Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng exposed the Prince of Runan’s plan to transform into a True Dragon and prepared to trap him in Southern Peace City. When the Prince launched an attack on the Demon Suppression Division, Lin Feng led his forces into battle and killed a powerful residence general with one slash.

• Lin Feng realized that the Prince of Runan planned to use the dragon and phoenix veins to transform himself into a True Dragon, but chose to wait until the plan advanced further before striking.
• Lin Feng told the Southern Prefecture Demon Suppression Division about the plot and ordered Xu Xian and Ning Caichen to spread a rumor about a treasure, while Song Jiang recruited martial artists and the others surrounded Southern Peace City.
• After spies reported the Demon Suppression Division’s preparations, the Prince of Runan mobilized his private soldiers and Moon Worship Cult Attendants to attack the Division.
• Lin Feng led hundreds of Demon Slayer Envoys out of the Division and killed a third-level Crown Convergence Realm general and dozens of guards with a single slash.

Lin Feng massacred the Prince of Runan’s army and confronted the prince in his underground palace. After the prince transformed into a half-step Martial Soul expert, Lin Feng used crit points to reach the same realm, broke through the prince’s spatial restraint, and struck him with a finishing slash.

• Lin Feng killed General Zhang with one slash, then tore through the princely army with his martial techniques as the Demon Suppression Division followed to clean up.
• The Prince of Runan received reports of his army’s collapse before Lin Feng entered the underground palace, covered in blood.
• The Prince of Runan revealed his peak ninth-level Crown Convergence Realm power and dragon-egg-enhanced strength, but Lin Feng met his attack at the third level of the Crown Convergence Realm.
• The Prince of Runan merged his three crown flowers and transformed into a half-step Martial Soul dragon body that restrained Lin Feng with spatial force.
• Lin Feng spent 60,000,000 crit points to perfect the Three Flowers Crown-Gathering Art and reached half-step Martial Soul, shattering the prince’s restraint.
• Lin Feng ignored the spatial force, pierced the prince’s dragon scales with the Great Wilderness Heaven-Imprisoning Finger, and began a finishing Single Thought Gods and Devils Slash.

Wei Yuan arrived in Southern Peace City under the emperor’s decree and stopped Lin Feng from killing the Prince of Runan, then ordered Lin Feng to kneel and accept punishment. Lin Feng resisted Wei Yuan’s overwhelming force and broke it with his Heaven-Defying Saber Intent, leaving Wei Yuan wounded and stunned.

• A vast force froze everyone in Southern Peace City and halted Lin Feng’s killing strike just before it reached the Prince of Runan.
• Wei Yuan appeared, identified himself as the emperor’s envoy, and confronted the Prince of Runan over his alleged rebellion.
• Wei Yuan knocked the Killing Blade away from the prince and accused Lin Feng of attempting to murder an imperial prince, ordering him to kneel and accept punishment.
• Lin Feng refused to kneel, and Wei Yuan’s force crushed down on him until the ground and Lin Feng’s body began to break under the pressure.
• Lin Feng fused his intents into Heaven-Defying Saber Intent and shattered Wei Yuan’s force with a strike, making Wei Yuan stumble back and bleed golden blood.

Wei Yuan revealed his Martial Grandmaster domain and nearly killed Lin Feng, but Lin Feng used his movement technique to evade its attacks. Wei Yuan then claimed to be a Martial Apex Realm Immortal on Land and unleashed a lethal strike, prompting a yellow-robed figure to shield Lin Feng.

• Wei Yuan expanded his Domain of Ten Thousand Blades Returning to Oblivion, trapping Lin Feng in a world of blades and cutting him with invisible attacks.
• Lin Feng used World's End Within Reach to perceive weak spatial nodes and dodge the domain’s blades.
• Wei Yuan grew furious when Lin Feng moved freely through the domain and declared himself a Martial Apex Realm Immortal on Land.
• Wei Yuan controlled the domain and aimed a law-infused finger strike at Lin Feng, sealing off his escape.
• A yellow figure in a tattered Daoist robe appeared before Lin Feng and spread its arms to protect him.

Huang Fugui sacrificed himself to break Wei Yuan’s domain, allowing Lin Feng to escape and endure a relentless pursuit. When Wei Yuan cornered Lin Feng in the Gobi and struck again, an ancient wooden token flew from Lin Feng’s storage pouch and erupted in divine light.

• Huang Fugui burned his Demon Core, soul, and bloodline origin in a self-destruction that shattered a crack in Wei Yuan’s domain and erased his attack.
• Lin Feng escaped through the crack using World's End Within Reach, while Wei Yuan withdrew his domain and pursued him.
• Lin Feng evaded Wei Yuan’s devastating attacks across a thousand li as his true qi ran low and his injuries worsened.
• After half an hour, Lin Feng collapsed in a Gobi crater, and Wei Yuan prepared a killing strike against him.
• Lin Feng’s forgotten wooden token flew out of his storage pouch and blazed with divine light as Wei Yuan’s attack descended.

A wooden token protected Lin Feng by releasing the sword intent of the legendary Sword Demon Zhang Cheng, which gravely wounded Wei Yuan and forced him to flee. Wei Yuan convinced Emperor Xia that Lin Feng was a threat, and the emperor issued a kingdom-wide execution order against him.

• The wooden token released a blue-robed phantom who struck Wei Yuan with the Immortal-Slaying Sword and shattered his Domain of Myriad Blades Returning to the Void.
• Wei Yuan recognized the sword intent as Sword Demon Zhang Cheng’s, then fled after realizing he could not kill Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng discovered that the token from the Demon Suppression Division concealed Zhang Cheng’s power.
• Wei Yuan appeared before Emperor Xia and falsely portrayed Lin Feng as a demon-colluding rebel.
• Emperor Xia ordered Lin Feng’s execution and offered a million taels of gold and a ten-thousand-household fief for his head.

After Lin Feng’s bounty turned the Great Xia Dynasty against him, he protected the powerless Huang Fugui and killed three Shadow Guards before fleeing into the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains. Worn down by ten days of pursuit, Lin Feng realized he needed to grow stronger quickly and checked his system status.

• Emperor Xia’s decree branded Lin Feng an enemy and offered a vast bounty for his capture.
• Lin Feng cared for Huang Fugui, who had lost his cultivation and intelligence, and swore revenge on Prince of Runan, Wei Yuan, and Emperor Xia.
• Three Shadow Guards attacked Lin Feng in a mountain temple, but he killed them all and gained Crit Points.
• Lin Feng entered the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains and endured ten days of pursuit while fighting Shadow Guards and avoiding demonic beasts.
• Lin Feng, badly wounded and low on true qi, checked his system panel and saw a 3,000× crit multiplier and 131,700,000 Crit Points.

After slaughtering dozens of Shadow Guards, Lin Feng spent one hundred million Crit Points to deduce Stellar Transformation and broke through to the first level of the Martial Soul Realm. He set out for the lawless City of Chaos to find cultivation methods and treasures, hiding his identity as Night Wind.

• Lin Feng found that the perfected Three Flowers Crown-Gathering Art could not be upgraded directly, and the system unlocked Cultivation Method Deduction.
• Lin Feng spent one hundred million Crit Points to deduce the top-tier Martial Soul Realm cultivation method Stellar Transformation.
• Lin Feng used his remaining 31,700,000 Crit Points on Stellar Transformation and broke through to the first level of the Martial Soul Realm, healing his injuries.
• Lin Feng decided to leave the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains for the City of Chaos, where he could hunt for cultivation manuals and treasures.
• Lin Feng picked up the sleeping Huang Fugui, put on a plain human-skin mask, and took the name Night Wind.

Lin Feng entered the City of Chaos under the alias Night Wind and went to the Blackwater Gang’s southern-district territory to find a place to settle and acquire cultivation manuals. After perfecting the Thirteen Swords of the Clear Breeze with his system, he killed the gang thugs who tried to test him and headed toward Li San’s courtyard.

• Lin Feng entered the City of Chaos and surveyed its districts and ruling powers with his divine sense.
• Lin Feng went to the Blackwater Gang’s slums, where One-Eyed Dragon demanded protection money or ordered him to kill Mad Dog Li San.
• Lin Feng bought a rusty iron sword and practiced the Thirteen Swords of the Clear Breeze while the gang members mocked him.
• Lin Feng’s system raised the sword art to perfection, and he killed One-Eyed Dragon and his seven underlings with a single flurry.
• Lin Feng dismissed the sword’s poor quality and walked toward Li San’s courtyard.

Lin Feng killed Mad Dog Li San and massacred the Blackwater Gang’s southern branch, earning the name Sword Ghost across the City of Chaos. Back at his lodgings, he merged the techniques he had seized and perfected Single Sword of Wind and Thunder.

• Lin Feng killed Mad Dog Li San with one sword and forced his remaining men to surrender their valuables and cultivation manuals.
• Lin Feng went to Blackwater Hall and confronted branch leader Wang Wu, who had planned to exploit the fight between Lin Feng and Li San.
• Lin Feng slaughtered the Blackwater Gang’s southern branch and killed Wang Wu.
• Word spread through the City of Chaos that the swordsman Night Wind had destroyed the branch, and people began calling him Sword Ghost.
• Lin Feng used the seized techniques and his crit points to derive and perfect Single Sword of Wind and Thunder.

After destroying a Blackwater Gang branch, Lin Feng learned that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction would offer three incomplete martial soul realm manuals and went to bid. At the auction, he outbid Wu Guang for one of the manuals, but Wu Zong entered the contest as well.

• Wu Guang learned that Night Wind had killed Wang Wu and dozens of Blackwater Gang members, and ordered an investigation.
• Lin Feng used the looted cultivation manuals as system nourishment, then discovered that the auction would feature three incomplete martial soul realm manuals.
• Three days later, Lin Feng arrived at the auction, where Wu Guang and other faction leaders were also present.
• The auctioneer introduced the manuals, and Lin Feng bid three hundred thousand taels, drawing Wu Guang's anger.
• Wu Zong bid four hundred thousand taels, and Lin Feng immediately raised the price to five hundred thousand taels.

Lin Feng killed Wu Zong and the Bloodbane Tower assassins, then decided to target the Blackwater Gang to gain the Crit Points he needed. The next morning, Wu Guang prepared his gang to fight as Lin Feng arrived at their headquarters.

• Lin Feng outbid Wu Guang and Wu Zong at the auction, spending three million taels of gold on three incomplete technique manuals.
• Lin Feng lured the Bloodbane Tower assassins to Rock-Strewn Ridge and killed Wu Zong with one sword strike, then slaughtered the remaining assassins.
• Lin Feng fused his technique manuals and learned that extrapolating the next techniques of "Stellar Transformation" required 300 million Crit Points, so he set his sights on the Blackwater Gang.
• Wu Guang learned that Lin Feng was approaching and ordered the Blackwater Gang’s members to assemble for a fight.

Lin Feng slaughtered the Blackwater Gang and turned his attention to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. Pavilion Master Ge Wanbao and his subordinates feared they were trapped, just as Lin Feng appeared and asked if they were discussing his menu.

• Wu Guang rallied the Blackwater Gang to kill Lin Feng, offering a reward and the deputy gang leader position.
• Lin Feng used Single Sword of Wind and Thunder to slaughter the gang members and behead Wu Guang.
• Lin Feng killed the four hall masters and the surviving gang members, increasing his critical multiplier to 4,230×.
• Ge Wanbao and his trusted elder feared Lin Feng would target the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and concluded they could not escape the city.
• Lin Feng suddenly appeared during their meeting and asked whether they were discussing his menu.

Lin Feng destroyed the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and claimed the City of Chaos’s cultivation manuals to fuel his next breakthrough. After deducing the Heaven and Earth Limitless Art and perfecting his skills, he reached the ninth-level Martial Soul Realm and comprehended annihilation force.

• Lin Feng rejected Ge Wanbao’s offered payment and demanded the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s manuals, prompting Ge Wanbao to order his guards to attack.
• Lin Feng unleashed his Myriad Phenomena Blade domain, killed Ge Wanbao and the Golden Armor Guards, and raised his critical multiplier and Crit Points.
• Lin Feng became the sole master of the City of Chaos after the Blackwater Gang, Bloodbane Tower, and Myriad Treasures Pavilion were destroyed, then ordered the city’s residents to surrender their cultivation manuals.
• Lin Feng gathered 742 cultivation arts and used them to reduce the cost of deducing the Heaven and Earth Limitless Art before raising his cultivation arts and martial skills to perfection.
• Lin Feng advanced to the ninth-level Martial Soul Realm and fused his varied intents into an embryonic domain of annihilation force.

Lin Feng chose to infiltrate the Great Xia Dynasty’s Demon Suppression Tower to find new prey and resources, then ambushed an imperial convoy at Narrow Ghost-Sorrow Gorge and looted its treasures. The court responded by ordering Qin Tian to track down Sword Ghost and bring him back alive.

• Lin Feng decided to enter the Demon Suppression Tower rather than return to the capital or flee elsewhere.
• Seven days later, Lin Feng appeared before an imperial convoy in Narrow Ghost-Sorrow Gorge and killed its commander with a sudden strike.
• Lin Feng slaughtered the resisting Golden Scale Guards, spared the civilian laborers, and took the treasures from dozens of wagons.
• Lin Feng left a taunting message signed Sword Ghost on a prison wagon before departing.
• The Demon Suppression Division’s commander ordered Qin Tian to use every resource to find Lin Feng and bring him back alive.

Lin Feng used his Sword Ghost identity to raid powerful targets across the Great Xia Dynasty, drawing Qin Tian into a pursuit. At Fallen Phoenix Slope, Lin Feng staged a hard-fought defeat and let Qin Tian capture him with the Purple-Gold Dragon-Binding Chains, setting his sights on the Demon Suppression Tower.

• Lin Feng raided a trading market in Ning Prefecture and destroyed the aristocratic lineage behind it before Qin Tian arrived.
• Lin Feng exposed the Clear Breeze Sword Sect’s crimes, slaughtered its members, and left a taunting message for the Demon Suppression Division.
• Lin Feng continued attacking targets across the Great Xia Dynasty while Qin Tian pursued him, then decided it was time to let himself be caught.
• At Fallen Phoenix Slope, Lin Feng fought Qin Tian while carefully pretending to be slightly weaker and eventually exhausted.
• Qin Tian trapped Lin Feng in the Purple-Gold Dragon-Binding Chains, while Lin Feng secretly celebrated his planned entry into the Demon Suppression Tower.

Lin Feng was imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Tower, where its formation suppressed his cultivation and left him apparently helpless. He discovered his system still worked and was thrown onto the first floor, where more than a hundred hostile prisoners watched him.

• Qin Tian brought Lin Feng to the Demon Suppression Tower and had the guards open its gate.
• The Mortality Transformation Grand Formation suppressed Lin Feng’s cultivation and severed his connection to spiritual energy.
• Lin Feng saw that his system’s crit multiplier and crit points remained intact, and he realized the tower’s suppression did not disable it.
• Qin Tian ordered the jailers to put Lin Feng on the first floor and told them to have Blood Hand teach him the rules without killing him.
• An old jailer explained that each floor belonged to an overlord, then kicked Lin Feng into the first-floor prison.
• Over a hundred prisoners fixed their hostile gazes on Lin Feng as he raised his head from the filthy ground.

Lin Feng entered the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower and killed its overlord, the Bloody-Handed Human Butcher, with one punch. When the prisoners attacked him together, Lin Feng slaughtered them all and stood alone amid the carnage.

• Lin Feng entered the prison yard, where the prisoners and the Bloody-Handed Human Butcher sized him up as an easy target.
• The Bloody-Handed Human Butcher demanded that Lin Feng submit, but Lin Feng struck him once and destroyed him.
• The prisoners tried to convince themselves Lin Feng was weakened, then rushed him together to seize his secrets.
• Lin Feng massacred the attacking prisoners with punches, kicks, and other brutal attacks until none remained standing.
• Lin Feng sensed his fighting spirit and crit points rising and declared that this was what monster grinding was about.

After Lin Feng massacred the prisoners on the first floor of the Demon Suppression Tower, he fused his techniques into the Undying Asura Body. He opened the gate to the second floor and entered, ready to face its stronger prisoners.

• The guards monitoring the first floor saw every life aura except Sword Ghost's vanish and reported the deaths.
• Qin Tian watched the recording of Lin Feng killing the prisoners and was horrified by his strength.
• Lin Feng chose the Undying Asura Body from the system's fusion paths and spent 500 million Crit Points to create it.
• The fusion strengthened Lin Feng's physical body and increased his critical multiplier by over a thousand times.
• After the first floor's runic chains dissipated, Lin Feng effortlessly opened the gate and entered the passage to the second floor.

Lin Feng entered the second floor of the prison and faced its rulers, the Twin Yin-Yang Fiends. His defense let him kill both brothers with ease, leaving the surviving prisoners in stunned silence.

• Lin Feng entered the second floor, where dozens of hardened prisoners watched him warily.
• The Twin Yin-Yang Fiends attacked Lin Feng together, aiming for his chest and the back of his head.
• Yang Fiend's claws scraped harmlessly across Lin Feng's body, and Lin Feng killed Yin Fiend with a single critical palm strike.
• Yang Fiend broke his leg against Lin Feng's arm, then Lin Feng killed him with a backhanded slap.
• The prisoners fell silent after Lin Feng defeated the Twin Yin-Yang Fiends.