Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang learned that the Spark Plan was searching dangerous alternate dimensions for a route to an ancient treasure land, then agreed to investigate Spark Eleven. After receiving intelligence from Si Qianjun, he arrived at the Secret Base with a seven-person team awaiting him.

• The white-robed elder explained that ancient beings sought faith offerings and that a jade slip might reveal their cultivation arts and a route to the main world.
• Lin Shuguang studied the jade slip and learned the Spark Plan had narrowed its search to twelve alternate dimensions inhabited by powerful indigenous lifeforms.
• The elder assigned Lin Shuguang to investigate Spark Eleven, revealed that the Qin Family's ancestor was tied to the Upper Realm, and promised to protect Lin Shuguang's family and friends.
• Lin Shuguang insisted that the Steel Alliance belonged to him and jokingly asked the elder for cultivation methods before being sent back to Huai City.
• The elder told Ye Longzheng to help Lin Shuguang enter Spark Eleven discreetly and said he would handle the Qin Family.
• Si Qianjun drove Lin Shuguang to the Secret Base, briefed him on Spark Eleven's intelligent, powerful beasts, and advised him to heed veteran operative Chang Hushan's experience.

Lin Shuguang joined the Spark Eleven team and learned about its fox demons, dangerous illusions, and energy-deposit scouting missions. After negotiating shares with Pei Xi and Su Muyu, he entered the alternate dimension and met the rest of the team as Chang Hushan began a mission briefing.

• Bai Hu introduced Lin Shuguang to Su Muyu and Pei Xi, who revealed she had worked in Spark Eleven for a year and a half.
• Pei Xi explained the team's scouting work and negotiated a fifteen-percent share of any energy Lin Shuguang could extract; Su Muyu joined for ten percent, offering his danger-sensing ability.
• Pei Xi warned Lin Shuguang that Spark Eleven's fox demons used Charm to trap weaker minds in illusions, and that their strength could be judged by their tails.
• After two hours, Bai Hu led the team into Spark Eleven, where Lin Shuguang found a new interface on his Attribute Panel and declined Pei Xi's gas mask.
• Lin Shuguang met Chang Hushan, Er Bai, Jing Hao, and Xue Jing at the makeshift base, where Chang Hushan announced that they would test route 388.

Chang Hushan’s team lured a group of Fox Demons into an ambush, but the Three-tailed Fox Demon broke their formation and turned the fight against them. As Pei Xi was thrown toward Lin Shuguang’s descending saber, he appeared to tell her to duck.

• Su Muyu detected ten approaching Fox Demons, and Xue Jing concealed the team with a formation while Er Bai scattered bait fruits.
• Chang Hushan and the others attacked the distracted Fox Demons, killing two before the survivors fought back and the Three-tailed Fox Demon damaged the formation.
• Chang Hushan’s empowered arrow missed when the Three-tailed Fox Demon dissolved into mist, and Lin Shuguang blocked its surprise attack on Su Muyu.
• The Three-tailed Fox Demon caught Pei Xi with its claw and dragged her into the path of Lin Shuguang’s saber strike.
• As Pei Xi flew toward him, Lin Shuguang seemed to tell her to duck.

Lin Shuguang rescued Pei Xi and killed the Three-tailed Fox Demon, impressing Spark Eleven with his strength. After detecting something unusual in the demon’s final [Charm], he continued onward with the team, while Pei Xi began to suspect something was strange about him.

• Lin Shuguang warned Pei Xi to duck, then struck the Three-tailed Fox Demon and helped send it crashing through the forest as Chang Hushan’s arrow hit it too.
• Lin Shuguang charged the wounded demon, while Chang Hushan and the others speculated about his strength and praised his saber technique.
• Lin Shuguang drove his Slaughter Blade through the demon’s heart and ignored its final [Charm], detecting unusual energy within it.
• Bai Hu and the others checked that Lin Shuguang was unharmed, and Chang Hushan urged the team to stay alert as they moved on.
• Pei Xi followed Lin Shuguang and told him she felt something about him was strange.

Lin Shuguang held off the fox demons so Chang Hushan’s group could escape, then transformed and slaughtered the attackers before discovering a Lightning Elemental Ore vein. Pei Xi and Su Muyu found him absorbing it, and the chapter ended with Lin Shuguang crushing a crystal in front of Pei Xi while she argued for a share.

• Lin Shuguang saved Pei Xi from a fox demon’s strike, then stayed behind to let Chang Hushan lead the others toward the Cold Pool.
• Su Muyu sensed that the exit was blocked, and Lin Shuguang fought off the pursuing fox demons while the others escaped.
• Lin Shuguang transformed into his enormous Demon God form, killed the fox demons, and followed the Crimson Blood Sable to a Lightning Elemental Ore vein.
• Lin Shuguang broke open the hillside and absorbed the ore, while the Crimson Blood Sable cowered before him.
• Pei Xi and Su Muyu found Lin Shuguang, and Su Muyu explained that Chang Hushan’s group had discovered a protected temporary base near the Cold Pool.
• Pei Xi demanded access to the ore, but Lin Shuguang said he could not control the thunderstorm barrier and crushed a crystal as she watched.

Lin Shuguang exhausted the lightning ore deposit, then helped Pei Xi and Su Muyu escape as a powerful ancient beast approached. After his Thunderstorm trap struck the beast, Lin Shuguang carried Pei Xi away, prompting her to curse at him.

• Lin Shuguang refined all the lightning elemental ore, and Pei Xi and Su Muyu began gathering what remained.
• Pei Xi used her spatial ability to take in the mountain while Su Muyu warned that powerful creatures were approaching.
• Lin Shuguang set a Thunderstorm trap in the mine, and the group fled before an ancient beast arrived.
• The trap unleashed a pillar of lightning that struck the beast, which Lin Shuguang identified as a creature with a crocodile head and python body.
• Lin Shuguang grabbed Pei Xi and ran with her while telling Su Muyu to keep up, and Pei Xi angrily accused him of touching her.

Lin Shuguang and the others reached the Mysterious Shelter, where they debated how to handle its murals and a dangerous Elemental Ore deposit. Pei Xi discovered Treasure Medicine and a wall that had not been there before, while Su Muyu uncovered something deeper in the shelter.

• Chang Hushan considered sending Pei Xi to remove the murals, but Lin Shuguang revealed that their group had found at least ten thousand tons of Elemental Ore guarded by a terrifying Fierce Beast.
• Chang Hushan agreed that Lin Shuguang's group deserved sole credit for the deposit and began discussing contacting reinforcements, but Lin Shuguang heard a sound and led everyone deeper into the shelter.
• Lin Shuguang found Pei Xi eating Treasure Medicine, and she admitted she had found three plants and offered him a shriveled piece.
• Chang Hushan examined the Treasure Medicine and confirmed it had lost most of its potency but had not gone bad.
• Pei Xi pointed out where she had found the medicine, and Chang Hushan's group discovered a wall that had not been present during their earlier search.
• Su Muyu called the others over excitedly after finding something extraordinary farther inside the shelter.

Lin Shuguang memorized an unknown script found on a stone wall, escaped Spark Eleven with the others, and learned the Spring Autumn Cicada could reverse time and space. After refusing the Blood-colored Demonic Saber's offer to abandon his body and flee to the Void Realm, he learned through Lin Lan that Sacred Mountain Destined Souls could be strengthened with Soul Patterns.

• Lin Shuguang shattered the wall to reveal its writing, memorized every character, and let Er Bai carry the slab for the authorities to study.
• Chang Hushan recalled fighting a Demon Fox with a Royal Bloodline ten years earlier, and the group suspected it had orchestrated the ambush before safely leaving Spark Eleven.
• Chang Hushan took Er Bai, Xue Jing, and Jing Hao to report to their superiors, while Bai Hu led Lin Shuguang and the others to handle the Elemental Ore.
• The Blood-colored Demonic Saber told Lin Shuguang that the Spring Autumn Cicada could reverse time and space, then offered to take him to the Void Realm if he abandoned his physical body; Lin Shuguang refused.
• At Sacred Mountain, Zhang Xiaolin told Lin Lan that forming Soul Patterns could at least double a Destined Soul's power, and Lin Lan asked how to form one.

Lin Shuguang obtained the Soul Pattern Condensation Technique and used it to condense a soul pattern on the Slaughter Blade, while the Spring Autumn Cicada absorbed the dangerous karma power his cultivation stirred up. Pei Xi told him that the Fire God Company had been sent to Spark Eleven and that experts were investigating the Stone Stele; when she asked him for more elemental ore, Lin Shuguang invited her on a hike.

• Lin Lan retrieved the Soul Pattern Condensation Technique and learned that entering the Sacred Hall required becoming a Guardian or a Holy Son ranked among the top three in the Saint Child Sequence.
• Lin Lan challenged Cao Shengjie, defeated him with one punch, and immediately issued seven more challenges, drawing a crowd to the platform.
• Lin Shuguang paid to learn the Soul Pattern Condensation Technique and began refining his three Destined Souls, stirring up karma power that the Spring Autumn Cicada absorbed.
• Lin Shuguang condensed a soul pattern on the Slaughter Blade, raising its three abilities to level ten and increasing his mental power by two hundred points.
• Pei Xi told Lin Shuguang that the Fire God Company had been dispatched to Spark Eleven and that experts had detected energy on the Stone Stele similar to the Jade Slip’s.
• Pei Xi asked Lin Shuguang for more elemental ore, and he answered by inviting her on a hike that night.

Lin Shuguang arranged to sell most of Pei Xi’s elemental ore while she fantasized about robbing ancient beings for treasure. On the Sacred Mountain, Lin Lan’s rapid rise through the Saint Child Sequence alarmed the elders until he defeated Zhou Bo and broke through to the Profound Connection Realm.

• Lin Shuguang called Lin Yi to arrange for Liu Fang to collect the shipment of elemental ore at Dawnlight Port and sell it.
• Pei Xi proposed that she and Lin Shuguang rob revived ancient beings, but admitted she did not know where to find them.
• Pei Xi took her share of the ore and happily counted it instead of using it to cultivate.
• Lin Lan’s victories during three days of Sequence Battles sparked an argument among Sacred Mountain elders over his talent and ruthlessness.
• A disciple reported that Lin Lan defeated Zhou Bo in three moves, advancing to the Profound Connection Realm during the fight and knocking Zhou Bo off the Challenge Platform.

After winning seventeen consecutive Sequence Battle matches, Lin Lan was granted entry to the Sacred Hall. Through Lin Lan, Lin Shuguang used the brief visit to search for cultivation methods and the language of the Mysterious Stele Inscription.

• The Guardians halted the Sequence Battle after Lin Lan's seventeen consecutive victories and awarded him one entry to the Sacred Hall.
• Disciples praised Lin Lan's fighting skill and envied his chance to enter the Sacred Hall.
• Lin Shuguang controlled Lin Lan as he entered the Sacred Hall, a hidden space of boundless chaos.
• Lin Shuguang scattered queries for techniques and other information to conceal his search for the Mysterious Stele Inscription.
• Lin Shuguang ordered the Steel Alliance to gather funds, then used Pay-to-Win to learn the Sacred Hall's Mysterious Stele Inscription language.

Lin Shuguang deciphered most of the Mysterious Stele Inscription and learned it pointed toward the Totem Continent, but its final coordinates remained obscured. He arranged to examine the Stone Stele at the research base, where Grand Scholar Qin Hai dismissed him to a side task.

• Lin Shuguang realized the inscription described Totem Monsters and the Totem Continent, but a force erased its final line from his memory.
• Lin Shuguang asked Pei Xi where Chang Hushan was and learned he was overseeing the Stone Stele’s examination.
• Lin Shuguang steered Old Fire into assigning him to help decipher the inscription by revealing his past work with oracle bone script.
• Chang Hushan warned Lin Shuguang that Grand Scholar Qin Hai and the other researchers were unwelcoming, but Lin Shuguang insisted on seeing the Stone Stele himself.
• Chang Hushan brought Lin Shuguang to the laboratory, where Qin Hai assigned him to gather information in Area Wu and turned back to his work.

Lin Shuguang entered Qin Hai’s secure room to decipher the final line on the Stone Stele, claiming he would finish before eight that evening. As a map revealed the mysterious person’s final coordinates, Chang Hushan returned with news that something had happened.

• Lin Shuguang demanded access to the Stone Stele, and Chang Hushan backed his request by citing Lin Shuguang’s expertise and role in revealing its writing.
• Qin Hai gave Lin Shuguang three days to produce results, but Lin Shuguang promised to finish before eight that evening.
• Qin Hai led Lin Shuguang and Chang Hushan to the Stone Stele and left Lin Shuguang alone to study it for five hours.
• Lin Shuguang touched the Stone Stele and deciphered the final line, which unfolded into a map showing the mysterious person’s final coordinates.
• Chang Hushan knocked on the door and told Lin Shuguang that something had happened.

After leaving the Secret Base, Lin Shuguang joined Chang Hushan’s mission to rescue the besieged team at Spark Eleven. The group encountered a Four-tailed Demon Fox, and Lin Shuguang charged forward to attack it.

• Qin Hai deciphered Lin Shuguang’s note as a possible clue about the Stone Stele and tried to find him for answers.
• Chang Hushan explained that the Demon Fox Clan and other powerful beasts had attacked the miners, forcing the team to focus on rescuing their people.
• Lin Shuguang arrived at Spark Eleven with Chang Hushan, Pei Xi, Bai Hu, and the others, and they hurried toward the mineral vein.
• Chang Hushan’s group attacked the beasts surrounding the trapped cultivators, but a Four-tailed Demon Fox blocked their assault.
• As the others hesitated at the sight of the Four-tailed Demon Fox, Lin Shuguang drew his saber and charged at it.

Lin Shuguang held off the Four-tailed Demon Fox while Chang Hushan led the mining martial artists out of Spark Eleven, then unleashed his Divine Demon Body and fought the beast until a strange vortex swallowed them. The rescuers found no body and could not determine what had happened, while Lin Shuguang awoke in the Demon Domain with the dying demon fox in his grasp.

• Lin Shuguang carved a path through the beasts, and a mining martial artist sacrificed himself to buy the group time.
• Lin Shuguang ordered Pei Xi to lead the rescue while he drew the beasts' attention; Chang Hushan and the others escorted the miners to safety as Lin Shuguang stayed behind.
• Lin Shuguang invoked his Divine Demon Body and fought the Four-tailed Demon Fox while Pei Xi and the others waited outside Spark Eleven for cyborg rescuers.
• Investigators reported that Lin Shuguang was missing, the ore vein had lost all its energy, and a force exceeding a four-tail had erupted there.
• Lin Shuguang and the Four-tailed Demon Fox were swallowed by a vortex, and Lin Shuguang later woke in the Demon Domain holding the dying beast.

Lin Shuguang reached a mysterious ancient tower in the Demon Domain, where the Four-tailed Demon Fox’s blood awakened it and drew him inside. As the tower’s power silenced and immobilized Sea Monsters throughout the Demon Domain, Lin Shuguang heard an unseen voice greet him: “You’ve come...”

• Lin Shuguang dragged the badly injured Four-tailed Demon Fox through the Demon Domain toward the coordinates he remembered, frightening away the Sea Monsters in his path.
• Old General Yang learned of the disturbance and told his adjutant to hold position, recognizing that Lin Shuguang had returned.
• Lin Shuguang reached an ancient tower that the Sea Monsters avoided, and after his Divine Demon Body ended, the tower devoured the Four-tailed Demon Fox’s blood.
• The tower sent an invisible wave across the Demon Domain, silencing the region and freezing Sea Monsters in place while human cultivators attacked them.
• Sacred Mountain elders and other factions investigated the strange events, while Lin Xiaoxi trained, Lin Haiyang and Mother Lin discussed Lin Shuguang’s marriage, and Si Qianjun handled a new crisis.
• A strange force pulled Lin Shuguang into the ancient tower, where visions passed through his mind before an ethereal voice said, “You’ve come...”

Lin Shuguang met the mysterious Tower Master, who explained the danger of entering the Totem Continent and offered him a way to go safely. Lin Shuguang agreed only after demanding more rewards.

• Lin Shuguang questioned the Tower Master in the star-filled interior of the tower and learned that the Totem Continent was the master world, while his world was a stolen fragment of its will.
• The Tower Master warned Lin Shuguang that the Totem Continent's world will would erase him unless he concealed the will carried by his Martial Dao.
• The Tower Master gave Lin Shuguang a Baojian Sect Command Token and explained that he would have to enter the Totem Continent alone.
• Lin Shuguang refused to go without assurances of safety, so the Tower Master taught him the Spirit Suppressing Technique and corrected rumors about the war.
• Lin Shuguang demanded treasure medicine, divine techniques, and money, then started to leave; the Tower Master called him back.

Lin Shuguang arrived in a mountain lake in the Totem Continent and concealed his World Mark to avoid detection. After leaving the mountains, he rescued Qin Musheng from a Red Ghost Ape and took the injured man toward a nearby market town.

• Lin Shuguang concealed his World Mark, then set off through an unfamiliar mountain range to find the Baojian Sect and learn about higher cultivation ranks.
• Lin Shuguang avoided powerful ferocious beasts and eventually reached the mountains’ outskirts, where he found signs of human cultivators.
• Lin Shuguang heard a fight and saw Qin Musheng, a Viscera Refining Realm cultivator, losing to a Red Ghost Ape.
• Lin Shuguang killed the Red Ghost Ape with one slash and introduced himself to the badly injured Qin Musheng.
• Lin Shuguang made Qin Musheng a sturdy mat from branches and vines, then dragged him toward a nearby market town as Qin Musheng gave directions.

Lin Shuguang settled into Qin Musheng’s martial arts hall in Pingyuan Town, learned about the Baojian Sect’s selection, and discovered he could not upgrade his divine ability with money from his old world. The chapter left him approaching a wealthy-looking young man who had arrived to see Qin Xiaoyue.

• Lin Shuguang brought the injured Qin Musheng to his home in Pingyuan Town, where Qin Xiaoyue treated her father and thanked Lin Shuguang for saving him.
• Qin Xiaoyue told Lin Shuguang that the Baojian Sect was holding a selection and that Qin Musheng had hunted beasts to obtain medicine for his disciples.
• Lin Shuguang visited the martial arts hall’s Training Ground and judged the disciples’ martial skills immature.
• Qin Musheng told Qin Xiaoyue that Lin Shuguang likely came from an extraordinary background and that they should focus on repaying his kindness.
• Lin Shuguang found that he could not use his wealth to upgrade Thunder Tribulation Annihilation and suspected he needed the local currency.
• Lin Shuguang saw a well-dressed young man approach Qin Xiaoyue and stepped forward to befriend him.

Lin Shuguang learned that Zhao Wulie was pursuing Qin Xiaoyue and heard Qin Musheng’s account of the Zhao Family’s crimes. After studying the martial arts at the Qin Family’s Training Ground, Lin Shuguang received a map showing the Baojian Sect’s location.

• Zhao Wulie left the Qin Family’s Martial Arts Hall and ordered a servant to investigate Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang told Qin Musheng about Zhao Wulie’s visit, and Qin Musheng described the Zhao Family’s violent history and Zhao Wulie’s alleged crimes.
• Qin Xiaoyue told Lin Shuguang that Zhao Wulie was likely in the Body Tempering Realm and his father was probably at its peak.
• Lin Shuguang watched the Qin Family’s students practice at the Training Ground and asked Qin Xiaoyue about their cultivation.
• Qin Xiaoyue gave Lin Shuguang a map and pointed out that the Baojian Sect was a little over a hundred kilometers from Pingyuan Town.