Chapter Summaries

Long Haochen hunted the retreating Serpent Demons in the poisonous mist while the Boa King and Serpent Demon God Andomali fought over the Demon God Pillar. After the Boa King’s attack on the pillar backfired, it fell into danger, and an azure attacker struck the four Medusas near the pillar.

• Long Haochen entered the poisonous mist alone and used Demon Extermination Flash to kill retreating Serpent Demons as the Anacondas attacked them too.
• The Boa King and Andomali battled fiercely while four Medusas petrified the Boa King, helping Andomali land a powerful spear strike.
• The Boa King fired its Boa Core at the Demon God Pillar, but the pillar repelled it and the backlash weakened the Boa King.
• Andomali seized the opening and launched a renewed assault as the Boa King began to fail.
• An azure streak appeared between the injured Medusas and shattered their snake hair with a whirlwind of azure light.

Long Haochen took advantage of the Boa King's battle with Andomali to kill and collect the four Medusas, then hunted Serpent Demon elites from the fog. Andomali and the Boa King continued their fight, and the Boa King escaped into the swamp while Andomali climbed onto his Demon God Pillar.

• Long Haochen's Holy Guard Ten made the four Medusas turn their petrification rays on one another, then kicked their petrified bodies into Eternal Melody.
• Andomali blamed the Boa King for the Medusas' deaths and attacked it with renewed fury, while the Boa King recovered and fought back.
• Long Haochen concealed his light attribute, hunted Serpent Demon elites through the fog, and collected their corpses and inner cores.
• Andomali wounded the Boa King with repeated attacks until it pretended to fire its inner core, then plunged into the swamp.
• Andomali realized the Boa King had escaped into its domain and climbed onto the Demon God Pillar to avoid the swamp and preserve his advantage.

Andomali lured the Boa King into a fatal exchange, using Demon God Incarnation to survive its inner-core blast and pierce its head. As he reached for the Boa King's abandoned inner core, the apparently dead beast suddenly struck him from behind.

• Andomali recovered beside the Demon God Pillar, then rushed toward the Boa King's cave to force the beast to defend its treasure.
• The Boa King spat out its inner core and attacked, but Andomali ignored it and drove both snake spears through the Boa King's eyes and head.
• The Boa King's inner core blasted through Andomali's chest, but Demon God Incarnation let him reappear alive on the beast's other side.
• Long Haochen fled with Holy Guard Ten as the mortally wounded Boa King thrashed, while Andomali concealed his aura and waited for it to die.
• Andomali grabbed the Boa King's inner core after its movements weakened, but the supposedly lifeless beast suddenly smashed its head into his back.

After the Boa King’s dying attack badly wounded Andomali, Long Haochen seized the chance to lure the Serpent Demon God into the cave while his companions ambushed the snake demons outside. Andomali chased after Yating and Holy Guard Eleven into the cave, where Long Haochen’s trap awaited.

• The Boa King struck Andomali with its dying blow, badly injuring him before it died.
• Long Haochen sent Holy Guard Ten toward the cave and arranged for Yating to draw Andomali inside while retrieving the Boa King’s inner core.
• Andomali followed Yating and Holy Guard Eleven into the cave, ignoring the danger to pursue them.
• Holy Guard Nine and Holy Guard Eleven trapped the arriving snake demons with earth and ice magic as Haoyue blocked the cave entrance.
• The anacondas returned to attack the snake demons while Haoyue and the Holy Guards unleashed magic against them.

Long Haochen and his allies trapped the badly wounded Serpent Demon God Andomali in a cave and attacked him before he could recover. Andomali shielded himself and tried to escape into his Demon God Pillar, but Haoyue confronted the pillar’s rescue rays.

• Andomali entered the cave to reclaim the Boa King's inner core and found Yating and Holy Guard Eleven waiting for him.
• Long Haochen revealed himself and lured Andomali into battle, while Haoyue blocked the cave entrance.
• Long Haochen, Holy Guard Ten, and the Spear of Starlight attacked Andomali, and Holy Guard Ten severed his broken wing and opened the wounds on his back.
• Andomali formed a shield resembling a Demon God Pillar and tried to merge with the pillar outside the cave.
• Haoyue raised all five heads, turned their eyes purple, and released a strange glow against the pillar's rays.

Haoyue’s violet aura stripped away Serpent Demon God Andomali’s defenses, allowing Long Haochen and his companions to attack him in the cave. Andomali’s final counterattack failed, and Long Haochen killed him with a powerful golden strike as his allies survived the battle.

• Haoyue’s violet aura dissolved Andomali’s protective barrier, and Holy Guard Twelve joined Long Haochen in attacking him.
• Long Haochen released Sima Xian, Lin Xin, Wang Yuanyuan, and Han Yu, who attacked Andomali while Lin Xin briefly went outside to support Haoyue.
• Andomali used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique to recover his strength, but Long Haochen urged his companions to keep him trapped and attack.
• Lin Xin returned to the cave, and the group’s attacks interrupted Andomali as he charged toward the entrance.
• Long Haochen unleashed a brilliant golden strike that split Andomali’s body, killing him as his dark-red sphere of energy vanished.

Long Haochen revealed how he had broken Goddess of Light Aria’s seal to kill Serpent Demon God Andomali, and Haoyue swallowed the escaping Demon God Crown. After the group recovered and gathered the battlefield spoils, they prepared to move on, while Cai’er’s lost memories continued to trouble Long Haochen.

• Long Haochen recalled that Qiu Yonghao had taught him how to lift Goddess of Light Aria’s seal, and he had used Gathering Momentum to unleash the sword’s true power and destroy Andomali.
• A dark-red Demon God Crown fled from Andomali’s corpse, but Little Light swallowed it before anyone could stop it.
• Lin Xin tried to persuade Haoyue to spit out the crown, while Wang Yuanyuan celebrated that they had killed a Demon God and earned a huge merit reward.
• Long Haochen summoned Chen Ying'er and Cai'er, and Han Yu used Light’s Blessing to restore the group as Long Haochen worried over Cai’er’s lost memories.
• Long Haochen led the group in cleaning the battlefield, storing the Boa King’s corpse and collecting the valuable Serpent Demon remains.

Long Haochen and his companions watched Haoyue sacrifice its strength to strike the Serpent Demon God Pillar, then destroyed the weakened pillar and proved the Demon God Pillars could be broken. Haoyue fell into a severely weakened state, while the destruction sent mournful tremors through the Devil Race’s provinces.

• Long Haochen decided to try destroying Andomali’s exposed Demon God Pillar, but Haoyue reacted with fury and pain.
• Haoyue burned its own essence and formed a violet-gold arrow from five crystals, which struck the Demon God Pillar before Haoyue collapsed from exhaustion.
• Long Haochen and the Holy Guards caught Haoyue as the pillar began glowing from within and developing cracks.
• Sima Xian smashed the cracked pillar with his Light Great Strength Pill, causing it to collapse in a burst of dark-red light.
• Long Haochen and the Marshal Grade Sixty-Fourth Demon Hunter Squad became the first humans to destroy a Demon God Pillar, reducing the Devil Race’s total to seventy-one.

After destroying the Demon God Pillar, Long Haochen and his companions celebrated their victory, rested, and explored the cave’s depths. They discovered a beautiful giant snail radiating immense pure light, which startled and withdrew into its shell as they approached.

• Long Haochen and his companions celebrated their victory after Haoyue destroyed the Demon God Pillar.
• Long Haochen ordered the group to rest, then led most of them deeper into the cave while Sima Xian and three Holy Guards kept watch.
• Long Haochen sensed that the cave’s pure light attribute grew stronger as McDull ran ahead through the glowing vines.
• Long Haochen and his companions reached a vast chamber and found an enormous golden-shell snail radiating intense light.
• Chen Ying'er exclaimed at the snail’s beauty, and the creature startled and retreated into its shell.

Long Haochen and his companions discovered that the Giant Snail was an ancient Starlight Divine Beast, and Holy Guard Nine identified it as the Sun Moon Divine Snail. Nine explained its near-invincible defensive power and revealed that its flesh had once transformed a dragon into a Holy Dragon, leaving the group waiting to hear how that ruler’s reign ended.

• Long Haochen stopped his companions from approaching the Giant Snail and asked Holy Guard Eleven to identify it.
• Eleven said the snail was likely a Starlight Divine Beast and explained that he and two other Holy Guards had served their master far less long than Nine.
• Long Haochen summoned Nine, who recognized the creature as the Sun Moon Divine Snail, a rare Starlight Divine Beast regarded as a representative of peace.
• Nine explained that Starlight Divine Beasts were tenth-tier beings whose magic cores could help create Great Divine Artifacts, and that the Demon God Pillars might be components of a Super Divine Artifact.
• Nine described the Sun Moon Divine Snail’s Eternal Barrier and said a dragon that once ate one became a Holy Dragon before asking how its rule ultimately ended.

Holy Guard Nine explained the Sun Moon Divine Snail’s history and revealed that Eleiks had led the necromancer catastrophe, shaking Long Haochen’s faith in training through the Tower of Eternity. As Long Haochen and his companions left the cave without claiming the snail, it spoke to them and warned that even a pure heart could be corrupted.

• Holy Guard Nine told Long Haochen that humans and the Starlight Divine Beasts shared an origin, and recounted how earlier appearances of the Sun Moon Divine Snail accompanied changes in who ruled the continent.
• Holy Guard Nine confirmed that Eleiks had led the war between necromancers and humanity, prompting Long Haochen to decide his team would never again enter the Tower of Eternity’s third floor.
• Long Haochen apologized to his companions for accepting Eleiks’s blessings, but Han Yu and the others reassured him that they supported him and that their actions had served humanity.
• Long Haochen chose to leave the Sun Moon Divine Snail in the cave, and his companions followed him without trying to claim it.
• The Sun Moon Divine Snail spoke to Long Haochen, reflected on the tragedy of a savior becoming humanity’s enemy, and warned that outside influences could corrupt even a pure heart.

The Sun Moon Divine Snail recounted how its ancestors were betrayed by their human Children of Light and explained its own history with Elieks. It urged Long Haochen to approach Elieks with tolerance and left him with the warning that it had chosen a different path from its predecessors.

• The Sun Moon Divine Snail told Long Haochen that its first two ancestors were betrayed and eaten by their Child of Light companions, one a dragon and the other a human hero seeking eternal life.
• The Sun Moon Divine Snail explained that it had initially resented humanity but was drawn to its generation’s Child of Light before he changed into Elieks.
• The Sun Moon Divine Snail recalled refusing Elieks’s call to purge humanity and leaving him after sensing that hatred had polluted his soul.
• The Sun Moon Divine Snail urged Long Haochen to remember that Elieks had suffered deeply and to meet the world with greater tolerance.
• Long Haochen promised to remember the Sun Moon Divine Snail’s counsel and said he might return decades later, but the Sun Moon Divine Snail said it would not be there to see him.

The Sun Moon Divine Snail sacrificed itself, leaving Long Haochen its shell as an Epic shield and cleansing his heart with its final power. Long Haochen and his companions prepared to escape the Gloomy Marsh through its poisonous fog.

• The Sun Moon Divine Snail explained its past failures, urged Long Haochen to uphold tolerance and conscience, and said its shell would become his shield before its life faded away.
• Long Haochen and his companions honored the departing Sun Moon Divine Snail as its life force merged with its shell and the resulting orange-yellow light settled on Long Haochen's left arm.
• The Sun Moon Divine Snail's power cleansed Long Haochen's heart, and he bowed in gratitude before summoning the Epic Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield.
• Long Haochen led his companions out of the cave and assessed their gains from the Gloomy Marsh, including the destroyed Demon God Pillar and their new shield.
• With Haoyue unable to carry the group, Long Haochen ordered Lin Xin and the others into formation and planned a forceful flight through the poisonous fog.

Long Haochen and the Marshal Grade Sixty-Fourth Demon Hunter Squad used the Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield to escape the poisonous mist of Gloomy Marsh, which was filled with countless poisonous flying insects. After reaching safety, the shield vanished, and the squad reflected on their commitment to humanity.

• Long Haochen led the squad upward through the poisonous mist, clearing their path with Holy Radiance from the Goddess of Light Aria.
• When poisonous flying insects surrounded them, Long Haochen used the Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield to create a giant protective sphere that repelled the attackers.
• Long Haochen and the squad flew another thousand meters and escaped the mist, discovering that hundreds of millions or more poisonous insects had filled it.
• After Long Haochen withdrew the Shield Wall, the Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield grew hot, vanished into his hand, and could no longer be summoned.
• Lin Xin wondered whether the squad counted as heroes, and Han Yu affirmed that Demon Hunters fought for the Alliance and humanity until death.

Long Haochen led Marshal Grade Sixty-Fourth Demon Hunter Squad north and then west through Devil Race territory, where an unnaturally smooth retreat and dense supply convoys suggested a major military buildup. Near Demon Extermination Pass, they found a vast Devil Race camp guarded by eight Demon God Pillars, and Long Haochen considered what to do next.

• Long Haochen led his companions away from Gloomy Marsh, traveling north through Devil Race territory before turning west toward Demon Extermination Pass.
• The squad avoided settlements and traveled for weeks without incident as Han Yu used Evil Eye to scout their route.
• Long Haochen noticed the growing number of Devil Race supply convoys and suspected the enemy was preparing a large-scale operation against the Alliance.
• Long Haochen ordered the exhausted squad to rest for a day and remain alert before approaching the border.
• The squad spotted a Devil Race camp at least three times larger than before, with over a million troops and eight Demon God Pillars.
• Long Haochen studied the camp while his companions waited for his decision.

Long Haochen and his companions detoured around the Devil Race encampment and used McDull’s Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon disguise to cross the border into the Demon Subduing Mountain Range. After reaching a snowy summit, they noticed activity to the south and sent Evil Eye to investigate.

• Long Haochen decided to travel north around the Devil Race army and wait until night to cross the border.
• A patrol of Twin-Bladed Demons and a Demon Eye Sorcerer cowered before a group led by a Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon, allowing Long Haochen’s disguised squad to pass.
• Long Haochen and his companions entered the Demon Subduing Mountain Range, where McDull dropped its dragon form and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• The squad changed back into their Demon Hunter Squad gear and climbed toward the mountain summit without flying.
• Han Yu reported that Evil Eye had spotted a group to the south, and Long Haochen ordered it to scout them.

Long Haochen's group discovered a powerful Devil Race army advancing through the Demon Subduing Mountain Range and realized it could threaten the Alliance with a surprise attack. After Han Yu left to warn Demon Extermination Pass, Long Haochen assigned the others to expose and delay the army, while he planned to target its Familiar Demons.

• Evil Eye secretly scouted the approaching force and projected an image showing an elite army of five thousand devils, including Mad Demons, Bear Demons, Hell Demons, Great Demons, and a powerful Demon King-grade commander.
• Long Haochen identified the Hell Demons and judged that the army was too strong for his group or the mountain defenders to confront directly.
• Han Yu took Evil Eye and set out for Demon Extermination Pass to report the army and seek reinforcements.
• Long Haochen ordered Ying'er and Lin Xin to stay behind with Cai'er, while Wang Yuanyuan and Sima attacked the army from the flanks with falling rocks.
• Long Haochen prepared to harass the devils at close range and look for an opportunity to kill their Familiar Demons.

Long Haochen left his companions to shadow the advancing Devil Race army and wait for a chance to disrupt its support units. As the army entered a mountain hollow, a sudden rockslide trapped it between falling boulders on both sides.

• Lin Xin warned Long Haochen that harassing the Devil Race army was too dangerous, but Long Haochen insisted he could escape and set out alone.
• Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian descended the mountain by separate routes while Cai'er and Chen Ying'er worried about being left behind and discussed Cai'er's feelings for Long Haochen.
• Long Haochen concealed his aura with his mental power, spotted the advancing Devil Race army, and decided to target its familiars and Spore Demons after its formation fell into disorder.
• A purple flash and thunderous booms drew the army to a halt as huge rocks began crashing down from both sides of the mountain hollow, trapping the soldiers midway through.

Long Haochen used an ambush to stall a Devil Race army in the Demon Subduing Mountain Range while Holy Guard Nine drew on the other Holy Guards’ soul energy to prepare a powerful counterattack. As demons closed in on Long Haochen and Yating, they began casting a defensive spell under a shield as the first enemy attack arrived.

• Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian dropped rocks on the Devil Race army, which quickly formed defensive groups and sent troops toward the peaks.
• Long Haochen summoned the four Holy Guards and ordered them to delay and injure the enemy; Holy Guard Nine absorbed the other three guards’ soul energy, putting them into slumber.
• Holy Guard Nine headed toward a mountain peak and told Long Haochen to keep the Devil Race troops between the two mountains.
• Long Haochen summoned Yating and poured his spiritual energy into her as she began chanting a powerful light spell to draw the enemy’s attention.
• A Demon Lord led twenty Great Demons and a group of Spore Demons toward Long Haochen and Yating, who raised Shield Wall for protection.
• Spore Demons sprayed green mucus over the area, and their attack struck the shield surrounding Long Haochen and Yating.

Long Haochen used the Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield to protect himself and Yating from a Spore Demon and an Eighth Tier Demon Lord while Yating completed her magic. After resisting the Demon Lord’s strongest attack, Long Haochen fled to conserve his strength and rendezvous with Holy Guard Nine.

• Long Haochen’s Sun Moon Divine Snail Shield deflected the Spore Demon’s slowing slime and blocked the Demon Lord’s first attack.
• The Great Demons surrounded Long Haochen and attacked, but his Shield Wall held while Yating continued preparing her magic.
• The Demon Lord linked his Great Demons together to amplify his power, then struck the Shield Wall with a peak Eighth Tier attack that Long Haochen endured at the cost of spiritual power.
• Yating completed her magic and merged into Long Haochen, while streams of golden light surged into the sky.
• Long Haochen flew away to avoid fighting the Demon Lord and his reinforcements, and the Demon Lord pursued him.