Chapter Summaries

Murong Jianyun fought his way past Fenglei Bao so he could reach Willow Leaf City, but he suffered serious injuries. Pei Yusheng ordered the contingency plan to proceed after the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall’s operation was exposed, then went to see whether Pei Yupo would survive.

• Murong Jianyun refused Fenglei Bao’s demand that he go to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and challenged him to a fight so he could reach Willow Leaf City.
• Murong Jianyun defeated Fenglei Bao and his demonic beast mount, but soon spat blood and realized his injuries would hinder him against the Saint Martial Stage expert ahead.
• Pei Yusheng emerged from the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast’s ear and told Fenglei Bao to inform Pei Kuang that the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall’s plan had failed and the second contingency must begin.
• Fenglei Bao sent a message to Pei Kuang after Pei Yusheng insisted that Pei Yupo’s exposed identity required the plan to change regardless of Murong Jianyun’s condition.
• Pei Yusheng set off with Fenglei Bao to see whether Pei Yupo would survive, expecting Pei Kuang’s favor toward him to end after the battle.

The battle for Willow Leaf City turned in favor of its defenders as Sikong Jing’s formations improved, but Pei Chang moved to kill him on Pei Yupo’s orders. Murong Jianyun arrived as a Saint Martial Stage warrior, revealed that he was injured, and charged Pei Chang while Sikong Jing prepared to finish the fight quickly.

• Pei Yupo ordered Pei Chang to kill Sikong Jing, blaming him for the setbacks to their forces and plans.
• Pei Chang attacked Sikong Jing, but a massive white sword beam struck him and drove him back.
• Murong Jianyun appeared and declared himself Pei Chang’s opponent, revealing his Saint Martial Stage strength.
• Sikong Jing announced Murong Jianyun’s arrival to the defenders, raising morale throughout Willow Leaf City.
• Murong Jianyun told Sikong Jing that he was injured, then charged Pei Chang to hold him back.

Murong Jianyun’s arrival turned the battle against the Qianyuan Holy Demon Army, but Pei Yupo crushed a jade pendant that summoned Pei Kuang’s spirit puppet to attack Sikong Jing. Murong Jianyun rushed to intercept the terrifying apparition as Sikong Jing ordered a defensive formation.

• Pei Chang and Murong Jianyun began fighting above Willow Leaf Holy Manor, while Sikong Jing led the allied forces against the Qianyuan Holy Demon Army.
• Sikong Jing’s forces overwhelmed the enemy army, and Chang Sanghuang urged Pei Yupo to retreat as defeat became certain.
• Pei Yupo ignored Chang Sanghuang and crushed the life-saving jade pendant Pei Kuang had given him, unleashing three breaths of his Saint Martial power.
• Pei Kuang’s spirit puppet appeared atop Pei Yupo’s Divine Shuttle, and Sikong Jing ordered the Willow Leaf forces to form a defensive formation.
• Murong Jianyun recognized the spirit puppet and broke away from Pei Chang to rush toward it.

Pei Yupo sent Pei Kuang's Spirit Puppet after Sikong Jing, who fled toward the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall as Murong Jianyun tried to protect him. The puppet struck Sikong Jing against the wall and shattered his body, leaving Su Yuexi and the people of Willow Leaf City in grief.

• Pei Yupo ordered Pei Kuang's golden Spirit Puppet to attack Sikong Jing's Army-Slaying Formation, badly injuring Sikong Jing and the defenders.
• Murong Jianyun broke past Pei Chang and took the puppet's next strike, then urged Sikong Jing to flee to the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing raced to the Sacred Wall while Murong Jianyun rallied the troops to hold off War Saint Ganmo.
• Sikong Jing pressed his back against the Sacred Wall, and Pei Kuang's Spirit Puppet struck him, shattering his body before disappearing as its power ran out.
• Su Yuexi cried out and ran toward the Sacred Wall as the people of Willow Leaf City and Reverse Blade City watched in shock.

After Sikong Jing was apparently shattered to death, the people of Willow Leaf City and Reverse Blade City launched a furious counterattack against the Qianyuan Holy Demon Army. Su Yuexi nearly took her own life, but the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall began to glow with the power of the Duoye Twelve Seals, and Flying Cloud Colorful Butterfly assured her that Sikong Jing would be fine.

• Pei Yupo mocked Sikong Jing for sacrificing himself, prompting the forces of Willow Leaf City and Reverse Blade City to charge the Qianyuan Holy Demon Army in grief and rage.
• Murong Jianyun and the others fought desperately, forcing Pei Yupo and the Four Emperors of the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall to retreat while Pei Chang stayed behind to hold them off.
• Su Yuexi pressed her sword to her throat, intending to die with Sikong Jing, but Ye Wuzhi urged her to look at the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Jade-green light and intricate patterns appeared where Sikong Jing's blood stained the Sacred Wall, as the power of the Duoye Twelve Seals began to emerge.
• Flying Cloud Colorful Butterfly told Su Yuexi that her husband would be fine.

Sikong Jing recovered from his apparent death, but the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall suddenly began dragging him inside. Ye Wuzhi was swallowed while trying to rescue him, and Sikong Jing followed, leaving Su Yuexi behind with orders to protect herself.

• Sikong Jing remade his body beside the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and reassured Su Yuexi that he had not been in danger of dying.
• As Su Yuexi rushed to embrace him, Sikong Jing realized the Sacred Wall was pulling him in and preventing him from using his power.
• Su Yuexi tried to pull Sikong Jing free but was thrown away, so Ye Wuzhi took her place and struggled against the Wall's force.
• The Sacred Wall changed its repelling force into suction and swallowed Ye Wuzhi.
• Sikong Jing stopped resisting, promised to protect Ye Wuzhi, and was swallowed by the Sacred Wall after ordering Armor Ripper to protect Su Yuexi.

Sikong Jing was pulled into the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, where he discovered its dark interior was only a small tree hollow. A mysterious dead man’s spiritual shadow revealed that he had drawn Sikong Jing inside to help decipher the Sacred Wall, using Sikong Jing’s blood as it seeped into the wall.

• Su Yuexi found that the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall no longer responded after Sikong Jing vanished, so she stayed beside it with the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Sikong Jing appeared inside a dim, patterned space, where Ye Wuzhi told him he had been dragged in earlier.
• Sikong Jing examined the small realm and wondered whether it was the Sacred Wall’s internal core and why it had drawn him in.
• A sinister old man emerged from the patterns and explained that the space was only a small tree hollow within the Sacred Wall.
• The old man said he was a lingering thought of a dead outsider who wanted Sikong Jing’s help deciphering the wall, and revealed that Sikong Jing’s blood had let him pull Sikong Jing inside.

Sikong Jing and Ye Wuzhi were trapped inside the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall with a mysterious old man who claimed to be the Qianyuan War Emperor. Unable to find a way out, Sikong Jing agreed to study the wall with him while remaining suspicious of his identity and motives; the old man then offered Ye Wuzhi a way to become a top-tier Emperor faster.

• The old man told Sikong Jing he could not leave until they worked together to crack the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• The old man claimed to be the Qianyuan War Emperor, but Sikong Jing questioned his story because Liu Duoye had said the War Emperor was already dead when she arrived.
• The Flying Cloud Colorful Butterfly warned Sikong Jing that the old man's mental spirit projection had been close to the Divine Martial Stage when alive, contradicting his claim.
• Sikong Jing tried to find an exit with the Duoye Twelve Seals but failed, so he agreed to hear what the old man had learned about the sacred wall.
• The old man offered to help Ye Wuzhi become a top-tier Emperor faster.

Sikong Jing studied the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall’s tree patterns while the war in Willow Leaf City ended with Pei Chang and the other culprits escaping. The survivors mourned Sikong Jing’s apparent death, but Su Yuexi insisted he was alive inside the sacred wall, and Leng Sha and Bai Xiaojin arrived in tears.

• The old man tried to send Ye Wuzhi away, but Ye Wuzhi refused to leave Sikong Jing’s side.
• Sikong Jing studied the illuminated tree patterns and began comprehending the next difficult point in the Duoye Twelve Seals.
• Chang Sanghuang, three other Emperor Realm experts, Pei Yupo, and Pei Chang escaped Willow Leaf City after Pei Chang held off Murong Jianyun and the others.
• The Willow Leaf and Reverse Blade forces wiped out Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall’s army, but the exhausted survivors mourned Sikong Jing, believing he had died.
• Su Yuexi told Su Zhenglong and Mei Xiaofang that Sikong Jing was safe inside the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and that she was waiting for him.
• Leng Sha and Bai Xiaojin arrived, and Bai Xiaojin broke down as she addressed Su Yuexi about Sikong Jing.

After Sikong Jing vanished into the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall, Su Yuexi insisted he was alive, though his family and allies thought grief had driven her mad. Murong Jianyun confirmed Sikong Jing’s fate lamp still burned, and Su Yuexi then decided to tell everyone he was dead to protect him until he returned.

• Bai Xiaojin sobbed over Sikong Jing, and Su Yuexi comforted her by saying he had been sucked into the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall and would return.
• Su Yuexi told Leng Sha and her parents that Sikong Jing’s flesh and blood had reassembled before the Sacred Wall took him, and that Ye Wuzhi had been pulled in while trying to save him.
• Ye Wucan and other Willow Leaf Holy Manor figures arrived, but Su Yuexi repeated that Sikong Jing was alive, and they assumed she had lost her mind.
• Murong Jianyun checked Sikong Jing’s fate lamp and discovered that it was still burning, then led Ye Wucan and the others away.
• Su Yuexi decided to pretend Sikong Jing was dead so the Thousand Kings Holy Tower would not target him, but her sudden change of story alarmed Mei Xiaofang.

Murong Jianyun concealed Sikong Jing’s survival with a shattered fake life lamp and helped Su Yuexi maintain the story that she had gone mad. Outside Willow Leaf City, Fenglei Bao ordered Pei Yupo and Pei Chang to return to the city in disguise as part of a remedial plan.

• Murong Jianyun showed the others a shattered fake life lamp and let them believe Sikong Jing was dead.
• Murong Jianyun privately told Su Yuexi that Sikong Jing’s real life lamp was still glowing, and she agreed to keep pretending she had gone mad until he escaped the Sacred Wall.
• Murong Jianyun warned Old Fat Head to make a life lamp for Sikong Jing so their identities would not be exposed.
• Su Yuexi explained the deception to Su Zhenglong, Leng Sha, and the others, who learned Sikong Jing was alive and agreed to keep the secret.
• Fenglei Bao arrived outside Willow Leaf City and ordered Pei Yupo and Pei Chang to remove their masks and reenter the city as the Thousand King Young Master when Dragon Controlling Mountain’s forces arrived.

Fenglei Bao urged Pei Yupo to claim Willow Leaf City’s victory under the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s name and arrange Murong Jianyun’s public execution. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing continued deciphering the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall until he had mastered all its tree patterns.

• Fenglei Bao told Pei Yupo to return openly as the Thousand King Young Master and claim credit for Willow Leaf City’s victory, and Pei Yupo embraced the plan.
• Fenglei Bao instructed Pei Yupo to find a pretext to kill the wounded Murong Jianyun publicly, and Pei Yupo began planning the murder.
• Pei Yusheng mocked Pei Yupo for wasting the Spirit Shadow War Puppet, while Fenglei Bao silently judged Pei Yupo’s impulsiveness.
• Su Yuexi pretended to be foolish in Willow Leaf City while mourners gathered at Willow Leaf Holy Manor for Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing comprehended the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall’s patterns as the mysterious old man praised his progress, eventually lighting every tree pattern and reaching the seventy-ninth difficult point.
• Sikong Jing’s Duoye Seals expanded to eighty-two attributes after incorporating the willow tree and the Nether Lotus Sea Serpent and Tail-Shedding Dragon Lizard.

Sikong Jing mastered the old man's knowledge of the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall's first seventy-nine challenges, then discovered the old man had deliberately trapped him when he tried to leave. The old man refused to release him, leaving Sikong Jing trapped before the unfinished eightieth challenge.

• After Sikong Jing resolved the seventy-ninth challenge, the old man revealed a final, much more difficult attribute with gaps he had been unable to decipher.
• Sikong Jing realized the old man had reached the limit of his research and suggested leaving to handle urgent matters outside.
• Sikong Jing restored the tree patterns for the first seventy-nine challenges and explained that he now knew enough to navigate out of the Sacred Wall.
• The old man changed the patterns back to the broken eightieth challenge and used his arrangements inside the Sacred Wall to prevent Sikong Jing from leaving.
• The old man admitted he feared Sikong Jing would return too powerful to control and declared that Sikong Jing would not be allowed to go back out.

Sikong Jing and Ye Wuzhi learned that the old man planned to enslave Sikong Jing and had prepared a peak Emperor Realm corpse puppet to stop them. The old man revealed that the puppet was the Qianyuan War Emperor and explained how he had controlled him before the War Emperor rebelled.

• The old man admitted he had prepared a way to deal with Ye Wuzhi and said he would forcibly control Sikong Jing to make him continue deciphering the Sacred Wall.
• The old man unleashed spirit-shadow power on Sikong Jing, while Ye Wuzhi attacked and was repelled by a peak Emperor Realm corpse puppet.
• The old man revealed that the puppet was his former slave, the Qianyuan War Emperor, and claimed he had given him the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.
• The old man said he had come from the Boundless Sea as a refugee and had used the War Emperor's body and slaughter to try to rebuild his own.
• The old man explained that the Qianyuan War Emperor had eventually rebelled because he no longer wanted to kill people, clarifying why he had vanished from the Central Plains.

Gan Wumie revealed his plan to use the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall to revive himself and ordered the Qianyuan War Puppet to kill Ye Wuzhi. Sikong Jing rescued Ye Wuzhi by moving through the Sacred Wall’s tree patterns, but Gan Wumie pursued him and blocked the exit with a sacred artifact.

• Gan Wumie explained that the Qianyuan War Emperor had wounded him and that the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall could reconstruct the dead from a trace of blood.
• Gan Wumie said he would control Sikong Jing to unravel the Sacred Wall, then ordered the Qianyuan War Puppet to kill Ye Wuzhi.
• Sikong Jing used the tree patterns to make Ye Wuzhi disappear from the puppet’s attack, then escaped through another tree pattern himself.
• Gan Wumie and the Qianyuan War Puppet followed Sikong Jing into another hollow, where Sikong Jing found the exit blocked.
• Gan Wumie confronted Sikong Jing and demanded to know how he had escaped his spirit-shadow suppression, while Sikong Jing concealed that he had a second spirit shadow.

Sikong Jing escaped Gan Wumie's attempt to invade his Spirit Platform, but broke away to save Ye Wuzhi from the Qianyuan War Puppet. He fled through the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall with Ye Wuzhi as Gan Wumie pursued them, leaving their escape unresolved.

• Gan Wumie tried to send his spirit-shadow power into Sikong Jing's Spirit Platform, but Sikong Jing broke free when the Qianyuan War Puppet threatened Ye Wuzhi.
• Gan Wumie realized a treasure in Sikong Jing's Spirit Platform could destroy his spirit-shadow power and summoned the Qianyuan War Puppet to attack him.
• Sikong Jing used the Sacred Wall's tree markings to evade Gan Wumie and the Qianyuan War Puppet through successive tree hollows.
• Gan Wumie ordered the puppet to capture Ye Wuzhi alive, so Sikong Jing took Ye Wuzhi with him and continued fleeing.
• Ye Wuzhi blamed himself for holding Sikong Jing back, but Sikong Jing explained that Ye Wuzhi's presence had kept Gan Wumie acting long enough to teach him how to navigate the Sacred Wall.

Sikong Jing and Ye Wuzhi fled deeper into the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall while trying to grow stronger, as Willow Leaf City struggled to recover from the battle. The Thousand Kings Holy Tower arrived at Willow Leaf Holy Manor, leaving Murong Jianyun and Bei Cang to suspect a new threat beyond simply protecting the defeated Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.

• Sikong Jing studied the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall’s final attribute while fleeing, and Ye Wuzhi cultivated to strengthen himself.
• Willow Leaf City rebuilt after the war while visitors continued mourning Ba Hun’s successor, whom Su Yuexi knew was still alive.
• Ye Wucan told Murong Jianyun that Dragon Controlling Mountain’s troops were approaching, and Murong Jianyun promised to negotiate with them.
• A Willow Leaf Holy Manor expert reported that Thousand King Young Master and the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had arrived and demanded that Ye Wucan welcome them.
• Murong Jianyun sent Ye Wucan out with Xi Tu, then told Bei Cang that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had come to whitewash the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall.
• Leng Chan warned that the timing of their arrival alongside Dragon Controlling Mountain’s forces might signal a broader attack, and Bei Cang wondered if the two groups would join forces against Willow Leaf City.

Pei Yupo arrived at Willow Leaf Holy Manor and denied that he had impersonated the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s young master during the attack on Willow Leaf City. He then offered to protect the manor if Ye Wucan made it a vassal force, leaving Ye Wucan and the hidden observers facing the threat of the manor’s betrayal.

• Leng Chan and Old Xin warned Bei Cang and Murong Jianyun that Ye Wucan might pledge Willow Leaf Holy Manor to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, so Murong Jianyun alerted Shi Douxing and the Heavenly Tyrant Branch to prepare for battle.
• Ye Wucan led the Willow Leaf people outside and greeted Pei Yupo and Pei Chang, while Chang Sanghuang introduced them as representatives of the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Pei Yupo offered assistance after Willow Leaf City’s calamity, then claimed that someone from the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall had impersonated him.
• Xi Tu and the hidden Murong Jianyun hesitated to expose Pei Yupo because they lacked evidence and feared provoking the Thousand Kings Holy Tower.
• Pei Yupo offered Willow Leaf Holy Manor protection in exchange for becoming a vassal, and promised Ye Wucan the position of important guest elder.

Pei Yupo persuaded Ye Wucan to pledge the Willow Leaf Holy Manor to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, claiming the tower would protect it and help repel Dragon Controlling Mountain. As Murong Jianyun’s group prepared to leave, Pei Yupo proposed a marriage alliance to strengthen their new bond.

• Pei Chang suppressed Xi Tu as Pei Yupo offered Ye Wucan protection and the chance to reach the Saint Martial Stage if the Willow Leaf Holy Manor pledged allegiance.
• Liu Shizeng accepted Pei Yupo’s offer on the manor’s behalf, and Pei Yupo publicly swore to protect the Willow Leaf Holy Manor.
• Pei Yupo presented the heads of Ganmo and Gan Shengwei, claiming they had impersonated him and Pei Chang and that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower had killed them.
• Ye Wucan agreed to submit the Willow Leaf Holy Manor to the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, shocking the city and turning the manor against its former allies.
• Murong Jianyun ordered his group to leave and gather Shi Douxing and other forces, while Pei Yupo proposed a marriage alliance with Ye Wucan.

Pei Yupo demanded that Willow Leaf Holy Manor surrender and give him Ye Yuexi as a concubine, while Pei Chang threatened Willow Leaf City to keep Murong Jianyun from taking her away. Su Yuexi refused Old Fat Head’s offer to escape, choosing to stay and protect Murong Jianyun’s group until Sikong Jing or reinforcements arrived.

• Pei Yupo announced his marriage alliance with Willow Leaf Holy Manor and demanded Ye Yuexi as his concubine.
• Pei Chang threatened the people of Willow Leaf City and summoned Murong Jianyun to witness the alliance, stopping him from sending Bei Cang to rescue Su Yuexi.
• Murong Jianyun revealed himself and faced Pei Yupo’s group, trusting Old Fat Head to protect Su Yuexi.
• Old Fat Head urged Su Yuexi and her family to leave, but Su Yuexi refused because her departure would endanger Murong Jianyun and the others.
• Su Yuexi told Old Fat Head to protect her parents and vowed to hold out until Sikong Jing emerged or the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s forces arrived.
• Mei Xiaofang asked Su Yuexi how events had turned out this way.