Chapter Summaries

After defeating the rebel clans, Sun Yu appointed new chiefs, prepared to ascend the throne, and thanked Lin Feng for saving him. Lin Feng mastered the Ancestral Return Scripture and transformed into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, then entered the treasury with Sun Yu to gather resources for empowering him.

• Sun Yu selected five women from each clan, appointed new chiefs—including three ordinary warriors—and ordered the former chiefs to transfer their Demonic Power to them.
• Sun Yu announced that the Old Dragon King had died and would have no funeral, then agreed to ascend the throne in three days after the demon race urged him to do so.
• Lin Feng told Sun Yu about the Great Void Evil Spirits, and Sun Yu learned from the Pig Demon that the demon race did not participate in the Innate Tribulation.
• Sun Yu gave Lin Feng the Ancestral Return Scripture, which Lin Feng mastered and used to transform into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon before the palace demons.
• Sun Yu offered the treasures in the imperial treasury so Lin Feng could empower him, and Lin Feng agreed to take what he wanted.

Lin Feng emptied much of Sun Yu’s treasury, empowered him to master the Ancestral Return Scripture, and helped him break through to become a Demonic Emperor. Sun Yu pledged to follow Lin Feng, who then set out with him to subdue the powerful demons around the Royal Court.

• Lin Feng absorbed treasures worth ten million Breakthrough Points from Sun Yu’s treasury, leaving more than half behind.
• Lin Feng empowered Sun Yu to the Star Martial realm in the Ancestral Return Scripture, and Sun Yu transformed into a Five-clawed Fire Dragon.
• Lin Feng gave Sun Yu Demonic Emperor essence blood and then a drop of Demon God essence blood, enabling Sun Yu to break through and become a Demonic Emperor.
• Sun Yu thanked Lin Feng, jokingly declared him his adoptive father, and later promised to follow him as they discussed their companions and the Great Void Evil Spirits.
• Sun Yu named a phoenix, a Golden Toad, and a Great Roc as powerful demons beyond the Royal Court’s control, and Lin Feng took Sun Yu with him to subdue them.

Lin Feng and Sun Yu subdued several great demons and expanded the Demonic Beast Royal Court before Sun Yu’s enthronement ceremony. Lin Feng took the seat of Sacred Emperor of the Demon Race, and he was about to empower the assembled demon beast race.

• After Sun Yu failed to find the great demons, Lin Feng returned to the Demonic Beast Royal Court with him and appointed Rat Demon Laifu to guide them.
• Sun Yu defeated Fire Phoenix, and she agreed to join the Demonic Beast Royal Court after Lin Feng planted a Mental Imprint in her.
• Lin Feng and Sun Yu used similar methods to subdue the Golden Toad and the Great Roc, bringing their territories under the royal court.
• The Demonic Beast Royal Court prepared for Sun Yu’s enthronement ceremony, which drew officials, clan leaders, protectors, and troops to the imperial palace.
• Sun Yu sat on the throne and invited Lin Feng to take the Sacred Emperor’s seat above him; the assembled demons knelt and hailed them both.
• Lin Feng prepared to empower the entire demon beast race.

Sun Yu established his rule over the demon race, while Lin Feng helped empower his subjects and promised to support him. Lin Feng returned to Kaoshan Village with gifts and planned to search the Demonic Path for Zhang Xiaoyu after spending two days at home.

• Sun Yu announced that the royal court would conquer the Ten Thousand Mountains and claim all demon clans, then Lin Feng initiated the demons into a fragment of the Ancestral Return Scripture.
• Sun Yu promised military merit would earn soldiers more advanced techniques, bestowed Demon Emperor blood essence on the eight Guardian Tribe chiefs and the Fire Phoenix, and held a three-day feast.
• Lin Feng left a Mental Body with Sun Yu and discussed the royal court’s growth and their future plans during tea.
• Lin Feng returned to Kaoshan Village and gave Zhou Chunlan, Zhou Haitao, and Lin Hu treasures from Sun Yu, telling them that Sun Yu had grown much stronger.
• Lin Feng teased Zhou Haitao and Lin Hu about their weaker cultivation, then decided to spend two days at home before searching the Demonic Path for Zhang Xiaoyu.

Lin Feng entered Demonic Path territory, took Zhao Qianfeng’s identity, and joined the Flying Dagger Sect to gain access to the martial world. That night, he also sent his fading Mental Body into the ocean to test whether it could replenish its power by imprinting fish.

• Lin Feng learned that Demonic Path commoners were protected and relatively prosperous, but travelers needed official identities to move between regions.
• Lin Feng killed the mountain bandits and took Zhao Qianfeng’s identity documents after discovering that the wanted man resembled him.
• Lin Feng passed the Flying Dagger Sect’s recruitment assessment with powerful, accurate throws and was registered as a Grade A superior outer disciple.
• Lin Feng spent the night cultivating at an inn while his Mental Body near the Northern Continent began to run out of Mental Power.
• Lin Feng sent the Mental Body into the ocean to see whether it could plant Mental Imprints in fish and replenish its power.

Lin Feng explored the ocean through his Mental Body while using animals to replenish his Mental Power and serve as his spies. After joining the Flying Dagger Sect, he mastered Meteor Flying Dagger and began challenging its ranked disciples, aiming to become sect master.

• Lin Feng's Mental Body planted a Mental Imprint in a great blue shark, replenished its Mental Power, and continued exploring the ocean while Lin Feng ordered other Mental Bodies to imprint animals.
• Zhao Yilong led the nine new disciples from the county town to the Flying Dagger Sect and warned them about the dangers of martial-world life.
• Lin Feng learned that new disciples had to perform chores, then resolved to rise through the rankings and become sect master.
• The new disciples received Meteor Flying Dagger, and Lin Feng used points to bring it to the perfected realm before drawing the manure-scooping chore.
• Lin Feng demonstrated his skill by flicking his wooden lot into a distant target, then asked Zhao Yilong to show him the disciple rankings.
• Lin Feng rang the bell to challenge the top-ranked outer disciple as the first step in his plan to become sect master.

Lin Feng quickly rose through the Flying Dagger Sect, defeating its top disciples and sect master before becoming sect master himself. After securing the position and asking about Zhang Xiaoyu, he left for the Joyful Union Sect, hoping to find news of him.

• Lin Feng proved his skill with Meteor Flying Dagger, defeated Zhuo Yitian, and won first place on the outer sect rankings.
• Lin Feng mastered the secret manuals he received, then claimed first place on the inner sect rankings and moved into a private courtyard.
• Lin Feng defeated the Flying Dagger Sect master and persuaded the sect’s leaders to accept him as sect master by empowering them and gifting them martial arts.
• Lin Feng asked the sect leaders about Zhang Xiaoyu, but they had never heard of him.
• The Flying Dagger Sect master announced that Zhao Qianfeng would succeed him, and Lin Feng left for the Joyful Union Sect to seek news of Zhang Xiaoyu.

Lin Feng arrived in Fanghua City and discovered that Joyful Union Sect inner disciple Liu Ruyu was holding a martial contest for marriage. Hoping to learn about Yun Mengwu and Zhang Xiaoyu from her, he decided to win the contest, while the fight ended with a new challenger stepping onto the arena.

• Lin Feng entered Fanghua City and learned from spectators that Liu Ruyu's contest could connect him to Yun Mengwu and Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Jiang Xiaolong defeated a saber-wielding martial artist with a spear strike and challenged the crowd to face him.
• Liu Ruyu grew dissatisfied with Jiang Xiaolong and hoped a powerful master like the Rain Demon would appear.
• A martial artist named Kong Mouren jumped onto the arena to challenge Jiang Xiaolong.

Lin Feng, posing as Zhao Qianfeng, won Liu Ruyu’s martial contest by killing Jiang Xiaolong and the Poisonous Madman with his flying daggers. Liu Ruyu recognized him as the man she had been searching for and walked toward him.

• Lin Feng introduced himself as Zhao Qianfeng, challenged Jiang Xiaolong, and killed him with a flying dagger through the glabella.
• The crowd realized Zhao Qianfeng’s dagger had killed Jiang Xiaolong before he fell from the arena, and Liu Ruyu was impressed by his skill.
• The Poisonous Madman arrived in poisonous smoke, incapacitated people near the arena, and threatened to make Liu Ruyu his woman.
• Lin Feng killed the Poisonous Madman with a single flying dagger, astonishing the crowd despite his apparent Houtian Peak cultivation.
• Liu Ruyu decided Zhao Qianfeng was the man she had been looking for and walked toward him.

Lin Feng entered Liu Ruyu’s martial marriage contest to ask about Yun Mengwu and Rain Demon, then left after Liu Ruyu attacked him. He headed for the Blood Demon Sect, while Liu Ruyu ordered an investigation into the Flying Dagger Sect and declared that its sect master, Zhao Qianfeng, had won the contest.

• Lin Feng defeated Liu Ruyu by cutting away her veil with a flying knife, then followed her into a private room.
• Liu Ruyu told Lin Feng that Yun Mengwu had vanished near the Blood Demon Sect on the day Rain Demon emerged from Blood Demon Divine Mountain, and said Rain Demon might have come from the Righteous Path.
• Lin Feng refused Liu Ruyu’s advances, and she attacked him with an Emei needle; he dodged and immobilized her with a finger strike.
• Lin Feng left through the window and released Liu Ruyu’s acupoint from a distance, while Liu Ruyu ordered her maidservants to investigate the Flying Dagger Sect and announce Zhao Qianfeng as the contest’s winner.
• Lin Feng flew toward the Blood Demon Sect to continue searching for the people he sought.

Zhang Xiaoyu killed Yun Mengyao to fulfill Yun Mengwu’s final wish, then mutilated himself under Maneater Old Demon’s coercion to advance his cultivation. After the Blood Demon Ancestor offered him advice about remaining true to himself, Lin Feng arrived at Blood Demon Mountain.

• Zhang Xiaoyu told Yun Mengyao that Yun Mengwu’s wish was for him to kill her, then stabbed her and recalled how Yun Mengyao had once lured her younger sister into danger.
• Zhang Xiaoyu laid Yun Mengyao on a bed, set the courtyard ablaze, and left as Maneater Old Demon ordered him to cultivate the Blood Rain Cloud-Shifting Demonic Art’s final layer by castrating himself.
• Maneater Old Demon tightened the Golden Hoop until Zhang Xiaoyu submitted, and Zhang Xiaoyu used the dagger to castrate himself.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor praised Zhang Xiaoyu’s breakthrough and advised him to live as himself, while Zhang Xiaoyu felt the loss he had suffered.
• Maneater Old Demon warned Zhang Xiaoyu that the Blood Demon Ancestor might have seen through something, and three days later Lin Feng arrived at the foot of Blood Demon Mountain.

Lin Feng traveled to Blood Sea City to find Zhang Xiaoyu and joined the Gathering Demons Hall by defeating its rank-ninety-nine member with his flying dagger. After learning that the others ranked above him, he challenged them all at once.

• Lin Feng learned that Zhang Xiaoyu had founded the Gathering Demons Hall to build his influence among the Demonic Path.
• Lin Feng introduced himself as Zhao Qianfeng, master of the Flying Dagger Sect, and asked to join the hall.
• After the gatekeeper required him to fight on the arena, Lin Feng defeated the bare-chested rank-ninety-nine martial artist with a flying dagger.
• The gatekeeper gave Lin Feng the rank-ninety-nine token and explained that he could rise by challenging higher-ranked members.
• Lin Feng refused to challenge them one by one and invited all the martial artists to fight him at once.

Lin Feng staged a public display of strength at Gathering Demons Hall to draw Zhang Xiaoyu out, then waited in a courtyard while considering how to expand his infiltration of the Demonic Path. Zhang Xiaoyu arrived at the courtyard gate, bringing the brothers face to face again.

• Lin Feng defeated twenty-five martial artists with true-energy darts, showing mercy while making the crowd believe he had badly injured them.
• The spectators recognized Lin Feng as an Innate grandmaster, and the gatekeeper welcomed him into Gathering Demons Hall.
• Lin Feng entered an elegant courtyard, drank tea, and reflected on his past with Zhang Xiaoyu and his plans for the Demonic Path.
• Lin Feng thought about his pregnant wife, Zhou Chunlan, and considered establishing a Martial God Hall for ordinary people in the Demonic Path.
• Zhang Xiaoyu appeared at the courtyard gate dressed in a blood-red robe.

Lin Feng reunited with Zhang Xiaoyu at the Gathering Demons Hall, but Zhang Xiaoyu hid the truth about their relationship and acted as if someone might be watching. Lin Feng discovered signs of his brother’s suffering and suspected a strange soul presence, then followed him to lunch as Zhang Xiaoyu left to fetch something.

• Zhang Xiaoyu recognized Lin Feng but addressed him by his false identity, concealing their brotherhood because he feared danger to his wife and child.
• Lin Feng played along, searched the area with his Mental Power, and assured Zhang Xiaoyu that their family was well.
• Zhang Xiaoyu praised his own talent and denied having another master, while Lin Feng sensed an unfamiliar soul fluctuation and noticed his brother’s tightly embedded golden headband and missing testicle.
• Zhang Xiaoyu led Lin Feng to an inn inside the Gathering Demons Hall and ordered the best dishes for their meal.
• Zhang Xiaoyu left the private room to fetch something, leaving Lin Feng puzzled about what he intended to bring.

Lin Feng learned that Zhang Xiaoyu’s Golden Hoop was linked to a soul inside him, then explored the Blood Demon Sect for clues. He discovered the sect’s ancient Blood Demon Ancestor, whose strength rivaled his own, and was left wondering why the old man regarded him like a long-lost friend.

• Zhang Xiaoyu gave Lin Feng the Ice Demon Art, which he had taken from Feng Zhenyu, and Lin Feng memorized it while overhearing Zhang Xiaoyu’s conversation with Maneater Old Demon.
• Lin Feng tugged at Zhang Xiaoyu’s Golden Hoop and caused him severe pain, then agreed not to ask about its secret.
• Zhang Xiaoyu gave Lin Feng a visitor token for the Blood Demon Sect and returned to cultivate while Lin Feng explored the sect.
• Lin Feng searched the sect for other Golden Hoops and sensed an awakened Mental Power near a field.
• Lin Feng saw that the old man was Blood Demon Ancestor, a Three Blood Great Grandmaster with three million life force, and noticed the old man looked at him like an old friend.

Lin Feng met the Blood Demon Ancestor, who recognized his Earth's Favor Divine Light and revealed that he had also killed a Great Void Evil Spirit. The Ancestor began explaining their shared path but left Lin Feng waiting for answers about the light's origins and requirements.

• The Blood Demon Ancestor invited Lin Feng to weed a field with him, and they finished the work together.
• The Ancestor changed into his robes, and Lin Feng identified him as the Blood Demon Ancestor while introducing himself as Zhao Qianfeng of the Flying Dagger Sect.
• The Ancestor led Lin Feng into a secluded courtyard, where Blood Demon Sect disciples showed their respect to them.
• The Ancestor told Lin Feng to examine him with Mental Power, revealing the same multicolored light Lin Feng had gained after killing a Great Void Evil Spirit.
• The Ancestor confirmed that he had killed a Great Void Evil Spirit and called the light Earth's Favor Divine Light, prompting Lin Feng to ask how it was obtained and where it came from.

Lin Feng learned how Blood Demon Ancestor gained Earth's Favor Divine Light and heard how Maneater Old Demon was threatening Rain Demon. Blood Demon Ancestor gave Lin Feng the Soul Merging Technique, while explaining that he intended to die in Shenzhou despite knowing a way to prolong his life.

• Blood Demon Ancestor explained that Earth's Favor Divine Light came from sheltering common people and worked only on the Shenzhou Continent; Lin Feng said the Martial God Hall had earned him the blessing by helping the poor.
• Lin Feng revealed that he had come to find his brother Rain Demon, and Blood Demon Ancestor explained that Maneater Old Demon had possessed Rain Demon and was growing stronger within him.
• Blood Demon Ancestor said he planned to destroy Maneater Old Demon before Rain Demon reached the Grandmaster realm, but Lin Feng asked for time to find another solution.
• Blood Demon Ancestor explained how he had used the Soul Merging Technique to destroy an evil spirit within himself, then agreed to pass the technique to Lin Feng without asking for an exchange.
• Lin Feng asked why Blood Demon Ancestor did not seek demon crystals to extend his life, and Blood Demon Ancestor explained that he wanted to remain in Shenzhou and die in his homeland.
• After Lin Feng pressed him for another way to prolong his life, Blood Demon Ancestor said there was one.

Lin Feng learned that Martial Saints were only a legend and searched the Blood Demon Sect’s Book Pavilion for a way to save Zhang Xiaoyu, but found nothing useful. He decided the next morning to try a new way to communicate with Zhang Xiaoyu without the Maneater Old Demon listening.

• The Blood Demon Ancestor explained that Shenzhou’s warriors could only become Quasi-Martial Saints through magic crystals and gave Lin Feng a Sect Master Token to search for clues about saving Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Lin Feng encountered Zhang Xiaoyu, reassured him that the Blood Demon Ancestor had treated him well, and went to the Book Pavilion while Zhang Xiaoyu returned to cultivate.
• Lin Feng used the token to enter the Book Pavilion and read its collection, but found no information that could help Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Lin Feng worried that searching other sects’ Book Pavilions would expose his identity and attract the Great Void Evil Spirit at Wuji Palace.
• Lin Feng calmed himself, decided not to rely on the ancients, and devised a way to communicate with Zhang Xiaoyu without the Maneater Old Demon overhearing.

Lin Feng reunited with Zhang Xiaoyu and learned that the Blood Rain Cloud-Shifting Demonic Art did not require castration after all. He secretly planted a Mental Imprint, allowing Zhang Xiaoyu to reveal his troubles with Yun Mengwu and the Maneater Old Demon, and promised to help him.

• Zhang Xiaoyu arrived through the storm using the Blood Rain Cloud-Shifting Demonic Art and taught it to Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng explained the Emotionless and Detached Meditation Method, revealing that Zhang Xiaoyu could have practiced the art without castrating himself.
• Lin Feng secretly planted a tiny Mental Imprint on Zhang Xiaoyu so they could communicate without the Maneater Old Demon noticing.
• Zhang Xiaoyu confided that Yun Mengwu had tried to kill him and that the Maneater Old Demon had tricked him into wearing the Golden Hoop and forced him to castrate himself.
• Lin Feng reassured Zhang Xiaoyu that they could work together against the Maneater Old Demon, and Zhang Xiaoyu agreed to follow his lead.

Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu plotted to exploit Maneater Old Demon's hunger for gifted bodies by using Lin Feng as bait. Lin Feng demonstrated extraordinary talent by instantly perfecting Zhang's demonic art, leaving Maneater Old Demon eager to possess him.

• Lin Feng learned from Zhang Xiaoyu that Maneater Old Demon had grown stronger and controlled him with a Golden Hoop, then explained that the demon was a Great Void Evil Spirit.
• Lin Feng proposed luring Maneater Old Demon away from Zhang by displaying his talent as a martial artist and Mental Power awakened, despite Zhang's concern that the plan was dangerous.
• Lin Feng claimed he could perfect Zhang Xiaoyu's Blood Rain Cloud-Shifting Demonic Art in the time it took to drink tea, and Zhang played along to deceive Maneater Old Demon.
• Lin Feng raised the art to the perfected realm and demonstrated it by vanishing into the rain and turning the courtyard's rainwater into blood rain.
• Maneater Old Demon marveled at Lin Feng's talent and disparaged Zhang Xiaoyu, while Zhang urged Lin Feng not to risk himself and then asked what they should do next.