Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang found and destroyed the source of the haunted house’s deadly red threads, uncovering a rare elemental stone that he kept. Meanwhile, Zhu Linyu refused to accept her brother’s death despite the Zhu Family’s decision to let the matter end, and began to pursue her own course.

• Lin Shuguang, Meng Shenzhou, and Chu Xiongtian investigated the haunted house after several people had died there.
• Lin Shuguang sensed strange energy, used the [Soul Devouring Lock] to reveal red threads throughout the house, and burned them with [Netherflame].
• Lin Shuguang found a blood-red elemental stone that Chu Xiongtian suspected was a mental-type stone responsible for the deaths, and Lin Shuguang kept it.
• Lin Shuguang received a call from Qi Lin and told Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian that Mr. Qi was waiting for them.
• Zhu Shaoqiang learned that Zhu Linwei had died in a duel with Lin Shuguang after signing a life-and-death waiver, and ordered the family to let the matter end.
• Zhu Linyu told Uncle Zhong that she would not let her brother’s death go unanswered, dismissing the Jianghu Code of Conduct as something she did not understand.

Lin Shuguang fought Zhu Zhong, who had challenged him on Zhu Linyu’s behalf over Zhu Linwei’s death. Lin Shuguang unleashed a devastating final slash that sent Zhu Zhong flying, leaving the confrontation’s outcome uncertain.

• Zhu Linyu and Zhu Zhong stopped Lin Shuguang and his companions, and Zhu Zhong challenged Lin Shuguang to a fight.
• Lin Shuguang attacked Zhu Zhong, whose [Overlord Blood Flame Body] enhanced his strength and physique.
• Lin Shuguang and Zhu Zhong exchanged powerful blows that devastated the ground around them.
• Zhu Zhong accused Lin Shuguang of killing Zhu Linwei and said he was seeking justice for Zhu Linyu.
• Lin Shuguang increased his power and struck Zhu Zhong with a fierce slash, sending him flying and spraying blood.

Lin Shuguang killed Zhu Linyu after accusing the Zhu Family of attacking a Special Management Bureau official, then prepared for a dangerous, undisclosed undertaking with Qi Lin. The chapter left Lin alone beneath the fading, fiery sky as he anticipated one final blaze.

• Lin Shuguang killed Zhu Zhong, seized Zhu Linyu, and brought her to the Zhu Family estate with Chu Xiongtian and Meng Shenzhou.
• Lin Shuguang confronted the Zhu Family Head, who disavowed Zhu Linyu’s actions and told him to do as he wished.
• Lin Shuguang killed Zhu Linyu and warned the Zhu Family that they could appeal to the Governor, then left with Chu Xiongtian and Meng Shenzhou.
• Lin Shuguang sent Chu Xiongtian and Meng Shenzhou away, met with Qi Lin, and watched them depart before preparing for what came next.

Lin Shuguang fought the Divine Temple Branch Hall Envoy and overpowered him, despite the Soul Devouring Lock. When the Divine Envoy arrived and evaded Lin Shuguang’s strike, Lin Shuguang attacked again, eager to face him.

• Lin Shuguang killed a black-robed man in the basement and drew out the Branch Hall Envoy.
• Lin Shuguang and the Branch Hall Envoy exchanged more than a hundred saber strikes, collapsing the basement and surrounding ground.
• Lin Shuguang wounded the Branch Hall Envoy and advanced his Slaughter Blade-Killing Character Art to LV3.
• Lin Shuguang pierced the Branch Hall Envoy’s shoulder, but the Divine Envoy arrived and transformed into shadow crows to evade him.
• Lin Shuguang attacked the Divine Envoy again and declared that he had been waiting for him.

Lin Shuguang stalled the Divine Envoy to learn the incomplete Soul Devouring Art, then joined Qi Lin and the others in attacking him. After upgrading his strength, Lin Shuguang wounded the Divine Envoy and brought down a second slash as the battle continued.

• Qi Lin sensed the Divine Envoy arriving and led several black-robed figures toward Lin Shuguang.
• The Divine Envoy tried to recruit Lin Shuguang, who pressed him for the truth about history or the Soul Devouring Lock incantation.
• The Divine Envoy revealed an incomplete Soul Devouring Art, and Lin Shuguang upgraded it before Qi Lin's group arrived.
• Lin Shuguang ordered an attack, and Qi Lin and the mental-type Elemental Users joined him against the Divine Envoy.
• The Divine Envoy unleashed starlight that overwhelmed the group, while Lin Shuguang upgraded his abilities and struck him with Draw and Slash.
• Lin Shuguang wounded the Divine Envoy's left shoulder and launched a second slash.

Lin Shuguang and Qi Lin joined forces against the Divine Envoy, damaging his puppet avatar and preventing him from escaping. The Divine Envoy was stunned when he sensed the [Soul Devouring Art] in Lin Shuguang.

• Lin Shuguang blocked the Divine Envoy’s finger strike and wounded him with a saber, but the Divine Envoy unleashed a freezing power that sent Lin Shuguang flying.
• Qi Lin caught Lin Shuguang, then engaged the Divine Envoy with a sword formation while Lin Shuguang waited for an opening.
• Lin Shuguang attacked with his domineering martial dao will, and his saber combined with Qi Lin’s sword to destroy an Extreme Cold Ice Dragon.
• Lin Shuguang asked Qi Lin to hold the Divine Envoy in place, and Qi Lin and the seven Mental Elemental Users prevented him from escaping through space.
• The Divine Envoy sensed the [Soul Devouring Art] coming from Lin Shuguang and demanded to know how he had learned it.

Lin Shuguang intercepted a wisp of the Divine Envoy’s spiritual sense after the battle, then returned to Huai City with Qi Lin. At Lin’s Shop, he reunited with Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian and greeted his younger sister, Lin Xiaoxi.

• Lin Shuguang thanked Qi Lin’s seven retired friends for helping defeat the Divine Envoy’s avatar, then learned Qi Lin planned to conceal how Lin had undone the Soul Devouring Lock.
• Qi Lin warned Lin Shuguang that revealing his ability to undo the lock could attract powerful figures, and Lin Shuguang agreed to let Qi Lin take credit for finding the solution.
• Lin Shuguang rode back to Huai City with Qi Lin and reunited with Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian at Lin’s Shop.
• Chu Xiongtian asked whether Lin Shuguang had fought in the Organ Refinement-level battle near the Provincial Capital, and Lin Shuguang said Qi Lin had been the one to fight.
• Lin Xiaoxi arrived from tutoring class, asked for fried chicken, and Meng Shenzhou volunteered to buy it.

After the battle, the Divine Envoy wondered whether Lin Shuguang belonged to its race, while [Nightmare] suspected he had become its puppet. Back in Huai City, Lin Shuguang accepted a gift from Meng Shenzhou, received an invitation from Master Jin, and learned that Director Si had sent him information to review.

• The Divine Envoy healed its wound and wondered whether Lin Shuguang could be one of its people after seeing him use the [Soul Devouring Art].
• The [Divine Temple] removed Lin Shuguang from its kill list, and [Nightmare] decided he must be killed if he had become the Divine Envoy's puppet.
• Steward Fang arrived to take Meng Shenzhou home and gave Lin Shuguang three Great Yuan Pills, which Meng Shenzhou insisted Lin Shuguang keep.
• Steward Zhou invited Lin Shuguang to dine with Master Jin, and Lin Shuguang said he would come if nothing came up at the bureau.
• Director Si called Lin Shuguang, praised his recent actions, and told him to check the items and information he had sent.

Lin Shuguang received a shop from Master Jin, saw his friends depart, and read information about the Soul Devouring Lock and [Nightmare]. When the Silver Seraph invited him to join [Nightmare], Lin Shuguang demanded substantial rewards and ended by offering to sell him Great Yuan Pills.

• Master Jin gave Lin Shuguang a shop and told Steward Zhou that he hoped the Jin Family could win Lin Shuguang over.
• Lin Shuguang watched Xu Jie leave for the South Sea Martial Arts School and received handwritten documents from Si Qianjun about the Soul Clan, the Soul Devouring Lock, the [Divine Temple], and [Nightmare].
• The Silver Seraph confronted Lin Shuguang about the [Divine Temple] and examined the Soul Devouring Lock, discovering that its aura had become docile.
• The Silver Seraph asked Lin Shuguang to join [Nightmare], but Lin Shuguang demanded pills, hundred-resonance cultivation methods, saber techniques, and books.
• The Silver Seraph offered one Great Yuan Pill every three months and a sixty-resonance method, but Lin Shuguang showed him three Great Yuan Pills and said he would have to pay for them.

Lin Shuguang reviewed his cultivation progress and examined the mysterious Jade Bone before responding to an emergency at the Huai River, where a Flame Wyvern had killed villagers. He charged into battle, but the wyvern engulfed him in a blast of fire.

• Lin Shuguang found that his Blood Energy Value had passed 110,000 and realized he needed more Martial Artist Cultivation Methods to raise his cultivation further.
• Lin Shuguang examined the Jade Bone from the Corpse Palace, then received an emergency call from the bureau.
• Chu Xiongtian told Lin Shuguang that an unknown creature had emerged from the Huai River and devoured residents of two villages; the bureau suspected it was a wyvern.
• Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian reached the scene, where a Flame Wyvern was fighting Special Management Bureau fighters, and Lin Shuguang ordered the soldiers to retreat farther back.
• Lin Shuguang leaped toward the Flame Wyvern and slashed at its head, but the beast turned and engulfed him in a pillar of fire.

Lin Shuguang killed a Flame Wyvern that had emerged from the Huai River and learned that dragons had appeared in several places across Great Xia. After spending the evening with Lin Xiaoxi and their family, he encountered Silver Seraph, whom Xiaoxi immediately asked for wings.

• Lin Shuguang split the Flame Wyvern's pillar of fire, killed it, and recovered a strange Mutated Dragon Bead from its head.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Chu Xiongtian to seal off the wyvern's emergence site and investigate the Huai River for more Ferocious Beasts.
• Lin Shuguang reviewed reports of four dragon-related incidents across Great Xia and learned that higher-ups planned to take over the investigation.
• Lin Shuguang and Chu Xiongtian picked up Lin Xiaoxi, then went with her to Lin's Shop to help Lin Haiyang.
• Silver Seraph appeared late that night, and Lin Xiaoxi excitedly asked him to give her a pair of wings.

Lin Shuguang negotiated with Silver Seraph for access to five Bone Tempering Eighty Resonances cultivation methods, then returned home to find Lin Xiaoxi had plucked a feather from Silver Seraph. The next morning, he confronted provincial officials trying to take the Flame Wyvern and Huai City's research data, ending with his saber at a research institute representative's neck.

• Lin Shuguang persuaded Silver Seraph to bring all five available cultivation methods for him to inspect before he chose one.
• Lin Xiaoxi showed Lin Shuguang a feather she had taken from Silver Seraph and declared she would grow wings and fly.
• Chu Xiongtian urgently called Lin Shuguang because provincial officials had arrived to claim the Flame Wyvern's corpse.
• Huai City's bureau staff and experts objected as the Provincial Capital research institute began taking the corpse and demanded Huai City's experimental data.
• Lin Shuguang arrived, put his saber to the middle-aged research institute representative's neck, and warned them not to touch the wyvern.

Lin Shuguang defended the Special Management Bureau's wyvern corpse from the Provincial Capital's Third Research Institute and reaffirmed his commitment to protecting the bureau. Later, Silver Seraph brought him five cultivation methods, and Lin Shuguang identified one he could learn by recharging 1.5 million.

• Lin Shuguang threatened Guo Nianjia with his saber and summoned the Special Management Bureau's warriors to confront the Third Research Institute.
• Lin Shuguang destroyed the institute's transfer order, sent Guo Nianjia flying, and forced the visitors to leave without the wyvern's corpse.
• Lin Shuguang told the bureau's experts to continue their experiments and warned the department directors not to put personal ties above the bureau's interests.
• Lin Shuguang went to the laboratory to review the wyvern's data and consider whether its appearance signaled a revival.
• Silver Seraph arrived alone with five Martial Artist Cultivation Methods, and Lin Shuguang saw a notification for the Sun Moon Extinguishing Rotation Cultivation Method, which required a 1.5 million recharge to learn.

Lin Shuguang fused cultivation methods to raise his cultivation to seventy-five bone tempering sounds, then fought the Provincial Capital Guard Army reinforcements sent by the Third Research Institute. He punished the attackers and returned to the fried chicken shop to collect his order.

• Lin Shuguang fused the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Breathing Technique and learned that Silver Seraph could request three fifty-resonance cultivation methods for him each year.
• Lin Shuguang agreed to work with Silver Seraph against the Divine Temple, and Silver Seraph left.
• Lin Shuguang recharged his cultivation until he reached seventy-five bone tempering sounds.
• Luo Jinghan, another Guard Army member, and a Third Research Institute envoy confronted Lin Shuguang at a fried chicken shop and demanded that he hand something over.
• Lin Shuguang defeated Luo Jinghan and his companion, then cut off one arm from each after General Li asked him to show mercy.
• Lin Shuguang slashed the Third Research Institute envoy, collected his fried chicken, and told the proprietress he hoped to return.

Lin Shuguang traded the Jade Bone to the Blood-colored Demonic Saber for a surge in power, then was dragged into a snowy mountain realm where the saber hunted Ferocious Beasts. When its power faded, Lin Shuguang escaped a giant ape through a rift and appeared before a startled group of people.

• The Blood-colored Demonic Saber drew the Jade Bone from Lin Shuguang and raised his Blood Energy Value by ten thousand cal before absorbing it.
• Lin Shuguang grabbed the saber and fled his residential complex to contain the energy building inside it, but the saber dragged him through the void into a snowy mountain range.
• The saber forced Lin Shuguang to charge a Blood-colored Tyrannosaurus Rex and killed it, then led him to slay several more Ferocious Beasts and seize their Blood Energy Value.
• As the saber's power waned, Lin Shuguang faced a giant ape, ran from it, and escaped through a rift the saber opened.
• Lin Shuguang emerged onto grass clutching the saber and found a group of people staring at him in astonishment.

Lin Shuguang was unexpectedly transported to Qingyang City, where the Blood-red Demonic Saber followed him and helped increase his strength. After returning to Huai City, he learned that [Divine Temple] had an underground base there and arrived at the Special Management Bureau, where Si Qianjun and his staff reacted warily to the floating saber.

• Lin Shuguang left a gathering of masked people, then realized the Blood-red Demonic Saber had brought him to Qingyang City and was following him despite his attempts to shake it off.
• At an inn, Lin Shuguang frightened two drunken hunters into backing down, and the Blood-red Demonic Saber later cleansed his meridians and marrow as his Blood Energy Value rose.
• Lin Shuguang summoned a [Nightmare] operative, received cultivation methods and intelligence, and spent a million to raise his bone tempering to seventy-six resonances.
• Lin Shuguang learned that [Divine Temple] had an underground base in Huai City containing Cyborgs and Modified Ferocious Beasts, then returned there without identification or contacting the Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang entered Si Qianjun's office as the director of Division One was discussing his injury of people from the Third Research Institute, and the floating saber made everyone wary.

Lin Shuguang rejected a demand to apologize to the Third Research Institute, then attacked Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun after they argued against defending the Special Management Bureau's interests. As representatives of the Institute arrived, Si Qianjun led everyone to see why they could not easily come inside.

• Yang Tianyi urged Lin Shuguang to apologize to the Third Research Institute, while Fang Xu argued that the Institute had repeatedly seized the Bureau's resources and deserved to be condemned.
• Lin Shuguang cited Great Xia's strict law against betraying the country's interests and attacked Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun with his saber and fists.
• Lin Shuguang crippled Yang Tianyi's arm and knocked Zhou Mojun away, prompting Si Qianjun to catch him.
• Lin Shuguang claimed he had only acted in defense of the Bureau and challenged Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun for siding with the Institute.
• A secretary announced that people from the Third Research Institute had arrived, but said they could not easily be let in, so Si Qianjun led the group to investigate.

The Third Research Institute apologized to the Special Management Bureau with eight hundred sets of War Armor, and Lin Shuguang publicly confronted Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun over their conduct. Afterward, Si Qianjun explained the limits of his authority in Huai City and revealed that the Governor had allowed Lin Shuguang to act against the Zhu Family, which might soon be destroyed.

• The Third Research Institute delivered eight hundred sets of War Armor as an apology, and Si Qianjun ordered the bureau's fighters to unload them.
• Lin Shuguang excluded the First and Second Departments from the supplies and accused Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun of betraying the bureau's dignity over the Winged Dragon.
• Lin Shuguang drew his blade against Yang Tianyi and Zhou Mojun, but Fang Xu and others intervened before he could do more than injure them.
• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun, who explained why he had not replaced more of Huai City's bureau personnel and chided Lin Shuguang for attacking the Zhu Family.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that the Governor had known about his actions against the Zhu Family and that the family might not survive much longer; Lin Shuguang offered to help.

Before leaving Huai City, Lin Shuguang discussed his cultivation and future standing at Demon Martial with Si Qianjun, then gave his family money and reassured them. After receiving intelligence about a Divine Temple experiment involving Cyborgs, he went to its underground facility and witnessed a young man being implanted with a Blood Worm.

• Si Qianjun advised Lin Shuguang to strengthen his foundation before entering the Viscera Refining Stage and suggested he seek a high-rank cultivation method through Demon Martial competitions.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun he would fight anyone who challenged him, while privately admitting he would accept a leadership role if it brought in money.
• Lin Shuguang returned home with the Blood-red Demonic Saber, gave his parents a bank card, and teased Lin Xiaoxi about gaining weight.
• Lin Shuguang received intelligence from [Nightmare] that [Divine Temple] would begin a likely Cyborg-related project that night, and he went to the underground facility alone.
• An old man cut open a young man's chest and implanted a Blood Worm, making him scream.

Lin Shuguang raided an underground Divine Temple laboratory, took control of Dr. Ding with the Soul Refining Technique, and ordered him to gather cultivation methods and develop stronger Genetic Medicine. He then called the Special Management Bureau to report the facility.

• Lin Shuguang confronted Dr. Ding in the laboratory and questioned him about his Gene Modification Technique and the Divine Temple’s funding.
• Dr. Ding explained his research and showed Lin Shuguang his limited Genetic Medicine, which Lin Shuguang dismissed.
• Lin Shuguang forced Dr. Ding to hand over volume one of the Soul Refining Technique and learned to use the Soul Devouring Lock.
• Lin Shuguang used the technique to bind Dr. Ding’s soul and make him acknowledge Lin Shuguang as his master.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Dr. Ding to collect Martial Artist Cultivation Methods and produce effective Genetic Medicine, then sent him away.
• Lin Shuguang called the Special Management Bureau and reported the Divine Temple research facility.