Chapter Summaries

Su Wanqing told Lin Changqing that Su Mingli had asked for his support in the Crown Prince succession, but Lin Changqing declined to take sides. Su Mingli accepted the refusal and resolved to compete through his own efforts, while recognizing the danger of repeating his disgraced eldest brother’s mistakes.

• Su Wanqing explained Su Mingli’s generous offer and described how the princes were competing for the vacant Crown Prince position.
• Lin Changqing said he had no interest in the succession struggle, and Su Wanqing sent word that he would support none of the princes.
• Su Mingli received the Saint Emperor Mansion’s message and told his adviser, Mr. Zhao, that the Saint Emperor’s neutrality left the contenders on equal footing.
• Su Mingli decided to keep courting ministers and earning Emperor Yu’s favor, reasoning that the Crown Prince’s position mattered most to princes with limited cultivation prospects.
• Su Mingli recalled how his eldest brother had lost his title and been exiled after colluding with the Holy Demon God Sect, and vowed not to repeat his mistakes.

Taixu Saint Emperor returned to the Capital City to seek cultivation guidance from Evergreen Saint Emperor and arranged for Boundless Saint Emperor to take his place in the Western Regions. He then took Boundless Saint Emperor’s treasured Drunken Immortal Brew as a gift, leaving Su Gan to worry about the Sixth Ancestor’s reaction.

• Su Gan learned that the Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Princes were courting officials, but he decided to observe their character before choosing a Crown Prince.
• After half a month of carefree outings with Su Wanqing, Lin Changqing remained admired by the people of the Capital City.
• Taixu Saint Emperor returned from the Western Regions and persuaded Boundless Saint Emperor to take over the defense line while he sought Evergreen Saint Emperor’s guidance.
• Taixu Saint Emperor scolded Boundless Saint Emperor for not seeking Evergreen Saint Emperor’s advice, then sent him to the Western Regions.
• Su Gan welcomed Taixu Saint Emperor back, who asked for and took Boundless Saint Emperor’s two jars of Drunken Immortal Brew.

The Taixu Saint Emperor visited Lin Changqing to thank him for saving his life and seek guidance on the martial path. Lin Changqing used the Evergreen Art to heal all of the Third Ancestor’s remaining injuries in a few breaths, leaving him astonished and fully restored.

• The Taixu Saint Emperor returned to the Capital City, visited Lin Changqing’s mansion, and brought two jars of Drunken Immortal Brew as thanks.
• Lin Changqing welcomed the Taixu Saint Emperor, and Su Wanqing offered to prepare lunch for him.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor explained that he had sent the Sixth Ancestor to oversee the peaceful Western Regions while he recuperated and sought further martial guidance.
• Lin Changqing asked about the Taixu Saint Emperor’s injuries, then used the Evergreen Art to heal them completely.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor found his strength fully restored and thanked Lin Changqing for his extraordinary healing.

Lin Changqing taught the Taixu Saint Emperor how to overcome the bottleneck between the Late Martial Saint Stage and Martial Saint Peak, while Su Wanqing listened. After the Third Ancestor left, Lin Changqing gave Su Wanqing a lesson suited to her cultivation, and she eagerly began learning.

• Su Wanqing served the dishes she had cooked, and Lin Changqing and the Taixu Saint Emperor praised her food over a meal and Drunken Immortal Brew.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor asked Lin Changqing for more guidance on reaching Martial Saint Peak, and Lin Changqing agreed and invited Su Wanqing to listen.
• Lin Changqing explained how to command the power of laws and merge it with Spiritual Power as the Taixu Saint Emperor asked questions and Su Wanqing listened.
• At dusk, the Taixu Saint Emperor thanked Lin Changqing, left him the remaining Drunken Immortal Brew, and departed.
• Su Wanqing admitted that the advanced lesson had confused her, so Lin Changqing reassured her and began teaching her martial arts concepts suited to her level.

A widening Spatial Rift in the Cangwu Mountain Range released black shadows that possessed beasts and spread demonic corruption through Jiao Province. After the horde slaughtered most of Zhao Dachuan’s caravan, the chapter ended with Wang Chong and the Demon Suppression Guards facing an overwhelming swarm.

• A Spatial Rift opened in the Cangwu Mountain Range, and black shadows possessed nearby beasts, turning them into demonic creatures.
• Zhao Dachuan’s caravan was attacked by more than a hundred demonized beasts, and Zhou the Bearded sacrificed himself so Zhao Dachuan and a wounded young hand could escape.
• Zhao Dachuan and the young hand fled into the forest as more shadows continued spreading toward villages and towns.
• Zhang An detected countless demonic presences on a bronze mirror and alerted Centurion Wang Chong at the Demon Suppressing Division outpost.
• Wang Chong led the Demon Suppression Guards outside, where they saw a mass of demonized beasts charging toward them and black phantoms filling the forest.

Wang Chong and his Demon Suppression Guards were overwhelmed by Demon Shadows emerging from a Spatial Rift in the Cangwu Mountain Range, while the demons spread into nearby settlements. By the end, Jiao Province Inspector Cao Ruian learned that several towns had fallen and faced the approaching threat to Jiao City.

• Wang Chong led the Demon Suppression Guards in a desperate attempt to break through the demonized beast tide, but Demon Shadows possessed the guards, including Wang Chong.
• The possessed guards revealed their intention to slaughter humans in revenge for the deaths of four Demon Saints and spread outward from the Southern Border rift.
• Demonized beasts and Demon Shadows overran Ye'an Village, killing or possessing its villagers before marching toward their next target.
• Cao Ruian received reports that villages near the Cangwu Mountain Range had gone silent and that a Spatial Rift was releasing Demon Shadows capable of possessing people and beasts.
• A scout told Cao Ruian that Gaolin Town, Dunshi Town, and Blackwater Gully had fallen, leaving the Inspector of Jiao Province to face the approaching invasion.

Jiao Province’s forces struggled to stop the Demon Shadows as they swept through the region, and Qi Jingyuan discovered that mental attacks could destroy the weaker phantoms. A Ninth-Rank Demon Saint possessed him and annihilated his army, then led the risen soldiers toward Jiao City.

• Qi Jingyuan led three thousand elite soldiers to the Cangwu Mountain Range, where they fought the demonized beasts and black phantoms emerging from the widening Spatial Rift.
• Qi Jingyuan learned that demonized beasts could be burned to ash and that mental attacks could destroy phantoms, then ordered his soldiers to use those methods.
• A Ninth-Rank Demon Saint emerged from the Cangwu Mountain Range and ignored Qi Jingyuan’s mental attack before possessing him.
• The Demon Saint in Qi Jingyuan’s body summoned the phantoms to possess the three thousand soldiers, wiping out the army and its commander.
• The Demon Saint ordered the possessed soldiers to kill everyone in Jiao City and avenge the four Demon Saints of their race.

A Ninth-Rank Demon Saint led a demonic assault through a new rift in Jiao Province, while Cao Ruian gathered Grandmasters to defend the region. Attacks also intensified along the Northern Border and Eastern Coastal Defense Line, leaving Great Yu threatened on three fronts.

• Demonized villagers were killed as black shadows spread through villages on the way to Jiao City.
• Cao Ruian learned that a Ninth-Rank Demon Saint had killed General Qi and his three thousand troops, then summoned the province’s Attendants and Eighth-Rank Grandmasters.
• Cao Ruian discovered that the Lin Family and Sun Family had fled, but the remaining eighteen Grandmasters agreed to delay the Demon Saint until reinforcements arrived.
• Twenty Great Grandmasters set out for the Cangwu Mountain Range while other fighters prepared to clear out Demon Shadows and demonized beasts.
• Northern Border Martial Saints learned that Jiao Province faced a Demon Saint but could not spare forces because demons were pinning them down at the defense line.
• The Eastern Coastal Defense Line fought off a massive aquatic demon assault as its commander wondered whether the attacks signaled an all-out assault.

Su Gan received reports of a new demonic invasion in Jiao Province while demons attacked Great Yu’s northern and eastern fronts, leaving him unable to spare enough Martial Saints. He consulted the Taixu Saint Emperor, who rejected using their hidden reserves, and Su Gan hesitated to ask Lin Changqing for help.

• Su Gan read urgent reports announcing coordinated attacks on the northern and eastern borders and a new Spatial Rift in Jiao Province led by a Ninth-Rank Demon Saint.
• Su Gan realized Jiao Province needed at least two Martial Saints but could not safely pull defenders from Great Yu’s other fronts or rely on aid from other factions.
• Su Gan visited the Taixu Saint Emperor and explained that possessing Demon Shadows had killed Qi Jingyuan and wiped out three thousand Prefectural Army troops.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor refused to reveal Great Yu’s reserve Martial Saints, warning that doing so would expose the dynasty’s hidden strength to the demons.
• Su Gan named Lin Changqing as the person best able to suppress the invasion but said he was ashamed to ask him for another favor.

The Taixu Saint Emperor decided to ask Lin Changqing to let the Four Symbols Holy Guards accompany him to quell the danger in Jiao Province. Lin Changqing received a quest to suppress the Demon Shadow Army and defeat a Ninth-Rank Demon Saint in exchange for a tenth-tier Emperor Weapon, then sensed the Third Ancestor approaching the mansion.

• The Taixu Saint Emperor proposed taking the Four Symbols Holy Guards to Jiao Province and planned to ask Lin Changqing for permission, offering treasured spirit herbs as payment.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor left for the Saint Emperor Mansion to seek Lin Changqing's approval.
• Lin Changqing watched Su Wanqing cultivate and judged that she was close to reaching the middle Sixth Rank.
• The system assigned Lin Changqing a quest to quell Jiao Province's unrest and offered a tenth-tier supreme grade Green Peak Sword as the reward.
• Lin Changqing decided to wait until dawn before learning more about the crisis, then sensed the Third Ancestor approaching the mansion.

After learning that a Ninth-Rank Demon Saint and possession-capable Demon Shadows were ravaging Jiao Province while Great Yu’s northern and eastern forces were tied down, Lin Changqing decided to lead the Four Symbols Holy Guards there himself. He departed with Golden Radiance, leaving the Taixu Saint Emperor behind, grateful and worried for his safety.

• The Taixu Saint Emperor told Lin Changqing that demons had opened a Spatial Rift in Jiao Province, killed Qi Jingyuan and three thousand soldiers, and were led by a Ninth-Rank Demon Saint.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor offered four ninth-rank medicinal herbs and asked to take the Four Symbols Holy Guards to Jiao Province, but Lin Changqing said he would go himself.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor urged Lin Changqing to stay, citing the danger and Qin Wanqing’s concern, but Lin Changqing insisted he could resolve the crisis faster in person.
• Lin Changqing told the Taixu Saint Emperor to reassure Qin Wanqing if she emerged from seclusion before he returned.
• Lin Changqing summoned Lin Long, Lin Hu, Lin Que, Lin Wu, and Golden Radiance, then left for Jiao Province through a Spatial Rift.
• The Taixu Saint Emperor watched Lin Changqing depart and bowed, murmuring that he should take care.

Lin Changqing arrived in Jiao Province as a mid-Ninth-Rank Demon Saint devastated the region and advanced toward Jiao City. His arrival as the Evergreen Saint Emperor gave the province’s desperate defenders and civilians hope as they awaited his help.

• Lin Changqing crossed into Jiao Province on Golden Radiance and saw signs of the Demon Shadows’ destruction.
• Lin Changqing chose to go to Jiao City and consult the Inspector before confronting the demons.
• Cao Ruian learned that the Demon Saint had crushed Cangping County and was advancing toward Jiao City, while reinforcements had not yet arrived.
• Cao Ruian ordered the evacuation of Jiao City’s people and prepared to defend the provincial capital.
• Lin Changqing and four Saint Generals appeared above Jiao City, and Cao Ruian and the people welcomed the Evergreen Saint Emperor.

Lin Changqing arrived in Jiao Province and confronted the Demon Shadow army before it could reach Jiao City. He discovered two concealed Demon Saints among the enemy forces, and the chapter ended as the Demon Saint taunted him and the Four Symbols Holy Guards prepared to attack.

• Lin Changqing arrived at the Prefectural Governor's Mansion, learned from Cao Ruian that a Demon Saint-led army was advancing on Jiao City, and ordered the city defended.
• Lin Changqing rode Golden Radiance through a Spatial Rift toward the Cangwu Mountain Range as Cao Ruian rallied the officials and soldiers to protect Jiao City.
• The Demon Saint led its army toward Jiao City, possessing bodies and declaring that the demons intended to open a fourth battlefield and punish Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing met the Demon Shadow army in the wilderness, and the Demon Saint ordered the possessed beasts and humans to retreat before the coming battle.
• Lin Changqing sensed two concealed Demon Saints behind the army and unleashed his Half-Emperor pressure alongside the Four Symbols Holy Guards and Golden Radiance.
• The Demon Saint insulted Lin Changqing and threatened humanity, while Lin Hu, Lin Long, Lin Que, and Lin Wu asked to attack.

Lin Changqing watched the Four Symbols Holy Guards fail to harm the Demon Saint, then faced it himself when it tried to possess him. His Primordial Indestructible Golden Body repelled the Demon Saint, leaving it shocked and the surrounding Demon Shadow Army stunned.

• Lin Hu, Lin Long, Lin Que, and Lin Wu attacked the Demon Saint, but their ordinary techniques and Four Symbols Killing Array only made its body briefly transparent before it recovered.
• Lin Changqing recalled the Four Symbols Holy Guards and considered whether his Great Wilderness Demon-Subduing Fist could affect the Demon Saint.
• The Demon Saint decided to possess Lin Changqing and shot into his body, hoping to claim his Half-Emperor-level form.
• Lin Changqing's Primordial Indestructible Golden Body expelled the Demon Saint and hurled it into a cliff.
• The Demon Saint realized Lin Changqing possessed a powerful soul-defense technique, while the Demon Shadow Army watched in stunned silence.

Lin Changqing used the Zhentian Seal to suppress and kill a Demon Saint, confirming that the treasure was especially effective against the Demon Shadow Clan. The two Demon Saints who came to help fled, and Lin Changqing turned his attention toward pursuing them.

• Lin Changqing summoned the Zhentian Seal and discovered that its aura terrified the trapped Demon Saint and suppressed the nearby Demon Shadows.
• Lin Changqing activated the seal, immobilizing the Demon Saint and forcing two hidden Demon Saints to reveal themselves.
• The late-stage Demon Saint and the mid-stage Demon Saint abandoned their ally and fled after feeling the seal’s power.
• The trapped Demon Saint offered treasures and secrets in exchange for its life, but Lin Changqing pressed the Zhentian Seal down and killed it.
• Lin Changqing returned the Zhentian Seal to storage and looked toward the direction the two Demon Saints had fled.

Lin Changqing and the Four Symbols Holy Guards caught the two fleeing Demon Saints and cornered them with soul attacks. When both Demon Saints detonated their origins, Lin Changqing shielded his allies with the Zhentian Seal and survived the blast, leaving all three Demon Saints dead and the Demon Shadow Army leaderless.

• Lin Changqing rode Golden Radiance after the two fleeing Demon Saints while the Four Symbols Holy Guards pursued and intercepted them.
• Lin Long, Lin Hu, Lin Que, and Lin Wu struck the Demon Saints with soul secret techniques, wounding their origins and blocking their escape.
• Lin Changqing arrived with the Zhentian Seal and prepared to suppress the two Demon Saints, who then detonated their Demon Shadow Origins.
• Lin Changqing shielded the Four Symbols Holy Guards and Golden Radiance with the Zhentian Seal and endured the explosion with his defenses.
• The blast ended with the Zhentian Seal unharmed, both Demon Saints’ origins dissipated, and the Demon Shadow Army left without its commanders.

Lin Changqing summoned a hundred Shadow God Generals and sent them with the Four Symbols Holy Guards to hunt the fleeing Demon Shadow Army. He reached the Spatial Rift as the demons retreated into it, and Golden Radiance’s soul shockwave wiped out the low-level Demon Shadows in its path.

• Lin Changqing summoned a hundred Eighth-Rank Grandmaster Peak Shadow God Generals and ordered Lin Hu, Lin Long, Lin Que, and Lin Wu to lead them in pursuit of the fleeing Demon Shadow Army, sparing recently possessed people when possible.
• The Shadow God Generals proved able to injure Demon Shadows, and their coordinated attacks helped the Four Symbols Holy Guards capture possessed beasts and soldiers and destroy the fleeing demons.
• Lin Changqing rode Golden Radiance into the Cangwu Mountain Range and found the massive Spatial Rift as the Demon Shadow Army rushed back toward it.
• Golden Radiance unleashed a soul shockwave at the rift, scattering low-level Demon Shadows so thoroughly that they could not reform.

Lin Changqing discovered that the Zhentian Seal could suppress and repair the newly formed Spatial Rift, then repeatedly struck it until it collapsed. The rift was sealed, cutting off the Demon Shadows and any reinforcements from the Heavenly Martial Continent.

• Lin Changqing examined the unstable Spatial Rift and realized its edges might still be repaired.
• Golden Radiance suggested using the Zhentian Seal to smash the rift before it stabilized, and Lin Changqing agreed.
• Lin Changqing enlarged the Zhentian Seal and struck the rift, causing its edges to glow with golden light and begin healing.
• The Demon Shadows fled deeper into the rift as the Zhentian Seal's repeated blows shook the tunnel and weakened its spatial barriers.
• The rift collapsed completely, crushing the Demon Shadows trapped inside and leaving the sky clear again.
• Golden Radiance celebrated the sealed rift, and Lin Changqing confirmed the Zhentian Seal remained undamaged.

Lin Changqing returned to Jiao City after sealing the Spatial Rift and defeating the Demon Shadow Army, then healed the wounded defenders with the Evergreen Art. As the rescued captives were gathered, a Demon Shadow taunted him by threatening to make him kill the human bodies it possessed.

• Lin Changqing confirmed the Spatial Rift had healed, returned to Jiao City, and found the Demon Shadow Army wiped out and its possessed captives bound.
• Cao Ruian and the surviving Great Grandmasters welcomed Lin Changqing and praised him for saving Jiao Province.
• Lin Changqing used Evergreen True Essence to heal the wounded defenders, regrowing the severed arm of an Attendant.
• Lin Hu, Lin Long, Lin Que, and Lin Wu returned with the last possessed humans and reported that they had cleared their assigned areas.
• A Demon Shadow inside the corpse of a dead Attendant mocked Lin Changqing and dared him to destroy the possessed humans along with their hosts.

Lin Changqing used Evergreen True Essence to free possessed humans and beasts from the Demon Shadows, healing the soldiers with jade-green Spiritual Rain. After completing his mission to quell the chaos in Jiao Province, he claimed and upgraded the Green Peak Sword into a Tenth-tier Supreme Grade Emperor Weapon.

• Lin Changqing used Evergreen True Essence to destroy a Demon Shadow inside a Great Yu Dynasty Attendant without harming the host.
• Lin Changqing summoned jade-green Spiritual Rain, which drove the remaining Demon Shadows from their hosts and destroyed them.
• The Spiritual Rain healed the soldiers’ injuries and fatigue, and they thanked Lin Changqing.
• The system announced that Lin Changqing had completed his mission to quell the chaos in Jiao Province and offered him the Green Peak Sword as a reward.
• Lin Changqing claimed the Green Peak Sword, upgraded it into a Tenth-tier Supreme Grade Emperor Weapon, and summoned it from his storage space.
• Cao Ruian and the others stared at the sword’s powerful aura and wondered what grade of treasure it was.