Chapter Summaries

Lin Baichuan surrounded the Beichen Marquisate under the pretense of hunting an escaped demon, then attacked Ye Linfeng and searched the estate. His gaze settled on Madam Cui’s courtyard, where Ye Cangyun’s birth mother lived.

• Cangwu County City residents learned that Lin Baichuan had surrounded the Beichen Marquisate, and rumors spread about his grudge with the estate.
• Lin Baichuan’s blade intent ravaged the Beichen Marquisate, terrifying its residents and killing guards and servants who touched it.
• Ye Linfeng confronted Lin Baichuan, who claimed he had sealed the estate to stop an escaped demon from fleeing.
• Lin Baichuan slashed into Ye Linfeng’s courtyard, reduced it to ruins, and sent Ye Linfeng flying while he vomited blood.
• Lin Baichuan searched the Beichen Marquisate for the demon and fixed his gaze on Madam Cui’s courtyard.

Lin Baichuan attacked the Beichen Marquisate, claiming he was searching for the demon hiding there, while Ye Linfeng tried to protect Madam Cui. After Ye Linfeng threatened him with Marquis Beichen’s power, Lin Baichuan unleashed a vast blade net to crush the estate.

• Lin Baichuan slashed toward Madam Cui’s residence, and Ye Linfeng ordered the guards to protect her.
• The Beichen Marquisate’s elite guards charged at Lin Baichuan’s Blade Qi, but it cut them down, and fleeing servants were killed at the gates.
• Ye Linfeng shielded Madam Cui and accused Lin Baichuan of attacking the estate, while Lin mocked him and claimed he was searching for the demon.
• Ye Linfeng threatened Lin Baichuan with Marquis Beichen’s Divine Ability Third Layer strength, and Lin Baichuan suspected the marquis of having ties to demons.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed a storming net of Blade Qi over the Beichen Marquisate, intending to crush the entire estate.

Lin Baichuan prepared to destroy the Beichen Marquisate, but Dugu Yang, the mysterious Director of the Cangwu County Demon Suppression Division, intervened. Lin Baichuan accused Dugu Yang of shielding demons after he denied any ties to the marquisate.

• Lin Baichuan dismissed Ye Linfeng and Madam Cui’s threats and prepared to bring down the Beichen Marquisate with his blade.
• Dugu Yang flew from the city on an ancient sword and urged Lin Baichuan to stop attacking the residence of a Great Xia marquis.
• Lin Baichuan recognized Dugu Yang as the elusive Director of the Cangwu County Demon Suppression Division and questioned why he had come out of seclusion.
• Dugu Yang denied having any connection to the Beichen Marquisate, and Lin Baichuan accused him of being connected to the demons inside it.

Lin Baichuan confronted Dugu Yang, the Cangwu County Demon Suppression Division director and a Dugu Family descendant, then defeated and severely wounded him with one attack. He turned his attention back to the Beichen Marquisate and struck at it, determined to destroy it.

• Dugu Yang challenged Lin Baichuan's actions against the Beichen Marquisate and insisted that Cangwu County City fell under his jurisdiction.
• The people of Cangwu County City revealed that Dugu Yang was a direct descendant of the powerful Dugu Family.
• Lin Baichuan attacked Dugu Yang, breaking his sword and leaving him badly wounded and unconscious.
• Lin Baichuan chose not to kill Dugu Yang, then turned toward the Beichen Marquisate and struck down at it.

Lin Baichuan forced Madam Cui to reveal that she was a powerful Demon Warrior and attacked her amid the destruction of the Beichen Marquisate. The battle left the Marquisate exposed as the pair faced off in a massive crater.

• Lin Baichuan unleashed Blade Qi on the Beichen Marquisate, reducing its buildings to ruins and killing many of its residents.
• Madam Cui revealed her demonic rune and shattered Lin Baichuan’s Blade Qi with Demonic Aura.
• Madam Cui’s Demonic Aura devoured more than a hundred guards and servants, prompting people across Cangwu County City to flee in terror.
• Ye Linfeng accused Madam Cui of taking the appearance of his Eldest Sister-in-law, but she dismissed him and fought Lin Baichuan.
• Madam Cui asked how Lin Baichuan had discovered her, while he concealed that his Insight Eye had identified her as a Demon Warrior with a Karma Value of 217.
• Lin Baichuan considered how to exploit Madam Cui’s exposure to destroy the Beichen Marquisate as they prepared to continue fighting.

Lin Baichuan defeated and killed Madam Cui after exposing her as a Demon Warrior, earning 120 taels and 7 qian in merit. He then confronted Ye Linfeng, who accused him of framing the Beichen Marquisate, and struck him down.

• Madam Cui claimed Marquis Beichen's power would shield her, but Lin Baichuan declared he would suppress her and report her crimes to the Imperial Court.
• Lin Baichuan's nine-layer blade attack broke Madam Cui's demonic barrier and left her gravely wounded.
• Lin Baichuan dismissed Madam Cui's threats and killed her, receiving 120 taels and 7 qian in merit.
• Lin Baichuan taunted Ye Linfeng over Madam Cui's death and the trouble facing the Beichen Marquisate.
• Ye Linfeng accused Lin Baichuan of framing the family and provoking the Imperial Court, so Lin Baichuan struck him on the head.

Lin Baichuan killed Ye Linfeng and gained enough merit to consider advancing his cultivation. He then pressured Dugu Yang to use the Demon Suppression Division against the Beichen Marquisate, leaving the choice to him.

• Lin Baichuan killed Ye Linfeng and gained 21 taels, 3 qian, and 8 fen of merit.
• Lin Baichuan checked his system and saw that his total merit had risen to more than 378 taels.
• Lin Baichuan decided that his next goal was to spend 100 taels of merit deducing the next layer of his cultivation method and reach the Earth Fiend Realm.
• Lin Baichuan confronted the recovering Dugu Yang and warned that his defense of Madam Cui could make him appear to have protected a Demon Warrior.
• Lin Baichuan urged Dugu Yang to clean up the Beichen Marquisate, arrest those connected to it, and suppress them, but Dugu Yang resisted being used.
• Lin Baichuan vanished, leaving Dugu Yang and the others relieved.

Dugu Yang purged the Beichen Marquisate’s remnants and secretly informed Marquis Beichen that Lin Baichuan had destroyed his household. At the frontier, Ye Linshan vowed to kill Lin Baichuan while preparing to use the threat of a barbarian incursion to pressure the Imperial Capital.

• Dugu Yang ordered the Cangwu County Demon Suppression Division and the County Governor’s Office to purge the Beichen Marquisate’s remnants and Evil Cults, restoring his public reputation.
• Dugu Yang told a commandant that he had sent Marquis Beichen a letter about Lin Baichuan and intended to use him to kill Lin Baichuan.
• Ye Linshan received Dugu Yang’s letter, learned that Lin Baichuan had destroyed his wife, children, brothers, and residence, and ordered an agent to investigate Lin Baichuan.
• A scholar informed Ye Linshan that officials in the Imperial Capital were using the news about Madam Cui to attack him.
• Ye Linshan declared Lin Baichuan his prime suspect and threatened to let the barbarians pressure the Great Xia Dynasty’s frontier unless the Demon Suppression Division gave him an explanation.

After destroying the Beichen Marquisate, Lin Baichuan secluded himself to spend his merit advancing his cultivation and martial techniques. He reached the Divine Ability Second Layer, the Earth Fiend Realm, and emerged with four new divine abilities and an incomplete Golden Bell Body Protection.

• Lin Baichuan entered a secluded cave abode and used his merit to deduce the second layer of the Five Elements Wind Thunder Golden Bell Shield.
• After three months of cultivation, Lin Baichuan drew in the Qi of Earth Sha, condensed an Earth Fiend Spirit, and entered the Earth Fiend Realm.
• Lin Baichuan spent three years deducing four martial techniques to Heaven-grade High-rank Spiritual Martial arts and comprehending their divine abilities.
• The four techniques formed the Earth Burial, Wind Thunder Wings, Brute Ox Shakes the Mountain, and Meteor Shower divine abilities within Lin Baichuan's dantian.
• Lin Baichuan's Five Elements Wind Thunder Golden Bell Shield manifested as the incomplete defensive divine ability Golden Bell Body Protection, and his merit was exhausted.

After breaking through, Lin Baichuan tested his newly deduced Earthly Fiend Divine Ability, Wind Thunder Wings, and learned how quickly it drained his mana. He headed for Tianshui County to destroy the Niu Family and seize its resources in revenge for its ancestor’s attempt to kill him.

• Lin Baichuan used Wind Thunder Wings to cross a hundred li in a breath, then dispersed the wings after realizing they could only be used about ten times before exhausting his mana.
• Lin Baichuan reflected that Earthly Fiend Divine Abilities were difficult to master and that he had unusually deduced one himself from the Wind Thunder Steps.
• Lin Baichuan continued toward Tianshui County using his Divine Connection-level Wind Thunder Steps.
• Lin Baichuan set out to wipe out the Niu Family because its ancestor, Niu Dawei, had joined the attempt to kill him, and he wanted the family’s resources.

Niu Fukang prepared to preserve the Niu Family after its ancestor’s death and Lin Baichuan’s attacks on the Beichen Marquisate. Lin Baichuan arrived at the Niu estate and began his assault by killing a gate guard.

• Niu Fukang learned that Tianshui County’s officials were refusing to help the Niu Family and heard that Lin Baichuan had destroyed the Beichen Marquisate estate and killed its Chief, Marquis Beichen’s Wife, and younger brother.
• Niu Fukang feared Lin Baichuan would target the Niu Family and decided to send promising younger members away to preserve the family’s Fire Seed.
• Lin Baichuan reached the Niu Family estate after traveling from Cangwu County City and judged that the family’s inheritance was doomed.
• A Niu Family guard tried to stop Lin Baichuan at the estate gate, and Lin Baichuan killed him with a streak of saber light.

Lin Baichuan stormed the Niu residence and slaughtered its guards, declaring that Niu Dawei’s collusion with demons justified exterminating the family under Great Xia law. He cornered Niu Fukang and launched an attack, leaving the family head trapped beneath his blade intent.

• Several hundred Niu Family guards surrounded Lin Baichuan, but he cut through them and advanced into the estate.
• Niu Fukang heard the alarm and rushed from his study with his steward as the Niu Family’s guard captain was killed.
• Lin Baichuan told Niu Fukang that Niu Dawei had joined demons in an attempt to kill him and that Great Xia law allowed the Niu Family’s extermination.
• Lin Baichuan attacked Niu Fukang, and his blade intent tore apart the steward and formed a net that left Niu Fukang nowhere to flee.

Lin Baichuan demanded the Niu Family’s entire treasure hoard in exchange for sparing its members, and Niu Fukang agreed after securing a Heart Demon Vow. The chapter ended with Niu Fukang leading Lin Baichuan to the family vault, unaware that Lin Baichuan still intended to kill him afterward.

• Niu Fukang offered Lin Baichuan half the Niu Family’s treasures to spare his life, but Lin Baichuan demanded everything.
• Lin Baichuan threatened to wipe out the entire Niu Family if Niu Fukang refused.
• Niu Fukang agreed to hand over the family’s stored wealth but demanded that Lin Baichuan swear not to harm any family member that day.
• Lin Baichuan made the Heart Demon Vow, secretly planning to kill Niu Fukang after obtaining the treasures.
• Niu Fukang led Lin Baichuan toward the Niu Family’s treasure vault so he could deliver the wealth and send Lin Baichuan away.

Lin Baichuan emptied the Niu Family's underground vault after Niu Fukang led him there, then left the estate with its thousand-year fortune. Niu Fukang defended his decision to the family elders and ordered the First Elder to take elites out of the city to guard against the Niu Family's enemies.

• Niu Fukang led Lin Baichuan to the Niu Family's vault, where Lin Baichuan used his Spirit Gourd to swallow all its treasures.
• Lin Baichuan accused Niu Fukang of harboring killing intent, but Niu Fukang denied it; Lin Baichuan mocked him and left the estate.
• Niu Fukang told the gathered Niu Family elders that surrendering the vault's contents had saved their lives, recounting Lin Baichuan's victories over powerful enemies.
• Niu Fukang ordered the First Elder to lead Niu Family elites out of the city to prepare for attacks from the family's many enemies.

Lin Baichuan inventoried the Niu Family’s treasury and found a valuable Star Crystal, then resolved to deal with the family after settling matters with other forces. That night, Niu Zhenda led Niu Family elites out of Tianshui County to preserve the clan’s future.

• Lin Baichuan examined the Niu Family’s treasury and found enough rare materials to refine many pills, but no Innate Treasure Medicines.
• Lin Baichuan discovered a Star Crystal and decided to forge it into Heaven-grade Supreme weapons and armor after returning to the Underground Abyss.
• Lin Baichuan finished inventorying the treasury and vowed not to let the Niu Family escape punishment, though he delayed acting for a day.
• After nightfall, Niu Zhenda led a group of Niu Family elites out through the residence’s back gate on Niu Fukang’s orders.

Niu Fukang’s attempt to preserve the Niu Family failed when Lin Baichuan ambushed and killed the fleeing Niu Zhenda and his companions, then confronted him at the Niu residence. Niu Fukang launched a desperate final attack, but Lin Baichuan effortlessly killed him.

• Niu Zhenda led Niu Family elites out of Tianshui County at night to preserve the family’s bloodline.
• Lin Baichuan followed the group and killed them before they could escape.
• Lin Baichuan entered Niu Fukang’s study carrying Old Wu’s head and revealed that his Heart Demon Vow applied only to the previous day.
• Lin Baichuan used his Spirit Gourd to show Niu Fukang the corpses of Niu Zhenda and the fleeing elites.
• Niu Fukang burned his qi, blood, and Virtual Core to attack Lin Baichuan, who cut through the strike and pierced Niu Fukang’s brow with Blade Qi.

Lin Baichuan wiped out the Niu Family and left Cangwu County for Beihai County to take revenge on Autumn Water Villa. As news spread, people across Eastern Wasteland Prefecture anticipated that Autumn Water Villa and the Great Yi Sect would be his next targets.

• Yamen officers discovered that the Niu Family had been slaughtered, and the Tianshui County Magistrate reported the massacre to higher authorities.
• Lin Baichuan left for Autumn Water Villa, one of the four Eastern Wasteland Prefecture powers that had ambushed him in the Demon World.
• Lin Baichuan traveled toward Autumn Water Villa, intending to take its artifact-refining materials for his revenge and weapons.
• News of the Niu Family's destruction spread across Eastern Wasteland Prefecture, and people inferred that Lin Baichuan was responsible.
• People predicted that Autumn Water Villa and the Great Yi Sect would be Lin Baichuan's next targets.

Autumn Water Villa’s leaders discussed how to respond to Lin Baichuan after he destroyed the Niu Family and killed their ancestor, Yan Liang. They agreed reconciliation was necessary but clashed over whether to offer him their prized Wind Thunder Divine Iron.

• Tie Kui warned Autumn Water Villa’s leaders that Lin Baichuan had destroyed the Beichen Marquisate and Niu Family and might target them next.
• A Golden Core True Person urged Tie Kui to seek reconciliation, offer Lin Baichuan the Wind Thunder Divine Iron, and summon Ancestor Luo Peng and other Divine Ability Realm experts.
• The Great Elder in black opposed giving away the Wind Thunder Divine Iron, arguing it was vital to Autumn Water Villa’s future.
• Most of the gathered leaders backed the Great Elder and proposed offering other treasures or hiring experts if Lin Baichuan refused to reconcile.

Lin Baichuan stopped in the mountains of Beihai County to cultivate before confronting Autumn Water Villa. After spending all his merit and many Heaven-grade Pills, he broke through to the Divine Ability Third Layer and prepared to face the villa.

• Lin Baichuan decided to delay going to Autumn Water Villa because he expected its powerful experts to be waiting for him.
• He spent 200 taels of merit to deduce the third layer of the Five Elements Wind Thunder Golden Bell Shield and cultivated until his Earth Fiend Spirit formed seventy-two Earth Fiend Stars.
• Lin Baichuan continued cultivating, drew Qi of Heaven Gang into his body, and broke through to the Divine Ability Third Layer: Heavenly Dipper Realm.
• He saw that his merit had been exhausted, while his vortex of stars reached one zhang, seven chi, and three cun and his Saber Domain reached 50%.
• Lin Baichuan accepted that he had not reached the realm's great perfection and vowed to confront Autumn Water Villa.

After advancing his cultivation, Lin Baichuan traveled to Taihu Lake to reach Autumn Water Villa, where visitors needed invitations and unauthorized boats were barred from approaching. He paid a wary boatman to take him toward the nearest island, preparing to continue on foot or by other means while keeping his strength in reserve.

• Lin Baichuan reflected on how his mana was growing denser and how the first three Divine Ability stages laid the foundation for later cultivation.
• Lin Baichuan reached Taihu Lake before nightfall and learned that Autumn Water Villa stood on an island at its center.
• Lin Baichuan asked a boatman to take him toward Autumn Water Villa, but the boatman warned that entry required an invitation and outside boats were forbidden within thirty li.
• Lin Baichuan condemned Autumn Water Villa's restrictions and ordered the boatman to take him to the nearest island without entering its waters.
• Lin Baichuan paid the boatman ten taels of gold, and the man agreed to make the trip after first taking the money home to his family.