Chapter Summaries

Long Haochen explored Fearful Howling Cave and endured its powerful periodic howls, discovering that they could disrupt spiritual power and that a sinister presence lurked deeper inside. He returned safely by teleporting to Haoyue and reported his findings to the two demon hunting squads, while keeping the insight he gained from the howling to himself.

• Long Haochen ordered the two squads to build a stone shelter, then entered Fearful Howling Cave alone to test the howling.
• Long Haochen found demon corpses and a deep fissure where faint, sinister spiritual power emanated from below.
• Long Haochen endured the cave's third howl behind successive Holy Light Shields and gained an understanding from the experience.
• Long Haochen used his Blood Pact with Haoyue to teleport back to the squads after the howl stopped.
• Long Haochen told the squads that the cave's howling was stronger inside and could cost them up to forty percent of their spiritual power per round.

Long Haochen developed his first self-created skill, Ripple of Light, by matching his spiritual energy’s vibration to the cave’s piercing howls. He then descended into the fissure, where powerful Death Aura and the howls forced him to stop and recover.

• Long Haochen entered the Fearful Howling Cave alone to investigate the fissure and record his scouting with the Scouting Gem.
• Long Haochen used the piercing howls to develop Ripple of Light, greatly strengthening his Holy Light Shield and the attack of his Holy Spirit Sword.
• Yating helped Long Haochen recover his spiritual energy as he prepared to explore deeper into the fissure.
• Long Haochen leaped into the fissure with Blue Rain, Lotus of Light and descended for half an hour through darkness and scarce Light Elements.
• Long Haochen spotted more dead Great Demons and, as the howls sounded and his energy ran low, stopped on a ledge to rest.

Long Haochen explored deeper into the cavern, where piercing howls drained his spiritual energy, and discovered the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace could convert energy from other attributes into Light Element. After two hours of meditation, he left the rare cultivation opportunity behind and sent Haoyue a message that he was safe, mindful that his companions were waiting outside.

• Long Haochen descended farther into the cavern, studied how the piercing howls' vibrations strengthened Ripple of Light, and spent nearly half his spiritual energy resisting them.
• Long Haochen rested and cultivated in the cavern while Yating guided the circulation of Light Element within his body.
• The Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace began rotating and transformed from a container into a core, splitting and compressing liquid spiritual energy.
• Long Haochen realized the furnace was converting energy from other attributes into Light Element, temporarily giving him the Spiritual Aperture's ability to adapt to a hostile environment.
• After two hours of meditation, Long Haochen stopped cultivating, told Haoyue he was safe, and prepared to return because his companions were waiting.

Long Haochen reached a vast cavern deep beneath the Fearful Howling Cave and discovered a powerful seven-story tower surrounded by resentful spirits. After the spirits overwhelmed his defenses, Haoyue rescued him and urged him to enter the tower’s first floor.

• Long Haochen descended to the fissure’s bottom and found a huge cavern containing an ancient tower that radiated immense deathly spiritual energy.
• Shrill soul wails battered Long Haochen’s shields, and he judged that his companions could not survive the cavern’s dangers.
• When Long Haochen cautiously entered the cavern, resentful spirits attacked and shattered his Holy Light Shield, leaving him unable to escape.
• Haoyue appeared and released purple soul energy that drove the resentful spirits away, allowing Long Haochen to recover on its back.
• Haoyue told Long Haochen the immediate danger was manageable and suggested that he enter the tower’s first floor.

Long Haochen and Haoyue entered the Tower of Eternity, where a recording from the Holy Necromancer God Elieks announced trials and an inheritance. Outside Fearful Howling Cave, Cai'er took command and persuaded the Demon Hunter Squads to wait for Long Haochen instead of rushing to rescue him.

• Haoyue opened the Tower of Eternity’s doors, releasing Death Aura that consumed nearby resentful spirits, then carried Long Haochen inside.
• Long Haochen and Haoyue explored the tower’s vast first-floor hall as an aged voice welcomed them and described the trials leading to Elieks’s inheritance.
• The recording named Long Haochen the first necromancer to enter the tower and said it would close and move to a separate plane when he left.
• Outside Fearful Howling Cave, Lin Xin and the others grew alarmed when Haoyue disappeared and prepared to go support Long Haochen.
• Cai'er blocked the cave entrance, assumed command, and explained that Haoyue’s choice to join Long Haochen meant he believed the danger was manageable.
• Cai'er convinced the team to remain in the cave and trust that Long Haochen would return safely.

Long Haochen discovered that the tower belonged to the long-extinct necromancers and learned he had to pass its trial to escape. When Elieks tested his attribute, Long Haochen’s light affinity revealed him as the ideal successor to the Holy Necromancer.

• Long Haochen recalled how the necromancers’ ancient war with the Glorious Papacy had devastated humanity and ended their civilization.
• Long Haochen deduced that the buried Tower of Eternal Slumber had survived the Holy War and that he needed Elieks’s token to leave.
• Elieks announced that he would test Long Haochen’s attribute, and Long Haochen ordered Haoyue to charge the sealed door.
• A grayish-white beam immobilized Long Haochen and suppressed his light spiritual energy, but it vanished without harming him.
• Elieks recognized Long Haochen as a Holy Necromancer with the same light attribute and declared him his ideal inheritor.

Long Haochen inherited Eternal Melody and became the successor to Calamity of Eternal Slumber Eleiks, but he struggled with accepting a necromancer’s legacy. After Haoyue explained that its Great Prophecy had led them here for an opportunity, Long Haochen decided to investigate the tower’s trials before bringing his companions.

• Calamity of Eternal Slumber Eleiks gave Long Haochen Eternal Melody, named him the new master of Eternal Slumber, and filled his mind with knowledge of the tower and necromancy.
• Eternal Melody poured Light Element into Long Haochen, greatly increasing his spiritual power, while the tower’s gate opened and Eleiks’s voice faded.
• Long Haochen confronted Haoyue, who revealed that its Great Prophecy had foretold the castle would bring him an opportunity without danger.
• Long Haochen apologized to Haoyue and decided to learn about the tower’s trials before deciding with his companions whether to train there.
• Long Haochen used Eternal Melody to mark Haoyue with its aura, then summoned Blue Rain, Lotus of Light and discovered it now emitted golden mist that formed a long sword radiance.

Long Haochen entered the Tower of Eternity’s first trial with his newly evolved Blue Rain, Lotus of Light and fought two powerful holy skeletons alongside Haoyue. He damaged one skeleton and discovered how Ripple of Light strengthened his defense, but the other unleashed a devastating attack that forced a direct clash.

• Long Haochen recognized that Blue Rain, Lotus of Light had evolved, chose it as his main weapon, and advanced through the Tower of Eternity on foot.
• Two armored skeletons appeared and charged Long Haochen and Haoyue; Long Haochen used the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace to draw one skeleton away from Haoyue.
• Long Haochen and Haoyue attacked the skeletons, but the undead blocked their strikes with powerful knight skills.
• Long Haochen combined Ripple of Light with Divine Seal Block to withstand a Holy Sword strike, then used Dragon Ascension Strike to shatter much of one skeleton’s shield.
• Haoyue staggered the other skeleton with three impact spells, giving Long Haochen time to attack with Sunfire and Sun Slash.
• The skeleton roared, abandoned its shield, and swung a golden bone saber with such force that Long Haochen felt compelled to meet it head-on.

Long Haochen and Haoyue defeated two powerful skeletons in the Tower of Eternity, and Long Haochen discovered that their deaths yielded pure spiritual energy. As he prepared to leave, Haoyue gave him a memory imprint of the skeleton’s devastating sixth-tier skill, Asura Slash.

• Long Haochen met a skeleton’s powerful slash with Cross Slash, was thrown back, and injured it with Blue Rain, Lotus of Light.
• Haoyue knocked the other skeleton into its wounded companion and suppressed both with a storm of spells.
• Long Haochen used Lotus Rain Thorn to freeze and shatter the first skeleton, then absorbed a drop of pure, attribute-less energy that appeared in his body.
• Long Haochen and Haoyue killed the remaining skeleton, and a second drop of energy entered Long Haochen.
• Long Haochen absorbed the drops to recover his spiritual power, then decided to leave the Tower of Eternity and consider discussing it with Cai’er.
• Haoyue blocked Long Haochen’s way and gave him a golden bead that imprinted the sixth-tier skill Asura Slash in his mind.

Long Haochen learned Asura Slash in the Tower of Eternity, then watched the tower vanish and discovered his Scouting Gem had failed to record what happened inside. While he climbed back toward his companions, Cai’er and the others prepared to defend Fearful Howling Cave from an approaching demon force.

• Long Haochen absorbed the golden orb’s knowledge and learned Asura Slash, then decided he wanted his companions to share the Tower of Eternity’s trials.
• Long Haochen and Haoyue left the tower as wraiths swarmed it, and the tower vanished into a black hole while a new connection formed through Eternal Melody.
• Long Haochen checked the Scouting Gem and found its recording stopped when the wraiths attacked, leaving the Tower of Eternity’s secrets unrecorded.
• Han Dao Si reported that about thirty demons, led by one stronger than the Demon Commander they had killed, were approaching Fearful Howling Cave.
• Cai’er ordered the squad to prepare for battle and let Lu Xi command; Lu Xi placed the melee fighters at the cave entrance and assigned the others supporting roles.
• Cai’er slipped down the mountain alone to use the darkness for an assassination attack.

Cai'er ambushed the Great Demon Cavalry as they climbed toward Fearful Howling Cave, killing two riders before the Demon Lord strengthened the formation’s defenses. A spatial attack then struck the cavalry, shattering the Demon Lord’s group barrier as the force neared the cave.

• Cai'er silently followed the Great Demon Cavalry and killed a Great Demon and crippled his Nightmare Demon Horse before retreating into the darkness.
• The Demon Lord detected no sign of Cai'er, reorganized the cavalry with two Demon Commanders guarding the formation, and continued up the mountain.
• Cai'er used a clink to draw the Demon Lord and the front Commander away, then killed a Great Demon Cavalryman at the rear.
• The Demon Lord raised a blood-red barrier around the cavalry and led them onward at full speed toward Fearful Howling Cave.
• The front Commander set fire to a bramble patch, and a burst of silver-white spatial energy erupted in the cavalry’s midst.
• The Demon Lord’s dark-red power suppressed the spatial attack but failed to prevent it from shattering his group defensive skill.

The Demon Hunter Squads ambushed the Demon Lord’s cavalry, killing the front Demon Commander and inflicting heavy losses before the seventh-order Demon Lord turned the fight around. Lu Xi ordered a retreat as the wounded Great Winged Demon and the others fell back to the cave entrance.

• Yi Jun’s spatial magic failed to break through the Demon Lord’s defense, while Bai Xiaomo’s plants struck the Great Demon Cavalry and Cai’er and Han Dao Si restrained the Demon Lord and rear Demon Commander.
• A disguised Great Winged Demon ambushed and killed the front Demon Commander and his Nightmare Demon Horse, then charged into the cavalry as the Demon Hunters attacked.
• Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian joined the assault, while Yi Jun supported them with spatial magic and Bai Xiaomo’s plants continued striking the cavalry.
• The Demon Lord broke free of Cai’er’s restraint, shattered the Great Winged Demon’s spear, and forced Cai’er back with a powerful attack.
• Lu Xi ordered a retreat, and the Great Winged Demon, Wang Yuanyuan, Sima Xian, Cai’er, and Han Dao Si withdrew toward the cave entrance.

The two Demon Hunter Squads defended their cave against the Demon Lord’s Great Demon Cavalry, whose linked attacks overwhelmed their defenses. Han Yu used pills and his defensive skills to hold off the empowered Demon Commander, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Demon Lord sent the Great Demon Cavalry charging toward the cave while he stayed behind to guard against Cai'er.
• McDull, disguised as a Great Winged Demon, fired a lightning attack that blasted away two Great Demon Cavalry before reverting to pig form.
• Han Yu blocked the cavalry’s first combined attack with Divine Seal Block, but Soul Chain shared his injuries among the General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunter Squad.
• Dian Yan took Han Yu’s place against the next attack, suffered fractured arms, and could no longer fight.
• The Demon Commander linked his spiritual energy with ten Great Demons and led their assault on the cave entrance.
• Han Yu used Spirit Burst Pill and Bloodthirsty Pill to withstand the Demon Commander while his companions supported him.

Cai'er unleashed the first three forms of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and killed the Demon Lord, while Li Xin and Han Dao Si weakened the Great Demon cavalry. The Demon Commander continued pressing into the cave, leaving the exhausted squad in grave danger.

• Sima Xian volunteered to take the next defensive shift instead of Wang Yuanyuan.
• Cai'er used the Eye, Ear, and Tongue of Reincarnation to blind and grievously wound the Demon Lord before splitting him and his Nightmare Demon Horse in two.
• Han Dao Si ambushed the Great Demon cavalry from behind, while Li Xin struck their linked formation and disabled several knights.
• Han Yu, Ma Qun, and Wang Yuanyuan took turns holding off the Demon Commander but were forced back with their weapons broken or their bodies badly injured.
• The Mirror Treasure Divine Pig copied a Great Winged Demon's lightning abilities but was driven into the cave by the Demon Commander.
• Bai Xiaomo and Yi Jun exhausted their spiritual energy, while Lu Xi's healing could not help and the remaining fighters suffered severe injuries.

Long Haochen returned in time to kill the Demon Commander and defeat the remaining Great Demon cavalry, but found Cai'er collapsed from the enormous cost of using her Reincarnation Spirit Furnace. Holding her, he blamed himself for arriving too late and believed his misjudgment had forced his companions into danger.

• Yi Jun burned his life force to freeze the Demon Commander, but Lin Xin could not cast an attack spell and blasted the enemy out of the cave with Repelling Fire Ring.
• Long Haochen arrived on Haoyue and killed the Demon Commander and its Nightmare Demon Horse with a Gathering Momentum Asura Slash.
• Haoyue, Yating, and Long Haochen helped defeat the remaining Great Demon cavalry, with Han Dao Si and Li Xin assisting in the battle.
• Long Haochen saw Cai'er standing motionless and caught her as she collapsed into his arms.
• Long Haochen found that Cai'er had no visible injuries but had exhausted her internal and External Spiritual Power, and he blamed himself for her condition.

Long Haochen revived Cai'er after she lost four senses using the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace, then prepared to fight approaching Demon Cavalry while carrying her on his back. In the cave, Li Xin confronted Lin Xin over his failure to attack, and he revealed that his parents had died in a magical explosion when he was a child, leaving him afraid to use offensive magic.

• Long Haochen gave Cai'er a Great Spirit Replenishing Pill and learned that she had lost smell, sight, hearing, and taste, which would take seven months to recover.
• Long Haochen discovered that the Eternal Melody absorbed the souls of recently dead enemies, then tied Cai'er to his back and promised not to leave her side.
• Long Haochen mounted Haoyue and prepared to face about thirty Demon Cavalry approaching the group.
• Li Xin berated Lin Xin for failing to use offensive magic, while Han Yu defended his value as the squad's potion master.
• Lin Xin revealed that his parents died in a fire-element explosion when he was five, and that his fear of offensive magic had kept him from learning attack spells.

Long Haochen charged into thirty Great Demon cavalry while carrying the unconscious Cai'er, determined to protect her. With Haoyue disrupting the enemy’s Spiritual Power Linkage, Long Haochen killed the Demon Commander and slaughtered the remaining cavalry, leaving the other Demon Hunter squads watching in awe.

• Long Haochen gathered his spiritual power as thirty Great Demon cavalry approached, while Li Xin warned him about their Spiritual Power Linkage.
• Haoyue charged Long Haochen directly at the Demon Commander and used a roar that disrupted the commander and the linked cavalry.
• Long Haochen killed the Demon Commander with a single Asura Slash and rode past the ten linked cavalry, leaving them dead.
• Long Haochen used low-tier knight skills to slaughter the remaining Great Demon cavalry while carrying Cai'er on his back.
• The General Grade Twenty-First Demon Hunter Squad watched Long Haochen with excitement, while the Soldier Grade Fourth Demon Hunter Squad felt ashamed.

After the squads survived the slaughter at Fearful Howling Cave, Long Haochen led the injured group deeper into the mountains to recover. While he recounted the battle to Cai'er, Li Xin apologized to Lin Xin for accusing him and unexpectedly kissed him.

• Long Haochen collected the enemy corpses with Eternal Melody, and the survivors assessed their severe injuries and depleted strength.
• Long Haochen decided the group would leave Fearful Howling Cave, travel deeper into the mountains, and share the recovered magic crystals according to their agreement.
• The thirteen Demon Hunters crossed two peaks and sheltered in a stone-wall crack while Lu Xi treated the injured and Han Dao Si kept watch.
• Long Haochen held Cai'er and traced an account of the cave battle into her palm as she gradually regained the ability to move.
• Li Xin took Lin Xin aside, apologized for scolding him and stirring up painful memories, and offered to accept punishment.
• Lin Xin admitted that hitting or scolding Li Xin would not ease his inner pain, and Li Xin pressed him against the wall and kissed him.

After Li Xin kissed Lin Xin to settle their debt, the two remained awkwardly distant while the Demon Hunter Squads recovered. Long Haochen showed everyone his recording of the Fearful Howling Cave, shared his newly created Ripple of Light skill, and concealed the truth about the Tower of Eternity; Han Dao Si then asked whether the recording could count as partial mission completion.

• Li Xin kissed Lin Xin, declared that they were even, and fled, leaving him stunned and blushing.
• After three days of recovery, Long Haochen gathered the squads and used the Scouting Gem to show his recording of the Fearful Howling Cave.
• Long Haochen explained that he had comprehended Ripple of Light from the cave's high-frequency sound vibrations and demonstrated the skill for everyone.
• Long Haochen claimed the Tower of Eternity vanished after Haoyue drove away two wraiths, concealing what he knew about it.
• Han Dao Si asked whether submitting the recording would count as completing half the mission and began asking about Ripple of Light.

Long Haochen planned to travel alone to the Moon Demon Race’s territory and seek Moonlit Night’s help in returning the teams to the Alliance while the others recovered and studied Ripple of Light. Before departing, he questioned Lin Xin about his strange behavior around Li Xin, but Lin Xin had only begun to explain when the chapter ended.

• Han Yu and Sima Xian learned Ripple of Light quickly, while Dian Yan and Han Dao Si gave up and Li Xin and Wang Yuanyuan continued practicing.
• Han Dao Si reported that Demon Race forces, including at least three Demon Lords, had taken control of Fearful Howling Cave.
• Long Haochen told Lu Xi he would go alone to the Moon Demon Palace to test whether Moonlit Night could help them return safely.
• Cai'er accepted Long Haochen’s decision to leave her behind, and he promised himself he would stay with her after they returned to the Alliance.
• Lin Xin reported refining Great Spirit Replenishing Pills and traded pills to Lu Xi’s squad in exchange for their Magic Beast corpses.
• Long Haochen asked Lin Xin what was happening between him and Li Xin, and Lin Xin began to answer.