Recaps

Lin Shuguang defeated the evolved Two-winged Fierce Beast in Alternate Dimension 09181 and returned to Huai City, where he discussed the continent’s changing situation with Si Qianjun. On his way to the Jin Family’s cultivation site, he attacked a Godly Beast Corporation messenger who tried to summon him by force.

• Lin Shuguang emerged from Alternate Dimension 09181 carrying the Two-winged Fierce Beast’s corpse and told Commander Xu that the area was safe.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun that the incident had gone smoothly, then asked about the state of the continent and the effects of the World Anomaly.
• Si Qianjun said humanity could benefit from the World Anomaly, and Lin Shuguang asked what would happen if people like them had to hold up the sky.
• Lin Shuguang collected cultivation supplies and headed toward the Jin Family’s prime cultivation site with Bai Heng.
• A burly man from Godly Beast Corporation blocked their car and demanded that Lin Shuguang meet his boss, so Lin Shuguang struck him with Mental Power and ordered Bai Heng to drive.

Lin Shuguang rebuffed the Godly Beast Corporation and considered ways to secure more cultivation resources. Liu Yue came to his villa with an apology gift, a vial of the corporation’s newly developed medicine.

• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang that the Godly Beast Corporation had invested heavily in Huai City and developed medicine that rapidly increased the number of Viscera Refining Realm martial artists.
• At a meeting, Liu Yue told the Godly Beast Corporation executives that Lin Shuguang was likely a Profound Connection Realm Martial King and warned them not to provoke him.
• After receiving intelligence about the Qin Family’s rising strength, Liu Yue burned the note and reflected on Lin Shuguang’s mystery.
• Lin Shuguang considered using his controlled subjects to secure energy veins in the Demon Domain as his cultivation needs grew.
• Liu Yue visited Lin Shuguang’s villa and offered him a vial of scarlet medicine as an apology for her subordinates’ offense.

Lin Shuguang dismissed the Godly Beast Corporation’s medicine, arranged for Lin Xiaoxi to study archery with Liu Bai, and learned that the Qin Family was seeking him. He left Liu Xiaoxi with her new teacher and headed to meet Qin De, who was waiting at the Jin Family’s residence.

• Lin Shuguang refined the medicine Liu Yue had given him, gained a few attribute points, and judged it too weak to matter much to him.
• After Wang Bo’s death was reported, the Venerable One ordered Xue Wuya to investigate, and Xue Wuya left the hall in a cloud of blood.
• Lin Shuguang brought Lin Xiaoxi to Liu Bai, and she accepted the old man as her archery teacher after seeing his skill.
• Lin Shuguang received Master Jin’s message that the Qin Family wanted to see him and left Lin Xiaoxi with Liu Bai.
• At the Jin Family’s residence, Qin De waited impatiently for Lin Shuguang, while Master Jin tried to learn why he had come.

Lin Shuguang met Qin De, a young master from a collateral branch of the Qin Family, and agreed to help clear Ferocious Beasts from a treasure site in exchange for two hundred million or collateral. He left Master Jin uneasy about the danger of dealing with the Qin Family, but Lin Shuguang said he had his own arrangements.

• Steward Zhou brought Lin Shuguang to meet Qin De at the Jin Family residence.
• Qin De's steward threatened Lin Shuguang with the Qin Family's influence, and Lin Shuguang shattered the steward's knees with a surge of force.
• Qin De asked Lin Shuguang to deal with the Ferocious Beasts at a treasure site and offered twenty million.
• Lin Shuguang demanded two hundred million, and Qin De agreed to provide the sum or treasure as collateral.
• Lin Shuguang accepted the job, and he told Master Jin he had his own arrangements.

Qin De led Lin Shuguang and the Qin Family guards through the Sea of Fire Forest toward a hidden treasure site, where Blood Wolves attacked and Lin Shuguang helped drive them off. Later, Lin Shuguang waited until the guards had nearly defeated a Rock Giant, then landed the killing blow and claimed its blood energy.

• Qin De explained that Blood Wolves threatened the group, and Lin Shuguang warned that they were approaching.
• More than a dozen Blood Wolves ambushed the group, and Lin Shuguang fought them off alongside the Qin Family guards, who suffered several losses.
• Qin De told Elder Meng that he intended to claim the treasure site and that its treasures would let him take everything Qin Taihang once had.
• A Rock Giant emerged in a valley, and Qin De's guards trapped it with Explosive Beads and steel cables while Lin Shuguang watched.
• Lin Shuguang struck the nearly defeated Rock Giant with his saber, killed it, and seized 66,000 cal of blood energy, then urged the group to keep moving.

Lin Shuguang followed Qin De’s group through the valley, using each beast encounter to build his strength while searching for the treasure ground’s entrance. Once he found it, he killed the Black Robe Elder and Qin De, then turned on the remaining Qin Family guards.

• Lin Shuguang killed a rock giant with a single saber strike after the Qin Family guards hesitated, then demanded more money from Qin De for the extended journey.
• Qin De led the group in circles for over an hour, hoping to exhaust Lin Shuguang, while Lin Shuguang grew stronger by killing ferocious beasts and mapped the terrain with his perception.
• Lin Shuguang discovered the treasure ground’s entrance, and the Black Robe Elder recognized his strength just before Lin Shuguang killed him.
• Lin Shuguang revealed that he had reached the Martial King realm in the Profound Connection Realm and killed Qin De despite his threat of Qin Family retaliation.
• Lin Shuguang faced the trembling Qin Family guards and declared that they should do fewer evil deeds in their next lives.

Lin Shuguang entered an abandoned Ancient City, accepted the Sacred Tower’s hell-difficulty trial, and fought his way through a horde of ferocious beasts. After revealing a looming calamity and calling him the Divine Son, the white-bearded old man began to bestow Lin Shuguang’s reward.

• Lin Shuguang followed a strange force to a Crystal Tower, where a white-bearded old man appeared and offered him a trial.
• Lin Shuguang chose hell difficulty and entered the Sacred Mountain, where he had to behead one thousand ferocious beasts within three hours or remain trapped there forever.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the horde with his Slaughter Blade and Demon God Armor, leaving piles of corpses behind him.
• In the Demon Capital, Zhao Xifeng brought Lu You to an Abandoned Factory, where Cao Chao arranged for Lu You to work in the Second Department and Zhao Xifeng promised to report his background to the higher-ups.
• The white-bearded old man returned in War Armor, spoke of the Heart of Slaughter, the approaching Demon God, and the Divine Son, then began to bestow Lin Shuguang’s reward.

Lin Shuguang broke through to the middle tier of the Profound Connection Realm, then disguised himself to reenter the Sacred Tower and claim another reward. After fusing an incomplete Heart of Slaughter, he emerged in black armor with enhanced power.

• Lin Shuguang reached the Profound Connection Realm's Fourth Heaven with the energy reward, while Steel explained that he had given it to him to draw the Divine Son's attention.
• Lin Shuguang returned to the Sacred Tower, but the Robe-Clad Old Man recognized him and teleported him away.
• Lin Shuguang used a human-skin mask to enter the tower again and accepted its trial without speaking.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the trial, defeated its challenge, and obtained an incomplete Heart of Slaughter crystal.
• Lin Shuguang recharged the crystal's analysis and fused it, emerging in black armor with enhanced power.

Lin Shuguang learned that Gang Yan and the Steel Alliance were preparing to avenge their past humiliation, threatening the Elemental Ore mine’s shipments. After arranging for Si Qianjun and the Special Management Bureau to warn the alliance, Lin Shuguang sought a way to strengthen his influence by collecting mental power cultivation methods to potentially upgrade the Soul Refining Technique.

• Cao Chao warned Lin Shuguang that Gang Yan had emerged from seclusion much stronger and was rallying the Steel Alliance against him.
• Lin Shuguang told Huang Qisheng to send any Steel Alliance trouble his way after Huang worried about the mine’s waterborne ore shipments.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City and asked Si Qianjun how much control the Steel Alliance had over coastal transport.
• Si Qianjun offered to have the Special Management Bureau warn the Steel Alliance, and Lin Shuguang accepted his support.
• Lin Shuguang considered building influence through Blood Spirit Clones and asked the archives for the bureau’s mental power cultivation methods so he could try to upgrade the Soul Refining Technique.

Lin Shuguang met his childhood friend Xu Jie, who recounted the deadly school mission that had left him shaken. An emergency sent Lin to the Huizhou border, where he arrived to confront a powerful creature that had already overwhelmed several fighters.

• Lin Shuguang discovered that the Special Management Bureau had only one mental cultivation method, then arranged to meet Xu Jie, who had returned from school.
• Xu Jie told Lin Shuguang that a rescue mission had ended in disaster after a child turned out to be a demonic cultivator, killing several of Xu Jie's teammates.
• Lin Shuguang comforted Xu Jie with a pastry and told him, "No backing down, just fight," prompting Xu Jie to recall hearing the saying from a Hundred Schools League champion.
• Bai Heng summoned Lin Shuguang to respond to an emergency at the Huizhou border, where a suspected Profound Connection Realm creature was causing casualties.
• Lin Shuguang flew to the border and learned that three Viscera Refining Realm Great Grandmasters had fallen and Martial King Luo could not defeat the creature, which appeared to possess an exotic treasure.

Lin Shuguang charged into the ruined residential compound and wounded a powerful lizard beast while pursuing the Exotic Treasure it possessed. As the beast fled beyond the compound, a late-arriving expert found Huang Xiang and the others with no target left to fight.

• Lin Shuguang ignored warnings and entered the combat zone, while Sect Master Huang Xiang followed after learning he was from the Huai City Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang discovered the target was a fast, poisonous lizard beast, which attacked him after deflecting the sword-wielding middle-aged martial artist's strike.
• Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and severed one of the lizard beast's arms with a powerful slash.
• The wounded lizard beast fled into the ruins, and Lin Shuguang pursued it, blasting apart the surrounding ground as Huang Xiang and the others watched in shock.
• Lin Shuguang continued chasing the beast out of the residential compound, and three minutes later an expert arrived and asked where it had gone.

Lin Shuguang killed the Lizard Beast and kept the jade plaque it had carried, then confronted the Blood-red Demonic Saber when it tried to take the relic. The saber showed him a continent being transformed by Karma Power and offered to teach him a Core Realm technique in exchange for helping it.

• Lin Shuguang beheaded the Lizard Beast, and Martial King Luo and the Military Department personnel praised him while Sect Master Huang left alone.
• The senior Military Department official refused to claim the Lizard Beast's Exotic Treasure, and the chief of staff worried about the cost of rebuilding the ruins.
• Lin Shuguang examined the jade plaque in Huai City, but the Blood-red Demonic Saber appeared and tried to seize it.
• Lin Shuguang caught the saber and demanded answers, so it pulled his Divine Soul into a star-filled sky and showed him a continent covered in Karma Power.
• The Blood-red Demonic Saber warned that Karma Power would turn everyone on the planet into servants and seeds of faith for powerful beings.
• Lin Shuguang questioned the saber about its motives, and it offered to teach him a Core Realm technique if he did something for it.

Lin Shuguang rejected the Blood-colored Demonic Saber’s demand to possess someone again, then focused on cultivation and building his own power while investigating Mental Power methods. When the Qin Family confronted the Jin Family, Lin Shuguang led the Seventh Department there in force.

• Lin Shuguang argued with the Blood-colored Demonic Saber about Karma Power and refused to possess someone again, then resolved to learn more about cultivation and the Saber’s secrets.
• Lin Shuguang contacted the Jin Family and Cao Chao to seek Mental Power cultivation methods and continued training after reaching the Fourth Heaven of Profound Connection Realm.
• Huang Qisheng reported that the Steel Alliance had watched the elemental ore shipments but had held back because Military Department personnel escorted them and its leader had been summoned away.
• Steward Zhou told Lin Shuguang that the Qin Family had come to the Jin Family demanding someone and that Master Jin was struggling to hold them off.
• Lin Shuguang assembled the Seventh Department and brought its members to the Jin Family, where he entered the hall amid curses and a crowd of black-clad bodyguards.

Lin Shuguang confronted and arrested Qin Tianhe and his guards after they came to Huai City demanding Qin De. He told Si Qianjun he would notify the Qin Family himself and was ready to fight them.

• Lin Shuguang entered Master Jin's hall and rejected Qin Tianhe's demand to hand over Qin De.
• Lin Shuguang struck Qin Tianhe, subdued him and the Qin Family guards, and ordered the Seventh Department to arrest them.
• Lin Shuguang reassured Master Jin that the Qin Family posed little threat apart from its patriarch, then returned to the Special Management Bureau.
• Si Qianjun warned Lin Shuguang that the powerful Qin Family would retaliate, but Lin Shuguang said he would contact them himself and fight if necessary.

Lin Shuguang’s arrest of Qin Family members provoked outrage in Huai City and within the Qin Family, while the Steel Alliance’s Gang Yan vowed to kill him personally. After learning Lin Shuguang was a Profound Connection Realm Martial King, the Qin Family sent a Clan Elder and a force toward Huai City, determined not to let the matter go.

• Gang Yan heard that Lin Shuguang had arrested Qin Family members and insisted that he alone would kill Lin Shuguang.
• Officials in the Huai City Special Management Bureau condemned Lin Shuguang’s actions, while Zhou Mojun investigated his strength and secretly sought the opportunity he believed Lin Shuguang possessed.
• The Qin Family’s senior members reacted angrily to the arrests, but the Qin Family Patriarch learned Qin Tianhe and his subordinates were unreachable.
• The Huizhou Special Management Bureau’s Governor told the Qin Family that Lin Shuguang was a Profound Connection Realm Martial King, alarming the family’s senior members.
• The Qin Family sent a force led by a Clan Elder toward Huai City, determined to confront Lin Shuguang.

The Qin Family arrived in Huai City to demand the release of its detained members, but Lin Shuguang and Si Qianjun stood against them. After Lin Shuguang nearly forced Qin Tianwen to his knees, he challenged the Qin Family to leave or fight.

• Si Qianjun told Director Fang that, as a Profound Connection Realm expert, he had no reason to fear the Qin Family.
• Director Fang warned Lin Shuguang that the Qin Family was sending a Clan Elder to Huai City after the Governor and the Special Management Bureau backed him.
• The Qin Family convoy arrived at the Special Management Bureau, where Si Qianjun demanded to know why they had come.
• Qin Tianwen demanded the release of the Qin Family members in custody, and Si Qianjun asked him for evidence of wrongdoing.
• Lin Shuguang arrived and provoked Qin Tianwen, then used his Profound Connection Realm power to nearly force him to his knees.
• The Clan Elder shielded Qin Tianwen, and Lin Shuguang told the Qin Family to leave or fight.

Lin Shuguang confronted the Qin Family over the release of Qin Tianhe and demanded compensation before a Steel Alliance envoy arrived with a challenge from Gang Yan. The chapter ended as the envoy’s sword-intent invitation shot toward Lin Shuguang.

• Si Qianjun backed Lin Shuguang against Qin Tianwen, and a Qin Family elder presented a headquarters transfer order for Qin Tianhe and the others.
• Lin Shuguang agreed to let the Qin Family take them but demanded one hundred million in damages, then handed Qin Tianwen Bai Heng’s prepared compensation bill.
• A black-robed Steel Alliance envoy appeared and invited Lin Shuguang to attend the alliance’s sixtieth-anniversary banquet on Gang Yan’s orders.
• The envoy hurled the invitation, infused with Gang Yan’s Sword Intent, at Lin Shuguang, who simply raised his eyes.

Lin Shuguang shattered Gang Yan’s Sword Intent and forced the Qin Family to pay for Qin Tianhe’s release. The Qin Family left after inviting him to the Steel Alliance banquet at the end of the month, where Qin Tianwen hoped Gang Yan would kill him.

• Lin Shuguang destroyed the giant sword formed from Gang Yan’s Sword Intent with one saber slash and left Black Robe kneeling and badly wounded.
• Si Qianjun and the Special Management Bureau staff realized how powerful Lin Shuguang was, while the Qin Family’s group grew fearful.
• Lin Shuguang demanded payment from the Qin Family, and the Clan Elder ordered Qin Tianwen to pay.
• The Qin Family’s Clan Elder invited Lin Shuguang to the Steel Alliance banquet at the end of the month and led his people away with Qin Tianhe.
• Qin Tianwen complained that they had let Lin Shuguang go, then privately hoped Gang Yan would kill him at the banquet.

Lin Shuguang accepted the Steel Alliance's invitation despite Si Qianjun's concerns, then received intelligence on the Qin Family and Steel Alliance from Director Fang. After seeing Xu Jie off, he learned that Yang Guang was selling his family's Mental Power Spells at Medicine God Valley, giving Lin a possible lead in his search for them.

• The Steel Alliance envoy disappeared on his way back after being thrown out of the Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun he would attend the Steel Alliance's banquet and fight Gang Yan if necessary.
• Bai Heng delivered Director Fang's top-secret intelligence report on the Qin Family and Steel Alliance, and Lin confirmed he would accept the invitation.
• Lin Shuguang met Xu Jie before Xu left Huai City by train, and the two friends said their farewells.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that Yang Guang was heading to Medicine God Valley to sell his family's legacy, including at least a dozen Mental Power Spells.

Lin Shuguang traveled to Medicine God Valley under the alias Wang Ye and met Lu Youwei and Xu Qianxue on the bus. When he sensed a flame demonic flower nearby, he sent out his divine soul, killed a man who tried to attack it, and drew the fury of a martial artist from Vertical Martial Dao.

• Lin Shuguang obtained leave from Si Qianjun and traveled to Central Province, then boarded a bus to Medicine God Valley.
• On the bus, Lin Shuguang introduced himself as Wang Ye and chatted with Lu Youwei, while her companion Xu Qianxue remained aloof.
• After an explosion and beast roars sounded nearby, Lin Shuguang sent his divine soul toward the mountains and found a flame demonic flower that stirred his martial dao will.
• A hidden man tried to shatter Lin Shuguang's divine soul with sonic waves, but Lin Shuguang formed a giant from his soul and killed him as he reached for the flower.
• The martial artist battling a ferocious beast saw Lin Shuguang through Heavenly Eye, identified him as the killer of someone from Vertical Martial Dao, and threatened him.

Lin Shuguang seized and refined the demon flower, defeating Chang Hui and the Vertical Martial Dao group with his divine soul. The flower increased his mental power by 10,000 as black flames engulfed the area.

• Chang Hui warned his companions that Lin Shuguang’s divine soul had killed Fourth, then persuaded them to lend him strength through the Four Precepts Formation.
• Lin Shuguang appeased the two Martial Dao Wills, learned how to harvest the demon flower, and uprooted it as Chang Hui attacked.
• Lin Shuguang unleashed a storm of demonic blades that shattered Chang Hui’s sword attack, broke his ribs, and injured the companions supporting him.
• Lin Shuguang swallowed and refined the demon flower, causing black flames to engulf everything within a hundred-meter radius.
• Lin Shuguang gained 10,000 mental power while the flames drowned out the surrounding screams.

After his Mental Power surged, Lin Shuguang followed a group of Martial Artists toward Medicine God Valley and forced them to surrender their treasure medicines. He reached the exchange gathering without a Martial Artist Certificate, but Xu Qianxue vouched for him, and he slipped inside before leaving Lu Youwei behind again.

• Lin Shuguang followed Song He and his companions toward Medicine God Valley, then used thunder and ice powers to overpower them and demand their valuables.
• Song He surrendered more than a dozen stalks of Treasure Medicine and told Lin Shuguang about Medicine God Valley.
• Two Medicine God Valley disciples stopped Lin Shuguang because he lacked a Martial Artist Certificate.
• Lu Youwei and Xu Qianxue arrived, and Xu Qianxue confirmed Lin Shuguang was her friend so the disciples let him enter.
• Lin Shuguang thanked Xu Qianxue and left, then Lu Youwei returned with drinks and found he had disappeared.

Lin Shuguang searched for Yang Guang at the Medicine God Valley exchange gathering, but found him dead and learned that a mysterious woman might be involved. Ma Shen gave Lin Shuguang a dagger associated with ill omen, which carried an intense surge of resentment.

• Lin Shuguang asked Cao Chao for information about Yang Guang and learned that Yang Guang was connected to Ma Shen at stall 777.
• Lin Shuguang broke a stallholder’s supposedly indestructible mirror, then forced him to reveal where Yang Guang could be found.
• Lin Shuguang reached Yang Guang’s residence and discovered that Yang Guang had been killed.
• Ma Shen told Lin Shuguang that Yang Guang had warned him, “If I die, it must mean she’s here,” and recounted how they had met three months earlier.
• Lin Shuguang asked Cao Chao to investigate Yang Guang’s recent contacts, then took a dagger Ma Shen said Yang Guang had called a blade of ill omen.

Lin Shuguang went to Yang Guang’s lodgings seeking the Yang Family’s mental techniques, but encountered a mysterious woman called Ill Omen who tried to make him acknowledge her as her master. With the help of the two strands of martial dao will, Lin Shuguang defeated her divine soul and wondered whether they had slain a god.

• Lin Shuguang learned from Ma Shen that Yang Guang had died and went to search Yang Guang’s lodgings for cultivation methods.
• A strange energy appeared in the room, and a red-haired woman named Ill Omen entered with the Blade of Ill Omen daggers surrounding her.
• Ill Omen offered to remove Lin Shuguang’s karma if he acknowledged her as his master, but Lin Shuguang attacked instead.
• Lin Shuguang overwhelmed Ill Omen with his saber and mental power, forcing her to abandon her body and flee as a divine soul.
• The two strands of martial dao will helped Lin Shuguang restrain and kill Ill Omen’s divine soul, leaving him to ask whether they had slain a god.

Lin Shuguang devoured part of [Unknown]'s Divine Soul, learned more than twenty Mental Power Spells, and upgraded Soul Refining Technique to create a powerful clone named Lin Yi. As Lin Shuguang considered using clones to gather resources, Medicine God Valley martial artists arrived and invited him to their sect for a talk.

• [Unknown] self-destructed her Divine Soul, but Lin Shuguang tore off and devoured part of it before she vanished.
• Lin Shuguang absorbed [Unknown]'s fragmented memories, learned more than twenty Mental Power Spells, and increased his Mental Power by five hundred points.
• Lin Shuguang paid 135 million to upgrade Soul Refining Technique, unlocking an external incarnation.
• Lin Shuguang created a powerful clone, named him Lin Yi, tested his obedience, and sent him to search for resources.
• Dozens of Medicine God Valley martial artists arrived at Yang Guang's residence, and their leader invited Lin Shuguang to their sect for a talk.