Chapter Summaries

After Lin Baichuan invited Barbarian Suppression City's forces to a banquet, their leaders debated whether to attend and what he intended. Steward Liu revealed that the Treasures Pavilion and other major forces planned to demand lower taxes, leaving several attendees fearing a bloody clash with Lin Baichuan.

• Jiang Ying quickly informed more than a hundred forces of Lin Baichuan's banquet and booked the First Grade Tower for it.
• Leaders of second-rate forces gathered to discuss the invitation, with some warning that Lin Baichuan might be seeking control of the entire city.
• Steward Liu arrived, and the gathered leaders deferred to him as the Treasures Pavilion's principal person in charge in Barbarian Suppression City.
• Steward Liu said the forces would attend the banquet to discuss cooperation and redraw the distribution of benefits.
• Steward Liu announced that the major forces intended to demand lower taxes, alarming attendees who recognized that the demand challenged the Barbarian Suppression Army's main source of income.

Lin Baichuan confronted Barbarian Suppression City's major-force leaders after they complained about waiting for him, forcing many to kneel and killing the Zhao Family descendant who threatened him. The remaining leaders begged for mercy while secretly planning to retaliate.

• More than a hundred leaders and representatives of Barbarian Suppression City's major forces gathered in First Grade Tower, where several complained that Lin Baichuan had kept them waiting.
• Lin Baichuan entered and used falling snowflakes and crushing pressure to force over half the gathering to their knees.
• The Zhao Family descendant resisted Lin Baichuan, threatened him with retaliation from the Zhao Family, and was crushed into blood mist by Lin Baichuan.
• The remaining leaders, terrified by Lin Baichuan's strength and brutality, begged him to spare them while secretly vowing revenge.

Lin Baichuan used his overwhelming power at First Grade Tower to force Barbarian Suppression City's factions into submission and demand rare materials for the Barbarian Suppression Army. The factions outwardly agreed, but secretly resented him and planned to comply for now before making further plans.

• Lin Baichuan identified Liu Hanxin and revealed that he had killed Li Mingyuan, a Li Family descendant aligned with the faction opposing him.
• Liu Hanxin and the other faction leaders pleaded for mercy and declared their willingness to cooperate with Lin Baichuan.
• Lin Baichuan said he had summoned them to obtain materials and threatened to spill blood if they failed to provide everything on his list.
• Lin Baichuan displayed a list of 123 types of materials, including nearly twenty Innate Treasure Materials and more than a hundred Heaven-grade Spirit Materials.
• The faction leaders discovered that First Grade Tower was sealed against outside messages and secretly resolved to accept Lin Baichuan's demands for now while plotting against him later.

Lin Baichuan trapped the faction leaders in First Grade Tower, demanded rare materials, and killed those who threatened him. He then ordered Jiang Ying to have Chen Zhong mobilize the army and prepare to purge Barbarian Suppression City.

• Liu Xinhan and the others tried to deceive Lin Baichuan, but he exposed their plan and gave them one hour to gather the materials he demanded.
• Several faction leaders threatened Lin Baichuan and demanded to be released, while others knelt and submitted.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed Blade Qi and killed Liu Xinhan and many other leaders from major factions.
• The survivors pleaded that they could not obtain some of the rare materials, and Jiang Ying urged Lin Baichuan to consider their limited means.
• Lin Baichuan gave the survivors another chance to gather what they could, then ordered Jiang Ying to tell Chen Zhong to mobilize the army and accuse the factions of colluding with the barbarians.

Lin Baichuan sealed Barbarian Suppression City with a grand array and ordered the Tiger Leopard Battalion to attack factions he accused of plotting rebellion. Experts from those factions converged on First Grade Tower to kill him, while Xu Qingshan and Wang Yunxi stood in their way.

• Lin Baichuan mobilized the Barbarian Suppression Army and used the Array Derivation Realm to seal Barbarian Suppression City.
• The major factions’ experts learned the restrictions on First Grade Tower had been lifted and headed there to confront Lin Baichuan.
• The Tiger Leopard Battalion charged out under Lin Baichuan’s order to exterminate the Treasures Pavilion, Nine Tripod Merchant Guild, Li Trading House, and other alleged conspirators.
• Shentu Hongtian attacked the Tiger Leopard Battalion, but a giant palm from the Barbarian Suppression Army base shattered his strike.
• Xu Qingshan, Wang Yunxi, and the Venerable Pavilion’s Attendants appeared above First Grade Tower and warned the gathered experts to surrender.
• Shentu Hongtian and the other faction leaders dismissed the array’s threat and advanced on First Grade Tower, determined to kill Lin Baichuan.

Lin Baichuan used Barbarian Suppression City's reforged Guardian Array to suppress the invading factions and kill Shentu Hongtian. He confronted the survivors and declared that they would all be wiped out from the city.

• Lin Baichuan activated the city's great array, suppressing the strength of the gathered factions.
• Shentu Hongtian attacked First Grade Tower, but Lin Baichuan countered with a Thunder Battle Spear and a Five Elements Mountain.
• The Thunder Battle Spear killed Shentu Hongtian and his exploding remains killed more than a hundred people from the surrounding factions.
• Old Man Wuya accused Lin Baichuan of launching a sneak attack and warned him about the Shentu Family's retaliation.
• Lin Baichuan appeared before Xu Qingshan, Wang Yunxi, and the other Attendants, then vowed to erase the remaining factions from Barbarian Suppression City.

Lin Baichuan used the grand formation to empower the Barbarian Suppression Army and lead its attack against the major powers. He then joined the battle against Old Man Wuya, whose damaged seal could no longer stop Lin Baichuan’s descending blade as the chapter ended.

• Lin Baichuan activated the grand formation and unleashed targeted lightning against the major powers while Xu Qingshan and the other Attendants attacked their Enlightenment Realm experts.
• Lin Baichuan summoned Five Elements battle armor to strengthen the Barbarian Suppression Army, and its soldiers charged the forces of the major powers.
• Chen Zhong and the other commanders led the army’s Divine Ability Realm cultivators into battle, while Xu Qingshan and the Attendants held off Old Man Wuya and more than thirty Enlightenment Realm experts.
• Lin Baichuan appeared above Old Man Wuya and struck with the Embrace Mountain Seal, but Old Man Wuya blocked it with a Quasi-Treasure Artifact.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed World Burying Three Blades: Burying the World, cracking Old Man Wuya’s seal and sending his blade toward him.

Lin Baichuan and Xu Qingshan led the slaughter of the major forces in Barbarian Suppression City, with the grand array helping them overwhelm their opponents. After killing the last Enlightenment Realm expert, Lin Baichuan gained more than 1.3 million taels of merit and planned to use it to advance his cultivation and prepare for the barbarian invasion.

• Lin Baichuan killed Old Man Wuya with a single blade strike while Xu Qingshan's Sword Qi kept him from escaping.
• Lin Baichuan attacked more enemies with the grand array's power as Xu Qingshan joined forces with another Attendant against an Enlightenment Realm expert.
• The major forces' fighters panicked, fled, begged for mercy, or cursed Lin Baichuan as his forces slaughtered them across the city.
• Chen Zhong and the Tiger Leopard Battalion purged the defeated forces, destroyed their bases, and confiscated their wealth and resources.
• Lin Baichuan killed the last Enlightenment Realm expert and received 1,209,800 taels of merit from the slaughter, bringing his total gains above 1.3 million taels.
• Lin Baichuan resolved to use the merit to raise his cultivation and prepare to withstand the barbarian army's invasion.

Lin Baichuan forced Barbarian Suppression City's factions to submit, ordered the military competition and the army’s reorganization to proceed, and returned to cultivate with his new merit points. Meanwhile, mysterious enemies plotted to strike during the coming barbarian invasion and sabotage his formation, unaware their conversation had been recorded.

• Lin Baichuan ordered the submitting forces to deliver the demanded resources to the Barbarian Suppression Army headquarters within one day.
• Lin Baichuan told Chen Zhong to finish the competition and choose the top ten by the next day, intending to reorganize the army and remove Marquis Beichen's remaining influence.
• Lin Baichuan ordered officials to tally the resources seized from the city's major forces, then returned to the headquarters to spend his merit points on cultivation.
• A group of mysterious figures discussed waiting for the barbarian invasion to attack Lin Baichuan and considered destroying the formation they believed he was preparing.
• The mysterious figures failed to realize that their conversation had been silently recorded.

Li Jianan received an Imprint Talisman recording a plot to strike Lin Baichuan during the barbarian invasion. In seclusion, Lin Baichuan burned merit to reach the Calamity Realm and form the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form Furnace Calamity Prison, whose appearance plunged Barbarian Suppression City into terror.

• A Shadow Guard informant told Li Jianan that court-backed figures were plotting against Lin Baichuan and handed her a recording of their meeting.
• Li Jianan praised the informant, promised to report his service to Lin Baichuan, and told him to change his hiding place.
• Lin Baichuan burned more than a million units of merit to advance from the Divine Ability Seventh Layer into the Calamity Realm.
• Lin Baichuan overcame the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations and condensed the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form Furnace Calamity Prison.
• The Dharma Form shattered the cultivation chamber’s formations and spread calamity aura across Barbarian Suppression City, causing many residents to kneel, panic, or lose their minds.

Lin Baichuan emerged from seclusion after spending his merit to reach the Divine Ability Ninth Stage, cultivate Furnace Calamity Prison, and advance his cultivation method into Furnace Golden Bell Shield. Li Jianan came to report urgent news, and Lin Baichuan allowed her into his study, where his power left her awed and afraid.

• Lin Baichuan checked his status and saw that his cultivation had reached the Divine Ability Ninth Stage with the Furnace Calamity Prison Dharma Form.
• Lin Baichuan reflected that Furnace Golden Bell Shield showed signs of advancing beyond a divine ability into a Dao technique.
• Li Jianan arrived at Lin Baichuan's residence with urgent business, but his personal guards refused to disturb his seclusion.
• Lin Baichuan left seclusion and ordered the guards to let Li Jianan enter.
• Li Jianan met Lin Baichuan in his study and felt overwhelmed by his terrifying aura.

Lin Baichuan learned that infiltrators planned to assassinate him during the barbarian invasion and sabotage Barbarian Suppression City's grand formation, so he decided to draw them out. He then learned that the irreplaceable Gengjin Profound Jade needed for the next formation was missing and ordered a citywide search.

• Li Jianan told Lin Baichuan that major-faction infiltrators planned to kill him amid the invasion and sabotage his formation, and she gave him an Imprint Talisman recording their discussion.
• Lin Baichuan told Li Jianan to keep monitoring the conspirators without alerting them, and he gave her Dragon Tiger Great Pills as a reward for the person who made the recording.
• After Li Jianan left, Lin Baichuan considered how to bring the Shadow Guard under his control and planned to influence a woman cultivating the Heavenly Gang Divine Ability he had given her.
• Chen Zhong reported that the selection tournament would conclude the next day, and Lin Baichuan agreed to attend.
• Yuan Qiuying reported that Gengjin Profound Jade was missing from the confiscated resources, and Lin Baichuan ordered a full search for it.

After Lin Baichuan sought Gengjin Profound Jade to build a grand array, he asked Li Jianan to request help from Xia Langtian. Xia Langtian sent a piece from the royal treasury, while his black-clad subordinate arranged to deliver it and challenge Lin Baichuan; he also secretly tasked her with retrieving something from the Barren Land.

• Lin Baichuan ordered Barbarian Suppression City to search for Gengjin Profound Jade, though he placed greater hope in Xia Langtian’s ability to obtain it.
• Li Jianan sent Xia Langtian a message explaining Lin Baichuan’s need for the material and his interest in an alliance.
• Xia Langtian ordered Muyu to retrieve Gengjin Profound Jade from the royal treasury as a gift for Lin Baichuan.
• Muyu offered to deliver the material herself so she could challenge Lin Baichuan and assess his strength, and Xia Langtian agreed.
• Xia Langtian told Muyu to meet Li Jianan in Barbarian Suppression City and secretly retrieve something for him from the Barren Land.

Lin Baichuan watched the Barbarian Suppression Army grand competition’s finals and introduced the Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda as a test of the top ten soldiers’ military abilities. He sent them into the tower for a one-day challenge, with the promise that anyone who cleared it would win the tower.

• Li Jianan told Lin Baichuan that Muyu would deliver the Gengjin Profound Jade from the Imperial Capital in about ten days, and that the Seventh Prince sought only to build goodwill.
• Lin Baichuan ordered Li Jianan to report when Muyu arrived, then took her to the Barbarian Suppression Army’s drill ground to watch the finals.
• Lin Baichuan addressed the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and explained that the final rankings would measure military competence as well as combat strength.
• Lin Baichuan summoned the Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda and told the ten finalists to clear as many of its levels as possible within one day, promising the tower to anyone who cleared it.

Lin Baichuan sent the grand competition’s top ten soldiers into the Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda, where they faced a trial that tested combat skill and broader capabilities. As the soldiers battled through the first floor, Lin Baichuan watched closely and fixed his attention on a thin young man.

• Lin Baichuan announced that the top ten could earn a Quasi-Treasure Artifact by clearing the trial, exciting the soldiers and making the senior officers envious.
• The Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda drew the ten soldiers inside and transported them to separate regions of a beast-filled desert on the first floor.
• Lin Baichuan told Chen Zhong and the other officers that all ten soldiers had great potential and urged the commanders to cultivate themselves and lead their men well.
• The ten soldiers fought their way through hordes of beasts and converged toward the center as soldiers on the training grounds debated who would win.
• Lin Baichuan watched the soldiers reveal their full strength, then narrowed his eyes and focused on a thin young man.

Li Changsheng surged from third place to win the Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda competition, becoming the only participant to reach its sixth level. Lin Baichuan learned of Li Changsheng’s fallen Giant Spirit Marquis family and considered giving him special attention as the competition’s rewards were distributed.

• Lin Baichuan learned that Li Changsheng was the former Young Lord of the Giant Spirit Marquis, whose household had been condemned for alleged collusion with the Alien Races, and that he had survived in the Barbarian Suppression Army’s Vanguard Camp.
• As the ten finalists advanced through the Seven-Star Demon Suppression Pagoda, Song Tianyun led, with Li Changsheng and Mu Chen close behind.
• With less than half an hour remaining, Li Changsheng accelerated through the fifth level, passed Mu Chen and Song Tianyun, and became the only finalist to enter the sixth level.
• Lin Baichuan ended the competition and announced Li Changsheng as champion, Song Tianyun as runner-up, and Mu Chen as third.
• Lin Baichuan divided pills, spiritual artifacts, Quasi-Treasure Artifacts, and divine ability jade manuals among the ten finalists.

Lin Baichuan reorganized the Barbarian Suppression Army, promising better rewards and introducing reforms to raise its strength. Three days later, the army had been divided into seven legions and was rapidly improving through intensive formation drills and abundant supplies.

• Lin Baichuan announced that the competition would be held annually, with more categories and greater rewards, potentially including true treasure artifacts.
• Lin Baichuan promised a new battle formation, higher pay and benefits, and monthly pill supplies for the soldiers.
• Lin Baichuan disbanded the Tiger Leopard Battalion, formed a thousand-man personal guard battalion, and reorganized the army into seven legions led by Chen Zhong, Yuan Qiuying, Li Changsheng, Song Tianyun, Mu Chen, Luo Tianyu, and Zhang Jingyu.
• Lin Baichuan promoted competition finalists and selected former officers to command posts, weakening the influence of Jiang Ying's faction and the neutral faction.
• Lin Baichuan introduced the Three Talents Seven Kill Battle Formation and, over three days, established the army's legions and auxiliary departments.
• The seven legions drilled the formation while Lin Baichuan supplied cultivation resources, and soldiers rapidly advanced in strength.

Seven days after the Barbarian Suppression Army’s reorganization, Lin Baichuan received Xu Qingshan and Jiang Ying and agreed to refine Xu Qingshan a treasured sword. He began the work in his study with his own powerful cauldron furnace and Earth Spirit Fire.

• Luo Zhan, Lin Baichuan’s newly appointed personal guard captain, announced Xu Qingshan and Jiang Ying’s arrival and escorted them into the study.
• Xu Qingshan asked Lin Baichuan to refine a Treasure Artifact using the materials he had gathered.
• Lin Baichuan agreed to forge Xu Qingshan a low-grade Treasure Artifact on the spot and revealed the Mid-grade Treasure Artifact cauldron furnace he had refined himself.
• Lin Baichuan explained that the furnace had a one-hundred-percent success rate for low-grade Treasure Artifacts and could increase their power by thirty percent, astonishing Xu Qingshan and Jiang Ying.
• Xu Qingshan handed Lin Baichuan the materials, and Lin Baichuan identified the geocentric molten iron essence before lighting the furnace with his Earth Spirit Fire.

Lin Baichuan forged Xu Qingshan a powerful low-grade treasure sword and revealed that he was preparing a sixth-tier formation to counter the coming barbarian invasion. The chapter left Xu Qingshan and Jiang Ying impressed but wary as they considered the strength of Lin Baichuan’s defenses against the barbarians and the Heaven Splitting Sword Sect.

• Lin Baichuan forged a blazing azure treasured sword, and Xu Qingshan refined it with his blood and stored it within his body.
• Lin Baichuan asked Xu Qingshan to fully refine the sword so he could support the defense against the imminent barbarian invasion.
• Jiang Ying warned Lin Baichuan that the Heaven Splitting Sword Sect would join the barbarians and might send a Chaos Hole Realm elder, but he refused her offer to contact the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden Palace.
• Lin Baichuan revealed that the Gengjin Profound Jade would soon arrive, allowing him to establish a sixth-tier formation capable of killing Chaos Hole Realm experts.
• Xu Qingshan and Jiang Ying privately discussed Lin Baichuan’s mysterious resources and wondered how powerful his formation would be.

After forging Xu Qingshan a low-grade treasure weapon, Lin Baichuan continued cultivating until Muyu arrived with Gengjin Profound Jade on the Seventh Prince’s orders. When she challenged him, his perfect-level Saber Domain forced her to surrender the jade immediately.

• Xu Qingshan’s newly forged treasure weapon stirred envy among the Barbarian Suppression City’s powerful figures, while Wang Yunxi and the other Attendants lamented that they lacked the materials for their own weapons.
• Lin Baichuan spent the next three days cultivating and strengthening his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form.
• Muyu arrived outside Barbarian Suppression City and offered Lin Baichuan Gengjin Profound Jade, challenging him to prove he could take it.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed his perfect-level Saber Domain, suppressing Muyu and weakening her by more than thirty percent.
• Muyu surrendered and sent the Gengjin Profound Jade to Lin Baichuan, who stored it for the Sixth-tier Formation Array he planned to build.