The excellent energy storage performance of covalent sulfur-carbon material has gradually attracted great interest. However, in the electrochemical sodium storage process, the bond evolution mechanism remains an elusive topic. Herein, we develop a one-step annealing strategy to achieve a high covalent sulfur-carbon bridged hybrid (HCSC) utilizing phenylphosphinic acid as the carbon-source/catalyst and sodium sulfate as the sulfur-precursor/salt template, in which the sulfur mainly exists in the forms of C-S-C and C-S-S-C. Notably, most of the bridge bonds are electrochemically cleaved when the cycling voltage is lower than 0.6 V versus Na/Na + , leading to the appearance of two visible redox peaks in the following cyclic voltammogram (CV) tests. The in-situ and ex-situ characterizations demonstrate that S 2− is formed in the reduction process and the carbon skeleton is concomitantly and irreversibly isomerized. Thus, the cleaved sulfur and isomerized carbon could jointly contribute to the sodium storage in 0.01-3.0 V. In a Na-S battery system, the activated HCSC in cut off voltage window of 0.6-2.8 V achieves a high reversible capacity (770 mA h g −1 at 300 mA g −1). This insight reveals the charge storage mechanism of sulfur-carbon bridged hybrid and provides an improved enlightenment on the interfacial chemistry of electrode materials.