Chapter Summaries

Su Yuexian killed the silencing killers, learned why Ye Wukui had ordered them to die, and executed the surviving tomb keepers who had watched Ye Lushi assault her. As she prepared to return to Willow Leaf City, Pei Yupo arrived at the sacred tomb and ordered his powerful confidants to capture her.

• Su Yuexian swiftly killed the silencing killers, including their leader, who asked how she had become so strong.
• The surviving tomb keepers told Su Yuexian that Ye Wukui wanted to conceal Ye Lushi's actions and revealed that Ba Hun's successor had pressured the Willow Leaf Holy Manor and that Su Yuexi was engaged to him.
• Su Yuexian killed the tomb keepers because they had stood by and laughed when Ye Lushi tried to force himself on her.
• Su Yuexian vowed to make Ye Wucan and Liu Shizeng apologize to her parents and kneel at her grandparents' graves, then sensed a powerful figure approaching.
• Pei Yupo arrived with several young confidants and ordered them to capture Su Yuexian without killing her, so she charged at them.

Sikong Jing discovered that the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall was secretly assembling to attack the region around Willow Leaf City and sent five warnings and orders to allies. At Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb, Su Yuexian escaped Pei Yupo after he revealed a terrifying ninth-grade battle physique, leaving her injured and uncertain who he was.

• Su Yuexian killed two of Pei Yupo's five confidants, and Pei Yupo recognized her as Su Beiheng's granddaughter.
• Pei Yupo revealed his ninth-grade battle physique and overwhelmed Su Yuexian, forcing her to flee through the sacred tomb's formations.
• Sikong Jing learned that Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall forces were gathering in the forest and suspected they planned to encircle Willow Leaf City by attacking nearby forces first.
• Sikong Jing sent four letters to Shi Douxing, Old Fat Head, Leng Sha, and Murong Jianyun, warning them of the threat and directing them to prepare defenses and reinforcements.
• Sikong Jing sent a fifth letter to Duanmu Chun, urging him to warn Ancient Sacred Peak and prepare for a possible attack.
• Su Yuexian fled into the forest injured, resolved to survive while wondering who Pei Yupo was and why he had come to the tomb.

Su Yuexian fled Pei Yupo, who had identified her as Su Old Devil’s granddaughter and wanted to capture her alive. Sikong Jing arrived at Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb Gorge, found its people dead, and entered the demon cave after discovering Su Yuexian’s recent footprints.

• Pei Yupo pursued Su Yuexian and ordered his confidants to capture her alive for the secrets behind her talent and Su Old Devil’s power.
• Sikong Jing arrived at Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb Gorge and found corpses covering the ground, including Ye Wukui’s silencing agents and several tombkeepers.
• Sikong Jing found two dead fighters wearing Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall insignia and tried to piece together the conflicting clues.
• Sikong Jing left the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to cultivate and watch the gorge, then entered the Holy Tomb Demon Cave.
• Sikong Jing used the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts’ pressure to repel the cave’s remnant spirits and found recent female footprints he recognized as Su Yuexian’s.

Sikong Jing followed Su Yuexian’s trail into the sacred tomb and overcame its jade-patterned formation passage. He met Liu Duoye’s consciousness projection and asked where Su Yuexian was.

• Sikong Jing drove the remnant souls away and searched the demon cave, then concluded that Su Yuexian had entered the tomb.
• Sikong Jing deciphered the stone door’s formation and opened it, then found a jade-patterned passage beyond.
• Sikong Jing used the meridian true qi he had learned to unravel the passage’s formation knots and reached a second stone door.
• Sikong Jing entered the hall and greeted Liu Duoye’s consciousness projection, identifying himself as Willow Leaf Holy Manor’s son-in-law.
• Sikong Jing asked Liu Duoye where Su Yuexian was and remained on guard.

Sikong Jing discovered that Liu Duoye cared about Su Yuexian, but she mistook his motives and trapped him in a series of challenges. He faced nine trials, with only five hours to solve them before her spirit-image vanished.

• Sikong Jing criticized Willow Leaf Holy Manor, and Liu Duoye agreed that her descendants had disgraced her.
• Liu Duoye assumed Sikong Jing wanted to enter her tomb and uncover the greatest secret of the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing tried to explain his connection to Su Yuexian, but Liu Duoye sealed his voice and imprisoned him in a jade-green sphere.
• Liu Duoye set nine challenges for Sikong Jing, giving him five hours to solve them or become her burial offering.
• The first challenge appeared, and Sikong Jing decided to solve the trials quickly.

Sikong Jing solved all nine Willow Leaf Sacred Wall challenges by using Liu Duoye’s decades of research, then fused their attributes into a new technique. He reached the peak of the Heavenly King Realm and named his perfected limb-restoration skill the Duoye Twelve Seals.

• Sikong Jing found the first Sacred Wall challenge familiar and solved it in half a quarter-hour.
• Sikong Jing solved the remaining eight challenges in the same way, completing all nine in less than an hour.
• Liu Duoye was stunned that Sikong Jing had finished challenges that had trapped her for decades.
• Sikong Jing cultivated by fusing the attributes of the Tail-Shedding Dragon Lizard, the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent, the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, and the nine other vegetation attributes.
• Sikong Jing broke through to the peak of the Heavenly King Realm and named his limb-restoration skill the Duoye Twelve Seals.

Sikong Jing learned that Su Yuexian had inherited Liu Duoye’s power and was being hunted by Pei Yupo, a Nine-Grade Battle Body. After Liu Duoye sent Sikong Jing out to check on her, Pei Yupo returned to the Holy Tomb with only one trusted subordinate left.

• Liu Duoye told Sikong Jing that Su Yuexian had accepted her inheritance, reached the Emperor Entry Realm, and left the Holy Tomb nearly two days earlier.
• Sikong Jing realized Su Yuexian was the killer outside and grew anxious to find her, but Liu Duoye said she had faced Pei Yupo and was likely growing stronger.
• Liu Duoye sensed that Pei Yupo had returned without Su Yuexian in his custody, and Sikong Jing asked to leave to confirm her safety and confront him.
• Liu Duoye sent Sikong Jing to the Holy Tomb gates and warned him that an Emperor Realm expert was approaching, so Sikong Jing concealed his Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion and sent little demon beasts to scout.
• Pei Yupo returned to the canyon with his last surviving trusted subordinate after Su Yuexian repeatedly escaped, grew stronger, and killed two of his men.

Sikong Jing confronted Pei Yupo and his allies at Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb after learning that Su Yuexian had escaped and Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall was tied to Thousand Kings Holy Tower. He provoked Pei Yupo’s claim of being invincible below the Emperor Martial Stage, and the trusted subordinate challenged Sikong Jing to survive one move.

• Pei Yupo reasoned that Su Yuexian had gained a secret power from Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb and explained his defeat as the result of being a realm below her.
• A middle-aged Emperor Realm woman from Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall arrived and said she had sent people to capture Su Yuexian alive.
• Sikong Jing spoke up from near the tomb gate, startling Pei Yupo, his subordinate, and the woman, then mocked the claim that Pei Yupo was invincible below the Emperor Martial Stage.
• The woman and Pei Yupo decided Sikong Jing had to die because he might have learned about Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall’s connection to Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Sikong Jing said he was eager to test himself against Pei Yupo, and the trusted subordinate challenged him to last one move.

Sikong Jing defeated Pei Yupo’s trusted man with a flick of his finger and revealed himself as the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s Sacred Body. Pei Yupo recognized him as Ba Hun’s inheritor, and Sikong Jing questioned why he was traveling with a woman from the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.

• Pei Yupo’s trusted man attacked Sikong Jing with a powerful sword strike, but Sikong Jing shattered it with a finger flick and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Sikong Jing revealed that he had reached the peak of the Heavenly King Realm and challenged Pei Yupo’s claim of being invincible below the Emperor Martial Realm.
• Pei Yupo identified Sikong Jing as Ba Hun’s inheritor, and the trusted man realized he was a Sacred Body.
• Sikong Jing introduced himself as the Sacred Body of the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce and confirmed that his name was Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing asked Pei Yupo why he was accompanied by a middle-aged woman from the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.

Pei Yupo challenged Sikong Jing in the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb, claiming he had come to avenge Pei Yuzheng and expose Sikong Jing as a demon. Their first clash ended evenly, but Pei Yupo feared he might lose as Sikong Jing invited him to continue.

• Pei Yupo stepped between Sikong Jing and the middle-aged female emperor, then claimed he had come to avenge Pei Yuzheng and expose Sikong Jing as a demon without a Battle Body.
• Pei Yupo and Sikong Jing unleashed their peak Heavenly King auras, revealing Pei Yupo's Thousand Sword Golden King Body and Sikong Jing's immense power without a Battle Body aura.
• Pei Yupo attacked with Thousand Sword Golden Kill Slash, and Sikong Jing countered with Tyrant Soul Heavenly Demon Halberd using only pure true energy.
• Their opening exchange ended evenly, shocking Pei Yupo's companions and convincing them Sikong Jing had to die.
• Sikong Jing challenged Pei Yupo to prove who was invincible below the Emperor Martial Realm, and Pei Yupo began to fear he might lose.

Sikong Jing defeated Pei Yupo in their duel, shattering his golden sword and forcing him to admit defeat. Pei Yupo rejected the chance to return and train, ordering Chang Lehuang to kill Sikong Jing instead.

• Pei Yupo attacked Sikong Jing with a chaotic Emperor-grade sword technique, but Sikong Jing shattered it with his Tyrant Soul Heavenly Demon Halberd.
• Sikong Jing struck Pei Yupo again, breaking his golden sword and injuring him despite his Nine-Grade Battle Body.
• Sikong Jing asked whether Pei Yupo would train and return or have Chang Lehuang erase him, while the trusted man and Chang Lehuang urged Pei Yupo not to fall for provocation.
• Pei Yupo declared that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower erased anyone who defeated them, citing his father’s killing of Su Beiheng.
• Pei Yupo ordered Chang Lehuang to kill Sikong Jing, who revealed that his apparent fear had only been meant to deceive Pei Yupo.

Sikong Jing used the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to turn the tables on Pei Yupo and Chang Lehuang, forcing Pei Yupo to flee and recall the forces pursuing Su Yuexian. He then decided he had to die in the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb to keep the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall’s attack on Willow Leaf City under control.

• Pei Yupo mocked Sikong Jing as naive and ordered Chang Lehuang to kill him.
• Sikong Jing revealed the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion, which attacked Pei Yupo before Chang Lehuang knocked its stinger aside.
• Sikong Jing merged with the peak Venerable scorpion and matched Chang Lehuang’s Emperor Realm power, prompting her to warn Pei Yupo to escape.
• Chang Lehuang sent a message recalling the forces hunting Su Yuexian, and Pei Yupo fled the gorge with his trusted subordinate.
• Sikong Jing concluded that Su Yuexian was safe and resolved to die in the Sacred Tomb to show weakness to the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.

Sikong Jing fought Chang Lehuang while seeking a way to fake his death and protect Willow Leaf City from Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s plot. He persuaded Ancestor Liu Duoye to help him stage his death inside the Sacred Tomb, then returned to the battle and called on Black Hell’s Heaven-Devouring Hammer.

• Sikong Jing realized Thousand Kings Holy Tower had to believe he was dead or it would launch a silencing assault on Willow Leaf City.
• Chang Lehuang confirmed that Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall had nearly completed its positioning and warned that forces could destroy the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb even if Sikong Jing hid inside it.
• Sikong Jing and Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion fought Chang Lehuang while Sikong Jing sent one of his spirit shadows into the demon cave to speak with Liu Duoye.
• Sikong Jing explained that he wanted to fake his death inside the tomb, and Liu Duoye agreed to help because she wanted to protect Willow Leaf Holy Manor and have her body buried inside the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing promised Liu Duoye he would fulfill her wish, returned his spirit shadow to his body, and called out to Black Hell to use the Heaven-Devouring Hammer.

Sikong Jing fought Chang Lehuang inside the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb while Pei Yupo summoned Pei Chang to destroy the tomb. Chang Lehuang was wounded and retreated to seal the gorge, claiming her people had arrived, while Su Yuexian received Sikong Jing’s warning and stayed away.

• Sikong Jing and the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion used the Duoye Twelve Seals and battled Chang Lehuang, regenerating the scorpion’s severed leg.
• Pei Yupo sent a message bird to Pei Chang, asking his Saint Martial Stage uncle to come destroy the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb.
• Su Yuexian sensed the battle and considered returning, but demon birds delivered Sikong Jing’s warning to stay away; she replied that she was safe.
• After half an hour of fighting, Sikong Jing and the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion wounded Chang Lehuang and drove her toward the canyon exit.
• Chang Lehuang left the gorge, sealed the Sacred Tomb with an Imperial artifact, and told Sikong Jing that her people had arrived.

Chang Lehuang sealed Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb Gorge with tens of thousands of pursuers while Pei Yupo awaited Pei Chang, a Saint Martial Stage expert, to destroy the tomb. Sikong Jing retreated inside and joined Liu Duoye in preparing decoy corpses to fake his death.

• Chang Lehuang ordered the pursuers to seal the gorge, and Pei Yupo announced that Pei Chang was coming to destroy the Sacred Tomb.
• Pei Yupo and his trusted man taunted Sikong Jing, who argued that the tomb could withstand their attack before vanishing inside it.
• Sikong Jing found Liu Duoye preparing willow decoy puppets and learned that making them would consume two hours of her remaining life.
• Sikong Jing offered a gravekeeper's corpse to make a decoy of himself and planned to use the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion's shed shell for another.
• Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye began forging the decoy corpses.

Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye escaped the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb underground as Pei Chang arrived and destroyed the tomb with a powerful strike. The Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion carried them beyond the gorge just before the formation shattered.

• Sikong Jing forged Saint Martial Stage corpses for himself and the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion, then prepared to leave the sacred tomb with Liu Duoye.
• Liu Duoye sensed that an opposing Saint Martial Stage expert had arrived, so Sikong Jing stored her coffin and they fled underground on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Sikong Jing had the Little Monster Rat, Little Demon Bug, and the other little monsters fill in their tunnel, and he and Liu Duoye began a discourse on the Dao while waiting for the barrier to lift.
• Pei Chang searched the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb but could not find Sikong Jing, then decided to destroy the tomb with a full-powered strike.
• As the barrier came down, the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion carried Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye beyond Sacred Tomb Gorge just before Pei Chang's saber shattered the formation and collapsed the gorge.

Sikong Jing and Liu Duoye escaped the destruction of the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb while Su Yuexian fled and vowed revenge. Pei Yupo’s forces believed their enemies were dead and left for Willow Leaf City, where Ye Wucan sensed the Saint Martial aura.

• Sikong Jing urged the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to flee the Saint Martial shockwaves while he and Liu Duoye calmly continued discussing the Dao.
• Su Yuexian escaped, vowed to avenge Liu Duoye, and sent a demon bird a message assuring her unknown savior that she was safe.
• Pei Yupo’s forces found Sikong Jing’s disguised corpse and the remains of the scorpion and Liu Duoye, then concluded their targets were dead.
• Pei Yupo ordered his forces to leave for Willow Leaf City and stopped pursuing Su Yuexian, expecting to capture her there.
• Ye Wucan sensed the distant aura during a family meeting about the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s negotiations.

Ye Wucan and the other factions received reports of a cataclysm at the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb, while Sikong Jing spoke with the dying Liu Duoye in safety. Liu Duoye revealed that the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall came from the Boundless Sea and explained that the Central Plains was only one part of that vast realm.

• Ye Wukui told Ye Wucan that the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb keepers' life lamps had gone out, and Ye Wucan assumed Sikong Jing was simply taking revenge on them.
• Reports of upheaval near the Sacred Tomb reached Ye Wucan and other factions, prompting them to send people to investigate.
• Sikong Jing thanked Liu Duoye for her guidance and promised to fulfill her request as her spiritual projection faded.
• Sikong Jing asked where the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall came from, and Liu Duoye said that both she and the wall came from the Boundless Sea.
• Liu Duoye explained that the Central Plains was only one part of the Boundless Sea, which contained countless worlds or regions like stars in the night sky.

After bidding farewell to Liu Duoye, Sikong Jing set out for Reverse Blade City with the evolving Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion, planning to return to Willow Leaf City afterward. Meanwhile, the Willow Leaf Holy Manor panicked over the destruction of the Sacred Tomb and received word that Ba Hun's successor was dead.

• Liu Duoye asked Sikong Jing to clear her name, then vanished after sharing her knowledge of the world and spiritual growth.
• Sikong Jing honored Liu Duoye, used what he had learned to plan the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion's final evolution, and sent Su Yuexian a message saying he would see her in Willow Leaf City.
• Sikong Jing departed for Reverse Blade City while the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion continued evolving.
• Ye Wucan and the Willow Leaf Holy Manor's core figures learned that the Sacred Tomb had been destroyed and feared a Saint Martial Stage expert was responsible.
• The Willow Leaf leaders refused to investigate the Sacred Tomb, choosing to remain inside the manor, until Ye Wucan received a message claiming Ba Hun's successor was dead.

Ye Wucan tried to conceal Sikong Jing’s supposed death and trap the Heavenly Tyrant Branch in Willow Leaf City, hoping to bind it to Willow Leaf Holy Manor against Dragon Controlling Mountain. Leng Sha then received Sikong Jing’s message that he was safe, but kept the news secret.

• Ye Wucan concluded that Willow Leaf Holy Manor could hide the Tyrant Soul inheritor’s death temporarily because the Sacred Tomb ruins were sealed off.
• Ye Wucan ordered the Tyrant Soul inheritor’s corpse brought back, Willow Leaf City sealed, and all message birds stopped so the Heavenly Tyrant Branch would not learn the truth.
• Ye Wucan planned to force Leng Chan and the others to fight alongside Willow Leaf Holy Manor, and to use the corpse, the Qianyuan Fragment Maps, and Ye Zhenglong’s family to bargain with Dragon Controlling Mountain if necessary.
• Leng Chan asked Leng Sha whether he could still receive messages from his master, and Leng Sha said he had heard nothing about what happened at the Sacred Tomb.
• Leng Sha received Sikong Jing’s message confirming he was safe and told Leng Chan that they must keep the news to themselves.