Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing faced Jing Chuiguang, Shentu Cong, and Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt as they prepared to kill him and Joy Soul. Just as the attackers moved, Sikong Jing asked them to listen to a sound outside.

• Shentu Cong explained that Jing Chuiguang had come to punish Sikong Jing after rumors spread that he colluded with the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt revealed her identity as a Heaven-Soaring Imperial Envoy and blamed Sikong Jing for her nephew’s death.
• Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt struck Chai Jiu for failing to protect Ling Yusong, while Chai Jiu recounted the events leading to his death.
• Jing Chuiguang said he would kill Joy Soul and take Sikong Jing to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, then asked Sikong Jing to identify the missing Super Divine Martial.
• As Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt and Jing Chuiguang prepared to attack, Sikong Jing asked what sound they heard outside.

Sikong Jing used his demon-form spirit shadow to sound all six Overlord Seal Drums and draw Heaven Seal Academy’s forces to the inn where Jing Chuiguang had trapped him. As Jing Chuiguang and his allies tried to escape, spatial turbulence and Gu Bo’s arrival blocked them, leaving them at risk of being caught.

• Sikong Jing’s demon-form spirit shadow secretly sounded all six Overlord Seal Drums and directed their waves toward the inn.
• Heaven Seal Academy’s nine great Super Divine Martial experts, Luo Guangmang, and many others followed the drum waves toward the inn.
• Jing Chuiguang recognized that the incoming crowd threatened their plans and tried to take Sikong Jing through a spatial passage.
• Twelve Leopard and Le Xiao disrupted the surrounding space, preventing Jing Chuiguang and his companions from escaping immediately.
• Gu Bo arrived and further destabilized the space as Heaven Seal Academy’s experts closed in, while Sikong Jing warned that Jing Chuiguang’s collusion with Ling Dongwei’s daughter would be exposed.
• Jing Chuiguang, Ling Yusong’s grandaunt, and Shentu Zong tried to flee and hide, and Sikong Jing called on Chai Jiu to act.

Chai Jiu turned against Jing Chuiguang and the others, helping the Heaven Seal experts trap them after Sikong Jing’s drumwave shattered the inn. As the seal held, Ling Yusong’s grandaunt attacked Sikong Jing, but Joy Soul shielded him just before the experts outside struck back with a suppression.

• Chai Jiu trapped Jing Chuiguang and the other two with a Cang Vein barrier, then escaped into the crowd as the nine Heaven Seal experts sealed the inn.
• Luo Guangmang disguised himself and joined the nine experts in reinforcing the seal, while Heaven Seal Academy’s experts arrived to help.
• Shentu Cong, Jing Chuiguang, and Ling Yusong’s grandaunt blamed Chai Jiu for their predicament, and Sikong Jing pointed out that Ling Dongwei had driven him to betray them.
• Ling Yusong’s grandaunt attacked Sikong Jing, but Joy Soul blocked her strike before she could unleash more power.
• The red-sealed old man ordered a suppression, and three streams of power crashed down on the forces trying to break the seal.

Sikong Jing and the others were pinned beneath Heaven Seal Academy’s suppression, but the crowd discovered that one of them was Academy Master Jing Chuiguang. Sikong Jing explained how he rang the six Overlord Seal Drums and accused Jing Chuiguang and Shentu Cong of treason, leaving the Nine Great Super Gods to reconsider whom they should suppress.

• The Black Seal elder and the crowd discovered that Jing Chuiguang, Shentu Cong, and Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt were beneath the pillars of light alongside Sikong Jing and his companions.
• Sikong Jing identified Ling Yusong’s eldest aunt as Ling Dongwei’s daughter, prompting the Nine Great Super Gods to suspect Jing Chuiguang and Shentu Cong were secretly connected to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Jing Chuiguang claimed he had come to capture Ling Dongwei’s daughter, but Sikong Jing challenged his explanation and urged the crowd to test whether she could ring the six drums again.
• Sikong Jing revealed the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s aura and explained that he had comprehended the drum engravings during the Overlord Seal Trial.
• Sikong Jing said he had rung the six drums when they came to seize him and had exposed two great traitors to the Seal Sovereign Empire.

Sikong Jing exposed Jing Chuiguang, Shentu Cong, and Ling Yusong's elder paternal aunt as spies, prompting the Seal Sovereign Emperor to order their detention and a full investigation. As the Heaven Seal Peninsula was sealed off, Sikong Jing studied the Overlord Seal Drum engravings while Luo Guangmang considered how to report the crisis.

• The blue-sealed woman reported Sikong Jing's accusations to the Seal Sovereign Emperor, who ordered the suspects detained pending investigation.
• The Nine Super Divines bound Jing Chuiguang, Ling Yusong's elder paternal aunt, and Shentu Cong, while Sikong Jing agreed to remain at Heaven Seal Academy under protection.
• The blue-sealed woman sealed off the Heaven Seal Peninsula and ordered every member of the Shentu Clan arrested; Chai Jiu fled but was hunted.
• Sikong Jing used his demonic-form spirit shadow to deepen his comprehension of the Overlord Seal Drum engravings before the investigation continued.
• Luo Guangmang worried about the coming investigation and his inability to contact Lord Yi Ji, then heard a voice advise him to seek Princess Fennel and report the matter to the Seal Sovereign Emperor.

Sikong Jing waited calmly as the Seal Sovereign Empire investigated the Red Wind Sect affair, while Joy Soul and the others feared the consequences. After three days, Seventeenth Prince Jun Guxian visited Sikong Jing and warned him that he might still be handed over to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.

• Sikong Jing revealed to Luo Guangmang that he had multiple spirit shadows and asked him to keep it secret.
• Luo Guangmang used Jun Huixiang's status to report the Red Wind Sect matter to the Seal Sovereign Emperor.
• The investigation team arrived at Heaven Seal Academy, but spent three days questioning Jing Chuiguang and others before approaching Sikong Jing's group.
• Sikong Jing reassured Joy Soul, Le Xiao, Tutu, and the others that the investigators would deal with more urgent matters first.
• Jun Guxian, the Seventeenth Prince and a former Overlord Seal student, visited Sikong Jing with wine and warned him that he could still be sold to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.

Jun Guxian warned Sikong Jing that the Seal Sovereign Empire might trade him to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family unless he offered greater value. After learning about Sikong Jing’s inheritance from the Cangyu Demon Sect, Jun Guxian said Sikong Jing had to prove his potential by reaching Saint King peak within three months.

• Jun Guxian told Sikong Jing that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family might demand his surrender as part of a settlement with the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• Jun Guxian said Sikong Jing needed to offer the Seal Sovereign Empire more than the opposing family could in order to avoid being sold off.
• Jun Guxian asked whether Sikong Jing knew of the Cangyu Demon Sect’s ancient heterogeneous human army led by Demon War.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had received Demon War’s power inheritance and said the ancestor had died after activating the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Jun Guxian said the Seal Sovereign Empire cared about whether Sikong Jing could become the strongest heterogeneous human in Boundless Sea.
• Jun Guxian told Sikong Jing to reach Saint King peak in the Saint Martial Stage within three months.

Jun Guxian asked Sikong Jing to reach the peak of the Saint King Realm within three months so he could fight for the Seal Sovereign Empire in a battle of geniuses held in the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave. Sikong Jing accepted, recognizing the empire’s political maneuvering while planning to use the contest to reach the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and investigate his parents’ whereabouts.

• Jun Guxian explained that the Seal Sovereign Empire planned to pressure the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family into opening the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and wanted Sikong Jing to reach the peak of the Saint King Realm to enter it.
• Sikong Jing agreed to cultivate and fight for the Seal Sovereign Empire, while asking whether his performance would earn rewards for him and the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Jun Guxian promised protection for Teng Yue and the Cangyu Demon Sect, rewards for Sikong Jing’s role in exposing the spy, and support from Heaven Seal Academy if he needed resources.
• After Jun Guxian left, Sikong Jing told Le Xiao that the empire was using him as leverage and that the battle could let Ling Dongwei avenge Ling Yusong by killing him.
• Sikong Jing accepted the arrangement because it would protect the Cangyu Demon Sect and let him question members of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family about his parents, then entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Joy Soul reflected that Sikong Jing had reached the terrifying stage of Boundless Sea and resolved to join the Cangyu Demon Sect and follow him.

Jun Guxian planned to use Sikong Jing as a weapon in the coming Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave battle, while Sikong Jing vowed to stand for the Cangyu Demon Sect and master all nine Overlord Seal Drums. At the Cangyu Demon Sect, an imperial decree promoting the sect to six leaves forced its besiegers to retreat.

• Jun Guxian told the Blue Seal woman that he intended to make Sikong Jing kneel and submit, then flew to comprehend the eighth Overlord Seal Drum.
• Sikong Jing’s demonic-form spirit shadow reached the seventh drum and vowed to master all nine drums and represent the Cangyu Demon Sect in the coming battle.
• The investigation into Jing Chuiguang and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family continued, while Teng Yue settled into life at Heaven Seal Academy.
• After two months of siege, the Eight Steeds island lord prepared to attack the Cangyu Demon Sect over Lian Zhidiao’s death, despite hearing Teng Yue might have entered Heaven Seal Academy.
• A Seal Sovereign official announced the emperor’s decree promoting the Cangyu Demon Sect to a six-leaf sect for Sikong Jing’s extraordinary merit.
• Ying Sanmeng and the others accepted the imperial rewards, and the Eight Steeds island lord abandoned the attack and withdrew.

The Cangyu Demon Sect learned that Sikong Jing’s deeds had earned him the title of Two-Seal War General and entry into the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall, though his next mission could be dangerous. After two and a half months of seclusion, Sikong Jing reached Saint King Peak and reported that he was ready for the next step toward Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave.

• The Cangyu Demon Sect learned that the Seal Sovereign Empire had erased the Red Wind Sect after Red Wind Old Monster murdered a Five-Seal War General and blamed the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom.
• News spread that Sikong Jing had uncovered a Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family spy, identified as the headmaster of Heaven Seal Academy, easing fears that the Cangyu Demon Sect would be erased.
• A senior Seal Sovereign divine official announced that Sikong Jing had been named a Two-Seal War General and admitted to the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall.
• The official told Ying Sanmeng that Sikong Jing would join a major Seal Sovereign Empire mission and warned that the Cangyu Demon Sect would receive compensation if he died in battle.
• Sikong Jing comprehended the meridians of two Divine Martial demon beast inner cores, reached Saint King Peak, and sent word to Jun Guxian that he had met the requirement for Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave.

Sikong Jing learned that the Seal Sovereign Empire had secured access to the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and granted him a two-seal battle general title and entry to the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall. Jun Yiji arrived and explained how she and Jun Huixiang’s father had protected Sikong Jing and Cangyu Demon Sect during negotiations, while Jun Guxian’s hostility toward her exposed their conflict.

• Jun Guxian told Sikong Jing that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family had agreed to open the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and that Sikong Jing would enter the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall.
• Jun Guxian gave Sikong Jing his two-seal battle general token and left after warning Jun Yiji not to overstep her place.
• Jun Yiji arrived with Luo Guangmang, Wen Nu, the scholarly old man, and Jun Huixiang, and exchanged a tense greeting with Jun Guxian.
• Sikong Jing guessed that Jun Yiji had protected him during negotiations, and Jun Huixiang confirmed that she and her father had secured Cangyu Demon Sect’s promotion to Six Leaf.
• Jun Huixiang explained that she and her father had publicized Sikong Jing’s capture of a Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family spy, preventing Jun Guxian and the other negotiators from handing him over.

Jun Yiji warned Sikong Jing that his exposed achievements had tied him to the Sea-Chasing King’s faction and made him a target of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family. She also revealed that the Seal Sovereign Emperor might seek to take over the secret mission involving vicious beast souls, and urged Sikong Jing not to investigate further.

• Jun Yiji defended the decision to publicize Sikong Jing’s merits and warned him that Jun Guxian and rival factions could pose dangers.
• Jun Yiji told Sikong Jing that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family would target him for uncovering Jing Chuiguang’s actions, and admitted that she and the Sea-Chasing King might have to abandon him under overwhelming pressure.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Yiji to protect the Cangyu Demon Sect for a while and promised not to drag her or the Sea-Chasing King down with him.
• Jun Yiji explained that the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor might have ordered the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s mission to subdue vicious beast souls.
• Jun Yiji said the Seal Sovereign Emperor might try to take over that mission, then warned Sikong Jing not to investigate the matter further.

Jun Yiji warned Sikong Jing about the dangers of Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and offered him a refuge, while he prepared to face the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and broke through to the Demonic Path Third-Layer Form. After Sikong Jing passed Cang Vein inheritance to Elder Le Hun, she reached the Super Divine Martial Realm, and Jun Yiji asked Luo Guangmang whether he would gamble on Sikong Jing becoming the strongest heteroblood human.

• Jun Yiji gave Sikong Jing information about Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and told him to seek her or the Burial Emperor Sea if he survived but could not return to the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• Sikong Jing told Jun Yiji he would still have killed Ling Yusong and asked her to retrieve his sword and other treasures from the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Sikong Jing broke through to the Demonic Path Third-Layer Form and shared part of the Cang Vein inheritance with Elder Le Hun, who immediately reached the Super Divine Martial Realm.
• Jun Yiji told Luo Guangmang that Sikong Jing had a righteous heart and asked whether he would wager on Sikong Jing becoming the strongest heteroblood human and confronting the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.

Luo Guangmang accepted Jun Yiji’s deadly mission to retrieve an item for Sikong Jing and protect him, while Sikong Jing prepared to leave for the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall. At Heaven Seal Academy’s teleportation array, the chief Shi Xuanyong challenged Sikong Jing to prove what he had learned from the Overlord Seal Drums.

• Jun Yiji offered Luo Guangmang a chance to pursue revenge if he risked his life retrieving an item for Sikong Jing and protecting him, and Luo Guangmang accepted.
• Sikong Jing promised the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant that he would return to save it, then continued studying its meridians and the ninth drum’s inscriptions.
• Jun Guxian freed Joy Soul, Twelve Leopard, and the others to return to the Cangyu Demon Sect with Sikong Jing’s two tasks, while Sikong Jing asked for time to study all nine drums.
• Sikong Jing used his two hours at the drums to retrieve his demonic spirit shadow, then traveled with the blue-seal woman to Heaven Seal Academy’s teleportation array.
• Jun Guxian introduced Sikong Jing to Heaven Seal Academy’s chief and second seat, Shi Xuanyong and Jun Meng, and Shi Xuanyong immediately attacked him with Overlord Seal engravings to test his gains.

Sikong Jing repelled Shi Xuanyong’s attempt to force him to kneel by revealing his mastery of the seventh drum’s inscriptions, then reversed their inscriptional clash and challenged Shi to kneel instead. Jun Guxian stopped Shi before he could attack with true qi, praised Sikong Jing, and ordered the spatial teleportation array activated.

• Shi Xuanyong surrounded Sikong Jing with seventh-drum inscriptions and demanded that he kneel, but Sikong Jing shattered them with his first six drums’ inscriptions.
• Shi Xuanyong combined inscriptions from all seven drums to overwhelm Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing fused in seventh-drum inscriptions he had gained and suppressed Shi instead.
• Sikong Jing told Shi Xuanyong to kneel so he could teach him, prompting Shi to unleash peak Saint Martial Realm true qi and break Sikong Jing’s inscriptions.
• Jun Guxian ordered Shi Xuanyong to stop, then praised Sikong Jing and asked how much he understood of the last three drums.
• Sikong Jing claimed he understood all three drums, while Jun Meng doubted him and Jun Guxian remarked that it was a pity Sikong was not a normal human.
• Jun Guxian told the woman with the blue seal to activate the spatial teleportation array.

Sikong Jing arrived at the Seal Sovereign Divine Son Hall with Jun Guxian, Jun Meng, and Shi Xuanyong to collect their Divine Son Tokens. There, Jun Guxian explained that the third captain for the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave battle remained unchosen, and the chapter ended with the selection still pending.

• The blue-sealed woman confirmed Sikong Jing had truly struck the six drums from afar, while Heaven Seal's eight Super Divine Martial experts hoped he would sever ties with the Sea-Chasing King's line and serve the Seventeenth Prince.
• Jun Guxian brought Sikong Jing, Jun Meng, and Shi Xuanyong to the Divine Son Hall, where they received Divine Son Tokens from Jun Guqiao.
• Jun Guqiao criticized Sikong Jing's restrained greeting, but Jun Guxian defended him as a favored talent and friend.
• Jun Guqiao announced that Jun Guxian would take over as Hall Master and asked whether he had chosen a third captain for the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave battle.
• Jun Guxian said the third captain had not yet been selected and explained that Jing Yuan and he were the other two captains.

After Jun Guqiao became ineligible for the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave battle, the Divine Son Hall began seeking a third captain, and its older geniuses mocked Sikong Jing for being mixed-blood. Sikong Jing declared he wanted the position to silence them, and Jun Guxian began explaining the selection rules.

• Senior Brother Guan mocked Shi Xuanyong and asserted that older Divine Son Hall members stood ahead of him in the race for captain.
• Senior Brother Guan and other Divine Son Hall geniuses surrounded Sikong Jing and taunted him to reveal his mixed-blood traits.
• Shi Xuanyong joined in the mockery, while Jun Guxian watched without intervening.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Guxian about the rules for selecting the third captain and said he wanted the position to silence the jeering geniuses.
• Jun Guxian began explaining the selection rules as the crowd turned its attention to him.

Jun Guxian announced that the geniuses could claim divine weapons, armor, and seals from the jade lamps, with the strongest acknowledged set earning its owner the third captaincy. As the geniuses fought to reach the Seal Sovereign Violent Spear, Sikong Jing revealed that its spirit had already chosen him, while the battle continued without him.

• Jun Guxian explained that each genius could seek the acknowledgment of three treasures and that the strongest set would determine the third captain.
• Jun Guqiao returned the Seal Sovereign Violent Spear by releasing her bond to it and tossing it into a jade lamp.
• Jun Guxian invited the geniuses to test whether the Violent Spear's spirit would acknowledge them, and Senior Brother Guan led the charge.
• Sikong Jing told Jun Guxian that the spear's spirit would acknowledge none of the fighters, concealing that it had already sought him out as its master.
• The geniuses clashed beneath the jade lamps, and Jun Meng and Shi Xuanyong were among those knocked down.

After no one gained the Violent Spear artifact spirit’s recognition, Sikong Jing drew the Seal Sovereign geniuses’ anger by mocking them. Jun Guxian left him to face their attack, but someone unexpectedly stepped in to block Shi Xuanyong.

• Senior Brother Guan and the other geniuses, including Shi Xuanyong and Jun Meng, failed to gain the Violent Spear artifact spirit’s recognition.
• Jun Guxian asked Sikong Jing how he had known no one would be acknowledged, and Sikong Jing said it was only a guess before mocking the gathered geniuses as mosquitoes.
• Senior Brother Guan, Shi Xuanyong, and the others confronted Sikong Jing, demanding that he reveal his other-race traits.
• Jun Guxian left through the side door, while Jun Guqiao watched and the two discussed how Sikong Jing needed to be humiliated and taught fear.
• Shi Xuanyong charged at Sikong Jing with his peak Saint Emperor aura, but an unidentified person rushed forward to block him and told Sikong Jing he was the weakest there.

Sikong Jing revealed that the Violent Spear had chosen him as its master, then used it to defeat Shi Xuanyong despite their difference in cultivation. He left the Divine Son Hall’s geniuses stunned and challenged them to call him the weakest.

• Sikong Jing told the Divine Son Hall geniuses that the Violent Spear already had a new master and summoned it from the jade lamp.
• The Violent Spear broke free and flew into Sikong Jing’s hand, humiliating Jun Guqiao and silencing the gathered geniuses.
• Shi Xuanyong attacked Sikong Jing, who countered with the Overlord Seal martial way and sent him flying into the hall’s barrier.
• Sikong Jing asked Shi Xuanyong why he could not break Sikong Jing’s Overlord Seal martial way after comprehending the seventh drumbeat.
• Sikong Jing turned to the Sovereign Seal Divine Son geniuses and asked whether he was the weakest among them.