Recaps

Tuoba Zhan unleashed his strongest sword technique against Lin Jin's clone, but Lin Jin's pure sword intent broke through it. Afterward, Tuoba Zhan acknowledged the gap between them and left, hoping to meet Lin Jin again after entering the Force Realm.

• Tuoba Zhan used his second strike, but Lin Jin's clone redirected Mountain-Slayer's force and avoided the blow.
• Tuoba Zhan compressed his sword intent and attacked with Tyrant Blade Intent, Ninth Heaven Pressure.
• Lin Jin's clone countered with White Fang Swordsmanship: Reverse Slash and shattered Tuoba Zhan's blade radiance.
• Tuoba Zhan was forced back and injured his sword hand, while Lin Jin's clone remained unmoved.
• Lin Jin praised Tuoba Zhan's progress toward the Blade Force Realm, and Tuoba Zhan asked about Lin Jin's sword intent.
• Tuoba Zhan invited Lin Jin to visit the Tuoba Clan in the northwest, then left with Tobara Tora.

Tuoba Zhan warned his clan against scheming to recruit Lin Jin after sensing the strength of his sword intent. A week later, Su Qianxue broke through to the domain realm, and Zhao Ming visited her; she again refused the marriage he had come to discuss.

• Tuoba Zhan told Tobara Tora to relay that the Tuoba Clan should abandon its plans involving Lin Jin, warning that antagonizing him could bring disaster.
• Tuoba Zhan said he had touched the threshold of blade force and planned to enter seclusion.
• Su Qianxue mastered a spatial domain that let her create rifts and control positions within its reach.
• Su Qianxue sensed Zhao Ming downstairs, went to meet him, and learned he had been in Jiangcheng for a week.
• Zhao Ming said it was time to settle the marriage matter, and Su Qianxue firmly refused as she had three years earlier.

Zhao Ming accepted Su Qianxue’s rejection after learning she opposed the clan-arranged engagement regardless of Lin Jin. He left to explain their positions to his father and said he would meet Lin Jin before returning to the Capital City.

• Su Qianxue told Zhao Ming she had always rejected the engagement because it was imposed for the clans’ interests, not because of Lin Jin.
• Zhao Ming acknowledged that the clan ancestors could still uphold the alliance, though he would tell his father both their positions.
• Zhao Ming and Su Qianxue agreed neither wanted the engagement, and Zhao Ming declared the arrangement should end.
• Zhao Ming said he would meet Lin Jin to make the Zhao Clan’s stance clear and see what made him different.
• Su Qianxue warned Zhao Ming that Lin Jin would not be easy to reason with, but Zhao Ming left the courtyard intending to meet him.

Su Qianxue told Lin Jin that Zhao Ming had come to see him and asked him not to hurt Zhao Ming too badly. The next morning, Zhao Ming met Lin Jin in person and asked him to fight so the Zhao Clan could make its stance clear; they went to the mountain summit, where Zhao Ming prepared his spear.

• Su Qianxue told Lin Jin that she had broken through to the Domain Realm and that Zhao Ming intended to find him.
• Lin Jin said he would not hit Zhao Ming too hard as long as Zhao Ming did not cause unreasonable trouble.
• The next morning, Lin Jin sensed Zhao Ming and Zhao Lie approaching and opened the door to meet them.
• Zhao Ming apologized for trying to recruit Lin Jin and explained that he wanted a fight to clarify the Zhao Clan's stance toward Lin Jin and Su Qianxue.
• Lin Jin agreed to fight Zhao Ming, and the two went to the mountain summit while Zhao Lie followed behind.
• Zhao Ming planted his Thunder Abyss spear and gathered his sharp spear intent.

Lin Jin and Zhao Ming tested their bloodline abilities in a domain-level duel, trading spatial intangibility and lightning attacks. Their sword and spear intents clashed, with Lin Jin slowly forcing Zhao Ming backward as the fight continued.

• Zhao Ming challenged Lin Jin to demonstrate the Sharingan, and Lin Jin summoned Lightning-Cleaver through a spatial vortex.
• Lin Jin evaded Zhao Ming's Formation Breaker with Kamui Intangibility, then countered as Zhao Ming struck back and identified the ability's limits.
• Zhao Ming used Lightning Net and followed with successive spear attacks, forcing Lin Jin to block Thunderclap directly.
• Lin Jin met Zhao Ming's lightning spear with Purple Lightning, and Zhao Ming recognized the sword intent in Lin Jin's strike.
• Zhao Ming unleashed his unstoppable spear intent against Lin Jin's cleaving sword intent, holding his spear steady even as Lin Jin pushed him backward.

Zhao Ming unleashed the Zhao Clan’s Thunderclap Spear Domain and bloodline Force Realm, pushing Lin Jin into retreat with a powerful series of attacks. Lin Jin revealed Susanoo, endured Zhao Ming’s strongest strike, and left the battle with his sword intent as he cleaved apart the domain.

• Lin Jin’s stronger sword intent broke Zhao Ming’s spear intent and drove him back, but Zhao Ming declared that the battle was not over.
• Zhao Ming activated his Thunderclap Spear Domain, empowering himself with the Zhao Clan’s bloodline inscriptions and Force Realm.
• Zhao Ming’s Formation Breaker and successive spear strikes forced Lin Jin to use Kamui Intangibility and retreat for the first time.
• Zhao Ming gathered the domain’s lightning into his strongest attack, Battle Spear Art: Thunderclap, while Lin Jin chose to reveal his own bloodline power.
• Lin Jin summoned Susanoo, whose armor withstood Zhao Ming’s strongest strike without breaking.
• Lin Jin slashed with Susanoo’s Purple Longsword, splitting the Thunderclap Spear Domain and destroying the silver-armored general and its battle banner.

Lin Jin defeated Zhao Ming with Tsukuyomi, forcing him to confront his fear of losing his clan, status, and bloodline. Zhao Ming accepted the lesson and left knowing Lin Jin had used less than thirty percent of his strength.

• Lin Jin trapped Zhao Ming in a Tsukuyomi illusion where the Zhao Clan had fallen, his powers were gone, and Su Qianxue ignored him.
• Zhao Ming realized the scene was Genjutsu, admitted defeat, and thanked Lin Jin for revealing how much his pride depended on his clan and bloodline.
• Lin Jin told Zhao Ming not to let his burdens bend his forward-moving Spear Intent, then left the mountaintop.
• Zhao Lie treated Zhao Ming's injuries and said Lin Jin had used less than thirty percent of his strength and could have killed Zhao Ming without restriction.
• Zhao Ming asked about the gap between them, then chose to return without hearing Zhao Lie's answer.

Lin Jin reflected on the unequal paths available to Awakened before welcoming Su Qianxue, who had just reached the Domain Realm Early Stage, and sharing a meal with her. Su Qianxue warned that the Su and Zhao Clans might intervene over her engagement, but Lin Jin assured her he was not worried, leaving her reassured by his confidence.

• Lin Jin considered Tuoba Zhan and Zhao Ming's potential and the hardships ordinary Awakened faced in pursuing cultivation.
• Su Qianxue arrived at Lin Jin's villa after breaking through to the Domain Realm Early Stage and invited him to share a meal.
• Su Qianxue cooked for Lin Jin, explaining that she had learned to cook after moving to Jiangcheng and used her space-type superpower to help.
• While they ate, Su Qianxue warned that the Su and Zhao Clans might act over her engagement to Zhao Ming, and that the Zhao Clan could target Lin Jin.
• Lin Jin told Su Qianxue that he did not blame her and that the clans would have taken an interest in him regardless, reassuring her.

Su Qianxue thanked Lin Jin for helping her discover her ambition to control space and her own destiny. After returning to the northwest, Tuoba Zhan described Lin Jin’s overwhelming strength to his family and advised the Tuoba Clan to maintain goodwill without trying to recruit him, marry him into the family, or scheme for his bloodline.

• Su Qianxue asked Lin Jin to advise her once her Space-Type domain had stabilized, and Lin Jin agreed to spar with her at the same level.
• Su Qianxue thanked Lin Jin for helping her see the possibilities beyond reaching the Domain Realm, and Lin Jin told her that her progress depended on her own choices.
• Three days later, Tuoba Zhan returned to the Tuoba Clan and tested his improved Tyrant Blade against the Blade-Testing Stone before going to the Council Chamber.
• Tuoba Zhan told Tuo Ba Xiong and Tuoba Hong that Lin Jin’s clone had countered all three of his attacks and possessed Sword Intent that might have reached the Force Realm.
• Tuoba Zhan urged the Tuoba Clan to preserve goodwill toward Lin Jin, abandon recruitment and marriage schemes, and never plot to take his bloodline.

The Tuoba Clan decided to stop recruiting Lin Jin and recognized the value of its friendly connection with him. In the Zhao Clan, Zhao Ming argued against the marriage alliance with Su Qianxue, but learned that an agreement between the ancestors tied it to the pursuit of the Divine Domain Level, leaving the engagement beyond his control.

• Tuo Ba Xiong ordered the Tuoba Clan to end its recruitment efforts toward Lin Jin and withdraw its informants from Jiangcheng.
• Tuoba Hong and Tuo Ba Xiong agreed that Lin Jin was too powerful to provoke and that Tuoba Zhan had grown steadier after meeting him.
• Zhao Ming told Zhao Wuji and Zhao Xuanzhen that Lin Jin had thoroughly defeated him and that Su Qianxue had feelings for Lin Jin.
• Zhao Ming argued that the Zhao Clan should not risk making Lin Jin an enemy over the engagement, and Zhao Wuji said he valued Zhao Ming's opinion.
• Zhao Wuji revealed that the ancestors' marriage agreement might concern the legendary Divine Domain Level, so Zhao Ming could not decide whether to cancel the engagement.

Su Qishan argued that Su Qianxue should be allowed to refuse her arranged marriage to Zhao Ming, but Su Boyong and Su Zhenchuan insisted that the Su Clan’s reputation and alliances came first. The chapter ended with Su Boyong warning that breaking the agreement would destroy other clans’ trust in the Su Clan.

• Su Qishan received a message from the Zhao Clan saying the wedding would proceed as scheduled unless the Su Clan resolved the problem with Su Qianxue.
• Su Boyong summoned Su Qishan to the ancestral hall, where Su Zhenchuan, Su Zhenhai, and Su Wenhao were waiting.
• Su Qishan said the clan should call off the engagement if Su Qianxue did not want to marry Zhao Ming.
• Su Qishan argued that Su Qianxue could choose her own happiness and mentioned Lin Jin as a potential ally for the Su Clan.
• Su Zhenchuan accused Su Qianxue of bringing shame on the clan by becoming involved with Lin Jin, and Su Qishan rebuked him.
• Su Boyong defended the ancestor’s marriage arrangement and warned that breaking it would cost the Su Clan the trust of the other great clans.

Su Qishan opposed forcing Su Qianxue to honor her engagement to Zhao Ming, but the Su Clan’s family assembly voted to preserve the alliance. The clan planned to send people to Jiangcheng to bring her home and threatened to remove Su Qishan if he continued to resist.

• Su Qishan refused Su Boyong’s demand to summon Su Qianxue home, so Su Boyong called for a family assembly.
• Su Zhenhai sided with Su Boyong, while Su Wenhao supported holding Su Qianxue to her clan obligations.
• At the assembly, Su Qishan argued that Su Qianxue should choose her own future and that Lin Jin could benefit the Su Clan more than the Zhao alliance.
• Su Zhenchuan and Su Zhenhai argued that relying on Lin Jin was risky and urged the clan to honor the engagement to Zhao Ming.
• More than seventy percent of the clan voted to continue the engagement, leaving Su Qishan’s position in the minority.
• Su Boyong announced that the clan would send people to Jiangcheng for Su Qianxue and could begin proceedings to remove Su Qishan as clan head.

Su Qishan reluctantly accepted the clan assembly’s decision to bring Su Qianxue back, while resolving to protect her if she refused. Su Boyong secretly arranged stronger measures in case Lin Jin intervened, and the chapter ended with the First Seat of the Moon Envoys reading an intelligence report at Dark Moon Headquarters.

• Su Qishan agreed to the clan assembly’s decision but insisted on choosing who would approach Su Qianxue.
• Su Boyong ordered Su Zhenchuan to secretly send two Transcendent Level retainers and prepare Jiangcheng troops in case Lin Jin protected Su Qianxue.
• Su Qishan called Old Chen and told him to ask Su Qianxue whether she would return, promising to protect her even if it cost him his position.
• Su Zhenchuan recruited Su Dingshan and Su Dinghai to follow Old Chen and forcibly bring Su Qianxue back if she refused.
• At Dark Moon Headquarters, the First Seat of the Moon Envoys examined a newly arrived intelligence report from within Huaxia.

The First Seat assigned Yinshuang and Ghost Pupil to kill Lin Jin and punish the Jiangcheng Paranormal Bureau, using a Beast Tide to distract Huaxia's forces. Ghost Pupil revealed his plan to infect Jiangcheng with an SS-Rank Eerie and turn its people into an army, leaving the city and Lin Jin in imminent danger.

• Yinshuang and Ghost Pupil entered the Moon Envoys' chamber, where the First Seat explained that Lin Jin had killed Ghost Fox and ordered them to strike at him and the Jiangcheng Paranormal Bureau.
• Yinshuang questioned how they could defeat Lin Jin, who was at the peak of the Transcendent Stage Realm, and the First Seat gave her Qiongqi blood essence to lure the Swallowing-Heaven Python into launching a Beast Tide elsewhere.
• The First Seat told Ghost Pupil he could take revenge on Lin Jin, with Yinshuang restraining Lin Jin while Ghost Pupil delivered the killing blow.
• Ghost Pupil revealed that his Dream-Eroding Eerie Mother had grown to SS-Rank and could parasitize dreams, silently devouring its victims' minds.
• Ghost Pupil explained that he planned to spread the Eerie's spores across Jiangcheng at midnight, drag the city into a Weird Domain, and turn its residents into Eerie; he said he had planned the attack since learning of Ghost Fox's death.

Yinshuang offered the Swallowing-Heaven Python Qiongqi’s blood essence in exchange for a three-day beast tide against Linyuan City. She revealed that the attack was meant to distract the authorities while Dark Moon retaliated in Jiangcheng, and the Python weighed the cost to its followers against the reward.

• Yinshuang reached the Swallowing-Heaven Python’s swamp and summoned the Beast King with Qiongqi’s blood essence.
• Yinshuang introduced herself as Dark Moon’s fourth Moon Envoy and asked the Python to send a beast tide against Linyuan City for three days.
• The Swallowing-Heaven Python objected that the assault could cost tens of thousands of its subordinates while Dark Moon bore no responsibility for their losses.
• Yinshuang explained that the beasts only needed to create a disturbance and could withdraw after three days, regardless of the outcome.
• Yinshuang revealed that Dark Moon’s real target was Jiangcheng, where it planned to retaliate against the killer of a Gold Moon Rank member and the official organization.
• The Swallowing-Heaven Python questioned whether Qiongqi’s blood essence was worth risking its subordinates’ lives.

Yinshuang secured the Swallowing-Heaven Python’s agreement to send a Beast Tide against Linyuan City in exchange for Qiongqi’s blood essence. Meanwhile, Ghost Pupil began preparing to doom Jiangcheng by spreading Dream-Eroding Eerie Mother spores and laying the foundations for a Weird Domain Formation.

• Yinshuang offered Qiongqi’s blood essence, and the Swallowing-Heaven Python agreed to send at least ten thousand beasts to Linyuan City in three days, provided it retreated if humans deployed a Transcendent Stage Realm expert.
• Yinshuang gave the Swallowing-Heaven Python the blood essence, which began to alter its bloodline, and then left the forest.
• Ghost Pupil arrived in Jiangcheng and vowed to kill his target and make the city die alongside his teacher.
• Ghost Pupil released spores from the SS-Rank Dream-Eroding Eerie Mother throughout Jiangcheng, where they began to infect residents and would awaken when he activated its main body.
• Ghost Pupil scattered seven Soul-Devouring Nails across Jiangcheng to form a hidden Weird Domain Formation Base as the city carried on unaware.

Su Qianxue was forced to return to the Su Clan and arranged to leave Jiangcheng the next morning, hoping to say goodbye to Lin Jin first. Meanwhile, a massive beast tide poured out of the Linyuan Mountains toward Linyuan City, and the city mobilized to defend itself.

• Old Chen told Su Qianxue that the Su Clan had voted to bring her back, despite her father Su Qishan’s efforts to protect her.
• Su Qianxue asked for three days to say goodbye to Lin Jin, but Su Dingshan refused, so she agreed to leave the next morning.
• Su Qianxue considered calling Lin Jin but instead sent him a message saying she would visit him the next morning, and he replied, “Sure.”
• A sentry in Linyuan City felt the city wall tremble as a large force approached from the mountains.
• The city alarm sounded as tens of thousands of demonic beasts, including three S-Rank beasts, advanced on Linyuan City.
• Han Guotao ordered the defenders to their battle stations.

Linyuan City’s defenses struggled against a massive beast tide while reinforcements raced to arrive. After Zhou Yan reached the city with Jiangcheng’s team, Lin Jin teleported to him, leaving Su Qianxue’s planned visit temporarily forgotten.

• Han Guotao requested emergency support as more than thirty thousand demonic beasts and three S-Rank beasts attacked Linyuan City, and headquarters ordered the defenders to hold until reinforcements arrived.
• Han Guotao killed the Icefield Giant Ape, but the Crimsonflame Lizard and Poison-miasma Giant Python attacked him as the city’s defenses faltered.
• Gu Yan and warships from Linyuan Port helped stabilize parts of the defensive line, though the beast tide’s main force and more dangerous auras remained beyond the city.
• Chen Zhenshan assigned Zhou Yan and Team C to reinforce Linyuan City, and Zhou Yan called Lin Jin with news of the siege.
• Lin Jin agreed to join Zhou Yan, calculated the World Power he could gain from the beasts, and teleported to Zhou Yan after the reinforcement convoy arrived.

As Lin Jin joined the defense of Linyuan City against a massive Beast Tide, Su Qianxue left Jiangcheng without seeing him, unaware that Ghost Pupil had begun a citywide attack. The chapter ended as a force descended over Jiangcheng and Su Qianxue sensed the danger.

• Lin Jin arrived at Linyuan City and sensed the Beast Tide, including powerful presences deep in the mountains.
• Su Qianxue visited Lin Jin's villa, learned he was likely in Linyuan City, and agreed to return to Capital City without saying goodbye.
• Ghost Pupil and Yinshuang activated a formation using seven Soul-Devouring Nails and awakened the spores implanted in Jiangcheng residents.
• Su Qianxue's car stopped outside the villa district as she sensed energy rising from seven directions and a force descending over Jiangcheng.

An SS-Rank Weird Domain sealed Jiangcheng away and caused most of the city's residents to fall unconscious. Su Qianxue chose to stay and help defend the city, while Chen Zhenshan and the others prepared to locate the domain's controller before the Eerie spread further.

• Su Dingshan identified the barrier as an SS-Rank Weird Domain that had separated Jiangcheng from the outside world.
• Su Qianxue refused to leave Jiangcheng, and Su Dingshan and Su Dinghai agreed to stay and help her.
• Su Qianxue and the retainers reached the Paranormal Bureau, where Chen Zhenshan reported widespread unconsciousness, missing reconnaissance teams, and seven energy nodes.
• Chen Zhenshan asked whether Lin Jin was in Jiangcheng, and Su Qianxue told him she did not know where Lin Jin had gone.
• Chen Zhenshan concluded that they had to find the Weird Domain's controller before the Eerie corrupted the unconscious citizens.

Ghost Pupil and Yinshuang confirmed that Lin Jin was absent from Jiangcheng and left the city’s Weird Domain to consume its unconscious residents. At the command center, Su Qianxue organized the remaining defenders to protect civilians and investigate the threat.

• Ghost Pupil sensed that Lin Jin was not in Jiangcheng and vowed to let the Dream-Eroding Eerie Mother turn the city into a dead zone before Lin Jin returned.
• Yinshuang detected survivors from an established family inside the city, while Ghost Pupil said the completed Weird Domain and its sealed spiritual energy nodes would prevent them from stopping it.
• The command center detected two SS-Rank energy sources above Jiangcheng, but Su Dingshan identified them as hidden Dark Moon Envoys who had vanished from surveillance.
• Su Qianxue proposed that Chen Zhenshan and Chen guard the densely populated old district while Su Dingshan and Su Dinghai defended the northern and eastern spiritual energy nodes.
• Su Qianxue set out to locate whoever controlled the Weird Domain or find a way out, as the bureau’s few dozen reserve members prepared to defend Jiangcheng.

Chen Zhenshan’s forces struggled to contain the Weird Domain in Jiangcheng while Linyuan City’s exhausted defenders faced a new, overwhelming beast wave. Lin Jin continued waiting outside the city for the concealed quasi-SS-Rank Earth Dragon to reveal itself.

• Chen Zhenshan led the Reserve Team through Jiangcheng’s old district, destroying low-level Eeries that were attacking unconscious citizens.
• Su Dingshan and Su Dinghai suppressed Soul-Devouring Nails at separate nodes, while Su Qianxue searched for Dark Moon’s two Moon Envoys and could not locate them.
• After an hour of fighting, Han Guotao’s reinforcements reached Linyuan City, but its walls, cannons, and defenders were already badly depleted.
• A new beast wave emerged from the mountains, led by five S-Rank Demonic Beasts and a quasi-SS-Rank Earth Dragon, prompting Han Guotao to order the defenders to fight to the death.
• Zhou Yan and Team C fought on the wall as Lin Jin watched the battlefield with his Mind’s Eye of the Kagura, waiting for the Earth Dragon to expose itself.

Lin Jin and the Saber-toothed Thunder Tiger attacked the Beast Tide outside the city, killing Demonic Beasts with their abilities. Lin Jin then used Wood Release to trap thousands of beasts across several li of the battlefield.

• Lin Jin summoned the Saber-toothed Thunder Tiger, who revealed he had reached peak S-Rank after digesting the Thunder-Horned Demon Ape's Demon Core.
• Lin Jin and the Saber-toothed Thunder Tiger charged into the Beast Tide, and Lin Jin's Fire Style attack incinerated hundreds of Demonic Beasts.
• Han Guotao and Gu Yan watched Lin Jin fight, while Zhou Yan recognized him as his buddy and told Chen Feng.
• Lin Jin used Flying Thunder God Kunai and several ninjutsu techniques to kill Demonic Beasts, while the Saber-toothed Thunder Tiger tore through the horde's left flank.
• Lin Jin used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to spread a forest across several li and immobilize thousands of Demonic Beasts.

Lin Jin unleashed Sage Mode and devastating attacks to slaughter thousands of demonic beasts, then summoned Susanoo to face the five S-Rank beasts. Susanoo killed all five in a single exchange as the defenders watched from the city wall.

• Zhou Yan estimated that Lin Jin had killed close to ten thousand demonic beasts, while Lin Jin judged the beast tide too large to defeat at his current pace.
• Lin Jin entered Sage Mode and used Wind Release: Rasenshuriken to erase the beasts within a vast area.
• Lin Jin summoned Purple Lightning Kirin, striking the rear of the beast tide and electrocuting the demonic beasts within hundreds of meters.
• The five S-Rank demonic beasts charged Lin Jin, so he summoned his third-form Susanoo and formed a Purple Longsword.
• Susanoo killed the ghost-faced ape, bone-winged wyvern, giant black scorpion, giant pangolin, and two-headed flying python in a single exchange.

Lin Jin used Fivefold Rashomon to protect the city wall and its evacuees from a near-SS-Rank Earth Dragon’s Dragon Flame, then prepared to fight the beast. In Jiangcheng, Chen Zhenshan’s dwindling Reserve Team held off growing Eerie hordes while Su Qianxue searched for Dark Moon’s Moon Envoys but could not locate them.

• Lin Jin blocked the Earth Dragon’s Dragon Flame with four of the five Rashomon gates, protecting the city wall and the civilians behind it.
• Lin Jin ordered the Saber-toothed Thunder Tiger to defend the wall, then challenged the Earth Dragon to fight.
• Chen Zhenshan and Old Chen continued fighting Eerie in Jiangcheng’s Old City District as their Reserve Team dwindled to twelve members.
• Chen Zhenshan learned that at least two hundred more Eerie had appeared in the Eastern District, including several that had reached C-Rank.
• Su Qianxue sensed the city’s battles and the spreading nightmare but failed to locate Dark Moon’s two Moon Envoys.