Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing probed Ling Dongwei about his parents while hiding his identity, then learned that the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave contained the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s legacy. He resolved to be especially careful when entering the cave.

• Sikong Jing asked Ling Dongwei about Sikong Ding and his wife, but disguised his interest as resentment over the calamity that had befallen the Sikong Families.
• Sikong Jing teased Jun Guxian and Jun Guqiao after Jun Guxian was forced back by the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s people.
• The Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom delegation arrived, and the Seal Sovereign Empire’s geniuses worried that it might ally with the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family against them.
• Jun Guxian explained that the Seal Sovereign Empire would bring one hundred Seven-Leaf or Eight-Leaf powers, while the other two overlord factions could each bring only fifty.
• Jun Guxian revealed that the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave held the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, and Sikong Jing resolved to proceed with great caution.

Jun Guxian explained the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave and secretly revealed that he planned to claim the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inheritance. The gathering was interrupted when Ling Yumin and Su Yuexian recognized each other as reincarnation experts, and Ling Yumin revealed his former name, Ling Jindi.

• Jun Guxian told the geniuses that the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave held ancient treasures and dangers, and that it would remain open for four months.
• Jun Guxian privately revealed that the Seal Sovereign Empire had forced the cave open so he could seek the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inheritance and become his legacy disciple.
• A Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family genius identified a Dark Sea Divine Wind genius as a reincarnation expert, and she recognized him in turn.
• Sikong Jing recognized the Dark Sea Divine Wind genius as Su Yuexian and learned that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family also had a reincarnation expert.
• The Heaven-Soaring genius introduced himself as Ling Yumin and revealed that his first-life name was Ling Jindi.

The Seal Sovereign Empire learned that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom each had a reincarnated powerhouse eligible to enter the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, leaving its forces shaken. Jun Guxian tried to recruit Su Yuexian, believing she might have belonged to the Seal Sovereign Empire in her first life.

• Seal Sovereign powerhouses recognized Ling Jindi as a reincarnated former family head, while Sikong Jing sensed dangerous fighting spirit within Jing Yuan.
• Su Yuexian refused to introduce herself, and Ling Jindi judged that she had not yet recovered her first-life memories.
• Jun Guqiao argued that reincarnated powerhouses should be barred from the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, but the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom countered that the rules allowed them.
• Jun Guxian decided Su Yuexian might have ties to the Seal Sovereign Empire in her first life and approached her to make contact.
• The Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom's people remained confident Su Yuexian would ignore Jun Guxian, knowing her first life had been a demonic beast.

Sikong Jing approached Su Yuexian to find out whether she still remembered him, while Jun Guxian hoped to see him humiliated. Su Yuexian recognized Sikong Jing and told him she had not forgotten this life, leaving the surrounding powers stunned.

• Su Yuexian ignored Jun Guxian's offer, and he retreated after threatening to settle things in the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave.
• Sikong Jing stepped forward despite the Seal Sovereign Empire's objections, and Jun Guxian agreed to let him approach on condition that he kneel if Su Yuexian ignored him.
• Sikong Jing introduced himself to Su Yuexian while the surrounding crowd mocked him.
• Su Yuexian removed her hood, introduced herself to Sikong Jing, and confirmed that she still remembered this life.
• Sikong Jing smiled, said her answer was enough, and turned around as the gathered powers reacted in disbelief.

Sikong Jing’s exchange with Su Yuexian provoked Gan Cun and exposed Jun Guxian’s refusal to honor his promise. Su Yuexian explained that she knew Sikong Jing in this life but intended to recover her first-life memories in the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, while Ling Jindi reaffirmed his own goals there.

• Su Yuexian responded to Sikong Jing, prompting the jealous Gan Cun to threaten him and charge after him.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Guxian for the promised divine armor and Spirit Platform Divine Seal, but Jun Guxian refused to hand them over.
• Jun Wuqin claimed Su Yuexian had spoken to Sikong Jing only because she was annoyed by the crowd, and Sikong Jing ignored him.
• Ling Jindi vowed to destroy Sikong Jing and said he still aimed to become Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s personal disciple and prevent anyone from obtaining the things of Nine Heavens.
• Su Yuexian told Old Madam Gan that she knew Sikong Jing in this life but had no entanglement with him, and planned to forget this life after obtaining Night Charm’s intact inner core in the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave.

As the factions gathered on Sea Cave Island for the battle over Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, Sikong Jing recovered his weapons and learned of Jun Yiji’s plan to support him. Jing Yuan secretly asked Sikong Jing to help protect the Sea Court Sect, and Sikong Jing agreed to do his best.

• Luo Guangmang gave Sikong Jing his storage treasure, allowing him to recover the Jing Soars Through Nine Heavens Sword and the rest, and told him Jun Yiji had urged him to stay by Sikong Jing’s side.
• Sikong Jing told Luo Guangmang that he might enter the heart of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family to rescue his parents.
• Jun Guxian expelled Luo Guangmang from Sea Cave Island, but a Seal Sovereign powerhouse stopped him from taking further action against the general.
• Jing Yuan secretly visited Sikong Jing and explained that Jun Guxian had summoned the Sea Court Sect’s nine hundred geniuses to the battle without his knowledge.
• Jing Yuan asked Sikong Jing to help the Sea Court Sect, and Sikong Jing promised to do his best before Jing Yuan left in secret.

Sikong Jing entered Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave with the Seal Sovereign geniuses, where Jun Guxian immediately ordered them to surround and kill him. A young woman and a dozen others refused Jun Guxian’s command, but he had them surrounded too, trapping them inside the cave.

• Sikong Jing continued cultivating the claw bone of the previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts while preparing for the battle ahead.
• Ling Dongwei opened Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, and the geniuses entered in order, with Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family last.
• Ling Jindi ordered the Heaven-Soaring Imperial geniuses to kill Sikong Jing and wipe out Seal Sovereign.
• After the Seal Sovereign geniuses arrived in the cave, Jun Guxian ordered seven hundred of them to surround Sikong Jing.
• A young woman refused Jun Guxian’s order and left with a dozen others, but Jun Guxian sent Jun Wuqin to surround them and forbade them from leaving.

Jun Guxian tried to force Sikong Jing and his allies to submit, but Sikong Jing shielded the two holdouts and prepared to fight Jing Yuan. Su Yuexian appeared, recognized Sikong Jing from the Blood Demon Grand Formation, then left without helping, leaving Jun Guxian and the others convinced Sikong Jing had concealed his connection to her.

• Jun Guxian branded the holdouts as traitors and ordered them to surround Sikong Jing, but one man and one woman refused to draw their weapons.
• Sikong Jing broke free of the encirclement and stood between Jun Guxian and the two holdouts, then refused to kneel or submit.
• Jun Guxian ordered Jing Yuan to seize Sikong Jing, and Sikong Jing activated his Demonic Path Triple Body to make their staged confrontation convincing.
• Su Yuexian appeared and told Sikong Jing she recognized him as the black-scaled mutant human from the Blood Demon Grand Formation, while wondering whether he was connected to her first life.
• Sikong Jing suggested Su Beiheng might have encountered Su Yuexian's first life, and Su Yuexian departed without helping him.
• Jun Guxian and Jun Wuqin accused Sikong Jing of having known Su Yuexian and pretending they had just met.

Su Yuexian struck Jing Yuan away to help Sikong Jing, then left, and Sikong Jing retaliated against Jun Guxian’s group by killing two of its members. Sikong Jing escaped with the proud man and woman, while Jun Guxian threatened to destroy his sect and Sikong Jing reminded him that four months remained.

• Su Yuexian returned and sent Jing Yuan flying with a single palm strike before disappearing again.
• Jing Yuan realized Su Yuexian had not used her full strength and chose to wait in the clouds until Sikong Jing left.
• Sikong Jing killed Shi Xuanyong, explaining that he had charged to the front when Jun Guxian ordered the group to attack him.
• Jun Guxian ordered everyone to attack Sikong Jing, who killed another attacker with his claw technique.
• Sikong Jing carried the proud man and woman away, and Jun Guxian threatened to exterminate Sikong Jing’s sect.
• Sikong Jing laughed and said four months remained before they could speak again.

Sikong Jing rescued Mao Xiao and Jun Feihong, then returned to the clouds to watch Ling Jindi and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family confront Jun Guxian. Ling Jindi declared that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family would destroy Jun Guxian before he could gather the hundred non-overlord sects.

• Jun Guxian raged at Jing Yuan for failing to capture Sikong Jing, and Jing Yuan pursued Sikong Jing while silently asking him to protect the Sea Court Sect.
• Sikong Jing stayed with Mao Xiao and Jun Feihong, anticipating the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family's arrival as Jing Yuan returned to Jun Guxian.
• Sikong Jing told Mao Xiao and Jun Feihong to call him if anything happened, then concealed his demonized state and went back into the clouds to assess Ling Jindi.
• Jun Feihong told Mao Xiao that they could only follow Sikong Jing from then on, and Mao Xiao agreed.
• Jun Guxian urged Ling Jindi to pursue Sikong Jing, but Ling Jindi said the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family would first wipe out Jun Guxian and his forces.

Ling Jindi launched the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s attack on the Seal Sovereign side, while Jun Guxian summoned their scattered allies to join the battle. Sikong Jing descended to confront the Shentu Clan, whose eldest miss blamed him for her suffering.

• Ling Jindi declared war on Jun Guxian’s group, and Jing Yuan fought him while the two forces’ geniuses clashed.
• Jun Guxian called for the Seal Sovereign Empire’s scattered sects to gather, drawing people from several factions into the conflict.
• Jun Feihong told Sikong Jing that the Shentu Clan had arrived, and Sikong Jing chose to attack them while Jing Yuan kept Ling Jindi occupied.
• Sikong Jing landed beside Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao and confronted the Shentu Clan’s eldest miss, who threatened him and blamed him for her imprisonment and other misfortunes.

Sikong Jing confronted the Shentu Clan geniuses, who blamed him for their clan’s downfall and attacked him. He revealed that his current cultivation was only at the Saint Entry Realm and prepared to use the battle to raise his human-vein dantian.

• A Shentu Clan genius accused Sikong Jing of causing the clan’s losses and its enslavement to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Sikong Jing reminded the Shentu Clan that their trouble began when they tried to sell him and protected Chai Jiu.
• Miss Shentu ordered the nine hundred Shentu geniuses to attack Sikong Jing, Jun Feihong, and their companion.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he was only at the Saint Entry Realm, leaving the attackers and his companions stunned.
• Sikong Jing told Jun Feihong and her companion to handle the Saint Emperor Realm fighters while he used the others to advance to the Saint Exit Realm, and drew Ling Yusong’s Sky River Battle Sword.

Sikong Jing fought off the Shentu Clan while repeatedly breaking through from the Holy Entry Realm. As he reached the Saint Emergence Realm, Gan Cun spotted him from the clouds and descended with murderous intent.

• Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao held off the Shentu Clan’s strongest Holy Emperor experts while Sikong Jing charged into the encirclement.
• Sikong Jing used the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s sword techniques and broke through to the peak of the Holy Entry Realm as he fought the Shentu Clan.
• Su Yuexian returned to the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom’s group and said she had gone looking for someone she knew in this life and sensing for the thing she wanted.
• The Dark Sea geniuses spotted Sikong Jing breaking through below, and Gan Cun secretly dove down to confront him.
• Sikong Jing reached the Saint Emergence Realm and announced he would wipe out the Shentu Clan, as his sword intent shifted to the aura of the Cang Vein.

Sikong Jing used the Shentu Clan's attack to push his breakthroughs while slaughtering their fighters. Just as he faced the Shentu Saint Emperors, Gan Cun arrived and threatened Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao to force Sikong Jing to reveal his relationship with Su Yuexian.

• Sikong Jing killed the Shentu Clan's eldest miss and shredded her spirit shadow, then cut down numerous Shentu geniuses with Cang Howling Sword.
• Sikong Jing invited the Shentu Saint Emperor experts to attack him, broke through to the Second Realm of Saint Exit, and fought them with his Cang Vein sword technique.
• Sikong Jing used Demon Shadow Myriad-Layer Sword to repel the Shentu geniuses attacking from behind and broke through to the third realm of Saint Emergence.
• Gan Cun descended and trapped Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao beneath his black true energy while demanding that Sikong Jing explain his relationship with Su Yuexian.

Sikong Jing rescued Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao from Gan Cun, revealing his Saint Venerable Realm power in his variant-human form. He transformed into his Demonic Path Triple Body and ordered Jun Feihong and the others to kill every Shentu Clan member as he battled Gan Cun.

• Gan Cun threatened to kill Mao Xiao unless Sikong Jing answered about his relationship with Su Yuexian, but Sikong Jing refused.
• When Gan Cun attacked Mao Xiao, Sikong Jing broke his restraints, rescued Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao, and blasted Gan Cun away.
• Sikong Jing used his beast-bloodline dantian, shocking the Shentu Clan members by showing his black scales and Saint Venerable Realm strength.
• Sikong Jing blocked Gan Cun's powerful strike, then declared that he would kill Gan Cun and ordered Jun Feihong and the others to leave no Shentu Clan members alive.
• Sikong Jing and Gan Cun clashed, and Sikong Jing sent Gan Cun flying again while the Shentu geniuses realized how badly they had underestimated him.

Sikong Jing fought Gan Cun while Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao slaughtered the Shentu geniuses, drawing the attention of the battles overhead. Su Yuexian forbade the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom from intervening, then blocked them when Sikong Jing left Gan Cun crushed and in need of help.

• Sikong Jing and Gan Cun resumed their fight as Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao killed the wounded Shentu geniuses.
• Onlookers mistook Sikong Jing for a humanoid fierce beast, while Su Yuexian ordered the Dark Sea people not to go down and help Gan Cun.
• Sikong Jing unleashed the Seal Sovereign Violent Spear and the Overlord Seal Nine Drums’ giant-elephant power against Gan Cun.
• Mao Xiao killed the last Shentu genius, wiping out all nine hundred Shentu geniuses in the cave.
• Sikong Jing used Demon War, Frenzied Roar to blast Gan Cun down and pursued him as he tried to flee for help.
• Su Yuexian blocked the Dark Sea geniuses with a seven-colored sword beam as they prepared to rescue Gan Cun.

Sikong Jing battered Gan Cun while Su Yuexian prevented the Dark Sea geniuses from intervening, and the fighting between Ling Jindi and Jing Yuan stopped after Sikong Jing was identified as the Sovereign Seal traitor. The gathered factions turned their attention to Sikong Jing, and Jun Wuqin accused him of betraying the Sovereign Seal.

• Su Yuexian refused to let the Dark Sea geniuses rescue Gan Cun, even when they threatened to attack her.
• Sikong Jing continued beating Gan Cun, who pleaded for help as Su Yuexian said his death would not prevent her from winning the Sea Cave battle.
• Jun Guxian identified Sikong Jing as a variant human and urged Ling Jindi to stop fighting and kill him before he grew stronger.
• Ling Jindi and Jun Guxian separately ordered their fighters to stop, and the factions descended through the clouds to watch Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Guxian whether he and Jing Yuan could have killed Ling Jindi together, and Jun Wuqin called him the Sovereign Seal's traitor.

Sikong Jing exposed Jun Guxian’s betrayal and challenged the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, then broke through to the Saint Emperor Realm as Ling Jindi attacked. He seized Gan Cun, whose super-divine treasure he could now pierce, leaving the Dark Sea Divine Wind geniuses crying out.

• Sikong Jing accused Jun Guxian of selling him to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, causing disciples from non-hegemon forces to distance themselves from Jun Guxian.
• Sikong Jing declared that he would kill anyone who pledged allegiance to the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and marked Ling Yuxing as a target.
• Ling Jindi judged Sikong Jing to be no match for him and unleashed his sword, while Jun Guxian ordered his allies not to intervene.
• Sikong Jing broke through from the fifth level of the Saint Venerable Realm to the Saint Emperor Realm and seized Gan Cun by piercing his super-divine treasure.

Sikong Jing used Gan Cun as a hostage to make Su Yuexian protect him, then threw Gan Cun into the clash of the three strongest fighters and fled with Jun Feihong and another companion. As the crowd reacted to his escape, a strange sound shook everyone and golden sunlight broke through the clouds.

• Sikong Jing threatened to kill Gan Cun unless Dark Sea Divine Wind stopped Ling Jindi and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, prompting Su Yuexian to attack Ling Jindi and shield him.
• Ling Jindi, Su Yuexian, and Jing Yuan unleashed their auras, while Sikong Jing judged that he was not strong enough to face them and signaled Jun Feihong and another companion to retreat.
• Sikong Jing flung Gan Cun into the clash of the three fighters’ auras, gravely damaging Gan Cun’s Spirit Platform as Dark Sea Divine Wind rushed to save him.
• Sikong Jing escaped toward the distant mountains with Jun Feihong and the other companion while the crowd noticed and began to pursue him.
• A strange sound shook everyone, and golden sunlight pierced the dark clouds and spread across the scene.

Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave transformed into the Imperial Legacy Battlefield after twelve powerful auras erupted, revealing a world created by Celestial Emperors and Quasi-Emperors. The battlefield opened for a final four-month contest for inheritances before the world collapsed forever.

• Twelve distinct auras erupted across the sky, and a guiding voice announced that the Imperial Legacy Battlefield was opening.
• As the world fractured and was remade into a vibrant but dangerous landscape, Sikong Jing concluded that powerful geniuses had triggered the battlefield and that ancient demon beast clans were trapped there.
• The guiding spirit revealed that three Celestial Emperors and nine Quasi-Emperors had created the battlefield to seek disciples and bloodline successors.
• The guiding spirit set a four-month limit for the inheritance contest and declared that the battlefield would collapse permanently afterward because its creators had mostly died.