Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang fought a fourth-heaven ox demon and continued studying powerful disciples to weaken the seal on the [Beast God Soul]. Su Beichen revealed the State Selection’s real purpose and asked Lin Shuguang to help him enter Demon Mountain, but Lin Shuguang demanded more money and a deposit.

• Lin Shuguang’s strength astonished disciples and elders as he battled a fourth-heaven ox demon, while a mysterious figure explained that Demon Mountain was an ancient, incomplete sacred artifact that had lost its vitality.
• After Su Beichen gave Lin Shuguang a healing pill, he took the challenge and killed four ox demons with single sword strikes before knocking a fifth out of the ring for full marks, saying Lin Shuguang had already wounded it.
• Lin Shuguang ignored Su Beichen’s boast and watched higher-ranking disciples fight, learning from their attacks as the gray seal on the [Beast God Soul] diminished.
• Su Beichen told Lin Shuguang that the State Selection was a performance for those above and that he had entered to gain access to Demon Mountain during the second round.
• Su Beichen explained Demon Mountain’s ancient origins and asked Lin Shuguang to help him enter it; Lin Shuguang refused unless Su Beichen paid him more and provided a deposit.

Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen secretly entered Demon Mountain’s hidden inner realm after Lin Shuguang destroyed a powerful beast soul guarding a weakened barrier. Inside, they discovered a vast corpse-filled grave, and Su Beichen took a pill while Lin Shuguang asked for one despite appearing uninjured.

• Lin Shuguang followed Su Beichen and the other contestants to Demon Mountain, where he noticed the seal on his [Beast God Soul] shrinking.
• Su Beichen lent Lin Shuguang three [Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners] and led him around the mountain to find a weak point in the Jade Void Palace’s formations.
• Su Beichen opened a crack in the mountain’s barrier, but a Spirit of the Grizzly Bear emerged and attacked them.
• Lin Shuguang channeled his qi and blood through the banners and destroyed the grizzly bear’s soul, breaking the array and opening a vortex.
• Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen entered the hidden realm and found a ground covered in bones; Su Beichen took a pill, and Lin Shuguang asked him for one too.

Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen fought powerful Beast Souls inside Demon Mountain while Su Beichen supplied pills and Lin Shuguang secretly absorbed energy that helped unlock the [Beast God Soul]. After a Beast Soul dropped a mysterious bronze fragment, they continued searching and unexpectedly met someone around a corner.

• Su Beichen gave Lin Shuguang a Vitality Pill, and Lin Shuguang concealed it before fighting the Ox Demon Beast Soul with his Slaughter Blade and [Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banner].
• Lin Shuguang killed the Ox Demon Beast Soul, then pretended to be badly hurt to obtain another pill from Su Beichen.
• Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen fought more Beast Souls, with Su Beichen repeatedly giving Lin Shuguang pills as they searched Demon Mountain.
• A defeated Beast Soul dropped a Bronze Iron Fragment, which Lin Shuguang took and secretly absorbed its mysterious energy before handing it to Su Beichen.
• Su Beichen found no energy left on the fragment, and he and Lin Shuguang agreed to keep exploring for clues.
• Someone appeared around the corner and greeted Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen.

Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen faced Meng Jun, a Ninth Heaven expert who took the Bronze Iron Fragment and attacked them. Lin Shuguang’s desperate breakthrough let him wound Meng Jun, and the chapter ended as he summoned the Beast God Soul.

• Meng Jun confronted Su Beichen and Lin Shuguang, stole the Bronze Iron Fragment, and demanded to know where it came from.
• Meng Jun overwhelmed Su Beichen and knocked Lin Shuguang back, but Lin Shuguang kept provoking him to buy time.
• Lin Shuguang used three Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners to raise his strength, and Su Beichen joined him in attacking Meng Jun.
• Luo Zixu burst through a vortex and was struck by Meng Jun, giving Lin Shuguang an opening to attack with Draw and Slash and Lightning Annihilation.
• After Meng Jun struck him, Lin Shuguang broke through, slammed Meng Jun into the mountainside, and summoned the Beast God Soul.

Lin Shuguang used the Blazing Demon Ape’s soul to turn the battle against Meng Jun, who had been trying to kill him. The fight carried them out of the darkness, while Su Beichen and Luo Zixu were left stunned and Luo Zixu pressed Su Beichen for answers.

• Meng Jun charged Lin Shuguang with the Nether Iron Chain, and Lin Shuguang fought back with his Slaughter Blade and lightning.
• Lin Shuguang used himself as bait, then summoned the Blazing Demon Ape to seize Meng Jun from behind.
• Meng Jun tore free with a shoulder wound, recognized the Blazing Demon Ape, and was struck by its fist as Lin Shuguang attacked from the front.
• The clash sent Lin Shuguang, Meng Jun, and the Blazing Demon Ape hurtling out of the darkness, shaking the surrounding ground and mountains.
• Luo Zixu questioned Su Beichen about the Demon Mountain, and Su Beichen tightened his grip on the Spirit Sword while thinking that Luo Zixu asked too many questions.

Lin Shuguang fought Meng Jun with the Blazing Demon Ape and killed him despite suffering a severe chest wound. He absorbed 1,200,000 Blood Energy Value and began searching Meng Jun’s corpse.

• Meng Jun questioned Lin Shuguang’s identity, but Lin Shuguang charged and attacked him with the Blazing Demon Ape.
• Meng Jun activated Sacred Dragon Frenzy and fought back, while Lin Shuguang restrained him despite being impaled in the chest by the Nether Iron Chain.
• The Blazing Demon Ape struck Meng Jun, then was swallowed and killed by the Ferocious Dragon; Lin Shuguang used the backlash to shred Meng Jun’s internal organs with the Slaughter Blade.
• Lin Shuguang killed Meng Jun with the Slaughter Blade and seized 1,200,000 Blood Energy Value.
• Lin Shuguang recovered some vitality and searched Meng Jun’s corpse.

Lin Shuguang killed Meng Jun, reunited with Su Beichen, and learned more about Xuanyuan City and its connection to Demon Mountain. The space collapsed as Demon Mountain erupted in blood-red light, and witnesses realized the ancient mountain had revived.

• Lin Shuguang used a Vitality Pill to heal his wounds, took Meng Jun's corpse, and brought it to Su Beichen.
• Su Beichen gave Lin Shuguang another Vitality Pill and said Luo Zixu had probably escaped during the chaos.
• Su Beichen explained that the Five Thunder Sect might have relied on contacts in Xuanyuan City, an ancient independent Palm World controlled by the imperial family.
• The space began collapsing, and Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen escaped with Meng Jun's corpse.
• Demon Mountain erupted with red light, its Beast Souls roared against the formation, and the Jade Void Palace examiners and nearby experts rushed to respond.
• Wang Yuanzhi and the other experts found Demon Mountain surrounded by apocalyptic power, and someone cried that it had revived.

Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen fled as a terrifying being broke free beneath Demon Mountain and began slaughtering the sect disciples and elders. Lin Shuguang suspected it had awakened because it sensed his [Beast God Soul].

• Lin Shuguang sensed a being sealed beneath Demon Mountain, and a surge of Mental Power nearly destroyed his soul when he tried to learn more.
• Demon Mountain cracked apart, and Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen fled as Beast Souls attacked the escaping disciples.
• Qi Tianming carved a path through the Beast Souls, but the collapsing mountain swept away those who could not escape.
• A flame-wreathed giant emerged from Demon Mountain, crushed several Spirit Transformation Realm elders, and swallowed Wang Yuanzhi despite his Sword God Transformation.
• Lin Shuguang fled with Su Beichen and wondered whether his [Beast God Soul] had awakened the Demon God.

After escaping Demon Mountain, Lin Shuguang, Su Beichen, and Xu Baiyang reached a Central Continent Prefecture outpost and discussed the disaster and the sects’ losses. Lin Shuguang discovered a powerful new Sacred Dragon Body Dao Pattern, and Su Beichen returned with news that Lin Shuguang’s suspicions had been confirmed.

• Lin Shuguang and Su Beichen rescued Xu Baiyang while fleeing Demon Mountain and brought him to a nearby outpost.
• Su Beichen warned Uncle Zhong that the monster beneath Demon Mountain had killed Wang Yuanzhi and that no one there could stop it.
• Lin Shuguang and Xu Baiyang discussed the catastrophe, their sect’s losses, and the possibility that someone in Xuanyuan City had caused the disaster.
• Lin Shuguang checked his system, found the Sacred Dragon Body Dao Pattern, and learned that Xu Baiyang had reached the seventh heaven.
• Su Beichen hurried back and told Lin Shuguang that he had been right.

After the Demon Mountain disaster, Lin Shuguang returned to the Baojian Sect, received three [Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners] from Su Beichen, and learned that the Sect Master wanted to meet him. In their private conversation, Lin Shuguang offered to help the sect contact the mysterious Ancestor only if it paid him, leaving the Sect Master stunned.

• Lin Shuguang asked Xu Baiyang to contact the Baojian Sect and learned that Elder Yun had been found alive but badly injured.
• Su Beichen gave Lin Shuguang three [Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners] and promised to obtain the rest and remove their restrictions later.
• Elder Wang brought Lin Shuguang back to the Baojian Sect, where he learned the Sect Master had summoned him.
• The Baojian Sect's Sect Master questioned Lin Shuguang about the Ancestor and the sect's past, while Lin Shuguang said he would help only in exchange for payment.

Lin Shuguang followed a mysterious voice into a hidden realm, where a bound figure revealed knowledge of his past, his fate, and his coming journey to Xuanyuan City. After returning to Clear Sword Peak, Lin Shuguang waited for the Baojian Sect’s patriarch, who arrived that evening and praised him as someone chosen by the Ancestor.

• Xu Baiyang told Lin Shuguang that Luo Zixu had vanished after entering the Illusion Realm on Demon Mountain, and Lin Shuguang kept quiet about what he had witnessed.
• Lin Shuguang sold Xu Baiyang fifty Tongyou Pills, then spent the Gold Leaves upgrading [Thunder Tribulation Annihilation] to the thirteenth level.
• A mysterious voice led Lin Shuguang through a wardrobe into a realm of lava and frost, where a figure bound by the Chain of Karma recognized him and said it had waited 812 days.
• The figure warned Lin Shuguang that he would travel with the Baojian Sect’s patriarch to Xuanyuan City on the fifth, described the Black Prison and an upcoming grade-A case, and urged him to follow his ruthless Killing Dao.
• The figure told Lin Shuguang not to mention their meeting and warned him to beware of Bao before sending him back.
• Lin Shuguang declined Xu Baiyang’s invitation that evening and waited in his courtyard until the Baojian Sect’s patriarch appeared.

Lin Shuguang accepted a Nine Revolutions Golden Core from Ancestor Chen and surged to the Ninth Heaven of the Core Realm while training in a strange star-filled space. He discovered that Ancestor Chen had sacrificed his own essence blood to help him, leaving Lin Shuguang conflicted despite the mysterious man's warning to beware of the Baojian Sect.

• Ancestor Chen revealed that he was the Baojian Sect's supreme elder and offered to take Lin Shuguang to Xuanyuan City, then gave him a Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
• Lin Shuguang asked whether he could sell the pill, and Ancestor Chen scolded him before making him swallow it.
• Lin Shuguang entered a starry cultivation space, practiced his methods, and astonished Ancestor Chen by producing no impurities as his body was tempered.
• Ancestor Chen suspected Lin Shuguang had attained the ancient Immaculate Body and gave him a drop of his essence blood to support his cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang absorbed the pill's power and advanced to the Ninth Heaven of the Core Realm, while Ancestor Chen visibly aged from his sacrifice.
• Lin Shuguang asked for another golden core, noticed Ancestor Chen's weakened state, and wondered how to reconcile the elder's kindness with the warning to beware of the Baojian Sect.

After reaching the ninth heaven of the Core Realm, Lin Shuguang returned to cultivation while the Baojian Sect’s new disciples heard stories of his relentless training and past victories. When Ji Daohe accused him of causing Ji Mingye’s death and challenged him, Lin Shuguang accepted, and their fight began on the Challenge Platform.

• Ancestor Chen left after telling Lin Shuguang he would come back in two days, and Lin Shuguang realized his ninth-heaven strength had pushed his body to its limit.
• An elder told new disciples at the Training Ground about Lin Shuguang’s fierce training and record of defeating stronger opponents.
• Xu Baiyang brought Lin Shuguang to meet the new disciples, but Ji Daohe blocked their way and blamed him for Ji Mingye’s death.
• Lin Shuguang rejected Ji Daohe’s accusations and accepted his challenge on the Challenge Platform despite Xu Baiyang’s warning.
• Ji Daohe revealed that he had reached the middle tier and attacked, while Lin Shuguang drew his broadsword and met him head-on.

Lin Shuguang killed Ji Daohe despite an intervention from Hua Tianyin, the arrogant son of Donghua Island’s Island Master, and joined Elder Qu in fighting him. The Baojian Sect’s Sect Master confronted Hua Tianyin and left him writhing under a secret technique as his father arrived, telling Lin Shuguang to watch the ancestor’s Baptism prepared for him.

• Lin Shuguang revealed his ninth-heaven Core Realm strength, shattered Ji Daohe’s sword, and killed him before the mysterious attacker could pull him through a vortex.
• Lin Shuguang and Elder Qu battled the attacker, dragged the brocade-clad Hua Tianyin out of the vortex, and forced him to retreat into the Baojian Sect’s encirclement.
• Hua Tianyin claimed his father was the Island Master of Donghua Island and threatened the Baojian Sect, but the Sect Master slapped him and sealed him in agony with a secret technique.
• The Island Master of Donghua Island appeared in the sky and roared at the Baojian Sect for hurting his son.
• The Sect Master appeared beside Lin Shuguang and told him to watch the Baptism the ancestor had prepared for him.

The Baojian Sect Master defeated the Island Master of Donghua Island’s avatar after Hua Tianyin’s intrusion sparked a confrontation, then ordered the sect to sever ties with Donghua Island. As Lin Shuguang prepared to leave for Xuanyuan City as the Baojian Sect’s Holy Son, Zhang Wuhao accepted the Thirteenth Generation Guardian Supreme’s sword and prepared the sect for war.

• The Island Master of Donghua Island attacked the Baojian Sect after breaking Hua Tianyin’s Mute Spell, but the Baojian Sect Master shattered his avatar with a single strike.
• The Baojian Sect Master ordered the sect to cut all ties with Donghua Island and had Elder Qu cripple Hua Tianyin and send him to Black Crow Cave.
• The Baojian Sect Master told Lin Shuguang he would go to Xuanyuan City as the Baojian Sect’s Holy Son, and Lin Shuguang said he had grown attached to the sect before departing.
• Zhang Wuhao vowed in the Ancestral Shrine that the Baojian Sect would unite against its enemies and fight to the death.
• The Night Watcher gave Zhang Wuhao the Thirteenth Generation Guardian Supreme’s blood-red sword, and Zhang Wuhao accepted its lethal cost as the Night Watcher declared war.

Ancestor Chen took Lin Shuguang to Donghua Island and launched a decisive attack to demonstrate the Baojian Sect’s strength. As the battle escalated, the Baojian Sect’s forces arrived, and the island’s destruction remained underway.

• Ancestor Chen told Lin Shuguang that Sacred Spring Water or a Primal Chaos Pill could extend his life, then took him to Donghua Island to kill.
• Ancestor Chen shattered the island’s barrier and killed its defenders as he and Lin Shuguang advanced toward the main palace.
• Ancestor Chen declared Lin Shuguang the Baojian Sect’s Holy Son and fought the Island Master of Donghua Island, while Lin Shuguang used [Thunder Tribulation Annihilation] to lend him lightning.
• The Island Master of Donghua Island summoned a savage bear Beast Soul and ordered his forces to form an array, while Lin Shuguang fought the island’s disciples.
• Hidden observers discussed Lin Shuguang’s identity and the Baojian Sect’s strength, then chose to watch rather than intervene.
• Zhang Wuhao arrived with thousands of Baojian Sect disciples and elders aboard two Boundless Bright Day Treasure Boats, and Lin Shuguang charged back into the battle.

Ancestor Chen brought Lin Shuguang to Xuanyuan City and arranged for him to enter the Black Prison, warning him about its dangerous political history and the Jade Void Palace. At the city gates, Ancestor Chen gave Lin Shuguang the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman, hoping he could use it to create an opportunity for the Baojian Sect’s Guardian Supreme to return.

• Ancestor Chen took Lin Shuguang toward Xuanyuan City, disrupting thirteen sects that had troubled the Baojian Sect along the way.
• Ancestor Chen used a golden Command Token to board a merchant ship and explained that Lin Shuguang would receive an official post in the Black Prison rather than join a Xuanyuan City sect.
• Ancestor Chen told Lin Shuguang that the Black Prison held former rebels from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and warned him to avoid old grievances and beware of the Jade Void Palace.
• In Tian Yong City, Ancestor Chen forced the City Lord’s Mansion to activate its Teleportation Array and took Lin Shuguang to Xuanyuan City.
• Outside Xuanyuan City, Ancestor Chen gave Lin Shuguang the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman, explaining its power and asking him to stake an opportunity for the Baojian Sect’s Guardian Supreme.

Lin Shuguang entered Xuanyuan City with the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman and was assigned to the Black Prison, where he learned about the costly lodgings and the Sage Tablet. Meanwhile, city leaders suspected the Baojian Sect had brought the Supreme Token back, and Lin Shuguang settled into Kaoshan Garden before beginning his duties.

• Ancestor Chen explained that the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman could let Lin Shuguang offer his blood essence to heaven for gifts, then sent him through Xuanyuan City's gates and reclaimed his sword.
• After Ancestor Chen rejected questions about the Supreme Token, Sect Master Mei and others discussed the Baojian Sect, Chen Changsheng's strength, and the possibility that Lin Shuguang had gone to the Black Prison.
• Wang Erfa escorted Lin Shuguang through the Black Prison's registration, explained his identification tag, and told him that Kaoshan Garden cost one hundred Gold Leaves a month.
• Lin Shuguang chose Kaoshan Garden over the far more expensive Gushan Garden, where residents paid for access to the Sage Tablet's aura.
• Lin Shuguang moved into Kaoshan Garden, and Wang Erfa left disappointed when Lin Shuguang gave him no reward.

Lin Shuguang subdued the ancient will inside the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman, reached the Core Realm’s Twelfth Heaven, and then reported to the Black Prison. After being assigned to the Saber Prison, he learned that its inmates endured the agony of countless blades.

• Lin Shuguang spent thirty thousand Gold Leaf to master the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman and received a black dragon remnant soul’s gift, advancing to Grand Perfection of the Core Realm.
• Lin Shuguang secretly killed a Sacred Fire Cloud Heart Chicken, but its sacrifice yielded only a tiny increase in Blood Energy.
• Lin Shuguang arrived at the Black Prison during the hour of the Snake and challenged Qiao Shanheng when he was accused of being late.
• Zhang Hao introduced the recruits, and Sima Tingwei sent the tardy Leng Qianshan to spend two hours in the Sword Prison.
• Sima Tingwei assigned the recruits to their posts, and an old jailer led Lin Shuguang to the Saber Prison and warned him to ignore the prisoners’ screams.

Lin Shuguang investigated the Black Prison’s unusual food and resisted a prisoner’s bewitchment, discovering that Dao Pattern Fish could weaken the Gray Seal on his Sacred Dragon Body. He confronted the Old Witch in her cell and ordered Lightning Punishment to kill her.

• The old jailer showed Lin Shuguang his guard room and warned him that prisoners could use Bewitching Techniques to disrupt his cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang began his prison shift, discovered that Song the Foodie was bringing him unusually lavish meals, and ate Dao Pattern Fish that weakened the Gray Seal on his Sacred Dragon Body.
• A prisoner’s voice bewitched Lin Shuguang and led him through the Saber Prison toward the Old Witch’s cell, while a nursery rhyme quieted the surrounding fiends.
• Lin Shuguang broke free of the Old Witch’s bewitchment and let her believe he was still under her control as she tried to seize him with black mist.
• Lin Shuguang assessed the weakened Old Witch and commanded, “Lightning Punishment, kill her!”