Chapter Summaries

Sikong Ling watched the trials end with victories for Su Yuexian, Sikong Ding, and Zhu Lian, but Ling Zhe dismissed their performance and ordered the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm destroyed. Sikong Ling exposed that Spirit Parrot had never taught her, prompting Spirit Parrot to demand the chance to kill her herself.

• Sikong Ling watched Fire Thunder, Jing Yuan, and Su Yuexi lose their trials, while Su Yuexian defeated her opponent.
• Sikong Ding won his battle with the Nine Heavens, Demon-Slaying Sword, and Zhu Lian also won, leaving three victories for the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm.
• Ling Zhe called the fighters mediocre and ordered Spirit Gull to wipe out every living being in the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm.
• Tu Duoqing pleaded with Ling Zhe, but he insisted that three victories against ordinary Spirit Race disciples meant nothing and criticized Spirit Gull's teaching.
• As Spirit Gull began relaying the order, Sikong Ling shouted that Spirit Parrot had never taught her, and Spirit Parrot demanded to kill Sikong Ling herself.

Sikong Ling exposed that Ling Ying had never trained her, prompting Ling Zhe to reclaim Ling Ying’s reward and test Sikong Ling’s sword comprehension before deciding whether to spare the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm. His order to wait another tea’s time reached the Feather Alliance Hall just as Sikong Ding was about to be killed, giving him and Sikong Jing a brief reprieve.

• Spirit Gull stopped Ling Ying from killing Sikong Ling, and Sikong Ling told Ling Zhe that she had trained herself for three years without Ling Ying’s help.
• Ling Ying made excuses, but Ling Zhe took back the sinister bamboo slip and gave Sikong Ling a tea’s time to comprehend his sword strike as a test of her worth.
• Ling Zhe ordered Spirit Gull to call off the extermination temporarily, and Spirit Gull spread the news to her subordinates.
• At Feather Alliance Hall, Su Jingyi hurried to speak with Sikong Jing after Lady Ruo announced Ling Zhe’s extermination order, while Lord Ruo refused the Feather Transformation Emperor’s appeal.
• Lord Ruo restrained Sikong Ding for Ou Fu, but then announced Ling Zhe’s order to wait another tea’s time, and Sikong Ding realized Sikong Ling had bought them that time.

Sikong Jing learned that the Spirit Race planned to erase his people, but used Ling'er’s one-cup-of-tea reprieve to temper his cultivation before leaving the tower. He sought the Feather Transformation Emperor’s help by attempting to draw the ninety-ninth sword, and the Emperor agreed to contact a Spirit Race power if he succeeded.

• Su Jingyi told Sikong Jing that the Spirit Race intended to erase everyone, and Sikong Jing traded Junior Sister Cheng’s and Su Jingbie’s spirit shadows for news about the delay and events outside.
• Sikong Jing learned that Ling'er had won them a cup of tea, then pushed his Extreme Prison cultivation to the threshold of the Yang Extreme Prison.
• Sikong Jing left the Extreme Prison Sky Tower early and went straight to the ninety-ninth sword.
• Sikong Jing asked the Feather Transformation Emperor to help arrange another talent test with a Spirit Race power if he drew the sword.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor agreed, and Sikong Jing began pulling at the ninety-ninth sword with his sword intents.

Sikong Ling’s sword comprehension earned her a three-year reprieve, but Ling Zhe ordered the rest of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm exterminated. Sikong Jing drew the ninety-ninth sword to save Sikong Ding, and the Feather Transformation Emperor forced Lady Ruo to contact Ling Zhe and present Sikong Jing as a potential reason to reconsider the order.

• Sikong Ling comprehended the sword well enough to advance her spirit shadow to the sixth step of the Yin Extreme Prison, so Ling Zhe spared her for three years but ordered the others killed.
• Spirit Gull relayed Ling Zhe’s extermination order to Lady Ruo, who told Ou Fu to kill Sikong Ding and then attack the Feather Sword Mountain Range.
• Sikong Jing drew the ninety-ninth sword and shattered Ou Fu’s weapon, sending him flying and saving Sikong Ding.
• Lady Ruo tried to attack Sikong Jing, but the Feather Transformation Emperor dispersed her strike and demanded that she contact Ling Zhe.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor pressured Lady Ruo into projecting the scene to Ling Zhe and presenting Sikong Jing as a talent from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm.

Sikong Jing drew the ninety-ninth sword and appeared in an illusory image before Ling Zhe, prompting the Spirit Race to halt its extermination order and arrange a test of his strength. The chapter left Sikong Jing awaiting a battle at Feather Alliance Hall while Ling Zhe remained skeptical of his talent.

• Sikong Jing drew the ninety-ninth sword, but worried that he had acted too late to save Ling'er and Yue Xi.
• Spirit Gull paused her attempt to erase Tu Duoqing after Lord Ruo's image showed Sikong Jing at the Extreme Prison Sky Tower.
• Tu Duoqing recognized Sikong Jing as someone from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm, and Spirit Gull told Ling Zhe that he was a genius who had passed Feather Alliance Hall's trials.
• Ling Zhe called off the extermination order again, though some people, including a Green Leaf Palace companion of Fire Thunder, had already been erased.
• Ling Zhe ordered Spirit Race subordinates at Feather Alliance Hall to send someone to fight Sikong Jing and test his mettle.
• Su Jingbie returned to his body and shrieked that Sikong Jing had truly drawn the ninety-ninth sword.

After Sikong Jing drew the ninety-ninth sword, Lady Ruo sent three-step Yang Extreme Prison fighter Ou Yuan to test him in battle. Sikong Jing unleashed the Extreme Prison Sword and nearly killed Ou Yuan before Lady Ruo intervened and shattered his attack.

• The Su Family members argued that drawing the ninety-ninth sword would not make Sikong Jing special to the Spirit Race, and the Su Family Head recalled that greater Feather Alliance Hall geniuses had remained unranked.
• Lady Ruo announced Lord Ling Zhe's order to test Sikong Jing in battle and chose three-step Yang Extreme Prison fighter Ou Yuan to fight him.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor allowed the fight and told Sikong Jing it was the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm's final chance.
• Sikong Jing raised the Nine Extremes Sword and challenged Ou Yuan, who unleashed the Spirit Gull Intent Spirit Sword to cripple him.
• Sikong Jing used Sword Annihilation, Eighth Chapter—Extreme Prison Sword, shattering Ou Yuan's sword qi and piercing through his power.
• Lady Ruo appeared and smashed Sikong Jing's sword attack apart just before it engulfed Ou Yuan.

Sikong Jing defeated two Spirit Race Yang Extreme Prison fighters in succession and challenged all the others, forcing Lady A-Ruo to hesitate as dozens surrounded him. Before Ling Zhe's palace, Sikong Ling watched anxiously, wondering whether Sikong Jing's performance would change Ling Zhe's order to erase them.

• Lady A-Ruo attacked Sikong Jing after he defeated Ou Yuan, but the Feather Transformation Emperor stopped her and warned her to wait for Lord Ling Zhe.
• Sikong Jing challenged the Spirit Race's Yang Extreme Prison fighters, and Lady A-Ruo sent the five-step Ou Qiang to fight him.
• Sikong Jing combined his Extreme Prison Sword with spirit shadow power to defeat Ou Qiang, whom Lady A-Ruo rescued from death.
• Dozens of Spirit Race fighters surrounded Sikong Jing, but Lady A-Ruo hesitated to let them all attack.
• Before Ling Zhe's palace, Spirit Gull lamented the humiliation while Sikong Ling wondered whether Sikong Jing had impressed Ling Zhe enough to spare them.

Ling Zhe ordered Sikong Jing to defeat every Yang Extreme Prison under Lady Ruo or the extermination order would stand, leaving Sikong Jing to face several dozen opponents at once. As their spirit-shadow power pinned him down, he resisted with his battle will and began using the Sword Extinction Extreme Prison Sword to temper his own Extreme Prison.

• Ling Zhe told Spirit Gull to order every Yang Extreme Prison to attack Sikong Jing and promised to rescind the extermination order if Sikong Jing defeated them all.
• Lady Ruo relayed Ling Zhe's condition at Feather Alliance Hall, and Sikong Jing accepted the challenge as his chance to save half of Boundless Sea.
• Tan Feixiang joined Senior Sister Yu to watch as the spectators debated Sikong Jing's chances and the Su Family head predicted his defeat.
• Several dozen Spirit Race Yang Extreme Prisons surrounded Sikong Jing and tried to immobilize him with their spirit-shadow power.
• Sikong Jing resisted their pressure with his will, struck with the Sword Extinction Extreme Prison Sword, and shattered their spirit-shadow power with his sword beams.
• When the Yang Extreme Prisons counterattacked together, Sikong Jing rejected his strongest techniques and redirected the Sword Extinction Extreme Prison Sword into his own body to temper his Extreme Prison.

Sikong Jing discovered that Sword Annihilation’s Eighth Chapter could temper his Extreme Prison, and he used the Spirit Race disciples’ attacks to survive the process and break through to Second Step Yang Extreme Prison. He renewed his fight against the encirclement, leaving Spirit Gull Manor close to defeat and Tu Duoqing believing she might survive.

• Sikong Jing turned the Spirit Race sword beams against himself, enduring the clash of positive and negative sword power to temper his Extreme Prison.
• Sikong Jing’s body erupted with Sword Annihilation Sword Qi, destroying the incoming beams; his wounds healed, his Sword Extinction Imperial Bloodline grew, and he advanced to Second Step Yang Extreme Prison.
• Sikong Jing challenged the Spirit Race disciples to attack again, then used the first eight chapters of Sword Annihilation to fight through their encirclement and target weaker opponents.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor arrived beside Lady Ruo and refused to explain Sikong Jing’s sword strike, while privately recognizing the Sword Extinction Emperor’s cultivation method.
• Spirit Gull watched her disciples nearing defeat, and Tu Duoqing stood up, believing she would survive.

Ling Zhe ended the extermination campaign against the people of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm after Sikong Jing proved their potential, but left their survival to the various races and halls. Sikong Jing’s battle at Feather Alliance Hall was halted, and he was accepted as a disciple as the Spirit Race withdrew.

• Ling Zhe ordered the extermination operations stopped and decreed that the people of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm would fend for themselves, while Sikong Jing would be taken in by Feather Alliance Hall and tested further.
• Ling Zhe reassigned Sikong Ling and Tu Duoqing to Spirit Gull and Spirit Parrot for another year of competition over their potential.
• Master Ruo relayed Ling Zhe’s order at Feather Alliance Hall and stopped the Spirit Race fighters from continuing their battle with Sikong Jing.
• The Spirit Race youths returned to Seagull Floating Island after threatening to kill Sikong Jing if they met again.
• Sikong Jing reflected that his victory had bought the people of the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm time, and wondered how Yue Xi, Ling'er, Sister-in-law Yuexian, and Jing Yuan were doing.

Sikong Jing entered the ninety-ninth floor of the Extreme Prison Sky Tower after joining Feather Alliance Hall, leaving his father and the people from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm under temporary protection. He handed Feather Transformation Emperor the first eight chapters of the Sword Extinction inheritance and began recovering, determined to gain a foothold and protect his people.

• The Su Family head told Su Jingyi that Sikong Jing was vulnerable, and Su Jingyi agreed to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Feather Transformation Emperor told Sikong Jing he could enter the ninety-ninth floor and assured him that powerful elders might shelter Sikong Ding and the others.
• Feather Transformation Emperor demanded the Sword Extinction inheritance in exchange for temporary protection and a place of refuge for Sikong Jing's people.
• Sikong Jing inscribed the first eight chapters of Sword Extinction onto a Green Jade Spirit Scroll, explaining that he could not yet unlock the remaining four.
• Feather Transformation Emperor asked about the Purple Night Mystic Jade, and Sikong Jing said he did not know where it was.
• Sikong Jing kept the Nine Heavens Sword Extinction Sword, the Burial Emperor Sword, and the Demon Vein secret, then sat down to recover on the tower's ninety-ninth floor.

After the trial, the Feather Transformation Emperor placed the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm survivors under the Yu Family’s protection, while Su Yuexi and others faced uncertain futures. Su Yuexi began cultivating the Mystic Jade Emperor’s path in secret, and the Green Rhino Demon Emperor was interrupted just as he considered what to do with Su Yuexian and the wounded demons.

• The Feather Transformation Emperor assigned Elder Yu to protect the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm survivors, and Senior Sister Yu offered Sikong Ding temporary refuge with the Yu Family.
• The Su Family acknowledged that it could not retaliate for now, but Su Jingyi remained determined to kill Sikong Jing before he grew stronger.
• The Sea-Gazing Hall Imperial Venerable threw the injured Jing Yuan back into the sea, where his sea-beast friend swallowed him and welcomed his survival.
• Imperial Venerable Jinghang made Su Yuexi a Voyaging Heart Hall disciple but warned that she could no longer claim ties to the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm; Su Yuexi then entered the Mystic Jade Extreme Prison to cultivate in secret.
• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor considered the fate of Su Yuexian and the wounded demons, but a green-armored woman arrived with news that they had found the Demon Sword Tiger’s spacetime tunnel.

The Green Rhino Demon Emperor attacked the Demon Sword Tiger to seize Sikong Jing’s little Shadow Moon Rat, but Mountain Roc and Silk Silkworm intervened and took the rat in turn. A fourth Demon Emperor arrived and declared that the Shadow Moon Rat belonged to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.

• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor entered the spacetime tunnel and demanded that the Demon Sword Tiger hand over the little Shadow Moon Rat.
• The Demon Sword Tiger refused, and the Green Rhino Demon Emperor wounded it with a surge of demon power.
• Mountain Roc appeared, seized the Shadow Moon Rat, and fought the Green Rhino Demon Emperor.
• Silk Silkworm snatched the Shadow Moon Rat from Mountain Roc and tried to flee.
• The silk threads binding the Shadow Moon Rat snapped as a fourth Demon Emperor arrived and claimed it for the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.

Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and Fang Sword witnessed the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor battle three Demon Emperors, until Ling Zhe joined them against the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall. The Lord revealed his overwhelming power, leaving the three Demon Emperors screaming beneath his darkness.

• The Sword Tiger Demon Emperor arrived in its true body, blew apart the spacetime tunnel, and began fighting Mountain Roc and the other Demon Emperors.
• Sikong Jing and Fang Sword emerged in a mountain range, where the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor suppressed the three Spirit Shadow avatars while Sikong Jing reconnected intermittently with his Humanoid Spirit Shadow.
• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor summoned Ling Zhe to help seize the little Shadow Moon Rat, and Ling Zhe entered the spacetime tunnel.
• Green Rhino, Mountain Roc, and Silk Silkworm arrived in their true bodies and overwhelmed the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor, but the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall appeared to challenge them.
• Ling Zhe joined the three Demon Emperors against the Lord, and Sikong Jing learned that the Lord was a Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger.
• The Lord unleashed darkness with a roar, and the three Demon Emperors screamed beneath its power.

Sikong Jing and Fang Sword were cast into the Dark Demon Small World after Ling Zhe used sinister Yin spirit energy to delay the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall. As they plunged through the passage, Fang Sword fainted and Sikong Jing prepared to face the unknown danger.

• Ling Zhe targeted Sikong Jing, and the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall ordered the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor to protect him.
• Ling Zhe used a Dark Demon Realm Ring to send Sikong Jing and Fang Sword into the Dark Demon Small World while the Demon Emperors attacked them.
• The Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall tried to save Sikong Jing, but Ling Zhe stabbed him with a bamboo skewer carrying yin-spirit evil aura.
• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor activated Ling Zhe's red halo and sent Sikong Jing, Fang Sword, and nearby mountains through a passage into darkness.
• Fang Sword called the Dark Demon Small World a hopeless place and fainted, while Sikong Jing resolved to discover what awaited them.
• Ling Zhe retreated with the Green Rhino Demon Emperor after the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall expelled the sinister Yin spirit energy.

Ling Zhe escaped with the Green Rhino Demon Emperor and the Shadow Moon Rat into the Dark Demon Small World, while the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor could only abandon their pursuit. Ling Zhe planned to capture the rat later through humans who could enter the world, and the Green Rhino Demon Emperor proposed using a human test subject for an experiment.

• Mountain Roc and Silk Silkworm escaped after taunting the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor, while the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall recovered from memories stirred by sinister ghostly energy.
• The Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and the Sword Tiger Demon Emperor concluded that Ling Zhe had taken the Shadow Moon Rat into the Dark Demon Small World to destroy it, and they returned to their hall.
• Ling Zhe arrived at Green Rhino territory injured and told the Green Rhino Demon Emperor that the Dark Demon Small World might now be survivable for people at the Extreme Prison Stage.
• Ling Zhe planned to have his people try to capture the Shadow Moon Rat, then send young geniuses into the world after the Demon Sword Tiger was dealt with.
• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor reminded Ling Zhe of the human test subject from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm and suggested sending her into the Dark Demon Small World for an experiment.

Ling Zhe sent the little Shadow Moon Rat and Fang Sword into the Dark Demon Small World, where demonic energy threatened to corrupt them. The chapter ended with armed people arriving and ordering Fang Sword killed before it became a Blood Devour Magic Beast.

• Ling Zhe returned to Spirit Race territory while the Green Rhino Demon Emperor ordered Su Yuexian to prepare for another mission.
• Sikong Jing resumed training on the ninety-ninth level of the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and resolved to grow strong enough to protect Boundless Sea.
• The little Shadow Moon Rat and unconscious Fang Sword emerged into the Dark Demon Small World, where blood-red skies and dense demonic energy surrounded them.
• Fang Sword struggled against the corruption and planned to hide the little Shadow Moon Rat before ending itself.
• People appeared and ordered their group to kill the wounded Fang Sword, warning that no demon beast could withstand the demonic qi.

Sikong Jing revealed himself to Fang Sword and passed on the Pure Spirit First Heart, temporarily stopping Fang Sword from falling into demonhood. He asked Fang Sword to explain the Dark Demon Small World, leaving his origins undisclosed.

• Fang Sword shielded the little Shadow Moon Rat from humans attacking from above and refused to kill them despite his worsening injuries.
• Fang Sword drove the humans away, and they fled to gather reinforcements while he stayed behind to protect the little Shadow Moon Rat.
• Sikong Jing spoke through the little Shadow Moon Rat, startling Fang Sword, who wondered whether he was a reincarnator or body-snatcher.
• Sikong Jing transmitted the Pure Spirit First Heart, allowing Fang Sword to remain lucid for a quarter of an hour despite the demonic intent.
• Sikong Jing declined to explain his identity and asked Fang Sword what kind of place the Dark Demon Small World was.

Sikong Jing and Fang Sword learned that the Dark Demon Small World was now inhabited by exiles rather than the demonic beasts of legend, and they began gathering information while trying to resist its corruption. They remained trapped, expecting Ling Zhe to send Spirit Race members after Sikong Jing and hoping the master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall might rescue them.

• Fang Sword explained that the Dark Demon Small World could turn Magic Beasts demonic and was used to exile people, prompting Sikong Jing to suspect that the Spirit Race had changed its rules and might send Ling Zhe’s forces to capture him.
• Sikong Jing told Fang Sword to collect the four Demon Emperors’ blood, and Fang Sword gathered it from the blasted mountains before carrying Sikong Jing away.
• Fang Sword captured a group of exiles and questioned them about the small world, then used Sikong Jing’s Clear Spirit Second Heart to suppress his demonic intent.
• Sikong Jing learned from the exiles that the demonic beasts had vanished long ago and that the Spirit Race still sent explorers into the small world, then predicted Ling Zhe would hunt him after Fang Sword died.
• Fang Sword admitted that demonic corruption would eventually overcome him, while Sikong Jing rejected escaping through the Spirit Race and said they could only endure and hope the master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall would rescue them.

In the Dark Demon Small World, Sikong Jing hid Fang Sword inside his Spirit Platform and began transforming his Shadow Moon Rat body through demonic cultivation. He kept refining the Demon Emperors’ blood and absorbing demonic aura as he worked to grow stronger without losing consciousness.

• Sikong Jing landed in an ancient forest and asked Fang Sword to enter his Spirit Platform inside its tiger-fang treasure.
• Fang Sword agreed, and Sikong Jing entered a demonic state to evolve his Shadow Moon Rat body and forge a Demon Vein.
• Sikong Jing endured the transformation with the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method while his cultivation surged and his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow shielded the beasts in his Spirit Platform.
• Sikong Jing asked Fang Sword for the blood of the four Demon Emperors, then absorbed some and distributed the rest among the beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison.
• Sikong Jing continued opening Demon Veins, absorbing the surrounding demonic aura, and refining the Demon Emperors’ blood.