Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng reached Licorice Town and rescued the Dark Star members from a Imperial Court raid, killing the traitors Hua Long and Wang Luan. After learning that Qi Ning and Lan Man were heading to the Prefecture City to confront Gongsun Yuanzhou, Lin Sheng left at once to try to reach them before they fell into a trap.

• Lin Sheng carried the injured Yellow Dog to Licorice Town, broke through the soldiers guarding it, and charged into the besieged Dark Star stronghold.
• Lin Sheng killed the Silver Badge Constables and Imperial Court soldiers in the courtyard, freeing Red Leaf and the other subdued Dark Star members.
• Yellow Dog identified Lin Sheng as the new Blazing Star Emissary, Lord Ghost Face, and revealed that Golden Leopard had been a traitor; Red Leaf then accused Hua Long of treachery.
• Lin Sheng killed Hua Long and Wang Luan, then learned that Thousand Faces and Lan Man had joined forces with the Myriad Spirits Sect and the Ten Absolute Sect to attack Gongsun Yuanzhou in the Prefecture City.
• Lin Sheng sent Yellow Dog to lead the rescued members to safety and rushed toward the Prefecture City, hoping to arrive before the Imperial Court ambushed the others.

Gongsun Yuanzhou tested the grotesque Wan Shuang in the City Lord's Manor and revealed that she was a Demon Pill embryo he had cultivated. Meanwhile, Qi Ning, Wan Jun, the Tian Jue Old Man, and other masters launched a nighttime raid on the manor, where Wan Jun found his daughter Frost imprisoned.

• Gongsun Yuanzhou defeated Wan Shuang, restrained her with a glowing jade stone, and fed her a crimson bottle before she withdrew to a room.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou told Lu Chuan that Wan Shuang was a Demon Pill embryo, and Lu Chuan grew wary of his use of demon blood.
• Qi Ning outlined a plan for seven Divine Form Martial Artists to attack Gongsun Yuanzhou at night, while Wan Jun insisted they first locate his daughter.
• As the storm covered the city, the attackers silently killed the manor guards and entered the rear courtyard, where they found more than a hundred powerful beastified Martial Artists in cages.
• Wan Jun's jade ring glowed and led him to a cage holding an untransformed young woman; he recognized her as Frost.

Lin Sheng warned Qi Ning's group that Golden Leopard was an Imperial Court spy, but Gongsun Yuanzhou trapped them inside the Ice Ghost Great Array. They escaped the residence and fled into the forest, where Gongsun Yuanzhou caught up with them and killed a Tianjue Sect elder.

• Gongsun Yuanzhou told Lu Chuan that the formation was ready to trap Qi Ning's group, then beat him at Go.
• Wan Jun rescued the unconscious Wan Shuang from a cage, and Qi Ning led the group toward the inner courtyard despite her glowing star stone.
• Lin Sheng arrived and warned Qi Ning that Golden Leopard was an Imperial Court spy and the operation was a trap.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou activated the Ice Ghost Great Array, but Lin Sheng's golden flames weakened it enough for Qi Ning and the others to cut their way out.
• Wan Jun and Tian Jue Old Man confronted Dark Star over the failed plan, then sent elders to alert their sects as the group regrouped in a forest.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou appeared behind a Tianjue Sect elder and killed him, shocking the group.

Gongsun Yuanzhou trapped the group in a tentacle net and overwhelmed the Divine Form experts, while Lin Sheng fought through the barrier and joined the battle. Lin Sheng and Qi Ning struck Gongsun Yuanzhou down, but the enemy began transforming into something more monstrous.

• Gongsun Yuanzhou drained the Ten Absolute Sect elder and revealed strength beyond the six fighters’ expectations, forcing them into a battle inside his tentacle net.
• Lin Sheng sensed danger from Gongsun Yuanzhou, protected Wan Shuang, and burned an opening through the net, but the tentacles quickly closed it again.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou severely injured the others and consumed Elder Meng, while Qi Ning wounded him with a dagger strike to the neck.
• Lin Sheng burst from beneath the ground, crushed Gongsun Yuanzhou’s lower body, tore off his arms, and attacked his eye sockets with flaming fingers.
• Qi Ning stabbed Gongsun Yuanzhou in the skull, but Gongsun Yuanzhou’s tentacles struck him away as black eyes and spreading markings appeared across Gongsun Yuanzhou’s body.

Gongsun Yuanzhou transformed into a monstrous being, devoured Tian Jue Old Man, and resisted the jade stone’s attempt to suppress him. As Lin Sheng and the others fled, he sensed a threat following them, and the chapter ended with Wan Shuang’s head disappearing in a sudden attack.

• Lin Sheng struck Gongsun Yuanzhou and fled as Gongsun’s body erupted with eyes and tentacles.
• Gongsun’s tentacles seized and consumed Tian Jue Old Man, while Gongsun tried to control his transformation with a jade stone.
• Gongsun’s black mist overwhelmed the jade stone, and he turned toward the fleeing Lu Chuan, who escaped and decided to warn Sky Rainbow Pavilion.
• Lin Sheng and the others fled beyond Tiannan Prefecture, and Qi Ning agreed to bring Wan Jun’s Myriad Spirits Sect into Dark Star.
• Lin Sheng noticed a faint threat following the group and saw black fluid drop from Wan Shuang’s hair.
• Wan Jun rejected Lin Sheng’s offer to carry Wan Shuang, but a sudden attack struck, and her head vanished.

Lin Sheng exposed and destroyed the black slime concealed within Wan Shuang, ending its ability to track the group, though Gongsun Yuanzhou was enraged and moved toward Prefecture City. Three days later, at Water Dragon Mountain, Lin Sheng recovered from testing the deadly Heart Devouring Pill as he cultivated Heavenly Snake Bone Changing.

• Lin Sheng overpowered Wan Jun and revealed that the headless body of Wan Shuang was a black slime creature hiding beneath her appearance.
• Qi Ning froze a fragment of the fleeing slime, and Lin Sheng burned the remaining slime away; the group then fled as Gongsun Yuanzhou's malice surged behind them.
• Lin Sheng concluded that the slime had enabled Gongsun Yuanzhou to track them, while Gongsun Yuanzhou suffered from the destruction of the black eyes within Wan Shuang and headed toward Prefecture City.
• Three days later, Lin Sheng cultivated at Water Dragon Mountain, using a small amount of the Heart Devouring Pill to train the second stage of Skin Changing.
• Lin Sheng endured the pill's severe poison for a day, suppressed it, and realized that the Heart Devouring Pill could have killed him if he had taken it whole.

Lin Sheng used a Heart Devouring Pill to begin cultivating the second stage of Heavenly Snake Bone Changing, while Lan Man returned with news of Gongsun Yuanzhou’s slaughter in Tiannan Prefecture. The chapter ended with Lan Man realizing Lin Sheng had already completed the secret art’s difficult qi-and-blood circulation and warning him that the technique had killed many cultivators.

• Lin Sheng assessed his progress after using poison to stimulate his qi and blood, then prepared to continue cultivating with a Heart Devouring Pill.
• Lan Man returned and told Lin Sheng that the Myriad Spirits Sect had disbanded, with Wan Jun and several dozen elites sent to Fulong City for testing.
• Lan Man reported that Gongsun Yuanzhou had slaughtered contaminated martial artists and much of the city garrison in Tiannan Prefecture before attacking the deserted Myriad Spirits Sect.
• Lan Man opened Lin Sheng’s pill box, inhaled the Heart Devouring poison, and panicked when she learned Lin Sheng had already taken the pill without harm.
• Lan Man discovered that Lin Sheng had completed the Heavenly Snake Bone Changing qi-and-blood circulation in only a few days and warned him about the secret art’s dangers.

Wan Jun and the Myriad Spirits Sect survivors were slaughtered by Gongsun Yuanzhou as they fled Tiannan Prefecture, while Lin Sheng completed the Skin Shedding realm but found his bloodline energy had not fused. He began compressing the energy with True Yang Transformation and managed to force a small portion into his flesh.

• Wan Jun led the Myriad Spirits Sect survivors toward the border, but their Flood Leopards panicked when black tentacles burst from the ground.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou emerged from the tentacles after they drained Wan Jun and the sect members, then devoured a blood mass shaped like a dragon.
• Lin Sheng endured a painful transformation in a cave on Water Dragon Mountain and completed the Skin Shedding realm.
• Lin Sheng discovered that his mixed bloodlines had been completely extracted, leaving no bloodline potential to absorb the condensed qi-blood energy.
• Lin Sheng tried forcing the qi-blood energy into his body, then used True Yang Transformation to compress a portion until it shattered and could be fused into his flesh.

Lin Sheng absorbed all the blood and qi from his grand circulation, causing his body to grow dramatically stronger as he completed a strange form of skin shedding. Meanwhile, Qi Ning and Lan Man learned that the Myriad Spirits Sect had vanished and decided to leave Water Dragon Mountain.

• Lin Sheng forcibly absorbed the blood and qi energy stored in his grand circulation over three days.
• Qi Ning and Lan Man worried that Lin Sheng had not emerged from the cave and discussed the uncertain situation in Tiannan Prefecture.
• Qi Ning received word that the Myriad Spirits Sect had disappeared, and she and Lan Man suspected Gongsun Yuanzhou was responsible.
• Qi Ning ordered Lan Man to alert Yellow Dog and the others so they could leave Water Dragon Mountain the next day.
• Lin Sheng emerged from seclusion with a greatly enlarged, tumor-covered body and found that his Strength had risen to 12 and his Constitution to 11.
• Lin Sheng tore away the tumors as they faded, revealing his powerful new body and completing his skin shedding.

After emerging from seclusion with a greatly strengthened physique, Lin Sheng joined Qi Ning and Lan Man as the Dark Star group fled Tiannan, wary that Gongsun Yuanzhou had attacked their allies. The group neared Changhe Prefecture, where they expected help from the organization, while Qi Ning revealed that a Void Transformation Grandmaster was arriving for the Imperial Court.

• Lin Sheng emerged from the cave, explained his physical change as a cultivation breakthrough, and agreed to leave Water Dragon Mountain with Qi Ning and Lan Man.
• Qi Ning said Wan Jun and the others had vanished and suspected Gongsun Yuanzhou, so the Dark Star group headed east toward Changhe Prefecture.
• As they traveled, Lin Sheng considered how his rising physical strength affected his combat talents and continued cultivating True Yang Transformation.
• Lan Man caught Lin Sheng's scent, found it unusually alluring, and hurried away after pretending she had been chasing a mosquito.
• After two days of travel, Qi Ning said the group would reach Changhe Prefecture the next day and identified the arriving Sky Rainbow Pavilion elder as Xiang Kong, the Three-Eyed Rakshasa, a Void Transformation Grandmaster.

Lin Sheng and Qi Ning’s group continued through the forest while Lin Sheng tested the Blood Summoning Treasure Pill on Little Black and Da Huang. Da Huang evolved into a Spirit Beast, but the group realized Red Dog and two Hidden Star Emissaries had not returned, and Lin Sheng sensed danger.

• Qi Ning warned Lin Sheng that the Imperial Court might kill him if it learned of his exceptional talent, and the group resumed traveling through the forest.
• Red Dog and two Hidden Star Emissaries left the resting group to hunt a Scorpion-tailed Red Wolf.
• Lin Sheng gave medicinal powder from the Blood Summoning Treasure Pill to Little Black and Da Huang, strengthening Little Black and triggering Da Huang’s evolution into a Spirit Beast.
• Lin Sheng read Da Huang’s new information, discovered his Evasion talent, and entered his body to test it.
• When Red Dog and the others failed to return, Lin Sheng activated his perception and Evasion talent, and needle-like pain erupted across his skin.

Lin Sheng lured Gongsun Yuanzhou away to protect Dark Star, while a powerful monk incapacitated Qi Ning, Lan Man, and the others. The monk, Xiang Kong, revealed that Gongsun Yuanzhou was part of his experiments and pursued Lin Sheng to study his dragon bloodline.

• Lin Sheng sensed danger too late as Gongsun Yuanzhou's tentacles erupted from the ground and killed more than ten Dark Star members.
• Lin Sheng used his Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon power to protect Little Black and Da Huang, then lured Gongsun Yuanzhou away while Qi Ning and Lan Man cleared the remaining tentacles.
• A young monk appeared and immobilized Qi Ning, Lan Man, and the other Dark Star members with his spiritual power.
• Lu Chuan arrived and learned that the monk was Xiang Kong, a Sky Rainbow Pavilion Elder, who ordered him to keep the captives alive as test materials.
• Xiang Kong explained that Gongsun Yuanzhou's demon blood was making him lose control and said he would let Gongsun Yuanzhou attack Lin Sheng to investigate his powerful dragon bloodline.
• Xiang Kong offered Lu Chuan a place in Sky Rainbow Pavilion, then left to pursue Gongsun Yuanzhou.

Lin Sheng fled Gongsun Yuanzhou toward Changhe Prefecture, but the Three-Eyed Rakshasa Xiang Kong appeared and captured Gongsun Yuanzhou with ease. After Xiang Kong identified Lin Sheng as a demon-blooded Ancestor Awakener and declared he would kill him, Lin Sheng tried to escape underground, only for Xiang Kong to drag him back toward the surface.

• Lin Sheng fought off Gongsun Yuanzhou's tentacles and escaped his closing flesh walls by diving underground, where Dragon Flame slowed but could not destroy Gongsun Yuanzhou's black fluid.
• Lin Sheng fled toward Changhe Prefecture, hoping Dark Star or Imperial Court experts would deal with Gongsun Yuanzhou, and activated Da Huang and the Three-eyed Spirit Monkey to heighten his perception.
• A young monk appeared ahead of Lin Sheng, whose Evasion and Heart Ape talents warned him of overwhelming danger.
• The monk seized Gongsun Yuanzhou's black fluid and revealed himself as Sky Rainbow Pavilion elder Xiang Kong, the Three-Eyed Rakshasa and a Void Transformation Grandmaster.
• Xiang Kong recognized Lin Sheng's dragon and demon bloodlines and said he would not spare his life; Lin Sheng used an Earth-Traveling Technique to flee underground.
• Xiang Kong pressed his palm to the ground, shaking the soil and carrying the fleeing Lin Sheng back toward the surface.

Lin Sheng fought to escape Xiang Kong, a Void Transformation Grandmaster, but was captured and badly injured before he could turn the tables. Divine Lord Li intervened, drove Xiang Kong away, and appeared beside Lin Sheng as the chapter ended.

• Lin Sheng used his strength and Evasion Talent to dodge Xiang Kong’s attacks underground, but Xiang Kong trapped him in giant mud hands and brought him to the surface.
• Lin Sheng pretended to surrender, then attacked Xiang Kong with flames and a powerful strike, but Xiang Kong remained unharmed and crippled Lin Sheng with his Lion Lock.
• Lin Sheng’s regeneration restored his chest, and he resisted Xiang Kong again, using Dragon Roar and striking him hard enough to tear his robe.
• Divine Lord Li appeared and severed Xiang Kong’s attack, then shattered Xiang Kong’s giant earthen hands in a clash that left Lin Sheng unharmed.
• Xiang Kong fled after Divine Lord Li defeated him, and the green-robed elder appeared beside Lin Sheng.

Lin Sheng survived Divine Lord Li’s test by burning Gongsun Yuanzhou’s black slime and was accepted as Li’s disciple. Meanwhile, Xiang Kong returned to Lu Chuan and the captives in a battered state, ordered an immediate retreat, and abandoned them.

• Divine Lord Li recognized Lin Sheng’s Heavenly Snake Bone Changing and offered to accept him as a disciple if he killed Gongsun Yuanzhou.
• Lin Sheng fought Gongsun Yuanzhou’s regenerating black slime, endured its tentacles, and burned it down with Dragon Flame.
• Divine Lord Li stopped the fight, declared Lin Sheng his disciple, gave him a Heavenly Gang Pill, and took him away.
• Lu Chuan told Qi Ning that her connection to Luo Yin could draw Luo Yin out while Qi Ning struggled unsuccessfully against her restraints.
• Xiang Kong returned disheveled with a small mass of black slime, ordered Lu Chuan to leave, and vanished with him without taking the captives.

Divine Lord Li rescued Lin Sheng and accepted him as his disciple, passing down the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture and a secret art to prepare him to cultivate it. As the Dark Star group reached Changhe Prefecture, Lin Sheng learned the technique carried dangerous risks and began considering the ancient beasts tied to the region’s legends.

• Divine Lord Li freed the Dark Star members, stopped Xiang Kong, recognized Lin Sheng as his disciple, and passed him Bone Dissipation and a black jade slip containing a cultivation method.
• Divine Lord Li warned Qi Ning and Lan Man that Xiang Kong might return, then advised them to travel to Changhe Prefecture before vanishing.
• Lin Sheng studied the jade slip while the group traveled and discovered it contained the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture, a Profound Technique that required him to dissolve his cultivation first.
• Qi Ning explained that the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture was dangerous and that Divine Envoy Li’s worsening mental state had begun after a cultivation failure fifty years earlier.
• Lan Man told Lin Sheng that becoming Divine Envoy Li’s disciple raised his status and resources within Dark Star, and Qi Ning described Changhe Prefecture and the Black Whale River.
• Lin Sheng heard the legend of the Black Whisker Dragon Whale and wondered whether it was a powerful ancient beast like the one beneath Black Mist Valley.

After arriving in Changhe Prefecture, Lin Sheng worked to improve his Bone Dissipation cultivation and learned that the Spirit Bone Python could greatly help him. He posted a generous reward to find one, while a pair of customers seeking unusual medicinal herbs entered Guiyuan Pavilion in Fulong City.

• Water Ape welcomed Qi Ning, Lan Man, Lin Sheng, and the surviving Dark Star members to Changhe Prefecture, where Lin Sheng was introduced as a new Blazing Star Emissary and Divine Monarch's disciple.
• Lin Sheng spent three days cultivating Bone Dissipation, using twenty Bone Dissolving Pills but making only an initial breakthrough.
• Water Ape told Lin Sheng that Divine Monarch had created the Bone Dissipation secret art and that Spirit Bone Python was the main ingredient in Bone Dissolving Pills.
• Lin Sheng found a record of the rare Spirit Bone Python and offered seven thousand merit points for one captured alive, plus one thousand for confirmed location information.
• In Fulong City, a sallow-faced man requested several unusual medicinal herbs at Guiyuan Pavilion, and the shopkeeper led him and his servant inside.

Luo Yin welcomed Qi Ning and heard her report on Sky Rainbow Pavilion’s growing beastification experiments and Ghost Face’s exceptional talent. Meanwhile, Gong Wei grew curious and dissatisfied about the new seed genius, while Lin Sheng continued training in seclusion at Yong'an County and sought information on Spirit Bone Pythons.

• Gong Wei perfected the Rampaging Tiger Soul Scattering Fist, and Luo Yin agreed to teach him the Mad Tiger Swallowing Elephant Technique the next day.
• Qi Ning arrived at Guiyuan Hall, where she told Luo Yin that the Divine Lord had driven off Xiang Kong, captured Gongsun Yuanzhou, and uncovered Sky Rainbow Pavilion’s increasingly powerful beastification research.
• Qi Ning described Ghost Face’s talent and progress with Heavenly Snake Bone Changing, prompting Gong Wei to ask Ye Qing to investigate him.
• After a banquet, Gong Wei trained in his courtyard and asked Ye Qing to find information about the new seed genius, whom he viewed with curiosity and dissatisfaction.
• Lin Sheng continued cultivating at the Yong'an base, making slow progress in Heavenly Snake Bone Changing and True Yang Transformation while hoping to locate a Spirit Bone Python.
• Lin Sheng visited Lin Hong, Xie Guilan, and the others, who had recently arrived in Changhe Prefecture, and relied on the relocated Seven Forms Sect members to help search for Spirit Bone Pythons.

Lin Sheng received two exotic beasts and gained a spirit boost by assimilating the Three-Colored Mother Bird, then nurtured Da Huang until it also developed a spirit boost. When he learned that a Spirit Bone Python King had been found, he discovered that Mad Tiger had outbid him for it and was Lord Luo Yin's disciple and one of the organization's seeds.

• Gou Donglai reported that a demon beast had entered the Congyun Mountain Range and that the Three-Colored Mother Bird and Four-Winged Dove were on their way to Lin Sheng.
• Lin Sheng found the Four-Winged Dove's attributes disappointing, but assimilated the Three-Colored Mother Bird and gained perception, spirit, and the Mind Disturbance talent.
• Lin Sheng fed Da Huang powder from the Blood Summoning Treasure Pill, and Da Huang developed a spirit boost and brighter green-tinged eyes.
• Lin Sheng received a message and went to the Dark Star base, where he learned that a Blazing Star Emissary had found a high-level Spirit Bone Python King but canceled the commission.
• Lin Sheng spotted Mad Tiger's higher-priced private commission and learned that Mad Tiger was Lord Luo Yin's disciple and one of the organization's seeds.

Lin Sheng learned that Mad Tiger had twice acquired the Spirit Bone Python ahead of him, received a challenge to come to Fulong City, and set out to meet him. The chapter ended with Gong Wei, who was Mad Tiger, training in Fulong City and explaining that he wanted to test whether Lin Sheng deserved the organization’s support.

• Lin Sheng suspected Mad Tiger had deliberately beaten him to two Spirit Bone Pythons and continued cultivating his secret arts while waiting for another chance.
• Red Fox delivered Lin Sheng a letter from Mad Tiger and warned him that Mad Tiger was Luo Yin’s favored disciple and that Lin Sheng should be cautious.
• Lin Sheng read Mad Tiger’s challenge to come to Fulong City for the Spirit Bone Python, crushed the letter, and left Yong'an the next day.
• Gong Wei trained in a blood-filled pond, demonstrated his growing strength to Ye Qing, and said he wanted to test Lin Sheng’s qualifications.