Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing rescued the fourth ferocious beast soul from the Demon Court Desolate Land and framed Ling Dongwei’s forces, using Flameburn Quasi-Emperor’s aura to hide his identity. Ling Yuyue realized he was deliberately manipulating the conflict between her grandfather and Ling Dongwei, but Sikong Jing warned her not to say it aloud.

• Sikong Jing commanded the demon beasts in the desolate land to find Ling Dongwei’s hidden pawns and tell them the ferocious beast soul was about to be destroyed.
• Sikong Jing killed the expert guarding the ferocious beast soul, dispelled its conquest formation, and took away the Heavenly Pattern Treasure Artifact.
• Sikong Jing used Flameburn Quasi-Emperor’s aura to mislead the Great Elder and Fifth Elder, then returned unseen to Ling Yuyue’s side.
• The Great Elder sealed the Demon Court Desolate Land and sent spirit-shadow power searching for the intruder, but it passed over Sikong Jing without detecting him.
• Ling Yuyue suspected Sikong Jing was driving her grandfather and Ling Dongwei into conflict, and Sikong Jing told her to keep the thought to herself.

Sikong Jing used Ling Dongwei’s hidden operatives to escape the Demon Court Desolate Land while disguising himself as one of their leaders and kidnapping Ling Yuyue. He hid with her inside a Saint Martial demonic beast, leaving the elders and guards fighting the fleeing operatives behind.

• Ling Yuyue realized Ling Jianxing had tried to turn her grandfather and Ling Dongwei against each other by destroying their ferocious beast souls.
• Sikong Jing arranged for Ling Dongwei’s hidden operatives to attack the barrier, then used the opening to escape with Ling Yuyue while pretending to kidnap her.
• Sikong Jing used the Beast Slaughter Array to break through the closing barrier, and Ling Dongwei’s operatives blocked Ling Yuyue’s guards.
• Sikong Jing transformed his aura, hid with Ling Yuyue inside a Saint Martial demonic beast, and told her she had now been kidnapped.
• The hidden operatives fled as the elders pursued them, and one operative defended their actions by blaming the Family Head for the losses and deaths.

Sikong Jing broke the Grand Elder’s restriction, escaped his pursuit with Ling Yuyue, and reached the Heaven-Soaring Abyss Forbidden Land. As he prepared to head for the Second Elder’s territory, he recalled that the abyss passages connected to this forbidden land had helped his father escape the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family.

• Sikong Jing broke the Grand Elder’s restriction and explained that Ling Dongchuan and Ling Dongwei would likely blame each other for Ling Jianxing’s scheme.
• Sikong Jing took Ling Yuyue through a spatial rift, evaded the Grand Elder’s pursuit, and reached the Heaven-Soaring Abyss Forbidden Land.
• Ling Yuyue questioned Sikong Jing about his familiarity with the continent and his changing powers, and Sikong Jing gave her an incomplete explanation.
• Sikong Jing planned to rest before traveling to the Second Elder’s territory and recalled how his father had escaped through abyss passages linked to the forbidden land.

Sikong Jing took Ling Yuyue toward the Second Elder’s territory while weighing his plans and asking about the Elder. Meanwhile, Ling Dongwei and Ling Dongchuan each blamed the other for the abduction of Ling Yuyue and the disappearance of Ling Jianxing, and Ling Dongchuan began to suspect Ling Jianxing himself.

• Sikong Jing set out with Ling Yuyue for the Second Elder’s territory and asked her about his character and domain.
• Ling Yitian and Ling Zhongxie warned Ling Dongwei that Ling Jianxing was a dangerous martial and military formation talent who had repaired Break Nine Heavens.
• Ling Dongwei resolved to persuade the Second Elder that Ling Dongchuan had falsely accused him and that his beast souls had been destroyed by others.
• Ling Zhonghuang reported that Ling Dongchuan’s beast soul had been taken, Ling Yuyue had been kidnapped, and Ling Jianxing had disappeared, prompting Ling Dongwei to prepare for battle.
• Ling Dongchuan’s group concluded that a traitor had aided Ling Dongwei, but Ling Dongchuan wondered whether Ling Jianxing had staged the events himself.

Sikong Jing brought Ling Yuyue to Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint Tower and began helping her climb by teaching her the tower’s Spear Way and sharing the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s blood qi. Ling Dongchuan set out to confront Ling Dongwei, while Sikong Jing and Ling Yuyue were left at the tower’s one hundred fiftieth floor.

• Ling Dongchuan and the elders suspected that a powerful figure had helped Ling Jianxing escape and decided to confront Ling Dongwei.
• Sikong Jing arrived with Ling Yuyue in Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint City, where they went to the Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint Tower.
• Sikong Jing and Ling Yuyue climbed past the hundredth floor, but a restriction stopped him from taking her beyond the one hundred fiftieth floor.
• Sikong Jing offered to teach Ling Yuyue the Spear Way of each floor and gave her a thread of the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s blood qi.

Sikong Jing advanced Ling Yuyue to the 196th floor of the Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint Tower, then restrained her there to frame the Second Elder for her kidnapping and negotiate with him. After reaching the tower’s summit, Sikong Jing infiltrated the Second Elder’s palace complex in a beast’s body and waited for the Second Elder to finish meeting Master Xie.

• Sikong Jing tempted Ling Yuyue with the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s essence blood and taught her the Heaven-Soaring Spear Way, helping her climb to the 196th floor.
• Ling Yuyue told Sikong Jing that the Second Elder had reached only the 193rd floor, and Sikong Jing sealed and bound her at the 196th floor to make the family suspect the Second Elder had kidnapped her.
• Sikong Jing told Ling Yuyue he had reached the summit and would speak with the Second Elder, then descended the tower.
• Sikong Jing possessed a beast pulling a carriage and used it to enter the Second Elder’s palace complex.
• Sikong Jing waited as the Second Elder met with Master Xie in a side hall.

Sikong Jing overheard the Second Elder and Master Xie scheme to charge Ling Zhonghuang fifteen Void Energy Crystals to treat his daughter, Ling Yuman. He realized the deal could lead him to the void rift entrance and learned that Ling Zhonghuang controlled its location.

• Sikong Jing heard the Second Elder demand five Void Energy Crystals as an introduction fee on top of Master Xie's ten-crystal treatment price.
• Ling Zhongyin suspected the Second Elder wanted a share, but the Second Elder claimed he was charging openly and threatened to make Master Xie leave.
• The Second Elder told Ling Zhongyin to ask Ling Zhonghuang whether they could pay, and Ling Zhongyin went to contact his elder brother.
• Master Xie emerged and revealed that he and the Second Elder had staged the dispute to extract more crystals from Ling Zhonghuang.
• Sikong Jing realized Ling Zhonghuang was seeking treatment for Ling Yuman, and that the brothers might know the source of the Void Energy Crystals.

Sikong Jing used a spirit shadow inside a carriage beast to lure the Second Elder into a meeting, claiming to know the source of Ling Zhonghuang’s Void Energy Crystals. The Second Elder tracked him to a Divine Shuttle Ship, where Sikong Jing revealed a crystal and drew his attention to Ling Yuyue tied up in Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint Tower.

• The Second Elder learned from Master Xie that Ling Dongwei had sought his help and that Ling Yuyue might have been kidnapped.
• Sikong Jing’s spirit shadow, controlling a carriage beast, told the Second Elder he knew where Ling Zhonghuang’s Void Energy Crystals came from and identified himself as Ling Jianxing.
• The Second Elder entered the beast’s sea of consciousness and discovered Sikong Jing had already self-destructed that spirit shadow.
• The Second Elder followed the spirit shadow’s residual power to a Divine Shuttle Ship near Heaven-Soaring Spearpoint Tower and found Sikong Jing holding a Void Energy Crystal.
• Sikong Jing pointed out Ling Yuyue tied up on the tower’s one hundred ninety-sixth level, leaving the Second Elder stunned and demanding to know what he was doing.

Sikong Jing forced the Second Elder to negotiate by revealing that Ling Yuyue was in his territory and could expose him as the instigator of the conflict. He proposed posing as Master Xie's medicine boy to reach Ling Zhonghuang and Ling Yuman, steal a key to the Evil Crescent River, and enter the world within the void rift, leaving the Second Elder to decide whether to cooperate.

• Sikong Jing explained that Ling Yuyue's presence on the Second Elder's turf would make Ling Dongchuan and Ling Dongwei suspect the Second Elder had provoked their war.
• The Second Elder realized he could not reach Ling Yuyue on the one hundred and ninety-sixth floor and sat down to hear Sikong Jing out.
• The Second Elder revealed that Ling Zhongyin had privately offered a void energy crystal in exchange for Master Xie treating Ling Yuman, without Ling Dongwei's knowledge.
• Sikong Jing asked the Second Elder to disguise him as Master Xie's medicine boy so he could contact Ling Yuman and Ling Zhonghuang.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he wanted to steal Ling Dongwei's key to the Evil Crescent River and claimed he hoped to meet the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor.
• The Second Elder questioned Sikong Jing's motives and fell silent to consider whether to cooperate.

Sikong Jing negotiated an alliance with the Second Elder by promising access to the void rift and the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor, while keeping Ling Yuyue as leverage. Disguised as Master Xie's medicine boy, he set out with the Second Elder toward Ling Dongwei's territory, drawing closer to his parents.

• Sikong Jing persuaded the Second Elder to cooperate by promising him control of the world in the void rift and a future supply of void energy crystals.
• Sikong Jing demonstrated the Nine Heavens-Breaking Army-Slaying Diagram, convincing the Second Elder of his talent and prompting them to plan how to deceive Ling Zhonghuang into handing over the void rift key.
• Sikong Jing gave the Second Elder a Green Jade Stone Brick containing the Heaven-Soaring Spear Way, tying its survival to his own and keeping Ling Yuyue as leverage.
• After the Second Elder received word that Ling Zhonghuang would pay fifteen void energy crystals for Ling Yuman's treatment, Sikong Jing agreed to travel as Master Xie's medicine boy.
• Master Xie disguised Sikong Jing, and the three set out for Ling Dongwei's territory, where Sikong Jing hoped to reach his father and mother.

Sikong Jing accompanied the Second Elder and Master Xie to Ling Dongwei’s territory, where Master Xie examined Ling Yuman. Sikong Jing discovered the old King of Night Charms’ power was keeping her unconscious, and Master Xie privately admitted he could not cure her.

• Ling Zhongyin asked the Second Elder to support Ling Dongwei, but the Second Elder refused to help until he received payment.
• Ling Zhonghuang returned from the battlefield and brought the Second Elder, Master Xie, and Sikong Jing to see Ling Yuman.
• Sikong Jing recognized the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Bloodline in Ling Yuman and realized she could help him find his parents.
• Sikong Jing sensed the old King of Night Charms’ power within Ling Yuman and concluded it had kept her unconscious.
• Master Xie examined Ling Yuman, then privately confessed to the Second Elder and Sikong Jing that he could not cure her.

Sikong Jing revealed that Ling Yuman was afflicted by the old King of Night Charms’ spirit-shadow power and devised a plan to enter a Void Rift World under the pretense of treating her. The chapter ended with Ling Zhonghuang asking Sikong Jing what conditions were needed to cure his daughter completely.

• Master Xie identified the King of Night Charms’ power within Ling Yuman, and Sikong Jing explained that it was the old King’s elusive spirit-shadow power.
• Sikong Jing offered to cure Ling Yuman if Master Xie helped convince Ling Zhonghuang that she needed treatment inside a Void Rift World.
• Sikong Jing explained that he wanted Ling Zhonghuang to take him to a rift entrance, where he could find the source of the Void Energy Crystals and risk being killed to silence him.
• Master Xie and the Second Elder agreed to Sikong Jing’s plan, then staged a conversation telling Ling Zhonghuang that a Void Rift World was required for a complete cure.
• Sikong Jing treated Ling Yuman enough to improve her condition and told Ling Zhonghuang she would wake in ten days.
• Ling Zhonghuang asked Sikong Jing what Master Xie needed to cure Ling Yuman completely.

Sikong Jing, disguised as Master Xiao Xing, persuaded Ling Zhonghuang that a Void Rift World could completely cure Ling Yuman, while Ling Zhonghuang secretly planned to kill him and frame Ling Dongchuan. Meanwhile, the Second Elder revealed Sikong Jing’s identity to Master Xie and realized that his death would lift Ling Yuyue’s restriction.

• Sikong Jing treated Ling Yuman enough to strengthen her aura and said that a Void Rift World was needed to cure her completely.
• Ling Zhonghuang praised Master Xiao Xing, then decided to kill him and make it appear that Ling Dongchuan was responsible.
• Ling Zhonghuang told Ling Zhongyin that Yuman would soon wake and promised to reveal a secret about his Void energy crystals after she was cured.
• Ling Zhonghuang began arranging an ambush and considered preparing two contingencies in case Master Xie and the Second Elder had set a trap.
• The Second Elder told Master Xie that the young healer was Ling Jianxing, who sought to become the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s disciple and kill Ling Dongwei’s family.
• The Second Elder realized that Ling Jianxing’s death would lift Ling Yuyue’s restriction, and Master Xie argued that they would have to confront Ling Dongwei over the Void Rift regardless.

The Second Elder prepared to seize the Void Rift while Ling Dongwei's territory was undermanned, and Ling Dongchuan and Ling Dongwei began to suspect him of instigating their conflict. Ling Zhonghuang took Ling Yuman and the supposedly unconscious Sikong Jing into the Void Rift World, bringing Sikong Jing closer to his parents.

• Master Xie convinced the Second Elder to infiltrate Ling Dongwei's territory and seize any Void Rift entrance as soon as Ling Jianxing found it.
• Ling Dongchuan told Ling Dongwei he suspected the Second Elder was provoking their war, and Ling Zhonghuang reported that the Second Elder had supposedly moved troops into their territory.
• Ling Dongwei agreed to investigate and promised to join forces with Ling Dongchuan if the Second Elder was behind the scheme; Ling Dongchuan sent his forces after him.
• Ling Zhonghuang falsely claimed the Second Elder had mobilized troops so his father would return as protection, then learned Ling Dongwei's forces would arrive in three hours.
• Ling Zhonghuang took Ling Yuman into the Void Rift World, knocked Sikong Jing unconscious, and carried him away, unaware that Sikong Jing was still awake.

Sikong Jing entered the Void Rift World disguised as Master Xiao Xing and cured Ling Yuman, then fled when he realized Ling Zhonghuang planned to kill him. He tried to draw Ling Zhonghuang deeper into the rift, but loyal fighters blocked his escape.

• Ling Zhonghuang led Sikong Jing into the Void Rift World and brought him to Ling Yuman.
• Ling Zhonghuang seized Sikong Jing's storage treasure, fearing he carried a signal pearl, and set him to work curing Ling Yuman.
• Sikong Jing absorbed the old King of Night Charms' power from Ling Yuman, and she woke moments later.
• Sikong Jing reclaimed his storage treasure and fled deeper into the void when Ling Zhonghuang's attention slipped.
• Ling Zhonghuang ordered dozens of loyal fighters to stop Sikong Jing, who unleashed his Heaven-Soaring Imperial Bloodline and Heaven-Soaring Nine Swords against them.

Sikong Jing revealed his identity as Ling Jianxing while fleeing with Ling Zhonghuang into the void rift world, where he planned to weaken his pursuers and delay Ling Dongwei. After Sikong Jing sent the signal, the Second Elder attacked Ling Dongwei’s palace, setting a battle in motion over the rift world.

• Sikong Jing used the Heaven-Soaring Tenth Sword to break through Ling Zhonghuang’s forces, and Ling Zhonghuang recognized him as Ling Jianxing and accused him of conspiring with the Second Elder and Master Xie.
• Sikong Jing continued deeper into the void rift world, while Ling Zhonghuang pursued him and left ten men behind to guard Ling Yuman.
• Sikong Jing crushed the signal bead to alert the Second Elder, then told Ling Zhonghuang that the rift world’s exposure would force Ling Dongwei to share its void energy crystals.
• Ling Zhonghuang insisted that Ling Yuman’s awakening secured their future, but Sikong Jing questioned whether she had truly been cured.
• Master Xie left the Second Elder to act on his own, and the Second Elder led his forces to attack Ling Dongwei’s palace formation.

Sikong Jing reached the mining grounds where his parents were imprisoned, killed the overseers who tried to stop him, and passed his parents without revealing his identity. Sikong Ding wondered whether the tears on his face belonged to the white-robed scholar, while Ling Zhonghuang continued pursuing him.

• Ling Dongwei learned that Second Elder had attacked his palace and planned a counterattack, while Ling Dongchuan followed and considered how the conflict might unfold.
• Sikong Jing neared the mining grounds as Ling Zhonghuang and his pursuers closed in behind him.
• Ling Zhonghuang ordered the overseers to stop Sikong Jing, and Sikong Jing killed the ones who attacked him.
• Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian watched Sikong Jing pass without recognizing him through Master Xie's disguise.
• Sikong Ding realized the white-robed scholar was Ling Jianxing and asked Ling Xiaotian why she was crying.

Sikong Jing’s disguise as Ling Jianxing fell away when Ling Zhonghuang cornered him in the Void Rift World. He revealed himself as Sovereign Seal Sikong Jing and confessed to his attacks on the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family before Ling Zhonghuang and the deathsworn charged him.

• Ling Xiaotian cried as she watched Ling Jianxing flee, while Sikong Ding wondered whether he could survive in the Void Rift World.
• Ling Yuman arrived with ten dead soldiers and mocked Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian as they watched Ling Zhonghuang pursue Ling Jianxing.
• Ling Zhonghuang surrounded Sikong Jing, demanded that he kneel, and threatened him over his daughter’s injury and his family’s losses.
• Sikong Jing shed his disguise, revealed his demonic-path body and wings, and confessed that he had killed several members of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family and wounded Ling Yuman.
• Ling Zhonghuang recognized him as Sovereign Seal Sikong Jing and led the deathsworn in a charge.

Sikong Jing fought Ling Zhonghuang and the remaining dead warriors in the void-rift, using his demonic strength to pressure Ling Zhonghuang’s dwindling true energy. At the mining grounds, Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian watched from afar while Ling Yuman questioned how Ling Jianxing had entered the rift.

• Sikong Jing tore through the dead warriors and clashed with Ling Zhonghuang, who admitted that the void had nearly drained his true energy.
• Sikong Jing wounded Ling Zhonghuang’s protective shield with a demonic claw, but Ling Zhonghuang and the dead warriors continued attacking him.
• Sikong Jing used close combat and repeated beast techniques to force Ling Zhonghuang to expend more true energy, while killing dead warriors who tried to ambush him.
• Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian watched the distant battle without seeing Ling Jianxing transform, and Ling Xiaotian spoke tearfully about missing A-Jing.
• Ling Yuman asked the dead warriors how Ling Jianxing had entered the void-rift and how he could cure her, but they could not answer.

Ling Yuman learned that Sikong Jing was the Nine Heavens successor, and Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian realized he was their son, A-Jing. Ling Yuman took Ling Xiaotian hostage while the old overseer bound Sikong Ding, leaving both parents unable to intervene as their son fought Ling Zhonghuang.

• An old overseer told Ling Yuman that Ling Jianxing had killed her Second Aunt, Ling Ertian, and she asked whether Sikong Jing had been caught.
• Ling Yuman identified Sikong Jing as the man responsible for several deaths in her family and said he might be the Nine Heavens successor.
• Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian recognized that Ling Jianxing was their son, Sikong Jing, but agreed to hide his identity to protect him.
• The old overseer proposed taking Ling Xiaotian hostage, and Ling Yuman dragged her away with ten dead warriors.
• Sikong Ding threatened to kill himself unless Ling Yuman released Xiaotian, but the old overseer bound his hands and feet and threw him to the ground.