Chapter Summaries

Long Haochen’s team coordinated their attacks against Gao Yingjie, who endured their blows and repeatedly forced Long Haochen to defend with the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace. The clash ended with Wang Yuanyuan’s full-powered strike and Cai’er’s precise attack testing Gao Yingjie’s defenses.

• Long Haochen and Han Yu charged Gao Yingjie as the team prepared its attacks, and Long Haochen used the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace to draw Gao Yingjie’s attention.
• Gao Yingjie struck Long Haochen through his defenses, but Evil Eye briefly stunned him and let the team buy time for another defense.
• Long Haochen withstood Gao Yingjie’s second attack with his teammates’ shields and then activated the team’s auras.
• Wang Yuanyuan attacked Gao Yingjie with the Shield of the Giant Spirit God while Cai’er struck at the center of his spiritual-power wings.
• Gao Yingjie canceled Divine Seal Block to defend against Cai’er, and his Radiant Body repelled Wang Yuanyuan’s strike while Cai’er’s attack pierced his heavy sword.

Gao Yingjie used Radiant Body and Bright Holy Fire to test Long Haochen, while the Soldier Grade First Demon Hunter Squad struggled against his power. Cai'er unleashed a terrifying killing intent that forced Gao Yingjie to turn away from Long Haochen, leaving the squad poised to counterattack.

• Gao Yingjie activated Radiant Body, formed Radiant Holy Armor, and repelled the squad's attacks while the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace kept him focused on Long Haochen.
• Gao Yingjie used Element Annihilation Halo to disperse the others' defenses and push them away, then struck Long Haochen with Bright Holy Fire.
• Long Haochen blocked with his Holy Spirit Shield and Divine Seal Block, while Gao Yingjie controlled the fire to test his limits.
• Cai'er released a spreading gray aura and immense killing intent behind Gao Yingjie, making him break off his attack and turn toward her.
• Wang Yuanyuan rose with the Shield of the Giant Spirit God, and the Gate of All Spirits opened to release more than thirty black tentacles and a large, round creature.

Chen Ying'er summoned a level-eight Evil Eye Lord while the team attacked Gao Yingjie, who revealed his Mithril Base Battle Armor and withstood their assaults. The chapter ended as the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace locked onto Gao Yingjie once more.

• Chen Ying'er collapsed from spiritual exhaustion after summoning the Evil Eye Lord, while Lin Xin transferred spiritual energy to Little Fire.
• The Evil Eye Lord emerged from the Gate of All Spirits, and Wang Yuanyuan fired her Sky Splitter Cannon at Gao Yingjie as its tentacles struck.
• Gao Yingjie summoned a silver box and equipped his Mithril Base Battle Armor, blocking the attacks with its power and his Bright Holy Fire.
• The Evil Eye Lord blasted Gao Yingjie with a mental attack, but Gao Yingjie shielded himself with Bright Holy Fire and endured it.
• The Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace activated again and landed on Gao Yingjie.

Long Haochen and his companions faced Gao Yingjie in a sparring match, and Long Haochen’s sudden surge of power let him injure Gao Yingjie with Blue Rain, Lotus of Light. Sheng Yue arrived and stopped Cai’er from using a dangerous ability, then explained that the team had been nowhere near defeating a seventh-step Holy Temple Knight.

• Long Haochen’s strength suddenly surged, and he charged Gao Yingjie with the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace and Blue Rain, Lotus of Light.
• Cai’er unleashed terrifying killing intent, but a voice ordered her to stop before she could strike.
• Long Haochen hit Gao Yingjie with Lotus Rain Thorn, piercing his armor and injuring him.
• Sheng Yue appeared, scolded Cai’er for risking the price of her power, and heard her explain that she did not want to lose while fighting alongside Long Haochen.
• Sheng Yue offered to help Chen Ying'er tame the Evil Eye Lord as her Natal Summoned Beast, but she refused and sent it back through the Gate of All Spirits.
• Sheng Yue rebuked the team for overestimating their chances and explained that Gao Yingjie had been holding back throughout the sparring match.

After the trial, Sheng Yue warned Long Haochen that Cai'er's powerful technique could badly harm her and urged him to protect her. The squad left Holy City with Shi Xiaoxue, Gao Yingjie's orphaned, timid niece, joining them, and Gao Yingjie began a battle review aboard the carriage.

• Sheng Yue told Long Haochen that Cai'er's ability would cause her tremendous harm and asked him to protect her; he then invited Long Haochen to call him Great-Grandfather.
• Gao Yingjie led the squad out of the trial ground after allowing them time to recover.
• Shi Xiaoxue stopped Gao Yingjie and insisted on joining his mission, and he agreed after explaining that her parents had died and she was afraid to be left alone.
• The squad boarded a carriage with Shi Xiaoxue and Haoyue and departed Holy City.
• Gao Yingjie asked the squad members to discuss what they had done well and what mistakes they had made in the battle.

Long Haochen assessed the newly formed Demon Hunter Squad’s strengths and weaknesses after their battle, and Gao Yingjie outlined how each member should contribute. The team began planning its formation and training, while Chen Ying’er’s unreliable summoning and Lin Xin’s refusal to use offensive magic remained concerns.

• Chen Ying'er claimed her powerful summon had made the squad strong, and Sima Xian asked whether she could summon it again.
• Long Haochen praised the squad’s powerful individual abilities and identified poor coordination and Chen Ying'er’s unpredictable summons as key weaknesses.
• Gao Yingjie warned Chen Ying'er that she needed to stabilize her summoning or obtain a Natal Summoned Beast, since her uncertainty could endanger the team.
• Gao Yingjie praised Lin Xin’s defensive magic and assigned him a support role, though Lin Xin fell silent when asked why he avoided offensive magic.
• Gao Yingjie placed Chen Ying'er at the center and Lin Xin in the middle-rear, and told Long Haochen to use his Magic Beast to help move and protect them.

Gao Yingjie assigned roles and development paths to the Demon Hunter Squad, emphasizing how Cai'er and Long Haochen should fight together against powerful enemies. He ended by placing the team’s leadership and survival in Long Haochen’s hands.

• Gao Yingjie advised Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian on their combat roles, and urged Sima Xian to develop as a Discipline Priest.
• Gao Yingjie assigned Han Yu to guard the rear, and Han Yu volunteered to focus on defense and healing; Sima Xian thanked him.
• Gao Yingjie told Cai'er to support Long Haochen rather than act alone, explaining that a knight’s defense and an assassin’s attacks should work together as Knight-Assassin Unity.
• Cai'er accepted Gao Yingjie’s guidance and began to see herself as a member of the team.
• Gao Yingjie praised Long Haochen’s performance and told him to lead from the front while uniting the squad through the Ten Codes of the Knight.

Long Haochen pledged to lead his squad responsibly, and his companions joined him in a vow never to abandon one another. In their first city stop, Cai'er began telling him how her childhood had been taken from her when she was chosen as a Reincarnation Saintess.

• Gao Yingjie told Long Haochen that he must learn to command the squad and bear responsibility for every member.
• Long Haochen swore to protect his teammates, and the squad members and Haoyue joined hands in a vow never to abandon one another.
• Shi Xiaoxue told Gao Yingjie she wanted to join a Demon Hunter Squad, and he said she could try in five years.
• The squad traveled to a city, learned about their Demon Hunter benefits, and settled in for the night.
• Cai'er asked Long Haochen to stay with her, then told him that her Great-Grandfather had sent her into a dark cave alone for seven days when she was three.

Cai'er told Long Haochen how her family abandoned her as a child and how the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace took her senses through years of torment. She revealed that his kindness as a child had kept her going, then fell asleep in his arms as he promised to always be her fool.

• Cai'er described being left alone in a cold place at age three and awakening two years later with the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace and Sword of Reincarnation inside her.
• Cai'er explained that cultivating the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace cost her senses, including sight, and that she endured years of pain and helplessness.
• Cai'er said memories of Long Haochen protecting her as a child had given her the warmth and hope to persevere.
• Cai'er explained that she recognized Long Haochen by the Forget-me-not Ring and had let him take her home because she knew who he was.
• Long Haochen comforted Cai'er as she fell asleep, then held her carefully and promised to always be her fool.

Long Haochen and his companions reached Demon Extermination City, where Holy Spirit Heart briefed the newly formed Demon Hunter Squads on the military region and their trial. The squads were assigned to serve as ordinary infantry for three months, with teamwork and survival essential to their missions.

• Long Haochen and Cai'er joined their companions for breakfast, where Lin Xin and the others teased Long Haochen about spending the night with Cai'er.
• Over ten days of travel, Gao Yingjie taught the squads, Lin Xin's Spirit Gathering Pills helped Sima Xian and Chen Ying'er improve, and the team settled its roles.
• The ten Demon Hunter Squads arrived at Demon Extermination City and gathered in the administrative hall for their assignment briefing.
• Holy Spirit Heart and Lan Yanyu entered the conference chamber, and Lan Yanyu stared toward Cai'er while Long Haochen sensed something familiar about the pair.
• Holy Spirit Heart explained the Demon Subduing Military Region and assigned each squad to an infantry battalion for a three-month trial, warning that one death would disband the entire squad.

Long Haochen and his squad joined Zhang Hairong’s First Infantry Battalion, prepared for battle, and settled into their barracks. The chapter ended with Cai'er creating a private enclosure around the beds she had joined with Long Haochen’s.

• Zhang Hairong welcomed Long Haochen’s squad and assigned them as his personal guards, promising to lead from the front in battle.
• The squad moved into a shared barracks room and received infantry uniforms; Chen Ying'er altered her and Cai'er’s uniforms to fit.
• Lin Xin distributed Spirit Replenishing Pills and Great Strength Pills, while Long Haochen gave each squad member a Spirit Burst Pill.
• Cai'er dragged her bed beside Long Haochen’s and cut another bed into wooden strips, driving them into the floor to form an enclosure around their beds.
• Long Haochen offered to help Cai'er arrange the bedding, but she refused.

Cai'er and Long Haochen made a small private home in the barracks, but their quiet moment was interrupted when her mother, Lan Yanyu, came to see her. Cai'er rejected her mother and threatened her to protect Long Haochen, leaving Lan Yanyu in tears and Cai'er trembling in his arms.

• Cai'er and Long Haochen enclosed their joined beds with cloth, and she called the space their home.
• Lan Yanyu arrived at the barracks asking to see Cai'er, who told her to leave.
• Lan Yanyu saw Cai'er leaning against Long Haochen and attacked him with an Ice Cone.
• Cai'er shattered the Ice Cone and threatened Lan Yanyu with her Dark Gold Short Sword.
• Cai'er recalled her painful childhood and rejected Lan Yanyu, who fled in tears.
• Long Haochen embraced the trembling Cai'er as she insisted she was an orphan.

Long Haochen and his companions answered the assembly signal and joined First Battalion in defending Demon Extermination Pass. Their first battle began atop the walls, where Long Haochen’s support skills helped his squad clear a stretch of the ramparts of attacking Twin-Bladed Demons.

• Long Haochen comforted Cai'er, then led his companions to report to Zhang Hairong after the military assembly signal sounded.
• Zhang Hairong marched First Battalion to the walls, where his soldiers relieved Sixth Battalion in an orderly retreat.
• Zhang Hairong charged into the attackers and killed a Twin-Bladed Demon as the squad took up positions beside him.
• Long Haochen activated Spirit Gathering Aura, Holy Spirit Guard, and Guardian's Grace, then killed several Twin-Bladed Demons with his Holy Spirit Sword.
• Sima Xian and Wang Yuanyuan struck down the demons climbing their section of the wall, leaving Zhang Hairong's stretch of ramparts clear.

Long Haochen's Soldier Grade First Demon Hunter Squad helped the First Battalion hold its section of Demon Extermination Pass against waves of Twin-Bladed Demons. As the defense stabilized, Long Haochen summoned Haoyue to join the battle.

• Zhang Hairong urged the stunned soldiers to reinforce the wall while Long Haochen, Sima Xian, and Wang Yuanyuan held back the Twin-Bladed Demons.
• Han Yu used Evil Eye's True Sight to scan for hidden enemies and healed wounded soldiers, while Lin Xin gave soldiers Flame Armor and Chen Ying'er prepared spells.
• Zhang Hairong explained that the Twin-Bladed Demon assault was a probing feint intended to exhaust the defenders before the Devil Race's main attack.
• Chen Ying'er summoned an Iron Arm Demon Bear, which helped repel the demons as the squad stabilized the First Battalion's defensive sector.
• At Sima Xian's suggestion, Long Haochen summoned Haoyue, whose imposing three-headed form appeared on the battlefield.

Long Haochen and his companions held the wall against the Twin-Bladed Demons until the Devil Race launched a general assault. As stronger enemies reached the battlements, Long Haochen confronted an Emerald Twin Blade Demon and blocked its opening strikes.

• Haoyue joined the battle and helped Long Haochen's squad and the other defenders slaughter the Twin-Bladed Demons while Long Haochen maintained his Spirit Gathering Aura.
• After three dark-golden beams appeared in the distance, the Twin-Bladed Demons attacked more fiercely, and golden flares revealed a vast Devil Race army approaching by land and air.
• Zhang Hairong announced the general assault, and Long Haochen gathered his companions into formation, stopped his aura to recover, and directed Lin Xin to watch the defense above.
• As stronger Devil Race troops climbed the wall, Long Haochen summoned the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace and faced an Emerald Twin Blade Demon.
• Long Haochen used two consecutive Divine Seal Blocks to stop the Emerald Twin Blade Demon's first attacks without retreating.

Long Haochen and Cai'er killed an Emerald Twin Blade Demon as the battle at Demon Extermination Pass escalated into a full assault by the Devil Race. Ordered to withdraw, the squad retreated while Long Haochen spotted a Beta Flying Demon attacking Zhang Hairong and launched himself toward it.

• Long Haochen knocked an Emerald Twin Blade Demon into the battlements, and Cai'er killed it with a precise strike to its skull.
• Long Haochen lifted the corpse for Lin Xin to store, then the battle intensified as mages, Demon Eye Sorcerers, elite warriors, and Magic Cannons fought across the walls.
• Zhang Hairong ordered the Soldier Grade First Demon Hunter Squad to withdraw, and Long Haochen led them back despite Sima Xian and Wang Yuanyuan wanting to keep fighting.
• A Beta Flying Demon dove toward Zhang Hairong, and Long Haochen used Assault and Little Green's wind to rush toward the attacker.

Long Haochen and his squad helped the First Infantry Battalion defend Demon Extermination Pass, earning the soldiers’ respect after killing a Beta Flying Demon. Back at the barracks, Long Haochen discussed military discipline with the squad and urged them to obey orders during their three-month trial.

• Long Haochen’s squad killed a Beta Flying Demon after Long Haochen drew it into range and Wang Yuanyuan, Sima Xian, and Cai'er struck it down.
• Zhang Hairong led the First Infantry Battalion from the city wall, while the soldiers showed their gratitude and respect to Long Haochen’s group.
• Holy Spirit Heart directed the defense of Demon Extermination Pass as mages, Guardian Knights, and assassins supported the city’s forces.
• Zhang Hairong praised Long Haochen’s squad and sent the soldiers back to their barracks to rest.
• Long Haochen gathered his squad and asked them to restrain themselves and obey military orders during their trial at Demon Extermination Pass.

Long Haochen proposed pooling the squad’s Merit Points and dividing them equally, ensuring support members and injured companions would not fall behind. After the team agreed and shared their points, everyone returned to cultivation, while Cai'er quietly told Long Haochen they could spend time together later.

• Long Haochen proposed pooling the team’s Merit Points and dividing them equally, with extra rewards for exceptional contributions.
• Cai'er, Sima Xian, Wang Yuanyuan, Lin Xin, and Chen Ying'er supported the plan, and Long Haochen insisted that Han Yu be included despite Han Yu’s objections.
• The squad transferred their Merit Points to Long Haochen, bringing the total to 143; each member received 20 points, and three remained for later distribution.
• Sima Xian began cultivating, while Wang Yuanyuan and Chen Ying'er tidied the temporary room and the others settled in for the night.
• Cai'er began cultivating and softly told Long Haochen they could spend time together later, so he sat beside her and cultivated too.

Long Haochen was summoned to the gate tower, where Holy Spirit Heart directed the defense of Demon Extermination Pass and prepared to lead the Radiant Angels and Night's Thorn in a counterattack. Holy Spirit Heart brought Long Haochen to the assembled cavalry and declared he would lead the charge against the enemy commander.

• A Soldier summoned Long Haochen to military command, and Cai'er stayed behind as he left the barracks.
• Long Haochen saw the mages, priests, knights, and magical barrier defending Demon Extermination Pass while Holy Spirit Heart commanded the battle.
• Holy Spirit Heart ordered Lan Yanyu to coordinate support as he prepared to lead the Radiant Angels and Night's Thorn into battle.
• Holy Spirit Heart took Long Haochen to a formation of heavily armored, winged cavalry and announced he would lead the charge against the enemy commander.
• The knights struck their breastplates with their blades in response to Holy Spirit Heart's declaration.

Holy Spirit Heart ordered Long Haochen to lead the Radiant Angel Knight Order’s charge beyond Demon Extermination Pass, partly to test the boy who was close to his daughter, Cai'er. Long Haochen and Haoyue spearheaded the attack, and the chapter ended with Long Haochen launching himself at a Golden Patterned Twin-Bladed Demon Lord.

• Holy Spirit Heart ordered Long Haochen to charge at the front, and Long Haochen equipped his armor and summoned Haoyue.
• Holy Spirit Heart rode behind Long Haochen as the gates opened, and Haoyue carried them through the barrier into the blood-soaked battlefield.
• Long Haochen used his twin swords to deflect falling debris while Holy Spirit Heart watched his composure and skill.
• The Radiant Angel Knight Order charged behind Long Haochen as Haoyue’s heads attacked, defended, and enhanced their speed.
• A Golden Patterned Twin-Bladed Demon Lord blocked their path, and Holy Spirit Heart ordered Long Haochen not to stop.
• Long Haochen leapt from Haoyue and struck the demon lord with the Spiral Sword of Slaughter.