Chapter Summaries

Lin Shuguang returned to Huai City after more than three months away and reunited with his family. After a news report about a fatal ferocious beast attack on Longhu Road caught his attention, he left home to investigate and told Si Qianjun he would handle it.

• Lin Shuguang received Cao Chao and Han Yi's payments while traveling back to Huai City with Chu Xiongtian.
• Lin Shuguang arrived at the station and reunited with Lin Haiyang, Mother Lin, and Lin Xiaoxi, then went home for dinner.
• Lin Shuguang dodged Lin Xiaoxi's request for Big Red Porridge by distracting her with snacks from the Demon Capital.
• Lin Shuguang saw a report about a fatal ferocious beast attack on Longhu Road and left home to check on it.
• Lin Shuguang called Si Qianjun and said he was heading to Longhu Road to handle the incident.

Lin Shuguang defeated the Ferocious Beast while his family watched the news and realized he was at the scene. He returned home to find Lin Xiaoxi thrilled and Mother Lin waiting to confront him.

• Lin Xiaoxi recognized Lin Shuguang on the television as he entered the battle site, and Mother Lin worried when he did not answer her call.
• The broadcast showed Lin Shuguang had dealt with the Ferocious Beast, and his family watched him leave the scene with Minister Wang.
• Old Fu spotted Lin Shuguang departing and wondered how his former student had been doing.
• Lin Shuguang checked himself for blood before returning home, where Lin Xiaoxi rushed to greet him and Mother Lin waited with folded arms.

After returning home and reporting back to the Special Management Bureau, Lin Shuguang learned that a major classified mission was underway in Huai City. He asked Si Qianjun to approve his entry into the [Blood Desolate Land], leaving the decision pending.

• Lin Shuguang returned home, where Mother Lin scolded him for going somewhere dangerous and checked whether he was injured.
• Lin Shuguang brought local snacks to the Ninth Division and urged the Square-faced Section Chief to give him a mission.
• The Square-faced Section Chief told Lin Shuguang about a major classified matter in Huai City and directed him to speak with Director Si.
• Lin Shuguang visited Si Qianjun with gifts and asked him to approve his entry into the [Blood Desolate Land].

Lin Shuguang read classified intelligence about a deadly black hole in the Blood Desolate Land and asked Si Qianjun about its connection to Fulong Cave and the existence of deities. He entered the Blood Desolate Land to investigate, narrowly avoided a draining wave, and left despite his Martial Dao Will Crystal urging him toward the black hole.

• Si Qianjun gave Lin Shuguang a top-secret file describing a black hole in the Blood Desolate Land that drew in Desolate Ghost Apes and drained human martial artists of their blood energy.
• Lin Shuguang asked whether the incident resembled Fulong Cave, and Si Qianjun said anomalous events had occurred for centuries but were becoming more frequent and terrifying.
• Si Qianjun told Lin Shuguang that no evidence had disproved the existence of deities, leaving Lin Shuguang startled.
• Lin Shuguang received permission to enter the Blood Desolate Land and saw Desolate Ghost Apes sacrifice themselves to the black hole.
• The pale blue sphere warned Lin Shuguang before an invisible wave passed, and he retreated despite his Martial Dao Will Crystal urging him to approach the black hole.

Lin Shuguang met Professor Wang’s provincial delegation and quickly put the arrogant Wu Feng in his place. At dinner, he reported that the Blood Desolate Land contained a magnetic field and a possible mutated Dimensional Channel, leaving the delegation to consider the discovery.

• Lin Shuguang joined Si Qianjun and Professor Wang’s delegation, where Si introduced him as Huai City’s great scholar.
• Wu Feng snorted at Lin Shuguang, and Lin made the chair beneath him explode before dismissing the incident as a lesson in magnanimity.
• Professor Wang apologized for Wu Feng, while Pei Ruoyi warned Wu Feng not to cause more trouble.
• At dinner, Lin told Si Qianjun and Professor Wang that equipment failed in the Blood Desolate Land and that a black hole was present.
• Lin suspected the Blood Desolate Land held a newly opened, mutated Dimensional Channel, surprising the delegation.

Lin Shuguang accompanied Professor Wang’s team to investigate the [Blood Desolate Land] and learned that the black hole might connect to another dimension. As the black hole neared stabilization, the area was sealed off and the team prepared to begin its survey.

• Lin Shuguang impressed Professor Wang and the others with his knowledge of the [Blood Desolate Land], while Professor Wang described a historical black hole incident that had opened a bronze gate to another world.
• Si Qianjun assigned Lin Shuguang to accompany Professor Wang, protect him, and learn from the Academy of Sciences team.
• Lin Shuguang led Professor Wang and his students into the [Blood Desolate Land], where they found the Desolate Ghost Ape Kings still kowtowing outside the cordon.
• Professor Wang’s team mapped five-phase positions, recorded spiritual-energy fluctuations, and installed instruments to locate stable points in space and prepare a pseudo-dimensional channel.
• As the black hole neared stabilization, soldiers and Special Management Bureau personnel sealed off the [Blood Desolate Land], and Lin Shuguang told Professor Wang they were ready.

Lin Shuguang fought the Divine Temple’s attackers while Professor Wang’s team opened a pseudo-dimensional channel in the Blood Desolate Land. He killed the masked woman and escaped into the channel as the Blood Sea exploded, leaving the fate of those inside unknown.

• Pei Ruoyi, Lu Tianyu, Cheng Jun, and Wu Feng agreed to enter the dangerous area as Professor Wang’s team prepared the equipment and Lin Shuguang’s guards secured it.
• When the Divine Temple’s cloaked demonic cultivators emerged, Lin Shuguang charged them and slaughtered them with a single saber strike.
• A masked woman confronted Lin Shuguang while the blood energy surged and the channel’s countdown ran out; Lin Shuguang wounded her and ordered the others to enter first.
• Si Qianjun killed the Black Robe Envoy outside the Blood Desolate Land, then watched the area as the Blood Sea explosion began.
• Lin Shuguang used his Demon God Armor and Netherflame to survive the blast and plunge into the black hole, while the masked woman was consumed by the flames.
• Residents of Huai City heard the explosion, and Lin Shuguang’s parents wondered where he was as the remains of fallen Special Management Bureau members lay in the Blood Desolate Land.

Lin Shuguang entered the black hole and was pulled into a vision of a Heavenly Dao Holy Son who defied the white-browed elder with a slash powerful enough to slay a god. After waking in the Alternate Dimension, Lin Shuguang joined Professor Wang’s group to explore it, and chose the left path at a fork.

• Lin Shuguang entered the black hole as his Martial Dao Will Crystal connected with it and eased the force rejecting him.
• Lin Shuguang witnessed the Heavenly Dao Holy Son learn that the white-browed elder had slaughtered his family, then summon a saber and strike at him with power that could slay a god.
• Lin Shuguang woke to Professor Wang and the others, told them the Divine Temple Martial Artists were dead, and surveyed the dark, snowy Alternate Dimension.
• Professor Wang explained that a powerful magnetic field had destroyed their equipment and warned the group to evacuate when the winds rose and the sea of blood overhead began to churn.
• The group began exploring the Alternate Dimension, and Lin Shuguang chose the path on the left when they reached a fork.

Lin Shuguang led the group through a dangerous Alternate Dimension, saving Wu Feng from a man-eating flower and warning everyone to stay alert. When thick white mist surrounded them and someone screamed, Lin Shuguang drew the Slaughter Blade and advanced with Netherflame blazing.

• Professor Wang followed Lin Shuguang’s choice of path, and the group avoided a violent sandstorm on the other fork.
• Wu Feng approached a pink flower despite warnings, and Lin Shuguang cut down the man-eating flower before it could kill him.
• The group grew more cautious and summoned their weapons as they continued through the vegetation.
• White mist spread around the group, obscuring nearby figures, and cries of alarm and pain came from within it.
• Lin Shuguang told everyone to gather behind him, then stepped into the mist with Netherflame blazing and the Slaughter Blade in hand.

Lin Shuguang was separated from Professor Wang’s group by the white mist and smashed through a maze, while the group encountered a reanimated armored warrior. Lin Shuguang emerged in a mountain range beneath a coffin-covered tree and faced an army of walking corpses led by a bald man in blood-red armor.

• The white mist vanished after Lin Shuguang summoned the Netherflame, separating him from Professor Wang and the others inside a maze.
• Lin Shuguang used his strength and Demon God Armor to smash through the maze’s stone walls.
• Professor Wang led the group onward after realizing Lin Shuguang and several Special Management Bureau members had disappeared.
• Professor Wang’s group found a wandering corpse in rusty armor, and Zhou De and three others approached it while Liu Qing stayed to protect the professor.
• Lin Shuguang emerged in a mountain range and found armored corpses rising from the ground beneath a vast tree hung with blood-red coffins.
• A bald warrior in blood-red armor stepped from a fallen coffin, and the walking corpses charged Lin Shuguang as he drew his blade and attacked.

Lin Shuguang fought through the Walking Corpses and killed the Battle Axe Blood Corpse, but his attack awakened numerous coffins around the Divine Tree. Trapped by distorted space as powerful blood corpses emerged, he faced an overwhelming new threat.

• Lin Shuguang charged through the Walking Corpses and reached the Giant Blood Corpse directing them.
• Lin Shuguang exchanged over a hundred blows with the Battle Axe Blood Corpse, then split it in two with a lightning-charged slash.
• Lin Shuguang stood among the fallen Walking Corpses and turned his attention to the Divine Tree.
• The Divine Tree trembled and sent bloody light through its branches, causing the blood-red coffins to fall and awaken.
• Lin Shuguang found the route ahead distorted by intersecting space as more blood corpses emerged from the opened coffins.
• The Martial Dao Will Crystal sent lightning toward the pale blue sphere in Lin Shuguang's Sea of Consciousness, but the sphere resisted it.

Lin Shuguang fought hundreds of powerful blood corpses until he was nearly defeated, then the Martial Dao Will Crystal and the pale blue sphere joined forces to empower him. With his new strength, he faced the remaining corpses and unleashed a devastating saber strike that shook the extradimensional world.

• Lin Shuguang charged into a horde of at least a hundred powerful blood corpses and repeatedly spent resources to upgrade his cultivation and martial skills.
• Lin Shuguang fought for half an hour, killing many blood corpses but exhausting his ability to upgrade while dozens of powerful enemies remained.
• Lin Shuguang endured a fresh assault, killed another giant corpse, and rose from the ground to challenge the remaining blood corpses.
• The Martial Dao Will Crystal and the pale blue sphere simultaneously poured their powers into Lin Shuguang, rapidly increasing his strength.
• Lin Shuguang called the Slaughter Blade back to his hand and unleashed a mighty saber strike that made the world shake.

Lin Shuguang destroyed the Divine Tree, but a blood-red saber sealed inside it absorbed the Blood Sea’s power and cast him from the strange realm. He emerged in a valley and rescued Professor Wang, Pei Ruoyi, and the Special Management Bureau fighters from an army of walking corpses.

• Lin Shuguang slaughtered the blood corpses and cut down the Divine Tree with the Slaughter Blade.
• A blood-red saber flew from the ruined tree, drew power from the Blood Sea, and sensed the Martial Dao Will Crystal within Lin Shuguang.
• The blood-red saber expelled Lin Shuguang through a rift, reminding him of the saber from the memory he had seen when entering the Alternate Dimension.
• Lin Shuguang found Professor Wang, Pei Ruoyi, and the Special Management Bureau fighters fleeing from armored walking corpses.
• Lin Shuguang slaughtered the walking corpses around the group, leaving Professor Wang and the others astonished by his strength.

After suffering heavy losses to the Walking Corpses, Lin Shuguang led the survivors through a collapsing world and escaped a blood-red figure and the Blood Saber. The group emerged into the now-barren Blood Desolate Land, where Lin Shuguang ordered them to contact the Si Bureau and head back.

• Lin Shuguang reassured the surviving Special Management Bureau soldiers and told them Great Xia would remember their fallen comrades.
• Lin Shuguang told Professor Wang that he had escaped a maze after killing every Walking Corpse he encountered.
• The Blood Sea shattered and the world began collapsing, so Professor Wang led the group toward the passage while carrying a Walking Corpse body.
• Lin Shuguang helped the others reach the passage by carrying or throwing them through, then fled from a blood-red figure and the pursuing Blood Saber.
• Lin Shuguang emerged into the barren Blood Desolate Land, ordered the soldiers to contact the Si Bureau, and saw Pei Ruoyi glare at him while she handled the corpse.

After escaping the alternate world, Lin Shuguang returned to the Special Management Bureau and reported what had happened to Si Qianjun. He left with his greatly increased strength revealed on his Attribute Panel and headed for the Commerce District.

• Si Qianjun found Lin Shuguang and the survivors after seven days had passed outside, though they had experienced less than six hours in the alternate world.
• The survivors returned to the Special Management Bureau, where Professor Wang and his team went to the laboratory and Si Qianjun ordered Lin Shuguang to write a report.
• Lin Shuguang submitted a report dominated by battle scenes, and Si Qianjun edited it before asking whether the mission had revealed anything.
• Lin Shuguang told Si Qianjun they had entered a parallel world, and Si Qianjun said the Walking Corpse's War Armor came from elsewhere and offered a reward for useful discoveries.
• Lin Shuguang jokingly asked for billions of dollars or Bone Tempering Pills, then feigned internal injuries to escape Si Qianjun's office.
• In a taxi to the Commerce District, Lin Shuguang checked his Attribute Panel and saw that his Blood Energy Value had reached 59,240 cal and his cultivation had reached Bone Tempering 51 Resonances.

Lin Shuguang discovered how much his abilities had improved before confronting an ambush arranged by the Zhao Family. After overpowering Zhu Zhitang, he learned the Zhao Family was targeting him over Zhao Minghui’s death and prepared to retaliate.

• Lin Shuguang reviewed his increased Blood Energy Value, martial arts levels, and cultivation, then questioned the driver about the route change.
• The driver brought Lin Shuguang to an outlying park plaza, where Zhu Zhitang and more than a dozen armed men surrounded the taxi.
• Lin Shuguang shattered the taxi with a saber strike, sent the attackers flying, and beat Zhu Zhitang into submission.
• Zhu Zhitang revealed that the Zhao Family in Central Province was seeking revenge for Zhao Minghui’s death.
• A woman accused Lin Shuguang of killing her brother, and he crushed the phone before asking Zhu Zhitang about the Zhao Family’s businesses in Huai City.
• Lin Shuguang invoked Hong Baiqing’s warning about provoking him, and Zhu Zhitang tried to flee as Lin Shuguang attacked him.

Lin Shuguang led a Special Management Bureau squad to arrest Zhao Zhejun and seize contraband at a Zhao Family factory, then insisted on handling the case himself. The Zhongzhou Zhao Family learned Lin Shuguang was involved and discovered Zhao Yue had secretly sent people after him, leaving the family furious and alarmed.

• Lin Shuguang borrowed a thirty-person squad from the Special Management Bureau and led them to the Zhao Family factory.
• Lin Shuguang's squad stormed the factory, arrested Zhao Zhejun, and found a shipment of contraband.
• Lin Shuguang declined Si Qianjun's offer to send him home and chose to take part in Zhao Zhejun's case.
• The Zhongzhou Zhao Family scrambled to rescue Zhao Zhejun and preserve a crucial business deal, then learned Lin Shuguang was involved.
• Zhao Yue admitted she had sent people after Lin Shuguang, and the Zhao Family head slapped her and accused her of endangering the family.

After the Zhao Family failed to persuade Lin Shuguang to release Zhao Zhejun, it sought help through his colleagues. Lin Shuguang rejected Mo Qingkong’s request and then received a summons from the Square-faced Section Chief.

• The Zhao Family Head raged after learning that his own people had caused the trouble, while Lin Shuguang kept Zhao Zhejun and his group in custody and refused the Zhao Family steward’s apology call.
• Zhao Zhejun spent the night in jail, and the Zhao Family Head decided to approach Lin Shuguang’s colleagues for help instead.
• At the bureau, Chu Xiongtian congratulated Lin Shuguang on his reputation among the operatives and asked whether the Ninth Division needed people.
• Mo Qingkong of the Sixth Department asked Lin Shuguang to make an exception for Zhao Zhejun, but Lin Shuguang refused and warned that the Zhao Family might have misled him.
• Mo Qingkong realized the Zhao Family had withheld the truth and left, while the Square-faced Section Chief called Lin Shuguang to his office.

Lin Shuguang learned that Section Chief Jiang was being transferred and might recommend him for the vacant position, then visited Zhao Zhejun in custody and later returned to Lin's Shop. There, a representative of the Zhongzhou Zhao Family offered him treasure medicine, but Lin Shuguang accused the family of trying to pressure him through bureau officials.

• Lin Shuguang learned that Section Chief Jiang's transfer orders would arrive within three days and said he wanted the section chief position.
• Lin Shuguang brought fried chicken to the interrogation room, learned Zhao Zhejun had revealed little, and warned him that his family should not have crossed him.
• Lin Shuguang trained until afternoon, then went to Lin's Shop and ate a bowl of Lin's Noodles.
• Steward Luo arrived with two bodyguards and presented Lin Shuguang with two boxes of treasure medicine on behalf of the Zhongzhou Zhao Family.
• Lin Shuguang accused the Zhao Family of trying to pressure him through bureau officials, and Steward Luo called it a misunderstanding.

Lin Shuguang rejected Steward Luo’s attempt to smooth over the Zhao Family’s attack, but accepted its gifts and demanded more. After leaving Lin’s Shop with the treasure medicine, he unexpectedly reunited with Song Wan, who offered him a ride.

• Lin Shuguang told Steward Luo that the Zhao Family should not provoke him and accepted its gifts while warning that they were not enough.
• Lin Shuguang reassured his worried mother, then left Lin’s Shop with the two wooden boxes.
• Lin Shuguang called Old Jin, who agreed to buy as much treasure medicine as he had.
• Song Wan recognized Lin Shuguang, explained that she had searched for him, and offered him a ride.
• Lin Shuguang accepted Song Wan’s offer.