jing began forming his human-race main meridians and rebuilding his cultivation from the Martial Enlightenment Stage, progressing rapidly with his King Realm body.

Sikong Jing discovered that Yinlu had been raised as a sacrifice to the true humans and vowed to destroy the practice. As Yinlu began explaining where she would be taken, a group of demonfolk arrived to seize her.

• Sikong Jing stopped his cultivation when he heard Yinlu crying and went outside to thank her for saving him.
• Yinlu told Sikong Jing that people had cared for her because she was being raised as a sacrifice for the true humans.
• Sikong Jing said he would crush the practice and asked Yinlu where the true humans were and where she would be taken.
• A white-scaled woman arrived with several demonfolk, mocked Yinlu as a sacrificial offering, and ordered them to take her away.

Sikong Jing protected Yinlu from Huilu and learned that the islands’ demons were forced to send workers and sacrifices to Gods and Devils Island every three years. The chapter ended with Yinlu revealing that its center was a prison holding many humans, leaving Sikong Jing shaken.

• Huilu ordered her men to drag Yinlu away, but Sikong Jing stepped in and drove them off with a few punches.
• Huilu threatened Yinlu and Sikong Jing before fleeing to report them to the village elders.
• Yinlu urged Sikong Jing to leave, but he stayed and asked her about the humans and the sacrifice system.
• Yinlu explained that outsiders controlled the demon islands and sent their people to work on Gods and Devils Island every three years.
• Yinlu revealed that the center of Gods and Devils Island was a prison holding many humans, and Sikong Jing reacted with shock.

Sikong Jing learned that Gods and Devils Island was connected to a prison, then confronted Gray-Scale Village after Huilu falsely accused Yinlu of planning to elope. The village turned against Yinlu, and Sikong Jing began his promised “reasoning” by slapping Huilu.

• Yinlu told Sikong Jing that humans sent village women into the prison to be abused by its prisoners.
• Huilu accused Yinlu of wanting to elope with Sikong Jing, and the village elder ordered the villagers to surround them.
• The villagers cursed Yinlu, while Huilu revealed she wanted to marry Big Ox after Yinlu became a sacrifice.
• Big Ox challenged Sikong Jing, and the village elder threatened to kill him for interfering with the sacrifice.
• Sikong Jing told Yinlu he would reason with the villagers, then appeared before Huilu and slapped her.

Sikong Jing exposed Huilu’s lie and confronted Gray-Scale Village for mistreating Yinlu, who was meant to be sacrificed. He took Yinlu into the hut and barred the villagers from entering, leaving them to face the consequences of losing their offering.

• Sikong Jing knocked down the Gray-Scale Village elders and villagers, then told Big Ox he wanted to settle things through reason.
• Sikong Jing dragged Huilu over and struck her until she admitted the claim that Yinlu planned to elope was a lie.
• Sikong Jing stopped the chief village elder from accusing Yinlu and condemned the villagers for blaming her instead of sympathizing with her fate.
• When Huilu and her supporters dismissed Yinlu as a lowly sacrifice, Sikong Jing declared that Yinlu had chosen not to be the offering.
• Sikong Jing swept Yinlu into her hut, threatened to kill anyone who entered, and carved a sword trench before the door.
• The villagers feared Sikong Jing and worried that without Yinlu as the offering, Gray-Scale Village would have to send more people to work on Gods and Devils Island.

Sikong Jing learned that Gray-Scale Village had deceived Yinlu about the sacrifice and promised to protect her while investigating the Gods and Devils Archipelago. Meanwhile, in Overlord Heaven City, Hua Meixi reported that Yao Yulou had disappeared, and the leaders rushed to search for him.

• Sikong Jing realized Gray-Scale Village wanted Yinlu sacrificed to spare its villagers from dangerous work on Gods and Devils Island.
• Yinlu struggled with guilt over the villagers’ possible deaths, but Sikong Jing told her he would not let her become the sacrifice.
• Sikong Jing stayed in the hut to cultivate and learn more about the archipelago, while Yinlu chose to trust him.
• At the Heavenly Judgment Hall, Bei Cang Heavenly Decider asked why Yao Yulou had not arrived for the war meeting.
• Hua Meixi announced that Yao Yulou had said goodbye to his parents and vanished, fearing he had gone to find her deceased Mother.
• Murong Jianyun ordered everyone to head to Chaos-Shaking City to search for Yao Yulou.