Chapter Summaries

Shen Lin fought a black-clad Fire Worship Cult expert who used the Heaven Burning Sacred Flame and flame-based movement, but Shen Lin resisted his attack and revealed the Heaven Grade Taowu Saber and Golden Wings. Shen Lin pressed the fight, and the clash between their fire spiritual powers began destroying the Gao Household’s courtyard.

• The black-clad man struck Shen Lin with a copper hammer and injected the Heaven Burning Sacred Flame into his body, but Shen Lin remained unharmed and knocked him back.
• The black-clad man’s Earth Grade copper hammer cracked as he saw Shen Lin wield the Heaven Grade Taowu Saber and carry Heaven Grade Golden Wings.
• Shen Lin explained that Taowu was bloodthirsty and charged the black-clad man, whose blood essence he believed would satisfy the saber.
• Shen Lin used the Universe Saber—Divine Thunder Eight Slashes, forcing the black-clad man to reveal himself when Shen Lin attacked the sparks concealing him.
• Shen Lin and the black-clad man fought fiercely, and their clashing fire spiritual power shattered the Gao Household’s courtyard walls.

Shen Lin fought a mysterious black-clad man after curing Gao Yaqiong, while Madam Gao and Ye Wenzi realized the intruder's flame techniques rivaled the Danling Sect's. The man escaped using a Dharma Aspect-like command token and revealed that he belonged to the Fire Worship Cult.

• Madam Gao confirmed that Shen Lin had cured Gao Yaqiong, then suspected the black-clad man was Ye Wenzi of the Danling Sect.
• Ye Wenzi arrived and clarified that he was not Shen Lin's opponent, then studied the man's unusual flame techniques.
• Madam Gao urged Ye Wenzi to help Shen Lin, and the black-clad man tried to retreat as Ye Wenzi joined the confrontation.
• The black-clad man chanted over his command token, which summoned a crimson illusory figure that Ye Wenzi recognized as a Dharma Aspect.
• The black-clad man threatened Shen Lin in the name of the Fire Worship Cult and vanished with the command token's power.

Madam Gao connected the black-clad man who fought Shen Lin to a series of old massacres and warned Ye Wenzi to coordinate with the Demon Suppression Division. Shen Lin tracked the fleeing man with a flame mirror and pursued him, while hidden experts in the imperial capital discussed the man’s escape.

• Madam Gao recalled that more than a century earlier, a flame-wielding assailant had slaughtered the Chuzhou Demon Suppression Division and similar cases had later occurred across Great Wei.
• Ye Wenzi regretted not joining forces against Shen Lin, then agreed with Madam Gao that Danling Sect should coordinate with the Demon Suppression Division because the Fire Worship Cult might have a Dharma Aspect Realm expert backing it.
• Shen Lin used Track Tracing to locate the black-clad man more than seven hundred li east and flew off to pursue him, with Ye Wenzi following.
• Gao Shenghan worried about Shen Lin, but Madam Gao explained that the Dharma Aspect fluctuation had only enabled the man to escape and that Daoist Qianyan could detect information if a Dharma Aspect were used to attack.
• Ji Zhanxie, Daoist Qianyan, and Yuwen Fengxian watched from above the imperial capital; Daoist Qianyan could not trace the man, and Yuwen Fengxian told Ji Zhanxie to have Shen Lin capture him alive.

Shen Lin tracked the Fire Worship Cult's Right Protector to a courtyard and revealed him as a Moth Demon. Just as Shen Lin's saber strike was about to kill him, Ji Zhanxie appeared and stopped the attack, saying the demon could not die yet.

• The Right Protector beat a subordinate and ordered his people to investigate Shen Lin's identity after the Fire Worship Cult's plan involving Gao Yaqiong failed.
• Shen Lin descended into the courtyard, surprising the Right Protector, who realized Shen Lin had tracked him through a strand of spiritual power.
• The Right Protector revealed his Moth Demon form and attacked Shen Lin with a storm of flames.
• Shen Lin countered with Universe Saber, Universe Manifestation, overwhelming the Moth Demon's attack and leaving him certain he would die.
• Ji Zhanxie appeared and dispersed Shen Lin's saber attack with one palm strike, declaring that the Moth Demon could not die yet.

Shen Lin captured the Moth Demon and asked to execute him after the Demon Suppression Division finished interrogating him, then turned on the remaining Fire Worship Cult members. Elsewhere in Qingzhou, the Cult Master revealed that someone had destroyed the method planted on the Right Protector, and his follower feared a Great Wei Dharma Aspect Realm expert had intervened.

• Shen Lin’s completed Spirit Void Cattail Flame was consumed by the Sea Burning Flame, boosting his cultivation and strengthening his Qiankun Phenomenon.
• Ji Zhanxie stopped the Moth Demon from escaping, declared that the Demon Suppression Division would execute him after interrogation, and agreed to let Shen Lin carry out the execution.
• Ji Zhanxie left with the Moth Demon and allowed Shen Lin to deal with the remaining Fire Worship Cult members, who fled, begged, or attacked.
• Shen Lin advanced on the Fire Worship Cult members with his saber.
• In a hidden chamber in Qingzhou, the Cult Master told his follower that someone had crushed the method planted on the Right Protector, and the follower asked whether a Great Wei Dharma Aspect Realm expert had acted.

The Fire Worship Cult Master sent the Left Protector to the imperial capital to retrieve the mature Spirit Void Cattail Flame, backed by three Flame Ghosts, and ordered him to target prominent lineage heads. After Gao Yaqiong dragged Shen Lin to the Misty Rain Tower, Gao Shenghan’s remark about Shen Lin’s “lover” left him stunned.

• The Fire Worship Cult Master punished the Left Protector for raising his head, then ordered him to retrieve the mature Spirit Void Cattail Flame from the imperial capital.
• The Cult Master promised to lure away Great Wei’s Dharma Aspect Realm experts and send three Flame Ghosts with the Left Protector.
• The Cult Master gave the Left Protector a list of prominent lineage heads to deal with in exchange for a section of Jade Bamboo.
• Gao Yaqiong, newly recovered, dragged Gao Shenghan out and invited Shen Lin to drink at the Misty Rain Tower.
• Gao Shenghan suggested Shen Lin visit his lover, leaving Shen Lin shocked.

At the Misty Rain Tower, Shen Lin joined Gao Shenghan and Gao Yaqiong for drinks before watching Ru Yan’s performance. After the crowd recovered from her dance, bidding began for her company, with one guest offering ten thousand Spirit Crystals for a cup of wine.

• Shen Lin learned Hao Xi had used his identity to take several lovers at the Misty Rain Tower, then declined to seek anyone out.
• Shen Lin sensed a hostile, murderous gaze from the stage, but saw no one watching him; after he left, a dancer showed resentment.
• Gao Yaqiong urged Shen Lin and Gao Shenghan to drink, and Shen Lin noticed that one woman’s seductive voice carried a trace of sonic martial arts.
• Gao Yaqiong demanded Spirit Crystals from Gao Shenghan so she could spend the night with Miss Ruyan, but he warned her that Ru Yan had never left her chamber.
• Ru Yan performed a dance that left the audience silent until Shen Lin applauded, prompting the crowd to join in.
• A guest bid ten thousand Spirit Crystals for a cup of wine with Ru Yan.

At the Misty Rain Tower, Gao Yaqiong drove the bidding for Miss Ruyan's company up to three hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, and Gao Shenghan stopped the Li Household's third young master from challenging her. The bidding ended with Shen Lin admitting he was interested in Miss Ruyan.

• Bidders raised the price for Miss Ruyan's company, and Shen Lin was astonished by how much Spirit Crystals they offered.
• Gao Yaqiong bid two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, then outbid the Li Household's third young master until the price reached three hundred thousand.
• The Li Household's third young master bragged about his family's Primal Chaos Realm experts and mocked Gao Yaqiong, who admitted her family had a Dharma Aspect Realm expert.
• Gao Shenghan stepped in and revealed his family had a Dharma Aspect Realm expert, prompting the third young master to apologize and flee.
• Gao Shenghan reproached Gao Yaqiong for repeatedly causing trouble under his name, and she claimed she had bid because Shen Lin was interested in Miss Ruyan.
• Shen Lin confirmed that he was a little interested in Miss Ruyan.

Gao Yaqiong welcomed Ru Yan to the feast, but Shen Lin drew his saber on her after sensing a trace of Demon Qi. As Ru Yan faced his accusation in silence, the master of the Misty Rain Tower revealed herself as Great Wei’s Seventh Princess and summoned Shen Lin to the top floor.

• Gao Yaqiong pulled Ru Yan into the room and openly flirted with her, while Gao Shenghan and Shen Lin noticed Ru Yan’s Star Realm aura.
• Ru Yan identified Gao Yaqiong as a woman and was then offered to Shen Lin for a drink.
• Shen Lin suddenly held the Taowu Saber to Ru Yan’s neck and accused her of carrying Demon Qi.
• Ru Yan denied the accusation but remained silent under threat, while Shen Lin found that his saber had sealed her spiritual energy.
• The master of the Misty Rain Tower contacted Shen Lin privately, identified herself as Great Wei’s Seventh Princess, and invited him upstairs to explain.

Shen Lin learned that Ru Yan was a former member of the Demon Race and that the Seventh Princess had developed a method to transform demons into humans. The princess revealed that she was a fox demon transformed by the Qingqiu Fox Tribe and asked Shen Lin to help kill her ex-husband, a late-stage Primal Chaos Realm expert.

• Shen Lin left Ru Yan with Gao Yaqiong and met the Seventh Princess in the Misty Rain Tower.
• The Seventh Princess explained that Ru Yan and Liu Jing had both been transformed from members of the Demon Race into humans.
• The Seventh Princess revealed her eight fox tails and said her body was still transforming toward the Demon Race because the Qingqiu Fox Tribe had changed her with a secret method.
• The Seventh Princess asked Shen Lin to help kill her ex-husband, who had returned to Great Wei after more than a century and reached the late stage of the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Shen Lin slapped the table, stood up, and asked when and where the hunt would take place.

Shen Lin accepted the Seventh Princess’s request to retrieve a secret technique from Qingqiu Yunlang and kill him, then left Misty Rain Tower. Meanwhile, Xiaohong revealed that she had been spying for Yan Zehong, who ordered her to investigate the martial artists summoned by the Tower Lord for Qingqiu.

• The Seventh Princess told Shen Lin to target Qingqiu Yunlang of the Qingqiu Clan, and Shen Lin confirmed he would kill him after obtaining the secret technique.
• Shen Lin apologized to Miss Ruyan, then left Misty Rain Tower; Gao Yaqiong and Gao Shenghan discussed his drive to slay demons, and Gao Shenghan headed back.
• Xiaohong learned that Shen Lin had not sought another lover and that the Tower Lord had received him.
• Xiaohong extracted Yan Zehong from her body and reported that the Tower Lord had privately summoned three Primal Chaos Realm martial artists after hearing news of Lord Yunlang.
• Yan Zehong learned that Shen Lin had agreed to help and instructed Xiaohong to investigate the other martial artists and their abilities for Qingqiu.

The Black Dragon King, Qingqiu Yunlang, and Yan Zehong prepared a scheme to draw Great Wei’s Primal Chaos Realm martial artists into a trap. Meanwhile, Ji Zhanxie and Li Xingyi discovered that a group of Dharma Aspect Realm demon beasts had emerged in the Northern Polar Icefield, led by a figure resembling the ancient Mad Shark Demon Emperor.

• The Black Dragon King ate a Star Realm martial artist and wanted to visit Lingzhou City, but Yan Zehong warned him that exposing their plan could bring Great Wei’s forces against them.
• Yan Zehong explained that the Seventh Princess’s hatred would draw Primal Chaos Realm martial artists to them, while Great Wei’s Dharma Aspect Realm experts would likely be occupied elsewhere.
• Li Xingyi told Ji Zhanxie that the captured Right Protector of the Fire Worship Cult was beginning to reveal the cult’s secrets.
• Ji Zhanxie showed Li Xingyi a report that more than a dozen Dharma Aspect Realm demon beasts had moved together in the Northern Polar Icefield.
• Li Xingyi and Ji Zhanxie noticed that a figure resembling the ancient Mad Shark Demon Emperor stood atop the leading beast.

Ji Zhanxie left Li Xingyi in charge of the imperial capital and went north to investigate the Mad Shark Demon Emperor. Outside Misty Rain Tower, Shen Lin met Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions, who examined a compass fragment and offered to divine a hexagram for him.

• Ji Zhanxie told Li Xingyi to hold down the fort while he investigated the Mad Shark Demon Emperor in the far north.
• Ji Zhanxie entrusted Li Xingyi with the Demon Slaying Sword and ordered him to hand the Fire Worship Cult prisoner over to Shen Lin after questioning.
• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions approached Shen Lin outside Misty Rain Tower and said his divination had pointed him toward Shen Lin as an opportunity.
• Shen Lin showed Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions a fragment of the Divination Plate, and the old Daoist warned him to keep its profound secrets hidden from others.
• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions offered to repay Shen Lin by divining a hexagram, but the bamboo stick Shen Lin drew was blank.

Shen Lin received a divination pointing to a Divination Plate fragment near the Li Household’s gate in the Imperial Capital, then hurried to Lingzhou to handle his business. There, he discovered a barrier that blocked powerful martial artists, and a massive spider approached him.

• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions divined that Shen Lin could find a fragment three days later at the Hour of the Ox, sixty-five paces west of the left stone lion at the Li Household’s gate in the Great Wei Imperial Capital.
• Shen Lin thanked Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions and set off, planning to kill his former-husband brother before returning to the Imperial Capital.
• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions examined his sect’s incomplete cultivation technique and considered whether Shen Lin’s Divination Plate fragment could fill in its missing parts.
• Shen Lin flew through the night and reached Lingzhou near noon, where he sensed a strange barrier around the region.
• Shen Lin found that the barrier stopped martial artists at the Primal Chaos Realm or above, and a massive spider approached, calling him prey.

Shen Lin encountered the Ghost-faced Spider Demon in Lingzhou and learned it was connected to Qingqiu Yunlang and other demons. Si Yu of Nishang Pavilion arrived to help, but Shen Lin turned his saber on her instead.

• Shen Lin recognized the Ghost-faced Spider Demon and suspected the barriers around Lingzhou were part of a Demon Race trap.
• The Ghost-faced Spider Demon mistook Shen Lin for an isolated target until Shen Lin asked for Qingqiu Yunlang, then tried to alert the Black Dragon King and the others.
• Shen Lin's surroundings were sealed by clouds and ribbons, and Si Yu of Nishang Pavilion appeared and introduced herself to the Demon Slaying Marquis.
• Si Yu proposed joining forces to kill the Ghost-faced Spider Demon, but Shen Lin accused her of causing trouble and swung his saber at her.

Shen Lin deliberately shattered Si Yu’s seal to draw the Ghost-faced Spider Demon’s companions while attacking the demon with overwhelming saber techniques. As the Black Dragon King and another powerful demon approached, Shen Lin ignored Si Yu’s plea to flee and delivered a fourth slash that engulfed the Spider Demon in flames.

• Shen Lin’s opening slash destroyed Si Yu’s seal and created a huge flare that drew attention across Lingzhou.
• Shen Lin revealed that he had made the commotion to summon the Ghost-faced Spider Demon’s companions, then attacked the demon with lightning-fast saber strikes.
• Shen Lin severed one of the Ghost-faced Spider Demon’s legs, and Si Yu realized his strength and martial arts surpassed what she expected.
• Shen Lin unleashed a lightning sea that badly wounded the Ghost-faced Spider Demon as the Black Dragon King and another demon rushed toward them.
• Si Yu urged Shen Lin to flee, but he ignored her and struck the Ghost-faced Spider Demon with a fourth slash, engulfing it in flames.

Shen Lin killed the Ghost-faced Spider Demon and confronted Black Dragon King and Qingqiu Yunlang, realizing the demons had set a trap in Lingzhou. He began fighting Black Dragon King while Qingqiu Yunlang restored the barrier around the region, leaving Lingzhou’s people startled by the battle.

• Shen Lin killed the Ghost-faced Spider Demon and discovered Black Dragon King and Qingqiu Yunlang had arrived.
• Yan Zehong recognized Shen Lin, who inferred that the Demon Race had arranged the encounter as a trap.
• Si Yu desperately attacked the barrier while Qingqiu Yunlang went to quiet her.
• Black Dragon King approached Shen Lin, and the two charged at each other and clashed with a saber and a fist.
• Their collision shattered the barrier, but Qingqiu Yunlang replaced it with an azure barrier that concealed the battle from Great Wei’s Dharma Aspect Realm experts.

Shen Lin fought the Black Dragon King, whose neck healed after the Golden Wings nearly severed it and who transformed into a powerful Lizard Demon. Shen Lin unleashed two Heaven Grade martial arts at once, but the Black Dragon King emerged unharmed and charged at him.

• The Black Dragon King ignored Shen Lin’s Golden Wings and kicked him, but the wings cut nearly halfway through his throat.
• The Black Dragon King healed his wound and revealed his towering, black-scaled true form.
• Shen Lin mocked the Black Dragon King as a Lizard Demon, provoking him into a furious charge.
• Shen Lin wielded Taowu and Taixuan to unleash Thunder Wave and Flame Coil simultaneously.
• The Black Dragon King charged through the combined attacks unharmed and smashed his fist toward Shen Lin.

Shen Lin fought the Black Dragon King, whose physical defense and resistance to spiritual attacks overwhelmed Shen Lin’s strongest techniques. Qingqiu Yunlang explained the Black Dragon King’s Spirit Control Divine Armor, while Shen Lin realized why his attacks had failed.

• The Black Dragon King shrugged off Shen Lin’s saber strikes, punched him into the ground, and then broke through his Universe Shift and counterattacks.
• Yan Zehong asked whether the Black Dragon King had reached the Dharma Aspect Realm, and Qingqiu Yunlang said his body was still short of that level.
• Qingqiu Yunlang explained that the Black Dragon King inherited the Spirit Control Divine Armor from his mother’s Spirit-Severing Flood Dragon Clan.
• Shen Lin realized the Black Dragon King was immune to spiritual power attacks.

Shen Lin transformed into a demon with overwhelming Demon Qi and began overpowering Black Dragon King in close combat. He tore off Black Dragon King's forearm, leaving him crying in pain.

• Black Dragon King threatened to kill Shen Lin, believing his sealed arena would keep Great Wei from detecting the fight.
• Shen Lin put away his Heavenly Mystery Weapons and challenged Black Dragon King to endure the pain.
• Shen Lin transformed into a towering, pitch-black demon whose Demon Qi surpassed Black Dragon King's imperial bloodline.
• Shen Lin struck Black Dragon King with powerful blows, smashing his scales and sending him flying.
• Shen Lin blocked Black Dragon King's elbow, seized his wrist, and tore off his forearm, making Black Dragon King scream and cry.