Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng prepared Chuchu and the martial artists of the Shenzhou Continent for the coming Innate Tribulation in Taixu. After empowering his children Lin Tianlong and Lin Tianfeng, he watched them test their new skills and questioned Lin Tianlong about a martial art he had not taught him.

• Lin Feng contacted Chuchu through the Mental Imprint, explained the Innate Tribulation, and told her how to find him in Taixu.
• Lin Feng gave Chuchu 800,000 magic crystals, and she prepared the Naga Dynasty for her departure and an empowerment ceremony.
• The Martial God Hall and Demon God Hall arranged to preserve Innate Martial Artists’ bodies and prepared them for their assignments in Taixu.
• Lin Feng empowered Li Wanru and Wu Youran with 800,000 magic crystals each, then returned to Kaoshan Village to empower Lin Tianlong and Lin Tianfeng with martial arts.
• Lin Tianfeng demonstrated Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge by destroying a hill, while Sibao asked Lin Feng to teach him the technique.
• Lin Tianlong used the Undying Battle Body to withstand Lin Tianfeng’s attack, and Lin Feng asked how he had learned it.

Lin Feng learned that the Innate Tribulation could be ended by sacrificing Innate Martial Artists from Divine Land, so he moved to protect those under his command. After devising a plan to hide them from the sects, he entered the Demon Hunting Wilderness to test newly made Demon Luring Incense.

• Lin Feng equipped Iron Blood City with large stocks of weapons and armor and sold silver to earn demon crystals for the coming Innate Tribulation.
• The Demon Hunter Guild steward revealed that the sects could end the Innate Tribulation by feeding Divine Land's Innate Martial Artists to demons, and that commoners were likely to be sacrificed first.
• Lin Feng ordered Zhang Xiaoyu, Ma Xingyuan, and the others to move his Innate Martial Artists to Iron Blood City and relayed the warning to his forces on Shenzhou Continent.
• Lin Feng planned to use Demon Luring Incense to fake the martial artists' deaths and later claim they had been imprisoned in Blood Demon City.
• Lin Feng mounted a flying dragon and entered the Demon Hunting Wilderness to test the newly produced Demon Luring Incense.

Lin Feng hunted demons to build his strength before the Innate Tribulation, then returned to Iron Blood City as the Demon Hunting Wilderness expanded toward the city. The chapter ended when a bell rang across the Great Void, signaling the tribulation could begin.

• Lin Feng used a massive block of Demon Luring Incense to kill more than five thousand Intermediate Demons and fifty thousand Low-level Demons, while his Mental Power Field helped nearby Demon Hunting Squads escape.
• Lin Feng hunted High-grade Demons for eight days, killed 206 of them, cleared two Ghost Gathering Grounds, and raised his vitality attribute to six million by consuming 300 High-grade Demon Crystals.
• Lin Feng avoided venturing deeper into the Demon Hunting Wilderness, deciding to seek information about stronger demons from the Lord of the Great Void after the Innate Tribulation.
• As Lin Feng rode toward Iron Blood City, the black mist expanded until it stopped ten li from the city, prompting many commoners to prepare to flee.
• Zhang Xiaoyu told Lin Feng that everything was ready for the Innate Tribulation, and a clear bell rang throughout the Great Void.

The Innate Tribulation drew the souls of nearly all Innate and Grandmaster martial artists into Taixu, leaving Lin Feng behind to protect Iron Blood City and gather his family. He secured new guards for the city, then reached the Awakening Land and reunited with his children, while Ma Xingyuan reported that the Demon Luring Incense was ready.

• The bell sent the souls of Shenzhou’s Innate and Grandmaster martial artists into Taixu, and Lin Feng reassured Mother Lin that his family would be safe.
• Ma Xingkong delivered over a thousand Half-bloods to Iron Blood City, and Lin Feng imprinted them and assigned Lu Cangsheng to train them as guards.
• Lin Feng left Zhang Xiaoyu and Mr. Hong to protect Iron Blood City, then set out for the Awakening Land to collect his family.
• Ma Xingyuan told Lin Feng that his children, Lin Tianlong and Lin Tianfeng, had arrived and were waiting in his room.
• Lin Feng reunited with Lin Tianlong and Lin Tianfeng and gave them Demon Crystals, while Ma Xingyuan told him the Demon Luring Incense was ready.

Lin Feng secretly sent 1,121 people from the Awakening Land to Red Rain City, then staged a demon attack to make their disappearance look like a casualty. After the attack, the sects discovered their Innate Martial Artists were missing, and an elder asked where the Martial God Hall people had gone.

• Lin Feng gathered his father, children, relatives, and disciples and arranged for Ma Xingyuan to transport all 1,121 people to Red Rain City.
• After everyone had left, Ma Xingyuan lit Demon Luring Incense, attracting demons to the Awakening Land.
• Lin Feng blocked Innate Martial Artists from fleeing into the Demon Hunting Wilderness and then used the Blood Sea Tide Genesis Art to kill the demons.
• Ma Xingyuan reported that fifteen Blood Demon Sect Innate Martial Artists were missing, and other sects found that about twenty people each were also gone.
• An elder from Wuji Palace shouted to ask where the Martial God Hall Innate Martial Artists had gone.

Lin Feng rushed to evacuate the people of Red Rain City to Iron Blood City as Black Mist crept closer and the threat of a demon attack grew. During the journey, a vast demon army emerged and charged the flying formation, so Lin Feng broke away to confront it while Zhang Xiaoyu led the others onward.

• Ma Xingyuan tricked Wuji Palace's group into running toward the Demon Hunting Wilderness, then continued his duties in the Awakening Land.
• Lin Feng brought his family, disciples, and friends to Iron Blood City, gave them Demon Crystals and equipment, and arranged their preparations for the coming attack.
• After seeing Black Mist advance toward Iron Blood City, Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu organized a rapid evacuation of Red Rain City's people aboard more than a hundred flying dragons.
• Ma Xingyuan chose to remain behind to guard the Awakening Land after the Innate Martial Artists and the people of Red Rain City had been evacuated.
• A huge swarm of flying and ground demons emerged from the Black Mist and charged the formation; Lin Feng calmed the flying dragons and went to face the demon army while Zhang Xiaoyu continued toward Iron Blood City.

Lin Feng lured a vast demon horde away from his fleeing group and brought his subordinates safely to Iron Blood City. Amanda warned him that demons would soon begin attacking cities and that the Black Mist would cover Iron Blood City in one month.

• Lin Feng used Demon Luring Incense and his combined Star Martial techniques to kill the demon horde, then detected High-grade Demons hiding in the Black Mist.
• Lin Feng caught up with Zhang Xiaoyu and the others, gave Zhang Demon Luring Incense, and led the group safely to Iron Blood City.
• Lin Feng distributed Demon Crystals, inspected the city’s defenses, and arranged for bonfires outside the walls while civilians began leaving.
• Lin Feng asked Amanda about the Innate Tribulation, and she predicted demon attacks in three days and said the Black Mist would cover Iron Blood City in one month.
• Lin Feng insisted he would not sacrifice his subordinates, then asked Amanda how she had learned about the Black Mist’s advance.

Lin Feng prepared Iron Blood City for Black Mist by recruiting citizens to defend it. Meanwhile, Wuji Palace and the Sword Sect blamed their people for failing to bring back Innate Martial Artists, and planned to make unsupported disciples pay during the coming tribulation.

• Lin Feng told Iron Blood City's leaders that Black Mist would cover the city, and they agreed to recruit as many citizens as possible, especially skilled archers.
• At Wuji Palace, the Great Elder learned that no Innate Martial Artists from the Martial God Hall had been found and heard they might have been taken by the Blood Demon Sect.
• The Lord of Wuji ordered the elders to prepare Wuji City for three months of defense while he recovered from his injuries, and told them to move people from outer cities if necessary.
• The Great Elder of Wuji Palace learned that eight Innate Martial Artists had come from outside the sects and ordered that they be treated well but given no demon crystals so they could contribute to the Sect.
• At the Sword Sect, the Great Elder blamed Zhou Haitian and the Awakening Land supervisor for the missing Innate disciples and warned that their Innate juniors might pay with their lives.
• Zhou Haitian suspected his branch had been targeted since his teacher disappeared and planned to visit his teacher's home to find out what had happened.

Iron Blood City repelled its first demon siege without losing a soldier, as Lin Feng let the city’s recruits gain combat experience using silver-plated weapons. After celebrating the victory and preparing new defenses, the story left Star Abyss City struggling and considering sacrificing Innate Martial Artists.

• Lin Feng ordered Iron Blood City’s forces to defend the walls and treat the incoming demons as a live combat exercise.
• Lu Cangsheng directed the recruits to fire arrows, ballistae, and Sky-Shaking Thunders, wiping out the demon army before it reached the walls.
• Lin Feng rewarded every city-defense warrior with ten demon crystals and promised extra crystals to higher-ranking commanders.
• Lu Cangsheng organized the recovery of silver arrows and pellets, while Zhang Xiaoyu arranged caltrops, blades, and wire barricades outside the city.
• Star Abyss City, the closest city to Iron Blood City, began considering sacrificing Innate Martial Artists as its own defense faltered.

Star Pavilion’s elders forced three Innate Martial Artists to defend Star Abyss City, falsely claiming they could easily kill demons. Two died at the gate, while the third escaped into the Black Mist as the demon horde surged back.

• Demons breached Star Abyss City’s gates after the unprepared defenders conscripted commoners to help defend the walls.
• Elder Li pressured three Innate Martial Artists into fighting by promising they could kill demons and threatening their families.
• The elders sealed the gate behind the three, and two charged the demons while the third tried to escape.
• The demons killed the two younger martial artists, while the older one ran along the wall and escaped an arrow from Elder Li.
• The Demon Luring Incense wore off, and the older martial artist fled into the Black Mist as Elder Li returned to the city.

At Star Abyss City, Star Pavilion sacrificed Zhao Si during a demon siege, but he escaped into the Demon Hunting Wilderness. Lin Feng found and rescued him, then took him toward Iron Blood City, considering him as a possible disciple.

• Elder Li pushed his nephew into a Thunder Horn Demon Wolf's attack to replace a missing sacrifice, and the Divine Power Great Grandmaster later killed Elder Li for exceeding his deadline.
• The demons withdrew, and the Great Grandmaster ordered the elders to clear the battlefield while considering abandoning Star Abyss City.
• Lin Feng lured and killed more than ten thousand Intermediate Demons and tens of millions of low-level demons near Iron Blood City.
• Lin Feng spotted the wounded Zhao Si in the Demon Hunting Wilderness and gave him a life-saving pill.
• Zhao Si told Lin Feng that Star Pavilion elders had pushed him out of Star Abyss City to die, and Lin Feng treated his wound and carried him toward Iron Blood City.

Lin Feng sheltered Zhao Si in Iron Blood City as refugees from several breached cities arrived, and he strengthened his family to prepare for further demon attacks. The chapter ended with a soldier reporting that demons had reappeared at the edge of the Black Mist.

• Zhao Si learned from Uncle Wang that Iron Blood City had defeated a demon attack without losing soldiers and grew impressed by its safety and Lin Feng's kindness.
• Lin Feng admitted tens of thousands of refugees from Star Abyss City, Star Scar City, and Anle City, then had Lu Cangsheng and Emila arrange shelter and recruit defenders.
• Zhao Si considered pledging allegiance to Lin Feng, while Lin Feng raised the strength of his children, Zhou Chunlan, and Lin Zhenshan using High-grade Demon Crystals.
• A soldier reported that demons had appeared at the edge of the Black Mist again, and Lin Feng headed to the city walls to inspect them.

Lin Feng slaughtered demons in the Demon Hunting Wilderness and encountered a Great Fish Demon that proved stronger than an ordinary High-grade Demon. After killing it, he drew the attention of a colossal Great Fish Demon and prepared to fight as it caught up with him.

• Lin Feng left Iron Blood City and killed the demons gathering near its walls, while the townspeople learned he had gone out to protect them.
• Lin Feng killed over a hundred million low-grade demons and more than a hundred thousand Intermediate Demons, then went deeper to hunt High-grade Demons.
• Lin Feng killed dozens of High-grade Demons before encountering a Great Fish Demon whose health recovered after his first attack.
• Lin Feng pursued and killed the Great Fish Demon, collecting its unusually bright High-grade Demon Crystal.
• A colossal Great Fish Demon attacked Lin Feng from deep in the wilderness, caught up with him as he fled, and forced him to prepare for a fight.

After hunting demons overnight, Lin Feng returned to Iron Blood City and destroyed a massive demon army attacking its gates. The exhausted defenders rested while Lin Feng ordered an investigation into the attack, which ended with Emila’s subordinate bringing in a damaged box of Demon Luring Incense.

• Lin Feng hunted High-grade Demons until morning, raised his life attribute to six million, and flew back toward Iron Blood City.
• Lin Feng found more than a hundred thousand demons attacking Iron Blood City and used Demon Luring Incense and his Blood Sea to eliminate them.
• Lin Feng learned that the assault had begun at midnight and rewarded the defenders with Demon Crystals before sending them to rest.
• Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaoyu suspected someone had caused the attack, and Emila reported that investigators were searching the city for the culprit.
• A girl working for Emila brought a damaged box of Demon Luring Incense found at the base of the city wall.

Emila and Zhang Xiaoyu investigated the Demon Luring Incense attack while Lin Feng took Zhao Si as his disciple and promised to protect his family. At the City Lord’s Mansion, Lin Feng exposed Star Pavilion spy Bai Yanchuan, who confessed that Star Pavilion wanted Iron Blood City breached; Lin Feng began searching his mind.

• Emila ordered Xiao Na to investigate everyone who approached the city gates after the Demon Luring Incense was found inside the walls.
• Lin Feng returned home, visited Zhao Si, accepted him as a disciple, and promised to bring Zhao Si’s family from Divine Land before the Innate Tribulation ended.
• Lin Feng gave Zhao Si 800,000 Demon Crystals and then went to the City Lord’s Mansion, where more than 150 suspects had gathered.
• Lin Feng identified Bai Yanchuan as a Star Pavilion disciple and ordered Lu Cangsheng’s subordinates to arrest him.
• Bai Yanchuan confessed that Star Pavilion wanted Iron Blood City breached because its survival damaged Star Pavilion’s reputation and threatened settlement in its outer cities.
• Lin Feng put his hand on Bai Yanchuan’s head to search for other spies and punish him.

Lin Feng uncovered Star Pavilion’s plot and the truth behind Xiao Hanjiang’s past, then brought Xiao Hanjiang face-to-face with the brother who had destroyed his family. Xiao Hanjiang killed Bai Yanchuan and was left without a home, while Lin Feng saw a chance to turn him against Star Pavilion.

• Lin Feng searched Bai Yanchuan’s soul, learned about his accomplice Xiao Hanjiang and the massacre of Xiao Family Village, and ordered his people to expose Star Pavilion’s conspiracy while keeping Bai alive.
• Emila stabbed Bai Yanchuan, and Lin Feng found Xiao Hanjiang at a teahouse as he prepared to flee Iron Blood City.
• Lin Feng told Xiao Hanjiang that Bai Yanchuan had been captured and showed him memories of Bai and Lu Chengzhou slaughtering Xiao Family Village.
• Lin Feng took Xiao Hanjiang to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Bai Yanchuan’s words under a mental illusion confirmed the massacre and revealed that he had abused Xiao Hanjiang’s sister.
• Xiao Hanjiang stabbed Bai Yanchuan to death and, with his family gone and Star Pavilion exposed as his enemy, wondered where he could go.

Lin Feng subdued the Clear River Demon Dragon and appointed it the Dragon King of Clear River under the Demonic Beast Royal Court. He then retrieved Zhao Si’s physical body from Star Pavilion and arranged for Zhao Si and his family to be hidden in the Ten Thousand Mountains before going to tell Zhao Si the good news.

• Lin Feng returned to Xiaohe Village, saw the Clear River Demon Dragon summoning rain, and attacked it, believing it was bringing calamity upon the people.
• The Clear River Demon Dragon explained that it was watering crops during a drought, and Lin Feng searched its memories and found it had not committed evil.
• Lin Feng spared the Clear River Demon Dragon, planted a Mental Imprint, appointed it the Dragon King of Clear River, and taught it the first two levels of the Ancestral Return Scripture.
• Lin Feng reached Star Pavilion and took Zhao Si’s physical body from a hall, then had Zhao Si and his family moved to a secret stronghold in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Feng went to find Zhao Si in Taixu to tell him the good news.

Lin Feng learned that Great Void Evil Spirits could invade Divine Land midway through the Innate Tribulation and began preparing for their arrival. He also considered raising more than a thousand Innate Martial Artists to Three Blood Great Grandmasters, then entered the Demon Hunting Wilderness to hunt High-grade Demons.

• Lin Feng told Zhao Si that his body and family were being moved to Divine Land, then gave him 120 purified Intermediate Demon Crystals to help him advance.
• Amanda told Lin Feng that Innate Martial Artists who reached Three Blood Great Grandmaster in the Great Void returned to Divine Land as newly advanced Grandmasters, and warned that Great Void Evil Spirits could invade when the Tribulation reached its halfway point.
• Xiao Hanjiang told Lu Chengzhou that Bai Yanchuan had died covering his retreat, while Lu Chengzhou described the worsening demon assaults and ordered Xiao Hanjiang to take a city defense post.
• Xiao Hanjiang suspected that Lu Chengzhou planned to sacrifice Bai Yanchuan's descendants, who were staying in Star Pavilion.
• Lin Feng considered turning more than a thousand Innate Martial Artists into Three Blood Great Grandmasters, notified the City Lord's Mansion, and entered the Demon Hunting Wilderness to hunt High-grade Demons.

Lin Feng hunted demons around Iron Blood City for five days, increasing his vitality to thirty million and expanding his Slaughter Domain to one thousand meters before reaching his limit with High-grade Demon Crystals. After a day with his family, he heard that Lin Tianfeng had dreamed of being someone else, then asked Lin Tianlong about his own dream.

• Lin Feng used his Slaughter Domain to clear demons outside Iron Blood City and hunted High-grade Demons, collecting 451 crystals in four hours.
• Lin Feng purified and consumed 600 High-grade Demon Crystals, raising his vitality to twelve million and expanding his Slaughter Domain to four hundred meters.
• Lin Feng hunted demons for five days, reaching thirty million vitality and a one-thousand-meter Slaughter Domain, but spat out a crystal when he could no longer absorb it.
• Lin Feng spent a day with Zhou Chunlan and his children, and reassured Lin Tianfeng after she described a dream in which she grew up and struck down a huge monster with a whip.
• Lin Feng noticed Lin Tianlong looking troubled, called him over, and asked whether he had dreamed too; Lin Tianlong nodded.

Lin Feng hunted demons, strengthened his allies, and arranged for the merchant association to sell weapons to help the Blood Demon Sect during the Innate Tribulation. While he was away, a demon horde attacked Iron Blood City, and Zhang Xiaoyu and Mr. Hong charged out to fight it.

• Lin Tianlong told Lin Feng that he had dreamed of piercing a Steel Battleship with a spear, and Lin Feng wondered whether the children’s dreams were memories from past lives.
• Lin Feng hunted High-grade Demons for over a month, gathered more than thirty thousand Demon Crystals, and raised more than three hundred people to Three Blood Grandmasters.
• After learning that cities across Taixu were under siege, Lin Feng asked Shen Yingchuan to sell a large batch of weapons, prioritizing the Blood Demon Sect.
• A massive demon horde attacked Iron Blood City while Lin Feng was away, and Amide, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Mr. Hong organized the city’s defenders.
• Zhang Xiaoyu and Mr. Hong leaped from the city wall to attack the demons.