Chapter Summaries

After Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi split up to evade the many pursuers drawn by the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s aura, Ou Tu was attacked by the bald man and Tan Feixiang. Que Yi’s Spirit Race group arrived to protect Ou Tu, but she abandoned the pursuit of Feather Alliance Hall and led her people after the demon rat.

• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi to take his true body away while he fled with the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s body to sever and conceal its demonic aura.
• Geniuses from Sea-Gazing Hall, Armament Hall, and other groups arrived and pursued the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Ou Tu decided to follow the demon rat’s trail while waiting for Zhe Ying, but the bald man pierced his head and tried to kill him with Tan Feixiang.
• Ou Tu’s protective treasure let him break free and flee, and Que Yi and the Spirit Magpie Lineage arrived to rescue him.
• The bald man blamed Li Shi for ordering the attack and fled with Tan Feixiang, while Que Yi turned her group toward the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.

Ou Tu rejoined Zhe Ying’s force and explained the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s attacks and Feather Alliance Hall’s involvement as they pursued it. Meanwhile, Zhan framed Li Shi for the deaths of four Spirit Race members, prompting Li Shi to send Feather Alliance Hall’s second force after Zhan and his men, while Sikong Jing fled underground to evade the converging pursuers.

• Ou Tu met up with Zhe Ying, who reprimanded him and demanded a full account of the battle and Feather Alliance Hall’s actions.
• Ou Tu described how the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had repeatedly intervened and displayed strange combat intelligence, while Zhe Ying decided to capture it before dealing with Feather Alliance Hall.
• Zhan contacted Li Shi and claimed that Junior Brother Xie’s thousand men had joined forces with the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and killed four Spirit Race members.
• Zhan told Li Shi that he had blamed the incident on Li Shi’s orders, then cut off the communication.
• Li Shi ordered Feather Alliance Hall’s second force to pursue and capture Zhan and his thousand men for delivery to the Spirit Race.
• Sikong Jing sensed pursuers closing in from all directions and took the Shadow Moon Demon Rat into a fissure to conceal its demonic aura underground.

Sikong Jing fled underground in the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s body, using the Dark Demon Small World’s terrifying demonic energy to hide from his pursuers while trying to resist demonization. As the pursuit dwindled, Zhe Ying of the Spirit Race arrived.

• Sikong Jing descended into the earth fissure as pursuers chased the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, hoping the underground demonic energy would conceal him.
• He recalled what exiles had said about the Dark Demon Small World’s vanished magic beasts and reasoned that its deepest demonic energy might hold their secret.
• Sikong Jing reached a narrow underground crack filled with chaotic, dark-red demonic energy, but the Shadow Moon Demon Rat began absorbing it faster and risking demonization.
• A pursuer smashed open his hiding place with a streak of sword light, forcing Sikong Jing to burrow deeper despite Fang Sword’s warning that it could not endure the demonic energy.
• Sikong Jing fought demons as he fled, while many pursuers stopped because they feared demonic deviation; then someone announced that Zhe Ying of the Spirit Race had arrived.

Sikong Jing fled deeper into the underground to escape Zhe Ying, who pursued him with a Spirit-Stabilizing Pearl and a Spirit Shadow strike from Ling Zhe. At a vast abyss that blocked his path, Sikong Jing found claw marks he recognized as belonging to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s Blood Devour Magic Beast.

• Sikong Jing chose to descend farther underground rather than expose Fang Sword, and taught Fang Sword the Fifth Heart of Clear Spirit to help it withstand the demonic energy.
• Zhe Ying caught up and explained that his Spirit-Stabilizing Pearl let him remain lucid, while warning that he carried a Spirit Shadow strike refined by Ling Zhe.
• Sikong Jing considered turning back to fight Zhe Ying but reached a cliff above an abyss filled with overwhelming demonic energy.
• Sikong Jing spotted enormous claw marks on the cliff and recognized them as those of the Nine Heavens Emperor’s Blood Devour Magic Beast.

Sikong Jing hid from Zhe Ying by merging with the Nine Heavens magic beast aura inside a giant claw mark, where he discovered sword scars left by the Nine Heavens Emperor. After Zhe Ying failed to find him and left traps around the abyss, Sikong Jing stayed behind to study the sword scars and strengthen his Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

• Sikong Jing controlled the Shadow Moon Demon Rat into the claw mark and concealed himself from Zhe Ying by merging with its aura.
• Sikong Jing spotted Nine Heavens Sword Intent in sword marks across the abyss and concluded that the Nine Heavens Emperor had once come to the Dark Demon Small World.
• Zhe Ying searched the claw mark and abyss for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat but could not see the sword marks or descend past the restriction.
• Zhe Ying left to search along the abyss and laid trap formations, while Sikong Jing chose not to assassinate him, fearing stronger Spirit Race opponents would follow.
• Sikong Jing turned his attention to the Nine Heavens sword scars and began meditating to comprehend them, promising Fang Sword that his demon-slaying speed would soon increase.

Sikong Jing comprehended the Nine Heavens Emperor’s sword traces in the abyss, gaining a major advance in his Nine Heavens Sword Dao while hiding from Zhe Ying. He left to find Yue Xi and return to his main body, intending to continue the trial and lure his pursuers into believing the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was still within reach.

• Sikong Jing practiced the Nine Heavens Sword through his humanoid spirit shadow, cutting away the demonic energy invading the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s Spirit Platform sea of consciousness.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow regained some clarity and used the remaining demonic energy to temper its Extreme Prison Stage.
• Zhe Ying searched the area twice but failed to find the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, which remained concealed inside the claw print.
• After several hours of comprehending the visible sword traces, Sikong Jing decided to leave and seek Yue Xi, then return the humanoid spirit shadow to his main body.
• Sikong Jing wondered whether the Nine Heavens Emperor’s remains lay in the abyss, but concluded he could not investigate it with his current strength.
• Sikong Jing shattered Zhe Ying’s small trap formations so his pursuers would believe the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had not entered the abyss.

Sikong Jing revealed that his spirit essence had split between his human body and the Little Shadow Moon Rat, while keeping the rest of his situation secret from Fang Sword. As the factions searched for the rat near the abyss, Sikong Jing escaped unnoticed, and the Ten Thousand Demon Hall learned that Fang Sword’s life lamp had recovered again.

• Sikong Jing explained to Fang Sword that his soul essence had split between his original body and the dead Little Shadow Moon Rat, then asked Fang Sword to keep his secrets.
• Fang Sword agreed not to reveal anything about Sikong Jing unless someone forcibly interrogated it.
• Ou Tu learned that Zhe Ying’s trap had been destroyed and that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had emerged from the abyss, so he ordered the nearby factions to watch for its trail.
• Sikong Jing returned to his half-Magic-Beast form, concealed his aura, and slipped away toward Su Yuexi and his main body without being noticed.
• Sword Tiger Demon Emperor and the Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master saw Fang Sword’s life lamp recover, while Stinging Bee reported that Ling Zhe believed the Little Shadow Moon Rat retained some intelligence.

The master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall activated three hidden pieces in the Broken Blade Hall to help rescue the Little Shadow Moon Rat. Meanwhile, Su Yuexi guarded Sikong Jing’s body and stalled Feather Alliance Hall members as Yu Tang’s group prepared to move, unaware that a bald man was approaching them.

• Stinging Bee told the master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall that he had activated three hidden-piece geniuses in the Broken Blade Hall to help save the Little Shadow Moon Rat.
• Su Yuexi guarded Sikong Jing’s body in a canyon near Yu Tang’s group, worrying about his two spirit shadows inside the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Senior Brother Zhan and Tan Feixiang arrived, recognized Sikong Jing’s body as belonging to the Feather Alliance Hall, and threatened Su Yuexi after she identified their hall.
• Senior Brother Zhan left to stop Yu Tang’s group from relocating, while Tan Feixiang questioned Su Yuexi about Sikong Jing’s death.
• Su Yuexi sensed the Shadow Moon Demon Rat drawing near and stalled Tan Feixiang, while Yu Tang’s group prepared to move without knowing Sikong Jing was nearby.
• Senior Brother Xie mistook the approaching bald man for Junior Brother Sikong, then saw who had arrived.

Senior Brother Zhan tried to persuade Yu Tang’s group to use the Shadow Moon Demon Rat as bait, but Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie refused because the rat had saved them. Zhan then claimed Sikong Jing was dead, while Tan Feixiang confronted Su Yuexi in the gorge for rambling instead of explaining herself.

• Senior Brother Zhan claimed he had betrayed Li Shi and offered to lead Yu Tang’s thousand disciples to safety.
• Zhan proposed using the group as bait to capture the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, but Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie refused to repay its kindness with betrayal.
• Zhan said Sikong Jing had died and that Tan Feixiang would bring his corpse from the gorge, leaving Yu Tang and the others stunned.
• In the gorge, Tan Feixiang cut off Su Yuexi’s rambling story and demanded to know what she was talking about.

Sikong Jing returned to his body just as Tan Feixiang threatened Su Yuexi, and his newly awakened sword power let him fight Tan Feixiang. After Su Yuexi returned his severed arm, Sikong Jing reached the eighth step and drank the Four Demon Emperors’ blood to strengthen his Extreme Prison before attacking again.

• Tan Feixiang prepared to kill Su Yuexi, but Sikong Jing’s spirit shadow reentered his body and revealed that he was alive.
• Sikong Jing’s Nine Heavens Sword Dao and advancing Nine Heavens Imperial Bloodline raised him to the seventh step of the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm.
• Sikong Jing attacked Tan Feixiang with the Nine Extremes Sword, and Tan Feixiang failed to suppress him.
• Su Yuexi returned Sikong Jing’s severed arm, restoring his ferocious beast meridians and raising him to the eighth step.
• Sikong Jing drank the Four Demon Emperors’ blood to temper his Extreme Prison, then struck Tan Feixiang again as his power reached the ninth step.

Sikong Jing returned alive and fought Tan Feixiang as the bald man tried to force Yu Tang and the others to help capture the Shadow Moon Demon Rat. As Tan Feixiang attacked again, Sikong Jing reached the peak of the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm and unleashed his Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword.

• Sikong Jing emerged from the canyon alive, stunning Yu Tang and her thousand people, who had believed he was dead.
• The bald man threatened to kill Sikong Jing unless Yu Tang's group agreed to lure the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, but Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie refused and activated their Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation.
• The bald man attacked Yu Tang's group with his Feather Sword Formation and spirit-shadow power, while Senior Brother Xie detonated the formation to resist him.
• The bald man ordered Tan Feixiang to keep Sikong Jing alive as leverage, then his other subordinates surrounded Sikong Jing and a female disciple from Voyaging Heart Hall.
• Tan Feixiang charged Sikong Jing with the Battle Feather Thousand Autumn Sword as Sikong Jing's cultivation rose to the peak of the Extreme Prison Yin-Yang Realm.
• Sikong Jing ignored Yu Tang's plea to run, named his technique the Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword, and unleashed the Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

Sikong Jing used the Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword to overwhelm Tan Feixiang, then fought several hidden geniuses as his strength continued to grow. As Sikong Jing gained the upper hand, Tan Feixiang seized a female disciple of the Voyaging Heart Hall and threatened her, but Sikong Jing kept fighting without looking back.

• Sikong Jing's sword intent shattered Tan Feixiang's feather sword lights and drove him to burn his true qi in a desperate attempt to resist.
• Several hidden geniuses intervened to stop Sikong Jing, and Tan Feixiang agreed to let them kill him after they promised he could remain second in the Feather Alliance Hall.
• Sikong Jing charged the group with the Nine Extremes Sword, using the fight to refine the blood of the four Demon Emperors and complete his Extreme Prison of the Yin-Yang Realm.
• Sikong Jing gradually suppressed the hidden geniuses, while the bald man watched his swordsmanship with growing suspicion about how long he had truly spent in the Feather Alliance Sword Corpse Cave.
• Tan Feixiang darted behind a female disciple of the Voyaging Heart Hall and threatened to kill her, but Sikong Jing continued attacking his opponents without looking at him.

Sikong Jing freed himself and Su Yuexi from the bald man's restraint, then reunited with his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and absorbed half the blood of the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall. He broke through to the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm and faced the bald man above the canyon.

• Su Yuexi fought Tan Feixiang to stop him from disturbing Sikong Jing, but the bald man intervened and restrained Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi while ordering Sikong Jing to persuade Yu Tang's people to help capture the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Sikong Jing learned that the bald man had ordered Tan Feixiang to kill Su Yuexi, then tore through the bald man's pillar of light and escaped with her.
• The bald man pursued Sikong Jing into the canyon as Sikong Jing called his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow back from the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and absorbed half the blood of the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• The five Demon Emperor bloodlines drove Sikong Jing's cultivation into the Extreme Prison Four Forms Realm, and he shattered the bald man's barrier with a demonic claw.
• Sikong Jing and the bald man emerged above the canyon after their clash, while Su Yuexi stood beside the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.

Sikong Jing revealed that the bald man's Spirit Shadow power could not suppress him, then killed Tan Feixiang and used Yu Tang's thousand people in a formation to drive back the bald man. The bald man shifted to pleading with Junior Brother Xie and tried to turn the group against Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing used his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow to shatter the bald man's Spirit Shadow attack and explained that Spirit Shadow power could not suppress him.
• Sikong Jing rushed toward Yu Tang's group and crushed Tan Feixiang's head with his demonic claw.
• Sikong Jing connected to Yu Tang's thousand people through the Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation and struck the bald man with Break Nine Heavens, Sky-Piercing Sword Fang.
• The blast sent the bald man flying and left his subordinates dead or incapacitated, while Sikong Jing's group remained linked.
• The bald man claimed he had only come to invite them to leave the Dark Demon Small World and tried to persuade them not to follow Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing’s group refused the bald man’s threats, and Su Yuexi and Sikong Jing overwhelmed him when he tried to leave. Sikong Jing agreed to keep him alive as a potential ally and combat benchmark, but decided to place a restriction on him.

• Yu Tang and the thousand disciples rallied behind Sikong Jing, choosing to risk offending the bald man and the Spirit Race rather than abandon their hope of survival.
• The bald man threatened the group, then turned to leave, but Su Yuexi stabbed him in the dantian and Sikong Jing punched him into the canyon.
• Sikong Jing saw through the bald man’s pretense of being dead and ordered him killed, prompting the man to kneel and offer to help fight the Spirit Race and Li Shi.
• Su Yuexi clarified that the bald man had not explicitly threatened to kill her, and asked Sikong Jing to keep him as a helper.
• Sikong Jing agreed to use the bald man as a combat benchmark and told him to open his Spirit Platform sea of consciousness so he could place a restriction on him.

Sikong Jing subdued Zhan You and led Yu Tang’s group away while explaining the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s battle with Ou Tu. As Li Shi arrived with the Feather Alliance Hall’s second batch to capture them, Sikong Jing calmly said the Shadow Moon Demon Rat would come to their rescue.

• Sikong Jing placed a powerful restriction on Zhan You, who revealed that Emperor Yu'e had not yet accepted him as a true disciple.
• Sikong Jing, Su Yuexi, Yu Tang’s thousand people, and Zhan You’s surviving subordinates left the battlefield, where Tan Feixiang had been the only casualty.
• Sikong Jing introduced Su Yuexi as a survivor of the Voyaging Heart Hall’s first batch and described the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s battle with Ou Tu.
• Zhan You recounted his failed attempt to assassinate Ou Tu, then recognized Li Shi and the Feather Alliance Hall’s second batch approaching.
• Li Shi threatened to capture the group and deliver them to the Spirit Race, but Sikong Jing said the Shadow Moon Demon Rat would save them again.

Sikong Jing led Yu Tang’s group away from the pursuing clans and halls and established a hidden cave by the Blood-Red Sea to begin cultivating. As the group settled in, Senior Brother Xie and Yu Tang knelt before him and asked him to teach them how to grow strong enough to challenge the top geniuses.

• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat appeared again and drew Li Shi’s forces away, so Sikong Jing’s group abandoned their chance to attack and departed.
• Sikong Jing reassured the group that the Shadow Moon Demon Rat could handle its pursuers and led them to find a secluded place to cultivate.
• After two days of avoiding exiles, Sikong Jing guided the group to a cliff beside the Blood-Red Sea, where they built a hidden cave dwelling.
• Sikong Jing began cultivating while the Beast-Form Spirit Shadow studied the Nine Heavens Sword Traces and the Human-Form Spirit Shadow continued its training.
• Senior Brother Xie and Yu Tang knelt before Sikong Jing and asked him to teach them how to contend against the top geniuses.

Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie asked Sikong Jing for guidance to help the first thousand members of the Feather Alliance Hall grow stronger. Sikong Jing taught them Sword Extinction's First Eight Chapters and planned to use yin spirit evil qi to help them survive its dangerous training.

• Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie sought Sikong Jing's guidance because they feared the Feather Alliance Hall's first thousand members would fall too far behind.
• Sikong Jing offered to teach them his method of tempering the Extreme Prison with their own swords if they dared endure the pain and risk of death.
• Yu Tang and Senior Brother Xie gathered the first thousand members, who all accepted the risk and received Sword Extinction's First Eight Chapters through Sikong Jing's inheritance.
• Su Yuexi warned Sikong Jing that few of the thousand might survive the cultivation method, and Sikong Jing proposed using yin spirit evil qi to create a controlled battlefield to prepare them.
• Sikong Jing planned to suppress the yin spirit evil qi with the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and the Burial Emperor Sword Annihilation Path, then wondered if his skull could absorb more of it.

After a month of training, Sikong Jing reached the Extreme Prison Eight Trigrams Realm and set out to test his strength against Zhan You. Before he could leave the temporary cave dwelling, he sensed someone emerging from the depths of the Blood Sea.

• Sikong Jing absorbed more Yin Spirit Evil Qi with Su Yuexi's help, expanding the amount he could use without discomfort.
• Ten days later, Sikong Jing led Yu Tang and the other thousand trainees through their first attempts at Sword-Refining Extreme Prison; only Senior Brother Xie, Junior Brother Gu, and Yu Tang succeeded.
• Sikong Jing used a battlefield formed from Yin Spirit Evil Qi to temper the trainees' spirit shadows, suppressing them when they faced danger and helping more of them succeed in later attempts.
• Over the following half month, Sikong Jing continued training the group while gaining insights into his own spirit shadow and the Nine Heavens Sword Traces.
• After a month in the temporary cave dwelling, Sikong Jing reached the Extreme Prison Eight Trigrams Realm and headed to test himself against Zhan You.
• Sikong Jing sensed someone walking out from the depths of the Blood Sea before he could leave.

Sikong Jing and Zhan You’s group encountered three Spirit Race geniuses who revealed they belonged to the Spirit Parrot Lineage. Their leader, Ying Shan, asked Zhan You where Sikong Jing was, unaware that he was listening nearby.

• Zhan You’s subordinates complained that they could not break Sikong Jing’s restriction, while Zhan You resented Sikong Jing’s secret training of Yu Tang’s group.
• Sikong Jing heard Zhan You’s group decide not to warn him about approaching strangers, hoping the newcomers might kill him and break the restriction.
• Three Spirit Race geniuses flew past the sea cliff, then returned and broke the barrier concealing Zhan You’s floating island.
• The Spirit Race woman recognized Zhan You as the Feather Alliance Hall disciple who had nearly killed Ou Tu, and Zhan You feared they had come to hunt him.
• The woman introduced herself as Ying Shan of the Spirit Parrot Lineage and asked Zhan You where the Feather Alliance Hall’s Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm member, Sikong Jing, was.