Chapter Summaries

Sikong Jing kept Su Yuexi with him to prevent her punishment and waited to see how Willow Leaf Holy Manor would respond. At the manor, Ye Wuzhi went to help Su Zhenglong, while Liu Shitian returned from negotiations furious that the Overlord Soul successor had refused to meet him.

• Sikong Jing told Su Yuexi he would let her return only when his parents came with a guarantee that she and the others would not be punished, then shared a tender moment with her.
• Su Zhenglong told Ye Wuzhi that the Overlord Soul successor had taken Yuexi and that Liu Shitian had gone to negotiate for her.
• Ye Wuzhi condemned Ye Wuyu’s schemes and reassured Su Zhenglong that he would try to ensure Yuexi was not punished.
• Ye Wuzhi explained that his father had crippled him for helping Ye Wuyan free Su Beiheng and assist Su Old Devil, then accompanied Su Zhenglong toward the main hall.
• Liu Shitian kicked at Su Zhenglong, but Ye Wuzhi blocked him with his cane.
• Liu Shitian entered the hall and shouted that the Overlord Soul successor had refused to meet or speak with anyone from the Liu Clan and had threatened him.

Ye Wuzhi argued that Sikong Jing had refused to negotiate with Ye Wuyu and Liu Shitian because of their actions, then volunteered to negotiate himself. Ye Wucan sent him to retrieve Su Yuexi and uncover the Overlord Soul successor’s intentions, while keeping Su Zhenglong confined.

• Liu Shitian recounted his clash with the Overlord Soul successor, and Ye Wuyu urged Ye Wucan to attack the Heavenly Tyrant Branch and seize the formation.
• Ye Wucan hesitated, suspecting the Overlord Soul successor might have a Saint Body and backing from Murong Jianyun.
• Ye Wuzhi entered the hall and said the Overlord Soul successor rejected Ye Wuyu and Liu Shitian because they had mistreated him and his people.
• Ye Wuzhi rebuked the others for judging the successor by their own scheming, then volunteered to negotiate.
• Ye Wucan ordered Ye Wuzhi to bring Su Yuexi back and discover the successor’s purpose, promising not to punish Yuexi if he succeeded.
• Ye Wucan barred Su Zhenglong from leaving, and Ye Wuzhi departed alone.

Ye Wuzhi went to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch to seek help for Su Yuexi, while Liu Shizeng and Liu Shitian secretly hoped to use his visit as a pretext to attack Sikong Jing. Sikong Jing agreed to meet Ye Wuzhi but planned to test whether he was trustworthy, leaving their meeting just beginning.

• Liu Shizeng insisted Liu Shitian accompany Ye Wuzhi, claiming he would wait outside to rescue him if needed.
• Ye Wucan and the others discussed using the Cold Dragon Patriarch to pressure the Overlord Soul inheritor if negotiations failed.
• Liu Shitian revealed that he planned to use Ye Wuzhi's anger as an excuse to attack Sikong Jing and avenge the broken marriage arrangement with Ye Wuyan.
• Ye Wuzhi entered the Heavenly Tyrant Branch and anxiously waited to meet Sikong Jing, hoping to protect Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing learned Ye Wuzhi was Su Yuexi's kind grand-uncle and arranged to meet him, while resolving to check whether the visit was a Willow Leaf Holy Manor scheme.
• A middle-aged female adjudicator led Ye Wuzhi into Sikong Jing's office, where he was surprised that the Overlord Soul inheritor had agreed to see him.

Sikong Jing negotiated with Ye Wuzhi over Su Yuexi’s return and learned how cruelly Willow Leaf Holy Manor regarded her and her family. He left the meeting focused on how Yuexi could return without being harmed, while Su Yuexian’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Sikong Jing met Ye Wuzhi privately and demanded Willow Leaf Holy Manor’s Qianyuan Fragment Map in exchange for Su Yuexi.
• Ye Wuzhi said he could not give away the map and warned that the Manor Lord might kill Sikong Jing to seize the Army-Slaying Diagram.
• Ye Wuzhi revealed that Willow Leaf Holy Manor valued Yuexi mainly as a tool for producing a powerful bloodline, enraging Sikong Jing.
• Ye Wuzhi offered information he had learned from the Qianyuan Fragment Map if Sikong Jing returned Yuexi to him.
• Sikong Jing asked whether Yuexi would be punished or harmed after returning, knowing he needed to recover his in-laws and learn what had happened to Su Yuexian.

Sikong Jing released Su Yuexi and Ye Wuzhi from the Heavenly Tyrant Branch after receiving an urgent message and left before explaining his purpose. As Su Yuexi told Ye Wuzhi that Sikong Jing had come to marry her, a masked attacker kicked Ye Wuzhi from their mount and abducted her.

• Sikong Jing called Su Yuexi out, then received a message bird and hurried away after ordering the Arbiters to release her and Ye Wuzhi.
• Su Yuexi and Ye Wuzhi left the Heavenly Tyrant Branch unharmed, while Liu Shitian watched in disbelief and decided to pursue them and abduct Su Yuexi.
• Ye Wuzhi told Liu Shitian that sincerity had persuaded Ba Hun's heir to return Su Yuexi, then departed with her on a monster-beast mount.
• Su Yuexi explained that Sikong Jing had come to Willow Leaf City to marry her under the Grand Heaven Decree's mission.
• A masked attacker struck Ye Wuzhi from the mount, seized Su Yuexi, and left Ye Wuzhi crashing to the ground with his cane broken.

Sikong Jing met Ren You and Old Fat Head at the Fragrance Inquiry House, where they were trying to save a Thousand Kings piece who had poisoned herself rather than be captured. The chapter ended with Sikong Jing preparing to enter the room and treat her.

• Liu Shitian abducted Su Yuexi after killing Ye Wuzhi's demon beast, and Ye Wuzhi raced back to report the incident to Ye Wucan.
• Sikong Jing followed Old Fat Head's urgent message to a building behind the Fragrance Inquiry House and met Ren You there.
• Ren You led Sikong Jing to Old Fat Head, who explained that a Thousand Kings piece had discovered their operation and repeatedly tried to kill herself.
• Old Fat Head told Sikong Jing that the woman had swallowed a poisonous demon insect and was close to death.
• Sikong Jing realized she was risking her life to warn the Thousand Kings Holy Tower in hopes of sparing her relatives imprisoned in the Thousand Prison Tower.

Sikong Jing confronted Xiong Tingting, a Thousand Kings Holy Tower pawn who wanted to die rather than endanger her daughter. He secretly detoxified her, leaving her furious that her suicide attempt had failed.

• Sikong Jing learned that Xiong Tingting's death could expose the leaked Thousand Prison Tower list and put the other pawns at risk.
• Old Fat Head brought Sikong Jing to the chained and poisoned Xiong Tingting, who demanded death and feared for her daughter.
• Sikong Jing offered to destroy the Thousand Prison Tower and rescue Xiong Tingting's family, but she insisted that her daughter would still be harmed.
• Sikong Jing sent Old Fat Head out, then ignored Xiong Tingting's taunts and flicked his blood into her mouth.
• Xiong Tingting realized Sikong Jing had neutralized her poison and cried out in anger that she could no longer die.

Sikong Jing tried to give the desperate Xiong Tingting hope by cracking Fragrance Inquiry House’s Emperor-grade Green Jade Tube and preparing a demonstration. Meanwhile, Ye Wuzhi returned wounded to Willow Leaf Holy Manor and demanded to know where Liu Shitian was.

• Sikong Jing examined Xiong Tingting and took the Green Jade Tube containing Fragrance Inquiry House’s cultivation technique from her ring.
• Xiong Tingting refused to undo the tube’s restriction unless Sikong Jing agreed to let her die, so he studied her blood and meridians to crack it himself.
• Sikong Jing opened the restriction, examined the cultivation technique, and began drawing complex patterns to make Xiong Tingting believe he could save her daughter.
• Ye Wuzhi rushed into Willow Leaf Holy Manor’s hall, ignored Ye Wucan’s rebuke, and demanded Liu Shitian’s whereabouts from Liu Shizeng.
• Ye Wuyu confronted Ye Wuzhi, asking why he had returned badly injured instead of going with Liu Shitian to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch.

Ye Wuzhi accused Liu Shitian of abducting Su Yuexi, but Liu Shitian denied it and blamed Ye Wuzhi for losing her. Ye Wucan understood the Liu brothers’ scheme and gave them until tomorrow morning to bring Su Yuexi back, tacitly allowing their plan to proceed.

• Ye Wuzhi told Ye Wucan and Liu Shizeng that Liu Shitian had abducted Su Yuexi after Ye Wuzhi recovered her.
• Liu Shitian returned to the hall, denied the accusation, and claimed a disguised attacker could have been Ba Hun's successor.
• When Ye Wuzhi tried to strike Liu Shitian, Liu Shitian caught his hand, shoved him to the ground, and blamed him for losing Su Yuexi.
• Liu Shitian and Liu Shizeng performed a double act, while Ye Wucan recognized their scheme and ordered Liu Shitian to bring Su Yuexi back before tomorrow morning.
• Ye Wuzhi realized what the Liu brothers intended and pleaded with Ye Wucan not to let them harm Su Yuexi, while Ye Wuyu threatened him for mentioning Ye Wuyan.

Ye Wuzhi told Ye Wucan that Ba Hun's successor had come to Willow Leaf City to propose to Su Yuexi, but Ye Wucan refused to retrieve her and agreed to let Liu Shitian keep her for the night. Ye Wucan and Ye Wuyu then revealed their plans to use Su Yuexi and her potential child to preserve Ye Clan control.

• Ye Wuzhi told Ye Wucan that Ba Hun's successor had come to propose to Su Yuexi on behalf of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Liu Shizeng suggested that Ye Yuexian could be offered instead, and Ye Wucan agreed that Ba Hun's successor need not marry Su Yuexi specifically.
• Ye Wucan threw Ye Wuzhi out of the hall and warned him to tell Ye Zheng Long not to act recklessly if he wanted Ye Yuexi returned.
• Ye Wucan told Liu Shizeng he would allow Liu Shitian to have a child with Ye Yuexi, but insisted she could not marry into the Liu Clan and would eventually return to the Ye Clan.
• After Liu Shizeng left, Ye Wucan explained to Ye Wuyu that he had agreed to placate the Liu Clan and that the Ye Clan could decide whether Ye Yuexi kept any child.

Ye Wuzhi failed to find anyone in Willow Leaf Holy Manor willing to help Su Yuexi, so he and Su Zhenglong turned to Ba Hun's successor as their last hope. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing finished a booklet of meridian diagrams and showed it to Xiong Tingting, whose reaction suggested it might affect her.

• Ye Wuzhi begged his uncle in Willow Leaf Holy Manor to help Su Yuexi, but the uncle supported Ye Wucan's plan to appease the Liu Clan.
• Ye Wuzhi's uncle from the Liu Clan and several manor elders also refused to help him.
• Ye Wuzhi told Su Zhenglong that their relatives had taken Su Yuexi, and Su Zhenglong proposed seeking Ba Hun's successor, who had come to propose marriage.
• Ye Wuzhi and Su Zhenglong left Willow Leaf Holy Manor for the Heavenly Tyrant Branch, hoping Ba Hun's successor could save Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing finished a booklet of meridian diagrams and placed it before Xiong Tingting, who stared at its first page in shock.

Sikong Jing showed Xiong Tingting a modified cultivation technique that could free Fragrance Inquiry House’s disciples from harvesting yang, giving her hope of growing strong enough to confront Pei Kuang. Xiong Tingting remained wary of joining Su Old Devil’s remnants, and Sikong Jing explained that he wanted to strengthen her regardless, since she would fight the Thousand Kings Holy Tower when he broke open the Thousand Prison Tower.

• Sikong Jing drew a modified version of Fragrance Inquiry House’s cultivation technique, incorporating some of the Illusion-Heart Fierce Fox’s meridians.
• Old Fat Head worried that Xiong Tingting had gone silent, while Ren You trusted Sikong Jing and believed he was close to succeeding.
• Xiong Tingting was shocked that Sikong Jing had raised her technique from lower Emperor-grade to middle Emperor-grade and removed its need to harvest yang.
• Sikong Jing promised that he could make Xiong Tingting powerful enough to negotiate with Pei Kuang and see her daughter more often.
• Xiong Tingting refused to gamble by joining Su Old Devil’s remnants, but Sikong Jing said he intended to strengthen her whether or not she joined them.
• Sikong Jing admitted he was using Xiong Tingting, explaining that she and the other captives would fight the Thousand Kings Holy Tower when he broke open the Thousand Prison Tower.

Sikong Jing persuaded Xiong Tingting to keep his visit secret by offering her stronger techniques and promising to break the Thousand Prison Tower. After he left, she experienced a breakthrough and chose to wager on his promise to reunite her with her daughter, while he arranged open surveillance to verify her loyalty.

• Sikong Jing offered Xiong Tingting strengthened cultivation techniques and martial skills, promised to leave her family alone, and said he would eventually break the Thousand Prison Tower.
• Xiong Tingting agreed not to report his visit, and Sikong Jing introduced himself as the inheritor of Ba Hun and told her she was the second pawn he had won over.
• Sikong Jing left Fragrance Inquiry House with Old Fat Head and Ren You, while Xiong Tingting examined his meridian notebook and broke through to peak King.
• Xiong Tingting embraced her cloth doll and hoped Sikong Jing would reunite her with her daughter.
• Sikong Jing told Old Fat Head and Ren You to openly place two people beside Xiong Tingting to watch her and assess her intentions.

Sikong Jing learned that Liu Shitian had abducted Su Yuexi and that Ye Wuzhi had failed to rescue her. Enraged, he ordered the Willow Leaf City Tyrant Heaven Battle Team to assemble while his demon birds searched for the missing pair.

• Sikong Jing explained to Old Fat Head why he trusted the Thousand Kings pawns and returned with him to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch.
• Lou Jie told Sikong Jing that Ye Wuzhi and a middle-aged man had come asking him to save Su Yuexi, but Lou Jie had thrown them out.
• Sikong Jing seized Lou Jie and demanded to know where Ye Wuzhi had gone, then used demon birds to search the direction Lou Jie indicated.
• Old Fat Head told Sikong Jing that Liu Shitian had abducted Su Yuexi after she left the Heavenly Tyrant Branch, and Ye Wuzhi had failed to get her back.
• Sikong Jing ordered Lou Jie to assemble the Willow Leaf City Tyrant Heaven Battle Team and waited with Old Fat Head and Ren You as a demon bird returned.

Sikong Jing learned that Liu Shitian had taken Su Yuexi to Shitian Courtyard and set out to rescue her. He ordered Ren You to escort Su Zhenglong and Ye Wuzhi to safety and summon the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team, then declared he would flatten Shitian Courtyard and eventually Willow Leaf Holy Manor.

• Sikong Jing followed the little demon bird with Ren You and Old Fat Head to find Ye Wuzhi and Su Zhenglong.
• Ye Wuzhi and Su Zhenglong despaired after the Heavenly Tyrant Branch refused to help, and Su Zhenglong feared Liu Shitian would force Su Yuexi into marriage and use her to bear a child for the Liu Clan.
• Sikong Jing arrived on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion and learned that Liu Shitian had taken Su Yuexi to his private Shitian Courtyard.
• Sikong Jing ordered Ren You to take Su Zhenglong and Ye Wuzhi to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch and summon Lou Jie and the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team.
• Sikong Jing and Old Fat Head flew toward Shitian Courtyard as Sikong Jing vowed to level it and later flatten Willow Leaf Holy Manor.

Sikong Jing arrived at Shitian Courtyard as Liu Zhi prepared to force Su Yuexi to spend the night with him. He broke into the banquet hall and confronted Liu Zhi, leaving the gathered guests stunned.

• Liu Zhi brought Su Yuexi before the banquet guests and taunted her while they laughed at her apparent helplessness.
• Su Yuexi told Liu Zhi that he would die soon, trusting that Jing Gege had come to save her.
• Sikong Jing shattered the banquet hall doors and warned Liu Zhi that even a hundred lives would not save him.
• Liu Zhi demanded to know how Sikong Jing had entered, and Sikong Jing revealed that he had killed the courtyard steward after questioning him.

Sikong Jing rescued Su Yuexi from Liu Zhi and overpowered the people in the banquet hall while Old Fat Head sealed it off. After the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team arrived, Sikong Jing lifted the hall blockade and ordered Shitian Courtyard sealed, leaving Ye Lüwei and the others free to seek help.

• Sikong Jing reached Su Yuexi, confirmed she was unharmed, and declared that he had come to marry her and would kill anyone who touched her.
• Liu Zhi called for reinforcements, but Old Fat Head’s blockade kept anyone outside the hall from responding.
• Ye Lüwei and the others attacked Sikong Jing together, but he sent them flying and left them sprawled across the hall.
• Sikong Jing crippled Liu Zhi but spared his life temporarily, then returned to eat with Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing slapped Ye Lüwei when she insulted him and kept the hall sealed until Old Fat Head reported the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team had arrived.
• Sikong Jing ordered Old Fat Head to lift the hall blockade and seal Shitian Courtyard, then told Ye Lüwei and the others they could go out and beg for help.

Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi confronted Liu Shitian’s family at Shitian Courtyard, where the courtyard’s forces tried to trap them with an army-slaying formation. Sikong Jing summoned the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team and crushed their resistance, leaving Shitian Courtyard in ruins.

• Sikong Jing escaped the hall with Su Yuexi on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion as Liu Zhi’s family and Shitian Courtyard’s experts gathered to confront him.
• An elder raised an army-slaying formation, while Ye Lüwei cursed Sikong Jing and Su Yuexi; Sikong Jing then called the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team to his side.
• The Tyrant Heaven Battle Team descended from the Divine Shuttle Ships, and Sikong Jing formed the Tyrant Soul Army-Slaying Formation above Shitian Courtyard.
• Old Fat Head’s Imperial Artifact formation sealed the courtyard and prevented messages from escaping as Sikong Jing ordered his forces to flatten the place.
• Sikong Jing’s formation crushed the elder’s army-slaying formation and blasted aside the experts who charged him.
• Liu Zhi’s father and the other King Realm experts were unable to seize Sikong Jing, and their attacks left Shitian Courtyard shattered and ruined.

Sikong Jing’s team defeated Shitian Courtyard, crippled its martial artists, destroyed the compound, and killed Liu Zhi while keeping the others alive to learn Su Yuexian’s whereabouts. The battle team returned to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch, while Sikong Jing stayed behind to give Old Fat Head instructions; the story then shifted to Liu Shitian meeting Xiong Tingting at Fragrance Inquiry House.

• Sikong Jing ordered the Tyrant Heaven Battle Team to cripple Shitian Courtyard’s martial artists and then used the Army-Slaying Formation to raze the compound.
• Sikong Jing killed Liu Zhi and ordered his team to return to the Divine Shuttle Ship.
• Lou Jie asked about reinforcements, and Sikong Jing told the Arbiters that the attack had been his own decision and they could flee if they wanted.
• The squad flew back to the Heavenly Tyrant Branch while Sikong Jing gave Old Fat Head instructions and left him to seal Shitian Courtyard.
• At Fragrance Inquiry House, Xiong Tingting welcomed Liu Shitian.

Liu Shitian learned that his grandson Liu Zhi had died and raced back to Shitian Courtyard, only to find it reduced to ruins. At Fragrance Inquiry House, Xiong Tingting learned that Sikong Jing had destroyed the courtyard as Ba Hun’s successor, while the Fox Gate women prepared to report Liu Shitian’s movements.

• Liu Shitian visited Fragrance Inquiry House and tried to make Xiong Tingting serve him, but stopped when he saw Liu Zhi’s shattered life lamp.
• Liu Shitian blamed Su Yuexi for Liu Zhi’s death and flew toward Shitian Courtyard, vowing to kill her.
• Xiong Tingting allowed two Fox Gate women to send Sikong Jing a message that Liu Shitian had left for Shitian Courtyard.
• A Fox Gate woman told Xiong Tingting that Sikong Jing had killed Liu Zhi and leveled Shitian Courtyard as Ba Hun’s successor.
• Liu Shitian reached Shitian Courtyard, found it in ruins, and charged into the wreckage in disbelief.