Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing invoked the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation and called on Seal Sovereign Imperial City to support him against Green Leaf Palace. With Jun Yibai and the empire’s powerful figures joining the formation, he challenged Lei Jingduo as Fire Lockfeng watched the city’s resistance take shape.

• Lei Jingduo and Lei Jinggang mocked Sikong Jing’s Wind God Vultures and described Green Leaf Palace’s overwhelming advantage in Four Extremes Heaven warriors and beasts.
• Sikong Jing invoked Break Nine Heavens and used A Zhen to spread Army-Slaying Formation patterns across Seal Sovereign Imperial City.
• Sikong Jing told the city that Lei Jinggang had tried to harm the Iron Seal King’s princesses and asked its people to help the empire win a clear future.
• Jun Yiyao joined the formation, then Jun Yibai urged the Seal Sovereign Empire’s experts to follow Sikong Jing, and they linked themselves to its patterns.
• The Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation surged into the clouds, and Sikong Jing pointed his spear at Lei Jingduo as Fire Lockfeng’s anger grew.

Sikong Jing fought Lei Jingduo’s attempt to seize the Seal Sovereign Empire’s people through their army-slaying formations. The people’s united resolve strengthened Sikong Jing, while Su Yuexian emerged from the tavern ruins after wounding Lei Jinggang.

• Lei Jingduo sent the Azure Thunder Army-Slaying Formation against Sikong Jing’s formation, trying to take control of his troops by force.
• Sikong Jing relied on the people’s willing connection to him and sent them a message urging them to hold on.
• Jun Siyi told the people that Sikong Jing had saved her and her sisters, and urged everyone to resist the Azure Thunder General Camp.
• The people of Seal Sovereign Imperial City refused to break their connection to Sikong Jing, strengthening his resolve and helping restore Break Nine Heavens beyond sixty percent.
• Angered by his failure, Lei Jingduo ordered Lei Jinggang to seize Jun Siyi, but a sword beam from the ruins pierced Lei Jinggang’s shoulder.
• Su Yuexian stepped out of the tavern ruins with a longsword, and an Azure Thunder general threatened to kill her.

Sikong Jing formed a Wind God Vultures-powered Break Nine Heavens formation that could threaten the Azure Thunder General Camp, but Fire Lockfeng tacitly allowed Shui Lipiao's Azure Water General Camp to attack. As Fire Lockfeng turned against the Seal Sovereign Empire, Sikong Jing ordered the Wind God Vultures to break through on all fronts.

• Fire Lockfeng slapped the Azure Thunder General away from Su Yuexian after identifying her as the old King of Night Charms' inheritor, while Lei Jinggang ordered the Azure Thunder Generals to kill the two princesses instead.
• Sikong Jing formed a Heaven-and-Earth Wind God Sword Teeth army-slaying formation, and he and the city's defenders shattered Lei Jingduo's formation patterns.
• Shui Lipiao advanced with the Azure Water General Camp, threatening to join the fight despite Sikong Jing's formation and the risk of heavy casualties.
• Feng Shixian returned to watch from outside the city and ordered every Wind God Vulture to support Sikong Jing, telling the ones with masters to claim they had betrayed him.
• Fire Lockfeng tacitly approved Shui Lipiao's attack, and Sikong Jing declared that he would break Heaven Emperor Palace's agreement before ordering the Wind God Vultures to break through on all fronts.

Sikong Jing defied Fire Lockfeng and A Yi by pushing the Wind God Vultures to break through despite the palaces’ ten-day restriction. As owned and ownerless vultures joined his formation, one reached Four Extremes Heaven, strengthening his army against the general camps.

• Fire Lockfeng and A Yi ordered the Wind God Vultures to stop breaking through, citing the agreement among the Heavenly Emperor and Quasi-Emperor Palaces.
• Sikong Jing rejected their orders and threats, continued helping the vultures advance, and declared he would fight rather than let the Seal Sovereign Empire be destroyed without resistance.
• Feng Shixian admitted that the palaces had kept him ignorant of the agreement’s details, while his Azure Wind generals urged him to defy them.
• Ownerless Wind God Vultures arrived and joined Sikong Jing’s formation, followed by Feng Shixian’s mount A Gai and its flock, which abandoned the Azure Wind General Camp.
• A peak Yin-Yang Wind God Vulture completed its breakthrough, becoming the formation’s third Four Extremes Heaven-level vulture.

Sikong Jing revealed that he had fought the Green Leaf Palace Descenders to stop them from abusing Seal Sovereign citizens, and demanded that Fire Lockfeng restrain his subordinates. Fire Lockfeng abruptly sided with him and blamed the Azure Water and Azure Thunder General Camps, while Sikong Jing halted the three Wind God Vultures’ breakthrough.

• Sikong Jing warned Fire Lockfeng that Green Leaf Palace’s growing losses could lead the Seal Sovereign Empire to retaliate against the three general camps.
• Sikong Jing told A Yi that the conflict began when Azure Thunder Junior Generals tried to seize Seal Sovereign women, and demanded that Fire Lockfeng protect the empire’s citizens.
• Princess Jun Siyi said the people only wanted to stop being bullied, but Shui Lipiao mocked them as less than people.
• Fire Lockfeng slapped Shui Lipiao and rebuked her and Lei Jingduo for disobeying orders and abusing Seal Sovereign citizens.
• Sikong Jing suppressed the three Wind God Vultures and temporarily halted their breakthrough as Fire Lockfeng changed sides to avoid the consequences of further escalation.

Sikong Jing forced Fire Lockfeng to stop Azure Water General Camp from attacking the Seal Sovereign Empire, but the Watchers arrived after the Heaven Wind God Vulture broke through to the Four Extremities Heaven. They chose Shui Lipiao as the person to erase, leaving everyone stunned.

• Fire Lockfeng ordered Azure Thunder General Camp to stop its attack and barred Azure Water General Camp from intervening, while Feng Shixian agreed to enforce the order.
• Lei Jingduo left with Azure Thunder General Camp after threatening the Seal Sovereign Empire, and Shui Lipiao departed after rebuking Fire Lockfeng.
• Shui Lipiao warned that the Watchers would kill the Heaven Wind God Vulture for exceeding the Four Extremities Heaven limit, and Fire Lockfeng urged Sikong Jing to suppress its realm.
• Fire Lockfeng suddenly vanished as a rift opened above Seal Sovereign Imperial City and four Watchers of Bagua Eight Extremities Heaven emerged.
• A Watcher declared that one Four Extremities Heaven expert had to be erased and chose Shui Lipiao, explaining that they would eliminate the strongest person they could see.

Sikong Jing realized the watchers from the other four Heaven Emperor Palaces had come to erase Green Leaf Palace’s strongest descended fighter while Shi Kuangcheng was delayed. Shui Lipiao begged others to save her, but they abandoned her as the watchers attacked.

• Fire Lockfeng fled after sensing that the watchers were about to arrive, leaving Shui Lipiao exposed.
• Shui Lipiao tried to redirect the watchers toward A Yi, Feng Shixian, and then Fire Lockfeng, but the Flame Prison Palace elder said she would be erased first.
• The Flame Prison Palace elder revealed that the four watchers had sealed Shi Kuangcheng to keep Green Leaf Palace’s watcher from interfering.
• The watcher from Nether Thunder Palace warned that Shi Kuangcheng was nearing, and the Flame Prison Palace elder attacked Shui Lipiao.
• Shui Lipiao called for Lei Jingduo, A Yi, Feng Shixian, and Sikong Jing to help, but they all ignored her while she and Azure Water General Camp resisted alone.

The Flame Prison Palace elder killed Shui Lipiao, but the other watchers stopped him from attacking Sikong Jing. The Azure Water and Azure Thunder General Camps then threatened to attack Sikong Jing until Fire Lockfeng intervened, and Green Leaf Palace observer Shi Kuangcheng arrived furious over the Four Symbols breakthrough.

• The Flame Prison Palace elder erased Shui Lipiao and turned his killing intent toward Sikong Jing, but three watchers blocked him and forced him to leave.
• The Azure Water General Camp charged Sikong Jing, and Lei Jingduo led the Azure Thunder General Camp into the fight and urged both camps to break his formation.
• Sikong Jing threatened to send three Wind God Vultures through breakthroughs, causing the attacking experts to stop as Fire Lockfeng ordered everyone to stand down.
• Fire Lockfeng said he would report the matter to the Green Leaf Heavenly Emperor and forbade further fighting until the ten-day restriction ended.
• Shi Kuangcheng arrived and demanded that Fire Lockfeng explain why someone had broken through to Four Symbols Four Extremes Heaven; Lei Jingduo blamed Sikong Jing, and Shi Kuangcheng glared at him in anger.

Shi Kuangcheng attacked Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing used a Wind God Vulture’s breakthrough and the returning monitors to stop Green Leaf Palace from overwhelming him. He threatened to trigger more breakthroughs whenever Green Leaf Palace targeted him or the Seal Sovereign Empire, then prepared to let the monitors attack.

• Shi Kuangcheng launched an Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Heaven attack at Sikong Jing, who strengthened his Army-Slaying Formation by making a second Wind God Vulture break through.
• The formation blocked Shi Kuangcheng’s strike long enough for four watchers to return, and the Flame Prison Palace elder mocked Green Leaf Palace over the repeated breakthroughs.
• When the watchers moved to erase the newly ascended Wind God Vulture, Sikong Jing suppressed its realm and warned that three more vultures could break through whenever he chose.
• Shi Kuangcheng asked the Flame Prison Palace elder to help hold off the monitors so he could kill Sikong Jing, but the elder refused.
• After Shi Kuangcheng again vowed to kill him, Sikong Jing ordered the three Wind God Vultures to break through and told the four monitors to attack while he held Shi Kuangcheng back.

Sikong Jing used the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison’s power to kill Shi Kuangcheng instantly after Shi threatened to destroy a city in the Seal Sovereign Empire. With the other watchers stunned and the Five Heavenly Emperors apparently unaware of the power’s release, Sikong Jing prepared to kill everyone from Heaven Emperor Palace who was present.

• Shi Kuangcheng threatened to slaughter Seal Sovereign’s people, then aimed an attack at a small city to vent his anger.
• Sikong Jing unleashed the spirit-shadow power of the ferocious beasts and divine beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, shattering Shi Kuangcheng’s Spirit Platform and killing him.
• The watcher from Sky Slayer Palace caught Shi Kuangcheng’s corpse and confirmed that his spirit platform had been destroyed instantly.
• Sikong Jing’s beast-form spirit shadow told the beasts that the Five Heavenly Emperors had not sensed their power and ordered them to slaughter everyone from Heaven Emperor Palace present.

Sikong Jing killed Shi Kuangcheng with the power of the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, but the eruption drew the Burial Emperor Mark and the yin-spirit evil aura to Seal Sovereign Imperial City. After sealing the prison, he watched the sinister aura engulf him.

• Sikong Jing stepped toward the four watchers, but the Burial Emperor Mark appeared and sealed the surrounding space before they could escape.
• Fire Lockfeng and the other watchers heard eerie laughter and saw gray ripples and ghostly shadows envelop Sikong Jing, mistaking him for the yin spirit.
• The Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger explained that the beasts' power had attracted the yin-spirit evil aura, but admitted it did not know how to stop it.
• Sikong Jing sealed the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and tried to conceal it, believing the aura might target only the strong.
• The sinister spirit evil aura flashed into Sikong Jing's body.

Sikong Jing used Nine Heavens Sword Intent and his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline to drive the Yin Spirit Evil Aura away from the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison. The aura then attacked the four watchers from Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Heaven, leaving Sikong Jing bewildered as everyone blamed him for controlling it.

• The Yin Spirit Evil Aura entered Sikong Jing's Spirit Platform and discovered the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, then attacked its barrier.
• Sikong Jing used Nine Heavens Sword Intent to scatter the aura and his Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline to force it out of his body.
• Sikong Jing ordered the Yin Spirit Evil Aura to scatter, and it spread throughout Seal Sovereign Imperial City.
• The scattered aura converged on the four watchers from Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Heaven and trapped them.
• The aura battered the four watchers while they pleaded with Sikong Jing to recall it, but Sikong Jing was stunned and did not understand what was happening.

Sikong Jing watched the Yin spirit evil energy kill all five watchers from the Heavenly Emperor Palaces, while concealing the limits of his Nine Heavens Sword Intent. With the spirits gone and the Burial Emperor Mark faded, he asked Fire Lockfeng whether Boundless Sea had been left without watchers and whether Lei Jingduo would still be allowed to target him.

• Sikong Jing told the watchers he could draw in the Yin spirit evil energy but could not control it, and blamed Shi Kuangcheng for forcing him to summon it.
• The Yin spirit evil energy killed the watchers from Nether Thunder Palace and Sky Slayer Palace, then destroyed the remaining watchers from Flame Prison Palace and Gan Miao Palace.
• Sikong Jing refrained from testing whether his Nine Heavens Sword Intent could save the last two watchers, fearing that he and his father would be exploited if he revealed that ability.
• The Yin spirit evil energy gathered around Sikong Jing, recoiled from his Nine Heavens Sword Intent, and retreated toward the Burial Emperor Sea as the Burial Emperor Mark faded.
• Fire Lockfeng said the Heavenly Emperors would likely conclude that Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Heaven experts could no longer descend into Boundless Sea.
• Sikong Jing asked Fire Lockfeng whether Lei Jingduo would be stopped from targeting him and whether Seal Sovereign would remain unharmed.

Sikong Jing used a wisp of sinister spirit evil aura to force Fire Lockfeng to punish Green Leaf Palace members who had harmed the Seal Sovereign Empire. Fire Lockfeng agreed, and the injured people of the empire came forward to identify their attackers.

• Fire Lockfeng promised to protect the Seal Sovereign Empire, but Sikong Jing demanded that Lei Jinggang and the other attackers be dealt with immediately.
• When Green Leaf Palace resisted, Sikong Jing revealed a wisp of sinister spirit evil aura on his fingertip and threatened to draw over more.
• Fire Lockfeng realized Sikong Jing could help Green Leaf Palace seize the Sword Extinction Totem and agreed to punish those who had harmed the empire.
• Fire Lockfeng ordered anyone who disobeyed him killed, then told the injured people of the Seal Sovereign Empire to identify their attackers.
• The harmed princesses and other people of the Seal Sovereign Empire rushed forward and pointed out Green Leaf Palace members.

Sikong Jing killed Lei Jingduo after the Azure Thunder commander threatened to leave, then used the stronger Yin Spirit evil aura to finish him. The aura lingered in Sikong Jing’s body, forcing him to recognize that he needed stronger Nine Heavens Sword Intent before risking another encounter.

• Green Leaf Palace generals rejected Fire Lockfeng’s authority and threatened to leave with Lei Jingduo.
• Sikong Jing released a strand of spiritual shadow power at Lei Jingduo, triggering another wave of ghostly evil energy.
• Sikong Jing captured the wounded Lei Jingduo and forced Yin Spirit evil aura into him, killing him.
• Sikong Jing expelled the lingering evil aura and concluded that his Nine Heavens Sword Intent needed to grow stronger.
• Green Leaf Palace generals fell silent and trembled after witnessing Lei Jingduo’s death.

Sikong Jing expelled the Yin Spirit Evil Energy and forced Green Leaf Palace to punish those who had harmed the Seal Sovereign Empire. After Fire Lockfeng invited him and his family to the palace, the city celebrated, while Sikong Jing concealed his true strength by letting Fire Thunder take credit for driving him back.

• Sikong Jing expelled the Yin Spirit Evil Energy, then claimed that forcing it had caused him a minor injury.
• Fire Lockfeng ordered Green Leaf Palace to punish those who had harmed the Seal Sovereign Empire, and Sikong Jing dissolved the Army-Slaying Formation.
• Sikong Jing modestly claimed that Fire Thunder had driven him back, and Fire Thunder killed Lei Jinggang before he could respond.
• Fire Lockfeng invited Sikong Jing, Sikong Ding, and Su Yuexian to the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace, while the city erupted in celebration.
• Jun Yibai affirmed that choosing Sikong Jing had been the right decision, and Jun Yiyao went along with his claim that Fire Thunder had defeated him.

After Sikong Jing left the Seal Sovereign Imperial Palace with Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian, Fire Lockfeng and the Azure Fire generals plotted to gain his trust and kill him so they could seize his method of controlling yin spirit evil energy. Their plan was interrupted when Sikong Jing returned to ask Fire Lockfeng something.

• Fire Lockfeng questioned Su Yuexian about her reincarnation and the essence blood she had received, then let Sikong Jing, Sikong Ding, and Su Yuexian leave.
• Fire Lockfeng admitted to the Azure Fire generals that he feared Sikong Jing’s ability to control yin spirit evil energy and command the Wind God Vultures.
• The Azure Fire generals urged Fire Lockfeng to pretend to cooperate with Sikong Jing, then kill him and take whatever let him control the evil energy.
• Fire Lockfeng ordered the generals to praise Sikong Jing and wait for a chance to strike, while Fire Thunder claimed he had defeated Sikong Jing in a spear exchange.
• Sikong Jing’s voice sounded outside the hall as he returned to ask Fire Lockfeng another question.

Sikong Jing collected rewards for killing four Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Heaven experts while concealing the source of the sinister yin spirit energy. After reuniting with Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian, he discovered that Sikong Ding’s Nine Heavens Sword Intent could also frighten the energy, leaving them questioning the Nine Heavens Emperor’s power.

• Fire Lockfeng awarded Sikong Jing thirty Divine Willow seeds for each of the four experts he had killed, and Sikong Jing planned to claim the seeds and their treasures.
• Sikong Jing recalled the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and resolved to investigate it when he returned to the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land.
• Sikong Jing told A Yi that his beast legacies explained his knowledge of vulture meridians and invented an account of how he captured the sinister yin spirit energy; he also handed over Yan Hui’s corpse to receive twenty more seeds.
• Fire Lockfeng heard A Yi’s account and decided he had to seize Sikong Jing’s thread of yin-spirit evil energy.
• Sikong Jing met Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian, then tested his father’s Nine Heavens Sword Intent against the energy and found that it nearly scattered it.
• Sikong Jing explained his near-death encounter, and Sikong Ding and Su Yuexian wondered why the power of the Nine Heavens Emperor frightened energy that the Five Heavenly Emperors feared.

Sikong Jing prepared for the campaign into the Burial Emperor Sea, learning more about the Yin Spirit Evil Energy and strengthening the Wind God Vultures and his Nine Heavens power. He departed with Green Leaf Palace and the Seal Sovereign Empire’s experts, arriving at the Burial Emperor Sea.

• Sikong Jing told Sikong Ding to return to the Desolate Sea Forbidden Land and teach the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, while Su Yuexian joined the campaign to search for the King of Night Charms’ reincarnated soul body.
• The beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison concluded that the Yin Spirit Evil Energy came from an ancient battlefield and warned Sikong Jing not to use their power carelessly in the Burial Emperor Sea.
• Sikong Jing spent two days teaching the Wind God Vultures and cultivating the Nine Heavens Sword Intent and Nine Heavens power.
• Feng Shixian summoned Sikong Jing to depart, and Sikong Jing saw that a vast force of Seal Sovereign Empire experts had gathered at the Green Leaf Supergod Spatial Formation.
• Fire Lockfeng reported that the Wind God Vultures and more experts from the three great general camps had broken through, then led the assembled force through the spatial formation.
• Several days later, the Green Leaf Palace members and Seal Sovereign experts arrived within the boundaries of the Burial Emperor Sea.

Sikong Jing and the Seal Sovereign Empire’s group entered the Burial Emperor Sea and discovered that the strangeness had consumed Xiao Luo Divine Sect’s territory and transformed its survivors. Fire Lockfeng ordered the survivors killed, and when a Seal Sovereign Empire youth showed signs of infection, Sikong Jing intervened.

• Jun Yiji and Jun Yiyao explained the Burial Emperor Sea’s lethal conditions as Fire Lockfeng led the group to nearby land.
• Jun Xuantong identified the land as Dream Luo Continent, within Xiao Luo Divine Sect’s territory, and Jun Yiji said the sea had swallowed more than half of it.
• Sikong Jing found the cities empty of life, while the group saw the dead bodies of humans and beasts across the continent.
• Several hundred visibly corrupted survivors begged to be rescued, and one man twisted apart and exploded as the others watched.
• Fire Lockfeng ordered an Azure Fire General to kill the survivors, then ordered the same fate for a Seal Sovereign Empire youth who complained that bugs were crawling inside him.
• Sikong Jing told the Azure Fire General to wait before he could strike the youth.