Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing revealed his strength in the Black Frost Desolate Land and overwhelmed the Imperial Envoy and Red Wind Old Monster with his Heaven-Soaring Tenth Sword. He began forming his newly created Eleventh Sword, leaving the two opponents facing the power of his Army-Slaying Sword Dao.

• Sikong Jing blocked the Imperial Envoy's punch with a golden sword and announced that he was robbing them.
• The Imperial Envoy crushed a signal bead to alert Ling Dongwei, then attacked Sikong Jing alongside Red Wind Old Monster.
• Sikong Jing unleashed the Heaven-Soaring Tenth Sword, shredding Red Wind Old Monster's defenses and sending him crashing into the Flying Star Giant Ape's treasure artifact.
• The Imperial Envoy burned his true energy to break free of Sikong Jing's sword attack and demanded to know how Sikong Jing had become so powerful.
• Sikong Jing explained that his recent training had strengthened him and began displaying his incomplete Heaven-Soaring Eleventh Sword, which fused the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation with the Sword Dao of the Nine Heavens.

Sikong Jing pursued the fleeing Imperial Envoy through the unstable spatial passage and overwhelmed him with his Heaven-Soaring Sword Dao. He captured Ling Zhongxie and Red Wind Old Monster, leaving the elders to wait while he dealt with them and the fierce beast souls.

• The Imperial Envoy fled and ordered Red Wind Old Monster to hold Sikong Jing back, but Sikong Jing froze the spatial turbulence and followed him out of the Black Frost Desolate Land.
• Sikong Jing intercepted the Imperial Envoy before he could contact Ling Dongwei and struck him back into the black mist with the tenth Heaven-Soaring Sword.
• The First Elder and Fifth Elder discussed Sikong Jing’s fused sword technique and resolved to kill him after draining his value.
• Sikong Jing trapped the fleeing Red Wind Old Monster in a cage of sword shadows and pursued the wounded Imperial Envoy.
• The Imperial Envoy revealed that he was Ling Dongwei’s nephew, Ling Zhongxie, and Sikong Jing said he would spare him so Ling Dongwei would learn about the seized fierce beast souls.
• Ling Zhongxie fainted as Sikong Jing prepared to deal with him and Red Wind Old Monster.

Sikong Jing secretly freed the Flying Star Giant Ape's remnant soul from its subjugation formation and learned that Ling Dongwei might subdue several more beast souls within two months. After Red Wind Old Monster died, Sikong Jing stored the giant ape’s treasure artifact and turned his attention to Ling Zhongxie.

• Sikong Jing formed a hidden barrier around the stone pillar and promised the suffering Flying Star Giant Ape that he would save it.
• Sikong Jing revealed his identity to Red Wind Old Monster and persuaded him to undo the subjugation formation by promising to restore the Red Wind Sect.
• Red Wind Old Monster gave Sikong Jing the formation methods and everything he knew, then killed himself after asking him to fulfill his promise.
• Sikong Jing stored the stone pillar treasure artifact and resolved to save the other beast souls before Ling Dongwei could subdue them.
• Sikong Jing woke Ling Zhongxie and placed a sword against his brow.

Sikong Jing tortured Ling Zhongxie into yielding his communication jade stones, then impersonated him to contact Ling Dongwei’s agents. He discovered that Ling Yusong’s eldest paternal aunt possessed a subdued savage beast soul, while Ling Zhongxie remained trapped in the Black Frost Desolate Land.

• Sikong Jing tormented Ling Zhongxie until he briefly loosened the ownership bond on his storage treasure, allowing Sikong Jing to take the communication jade stones.
• Sikong Jing trapped Ling Zhongxie inside a sword formation, leaving him too injured to escape or seek help.
• Sikong Jing impersonated Ling Zhongxie and used the jade stones to contact several people, learning that Ling Dongwei had ordered forces to gather at Black Frost Desolate Land.
• Sikong Jing warned the woman who called Ling Zhongxie her younger male cousin that someone sought her savage beast soul, and she revealed that she had one.
• Sikong Jing told the woman to return to Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent, then sealed their communication and concluded that her savage beast soul had already been subdued.

Sikong Jing manipulated the First Elder and Fifth Elder into investigating Ling Yitian’s beast souls, hoping to deepen the conflict between Ling Dongchuan and Ling Dongwei. Ling Dongchuan ordered them to rob Ling Yitian and appointed Sikong Jing commander of the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army, while Ling Dongwei began asking his subordinates about events on Frost-Defying Continent.

• Sikong Jing told the First Elder and Fifth Elder that Ling Yitian’s daughter had beast souls and was heading toward a nearby spatial array, and admitted he had impersonated Ling Zhongxie to contact her.
• The First Elder and Fifth Elder decided to seek Ling Yitian’s location and ask Ling Dongchuan whether to seize the beast souls.
• The Fifth Elder suspected Sikong Jing knew more than he admitted, while Ling Dongchuan privately ordered the Elders to rob Ling Yitian without acting openly.
• The Fifth Elder proposed giving Sikong Jing troops and blaming him for the operation, and Ling Dongchuan approved the plan and appointed him chief battle general of the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army.
• The First Elder and Fifth Elder took Sikong Jing toward Ling Yitian’s likely location as the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army began moving.
• Ling Dongwei summoned his core subordinates and asked what major event had happened on Frost-Defying Continent.

Ling Dongwei learned that Ling Jianxing had impersonated Ling Zhongxie to mislead Ling Yitian, then rushed to retaliate against Ling Dongchuan. Ling Yitian fled toward a spatial array but was intercepted by Ling Jianxing.

• Ling Yitian told Ling Dongwei that Ling Zhongxie had warned her away from the Frost-Defying Continent and that the family head wanted her beast souls.
• Ling Dongwei ordered his people to return to the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent and refused to see Ling Zhongxie's wife.
• Reports revealed that Ling Jianxing had killed the Red Wind Old Monster, crippled Ling Zhongxie, and seized the beast souls after breaking a sword formation.
• Ling Dongwei learned Ling Jianxing had impersonated Ling Zhongxie, then lost contact with Ling Yitian and led his people to attack Ling Dongchuan's territory.
• Ling Jianxing appeared before Ling Yitian over the sea and identified himself as the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army's chief war general.

Sikong Jing, posing as Ling Jianxing, confronted Ling Yitian and revealed that he had tricked her into exposing her location. He fought her to demonstrate his strength while the elders watched, and the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army’s commander approved of him as its successor.

• The Grand Elder and Fifth Elder sent Sikong Jing to intercept Ling Yitian, while secretly concealing the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army nearby.
• Sikong Jing admitted he was working for the family head to disrupt Ling Dongwei’s ferocious beast soul plan and revealed that he had impersonated Ling Zhongxie to locate Ling Yitian.
• Ling Yitian realized Sikong Jing had deceived her and attacked him in a fury, but the sealed space prevented her from sending a warning to Ling Dongwei.
• Sikong Jing fought back with the Heaven-Soaring Nine Swords and Army-Slaying Sword Dao, but Ling Yitian tore through his attacks and pursued him.
• The First Elder and Fifth Elder watched Sikong Jing’s battle from beneath the sea, and the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army’s commanding general said he had no objection to Sikong Jing taking over.

Sikong Jing was nearly captured by Ling Yitian’s bell-shaped treasure, but he linked with the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army and used an Army-Slaying battle form to escape. He took command of the army and ordered it to form the Break the Nine Heavens, Army-Slaying Formation against Ling Yitian.

• The Fifth Elder sent the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army to support Sikong Jing, while ordering the former commander to let him try controlling the troops first.
• Ling Yitian suppressed Sikong Jing and used a bell-shaped treasure to draw him inside as he extended his Army-Slaying Formation patterns toward the approaching fleet.
• The Fifth Elder stopped the First Elder from intervening, hoping Sikong Jing would suffer before they rescued him.
• The army connected to Sikong Jing’s formation patterns and launched a massive “Break” battle form, forcing Ling Yitian to release control of her treasure.
• Sikong Jing escaped to the Divine Shuttle Ships, identified himself as the army’s new commander, and ordered the soldiers to form the Break the Nine Heavens, Army-Slaying Formation.

Sikong Jing revealed the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation and used it to overwhelm Ling Yitian and her entourage. Ling Yitian was injured while trying to escape, and Sikong Jing began another attack with the Heaven-Soaring Void-Shattering Sword Form.

• Sikong Jing formed the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation with the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon soldiers, surprising Ling Yitian and the former Devours Moon commander.
• Sikong Jing explained that the formation came from the Scripture Repository and struck Ling Yitian with the Six-Character Battle Form, driving her back to the sea.
• Sikong Jing summoned the Heaven-Soaring Sword Form, surrounding Ling Yitian and her entourage with golden giant swords.
• Ling Yitian ordered her entourage to retreat, but Sikong Jing’s Clamp Down attack killed or wounded members of her group as she fought her way outward.
• Sikong Jing detonated the giant swords with the Heaven-Soaring Sword Explosion Form, injuring Ling Yitian and disrupting her true qi.
• Sikong Jing began the Heaven-Soaring Void-Shattering Sword Form against the injured Ling Yitian.

Sikong Jing used the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation to trap and overpower Ling Yitian, then demanded the vicious beast souls she possessed. Ling Yitian refused and released the beast souls from their subjugation formations, forcing Sikong Jing to confront them.

• Sikong Jing repeatedly drove Ling Yitian back into the center of the formation, where the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army surrounded her.
• Sikong Jing enclosed Ling Yitian with golden swords and demanded that she hand over the vicious beast souls.
• The Great Elder and Fifth Elder watched from below and prepared to rescue Ling Yitian if Sikong Jing tried to kill her.
• Ling Yitian refused to give up the souls, and Sikong Jing suggested she could release them instead.
• Ling Yitian shattered two Divine Martial Shadow Pearls, undoing her subjugation formations and unleashing the vicious beast souls inside the army-slaying formation.

Sikong Jing tricked Ling Yitian into unsealing two ferocious beast souls, then secretly drew them into his Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison while pretending to attack her. After the elders stopped him, he claimed the souls and the Flying Star Giant Ape’s remnant soul had been destroyed.

• Ling Yitian unsealed the two ferocious beast souls and taunted Ling Jianxing, believing it would take Ling Dongchuan years to subdue them again.
• Sikong Jing feigned fury and unleashed the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation against Ling Yitian and the beast souls.
• Sikong Jing secretly called himself the new generation’s Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and drew both beast souls into his spiritual platform, then into the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• The Fifth Elder shattered Sikong Jing’s formation and blasted Ling Yitian away, leaving her to fall unconscious into the sea.
• The First Elder suppressed Sikong Jing, who claimed he had destroyed the ferocious beast souls and the Flying Star Giant Ape’s remnant soul.

Sikong Jing was taken back to the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent after the elders restrained him, while Ling Dongwei launched a revenge attack on Ling Dongchuan’s territory. Ling Dongchuan intercepted him and denied responsibility for Sikong Jing’s actions, turning the confrontation into a public argument.

• Sikong Jing reminded the elders that he had repaired part of the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation and ancient texts, so the First Elder stopped the Fifth Elder from killing him.
• The First Elder learned that Ling Dongwei was attacking Ling Dongchuan’s territory and ordered Sikong Jing returned, promising he might later get a chance for revenge.
• Ling Dongwei led his men to seize Ling Dongchuan’s ferocious beast souls, but Ling Dongchuan arrived with the Sixth Elder and blocked their way.
• Ling Dongchuan pretended he had just learned that Sikong Jing destroyed the Flying Star Giant Ape’s remnant soul and denied sending him to do it.
• Ling Dongchuan challenged Ling Dongwei over why his Super Divine Martial had failed to stop Sikong Jing, then asked why Ling Dongwei had tried to kill Sikong Jing at Crescent Moon Sea.

Ling Dongchuan accused Ling Dongwei of putting personal revenge ahead of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s interests, winning support from the neutral elders. Ling Dongwei then received Ling Yitian’s report that Ling Jianxing had taken and destroyed her ferocious beast souls, giving him new evidence to confront them with.

• Ling Dongchuan blamed Ling Dongwei for the failed Sea Cave battle, the loss of the family’s arrangements in the Seal Sovereign Empire, and the death of Ling Jindi, while denying that he had ordered Ling Jianxing to destroy the Flying Star Giant Ape’s remnant soul.
• Neutral elders arrived and condemned Ling Dongwei, agreeing with Ling Dongchuan that his personal vendettas had harmed the family.
• Ling Dongwei protested that Ling Jianxing had acted on Ling Dongchuan’s orders, but the Second Elder and other neutral elders dismissed his claim as unbelievable.
• Ling Dongchuan privately considered Ling Jianxing an exceptionally useful card as Ling Dongwei struggled to defend himself.
• Ling Yitian contacted Ling Dongwei and said Ling Jianxing had taken and destroyed both of her conquered ferocious beast souls.
• Ling Dongwei asked Ling Yitian to repeat her claim clearly, then announced it to the neutral elders as further proof against Ling Jianxing.

Ling Dongchuan used Ling Yitian’s account of Ling Jianxing’s attack to discredit Ling Dongwei and force him to withdraw, then told Sikong Jing about the victory. He asked Sikong Jing what reward he wanted.

• Ling Yitian told Ling Dongwei that Ling Jianxing had taken and destroyed her ferocious beast souls using the Hungry Wolf Devours Moon Army and the Break Nine Heavens formation.
• Ling Dongchuan and the neutral elders dismissed Ling Dongwei’s claims, and Ling Dongchuan threatened to destroy him if he did not retreat.
• Ling Dongwei withdrew with his subordinates, while the Second Elder and the neutral elders left without pledging support to Ling Dongchuan.
• Ling Dongchuan decided to seek a chance to bargain with Ling Dongwei over Ling Jianxing and discussed the danger posed by the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor.
• Three days later, the First Elder and Fifth Elder brought Sikong Jing to the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall, where Ling Dongchuan recounted his victory and asked what reward Sikong Jing wanted.

Ling Dongchuan rewarded Sikong Jing for his achievements but planned to exploit him before eventually eliminating him, sending Ling Yuyue to win his obedience and affection. Sikong Jing continued plotting to reach the Void Rift World, and Ling Yuyue arrived at the Scripture Repository with wine and food to deliver his reward.

• Sikong Jing asked Ling Dongchuan for permission to kill Ling Dongwei's entire family, but Ling Dongchuan told him to return to the nineteenth floor of the Scripture Repository and promised a reward.
• Ling Dongchuan watched a recording of Sikong Jing's battle and told Ling Yuyue to make Sikong Jing obedient and capture his heart while the family exploited his abilities.
• Sikong Jing repaired damaged manuals and planned to keep tensions rising between Ling Dongchuan and Ling Dongwei as he searched for a way to reach the Void Rift World.
• Sikong Jing considered using a Void Energy Crystal to provoke Ling Dongchuan into investigating Ling Dongwei, but decided to hold onto it unless other options failed.
• Ling Yuyue entered the Scripture Repository, set out wine and dishes, and told Sikong Jing that she had come to deliver his reward.

Ling Yuyue tried to use wine, poison, and a seduction act to make Sikong Jing submit to her family, but he ignored her to work on a damaged tome and struck her when she interrupted him. The story left Ling Yuyue stunned against the wall while Sikong Jing continued working.

• Ling Yuyue told Sikong Jing that her grandfather wanted her to become his woman and join him in seeking revenge on Ling Dongwei.
• Ling Yuyue pretended to be unwilling and pitiful while secretly poisoning Sikong Jing’s wine and believing he was falling for her act.
• Sikong Jing drank the wine, then abruptly left Ling Yuyue to examine a damaged tome and make hand seals.
• Ling Yuyue tried to resume her seduction, but Sikong Jing slapped her into the wall for interrupting his work.

Sikong Jing rejected Ling Yuyue’s offer to become Ling Dongchuan’s grandson-in-law and demanded that the collateral branch be given a chance at the Family Head position. After Ling Yuyue tried to leave, Sikong Jing poisoned her and trapped her in the room, leaving her powerless and asking what he intended to do.

• Sikong Jing revealed that he had detected and neutralized Ling Yuyue’s poison, then rejected the Family Head’s reward.
• Ling Yuyue offered Sikong Jing a path to take revenge on Ling Dongwei by becoming Ling Dongchuan’s grandson-in-law.
• Sikong Jing mocked the direct descendants for favoring his Imperial Bloodline while looking down on the collateral branch, and demanded they publicly recognize the collateral branch’s right to become Family Head.
• Ling Yuyue called Sikong Jing a brute and headed for the door, but Sikong Jing’s concealed poison left her unable to move or use her true qi.
• Sikong Jing brought Ling Yuyue back to the table and told her that no one else could cure the poison, and Ling Yuyue trembled as she asked what he wanted.

Sikong Jing poisoned Ling Yuyue and forced her to keep the secret while she searched for a cure, using her fear to make her return to him. After three days of failed attempts, Ling Yuyue came back demanding a promise, and Sikong Jing revealed that he had deliberately made the poison without a perfect antidote.

• Sikong Jing suppressed Ling Yuyue’s poison for three days and threatened to kill himself and take her with him if she exposed him or summoned help.
• Ling Yuyue left the nineteenth level without telling Ling Dongchuan she had been poisoned and claimed she planned to use poison to win Ling Jianxing over.
• Ling Yuyue consulted several alchemy masters, who warned that curing the poison would require an expert powerful enough to destroy her meridians or a specialist unavailable in the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.
• Ling Yuyue returned to Sikong Jing, pale and frightened, and demanded a promise that he would eventually cure her.
• Sikong Jing said he had created the poison without making a perfect antidote and hinted that his impossible methods came from incomplete tomes.

Sikong Jing used Ling Yuyue’s poison and his remaining Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s blood essence to bargain for freedom to explore the Heaven-Soaring Giant Continent without elder-level watchers. Ling Yuyue agreed to speak with Ling Dongchuan, while a guard secretly monitored her.

• Sikong Jing admitted he had repaired more than sixty percent of the damaged manuals but refused to hand all of them over to Ling Dongchuan.
• He told Ling Yuyue that imperfect antidotes would keep her alive until the alchemy masters found a cure, and demanded freedom to explore without constant surveillance.
• Sikong Jing offered Ling Yuyue a strand of Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s blood essence containing an imperfect antidote, and she absorbed it, recovered, and advanced to the peak Divine Emperor Realm.
• Sikong Jing repeated his conditions, and Ling Yuyue agreed to talk to Ling Dongchuan before leaving in anger when Sikong Jing rejected the idea that she had conquered him.
• A guard watched Ling Yuyue leave and secretly began monitoring her on the family head’s orders.

Sikong Jing persuaded Ling Yuyue to secure permission for him to leave the Scripture Repository, while Ling Dongchuan secretly arranged for elders to follow them. After Ling Yuyue led him into a forbidden land where her family was conquering a beast soul, Sikong Jing vanished and revealed that he intended to destroy it.

• Ling Yuyue told Ling Dongchuan that Ling Jianxing had resisted her poison, insulted her, and offered her Imperial Bloodline essence blood in exchange for help leaving.
• Ling Dongchuan agreed to let Ling Jianxing go out with Ling Yuyue, while ordering the Great Elder and Fifth Elder to follow them from hiding.
• Ling Yuyue relayed the decision to Sikong Jing, who accepted the concealed surveillance and asked to visit a forbidden land where a beast soul was being conquered.
• Ling Yuyue took Sikong Jing by Divine Shuttle Ship to the forbidden land, and he disappeared as soon as they entered.
• Sikong Jing warned Ling Yuyue not to alert the hidden elders and said he would destroy the beast soul before returning to her.