Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing and the Feather Alliance Hall learned that Zhe Ying planned to use them as bait in the underground abyss, while Su Yuexian and Su Yuexi were trapped on opposing sides of the crisis. Sikong Jing questioned Zhe Ying about claiming merit for capturing the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, then stepped back with his response still unclear.

• Zhe Ying announced that the Spirit Race would assign teams to guard the underground abyss and capture the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Zhe Ying split Feather Alliance Hall, keeping Li Shi's group beside the Spirit Race and ordering Sikong Jing's group to descend with the Green Rhino Human Race.
• When Feather Alliance defectors protested, Zhe Ying threatened to punish their families and clans, forcing them into silence.
• Sikong Jing asked whether his group would receive chief merit for capturing the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and what would happen if others tried to steal it.
• Zhe Ying said the merit would belong to whoever secured the rat and admitted that anyone could contend for it; Sikong Jing replied that he understood.

Zhe Ying led the teams toward the underground abyss, using the threat of the Shadow Moon Demon Rat to keep them under Spirit Race control. At the abyss, he ordered the imprisoned Azure Rhinoceros people to be lowered one by one while Su Yuexian watched Sikong Jing for a sign to act.

• Zhe Ying assigned ten Spirit Race geniuses to each team and sent the groups to surround the abyss as exiles moved into position.
• Su Yuexi left with Voyaging Heart Hall, while Sikong Jing led the remaining Feather Alliance Hall members and defectors down into the rift under Spirit Race guard.
• Li Shi pledged to Zhe Ying that he would suppress any resistance and gather the Feather Alliance Hall members' background information.
• Zhe Ying protected the group from the abyss's demonic energy as they reached the claw print of the Nine Heavens Blood Devour Magic Beast.
• Zhe Ying ordered the Azure Rhinoceros people to be tied to spirit ropes and pushed into the abyss to search for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, while Su Yuexian met Sikong Jing's gaze.

Sikong Jing volunteered to enter the abyss first, claiming he wanted to earn merit for the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm and spare Feather Alliance Hall from being sent down. Inside, he found that the Nine Heavens restrictions exposed him to more sword traces, and he began studying them while resisting the demonic aura; Zhe Ying then ordered the Green Rhino Human Race pushed into the abyss.

• Sikong Jing stepped beyond Zhe Ying's Spirit-Stabilizing Pearl and asked to be the first to enter the abyss.
• Sikong Jing persuaded Zhe Ying that he was risking his life to earn rewards for his people and protect Feather Alliance Hall, and Zhe Ying had him bound with spirit ropes.
• Sikong Jing leaped into the abyss as Xie Men, Yu Tang, and the others watched, then vanished into the demonic aura.
• Sikong Jing struck the Nine Heavens restrictions, saw more Nine Heavens Sword Traces, and sat down to study the sword Dao while fighting the demonic influence.
• Zhe Ying ordered the Spirit Race to push the Green Rhino Human Race into the abyss one by one, and Sikong Jing's Beast-Form Spirit Shadow heard him from the claw mark.

Sikong Jing used the Shadow Moon Demon Rat to draw Zhe Ying and most of the Spirit Race geniuses away from the abyss, but Ou Tu threw away the rope that could have rescued him. Su Yuexian then led the Green Rhino Clan in an attack on the remaining Spirit Race forces.

• Sikong Jing revealed the Shadow Moon Demon Rat from inside the abyss and controlled it as it fled, drawing Zhe Ying and three hundred Spirit Race geniuses into pursuit.
• Zhe Ying ordered Ou Tu and two hundred Spirit Race geniuses to seal the abyss while the other forces formed a wider blockade.
• Ou Tu took Sikong Jing's spirit rope and tossed it into the abyss, preventing Yu Tang and the others from pulling Sikong Jing up.
• Su Yuexian stopped Feather Alliance Hall from attacking immediately, then revealed herself and urged the Green Rhino Clan to strike while only two hundred Spirit Race geniuses remained.
• The Green Rhino Clan tore free of their ropes and charged Ou Tu's forces, with Su Yuexian declaring that they had no families to fear for.

Su Yuexian led the Green Rhino Human Race in a revolt, overpowering Ou Tu and the Spirit Race geniuses while the demonic aura incapacitated Feather Alliance Hall. As the Green Rhino fighters began losing their reason, Zhe Ying left the sealing formation around the Shadow Moon Demon Rat to deal with them.

• Su Yuexian and the Green Rhino Human Race attacked the Spirit Race, and Su Yuexian suppressed Ou Tu as the battle spread above the abyss.
• Zhe Ying learned of the revolt, ordered Li Shi and Feather Alliance Hall to attack the Green Rhino Human Race, and Ou Tu threatened Zhan You and the others into joining the fight.
• When Zhe Ying's protection ended, the demonic aura began causing qi deviation among Feather Alliance Hall, so its members pretended they could not fight and Li Shi's followers began collapsing or fleeing.
• Su Yuexian urged the Green Rhino half-demons to kill the Spirit Race geniuses, and they overwhelmed the two hundred fighters led by Ou Tu.
• After Zhe Ying confined the Shadow Moon Demon Rat within a sealing formation, he ordered the others to keep it trapped and went back to kill the Green Rhino Human Race.

Sikong Jing left the abyss in Humanoid Fierce Beast form to turn the battle against Zhe Ying and the Spirit Race geniuses. He killed Ou Tu, while Su Yuexian led the Green Rhino forces to retreat.

• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow used its growing Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger power to hold Zhe Ying back, and Zhe Ying ordered three hundred Spirit Race geniuses to form a sealing array around it.
• Sikong Jing decided his Shadow Moon Demon Rat body could not withstand the encirclement and flew out of the abyss in his Magic Beast form.
• Sikong Jing killed the Feather Alliance Hall disciples who had fallen into the abyss, keeping his identity concealed as he passed them.
• A cloud of demonic smoke surged from the abyss and swallowed Ou Tu, prompting Su Yuexian to lead the Green Rhino half-human, half-demon beings in retreat.
• Inside the smoke, Sikong Jing crushed Ou Tu with a demonic claw and killed him instantly.

Sikong Jing reverted from his demon form after killing Ou Tu and two hundred Spirit Race geniuses, then forced the Feather Alliance Hall defectors to help conceal the slaughter. With Li Shi gone, Sikong Jing killed his abandoned subordinates and began freeing his allies from qi deviation.

• Ou Tu recognized Sikong Jing as the Magic Beast Ying Bailiu had described before his spirit shadow shattered, and Sikong Jing slaughtered the two hundred Spirit Race geniuses.
• Su Yuexian led several hundred Green Rhino half-human, half-demons to reinforce the Shadow Moon Demon Rat against Zhe Ying.
• Sikong Jing reverted to human form and ordered the Feather Alliance Hall members to keep his identity and the massacre secret.
• Sikong Jing made the defectors and his other allies finish off the Spirit Race corpses while Zhan You recorded them doing so.
• Sikong Jing learned that Li Shi had fled, killed Li Shi's more than one hundred subordinates, and began stabilizing his allies' spirits to release them from qi deviation.

Sikong Jing stabilized his allies and returned to the abyss to comprehend the Nine Heavens Sword Traces while his Beast-Form Spirit Shadow and Su Yuexian fought to keep Zhe Ying and the other pursuers occupied. The Shadow Moon Demon Rat escaped several encirclements, and Zhan You's group reached safety before someone questioned how they had survived.

• Sikong Jing restored the defectors' spirit shadows and true qi, ordered them to flee, and reminded them to blame the Green Rhino Human Race for Ou Tu's death before returning to the abyss.
• Su Yuexian led the Green Rhino Human Race in a half-demonized assault that opened a gap for Sikong Jing's Beast-Form Spirit Shadow to escape Zhe Ying's encirclement.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat broke through Endless Extreme Prison and smashed through Sea-Gazing Hall's formation, killing some of its geniuses as it fled.
• Zhe Ying ordered the clans and halls to seal the routes and the abyss while the Shadow Moon Demon Rat burrowed underground to evade the pursuing forces.
• Zhan You led Feather Alliance Hall's survivors to a safe layer near the Claw-Mark Abyss, where someone asked in disbelief how they had escaped alive.

Zhan You exposed Li Shi for abandoning the Spirit Race and drove him into flight while the Feather Alliance Hall waited for Sikong Jing. As Zhe Ying’s encirclement lost track of the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, three Ten Thousand Demon Hall agents revealed themselves and presented a token, leaving the rat to ask how they would get him out of the Dark Demon Small World.

• Zhan You accused Li Shi of abandoning the Spirit Race, then attacked him and forced him to flee.
• Zhan You and the Feather Alliance Hall members waited for Sikong Jing, while Xie Men reminded them that Sikong had earned the first merit by forcing out the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Zhe Ying completed his encirclement of the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, then discovered it had vanished and ordered a frantic search.
• Three agents from the Ten Thousand Demon Hall drew the Shadow Moon Demon Rat into a hidden cave and revealed their identity.
• One agent showed a Black Prison Battle Token, which Fang Sword recognized as proof that the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall had sent them.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat asked the agents how they planned to take him out of the Dark Demon Small World.

The Shadow Moon Demon Rat arranged for the Ten Thousand Demon Hall infiltrators to help Sikong Jing win the trial and get it out of the Dark Demon Small World. Sikong Jing then completed his breakthrough in the abyss and prepared to return and defeat the other teams.

• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat told the three Broken Blade Hall infiltrators that the Spirit Race would keep sending people until the trial ended, and that Fang Sword was hidden in its Spirit Platform consciousness sea.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat learned that the infiltrators could help it escape the Broken Blade Hall after the trial and proposed that the Feather Alliance Hall defeat the other teams before handing it over to them.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat identified the strongest infiltrator as Wan Sandao and asked the three to cooperate and stall for time while Sikong Jing advanced.
• Sikong Jing learned of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall's rescue arrangements and continued refining his cultivation in the abyss.
• Sikong Jing reached the peak of the Extreme Prison Eight Trigrams Realm, returned to human form, and prepared to leave the abyss and take on the Dark Demon Small World.

Wan Sandao and the others helped the wounded Shadow Moon Demon Rat escape its pursuers, and Sikong Jing seized it after it fell into Li Shi’s path. Sikong Jing fled from Zhe Ying and reached Zhan You’s group, warning them that a fight was imminent.

• Wan Sandao and the other Broken Blade Hall disciples secretly opened a gap in their blockade, letting the wounded Shadow Moon Demon Rat escape while Zhe Ying and the other pursuers gave chase.
• Li Shi found the weakened Shadow Moon Demon Rat and tried to capture it, but Sikong Jing appeared and took it first.
• Sikong Jing told Li Shi that Zhan You had pulled him from the abyss, then fled with the demon rat as Li Shi informed Zhe Ying where he had gone.
• Zhe Ying pursued Sikong Jing and demanded that he surrender the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, but Sikong Jing kept escaping through the collapsing space.
• Sikong Jing reached Zhan You and the others with the demon rat and warned them that Zhe Ying was close behind.

Sikong Jing captured the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and confronted Zhe Ying over the trial’s chief merit. He led the Feather Alliance Hall disciples out of the underground after overpowering Zhe Ying’s attacks, while Zhe Ying remained determined to take the merit back.

• Sikong Jing handed the weakened Shadow Moon Demon Rat to Yu Tang and reminded Zhe Ying that he had promised chief merit to whoever captured it.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan You to crush the signal pearl, but Zhe Ying said the Spirit Race controlled their exit and announced that the merit-stealing stage had begun.
• Sikong Jing argued that the Feather Alliance Hall needed the merit for protection, but Zhe Ying demanded the rat and threatened to kill them.
• Sikong Jing blocked Zhe Ying’s sword with the Army-Slaying Formation, then led the Feather Alliance Hall toward the surface.
• Sikong Jing’s second sword strike suppressed Zhe Ying and helped the group escape underground, while Zhe Ying resolved to pursue the merit as more factions arrived.

Sikong Jing secured the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and used the restarted trial to openly confront the other races and halls. He led the Feather Alliance Hall to rescue the besieged Green Rhino Human Race, then faced the Armament Hall and others as they demanded the demon rat.

• Zhe Ying announced that the trial had restarted and allowed the races and halls to fight for merit.
• Sikong Jing led the Feather Alliance Hall toward the Green Rhino Human Race, intending to rescue Su Yuexian while making their actions appear to disrupt the defense of their merit.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan You that the Green Rhino Human Race would admit to killing Ou Tu's two hundred men, then led his forces toward them in a colossal sword formation.
• Several halls abandoned their siege of Su Yuexian to pursue the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, while Que Yi continued the attack with Spirit Race geniuses and exiles.
• The Armament Hall and other halls surrounded Sikong Jing's formation and demanded the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, so Sikong Jing attacked with the Break Nine Heavens Army-Slaying Formation and Sword Burst.

Sikong Jing led Feather Alliance Hall in crushing Armament Hall and Que Yi’s Spirit Race forces while carrying the Shadow Moon Demon Rat. He staged a clash with Su Yuexian’s Green Rhino Human Race to conceal their cooperation, then blasted them away as well.

• Sikong Jing’s Heaven and Earth Battlefield formation destroyed Armament Hall’s formation, killing many and sending the survivors fleeing.
• The leaders of several halls formed an alliance and pursued Feather Alliance Hall to seize the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Sikong Jing’s attack disrupted Que Yi’s siege of Su Yuexian, and he then shattered Que Yi’s formation and scattered the Spirit Race geniuses and exiles.
• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexian that he had repaid his favor, and she demanded the Shadow Moon Demon Rat to make their cooperation look false.
• Sikong Jing attacked Su Yuexian and the Green Rhino Human Race, blasting them away before preparing to leave with Feather Alliance Hall.

Sikong Jing led the Feather Alliance Hall away after defeating the Green Rhino Human Race, while Zhe Ying gathered the Spirit Race and planned to let the other factions weaken each other before taking control. Sikong Jing ordered his people to split up and undergo Sword-Refining Extreme Prison in batches, then attacked the Snow Forest Clan’s group.

• Sikong Jing spared the Green Rhino Human Race and led the Feather Alliance Hall away, leaving Que Yi and the others behind.
• Su Yuexian stopped the Green Rhino Human Race from attacking Que Yi’s group and led them away before Zhe Ying arrived.
• Zhe Ying assessed the battle, ordered the Spirit Race to gather, and planned to seize the Shadow Moon Demon Rat after the other factions had exhausted themselves.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan You to spread out and lead the Feather Alliance Hall through Sword-Refining Extreme Prison in batches.
• Sikong Jing spotted the Snow Forest Clan’s group and charged in, sending them flying along with the Spirit Race members assigned to watch them.

Sikong Jing brought the Feather Alliance Hall to the Extreme North Blood Sea, where he began teaching the defectors Sword-Refining Extreme Prison and declared they had to defeat the Spirit Race forces to escape. When the Sea-Gazing Hall attacked with an Army-Slaying Formation, Sikong Jing charged forward alone.

• The Snow Forest Clan abandoned its pursuit of the Feather Alliance Hall and began seeking allies.
• Senior Sister Changfeng refused Su Yuexi's request to help Sikong Jing, while Su Yuexi decided to cultivate and wait for a chance to act.
• Su Yuexian told the Green Rhino half-human, half-demons that they would help the Feather Alliance Hall keep the Shadow Moon Demon Rat and accept blame for killing Ou Tu's group.
• Sikong Jing led the defectors to the Extreme North Blood Sea and ordered them to cultivate Sword-Refining Extreme Prison while his allies kept watch.
• Sikong Jing explained that the group had to defeat the Spirit Race forces to escape the Dark Demon Small World.
• The Sea-Gazing Hall attacked with an Army-Slaying Formation, and Sikong Jing charged at it alone.

Sikong Jing defeated Sea-Gazing Hall’s Army-Slaying Formation and killed its members after learning Jing Yuan had been cast aside, fearing they would retaliate against him. When three more halls arrived to seize the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, Sikong Jing charged out alone again while Zhan You protected the cultivators.

• Sea-Gazing Hall mocked Sikong Jing and Jing Yuan, so Sikong Jing unleashed his battlefield domain and shattered their Army-Slaying Formation.
• Sikong Jing wounded Sea-Gazing Hall’s members, stripped their belongings, and demanded news of Jing Yuan.
• A Sea-Gazing Hall member revealed that Jing Yuan had been forcibly set free and abandoned by Sea-Gazing Hall’s Emperor.
• Sikong Jing killed Sea-Gazing Hall’s members because he feared they would take revenge on Jing Yuan, then warned Zhan You that more enemies might arrive.
• Three halls arrived, assumed Sikong Jing’s group was injured, and charged to seize the Shadow Moon Demon Rat.
• Sikong Jing told Zhan You to protect the cultivators and charged alone at the three halls.

Sikong Jing used the attacks from three halls and then seven halls to strengthen himself and the Feather Alliance Hall defectors, while protecting the Shadow Moon Demon Rat. After defeating the seven halls at the Dark Demon World wall, he decided to return to land and eliminate the other factions before confronting the Spirit Race.

• Sikong Jing and Zhan You's forces defeated the geniuses of three halls, taking their treasures but sparing them because they had not harmed what he cared about.
• Sikong Jing told Yu Tang that the Spirit Race would not get the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, though he did not explain how he would prevent it.
• Sikong Jing led his forces to the Dark Demon World wall and used its defenses to hold off an alliance of geniuses from seven halls.
• The second batch of Feather Alliance Hall defectors completed their cultivation and joined Sikong Jing's formation, helping defeat the seven halls and seize their treasures.
• Sikong Jing decided to return to land, defeat the remaining factions, and isolate the Spirit Race before fighting it.

Sikong Jing led Feather Alliance Hall in eliminating rival factions while the Green Rhino Human Race’s demonized warriors harried Zhe Ying and the Spirit Race. After Zhe Ying decided to target the Green Rhino Human Race, Sikong Jing encountered Voyaging Heart Hall and took Su Yuexi aside to speak.

• Sikong Jing explained that the Green Rhino Human Race’s demonized warriors had become hidden assassins who were holding back the Spirit Race, then led Feather Alliance Hall to attack rival factions.
• Su Yuexian taunted Zhe Ying and vanished into the demonic energy, and Zhe Ying ordered the exiles to surround the Green Rhino Human Race.
• Sikong Jing led Feather Alliance Hall through blockades and continued eliminating rival geniuses, while concealing his connection to Wan Sandao and Broken Blade Hall.
• Senior Sister Changfeng told Sikong Jing that Voyaging Heart Hall would not compete for the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, and Sikong Jing took Su Yuexi aside to talk.

Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi how to protect Su Yuexian and resolved to force the Spirit Race to keep him alive, then led Feather Alliance Hall into battle. He broke Zhe Ying’s formation, joined forces with Su Yuexian’s Green Rhino Human Race, and seized control of the nearby troops before turning his army-slaying formation against the pursuing ten halls.

• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi to hide Su Yuexian inside the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s spirit platform consciousness sea and decided to make Feather Transformation Emperor and Feather Alliance Hall protect him.
• Sikong Jing led nearly two thousand Feather Alliance Hall disciples toward Zhe Ying while the ten halls pursued them.
• Zhe Ying used a vast formation to expose and trap Su Yuexian and the Green Rhino Human Race, then led his Spirit Race geniuses to attack them.
• Sikong Jing arrived and pierced Zhe Ying’s formation with Break Nine Heavens, then ordered the Green Rhino Human Race to help him seize control of the troops.
• Sikong Jing linked the exiles and Green Rhino fighters into his army-slaying formation and unleashed Heaven and Earth Fierce Demon Battlefield against the pursuing ten halls.