Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing was dismissed by the Feather Transformation Emperor after his apparent failure in Sword Corpse Cave, then entered the Dark Demon Small World with the other Feather Alliance Hall geniuses. There, the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow sensed a new entrance and realized Sikong Jing's true body had arrived.

• Emperor Yu'e removed Sikong Jing from Sword Corpse Cave, and the Feather Transformation Emperor judged him disappointing and sent him back to the ranks.
• Sikong Jing kept silent about the Burial Emperor Sword and resolved to return to Sword Corpse Cave to uncover the rest of the vision.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor sent the thousand Feather Alliance Hall geniuses into the Dark Demon Small World to compete for the Little Shadow Moon Demon Rat and cultivate the Extreme Prison.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor and Feather Alliance Hall experts brought out the participants' life lamps, while Yu Diejin and the Su Family head discussed Sikong Jing's chances of survival.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow emerged from its Extreme Prison tempering and prepared to devour the Ten Thousand Demon Hall master's blood, but sensed another Dark Demon entrance and recognized Sikong Jing's true body.

Sikong Jing’s true body entered the Dark Demon Small World, where its memories merged with the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and greatly strengthened its cultivation and Burial Emperor Sword comprehension. After the entrance was sealed, Li Shi confronted Sikong Jing and demanded to know what the Feather Transformation Emperor had given him.

• Su Yuexi learned that Sikong Jing’s true body had entered the Dark Demon Small World and prepared to reunite with him, while the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow shared memories with the humanoid spirit shadow.
• Li Shi led a thousand Feather Alliance Hall geniuses in sealing the Dark Demon Small World entrance to keep the Shadow Moon Demon Rat from escaping.
• Sikong Jing’s true body received the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow’s memories, power, and insights, raising its realm to the peak of Extreme Prison Yin-Yang and deepening its understanding of the Burial Emperor Sword.
• After the entrance vanished, Li Shi demanded that Sikong Jing reveal what the Feather Transformation Emperor had given him.
• Sikong Jing calmly explained that he had received five days of cultivation in the Feather Alliance Sword Corpse Cave but had failed to endure long enough to earn a life-preserving treasure.

Li Shi faced a challenge from Feather Alliance Hall’s hidden geniuses, who rejected his leadership and attacked him. As Sikong Jing cultivated and assessed their strength, he and his Shadow Moon Rat body recognized how far they still had to grow before confronting the Spirit Race and its allied powers.

• Li Shi dismissed Sikong Jing’s account of the Sword Corpse Cave and directed the Feather Alliance geniuses to seek out their first thousand-man team.
• A bald man, a tall woman, and a long-haired man revealed their factions and challenged Li Shi’s authority using the Feather Alliance Hidden Potential Ranking.
• Sikong Jing integrated the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow’s gains, strengthening his bloodlines and opening the meridians of four great demon emperors.
• Li Shi invoked the Spirit Race’s Hidden Spirit Ranking and unleashed his sword intent, but the rival factions answered by attacking him.
• Sikong Jing judged that Feather Alliance Hall’s top geniuses were formidable, while his Shadow Moon Rat body told Su Yuexi that both bodies needed further improvement.

The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and Su Yuexi discovered that Yu Tang’s thousand-person Feather Alliance Hall team was trapped and attacked by exiles working for the Spirit Race. As the Shadow Moon Demon Rat moved to save Yu Tang and the others, it lunged at an exile pursuing one of them.

• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow concealed itself with Su Yuexi and identified Yu Tang’s team among a thousand Feather Alliance Hall disciples being hunted.
• More than ten thousand exiles, led by a Spirit Race explorer, trapped Yu Tang’s team in a net of true energy and demanded their treasures.
• The Spirit Race explorer explained that Master Ruo’s grievance and Young Master Ou Tu’s desire to gather allies had prompted the attack.
• When a disciple mentioned that Li Shi’s new team had arrived, the explorer ordered the exiles to kill Yu Tang’s people before anyone could discover what happened.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow decided to rescue Yu Tang and the team, told Su Yuexi to hide, and rushed into battle.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat appeared behind an exile who was pursuing a fallen Feather Alliance Hall disciple and bit at him.

The Shadow Moon Demon Rat appeared during the Exiles’ attack on Yu Tang’s Feather Alliance Hall group and slaughtered the attackers. It spared the group and vanished into the forest, leaving them wondering whether it had saved them deliberately.

• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat emerged and killed the middle-aged Exile who was about to kill Junior Brother Gu.
• Sikong Jing released the blood of the Four Great Demon Emperors, advanced the rat to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, and destroyed the Exiles’ formations.
• The rat killed the Divine Way Realm old man and the remaining Exiles, including the middle-aged Spirit Race explorer who tried to contact Ou Tu.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat spared Yu Tang and the Feather Alliance Hall group before disappearing into the forest.
• Yu Tang suggested that the rat might have saved them because it had a sense of justice, leaving the group incredulous.

The Shadow Moon Demon Rat saved Feather Alliance Hall’s first contingent, while Sikong Jing planned to use his main body and spirit shadows separately to survive the dangers of the Dark Demon Small World. Li Shi led the second contingent to meet the first and investigate what had happened.

• The first Feather Alliance Hall contingent fled the scene and decided to seek protection from Li Shi.
• The little Shadow Moon Rat told Su Yuexi that deep demonization had let him kill their attackers, and that he needed to strengthen himself and the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow proposed that he and Sikong Jing’s other spirit shadow coordinate to protect them from the Spirit Race’s Spirit Gull Lineage.
• Sikong Jing decided that his main body would follow the trial’s rules and rely on his own strength, while the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow handled dangers from the shadows.
• Li Shi received word that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had appeared and saved the first contingent, then led his newly commanded thousand to meet them.
• Li Shi asked Junior Brother Xie to explain what the first contingent had encountered.

Li Shi agreed to hand Feather Alliance Hall’s first thousand people over to Ou Tu, then sealed them and fled with the second batch. Sikong Jing watched the betrayal unfold while his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and Su Yuexi stayed hidden nearby.

• Junior Brother Xie told Li Shi how the Spirit Race had attacked his group and how the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had saved them.
• Ou Tu arrived with Spirit Gull Lineage disciples and demanded that Li Shi surrender the first thousand people for investigation.
• Li Shi repeated Junior Brother Xie’s account but left out the Spirit Race’s attempt to kill and rob them.
• Li Shi agreed to Ou Tu’s demand, sealed the first thousand people, and fled with the second batch, including Sikong Jing.
• The trapped Yu Tang and the others cursed Li Shi, while a Feather Alliance genius demanded to know if Li Shi had gone mad.

Li Shi persuaded the Feather Alliance Hall geniuses to abandon Yu Tang’s group and then agreed to hand Sikong Jing over to Ou Tu as a peace offering. Su Jingyi attacked Sikong Jing to capture him, leaving Sikong Jing surrounded by sword light and spirit-shadow pressure.

• Li Shi convinced the Feather Alliance Hall geniuses that resisting Ou Tu would endanger them, and they accepted abandoning Yu Tang’s thousand people.
• Sikong Jing resolved to protect Yu Tang and the others rather than leave them behind.
• Su Jingyi blamed Sikong Jing for Ou Tu targeting the Feather Alliance Hall and proposed delivering him to Ou Tu.
• Li Shi approved Su Jingyi’s plan and ordered him to capture Sikong Jing.
• Su Jingyi unleashed his true energy, sword light, and spirit shadow to trap Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing revealed that his humanoid spirit shadow had advanced to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm and killed Su Jingyi with the Nine Extremes Sword. He escaped Li Shi by harnessing the Dark Demon Small World's demonic energy, leaving Li Shi unable to track him.

• Su Jingyi attacked Sikong Jing and tried to take his storage treasure while the others mocked and dismissed him.
• Sikong Jing's humanoid spirit shadow broke through to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, and the Nine Extremes Sword emerged from his jade ring.
• Sikong Jing shattered Su Jingyi's spirit-shadow power, broke his sword cage, and killed him with one strike.
• Sikong Jing seized Su Jingyi's spirit shadow and vanished, telling Li Shi he would not let himself be handed over to Ou Tu.
• Li Shi pursued Sikong Jing with his spirit shadow, but Sikong Jing used the world's demonic energy to escape his lock and evade detection.

Sikong Jing killed Su Jingyi, escaped Li Shi, and exposed Li Shi’s decision to abandon Yu Tang’s group before fleeing. Li Shi branded Sikong Jing a Feather Alliance Hall traitor, while Sikong Jing planned to rescue Yu Tang and the others as Ou Tu’s group continued holding them.

• Sikong Jing destroyed Su Jingyi’s spirit shadow and taunted Li Shi for abandoning Yu Tang’s thousand people rather than fighting Ou Tu’s group.
• Li Shi attacked Sikong Jing but failed to catch him, then declared him a Feather Alliance Hall traitor and ordered his followers to kill him if they found him.
• Sikong Jing recovered in a distant mountain hollow, acknowledged that Li Shi had injured him, and began tempering his Infernal Prison with the surrounding demonic aura.
• Sikong Jing returned to human form and set off to cooperate with the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow to rescue Yu Tang and the others.
• Ou Tu’s group continued questioning Yu Tang’s people, who lamented that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had saved them while Li Shi had abandoned them.

Ou Tu went to demand Sikong Jing from Li Shi while Yu Tang and her thousand allies faced four Spirit Race geniuses who offered them a choice between surrendering or fighting. Nearby, Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and Su Yuexi prepared to rescue them, while news of Su Jingyi’s death sparked accusations at Feather Alliance Hall; Feather Transformation Emperor ordered everyone to stay silent.

• Ou Tu ordered four Spirit Race geniuses to kill Yu Tang’s thousand and collect their treasures, then left to demand Sikong Jing from Li Shi.
• The four Spirit Race geniuses taunted Yu Tang and her allies, offering them a chance to fight or die without resisting.
• Sikong Jing’s Beast-Form Spirit Shadow told Su Yuexi that his main body had escaped Li Shi and was approaching, and planned to test his half-demonized strength against the four Spirit Race geniuses.
• Su Yuexi began tempering her Extreme Prison while the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow emerged from hiding to help Yu Tang’s group.
• The Su Family Head protested Su Jingyi’s death and accused Sikong Jing, but Yu Diejin noted there was no proof and Feather Transformation Emperor ordered everyone to be quiet.

Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie led dozens of Feather Alliance Hall disciples in sacrificing themselves so the others could escape the Spirit Race geniuses. The Shadow Moon Demon Rat arrived and crippled the Spirit Race woman, leaving three enemies to face as the survivors realized it had come to save them.

• The elders saw Yu Tang’s life lamp dimming alongside those of Senior Brother Xie and dozens of disciples, while the Su Family Head taunted Yu Diejin.
• Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie held off the four Spirit Race geniuses so Junior Brother Gu and more than nine hundred disciples could flee and report Li Shi’s abandonment of them.
• The Spirit Race woman tortured Yu Tang and mocked her belief that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat would come to help.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat appeared behind the Spirit Race woman and pierced her abdomen, freeing Yu Tang from her attack.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat turned toward the three remaining Spirit Race geniuses, while Senior Brother Xie and the others marveled that it had come to uphold justice.

Sikong Jing returned to Yu Tang and stopped the Feather Alliance disciples from killing the wounded Spirit Race woman before Ou Tu could be drawn back. As the Shadow Moon Demon Rat fought three Spirit Race prodigies, Yu Tang argued that they could not leave it to face them alone.

• The three Spirit Race prodigies attacked the half-demonized Shadow Moon Demon Rat, which fought back with Mountain Roc Demon Wing Slash.
• Senior Brother Xie and the others freed themselves, treated Yu Tang, and prepared to kill the wounded Spirit Race woman.
• Sikong Jing arrived and stopped Yu Tang, explaining that killing the woman would alert Ou Tu through her shattered life lamp.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had escaped after Li Shi tried to send him back to Ou Tu, and proposed waiting until the Shadow Moon Demon Rat defeated the three prodigies before killing the Spirit Race members.
• A Feather Alliance disciple urged the group to flee while the Shadow Moon Demon Rat held off its opponents, but Yu Tang refused because it might lose.

Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie chose to help the Shadow Moon Demon Rat fight the Spirit Race rather than abandon the beast that had saved them. Sikong Jing revealed why he had returned, then joined the battle as his two spirit-shadow bodies coordinated against the three Spirit Race geniuses.

• Yu Tang urged the group to help the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, and Senior Brother Xie agreed that they should repay the beast for saving their lives.
• The Feather Alliance members chose to stay and fight, while Sikong Jing said he had returned because Yu Tang and the others had helped his father and suffered because of him.
• Sikong Jing told Yu Tang that he had already dealt with Su Jingyi, then warned that Ou Tu might return to kill them.
• Sikong Jing ordered the group to help defeat the three Spirit Race geniuses and charged into battle alongside his Shadow Moon Demon Rat body.
• Sikong Jing identified himself as the person Ou Tu sought from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm, while the Spirit Race geniuses dismissed him as no threat despite his sixth-step Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm cultivation.

Sikong Jing unleashed the full power of his beast veins and Burial Emperor Sword to fight alongside the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, while the Feather Alliance Hall members returned and joined the battle against three Spirit Race geniuses. When Ou Tu learned that his subordinates were in danger, he rushed back, leaving Li Shi and the others to decide what to do.

• Sikong Jing killed Su Jingyi and unleashed his beast veins and Burial Emperor Sword against the Spirit Race geniuses alongside the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Yu Tang and the Feather Alliance Hall disciples attacked the three Spirit Race geniuses, and Junior Brother Gu returned with more than nine hundred allies.
• The returning Feather Alliance Hall members fought alongside Sikong Jing and the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, overwhelming the Spirit Race group.
• Ou Tu accused Li Shi of lying about Sikong Jing's escape and threatened him with his sword.
• Ou Tu received broken messages about the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and the Feather Alliance Hall, then saw his subordinates' life lamps dim and rushed back to them.
• Senior Brother Zhan asked Li Shi what the group should do as they realized the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had appeared again.

Li Shi sent Zhan and his men ahead while hiding with the rest, as Sikong Jing’s group killed the three Spirit Race geniuses and fled. Su Yuexi secretly killed the last genius, and the chapter ended with the Feather Alliance Hall team realizing the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was pursuing them.

• Li Shi sent Junior Brother Zhan to scout ahead, then hid with his remaining men while hoping Ou Tu and Zhan would die.
• Sikong Jing and Senior Brother Xie’s group killed the first two Spirit Race geniuses and tried to escape before Ou Tu returned.
• Su Yuexi appeared and killed the third Spirit Race genius before he could finish warning Ou Tu.
• Sikong Jing told Yu Tang that the Spirit Race woman was dead, and the group fled without realizing the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was Sikong Jing.
• Senior Brother Xie spotted the Shadow Moon Demon Rat chasing them, and the fleeing team feared it would devour them.

Ou Tu arrived and attacked Yu Tang’s thousand-man group, but the Shadow Moon Demon Rat intervened and saved them for the third time. Sikong Jing led the group away while his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow confronted Ou Tu, whose Spirit Race power appeared to overwhelm it.

• Ou Tu arrived and vowed to kill Yu Tang’s thousand-man group for killing four members of his Spirit Gull Lineage.
• Ou Tu unleashed his attack, but the Shadow Moon Demon Rat shattered it and faced him in the air.
• Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie realized the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had saved them again, while Sikong Jing remained hovering above them.
• Sikong Jing told the group to flee the battle, hiding that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow.
• Ou Tu challenged the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and attacked, while Sikong Jing stopped Senior Brother Xie from trying to help and said the demon rat’s power was still growing.

Sikong Jing sent Yu Tang’s group away so they would not hinder his fight against Ou Tu, while the Shadow Moon Demon Rat battled the Spirit Race genius. Su Yuexi reunited with Sikong Jing’s true body, and he prepared to send his humanoid spirit shadow into her Mystic Jade Evil Qi Space to strengthen his sword dao.

• Ou Tu and the Shadow Moon Demon Rat clashed, and their battle’s shockwaves forced Yu Tang’s group to retreat farther away.
• Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie asked Sikong Jing whether they should leave, and he told them to go while he stayed behind alone.
• Senior Brother Xie led the group away, while Yu Tang concluded that they would only burden Sikong Jing if they stayed.
• Su Yuexi emerged from hiding and embraced Sikong Jing’s true body, saying she had feared their reunion was only a dream.
• Sikong Jing reassured Su Yuexi and prepared to send his humanoid spirit shadow into her Mystic Jade Evil Qi Space to advance his Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

Sikong Jing sent his humanoid spirit shadow into the Black Jade Evil Energy Space to cultivate while his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow fought Ou Tu as the Shadow Moon Demon Rat. After Ou Tu knocked the rat down and tried to seal it, Sikong Jing’s humanoid spirit shadow emerged and joined with it as it broke free.

• Su Yuexi opened the evil energy space and guided Sikong Jing’s humanoid spirit shadow inside, leaving his body in her arms.
• Ou Tu recognized the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s borrowed Demon Emperor methods and intensified his attacks as its demonic transformation deepened.
• Senior Brother Zhan and Tan Feixiang arrived, identified the battle, and moved closer in hopes of taking advantage of the fighters’ injuries.
• Yu Tang’s and the other people’s life lamps brightened, confirming that their lives had been preserved.
• Ou Tu blasted the Shadow Moon Demon Rat into the ground and began constructing a seal to capture it.
• Sikong Jing’s humanoid spirit shadow called to his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow, which broke Ou Tu’s seal; the rat rushed toward Su Yuexi and Sikong Jing as the two spirit shadows merged.

Sikong Jing took control of the Shadow Moon Demon Rat through his humanoid spirit shadow and turned the battle against Ou Tu, but stopped pursuing him to prevent complete demonic corruption. As Sikong Jing worked to purge the demon’s corruption, Senior Brother Zhan led Tan Feixiang and the others after the wounded Ou Tu to steal his Spirit Gull Shield.

• Sikong Jing entered the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s sea of consciousness and gave the beast-form spirit shadow battle awareness.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat overwhelmed Ou Tu with coordinated attacks, forcing him to use the Spirit Gull Shield and flee.
• Sikong Jing stopped the pursuit because the beast-form spirit shadow and the Shadow Moon Demon Rat were nearing complete demonic corruption.
• Sikong Jing merged his humanoid spirit shadow with the unconscious beast-form spirit shadow and used the Nine Heavens Sword Dao to drive out the demonic intent.
• Senior Brother Zhan led Tan Feixiang and the others in pursuit of Ou Tu, intending to kill him and seize the Spirit Race treasure.