Chapter Summaries

Su Ming returned to his team with Xu Qianqian and Xiao Hai'er after the students defeated a troll, while An Zijin collapsed from overusing her Spiritual Arts. He asked everyone to let Xiao Hai'er stay with them, leaving the team stunned by the claim that he and Xu Qianqian had raised her.

• Jiang Wanyu, An Zijin, Lei Hao, and Yao Beibei worked together to kill a troll with Jiang Wanyu's Alchemical Dagger.
• An Zijin became dizzy and nearly fell after using low-level Spiritual Arts continuously, so Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei urged her to rest.
• When Ye Bai wondered where Su Ming was, An Zijin became cold and insisted that Su Ming must have had a good reason to be away.
• Su Ming arrived at the ruins with Xu Qianqian, and An Zijin ran to greet him before noticing Xu Qianqian.
• Su Ming asked the team to take in Xiao Hai'er, explaining that he and Xu Qianqian had raised her.

Su Ming returned to the group with Xu Qianqian and Xiao Hai'er, prompting questions about the rescue and his new Phantom Demon-binding technique. When Xu Qianqian blushed while denying anything happened with Su Ming, An Zijin’s jealousy erupted and she demanded a serious talk, just as a song interrupted the confrontation.

• Su Ming told Lei Hao, Ye Bai, Jiang Wanyu, and Yao Beibei that he had rescued Xu Qianqian and brought her back after finding Xiao Hai'er and binding her with an Extracurricular Sequence Spiritual Art.
• An Zijin revealed that she had given Su Ming the technique, while Su Ming dodged questions about how he had learned it.
• An Zijin questioned Xu Qianqian about spending the night with Su Ming, and Xu Qianqian blushed as she remembered biting him in his blankets.
• Lei Hao attacked Su Ming after seeing Xu Qianqian’s reaction, while An Zijin’s black energy surged and she told Xu Qianqian they needed a serious talk.
• A singing voice suddenly interrupted as An Zijin and Xu Qianqian faced off.

Xiao Hai'er's song ended the quarrel and convinced everyone to keep her with them, while An Zijin and Xu Qianqian openly became romantic rivals over Su Ming. Yun Langyue sensed that Su Ming's growing fame would bring more rivals, and the group prepared to leave the ruins before Su Ming revealed a vehicle to solve their transport problem.

• Xiao Hai'er sang to calm everyone, and Lei Hao, Ye Bai, Jiang Wanyu, Yao Beibei, An Zijin, Xu Qianqian, and Su Ming agreed that she should stay with them.
• Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei chased the frightened Xiao Hai'er, while An Zijin warned Xu Qianqian that Su Ming was hers and Xu Qianqian challenged her claim.
• Yun Langyue sensed that Su Ming's growing excellence would attract more people and rivals, then continued on with Shi Lin.
• The group left the ruined building but found that Lei Hao's off-road vehicle could not fit everyone, so Su Ming revealed another vehicle beside him.

Su Ming revealed Dragon Gall, an extraordinary armored motorcycle, and rode it as the group left the wilderness ruins. Xu Qianqian and An Zijin competed over riding with him, while Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei noticed Xu Qianqian’s special interest in Su Ming.

• Su Ming brought out Dragon Gall, impressing the group, and said it would be his mount.
• Jiang Wanyu asked to ride Dragon Gall, but Xu Qianqian and An Zijin both objected and competed for a place with Su Ming.
• Xu Qianqian rode in the off-road vehicle with Xiao Hai'er, while Su Ming rode Dragon Gall alone and sped ahead of the group.
• Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei introduced themselves to Xu Qianqian, who praised their potential and revealed she had noticed them because they were close to Su Ming.
• Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei wondered why Xu Qianqian and An Zijin were interested in Su Ming, while Xu Qianqian privately wondered whether the two juniors had set their sights on him too.

As the defensive lines advanced and the war neared its end, Commander Duan ended his cooperation with Gao Xu’s plot against Xu Qianqian, while Gao Xu and Xu Yanyan turned to investigating Su Ming. Xu Qianqian survived the ambush but faced new trouble over Li Wei’s disappearance, while Su Ming focused on getting Xiao Hai'er out of Huaming District.

• Commander Duan told Gao Xu that his defensive line was ready to advance and ended his involvement in any further plot against Xu Qianqian.
• Gao Xu told Xu Yanyan to investigate the identity and faction of the mysterious expert who had injured him, then withdrew from the battlefield with the Xu Family Hunters.
• An authority figure learned that the ambush against Xu Qianqian had failed and began planning with Underground Professionals to capture the Phantasmal Demon Cub.
• At about four in the afternoon, the Professionals and troops from three defensive lines joined forces and advanced toward the second defensive line.
• Xu Qianqian's private soldiers returned, and she reported the ambush, but her squad—including Li Wei—remained missing, bringing the Li Family's anger upon her.
• Su Ming secretly discussed using Xu Qianqian's connections to get Xiao Hai'er out of Huaming District as the forces advanced toward the front line.

After the eleven-day Huaming Campaign ended in Longyao City's victory, Su Ming and his teammates returned safely to the Demon Hunter Academy. Back in Suite 404, they reflected on the losses and their own growth, then celebrated their reunion over hot pot.

• Su Ming learned that his Phantasmal Demon Legion had been wiped out, including the Mutated Scalehorn Demon, while the gathered forces fought the final battles of the Huaming Campaign.
• Longyao City won the eleven-day war and announced heavy casualties among Professionals and soldiers, including the retirement of its only Six-star Sorcerer.
• The students returned to Academy District, where the principal welcomed them and announced rewards and compensation for their efforts and losses.
• Su Ming and his teammates reunited in Suite 404, comforted one another, and discussed how the war had changed their ambitions and deepened their gratitude.
• The six teammates agreed to have hot pot, celebrating their safe return and growing closer as comrades.

The academy announced students’ Huaming Campaign rewards and updated rankings, drawing Su Ming’s squad to the crowded Mission Hall. The squad discovered that its members had earned exceptionally high Contribution Points, with Su Ming and An Zijin far ahead of the others.

• Students gathered at the Mission Hall to see their Contribution Points, scholarships, credits, and new academy rankings.
• Su Ming, Lei Hao, Ye Bai, An Zijin, Jiang Wanyu, and Yao Beibei pushed through the crowd after An Zijin’s fan club cleared a path for them.
• Lei Hao and Ye Bai were shocked to find that they had earned 187,754 and 164,618 Contribution Points, respectively.
• Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei saw that they had earned 199,582 and 176,284 Contribution Points.
• Su Ming and An Zijin discovered that they had earned 514,469 and 508,423 Contribution Points, startling Lei Hao, Ye Bai, and the surrounding students.

Su Ming and his teammates saw their Contribution Points and academy rankings soar after their defense-line battle, with Su Ming and Lei Hao entering the top hundred as elite students. Ye Bai broke down over his low ranking and lack of offensive Spiritual Arts, while Su Ming ended by noticing Xu Qianqian still held first place.

• Students were astonished by Su Ming and An Zijin's enormous Contribution Point totals, which they had earned by hunting Phantom Demons during the defense-line campaign.
• The academy rewarded Su Ming's team with academic credits, scholarships, and access to its library, raising their rankings across their departments.
• An Zijin rose to rank 188, while Su Ming reached rank 99 and Lei Hao reached rank 100, making both men elite students.
• Lei Hao and the others explained that his frontline performance and the team's strong evaluation helped him enter the top hundred, while Ye Bai remained in the two-hundreds.
• An Zijin offered to teach Ye Bai the Thirteenth Form, prompting him to run out crying and vow to learn offensive Spiritual Arts.
• Su Ming checked the screen and saw that Xu Qianqian remained rank one with 920,378 Contribution Points.

Su Ming and his teammates discussed how to spend their Contribution Points after the rankings changed, while Xu Qianqian’s rise to first place drew widespread attention. Su Ming received an unexpected call from Xu Qianqian’s father, Xu Yongfeng, and learned that the powerful Xu Family member had contacted him directly.

• Xu Qianqian became the academy’s top student with nearly a million Contribution Points, surprising Su Ming and other students.
• Lei Hao, Yao Beibei, Jiang Wanyu, An Zijin, and Ye Bai discussed which items they wanted to exchange for with their Contribution Points.
• Su Ming said he might exchange for an Alchemy Weapon or an advanced Spiritual Art, prompting his teammates to complain that such treasures were difficult to obtain.
• An Zijin stopped Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei from eavesdropping on Su Ming’s call, then headed toward the balcony herself.
• Su Ming answered an unfamiliar call and discovered that the caller was Xu Yongfeng, Xu Qianqian’s father and a powerful member of Longyao City’s upper echelon.

Su Ming spoke with Xu Yongfeng, who thanked him for saving Xu Qianqian while mistakenly believing Yun Langyue had arranged the rescue. Xu Qianqian later reassured Su Ming that she had kept his secrets, then deduced that he was the mysterious man Yun Langyue claimed to love, while an unseen observer watched him.

• Xu Yongfeng called Su Ming to thank him for helping Xu Qianqian and invited him to visit with Yun Langyue, mistakenly crediting her with the rescue.
• Xu Qianqian called Su Ming to confirm she had not revealed his identity, and they discussed her new position, the Li Family’s grievance over Li Wei, and Xiao Hai’er’s safe transfer.
• Xu Qianqian asked Su Ming whether he knew Yun Langyue and told him that Yun had publicly spoken about a mysterious man she loved.
• Su Ming denied being Yun Langyue’s mysterious man, but Xu Qianqian recognized the truth and ended the call.
• A little figure behind Su Ming watched him with the light gone from its eyes.

An Zijin confronted Su Ming about how much he had changed and confessed that she feared other girls would take him away. Su Ming calmed her down and remembered how he had once cared for her after seeing her bullied, though he also recalled exploiting her childhood affection for pocket money.

• An Zijin had Lei Hao, Ye Bai, Jiang Wanyu, and Yao Beibei hold Su Ming in the living room so she could speak with him.
• An Zijin listed Su Ming’s childhood misdeeds and explained that she had expected to be the only girl he would ever like.
• An Zijin demanded that Su Ming choose between marrying her, marrying into her family, or killing every other woman, and she took a kitchen knife when he resisted.
• Su Ming wrested the knife from An Zijin and asked why she was acting this way, and she tearfully admitted she feared someone else would steal him away.
• Su Ming remembered how he had stopped bullying An Zijin after seeing her bullied and had begun looking after her, then recalled tricking her into handing over her pocket money.

Su Ming rejected An Zijin’s marriage-registration-form “guarantee” and learned that the students would return to the academy the next morning. Elsewhere, members of “Sin” discovered the ruins beneath Longyao City and prepared to break the seal holding the “King” by obtaining a Gravekeeper descendant’s blood and the “Sword.”

• Su Ming reassured An Zijin that he had no plans to pursue a relationship with Xu Qianqian, but tore up the marriage registration form she had disguised as a guarantee.
• Lei Hao and Ye Bai charged at Su Ming after An Zijin’s form was destroyed, while Jiang Wanyu and Yao Beibei comforted An Zijin and planned to search her room for more copies.
• The academy notified the students that they would gather at the station at eight the next morning to return to the academy.
• A fierce-looking senior figure of “Sin” and the Underground Professional who had attacked Xiao Hai'er found the ruins beneath Longyao City and learned that the “King” was sealed there.
• The fierce-looking man said they needed the Gravekeeper Clan’s blood and the object symbolizing the “King,” the “Sword,” to undo the seal, and the Underground Professional went to find the blood’s owner in central Longyao City.

After returning to the Demon Hunter Academy, Su Ming spent his Contribution Points on items he could convert into Crystals and used his free time to study advanced Spiritual Arts and Hunter combat techniques. Four days after returning, he received Xu Yongfeng’s invitation to a Xu Family banquet, where he planned to pick up Xiao Hai'er.

• The academy reopened after the Huaming Campaign, distributed rewards, and gave students a week off to rest and exchange their Contribution Points.
• Su Ming spent more than five hundred thousand Contribution Points on items for the Marketplace, raising his Crystal total to 741185.
• Su Ming studied Fallen Flowers of Fu Tian and Hunter blade techniques while his friends trained, and he stopped opening packages after a string of poor results.
• Xu Yongfeng’s butler invited Su Ming and Yun to a family banquet at the Xu Family two days later.
• Su Ming accepted the invitation, intending to pick up Xiao Hai'er from Xu Qianqian on the same day.

Su Ming left the Demon Hunter Academy for the Xu Family banquet, but Yun Langyue and Uncle Wu intercepted him and insisted on taking him along. On the way, Yun Langyue revealed she wanted to meet Xu Qianqian and praised Su Ming for driving Gao Xu back.

• Su Ming noted that Phantom Demon stragglers had made Longyao City’s nights dangerous and wondered whether the academy would join the cleanup efforts.
• As Su Ming prepared to travel to the Xu Family banquet, Yun Langyue’s limousine arrived, and Uncle Wu blocked his attempt to flee.
• Uncle Wu said Yun Langyue’s mother had ordered him to accompany her, and Yun Langyue insisted Su Ming sit beside her in the limousine.
• Su Ming asked why Yun Langyue had accepted Xu Yongfeng’s invitation, and she said she was going because he was going and she wanted to meet Xu Qianqian.
• Yun Langyue told Su Ming that driving back Gao Xu had surprised her.

Yun Langyue explained that Xu Yongfeng’s family banquet was meant to strengthen his position and that he was likely interested in meeting Su Ming as well. She warned Su Ming that Xu Yongfeng might test or manipulate him, then continued teasing him as their car arrived at the Xu family manor.

• Yun Langyue told Su Ming that Xu Yongfeng’s forces had been weakened after a rival Xu Family faction attacked them during his absence.
• Su Ming realized Xu Yongfeng’s invitation could win Yun Langyue’s support or deter his rivals simply by making her visit public.
• Yun Langyue pointed out that Xu Yongfeng had likely summoned Su Ming because of his connections to her and Xu Qianqian.
• Su Ming complained that Yun Langyue’s declarations of affection had made him a target for her admirers, and she asked whether he was not touched by her devotion.
• Yun Langyue warned Su Ming that Xu Yongfeng might test him, then flirted with him as their car reached the luxurious manor.

Su Ming and Yun Langyue arrived at the Xu Family’s ancestral grounds for Xu Yongfeng’s invitation, where the family treated Yun as the honored guest and Su Ming as her companion. When they met Xu Yongfeng, he recognized something about Uncle Wu and rose in surprise, leaving Su Ming to suspect the attendant was far from ordinary.

• Su Ming and Yun Langyue toured the vast Xu Family estate, where they learned Gao Xu was recovering in seclusion and Xu Yanyan was training intensely.
• At the mansion entrance, the steward welcomed Yun Langyue before Su Ming, but she let Su Ming take the lead with the Xu Family.
• Su Ming, Yun Langyue, and Uncle Wu followed the steward to the reception hall, where they met Xu Yongfeng.
• Xu Yongfeng examined Uncle Wu, abruptly stood up, and asked who he was; Yun Langyue acted as though she knew why he had reacted that way.

Su Ming and Yun Langyue met Xu Yongfeng at the Xu residence, where he arranged a private family banquet to thank Su Ming for saving Xu Qianqian. After the guests left to rest, Xu Yongfeng discussed them with a hidden observer, who warned him against probing them too much because the Yun Family’s old man had noticed him.

• Xu Yongfeng apologized for his abrupt movement, then spoke courteously with Yun Langyue about her mother and her family’s business.
• Xu Yongfeng thanked Su Ming for helping his daughter and remarked that Xu Qianqian had finally made a close friend; Su Ming defended her warmth, and Yun Langyue agreed.
• Xu Yongfeng told the butler to prepare a small private banquet for himself, his wife, Xu Qianqian, Su Ming, and Yun Langyue, then had guest rooms prepared while Xu Qianqian was still on her way.
• After Su Ming and Yun Langyue left with the butler, Xu Yongfeng asked a hidden short man for his assessment of them.
• The short man called Su Ming and Yun Langyue outstanding juniors and warned Xu Yongfeng that the Yun Family’s old man had noticed him and that pushing them too far could provoke a backlash.

Xu Qianqian returned to the Xu Family estate and met Yun Langyue, who explained that Su Ming wanted to keep his strength and identity out of the spotlight. Yun Langyue proposed taking credit for the help Xu Qianqian had received so the Xu Family would pay less attention to Su Ming.

• Xu Qianqian arrived at the Xu Family estate and learned that Su Ming and Yun Langyue were staying there as guests.
• Yun Langyue intercepted Xu Qianqian and spoke with her about their shared dislike of upper-class social events.
• Yun Langyue told Xu Qianqian that Su Ming wanted to stay unnoticed until he was powerful enough to control everything.
• Yun Langyue explained that Su Ming had drawn the Xu Family's attention by acting for Xu Qianqian, and asked her to say Yun Langyue had sent the person who helped her drive off Gao Xu and Xu Yanyan.

Yun Langyue asked Xu Qianqian to help keep Su Ming’s identity and strength secret, and Xu Qianqian agreed while hinting that Su Ming mattered to her too. At the Xu Family banquet, Su Ming remained unaware of their conversation and grew uneasy as the two women exchanged suggestive looks.

• Yun Langyue explained that exposing Su Ming’s Dual-class Professional status and Nightmare Breed bloodline could draw dangerous attention, and asked Xu Qianqian to protect him.
• Xu Qianqian agreed not to reveal Su Ming’s secret, then told Yun Langyue not to think she was the only one who regarded him as important.
• Yun Langyue wondered whether Xu Qianqian had declared herself a love rival, then later teased Su Ming about his apparent effect on Xu Qianqian and another girl.
• Su Ming and Yun Langyue joined Xu Yongfeng’s family, including Xu Qianqian’s mother, for the banquet.
• Su Ming noticed Xu Qianqian and Yun Langyue exchanging intriguing looks throughout the meal and ate uneasily under Xu Yongfeng’s watchful gaze.

After the banquet, Xu Qianqian told Su Ming that Xiao Hai'er had passed inspection and was staying at a villa, but was now very weak. As Su Ming and Xu Qianqian prepared to visit her, Xu Qianqian drank Su Ming’s blood again, revealing how difficult she was finding it to stay apart from him.

• Xu Yongfeng took Yun Langyue to his study to discuss important matters, leaving Su Ming and Xu Qianqian alone.
• Su Ming teased Xu Qianqian by pretending to cut his finger, but she sucked his blood and improved her mood.
• Xu Qianqian told Su Ming that Xiao Hai'er had passed inspection and was staying at the villa where he could visit her.
• Su Ming decided to take Xiao Hai'er and assured Xu Qianqian that he had a way to keep her hidden, though he did not explain further.
• Xu Qianqian warned Su Ming that Xiao Hai'er was very weak and said they needed to find a way to help her recover.
• As Su Ming and Xu Qianqian prepared to leave for the villa, Xu Qianqian bit him again and drank his blood, while realizing she might be growing unable to leave him.