Recaps

Lin Xu captured the elite sword cultivator Jiang Hanyan and persuaded Liu Mochen and then Jiang Hanyan to enter his service. He adapted a cultivation method to Jiang Hanyan’s sword intent, leaving her with a new dark-gold cultivation method.

• Lin Xu and the Evil Eye Captain overwhelmed Jiang Hanyan with repeated Soul Shock Blasts, and Lin Xu sealed her Qi channels after she fell.
• Back at the Incense Offering Hall, Lin Xu offered Jiang Hanyan a chance to become a sword immortal, but she remained silent.
• Liu Mochen accepted Lin Xu’s offer to return to Xuanwei Monastery, received a Dharma Seed, and shared the Flowing Fire Chasing Wind Spell.
• Lin Xu mastered the spell, created Wind Fire Wheels, and demonstrated how quickly he could ride them.
• Jiang Hanyan agreed to serve Lin Xu after he promised to forge her a high-grade flying sword.
• Lin Xu used Thought Overclocking to combine the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter with Jiang Hanyan’s Heavenly Origin Sword Embryo Method, forming a new cultivation method suited to her sword intent.

Lin Xu assembled his Tiger Sha Army and other forces as Xuanwei Monastery prepared for a decisive battle against the dungeon. Daoist Xuanzhen assigned Lin Xu to secure the dungeon’s former resource points, leaving him with an urgent quest to block all supplies from reaching the enemy city.

• Jiang Hanyan began converting her sword essence to Lamp Kindling Magic Power, while Lin Xu ordered Hu Da to take the tiger Yao prisoners to Azure Cloud Mountain.
• Hu Da gathered more than thirty Yao into the Tiger Sha Army, and Lin Xu prepared his forces, including Bilusi’s Fallen Demon warband, for battle.
• Lin Xu told Li Yingqiu to guard Azure Cloud Mountain while the lumberyard and papermaking workshop awaited professional papermakers.
• Lin Xu led a large supply convoy to Xuanwei Monastery’s frontline camp after the monastery master requested reinforcements.
• Daoist Xuanzhen ordered Lin Xu to take over six former dungeon resource points and prevent any supplies from entering the enemy city.

Lin Xu inspected the dungeon’s resource points and stationed guards to protect them. He then sent a Wedding Procession Ghost through a collapsed passageway to scout the dungeon’s underground tunnels.

• Lin Xu followed a magical stone road to a lumberyard, left part of his forces and two Evil Eyes to guard it, then continued to a nearby lake and assigned guards there.
• Lin Xu inspected six resource points, including a level 5 gnoll camp, and split the militia among the sites to delay any attackers.
• Lin Xu found the dungeon’s last remaining surface passage blocked by rubble and ordered Yan Jingshu to send a Wedding Procession Ghost to scout it.
• Lin Xu linked his senses with the red-clad ghost and discovered that the underground tunnel’s walls were covered with magical paving stones.

Lin Xu sent a red-robed ghost to explore the Gray Rock Dungeon, where a Watch Post detected it and summoned goblins and a Demon Fly. After the ghost evaded pursuit and reached the core area, Lin Xu discovered a sealed treasure room containing at least a hundred thousand magic gold coins.

• Lin Xu guided the red-robed ghost through tunnels lined with magic circuits and discovered a Watch Post that could detect invisible units.
• A magic vortex brought goblins and a Demon Fly into the tunnel, so Lin Xu ordered the ghost to retreat into the wall and hide until the monsters gave up searching.
• Lin Xu guided the ghost through the dungeon’s magic circuits and cautiously approached the core area without entering the city space.
• Lin Xu identified a Cocoon of Silence barrier and sent his spiritual sense through a brief gap in its pulses.
• Lin Xu saw treasure chests holding an estimated hundred thousand magic gold coins and realized the dungeon’s treasure was worth tens of billions of yuan.

Lin Xu followed a disturbance into the dungeon’s central district and watched three Blood-Pattern Swords battle its monsters. He discovered that the dungeon’s rest rooms could rapidly heal even gravely wounded monsters, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Lin Xu spotted three Blood-Pattern Swords killing the dungeon’s monsters and recognized them as weapons used by Xuanwei Monastery’s master and elders.
• Lin Xu searched the battlefield for the dungeon master but concluded the master was hiding and directing the monsters’ repeated counterattacks.
• Lin Xu followed a dungeon imp carrying a wounded goblin to a rest room, where magic rapidly healed the goblin’s wounds.
• Lin Xu realized the rest room could keep injured monsters alive and restore them, while a goblin woke and left its bed.

Lin Xu discovered that Gray Rock Dungeon’s magical buildings could provide food and recognized the Dungeon Heart as the physical embodiment of its Lord Authority. He decided he had to join the war and kill the giant city lord if he wanted to obtain the dungeon’s legacy.

• Lin Xu watched a goblin eat a chicken from the magical farm, where a new adult chicken hatched almost immediately, and realized the dungeon needed no outside food supplies.
• Lin Xu considered taking over Gray Rock Dungeon but knew that seizing fully formed Lord Authority was nearly impossible, so he sent the ghost toward the city’s heart.
• Lin Xu found a magma cavern containing the Dungeon Heart, while the giant city lord used it to monitor the ongoing battle against the surface dwellers.
• Lin Xu recognized the crystal core as Lord Authority and reasoned that touching it could reveal the dungeon’s complete legacy, but would trigger the city’s defenses.
• Lin Xu concluded he had to kill the giant city lord to reach the Dungeon Heart, though he knew a Spirit Realm Lord could return through the Earth Vein even after its soul was destroyed.

Lin Xu studied the dungeon’s magic array and sent Yan Jingshu and the red-robed ghosts to ambush wounded monsters, weakening the dungeon while the Daoists fought its lord. After the city lord discovered the attacks and struck back, Lin Xu ordered the ghosts to stop, leaving the battle to unfold.

• Lin Xu mapped most of the dungeon’s central array and identified three weak points in the Earth Vein’s resonance.
• Lin Xu sent Yan Jingshu and the ghost host underground, ordering them to ambush wounded monsters being dragged toward the rest rooms.
• The red-robed ghosts killed wounded monsters, including a Fire Salamander, and left dried-out corpses in the passages.
• The giant city lord discovered the corpses and killed three red-robed ghosts with lightning.
• Lin Xu told Yan Jingshu to let the monsters pass, ending the ambush after the dungeon had lost dozens of monsters.

Lin Xu watched the dungeon army escape underground destruction by attacking the Daoist temple’s camp from a newly dug passage. The giant city lord unleashed a vast lightning spell against the camp, and the chapter ended as its repeated strikes pierced the defenders’ spell barrier.

• Lin Xu observed the Red-Robed Ghosts growing stronger while the three Daoists’ flying swords destroyed the dungeon’s magical buildings and circuits.
• The giant city lord abandoned the Dungeon Heart and led the remaining monsters out to counterattack.
• The Daoist temple army formed a defensive line at the dungeon entrance, but the monsters emerged from a passage dug more than two hundred meters from camp.
• The giant city lord summoned thunderclouds and blasted the camp, killing defenders and breaking through its spell barrier with repeated lightning strikes.

Lin Xu watched the giant city lord battle three Daoists while the monster army overwhelmed the battered Xuanwei Monastery soldiers. He then sent the Ghost Bride and three hundred red-clothed ghosts to sabotage critical runes in the dungeon’s magic power conduit, leaving its flow increasingly unstable.

• The giant city lord unleashed powerful Battle Qi Slashes against the three Daoists’ flying swords, but their coordinated Sword Qi broke through his shields and wounded him before his territory-boosted recovery healed the injury.
• The monster army charged the disorganized Daoist soldiers, and an armored Half-Giant broke through their formation and gravely wounded one soldier with his warhammer.
• Lin Xu saw the Daoist army regrouping under pressure and decided to act, contacting the Ghost Bride while the giant city lord remained occupied.
• The Ghost Bride and three hundred red-clothed ghosts damaged runes at critical points in the dungeon’s magic conduit, disrupting its flow.
• Lin Xu directed the ghosts to move between target nodes and attack again, making the conduit’s disturbances increasingly pronounced.

Lin Xu exploited the chaos caused by sabotaging the dungeon’s magic circuits to infiltrate the central hub and reach the Dungeon Heart. After discovering its Crimson Mythic powers and authority, he wondered how he could claim its inheritance.

• Lin Xu’s Red-Robed Ghosts sabotaged the magic circuits, triggering explosions and disabling large sections of the dungeon’s magic matrix.
• The dungeon lord sensed the city’s weakening magic supply and attacked the barracks, but a flying sword shattered its battle Qi wave.
• Lin Xu sent a Red-Robed Lamp-Bearing Ghost through a gap in the fluctuating energy barrier and into the central hub.
• The Lamp-Bearing Ghost crossed the lava lake and reached the space beneath the Dungeon Heart while evading magical detection.
• Lin Xu inspected the Dungeon Heart’s attributes and learned it was a Level 3 Crimson Mythic city core with powerful territorial effects and permissions.
• Lin Xu considered how to obtain the inheritance contained in the Dungeon Heart, but its magical mysteries were beyond his knowledge.

Lin Xu tried to probe the Dungeon Heart, alerting the giant city lord, who unleashed a devastating attack on Xuanwei Monastery’s forces. Lin Xu arrived at the battlefield to find Daoist Chongxiao and Daoist Xuanling dead, while Daoist Xuanzhen remained wounded and facing the bloodied giant.

• Lin Xu’s lantern-bearing ghost touched the Dungeon Heart’s runes and died from the information surge, while the disturbance alerted the giant city lord.
• The enraged giant city lord unleashed Battle Qi Slashes across the battlefield, killing Dao soldiers, cultivators, and dungeon monsters indiscriminately.
• Lin Xu sent the Tiger Sha Demon Army to the battlefield, with Jiang Hanyan following, as a Battle Qi Slash pierced one elder’s chest.
• The giant city lord shattered Hall Master Chongxiao’s flying sword and destroyed his soul, then pressed its attack on Daoist Xuanzhen and Daoist Xuanling.
• Daoist Xuanling sacrificed himself to protect Daoist Xuanzhen, breaking the giant’s Battle Qi Slash before his body and flying sword were destroyed.
• Lin Xu arrived to find Daoist Xuanzhen wounded on the scorched earth and the giant city lord bloodied, with its armor shattered.

Daoist Xuanzhen killed the giant city lord but sacrificed his life, leaving Lin Xu to inherit leadership of Xuanwei Monastery. Lin Xu led the survivors into the dungeon to destroy its Dungeon Heart before the city revived, but the dungeon began to stir as they searched.

• Daoist Xuanzhen killed the giant city lord with his flying sword, then entrusted Lin Xu with a jade seal before his remaining soul scattered.
• Li Xuanfeng and the surviving Dao soldiers and cultivators recognized Lin Xu as the new Monastery Master, and Lin Xu ordered them to prepare to avenge their fallen comrades.
• Lin Xu opened the golden treasure chest with Wish Art and found a Three-Headed Lizard Dragon egg, but put it away because he could not care for it yet.
• Lin Xu healed the lightly wounded, assembled the surviving forces, and led them into the dungeon to destroy its Dungeon Heart before the city could revive.
• Ghost Bride guided Lin Xu's group around traps as they crossed the unguarded dungeon, but after about an hour and a half the city began to hum and its mana tiles glowed.

Lin Xu and his forces raced through the dungeon as its dead lord used the Source Fire to revive. Lin Xu opened the sealed gate and reached the lava cavern, where the giant had revived but temporarily could not use its Lord Authority, just as lava erupted beneath the bridge.

• Lin Xu sensed the city and Source Fire fluctuating, then ordered his group to hurry toward the Dungeon Heart before the lord could revive.
• Hu Da struck the sealed magic gate, but its ward rebounded the blow and injured him, so Lin Xu began analyzing the rune array.
• Lin Xu saw through Yan Jingshu that the giant lord was reforming beside the Dungeon Heart, and sent her to the gate while he searched for a way through the ward.
• Lin Xu found a weak point in the rune matrix, and Yan Jingshu opened the gate as the giant's body nearly finished solidifying.
• Lin Xu entered the lava cavern and confronted the revived giant, realizing it could not yet use its Lord Authority, while his forces rushed after him and lava exploded beneath the bridge.

Lin Xu and the allied forces attacked the awakened giant city lord across the lava lake, but his immense strength and Dou Qi devastated their ranks. After the giant struck the Fallen Demon army and disrupted the Dao soldiers’ charge, Lin Xu and Xu Mingyuan’s squad launched another coordinated assault.

• The black tiger demon and Jiang Hanyan attacked the giant city lord, but he repelled them and quickly healed his wound.
• Lin Xu sent a dragon of wind and fire at the giant, while Yan Jingshu stabbed his neck with a cursed blood hairpin that blurred his vision.
• The giant suppressed the curse and swept his greatsword at the Tiger Sha Army, but the black tiger demon diverted the blow and the Leopard Spirit struck the giant’s knee.
• The giant’s stomping shock wave killed a dog demon and shattered the Red-Robed Ghosts, while the Evil Eyes’ coordinated Soul Shock Blasts briefly staggered him.
• The giant struck the stone bridge with a massive sword of Dou Qi, killing twenty or thirty Fallen Demons and disrupting the Dao soldiers’ charge.
• Lin Xu sent his re-formed wind-and-fire dragon back at the giant as Xu Mingyuan led the Dharma Protector squad in combining their wind blades into a huge azure blade.

Lin Xu and his allies defeated the giant city lord, but the battle left the Dungeon Heart on the verge of destruction. He claimed a Crimson Mythic Dungeon Heart that emerged from the explosion and ordered everyone to flee as the dungeon began collapsing.

• Alaites and the Gloomlamp Mage Corps struck the Dungeon Heart with an Explosive Fireball, cracking it and enraging the giant city lord.
• Jiang Hanyan pierced the giant with her sword, but it counterattacked; Yan Jingshu’s Ghost Bride blocked the blow and carried the gravely injured Jiang Hanyan away.
• Lin Xu compressed his wind-and-fire spell into a wheel and drove the giant away from the platform before it exploded, killing the city lord and further damaging the Dungeon Heart.
• Lin Xu saw the Dungeon Heart fracture and release dark red Spiritual Qi, while a golden treasure chest and a fist-sized Crimson Mythic Dungeon Heart appeared.
• Lin Xu collected the chest and crystal, then ordered his forces to retreat as the Earth Vein rioted and the lava lake erupted.

Lin Xu led the survivors out of the collapsing dungeon and escaped a cataclysmic explosion that left a vast crater in its place. He stabilized Jiang Hanyan’s injuries, then sent the Evil Eyes to investigate the ruins, where they discovered a buried treasure chamber.

• Lin Xu carried the gravely injured Jiang Hanyan through the collapsing tunnels as the group cleared rubble and escaped the dungeon.
• Lin Xu led the survivors and militia toward Azure Cloud Mountain before a powerful shockwave swept across the area and falling debris forced the Gloomlamp Mage Corps to raise a shield.
• Lin Xu used the Glazed Spirit Lamp to repair Jiang Hanyan’s damaged soul and stabilized her condition.
• The Evil Eye Captain led more than twenty Evil Eyes back toward the dungeon, where they found a huge crater filled with emerging magma.
• Evil Eye Qiuqiu spotted a buried treasure chamber and noticed the energy radiating from its exposed chests.

Lin Xu’s forces excavated the ruined dungeon and recovered gold, magic equipment, and a rare Fire Magic Book that could strengthen his combat abilities. After returning to Azure Cloud Mountain, Lin Xu learned that Xuanwei Monastery counted as a Level 1 territory and examined its resources before heading back; bandits attacked on the road, and he ordered his Dao soldiers to spare them.

• Lin Xu directed the Evil Eyes and militiamen to excavate the ruined treasury, recovering twenty-three chests of gold coins and hundreds of magic items and weapons.
• An Evil Eye uncovered a rare Fire Magic Book near the explosion site, and Lin Xu claimed it for its powerful fire spells and magic-learning benefits.
• Lin Xu returned to Azure Cloud Mountain, told Li Yingqiu that the battle was over, and said Xuanwei Monastery now counted as his territory.
• Lin Xu traveled with Li Yingqiu to Xuanwei Monastery through Peach Tree Village, where he saw the expanding farmland and checked the monastery’s territory panel.
• Bandits ambushed Lin Xu’s party on the road, and he ordered the Dao soldiers to spare their lives.

After Xuanwei Monastery’s territory showed signs of weakening, Lin Xu spent its resources to recruit elite disciples and Dao soldiers, then reorganized the monastery’s forces under his command. He appointed Zhao Yan as Demon-Suppressing Commandant and began bringing the true disciples into his Dharma lineage.

• Lin Xu returned to Xuanwei Monastery and found that its Source Fire exceeded 10,000 points, then recruited all available true disciples, inner disciples, and Dao soldiers for 8,760 strings of Dharma Coins.
• Hundreds of recruits appeared before the main hall, bringing the monastery’s forces to 736 elites and restoring its strength after the battle.
• Lin Xu gave Zhao Dan a Dharma Seed, strengthening him through the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter and revealing his talent for commanding Dao soldiers.
• Lin Xu appointed Zhao Yan Demon-Suppressing Commandant, placed three battalions under his command, and gave him the Sha-breaking tiger tally.
• Lin Xu called Li Xuanfeng forward to receive a Dharma Seed as he began bringing Xuanwei Monastery’s eleven true disciples into his Dharma lineage.

Li Xuanfeng broke through to the Object Manipulation Realm after receiving the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, and Lin Xu assigned the monastery’s disciples and soldiers to their duties. Lin Xu forged the Heavenly Origin Concealed Light Sword to stabilize Jiang Hanyan’s shattered sword essence, then handed it to her to test.

• Li Xuanfeng received a Dharma Seed, cultivated the Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Chapter, and broke through to the Object Manipulation Realm.
• Li Xuanfeng implanted Dharma Seeds into the true disciples, and Lin Xu assigned them to oversee the monastery and its territory.
• Lin Xu sent Zhao Dan to patrol the monastery’s lands and told Li Yingqiu to familiarize herself with the monastery.
• Lin Xu gathered spiritual materials and forged the Heavenly Origin Concealed Light Sword with a formation that absorbed Spiritual Qi and nurtured sword essence.
• Lin Xu gave the sword to Jiang Hanyan, who accepted it and poured her sword essence into the blade.

Lin Xu gave Jiang Hanyan the Light-Containing Sword to help heal her soul and meridians, then opened a golden treasure chest and hatched a three-headed drake. He left the Titan Essence Blood unused and named the sleeping hatchling Think Thrice.

• Jiang Hanyan bonded with the Light-Containing Sword, whose sword essence soothed her injuries, and Lin Xu promised to send her pills to aid her recovery.
• Lin Xu used the Spirit Lamp Wish-Making Technique before opening the golden treasure chest and found a drop of Titan Essence Blood.
• Lin Xu decided not to absorb the Titan Essence Blood because it would make his body grow larger.
• Lin Xu fed his blood to the drake egg, and a three-headed dragon hatched and nuzzled his hand.
• Lin Xu named the hatchling Think Thrice, and the sleeping dragon absorbed Spiritual Qi as mysterious runes appeared around it.
• The Glazed Spirit Lamp sent a glimmer of candlelight into Think Thrice's forehead without waking it.

Lin Xu studied the Three-Headed Lizard Dragon’s bloodline inheritance and created a cultivation method for it, then used the Dungeon Heart to establish a dungeon at the Earth Vein convergence beneath Xuanwei Monastery. The heart awakened the monastery’s Spirit Veins, and a strange vitality spread from underground.

• Lin Xu analyzed a rune in the Lizard Dragon’s consciousness and gained greater insight into water magic.
• Lin Xu transformed the young dragon’s outer inheritance into the Nine Heads Suppress the Mountain Talisman and implanted a Dharma Seed in its consciousness.
• Lin Xu placed the sleeping Three-Headed Lizard Dragon in a Spiritual Qi-rich pool behind the hall.
• Lin Xu used the Dungeon Heart to sense the Earth Veins beneath Xuanwei Monastery and found a natural cavern where three Spirit Veins converged.
• Lin Xu activated the Dungeon Heart and sent it into the cavern, where it connected to the Spirit Veins and awakened with a deep pulse.
• A dragon’s cry and strange vitality spread from beneath Xuanwei Monastery, making the monastery tremble and its bronze bells ring.

Lin Xu bonded with the newly formed Dungeon Heart, gaining control over Xuanwei Monastery and transforming the dungeon’s inheritance into an immortal-path system. The heart began generating enormous wealth and nourishing his cultivation, and Lin Xu’s profession advanced to level six.

• Lin Xu connected his consciousness to the Dungeon Heart, which amplified his thoughts, let him maintain Thought Overclocking within his territory, and gave him control over Xuanwei Monastery.
• Lin Xu surveyed the newborn dungeon and watched the Dungeon Heart shape its cavern with seal-script formations and spiritual-patterned tiles.
• Lin Xu calculated that the cavern could produce about twenty-three million Dharma Coins a day and joked that he was so poor he had nothing left but money.
• Lin Xu drew spiritual essence from the City Heart, strengthening his cultivation and helping a deity form in his dantian’s Qi acupoint.
• Lin Xu discovered that the deity improved his magic-power circulation and recovery, then found that his profession had advanced to level six.

Lin Xu explored the Dungeon Heart’s integrated territory controls and discovered how its Earth Vein power could create imps. He considered using the rabbit demons being refined on Azure Cloud Mountain as bodies for the weak spirit workers.

• Lin Xu felt his spirit strengthen as he refined Spiritual Qi and examined the Dungeon Heart’s attributes and territory-wide resource and production controls.
• Lin Xu found that the level-one dungeon had only a Goblin Nest for recruitment and could build a chicken farm, training ground, or rest room.
• Lin Xu used a portal to reach the underground cavern and selected an Earth Vein Spirit to create an imp.
• Lin Xu examined the imp’s weak attributes and learned that Earth Vein Spirits could merge with unawakened humans, monsters, and spirits.
• Lin Xu wondered whether the rabbit demons in the Demon Refining Cave on Azure Cloud Mountain could become bodies for the imps.

Lin Xu used Heavenly Craftsman Strongmen to build spirit rune buildings in the dungeon, starting with a chicken farm that rapidly produced healthy, Spiritual Qi-rich chickens. The chicken farm and resting room were complete, and he turned his attention to the remaining training ground.

• Lin Xu summoned ten Heavenly Craftsman Strongmen and ordered them to excavate caves and construct spirit rune buildings.
• The strongmen rapidly built a chicken farm, which Lin Xu stocked with eggs taken from a farmer in exchange for copper coins.
• The chicken farm hatched and bred chickens until it reached its capacity of twelve, using Spiritual Qi instead of food or water.
• Lin Xu slaughtered and roasted a chicken, found it delicious and rich in absorbable Spiritual Qi, and considered its potential for sale.
• The strongmen completed a resting room with five beds, and Lin Xu noted that a training ground would require at least two hundred square meters.

Lin Xu established intensive training in the dungeon and restored order across Xuanwei Monastery’s territory before upgrading it. The upgrade expanded its Spirit Veins and brought it into contact with Azure Cloud Mountain, and Lin Xu chose to merge the territories.

• Lin Xu brought Liu Jiayao and the guardians into the dungeon, where they began intensive training at the new training ground.
• Lin Xu planned to put all the troops in his territory through closed-door training once he opened a passage to the surface.
• Dao soldiers and militia swept away wild monsters across Azure Cloud Mountain, while patrols, outposts, combat squads, and Evil Eyes secured the territory.
• Lin Xu spent Source Fire to upgrade Xuanwei Monastery, causing its Earth Veins to expand and creating two more Spirit Veins.
• Xuanwei Monastery’s territory connected with Azure Cloud Mountain, and Lin Xu chose to merge the two territories.