Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing subdued Fire Thunder’s men without revealing his full power, then learned that Fire Lockfeng, a disciple of the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor, was waiting for him at the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace. He arrived at the palace and was drawn into a meeting about the Sword Extinction Totem operation.

• Sikong Jing beat Fire Thunder’s companions and conceded to Fire Thunder, who backed down and left.
• Jun Yiyao and Feng Shixian noticed Sikong Jing had reached the eighth step of Yin Extremity Heaven, and Feng Shixian warned him that Fire Lockfeng wanted revenge for the Azure Fire general he had killed.
• Feng Shixian carried Sikong Jing and Jun Yiyao to the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace, where Fire Lockfeng ordered them brought inside.
• Sikong Jing saw Fire Lockfeng seated with leaders of the Azure Thunder and Azure Water General Camps, along with Jun Yibai, Jun Yisui, and other Seal Sovereign Empire figures.
• Fire Lockfeng stopped Feng Shixian from leaving and ordered him to join the discussion about dividing merit for the Sword Extinction Totem operation.

Fire Lockfeng invaded Sikong Jing’s consciousness and forced out his two Spirit Shadows, intending to control them and uncover the truth about Yu Gou’s death. The chapter ended as he demanded an answer while Jun Yiyao trembled, knowing Sikong Jing’s soul was under his control.

• The Azure Thunder General Camp leader mocked Feng Shixian for having no seat, and Feng returned to stand at the hall entrance with his subordinates.
• Fire Lockfeng pressed Jun Yibai and the other Seal Sovereign Empire figures to the floor, then Sikong Jing explained that his father and Su Yuexian had traveled ahead by ordinary spatial formations.
• Fire Lockfeng shifted his Spirit Shadow pressure onto Sikong Jing, who refused to kneel and warned inwardly that the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison could strike if Fire Lockfeng threatened him.
• Fire Lockfeng entered Sikong Jing’s consciousness, discovered his Dual Spirit Shadows, and forcibly drew them out.
• Fire Lockfeng used Soul Intimidation on Sikong Jing’s Spirit Shadows and asked how Yu Gou had died, causing Jun Yiyao to tremble.

Sikong Jing endured Fire Lockfeng’s soul-intimidating interrogation by giving plausible false answers, concealing Jun Yiyao’s role in Yu Gou’s death and his own secrets. Fire Lockfeng then continued questioning him about his inheritance and background, ending by asking why his father and Su Yuexian had not come with him.

• Sikong Jing claimed that Flame Prison Palace had killed Yu Gou and said he had arrived too late to learn who was responsible.
• Sikong Jing explained that he had avoided Green Leaf Palace earlier because he feared the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor, but now hoped to earn favor through the Sword Extinction Totem operation.
• Sikong Jing claimed the Nine Heavens Emperor had given him no inheritance beyond blood essence, which he had already used, and explained the demon beast quasi-emperors’ legacies as attempts to seek revenge on Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor.
• Sikong Jing recounted his known experiences in the Imperial Legacy Battlefield and revealed that he had absorbed the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s blood essence.
• Fire Lockfeng asked why Sikong Jing’s father and Su Yuexian had not come with him.

Fire Lockfeng interrogated Sikong Jing about Su Yuexian and inspected his bloodlines, while Sikong Jing concealed his beast-bloodline dantian. The Green Leaf Palace generals judged his Imperial Bloodlines ordinary and credited his victory over Yan Hui to Yan Hui's weakness.

• Fire Lockfeng asked whether Su Yuexian was one of the King of Night Charms' reincarnated soul bodies, and Sikong Jing pretended not to understand the question.
• Fire Thunder entered and defended Fire Lockfeng's interrogation, after which Fire Lockfeng probed Sikong Jing's bloodlines.
• Sikong Jing concealed his beast-bloodline dantian, and Fire Lockfeng detected his Nine Heavens, Heaven-Soaring, and quasi-Emperor beast bloodlines.
• The Green Leaf Palace generals judged Sikong Jing's Nine Heavens bloodline barely sufficient for entry and his Heaven-Soaring and beast bloodlines too weak or unfocused to explain his victory over Yan Hui.
• Feng Shixian mocked Fire Thunder's boast, and Fire Thunder claimed he had sent Sikong Jing flying with one spear strike.
• The Green Leaf Palace members concluded that Yan Hui was weak and Sikong Jing had been lucky to defeat him.

Sikong Jing passed Fire Lockfeng’s inspection and was assigned to Feng Shixian’s Azure Wind General Camp. Fire Lockfeng then laid out the rules for the Sword Extinction Totem operation and the competition among the four general camps, leaving the hall to begin discussing how to earn Green Leaf Divine Willow seeds.

• Fire Lockfeng reprimanded Fire Thunder, and Sikong Jing calmly agreed that Fire Thunder was formidable.
• Fire Lockfeng asked the generals who would take Sikong Jing, but after they declined, he assigned him to Feng Shixian’s Azure Wind General Camp.
• Sikong Jing told Fire Lockfeng that Su Yuexian would likely arrive in a day, then joined Feng Shixian by the door.
• Fire Lockfeng explained that the descending forces would be restricted in number and cultivation realm, and warned that the Sword Extinction Totem struggle could bring a major reshuffle.
• Fire Lockfeng revealed Green Leaf Divine Willow seeds as rewards and set out how kills would earn seeds for the four camps to compete over.

Fire Lockfeng entrusted the Green Leaf Divine Willow seeds to A Yi and announced the expedition’s priorities before the Green Leaf Palace forces prepared to depart for the Burial Emperor Sea. Feng Shixian faced mockery over his lost Green Leaf Emperor Vein, while Azure Water threatened to limit his camp’s rewards.

• Fire Lockfeng gave the Green Leaf Divine Willow seeds to A Yi, who had been sent by the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor to oversee the battle.
• Fire Lockfeng announced that the general camp collecting the most seeds would earn a reward, but that seizing the Sword Extinction Totem mattered most, and set the expedition’s departure for three days later.
• Azure Thunder mocked Feng Shixian for bringing Sikong Jing as cannon fodder, and Feng Shixian replied that his camp would collect more seeds by killing enemies faster.
• Azure Water accused Feng Shixian of a grave mistake and warned him that Sikong Jing could draw Flame Prison Palace’s forces to his camp.
• Azure Thunder and Azure Water’s subordinates mocked Feng Shixian for losing his Green Leaf Emperor Vein, until one of Feng Shixian’s men revealed that the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor might restore it if Feng Shixian obtained the Sword Extinction Totem or performed best.
• Azure Water threatened that Feng Shixian’s camp would not collect more than ten Divine Willow seeds.

Sikong Jing used five Flame Prison Palace corpses to secure twenty-five divine willow tree seeds for Azure Wind General Camp, turning the other camps’ mockery against them. Feng Shixian warned the Azure Thunder and Azure Water leaders not to threaten his people, while Fire Lockfeng questioned Jun Yibai and the others about where the corpses had been killed.

• Fire Lockfeng told Sikong Jing that enemies slain in Boundless Sea or the Burial Emperor Tomb counted toward the competition, provided Azure Wind followed its commanders’ orders.
• Sikong Jing produced five Flame Prison Palace cultivators’ corpses and exchanged them with A Yi for twenty-five divine willow tree seeds.
• An Azure Water general challenged the exchange, but A Yi confirmed that the corpses counted because they had been slain within Boundless Sea.
• Sikong Jing gave the seeds to Feng Shixian, and his subordinates taunted the Azure Thunder and Azure Water leaders for underestimating Azure Wind.
• Feng Shixian warned the Azure Thunder and Azure Water leaders not to show killing intent toward his camp before leaving with Sikong Jing and his subordinates.
• Fire Lockfeng asked Jun Yibai and the others where the five corpses had been killed.

Fire Lockfeng kept Sikong Jing alive as bait while preparing the Seal Sovereign Empire’s forces for the battle at Burial Emperor Sea. The Seal Sovereign leaders despaired over their fate, but Jun Yiyao urged them to stand with Sikong Jing if a crisis arose, as he returned to the Azure Wind General Camp and learned what being cannon fodder meant.

• Fire Lockfeng refused Fire Thunder’s suggestion to kill Sikong Jing, explaining that Sikong Jing still had value as bait for drawing out Flame Prison Palace experts.
• Fire Lockfeng and Jun Yibai continued selecting Seal Sovereign troops for the coming battle at Burial Emperor Sea, while Jun Yisui and the others lamented that the empire might be used as cannon fodder.
• Jun Yiyao reminded the Seal Sovereign leaders that Sikong Jing had not been forcibly controlled and told them to stand fully with him if a grave problem arose at Burial Emperor Sea.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Azure Wind General Camp, where the soldiers celebrated his humiliation of Azure Thunder and Azure Water before lamenting their own likely deaths.
• Feng Shixian explained to Sikong Jing that cannon fodder meant the Seal Sovereign forces would face danger first, followed by the Azure Wind General Camp, while others waited to claim the spoils.

Feng Shixian explained that Sikong Jing and the Seal Sovereign Empire had been made expendable, then brought Sikong Jing to choose a mount in the Azure Wind General Camp’s Wind God Vulture secret realm. He left Sikong Jing free to act within the Seal Sovereign Great Continent, but warned him not to provoke the strongest vultures.

• Feng Shixian told Sikong Jing that he would serve as second-wave cannon fodder in the Azure Wind General Camp and warned that his actions had earned resentment from other camps.
• Sikong Jing accepted that neither he nor the Seal Sovereign Empire had a way out and considered relying on the King of Night Charms against the Five Heavenly Emperors.
• Feng Shixian led Sikong Jing into a secret realm filled with ownerless Azure Feather Wind God Vultures and told him to find one willing to follow him.
• Feng Shixian warned Sikong Jing not to provoke the secret realm’s powerful vultures, then left him there alone.

Sikong Jing studied the meridians of powerful vulture beasts and inscribed his insights for the Azure Feather Wind God Vultures. His demonstrations won the flock’s attention and drew even the strongest, most independent vultures to him.

• Sikong Jing entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and began comprehending the meridians of its Divine Vultures so he could attract ownerless Azure Feather Wind God Vultures as mounts.
• The Wind God Vultures mocked Sikong Jing as he meditated, doubting that he could teach them anything useful.
• Sikong Jing inscribed the meridians of Yu Gou’s Fire Divine Vulture and then carved out further patterns from powerful vulture beasts.
• The Wind God Vultures recognized the power of his meridian insights, and some found themselves close to breakthroughs.
• The strongest Four Extremes Heaven Wind God Vulture and other independent vultures flew closer to watch Sikong Jing, while the vow-making vulture stubbornly refused to look.

Sikong Jing gained the Wind Divine Vultures’ trust by sharing meridian diagrams and studying their own meridians in return. When Fire Lockfeng ordered him to bring Su Yuexian to the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace within an hour, Sikong Jing prepared to leave with a Wind Divine Vulture and secretly arranged for A Zhen and the others to follow.

• The Four Extremes Heaven Wind Divine Vulture offered to serve as Sikong Jing’s temporary mount in exchange for the meridian diagrams, and opened its meridians for him to study.
• Sikong Jing and the Wind Divine Vultures spent a day exchanging knowledge and examining their meridian paths.
• An Azure Fire General told Feng Shixian that Sikong Jing had to bring Su Yuexian to the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace within an hour or Fire Lockfeng would extract an Emperor bloodline.
• Feng Shixian sent a Green Wind General into the secret realm to tell Sikong Jing to take Su Yuexian to Fire Lockfeng.
• Sikong Jing chose one Yang Extremity Heaven Wind Divine Vulture to accompany him and instructed A Zhen to lead the Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven vultures after them in concealment.
• Sikong Jing asked the Green Wind General to take him to collect the Azure Wind General’s equipment.

Sikong Jing brought the Heaven Wind God Vultures out of the secret realm and reunited with Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian in Seal Sovereign Imperial City. As they prepared to confront Fire Lockfeng, they witnessed Azure Thunder General Camp members attacking guards and threatening two Seal Sovereign princesses.

• Sikong Jing left the secret realm with A Zhen and a flock of Heaven Wind God Vultures, then planned to use them to build a faction for the Charm King Palace.
• Sikong Jing contacted Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian, traveled to Seal Sovereign Imperial City, and met them at the Mighty Seal Tavern.
• Sikong Jing asked Su Yuexian whether she could resist Fire Lockfeng's interrogation, and she assured him that she could.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexian left the private room to head for the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace, while Sikong Ding stayed behind.
• An Azure Thunder General Camp young man attacked the guards at Mighty Seal Tavern and threatened two women from the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• More Azure Thunder General Camp members arrived and mocked the women, prompting Sikong Jing and Su Yuexian to react coldly.

Sikong Jing saw Young Master Lei and the Azure Thunder Palace youths terrorizing two princesses of the Seal Sovereign Empire and decided to intervene. After refusing their demand to kneel, he rescued the princesses in a flash.

• Sikong Jing learned that Green Leaf Palace had repeatedly abused people across the Seal Sovereign Imperial City, while Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian had been unable to stop them.
• Young Master Lei and the Azure Thunder Palace youths surrounded two princesses and threatened them, while the tavern's patrons cowered in fear.
• Sikong Jing told Sikong Ding to blend into the crowd and stepped out to confront the youths, with Su Yuexian ready to fight.
• Young Master Lei demanded that Sikong Jing kneel to attend his banquet, and the Azure Thunder General Camp youths mocked him.
• Sikong Jing changed his mind about attending and, in a gust of wind, whisked the two princesses behind him.

Sikong Jing rescued the two princesses from Young Master Lei and the Azure Thunder youths, then fought the group after they tried to kill him. He slaughtered them, leaving A Zhen and the other Wind God Vultures discussing his powerful beast bloodline.

• Sikong Jing sent the two princesses into the inn, where Su Yuexian protected them from the coming battle.
• Young Master Lei ordered an Azure Thunder youth to kill Sikong Jing, who had challenged their abuse of people from the Seal Sovereign Empire.
• Sikong Jing destroyed the youth’s thunder spear, killed him, and shredded his spirit shadow.
• Young Master Lei ordered the remaining youths to attack, and Sikong Jing swiftly killed them all.
• A Zhen told the other Wind God Vultures that he had agreed to serve as Sikong Jing’s temporary mount and sensed a terrifying ferocious-beast bloodline within him.

Sikong Jing killed Lei Jinggang’s Azure Thunder companions and trapped him behind a barrier, while the tavern’s patrons realized the killing could bring Green Leaf Palace’s wrath upon them. Lei Jinggang tried to fight back with his mount, but Sikong Jing’s ninth-step Yang Extremity Heaven Wind God Vulture overwhelmed him as Feng Shixian and an Azure Wind General arrived and witnessed the confrontation.

• Sikong Jing returned from slaughtering Lei Jinggang’s companions and told Lei Jinggang he was weaker than Young Master Fire Thunder.
• Lei Jinggang recognized Sikong Jing as the son of the Nine Heavens successor, while the tavern’s patrons celebrated their rescuer and feared Green Leaf Palace’s retaliation.
• Sikong Jing sealed the street with a barrier, preventing Lei Jinggang from calling for help.
• Lei Jinggang mounted his seventh-step Yang Extremity Heaven Thunder God Vulture and attacked Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing’s ninth-step Yang Extremity Heaven Wind God Vulture crushed his power.
• Feng Shixian and an Azure Wind General arrived in the clouds and watched Sikong Jing face Lei Jinggang.

Sikong Jing continued his attack on the Azure Thunder geniuses while Feng Shixian and the Azure Wind general watched, unable to control A Zhen and the Wind God Vultures. After Uncle Sai arrived and found his younger brother among the dead, he secretly barred the area to kill Sikong Jing before Fire Lockfeng could intervene, leaving Sikong Jing laughing as Lei Jinggang declared him doomed.

• Feng Shixian chose not to stop Sikong Jing, and A Zhen revealed that the Wind God Vultures were concealed overhead using Sikong Jing's altered techniques.
• A Zhen refused the Azure Wind general's command and said the Wind God Vultures would follow Sikong Jing's orders as Azure Thunder reinforcements approached.
• Sikong Jing blasted the Thunder God Vultures to the ground and left Lei Jinggang as the sole survivor.
• Uncle Sai arrived with Azure Thunder generals, found his younger brother among the corpses, and vowed to kill Sikong Jing.
• Uncle Sai ordered his subordinates to form a barrier so Fire Lockfeng would not learn of his revenge, while Lei Jinggang taunted Sikong Jing over Uncle Sai's strength.

Sikong Jing used the Wind God Vulture’s breakthrough to defeat Uncle Sai and slaughter the Azure Thunder generals who attacked him. With several dozen more Azure Thunder generals approaching, Sikong Jing prepared to kill them all.

• Uncle Sai unleashed his thunderous attacks, while Su Yuexian protected the people sheltering in Mighty Seal Tavern’s cellar.
• Sikong Jing helped the Wind God Vulture break through to the first step of Yin-Yang, then used their combined power to knock Uncle Sai down.
• Uncle Sai summoned a Thunder God Vulture, but Sikong Jing transformed the Wind God Vulture’s power into a demon-wind claw and crushed them both to the ground.
• Lei Jinggang urged the surrounding Azure Thunder generals to attack, and Sikong Jing killed them all with his spear.
• Sikong Jing pierced Uncle Sai’s head and learned that several dozen more Azure Thunder generals were approaching; he vowed to wipe them out too.

Sikong Jing secretly switched to a Five-Step Yin-Yang Wind God Vulture and fought off waves of Azure Thunder Generals while Feng Shixian withdrew. More Azure Thunder Generals and other forces gathered around the ruins, awaiting Lei Jingduo’s arrival.

• Sikong Jing exchanged mounts with A Zhen, concealing the change from the arriving Azure Thunder Generals.
• Sikong Jing used his Five-Step Yin-Yang Wind God Vulture to kill dozens of Azure Thunder Generals and overwhelm Lei Jinggang.
• Feng Shixian told A Zhen he could not protect them, then departed with the Green Wind General after A Zhen warned that the vultures would break through if Sikong Jing’s life was threatened.
• Feng Shixian told the Green Wind General to deny knowing A Zhen or Sikong Jing and return to guarding the Green Leaf Supergod Spatial Formation.
• More Azure Thunder Generals tore through Sikong Jing’s barrier and surrounded him as Azure Water Generals and Azure Fire Generals arrived and sent word to their commanders.

Sikong Jing faced Lei Jingduo, Fire Lockfeng, and the Azure Water Female General after killing Azure Thunder generals. Fire Lockfeng accepted that Feng Shixian had not directly ordered the killings, but ultimately authorized Lei Jingduo to execute Sikong Jing.

• Lei Jingduo arrived, heard Lei Jinggang's complaints, and demanded Sikong Jing's death without asking why the generals had been killed.
• Fire Lockfeng arrived and asked whether Feng Shixian had ordered Sikong Jing's actions; Sikong Jing denied it and said he had followed Fire Lockfeng's order to collect Yuexian.
• Fire Lockfeng forcibly questioned Sikong Jing and accepted his answer, while the Azure Water Female General and Lei Jingduo argued that Feng Shixian had set a trap using the Wind God Vulture.
• Lei Jingduo demanded Sikong Jing's death and the deaths of everyone connected to him, and Fire Lockfeng assigned Sikong Jing's disposal to Junior Brother Lei.
• Su Yuexian, Sikong Ding, and the people hiding in the cellar reacted in shock as Fire Lockfeng's decision left Sikong Jing facing execution.

Sikong Jing persuaded Fire Lockfeng to let the Azure Thunder General Camp face him without help from the other camps. He summoned A Zhen and a flock of Wind God Vultures, then challenged the Azure Thunder General Camp to attack.

• Jun Yiyao took out the Charm Space Crystal as Jun Yibai and the others feared for Sikong Jing, but he calmly asked Fire Lockfeng to keep the Azure Fire and Azure Water General Camps out of his fight with the Azure Thunder General Camp.
• Fire Lockfeng agreed that his camp and the Azure Water General Camp would not intervene, and Lei Jingduo ordered a ninth-step Yin-Yang Azure Thunder general to attack Sikong Jing.
• After Lei Jinggang threatened to torture the two princesses Sikong Jing had saved, Sikong Jing called A Zhen, and a Four Symbols Four Extremes Heaven Wind God Vulture appeared.
• Sikong Jing mounted A Zhen and challenged the Azure Thunder general to come at him, leaving the general too afraid to approach.
• Sikong Jing summoned a flock of Yin-Yang Dual Extremes Heaven Wind God Vultures and declared that they had willingly chosen to follow him as the inheritor of the quasi-Emperor demon beast on the Imperial Legacy Battlefield.