Recaps

Lin Shuguang and Qi Lin joined forces against the Divine Envoy, damaging his puppet avatar and preventing him from escaping. The Divine Envoy was stunned when he sensed the [Soul Devouring Art] in Lin Shuguang.

• Lin Shuguang blocked the Divine Envoy’s finger strike and wounded him with a saber, but the Divine Envoy unleashed a freezing power that sent Lin Shuguang flying.
• Qi Lin caught Lin Shuguang, then engaged the Divine Envoy with a sword formation while Lin Shuguang waited for an opening.
• Lin Shuguang attacked with his domineering martial dao will, and his saber combined with Qi Lin’s sword to destroy an Extreme Cold Ice Dragon.
• Lin Shuguang asked Qi Lin to hold the Divine Envoy in place, and Qi Lin and the seven Mental Elemental Users prevented him from escaping through space.
• The Divine Envoy sensed the [Soul Devouring Art] coming from Lin Shuguang and demanded to know how he had learned it.

Lin Shuguang intercepted a wisp of the Divine Envoy’s spiritual sense after the battle, then returned to Huai City with Qi Lin. At Lin’s Shop, he reunited with Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian and greeted his younger sister, Lin Xiaoxi.

• Lin Shuguang thanked Qi Lin’s seven retired friends for helping defeat the Divine Envoy’s avatar, then learned Qi Lin planned to conceal how Lin had undone the Soul Devouring Lock.
• Qi Lin warned Lin Shuguang that revealing his ability to undo the lock could attract powerful figures, and Lin Shuguang agreed to let Qi Lin take credit for finding the solution.
• Lin Shuguang rode back to Huai City with Qi Lin and reunited with Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian at Lin’s Shop.
• Chu Xiongtian asked whether Lin Shuguang had fought in the Organ Refinement-level battle near the Provincial Capital, and Lin Shuguang said Qi Lin had been the one to fight.
• Lin Xiaoxi arrived from tutoring class, asked for fried chicken, and Meng Shenzhou volunteered to buy it.

After the battle, the Divine Envoy wondered whether Lin Shuguang belonged to its race, while [Nightmare] suspected he had become its puppet. Back in Huai City, Lin Shuguang accepted a gift from Meng Shenzhou, received an invitation from Master Jin, and learned that Director Si had sent him information to review.

• The Divine Envoy healed its wound and wondered whether Lin Shuguang could be one of its people after seeing him use the [Soul Devouring Art].
• The [Divine Temple] removed Lin Shuguang from its kill list, and [Nightmare] decided he must be killed if he had become the Divine Envoy's puppet.
• Steward Fang arrived to take Meng Shenzhou home and gave Lin Shuguang three Great Yuan Pills, which Meng Shenzhou insisted Lin Shuguang keep.
• Steward Zhou invited Lin Shuguang to dine with Master Jin, and Lin Shuguang said he would come if nothing came up at the bureau.
• Director Si called Lin Shuguang, praised his recent actions, and told him to check the items and information he had sent.

Lin Shuguang received a shop from Master Jin, saw his friends depart, and read information about the Soul Devouring Lock and [Nightmare]. When the Silver Seraph invited him to join [Nightmare], Lin Shuguang demanded substantial rewards and ended by offering to sell him Great Yuan Pills.

• Master Jin gave Lin Shuguang a shop and told Steward Zhou that he hoped the Jin Family could win Lin Shuguang over.
• Lin Shuguang watched Xu Jie leave for the South Sea Martial Arts School and received handwritten documents from Si Qianjun about the Soul Clan, the Soul Devouring Lock, the [Divine Temple], and [Nightmare].
• The Silver Seraph confronted Lin Shuguang about the [Divine Temple] and examined the Soul Devouring Lock, discovering that its aura had become docile.
• The Silver Seraph asked Lin Shuguang to join [Nightmare], but Lin Shuguang demanded pills, hundred-resonance cultivation methods, saber techniques, and books.
• The Silver Seraph offered one Great Yuan Pill every three months and a sixty-resonance method, but Lin Shuguang showed him three Great Yuan Pills and said he would have to pay for them.

Lin Shuguang reviewed his cultivation progress and examined the mysterious Jade Bone before responding to an emergency at the Huai River, where a Flame Wyvern had killed villagers. He charged into battle, but the wyvern engulfed him in a blast of fire.

• Lin Shuguang found that his Blood Energy Value had passed 110,000 and realized he needed more Martial Artist Cultivation Methods to raise his cultivation further.
• Lin Shuguang examined the Jade Bone from the Corpse Palace, then received an emergency call from the bureau.
• Chu Xiongtian told Lin Shuguang that an unknown creature had emerged from the Huai River and devoured residents of two villages; the bureau suspected it was a wyvern.
• Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian reached the scene, where a Flame Wyvern was fighting Special Management Bureau fighters, and Lin Shuguang ordered the soldiers to retreat farther back.
• Lin Shuguang leaped toward the Flame Wyvern and slashed at its head, but the beast turned and engulfed him in a pillar of fire.

Lin Shuguang killed a Flame Wyvern that had emerged from the Huai River and learned that dragons had appeared in several places across Great Xia. After spending the evening with Lin Xiaoxi and their family, he encountered Silver Seraph, whom Xiaoxi immediately asked for wings.

• Lin Shuguang split the Flame Wyvern's pillar of fire, killed it, and recovered a strange Mutated Dragon Bead from its head.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Chu Xiongtian to seal off the wyvern's emergence site and investigate the Huai River for more Ferocious Beasts.
• Lin Shuguang reviewed reports of four dragon-related incidents across Great Xia and learned that higher-ups planned to take over the investigation.
• Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian picked up Lin Xiaoxi, then went with her to Lin's Shop to help Lin Haiyang.
• Silver Seraph appeared late that night, and Lin Xiaoxi excitedly asked him to give her a pair of wings.

Lin Shuguang negotiated with Silver Seraph for access to five Bone Tempering Eighty Resonances cultivation methods, then returned home to find Lin Xiaoxi had plucked a feather from Silver Seraph. The next morning, he confronted provincial officials trying to take the Flame Wyvern and Huai City's research data, ending with his saber at a research institute representative's neck.

• Lin Shuguang persuaded Silver Seraph to bring all five available cultivation methods for him to inspect before he chose one.
• Lin Xiaoxi showed Lin Shuguang a feather she had taken from Silver Seraph and declared she would grow wings and fly.
• Chu Xiongtian urgently called Lin Shuguang because provincial officials had arrived to claim the Flame Wyvern's corpse.
• Huai City's bureau staff and experts objected as the Provincial Capital research institute began taking the corpse and demanded Huai City's experimental data.
• Lin Shuguang arrived, put his saber to the middle-aged research institute representative's neck, and warned them not to touch the wyvern.

Lin Shuguang defended the Special Management Bureau's wyvern corpse from the Provincial Capital's Third Research Institute and reaffirmed his commitment to protecting the bureau. Later, Silver Seraph brought him five cultivation methods, and Lin Shuguang identified one he could learn by recharging 1.5 million.

• Lin Shuguang threatened Guo Nianjia with his saber and summoned the Special Management Bureau's warriors to confront the Third Research Institute.
• Lin Shuguang destroyed the institute's transfer order, sent Guo Nianjia flying, and forced the visitors to leave without the wyvern's corpse.
• Lin Shuguang told the bureau's experts to continue their experiments and warned the department directors not to put personal ties above the bureau's interests.
• Lin Shuguang went to the laboratory to review the wyvern's data and consider whether its appearance signaled a revival.
• Silver Seraph arrived alone with five Martial Artist Cultivation Methods, and Lin Shuguang saw a notification for the Sun Moon Extinguishing Rotation Cultivation Method, which required a 1.5 million recharge to learn.

Lin Shuguang fused cultivation methods to raise his cultivation to seventy-five bone tempering sounds, then fought the Provincial Capital Guard Army reinforcements sent by the Third Research Institute. He punished the attackers and returned to the fried chicken shop to collect his order.

• Lin Shuguang fused the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Breathing Technique and learned that Silver Seraph could request three fifty-resonance cultivation methods for him each year.
• Lin Shuguang agreed to work with Silver Seraph against the Divine Temple, and Silver Seraph left.
• Lin Shuguang recharged his cultivation until he reached seventy-five bone tempering sounds.
• Luo Jinghan, another Guard Army member, and a Third Research Institute envoy confronted Lin Shuguang at a fried chicken shop and demanded that he hand something over.
• Lin Shuguang defeated Luo Jinghan and his companion, then cut off one arm from each after General Li asked him to show mercy.
• Lin Shuguang slashed the Third Research Institute envoy, collected his fried chicken, and told the proprietress he hoped to return.

Lin Shuguang traded the Jade Bone to the Blood-colored Demonic Saber for a surge in power, then was dragged into a snowy mountain realm where the saber hunted Ferocious Beasts. When its power faded, Lin Shuguang escaped a giant ape through a rift and appeared before a startled group of people.

• The Blood-colored Demonic Saber drew the Jade Bone from Lin Shuguang and raised his Blood Energy Value by ten thousand cal before absorbing it.
• Lin Shuguang grabbed the saber and fled his residential complex to contain the energy building inside it, but the saber dragged him through the void into a snowy mountain range.
• The saber forced Lin Shuguang to charge a Blood-colored Tyrannosaurus Rex and killed it, then led him to slay several more Ferocious Beasts and seize their Blood Energy Value.
• As the saber's power waned, Lin Shuguang faced a giant ape, ran from it, and escaped through a rift the saber opened.
• Lin Shuguang emerged onto grass clutching the saber and found a group of people staring at him in astonishment.

Lin Shuguang was unexpectedly transported to Qingyang City, where the Blood-red Demonic Saber followed him and helped increase his strength. After returning to Huai City, he learned that [Divine Temple] had an underground base there and arrived at the Special Management Bureau, where Si Qianjun and his staff reacted warily to the floating saber.

• Lin Shuguang left a gathering of masked people, then realized the Blood-red Demonic Saber had brought him to Qingyang City and was following him despite his attempts to shake it off.
• At an inn, Lin Shuguang frightened two drunken hunters into backing down, and the Blood-red Demonic Saber later cleansed his meridians and marrow as his Blood Energy Value rose.
• Lin Shuguang summoned a [Nightmare] operative, received cultivation methods and intelligence, and spent a million to raise his bone tempering to seventy-six resonances.
• Lin Shuguang learned that [Divine Temple] had an underground base in Huai City containing Cyborgs and Modified Ferocious Beasts, then returned there without identification or contacting the Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang entered Si Qianjun's office as the director of Division One was discussing his injury of people from the Third Research Institute, and the floating saber made everyone wary.

Lin Shuguang rejected a demand to apologize to the Third Research Institute, then attacked Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun after they argued against defending the Special Management Bureau's interests. As representatives of the Institute arrived, Si Qianjun led everyone to see why they could not easily come inside.

• Yang Tianyi urged Lin Shuguang to apologize to the Third Research Institute, while Fang Xu argued that the Institute had repeatedly seized the Bureau's resources and deserved to be condemned.
• Lin Shuguang cited Great Xia's strict law against betraying the country's interests and attacked Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun with his saber and fists.
• Lin Shuguang crippled Yang Tianyi's arm and knocked Zhou Mojun away, prompting Si Qianjun to catch him.
• Lin Shuguang claimed he had only acted in defense of the Bureau and challenged Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun for siding with the Institute.
• A secretary announced that people from the Third Research Institute had arrived, but said they could not easily be let in, so Si Qianjun led the group to investigate.

The Third Research Institute apologized to the Special Management Bureau with eight hundred sets of War Armor, and Lin Shuguang publicly confronted Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun over their conduct. Afterward, Si Qianjun explained the limits of his authority in Huai City and revealed that the Governor had allowed Lin Shuguang to act against the Zhu Family, which might soon be destroyed.

• The Third Research Institute delivered eight hundred sets of War Armor as an apology, and Si Qianjun ordered the bureau's fighters to unload them.
• Lin Shuguang excluded the First and Second Departments from the supplies and accused Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun of betraying the bureau's dignity over the Winged Dragon.
• Lin Shuguang drew his blade against Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun, but Fang Xu and others intervened before he could do more than injure them.
• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun, who explained why he had not replaced more of Huai City's bureau personnel and chided Lin Shuguang for attacking the Zhu Family.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that the Governor had known about his actions against the Zhu Family and that the family might not survive much longer; Lin Shuguang offered to help.

Before leaving Huai City, Lin Shuguang discussed his cultivation and future standing at Demon Martial with Si Qianjun, then gave his family money and reassured them. After receiving intelligence about a Divine Temple experiment involving Cyborgs, he went to its underground facility and witnessed a young man being implanted with a Blood Worm.

• Si Qianjun advised Lin Shuguang to strengthen his foundation before entering the Viscera Refining Stage and suggested he seek a high-rank cultivation method through Demon Martial competitions.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun he would fight anyone who challenged him, while privately admitting he would accept a leadership role if it brought in money.
• Lin Shuguang returned home with the Blood-red Demonic Saber, gave his parents a bank card, and teased Lin Xiaoxi about gaining weight.
• Lin Shuguang received intelligence from [Nightmare] that [Divine Temple] would begin a likely Cyborg-related project that night, and he went to the underground facility alone.
• An old man cut open a young man's chest and implanted a Blood Worm, making him scream.

Lin Shuguang raided an underground Divine Temple laboratory, took control of Dr. Ding with the Soul Refining Technique, and ordered him to gather cultivation methods and develop stronger Genetic Medicine. He then called the Special Management Bureau to report the facility.

• Lin Shuguang confronted Dr. Ding in the laboratory and questioned him about his Gene Modification Technique and the Divine Temple’s funding.
• Dr. Ding explained his research and showed Lin Shuguang his limited Genetic Medicine, which Lin Shuguang dismissed.
• Lin Shuguang forced Dr. Ding to hand over volume one of the Soul Refining Technique and learned to use the Soul Devouring Lock.
• Lin Shuguang used the technique to bind Dr. Ding’s soul and make him acknowledge Lin Shuguang as his master.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Dr. Ding to collect Martial Artist Cultivation Methods and produce effective Genetic Medicine, then sent him away.
• Lin Shuguang called the Special Management Bureau and reported the Divine Temple research facility.

Lin Shuguang said goodbye to Si Qianjun, secured pills from him, and set out to rescue Feng San after learning he had been captured at Qinghe Academy. Feng San defied his captors as Yuan Wu Jie began to explain why they had summoned him.

• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun before leaving for the Demon Capital, and Si gave him three Great Yuan Pills and five Wound Healing Pills.
• Lin Shuguang messaged Silver Seraph to offer the Great Yuan Pills for sale.
• Old Jin told Lin Shuguang that Feng San and his students had been detained at Qinghe Academy after a dispute, so Lin hurried there with him.
• Yuan Cheng Meng tortured the bound Feng San and demanded an explanation, while he taunted her.
• Yuan Wu Jie approached Feng San and said there were three reasons they had invited him, but Feng San told him to cut the crap.

Yuan Wu Jie and Yuan Cheng Meng tortured Feng San and demanded compensation, revenge, and the merger of his school into Qinghe Academy. Lin Shuguang stormed in, defeated their instructors, and ordered everyone to kneel and atone.

• Yuan Wu Jie demanded compensation and the merger of Feng San's school into Qinghe Academy, while Yuan Cheng Meng blamed Feng San for Xu Wei's death and whipped him.
• A series of thunderous impacts shook the warehouse, and Lin Shuguang burst through its wall with Old Jin and ordered Yuan Wu Jie and Yuan Cheng Meng to kneel.
• Yuan Wu Jie ordered his instructors to attack Lin Shuguang, but Lin Shuguang felled them with a single slash of his Slaughter Blade.
• Lin Shuguang freed Feng San and had Old Jin support him as Yuan Wu Jie tried to block their way with a sword.
• Lin Shuguang overwhelmed Yuan Wu Jie with his presence and commanded everyone to kneel and atone.

Lin Shuguang crushed the Yuan Family siblings and Yuan Tianlie after they attacked Storm Martial Arts School, then ordered Qinghe Academy to become part of the school. Yuan Tianlie refused, but Lin Shuguang put his saber to his neck and made clear it was an order.

• Lin Shuguang struck Yuan Wu Jie and fought off the Qinghe Academy fighters who surrounded him.
• Yuan Tianlie arrived and attacked Lin Shuguang, but Lin Shuguang defeated him with one slash.
• Lin Shuguang identified himself, and the crowd recognized him as the Director Lin who had taken down Huai City's demonic cultivator organizations.
• After Yuan Cheng Meng challenged his right to intervene, Lin Shuguang revealed he had been a Storm Martial Arts School student and sent her flying with a slash.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Qinghe Academy to belong to Storm Martial Arts School, and when Yuan Tianlie refused, he pressed his saber to Yuan Tianlie's neck.

Lin Shuguang left Qinghe Academy after absorbing it into the Storm Martial Arts School, then traveled to Demon Capital to begin at Demon Martial. As he settled into his dorm, he overheard freshmen discussing Huai City’s mysterious commander-in-chief and stopped when they called the man ugly.

• Lin Shuguang gained a level of cultivation at Qinghe Academy and obtained Yuan Tianlie’s Qi Control Technique, while Feng San arranged to transfer the academy’s earnings to him.
• Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian traveled to Demon Capital, where Meng Shenzhou met them and discussed the rising number of Awakened people and special spiritual bodies.
• Lin Shuguang learned he had been assigned to Class 258 and went to dorm room 317, while Chu Xiongtian and Meng Shenzhou headed to their own rooms.
• Lin Shuguang met his roommates Fang Yuan and Xu Feng, who recounted rumors about the Huai City Blood Nights Chronicle.
• Xu Feng said Huai City’s commander-in-chief was powerful but ugly, and Lin Shuguang silently considered attacking him.

Lin Shuguang settled into his dorm at Demon Martial while his roommates discussed their awakened weapons and the elite Training Class. After hearing that Gu Yingxiong was expected to dominate the Freshman Cup, Lin received a call asking him to speak alongside Gu at the opening ceremony.

• Lin Shuguang told Fang Yuan and Xu Feng that Huai City's violent past was tragic rather than exciting, then said he had awakened a saber.
• Pang Hu arrived at Room 317, introduced himself, and began boasting about the Training Class and Gu Yingxiong.
• Pang Hu described Gu Yingxiong as an exceptionally strong young Martial Artist and predicted he would win the Freshman Cup.
• The school called Lin Shuguang and asked him to give a speech as an outstanding freshman representative alongside Gu Yingxiong.

Lin Shuguang reunited with Gu Yingxiong and their former training-class peers at Demon Martial’s freshman event, while his roommates watched the school’s prominent Heavenly Prides arrive. The chapter ended with Pang Hu mistaking Luo Tianxiang’s nod to Lin Shuguang as a greeting to himself.

• Meng Shenzhou, Chu Xiongtian, and Lin Shuguang went to lunch, where they discussed their dorms and Gu Yingxiong’s growing strength.
• Pang Hu introduced Xu Feng and Fang Yuan to several influential students at the Activity Center while they waited for Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang greeted Hu Shaoqing and then met Gu Yingxiong, Luo Tianxiang, Wang Lujie, and other former training-class students.
• Gu Yingxiong’s arrival drew loud applause, and Lin Shuguang joined Meng Shenzhou, Chu Xiongtian, and Hu Shaoqing in the audience.
• Pang Hu described a mysterious Overlord Dragon from Gu Yingxiong’s training class, unaware that the story referred to Lin Shuguang.
• Luo Tianxiang nodded toward Lin Shuguang, but Pang Hu thought the greeting was meant for him, and Lin Shuguang let him believe it.

Lin Shuguang delivered a rousing speech at Demon Martial’s opening ceremony, impressing the students and school leaders and drawing a challenge from Gu Yingxiong. Afterward, he met Huang Qisheng at a private club to hear about a treasure Huang had found.

• Lin Shuguang took the stage as student representative and delivered a stirring speech that left the audience applauding and admiring him.
• Gu Yingxiong challenged Lin Shuguang to a match at the competition in a month, and Lin Shuguang agreed.
• Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian offered Lin Shuguang pills to prepare for the match, but he declined for the time being.
• Pang Hu, Xu Feng, and Fang Yuan speculated about Lin Shuguang’s background and praised his speech while waiting for him at the dorm.
• Lin Shuguang summoned Huang Qisheng to a private club and asked him about the treasure he had found.

Lin Shuguang discovered a massive fire elemental stone deposit at Panlong Mountain and used its first profits to rapidly improve his cultivation. He joined the dangerous [Zero] Plan to pursue a top-tier cultivation method, then settled into school life before inviting Cao Chao out for a drink.

• Huang Qisheng told Lin Shuguang that Panlong Mountain held over fifty thousand tons of fire elemental stones, and Lin left a Blood Spirit Clone to guard the deposit.
• Lin earned thirty million from the first batch of extracted stones and used it to upgrade his cultivation techniques and combat power.
• Lin asked Qi Lin for a method capable of a hundred bone-tempering resonances or more, and agreed to join the high-casualty [Zero] Plan for Great Xia.
• Qi Lin gave Lin an access card for the Cultivation Room and praised his speech, which had reached the Governor.
• Lin returned to the dormitory, heard about the military training saber formation, and attended his Class 258 meeting without becoming its class representative.
• After the first day of class meetings, Lin called Cao Chao and invited him out for a drink.

Lin Shuguang investigated the Zhengrong Chamber of Commerce after its men attacked Panlong Mountain, then challenged the Zhengrong Martial Arts Hall to divert attention from the ore. He left the hall surrounded by hostile members, determined to keep fighting.

• Lin Shuguang strengthened Panlong Mountain's defenses and sold Elemental Ore in secret while his strength grew through daily upgrades.
• The Blood Spirit Clone helped repel an attack at Panlong Mountain, where Lin Shuguang found fifteen bodies and learned the attackers belonged to the Zhengrong Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Shuguang went with Huang Qisheng to the Zhengrong Martial Arts Hall, then sent him away and challenged the hall to draw attention from his business.
• Lin Shuguang knocked Huang Feng unconscious with the back of his Slaughter Blade and challenged the surrounding members as footsteps approached.

Lin Shuguang attacked the Zhengrong Martial Arts Hall, defeating its fighters and revealing enough power to wound Hall Master Situ Chao. He demanded to read the hall’s internal cultivation method, leaving Situ Chao facing another attack.

• Situ Xuan sent Li Feng to fight Lin Shuguang, but Lin Shuguang shattered Li Feng’s bones and hurled him into a wall.
• Situ Xuan attacked Lin Shuguang with an ice spear, and Hall Master Situ Chao arrived and joined the fight.
• Lin Shuguang unleashed his full saber power, sent Situ Xuan flying, and fought Situ Chao on equal terms.
• Lin Shuguang broke through Situ Chao’s sword intent and slashed his arm, forcing the Hall Master to retreat wounded.
• Situ Chao demanded to know why Lin Shuguang had come, and Lin Shuguang demanded to read the hall’s internal cultivation method.