Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Xu chose Xuanwei Monastery as his main territory, and the Spirit Realm merged it with Azure Cloud Mountain into a vast, monster-filled region. He rescued an attacked Outpost Barracks and secured the soldiers’ allegiance, leaving the outpost under his control.

• Lin Xu chose Xuanwei Monastery as his main territory because of its connection to the human path and his cultivation.
• The Spirit Realm fused Xuanwei Monastery and Azure Cloud Mountain, creating a large territory where monsters and settlements had appeared.
• Lin Xu discovered an unclaimed Outpost Barracks and saw that Weird Spiders were overwhelming its guards.
• Lin Xu used Glazed Purifying Fire to burn the Weird Spiders and save the outpost’s soldiers.
• Lin Xu declared himself the lord, and the captain and soldiers swore allegiance as the Outpost Barracks’ affiliation changed.

Lin Xu upgraded the outpost into a fully equipped fortress that could train troops, then returned to Xuanwei Monastery and checked on Think Thrice as the young Dragon Lizard grew rapidly. He turned to planning how to expand the territory’s population and farmland.

• Lin Xu upgraded the outpost to level 3, recruited soldiers, and built its military facilities, walls, and defenses.
• Lin Xu discovered that the completed outpost could train up to 100 spearmen, archers, and scout cavalry each month.
• Lin Xu ordered the outpost held, then had Zhao Dan open a path to it and establish patrol points around the new territory.
• Lin Xu visited Think Thrice, whose first dormancy had made him nearly half a meter longer, and watched him eat a large portion of spirit rice.
• Lin Xu concluded that the territory needed more people, farmland, and basic resources as Peach Tree Village prepared to reclaim another three thousand mu of wasteland.

After upgrading Xuanwei Monastery, Lin Xu recruited new residents and disciples, then discovered he could fuse rabbit demons with Earth Vein Spirits to create additional construction workers. He began looking for more weak demons to expand the dungeon workforce.

• Lin Xu recruited the available laborers and outer disciples, then assigned them among the halls and villages while the Dao children began farming.
• Lin Xu observed that Azure Cloud Mountain’s wild monsters had increased, allowing the black tiger demon to replenish the demon soldiers.
• Five rabbit demons emerged from the Demon Refining Cave, but Lin Xu judged them too weak for combat and considered other uses for them.
• Lin Xu fused a rabbit demon with a Heavenly Craftsman Strongman, creating a construction worker with a real body and freeing one of the limited worker slots.
• Lin Xu fused the remaining four rabbit demons, bringing the construction workforce to forty-five, and began searching the territory for other weak demons suitable for fusion.

Lin Xu prepared to return to the real world after recognizing that his territory needed more spiritual materials and talented people. Meanwhile, Qi Changhao and Meng Yunxu's adventurers entered the territory and were attacked by a lynx spirit.

• Lin Xu recruited monsters as Heavenly Craftsman Strongmen, who rapidly expanded the underground city, but he discovered that spirit rune construction required more spiritual materials.
• Lin Xu decided to return to the real world to seek resources and people, and prepared to leave from the monastery.
• Qi Changhao and Meng Yunxu led adventurers into the territory using a guiding compass, while Meng Yunxu warned that their beacon had been destroyed and they might be expected.
• Qi Changhao believed the territory was newly established and lacked a firm foundation, and hoped it might possess a way to train Taoist-class people in large numbers.
• A lynx spirit ambushed a three-person adventurer team, slashing an archer and killing him before the two survivors recognized the monster.

A lynx spirit ambushed Meng Yunxu’s scouting party, but Li Yingqiu’s forces captured the surviving adventurers and brought them to the Azure Cloud Cave Abode. Li Yingqiu learned that a city big shot had traced her through the recently forged spirit-patterned sword and ordered the prisoners held until the lord returned.

• The lynx spirit hypnotized and killed an adventurer from Meng Yunxu’s group with its Dark Pupil skill.
• Qi Changhao discovered through a spell eye that Team Three had been killed, and the adventurers spotted a shadow moving through the fog.
• Li Yingqiu greeted the captured survivors at the Azure Cloud Cave Abode and questioned Meng Yunxu about how they had found her.
• Meng Yunxu revealed that the Night Watchers had sent his group to identify the artificer behind Li Yingqiu’s recently sold spirit-patterned sword.
• Li Yingqiu learned that Meng Yunxu had bought a Spirit Realm Beacon through Dujiao San and ordered the prisoners locked in the cave until the lord returned.
• Yang Hui said that a lynx spirit had escaped and attacked the group, while Li Yingqiu told Duan Wei to watch the prisoners as a chance to redeem himself.

Lin Xu returned to reality and discovered a cultist performing a blood sacrifice to an evil god. He destroyed the cultist and purified the remaining divine power, then received Source Fire from the Will of Civilization; the little girl survived but remained unconscious.

• Lin Xu returned to an abandoned room and sensed that his connection to the Spirit Realm had grown stronger.
• Lin Xu detected Spirit Realm energy in an apartment building and found a cultist preparing to sacrifice a living girl beside two corpses.
• Lin Xu burned the blue-robed cultist, who said the Lord of Change had seen him before mutating into a mass of flesh.
• Lin Xu purified the cultist’s ghostly rune in the Glazed Spirit Lamp, which began transforming, though the divine power was insufficient to complete it.
• The Will of Civilization rewarded Lin Xu with about 100 points of Source Fire, and he saw that the girl had survived but remained unconscious.

Lin Xu rescued the sole surviving child from a cultists’ blood sacrifice and grew suspicious of the unusually swift Night Watchers response. He learned that Inspector Xia Jingyi had arrived to curb the Chen Lineage and intended to make him Meng City’s new local representative.

• Lin Xu saved the little girl from the blood sacrifice array, and his resolve to protect his family stirred a connection with Yan Jingshu.
• Lin Xu concealed himself as the Night Watchers arrived, then noticed that the cultists’ attack and the response raised troubling questions.
• Lin Xu visited Old Master Jiang, who explained that the Wheel of Fate cult had targeted Meng City and was weakening its reality barrier.
• Old Master Jiang told Lin Xu that Inspector Xia Jingyi had come from the capital to investigate the Chen Lineage and wanted Chen Lingfeng to step down.
• Old Master Jiang revealed that Xia intended to choose Lin Xu as Meng City’s new local representative.

Lin Xu agreed to help Inspector Xia dismantle Chen Lingfeng’s influence in Meng City, but Chen raided the Jiang Clan compound and accused Lin Xu of cult activities and murder. As Inspector Xia challenged the operation, Chen attacked Lin Xu, and the confrontation ended with several Night Watchers collapsing after Lin Xu’s spiritual sense spread through the room.

• Lin Xu accepted Inspector Xia’s proposal to become deputy director and dismantle the Chen Lineage’s network through proper channels.
• Chen Lingfeng’s Night Watchers surrounded the Jiang Clan compound, broke in, and attacked the guards as Chen accused Lin Xu of crimes.
• Inspector Xia arrived and challenged Chen Lingfeng’s evidence and authority, but his loyalists refused to leave.
• Chen Lingfeng attacked Lin Xu after Lin Xu asked about the little girl, and Elder Jiang blocked the sword and urged Lin Xu to run.
• Several Night Watchers fell dizzy, and Chen Lingfeng demanded to know what Lin Xu had done.

Lin Xu’s fight with Chen Lingfeng was interrupted when an orc Spirit Realm territory began anchoring itself to Meng City’s Third Ring district. As Night Watchers and soldiers engaged the invading orcs, Lin Xu and the others faced a growing invasion caused by the cultists’ blood sacrifice.

• Lin Xu and Elder Jiang attacked Chen Lingfeng, while Xia Jingyi and Wei Xiuyuan tried to stop the fight.
• Xia Jingyi warned that the Spirit Realm was invading Meng City, and Chen Lingfeng ordered the Third Ring district sealed before fleeing through a window.
• Lin Xu and the others reached the Third Ring district, where Xia Jingyi identified the invaders as orcs and the orc leader blamed the blood sacrifice for revealing an anchor point.
• The Bone Anvil Tribe’s orcs emerged from the mist and threatened to destroy the human camp as more of them crossed the rift.
• Night Watchers and soldiers fought the orcs with firearms, while the orcs used bows, bone spears, and enchanted weapons to inflict casualties and counterattack.

Lin Xu, Xia Jingyi, Chen Lingfeng, and the Night Watchers fought an elite orc invasion in Meng City's residential district as the attackers slaughtered residents and overwhelmed human defenders. Lin Xu surveyed the crowded buildings and realized the danger was far greater than the defenders could manage, but a sniper cannon blast offered a powerful counterattack.

• An enchanted orc warrior broke through the Night Watchers' line, killing several defenders and forcing the rest to retreat.
• Lin Xu's mother comforted Jiang Wanqing at home while they worried about Lin Xu and the others fighting outside.
• Xia Jingyi attacked the orcs with her dragon-phoenix rings and killed three warriors, while Chen Lingfeng joined the battle with his longsword.
• Lin Xu circled the district and found that orcs were searching its 23 densely occupied buildings, where thousands of residents were at risk.
• Lin Xu recognized that humanity had too few class holders with Transcendent Source Power to match the invading orcs.
• A 35-millimeter sniper cannon exploded among the orcs, scattering their limbs in a burst of fire.