Chapter Summaries

Long Haochen reunited with Lin Feng at the Haoyue Branch Hall and discovered that Lin Feng’s spiritual power had reached 1,598. Nalan Shu began registering Lin Feng after confirming his bone age was twelve.

• Long Haochen recognized Lin Feng from Knight Sacred Mountain and greeted him, while Paimon stopped him from revealing Lin Feng’s multiple professions.
• The One-Armed Old Man recognized Long Haochen and asked him and Lin Feng to test their spiritual power.
• Long Haochen’s test showed 931 spiritual power, surprising Li Xin and Nalan Shu with his rapid growth.
• Lin Feng’s test reached 1,598 spiritual power, stunning everyone in the hall.
• Nalan Shu confirmed Lin Feng was twelve and immediately began handling his registration.

Lin Feng settled into the Knight Temple and met Long Haochen’s Beast Companion, Haoyue, who attacked Paimon before Long Haochen calmed it through their Soul Contract. The incident revealed that Paimon could evade danger and might trigger Time Stop when threatened.

• Nalan Shu left to register Lin Feng, while the One-Armed Old Man welcomed him to the Knight Temple and promised to arrange his records and training.
• Li Xin lamented the gap between her spiritual energy and Lin Feng and Long Haochen’s, while Long Haochen was happy that Lin Feng would stay and train with him.
• Haoyue suddenly pounced on Paimon, and Paimon repeatedly dodged its attacks.
• Haoyue transformed into a two-headed Earthfire Demon Lizard and knocked Li Xin aside before Long Haochen used their Soul Contract to make it stop.
• Lin Feng checked his Attribute Panel and saw that Paimon’s description now said she could attract weaker monsters and might trigger Time Stop when in danger.

Lin Feng settled into Haoyue Branch Hall before the One-Armed Old Man took him to Knight Sacred Mountain to cultivate. At Nalan Shu’s request, the old man agreed to bring Long Haochen and Li Xin as well, and the group prepared to set off together.

• Li Xin showed Lin Feng to his dormitory, where Paimon fell asleep after their long journey.
• The next morning, the One-Armed Old Man took Lin Feng to a teleportation array and revealed that they were going to Knight Sacred Mountain.
• Nalan Shu asked the One-Armed Old Man to nurture Long Haochen and Li Xin, and Lin Feng supported the request.
• The One-Armed Old Man agreed to bring Long Haochen and Li Xin, and Nalan Shu soon brought them to meet him.
• Li Xin excitedly hugged Lin Feng and thanked him before the One-Armed Old Man announced that it was time to depart.

Lin Feng reunited with the Star Brilliance Unicorn King at Knight Sacred Mountain and asked it to improve Li Xin’s Hell Rose. After the unicorn raised Hell Rose’s potential, Li Xin offered to introduce Lin Jialu to Lin Feng as thanks, but he ignored her and asked the One-Armed Old Man to begin intensive training.

• The Star Brilliance Unicorn King flew to Lin Feng and bowed its head, then said its bottleneck toward Level Ten had loosened after their previous contact.
• Lin Feng asked the Star Brilliance Unicorn King to help Li Xin’s Hell Rose, and it agreed.
• Li Xin summoned Hell Rose, and the Star Brilliance Unicorn King raised its potential from the early Seventh Rank to the late Eighth Rank.
• Li Xin offered to introduce her best friend Lin Jialu to Lin Feng as repayment, but Lin Feng ignored her and asked the One-Armed Old Man to start intensive training.

After more than a year of cultivation at Knight Sacred Mountain, Lin Feng repeatedly failed to break through to the Fifth Stage but remained confident as he and his companions left for the Demon Hunt Squad Qualification Assessment. The chapter ended with the contestants gathering in Bright Moon City and Li Xin and Lin Jialu arguing before the assessment began.

• Lin Feng failed his seventh attempt to break through to the Fifth Stage, despite his spiritual power reaching 2,000 points.
• Li Xin told Lin Feng and Long Haochen that the Demon Hunt Squad Qualification Assessment had begun and that they were invited to a banquet.
• Li Xin gave Lin Feng a black outfit she had prepared, and Nalan Shu led the group to the banquet, where the temple masters explained the assessment and introduced the seeded contestants.
• The next day, Lin Feng and Long Haochen met Lin Jialu and the Chen brothers at the assessment site.
• Lin Jialu criticized Li Xin for arriving late, and Li Xin argued that the assessment had not yet started.

Feng Yangmu sent Lin Feng and five others into the Demon Race Hinterland, raising their assessment requirement to three hundred kills and naming Lin Jialu captain. After the group defeated their first wave of demons, Lin Feng warned them that their spell use had drained too much spiritual energy, leaving them to reckon with the cost of the battle.

• Feng Yangmu raised the six candidates’ assessment quota to three hundred demons and told them to choose a captain; Lin Jialu claimed the role, and Lin Feng let her have it.
• Feng Yangmu teleported the group to the red amber stone forest and warned them that it held the remains of demons and previous candidates before leaving as the trial began.
• Lin Jialu froze a second-rank Luke Race, and the group defeated a wave of about ten demons with long-range attacks.
• Long Haochen warned that demons were more dangerous than they seemed, and Lin Feng pointed out that the group had spent a large share of its spiritual energy against the first wave.

Lin Jialu’s scouting revealed powerful Demon Race forces in the Amber Stone Forest, including a possible Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon. Lin Feng sent the others to hunt weaker enemies while he headed for the forest’s center, where he sensed something that might help him break through.

• Lin Jialu used Eagle Eye Technique and discovered an ambush of Second Rank Luke Race members and Fourth Rank Dike Clan Shadow Walkers, as well as a possible Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon.
• Chen Chen suggested giving up, but Lin Jialu and Chen Si refused, and Lin Jialu proposed clearing out the weaker Demon Race members on the outskirts.
• Lin Feng approved Lin Jialu’s plan and told the group to handle enemies below the Fifth Stage while he dealt with the Emerald Twin Blade Demon.
• Lin Feng vanished and hurried toward the center of the Amber Stone Forest, sensing something there that might help him complete his breakthrough.

Lin Feng descended into a Geo Element-filled pit in the Demon Race Hinterland and broke through to the Fifth Stage before relying on Morax’s Jade Shield to reach its depths. There, he met Zhongli and discovered an Earth Core Amber Jade that had given birth to a four-winged spirit.

• Lin Feng ignored Feng Yangmu’s warning and entered the pit, where the surging Geo Element began liquefying his spiritual power.
• Lin Feng endured the Geo Element’s pressure and broke through to the Fifth Stage.
• Lin Feng continued deeper, then asked Morax to protect him when the violent Geo Element began tearing at his body.
• Morax formed a Jade Shield around Lin Feng, allowing him to descend safely to the pit’s depths.
• Lin Feng met Morax in his space, where Morax asked him to use the name Zhongli and explained that the Geo Element came from an Earth Core Amber Jade.
• Lin Feng and Zhongli found a four-winged spirit sleeping inside the Earth Core Amber Jade.

Lin Feng freed a Geo Elemental Spirit from Earth Core Amber Jade with Zhongli’s help, and she began forming a Blood Pact with him. Paimon interrupted the Contract when the Spirit tried to claim priority, leaving the two extraordinary partners face-to-face.

• Lin Feng recognized the figure trapped in the Amber Jade as a Geo Elemental Spirit and offered to free her in exchange for becoming his Elemental Spiritual Furnace.
• The Spirit agreed, but Lin Feng’s Unsharpened Sword could not damage the hard Amber Jade.
• Zhongli used Steep Walls of a Thousand Ren to shatter the Amber Jade and release the Spirit.
• The Spirit began a Blood Pact with Lin Feng, but a Star Chart appeared and interrupted the Contract as she tried to claim priority.
• Paimon emerged and challenged the Spirit, who sensed that Paimon’s Star Chart far surpassed her own.

Lin Feng bonded with the Geo Elemental Spirit, who chose to inhabit his Unsharpened Sword and enhanced its Summit Shaper form. After reviewing his strengthened abilities, Lin Feng began climbing out of the pit to rejoin the others.

• The Geo Elemental Spirit merged her Contract inscription into Lin Feng's chest, while Paimon accepted that her own Contract had lower priority.
• The Elemental Spirit chose to inhabit Lin Feng's Unsharpened Sword, sensing that they could complement each other and help her evolve four times.
• Lin Feng transformed the Unsharpened Sword into Summit Shaper, and the Elemental Spirit enhanced it enough to slice through Earth Core Amber Jade.
• Lin Feng stored the jade fragments, then began leaping up the cliff with lightning after worrying about how the others were handling the magical beasts.
• Lin Feng checked his updated Attribute Panel, which showed his breakthrough to Fifth Stage, Level One and his new Geo Elemental Spirit companion.

Lin Jialu, Li Xin, Long Haochen, and two warriors killed the last demon stalking them, but Lin Jialu then spotted a large Demon Race force surrounding the group. A Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon led the advancing enemies.

• Long Haochen exposed a Dike Clan Shadow Walker with his sword and Saint Attraction Spiritual Furnace, and Lin Jialu killed it with an ice spike.
• Lin Jialu said the group had killed more than eighty demons using her Eagle Eye Technique and guerrilla tactics.
• Li Xin teased Lin Jialu about caring for Lin Feng, and Lin Jialu denied having feelings for him.
• Lin Jialu spotted hundreds of demons surrounding the group, led by a Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon.

Lin Jialu and her companions were trapped by hundreds of Dike Clan Shadow Walkers and a Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon, and their defenses collapsed. Just as the Shadow Walkers struck, Lin Feng arrived and shielded them.

• Lin Jialu warned the others that the Dike Clan Shadow Walkers and mutated Emerald Twin Blade Demon were closing in, and Long Haochen urged them to hold on until Lin Feng returned.
• The Emerald Twin Blade Demon appeared as the Shadow Walkers swarmed the group, and Lin Jialu raised an Ice Element Shield around them.
• The Emerald Twin Blade Demon shattered the shield with a single strike and attacked Lin Jialu, but Long Haochen used the Saint Attraction Spiritual Furnace to draw the blow toward himself.
• The Shadow Walkers swung their blades at the surrounded group, but a golden shield reinforced with Geo Element stones protected them.
• Lin Feng appeared atop a red amber stone and told Lin Jialu she would not get the chance to meet him in heaven.

Lin Feng returned to rescue Long Haochen and the others, then turned the tables on the surrounding demons with his Geo Element powers. He kept the group protected by Jade Shields and attacked the Emerald Twin Blade Demon as it tried to retreat behind its own forces.

• Long Haochen, Li Xin, the Chen Brothers, and Lin Jialu welcomed Lin Feng, though Lin Jialu reproached him for taking so long to return.
• The Emerald Twin Blade Demon sensed Lin Feng's strength and offered to let him leave, then threatened him when he refused to abandon his companions.
• Lin Feng formed golden Rock Spears and killed eighteen Dike Clan Shadow Walkers, then asked Lin Jialu how many more demons they needed to defeat for the mission.
• Lin Feng told Long Haochen and the others that his Jade Shields would protect them until they left the Stone Forest, prompting them to attack the stunned demons.
• The Emerald Twin Blade Demon accused Lin Feng of being despicable, ordered its forces to attack him, and threw a companion in the path of Lin Feng's spear as he targeted its retreat.

Lin Feng killed the Fifth Stage Emerald Twin Blade Demon in a single exchange, leaving the remaining demons in disarray as the group finished the assessment. As they prepared to return to Bright Moon City, Lin Feng looked forward to meeting Cai'er in the Holy City.

• Lin Jialu warned Lin Feng that the Emerald Twin Blade Demon's heavy strike was at least mid-Fifth Stage, then returned to fighting alongside the others.
• Lin Feng used the Vortex Vanquisher to kill the charging Emerald Twin Blade Demon, and the leaderless demons fell into chaos.
• Li Xin told Lin Jialu that Lin Feng had over two thousand spiritual energy and was only fourteen, prompting Lin Jialu to argue with her over her feelings for him.
• Chen Si asked why Li Xin and Lin Jialu were arguing, while Lin Feng reflected that he saw Li Xin only as a friend and anticipated meeting Cai'er.
• Lin Feng told the others to return to Bright Moon City.

Lin Feng and the others returned from the Demon Race Hinterland, passed the entry assessment, and learned how the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Competition would proceed. They prepared to leave for the Temple Alliance Headquarters, where the contest would determine the teams tasked with hunting demons.

• Lin Feng told Long Haochen that the group could keep the Emerald Twin Blade Demon's corpse after Haoyue swallowed its Fifth-Order Magic Crystal.
• Supervisor Feng Yangmu announced that Lin Feng and the others had passed the assessment and would call him Teacher Feng.
• Feng Yangmu explained that the contestants would travel to the Temple Alliance Headquarters, compete in their Holy Temples, and send ten contenders from each temple to the final.
• Feng Yangmu said the sixty finalists would form ten Demon Hunt Squads, compete for rankings and rewards, and use Merit Points to access the Alliance's resources.
• Long Haochen asked what Demon Hunt Squads did, and Feng Yangmu explained that they hunted the Demon Race and could even hunt Demon Gods.

Feng Yangmu explained how Demon Hunt Squads could earn secret techniques and revealed that the selection’s top three would receive Spiritual Furnaces. After he left, Lin Jialu and the Chen Brothers tried to invite Lin Feng to a meal, but Lin Feng urged everyone to return and cultivate before the competition.

• Feng Yangmu explained that secret techniques could be obtained through Inheritance Rings or exchanged for with Temple Alliance Merit Points, and he noticed Lin Feng wore two Inheritance Rings and another powerful ring.
• Feng Yangmu announced that the top three in the Final Competition would receive Spiritual Furnaces, exciting the others while Lin Feng showed little interest because he already possessed two.
• Feng Yangmu told the group to rest and meet at eight the next morning, then vanished after striking his staff on the ground.
• Lin Jialu thanked Lin Feng for saving her and invited him to dinner, while Li Xin guessed that Lin Jialu was trying to get closer to him.
• The Chen Brothers also offered to treat Lin Feng, and Lin Feng urged everyone to return home, cultivate, and arrive on time the next morning.

Cai'er completed her cultivation as the Reincarnation Saintess and prepared to leave the Assassin Branch Temple for the Demon Hunt Squad Selection in Holy City, where Lin Feng was expected to be. After Xue Yun disparaged Lin Feng, Cai'er threatened him, and Ying Suifeng intervened before she could strike.

• Ying Suifeng told Cai'er that the Demon Hunt Squad Selection had begun and that Lin Feng was likely in Holy City; Cai'er eagerly responded to his name.
• Cai'er absorbed the Reincarnation Sword, descended from the light pillar, and was welcomed as the Reincarnation Saintess by the assembled assassins.
• Cai'er said she hated the Assassin Temple and destroyed the statue with a strike from the Reincarnation Sword.
• Xue Yun questioned whether Lin Feng was worthy of Cai'er and suggested he might have died; Cai'er pressed her dagger to his forehead and threatened him.
• Ying Suifeng knocked Xue Yun aside and warned him, and Cai'er set off for Holy City.

Lin Feng and the others arrived in Holy City to register for their temples’ competitions, which would lead to the Final Competition. After Feng Yangmu warned Lin Jialu that her low spiritual energy could hinder her, Lin Feng gave her a powerful piece of Earth Core Lake Jade before leaving to act separately.

• Lin Feng failed to find the One-Armed Old Man before departing and learned that he had left Haoyue Branch Hall three days earlier.
• Feng Yangmu gave the six participants registration tokens, and they teleported to Holy City.
• Feng Yangmu explained that they had two days to register at their Holy Temples and compete for a place in the Final Competition.
• Feng Yangmu advised Lin Jialu to visit the auction house because her spiritual energy was low compared with the many mage competitors.
• Lin Jialu started toward the Holy Alliance Auction, but Lin Feng called to her and gave her a powerful piece of Earth Core Lake Jade before leaving separately.

Lin Feng rode the lift to Sky Island and ran into Gui Wu picking a fight with Sima Xian. After Gui Wu recognized Lin Feng from Knight Sacred Mountain, he backed down and Lin Feng headed to the Assassin Temple to visit Ying Suifeng and see Cai'er.

• Lin Feng boarded the lift to Sky Island after parting ways with Long Haochen and the others.
• Gui Wu and his men confronted Sima Xian, who fought back and sent Gui Wu flying.
• Gui Wu recognized Lin Feng and stopped his subordinate from provoking him, then apologized and promised to copy the Knight's Code a thousand times.
• Lin Feng ordered Gui Wu to copy the Knight's Code and left for the Assassin Temple.
• Gui Wu told his men to stay away from Lin Feng and doubled a knight's punishment to two thousand copies.

Lin Feng reached the Assassin Temple after leaving Sima Xian, where he reunited with Cai'er after nearly two years apart. Ying Suifeng and Xia Ying One watched from across the street, relieved that Lin Feng had arrived before registration closed.

• Lin Feng thanked Sima Xian for his gratitude and avoided giving him his name before heading toward the Assassin Temple.
• Sima Xian called after Lin Feng, hoping to see him in the Final Competition, then realized he had never learned Lin Feng's name.
• Lin Feng recalled his years with Cai'er and worried she might have forgotten their promise to meet again in Holy City.
• Cai'er waited outside the Assassin Temple with a staff, and seeing her eased Lin Feng's worries.
• Ying Suifeng and Xia Ying One discussed Cai'er's wait and worried that Lin Feng might not come before registration closed.
• Xia Ying One spotted Lin Feng approaching and excitedly pointed him out to Ying Suifeng.