Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng evaded Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain’s search parties in the Azure Snake Domain, but Su Zhe tracked him down and pursued him. Lin Sheng injured Su Zhe’s Five-Colored Toad, forcing Su Zhe to flee, and then prepared to escape the region.

• Lin Sheng used flesh aura to lure an Eerie Beast away from Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain’s search team and slipped past them.
• Lin Sheng learned from a slain disciple that he was in an uncleared region of the Azure Snake Domain, then evaded more search parties and escaped a plant-type Eerie Beast.
• Lin Sheng disguised himself as a Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain captain to deceive Shi Hang’s search party, but Su Zhe tracked him using the Five-Colored Toad.
• Su Zhe attacked Lin Sheng, who fled through the forest while dodging poisonous nets, spikes, and venomous force.
• When the Five-Colored Toad lunged at him, Lin Sheng struck it with a hand strengthened by flesh origin power, badly injuring it.
• Su Zhe fled with the weakened Five-Colored Toad, and Lin Sheng restored his dissolving hand and chose to leave rather than pursue them.

Su Zhe reported Lin Sheng’s rare flesh-origin power to the Mountain Lord and ordered the Black Spider Branch Hall to hunt him down. Injured and fleeing the forest, Lin Sheng discovered a murdered sect disciple and learned through his memories that a fellow disciple had betrayed him for credit.

• Su Zhe ordered the Black Spider Branch Hall to search for Lin Sheng and set up the Ten Thousand Poisons Heavenly Net, then contacted the Mountain Lord, who promised to send reinforcements.
• Lin Sheng escaped Bone-Rotting Forest with his origins badly damaged and sought somewhere to recover.
• Along and Ahu fought an Odd-Eyed Leopard, and Along used a secret blood art to hold it while Ahu attacked him from behind.
• Ahu let the leopard kill Along, killed the beast, took its eyes and searched Along’s clothes before leaving.
• Lin Sheng found Along’s corpse and used erosion spirit power to read its memories, learning that Ahu had betrayed his fellow disciple over the Odd-Eyed Leopard’s credit.

Lin Sheng assumed Chen Long’s identity and entered Bitter Profound City, where he saw the grim divide between starving commoners and the privileged cultivators. He reached the Crimson Blood Sect and began healing in seclusion, but Zhao Hu learned he was alive and was ordered by Wang Yi to finish the job.

• Lin Sheng transformed himself to look and sound like Chen Long, then headed for the Crimson Blood Sect to hide and recover.
• Lin Sheng entered Bitter Profound City and saw villagers risk death for Divine Soup made from mutated eerie-beast flesh.
• Lin Sheng used Chen Long’s identification token to pass into the Inner City and reached the Crimson Blood Sect, where the gatekeepers learned he had survived Zhao Hu’s mission.
• Lin Sheng claimed he had only been injured, entered his courtyard, posted a sign announcing secluded healing, and set up isolation magic arrays.
• Zhao Hu took the Bloodthirst Pill to Wang Yi and claimed he had killed Chen Long, but another disciple reported Chen Long’s return.
• Wang Yi ordered Zhao Hu to kill Chen Long again, and Zhao Hu hurried away to carry out the order.

Naka returned to the Inferno Divine Temple grievously wounded after Lin Sheng’s attack and removed the Dark Teal Longsword, though his cultivation fell to the threshold of the Second Realm. He merged with his Incarnation Prison Demon to recover, then vowed revenge on Lin Sheng, Simo, and the Fallen Spirit Church.

• Naka pulled the Dark Teal Longsword from his chest, and the blade shattered as he suppressed its remaining destructive power.
• Naka’s cultivation fell from the peak of the Second Realm to its threshold while his injuries disrupted his plans.
• Prison Demon arrived and revealed himself as one of Naka’s Incarnations.
• Naka ordered Prison Demon to merge with him, and their union healed his wound and restored his cultivation to just below the peak of the Second Realm.
• Naka named Lin Sheng, Simo, and the Fallen Spirit Church as targets of his revenge.

Lin Sheng fully recovered from his physical injuries, stopped Zhao Hu’s attempt to poison him, and discovered that Wang Yi had arranged Chen Long’s death for a high-paying client. He confronted Wang Yi and demanded to know who wanted him dead, leaving Wang Yi choking in his grip.

• Zhao Hu watched Chen Long’s courtyard, resolved to kill him with the Odd-Eyed Leopard’s venom, and later slipped inside to release poisonous incense.
• Lin Sheng revealed his true identity and overwhelming strength, knocked Zhao Hu unconscious with erosion spirit power, and finished healing his physical injuries.
• Lin Sheng examined Zhao Hu’s memories and learned that Wang Yi stood behind the plot against Chen Long.
• Wang Yi told Skinny Monkey that Zhao Hu was merely a disposable tool and that someone had paid a high price for Chen Long’s life.
• Lin Sheng smashed into Wang Yi’s residence, shattered his attack, seized him by the throat, and demanded to know who had hired the killer.

Lin Sheng killed Wang Yi after learning an unknown figure had hired him to arrange Chen Long’s death, then absorbed the Soul-Severing Pill and killed Wang Yi’s father, He Kun, with Inferno Black Flame. The Crimson Blood Sect’s sect master, He Cang, and several elders arrived at the courtyard.

• Lin Sheng confirmed through Wang Yi’s memories that a hooded stranger had hired him at the Black Spider Tavern, then killed him and erased his body with Inferno Black Flame.
• Lin Sheng knocked Wang Yi’s slave women unconscious and made them forget the night, then decided to keep Chen Long’s identity and swallowed the Soul-Severing Pill.
• Wang Kun arrived after sensing Wang Yi’s life-bound Jade Token shatter and attacked Lin Sheng with a blood-aura palm strike.
• Lin Sheng’s Inferno Black Flame destroyed Wang Kun’s shield and consumed him, leaving only ash.
• He Cang and several Crimson Blood Sect elders flew over the courtyard and fixed their attention on Lin Sheng.

Lin Sheng broke the Crimson Blood Sect’s grand array, killed its sect master, and took control of the sect. After inspecting its assets and treasury, he gathered medicines that could help heal his true spirit and prepared to recover his strength.

• He Cang ambushed Lin Sheng with the Crimson Blood God-Burning Array, but Lin Sheng shattered it with his physique and killed He Cang with one blow.
• The three surviving elders submitted to Lin Sheng, who claimed the Crimson Blood Sect master’s throne and ordered He Tu to report the sect’s assets.
• He Tu explained that the sect owned villages whose residents were treated as Human Fields and fed Divine Soup supplied by the Fallen Spirit Church and the Withered Bone Cathedral.
• Lin Sheng entered the treasury, collected soul-related materials and pills, and burned away the barrier sealing He Cang’s private collection.
• Lin Sheng claimed the Soul-Concentrating Jade Elixir, Soul-Gathering Pills, and Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture, then ordered the elders to manage the sect as before while he focused on healing his true spirit.

Lin Sheng partially healed his true spirit, studied the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture, and rapidly cultivated it using the Crimson Blood Sect’s stored blood energy. After reaching the erosion martial third realm, he learned the Black Spider Tavern was backed by the powerful Three-One Church and agreed to attend the city’s gathering in three days.

• Lin Sheng spent seven days refining divine soul medicines, partially healing his true spirit and strengthening his inferno rules.
• Lin Sheng studied the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture and concluded that it relied on plunder and sacrifice, then planned to use the sect’s resources while seeking a way back to Sunstar.
• Lin Sheng cultivated in the Blood Baleful Hall, using flesh control to refine He Cang’s blood pool and reach the erosion martial third realm in seven days.
• Lin Sheng learned from He Tu that the Black Spider Tavern was backed by the Three-One Church and ordered an investigation into whether its rumored desolate-tier founder still posed a threat.
• Lin Sheng accepted the City Lord’s Residence invitation to attend the major powers’ gathering in three days.

Lin Sheng attended a banquet at the City Lord's Residence and faced public provocation from Li Kui, leader of the Hungry Ghost Gang. Rather than let their subordinates spar, Lin Sheng challenged Li Kui directly, and Li Kui accepted.

• He Tu explained Bitter Profound City's power structure and warned Lin Sheng about the Hungry Ghost Gang's longstanding rivalry with the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Lin Sheng and He Tu entered the City Lord's Residence and took their place at the banquet hosted by City Lord Wei Xuan.
• Li Kui insulted Lin Sheng and proposed a spar between a Hungry Ghost Gang fighter and He Tu.
• Lin Sheng stopped He Tu from volunteering and challenged Li Kui himself.
• Li Kui accepted Lin Sheng's challenge, leaving the hall silent.

Lin Sheng defeated Li Kui and two Hungry Ghost Gang members at the City Lord’s banquet, then took control of the gang’s territory and treasury. After using its divine soul resources to heal, he recovered forty percent of his true spirit injuries and regained faint access to two rules.

• Lin Sheng crushed Li Kui in a duel, killed two of his followers, and secured the Hungry Ghost Gang’s territory with Wei Xuan’s approval.
• Lin Sheng and He Tu went to the Hungry Ghost Gang headquarters, where Lin Sheng killed Li Gu despite the protective formation boosting his strength.
• Wang Guiliang surrendered, and the remaining Hungry Ghost Gang members followed as Lin Sheng took charge of their headquarters.
• Lin Sheng opened the treasury, collected its divine soul resources, and took the Hungry Ghost Withered Bone Scripture.
• Lin Sheng spent seven days refining the resources and healed forty percent of his true spirit injuries, recovering faint access to the molten form and erosion spirit rules.

Lin Sheng cultivated the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture in the Blood Pool and broke through to the Lower Demigod Realm. His true spirit injuries recovered to sixty percent, leaving him closer to full recovery.

• He Tu reported the merged sect's disciples, resources, and income, while Wang Guiliang described the Human Fields and the resources gathered for the Blood Pool.
• Lin Sheng learned that the Blood Pool was stocked with blood from 130 Eerie Beasts and decided to enter secluded cultivation.
• Lin Sheng used the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture to absorb the Blood Pool's energy and advanced through the Erosion Martial Realms.
• After half a month, Lin Sheng broke through the barrier into the Demigod Realm as the Blood Pool ran dry.
• Lin Sheng emerged from the Blood Baleful Hall, assessed his improved attributes, and found that his true spirit had recovered to sixty percent.

Lin Sheng investigated the hired killing of Chen Long at Black Spider Tavern but found no useful clues, then entered secluded cultivation and advanced to the peak of lower demigod. While he was away, Ghost Luo Mountain incited five second-rate forces to attack the Crimson Ghost Sect, and Lin Sheng emerged as the sect faced escalating losses.

• Lin Sheng searched the Black Spider Tavern shopkeeper's and patrons' memories but found no connection to Wang Yi or the hired killing, then returned to the Crimson Blood Sect to cultivate in the Blood Pool.
• Lin Sheng instructed He Tu to manage the sect's businesses and human fields while he healed his true spirit and advanced his cultivation.
• Five second-rate forces attacked the Crimson Blood Sect's businesses and disciples, and He Tu traced their coordination to Ghost Luo Mountain.
• He Tu sought help from the City Lord's Residence, but its steward offered no support, while Wang Guiliang privately considered an escape route.
• The attacks escalated as the Black Baleful Society seized the sect's shop and attackers burned a herb field and killed its seven guards.
• As He Tu prepared to interrupt Lin Sheng's seclusion, a pillar of blood-red light erupted from the Blood Baleful Hall, and Lin Sheng emerged at the peak of lower demigod with his true spirit injuries seventy percent healed.

After emerging from secluded cultivation, Lin Sheng learned that the Black Baleful Society and other factions had attacked the Crimson Blood Sect and killed thirty-five disciples. He stormed the Black Baleful Society’s headquarters, killed Black Baleful with one strike, and trapped the gathered faction leaders as they tried to flee.

• He Tu and Wang Guiliang told Lin Sheng about the attacks, the burned herb fields, and the deaths of thirty-five disciples.
• Lin Sheng ordered He Tu to lead him to the Black Baleful Society, while Wang Guiliang watched them with an unusual glint in his eyes.
• At the Black Baleful Society’s headquarters, Black Baleful and the other faction leaders planned to attack the Crimson Blood Sect the next day.
• Lin Sheng blasted open the headquarters and killed Black Baleful with a single Blood Baleful Palm Print.
• The faction leaders tried to escape, but Lin Sheng formed a blood-colored net that trapped and bound them.

Lin Sheng wiped out five factions and expanded the Crimson Blood Sect’s power, then gathered divine soul resources to heal his injuries. As he began secluded cultivation, Wang Guiliang secretly betrayed the sect, immobilized He Tu, and prepared to aid Ghost Luo Mountain.

• Lin Sheng killed the leaders of five factions and led He Tu and Wang Guiliang in crushing their remaining forces, taking control of much of West City.
• News of the factions’ destruction spread, and Ghost Luo Mountain’s Second Elder sent a letter to the Three-One Church and the Evil Life Sect while Wei Xuan chose not to intervene.
• He Tu reported the Crimson Blood Sect’s new territory, personnel, and divine soul resources, and Lin Sheng ordered the sect to keep acquiring resources before entering secluded cultivation.
• Wang Guiliang offered He Tu a Soul-Stimulating Pill, then used the Soul-Eroding Ghost Seed to immobilize him when he refused to interrupt Lin Sheng’s cultivation.
• Wang Guiliang revealed that Ghost Luo Mountain’s Second Elder had promised him control of western Bitter Profound City, took the key to the Blood Baleful Hall’s restrictions, and left He Tu trapped in the dark.

Lin Sheng exposed and killed Wang Guiliang for bringing him a poisoned Soul-Stimulating Pill on Ghost Luo Mountain’s behalf. He then appeared before three peak demigods from Ghost Luo Mountain and the Evil Life Sect as they prepared to attack the Crimson Blood Sect.

• Wang Guiliang entered the Blood Baleful Hall and presented Lin Sheng with a Soul-Stimulating Pill, claiming He Tu had sent it.
• Lin Sheng confronted Wang Guiliang about Ghost Luo Mountain, then killed him and destroyed the poisoned pill.
• Lin Sheng learned that Ghost Luo Mountain and the Evil Life Sect had joined forces to attack the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Second Elder Ghost Mountain, Evil Lotus, and Ghost Luo Mountain’s Third Elder waited to strike Lin Sheng after one incense stick’s time.
• Lin Sheng appeared on a nearby building and asked the three elders whether they were waiting for him.

Lin Sheng killed Evil Lotus, Ghost Mountain, and the Third Elder after they attacked the Crimson Blood Sect, then ordered He Tu to investigate former Hungry Ghost Gang members and watch the two factions. After Ghost Luo vowed revenge for his elders, Lin Sheng arrived at Ghost Luo Mountain and confronted its master, Gui Luo.

• Lin Sheng killed Evil Lotus with one palm strike, then pursued and killed Ghost Mountain and the Third Elder as they fled.
• Lin Sheng revived He Tu, told him Wang Guiliang and the attackers had been dealt with, and ordered an investigation of former Hungry Ghost Gang members and surveillance of Ghost Luo Mountain and the Evil Life Sect.
• Gui Luo learned that Ghost Mountain and Ghost Sea had died and decided to capture Lin Sheng and make him a mountain-guard puppet.
• Lin Sheng broke through the roof of Ghost Luo Mountain's council hall and exchanged attacks with Gui Luo, then called him stronger than the two elders he had killed.

Lin Sheng defeated Gui Luo by revealing his giant form and Inferno authority, then captured him alive. Wei Xuan and a mysterious old man watched from the clouds and showed interest in Lin Sheng’s hidden power.

• Gui Luo attacked Lin Sheng and overpowered him with ghost claws, forcing Lin Sheng onto the defensive.
• Lin Sheng transformed into a towering demon-god figure, revealing Inferno Black Flame and a trace of Inferno authority.
• Gui Luo summoned his Dharma Body, but Lin Sheng’s Inferno Black Flame destroyed it and injured Gui Luo’s divine soul.
• Lin Sheng seized Gui Luo and rendered him unconscious, intending to use him in the Blood Pool.
• Wei Xuan and a black-robed old man watched from above, and Wei Xuan dismissed concerns about Ghost Luo Mountain’s fate while expressing interest in Lin Sheng.

Lin Sheng looted Ghost Luo Mountain, dissolved Gui Luo in the Crimson Blood Sect’s Blood Pool, and prepared to attack the Evil Life Sect before Wei Xuan revealed his strength and the truth about Chen Long’s bloodline. Faced with Wei Xuan and another Wasteland Martial Being, Lin Sheng agreed to join the Withered Bone Cathedral’s Demonic Body Lineage.

• Lin Sheng forced Gui Ri and the others to lead him to Ghost Luo Mountain’s treasury, then took its most valuable resources and manuals.
• Lin Sheng returned to the Crimson Blood Sect and threw Gui Luo into the Blood Pool, where his body dissolved and strengthened the pool.
• As Lin Sheng set out to attack the Evil Life Sect, Wei Xuan struck him with inferno origin power, then revealed himself as the City Lord of Bitter Profound City.
• Wei Xuan presented the severed head of the Evil Life Sect’s sect master and explained that Chen Long descended from the Withered Bone Cathedral’s Demonic Body Lineage, whose bloodline had been awakened through a deadly tribulation.
• Wei Xuan offered Lin Sheng a place in the Demonic Body Lineage but threatened to reclaim his bloodline if he refused; after another Wasteland Martial Being arrived, Lin Sheng agreed to join.

After recovering his injuries, Lin Sheng met Wei Xuan and demonstrated a supreme-grade physique and inferno aptitude, impressing the Demonic Body Lineage leader. He began cultivating the Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture, which rapidly consumed his Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture, but its domineering inferno power conflicted with his other cultivation method.

• Wei Xuan ordered Lin Sheng to meet him in seven days, and Lin Sheng spent that time healing and advancing the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture to the Mid-Rank Demigod realm.
• Iron Mountain escorted Lin Sheng to Wei Xuan, who tested his True Spirit and physique and declared his physique supreme-grade.
• Lin Sheng unleashed his inferno power, and Wei Xuan identified his inferno aptitude as supreme-grade too before arranging for him to receive the Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture.
• Wei Xuan explained that Lin Sheng could refine his previous cultivation into the Demonic Body method, and Lin Sheng began practicing it.
• Lin Sheng’s Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture reached the erosion martial second realm as it consumed the Crimson Blood Treasure Scripture, while its inferno power began to conflict with his other method.

Lin Sheng refined his Inferno Power with the Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture and advanced toward the third limit break. After Wan Chen mistakenly suspected him of being a runaway disciple, Lin Sheng sparred with Iron Mountain, who revealed his Twin-Headed Demonic Body and attacked.

• Lin Sheng found that the Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture suited him and converted a small portion of his Wheel Sutra essence into Demonic Body Inferno Power.
• Wan Chen questioned Wei Xuan about the new Crimson Blood Sect master, but Wei Xuan warned him that Lin Sheng belonged to the Demonic Body Lineage and was destined to become his senior sister's personal disciple.
• Wan Chen struck Su Zhe for sending him to confront Wei Xuan on mistaken intelligence, then ordered him to continue searching for the fugitive.
• Lin Sheng trained until his Demonic Body Bone-Tempering Scripture neared the third limit break, then met Iron Mountain in the Combat Arena.
• Lin Sheng matched Iron Mountain's punches and proved too strong for him to overcome in their normal states.
• Iron Mountain transformed into his Twin-Headed Demonic Body and charged Lin Sheng with all four fists.