Chapter Summaries

After the guiding spirit revealed the Imperial Legacy Battlefield’s immense opportunities, Jun Guxian tried to claim the three Heavenly Emperor inheritances and command the gathered disciples. His authority quickly crumbled as sects left to seek opportunities, while Gan Cun’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Ling Jindi explained that Green Leaf had been a Quasi-Emperor when the Imperial Legacy Battlefield was created, and Su Yuexian identified the Demon Beast Heavenly Emperor as the previous King of Night Charms.
• Jun Guxian ordered the Fluid Body Sect to help him obtain all three Heavenly Emperor inheritances, but its lead disciple rejected his authority and led the sect away.
• Jing Yuan stayed beside Jun Guxian rather than pursuing the Fluid Body Sect into a barrier formation, and disciples from many other sects also departed.
• Jun Guxian offered rewards to those who remained, while Jing Yuan concealed that he had directed the Sea Court Sect disciples to keep their distance.
• The Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom’s geniuses realized Gan Cun was missing and wondered where he had fallen.

Demonic beasts awakened across the Imperial Legacy Battlefield and began hunting the human contestants, forcing the survivors to scatter. Sikong Jing left to investigate the battlefield and its beasts, while the change in the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave left Granny Gan worried about Gan Cun.

• A giant lizard swallowed a Dark Sea genius, declared that the demonic beasts would hunt the humans, and fought the Dark Sea geniuses alongside other beasts.
• Sikong Jing left with Jun Feihong and another companion, planning to study the battlefield and capture a demonic beast without revealing his Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts aura.
• Jun Guxian failed to find Sikong Jing, then led Jing Yuan and his followers toward the Nine Heavens Emperor's inheritance site, while Ling Jindi led the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family toward their Emperor's inheritance.
• Su Yuexian headed toward the vicious beast Night Charm's aura, and the remaining Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom geniuses followed her for protection, leaving Gan Cun behind.
• Above Sea Cave Island, the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave vortex changed color, its surroundings brightened, and the energy ships stopped supplying it; Granny Gan questioned Ling Dongwei as Gan Cun's life lamp dimmed.

Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor appeared through a mysterious voice and empowered Gan Cun’s life lamp, declaring that he would accept Gan Cun as a disciple if he survived the Imperial Legacy Battlefield. The powerful factions learned the battlefield’s history and anticipated their own disciples’ fortunes, while the Shentu Clan mourned the loss of all nine hundred of its geniuses.

• Ling Dongwei denied knowing why Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave had changed, but the gathered powerhouses suspected him of a scheme.
• Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor gathered falling leaves around Granny Gan and restored Gan Cun’s life lamp, then invited her to bring Gan Cun to Green Leaf Palace if he survived the battlefield.
• The Sea Court Sect’s sect master explained that the Imperial Legacy Battlefield had been created by the Nine Heavens Emperor, the Heaven-Soaring Emperor, a ferocious beast Great Emperor, and nine Quasi-Emperors.
• Granny Gan celebrated Gan Cun’s chance to become Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s disciple, while others envied her and factions hoped their own disciples would claim the battlefield’s inheritances.
• Shentu Cong broke down when he realized all nine hundred Shentu Clan geniuses had died upon entering the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.

Gan Cun emerged as Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s successor and rapidly advanced in power, while Sikong Jing hid Jun Feihong and another companion from a group of Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts. The beasts learned from Sikong Jing that their race had been exterminated.

• Shentu Family Head vowed revenge on Jun Yiji, Sea-Chasing King, and the alien human, while the Sea Court Sect Master anticipated the secret within Jing Yuan.
• Gan Cun emerged from a giant lizard, revealed that he had become Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s successor, and killed the giant lizards around him.
• Gan Cun declared his intentions toward Sikong Jing, Su Yuexian, Ling Jindi, and Jing Yuan as his power surged toward the Divine King Realm.
• Gan Cun reached the Divine King Realm, then chased the arriving Giant Lizard King to display his strength.
• Sikong Jing concealed Jun Feihong and another companion with his blood as dozens of Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts surrounded him.
• Sikong Jing told the beasts their race had been exterminated, and they demanded to know what he meant.

Sikong Jing fought the Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts and copied their meridians to improve his combat strength. Their quasi-Emperor ancestor then appeared and announced that someone in the clan could inherit everything he possessed.

• Sikong Jing told the Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts that their race had been exterminated, but they rejected his claim and attacked him.
• Sikong Jing transformed into the Black Scale Demon Man and fought the beasts while Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao watched from hiding.
• Sikong Jing carried off unconscious beasts to imprint and comprehend their meridians, raising his realm and strengthening himself as the battle continued.
• A violent tremor released a dark-brown ring of light, and the God King Realm beast announced that their quasi-Emperor had appeared.
• A phantom Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beast emerged from the earth and declared that someone in its clan could inherit everything it possessed.

Sikong Jing triggered the Quasi-Emperor Xing Shan Beast’s inheritance, and the ancestor initially mistook him for a clan successor before recognizing his Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts bloodline. Sikong Jing revealed that the demon beast clans were in danger and that the Punishment Mountain Beasts had been exterminated, leaving the inheritance phantom and the surviving beasts to confront their fate.

• The Quasi-Emperor Xing Shan Beast named Sikong Jing the future Quasi-Emperor of the Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beast clan, while the beasts protested that he was human.
• The inheritance phantom recognized that Sikong Jing was not a Punishment Mountain Beast and asked what he was.
• Sikong Jing asked whether a Heavenly Emperor could sense the inheritance site, and the Quasi-Emperor Xing Shan Beast said Heavenly Emperor power would collapse the battlefield and its phantom.
• Sikong Jing released the aura of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, making the lower-ranked Punishment Mountain Beasts collapse and filling the Divine King Realm beast with fear and reverence.
• The Quasi-Emperor Xing Shan Beast recognized Sikong Jing as the legendary king of ten thousand beasts and questioned whether his appearance meant the demon beasts were in danger.
• Sikong Jing told the Quasi-Emperor Xing Shan Beast that the Punishment Mountain Beast clan and many other powerful demon beast clans had been exterminated, and that the beasts might have been killed by their enemies.

Sikong Jing received the Quasi-Emperor Punishment Mountain Beast's legacy and essence blood, breaking through to peak Saint Emperor. He became king of the remaining Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts and set out to gather the other demon beast inheritances and lead them out of the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.

• The Quasi-Emperor Punishment Mountain Beast revealed that Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor had killed it and wiped out its race.
• The legacy spirit passed its meridian methods and combat techniques to Sikong Jing, then gave him a drop of essence blood.
• Sikong Jing absorbed the legacy and essence blood and broke through to peak Saint Emperor.
• The Quasi-Emperor Punishment Mountain Beast entrusted its remaining essence blood and the Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts to Sikong Jing before its spirit projection withdrew.
• The Giant-Armored Punishment Mountain Beasts acknowledged Sikong Jing as their king, and he told them to follow him while he continued fighting in the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing decided to seek the other quasi-emperor demon beast inheritances and take the demon beasts out of the battlefield.

After advancing to peak Saint Emperor, Sikong Jing learned that Gan Cun had survived and gained the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s quasi-emperor inheritance. He found Gan Cun cornering Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao, then stepped out to confront him.

• Sikong Jing declined to absorb the Punishment Mountain Beasts’ inheritances all at once and left the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• Sikong Jing heard that Gan Cun was nearby and realized Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao might be in danger.
• Sikong Jing followed the voices and found Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao surrounded by thousands of people while Gan Cun tortured a Giant Lizard King.
• Sikong Jing recognized the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s aura around Gan Cun, who threatened Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao and demanded they reveal where Sikong Jing was.
• Sikong Jing called out to Gan Cun and stepped from the forest, surprising Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao and making Gan Cun’s grin turn savage.

Gan Cun returned as the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s disciple and challenged Sikong Jing, who beat him despite his new inheritance. Sikong Jing stopped fighting when Gan Cun’s supporters threatened Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao, leaving the two sides facing off.

• Gan Cun told Sikong Jing that the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor had chosen him as a disciple through his nearly extinguished life lamp.
• Sikong Jing attacked Gan Cun with Xingshan’s power and blasted him into the forest with one punch.
• Gan Cun returned in a rage, but Sikong Jing continued to overpower him and beat him until he was bloodied.
• Gan Cun ordered the crowd to seize Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao, and Sikong Jing warned them not to harm his people.
• Several hundred people withdrew, while most of the crowd drew weapons and stood with Gan Cun, claiming his new inheritance would soon let him defeat Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing ordered the Xingshan Beasts to rescue Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao, then slaughtered the disciples who had sided with Gan Cun. After Gan Cun escaped, Sikong Jing healed the giant lizard king and persuaded it to take him to the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor’s territory.

• Sikong Jing summoned the Xingshan Beasts, which rescued Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao and attacked the thousands surrounding them.
• The Xingshan Beasts overwhelmed the scattered disciples, while Sikong Jing revealed that he had inherited a demonic beast quasi-emperor’s legacy.
• Gan Cun abandoned his supporters and fled using Green Leaf Escape, and Sikong Jing refused to spare those who had stayed to fight him.
• Sikong Jing healed the tortured giant lizard king and comprehended its meridians.
• The God King Realm Xingshan Beast urged the giant lizard king to guide Sikong Jing to the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor’s territory, and the giant lizard king agreed.

Sikong Jing reached the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor’s territory and began hunting its collateral demon beasts to deduce how to trigger the inheritance. Meanwhile, Su Yuexian arrived at the old King of Night Charms’ territory and heard a warning about the danger of her Nine-Soul Reincarnation.

• After Sikong Jing left, people who had survived the battle discussed the legacies and believed the Punishment Mountain Beasts’ territory was safe, but collateral demon beasts attacked them two days later.
• Sikong Jing learned that the Giant Lizard Demon Dragon was a collateral beast and that the Dark Demon Dragon’s direct bloodline had been wiped out.
• After traveling for three more days, Sikong Jing reached the Dark Demon Dragon’s territory, but his attempt to trigger its inheritance received no response.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Giant Lizard Demon Dragon to help him find the remaining collateral Demon Dragon species so he could study their meridians and deduce the Dark Demon Dragon’s true form.
• Su Yuexian arrived at the old King of Night Charms’ territory and heard a voice warn that reclaiming the nine souls could drive her mad.

Su Yuexian faced the old King of Night Charms’ reincarnation trial, torn between her first-life mother and Mei Xiaofang. Meanwhile, Gan Cun challenged Jing Yuan, lost, and resolved to seek more of Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance as Jing Yuan secretly sought a way to escape his group.

• Su Yuexian remembered Mei Xiaofang’s love and struggled to call the voice from her first life “Mother.”
• The old King of Night Charms sent Su Yuexian into a trial to relive her lives and choose whether to return to this life or become the next King of Night Charms.
• Gan Cun ambushed the Sovereign Seal team and fought Jing Yuan, but lost and escaped with Green Leaf Escape.
• Gan Cun vowed to seize more of Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance and take revenge on Sikong Jing, Jing Yuan, Ling Jindi, and Su Yuexian.
• Jun Guxian ordered a search for Gan Cun and urged Jing Yuan to find Nine Heavens Emperor’s inheritance grounds, while Jing Yuan considered how to slip away without endangering the Sea Court Sect.

Sikong Jing deduced and fused the meridians of fourteen Dark Demon Dragon branch beasts, triggering the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor’s inheritance. After the Quasi-Emperor named him king of the dragon beasts and entrusted him with its blood essence and legacy, Sikong Jing entered seclusion to strengthen his human-vein dantian and cultivate his father’s Nine Heavens Legacy.

• Sikong Jing fused the meridians of fourteen Dark Demon Dragon branch beasts while dragon beasts gathered to attack him.
• Sikong Jing completed his deduction of the dragon meridians, triggering the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor’s appearance and inheritance.
• Sikong Jing revealed the aura of the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, and the Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor gave him its blood essence and legacy and asked him to avenge its death by Qing Ye.
• The Dark Demon Dragon Quasi-Emperor named Sikong Jing king of the dragon beasts, turning the gathered attackers into his subordinates.
• Sikong Jing chose to suppress a breakthrough and asked the beasts to find him a safe place for seclusion.
• Sikong Jing began cultivating the Nine Heavens Legacy in the Jing Soars Through Nine Heavens Sword and working to raise his human-vein dantian.

The Heaven-Soaring Emperor transformed the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and offered rewards to anyone who brought him the Nine Heavens inheritor. Meanwhile, Jun Guxian found a stone wall in the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inheritance grounds, broke through by studying it, and then invited his followers to study it while keeping Jing Yuan outside.

• The Heaven-Soaring Emperor bestowed part of his inheritance on Ling Jindi and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, strengthening their bloodlines and cultivation; Ling Jindi reached the peak of the God King Realm.
• The Heaven-Soaring Emperor ordered the family and other sects to bring him the Nine Heavens inheritor in exchange for further inheritance and rewards.
• Ling Jindi led the assembled crowd toward the Nine Heavens Emperor’s territory to search for the inheritor.
• Jun Guxian searched the Nine Heavens Emperor’s grounds with Jing Yuan and the Sovereign Seal members, eventually discovering patterns on a stone wall that matched his Nine Heavens Fragmentary Codex.
• Jun Guxian sent everyone away so he could study the wall alone and broke through from a top Saint Emperor to the Divine Entry Realm.
• Jun Guxian later invited his followers to study the stone wall but ordered Jing Yuan to stand guard outside.

Jun Guxian claimed to be the Nine Heavens' successor, but Ling Jindi's enhanced forces overwhelmed the Sovereign Seal and captured him. Jing Yuan appeared gravely wounded as the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family left, while the remaining sect members charged toward him.

• Jun Guxian reached the Spirit Emergence Realm and demonstrated the Nine Heavens martial arts he had learned from the stone wall.
• Jing Yuan warned Jun Guxian that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family had charged in, and Jun Guxian prepared to fight.
• Ling Jindi recognized Jun Guxian as the Nine Heavens' successor, and Jun Guxian openly confirmed it.
• The Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family crushed the Sovereign Seal forces, sent Jing Yuan flying, and surrounded and captured Jun Guxian as the others fled.
• Jun Guxian called for Jing Yuan and the Nine Heavens Emperor to save him, but no inheritance appeared, and Ling Jindi led his people away with Jun Guxian.
• The remaining non-overlord sect members charged toward Jing Yuan, then froze when they saw him in the swirling clouds and mist.

Jing Yuan used the chaos around Jun Guxian’s capture to reveal his true nature, escape his service, and pursue the legacy of the Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor. Meanwhile, Jun Wuqin and Guan Kuan plotted to conceal their abandonment of Jun Guxian, who was brought before the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s palace as its golden light descended upon him.

• Jing Yuan dropped his act, killed the remaining disciples who had discovered his deception, and explained why Jun Guxian had lost his followers’ support.
• Jing Yuan dismissed the stone-wall engravings as the work of an earlier trial participant and left to seek the legacy of Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor, his Sea Court Sect ancestor.
• Jun Wuqin found the fleeing Guan Kuan and persuaded him to help cover up their abandonment of Jun Guxian and win the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s favor.
• More than a month after the Imperial Legacy Battlefield opened, Ling Jindi and the others brought Jun Guxian to the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s palace, where golden light fell upon him.

Jun Guxian was exposed as a false heir to the Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline and was forced by the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family to help search for the real one. After reaching dual top Saint Emperor strength, Sikong Jing set out for the Nine Heavens Emperor’s territory and learned that everyone in the Imperial Legacy Battlefield was looking for him.

• The Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s inheritance spirit rejected Jun Guxian as the Nine Heavens heir and ordered everyone to keep searching.
• Jun Guxian persuaded the Heaven-Soaring Emperor to spare him, but Ling Jindi ordered Ling Yuxing to place a restriction on him.
• After nearly two months of cultivation, Sikong Jing defeated the strongest Xingshan Beast using his human-vein dantian and prepared to seek the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy.
• Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao joined Sikong Jing on the journey and told him that the Heaven-Soaring Emperor had offered an inheritance and essence blood to whoever found the Nine Heavens heir.
• Mao Xiao explained that the sought-after heir was among those who entered the Heaven-Soaring Sea Cave, and Sikong Jing realized everyone was searching for him.

Sikong Jing learned that Heaven-Soaring Emperor wanted the Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline inheritor captured alive and decided to seek the Nine Heavens Legacy to hide the bloodline’s connection to his parents. After Sikong Jing left the Fluid Body Sect, a golden sword strike from the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family confronted its members.

• Sikong Jing resolved to obtain the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy before revealing himself as the imperial bloodline inheritor, to protect his parents from the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Sikong Jing encountered the Fluid Body Sect on the way to the Nine Heavens territory, and its members warned him that others were waiting there to capture the inheritor.
• Sikong Jing told the Fluid Body Sect that he would go create a target for everyone by becoming the Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline inheritor himself.
• The Fluid Body Sect members dismissed Sikong Jing as arrogant and discussed the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s growing power across the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.
• A golden river-like sword gleam struck before the Fluid Body Sect, and its members recognized the Heaven-Soaring Sword Dao.

Sikong Jing returned after hearing Ling Yuxing was coercing the Fluid Body Sect, whose members faced bloodline restrictions and threats of death from the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family. He confronted Ling Yuxing, who had led a hundred geniuses away from Ling Jindi.

• Ling Yuxing ordered the Fluid Body Sect members to submit to bloodline inspections and restrictions, threatening anyone who refused.
• The Fluid Body Sect resisted after realizing the restrictions would make them prisoners of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family, and Ling Yuxing threatened to kill them.
• A disciple suggested Sikong Jing might save them, but the lead disciple doubted he could defeat even the weakest Heaven-Soaring genius.
• Sikong Jing returned from seclusion and challenged the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family's claim over the battlefield.
• Ling Yuxing recognized Sikong Jing, and Sikong Jing pointed out that Ling Yuxing had separated from Ling Jindi.

Sikong Jing confronted Ling Yuxing and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses, who believed their new inheritances made them unbeatable. He sealed nearly a hundred of them, drove Ling Yuxing to flee, then smashed the spatial passage and knocked him back out.

• Ling Yuxing and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses surrounded Sikong Jing, while Ling Yuxing blocked the Fluid Body Sect from escaping.
• Sikong Jing used Ling Yusong's Sky River Battle Sword and Cang Vein, Vast Sea Seal Divine Sword to seal the dantian of the first attacker.
• Sikong Jing sealed the true qi of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses one by one, then fought Ling Yuxing and blasted him away.
• Ling Yuxing tore open space to flee and threatened to return with the near-Emperor old family head.
• Sikong Jing switched to his beast-meridian dantian and used Xingshan Punch to smash the spatial passage, sending Ling Yuxing flying back out.