Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing was shackled after provoking Princess Fennel into abandoning her interest in Teng Yue, and Jun Yiji challenged him to explain how she should deal with him. He accepted her authority without pleading, leaving his fate in Jun Yiji’s hands.

• Princess Fennel fled after Sikong Jing’s words upset her, and Jun Yiji ordered someone to follow her discreetly.
• Jun Yiji ordered the war generals to shackle Sikong Jing while suppressing the Cangyu Demon Sect members who tried to intervene.
• Jun Yiji accused Sikong Jing of exploiting Fennel’s inexperience and declared that her authority made the wager and Teng Yue’s wishes irrelevant.
• Teng Yue knelt and tried to offer himself as the Commandery Consort in exchange for Sikong Jing’s safety, but Jun Yiji sealed his mouth and released him from the role.
• Jun Yiji asked how she should deal with Sikong Jing, and he replied that she could decide his fate as she pleased.

Sikong Jing challenged Jun Yiji’s attempt to force him into becoming a prince consort, which would require him to abandon the women he loved. He invoked the Cangyu Demon Sect’s origins and began transforming into a scaled form, leaving his point about his fitness to serve as a consort unrevealed.

• Jun Yiji declared that Sikong Jing would become a prince consort and threatened the Cangyu Demon Sect if he refused.
• Jun Yiji said Sikong Jing would have to sever ties with every woman he loved or she would kill them.
• Sikong Jing asked whether he had any other choice, but Jun Yiji said his offers to help her would not change the marriage demand.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Yiji about the Cangyu Demon Sect’s demonfolk and whether someone like him was fit to be a commandery princess’s consort.
• Sikong Jing’s body trembled and black scales emerged from his skin.

Sikong Jing revealed his Black Scale demon-man form, preventing Jun Yiji from making him a prince consort. Jun Yiji spared the Cangyu Demon Sect for now but ordered Teng Yue to attend Heaven Seal Academy and demanded that Teng Bahun face her challenge in a year before the Jun Seal forces departed.

• Sikong Jing revealed his Black Scale demon-man form and explained that he had grown up in the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation and had known Teng Yue for only half a year.
• Jun Yiji confirmed Sikong Jing's demonic bloodline, accepted that he could not become a prince consort, and decided not to punish him or the Cangyu Demon Sect over the matter.
• Jun Yiji ordered Teng Yue to report to Heaven Seal Academy in three months so Princess Fennel could have a chance to conquer him.
• Jun Yiji told Sikong Jing that Teng Bahun must appear for her Seven Seal generals challenge in one year, or the Cangyu Demon Sect would face punishment.
• Jun Yiji gave the Thousand-Man Formation participants Emperor-grade Red Jade Comprehension Stones and departed with her forces, ending the two-month siege of Cangyu Island.

After Jun Yiji departed, the Cangyu Demon Sect realized her words had made Teng Yue a target and left him only three months to reach Heaven Seal Academy. Sikong Jing ordered the sect to prepare to face their enemies.

• Lian Zhidiao mocked Sikong Jing and Teng Yue for refusing to become Jun Seal prince consorts, but learned that Teng Yue held an admission token to Heaven Seal Academy.
• Lian Zhidiao warned that Teng Yue had to reach Heaven Seal Academy within three months and implied he would prevent him from getting there.
• Sikong Jing ordered Forged Rock to drive the foreign youths from Cangyu Island, and Lian Zhidiao led them away.
• Elder Lu and the New Cang Vein elders feared Jun Yiji had made the Cangyu Demon Sect a target by leaving Teng Yue vulnerable to attack.
• Ying Sanmeng asked Sikong Jing how the sect should respond, and Sikong Jing ordered everyone to prepare to meet the enemy.

Sikong Jing prepared the Cangyu Demon Sect to face attacks from the powerful sects whose young people had gathered on Cangyu Island. He planned to hold off the invaders while Teng Yue traveled to Heaven Seal Academy, and the chapter ended with the sect’s members revealing how much stronger they had become.

• Sikong Jing ordered the Cangyu Demon Sect to activate its grand formation, seal the surrounding waters, and kill anyone who invaded.
• Sikong Jing explained that the sect needed to survive the first wave of attacks and get Teng Yue safely to Heaven Seal Academy within three months to deter future enemies.
• Sikong Jing argued that killing invaders would discourage other sects and give the Cangyu Demon Sect time to endure the three-month trial and display its new strength.
• Ying Sanmeng, Zhan Hu, Elder Lu, and other sect members reported major improvements after half a year of cultivating their inheritances.
• Sikong Jing concluded that although the sect had fewer Divine Martial experts than it had under Chai Jiu, their quality had surpassed the old Cangyu Sect.

Sikong Jing rallied the Cangyu Demon Sect to prepare for battle and declared that it would reclaim its place as an overlord of the Boundless Sea. Meanwhile, Jun Yiji’s fleet left the sect facing a three-month trial, and her adviser hinted that Sikong Jing’s own test would be even harsher.

• Sikong Jing convinced the Cangyu Demon Sect that its inherited strength was enough to face its enemies, and Elder Lu and the others prepared to defend Cangyu Island.
• Teng Yue asked why the sect had released the young visitors, and Teng Yue explained that capturing them would unite their powers against the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Sikong Jing told Teng Yue and Ying Sanmeng that the Cangyu Demon Sect must pursue the path of a Boundless Sea overlord, raising their fighting spirit.
• Jun Yiji’s fleet sailed away, and she told Wen Nu that she had not simply let the Cangyu Demon Sect go.
• Jun Yiji’s adviser explained that Teng Yue had to reach Heaven Seal Academy within three months while the sect remained in danger, and that Jun Yiji hoped he and Fennel would grow closer.
• Jun Yiji’s adviser told Wen Nu that Sikong Jing’s test was more terrifying than Teng Yue’s because Sikong Jing had become the Cangyu Demon Sect’s central figure.

The scholarly old man explained that Jun Yiji was testing Sikong Jing’s ability to respond and command, while Teng Yue was being prepared for martial cultivation. As forces gathered to attack the Cangyu Demon Sect, Bao Jiusu and his companions hid on an island, only to be discovered by a group led by a Saint Martial Stage youth.

• The scholarly old man told Wen Nu that Sikong Jing’s task was to protect Teng Yue and the Cangyu Demon Sect, and that Jun Yiji was cultivating him as a strategist rather than a martial powerhouse.
• The scholarly old man warned Wen Nu that the forces behind the young visitors were moving and the Cangyu Demon Sect’s first major crisis was beginning.
• Bao Jiusu and his companions hid among rocks after Lian Zhidiao’s allies hunted them for having been with Sikong Jing.
• Bao Jiusu and his companions watched Divine Shuttle Ships gather around the Cangyu Demon Sect as its ships rose and its great formation activated.
• A Saint Martial Stage youth and more than a dozen others found Bao Jiusu’s group and identified them as the Three-Leaf Bao Family of the Red Wind Sect faction.

Sikong Jing arrived alone to rescue Bao Jiusu and his companions from an attack by the Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island faction. He overwhelmed and sealed their captors, then left their fate to Bao Jiusu’s group.

• A Saint Martial genius trapped Bao Jiusu and his companions behind a barrier and ordered his men to kill everyone except Bao Jiusu.
• Sikong Jing arrived alone, entered the barrier through a gate opened by the Saint Martial genius, and explained that he had wanted to avoid drawing attention by breaking it.
• Sikong Jing seized the Saint Martial genius and crushed his Sacred Martial True Qi before the man could fight back.
• Sikong Jing subdued and sealed the genius’s companions, causing the barrier to vanish.
• Sikong Jing apologized to Bao Jiusu for dragging them into danger and offered the captured enemies to his group.

Sikong Jing rescued Bao Jiusu and his companions, then proposed that the Cangyu Demon Sect seek cooperation with the Red Wind Sect. As Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island’s forces approached, the Cangyu Demon Sect sealed its waters, and Ying Sanmeng answered a powerful intruder’s challenge.

• Sikong Jing explained that he had just emerged from the Ultimate Formation and asked Bao Jiusu whether he needed anything else.
• Bao Jiusu asked why Sikong Jing had come to save them, and Sikong Jing said the Cangyu Demon Sect had made its preparations and suggested cooperating with the Red Wind Sect.
• Sikong Jing argued that Teng Yue’s selection for Heaven Seal Academy by Jun Yiji could make the Cangyu Demon Sect a valuable ally, despite the short man’s doubts.
• Forged Rock announced that the Cangyu Demon Sect’s seas were sealed and threatened to kill anyone who entered, while Lian Zhidiao challenged Sikong Jing and Teng Yue.
• A Divine Martial fifth-realm expert entered Cangyu Island’s waters, and Ying Sanmeng declared that he would grant the intruder’s wish.

Ying Sanmeng and Forged Rock warned the approaching fleets to stay beyond the Cangyu Demon Sect’s sea line, but Lian Zhidiao led them across it. The Cangyu forces launched a counterattack, and their fighters and troops displayed strength that stunned the onlookers.

• Ying Sanmeng killed a Divine Martial expert from a four-leaf sect and declared the sea line around the Cangyu Demon Sect a boundary invaders must not cross.
• Forged Rock began a three-second countdown, but Lian Zhidiao ordered his fleet into the sea line, and other fleets followed.
• Ying Sanmeng ordered the Cangyu Demon Sect to charge, while Zhan Hu attacked Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island’s peak Divine Martial elder.
• Zhan Hu tore apart the elder’s attack and fought him without falling behind as Ying Sanmeng, Forged Rock, Elder Lu, and other Cangyu experts engaged the invading Divine Martial fighters.
• Mighty Lion led the Demon Vein troops against the ships, while the Cangyu veins’ forces formed Army-Slaying Formations and tore through the attackers.

Teng Yue challenged Lian Zhidiao while the Cangyu Demon Sect overwhelmed the invading forces, convincing Bao Jiusu that the sect could seek cooperation with the Red Wind Sect. As the Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island elder fled with Lian Zhidiao, the battle continued around the shattered fleet.

• Teng Yue challenged Lian Zhidiao to a duel across two major realms and held his own, even gaining a slight advantage.
• Sikong Jing asked Bao Jiusu whether the Cangyu Demon Sect qualified to discuss cooperation with the Red Wind Sect, and Bao agreed to recommend him.
• Zhan Hu blasted away an Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island top-tier Divine Emperor elder as the invaders were slaughtered and fled.
• Lian Zhidiao ordered the onlookers to join the fight, but they retreated farther instead of crossing the sea boundary.
• Ying Sanmeng joined Zhan Hu against the elder, who fled and swept up Lian Zhidiao, saying they could not keep fighting.

The Cangyu Demon Sect defeated the invading forces, but the Eight Steeds elder and Lian Zhidiao vowed to return with a larger attack. Sikong Jing confronted Lian Zhidiao alone and sent him flying with one slap before Cangyu’s Divine Martial Stage powerhouses arrived to protect him.

• The Eight Steeds elder fled with Lian Zhidiao as the surviving invaders retreated, leaving the Cangyu Demon Sect victorious.
• Lian Zhidiao threatened to wipe out the Cangyu Demon Sect, and Sikong Jing answered that reinforcements would take one or two months to arrive.
• Sikong Jing revealed himself on a small island, prompting Lian Zhidiao to charge at him while Bao Jiusu and the others watched in alarm.
• Sikong Jing scattered Lian Zhidiao’s attack and protective true qi with a single slap, sending him flying and swelling his face.
• Elder Chen moved to attack Sikong Jing, but Ying Sanmeng, Zhan Hu, and Elder Lu appeared and blocked him.

After the Cangyu Demon Sect drove off its attackers, Chai Jiu approached Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island and proposed working together to reclaim the sect. He warned that the Cangyu Demon Sect’s defenses would grow stronger before their forces arrived, then named the Red Wind Sect.

• Sikong Jing warned the onlookers that the Cangyu Demon Sect would welcome future attackers with overwhelming force and invited them to visit in three months for information about Heaven Seal Academy.
• Sikong Jing and the Cangyu Demon Sect forces returned to Cangyu Island as the battle ended, and the other sects retreated.
• Chai Jiu appeared aboard Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island’s ship and suppressed Elder Chen and the other experts with his peak fifth major realm Divine Martial power.
• Chai Jiu explained that he had been driven out of the Cangyu Demon Sect and asked Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island to cooperate in reclaiming it.
• Chai Jiu warned that the Cangyu Demon Sect’s defenses would be stronger by the time Eight Steeds’ forces arrived, then said, “Red Wind Sect!”

Chai Jiu and Lian Zhidiao planned to stop Teng Yue from reaching Heaven Seal Academy, while Sikong Jing prepared to seek help from the Red Wind Sect. Sikong Jing revealed to Teng Yue that they would split up and act separately.

• Chai Jiu warned Lian Zhidiao that Teng Yue reaching Heaven Seal Academy would threaten Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island, and urged him to prevent Teng Yue from arriving.
• Chai Jiu and Lian Zhidiao discussed using spies within the Red Wind Sect to interfere with Teng Yue's journey.
• Chai Jiu told Elder Chen that the Cangyu Demon Sect had uncovered an ancient powerhouse's inheritance in the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Sikong Jing reassured the Cangyu Demon Sect's leaders that he would arrange their approach to the Red Wind Sect, then left Divine Mountain Hall with Teng Yue.
• Teng Yue questioned Sikong Jing about going to the Red Wind Sect, and Sikong Jing said that only he would go and that they must split up.

Sikong Jing arranged for Teng Yue to travel secretly to Heaven Seal Academy while an impersonator drew attention at Red Wind Sect. They found a suitable candidate in Twelve Leopard, who had just shed his demonic nature, and Sikong Jing took him and Teng Yue toward the seashore.

• Sikong Jing told Teng Yue to leave for Heaven Seal Academy secretly while he took a disguised double to Red Wind Sect and drew enemy attention.
• Sikong Jing warned Teng Yue that they would each face danger alone because Cangyu Demon Sect could not spare its main combat forces.
• Sikong Jing and Teng Yue searched Cangyu Island for someone who resembled Teng Yue.
• Twelve Leopard shed his demonic nature completely, and Six Leopard celebrated his achievement.
• Sikong Jing identified Twelve Leopard as Teng Yue’s double and took both men toward the seashore as Six Leopard sensed his aura and pursued them.

Teng Yue secretly left Cangyu Island for Heaven Seal Academy under Sikong Jing’s protection, while Twelve Leopard took his place as a disguised double. Their departure narrowly avoided detection by powerful experts searching the waters, and Teng Yue realized Chai Jiu might already control nearby sects.

• Sikong Jing kept the mission secret from Ying Sanmeng and the New Cang Vein, then sent Teng Yue off with Six Leopard and Mud Armor as guards.
• Sikong Jing summoned sea beasts and ordered a Nether Lotus Sea Serpent to escort Teng Yue and his companions toward their planned route to Heaven Seal Academy.
• Teng Yue, Six Leopard, and Mud Armor departed with the sea beasts after bidding farewell to Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing returned to the beach with Twelve Leopard and ordered him to impersonate Teng Yue, giving him Green Jade Stone Bricks containing Teng Yue’s Cosmic Vein martial arts.
• The Nether Lotus Sea Serpent warned Teng Yue and the others that powerful experts were sweeping the waters, so they hid inside fish bellies as a Divine Martial Stage expert passed nearby.
• Mud Armor and Teng Yue realized that many visiting factions had not left and that Chai Jiu might have gained control over nearby sects.

Sikong Jing and the disguised Twelve Leopard left Cangyu Island with Zhan Hu, Elder Lu, and Bao Jiusu's group, heading for the Red Wind Sect while Chai Jiu planned to hunt them there. The chapter ended as the party entered the Boundless Sea, watched by hostile factions that dared not attack under the Cangyu Demon Sect's protection.

• Chai Jiu and the Eight Steeds Linked Camp Island experts searched the waters but found no trace of Sikong Jing and Teng Yue.
• An informant told Chai Jiu that Sikong Jing and Teng Yue would travel to the Red Wind Sect through Sacred Gathering Island, and Chai Jiu planned to kill them there with help from spies.
• Chai Jiu decided to enter the Red Wind Continent himself to pursue Sikong Jing and obtain the demon and universe lineage inheritances.
• Twelve Leopard strengthened his Teng Yue disguise with a Demon Vein aura, while the real Teng Yue remained hidden elsewhere.
• Zhan Hu and Elder Lu escorted Sikong Jing, Twelve Leopard, and Bao Jiusu's group from Cangyu Island toward the Red Wind Sect.
• Chai Jiu and other factions spotted the departing party but held back, fearing the Cangyu Demon Sect would retaliate.

Sikong Jing and his companions escaped pursuit in a storm and headed for Sacred Gathering Island, while Teng Yue’s group planned to use the Red Wind Sect as a diversion before taking a teleportation array to Heaven Seal Academy. Jun Yiji refused to help them, and the chapter ended as Sikong Jing’s party arrived at the island’s marketplace and teleportation array.

• Elder Chen ordered the pursuers to follow Sikong Jing’s group, but a storm erased their auras and left the pursuers relying on teleportation-array surveillance.
• Zhan Hu and Elder Lu led Sikong Jing’s group out of the storm and set course for Sacred Gathering Island, while Teng Yue, Six Leopard, and Mud Armor planned to wait for surveillance to ease before using an array.
• Jun Yiji learned that Sikong Jing and Teng Yue intended to seek help from the Red Wind Sect and told Jun Huixiang that she would not rescue them if they fell into danger.
• Jun Yiji sent Jun Huixiang to Heaven Seal Academy and instructed her scholarly adviser to secretly observe Sikong Jing and the others without intervening.
• Three days later, Zhan Hu and Elder Lu brought Sikong Jing’s group to Sacred Gathering Island, a Seal Sovereign Empire marketplace built around a spatial teleportation array.

Sikong Jing and his companions entered the Seal Sovereign Space Hall and teleported toward Red Wind Sect territory while Zhan Hu and Elder Lu stayed behind. Chai Jiu intercepted them at sea, but Zhan Hu’s Demonic Path Second-Layer Form let the pair escape, and Chai Jiu turned to his Red Wind Sect plan.

• Elder Lu explained the common and uncommon kinds of spatial teleportation arrays as Sikong Jing’s group walked toward the Seal Sovereign Space Hall.
• After waiting two days, Sikong Jing, Twelve Leopard, Bao Jiusu, and the others entered the Space Hall while Zhan Hu and Elder Lu stayed behind.
• Half a day after leaving Sacred Gathering Island, Zhan Hu and Elder Lu were intercepted by Chai Jiu and Elder Chen, who demanded Zhan Hu’s inheritance and Elder Lu’s submission.
• Sikong Jing’s group activated the Red Wind Sea Region transmission, beginning a four-day journey through the spatial passage.
• Zhan Hu entered Demonic Path Second-Layer Form during the battle, then fled with Elder Lu after failing to defeat Chai Jiu and Elder Chen.
• Chai Jiu abandoned the pursuit and told Elder Chen to begin the Red Wind Sect plan.

Sikong Jing and Bao Jiusu arrived at Red Wind Market Island to seek a recommendation from Elder Red Rong, but the Red Wind Sect intercepted them and invited Sikong Jing and Teng Yue to meet Elder Red Mountain. Before they could leave, Elder Joy Soul’s representative also demanded to see them.

• Sikong Jing sensed that someone was watching him and Bao Jiusu, but detected no hostility.
• A Red Wind Sect group led by Tutu approached Sikong Jing and identified him as the young sect master of the Cangyu Demon Sect and Twelve Leopard as Teng Yue.
• Tutu invited Sikong Jing and Teng Yue to meet Elder Red Mountain, who was interested in Fennel’s future prince consort.
• An icy female voice announced that Elder Joy Soul also wished to see Sikong Jing and Teng Yue.