Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao arrived in Great Jin with Yang Zheng and his companions, settled into Yellow Sand Town, and learned about the region’s growing unrest and dangerous night aberrations. After meeting Master Huang, Lin Hao investigated the local supernatural incidents and martial arts, leaving with new clues about the rules governing aberrations and the world’s advanced cultivation paths.

• Lin Hao traveled through the sandstorm with Yang Zheng and two companions, sensing that Great Jin’s World Will was hostile to outsiders and that his Evacuation Item was difficult to locate.
• Yang Zheng brought Lin Hao into Yellow Sand Town, where he explained the town’s defenders, the Laka Tribe’s rebellion, and the increasingly frequent Black Night Aberrations.
• Senior Brother Guo invited Yang Zheng and Lin Hao to stay at the Yellow Wind Martial Arts School, where they learned that a Hidden Force expert had recently died after his lamp went out.
• Lin Hao introduced himself to Master Huang as a gun-using traveler from Jinmen, then impressed him with his arguments for combining firearms and martial arts.
• Lin Hao questioned the summoned shadow of Huang Wen, learning about three deadly supernatural incidents, the rule-based nature of aberrations, and legends of nine Golden Body turns and three Martial Saint tribulations.

Lin Hao assessed the limits of his strength and learned about firearms and the supernatural threats haunting Yellow Sand Town. When a night creature targeted the hall, his sword and flashlight repelled it, but its behavior changed in ways that alarmed Huang Wen.

• Lin Hao considered how his body compared with golden-body experts, studied Huang Wen's Wind-Slaying Saber Technique, and identified Zong Tianqing and the Laka Tribe as possible sources of knowledge.
• Lin Hao told the martial arts students that coordinated gunfire could kill even golden-body experts, demonstrated his revolver, and let them practice with it.
• Lin Hao joined Huang Wen and the others in the hall for the night and sensed a supernatural creature probing through cracks around the doors and windows.
• Lin Hao used his Floating Soldier to shatter the creature's tendrils, resisting its chilling soul attack with his willpower and Swarm Will.
• The creature made frost spread across the walls and wind batter the hall, then black arms tried to force open a window.
• Lin Hao shone his flashlight at the window, making the black arms vanish and the disturbance outside stop.

After a quiet night in Yellow Sand Town, Lin Hao sold Huang Wen a revolver and learned that a Laka Tribe envoy had arrived with a Fusang swordsman to demand the town’s submission. Lin Hao challenged Tetsuya Maeda and killed him with a gun after blocking his sword with one hand.

• The townspeople learned that no households had suffered during the night, and Lin Hao suspected the nearby Black Night Aberrations had gathered around the martial arts school.
• Lin Hao sold Huang Wen a revolver and twenty rounds, then asked him about the Earthly Kingdom of God and other local powers.
• Old Guo the Fourth reported that the Laka Tribe's envoy had arrived, and Huang Wen went with his disciples to meet the party at the town gate.
• Alita demanded that Yellow Sand Town submit to the Laka Tribe, while Tetsuya Maeda challenged the town's fighters after defeating Constable Chang.
• Lin Hao stepped forward to fight Maeda, blocked his sword strike with one hand, and shot him in the head.

Lin Hao killed the Laka Tribe delegation and set out for Anxi City with Yang Zheng and Old Guo the Fourth, stopping at Strange Rock Forest for the night. When an unusually powerful mass of Black Night Aberrations surrounded the camp, the tent where Lin Hao was staying erupted with light and shattered the encircling darkness.

• Lin Hao shot Alita and the rest of the Laka Tribe delegation after killing Tetsuya Maeda, then arranged to travel to the Western Expedition Camp in Anxi City.
• Lin Hao, Yang Zheng, and Old Guo the Fourth set out east on camels and reached Strange Rock Forest near dusk, where they met Meng Yu's scouts and the bounty hunter Ye Yuan with his prisoner Zhu Lian.
• Lin Hao warned the others that the nighttime threats had grown fiercer, but Meng Yu's group and Ye Yuan settled outside with oil lamps as darkness fell.
• Black mist gathered around the camp, and its tentacles seized Zhu Lian and dragged him into the darkness before Ye Yuan cut his chain and joined the scouts.
• The scouts saw the black mist completely envelop Lin Hao's tent, then watched the mass crack, burst into smoke, and reveal flashes of sword shadows and dazzling light.

Lin Hao drove off a Black Night Aberration with a flashlight and his enhanced Floating Soldiers, then traveled with Meng Yu’s party to Anxi City. At the military camp, he assessed its modern weapons and noticed a British Empire’s Fengjin Bank carriage, suspecting Zong Tianqing was seeking foreign loans.

• Lin Hao used a powerful flashlight and six enhanced Floating Soldiers to disperse the Black Night Aberration, which retreated into the night.
• Lin Hao told Meng Yu about the events in Yellow Sand Town and showed him the seal, so Meng Yu agreed to escort him to the Western Expedition Camp.
• Ye Yuan joined the group, diligently assisted Lin Hao, and received advice from him about Marrow Training during their journey to Anxi City.
• Lin Hao examined the camp’s soldiers and modern weapons and assessed how its firearms could threaten even powerful martial artists.
• Lin Hao noticed a carriage bearing the emblem of the British Empire’s Fengjin Bank and suspected Zong Tianqing was negotiating a loan to address the camp’s funding needs.

Zong Tianqing negotiated a high-interest loan from Fengjin Bank by offering Northwest Three Provinces revenues and a stake in an Anxi ammunition factory, then met Lin Hao and recruited his group to escort a Loulan princess. After giving Lin Hao his Golden Body cultivation notebook, Zong Tianqing identified him as a Transmigrator, and Lin Hao admitted it.

• Zong Tianqing offered Fengjin Bank a thirty-percent stake in an Anxi ammunition factory and collateral from the Northwest Three Provinces to secure a four-million-silver-dollar loan.
• Zong Tianqing agreed to receive Lin Hao and his companions after learning that Yellow Sand Town opposed the Laka Tribe, which had allied with Russia and the Eastern Lands.
• Lin Hao explained that he had joined Yellow Sand Town to resist the Laka Tribe and hoped to obtain martial cultivation methods; Zong Tianqing invited him to escort the Loulan princess to the Ancient City of Loulan.
• Zong Tianqing gave Lin Hao a notebook containing his Golden Body cultivation insights as an advance reward for the escort mission.
• Zong Tianqing concluded that Lin Hao was a Transmigrator, and Lin Hao acknowledged it.

Lin Hao joined the escort party taking the Loulan Princess across the desert and studied Zong Tianqing’s notes on Golden Body cultivation during the journey. At the first oasis, he had completed the first turn and refined his already powerful physique.

• Lin Hao asked Zong Tianqing about other Transmigrators and confirmed that he could bring people into his world under certain conditions.
• Lin Hao agreed to honor his promise to escort the party, then set out with Ye Yuan while Yang Zheng and Old Guo the Fourth returned to Yellow Sand Town.
• Hu Sheng introduced Lin Hao and Ye Yuan to Captain Akza’s elite escort party, including Ling Yun, Xie Yue, and Escort Chief Yuan Chuan, who protected the Loulan Princess.
• Lin Hao studied the Golden Body path and Zong Tianqing’s [Primordial Hand] and [Primordial Qigong], comparing them with his own martial arts and physical strength.
• As the party traveled, Lin Hao began practicing [Primordial Qigong] and completed the first turn of Golden Body cultivation by the time they reached an oasis.

Lin Hao’s party faced a nighttime assault by Kato Dojo warriors seeking to seize the Loulan Princess, and the attackers unleashed a sinister technique that changed the course of the battle. The chapter ended as Ichikawa Shūichi ordered his warriors to kill everyone.

• At the oasis, Rebana flirted with Lin Hao, who told her he was married, while Akza explained that the Loulan Princess would prove her royal blood by opening the secret treasury.
• Lin Hao and the others spotted lantern-bearing Easterners approaching the oasis at night, and Ichikawa Shūichi demanded a challenge on behalf of the Kato Dojo.
• Lin Hao sensed attackers underground and warned Yuan Chuan and Akza just before hidden warriors burst from the ground and launched their ambush.
• Ichikawa Shūichi and his fighters battled Yuan Chuan, Akza, and the guards protecting the princess, but the defenders’ hidden experts initially gained the advantage.
• Ichikawa Shūichi and the other Eastern Golden Body warriors invoked the Ghost Sword Technique, gaining strength and turning the fight in their favor.
• Ichikawa Shūichi ordered his ordinary warriors to kill everyone as they erupted with power.

Lin Hao helped defeat the Eastern Warriors and revealed his overwhelming strength by killing a Golden Body expert with Ye Yuan’s saber. After collecting the spoils, he learned the Kato Style’s Ghost Sword Technique relied on draining anomalous power and ordered Ichikawa Shūichi’s shadow to collect the Laka Tribe’s payment, only to discover the tribe had already used up a valuable supply of stalactite.

• Lin Hao’s gunfire turned the melee in the escorts’ favor, and he supported Yuan Chuan and Akza against the Golden Body warriors.
• A black-marked warrior broke through the fighters and attacked Lin Hao, but Lin Hao pushed Ling Yun aside and split the warrior in two with Ye Yuan’s saber.
• Lin Hao and the others killed Ichikawa Shūichi, after which Lin Hao claimed several weapons and returned to his tent.
• Lin Hao examined the Kato Style and Ghost Sword Technique, then questioned Ichikawa Shūichi’s shadow about the Eastern Warriors’ methods and their alliance with the Laka Tribe.
• Lin Hao ordered Ichikawa Shūichi’s shadow to collect the promised stalactite payment and learned the Laka Tribe had already used up the stalactite from its cave.

Lin Hao learned how the Laka Tribe’s sudden rise had destabilized the Great Desert, then sent his shadow fiend to collect a reward from the tribe. The deception unraveled when the Loulan Princess’s escort was reported alive, leaving Okazaki Kenji furious and Shaman holding the returned stone stalactite.

• Lin Hao learned that the Laka Tribe had used a cavern’s resources to build a powerful army and was seeking to unite the Great Desert with help from the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Eastern Islanders.
• Lin Hao sent “Ichikawa Shūichi” to the Laka Oasis, where Shaman paid him with Hundred-Year Stone Stalactite and directed him to meet Okazaki Kenji.
• “Ichikawa Shūichi” told Okazaki Kenji that the mission had succeeded, handed over one bottle of stone stalactite, and left the oasis with the other.
• Shaman learned that the Loulan Princess’s escort was still alive and discovered that “Ichikawa Shūichi” had disappeared.
• Okazaki Kenji realized that “Ichikawa Shūichi” had deceived him, returned the stone stalactite to Shaman, and vowed to hunt down the fugitive.

Lin Hao’s caravan gained Mojiaji’s support and reached the Ancient City of Loulan, where Princess Rebana returned to claim her homeland. The chancellor’s control over the city became apparent when its citizens obeyed his order rather than Rebana’s, leaving her welcome clouded by suspicion.

• Lin Hao learned about Okazaki Kenji’s thousand eerie entities, resolved to collect the Kato Dojo’s debt later, and examined the valuable stalactite milk he had received.
• Ye Yuan told Lin Hao that Elder Mo and Mojiaji’s armed escort had joined the caravan to support the Loulan Princess, and Elder Mo met Lin Hao and Rebana.
• Lin Hao warned Akza that the Laka Tribe might have powerful hidden allies, while Commandant Zhou revealed that reinforcements had already been summoned.
• Lin Hao’s party reached the Ancient City of Loulan, where Chancellor Zhati and the city’s residents welcomed Rebana as the returning princess.
• Rebana asked the gathered citizens and officials to rise, but they stayed bowed until Zhati repeated her command, revealing his influence over the city.

Chancellor Zhati tried to secure Rebana’s return to Loulan by pressuring her to marry his grandson Balulu, but Lin Hao’s intervention exposed Zhati’s weakness and Balulu was killed. As Elder Mo restrained Zhati and the group prepared to take control, Laka Tribe chief Shaman arrived with an overwhelming presence.

• Zhati proposed that Rebana marry Balulu and tried to dismiss Ling Yun as an unsuitable match, while Elder Mo refused to commit the princess to the marriage or promise the royal vault’s treasure.
• Zhati seated Lin Hao among the lesser guests, but Lin Hao produced Yellow Sand Town’s official seal and moved to the front after Zhati acknowledged him as its representative.
• Zhati insinuated that Lin Hao was an outsider trying to seduce Rebana, and Balulu attacked Lin Hao after Lin Hao insulted him.
• Lin Hao killed Balulu with one punch, and Elder Mo held Zhati back, pointing out that Balulu had attacked first.
• Shaman arrived with the Laka Tribe, and his powerful presence alarmed Elder Mo and the others as Zhati called on him for help.

Shaman seized control of the banquet by displaying the heads of two Central Plains generals, then forced Rebana and a group of witnesses to accompany him to the Loulan Secret Vault. As they descended into the cavern, Lin Hao suspected that Shaman wanted to draw out the Demon God and that the Kato Dojo was involved.

• Shaman arrived at the banquet and displayed the severed heads of Deputy General Liu and General Wang, revealing the Laka Tribe's strength.
• Shaman claimed to support Rebana but joined Zhati in demanding that the Treasure Vault be opened and her identity verified; Rebana challenged him over the generals' deaths.
• Shaman struck Commandant Zhou, but Elder Mo intervened and was badly injured; Rebana agreed to go to the vault, and Lin Hao and other representatives joined them.
• As the group left, Elder Mo warned that Shaman had reached the sixth revolution of the Golden Body, and Rebana told Lin Hao that her blood could awaken the Demon God guarding the vault.
• Zhati led the group to the mausoleum entrance, where Shaman showed interest in awakening the sealed power; Lin Hao suspected the Kato Dojo wanted the Demon God.
• The group descended the mined limestone cavern by lamplight as Zhati explained that the Loulan Royal Family had risen through its riches and praised the Laka Tribe's own cavern.

Rebana opened the Loulan Secret Treasure and unleashed its Ghost God against Shaman, but Lin Hao severed their connection and defeated Shaman with a single strike. Okazaki Kenji then revealed himself, while Lin Hao realized that the source of his lingering unease was still hidden.

• Zhati and the others pressed Rebana to accept a marriage alliance, while Shaman claimed he was qualified to marry her and threatened Elder Mo.
• Rebana cut her wrist and performed a ritual that opened the Treasure Vault, whose ghostly flames trapped the group in illusions.
• Rebana used her blood to turn the Ghost God against Shaman's followers, and the creature swallowed Shaman before Lin Hao severed Rebana's connection to it.
• Shaman attacked Lin Hao, but Lin Hao's counterstrike destroyed Shaman's arm and left him gravely injured.
• Okazaki Kenji descended into the cavern and declared that he intended to control the Ghost God, while Lin Hao sensed that another presence still watched from the shadows.

Lin Hao killed Okazaki Kenji and Shaman, then helped Rebana secure the Loulan Treasure Vault and its treasures. He prepared to settle the remaining political matters while staying alert for the powerful hidden observer, whom he suspected came from Russia or the Eastern Lands.

• Lin Hao refused Okazaki Kenji's offer, caught his Ghost Sword Technique with his bare hand, and killed him with a broken piece of his own Tachi.
• Lin Hao noticed the hidden observer had withdrawn, searched Okazaki Kenji's corpse, and found no Hundred-Year Stone Stalactite.
• Lin Hao killed the wounded Shaman, while Rebana explained that the Treasure Vault's ghost god consumed offerings and could drain her life force.
• Rebana let Lin Hao take the Treasure Vault's stalactite milk and the Loulan Luminous Pearl, and Lin Hao promised to help settle the remaining matters.
• Lin Hao and the others planned to return above ground and announce their support for Rebana, while Lin Hao stayed wary of the unseen expert.

Lin Hao completed the fifth turn of Golden Body cultivation with stalactite and received more from Zong Tianqing, who arrived wounded after fighting Sasagawa Ryūichi. Lin Hao left Loulan at night, while Sasagawa plotted with Laka Tribe leaders to draw him out and kill him.

• Lin Hao completed the fifth turn of Golden Body cultivation with ordinary stalactite and judged that continued use could help him finish the sixth turn quickly.
• Zong Tianqing arrived ahead of the army, revealed that Sasagawa Ryūichi had ambushed and wounded him with a Saintly Weapon, and gave Lin Hao stalactite.
• Lin Hao asked Zong Tianqing to guide Ye Yuan, then departed into the night despite Zong Tianqing’s warning that Sasagawa might be waiting.
• At the Laka Tribe, Luti and Keqiaofu confronted Sasagawa Ryūichi over Shaman’s death and his hidden mission.
• Sasagawa Ryūichi explained that he had aimed to stop Zong Tianqing from passing his tribulation and told the Laka leaders to lure Lin Hao out so he could kill him.

Lin Hao confronted Sasagawa Ryūichi, the Laka High Priest, and Keqiaofu after discovering them together, and killed Sasagawa Ryūichi despite the Saintly Weapon he wielded. He crushed Keqiaofu after the latter activated a Class-A Anomaly, then temporarily suppressed the spreading contamination.

• Sasagawa Ryūichi, Luti, and Keqiaofu planned to destroy the elite army in the Great Desert and lure the Transmigrators out by attacking Yellow Sand Town.
• Lin Hao broke through the perimeter wall and confronted the three men, prompting Sasagawa Ryūichi to attack with the Demon Blade.
• Lin Hao used his Floating Soldiers and Heroic Spirit Arm to trap Sasagawa Ryūichi, then ground him to death and stored the resisting Demon Blade in his Equipment Slot.
• Keqiaofu activated the Class-A Anomaly inside him, spreading flesh mutation, but Lin Hao clapped him into pulp.
• Lin Hao temporarily suppressed the contamination and considered channeling it rather than clearing it away completely.

Lin Hao killed the High Priest of Laka and Keqiaofu, raised Sasagawa Ryūichi as a corpse, and unleashed Corpse Ghouls that drew the World Will’s lightning down on Laka Oasis. As he raced toward Loulan with stolen stalactite, his Demon Blade warned him that Sword Saint Katō was nearby, apparently hunting the wounded Zong Tianqing.

• Lin Hao killed Keqiaofu and the High Priest of Laka, then used Corpse Manipulation to raise Sasagawa Ryūichi’s crushed body and studied how the World Will reacted.
• Lin Hao looted the site, including the Demon Blade and stalactite, before Abu arrived; he seized Abu and used his corpse to guide him toward the cavern.
• Lin Hao’s Corpse Ghouls rampaged through Laka Oasis, and the World Will answered with a massive lightning storm that engulfed the burning tribe.
• Lin Hao left the desert with stolen stalactite and weapons, planning to store the stalactite near Loulan and return to replenish his wish power.
• Near Loulan, Lin Hao sensed Sword Saint Katō through the Demon Blade and realized Katō was likely moving to kill the wounded Zong Tianqing, so he hurried to intervene.

Zong Tianqing discovered that Sword Saint Kato Masayuki had lured him into a trap and fought him after forcing a weak tribulation lightning strike into his body. Just as Kato was about to finish off the badly injured Zong, Lin Hao arrived in a Mysterious Black Mecha with six weapons, and Kato charged in to test how long Lin Hao could sustain it.

• Zong Tianqing sensed Sword Saint Kato Masayuki approaching and fled Loulan, warning the others to scatter into the Great Desert.
• Kato Masayuki confronted Zong Tianqing and tried to persuade him to support Japan, but Zong rejected him and summoned weak tribulation lightning.
• Zong Tianqing forced the lightning into his Primordial Hand strike, injuring Kato Masayuki and disrupting the ghost infants within him, but Kato prepared to kill Zong.
• Lin Hao appeared overhead, and Kato drew his other sword after sensing a greater threat from him.
• Lin Hao formed a Mysterious Black Mecha and struck the dune, then attacked with six hovering weapons as Kato charged him and planned to outlast the mecha.

Lin Hao drove Sword Saint Katō into retreat and rescued the badly injured Zong Tianqing, then won the elder’s support for establishing a Transmigrator-led base in the Great Desert. The chapter ended with Lin Hao preparing to take Zong Tianqing to Antares for treatment.

• Lin Hao used his Floating Soldiers and cannon fire to force Kato Masayuki to withdraw, then helped Zong Tianqing out of the sand and removed the sword intent from his wound.
• Zong Tianqing admitted that his injuries had damaged his foundation and ended his hopes of becoming a Martial Saint, but agreed to support Lin Hao and address him as Your Majesty.
• Lin Hao proposed governing the Great Desert as a base, and Zong Tianqing agreed that they should proceed gradually while preparing to face the Russian Army.
• After returning to Loulan, Zong Tianqing organized the army’s arrival and plans to persuade the desert tribes to surrender.
• Lin Hao returned to the Residential Community, where he found Li Yanbing, Gong Zichun, and the Great General, and proposed taking Zong Tianqing to Antares to heal.