Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Haoyue Branch Hall, Ye Tian completed a Retainer Knight Contract with Li Xin, boosting her innate spiritual energy through Talent Suppression Sharing. He resumed cultivation, aiming to grow strong enough to survive the coming fight against demons.

• Ye Tian moved into his private Knight residence and placed his egg in the Light-enhanced quiet room.
• Li Xin brought Ye Tian the Ancient Elvish Retainer Knight Contract and chose to become his retainer.
• Ye Tian and Li Xin completed the contract, creating a life-linked bond and raising Li Xin's Innate Internal Spiritual Energy from fifty to one hundred and thirty points.
• Li Xin realized Ye Tian's Innate Internal Spiritual Energy was 210 and agreed to keep it secret before leaving in embarrassment after kissing him.
• Ye Tian checked his status, saw he had reached Tier 4 Level 2, and returned to meditation with the goal of reaching Tier 6 or 7 before going to Exorcism City.

Ye Tian sold three Tier 4 magical beast corpses with Li Xin’s help and encountered the mage Lin Jialu, with whom he used his second binding slot. He left the encounter bound to Lin Jialu, whose future growth would let him master magic in sync with her.

• Ye Tian asked Li Xin to recommend a shop where he could sell magical beast corpses, and she took him to eat before leading him there.
• Ye Tian sold three Tier 4 magical beast corpses for six hundred gold coins each, and Li Xin accepted the payment on her Magic Crystal Card.
• Ye Tian and Li Xin encountered Lin Jialu and her two companions at the shop entrance, where Lin Jialu and Li Xin nearly fought over their ongoing insults.
• Ye Tian recognized Lin Jialu as Haoyue City’s greatest magical genius and bound her with his second binding slot.

Li Xin and Lin Jialu took their quarrel to the Haoyue Branch Hall and fought while Ye Tian watched. Li Xin won with Light Slash Sword and revealed that she was already a Sixth-Rank Knight.

• Ye Tian stopped Li Xin and Lin Jialu from fighting in a busy district, and they agreed to settle their quarrel at the Haoyue Branch Hall.
• Nalan Shu arrived and allowed the two girls to spar, trusting that they would hold back.
• Li Xin broke through Lin Jialu's Frost Shield with Light Slash Sword, and Nalan Shu intervened before the attack could hurt Lin Jialu.
• Li Xin claimed victory and told Nalan Shu that she was already a Sixth-Rank Knight.

Li Xin defeated Lin Jialu in a spar, and Ye Tian suggested that a man from their past might have deceived them both and caused their falling-out. After gaining magic through Lin Jialu’s training, Ye Tian spent months cultivating, and his long-quiet egg finally began to hatch.

• Li Xin revealed that she had reached sixth-rank as a knight, then left Lin Jialu fuming after their spar.
• Li Xin explained her old quarrel with Lin Jialu, and Ye Tian suggested the man they had both loved may have manipulated them; Li Xin resolved to uncover the truth.
• That night, Ye Tian received feedback from Lin Jialu mastering Ice Ball and gained the spell and ice-attribute spiritual energy.
• Over half a year, Ye Tian cultivated at the Haoyue Branch Hall, visited his mother, and hunted magical beasts while his strength advanced.
• Ye Tian noticed the egg in his meditation chamber glowing and trembling, and after half an hour he heard its shell crack.

Ye Tian welcomed his newly hatched sacred dragon, named her Ye Yuling, and sent her to rest in his mount space. Meanwhile, Li Xin defeated Lin Jialu in training and tried to discuss what a man had told them years earlier.

• Ye Tian watched a white dragon hatch, named her Ye Yuling, and bonded with her.
• Ye Tian sent the tired Ling'er to his mount space and resolved to train hard as she grew.
• Li Xin defeated Lin Jialu again and revealed she had advanced to Fourth-tier Great Knight.
• Li Xin stopped Lin Jialu and said she wanted to discuss what a man had told them years earlier.
• Lin Jialu reacted angrily at first, then began recounting what had happened.

After discovering that the same boy had deceived them both, Li Xin and Lin Jialu began to reconcile, but the Haoyue Branch Hall’s assembly bell interrupted them. Ye Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu joined Nalan Shu’s force to repel demons attacking a town, where the battle began with heavy casualties.

• Li Xin told Lin Jialu that the boy had given them identical stories, and Lin Jialu began to believe her before the assembly bell rang.
• Nalan Shu announced that demons had infiltrated Haoyue City’s territory and led half the knights out to support the threatened area.
• Li Xin questioned why Lin Jialu had come along, and Lin Jialu insisted she had a duty to fight the demons.
• Nalan Shu’s force reached a burning town where demons were killing residents and joined the knights already defending it.
• Nalan Shu cast three enhancement auras as the two sides clashed, and Ye Tian and Li Xin swiftly killed attacking Wolf Demons.

Ye Tian left Lin Jialu and Li Xin’s side to help the overwhelmed Haoyue Branch Hall knights, killing many Wolf Demons and defeating a Dike Race Shadow Walker. As Nalan Shu fought the Level 5 Wolf Demon, its howl raised fears that more danger was coming.

• Ye Tian told Li Xin to protect Lin Jialu, then charged into the Wolf Demons to help the struggling knights.
• A Dike Race Shadow Walker ambushed Ye Tian, but he blocked its attacks, countered with Shield Block Rebound, and killed it with Light's Vengeance and Light Slash Sword.
• Ye Tian returned to the battle and helped kill or wound more than half of the Wolf Demons while the remaining Shadow Walkers kept the Great Knights occupied.
• The Level 5 Wolf Demon noticed Ye Tian’s strength and threatened him, while Nalan Shu praised Ye Tian and vowed to keep the demon from attacking anyone else.
• The Level 5 Wolf Demon mocked Nalan Shu and howled, causing unease as the battle continued.

Ye Tian and Ling'er turned the battle against the fifth-tier Wolf Demon and the remaining Wolf Demons, but an unseen attacker suddenly targeted Lin Jialu. Ye Tian rushed to intercept it, and the chapter ended as he struck at the hidden enemy.

• A fifth-tier Wolf Demon attacked Ye Tian while Nalan Shu was held back by another opponent.
• Ye Tian used Divine Guard Block and sword strikes to withstand the Wolf Demon, then summoned Ling'er, whose enhancement temporarily raised his strength and imbued his attacks with holy flames.
• Ye Tian and Ling'er killed the fifth-tier Wolf Demon and burned through most of the remaining Wolf Demons.
• An invisible attacker struck at Lin Jialu, and Ye Tian's Spirit Light Shield blocked its first blow.
• Li Xin attacked the unseen assailant, and Lin Jialu released a burst of ice that bought Ye Tian time to rush in and strike.

Ye Tian and the knights fought off the Demon Race’s attack, with Ye Tian saving Lin Jialu and helping kill the retreating fifth-tier Wolf Demon. After the battle, the survivors assessed the terrible losses in the town, while Nalan Shu learned that Ye Tian had reached the fourth tier and fought alongside a dragon.

• Ye Tian killed the Dike Race Infiltrator that had ambushed Lin Jialu, and Li Xin checked that Lin Jialu was safe.
• After a distant howl, the fifth-tier Wolf Demon ordered the Demon Race to retreat, but Nalan Shu and the other knights blocked their escape.
• Nalan Shu pinned the Wolf Demon despite being wounded, and Ye Tian killed it with his holy-flame sword.
• Ye Tian healed Nalan Shu with the Great Recovery Technique and revealed that he was already fourth-tier, with Ling'er helping him temporarily increase his strength.
• The knights finished off nearly all the remaining Demons and treated the wounded, but more than half the town’s residents had died and many knights were dead, wounded, or permanently disabled.

After returning to Haoyue City from the battle against the Demon Race, Ye Tian reunited with his mother and resolved to grow stronger. That night, a system reward granted him the Sacred Star Spiritual Furnace, which he examined in secret.

• Nalan Shu and the surviving knights brought the fallen soldiers’ bodies back to Haoyue City, where grieving families mourned them.
• Ye Tian reunited with Liu Mei, reassured her that he was unharmed, and returned home with her.
• After resting, Ye Tian reflected on humanity’s captivity under the Demon Race and resolved to become stronger.
• A system notification revealed that Long Haochen had obtained the Sacred Pull Spiritual Furnace and awarded Ye Tian the Sacred Star Spiritual Furnace as double feedback.
• Ye Tian shielded his room from leaking aura and summoned the tiny blue-white Sacred Star Spiritual Furnace.

Ye Tian fused with the Sacred Star Spiritual Furnace and discovered its three effects: attracting enemies, tempering his body, and concealing his aura. Three days later, he met Long Haochen at the Haoyue Branch Hall and entered with him as Long Haochen went to learn Guardian Knight skills.

• Ye Tian fused with the Sacred Star Spiritual Furnace, which retained the Sacred Pull Spiritual Furnace's ability to draw enemy attacks and could evolve at least four times.
• Ye Tian learned that the furnace could absorb the Power of Stars to temper his body and conceal his spiritual power from even Ninth Order powerhouses.
• Ye Tian stayed home with Liu Mei until she recovered, then resumed cultivating.
• Three days later, Ye Tian met Long Haochen outside the Haoyue Branch Hall, where Long Haochen cried over his parents leaving him behind.
• Ye Tian comforted Long Haochen, who resolved to become a Seventh Order Knight and reunite with his parents.
• Long Haochen explained that Long Xingyu had sent him to learn Guardian Knight skills, and Ye Tian led him into the Branch Hall.

After Nalan Shu recognized Long Haochen and credited Long Xingyu with frightening the Demon Race into retreat, Ye Tian joined Lin Jialu and Li Xin for a meal. Lin Jialu deduced that Li Xin had become Ye Tian’s Retainer Knight and, determined not to lose to her, asked to become his retainer too.

• Nalan Shu asked Long Haochen whether Long Xingyu had acted against the Demon Race, and Long Haochen proudly confirmed it.
• Lin Jialu thanked Ye Tian for saving her and invited him to a meal, while Li Xin arrived and insisted on joining them.
• At the restaurant, Lin Jialu reasoned that Li Xin’s rapid growth came from becoming Ye Tian’s Retainer Knight, and Li Xin did not deny it.
• Lin Jialu asked Ye Tian to make her his Retainer Knight, saying she refused to lose to Li Xin.

Lin Jialu asked Ye Tian to make her his retainer after learning that Li Xin’s strength had increased through their contract. Ye Tian revealed he could use water and ice magic and suggested a Magic Attendant Contract, leaving Lin Jialu and Li Xin to investigate which contract might work.

• Lin Jialu asked Ye Tian to accept her as his retainer, and he confirmed that Li Xin’s contract had boosted her strength.
• Ye Tian considered whether Lin Jialu’s water- and ice-attributed spiritual energy would qualify for a Retainer Contract, while Li Xin pointed out that Lin Jialu lacked the Light attribute.
• Ye Tian suggested a Magic Attendant Contract and explained that he did not know whether the Mage Holy Temple had one.
• Ye Tian conjured an ice sphere and revealed that he possessed water and ice magic in addition to the Light attribute.
• Lin Jialu said she would ask the Haoyue Mage Branch Hall about a Magic Attendant Contract, and Li Xin offered to ask Nalan Shu about a Retainer Contract.

Ye Tian and Li Xin waited to learn whether the Mage Holy Temple knew of a Magic Retainer Contract that shared talent suppression, while Lin Jialu tried to join Ye Tian as a retainer. After the ordinary rune rejected her, Lin Jialu brought back the correct contract array and completed the ceremony, which began to affect her.

• Lin Jialu left after the meal to seek help from the Haoyue City Magic Branch Hall, while Li Xin asked Nalan Shu to apply for a second special retainer rune.
• Lin Jialu sent Ye Tian a Spirit-Demon Equipment Shield of Radiance as thanks for saving her and accepting her as a retainer.
• Ye Tian and Li Xin discussed how Haochen was likely undergoing secret training with Instructor Ye Hua.
• Nalan Shu returned with the rune, but it rejected Lin Jialu's blood, so she and Ye Tian had to wait for news from the Mage Holy Temple.
• Lin Jialu returned with a Magic Retainer Contract Array diagram that shared Talent Suppression feedback and inscribed the array at Ye Tian's residence.
• Ye Tian and Lin Jialu completed the contract ceremony, and the Water Elements gathered around Lin Jialu as a blue halo appeared behind her.

Lin Jialu discovered that becoming Ye Tian’s retainer had raised her Innate Internal Spiritual Energy to 131, and she and Li Xin both kissed him while competing for his attention. Lin Jialu and Li Xin wanted lifetime contracts, but Ye Tian said they could discuss renewing their five-year contracts when they expired.

• Lin Jialu awakened with dramatically increased spiritual energy, and Li Xin explained that Talent Suppression Sharing had boosted her Innate Internal Spiritual Energy.
• Ye Tian revealed Lin Jialu’s Innate Internal Spiritual Energy was now 131, and she thanked him by kissing him before Li Xin pulled them apart.
• Li Xin kissed Ye Tian as well and told Lin Jialu she would no longer yield to her.
• Lin Jialu promised to keep their secret, then realized Ye Tian’s Innate Internal Spiritual Energy exceeded 200.
• Lin Jialu proposed extending her five-year retainer contract for life, and Li Xin agreed, but Ye Tian said they could consider renewing it when it expired.

Nearly two years of cultivation left Ye Tian a Seventh-tier Holy Temple Knight, and Long Haochen’s Blood Pact with Austin Griffin triggered a surprising reward: a juvenile Arceus from another world. Arceus formed a Blood Pact with Ye Tian and accepted the new name Ye Yurou.

• Ye Tian spent nearly two years cultivating in Haoyue City, reaching Seventh-tier Level Three and greatly increasing his Internal Spiritual Energy.
• Ye Tian wondered when Long Haochen would complete his Blood Pact with Austin Griffin and what feedback it would bring.
• Ye Tian received a juvenile Arceus as double feedback after Long Haochen and Austin Griffin completed their Blood Pact.
• Arceus appeared in Ye Tian’s meditation chamber, greeted him affectionately, and formed a Blood Pact by drinking his blood.
• Ye Tian welcomed Arceus to the new world, named it Ye Yurou, and promised to take good care of it.

Ye Tian, Li Xin, and Long Haochen went to a dinner hosted by Haoyue City’s leading officials as the Demon Hunter Squad selection competition approached. They arrived at the Administrative Hall, where the city’s military commander, archon, and three temple branch hall masters were gathered to meet them.

• Ye Tian left with Li Xin and Long Haochen after sending Ye Yurou back into his space.
• Li Xin asked Ye Tian about the surprise he had promised, but he refused to reveal it.
• The three traveled to the Administrative Hall and were escorted to a side hall for dinner.
• Li Xin greeted her father, Li Aoxiao, and the other officials, while Ye Tian and Long Haochen formally introduced themselves.
• Li Aoxiao and Lin Yinjia welcomed the young men, and the three took their seats at the table.

At a farewell feast, the leaders explained the Demon Hunter Squad selection and introduced the six candidates from Haoyue City’s Branch Halls. The group learned that several candidates were exceptionally powerful, while Ye Tian and Long Haochen’s cultivation remained undisclosed; the others were left stunned by Ye Tian’s revealed feat at age twelve.

• Li Aoxiao and Lin Yinjia explained the importance of the Demon Hunter Squad selection and the border assessment requiring candidates to kill five Demon Race soldiers.
• Chen Chunhua introduced the brothers Chen Si, a Second-rank Great Battlemaster and Shield Warrior, and Chen Chen, a First-rank Great Battlemaster and Berserker.
• Bai Yu revealed that Lin Jialu was a twenty-one-year-old Fifth Order Mage, surprising the group and delighting Lin Yinjia.
• Nalan Shu revealed that Li Xin was a twenty-one-year-old Fifth Order Sky Knight, and said Ye Tian and Long Haochen were fourteen and would qualify for the competition.
• Nalan Shu disclosed that Ye Tian had fought during a Demon Race invasion at age twelve as a Great Knight, leaving the other candidates shocked.

Ye Tian and the other Haoyue City contestants learned the requirements and dangers of the Demon Hunter Squad selection competition, then chose equipment before setting out. Ye Tian visited his mother Liu Mei to tell her he would enter Demon Race territory the next morning, and she waited anxiously for his safe return.

• Li Aoxiao explained that each contestant had to kill five Demon Race soldiers to qualify for the main competition and warned them to retreat or seek help if they faced danger.
• Li Aoxiao and Lin Yinjia led the group to choose Magic Equipment; Lin Jialu, Ye Tian, and Li Xin passed, while Long Haochen and the Chen brothers selected gear.
• Li Aoxiao told the contestants to familiarize themselves with their equipment before departing early the next morning.
• Ye Tian visited the Flower Shop he had opened for Liu Mei and told her he might enter Demon Race territory to earn qualification.
• Liu Mei worried about Ye Tian but told him to take care of himself as she waited in Haoyue City for his return.

Ye Tian, Long Haochen, Li Xin, Lin Jialu, and the Chen brothers set out for the Demon Hunter Squad selection competition and crossed into Demon territory. Lin Jialu took command as they prepared to hunt Demon scouts, and Long Haochen summoned Haoyue.

• Ye Tian left with Li Xin and Long Haochen after Nalan Shu and Ye Hua warned them to stay safe.
• At the eastern gate, Lin Jialu and a Sixth-tier Great Magister joined the group, and Lin Jialu handed out their competition Identification tokens and a route map.
• Ye Tian declined to command the group and recommended Lin Jialu, who was chosen as commander.
• The six passed through the Holy Temple Alliance garrison and crossed the border under cover of night.
• Lin Jialu assigned the group positions and chose Demon scouts as their target instead of the nearby Demon Race army camp.
• Long Haochen summoned Haoyue, startling the Chen brothers.