Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng fought a badly wounded Fifth-Rank Wolf Demon while concealing himself with assassin skills and striking from the darkness. As a Dike Clan Shadow Walker ambushed him, Lin Feng entered a state of selflessness and killed the Wolf Demon with a single slash.

• The Wolf Demon shattered Lin Feng's Holy Light Guard, and Lin Feng transformed his sword into Musou Isshin, startling Ouyang and the Wolf Demon with its Fifth Stage appearance.
• Lin Feng vanished using Camouflage and Spiritual Power Camouflage, then attacked the Wolf Demon from behind and worsened its wounds with a Thunder Blade.
• The Wolf Demon lashed out at Lin Feng's taunts and destroyed a burning cabin, while Lin Feng held back because he suspected another demon was waiting to ambush him.
• Ouyang warned Lin Feng that a Fourth Rank Dike Clan Shadow Walker was nearby, and the Shadow Walker appeared behind Lin Feng as he prepared to strike the Wolf Demon.
• Lin Feng recalled Raiden Shogun's Musou Slash, entered a state of selflessness, and cut down the Wolf Demon despite its Berserk transformation.

Lin Feng summoned a Hilichurl Thunderhelm Lawachurl through Paimon's Gate of Living Beings after defeating the Seventh Rank Wolf Demon and exhausting his spiritual power. With the Wolf Demons being cleared and reinforcements arriving, Ying Suifeng helped Lin Feng recover and introduced him to rescue leader Gao Yingjie.

• Ying Suifeng watched Lin Feng defeat the Seventh Rank Wolf Demon and noticed his hidden strength.
• As the Dike Clan Shadow Walker attacked an exhausted Lin Feng, Paimon summoned a Hilichurl Thunderhelm Lawachurl through the Gate of Living Beings.
• The Hilichurl Thunderhelm Lawachurl crushed the Shadow Walker and blasted the remaining Wolf Demons with a golden Slime.
• Ouyang helped Lin Feng rest and ordered the knights to clear the area while Captain Gao Yingjie’s reinforcements took charge of the village.
• Ying Suifeng restored Lin Feng’s spiritual power, praised his strike, warned him not to use it casually, and introduced Gao Yingjie as the rescue team leader.

Gao Yingjie registered Lin Feng after the Wolf Demons were defeated and questioned how an eight-year-old could have killed a Fifth Stage demon. Lin Feng explained that the demon had already been badly injured, and the chapter ended with Gao Yingjie mentioning the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition in five years, prompting Lin Feng to resolve to grow faster.

• Lin Feng teased Gao Yingjie about being afraid of his wife, and Gao Yingjie defended the idea as a sign of love.
• A knight reported that the Wolf Demons had been eliminated and identified as fugitives from Ao Ding Town, and Gao Yingjie ordered the casualties counted and the dead buried.
• Gao Yingjie registered Lin Feng with the Temple Alliance and learned that he was eight years old with spiritual energy of 206.
• Gao Yingjie doubted that a Third Stage assassin could kill a Fifth Stage Wolf Demon, and Lin Feng explained that the demon had already been severely injured by a Fifth Stage knight.
• Gao Yingjie told Lin Feng that the next Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition would take place in Holy City in five years, and Lin Feng decided to accelerate his growth.

Lin Feng resolved to grow stronger after realizing how close he had come to dying, and Ying Suifeng agreed to train him through dangerous battles. Ying Suifeng planned to take him to Devil Expulsion Pass in three days, where Cai'er's parents were stationed, leaving Lin Feng both eager to impress them and afraid to meet them.

• Lin Feng planned to raise his spiritual power to 2,000 within five years and asked Ying Suifeng how to accelerate his growth.
• Lin Feng explained that his fight with the Wolf Demon had shown him how vulnerable he was without Ying Suifeng nearby.
• Ying Suifeng asked Lin Feng to leave Cai'er for five years, and Lin Feng agreed after recalling the slaughtered village.
• Ying Suifeng acknowledged Lin Feng as his disciple and promised to teach him, saying battle was the fastest way to grow stronger.
• Ying Suifeng told Lin Feng to spend two days with Cai'er before they left for Devil Expulsion Pass, where Cai'er's parents were stationed.
• Ying Suifeng suggested Lin Feng could meet Sheng Lingxin under another identity, and Lin Feng warmed to the idea of impressing Cai'er's parents.

Lin Feng returned to the Assassin Temple and learned that Cai'er had regained her ability to speak but had lost her sense of feeling. He told her he would leave for Devil Expulsion Pass for five years, and she calmly agreed while struggling with an unfamiliar pain inside.

• Ying Suifeng left Lin Feng and Xia Ying One at the Assassin Temple, and Xia Ying One told Lin Feng that Cai'er could speak again but had lost her sense of feeling.
• Lin Feng and Xia Ying One watched Cai'er finish training, and Cai'er greeted Lin Feng warmly and took his hand.
• Cai'er explained that she had lost feeling, not her memories, and Xia Ying One left them alone.
• Lin Feng told Cai'er he would go to Devil Expulsion Pass with Ying Suifeng in two days and might be gone for five years.
• Cai'er let go of Lin Feng’s hand and felt distressed, but she agreed to spend the day sparring with him.

Lin Feng sparred with Cai'er and realized her anger over his planned trip to Devil Expulsion Pass was driving her to attack him. He helped Cai'er recover her feelings, and she decided to go with him rather than be separated.

• Cai'er attacked Lin Feng in the training ground, and he dodged her increasingly fast strikes.
• Cai'er said she was upset that Lin Feng had left for so long and did not want to go to Devil Expulsion Pass because she hated people there.
• Lin Feng caught Cai'er and drew close to her, prompting her suppressed emotions to begin returning.
• Lin Feng punished Cai'er with three smacks, completing her trial of feelings and increasing her spiritual power by thirty points.
• Half an hour later, Cai'er scolded Lin Feng and said she would go to Devil Expulsion Pass with him.

Lin Feng and Cai'er arrived at Devil Expulsion Pass with Ying Suifeng and learned they could register as auxiliary personnel under code names. After reaching the registration office, Lin Feng asked Lin Yun where to apply.

• Paimon admired Devil Expulsion Pass from the airship, while Cai'er recalled the painful childhood that had made her resent the Assassin Temple.
• Lin Feng comforted Cai'er by promising they would someday become strong enough to beat up the people who had hurt her, and Cai'er eagerly agreed.
• Ying Suifeng gave Lin Feng and Cai'er recommendation letters and told them to register as auxiliary personnel using code names.
• The airship landed, and Ying Suifeng left to report to the Temple Master after warning Lin Feng not to teach Cai'er strange ideas.
• Lin Feng put Paimon in the Pet Space and went with Cai'er to the registration office, where he asked Lin Yun where they could apply for auxiliary personnel status.

Lin Feng and Cai'er went to the Spiritual Power Testing Hall to register as non-staff personnel, where Lin Feng uncovered a scheme involving a stolen map. After defeating the men who attacked them, he learned the map was being gathered for the Moon Night Merchant Guild.

• Lin Feng showed Lin Yun an Assassin Temple recommendation letter, and she brought him and Cai'er to a private testing room.
• A Shadow Warrior instructed Lin Yun's superior to watch for two children, and the superior rushed to meet Lin Feng and Cai'er after learning they were already there.
• A staff member and Scarface entered the room with a map, and Scarface threatened Lin Feng and Cai'er after Lin Feng recognized it.
• Lin Feng beat Scarface, knocked out the other man, and examined the map showing merchant guild locations and defensive forces.
• Scarface told Lin Feng that the Moon Night Merchant Guild was paying for information about other merchant guilds.

Lin Feng and Cai'er exposed two men who had obtained and sold Devil Expulsion Pass defense maps, then registered with the Demon Hunt Tower under the code names Kong and Qiong. Three years later, the Moon Night Merchant Guild returned, while the pair had grown stronger through missions and training.

• Lin Yun brought Cui Bai to Lin Feng, who knocked out the scarred man and revealed that he and his accomplice were suspected of leaking Devil Expulsion Pass defensive information.
• Lin Feng handed Cui Bai the seized map, and Cui Bai had Lin Yun restrain the two suspects before completing Lin Feng and Cai'er's registration.
• Lin Feng chose Qiong as Cai'er's code name and Kong as his own, and the two began taking missions by day and training under Ying Suifeng at night.
• Over three years, Lin Feng and Cai'er improved their combat skills and spiritual energy, while Lin Feng advanced his Naginata Technique and reached 1,351 spiritual energy.
• The Moon Night Merchant Guild resurfaced in Devil Expulsion Pass when Lin Feng and Cai'er were twelve years old.

Yue Ye returned to Devil Expulsion Pass to investigate Lin Feng, whose actions had once disrupted her plans for the Moon Night Merchant Guild. At the Demon Hunt Tower, Lin Feng chose a mission against Fifth Rank Dark Night Stalkers, seeking a powerful opponent to push his Naginata Technique toward a breakthrough.

• Yue Ye arrived at Devil Expulsion Pass with Leng Xiao and ordered an attendant to gather reports about Lin Feng from the past three years.
• Lin Yun met Lin Feng and Cai'er at the Demon Hunt Tower and remarked on their rapid progress and growing fame.
• Lin Feng told Lin Yun that he and Cai'er wanted to challenge a Fifth Rank demon.
• Lin Yun offered missions against four kinds of Fifth Rank demons and warned Lin Feng that Dark Night Stalkers were especially difficult to detect.
• Lin Feng accepted the Dark Night Stalker mission and set out with Cai'er for the Devil Subduing Mountain Range to seek a fight that could advance his Naginata Technique.

Lin Feng and Cai'er left Devil Expulsion Pass to hunt a Fifth Rank Shadow Demon Night Stalker in the Devil Subduing Mountain Range. After learning of their talent and reputation, Yue Ye decided to go there with Leng Xiao to assess them and determine whether to recruit them or eliminate them.

• Lin Feng and Cai'er passed through Devil Expulsion Pass, where soldiers teased them about their closeness and wished them a safe return.
• Lin Feng and Cai'er traveled beyond the city through a battlefield littered with human and Demon Race corpses, then hired a carriage to take them into the Devil Subduing Mountain Range.
• A servant told Yue Ye and Leng Xiao that Lin Feng and Cai'er were twelve-year-old Fourth Rank cultivators known as the Twin Stars of Devil Expulsion Pass, and that they had killed more than thirty Fourth Rank demons.
• Yue Ye learned that Lin Feng and Cai'er were pursuing a Fifth Rank Shadow Demon Night Stalker, while Leng Xiao dismissed their reputation and wanted to test their strength.
• Yue Ye decided to travel to the Devil Subduing Mountain Range with Leng Xiao, intending to recruit Lin Feng and Cai'er if she could use them or ensure they could not become enemies.

Lin Feng and Cai'er reached the mission site in the Devil Subduing Mountain Range and discovered a Demon Hunt Squad hanging from a tree. They killed two Fifth Order Dark Night Stalkers who ambushed them and rescued a badly wounded knight, but Cai'er sensed someone approaching.

• Lin Feng and Cai'er headed toward the mission site through a silent stretch of the Devil Subduing Mountain Range beneath a lightning-filled sky.
• Lin Feng and Cai'er found six Demon Hunt Squad members hanging from a tree, including a barely conscious knight who tried to warn them.
• Lin Feng and Cai'er blocked an ambush by two invisible Dark Night Stalkers and identified them as Fifth Order demons.
• Lin Feng and Cai'er used their weapons to locate and kill both Dark Night Stalkers with a single strike each.
• Lin Feng lowered the wounded knight and gave him restorative pills until his breathing stabilized.
• Cai'er tugged Lin Feng's sleeve and warned him that someone was approaching.

Lin Feng and Cai'er encountered Yue Ye and Leng Xiao in the lightning-filled mountains, and Lin Feng fought Leng Xiao while Cai'er tried to restrain Yue Ye. The battle continued as Yue Ye exposed Cai'er's concern for Lin Feng and Cai'er launched a death-infused short sword at her.

• Lin Feng and Cai'er encountered Yue Ye and Leng Xiao after finding two dead Dark Night Stalkers.
• Leng Xiao charged Lin Feng, and he told Cai'er to hold Yue Ye off while he fought Leng Xiao.
• Lin Feng taunted Leng Xiao as they exchanged blows, and she intensified her Demonic Qi to strengthen her attacks.
• Cai'er attacked Yue Ye from behind, but Yue Ye's barrier blocked her dagger and her moonlight magic forced Cai'er to evade.
• Yue Ye used Cai'er's concern for Lin Feng to locate her, then questioned whether Cai'er liked him.
• Cai'er rejected Yue Ye's judgment and sent a death-infused short sword flying from her chest.

Lin Feng’s Musou Isshin transformed into Naginata: Grasscutter’s Flash when lightning struck it, restoring and increasing his spiritual power as he fought Leng Xiao. As Lin Feng overwhelmed her with knight and assassin skills and entered the No-Thought state, Leng Xiao transformed into a late Fifth Stage Heaven Defying Demon Dragon.

• Cai’er realized she could not break through Yue Ye’s defenses, though she had completed Lin Feng’s task, while Yue Ye’s possessive glances made her uncomfortable.
• Lightning struck Musou Isshin and transformed it into Naginata: Grasscutter’s Flash, while the Lightning Element restored Lin Feng’s spiritual power and raised it by a level.
• Lin Feng used the naginata and a combination of knight and assassin skills to wound Leng Xiao and drive her into a fierce exchange.
• Lin Feng entered the No-Thought state as his faster naginata swings stirred the Lightning Element into a Thunder Prison over the mountain range.
• Leng Xiao escaped Lin Feng’s assault, entered a spatial vortex, and emerged transformed into a late Fifth Stage Heaven Defying Demon Dragon.

Lin Feng defeated Leng Xiao’s Heaven Defying Demon Dragon form with a lightning-empowered Musou Slash, though the battle left him and Leng Xiao unconscious and drained. Yue Ye imprisoned Lin Feng, Cai’er, and herself in barriers and demanded that Lin Feng come with her, threatening to kill him and Cai’er if he refused.

• Leng Xiao transformed into a Heaven Defying Demon Dragon and challenged Lin Feng, who accepted her offer to become his mount if he won.
• Lin Feng used Lightning Elements to fly and evade Leng Xiao’s attacks, then struck her dragon form with a charged glaive attack that caused only superficial wounds.
• Lin Feng summoned a storm and unleashed No Thought, Severance as Leng Xiao fired a dark red beam, and his lightning-powered slash defeated her.
• Lin Feng and Leng Xiao fell from the sky, and Cai’er and Yue Ye caught them; Cai’er helped Lin Feng recover while Yue Ye confirmed Leng Xiao was alive but unconscious.
• Yue Ye trapped Lin Feng, Cai’er, and herself in transparent barriers and demanded that Lin Feng come with her, threatening to kill him and Cai’er if he refused.

Lin Feng and Cai'er confronted Yue Ye after Lin Feng exhausted his spiritual power, and Paimon's Ruin Grader helped them capture her. Cai'er planted a Gray Nether Needle in Yue Ye's heart, leaving Yue Ye under her control.

• Yue Ye approached Lin Feng and demanded that he return with her to the Demon Race, but Cai'er warned her to stay away from him.
• Yue Ye touched Lin Feng's cheek, prompting Cai'er to attack her with the Reincarnation Sword, and the two fought.
• Lin Feng summoned Paimon, who opened the Gate of Living Beings and sent a Ruin Grader to break Lin Feng's barrier and fire at Yue Ye.
• Cai'er used the opening to press her sword to Yue Ye's neck, while Lin Feng stopped the Ruin Grader's laser from hitting her.
• At Lin Feng's instruction, Cai'er planted a Gray Nether Needle in Yue Ye's heart and warned that only she could remove it.

Lin Feng forced Yue Ye to agree to secretly provide intelligence on the Demon Race for two years, then reminded Leng Xiao of her promise after she lost and accepted her condition that he not ride her in public. The chapter ended with Lin Feng riding the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon toward Devil Expulsion Pass, where soldiers mistook him for an attack and sounded the alarm.

• Lin Feng told Yue Ye he knew her identity and demanded that she report the Demon Race’s movements for the next two years, and she agreed to do so without exposing herself.
• Lin Feng warned Yue Ye that the Gray Nether Needle required her to meet Cai’er once a year.
• Lin Feng woke Leng Xiao and reminded her that she had promised to let him ride her if she lost; Leng Xiao accepted but insisted he not do so in public.
• Two and a half hours later, Lin Feng rode the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon toward Devil Expulsion Pass.
• A soldier spotted the dragon, raised the alarm, and sent Devil Expulsion Pass into chaos as the guards feared the Demon God Emperor had arrived.

Lin Feng and Cai'er returned to Devil Expulsion Pass after Lin Feng sparred with Leng Xiao and parted ways with Yue Ye. Ying Suifeng explained that the One-Armed Old Man had invited Lin Feng to Bright Moon City for his knight assessment, while Cai'er prepared for her Sight Trial and an impending separation.

• Leng Xiao took Lin Feng on a high-speed flight, then accepted his offer to spar with him again at Devil Expulsion Pass.
• Yue Ye asked Lin Feng how to contact him, and Lin Feng revealed that he knew she had placed Lin Yun by his side as a spy.
• Lin Feng and Cai'er returned to Devil Expulsion Pass, where Ying Suifeng explained that everyone had gathered because they feared the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon.
• Lin Feng told Ying Suifeng that the dragon was Leng Xiao, the Demon God Emperor's daughter, and that Lin Feng had defeated her.
• Ying Suifeng gave Lin Feng the One-Armed Old Man's invitation to complete his knight assessment in Bright Moon City and explained that Cai'er would soon begin her Sight Trial.

After Cai'er gave Lin Feng her Forget-Me-Not Ring, he left Devil Expulsion Pass for Bright Moon City to meet the One-Armed Old Man and register with the Knight Temple. The One-Armed Old Man arranged the registration with Nalan Shu, who was delighted to learn that Lin Feng was only twelve and already around the Fourth Stage.

• Cai'er gave Lin Feng her Forget-Me-Not Ring and challenged him to meet her at the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition in two years.
• After spending another month with Cai'er, Lin Feng left for Bright Moon City while she began her final Sight Trial.
• The One-Armed Old Man appeared at the Bright Moon City Knight Temple branch hall and asked Nalan Shu to register his friend's disciple.
• Nalan Shu worried that the disciple was too old to register, but the One-Armed Old Man told him Lin Feng was only twelve.
• Nalan Shu agreed that registering Lin Feng was legal and proper and welcomed the chance to support a Fourth Stage talent.

Lin Feng arrived in Bright Moon City with Paimon and met Li Xin, who led him to the Knight Temple. The One-Armed Old Man estimated Lin Feng’s spiritual power at around 1,500 and took him to be tested, while Nalan Shu set off for the testing hall with Li Xin and Long Haochen.

• Lin Feng and Paimon walked through Bright Moon City, where Li Xin mistook Paimon for a pet and offered to buy her pancakes.
• Li Xin learned Lin Feng was headed to the Bright Moon Knight Branch Temple and guided him there.
• The One-Armed Old Man arrived carrying Nalan Shu, examined Lin Feng, and estimated that his spiritual power might be around 1,500.
• The One-Armed Old Man vanished with Lin Feng to test his spiritual power, leaving Li Xin and the others astonished.
• Nalan Shu took Li Xin toward the Spiritual Power Testing Hall, and Li Xin brought Long Haochen along.