Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing defeated Ling Yuxing and trapped the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses inside a barrier formed by his demon-beast subordinates. He revealed that he was born human and was the successor of the Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline, leaving Ling Yuxing to realize why Sikong Jing carried that inheritance.

• Sikong Jing dismissed the Fluid Body Sect disciples after promising that the restriction on one disciple would vanish once its caster was dead.
• Sikong Jing summoned Xing Shan Beast and other demon beasts to seal off the area around himself and the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses.
• The Fluid Body Sect disciples recalled rumors that Sikong Jing had received a demon-beast Quasi-Emperor's inheritance and decided to stay and follow him.
• Sikong Jing told Ling Yuxing that he was born a true human, then revealed the Jing Soars Through Nine Heavens Sword and his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline.
• Sikong Jing defeated Ling Yuxing again and listed his connection to Ling Yusong, the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land, and the Sikong surname as clues to his inheritance.

Sikong Jing interrogated Ling Yuxing and the other Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses to learn what happened to his parents. He discovered that Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian had been captured and had their imperial bloodlines extracted, but their whereabouts remained unknown.

• Sikong Jing revealed his parentage and threatened Ling Yuxing and the other Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses.
• Sikong Jing tortured one captive and had his spirit shadows torment two others until a captive admitted that Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian had been captured after escaping the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Ling Yuxing and the captive said they did not know where Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian had been taken, though Ling Dongwei might know.
• Ling Yuxing explained that Ling Dongwei had extracted the couple's imperial bloodlines, and Sikong Jing learned their faintly lit life lamps suggested they might still be alive.
• Ling Yuxing begged Sikong Jing to seal him and promised to help investigate once they returned home.

Sikong Jing killed Ling Yuxing and the hundred Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses, then set out for the Nine Heavens territory to find his parents. Ling Jindi discovered the deaths and left camp with Jun Guxian to investigate.

• Sikong Jing rejected Ling Yuxing's plea and killed him and the other ninety-nine Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses with the Demon Vein sword technique.
• Sikong Jing opened the barrier and warned the Fluid Body Sect disciples that following him would make them enemies of the world, but they decided to trail behind him.
• Sikong Jing joined Jun Feihong and Mao Xiao on the Giant Lizard Demon Dragon and headed toward the Nine Heavens territory to search for his parents in Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family territory.
• The Fluid Body Sect disciples followed Sikong Jing after he departed, believing he would protect them from the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Ling Jindi found that all one hundred life lamps belonging to Ling Yuxing's group had gone out and took the restrained Jun Guxian with him to investigate.

Jing Yuan emerged from seclusion with Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor’s legacy, slaughtered a Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family squad, and set out to rescue Jun Guxian. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing found and revived a badly injured Sea Court Sect disciple as the search for Jing Yuan continued.

• Jing Yuan emerged from the sea after obtaining Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor’s legacy and encountered a hundred Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses holding more than a thousand restricted disciples.
• Jing Yuan learned that Jun Guxian was in the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s hands, then killed the entire squad and freed the restrictions on the gathered disciples.
• Jing Yuan learned that Jun Guxian was being held in Ling Jindi’s camp and led the disciples toward him to form a Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation.
• Sikong Jing traveled with Jun Feihong and another companion atop the Giant Lizard Demon Dragon while wondering whether Ling Jindi would investigate Ling Yuxing’s death.
• A demon dragon-lineage monster bird reported that it had found a dying Sea Court Sect disciple, and Sikong Jing went to the man and revived him.

Sikong Jing abandoned his planned confrontation with Ling Jindi to rescue the Sea Court Sect, then found and slaughtered two hundred Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses. Ling Jindi discovered Sikong Jing had killed an earlier squad as well and retreated to gather his remaining forces.

• A rescued Sea Court Sect disciple told Sikong Jing that a hundred-man squad from the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family had captured his fellow disciples and led Sikong Jing toward them.
• Sikong Jing turned away from Ling Jindi's territory, sent demonic beasts to search for the squad, and prioritized saving the Sea Court Sect in return for Jing Yuan's help.
• Ling Jindi learned another hundred-man squad had been killed and ordered his forces to retreat toward the Nine Heavens Emperor's territory.
• At Ling Yuxing's death site, Jun Guxian identified Sikong Jing's aura on the bodies, and Ling Jindi realized Sikong Jing had slaughtered the entire squad.
• Ling Jindi received word that two more hundred-man squads were being killed and returned to camp to gather his remaining forces.
• Sikong Jing found the Sea Court Sect's people and slaughtered the two hundred Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family geniuses whose squads had converged.

Sikong Jing and the other disciples wiped out the Heaven-Soaring Imperial team, and the Sea Court Sect offered to follow him. A Quasi-Emperor inheritance spirit appeared from the red-leaf mountain, chose Sikong Jing, and introduced himself as Jun Shengxie, the Evil Seal Patriarch.

• Sikong Jing and the gathered disciples killed all two hundred Heaven-Soaring Imperial geniuses as their restrictions were lifted.
• Most onlookers declined to follow Sikong Jing, but the Sea Court Sect disciples asked to join him.
• A fierce wind swept from the red-leaf mountain, and Sikong Jing recognized it as a Quasi-Emperor inheritance.
• The inheritance spirit appeared as an old man and revealed that Sikong Jing had triggered it.
• The spirit named himself Jun Shengxie, the Evil Seal Patriarch, and Sikong Jing wondered whether he was an ancestor of the Seal Sovereign Empire.

Evil Seal Patriarch recognized Jun Feihong as a distant descendant of his brother, the Righteous Seal Ancestor, and gave her his pure essence-blood bloodline. He gave Sikong Jing Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s essence blood and revealed that Nine Heavens had deliberately left a legacy in her essence blood, which Sikong Jing’s father had accidentally obtained.

• Evil Seal Patriarch confirmed that Jun Feihong carried a faint trace of his brother’s bloodline and gave her his pure essence-blood bloodline.
• Evil Seal Patriarch told Sikong Jing that the Heaven-Soaring Emperor had nearly wiped out their clans and that Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor had killed him.
• Evil Seal Patriarch gave Sikong Jing Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s essence blood and advised him to build his foundation on Nine Heavens’ Imperial bloodline instead.
• Evil Seal Patriarch described Nine Heavens as a woman who repeatedly defeated Heaven-Soaring and disappeared after creating the Imperial Legacy Battlefield to leave a successor.
• After Sikong Jing explained how his father had obtained Nine Heavens’ essence blood, Evil Seal Patriarch concluded that she had deliberately placed her legacy in it for whoever defeated Heaven-Soaring’s descendants to claim.

Sikong Jing persuaded the Evil Seal Patriarch to share his martial inheritance with the Seal Sovereign Empire and secured essence blood for Jun Yiji. After the inheritance was passed on, the Evil Seal Patriarch warned Sikong Jing that the Nine Heavens should be his strongest foundation.

• The Evil Seal Patriarch speculated that the Nine Heavens Emperor had left essence blood among the Heaven-Soaring Emperor's descendants, then offered Sikong Jing his martial path.
• Sikong Jing asked the Evil Seal Patriarch to pass the inheritance to others and to give him essence blood for Jun Yiji.
• Sikong Jing invited the Seal Sovereign Empire members, including the Fluid Body Sect, to receive the inheritance, while refusing outsiders.
• When a dozen Seal Sovereign Divine Son geniuses who had attacked him asked to join, Sikong Jing killed them with a single sword.
• The Evil Seal Patriarch passed his martial inheritance to the Seal Sovereign Empire, transformed Jun Feihong's bloodline, and gave his remaining blood essence to Sikong Jing.
• After Sikong Jing comprehended the available Evil Seal martial arts, the Evil Seal Patriarch warned him not to rely on the Emperor Ling Tian bloodline and said the Nine Heavens were strongest.

Sikong Jing left the inheritance site for the Nine Heavens territory, while demon beasts enforced his warning against anyone who would help Gan Cun. Days later, Ling Jindi learned that four hundred life lamps had gone out, and an eerie voice claimed responsibility for two hundred deaths.

• Sikong Jing departed alone with the demonic beasts, leaving Jun Feihong, Mao Xiao, and the other inheritance recipients to cultivate behind the barrier.
• Sikong Jing considered how the inheritance recipients could protect the Cangyu Demon Sect and kept the Heaven-Soaring Emperor's essence blood for a possible infiltration of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• The Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom survivors argued over whether to help Sikong Jing's people or alert Gan Cun, and demon beasts killed everyone who intended to notify him.
• A Xingshan Beast told the remaining survivors that Sikong Jing had spared them because they had not planned to help Gan Cun.
• Several days later, Ling Jindi reported that four hundred life lamps had gone out, and an eerie voice claimed to have killed two hundred of the missing people.

Sikong Jing confronted the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and vowed to destroy its future strength, then faced former family head Ling Jindi in battle despite being three major realms weaker. Their opening clash shook the camp and showed that Sikong Jing could resist Ling Jindi’s attack.

• Sikong Jing admitted killing the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s prodigies and threatened Ling Dongwei’s granddaughter when she accused him of torturing Ling Yuxing.
• Sikong Jing vowed that the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family would lose its Reincarnation powerhouses and younger prodigies, and warned Ling Dongwei not to enter the Desolate Sea Region.
• Ling Jindi revealed his peak God King Realm cultivation and challenged Sikong Jing, who was only a top-tier Saint Emperor.
• Sikong Jing activated the Demonic Path Triple Body, and Ling Jindi drew his sword to attack him.
• Sikong Jing summoned a Dark Demon Dragon phantom to block Ling Jindi’s sword current, and the clash sent weaker cultivators flying while stunning the camp.

Sikong Jing fought Ling Jindi with powers drawn from multiple beast legacies and the Overlord Seal, eventually blasting him back with a critical strike. He then taunted Jun Guxian over losing the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy and revealed that Jun Guxian could have inherited the Evil Seal Patriarch’s legacy instead.

• Ling Jindi strengthened his sword current with the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s army-slaying sword dao, and Sikong Jing answered with the Beiheng Origin Shadow Sword and beast meridian oceans.
• Ling Jindi refined his sword current into countless fine streams, but Sikong Jing blocked them with his three spirit shadows and the Demon Vein, Myriad-Fold Sword.
• Ling Jindi closed in with a sword strike, and Sikong Jing countered with Xingshan Punch before using the Overlord Seal to stabilize space and block Ling Jindi’s control of its currents.
• Sikong Jing struck Ling Jindi with a critical Xingshan Punch, sending him flying and revealing powers tied to several demonic beasts and the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant.
• Sikong Jing told Ling Jindi that he had obtained more than two quasi-emperor legacies, then addressed Jun Guxian and said he could have inherited the Evil Seal Patriarch’s legacy.

Sikong Jing revealed that he had taken the Evil Seal Patriarch's inheritance and fought Ling Jindi with its martial way. When Ling Jindi formed a Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation, Sikong Jing rushed into the Nine Heavens territory, while Jing Yuan arrived to stop Ling Jindi's pursuit.

• Sikong Jing told Jun Guxian that he had taken the Evil Seal Patriarch's inheritance, leaving Jun Guxian devastated.
• Sikong Jing unleashed the Evil Seal Patriarch's blood-seal martial way and battled Ling Jindi.
• Jing Yuan left a mountaintop where he had been watching with over a thousand non-overlord geniuses and hurried toward the fight.
• Ling Jindi formed the Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation, and Sikong Jing feinted before rushing into the Nine Heavens territory.
• Jing Yuan appeared and challenged Ling Jindi, then shattered Ling Jindi's formation sword with a punch powered by the Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor.

Jing Yuan revealed that he had inherited the Quasi-Emperor Raging Sea and defied Ling Jindi’s orders to protect Jun Guxian, buying Sikong Jing time to enter the Nine Heavens Territory. Sikong Jing went deeper into the clouds and mist to seek the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy, but his bloodline drew no response.

• Jing Yuan announced his Quasi-Emperor Raging Sea inheritance and refused to pursue Sikong Jing, even when Ling Jindi threatened Jun Guxian.
• Jing Yuan fought Ling Jindi to stall him, then withdrew toward a mountain peak to gather his subordinates.
• Ling Jindi led his forces into the Nine Heavens Territory to hunt Sikong Jing, while Jun Guxian offered to guide them.
• Sikong Jing chose not to involve the demon beasts in the fight and continued deeper into the territory.
• Sikong Jing’s Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline trembled, but the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legacy showed no reaction.

Sikong Jing studied ancient Nine Heavens engravings while evading Ling Jindi and his pursuers. He found Jun Meng, who led him to another set of engravings, and began comprehending them.

• Sikong Jing found a stone wall of Nine Heavens engravings and began studying it as Ling Jindi’s group approached.
• Sikong Jing fought Ling Jindi using the martial path from the wall, then escaped by breaking Ling Jindi’s trapping formation with Forced Troop Control.
• Sikong Jing disguised his aura as different demon beasts to evade pursuit and signaled the Xingshan Beast and demon dragon beasts to enter the territory.
• Sikong Jing found Jun Meng hiding in a rock crevice and asked whether she had discovered anything related to the Nine Heavens Emperor.
• Jun Meng showed Sikong Jing mysterious engravings left by an ancient trial-taker, and he began comprehending them.

Sikong Jing gathered more Nine Heavens inscriptions while evading Ling Jindi, then arranged for Jing Yuan and the monsters to delay the pursuers so he could face Ling Jindi alone. He unleashed his Nine Heavens power to draw forth the Emperor's inheritance, trapping Ling Jindi as he tried to retreat.

• Sikong Jing spared Jun Meng, escaped Ling Jindi's encirclement, and Ling Jindi destroyed the inscriptions in the rock crevice.
• Sikong Jing found two more sets of Nine Heavens inscriptions and decided to test the full force of his inheritance against Ling Jindi.
• Sikong Jing met Jing Yuan, who agreed to use his troops and the monsters to hold back Ling Jindi's forces while Sikong Jing broke away.
• Ling Jindi pursued Sikong Jing alone as Jing Yuan and the monsters launched ambushes to delay the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he wanted a one-on-one battle to draw forth the Nine Heavens Emperor's inheritance, then unleashed his sword and sealed off Ling Jindi's retreat.

Sikong Jing battled Ling Jindi while testing whether his Nine Heavens power could summon the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inherited spirit shadow, but it never appeared. As the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family arrived to trap him, Sikong Jing unleashed a colossal demonic claw against their Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation.

• Sikong Jing concealed his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline and fought Ling Jindi, who grew alarmed at the purity of his Nine Heavens power.
• Jing Yuan recalled Mad Sea Quasi-Emperor’s warning that the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inherited spirit shadow had never appeared, while Jun Guxian lamented Sikong Jing’s rapid progress.
• Sikong Jing briefly revealed his imperial bloodline to test the inheritance, but no spirit shadow appeared, so he decided to abandon the attempt and focus on his remaining tasks.
• The Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family arrived, and Ling Jindi began forming a Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation and a deadly cage to prevent Sikong Jing’s escape.
• Sikong Jing told Jing Yuan he had held Ling Jindi back while Jing Yuan went to save Jun Guxian, then unleashed a colossal demonic claw at Ling Jindi’s formation.

Sikong Jing’s demonic claw failed to defeat Ling Jindi, but it awakened the Nine Heavens Emperor’s inherited spirit projection. She recognized Sikong Jing and spoke of a tragedy that could no longer be prevented before ordering everyone to leave her territory.

• Sikong Jing struck Ling Jindi’s Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation with his strongest demonic claw, but Ling Jindi survived.
• An ethereal female voice called out “Blood Devour... Magic Beast!” and an unseen force made the claw, the formation, and everyone’s power vanish.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor emerged as a spirit projection, and the crowd fell to its knees while Ling Jindi recognized her.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor approached Sikong Jing, lamented that he had come too late, and said that he and another person could no longer be saved.
• The Nine Heavens Emperor told everyone to leave her territory because she did not wish to be disturbed.

The Nine Heavens Emperor expelled everyone from her territory, then reappeared to give Sikong Jing a bottle of essence blood. As the enraged Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family attacked and Jing Yuan helped Sikong Jing escape, Sikong Jing discovered the blood was from a Magic Beast, not the Nine Heavens Emperor.

• The Nine Heavens Emperor expelled Sikong Jing, Jun Meng, and the others from her territory, then warned them not to enter again.
• Ling Jindi, Jun Guxian, and others mocked Sikong Jing for receiving no inheritance, but the Nine Heavens Emperor reappeared and gave him a bottle of essence blood.
• Sikong Jing taunted the others about the gift, prompting Ling Jindi to lead a charge to kill him and seize the blood.
• Magic Beasts attacked the pursuing crowd as Jing Yuan led his army to help Sikong Jing escape, deliberately leaving Jun Guxian behind before becoming pinned down.
• While fleeing with the bottle, Sikong Jing sent his spirit-shadow power into it and sensed that the essence blood belonged to a Magic Beast.

Sikong Jing realized that the Nine Heavens Emperor had given him the essence blood of a Blood Devour Magic Beast, possibly hoping he could save the creature she had once suppressed. Despite the beasts’ warnings, he inhaled some of its aura, and a world-threatening black Magic Beast appeared in an illusion before him.

• Sikong Jing deduced that the Nine Heavens Emperor had summoned him because he once transformed into a Blood Devour Magic Beast and had given him the essence blood to help save its owner.
• Sikong Jing brought the essence blood’s aura into the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, where the beasts recognized it as the aura of a Blood Devour Magic Beast that had fallen into extreme demonic madness.
• Sikong Jing and the beasts speculated that the Nine Heavens Emperor had suppressed the creature and that she and the beast might have perished together.
• The beasts warned Sikong Jing not to swallow the essence blood, but he inhaled a mouthful of its smoke while fleeing Ling Jindi and the others.
• The smoke flooded Sikong Jing’s Spirit Platform with demonic intent, and his demonic spirit shadow absorbed it as an illusion of a colossal black Magic Beast appeared.

Sikong Jing absorbed the Blood Devour Magic Beast’s essence blood, overcame its demonic influence, and advanced his spiritual shadows into the Divine Martial Stage. Surrounded by Ling Jindi’s forces, he unveiled his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline and Demonic Path Fourfold Body, then entered the Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation to destroy it.

• Sikong Jing used the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method to resist the Blood Devour Magic Beast’s demonic intent, advancing to the fourth heart as his three spiritual shadows broke through to the Divine Martial Stage.
• Sikong Jing’s Meridian Ocean absorbed the beast’s blood energy, strengthening his Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts physique and revealing the Demonic Path Fourfold Body technique.
• Ling Jindi and his forces surrounded Sikong Jing with the Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation, believing the essence blood had caused him a backlash.
• Sikong Jing revealed his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline and Demonic Path Fourfold Body, declaring that he would counterkill his pursuers.
• Sikong Jing tore open space and emerged inside Ling Jindi’s formation, then attacked it with his wings and claws.