Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang intervened when Wang Bo attacked Liu Bai, overwhelming Wang Bo with his saber and destroying his Dharma Form despite its ability to regenerate. Wang Bo lay defeated before Lin Shuguang, unable to accept the outcome.

• Lin Shuguang ordered Liu Bai to shoot Wang Bo, and Liu Bai gathered his strength and fired an arrow.
• Wang Bo caught and crushed Liu Bai’s arrow, then charged toward Liu Bai and Lin Shuguang with his Dharma Form.
• Lin Shuguang struck Wang Bo’s Dharma Form, splitting it and tearing off its arm, which caused Wang Bo to spit blood.
• Wang Bo used his vitality to restore his Dharma Form, aging decades in the process.
• Lin Shuguang charged again and shattered the Dharma Form, leaving Wang Bo badly injured and unable to stand as Lin Shuguang held his saber against him.

Lin Shuguang defeated Wang Bo and let Liu Bai settle their decades-old feud, then accepted Liu Bai’s offer of service by asking him to teach his sister archery. After returning with Liu Bai, Lin met Bai Heng, who had arrived after a month of training.

• Lin Shuguang handed the dying Wang Bo to Liu Bai, who killed his old enemy and pledged his life to Lin.
• Lin Shuguang declined Liu Bai’s pledge and told him to focus on teaching his little sister archery.
• Liu Bai decided to follow Lin Shuguang, while the Military Department driver inferred that Lin had killed Wang Bo and treated him with greater awe.
• Lin Shuguang and Liu Bai waited at an intersection, where Lin learned Liu Bai had no plans of his own.
• Bai Heng arrived after nearly a month away, looking leaner and more tanned, and greeted Lin Shuguang warmly.

Lin Shuguang brought archery Grandmaster Liu Bai, now a Mystic Profundity expert, to the Special Management Bureau and arranged for him to join while teaching Lin Shuguang’s younger sister. Si Qianjun agreed to meet Liu Bai and consider his recruitment, leaving Huai City’s bureau poised to gain another powerful expert.

• Bai Heng recognized Liu Bai and was startled when the usually intimidating archery Grandmaster smiled and followed Lin Shuguang into the Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang told Bai Heng that Liu Bai had reached Mystic Profundity, leaving Bai Heng astonished by the unexpected change in Liu Bai’s strength.
• Lin Shuguang met Si Qianjun, congratulated him on reaching Mystic Profundity, and revealed that he had broken through as well.
• Si Qianjun asked why Liu Bai had come, and Lin Shuguang explained that he had recruited him to teach his younger sister and wanted him to help the bureau.
• Si Qianjun agreed to handle Liu Bai’s recruitment procedures and said he would meet him, provided there were no issues with him.

Lin Shuguang helped Liu Bai settle into his new role as the Seventh Section’s honorary Inspector and arranged his accommodation, then returned to his family’s shop. An urgent call about anomalies from an Alternate Dimension sent him rushing to a mission site.

• Liu Bai became the Seventh Section’s honorary Inspector, and Director Fang noticed his reverence for Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang arranged Liu Bai’s accommodation through the Jin Family and asked him to teach Lin Xiaoxi archery.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Lin’s Shop and caught up with Mother Lin and Lin Haiyang.
• The Special Management Bureau called Lin Shuguang about active anomalies from an Alternate Dimension.
• Lin Shuguang left with Bai Heng and ordered him to drive straight to the mission site.

Lin Shuguang entered Spatial Tunnel No. 09181 alone to confront a winged abnormal being suspected to be at the Profound Connection Realm. Meanwhile, Liu Bai encountered Lin Xiaoxi at Lin's Shop and recognized her arrow intent, asking if she had ever taken a master.

• Bai Heng informed Lin Shuguang that Profound Connection Realm energy fluctuations had emerged from Spatial Tunnel No. 09181, and Lin Shuguang decided not to call Senior Liu.
• Lin Shuguang reviewed an image of the winged abnormal being and learned that General Xu Huai's forces had established a blockade around the tunnel.
• Lin Shuguang told General Xu Huai to guard the entrance and entered the tunnel alone, while military personnel saluted him.
• Senior officials questioned Lin Shuguang's decision, but Si Qianjun remained confident that he would complete the assignment.
• Liu Bai went to Lin's Shop after learning Lin Shuguang was away, recognized Lin Xiaoxi's arrow intent, and asked whether she had ever taken a master.

Lin Shuguang defeated the evolved Two-winged Fierce Beast in Alternate Dimension 09181 and returned to Huai City, where he discussed the continent’s changing situation with Si Qianjun. On his way to the Jin Family’s cultivation site, he attacked a Godly Beast Corporation messenger who tried to summon him by force.

• Lin Shuguang emerged from Alternate Dimension 09181 carrying the Two-winged Fierce Beast’s corpse and told Commander Xu that the area was safe.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun that the incident had gone smoothly, then asked about the state of the continent and the effects of the World Anomaly.
• Si Qianjun said humanity could benefit from the World Anomaly, and Lin Shuguang asked what would happen if people like them had to hold up the sky.
• Lin Shuguang collected cultivation supplies and headed toward the Jin Family’s prime cultivation site with Bai Heng.
• A burly man from Godly Beast Corporation blocked their car and demanded that Lin Shuguang meet his boss, so Lin Shuguang struck him with Mental Power and ordered Bai Heng to drive.

Lin Shuguang rebuffed the Godly Beast Corporation and considered ways to secure more cultivation resources. Liu Yue came to his villa with an apology gift, a vial of the corporation’s newly developed medicine.

• Bai Heng told Lin Shuguang that the Godly Beast Corporation had invested heavily in Huai City and developed medicine that rapidly increased the number of Viscera Refining Realm martial artists.
• At a meeting, Liu Yue told the Godly Beast Corporation executives that Lin Shuguang was likely a Profound Connection Realm Martial King and warned them not to provoke him.
• After receiving intelligence about the Qin Family’s rising strength, Liu Yue burned the note and reflected on Lin Shuguang’s mystery.
• Lin Shuguang considered using his controlled subjects to secure energy veins in the Demon Domain as his cultivation needs grew.
• Liu Yue visited Lin Shuguang’s villa and offered him a vial of scarlet medicine as an apology for her subordinates’ offense.

Lin Shuguang dismissed the Godly Beast Corporation’s medicine, arranged for Lin Xiaoxi to study archery with Liu Bai, and learned that the Qin Family was seeking him. He left Liu Xiaoxi with her new teacher and headed to meet Qin De, who was waiting at the Jin Family’s residence.

• Lin Shuguang refined the medicine Liu Yue had given him, gained a few attribute points, and judged it too weak to matter much to him.
• After Wang Bo’s death was reported, the Venerable One ordered Xue Wuya to investigate, and Xue Wuya left the hall in a cloud of blood.
• Lin Shuguang brought Lin Xiaoxi to Liu Bai, and she accepted the old man as her archery teacher after seeing his skill.
• Lin Shuguang received Master Jin’s message that the Qin Family wanted to see him and left Lin Xiaoxi with Liu Bai.
• At the Jin Family’s residence, Qin De waited impatiently for Lin Shuguang, while Master Jin tried to learn why he had come.

Lin Shuguang met Qin De, a young master from a collateral branch of the Qin Family, and agreed to help clear Ferocious Beasts from a treasure site in exchange for two hundred million or collateral. He left Master Jin uneasy about the danger of dealing with the Qin Family, but Lin Shuguang said he had his own arrangements.

• Steward Zhou brought Lin Shuguang to meet Qin De at the Jin Family residence.
• Qin De's steward threatened Lin Shuguang with the Qin Family's influence, and Lin Shuguang shattered the steward's knees with a surge of force.
• Qin De asked Lin Shuguang to deal with the Ferocious Beasts at a treasure site and offered twenty million.
• Lin Shuguang demanded two hundred million, and Qin De agreed to provide the sum or treasure as collateral.
• Lin Shuguang accepted the job, and he told Master Jin he had his own arrangements.

Qin De led Lin Shuguang and the Qin Family guards through the Sea of Fire Forest toward a hidden treasure site, where Blood Wolves attacked and Lin Shuguang helped drive them off. Later, Lin Shuguang waited until the guards had nearly defeated a Rock Giant, then landed the killing blow and claimed its blood energy.

• Qin De explained that Blood Wolves threatened the group, and Lin Shuguang warned that they were approaching.
• More than a dozen Blood Wolves ambushed the group, and Lin Shuguang fought them off alongside the Qin Family guards, who suffered several losses.
• Qin De told Elder Meng that he intended to claim the treasure site and that its treasures would let him take everything Qin Taihang once had.
• A Rock Giant emerged in a valley, and Qin De's guards trapped it with Explosive Beads and steel cables while Lin Shuguang watched.
• Lin Shuguang struck the nearly defeated Rock Giant with his saber, killed it, and seized 66,000 cal of blood energy, then urged the group to keep moving.

Lin Shuguang followed Qin De’s group through the valley, using each beast encounter to build his strength while searching for the treasure ground’s entrance. Once he found it, he killed the Black Robe Elder and Qin De, then turned on the remaining Qin Family guards.

• Lin Shuguang killed a rock giant with a single saber strike after the Qin Family guards hesitated, then demanded more money from Qin De for the extended journey.
• Qin De led the group in circles for over an hour, hoping to exhaust Lin Shuguang, while Lin Shuguang grew stronger by killing ferocious beasts and mapped the terrain with his perception.
• Lin Shuguang discovered the treasure ground’s entrance, and the Black Robe Elder recognized his strength just before Lin Shuguang killed him.
• Lin Shuguang revealed that he had reached the Martial King realm in the Profound Connection Realm and killed Qin De despite his threat of Qin Family retaliation.
• Lin Shuguang faced the trembling Qin Family guards and declared that they should do fewer evil deeds in their next lives.

Lin Shuguang entered an abandoned Ancient City, accepted the Sacred Tower’s hell-difficulty trial, and fought his way through a horde of ferocious beasts. After revealing a looming calamity and calling him the Divine Son, the white-bearded old man began to bestow Lin Shuguang’s reward.

• Lin Shuguang followed a strange force to a Crystal Tower, where a white-bearded old man appeared and offered him a trial.
• Lin Shuguang chose hell difficulty and entered the Sacred Mountain, where he had to behead one thousand ferocious beasts within three hours or remain trapped there forever.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the horde with his Slaughter Blade and Demon God Armor, leaving piles of corpses behind him.
• In the Demon Capital, Zhao Xifeng brought Lu You to an Abandoned Factory, where Cao Chao arranged for Lu You to work in the Second Department and Zhao Xifeng promised to report his background to the higher-ups.
• The white-bearded old man returned in War Armor, spoke of the Heart of Slaughter, the approaching Demon God, and the Divine Son, then began to bestow Lin Shuguang’s reward.

Lin Shuguang broke through to the middle tier of the Profound Connection Realm, then disguised himself to reenter the Sacred Tower and claim another reward. After fusing an incomplete Heart of Slaughter, he emerged in black armor with enhanced power.

• Lin Shuguang reached the Profound Connection Realm's Fourth Heaven with the energy reward, while Steel explained that he had given it to him to draw the Divine Son's attention.
• Lin Shuguang returned to the Sacred Tower, but the Robe-Clad Old Man recognized him and teleported him away.
• Lin Shuguang used a human-skin mask to enter the tower again and accepted its trial without speaking.
• Lin Shuguang fought through the trial, defeated its challenge, and obtained an incomplete Heart of Slaughter crystal.
• Lin Shuguang recharged the crystal's analysis and fused it, emerging in black armor with enhanced power.

Lin Shuguang learned that Gang Yan and the Steel Alliance were preparing to avenge their past humiliation, threatening the Elemental Ore mine’s shipments. After arranging for Si Qianjun and the Special Management Bureau to warn the alliance, Lin Shuguang sought a way to strengthen his influence by collecting mental power cultivation methods to potentially upgrade the Soul Refining Technique.

• Cao Chao warned Lin Shuguang that Gang Yan had emerged from seclusion much stronger and was rallying the Steel Alliance against him.
• Lin Shuguang told Huang Qisheng to send any Steel Alliance trouble his way after Huang worried about the mine’s waterborne ore shipments.
• Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City and asked Si Qianjun how much control the Steel Alliance had over coastal transport.
• Si Qianjun offered to have the Special Management Bureau warn the Steel Alliance, and Lin Shuguang accepted his support.
• Lin Shuguang considered building influence through Blood Spirit Clones and asked the archives for the bureau’s mental power cultivation methods so he could try to upgrade the Soul Refining Technique.

Lin Shuguang met his childhood friend Xu Jie, who recounted the deadly school mission that had left him shaken. An emergency sent Lin to the Huizhou border, where he arrived to confront a powerful creature that had already overwhelmed several fighters.

• Lin Shuguang discovered that the Special Management Bureau had only one mental cultivation method, then arranged to meet Xu Jie, who had returned from school.
• Xu Jie told Lin Shuguang that a rescue mission had ended in disaster after a child turned out to be a demonic cultivator, killing several of Xu Jie's teammates.
• Lin Shuguang comforted Xu Jie with a pastry and told him, "No backing down, just fight," prompting Xu Jie to recall hearing the saying from a Hundred Schools League champion.
• Bai Heng summoned Lin Shuguang to respond to an emergency at the Huizhou border, where a suspected Profound Connection Realm creature was causing casualties.
• Lin Shuguang flew to the border and learned that three Viscera Refining Realm Great Grandmasters had fallen and Martial King Luo could not defeat the creature, which appeared to possess an exotic treasure.

Lin Shuguang charged into the ruined residential compound and wounded a powerful lizard beast while pursuing the Exotic Treasure it possessed. As the beast fled beyond the compound, a late-arriving expert found Huang Xiang and the others with no target left to fight.

• Lin Shuguang ignored warnings and entered the combat zone, while Sect Master Huang Xiang followed after learning he was from the Huai City Special Management Bureau.
• Lin Shuguang discovered the target was a fast, poisonous lizard beast, which attacked him after deflecting the sword-wielding middle-aged martial artist's strike.
• Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and severed one of the lizard beast's arms with a powerful slash.
• The wounded lizard beast fled into the ruins, and Lin Shuguang pursued it, blasting apart the surrounding ground as Huang Xiang and the others watched in shock.
• Lin Shuguang continued chasing the beast out of the residential compound, and three minutes later an expert arrived and asked where it had gone.

Lin Shuguang killed the Lizard Beast and kept the jade plaque it had carried, then confronted the Blood-red Demonic Saber when it tried to take the relic. The saber showed him a continent being transformed by Karma Power and offered to teach him a Core Realm technique in exchange for helping it.

• Lin Shuguang beheaded the Lizard Beast, and Martial King Luo and the Military Department personnel praised him while Sect Master Huang left alone.
• The senior Military Department official refused to claim the Lizard Beast's Exotic Treasure, and the chief of staff worried about the cost of rebuilding the ruins.
• Lin Shuguang examined the jade plaque in Huai City, but the Blood-red Demonic Saber appeared and tried to seize it.
• Lin Shuguang caught the saber and demanded answers, so it pulled his Divine Soul into a star-filled sky and showed him a continent covered in Karma Power.
• The Blood-red Demonic Saber warned that Karma Power would turn everyone on the planet into servants and seeds of faith for powerful beings.
• Lin Shuguang questioned the saber about its motives, and it offered to teach him a Core Realm technique if he did something for it.

Lin Shuguang rejected the Blood-colored Demonic Saber’s demand to possess someone again, then focused on cultivation and building his own power while investigating Mental Power methods. When the Qin Family confronted the Jin Family, Lin Shuguang led the Seventh Department there in force.

• Lin Shuguang argued with the Blood-colored Demonic Saber about Karma Power and refused to possess someone again, then resolved to learn more about cultivation and the Saber’s secrets.
• Lin Shuguang contacted the Jin Family and Cao Chao to seek Mental Power cultivation methods and continued training after reaching the Fourth Heaven of Profound Connection Realm.
• Huang Qisheng reported that the Steel Alliance had watched the elemental ore shipments but had held back because Military Department personnel escorted them and its leader had been summoned away.
• Steward Zhou told Lin Shuguang that the Qin Family had come to the Jin Family demanding someone and that Master Jin was struggling to hold them off.
• Lin Shuguang assembled the Seventh Department and brought its members to the Jin Family, where he entered the hall amid curses and a crowd of black-clad bodyguards.

Lin Shuguang confronted and arrested Qin Tianhe and his guards after they came to Huai City demanding Qin De. He told Si Qianjun he would notify the Qin Family himself and was ready to fight them.

• Lin Shuguang entered Master Jin's hall and rejected Qin Tianhe's demand to hand over Qin De.
• Lin Shuguang struck Qin Tianhe, subdued him and the Qin Family guards, and ordered the Seventh Department to arrest them.
• Lin Shuguang reassured Master Jin that the Qin Family posed little threat apart from its patriarch, then returned to the Special Management Bureau.
• Si Qianjun warned Lin Shuguang that the powerful Qin Family would retaliate, but Lin Shuguang said he would contact them himself and fight if necessary.

Lin Shuguang’s arrest of Qin Family members provoked outrage in Huai City and within the Qin Family, while the Steel Alliance’s Gang Yan vowed to kill him personally. After learning Lin Shuguang was a Profound Connection Realm Martial King, the Qin Family sent a Clan Elder and a force toward Huai City, determined not to let the matter go.

• Gang Yan heard that Lin Shuguang had arrested Qin Family members and insisted that he alone would kill Lin Shuguang.
• Officials in the Huai City Special Management Bureau condemned Lin Shuguang’s actions, while Zhou Mojun investigated his strength and secretly sought the opportunity he believed Lin Shuguang possessed.
• The Qin Family’s senior members reacted angrily to the arrests, but the Qin Family Patriarch learned Qin Tianhe and his subordinates were unreachable.
• The Huizhou Special Management Bureau’s Governor told the Qin Family that Lin Shuguang was a Profound Connection Realm Martial King, alarming the family’s senior members.
• The Qin Family sent a force led by a Clan Elder toward Huai City, determined to confront Lin Shuguang.