Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing used the four Demon Emperors’ blood to strengthen the little Shadow Moon Rat, then hid from humans while trying to force the Spirit Race to send captors into the Dark Demon Small World. After learning the rat was to be captured alive, Ling Zhe ordered the clans and halls to select Extreme Prison Stage geniuses for a tempering expedition.

• Sikong Jing discovered a drop of blood from the master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and set it aside because he was not yet strong enough to devour it.
• When humans asked about Fang Sword, Sikong Jing claimed that the Demon Sword Tiger had ended itself, then fled as they pursued him.
• Sikong Jing explained to Fang Sword that the deception was meant to make the Spirit Race send captors sooner, creating a chance to escape through the world’s entrance and exit.
• The Spirit Race ordered that the Shadow Moon Rat be captured alive, and Sikong Jing continued evading pursuit while evolving through demonization.
• Ling Zhe ordered every clan and hall to select a thousand Extreme Prison Stage geniuses for tempering in the Dark Demon Small World.

Ling Zhe ordered the Spirit Race’s Extreme Prison Stage geniuses to enter the Dark Demon Small World and capture the Shadow Moon Rat, while the Ten Thousand Demon Hall sought a way to rescue Fang Sword and the rat. Three days later, Senior Sister Yu prepared to enter the trial, knowing Su Jingyi and the Su Family had arranged for her to go in his place.

• Ling Zhe ordered clans and halls to send one thousand Extreme Prison Stage geniuses into the Dark Demon Small World, and told Zhe Ying to lead the Spirit Race’s effort to capture the Shadow Moon Rat.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall learned that the Spirit Race was preparing its own trial and ordered Stinging Bee to watch for a chance to infiltrate a hall and enter the Dark Demon Small World.
• Feather Alliance Hall summoned its selected geniuses, and Senior Sister Yu set out despite believing she might not return alive.
• Su Jingyi arrived to see Senior Sister Yu off, and the Yu Family confronted him over his role in arranging for her to take his place in the dangerous trial.

Senior Sister Yu, Su Yuexian, and other selected cultivators entered the Dark Demon Small World as part of the Spirit Race’s trial, while Imperial Venerable Menhang revealed she had forced Su Yuexi into the trial to kill her. The Shadow Moon Rat sensed the arrivals and prepared to begin its operation.

• Su Jingyi blamed the Yu Family’s misfortune on its protection of Sikong Ding, his son, and the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm, while the Yu Family head ordered Sikong Ding and his son to meet him.
• Senior Sister Yu joined the thousand selected cultivators, and the Feather Transformation Emperor opened the Dark Demon Realm Ring to send them into the Dark Demon Small World.
• The Green Rhino Demon Emperor sent Su Yuexian and a thousand human cultivators into the Dark Demon Small World, urging her to capture the little Shadow Moon Rat in return for a reward.
• Imperial Venerable Jinghang learned that Su Yuexi had entered the Dark Demon Small World and confronted Imperial Venerable Menhang, who falsely claimed Su Yuexi had volunteered.
• Imperial Venerable Menhang admitted she had forced Su Yuexi into the trial and planned to have her killed, relying on the Spirit Race’s support to shield herself from Jinghang.
• The little Shadow Moon Rat sensed the Spirit Race’s arrivals and told the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow that it was time to begin their operation.

Sikong Jing tried to escape the Dark Demon Small World through a shrinking vortex but was spotted by Zhe Ying, who alerted Ling Zhe. Realizing Ling Zhe would be waiting outside, Sikong Jing retreated back into the Dark Demon Small World and plunged toward the Spirit Race geniuses.

• Fang Sword carried Sikong Jing’s tiny Shadow Moon Rat body toward the vortex, then returned to the tiger fang treasure so its demonic energy would not reveal it.
• Sikong Jing suppressed his demonic energy, concealed himself, and rushed toward the exit as a thousand Spirit Race geniuses entered the Dark Demon Small World.
• Zhe Ying sensed Sikong Jing’s approach, tried to stop him, and crushed a signal bead to warn Ling Zhe.
• Sikong Jing entered the vortex but turned back after realizing Ling Zhe would be waiting outside.
• Sikong Jing rushed back into the Dark Demon Small World, evaded Zhe Ying’s encirclement, and plunged toward the Spirit Race geniuses.

Sikong Jing’s failed escape alerted the Spirit Race to possible intruders, and Voyaging Heart Hall’s trial-takers entered and sealed the small-world entrance. Sikong Jing slipped over to observe them and spotted Su Yuexi among them.

• Zhe Ying failed to catch the demonic smoke and concluded that either an exiled human or the little Shadow Moon Rat had tried to escape, then notified Ling Zhe.
• Sikong Jing and Fang Sword realized the Spirit Race would warn the other factions, making another escape attempt even more dangerous.
• Sikong Jing sensed Voyaging Heart Hall’s arrival and heard Zhe Ying order the entrance sealed and the newcomers warned.
• Sikong Jing and Fang Sword approached the sealed vortex, where a thousand Voyaging Heart Hall geniuses had gathered.
• Sikong Jing spotted Su Yuexi among them; she alone had not joined the others in sealing the entrance.

Sikong Jing discovered that Su Yuexi had entered the Dark Demon Small World and secretly approached her, only to witness Voyaging Heart Hall disciples turn against her. As Senior Sister Luo prepared to kill Su Yuexi, Sikong Jing appeared in his demonic beast form and halted the attack.

• Sikong Jing learned that Su Yuexi was among the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples and moved closer to hear what they planned.
• Senior Sister Luo and the other Voyaging Heart Hall disciples surrounded Su Yuexi and declared that they intended to kill her for Imperial Venerable Menhang.
• Senior Sister Luo explained that Menhang wanted Su Yuexi dead because Imperial Venerable Jinghang had chosen her as a core disciple, and that the trial provided an opportunity to carry out the murder.
• Su Yuexi prepared to summon the beasts within the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison fragment but hesitated because the demonic energy could corrupt them.
• A surge of demonic energy interrupted Senior Sister Luo, and Sikong Jing appeared as a Blood Devour Magic Beast, prompting Su Yuexi to recognize a familiar connection.
• Sikong Jing's Shadow Moon Demon Rat form grew feathered wings as the demonic intent around him intensified.

The little Shadow Moon Rat completely fell into demonhood after Su Yuexi appeared, and he used powers from several beast clans to devastate the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples. Su Yuexi recognized him as Sikong Jing, who briefly regained consciousness and promised to defeat their attackers before severing his demonhood.

• The demonic energy flooded the little Shadow Moon Rat's Spirit Platform, while the beasts inside Sikong Jing's Beast-Form Spirit Shadow used the Pure Spirit Seven Hearts Method to resist it.
• Voyaging Heart Hall disciples identified the demonized rat as their mission target and attacked, but his Mountain Roc Demon Wing Slash killed several experts.
• The little Shadow Moon Rat transformed with Green Rhino power and sent hundreds of Voyaging Heart Hall disciples flying.
• As Senior Sister Luo attacked Su Yuexi, the little Shadow Moon Rat used Silk Silkworm threads to pull her out of danger and bring her to him.
• Su Yuexi recognized the little Shadow Moon Demon Mouse as Jing Gege, and Sikong Jing briefly regained consciousness, promising to defeat the attackers before severing his demonhood.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi fought the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples together in the Dark Demon Small World. After the Shadow Moon Demon Rat killed Senior Sister Luo, Sikong Jing sensed people approaching and fled with Su Yuexi.

• Su Yuexi reunited with Sikong Jing and joined him in attacking the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat unleashed its Demon Sword Tiger and Nine Heavens sword powers, while Su Yuexi slaughtered the disciples; Senior Sister Luo fled.
• Sikong Jing began using Nine Heavens Sword Intent to sever the demonic intent, though the Dark Demon Small World's rules kept feeding him demonic energy.
• Su Yuexi confronted Senior Sister Luo, and the Shadow Moon Demon Rat struck her dead.
• Sikong Jing sensed people approaching, shattered the surrounding space, and escaped with Su Yuexi.

Zhe Ying investigated the slaughter of the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples and concluded that the Shadow Moon Magic Rat had killed them. Hidden nearby, Sikong Jing struggled against deepening demonization until Su Yuexi revealed that the Purple Night Mystic Jade held abundant Yin Spirit Evil Qi.

• Zhe Ying arrived with a thousand Spirit Race prodigies, examined the corpses, and determined that the mature Blood Devour Magic Rat had reached the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm.
• Zhe Ying reported the Voyaging Heart Hall disciples' deaths to Ling Zhe and planned to pursue the rat when Sea-Gazing Hall's people arrived.
• Su Yuexi hid with the little Shadow Moon Rat in an earth fissure and used a barrier to conceal its surging demonic qi.
• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi that the world's demonic qi was overwhelming his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and that his Nine Heavens Sword Intent could no longer hold it back.
• After Sikong Jing wished for Yin Spirit Evil Qi to strengthen himself, Su Yuexi revealed that the Purple Night Mystic Jade contained a large supply it had absorbed from his storage treasure.

Su Yuexi revealed that Purple Night Mystic Jade had stored the Yin Spirit evil qi, and Sikong Jing sent his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow inside to temper its Extreme Prison Stage. Meanwhile, Zhe Ying grew furious when the arriving geniuses proved weak and reported to Ling Zhe that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had not appeared.

• Su Yuexi explained that Purple Night Mystic Jade had recovered, recognized her as its master, and could let Sikong Jing enter its Yin Spirit evil qi space.
• Sikong Jing sent his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow into the Mystic Jade and used the vast evil qi to cultivate the Extreme Prison Stage and gain insight into his Burial Emperor Sword.
• With Sikong Jing's spirit shadow gone, the little Shadow Moon Demon Rat weakened as demonic qi flooded in, while Fang Sword feared it would become too deeply demonized.
• Zhe Ying attacked the thousand Sea-Gazing Hall geniuses after the Shadow Moon Demon Rat failed to appear, then learned they were ostracized disciples rather than the hall's true geniuses.
• Zhe Ying waited in ambush as more groups arrived, dismissed them as useless, and crushed a signal pearl to report to Ling Zhe that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had not appeared and seemed to retain its intelligence.

Ling Zhe investigated how the demonized little Shadow Moon Rat retained its intelligence and ordered Spirit Gull to question the clans and halls over their weak trial candidates. At Voyaging Heart Hall, Imperial Venerable Jinghang took Xiao Moli for the trial, while Imperial Venerable Menhang’s attempt to accuse Jinghang backfired when the elders learned Su Yuexi was alive and condemned Menhang.

• Ling Zhe considered whether the Beast Emperor Soul Intent or the Demon Sword Tiger had preserved the little Shadow Moon Rat’s intelligence, then ordered Spirit Gull to question the clans and halls about their weak candidates.
• Imperial Venerable Menhang learned that the little Shadow Moon Rat had killed all 999 Voyaging Heart Hall disciples sent into the Dark Demon Small World, and she was pleased that she believed Su Yuexi had died.
• Imperial Venerable Jinghang arrived and took Menhang’s talented granddaughter, Xiao Moli, to prepare for the trial, citing Ling Zhe’s demand for stronger candidates.
• Menhang tried to accuse Jinghang of using the trial to avenge Su Yuexi, but a Voyaging Heart Hall elder revealed Su Yuexi’s backup life lamp showed she was alive.
• The elders believed Jinghang’s claim that Menhang had tried to harm Su Yuexi and left Menhang without support for Xiao Moli’s situation.

Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow broke through to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, reunited with Su Yuexi, and continued hiding in the Dark Demon Small World. Meanwhile, his main body reached the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm and left the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, where a Yu Family member summoned him to meet their family head.

• After Min Hang failed to bring Xiao Moli back, Imperial Venerable Jinghang worried that Su Yuexi might face further danger in the Dark Demon Small World.
• Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow broke free of the Burial Emperor Battlefield illusion, reached the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, and cut away its demonic intent.
• Sikong Jing reassured Fang Sword, then met up with Su Yuexi and decided they would hide while avoiding capture.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi traveled stealthily, shared what had happened since arriving in the Vast Cosmos Great World, and resolved to watch for the Spirit Race’s next moves.
• Sikong Jing’s main body reached the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm on the ninety-ninth level and exited the Extreme Prison Sky Tower.
• A Yu Family member approached Sikong Jing’s main body and ordered him to meet the family head.

Sikong Jing left the Extreme Prison Sky Tower and learned that his father and the Boundless Sea group were staying with the Yu Family, whose attitude toward them had turned hostile. As Sikong Jing headed to the Yu Family, its head confronted Sikong Ding and demanded to know whether the group would stay or leave.

• A Yu Family middle-aged man told Sikong Jing that Sikong Ding and the Boundless Sea people were under the Yu Family's care and accused Sikong Jing and his father of endangering the eldest young miss.
• Elder Qiu mocked Sikong Jing for spending over a month on the ninety-ninth floor and warned him that Su Jingyi would soon challenge him to a life-and-death fight.
• Sikong Jing decided the Yu Family man was not working for Su Jingyi and went with him to the Yu Family to find his father.
• Feather Alliance Hall factions debated whether to recruit Sikong Jing, with top powerhouses wary of his ties to the Spirit Gull Lineage and other elders still interested in his potential.
• At the Yu Family's main hall, Sikong Ding and the Boundless Sea group faced a sudden change in their hosts' attitude as Yu Diejin asked whether they would stay or leave.

After emerging from the Extreme Prison Sky Tower, Sikong Jing learned that Yu Tang had been sent into the Dark Demon Small World and that Yu Diejin wanted him to kill Su Jingyi. Su Jingyi challenged him to a public fight to the death, but Sikong Jing proposed that they enter the Dark Demon Small World together for the Spirit Race’s trial.

• Yu Diejin summoned Sikong Jing and criticized him for taking more than a month to leave the ninety-ninth floor.
• Sikong Jing said he would consider remaining with the Yu Family if it treated the people from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm well.
• Yu Diejin revealed that the Su Family had made Yu Tang a participant in the dangerous Dark Demon Small World trial and demanded that Sikong Jing publicly kill Su Jingyi.
• Su Jingyi arrived at the Yu Family gates and challenged Sikong Jing to a public life-and-death battle.
• Sikong Jing rejected the duel and asked Su Jingyi to enter the Dark Demon Small World with him for the Spirit Race’s trial.

Sikong Jing rejected Su Jingyi’s public life-and-death challenge and proposed settling things inside the Dark Demon Small World, where Su Jingyi lacked the courage to follow. When Lady Ruo arrived to demand a new group of Extreme Prison Stage geniuses for the trial, Sikong Jing asked to enter, leaving Su Jingyi trembling.

• Sikong Jing told Su Jingyi that he would challenge him after reaching the same realm, then taunted him for not daring to enter the Dark Demon Small World.
• Junior Sister Cheng and Su Jingyi claimed the trial slots were full, avoiding the challenge.
• Lady Ruo arrived on behalf of Lord Ling Zhe and ordered the Feather Alliance Hall to send another thousand genuine Extreme Prison Stage geniuses into the Dark Demon Small World.
• Sikong Jing called out to Lady Ruo and asked to represent the Feather Alliance Hall in the trial.
• Lady Ruo turned toward Sikong Jing with murderous intent, while Su Jingyi trembled at the entrance of the Yu Family.

Sikong Jing secured a place in the Dark Demon Small World by asking Lady Ruo, then named Su Jingyi as the close friend who should go with him. Su Jingyi was forced into the expedition, while the Feather Transformation Emperor gave Sikong Jing a core disciple token and told him to await further orders.

• Sikong Jing asked Lady Ruo for permission to enter the Dark Demon Small World, and she agreed.
• Sikong Jing named Su Jingyi as his close friend and asked that he be allowed to enter too.
• Master Ruo approved Su Jingyi's place, and the Feather Transformation Emperor confirmed that both could go.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor gave Sikong Jing a core disciple token and said he would give further orders.
• Sikong Jing told Su Jingyi their reckoning would take place in the Dark Demon Small World, leaving Su Jingyi furious and unable to object.

Sikong Jing forced Su Jingyi to enter the Dark Demon Small World, winning Yu Diejin’s support while Feather Alliance Hall and Lord Ruo dismissed him as doomed. He told Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian that he had chosen the trial to reunite his Spirit Shadows and stop Ling Zhe from capturing his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow.

• Sikong Jing revealed that Lord Ruo’s hostility toward him had made Su Jingyi’s friendship with him a liability, and Su Jingyi attacked before Yu Diejin struck him down.
• The Su Family Head accused Sikong Jing of risking his life to curry favor with the Yu Family, but Yu Diejin promised to protect the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm’s people regardless of the outcome.
• Yu Diejin brought Sikong Jing into the Yu Family and promised him treasures, while Feather Alliance Hall’s experts called him a fool for entering the trial.
• Lord Ruo told Ou Yuan and the others that Sikong Jing was certain to die, then asked them to seek help from Lord Spirit Gull in arranging Sikong Jing’s death.
• Sikong Jing told Sikong Ding and Ling Xiaotian that entering the Dark Demon Small World would let his two Spirit Shadows merge and that he believed his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow had learned the world well.
• Sikong Jing said he suspected Ling Zhe had arranged the trial to capture his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow, and he intended to prevent it.

Sikong Jing went to the Feather Transformation Emperor Hall with the young geniuses who would enter the Dark Demon Small World, where they began adapting to its demonic aura. When he asked about the Shadow Moon Demon Rat they were ordered to capture, everyone was stunned that he could still speak calmly.

• Sikong Jing left his parents with Yu Diejin and arrived at the Feather Transformation Emperor Hall, where he saw Su Jingyi and the other entrants.
• Yu Diejin identified Tan Feixiang and explained that hidden geniuses of the Feather Alliance Hall would also enter the Dark Demon Small World.
• Su Jingyi introduced Sikong Jing to a bald hidden genius, who demanded Sikong Jing's ninety-ninth sword and offered to make him a lackey; Sikong Jing ignored him.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor introduced Li Shi as the leader of the thousand entrants and ordered them to adapt to the demonic aura for five days before the trial.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor revealed that Lord Ling Zhe had ordered them to capture a possibly intelligent Shadow Moon Demon Rat, and Sikong Jing realized the target was his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow.
• Sikong Jing asked whether the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was special, stunning the gathered experts and youths because he could speak calmly while exposed to the demonic aura.

Sikong Jing’s immunity to demonic energy drew Feather Transformation Emperor’s attention, who brought him to a secret sword-cultivation space and revealed his connection to the mysterious Sword Clan. Feather Transformation Emperor offered him five days to study two ancient Sword Clan corpses, promising support and a life-saving treasure if he gained something special.

• Sikong Jing explained that the demonic energy barely affected him, and Feather Transformation Emperor took him from the others to the Imperial Venerable Hall.
• Feather Transformation Emperor led Sikong Jing into the Feather Alliance Sword Corpse Cave, where two sword-shaped coffins held ancient corpses.
• Feather Transformation Emperor explained that the Sword Clan included those who forged their Extreme Prison through the sword path, making Sikong Jing a possible member and Sword Extinction Emperor a possible founder.
• Feather Transformation Emperor revealed that the corpses had belonged to Sword Clan experts and that Mystic Jade Emperor had killed his master, the founder of Feather Alliance Hall.
• Feather Transformation Emperor gave Sikong Jing five days in the cave and promised to help him establish himself in Feather Alliance Hall and provide a life-saving treasure if he discovered something special.

Sikong Jing meditated in the Feather Alliance Sword Corpse Cave while Feather Transformation Emperor and Emperor Yu'e hoped he might uncover Sword Clan secrets that could help their hall escape dependence on the Spirit Race. On the fifth day, Sikong Jing used the Burial Emperor Sword to glimpse the Sword Extinction Emperor and his disciples at the Burial Emperor Battlefield, but the vision’s sword strike blasted him away as Emperor Yu'e arrived.

• After Feather Transformation Emperor left, the cave’s sword intent surged, and Sikong Jing resisted it before entering meditation and comprehending the sword intent of the two corpses.
• Feather Transformation Emperor told Emperor Yu'e that Sikong Jing’s Sword Extinction Imperial Bloodline might reveal Sword Clan secrets, which could offer Feather Alliance Hall a way to break free from the Spirit Race.
• After five days with no apparent breakthrough, Feather Transformation Emperor told Emperor Yu'e to bring Sikong Jing out for the approaching Dark Demon Small World trial.
• Just as Feather Transformation Emperor stopped watching, Sikong Jing’s Burial Emperor Sword triggered a vision of the Sword Clan man and woman fighting at the Burial Emperor Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing recognized the pair as disciples of the Sword Extinction Emperor, whose sword strike shattered the vision and sent Sikong Jing flying into Emperor Yu'e’s arms.
• Emperor Yu'e caught Sikong Jing and said he was too weak to endure even five days.