Chapter Summaries

Ying Shan and two Spirit Race prodigies sought Sikong Jing to kill him, but failed to remove the restriction he had placed on Zhan You and his companions. As they turned toward the sea cliff, a sword strike suddenly killed one of the Spirit Race men.

• Ying Shan told Zhan You and his companions she wanted Sikong Jing dead because his sister had caused trouble for the Spirit Parrot Lineage.
• Zhan You admitted they knew Sikong Jing's location but could not reveal it because Sikong Jing had restricted their spirit platforms.
• Ying Shan and her two companions tried and failed to break Zhan You's restriction.
• Zhan You's group pointed toward the sea cliff, and the three Spirit Race prodigies prepared to attack Sikong Jing.
• A sword streak shot from behind Zhan You and pierced one Spirit Race man's head, prompting Ying Shan and the surviving man to turn around.

Sikong Jing revealed himself to Zhan You’s group, killed one Spirit Race member, and demanded answers about his sister from Ying Shan and the surviving attacker. He fought Ying Shan to test and refine his swordsmanship, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Sikong Jing emerged and crushed a Spirit Race man’s spirit shadow, then revealed he had overheard Zhan You and the others plotting against him.
• Sikong Jing asked Ying Shan about his sister’s treatment and the one-year deadline, but the Spirit Race members attacked instead of answering.
• Sikong Jing’s Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword split the surviving man’s attack and sent him flying, shocking him and Ying Shan.
• Ying Shan transformed into a blood-red parrot and attacked Sikong Jing, who challenged her while reflecting on the sword techniques he had studied.
• Sikong Jing continued fighting Ying Shan to test his strength and refine his Nine Heavens Sword Dao, piercing through her parrot-shaped attack.

Sikong Jing overwhelmed the Spirit Race prodigies, killing one and crippling Ying Shan before capturing her to question her about his sister. Ying Shan warned that the Spirit Parrot Lineage’s leader was approaching, while Sikong Jing threatened to torment her spirit shadow unless she answered quickly.

• Zhan You realized Sikong Jing had become far stronger and charged at a Spirit Race prodigy to prove his worth.
• Sikong Jing gained the upper hand against Ying Shan, while Su Yuexi told the others to stay hidden and prepare for more Spirit Race arrivals.
• Ying Shan fled after Sikong Jing wounded her and threatened his little sister, but Sikong Jing’s Nine Heavens Sword Extinction Sword struck her down.
• Sikong Jing preserved Ying Shan’s life and demanded that she tell him about his sister.
• Ying Shan revealed that the Spirit Parrot Lineage’s leader was nearby, so Sikong Jing threatened to torture her spirit shadow if she did not explain further.

Sikong Jing learned that Ying Shan planned to use him to force Sikong Ling to lose, then killed her and set out to lure away Ying Bailiu, the strongest approaching Spirit Parrot genius. As the remaining five attacked Zhan You and the others, Su Yuexi and Xie Men led the counterattack.

• Ying Shan told Sikong Jing about Sikong Ling's past and the Spirit Parrots' plan to capture him, so he crushed Ying Shan's spirit shadow.
• Sikong Jing sensed six Spirit Parrot geniuses approaching and told Zhan You to help eliminate the five who would stay behind.
• Sikong Jing killed a wounded Spirit Race member in front of Ying Bailiu, then fled into the blood-red sea with Ying Bailiu in pursuit.
• Ying Bailiu ordered the five remaining geniuses to kill Zhan You and the others, and they attacked Zhan You.
• Su Yuexi repelled the five geniuses with her Mystic Jade Sword Path and charged at one of them.
• Xie Men rallied a thousand Feather Alliance Hall disciples to join the fight against the remaining Spirit Race geniuses.

Yu Tang’s thousand-man team used Sword Extinction’s Extreme Prison Sword to battle the Spirit Race geniuses while Sikong Jing drew Ying Bailiu deep into the blood-red sea. Sikong Jing transformed into his Sixfold Demonic Form and prepared to fight Ying Bailiu.

• Xie Men, Yu Tang, and Junior Brother Gu reached Endless Extreme Prison, and Yu Tang’s thousand-man team charged the Spirit Race geniuses.
• Yu Tang’s team surrounded and fought the three Spirit Race geniuses, impressing Zhan You and his subordinates with their Extreme Prison Sword.
• Sikong Jing fled from Ying Bailiu across the blood-red sea and broke through Ying Bailiu’s blood-colored parrot with Nine Heavens Sword Extinction Sword.
• Sikong Jing plunged into the blood-red seawater, stopped, and told Ying Bailiu he was done running.
• Sikong Jing transformed into his Sixfold Demonic Form, revealing a humanoid ferocious beast as he faced Ying Bailiu.

Sikong Jing fought Ying Bailiu in the blood ocean, concealing his identity while testing his evolved Burial Emperor Sword. After Zhe Ying’s message revealed that all eight of Ying Bailiu’s life lamps had gone out, Sikong Jing resolved to end the fight quickly.

• Sikong Jing pretended he might be from the Azure Rhinoceros Demon Race after Ying Bailiu suspected he belonged to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• Sikong Jing attacked Ying Bailiu with his Sixfold Demonic Form, but Ying Bailiu’s blood-colored parrots tore through his claw.
• Sikong Jing unleashed his Burial Emperor Sword domain and countered Ying Bailiu’s Spirit Parrot Ten Thousand Voices with battlefield sounds and sword energy.
• Sikong Jing used a sword strike inspired by the Sword Extinction Emperor to break Ying Bailiu’s domain, though both domains shattered in the clash.
• Zhe Ying contacted Ying Bailiu and revealed that eight life lamps had gone out, prompting Ying Bailiu to accuse Sikong Jing of having helpers.
• Sikong Jing realized there was no time to delay and prepared to kill Ying Bailiu.

Sikong Jing transformed into a Blood Devour Magic Beast to defeat Ying Bailiu before he could reveal their location to Zhe Ying. He killed Ying Bailiu in human form and erased the demonic traces from the corpse, but the Spirit Race had already heard Ying Bailiu mention the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and magic beasts.

• Sikong Jing unleashed a demonic claw that overwhelmed Ying Bailiu and forced him to use his Spirit Parrot Shield.
• Ying Bailiu told Zhe Ying that the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and a magic beast were involved before Sikong Jing severed his hand and destroyed the communication stone.
• Sikong Jing realized the Spirit Race might suspect an infiltration and switched back to human form so Ying Bailiu's death would appear to be caused by a human cultivator.
• Sikong Jing killed Ying Bailiu with the Nine Heavens Sword Dao, then erased all demonic traces from his corpse.

After learning that Ying Bailiu and his eight subordinates had been killed, Zhe Ying suspected a demonized half-human from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall was responsible and went north with Ou Tu to investigate. Que Yi revealed that Zhe Ying had a new plan involving the abyss and the captured Green Rhino Clan humans.

• Sikong Jing carried Ying Bailiu's corpse toward the sea cliffs so it would be easier to find.
• Zhe Ying told the gathered Spirit Race geniuses that Ying Bailiu and his eight subordinates had died, and that Ying Bailiu had blamed the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• Zhe Ying reasoned that Ying Bailiu's killer might be a demonized half-human with beast blood, like the Green Rhino Clan people he had imprisoned.
• Zhe Ying ordered Que Yi to stay with the gathered geniuses, then took Ou Tu north to search for Ying Bailiu's corpse and summoned northern exiles to hunt for the killer.
• Que Yi told the Spirit Race geniuses that Zhe Ying had a new abyss plan.

The Spirit Race planned to use the imprisoned Green Rhino humans to explore the abyss and draw out the missing Shadow Moon Demon Rat, with Su Yuexian singled out as their strongest test subject. Meanwhile, Su Yuexi’s group killed the Spirit Race geniuses left behind, but she refused to send help to Sikong Jing as he faced Ying Bailiu.

• Que Yi explained that Zhe Ying’s new abyss plan would use the Green Rhino humans’ beast bloodlines to scout the abyss and search for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Que Yi revealed that Su Yuexian’s Magic Beast traits had made her powerful enough to contend with him, and that Zhe Ying intended to use her as the plan’s strongest link.
• Su Yuexian urged the imprisoned humans to cultivate and said their only chance to survive was to defeat the Spirit Race and escape.
• After Sikong Jing lured Ying Bailiu away, Su Yuexi and the others killed the five Spirit Race geniuses left on Zhan You’s island.
• Zhan You and the others asked whether they should support Sikong Jing, but Su Yuexi refused because she did not want his Magic Beast form exposed.

Sikong Jing returned with Ying Bailiu’s corpse and led his group away before Zhe Ying’s forces could find them. Examining the bodies, Zhe Ying concluded that a hall’s disciples had attacked the Spirit Parrot Lineage, but dismissed Ying Bailiu’s claim that a Magic Beast was involved.

• Sikong Jing returned with Ying Bailiu’s corpse and warned everyone that Zhe Ying had been informed, so they packed up to leave.
• Sikong Jing threatened Zhan You over the attempted betrayal, ordered the corpses left intact, and had the group destroy their temporary cave dwelling.
• Sikong Jing used the Thousand-Man Army-Slaying Formation to evade exiles sent by Zhe Ying, who then found the bodies and summoned Zhe Ying.
• Zhe Ying and Ou Tu examined the corpses and found no evidence of Magic Beasts or their methods.
• Zhe Ying concluded that a large group of disciples from a hall had attacked the Spirit Parrot Lineage and decided Ying Bailiu had mistaken a half-human, half-beast culprit for a Magic Beast.

Zhe Ying summoned every clan and hall to the abyss within three days to investigate the deaths of the Spirit Parrot Lineage, while promising not to pursue unrelated conflicts. Sikong Jing realized Zhe Ying suspected him of being a Ten Thousand Demon Hall infiltrator, and he led his group toward the gathering, determined to use the remaining time to grow stronger.

• Zhe Ying considered the possible causes of the Spirit Parrot Lineage's deaths and concluded that a Ten Thousand Demon Hall infiltrator had forced another hall's disciples to act.
• Zhe Ying ordered everyone in the Dark Demon Small World to gather at the abyss within three days, threatening to brand absentees and their families as traitors.
• Sikong Jing predicted that Zhe Ying would ease the summons by promising not to pursue unrelated fights, and Zhe Ying then made that promise publicly.
• Sikong Jing explained that Zhe Ying suspected he had been sent by the Ten Thousand Demon Hall because Ying Bailiu had reported the name before dying.
• Sikong Jing said his group would attend the gathering and warned them to prepare for the Spirit Race to seek revenge under other pretexts.
• Sikong Jing urged everyone to use the remaining three days to improve themselves through another round of Sword-Refining Extreme Prison.

Sikong Jing taught Zhan You and his subordinates Sword-Refining Extreme Prison, then he and Su Yuexi endured their own harsher refinements before setting out to face the Spirit Race geniuses. At the gathering, Zhe Ying questioned Li Shi about Feather Alliance Hall’s missing first group, and Li Shi admitted he had no life lamps for them.

• Sikong Jing offered to teach Zhan You and his subordinates Sword-Refining Extreme Prison, and they agreed to cultivate it.
• Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi tempered their spirit shadows and underwent Sword-Refining Extreme Prison using their strongest sword daos.
• After cultivation, Sikong Jing led the group toward the gathering of Spirit Race geniuses as Zhe Ying’s deadline approached.
• Li Shi arrived with Feather Alliance Hall’s second group and knelt before Zhe Ying, denying that he had ordered the assassination attempt on Ou Tu.
• Zhe Ying asked Li Shi where Feather Alliance Hall’s first group was, and Li Shi said he did not know whether they were dead because he had no life lamps for them.

Zhe Ying counted the clans’ and halls’ people in Dark Demon, uncovering unresolved cases for Voyaging Heart Hall and Feather Alliance Hall. After Ling Ou contacted the Feather Transformation Emperor, Feather Alliance Hall learned that the Spirit Race suspected its people had nearly wiped out the Spirit Gull Lineage.

• Li Shi explained that he had never made life lamps for Xie Men and Yu Tang’s groups, and Zhe Ying let him withdraw.
• Zhe Ying had the clans and halls account for their life lamps, and the Exiles found the two missing members of Molten Smoke Clan.
• Voyaging Heart Hall’s leader said Su Yuexi had survived the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s attack and remained missing, though her life lamp was still lit.
• Zhe Ying ordered Ou Tu to contact Ling Ou and ask how many Feather Alliance Hall members remained alive.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor told Feather Alliance Hall’s elders that Ling Ou suspected their geniuses had nearly wiped out the Spirit Gull Lineage.

The Feather Transformation Emperor suspected the Spirit Gull Lineage planned to kill the Feather Alliance Hall disciples, while Zhe Ying accused the Feather Alliance Hall of aiding the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and ordered its gathered members captured. Li Shi and the others denied the charge, and Zhe Ying agreed to wait a quarter of an hour for the missing first group to arrive.

• The Feather Transformation Emperor told the elders that Spirit Gull had asked how many disciples remained alive and might be planning to hunt them down before the trial ended.
• Ou Tu told Zhe Ying that all but two members of the Feather Alliance Hall’s first thousand were alive, and Zhe Ying ordered the gathered Feather Alliance Hall disciples seized.
• Zhe Ying said Ying Bailiu and the others had been killed by people from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall who had infiltrated another group, prompting suspicion to fall on the Feather Alliance Hall.
• Ou Tu accused the Feather Alliance Hall of betraying the Spirit Race because its first group had not arrived, while Li Shi and the others protested that they were innocent.
• A Feather Alliance Hall woman asked Zhe Ying to wait until the gathering time was over, and he agreed to give the missing group a quarter of an hour to arrive.

Sikong Jing led Feather Alliance Hall’s remaining disciples and Su Yuexi to the Spirit Race gathering, where Zhe Ying demanded to know if they had killed the Spirit Parrot Lineage. Sikong Jing admitted they had, then denied that anyone in the group belonged to Ten Thousand Demon Hall, leaving Zhe Ying puzzled by the absence of anyone powerful enough to have killed Ying Bailiu.

• Sikong Jing arrived with Zhan You, Su Yuexi, and the remaining Feather Alliance Hall disciples as the gathered factions watched.
• Zhan You spoke for the group and taunted Li Shi, who demanded to know whether they had colluded with Ten Thousand Demon Hall.
• Zhe Ying pressed the newcomers about the Spirit Parrot Lineage, and Sikong Jing calmly admitted that they had killed them.
• Zhe Ying asked the Ten Thousand Demon Hall member among them to reveal themselves, but Sikong Jing denied that anyone besides Su Yuexi came from another hall.
• Zhe Ying examined the group and found no one whose strength or appearance explained the killing of Ying Bailiu.

Zhe Ying questioned the Feather Alliance Hall about Ying Bailiu’s death and suspected a Ten Thousand Demon Hall infiltrator. Sikong Jing admitted killing Ying Bailiu and presented his shield as proof, so Zhe Ying ordered Ou Tu to test him with a sword, leaving Sikong Jing facing Ou Tu’s attack.

• Zhe Ying questioned the gathered disciples about who had killed Ying Bailiu and whether the Ten Thousand Demon Hall had infiltrated their ranks.
• Sikong Jing claimed responsibility for Ying Bailiu’s death, but Zhe Ying accused him of lying and being a Ten Thousand Demon Hall spy.
• Sikong Jing explained that he came from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm and showed Ying Bailiu’s Spirit Parrot Shield as proof.
• A Feather Alliance Hall disciple described how Sikong Jing and the others had fought and killed the Spirit Parrot Lineage members.
• Zhe Ying ordered Ou Tu to attack Sikong Jing with full strength to test his claim, and Ou Tu raised his sword as Sikong Jing’s allies watched without fear.

Sikong Jing matched Ou Tu’s sword strike, proving his strength to Zhe Ying and the gathered races and halls. Zhe Ying ended the clash and ordered everyone to rest under guard while he and the Spirit Race geniuses deliberated.

• Sikong Jing drew on the Nine Heavens Sword Dao and Burial Emperor Sword Dao to meet Ou Tu’s attack, and their swords remained evenly matched until both were injured.
• Zhe Ying intervened, blasted the fighters apart, and caught Sikong Jing as Su Yuexi and the others steadied him.
• Sikong Jing thanked Ou Tu for yielding and asked Zhe Ying whether he believed that Sikong Jing had come from the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm.
• Sikong Jing claimed Ying Bailiu had been careless and offered explanations for why Ying Bailiu had linked him to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall; Zhe Ying ordered the Feather Alliance Hall’s people released and everyone kept in place.
• Zhe Ying and the Spirit Race geniuses left to deliberate, while Sikong Jing led his group and Yu Tang’s thousand people toward Li Shi.

Sikong Jing confronted Li Shi after standing up to the Spirit Race, prompting Feather Alliance Hall members to choose sides. The group split, leaving Sikong Jing with more than eighteen hundred followers as Su Yuexian sensed something familiar deep underground.

• Su Yuexi left Sikong Jing's group to join the people from Voyaging Heart Hall.
• Sikong Jing greeted Li Shi, who accused him of endangering everyone by killing Spirit Race geniuses.
• Li Shi ordered his people to seize Sikong Jing, but most of the second batch instead went to stand behind Sikong Jing.
• The tall Feather Alliance Hall woman asked Sikong Jing to take them in, and he warned them that the Spirit Race might still retaliate.
• Li Shi's followers persuaded nearly a hundred people to return to his side, splitting Feather Alliance Hall as Sikong Jing's group grew to more than eighteen hundred.
• Su Yuexian, in her Night Charm form, heard a familiar voice and sensed familiarity in the underground depths.

Zhe Ying decided to begin an abyss plan to expose a suspected Ten Thousand Demon Hall spy among the Green Rhino Clan, while Spirit Gull learned that Sikong Jing had killed Ying Bailiu and chose to guide Sikong Ling. The chapter left Sikong Ling encouraged by her brother’s strength as the plan against the Green Rhinos began.

• Su Yuexian sensed something familiar beneath the ground but set the feeling aside and resumed cultivating with the others.
• Zhe Ying and the Spirit Race geniuses debated Ying Bailiu’s accusations and Sikong Jing’s strength, then learned from Ling Zhe that Sikong Jing cultivated the dangerous Sword-Refining Extreme Prison.
• Zhe Ying ordered the Spirit Race to throw the Green Rhino Clan members into the abyss to expose a suspected Ten Thousand Demon Hall spy.
• Ou Tu reported Ying Bailiu’s group’s deaths to Spirit Gull, who then summoned Sikong Ling and told her Sikong Jing had killed the Spirit Parrot Lineage’s geniuses.
• Spirit Gull took Sikong Ling to guide her, and Sikong Ling felt certain her brother would survive.

Emperor Feather Transformation learned that Feather Alliance Hall disciples had killed nine geniuses of the Spirit Parrot Lineage and celebrated their defiance. In the Dark Demon Small World, Zhe Ying revealed that the Green Rhino Clan’s captured humans had become beastified and would be sent into an abyss to search for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, while Sikong Jing recognized Yuexian among them.

• A-Ruo and the Spirit Gull Lineage mocked Spirit Parrot over Ying Bailiu’s death, prompting Spirit Parrot to demand an explanation from Emperor Feather Transformation.
• Emperor Feather Transformation told Spirit Parrot that killing had been allowed in the trial, then laughed with delight when he learned Feather Alliance Hall disciples had killed nine Spirit Parrot geniuses.
• Emperor Yu'e suspected Li Shi had ordered the killings, while Yu Diejin doubted Sikong Jing and Yu Tang would return.
• Zhe Ying announced a temporary halt to killing and slapped Li Shi for interrupting him.
• Ou Tu pulled a restriction cage containing several hundred Green Rhino Clan humans from underground, and Sikong Jing recognized Yuexian among them.
• Zhe Ying explained that the Green Rhino Clan humans had undergone beastification and demonification, then announced he would send them into the underground abyss to search for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.