Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng slaughtered the prisoners on the second floor and rapidly cleared the third and fourth floors of the Demon Suppression Tower. As the tower’s alarms sounded and reports of each floor going dark reached Li Tiancheng, he ordered an audience with the Commander-in-Chief.

• Lin Feng challenged the prisoners on the second floor and killed them after defeating the Twin Yin-Yang Fiends.
• The monitoring hub watched every point of light on the second floor go dark and sounded the highest-level Demon Suppression alarm.
• Li Tiancheng crushed the jade slip, berated Qin Tian, and learned that Lin Feng had entered the third floor.
• A guard reported that the third floor’s light screen went dark ten breaths after Lin Feng arrived.
• A Demon Slayer Envoy reported that Lin Feng had entered the fourth floor, whose prisoners were all Martial Grandmaster Realm experts, and that its light screen had gone dark.
• Li Tiancheng realized the threat exceeded his authority and ordered his subordinates to seek an audience with the Commander-in-Chief.

Wei Zheng learned that Sword Ghost had slaughtered his way through the Demon Suppression Tower despite the Mortality Transformation Grand Formation. With Sword Ghost standing at the entrance to the seventh floor, Wei Zheng ordered the Demon Suppression Division to watch and let events unfold.

• Li Tiancheng reported to Wei Zheng that Sword Ghost had wiped out the tower’s first four floors, and the elders debated how he could resist the formation.
• A Demon Slayer Envoy reported that the fifth floor’s monitoring lights had gone out.
• Another Demon Slayer Envoy reported that the sixth floor had fallen and Sword Ghost had reached the seventh-floor entrance.
• Wei Zheng recognized Sword Ghost as an unprecedented variable and ordered everyone to watch how things unfolded and let nature take its course.

After Lin Feng killed the sixth floor’s overlord, he entered the seventh floor expecting another brutal fight but found an immaculate academy and a dangerous middle-aged scholar instead. As the scholar invited him to play a game, Lin Feng accepted and sat down opposite him.

• Wei Zheng ordered the Demon Suppression Tower sealed off and all reports of unusual activity classified as top secret, while Li Tiancheng feared the order would conceal the incident from His Majesty.
• Lin Feng killed the sixth floor’s overlord and gained twenty million Crit Points, though he considered the reward meager.
• Lin Feng pushed open the seventh floor’s bronze doors and discovered a refined academy filled with books, a pond, and an ancient pine.
• Lin Feng sensed that the middle-aged scholar playing the guqin was extremely dangerous and that the scholar’s power was fused with the tower.
• The scholar invited Lin Feng to converse over an unfinished game, and Lin Feng put away the Killing Blade and sat opposite him.

Lin Feng learned that Xia Yan was the true Prince of Runan, imprisoned for forty years, and heard why Emperor Xia had set his schemes in motion. Xia Yan revealed that Emperor Xia sought to break open the Heavenly Gate and reach the Upper World using the Dragon-Suppressing Stones.

• Lin Feng lost a game of Go to the middle-aged scholar, who warned him that his aggressive, killing intent could make him fall into an opponent’s traps.
• The scholar revealed that he was Xia Yan, the true ninth prince and Prince of Runan, imprisoned by his brother for forty years while a puppet took his place outside.
• Xia Yan said Emperor Xia wanted to break open the Heavenly Gate, the passage from their world to the Upper World.
• Xia Yan explained that the Heavenly Gate’s seal weakened every three hundred years and that nine Dragon-Suppressing Stones and the dragon veins of the nine prefectures could be used to break it open.

Lin Feng learned that the emperor had allied with a heavenly demon to gather the Dragon-Suppressing Stones and break open the Heavenly Gate, making Lin Feng a target after he destroyed two of them. Xia Yan gave Lin Feng the Imperial Dragon Qi and died, leaving him to face the true enemy in the imperial city.

• Xia Yan explained that the emperor had backed the false Prince of Runan and used him to collect the Dragon-Suppressing Stones, while Lin Feng's destruction of two stones disrupted the plan.
• Lin Feng declared that he would cut his way out of the Demon Suppression Tower and kill the emperor, despite Xia Yan warning that the emperor was a Martial Apex Realm master protected by Imperial Dragon Qi and a heavenly demon.
• Xia Yan recognized Lin Feng as the unforeseen variable and passed the Xia Imperial Family's fundamental Imperial Dragon Qi into him.
• Xia Yan warned Lin Feng that the emperor in the imperial city was the true enemy and told him not to trust anyone, especially Zhang Cheng.
• Xia Yan crumbled into golden motes and died, while Lin Feng stood in silence and received no system rewards.

Lin Feng entered the eighth floor and faced Xue Wuya, a maddened martial fiend whose strength overwhelmed the demons around him. Their brutal battle left both nearly destroyed, while Lin Feng’s Undying Asura Body advanced rapidly under the pressure.

• Lin Feng opened the eighth-floor door and found a blood-soaked arena filled with killing intent and the remains of its victims.
• Xue Wuya emerged with several powerful demons nearby and attacked Lin Feng with a blow that pinned him in place.
• Lin Feng activated the Undying Asura Body and met Xue Wuya’s punch head-on, sending him crashing into a wall.
• Lin Feng and Xue Wuya fought hand to hand, repeatedly breaking and healing their bodies as the demons watched in fear.
• After an hour, both were grievously wounded, but Lin Feng’s body was advancing toward minor mastery as Xue Wuya gathered his remaining strength for a final punch at Lin Feng’s head.

Lin Feng defeated Xue Wuya with a critical-hit-enhanced punch, broke through with the Undying Asura Body, and revived Huang Fugui by feeding him a demon core. The two reunited on the devastated eighth floor of the Demon Suppression Tower.

• Lin Feng met Xue Wuya's destructive punch with his own, triggering a 9,000-fold critical hit that devastated the eighth floor and killed nearby demons.
• Lin Feng shattered Xue Wuya, whose death raised Lin Feng's critical-hit multiplier to 10,000-fold and flooded him with blood energy.
• Lin Feng's wounds healed, his left arm regrew, and the Undying Asura Body reached minor mastery.
• Lin Feng retrieved a Ninth Order Demon Core from the Netherworld Bone Dragon and fed it to the unconscious Huang Fugui.
• Huang Fugui awoke able to speak human language, reached the peak of the fifth order, and wept as he reunited with Lin Feng.

Lin Feng reached the ninth floor of the Demon Suppression Tower and encountered a chained old man whose sword intent surpassed any opponent he had faced. The old man revealed that he was Sword Demon, Zhang Cheng.

• Huang Fugui praised Lin Feng after returning, and Lin Feng warned him to stop talking so much.
• Lin Feng opened the ancient bronze door to the ninth floor and found a vast, empty space with another enormous door at its far end.
• Lin Feng saw a frail old man bound by nine chains and sensed the peerless sword intent emanating from him.
• The old man opened his eyes, recognized Lin Feng's strength, and said brute strength alone would not be enough because Lin Feng was still too weak.
• The old man rose and revealed his name: Sword Demon, Zhang Cheng.

Lin Feng learned that Zhang Cheng was the real Sword Demon, imprisoned after opposing Emperor Xia Yuan’s plot to open the Heavenly Gate to the Demon Domain. Zhang Cheng entrusted Lin Feng with his sword legacy and the Demon Suppression Tower’s central mechanism, setting him on a path to confront the emperor.

• Zhang Cheng revealed that the kindly Silver Token Manager Lin Feng had met was only an incarnation of his benevolent thought.
• Zhang Cheng opened the bronze door enough to reveal the terrifying Demon Domain beyond the Heavenly Gate, where demons devoured worlds.
• Zhang Cheng explained that Emperor Xia Yuan had allied with Heavenly Demons, used the false Prince of Runan and the Moon Worship Cult to gather the nine Dragon-Suppressing Stones, and sought to open the gate.
• Zhang Cheng recounted how Xia Yuan transformed into a demonic dragon and how their battle left Zhang Cheng weakened and imprisoned in the Demon Suppression Tower.
• Zhang Cheng asked Lin Feng to inherit his mantle and kill the demon-corrupted ruler, and Lin Feng accepted without hesitation.
• Zhang Cheng began passing on his sword Dao insights and the method for controlling the Demon Suppression Tower’s central mechanism.

Lin Feng used Zhang Cheng’s Heaven-Slaying Sword Soul and Xia Yan’s Imperial Dragon Qi to deduce the Dragon-Slaying Sword Codex, then learned the Demon Suppression Tower’s secrets and gained control of its structure. Outside, Wei Yuan and the imperial forces waited anxiously for Lin Feng to emerge, until a sudden upheaval began.

• Lin Feng used the system to combine Imperial Dragon Qi, the Heaven-Slaying Sword Soul, and his cultivation foundation, creating the Dragon-Slaying Sword Codex.
• The dragon mark and sword soul fused with Lin Feng, revealing the tower’s origins, its connection to the Great Xia Dynasty’s dragon veins, and Zhang Cheng’s hidden backdoor.
• Lin Feng comprehended the Demon Suppression Tower’s internal structure and resolved to overturn the situation rather than confront the imperial forces head-on.
• Wei Yuan, Li Tiancheng, Qin Tian, and imperial experts maintained their siege outside the tower after waiting a day and a night.
• As the forces speculated about Lin Feng’s silence, a sudden upheaval erupted.

Lin Feng escaped the Demon Suppression Tower after shrinking and concealing it, while Wei Yuan failed to find him and Emperor Xia issued a nationwide bounty. Lin Feng spent five hundred million Crit Points to raise his cultivation to the peak of the ninth level of the Martial Grandmaster Realm and vowed to kill Wei Yuan.

• Lin Feng shrank the Demon Suppression Tower and concealed it, leaving Wei Yuan unable to sense it.
• Wei Yuan ordered his soldiers to search for Lin Feng and destroyed a hill in anger.
• Emperor Xia issued an Imperial Soul-Hunting Edict accusing Lin Feng of treason and offering a reward for his capture and execution.
• Lin Feng spent five hundred million Crit Points to upgrade the Dragon-Slaying Sword Codex and broke through to the peak of the ninth level of the Martial Grandmaster Realm.
• Lin Feng manifested his Annihilation Domain and declared that Wei Yuan's life was his.

Lin Feng devised a trap to draw Wei Yuan into a weakened position by having Huang Fugui pose as Sword Ghost’s arrogant disciple and provoke the imperial court. The Hall of Gold and Jade was looted, and a challenge summoned Wei Yuan to Fallen Phoenix Slope in three days.

• Lin Feng decided to stop hiding and planned to lure Wei Yuan into a trap, choosing Fallen Phoenix Slope to interfere with Wei Yuan’s domain technique.
• Lin Feng instructed Huang Fugui to impersonate Sword Ghost’s disciple, the Jade-Faced Little Sword God, and provoke Wei Yuan by looting the imperial family’s Hall of Gold and Jade.
• Huang Fugui raided the merchant association, defeated its defenses with a sword strike, and stole its treasures.
• Huang Fugui left a taunting challenge for Wei Yuan on the hall’s wall, demanding that he meet at Fallen Phoenix Slope in three days.
• News of the raid and the Jade-Faced Little Sword God’s sword marks spread through Cloud Prefecture and the Great Xia Dynasty, drawing martial artists to the city.

Emperor Xia sent Wei Yuan to Fallen Phoenix Slope to kill the master and disciple who had humiliated him. Wei Yuan trapped Huang Fugui in his domain, but Huang Fugui repeatedly evaded his attacks and left Wei Yuan enraged.

• A report from Cloud Prefecture revealed that someone had insulted Wei Yuan, and he demanded permission from Emperor Xia to take revenge.
• Emperor Xia granted Wei Yuan leave, and Wei Yuan flew toward Cloud Prefecture.
• Wei Yuan waited at Fallen Phoenix Slope for the Jade-Faced Little Sword God, but Huang Fugui arrived instead and taunted him.
• Wei Yuan unleashed the Domain of Ten Thousand Blades Returning to Oblivion, but Huang Fugui slipped out before it closed.
• Wei Yuan attacked Huang Fugui with a giant gray hand, but Huang Fugui dodged each strike and continued mocking him.

Lin Feng revealed himself at Fallen Phoenix Slope, shattered Wei Yuan’s domain sword, and killed the Immortal on Land with the Dragon-Slaying Sword Codex. He escaped with Huang Fugui before Emperor Xia’s dragon claw could strike, leaving a threat for the emperor.

• Lin Feng ordered Huang Fugui to lure Wei Yuan beneath the Wind-Singing Stone, where Wei Yuan’s domain power faltered.
• Lin Feng appeared and shattered Wei Yuan’s thousand-foot domain sword with a black sword strike, then removed his mask and revealed his identity.
• Wei Yuan recognized Lin Feng and was shocked by his rapid rise to the peak of the ninth level of Martial Grandmaster.
• Lin Feng used One sword, Immortal Burial to pierce Wei Yuan’s defense and annihilate his body and soul.
• Emperor Xia sent a dragon claw to seize Lin Feng, but Lin Feng took Huang Fugui and escaped into the void after threatening the emperor.

After Wei Yuan’s death, Emperor Xia issued the Imperial Blood Soul Pursuit Edict, making Lin Feng a target across the Great Xia Dynasty. Wei Zheng saw the decree as an opportunity and ordered the Demon Suppression Division to pursue Lin Feng without killing him.

• Emperor Xia learned that Wei Yuan’s soul jade had shattered and condemned his officials after hearing of the deaths of Wei Yuan and the Prince of Runan’s household.
• Emperor Xia issued the Imperial Blood Soul Pursuit Edict, placing a bounty on Lin Feng and using the decree’s tracking art to reveal his aura throughout Great Xia.
• People across the dynasty learned of the bounty and saw Lin Feng’s masked face, making him an enemy to all under heaven.
• Wei Zheng judged that Emperor Xia had exposed his weakness and lost the initiative by invoking the forbidden edict.
• Wei Zheng ordered the Demon Suppression Division’s agents to pursue Lin Feng and create conflicts but not kill him.

Lin Feng received the Sumeru ring from the badly wounded Chu Mengxi and used it to break the Imperial Blood Soul Pursuit Edict’s tracking. He treated Chu Mengxi’s injuries but regarded her arrival as part of Yan Cheng’s calculated plan and expected her to serve as his informant.

• Lin Feng reviewed his fight with Wei Yuan and concluded that he needed at least a billion Crit Points to reach the Martial Apex Realm.
• Chu Mengxi stumbled into Lin Feng’s hidden cave, delivered an antique wooden box on Lord Yan Cheng’s orders, and collapsed unconscious.
• Lin Feng opened the box and read a letter explaining that the Sumeru ring could conceal his aura and block probes.
• Lin Feng put on the Sumeru ring, which immediately erased the sensation of being watched by the Imperial Blood Soul Pursuit Edict.
• Lin Feng examined Chu Mengxi’s severe injuries, gave her a healing pill, and decided she would have to prove useful as a tool.

After waking in Lin Feng’s cave and recovering with his help, Chu Mengxi realized how dangerous he was and stayed behind under his orders. Lin Feng went deeper into the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains to hunt for power, where he confronted a Black Prison Dragon Rhinoceros.

• Chu Mengxi woke in Lin Feng’s cave, found her wounds treated, and ate roasted demon beast meat to regain her strength.
• Lin Feng recognized the Sumeru Ring’s goods and ordered Chu Mengxi to remain in the cave, warning that his saber qi would kill anyone who left.
• Lin Feng left the cave and headed into the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains, seeking more Crit Points to grow stronger.
• Lin Feng encountered a seventh-tier Black Prison Dragon Rhinoceros and charged toward it with the Killing Blade.
• Lin Feng unleashed Single Thought Gods and Devils Slash against the charging rhinoceros.

Lin Feng spent two days hunting powerful beasts, then used a billion crit points to advance to the first level of the Martial Apex Realm and awaken his annihilation domain. Huang Fugui also transformed and reached the peak of the Sixth Order, while Emperor Xia sensed a troubling disturbance from afar.

• Lin Feng hunted high-order demonic beasts in the Hundred Thousand Beast Mountains, gathering more than a billion crit points while Huang Fugui fed on their Demon Cores.
• Lin Feng spent a billion crit points to enhance the Dragon-Slaying Sword Codex, broke through the peak of the ninth level of the Martial Soul Realm, and reached the first level of the Martial Apex Realm.
• Lin Feng awakened the Gods and Devils Annihilation domain, briefly draining Chu Mengxi's vitality and erasing the campfire's burning before withdrawing the domain.
• Huang Fugui transformed into a giant golden rat, reached the peak of the Sixth Order, and called Lin Feng his master.
• In the capital, Emperor Xia opened his eyes after sensing a sudden heart palpitation.

Lin Feng confronted the imperial family's Shadow Guard ambush and erased Eunuch Chen and twelve elite guards with one strike. Chu Mengxi witnessed his power and stood trembling as Lin Feng approached her.

• Lin Feng sensed that a secret tracking method was still drawing danger toward him and left the cave with Chu Mengxi to meet the approaching pursuers.
• Eunuch Chen led twelve Shadow Guards to the waterfall, using a Soul-Locking Compass that tracked the hidden imprint on Lin Feng's Sumeru Ring.
• Lin Feng appeared above the guards, and Eunuch Chen ordered them to form the Heaven-and-Earth Net Formation and attacked with his domain.
• Lin Feng drew the Killing Blade once and unleashed his Gods and Devils Annihilation Domain, silently erasing Eunuch Chen, the twelve Shadow Guards, and their formation.
• Chu Mengxi watched in horror as Lin Feng sheathed his blade and asked her what was wrong; she could not speak.

After Chu Mengxi recovered, she revealed that she had a map and key leading to the Dragon-Suppressing Stone, a treasure that could threaten the Great Xia Dynasty’s fate. Lin Feng accepted the lead despite recognizing Zhang Cheng’s scheme and set out with Chu Mengxi and Huang Fugui for the Fallen Dragon Ancient Forest.

• Chu Mengxi recovered from her injuries and explained that Zhang Cheng had sent her with secret intelligence about the Dragon-Suppressing Stone.
• Chu Mengxi said the Dragon-Suppressing Stone could restrain or replace the Dragon-Anchoring Pearl and disrupt the Great Xia Dynasty’s dragon vein.
• Chu Mengxi presented Lin Feng with a fragmentary map and a bronze key to an ancient secret realm, claiming they could lead to the Dragon-Suppressing Stone.
• Lin Feng saw through Zhang Cheng’s plan to use him to find the treasure but decided to pursue it anyway.
• Lin Feng, Chu Mengxi, and Huang Fugui left the cave and headed for the Fallen Dragon Ancient Forest.