Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing and Chai Jiu argued over the Cang Vein’s plan to kill Ying Sanmeng and destroy the Demon and Cosmic Veins. Teng Yue returned from a secret mission carrying someone, and Chai Jiu ordered his troops to capture him.

• Chai Jiu revealed that his true body and other Divine Martial Stage experts had returned to Cangyu Island to kill Ying Sanmeng, while two experts stayed to guard Absolute Formation Gate.
• Chai Jiu recounted Sikong Jing’s failed efforts to win over neutral elders and bargain for the families and disciples held by the Cang Vein.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had to protect the Cosmic Vein and the Ying Family, descendants of Black Demon, and uphold his promise to the Two-Horned War Demon Tiger.
• Chai Jiu threatened to exterminate the Demon and Cosmic Veins, sparing only Sikong Jing and Teng Yue as slaves.
• Sikong Jing asked where Teng Yue had gone, and Teng Yue appeared above the battlefield carrying a person and said he had completed his mission.
• Chai Jiu ordered his troops to take Teng Yue down.

Sikong Jing’s plan used Teng Yue to bring a prisoner from Gods and Devils Island into the Cang Vein’s ranks, drawing the Demonic Puppet into wounding their leaders. With the spatial seal broken, the Demonic and Cosmic Veins escaped into the sea, and Sikong Jing prepared to teleport to the Absolute Formation Gate.

• Chai Ren captured Teng Yue and the prisoner, but Teng Yue explained that he had brought the prisoner from Gods and Devils Island under Sikong Jing’s instructions.
• The Demonic Puppet appeared, ordered Teng Yue to release the prisoner, and killed the prisoner while its pressure wounded the Cang Vein’s leaders.
• Sikong Jing led the Demonic and Cosmic Veins into the sea instead of attacking the injured Cang Vein.
• Sikong Jing met Teng Yue underwater, explained that the Demonic Puppet had shattered the Cang Vein’s spatial seal, and prepared to teleport to the Absolute Formation Gate.
• Teng Yue returned the Space Sacred Key to Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing and Teng Yue’s plan devastated the Cang Vein and sent the Demon and Cosmic Veins racing toward the Absolute Formation Gate. Chai Jiu’s forces recovered too late, and their fear of another ambush slowed their pursuit.

• Sikong Jing unleashed the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation and Beast Slaughter Array against the Cang Vein, then escaped through a spatial passage with the Space Sacred Key.
• Teng Yue led the Demon and Cosmic Veins onto the Ice Eternal Mystic Turtles and explained that Sikong Jing would lead scattered demon troops in a breakout at the Absolute Formation Gate.
• The two Divine Martial grand-uncles and other experts used Space Folding to speed the group toward the gate with the turtles.
• The attack killed many Cang Vein soldiers, and Chai Jiu led his troops into the sea only to find that the Demon and Cosmic Veins had vanished.
• Chai Ren blamed Sikong Jing and Teng Yue for the Cang Vein’s losses, while the Second Gate Master urged caution, fearing more hidden traps on the way to the Absolute Formation Gate.

Sikong Jing led the demon forces through the Absolute Formation Gate and killed the two Divine Martial elders guarding it. He then set out for Cangyu Island to rescue Ying Sanmeng and force the neutral elders to take a stance.

• Chai Jiu told the Cang Vein leaders that his true body had returned to the Cangyu Sect and planned to capture Ying Sanmeng.
• Sikong Jing appeared at the Absolute Formation Gate with a large demon army and eight Sacred Martial warriors, catching the two Cang Vein elders off guard.
• Forged Rock and the other demon warriors helped Sikong Jing kill both Divine Martial elders, while their War Puppet bodies informed Chai Jiu's group of the defeat.
• Sikong Jing ordered the demon troops to head for Cangyu Island to rescue Ying Sanmeng and pressure the neutral elders to declare their position.
• Sikong Jing led the mounted demon army and eight Sacred Martial warriors away, leaving the Absolute Formation Gate empty.

Chai Jiu searched Cangyu Island for Ying Sanmeng, who had hidden with two Divine Martial uncles in Honorary Guest He's secret realm. After Honorary Guest He revealed them, Chai Jiu attacked, leaving Ying Sanmeng and his allies badly wounded as they tried to hold out for Black Scale.

• Chai Jiu returned to Cangyu Island and learned that Ying Sanmeng had taken several Cang Vein family members away.
• Chai Jiu searched the Cosmic Vein's secret realms and pursued the remaining Cosmic Vein troops, but reconsidered and returned to the island.
• Chai Jiu ordered everyone on Cangyu Island to open their secret realms and discovered that Honorary Guest He's realm remained closed.
• Honorary Guest He opened his secret realm and revealed Ying Sanmeng, two Divine Martial uncles, and Cang Vein hostages before withdrawing with his family.
• Chai Jiu attacked Ying Sanmeng and the two uncles without negotiating, and the three were quickly wounded as they held their ground until Black Scale arrived.

Sikong Jing arrived at Cangyu Island with the Demon Vein’s army-slaying formation and helped Ying Sanmeng withstand Chai Jiu’s attack. He appealed to the neutral elders for support by revealing the Cosmic Vein’s alliance and offering them a share of the Demon Vein inheritance, while Chai Jiu tried to turn them against the demons.

• Ying Sanmeng and two Divine Martial elders struggled to hold off Chai Jiu as neutral elders watched without intervening.
• Sikong Jing arrived with the Demon Vein’s troops, and their army-slaying formation blocked the Second Sect Master and other Divine Martial experts.
• The Cangyu Island onlookers were shocked to see demons fighting under the command of a human, Black-Clothed Youth.
• Chai Jiu accused the demons of seeking revenge and urged the neutral elders to wipe them out, while Ying Sanmeng identified Sikong Jing as the Demon Vein’s inheritor.
• Sikong Jing revealed that the Cosmic Vein stood with the Demon Vein and offered the neutral elders a share of the inheritance if they intervened.
• The Second Sect Master denied that the Demon Vein inheritance was real and claimed it was meant to destroy the Cangyu Sect.

Sikong Jing used the threat of mutual destruction and the revelations about the Gods and Devils Island Sea inheritances to convince the neutral elders to mediate between the Cang and Cosmic Veins. Chai Jiu finally agreed to talk, but demanded that the Cosmic and Demon Veins swear allegiance to the Cang Vein and surrender their inheritances.

• Elder Lu and other neutral elders stepped between Ying Sanmeng and Chai Jiu’s forces to call for a pause, but Chai Jiu threatened them and refused to negotiate.
• Sikong Jing and Ying Sanmeng threatened to kill the Cang Vein hostages and fight to the death, forcing the neutral elders to consider the danger of the Cangyu Sect’s destruction.
• Sikong Jing blamed Chai Jiu for endangering his own family and declared that the Demon and Cosmic Veins only wanted to negotiate.
• Ying Sanmeng told the neutral elders about the inheritances and changes on Gods and Devils Island Sea, including Black Scale’s inheritance that could end the demon people’s demonization.
• With the neutral elders pressing him, Chai Jiu agreed to talk but demanded that Ying Sanmeng and Black Scale swear the Cang Vein would be supreme and hand over the Cosmic and Demon Vein inheritances.

Chai Jiu and Sikong Jing’s forces raced to control the Absolute Formation Gate as their standoff on Cangyu Island continued. Chai Jiu’s plan to ambush Sikong Jing was exposed, and Sikong Jing revealed that Cosmic Vein troops were already positioned to stop him.

• Chai Jiu and Sikong Jing’s sides remained locked in a standoff while both raced toward the Absolute Formation Gate to gain leverage.
• Teng Yue led the Demon and Cosmic Veins toward the gate, but Chai Jiu’s War Puppet body and Cang Vein experts appeared there to block them.
• Teng Yue urged his forces to keep advancing, while Chai Jiu secretly planned to return to Cangyu Island and capture Black Scale.
• Sikong Jing asked Ying Sanmeng about the Cosmic Vein troops, and Ying Sanmeng confirmed they had been sent toward the gate.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Cosmic Vein troops to hold Chai Jiu while Teng Yue’s forces broke out and attacked the Cang Vein from both sides.

Sikong Jing trapped the Cang Vein’s forces and prepared to force them to surrender, while Chai Jiu refused to yield and sought outside support. When Elder Lu urged Sikong Jing to compromise, Sikong Jing explained that the Cang Vein could be rebuilt from anyone loyal to the Cangyu Demon Sect, then offered to share the Demon Vein’s inheritance with a new Cang Vein.

• Teng Yue and the Cosmic Vein troops attacked the Cang Vein forces from both sides, while the Demon and Cosmic Veins blocked Absolute Formation Gate.
• Elder Lu urged Chai Jiu to yield, but Chai Jiu insisted the Cang Vein must be recognized as the leader.
• Sikong Jing told Forged Rock to urge the Cang Vein troops trapped inside Absolute Formation Gate to surrender before it closed.
• Elder Lu warned Sikong Jing that outside sects might intervene and pressed him to give the Cang Vein benefits, including the Demon Vein’s inheritance.
• Sikong Jing explained that anyone devoted to the Cangyu Demon Sect could become part of the Cang Vein and offered to share the Demon Vein’s inheritance with a newly formed Cang Vein.

Sikong Jing tried to win Elder Lu over by promising to rebuild the Cang Vein with the Cosmic and Demon Veins’ inherited power, while Chai Jiu’s forces and the other factions remained locked in a standoff. When Chai Jiu’s summoned reinforcements arrived as the Absolute Formation Gate was set to close, he ended negotiations and declared he would destroy the Demon and Cangyu lines.

• Sikong Jing persuaded Elder Lu to consider joining a new Cang Vein, but Elder Lu left without committing and concealed their discussion.
• Chai Jiu’s War Puppet returned with Cang Vein powerhouses as Teng Yue and the Demon and Cosmic Vein forces arrived on Cangyu Island, preserving the stalemate.
• Teng Yue gave Elder Lu a mid-grade divine martial skill from the Cosmic Vein inheritance, but Elder Lu returned it and continued to claim that persuasion had failed.
• Sikong Jing sent the Cosmic Vein forces into the Army-Slaying Formation and ordered the Demon Vein troops to cultivate, prompting many of them to break through.
• Sikong Jing told Forged Rock to keep urging Cang Vein troops to surrender, expecting them to lose hope once the Absolute Formation Gate closed.
• Chai Jiu’s allied sect reinforcements arrived as the Absolute Formation Gate was due to close, and Chai Jiu announced that he would end negotiations and wipe out the Demon and Cangyu lines.

Sikong Jing revealed that the Cang Vein soldiers and neutral elders had joined the Demon and Cosmic lineages, leaving Chai Jiu surrounded and his forces collapsing. Chai Jiu was left demanding to know why Elder Lu had switched sides.

• Sikong Jing summoned his reinforcements, revealing that the surrendered Cang Vein troops had joined the Demon and Cosmic forces.
• Chai Jiu confronted Chai Nushen, who had surrendered after seeing through the Light-Returning Mirror that Chai Jiu did not care about his family or soldiers.
• Chai Jiu ordered his men to seize Ying Sanmeng, but the neutral elders blocked him and helped Ying Sanmeng retreat.
• Elder Lu announced that the neutrals would fight for the two Demon Universe Veins, and Sikong Jing identified them as part of his reinforcements.
• Chai Jiu stared at Elder Lu in disbelief and demanded to know why the neutral elders had changed sides.

Ying Sanmeng declared the Cangyu Sect renamed as the Cangyu Demon Sect and led the new alliance in attacking Chai Jiu. After Chai Jiu escaped with a few followers, Sikong Jing and the surviving leaders arranged the new sect’s leadership.

• Ying Sanmeng promised to establish the neutrals as a new Cang Vein, condemned Chai Jiu, and declared the Cangyu Sect renamed as the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Ying Sanmeng ordered the factions to attack Chai Jiu, while the outside sects abandoned him and fled.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Cangyu Demon Sect’s forces to encircle Chai Jiu’s faction, killing or capturing most of the Cang Vein’s upper ranks, but Chai Jiu escaped with the Second Sect Master and Chai Ren.
• The new sect’s leaders debated who should become First Sect Master, and Sikong Jing proposed that Tyrant Soul hold the title until he returned.
• Sikong Jing assigned Ying Sanmeng as Second Sect Master, Elder Lu as Third Sect Master, and Forged Rock and Mighty Lion as Fourth and Fifth Sect Masters.

Sikong Jing helped establish the Cangyu Demon Sect’s leadership and set plans for sharing the Cosmic Vein’s inheritance, while the Demon Vein inheritance remained out of reach for now. He explained that Chai Jiu’s escape could keep the new sect united, then told Teng Yue he was leaving for the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land, where his family lived.

• Forged Rock and Mighty Lion advanced in cultivation, and the gathering approved five sect masters along with Sikong Jing as young sect master.
• The leaders discussed organizing the New Cang Vein and Demon Vein and sharing Ying Sanmeng’s inheritance with both.
• Sikong Jing said he could not retrieve the first-generation Lord of the Demon Vein’s inheritance until he reached the Saint Martial Stage, though he might still attempt it.
• After the meeting, Teng Yue bowed to Sikong Jing, who helped him up as they surveyed Cangyu Island.
• Sikong Jing revealed he had allowed Chai Jiu to escape so the threat could help keep the newly formed sect united.
• Sikong Jing told Teng Yue he was leaving to return to his family in the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.

Sikong Jing revealed his origins and the history of the Cangyu Demon Sect to Teng Yue, then instructed him on keeping the sect stable after his departure. He planned to stage his disappearance as imprisonment while Senior Zhan Hu helped him return to the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.

• Sikong Jing told Teng Yue that he came from the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land and explained how he had reached the Gods and Devils Island Sea.
• Sikong Jing described how Patriarch Ying Yu founded the Cang Vein, whose clansmen became the Cosmic Vein and whose demonized followers became the Demon Vein.
• Sikong Jing told Teng Yue to keep his origins secret, stabilize the Demon Vein, and keep the old Cang Vein's troops under control.
• Sikong Jing explained that he would appear trapped in the prison while undergoing the first Lord of the Demon Vein's trials, concealing his departure from the sect.
• Sikong Jing said Senior Zhan Hu would take him through the Absolute Formation and left to prepare the Demon Vein before departing.
• Teng Yue promised to follow Sikong Jing's instructions and wait for his return.

Sikong Jing entered the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation with Ying Sanmeng and the Saint Martial demonfolk to reach Gods and Devils Island and claim the first Lord of the Demon Vein's inheritance. Chai Jiu disrupted their passage by using the Second Sect Master to provoke the formation and teleport Sikong Jing directly into the prison.

• Sikong Jing led Ying Sanmeng and the Saint Martial demonfolk into the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, relying on them to shield him from its attacks.
• Chai Jiu appeared in his War Puppet body and announced that he intended to stop Sikong Jing from obtaining the inheritance.
• Chai Jiu flung the unconscious Second Sect Master, a Divine Martial expert, above Sikong Jing and the others, triggering the formation's powerful attack.
• Ying Sanmeng, Forged Rock, and the others shielded Sikong Jing as the formation's force struck the Second Sect Master and engulfed them.
• Chai Jiu revealed that a teleportation stone on the Second Sect Master had locked onto Sikong Jing and sent him directly into the prison.

Chai Jiu sent Sikong Jing to the Gods and Devils Island prison, then planned to use another teleportation stone to send him to Pei Kuang in the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land. Sikong Jing vanished into the prison’s teleportation pillar, while Chai Jiu prepared to activate the linked stone.

• Chai Jiu warned that Chai Gong was waiting in the prison, and Ying Sanmeng and the others tried but failed to destroy Sikong Jing’s teleportation pillar.
• Sikong Jing reassured them that he had made arrangements in the prison, while Chai Jiu revealed his plan to send him to the heart of the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, where Pei Kuang was located.
• Sikong Jing praised Chai Jiu’s move, told Zhan Hu to follow their original plan, and disappeared into the teleportation pillar.
• Chai Jiu’s War Puppet and the Second Sect Master were destroyed by the Absolute Formation, and Ying Sanmeng’s group hurried toward Gods and Devils Island while warning others to watch for another teleportation pillar.
• Chai Jiu recovered in a cave with Chai Ren and activated the teleportation stone linked to Pei Kuang’s, intending to keep Sikong Jing from obtaining the Demon Vein inheritance.

Sikong Jing was teleported from the prison to the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land, using Chai Jiu’s attempt to delay him as a chance to return to the Central Plains. There, the war between the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower reached its apparent final battle, with Pei Kuang challenging Murong Jianyun and Tyrant Lotus Venerable.

• Sikong Jing vanished from the prison teleportation array, leaving Chai Gong to realize the Cang Vein death warriors were doomed.
• Sikong Jing accepted the unexpected teleportation as a chance to return to the Central Plains and thought about his recent advances and his plan for Zhan Hu.
• Nearly four months after Sikong Little Devil attacked the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, the war between the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower neared a decisive battle.
• Pei Kuang emerged before the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s army and announced that he would destroy the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Pei Kuang revealed he had reached the fourth major realm of the Saint Martial Stage, while Tyrant Lotus Venerable answered that the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce had the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.
• Pei Kuang taunted Tyrant Lotus Venerable about whether she had found Yao Yulou or whether he had died for love, leaving her and Murong Jianyun grim-faced.

Tyrant Lotus Venerable and Tyrant Heaven faced Pei Kuang’s stronger forces, including three beast-hide elders from Boundless Sea, who claimed the Humanoid Fierce Beast had died. Just as Pei Kuang declared Tyrant Heaven doomed, a mysterious summoning appeared to rise from his body, though he insisted he had summoned nothing.

• Tyrant Lotus Venerable recalled that she had failed to find Yao Yulou and relied on the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation to bolster Tyrant Heaven’s morale.
• Pei Kuang introduced Senior Pi and two beast-hide elders, whose Saint Martial auras overwhelmed Tyrant Heaven’s troops.
• Senior Pi claimed the Humanoid Fierce Beast had been blasted to pieces by the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation in Boundless Sea.
• Pei Kuang taunted Tyrant Heaven over Yao Yulou’s disappearance and the supposed deaths of the Humanoid Fierce Beast and Sikong Little Devil.
• A white pillar of light erupted from Pei Kuang, prompting fears that he was summoning a One-Claw Domain fierce beast, but Pei Kuang was bewildered and denied summoning anything.

Pei Kuang’s supposed summoning brought a mysterious figure into the battlefield, giving the Thousand Kings Holy Tower confidence and plunging Tyrant Heaven into despair. The figure turned out to be Sikong Jing, whom Pei Kuang recognized as the Sikong Little Devil.

• Pei Kuang falsely claimed he had summoned powerful experts and threatened to crush the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Tyrant Heaven’s leaders and allies feared defeat and longed for Sikong Jing to return, while Murong Jianyun struggled to hold their forces together.
• Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor watched from the darkness and lamented that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower seemed certain to win.
• A black-armored figure emerged from the pillar of light and told Pei Kuang he knew about Ba Zhun’s death.
• The light faded, revealing Sikong Jing; Pei Kuang staggered back and identified him as the Sikong Little Devil.

Sikong Jing returned to the decisive battle between Thousand Kings and Tyrant Heaven after Pei Kuang’s summoning brought him to the battlefield. His arrival rallied Tyrant Heaven’s forces, and he instantly killed Pei Yugong with a single kick.

• Pei Kuang and the others were stunned when Sikong Jing appeared instead of the powerhouse they had expected to summon.
• Sikong Jing announced his return and saw that his allies on the Tyrant Heaven side were still alive, though he could not find Yao Yulou.
• The Thousand Prison Tower survivors and the Tyrant Heaven forces welcomed Sikong Jing, with nearly everyone except the strongest leaders kneeling before him.
• Murong Jianyun warned Sikong Jing as Pei Yugong launched a Saint Martial attack at his back.
• Sikong Jing struck Pei Yugong with one backward kick, sending him into the Thousand Kings forces, where a Saint Martial expert confirmed that he was dead.