Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang killed the Steel Giant Ape and became the first examinee to reach the array tower’s sixth floor, leaving the other contestants stunned. He broke through the Mental Barrier at the entrance to the seventh floor and began absorbing the spiritual energy there.

• Lin Shuguang charged back at the wounded Steel Giant Ape and killed it with a powerful saber strike.
• Tang Hong feared Lin Shuguang, while Zheng Sila and Wan Jiangui were shocked by his strength.
• Lin Shuguang reached the sixth floor first and carved through its stronger Ferocious Beasts toward the stairs.
• Lin Shuguang recognized and broke through the Mental Barrier guarding the seventh floor.
• Red Lotus City's Titled Martial Kings and Master Yuan Song speculated about who had reached the seventh floor.
• Lin Shuguang stepped onto the seventh floor, sensed the spiritual energy, and activated his Energy Pool to absorb it.

Lin Shuguang reached the limit of his cultivation on the Formation Tower’s seventh floor, took first place in the Second Round, and prepared for the Third Round’s dangerous combat tournament. The chapter ended as the thirty qualifiers entered the Arena and prepared to draw lots for their first matches.

• Lin Shuguang absorbed Heaven and Earth Power until his bone tempering reached 588 rings, then took a flag and teleported out of the Formation Tower.
• Li Jiandao and the other contestants reached the seventh floor, found it strewn with corpses, and faced a new wave of Ferocious Beasts.
• Lin Shuguang met King Cheng Wu, Master Yuan Song, and other experts, who praised his performance and wondered about his background.
• The thirty Second Round qualifiers gathered, while Zheng Sila, Tang Hong, and other contestants who had failed to claim flags were eliminated.
• Lin Shuguang returned to his lodgings, bathed, and cultivated in preparation for the Third Round.
• The thirty contestants entered the Arena, where the rules for the potentially deadly matches and challenge platforms were announced before they drew lots.

Lin Shuguang drew the arena crowd’s attention as the third-round duels began, while several leading contestants secured victories. The matches continued, leaving Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao among Wan Jiangui’s targets.

• The thirty contestants entered the arena with Lin Shuguang at the front, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Sheng Zhuoyuan exploited Tang He’s arrogance, wounded him with her chained slashes, and knocked him off the platform.
• Xiao Zhan defeated his opponent with a single spear strike and spared his life.
• Wan Jiangui engulfed his opponent in flames until the contestant surrendered, then challenged Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao with a taunt.

Lin Shuguang faced Gu Fengkuang in the Hundred Schools League and killed him with a decisive saber strike after Gu Fengkuang refused to surrender. The venue fell silent, and Gu Fengkuang’s death reminded the spectators that arena matches could end in death.

• Gu Fengkuang entered the arena determined to prove himself and warned Lin Shuguang that his perfected saber move could be uncontrollable.
• Gu Fengkuang transformed, grew to three meters tall, and charged Lin Shuguang with his great saber.
• Lin Shuguang criticized Gu Fengkuang’s saber technique and cut his shoulder with a swift strike.
• Gu Fengkuang attacked again, but Lin Shuguang unleashed a fierce saber strike that overwhelmed his defenses.
• Gu Fengkuang gambled that Lin Shuguang would stop short, but Lin Shuguang struck him down and killed him.
• Lin Shuguang left the arena as the silent crowd was reminded that a match could cost a competitor’s life.

Lin Shuguang killed Gu Fengkuang with one saber strike, then advanced through the next round of arena selections. He defeated Liu Qingming and faced Xiao Zhan, who challenged his arena.

• Lin Shuguang killed Gu Fengkuang, alarming the spectators and making Wan Jiangui reconsider his opinion of him.
• The top fifteen contestants drew lots, placing Lin Shuguang and Xiao Zhan in the same group while Li Jiandao and Wan Jiangui defended the other arenas.
• Liu Qingming challenged Lin Shuguang, but Lin Shuguang cleaved through his ice blades and sent him out of the arena.
• Lin Shuguang, Li Jiandao, and Wan Jiangui each successfully defended their arenas through three consecutive wins.
• Xiao Zhan challenged Lin Shuguang and offered to let him recover, but Lin Shuguang refused and said they should finish quickly.

Lin Shuguang defeated Xiao Zhan after a brutal spear-and-saber fight that ended in a sea of flames. After recovering with pills, Lin Shuguang joined Li Jiandao and Wan Jiangui as the finalists, and Li Jiandao watched him during the break.

• Xiao Zhan attacked Lin Shuguang with his magnetic field and Black Dragon Spear, but Lin Shuguang appeared behind him and met him in close combat.
• Lin Shuguang pressed Xiao Zhan with a series of powerful saber strikes, forcing Xiao Zhan to unleash an explosion that engulfed the arena in flames.
• Lin Shuguang cut through the flames and stood with burns while Xiao Zhan, drenched in blood, admitted defeat and collapsed.
• Lin Shuguang asked the medic for eighty or a hundred pills, accepted three Wound Healing Pills, and sat down to rest.
• Lin Shuguang, Li Jiandao, and Wan Jiangui became the final three, and Lin Shuguang asked Li Jiandao why he was looking at him.

Lin Shuguang overwhelmed Wan Jiangui in the championship round and knocked him unconscious, leaving Li Jiandao as his next opponent. Li Jiandao accepted Lin Shuguang’s challenge without waiting for him to rest.

• Wan Jiangui drew the second position and eagerly stepped onto the platform to face Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang opened with a devastating saber strike that stunned Wan Jiangui and revealed he had been holding back.
• Lin Shuguang destroyed Wan Jiangui’s sword techniques and suppressed him with stronger, relentless attacks.
• Lin Shuguang blasted Wan Jiangui off the platform and declared that he had won because he was stronger; Wan Jiangui passed out.
• Lin Shuguang challenged Li Jiandao to fight immediately, and Li Jiandao agreed.

Lin Shuguang defeated Li Jiandao in a battle of mental strength and won the Hundred Schools League’s Third Round, becoming its Triple Crown Champion. After the results were announced, he learned the team would leave the next morning and asked about Red Lotus City.

• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao clashed through their Martial Hearts, shaking the Challenge Platform while Master Yuan Song asked Senior Qi to keep them safe.
• Li Jiandao admitted defeat, and the referee declared Lin Shuguang the winner and Triple Crown Champion.
• The officials awarded Lin Shuguang first place, Li Jiandao second, and injured Wan Jiangui third; Wan Jiangui fainted after learning Lin Shuguang had won.
• The Demon Martial team leader told Lin Shuguang they would leave by boat the next morning and that Red Lotus City would hold a celebration banquet.
• Lin Shuguang asked the team leader how much he knew about Red Lotus City.

After the banquet, Lin Shuguang received the fifth Jade Bead from Li Jiandao and learned that Great Xia’s Spark Plan was preparing for a coming cataclysm. The chapter left Lin Shuguang considering the approaching danger and the secret of his unusual conversion from Bone Tempering to Organ Refinement.

• Lin Shuguang met Li Jiandao on a rooftop, where Li Jiandao gave him the Jade Bead and thanked him for helping advance his Martial Dao.
• Li Jiandao learned Lin Shuguang was still a first-year and suspected he was part of the school’s Spark Plan.
• Li Jiandao explained that Great Xia’s Spark Plan aimed to increase Organ Refinement martial artists tenfold in response to a predicted cataclysm.
• Li Jiandao said the Heavenly Secrets Book foretold a slim chance of survival appearing within the next two years, and he suspected the descending Secret Realms were an omen.
• Lin Shuguang recalled Gu Yingxiong’s warning and inspected his Attribute Panel, which showed his cultivation converting from Bone Tempering to Organ Refinement.
• Lin Shuguang considered how his secret method had broken the normal cultivation barrier and realized revealing it could put him in danger.

After winning the Hundred Schools League, Lin Shuguang and the other contestants sailed away from Red Lotus City, but a supernatural storm and a Demon King attack threatened their ships. Lin Shuguang rushed to the Navigation Room to help as something struck the vessel.

• The Demon Martial students left Red Lotus City, while a bandaged Wan Jiangui reacted with shock and self-doubt to their conversation about Lin Shuguang.
• Yan Kai told Qi Lin that Lin Shuguang had won the Triple Crown and would return to the Demon Capital in eight hours, prompting Qi Lin to notify the Principal.
• At sea, Li Jiandao noticed Lin Shuguang had grown stronger and began to suspect he had visited Fulong Cave before him.
• A lightning storm struck the fleet, and Lin Shuguang sensed that someone was controlling the strange force behind it.
• Soldiers reported a Sea Monster and a Demon King attack, so Lin Shuguang identified himself as a member of the Great Xia Special Management Bureau and asked the captain what to do.
• Something slammed into the ship and an explosion violently shook it as Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao entered the Navigation Room.

A sea-monster swarm attacked the Tian Guang Hao and the other ships, forcing the examinees to join the defense. As the fighters were pushed back, a familiar saber rang out from the battle with the demon king, leaving everyone stunned.

• The captain announced that sea monsters had attacked the ships, communications were down, and a demon king was among the attackers.
• Pang Yuan and other examinees went to the deck to fight, while Zheng Sila urged the hesitant fighters to help.
• The examinees joined the defense against the blue-scaled sea monsters as the attackers climbed aboard the ships.
• Tang Hong accused Lin Shuguang of hiding, and the distraction let the sea monsters break through and drive the defenders back.
• A huge crimson wing appeared over the distant sea, and the sea monsters recoiled as a familiar saber rang out from the demon king's battle.

Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao defeated the Demon King and returned safely to the ships, where they were hailed as saviors. After the Military Department reached the fleet, its Great Grandmaster ordered that Lin Shuguang be given medicine and personally escorted the students onward.

• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao fought the Demon King in the sea, and a vast whirlpool swallowed nearby Sea Monsters before the waters split apart.
• The ships survived the battle, and the shaken students wondered whether Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao had died.
• The students turned on Tang Hong for calling Lin Shuguang a coward and weakening their resolve, while Tang Hong covered his head and begged for mercy.
• Lin Shuguang and Li Jiandao emerged from the sea unharmed and received applause from the students aboard the ships.
• The Military Department sent five warships to meet the fleet, and its Great Grandmaster ordered Great Yuan Pills taken to Lin Shuguang and took charge of the escort.

Lin Shuguang returned to Demon Martial after killing a mutated Demon King and received supplies while the school investigated the attack. He later learned the Guo Family had been crippled and asked Silver Seraph for a trustworthy Forging Master, who demanded half the benefits.

• Demon Martial leaders mistakenly believed Lin Shuguang was badly injured, provided him with medicine, and formed a Special Investigation Group to investigate the Sea Monster attack.
• Lin Shuguang reflected on the Martial Dao Wills that helped kill the Demon King, confirmed that his Hundred Schools League reward would include a secret realm visit, and examined an Alchemy Stone fragment that could upgrade his Demon God Armor.
• Meng Shenzhou and Chu Xiongtian told Lin Shuguang that Silver Seraph had helped destroy the Guo Family, leaving its ancestor badly injured and its high-level fighters defeated.
• Lin Shuguang contacted Silver Seraph about the Guo Family and asked whether he knew a trustworthy Forging Master.
• Silver Seraph offered to help Lin Shuguang find a Forging Master in exchange for half the benefits, echoing Lin Shuguang's earlier demand.

Silver Seraph left after Lin Shuguang appealed to their friendship while negotiating over profits. As Lin Shuguang’s Hundred Schools League championship made him a sensation at Demon Martial, Cao Chao picked him up for safety education work and hinted at a classified discovery of three-hundred-year-old Ancient Ruins in the west.

• Lin Shuguang persuaded Silver Seraph to consider his request, and Silver Seraph broke into the void and left to bring back news.
• Word spread that Lin Shuguang had won the Hundred Schools League and become the Triple Crown Champion, prompting Luo Tianxiang and other Demon Martial students to train harder.
• Pang Hu, Xu Feng, and Fang Yuan tried to cultivate beside Lin Shuguang’s bed, then discovered that Fang Yuan’s unwashed socks were the source of a bad smell.
• Lu Hong called Lin Shuguang early in the morning, and Cao Chao drove him to take part in the month’s safety education work.
• Cao Chao told Lin Shuguang that Ancient Ruins dating back three hundred years had been discovered in the west, though the details remained classified.

Lin Shuguang attended a high-level Special Management Bureau meeting covering Demonic Cultivators, the [Divine Temple]'s holy war, and rising Spiritual Energy and Secret Realm activity. When Professor Jiang asked for help deciphering an ancient sheet of gold paper written in Oracle Bone Script, Lin Shuguang volunteered.

• Lin Shuguang told Lu Hong that he had won the Hundred Schools League championship and earned a Triple Crown Champion title.
• At the meeting, officials praised Huai City's crackdown on Demonic Cultivators, led by Lin Shuguang, and ordered regions not to launch related operations amid the [Divine Temple]'s holy war abroad.
• Professor Jiang reported that Secret Realms, Spatial Tunnels, Ferocious Beast incursions, and Spiritual Energy levels were increasing, while warning that a second mutation remained unconfirmed.
• Professor Jiang said the Science and Education Institute needed help deciphering a gold sheet found in Ancient Ruins, which might contain Oracle Bone Script from over ten thousand years ago.
• Lin Shuguang volunteered to help decipher the Oracle Bone Script, drawing surprised looks from the attendees.

Lin Shuguang agreed to help decipher Oracle Bone Script, then accompanied Cao Chao to investigate a piece of inscribed iron that had drawn a powerful Fire Elementalist after Cao He. The pursuit converged on Eighteenth Street, where a scarlet-haired Hall Master believed the iron could help him reach Mystic Profundity.

• Lin Shuguang told Director Luo he could assist the Science and Education Institute with Oracle Bone Script, and Director Luo submitted an application for him.
• Cao Chao asked Lin Shuguang to help his younger brother, Cao He, who was being pursued over a palm-sized piece of inscribed iron.
• Cao Chao and Lin Shuguang discovered that Cao He had fled, and Cao He called to say he was being chased and had gained indecipherable writing in his head.
• Cao Chao arranged to meet Cao He on Eighteenth Street, while a scarlet-haired Hall Master ordered his men to drive Cao He toward them and claimed the iron might help him reach Mystic Profundity.

Lin Shuguang rescued Cao He from Zhu Shihao’s men and forced Zhu Shihao to reveal the Yin Yang Stone’s origins. The group reached the Zhu Family Ancestral Home, where Lin asked Cao He to reproduce the mysterious markings.

• Cao Chao brought Lin Shuguang to help Cao He, and Lin crushed Zhu Shihao’s fire dragon with one hand.
• Lin Shuguang defeated Zhu Shihao and his men with a single saber slash, then demanded to know why Zhu Shihao had pursued Cao He.
• Zhu Shihao admitted that he wanted the object because his ancestor had called it the Yin Yang Stone and said it contained secrets of cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang took Zhu Shihao and the Cao brothers to the Zhu Family Ancestral Home and asked Cao He to draw the markings he had seen.
• Cao He agreed to try, and Zhu Shihao realized Cao He had kept information from him.

Cao He deciphered the oracle bone script and gained the Mighty Bull Demon Fist from the Yin Yang Stone. Lin Shuguang learned the technique and prepared to take an oracle bone script assessment for the Science and Education Institute in Dragon City.

• Cao He showed Lin Shuguang five oracle bone characters, and Lin Shuguang deciphered four as clues to the Mighty Bull Demon Fist.
• Lin Shuguang told Cao He to circulate his cultivation technique while recalling the characters, and Cao He awakened the Mighty Bull Demon Fist.
• Cao He demonstrated the fist technique, and Lin Shuguang paid to learn it.
• Cao Chao thanked Lin Shuguang for saving Cao He, and Lin Shuguang told him they were family before asking for a ride.
• Director Luo told Lin Shuguang that his Science and Education Institute assessment was scheduled for the next morning in Dragon City.
• Lin Shuguang asked Silver Seraph to arrange a meeting with the Forging Master, and Silver Seraph agreed.

Lin Shuguang visited Black Street with Silver Seraph and had a legendary Forging Master upgrade his Demon God Armor using Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron. After learning the armor had belonged to someone from the Qin Family, Lin Shuguang said he might go to Dragon City the next day.

• Silver Seraph guided Lin Shuguang into Black Street, where Lin Shuguang killed five men who had followed them.
• Silver Seraph brought Lin Shuguang to a legendary Forging Master, who agreed to upgrade Lin Shuguang's Demon God Armor.
• Lin Shuguang gave the Forging Master Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron, and the master reforged the armor, removing its serial number and previous damage.
• The Forging Master warned Lin Shuguang that the armor had been lost by a prominent member of Dragon City's Qin Family.
• Lin Shuguang told Silver Seraph he might go to Dragon City, and Silver Seraph warned him to come back alive.

Lin Shuguang passed the Science and Education Institute’s oracle bone script test and traveled to its secret base in Dragon City. There, he was assigned to decipher thirteen characters from Zone D, ten of which he recognized.

• Lu Hong drove Lin Shuguang to a nationwide oracle bone script test overseen by Director Luo.
• Lin Shuguang translated all ten test characters in five minutes and passed with high praise.
• Lin Shuguang flew to Dragon City with Xue Leqi and entered the Science and Education Institute’s secret base.
• Lin Shuguang encountered Pei Ruoyi and Lu Tianyu at the base before being assigned to Zone D.
• Lin Shuguang examined thirteen oracle bone script characters and recognized ten: Connect, Blood, Practice, Origin, Elixir, Gold, Realm, Condense, Temper, and Body.