Recaps

Lu Feng bought Bone-Tempering Sand and green-white jade after Lao Guai recognized a token as one he had given his son Li Feng. Back at his residence, Lu Feng used the sand and fifth-tier essence blood to raise the Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art to perfection.

• Lao Guai told Lu Feng and the elders that the hero they wanted to honor was named Lu Feng, and the attendant offered them fine stone after recognizing the commander’s name.
• Lao Guai identified Lu Feng’s wooden token as the one he had given Li Feng and said it proved his son had been in Canglan City.
• The elders bought green-white jade and carried it away to carve a statue, while Lao Guai excitedly repeated his story about Li Feng killing two demonic beasts.
• Lu Feng paid five thousand low-grade Origin Crystals for the jade and 230 grains of Bone-Tempering Sand.
• Lu Feng used 360 grains of Bone-Tempering Sand, fifth-tier essence blood, and the required Demon Points to upgrade the Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art to perfection.

Lu Feng adjusted to the immense strength he gained after perfecting the Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art, while Hu Xiaotian learned he was in Shouyun City and planned to lure him out for revenge. The next morning, Lu Feng accepted Origin Crystals and gave Ji Qingqing pills to strengthen her cultivation before returning to train.

• Lu Feng tested his newfound strength and found that the Flowing Cloud Sword could not break his skin, confirming his body was tougher than a fifth-tier demonic beast's.
• In Yongzhou, Hu Xiaotian learned his followers had collected blood from only a little over eight thousand people and complained that gathering enough to break the barrier was taking too long.
• Hu Xiaotian sensed that the human who killed Feng'er was in Shouyun City and ordered the Scarlet Flame Tiger Lord to lure him out so he could kill him himself.
• Hu Xiaotian accused the brat from Rending Wind Mountain of betraying their agreement and letting the barrier repair itself.
• Ji Qingqing gave Lu Feng five thousand low-grade Origin Crystals from the Merit Hall, and he told her to come directly to him if a similar matter arose again.
• Lu Feng gave Ji Qingqing Jin Origin Pills and Body-Tempering Pills for herself and Lin Amei and the others, then returned to his tent to harmonize his cultivation and physical strength.

Lu Feng set out to lure Hu Xiaotian to Canglan City, where Wu Qingfeng and the others had prepared the Four Symbols Formation. Hu Xiaotian saw through the trap and planned to use the gathering of human forces to attack other major cities while he confronted Wu Qingfeng.

• Guan Shanhai told Lu Feng that the Four Symbols Formation was ready and gave him Hu Xiaofeng's corpse to lure Hu Xiaotian.
• Lu Feng arranged for Ji Qingqing and her team to stay in Shouyun City and defend its civilians while the other martial artists went to Canglan City.
• Lu Feng flew toward Luoyan Town, determined to make sure Hu Xiaotian could not escape.
• Hu Xiaotian learned that Wu Qingfeng was preparing a formation in Canglan City and decided to go there with his forces anyway.
• Hu Xiaotian ordered Hu Yan to send three Demon Lords and their troops to attack three major cities while Hu Yan led the remaining demons to Canglan City.

Lu Feng lured Hu Xiaotian to Canglan City, where Wu Qingfeng tried to draw him into the Four Symbols Formation. Hu Xiaotian saw through the trap and stayed outside the city, leaving Wu Qingfeng badly wounded as reinforcements arrived.

• Lu Feng reached Luoyan Town, provoked Hu Xiaotian, and led the pursuing Demon Emperor toward Canglan City.
• Wu Qingfeng assigned Song Xuanji, Xiao Tianqi, Lu Qingshan, and Qin Bailian to the Four Symbols Formation's nodes to prepare an ambush.
• Hu Xiaotian stopped outside Canglan City instead of following Lu Feng inside, and Wu Qingfeng came out to fight him.
• Hu Xiaotian repeatedly injured Wu Qingfeng without pursuing him into the city, while the formation's four guardians waited inside.
• Guan Shanhai arrived with hundreds of martial artists, but Wu Qingfeng ordered them to enter the city and not attack.

Hu Xiaotian sent nine fifth-tier Demon Lords and their forces into Canglan City while he fought Wu Qingfeng outside, and the Four Symbols Formation struck down one of the invading lords. Lu Feng killed demonic beasts as he realized Wu Qingfeng was a Half-Demon luring Hu Xiaotian toward the city, then discovered the formation prevented anyone from leaving.

• Hu Xiaotian ordered the Scarlet Flame Tiger Lord and eight other fifth-tier Demon Lords to lead their forces into Canglan City.
• Xiao Tianqi and the other formation operators activated the Four Symbols Formation, whose white tiger phantom struck a fifth-tier Demon Lord; Lu Feng finished it with his saber.
• Lu Feng rushed among the lower-tier beasts to kill them and collect Demon Points while the formation gathered strength for another attack.
• Hu Xiaotian taunted Wu Qingfeng by threatening the other cities, and Wu Qingfeng charged him despite his wounds.
• Lu Feng recognized that Wu Qingfeng was a Half-Demon acting to lure Hu Xiaotian into the city, then found that the Four Symbols Formation sealed the city and blocked his attempts to leave.

Lu Feng discovered that Wu Qingfeng had refilled the Eight Trigrams Array and stationed Half-Demons to guard it, so he killed the guards and took most of the Origin Crystals. After learning and perfecting Startling Thunder Flash, he tested its defensive counterattack against a bear demon and killed it.

• Lu Feng entered the secret passage and found eight Half-Demons guarding the Eight Trigrams Array, including a hidden Great Grandmaster Half-Demon.
• Lu Feng killed the Great Grandmaster Half-Demon with the Phantom Sword Art, then killed the six remaining Hua Jin Half-Demons.
• Lu Feng found that the array's Origin Crystal slots had been refilled and took most of the crystals again.
• Lu Feng learned that Startling Thunder Flash was a passive movement technique and spent ten million Demon Points to perfect it.
• Lu Feng tested Startling Thunder Flash against a third-tier bear demon, evaded its attacks, and killed it with the Flowing Cloud Sword.

Lu Feng honed Startling Thunder Flash while Wu Qingfeng lured Hu Xiaotian into the city and revealed his true strength. Wu Qingfeng and the Four Symbols Formation wounded Hu Xiaotian, but the Demon Emperor then struck Wu Qingfeng down, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lu Feng practiced using Startling Thunder Flash to dodge and counterattack against third- and fourth-tier demonic beasts.
• Hu Xiaotian deduced that the Four Symbols Formation could only activate once every cup of tea and charged into the city to attack Wu Qingfeng.
• Wu Qingfeng revealed that he had feigned weakness to lure Hu Xiaotian into the formation, then fought the Demon Emperor as an equal.
• Song Xuanji called on Xiao Tianqi, Lu Qingshan, and Qin Bailian to power the formation, and its white tiger struck Hu Xiaotian alongside Wu Qingfeng, wounding it.
• Hu Xiaotian rushed Wu Qingfeng before the formation could attack again and sent him flying hundreds of meters, leaving him bloodied on the ground.

Wu Qingfeng revealed his Half-Demon form and fought Hu Xiaotian, while the Four Symbols Formation trapped the others inside. As Hu Xiaotian summoned six Demon Lords to attack, Wu Qingfeng called forth a white tiger apparition to face them.

• Wu Qingfeng transformed into a Half-Demon just as Hu Xiaotian was about to strike him, shocking the four people inside the Four Symbols Formation.
• Hu Xiaotian exposed Wu Qingfeng’s identity to Canglan City, disrupting the defenders, while Lu Feng continued killing demon beasts and building up Demon Points.
• Wu Qingfeng’s transformed strength let him wound Hu Xiaotian, and Song Xuanji warned that the formation would not let them leave and that Wu Qingfeng might be behind the invasion.
• The four stayed at their formation nodes and watched as Wu Qingfeng’s domain showed signs of a second transformation.
• Hu Xiaotian summoned six fifth-tier Demon Lords to attack Wu Qingfeng, who spat out blood essence and formed a larger white tiger apparition.

Wu Qingfeng activated a hidden formation across Canglan City as Hu Xiaotian used the Kin-Devouring Secret Technique to rise to the Second-Transition Demon Emperor. Song Xuanji recognized the citywide Bloodthirst Formation, leaving the trapped cultivators to realize Wu Qingfeng had planned to use the dead to strengthen himself.

• Wu Qingfeng used the white tiger apparition to kill six fifth-tier Demon Lords, and Hu Xiaotian gathered and swallowed their corpses along with three others.
• Hu Xiaotian’s cultivation surged to the Second-Transition Demon Emperor, but Wu Qingfeng revealed his trump card by bleeding onto a rune and activating a formation beneath Canglan City.
• Wu Qingfeng began teleporting around the city, while Hu Xiaotian turned his attention toward Lu Feng instead of pursuing him.
• Wu Qingfeng pointed out that the corpses across the battlefield had been drained of blood, and Song Xuanji identified the citywide formation as the forbidden Bloodthirst Formation.
• Song Xuanji and the others realized they were trapped in the Four Symbols Formation and could neither escape nor call for help as a change began around Wu Qingfeng.

Wu Qingfeng used the Bloodthirst Formation to heal himself and drain Hu Xiaotian until he appeared to win, but Lu Feng intervened just as Wu prepared to finish the tiger demon. Wu Qingfeng revealed another scheme, detonating Grandmasters across Canglan City to replenish his strength, then slowed Lu Feng with the formation and destroyed his phantoms.

• Wu Qingfeng fought Hu Xiaotian with reckless attacks, using the Bloodthirst Formation to heal and grow stronger while draining the tiger demon’s blood Qi.
• After a prolonged battle left both fighters severely injured, Wu Qingfeng summoned a white tiger phantom with the Four Symbols Formation’s stored True Essence and prepared to kill Hu Xiaotian.
• Six ink-black figures killed Hu Xiaotian, but Lu Feng survived the phantom’s strike and teleported behind Wu Qingfeng to attack him.
• Wu Qingfeng evaded Lu Feng and detonated Guan Shanhai and dozens of other Grandmasters across Canglan City, absorbing the blood Qi released by their deaths.
• Lu Feng charged again, but Wu Qingfeng activated the formation’s red and orange ripples to slow him and shattered his five phantoms with a sweep of his claws.

Lu Feng retreated from Wu Qingfeng, upgraded the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash, and unleashed a Triple Saber Domain that killed him. With Wu Qingfeng dead, the Four Symbols Formation collapsed, and the trapped martial artists regained hope.

• Lu Feng withdrew after Wu Qingfeng’s domain made it impossible to approach him, while the others debated his decision and Xiao Tianqi urged them to trust him.
• Lu Feng spent 80 million Demon Points to raise the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash to the ninth layer and gained the ability to unleash a Triple Saber Domain.
• Wu Qingfeng charged at Lu Feng, who struck him with nine waves of Saber Qi; Wu Qingfeng used a formation plate to block most of the attack.
• The Bloodthirst Formation stopped supplying Blood Qi, and Lu Feng’s remaining Saber Qi hit Wu Qingfeng and killed him.
• Lu Feng took Wu Qingfeng’s formation plate and storage bag, the Four Symbols Formation collapsed, and the trapped martial artists saw hope of defeating the demonic beasts.

After rescuing Canglan City, Lu Feng rushed toward Shouyun City, upgrading his cultivation and Phantom Sword Art as he flew. He arrived too late to know the outcome as the city’s formation faltered and a martial artist sacrificed himself to strengthen it.

• The crowd protected Lu Feng after the beasts fled, then let Song Xuanji and the other three approach when Lu Feng vouched for them.
• Lu Feng learned Ji Qingqing and the others were in danger at Shouyun City and flew there, while Xiao Tianqi followed and the disciples set out after him.
• Lu Feng spent 140 million Demon Points to raise the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to its fourth layer, briefly reaching Great Grandmaster Perfection before settling at Great Early Grandmaster.
• Lu Feng spent another 100 million Demon Points to perfect the Phantom Sword Art and comprehended the Phantom Sword Formation, then hurried on without examining it.
• Outside Shouyun City, a fifth-tier tiger lord and its forces battered the city-protecting formation while Ji Qingqing and her companions watched from the formation eye.
• The last Hua Jin Perfection martial artist leaped into the formation eye as the city’s defenses teetered.

As the city-protecting formation at Shouyun City faltered, Lin Amei sacrificed herself to keep it running until Lu Feng arrived. Lu Feng deployed the Phantom Sword Formation to wipe out the attacking demons, and Ji Qingqing shut down the city formation once the threat was gone.

• After the city-protecting formation began running out of power, Lin Amei leaped into its core and sacrificed herself to sustain it.
• Lu Feng arrived at Shouyun City as Ji Qingqing and the others prepared to sacrifice themselves to save the formation.
• Lu Feng deployed the Phantom Sword Formation, killing the weaker demon beasts and using its phantoms to wound the fifth-tier Demon Lord and kill a fourth-tier Demon King.
• The wounded Demon Lord and the remaining Demon King fled, but Lu Feng killed them with two strikes of Sword Qi.
• Ji Qingqing shut down the city-protecting formation after Lu Feng killed every demon beast.

After Shouyun City survived the demonic beast attack, Lu Feng honored those who had sacrificed themselves and learned that two other cities had also been breached. He then examined Wu Qingfeng’s belongings and discovered the Four Symbols Formation, leaving him with a new formation to study.

• Lu Feng gave Ji Qingqing Origin Crystals for Lin Amei’s and the ten martial artists’ families, supplied recovery pills, and guarded the survivors as they rested.
• Xiao Tianqi arrived and told Lu Feng that Su Ying had returned to the North City Demon-Slaying Bureau to seek help for him; the two discussed cultivation realms and demonic beasts.
• Xiao Tianqi received word that Fengyang City and Xiajing City had fallen, but explained that Song Xuanji, Qin Bailian, and others had already dealt with the attacks and casualties were light.
• Lu Feng returned to his tent and claimed Wu Qingfeng’s Eight Trigrams Profound Mystery Disc, a mid-grade Spirit Artifact used to support formations.
• Lu Feng found a jade slip recording the Four Symbols Formation and saw on his system panel that the formation had been added as incomplete.

Lu Feng completed the Four Symbols Formation and returned to the West City Demon-Slaying Bureau after helping restore order in Shouyun City. Qin Bailian asked him to become the West City Si Zheng, but Lu Feng refused because he belonged to the North City Demon-Slaying Bureau.

• Lu Feng spent 30,000,000 Demon Points to complete the Four Symbols Formation and collected Wu Qingfeng’s Si Zheng token and other belongings.
• Lu Feng calmed the martial artists gathered outside the main hall, then had them follow Xiao Tianqi’s arrangements to secure Shouyun City and care for the wounded and civilians.
• Lu Feng and the others returned to the West City Demon-Slaying Bureau, where its martial artists resumed their posts and the higher-ups called a meeting.
• Qin Bailian took the seat of honor and asked Lu Feng to serve as Si Zheng, explaining that the bureau needed someone the disciples trusted.
• Lu Feng declined the position, saying he belonged to the North City Demon-Slaying Bureau, while Xiao Tianqi objected to Qin Bailian poaching him.

Lu Feng agreed to serve as deputy chief of the West City Demon-Slaying Bureau in name and followed Qin Bailian to its treasury. He found no cultivation techniques worth taking and began searching for a suitable saber.

• Qin Bailian asked Lu Feng to become West City's deputy chief in name, and Lu Feng agreed after Xiao Tianqi endorsed the arrangement.
• After the others left, Qin Bailian offered to take Lu Feng to the treasury, and Xiao Tianqi declined to join them.
• Qin Bailian revealed that the treasury required Wu Qingfeng's bureau chief token, which Lu Feng had taken, and accepted the token from him.
• Lu Feng inspected the treasury's cultivation techniques but found none he wanted, then moved on to the Spirit Artifacts.
• Lu Feng examined the Wind-Slaying Saber, but returned it because he preferred a heavier saber.

Lu Feng chose a heavy crimson stone from the West City Demon-Slaying Bureau treasury, and Xiao Tianqi promised to seek a North City grandmaster who might be able to refine it. After settling into his new cave abode as Deputy Si Zheng and beginning secluded cultivation, Lu Feng welcomed the exhausted Lu Shuang when she returned.

• Lu Feng chose the unrefinable crimson stone as his sole treasury item, and Qin Bailian explained that West City's artifact refiners had failed to work it.
• Xiao Tianqi inspected the stone and said he would ask He Tieshan, a North City artifact-refining Grandmaster, to forge it after they returned there in a month.
• Lu Feng learned that Qin Bailian had appointed him Deputy Si Zheng and moved into a spacious cave abode on the rear mountain.
• Qin Bailian publicly announced his succession as Si Zheng and Lu Feng's appointment as Deputy Si Zheng, reassuring the martial artists who had returned from other cities.
• Lu Feng began secluded cultivation but eventually hung a sign barring visitors after people repeatedly came to discuss Bureau affairs.
• Lu Shuang arrived at Lu Feng's cave abode, and he invited her inside.

Lu Feng and Xiao Tianqi left West City for North City, with Lu Feng stopping along the way to hunt demonic beasts. At night they reached Bluestone Village, where an elderly couple welcomed them into their home.

• Lu Shuang visited Lu Feng, learned he planned to return to North City, and left after asking about his plans.
• After the West City Demon-Slaying Bureau’s affairs were settled, Lu Feng and Xiao Tianqi flew north while the reinforcements departed for Central Province.
• Lu Feng hunted demonic beasts in a forest as Xiao Tianqi waited outside, and they continued their journey afterward.
• As night fell, Lu Feng and Xiao Tianqi arrived at Bluestone Village and accepted an old man’s offer to stay at his home.
• The old man’s wife served them vegetables, and Xiao Tianqi chatted with her while Lu Feng learned that Bluestone Village had only twenty-seven households, mostly elderly residents.

Xiao Tianqi and Lu Feng traveled through poor mountain villages, where Xiao Tianqi helped the residents and arranged for Lu Feng to bring them food. Xiao Tianqi explained that demonic beasts had killed his parents and later slaughtered his village; five days after their conversation, they reached the North City Demon-Slaying Bureau.

• Xiao Tianqi and Lu Feng stayed with an elderly couple in Bluestone Village, and Xiao Tianqi helped repair their home before they left.
• Lu Feng brought back a wild boar, which Xiao Tianqi persuaded the couple to share with the villagers.
• At the next villages, Xiao Tianqi helped residents while Lu Feng hunted and he checked for nearby demonic beasts.
• Xiao Tianqi told Lu Feng that demonic beasts had killed his parents when he was six and slaughtered his village after he returned as a demon-slaying envoy.
• Xiao Tianqi explained that his patrol efforts were meant to protect other villages from the fate of his own, and five days later he and Lu Feng reached the North City Demon-Slaying Bureau.

Lu Feng returned to Commandant Su's residence and learned that Su Ying and Qin Shuang had gone back to the Sacred Hall, leaving Xiaolian in charge. He agreed to deal with a fourth-tier Demon King near Precipice Peak and flew there at once.

• Lu Feng reunited with Chen Hu, Lin Miao, and Su Qiaoqiao, who introduced three newly arrived Demon-Slaying Guards: Li Cui, Sun Xiaomei, and Zhou Hong.
• Lu Feng found Xiaolian directing the Demon-Slaying Envoys at the residence and learned her cultivation had reached Hua Jin Perfection.
• Xiaolian told Lu Feng that Su Ying and Qin Shuang had returned to the Sacred Hall, leaving her to manage the residence for the past month.
• Xiaolian explained that a fourth-tier Demon King had appeared near Precipice Peak, and she had kept the residence's patrols away from the area.
• Lu Feng accepted the task, took Xiaolian's map, and flew toward Precipice Peak.

Lu Feng joined Chen Hu and his group on a mission in the Black Pine Forest, where increased merit rewards had drawn many demon-slaying teams and nearly cleared the safer hunting grounds. He watched Chen Hu lead the team against a second-rank wolf demon and six first-rank wolves, leaving Chen Hu struggling to hold off the stronger beast.

• Lu Feng met Chen Hu's group on the way to Precipice Peak and agreed to travel with them to the Black Pine Forest.
• Lin Miao explained that the Mission Hall had raised merit rewards a month earlier, prompting many people to hunt demonic beasts and clearing the forest's outskirts.
• Lu Feng told Chen Hu to make the decision about entering the inner area himself, and Chen Hu led the group inside.
• Chen Hu assigned targets when the group encountered first-rank wolf demons, and his team killed them while Lu Feng watched without intervening.
• After the group rested, Chen Hu ordered an attack on a second-rank wolf demon and six first-rank wolves, but he soon fell on the defensive against the second-rank beast.

Lu Feng watched Chen Hu and the others fight wolf demons until a black-clad demon slayer stole the second-tier wolf demon’s corpse. Lu Feng drove off the thief and his guards, then left for Precipice Peak as Chen Hu’s group headed back to report to Xiaolian.

• Lin Miao and Su Qiaoqiao helped Sun Xiaomei and her companions kill the first-tier wolf demons, then joined Chen Hu against a second-tier wolf demon.
• A black-clad demon slayer killed the second-tier wolf demon with one stroke and took its corpse, claiming he had saved Chen Hu’s group.
• The black-clad man ordered his six guards to seize the other wolf demon corpses, but Lu Feng struck all seven down with a casual wave.
• The black-clad man and his guards fled, and Lu Feng gave Chen Hu bottles of Jin Recovery Pills and Healing Pills before flying toward Precipice Peak.
• Chen Hu’s group set off for the Demon-Slaying Bureau to report what had happened to Xiaolian.

Lu Feng reached Precipice Peak and uncovered a gathering of demon beasts and two Grandmaster Half-Demons tied to the remnants of Vajra Temple. After swiftly killing the fifth-tier Bear Lord, the Wind-Chasing Leopard, and one monk, he left the last monk trembling at swordpoint and demanded an explanation.

• Lu Feng reached Precipice Peak, slew several third-tier demon beasts, and found the Wind-Chasing Leopard fondling two fox demons in the open.
• Lu Feng revealed his Great Grandmaster cultivation, and the Wind-Chasing Leopard threw the fox demons at him before fleeing to a fifth-tier Bear Lord and two Grandmaster Half-Demons.
• Lu Feng caught up with the group, recognized the monks as remnants of Vajra Temple, and demanded to know their plan.
• The Bear Lord challenged Lu Feng, but Lu Feng beheaded him and swiftly killed the Wind-Chasing Leopard and one monk.
• Lu Feng held the last monk at swordpoint and ordered him to speak, but the frightened monk wet himself and could barely answer.

Lu Feng uncovered Vajra Temple’s plot to lure Demon-Slaying Bureau Grandmasters to their deaths and reported the threat to Xiaolian. After learning that the temple’s sect master had reached the Celestial Person Realm, Lu Feng went to find Xiao Tianqi, but had to wait outside his cave abode.

• Lu Feng interrogated and killed a Vajra Temple Half-Demon, learning that sect master Huixing had ordered demon beasts to attack Precipice Peak and that the temple had powerful Great Grandmasters.
• Lu Feng returned to the Demon-Slaying Bureau and accompanied Chen Hu and the others to report that someone had stolen credit for their mission; Xiaolian promised an investigation and gave Chen Hu five hundred merit points.
• Lu Feng showed Xiaolian the corpses of a Fifth-Tier Demon Lord and two Vajra Temple Half-Demons, then revealed that he had broken through to Great Grandmaster.
• Xiaolian explained that the Sacred Hall had previously purged Half-Demons from Vajra Temple, but Lu Feng suspected more remained and warned her about Huixing’s Celestial Person Realm breakthrough.
• Lu Feng told Xiaolian to investigate discreetly and went to report the threat to Xiao Tianqi, who was in a meeting, so Lu Feng waited outside his cave abode.

Lu Feng learned that the Demon-Slaying Bureau had promoted him to captain and established Captain Lu's residence for him. He chose trusted subordinates from Captain Su's residence and led them to their new post.

• Lu Feng told Xiao Tianqi about the demonic beasts at Precipice Peak, and Xiao Tianqi explained that Wei Qingxuan favored exterminating beasts and strengthening the bureau.
• Xiao Tianqi informed Lu Feng that he had been appointed captain, showed him Captain Lu's residence, and let him choose his own people.
• Lu Feng asked Xiaolian to gather the demon-slaying envoys at Captain Su's residence so he could recruit volunteers.
• Lu Feng selected Zhou Si, Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Chen Hu, and they agreed to join his residence.
• The four returned with their guards, including Lin Miao and Su Qiaoqiao, and Lu Feng led the group to Captain Lu's residence.