Chapter Summaries

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.

Master Hidden Mysteries realized Xiao Xuan had stripped him of his post to make him a whetstone for Lin Feng, then chose to scheme against Lin Feng at the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament. Zhao Wuji backed the plan and vowed to turn the tournament into Lin Feng’s funeral.

• A guard delivered Xiao Xuan’s decree removing Master Hidden Mysteries and placing Lin Feng in temporary charge of the Hidden Mysteries Corps.
• Master Hidden Mysteries concluded that Xiao Xuan had maneuvered him into attacking Lin Feng so the commander could use the conflict to secure Lin Feng’s loyalty.
• After hearing Xiao Xuan’s words about experienced elders testing young talent, Master Hidden Mysteries decided to work something into the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament.
• A servant told Zhao Wuji that Lin Feng had become Silver Badge Envoy and acting Manager of the Hidden Mysteries Corps, enraging the Zhao Family head.
• Zhao Wuji received a note, agreed to support Master Hidden Mysteries’s plan, and ordered his people to make the tournament Lin Feng’s funeral.

Lin Feng was assigned responsibility for the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament and approved a proposal to turn it into a hunt for demons and evil heretics. Master Hidden Mysteries and Zhao Wuji celebrated, believing the plan would destroy him, while Lin Feng looked forward to receiving monsters to hunt.

• Xiao Xuan gave Lin Feng full responsibility for organizing the Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament and told him to showcase Azure Prefecture's strength.
• Chen Mo proposed replacing the tournament's sparring matches with a hunt in which the nine commanderies would bring demons and evil heretics to the prefectural seat.
• Lin Feng approved the hunt proposal, delighting Chen Mo and the officials who expected the plan to ruin him.
• Master Hidden Mysteries celebrated after Chen Mo reported Lin Feng's decision, while Zhao Wuji ordered his allies in the other commanderies to choose the freshest and liveliest prisoners.

Lin Feng faced Xiao Xuan and the two Silver Token Managers after his Hunt decree provoked outrage and division across Azure Prefecture. Xiao Xuan chose to enforce the plan with safeguards and confined Lin Feng, who secretly revealed that the chaos was part of his design.

• The Hunt rules and planned Gathering of Ten Thousand Demons triggered public outrage and split the Demon Suppression Division branches across Azure Prefecture.
• Xiao Xuan arrived at the Hidden Mysteries Corps with Army Breaker and Red Lotus and demanded that Lin Feng explain the decree.
• Lin Feng pretended to regret his reckless plan and asked whether it could still be canceled.
• Xiao Xuan refused to retract the public decree, ordering Army Breaker to build a Grand Demon-Locking Formation and Red Lotus to investigate the other commanderies' lists of captives.
• Xiao Xuan forbade Lin Feng from leaving until the gathering, and Lin Feng dropped his frightened act after they left, hinting that he had marked targets on the map.

As the Demon Suppression Division mobilized for the group hunt, Lin Feng’s teammates worried that they had no prey left to offer. Lin Feng revealed Huang Fugui as their designated prey, then left his companions convinced he had planned a larger scheme.

• The Army Breaker Camp began building the Grand Demon-Locking Formation while Red Lotus Camp scouts spread through the other commanderies to gather intelligence.
• Meng Kuo, Wu Yong, Liu Qing, Wei Tiancheng, and Chu Mengxi worried that Nan Yan Commandery had no prey left after Lin Feng’s earlier hunts.
• Lin Feng revealed Huang Fugui as the team’s generous gift and designated prey, identifying him as a fourth-tier greater demon.
• Huang Fugui conjured chains and theatrically pretended to resist Lin Feng’s tyranny, leaving the team stunned.
• Lin Feng declared that the plan was settled and went to his room, while Wei Tiancheng, Liu Qing, and Wu Yong concluded that he had carefully calculated a larger game.

Azure Prefecture’s Demon Suppression Divisions launched an unprecedented crackdown to prepare for Lin Feng’s hunting assembly, making the region unusually safe while filling their cells with demons and criminals. Lin Feng stayed home as Huang Fugui reported the other commanderies’ prey lists, and Lin Feng implied that they should act on the information.

• The Demon Suppression Divisions across all nine commanderies swept through Azure Prefecture, capturing demons, bandits, and evil cultivators.
• Public safety improved dramatically as roads and villages became safer and the divisions’ cells filled with prisoners.
• Huang Fugui praised Lin Feng for provoking the crackdown, and Lin Feng asked whether there was news from Red Lotus.
• Huang Fugui reported the prey lists gathered by Red Lotus Camp, including powerful demons and notorious criminals from the other commanderies.
• Lin Feng told Huang Fugui he knew what to do, and Huang Fugui promised to act.