Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing learned that Su Jingyi had targeted his father, Sikong Ding, after the Startling Wave Sword chose him and he entered the Extreme Prison Sky Tower. Determined to reach Feather Alliance Hall and protect his family, Sikong Jing said farewell to his mother and ordered the captured disciples to take him there.

• Sikong Jing tortured Junior Sister Cheng until she explained that Su Jingyi resented Sikong Ding for obtaining the Startling Wave Sword and entering the Extreme Prison Sky Tower against his orders.
• Sikong Jing learned that the Su Family could use its influence to endanger his father, and that Sikong Ding might gain a status surpassing Su Jingyi if he proved his talent to the Spirit Race.
• Sikong Jing told Jun Yisui that he would go to Feather Alliance Hall, even though the Spirit Race had forbidden them from leaving the Feather Sword Mountain Range.
• Sikong Jing returned to the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, left behind the cultivation method for Spirit Prison Heavenly Cage, and said farewell to Ling Xiaotian and the others.
• Sikong Jing returned to Jun Yisui and told Junior Sister Cheng and the other captive disciple to take him to Feather Alliance Hall.

Sikong Jing escaped the Feather Sword Mountain Range with Junior Sister Cheng and her companion, while Jun Yisui dealt with two Dark Sea elders. During the journey to Feather Alliance Hall, Sikong Jing concealed the Yin Spirit Evil Qi within him beneath the aura of Burial Emperor Sword Qi and learned through his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow that he could attempt the Demon Vein Soul Stone test in Demon Sword City.

• Sikong Jing had Junior Sister Cheng and her companion activate their Spacetime White Jade Stones and asked the Sea-Chasing King to deal with the two Dark Sea elders before departing with the hostages.
• Jun Yisui told the Dark Sea elders that Sikong Ding had entered the Extreme Prison Sky Tower to gain the Spirit Race's favor and protect the people of the Feather Sword Mountain Range, then dealt with them.
• Sikong Jing passed through the array around the Feather Sword Mountain Range and traveled toward Feather Alliance Hall through a spacetime tunnel.
• Sikong Jing suspected the Spirit Race had taken his missing arm and storage treasure, and decided to disguise the Yin Spirit Evil Qi in his skull as Burial Emperor Sword Qi before reaching Feather Alliance Hall.
• Sikong Jing reconnected with his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow, learned of the Demon Vein Soul Stone test in Demon Sword City, and chose to keep the two spirit shadows separate for now.

Sikong Jing’s beast-form spirit shadow entered Demon Sword City with the Night Civet King and learned that the Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s test could offer a way beyond the Spirit Race’s control. The Night Civet King faced a threat from a Green-Faced Black Rhino Beast, then noticed that the Beast Emperor Soul Intent on the Shadow Moon Rat had disappeared.

• Sikong Jing considered using his separate spirit shadows to survive the Spirit Race’s restrictions and wondered whether his missing demonic-form spirit shadow still existed.
• The Night Civet King brought the little demon beasts into Demon Sword City and explained that passing the five-year Demon Vein Soul Stone test could give the Feather Sword demon beasts support from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• Sikong Jing decided that joining the Ten Thousand Demon Hall might help him challenge the Spirit Race’s rules and free those trapped in the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm.
• A transformed Green-Faced Black Rhino Beast demanded that the Night Civet King submit to him and threatened to destroy her forces, boasting that his youngest son would pass the test with Beast General Soul Intent.
• Little Dark and the other demon beasts vowed to pass the test, while the Night Civet King picked up the Shadow Moon Rat and asked why its Beast Emperor Soul Intent had disappeared.

At the Demon Sword City test, Sikong Jing watched as the Demon Vein Soul Stone revealed the bloodlines and Soul Intents of the young demon beasts. The Feather Sword Mountain Range’s beasts astonished the crowd with their Beast King bloodlines, and Little Dark’s Beast Emperor Soul Intent left the city in stunned silence.

• The demon cat woman discussed the threat posed by the Green-Faced Black Rhinoceros Beast, and Sikong Jing briefly revealed Beast Emperor Soul Intent to surprise her.
• Fang Sword arrived and began the Demon Vein Soul Stone test, dismissing young demon beasts whose bloodlines did not qualify them for the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• A young Green-Faced Black Rhinoceros Beast displayed Beast General Soul Intent and a Beast King demon vein, prompting its father to demand the demon cat woman submit.
• Shu'er revealed a Beast King bloodline, and the other young demon beasts from the Feather Sword Mountain Range also displayed Beast King bloodlines.
• Little Dark roared and manifested a ferocious beast phantom, revealing both a Beast King bloodline and Beast Emperor Soul Intent.

During the Demon Vein Soul Stone test, Beast Emperor Soul Intent appeared to come from the little Dark Demon Dragon, but the Demon Sword Tiger discovered it belonged to Sikong Jing, disguised as a little Shadow Moon Rat. Fang Sword brought Sikong Jing and the Feather Sword Mountain Range demons to a palace in Demon Sword City and demanded to know where the rat came from.

• The Demon Vein Soul Stone revealed Beast Emperor Soul Intent around the little Dark Demon Dragon, stunning the Demon Sword Tiger and the assembled demon beasts.
• Fang Sword examined the little Dark Demon Dragon, then noticed the little Shadow Moon Rat on its head and probed the rat's spirit platform.
• Sikong Jing concealed the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison and took on the Shadow Moon Rat's aura as Fang Sword examined him.
• Fang Sword held Sikong Jing, causing Beast Emperor Soul Intent to flare from his palm, then declared the test complete and shut down the Demon Vein Soul Stone.
• Fang Sword swept Sikong Jing, the other little demon beasts, and their elders away to a palace in Demon Sword City.
• Fang Sword set Sikong Jing down and asked the cat demon woman what fortuitous encounter she had found and where the little Shadow Moon Rat came from.

Fang Sword investigated the Feather Sword demon beasts’ Beast Emperor Soul Intent and Beast King Demon Veins, then arranged for them to settle in Demon Sword City. He took little Shadow Moon Rat to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall for further tests, leaving the demon cat woman wondering what lay behind him.

• Little Dark recognized that little Shadow Moon Rat possessed genuine Beast Emperor Soul Intent, and the demon cat woman explained how she had found and taken him in.
• Shu'er revealed the secret place in the Sword Bamboo Mountain Range, where the demon beasts cultivated using beast-meridian inscriptions and received spiritual gifts from a mysterious Demon Race senior.
• Fang Sword examined the inscriptions and concluded that the senior had been protecting little Shadow Moon Rat and sharing the opportunity with his companions.
• Fang Sword moved the Feather Sword demon beasts to Demon Sword City and announced that they could join its Ten Thousand Demon Hall branch while their return to the Feather Sword Mountain Range remained undecided.
• Fang Sword departed for the Ten Thousand Demon Hall with little Shadow Moon Rat, while the demon cat woman reflected on how he had kept them safe and wondered about his origins.

Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow continued toward the Ten Thousand Demon Hall while news of the little Shadow Moon Rat’s Beast Emperor Soul Intent spread and drew powerful enemies. Sikong Jing’s true body reached the Feather Alliance Hall with three days left before the Spirit Race’s deadline, but Junior Sister Cheng and Su Jingyi’s younger brother refused to take him to the Extreme Prison Sky Tower.

• Sikong Jing wondered whether the Ten Thousand Demon Hall could conceal his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and resolved to continue there despite the risks and unknowns.
• Ten days later, the Blue-Faced Black Rhino Beast learned the little Shadow Moon Rat possessed Beast Emperor Soul Intent and reported it to a messenger of the Green Rhino Demon Emperor.
• The Blue-Faced Black Rhino Beast realized the Green Rhino Demon Emperor and other powers might try to seize or kill the little Shadow Moon Rat, and gloated that the Feather Sword demon beasts faced trouble.
• Sikong Jing’s true body arrived at the Feather Alliance Hall with Junior Sister Cheng and Su Jingyi’s younger brother, three days before the Spirit Race’s deadline.
• Sikong Jing ordered Junior Sister Cheng to take him to the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, but she and Su Jingyi’s younger brother refused and told him to wait for Senior Brother Su.

Sikong Jing seized Junior Brother Su and Junior Sister Cheng's spirit shadows after they threatened to use him against his father, Sikong Ding. He took Junior Brother Su's disciple token and headed for the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, while the two captives remained trapped in his spirit platform.

• Junior Sister Cheng and Junior Brother Su told Sikong Jing they would use him to threaten Sikong Ding and undermine his Dao heart.
• Sikong Jing sensed danger approaching, took Junior Brother Su's storage treasure, and forcibly pulled both of their spirit shadows into his spirit platform.
• Sikong Jing explained that their families could no longer sense their locations and that he planned to hide for three days to avoid Su Jingyi's threat.
• Junior Brother Su revealed that a Feather Alliance Hall disciple token was needed to enter the Extreme Prison Sky Tower.
• Junior Brother Su lifted the restriction on his storage treasure, and Sikong Jing took the token and made him show the way.

Sikong Jing escaped toward the Extreme Prison Sky Tower after extracting the spirit shadows of Su Jingyi’s younger brother and Junior Sister Cheng. The Su Family secretly mobilized to find him, while Su Jingyi tried to unsettle Sikong Ding by claiming his son was in his hands, only to hear Sikong Ding repeat that he did not believe him.

• Sikong Jing concealed his presence as he hurried toward the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, leaving the two younger Sus and Junior Sister Cheng without their spirit shadows.
• Su Family experts arrived too late, and the old woman ordered them to secretly search for Sikong Jing rather than expose the family’s predicament.
• The old woman contacted Su Jingyi and decided she needed to speak with the Su Family head, a top-tier quasi-emperor.
• Su Jingyi visited Elder Qiu at the Sky Tower Building and asked to communicate with Sikong Ding on the tower’s ninetieth floor.
• Su Jingyi told Sikong Ding that his son had arrived at Feather Alliance Hall and was in his hands, threatening that Sikong Jing would soon scream.
• Sikong Ding replied, as he had three days earlier, that he did not believe Su Jingyi.

Su Jingyi learned that Sikong Jing had vanished at Feather Alliance Hall and hurried to search for him, while Sikong Ding believed his son would draw a sword before the Extreme Prison Sky Tower. Sikong Jing appeared among the crowd gathered before the ninety-nine swords, where a father explained that Feather Alliance Hall replaced every sword that was drawn.

• Su Jingyi received word from his grandmother that Sikong Jing had vanished, then tried to hide the news from Sikong Ding and ordered a search.
• Sikong Ding realized Sikong Jing had come to Feather Alliance Hall and believed his son would draw one of the ninety-nine swords before the Extreme Prison Sky Tower.
• Sikong Ding resolved to strengthen his Extreme Prison Stage foundation and leave the tower within three days so he would not hold Sikong Jing back.
• Sikong Jing appeared in black among the crowd before the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and observed people attempting to draw the swords.
• A young girl asked her father why the ninetieth sword remained after being drawn, and he explained that Feather Alliance Hall sent down a replacement sword each time one was taken.

Sikong Jing learned that direct disciples could bypass the queue at the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and decided to use Young Brother Su’s token to enter, despite the danger of drawing attention to himself. He walked among the ninety-nine swords as the guards mistook him for Su Jingbie, leaving his plan to reach his father on the tower’s ninetieth floor underway.

• A clan elder failed to draw the first sword, collapsed in grief, and was consoled by his clansmen.
• A white-clothed direct disciple arrived at the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and announced that she would try the eighty-sixth sword.
• Sikong Jing learned that his father remained on the tower’s ninetieth floor and told Little Brother Su and Junior Sister Cheng that the Spirit Race’s three-year deadline left him little reason to hide.
• Sikong Jing used Young Brother Su’s genuine disciple token to bypass the queue and stepped among the ninety-nine swords.
• The guard captain accepted the token and identified Sikong Jing as Su Jingbie, while the other guards discussed Su Jingyi and his family.

Sikong Jing used Su Jingbie’s identity and token to enter the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, determined to find his father before his three days were up. He reached the ninetieth sword, where Su Jingyi appeared and recognized him.

• The guards mocked Sikong Jing as he passed the first twenty swords, assuming he would retreat after attempting a difficult challenge.
• Sikong Jing told the spirit shadows of Su Jingbie and Junior Sister Cheng that he would expose the Su Family’s role in bringing him out of the Feather Sword Mountain Range, since he had only three days left to live.
• Sikong Jing followed the white-clad woman’s group until they stopped at the eighty-sixth sword, then continued toward the ninetieth sword, Long Xuan.
• A guard captain loudly taunted Su Jingyi about Sikong Jing reaching the ninetieth sword, and Sikong Jing turned to see Su Jingyi staring at him in shock.

Sikong Jing drew the ninetieth sword and entered the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, despite Su Jingyi’s attempts to stop him. After Sikong Jing vanished inside, Elder Qiu learned that the guards had mistaken him for Su Jingbie.

• Su Jingyi recognized Sikong Jing as Sikong Ding’s son and rushed toward him, accusing him of impersonating Su Jingbie.
• Sikong Jing drew the Long Xuan Sword from the ninetieth position, activating the formation and opening the tower’s ninetieth-floor gate.
• Su Jingyi asked Senior Sister Yu and Elder Qiu to stop Sikong Jing, but Elder Qiu explained that the activated tower could not be interrupted.
• Sikong Jing entered through the dark crimson gate, and the passage and gate disappeared as a new sword took the ninetieth sword’s place.
• Su Jingyi left to report the incident, while Senior Sister Yu recalled his earlier humiliation involving the Startling Wave Sword.
• The guard captain told Elder Qiu that the black-clothed youth was Sikong Ding’s son, not Su Jingbie, and Elder Qiu threatened the guards with punishment.

Sikong Jing entered the ninetieth floor of the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and began its punishing trial while speaking with his father, Sikong Ding. Sikong Ding revealed where several people taken three years earlier had been sent, leaving Sikong Jing focused on finding them.

• The guards realized Sikong Jing and Sikong Ding had drawn the ninetieth sword, and their captain warned them that the Spirit Race might become involved.
• Sikong Jing endured the ninetieth floor's pressure and heard Su Jingbie and Junior Sister Cheng panic inside his consciousness sea.
• Sikong Jing reunited by voice with Sikong Ding, who said he was nearing the exit and urged his son to catch up.
• Sikong Jing received the Feather Prison Sword Cage cultivation method but relied on the Spirit Prison Heavenly Cage as he advanced.
• Sikong Ding told Sikong Jing that the Spirit Race had taken his sister and another woman, and that Su Yuexi had been taken to Voyaging Heart Hall.
• Sikong Ding revealed that Yuexian and demonic beasts had been taken to the Green Rhino Clan, while Jing Yuan had been taken to the Sea-Gazing Hall.

Sikong Jing learned from Sikong Ding about the people taken by the Spirit Race and his father’s failed attempt to escape the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, then focused on growing stronger before the three days were up. The Feather Transformation Emperor inspected Sikong Jing on the tower’s ninetieth level, recognized several of his imperial bloodlines, and let him continue cultivating.

• Sikong Ding told Sikong Jing what he knew about the people taken away and explained how the Startling Wave Sword had forced him to enter the Extreme Prison Sky Tower early.
• Sikong Jing promised to bear what came next, then continued cultivating in the tower as he prepared for the Spirit Race’s possible return.
• Su Jingyi, his grandmother, and the Su Family patriarch knelt outside the Feather Transformation Emperor Hall and awaited the Feather Transformation Emperor’s judgment.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor sent a spirit projection to inspect Sikong Jing and asked how he had evaded inspection three years earlier.
• Sikong Jing said his body had been separated and only a shattered remnant soul remained; the Feather Transformation Emperor then left him to continue cultivating.

Sikong Jing realized that the Spirit Race had not detected his sinister spirit aura or Demon Vein, and he continued the experiment without appearing weak. The Feather Transformation Emperor ended the Su Family’s punishment and trial, leaving Su Jingbie’s fate unresolved and confirming that Sikong Jing’s Extreme Prison came from the ancient Sword Extinction Emperor’s method.

• Sikong Jing concluded that his hidden powers had escaped detection and decided to keep performing strongly during the remaining three days.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor told Elder Su that the Su Family’s actions had helped the Spirit Race’s experiment, ended the matter, and forbade further trouble with Sikong Ding and Sikong Jing.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor ended the life-and-death trial and let the Su Family leave, while Su Jingyi’s group remained unable to ask about rescuing Su Jingbie.
• Elder Su told the Su Family that the Feather Transformation Emperor would not intervene in Su Jingbie’s fate before the Spirit Race issued its punishment, and ordered them not to bring the matter up again.
• Elder Su explained that the Feather Transformation Emperor had denied Sikong Jing possessed the Purple Night Mystic Jade and said his Extreme Prison cultivation came from the ancient Sword Extinction Emperor’s method.

Su Jingyi learned that the Spirit Race would decide the fate of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm in three days, and the Su Family prepared to strike if its people were abandoned. Three years later, Sikong Ling had reached the Three-Step Yin Extreme Prison on her own and was brought before Ling Zhe, Spirit Parrot, Spirit Gull, and Tu Duoqing as the coming competition approached.

• The Su Family head told Su Jingyi to wait three days for the Spirit Race's decision and then take revenge if the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm was left to fend for itself.
• Three years later, Sikong Ling emerged from Spirit Parrot River after reaching the Three-Step Yin Extreme Prison and wondered about her family's fate as her three-year term neared its end.
• An attendant brought Sikong Ling to the palace where Ling Zhe, Spirit Parrot, Spirit Gull, and Tu Duoqing had gathered.
• Ling Zhe praised Spirit Parrot for supposedly guiding Sikong Ling to her cultivation level, while Sikong Ling privately resented Spirit Parrot for having neglected her.

Sikong Ling defeated Tu Duoqing, but Ling Zhe judged her performance unremarkable and ordered Spirit Gull to test the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm’s experimental subjects. Three days later, the Spirit Race arrived at the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, where Sikong Ding charged out to face their trial while Sikong Jing remained inside.

• Sikong Ling used her Nine Heavens Sword Dao to defeat Tu Duoqing despite being three steps lower in cultivation.
• Ling Ying claimed victory and received a yin spirit treasure from Ling Zhe, while Ling Zhe ordered Spirit Gull to test the experimental subjects and report their battles.
• Ling Zhe forbade Spirit Gull from killing the subjects until he had reviewed their performances, then taught Spirit Parrot to use the Yin Spirit Evil Aura.
• Three days later, the Feather Transformation Emperor announced that the Spirit Race had arrived and called for Sikong Ding to face their trial.
• Sikong Ding charged out of the Extreme Prison Sky Tower while Sikong Jing remained about ten meters from the exit.

Sikong Jing realized the Extreme Prison cultivation methods he knew could not fully temper his body, so he used his demonic form to forge a stronger Extreme Prison of his own. Meanwhile, Sikong Ding was brought before Spirit Gull’s subordinates and assigned a new opponent.

• Sikong Jing reasoned that the Nine Heavens Emperor may have forged her Extreme Prison by tempering herself alongside her Blood Devour Magic Beast.
• With the beast’s essence blood gone, Sikong Jing entered a half-demonized state and used his demon body to temper his Extreme Prison, finding the effect stronger than the tower’s ninetieth floor.
• Sikong Jing kept control of his demonhood while Su Jingbie and Junior Sister Cheng fainted in his consciousness sea, and he sent them into the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• Sikong Ding emerged from the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and was carried above the ninety-nine swords to meet the Feather Transformation Emperor and a Spirit Race woman.
• The Spirit Race woman ordered Ou Fu, a Seventh-Step Yin Extreme Prison disciple, to test Sikong Ding on behalf of Spirit Gull.

Sikong Ding began his battle against Ou Fu as the Spirit Race displayed the trials of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm’s captives. Imperial Venerable Jinghang refused to let Su Yuexi face her trial, choosing to make a fake Yuexi instead, while Su Yuexi struggled to escape and save her family.

• Lord Ruo used a mirror to show Sikong Ding’s battle to Lord Ling Zhe, and the Feather Transformation Emperor arranged for Ou Fu and Sikong Ding to fight above the ninety-nine swords.
• Ou Fu attacked Sikong Ding, who raised the Startling Wave Sword and unleashed Nine Heavens Sword Intent.
• Three days later, Spirit Gull showed Sikong Ling phantoms of Sikong Ding, Su Yuexian, Jing Yuan, Fire Thunder, Zhu Lian, and the other captives facing trials.
• A Spirit Gull subordinate ordered Imperial Venerable Jinghang to bring Su Yuexi out of seclusion for her trial.
• Imperial Venerable Jinghang extracted Su Yuexi’s essence blood and spiritual shadow power to make a fake Yuexi, insisting she was protecting her from the Spirit Race.
• Su Yuexi begged to face the trial to help save her family, but Imperial Venerable Jinghang left her trapped in the palace.