Recaps

Lin Feng fought Ling Yue'er in the commandery arena and defeated her with a single stab, leaving her gravely wounded despite her promise to stop pursuing him if she lost. As Lin Feng turned to leave, Ling Yue'er's furious father roared from the VIP seats.

• Crowds and prominent figures gathered to watch Lin Feng and Ling Yue'er fight, while Zhao Tie and Li Rui urged Lin Feng to go easy on her.
• Ling Yue'er declared that she would marry Lin Feng if she won and give up pursuing him if she lost, then attacked him with her whip.
• Lin Feng evaded Ling Yue'er's attacks and pierced her lower abdomen with an ordinary iron practice saber as she unleashed her ultimate technique.
• Ling Yue'er asked Lin Feng why he had stabbed her, and he calmly told her she had lost and should keep her promise before walking away.
• Ling Yue'er's father roared at Lin Feng for hurting his beloved daughter.

Ling Xiaotian rushed to save his gravely injured daughter, Ling Yue'er, then confronted Lin Feng in the martial arena. Lin Feng’s calm challenge unnerved the city lord, who restrained himself and withdrew with his guards, leaving the spectators in awe of Lin Feng.

• Ling Xiaotian arrived in the arena, gave Ling Yue'er a life-saving pill, and comforted her as she blamed herself for losing.
• Ling Xiaotian accused Lin Feng of injuring his daughter and surrounded him with guards from the City Lord's Mansion.
• Lin Feng asked whether Ling Xiaotian wanted to test his blade, making the city lord hesitate despite his anger.
• Lin Feng decided not to kill Ling Xiaotian, reasoning that keeping the city stable would help him pursue his longer-term plans.
• Ling Xiaotian blamed Ling Yue'er for her own defeat, warned Lin Feng that the City Lord's Mansion would remember this, and left with his guards.
• The spectators watched Ling Xiaotian retreat and regarded Lin Feng with awe.

After Lin Feng revealed that his blade had poisoned Ling Yue'er and that she was involved in a scheme surrounding a sacred object, he used her worsening condition to draw out the hidden enemy. He ordered the Demon Suppression Division to ambush the routes outside the city and close the net that night.

• The Silver Token Manager reprimanded Lin Feng for stabbing Ling Yue'er, then acknowledged that the wound had been deliberately kept nonfatal.
• Lin Feng told the Manager that Ling Yue'er had staged her victimhood to remove herself and the City Lord's Mansion from suspicion, but his blade had secretly inflicted amplified blade poison.
• Huang Fugui reported that black markings were consuming Ling Yue'er's vitality and spiritual power, and that she had warned her father she might lose control of a sacred object.
• Lin Feng deduced that Ling Xiaotian had gone to meet the Moon Worship Cult and confirmed that Chu Mengxi, Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, and the Demon Suppression Division had prepared ambushes outside the city.
• Lin Feng ordered the division to close the net that night, leaving the Manager wondering if he had been reduced to watching the show.

Ling Xiaotian revealed that he had conspired with the Moon Worship Cult and used his daughter Ling Yue'er as a vessel for its sacred relic. Lin Feng and the Demon Suppression Division ambushed the conspirators, trapping them in a formation as the battle began.

• Ling Xiaotian met the blood-robed envoy and learned that Ling Yue'er could only be saved by merging completely with the sacred relic.
• The blood-robed envoy ordered Ling Xiaotian to keep the Demon Suppression Division occupied while the cult completed Ling Yue'er's transformation and prepared to kill Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng revealed himself, and the Four Symbols Heaven-Locking Grand Formation sealed the ruins with the blood-robed envoy trapped inside.
• Chu Mengxi, Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, Liu Qing, the Demon Slayer Envoys, and the Silver Token Manager joined Lin Feng to surround the cult forces.
• The Silver Token Manager stopped Ling Xiaotian's attack, and the Demon Suppression Division charged the trapped cultists as Lin Feng faced the two blood-robed guardians.

Lin Feng turned the battle against the Moon Worship Cult by killing its two blood-robed guardians with single strikes. The Demon Suppression Division’s forces were freed from danger as the fighting continued.

• Meng Kuo, Liu Qing, Wu Yong, and Chu Mengxi led the Demon Suppression Division’s attack, but the guardians’ poison and White Bone Cage put their forces in peril.
• Lin Feng purified the tall guardian’s Corpse-Rot Toxic Baleful Intent and split him in two with the Nine Tribulations Thunder Slash.
• The short, fat guardian summoned a White Bone Demon God, whose aura reached the sixth level of the Dan Yuan Realm.
• Lin Feng severed the White Bone Demon God’s head with the second form of Abyssal Path Three Slashes and killed its weakened guardian.

After Lin Feng’s tactics helped the Demon Slayer Envoys capture the Moon Worship Cult fighters, Ling Xiaotian battled a mysterious sacred envoy while the others feared he would lose. Lin Feng ignored their pleas to intervene and killed every captured cultist, leaving his allies stunned.

• Lin Feng killed the two blood-robed guardians, turning the battle and allowing the Demon Slayer Envoys to capture the surviving Moon Worship Cult fighters.
• Chu Mengxi, Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, and Liu Qing praised Lin Feng’s strategy of extending the Four Symbols Heaven-Locking Grand Formation across the ruins.
• Ling Xiaotian fought the mysterious blood-robed sacred envoy and appeared to be retreating, prompting the Demon Slayer Envoys to ask Lin Feng to help.
• Lin Feng ordered the captured prisoners brought to him, then drew the Killing Blade and killed them all.
• The Demon Slayer Envoys stared in shock at the slaughter while Lin Feng sheathed his blade untouched by dust.

Lin Feng slaughtered the surrendered captives, then spent 500,000 Crit Points to advance to the sixth level of the Dan Yuan Realm as the battle against Ling Xiaotian and the blood-robed holy envoy escalated. He prepared to join the fight against the fused enemies and the Silver Token Manager.

• Lin Feng killed dozens of surrendered captives, alarming Chu Mengxi and Zhao Tie while Li Rui praised his supposed strategy.
• Ling Xiaotian used the Blood Demon Disintegration Grand Art to reach the ninth level of the Dan Yuan Realm, and the blood-robed holy envoy fused with him into black armor.
• The fused pair pressured the Four Symbols Heaven-Locking Grand Formation, prompting the Silver Token Manager to reveal his peak ninth-level strength.
• Lin Feng walked toward the battle despite the Manager's warning and spent 500,000 Crit Points to advance the Nine Yang Limitless Art and his cultivation to the sixth level of the Dan Yuan Realm.
• Lin Feng declared that his warm-up was over as golden Nine Yang Divine Fire radiated from him.

Lin Feng broke through to the sixth level of the Dan Yuan Realm during battle, then used his perfected Phantom Flowing Light Steps and Abyssal Path Three Slashes to erase the Blood-Robed Holy Envoy. He killed Ling Xiaotian despite the Silver Token Manager’s warning about the Prince of Runan.

• Lin Feng advanced from the half-step Dan Yuan Realm to the sixth level, shocking everyone on the battlefield.
• Lin Feng created 160 lifelike afterimages with his perfected Phantom Flowing Light Steps and attacked Blood Demon Ling Xiaotian from every direction.
• Lin Feng’s 160 strikes with Dao Annihilation erased the Blood-Robed Holy Envoy and increased his critical multiplier to 170×.
• Ling Xiaotian lost the holy envoy’s power, returned to his original form, and warned Lin Feng that he served the Prince of Runan.
• Lin Feng ignored the Silver Token Manager’s attempt to stop him and beheaded Ling Xiaotian, raising his critical multiplier to 180×.

After Lin Feng killed Ling Xiaotian, Ling Yue'er lost control of the demonic beast fused with her and begged Lin Feng to end her suffering. He destroyed the cocoon with one strike, raising his critical multiplier to 190-fold, then left while the others mistook his silence for grief.

• Lin Feng killed Ling Xiaotian, and the Silver Token Manager ordered the battlefield cleaned up and the incident kept secret.
• Ling Yue'er’s sacred object overwhelmed her, and the returning group found the City Lord’s Mansion guards drained of blood and Ling Yueer transformed inside a massive cocoon.
• The Manager said only an Immortal on Land could save Ling Yue'er, while she pleaded from inside the cocoon for someone to kill her.
• Ling Yue'er confessed her feelings to Lin Feng as the cocoon began to hatch, and Lin Feng killed her with a single strike.
• Lin Feng gained 200000 Crit Points and a 190-fold critical multiplier, then walked away as Zhao Tie and Li Rui assumed he was heartbroken; Chu Mengxi suspected otherwise.

After killing the demonic Ling Yue'er, Lin Feng celebrated the huge increase in his Crit Points rather than mourning her. He gave Huang Fugui the demon core to refine and prepared for a move to a new commandery where he could keep fighting.

• Huang Fugui tried to comfort Lin Feng, believing he was grieving over killing Ling Yue'er.
• Lin Feng checked his system panel, saw his Crit Points had risen to 657350, and laughed with delight over his gains.
• Lin Feng gave Huang Fugui the blood-colored flesh cocoon containing Ling Yue'er's sacred object and demon core.
• Lin Feng told Huang Fugui to cultivate because they would soon move somewhere he could slash to his heart's content.
• Huang Fugui vowed to become a ninth-tier great demon and serve as Lin Feng's vanguard, while Lin Feng prepared to upgrade again.

Lin Feng reached the ninth level of the Dan Yuan Realm and improved his saber technique before learning that the Prince of Runan might back the Moon Worship Cult. The Manager sent him to Azure Prefecture’s capital for a Silver Badge assessment and the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament, where Lin Feng hinted that someone might die.

• Lin Feng spent 500,000 Crit Points to perfect the Nine Yang Limitless Art and advanced to the ninth level of the Dan Yuan Realm.
• Lin Feng used 150,000 Crit Points to raise Abyssal Path Three Slashes to minor mastery and split a table with a finger-blade.
• The Manager told Lin Feng that the Prince of Runan survived the Nine Dragons' Struggle for the Throne by avoiding the fight and had no children despite keeping over a thousand consorts and concubines.
• The Manager suspected the Prince of Runan was the Moon Worship Cult’s greatest backer and gave Lin Feng a recommendation letter and silver token for a Silver Badge assessment in Azure Prefecture.
• The Manager asked Lin Feng to attend the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament in three months, and Lin Feng asked whether contestants could die.

Lin Feng refused to compete in the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament, but the Manager appointed him to lead Nan Yan Commandery’s delegation and assigned him a confidential mission. Lin Feng accepted the team and a wooden token bearing the name Zhang Cheng, though he doubted the token would help him.

• Lin Feng rejected the Manager’s suggestion that he compete in the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament because the matches would not earn him Crit Points.
• The Manager appointed Lin Feng team leader of Nan Yan Commandery’s delegation and tasked him with delivering a confidential letter, denying knowledge of the Moon Worship Cult affair, and making an impression on the prefectural authorities.
• The Manager named Chu Mengxi, Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, Liu Qing, and the newly returned Wei Tiancheng as Lin Feng’s teammates.
• The Manager warned Lin Feng to keep his demonic companion’s true form hidden in the prefectural capital and gave him a wooden token bearing the name Zhang Cheng for emergencies.
• Lin Feng put Zhang Cheng’s token in his storage bag and left, doubting he would need it.

Lin Feng gathered his five Bronze Token Envoys to prepare for the journey to the Azure Prefecture capital and crushed Wei Tiancheng’s challenge with a single slap. He chose a dangerous route through demon-haunted regions and ordered the team to leave survivors, though he did not explain why.

• Wei Tiancheng raged after learning that Lin Feng had become his immediate superior and that he had to join Lin Feng’s team.
• Lin Feng arrived at the training grounds and told Wei Tiancheng to fight him if he objected to his leadership.
• Wei Tiancheng drew his sword, but Lin Feng struck him with a slap that left him dazed and ended his protest.
• Lin Feng ordered the team to depart the next morning and revealed a circuitous route through high-risk areas filled with demons and villains.
• Lin Feng required the team to leave survivors wherever they encountered demons, monsters, bandits, or villains.

Lin Feng led five Bronze Token Envoys to the Black Dragon Stronghold, ordering them to capture bandits alive before slaughtering every prisoner himself. The shaken team realized they were acting as his monster-catching delivery crew, and Lin Feng ordered them onward to Myriad Serpent Valley.

• Lin Feng departed with Wei Tiancheng, Chu Mengxi, Meng Kuo, Liu Qing, and Wu Yong for their first stop, the Black Dragon Mountains.
• At Thread of Sky, Lin Feng rejected Wu Yong's tactical plan and ordered the group to charge in and capture everyone alive.
• The five Bronze Token Envoys overwhelmed the Black Dragon Stronghold and brought more than a hundred surviving bandits, including the Black Dragon Twin Fiends, before Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng killed all the captured bandits, earning Crit Points and leaving the five envoys horrified by his unchanged brutality.
• Lin Feng ordered the team to head to Myriad Serpent Valley and bring him the Serpent King before dark.

Lin Feng’s squad adapted to capturing monsters alive for him to kill, and their escort missions drove his Crit multiplier to 250× and his Crit Points past a million. Wu Yong decided the work was a form of cultivation, while Lin Feng privately concluded they were overthinking his laziness.

• After Wei Tiancheng let the Jade-Eyed Golden-Pupiled Python attack Wu Yong, Lin Feng threatened him indirectly by discussing his blade’s thirst for a twenty-three-year-old swordsman, and Wei became obedient.
• Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, Liu Qing, and Chu Mengxi developed specialized methods for trapping, capturing, and restraining prey, while Wei Tiancheng became Lin Feng’s most devoted flatterer.
• Over the course of a month, the squad captured monsters and enemies for Lin Feng to kill, raising his Crit multiplier to 250× and his Crit Points to 1,065,422.
• After Lin Feng killed another peak fourth-tier demon with one slash, Wu Yong claimed the capture missions were sophisticated cultivation that improved the team’s skills.
• Lin Feng dismissed Wu Yong’s theory internally, deciding that he had only made the squad do the work because he was lazy.

Lin Feng spent his accumulated crit points perfecting his saber technique and improving his movement technique, then decided he needed to become a Silver Badge Envoy to access a cultivation art for the Divine Sea Realm. Huang Fugui reported that the team’s remaining targets had fled, surrendered, or quit, leaving the Bronze Token Envoys worried they were out of a job.

• Lin Feng spent 250,000 crit points to raise Treading Snow Without Trace to proficiency and 800,000 to perfect Abyssal Path Three Slashes.
• Lin Feng assessed his increased strength and resolved to pursue the status of Silver Badge Envoy to obtain resources for advancing beyond the Dan Yuan Realm.
• Lin Feng put Zhang Cheng’s wooden token away and resolved to rely on his own strength.
• Huang Fugui told Lin Feng that the demonic beasts in Hundred Poisons Marsh had fled and the Three Ghosts of the Demonic Path had surrendered.
• Huang Fugui reported that the thousand-year corpse king had relocated and the Flying Cloud Stronghold bandits had quit banditry and opened a restaurant.
• Huang Fugui warned Lin Feng that the whole region had become so orderly that the Bronze Token Envoys might be out of work.

Lin Feng's party reached the Azure Prefecture capital after the monsters along their route fled, and Zhao Kai insulted the delegation at the Demon Suppression Division way station. Wei Tiancheng drew his sword and demanded that Zhao Kai apologize to Lord Lin.

• After learning that the area's demons and outlaws had fled, Lin Feng gave Huang Fugui fourth-tier Demon Cores and sent him away to cultivate.
• More than a month later, Lin Feng and the others arrived at the Azure Prefecture capital and were greeted by a steward who mistakenly assumed Wei Tiancheng led the delegation.
• Zhao Kai arrived and mocked Wei Tiancheng over his background and years spent in Nan Yan Commandery.
• Zhao Kai invited Chu Mengxi to meet him, and she coldly told him to scram.
• Zhao Kai insulted Lin Feng and the entire delegation, so Wei Tiancheng drew his sword and demanded that Zhao Kai apologize to Lord Lin.

Lin Feng intervened when Zhao Kai and his retainers attacked Wei Tiancheng, then killed Zhao Kai, Old Man Withered Wood, and the retainers with one blade strike. The chapter ended with Lin Feng’s critical multiplier rising to 270x.

• Wei Tiancheng fought A Da evenly until Zhao Kai ordered his retainers to gang up on him.
• Lin Feng stepped in, identified himself as a Bronze Token Envoy, and demanded that Zhao Kai’s group kneel and accept death.
• Lin Feng’s killing intent forced Zhao Kai and his retainers to their knees, but Old Man Withered Wood appeared and shielded Zhao Kai.
• Old Man Withered Wood apologized for Zhao Kai and asked Lin Feng to let the matter go, while Zhao Kai demanded that the old man kill Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng killed Old Man Withered Wood, Zhao Kai, and the seven or eight retainers with one slash, raising his critical multiplier to 270x.

Lin Feng killed Zhao Kai, Old Man Withered Wood, and their eight guards, then justified the slaughter as lawful punishment for their attack on Demon Suppression Division officials. He left the relay station eager for the Zhao Family to seek revenge so he could grow stronger.

• Lin Feng beheaded Zhao Kai, Old Man Withered Wood, and the eight guards, shocking everyone at the relay station.
• Chu Mengxi warned Lin Feng that killing a Zhao Family heir and chief attendant had made the family his enemy.
• Lin Feng explained that he had waited for the Zhao party to commit crimes against the Demon Suppression Division and imperial law, giving him grounds to kill them.
• Lin Feng declared that the Demon Suppression Division and the Great Xia Dynasty stood above aristocratic families, and the gathered officials cheered him.
• Lin Feng ordered the steward to send the cleanup bill to the Zhao Family and said he welcomed their revenge before leaving with his teammates.

Lin Feng’s massacre at the relay station made him notorious across the Azure Prefecture capital, while the Demon Suppression Division’s leaders debated how to use him. Gold Badge Commander Xiao Xuan ordered the Hidden Dragon Tournament to proceed as planned and raised the pressure on Lin Feng’s silver badge assessment.

• News spread that Lin Feng had killed ten people, including Old Man Withered Wood and a Zhao Family direct-line young master, and delegations from the other commanderies reacted with doubt, disdain, or interest.
• Master Hidden Mysteries, Army Breaker, and Red Lotus reported Lin Feng’s arrival and argued over whether the Demon Suppression Division should observe him, test him with difficult tasks, or use him to draw out hidden enemies.
• Xiao Xuan reviewed Lin Feng’s dossier and Zhang Cheng’s confidential letter, noting a hidden message that said Lin Feng might be able to break a deadlock.
• Xiao Xuan ordered the Hidden Dragon Tournament to proceed as usual and instructed his subordinates to turn up the pressure on Lin Feng’s silver badge assessment.

Lin Feng took the silver badge assessment at the Azure Prefecture Demon Suppression Division, where Master Hidden Mysteries imposed an impossible ten-foot standard to obstruct him. Lin Feng’s Nine Yang True Qi shattered the stele’s record and cracked the testing stone, leaving the hall in shock.

• Lin Feng entered the assessment hall and presented his recommendation letter to Master Hidden Mysteries.
• Master Hidden Mysteries mocked Lin Feng and raised the first trial’s required true qi purity from six feet to ten.
• Lin Feng calmly asked how to begin and pressed his hand against the Mystic Crystal Power-Testing Stele.
• Lin Feng’s Nine Yang True Qi sent golden light past the stele’s nine-foot-nine-inch record and beyond ten feet.
• The Mystic Crystal Power-Testing Stele cracked under Lin Feng’s power, horrifying Master Hidden Mysteries.

Lin Feng’s true qi caused the Mystic Crystal Power-Testing Stele to erupt at a record-breaking thirty-five feet before it shattered, revealing a crimson crystal that he secretly kept. Xiao Xuan punished Master Hidden Mysteries and promoted Lin Feng to Silver Badge, placing him in temporary charge of the Hidden Mysteries Corps.

• Lin Feng’s Nine Yang Divine Fire resonated with the stele, driving its golden pillar of light to thirty-five feet before the stele exploded.
• Lin Feng secretly took the fiery crimson crystal that emerged from the wreckage and passed the first assessment.
• Army Breaker and Red Lotus praised Lin Feng and tried to recruit him into their respective camps.
• Xiao Xuan confined Master Hidden Mysteries for three months, docked one year of his salary, and ordered Lin Feng to temporarily assume his position.
• Xiao Xuan awarded Lin Feng two hundred thousand Merit Points, waived the remaining assessments, and promoted him to Silver Badge with acting oversight of the Hidden Mysteries Corps.

Lin Feng received a Silver Badge and authority as acting Manager of a camp, then went to the Azure Prefecture armory to choose higher-tier techniques. His account showed 673,500 merit points, stunning Red Lotus and the armory steward, and he decided to exchange points for three top-tier manuals.

• Xiao Xuan promoted Lin Feng to Silver Badge Demon Slayer Envoy, awarded him 200,000 merit points, and appointed him acting Manager of a camp.
• Lin Feng entered the armory and found three top-tier divine sea realm manuals: the Star Soul-Tempering Art, Myriad Phenomena Blade, and Great Void Spirit-Roaming Steps, each costing 200,000 merit points.
• Red Lotus and the old steward doubted Lin Feng had enough merit points, so he asked the steward to check his account.
• The armory’s light screen revealed Lin Feng had 673,500 merit points, leaving Red Lotus and the steward shocked.
• Lin Feng told the steward he would take all three manuals.

After redeeming three top-tier manuals, Lin Feng spent his crit points to master their basics and break through to Half-Step Divine Sea. His divine sense expanded across several li, but his crit points ran out, leaving him needing a new source.

• Lin Feng spent six hundred thousand merit points to redeem three top-tier manuals, and Red Lotus invited him to visit her camp.
• Lin Feng used crit points to reach beginner level in Star Soul-Tempering Art, Myriad Phenomena Blade, and Great Void Spirit-Roaming Steps.
• Lin Feng poured his remaining crit points into Star Soul-Tempering Art and broke through to Half-Step Divine Sea.
• Lin Feng's divine sense expanded across several li, letting him perceive people and things throughout the Azure Prefecture Demon Suppression Division.
• Lin Feng saw that his crit points had fallen to zero and decided he needed to find somewhere to replenish them.

Lin Feng took control of the Hidden Mysteries Corps by intimidating its clerks, then spent three days researching a crimson crystal and discovered it was a fragment of a Divine Stone tied to Azure Prefecture’s dragon vein. Xiao Xuan began to suspect Lin Feng viewed Azure Prefecture, like Nan Yan Commandery, as merely a stepping stone.

• Chen Mo presented Lin Feng with a mountain of documents, but Lin Feng dismissed the Corps’ old rules and demanded to know who was its best fighter.
• Lin Feng overwhelmed the clerks with his half-step Divine Sea Realm pressure, disarmed Chen Mo, and laid out his expectations for their work.
• Lin Feng searched the Corps’ top-secret library for three days and found that the crimson crystal was a fragment of the Divine Stone suppressing Azure Prefecture’s dragon vein.
• Lin Feng suspected the provincial Power-Measuring Steles concealed and suppressed nine Divine Stones placed across Great Xia’s provinces.
• After hearing that Lin Feng had ignored Corps affairs and stayed in the library, Xiao Xuan wondered whether Lin Feng regarded Azure Prefecture as another stepping stone.