Chapter Summaries

Fu Miaoling offered to teach Tyrant Lotus Venerable the Fu Family’s Spatial Folding Technique so they could catch Yao Yulou and deliver Sikong Jing’s entrusted item. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing emerged from the thatched hut on Demon-Scale Island to face the Island Master and a crowd who questioned his black scales.

• Fu Miaoling revealed that Sikong Jing had entrusted her with something for Yao Yulou and offered to teach Tyrant Lotus Venerable the Spatial Folding Technique so they could catch up to him.
• Tyrant Lotus Venerable took Fu Miaoling toward Chaos-Shaking City, and Hua Meixi followed them.
• Tie Binghun started a martial exchange in the Heavenly Judgment Hall, prompting others to share their insights while Bei Cang Heavenly Decider wondered when Sikong Jing would return.
• Huilu and the Great Village Elder accused Sikong Jing of defying the Island Master and seeking his position, rousing the crowd outside the hut.
• Sikong Jing stepped out to face the Island Master and the gathered demons, who began questioning whether his black scales belonged to anyone from Demon-Scale Island.

Sikong Jing defeated the Demon-Scale Island lord and the gathered demons to protect Yinlu from being sacrificed. After learning that the humans required ten sacrifices every three years, he realized the islanders were hiding their motives, then sensed a Divine Shuttle Ship arriving.

• The Demon-Scale Island lord demanded Yinlu as a sacrifice, and Sikong Jing challenged him to a fight.
• Sikong Jing knocked the island lord flying with one punch, then defeated the assembled demons, including Huilu.
• Sikong Jing asked the island lord whether he would reason with him, and the lord said the humans controlled the sacrifice demands.
• The island lord explained that Demon-Scale Island had to provide ten sacrifices every three years or send its young and able-bodied people to work on Gods and Devils Island.
• Sikong Jing realized the islanders were lying about the humans' ability to find Yinlu and sensed a Divine Shuttle Ship arriving.

Sikong Jing confronted the human officials who arrived to collect sacrifices and workers from Demon-Scale Island. He seized the island lord’s position and claimed there were no sacrifices, but Huilu exposed Yinlu as one.

• A Divine Shuttle Ship arrived over Gray-Scale Village, and the Demon-Scale Island Lord planned to tell the humans that Sikong Jing was hiding a sacrifice.
• Big Ox urged Sikong Jing to flee with Yinlu, but Sikong Jing promised to protect them and waited for the humans.
• Two humans and a beast demon stepped off the ship, and the young man demanded to know whether the sacrifices and workers were ready.
• Sikong Jing declared himself the island lord, knocked the Demon-Scale Island Lord down, and told the humans that everyone would go to Gods and Devils Island because there were no sacrifices.
• Huilu pointed out Yinlu and accused Sikong Jing of deceiving the humans.

Sikong Jing refused to provide sacrifices to the humans aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship and defeated their Golden Body Realm thug with ease. When Elder Ruan attacked him, the Tiger Demon Zhan Hu intervened and persuaded the elder to let him handle Sikong Jing and the sacrifices.

• Sikong Jing told the humans that Demon-Scale Island would not provide sacrifices for three years.
• Elder Ruan ordered a Golden Body Realm thug to kill Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing seized him by the throat and tossed him back onto the ship.
• Elder Ruan recognized Sikong Jing's Peak Martial Enlightenment Stage strength and attacked him with an Emperor Martial palm strike.
• Zhan Hu stopped Elder Ruan's attack with a tiger claw and argued that Sikong Jing could prove useful to the elder.
• Elder Ruan spared Sikong Jing, gave Zhan Hu a quarter of an hour to prepare the sacrifice, and returned inside the ship.

Sikong Jing gambled that Zhan Hu would stop Elder Ruan from killing him, then used the chance to learn about the Gods and Devils Archipelago and Cangyu Sect. He sought a way to keep Yinlu out of the prison, but Zhan Hu said Sikong Jing might only have a chance after the Absolute Formation Gate opened again in three years.

• Sikong Jing revealed that he had prepared the Army-Slaying Formation and Beast Slaughter Array, but had gambled that Zhan Hu would intervene.
• Zhan Hu stopped Elder Ruan, and Sikong Jing explained that Yinlu and Big Ox had rescued him after he was swept in from the depths of Boundless Sea.
• Zhan Hu told Sikong Jing that Cangyu Sect controlled the Gods and Devils Archipelago and warned him not to challenge human authority.
• Sikong Jing refused to leave Yinlu behind or let her enter the prison, and asked Zhan Hu how he could earn a protected spot by raising Elder Ruan's standing.
• Zhan Hu said he had no available spots for Sikong Jing's group and judged that Sikong Jing might have a chance when the Absolute Formation Gate opened in three years.

Sikong Jing revealed to Zhan Hu that he had already opened his Spirit Platform sea of consciousness and formed a spirit shadow, then claimed he could reach the Spirit Martial Stage before their ship reached Gods and Devils Island. Zhan Hu agreed to explain how Sikong Jing could raise Elder Ruan’s status after they boarded, while Sikong Jing turned to deal with Demon-Scale Island’s people and sacrifices.

• Zhan Hu told Sikong Jing that he needed to reach the Spirit Martial Stage to gain Elder Ruan’s attention, and Sikong Jing learned they would reach Gods and Devils Island in half a month.
• Sikong Jing rapidly broke through from the peak of the Martial Enlightenment Stage to the Dao Inquiry Realm, leaving Zhan Hu stunned.
• Sikong Jing demonstrated his Spirit Platform sea of consciousness and a faint spirit shadow, then explained that he had reached the Spirit Martial Stage before falling into the sea and was rebuilding his martial path.
• Sikong Jing asked Zhan Hu how he could raise Elder Ruan’s status, and Zhan Hu promised to explain after they boarded the ship.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Demon-Scale Island demons to gather, and they obeyed after Zhan Hu glared at them.

Sikong Jing forced the Demon-Scale Island Lord, Huilu, and the Gray-Scale Village elders to travel to Gods and Devils Island, then caused a fight aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship. When Elder Ruan noticed Sikong Jing had reached the Dao Inquiry Realm of the War Martial Stage, Sikong Jing credited Zhan Hu, who backed up his claim.

• Sikong Jing ordered the former Demon-Scale Island Lord, Gray-Scale Village elders, and Huilu to go to Gods and Devils Island with the other demons.
• Zhan Hu brought Sikong Jing, Yinlu, and the others aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship, then told Elder Ruan that Sikong Jing had fallen in line.
• Sikong Jing knocked down a Golden Body Realm thug who attacked him, then sent him flying again while pretending to defend himself in panic.
• Elder Ruan stopped the Cangyu Sect thugs from attacking Sikong Jing and asked how he had reached the Dao Inquiry Realm of the War Martial Stage.
• Sikong Jing said Zhan Hu had guided him, and Zhan Hu confirmed that Sikong Jing had made a tremendous breakthrough after a few pointers.

Sikong Jing learned from Zhan Hu how the Cangyu Sect oppressed the devilmen and prevented them from reaching the Saint Martial Stage. Zhan Hu also explained the mysteries of the Gods and Devils Archipelago, leaving Sikong Jing to realize that unknown guardians—not the Cangyu Sect—were responsible for containing Ba Zhun and the Six-Clawed Hybrid Beast.

• Elder Ruan accepted Zhan Hu’s explanation for Sikong Jing’s attack and ordered Zhan Hu to nurture him while warning him not to lose control again.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan Hu that he refused to submit to oppression, and Zhan Hu admitted that he had once shared Sikong Jing’s hopes of freeing the devilmen.
• Zhan Hu revealed that the Cangyu Sect barred devilmen from reaching the Saint Martial Stage and had killed a devilman who broke through the realm lock.
• Sikong Jing asked Zhan Hu to explain the Gods and Devils Archipelago, the Absolute Formation Gate, the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, and the prison.
• After hearing Zhan Hu’s account, Sikong Jing realized that the archipelago’s guardians—not the Cangyu Sect—kept Ba Zhun and the Six-Clawed Hybrid Beast in check.

Sikong Jing pieced together the rules of the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and Cangyu Sect’s experiments, then suspected the formation was created to protect the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and the previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ bloodline inheritance. He found no answers from the beasts and left determined to investigate Gods and Devils Island.

• Sikong Jing reasoned that Cangyu Sect used a devilish human and a teleportation stone to test ways of controlling Gods and Devils Island, confirming the sect could threaten the Central Plains.
• Sikong Jing learned that the island’s creator was revered by the devilish humans, while the mindless guardians protected the island’s center and stopped pursuing intruders who returned to the prison.
• Sikong Jing suspected the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation protected the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and the previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ bloodline from human powers and the Five Heavenly Emperors.
• Sikong Jing entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and shared his theory with the ferocious beasts and divine beasts, but they could not identify a beast that might have stolen the prison and inheritance.
• Sikong Jing withdrew from the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and resolved to investigate the formation’s secrets on Gods and Devils Island.

Sikong Jing arrived at Gods and Devils Island with the Cangyu Sect’s fleet, where demonfolk were forced to work gathering valuable crystals and Yinlu was taken as a sacrifice. The group reached the demonfolk inheritance ground, and Elder Ruan brought several talented youths forward while Zhan Hu explained that Ruan’s standing had declined.

• Sikong Jing cultivated during the journey, determined to reach the Spirit Martial Stage and protect Yinlu from becoming a sacrifice.
• After half a month, Elder Ruan’s fleet arrived at Gods and Devils Island, where Zhan Hu explained the demonfolk’s role in carrying out Gods and Devils Crystals for the Cangyu Sect.
• The demonfolk went ashore and headed toward the island’s center as Yinlu was escorted with the sacrifices and Huilu mocked Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing felt a strange familiarity with Gods and Devils Island, reassured Yinlu, and continued with the group to a cliffside inheritance ground.
• Saint Martial Stage elder Bu Tun summoned talented demonfolk to receive the inheritance, and Elder Ruan brought several youths from his group.
• Zhan Hu told Sikong Jing that Elder Ruan’s status had fallen because his cultivation had advanced slowly and his recent trips had achieved little.

Sikong Jing prepared to reveal himself as Elder Ruan’s hidden trump card while the devilmen began the inheritance trial. After most candidates were rejected and Elder Ruan was mocked, Sikong Jing broke through to the Spirit Martial Stage before everyone.

• Sikong Jing told Zhan Hu he was close to the Spirit Martial Stage and asked him for more guidance, while planning to pass off something of his own as the devilmen’s inheritance.
• Saint Martial elder Bu Tun began the inheritance, and the inheritance ground blasted out nearly ninety percent of the young devilmen who entered.
• Zhan Hu rescued the candidates from their squad and told Sikong Jing that all of them had been eliminated, worsening Elder Ruan’s standing as three outer sect elders mocked him.
• Zhan Hu confronted Elder Liu and claimed Elder Ruan still had a trump card, then pointed to Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his peak War Martial Stage true qi and transformed it into Spirit Martial Stage true qi, stunning the crowd.

Sikong Jing entered the inheritance grounds and unexpectedly qualified to receive the inheritance, prompting Elder Ruan to wager against Elder Liu that he would last longer than a quarter of an hour. A voice inside Sikong Jing’s mind revealed the inheritance as the Demonic Path Demon Spirit Technique, a method for demonic cultivation without losing consciousness.

• Elder Ruan and the other elders mocked Zhan Hu for presenting the newly advanced Sikong Jing as a trump card.
• Elder Ruan hurled Sikong Jing into the inheritance grounds, where Sikong Jing remained instead of being expelled.
• Zhan Hu reminded Elder Ruan that Sikong Jing had been at the Martial Enlightenment Stage only half a month earlier and urged him to wager on Sikong Jing.
• Elder Ruan and Elder Liu made a bet, with Elder Bu Tun serving as witness.
• Sikong Jing entered the inheritance and heard a voice offer him the Demonic Path Demon Spirit Technique.

Sikong Jing received an inheritance teaching him how to enter demonhood without losing consciousness, including the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method and Demonic Path Sevenfold Body. After the others were expelled and he finished receiving the inheritance, he told the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger that he had found Senior Black and possibly his clansmen.

• Sikong Jing learned methods for cultivating a demonic spirit and received the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method and Demonic Path Sevenfold Body.
• Elder Ruan won his wager when Sikong Jing remained in the inheritance ground for more than half a quarter-hour, while Zhan Hu was pleased that his own bet had paid off.
• The other gifted demonfolk were expelled, leaving Sikong Jing alone in the inheritance ground as the gathering waited.
• Sikong Jing opened his eyes, entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison with his spirit image, and told the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger that he had found Senior Black and possibly his clansmen.

Sikong Jing connected Black Demon to the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and speculated that Black Demon had stolen the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and left descendants among the demonized humans or Cangyu Sect. After discussing the mystery with the beasts, Sikong Jing returned from receiving his inheritance, and Elder Bu Tun demanded that the demonfolk hand over what they had received.

• Sikong Jing told the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger that Black Demon was likely the master of the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and had stolen the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and the former Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts' bloodline from the Five Heavenly Emperors.
• Sikong Jing explained that the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method and Demonic Path Sevenfold Body led him to believe Black Demon had survived, grown beyond the Divine Martial Stage, and arranged matters in the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Sikong Jing and the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger concluded that Black Demon's followers might have become the ancestors of the demonized humans, while Black Demon's people or inheritors could also be among Cangyu Sect.
• Sikong Jing left the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison to uncover the truth at the center of Gods and Devils Island, and the Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger said the beasts would owe Black Demon a bow if the theory was true.
• Sikong Jing announced that he had finished receiving the inheritance, and Elder Ruan rushed over to welcome him.
• Elder Bu Tun told the demonfolk who had received inheritances to hand them over and produced a door-shaped treasure.

Sikong Jing passed through the Inheritance Memory Gate, which recorded his fourth inherited cultivation method as a powerful Green Jade Stone Brick. Elder Bu Tun ranked the inheritance among the top three in demon history and ordered Elder Ruan to place a Spirit Martial Lock on Sikong Jing, then left to report the inheritance to the Sect Master.

• Elder Bu Tun had the talented demons pass through the Inheritance Memory Gate, collecting a Green Jade Tube for each inheritance.
• When Sikong Jing passed through the gate, it produced a Green Jade Stone Brick, and Bu Tun declared that its unprecedented inheritance ranked among the top three in demon history.
• Bu Tun ordered Elder Ruan to place a Spirit Martial Lock on Sikong Jing, limiting his cultivation to the peak of the Spirit Martial Stage until the lock was removed.
• Sikong Jing accepted the lock while concealing that the brick recorded only his fourth inherited cultivation method, not his three secret methods for entering demonic cultivation.
• Bu Tun ended the ceremony, sent the group toward the center of Gods and Devils Island, and departed to take Sikong Jing's inheritance to the Cangyu Sect's Sect Master.

Sikong Jing secured exemptions for all ten sacrifices from Demon-Scale Island by impressing Elder Ruan with his supposedly mysterious inheritance. During the journey inward, he privately revealed to Zhan Hu that he had received a divine-grade cultivation method that could let demonkin return to human form.

• Elder Ruan and the other elders questioned Sikong Jing about his inheritance, but he claimed he could not understand it until reaching the Emperor Martial Stage.
• Elder Ruan offered Sikong Jing a reward, and Sikong Jing asked that all ten sacrifices from Demon-Scale Island be exempted; Elder Ruan granted the request.
• The group continued toward the island’s center and stopped for an hour of rest as the oppressive aura grew stronger.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan Hu that his inheritance included the lower-tier divine-grade Demonic Battle Heaven-Constant Art, a cultivation method for demonkin.
• Sikong Jing revealed that the method could help demonkin shed their demonic bodies and return to true human form, leaving Zhan Hu trembling in disbelief.

Sikong Jing revealed that the Demonic Battle Heaven-Constant Art could help demonfolk shed their demon forms and might threaten the martial locks imposed by Cangyu Sect. He reached the central prison with the procession and asked Elder Ruan for permission to enter, but Elder Ruan refused.

• Sikong Jing explained to Zhan Hu that Black Demon's inheritance could restore demonfolk to human form, and that the art was unfinished because Black Demon had died before testing it.
• Sikong Jing said the art could shake the Spirit Martial Lock and planned to enter the prison, while promising to inscribe the first half of the art for Zhan Hu to hide.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan Hu that he had been at the Emperor Martial Stage before cultivating anew, leaving Zhan Hu astonished.
• The procession reached the wall surrounding the central prison, and the demonfolk entered through its gates to work.
• Sikong Jing asked Elder Ruan if he could enter the prison to look around, and Elder Ruan refused.

Sikong Jing was denied entry to the prison until Elder Bu Tun returned, but the arrival of prisoners Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue changed the situation. When Teng Yue used the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation, Sikong Jing recognized the formation as a familiar one.

• Elder Ruan refused to let Sikong Jing enter the prison until Elder Bu Tun returned, despite Zhan Hu's pleas.
• Fifth Sect Master Chai Ren arrived with shackled prisoners Ying Sanmeng, master of the Cosmic Vein, and Teng Yue, its strongest disciple, and ordered them registered and imprisoned.
• Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue rejected Chai Ren and a young woman’s demands as they headed toward the prison.
• A young Emperor Martial Stage man attacked Teng Yue, who activated Forced Troop Control and linked the nearby demon people to his formation.
• Sikong Jing recognized Teng Yue's army-slaying formation as the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation.

Sikong Jing recognized Teng Yue’s Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation and secretly used the same formation to help Teng Yue join Ying Sanmeng in prison. The two crashed through the prison gates, while Sikong Jing stayed behind to hold off Chai Ren.

• Teng Yue used the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation to nearly kill Junior Brother Bian, but Chai Ren broke up the formation and saved him.
• Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng continued toward the prison despite Chai Ren’s warnings and the Chai-surnamed woman’s demands to keep Teng Yue.
• Sikong Jing realized Teng Yue might be descended from the Tyrant Soul Venerable and decided to help him enter the prison.
• Chai Ren tried to pull Teng Yue away, but Sikong Jing secretly linked his own formation with Teng Yue’s and told him to go inside.
• Teng Yue used the force of Sikong Jing’s formation to break free and charge into the prison with Ying Sanmeng.

Sikong Jing helped Teng Yue enter the prison gate, then provoked Junior Brother Bian into striking him so he could enter as well. Chai Ren learned that the supposedly dead black-scaled demon had obtained an unparalleled inheritance, one the First Sect Master was expected to take seriously.

• The Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation shattered, allowing Teng Yue and his companion to pass through the prison gate as Chai Ren and the others watched in confusion.
• Sikong Jing laughed at Junior Brother Bian, who charged at him despite Elder Ruan’s attempt to intervene.
• Junior Brother Bian struck Sikong Jing and sent him flying through the prison gate, believing his palm had killed him.
• Zhan Hu realized Sikong Jing had deliberately provoked Junior Brother Bian to enter the prison without causing further trouble.
• Bu Tun’s disciple warned Chai Ren that the Black-Scaled demon could not be killed and explained that he had obtained an unparalleled inheritance that Bu Tun had taken to the First Sect Master.