Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan learned that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect and the Ghost King Sect were conspiring against the Blood Demon Sect, then planned for Ghost Mother Wuji to accept the Sword Sect’s challenge while he guarded their home. Meanwhile, disguised as Jiang Ping, Lin Fan was intercepted on his way to the Zuo Household, where he revealed his strength and faced Elder Qiu.

• Ghost Mother Wuji gave Lin Fan the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s challenge letter and showed him a ghostly Soul Body found in a Sword Sect elder.
• Lin Fan concluded that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect had allied with the Ghost King Sect and ordered Ghost Mother Wuji to investigate Zhuri Lake before accepting the challenge there in five days.
• In the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s Pill Room, Xie Yan Huan threatened Master Xin by invoking Jiang Ping, the Zuo Household, and the juniors Master Xin had supported.
• Disguised as Lin Fan, Jiang Ping rode toward the Zuo Household, but Senior Brother Fan intercepted him and demanded the pills and inheritance from Master Xin.
• Lin Fan stopped Senior Brother Fan’s sword, broke it, and grabbed him by the throat before addressing the hidden Elder Qiu, who praised Jiang Ping and admitted he had underestimated him.

Lin Fan killed Elder Qiu and another Sword Sect elder, then took Elder Qiu’s identity to infiltrate the sect and report to the Great Elder. The Great Elder accepted Master Xin’s alchemy notes and offered Lin Fan a girl from the Feng family as a reward.

• Lin Fan killed Elder Qiu, searched his memories, and discovered that he had been involved in a plan to obtain Blood Ghost Pills.
• Lin Fan took Elder Qiu’s belongings, disguised himself as him, and concealed the two corpses.
• Lin Fan returned to the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect and maintained his disguise while interacting with Elder Qiu’s young concubine.
• The Great Elder summoned Lin Fan, who handed over a copy of Master Xin’s alchemy notes and claimed the man was dead.
• The Great Elder said the Feng family had repeatedly defied the sect master’s orders and offered Lin Fan a girl from the Feng family as a reward.

Feng Ling agreed to become Lin Fan’s dao companion under threat from the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, while Lin Fan mastered a second Ancient Demon Rune and crafted a new talisman. Its completion brought another heavenly tribulation, which Lin Fan faced as a palace-robed figure watched from afar.

• The Flowing Cloud Sword Sect threatened Feng Ling’s family and pressured her to become Elder Qiu’s dao companion, so she reluctantly agreed.
• Feng Ling arrived at Lin Fan’s cave residence and insisted that he not touch her, and Lin Fan accepted her terms.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to master Secret Records of Rune Fusion and learned to draw the Profound True Surging Python rune.
• Lin Fan crafted a second Ancient Demon Talisman using Profound True Surging Python blood and Cinnabar.
• Lightning struck at Lin Fan, who moved to a remote mountain peak and fought off the heavenly tribulation with his talisman and other abilities.
• A palace-robed figure watched the lightning disappear and said that Lin Fan had suffered heavenly retribution again, calling him captivating.

Lin Fan stayed behind at the Blood Demon Sect while its forces went to Zhuri Lake, then watched the Sect Master of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect launch a devastating attack. Lin Fan confronted the Sword Sect master and asked about the agreement with the ghost cultivators.

• Feng Ling asked Lin Fan whether he would go to Zhuri Lake, and he told her he would not stop her from leaving.
• The Great Elder ordered Lin Fan, disguised as Elder Qiu, to stay behind and guard the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect.
• Lin Fan sent the Oil-Paper Umbrella figure toward Zhuri Lake with a talisman after she reported that the Sword Sect forces had arrived.
• The Sect Master of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect attacked the Blood Demon Sect with overwhelming Sword Qi, destroying its barrier and killing disciples.
• Lin Fan identified the attacker as the Sword Sect master, approached him, and asked what agreement the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect had made with the ghost cultivators.

Lin Fan defeated and killed Cang Yunzi, then learned that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect had allied with ghost cultivators to control the Blood Demon Sect and find a lost item. At Zhuri Lake, the Ghost Mother Wuji was exposed and trapped by an unknown figure.

• Cang Yunzi confronted Lin Fan, but Lin Fan overwhelmed him with talismans and his own power, then killed him after searching his soul.
• Lin Fan learned that Cang Yunzi had sacrificed young adults to strengthen his cultivation and had agreed to help two ghost cultivators control the Blood Demon Sect and locate a lost item.
• Lin Fan took Cang Yunzi's Yin Wind Sword and Storage Bag, disguised himself as Cang Yunzi, and flew away.
• At Zhuri Lake, an unknown figure identified the Blood Demon Sect Master as a girl from the Li family and used a petrified hand to force the Ghost Mother Wuji out of her disguise.

Lin Fan confronted the monstrous ghost who had trapped the cultivators at Zhuri Lake and sought the Divine Bone fragment. With Ghost Mother Wuji’s help, he defeated and enslaved it, securing his second Soul Slave.

• The ghost offered Cang Yunzi an Ascending Cloud Pill, then revealed its plan to kill him and devour the cultivators’ souls.
• Cang Yunzi revealed himself to be Lin Fan in disguise and detonated more than a dozen Green-Eyed Flood Dragon Talismans, blasting open the ghost’s body.
• Lin Fan summoned Blood Demon Talismans and the Crimson-Eyed Thunderflame Lion, but the ghost’s attacks overwhelmed them.
• Ghost Mother Wuji disrupted the ghost from within, allowing Lin Fan to strike its core with his flying sword and the Profound True Surging Python to overwhelm it.
• Lin Fan freed Ghost Mother Wuji, subdued the wounded ghost in his sea of consciousness, and turned it into his second Soul Slave.

Lin Fan defeated the ghost cultivator, took control of the Blood Demon Sect, and learned that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect was under attack. As the Sword Sect descended into chaos, Feng Ling and Ying'er fled while Lin Fan let them go.

• Lin Fan imprisoned the defeated ghost cultivator as a Soul Slave and announced that he would oversee the Blood Demon Sect.
• Xue Taozi and the other Peak Masters submitted to Lin Fan as their new Sect Master.
• The Great Elder learned that the Sword Sect's Sect Master had failed, ordered the Intelligence Elder to lead disciples into the Forbidden Land, and charged the approaching Demon Sect forces with Sword Sect elites.
• Feng Ling offered herself to Lin Fan in exchange for the Feng Household's safety and revealed that her family held the key to the Forbidden Land.
• The Demon Sect attacked the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, and Lin Fan told Feng Ling to leave; she escaped with Ying'er while he chose not to stop them.

Lin Fan, disguised as Elder Qiu, witnessed the Blood Demon Sect destroy the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, then received Master Xin’s alchemy inheritance and took a pill from his furnace. After the battle, Lin Fan asserted his authority as Sect Master and took Xu Xiaomeng with him, before a figure appeared at the Blood Demon Sect and asked him for pity.

• Xue Taozi and the other Blood Demon Sect Peak Masters attacked the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, whose old sword master tried to hold them back.
• Lin Fan visited Master Xin, revealed his true appearance, and received the complete alchemy inheritance before Master Xin died.
• Lin Fan took the Flower Transfer Vitality Pill from the furnace and left the palace as the battle ended in the Blood Demon Sect’s victory.
• Lin Fan ordered his followers to stop pursuing the survivors and declared that he needed suitable cauldrons, then pulled Xu Xiaomeng into his arms.
• At the Blood Demon Sect’s highest palace, a lovely figure complained that more than half of her soul power had been depleted and asked Lin Fan to show his slave pity.

Lin Fan learned from Kumuzi that an Eerie Source had devastated the Ghost King Sect and might threaten the entire domain again, while the Divine Bone was said to oppose it. After considering the next realm’s requirements, Lin Fan searched the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect master’s belongings and discovered a ten-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Lotus and a mysterious bronze key.

• Ghost Mother Wuji persuaded Kumuzi to become Lin Fan’s Soul Slave, and Kumuzi revealed that the Ghost King Sect had sent only two ghost cultivators to search for the Divine Bone.
• Kumuzi described a black altar that had driven Upper Sect ghost cultivators mad, killing tens of thousands, and said the disaster was believed to have arisen from an Eerie Source.
• Kumuzi told Lin Fan that the Divine Bone might be connected to the First Generation Ghost Ancestor, mutations were difficult to reverse, and the Eerie Source could return as a domain-wide disaster.
• Ghost Mother Wuji explained that reaching the Cloud Soaring Realm required opening the Heart Gate, Spirit Gate, and Blood Gate and infusing them with powerful demonic beast blood.
• Lin Fan inspected the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect master’s storage bag, found a ten-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Lotus and Spirit Crystals, then noticed a bronze key engraved with runes.

Lin Fan learned the Black and White Yama Art, strengthened his cultivation, and discovered that the cracked stone statue was slowly repairing itself. The chapter ended when a subordinate arrived with a secret letter for him.

• A woman soaking in a blood-colored pool sensed a terrifying figure appear before the Ancient Bronze Hall and reacted in shock.
• Lin Fan examined Kumuzi's storage artifact, found a Soul Gathering Pearl containing hundreds of souls, and kept it for Ghost Mother Wuji.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to cultivate the Black and White Yama Art and increase his soul power, then advanced the Flowing Cloud Sword Scripture to its second layer.
• Lin Fan considered how to open the Heart, Spirit, and Blood Gates and used the Cracked Stone Statue to strengthen his True Essence.
• Lin Fan realized that the Cracked Stone Statue was gradually repairing itself and that his connection to it was growing stronger.
• A black-robed subordinate brought Lin Fan a secret letter and asked him to inspect it.

Lin Fan received intelligence about the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s remnants and allowed Xu Xiaomeng, Yun Ling, and Zhao Doudou to serve in his residence rather than remain imprisoned. Elsewhere, survivors prepared to enter an unknown place to seek vengeance, accepting that their effort would come at a cost.

• Lin Fan learned that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s remnants were hiding in a mysterious Forbidden Land and said he would decide what to do.
• Xu Xiaomeng offered herself to Lin Fan in exchange for sparing Yun Ling and Zhao Doudou, and he gave her a command token to bring them to him.
• Yun Ling and Zhao Doudou agreed to serve Lin Fan, who kept the three women in his residence and told Xu Xiaomeng to take them to wash.
• Xu Xiaomeng, Yun Ling, and Zhao Doudou hoped that winning Lin Fan’s favor might help them rescue more of their fellow disciples.
• An old man told hundreds of people seeking revenge for their sect that they would have to pay a price, and they shouted that they feared no death.
• A girl asked Senior Sister Feng what to do, and Senior Sister Feng said they could only leave the unknown danger to the others.

Lin Fan advanced his rune skills, created a wood-aligned Ancient Demon Talisman, and considered combining five elemental talismans. Meanwhile, an Eerie Altar overwhelmed two ghostly defenders, and the Blood Mist it released formed a colossal figure that moved south.

• Lin Fan gained lifespan by copying Rune Patterns, and Yun Ling visited him to repay him for saving her and her fellow disciples.
• Lin Fan gave Ghost Mother Wuji a Soul Gathering Pearl and used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to cultivate Secret Records of Rune Fusion to Minor Completion.
• Lin Fan created the Black Scaled Lu Shu Beast Ancient Demon Talisman, whose vitality caused plants to grow throughout the palace.
• Lin Fan endured the talisman's thunder tribulation and wondered whether combining Ancient Demon Talismans of all five elements could greatly increase their power.
• An Eerie Altar returned, and its Blood Mist corroded two ghostly defenders before forming a colossal figure that wandered south.

Lin Fan opened the Spirit Gate by cultivating the Black and White Yama Art, transforming his spiritual soul and strengthening his control over ancient demons. As he sought suitable Demonic Beast Blood Essence, the two elders sent to investigate a sword sect’s forbidden land went missing, and Lin Fan prepared to investigate.

• Lin Fan abandoned his attempt to open the Heart Gate and advanced the Black and White Yama Art, drawing Yin energy into himself until he opened the Spirit Gate.
• Lin Fan found his spiritual-soul power had grown more than tenfold and gained the ability to control three ancient demons at once.
• Xue Taozi reported that disciples had found the sword sect’s forbidden land and offered to lead an expedition, but Lin Fan sent two elders instead.
• Yun Ling asked Lin Fan to spare Sun Ying, and he agreed to let the Blood Bone Peak Master decide her fate; he also declined Xu Xiaomeng’s request to help more captured sword-sect disciples.
• An Inner Disciple reported that the two elders had gone missing, and Lin Fan sent a Blood Demon Talisman out as night fell.

Lin Fan led Xue Taozi and several Demonic Sect members into the dangerous mountains to reach the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land. After a Titan Demonic Ape destroyed their flying vessel and blood-colored vines killed the elders, Lin Fan and Xue Taozi reached a cave, where Lin Fan accused Xue Taozi of luring him there and demanded he make his move.

• Lin Fan ordered Xue Taozi to take a village chief as their guide into the mountains, despite Xue Taozi suggesting the villagers could be used for demonic corpse cultivation.
• The group fought through giant creatures until a Titan Demonic Ape destroyed their vessel, killed the Inner Disciples and village chief, and was defeated by Lin Fan's Dharma Avatar.
• Lin Fan and the survivors reached the outer perimeter of the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land, where Man-eating Demonic Vines killed the remaining elders.
• Lin Fan and Xue Taozi escaped the vines into a cave, and Lin Fan confronted Xue Taozi for luring him there.

Lin Fan exposed Blood Taozi as an agent of Thousand Hand Demonic Sect and was lured into a trap in the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land, where he confronted the sect's hidden master. The master tried to devour Lin Fan, but found himself trapped in Lin Fan's sea of consciousness with several far stronger soul figures.

• Lin Fan accused Blood Taozi of secretly helping the ghost cultivators and revealed that he suspected him of serving Thousand Hand Demonic Sect.
• Blood Taozi offered Lin Fan a place in Thousand Hand Demonic Sect, then activated a repaired Suppressing Essence Formation in the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land.
• The Sword Sect's intelligence elder appeared and revealed himself as the master of Thousand Hand Demonic Sect, while Lin Fan used an Avatar Talisman and hidden allies to counter the ambush.
• A concealed sword light killed Protector Feng, and Lin Fan's other forces battled the master as he attacked with a black battle standard and a giant golden dharma body.
• The master of Thousand Hand Demonic Sect tried to devour Lin Fan, but his soul insect entered Lin Fan's sea of consciousness and encountered Li Yatou, Kumuzi, and another powerful figure.

Lin Fan killed the Thousand Hand Demonic Sect Master after he entered Lin Fan’s sea of consciousness, then claimed his Dao Artifact and the Eight-Eyed Sky Swallowing Python blood essence. After gaining new soul power and an illusion skill, Lin Fan discovered that his divine statue could devour another statue.

• The Thousand Hand Demonic Sect Master tried to explode his soul, but Kumuzi suppressed him; a restriction shattered his soul before Kumuzi could search it.
• Lin Fan woke and took the Thousand Hand Demonic Sect Master's Black Demon Sail, destroyed his cruel cultivation manuals, and found the Eight-Eyed Sky Swallowing Python blood essence.
• Lin Fan injected the blood essence into his Spirit Gate, strengthening his soul and gaining the Eye of Submersion skill.
• Lin Fan found a black box and opened it after his divine statue reacted to it.
• Lin Fan let his divine statue consume the white statue, which crumbled into powder and repaired cracks in his own statue.

Lin Fan discovered that the divine statue had become much more powerful, then rescued Feng Ling, Ying'er, and the surviving Sword Sect disciples from the Thousand Hand Demonic Sect. He took Feng Ling into the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land, where a hidden creature attacked them and brought down the Crimson-Eyed Thunderflame Lion.

• Lin Fan found that the divine statue's energy had greatly improved its ability to purify his True Essence, then put it away.
• Lin Fan killed the Thousand Hand Demonic Sect's scar-faced man and seductive woman, searched their souls, and freed the Sword Sect disciples imprisoned in the stone house.
• Feng Ling offered to guide Lin Fan into the depths of the Forbidden Land, explaining that the Thousand Hand Demonic Sect was searching for something there.
• Lin Fan, Feng Ling, and Ying'er traveled deeper into the Forbidden Land on the Crimson-Eyed Thunderflame Lion, but a three-meter humanoid creature struck without warning.
• The creature pierced the lion with a giant hand, and Lin Fan fled with Feng Ling as a talisman-formed demon beast blocked its pursuit.

Lin Fan and Feng Ling reached the core of the Sword Sect’s Forbidden Land, where they learned of the Sword Sect’s origins in the distant Outer Domain and found a damaged Teleportation Array. After Lin Fan agreed to help Feng Ling repair it in exchange for an escape route, he opened a box and found a Bronze Token.

• Lin Fan broke the illusion array’s hold on Feng Ling and led her toward the dilapidated palace, where the Vajra Demonic Ape was struck by a streak of sword light.
• Feng Ling used her family’s heirloom sword to enter the palace and revealed that the Feng Household and the Sword Sect’s founder came from the Outer Domain.
• Feng Ling explained that the palace held a damaged Teleportation Array connected to the Ancient Azure Spirit Domain, but she lacked the resources to repair it.
• Lin Fan offered Spirit Jade to help repair the array so he could use it as an escape route, and Feng Ling agreed to the deal.
• Feng Ling let Lin Fan choose from the palace’s preserved items, and he opened a delicate box to find a Bronze Token.

Lin Fan fused two Bronze Tokens into a Golden Token and cultivated in the Sword Sect's Forbidden Land, condensing a Sword Seed and opening the Heart Gate. After removing a mutation with the Indestructible Dao Fruit, he left Feng Ling and the others to repair the Teleportation Array, telling her they could contact him once it was fixed.

• Lin Fan fused the two Bronze Tokens into a Golden Token and guessed it could open the secret realm entrance freely.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Flowing Cloud Sword Scripture, then drew Sword Qi from the ancient swords to form a golden Sword Seed and open the Heart Gate.
• Lin Fan used the Indestructible Dao Fruit to remove a petrifying mutation that appeared on his chest.
• Lin Fan continued cultivating as Feng Ling and the surviving Sword Sect disciples worked to repair the Teleportation Array with resources he provided.
• Feng Ling invited Lin Fan to travel with them to the Xuantian Sect, but Lin Fan left on a Moon Raven and told her she could contact him after the array was repaired.

Xue Yunzi seized control of the Blood Demon Sect after killing the Blood Bone Peak Master, but Lin Fan revealed himself and killed him. As Lin Fan tried to leave, a black-and-white Ghost Hand erupted from the throne and trapped him in its domain.

• After another half month passed, Xue Yunzi transformed and killed the Blood Bone Peak Master when he tried to take the Sect Master’s throne.
• Xue Yunzi announced that he would lead the Blood Demon Sect, and the elders and disciples accepted him as Sect Master.
• Xue Yunzi chose Fang Qing to serve him, but she transformed into a hideous figure and attacked him.
• Lin Fan emerged from the darkness, revealing that he had returned to the Blood Demon Sect half a month earlier, and the figure devoured Xue Yunzi before becoming a talisman in his hand.
• Two voices warned Lin Fan to run, and he fled as a black-and-white Ghost Hand burst from the throne; three ancient demons and demon beasts summoned from Blood Demon Talismans charged at it.