Recaps

Lin Shuguang defeated Situ Chao and learned about the Viscera Refining Stage, then discovered that [Thousand Faces King] could not read his thoughts. He offered [Nightmare] a huge supply of elemental stones and planned to draw powerful groups into protecting his interests.

• Lin Shuguang defeated Situ Chao, who handed over three Martial Artist Cultivation Methods and explained how the Viscera Refining Stage worked.
• Lin Shuguang warned Situ Chao he might return, then left the ruined martial arts hall without killing him.
• [Thousand Faces King] revealed that Situ Chao had concealed the cultivation method he truly practiced, and Lin Shuguang attacked him to test his strength.
• Lin Shuguang offered [Thousand Faces King] elemental stones worth ten billion, then said the supply could be ten times greater and urged him to consult his superiors.
• Lin Shuguang decided to involve [Nightmare] and the Special Management Bureau because he expected more groups to come after the elemental ore deposit.

Lin Shuguang used Huang Qisheng to broker sales from the elemental ore mine with the Special Management Bureau and other powerful groups. As the mine drew attention and Huang Qisheng became the public face of the discovery, Lin Shuguang kept him protected and returned to campus, where Pang Hu asked about the upcoming freshman tournament.

• Lin Shuguang met Lu Hong and showed him three fire elemental stones from Huang Qisheng's mine.
• Lu Hong agreed to pursue a Bureau purchase and bought thirty thousand stones privately for six million, paying a deposit.
• Lin Shuguang told Huang Qisheng to receive miners and arrange equipment, while Nightmare supplied deathsworn miners and security.
• The Bureau declined Lin Shuguang's request for cash-only terms but signed an eight-billion contract, while Nightmare divided its hundred-billion order among five financial groups.
• Trucks began hauling elemental stones from Panlong Mountain under heavy guard, and Huang Qisheng became known as Huang Billion as Lin Shuguang's Blood Spirit Clone protected him.
• After military training, Pang Hu asked Lin Shuguang whether he was confident against Gu Yingxiong in the freshman tournament next week.

Lin Shuguang joined Cao Chao and Han Yi to respond to a Ferocious Beast attack, killing a Blazing Rock Owl that had broken through the soldiers’ blockade before heading to the Special Management Bureau. There, he heard about the Zhao Family’s dispute over Zhao Minghui and entered a somber meeting with Director Luo and Director Lu.

• Cao Chao and Han Yi met Lin Shuguang outside the school and briefed him on five Blazing Rock Owls attacking Chunhui Residential Community.
• Lin Shuguang reached the scene and cut down a Blazing Rock Owl as it attacked soldiers and trapped drivers.
• Lin Shuguang learned that the other Blazing Rock Owls had been trapped in the mountains, then rushed off to finish the mission.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that Zhao Minghui’s older sister had argued with Hong Baiqing after Zhao Minghui’s death was reported.
• Lin Shuguang went to the Special Management Bureau and entered a somber conference room where Director Luo and Director Lu were waiting.

After learning that a vast alternate dimension beneath Fulong Cave contained dangerous beasts, Lin Shuguang intensified his cultivation as threats spread across the country. Gu Yingxiong left Demon Capital for an emergency in the Northern Region after warning Lin to fight to stay alive, and Lin resolved to seek out more cultivation methods.

• Lin Shuguang learned that ferocious beasts, including Viscera Refining Stage creatures, were gathering in a folded space beneath Fulong Cave, and the authorities organized a joint defense.
• Lin Shuguang checked that his parents were safe in Huai City, then spent a day upgrading his martial skills and increased his request for ferocious beast meat.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that Gu Yingxiong was leaving for an emergency in the Northern Region before the Freshman Cup.
• Lin Shuguang and Gu Yingxiong exchanged a punch and agreed to settle their match in three moves, but a helicopter arrived before they could finish.
• Gu Yingxiong departed by helicopter and warned Lin Shuguang to cultivate hard and fight to stay alive over the coming year.
• Lin Shuguang considered seeking cultivation methods from the Special Management Bureau, Nightmare, and the Divine Temple, then vowed to grow stronger.

Lin Shuguang learned that Demon Martial students could earn credit points through tasks and set his sights on earning one million to obtain a Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances cultivation method. He accepted a kill mission for Ji Changhai and completed it alone, leaving law enforcement officer Zhou Hai stunned.

• Demon Martial announced its new credit point system, including an exchange price of one million points for a Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances method.
• Lin Shuguang unlocked access to kill missions and chose the nearby mission to kill Ji Changhai, an Artifact Spirit Master accused of beating two people to death.
• Zhou Hai warned Lin Shuguang that Ji Changhai was vicious and advised him to bring teammates, but Lin Shuguang left to handle the mission alone.
• Half an hour later, Zhou Hai received confirmation that Lin Shuguang had completed the mission.

Lin Shuguang shared a lively night in Dorm 317 with his roommates before competing in the Freshman Cup. He knocked Kang Zhenfei out of the ring with one punch, stunning the silent crowd.

• Lin Shuguang's roommates joked about the Freshman Cup and their ambitions while he reflected that dorm life seemed to strengthen his Martial Dao Will.
• At the Freshman Cup, Chu Weilai won five rounds and entered the candidate pool for the top three, while Fang Yuan was eliminated after three rounds.
• Lin Shuguang stepped into the ring as the ninth ring champion, Kang Zhenfei, challenged him.
• Lin Shuguang struck Kang Zhenfei with a savage punch and sent him flying out of the ring, leaving the venue silent.

Lin Shuguang qualified for Class 258’s Freshman Cup top three with a string of one-punch victories, then left the school to pursue a murder suspect for credit points. He captured Zhang Yuqing despite her poison, leaving Zhou Hai stunned by how quickly he completed the mission.

• Lin Shuguang defeated five challengers with single punches and qualified alongside Chu Weilai and Yin Xiamo as one of Class 258’s top three.
• Lin Shuguang told Chu Weilai that anyone with fewer than twenty bone tempering resonances should not think about reaching the top ten.
• Lin Shuguang left school and accepted the Detective Branch’s mission to capture Zhang Yuqing, while Zhou Hai warned him that she used poison.
• Lin Shuguang ambushed Zhang Yuqing at her inn, broke her arms, and remained unharmed after she poisoned him.
• Zhang Yuqing admitted to killing her husband, and Lin Shuguang knocked her unconscious and carried her away.
• Zhou Hai received a mission notification and wondered how Lin Shuguang could have finished so quickly.

Lin Shuguang completed thirty-five missions in one day and returned to campus with nearly four thousand credit points, while students speculated about the mysterious V587. The next morning, Lu Hong summoned him to Fulong Cave because ferocious beasts were threatening the Spatial Barrier, but Lin Shuguang planned to compete in the Freshman Cup before reporting in.

• Several sophomore upperclassmen argued over missed missions, then discovered that V587 had completed most of the missions listed on the first page.
• Zhou Hai processed at least twenty missions for Lin Shuguang, who had completed thirty-five missions that day and earned nearly four thousand credit points.
• Meng Shenzhou noticed V587's mission record, but Lin Shuguang concealed that the mysterious account belonged to him.
• After cultivating and returning to his dorm, Lin Shuguang heard that Lu Hong needed him at Fulong Cave around nine thirty because of an urgent mobilization.
• Lin Shuguang learned that the Freshman Cup began at nine and decided he had time to compete for the championship before going to Fulong Cave.

Lin Shuguang claimed the Rookie King title by defeating a crowd of freshmen and Luo Tianxiang in the Freshman Cup. After the referees confirmed his victory, he left Demon Martial for another task as Qi Lin and Yan Kai discussed worsening conditions in Fulong Cave.

• Lin Shuguang announced that he would take the Rookie King title, then sent an opposing freshman flying with a single attack.
• Lin Shuguang challenged the freshmen to attack him together, and dozens of students, including Training Class members, rushed onto the platform.
• Lin Shuguang overwhelmed the attackers with his saber, leaving only Luo Tianxiang standing; Luo Tianxiang surrendered and yielded the title.
• The referees accepted Lin Shuguang's result, and the crowd cheered as he was crowned Rookie King.
• Lin Shuguang left the school after greeting Qi Lin and Yan Kai, who discussed the worsening situation in Fulong Cave and the need to prepare students for danger.

Lin Shuguang joined a military operation to contain a Spatial Barrier breach and descended into the Underground World with Xia Jianfei and Zhong Mingjie’s team. The group entered the mist-shrouded caverns, heading toward interception position six.

• Lin Shuguang met Lu Hong at the Special Management Bureau and learned that over a thousand Ferocious Beasts had broken through the Spatial Barrier, killing seventeen martial artists.
• General Han Li explained that the first containment line was close to falling and assigned the assembled fighters to seven interception positions.
• Lu Hong equipped the teams with Induction Stones and Jade Talismans, explaining how they helped groups stay together and resist miasma and subterranean creatures.
• Lin Shuguang was assigned to lead fifty people with Xia Jianfei and Zhong Mingjie to reinforce interception position six, and he messaged Huang Qisheng to transfer as much money as he had into a private account.
• Lin Shuguang, Xia Jianfei, and Zhong Mingjie led their soldiers into the white mist of the Underground World after warning them to check their equipment and watch for toxic miasma.

Lin Shuguang joined Xia Jianfei and Zhong Mingjie at the interception point, where a massive Blazing Rock Owl legion threatened to halt their advance. He killed the legion’s leader with one saber strike, turning the tide and allowing the Daredevil Squad to move toward the spatial barrier.

• Lin Shuguang and his group reached Section Six’s interception point and saw the Blazing Rock Owls descend in a vast, fiery swarm.
• Xia Jianfei and Zhong Mingjie charged into the flock while Lin Shuguang searched for the hidden leader directing the beasts.
• Lin Shuguang found and killed the golden-feathered Blazing Rock Owl leader with a single saber strike, throwing the legion into disarray.
• Zhong Mingjie rallied the fighters to advance, and Xia Jianfei followed Lin Shuguang while acknowledging his earlier prejudice.
• The advancing group encountered the Daredevil Squad, which headed into the windblown sand to slip behind the Ferocious Beasts as the others drew their fire.

Lin Shuguang joined a new Daredevil Squad and led it toward the Spatial Barrier to plant a spatial bomb after the previous squad was wiped out. As the soldiers nearly finished setting it up, powerful Ferocious Beasts began breaking through, and Lin Shuguang sensed an even greater threat approaching.

• Lin Shuguang and his allies found the dead Daredevil Squad and reported its failure to their superiors.
• A replacement Daredevil Squad arrived, and Lin Shuguang joined it while Xia Jianfei and Zhong Mingjie stayed behind to lead the Elemental Users.
• Lin Shuguang led the squad toward the Spatial Barrier as a group of nearly fifty Ferocious Beasts charged toward the second firing position.
• The soldiers began setting up the spatial bomb, while Lin Shuguang guarded the barrier and cut down Ferocious Beasts trying to break through.
• With only ten seconds left on the bomb setup, the Spatial Barrier shook under the arrival of a force more powerful than the beasts before it.

Lin Shuguang stayed behind to cover the Daredevil Squad’s retreat and disappeared in the explosion that destroyed the Spatial Barrier. His allies began searching for him, while his friends in the Demon Capital waited anxiously for news.

• Lin Shuguang fought the Minotaur Giant and ordered the Daredevil Squad to flee while he drew the pursuing beasts away from them.
• Lin Shuguang summoned the Demon God Armor and fought the Minotaur Giant as the bomb’s countdown dwindled, then a huge explosion engulfed the mountain forest.
• The Daredevil Squad escaped and reported Lin Shuguang missing, while Lu Hong and others struggled to believe he had died.
• Cao Chao and Han Yi armed themselves and set out to search the cavern for Lin Shuguang.
• Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian worried that Lin Shuguang had not returned to the Demon Capital for two days.

After the Blood-colored Demonic Saber transported Lin Shuguang to a remote snowfield, he gained the Power of God and Demon and fled an avalanche into a cave. He learned he was in District Nine and took shelter with Jiang Xiaoxue, Song Yan, and Xiao Hui while the storm kept him from contacting the outside world.

• Lin Shuguang checked the spoils from killing the Minotaurs and discovered he had obtained one Power of God and Demon.
• The Blood-colored Demonic Saber vanished, leaving Lin Shuguang alone on a vast snowfield without any way to contact the outside world.
• Lin Shuguang ran from an avalanche and spotted a cave after hearing Xiao Hui call to him.
• Jiang Xiaoxue stopped Xiao Hui from approaching the bloodied stranger, but Lin Shuguang reached the cave and thanked him for the warning.
• Xiao Hui told Lin Shuguang that the cave was in District Nine, and Lin Shuguang sat apart while Jiang Xiaoxue and Song Yan remained wary of him.

Lin Shuguang left the cave after meeting Jiang Xiaoxue, Song Yan, and Xiao Hui, then encountered and killed a Hunting Group squad searching for the trio. Jiang Xiaoxue, Song Yan, and Xiao Hui later found the frozen bodies he left behind and cautiously approached them.

• Xiao Hui gave Lin Shuguang a map and introduced him to Jiang Xiaoxue and Song Yan, who remained wary of him.
• Lin Shuguang left the cave as the blizzard eased, and Xiao Hui bid him farewell.
• A Hunting Group squad surrounded Lin Shuguang and asked whether he had seen two women and a man; their bearded leader ordered his men to kill him.
• Lin Shuguang killed the squad, looted Beast Cores and Elemental Stones from their bodies, and left.
• Jiang Xiaoxue, Song Yan, and Xiao Hui came across the squad's frozen bodies and cautiously moved closer.

Lin Shuguang returned safely from the snowfield after killing the Silver Snake hunters, though he denied it when Song Yan questioned him. After contacting Lu Hong and Huang Qisheng, he left by military helicopter, while Xiao Hui proudly declared him his brother.

• Song Yan and Jiang Xiaoxue found the Silver Snake hunters dead from single saber strikes and suspected a powerful expert had killed them.
• Xiao Hui recognized the dead bearded man as the hunter who had grabbed him and hurried after the suspected killer with Jiang Xiaoxue and Song Yan.
• Song Yan confronted Lin Shuguang about killing the Silver Snake hunters, but he denied knowing them; she noticed his bag came from one of the dead men and thanked him for dealing with them.
• Lin Shuguang borrowed Xiao Hui's phone, learned three days had passed since the Freshman Cup, and told Lu Hong and Huang Qisheng he was safe and would handle matters after returning.
• Lin Shuguang gave Xiao Hui an elemental stone as thanks, then boarded a helicopter sent by the Military Department.
• Xiao Hui called Lin Shuguang his brother and bragged about him, before Jiang Xiaoxue dragged him away by the ear.

After returning to the Demon Capital, Lin Shuguang claimed his rewards and learned that winning the Hundred Schools League in two months could earn him access to every Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances cultivation method in the Secret Pavilion and a chance to enter the Divine Land. He left determined to prepare for the competition and defeat the other contenders.

• Lin Shuguang returned to the Special Management Bureau, where Director Luo praised his contribution and promised to help him obtain a Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances cultivation method of his choice.
• Lin Shuguang reunited with Meng Shenzhou and his dormmates at Demon Martial, then collected his Rookie King rewards from the academic affairs office.
• Lin Shuguang spent three million to fuse all three offered saber techniques into the Killing Character Art and chose one technique as his reward.
• Qi Lin told Lin Shuguang that winning the Hundred Schools League would let him choose any Martial Artist Cultivation Method in the Secret Pavilion and earn an opportunity to enter the Divine Land.
• Qi Lin gave Lin Shuguang two Great Yuan Pills, and Lin Shuguang vowed to defeat the competition's contenders.

Lin Shuguang stopped the Yang and Guo families from forcing Huang Qisheng to cut the price of Elemental Stone, then settled into his new villa at Demon Martial. A high-credit escort mission to Mohai City caught his attention, and he agreed to join Meng Shenzhou and their friend.

• Lin Shuguang pressured Guo Maofan into submission, then injured Yang Qi and backed Huang Qisheng's decision to terminate both families' contracts.
• Huang Qisheng raised the Elemental Stone price by ten percent for the three remaining families, which accepted after the Special Management Bureau removed the Yang and Guo crews from the mine.
• Lin Shuguang received upgraded benefits, said farewell to Pang Hu and the others in Room 317, and moved into villa B-23.
• Lin Shuguang spent the next week on missions, classes, and cultivation while building his credit-point total.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang about a team mission escorting supplies to Mohai City for three hundred credit points, and Lin Shuguang welcomed the chance to earn more.

Lin Shuguang and the other Demon Martial students escorted a shipment of Cold Yin Stone toward Mohai City, only to be surrounded by White Horse Village. The students prepared to fight as Ma Xiangnan, the bandits’ Third Boss, demanded the ore.

• Meng Shenzhou explained that the convoy carried Cold Yin Stone and warned that White Horse Village might target it because King Ma was an ice Elemental User.
• Lin Shuguang, Meng Shenzhou, Chu Xiongtian, and the other participants set out with the chamber of commerce’s convoy for Mohai City.
• White Horse Village’s armed vehicles surrounded the convoy, and Lin Shuguang ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Manager Chang claimed he had contacted Demon Martial, but Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian recognized that the signals were jammed and knew they had to rely on themselves.
• Ma Xiangnan, White Horse Village’s Third Boss, stepped out and demanded that the convoy hand over the Cold Yin Stone.

Lin Shuguang led the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce and Demon Martial students into battle against White Horse Village, killing a bandit before confronting Ma Xiangnan. The fight between them began as Lin Shuguang launched a savage slash at the White Horse Village chief.

• Ma Xiangnan demanded that the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce hand over the cold yin stone, and Lin Shuguang ordered Chang Guang to step back before striking.
• Lin Shuguang killed a saber-scarred White Horse Village fighter with a single slash and rallied the Demon Martial students to attack.
• The Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce archers and guards joined the battle as hundreds of White Horse Village bandits charged, and Ma Xiangnan cut down several opponents.
• Chang Guang urged Zhao Ye to kill Ma Xiangnan, but Lin Shuguang rushed ahead and intercepted the chief as he moved to stomp a fallen Demon Martial student.
• Ma Xiangnan threatened Lin Shuguang, who interrupted him and charged with a powerful saber slash.

Lin Shuguang fought Ma Xiangnan, White Horse Village’s third chief, and used repeated upgrades to overcome the Viscera Refining expert’s superior cultivation. After killing Ma Xiangnan, he turned on the remaining bandits and ordered them to surrender or die.

• Ma Xiangnan recognized Lin Shuguang’s saber skill as a future threat and attacked him with his Golden Ring Great Saber.
• Their first clash revealed Ma Xiangnan’s deep Bone Tempering foundation and Lin Shuguang’s unusually powerful blood energy.
• Ma Xiangnan unleashed Blood Fiend Wind-Breaking Slash, while Lin Shuguang repeatedly upgraded his power and charged through the pressure.
• Lin Shuguang’s Slaughter Blade defeated Ma Xiangnan, and he killed the wounded chief with a final slash.
• Lin Shuguang ordered White Horse Village’s leaderless bandits to leave or be killed.

Lin Shuguang defeated Ma Xiangnan and routed White Horse Village’s bandits, saving the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce’s escort. He broke through to Bone Tempering Eighty Resonances, then reached Mohai City with the survivors and was praised at a banquet.

• Lin Shuguang cut down Ma Xiangnan and drove White Horse Village’s bandits into retreat, though the escort suffered heavy casualties.
• Chang Guang thanked Lin Shuguang for saving the caravan, while Zhao Ye admitted he could not identify Lin Shuguang’s saber technique.
• Chang Guang and Zhao Ye saw Lin Shuguang break through to Bone Tempering Eighty Resonances after obtaining Ma Xiangnan’s eighty-resonance Martial Artist Cultivation Method.
• Lin Shuguang, Meng Shenzhou, and Chu Xiongtian continued the escort and arrived safely in Mohai City two hours later.
• Chang Guang told Sun Zhan that Lin Shuguang had killed Ma Xiangnan, and Sun Zhan recognized Lin Shuguang’s promising future.

After White Horse Village attacked the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Demon Martial learned that Lin Shuguang had killed Ma Xiangnan and rallied to avenge its dead students. The school launched a mission against the bandits, and Lin Shuguang led his companions into the fight.

• Yan Kai reported that White Horse Village had killed nine Demon Martial people, injured thirty, and been driven off after Lin Shuguang killed Ma Xiangnan.
• Qi Lin identified Lin Shuguang as this year's Rookie King, astonishing the leaders, who also learned that more than 120 bandits had been killed.
• The Vice Principal ordered Demon Martial to hunt down White Horse Village after the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce tracked the fleeing bandits.
• Demon Martial students, including Pang Hu's Class 258, vowed to seek revenge and threw themselves into training.
• Lin Shuguang and his companions received a mission offering credit points for killing White Horse Village bandits, and Lin Shuguang told them to make the bandits pay in blood.

Lin Shuguang’s group traveled through the harsh sands near Mohai City, where Meng Shenzhou explained the secrets behind Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances. After finding a marketplace full of murdered villagers, Lin Shuguang followed the bloody tracks toward White Horse Village’s bandits.

• Old Hat explained that the region’s sandy climate had changed after a powerful fire-attribute cultivator died there three hundred years earlier.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that reaching Bone Tempering Hundred Resonances required understanding a cultivation method’s true essence, and that such insight could bring rapid breakthroughs.
• Lin Shuguang detected blood and led the group to a marketplace where villagers’ corpses had been drained of blood and mutilated.
• Old Hat identified the slaughter as the work of White Horse Village’s First Boss, while Chu Xiongtian said the boss practiced an evil blood-drinking technique.
• Lin Shuguang examined the bloody wheel tracks and determined the villagers had died less than half a day earlier, then urged the group to pursue the bandits.

Lin Shuguang’s group entered a sealed ghost city and faced an ambush by Corpse Puppet, King Ma’s chief guardian. Lin Shuguang found and killed him, while the group remained inside the city.

• The group reached the deserted ancient city, where the gates slammed shut and a ghostly infant corpse attacked a student.
• Lin Shuguang killed the infant corpse with his lightning-wreathed saber, and Old Hat identified it as an evil creature born of the Ghost Dao.
• Corpse Puppet filled the city with poisonous wind, so Old Hat handed out antidote pills and warned the students that their enemy was a powerful Viscera Refining Stage fighter.
• Lin Shuguang’s blood energy held back the poison as he searched for Corpse Puppet and detected him near the southwest city wall.
• Lin Shuguang smashed the wall, confronted Corpse Puppet, and killed him with a saber strike.