Chapter Summaries

Long Haoyu prepared his Demon Hunt Squad for the dangers of traveling with the Yue Ye Merchant Group into Demon territory, while worrying that a future plan might involve disguising Long Haochen as a maid. As a large force of demons approached, Yue Ye organized the convoy’s defenses and Long Haoyu prepared to fight.

• Long Haoyu remembered how his group had once sought Yue Ye’s help by entering her residence in disguise, and he considered how that plan might affect him as captain.
• Cai'er noticed Long Haoyu seemed troubled, and Long Haochen grew uneasy when his brother gave him a strange, scheming look.
• The Yue Ye Merchant Group left Star Seeking City, passed through Southeast Fortress, and entered Demon territory with Long Haoyu and his group.
• Long Haoyu warned the squad to remain vigilant, and they prepared for the possibility that demons would attack the merchant convoy.
• Long Haoyu sensed an approaching enemy force, and Yue Ye emerged from her carriage and ordered the convoy into a Wagon Formation.
• As the Wagon Formation took shape, Long Haoyu removed his clothes and summoned No Edge from the Forget-Me-Not Ring.

Long Haoyu led Long Haochen and the others into battle against the demons attacking the Yue Ye Merchant Group, while Yue Ye prepared to unleash a Forbidden Spell. He moved to protect her casting, hoping to establish an alliance and prevent her from plotting against him later.

• Long Haoyu ordered the group to abandon their merchant disguise, equip themselves, and move toward Yue Ye's carriage while Long Haochen dealt with the advancing demons.
• Long Haoyu used Sword Rise, Sword Fall to devastate the Rook Race attackers, while Long Haochen and Lin Xin pressed toward Yue Ye's carriage.
• Yue Ye recognized that the newcomers were currently on her side and asked Leng Xiao to hold off the Three Great Tribes for half an incense stick.
• Yue Ye took out a Forbidden Spell Scroll and a Level Ten Magic Beast's Magic Crystal, then began chanting as Long Haoyu hurried to protect her casting.
• Long Haoyu recalled that Cai'er would place a Prohibition on Yue Ye after the spell and resolved to stop Yue Ye from trying to trick him.

Long Haoyu reconsidered the danger Yue Ye could pose and resolved not to sacrifice Cai'er’s trust to help her. He joined Long Haochen and the others, and their coordinated advance toward Yue Ye’s carriage accelerated as Cai’er supported them from the shadows.

• Long Haoyu realized Yue Ye might use Cai'er’s secret technique as leverage to make him force Cai'er to remove it, and he rejected the idea of hurting Cai'er or trusting Yue Ye.
• Long Haoyu joined Long Haochen and Cai'er as their group struggled against the demons’ overwhelming numbers.
• Cai'er saved Long Haochen from a demon’s ambush, then told Long Haoyu to lead the breakthrough while she hunted stragglers.
• Long Haoyu assigned roles to the group, and they coordinated magic and close combat as Cai'er repeatedly appeared to kill demons threatening them.
• Long Haoyu’s leadership sped up the group’s advance toward Yue Ye’s carriage, while Yue Ye and Leng Xiao watched their performance.

Long Haoyu revealed his Sixth Order strength and took to the sky to face twelve Sixth Order Bird Demons, while Cai'er and the others moved toward Yue Ye’s carriage. He prepared to protect Cai'er from the coming threat and prevent her from using the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Twelve Sixth Order Bird Demons rose from the Demon Army and flew toward Yue Ye’s group, alarming Yue Ye and Leng Xiao.
• Leng Xiao prepared to reveal her identity as a member of the Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon Clan, but Yue Ye stopped her and directed her attention to Long Haoyu.
• Long Haoyu ordered Cai'er to protect Haochen and the others as they moved toward the carriage, then used his Spirit Wings to meet the Bird Demons in the air.
• Yue Ye and Leng Xiao realized that Long Haoyu had Sixth Order strength, and Yue Ye became intensely interested in him.
• Long Haoyu resolved to defeat the Bird Demons and protect Cai'er from using the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Long Haoyu confronted twelve Sixth Order Bird Demons while Yue Ye and Leng Xiao watched, and Leng Xiao recognized him as the human knight who had repeatedly defeated her brother A Bao. Yue Ye continued chanting her Ninth-order Forbidden Spell and became intrigued by Long Haoyu as a bold idea took shape in her mind.

• The twelve Bird Demons abandoned their plan to attack Yue Ye and Leng Xiao first and charged at Long Haoyu.
• Long Haoyu met the twelve Sixth Order Bird Demons head-on, and neither side gained an advantage in their battle.
• Leng Xiao analyzed Long Haoyu’s age and strength and concluded that he was the human knight who had defeated her brother repeatedly at Demon Extermination Pass.
• Yue Ye nearly lost concentration on her Forbidden Spell when she heard Leng Xiao’s deduction, then continued chanting as she watched Long Haoyu fight.
• Yue Ye decided Leng Xiao’s guess was probably right and grew fascinated with Long Haoyu, while a bold idea began to form in her heart.

Yue Ye considered recruiting Long Haoyu to support her and her father's plans, while Long Haoyu suspected she was plotting against him. As the Twelve Bird Demons attacked, Long Haoyu stopped suppressing his Killing Instinct and prepared to unleash the Six Paths Spirit Stove.

• Yue Ye recognized Long Haoyu's repeated victories over A Bao as a chance to strengthen her faction's plans.
• Yue Ye decided to speak with Long Haoyu after the rebels were dealt with and assess whether he would join her camp.
• Long Haoyu noticed Yue Ye watching him and concluded that she was plotting against him.
• Long Haoyu's hostility stirred memories of Long Xingyu's schemes, and he chose to stop holding back against the Twelve Bird Demons.
• Long Haoyu's Killing Instinct awakened as gray mist enveloped him and the Six Paths Spirit Stove's aura surged.

Long Haoyu unleashed the Six Paths Spirit Stove and the Asura Path’s Ghost Domain, filling Yue Ye, Leng Xiao, and the Twelve Bird Demons with alarm. As Cai’er watched Yue Ye with killing intent, Long Haoyu confronted the Bird Demons and began his attack.

• Gray mist surged around Long Haoyu, and Yue Ye and Leng Xiao sensed that his power had greatly increased and stirred their bloodlines.
• Long Haochen’s group recognized Long Haoyu’s transformation, while Cai’er and Long Haochen realized he was using the Six Paths Spirit Stove.
• Cai’er fixed a hostile gaze on Yue Ye, who met her eyes uneasily and wondered whether the Demon Hunt Squad meant to interrupt her Forbidden Spell.
• Long Haoyu combined the Six Paths Spirit Stove’s power with the Asura Path’s Ghost Domain as the Twelve Bird Demons charged him.
• Long Haoyu appeared before the leading Bird Demon, pressed his mist-wreathed palm to its head, and declared, “Annihilation!”

Long Haoyu slaughtered one Bird Demon and brutally overwhelmed the remaining eleven, while Cai'er and the others continued their assault toward Yue Ye. As Cai'er and Yue Ye both realized Yue Ye had provoked Long Haoyu’s rage, Cai’er’s hostility toward her intensified.

• Long Haoyu pierced a Bird Demon with gray power that consumed its body until nothing remained.
• The eleven remaining Bird Demons attacked Long Haoyu together, but he trapped them in a cage of Sword Light and inflicted countless wounds without killing them.
• Li Xin and Long Haochen recognized Long Haoyu’s furious state, while Sima Xian and Lin Xin were shocked by his merciless assault.
• Cai'er ordered the group to keep advancing toward Yue Ye and continued protecting them despite worrying about Long Haoyu.
• Yue Ye concluded that Long Haochen and Cai'er’s group had come because of her, and Cai'er confirmed that Yue Ye had provoked Long Haoyu and focused her hostility on her.

Long Haoyu slaughtered the remaining Bird Demons to draw out the Golden Bird Demon he remembered from the battlefield. After killing the eleven survivors, he faced the peak Seventh Order enemy and prepared to fight, confident that the White Little Beast could replenish his Spirit Energy.

• Long Haoyu continued tormenting the eleven Bird Demons while keeping his strength controlled and waiting for the Golden Bird Demon to appear.
• A peak Seventh Order Golden Bird Demon descended and charged at Long Haoyu with its spear.
• Long Haoyu killed the eleven remaining Bird Demons with a burst of black Sword Light, and they felt relief at their deaths.
• Long Haoyu evaded the Golden Bird Demon and pressed the White Little Beast, relying on it to replenish his Spirit Energy.
• The Golden Bird Demon attacked in a golden afterimage, and Long Haoyu released his held breath and prepared to fight it.

Long Haoyu fought the Seventh Order peak Golden Bird Demon with his full strength, while Yue Ye and Leng Xiao worried that he would not survive until Yue Ye’s Forbidden Spell was ready. As the battle remained deadlocked, Long Haoyu empowered Human Path, In the Human World with the Hell Path and Asura Path, preparing to unleash its enhanced power.

• Long Haoyu used No Edge and his Six Paths Spirit Stove powers to resist the Golden Bird Demon’s attacks and struck back with Nine Slashes Against Demons, Slash Nine: Heaven-Tilting.
• Long Haoyu and the Golden Bird Demon traded blows across the sky, with Long Haoyu relying on his honed instincts to withstand the stronger demon.
• Yue Ye hurried her Forbidden Spell, while Leng Xiao considered revealing her identity to prevent the Golden Bird Demon from killing Long Haoyu.
• Long Haoyu fused the Hell Path and Asura Path into Human Path, In the Human World, causing strange scrolls to appear around him.
• Long Haoyu drew power from the scrolls into No Edge as time seemed to freeze.

Long Haoyu comprehended the Human Path through No Edge and killed the peak Seventh Order Golden Bird Demon with a single strike. Yue Ye completed her Forbidden Spell, transforming into a towering Moon Demon God as purple moonlight engulfed the area.

• No Edge absorbed the paintings’ powers, and Long Haoyu gained a complete understanding of the Human Path.
• The Golden Bird Demon unleashed his full Seventh Order strength and charged Long Haoyu, who cut him in two with a plain vertical slash.
• Leng Xiao and Yue Ye reacted in shock to Long Haoyu’s victory as Yue Ye completed her Forbidden Spell.
• Long Haoyu fled with Cai’er and the others, while Yue Ye’s spell froze the area around her and turned the nearby Demon Race attackers into statues.
• Yue Ye vanished and reappeared as a hundred-meter-tall figure with silver hair and purple eyes.

Yue Ye’s Forbidden Spell devastated the Demon Army, allowing the group to break out and reach a forest. There, Long Haoyu and Cai'er watched Yue Ye, who remained conscious but was in terrible condition.

• Yue Ye summoned the Moon Demon God’s Pillar of Demon Gods and unleashed Moon’s Punishment, killing nearly all demons within a thousand meters.
• Yue Ye ordered the group to break out, and Leng Xiao drove the carriage forward as the fighters and mages regrouped.
• The White Little Beast healed Yue Ye and the Demon Hunt Squad members, but refused to heal the merchant group’s mages.
• The group fought through the remaining demons and traveled for two hours before stopping in a forest to recover.
• Long Haoyu and Cai'er watched Yue Ye through the carriage curtain, and Yue Ye met their gaze.

Long Haoyu stopped Cai'er from attacking Yue Ye and confronted Yue Ye about her attempt to control him and win his Demon Hunt Squad over. He challenged her to prove she had what it took to make him submit.

• Cai'er and the others prepared to attack Yue Ye and Leng Xiao after their identities were exposed.
• Yue Ye told Leng Xiao she believed she could still turn the situation around by gaining control over Long Haoyu.
• Cai'er moved to kill Yue Ye, but Long Haoyu caught her wrist and told her to wait for his arrangements.
• Long Haoyu accused Yue Ye of plotting to control him and make his squad submit to her.
• Yue Ye was stunned that Long Haoyu had seen through her plan, while Cai'er trusted him to handle the situation.
• Long Haoyu coldly challenged Yue Ye to show whether she had what it took to make him submit.

Yue Ye tried to persuade Long Haoyu’s group that she could cooperate with them, but Long Haoyu exposed her mixed heritage and demanded that she submit to the Demon Hunt Squad. Yue Ye agreed, and Cai'er approached to impose additional safeguards, leaving Yue Ye alarmed.

• Yue Ye knocked Leng Xiao unconscious and told Long Haoyu that she stood in the same camp as humans.
• Wang Yuanyuan and Sima Xian distrusted Yue Ye, while Long Haochen pointed out that her eyes revealed she was a demon.
• Long Haoyu stopped Yue Ye from cutting her palm and exposed that she had mixed Demon Race and Human Race blood.
• Long Haoyu demanded that Yue Ye submit to the Demon Hunt Squad as their servant, and Yue Ye bowed and agreed.
• Cai'er said Yue Ye needed additional safeguards, and Long Haoyu allowed her to approach.

Cai'er discovered Yue Ye's attempt to approach Long Haoyu and placed a deadly Prohibition on her heart, forcing her to genuinely submit. Long Haoyu took a Moon Demon Tribe token and left with Cai'er and the others, while Yue Ye considered whether she could persuade him to get the Prohibition removed.

• Cai'er struck Yue Ye and warned that she would let her live only if she submitted and obeyed the Prohibition on her heart.
• Yue Ye sensed the Prohibition and realized Cai'er had left her no safe way to resist or remove it.
• Long Haoyu told Yue Ye to handle her own affairs and demanded a Moon Demon Tribe token before she returned to her territory.
• Yue Ye handed Long Haoyu the token, and he left the merchant caravan with Cai'er and the others.
• Yue Ye watched them depart and considered asking Long Haoyu to persuade Cai'er to remove the Prohibition, though she feared Cai'er's jealousy.

After leading the team through Demon territory to the vicinity of Dread Howling Cave, Long Haoyu decided they would wait for demon reinforcements instead of entering immediately. He planned for everyone to enter the cave together after dealing with any demons that arrived.

• Long Haoyu led the exhausted team away from the Yue Ye Merchant Group and gave them two and a half days to recover.
• Long Haoyu guided the team through Demon territory, where rising numbers of demons forced them to abandon their horses and travel on foot.
• After reaching the mountain near Dread Howling Cave, Long Haoyu ordered everyone to rest while he watched the surroundings.
• Cai'er asked Long Haoyu whether they would explore the cave after resting, and he explained that demons were likely already investigating it.
• Long Haoyu decided the team would wait for demon reinforcements, deal with them if they came, and enter Dread Howling Cave together.

Long Haoyu led the team in ambushing and wiping out the demon reinforcements before bringing them to Dread Howling Cave. There, he revealed that his Old Knight mentor had guided him to accept the mission—and that it was actually King-rank.

• Long Haoyu and Cai'er stayed alert as demon reinforcements approached Dread Howling Cave.
• Long Haoyu woke the group and led a swift attack that eliminated the reinforcements.
• Lin Xin collected the demon corpses, and Long Haoyu led the team toward the cave.
• The team reached Dread Howling Cave and reacted to its terrifying howls, while Long Haoyu remained calm.
• Long Haoyu told the team that his Old Knight mentor had informed him about the mission and revealed that it was actually King-rank.

Long Haoyu revealed that the reconnaissance mission at Dread Howling Cave was a King-rank Mission, though he said the dangerous journey to the cave had already fulfilled its hardest part. Lin Xin then proposed using the mistaken General-rank classification to claim King-rank merit and compensation from the Mission Tower, leaving Long Haoyu stunned by how eagerly the team embraced the plan.

• Long Haoyu confirmed that the Dread Howling Cave reconnaissance was a King-rank Mission and said the road ahead was clear because he and Long Haochen could withstand the cave’s sorrowful howls.
• Lin Xin and the others struggled to believe that their newly promoted Rank-B Demon Hunt Squad could complete a King-rank Mission so easily.
• Lin Xin proposed claiming King-rank merit and compensation by presenting the team as having accepted the mission under the mistaken belief that it was General-rank.
• Long Haoyu recognized that Lin Xin wanted to make the Mission Tower take the blame and extract additional benefits.
• Wang Yuanyuan pointed out that the Captain had known the mission’s true rank, but Lin Xin defended the plan as a way to strengthen the Demon Hunt Squad.

Lin Xin proposed turning the dangerous King-rank mission into a major source of merit points and compensation, but Long Haoyu postponed the discussion and led the team into Dread Howling Cave. When the cave’s howling shattered their shields, the White Little Beast protected the group with powerful Light Element energy and took revenge on Haoyue for laughing at it.

• Lin Xin urged Long Haoyu to consider claiming the mission’s merit points and compensation, but Long Haoyu told the team to focus on exploring Dread Howling Cave.
• Long Haochen cast Holy Light Shields as the team entered the cave, but a piercing howl shattered them, forcing him to cast more.
• Long Haoyu and Cai’er helped shield the others from the howls as the team advanced deeper into the cave.
• Long Haochen suggested bringing out the White Little Beast, and Long Haoyu released it to help protect the team.
• The White Little Beast covered everyone in Light Element energy, then jumped onto Haoyue and slapped him after he grinned at its frustration.

Long Haoyu led Long Haochen and their companions to the High Tower hidden deep within Dread Howling Cave, where he explained that they were safe to enter. The group stepped into the tower called Eternal Slumber, and Long Haoyu hoped they might meet its creator, Electrolux.

• The White Little Beast struck Haoyue for mocking it, then protected the group from the cave’s howling as they continued onward.
• Long Haoyu led the eight companions to the cave’s deepest chamber, where they saw a High Tower radiating an overwhelming sense of deathly silence.
• Lin Xin and the others feared the tower, but Long Haoyu reassured them that they would be safe inside.
• Long Haochen said Haoyue had confirmed they could safely enter the first floor, and he encouraged the others to trust Long Haoyu.
• Long Haoyu reflected that the tower was called Eternal Slumber and hoped the White Little Beast would help them meet its creator, Electrolux.
• Long Haoyu entered Eternal Slumber, followed by Long Haochen and the others.