Chapter Summaries

Ye Wuzhi took control of the Willow Leaf Holy Manor troops and helped turn the battle in Willow Leaf City against the Dragon Controlling Mountain forces. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing cornered Gan Wumie in a forbidden sandy area, where his spirit shadows broke through and he revealed a second, beast-form spirit shadow.

• Ye Wuzhi forced the remaining Willow Leaf Holy Manor direct-line members to join his Army-Slaying Formation, leaving Ye Wucan isolated.
• Murong Jianyun and Ye Wuzhi joined forces, and the combined defenders drove the Dragon Controlling Mountain troops out of Willow Leaf City.
• Murong Jianyun ordered a pursuit, while Su Yuexi asked Jing Gege whether he was all right.
• Gan Wumie trapped Sikong Jing in a sandy forbidden zone where broken formations prevented him from using a Beast Slaughter Array, then urged him to submit or return to Willow Leaf City.
• Sikong Jing's spirit shadows broke through to the Emperor Emergence Realm, but his humanoid spirit shadow was overpowered by Gan Wumie.
• Sikong Jing spoke from behind Gan Wumie, who turned to see a second, beast-form spirit shadow.

Sikong Jing used his two spirit shadows to take Gan Wumie's Space Sacred Key, then threatened him with imperial artifacts and tortured his spirit projection to get the key's method of use. Gan Wumie's spirit projection exploded, but Sikong Jing realized it was not dead yet.

• Sikong Jing's humanoid and beast-form spirit shadows attacked Gan Wumie from both sides and knocked the Space Sacred Key away.
• The humanoid spirit shadow returned the key to Sikong Jing, who revealed that he had Dual Spirit Shadows and demanded Gan Wumie's enslavement and the method for using the artifact.
• Gan Wumie refused, but Sikong Jing suppressed the Space Sacred Key with the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison's power and surrounded Gan Wumie's spirit projection with imperial artifacts.
• Sikong Jing used methods taught by the vicious beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison to torture Gan Wumie's spirit projection.
• Gan Wumie's spirit projection suddenly exploded, and Sikong Jing realized that it was not dead.

Sikong Jing learned that Gan Wumie had survived his encounter with the Qianyuan War Emperor, but Gan Wumie’s scattered spirit shadow could not speak for years, putting Sikong Jing’s return to Willow Leaf City in doubt. Just as the Qianyuan War Emperor offered to try using the Space Sacred Key, Gan Wumie’s remnants suddenly formed a black pearl.

• Gan Wumie escaped a thousand miles away and threatened Sikong Jing, but the Qianyuan War Emperor found and tore him apart.
• Sikong Jing followed the Qianyuan War Emperor and determined from the Space Sacred Key that Gan Wumie was still alive.
• The Qianyuan War Emperor revealed that Gan Wumie’s scattered spirit shadow would take eight to ten years to recover enough to speak.
• The Qianyuan War Emperor told Sikong Jing that he had used the Space Sacred Key once and would try to use it again.
• Gan Wumie’s scattered spirit shadow gathered into a pitch-black pearl.

Gan Wumie survived inside the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl, leaving Sikong Jing responsible for dealing with the indestructible treasure. Sikong Jing and the Qianyuan War Emperor failed to teleport to Willow Leaf City, while the battle outside the city continued to turn against Dragon Controlling Mountain.

• Gan Wumie revealed that the Divine Martial Shadow Pearl could preserve him and might let him advance to the Divine Martial Stage, and the Qianyuan War Emperor could not damage it.
• The Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger and other beasts confirmed the pearl was made by the Flame Prison Heavenly Emperor, so Sikong Jing decided to keep it and eventually take it to Boundless Sea.
• The Qianyuan War Emperor entrusted Sikong Jing with trapping Gan Wumie in Boundless Sea, and Sikong Jing agreed before asking him to use the Space Sacred Key to return to Willow Leaf City.
• The Qianyuan War Emperor attempted to teleport Sikong Jing, but they emerged among the ruins around the Willow Leaf Sacred Tomb, and repeated attempts failed to take them to their destination.
• Outside Willow Leaf City, Murong Jianyun, Ye Wuzhi, and Shi Douxing led their troops in pursuing Dragon Controlling Mountain's retreating forces as its commanders struggled to control their formations.

Pei Xie arrived to take command of the Dragon Controlling Mountain forces and unleashed his Army-Slaying Formation against Willow Leaf City. Meanwhile, Sikong Jing and the Qianyuan War Emperor continued struggling to use the Space Sacred Key in Willow Leaf Forest.

• Pei Chang and Pei Yupo recognized their Seventh Uncle, Pei Xie, when he appeared above the Dragon Controlling Mountain troops.
• Pei Xie explained that Pei Yupo's father had sent him through spatial teleportation after Emperor Realm life lamps began shattering.
• Pei Yupo and the others recounted their defeats, and Pei Xie ordered the troops under his command while assigning Fenglei Bao and the Thousand King powerhouses to find Su Yuexi, her sister, and Sikong Jing.
• Pei Xie linked his Army-Slaying Formation to the Dragon Controlling Mountain soldiers and demon dragon mounts from more than seven cities, terrifying Murong Jianyun as he vowed to slaughter everyone in the Willow Leaf City region.
• In Willow Leaf Forest, Sikong Jing told the Qianyuan War Emperor that he had begun to understand how to control the Space Sacred Key after nearly ten hours of dangerous attempts.

Sikong Jing and Qianyuan War Emperor used the Space Sacred Key to return to Willow Leaf City after Ren You warned him not to come back. He arrived to find the city devastated, Ye Wuzhi gravely injured, and many key figures missing, while a powerful enemy formation battle continued outside.

• Ren You sent Sikong Jing a message urging him to flee and never return to Willow Leaf City.
• Sikong Jing activated the Space Sacred Key with Qianyuan War Emperor's energy and teleported to the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Sikong Jing saw corpses throughout Willow Leaf City and heard that a terrifying military formation master named Pei Xie was attacking.
• Sikong Jing reached the exhausted troops and found Ye Wuzhi badly wounded and barely able to stand.
• Sikong Jing healed Ye Wuzhi with Multi-Leaf Seals and asked Shi Douxing what had happened while he was gone.
• Sikong Jing realized Murong Jianyun, Bei Cang, Xi Tu, the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion, Su Yuexian, and Su Yuexi were nowhere to be seen.

Sikong Jing learned that Pei Xie had driven the defenders into a desperate fight while Su Yuexi and Su Yuexian fled under the protection of two Heavenly Deciders. As Pei Xie revealed the Thousand Kings Holy Tower's plan to slaughter Willow Leaf City and frame the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, Sikong Jing turned to the Qianyuan War Emperor for help.

• Shi Douxing told Sikong Jing that Pei Xie had routed the defenders into Willow Leaf City and that Murong Jianyun was fighting him with the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce's forces.
• Ye Wuzhi explained that Fenglei Bao, Pei Chang, and others were pursuing Su Yuexi and Su Yuexian, while Bei Cang Heavenly Decider and West Chart Heavenly Decider escorted them away.
• Sikong Jing feared the sisters would be in grave danger if Pei Chang and Fenglei Bao recovered from their injuries.
• Pei Xie mocked Murong Jianyun for fighting to protect Willow Leaf City and declared that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower planned to slaughter the region and blame the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Sikong Jing turned to the Qianyuan War Emperor and asked him for help.

Sikong Jing enlisted the Qianyuan War Emperor to kill Pei Xie and left Shi Douxing and Ye Wuzhi to help surround him. As Pei Xie threatened Murong Jianyun and exposed the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s plan to frame the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, Sikong Jing appeared on the battlefield and answered Pei Xie’s question about his whereabouts.

• The Qianyuan War Emperor agreed to fight Pei Xie, and Sikong Jing took him from Willow Leaf City while ordering Shi Douxing and the others to stop Pei Xie escaping.
• Ye Wuzhi revealed the Imperial warrior’s identity as the Qianyuan War Emperor, astonishing Shi Douxing.
• Murong Jianyun confronted Black Thought Patriarch about Dragon Controlling Mountain’s complicity, but Black Thought Patriarch backed the Thousand Kings Holy Tower’s plan to silence witnesses and blame the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Pei Xie explained that the Thousand Kings Holy Tower would kill the people of Willow Leaf City and frame the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, then threatened Murong Jianyun and blamed Sikong Jing for provoking them.
• Pei Xie asked where Sikong Jing was, and Sikong Jing’s voice answered from the forest battlefield.

Sikong Jing returned to Willow Leaf City with the Qianyuan War Emperor and faced Pei Xie, who intended to capture him. Sikong Jing revealed the War Emperor’s identity as a revived War Puppet, and Qianyuan prepared to fight with the complete Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.

• Sikong Jing arrived beside the wounded Murong Jianyun, Leng Chan, and Old Xin with the Qianyuan War Emperor.
• Pei Xie said the Thousand Kings Holy Tower suspected Sikong Jing was Su Beiheng’s successor and planned to capture him alive.
• Sikong Jing claimed to be the Qianyuan War Emperor’s successor, but Pei Xie and Dragon Controlling Mountain’s forces laughed at him.
• Sikong Jing told Grand Heaven Duel to let the senior beside him command the troops, and Qianyuan linked the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce’s forces with Forced Troop Control.
• Qianyuan revealed that he was a man who had died three thousand years ago, had been refined into a War Puppet, and had regained consciousness because of Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing left the Qianyuan War Emperor to finish his final battle and used the Space Sacred Key with Murong Jianyun to pursue the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion. Their search brought them to the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast, where a waiting youth revealed himself.

• The Qianyuan War Emperor began fighting Pei Xie and promised Sikong Jing he could later return to study the Qianyuan Battle-Killing Formation.
• The Qianyuan War Emperor asked Sikong Jing to bury him near the battlefield, and Sikong Jing promised to place his body inside the Willow Leaf Sacred Wall.
• Murong Jianyun carried Sikong Jing north, and they used the Space Sacred Key to teleport toward the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion.
• Sikong Jing learned from demon birds that the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion had headed north an hour and a half earlier.
• The Wind Thunder Roaring Beast appeared without Fenglei Bao, and a youth emerged from its ear, saying he had waited with Roaring for Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing left Murong Jianyun to hold off the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast and hurried north to pursue Su Yuexi and the others. After teleporting toward the edge of Willow Leaf Forest, he heard a grim voice threaten the West Chart Heavenly Decider.

• Murong Jianyun told Sikong Jing he would hold back the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast while Sikong Jing pursued the others alone.
• Pei Yusheng introduced himself and challenged Sikong Jing, but Sikong Jing struck him once and continued north.
• Murong Jianyun fought the Wind Thunder Roaring Beast to keep it from pursuing Sikong Jing.
• Sikong Jing used the Space Sacred Key to teleport toward the edge of Willow Leaf Forest and sensed the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpions nearby.
• A grim voice declared that the West Chart Heavenly Decider had exhausted his options and would be sent to hell, startling Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing saved West Chart Heavenly Decider from Chang Sanghuang and learned that Su Yuexi and the others were being pursued by several powerful enemies. He teleported to catch up but was diverted by a spatial storm, leaving him in a small city where Ye Wucan and Bei Cang Heavenly Decider were fighting.

• Sikong Jing arrived just as Chang Sanghuang was about to kill West Chart Heavenly Decider and assassinated Chang Sanghuang.
• Sikong Jing treated West Chart and learned that Fenglei Bao had wounded him while he stayed behind to let Su Yuexi and the others escape from their pursuers.
• Sikong Jing used the Space Sacred Key to pursue Su Yuexi and the others, then warned West Chart that Willow Leaf City had won and Pei Xie would die.
• A spatial storm disrupted Sikong Jing's teleportation, forcing him to exit the spatial passage inside a small city.
• Sikong Jing recognized Ye Wucan and Bei Cang Heavenly Decider battling above the city and realized Bei Cang might need rescuing.

Sikong Jing disrupted Pei Yupo and Ye Wucan’s attempt to turn Nankao City against Bei Cang by claiming Willow Leaf City had already won. He helped Bei Cang escape and then vanished, leaving Pei Yupo and Ye Wucan to search Nankao City while he and Bei Cang watched from outside.

• Ye Wucan and Pei Yupo blamed the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce for the violence in Willow Leaf City and urged Nankao City’s people to help kill Bei Cang.
• As Nankao City’s warriors prepared to join Ye Wucan’s Army-Slaying Formation, Sikong Jing told Bei Cang that Willow Leaf City had won and ordered her to leave.
• Bei Cang escaped, while Pei Yupo kept Ye Wucan from pursuing her and demanded that Sikong Jing reveal himself.
• Sikong Jing said the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce had won and that Pei Xie must die, then disappeared into Nankao City’s alleys.
• Pei Yupo ordered the city sealed and searched for Sikong Jing, while Sikong Jing met Bei Cang outside and explained that the search would keep Ye Wucan occupied for hours.

Sikong Jing and Bei Cang prepared to intercept Fenglei Bao and Pei Chang, but news of Su Yuexi and Su Yuexian’s split escape forced Sikong Jing to change course. He set Bei Cang on a rescue mission and tried to teleport after Su Yuexi, only for the Space Sacred Key to fail because its Bright Core Crystals were depleted.

• Sikong Jing teleported with Bei Cang to Su Yuexi’s escape route and gathered demonic beasts to form a Beast Slaughter Array that could delay Pei Chang and Fenglei Bao.
• Sikong Jing’s scouting birds reported that Su Yuexian had lured Fenglei Bao away while Su Yuexi fled on the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion with Pei Chang pursuing her.
• Sikong Jing sent Bei Cang to aid Su Yuexian and Old Fat Head’s forces, telling her to lure Fenglei Bao toward three attacks he had prepared in the Beast Slaughter Array.
• Sikong Jing used the Space Sacred Key to pursue Su Yuexi, but the teleportation failed when its Bright Core Crystals ran out, leaving the ownerless key unusable.

Sikong Jing found Extinguishing Love Venerable’s ship, where Sikong Ling and the hidden Su Yuexi were facing Pei Chang’s threats. He intervened just as Pei Chang prepared to attack, revealing himself as Ba Hun’s successor.

• Sikong Jing sensed Pei Chang and the Thoughtless Sacred Sect nearby, then recognized Extinguishing Love Venerable’s voice.
• Sikong Jing spotted Sikong Ling aboard Extinguishing Love Venerable’s ship and realized Su Yuexi and the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion were likely hidden inside.
• Pei Chang demanded to inspect the ship, but Extinguishing Love Venerable refused and accused him of falsely targeting the Thoughtless Sacred Sect.
• Su Yuexi apologized to Sikong Ling for bringing trouble, and Sikong Ling vowed to protect her even at the cost of her life.
• As Pei Chang prepared to attack, Sikong Jing challenged him from the lakeshore, and Pei Chang recognized him as Ba Hun’s successor.

Sikong Jing lured Pei Chang away from the Thoughtless Sacred Sect’s Divine Shuttle Ship and broke through to the Emperor Martial Stage while fleeing. Back aboard the ship, Su Yuexi’s connection to Sikong Ling surprised the Thoughtless Sacred Sect women.

• Sikong Jing revealed himself in his Dark Wing Mask, taunted Pei Chang, and fled to draw him away from Extinguishing Love Venerable and the others.
• Pei Chang took the bait and pursued Sikong Jing, believing him to be Ba Hun’s successor.
• Sikong Jing used the Blood Devour Magic Beast and Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger meridians to break through to the Emperor Martial Stage Emperor Entry Realm and increase his speed.
• Wen Luo wondered whether Ba Hun’s successor was stronger than Sikong Buwang, while Sikong Ling recognized that they were the same person and stayed aboard the ship.
• Su Yuexi thanked Extinguishing Love Venerable for saving her, who credited Wen Ge for insisting on the rescue.
• Su Yuexi recognized Sikong Ling as Ling’er, and Sikong Ling explained that Everlasting Love Venerable had changed her title from Wang Ge to Wen Ge.

Sikong Ling reunited with her sister-in-law, Su Yuexi, aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship and revealed that the Overlord Soul inheritor was her brother. The Thoughtless Sacred Sect was left stunned by the revelation and Sikong Ling’s rebuke of those who had underestimated him.

• Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi embraced and introduced themselves as sisters-in-law to the baffled women of the Thoughtless Sacred Sect.
• Sikong Ling confirmed that Su Yuexi was her brother’s wife, and Martial Aunt Chi suggested her brother was only fortunate to be connected to them.
• Sikong Ling recalled that the Overlord Soul inheritor had lured away the Thousand Kings Saint Martial Stage expert to protect Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Ling revealed that the Overlord Soul inheritor was her brother and said the experts who had visited the Eastern Plains Northern Lands had failed to recognize his worth.
• The women aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship fell silent as they realized the famed Overlord Soul inheritor came from Sikong Ling’s family.

Su Yuexi and Sikong Ling told Extinguishing Love Venerable’s group about the conflict between the Thousand Kings Holy Tower and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce, and the group prepared to leave with Su Yuexi. Sikong Jing was caught by Pei Chang, while Su Yuexi sent the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to help him.

• Sikong Ling confirmed that she had come to Willow Leaf City to find her brother, the inheritor of Overlord Soul.
• Su Yuexi recounted the dangers involving the Thousand Kings Holy Tower, the Qianyuan Holy Demon Hall, Willow Leaf City, and the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce.
• Martial Aunt Chi urged the group to avoid the conflict, and Extinguishing Love Venerable refused to inform the Thoughtless Sacred Sect Master.
• Su Yuexi agreed to leave with Extinguishing Love Venerable and gave Sikong Ling the Overlord Soul Hundred-Man Army-Slaying Formation.
• Extinguishing Love Venerable turned the Divine Shuttle Ship north, and Su Yuexi sent the Armor-Splitting Flying Scorpion to aid Sikong Jing.
• Pei Chang caught Sikong Jing, who saw that Sikong Ling and Su Yuexi were not rushing toward him.

Sikong Jing endured Pei Chang’s torture while waiting for Fenglei Bao and his allies to arrive. He revealed a demon-beast Army-Slaying Formation that trapped both enemies, leaving Pei Chang and Fenglei Bao stunned.

• Pei Chang tortured Sikong Jing’s body and spiritual shadow, but Sikong Jing endured by shifting his consciousness into his beast-form spiritual shadow.
• Su Yuexian and Old Fat Head led the small-scale Army-Slaying Formation toward Sikong Jing and Pei Chang as Bei Cang fought off Fenglei Bao.
• Pei Chang and Fenglei Bao stopped when they saw Sikong Jing and the approaching group, then prepared to capture their targets.
• Sikong Jing called for the hidden forces to emerge, and demon beasts flooded the surrounding mountains and forests.
• The Army-Slaying Formation activated and aimed two enormous arrow gleams at Pei Chang and Fenglei Bao, who recognized the beasts as the Humanoid Fierce Beast from Ten Thousand Ice City.

Sikong Jing revealed that he had endured torture to lure Fenglei Bao into the Beast Slaughter Array, then used the array and his allies to attack Pei Chang and prevent Fenglei Bao from escaping. As the battle intensified, Old Fat Head stabbed Pei Chang in the heart while Bei Cang Heavenly Decider clung to Fenglei Bao.

• Pei Chang realized Sikong Jing had deliberately endured torture to lure the humanoid ferocious beast, and Sikong Jing said he had waited for Fenglei Bao.
• An earth spike freed Sikong Jing from Pei Chang, allowing him to return to the Beast Slaughter Array and bombard Pei Chang.
• Sikong Jing ordered Old Fat Head and Su Yuexian's forces to attack Pei Chang while Bei Cang Heavenly Decider kept Fenglei Bao inside the array.
• Old Fat Head stabbed Pei Chang but was blasted away, and Su Yuexian caught him before he returned to the shadows to prepare another assassination.
• Bei Cang Heavenly Decider clung to Fenglei Bao's leg as he tried to escape, enduring his repeated stomps to hold him in the array.
• Pei Chang exploded several Imperial artifacts, but Old Fat Head seized another opening and plunged his blade into Pei Chang's heart.