Recaps

Lin Shuguang defeated Xiao Zhan after a brutal spear-and-saber fight that ended in a sea of flames. After recovering with pills, Lin Shuguang joined Li Jiandao and Wan Jiangui as the finalists, and Li Jiandao watched him during the break.

• Xiao Zhan attacked Lin Shuguang with his magnetic field and Black Dragon Spear, but Lin Shuguang appeared behind him and met him in close combat.
• Lin Shuguang pressed Xiao Zhan with a series of powerful saber strikes, forcing Xiao Zhan to unleash an explosion that engulfed the arena in flames.
• Lin Shuguang cut through the flames and stood with burns while Xiao Zhan, drenched in blood, admitted defeat and collapsed.
• Lin Shuguang asked the medic for eighty or a hundred pills, accepted three Wound Healing Pills, and sat down to rest.
• Lin Shuguang, Li Jiandao, and Wan Jiangui became the final three, and Lin Shuguang asked Li Jiandao why he was looking at him.

Lin Shuguang overwhelmed Wan Jiangui in the championship round and knocked him unconscious, leaving Li Jiandao as his next opponent. Li Jiandao accepted Lin Shuguang’s challenge without waiting for him to rest.

• Wan Jiangui drew the second position and eagerly stepped onto the platform to face Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang opened with a devastating saber strike that stunned Wan Jiangui and revealed he had been holding back.
• Lin Shuguang destroyed Wan Jiangui’s sword techniques and suppressed him with stronger, relentless attacks.
• Lin Shuguang blasted Wan Jiangui off the platform and declared that he had won because he was stronger; Wan Jiangui passed out.
• Lin Shuguang challenged Li Jiandao to fight immediately, and Li Jiandao agreed.

Lin Shuguang defeated Li Jiandao in a battle of mental strength and won the Hundred Schools League’s Third Round, becoming its Triple Crown Champion. After the results were announced, he learned the team would leave the next morning and asked about Red Lotus City.

• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao clashed through their Martial Hearts, shaking the Challenge Platform while Master Yuan Song asked Senior Qi to keep them safe.
• Li Jiandao admitted defeat, and the referee declared Lin Shuguang the winner and Triple Crown Champion.
• The officials awarded Lin Shuguang first place, Li Jiandao second, and injured Wan Jiangui third; Wan Jiangui fainted after learning Lin Shuguang had won.
• The Demon Martial team leader told Lin Shuguang they would leave by boat the next morning and that Red Lotus City would hold a celebration banquet.
• Lin Shuguang asked the team leader how much he knew about Red Lotus City.

After the banquet, Lin Shuguang received the fifth Jade Bead from Li Jiandao and learned that Great Xia’s Spark Plan was preparing for a coming cataclysm. The chapter left Lin Shuguang considering the approaching danger and the secret of his unusual conversion from Bone Tempering to Organ Refinement.

• Lin Shuguang met Li Jiandao on a rooftop, where Li Jiandao gave him the Jade Bead and thanked him for helping advance his Martial Dao.
• Li Jiandao learned Lin Shuguang was still a first-year and suspected he was part of the school’s Spark Plan.
• Li Jiandao explained that Great Xia’s Spark Plan aimed to increase Organ Refinement martial artists tenfold in response to a predicted cataclysm.
• Li Jiandao said the Heavenly Secrets Book foretold a slim chance of survival appearing within the next two years, and he suspected the descending Secret Realms were an omen.
• Lin Shuguang recalled Gu Yingxiong’s warning and inspected his Attribute Panel, which showed his cultivation converting from Bone Tempering to Organ Refinement.
• Lin Shuguang considered how his secret method had broken the normal cultivation barrier and realized revealing it could put him in danger.

After winning the Hundred Schools League, Lin Shuguang and the other contestants sailed away from Red Lotus City, but a supernatural storm and a Demon King attack threatened their ships. Lin Shuguang rushed to the Navigation Room to help as something struck the vessel.

• The Demon Martial students left Red Lotus City, while a bandaged Wan Jiangui reacted with shock and self-doubt to their conversation about Lin Shuguang.
• Yan Kai told Qi Lin that Lin Shuguang had won the Triple Crown and would return to the Demon Capital in eight hours, prompting Qi Lin to notify the Principal.
• At sea, Li Jiandao noticed Lin Shuguang had grown stronger and began to suspect he had visited Fulong Cave before him.
• A lightning storm struck the fleet, and Lin Shuguang sensed that someone was controlling the strange force behind it.
• Soldiers reported a Sea Monster and a Demon King attack, so Lin Shuguang identified himself as a member of the Great Xia Special Management Bureau and asked the captain what to do.
• Something slammed into the ship and an explosion violently shook it as Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao entered the Navigation Room.

A sea-monster swarm attacked the Tian Guang Hao and the other ships, forcing the examinees to join the defense. As the fighters were pushed back, a familiar saber rang out from the battle with the demon king, leaving everyone stunned.

• The captain announced that sea monsters had attacked the ships, communications were down, and a demon king was among the attackers.
• Pang Yuan and other examinees went to the deck to fight, while Zheng Sila urged the hesitant fighters to help.
• The examinees joined the defense against the blue-scaled sea monsters as the attackers climbed aboard the ships.
• Tang Hong accused Lin Shuguang of hiding, and the distraction let the sea monsters break through and drive the defenders back.
• A huge crimson wing appeared over the distant sea, and the sea monsters recoiled as a familiar saber rang out from the demon king's battle.

Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao defeated the Demon King and returned safely to the ships, where they were hailed as saviors. After the Military Department reached the fleet, its Great Grandmaster ordered that Lin Shuguang be given medicine and personally escorted the students onward.

• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao fought the Demon King in the sea, and a vast whirlpool swallowed nearby Sea Monsters before the waters split apart.
• The ships survived the battle, and the shaken students wondered whether Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao had died.
• The students turned on Tang Hong for calling Lin Shuguang a coward and weakening their resolve, while Tang Hong covered his head and begged for mercy.
• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao emerged from the sea unharmed and received applause from the students aboard the ships.
• The Military Department sent five warships to meet the fleet, and its Great Grandmaster ordered Great Yuan Pills taken to Lin Shuguang and took charge of the escort.

Lin Shuguang returned to Demon Martial after killing a mutated Demon King and received supplies while the school investigated the attack. He later learned the Guo Family had been crippled and asked Silver Seraph for a trustworthy Forging Master, who demanded half the benefits.

• Demon Martial leaders mistakenly believed Lin Shuguang was badly injured, provided him with medicine, and formed a Special Investigation Group to investigate the Sea Monster attack.
• Lin Shuguang reflected on the Martial Dao Wills that helped kill the Demon King, confirmed that his Hundred Schools League reward would include a secret realm visit, and examined an Alchemy Stone fragment that could upgrade his Demon God Armor.
• Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian told Lin Shuguang that Silver Seraph had helped destroy the Guo Family, leaving its ancestor badly injured and its high-level fighters defeated.
• Lin Shuguang contacted Silver Seraph about the Guo Family and asked whether he knew a trustworthy Forging Master.
• Silver Seraph offered to help Lin Shuguang find a Forging Master in exchange for half the benefits, echoing Lin Shuguang's earlier demand.

Silver Seraph left after Lin Shuguang appealed to their friendship while negotiating over profits. As Lin Shuguang’s Hundred Schools League championship made him a sensation at Demon Martial, Cao Chao picked him up for safety education work and hinted at a classified discovery of three-hundred-year-old Ancient Ruins in the west.

• Lin Shuguang persuaded Silver Seraph to consider his request, and Silver Seraph broke into the void and left to bring back news.
• Word spread that Lin Shuguang had won the Hundred Schools League and become the Triple Crown Champion, prompting Luo Tianxiang and other Demon Martial students to train harder.
• Pang Hu, Xu Feng, and Fang Yuan tried to cultivate beside Lin Shuguang’s bed, then discovered that Fang Yuan’s unwashed socks were the source of a bad smell.
• Lu Hong called Lin Shuguang early in the morning, and Cao Chao drove him to take part in the month’s safety education work.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that Ancient Ruins dating back three hundred years had been discovered in the west, though the details remained classified.

Lin Shuguang attended a high-level Special Management Bureau meeting covering Demonic Cultivators, the [Divine Temple]'s holy war, and rising Spiritual Energy and Secret Realm activity. When Professor Jiang asked for help deciphering an ancient sheet of gold paper written in Oracle Bone Script, Lin Shuguang volunteered.

• Lin Shuguang told Lu Hong that he had won the Hundred Schools League championship and earned a Triple Crown Champion title.
• At the meeting, officials praised Huai City's crackdown on Demonic Cultivators, led by Lin Shuguang, and ordered regions not to launch related operations amid the [Divine Temple]'s holy war abroad.
• Professor Jiang reported that Secret Realms, Spatial Tunnels, Ferocious Beast incursions, and Spiritual Energy levels were increasing, while warning that a second mutation remained unconfirmed.
• Professor Jiang said the Science and Education Institute needed help deciphering a gold sheet found in Ancient Ruins, which might contain Oracle Bone Script from over ten thousand years ago.
• Lin Shuguang volunteered to help decipher the Oracle Bone Script, drawing surprised looks from the attendees.

Lin Shuguang agreed to help decipher Oracle Bone Script, then accompanied Cao Chao to investigate a piece of inscribed iron that had drawn a powerful Fire Elementalist after Cao He. The pursuit converged on Eighteenth Street, where a scarlet-haired Hall Master believed the iron could help him reach Mystic Profundity.

• Lin Shuguang told Director Luo he could assist the Science and Education Institute with Oracle Bone Script, and Director Luo submitted an application for him.
• Cao Chao asked Lin Shuguang to help his younger brother, Cao He, who was being pursued over a palm-sized piece of inscribed iron.
• Cao Chao and Lin Shuguang discovered that Cao He had fled, and Cao He called to say he was being chased and had gained indecipherable writing in his head.
• Cao Chao arranged to meet Cao He on Eighteenth Street, while a scarlet-haired Hall Master ordered his men to drive Cao He toward them and claimed the iron might help him reach Mystic Profundity.

Lin Shuguang rescued Cao He from Zhu Shihao’s men and forced Zhu Shihao to reveal the Yin Yang Stone’s origins. The group reached the Zhu Family Ancestral Home, where Lin asked Cao He to reproduce the mysterious markings.

• Cao Chao brought Lin Shuguang to help Cao He, and Lin crushed Zhu Shihao’s fire dragon with one hand.
• Lin Shuguang defeated Zhu Shihao and his men with a single saber slash, then demanded to know why Zhu Shihao had pursued Cao He.
• Zhu Shihao admitted that he wanted the object because his ancestor had called it the Yin Yang Stone and said it contained secrets of cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang took Zhu Shihao and the Cao brothers to the Zhu Family Ancestral Home and asked Cao He to draw the markings he had seen.
• Cao He agreed to try, and Zhu Shihao realized Cao He had kept information from him.

Cao He deciphered the oracle bone script and gained the Mighty Bull Demon Fist from the Yin Yang Stone. Lin Shuguang learned the technique and prepared to take an oracle bone script assessment for the Science and Education Institute in Dragon City.

• Cao He showed Lin Shuguang five oracle bone characters, and Lin Shuguang deciphered four as clues to the Mighty Bull Demon Fist.
• Lin Shuguang told Cao He to circulate his cultivation technique while recalling the characters, and Cao He awakened the Mighty Bull Demon Fist.
• Cao He demonstrated the fist technique, and Lin Shuguang paid to learn it.
• Cao Chao thanked Lin Shuguang for saving Cao He, and Lin Shuguang told him they were family before asking for a ride.
• Director Luo told Lin Shuguang that his Science and Education Institute assessment was scheduled for the next morning in Dragon City.
• Lin Shuguang asked Silver Seraph to arrange a meeting with the Forging Master, and Silver Seraph agreed.

Lin Shuguang visited Black Street with Silver Seraph and had a legendary Forging Master upgrade his Demon God Armor using Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron. After learning the armor had belonged to someone from the Qin Family, Lin Shuguang said he might go to Dragon City the next day.

• Silver Seraph guided Lin Shuguang into Black Street, where Lin Shuguang killed five men who had followed them.
• Silver Seraph brought Lin Shuguang to a legendary Forging Master, who agreed to upgrade Lin Shuguang's Demon God Armor.
• Lin Shuguang gave the Forging Master Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron, and the master reforged the armor, removing its serial number and previous damage.
• The Forging Master warned Lin Shuguang that the armor had been lost by a prominent member of Dragon City's Qin Family.
• Lin Shuguang told Silver Seraph he might go to Dragon City, and Silver Seraph warned him to come back alive.

Lin Shuguang passed the Science and Education Institute’s oracle bone script test and traveled to its secret base in Dragon City. There, he was assigned to decipher thirteen characters from Zone D, ten of which he recognized.

• Lu Hong drove Lin Shuguang to a nationwide oracle bone script test overseen by Director Luo.
• Lin Shuguang translated all ten test characters in five minutes and passed with high praise.
• Lin Shuguang flew to Dragon City with Xue Leqi and entered the Science and Education Institute’s secret base.
• Lin Shuguang encountered Pei Ruoyi and Lu Tianyu at the base before being assigned to Zone D.
• Lin Shuguang examined thirteen oracle bone script characters and recognized ten: Connect, Blood, Practice, Origin, Elixir, Gold, Realm, Condense, Temper, and Body.

Lin Shuguang finished his Oracle Bone Script assignment and privately gained more translated characters through Pei Ruoyi’s questions. Xue Leqi later shared a passage describing ancient Martial Dao realms, then left Lin Shuguang wondering whether he was connected to [Nightmare].

• Lin Shuguang submitted his scrambled character translations, then spent several days reading at the Science and Education Institute.
• Pei Ruoyi and Lu Tianyu joined Lin Shuguang for lunch, and Pei Ruoyi asked him to help decipher Oracle Bone Script characters.
• Lin Shuguang identified Pei Ruoyi’s characters and quietly gained six more translations before she left with Lu Tianyu.
• Xue Leqi secretly visited Lin Shuguang, used a jammer, and showed him a passage describing cultivation from body tempering through the Divine Transformation Realm.
• Xue Leqi told Lin Shuguang to keep himself safe and departed, leaving Lin Shuguang to wonder whether he belonged to [Nightmare].

When the [Divine Temple] attacked the Science and Education Institute and stole research notes, Lin Shuguang pursued the thief and recovered them. He then clashed with guardian Zhou Ye, who tried to seize the notes, and sent him flying before cutting off his threat.

• A blaze erupted at the Science and Education Institute, where guardians fought cloaked [Divine Temple] assassins as Xue Leqi slipped away into the crowd.
• A cloaked assassin escaped with the notes, and Lin Shuguang left the others behind to chase him.
• Lin Shuguang caught the assassin outside the institute and killed him, recovering the notes in a wooden box.
• Guardian Zhou Ye arrived and demanded the notes, then attacked Lin Shuguang when he refused to hand them over.
• Lin Shuguang overpowered Zhou Ye with his saber and sent him flying as Zhou Ye threatened him with the institute's punishment.

After Lin Shuguang brought the notebook to the Science and Education Institute, Scholar Ji revealed that it described the perfect realm and golden body in detail. Lin Shuguang learned that the perfect realm might require 999 bone-tempering resonances, making him believe he could reach it.

• Lin Shuguang accused Zhou Ye of attacking a senior official and refused to hand over the notebook until the guardians took him back to the Science and Education Institute.
• Pei Ruoyi rejected Lu Tianyu's suspicion that Lin Shuguang had colluded with demonic cultivators and went to find their teacher because Lin Shuguang had saved them.
• In the confinement room, Lin Shuguang gave Zhao Feng the notebook and recalled its account of the cultivation realms, the perfect realm, and golden-body tempering.
• Scholar Ji dismissed the others and told Lin Shuguang that the notebook was real but incomplete, then showed him a page explaining the perfect realm and golden body.
• Scholar Ji said the perfect realm might involve 999 bone-tempering resonances, and Lin Shuguang realized that this goal could be within his reach.

Lin Shuguang learned from Scholar Ji about Bone Tempering, Ancient Ruins, and the Divine Temple’s wars before being released from confinement. As he prepared to explore Dragon City with Pei Ruoyi, Xu Hu’s subordinate summoned him outside the Science and Education Institute to answer for injuring Zhou Ye.

• Scholar Ji explained that Bone Tempering used bone resonance to create a blood energy medium, and Lin Shuguang considered how his system could let him surpass the limits of existing cultivation methods.
• Scholar Ji said Secret Realm activity was increasing and suggested the Divine Temple’s wars were linked to Ancient Ruins, while Lin Shuguang learned the Science and Education Institute had used bait to uncover traitors.
• Xu Hu learned Lin Shuguang had been released and decided to meet him over Zhou Ye, whom he had promised Zhou Ye’s brother to protect.
• Pei Ruoyi invited Lin Shuguang to explore Dragon City, and Lu Tianyu reluctantly agreed to join them.
• A Guardian Institute subordinate told Lin Shuguang that Xu Hu wanted to see him, and Lin Shuguang left the institute with him despite Pei Ruoyi’s warning.

Lin Shuguang defeated Xu Hu with one saber strike, then returned to the Science and Education Institute and learned about his rewards for the Hundred Schools League. Xue Leqi visited him with claims about awakening gods and a Goddess of Light, but Lin Shuguang rejected his request to steal the Institute’s research documents and develop weapons capable of slaying gods.

• Xu Hu challenged Lin Shuguang to defend Zhou Ye, and Lin Shuguang defeated him with a single strike that left the training ground in ruins.
• Song Wan briefly thought she saw Lin Shuguang in a taxi, but the car drove away before she could confirm it.
• Lin Shuguang declined Pei Ruoyi’s invitation to eat, checked his cultivation, and learned he had been awarded five Great Yuan Pills and a three-hour visit to the Divine Land.
• Xue Leqi told Lin Shuguang that the world was a fragment and that the Goddess of Light had sent him to help, then admitted that many details were his own guesses.
• Xue Leqi asked Lin Shuguang to help steal the Science and Education Institute’s technical documents and research weapons capable of slaying gods, but Lin Shuguang ordered him to leave.

Lin Shuguang entered the [Divine Land] and cultivated while sensing a mysterious danger near a distant palace. His Bone Tempering chimes triggered a golden phenomenon over Dragon City, where Martial Dao experts and ordinary people gathered to witness it.

• Scholar Ji and Professor Wang discussed Lin Shuguang's potential, the Martial Dao's resurgence, and whether Deities were real.
• Lin Shuguang passed through the guarded bronze gate and entered the [Divine Land], where the Heaven and Earth Power flooded into him.
• Lin Shuguang resisted the warning of his Martial Dao Will and the temptation to approach the distant palace, then raised his cultivation from 711 to 724 Bone Tempering chimes.
• Clouds and golden light appeared over Dragon City as Lin Shuguang cultivated, and onlookers mistook his figure for a Buddha or a miracle.
• King Qin Wu identified the repeated thunderclaps as Bone Tempering chimes, then sat to observe the figure as Great Grandmasters and ordinary people followed.

Lin Shuguang returned to Demon Capital after a cultivation session in [Divine Land], unaware that his stretching had appeared to the people of Dragon City as a golden phantom demonstrating a Bone Tempering cultivation method. Back at Demon Martial, Qi Lin showed him information about Fengcheng.

• As Lin Shuguang stretched inside [Divine Land], a golden phantom appeared over Dragon City and crowds, Martial Artists, and Martial Kings tried to imitate its movements.
• Lin Shuguang was teleported outside the bronze doors, where Commissioner Bai described the phenomenon and counted thirty-three thunderclaps accompanying the phantom’s bone tempering.
• Lin Shuguang saw that his cultivation had reached 787 resonances, then left Dragon City by plane for the Demon Capital.
• Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian welcomed Lin Shuguang at the airport, and the three returned to Demon Martial while discussing the Dragon City phenomenon.
• Qi Lin asked Lin Shuguang about his cultivation and handed him information marked [Fengcheng].

After learning that Sea Monsters had invaded a Southeast Asian island nation, Lin Shuguang warned Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian to prepare for dangerous times. He drove off Xie Xiaofei after the latter threatened Meng, then ordered both friends to cultivate over winter break.

• Qi Lin told Lin Shuguang that a Sea Monster King might have led the invasion of a Southeast Asian island nation, and that Great Xia was preparing for possible conflict.
• Lin Shuguang ate with Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian, who discussed their plans for winter break.
• Xie Xiaofei confronted Meng Shenzhou over a debt allegedly owed by Meng's younger brother, Yuan Jianhan, and threatened the Meng Family.
• Lin Shuguang used his saber force to overwhelm Xie Xiaofei and his men, then called Cao Chao to take them away.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Cao Chao's men to leave the group outside the Xie Family's front gate and told Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian to cultivate until they reached Organ Refinement.

Lin Shuguang consumed a fortune in pills, raised his Bone Tempering cultivation to 818 resonances, and accepted a Special Management Bureau mission to eliminate the cyborg Lei Liqi. As Lin Shuguang approached Lei Liqi’s underground base, Lei Liqi’s followers realized their Fire Unit had not arrived and feared they had been exposed.

• Lin Shuguang’s cultivation rose to 818 resonances, and his attributes increased as he absorbed the pills.
• Lin Shuguang ordered a search for secret realms so he could seize more cultivation resources.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that the bureau had located Lei Liqi, a fifth-tier cyborg and former Great Xia traitor, and Lin Shuguang agreed to kill him.
• At the underground base near Black Stone Mountain, Lei Liqi’s followers worried that the missing Fire Unit meant their group had been exposed.
• Lei Liqi challenged his followers for being afraid to die.

Lin Shuguang attacked the [Divine Temple] cave by collapsing it, but discovered that Lei Liqi had escaped and that a swarm of Human-faced Scorpions was waiting underground. As Cao Chao and the soldiers came under attack, Lin Shuguang called them toward him.

• Cao Chao and Lin Shuguang reached Black Stone Mountain, where soldiers reported that 225 Bureau personnel faced about 150 enemies inside a cave with many passages.
• Lin Shuguang entered alone and used the Slaughter Blade to smash the cave and seal its entrance, triggering collapses underground.
• Lin Shuguang heard the trapped Demonic Cultivators screaming and realized Lei Liqi was missing; Cao Chao suspected Lei Liqi had lured them into a trap.
• A Human-faced Scorpion burst from the ground, and Lin Shuguang severed its appendage before it fully emerged.
• More than a hundred Human-faced Scorpions attacked, killing a soldier and surrounding Cao Chao and the others, so Lin Shuguang called them to run toward him.