Chapter Summaries

Lin Xu's convoy destroyed a monster camp, rescued three adventurers, and reached the front-line military camp. He saw Daoist Xuanzhen and two elders setting up a formation around a fissure that appeared to be the entrance to a dangerous dungeon.

• Lin Xu led the convoy around a camp, but goblins and three ogres rushed out and attacked.
• Alaites and the Gloomlamp Mage Corps used coordinated magic to kill the ogres, and Lin Xu's militia finished off the wounded survivors.
• Lin Xu found three level 2 adventurers, accepted their offer to follow him, and distributed the camp's loot among them.
• Lin Xu ordered the Gloomlamp Mage Corps to burn down the monster camp, gaining twenty-three points of Source Fire as its ruins vanished into the mist.
• Lin Xu's convoy reached the front-line military camp, where he saw Daoist Xuanzhen and two elders forming a barrier around a fissure that emanated killing intent.

Lin Xu returned to Azure Cloud Mountain with wounded allies and captured monsters, then discovered that a hidden beacon in Duan Wei’s pouch was transmitting the territory’s coordinates. After destroying it, Lin Xu prepared to investigate the threat at Xuanwei Monastery.

• Lin Xu inspected the military camp, found captured monsters and discarded dungeon equipment, and concluded that the dungeon legion was recovering after its supply routes were cut off.
• Lin Xu brought the wounded and captives back to Azure Cloud Mountain, where the territory’s Spiritual Qi greatly increased his mana and health.
• Lin Xu assigned Hu Da to select demon soldiers from the captives and met Li Yingqiu’s four teammates, including Duan Wei.
• Lin Xu found a positioning beacon in Duan Wei’s pouch and determined that Duan Wei’s memory had been altered by a spell before receiving his Dharma Seed.
• Lin Xu destroyed the beacon, warned that a powerful visitor was likely coming, and took Qiuqiu and a squad of Dharma Protector Evil Eyes toward Xuanwei Monastery.

Lin Xu led a convoy through Xuanwei Monastery’s territory, using the Evil Eyes to discover and subdue a bandit camp and three peach tree yao. He surveyed the monastery’s basin-shaped lands and continued exploring its wilderness for undeveloped resources.

• Lin Xu passed Peach Tree Village and saw outer disciples using his enchanted farming tools to cultivate the fields.
• The Evil Eyes found a bandit camp, and Lin Xu used illusions to subdue its occupants and recover silver, a saber skill book, and supplies.
• Lin Xu discovered three peach tree yao in a wild peach grove and considered bringing them to Peach Tree Village after inheriting the monastery.
• Lin Xu surveyed Xuanwei Monastery’s territory, locating its five villages, Spirit Veins, and many undeveloped resource sites.
• Lin Xu led the militia squad upstream while the Evil Eyes controlled wild wolves and searched the wilderness for possible mineral veins.

Lin Xu captured a rare tiger yao and discovered its lair, a source of future recruits for the Tiger Sha Army. He also found a spiritual herb garden and continued surveying the territory, leaving one place unexplored.

• Lin Xu ordered Qiuqiu and the others to capture a level 6 tiger yao alive, and they subdued it with repeated Soul Shock Blasts and yao-binding talismans.
• Lin Xu found a vermilion fruit vine by the tiger yao's cave, harvested its fruit, and identified the cave as a Tiger Yao Lair that could produce two tiger yao for recruitment.
• Lin Xu discovered a fleeceflower patch linked to a Spirit Vein branch and started a project to establish a spiritual herb garden.
• Lin Xu and his group surveyed most of the territory, finding scattered resource points and an abandoned mountain stronghold before heading toward the final unexplored place.

Lin Xu discovered an underground black market hidden by a Mountain-Shrouding Formation and decided to preserve it after spotting Jiang Hanyan, an elite sword cultivator with a rare inheritance. When his Evil Eyes tried to capture her, Jiang Hanyan resisted their mental attacks and clashed with Lin Xu’s forces in the sky.

• Lin Xu found the concealed black market and recognized that it hosted rogue cultivators, demons, and other lawbreakers.
• Lin Xu’s Evil Eyes mentally controlled two wolf demons and three rogue cultivators or cast-out disciples from the market.
• Lin Xu identified Jiang Hanyan as a level 5 elite sword cultivator with a purple cultivation inheritance and decided the black market was worth keeping.
• Jiang Hanyan noticed Lin Xu’s hiding place but continued on, so Lin Xu waited until she was several miles from the market before attacking.
• Jiang Hanyan evaded the Evil Eyes’ paralysis and flew into the air, where she broke Lin Xu’s fire spells and sent Sword Qi toward him.
• The Evil Eyes shifted from Mind Blast to Soul Shock Blast, and their invisible attacks caught Jiang Hanyan as the aerial battle continued.

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.