Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao led Great Qi’s forces into the Rainforest to find the Prison, while the Prison’s returning members plotted to infiltrate University Town and turned against one another. Lin Hao and Li Mingyin stormed the Prison and slaughtered its members, leaving a few senior figures alive for questioning.

• Lin Hao and Li Minghuang assembled search teams with University Town’s forces and the Husky Wolf King’s followers, then entered the Rainforest to locate the Prison.
• At the Prison, Jiang Bo and the Poison Master planned to abandon conspicuous members and infiltrate another settlement, while suspicion and infighting spread among the returning prisoners.
• Boha emerged from Liao Hao’s shadow as Lin Hao crashed through the Prison’s gates, and the prisoners opened fire as Boha blocked their escape route.
• Lin Hao used his domain to trap the Prison and identified Jiang Bo as the leader; Jiang Bo offered to serve him, but Lin Hao attacked instead.
• Li Mingyin and the school’s assault team joined Lin Hao, who killed most of the Prison’s members and left several senior figures alive for questioning.
• Boha crushed Liao Hao as he crawled toward the Teleportation Point, and Lin Hao declared that the upheaval would end with the Prison.

After Lin Hao destroyed the Prison, University Town and his Settlement established a cautious alliance and began opening routes between their bases. Two months later, Great Qi had stabilized under Li Yanbing while Lin Hao advanced his cultivation and the survivors prepared for closer ties with the outside world.

• Wang Zhen and Lin Hao agreed to leave elite teams guarding the Prison as an outpost, and the groups divided the recovered supplies and set out for Lin Hao's Settlement.
• Lin Hao and Wang Zhen discussed gradually merging their settlements, while Lin Hao warned that Lizardmen and other dangers might be nearby.
• Over two months, Li Yanbing's government confiscated temple assets, replaced officials gradually, and began planning industrial development as the Grand General and Li Yao secured the northern and northwestern regions.
• University Town and Lin Hao's Settlement mapped safer routes between their bases, and wolf packs began guiding travelers along them.
• Lin Hao added bone plates to his Dragon Lizard Battle Armor, strengthened his cultivation toward a second blood exchange, and heard that guide wolves had helped students cross without attacks.
• Lin Hao sensed that the newly established route had changed his settlement's outlook by showing its residents they were no longer isolated.

Lin Hao broke through to Grandmaster, explored his new abilities, and planned with Li Yanbing to inspect the South of the Yangtze and later investigate Alaska Base. The chapter ended as Canal Garrison troops arrived in Qingkou, leaving local forces wondering about the deployment’s purpose.

• Lin Hao reached Grandmaster and demonstrated how he could glide through the air, while survivors cheered for him as Prince Qi.
• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing celebrated his breakthrough, then agreed to travel incognito to Qingkou and address the Lin Family’s affairs.
• Li Yanbing arranged for Yin Saide to inspect eight prefectures and ordered the Canal Garrison south to Qingkou as a show of force.
• Lin Hao sensed that Alaska Base might possess nuclear weapons, and he and Li Yanbing decided to postpone investigating it until after their trip south.
• Canal Garrison soldiers arrived at Qingkou Wharf over several days, prompting rumors while local forces questioned the deployment’s purpose.

Thousand-Household Commander Lu anxiously awaited the Empress and Prince Qi while trying to avoid being caught in the court’s upheaval. At a Qingkou banquet, Lin Hui and Fu Xun sought to consolidate the Lin Family’s power, but their gathering ended when Lin Hao and Li Yanbing were revealed in a private room.

• Thousand-Household Commander Lu questioned Yin Saide about the Empress and Prince Qi’s arrival, but Yin Saide denied knowing they would pass through Qingkou and warned him not to ask questions.
• The Lin Family’s collateral branches celebrated the unsealing of the Lin Residence and hosted a banquet as Lin Hui tried to secure support from Fu Xun and the local salt merchants.
• Wang Chao questioned whether Lin Hui could truly represent the Lin Family, then left the banquet after warning that apparent prosperity might precede ruin.
• After learning Wang Chao’s guests had paid their own bill and tipped extra, Lin Hui angrily led hired thugs upstairs, with Fu Xun following to prevent trouble.
• Lin Hui opened the private-room door and found Li Yanbing serving food to Lin Hao, revealing the Lin Family’s former authority to the startled banquet guests.

Lin Hao and Li Yanbing exposed the Fu Family’s attempt to seize power in Qingkou, and the court’s forces arrested the implicated families. Lin Hao then confronted Jiangdong’s aristocratic leaders, using evidence of their alleged collusion as his pretext to attack them before they could prepare.

• Lin Hao stopped Lin Hui from insulting Li Yanbing, and Li Yanbing ordered the deaths of those involved in plotting against her branch of the Lin Family.
• Fu Lie arrived at Beautiful Fragrance Garden and knelt before Empress Li Yanbing and Prince Qi Lin Hao, but Lin Hao accused him of receiving suspicious intelligence and planning rebellion.
• When Fu Lie threatened to endanger the Empress, Li Yanbing appeared as a martial expert, and Fu Lie’s guards seized him while the others surrendered.
• Thirty thousand Canal Garrison troops surrounded the Lin and Fu family properties; Lin Hao and Li Yanbing spared the Lin collateral branches, while the Fu Family’s property was confiscated and Fu Lie implicated the Hu Family.
• Jiangdong’s family heads discussed welcoming the Empress while preparing to resist her demands, but Lin Hao appeared among them and presented a coded letter as evidence against them.
• Lin Hao attacked the gathered experts and armed men, killing the family leaders and their protectors before they could summon support.

Lin Hao used the evidence from Jiangdong to quiet the South of the Yangtze families, secure evacuation items, and impose maritime taxes before returning to inventory the confiscated wealth. The Prince of Pacification of the South, Zhao Mingjing, met Li Yanbing and Lin Hao, learned about transmigrator abilities, and was offered a chance to acquire them in exchange for his token and an evacuation item.

• Lin Hao showed the South of the Yangtze representatives letters and a confession proving Jiangdong's families had supported the rebellion, and they accepted the Canal Garrison's investigation.
• Lin Hao obtained the two remaining Special Evacuation Items in the region and imposed commercial taxes on maritime trade.
• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing inventoried Jiangdong's confiscated assets and discussed the limits of Lin Hao's Breathing Methods and the Western Nations' developing firearms and fleets.
• Zhao Mingjing arrived to meet Li Yanbing and Lin Hao, and he was shaken to discover that they possessed unique domains.
• Zhao Mingjing asked how he could gain transmigrator abilities, and Lin Hao offered to help if he provided his waist token and the Evacuation Item in his residence.

Lin Hao, Li Yanbing, Yi Feng, and Zhang Shuwen traveled to the Antares Continent, where they planned to establish Lin Hao as a wandering noble in Plas City-State. They arrived in the war-torn region and learned that their advance team had already built a modest reputation for the Baron Linke Family.

• After Great Qi’s field forces came under the Transmigrator Alliance, Lin Hao helped arrange an Additional Grace Examination and saved his Wish Power for later.
• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing prepared to visit the Second World with Yi Feng, using Zhang Shuwen’s anchor point to reach the Antares Continent.
• Zhang Shuwen briefed them on the continent’s violent conditions, its coinage, and their cover as wandering nobles of the Baron Linke Family.
• The four travelers and Lin Hao’s horse arrived near Plas City-State, where Lin Hao sensed a latent danger in the direction of the America Duchy.
• At Plas City-State, Zhang Shuwen explained that two advance teams had sold aluminum tableware, rented lodging, and established the Baron Linke Family’s reputation among the locals.

Lin Hao entered Pulas under the identity of Baron Lingke and settled into a rented villa with Li Yanbing and the university students. As the household prepared for their work in the city, head maid Celia Hart reflected on her new employers and struggled to sleep next door.

• Zhang Shuwen presented Baron Lingke’s travel papers at Pulas’s gate, and Lin Hao impressed the guards before the group entered the city.
• Zhang Shuwen showed Lin Hao the Adventurers’ Guild, explained the city’s sewers and insect cattle, and led him to the rented villa.
• Lin Hao met the university students and maids waiting at the villa, then followed head maid Celia Hart to the master bedroom with Li Yanbing.
• Celia Hart reassured herself that Lin Hao and Li Yanbing seemed kind after recalling her parents’ deaths in a Yōma attack and her reasons for taking the job.
• Celia tried to sleep in the adjoining room but stayed awake listening to sounds from the baron and baroness’s bedroom.

In Pulas, Martin learned that the Thieves’ Guild suspected Baron Link might be an impostor and decided to investigate him for the Wild Bull Gang’s gain. Lin Hao noticed a thug watching his home and went out with his sword drawn to confront him.

• Martin complained that Celia had escaped his plan to exploit her, then tried to sell back the enthralling potion he had bought for her.
• The stooped Thieves’ Guild figure offered Martin Painkilling Water and information suggesting that Baron Link was unknown to the Guild’s Great Swamp branch.
• Martin suspected the Guild wanted the Wild Bull Gang to test Baron Link and chose to investigate on his own.
• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing discussed Pulas’s nobles, local gangs, and the suspicious attention directed at their household.
• Lin Hao spotted a young thug watching his home, drew his knight’s sword, and pointed it at him.

Lin Hao uncovered the Wild Bull Gang’s surveillance of him and Celia, killed the captured spy, and led Celia and his knights to confront Martin at the Wild Ox Tavern. Martin prepared to frame Lin Hao as a suspected noble impostor, and the two groups met outside the tavern.

• Lin Hao cut off Tom’s arm and ear until Tom confessed that Martin had ordered him to watch Lin Hao and Celia.
• Tom revealed Martin’s suspected plans to exploit Celia, and Lin Hao killed him after questioning him while the patrol officers and bystanders watched.
• Lin Hao sent guards to protect his wife and ordered Celia to lead him to Martin at the Wild Ox Tavern.
• Martin learned that Celia was approaching with armored knights, sent a lackey to notify the Wild Bull Gang’s leader, and gathered his men.
• Martin and William came out of the tavern to confront Lin Hao, Celia, Yi Feng, and Zhang Shuwen’s squad.

Lin Hao killed Martin and the Wild Bull Gang after they mocked him and threatened Celia, then forced Pengniu Tiraosi to shine his shoes and warned him to control his men. Back at the villa, Lin Hao learned the Thieves' Guild had investigated him and ordered Yin Zhengchun to capture its local leader and leave no one alive.

• Martin mocked Lin Hao and Celia, so Lin Hao killed him and ordered Zhang Shuwen and the knights to slaughter the gang.
• Lin Hao killed William, while Celia was moved by Lin Hao's reassurance that the gang had disrespected their family.
• Henry arrived and warned Lin Hao that the public killings would draw scrutiny, but Lin Hao defended his actions as justice.
• Pengniu Tiraosi offered to settle the aftermath, and Lin Hao made him shine his shoes before warning him not to let him see further wrongdoing.
• Lin Hao learned from Bian Ding that the Thieves' Guild had investigated him and that it dealt in pain-relieving water.
• Lin Hao ordered Yin Zhengchun to copy the local Thieves' Guild leader and bring him back, leaving no one alive.

Lin Hao learned that the Thieves' Guild had investigated him because it was expanding its cultivation of Painkilling Orchids, and he questioned Quichy about the world’s history and the Legendary and Sacred Domains. Quichy’s account traced the continent’s past catastrophes and powerful rulers, leaving Lin Hao with a broader picture of the forces that shaped the present age.

• Quichy prepared for Martin’s arrival, but “Martin” was revealed as a Yōma and Quichy was killed by Yin Zhengchun, who emerged from the attacker’s shadow.
• Quichy’s Shadow Fiend absorbed his remains, took control of the branch’s rats, and agreed to report to Lin Hao with Yin Zhengchun.
• Lin Hao returned to his residence, bathed with Li Yanbing, then met with Yin Zhengchun and Quichy’s Shadow Fiend.
• Quichy’s Shadow Fiend explained that the Thieves’ Guild had discovered Painkilling Orchids from the America Duchy and begun cultivating them, prompting Lin Hao to consider cautiously pursuing the supply.
• Quichy’s Shadow Fiend described Legendary Domain figures and suspected Sacred Domain experts, including the King of Ice, the Blood Clan Progenitor, and the Elf and Dwarf Kings.
• Lin Hao reviewed the continent’s succession of ages, wars, and catastrophes, which had culminated in a pact barring Legendary Domain figures from intervening in national affairs.

Lin Hao gathered intelligence through Quichy, trained his companions, and attended the Baker Family’s banquet in Pulas. There he met Cormac Walker, whose Cunning Fox gang sold Painkilling Water, and learned why other nobles kept him at a distance.

• Quichy told Lin Hao about transmigrators, the rare advanced Breathing Methods, and the legendary hero’s sword said to lie in Snowland.
• Lin Hao ordered Quichy to keep running the Thieves’ Guild and investigate where the America Duchy’s people were being held.
• Lin Hao read a newspaper praising Baron Link’s actions, then trained Zhang Shuwen, Ma Qijia, She Jiajia, and Wang Xiaojing while Li Yanbing corrected Celia’s breathing.
• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing attended the Baker Family’s banquet with four knights and met Cormac Walker, a noble who had built the Cunning Fox gang by absorbing another gang.
• Sir Hammond told Lin Hao that Walker was ostracized for pursuing profit, and Lin Hao recalled that Cunning Fox sold Painkilling Water despite its harmful side effects.

At Lord Colin Baker’s banquet, Lin Hao drew out complaints about the America Duchy’s firearms and sensed Baker’s sudden change of plans. Baker then gathered the city’s powerful nobles and proposed secretly capturing transmigrators for the Theocracy in exchange for wealth and advanced Breathing Methods, leaving Lin Hao to consider the danger to the America Duchy.

• Lin Hao discussed the America Duchy’s firearms with Colin Baker and the assembled nobles, who complained that the weapons threatened knights and nobles.
• Lin Hao noticed Baker’s emotions shift, and Baker ended the banquet by inviting capable guests to discuss security and nearby Yōma sightings.
• Sir Walker offered his fighting force, and Baker rewarded him by suggesting that he and Baron Link buy two farms from Viscount Vira.
• Baker revealed that the Theocracy wanted Pulas to capture transmigrators periodically and secretly escort them for trial, offering wealth, titles, and advanced Breathing Methods as rewards.
• Lin Hao disclosed that his family possessed the Breath of the Saint, and Baker said successful cooperation might earn them the Theocracy’s Sixth-Rank version.
• Lin Hao realized the Theocracy’s plan could bring it into conflict with the America Duchy, which had a Hero Domain expert.

Lin Hao and Li Yanbing rescued the imprisoned university technicians from San Francisco City-State, but their escape drew the attention of Rex Wright, who carried a tactical nuclear weapon. Yin Zhengchun distracted Rex with a staged clash and information about a possible Theocracy plot, allowing the rescue party to flee while Rex returned to investigate.

• Lin Hao and Li Yanbing entered San Francisco City-State with Mitchell’s help and located the prisoners held beneath the clock tower.
• Lin Hao freed Zhu Qi, Tao Qian, and the other captives, then led them through the city to waiting carriages and an open gate.
• Rex Wright charged out carrying a tactical nuclear weapon, forcing Lin Hao and Li Yanbing to flee while Yin Zhengchun set off an armory explosion to divert him.
• Yin Zhengchun confronted Rex Wright outside the city and told him that the Theocracy might secretly capture Transmigrators through the Baker Family of the Plas City-State.
• Rex Wright accepted Yin Zhengchun’s suggestion to test the alleged plot with a trap and returned to San Francisco City-State.

Lin Hao declined Sir Walker’s offer to join the campaign against America Duchy, while quietly preparing for its retaliation. After Rex Wright attacked a group of Pulas nobles and killed several of them, Lin Hao and Walker were summoned to a meeting with Levi Beck and the city lord.

• Lin Hao told Sir Walker that he was focused on a possible Qi-Blood Breathing breakthrough and refused to join his team.
• Lin Hao expanded his resources by buying a farm, arranging mercenaries and knights to work there, and continuing his training with Li Yanbing.
• Rex Wright arrived outside Pulas carrying a tactical nuclear bomb and accused the city of abducting people, while Levi Beck confronted him and calmed him enough to end the public clash.
• A servant summoned Lin Hao to the town hall, where Walker explained that Rex had ambushed another team and killed several Pulas nobles.
• Lin Hao entered the meeting room with Walker and saw Levi Beck, Plas’s Shield, seated beside the city lord.

Lin Hao disrupted Plas City-State’s planned operation against a group of transmigrators by launching a surprise attack on Levi Beck at Baker Castle. He killed Levi Beck and began looting the castle before the city’s forces could respond.

• Levi Beck directed the nobles to prepare for an operation targeting newly arrived transmigrators, while Lin Hao realized they were at risk and arranged to delay the mobilization.
• Lin Hao returned to his companions, learned their warnings had not reached everyone, and ordered preparations that would buy him time.
• Lin Hao secretly approached Baker Castle and burst into Levi Beck’s room, attacking alongside a disguised figure posing as Rex.
• Levi Beck defeated the disguised Rex but was surprised when Lin Hao blocked his strongest two-handed strike with a single-handed sword.
• Lin Hao overwhelmed Levi Beck with rapid thrusts, killed him, and began searching his body and the castle treasury as patrols approached.

Lin Hao killed Levi Beck and Will Beck, then looted the Baker Family treasury, taking its wealth, weapons, a valuable Breathing Method stele, and potions. The next morning, Plas City-State remained in turmoil, and Lin Hao warned his neighbor Sir Carter Hammond to hire armed guards.

• Lin Hao searched Levi Beck's corpse and killed Will Beck, the former City Lord, before using him to lead the way to the Baker Family treasury.
• Lin Hao took the family's gold, weapons, and treasures, then equipped the Breath of the Saint stele and tested Holy Light Slash against a stone wall.
• Lin Hao drank a Baptism Potion, gathered more valuable potions, and carried the treasury's movable assets back to his villa.
• As unrest spread through Plas City-State, Lin Hao sent Zhang Shuwen to protect the neighboring household from thieves.
• The next morning, Sir Carter Hammond thanked Lin Hao for his help, and Lin Hao warned him to hire armed guards because the city would remain unsettled.

After the Baker Family lost its strongest members, factions in Plas competed for power while Lin Hao refused to support any side. When Grand Warrior Eric Lawrence confronted Lin Hao outside his home, Lin Hao overpowered him and demanded to know who had sent him.

• Colin Baker proposed contacting nearby city-states, and the nobles in Plas divided into factions over outside intervention while avoiding talk of revenge against America.
• Lin Hao declined to back any faction, and the meeting ended without a decision; Colin Baker and Sir Walker discussed recruiting a Grand Knight to shore up the Baker Family's position.
• As disorder spread through Plas, Lin Hao hired mercenaries to guard his farm and brought his university students back to safety.
• Eric Lawrence arrived at Lin Hao's home and insulted Wang Xiaojing, prompting her and three other knights to attack him before Lin Hao ordered them to stand down.
• Eric attacked Lin Hao, but Lin Hao caught his wrist, forced him to kneel, and demanded to know who had sent him.

Lin Hao exposed Baron Victor Hawthorne’s role in hiring Eric Lawrence, then challenged Hawthorne to a duel of honor, which Hawthorne refused. As the nobles gathered outside the city, Rex and Yin Zhengchun arrived in disguise as Hero Domain experts to attack them.

• Lin Hao forced Eric Lawrence to reveal that a servant of Baron Victor Hawthorne had met with the wandering knight, then spared him as promised.
• Li Yanbing killed Eric Lawrence as he tried to leave, and news of the fight spread through the city and its factions.
• Sir Walker and the Red Maple Nobles Faction learned that Lin Hao was a Grand Knight, while Lin Hao formally challenged Baron Victor Hawthorne to a duel of honor.
• Baron Hawthorne refused to attend the duel, and Lin Hao waited at the arena as the crowd jeered.
• At Viscount Declan Barlow’s castle, Baron Hawthorne vowed to reclaim his honor, but Rex and Yin Zhengchun burst into the meeting as Hero Domain experts and prepared to kill everyone.