Recaps

Lin Jin broke through the Dark Moon Organization’s attacks, killed Ghost Hand, and revealed that his Shadow Clones had destroyed the formation anchors. Ghost Fox activated his Illusory Demon Domain, but Lin Jin saw through the illusions and countered his attack.

• Old Seven raised gravity to seven times its normal strength, but Lin Jin kept advancing as Old Nine’s wind column was split apart by his Fang Slash.
• Lin Jin cut through Ghost Hand’s black spears, appeared before him, and killed him with a single stroke.
• The Triple Magic-Sealing Formation and all seven Void Lock Talisman Seals shattered after Lin Jin revealed that his Shadow Clones had destroyed the formation anchors.
• Ghost Fox activated his Illusory Demon Domain and attacked Lin Jin with illusory copies and dark purple blades of light.
• Lin Jin used his Sharingan to locate Ghost Fox’s real position and struck him with Reverse Slash, which Ghost Fox blocked with his bracers.

Lin Jin revealed overwhelming strength against Ghost Fox and his allies, destroying most of Ghost Fox’s Phantom Demon Domain and trapping the fleeing group inside a vast flame barrier. The enemies failed to escape and realized they had been the prey all along.

• Lin Jin used Amaterasu to burn through Ghost Fox’s Phantom Demon Domain, forcing Ghost Fox to sacrifice blood essence to preserve its core.
• Ghost Fox recognized Lin Jin’s strength as beyond the transcendent stage he had expected, then ordered Old Seven and Old Nine to retreat and report to headquarters.
• As Ghost Fox, Old Seven, and Old Nine fled in different directions, Lin Jin activated Uchiha Flame Formation and sealed the Chemical Plant and its surroundings inside a massive barrier of fire.
• Ghost Fox tried to cross the barrier with a silver rune shield, while Old Nine attacked with a Wind Blade and Old Seven relied on stone armor, but all three were driven back.
• Ghost Fox recalled that Barrier Ninjutsu could seal space and realized the group could escape only if Lin Jin dispelled it or they overwhelmed him with far greater power.
• Ghost Fox looked at the calm Lin Jin and understood that he and his companions had been the prey, not the hunters.

Lin Jin defeated the remaining Dark Moon members at the Chemical Plant and forced Old Nine to reveal three covert outposts in Jiangcheng. After killing all four enemies, he put away Lightning-Cleaver and dismissed the flame barrier.

• Ghost Fox threatened Lin Jin with Dark Moon's retaliation, but Lin Jin severed Old Seven's arm and demanded the locations of the organization's Jiangcheng bases.
• Ghost Fox resisted interrogation and swallowed a pill to trigger a self-destruction, but Lin Jin used Amaterasu to consume his energy and kill him.
• Lin Jin killed Old Seven with Chidori after Old Nine's wind blade missed him.
• Old Nine begged for mercy and revealed three Dark Moon outposts at an old warehouse, an underground parking garage, and an abandoned waterworks before Lin Jin killed him with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Lin Jin sheathed Lightning-Cleaver, left the Chemical Plant, and withdrew the Uchiha Flame Formation.

Su Qianxue and the others waited outside the Chemical Plant while Lin Jin fought Dark Moon inside a powerful flame barrier. Lin Jin emerged unharmed after defeating the attackers, rescued Zhou Yan, and vanished with him, after briefly looking toward a shadowed pile of rubble.

• Su Qianxue and the others arrived at the Chemical Plant but could not penetrate the flame barrier, which Wang Zhenshan identified as the work of a Transcendent Level expert.
• The flame barrier dissipated, and Lin Jin emerged unharmed, saying he had dealt with all the Dark Moon members.
• Lin Jin used his Mangekyō Sharingan to bring Zhou Yan out of a black vortex, and Su Qianxue confirmed Zhou Yan was alive with only superficial wounds.
• Lin Jin declined Su Qianxue's offer of medical help, said he would take Zhou Yan back himself, and left the cleanup to her group.
• Lin Jin glanced at a dark pile of rubble, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to vanish with Zhou Yan.

Blood Twelve reported Lin Jin’s overwhelming victory over Dark Moon’s four Domain Realm fighters and his ability to detect the hidden observer. Lin Jin returned Zhou Yan to the villa, where Zhou Yan thanked him for the rescue.

• Su Qianxue left the Chemical Plant after handing the scene over to Wang Zhenshan and the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Blood Twelve watched Lin Jin defeat Dark Moon’s four Domain Realm members and witnessed him detect Blood Twelve hiding three hundred meters away.
• Blood Twelve called Blood One and reported Lin Jin’s strength, abilities, and extraordinary perception.
• Blood One recalled Blood Twelve and said their organization should treat Lin Jin as a potential friend rather than an enemy.
• Lin Jin brought Zhou Yan back to the villa, where Zhou Yan thanked him for saving his life.

Lin Jin used the Mystical Palm Technique to heal Zhou Yan’s severe injuries, then told him his training would intensify so he could better protect himself. Zhou Yan accepted that he needed to grow stronger, though he could not learn Lin Jin’s healing technique because of his fire-type superpower.

• Lin Jin used the Mystical Palm Technique to rapidly heal Zhou Yan’s wounds and internal injuries.
• Zhou Yan marveled at Lin Jin’s healing ability and asked whether he could learn the technique.
• Lin Jin explained that Zhou Yan’s fire-type superpower and limited energy control made the technique unsuitable for him.
• Lin Jin told Zhou Yan that his training load would double starting the next day.
• Zhou Yan accepted the harder training, recognizing that he needed to become stronger and avoid being a burden to Lin Jin.

Lin Jin decided Zhou Yan needed a stronger cultivation art to survive future threats and offered to obtain one through his Demon Suppression Bureau clearance. Zhou Yan learned that Lin Jin had completed several S-rank missions and bought the S-rank weapon Lightning-Cleaver, leaving him stunned by its cost and Lin Jin’s resources.

• Lin Jin questioned Zhou Yan about his B-rank Flame Sun Art and said its limits left him too weak to face future Domain Realm enemies.
• Zhou Yan explained that top-tier cultivation arts were difficult to obtain, and Lin Jin offered to get him a better one.
• Lin Jin revealed that the Demon Suppression Bureau had made him a Special Advisor, giving him high-level mission-platform clearance.
• Lin Jin said he had about fifty-five thousand points left after completing several S-rank missions and buying an S-rank weapon.
• Zhou Yan examined Lightning-Cleaver, and Lin Jin explained its lightning properties and self-healing ability.
• Lin Jin said Lightning-Cleaver had cost sixty-eight thousand points, leaving Zhou Yan astonished.

Zhou Yan admired Lin Jin’s S-Rank saber and considered which cultivation art to choose from the Demon Suppression Bureau’s platform. Lin Jin decided to redeem the Red Emperor Burning Heaven Record for him, and Zhou Yan agreed to cultivate it so he could grow strong enough to protect himself.

• Zhou Yan tested Lightning-Cleaver on a drinking glass and marveled at the S-Rank weapon and Lin Jin’s mission rewards.
• Lin Jin showed Zhou Yan the S-Rank fire cultivation arts available on the Demon Suppression Bureau’s platform.
• Lin Jin recommended the Red Emperor Burning Heaven Record, an incomplete art that could reach the peak of the Transcendent Stage Realm.
• Zhou Yan hesitated over its 150,000-point cost and offered to keep practicing the B-Rank Flame Sun Art instead.
• Lin Jin told Zhou Yan he wanted him to grow stronger so he could protect himself, and Zhou Yan agreed to cultivate the Red Emperor Burning Heaven Record.
• Lin Jin told Zhou Yan to recover at home while he gathered the points, and Zhou Yan asked him to stay safe on missions.

Lin Jin unsealed the Sage Body, restoring his vast chakra reserves, healing ability, and Wood Release. When Zhou Yan’s coworkers visited, they were astonished by how quickly Zhou Yan had recovered, and he told them Lin Jin had healed him.

• Lin Jin spent 10,000 world power points to unseal the Sage Body, restoring his chakra to the equivalent of Hashirama Senju’s reserves.
• Lin Jin demonstrated Wood Release by creating a sapling and sensed Chen Feng, Liu Yang, Li Tong, and Sun Hao approaching.
• Lin Jin told Zhou Yan that his coworkers had arrived and let Chen Feng, Liu Yang, Li Tong, and Sun Hao into the house.
• Chen Feng and the others were surprised to find Zhou Yan nearly recovered from his injuries.
• Zhou Yan told his coworkers that Lin Jin had healed him with a ball of green light.

Lin Jin healed Zhou Yan and dismissed the concern over his strength, while Su Qianxue confronted him about his overwhelming victory over four Dark Moon fighters. After concluding that he had reached Transcendent Level through an extraordinary bloodline, she warned that major factions would learn of him, but Lin Jin said he did not care.

• Lin Jin healed Zhou Yan, and Chen Feng thanked him for helping Team C.
• Sun Hao relayed the director's message that Zhou Yan could rest, and Zhou Yan asked everyone not to reveal how well he had recovered.
• Su Qianxue arrived to check on Zhou Yan, then took Lin Jin aside to ask about the battle against Dark Moon.
• Su Qianxue described the four Domain Realm fighters and their failed trap, then concluded that Lin Jin was at Transcendent Level or beyond.
• Su Qianxue attributed Lin Jin's strength to an extraordinary bloodline and warned that the Paranormal Bureau, Demon Suppression Bureau, and major families would soon hear of him.
• Lin Jin told Su Qianxue that he did not care who learned of his strength.

Su Qianxue warned Lin Jin that Dark Moon and the major clans might target him after his recent battle, and told him Zhao Ming had broken through to the late Domain Realm. Lin Jin refused to be intimidated, while Zhou Yan teased him about Su Qianxue before Lin Jin considered the powerful forces now watching him.

• Su Qianxue told Lin Jin the Demon Suppression Bureau had raised his assessment and offered him greater support and authority, but he declined to join.
• Su Qianxue warned Lin Jin that Dark Moon might retaliate and the major clans might try to recruit or suppress him; Lin Jin said he would deal with whoever came.
• Su Qianxue told Lin Jin that Zhao Ming had reached the late Domain Realm and comprehended Spear Intent, and Lin Jin said he would respond if Zhao Ming provoked him.
• Su Qianxue left, and Lin Jin returned to the living room as Chen Feng and the others departed.
• Zhou Yan teased Lin Jin about Su Qianxue's feelings, then pretended to sleep after Lin Jin threatened another round of combat training.
• Lin Jin reflected that the world's powerful factions would soon investigate him, but he believed his abilities and experience would let him face them.

Lin Jin accepted a secret realm exploration mission and an Eerie extermination mission to earn enough points to redeem the Red Emperor Burning Heaven Record for Zhou Yan. As Lin Jin left to begin the missions, Zhou Yan resolved to cultivate the technique to its highest level.

• Lin Jin reviewed the S-Rank missions and accepted the secret realm exploration and Eerie extermination missions.
• Technicians at Demon Suppression Bureau headquarters noticed Lin Jin had accepted two more S-Rank missions and discussed his past accomplishments and the secret realm mission’s danger.
• Lin Jin told Zhou Yan he was leaving immediately to handle the missions.
• Zhou Yan watched Lin Jin leave and vowed to master the Red Emperor Burning Heaven Record to repay his kindness.

The Zhao Clan discussed Lin Jin’s strength and his closeness to Su Qianxue, weighing whether he posed a threat or could be recruited. Zhao Ming proposed going to Jiangcheng to challenge Lin Jin, and Zhao Kun argued that the visit would assert the Zhao Clan’s position on the engagement.

• Zhao Wuji asked the council to assess intelligence confirming that Lin Jin had reached the Transcendent Stage Realm and defeated four Dark Moon Organization members.
• Zhao Kun warned that Lin Jin’s relationship with Su Qianxue could disrupt her engagement to Zhao Ming, but also suggested the Zhao Clan might gain by recruiting him or arranging a marriage alliance.
• Zhao Ming said Lin Jin had already refused an offer to become his follower, and Zhao Xuanzhen agreed that Lin Jin would not submit to the Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Xuanzhen advised watching Lin Jin unless he interfered in the Zhao Clan’s affairs, in which case the clan would act against him.
• Zhao Ming asked to go to Jiangcheng and test Lin Jin, and Zhao Kun supported the visit as a way to demonstrate the Zhao Clan’s commitment to the engagement.

The Zhao Clan decided to send Zhao Ming to Jiangcheng to test Lin Jin and assert the marriage agreement with Su Qianxue. In the capital, Su Qishan learned that the Su Clan’s elders opposed his daughter’s closeness to Lin Jin, leaving him torn between clan interests and her happiness.

• Zhao Xuanzhen agreed to let Zhao Ming go to Jiangcheng with Zhao Lie as protection, and Zhao Wuji ordered him to visit Su Qianxue and remind the Su Clan that the marriage agreement stood.
• Zhao Ming reflected on Lin Jin’s strength and resolved to judge him personally, warning himself that he would not tolerate Lin Jin interfering with Qianxue.
• Su Qishan read a Demon Suppression Bureau report confirming Lin Jin was a Transcendent Stage Realm cultivator and top-tier bloodline inheritor, and his steward suggested Lin Jin could benefit the Su Clan.
• Su Qishan learned that Su Boyong opposed changing the Zhao Clan marriage agreement and that Su Zhenhai had urged him to bring Qianxue back to the capital and end her association with Lin Jin.
• Su Qishan rejected the pressure from the grand elder and his brother, but recognized that most of the clan favored preserving the Zhao alliance, while he prioritized his daughter’s happiness.

Su Qishan refused to force Su Qianxue to return or let the Su Clan decide whom she married, despite the clan’s alliance with the Zhao Clan. Grand Elder Su Boyong ordered Qianxue watched in Jiangcheng and reaffirmed the engagement, while Su Zhenhai and Su Wenhao questioned how much Lin Jin was hiding.

• Su Qishan decided to let Su Qianxue stay in Jiangcheng and privately resolved to gamble on Lin Jin for her sake.
• Su Zhenchuan told Su Boyong that Su Qishan still opposed the marriage alliance and considered Lin Jin no worse than Zhao Ming.
• Su Boyong ordered his people in Jiangcheng to watch Qianxue and keep her from getting close to Lin Jin, and he told the Zhao Clan that the engagement still stood.
• Su Wenhao said Zhao Ming had reached the late domain realm and comprehended spear intent, and expected him to go to Jiangcheng.
• Su Zhenhai speculated that Lin Jin might have an unknown secret behind his rapid cultivation, and advised Su Wenhao to let the grand elder and Zhao Clan handle him.

Wang Chongwen discussed Lin Jin’s strength and prospects with Wang Zhenshan, then decided the Wang Clan should seek his friendship rather than try to recruit him. Wang Zhenshan planned to visit Lin Jin in Jiangcheng with intelligence about Dark Moon’s coming retaliation.

• Wang Chongwen showed Wang Zhenshan the Demon Suppression Bureau’s assessment of Lin Jin and asked for his opinion.
• Wang Zhenshan described Lin Jin as unfathomably strong and said he would never become anyone’s subordinate.
• Wang Chongwen decided the Wang Clan should befriend Lin Jin and noted that Su Qishan might be waiting for Lin Jin to become valuable enough to challenge the Zhao-Su marriage alliance.
• Wang Chongwen told Wang Zhenshan to meet Lin Jin privately in Jiangcheng and approach him sincerely.
• Wang Zhenshan agreed to visit the next day and bring intelligence that Dark Moon was preparing a retaliation force at least as strong as Moon Envoy Level.

Tuoba Xiong and Tuoba Hong discussed how Lin Jin’s ties to Su Qianxue could disrupt the Zhao-Su marriage alliance or strengthen the Su Clan. They decided to try recruiting Lin Jin and, if he refused, use Dark Moon to eliminate him, while sending Tuoba Zhan to approach him.

• Tuoba Hong briefed Tuoba Xiong on Lin Jin’s strength, his connection to Su Qianxue, and Zhao Ming’s plans to visit Jiangcheng.
• Tuoba Hong argued that the Tuoba Clan should undermine the Zhao-Su alliance and take advantage of the Su Clan’s weakness.
• Tuoba Hong proposed recruiting Lin Jin with resources, status, or marriage, and killing him if he refused to join the Tuoba Clan.
• Tuoba Hong suggested leaking Lin Jin’s intelligence to Dark Moon so it could attack him, allowing the Tuoba Clan to intervene afterward and potentially seize his bloodline.
• Tuoba Xiong authorized Tuoba Hong to lead the plan and agreed to send Tuoba Zhan, accompanied by Tuoba Hu, to approach Lin Jin.

Tuoba Zhan learned that Lin Jin was a young Transcendent Stage Realm saber wielder and agreed to travel to Jiangcheng to approach him on the Tuoba Clan’s behalf. He was also eager to test Lin Jin’s saber techniques, and prepared to leave the next morning with Tuoba Hu guarding him.

• Tuoba Zhan overwhelmed three Domain Realm Early Stage sparring partners with Mountain-Slayer and displayed his Tyrant Blade Intent.
• Tuoba Hong gave Tuoba Zhan an assessment of Lin Jin and explained that the Tuoba Clan wanted him to make contact and try to win Lin Jin over, potentially through a marriage alliance with Tuo Ba Lan.
• Tuoba Zhan said he would judge Lin Jin for himself and hoped to duel him, though Tuoba Hong warned that Lin Jin was far stronger and urged him not to act rashly.
• Tuoba Zhan went to the mountain behind the Tuoba Clan estate to prepare for the trip and told Tuoba Hu that they would leave for Jiangcheng the next morning.

The Li, Zhang, Lu, and Shen Clans assessed Lin Jin, a young Transcendent Stage Realm expert and top-tier Bloodline Inheritor, and decided to avoid approaching him while the Four Great Top Clans competed over him. The clans ordered their people to monitor events cautiously, leaving Lin Jin’s fate in the hands of the brewing power struggle.

• Li Wannian rejected Li Chengzong’s proposal to win Lin Jin over and ordered the Li Clan to keep a low profile while monitoring him and the major clans.
• Zhang Tieshan forbade Zhang Clan members from going to Jiangcheng or contacting Lin Jin without permission, recognizing that his clan could not afford to challenge him.
• Lu Yao suggested recruiting Lin Jin and admitted she would date him, but Lu Wenyuan told her the Lu Clan could only watch and ordered a gift prepared in case an opportunity arose.
• Shen Qianqiu refused to approach Lin Jin, warning that doing so could expose the Shen Clan’s hidden strength, and ordered Shen Mobai to watch developments without acting rashly.

Lin Jin found the hidden underground seal where the missing Demon Suppression Bureau squad had met its fate. As four dead squad members attacked him as puppets controlled by the Black Crystal Core, Lin Jin prepared to face them.

• Lin Jin used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to locate an eerie energy source beneath the Northwest Gobi.
• Lin Jin found Zhou Heng's canteen and signs of combat, then used Chakra to open a concealed entrance in the rock wall.
• Lin Jin descended through an ancient Sealing Formation and discovered a cracked Black Crystal Core in a vast cavern.
• Lin Jin saw four missing Demon Suppression Bureau members controlled by tendrils from the core and three drained corpses in a corner.
• Zhou Heng and the other three puppets attacked Lin Jin together with enhanced powers, and Lin Jin judged their coordination before countering.

Lin Jin defeated the four Awakened who had attacked him while the black crystal core’s seal weakened. The Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King broke free and appeared in the cavern.

• Lin Jin blocked the Awakened’s attacks with Wood Locking Wall and realized they were distracting him while the creature inside the core broke the seal.
• Lin Jin bound Zhou Heng and the other three with Tree Binding Eternal Burial as the core cracked and the trapped creature spoke of Duan Changfeng, who had sealed it a hundred years earlier.
• Zhou Heng broke free with a surge of power and attacked Lin Jin, but Lin Jin caught his punch and killed him with Cutting Sprigs.
• Lin Jin killed the other three Awakened and stored all four corpses in the Kamui Dimension.
• The crystal core exploded, and the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King emerged as a gigantic creature formed from countless faces and limbs.

Lin Jin fought the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King after the ancient seal broke, using Wood Release techniques against the quasi-SS-Rank Weird. The Corpse King activated his Death Domain and trapped Lin Jin’s wood dragon in draining chains, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King escaped his hundred-year seal and attacked Lin Jin, calling him the first human to witness his freedom.
• Lin Jin used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to fill the cavern with trees and break the Corpse King's massive arm.
• The Corpse King destroyed much of the forest with black beams, broke free, and attacked Lin Jin, who dodged with the Body Flicker Technique.
• The Corpse King activated Death Domain, draining vitality from the cavern and sending death chains toward Lin Jin.
• Lin Jin summoned a wood dragon to smash the chains, but the Corpse King intensified his domain and surrounded the dragon with chains that drained its life force.

Lin Jin resisted the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King's Death Domain and blocked his Death Soul Spear with a Senjutsu-enhanced wooden shield. He summoned True Several Thousand Hands, which shattered the Death Domain, and prepared to kill the Corpse King.

• The Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King shredded the Wood Dragon with his Death Chains, then sent the chains after Lin Jin.
• Lin Jin activated Sage Mode, weakening the Death Domain's erosion, and the Corpse King formed the chains into a Death Soul Spear.
• Lin Jin used the Hōbi Technique to block the spear, leaving the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King shocked that his strongest attack had failed.
• Lin Jin summoned True Several Thousand Hands, whose overwhelming life force burst apart the Death Domain.
• The Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King attacked the Buddha statue with black beams, but its Senjutsu light erased them.
• Lin Jin stood atop the statue and brought his right hand down, telling the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King he would have to die.

Lin Jin purged several weirds in Linhai City after killing the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King, defeating an A-Rank Deep-Sea Man-Eating Fish and Ghost Mother. He continued searching the evacuated city, where an S-Rank Weird remained near the harbor.

• Lin Jin killed the Ten-Thousand Souls Corpse King with Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands and gained 1,500 points of world power.
• Lin Jin arrived in Linhai City, sensed several weirds across the city, and detected an S-Rank Weird near the harbor.
• Lin Jin killed the Deep-Sea Man-Eating Fish in a cold-storage warehouse with White Fang Swordsmanship Iai Slash.
• Lin Jin burned the Ghost Mother and her spawned weirds in Linhai City First People's Hospital, gaining 500 points of world power.

Lin Jin killed the remaining A-Rank and B-Rank Eerie in Linhai City, then defeated the peak S-Rank Deep-Sea Giant Maw at the harbor. With the extermination mission complete and the city free of Eerie, he returned to his villa.

• Lin Jin killed the third A-Rank Eerie, a spider demon in a shopping mall, and burned away its webs to free the captured citizens.
• Lin Jin killed the four B-Rank Eerie across Linhai City, bringing his world power total to 3,180.
• At the harbor, Lin Jin resisted Deep-Sea Giant Maw's mental contamination and fought it with lightning, water, and ice techniques.
• Lin Jin froze Deep-Sea Giant Maw, trapped its consciousness in Tsukuyomi, and killed it with White Fang Swordsmanship: Flash.
• Lin Jin uploaded proof that the extermination mission was complete, then used the Flying Thunder God Mark to return to his villa.