Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang reached Wo Niu Ridge and claimed a peak near the Divine Tree, driving off challengers from the Thunderclap Martial Hall and other martial artists. When Qin Lie of the Qin Family tried to force him out, Lin Shuguang defeated him and sent him flying from the peak.

• Lin Shuguang arrived at Wo Niu Ridge, where martial artists had gathered around the Divine Tree and its ripening fruits.
• After a Thunderclap Martial Hall fighter ordered him to leave, Lin Shuguang took his saber, cut his throat, and kicked him into his companions.
• Lin Shuguang occupied a peak and rejected the martial artists who asked to join forces or tried to crowd onto it.
• Lin Shuguang spotted Wei Nuolan on a nearby peak and noted that no one from the Qin Family was present.
• Qin Lie arrived with the Qin Family and ordered Lin Shuguang to surrender the peak, then attacked him with a fire dragon.
• Lin Shuguang endured Qin Lie's flames, broke his bones with a saber strike, and sent him flying as onlookers watched in shock.

Lin Shuguang defeated Qin Lie and a group of Qin Family guards, then attacked Qin Hujun despite warnings about the family’s power. Just as he prepared to strike again, he and the other Martial Grandmasters sensed a terrifying presence approaching from the southwest.

• Lin Shuguang knocked Qin Lie off the peak with one saber strike, stunning the Wei Family and Chi Wanyi.
• Qin Hujun ordered more than a dozen Qin Family guards to attack Lin Shuguang, but Lin Shuguang sent them flying off the peak.
• Lin Shuguang charged Qin Hujun and struck him twice, leaving him injured and humiliated.
• Qin Hujun threatened Lin Shuguang with the Qin Family’s power, then fell in fright when Lin Shuguang raised his saber again.
• Lin Shuguang, Wei Nuolan, and the Martial Grandmasters sensed a terrifying presence approaching from the southwest.

A Dragon Crocodile attacked Wo Niu Ridge, slaughtering Martial Artists as Wei Nuolan fought to keep it from reaching the Divine Tree’s fruit. Just as another Dragon Crocodile appeared, a mysterious figure mounted it and struck with a saber, leaving the crowd recognizing him.

• A Dragon Crocodile charged out of the valley, killing Martial Artists with its lightning blasts as the crowd fled.
• The Wang Family’s heavy firearms failed to damage the Dragon Crocodile, and Lin Shuguang retreated.
• Wei Nuolan ordered the Wei Family to fire its Yuan Magnetic Fire Cannons, then attacked the Dragon Crocodile with Origin Arrows.
• The Dragon Crocodile reached the Wei Family’s hilltop and killed its cannon operators while Wei Nuolan continued fighting it.
• A second Dragon Crocodile appeared, and a figure riding its head struck it with a saber, prompting the crowd to cry, “It’s him!!!”

Lin Shuguang guarded the Mystical Fruit Tree while Qin Taihang arrived and defeated the two Dragon Crocodiles. As the fruit began to ripen, Wang Mu challenged Qin Taihang, who ordered the Qin Family to shoot anyone approaching, with their weapons aimed at Lin Shuguang.

• Lin Shuguang wounded a Dragon Crocodile with two slashes, then stayed by the fruit tree instead of pursuing it.
• One Dragon Crocodile attacked the martial artists guarding the tree while the other fought Wei Nuolan; Lin Shuguang waited for the fruit to ripen.
• Qin Taihang arrived and wounded one Dragon Crocodile and killed the other with his Fang Tian Hua Ji.
• As the fruit began to glow, Qin Taihang declared that the Qin Family would take it, and Wang Mu arrived to challenge him.
• Qin Taihang ordered Qin Hujun to shoot anyone who approached, and Qin Hujun directed the Qin Family's guns and cannons at Lin Shuguang.

Qin Hujun ordered a barrage against Lin Shuguang, but Lin survived and attacked the Qin forces, forcing Qin Taihang into battle. As Lin and Qin Taihang fought over the strange Divine Tree, Qin Hujun fired Yuan Magnetic missiles at Lin, prompting Qin Taihang to charge forward in alarm.

• Qin Hujun directed a massive gun barrage at Lin Shuguang, who used flying rocks and his Demon God Armor to survive it unharmed.
• Lin Shuguang leaped from the dust and struck at Qin Hujun, killing or wounding thirteen guards before Qin Taihang intercepted his saber and saved Hujun.
• Lin Shuguang and Qin Taihang fought fiercely, while Wang Mu watched for a chance to claim the strange Divine Tree's fruit and Wei Nuolan admitted she did not know Lin's background.
• Qin Hujun ordered Yuan Magnetic missiles fired at Lin Shuguang, and the blasts hurled Qin Taihang backward before he charged forward shouting in alarm.

Lin Shuguang killed Qin Hujun as the Divine Tree’s fruit ripened, then uprooted the entire tree amid a chaotic battle on Wo Niu Ridge. He escaped with the tree while Qin Taihang and the others pursued and more than a dozen Demon King-level Ferocious Beasts attacked.

• Lin Shuguang fought off Qin Taihang and evaded Qin Hujun’s Yuan Magnetic Fire Cannon as the Qin Family guards opened fire.
• Lin Shuguang cut through the Qin Family’s fighters and advanced on Qin Hujun while Qin Taihang focused on the ripening Divine Tree.
• When the fruit ripened, Qin Taihang rushed toward the tree, and Lin Shuguang stabbed Qin Hujun through the chest.
• More than a dozen Demon King-level Ferocious Beasts charged into the battle, and Silver Seraph joined the scramble for the fruit.
• Silver Seraph plucked three fruits before Qin Taihang stopped him, while Lin Shuguang uprooted the Divine Tree and fled with it.

Lin Shuguang and the Silver Seraph escaped with the Divine Tree and its Crystal Fruits, and Lin Shuguang refined several fruits to break through while the Qin, Wang, and Wei families tracked them down. When the pursuing Grandmasters surrounded the town, Lin Shuguang rose to face them alone.

• Lin Shuguang and the Silver Seraph reached a town thirty kilometers from Wo Niu Ridge with the uprooted Divine Tree and its Crystal Fruits.
• The Silver Seraph warned that Qin Taihang's trackers would catch up, but Lin Shuguang began refining the fruits and asked him to stand guard.
• Lin Shuguang swallowed Crystal Fruits for fifty minutes and broke through, announcing that he had reached the Eleventh Heaven.
• Qin Taihang, Wang Mu, Wei Nuolan, and the other Grandmasters arrived in town and called for Lin Shuguang to come out.
• Lin Shuguang thanked the Silver Seraph, drew his saber, and charged into the surrounded crowd, cutting down the fighters.

After the battle at Wanxing Mountain, the Qin Family launched a bounty hunt for Lin Shuguang, who returned to Huai City and brought the Divine Tree sapling home. He collected the little child from his mother and left with him, firmly rejecting the idea of making the child her godson.

• News spread that Lin Shuguang had killed Qin Hujun and gravely wounded Qin Taihang, while the Qin, Wang, and Wei families counted their losses.
• The Qin Family’s border-guarding Martial King ordered them to kill Lin Shuguang, and the family offered rewards for information leading to him.
• Wei Nuolan and Wang Mu’s families chose to close their gates and focus on cultivation rather than get caught up in the Qin Family’s hunt.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City with Silver Seraph after breaking through to the Eleventh Heaven and showed him the tiny Divine Tree sapling.
• Lin Shuguang went home, where Mother Lin had been caring for the child she called Xiao Mi, and took him away to reunite him with his father.
• Lin Shuguang firmly told Mother Lin she could not make Xiao Mi her godson.

Lin Shuguang returned to the Special Management Bureau and learned that the Seventh Department had been burdened with harder missions while he was away. He headed to confront Logistics Director Luo, with Si Qianjun allowing the clash to unfold.

• Lin Shuguang planted the Divine Tree sapling and recalled parting from Silver Seraph, who had left with Xiao Mi to refine in seclusion.
• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun, gave him salted duck eggs, and was told to spend more time at the bureau.
• Bai Heng showed Lin Shuguang that the Seventh Department’s mission rate had fallen after its assignments were made harder, causing members to quit or recover from injuries.
• Lin Shuguang gave Bone Tempering Pills to injured Seventh Department members and promised to finish their mission and protect their benefits.
• Lin Shuguang went to confront Logistics Director Luo, while Si Qianjun told Director Fang to have Luo pay for any repairs.
• Lin Shuguang reached Luo’s office as someone kicked open the door and entered with a saber.

Lin Shuguang confronted Luo Hansheng over the benefits withheld from the Seventh Department, forced him to resign, and then asked Si Qianjun who had backed him. Lin Shuguang left intending to visit Luo Hansheng's patron and see what they were made of.

• Lin Shuguang attacked Luo Hansheng in the Logistics Department and revealed his Great Grandmaster cultivation, forcing Luo to accept his removal from the bureau.
• Lin Shuguang asked Bai Heng whether the First Section had targeted the Seventh Department, and Bai Heng said it had not.
• Yang Tianyi tried to support Luo Hansheng, but Luo angrily denied knowing him and ended the confrontation.
• Fang Yuan told Si Qianjun that Luo Hansheng had resigned, and Si ordered one of their people to take over logistics and clean house.
• Lin Shuguang asked Si Qianjun whose man Luo Hansheng was and said he intended to pay them a visit.

Lin Shuguang asserted the Special Management Bureau’s authority, then learned from Si Qianjun that he might be nominated to represent it in a looming power struggle. After revealing his part in the Wanxing Mountain incident, Lin Shuguang asked how strong the Qin Family’s Mystic Profundity expert was, hinting that he planned to confront him.

• Lin Shuguang visited ten Political Department leaders and forced them to offer apology gifts.
• Si Qianjun explained that old ties had kept him from acting against the Political Department and said Lin Shuguang’s show of force had sent them a message.
• Si Qianjun revealed that higher-ups wanted to weaken the Special Management Bureau and said he and the Governor hoped to nominate Lin Shuguang as its representative.
• Si Qianjun questioned Lin Shuguang about the Divine Tree fruit, and Lin Shuguang admitted that he had uprooted the tree and killed Qin Family members at Wanxing Mountain.
• Si Qianjun warned Lin Shuguang to stay away from Dragon City, and Lin Shuguang asked how strong the Qin Family’s Mystic Profundity expert was.

Lin Shuguang discovered and killed a bizarre, heavily wounded stray dog in an abandoned alley, then ordered the Seventh Department to investigate. While catching up with Feng San and Old Jin, he learned that a man killed in a dispute on the same street had reportedly been seen again, leading him to suspect that Demonic Evil was awakening.

• Lin Shuguang found a bloodied, abnormal stray dog eating flesh in a deserted alley and cut it down with the Slaughter Blade.
• Lin Shuguang called Bai Heng, who brought the Seventh Department to secure the alley and collect the dog for examination.
• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang that residents had left after a man died in a dispute a month earlier, and Lin ordered a thorough search for whoever might be behind the dog.
• Lin Shuguang joined Feng San and Old Jin for drinks, and the three reminisced and joked on the drive.
• Feng San said Old Chen, who had been hacked to death after a dispute, was reportedly seen wandering outside his shop two nights earlier.
• Lin Shuguang recognized Old Chen's case as the same incident Bai Heng had described and suspected that Demonic Evil was awakening.

After learning that Chen Datong’s wife had died and her body had been claimed by a supposed relative, Lin Shuguang and Bai Heng investigated Chen’s grave at Luoshan Cemetery. They subdued a living man dressed in burial clothes, who was left to explain his presence there.

• Lin Shuguang obtained Chen Datong and Chang Jinrong’s records from Bai Heng and learned that Chang’s body had been claimed by a supposed relative.
• Lin Shuguang and Bai Heng drove to Luoshan Cemetery to investigate Chen Datong’s grave.
• The cemetery keeper offered to guide them, but Lin Shuguang declined and entered the dark burial grounds with Bai Heng.
• Near Chen Datong’s grave, Bai Heng’s flashlight went out and a figure in burial clothes startled them.
• Lin Shuguang struck the figure with his saber and lightning chain, then discovered he was alive.
• Bai Heng demanded the man’s name, occupation, reason for being there, and explanation for his clothes.

Chen Tao told Lin Shuguang and Bai Heng that he had seen his missing uncle, Chen Datong, walking toward Grave Hill, but Lin Shuguang found his coffin empty and ordered the Special Management Bureau to open it. As the team arrived to investigate the mountain, the frightened cemetery owner asked Old Zhong for a talisman to calm his nerves.

• Chen Tao explained that a fortune teller had charged him 1,588 to wear burial clothes and summon Chen Datong, and Bai Heng told him he had likely been scammed.
• Lin Shuguang confirmed that Chen Datong's coffin was empty and instructed Bai Heng to call the Seventh Section and have the coffin opened.
• Bai Heng identified the Special Management Bureau's investigation and told Chen Tao that the dead could not return to life.
• Lin Shuguang searched Grave Hill for signs of movement while Bai Heng stayed with Chen Tao and waited for backup.
• The Seventh Department arrived and sealed off the scene, and the cemetery owner asked Old Zhong for a Life-Saving Talisman.

After discovering that Chen Datong’s grave was empty, Lin Shuguang learned that revived dead were appearing across Dragon City and the Special Management Bureau had orders to kill them. Back in the Great Qian Dynasty, he woke in the Lin Family courtyard and asked how long it had been since the Li Family corpse transformation.

• Lin Shuguang found fingernail scratches inside Chen Datong’s empty coffin and warned Si Qianjun that graves across Luoshan might also be empty.
• At an emergency meeting, Lin Shuguang smashed Yang Tianyi’s head through a table and warned him there would be no third chance.
• Si Qianjun reported that special energy was reviving the dead and relayed headquarters’ order to kill all revived corpses.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that experts would search Luoshan, then discussed Yang Tianyi and Lin Shuguang’s growing authority in the bureau.
• At home, Lin Shuguang asked the Blood-colored Demonic Saber whether the Great Qian Dynasty was connected to his world, and it pulled his soul back across worlds.
• Lin Shuguang woke in the Lin Family courtyard and asked Wei Lin how long it had been since the Li Family corpse transformation.

Lin Shuguang went with Wang Yabei to Chunyu Pavilion, where Wan Zhenguo taunted him over his broken engagement and expulsion from his sect. Lin Shuguang punched Wan Zhenguo and ordered Wei Lin to hold off the guards, leaving the gathered young masters stunned.

• Lin Shuguang recalled the search for the mysterious expert and Wei Lin's research into the sects before returning to his room.
• Wang Yabei visited Lin Shuguang and invited him to Chunyu Pavilion to watch the dragon dance.
• At Chunyu Pavilion, Wang Yabei introduced Lin Shuguang to Wan Zhenguo, Qi Yu, Lu Sheng, and Song Yunxi.
• Wan Zhenguo insulted Lin Shuguang over his broken engagement, expulsion from his sect, and his mother's death.
• Lin Shuguang struck Wan Zhenguo and stepped on him while Wei Lin drew his saber to stop the Wan Family's guards.
• Lin Shuguang calmly apologized to the stunned guests and asked what Wang Yabei had been saying.

Lin Shuguang defeated the Wan Family guards and returned to cultivation, while the Wan Family and other city households reacted to his sudden strength. Wang Leru went to reclaim the saber, arriving while Lin Shuguang was bathing.

• Lin Shuguang took Wan Zhenguo's money, defeated the Wan Family guards with Wang Yabei's saber, and accepted the weapon from Wang Yabei.
• Lin Shuguang returned to the Lin Residence, gave the money to Wei Lin to buy medicinal ingredients, and resumed cultivating.
• The Wan Family head heard how Lin Shuguang had defeated the guards and suspected the Lin Family was hiding its strength.
• The Wang, Qi, Lu, and Song Families discussed Lin Shuguang, while Wang Leru set out to retrieve her saber from him.
• Wang Leru confronted Lin Shuguang as he was bathing and demanded that he return the saber.

Lin Shuguang joined the Special Management Bureau’s response to suspected spatial tunnels and went to Luoshan after experts found one blocked by a powerful magnetic field. He offered to counter the field himself and asked Scholar Jiang’s team to prepare to break through the tunnel within thirty seconds.

• A mysterious note invited Lin Shuguang to meet at the rear mountain at midnight, and his soul’s return increased his attributes substantially.
• Si Qianjun showed the bureau footage of a corpse-transformed ferocious bird and ordered the Special Management Bureau to search for and destroy suspected spatial tunnels.
• Lin Shuguang ordered the Seventh Department not to approach suspicious sites without reporting first, prioritizing his members’ safety.
• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang that provincial experts had detected a powerful magnetic field at Luoshan, which they believed concealed a spatial tunnel.
• Lin Shuguang went to Luoshan, learned the experts could not break through the field, and asked Scholar Jiang to prepare his team for a thirty-second attempt.

Lin Shuguang entered the Spatial Tunnel at Grave Hill, explored a strange island, and discovered a dangerous sea and a beach covered in human bones. After reporting his findings and receiving two days off, he asked Bai Heng to take him back to Luoshan that night, leaving Bai Heng frightened.

• Lin Shuguang rushed into the newly opened Spatial Tunnel while Scholar Jiang and the others prepared to follow.
• Inside, the intense environment caused Lin Shuguang's attributes to rise and let him grow into a giant by spending five points of Power of God and Demon.
• Lin Shuguang explored a forested island, found a black sea that gave him an unsettling sensation, and uncovered piles of human bones beneath the beach sand.
• Lin Shuguang returned after twenty minutes, told Scholar Jiang's team about the strong gravity, sea, and bones, and advised them to send Fire Element members and people trained in Hardening techniques.
• Si Qianjun scolded Lin Shuguang over the phone, then gave him two days off after hearing that he was safe.
• Lin Shuguang asked Bai Heng to pick him up that night, and Bai Heng protested that he was afraid to go out at midnight.

Lin Shuguang visited the Luoshan graveyard tunnel, then spent his days off making his sister Lin Xiaoxi exercise and study. At a bookstore, he unexpectedly met Pei Xi, who had brought her biological brother.

• Lin Shuguang confirmed that the tunnel’s magnetic field boosted his Power of God and Demon to a limit of ten, then told Bai Heng to report any bureau developments while he was off duty.
• Lin Xiaoxi begged Lin Shuguang for a Yuan Power Ball, so he promised she could get one if her grades improved and made her run fifteen laps around Jiangxinzhou Park.
• Lin Shuguang took Lin Xiaoxi to a bookstore, where she gravitated toward novels while he browsed a history book.
• Lin Shuguang ran into Pei Xi, and they jokingly clarified that the people they had brought to the bookstore were their biological siblings.