Lin Shuguang

Biodata

Power Progression

The table distinguishes recorded cultivation from combat strength: Lin repeatedly fights above his formal realm, and his unusually prolonged Bone Tempering stage begins converting into Organ Refinement before that transition is confirmed 334 362.

Avatar Progression

These figures belong to the other-world young man he possesses, not his original body 389 394.

Background / History

Before his rebirth, Lin Shuguang worked as a programmer for seven or eight years and had only just bought a mortgaged home. Finding himself back in high school initially frustrates him: he has lost the chance to enjoy the home he worked for 1.

His family runs a small restaurant in Huai City. His initial awakening appears nearly useless because his 9-cal blood energy falls far below the 95-cal martial-school admission cutoff. Most classmates mock or pity him, while Xu Jie remains supportive. At home, Lin Xiaoxi offers her pig-shaped money bank, then insists that the money is a loan 2 3.

The Attribute Panel changes his prospects by allowing him to purchase upgrades and acquire blood energy through kills. His attachment to his family reflects his previous life, when he worked away from home and avoided returning because he feared worrying them. In his second life, he deliberately spends time helping at the restaurant and conceals dangerous missions behind ordinary explanations 4 90 362.

Appearance

Lin Shuguang has a youthful, handsome appearance that repeatedly causes others to underestimate his experience or suspect an influential family background 171 189 327.

• Facial features: Sharp brows, bright eyes, and sharply defined features 171 566.
• Bearing: Normally composed and elegant; his steadiness is explicitly contrasted with the immaturity of another young martial artist 171 535.
• Combat physique: Activating his hardening art can increase his height by two feet and produce a heavily muscled frame 375.
• Demon God form: Becomes enormous enough for a forest to reach only his chest 425.
• False reputation: A rumor describes him as hideous enough to frighten children, contrary to direct descriptions 249.

Personality

Lin Shuguang strongly favors self-reliance. He rejects Li Xi’s suggestion that they seek a wealthy heir’s patronage, choosing instead to trust his own efforts. Although openly pleased by overwhelming strength, he recognizes his limitations after encountering the Divine Envoy and responds by intensifying his training 13 21 130.

His ruthlessness is directed especially at threats, coercion, and attacks on people he considers his own. He kills Lu Jin after discovering the plan to use him as bait, challenges powerful families without deferring to their status, and threatens the Zheng Family over Chu Xiongtian’s safety 57 378 559.

Money is a practical necessity for his cultivation and a frequent source of comedy. He demands compensation, offers paid assistance, converts challenge matches into pill income, and asks Elder Qu for a loan when he cannot afford a technique. He is equally capable of declining expensive gifts from friends when they need the resources themselves 225 252 495 658 682.

His warmth is most visible with family and trusted companions. He treats Lin Xiaoxi gently but also teases her relentlessly, supports old acquaintances without demanding ceremony, and distinguishes genuine concern from empty flattery. Romance generally ranks below cultivation: he rejects a childhood-betrothal discussion and later refuses Leng Yueyan’s marriage proposal 32 38 361 472 550 737.

Abilities & Skills

Attribute Panel / Pay-to-Win System

Lin’s system converts money and cultivation resources into rapid, measurable growth 4 12 287.

• Paid upgrades: Improves techniques, cultivation skills, and Destined Soul abilities by spending money or Wealth Value 4 12 13.
• Technique fusion: Combines numerous martial arts into broader body-refining, breathing, and saber techniques 118 210 235.
• Energy Pool: Converts pills and treasure medicines into energy points for cultivation 299 434 472.
• Requirements: Upgrades can demand both money and sufficient blood energy; his body’s capacity also limits how much power he can absorb 13 87 291.
• Currency dependence: Even after seeing a technique demonstrated, he may be unable to learn it immediately if he lacks the required funds 658.

Slaughter Blade

His Destined Soul is a manifested saber that develops from Black Iron to Silver and then Gold 2 4 118.

• Absorption: Seizes blood energy through successful kills; LV4 is repeatedly listed as granting four times the blood energy 12 25 118.
• Lightning Ray: Adds lightning capable of stunning or overawing the spirit and destroying evil 118 180.
• Manifestation: Can appear directly before him for immediate use 117.

Saber Arts and Blade Force

Lin builds his combat style around direct, forceful attacks and the fusion of many separate techniques 117 235 684.

• Early techniques: Tiger Roar Saber Technique, Star Prison Gale Slash, Thunderous Star River Slash, Collapsing Thunder Saber Technique, and Aurora Burst Slash 67.
• Principal fused arts: Slaughter Blade–Nurturing Character Art and Slaughter Blade–Killing Character Art, identified as his strongest saber techniques 472.
• Draw and Slash: A powerful draw attack usable with the Slaughter Blade or adapted to a sword 230 682.
• Blade Force: Develops through repeated practice of his own Martial Dao and the rule power supplied by evolved Latent Dragon Pills 748.
• Destructive feats: Destroys the Secret Realm’s path to heaven and cuts through armed opponents and their weapons together 117 412.

Body Refinement and Demon God Transformation

His physical cultivation combines hardening methods with the Undying Nine Revolutions Divine Body Heart Sutra 210 235.

• Physical resilience: Receives the Bronze Skin Iron Bones achievement and fuses additional hardening techniques into his body sutra 41 235.
• Strength and flexibility: Evades coordinated attacks through unusual bodily control and seizes enemy weapons bare-handed 23 668.
• Demon God transformation: Greatly enlarges his body and can multiply all four attributes fivefold 425.
• Battlefield use: Transforms to slaughter pursuing fox demons after allowing his companions to escape 632.
• Netherflame: Uses it with Demon God Armor to survive the Blood Sea explosion and reach the dimensional channel 172.

Mental Power and Divine Soul

Lin cultivates mental power through soul-refining and soul-egress methods 287 387.

• Soul egress: Leaves his body, passes through structures, and explores at increasing distances as his mental power grows 387.
• Mental attacks: Strikes a Godly Beast Corporation messenger without leaving his vehicle 532.
• Soul constructs: Forms a giant and vast numbers of blades from his divine soul 551 552.
• Soul manipulation: Extracts Wang Fugui’s soul and demon will, then suppresses the demon will back into him 737.
• Mental-power gains: Destroying a Faceless Man replenishes his soul and adds ten mental-power points 387.
• Limits: Soul egress has a time limit, and improving physical attributes through rule-bearing pills does not produce equivalent mental-power growth 387 748.

Dao Patterns

Dao Patterns provide distinct powers and can be equipped or exchanged to suit an opponent 681 687.

Swordsmanship

At the Baojian Sect, Lin initially fights without revealing his saber arts and incorporates learned sword techniques into his own Martial Dao 667 672.

• Masters Piercing Wind Hall shortly after Elder Qu demonstrates it 658.
• Maximizes Storm Lion Slash and uses its principles in swordsmanship that observers cannot readily identify 672.
• Uses a sword as a saber when escalating against Su Beichen 682.
• Pressures Core Realm disciples despite lacking a Sword Embryo 684.

Pill Refining and Golden Dew

His pill-refining skill becomes a basis for cooperation with wealthy partners 734 745.

• Refines three white-jade-like pills while Leng Yueyan observes; a brief thread of lightning appears in his palm during the process 734.
• Obtains Golden Dew through his dealings with Wang Fugui’s demon will and uses it to transform a Nine Revolutions Golden Core 737.
• Evolves Latent Dragon Pills to access useful Power of Rules before the realm at which such comprehension would normally be available 748.
• Trades his refining ability for the Su Family’s resources and support 743 745.

Blood Spirit Clone

Lin can act through a Blood Spirit Clone 540.

• Uses it to kill the Steel Alliance’s deputy leader after his cultivation supplies are seized 540.
• Replaces the Cloud Sea Merchant Association’s leadership through the same intervention 540.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Slaughter Blade — His manifested Destined Soul and primary weapon 117 118.
• Demon God Armor — Protective armor used during the Blood Sea disaster; later withstands Xue Wuya’s Thousand Silk Peerless Sword without visible disturbance. Ouyang Gongyang calls it the strongest armor he has forged 172 604.
• Wang Ye mask — Disguise used to separate his covert activities from his identity as Huai City’s Director Lin 414 487.
• Martial Dao Will Crystal — Tempers his saber arts and reacts to an unexplained presence connected with a house where several people have died 225 235.
• Supreme Token — Baojian Sect token central to the dispute over his right to become Holy Son despite lacking a Sword Embryo 658.
• Greatsword from Zhao Tianba — Used in repeated sparring with Su Beichen 682.
• Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banner — Combined with Sacred Dragon Body to strengthen his position against Initial Tier True Fate enemies 718.
• Golden Dew — Resource used to transform or evolve powerful pills 737 748.
• Three Yang Needle — Obtains and delivers the needle sought by Ji Wufeng 720.

Relationships

Family and Friends

• Lin Haiyang — Father. Supports his judgment when Mother Lin worries about his confrontational behavior; also becomes a frequent target of his teasing 39 185.
• Mother Lin — Mother. Worries about his enemies, safety, and lack of romantic interest; Lin conceals mission details to avoid alarming her 185 362 583.
• Lin Xiaoxi — Younger sister. Offers him her savings after his disappointing awakening; their affectionate relationship includes constant teasing and mock fights 3 32 472.
• Xu Jie — Longtime friend and the only classmate explicitly noted not to mock his initial awakening. They remain close enough to reminisce together before Xu Jie leaves by train 2 550.
• Meng Shenzhou — Close friend and school companion. Offers cultivation pills and accompanies him to confront the Zheng Family despite fearing its Great Grandmaster 252 376.
• Chu Xiongtian — Close friend who recognizes his decisiveness early. Lin intervenes directly when the Zheng Family threatens him 94 378.
• Feng San — Early martial-arts associate who manages the Storm Martial Arts School. Lin later rescues him from the Blood Desolate Land and encourages him to pursue opportunities beyond Huai City 20 186 439.
• Silver Seraph — Trusted ally in covert operations and conflict with the Qin Family. Their partnership includes mutual teasing and genuine concern 310 408 415.

Mentors, Allies, and Associates

• Si Qianjun — Bureau chief, mentor, and principal institutional supporter. Personally promotes Lin, explains cultivation principles, and recommends him for the Spark Plan 68 571.
• Qi Lin — Influential supporter at Demon Martial whose backing contributes to the great families’ reluctance to provoke Lin 98 185.
• Song Shi — Early martial-arts instructor who guides his saber practice while remaining unaware of his concealed paid upgrades 12 13.
• Bai Heng — Trusted subordinate and frequent companion on bureau business. Lin explicitly appreciates his concern and the effort spent cultivating him 403 532 550.
• Master Jin / Jin Family — Resource and business allies. Master Jin protects Lin’s family shop, supplies medicine, and eventually places the family at his command 216 361.
• Old Jin — Buyer of Lin’s treasure medicines and a contact who alerts him to Feng San’s disappearance 186 439.
• Huang Qisheng — Business associate who pays Lin for protection and provides information about treasures and commercial threats 112 252 473.
• Liu Bai — Archer whose decades-long cultivation blockage Lin helps resolve. Later accompanies him as a Profound Connection ally and offers advice about Steel Alliance personnel 495 571 572.
• Elder Qu — Baojian Sect elder impressed by his learning speed. Demonstrates advanced swordsmanship to him and subsequently becomes the target of a loan request 658.
• Su Beichen — Rival-turned-sparring partner whose repeated bouts supply most of Lin’s Sky-Breaking Axe proficiency; their fights produce a grudging friendship 682 684.
• Xu Baiyang — Clear Sword Peak associate who trades for Lin’s pills and helps him fulfill Holy Son duties 698 700.
• Ji Feng — Powerful, approachable official who tries to recruit him into the Inspection Bureau; Lin is tempted but wary of scrutiny in the Imperial Capital 726.
• Leng Yueyan — Pill-refining business partner. Proposes marriage, which Lin refuses, but attempts to stop Mo Changxiong from abducting him 734 737.
• Su Lengyue — Su Family associate and partner in dangerous ventures. Publicly takes his hand before her family’s elders, though the provided accounts do not establish a confirmed romance 743 754 755.
• Wang Fugui — Possesses a body that continually generates demon will. Lin extracts and suppresses that will, teaches him cultivation, and sends him toward the Imperial Capital 737.

Rivals and Enemies

• Wei Xinlong — Academy rival whom Lin defeats before and after his Second Awakening; the later beating removes him from school for months 98 130.
• Gu Yingxiong — Respected competitive rival who shares first place with him in an earlier assessment and later challenges him to another match 118 250 252.
• Qin Family — Recurring enemies over treasures, attempted killings, and challenges to their authority. Lin fights their elites under the Wang Ye identity and rejects their claimed entitlement to anything they desire 385 408 487 559.
• Gang Yan — Steel Alliance leader and Profound Connection swordsman whose feud with Lin follows the clone’s killing of the alliance’s deputy leader 540 546 566.
• Divine Temple — Hostile organization whose members he repeatedly kills. He refuses the Divine Envoy’s offer to become its Great Protector 172 185 403.
• Luo Zixu — Baojian Sect opponent who schemes against him and disputes his position; Lin refuses to surrender the status granted under the sect’s ancestral rules 684.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Awakening and Rise in Huai City

• Turns an apparently worthless awakening into rapid growth through the Slaughter Blade’s upgrades, training, and paid technique acquisition 2 4 12 13.
• Joins the Special Management Bureau and leads the destruction of the century-old Ye Family, establishing a reputation for decisive violence 94 185.
• Kills Lu Jin after exposing his plan to use Lin as bait for Chen Xian, whom Lin has already killed 57.

Demon Martial and the Secret Realm

• Gains prominence in the Elite Class through conflict with Wei Xinlong, while delaying Secret Realm entry to earn money and strengthen his martial arts 98 112.
• Destroys the realm’s path to heaven rather than submit to its demand, then emerges with a Gold Slaughter Blade and new abilities 117 118.
• Serves as student representative at Demon Martial’s opening ceremony; his speech overturns the audience’s assumption that he is merely a fighter 252.

Bureau Missions and the Blood Desolate Land

• Recovers Professor Ding from a collapsing underground palace and receives official mission credit despite Zhao Minghui’s objections 148.
• Holds off Divine Temple attackers while Professor Wang’s team opens a pseudo-dimensional channel. He orders others through first, kills the masked woman, and survives the ensuing explosion long enough to enter the channel 172.
• Later returns alone to rescue Feng San from a battle over treasure medicine 439.

Hundred Schools League and the Qin Family

• Defeats successive competitors, including Gu Fengkuang and Liu Qingming, and becomes the Hundred Schools League’s Triple Crown Champion 330 362.
• Rejects Xue Leqi’s request to steal the Science and Education Institute’s research documents for a proposed god-slaying weapons project 351.
• Clashes with the Qin Family over the Yuanjia Bead and the Divine Tree, using the Wang Ye disguise to complicate their search for him 385 412 414 487.

Steel Alliance and Huai City’s Crisis

• Retaliates when the Steel Alliance and Cloud Sea Merchant Association seize his cultivation supplies 473 540.
• Confronts Gang Yan and subsequently appears as the Steel Alliance’s acknowledged leader, turning its resources and techniques toward his cultivation 566 572 575.
• During the walking-corpse disaster, confirms that his family is safe, strikes down an official advocating abandonment of ordinary people, and enters Luoshan’s spatial tunnel alone 577.

Baojian Sect and Black Prison

• Arrives at the Baojian Sect with the Supreme Token, provoking opposition to his Holy Son status because he lacks a Sword Embryo 658.
• Uses challenge matches and sparring to acquire pills, develop techniques, and complete Dao Pattern proficiency 672 682 684.
• Encounters a figure bound by the Chain of Karma, who knows details of his future journey and urges him to pursue his ruthless Killing Dao 698.
• Enters Black Prison service in Xuanyuan City and attracts attention from figures including Ji Wufeng and the Ninth Prince, Gu Changhe 705 707 720 722.

Pill Refining and the Su Family

• Develops a refining partnership with Leng Yueyan before Mo Changxiong abducts him in a Heaven and Earth Bag 734 737.
• Cooperates with the Su Family on Nine Revolutions Golden Core production, exchanging a valuable skill for access to wealth and resources 743 745.
• Uses evolved Latent Dragon Pills to deepen his own Blade Force and gain major attribute increases, while remaining conscious that the people around him belong to a different world 748 755.

Notable Quotes

“Better to rely on yourself than on someone else.” 21

“You want me to climb to heaven? I am the damn heavens!” 117

“I don't cause trouble, but I'm not afraid of it either.” 185

“Does not having a sword embryo mean I can't cut you?” 684

Trivia

• His family background is ordinary, despite repeated speculation that he must come from a powerful clan 327.
• His possession avatar is also named Lin Shuguang, a coincidence that visibly shocks him when Wei Lin reveals the name 389.
• “Rings,” “chimes,” “crisp bone sounds,” and “resonances” appear as different renderings of his Bone Tempering count 87 190 299.
• Absorption LV4 is usually described as granting four times the blood energy from a kill, but the Chapter 16 panel calls it double 12 16 25.
• The supplied accounts contain an Organ Refinement continuity discrepancy: Chapter 414 celebrates an eleventh-heaven breakthrough, while Chapter 434 begins from the tenth heaven before advancing him to the twelfth 414 434.