Chapter Summaries

Lin Lan and Ling Ling learned that several hunter institutes had received Star Sea Veins and attended a secret operation organized by Lu Kun. Lin Lan recognized Lu Kun as Yi Qiu’s lackey, and the commission letter revealed that a Hunter King had vowed to hunt down a dangerous red-souled creature.

• Lin Lan met Ling Ling, who told him that hunter institutes across Asia had received Star Sea Veins and that Old Man Bao had gone to sea after the Sea Emperor was located.
• Lin Lan and Ling Ling joined representatives from several hunter institutes at Lu Kun’s villa, where he announced that each institute and Hunter King would receive a separate, secret commission.
• Lin Lan recognized Lu Kun as Yi Qiu’s lackey and suspected the operation was a trap, but he concealed his knowledge and acted normally.
• After receiving his commission letter, Ling Ling became furious and refused to accept the assignment.
• Lin Lan read the letter from a Hunter King who described tracking a growing red-souled magical creature and swore to eradicate it.

Ling Ling learned that her father’s diary was part of his final commission to destroy the Red Demon, and Lin Lan helped her uncover that Lu Kun was the Red Demon. Lin Lan went to the Mountain of Imprisonment to investigate, where a Blood Clan Elder confronted him and was swiftly punched aside.

• Lin Lan comforted Ling Ling as she realized her father had left a delayed commission asking hunters to finish his mission against the Red Demon.
• Lin Lan proposed secretly taking Lu Kun’s blood, and Ling Ling confirmed that Lu Kun was the Red Demon.
• Lin Lan concluded that the Mountain of Imprisonment might hold clues because Lu Kun owned it, and he brought Mo Fan’s Ninghua Evil Pearl.
• Ling Ling identified the approaching, shadowless old man as a powerful Blood Clan Elder when Lin Lan arrived at the Mountain of Imprisonment.
• The Blood Clan Elder introduced himself as Duke Xiang and threatened to add Lin Lan’s blood to his cellar, but Lin Lan punched him away.

Lin Lan fought Xion, a Blood Clan Elder who regenerated by absorbing blood, and summoned the ancient lightning spirit Lei Si to counter him. Lei Si destroyed Xion’s bats and raised a vast lightning barrier as Lin Lan ordered it to slaughter the Blood Clan.

• Lin Lan ambushed Xion with Instantaneous Movement and struck him with Heavenly Thunder, but Xion regenerated by absorbing blood from the surrounding area.
• Xion introduced himself as Xion, boasted about the return of the Dark Alien Clan, and evaded Lin Lan’s attacks.
• Lin Lan moved to a high-rise and summoned Lei Si, an ancient elemental spirit of lightning.
• Xion cast Blood Cage around the residents, but Lei Si’s lightning destroyed the bats threatening them.
• Lin Lan ordered Lei Si to slaughter the Blood Clan, and Lei Si spread a lightning barrier across several kilometers.

Lin Lan and Thunder Lord defeated Count Xion, but Red Demon Lu Kun appeared and tried to recruit Lin Lan by defending his rule over the Mountain of Imprisonment. Lin Lan rejected him and exposed his brutality, prompting Lu Kun to transform and attack.

• Thunder Lord and Lin Lan overwhelmed Count Xion with lightning, and Thunder Lord struck him down despite his many afterimages.
• Lu Kun appeared behind Xion, offered Lin Lan power and the half-ripe Evil Bead Fruit, and claimed his Mountain of Imprisonment helped people.
• Lin Lan refused Lu Kun's offer, calling him a monster, while Lu Kun defended his company and the town as a peaceful place that gave people work and purpose.
• Lin Lan mocked Lu Kun's offer by comparing it to keeping a dog, then accused him of enslaving people and pointed to the missing father and Xion's attacks on residents.
• Lu Kun transformed into a monstrous red devil, declared that he would kill the hunters, and charged at Lin Lan as the street and nearby buildings were wrecked.

Lin Lan fought Red Demon Lu Kun in Lohas Town’s scrapyard to keep their battle away from residents, while Lei Si pursued Count Xion. Lu Kun gained support from a mind-controlled wind prison guard, but Lin Lan struck the guard with the Fossil Whale Tail and left the fight still facing Lu Kun.

• Lei Si flew after Count Xion, while Lin Lan drew Lu Kun into the scrapyard to avoid endangering Lohas Town’s residents.
• Lin Lan used Mind Control to hurl wrecked vehicles, a crane, and wrecking balls at Lu Kun, who destroyed the metal with his demonic barrier and Frenzy Liquid.
• Lu Kun revealed that he controlled a super-tier wind prison guard, who attacked Lin Lan with Wind Slaying Slash while Lu Kun closed in with claw strikes.
• Lin Lan used the Earth Blood Pact to summon the Fossil Whale Tail, which swept the wind prison guard a thousand meters away.
• Lu Kun had retreated from the earth’s disturbance before the fossil tail struck, then returned and applauded Lin Lan.

Lin Lan used his mastery of darkness and the Ninghua Evil Pearl to defeat and destroy Red Demon Lu Kun. He revealed that his real purpose was to let the Cold Hunter King return as an undead, leaving the King’s fate to follow.

• Lin Lan’s Shattered Ghost Ship cleansed Red Demon Lu Kun’s scarlet flames before shattering against its true body.
• Lin Lan attacked Lu Kun with shadow sails, severed its arms, and let the Ninghua Evil Pearl absorb its source resentment.
• Lin Lan reflected on Yi Qiu’s resistance to the demon and the Cold Hunter King’s sacrifice, then told Lu Kun that it was only a parasite.
• Lu Kun warned that its death would fulfill a more terrifying existence and questioned who had commissioned the hunt; Lin Lan said he knew the commission came from Red Demon Yi Qiu and that the Cold Hunter King’s righteous soul remained within Yi Qiu’s body.
• Lin Lan destroyed Lu Kun with pure darkness and declared that he had come to kill it so the Cold Hunter King could return as an undead.

After Lin Lan killed Red Demon Lu Kun, the Cold Hunter King's Soul Fragment of Destiny merged with him and reunited with Ling Ling. Lin Lan began using Fusion Magic and the Thunder Lion's totem power to give the Cold Hunter King a tangible body, and the process was still underway.

• Three Soul Fragments of Destiny escaped Lu Kun's corpse, and Lin Lan recognized Lu Nian, Yu Ang, and the Cold Hunter King among them.
• The Cold Hunter King's fragment drifted to Lin Lan and merged with him, letting him speak to Ling Ling in her father's voice.
• Ling Ling embraced the Cold Hunter King and remembered waiting for him and learning to live without him.
• Lin Lan used Fusion Magic to make the Cold Hunter King's form solid and warm, allowing Ling Ling to touch her father again.
• Totem power from the Thunder Lion flowed into the Cold Hunter King as a vortex of thunder formed around his soul.