Chapter Summaries

The elders of Hundred Refinements Valley suspected Yuwen Yan was using Demon Race souls to control a Dharma Aspect Realm corpse, while Shen Lin realized the sect planned to sacrifice the Entrance Ceremony attendees to forge a Heaven Grade Mysterious Weapon. Shen Lin intended to sabotage the forging and asked Elder Ye for rare spirit medicines to strengthen himself, leaving her stunned by his demand.

• The Great Elder warned Elder Ye and the Second Elder that Yuwen Yan might have surpassed them, citing the rapid decline of Demon Race members in Xuzhou as evidence of his search for Soul Power.
• The Second Elder dismissed Yuwen Yan as a lowborn sympathizer and left to investigate the snow mountain.
• Shen Lin deduced that Hundred Refinements Valley planned to turn the Entrance Ceremony participants into Soul Power, and resolved to stop them and redirect their prepared materials toward his own weapon.
• Shen Lin told Elder Ye that advancing his martial arts would help their undertaking and asked for at least ten spirit medicines over a thousand years old.
• Elder Ye was shocked by Shen Lin's demand.

Shen Lin asked Elder Ye to let him search the Southern Marsh for a Life Restoration Fruit so he could restore some mobility to his damaged Heavenly Demon Body, and she agreed while assigning Yao Luo to accompany him and placing a monitoring bracelet on his wrist. In the marsh, Bai Kaize’s Demon Slaying Marquis squad entered the fog with Zhong Bailing, whose Heavenly Evolution Art could guide them.

• Shen Lin asked Elder Ye for ten thousand-year spirit medicines, then explained that he planned to search the Southern Marsh for a Life Restoration Fruit to restore some of his mobility.
• Elder Ye agreed to Shen Lin’s expedition, ordered Yao Luo to accompany him, and placed a flame bracelet on his wrist so she could monitor him and respond to danger.
• Ding Juncai warned Bai Kaize’s squad about the Southern Marsh’s disorienting fog and dangerous monsters before returning to Xu Prefecture.
• Bai Kaize’s squad discussed Zhong Bailing’s recruitment, and Zhong explained that her Heavenly Evolution Art could help them navigate the marsh and find targets.
• Zhong Bailing summoned a phantom compass, and Bai Kaize led the squad into the fog.

Shen Lin and Yao Luo entered the southern marsh to find a Life Restoration Fruit, and Yao Luo swiftly killed the Blood Ring Python guarding it. After Shen Lin consumed the fruit and began healing, a gigantic python surfaced and surrounded the grassland.

• Shen Lin questioned whether the marsh's strange Demon Qi came from a vast living demon beast, but followed Yao Luo into the fog.
• Yao Luo found a Life Restoration Fruit growing on a twisted tree less than half an hour after they entered the marsh.
• Yao Luo dismissed Shen Lin's warning and killed the guarding Blood Ring Python with a flaming punch.
• Shen Lin swallowed the Life Restoration Fruit, whose life force began repairing his Heavenly Demon Body.
• Shen Lin warned Yao Luo of danger, and Yao Luo looked up to see a house-sized python emerging from the fog as its ring-covered body encircled the grassland.

Yao Luo and Shen Lin encountered a peak-strength Blood Ring Python, only to see an unknown predator kill and devour it, revealing that the southern marsh had become unusually dangerous. Meanwhile, Bai Kaize’s Demon Slaying Marquis squad hid from a vast Black Fiend Ant colony and prepared to continue hunting Lin Sinian.

• Yao Luo realized the Blood Ring Python was far stronger than he could handle, and Shen Lin prepared to call on Elder Ye for help.
• The Blood Ring Python fled from an unseen danger, but its severed head fell before Yao Luo and Shen Lin as something devoured its body in the fog.
• Yao Luo and Shen Lin escaped, and Yao Luo admitted that demons in the southern marsh had grown far more powerful than he remembered.
• Bai Kaize and his squad watched Black Fiend Ants swarm around their tent, while Zhong Bailing suspected they were searching for something.
• Old Yu wondered whether Lin Sinian had caused the ants’ abnormal behavior, and Bai Kaize insisted that the squad fulfill its mission to kill him.

Bai Kaize’s Demon Slaying Marquis squad tracked Lin Sinian’s childhood toy through the southern marshes and encountered Yao Luo and Shen Lin. The two groups headed in the same direction, leaving Bai Kaize worried that Lin Sinian might have already escaped the marshes.

• After the Black Fiend Ants left, Zhong Bailing used Lin Sinian’s Rattle Drum to track him, and Bai Kaize led the squad toward the compass’s direction.
• Bai Kaize’s squad encountered Yao Luo and Shen Lin emerging from the mist, and both sides eyed each other warily.
• Zhong Bailing felt an unexplained familiarity and resentment toward Shen Lin, while Shen Lin wondered why Hao Xi was not with the squad.
• Bai Kaize asked whether Yao Luo was from the Hundred Refinements Valley; Yao Luo confirmed he was its vice valley master, and the groups exchanged cautious greetings.
• Yao Luo used a crystal flame that pointed toward the Meteor Flame to leave the marshes with Shen Lin, while Bai Kaize’s squad chose the same route to pursue Lin Sinian.
• Bai Kaize realized the route might lead out of the marshes and feared that Lin Sinian had already left.

Shen Lin and the others discovered that the marsh had looped them back to the Blood Ring Python’s remains, where a concealed Mantis Demon beast ambushed them. After it killed Yao Luo and Old Yu, Bai Kaize tried to rally the survivors, but the creature attacked Shen Lin as he moved toward them.

• Bai Kaize’s team members admitted they felt inexplicable resentment toward Shen Lin, though Bai Kaize told them to stop talking.
• Yao Luo and Shen Lin recognized the Blood Ring Python’s skull and realized they had returned to the same place; both teams’ guides pointed back along the route they had taken.
• A concealed Mantis Demon beast killed Yao Luo and Old Yu with its spikes, then began eating their bodies.
• Shen Lin warned that the creature’s strength exceeded the Primal Chaos Realm, and Bai Kaize urged him to regroup with the team and fight together.
• As Shen Lin moved toward Bai Kaize’s group, a spike shot toward him at tremendous speed.

Shen Lin and Bai Kaize’s group fought the Mantis Demon, whose speed and armor overwhelmed most of their attacks. Shen Lin severed one of its spikes and forged it into a saber, then unleashed a fiery attack that engulfed the demon.

• The Mantis Demon killed Yao Luo with an invisible spike, but Shen Lin dodged its next strike and Bai Kaize led the Demon Slaying Marquis’s men in an attack.
• Bai Kaize and the others discovered that their attacks barely harmed the Mantis Demon, though ice spiritual energy seemed to trouble it and its eyes might be vulnerable.
• Shen Lin seized the Mantis Demon’s spike, severed it, and used Weapon Refining Hand to forge it into a high-grade Profound saber.
• Shen Lin charged the Mantis Demon and told Zhong Bailing to use her widest-range attack when he called for it.
• Shen Lin’s Flame Saber Qi made the Mantis Demon recoil, and he knocked aside its spikes before engulfing it in his Flame Dragon attack.

Shen Lin exploited the Mantis Demon’s fear of fire and cold to crack its armor, but the creature turned invisible and launched a close-range threat. He revealed it with intense heat and unleashed Purgatory, leaving Bai Kaize and the others stunned by his Phenomenal Divine Ability.

• Shen Lin called for Zhong Bailing to strike the Mantis Demon with her Snowy Palm after his flames had scorched it.
• Shen Lin realized the Mantis Demon feared fire and cold, and urged the group to attack again after ice and flame cracked its carapace.
• The Mantis Demon spread powder from its wings, vanished, and left Shen Lin and the others unable to locate it.
• Shen Lin gathered the group within ten feet of him and used overwhelming heat to evaporate the powder and reveal the Mantis Demon nearby.
• Shen Lin unleashed Purgatory, engulfing the area in flames while protecting the space around the group, and Bai Kaize recognized it as a Phenomenal Divine Ability.

Shen Lin and the Demon Slaying Marquis's team defeated the Mantis Demon Beast after he weakened it with his flames. He forged its fore scythes into a pair of blades and earned the team's respect, while the loss of his guardian left him to deal with the demon beasts himself.

• Shen Lin's flames trapped and badly burned the Mantis Demon Beast, but he warned Bai Kaize and the others that it was still alive and ordered them to follow the plan.
• Zhong Bailing's icy attacks cracked the beast's carapace, and Bai Kaize and the team struck together to break it apart and wound the beast.
• Shen Lin seized the weakened beast's fore scythes, tore them off, and used them to decapitate it.
• Shen Lin refined the scythes into a pair of curved blades and gave Bai Kaize his old blade as compensation for the one he had broken.
• Bai Kaize and the others respected Shen Lin after he saved them, while Shen Lin reflected that his guardian had died and he would have to drive away the demon beasts himself.

Shen Lin agreed to travel with Bai Kaize's team, hoping Zhong Bailing's secret technique would help him find more Life Restoration Fruits. Meanwhile, Lin Sinian searched the marsh for an ancient treasure that could strengthen his ability to control demonic beasts and help him avenge his father against Shen Lin.

• Shen Lin accepted Bai Kaize's offer to join the team after learning Zhong Bailing could locate Life Restoration Fruits.
• Zhong Bailing used her secret technique, and the team followed its westward-pointing compass toward their moving target.
• Lin Sinian traveled through the western marsh escorted by powerful wasps that reported their search to him.
• Lin Sinian recalled that an ancient treasure could greatly strengthen his ability to control demonic beasts and advance his standing in the Myriad Demon Kingdom.
• Lin Sinian vowed to keep searching for the treasure so he could gain power and avenge his father against Shen Lin.

Lin Sinian was intercepted by Bai Kaize and the Demon Slaying Marquis squad, who launched a coordinated attack to kill him. As the battle continued, Lin Sinian singled out Shen Lin after Shen Lin saw through his camouflage.

• Lin Sinian’s wasp detected the squad waiting in the fog, and he dismissed them as too weak to threaten him.
• Bai Kaize assigned Zhong Bailing to hold back the wasp and ordered the others to attack Lin Sinian.
• Zhong Bailing’s weapons drove back the wasp while the squad members attacked Lin Sinian with blades and poisoned weapons.
• Lin Sinian blocked their attacks, countered the puppet women with a powerful punch, and escaped Bai Kaize’s downward saber strike.
• Shen Lin warned Bai Kaize of Lin Sinian’s approach and revealed that he could see through Lin Sinian’s Chameleon Clan camouflage.

Lin Sinian revealed that his innate ability could control an unlimited number of Demon Beasts, trapping the Demon Slaying Marquis squad in a lethal ambush. The squad faced overwhelming odds as Shen Lin realized Lin Sinian could become a threat capable of destroying both Great Wei and the Myriad Demon Kingdom.

• Bai Kaize recognized Lin Sinian's strength, while Lin Sinian questioned Shen Lin, who identified himself as Gongsun Ge from Hundred Refinements Valley.
• Zhong Bailing and the squad killed the Wasp Demon Beast, then joined forces to attack Lin Sinian as Shen Lin watched.
• Lin Sinian unleashed countless Demon Qi spikes from the fog, destroying Wu Juncai's puppets and damaging Bai Kaize's bronze umbrella before the squad could withstand the barrage.
• Lin Sinian revealed hundreds or thousands of giant wasps, each at or above the Aperture Opening Realm, and admitted that his ability to control Demon Beasts without limit had been concealed.
• Bai Kaize and the others realized that Lin Sinian could eventually command powerful Demon Beasts and threaten both Great Wei and the Myriad Demon Kingdom.

Lin Sinian trapped Bai Kaize’s team in a swarm of demon beasts and ordered them to attack. Shen Lin revealed he could use his Phenomenal Divine Ability again and invoked Purgatory as the swarm launched its stingers.

• Lin Sinian explained that he had hidden his ability to control countless demon beasts and prepared to kill the Demon Slaying Marquis team to protect his secret.
• Wasp Demon Beasts blocked the air while Black Fiend Ants sealed the ground, leaving Bai Kaize and his team surrounded.
• Lin Sinian rode a Wasp Demon Beast and ordered the insects to feed on the trapped martial artists.
• Bai Kaize prepared to lead his team in a desperate attack so Shen Lin could escape, but Shen Lin told them to stay close to him.
• Shen Lin began gathering flame spiritual power, and Lin Sinian ordered the wasps to fire black stingers at him.
• Shen Lin invoked Purgatory as the stingers closed in, recreating the flames that had burned the Mantis Demon.

Shen Lin unleashed Purgatory twice, destroying Lin Sinian’s insect army and then sweeping away the monsters Lin Sinian summoned. Lin Sinian escaped on a Crimson Rabbit but hesitated over whether to return and fight, unsure if Shen Lin could use the Phenomenal Divine Ability again.

• Shen Lin’s flames burned Lin Sinian’s wasps and Black Fiend Ants to ashes, though Lin Sinian survived behind a shield of ants.
• Lin Sinian summoned a vast horde of marsh monsters and challenged Shen Lin to use Purgatory again.
• Shen Lin calmly unleashed Purgatory, and its flames consumed the summoned monsters.
• Lin Sinian escaped the flames on a Crimson Rabbit, which collapsed after using its rapid movement six times.
• Lin Sinian considered returning to attack Shen Lin but feared that Shen Lin could still use Purgatory again.

Lin Sinian redirected the swamp’s demon beasts toward Shen Lin and the others, while their movements sealed the exits and trapped anyone inside. Three Rogue Cultivators saw the blockade’s strength when Blue Water Sword King Chun tried to break through and was killed.

• Lin Sinian decided to target Shen Lin and commanded the demon beasts throughout the swamp to move.
• Three Rogue Cultivators prepared to leave after hunting five Treasure Liquid Realm demon beasts, but their Big Brother warned that the swamp’s beasts were unusually active.
• The brothers hid as a swarm of Blood Fiend Mosquitoes flew toward the exit, and their Big Brother realized the route was blocked.
• The three took a detour and found Bone Melting Scorpions guarding the swamp’s boundary, with even the weakest at the Aperture Opening Realm.
• Blue Water Sword King Chun charged the scorpions’ defensive line but fell and was eaten, as Wasp Demon Beasts filled the sky and sealed the way out.

Lin Sinian trapped the martial artists in the marsh and cut them off from escape, while Shen Lin and his companions discovered that Dragonfly Demon Beasts were disrupting communications and watching their movements. After Shen Lin fought a way through a surrounding horde, the group fled with his Phenomenal Divine Ability nearly exhausted.

• Lin Sinian stationed demon beasts at the marsh exits and ordered them to attack Human Race martial artists throughout the marsh.
• Shen Lin and his companions sheltered in a safe place, and Bai Kaize tried unsuccessfully to contact the Demon Suppression Division.
• Shen Lin noticed the Flame Bracelet's signal was disrupted above by a Dragonfly Demon Beast, then spotted many more nearby.
• The Dragonfly Demon Beasts drew hordes toward Shen Lin and his companions, surrounding them from every direction.
• Shen Lin unleashed Purgatory to carve a path through the demon beasts, leaving him able to use the Phenomenal Divine Ability only once more.

Lin Sinian used his demon beasts to surround Shen Lin and the Demon Slaying Marquis team in the marsh, leaving them unable to escape easily. Shen Lin asked the team to find a Life Restoration Fruit, and Zhong Bailing calculated its location within five li before they set off toward it.

• Lin Sinian received the Dragonfly Demon Beast's observations and began tightening the demon-beast encirclement around the marsh.
• Shen Lin led the Demon Slaying Marquis team to a safer area, where Bai Kaize realized Lin Sinian had blocked their communications and likely guarded the exits.
• Shen Lin said one more use of his Phenomenal Divine Ability would not be enough to break through the surrounding demon beasts.
• Wu Juncai angrily objected when Shen Lin asked the team to find the Life Restoration Fruit, but Bai Kaize rebuked him and Wu Juncai apologized.
• Zhong Bailing used her inherited secret technique to calculate the Life Restoration Fruit's location within five li, and the team quietly moved toward it.

Shen Lin’s group found a massive Blood Thorn Flower while searching for Life Restoration Fruits, and Lin Sinian arrived with demon beasts surrounding them. Shen Lin knocked out Bai Kaize and the others, then unleashed his Heavenly Demon Body as the Blood Thorn Flower’s vines attacked.

• Zhong Bailing’s Heavenly Derivation Compass led Shen Lin’s group into dense shrubs, where they discovered a Blood Thorn Flower that had grown for seven or eight thousand years.
• The Blood Thorn Flower attacked with powerful vines, while Lin Sinian arrived with demon beasts and laughed at the group’s predicament.
• Shen Lin told Zhong Bailing she had done him a favor and called out to Lin Sinian, saying he could solve two problems at once.
• Shen Lin knocked Bai Kaize and the others unconscious, then released his Heavenly Demon Body as the vines surged toward him.

Shen Lin summoned his Heavenly Demon Body, tore up and devoured the Blood Thorn Flower, and turned toward Lin Sinian. Before he could confront him, the marshland’s fog cleared and a powerful force swept everything away.

• Shen Lin knocked Bai Kaize and the others unconscious, then revealed his Heavenly Demon Body to face the Blood Thorn Flower.
• Lin Sinian resisted the demon beasts’ urge to submit, while the Blood Thorn Flower fired a destructive beam at Shen Lin.
• Shen Lin endured the beam unharmed, tore the Blood Thorn Flower from its stem, and devoured it to heal his Heavenly Demon Body.
• Shen Lin approached the helpless Lin Sinian, but the marshland trembled, its fog was absorbed into the ground, and a massive force immobilized Shen Lin.
• Everything on the ground vanished in an instant.

Ding Juncai and Elder Ye investigated the demon beasts sealing off the southern marshes, fearing something had happened to Shen Lin. When the fog and land shifted, Elder Ye discovered a giant clam spanning a thousand square miles.

• Ding Juncai learned that demon beasts were guarding the marshes' exit and requested reinforcements from Hundred Refinements Valley.
• Elder Ye arrived with two Star Realm deputy valley masters after losing contact with Shen Lin through the flame bracelet.
• Elder Ye set off into the marshes to find Shen Lin, but the fog rolled back and the land rose into the sky.
• Elder Ye scattered the clouds and saw that the immense mass before them was a giant clam occupying a thousand square miles.