Chapter Summaries

After learning that Black Scale possessed an extraordinary demonic inheritance tied to the secret of Gods and Devils Island, Chai Ren rushed off to beg the Grand Sect Master for forgiveness, while Bu Tun punished Junior Brother Bian. Black Scale remained missing inside the prison’s sealed inner section, leaving the Cangyu Sect unable to confirm whether he was alive.

• Bu Tun returned and revealed that the Grand Sect Master had ordered him to bring Black Scale back for a bloodline test because of his exceptionally pure bloodline and possible connection to the center of Gods and Devils Island.
• Chai Ren slapped Junior Brother Bian, left him to Bu Tun, and hurried away with the old man and his granddaughter to beg the Grand Sect Master for forgiveness.
• After hearing what had happened, Bu Tun ordered Junior Brother Bian’s limbs broken and took him back to the Cangyu Sect.
• Zhan Hu and other powerful demons searched the prison but could find neither Black Scale nor his corpse, since he had been blasted into the sealed inner section.
• Elder Ruan defended his accomplishments to Elder Liu, then complained to Zhan Hu that Black Scale’s laughter had caused the trouble.

Teng Yue entered the prison with Ying Sanmeng to find Sikong Jing, whom he suspected was connected to his grandfather Teng and the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation. Sikong Jing had survived Bian’s strike and ended up injured outside a dark palace, while Teng Yue faced a group of prisoners.

• Elder Ruan blamed Zhan Hu for Black Scale’s peril and left hoping he had survived; Zhan Hu comforted Yinlu and vowed to remain with the sacrifices.
• Teng Yue learned about Sikong Jing from the demons escorting him and concluded that Grandpa Teng might have accepted him as a disciple or passed on the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation.
• Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng entered the barrier to search for Sikong Jing, but prisoners surrounded them and claimed they had eaten him.
• Teng Yue drew a sword from the sand and attacked the prisoners after one mocked him about Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing spat blood and rose seriously injured before the gates of a dark palace, realizing he was not in the prison.

Sikong Jing entered a gloomy palace at the heart of the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and discovered that its guardians recognized him as the new generation's Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts. The demonic puppets led him inside to find the remains of a devastating battle, while Black Demon's whereabouts remained unknown.

• Sikong Jing realized the barrier had spatially teleported him to the palace, where he recognized the black fish that had carried him through the sea.
• Six armored demonic puppets emerged and greeted Sikong Jing as the new generation's Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• The intact puppet explained that Black Demon had forged them to guard the Lord and the Gods and Devils Island sea region, but they could not reveal more about their origins or orders.
• Sikong Jing deduced that the puppets had found him at the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and guided him to Demon-Scale Island using the black fish.
• The puppets invited Sikong Jing to find Black Demon and led him into the palace, where he saw shattered remains of demonic puppets and realized that only six guardians survived.

Sikong Jing entered the palace and found the long-dead Black Demon, whose memory showed how he tried to preserve the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ legacy. The memory ended with Black Demon revealing his original name, Ying Yu, after successfully creating a new inheritance from the Lord’s remains.

• Sikong Jing recognized the dead elder as Black Demon and bowed before the barrier holding his body.
• The bow drew Sikong Jing into a memory left by Black Demon, where Black Demon entrusted the Pure Spirit Heart to the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger before seeking the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger King.
• Black Demon reached the Divine Martial Stage but arrived too late to help the previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts in the ultimate battlefield.
• Black Demon found a remnant claw of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and escaped with it before the Five Heavenly Emperors’ subordinates could catch him.
• Black Demon gathered the Lord’s remaining spiritual shadows into the claw-bone and, after three hundred years, succeeded in creating a new inheritance.
• Black Demon knelt before the claw-bone and revealed that he was the Heaven-Swallowing Tiger Emperor’s human subordinate, originally named Ying Yu.

Sikong Jing watched Black Demon’s memories and learned how the blood bead made him the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and how Black Demon founded the Cangyu Demon Sect. The memories ended with Black Demon promising to create a Demon-Reverting Great Art for Demon War, the master of the declining Demon Vein.

• Black Demon gathered the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ lingering spirit and forged the blood bead that later changed Sikong Jing’s fate.
• Black Demon proposed choosing a human as the next Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and the Previous Lord agreed to support him.
• Black Demon returned to his descendants in the Gods and Devils Island Sea, then established the Cang Vein, Cosmic Vein, and Demon Vein as the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Black Demon began his seclusion, testing candidates for the inheritance and constructing the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Black Demon admitted that Demon War and the Demon Vein had suffered because of his experiments and the other veins’ rejection.
• Black Demon entered the palace and vowed to create the Demon-Reverting Great Art so Demon War could return to human form.

Sikong Jing watched Black Demon’s memories reveal Cang Lang’s betrayal and the battle that devastated Gods and Devils Island. As Black Demon tried to activate the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, a mysterious seven-colored phantom seized the skeletal claw needed to start it.

• The masters of the Cang and Cosmic Veins warned Black Demon that the Boundless Sea’s major sects had come to attack over the demonfolk.
• Cang Lang stabbed the master of the Cosmic Vein and revealed he had invited the major sects to help him seize control of the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Cang Lang used the Flame Prison Divine Puppet Bell to pit the Flame Prison divine puppets against Black Demon’s demonic puppets as battle erupted across Gods and Devils Island.
• Wounded, Black Demon returned to the palace and resolved to activate the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to finish the Demonic Battle Heaven-Constant Art.
• A seven-colored phantom snatched the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ skeletal claw just before Black Demon could press it to the formation’s pillar, then identified the remains.

Sikong Jing witnessed Black Demon’s memory of meeting a mysterious figure who gave him the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and advised him how to hide the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ inheritance from the Five Heavenly Emperors. Black Demon followed her plan, and the chapter ended with the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor inspecting the damaged formation and leaving without discovering the surviving bloodline.

• A mysterious woman in seven-colored light gave Black Demon the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and explained that the Five Heavenly Emperors had imprisoned the vicious beasts within it.
• The woman warned Black Demon that his powerful Desolate Sea Absolute Formation would draw the Five Heavenly Emperors’ attention and proposed weakening it while concealing the prison and the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ aura.
• Black Demon accepted her plan, damaged the formation’s core, retrieved a claw bone from the woman, and activated the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Black Demon and his forces fought the invading Boundless Sea experts, and every attacker, including Cang Lang, died in the formation.
• The Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor inspected the damaged formation, reclaimed the Flame Prison Divine Puppet Bell, and departed without discovering the surviving bloodline.

Sikong Jing witnessed Black Demon’s final arrangements to find the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and guide the demonfolk’s future. Before Black Demon died, the seven-colored shadow revealed that she was the King of Night Charms, leaving Sikong Jing stunned.

• Black Demon told Demonic Battle and Ying Beitong about the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ inheritance and enlisted them to set up barriers and formations on Gods and Devils Island.
• Black Demon instructed Demonic Battle to continue his unfinished art and pass down four inheritances to a worthy inheritor, while Ying Beitong established an inheritance for the Cosmic Vein.
• The seven-colored shadow persuaded Black Demon to let the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ instincts choose an inheritor of any race, and Black Demon removed restrictions on the inheritance except that it could not leave the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Black Demon empowered six demon puppets to guard Gods and Devils Island and guide the next Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts to him.
• The seven-colored shadow identified herself as the King of Night Charms, shocking Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing witnessed Black Demon's final memories, learned that the King of Night Charms had stolen the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison to challenge the next Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and accepted his role as the chosen successor. He discovered Black Demon's warnings and repair instructions for the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, then found a claw of the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts' skeletal remains and saw its meridians emerge.

• Black Demon's spirit shadow faded after leaving a memory illusion for the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and Sikong Jing bowed to his corpse and told the beasts what he had witnessed.
• The Divine Turtle explained that the King of Night Charms had always contested the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, while the Flying Cloud Colorful Butterfly said Night Charms had entered reincarnation to challenge the next Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• The beasts joked that they might submit to Night Charms if Sikong Jing proved inadequate, and Sikong Jing welcomed the challenge and wondered where she was and when she would awaken.
• Sikong Jing realized the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts' instinct had chosen him, then read Black Demon's instructions warning him not to fully restore the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and explaining its control requirements and repair materials.
• Sikong Jing found the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts' skeletal claw in the innermost room and saw its complex meridians emerge when he enveloped it with his consciousness.

Sikong Jing used the claw of the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts to repair and advance his beast meridians while balancing them against his human meridians. After reaching the Spirit Martial Stage peak, he chose not to break the Spirit Martial Lock yet, weighing the risks to Yinlu and the others and planning to wait for Zhan Hu to reach the Saint Martial Stage.

• The claw’s meridians awakened Sikong Jing’s damaged beast meridians and dantian, allowing him to repair them and imprint the claw’s meridians into his right hand.
• Sikong Jing suppressed his beast cultivation to keep it from destroying his human meridians, then used human-form and beast-form spirit shadows to balance the two systems.
• Both spirit shadows reached the Venerable Realm, and Sikong Jing raised both kinds of meridians to the Heavenly King Realm of the Spirit Martial Stage.
• The Spirit Martial Lock suppressed Sikong Jing as he prepared to advance, and he decided not to break it because Cangyu Sect might learn he was alive and endanger Yinlu and the others.
• Sikong Jing planned to wait until the Absolute Formation Gate closed and considered relying on Senior Zhan Hu to reach the Saint Martial Stage and take him through the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Sikong Jing recalled that the demon puppets could not leave Gods and Devils Island freely and would obey him only at its center unless he reached the Divine Martial Stage.

Sikong Jing learned that the demonic puppets would not obey him until he reached the Divine Martial Stage, so he set out to find Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue and learn about the Cangyu Sect. He found Teng Yue fighting prisoners and realized the Cangyu Sect had imprisoned him because he was a disciple of the Cosmic Vein.

• Sikong Jing realized Black Demon's rules kept the demonic puppets from obeying him and decided to seek Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue.
• Sikong Jing ordered an intact demonic puppet to take him to the two newcomers in the prison at the center of Gods and Devils Island.
• Sikong Jing saw Cangyu Sect loyalists forcing prisoners to collect Gods and Devils Crystals and observed that prisoners fought among themselves.
• Teng Yue defeated a Saint Martial Stage prisoner while fighting off more than a dozen others.
• Teng Yue told the defeated prisoner that he belonged to the Cangyu Sect, and Sikong Jing recognized that the sect had imprisoned him because he was a Cosmic Vein disciple.

Sikong Jing learned that the Cang Vein was suppressing the Cosmic Vein and watched as Chai Gong arrived to search for the missing Black Scale demon man. He revealed himself on a distant hill, leaving Chai Gong, Ying Sanmeng, and Teng Yue stunned.

• Sikong Jing deduced that the Cang Vein had imprisoned Ying Sanmeng and was suppressing the Cosmic Vein.
• Teng Yue questioned the blood-qi middle-aged man, who insisted that he and the other prisoners had not seen the Black Scale demon man.
• Chai Gong arrived on the Great Sect Master's orders to find the Black Scale demon man and questioned Ying Sanmeng and the prisoners.
• Chai Gong decided to search the prison after hearing that the Black Scale demon man might be connected to a great secret.
• Sikong Jing appeared atop a distant hill and asked whether they were looking for him.

Sikong Jing tried to leave the prison while Chai Gong prepared to hand him over to Cangyu Sect, but he secretly commanded the Demonic Puppet Guardian to intervene. The puppet took Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng away under the pretense of a Cosmic Vein inheritance, rescuing them as Sikong Jing remained in Chai Gong’s grasp.

• Sikong Jing dismissed questions about his strange condition, and Chai Gong ordered him out of the prison.
• Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng warned Sikong Jing that Cangyu Sect would endanger him, but Chai Gong dismissed their objections and seized him.
• Teng Yue blocked Chai Gong and tried to speak with Sikong Jing, but Chai Gong shattered his sword radiance and prepared to throw Sikong Jing over the prison wall.
• Sikong Jing pointed out a giant in the sky, and the Demonic Puppet Guardian descended into view.
• The Demonic Puppet Guardian declared Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng qualified to attempt the first master of the Cosmic Vein’s inheritance, then carried them away at Sikong Jing’s command.

Sikong Jing persuaded Chai Gong to take him through a spatial transmission to the Cangyu Sect, while the demonic puppet delivered Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue to a chance at the first master of the Cosmic Vein’s inheritance. Ying Sanmeng resolved to pursue it, and Teng Yue worried that Sikong Jing would not survive.

• Chai Gong reported the inheritance news to the Cangyu Sect’s Grand Sect Master and took Sikong Jing with him to a spatial transmission formation.
• A prisoner recognized that the upheaval might give them a chance to escape the prison.
• Chai Gong and Sikong Jing entered the formation and vanished into the spatial passage.
• The demonic puppet brought Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue to a canyon where they could attempt the inheritance, then left to stop someone escaping through spatial teleportation.
• Ying Sanmeng vowed to obtain the inheritance, while Teng Yue wondered whether Sikong Jing was truly Grandpa Teng’s demon disciple and feared he might be dead.

Chai Jiu and the Cangyu Sect’s leaders waited anxiously for Chai Gong to return from Gods and Devils Island, fearing that Sikong Jing had reached its secrets. Chai Gong revealed that the Demon Puppet had taken Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue, and the leaders realized the Cosmic Vein might be able to rise against them.

• Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue headed deeper into the canyon, hoping to obtain the first-generation master’s Cosmic Vein inheritance and escape the prison.
• Chai Jiu warned Chai Ren that he would be punished if the Black Scale demon man died, and said Chai Gong had urgently requested another summoning.
• Elder Bu Tun brought the injured Junior Brother Bian before Chai Jiu, who threatened to send him to the Cang Blood-Refining Pool if anything went wrong.
• Chai Gong emerged from the teleportation formation with Sikong Jing, prompting Chai Jiu to question why he had summoned the sect leaders.
• Chai Gong knelt and revealed that the Demon Puppet had taken Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue, causing the Cangyu leaders to erupt in alarm over the Cosmic Vein’s possible resurgence.

The Cangyu Sect’s leaders feared Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue might claim the Cosmic Vein’s inheritance, while Sikong Jing learned more about Tyrant Soul Venerable’s past. When a demonic puppet arrived, Sikong Jing used the chaos to return to prison with Chai Gong.

• Chai Jiu and the Cangyu Sect’s leaders blamed Chai Ren for letting Teng Yue enter the prison, while Black Scale accused him of deliberately pushing Teng Yue inside.
• Sikong Jing recognized that Teng Bahun was Tyrant Soul Venerable and wondered where he was now.
• Chai Jiu ordered Chai Gong to return to the prison, gather the deathsworn and prisoners, and kill Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue before they could obtain the inheritance.
• Chai Jiu gave Chai Gong the Qi-Seeking Ruler to track those carrying pure Cosmic Vein true qi.
• When a demonic puppet’s qi pressed into the hall, Chai Gong rushed into the teleportation pillar, and Sikong Jing followed after pretending to hesitate.

Sikong Jing deliberately returned to the prison with Chai Gong, while the Cangyu Sect’s leaders moved toward Gods and Devils Island to investigate the prison and protect their Cang Vein. Chai Gong refused to teleport Sikong Jing out again and set off to find Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng.

• Sikong Jing and Chai Gong vanished into the transmission pillar as the Demon Puppet’s aura filled the Cangyu Divine Mountain hall.
• Chai Jiu ordered the Cangyu higher-ups to enter Gods and Devils Island and send stronger demons into the prison to gather information.
• Chai Gong emerged from the prison’s transmission formation and discovered that Sikong Jing had followed him back.
• Chai Gong refused Sikong Jing’s request to teleport him out again, warning that the Demon Puppet might destroy another spatial passage.
• Chai Gong took Sikong Jing with him and used the qi-seeking ruler to locate Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng.

Sikong Jing arranged for Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue to seek Ying Beitong’s inheritance while planning to help Ying Sanmeng recover. The inheritance activated, and Ying Beitong’s phantom granted Ying Sanmeng an inheritance illusion realm while ordering Teng Yue to face a Heart-Testing Illusion Realm.

• Sikong Jing followed Chai Gong toward the gorge, intending to ensure Ying Sanmeng could recover and the two men could return to Cangyu Sect.
• Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue searched the gorge without finding the inheritance, while the complete demon puppet prepared to stage an illusion and leave healing medicine.
• Ying Beitong’s phantom emerged from a stone and declared that Ying Sanmeng was too weak and old to qualify, while Teng Yue lacked Ying Family bloodline.
• Ying Sanmeng pleaded for Teng Yue to receive the inheritance and promised he would marry an Ying Family daughter.
• Ying Beitong’s preset condition allowed the inheritance to be bestowed on an Ying Family descendant after a long wait, so he assigned Ying Sanmeng an inheritance illusion realm and Teng Yue a Heart-Testing Illusion Realm.

Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue entered Ying Beitong’s Heart-Testing Illusory Realm to receive his inheritance, while Chai Gong failed to stop them and rallied prisoners to attack. Outside the prison, Chief Sect Master Chai Jiu arrived, put Heart-Eater Locks on the Emperor Realm demon men, and sent three peak Emperors inside to report on Chai Gong.

• Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue entered separate illusory realms after Ying Beitong’s phantom explained that his inheritance required wholehearted loyalty to the Ying Family.
• Chai Gong attacked the pair, but Ying Beitong’s barrier repelled him, so Chai Gong summoned death warriors and prisoners to besiege the canyon.
• Chief Sect Master Chai Jiu arrived outside the prison with Cangyu Sect higher-ups, and the gathered demon men and sect members knelt to greet him.
• Chai Jiu ordered his men to implant Heart-Devouring Locks in every Emperor Realm demonic human, including Zhan Hu.
• Chai Jiu sent three peak Emperor-level demonic humans into the prison with message birds and ordered them to report Chai Gong’s plans without hiding anything.

Chai Jiu ordered the prisoners to kill Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue before they completed their inheritance, while Sikong Jing weighed how to protect them without provoking a massacre outside the prison. The prisoners agreed to attack the inheritance barrier for doubled rewards, setting the stage for a new development.

• A demon reported that Ying Sanmeng and Teng Yue were receiving the Cosmic Vein master’s inheritance, and Chai Jiu ordered their deaths at all costs.
• Elder Bu Tun questioned the order, but Chai Jiu insisted that the danger of the pair controlling Gods and Devils Island was too great.
• Chai Gong relayed Chai Jiu’s order to the gathered prisoners, whose leaders demanded better terms and were threatened with death if they refused.
• Sikong Jing watched without intervening, reasoning that killing Cangyu Sect members could cause Chai Jiu to slaughter the Cosmic Vein people.
• The prisoner leaders agreed to attack the inheritance barrier if their promised benefits were doubled, but a vigorous middle-aged man appeared and whispered to one of them.