Recaps

Lin Shuguang defeated and killed Yan Hai, then helped rescue the children and said Yan Hai had killed Zhao Minghui. Hong Baiqing arrived and ordered Lin Shuguang, Cao Chao, and Han Yi detained over Zhao Minghui’s death.

• Lin Shuguang attacked Yan Hai despite his attempts to bargain and recruit him into the Divine Temple.
• Cao Chao and Han Yi arrived as Lin Shuguang unleashed a powerful saber strike that smashed Yan Hai through the courtyard walls.
• Lin Shuguang found Yan Hai unable to stand, killed him, and gained 1,200 cal of Blood Energy Value.
• Cao Chao led the unconscious children out and reported that Zhao Minghui had already been dead when they arrived.
• Hong Baiqing arrived, ordered Lin Shuguang, Cao Chao, and Han Yi detained, and demanded they explain what had happened.

After Zhao Minghui’s death, Hong Baiqing accused Lin Shuguang and his companions of involvement and tried to take them in, but Lin Shuguang openly challenged him. Lu Hong arrived to protect his people, and the confrontation ended with Lin Shuguang warning Hong Baiqing to watch his tone.

• Hong Baiqing questioned why Lin Shuguang had survived while the others died, and Lin Shuguang insulted him in reply.
• Hong Baiqing attacked with his aura, but Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and matched his spear strike.
• Lu Hong arrived and confronted Hong Baiqing, refusing to hand over Cao Chao, Han Yi, and Lin Shuguang.
• Lu Hong blamed Hong Baiqing’s approval for Zhao Minghui’s presence at the mission site and his death, while Hong Baiqing accused Lin Shuguang of killing him.
• Lin Shuguang slashed at Hong Baiqing and declared that he was not his subordinate, telling him to watch his tone.

Lin Shuguang was cleared of responsibility for Zhao Minghui’s death after the trace report confirmed Yan Hai had killed him, and Lu Hong promised to protect him from Hong Baiqing. Back at his lodgings, Lin Shuguang learned Lu Hong was Meng Shenzhou’s uncle and spoke with his younger sister, Lin Xiaoxi, who made Meng Shenzhou ask for a first-meeting present.

• The trace examiner’s report confirmed that Yan Hai’s fist technique had killed Zhao Minghui, leaving Hong Baiqing unable to defend his accusations against Lin Shuguang.
• Lu Hong praised Lin Shuguang, promised him a reward for completing the mission and killing Yan Hai, and warned that Director Luo could punish Hong Baiqing if he abused his authority again.
• Cao Chao drove Lin Shuguang back and praised him for standing up to Hong Baiqing.
• Meng Shenzhou visited Lin Shuguang and revealed that Lu Hong was his youngest maternal uncle.
• When Lin Xiaoxi called, Meng Shenzhou tried to introduce himself as Lin Shuguang’s good buddy, but she insisted that real friends gave her a first-meeting present.
• Lin Shuguang sent Meng Shenzhou away and reassured Lin Xiaoxi that he would come home soon and bring her something tasty.

Lin Shuguang advanced his cultivation during Demon Martial’s Training Camp as the bureau and students reacted to his growing reputation. After Huang Qisheng reported that Yisheng Business had cheated and beaten his workers, Lin went there and attacked its staff, leaving the business in stunned silence.

• Zhao Minghui’s death and Lin Shuguang’s clash with Hong Baiqing stirred fear and curiosity throughout the Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang spent three million to raise his cultivation to Bone Tempering 34 Resonances, startling Hu Shaoqing with the force of his breakthrough.
• Yan Kai announced that the hundred-day Training Camp would end in two days and warned the students to keep their training experiences and methods private.
• Lin Shuguang declined Meng Shenzhou’s invitation to stay in the Demon Capital, then left after Huang Qisheng called him for help.
• Huang Qisheng told Lin Shuguang that Yisheng Business had sold him inferior silver phosphorus ore and beaten him and his workers, so Lin went to confront the business.
• A clerk at Yisheng Business called for help, but Lin Shuguang kicked him through the counters and silenced the establishment.

Lin Shuguang wrecked Yisheng Business after its workers cheated and attacked Huang Qisheng, then demanded compensation and summoned the person in charge. Zhou Chuanqian arrived, recognized Lin Shuguang, and tried to make peace, but Lin Shuguang asked how he would settle the account.

• Lin Shuguang blasted Xiao Ding and a middle-aged man aside, then demanded that Yisheng Business's person in charge appear.
• Lin Shuguang split the hall with a saber strike, demanded twenty million in compensation, and threw Uncle Zhong into a counter when he offered three million and hinted at consulting his superiors.
• Lin Shuguang gave Yisheng Business's boss ten minutes to arrive and waited while Huang Qisheng stayed behind him.
• Zhou Chuanqian arrived, recognized Lin Shuguang, apologized for his subordinates, and invited him for a drink.
• Lin Shuguang refused to accept Zhou Chuanqian's overture and asked how he would settle the account.

Lin Shuguang defeated Zhou Chuanqian after Zhou’s men assaulted Huang Qisheng, forcing the business to pay compensation and the attackers to face punishment. Afterward, Lin asked Cao Chao to protect Huang Qisheng and said he would leave the Demon Capital the day after tomorrow.

• Lin Shuguang demanded thirty million from Zhou Chuanqian and ordered everyone who had struck Huang Qisheng to sever an arm.
• Zhou Chuanqian attacked Lin Shuguang with an earth-element spear, but Lin cut it apart and defeated him with a saber strike.
• Lin Shuguang made Zhou Chuanqian pay thirty million and threatened the clerks until they identified those who had hit Huang Qisheng.
• Lin Shuguang took Huang Qisheng to a restaurant, where Cao Chao agreed to look out for him and report Zhou Chuanqian’s conduct to the bureau.
• Lin Shuguang told Cao Chao he would leave the Demon Capital the day after tomorrow and urged him to act boldly on his behalf.

With his departure from Demon Martial approaching, Lin Shuguang followed Hu Shaoqing to an abandoned amusement park where they discovered a Dimensional Channel leading to another world. They entered the strange realm, and Lin Shuguang prepared to explore farther despite the mysterious voice Hu Shaoqing had heard before.

• Lin Shuguang told Hu Shaoqing that he was leaving the next afternoon, and Hu Shaoqing nervously asked whether he could trust him.
• Hu Shaoqing described seeing another world inside an abandoned amusement park and hearing a voice that urged him to submit.
• Lin Shuguang accompanied Hu Shaoqing to the amusement park, where they felt their bodies grow hot as they approached the unfinished building.
• Lin Shuguang identified the mirage-like opening as a Dimensional Channel and stepped through into a realm with roughly four times Earth's gravity.
• Hu Shaoqing followed Lin Shuguang into the realm and recognized the place, but the voice he had heard before did not return.
• Lin Shuguang asked Hu Shaoqing to leave a marker before they continued farther into the realm.

Lin Shuguang fought the Sea King in the alternate dimension, where its power entered his sea of consciousness and settled beside his Martial Dao Will Crystal. The new crystal replenished him and helped him break through three Bone Tempering rings before the dimension began to collapse.

• Lin Shuguang followed Hu Shaoqing to the shore, where Giant Stone Monsters formed from reef rocks and attacked them.
• Lin Shuguang destroyed the monsters and faced the Sea King, whose voice Hu Shaoqing recognized as the one that had bewitched him before.
• The Sea King attacked with a water chain and a True Dragon, but Lin Shuguang destroyed both and slashed through the Sea King's form.
• The Sea King reformed, entered Lin Shuguang's sea of consciousness, and settled into a blue crystal orb beside his Martial Dao Will Crystal.
• The blue orb replenished Lin Shuguang and raised his cultivation from thirty-five to thirty-seven Bone Tempering rings, while the alternate dimension began to collapse.
• Lin Shuguang grabbed the unconscious Hu Shaoqing and rushed toward the exit.

After escaping a collapsed Alternate Dimension, Lin Shuguang went to the Special Management Bureau to confront Finance chief Pang Xiaonian for withholding mission rewards. He beat Pang Xiaonian and demanded to know who had ordered the deduction while Hong Baiqing warned him to stop.

• Lin Shuguang brought the unconscious Hu Shaoqing out of the collapsed Alternate Dimension and warned him against reporting it.
• Lin Shuguang tried to draw insight from the blue sphere and Martial Dao Will Crystal, then trained the next day.
• Lin Shuguang discovered that the Special Management Bureau had paid him only twenty thousand for the mission, while Cao Chao and Han Yi had also received far less than expected.
• Lin Shuguang went to the Finance Department alone and battered Pang Xiaonian for withholding their rewards.
• Hong Baiqing arrived and ordered Lin Shuguang to stop, but Lin Shuguang kept Pang Xiaonian pinned and demanded to know who had told him to withhold the payment.

Lin Shuguang confronted Pang Xiaonian over the mission rewards docked from his pay and forced the Special Management Bureau’s Finance Department to promise full repayment. After Hong Baiqing backed down and left, Lin Shuguang prepared to return to Demon Martial.

• Pang Xiaonian claimed he had distributed most of Lin Shuguang’s reward to the families of fallen Division One comrades, but Lin Shuguang argued that their compensation should come from the national treasury.
• Lin Shuguang’s speech turned the onlookers against Pang Xiaonian, and Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and unleashed a powerful attack.
• Hong Baiqing blocked Lin Shuguang with his War Spear, then put it away and ordered Pang Xiaonian to repay the full amount within a day.
• Pang Xiaonian fell to his knees and promised to repay Lin Shuguang, who demanded the money be in his account before evening.
• Cao Chao met Lin Shuguang downstairs, and Lin Shuguang said he would collect his luggage and return to Demon Martial.

Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City after more than three months away and reunited with his family. After a news report about a fatal ferocious beast attack on Longhu Road caught his attention, he left home to investigate and told Si Qianjun he would handle it.

• Lin Shuguang received Cao Chao and Han Yi's payments while traveling back to Huai City with Chu Xiongtian.
• Lin Shuguang arrived at the station and reunited with Lin Haiyang, Mother Lin, and Lin Xiaoxi, then went home for dinner.
• Lin Shuguang dodged Lin Xiaoxi's request for Big Red Porridge by distracting her with snacks from the Demon Capital.
• Lin Shuguang saw a report about a fatal ferocious beast attack on Longhu Road and left home to check on it.
• Lin Shuguang called Si Qianjun and said he was heading to Longhu Road to handle the incident.

Lin Shuguang defeated the Ferocious Beast while his family watched the news and realized he was at the scene. He returned home to find Lin Xiaoxi thrilled and Mother Lin waiting to confront him.

• Lin Xiaoxi recognized Lin Shuguang on the television as he entered the battle site, and Mother Lin worried when he did not answer her call.
• The broadcast showed Lin Shuguang had dealt with the Ferocious Beast, and his family watched him leave the scene with Minister Wang.
• Old Fu spotted Lin Shuguang departing and wondered how his former student had been doing.
• Lin Shuguang checked himself for blood before returning home, where Lin Xiaoxi rushed to greet him and Mother Lin waited with folded arms.

After returning home and reporting back to the Special Management Bureau, Lin Shuguang learned that a major classified mission was underway in Huai City. He asked Si Qianjun to approve his entry into the [Blood Desolate Land], leaving the decision pending.

• Lin Shuguang returned home, where Mother Lin scolded him for going somewhere dangerous and checked whether he was injured.
• Lin Shuguang brought local snacks to the Ninth Division and urged the Square-faced Section Chief to give him a mission.
• The Square-faced Section Chief told Lin Shuguang about a major classified matter in Huai City and directed him to speak with Director Si.
• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun with gifts and asked him to approve his entry into the [Blood Desolate Land].

Lin Shuguang read classified intelligence about a deadly black hole in the Blood Desolate Land and asked Si Qianjun about its connection to Fulong Cave and the existence of deities. He entered the Blood Desolate Land to investigate, narrowly avoided a draining wave, and left despite his Martial Dao Will Crystal urging him toward the black hole.

• Si Qianjun gave Lin Shuguang a top-secret file describing a black hole in the Blood Desolate Land that drew in Desolate Ghost Apes and drained human martial artists of their blood energy.
• Lin Shuguang asked whether the incident resembled Fulong Cave, and Si Qianjun said anomalous events had occurred for centuries but were becoming more frequent and terrifying.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that no evidence had disproved the existence of deities, leaving Lin Shuguang startled.
• Lin Shuguang received permission to enter the Blood Desolate Land and saw Desolate Ghost Apes sacrifice themselves to the black hole.
• The pale blue sphere warned Lin Shuguang before an invisible wave passed, and he retreated despite his Martial Dao Will Crystal urging him to approach the black hole.

Lin Shuguang met Professor Wang’s provincial delegation and quickly put the arrogant Wu Feng in his place. At dinner, he reported that the Blood Desolate Land contained a magnetic field and a possible mutated Dimensional Channel, leaving the delegation to consider the discovery.

• Lin Shuguang joined Si Qianjun and Professor Wang’s delegation, where Si introduced him as Huai City’s great scholar.
• Wu Feng snorted at Lin Shuguang, and Lin made the chair beneath him explode before dismissing the incident as a lesson in magnanimity.
• Professor Wang apologized for Wu Feng, while Pei Ruoyi warned Wu Feng not to cause more trouble.
• At dinner, Lin told Si Qianjun and Professor Wang that equipment failed in the Blood Desolate Land and that a black hole was present.
• Lin suspected the Blood Desolate Land held a newly opened, mutated Dimensional Channel, surprising the delegation.

Lin Shuguang accompanied Professor Wang’s team to investigate the [Blood Desolate Land] and learned that the black hole might connect to another dimension. As the black hole neared stabilization, the area was sealed off and the team prepared to begin its survey.

• Lin Shuguang impressed Professor Wang and the others with his knowledge of the [Blood Desolate Land], while Professor Wang described a historical black hole incident that had opened a bronze gate to another world.
• Si Qianjun assigned Lin Shuguang to accompany Professor Wang, protect him, and learn from the Academy of Sciences team.
• Lin Shuguang led Professor Wang and his students into the [Blood Desolate Land], where they found the Desolate Ghost Ape Kings still kowtowing outside the cordon.
• Professor Wang’s team mapped five-phase positions, recorded spiritual-energy fluctuations, and installed instruments to locate stable points in space and prepare a pseudo-dimensional channel.
• As the black hole neared stabilization, soldiers and Special Management Bureau personnel sealed off the [Blood Desolate Land], and Lin Shuguang told Professor Wang they were ready.

Lin Shuguang fought the Divine Temple’s attackers while Professor Wang’s team opened a pseudo-dimensional channel in the Blood Desolate Land. He killed the masked woman and escaped into the channel as the Blood Sea exploded, leaving the fate of those inside unknown.

• Pei Ruoyi, Lu Tianyu, Cheng Jun, and Wu Feng agreed to enter the dangerous area as Professor Wang’s team prepared the equipment and Lin Shuguang’s guards secured it.
• When the Divine Temple’s cloaked demonic cultivators emerged, Lin Shuguang charged them and slaughtered them with a single saber strike.
• A masked woman confronted Lin Shuguang while the blood energy surged and the channel’s countdown ran out; Lin Shuguang wounded her and ordered the others to enter first.
• Si Qianjun killed the Black Robe Envoy outside the Blood Desolate Land, then watched the area as the Blood Sea explosion began.
• Lin Shuguang used his Demon God Armor and Netherflame to survive the blast and plunge into the black hole, while the masked woman was consumed by the flames.
• Residents of Huai City heard the explosion, and Lin Shuguang’s parents wondered where he was as the remains of fallen Special Management Bureau members lay in the Blood Desolate Land.

Lin Shuguang entered the black hole and was pulled into a vision of a Heavenly Dao Holy Son who defied the white-browed elder with a slash powerful enough to slay a god. After waking in the Alternate Dimension, Lin Shuguang joined Professor Wang’s group to explore it, and chose the left path at a fork.

• Lin Shuguang entered the black hole as his Martial Dao Will Crystal connected with it and eased the force rejecting him.
• Lin Shuguang witnessed the Heavenly Dao Holy Son learn that the white-browed elder had slaughtered his family, then summon a saber and strike at him with power that could slay a god.
• Lin Shuguang woke to Professor Wang and the others, told them the Divine Temple Martial Artists were dead, and surveyed the dark, snowy Alternate Dimension.
• Professor Wang explained that a powerful magnetic field had destroyed their equipment and warned the group to evacuate when the winds rose and the sea of blood overhead began to churn.
• The group began exploring the Alternate Dimension, and Lin Shuguang chose the path on the left when they reached a fork.

Lin Shuguang led the group through a dangerous Alternate Dimension, saving Wu Feng from a man-eating flower and warning everyone to stay alert. When thick white mist surrounded them and someone screamed, Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and advanced with Netherflame blazing.

• Professor Wang followed Lin Shuguang’s choice of path, and the group avoided a violent sandstorm on the other fork.
• Wu Feng approached a pink flower despite warnings, and Lin Shuguang cut down the man-eating flower before it could kill him.
• The group grew more cautious and summoned their weapons as they continued through the vegetation.
• White mist spread around the group, obscuring nearby figures, and cries of alarm and pain came from within it.
• Lin Shuguang told everyone to gather behind him, then stepped into the mist with Netherflame blazing and the Slaughter Blade in hand.

Lin Shuguang was separated from Professor Wang’s group by the white mist and smashed through a maze, while the group encountered a reanimated armored warrior. Lin Shuguang emerged in a mountain range beneath a coffin-covered tree and faced an army of walking corpses led by a bald man in blood-red armor.

• The white mist vanished after Lin Shuguang summoned the Netherflame, separating him from Professor Wang and the others inside a maze.
• Lin Shuguang used his strength and Demon God Armor to smash through the maze’s stone walls.
• Professor Wang led the group onward after realizing Lin Shuguang and several Special Management Bureau members had disappeared.
• Professor Wang’s group found a wandering corpse in rusty armor, and Zhou De and three others approached it while Liu Qing stayed to protect the professor.
• Lin Shuguang emerged in a mountain range and found armored corpses rising from the ground beneath a vast tree hung with blood-red coffins.
• A bald warrior in blood-red armor stepped from a fallen coffin, and the walking corpses charged Lin Shuguang as he drew his blade and attacked.

Lin Shuguang fought through the Walking Corpses and killed the Battle Axe Blood Corpse, but his attack awakened numerous coffins around the Divine Tree. Trapped by distorted space as powerful blood corpses emerged, he faced an overwhelming new threat.

• Lin Shuguang charged through the Walking Corpses and reached the Giant Blood Corpse directing them.
• Lin Shuguang exchanged over a hundred blows with the Battle Axe Blood Corpse, then split it in two with a lightning-charged slash.
• Lin Shuguang stood among the fallen Walking Corpses and turned his attention to the Divine Tree.
• The Divine Tree trembled and sent bloody light through its branches, causing the blood-red coffins to fall and awaken.
• Lin Shuguang found the route ahead distorted by intersecting space as more blood corpses emerged from the opened coffins.
• The Martial Dao Will Crystal sent lightning toward the pale blue sphere in Lin Shuguang's Sea of Consciousness, but the sphere resisted it.

Lin Shuguang fought hundreds of powerful blood corpses until he was nearly defeated, then the Martial Dao Will Crystal and the pale blue sphere joined forces to empower him. With his new strength, he faced the remaining corpses and unleashed a devastating saber strike that shook the extradimensional world.

• Lin Shuguang charged into a horde of at least a hundred powerful blood corpses and repeatedly spent resources to upgrade his cultivation and martial skills.
• Lin Shuguang fought for half an hour, killing many blood corpses but exhausting his ability to upgrade while dozens of powerful enemies remained.
• Lin Shuguang endured a fresh assault, killed another giant corpse, and rose from the ground to challenge the remaining blood corpses.
• The Martial Dao Will Crystal and the pale blue sphere simultaneously poured their powers into Lin Shuguang, rapidly increasing his strength.
• Lin Shuguang called the Slaughter Blade back to his hand and unleashed a mighty saber strike that made the world shake.

Lin Shuguang destroyed the Divine Tree, but a blood-red saber sealed inside it absorbed the Blood Sea’s power and cast him from the strange realm. He emerged in a valley and rescued Professor Wang, Pei Ruoyi, and the Special Management Bureau fighters from an army of walking corpses.

• Lin Shuguang slaughtered the blood corpses and cut down the Divine Tree with the Slaughter Blade.
• A blood-red saber flew from the ruined tree, drew power from the Blood Sea, and sensed the Martial Dao Will Crystal within Lin Shuguang.
• The blood-red saber expelled Lin Shuguang through a rift, reminding him of the saber from the memory he had seen when entering the Alternate Dimension.
• Lin Shuguang found Professor Wang, Pei Ruoyi, and the Special Management Bureau fighters fleeing from armored walking corpses.
• Lin Shuguang slaughtered the walking corpses around the group, leaving Professor Wang and the others astonished by his strength.

After suffering heavy losses to the Walking Corpses, Lin Shuguang led the survivors through a collapsing world and escaped a blood-red figure and the Blood Saber. The group emerged into the now-barren Blood Desolate Land, where Lin Shuguang ordered them to contact the Si Bureau and head back.

• Lin Shuguang reassured the surviving Special Management Bureau soldiers and told them Great Xia would remember their fallen comrades.
• Lin Shuguang told Professor Wang that he had escaped a maze after killing every Walking Corpse he encountered.
• The Blood Sea shattered and the world began collapsing, so Professor Wang led the group toward the passage while carrying a Walking Corpse body.
• Lin Shuguang helped the others reach the passage by carrying or throwing them through, then fled from a blood-red figure and the pursuing Blood Saber.
• Lin Shuguang emerged into the barren Blood Desolate Land, ordered the soldiers to contact the Si Bureau, and saw Pei Ruoyi glare at him while she handled the corpse.

After escaping the alternate world, Lin Shuguang returned to the Special Management Bureau and reported what had happened to Si Qianjun. He left with his greatly increased strength revealed on his Attribute Panel and headed for the Commerce District.

• Si Qianjun found Lin Shuguang and the survivors after seven days had passed outside, though they had experienced less than six hours in the alternate world.
• The survivors returned to the Special Management Bureau, where Professor Wang and his team went to the laboratory and Si Qianjun ordered Lin Shuguang to write a report.
• Lin Shuguang submitted a report dominated by battle scenes, and Si Qianjun edited it before asking whether the mission had revealed anything.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun they had entered a parallel world, and Si Qianjun said the Walking Corpse's War Armor came from elsewhere and offered a reward for useful discoveries.
• Lin Shuguang jokingly asked for billions of dollars or Bone Tempering Pills, then feigned internal injuries to escape Si Qianjun's office.
• In a taxi to the Commerce District, Lin Shuguang checked his Attribute Panel and saw that his Blood Energy Value had reached 59,240 cal and his cultivation had reached Bone Tempering 51 Resonances.