Recaps

Lin Shuguang led Zhou Xu and his two surviving companions into an ancient tomb after cutting down the Ferocious Beasts guarding its entrance. Inside, he uncovered murals suggesting the tomb’s owner was a legendary general who became a powerful cultivator and fought invading Demons and Monsters; the group then found an inscription they could not read.

• Lin Shuguang charged the two Ferocious Beasts and killed them with a single overwhelming saber attack, stunning Zhou Xu and his companions.
• Zhou Xu used his feng shui and astrology knowledge to guide the group through the tomb’s branching passages and traps to the main burial chamber.
• When eighteen bells rang and injured Zhou Xu and the others, Lin Shuguang cut their chains and stopped the sound so they could recover.
• Lin Shuguang examined the murals, which depicted the tomb owner’s rise from a young military commander to a cultivator who fought Demons and Monsters.
• Lin Shuguang wondered whether the mural’s invaders were connected to the Demon God the Divine Envoy planned to summon.
• Zhou Xu and the others discovered what appeared to be writing near the dragon-headed boat, but could not read it.

Lin Shuguang translated an ancient cultivation technique, found three Vermillion Fruits, and escaped the collapsing tomb with Zhou Xu and his companions. Outside, he killed Haiyi, who recognized him as the man who had attacked the Qin Family.

• Lin Shuguang translated the Oracle Bone Script on a copper sheet, revealing a Body Tempering Technique that Zhou Xu and his companions planned to share with the children back home.
• Zhou Xu used his compass to locate three Vermillion Fruits hidden inside the dragon-headed boat, and removing them triggered the ancient tomb's collapse.
• Lin Shuguang, Zhou Xu, and the others escaped the tomb just as it collapsed, but Haiyi attacked them and knocked Zhou Xu into the mountainside.
• Lin Shuguang confronted Haiyi, overpowered his spear, and struck him down when he recognized Lin Shuguang from the attack on the Qin Family.
• Lin Shuguang killed Haiyi before he could reveal anything and dismissed the Qin Family as worthless.

After returning to Huai City, Lin Shuguang consumed three Vermillion Fruits and broke through to the twelfth heaven of organ refinement. He then confronted Beining City officials who came to demand an explanation for Director Zhang’s defeat, killing their captain and ordering the rest seized.

• Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City and cultivated with three Vermillion Fruits, breaking through to the twelfth heaven of organ refinement and increasing his attributes.
• A staff member told Lin Shuguang that people from Beining City were causing trouble at the Special Management Bureau and had injured several Huai City members.
• Lin Shuguang challenged the Beining delegation to fight rather than demand compensation for Director Zhang’s defeat.
• When the Beining delegation tried to leave, Lin Shuguang struck down all eight and killed their captain for trespassing.
• Lin Shuguang ordered the remaining Beining City members seized, and the Huai City crowd surged forward.

Lin Shuguang led Huai City’s retaliation against Beining City after its agents attacked the bureau, demanding Beining surrender its allocation for ten years. He struck down Tie Cheng and confronted Beining’s returning Bureau Chief, ending the chapter as he attacked without hesitation.

• Lin Shuguang accepted Si Bureau’s orders to retaliate against Beining City, with the bureau’s departments assigned to support him.
• Lin Shuguang brought the corpse of a Beining City agent to its bureau and had Bai Heng accuse Beining of trespassing and attacking Huai City’s members.
• Lin Shuguang listed Beining’s offenses and defeated Tie Cheng’s attack with a thunderous burst of mental power.
• Lin Shuguang declared that Beining’s entire allocation would belong to Huai City for ten years, then cut apart its Bureau-Suppressing Iron Pillar.
• Beining City’s Bureau Chief arrived and threatened Lin Shuguang, who immediately slashed at him.

Lin Shuguang returned from Beining City after forcing its bureau to surrender resources, while Si Qianjun prepared to use the dispute to expose traitors. Lin then went to meet Lu Tao, a persistent challenger whose identity appeared to be falsified.

• Lin Shuguang and his team left Beining City after he defeated Director Wan and demanded ten years of resource allotments.
• Yang Tianyi confronted Zhou Mojun for repeatedly egging him on to oppose Lin, and Fang Yuan later reported Zhou’s conduct to Si Qianjun.
• Si Qianjun ordered Fang Yuan to monitor Zhou and approved taking over Beining City’s cultivation resources as part of a planned purge of traitors.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City with supplies he had seized from Beining City, and Si Qianjun asked him to lead a decapitation operation if necessary.
• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang that Lu Tao had come to challenge him again and warned that Lu’s background information appeared deliberately falsified.

Lu Tao challenged Lin Shuguang to test his strength for the Demon Suppression Division, but Lin defeated him with two slashes. Lu Tao revealed that the division wanted Lin to replace Qin Taihang, and Si Qianjun arrived furious over the attempted recruitment.

• Lu Tao approached Lin Shuguang and asked to fight him, claiming he was a saber enthusiast.
• Lu Tao unleashed his Grandmaster-level strength and attacked Lin Shuguang, alarming Bai Heng and drawing Si Qianjun's attention.
• Lin Shuguang defeated Lu Tao with two slashes and prepared to strike again as Lu admitted defeat.
• Lu Tao revealed the Demon Suppression Division wanted Lin Shuguang to replace Qin Taihang and showed Lin his Command Token.
• Si Qianjun rushed over and angrily accused the Demon Suppression Division of trying to poach his man.

Lin Shuguang captured two powerful corpse people who arrived by boat in the spatial tunnel, then returned to the Special Management Bureau, where a corpse worm appeared in his Cultivation Room. Old Jin called to report that Third Brother had gone missing.

• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun that he was close to becoming a Mystic Martial King, easing Si Qianjun’s concern about the Qin Family.
• Lin Shuguang encountered two white-skinned figures arriving by rust-covered boat in the spatial tunnel and ordered the patrol team to contact the people outside.
• Lin Shuguang struck down the two corpse people and bound them with an iron chain as the Special Management Bureau’s expert team arrived.
• Lin Shuguang told the experts to recover the boat, which had withstood the corrosive seawater, then returned to the Special Management Bureau.
• A corpse worm appeared in Lin Shuguang’s Cultivation Room, and he demanded an explanation from Demonic Saber.
• Old Jin urgently called Lin Shuguang and reported that Third Brother had gone missing.

Lin Shuguang entered the [Blood Desolate Land] to find Feng San and took a treasure medicine from a violent battle with overwhelming force. He rescued Feng San and encouraged him to leave Huai City for new opportunities.

• Old Jin told Lin Shuguang that Feng San had gone missing, and Master Jin's search revealed he was last seen in the [Blood Desolate Land].
• Lin Shuguang went alone into the [Blood Desolate Land] and learned from fleeing hunters that a treasure medicine had drawn powerful beasts and Martial Dao experts into a fight.
• Lin Shuguang spotted Feng San hiding in the undergrowth and seized the treasure medicine, then scattered the fighters and beasts with a devastating slash.
• Lin Shuguang killed a man from Heiyi Dao who demanded a share and ordered the remaining fighters to leave.
• Lin Shuguang took Feng San away and urged him to leave Huai City, promising that his brothers would support him.

Lin Shuguang resolved a dispute over whether to dismantle the boat from the Spatial Tunnel and proposed preparing for another reconnaissance wave. After returning to his family’s shop, he accepted a challenge from Ji Feiying of Pingjian Mountain Villa and set a meeting for three days later.

• Lin Shuguang discussed the Corpse People, the boat, and the possibility of a tribe across the sea with Bai Heng.
• At the Research Institute, Lin Shuguang ended the experts’ argument by prioritizing information from the Corpse People and proposing that he lead a team to wait at the Spatial Tunnel.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Lin’s Shop, greeted Lin Xiaoxi and his parents, then noticed a cold young man watching him from across the street.
• The young man delivered Ji Feiying’s invitation challenging Lin Shuguang to meet at the New Moon Hotel on January twenty-first.
• Lin Shuguang sent the invitation back with enough force to break the young man’s chest bones and said he would see Ji Feiying in three days.

Lin Shuguang learned that Ji Feiying had used Martial Dao resources to advance Zhang Ying and summoned influential figures to Pingjian Mountain Villa to confront him over her injury. Lin Shuguang arrived without an invitation, crushed a guard beneath his palm, and entered the villa under armed Special Management Bureau protection, where Ji Feiying recognized him.

• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang about Ji Feiying's pursuit of Zhang Ying, her rapid rise in cultivation, and the evidence Lin had requested.
• At Pingjian Mountain Villa, Ji Feiying welcomed a gathering of martial practitioners and told them Lin Shuguang had injured Zhang Ying and owed him an explanation.
• The guests condemned Lin Shuguang, while Ji Feiying anticipated making him pay.
• A gate guard demanded Lin Shuguang's invitation, and Lin struck him to his knees, breaking his bones.
• Lin Shuguang's Special Management Bureau forces surrounded the villa's men with weapons and Yuan Magnetic Fire Cannons as he walked into the main hall.
• Ji Feiying saw Lin Shuguang enter and rose from his chair, calling his name through gritted teeth.

Lin Shuguang raided Pingjian Mountain Villa, exposed Ji Feiying’s ties to demonic cultivators, and killed him before he could reveal his allies. After arresting the villa’s guests and confiscating its assets, Lin faced a heavily armed force from Dongning City’s Special Management Bureau.

• Lin Shuguang ordered everyone at Pingjian Mountain Villa to squat, and his aura terrified Sun Mingwei into collapsing to the ground.
• Lin Shuguang’s Special Management Bureau members subdued the Martial Arts Masters while Ji Feiying protested the raid.
• Lin Shuguang accused Ji Feiying of colluding with demonic cultivators and killed him with the Slaughter Blade when he called for help.
• Bai Heng reported that the villa had been secured but no demonic cultivators were found, and Lin said the fugitives had already escaped.
• Lin ordered Bai Heng to record the arrested Masters’ details and investigate their backgrounds and assets, then confiscated the villa’s wealth.
• Dongning City’s Special Management Bureau arrived with armored vehicles and armed helicopters as Lin prepared to leave.

Lin Shuguang and the Huai City Seventh Section were intercepted by Yue Sheng and the Dongning Guard, who demanded the supplies taken from Pingjian Mountain Villa. Lin Shuguang attacked Yue Sheng, leaving the Guard Team stunned by his overwhelming power.

• Lin Shuguang cut the Dongning Guard's helicopter in half after it descended over his convoy.
• Yue Sheng accused Lin Shuguang of killing Ji Feiying and demanded the supplies seized from Pingjian Mountain Villa.
• Yue Sheng ordered his armed Guard Team to surround the Seventh Section and threatened to kill them if they refused.
• Lin Shuguang told his men to take cover, then unleashed a devastating saber attack at Yue Sheng.
• Lin Shuguang's attack created a huge fireball and blasted a hole through a nearby building, shocking the Dongning Guard.

Lin Shuguang defeated Yue Sheng and his guards, then fought Zhang Qingcang when he tried to stop Lin from arresting Yue Sheng. The chapter ended with Lin ordering the stunned onlookers to leave as Zhang lay injured.

• The Guard Team rushed into the ruined courtyard and found Lin Shuguang standing over the defeated Yue Sheng, who begged for his life.
• Yue Sheng’s personal guards drew their blades and charged Lin Shuguang, but he struck them down despite Wang Lin’s plea to spare them.
• Zhang Qingcang confronted Lin Shuguang and demanded that he release Yue Sheng, while Wang Lin tried to mediate.
• Lin Shuguang rejected their demands, citing Yue Sheng’s attack on Special Management Bureau personnel and his right to arrest him.
• Zhang Qingcang shot an arrow at Lin Shuguang, who shattered it, broke Zhang’s knees with a saber strike, and sent him flying with a second blow.
• Lin Shuguang told the stunned Wang Lin and the others to scram.

Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City with a haul of cultivation supplies and reported his clashes with Pingjian Mountain Villa and Dongning City’s Guard Team to Si Qianjun. After strengthening security around the Research Institute and cultivating, he patrolled the Luoshan spatial tunnel, then rushed off after receiving a message.

• Lin Shuguang brought a large shipment of cultivation supplies and a prisoner back to Huai City, then told Si Qianjun how he had fought Pingjian Mountain Villa and the Guard Team in Dongning City.
• Si Qianjun warned Lin Shuguang that Dongning City’s exchange team might be investigating the Corpse People and put him in charge while he left Huai City; Lin Shuguang took some of Si Qianjun’s precious tea leaves.
• Lin Shuguang told Bai Heng to reward the Third Department’s intelligence helpers and secure the Research Institute against leaks, then cultivated with treasure medicine and raised his attributes.
• Lin Shuguang and Bai Heng headed to Luoshan, where Lin Shuguang stopped a car following them and the driver reported to Captain Zhang.
• Lin Shuguang found nothing unusual while patrolling the rain-swept spatial tunnel, then received a message and hurried away after handing Bai Heng his report.

Fang Yuan told Lin Shuguang about a covert mission to investigate disappearances near Howling Moon Mountain, where he uncovered a village ritual linked to mysterious Flame People and the Spatial Tunnel. Too injured to continue, Fang Yuan handed the mission to Lin Shuguang, who agreed to join three Hejian Sect martial artists despite being introduced under a false identity.

• Fang Yuan recounted how villagers near Howling Moon Mountain watched him, drugged him with Soul-Confusing Incense, and caught him spying on a sacrificial ritual.
• Fang Yuan said ten Flame People attacked him, and their claws matched those of Corpse People Lin Shuguang had captured before.
• Fang Yuan warned Lin Shuguang that other factions knew about the mountain and introduced him to the Hejian Sect as his junior sect brother from the Joyful Union Sect.
• Three Hejian Sect martial artists arrived, and Shen Hongxue told Lin Shuguang to meet them at the entrance in ten minutes.
• Lin Shuguang teased Fang Yuan for calling himself Si, and Fang Yuan replied that Director Lin was the cleverer one.

Lin Shuguang joined Shen Hongxue and the Hejian Sect on their way to investigate the village, where they found the settlement burned to ruins and discovered a hidden underground entrance. As he prepared to follow the others below, the long-absent Pay-to-Win system reappeared with a question about whether the Slaughter Blade could seize gods’ power.

• Meng Yitang warned Lin Shuguang that the Hejian Sect’s mission was dangerous and told him they were facing living dead.
• Lin Shuguang followed Shen Hongxue’s group toward the village while using his perception and questioning Meng Yitang about the Hejian Sect.
• At the village, Shen Hongxue and the others found the houses burned and no bodies, then Lin Shuguang uncovered a coffin containing an underground entrance.
• Shen Hongxue led the group underground, and Meng Yitang urged Lin Shuguang to follow him.
• Lin Shuguang sensed an unusual magnetic field from the entrance and wondered about the village’s secrets before the Pay-to-Win system appeared again.

Lin Shuguang triggered a Destined Soul upgrade quest requiring ten thousand kills and tore through the Living Dead to rescue the trapped Hejian Sect members. Shen Hongxue recognized him as Director Lin of Huai City’s Special Management Bureau, and Lin Shuguang turned to face her beside an underground river.

• Lin Shuguang saw that his Destined Soul upgrade quest required ten thousand kills and that he was only a hundred kills short.
• Lin Shuguang rescued Meng Yitang from the Living Dead, told him to cover their retreat, and charged deeper into the passage.
• Lin Shuguang carved through the Living Dead and reached Shen Hongxue and the other Hejian Sect members, telling them to leave if they did not want to die.
• Shen Hongxue chased after Lin Shuguang while the others fled, and the two reached an underground river.
• Shen Hongxue identified Lin Shuguang as Director Lin, Division Chief of the Special Management Bureau’s Seventh Section, and asked why he had joined her team under an alias.

Lin Shuguang questioned Shen Hongxue about the underground river and the living dead, then used her hints to learn about the Ancient Corpse Tribe and her sect. He agreed to consider helping her only if she took him to her sect, leaving their alliance dependent on a bargain.

• Shen Hongxue revealed that she had recognized Lin Shuguang and asked him for help, but he initially refused to hear her out.
• Lin Shuguang and Shen Hongxue discussed the underground river, and Shen Hongxue concluded that the villagers had gone upstream.
• Shen Hongxue explained that the living dead might be connected to the Ancient Corpse Tribe, whose undead army once terrorized the continent before the tribe's king and royal family died suddenly.
• Lin Shuguang asked about the Great Qian Dynasty, and Shen Hongxue accidentally revealed that her sect might have records about it.
• Lin Shuguang offered to help Shen Hongxue if she took him to her sect, and she eagerly accepted the possibility while he insisted on an exchange of benefits.

Lin Shuguang arrested Captain Zhang and his companions from Dongning City after uncovering their plan to steal intelligence from the Research Institute. He learned that Zhang Yaolai was an Eastern Ying spy and was asked to lead a top-secret operation to use him to trace the spy network back to Eastern Ying.

• Shen Hongxue asked Lin Shuguang for his contact information while she decided whether to take him to her sect, and Lin reported the cavern to Si Qianjun.
• Si Qianjun told Lin that the people from Dongning City had taken the bait and that he could reel them in.
• Captain Zhang planned to raid the Research Institute and steal intelligence, but Lin arrived at the teahouse and arrested him and his companions.
• Si Qianjun explained that Zhang Yaolai was an Eastern Ying native who had infiltrated Dongning City, and that the Governor intended to follow the trail back to Eastern Ying.
• Si Qianjun persuaded Lin to take charge of the top-secret mission, and Lin agreed after hinting that he expected something in return.

After staging Zhang Yaolai’s escape and using him as bait, Lin Shuguang exposed an Eastern Ying spy operation in Huai City and captured its leader. The Special Management Bureau began phase two, but Lin Shuguang’s car suddenly exploded as the chapter ended.

• Si Qianjun placed Huai City under martial law after Zhang Yaolai escaped, and ordered the division chiefs to capture him within three days.
• Lin Shuguang disrupted businesses backed by Zhou Mojun while Eastern Ying agents investigated Zhang Sang’s apparent escape.
• Watanabe Sang learned Zhang Yaolai had been arrested and led three black-robed martial artists in an attack on the prisoner transport.
• Lin Shuguang emerged from the transport, killed two attackers, defeated Watanabe Sang, and revealed that the escape had been a trap.
• Lin Shuguang took Watanabe Sang away and received orders to proceed with phase two, while his car then erupted in flames.

Lin Shuguang recognized Watanabe Hashimoto’s connection to the Ancient Corpse Tribe and used the Slaughter Blade’s third ability, Cold Hibernation, to overpower him. Watanabe was left dying, while Lin Shuguang planned to keep him alive for questioning.

• Watanabe Hashimoto rose from the rubble after using a secret technique that made him stronger, and Lin Shuguang recognized the Ancient Corpse Tribe’s aura in him.
• Lin Shuguang questioned Watanabe about Zhang Yaolai and the missing intelligence, but Watanabe attacked instead of cooperating.
• Lin Shuguang unleashed Cold Hibernation, freezing the street and forcing Watanabe to break free with a burst of power.
• Watanabe blocked Lin Shuguang’s strike with earth armor, but Lin Shuguang drove him into the ground and overwhelmed him.
• Lin Shuguang said Watanabe was still useful, then brought his blade down and left him dying.

Lin Shuguang learned more about the Hidden Sects and Eastern Ying’s plans, then consumed eight Treasure Medicines to strengthen his attributes. Meanwhile, the Ancient Corpse Tribe identified an enemy to the east, and the Blood-Colored Demonic Saber told Lin Shuguang that Corpse Worms feared lightning but offered no help protecting his family.

• Lin Shuguang asked Si Qianjun about the Hidden Sects, and Si Qianjun explained that most were ordinary factions with incomplete legacies.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun that Eastern Ying’s agents were connected to the ancient corpses, and Si Qianjun revealed that a mission to stop Eastern Ying’s plan had begun.
• Si Qianjun gave Lin Shuguang eight Treasure Medicines, which Lin Shuguang refined to raise all four attributes by more than two hundred points each.
• The Ancient Corpse Tribe performed a sacrifice, and its shaman declared that their mortal enemy was to the east, prompting the tribe to roar for bloodshed.
• The Blood-Colored Demonic Saber told Lin Shuguang that Corpse Worms feared lightning, but fell silent when he asked how to protect his family.

Lin Shuguang practiced channeling lightning into his soul, then learned the higher-ups planned to investigate the Hejian Sect and agreed to accompany Si Qianjun. On the drive there, Lin Shuguang drove recklessly over a mountain road, sending their off-road vehicle flying.

• Lin Shuguang studied lightning cultivation and repeatedly tried to draw lightning into his soul, eventually learning to control the lightning rays a little before exhaustion forced him to rest.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that Watanabe Hashimoto had provided intelligence and that the higher-ups planned to send specialists undercover into Eastern Ying; Lin Shuguang refused to take part.
• Si Qianjun teased Lin Shuguang about dating and told him that the Hejian Sect was a Hidden Sect connected to the Ancient Corpse Tribe, then asked him to come along on a visit that weekend.
• Two days later, Lin Shuguang met Si Qianjun and drove them toward the Hejian Sect, ignoring Si Qianjun's pleas to slow down.
• Lin Shuguang's off-road vehicle sailed through the air over the mountain road as Si Qianjun shouted at him.

Lin Shuguang and Si Qianjun arrived at the hidden Hejian Sect with Political Department officials for an exchange meeting, discovering that the sect’s mystical atmosphere concealed some rather ordinary tricks. As the meeting began amid tension over the sect’s hostility toward outsiders, Shen Hongxue heard that visitors had been admitted and continued seeking information about the Ancient Corpse Tribe.

• Lin Shuguang and Si Qianjun reached the inn ahead of the Political Department delegation, presented the secret order, and entered the Hejian Sect’s hidden grounds with the officials.
• Lin Shuguang spotted dry-ice fog machines, and Si Qianjun realized that the sect’s supposed immortal mist was being produced artificially.
• Elder He rebuked the visitors and later scolded Lin Shuguang for looking around, but Elder Cheng’s group removed him after the officials feared Lin Shuguang might react.
• A Hejian Sect elder apologized for Elder He’s hostility, explaining that he had been hurt by outsiders years earlier.
• Shen Hongxue heard that outsiders had entered the sect and thought about Lin Shuguang’s potential role in stopping the Ancient Corpse Tribe’s revival, then went to the Study Pavilion to research.

Lin Shuguang reunited with Shen Hongxue at the Hejian Sect and returned to talks about the Ancient Corpse Tribe, where he sensed a savage presence. An explosion sent the sect elders rushing to the rear mountain, where a chained coffin began violently resisting its restraints.

• Shen Hongxue helped Lin Shuguang evade the Study Pavilion guards and watched him return to the Main Hall.
• Si Qianjun teased Lin Shuguang about returning with a girl's scent as discussions continued about the Ancient Corpse Tribe and a nationwide screening.
• Lin Shuguang sensed a savage presence through a strange magnetic field, then an explosion shook the area and the Hejian Sect elders rushed out.
• Shen Hongxue warned Lin Shuguang and the others to stay in the hall before hurrying to the rear mountain, but Lin Shuguang and Si Qianjun followed.
• The Sect Master, elders, and disciples strengthened an Eight Trigrams Formation around a chained, talisman-covered coffin as it thrashed violently.