Chapter Summaries

After Lin Fei shared the progenitor of spiritual veins’ energy, he departed Mount Kunlun with Yinglong and revealed that he had exposed himself as a Golden Core cultivator to draw out threats. Across the world, supernatural forces awakened, and Davian resolved to strengthen the Shadow Death Gods organization and take revenge on Lin Fei.

• Lin Fei shattered the bottle of spiritual energy, allowing everyone at Mount Kunlun to absorb it and advance their cultivation.
• Lady Yunhua invited Lin Fei to Yunhua Palace, but he declined and left on Yinglong’s back after warning her disciples not to disrespect him.
• Ji Yaoguang questioned Lin Fei’s claim that he was only at Golden Core cultivation, and he explained that he had used it to lure out enemies and eliminate threats.
• After the seven-star alignment, immortal sects and supernatural phenomena appeared around the world, while witches, werewolves, and vampires discovered signs of demons and sleeping ancestors.
• Davian awakened his Death God bloodline, learned that first-generation werewolves and vampires remained alive, and vowed to strengthen the Shadow Death Gods organization and avenge his defeat by Lin Fei.

Hong Xiaowei attacked Douque Palace, slaughtered its disciples, and stole the palace’s cultivation resources after revealing that he had willingly joined the demonic path. He unleashed the Demonic Lotus Slash against the disciples’ Water Cloud Sword Formation.

• Hong Xiaowei killed the two disciples guarding Douque Palace and cut down others as he advanced toward the palace.
• Hong Xiaowei used the token Su Caiwei had given him to open the pill-refining chamber and collected its contents with the Blood Prison Sword Art.
• Hong Xiaowei told the disciples that he had chosen the demonic path and had only pretended to be a good person.
• The Douque Palace disciples formed the Water Cloud Sword Formation, and Hong Xiaowei attacked them with the Demonic Lotus Slash.
• Blood-colored sword petals sliced through the disciples’ swords and pierced their bodies.

Hong Xiaowei massacred Douque Palace’s disciples and fled with their cultivation resources, while Lin Xinyu reunited Heavenly Punishment and faced Wangliang’s attempt to take over her body. Lin Xinyu found a way to frighten Wangliang into backing down, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Hong Xiaowei killed the disciples at Douque Palace, looted its cultivation resources, and escaped toward the foot of the mountain.
• Lin Xinyu emerged from the dangerous small world with both halves of Heavenly Punishment and fitted them together, restoring the weapon with Wangliang’s help.
• Wangliang used Heavenly Punishment’s power to suppress Lin Xinyu’s consciousness and tried to claim her body, but she threatened to stab herself with the weapon.
• Lin Xinyu warned that Wangliang would share her sensations and threatened to find men to play with her, making his remnant soul tremble with fear.

Lin Xinyu accommodated Wangliang’s habits and thanked him for helping her pursue revenge, though their arguments continued. Lin Fei went to Mingzhu City with Wu Moling and Ji Yaoguang to seek the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace’s descendants, but could not reach his disciple Zhong Tianya.

• Lin Xinyu teased Wangliang about saving her and changed her clothes, food, and habits to match his preferences.
• Wangliang realized Lin Xinyu was accommodating him, and she thanked him for giving her hope of revenge.
• Lin Fei left Flying Cloud Mountain Villa after setting up a spirit-gathering formation for the women’s cultivation.
• Lin Fei arrived in Mingzhu City with Wu Moling and Ji Yaoguang to look for descendants of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.
• Lin Fei called Zhong Tianya, guessed that he was playing games at an internet café, and left Ji Yaoguang startled by his disciple’s unreliability.

Zhong Yuting tried to drag Zhong Tianya home from the internet cafe, but he refused until she claimed the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages had arrived. When Lin Fei entered, Zhong Tianya immediately abandoned his bravado and fawned over him.

• Zhong Tianya spent seven days in a private internet cafe room gaming and reading manga while ignoring the spiritual energy revival.
• Zhong Yuting knocked on the door and demanded that Zhong Tianya, her adoptive father, come home.
• Zhong Tianya refused to leave and boasted that even the Heavenly Venerable could not move him from his chair.
• Zhong Yuting announced that Zhong Tianya's master had arrived, and Lin Fei entered with Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling.
• Zhong Tianya sprang up, offered Lin Fei his chair and cola, then denied boasting when Zhong Yuting reminded him of his words.

Lin Fei reunited with Zhong Tianya in Mingzhu City and asked him to help locate a man cursed by the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace. They planned to use rumors that Lin Fei was only at the Golden Core Realm as bait, then left the internet café with Zhong Tianya.

• Zhong Tianya introduced his adopted daughter Zhong Yuting to Lin Fei, who also introduced Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling.
• Lin Fei asked Zhong Tianya to find a man afflicted with a Shaman Curse who came from the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.
• Zhong Tianya proposed using his connections to a major delivery-platform entrepreneur to search for the man, while Wu Moling admitted she could not sense the curse.
• Lin Fei suggested luring the suspect out by letting him hear that Lin Fei was only in the Golden Core Realm, and Zhong Tianya praised the plan.
• Zhong Tianya left the internet café with Lin Fei and the others, carrying his katana and shakuhachi, and onlookers recognized him as Happy Wind Man.

Lin Fei found Zhong Tianya’s connections too weak to help locate the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace, so he decided to call on someone more capable. He then learned that Hong Xiaowei had rebelled and ordered Su Caiwei to awaken Little Red Luan’s incarnation to help track him down.

• Zhong Tianya bragged about an impending demolition windfall, but Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang revealed Lin Fei’s immense wealth, leaving Zhong Tianya begging for charity.
• Lin Fei visited Zhong Tianya’s home and learned that he had no useful connections in the ancient martial world, so his plan to spread a false message about Lin Fei stalled.
• When Zhong Tianya suggested Lin Fei announce his challenge directly, Lin Fei struck him into the kitchen and explained that Zhong Tianya could not process the information needed to search Mingzhu City.
• Su Caiwei called Lin Fei to report that Hong Xiaowei had rebelled, used Duan Canghai’s Blood Prison Demonic Lotus Slash, and could not be located with the Water Cloud Mirror.
• Lin Fei concluded that the Blood Prison Sword Art was concealing Hong Xiaowei’s aura and told Su Caiwei to awaken Little Red Luan’s incarnation for the search.

After learning that Hong Xiaowei had betrayed Douque Palace, Lin Fei explained why he had spared him and eased Ji Yaoguang’s guilt. Princess Longji helped locate the person Lin Fei sought, but her unfamiliarity with modern geography and writing left the search clues incomplete.

• Su Caiwei told Lin Fei that Hong Xiaowei had slaughtered the disciples left at Douque Palace and stolen its cultivation resources, and Lin Fei explained that Hong Xiaowei pursued demonic power.
• Ji Yaoguang realized Hong Xiaowei had deceived her and apologized to Lin Fei for doubting him, while Lin Fei reassured her that she had not intended the tragedy.
• Lin Fei revealed that Princess Longji was helping him find the person who practiced the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and carried a Shaman Curse, shocking Zhong Yuting.
• Su Caiwei called back to say Princess Longji had found clues to the person's location but could not identify modern landforms or read simplified characters, prompting Lin Fei to joke that she was illiterate by modern standards.

Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Wu Moling traveled to Academy Town to confront the successor of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace. They found him near the fishpond, where his black demonic eyes revealed his presence.

• Su Caiwei told Lin Fei that Princess Longji’s manifestation had vanished after giving a location, and Zhong Yuting identified the place as Academy Town in Pudong New Area.
• Lin Fei left with Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling, while Zhong Tianya stayed behind; afterward, he briefly revealed the real blade hidden in his katana, Bond of the Drawn Wind.
• In Academy Town, Wu Moling felt the successor’s suppressive power over the Shaman Curse, and her Barrier Talisman glowed to protect her.
• Ji Yaoguang trembled as memories of her past returned, but Lin Fei’s calm presence helped steady her.
• Lin Fei spotted a tightly wrapped man on a nearby balcony, whose pitch-black eye sockets emitted wisps of black light as a fierce wind and killing chill arose.

Chu Xiangkuang attacked Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Wu Moling, believing Lin Fei’s cultivation had fallen to Golden Core. As Lin Fei evaded Chu Xiangkuang’s devastating strikes, the Mingzhu Military Region prepared to evacuate civilians and ready miniature nuclear warheads.

• Chu Xiangkuang revealed his desire to capture Wu Moling, take Ji Yaoguang’s divine power, and kill Lin Fei, while four men in black appeared behind him.
• Lin Fei rejected Chu Xiangkuang’s claim to the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace’s lineage and provoked him by displaying only Golden Core-level power.
• Chu Xiangkuang unleashed the Heavenly Demon Great Annihilation Tribulation, carving a thousand-meter burning character into the plain as Lin Fei appeared injured.
• Chu Xiangkuang used the Heavenly Demon Sovereign Emperor's Stomp, turning the plain into a basin, while Lin Fei vanished to evade the attack.
• Mingzhu military officers assessed the destructive power as above Golden Core and ordered a civilian evacuation while preparing miniature nuclear warheads.

Lin Fei confronted Chu Xiangkuang, who drained four disciples to restore his full strength and revealed he commanded the Black Wind Society Seventh Squad. As their battle escalated, a military commander ordered miniature nuclear bombs launched at Chu Xiangkuang.

• Lin Fei claimed he was an early Nascent Soul expert, but Chu Xiangkuang prepared to use another trump card.
• Chu Xiangkuang used the Heavenly Demon Bone-Stripping Qi-Absorbing Art to kill four disciples and absorb their true essence, restoring his strength to mid Nascent Soul.
• Chu Xiangkuang revealed he was the current captain of the Black Wind Society Seventh Squad, and Lin Fei mocked the squad's low ranking.
• Chu Xiangkuang raised enormous flaming boulders and attacked Lin Fei.
• After civilians were evacuated and fighter pilots stood by, the military commander ordered miniature nuclear bombs to be launched.

Chu Xiangkuang unleashed a massive lava attack against Lin Fei, but Lin Fei survived unharmed and revealed that he knew the Heavenly Demon Divine Art better than Chu Xiangkuang. Lin Fei copied Chu Xiangkuang’s techniques and attacked with Mad Dragon Descends from Heaven, leaving Chu Xiangkuang to counter with his strongest slash.

• Chu Xiangkuang gathered the airborne lava and hurled it at Lin Fei, who first sent Wu Moling and Ji Yaoguang to safety.
• Chu Xiangkuang compressed the lava around Lin Fei until it exploded, but Lin Fei emerged completely unharmed.
• Lin Fei said he had learned the Heavenly Demon Divine Art after seeing it once because Lin Yuan had been his disciple.
• Lin Fei formed a demonic saber and used Mad Dragon Descends from Heaven against Chu Xiangkuang.
• Chu Xiangkuang fought against the demonic dragon with Heavenly Demon Great Annihilation Tribulation.

Lin Fei defeated Chu Xiangkuang in a brutal clash, leaving him severely injured and at the mercy of Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling. As Lin Fei dragged Chu Xiangkuang away, the military launched a missile carrying a miniature nuclear warhead toward them.

• Chu Xiangkuang's demonic dragon tore through Lin Fei's saber qi but was shattered after crashing into Chu Xiangkuang's weapon and protective gang qi.
• Lin Fei's attack sent Chu Xiangkuang flying into the basin, leaving him badly wounded and unable to fight.
• Lin Fei praised Chu Xiangkuang's cultivation before drawing him toward himself and dragging him away.
• Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling watched as the man who had wronged them was brought within reach of execution.
• The military launched a missile carrying a miniature nuclear warhead toward Lin Fei and Chu Xiangkuang's location.

Lin Fei neutralized a miniature nuclear missile over Mingzhu City and contained its radiation, demonstrating that cultivation surpassed modern military technology. He tormented Chu Xiangkuang, let Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling punish him, and demanded information about the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace before granting him death.

• Lin Fei stopped the nuclear missile with an invisible barrier and contained the explosion and its radiation in an emerald curtain of light.
• The military officers recognized Lin Fei’s restraint as an act of kindness and understood that cultivation now stood above technology.
• Lin Fei threw the helpless Chu Xiangkuang before Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling, then repeatedly healed him as the Shaman Curse rotted his flesh.
• Chu Xiangkuang confessed to his crimes against Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling, and the two women beat him while Lin Fei let them vent their anger.
• When Chu Xiangkuang tried to kill himself, Lin Fei broke his arm and demanded that he reveal what he knew about the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace before receiving a quick death.

Chu Xiangkuang confessed his history and the origins of the Black Wind Society Seventh Squad, but he knew nothing about the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace's present state. Lin Fei killed him, while a man inside the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace watched the scene through a bronze mirror.

• Chu Xiangkuang explained that the Black Wind Society Seventh Squad's ancestors had left their small world after the Seventh Young Master was killed in a factional struggle.
• Chu Xiangkuang recounted finding a defective immortal pill near Mount Kunlun, using it to advance his cultivation, and surviving the Dharma-ending Age tribulation with a Lightning-Warding Pearl.
• Chu Xiangkuang described how the Shaman Curse nearly killed him before Lin Fei defeated him and captured him.
• Lin Fei learned that Chu Xiangkuang had no knowledge of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace's current situation, then struck him to ashes.
• A man in Zhou-dynasty clothing watched Chu Xiangkuang's death through a bronze mirror inside the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.

After failing to find Hong Xiaowei, Lin Fei explained that Sword Demon Duan Canghai likely intended to use him as a demonic sword and left for the pocket world on Mount Ba to retrieve a sword. Meanwhile, Hong Xiaowei met Duan Canghai, who revealed he had survived in a sealed state and promised to forge Hong Xiaowei’s Demonic Sword Physique.

• Lin Fei learned that Su Caiwei had arrived too late to find Hong Xiaowei, who had slaughtered a sect and absorbed its resources and spiritual energy.
• Lin Fei told Su Caiwei that Duan Canghai might be grooming Hong Xiaowei to become a demonic sword or to be devoured, and reassured her that the Sword Sect could defend itself.
• Lin Fei said he was going to the pocket world on Mount Ba to retrieve a sword, then left Flying Cloud Mountain Villa alone after setting up a barrier formation.
• Hong Xiaowei knelt before Duan Canghai, who revealed that he had faked his death and remained sealed until spiritual energy returned and a successor appeared.
• Duan Canghai promised to take Hong Xiaowei to his sword tomb and forge his Demonic Sword Physique, delighting Hong Xiaowei.

Duan Canghai led Hong Xiaowei to a valley of broken swords and urged him to devour them, secretly planning to use him to seize his body. At the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace, Wang Ping interrupted Jiang Qingyue’s embroidery and was sent crashing through a wall when she punched him.

• Duan Canghai privately resolved to use Hong Xiaowei’s demonic sword physique to take over his body and claim the Plain Shadow Divine Sword.
• Duan Canghai flew Hong Xiaowei to a valley filled with broken swords belonging to those he had defeated.
• Duan Canghai told Hong Xiaowei to devour the broken swords and promised to guard and assist him as the heir to the Sword Demon lineage.
• Wang Ping rushed into Jiang Qingyue’s room with an order from the Second Young Master and startled her into ruining her embroidery.
• Jiang Qingyue punched Wang Ping through a wall, then apologized as he warned her that her attempt to act cute could kill someone.

Jiang Qingyue learned he could finally leave the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace and prepared to seek out his grandmaster, while Wang Ping tried to curb his eccentric plans. Lin Fei reached the Heavenly Origin Realm and found it engulfed in Demonic Qi, prompting him to investigate the Sword Pavilion before deciding its fate.

• Wang Ping healed his injuries and told Jiang Qingyue that Second Senior Brother had lifted the restriction on leaving the palace.
• Jiang Qingyue packed his clothes and embroidery supplies, then said he wanted to visit their grandmaster, but Wang Ping warned him that the grandmaster might kill him.
• Wang Ping urged Jiang Qingyue to act more like a man, and Jiang Qingyue replied that he already was one.
• Lin Fei climbed Nameless Peak in Mount Ba and entered the Heavenly Origin Realm, where Demonic Qi had overwhelmed the realm around the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Lin Fei noticed that the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion had neither sought help nor reinforced the seal, so he concealed his identity to investigate before deciding whether to destroy or spare it.

Lin Fei entered the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion and fooled its guards into believing he was a senior cultivator from Yunhua Palace. After learning that the pavilion master was preparing the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation to reinforce the Demon-Locking Pagoda’s seal, Lin Fei suspected the formation could instead destroy it.

• Lin Fei walked past six Qi Refining Realm disciples guarding the Heavenly Origin Sword Pavilion, stopping their flying swords and preventing one from sounding an alarm.
• Lin Fei claimed to be Daoist Flying Cloud of Yunhua Palace and demonstrated a miniature Chaotic Clouds Flying Across to convince the disciples of his identity.
• The six disciples apologized and praised Lin Fei, who urged them to cultivate diligently.
• Lin Fei asked why the pavilion had not acted against the demonic qi and learned that the pavilion master was preparing the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation to reinforce the seal.
• Lin Fei recognized that the Heavenly Origin Seven Stars Formation could also destroy the seal.

Lin Fei and Zhao Yu discovered that Wang Rulong had surrounded Elder Quan and the white-robed disciples, demanding their surrender with a Soul-Capturing Token. Lin Fei identified the demon who gave Wang Rulong the token as Lu Mu, one of Chiyou’s eighty-one brothers.

• Zhao Yu offered to take Lin Fei to the pavilion master, and they flew toward the floating peaks on her sword.
• Lin Fei spotted black-robed disciples surrounding white-robed disciples and flew ahead to investigate.
• Elder Quan accused Wang Rulong of colluding with demons, and Wang Rulong demanded that the white-robed group submit or die.
• Wang Rulong revealed that the Soul-Capturing Token could control the surrendered disciples’ life souls and said Lord Lu Mu had given it to him.
• Lin Fei told Zhao Yu that Lu Mu was one of Chiyou’s eighty-one brothers.