Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang returned from Demon Mountain to his world with Leng Yueyan, a powerful young woman who had grabbed his wrist during a spatial disruption. He planned to leave the Black Prison for the Imperial Capital before the coming Eternal Night, while Leng Yueyan stayed in the room next door.

• Demon Mountain warned Lin Shuguang that he and Sima Tingwei might become enemies, and Lin Shuguang asked whether Demon Mountain had killed the Ninth Prince.
• A young woman broke into Demon Mountain, grabbed Lin Shuguang's wrist, and was pulled with him through the Teleportation Array into his world.
• Lin Shuguang fought Leng Yueyan, learned that she was stronger than him, and refused her attempt to introduce herself and become friends.
• Lin Shuguang decided to leave the Black Prison for the Imperial Capital because Demon Mountain had warned him of an event there on the third day of the tenth month.
• Leng Yueyan followed Lin Shuguang home and insisted on staying the night, so he sent her to the room next door.
• Lin Shuguang and Leng Yueyan stayed awake on opposite sides of a wall, watching for danger.

After advancing to the Second Heaven of the True Fate Realm, Lin Shuguang focused on preparing for Eternal Night and refused to help a stranger at his door. When Shi Wenliang attacked on the Ninth Prince’s orders, Lin Shuguang’s strength shocked him, and the two began fighting.

• Lin Shuguang broke through to the Second Heaven of the True Fate Realm, then shut the door on Leng Yueyan after answering her question about cultivation.
• Leng Yueyan left, and Lin Shuguang resumed cultivating while planning to obtain the Great Qian Dynasty’s treasury before Eternal Night.
• Someone outside Lin Shuguang’s door called for help, but he refused to open it until the courtyard fell silent.
• Lin Shuguang charged outside with the Slaughter Blade and found Shi Wenliang, who attacked with concealed weapons.
• Lin Shuguang repelled Shi Wenliang’s attack and asked whether Gu Changhe had sent him; Shi Wenliang invoked the Ninth Prince and lunged at Lin Shuguang.

Lin Shuguang defeated Shi Wenliang and learned that Gu Changhe had sent a Nirvana Realm expert named Mo Changxiong to capture him. He left Shi Wenliang alive for now, forcing him to take a foul-smelling pill.

• Shi Wenliang attacked Lin Shuguang, but Lin used the Heavenly Dragon True Fate Banners to boost his strength and shattered Shi's sleeve blade.
• Lin overpowered Shi and demanded to know where Gu Changhe was, and Shi revealed that Gu Changhe was in the Demon Cave and wanted Lin captured alive.
• Shi warned Lin that Gu Changhe had sent a Nirvana Realm expert, then named Mo Changxiong as the traitor tasked with taking Lin to him.
• Lin ordered Shi to take a black pill, and Shi mistook its foul smell and potency for an aphrodisiac.

Lin Shuguang forced Shi Wenliang to take poison and prepared for Mo Changxiong’s arrival, but Leng Yueyan came to his home asking him to help her escape an arranged marriage. She offered him a Nine Revolutions Golden Core, and Lin Shuguang began considering how to use her situation to his advantage.

• Lin Shuguang made Shi Wenliang swallow a Poison Pill and ordered him to return the next day for an antidote.
• Lin Shuguang considered killing Mo Changxiong, Gu Changhe’s right-hand man, and resumed cultivating.
• Leng Yueyan entered Lin Shuguang’s home, revealed she knew his secret of traveling between two places, and asked him to help her evade her family and an arranged marriage.
• Leng Yueyan gave Lin Shuguang a Nine Revolutions Golden Core as payment, and he advised her to claim she already liked someone.
• Lin Shuguang secretly considered kidnapping Leng Yueyan, but when she noticed the rope in his hand, he claimed he was playing with a snake and asked about her cultivation level.

Lin Shuguang refined Leng Yueyan’s Nine Revolutions Golden Core with golden dew and swallowed its transformed form, gaining a hundred thousand Mental Power points and witnessing visions tied to his past and future. The visions revealed an apparent cycle of reincarnation and left him facing the command to destroy the Heavenly Dao.

• After Leng Yueyan left, Lin Shuguang entered the Altar Space and used more than a hundred drops of golden dew to transform the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
• Touching the transformed pill briefly brought Lin Shuguang a glimpse of Meng Shenzhou speaking with Yan Kai.
• Lin Shuguang swallowed the pill, and his divine soul was drawn into a strange white world where his Mental Power rose by a hundred thousand points.
• A projection showed the mysterious swordsman from Lin Shuguang’s dreams, then revealed how a hand had pulled his former-life programmer self through a vortex into this world.
• The projection showed a future Lin Shuguang fighting monsters, using the Spring Autumn Cicada to find his former self, and commanding him to destroy the Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Shuguang realized the events formed a cycle of reincarnation and wondered whether destroying the Heavenly Dao was the only way to end it.

After breaking through to the Sixth Heaven of the True Fate Realm, Lin Shuguang received a vision from the Spring Autumn Cicada about Ji Wufeng and an impending Imperial Capital Battle, then sought more Nine Revolutions Golden Cores from Leng Yueyan. He agreed to pretend to be her man in exchange for help obtaining alchemy ingredients, and followed her out into the night.

• The Spring Autumn Cicada returned to Lin Shuguang and showed him that Ji Wufeng would cause an uproar in the Imperial Capital, bring back the Taiyi Immortal Sect, and be connected to Xuanyuan City's fall.
• Lin Shuguang returned to the Spatial Altar, checked his attributes, and discovered that his mental power had far outpaced his physical attributes after his breakthrough to the Sixth Heaven of the True Fate Realm.
• Lin Shuguang visited Leng Yueyan and asked whether she had more Nine Revolutions Golden Cores, but she warned him that taking another so soon could harm his cultivation.
• Lin Shuguang claimed he could refine pills and asked Leng Yueyan for a source of ingredients, so she offered to help if he pretended to be her man.
• Lin Shuguang agreed, insisted they leave immediately, and followed Leng Yueyan over the wall into the night.

Lin Shuguang demonstrated his pill-refining skill to Leng Yueyan and earned her trust in preparing the rare ingredients for a Nine Revolutions Golden Core. The name Wang Fugui made him suspect the nervous young man might be connected to Gu Changhe’s Nine Demon Scroll.

• Leng Yueyan brought Lin Shuguang through a secret entrance in Black Street to a hidden Alchemy Room and asked him to refine a Golden Yuan Pill as a test.
• Lin Shuguang refined three pills that increased blood energy, and Leng Yueyan eagerly asked whether they could preserve youth.
• Leng Yueyan ordered the little old man to invoke the Secret Order and obtain several sets of ingredients for the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
• Leng Yueyan learned that the young man’s real name was Wang Fugui, and Lin Shuguang recognized the name from Gu Changhe’s Nine Demon Scroll.
• Lin Shuguang reached for Wang Fugui to investigate, and the frightened young man fell over as Leng Yueyan watched them thoughtfully.

Lin Shuguang refined the Nine Revolutions Golden Core, unleashing a terrifying power that shook the surrounding area, then confronted Wang Fugui. Wang Fugui mistook Lin Shuguang for the Ninth Prince Gu Changhe and agreed to leave with him, while Leng Yueyan watched in confusion.

• Leng Yueyan asked whether Lin Shuguang knew Wang Fugui, but Lin Shuguang denied it and focused on the medicinal ingredients.
• Wang Fugui suffered a dangerous episode involving hidden evil power, and the little old man forced him to take medicine.
• Lin Shuguang's alchemy triggered a burst of law-like power that shook buildings across a two-li radius before he emerged with Leng Yueyan.
• Lin Shuguang suspected Wang Fugui's strange condition was connected to the Ninth Prince Gu Changhe and approached his room.
• Wang Fugui recognized Lin Shuguang as the mysterious man who had promised him revenge, and Lin Shuguang asked him to come along.
• Wang Fugui agreed to go with Lin Shuguang as Leng Yueyan watched, puzzled by their apparent connection.

Lin Shuguang protected Wang Fugui from Black Street robbers, then discovered the demon planted inside him by Ninth Prince Gu Changhe. He left Wang Fugui alive and learned the demonic will had been growing inside him for over a year.

• Wang Fugui chose to leave the shop with Lin Shuguang, and the little old man gave him a mask and a lifesaving pill.
• Three masked robbers attacked Lin Shuguang, Leng Yueyan, and Wang Fugui, but Lin Shuguang killed them and drove off the other treasure hunters.
• Lin Shuguang imprinted the Spotted Python with his mental power and left with Wang Fugui while Leng Yueyan agreed to wait for him at home.
• Lin Shuguang showed Wang Fugui the [Nine Demon Scroll], triggering the demonic will inside Wang Fugui to transform and attack.
• Lin Shuguang suppressed the demonic will and discovered that Gu Changhe had planted it in Wang Fugui to cultivate a Demonic Clone.
• Wang Fugui said the demon had been inside him for over a year and earnestly asked Lin Shuguang to help him.

Lin Shuguang extracted and suppressed the demon will inside Wang Fugui, then prepared to strengthen himself with a transformed Nine Revolutions Golden Core. After Mo Changxiong abducted Lin Shuguang, Leng Yueyan and the Black Prison guards tried to stop him, but a powerful figure emerged from the prison and shattered its barrier.

• Lin Shuguang extracted Wang Fugui's demon will for golden dew, suppressed it back into him, taught him a cultivation method, and sent him toward the Imperial Capital.
• Leng Yueyan proposed that Lin Shuguang marry into her family, but he refused and insisted they remain business partners.
• Lin Shuguang transformed a Nine Revolutions Golden Core with golden dew, stored it away, and left; Leng Yueyan later found an unfamiliar hairpin beside her bed.
• Mo Changxiong abducted Lin Shuguang in a Heaven and Earth Bag, and Leng Yueyan joined Ji Feng and Sima Tingwei in trying to stop him.
• Mo Changxiong fought off their attacks while carrying Lin Shuguang, and Sima Tingwei returned to the Black Prison when someone attempted to escape.
• A tremendous aura immobilized Mo Changxiong, Ji Feng, and Leng Yueyan as a figure emerged from the Black Prison and destroyed its formation barrier.

Ji Wufeng broke out of the Black Prison and freed its prisoners, while Mo Changxiong escaped with Lin Shuguang and delivered him to the Ninth Prince, Gu Changhe. Believing Lin Shuguang was unconscious and helpless, Gu Changhe opened the Heaven and Earth Bag, but Lin Shuguang awoke and seized his wrist.

• Ji Wufeng shattered the Black Prison, reclaimed his War Halberd, and drove Mo Changxiong away after warning that the time of reckoning with Gu Taxian had come.
• Mo Changxiong escaped with the Heaven and Earth Bag containing Lin Shuguang as Ji Feng, Sima Tingwei, and Leng Yueyan regained their mobility.
• The Black Prison’s freed inmates surged toward the exit, and Sima Tingwei moved to suppress them.
• Mo Changxiong arrived at the Ninth Prince’s palace and told Gu Changhe that Ji Wufeng had broken out of the Black Prison.
• Gu Changhe ordered the injured Mo Changxiong escorted away, then brought Lin Shuguang into his hall and opened the bag.
• Lin Shuguang awoke and grabbed Gu Changhe’s wrist.

Lin Shuguang attacked the Ninth Prince, Gu Changhe, and refused his offers and threats. After both men’s Life-Saving Talismans summoned their respective phantoms, Lin Shuguang killed Gu Changhe and gained enough Blood Energy to raise his cultivation another level.

• Lin Shuguang ambushed Gu Changhe in the Great Hall, broke his arm, and overpowered him despite the prince’s attempts to call for help.
• Gu Changhe invoked his imperial Life-Saving Talisman, shattering Lin Shuguang’s Mental Power barrier and bringing down the Great Hall.
• Lin Shuguang crushed a Jade Talisman, summoning a phantom that clashed with the Ancient Emperor’s phantom.
• As Gu Changhe tried to flee and begged for his life, Lin Shuguang seized him and killed him with a slash of his blade.
• Lin Shuguang gained 5,000,000 cal of Blood Energy, and his cultivation rose another level.

Lin Shuguang defeated Mo Changxiong, learned more about Ji Wufeng and the Heavenly Dao, and left with another Jade Talisman. Meanwhile, Su Lengyue enlisted her family’s help to find Lin Shuguang, who set off toward her after learning she was to the east.

• Lin Shuguang questioned Mo Changxiong about the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s treasure hoard before Ji Wufeng arrived and took the traitor away.
• Ji Wufeng offered Lin Shuguang a place in the Taiyi Immortal Sect, then explained that Gu Taxian sought to overpower the Heavenly Dao; Lin Shuguang declined the offer and secured another Jade Talisman.
• Su Lengyue returned to her family estate and demanded that Mo Changxiong be killed, explaining that he had taken Lin Shuguang.
• Su Lengyue showed her ancestor the [Nine Revolutions Golden Cores] Lin Shuguang had refined and told him she had seen Ji Wufeng emerge from the Black Prison; the ancestor agreed to investigate.
• Su Rongsheng sent covert agents to search for Mo Changxiong, while Lin Shuguang headed toward Su Lengyue after tracking the direction of his spiritual imprint.

Lin Shuguang pushed Wang Fugui to cultivate the evil method so he could harvest the demon will within him, then refined Gu Changhe’s [Nine Demon Scroll] and took control of its three bound enforcers. He left poised to exploit two Nirvana Realm powerhouses as [Eternal Night] approached.

• Lin Shuguang examined the demon will inside Wang Fugui, returned it to his body, and ordered him to reach the seventh level before the following night while leaving him Blood Energy Pills.
• Wang Fugui, uneasy about Lin Shuguang’s urgency and the demon will, hurried back to cultivate.
• Lin Shuguang entered the Spatial Altar and prepared for [Eternal Night], believing Gu Taxian would blame the Taiyi Immortal Sect for Gu Changhe’s death.
• Lin Shuguang topped up 1,000,000 gold leaves and instantly refined the [Nine Demon Scroll].
• Lin Shuguang replaced Gu Changhe’s imprint on [Wang Fugui], [Sima Hengdao], and [Gu Qingshan] and discovered that two of them were Nirvana Realm powerhouses.

Su Lengyue searched for Su Beichen to recover a magical treasure, while Su Beichen warned Lin Shuguang to leave the Imperial Capital because the Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners still carried the Su Family's spiritual imprints. The chapter ended with Su Lengyue finding Lin Shuguang at Jiangxin Inn and greeting him with delight.

• Su Rongsheng learned that Lin Shuguang had ties to the Ninth Prince, ordered the Su Family's covert guards to withdraw, and chose not to tell Su Lengyue.
• Su Lengyue whipped Su Beiping until he revealed that Su Beichen might be heading to the Jade Void Palace, then left to look for him.
• Su Beiping sent an attendant to Jiangxin Inn with a warning for Su Beichen, then packed his belongings and fled.
• Su Beichen met Lin Shuguang at Jiangxin Inn, admitted he could not provide the remaining Blood Spirit Soul Sacrificing Banners, and urged him to leave the Imperial Capital.
• After hearing that Su Lengyue was searching for him, Su Beichen fled the inn, leaving Lin Shuguang behind.
• Su Lengyue arrived at Jiangxin Inn, recognized Lin Shuguang, and eagerly joined him at his table.

Su Lengyue brought Lin Shuguang to the Su Family estate and declared him the family’s son-in-law, despite her father and the elders’ objections. When they tried to stop the couple from leaving, Lin Shuguang struck down a guard with his Mental Power and challenged the family to explain how they could keep him there.

• Su Lengyue introduced Lin Shuguang as her brother-in-law to two boys, who ran off shouting that the Demoness had a man.
• Su Lengyue brought Lin Shuguang into the meeting hall, where Su Rongsheng and the Su Family elders confronted them.
• Su Lengyue announced that Lin Shuguang was the Su Family’s son-in-law and warned the family not to cause trouble for him.
• Su Rongsheng and the Second Uncle ordered guards to seize Lin Shuguang and take Su Lengyue away.
• Lin Shuguang stopped Su Lengyue from using her whip, then struck the leading guard with his Mental Power and challenged Su Rongsheng and the Second Uncle to keep him there.

Lin Shuguang negotiated an alliance with the Su Family’s Ancestor, who approved of his relationship with Su Lengyue but questioned his ties to the Ninth Prince and the Demon Cave. Lin Shuguang secured an agreement to share resources while revealing that Ji Wufeng had given him powerful Jade Talismans.

• The Su Family’s Ancestor summoned Su Lengyue and Lin Shuguang, overruled Su Rongsheng’s objections, and ordered the family to keep Lin Shuguang’s information secret.
• The Su Family’s Ancestor asked Lin Shuguang how he felt about Su Lengyue, but Lin Shuguang proposed that they join forces instead, upsetting Su Lengyue.
• The Su Family’s Ancestor asked who had helped Lin Shuguang in the Demon Cave, and Lin Shuguang named Ji Wufeng of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Lin Shuguang argued that the Su Family should cooperate with him amid the coming turmoil and offered to refine Nine Revolutions Golden Core pills from their materials.
• When the Su Family’s Ancestor tried to bargain for a larger share, Lin Shuguang revealed Ji Wufeng’s Jade Talisman, prompting the ancestor to drop his threatening aura.

Lin Shuguang secured a pill-refining deal with the Su Family and moved into a nearby residence, where Su Lengyue warned him about the Ninth Prince and confessed her feelings. He then visited Wang Fugui, removed the evil god’s will from him, and sacrificed it, leaving Wang Fugui to learn that it had already taken root inside his body.

• The Su Family ancestor agreed to give Lin Shuguang half the proceeds from his pill refining and arranged a residence and supplies for him.
• Su Lengyue took Lin Shuguang to his new residence, warned him about the Ninth Prince and the unrest ahead, and confessed that she might have fallen in love with him.
• Lin Shuguang asked Su Lengyue to bring him famous medical books, then used the Void Chaos Art to go to Wang Fugui.
• Wang Fugui told Lin Shuguang that the evil god’s will inside him had grown unruly, and Lin Shuguang pulled it out of his soul.
• Lin Shuguang sacrificed the evil god’s will in the Spatial Altar and told Wang Fugui that it had already taken root and developed its own origin.

Lin Shuguang reassured Wang Fugui that he could either grow strong enough to remove the Evil God's origin or rely on Lin Shuguang to do it for him. He then forced Sima Hengdao to submit and ordered him to capture people from the Southern Dynasty alive.

• Lin Shuguang told Wang Fugui that he would help remove the Evil God's will and gave him pills and gold leaves to support his cultivation.
• Sima Hengdao heard a voice from the Nine Demon Scroll and went to Jiangxin Inn, believing the Ninth Prince had summoned him.
• Lin Shuguang used the Nine Demon Scroll to suppress Sima Hengdao and made him kneel.
• Lin Shuguang declared that Sima Hengdao was now his slave, and Sima Hengdao accepted the order.
• Lin Shuguang tasked Sima Hengdao with capturing as many people from the Southern Dynasty alive as possible, then vanished.

Sima Hengdao left the inn shaken by Lin Shuguang’s control of the [Nine Demon Scroll] and headed for the Demon Suppression Division to investigate the Ninth Prince. Meanwhile, Lin Shuguang completed a large batch of pills for the Su Family, evolved [Divine Yuan Pills], and began evolving a [Latent Dragon Pill] in the Altar Space.

• Sima Hengdao ordered his attendant to drive him to the Demon Suppression Division and resolved to investigate what had happened to the Ninth Prince in the Demon Cave.
• Su Lengyue showed Lin Shuguang the delivered ingredients, including materials for [Nine Revolutions Golden Cores] and [Latent Dragon Pills], and explained the latter’s connection to the power of rules.
• Lin Shuguang refined the Su Family’s pills in one day, producing nine [Nine Revolutions Golden Cores] and eight [Latent Dragon Pills], and asked Su Lengyue to add [Divine Yuan Pill] ingredients to the next Medicine List.
• Lin Shuguang used [Golden Dew] to evolve [Divine Yuan Pills], increasing their mental-power recovery, and also evolved a [Nine Revolutions Golden Core].
• Lin Shuguang considered whether making Wang Fugui the object of the Southern Dynasty’s worship could improve the Evil God’s quality, then began evolving a [Latent Dragon Pill] and saw it respond to the [Golden Dew].