Chapter Summaries

Lin Baichuan gained a major breakthrough in his Blade Domain during a boat ride across Taihu Lake, then traveled to Autumn Water Villa to punish those who colluded with demons. He announced his arrival in the villa’s square, where Tie Kui and numerous powerful reinforcements confronted him.

• Lin Baichuan experienced an epiphany on Taihu Lake, raising his Blade Domain to 63%.
• At Sanyang Island, Lin Baichuan paid the boatman a thousand taels of silver and continued across the lake on foot.
• Lin Baichuan reached Autumn Water Villa without alerting its sentries and entered its main courtyard.
• Lin Baichuan announced that he had come from the Demon Suppression Division to punish those who colluded with demons, stirring panic and anger throughout the villa.
• Tie Kui and the villa’s gathered reinforcements emerged from the main courtyard and headed toward Lin Baichuan.

Lin Baichuan confronted Tie Kui and Autumn Water Villa’s reinforcements, and his killing intent drove several fighters into demonic corruption. After an expert from within the villa subdued them, the villa’s Divine Ability experts emerged to face Lin Baichuan.

• Lin Baichuan surveyed Tie Kui and the reinforcements, then overwhelmed them with the killing intent of his blade domain.
• Several fighters collapsed or went mad, falling into demonic corruption and attacking those around them.
• Tie Kui and the others struggled to suppress the corrupted fighters as a battle erupted across the plaza.
• An unseen expert covered the plaza in golden light and dispelled the corruption, causing the fighters to faint.
• More than a dozen Divine Ability experts emerged from Autumn Water Villa, and their blue-robed leader praised Lin Baichuan’s methods before Lin dismissed the corrupted fighters as a danger to humanity.

Lin Baichuan confronted Autumn Water Villa’s Luo Peng, rejected his offer of reconciliation, and exposed the villa’s role in the ambush in the Demon World. After identifying the gathering’s most culpable members, Lin Baichuan attacked Wang Chan, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt into battle.

• Luo Peng offered to settle Autumn Water Villa’s dispute with Lin Baichuan, but Lin Baichuan silently used the Insight Eye to inspect the Karma Values of those present.
• Lin Baichuan discovered that Tie Yunsheng, a young man inside the villa, had a Karma Value of 132 and judged him deserving of death.
• Lin Baichuan rejected Luo Peng’s attempt at reconciliation and reminded the gathered experts that he had slain the forces who ambushed him in the Demon World.
• Wang Chan doubted Lin Baichuan’s account and questioned how he could have defeated so many powerful opponents.
• Lin Baichuan called Wang Chan a fool and struck at him with a raised hand.

Lin Baichuan killed Wang Chan with a Five Elements Mountain and trapped the people at Autumn Water Villa with a Wind and Thunder Domain. As the survivors begged to leave and offered their wealth, Lin Baichuan prepared to make them pay rather than kill them all.

• Lin Baichuan crushed Wang Chan with a Five Elements Mountain after Wang Chan's Great Mara Hand Seal failed to stop it.
• The Divine Ability experts and other guests realized Lin Baichuan's strength and began fleeing in panic.
• Lin Baichuan invoked a Wind and Thunder Domain and threatened to kill anyone who tried to escape Autumn Water Villa.
• People at the villa prostrated themselves before Lin Baichuan, claiming they were only there to buy weapons and offering their wealth to atone.
• Lin Baichuan decided not to kill those with little Karma Value but smiled at their offer, intending to demand a price for their release.

Lin Baichuan offered Autumn Water Villa’s visitors permission to leave in exchange for their valuables, claiming he would use their donations to help the common people. After accepting one man’s offering, he killed another whose sins and Karma Value were too great, leaving everyone else terrified.

• Lin Baichuan accused the people at Autumn Water Villa of colluding with demons and offered to pardon them if they donated their wealth.
• Several visitors gave Lin Baichuan valuables, and he allowed them to leave.
• Luo Peng and Tie Kui watched the villa’s invited helpers depart but did not try to stop them.
• Lin Baichuan trapped a middle-aged man in black who had offered him spirit pills and killed him.
• Lin Baichuan revealed through his actions that he released people with low Karma Values and killed the man in black for his high Karma Value and possessions.

Lin Baichuan confronted Autumn Water Villa, killing those who challenged him and rejecting Tie Kui’s offer of Wind Thunder Divine Iron. He declared that the villa would be destroyed, then launched a blade-domain assault on Luo Peng and the others.

• Lin Baichuan killed an elder who urged the crowd to join forces against him.
• Luo Peng invoked the Great Xia Dynasty’s laws, but Lin Baichuan claimed he had come as their representative to destroy the villa for colluding with demons.
• Tie Kui offered Wind Thunder Divine Iron to spare Autumn Water Villa, and Lin Baichuan recognized its value for forging treasure artifacts.
• Lin Baichuan accused Tie Kui of trying to bribe him and crushed the villa master with a palm strike.
• Lin Baichuan vowed to kill everyone at Autumn Water Villa and sent his blade domain charging toward Luo Peng and the others.

Lin Baichuan revealed his blade domain and slaughtered Luo Peng and the other cultivators who tried to escape. He then began wiping out Autumn Water Villa, sparing only those whose Karma Value was below 10.

• Lin Baichuan's blade domain shocked Luo Peng and the other cultivators, who realized how powerful he was and tried to flee.
• Lin Baichuan sealed their escape routes and rejected their threats and pleas to be released.
• Lin Baichuan killed Luo Peng and the other cultivators with a single attack, overcoming their defenses and abilities.
• Lin Baichuan moved through Autumn Water Villa and slaughtered its members as they fled or begged for mercy.
• Lin Baichuan used his Insight Eye to spare targets with a Karma Value below 10.

Lin Baichuan spared Li Mubai, Autumn Water Villa’s Second Elder, and considered whether to accept the surviving disciples’ submission. He appointed Li Mubai as the villa’s new master and asked him to provide materials for forging treasures.

• Lin Baichuan questioned why Li Mubai would submit after he destroyed Autumn Water Villa, and Li Mubai explained that he had opposed the villa’s corruption and expected its downfall.
• Li Mubai offered to manage the villa’s industries and use its artifact-forging expertise to bring Lin Baichuan profits.
• Lin Baichuan asked whether the surviving disciples resented him, and Li Mubai promised they would instead revere and fear him.
• Lin Baichuan accepted Li Mubai’s pledge and made him master of Autumn Water Villa, preserving the lives of the surviving disciples.
• Lin Baichuan asked about the villa’s Wind Thunder Divine Iron and requested materials for forging a set of supreme treasures, and Li Mubai offered access to the treasury.

Li Mubai led Lin Baichuan to Autumn Water Villa’s treasury, while Lin considered how to use his growing merit to cultivate stronger Divine Abilities. The chapter left them standing before the underground secret chamber, with Lin hoping the villa held great Divine Abilities.

• Li Mubai led Lin Baichuan toward Autumn Water Villa’s treasury, whose resources far surpassed those of the Niu Family.
• Lin Baichuan checked his Attribute Panel and discovered he had accumulated more than 3,200 taels of merit.
• Lin decided to delay raising his cultivation realm and instead use his merit to improve his artifact-refining skill and cultivate Divine Abilities.
• Lin reflected that cultivating numerous compatible Divine Abilities could help him form a stronger Innate Divine Ability at the Unity Realm.
• Li Mubai led Lin Baichuan to an underground secret chamber, where Lin wondered whether Autumn Water Villa possessed any great Divine Abilities.

Lin Baichuan broke into Autumn Water Villa’s treasury and found the Wind Thunder Divine Iron he had come for. The chapter ended with him opening the box containing the treasure-grade metal while Li Mubai reflected on the villa’s decline.

• Li Mubai warned Lin Baichuan that the treasury doors were protected by a grand array and would take time to open.
• Lin Baichuan shattered the doors with Savage Bull Shakes the Mountain, breaking through the array and gathering the valuable fragments for later use.
• Lin Baichuan and Li Mubai entered the treasury, where Lin Baichuan inspected the spiritual materials and focused on the sealed boxes at the back.
• Li Mubai explained that Autumn Water Villa had stolen the Wind Thunder Divine Iron after Tie Kui ordered Yu Shan to exterminate its former owners.
• Lin Baichuan opened the box and revealed a watermelon-sized piece of Wind Thunder Divine Iron radiating Wind Thunder Power.

Lin Baichuan collected Autumn Water Villa’s rare spiritual materials and told Li Mubai that he would refine a set of Treasure Artifacts. He promised Li Mubai a chance to observe in three days, then headed to the villa’s spiritual fire.

• Lin Baichuan identified the Wind Thunder Divine Iron and found enough other rare materials to forge several Treasure Artifacts.
• Lin Baichuan took the materials and told Li Mubai to reorganize Autumn Water Villa while contacting him if problems arose.
• Lin Baichuan decided to refine Treasure Artifacts and asked Li Mubai to take him to the villa’s artifact refining grounds.
• Li Mubai doubted Lin Baichuan’s ability, but Lin Baichuan offered to let him observe the refining in three days.
• Li Mubai thanked Lin Baichuan, assigned subordinates to guard the damaged treasury, and led him toward the spiritual fire.

Lin Baichuan entered Autumn Water Villa’s underground workshop and discovered how its formation harnessed the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire. He plunged into the spirit fire to temper his soul and body, using merit to raise his Martial Dao True Intent and advance his alchemy, artifact refining, and Poison Arts.

• Li Mubai led Lin Baichuan to the underground palace and showed him the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire at the heart of Autumn Water Villa’s artifact-refining workshop.
• Lin Baichuan examined the formation that divided and graded the spirit fire, then told Li Mubai to return in three days with loyal confidants.
• Lin Baichuan entered the underground volcano, intending to use the spirit fire to temper his soul and bring his blade domain to major completion.
• Lin Baichuan entered the fiery core, endured its agonizing heat, and spent merit to cultivate his Martial Dao True Intent, Alchemy Dao, Artifact Dao, and Poison Dao.

Lin Baichuan used the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire to strengthen his cultivation, saber domain, and crafting skills, then separated a Fire Seed and planted it in his dantian. He remained in the underground volcano to plan a set of treasured artifacts, with designing a new alchemy furnace as his main challenge.

• Lin Baichuan spent over a thousand taels of merit to temper his body and soul, advance his saber domain, and raise Alchemy, artifact refining, and Poison Arts to the peak of the fourth tier.
• Lin Baichuan checked his Attribute Panel and saw his saber domain had reached 79%, while his skills had advanced to between 92% and 95%.
• Lin Baichuan drew a cluster of flame from the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire and separated a Fire Seed, since he was not strong enough to collect the spirit fire's main body.
• Lin Baichuan fused the Fire Seed into his dantian, where it began burning impurities from his star vortex and further purifying his mana.
• Lin Baichuan stayed to plan a set of treasured artifacts, including a saber, bow and arrows, battle armor, and an alchemy furnace that he would design from scratch.

After three days cultivating in the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire, Lin Baichuan returned to the workshop and began refining a set of artifacts while Autumn Water Villa’s selected elites watched. His demonstration greatly advanced their understanding of artifact refinement.

• Lin Baichuan emerged from the underground volcano after three days of tempering himself in the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire.
• Li Mubai introduced nineteen selected elites to Lin Baichuan, who inspected them and told them they could watch him refine artifacts in silence.
• Lin Baichuan summoned the Earth Core Spirit Refining Fire and shaped it into a furnace.
• Lin Baichuan smelted spirit materials and began forming an arcane alloy while carefully applying mana and Hand Seals.
• Li Mubai and the others studied Lin Baichuan’s techniques and gained new insights into artifact refinement.

Lin Baichuan refined five treasure artifacts at once in Autumn Water Villa’s underground workshop, while Li Mubai tried to learn his hammer technique. Lin expelled the exhausted onlookers, and the five artifacts began taking shape.

• Lin Baichuan divided molten materials into five portions and hammered them with mana to refine five treasure artifacts simultaneously.
• Li Mubai watched Lin Baichuan’s techniques and realized the hammer method could temper the body and spiritual will, improving his chance of reaching the Divine Ability Realm.
• Li Mubai endured the demonstration until he vomited blood, but believed he had memorized enough of the technique to help him break through within three years.
• Lin Baichuan sent Li Mubai and the others out of the workshop when they could no longer follow his movements.
• Lin Baichuan accelerated the refining, and the five materials formed the prototypes of a saber, a bow and ten arrows, a suit of battle armor, and a cauldron furnace.

Lin Baichuan completed the forging of four treasured artifacts while factions across the Eastern Wasteland Prefecture prepared to move against him. As Li Mubai learned that Marquis Beichen was pushing the Imperial Court to punish Lin Baichuan, the artifacts emerged from the underground workshop in a burst of power.

• Lin Baichuan awakened the Dao Rhyme in the materials and forged four treasured artifacts with arrays suited to attack, speed, defense, and refining.
• News of Lin Baichuan's slaughter at Autumn Water Villa spread, and the factions whose reinforcements had died joined forces against him.
• A messenger told Li Mubai that the Great Yi Sect was leading the planned campaign, Marquis Beichen was working behind it, and the Imperial Court was considering punishing Lin Baichuan.
• Li Mubai learned that Marquis Beichen had blamed Lin Baichuan for his inability to suppress the barbarians, whose forces had massacred people in thirty-two villages and towns.
• Li Mubai decided not to disturb Lin Baichuan during his seclusion, but a thunderous roar and beams of spiritual light soon announced the treasured artifacts' emergence, and Li Mubai rushed to the workshop.

Lin Baichuan finished forging four low-grade treasure artifact sets and learned that Marquis Beichen and the Great Yi Sect were mobilizing forces against him. He set out for Elephant Trunk Mountain, then found the boatman who had waited for him and decided to grant him good fortune.

• Li Mubai and the others entered the underground workshop and witnessed the might of Lin Baichuan's four newly forged treasure artifact sets.
• Lin Baichuan absorbed the artifacts into his dantian and asked Li Mubai what had happened outside.
• Li Mubai reported that Marquis Beichen was using the barbarians to pressure the Imperial Court and that the Great Yi Sect was gathering major forces against Lin Baichuan.
• Lin Baichuan declared that he would go to Elephant Trunk Mountain and leave no survivors, then departed Autumn Water Villa.
• Lin Baichuan found the boatman still waiting on his black-canopied boat and learned he had stayed because he had promised to wait.
• Lin Baichuan decided the boatman's faithfulness had earned him an opportunity and good fortune.

After rewarding the boatman with a jade token for Autumn Water Villa, Lin Baichuan experienced an epiphany that formed his Heavenly Gang Grand Formation and brought his Blade Domain to 95%. He left the dock resolved to settle matters with Elephant Trunk Mountain and the Great Yi Sect.

• Lin Baichuan gave the boatman a jade token to take to Autumn Water Villa, promising his descendants a chance to be nurtured there.
• After hearing the boatman call him an Immortal, Lin Baichuan contemplated immortality and martial cultivation, triggering a profound epiphany.
• Lin Baichuan fused the seven powers of heaven and earth into his Blade Domain and formed thirty-six illusory Heavenly Gang Stars in a Heavenly Gang Grand Formation.
• Lin Baichuan's Star Vortex expanded to two zhang, seven chi, and nine cun before an unseen restriction halted its growth.
• Lin Baichuan checked his Attribute Panel and found his Blade Domain at 95%, then set out to settle matters with Elephant Trunk Mountain and the Great Yi Sect.

Mu Chen gathered Eastern Wasteland Prefecture’s major forces beneath Elephant Trunk Mountain to plan against Lin Baichuan, revealing that the Great Xia Imperial Court would lead the attack. As the alliance members began discussing how to divide Autumn Water Villa, Lin Baichuan appeared and confronted them.

• Mu Chen told the gathered representatives that they would support an Imperial Court attack on Lin Baichuan by surrounding Autumn Water Villa.
• A Divine Ability Realm expert identified Marquis Beichen as the influential figure who had prompted the Imperial Court to act.
• The alliance members grew confident that Lin Baichuan would die and began discussing how to seize Autumn Water Villa.
• Lin Baichuan’s Blade Qi tore apart the residence and killed people before he descended in front of the survivors.
• Lin Baichuan asked the frightened alliance members what they had been discussing.

Lin Baichuan returned to Elephant Trunk Mountain and slaughtered the forces gathered there before leaving for the Underground Abyss. The system credited him with 5,782 taels, 7 qian, and 3 fen of merit.

• Mu Chen warned Lin Baichuan that Imperial Court experts were pursuing him and urged him to return to the Underground Abyss.
• Lin Baichuan trapped everyone at the estate inside his Blade Domain and killed those who tried to flee.
• Mu Chen and the other Divine Ability Realm experts attacked Lin Baichuan together, but his Blade Qi overwhelmed them and killed them.
• Lin Baichuan used Earth Burial to destroy the estate and everyone remaining inside.
• The system awarded Lin Baichuan 5,782 taels, 7 qian, and 3 fen of merit, and he vanished into the sky.