Chapter Summaries

After leaving Burial God Abyss with the Earth Origin Pearl, Lin Baichuan used its power to destroy the Demon and Monster Races’ hidden General-level forces. He showed signs of backlash, leaving onlookers to wonder whether he could withstand the pearl’s power.

• Demon and Monster Race powerhouses watched Burial God Abyss, hoping to seize an opportunity after Lin Baichuan emerged with the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Lin Baichuan sensed those spying on him and severed their spiritual thoughts, then crushed the hidden demons and monsters with the power of the Underground Abyss.
• The surviving Demon and Monster Race powerhouses tried to flee, but Lin Baichuan summoned a giant palm of heaven-and-earth power to trap and attack them.
• The demon and monster powerhouses used a blood sacrifice technique to fight back, but Lin Baichuan’s palm erased their attacks and annihilated all fifteen General-level Demon powerhouses.
• Lin Baichuan showed signs of backlash after the attack, and some onlookers became hopeful as they noticed his pale face and the blood at his mouth.

After Lin Baichuan defeated fifteen General-level Demons, sixteen human Divine Ability Realm powerhouses arrived and demanded that he surrender the Earth Origin Pearl. When the Eleventh Commander tried to silence Lin Baichuan’s squad, Lin Baichuan struck back and wounded him.

• Lin Baichuan received over twenty-one thousand Merit Points for killing fifteen General-level Demons and decided to delay his breakthrough while waiting for a more valuable target.
• Tie Zhan warned Lin Baichuan that someone seemed to be watching them, but Lin Baichuan spotted sixteen Divine Ability Realm powerhouses approaching.
• The Eleventh Commander offered Lin Baichuan ten million Contribution Points and demanded the Earth Origin Pearl, prompting the surrounding onlookers to retreat.
• Tie Zhan, Meng Zikun, Hou Wanshan, and the other Mystic Battle Squad members defended Lin Baichuan’s right to keep his spoils of war.
• The Eleventh Commander tried to suppress the squad, but Lin Baichuan countered his pressure and made him spit blood and stagger backward.

At Burial God Abyss, Lin Baichuan intimidated the Eleventh Commander and faced Wan Tianchou of the Beichen Merchant Association and a Great Yi Sect expert who planned to sever his bond with the Earth Origin Pearl. The Great Yi Sect expert attacked with the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Secrets, while Lin Baichuan waited to see who else would reveal themselves.

• Lin Baichuan threatened the wounded Eleventh Commander, who fell silent rather than challenge him.
• Wan Tianchou confronted Lin Baichuan, and Tie Zhan identified him as the Beichen Merchant Association’s chief representative in the Underground Abyss.
• A Great Yi Sect expert joined Wan Tianchou and claimed his sect could isolate the Earth Origin Pearl’s power.
• Cloud Ghost Hand used the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Secrets to form a suppressing net around Lin Baichuan, prompting onlookers to fear that it could sever his connection to the pearl.

Lin Baichuan revealed that he had fully refined the Earth Origin Pearl and killed a Great Yi Sect Divine Ability Realm expert who tried to seize it. He then killed Wan Tianchou with heavenly thunder, leaving everyone in the Underground Abyss terrified of his power.

• The Great Yi Sect expert trapped Lin Baichuan with the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Secrets and tried to forcibly extract the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Lin Baichuan's calm response revealed that he had already fully refined the Earth Origin Pearl, and the Great Yi Sect expert's technique failed.
• Lin Baichuan killed the Great Yi Sect expert with a single burst of Blade Qi.
• Wan Tianchou fled, but Lin Baichuan summoned heavenly thunder that killed him from dozens of miles away.
• Those gathered around the Burial God Abyss reacted with fear and discussed Lin Baichuan's new control over the Underground Abyss.

Lin Baichuan rejected the Eleventh Commander’s attempt to back down over the Earth Origin Pearl and killed him with a single palm. The surviving cultivators were left stunned by his willingness to kill a Demon Suppression Army commander.

• Lin Baichuan turned his attention to the fourteen remaining Divine Ability Realm experts after killing two of their number.
• The Eleventh Commander withdrew his demand for the Earth Origin Pearl and asked Lin Baichuan to let the matter end.
• Lin Baichuan accused the Eleventh Commander of planning to attack him after they left the Underground Abyss and refused to spare him.
• Lin Baichuan struck with a palm that shattered the Eleventh Commander’s mana shield and crushed his body.
• The witnesses stared at Lin Baichuan in shock, calling him a madman for killing a Demon Suppression Army commander.

After killing the Eleventh Commander, Lin Baichuan took command of the Underground Abyss and ordered the Demon Suppression Army to prepare for a campaign to conquer it. As he studied the Earth Origin Pearl, Seventh Commander Xue Ningshuang arrived to speak with him, and Lin Baichuan saw through her concealed cultivation.

• Lin Baichuan intimidated the commanders and declared that he would lead the Underground Abyss, ordering the army to begin its campaign in seven days.
• The Demon Suppression Army returned to its garrison, and Lin Baichuan entered seclusion to study the Earth Origin Pearl while awaiting the Demon Suppression Division's response.
• News of Lin Baichuan's control over the Underground Abyss spread, and he lifted the restrictions on entering and leaving it.
• Xue Ningshuang arrived at Lin Baichuan's courtyard, and he recognized her from their earlier encounter in Cangwu County.
• Tie Zhan told Lin Baichuan that Xue Ningshuang was the Seventh Commander and said she had reached the Divine Ability Third Layer, but Lin Baichuan discerned that she was near the Divine Ability Sixth Layer.
• Xue Ningshuang asked to speak with Lin Baichuan alone, and he sent Tie Zhan and the others to the Treasures Pavilion.

Xue Ningshuang informed Lin Baichuan of his promotion and the Demon Suppression Division’s urgent plans for the Underground Abyss. Lin Baichuan learned that the Abyss was one of hundreds of thousands of Yellow-grade passages, as the story left him preparing to deal with the assigned campaign and an impending counteroffensive.

• Xue Ningshuang warned Lin Baichuan that powerful factions wanted him punished or dead after he killed the Eleventh Commander, and Lin Baichuan vowed to stay in the Underground Abyss and strike at his enemies.
• Xue Ningshuang delivered Lin Baichuan’s appointment as a three-star commandant and Director of the Yellow-grade Underground Abyss branch, but confirmed the promotion came with no tangible benefits or authority over military affairs.
• Xue Ningshuang told Lin Baichuan that he was tasked with occupying the entire Underground Abyss within a month and building a fortress for a counteroffensive into the Demon Realm.
• Lin Baichuan suspected trouble in other Underground Abysses and asked about their grades and numbering.
• Xue Ningshuang explained that the Underground Abysses were passage planes linking worlds of the Alien Races and that the Great Xia Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of Yellow-grade Abysses.

Lin Baichuan negotiated with Xue Ningshuang over his role in the Demon World counteroffensive and demanded autonomy over the Underground Abyss. After the Great Yi Sect and Beichen Marquisate evaded his retaliation, he ordered a Demon Suppression Division branch established and began recruiting.

• Lin Baichuan deduced that the higher-ups planned to use his army as a diversion to relieve pressure on other Underground Abyss passages, while Xue Ningshuang warned him she would not be manipulated.
• Lin Baichuan offered to eliminate all Demon and Monster Races above the fourth rank and build a city if the higher-ups supplied the materials and granted him autonomy and tax exemption.
• Xue Ningshuang agreed to report Lin Baichuan's demands, then left his courtyard.
• Lin Baichuan ordered Tie Zhan to raid the Great Yi Sect's and Beichen Marquisate's assets, but their leaders had already fled and their businesses had been emptied.
• Lin Baichuan ordered the creation of a Demon Suppression Division branch, appointed Tie Zhan Deputy Division Chief, and directed him to recruit soldiers and trustworthy Rogue Cultivators.

Lin Baichuan built a ten-thousand-person Demon Suppression Division branch in the Underground Abyss while advancing his cultivation and Blade Domain to the limit he could reach without entering the Divine Ability Realm. He ordered Tie Zhan to stop recruiting and train the force, while continuing to wait for his intended enemies to take the bait.

• Lin Baichuan’s branch poached several thousand Demon Suppression Army elites and recruited thousands of Rogue Cultivators, forming an army of ten thousand and angering the army’s commanders.
• Lin Baichuan stayed in seclusion for several days, raising his techniques and skills and advancing his Blade Domain to 30%, but stopped short of breaking through to the Divine Ability Realm.
• With no word from Xue Ningshuang about his proposal, Lin Baichuan decided to act first and left his cultivation chamber.
• Tie Zhan reported that the branch had ten thousand people and advised Lin Baichuan to stop recruiting because their poaching had made enemies.
• Lin Baichuan ordered Tie Zhan and the Mystic Battle Squad to focus on training the new force and to scrutinize recruits’ character.

Lin Baichuan learned that the Demon Suppression Army would sweep the Underground Abyss and build a city at its entrance, then volunteered to join the counterattack into the Demon World. He intended to use word of his plans as bait, while Xue Ningshuang left suspicious of his motives.

• Lin Baichuan consolidated control over the garrison and kept the Demon Suppression Army separate from its administration.
• Xue Ningshuang visited Lin Baichuan and told him the higher-ups had approved a sweep of the Underground Abyss and a city at its entrance.
• Xue Ningshuang explained that the Demon and Monster Races had withdrawn their elites and were trying to seal the entrance.
• Lin Baichuan offered to enter the Demon World with the Demon Suppression Army, and Xue Ningshuang suspected he was setting a trap.
• Xue Ningshuang departed, and Lin Baichuan decided her suspicions would not interfere with his plan to spread word of his journey as bait.

Lin Baichuan directed the purge of the Underground Abyss and arranged construction of a fortified city at the passage to the Demon World. With the army assembled at the gateway, he revealed that he planned to draw in and kill the powerful faction experts waiting to ambush him.

• Lin Baichuan ordered Tie Zhan and the Demon Suppression Division to lead a temporary legion in cleansing the Underground Abyss, while the Demon and Monster Races’ strongest forces retreated to the Demon World.
• Three days after the purge began, Lin Baichuan accepted resources from the Demon Suppression Division headquarters and auctioned the city-building contracts to merchant guilds for a substantial profit.
• After a month, the army had nearly eliminated the demons and monsters, and the guilds had raised the walls of a vast city near the Demon World gateway.
• Tie Zhan warned Lin Baichuan that powerful outsiders had entered the Underground Abyss, including Divine Ability Realm experts who intended to ambush him when he invaded the Demon World.
• Lin Baichuan told Tie Zhan that he had deliberately spread news of his invasion to lure his would-be assassins into a trap.

Lin Baichuan learned that a group of people planned to kill him for the Earth Origin Pearl, then stopped the Demon Suppression Army from damaging his new city and agreed to break the gateway seal. He unleashed a powerful saber strike at the seal, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Lin Baichuan overheard conspirators plotting to kill him and seize the Earth Origin Pearl, and memorized their faces and auras.
• The Demon Suppression Army attacked the sealed gateway, shaking the surrounding ground and threatening Lin Baichuan's new city.
• Lin Baichuan confronted Xue Ningshuang and offered to break the seal, while realizing she had used the army's attack to pressure him.
• Xue Ningshuang halted the army's assault as Lin Baichuan gathered the power of heaven and earth into his saber.
• Lin Baichuan brought a hundred-zhang Blade Qi down onto the scarlet light curtain sealing the gateway.

Lin Baichuan broke the seal to the Demon World, then vanished after entering as the human armies clashed with the prepared demon and monster forces. Daoist Hongshan deployed the Great Yi Compass to track him down.

• Lin Baichuan shattered the seal with the Earth Origin Pearl’s power, and Xue Ningshuang ordered the Demon Suppression Army through the gateway.
• Lin Baichuan entered the Demon World and blocked a barrage from demon and monster generals with his Five Elements Golden Bell Shield.
• Lin Baichuan surveyed the million-strong enemy forces, then concealed himself and disappeared into the mountains and marshlands.
• Xue Ningshuang and the other commanders led the human forces into battle against the demon and monster armies.
• Daoist Hongshan revealed the Great Yi Compass and sent its spiritual light searching through the terrain for Lin Baichuan.

Lin Baichuan was exposed by a tracking technique and faced attacks from Divine Ability Realm cultivators and General-level demons and monsters, all seeking the Earth Origin Pearl. He burned a thousand Dragon Tiger Great Pills and began breaking through the limits of his flesh, transforming his Golden Core and True Essence as he advanced toward the Divine Ability Realm.

• Lin Baichuan shattered the tracking spiritual light with a punch, revealing his location and destroying the surrounding terrain.
• Daoist Hongshan and experts from the major factions charged toward Lin Baichuan to seize the Earth Origin Pearl, while the Demon Suppression Army argued over whether to help him.
• More than twenty General-level demons and monsters attacked Lin Baichuan, prompting the faction experts to split up and intercept them.
• Lin Baichuan declared that he would use his enemies' blood to celebrate his breakthrough, then added merit points to the Five Elements Golden Bell Shield and burned a thousand Dragon Tiger Great Pills.
• Lin Baichuan's Golden Core erupted within his expanding dantian, merging with his essence, qi, and spirit as True Essence began transforming into mana.

Lin Baichuan broke through to the Divine Ability Realm, forming a Three Cun Three Chi Mana Star Vortex that devoured the surrounding energy and crushed countless demon and monster soldiers. Human experts from the Great Yi Sect and Beichen Marquisate joined the demon and monster forces to attack him, while the Demon Suppression Army commanders were prevented from reaching him.

• Lin Baichuan relived a century of experience in the reincarnation world and transformed his ninety-nine-zhang dantian, turning his Golden Core into a Three Cun Three Chi Mana Star Vortex.
• Lin Baichuan drew in the power of heaven and earth across a thousand li, crushed demon and monster soldiers, and absorbed their vitality as his mana and strength grew.
• Experts from the Great Yi Sect, the Beichen Marquisate, and the Demon and Monster Races joined forces and launched their strongest attacks at Lin Baichuan.
• The Demon Suppression Army commanders tried to aid Lin Baichuan, but General-level demons and monsters intercepted them.
• A flood dragon attacked Xue Ningshuang, who cut it apart with her sword, while the other commanders also remained pinned down and Lin Baichuan faced the attackers alone.

Lin Baichuan used his Five Elements Golden Bell to repel the attacks of dozens of Divine Ability Realm experts, then slaughtered the human, demon, and monster fighters who attacked him. After receiving merit notifications for the kills, he left the battlefield stunned by his strength.

• Lin Baichuan formed a Five Elements Golden Bell that reflected the attackers’ blows and grievously wounded them with the rebounding force.
• Lin Baichuan appeared before Daoist Hongshan and killed him with a single strike of Blade Qi.
• Lin Baichuan received a system notification granting merit for killing Daoist Hongshan, but the other fighters attacked before he could investigate it.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed a vast blade wave that killed every Divine Ability Realm expert and General-level demon or monster, along with the surrounding soldiers caught in the attack.
• Lin Baichuan received another merit notification as both sides stared at him in stunned fear.

After the system’s upgrade, Lin Baichuan learned that merit now came from killing beings with high karma, making it far harder to earn. He began hunting the worst offenders on the battlefield, starting with a tiger demon that had turned murdered infants into Vassal Ghosts.

• Lin Baichuan inspected his upgraded Attribute Panel and saw that his cultivation, techniques, and Blade Domain had advanced.
• Lin Baichuan learned that the system now awarded merit for killing targets with karma above ten and had added the Insight Eye to reveal karma.
• Lin Baichuan surveyed the battlefield and found that most high-karma individuals belonged to major factions, with humans making up two-thirds of the worst offenders.
• Lin Baichuan decided to kill the demons and monsters first and deal with the corrupt humans later.
• Lin Baichuan confronted a tiger demon with karma value twenty-one, saw the murdered infants among its Vassal Ghosts, and struck it with a punch.

Lin Baichuan helped turn the battlefield decisively in the Demon Suppression Army’s favor, then spent Merit to raise the Five Elements Wind Thunder Golden Bell Shield and reached the peak of the Divine Ability First Layer. He left his Star Vortex at its Nine Chi Nine Cun limit, just short of breaking through to the second layer.

• Lin Baichuan slaughtered demons and monsters with high Karma Values, earning Merit and killing even a second-rank general-level foe that tried to stop him.
• Xue Ningshuang ordered the Demon Suppression Army to attack, and the battle became one-sided as Lin Baichuan’s strikes broke enemy formations and killed their strongest fighters.
• After more than half a day, Lin Baichuan found no remaining battlefield foes with Karma Value above ten and saw that he had accumulated 120 liang 8 qian 3 fen of Merit.
• Lin Baichuan spent Merit to raise the Five Elements Wind Thunder Golden Bell Shield to the peak of its first layer, increasing his cultivation to the Divine Ability First Layer Peak Great Perfection.
• Lin Baichuan’s Star Vortex expanded to Nine Chi Nine Cun but was stopped by an invisible pressure, and Xue Ningshuang sensed his changed aura before he concealed it from her.

After the battle in the Demon World, Lin Baichuan rewarded the Demon Suppression Division’s surviving guards and returned with them to the Underground Abyss. He planned to expand from there into the Demon World and beyond, beginning with Cangwu County, while Xue Ningshuang remained curious about the secret behind his strength.

• Xue Ningshuang sensed an immense aura from Lin Baichuan but could not see through him, and Lin Baichuan returned to the passage after deciding the battle was over.
• Lin Baichuan ordered Tie Zhan to bring the Demon Suppression Division back, and Tie Zhan reported that more than two thousand of the ten thousand Demon Slayer Guards had died.
• Lin Baichuan promised tenfold compensation for the fallen guards’ families and offered their relatives priority training if they joined the Demon Suppression Division.
• The guards expressed their gratitude, and Lin Baichuan led them back through the passage to the Underground Abyss.
• Lin Baichuan planned to send squads into the Demon World in rotation, then expand his influence through Cangwu County and the Eastern Wasteland Prefecture.

After purging the factions that had joined demons to attack him in the Underground Abyss, Lin Baichuan returned to Cangwu County to settle his feud with the Beichen Marquisate. He shattered its gates and sealed the estate in a sea of blades, drawing the attention of the city’s major powers.

• Lin Baichuan ordered the slaughter of more than ten thousand people from the Great Yi Sect, the Beichen Marquisate, Sun Moon Valley, and other forces that had ambushed him.
• News spread that those factions had joined demons and monsters in an attempt to kill Lin Baichuan, and people across the Underground Abyss condemned them.
• Lin Baichuan left the Underground Abyss alone and returned to Cangwu County, determined to eliminate the Beichen Marquisate and the other factions.
• Ye Linfeng dismissed a report that Lin Baichuan had arrived at the Beichen Marquisate, insisting that Lin would not dare attack it.
• Lin Baichuan smashed the marquisate gates, rose into the air, and sealed the estate beneath a vast web of blades.
• The Demon Suppression Division, the County Governor’s Residence, and other powers sent figures toward the Beichen Marquisate as Cangwu County City reacted to Lin Baichuan’s display.