Chapter Summaries

The Demon God Emperor revealed that Long Haochen had thwarted his attempt to obtain the Nature Goddess' divinity and ordered a new Holy War to eliminate him and threaten humanity. Long Haochen warned the Knight Temple that Dragon Guard Pass was likely the target and pledged to protect his comrades as the Federation prepared for war.

• The Demon God Emperor told the Demon Gods that Long Haochen had rescued the Nature Goddess' divine soul, ruined his chance to become a god, and remained a threat to Devil Race rule.
• Abao urged the Demon God Emperor to concentrate forces against human fortresses, and the Demon God Emperor ordered elite clans to prepare for a full-scale Holy War and appointed Abao Commander of the Demon Extermination Squads.
• Long Haochen predicted that the Demon God Emperor would attack Dragon Guard Pass because he wanted to kill Long Haochen and feared his power against the Demon God Pillars.
• Long Haochen urged the Knight Temple to prepare for the coming war, promised the Demon God Emperor would not harm his comrades while he lived, and said Federation leaders and newly formed legions would soon arrive.

The Holy Temple Federation prepared for war as the Demon God Emperor assembled his forces, then learned that the Fall of the Demon God and Nine Heavens Demon Hunter Squads had been wiped out. With the Federation facing an unprecedented threat, Yang Haohan began revealing the secret power of Knight Holy Mountain.

• The Holy Temple Federation mobilized its temples and legions after Long Haochen's letter, while reports showed the Demon God Emperor gathering more than fifty Demon Gods.
• Federation leaders assembled at Dragon Guard Pass, where they learned that the Fall of the Demon God and Nine Heavens Demon Hunter Squads had been annihilated.
• An Emperor Grade Demon Hunter Squad captain reported that Chen Zidian had warned them of the attack and said the Demon God Emperor was hiding before contact ended.
• Long Haochen agreed with Yang Haohan's proposal to conceal the news and recall all Demon Hunter Squads from Devil Race territory.
• Yang Haohan proposed deploying Knight Holy Mountain's power, then began explaining its secret to the Federation's leaders.

Yang Haohan revealed that the Knight Temple had transformed sixty-three fallen ninth-rank heroes into undead Eternal Heroes, who had remained hidden in the Knight Holy Mountain for generations. As the Federation considered using their power against the Devil Race, Long Tianyin objected, warning that their deployment could undermine morale and prove impossible to control.

• Yang Haohan explained that the Spirit Transformation Scroll could turn recently deceased powerhouses into undead Souls of the Strong while preserving their wisdom.
• He recounted how the Alliance had used the scroll to transform sixty-three fallen ninth-rank heroes, naming them Eternal Heroes and hiding them in the Knight Holy Mountain.
• Yang Haohan said the Eternal Heroes had been forbidden from appearing unless the Alliance faced a life-or-death crisis, and their secret had passed down among the Six Great Temples' leaders.
• Long Tianyin opposed using the Eternal Heroes, arguing that their undead nature would frighten soldiers and that the Federation could not be sure they would obey their descendants.

At a Federation council meeting, Yang Haohan proposed using the dwindling power of the Eternal Heroes, while several leaders warned against the risks. Long Haochen then explained that the ancient undead mage Elieks had been a Child of Light like himself, leaving the council in uproar.

• Long Tianyin, Long Xingyu, and Ling Xiao opposed using the Eternal Heroes, while Li Zhengzhi supported Yang Haohan’s proposal.
• Yang Haoyu reminded the council that the decision belonged to Federation Chairman Long Haochen, and Yang Haohan asked him to state his opinion.
• Long Haochen asked about the Spirit Transformation Scroll’s creator and revealed that the undead mage had been named Elieks, the Holy Necromancer God.
• Long Haochen said Elieks had been a Light Magic mage and a Child of Light, prompting Long Tianyin to angrily challenge him.
• Long Haochen demanded that the council let him finish speaking and threatened to have anyone who interrupted him removed.

Long Haochen used his strength to assert his authority as Federation Chairman, then told the council how he learned Eleiks’s past and argued that the Eternal Heroes should be honored and allowed to fight for the Federation. He left the council with a plan to inspect the heroes at the Knight Holy Mountain before deciding whether they could join the battlefield.

• Long Haochen sent Long Tianyin out of the meeting hall with one move, and the council recognized that he had reached the fifth level of the ninth rank.
• Long Haochen explained that he had removed Long Tianyin under Federation law, while Long Tianyin calmly left the room after their planned performance.
• Long Haochen resumed his account and revealed that Eleiks had been a Child of Light whose hatred and suffering had driven him to become the Necromancer Calamity.
• Long Haochen recounted how he inherited the Tower of Eternity, died in battle, and was revived by Cai'er, explaining his squad's strength and his own long absence.
• Long Haochen proposed inviting the Eternal Heroes to fight and publicly honoring them, but said he would first inspect their condition and state of mind at the Knight Holy Mountain.

Long Haochen persuaded the Federation council to honor the fallen demon hunters and clear the Eternal Heroes’ names, but the council turned his story with Cai’er into a public campaign. The chapter ended as citizens gathered in Holy City to watch a magical film recounting Long Haochen’s past.

• Long Haochen proposed honoring the fallen demon hunter squads, and the council observed a minute of silence for them.
• Long Haochen said he and Cai’er would personally meet the Eternal Heroes and could stop them if they threatened the Federation.
• Li Zhengzhi and Qiu Yonghao proposed publicizing Long Haochen and Cai’er’s story before clearing the Eternal Heroes’ names, and the council unanimously approved the plan.
• The Federation assigned the Mage Temple to produce magical films featuring Long Haochen and Cai’er, while its leaders debated where the Devil Race would attack.
• Crowds gathered at Holy City’s Grand Trial Grounds to watch the film, which introduced the events after Long Haochen died in the Star Demon Tower.

The magical projection revealed how Cai'er and the Dawn of Light Demon Hunter Squad entered the Tower of Eternity to seek a way to revive Long Haochen within seven days. It left Cai'er struggling up the Path to Heaven, bleeding with every step as the public watched.

• Cai'er placed the blue ring back on Long Haochen's finger, took the Eternal Melody, and teleported the squad into the Tower of Eternity.
• Ye Xiaolei explained that Long Haochen's soul would remain intact for only seven days and that the tower's inheritance might revive him.
• Cai'er carried Long Haochen's body and vowed to obtain the inheritance of the Holy Necromancer God, Necromancer Calamity Eleiks.
• The Dawn of Light Demon Hunter Squad fought through the tower's trials, and its members fell one by one while Cai'er pressed onward.
• Cai'er used six of the Seven Absolutes of Death to defeat the sixth-floor trial, then began the Path to Heaven with only an ordinary young woman's strength.
• Cai'er continued climbing the Path to Heaven through blood and exhaustion as the public wept at the projection.

The Federation screened an image of Cai’er and Long Haochen’s ordeal with Eleiks, moving citizens across the Holy City and the six great fortresses. After the image made Long Haochen, Cai’er, and the Dawn of Light widely revered, Long Haochen and Yang Haohan arrived at Knight Holy Mountain to visit Seal’s Den.

• Cai’er endured the Path to Heaven, entered the Tower of Eternity, and sacrificed her heart to revive Long Haochen.
• Long Haochen chose to abandon his faith to save Cai’er, and Eleiks declared that he had won before telling his story.
• Citizens across the Federation watched the magical image and praised Long Haochen, Cai’er, and the Dawn of Light.
• Long Haochen and Cai’er quietly arrived at Knight Holy Mountain with Yang Haohan as their escort.
• The mountain’s light mist gathered around Long Haochen and parted as three elders led him and Yang Haohan toward Seal’s Den.

Long Haochen activated the Sacred Mountain Token in the Knight Holy Mountain’s core array and entered the Seal's Den. He arrived in a freezing passage deep underground and walked toward the source of its foul, icy aura.

• The elders teleported Long Haochen, Yang Haohan, and Cai'er to the cavern beneath Knight Holy Mountain, where Yang Haohan gave Long Haochen the Sacred Mountain Token and explained how to return.
• Yang Haohan identified Long Haochen as the newly appointed Divine Seal Knight, and Long Haochen’s pure Light Element convinced the three elders of his authority.
• Long Haochen sensed that Knight Holy Mountain consisted of nine interconnected arrays and located the Seal's Den beneath the mountain.
• Long Haochen activated the Sacred Mountain Token, causing a golden pillar to transport him into the Seal's Den.
• Long Haochen found himself alone in a frigid, foul-smelling passage and used a white flame to clear the air before walking onward.

Long Haochen entered the Eternal Heroes’ resting place and met one of the undead founders, who asked him to prove his identity by revealing the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation. The chapter left Long Haochen preparing to display the throne’s power while taking care not to disturb or harm the other heroes.

• Long Haochen’s new heart and Ye Xiaolei’s life aura shielded him from the chill as he descended to the ancient gate.
• Long Haochen bowed to the Eternal Heroes, vowed to clear the names of the sixty-three heroes, and opened the gate with the Sacred Mountain Token.
• Long Haochen introduced himself to a voice in the cavern as the Divine Seal Knight of Radiance and Leadership and explained that Yang Haohan had entrusted him with contacting the heroes.
• A zombie Eternal Hero appeared and asked to see the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation.
• After the zombie explained that the heroes retained their living attributes and would not be harmed by light, Long Haochen stepped back and began releasing the throne’s holy aura.

Long Haochen awakened the sixty-three Eternal Heroes by summoning the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation, then bowed to them and apologized for what he believed was their neglect. They explained that they had chosen their underground resting place, and Shu Yongxiao asked him to recount events in the outside world.

• Long Haochen summoned the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation, whose thirteen Eternal Stars formed the Armor of Eternity around him and awakened the sixty-three Eternal Heroes.
• Long Haochen entered the cavern, introduced himself as the new Federation Chairman, and bowed to the Eternal Heroes, apologizing for their cold, empty resting place.
• The Eternal Heroes explained that they had willingly remained underground and used the ice spring to preserve their bodies and strengthen their Soul Fires.
• Shu Yongxiao introduced herself as the group's leader and asked Long Haochen to tell them what had happened outside during the past thirty years.
• Long Haochen described the Holy Temple Alliance's history, the previous Holy War, and the founding of the new Holy Temple Federation.

Long Haochen told the Eternal Heroes about his life and how the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation had chosen him. Elder Xiao Huo then challenged him to spar and revealed an armor resembling the Adamantine Foundation Battle Armor.

• Shu Yongxiao welcomed the Holy Temple Federation's establishment, and Elder Xiao Huo praised the news that all six Divine Seal Thrones had wielders.
• Xiao Huo asked Long Haochen to recount his life, and Long Haochen described his growth, his death and revival, and his trial for the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation.
• Moved by Long Haochen's story, Xiao Huo invited him to spar, and Long Haochen accepted.
• Long Haochen and Xiao Huo faced each other as the Eternal Heroes watched, and Xiao Huo's soul pressure surprised Long Haochen.
• Xiao Huo released golden liquid spiritual energy that formed Adamantine Foundation Battle Armor around his body.

Long Haochen challenged Xiao Huo and was effortlessly defeated when his attacks and Domain of the Light God failed against the ancestor’s strange power. He adjusted his domain and tried again, but Xiao Huo’s golden-eye attack began crushing Divine Light Waltz.

• Xiao Huo formed dark-golden twin swords and struck Long Haochen with a Cross Slash, which Long Haochen countered before launching Demon Extermination Flash.
• Xiao Huo nullified Long Haochen’s Demon Extermination Flash and Domain of the Light God, then blasted him into a stone wall with the power of a golden eye.
• Long Haochen rose, asked Xiao Huo for guidance, and resolved to find why his abilities had failed rather than rely on Haoyue.
• Long Haochen merged his domains and advanced with Divine Light Waltz, briefly pressing its power against Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Huo summoned the golden eye above Divine Light Waltz and began crushing the Domain Skill downward.

After being defeated twice by Xiao Huo, Long Haochen realized that Xiao Huo had used Domain Is Me to compress and merge his domain with himself, and began trying to imitate the technique. He left the story attempting the dangerous fusion under the protection of the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation.

• Xiao Huo struck Long Haochen into the cave wall again, and Long Haochen sat motionless while the Eternal Heroes watched.
• Cai'er worried about Long Haochen at the core formation, but Yang Haohan reassured her that the ancestors would not harm him, and she began cultivating.
• After a quarter of an hour, Long Haochen stood and told Xiao Huo he understood that Xiao Huo had used his domain to suppress Long Haochen's domain.
• Long Haochen slowly spread and compressed the Domain of the Light God, attempting to merge himself with it without drawing on the Eternal Domain.
• Xiao Huo recognized Long Haochen's exceptional insight and noted that the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation protected him from the dangers of the fusion.

Long Haochen mastered Domain Is Me but still could not withstand Xiao Huo’s Brahma’s Eye, so Xiao Huo offered to teach him the Brahma Three Forms. Long Haochen asked the Eternal Heroes to join the coming war against the Devil Race, and they agreed to fight while refusing public recognition.

• Long Haochen absorbed the seven-colored domain into himself, but Xiao Huo struck him down again with Brahma’s Eye.
• Xiao Huo explained that powerful skills could surpass a cultivator’s level and offered to teach Long Haochen the Brahma Three Forms.
• Long Haochen knelt to accept Xiao Huo’s offer and considered using the Sword of Eternity and Haoyue’s sword form to unleash the technique.
• Long Haochen told the Eternal Heroes that the Demon God Emperor might soon launch another Holy War and asked them to emerge from seclusion.
• Xiao Huo and Shu Yongxiao agreed to fight but asked the Federation not to reveal their existence or publicize their deeds.

Long Haochen secured the sixty-three Eternal Heroes’ agreement to leave Knight Holy Mountain and fight the Devil Race, while arranging for them to pass their skills to young Federation talents. After bringing them out of the cavern, he stood with them at the mountain’s core as they faced the emotions of leaving their home for the first time in thousands of years.

• Shu Yongxiao asked Long Haochen to find her a worthy inheritor, and Xiao Huo revealed that she had already chosen Cai'er.
• The Eternal Heroes competed for inheritors from the Dawn of Light Demon Hunter Squad, so Long Haochen promised a fair selection by drawing lots among one hundred young talents.
• Xiao Huo and Shu Yongxiao said the Eternal Heroes needed only cloaks and would serve as Long Haochen’s personal guards, while Xiao Huo promised to teach him the Brahma Three Forms.
• Shu Yongxiao told Long Haochen that all sixty-three Eternal Heroes were powerful Ninth Tier fighters, including sixteen above the fifth level and two at the seventh level.
• Long Haochen returned to Cai'er and Yang Haohan, then distributed new clothes and cloaks to the Eternal Heroes before leading them out of the cavern.
• The Eternal Heroes stood at the core of Knight Holy Mountain and silently confronted the possibility that they would never return.

Xiao Huo explained why the Devil Race had allowed humanity to survive and warned that its coming war targeted Long Haochen, who could destroy Demon God Pillars. He urged Long Haochen to abandon a defensive strategy and consider attacking, leaving him with the beginnings of a new plan.

• Xiao Huo told Long Haochen to return to Dragon Guard Pass while he and the others stayed at Knight Holy Mountain for three days to adjust to the outside air and elemental fluctuations.
• Long Haochen described the uncertainty of the Devil Race's impending attack, and Xiao Huo argued that trying to defend every possible target would let the enemy dictate the war.
• Xiao Huo recounted how ancient human divisions and the Devil Race's arrival had led to humanity's collapse, and explained that the Devil Race spared humans because it relied on them for food and goods.
• Xiao Huo said the coming invasion was aimed at Long Haochen because he could destroy Demon God Pillars, but that the Devil Race would not want to eliminate humanity completely.
• Xiao Huo urged Long Haochen to think in terms of offense rather than defense, and Long Haochen began to grasp a new approach.

Long Haochen brought Xiao Huo’s proposal to take the initiative against the Devil Race before the Demon God Emperor arrived, and the council approved a counteroffensive. The Six Great Temples began mobilizing for attacks on multiple fronts as Long Haochen’s Spearhead Army secretly departed Dragon Guard Pass to strike a nearby Devil Race garrison.

• Xiao Huo proposed carrying the war into Devil Race territory, and Long Haochen recognized the value of seizing the initiative.
• Long Haochen returned to Dragon Guard Pass and presented Xiao Huo’s plan to the council, where more than two-thirds voted to support it.
• The Six Great Temples began exchanging troops to form combined forces and prepare simultaneous attacks on the Devil Race garrisons outside their fortresses.
• The Federation assigned Long Haochen’s First and Second Legions, the Dawn of Light Demon Hunter Squad, returning Demon Hunter Squads, and eighteen Eternal Heroes to the Spearhead Army.
• The remaining forty-five Eternal Heroes were sent to support the other five temples as they prepared their attacks.
• Under cover of night, Long Haochen’s Spearhead Army left Dragon Guard Pass and advanced on a Devil Race garrison a hundred li away.

Long Haochen led a mounted force of more than fourteen thousand elite professionals toward the Devil Race garrison outside Dragon Guard Pass, relying on his spiritual power to conceal their approach. As the army halted within sight of the enemy camp, he gathered the Dawn of Light squad and the Eternal Heroes to plan their assault on the garrison and its Demon God, Busong.

• Long Haochen led the elite force out of Dragon Guard Pass at night while his spiritual power concealed their movement from detection.
• Cai'er agreed to follow Shu Yongxiao during the battle and observe her techniques, while Li Xin and Lin Xin rode together beside their Eternal Hero companions.
• Long Haochen ordered most of the army to dismount and form up for the advance, leaving Han Yu behind to help conceal the troops and horses.
• The army stopped about eight li from the Devil Race camp, where Lin Xin explained that the mages needed to advance closer to use their area spells effectively.
• Long Haochen told the gathered commanders that the garrison held more than two hundred thousand troops and was guarded by the twentieth Demon God, Busong, whose Demon God Pillar was present.

Long Haochen led the Ninth Order fighters in a surprise assault on the Devil Race camp, using Lin Xin’s amplified fire magic and the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation to devastate and suppress the enemy. The battle began in earnest as a pitch-black Demon God Pillar lit up in the camp.

• Long Haochen assigned Zhang Fangfang to command the army and ordered it to advance once the Demon God Pillar was destroyed.
• Lin Xin opened the attack with Sacred Sun Curse and Meteor Fire Rain, setting large sections of the Devil Race camp ablaze.
• Two Eternal Hero mages used Wind Roll and Water Column to spread and intensify Lin Xin’s flames.
• Long Haochen summoned the Divine Seal Throne of Eternity and Creation, crushing many Devil Race troops beneath its pressure.
• Long Haochen spotted a pitch-black Demon God Pillar flare to life at the center of the camp.