Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang killed the Old Witch in the Saber Prison and used the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman to break through to the First Heaven of the Spirit Transformation Realm. After arranging a visit for Song the Foodie to see his imprisoned benefactor, Lin Shuguang hunted a Giant Wolf in Beast Mountain and gained more power from the talisman.

• Lin Shuguang killed the Old Witch with Divine Lightning Annihilation and fed her blood essence to the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman, which helped him reach the First Heaven of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The old jailer explained that the third level held True Fate Realm prisoners and advised Lin Shuguang to report the incident before the Old Witch's death was treated as routine.
• Lin Shuguang considered how to attract powerful prisoners, then agreed to let Song the Foodie visit the blind benefactor who had saved his life fifteen years earlier.
• Lin Shuguang killed a Grand Perfection Core Realm Giant Wolf in Beast Mountain and offered its blood with his own, gaining Blood Energy and additional attribute points.
• Lin Shuguang reflected on the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman's potential and the legends that it could grant Heaven's mandate and enable the Investiture of the Gods.

Lin Shuguang killed a Spirit Transformation Realm Blazing Flame Snake in Beast Mountain, sacrificed it to strengthen himself and upgrade its parts, and drew Qiao Shanheng’s attention after taking the snake’s valuable organs. The old jailer revealed that the Black Prison Envoy was in the Nirvana Realm, leaving Lin Shuguang considering another upgrade.

• Lin Shuguang killed the Blazing Flame Snake, sacrificed its soul, and spent 100,000 gold leaves to upgrade his dantian, reaching the Second Heaven of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Lin Shuguang considered how the mysterious man, the Baojian Sect, and the Pay-to-Win System had placed him between forces with opposing aims for the Heavenly Dao.
• Qiao Shanheng warned Lin Shuguang about his upcoming night watch and the Demonic Moon Sect, then sent his companions to retrieve the Blazing Flame Snake’s gallbladder.
• Qiao Shanheng’s group found the snake’s valuable organs missing, while Lin Shuguang sacrificed its scales and gallbladder and learned the gallbladder could make a pill that helped attain the Perfect Golden Body Realm.
• The old jailer told Lin Shuguang that the Black Prison Envoy had once raised the snake and was in the Nirvana Realm, prompting Lin Shuguang to think about upgrading again.

Lin Shuguang asked about forging manuals, uncovered suspicious details about Song the Foodie, and was assigned to stand night watch alone after clashing with Qiao Shanheng. He left for the Shenxiu Auction House as the Black Prison Envoy and Ji Feng discussed the Envoy’s Cold Poison and the missing Blazing Flame Snake.

• Lin Shuguang asked the old jailer where he could find forging books, and the jailer recommended the Shenxiu Auction House, which Duke Shenhong had established.
• Song the Foodie visited his wounded benefactor with Lin Shuguang, who secretly watched him search the man and destroy a plum blossom; Song then warned that Lin would stand night watch alone.
• Qiao Shanheng assigned Lin Shuguang to watch alone, and Lin struck Sun Gai and threatened Qiao’s companion before Qiao raised the Blazing Flame Snake incident.
• Lin Shuguang left for the Shenxiu Auction House, while the Black Prison Envoy and Ji Feng discussed the Envoy’s Cold Poison and the absent True Fate Realm Blazing Flame Snake.

Lin Shuguang traded Flood Dragon materials at the Shenxiu Auction House, strengthened his abilities, and learned that the Qiao Family had attacked an Imperial Envoy after the Dragon Gallbladder auction. He went to the Black Prison’s forging room and began crafting armor, awakening a mysterious presence.

• Manager Zhang auctioned Lin Shuguang’s Dragon Gallbladder, and an unknown buyer won it for three million two hundred and thirty thousand gold leaves after bidding against the Qiao Family.
• Lin Shuguang traded a Dragon Tendon for forging techniques, upgraded his Forging Technique to Grand Perfection, and asked Manager Zhang to notify him about lifespan-extending treasures.
• Reports spread that a young man who had won the Dragon Gallbladder killed over twenty Core Realm cultivators and a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator from the Qiao Family on Fragrant Orchid Great Dao.
• Lin Shuguang learned from the old jailer that the Qiao Family had ambushed an Imperial Envoy and would be suppressed, then received permission to use Saber Prison’s forging room.
• Lin Shuguang forged a sword from dark iron, began making the Flame Dragon Armor, and stirred an unknown presence into awakening.

Lin Shuguang learned that the Demonic Moon Sect possessed Void Water and began planning how to obtain it, while preparing for the Demon Souls that haunted Black Prison at night. As the Demon Souls attacked, an iron door opened and an unseen hand dragged one inside.

• Lin Shuguang forged Flame Dragon Armor, then heard a mysterious expert explain that Void Water could activate its ability to fly and advised him to take some from the Demonic Moon Sect.
• Lin Shuguang read the Old Witch's records and learned that the Demonic Moon Sect had risen through her fearsome reputation, then resolved to plan carefully before seeking its Void Water.
• Manager Zhang told Lin Shuguang that the Demonic Moon Sect had bought Shenxiu Auction House's last three drops of Void Water and gave him the sect's location.
• Song the Foodie warned Lin Shuguang not to open his door during the night watch because Demon Souls could drain blood energy or cripple a cultivator.
• The old jailer brought Lin Shuguang a cultivation book and reminded him to activate his plaque if the Demon Souls attacked, while the other jailers prepared in fear.
• Demon Souls scratched at the prison doors, and an iron door opened before a hand seized one and dragged it inside.

Lin Shuguang completed the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman’s transformation into a hidden Spatial Altar by sacrificing Demon Souls, then used it to conceal himself in the Black Prison. As he prepared to visit the Demonic Moon Sect for Void Water, a mysterious prisoner offered him a deal and the Pay-to-Win System presented a new technique for purchase.

• Lin Shuguang sacrificed swarms of Demon Souls, completing the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman into a Spatial Altar hidden in his sea of consciousness.
• The Saber Prison Formation activated and slaughtered Demon Souls; Sima Tingwei and Ji Feng discussed the disturbance, Ji Wufeng, and Lin Shuguang’s connection to the Baojian Sect.
• Lin Shuguang declined the old jailer’s offer to assign him another night watcher, then used the Spatial Altar to evade notice while fighting Demon Souls.
• Lin Shuguang secretly met the mysterious prisoner in the Forging Room, who asked him to retrieve the Three Yang Needle from the Demonic Moon Sect’s treasury in exchange for an opportunity.
• The mysterious prisoner sent Lin Shuguang a system notification offering the Void Chaos Art for 200,000 gold leaves.

Lin Shuguang used the Void Chaos Art to infiltrate the Demonic Moon Sect’s hidden treasury and steal its wealth, pills, weapons, and rare treasures, including the Three Yang Needle and Void Water. After the treasury guards opened the doors, he killed several of them and vanished, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Lin Shuguang perfected the Void Chaos Art and used it to return to his Lounge, while Ji Wufeng’s laughter shook the Saber Prison.
• Lin Shuguang found that the Void Chaos Art and the Spatial Altar could not be used together, then left the Black Prison and traveled toward the Demonic Moon Sect.
• Lin Shuguang discovered the sect’s mountain altar and infiltrated its treasury by hiding in the Spatial Altar.
• Lin Shuguang emptied the first treasury of gold, pills, weapons, arrows, and armor, then broke into the second room and took the Void Water, Three Yang Needle, and a mysterious Jade Bone.
• Lin Shuguang left the treasury by killing several Demonic Moon Sect guards with a saber strike and disappearing.

Lin Shuguang escaped Marquis Gu by hiding in the Spatial Altar, then stole the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Banners and upgraded his cultivation while the Demonic Moon Sect searched for him. By drawing on the banners’ power, he advanced to the Twelfth Heaven of Spirit Transformation and transformed Su Beichen’s Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners into Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banners.

• Lin Shuguang escaped Marquis Gu’s attack with the Spatial Altar, then killed the Blue-Clad Youth and stole the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Banners as he fled.
• Marquis Gu discovered that the Divine Bone and Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Banners were missing, sealed off the surrounding territory, and began searching for Lin Shuguang.
• Lin Shuguang hid in the Spatial Altar, healed his injuries, upgraded [Thunder Tribulation Annihilation], and sacrificed the Blue-Clad Youth’s corpse to obtain over eighty drops of golden dew.
• Lin Shuguang used the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Banners to draw in power and advanced to the Twelfth Heaven of Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Shuguang fed the Nine Yin Spirit Gathering Banners into Su Beichen’s Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners, transforming them into Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banners.

Lin Shuguang broke through to the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm, transformed the Su Family’s Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners into Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banners, and used their power to hunt Demonic Moon Sect experts. After learning that the banners’ restrictions had broken, Su Lengyue set out for Demon Mountain, while Lin Shuguang’s assault left the sect facing a growing crisis.

• The Su Family Clan Elder learned that the restrictions on Su Lengyue’s three banners had broken, and Su Lengyue discovered their connection to her had been severed and ordered a carriage to Demon Mountain.
• Lin Shuguang decided to target the Demonic Moon Sect’s elite and, using his Dark Prison Dao Patterns, ambushed three of Marquis Gu’s subordinates and sacrificed them for Golden Dew.
• The Demonic Moon Sect disciples returned to find the three men dead and hurried to warn the Elder that Lin Shuguang was still in town.
• Lin Shuguang fought five Spirit Transformation Realm experts at grand perfection and activated the Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banners to raise his strength to the True Fate Realm.
• Lin Shuguang killed all five experts with his saber, leaving them crushed beneath his overwhelming attack.

After using golden dew to restore his strength, Lin Shuguang lured out Marquis Gu’s forces and slaughtered their soldiers. He killed a True Fate Realm swordsman with the Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banner, then escaped through the Spatial Altar as Marquis Gu arrived and raged over the wreckage.

• Lin Shuguang consumed golden dew, recovered his blood energy, and resolved to save some for his family and allies before returning to his own world within six months.
• Lin Shuguang used Draw and Slash to kill a search party of soldiers and Demonic Moon Sect disciples, gaining only three drops of golden dew.
• Lin Shuguang charged through Marquis Gu’s archers in his Flame Dragon Armor and cut down the soldiers with the Slaughter Blade.
• Lin Shuguang fought a True Fate Realm swordsman and unleashed his enhanced strength to hurl the man into a mountainside.
• Lin Shuguang suppressed the swordsman with the Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banner, beheaded him, and escaped through the Spatial Altar with the corpse as Marquis Gu arrived and destroyed the surrounding mountains.

After unlocking and equipping [Sacred Dragon Body], Lin Shuguang discovered that Marquis Gu was preparing to move his forces and robbing their guarded shipment. Lin Shuguang attacked the guards, and Marquis Gu arrived as the battle continued.

• Sacrificing the swordsman unlocked [Sacred Dragon Body], which Lin Shuguang equipped to greatly increase his attributes.
• Marquis Gu ordered his forces to avoid engaging the mysterious intruders, recover the Divine Bone, capture one alive, and prepare to relocate.
• Sima Tingwei and Ji Feng learned that Southern Dynasty remnants controlled the Demonic Moon Sect, and they prepared three thousand Flame Army troops to attack it.
• Lin Shuguang found Marquis Gu's soldiers transporting treasure chests near Anping Town and decided he could defeat the guards before Marquis Gu arrived.
• Lin Shuguang ambushed the guards, killed several with his saber, and fought through their attempts to seal off the area.
• Marquis Gu charged toward Lin Shuguang and shouted that he had finally caught him.

Lin Shuguang escaped Marquis Gu again, then hid in the Spatial Altar to recover and upgrade his Flame Dragon Armor while Ji Feng’s Flame Army attacked Anping Town. When Lin emerged amid an explosion and killed another Southern Dynasty cultivator, Marquis Gu angrily demanded to know why he targeted only his men.

• Lin Shuguang killed the last Southern Dynasty cultivators, took their treasure chests, and escaped Marquis Gu’s attack with the final corpse.
• Ji Feng led the Flame Army against the Demonic Moon Sect, while Marquis Gu prepared explosives and speculated that Lin belonged to the Taiyi Immortal Sect and might be connected to Ji Wufeng.
• Inside the Spatial Altar, Lin recovered with golden dew, found the Three Yang Needle, and began reforging his Flame Dragon Armor with void water.
• Ji Feng’s forces entered Anping Town as Marquis Gu’s Death Soldiers delayed them; Marquis Gu’s explosives detonated, engulfing Ji Feng and the Flame Army in flames.
• Lin burst into the battle after the explosion, cut down a Southern Dynasty cultivator, and flew away with blazing wings, prompting Marquis Gu to shout that Lin only killed his men.

Lin Shuguang escaped a clash between the Southern Dynasty remnants and Ji Feng’s forces, then returned to Black Prison and delivered the Three Yang Needle to Ji Wufeng. Ji Wufeng revealed his ties to the Taiyi Immortal Sect and warned Lin Shuguang about the Great Qian Dynasty’s unstable situation, while privately wondering about Lin Shuguang’s mysterious background.

• Lin Shuguang escaped the Southern Dynasty cultivators as Ji Feng and Marquis Gu fought, then flew dozens of li away.
• At Black Prison, Lin Shuguang heard jailers discuss Southern Dynasty remnants and their rumored connection to the Demonic Moon Sect.
• Lin Shuguang waited in vain for the demon souls to attack Saber Prison, then secretly visited Ji Wufeng and handed over the Three Yang Needle.
• Ji Wufeng revealed that Gu Taxian knew Lin Shuguang had helped him and identified himself as a member of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Ji Wufeng invited Lin Shuguang to join his sect, but Lin Shuguang refused and Ji Wufeng warned him that Great Qian’s foundations were unstable.
• On the ninth floor, Ji Wufeng questioned Lin Shuguang about the Baojian Sect’s Supreme Token and wondered what kind of background Lin Shuguang had.

Lin Shuguang refused Ji Wufeng’s offer to join the Taiyi Immortal Sect but received a Jade Talisman that could unleash most of Ji Wufeng’s strength. After keeping a low profile while the Great Qian Dynasty searched for Gu Beishan, Lin Shuguang was visited by Black Prison Dispatcher Qiao Shanling, who brought news that an important figure had arranged a divine weapon for him.

• Ji Wufeng asked Lin Shuguang to join the Taiyi Immortal Sect, but Lin Shuguang refused and accepted a Jade Talisman as a safeguard.
• Ji Feng told Sima Tingwei that he had destroyed Gu Beishan’s hideout but failed to capture him, and he described a mysterious saber wielder with flaming wings.
• The Great Qian Dynasty searched for Gu Beishan, so Lin Shuguang kept a low profile and continued cultivating with the treasures he had taken.
• Lin Shuguang studied the Divine Bone he had taken from Gu Beishan but still could not uncover its secrets.
• Qiao Shanling visited Lin Shuguang and said an important figure had given him a Nirvana Realm ferocious beast’s vertebra to be forged into a divine weapon.

Lin Shuguang rejected the Ninth Prince’s attempt to bind him with the [Nine Demon Scroll] and seized the scroll before escaping the prince’s attack. The Ninth Prince was left furious and demanding its return.

• Qiao Shanling summoned the Ninth Prince’s Dharma Incarnation, and the prince offered Lin Shuguang rewards in exchange for signing the [Nine Demon Scroll].
• The Ninth Prince explained that the scroll would make Lin Shuguang his True Demon Servant, bind him to obedience, and turn him into a True Demon if the prince died.
• Lin Shuguang pretended to accept, then struck the scroll and swept it into the Spatial Altar, severing its connection to the Ninth Prince.
• The Ninth Prince attacked Lin Shuguang with black mist while Qiao Shanling moved to surround him.
• Lin Shuguang unleashed his saber intent, struck the Ninth Prince’s incarnation and Qiao Shanling, then teleported away as the prince demanded his scroll back.

Lin Shuguang refused the Ninth Prince’s demand to return the [Nine Demon Scroll], and Ji Feng and Sima Tingwei intervened to protect him under an imperial command. As the Ninth Prince’s avatar fought them, he ordered Qiao Shanling to seize Lin Shuguang.

• Lin Shuguang broke through Qiao Shanling’s Sword Domain Magnetic Field and escaped the room, but the Ninth Prince stopped him outside with a sword strike.
• The Ninth Prince demanded that Lin Shuguang sign a contract, while Lin prepared to fight back and considered using the [Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banner].
• Ji Feng and Sima Tingwei arrived and forbade the Ninth Prince from taking Lin Shuguang, citing the Black Prison’s authority and an imperial command.
• The Ninth Prince demanded the return of his property, but Lin denied taking anything and Ji Feng ordered the prince to leave.
• When the Ninth Prince tried to seize Lin Shuguang, Ji Feng destroyed his black-mist avatar, and the Ninth Prince ordered Qiao Shanling to grab Lin.

Lin Shuguang killed Qiao Shanling, concealed his corpse in the Spatial Altar, and took the Ninth Prince’s [Nine Demon Scroll]. After the Ninth Prince ordered assassins to hunt him down, Sima Tingwei and Ji Feng arranged protection for Lin Shuguang as he remained in the Black Prison.

• Lin Shuguang broke Qiao Shanling’s evil Sword Domain Magnetic Field, severed his arm, and secretly stored his corpse in the Spatial Altar.
• The Ninth Prince’s avatar fled after Ji Feng struck it, while Sima Tingwei and Ji Feng discussed the Ninth Prince’s links to evil demon arts and assured Lin Shuguang of his safety in the Black Prison.
• Lin Shuguang entered the Spatial Altar and considered the benefits Qiao Shanling’s sacrifice might bring, while keeping the Ninth Prince’s [Nine Demon Scroll].
• The Ninth Prince ordered Mo Changxiong to capture Lin Shuguang and deal with Shi Wenliang, while Shi Wenliang set out to assassinate Lin Shuguang.
• Sima Tingwei warned Ji Feng to keep his distance from Lin Shuguang, then gave him a jade pendant for Lin Shuguang to crush if he was in danger.

Lin Shuguang sacrificed Qiao Shanling, gained Golden Dew, and began refining the Ninth Prince’s [Nine Demon Scroll] inside the Spatial Altar. The Ninth Prince repeatedly tried to stop him and finally admitted he was wrong, but Lin Shuguang’s response was not shown.

• Lin Shuguang sacrificed Qiao Shanling’s corpse and gained four hundred drops of Golden Dew, then swallowed fifty to increase his Blood Energy Value by five hundred thousand calories.
• Lin Shuguang examined the [Divine Bone] and [Nine Demon Scroll], finding the names Wang Fugui, Sima Hengdao, and Gu Qingshan on the scroll.
• Lin Shuguang used [Thunder Tribulation Annihilation] to break through the [Nine Demon Scroll]’s resistance and began refining it.
• The Ninth Prince sensed Lin Shuguang’s attempt and tried to reclaim the scroll, but the Spatial Altar blocked him and Lin Shuguang severed their mental connection.
• The Ninth Prince warned Lin Shuguang against refining the scroll, then noticed it seemed to be slipping further from his control.
• The Ninth Prince reconnected with Lin Shuguang and began pleading, saying, “I was wrong,” before the chapter ended.

The Ninth Prince sent Shi Wenliang to capture Lin Shuguang, but Shi was abducted before he could find his target. Ji Feng found Lin, offered him protection and a place to stay, and Lin settled into a courtyard at Nanshan Garden, where an eerie voice called to him from an old well.

• The Ninth Prince raged at Lin Shuguang for ignoring his apology and ordered Shi Wenliang to retrieve the Nine Demon Scroll and capture him.
• Shi Wenliang waited outside the Black Prison for Lin Shuguang, but he collapsed after unknowingly eating drugged peanuts and was carried away by men working for a marquis.
• Lin Shuguang arrived at the inn and ate noodles while thinking of his family, then Ji Feng appeared and gave him Sima Tingwei's protective Jade Pendant.
• Ji Feng urged Lin Shuguang to leave the Black Prison with him, offering either the Ji Family or the Inspection Bureau as refuge, but Lin said he would think it over.
• Ji Feng gave Lin Shuguang a key to a courtyard at Nanshan Garden, and Lin went there to stay.
• Late that night, an eerie voice called to Lin Shuguang from an old well, urging him to come and mentioning a True Fate Realm breakthrough.

Lin Shuguang met the chained man calling himself Demon Mountain beneath the ancient well and learned that Eternal Night would soon bring the Heavenly Dao’s forces against him. Demon Mountain urged him to leave the Black Prison and loot the Great Qian Dynasty’s treasury, then warned him to beware of Sima Tingwei.

• Lin Shuguang entered the void beneath the ancient well and reunited with the mysterious man bound by the Chain of Karma, who called himself Demon Mountain.
• Demon Mountain explained that the Heavenly Dao concealed their connection and warned that Eternal Night would expose Lin Shuguang as an outsider and make the world’s experts hunt him.
• Lin Shuguang learned that Eternal Night would arrive in one to three months and that Demon Mountain wanted him to use Ji Feng and the Ji Family to redirect Heavenly Dao karma.
• Demon Mountain told Lin Shuguang to raid the Great Qian Dynasty’s treasury on the seventh day of the tenth month and escape with the [Void Chaos Art].
• Demon Mountain advised Lin Shuguang to leave the Black Prison, make use of Ji Wufeng, and beware of Sima Tingwei.