Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan tested the imitation Holy Grail, used the following months to reach his attribute limits and become an alchemist, then arrived in Qinlun City to begin training at Demon Hunter headquarters. He left his companions in the city and entered the headquarters’ administrative office, while his suspicions about the connection between Demon Hunters and the Night Clan remained unresolved.

• Fang Yuan examined Tenishio's skin and discovered that the imitation Holy Grail could convert blood into Holy Water, then concluded that pure, high-ranked blood made the strongest results.
• Fang Yuan decided to hunt the Night Clan for blood on his journey to headquarters and pursue the real Holy Grail after arriving.
• Three months later, Fang Yuan reached Qinlun City and showed Rock the Tranquility Pendant, which Rock judged to be a low-level Demonic Artifact.
• Fang Yuan reviewed his progress, having raised his attributes to the imitation Holy Grail's limit of 50 and advanced his alchemy, potion-making, and Black Magic.
• Uncle Jock told Fang Yuan to leave Aimeng and Peter with the others and go to the holy mountain for training.
• Fang Yuan entered the Demon Hunter headquarters' administrative office in Qinlun City, where young Demon Hunters had gathered.

Fang Yuan joined a group of young Demon Hunters headed to headquarters on the Holy Mountain, where instructor Valen sized up the recruits and offered to mentor him. Fang Yuan revealed his skills as a pharmacist and alchemist, hoping to avoid dangerous frontline duties while gaining access to headquarters’ Holy Water and resources.

• Fang Yuan completed his registration as Hulk of the Hulin District branch and considered why the Night Clan might be confident enough to challenge the Demon Hunters.
• Valen introduced himself as the Fist Sage, scolded the recruits, and compared them with famous Demon Hunter prodigies and the elite officers accompanying him.
• Weg challenged Valen’s criticism, and Valen named Weg, Anger, Hendrik, and Tanya as especially promising recruits before announcing the Holy Mountain’s training benefits.
• Valen recognized Fang Yuan’s Morning Star Swordsmanship and offered to guide him in hand-to-hand combat and other techniques.
• Fang Yuan asked whether he could receive an assignment suited to his work as a pharmacist and alchemist, and Valen was surprised to learn of his qualifications.

At Demon Hunter Headquarters, Fang Yuan impressed Master Ramil by quickly learning to make Dragon Power Potions while concealing his full ability. His research into bloodlines and creation advanced, and he began planning to use it to create Demon Hunters.

• Master Ramil taught Fang Yuan to make Dragon Power Potions, and Fang Yuan succeeded on his fourth attempt.
• Ramil assigned Fang Yuan a hundred sets of ingredients and required him to produce at least twenty-five potions before moving on.
• Fang Yuan considered the Holy Mountain's secrets and found that genuine Holy Water slowly raised his stalled attributes, though he received too little to satisfy him.
• Fang Yuan concluded that his experiments with bloodlines and life were revealing the Power of Creation and named the emerging discipline biochemistry.
• Fang Yuan decided he could use his research to create a few true Demon Hunters, whose formal qualification required hunting at least one demon.

Fang Yuan concluded that Aimeng might descend from a Demon Hunter and planned to test demon-bloodline transplantation on her and Peter. Meanwhile, demon Yulix discovered a descendant in Qinlun City, and Weg confronted Fang Yuan for avoiding missions.

• Fang Yuan studied Demon Hunters and suspected Aimeng was a descendant of one, then planned to use her and Peter as test subjects for bloodline transplantation.
• In Qinlun City, Yulix killed a young man and a Hidden Kill Demon before discussing a new attack on the Demon Hunters with another demon.
• Yulix sensed one of his descendants in the city and looked at a portrait of Serena in his pocket watch.
• After finishing his theoretical research, Fang Yuan left the laboratory to begin practical work.
• Weg and several students blocked Fang Yuan, accused him of abandoning the battlefield, and urged one another to beat him up.

Fang Yuan defeated Weg and his Mad Lion Knights in a wagered duel, revealing a vast gap in their combat ability. The instructors later concealed the truth about Fang Yuan’s skill to keep the students motivated.

• Fang Yuan broke a freckled Demon Hunter’s leg after the student attacked him, then challenged Weg to wager their next Holy Water allotments.
• Weg attacked Fang Yuan with the Bull Fist Gauntlet, but Fang Yuan shattered its phantom and pointed out flaws in the artifact.
• Weg unleashed the Golden Lion Armor, but Fang Yuan broke its protection and knocked him unconscious with a slap.
• Fang Yuan told Weg’s followers to remember the wager and left after noticing the two Titled Demon Hunter instructors approaching.
• The instructors explained Weg’s defeat and ordered him back to training, then privately admitted Fang Yuan’s skills were comparable to those of a Titled Demon Hunter.

Fang Yuan found Aimeng in a coma as her dormant demonic bloodline awakened after she met a purple-eyed man. He took her and Peter out of Qinlun City and began a ritual to suppress her transformation and help her control the power.

• Fang Yuan visited Jok's home and found Aimeng unconscious, while Peter guarded her and Maria complained about Peter's monstrous nature.
• Fang Yuan recognized Aimeng's symptoms as a dangerous bloodline awakening and learned she had met a frightening purple-eyed man at the Marketplace.
• Fang Yuan gave Peter Concealment Rings, took Aimeng and Peter from Qinlun City, and traveled to an abandoned farmstead.
• Fang Yuan used Peter's blood to make an alcohol-enzyme suppressant, which stabilized Aimeng even as scales and bumps began to appear.
• Fang Yuan prepared a ritual array with Black Magic, mithril, and other materials to help Aimeng resist demonization.

Fang Yuan completed Aimeng’s transformation into a Demon Hunter with Yulix’s help, while Yulix warned that the demons were preparing a major counterattack. As Fang Yuan considered the powerful demon’s unusual attitude toward humans, he began to question whether Yulix was truly pure-blooded.

• Yulix arrived at the cottage, subdued Peter and Fenrir, and entered while Aimeng’s transformation was underway.
• Fang Yuan traced Aimeng’s bloodline to Yulix and imprinted its aura into her soul; Yulix added a drop of his source blood to protect the process.
• Aimeng awakened as a Demon Hunter and discovered she could manifest a clawed, scaled hand.
• Yulix warned Fang Yuan to leave the Holy Mountain because the demons were preparing another major counterattack, potentially threatening Qinlun City.
• Fang Yuan questioned Yulix’s unusual lack of hatred for humans and wondered whether he was truly a pure-blooded demon.

Fang Yuan learned more about Demon Hunters through Aimeng’s awakening and began preparing for the demons’ expected counterattack. After recovering Devil's Cry and Tenishio's Hide from a hidden stash, he reforged Starry Night and prepared to turn Tenishio's Hide into a top-tier demonic artifact.

• Yulix warned Fang Yuan that the demons planned another major counterattack, while Fang Yuan arranged to examine Aimeng and help her control her awakened power.
• Over the next three days, Fang Yuan studied Aimeng’s Demon Hunter abilities and concluded that powerful demons could produce exceptionally strong Demon Hunters.
• Fang Yuan decided to return to the Holy Mountain eventually and retrieved Devil's Cry and Tenishio's Hide from his hidden stash on the plain.
• At an abandoned blacksmith's shop, Fang Yuan used Black Magic and special materials to reforge Starry Night into a High-level Demonic Artifact.
• Fang Yuan assessed Tenishio's Hide and, after resting from the forging, prepared to refine its concealment runes into a top-tier demonic artifact.

Fang Yuan strengthened his preparations for the demons while considering how to harness the power sealed within him. The demons launched a devastating assault on Qinlun City, and Valen arrived only after the city had been overwhelmed.

• Fang Yuan defeated Weg again, collected more Holy Water from challengers, and examined his growing strength and the seal of Source Power within him.
• Fang Yuan considered using the Power of Creation to refine a small amount of Source Power, though he recognized the danger.
• A portal opened in Qinlun City and poured out Night Clan monsters as Demon Hunters fought to defend the city.
• Anz Ural Gon, Kosomo, and Soron overwhelmed the city and its Titled Demon Hunters, turning Qinlun into a blood-soaked sacrifice.
• Yulix played his concertina as the demons slaughtered the city, and Valen led reinforcements from Holy Mountain after the attack had already devastated Qinlun.

Fang Yuan slipped away to search the Demon Hunters’ sealed library level while the Demon Hunters mobilized against the Night Clan’s assault on Qinlun City. Longinus unleashed the Spear of Longinus to turn the battle, but Yulix’s blood-sacrifice formation corrupted the Holy Mountain’s power and left it blackened.

• Fang Yuan heard that demons were attacking and used his Invisible Cloak to head for the library’s sealed level.
• Longinus led the Demon Hunters’ reinforcements toward Qinlun City while Mond and Aragorn stayed behind to make Holy Water.
• Valen fought the Night Clan, used his forbidden Bloodshed Fist technique at the cost of both arms, and vanished after striking Dark Demon Anz with a blood-red dragon.
• Longinus arrived and used the Spear of Longinus to channel the Holy Mountain’s light across Qinlun City, burning countless Night Clan demons.
• Yulix activated the blood-sacrifice formation, sending a beam into the Holy Mountain and staining its sacred light black.

As the holy mountain turned demonic, Fang Yuan broke into the Grand Library and uncovered the Demon Hunters’ hidden origins. The chapter left the truth of Dante’s otherworldly soul revealed to Mond and Aragorn.

• The holy mountain turned black, shaking the Demon Hunters’ faith, while Longinus rallied them and used the Holy Spear to kill demons despite losing the mountain’s support.
• Fang Yuan exploited the chaos to enter the Grand Library’s restricted floors, killed the Titled Demon Hunter guarding its hidden fifth floor, and searched the secret records.
• Fang Yuan learned that Dante, the Demon Lord and Lord of Desire, founded the Demon Hunters, gave a human hero three Holy Artifacts, and sealed the Mother of Reproduction using the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Mond and Aragorn revealed that Holy Water came from Dante’s blood and that Dante’s body remained in the Holy Coffin.
• Mond told Aragorn that the Lord of Desire had a soul from another world.

Yulix attacked Demon Hunter headquarters to avenge Serena while the Night Clan destroyed the Demon Hunters’ forces in Qinlun City. After the Holy Spear broke and the demons reached the Holy Mountain, Fang Yuan moved toward Mond, hoping to reach the Holy Coffin and Dante’s corpse.

• Mond and Aragorn found Yulix waiting outside the hall, where he trapped them with Emerald Green Flames and revealed that he had come to stall them.
• In Qinlun City, the demons overwhelmed the Demon Hunters, and Soron tore Longinus apart as the Spear of Longinus snapped in two.
• Night Clan members joined the assault on headquarters, and Anz arrived as Yulix pinned Aragorn, leaving the Demon Hunters facing defeat.
• Fang Yuan watched the fighting from a tower and decided to approach Mond, who was hidden among a group of fleeing students led by Weg.

Fang Yuan intervened in the battle between the fleeing Demon Hunters and the demons, but Soron killed Mond with a cursed crossbow bolt. Tris drove Soron away, while Fang Yuan disappeared with Mond’s bracelet and the Holy Coffin.

• Tris led the trainees toward escape as the Holy Grail’s destruction devastated the Night Clan and Fang Yuan sensed the Dark Demon’s presence vanish.
• Kosomo and Soron blocked the Demon Hunters and demanded Mond surrender the Holy Coffin and Dead Sea Scroll; Mond summoned the Holy Coffin to bind them.
• Fang Yuan shot Kosomo with Devil’s Cry, then wounded Soron while the Holy Coffin restricted the demons.
• Soron used a Demon Hunter Crossbow to shoot Mond with a cursed bolt, extinguishing the Holy Coffin’s power and killing him.
• Fang Yuan wounded Soron again, and Tris struck it with Wind God Slash, forcing it to flee into the darkness.
• Tris found that Fang Yuan and Mond’s bracelet, which held the Holy Coffin, had disappeared.

After the Demon Hunters' headquarters fell and the Holy Grail and Holy Spear were destroyed, Fang Yuan planned to build a new force using the Demon Hunters of old. The chapter left him preparing to empower Uncle Jock and considering how the Mother of Reproduction might lead him to the world's source.

• The Night Clan emerged openly after the attack, while Sorcerer Families seized control across the continent and the scattered Demon Hunters went into hiding.
• Fang Yuan reassured Uncle Jock about the changed world and offered him the chance to gain the power of the Demon Hunters of old.
• Fang Yuan examined Dante's body in the Holy Coffin and considered using it to advance, but concluded he could not produce enough Holy Water to replace the Holy Grail.
• Uncle Jock decided to seek powerful strength, and Fang Yuan agreed to make him one of the Demon Hunters of old.
• Fang Yuan studied the Dead Sea Scrolls and wondered whether the Mother of Reproduction could lead him to the source of the world's corruption.

Fang Yuan planned to use Dante’s body and sealed power to prepare against Mother of Reproduction, then reorganized the Demon Hunter Guild into the Demon Hunter Association and proposed recruiting ordinary people. At a gathering in Laurel Forest, the surviving Demon Hunters argued over leadership and the failed Titled Demon Hunter Council, leaving Weg doubtful that they could unite.

• Fang Yuan reviewed the Dead Sea Scrolls, assessed his recovered strength, and sent his split spirit into Dante’s body to create a clone.
• Fang Yuan announced the Demon Hunter Association, with new departments, government training programs, and a strategy of expanding Demon Hunter numbers to overwhelm the demons.
• Fang Yuan said old-style Demon Hunters would have to join the Association and become Demon Hunters to enter its system.
• In Laurel Forest, a Demon Hunter denounced the Holy Artifact Holders while an elderly Hunter called for a Titled Demon Hunter Council and an exile headquarters.
• The gathered Hunters challenged the council’s authority, and Weg lost hope as Tris responded with a bitter smile.

Fang Yuan arrived at the Demon Hunter gathering with powerful allies and announced the formation of the Demon Hunter Association, offering a new way to fight the Night Clan. After Tris challenged him, Fang Yuan exposed Sorcerer Families spies hiding nearby.

• Weg watched the divided Demon Hunters argue over who should lead them and feared their cause had lost its purpose.
• A three-headed wolf named Fenrir carried Fang Yuan and his followers into the gathering, where Fang Yuan presented the slain Thorn Demon Gulicha as a gift.
• Fang Yuan's followers announced that they had established the Demon Hunter Association and invited the guild's members to become Demon Hunters through a biologist's transformation.
• Fang Yuan's speech and his followers' promises drew many Demon Hunters to their side, while Tris challenged Fang Yuan to prove his strength.
• Fang Yuan unleashed Starry Night swordsmanship, forced hidden observers out of their hiding places, and revealed that they were members of the Sorcerer Families led by Clan Elder Santos.

Fang Yuan crushed the Sorcerer elders and replaced the Demon Hunter Guild with the Demon Hunter Association, then joined forces with General Solo’s army to spread Biochemist technology and fight the Night Clan. As humanity prepared a major counterattack, Fang Yuan kept Solo under surveillance and anticipated that the demons would soon respond.

• Santos threatened the Demon Hunters with a Demon Hunter Crossbow, but Fang Yuan shot him and defeated the Sorcerers with Black Magic Counter and Illusory Flowers in the Void.
• Tris and the surviving Demon Hunters accepted Fang Yuan’s leadership as he announced that the Demon Hunter Association would replace the Demon Hunter Guild and that Biochemist technology would reach ordinary people.
• Several months later, Fang Yuan watched General Solo’s artillery destroy a town and sent Demon Hunters to sweep the battlefield for surviving Night Clan members.
• General Solo told Fang Yuan that Biochemists had helped his troops understand the darkseed monsters and that he planned a two-hundred-thousand-soldier counterattack against the allied forces of Kunsha, Gamen, and Clydes.
• Solo considered secretly building his own Demon Hunters, while Fang Yuan ordered a subordinate to watch him and resolved to keep core technology secret.

At Golden Lake Reservoir, Fang Yuan and the Demon Hunters repelled a Night Clan assault led by Kosomo and Soron. As the battle turned against the demons, Yulix headed toward the rear to unseal the Mother of Reproduction, while Maria found two pieces of parchment in Fang Yuan’s room.

• Yulix watched the brutal fighting at Golden Lake Reservoir and reflected that the demons’ future depended on unsealing the Mother of Reproduction.
• Fang Yuan ordered the southern generals into shelters and put the Demon Hunters in charge of the camp’s defenses.
• Before dawn, the Night Clan and demons attacked the camp, but thousands of Demon Hunters met them in battle.
• Fang Yuan shot Kosomo with the Devil’s Cry, then charged the demons with a crossbow and sword as the Demon Hunters gained the upper hand.
• Yulix slipped away toward the rear, believing that unsealing the Mother of Reproduction was the demons’ only path forward.
• Maria searched Fang Yuan’s room, found an iron box, and retrieved two pieces of parchment.

Yulix tricked Maria into stealing the Dead Sea Scroll and abandoned her, while Fang Yuan led the Demon Hunters to defeat the demons and launch a campaign across Alka Continent. As the demons focused on unsealing the Mother of Reproduction, Uncle Jock set out with Aimeng and Peter to kill Yulix and recover the scroll.

• Maria gave Yulix the genuine Dead Sea Scroll, but he revealed his demonic form, rejected her, and left her traumatized.
• Fang Yuan killed the Chaos Demon Kosomo, forcing the surviving demons to flee, and ordered a full-scale assault.
• General Solo defeated the northern alliance at the Battle of Golden Lake Reservoir, and the southern alliance went on to pacify Alka Continent by the second year of the Hunter Era.
• Fang Yuan learned the demons were searching ancient sites to unseal the Mother of Reproduction, rather than trying to conquer the continent.
• Uncle Jock asked to hunt Yulix and retrieve the Dead Sea Scroll, and Fang Yuan assigned Aimeng and Peter to accompany him.

Yulix and Soron recovered the final Dead Sea Scroll from a mithril-sealed passage, but Jok and the Demon Hunters ambushed them before they could escape. Yulix died fighting Aimeng, who learned he was her ancestor and inherited his Emerald Green Flames, while Soron fled with the scrolls and Fang Yuan awaited the Mother of Reproduction’s return.

• Yulix and Soron found the mithril passage containing the final Dead Sea Scroll, and Soron fought through its animated guards to retrieve it.
• Jok and Aimeng confronted the demons, and Soron flew away while Yulix stayed behind to fight Aimeng and the Demon Hunters.
• Jok’s signal brought down a barrage of alchemical shells that badly wounded Yulix, but he continued battling the Demon Hunters.
• Yulix let Aimeng’s rapier pierce his heart, revealed his human form and identity as her ancestor, then turned to ash and passed his Emerald Green Flames to her.
• Aimeng wept over Yulix’s death but insisted the demons must be exterminated, while Fang Yuan sensed that the Dead Sea Scrolls had been gathered and anticipated the Mother of Reproduction’s return.