Recaps

Lin Shuguang studied a body-tempering technique, cultivated his saber skills, and used academy resources to strengthen himself before heading to the monthly assessment. As the students assembled, he learned the top three would receive mission earnings and pills, while Luo Tianxiang asked Gu Yingxiong whether he could defeat Lin Shuguang.

• Lin Shuguang returned home with rewards from the Demonic Cultivator mission and examined a parchment technique that he concluded was for tempering the body.
• Lin Shuguang practiced his saber techniques, consumed academy-provided Ferocious Beast meat and Treasure Medicines, and spent two million to advance to Bone Tempering Twelve Resonances.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that the monthly assessment would begin soon and that its top three would receive shares of mission earnings and pill rewards.
• At the assembly point, Hu Shaoqing tried to make peace with Lin Shuguang, but Lin ignored him and Meng Shenzhou sent him away.
• Luo Tianxiang asked Gu Yingxiong whether he was confident against Lin Shuguang, and Gu Yingxiong said he was unsure.

Wei Rong demanded revenge on Lin Shuguang and Qi Lin, but the Wei Family Patriarch restrained her after warning her that the family could not afford more trouble. At Demon Martial, Yan Kai announced a three-hour assessment against senior students, and Lin Shuguang prepared to meet it with a slash.

• At Lin's Shop, Mother Lin worried about Shuguang during the storm, and Lin Haiyang reassured her that he was doing well at Demon Martial.
• Wei Rong urged the Wei Family Patriarch, Wei Hai, to kill Lin Shuguang and Qi Lin, but Wei Hai slapped her and ordered her to stay home for a month.
• Yan Kai announced that the new students would compete against students from the previous intake, earning score tokens by lasting ten minutes against them.
• Meng Shenzhou eagerly anticipated the assessment while Chu Xiongtian worried about the senior students' strength.
• When Meng Shenzhou asked what he thought, Lin Shuguang answered, "One word: slash!"

Lin Shuguang translated and learned the Spirit Summoning art, then gathered the required offerings and summoned a Blood Spirit Clone. At Demon Martial, Lei Sen dismissed talk of Lin Shuguang and said he only cared about fighting Gu Yingxiong.

• Lin Shuguang found a book on the Lance Language, translated the parchment, and spent money to learn and raise Spirit Summoning to LV5.
• Lin Shuguang asked Cao Chao to find the ritual offerings, and Cao Chao arranged a black-market purchase for three hundred thousand.
• Lin Shuguang performed the Spirit Summoning ritual in an abandoned factory and summoned a scythe-bearing Blood Spirit Clone that knelt before him.
• Lei Sen defeated Xiao Zhuo in sparring, then said Lin Shuguang did not interest him and that Gu Yingxiong was the only person he wanted to face.

Demon Martial’s senior students discussed Lin Shuguang’s reputation before the assessment began. Lin Shuguang entered the barren mountains alone and swiftly defeated Wang Zheyong, taking his score tokens.

• Lei Sen dismissed the seniors’ concerns about Lin Shuguang and said he would not hold back if they met during the assessment.
• Yan Kai explained the assessment rules and started the three-hour test in the barren mountains.
• Meng Shenzhou tried to convince Chu Xiongtian to team up and target weaker seniors, but Lin Shuguang chose to go alone.
• Wang Zheyong challenged Lin Shuguang at position eight and offered three points if Lin lasted ten minutes against him.
• Lin Shuguang struck Wang Zheyong down, took his entire pack of score tokens, and revealed his name when Wang asked who he was.

Lin Shuguang continued through the stations, overpowering Zhang Xiang and taking Liu Zhen’s score tokens without a fight. Meanwhile, Yan Kai and Han Sheng discussed Wei Rong’s confinement at the Wei Family estate, and Yan Kai wondered whether she would come that day.

• Lin Shuguang defeated Zhang Xiang with a single saber strike and took his five score tokens, while a nearby freshman watched in shock.
• Wang Zheyong arrived and told Zhang Xiang that Lin Shuguang had taken his tokens too; the two recognized Lin Shuguang and left together to watch the other seniors’ reactions.
• At station eleven, Liu Zhen recognized Lin Shuguang and surrendered his bundle of score tokens before Lin could strike.
• Wang Zheyong and Zhang Xiang mocked Liu Zhen for yielding, then pounced on him as Lin Shuguang headed for the next station.
• At a pavilion, Han Sheng told Yan Kai that Wei Rong was confined at the Wei Family estate and had to visit the ancestral shrine every day.
• Yan Kai asked Han Sheng whether Wei Rong would come that day.

Lin Shuguang defeated Lei Sen in the barren mountains and took his score tokens, then encountered a group of cloaked assassins amid a sudden explosion of flames. The chapter ended as Lin Shuguang leaped from the blast and brought his saber down on the attackers.

• Lei Sen defeated the freshmen who came for his ten-point score token until Lin Shuguang arrived.
• Lin Shuguang broke through Lei Sen’s earthen spikes and dragon, then knocked him down and took his score tokens.
• Lei Sen recognized Lin Shuguang and demanded a proper fight, but Lin Shuguang walked away.
• An enormous burst of flame erupted near Lin Shuguang, and more than a dozen cloaked assassins attacked him.
• Lin Shuguang seized one assassin and dragged him into the flames, then leaped out of the dust and slashed at the attackers.

Lin Shuguang and the Demon Martial students faced a deadly attack by cloaked assassins, while Wei Rong revealed her betrayal and fought Qi Lin and Yan Kai. Wei Rong reached Lin Shuguang in the mountain, where their battle ended in a fierce stalemate.

• Lin Shuguang slaughtered the assassins attacking him, and Lei Sen joined the fight as the students rushed to investigate the explosions.
• Chu Xiongtian realized outsiders had infiltrated the mountain and found corpses from both the assassins and Demon Martial staff.
• Yan Kai and Qi Lin confronted Wei Rong, who summoned Mr. Ghost before escaping into the mountain during the ensuing battle.
• Wei Rong ignored the students being captured by the assassins and continued deeper into the mountain, exposing her betrayal.
• Lin Shuguang defeated the assassins around him and warned Lei Sen that more were nearby.
• Wei Rong attacked Lin Shuguang, and their powerful clash sent Lei Sen flying while neither fighter gained the advantage.

Before the Desolate Mountain assessment, Qi Lin gave Lin Shuguang a Sword Talisman and warned him that Wei Rong might be targeting him. In the mountain, Wei Rong attacked Lin Shuguang, drove Lei Sen aside, and continued her assault after Lin Shuguang struck back.

• Qi Lin gave Lin Shuguang a talisman that could unleash his full-strength strike and warned him to protect himself during the assessment because suspicious newcomers had appeared in the Demon Capital.
• Lin Shuguang asked whether Wei Rong represented the Wei Family, and Qi Lin explained that Wei Hai held power and Si Qianjun was keeping the family in line in Huai City.
• In Desolate Mountain, Wei Rong recognized Lin Shuguang's rapid growth and resolved to kill him despite the mysterious person who needed him alive.
• Lei Sen stood between Wei Rong and Lin Shuguang, but Wei Rong blasted him away and charged at Lin Shuguang through spreading frost.
• Lin Shuguang summoned the Slaughter Blade and unleashed Draw and Slash, but Wei Rong's sword strike hurled him into the mountain forest as Lei Sen watched in shock.

Lin Shuguang used Qi Lin’s Sword Talisman to grievously wound Wei Rong and revealed that the Divine Envoy had fled from him before. Wei Rong died after driving Lin Shuguang’s saber through her heart, and Lin Shuguang collapsed as Meng Shenzhou rushed to catch him.

• Wei Rong attacked Lin Shuguang, but he unleashed Qi Lin’s Sword Talisman and blasted her into a crater.
• Lin Shuguang pressed his attack while Wei Rong accused him of setting a trap and revealed her ties to the Divine Temple.
• Lin Shuguang challenged the Divine Envoy inside Wei Rong to appear, but the Divine Envoy did not respond.
• Meng Shenzhou, Gu Yingxiong, Luo Tianxiang, and others arrived as Wei Rong seized Lin Shuguang’s saber and stabbed herself through the heart.
• Wei Rong turned into an ice sculpture and exploded into fragments, and Lin Shuguang collapsed when Yan Kai arrived.

After Lin Shuguang recovered from the clash with Wei Rong, Qi Lin explained that the Divine Temple had abducted students across multiple regions and that a secret bureau organization would handle the case. Lin Shuguang received access to the Secret Pavilion and planned to find more ways to earn money and improve his cultivation.

• The Principal and school administrators visited Lin Shuguang, while Meng Shenzhou complained about Wei Rong and the administrators before leaving.
• Qi Lin told Lin Shuguang that the Divine Temple had abducted students in many regions and that the Damo Institute would take over the investigation.
• Qi Lin explained that the Damo Institute required exceptional bone-tempering strength, and Lin Shuguang learned his clearance had risen after his actions against Wei Rong.
• Lin Shuguang asked for a reward, and Qi Lin gave him a Command Token granting three days in Secret Pavilion Zone Two.
• Lin Shuguang spent six hundred thousand to raise his cultivation to bone tempering thirteen resonances, then decided to seek private jobs and called Cao Chao.

Lin Shuguang spent millions learning and fusing more than sixty Martial Artist Cultivation Methods, raising his breathing technique’s bone-tempering ceiling to sixty-eight resonances. He then learned that the Wei Family had arrived at Demon Martial and came face-to-face with its patriarch, Wei Hai.

• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that Boss Huang had disappeared after his business partners left him owing three hundred million, and that his wife and child had been killed.
• Lin Shuguang entered the Secret Pavilion’s Cultivation Method Section and learned and fused more than sixty Martial Artist Cultivation Methods, spending over seven million.
• Lin Shuguang’s Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Breathing Technique reached sixty-nine fusions, raising its bone-tempering ceiling from thirty to sixty-eight resonances.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that members of the Wei Family had come to Demon Martial, so Lin Shuguang went to see them.
• Wei Hai arrived with Wei Xiangyi and three younger family members carrying Wei Rong’s belongings, and he turned toward Lin Shuguang when students identified him.

Lin Shuguang faced Wei Hai and the Wei Family at Demon Martial, then dismissed Meng Shenzhou’s suggestion to attack them, believing the family was waiting for Wei Xinlong to challenge him. After returning home to cultivate, Lin Shuguang received an unexpected late-night call from Huang Qisheng, who asked him for a favor.

• Meng Shenzhou confronted the Wei Family over their crimes, while Wei Hai told Lin Shuguang he did not blame him for killing Wei Rong and promised the family would stay away from the Demon Capital.
• Wei Hai warned Lin Shuguang that Wei Xinlong would eventually come to challenge him, and Lin Shuguang said he would be waiting.
• Meng Shenzhou demanded compensation from Wei Hai and later suggested arranging an attack on the Wei Family, but Lin Shuguang dismissed the idea and said they would not dare act against him.
• Lin Shuguang returned to his residence, resumed cultivating, and received a call from Huang Qisheng asking for his help.

Lin Shuguang rescued Huang Qisheng from assassins and accepted him as a loyal subordinate. He used the Special Management Bureau to arrest Su Rong, then considered the Su Family’s fate.

• Huang Qisheng knelt before Lin Shuguang and offered lifelong service in return for help.
• Lin Shuguang summoned a blood-robed figure who killed the assassins, leaving their leader alive for Huang Qisheng to question.
• Huang Qisheng learned that Su Rong was behind the attack and killed the assassin leader after questioning him about his family’s deaths.
• With Ma Wei’s approval, Cao Chao led the Special Management Bureau in raiding Su Rong’s home and arresting him.
• Lin Shuguang introduced Huang Qisheng to Cao Chao as one of his own and said he kept gratitude and grudges clear.

After the authorities stopped hunting Huang Qisheng, Lin Shuguang sent him to collect debts from the families that had conspired against him, then focused on cultivation and found that his copied methods had reached their limits. He agreed to train Hu Shaoqing for payment upfront, but left him with the advice to grasp his saber technique’s true meaning on his own.

• Lin Shuguang gave Huang Qisheng a scythe and left him to deal with the families that had helped set him up.
• Lin Shuguang fused the Martial Artist Cultivation Methods in Zone Two, raising his Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Breathing Technique to seventy-one Bone Tempering resonances, and suspected he needed access to Zone Three methods to progress further.
• Hu Shaoqing asked Lin Shuguang to train him, and Lin agreed after Hu offered fifty thousand upfront.
• Lin Shuguang watched Hu Shaoqing perform his saber technique, demonstrated its final move, and explained that Hu lacked control and understanding of its meaning.
• Lin Shuguang advised Hu Shaoqing to grasp the saber technique’s true meaning, leaving Hu unsure whether he had gotten his money’s worth.

Lin Shuguang advanced his cultivation and confronted Mu Qiuyi, who asked him to look after her brother Hu Shaoqing. He agreed after she offered him money, but the chapter ended when Ma Wei called with urgent news.

• Lin Shuguang spent two and a half million to advance to fifteen rings of Bone Tempering.
• Mu Qiuyi attacked Lin Shuguang, and he countered with a saber slash before they agreed they were even.
• Mu Qiuyi explained that she was Hu Shaoqing’s older sister and asked Lin Shuguang to guide and protect him, but he refused.
• Mu Qiuyi offered payment, and Lin Shuguang agreed to help after she transferred him eight hundred thousand.
• Ma Wei called Lin Shuguang and said something terrible had happened.

Lin Shuguang rushed to Kunshan with Han Yi and Cao Chao to rescue Professor Ding, who had been abducted by the Demonic Cultivators. After Black Robe questioned Professor Ding about Fulong Cave and heard him call for the Sacred Insect, Lin Shuguang defeated the assassins guarding the route and reached an apparently empty courtyard.

• Han Yi drove Lin Shuguang and Cao Chao toward Huchong Road after the bureau reported a suspected attack on Professor Ding's convoy, and Cao Chao shared Professor Ding's warnings about gods and a possible resurgence.
• Cao Chao learned that the Demonic Cultivators had abducted Professor Ding and were near Kunshan, so Han Yi took a shortcut toward the mountain.
• Black Robe questioned Professor Ding about his discoveries in Fulong Cave, but Professor Ding muttered about a divine miracle and resurgence before asking, "Sacred Insect, are you there?"
• Black Robe ordered dozens of cloaked assassins to kill the pursuers approaching the mountain pass.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the assassins with his saber, while Cao Chao and Han Yi witnessed his strength.
• Lin Shuguang, Cao Chao, and Han Yi followed the assassins' route to a secluded courtyard with its gates open, and Lin Shuguang sensed that someone was still there.

Lin Shuguang and the Third Department agents entered an underground palace where Zhao Minghui’s First Department team had found Professor Ding in a coffin but feared the black-robed figure on the platform. After realizing Zhao Minghui was baiting them, Lin Shuguang threw Curly Hair toward the platform, where a huge shadow lunged at him.

• Lin Shuguang, Cao Chao, and Han Yi encountered the First Department in the hall and followed them through a hidden passage after a scream sounded.
• The group found an underground palace with dead Demonic Cultivators kneeling beneath a floating black-robed figure, and Zhao Minghui’s team confronting the platform.
• Lin Shuguang confirmed the worshippers were dead and told Cao Chao and Han Yi to look for Professor Ding while they waited to learn more.
• Zhao Minghui told Lin Shuguang that Professor Ding was inside the coffin and challenged the Third Department to bring him down for a share of the credit.
• After Curly Hair insulted the Third Department, Lin Shuguang grabbed him and hurled him toward the platform, where a huge black shadow lunged at him.

Lin Shuguang helped recover Professor Ding from the collapsing underground palace and returned him to the Special Management Bureau, where Bureau Chief Luo Hui credited him with completing the mission. The chapter left Zhao Minghui disgraced and Lin Shuguang curious about the mysterious Damo Institute.

• Lin Shuguang and Zhao Minghui drove back the giant centipede Ferocious Beast as Black Robe transformed, took Professor Ding's coffin, and smashed his way out of the collapsing palace.
• A bald, six-scarred senior battled Black Robe and the centipede, then threw the coffin to Lin Shuguang and ordered him to take it to the bureau.
• Lin Shuguang brought Professor Ding to the Special Management Bureau ahead of Zhao Minghui, who arrived furious that his First Department had received no mission credit.
• Bureau Chief Luo Hui rebuked Zhao Minghui and confirmed that Lin Shuguang would receive credit for recovering Professor Ding, despite another senior's role.
• Ma Wei learned how Zhao Minghui had clashed with Lin Shuguang, and Cao Chao described Lin Shuguang's ruthless use of Curly Hair to test the danger.

Lin Shuguang’s strength continued to grow while Lei Sen left to join the military after confronting him and seeing how far he was behind. Lin Shuguang reunited with Feng San, arranged lodging and dinner for his martial arts students, and heard Feng San ask him to introduce him to a woman.

• Lei Sen received approval to join the military, decided to leave the next day, and told Lin Shuguang he had changed after their fight at Desolate Mountain.
• Lei Sen challenged Lin Shuguang to show his strength, but Lin Shuguang defeated his attack with a saber strike and said he had used only thirty percent of his power.
• Lei Sen left Demon Martial for the Western Frontier while Lin Shuguang’s blade techniques and bone-tempering cultivation continued to improve.
• Feng San met Lin Shuguang outside Demon Martial and revealed that he had recently become a martial artist and brought five students to compete in the Demon Capital.
• Lin Shuguang arranged a hotel and dinner for Feng San and the students, then Feng San joked that he wanted Lin Shuguang to introduce him to a woman.

Lin Shuguang learned that the Blood Desolate Land had been locked down and wondered whether the incident was connected to Fulong Cave, whose secrets might involve the gods awakening. Several days later, he joined a mission against an interprovincial human-smuggling organization and entered its courtyard alone.

• Feng San told Lin Shuguang that soldiers had locked down the Blood Desolate Land, leaving hunting teams struggling.
• Lin Shuguang called Si Qianjun, who confirmed trouble in the Blood Desolate Land similar to the incident at Fulong Cave, but told him to remain at the training camp.
• Lin Shuguang speculated that gods might be awakening and resolved to focus on cultivation until he grew stronger.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that the Third Department would raid an interprovincial Snakehead Organization that trafficked Awakened for experimentation or use as puppets.
• Lin Shuguang entered the courtyard alone while Cao Chao and Han Yi waited by the car, and a thunderous boom shook the street.

Lin Shuguang rescued captives from a Demonic Cultivator hideout and recognized Ye Tianhao among them, but could not get him to speak. After leaving Ye Tianhao food and earning over twenty million from the operation, Lin received a Silver Box Ye Tianhao left at the school gate, and his Martial Dao Will Crystal trembled wildly.

• Cao Chao and Han Yi found Lin Shuguang in the hideout basement, where he handed them the surviving Demonic Cultivator leader and helped free the captives.
• Lin Shuguang recognized Ye Tianhao, took him to a restaurant, and left him a meal when he could not bring himself to eat in front of him.
• Cao Chao brought Lin Shuguang the operation's proceeds, which exceeded twenty million, and Lin asked him to look for more missions.
• Lin Shuguang spent money improving his Martial Dao Will and saber techniques.
• A school security worker told Lin Shuguang that a friend had left him a Silver Box, and the Martial Dao Will Crystal in his sea of consciousness trembled wildly when he received it.

Lin Shuguang activated a mysterious bronze medal and received a surge in cultivation, then learned it was connected to Xianyang Cave and the Heavenly Dao. Meanwhile, Bloodhand’s Demonic Cultivators linked the unknown saber expert to earlier attacks and planned to lure him out with the Divine Temple’s help.

• Lin Shuguang opened Ye Tianhao’s Silver Casket and activated the bronze medal, which transported him to a vision of a white-browed elder naming him the Holy Son of the Heavenly Dao Academy.
• Lin Shuguang returned to his quarters as the medal lost its power, and his Bone Tempering Resonances climbed to thirty-one.
• Lin Shuguang read Ye Tianhao’s letter and learned the medal had come from a powerful Martial Artist associated with Xianyang Cave, but he soon forgot the elder and hall, remembering only the words “Heavenly Dao.”
• Bloodhand reported to the hidden Demonic Cultivator leader that the Special Management Bureau had captured Old Liu and that the saber expert responsible had vanished.
• The leader connected the saber expert to the deaths of Zuo Rongfei and Zuo Haoping and the Fulong Cave incident, then ordered his followers to coordinate with the Divine Temple and prepare to lure the expert out.

After Lin Shuguang trained Hu Shaoqing, Cao Chao summoned him to rescue children abducted by the Divine Temple. Division One hijacked the mission, but Lin Shuguang ordered Cao Chao and Han Yi to continue toward the hideout anyway.

• Meng Shenzhou returned from secluded training, boasted about his cultivation, and lost a spar with Lin Shuguang.
• Hu Shaoqing demonstrated the saber strike Lin Shuguang had taught him and received a passable assessment.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that the Divine Temple had abducted more than a dozen children, and Lin Shuguang left with Cao Chao and Han Yi for the rescue mission.
• Cao Chao learned that Zhao Minghui of Division One had taken over the mission, but Lin Shuguang ordered them to proceed.
• Han Yi drove to the hideout, where Cao Chao spotted Division One's vehicles, and Lin Shuguang told them to get out.

Zhao Minghui attacked the Divine Temple’s hideout at an abandoned villa, believing the assignment would let him get back at Lin Shuguang. After killing Bloodhand, Zhao discovered Yan Hai had been waiting for him, and Yan Hai struck him down as the chapter ended.

• Yan Hai waited at the villa with Bloodhand and a group of kidnapped children, confident Zhao Minghui would come.
• Zhao Minghui broke into the villa with his men, killed Bloodhand, and ordered the surviving assassins killed and the children rescued.
• Zhao revealed he had manipulated the assignment away from Lin Shuguang’s group so he could humiliate Lin.
• Yan Hai emerged from the hall and killed Curly Hair, shocking Zhao and the other attackers.
• Yan Hai attacked Zhao with overwhelming force, and Zhao’s saber strike failed to stop Yan Hai’s punch from hitting his shoulder.

Yan Hai attacked the Special Management Bureau team while searching for the saber-wielding Lin Shuguang, but Lin arrived and overwhelmed him. Lin confronted Zhao Minghui over stealing his mission, then used him to blunt Yan Hai’s attack before launching a devastating saber strike.

• Yan Hai gravely wounded Zhao Minghui and slaughtered the Special Management Bureau members who charged him.
• Zhao Minghui realized Yan Hai was seeking Lin Shuguang, and Yan Hai blamed him for ruining his plan.
• Lin Shuguang burst through the wall and struck Yan Hai, then relentlessly drove him through the villa and injured his arm.
• Lin Shuguang questioned Zhao Minghui about stealing his mission, and Zhao denied wanting to be his enemy.
• Yan Hai attacked again, so Lin held Zhao Minghui in the way of his fist and followed with a powerful saber slash.