Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing entered the Ji Family’s hidden underground passage to reach the secret realm entrance, which the Eternal Life Alliance was struggling to suppress. He arrived at the palace with the Square Inch Pagoda as the masked figures prepared to retrieve it.

• Lin Changqing decided to visit the secret realm the Ji Family had suppressed with the Square Inch Pagoda and made his way to the abandoned Ji Family Mansion.
• Lin Changqing moved an ancient pavilion to uncover the secret passage and followed the route recorded by the Square Inch Pagoda through the underground caves.
• Lin Changqing reached a palace on a cloud-shrouded cliff, where nine masked figures used a cracked Array Disk to contain the secret realm’s unstable entrance.
• A Black Bear Masked Man complained that Ji Kang had not returned with the pagoda, while a Monkey-faced Masked Man insisted they had to hold the secret realm closed until Rakshasa Elder retrieved an item.
• Lin Changqing appeared in the hall and announced that he had brought the Square Inch Pagoda back.

Lin Changqing stormed the palace and confronted nine Demonized Warriors guarding the Secret Realm Space entrance. After killing their strongest member with one punch, he attacked the remaining eight as they transformed and fought back.

• Lin Changqing identified the nine masked guards as Demonized Warriors and revealed that he was a One-Star Demon Slaying Captain of the Demon Suppression Division.
• The guards recognized Lin Changqing as the man who had killed Ji Kang and prepared to fight.
• Lin Changqing killed the strongest guard, the Black Bear Mask man, with a single punch that formed a True Essence tiger.
• The remaining eight tried to flee into the Secret Realm Space to summon the Rakshasa Elder, but Lin Changqing blocked them with the Jingzhe Saber.
• The eight Demonized Warriors transformed into fiends and attacked Lin Changqing, who sent eight blade-qi cranes rushing toward them.

Lin Changqing entered the secret realm, killed its Demonized Warrior guardian, and crossed the vast space toward the Eternal Life Alliance’s stronghold on Lake Island. He arrived and spotted the jade-like stone the Alliance had gathered to protect.

• Lin Changqing entered the vortex after killing eight Demonized Warriors and emerged in a vast secret realm rich in Spiritual Energy.
• A Green Wolf Demon ambushed Lin Changqing, but Lin Changqing killed him with a roar of Spiritual Power.
• Lin Changqing flew toward the secret realm’s center, collecting more than a thousand old medicinal herbs and over thirty spiritual medicines along the way.
• Lin Changqing reached Lake Island and sensed twenty-one Demonized Warriors there, including one in the Void Refining Realm.
• Lin Changqing saw a green jade-like stone surrounded by the Eternal Life Alliance warriors and flew across the lake toward the island.

Lin Changqing arrived on Lake Island and attacked the Eternal Life Alliance warriors guarding the Azure Stone, which had stirred a powerful reaction from his Divine Spirit. He killed six warriors in his opening strike and continued his assault on the gaunt leader.

• The Eternal Life Alliance's twenty-one Demonized Warriors failed to break the Azure Stone's restriction, while the Rakshasa Elder warned they had only ten days to half a month before the Secret Realm Space emerged.
• Lin Changqing arrived on Lake Island and blocked the Rakshasa Elder's punch, then mocked the warriors for failing to break the restriction.
• The Rakshasa Elder deduced that Lin Changqing had killed the guards outside and questioned whether the Ji Family had revealed the Secret Realm Space.
• Lin Changqing sensed his Divine Spirit's intense response to the Azure Stone and resolved to obtain it, believing it could transform his Divine Spirit.
• Lin Changqing's Jingzhe Saber strike disoriented the warriors and killed six of them; the Rakshasa Elder recovered and raised a Light Screen to defend against the attack.
• Lin Changqing descended and slashed at the Rakshasa Elder with a massive blade of Qi.

Lin Changqing killed Rakshasa and the Eternal Life Alliance warriors, then found a vast Spatial Ring on Rakshasa’s body. Inside, he discovered thousands of spiritual medicines and thirteen Profound Grade spiritual medicines, leaving him stunned by the unexpected haul.

• Lin Changqing’s blade strike killed a Demonized Warrior with its sound waves and sent the others fleeing in terror.
• Rakshasa clashed with Lin Changqing, but Lin Changqing’s Blade Qi defeated his blood-red sword and split him in two.
• Lin Changqing pursued and killed the remaining Demonized Warriors, then searched all twenty-one bodies for valuables.
• Lin Changqing found a jade Spatial Ring on Rakshasa’s finger and discovered that it held a thousand zhang of space.
• Lin Changqing found thousands of spiritual medicines in the ring, including thirteen Profound Grade medicines in a white jade chest.

Lin Changqing discovered the wealth in Rakshasa’s Spatial Ring, then spent three days comprehending and breaking the Azure Stone’s Innate Restriction. He became a grandmaster of Array Dao and drew the Azure Stone into his Sea of Consciousness to refine it.

• Lin Changqing examined the Spatial Ring and found herbs, precious metals, gold, silver, spirit ores, and a Thunder Pattern Iron he planned to use to improve his Jingzhe Saber.
• Lin Changqing deduced that the Spatial Ring had belonged to the Eternal Life Alliance and contained resources collected for its leaders, before Rakshasa lost it to him.
• Lin Changqing studied the Azure Stone’s Innate Restriction, using Spiritual Perception to comprehend its mysteries for three days.
• Lin Changqing mastered the restriction, advanced from a Master to a grandmaster of Array Dao, and removed the restriction from the Azure Stone.
• Lin Changqing sensed the Azure Stone could help advance his Spiritual Realm and used Spiritual Power to pull it into his Sea of Consciousness.

Lin Changqing used the Azure Stone to complete his Thirty-three Heavens and break through to the Divine Breath Realm. He began drawing higher-grade energy from another world to transform his body and cultivation.

• The Azure Stone's cyan airflow spread through Lin Changqing's Sea of Consciousness as he visualized the Thirty-three Heavens and nurtured his Divine Spirit.
• A Black Robe Figure sent a Youth in Green Robe and Blood Guard to investigate Rakshasa's disappearance and retrieve his Spatial Ring and a Strange Treasure, suspecting Lin Changqing was involved.
• After half a month of meditation, Lin Changqing lit the final star of the Thirty-three Heavens, expanded his Divine Spirit to three feet, and entered the Divine Breath Realm.
• Lin Changqing drew energy from a Supreme Great World and refined it with the Five Elements Dao Seeking Scripture, transforming his body, Qi Sea, Divine Bridge, and Immortal Platform.

Lin Changqing left the secret realm after greatly strengthening his cultivation and taking the repaired array diagram, then returned to the palace just before the Eternal Life Alliance arrived. He escaped through the cliff passage, while the Alliance’s group entered the palace and headed toward the expanding secret realm entrance.

• Lin Changqing’s hour of cultivation expanded and solidified his Immortal Platform to thirty thousand feet, while the azure stone’s lingering energy continued to nourish his Divine Spirit.
• Lin Changqing left the secret realm, sensing that members of the Eternal Life Alliance would arrive within minutes.
• Lin Changqing took the array diagram, causing the secret realm entrance to shake and release powerful fluctuations.
• Lin Changqing avoided the approaching Alliance by leaving through the passage atop the cliff, wary that they might discover what had happened.
• Eleven members of the Eternal Life Alliance arrived at the palace, and the Youth in Green Robe warned the others before entering the secret realm passage.

Lin Changqing set a Geng Metal Sword Array in the passage to ambush the Eternal Life Alliance, then persuaded Liu Chengfeng that the array could help the Demon Suppressing Division strike them. After the array was triggered, Liu Chengfeng led his forces toward the battle, unaware that Lin Changqing meant to turn the two groups against each other.

• Lin Changqing set up an improved Geng Metal Sword Array in the passage, expecting the Eternal Life Alliance to use it to reach North Sea Commandery City.
• Lin Changqing met Liu Chengfeng and the Demon Suppressing Division in the passage and claimed he had discovered a secret palace built by the Eternal Life Alliance beneath the Ji Family Mansion.
• Lin Changqing explained his suspicions about the Ji family and persuaded Liu Chengfeng that the array could trap the Eternal Life Alliance's experts.
• Lin Changqing planned to divert the Eternal Life Alliance's attention toward the Demon Suppressing Division and draw Liu Chengfeng's scrutiny away from himself.
• A crash and powerful sword intent revealed that the Eternal Life Alliance had entered the array, and Liu Chengfeng led his forces toward it with Lin Changqing in front.

Lin Changqing watched as Liu Chengfeng and the Demon Suppression Division guards fought the trapped members of the Eternal Life Alliance. The chapter revealed Liu Chengfeng’s concealed strength and ended with Lin Changqing realizing he had badly underestimated him.

• Lin Changqing fell behind the group as they approached the activated Geng Metal Sword Array, where Sword Qi had already killed several Demonized Warriors.
• The blood-robed masked man and the Green-robed Man broke the array and charged Liu Chengfeng’s group in demonized forms.
• Liu Chengfeng drove back the Bear Demon with a powerful slash, while the other guards coordinated to suppress the Green Wolf Demon.
• Lin Changqing stayed out of the fight as Liu Chengfeng killed the Bear Demon with Flame Saber Intent.
• Lin Changqing recognized that Liu Chengfeng had concealed peak Transforming Void Realm combat strength and admitted he had misjudged him.

Lin Changqing shifted the Eternal Life Alliance’s suspicion onto Liu Chengfeng, who secured the Secret Realm Space while the Alliance ordered an investigation and his death. After cultivating with energy from a higher world, Lin Changqing decided to leave Beihai Commandery and seek out Zhuang Fan’s son.

• Liu Chengfeng killed the two Eternal Life Alliance warriors, sealed the palace around the Secret Realm Space, and let Lin Changqing leave without further concern.
• The Asura-masked black-robed man blamed Liu Chengfeng for the deaths of Blood Guard and Green Robe, ordered the North Sea Branch’s Green-clothed Envoys to return, and demanded that Liu Chengfeng be killed and the azure stone and Spatial Ring recovered.
• Lin Changqing cultivated by drawing pure energy from a higher world, transforming his body and expanding his Immortal Platform beyond what he had thought possible.
• Lin Changqing concluded that Liu Chengfeng was blocking the Demon Suppression Division’s information about the Ji Family’s direct line, so he planned to leave Beihai Commandery and find Zhuang Fan’s son in Dafeng Prefecture.

Lin Changqing reached the limit of a Million Foot Immortal Platform and planned to travel to Dafeng Prefecture, but an urgent summons from Commandant Liu brought him to headquarters, where he reunited with Gu Chensha. The chapter ended with Lin Changqing asking Gu Chensha why they had been summoned.

• Lin Changqing inspected his Million Foot Immortal Platform and resolved to keep its extraordinary size secret.
• Lin Changqing planned to travel to Dafeng Prefecture and visit the Mission Hall to seek missions along the way.
• Wang Hanshan told Lin Changqing that Commandant Liu had ordered all captains in North Sea Commandery City to assemble at headquarters within an hour.
• Lin Changqing arrived at headquarters and encountered Gu Chensha, who had become a Three-Star Demon Slaying Captain and reached the Void Refining Realm.
• Lin Changqing and Gu Chensha exchanged remarks about their rapid advancement, and Lin Changqing asked why Commandant Liu had summoned them.

Lin Changqing learned that Wan Jianyi had crushed the White Lotus Sect rebellion and destroyed twelve Eternal Life Alliance strongholds before leaving Beihai Commandery. After waiting most of the day at the drill ground, Lin Changqing sensed Liu Chengfeng and two Two-Star Demon Slaying Commandants arriving.

• Gu Chensha told Lin Changqing that Dafeng Prefecture officials had come to requisition manpower for a purge tied to the Eternal Life Alliance and White Lotus Sect.
• Gu Chensha revealed that Wan Jianyi of the Cloud Sword Sect had quelled the rebellion and destroyed twelve Eternal Life Alliance strongholds, and that the twenty-one-year-old could slay Life and Death Realm experts across realms.
• Gu Chensha expressed confidence that he could spar with Wan Jianyi, while Lin Changqing wondered about Gu Chensha's hidden fortuitous encounter.
• At the drill ground, Gu Chensha went to speak with acquaintances while Lin Changqing sat alone and waited.
• After most of the day passed, Lin Changqing sensed three figures approaching, and Liu Chengfeng arrived on the platform with two Two-Star Demon Slaying Commandants.

Liu Chengfeng recruited Demon Slaying Captains from the Beihai Demon Suppression Division for a dangerous campaign in Dafeng Prefecture, tempting them with Contribution Points and Spirit Pool access. Lin Changqing refused to volunteer, but Liu Chengfeng revealed he had already secured a slot for him.

• Liu Chengfeng introduced Commandants Shi Linghao and Yan Dong and announced a transfer mission to reinforce Dafeng Prefecture, offering at least fifty thousand Contribution Points.
• Liu Chengfeng promised the thousand top earners posts in the Dafeng Prefecture Demon Suppression Division and an opportunity to enter the Spirit Pool, while Lin Changqing judged the coming battle against the White Lotus Sect and Eternal Life Alliance too dangerous.
• Liu Chengfeng said only five hundred people could go, prompting Demon Slaying Captains to rush to register.
• Lin Changqing headed away from the crowd, refusing to risk his life for the rewards.
• Liu Chengfeng stopped Lin Changqing and told him he had personally recommended him, guaranteeing him a slot in the transfer.

Lin Changqing met Gu Chensha and three powerful companions at the Demon Suppression Division’s Drill Ground before they departed to reinforce Dafeng Prefecture. A Taotie Warship arrived to carry the captains, and the two commandants ordered everyone aboard.

• Lin Changqing joined Gu Chensha and met Yun Qianhe, Wang Qingshuang, and Du Mingyue, while recognizing that all four were concealing their true strength.
• Lin Changqing and the others watched a massive black warship fly over the Drill Ground and hover above it.
• Yun Qianhe identified the vessel as a Taotie Warship brought from Dafeng Prefecture, and Gu Chensha explained its ancient origins.
• Two commandants emerged onto the warship’s deck and ordered everyone to board, announcing that they would depart in a quarter of an hour.

Lin Changqing studied the Taotie Warship during its journey, mastering its design and devising improvements, then focused on cultivating his Martial Cultivation. After five days, he forged an illusory ten-thousand-zhang Dao Palace and entered Early Palace Creation, planning to refine pills to hasten its solidification.

• Lin Changqing analyzed the Taotie Warship’s structure and array formation, learning its principles and identifying ways to make it more than three times stronger.
• Lin Changqing set aside plans to build a warship and concentrated on strengthening his Martial Cultivation and forging a Dao Palace.
• After five days of cultivation aboard the warship, Lin Changqing inspected his Purple Mansion and found a nearly ten-thousand-zhang Dao Palace.
• Lin Changqing entered Early Palace Creation, noting that his Divine Breath had doubled and his ability to draw energy from higher worlds had increased more than threefold.
• Lin Changqing resolved to refine pills and predicted that he could solidify his Dao Palace and reach the Limit of Palace Creation within a month with their help.

Lin Changqing and the other Demon Slaying Captains discovered that their supposed transfer to Dafeng Prefecture had become a mission to destroy an Eternal Life Alliance branch in Tengshan County Town. As the five hundred Captains descended into the town, Lin Changqing had already marked its Demonized Warriors with his Spiritual Power.

• The Taotie Warship stopped above an unfamiliar city, and Lin Changqing recognized it as a place filled with more than eight hundred Demonized Warriors.
• Yan Dong revealed that they had reached Tengshan County in Liuyun Commandery and ordered the five hundred Captains to find and destroy the Eternal Life Alliance branch as a mission and assessment.
• Yan Dong warned that anyone who failed the mission and survived would be sent back to North Sea Commandery instead of continuing to Dafeng Prefecture.
• Lin Changqing quietly judged the sudden mission to be an assessment and used his Spiritual Power to map the town and mark every Demonized Warrior.
• After Yan Dong ordered them to set out, all five hundred Demon Slaying Captains leaped from the Taotie Warship into Tengshan County Town.

Lin Changqing led his team to the Eternal Life Alliance Branch stronghold beneath a posthouse in Tengshan County Town, after Du Mingyue deduced that the reinforcement operation was an assessment. The team exposed the underground base and signaled the others as hundreds of Demonized Warriors emerged.

• Du Mingyue told Lin Changqing, Gu Chensha, Yun Qianhe, and Wang Qingshuang that the reinforcement operation was an assessment, and Gu Chensha urged them to complete it.
• Lin Changqing said he knew the Eternal Life Alliance Branch's location and led the team toward the southern district.
• Lin Changqing brought the team to a posthouse and slashed it apart with the Jingzhe Saber, revealing a deep pit filled with Demonic Fiendish Energy.
• Gu Chensha recognized the stronghold and ordered a signal sent, and Wang Qingshuang launched it into the sky.
• Several hundred Demonized Warriors charged out of the pit and roared at the Demon Suppression Division.

Lin Changqing and his companions discovered an Eternal Life Alliance hideout beneath Tengshan County and fought their way into its underground city. Lin Changqing found Gu Chensha being overwhelmed by a Three-star Red-robed Envoy and two Demonized Warriors.

• A signal summoned Demon Slaying Captains across Tengshan County after the hideout was found.
• Gu Chensha and Yun Qianhe led the group against hundreds of Demonized Warriors, while Lin Changqing killed his attackers with swift, strange saber strikes.
• Lin Changqing left Yun Qianhe, Wang Qingshuang, and Du Mingyue to fight the remaining enemies and descended into the underground city, seeking its treasure vault.
• Lin Changqing sensed that Gu Chensha was fighting several Void Refining Realm opponents and rushed through the underground city toward him.
• Lin Changqing arrived to find Gu Chensha besieged by two Wolf Demon Demonized Warriors and a Three-star Red-robed Envoy wielding a Wailing Stick.

Lin Changqing rescued Gu Chensha by swiftly killing two demonized Green-clothed Envoys, then joined Gu Chensha against the Three-star Red-robed Envoy. As the transformed Envoy drove them back, Gu Chensha asked Lin Changqing to hold him off for ten breaths while he prepared a killing move.

• Lin Changqing arrived and killed both demonized Green-clothed Envoys with a devastating saber strike, causing many Eternal Life Alliance warriors to flee.
• Lin Changqing and Gu Chensha attacked the Red-robed Envoy together, but the Envoy transformed into a powerful, flame-covered demon beast and forced them back.
• Gu Chensha told Lin Changqing he needed ten breaths to prepare a killing move, and Lin Changqing agreed to hold off the Envoy.
• Lin Changqing unleashed Blood Surging, formed a Qi and Blood Furnace, and slashed at the Red-robed Envoy.