Chapter Summaries

The Blood Demon Ancestor revealed that the Mad Demon Ring had driven him into a frenzy and unleashed a devastating attack on the martial artists gathered in the valley. After Lin Feng secretly disrupted their attempts to escape together, the Ancestor detonated the sea of blood, then began his final move by activating Earth's Favor Divine Light.

• The Blood Demon Ancestor introduced the Mad Demon Ring, put it on, and claimed he would trade his life to end the martial world's grudges.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor went mad and summoned the Blood Sea Tide Genesis, trapping the masters as the valley split apart and flooded with blood-colored seawater.
• Hua Ningxue urged the trapped masters to gather and fight their way out, but Lin Feng used Chaotic Blood to disrupt anyone trying to join the group.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor told Lin Feng to leave, then detonated himself, his Sea of Blood Avatar, and the sea of blood, devastating the valley and injuring martial artists outside it.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor activated Earth's Favor Divine Light and told Lin Feng to watch his final move.

The Blood Demon Ancestor used the Divine Light Thunder Summoning Art to destroy many Great Void Evil Spirits, then gave his Earth's Favor Divine Light to Lin Feng before entering reincarnation. Lin Feng captured the survivors and moved them underground, where he began searching Dai Yin's soul.

• Flower Goddess Hua Ningxue and Nine Nether Poisonous Consort Yu Ying escaped while the other Grandmasters lost their bodies and became souls.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor summoned Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder, annihilating forty-five Great Void Evil Spirits and five Grandmaster souls while leaving the others paralyzed.
• Lin Feng gave the Blood Demon Ancestor soul power to keep him from dissipating, but the ancestor transferred his Earth's Favor Divine Light to Lin Feng and entered reincarnation.
• Lin Feng captured the forty-one surviving Great Void Evil Spirits, including Dai Yin, and took them to a hidden underground space.
• Lin Feng chose Dai Yin first and began searching his soul.

Lin Feng killed the Great Void Evil Spirits, then seized control of the Blood Demon Sect’s surviving martial artists by backing Rain Demon’s claim to leadership. He led four hundred thousand followers toward the Sect while beginning to search the monks’ memories for the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple’s Star Martial.

• Lin Feng searched Dai Yin’s soul, killed him, and then slaughtered the other Great Void Evil Spirits.
• Lin Feng told the Blood Demon Sect’s martial artists to support Rain Demon, then killed the six hundred thousand who refused with the Blood Sea Tide Genesis Art.
• Lin Feng had the remaining four hundred thousand martial artists support Rain Demon, gave them Thousand Mile Divine Movement, and planted Mental Imprints in them.
• Lin Feng led the martial artists toward the Blood Demon Sect and informed its allies, Zhang Xiaoyu, the Martial God Hall, and the Demon God Hall about the situation.
• Lin Feng searched the Great Void Evil Spirits’ memories, discovered the Star Pavilion’s Falling Star Star Martial, and began examining the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple monks’ memories.

Lin Feng returned to the Blood Demon Sect with Sun Yu and four hundred thousand disciples to support Zhang Xiaoyu's succession as sect master. With the elders divided between the Fourth Elder and Sixth Elder, Zhang Xiaoyu feared losing the election, while Lin Feng promised to take matters one step at a time.

• Sun Yu exchanged the unusable Soul Heaven Shuttle for Blood Demon Ancestor's Golden Silk Great Ring Saber and agreed to accompany Lin Feng to support Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Lin Feng completed and upgraded the Myriad Poisons Sect's Nine Nether Poison Art into the Nine Nether Heart-Corroding Poison Art, making Myriad Poisons Sect poison arts ineffective against him.
• Lin Feng's group returned to the Blood Demon Sect and learned that the elders had called an assembly to abolish the Saint Son and elect a new sect master.
• When the Fourth Elder's guards barred their way, Sun Yu killed the gatekeeper and led the four hundred thousand disciples in a charge that wiped out the guards.
• Lin Feng and Sun Yu joined Zhang Xiaoyu at the central plaza, where Zhang asked the assembled disciples to wait for those still on their way.
• Zhang Xiaoyu told Lin Feng that the Great Void side would not support his succession and that the Fourth and Sixth Elders each had more disciples; Lin Feng said they would take matters one step at a time.

Lin Feng and Sun Yu challenged Blood Demon Sect elders, established their Grandmaster strength, and helped Zhang Xiaoyu’s faction gain support. Three days later, as the sect gathered to choose a new Sect Master, Lin Feng told Zhang Xiaoyu to put their plan into action.

• Fourth Elder accused Lin Feng of killing the gate guards, and Lin Feng challenged him under the sect rules.
• Sun Yu claimed to be the ancestor’s secret disciple and defeated Tenth Elder after Lin Feng secretly disrupted Tenth Elder’s mind.
• Lin Feng defeated Ninth Elder, and he and Sun Yu became Blood Demon Sect elders.
• As more disciples returned, young martial artists praised Lin Feng and rallied behind Zhang Xiaoyu.
• Three days later, Fourth Elder began the Sect Master vote among himself, Sixth Elder, and Zhang Xiaoyu, and Lin Feng urged Zhang Xiaoyu to put on a show.

Zhang Xiaoyu addressed the Blood Demon Sect before the Sect Master vote, warning that elders were imposing a noble-family system and presenting records of their appointments and dismissals. He promised to preserve the sect’s rules and restore those removed without cause, then left the square with loud support from the disciples.

• Zhang Xiaoyu told the disciples that the Blood Demon Sect’s open talent system had allowed common-born warriors to rise, unlike the Sword Sect’s control by warrior families.
• Zhang Xiaoyu accused elders of trying to build family powers within the sect, prompting the common-born disciples to shout their opposition.
• The Sixth Elder and Fourth Elder challenged Zhang Xiaoyu to provide evidence, and he produced records documenting hundreds of appointments and dismissals.
• The disciples checked the records against their own experiences and confirmed that many common-born members had been removed from their positions.
• Zhang Xiaoyu vowed to enforce the previous Sect Master’s rules, restore those dismissed without cause, and lead the Blood Demon Sect to renewed greatness.
• The disciples roared their support for Zhang Xiaoyu as Sect Master.

Zhang Xiaoyu won the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Master election, but Great Elder of Taixu canceled the position before his victory could be announced. Zhang Xiaoyu defied the order and went to Taixu to report in, leaving Lin Feng to organize his supporters and the Sect on the brink of conflict.

• Zhang Xiaoyu’s votes surged to about seventy percent, defeating Fourth Elder and Sixth Elder in the election.
• An unfamiliar elder announced that Great Elder of Taixu had abolished the Sect Master position and ordered the elders to manage the Sect in rotation.
• Zhang Xiaoyu refused to accept the order, and more than seventy percent of the disciples gathered behind him.
• Zhang Xiaoyu agreed to accompany the unfamiliar elder to Taixu, while Lin Feng organized their supporters into ten formations in case fighting broke out.

Zhang Xiaoyu defended his claim to lead the Blood Demon Sect before the Demon Ancestor and won approval by promising that newly advanced elders would regularly slay demons. He returned to Divine Land as supporters of Lin Feng were being urged to abandon him.

• Zhang Xiaoyu faced the Great Elder's accusation of betraying the sect and argued that the disciples had elected him under the sect's established rules.
• Zhang Xiaoyu defended Blood Demon Ancestor's contributions and promised to require newly advanced elders to meet annual demon-slaying quotas.
• The Demon Ancestor approved Zhang Xiaoyu's plan and told him to keep the Blood Demon Sect strong.
• The four disciples escorting Zhang Xiaoyu treated him with newfound respect as he returned to his room and began meditating.
• On the Blood Demon Sect plaza, Fourth Elder's and Sixth Elder's followers tried to persuade Lin Feng's supporters to switch sides, and some left.
• The unfamiliar elder and Zhang Xiaoyu returned from the Great Void to Divine Land and headed toward the plaza.

Zhang Xiaoyu secured recognition as Blood Demon Sect Master, while Lin Feng and the Demon God Hall stabilized the Demonic Path and protected its civilians. After the three paid respects at the Blood Demon Ancestor’s cenotaph, Lin Feng sensed that his chance to become a Grandmaster had arrived.

• A Great Void elder confirmed Zhang Xiaoyu as the new Blood Demon Sect Master, and Zhang restored loyal members to their posts while appointing Wind Demon and Blade Demon to lead halls.
• Lin Feng and the Demon God Hall purged Blood Demon Sect conspirators and protected civilians from bandits and demonic cultivators, earning the people’s support and spreading across the Demonic Path.
• The Flying Dagger Sect returned as a Demon God Hall affiliate and rose to become a second-rate sect with Lin Feng’s help.
• Zhang Xiaoyu sent five disgraced elders to Great Void to atone for their crimes, leaving Lin Feng, Zhang Xiaoyu, and their allies in control of the Blood Demon Sect.
• Lin Feng, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Sun Yu bowed before the Blood Demon Ancestor’s cenotaph, and colored light appeared around them.
• After leaving the cenotaph, Lin Feng stopped and said he believed his opportunity to become a Grandmaster had arrived.

Lin Feng broke through to the Grandmaster Realm amid a spectacle that drew attention from across the region. He went to the Blood Demon Sect’s core area to enter the Great Void, leaving his physical body under guard while wondering whether the force that carried his soul there could bring all of his souls.

• Lin Feng decided to break through to Grandmaster and then enter the Great Void, while Zhang Xiaoyu mobilized Blood Demon Sect disciples to guard him.
• Lin Feng absorbed heaven-and-earth energy, replaced his blood, and produced a pillar of light that Zhang Xiaoyu’s men explained as the Blood Demon Ancestor’s manifestation.
• Lin Feng reached the Grandmaster Realm with ten million Life and eight million meters of Mental Power coverage.
• Lin Feng carried Zhang Xiaoyu and Sun Yu to the sect’s core area and told them he would leave his physical body there while he entered the Great Void.
• Lin Feng sat beside Sun Yu and Water Demon among the elders’ physical bodies, then wondered whether the force could bring all of his souls to the Great Void.

Lin Feng sent one of his seven souls into the Great Void, where he arrived in a powerless body and began exploring the Blood Demon Sect's territory. After discovering that magic crystals could strengthen him, he planned to trade Shenzhou weapons for more, but a suspicious hunting invitation and warning repeated the pattern Zhang Xiaoyu had encountered.

• A force carried one of Lin Feng's souls into the Great Void, where he woke in an ordinary body with no cultivation.
• Lin Feng introduced himself as Wind Demon to Ma Xingyuan, who escorted him to Red Rain City and explained the newcomer precautions.
• Elena gave Lin Feng her Merchant Guild business card, and Ma Xingyuan said it showed that she thought highly of him.
• Lin Feng reached Blood Demon City, moved into a house beside Zhang Xiaoyu's, and successfully opened his Storage Space.
• Lin Feng purified a magic crystal with the system and swallowed it, gaining ten Life points as well as an increase in realm.
• After declining a suspicious man's hunting invitation and receiving a warning from Zhang Xiaoyu's neighbor, Lin Feng planned to sell weapons from his Storage Space for magic crystals.

Lin Feng sold a blade in Blood Demon City, used some of the payment to strengthen himself, and reached the Skin Refining Realm. Chu Yunsheng and another man ambushed him for his magic crystals, leaving Lin Feng to draw his sword.

• Lin Feng explored Blood Demon City and learned that locals used bronze coins while magic crystals were used for trade with people from the Divine Land.
• Lin Feng sold a machete at a pawnshop for eight hundred magic crystals.
• Lin Feng spent Breakthrough Points to evolve five hundred magic crystals and swallowed them, raising his Life attribute and reaching the Skin Refining Realm.
• Chu Yunsheng and another man cornered Lin Feng in an alley and demanded half of his magic crystals.
• Lin Feng tossed three hundred magic crystals into the air and drew the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword while the two men looked at them.

Lin Feng used the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword to defeat Chu Yunsheng and another attacker, then gathered their spoils and grew stronger. After narrowly avoiding a deadly warning when he tried to open his Living Space, he learned that unaffiliated cultivators in Taixu faced brutal fates and wondered whether he could bring them under his command.

• Lin Feng stabbed Chu Yunsheng with the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword, which broke Chu Yunsheng’s saber and drained his blood, then defeated the other man after breaking his saber and stopping his escape.
• Lin Feng searched the two men’s corpses and took their demon crystals, broken sabers, and a sheepskin map before deciding to keep the sabers to avoid being traced.
• Lin Feng nearly opened his Living Space to bring people from Divine Land to Taixu, but a life-threatening warning made him stop; he suspected powerful beings enforced the rules between the two worlds.
• Lin Feng pawned a chopping saber, purified and consumed the demon crystals he obtained, and felt his life attribute rise.
• Lin Feng saw people from Divine Land repairing the city wall and learned from a Blood Demon Sect overseer that unaffiliated cultivators had to perform two hundred years of hard labor, while righteous-path cultivators were used as bait in the Demon Hunting Wilderness.
• Lin Feng thought of the Martial God Hall and the coming Innate Tribulation, then wondered whether he could bring the laborers under his command.

Lin Feng explored ways to acquire demon crystals in Taixu and devised plans to build influence on the Shenzhou Continent and establish a legitimate business. He and Zhang Xiaoyu returned to the Blood Demon Sect as martial artists gathered for the Sect Master inauguration ceremony.

• Lin Feng learned that independent cultivators could be ransomed with demon crystals and befriended Baili Zhiyuan by posing as a well-connected Hall Master.
• Lin Feng tested a demon crystal on the Shenzhou Continent and planned to raise disciples who could enter the seven great sects and gain influence.
• Lin Feng traded iron ore for demon crystals, increased his Taixu body's vitality, and gave Zhang Xiaoyu two hundred demon crystals.
• Lin Feng told Zhang Xiaoyu he planned to become a Taixu tycoon by acquiring an abandoned iron mine and using it to explain his ore supply.
• Lin Feng planned to seek startup capital by doing business with Elena in Red Rain City, then returned with Zhang Xiaoyu to prepare for the inauguration ceremony.

Lin Feng completed Waning Star Illuminates the Sea and helped build the Blood Demon Sect’s strength before Zhang Xiaoyu’s inauguration. The ceremony was interrupted by Hua Ningshuang, but Sun Yu defeated her and returned with her as the ceremony resumed.

• Lin Feng fused Heaven and Earth Samsara Swordplay and Mental Impact into Falling Star, creating the long-range Star Martial art Waning Star Illuminates the Sea.
• Lin Feng brought the Blood Demon Sect’s number of Innate Martial Artists to more than five hundred through recruitment and empowerment.
• Zhang Xiaoyu began his sect leader inauguration ceremony before a million Blood Demon Sect disciples and tens of thousands of visiting martial artists.
• Hua Ningshuang of Myriad Flower Valley challenged Zhang Xiaoyu’s qualifications, and Sun Yu fought her while the Blood Demon Sect disciples held back her fellow disciples.
• Sun Yu subdued Hua Ningshuang and took her away; they later returned chatting and laughing, and Sun Yu urged Zhang Xiaoyu to continue the ceremony.

At Zhang Xiaoyu’s Blood Demon Sect leadership ceremony, Lin Feng defeated the Myriad Poisons Sect Master and helped establish Zhang Xiaoyu’s authority. As the gathered martial artists were dismissed, a golden meteor flew toward the sect.

• Zhang Xiaoyu offered sacrifices, swore loyalty to the Blood Demon Sect, and received gifts from the visiting sects.
• Yu Ying challenged Zhang Xiaoyu to a martial contest, but Lin Feng offered to fight her instead.
• Yu Ying attacked Lin Feng with deadly poisons, but he was immune and defeated her in the poisonous smoke.
• Lin Feng ordered Yu Ying to return to her seat, then asked the gathered martial artists if anyone else wanted to challenge him.
• Zhang Xiaoyu reaffirmed the demonic path’s rules and declared that the Demon God Hall was under Blood Demon Sect protection.
• As the guests prepared to leave, a golden meteor streaked toward the Blood Demon Sect.

Lin Feng blocked a Buddha's Wrath Star Lotus aimed at the Blood Demon Sect and discovered that six Grandmaster monks from the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect were responsible. When they launched two more, Lin Feng prepared to teach them a lesson, while he and Sun Yu also planned a future campaign against Linghua Temple.

• Lin Feng used Waning Star Illuminates the Sea to collide with and stop a golden meteor targeting the Blood Demon Sect's main hall.
• Lin Feng identified the incoming attack as a true qi martial art and suspected the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect was behind it.
• Six Grandmaster monks launched two Buddha's Wrath Star Lotuses toward the Blood Demon Sect, spacing them apart to make them harder to block.
• Lin Feng told Zhang Xiaoyu and Sun Yu that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect's monks had sent two more meteors toward them.
• Sun Yu proposed secretly gathering forces to destroy Linghua Temple, and Lin Feng agreed they would prepare after the current busy period.
• Lin Feng began circulating his cultivation as the two Buddha's Wrath Star Lotuses came into view.

Lin Feng used a Star Martial-like technique to intercept the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s attacks and kill Fourteenth Elder, then concealed the art’s identity. He explained the danger of Star Martial to Zhang Xiaoyu, and they set out for the Great Void after entrusting sect affairs to Sun Yu.

• Lin Feng summoned three golden meteors, intercepted the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s two Buddha’s Wrath Star Lotuses, and sent the third meteor toward the monks.
• The Great Elder ordered the monks to scatter, but Lin Feng guided the meteor into Fourteenth Elder, killing him and leaving the others shaken.
• The Great Elder led the surviving monks away, while Lin Feng stopped pursuing them and resolved to strengthen his forces in the Great Void and hide the connection to Star Martial.
• Lin Feng told Star Pavilion’s elder that his technique was a fused martial art, planting rumors to disguise its origins.
• Lin Feng explained Star Martial’s risks to Zhang Xiaoyu, entrusted sect affairs to Sun Yu, and left with Zhang Xiaoyu for the core territory of the Blood Demon Sect to depart for the Great Void.

Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu were forced to surrender their monthly demon crystals after Zhou Tieshan and Elder Li used a city-wall work order to bully them. Later, they ambushed Zhou Tieshan in an alley and stole his armor, weapon, and sack of demon crystals.

• Zhou Tieshan ordered Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu to haul bricks, and Elder Li backed him by threatening to take their demon crystals if they refused.
• Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu handed over their demon crystals, then went to a tavern and discussed how they had been targeted.
• Zhang Xiaoyu spotted Zhou Tieshan collecting demon crystals from shops, and the two followed him through the city.
• Lin Feng proposed ambushing Zhou Tieshan in a dark alley, and Zhang Xiaoyu agreed to keep watch.
• Lin Feng knocked Zhou Tieshan unconscious with his club, and he and Zhang Xiaoyu stripped him of his armor and weapon.
• Zhang Xiaoyu found hundreds of demon crystals in Zhou Tieshan's sack, and Lin Feng stored the stolen goods before they fled.

Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu left Blood Demon City for Red Rain City, where Lin Feng planned to start a business and build a force. Zhang Xiaoyu met Ariya again and brought Chamber of Commerce manager Elena to the inn, while Lin Feng prepared to negotiate in disguise.

• Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu fled Blood Demon City after robbing the Blood Demon Sect's tax collectors and decided to head to Red Rain City.
• On the carriage, Zhang Xiaoyu told Lin Feng he wanted his wife in Divine Land to start over while he made a new life in Taixu, and Lin Feng agreed to speak with her.
• After reaching Red Rain City, Lin Feng sent Zhang Xiaoyu to find Elena and used magic crystals to raise his vitality, though he still could not use Mental Power.
• Zhang Xiaoyu ran into Ariya, whom he nicknamed Hammer Girl, and she escorted him to the Chamber of Commerce to meet Elena.
• Zhang Xiaoyu brought Elena to the inn, and Lin Feng put on stolen armor and readied his saber before meeting her.