Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Feng organized Commandant Lu's residence, then accompanied Xiao Tianqi to find He Tieshan and learned that Vajra Temple had summoned the weaponsmith to forge a Spirit Artifact. Back at the Demon-Slaying Bureau, Xiao Tianqi discussed the temple's motives with Wei Qingxuan and Han Cang, and Wei proposed confronting its abbot directly.

• Lu Feng distributed pills and assigned duties and patrols to the teams at Commandant Lu's residence, then decided he needed someone to manage its routine affairs.
• Lu Feng and Xiao Tianqi went to Hundred Refinements Pavilion in Linfeng City to find He Tieshan, but the shopkeeper said Vajra Temple had invited him to forge a Spirit Artifact and he had not returned.
• Xiao Tianqi brought Lu Feng to the Demon-Slaying Bureau's main hall, where Lu Feng met Deputy Si Zhengs Wei Qingxuan and Han Cang and sensed Wei's Celestial Person Realm Second Layer cultivation.
• Xiao Tianqi told Wei Qingxuan and Han Cang that Vajra Temple had summoned He Tieshan, and Han Cang suspected the temple's secretive artifact might be intended for use against them.
• Wei Qingxuan proposed storming Vajra Temple and seizing Huixing to learn what the temple was planning.

Lu Feng volunteered to investigate Vajra Temple, studied the bureau’s intelligence, and traveled to Mount Shaoshi. He found the temple forging the Bloodthirsty Saber in secret and killed a Half-Demon patrol leader after the monks attacked him.

• Lu Feng volunteered to infiltrate Vajra Temple and received a commandant’s token that could send messages to other bureau tokens.
• A commandant delivered intelligence on Vajra Temple, and Lu Feng memorized its key figures before setting out the next morning.
• Huixing oversaw He Tieshan’s work forging the Bloodthirsty Saber, using He Tieshan’s family to force him to comply.
• Lu Feng arrived at Mount Shaoshi and noticed the temple was more heavily guarded, with Half-Demons leading its patrols.
• When the monks tried to seize Lu Feng, he killed their Hua Jin Half-Demon leader with one punch and continued toward the temple.

Lu Feng entered Vajra Temple to find Grandmaster He, but Huiyan activated the temple’s protective array and tried to capture him for information about the Demon-Slaying Bureau. Lu Feng killed the attacking protectors and met Huiyan’s full-force assault, which ended with the hall head launching eighteen prayer beads at him.

• Lu Feng killed the Eight Great Vajras with one sweep of his saber, revealing that all eight were Half-Demons.
• Huiyan welcomed Lu Feng and offered to take him to Grandmaster He, who was forging weapons in a secret chamber.
• After Lu Feng entered Vajra Temple, Huiyan activated the protective array and surrounded him with the temple’s protectors.
• Huiyan revealed that he wanted to learn about powerful experts in the Demon-Slaying Bureau, then ordered his protectors to attack Lu Feng.
• Lu Feng killed several Grandmaster Half-Demon protectors despite their attacks, forcing Huiyan to join the fight.
• Huiyan’s prayer-bead strike was knocked aside by Lu Feng, so Huiyan split the string into eighteen beads and launched them at him.

Lu Feng killed Huiyan and other Vajra Temple fighters, then learned that Huixing was holding He Tieshan’s family hostage to force him to forge the Bloodthirsty Saber. Huixing arrived as Huifang prepared to fight Lu Feng, surprised that someone of Lu Feng’s cultivation had killed Huiyan.

• Lu Feng used the Phantom Sword Art to mislead Huiyan, killed the Grandmaster Half-Demons with Sword Qi, and slew Huiyan with Startling Thunder Flash.
• Lu Feng collected the dead fighters’ storage bags while Huixing watched He Tieshan forge the Bloodthirsty Saber and promised to return his wife and child when it was done.
• He Tieshan warned Huixing that the saber could only reach high-grade Spirit Artifact without better materials, and Huixing learned Lu Feng had come to the temple carrying spiritual materials.
• Huixing left the secret chamber to meet Lu Feng, while He Tieshan regretted revealing how additional materials could improve the saber.
• Huifang ambushed Lu Feng, but Lu Feng dodged and identified him as the East Hall master; Huifang prepared to fight until Huixing arrived.
• Huifang urged Huixing to join him against Lu Feng, and Huixing was surprised that Lu Feng had killed Huiyan despite his lower cultivation.

Lu Feng entered Huixing’s secret chamber and discovered that the abbot planned to use his Crimson Sinking Stone in the Bloodthirsty Saber. He realized He Tieshan was secretly trying to make the saber too heavy for Huixing to wield.

• Huixing led Lu Feng to He Tieshan’s chamber and sealed the exits behind him.
• He Tieshan warned Lu Feng that Huixing intended to use his spirit material for the Bloodthirsty Saber.
• He Tieshan recognized Lu Feng’s Crimson Sinking Stone as a material for forging magical treasures and said it could make the saber a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact.
• Huixing promised Lu Feng the finished saber if he lent the stone, while He Tieshan vouched for Huixing’s stated intention to offer it to the Demon-Slaying Bureau.
• Lu Feng noticed He Tieshan had deliberately avoided touching the stone and deduced that he wanted to make the saber too heavy for Huixing to use.