Chapter Summaries

Long Haochen and General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunt Squad faced the Red Skeleton, whose Sixth Rank strength concealed astonishing combat skill. He defeated all seven without killing them, leaving Long Haochen wondering how technique had made their attacks useless.

• The Red Skeleton advanced on Long Haochen and met his Asura Slash with a Flame Asura Slash that sent him staggering back.
• The Red Skeleton evaded the squad’s attacks, bypassed Long Haochen’s Saint Origin Spiritual Stove, and reached Sima Xian from behind.
• The Red Skeleton stopped his blade at Sima Xian’s neck, then struck him with the flat of the blade and sent him flying.
• The Red Skeleton routed the squad, striking each member across the back before returning to his original position without pursuing them.
• Sima Xian asked Long Haochen how the Red Skeleton could be so formidable at the Sixth Rank, and Long Haochen attributed his advantage to flawless technique.

Long Haochen and his companions trained against the Red Skeleton, improving their combat techniques before pausing to consolidate their gains. Han Qian then told Long Haochen that their places in Dreamlike Paradise were at risk and that they would have to compete in a selection tournament.

• Long Haochen concluded that the Red Skeleton used ancient combat techniques and directed his companions to challenge it one at a time.
• Over ten days, the companions endured the Red Skeleton's attacks and gradually improved their fighting skills, with Long Haochen lasting more than a minute.
• The group stopped training to rest and consolidate their progress, and Long Haochen consumed the Saint Spirit Pill, raising his spiritual energy to six thousand.
• Han Qian visited Long Haochen and told him that a selection tournament would determine who received the ten places in Dreamlike Paradise.
• Long Haochen accepted the tournament and asked Han Qian about its registration requirements.

Cai'er broke through to the Sixth Rank and regained her four senses, reuniting with Long Haochen after nearly six months apart. Long Haochen then prepared his squad for a tournament to choose the ten Demon Hunters allowed into Dreamlike Paradise, where Cai'er had recently lasted longer than him against the Red Skeleton.

• Han Qian told Long Haochen that a single-elimination tournament would select ten participants for Dreamlike Paradise, and Long Haochen registered his squad.
• Cai'er broke through to the Sixth Rank, unfurled black spiritual wings, and regained her sight and other senses.
• Long Haochen embraced Cai'er, and she explained that death energy in the Eternal Tower could replenish her Reincarnation Spiritual Stove and reduce its backlash.
• Long Haochen warned Cai'er against risking her senses again and told her the squad would need to win a place in Dreamlike Paradise through the tournament.
• Long Haochen brought his companions to the selection venue, where Cai'er had recently lasted longer than him against the Red Skeleton.

Long Haochen and Cai'er endured repeated battles against the Red Skeleton before the Demon Hunters gathered for a selection tournament at Zhennan Pass. Chen Yinger entered her first match and, with McDull’s help, summoned a Bloodthirsty Berserk Demon that overwhelmed her opponent.

• Long Haochen and Cai'er held out against the Red Skeleton for five minutes, and Long Haochen endured ten battles before being sent back to rest.
• Ling Xiao thanked the Demon Hunters, warned them against lethal or crippling attacks, and prohibited flight in the tournament.
• The Demon Hunters drew numbered plates, and the first round began under the supervision of an Eighth Rank Saint Knight.
• Chen Yinger faced a water-element mage while Yang Wenzhao worried about her safety.
• McDull dodged the mage’s Ice Arrow and Ice Rain Spell, then was trapped inside four ice walls.
• A Bloodthirsty Berserk Demon burst through the ice prison and shattered the mage’s defenses with its spikes.

Chen Yinger’s Mai Dou Little Pig transformed into a Bloodthirsty Berserk Demon during her match, dodged an Eighth Rank referee’s strike, and secured her victory. Lin Xin then entered the arena against a Sixth Rank Wind Element warrior, who charged through his spells and laughed when Lin Xin finally used a Repelling Fire Ring.

• Mai Dou Little Pig transformed into a Bloodthirsty Berserk Demon and frightened the Water Element Demon General into collapsing.
• Mai Dou Little Pig dodged the Eighth Rank referee’s punch by shrinking back into its pig form and fleeing to Chen Yinger.
• Chen Yinger scolded the referee for attacking her Lifebound Summoned Beast, and Han Qian declared her the winner.
• Lin Xin entered the competition, and Li Xin worried that he could not attack, but Long Haochen assured her that Lin Xin had improved.
• Lin Xin’s Sixth Rank Wind Element opponent charged at him, and Lin Xin waited until the warrior was close before releasing a Repelling Fire Ring.

Lin Xin and Sima Xian won their first-round matches, and the members of General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunt Squad advanced through the early tournament rounds. By the third round, only Long Haochen and Cai'er remained in the competition.

• Lin Xin defeated a Wind Element warrior with the Repelling Fire Ring and returned to the rest area, where he teased Li Xin.
• Sima Xian proved he was a priest and defeated a Guardian Knight by shattering his shield with the Light Great Strength Pill, while Ling Xiao and Han Qian argued over recruiting him.
• All seven members of Long Haochen's squad won their first-round matches, but Lin Xin and Sima Xian were drawn against each other and Chen Yinger against Cai'er in the second round.
• Sima Xian, Cai'er, Long Haochen, Wang Yuanyuan, and Han Yu advanced from the second round, with Wang Yuanyuan narrowly winning through an unexpected Asura Slash.
• Long Haochen defeated Wang Yuanyuan in the third round, while Han Yu and Sima Xian lost to a summoner and a mage, leaving only Long Haochen and Cai'er advancing.

The final round of the selection tournament began, with Cai'er facing a Guardian Knight while Long Haochen waited for his match. Cai'er unleashed her black spiritual wings and launched a rapid attack, leaving her opponent under pressure despite his defenses.

• At lunch, Sima Xian urged Long Haochen to win, and Long Haochen reassured him while Cai'er hoped to draw him.
• Long Haochen learned that Haoyue was still asleep and told Han Yu he was confident without it.
• The twenty finalists drew their match numbers, with Cai'er assigned number two and Long Haochen number seven.
• Ling Xiao presided over the final matches and called Cai'er and the contestant with number one into the arena.
• Cai'er released her black spiritual wings and crossed the arena before the Guardian Knight could summon his mount.
• The Guardian Knight blocked Cai'er's dagger with Rising Dragon Strike, then counterattacked with a combination of Sunburst Slash and Lightning Thrust.

Cai'er defeated a heavily armored knight with a rapid, precise assault and earned a place in the Dreamlike Temple. Long Haochen then defeated a summoner by killing her Blazing Fire Demon Bear and using his Saint Origin Spiritual Stove to catch her, securing his own place and looking ahead to Dreamlike Paradise.

• Cai'er evaded the knight's Lightning Thrusts, struck from behind, and overwhelmed him until Ling Xiao stopped the match.
• Ling Xiao declared Cai'er the winner, and the knight saluted her before leaving as she gained a place in the Dreamlike Temple.
• Long Haochen faced a female summoner, who called a white leopard and a Blazing Fire Demon Bear into the arena.
• Long Haochen dodged the bear's attack and killed it with a precise strike before the summoner could complete her next summon.
• The summoner refused to concede, but Long Haochen used his spiritual wings and Saint Origin Spiritual Stove to pull her within reach and win the match.
• Long Haochen looked toward his companions and thought about entering Dreamlike Paradise.

The Temple Alliance and Demon Clan gathered at Zhennan Pass to escort their selected youths to Dreamlike Paradise, with powerful forces from both sides honoring their agreement. Long Haochen and Cai'er entered the protected Dreamlike Forest, where Long Haochen felt an extraordinary affinity with its nature.

• Ling Xiao and Han Yan assembled the Alliance's selected youths as Huang Shuo arrived with the Black Dragon Forbidden Army, Moon Demon Kings, Star Demon Clan mages, and Demon Clan candidates.
• The Alliance and Demon Clan traveled north on Azure Pengs and black dragons, with Long Haochen recognizing Moon Night and Leng Kuai among the Demon Clan participants.
• Cai'er told Long Haochen that her Reincarnation Sword had placed a restriction inside Moon Night, letting her control Moon Night's life and death, and agreed that they should protect her.
• The two groups reached the Dreamlike Forest, where Huang Shuo questioned why they could not fly directly inside and Ling Xiao explained that the Goddess of Nature protected it.
• Both sides entered the forest, and Long Haochen felt its natural elements cleanse and nourish him as a translucent golden glow appeared over his skin.

Long Haochen and the Temple Alliance traveled with Huang Shuo’s Demon Clan to the lake where Dreamlike Temple lay hidden, enduring the forest’s nature aura along the way. As both sides waited for the temple to open, Long Haochen sensed a strange connection with a black-haired young demon and continued to be cleansed by the lake’s pure aura.

• Nature’s Call purified Long Haochen, while the Demon Clan struggled against the forest’s life aura and Huang Shuo warned Ling Xiao to hurry.
• Ling Xiao led both groups through Dreamlike Forest to a flower-covered lake and explained that Dreamlike Temple would rise from its waters within a day.
• Huang Shuo paid Ling Xiao two pieces of Dragon Cream to learn that an ancient Elf Dragon guarded the lake.
• The Temple Alliance and Demon Clan settled by the lakeshore to wait for Dreamlike Temple to open.
• Long Haochen noticed Moon Night and Leng Xiao watching him, then exchanged a wary, strangely familiar gaze with a black-haired, black-eyed young demon.
• Long Haochen felt the lake’s unusually pure nature aura enter and cleanse him as he quietly meditated.

The Dreamlike Temple rose from the lake at dawn, and Long Haochen and the other participants entered it to reach Dreamlike Paradise. Long Haochen and Cai'er were separated as they crossed into the strange new world, while a hidden Temple Knight remained outside to guard against the Demon Clan.

• After a day and night of waiting, Ling Xiao and Huang Shuo watched the Dreamlike Temple rise from the lake as dawn broke.
• Ya Hao emerged from Long Haochen and, nourished by the temple's life aura, recovered from her injuries and grew more solid.
• A Bao led the Demon Clan participants toward the temple, while Long Haochen and Cai'er entered with the human group and agreed to regroup inside.
• Long Haochen and Cai'er stepped into the green light together, then vanished and were carried separately into Dreamlike Paradise.
• Outside the temple, Han Yan spoke respectfully with a disguised Temple Knight, who said he would wait for Long Haochen and deter Huang Shuo from acting against the humans.

Long Haochen tested whether he could reach the Eternal Tower from Dreamlike Paradise, then brought his companions into the realm to search for spiritual stoves. They began exploring a forest rich in rare plants and elemental mist, with Long Haochen using Yating to guide their search.

• Long Haochen used the Eternal Melody to open a passage to the Eternal Tower, reaching it after losing most of his spiritual power.
• Long Haochen recovered, then led his companions back into Dreamlike Paradise, using six Greater Spirit Returning Pills to complete the exhausting transport.
• Long Haochen chose a direction where he had seen many spiritual stoves fly and led the group onward in formation.
• Lin Xin gathered rare plants as the companions explored the forest, while Yating helped Long Haochen recover spiritual power and sense distant fluctuations.

Long Haochen’s group explored Dreamlike Paradise and discovered a demon fighting a gorilla guardian over an attribute-less spiritual stove. Long Haochen intervened on the gorilla’s behalf and began fighting the demon, whose powerful counterattack was still unfolding.

• Long Haochen’s group continued through Dreamlike Paradise, where Yating absorbed light-attribute mist and helped Long Haochen’s spiritual power grow.
• Long Haochen sensed a battle ahead and ordered his companions to conceal themselves while he investigated.
• Long Haochen discovered a young demon fighting a gorilla guardian over a rare attribute-less spiritual stove.
• Long Haochen returned to his companions, prepared an ambush, and used Yating’s Greater Recovery Spell to heal the gorilla before attacking the demon.
• Long Haochen clashed with the demon, blocked its heavy sword, and answered its cyan-flame phantom by preparing a two-handed strike with Light Punishment.

Long Haochen and the members of the General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunt Squad fought the young demon, who was revealed to possess a powerful bloodline skill and hidden strength. The transformed great ape crushed the demon, leaving his fate beneath its assault.

• Long Haochen broke the young demon’s Shadow Split Strike and pierced his shoulder with Asura Thrust, but the demon detonated his own spiritual power to escape.
• Yating replenished Long Haochen’s strength while the young demon fled, evading the squad’s attacks by using the Demon God Dismemberment Art.
• The young demon smashed through Lin Xin’s Fire Curse, but Han Yu blocked his path with Divine Obstruction as Light Rain Twin Dragons Pull struck him.
• The young demon’s spiritual power surged past ten thousand, but a transformed great ape slammed him into the ground and battered him until he fell silent.

Long Haochen and his companions defeated a demon heir and gained the gorilla guardian’s permission to take a spiritual stove. He gave the Crown of Inheritance to Lin Xin and the spiritual stove to Chen Yinger, who began absorbing it.

• The gorilla grew to immense strength after the young demon broke the rules, then killed him and recovered a Crown of Inheritance from his remains.
• Yating calmed the gorilla, which returned to its original size and gave Long Haochen the Crown of Inheritance; Long Haochen assigned it to Lin Xin for his Fire Crystal Staff.
• The gorilla formed a spiritual connection with Long Haochen and willingly gave him the nearby spiritual stove before departing.
• Long Haochen explained that a peaceful acquisition would make the trial easier and chose Chen Yinger as the best person to use the spiritual stove.
• Chen Yinger summoned the spiritual stove with her crystal ball and began absorbing it after dropping her blood onto it.

Long Haochen explained why the Substitute Spiritual Stove suited Chen Yinger, and she successfully began its initial fusion. As the group continued searching Dreamlike Paradise, they found evidence that someone else had taken a spiritual stove, and Long Haochen ordered Sima Xian to bury the dead magical beast.

• Long Haochen explained that the Substitute Spiritual Stove could block an attack or duplicate a skill, and said Chen Yinger's role made her the best choice to absorb it.
• Chen Yinger's initial fusion with the Substitute Spiritual Stove succeeded, though Long Haochen warned that she still needed to pass more trials before she could use it.
• Lin Xin scavenged the young demon's remains and weapon before the group resumed its search for spiritual stoves.
• Long Haochen stayed wary of the powerful Demon Clan members and worried about Cai'er as the group explored Dreamlike Paradise.
• The group found a magical beast's corpse with its magic crystal removed, and Long Haochen told Sima Xian to dig a pit and bury it.

After burying a magical beast, Long Haochen realized that protecting Dreamlike Paradise strengthened his perception and led his companions onward while searching for Cai'er. He found Cai'er fighting alongside Alliance members for three Spiritual Stoves, but A Bao ambushed him and a second ambush killed their mage, leaving Long Haochen facing the Demon Clan leader alone.

• Long Haochen buried the magical beast with his companions and decided to protect Dreamlike Paradise, gaining a substantial boost to his perception.
• Long Haochen sensed a battle and approached alone, where he spotted Cai'er, Zhang Fangfang, and two other Alliance members fighting Moon Night, Leng Xiao, and a young demon over three Spiritual Stoves.
• A Bao ambushed Long Haochen from behind, but Yating's protection and Long Haochen's defenses kept the punch from seriously injuring him.
• An ambush on the battlefield killed the Alliance mage as Long Haochen faced A Bao, who demanded that he submit or die.
• Long Haochen taunted A Bao and revealed that he had killed one of his people and obtained a Crown of Inheritance Magic Crystal.

Long Haochen fought A Bao, an heir of the Demon God Emperor whose enormous External Spiritual Power made him almost impervious to attack. Long Haochen used Dreamlike Paradise’s restrictions to keep battling, and his Asura Thrust finally injured A Bao’s hand.

• A Bao reacted to Long Haochen identifying him as the Demon God Emperor’s heir and attacked him with a punch.
• Long Haochen’s sword strikes failed to harm A Bao, who revealed that his External Spiritual Power exceeded twenty thousand.
• Long Haochen argued that Dreamlike Paradise’s restrictions prevented A Bao from using his full power to attack, then charged him.
• A Bao cast a net of dark energy, but Long Haochen cut through it with Asura Slash and followed with Asura Thrust.
• A Bao blocked Asura Thrust with a crystalline purple finger, but the impact fractured the bones in his right hand.

Long Haochen fought A Bao with a series of self-destructive attacks and managed to injure him before Cai'er and the others arrived. A Bao withdrew with the Demon Clan, leaving Long Haochen to warn his companions that the battle might have ended differently outside Dreamlike Paradise.

• Long Haochen used Light Rain Twin Dragons Pull and a second Asura Thrust, injuring A Bao and exhausting himself.
• As A Bao prepared to kill Long Haochen, Cai'er appeared and aimed the Reincarnation Spiritual Stove and Reincarnation Sword at him.
• General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunt Squad and Zhang Fangfang joined Long Haochen, while the Demon Clan gathered behind A Bao.
• A Bao ordered his group to leave, and Moon Night, Leng Xiao, and the other Demon Clan members followed him.
• Long Haochen told his companions they likely would have been defeated if they had not been in Dreamlike Paradise.

After driving off A Bao, Long Haochen’s group recovered three Spiritual Stoves and gave them to Lin Xin, Sima Xian, and Wang Yuanyuan. Zhang Fangfang joined the group as they rested for the night, with two days of opportunities and greater danger still ahead.

• Long Haochen assessed A Bao as a formidable Demon Clan heir, and Zhang Fangfang reported that at least three entrants had died and the Demon Clan had collected more than seven Spiritual Stoves.
• Long Haochen led the group back to bury the magical beasts and recover three Spiritual Stoves, then offered Zhang Fangfang first choice; Zhang declined and asked to stay with the group in hopes of finding another later.
• Long Haochen assigned the Heart Flame Spiritual Stove to Lin Xin, Purple Lightning to Sima Xian, and Space Gate to Wang Yuanyuan, and the three absorbed them.
• The eight traveled on without finding more Spiritual Stoves, buried several magical beasts, and settled in a secluded place to rest after their first day in Dreamlike Paradise.