Chapter Summaries

Ling Liaoyuan and the Glazed Sword Peng fought Wuxian while he tried to delay him until Heaven-Soaring Palace’s troops arrived, but Wuxian overwhelmed them and destroyed the palace’s grand formation. As Ling Liaoyuan fled to meet the troops, Ling Yuyue watched the battle and told Ling Wangjiao that she had helped the Palace Master reach the Emperor Venerable realm.

• Ling Liaoyuan merged with the Glazed Sword Peng and blocked Wuxian’s attack, then tried to stall for time while mobilizing Heaven-Soaring Palace’s troops.
• Wuxian repeatedly struck Ling Liaoyuan and the Glazed Sword Peng, crushed the Heaven-Soaring Grand Formation, and shattered the Heaven-Soaring Emperor’s sword strike.
• Wuxian ordered Wudun and Wu Qianjin to suppress the approaching Heaven-Soaring Palace troops while he pursued Ling Liaoyuan.
• Ling Yuyue and the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow watched the one-sided pursuit, and the collapsing Heaven-Soaring Main Hall released Ling Wangjiao from his seal.
• Ling Yuyue told Ling Wangjiao that she had helped Ling Liaoyuan reach the Emperor Venerable realm.

Ling Yuyue, guided and controlled by the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow, taught Ling Wangjiao the Nine Heavens One Sword while Ling Liaoyuan escaped Wuxian. Wuxian returned to the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall and accused Ling Wangjiao of deceiving the Seven Decree Sect.

• Ling Wangjiao blamed Ling Yuyue for the Palace Lord's conflict with the Seven Decree Sect and seized her by the throat, but her quasi-Emperor-level Spirit Shadow power blasted him away.
• Ling Yuyue urged Ling Wangjiao to save the Palace Lord and showed him the Nine Heavens One Sword, which he quickly learned and unleashed with great force.
• Wuxian stopped pursuing Ling Liaoyuan after sensing the sword technique, allowing Ling Liaoyuan to tear through space and flee toward the Heaven-Soaring troops.
• Wuxian returned to the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall, saw Ling Wangjiao, and accused him of deceiving the Seven Decree Sect.

Wuxian accused Ling Wangjiao and Heaven-Soaring Palace of deceiving the Seven Decree Sect after Ling Wangjiao unleashed a pure Nine Heavens One Sword. Ling Liaoyuan returned with the Heaven-Soaring troops, and Wuxian confronted him while demanding an explanation.

• Wuxian accused Heaven-Soaring Palace of hiding Nine Heavens Essence Blood and playing the Seven Decree Sect for fools after Ling Wangjiao used the Nine Heavens One Sword.
• Ling Wangjiao claimed Ling Yuyue had taught him the sword, but Wuxian’s interrogation revealed that she had not.
• Wuxian dismissed Ling Wangjiao’s claims that Ling Yuyue was possessed or controlled, then called him a traitor and seized him by the neck.
• Ling Yuyue urged Ling Wangjiao to confess and surrender Heaven-Soaring Palace’s Nine Heavens Sword Dao, infuriating him further.
• Ling Liaoyuan returned with the Heaven-Soaring troops and the Army-Slaying Formation, and Wuxian flew up to confront him while holding Ling Wangjiao.

Wuxian accused Ling Liaoyuan of hiding Heaven-Soaring Palace’s Nine Heavens inheritance, while Sikong Jing and Ling Dongyang secretly entered the palace’s territory. Sikong Jing sensed the Eternal Night Wolf King nearby and continued toward Heaven-Soaring Palace, intending to lure out the Origin Universe invaders.

• Wuxian accused Ling Liaoyuan of concealing an Extreme Prison Stage technique inherited from the Nine Heavens Emperor, but Ling Liaoyuan could not reveal the truth about Ling Yuyue’s Demon Sword.
• Sikong Jing and Ling Dongyang arrived at the Fangburning Plains Realm, where Ling Dongyang explained that its void formation led into Heaven-Soaring Palace territory.
• Sikong Jing sensed traces of the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor and another powerful Imperial Sovereign, and learned that a nearby direction led to the Ten Thousand Beasts Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing detected the Eternal Night Wolf King’s aura near Heaven-Soaring Palace and wondered whether it had sensed his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow.
• Sikong Jing ordered Ling Dongyang to help him enter Heaven-Soaring Palace territory unnoticed, and they slipped into the Fangburning Plains Realm.

Sikong Jing sensed that the Eternal Night Wolf King had reached the Extreme Prison Stage and hurried toward the Heaven-Soaring Realm, fearing it might be under an invader’s control. The Wolf King entered the realm to hunt the Blackflow Wolf, then sensed the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts and charged toward the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall.

• Sikong Jing detected the Eternal Night Wolf King's Emperor Venerable aura and ordered Ling Dongyang to hurry toward the Heaven-Soaring Realm.
• The Eternal Night Wolf King learned that Heaven-Soaring Palace had withdrawn its guards and led the young Eternal Night Demon Wolves through the realm-space formation.
• The Wolf King said it would avenge its brethren by killing the Blackflow Wolf and planned to use the chaos to strike at Heaven-Soaring Palace.
• Inside the Heaven-Soaring Realm, the Wolf King sensed Wuxian and Ling Liaoyuan fighting and feared their Extreme Prison Stage cultivation meant the pack had been discovered.
• The Wolf King sensed the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts near the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall, tore through space toward it, and left the other demon wolves behind.
• Wudun threatened the Heaven-Soaring troops near the Soaring Flight Realm and ordered them to remain in place.

Wudun tried to hold back Heaven-Soaring Palace’s army until an Extreme Prison Stage Eternal Night Wolf King and its pack arrived, while Wuxian threatened Ling Liaoyuan in the main hall. As the wolf king approached, Wuxian stowed Ling Wangjiao and moved to defeat Ling Liaoyuan before it could intervene.

• Wudun suppressed Heaven-Soaring Palace’s quasi-emperor and blocked its army from returning to the main hall.
• An Extreme Prison Stage Eternal Night Wolf King tore through space, struck Wudun aside, and rushed toward Heaven-Soaring Palace.
• More Eternal Night Demon Wolves arrived and asked Heaven-Soaring Palace’s quasi-emperor to join them against Wudun, leaving him stunned and unable to respond.
• Wuxian demanded Ling Liaoyuan’s Nine Heavens Sword Dao and Nine Heavens Essence Blood in exchange for sparing Ling Wangjiao and Heaven-Soaring Palace.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow recognized the approaching Eternal Night Wolf King, and Wuxian accused Ling Liaoyuan of colluding with another great world.
• Wuxian stowed Ling Wangjiao in a treasure and said he would take down Ling Liaoyuan before the wolf king arrived.

Wuxian overwhelmed Ling Liaoyuan and the Heaven-Soaring Palace forces, but the Eternal Night Wolf King intervened to protect them. The three joined forces against Wuxian, who continued demanding answers and accused Heaven-Soaring Palace of hiding its ties to another sect.

• Wuxian battered Ling Liaoyuan, the Glazed Sword Peng, and the Heaven-Soaring Palace troops until their Army-Slaying Formation collapsed.
• At Ling Yuyue's request, the Eternal Night Wolf King arrived and shielded Ling Liaoyuan from Wuxian's attack.
• The Eternal Night Wolf King recognized the spirit shadow of Sikong Jing within Ling Yuyue, while Wuxian accused the wolf king of being trained by a Primordial Cosmos sect.
• Wuxian crushed the Eternal Night Wolf King with his power, and Ling Liaoyuan and the Glazed Sword Peng burned their strength to help it fight back.
• Wuxian pressed the three First-Tribulation Emperor Venerables and demanded to know which sect Heaven-Soaring Palace had joined and what it was hiding.
• Wuxian pulled Ling Wangjiao from the treasure space, struck him into the Heaven-Soaring Main Hall, and declared Heaven-Soaring Palace deserved death.

Ling Yuyue united with the Eternal Night Wolf King and unleashed a powerful Nine Heavens sword strike against Wuxian. Wuxian caught the attack but recognized the purity of the Nine Heavens Sword Dao within it.

• Wuxian spread his Seven-Decree Divine Mist Domain over Heaven-Soaring Palace and threatened to kill everyone unless Ling Liaoyuan surrendered its Nine Heavens items.
• Ling Liaoyuan and the remaining fighters joined the Army-Slaying Formation to resist Wuxian while he urged Ling Yuyue to act.
• Ling Yuyue vanished from Ling Wangjiao’s grasp as the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow altered her meridians to let her unite with the Eternal Night Wolf King.
• Ling Yuyue merged with the Eternal Night Wolf King, then transformed it into the Blood-Devouring Demon Wolf King using the Demonic Path Sevenfold Body.
• Ling Yuyue struck Wuxian with the Fourth Level of Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword, Demon Pierce, and Wuxian caught the blade between his fingers before recognizing its Nine Heavens Sword Dao.

Ling Yuyue, controlled by the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow, used the pure Nine Heavens Dark Demon Sword to defeat Wuxian and drive him from Heaven-Soaring Palace. After the spirit shadow’s memories joined with the true body’s, it revealed that the true body had entered the Heaven-Soaring Realm and pursued Wuxian to support him.

• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow activated the Army-Slaying Formation through Ling Yuyue and used the troops’ burned true qi to break Wuxian’s Divine Mist Domain and wound him.
• Ling Yuyue sealed Wuxian inside the Eternal Night Wolf King’s domain, then taunted him when he demanded to know her identity.
• Wuxian burned his true qi, escaped the domain, and fled toward the Soaring Flight Realm, threatening to destroy Heaven-Soaring Palace once his main force arrived.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow recovered the true body’s memories and told the Eternal Night Wolf King that the true body had entered the Heaven-Soaring Realm to lure out the Origin Universe invaders.
• The spirit shadow explained that Heaven-Soaring Palace would let Wuxian’s forces spread news of its pure Nine Heavens Sword Dao, then had the Eternal Night Wolf King tear open spacetime and pursue Wuxian.

Ling Liaoyuan elevated Ling Yuyue to Heaven-Soaring Palace’s foremost Young Miss after Wuxian was driven away, while Sikong Jing learned what his spirit shadow had accomplished. Wuxian regrouped with Wudun and attacked Sikong Jing, hoping to capture him as he fled the approaching Eternal Night Wolf King.

• Ling Liaoyuan collapsed from his injuries and ordered Heaven-Soaring Palace to recognize Ling Yuyue as its foremost Young Miss.
• Sikong Jing received his Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow’s memories and learned it had arranged the Nine Heavens Sword Dao within Heaven-Soaring Palace.
• Sikong Jing told Ling Dongyang that Ling Liaoyuan had turned against the Seven Decree Sect and led him toward Wudun and the demon wolves.
• Wuxian ordered Wudun to evacuate the Seven Decree Sect members, then decided to attack the Heaven-Soaring Palace troops and capture their Quasi-Emperor commander.
• Sikong Jing appeared before Wuxian and Wudun, who recognized him as the black-clothed youth they had encountered before.
• Wuxian charged at Sikong Jing, intending to capture him while escaping the approaching Eternal Night Wolf King.

Sikong Jing used Fire Evil Spirits and the Army-Slaying Formation to stop Wuxian and capture Wudun, then prepared to leave for the Shattered Battlefield. He learned that the Origin Universe’s invasions had changed the situation for his beast allies, and the Eternal Night Wolf King learned of the new threat as it pursued Wuxian.

• Sikong Jing drove Wuxian into flight with Fire Evil Spirits and knocked Wudun unconscious using the Army-Slaying Formation.
• Sikong Jing left Wudun with Heaven-Soaring Palace’s troops and decided his true body would head to the Shattered Battlefield after arranging protection for his clone and the Eternal Night Wolf King.
• Sikong Jing recalled that the King of Night Charms had reached the Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerable realm and that his other beast allies had also grown stronger.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow warned the Eternal Night Wolf King that Origin Universe invaders had entered the Spirit Seal Realm and that their plans to counterattack needed to change.
• The Eternal Night Wolf King learned that the Spirit Seal Realm faced powerful new enemies from the Origin Universe.

The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow learned that Mystic Jade Emperor had been dragged into the Burial Emperor Tomb after returning to the Spirit Seal Realm, and he set out to defeat the invaders and restore the Vast Cosmos Great World. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing hid his return by posing as the Absolute Sword Kid, while Ling Liaoyuan faced accusations from Heaven-Soaring Palace's elders.

• The Eternal Night Wolf King told the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow that Mystic Jade Emperor had been dragged into the Burial Emperor Tomb and left behind a purple shadow to guide the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow declared that they must destroy the Primordial Cosmos invaders, seal the passage in the Burial Emperor Battlefield, and break the Spirit Seal Realm's seal.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow met the true body, received half of the Fire Evil Spirits and other items, and continued operating through Ling Yuyue while keeping her unconscious.
• Sikong Jing left with Ling Dongyang and the Purple Dust Pavilion members, hiding his return and maintaining the appearance that he was the Absolute Sword Kid.
• Heaven-Soaring Palace's troops gathered after the battle, and Ling Liaoyuan told the elders he would explain events when Ling Yuyue returned.
• Ling Wangjiao accused Ling Liaoyuan of selfishly switching allegiance for the chance to reach Emperor Venerable, and the elders accepted his accusation.

Ling Liaoyuan revealed that the Spirit Seal Realm belonged to the Vast Cosmos Great World and that the Primordial Cosmos Great World was its enemy. Wudun warned that the Vast Cosmos had been sealed, while Ling Yuyue insisted the Spirit Seal Realm could unite to break the seal.

• The Eternal Night Wolf King subdued Heaven-Soaring Palace, and Ling Yuyue slapped Ling Wangjiao at the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow’s command.
• Ling Liaoyuan told Heaven-Soaring Palace’s elders that the Spirit Seal Realm was part of the Vast Cosmos Great World and that the Primordial Cosmos Great World was their enemy.
• Wudun awakened and confirmed Ling Liaoyuan’s claim, then revealed that the Ten Absolute Emperor had sealed the Vast Cosmos Great World.
• Ling Yuyue, prompted by the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow, told Wudun that the Spirit Seal Realm could unite and pierce its seal.

Ling Yuyue used the truth about the sealed Vast Cosmos Great World and mysterious Sword Clan power to rally Heaven-Soaring Palace against the Seven Decree Sect. After she left, Wudun revealed what he knew about the Sword Clan, leaving the palace members stunned by the possibility that she wielded its sword intent.

• Ling Yuyue explained that powerful experts from the Vast Cosmos Great World could not descend, so Heaven-Soaring Palace would have to break the seal and resist the Primordial Cosmos Great World’s invasion itself.
• Wudun challenged Ling Liaoyuan to explain how he would withstand the returning Seven-Tribulation Emperor Venerable, but Ling Yuyue pointed to the Eternal Night Wolf King and the mysterious origins of their Extreme Prison Stage techniques.
• Ling Yuyue claimed Heaven-Soaring Palace had never deceived the Seven Decree Sect and hinted at the source of her Nine Heavens Sword Dao, then ordered Ling Liaoyuan to end the meeting and kill anyone disloyal.
• Ling Yuyue unleashed Heaven-Soaring Sword Intent followed by a terrifying Sword Clan sword intent, injuring Ling Liaoyuan, Wudun, and the others before leaving with the Eternal Night Wolf King.
• After Ling Yuyue departed, Ling Wangjiao seized Wudun and forced him to explain that the rare Sword Clan tempered the Extreme Prison with Yin Spirit Evil Qi and forged it with their own swords.

The Heaven-Soaring Palace mistook the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow within Ling Yuyue for their ancestor, the Heaven-Soaring Emperor, and Ling Liaoyuan let the belief stand to keep them united. The spirit shadow taught Ling Liaoyuan and the Glazed Sword Peng new methods and began planning a Nine Heavens Sword Formation, while warning its true body about the Everflow Quasi-Emperor.

• A Heaven-Soaring Palace commander guessed that the Heaven-Soaring Emperor was hidden within Ling Yuyue, and the gathered experts embraced the theory despite Ling Wangjiao's doubts.
• Ling Liaoyuan withheld the truth and passed the Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow's Extreme Prison Stage cultivation method to the Heaven-Soaring Palace members.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow summoned Ling Liaoyuan and the Glazed Sword Peng, then announced plans to teach them and establish a Nine Heavens Sword Formation.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow taught the Glazed Sword Peng how to take human form and began training Ling Liaoyuan in Sword Clan methods.
• The Demonic-Form Spirit Shadow asked the Eternal Night Wolf King to send a little demon wolf to tell its true body to take in the Everflow Quasi-Emperor if possible.

Wuxian escaped the Fire Evil Spirits and resolved to report Heaven-Soaring Palace's defeat to his allies. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing traveled through Long Flow Palace territory to search for the King of Night Charms and surveyed the Beastflow Realm.

• Wuxian endured half an hour of agony before destroying the Fire Evil Spirits, then learned Wudun was still missing.
• Wuxian blamed a demonic sect from the Primordial Cosmos Great World for Heaven-Soaring Palace's defeat and led his followers toward the Burial Emperor Tomb to report to Martial Uncle Huangang.
• Sikong Jing declined Ling Dongyang's offer to notify Long Flow Palace and secretly froze its guards to obtain a passage token.
• Sikong Jing reached the Beastflow Realm with Ling Dongyang and used his spirit-shadow power to survey its ferocious demonic beasts and visiting cultivators.

Sikong Jing entered a Shattered Battlefield and heard the anguished souls of demon beasts from the Beast Extermination War, drawing the attention of the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor and a Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerable. He withdrew to the Beastflow Realm to hide and learn why they had come, but the pair pursued him through the rift.

• Sikong Jing felt the beast souls' pain and followed Ling Dongyang through a rift into a Shattered Battlefield world.
• The beast souls called on Sikong Jing, the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, to avenge them, and he witnessed visions of the Beast Extermination War.
• Sikong Jing sensed the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor and a Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerable, then retreated with Ling Dongyang to the Beastflow Realm.
• Sikong Jing concealed his beast-bloodline dantian and hid in a town, hoping to discover the invaders' purpose.
• The Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor and the Four-Tribulation Emperor Venerable emerged from the rift and pursued Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing secretly spied on Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor and Origin Universe powerhouses as they investigated a surge among the Shattered Battlefield’s beast-soul revenants. He learned they planned to use Youyou to draw out the former Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ inherited bloodline, while they still did not know he was the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.

• Sikong Jing sent his recovered Beast-Form Spirit Shadow into a small demon beast to spy on Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor near the rift.
• Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor reported to Wan Benyang that his search had found nothing, while Wan Benyang suspected something was watching them after the beast-soul revenants surged.
• The Beast-Form Spirit Shadow recognized Youyou as a Night Charm carrying the King of Night Charms’ aura, and Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor wondered whether it had triggered the surge.
• Wan Qi mocked Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor’s Ferocious Beast Soul Plan and explained that he needed the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ bloodline to raise a new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.
• Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor said they had come to use Youyou to draw out the former Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ bloodline, and Sikong Jing realized the Origin Universe faction sought both that bloodline and his life.

Sikong Jing planned to contact the beasts gathering near the Shattered Battlefield by subduing powerful monster beasts in nearby minor worlds. Before he could reach a Thousand-Spring Quasi-Emperor beast, Long Flow Palace's Grand Elder Bu Xiliu attacked it, intent on capturing it as his mount.

• Wan Benyang searched the Beastflow Realm again, found no intruder, and sent Wan Qi to subdue a Thousand-Spring Quasi-Emperor monster beast and search its spirit.
• Sikong Jing decided to mark the strongest monster beasts in nearby minor worlds and order them to alert Emperor Venerables not to enter the Shattered Battlefield.
• Sikong Jing and Ling Dongyang headed to subdue a Thousand-Spring Quasi-Emperor beast in the Beastflow Realm.
• Bu Xiliu and Long Flow Palace experts attacked the Flying Pincer Mantis with a net of flowing swords, trying to capture it as Bu Xiliu's mount.

Sikong Jing watched Bu Xiliu try to capture the Flying Pincer Mantis, then quietly intervened as Wan Qi also struck at Bu Xiliu’s sword flow. Their attacks shattered the sword net, leaving Bu Xiliu unable to see what had hit him.

• Bu Xiliu surrounded the Flying Pincer Mantis with sword currents and mocked it as he tried to capture it.
• Sikong Jing chose to wait before intervening, wary of revealing his trump cards while Wan Benyang and others remained outside the Beastflow Realm.
• Thousand Flow Academy students approached to watch Bu Xiliu’s sword and challenged Sikong Jing and Ling Dongyang for being out of uniform; Sikong Jing said they were newly arrived instructors.
• Sikong Jing saw that the Flying Pincer Mantis could not escape and flicked out a strand of true energy toward Bu Xiliu’s sword flow.
• Wan Qi, who had concealed herself inside the Beastflow Realm, also attacked Bu Xiliu’s sword flow after deciding he was not the one she sought.
• The two invisible attacks shattered Bu Xiliu’s sword flow from both ends, leaving him unable to identify the force that struck it.