Chapter Summaries

Luo Qiuyi offered Lin Shuguang a place at the Crimson Crane Platform in exchange for protecting Gu Siyao, while Si Qianjun arranged a hundred-resonance cultivation method for him. Lin reached one hundred bone-tempering resonances, refused to advance to the Viscera Refining Stage, and triggered a system upgrade.

• Luo Qiuyi offered Lin Shuguang a Crimson Crane Platform spot and asked him to keep Gu Siyao safe during the contest against the Cloud Sea Merchant Association.
• Lin Shuguang accepted Luo Qiuyi's deal and agreed to be picked up the next morning.
• Qi Lin gave Lin Shuguang the Thunderous Thousand Source Technique that Si Qianjun had secured for him, a hundred-resonance cultivation method.
• Lin Shuguang spent twenty million to fuse the technique with his own and reached one hundred bone-tempering resonances.
• Lin Shuguang refused the system's prompt to fuse his cultivation and enter the Viscera Refining Stage, causing the Pay-to-Win System to begin upgrading.

Lin Shuguang discovered that the revised system let him spend energy absorbed from pills to raise his cultivation, reaching 125 Bone Tempering resonances. He arrived at the Ancient Coin Merchant Association as Yuan Tianlang’s replacement for the Crimson Crane Platform expedition, where Elder Cheng immediately challenged his suitability.

• Lin Shuguang swallowed Great Yuan Pills, tested the new energy pool, and used its energy to break through three levels.
• Lin Shuguang absorbed all the pills he had on hand and raised his cultivation to 125 Bone Tempering resonances.
• Gu Siyao rejected Yuan Tianlang as a participant in the Crimson Crane Platform expedition, and Luo Qiuyi confirmed that he had been replaced.
• Elder Cheng argued that Yuan Tianlang should keep the spot and warned that the Cloud Sea Merchant Association threatened their chances at the platform.
• Lin Shuguang entered the hall and asked Luo Qiuyi when they would leave, but Elder Cheng questioned whether he was Yuan Tianlang’s replacement.

Lin Shuguang accepted a challenge meant to test his suitability for the Ancient Coin Merchant Association’s Crimson Crane Platform contest, then attacked Elder Cheng and proved overwhelmingly strong. Elder Cheng conceded the spot, and Lin Shuguang turned his saber on Yuan Tianlang, asking if he was still unconvinced.

• Luo Qiuyi introduced Lin Shuguang to Elder Cheng and Yuan Tianlang, who privately threatened Lin and demanded that he withdraw.
• Elder Cheng proposed a match between Lin Shuguang and Yuan Tianlang to decide who would represent the association, and Lin agreed.
• Before Yuan Tianlang could finish speaking, Lin Shuguang attacked Elder Cheng with his saber and matched the elder’s sword strike, wrecking the hall and sending Yuan flying.
• Lin Shuguang charged Elder Cheng again and forced him to concede the contest spot before leaving in anger.
• Lin Shuguang laid his saber against Yuan Tianlang’s neck and asked whether he was still unconvinced.

Lin Shuguang accompanied Luo Qiuyi and the others to Black Stone Mountain, where the Ancient Coin Merchant Association and the Cloud Sea Merchant Association gathered for the opening of the [Crimson Crane Platform]. The platform opened amid a tense standoff between the two sides, leaving the groups ready to send their juniors inside.

• Luo Qiuyi led Lin Shuguang, Gu Siyao, and Wang Yu Feng from the Ancient Coin Merchant Association toward Black Stone Mountain.
• Gu Siyao introduced Lin Shuguang to Wang Yu Feng, and the group traveled together to the mountain.
• The party reached the summit, where the Cloud Sea Merchant Association and the Ancient Coin Merchant Association faced off around the [Crimson Crane Platform].
• Wang Yu Feng identified Hong Jianglong as a tenth-heaven Viscera Refining Stage powerhouse, and Protector Xia stepped forward to challenge Hong Jianglong after he insulted Luo Qiuyi.
• Rainbow light burst from the summit, the five immortal cranes returned to their places, and the [Crimson Crane Platform] officially opened.

Lin Shuguang seized control of the five positions on the Crimson Crane Platform, auctioned two of them, and joined the others in the Yin Yang Pool to absorb its energy. Outside, spectators saw the platform enveloped by yin and yang and speculated about the young cultivators inside.

• The younger generations entered the Crimson Crane Platform and found five places beneath crimson cranes above a pool of flames.
• Lin Shuguang tossed Gu Siyao onto one platform, then used his saber to drive off the challengers and demand the other three places.
• Lin Shuguang auctioned two places to Gu Shaoqi and Fei Jiujue, then knocked the remaining challengers unconscious and claimed a place himself.
• The five occupants entered the Yin Yang Pool and began absorbing its alternating icy and fiery energy.
• Spectators outside saw the platform enveloped by yin and yang and wondered who had secured the places.

Lin Shuguang absorbed the Yin Yang Pool’s energy at a staggering rate, breaking through to 218 bone resonances while the others also improved. He left the [Crimson Crane Platform] with Wang Yu Feng and Gu Siyao, and a sobbing cry from inside the platform drew everyone’s attention.

• Lin Shuguang unleashed an immense suction force in the Yin Yang Pool, shocking Gu Siyao, Wang Yu Feng, Gu Shaoqi, and Fei Jiujue into intensifying their own cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang continued absorbing energy until he could hold no more and reached bone tempering, 218 resonances.
• Gu Siyao, Wang Yu Feng, Gu Shaoqi, and Fei Jiujue finished cultivating, and Lin Shuguang reminded Gu Shaoqi and Fei Jiujue to repay the pills they owed him.
• Lin Shuguang told Fei Jiujue to wake Young Master Luan and the other unconscious entrants, then left the space with Wang Yu Feng and Gu Siyao.
• Luo Qiuyi welcomed the three as they emerged from the [Crimson Crane Platform] and decided to withdraw with them.
• A loud voice cried “Third Uncle!!!” from the platform, startling everyone nearby.

Lin Shuguang collected payment for the Crimson Crane Platform spots and declined an offer to join the Ancient Coin Merchant Association for now. Back at Demon Martial, he cultivated for half a day and then received Lu Hong’s message that his application had been approved.

• Hong Fengluan accused Lin Shuguang of knocking everyone unconscious inside the alternate space, and Fei Jiujue explained that Lin had auctioned off the spots.
• Lin showed the written agreements, while Gu Shaoqi revealed his breakthrough; Protector Xia paid Lin nineteen Great Yuan Pills for one spot.
• Hong Jianglong paid Lin fifty Great Yuan Pills for Fei Jiujue’s spot after Fei confirmed he had reached the fifth heaven of the viscera refining stage, then led the Cloud Sea Merchant Association away.
• Protector Xia invited Lin to join the Ancient Coin Merchant Association, but Lin declined for the time being and accepted a VIP card from Luo Qiuyi.
• Lin returned to Demon Martial, cultivated until late at night, and saw Lu Hong’s message saying his application had been approved.

Lin Shuguang advanced his Blood Spirit Clone to the Viscera Refining Stage, then joined Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian for a meal before a Spider Monster attacked the street. He killed the beast after rescuing a wounded soldier.

• Lu Hong delivered Lin Shuguang a bone tempering hundred resonances Martial Artist Cultivation Method, and Lin Shuguang spent one million to advance his Blood Spirit Clone to the Viscera Refining Stage.
• Lin Shuguang converted his credit points into cultivation resources and continued training, while Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian told him about the upcoming Hundred Schools League.
• A Spider Monster attacked the street, overwhelmed the soldiers, and pinned the last surviving soldier down as it prepared to kill him.
• Lin Shuguang intervened and fought the Spider Monster while Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian treated the wounded soldier.
• Lin Shuguang severed the Spider Monster's forelimb, cut open its abdomen, and killed it by driving the severed limb into its head.

After a Silver-marked Black Armored Scythe Spider attacked, Lin Shuguang joined a dangerous reconnaissance mission after learning that a King-level Fierce Beast might have awakened. He arrived at the Rally Base and met the mission’s leader, Wang Jin, Peng Lei, and a female martial artist as the team prepared to depart.

• Lin Shuguang questioned a soldier after killing the Silver-marked Spider Monster, and the soldier said spider Ferocious Beasts had poured out of the mountains.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that the Special Management Bureau and Military Department were investigating the Black Armored Scythe Spiders, with evidence pointing to an awakened King-level Fierce Beast.
• Lin Shuguang accepted the voluntary mission after hearing its rewards and ordered Cao Chao to take him directly to the assembly point.
• Cao Chao brought Lin Shuguang to the Rally Base, where Lin boarded a modified armored truck and met Peng Lei and Instructor Wang Jin.
• A female martial artist boarded and greeted Peng Lei and Wang Jin, who promised to keep her safe during the mission.

Lin Shuguang joined a martial arts team sent to investigate a residential complex overrun by Black Armored Scythe Spiders. After Song Kaiyuan took command, the teams learned that the silver-patterned spider was as strong as a middle-tier Viscera Refining martial artist and prepared to enter the tunnel to gather intelligence.

• Wang Jin told the group that a Silver-Patterned Black Armored Scythe Spider had been spotted at the Sixth Gardens, while Lin Shuguang quietly recognized it as the spider he had killed.
• Lin Shuguang and the others arrived at the evacuated complex, where soldiers, artillery, and armored vehicles surrounded the underground parking garage.
• Wang Jin's group complained about waiting for the military team until Yang Jie told Xiao Hai and Pang Jun to quiet down.
• Song Kaiyuan arrived with seven soldiers, took overall command, and ordered Zhao Jie to distribute the spider intelligence reports.
• Song Kaiyuan explained that the mission was to identify the Ferocious Beasts in the tunnel and gather intelligence, then ordered the teams to move out.

Lin Shuguang and the two teams entered the cave beneath the underground garage, where they encountered Black Armored Scythe Spiders and followed the soldiers’ guide deeper into the nest. After Lin Shuguang secretly used the Soul Refining Technique to control a spider and prevent it from exposing them, the group continued toward their mission.

• Song Kaiyuan led the teams down into the cave, where Lin Shuguang killed a hibernating Black Armored Scythe Spider and warned everyone to extinguish their glow sticks.
• Song Kaiyuan ordered Zhao Jie to guide the group through the branching passages using his Special Spiritual Body.
• Lin Shuguang sensed a large group approaching, and the teams hid as nearly a hundred Black Armored Scythe Spiders rushed past.
• A spider at the rear detected Xiao Hai, who had secretly taken a blade fragment from the spider Lin Shuguang killed, and the swarm began to stop.
• Lin Shuguang used the Soul Refining Technique to seal the spider’s mind, allowing the swarm to move on without discovering the group.
• Song Kaiyuan urged the teams to continue toward the nest and finish their mission quickly.

Lin Shuguang helped the Military Department defeat the Black Armored Scythe Spiders, then returned to Demon Martial and learned that the Guo Family was making trouble over the elemental ore deal. The chapter ended with him entering the Cultivation Room and turning his attention to a blood-colored figure rising inside the mine.

• Lin Shuguang joined Song Kaiyuan's forces in battle while his controlled Black Armored Scythe Spider evolved into a Silver Armored Scythe Spider, which he subdued and sent into dormancy.
• After the battle, Lin Shuguang exchanged contact details with Song Kaiyuan and returned to Demon Martial by helicopter.
• Qi Lin gave Lin Shuguang a booklet about the Hundred Schools League's Heavenly Prides, and Meng Shenzhou checked that he was safe.
• Lin Shuguang heard an explosion and murmured that someone had made their move as Qi Lin watched a mushroom cloud rise.
• A messenger from [Nightmare] delivered Thousand-Faced God's intelligence that the Guo Family was plotting over the elemental ore deal, and Lin Shuguang demanded an explanation from [Nightmare].
• Lin Shuguang went to the Cultivation Room and focused his mind on the elemental ore mine, where a blood-colored figure rose.

Lin Shuguang used the Blood Spirit’s body to protect Huang Qisheng from a Guo Family assassination attempt. After striking down Guo Zhenglei, he charged at the remaining attackers and offered to spare one who survived his slash.

• Lin Shuguang took control of the Blood Spirit and went to Huang Qisheng as the Guo Family prepared to attack.
• Lin Shuguang intercepted the first arrow aimed at Huang Qisheng, then shattered a volley of arrows and killed the archers by hurling the broken shafts back at them.
• Guo Zhenglei and Ren Jin arrived, and Huang Qisheng recognized Guo Zhenglei as a Guo Family member.
• Lin Shuguang interrupted Guo Zhenglei and struck him so hard that he flew to the ground, leaving the Guo Family attackers stunned.
• Lin Shuguang charged at the remaining men with his scythe and declared that he would spare whoever survived his slash.

Lin Shuguang’s Blood Spirit Clone defeated and killed Guo Zhenglei and Ren Jin, then he returned to Demon Martial and raised his attributes through overnight cultivation. Afterward, Meng Shenzhou rushed over with news he called huge.

• Ren Jin attacked Lin Shuguang with the Sword Rain Formation, but Lin Shuguang fought through the sword shadows and overpowered him.
• Ren Jin tried to withdraw by claiming he was from the Wuji Sect, but Lin Shuguang killed him anyway.
• Lin Shuguang ended his possession of the Blood Spirit Clone and returned to the cultivation room at Demon Martial.
• Lin Shuguang consumed Great Yuan Pills and cultivated through the night, reaching 279 crisp bone sounds and increasing all his attributes.
• Meng Shenzhou excitedly called Lin Shuguang over to share what he said was huge news.

The Guo Family learned that a blood-robed figure had killed Guo Zhenglei and their other fighters, but its patriarch still demanded the elemental ore mine within two months. At Fulong Cave, Lin Shuguang followed a pillar of light into a mountain range filled with skeletons and confronted a Corpse King that called him an otherworldly human.

• The Guo Family patriarch rebuked Guo Fenglin over the deaths of Guo Zhenglei and the Guo Family’s fighters, then ordered him to seize the elemental ore mine within two months.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that Lu Fanxing had reached the seventh heaven of the viscera refining stage and was a favorite for the Hundred Schools League.
• Lin Shuguang accepted missions and hunted a Thunderous Savage Bull at Fulong Cave, collecting its horn and completing the mission.
• Lin Shuguang saw a pillar of light and rushed toward a mountain range as poisonous mist and skeletons spread across it.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the skeletons until the Corpse King emerged from a split mountain and called him an otherworldly human.
• Lin Shuguang rejected the Corpse King’s accusation and attacked it with his blade.

Lin Shuguang learned [Nether God Prison Suppression] and rampaged through [Fulong Cave], killing corpse kings and refining their corpse essence to strengthen himself. As he neared the pillar of light, a savage aura descended and declared that he would die.

• [Sea King Martial Dao Will] taught Lin Shuguang [Nether God Prison Suppression], which let him refine a corpse king's essence and boost his attributes.
• Lin Shuguang killed a second corpse king and continued through [Fulong Cave], burning away the poisonous fog and cutting down skeleton men.
• Lin Shuguang killed and refined more than twenty corpse kings, gaining sixty strength points and over two hundred mental power points.
• Lin Shuguang approached the pillar of light through increasingly intense Corpse Qi and noticed that the corpse king auras nearby were stronger.
• A savage aura descended on Lin Shuguang, and an unseen opponent told him to die.

Lin Shuguang refined the Corpse Kings’ Demonic Souls, greatly increasing his strength, then claimed two of five blood-red Jade Beads before fleeing as a powerful swordsman arrived. Li Jiandao concealed a Jade Bead from the newcomers, and the search for the remaining prizes began.

• The Corpse King’s Demonic Souls invaded Lin Shuguang, but he trapped them in his Sea of Consciousness and refined them into nourishment.
• Lin Shuguang finished refining the horde, raising his Strength to 1100 and Spirit to 1500, with Agility at 580 and Defense at 900.
• Lin Shuguang reached the pillar of light’s source and grabbed two of the five Jade Beads as the others flew away.
• A powerful sword strike cleared the poisonous mist and destroyed countless skeletons, so Lin Shuguang fled rather than risk a fight.
• Li Jiandao arrived at the vanished pillar, saw Lin Shuguang retreating, and quietly put away the Jade Bead he had found before the others questioned him.

Lin Shuguang was ambushed by Xie Wutao and six Wuji Sect members who wanted to seize his supposed treasure. He killed three attackers, overpowered the fifth-heaven Xie Wutao, and approached him with lethal intent.

• Lin Shuguang tried to leave the mountains, but Xie Wutao and six companions blocked his path and demanded to know what had happened at Fulong Cave.
• When Xie Wutao ordered his group to attack and take Lin Shuguang’s treasure, Lin Shuguang killed Yin Feng, Chang De, and Old Eight with a single counterattack.
• Xie Wutao invoked the Wuji Sect and his fifth-heaven cultivation, but Lin Shuguang unleashed his strength and sent him crashing into a mound.
• Lin Shuguang dismissed the fifth heaven as nothing special and refused Xie Wutao’s plea for mercy as he approached with killing intent.

Lin Shuguang killed Xie Wutao and the other Wuji Sect members, while investigators at Fulong Cave mistook Zhu Yan for the one who claimed its treasure. Back at school, Lin heard a wildly exaggerated rumor crediting Zhu Yan with killing a million monsters and froze at the story.

• Lin Shuguang killed the remaining Wuji Sect members after Xie Wutao threatened him, then left the woods.
• A group of cultivators found the bodies and concluded that a powerful saber user, possibly an enemy of the Wuji Sect, had killed them.
• Heavenly Prides at Fulong Cave found traces of a fight, blamed Zhu Yan for taking the treasure, and Li Jiandao silently remembered his name.
• Lin Shuguang returned from Fulong Cave without realizing that Zhu Yan had become the scapegoat for his actions.
• Meng Shenzhou told Lin Shuguang that rumors claimed Zhu Yan summoned an otherworldly flame, killed a million monsters, and took the treasure, leaving Lin frozen.

Lin Shuguang used the Jade Beads to begin tempering his internal organs, greatly improving his strength. After learning that Chang Jun and the others had vanished, he set out to confront the death soldiers suspected of abducting them.

• The Wuji Sect's Great Protector ordered a search for Xie Wutao's killer and said he would personally deal with Huang Qisheng.
• Lin Shuguang discovered that the Jade Beads could temper his internal organs and used two of them to form a mysterious rune and raise his agility and defense.
• Huang Qisheng told Lin Shuguang that Chang Jun, Er Dao, and the others had disappeared, and the Blood Spirit went to investigate the Old City District.
• Lin Shuguang sent Cao Chao to investigate and went to the Elemental Ore mine, where Liu Zi worried about his missing big brother and companions.
• Cao Chao reported that a group of suspected death soldiers had traveled from the Old City District to the outskirts, and Lin Shuguang demanded their location.