Chapter Summaries

Lu Guan fought three demons at once, using [Pacify Mountains and Rivers] to mislead them about his true strength. He killed the great crimson python and turned toward the white jade rhinoceros as its confidence in withstanding his slash faltered.

• Lu Guan suppressed the three demons with [Pacify Mountains and Rivers], though they shared the pressure and resisted being sealed.
• The spotted leopard evaded Celestial Person One Saber Slash while the white jade rhinoceros charged into it and the great crimson python coiled around Lu Guan.
• Lu Guan revealed his overwhelming physical strength and broke the python's body in two, killing it.
• The white jade rhinoceros sensed the true force of Lu Guan's approaching blade and began to doubt it could withstand the strike.

Lu Guan killed the three demons, including the leopard demon whose body Yin Jing had taken over, and gained a trove of Cultivation and new ghost servants. With his power greatly increased, he decided to hunt demons across the Heaven and Earth Chessboard.

• The white jade rhinoceros used Break Ten Thousand Methods against Lu Guan, but his saber light shattered its horn and killed it after he had already slain the great crimson python.
• The spotted leopard tried to flee, but Yin Jing took control of its body and brought it back to Lu Guan, who killed it with Celestial Person One Saber Slash.
• Lu Guan saw that the three demons had given him more than five thousand years of remaining Cultivation, enough to potentially reach the Divine Treasury Realm.
• Lu Guan refined the three demons’ souls into ghost servants, and Coil Between Bones and Break Ten Thousand Methods appeared above the Dao Field’s incense burner.
• Lu Guan decided to seek out more demons on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, and an admiring voice spoke beside his ear.

Lu Guan received a map of the battlefield and a shared Divine Thought link from Wei Xianwu, who tasked him with supporting the beleaguered cultivators. Lu Guan located Chen Jingchou surrounded by four demons and prepared to act.

• Lu Guan praised his demon-slaying record to Wei Xianwu, who promised to recommend him for a reward.
• Wei Xianwu judged Lu Guan’s use of ghost servants with unease but decided his secrets did not matter as long as he fought demons.
• Wei Xianwu asked Lu Guan to serve as a mobile force and gave him a map showing allies and demons through the gray fog.
• Wei Xianwu linked the Late Inner Landscape Realm cultivators so they could communicate through a shared Divine Thought channel.
• Lu Guan asked Chen Jingchou to reveal his location and saw that four demons had surrounded him.