Chapter Summaries

Zhe Jian broke the battle agreement and struck the Shadow Moon Demon Rat with a Nether Spirit Bamboo Spike, but the Demon Rat survived unharmed. As the Ten Thousand Demon Hall demanded that the third battle resume, Sikong Jing’s Human-Form Spirit Shadow prepared to face Zhe Jian while his true body remained hidden.

• Zhe Jian revealed his Divine Dao Realm cultivation and drove a Nether Spirit Bamboo Spike into the Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s forehead.
• The master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall broke Tian Tao’s barrier and rushed to the Demon Rat, while Tian Tao apologized and ordered his forces to surround the Spirit Race.
• The Feather Transformation Emperor discovered that Sikong Jing was missing, unaware that Su Yuexi had hidden his true body and his Human-Form Spirit Shadow had entered the battlefield.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat rose unharmed, removed the spike, and announced that he would continue the third battle against Divine Path cultivators.
• The Demon Rat approached Zhe Jian, and the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall demanded that Tian Tao reopen the barrier and withdraw the forces surrounding the Spirit Race.

The Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s master threatened the Spirit Race after its violation of the wager, while Tian Tao tried to mediate and secure concessions. As the Shadow Moon Demon Rat fought Zhe Jian, Jing Gege’s Human-Form Spirit Shadow fused with the rat, revealing two powerful magic beast shadows.

• Black Tiger demanded an explanation for Tian Tao’s barrier and threatened to fully demonize the Ten Thousand Demon Domain unless the Spirit Race paid a price.
• Tian Tao confronted Ling Zhe and Linglong, rejected their attempt to blame Zhe Jian, and proposed extending the Spirit Race’s truce with the Ten Thousand Demon Hall from ten years to fifty.
• Ling Zhe and Linglong accepted Tian Tao’s proposal as the Shadow Moon Demon Rat resumed fighting Zhe Jian.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat blasted Zhe Jian away, then unleashed two additional ferocious beast shadows.
• Su Yuexi realized Jing Gege’s Human-Form Spirit Shadow had entered the Demon Rat’s form and fused with it, releasing the combined might of two powerful beasts.

The Shadow Moon Demon Rat killed Zhe Jian, securing the Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s victory and humiliating the Spirit Race. Ling Zhe offered fifty years of non-aggression, but the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall rejected the terms and ordered Tian Tao’s people to withdraw.

• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat’s beast phantoms overwhelmed Zhe Jian, whose body exploded and whose power was destroyed.
• The Shadow Moon Demon Rat declared that the Ten Thousand Demon Hall had won all three battles and called the Spirit Race weak and shameless.
• Ling Zhe conceded the wager and announced that the Spirit Race would not attack the Ten Thousand Demon Hall for ten years.
• The Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall ordered the demon emperors to surround the Spirit Race while Tian Tao’s Celestial Race members remained between them.
• Ling Zhe offered fifty years of non-aggression, but the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall dismissed the offer and again demanded that Tian Tao withdraw his people.

The Hall Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall used the Black Prison Burial Emperor Claw to drive the Celestial Race faction away from Divine Spirit Island and revealed that he had broken through and returned to his prime. He then surrounded Ling Zhe and Ling Long’s island, where Ling Zhe warned that the Spirit Race would retaliate if they were harmed.

• The Hall Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall ordered Tian Tao to withdraw the Celestial Race members, then unleashed the Black Prison Burial Emperor Claw when Tian Tao refused.
• Yu Xianpo recognized the Burial Emperor Battlefield aura, and Sikong Jing explained that the Hall Master had awakened his clan’s ancient bloodline memories using sinister spirit evil aura.
• The Black Prison Burial Emperor Claw blasted more than thirty Emperors and over a hundred quasi-Emperors away from Divine Spirit Island, leaving many injured or unconscious.
• Tian Tao realized that the Hall Master had broken through and recovered his middle-aged appearance; the Hall Master told him the attack was punishment for failing to lift the battle barrier.
• The Hall Master ordered his Demon Emperors to surround Ling Zhe and Ling Long’s island, and Ling Zhe warned that the Spirit Race would mobilize if its members were harmed.

Ling Zhe and the Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master clashed over the terms for ending the standoff, while Yu Xianpo backed the Hall Master’s demands and threatened to join him against the Spirit Race. Tian Tao and others tried to mediate as Ling Zhe summoned Spirit Race reinforcements, leaving the sides in tense negotiations.

• Tian Tao urged Black Tiger and Ling Zhe to negotiate, and Ling Zhe offered one hundred years.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master demanded the people of the Feather Alliance Hall and the former land of the Broken Blade Hall.
• Ling Long accused the Feather Alliance Hall of colluding with the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, and the Hall Master cited his wish to befriend Yu Xianpo and Sikong Jing.
• Yu Xianpo accepted the Hall Master’s proposal and threatened to help him slaughter the Spirit Race members if they refused.
• Ling Zhe crushed a signal bead to summon the Spirit Race elders, while Tian Tao and other leaders tried to keep the sides negotiating.

The Ten Thousand Demon Hall and Spirit Race agreed to negotiate under strict restrictions on who could enter or leave, with Tian Tao sealing the core region. After the Spirit Race regrouped, Ling Zhe proposed delaying the talks while trying to win Yu Xianpo over to their side.

• The master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall demanded that no new Spirit Race members enter during negotiations and threatened Ling Zhe’s people if they did.
• Ling Zhe agreed, provided Yu Xianpo and Feather Alliance Hall stayed in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s core region, and both sides accepted the terms.
• Tian Tao set the first negotiation round for the following day, and the factions left to settle in separate locations.
• A Spirit Race genius urged Zhe Ying to defeat the Shadow Moon Demon Rat, but Zhe Ying said he would target Sikong Jing first.
• Tian Tao sealed the core region after half an hour, trapping the negotiating factions and remaining onlookers inside.
• Elder Linglong urged Ling Zhe to abandon negotiations, but Ling Zhe proposed prolonging them and persuading Yu Xianpo to support the Spirit Race.

Ling Zhe and Tian Tao prepared separate approaches to win over Sikong Jing and Yu Xianpo ahead of the peace negotiations. At Ten Thousand Demon Emperor Stele Mountain, Yu Xianpo accepted the Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master's promise of yin spirit evil energy and suggested asking Black Tiger to include Sikong Jing's sister in the demands against the Spirit Race.

• Ling Zhe ordered the Spirit Race elders to seize Feather Alliance Hall's key figures and use threats and generous offers to persuade Yu Hua and Sikong Jing to negotiate with him.
• Ling Zhe compelled Imperial Venerable Jinghang to approach Yu Hua and Sikong Jing, threatening Voyaging Heart Hall if she betrayed the Spirit Race.
• Ling Zhe wondered how the Shadow Moon Demon Rat had become immune to yin spirit evil energy and ordered that it be captured alive.
• Tian Tao sent Tao Qi and Liu Shun to offer Sikong Jing better terms and promise protection for Feather Alliance Hall.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master promised Yu Xianpo that Sikong Jing would provide yin spirit evil energy before Yu Xianpo's journey to Swordwalk Small World.
• Yu Xianpo agreed to the offer and asked Sikong Jing to have Black Tiger include Sikong Jing's sister in the demands made of the Spirit Race.

Sikong Jing and the Master of Ten Thousand Demon Hall planned how to protect the Feather Alliance Hall from Ling Zhe’s coercion while seeking better terms in the negotiations. The Hall Master left secretly for the Feather Alliance Hall, and Sikong Jing went to meet Imperial Venerable Jinghang.

• Sikong Jing rejected adding his sister’s rescue to the negotiations, fearing it would alert Ling Zhe and make her harder to save.
• The Master of Ten Thousand Demon Hall sent the demon rat body with Yu Xianpo into Ten Thousand Demon Emperor Stele Mountain to experience the yin spirit evil energy.
• Sikong Jing warned that Ling Zhe would target the Feather Alliance Hall and his people to pressure him and the Feather Transformation Emperor.
• Sikong Jing proposed that the Hall Master secretly evacuate the Feather Alliance Hall’s core figures, or otherwise accept Ling Zhe’s hundred-year condition and relocate by force.
• The Hall Master said he could leave unnoticed, vanished, and secretly told Sikong Jing to keep Yu Xianpo from learning of his departure.
• After receiving Su Yuexi’s message that Imperial Venerable Jinghang had come for him, Sikong Jing left to meet him.

Sikong Jing demanded that Imperial Venerable Jinghang publicly announce his engagement to Su Yuexi before he would negotiate with the Spirit Race, while Feather Transformation Emperor refused Ling Zhe’s demands and backed him. After Jinghang returned to report, Ling Zhe learned that the Celestial Race had also approached Sikong Jing.

• Sikong Jing told Imperial Venerable Jinghang that he would negotiate only if she publicly announced his engagement to Su Yuexi, and Su Yuexi said she would not be sold to the Spirit Race.
• Feather Transformation Emperor rejected Ling Zhe’s offer, saying he would not send Sikong Jing or himself to die for the Spirit Race, and Jinghang left without an agreement.
• Tao Qi and Liu Shun visited Sikong Jing, but he drank with them without discussing their purpose.
• Sikong Jing entered the Burial Emperor Battlefield and told Yu Xianpo he would use its Yin spirit’s evil aura to evolve a Burial Emperor Sword for him.
• Jinghang reported Sikong Jing’s condition to Ling Zhe and said Feather Transformation followed Sikong Jing’s lead and Tao Qi had visited him.

Ling Zhe ordered the Spirit Race to pressure the Feather Alliance Hall, while Tian Tao sent Celestial Race forces to win Yu Hua and Sikong Jing’s favor. The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master secretly reached the Feather Alliance Hall and confronted Ling Gui as she moved against Emperor Yu'e.

• Ling Zhe ordered his forces to seize the Feather Alliance Hall’s living beings and dim Emperor Yu'e’s life lamp to force Yu Hua and Sikong Jing to negotiate.
• Tian Tao sent Celestial Race powerhouses to hinder the Spirit Race’s planned attack and show the Feather Alliance Hall his faction’s support.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s demon emperors drilled the Beast Slaughter Array, disrupting communications so Ling Zhe and the Celestial Race would not notice events at the Feather Alliance Hall.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master’s forces found the Spirit Race powerhouses at the Feather Sword Mountain Range and killed them after learning the Spirit Seal Realm’s people had been moved.
• Ling Gui and more than a dozen Spirit Race members sealed Emperor Yu'e’s hall and prepared to remove her dantian, but Black Tiger appeared and confronted them.

The Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall forced Yu'e to activate the Feather Alliance Grand Formation and prepare to relocate the Feather Alliance Hall to the Ten Thousand Demon Domain. He incapacitated Spirit Race loyalists and secured Sikong Jing’s family, while Yu'e ordered the remaining elders and demon beasts to obey.

• The Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall restrained Ling Gui and the other Spirit Race members, then ordered Yu'e to activate the Feather Alliance Grand Formation and prepare the Hall for relocation.
• Yu'e sealed the Feather Alliance Hall’s core region and summoned its elders after she failed to contact Senior Brother Yu Hua.
• A Spirit Race powerhouse attacked Yu Diejin, but the Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall knocked him unconscious and took Sikong Ding, Ling Xiaotian, and the others into a protective treasure.
• The Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall searched the Feather Alliance Hall and incapacitated its Spirit Race members and elders who tried to contact the Spirit Race.
• The Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall ordered the remaining elders to open their Spacetime White Jade Stones, and Yu'e commanded the Hall’s demon beast mounts to obey him.

The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master used Emperor Yu'e and the Feather Alliance Hall’s demon beasts to relocate the Hall’s core region through spacetime, then secretly captured Celestial Race experts. As suspicions grew at the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, Ling Zhe accused Yu Xianpo of breaking the negotiations, and Tian Tao called for him to appear.

• At Emperor Yu'e’s command, the demon beasts formed the Beast Slaughter Array, stunned the humans, seized the array foundations, and moved the Feather Alliance Hall’s core region through a spacetime tunnel.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master slipped out of the tunnel, knocked out several Celestial Race experts at the crater, and returned with them before releasing Sikong Ding, Ling Xiaotian, and the others.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master explained the recent events in the Ten Thousand Demon Domain and asked Emperor Yu'e to return with it for the coming negotiations.
• After the Beast Slaughter Array drill continued all night, Ling Zhe realized it was blocking outside contact and suspected Yu Xianpo had gone to the Feather Alliance Hall.
• Ling Zhe accused Yu Xianpo and Black Tiger of breaking the negotiation rules, and Tian Tao called for Yu Xianpo to come out and meet him.

Yu Xianpo revealed himself inside Ten Thousand Demon Emperor Stele Mountain, disproving the Spirit Race’s suspicion that he had escaped. But both the Celestial Race’s envoys and the Spirit Race attackers sent to the Feather Alliance Hall remained unreachable, and Spirit Gull noticed that Black Tiger was missing.

• Sikong Jing withdrew the Burial Emperor Battlefield illusion, interrupting Yu Xianpo’s enlightenment and alerting him that others believed he had left.
• Sikong Jing’s Demon Rat body confronted Tian Tao, and Yu Xianpo appeared from the stele mountain to confirm he was still there.
• Tian Tao admitted he had sent Celestial Race Imperial Venerables to the Feather Alliance Hall to protect it from the Spirit Race.
• Tian Tao and the Spirit Race both discovered that their people sent to the Feather Alliance Hall could not be contacted.
• Ling Zhe repeated his suspicion that Yu Xianpo had escaped the grand formation, while Spirit Gull pointed out that Black Tiger had not appeared.

Ling Zhe and the Celestial Race accused the Ten Thousand Demon Hall of breaking the negotiation rules, but the Hall Master appeared from a supposed nap and denied it. Ling Zhe then threatened to destroy the Feather Alliance Hall unless the Feather Transformation Emperor and Sikong Jing came over, just as Emperor Yu'e appeared above the sealing formation.

• The Demon Emperors mocked Ling Zhe and the Celestial Race over their missing forces at the Feather Alliance Hall, while the demon rat form denied that the Ten Thousand Demon Hall had broken the rules.
• Ling Zhe asked Tian Tao to end the negotiations and open the formation, but Tian Tao hesitated.
• The Hall Master emerged from Ten Thousand Demon Emperor Stele Mountain, claimed he had been sleeping, and condemned the Spirit Race for violating the rules.
• Ling Zhe threatened to reduce the Feather Alliance Hall to ashes unless the Feather Transformation Emperor and Sikong Jing came to his side.
• Emperor Yu'e appeared above Tian Tao's sealing formation, and the Feather Transformation Emperor recognized his junior sister.

Emperor Yu'e revealed that Ling Zhe's forces had attacked the Feather Alliance Hall, while Sikong Jing and the Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master helped the Feather Alliance capture the Spirit Race intruders and evacuate its core. The Feather Transformation Emperor openly broke with the Spirit Race as Ling Zhe learned that the alliance's core region had vanished into a time tunnel.

• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master rescued Emperor Yu'e from Tian Tao's formation and brought her to the Feather Transformation Emperor.
• Emperor Yu'e accused Ling Zhe of ordering Ling Gui and other Spirit Race experts to attack the Feather Alliance Hall, then presented the unconscious captives.
• Sikong Jing urged the Feather Transformation Emperor to use the captives against the Spirit Race, and the emperor declared that the Feather Alliance would leave the Spirit Race.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master demanded the Feather Alliance's people and Broken Blade Hall's territory, while Ling Zhe and Ling Long threatened to abandon the captives and destroy the alliance.
• Ling Gull reported that the Feather Alliance Hall's core region had disappeared into a massive pit.
• Emperor Yu'e explained that the alliance had activated its grand formation and sent its core region and personnel into a time tunnel.

Sikong Jing and Emperor Yu'e revealed that the Feather Alliance Hall's core had escaped through a spacetime tunnel and used hostages from the Celestial Race to pressure Ling Zhe and Tian Tao. Ling Zhe then tried to win Sikong Jing back with sweeping promises, leaving the crowd waiting for his answer.

• Sikong Jing challenged Ling Zhe to destroy the Feather Alliance Hall's ordinary towns if the Spirit Race dared, after its core had already escaped.
• Emperor Yu'e revealed that several Celestial Race powerhouses were trapped in the spacetime tunnel and would die if the Spirit Race found the Feather Alliance Hall.
• Sikong Jing pressed Tian Tao to help keep the Spirit Race from locating the tunnel, putting the Celestial Race hostages at risk.
• Ling Zhe softened his stance and offered Sikong Jing Spirit Race status, bloodlines for the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm, discipleship, and help returning there.
• Ling Zhe also offered to preside over Sikong Jing's wedding to a disciple of Voyaging Heart Hall, while Imperial Venerable Jinghang silently urged him to accept.

Sikong Jing rejected Ling Zhe’s offer and Tian Tao’s attempt to recruit him, citing the Spirit Race’s betrayals and the Celestial Race’s failures. As Ling Zhe offered terms to the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, Black Tiger suddenly attacked and trapped Ling Zhe and Ling Long in the Beast Slaughter Array.

• Sikong Jing listed the Spirit Race’s past betrayals and refused Ling Zhe’s offer, angering the Spirit Race faction.
• Yu Xianpo declared Sikong Jing his brother, and Tian Tao offered to protect the Feather Alliance Hall if it joined the Celestial Race.
• Sikong Jing rejected Tian Tao’s offer and chose to follow Yu Xianpo, while Zhan You pointed out the Celestial Race’s own misconduct.
• The Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall asked Ling Zhe to accept his terms as Spirit Race reinforcements arrived and demon beasts surrounded Ling Zhe’s group.
• Ling Zhe offered to hand over the Feather Alliance Hall’s people in exchange for Broken Blade Hall territory and Yu Hua and Yu E’s lives.
• The Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall attacked Ling Zhe’s group and trapped Ling Zhe and Ling Long in the Beast Slaughter Array, while Yu Xianpo blocked Tian Tao.

The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master negotiated with Ling Dao, securing the Feather Alliance Hall’s people and Broken Blade Hall’s territory along with a ten-year pact. Two months later, the territorial exchange was complete, Yu Xianpo had made a major breakthrough, and Sikong Jing prepared to head to the Spirit Race’s Divine Spirit Main Island before the journey to the Swordwalk Small World.

• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master threatened Ling Dao with Ling Gui, Ling Zhe, Ling Long, and the other hostages, and Ling Dao agreed to the demands and a ten-year non-aggression pact.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master arranged to release Ling Gui when the Feather Alliance Hall’s core region arrived, while Ling Zhe, Ling Long, and the others would remain captive until the other conditions were fulfilled.
• The Feather Alliance Hall’s core region moved into the Ten Thousand Demon Domain, and the Ten Thousand Demon Hall Master released Ling Gui as Yu Xianpo took charge of the transferred territory.
• Sikong Jing helped free the remaining beasts from the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, gathered them with the Burial Emperor Spirit Seal Realm’s people, and arranged for them to establish Shadow Moon City.
• Two months later, the former Broken Blade Heavenly Region and Feather Alliance Heavenly Domain had exchanged names and territory, and the Feather Alliance Hall had moved to a new border location.
• Sikong Jing stopped evolving the Burial Emperor Battlefield and congratulated Yu Xianpo on his breakthrough, then prepared to travel with him to the Spirit Race’s Divine Spirit Main Island.

Sikong Jing returned the Broken Blade Nether Demon Stone and planned his next steps, including rescuing his younger sister and entering the Dark Demon Small World to pursue the Nine Heavens Emperor's sword. He left for home with Su Yuexi while his Demon Rat body remained behind to cultivate.

• Spirit Parrot left the Ten Thousand Demon Hall after telling Sikong Jing to contact her before the one-year deadline, and the Spirit Race hostages were released.
• Sikong Jing told Black Tiger he wanted the Dark Demon Small World's realm ring and demonstrated the Nine Heavens Emperor's sword, explaining why he needed to return to the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Black Tiger agreed to send Stinging Bee and Sword Tiger with Sikong Jing's Demon Rat body to the Swordwalk Forbidden Domain.
• Sikong Jing planned to visit the Spirit Race's Divine Spirit Main Island while his Demon Rat body traveled through the Swordwalk Forbidden Domain, then enter the Swordwalk Small World with Yu Xianpo a month later.
• Sikong Jing left Emperor Stele Mountain with Su Yuexi to return home, while his Demon Rat body stayed to cultivate; Tian Tao invited Sikong Jing to visit the Celestial Race and mentioned his unmarried daughter, Tao Qi.

Sikong Jing prepared to enter Spirit Race territory to rescue Ling'er, while Yu Xianpo hid in his spirit platform and began repairing the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison. Sikong Jing met Spirit Parrot at the former Broken Blade Heavenly Region and relied on her offer to help him beg Ling Zhe for mercy.

• Tian Tao failed to persuade Sikong Jing to stay with the Celestial Race and warned him that Yu Xianpo was unwelcome in the Prison Race.
• Tian Tao concluded that the Celestial Race had gained influence from the mediation and wondered whether the Shadow Moon Demon Rat was connected to Black Tiger's breakthrough.
• Sikong Jing returned to the new Feather Alliance Hall, reassured his family that he would bring Ling'er back, and then departed alone.
• Sikong Jing concealed Yu Xianpo inside his spirit platform along with the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, which Yu Xianpo offered to restore.
• Sikong Jing contacted Spirit Parrot, who met him and questioned how he planned to survive Ling Zhe and save his sister.
• Sikong Jing answered that Spirit Parrot had promised to help them beg for mercy and suggested Ling Zhe would hesitate to kill a fellow Sword Clan member.