Chapter Summaries

The Hidden Dragon Martial Tournament began with eight commanderies presenting their captured demons, ghosts, and evil cultivators for scoring. When Nan Yan Commandery finally arrived, it brought only a single weasel in a shabby prison wagon, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Army Breaker’s Grand Demon-Locking Formation was completed outside the Azure Prefecture capital, and the tournament began before a massive crowd.
• The eight commanderies presented their captives, with Eastern Sun Commandery scoring 33,300 points and Northern River Commandery taking the temporary lead at 35,000.
• Wang Tao and other commanders discovered that some captives had mysteriously vanished near the prefecture capital, while Red Lotus suspected someone was stealing them.
• Xiao Xuan quietly looked toward the still-absent Nan Yan Commandery as the other delegations finished their presentations.
• Nan Yan Commandery entered with six figures and a single shabby prison wagon containing a bound, upright-standing weasel, astonishing everyone.

Nan Yan Commandery presented Huang Fugui as a Peak Fourth Order Great Demon, and the weasel’s demonic qi shattered the Demon-Measuring Stone, earning the commandery fifty thousand points. Xiao Xuan announced the next event, then discovered Lin Feng had disappeared.

• Chu Mengxi declared that Nan Yan Commandery had captured a Peak Fourth Order Great Demon, prompting the crowd to mock the claim.
• Huang Fugui touched the Demon-Measuring Stone, which blazed purple and then exploded under his demonic qi.
• The scoring official awarded Nan Yan Commandery fifty thousand points, astonishing the spectators and Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan announced the martial sparring event and noticed Lin Feng had vanished.

As demons revolted inside the Grand Demon-Locking Formation, Lin Feng confronted Princess Consort Blood Lotus and her allies in the Azure Prefecture Zhao Family estate. He killed them all, then hurried back toward the formation.

• Hundreds of demons revolted inside the Grand Demon-Locking Formation, forcing Xiao Xuan to order everyone to reinforce it.
• Princess Consort Blood Lotus, Master Hidden Mysteries, and Zhao Wuji watched the uprising from a secret underground palace and planned to seize Azure Prefecture.
• Lin Feng appeared in the palace and revealed that he had arranged the uprising as a diversion after killing prepared demons and advancing to the Divine Sea Realm Third Layer.
• Princess Consort Blood Lotus attacked Lin Feng, but he destroyed her strike and shattered her Death-Substitution Jade Pendant.
• Lin Feng used Life Ensnarement to kill the Moon Worship Cult guardians, Master Hidden Mysteries, and Zhao Wuji, then beheaded Princess Consort Blood Lotus.
• Lin Feng left the underground palace and sped toward the Grand Demon-Locking Formation.

As demons inexplicably battered the Grand Demon-Locking Formation, Lin Feng volunteered to enter and confront whoever was driving them, risking his life to protect Azure Prefecture. He left the assembled leaders preparing to support him.

• Xiao Xuan, Army Breaker, and Red Lotus realized the frenzied demons were draining the formation and might break it within an hour.
• Inside the formation, Huang Fugui forced the demons, including the Blazing Berserk Lion and the Old Devil of Bliss, to keep battering the barrier.
• Army Breaker called for someone to enter the formation and kill the one inciting the demons, but the others hesitated at the danger.
• Lin Feng returned, declared his resolve to protect Azure Prefecture, and drew his Killing Blade.
• Xiao Xuan ordered everyone to stand ready to support Lin Feng.

Lin Feng entered the Grand Demon-Locking Formation and found Huang Fugui had subdued the demons, who were forced to kneel before him. Lin Feng slaughtered them all, gained over four million crit points, and prepared to continue his plan.

• Lin Feng charged into the formation, while a strange demonic wind blocked the people outside from seeing what happened within.
• Huang Fugui stopped the Blazing Berserk Lion from attacking Lin Feng and ordered the demons and evil practitioners to kneel before him.
• Huang Fugui slapped the demons into obedient rows, and they bowed before Lin Feng under threat of death.
• Lin Feng cut down the hundreds of demons and evil practitioners, gaining 4,257,350 crit points and raising his multiplier to 500x.
• Lin Feng checked his status, chose not to spend his points, and prepared for the next step of his plan.

Lin Feng and Huang Fugui staged a convincing betrayal while Huang Fugui revealed that he had let himself be captured to devour the demons in the Grand Demon-Locking Formation and break through to the fifth tier. Lin Feng then accused Master Hidden Mysteries and the Zhao Family of colluding with the Moon Worship Cult, leaving Xiao Xuan to face an imminent takeover of Azure Prefecture.

• Huang Fugui devoured the Demon Cores inside the formation, broke through the fifth tier, and blasted the wounded Lin Feng outside.
• Huang Fugui revealed that he had deliberately been captured to use the formation's demons as blood food, while Lin Feng acted shocked and furious.
• Chu Mengxi and the others recognized Lin Feng's performance as an act but hid their knowledge from Xiao Xuan and the guards.
• Lin Feng gave Xiao Xuan a jade pendant and accused Master Hidden Mysteries and the Zhao Family of conspiring with the Moon Worship Cult.
• Lin Feng warned that the Moon Worship Cult would arrive in one day disguised as the Prince of Runan's troops, then fainted.

After Lin Feng exposed the conspiracy and feigned unconsciousness, Xiao Xuan devised a plan to make the Demon Suppression Division appear defeated and lure their enemies into fighting the ascending great demon. Lin Feng secretly listened in and prepared to use his accumulated Crit Points to upgrade the Star Soul-Tempering Art.

• Xiao Xuan ordered Lin Feng taken away for treatment while the other leaders remained beside the Grand Demon-Locking Formation.
• Red Lotus warned Xiao Xuan that a fifth-tier demon was nearing its breakthrough and hostile forces might attack from outside.
• Xiao Xuan ordered Army Breaker to stage a disastrous retreat and Red Lotus to send pleas for help without letting the allies intervene.
• Xiao Xuan planned to feign grave injuries and let the demon and the disguised Moon Worship Cult army clash while the Division waited to claim victory.
• Lin Feng opened his eyes in the rear tent, heard Xiao Xuan's plan through his spiritual sense, and ordered the system to upgrade the Star Soul-Tempering Art.

Lin Feng spent all his Crit Points to advance his cultivation and techniques, then watched Xiao Xuan's staged crisis draw in the Blood Wolf Guard. Zhao Lie entered the formation expecting to seize a victory, only to find an unexpected weasel instead of the promised demons.

• Lin Feng reached the sixth level of the Divine Sea Realm, improved two techniques, and used up all his Crit Points.
• Lin Feng sensed Xiao Xuan and the others staging a battle while Red Lotus Camp spread reports that Azure Prefecture was in danger.
• Zhao Lie arrived with the Blood Wolf Guard under orders from Princess Consort Blood Lotus to exploit the conflict and capture both sides.
• Xiao Xuan pretended to be gravely injured and asked Zhao Lie to lead his troops into the formation.
• Zhao Lie entered the formation and found a weasel in a tattered Daoist robe instead of the demons he expected.

Lin Feng ambushed Zhao Lie and the three thousand Blood Wolf Guards inside the Grand Demon-Locking Formation, wiping them out with one slash. The massacre raised his critical multiplier to 1000× and left the battlefield silent beneath a field of corpses.

• Zhao Lie realized that the black-clad young man was Lin Feng and tried to order his troops to retreat.
• Lin Feng used the first form of the Myriad Phenomena Blade, Life Ensnarement, and unleashed a terrifying blade intent that swallowed Zhao Lie and the Blood Wolf Guards.
• Lin Feng killed Zhao Lie and all three thousand Blood Wolf Guards with one slash.
• Lin Feng's critical multiplier increased to 1000×, and he gained 9,965,000 Crit Points.

Lin Feng killed the Blood Wolf Guard and left Xiao Xuan to handle the political fallout, then used the Star Soul-Tempering Art to rise to the peak of the Divine Sea Realm. Xiao Xuan wrote a memorial blaming the Moon Worship Cult, hoping its account would keep Lin Feng from killing him.

• Xiao Xuan, Army Breaker, Red Lotus, and the Demon Slayer Envoys found more than three thousand headless corpses, including the Blood Wolf Guard, while Lin Feng searched the dead for loot.
• Xiao Xuan identified the Blood Wolf Token and realized the dead soldiers belonged to the Prince of Runan; Lin Feng claimed he had acted in self-defense.
• Xiao Xuan decided to send an account of the incident to the imperial court, and Lin Feng upgraded the Star Soul-Tempering Art, advancing to the peak of the Divine Sea Realm.
• Lin Feng asked Xiao Xuan to write a fair report, and Xiao Xuan, cowed by Lin Feng's power, drafted a memorial blaming the Moon Worship Cult for the massacre and attempted coup.

At court, Emperor Xia accepted the Demon Suppression Division’s account of Lin Feng’s slaughter of the Blood Wolf Guards and promoted him to Gold Badge Commander of Southern Prefecture. Lin Feng prepared to leave Azure Prefecture for the dangerous territory, while Xiao Xuan reeled at his sudden rise.

• Censor Zhou and General Wang accused Lin Feng of killing the Blood Wolf Guards, but the Demon Suppression Division’s supreme commander said they were Moon Worship Cult impostors plotting to attack the Grand Demon-Locking Formation.
• Emperor Xia sided with the Demon Suppression Division and dismissed the accusations as a demonic scheme.
• Emperor Xia promoted Lin Feng to Gold Badge Commander of the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division and ordered him to depart immediately.
• Xiao Xuan received the imperial edict and was stunned by Lin Feng’s promotion.
• Lin Feng told Xiao Xuan that their divisions should visit and exchange ideas, while Xiao Xuan privately hoped never to see him again.

After Lin Feng became the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division’s commander, he left Azure Prefecture with Huang Fugui and traveled to Southern Peace City. He arrived at the headquarters and took the commander’s seat as the hostile deputies watched.

• Xiao Xuan struggled to accept Lin Feng’s appointment as Southern Prefecture commander, while Lin Feng declined a farewell feast and prepared to depart.
• Chu Mengxi warned Lin Feng that the Prince of Runan controlled Southern Prefecture and passed along the Nan Yan Commandery Manager’s message about his token.
• Lin Feng left for Southern Prefecture with Huang Fugui, who carried him in his giant weasel form.
• Lin Feng identified Huang Fugui’s unstable cultivation foundations and promised to find him a top-tier demon cultivation technique in Southern Prefecture.
• Lin Feng arrived at the Southern Prefecture headquarters, ignored the hostile welcome from three deputy commanders, and took the commander’s seat.

Lin Feng crushed resistance within the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division, killed Deputy Commander Liu Mang, and seized control of the division. He then used five million Crit Points to master the Three Flowers Crown-Gathering Art, break through to the Crown Convergence Realm, and gain multiple intents.

• Lin Feng overwhelmed the Demon Slayer Envoys with his Divine Sea Realm power and declared that he alone set the rules in the Southern Prefecture.
• Lin Feng accused Deputy Commander Liu Mang of consorting with a fox demon and killed him when he denied it.
• Lin Feng silenced the remaining officials, assigned the two surviving deputy commanders to gather personnel, case, treasury, and cultivation records, and studied the Three Flowers Crown-Gathering Art.
• Lin Feng spent five million Crit Points to upgrade the art, refine his essence, qi, and spirit, and break through to the first level of the Crown Convergence Realm.
• Lin Feng automatically comprehended intents for his martial and movement techniques, including Myriad Hells Saber Intent, and celebrated his newly enhanced abilities.

Lin Feng mastered four martial techniques and assigned Huang Fugui the Supreme Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring Demon Canon. After uncovering how corruption had ruined the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division and crushed its envoys’ morale, Lin Feng decided to overhaul its incentives by trading resources for dangerous work.

• Lin Feng spent two million Crit Points to reach beginner level in four martial techniques and celebrated his expanded abilities.
• Lin Feng gave Huang Fugui several Demon Cultivator manuals, and Huang Fugui chose the Supreme Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring Demon Canon.
• Lin Feng had Huang Fugui investigate the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division and learned that its leaders had sold off supplies and colluded with local powers.
• Lin Feng inspected the barracks and heard from a young Demon Slayer Envoy that dangerous missions, poor rewards, and overdue death benefits had demoralized the ranks.
• Lin Feng resolved to provide the envoys with resources in exchange for putting their lives on the line.

Lin Feng established a Demon Capture Merit Hall and a reward system that paid Demon Suppression Division workers to lure demons and evil practitioners within fifty li of Southern Peace City. Young envoys returned with captured foes and earned rewards, while Wang Kun and Li He’s men resisted the new system and returned empty-handed with excuses.

• Lin Feng unveiled a pile of spoils and announced mandatory missions that rewarded workers ten times more merit for bringing demons and evil practitioners near Southern Peace City than for killing them.
• Lin Feng promised that merit could be exchanged for resources and promotions, then rewarded a young envoy with the Nine Tribulations Thunder Slash manual for speaking up.
• Young envoys embraced the new rules, while Wang Kun and Li He and their old hands resented the system and secretly avoided difficult missions.
• The young workers swept the mission board and headed across Southern Prefecture, while Wang Kun and Li He’s men took easy assignments and spent their time relaxing.
• Three days later, the young envoys returned with captured ghosts, a man-eating crocodile, and other foes, and Lin Feng paid them with merit and promised rewards.
• Wang Kun and Li He’s men returned empty-handed and claimed that a Blood Skeleton and a Golden-Armored Corpse King had escaped after difficult pursuits.

Lin Feng exposed the Silver Badge Envoys’ false mission reports and killed Wang Kun and Li He, forcing the Southern Prefecture’s Demon Suppression Division into obedience. He then discovered that the Southern Prefecture’s Dragon-Suppressing Stone was missing and wondered what the Prince of Runan was planning.

• Lin Feng revealed that Wang Kun and Li He had shirked their missions to spend time with courtesans.
• Lin Feng killed Wang Kun and Li He and warned their followers that failed missions would cost them their lives.
• The Silver Badge Envoys begged for mercy and promised to capture demons, bringing the Southern Prefecture’s Demon Suppression Division into line.
• Lin Feng inspected the Mystic Crystal Power-Testing Stele and found that its Dragon-Suppressing Stone had been forcibly removed.
• Lin Feng connected the missing stone to the Prince of Runan’s plans and questioned what the prince intended.

Lin Feng’s aggressive policies drove the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division to recruit demons and bandits through increasingly bizarre schemes, clearing the region in a month. As the Division delivered its captured targets to him, Lin Feng watched his crit points and multiplier soar.

• Demon Slayer Envoys Xu Xian and Ning Caichen lured a white snake greater demon and a female ghost into joining the Demon Suppression Division.
• Song Jiang persuaded Winged Tiger Lei Heng and his bandits to surrender and enlist under the Division’s new merit system.
• Demon Slayer Envoys used similar tricks to recruit demons across Southern Prefecture, causing many others to flee to Central Prefecture.
• The Division cleared Southern Prefecture of demons in a month and filled the prison wagons outside Lin Feng’s courtyard with captives.
• Lin Feng received crit points and multiplier increases from the deaths of the white snake greater demon, the female ghost, and Lei Heng.

Huang Fugui returned from seclusion as a fifth-tier greater demon, only to be overwhelmed by Lin Feng’s rapidly increased power. He revealed a new clone ability and proposed an intelligence network to help Lin Feng investigate Southern Prefecture.

• Lin Feng’s ruthless merit system drove the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division to hunt demons so relentlessly that the region became unusually peaceful.
• Huang Fugui descended into Lin Feng’s courtyard with a dramatic display, boasting of his new fifth-tier strength.
• Lin Feng’s pressure forced Huang Fugui to prostrate himself, and Huang Fugui learned that Lin Feng had advanced to the third level of the Crown Convergence Realm.
• Lin Feng tasked Huang Fugui with gathering intelligence throughout Southern Prefecture.
• Huang Fugui demonstrated his Rat Children and Rat Grandchildren ability, creating over a hundred tracking and concealment clones.
• Huang Fugui named his intelligence organization the Yellow Springs Road, and Lin Feng approved.

Lin Feng accepted the Prince of Runan’s invitation, expecting a chance to face powerful enemies, and attended the banquet alone. After the prince tried to tempt him into service, the performers revealed themselves as armed attackers and surrounded Lin Feng.

• The Prince of Runan sent Lin Feng an imperial decree inviting him to a banquet, and Lin Feng accepted despite his deputies’ warnings.
• Three days later, Lin Feng arrived alone at the Prince of Runan’s Residence for the banquet.
• The Prince of Runan apologized for the Blood Wolf Guard, gave Lin Feng gifts, praised his accomplishments, and offered to help him become supreme commander if he served him.
• Lin Feng called the entertainment dull, prompting the prince to promise a more exciting performance.
• The dancers and musicians revealed poisoned blades and rune-marked nets, then attacked Lin Feng from every direction.

Lin Feng foiled the Prince of Runan’s assassination trap, then used the incident to extort rewards while blaming the Moon Worship Cult. Back at the Demon Suppression Division, he learned the prince was draining dragon veins and his concubines’ life force to nurture a dragon egg, apparently hoping to become a dragon.

• Lin Feng killed the fifth-level Crown Convergence Realm assassin with one finger and annihilated the other attackers with his Six Paths Reincarnation Palm.
• Lin Feng pretended to protect the Prince of Runan, accused Moon Worship Cult remnants of the attack, and collected a hefty reward and natural treasures.
• The Prince of Runan raged after Lin Feng left and decided to activate his plan ahead of schedule.
• Huang Fugui reported that Moon Worship Cult altars at dragon-vein nodes across Southern Prefecture were extracting dragon qi and sending it beneath the Prince of Runan’s Residence.
• Huang Fugui revealed that the Prince of Runan had used his harem as cultivation cauldrons to feed the dragon qi into an enormous dragon egg, apparently seeking to become a dragon.