Chapter Summaries

Long Fan condensed his Spiritual Power into liquid, advanced to fifth rank at twelve and a half, and traveled to the Haoyue Branch Hall. He reunited with Li Xin, who took him to meet Uncle Nalan.

• Long Fan compressed his Spiritual Power until it liquefied around the Starry Sky Spiritual Furnace, triggering a Spirit Ascension Cloud and his breakthrough to fifth rank.
• Long Fan visited the graves of Pein, Pei Qi, and Pei Jie on Tor Mountain, then headed down and hurried to the Haoyue Branch Hall.
• Li Xin welcomed Long Fan, praised his appearance, and offered to take him to see Uncle Nalan before treating him and Hao Chen to lunch.
• Li Xin led Long Fan through the branch hall grounds, where he saw the Knight Dormitory, Knight Square, and Knight Hall.

Long Fan settled into Haoyue Branch Hall and reunited with Hao Yue before Li Xin invited him and Long Xiaogua out for a feast. The group left Hao Yue behind with promises of dried fish and seafood.

• Li Xin showed Long Fan around Haoyue Branch Hall, where he registered as a Knight at the peak of Ninth Level Knight and received a suite between Long Xiaogua's and Li Xin's rooms.
• Long Fan changed into his standard knight's uniform, and Li Xin praised his appearance before suggesting they visit Hao Chen.
• Long Fan and Li Xin found Long Xiaogua with Hao Yue, whose two heads greeted Long Fan enthusiastically and brought him 66 Mount Attribute Points.
• Li Xin invited Long Xiaogua and Long Fan to a feast, while Long Xiaogua and Long Fan promised Hao Yue dried fish and seafood.
• Hao Yue agreed to stay behind, and the three left together.

Long Fan and Long Xiaogua joined Li Xin for a meal in Bright Moon City, where Li Xin’s rival Lin Jialu challenged her to a bet settled by a match between their companions. Li Xin and Lin Jialu agreed to wager a Golden Yan Tiger Magic Crystal against a Radiant Shield, then headed outside for the fight.

• Long Fan gave Long Xiaogua money to help support Haoyue, who refused to return to his dimensional space and ate heavily.
• Li Xin took Long Fan and Long Xiaogua to the Blue Moon Restaurant and ordered nearly every dish on the menu.
• Lin Jialu arrived with two warrior guards and exchanged insults with Li Xin, her longtime rival.
• Li Xin proposed that their companions compete because the two women were forbidden from fighting each other.
• Li Xin wagered a Fifth Level Golden Yan Tiger Magic Crystal against Lin Jialu’s Radiant Shield, and Lin Jialu accepted.
• Li Xin led Long Fan and Long Xiaogua toward the plaza outside for the match.

Long Fan challenged Lin Jialu to a spar and pressed his attack with a series of increasingly powerful knight skills. Lin Jialu kept retreating behind stronger ice barriers as Long Fan broke through them, and the duel continued with her fourth-tier defense raised.

• Li Xin arranged the wagered duel and encouraged Long Haochen and Long Fan, while Lin Jialu told Xu Tiankong and Chen Haiyang not to hurt them.
• Long Fan chose to spar with Lin Jialu instead of Chen Haiyang, and she accepted the challenge.
• Lin Jialu attacked with Ice Cone Technique, but Long Fan cut through it and charged through its slowing effect.
• Long Fan smashed Lin Jialu's Ice Ball Technique and battered her Ice Turtle Shield with repeated Thrusts until she reinforced it with her staff.
• Long Fan shattered Lin Jialu's shield with Lightning Thrust and then broke through her Six-Sided Turtle Shield with Sun Flare Slash.
• Lin Jialu retreated and cast her fourth-tier Greater Ice Tortoise Shell Technique to defend against Long Fan's attack.

Long Fan defeated Lin Jialu in a fierce duel, then used his reward from the Divine Deep Blue System to awaken the Mage profession as his third profession. With the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition approaching and a solo mission from Yang Haoyu ahead, he gained another way to strengthen himself.

• Lin Jialu trapped Long Fan in ice and attacked with Ice Burst Halo, but he broke through with Rising Dragon Strike.
• Long Fan shattered Lin Jialu’s defenses, and she pushed him back with Repelling Ice Ring before launching ice balls at him.
• Long Fan countered with Light Slash Sword and stopped the attack just short of Lin Jialu, forcing her to concede defeat.
• The Divine Deep Blue System rewarded Long Fan with a Magician Profession Book for decisively defeating a fourth-tier Grand Magician.
• Long Fan used the book and awakened his third profession, Mage, to prepare for the selection competition and Yang Haoyu’s solo mission.

After Long Fan defeated Lin Jialu, Li Xin stepped in to protect her, and their rivalry softened into a friendlier bond. Back at the Haoyue Branch Hall, Long Fan received the Radiant Shield and looked ahead to the Demon Hunt Test in a little over a month.

• Long Fan conceded after defeating Lin Jialu, and Li Xin protected her, helping the two rivals reconcile before they resumed their teasing and chasing.
• Long Fan, Long Xiaogua, Li Xin, Lin Jialu, and their companions shared a lavish meal, and Lin Jialu honored her bet by giving up the Radiant Shield.
• Long Xiaogua yielded his share of the Radiant Shield to Long Fan, who accepted it as equipment for his Guardian Knight training.
• Li Xin brought the shield to Long Fan’s room, explained how it worked, and stayed for an hour before leaving.
• Long Fan anticipated the Demon Hunt Test scheduled for a little over a month later and the chance to gain attribute points.

Long Fan used Deep Blue’s Beast Taming Simulation to help the newly hatched Silver Dragon King, Gu Xiaona, grow and gain abilities. After the simulation, Gu Xiaona formed a blood pact with Long Fan, and he planned to keep raising her toward the Silver Dragon God evolution path.

• Long Fan hatched the tiny Silver Dragon King and discovered he could not ride her in her infant form.
• The system offered a Beast Taming Simulation, and Long Fan spent 20,998 mount Attribute Points to choose the Silver Dragon God evolution path.
• During the month-long simulation, Gu Xiaona gained elemental abilities and returned skills to Long Fan, while growing enough to enlarge herself and briefly take dragon-girl form.
• Gu Xiaona called Long Fan “Big brother,” enjoyed his affection, and offered her blood to initiate a pact.
• Long Fan and Gu Xiaona completed a blood pact that let them share a deeper bond and potentially lend each other abilities.
• Long Fan promised to care for Gu Xiaona and planned to gather more mount Attribute Points to continue her evolution.

Long Fan and Long Xiaogua joined Li Xin and Bright Moon City’s leaders for a gathering tied to the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition, then selected equipment from the Executive Hall’s collection. Deep Blue detected that an overlooked magic ring could undergo evolution, and Long Fan suspected it might become a divine artifact.

• Long Fan realized Deep Blue used simulation to maximize Gu Xiaona’s talent growth, and he sensed her thoughts through their blood contract.
• Li Xin took Long Fan and Long Xiaogua to the Executive Hall, where they met Bright Moon City’s leaders and the three Haoyue branch hall masters.
• The group received their equipment allotments, and Long Fan chose a magic robe and a staff instead of armor or swords.
• Deep Blue identified an ordinary, dusty magic ring as equipment that could undergo evolution, so Long Fan went to inspect it.

Long Fan chose an unusual magic ring and tested its lightning powers while Long Xiaogua prepared his new equipment. The group gathered at Bright Moon City’s east gate for their test, where the inspector arrived with Lin Jialu and handed Li Xin a map.

• Long Fan chose an ordinary-looking magic ring, then discovered through Deep Blue that the Elden Ring could evolve and used it to produce lightning and a defensive shield.
• Long Xiaogua tested his light armor and swords, then put on the Spirit Light Bracers that could summon a Holy Light Barrier three times a day.
• Li Xin arrived first at Bright Moon City’s east gate, and Long Fan and Long Xiaogua joined her on horses before the Chen brothers arrived.
• Lin Jialu arrived in a carriage with the Saint Hall Alliance inspector, whose aura unsettled Long Fan and Long Xiaogua and who grabbed Lin Jialu’s hand as he stepped down.
• The inspector handed Li Xin a parchment map before she could speak.

The test squad entered Demon Race territory under Li Xin’s command and advanced in formation while Lin Jialu scouted with Eagle Eye. When Dual Blade Demons attacked from underground, Long Fan shielded the group and blocked their first assault.

• Old Man Wind sent the six-person squad toward the border, and Lin Jialu handed out their identification tokens as Li Xin explained the mission to kill thirty-six Demon Race members.
• Li Xin became the squad’s temporary leader, and the group rode toward the border while Hao Yue secretly followed them before leaving the carriage behind.
• The squad passed through the Saint Hall Alliance’s military garrison and entered Demon Race territory, where Li Xin planned their route and Lin Jialu scouted ahead with Eagle Eye.
• Long Fan used saved skill Attribute Points to raise Beginner Eagle Eye Technique to its maximum level as the squad advanced in a diamond formation toward concealed bushes.
• Lin Jialu spotted approaching Dual Blade Demons, and Long Fan sensed an Infiltrator underground and protected the squad with consecutive Spiritual Light Barrier and Holy Light Barrier spells.

Long Fan and his companions countered the Luke Clan Stalkers’ underground ambush, then formed up as Long Fan charged into the attackers. He slaughtered them by shrugging off their spikes and fighting barehanded, leaving his companions stunned by his ferocity.

• Long Fan and the others stabbed their weapons into the ground, and Lin Jialu froze the attackers who tried to burrow up beside the barriers.
• As the Holy Light Barrier failed, dozens of Luke Clan Stalkers surrounded the six Bright Moon City elites, who formed a defensive formation around Lin Jialu.
• Long Fan saw that fighting alongside his teammates had earned fewer Attribute Points, so he told the others to hold formation while he charged the Stalkers.
• Long Fan snapped two Stalkers’ spikes with his bare hands and killed them, then drew more attackers toward himself as his Attribute Point rewards increased.
• Long Fan charged through the surrounding Stalkers, punching them down despite their spikes piercing his armor, and finished a wounded Stalker before it could burrow away.
• Li Xin, Lin Jialu, Chen Si, Chen Chen, and Long Xiaogua watched Long Fan’s brutal fighting style in shock.

After the Luke Clan battle, Long Fan’s group was ambushed by a Di Ke Clan assassin, but they exposed and fought it off. Long Fan used the fight to gain Outer Spiritual Power before killing the demon, leaving the group victorious.

• Long Fan warned the group of unusual auras and blocked a blade aimed at his neck.
• A second invisible Di Ke Clan attacker slipped through the formation and nearly slit Lin Jialu’s throat, but Long Xiaogua exposed it with white light.
• Long Xiaogua blocked the assassin while Li Xin and Chen Chen attacked, and Chen Si guarded Lin Jialu.
• Long Fan let the Di Ke Clan strike him to gain Attribute Points, then paralyzed it with a lightning ball and wounded it with Lightning Sword.
• The Di Ke Clan entered a bloodburst state and charged Long Fan, but his increased Outer Spiritual Power left its attacks ineffective.
• Long Fan blasted the Di Ke Clan’s chest with a punch and crushed its head underfoot.

Long Fan defeated a Di Ke Clan demon, gained Saint Attraction Spiritual Furnace Attribute Points, and led his team in preparing for another attack. At dawn, a squad of Ze Lin Clan Double Blade Demons led by an Emerald Double Blade Demon approached, and Long Fan ordered the team to attack.

• Long Fan charged a Di Ke Clan demon, disarmed it, and killed it with a golden hand-blade strike.
• Long Fan used all ten Saint Attraction Spiritual Furnace Attribute Points to upgrade his Starry Sky Spiritual Furnace.
• Long Fan urged the exhausted team to retreat into the bushes, rest, and hold their formation while awaiting stronger enemies.
• At dawn, Lin Jialu spotted a fast-moving Ze Lin Clan squad led by an Emerald Double Blade Demon.
• Long Fan and the others took battle positions as the demons charged, and Long Fan ordered everyone to attack.

Long Fan and his companions fought the Ze Lin Clan’s Dual Blade Demons, while Long Fan confronted their fifth-step Emerald Double Blade Demon. After his shield skills stopped its attacks, the demon tried to bypass him and strike the backline, but Long Fan activated Saint Attraction to pull it back.

• Long Fan charged the Emerald Double Blade Demon with his Radiant Shield, knocking it back but finding its body exceptionally tough.
• Lin Jialu, Chen Chen, Chen Si, Li Xin, and Long Xiaogua attacked the ordinary Dual Blade Demons and began clearing the enemy ranks.
• The Emerald Double Blade Demon leaped at Long Fan with its six blade-like spikes, but his Saint Infusion Shield blocked the strike.
• The Emerald Double Blade Demon tried to dash past Long Fan toward the backline, so Long Fan used the Starry Sky Spiritual Furnace’s Saint Attraction buff to pull it toward him.

Long Fan used Saint Attraction to draw the Emerald Double Blade Demon away from the back line and fought it with a mix of knight and warrior techniques. After battering it with his shield, he brought down Holy Sword on its head, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Long Fan used Saint Attraction to interrupt the Emerald Double Blade Demon's attack on the rear line and force it to target him.
• Long Fan blocked the demon's attacks with Divine Guard Block while Long Xiaogua's side overwhelmed the ordinary Dual Blade Demons.
• Long Fan used shield-based sword techniques, including Thunderclap Cut, to damage the demon and crack one of its blades.
• Long Fan charged the demon with Empowering Light Halo, then wounded it with Light's Revenge and Explosive Slash.
• Long Fan launched Holy Sword and drove his shield through the demon's head.

Long Fan unlocked the Deep Blue System’s Modification function after helping kill a fifth-tier Emerald Double Blade Demon. He used it to raise his Thrust skill to the fourth tier and discovered that his Innate Inner Spiritual Power limit could also be broken, leaving him eager to keep accumulating points.

• Long Fan had his teammates take turns striking the barely living Emerald Double Blade Demon before he choked it to death, activating Deep Blue’s Modification function.
• Long Fan inspected the redesigned Deep Blue interface and spent Skill Attribute Points to modify Thrust from the first tier to the fourth.
• Long Fan discovered that the system could also modify his Innate Inner Spiritual Power limit, advancing it toward the Light Priest Physique and the Light God King Physique.
• Long Fan resolved to keep farming Attribute Points so he could continue breaking his limits and eventually surpass the Divine Throne World’s constraints.

After completing the assessment, Long Fan let Hao Yue consume the Emerald Double Blade Demon’s magic crystal and then went with inspector Yang Dianfeng to continue his test of independently killing a fifth-tier demon. The chapter leaves the others waiting by the carriage as the scene shifts to the Assassin Temple’s Reincarnation Hall.

• Long Fan gave the Emerald Double Blade Demon’s corpse to Hao Yue, and Xiao Guang swallowed its fifth-tier magic crystal.
• Long Xiaogua worried that Hao Yue had eaten Long Fan’s trophy, but Long Fan said the crystal could help strengthen their team.
• The inspector declared the assessment passed and brought back the carriage for Li Xin and the others.
• Long Fan presented a token from Hall Master Nalan and explained that he still needed to kill a fifth-tier demon independently.
• Long Fan told Long Xiaogua and the others to wait, then followed Yang Dianfeng deeper into the area to continue his assessment.
• The scene shifted to the dark blue-lit Reincarnation Hall in the Assassin Temple.

Saint Caier left Reincarnation Hall for her Demon Hunt Test while Long Fan upgraded Divine Guard Block as he hunted demons in the borderlands. When Yang Dianfeng urged him to turn back, Long Fan confronted him about being a necromancer.

• Saint Caier rose from the center of Reincarnation Hall and left for her Demon Hunt Test as the hall's runes went dark.
• Long Fan spent nearly all his Skill Attribute Points to upgrade Divine Guard Block to the seventh tier.
• Long Fan continued deeper into Demon territory to hunt another fifth-rank demon, frustrating Yang Dianfeng, who had been following him.
• Yang Dianfeng warned Long Fan that he could not guarantee a safe retreat if they met a sixth-rank demon and urged him to return to his companions.
• Long Fan interrupted Yang Dianfeng and suggested that he was eager to return because he had something to hide.
• Long Fan asked Yang Dianfeng whether he wanted his identity as a necromancer exposed.

Long Fan exposed Inspector Deacon Yang Dianfeng as the undead wizard Soka Dong, a Human-Demon Hybrid plotting to turn promising test-takers into undead. Soka Dong admitted his hidden identity and eyed Long Fan as a valuable target, while Long Fan prepared to fight despite their vast strength gap.

• Long Fan accused Yang Dianfeng of using an undead carriage to ambush his party and harvest promising test-takers for his undead legion.
• Long Fan revealed that Yang Dianfeng was Soka Dong, a Human-Demon Hybrid with both wind and dark undead magic.
• Soka Dong asked how Long Fan had uncovered his identity, and Long Fan concealed that the Deep Blue Panel had revealed it.
• Soka Dong said he had been interested in Long Fan's recklessness and became more intrigued by the secrets Long Fan appeared to hold.
• Soka Dong pointed out their enormous difference in strength and regarded Long Fan as ideal material for an undead puppet.

Long Fan lured Soka Dong into a confrontation after uncovering his history of abducting Demon Hunt Test candidates and turning victims into undead. Long Fan sprang his trap and revealed his ability to fight as both a knight and a mage, leaving Soka Dong stunned as the battle continued.

• Soka Dong boasted that he had personally captured the missing Demon Hunt Test teams and threatened to turn Long Fan and his companions into undead puppets.
• Long Fan explained that his teammates were prepared to face Soka Dong’s undead mount while he lured Soka Dong away and kept him talking.
• Soka Dong revealed his plan to use Bewitching Incense on the carriage and turn the two young women there into maid puppets.
• Long Fan caught Soka Dong with a Light Net Binding spell, then charged him with his Radiant Shield and shattered his Cyan Qi Shield.
• Long Fan rose into the air with a Levitation Spell, transformed into the Deep Blue Mage, and showed Soka Dong that he could fight as both a knight and a mage.