Chapter Summaries

Prince Jin tried to flee Yunzhou City amid the chaos, but Wu Wudi and Lin Changqing blocked his estate. Lin Changqing’s formation massacred the estate’s inhabitants, driving Prince Jin to attack him with the Prince Jin’s Seal.

• Prince Jin ordered his people to force their way out of the estate and escape Yunzhou City.
• Wu Wudi and Lin Changqing intercepted Prince Jin and his followers at the estate gates.
• Lin Changqing sealed the estate inside his Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, suppressing its inhabitants.
• Lin Changqing unleashed the formation’s lightning, killing most of Prince Jin’s estate and his direct descendants.
• Prince Jin attacked Lin Changqing with the Prince Jin’s Seal, and Lin Changqing drew the Jingzhe Saber to meet it.

Lin Changqing killed Prince Jin after breaking his national-fortune seal and defeating a mysterious intervention, then faced a Golden Armored Guard who accused him of a crime. Lin Changqing defended the killing as a duty of the Demon Suppression Division, and Wu Wudi backed his account as the confrontation with the imperial envoy continued.

• Lin Changqing shattered Prince Jin's Seal and wounded Prince Jin with another slash, but a streak of golden light intervened and saved him from the first killing blow.
• Lin Changqing struck again, destroying Prince Jin's body and Primordial Spirit despite the Golden Armored Guard's intervention.
• A Golden Armored Guard arrived at Prince Jin's Estate and challenged Lin Changqing, while onlookers predicted his punishment for killing Prince Jin.
• Lin Changqing argued that Prince Jin had rebelled and colluded with demons, making the killing part of his duty as an envoy of the Demon Suppression Division.
• Wu Wudi supported Lin Changqing's account and said he would report the matter to the Demon Suppression Division headquarters.

Lin Changqing left Prince Jin's Estate after killing Prince Jin and confronted Wu Wudi's concerns about the Golden Armored Guard and the Imperial Court. He then rushed to defend a market district, killing a Noble Clan scion and scores of demons while attacking the surviving True Demon.

• Lin Changqing dismissed the Golden Armored Guard's threats and departed Prince Jin's Estate with Wu Wudi and the others.
• Wu Wudi warned Lin Changqing that the Golden Armored Guard might retaliate, but Lin Changqing trusted the Demon Suppression Division's independence and his own strength.
• Wu Wudi ordered his subordinates to suppress the chaos across Yunzhou City, while Lin Changqing went out to hunt demons and fiends.
• Lin Changqing detected demons attacking a market district under the guidance of a Noble Clan scion and teleported to its entrance.
• A True Demon fled when it sensed Lin Changqing, but Lin Changqing's blade killed the scion and more than a hundred Demon Beasts, then wounded the True Demon.
• The True Demon invoked Prince Jin, and Lin Changqing answered that he had killed Prince Jin before striking again.

Lin Changqing destroyed a demon avatar and purified its mark, but this drew the attention of the sealed demon’s true body. He helped end the catastrophe in Yunzhou City, then left as the city’s people began to fear that his actions against Prince Jin and the Golden Armored Guard would bring trouble.

• Lin Changqing split the demon avatar with his Blade Qi and purified its Demonic Soul Mark in his starry Sea of Consciousness.
• The sealed Old Demon sensed Lin Changqing’s cosmic Sea of Consciousness and resolved to use him as a vessel after breaking free.
• Lin Changqing used the Square Inch Pagoda to hunt demons and enemies throughout Yunzhou City, suppressing the chaos in less than two hours.
• After the battle, Lin Changqing left the ruins and avoided handling the cleanup.
• People across Yunzhou City discussed Lin Changqing’s power and his killing of Prince Jin, and many decided to respect him while keeping their distance.

Lin Changqing secluded himself outside Yunzhou City to visualize the 108 Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands, and succeeded in breaking through into the Sitting and Forgetting Realm. While Wu Wudi feared the Golden Armored Guard might have harmed him, Lin Changqing emerged from seclusion with the Huolin Grotto-Heaven taking shape in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Lin Changqing slipped out of locked-down Yunzhou City and began secluded cultivation in a mountain valley, determined to visualize the 108 Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.
• Half a month passed as Yunzhou City residents discussed Lin Changqing's deeds while the Noble Clans kept their distance from him.
• Wu Wudi learned that Lin Changqing remained missing and suspected the Golden Armored Guard at the Governor's Mansion might be involved.
• Wu Wudi ordered Lu Li to watch the Governor's Mansion and continue searching for Lin Changqing, then decided to visit the Governor's Mansion himself.
• Lin Changqing opened his eyes as the framework of the 108 Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands formed in his Sea of Consciousness, with nearly a thousand stars outlining Huolin Grotto-Heaven.
• The newly lit stars transformed Lin Changqing's Spiritual Power, and he broke through into the Sitting and Forgetting Realm.

Lin Changqing entered the Selfless Realm of Sitting and Forgetting and returned to Yunzhou City after a half-month seclusion. He learned that the Golden Armored Guard would take over Hidden Soldier Valley and was ordered to remove the Grand Array concealing it.

• Lin Changqing entered the Selfless Realm and spent an hour comprehending the laws of more than ten thousand High-Dimensional Worlds, greatly strengthening his Inner World.
• Lin Changqing returned to Yunzhou City, while Wu Wudi questioned the Golden Armored Guard about Lin Changqing's disappearance and was badly injured.
• Lu Li told Wu Wudi that Lin Changqing had returned and gone to the Scripture Pavilion, and Wu Wudi summoned him.
• Lin Changqing told Wu Wudi he had been in seclusion, and Wu Wudi revealed that the Demon Suppression Division had found Hidden Soldier Valley.
• Wu Wudi told Lin Changqing that the Golden Armored Guard would take over Hidden Soldier Valley and ordered him to remove its Grand Array.

Lin Changqing used spiritual deduction to discover that his Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven slot had been removed, then reached Hidden Soldier Valley and released the army trapped there. The three hundred thousand troops charged the Governor's Mansion army as Lin Changqing left them to create trouble for the Golden Armored Guard.

• Lin Changqing deduced that his name was missing from the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven list and suspected people in the Imperial Capital or Origin Realm had interfered.
• Lin Changqing reached Hidden Soldier Valley, found three hundred thousand troops and three peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal experts inside, and withdrew the Grand Array.
• Lin Changqing warned the Demon Suppression Division personnel to retreat, then left the valley exposed to frustrate the Golden Armored Guard.
• The trapped troops decided to fight their way out, and the Governor's Mansion army charged toward the valley as the Demon Suppression Division withdrew.
• The three hundred thousand troops surged out and routed the ten thousand-strong Governor's Mansion force, whose chief general ordered his soldiers to flee.

Hidden Soldier Valley’s three hundred thousand troops destroyed the Governor’s Mansion’s ten thousand soldiers and fled toward the Great Zhou Dynasty’s borders. Lin Changqing returned to Yunzhou City, where he confronted Wu Wudi about the threatened Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven slot and asked who was trying to take it from him.

• Three hundred thousand soldiers led by three peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals annihilated the Governor’s Mansion’s ten thousand troops and fled beyond the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Xu Gang blamed the Demon Suppression Division and Lin Changqing for the uprising, then persuaded the Golden Armored Guard to help suppress the rebel army.
• The Golden Armored Guard agreed to pursue the three hundred thousand troops before dealing with the Demon Suppression Division and Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing told Wu Wudi that the ten thousand soldiers’ deaths had nothing to do with him and dismissed Wu Wudi’s objections.
• Wu Wudi admitted that Lin Changqing’s Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven slot faced disputes, and Lin Changqing demanded details about who was behind them.

Lin Changqing learned that the Demon Suppression Division had given his Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven quota to the Yun Family after Ye Ming led the effort to sell it. He left the division determined to find a way into the grotto-heaven and take revenge, while considering the Imperial Capital’s Scripture Pavilion as a future goal.

• Lin Changqing threatened to obstruct the Great Zhou Dynasty’s entry into the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven unless Wu Wudi explained why he had no quota.
• Wu Wudi revealed that Yun Buqi had secured an extra quota from the Demon Suppression Division, displacing Lin Changqing’s original place.
• Wu Wudi identified Ye Ming as the one who led the sale of Lin Changqing’s quota, angering Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing rejected Wu Wudi’s offer of compensation and left to plan how to seize a place in the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven.
• Lin Changqing left the Demon Suppression Division and considered visiting the Imperial Capital’s Scripture Pavilion to improve his cultivation.

Lin Changqing met Yuan Qingya at Youjian Inn, where she proposed joining forces to destroy the Seven Killers Association and gave him information about the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven. He agreed to strike the association’s Yun Province branch first after learning it held a Strange Treasure, while the grotto-heaven’s opening was only months away.

• Lin Changqing went to Youjian Inn and found Yuan Qingya waiting for him, her strength having reached the limit of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Yuan Qingya proposed cooperating against the Seven Killers Association, offering intelligence in exchange for Lin Changqing’s force.
• Yuan Qingya gave Lin Changqing a jade slip with details about the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven, including its location, opening date, and entry requirements.
• Yuan Qingya revealed that the Seven Killers Association’s headquarters was overseas and about a year away, so Lin Changqing chose to target its Yun Province branch instead.
• Yuan Qingya told Lin Changqing that the branch in Tianyang Prefecture had obtained a Strange Treasure and urged him to act before it was sent overseas.

Lin Changqing traveled to Lantian County City after Yuan Qingya revealed that the Seven Killers Association’s Yunzhou Branch was hidden inside the county yamen. He confronted the suspicious guards at the entrance, and the county magistrate came out as the chapter ended.

• Yuan Qingya told her grandmother she was using Lin Changqing to destroy the Seven Killers Association, while betting that he was far stronger than he appeared.
• Lin Changqing used the Heaven Escaping Shuttle to reach Lantian County City in about an hour and confirmed that the county yamen housed the Seven Killers Association branch.
• Lin Changqing identified the county magistrate as a powerful figure whose Blood Fiend Qi linked him to the association.
• Lin Changqing entered the city and went to the county yamen, where he provoked two suspicious yamen runners by demanding that the magistrate come out to greet him.
• The county magistrate emerged just as the two runners appeared ready to attack Lin Changqing.

Lin Changqing attacked Lu Zhandong after exposing him as the Seven Killers Association’s Yun Province branch president, then suppressed the association members hiding in the county yamen. He killed the concealed Grand Luo Golden Immortal who ambushed him and left the county yamen under his control.

• Lin Changqing identified Lu Zhandong as a member of the Seven Killers Association and crushed him with a palm strike, then killed the two yamen runners guarding the entrance.
• Lu Zhandong revealed his identity as the association’s branch president, and more than a hundred hidden members attacked Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing absorbed their attacks with his Qi and Blood Furnace and sealed the county yamen inside his Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, suppressing the attackers.
• Lu Zhandong called on Lord Greedy Wolf, who launched a blood-red sword-qi attack from hiding.
• Lin Changqing used his Spiritual Power to destroy the hidden Grand Luo Golden Immortal’s Sea of Consciousness, then crushed his body with True Essence.

Lin Changqing destroyed the Seven Killers Association's Yunzhou branch, claimed its Strange Treasure containing a trace of the Five Elements Origin, and returned to Yunzhou City. The association's leaders learned of the massacre and ordered an investigation, while Yuan Qingya realized Lin Changqing possessed an extraordinarily fast flying Spiritual Artifact.

• Lin Changqing took Greedy Wolf's Spatial Ring and discovered the Strange Treasure containing a trace of the Five Elements Origin.
• Lin Changqing rejected Lu Zhandong's offer of resources and intelligence, killed him, and slaughtered every Seven Killers Association member in the Lantian County yamen.
• A messenger reported the Yunzhou branch's destruction to an elder overseas, who ordered men to identify the killer and retrieve the Strange Treasure.
• Lin Changqing used the Heaven Escaping Shuttle to return to Yunzhou City and showed Yuan Qingya the branch's command plaque.
• Yuan Qingya inferred that Lin Changqing possessed a top-grade flying Spiritual Artifact far faster than the Demon Suppression Division's Flying Sky Boat.

Lin Changqing admitted that he had killed Greedy Wolf and took the Strange Treasure, then began refining it to strengthen his Inner World before the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven opened. Yuan Qingya plotted to use him against the Seven Killers Association and hoped to obtain the Method of Becoming a Saint from him, unaware that Lin Changqing had overheard her plans.

• Lin Changqing told Yuan Qingya that he had killed Greedy Wolf and asked about the Seven Killers Association's branches in other provinces.
• Yuan Qingya advised Lin Changqing to focus on the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven, while he returned to his room at Youjian Inn and began refining the Strange Treasure.
• Yuan Qingya met a white-haired old woman and ordered her to gather intelligence on the Seven Killers Association across the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Yuan Qingya explained that she would not enter the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven and intended to use Lin Changqing's survival and possible gains to advance her plans.
• Lin Changqing revealed that he had monitored Yuan Qingya and the old woman with his Spiritual Power, and dismissed her schemes.

After refining a Strange Treasure, Lin Changqing advanced his Inner World and prepared to visit the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven. As he left Yunzhou, Wu Wudi warned him to endure rather than challenge the powerful forces gathered there, but Lin Changqing refused to back down.

• Lin Changqing refined the Strange Treasure, raising his Inner World's progress toward a Middle Thousand World from thirty percent to forty-five percent.
• Yuan Qingya gave Lin Changqing information about the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven, and he verified it against reports from Gu Chensha and Du Mingyue.
• Gu Chensha and Du Mingyue warned Lin Changqing that his enemies might unite against him at the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven and advised him to disguise himself.
• Lin Changqing left Yunzhou City alone for the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven, intending to pursue the Method of Becoming a Saint and challenge those who had denied him a place.
• Wu Wudi intercepted Lin Changqing and urged him to endure, but Lin Changqing rejected the advice and warned that Wu could not stop him.

Lin Changqing traveled to the area where the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven was expected to appear and decided to seize the entry requirements from Blood Saber Valley. He ambushed the sect with his treasures, destroying its palace and sending its members fleeing.

• Wu Wudi warned Lin Changqing that the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven was dangerous, but Lin Changqing left in the Heaven Escaping Shuttle to pursue a slot.
• Lin Changqing studied Yuan Qingya’s information and planned to obtain a token and a pure-yang Innate Exotic Treasure, while intending to make Ye Ming pay for selling his slot.
• Lin Changqing arrived above the mountain range where the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven was expected to emerge and sensed thousands of powerful cultivators gathered there.
• Lin Changqing chose Blood Saber Valley as his target because it was comparatively weak and had previously tried to intercept and kill him.
• Lin Changqing sealed the area around Feixiong Mountain Peak with the Square Inch Pagoda, shattered the mountain’s restrictions, and stopped Blood Saber Valley’s palace from escaping.
• Lin Changqing struck the blood-colored palace with the Five Elements Peak, destroying it and forcing the sect members to flee; many lost their physical bodies.

Lin Changqing attacked Blood Saber Valley and fought off its experts with Five Elements Peak and the Square Inch Pagoda. After breaking their Blood Saber Killing Array, he began cutting down their Grand Luo Golden Immortals, leaving the peak Grand Luo expert and the remaining fighters in danger.

• Lin Changqing sent Five Elements Peak crashing down on Blood Saber Valley while the Square Inch Pagoda’s confinement force weakened the valley’s fighters.
• Blood Saber Valley’s peak Grand Luo Golden Immortal countered with a massive blade strike, then rallied the others to form the Blood Saber Killing Array.
• The Blood Saber Killing Array sent Five Elements Peak flying and unleashed a ten-thousand-zhang Blood Fiend Blade Aura at Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing met the array’s attack with the Jingzhe Saber, then used lightning in a second strike to shatter the formation and annihilate its Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Lin Changqing used the Square Inch Pagoda to appear behind a wounded Grand Luo Golden Immortal, sealed him briefly, and cut him with the Jingzhe Saber.

Lin Changqing used the Square Inch Pagoda and Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation Diagram to slaughter Blood Saber Valley’s experts, including their Peak Great Luo. After collecting their treasures, he revealed a Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven token and a rare Strange Treasure, drawing greedy attention from the onlookers.

• Lin Changqing isolated Blood Saber Valley’s fighters inside the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation and killed them one by one with the Square Inch Pagoda and Jingzhe Saber.
• Lin Changqing unleashed the formation’s full power, crushing Blood Saber Valley’s Peak Great Luo expert despite the man burning his divine soul to resist.
• The onlookers reacted to Blood Saber Valley’s destruction, with some fearing its retaliation and others celebrating its downfall.
• Lin Changqing recalled his treasures and gathered the spatial spirit treasures left by the slain fighters.
• Lin Changqing revealed a Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven token and a red, exceptionally hard pure-yang Strange Treasure, prompting greed among the onlookers.

After taking Blood Saber Valley’s token and Strange Treasure, Lin Changqing faced a crowd seeking to rob him. He annihilated the attackers with a Spiritual Power-enhanced Dimensional Strike, then put away the prizes and reflected on the cost of his strongest attack.

• Lin Changqing sensed people closing in to seize Blood Saber Valley’s token and Strange Treasure, so he released his blade intent to warn them off.
• Several cultivators surrounded Lin Changqing and demanded that he hand over the token and Strange Treasure.
• When one expert used a spiritual hand to snatch the prizes, Lin Changqing split him apart with Blade Qi and annihilated his body and soul.
• Lin Changqing unleashed a ten-thousand-mile storm of Spiritual Power-empowered Blade Qi, killing everyone surrounding him and silencing the crowd’s greed.
• Lin Changqing put away the token and Strange Treasure and recognized that his strongest strike had been a Dimensional Strike powered by his greatest Trump Card, Spiritual Power.

Lin Changqing waited for Great Zhou’s people while refining Blood Saber Valley’s Strange Treasure, but Blood Saber Ancestor arrived seeking revenge before he could confront them. As the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Kunwu Warship entered the mountain range, Lin Changqing moved to meet it just as Blood Saber Ancestor attacked.

• Lin Changqing set up a defensive array on a peak and began refining Blood Saber Valley’s Strange Treasure while other cultivators debated whether to buy his entry slots.
• Blood Saber Valley learned that its people had died, and Blood Saber Ancestor decided to go to Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven to pursue the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Nearly two months passed as cultivators gathered in the mountain range ahead of Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven’s opening.
• The Great Zhou Dynasty’s Kunwu Warship arrived, and Lin Changqing prepared to approach it after waiting for Great Zhou’s people.
• Blood Saber Ancestor rushed toward Lin Changqing and accused him of killing Blood Saber Valley’s people and stealing its possessions.