Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing let Granny Gan drive his outnumbered forces into the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, concealing his real plan from Jun Yiyao. After revealing the Azure-Feather Fire God Vulture’s head and provoking Granny Gan into ordering a final attack, he unleashed the formation as it began to expand.

• Sikong Jing defended at the formation’s edge for days, using its power to wear down the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom’s troops.
• Granny Gan ordered a massive assault that cut off Sikong Jing’s forces and trapped them between enemy troops inside and outside the formation.
• Jun Yiyao asked what was happening as Sikong Jing’s allies remained calm, and Sikong Jing told her he had been arrogant.
• Granny Gan confronted Sikong Jing and demanded to know whether the Green Leaf Imperial Envoy had come for him.
• Sikong Jing showed Granny Gan the Azure-Feather Fire God Vulture’s head, confirming the envoy’s death and causing her to order a total attack.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had lured the enemy deep into the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, then commanded it to expand.

Sikong Jing expanded the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to trap the Dark Sea Divine Wind army, then led a devastating counterattack that forced Granny Gan to flee. Jun Xuantong joined the pursuit and began arresting suspected spies, leaving Granny Gan cut off and uncertain about the road ahead.

• Sikong Jing expanded the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation to cover both armies and unleashed its power on the trapped Dark Sea Divine Wind forces.
• Sikong Jing's troops attacked while the formation battered their enemies, and Jun Yiyao accused him of deceiving her.
• Granny Gan escaped with the surviving Dark Sea troops as Sikong Jing released the formation and ordered a pursuit to join Jun Xuantong.
• Jun Xuantong received Sikong Jing's signal, led his troops into a pincer attack, and ordered the arrest of people on his list of suspected spies.
• Granny Gan panicked when her spies sent no reports and she realized she did not know what awaited her ahead.

Su Yuexian abandoned Granny Gan, and Sikong Jing and Jun Xuantong crushed the Dark Sea Divine Wind army in the Desolate Sea Region. After the victory, they learned that the Golden Seal Bai Family had attacked the emperor, throwing the Seal Sovereign Great Continent into chaos, and the Sea-Chasing King questioned the imperial decree appointing Sikong Jing marshal.

• Su Yuexian ended her alliance with Granny Gan and returned to Sikong Jing, leaving Granny Gan to flee and rally what remained of her troops.
• Sikong Jing and Jun Xuantong attacked together, forcing Granny Gan’s shattered army to scatter while she escaped with fewer than ten subordinates.
• Jun Xuantong congratulated Sikong Jing, whose officers complained that he had won only through the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation; Sikong Jing said Granny Gan’s escape was not a bad thing.
• Sikong Jing considered how Granny Gan could spread a story that shifted blame for the deaths of the Green Leaf Imperial Envoy and the demonic beast mount.
• After the armies returned to the Cangyu Demon Sect, Jun Xuantong reported that the Golden Seal Bai Family had attacked His Majesty, and the Sea-Chasing King questioned why an imperial decree had appointed Sikong Jing marshal amid the chaos.

After Sikong Jing’s victory in the Desolate Sea, two imperial decrees from Jun Yibai left everyone wondering how the Emperor knew what had happened and why he had appointed Sikong Jing marshal in advance. Sikong Jing accepted the order to travel to the Seal Sovereign Great Continent, warning his companions that the journey would be dangerous and that the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation could be destroyed.

• Jun Xuantong explained that Jun Yibai had swiftly crushed the Golden Seal Bai Family’s rebellion, though nobody knew what method he had used.
• Jun Yiyao received a second decree, which praised the victory, promoted Sikong Jing to Eight-Seal War General, and ordered the battle’s leaders to travel to the Seal Sovereign Great Continent for a banquet.
• The gathered fighters questioned how Jun Yibai had learned of the victory so quickly, while Sikong Jing urged them to celebrate at Cangyu Demon Sect.
• After the celebrations began, Sikong Jing summoned Jun Yisui, Jun Yiji, Jing Yuan, the Sea Court Sect’s sect master, Su Yuexian, and Sikong Ding and his wife.
• Sikong Jing warned the group that the Seal Sovereign Great Continent would be dangerous, but said he had to go or the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation might be destroyed.

Sikong Jing suspected that a Flame Prison Imperial Envoy had arrived on the Seal Sovereign Great Continent and resolved to face the danger rather than abandon the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land. The chapter ended at Heaven Seal Academy, where Yan Hui, the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s personal disciple, had returned from attempting to conquer the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s soul.

• Sikong Jing told his family and companions that the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor might have sent an envoy to kill him and continue the beast soul plan.
• Ling Xiaotian urged Sikong Jing to flee to the Burial Emperor Sea, but he refused to abandon the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land and its people.
• Sikong Jing vowed to go to the Seal Sovereign Great Continent alone, rescue more beast souls, and take his parents home to reunite with Sikong Ling.
• Hai Chongyan, Jing Yuan, Jun Yisui, and Jun Yiji discussed whether the Flame Prison Imperial Envoy had arrived and how powerful that person might be.
• At Heaven Seal Academy, Jun Yibai asked Yan Hui about his attempt to conquer the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s soul.

Yan Hui planned to lure Sikong Jing to the Seal Sovereign Great Continent and cripple him publicly, since Yan Hui could not break the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation. He also sought to capture Su Yuexian and find his elder brother’s first-life corpse, while Jun Yibai prepared the banquet and continued the beast-soul plan.

• Yan Hui failed to subdue the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s soul, and Jun Yibai promised to use the subjugation formations to make it submit.
• Jun Yibai explained that she had delivered the Sovereign Seal Imperial Decree to Sikong Jing, and Yan Hui ordered her to hold a celebration banquet where he would cripple him.
• Yan Hui told Jun Yibai to capture Su Yuexian and gather ferocious beast souls, threatening to replace anyone who repeated the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family’s mistakes.
• Yan Hui revealed to his guards that he would not attack the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land because he could not break its absolute formation, where his elder brother’s first life had died.
• Yan Hui expected Sikong Jing to come and resolved to complete his master’s mission and find his elder brother’s corpse, while a guard asked what he would do if Sikong Jing did not come.

Yan Hui assumed Sikong Jing would come to Heaven Seal Academy seeking the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s attention, while Jun Yibai failed to learn where the Golden Seal Bai Family had hidden the ferocious beast souls. Sikong Jing returned to the Northern Wasteland and reunited with his family and allies, but someone asked where Ba Hun was.

• Yan Hui told his guards that Sikong Jing would come to Heaven Seal Academy to attract the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s attention, and they looked forward to the empire’s victory celebration.
• Jun Yibai interrogated the Bai Family’s Imperial Consort about the missing ferocious beast souls, but the prisoner claimed she did not know where they had been taken.
• Jun Yibai ordered a secret search for the beast souls and told her people to watch spies from the Dark Sea Divine Wind Kingdom.
• Sikong Jing brought his parents and Su Yuexian back to the Northern Wasteland, where a crowd gathered to welcome them.
• Sikong Jing reunited with his sister Sikong Ling, while Su Yuexian embraced her parents, Su Zhenglong and Mei Xiaofang.
• As Sikong Jing’s friends gathered around him, someone nervously asked where Ba Hun was.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi entered the Absolute Formation to evade the distraught Tyrant Lotus Venerable, then discussed the danger awaiting them on the Seal Sovereign Great Continent. They explored the formation and recovered the remains and treasures of countless ancient powerhouses, leaving everyone on the Northern Wasteland shore stunned.

• Sikong Jing told Tyrant Lotus Venerable that Tyrant Soul Venerable had not returned, then fled into the Absolute Formation with Su Yuexi as the others tried to comfort her.
• Yao Yulou approached Su Yuexian, hoping she could revive Jiang Wanyou, while Demon Dream Witch and others gathered around Su Yuexian.
• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi that he would likely face the Flame Prison Imperial Envoy on the Seal Sovereign Great Continent and might disguise himself as a subordinate of the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor.
• Sikong Jing explained that the skeletons in the formation belonged to powerhouses killed by Black Demon during Cang Lang's attack on the Cangyu Demon Sect.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi collected ancient corpses, treasures, and other remains throughout the formation, then brought nearly all of them to the Northern Wasteland shore.
• Sikong Ding, Su Yuexian, and the others were left speechless by the enormous pile of ancient remains.

Sikong Jing uncovered the treasures of powerful ancient corpses, including the Righteous Seal Ancestor’s blood essence and insights into the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation, then prepared the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land for his departure. After leaving its defenses and leadership in trusted hands, he returned to the Cangyu Demon Sect to continue toward the Seal Sovereign Great Continent.

• Sikong Jing and the others sorted the ancient corpses’ treasures, and Sikong Jing found Jun Bu’s blood essence and Seal Sovereign Empire artifacts, along with Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family insights into Break Nine Heavens.
• Sikong Jing reunited with his family in the Azure Dragon Small Domain, then entrusted Su Yuexi with basic control of the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation.
• Sikong Jing gave Yao Yulou the old King of Night Charms’ blood essence and arranged for Sikong Ding, Su Yuexi, Su Yuexian, and others to protect the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Sikong Jing left the incomplete Demonic Puppets to guard and repair the formation, then departed with the complete Demonic Puppet.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Cangyu Demon Sect, where Jun Yiyao, Jun Yisui, and the others were waiting, while Jun Xuantong had already left for the Seal Sovereign Great Continent.

Sikong Jing set out for Seal Sovereign Great Continent while preparing his allies and the Cangyu Demon Sect for possible danger from the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor. He left the journey to train inside the Thousand-Layer Purgatory Tower, aiming to advance all three spirit shadows.

• Sikong Jing declined to bring his parents and the Cangyu Demon Sect, while Jun Yiyao suspected the Flame Prison Imperial Envoy intended to punish him and let Sea Court Sect return home.
• Sikong Jing gave Jun Yisui and Jun Yiji Righteous Seal Ancestor's blood essence and other treasures, then watched them begin cultivating.
• Sikong Jing sent Luo Guangmang back to Cangyu Demon Sect with rewards and instructions to use the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation if a signal bead shattered.
• Sikong Jing asked the Demonic Puppet about repairs to the Desolate Sea Absolute Formation, then entered the Thousand-Layer Purgatory Tower to train his three spirit shadows.

Sikong Jing arrived at the Seal Sovereign Great Continent and secretly visited Heaven Seal Academy, where the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s soul told him that the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s disciple was nearby. When Sikong Jing returned to the palace, a welcoming party had arrived and asked where he was.

• Sikong Jing trained in the Thousand-Layer Purgatory Tower while preparing to disguise his ties and shift the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s attention toward the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor.
• Jun Yisui reached the Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven realm, and Sikong Jing’s three spirit shadows entered the Super Divine Martial Yin Extremity Heaven.
• After the Divine Shuttle Ship reached the Seal Sovereign Great Continent, Jun Yiyao left to report to the imperial palace.
• Sikong Jing asked Jun Yisui to take him secretly to Heaven Seal Academy, where he used his spirit-shadow power to contact the Overlord Seal Giant Elephant’s soul and promised to save it.
• Sikong Jing learned from the vicious beast souls in the Overlord Seal Drums that the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s disciple was on the continent, and warned Jun Yisui not to act rashly around the disciple’s guards.
• A welcoming party gathered at the palace, and its young nobleman asked Jun Yiji where Sikong Jing was.

Sikong Jing and the Sea-Chasing King arrived at the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace for the victory banquet, where Jun Guben confronted them and Sikong Jing sensed a familiar trap awaiting him. Inside, Jun Yiyao urged Jun Yibai to rely on Sikong Jing, but Jun Yibai instead asked about Su Yuexian.

• Jun Yiji told Jun Guben that Sikong Jing and the Sea-Chasing King had gone for a stroll and that the other invited groups could not attend.
• The Sea-Chasing King and Sikong Jing arrived, and Jun Guben congratulated the Sea-Chasing King on reaching the Nine-Step Yang Extremity Heaven realm.
• Jun Yisui warned Jun Guben that Sikong Jing’s enemies tended to meet bad ends, and Jun Guben pointedly mentioned his brother Jun Guxian.
• Jun Guben demanded to know why Sikong Jing had come without the other people named in the imperial decree, but Sikong Jing insisted they enter the palace first.
• As Sikong Jing entered the palace, he recalled a similar victory banquet in the Great Shang Dynasty and anticipated a confrontation with Yan Hui.
• Jun Yiyao urged Jun Yibai to value Sikong Jing as the empire’s future support, but Jun Yibai asked whether Su Yuexian had come with him.

Jun Yiyao persuaded Jun Yibai to leave Sikong Jing a possible path to survival despite the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s demands, while revealing Su Yuexian’s connection to Sikong Jing. Jun Yibai passed the information to Yan Hui, who prepared to confront Sikong Jing and pursue the Nine Skies inheritor and Su Yuexian.

• Jun Yibai told Jun Yiyao that a personal disciple of the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor had come to ensure Sikong Jing died and explained the disciple’s three tasks.
• Jun Yiyao pleaded with Jun Yibai to spare Sikong Jing, citing the genius and opportunities she had witnessed; Jun Yibai agreed to let Sikong Jing enter the deepest part of the Seal Sovereign Forbidden Land if he found a chance to survive.
• Jun Yiyao told Jun Yibai that Su Yuexian was Sikong Jing’s elder sister-in-law and likely remained in the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land, and Jun Yibai gave her a key to the forbidden land’s depths.
• Jun Yibai informed Yan Hui of Su Yuexian’s connection to Sikong Jing, prompting Yan Hui to forgive the failure to secure the ferocious beast soul for the moment.
• Yan Hui ordered preparations to confront Sikong Jing and planned to travel to the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land afterward to draw out Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian.
• The procession on the main road of the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace grew as prominent figures of the empire gathered.

At the Seal Sovereign Empire’s victory banquet, Sikong Jing exposed Yan Hui’s plan to kill him and forced the hidden disciple of the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor to appear. Sikong Jing then revealed the Azure Fire Mystic Leaf Art, leaving Yan Hui and the gathered dignitaries stunned by his apparent connection to Green Leaf Palace.

• Jun Guben told Jun Yibai that Sikong Jing had made his stance clear, so there was no need to provoke him into offending the royal family.
• At the banquet, Sikong Jing ignored accusations about his casual salute and publicly asked where Yan Hui, disciple of the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor, was hiding.
• Sikong Jing declared that he had come alone because he knew Yan Hui was waiting to kill him, prompting Yan Hui to emerge from the shadows and accuse Jun Yibai of betrayal.
• Yan Hui’s guard threatened Jun Yibai and her father, but Sikong Jing said no one had betrayed Yan Hui and challenged him to recognize his cultivation art.
• Sikong Jing displayed azure flames and drifting leaves, and Yan Hui and his guard identified the art as Green Leaf Palace’s Azure Fire Mystic Leaf Art and called Sikong Jing the Azure Fire General.

At the victory banquet, Sikong Jing used the Azure Fire Mystic Leaf Art to pose as a Green Leaf Palace candidate and accused Yan Hui’s Flame Prison group of killing Yu Gou. He challenged Yan Hui to fight, and the chapter ended as Yan Hui revealed his Second-step Yang Extremity Heaven cultivation.

• Sikong Jing appeared surrounded by azure fire leaves, shocking the banquet guests and leading Jun Yiyao to suspect he was impersonating Green Leaf Palace’s Azure Fire General.
• Yan Hui questioned whether Green Leaf Palace had told Sikong Jing that Flame Prison disciples were on the Seal Sovereign Great Continent.
• Sikong Jing admitted he was not yet an Azure Fire General and said he would become one if he killed Yan Hui’s group.
• Sikong Jing claimed that Flame Prison Palace had killed Yu Gou and that he had inherited Yu Gou’s Azure Fire Mystic Leaf Art before Yu Gou died.
• Sikong Jing challenged Yan Hui to fight him fairly, and Yan Hui unleashed his black-red flames, revealing his Second-step Yang Extremity Heaven realm.

Sikong Jing repeatedly broke through while Yan Hui mocked him and ordered a guard to crush his dantian. As the guard moved to attack, Jun Yisui revealed an unexpected Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven aura.

• Sikong Jing broke through to first-step Yin Extremity Heaven and sensed the transformation of his beast-vein dantian and demon beast meridians.
• Yan Hui challenged Sikong Jing’s confidence and declared he would interrogate him instead of fighting him one-on-one.
• Sikong Jing broke through again to second-step Yin Extremity Heaven, displaying the phantom of the Azure-Feather Fire God Vulture.
• Yan Hui ordered a guard to crush Sikong Jing’s dantian, while Jun Yibai stopped Jun Yiyao from intervening.
• Jun Yisui released a Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven aura, shocking Jun Guben and the assembled crowd.

Jun Yisui used the Righteous-Evil Dual Seals Army-Slaying Formation to turn the tables on Yan Hui’s guard while Sikong Jing continued breaking through. After revealing the formation’s power and warning Yan Hui not to interfere, Jun Yisui urged Jun Yibai to side with Green Leaf Palace.

• Jun Yisui confronted Yan Hui’s guard, who prepared to kill him after Yan Hui ordered Sikong Jing and anyone resisting him to be killed.
• Jun Yisui activated Forced Troop Control, binding the Seal Sovereign Empire’s prominent figures and guards in his Army-Slaying Formation while excluding Sikong Jing and Yan Hui’s group.
• Yan Hui ordered Reverse Lock to break Jun Yisui’s formation, but Reverse Lock’s formation patterns shattered when they entered it.
• Jun Yiji revealed that Jun Yisui wielded the ancient Righteous-Evil Dual Seals Army-Slaying Formation, which Jun Yisui had learned from treasures Sikong Jing found in the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Jun Yisui warned Yan Hui to wait until Sikong Jing finished breaking through, then asked Jun Yibai to stand with Green Leaf Palace against Flame Prison Palace.

Jun Yibai activated the Seal Sovereign Grand Formation to stop Yan Hui from using Forced Troop Control and demanded that he fight Sikong Jing fairly. She then crippled her own cultivation by returning the realm Yan Hui had given her.

• Jun Xuantong and Jun Yiyao knelt before Jun Yibai and pleaded for her to protect Sikong Jing as a hero of the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• Seal Sovereign officials argued over whether to support Sikong Jing or submit to Yan Hui, while Sikong Jing broke through to the third stage of the Yin-level Heaven.
• Yan Hui ordered Reverse Lock to use Forced Troop Control and sent the others to hold off Jun Yisui's army-slaying formation.
• Jun Yibai activated the Seal Sovereign Grand Formation, preventing Yan Hui from sending Reverse Lock out to seize control of soldiers.
• Jun Yibai asked Yan Hui to defeat Sikong Jing in a fair fight, then struck her dantian and reduced her cultivation from Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven to Ninth Step Yang Extremity Heaven.

At the victory banquet, Jun Yibai and other Seal Sovereign figures stood by Sikong Jing and pledged to die if he lost, while Yan Hui agreed to a fair battle but threatened to disgrace their empire. Sikong Jing reached four-step Yin Extremity Heaven, gave Jun Yibai twenty Void Energy Crystals, and began absorbing more as the confrontation continued.

• Jun Yisui, Jun Xuantong, Jun Yiyao, and many Seal Sovereign figures pledged to take their own lives if Sikong Jing lost, despite others protesting.
• Yan Hui and his guards mocked the Seal Sovereign people, and Yan Hui agreed to wait for Sikong Jing to finish breaking through before fighting him.
• Yan Hui threatened to shackle the Seal Sovereign people and force them to insult the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor and praise him and the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor if Sikong Jing lost.
• Sikong Jing broke through to four-step Yin Extremity Heaven, then gave Jun Yibai twenty Void Energy Crystals to help restore her cultivation.
• Sikong Jing asked Yan Hui why he wanted him dead, and then absorbed two more Void Energy Crystals as black smoke rose from his body.

Sikong Jing exposed the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s humiliating defeat and plan to create a new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, using the other Heavenly Emperors’ likely opposition to protect the Seal Sovereign Empire. He broke through to the fifth step of Yin Extremity Heaven while Yan Hui raged, and the chapter ended with Yan Hui demanding to know whether Sikong Jing had finished breaking through.

• Sikong Jing revealed that the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s spirit-image avatar had been blasted apart by void energy meteors and that Yan Hui wanted to silence him over the Heavenly Emperor’s plan.
• Sikong Jing invoked the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor’s humiliation and the opposition of the other Heavenly Emperors to argue that Flame Prison could not silence the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• Sikong Jing challenged Yan Hui for attacking him at the Seal Sovereign Empire’s victory banquet, and Yan Hui lost his temper as Jun Yisui’s Army-Slaying Formation held him back.
• Sikong Jing broke through to the fifth step of Yin Extremity Heaven and said he did not know the Blood Devour Magic Beast’s original form or the War Emperor Divine Flood Dragon’s location.
• Yan Hui demanded to know whether Sikong Jing had finished breaking through.