Recaps

Yue Shen discovered that he had been transported into the game as a 12-year-old squire, then learned that he was in Demon-Resisting Town on the day of the Sacred Awakening. He returned to the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple and reviewed his character’s memories to understand his background and relationships.

• Yue Shen realized he could not log out and found that he had entered the game as a squire with exceptional charisma and comprehension.
• Yue Shen discovered he could still access his game panels and unlimited inventory, and considered the possibility that other players or transmigrators existed.
• Xia'er found Yue Shen without the bread he had been sent to buy and reminded him that the Sacred Awakening was scheduled for that day.
• Xia'er offered to buy the bread, and Yue Shen returned to the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple to study his character’s memories.
• Yue Shen learned that his knight parents had died fighting demons and that the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple had adopted and raised him.

Yue Shen prepared for his Sacred Awakening and resolved to leave Demon-Resisting Town and build his own Demon Hunt Squad. Holy Knight Commander Han Qian discovered Yue Shen’s unusual talent during the ceremony preparations, setting up a possible transfer away from Han Shu’s temple.

• Yue Shen decided to seek a master, move to a new map, and eventually lead his own Demon Hunt Squad rather than join Long Haochen’s group.
• Han Qian visited his nephew Han Shu and failed to persuade him to return to the Holy City.
• Han Shu brought Han Qian to the trial hall, where the knights-in-training were waiting for their Sacred Awakening ceremonies.
• Yue Shen identified Han Qian with his game tool and hoped to impress him enough to secure a transfer.
• Han Qian approached Yue Shen, examined his wrist, and revealed that he knew the boy was a twelve-year-old knight-in-training.

Han Qian and Han Shu agreed that Yue Shen would represent the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple in the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament, then began his Sacred Awakening ceremony. Yue Shen awakened with innate internal spiritual power of eighty-nine and a Divine Shelter Constitution, and Han Qian requested his file.

• Han Shu agreed to let Han Qian take Yue Shen for training after Han Qian promised that Yue Shen would represent the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple in the tournament.
• Han Qian began Yue Shen's Sacred Awakening ceremony while Han Shu used Light Shelter to protect their privacy.
• Yue Shen endured the awakening as sacred light converted his attributes and his innate internal spiritual power appeared.
• Yue Shen's innate internal spiritual power rose to eighty-nine, and he equipped a fresh uniform after the sacred light burned away his clothes.
• Han Qian identified Yue Shen's Divine Shelter Constitution and told Han Shu to fetch the boy's file.
• Han Shu handed Han Qian Yue Shen's file and privately explained Yue Shen's circumstances.

Yue Shen agreed to travel with Han Qian to the Holy City for training and set out after receiving equipment and saying goodbye to Demon-Resisting Town. During the journey, Han Qian discovered Yue Shen needed little instruction and decided to test his combat skills.

• Han Qian invited Yue Shen to train in the Holy City, and Yue Shen accepted.
• Han Shu gave Yue Shen a Storage Ring and let him choose one piece of equipment; Yue Shen picked the Spirit-Light Armor.
• Yue Shen packed his belongings, said goodbye to friends and elders in Demon-Resisting Town, and met Han Qian at the town gate.
• Han Qian took Yue Shen on a two-day journey to the Holy City while Yue Shen cultivated on the way.
• Han Qian found Yue Shen had quickly increased his internal spiritual power and already knew much about the temples, so he carved wooden swords to test Yue Shen's combat skills.

Yue Shen reached the third tier while traveling with Han Qian to Holy City, where he was left waiting in the Knight Division for a new teacher. As he cultivated in the sealed room, he considered how to spend his three free attribute points.

• Yue Shen sparred with Han Qian and maxed out his basic skills, but stopped asking for more practice to avoid revealing his abilities.
• Yue Shen advanced to the third tier and found that his spiritual power had risen to 281, though he remained an apprentice knight until passing the examination.
• Han Qian introduced Yue Shen to his Starshine Unicorn and recommended one as Yue Shen's future mount companion.
• Han Qian brought Yue Shen to Holy City and left him in a quiet room at the Knight Division to await his teacher.
• Yue Shen opened his status panel and pondered how to allocate his three free attribute points.

Yue Shen allocated his free attribute points, then faced Long Xingyu’s test to prove his combat skills. He survived the attacks and passed the required three breaths, but Long Xingyu continued the exchange.

• Yue Shen raised his charm to one hundred and saved one attribute point for his innate inner spiritual power.
• Long Xingyu appeared and told Yue Shen he would need to withstand three breaths of attacks to pass his test.
• Yue Shen recognized Long Xingyu and asked him not to use spiritual power during the test.
• Long Xingyu gave Yue Shen a bamboo sword and attacked; Yue Shen blocked his moves, including Lightning Thrust.
• After three breaths passed, Long Xingyu kept attacking, and Yue Shen continued to counter him.

Yue Shen passed Long Xingyu’s test and received a room and medicinal bath at the Knight Department. The next morning, Long Xingyu said he would teach Yue Shen everything he could, while Yue Shen mistakenly assumed his teacher’s days were numbered.

• Long Xingyu struck Yue Shen during their first exchange, but Yue Shen insisted on trying again.
• Yue Shen adapted to Long Xingyu’s footwork and blocked several attacks before Long Xingyu sent him crashing into a wall.
• Long Xingyu declared Yue Shen had passed, gave him a medicinal bath bundle, and arranged for him to stay at the Knight Department.
• Yue Shen used the medicinal bath, which helped heal his injuries and slightly increased his external spiritual power.
• The next morning, Long Xingyu said he would not take Yue Shen as a disciple but would pass on everything he could teach him.
• Yue Shen told Long Xingyu to begin training because he believed his days were numbered, leaving Long Xingyu certain that he had misunderstood.

Yue Shen learned Long Xingyu’s Nine Dragon Steps and discovered that Long Xingyu wanted him to focus on the Retribution Knight path. After hearing about a genius who trained in both Guardian and Retribution traditions, Yue Shen resolved to pursue both paths himself.

• Yue Shen sparred with Long Xingyu, blocked more of the Nine Dragon Steps than before, and convinced Long Xingyu that he had seen through the technique.
• Long Xingyu taught Yue Shen the Nine Dragon Steps, and Yue Shen used his player panel to unlock the hidden technique.
• Long Xingyu told Yue Shen that he was suited to the Retribution path and could inherit leadership of its Knight Temple branch.
• Yue Shen learned that a Child of Light genius with exceptional mental power trained in both Guardian and Retribution traditions.
• Long Xingyu advised Yue Shen to focus on Retribution, but Yue Shen privately decided to train in both paths.

Long Xingyu gave Yue Shen the Knight Temple’s Inheritance Ring and later entrusted him with his parents’ repaired Spirit-Demon Grade twin swords before leaving to duel the Seventh Demon God Pillar Ananda. Afterward, Yue Shen cultivated at a relaxed pace in the Holy City, where the Knight Temple kept him hidden and he spotted people he suspected were players from other temples.

• Long Xingyu gave Yue Shen the Inheritance Ring, which contained Knight Temple techniques, and advised him not to neglect either punishment or protection cultivation.
• Yue Shen trained under Long Xingyu, learning the Nine Dragon Steps and other self-created skills while asking questions and practicing in combat.
• Long Xingyu revealed that he was leaving to fulfill a duel with Ananda, then gave Yue Shen the repaired twin swords Holy Fire and Blazing Sun, which had belonged to Yue Shen’s parents.
• Long Xingyu told Yue Shen that a top-three finish in the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament finals in two years would earn him a spirit furnace.
• After Long Xingyu left, Yue Shen spent his days meditating, spending skill points, and exploring the Holy City, while the Knight Temple restricted where he could go.
• Yue Shen spotted people he suspected were players from other temples but avoided contacting them, while Han Qian worried about the Knight Temple’s hidden secret weapon.

Han Qian struggled to find a Retribution Knight instructor for Yue Shen, then recruited Wei Ping, an eighth-order knight, to train him. Wei Ping accepted the assignment and was told to meet Yue Shen the next morning.

• Han Qian abandoned his plan to ask Yang Haohan to instruct Yue Shen after Yang refused, then posted a mission seeking a Retribution Knight of at least the eighth order.
• Wei Ping, an eighth-order Retribution Knight and Demon Hunt Squad captain, accepted the mission and reported to Han Qian.
• Han Qian told Wei Ping that Yue Shen was Long Xingyu's disciple and instructed him to keep the assignment confidential.
• Han Qian explained that Wei Ping would supervise Yue Shen's cultivation, correct him, answer questions, and train his practical combat skills.
• Han Qian assigned Wei Ping to meet Yue Shen in the Knight Department's meditation chamber the next morning.

Yue Shen trained with Wei Ping, whose sparring sessions helped him refine his skills while concealing how much he already knew. Han Qian sent Yue Shen to Knight Sacred Mountain to choose a mount companion, and Yue Shen set out with Wei Ping the next morning.

• Yue Shen ended his sparring session with Wei Ping, who praised his skill and cultivation progress.
• Han Qian learned that Yue Shen's internal spiritual power was nearing nineteen hundred and told him to visit Knight Sacred Mountain to choose a mount companion.
• Han Qian explained that a Starshine Unicorn, especially one descended from the Starshine Unicorn King, would suit Yue Shen best.
• Han Qian described the magical beasts on Knight Sacred Mountain and their habitats to Yue Shen.
• The next morning, Yue Shen and Wei Ping left the Holy City for Knight Sacred Mountain.

Wei Ping took Yue Shen to the Knight Sacred Mountain on his Blue-Winged Pegasus, where Yue Shen prepared to choose a mount companion. After arriving, Yue Shen sensed the mountain’s unusually dense light element and followed Wei Ping toward its heart.

• Wei Ping opened a golden gate and summoned his eighth-tier Blue-Winged Pegasus, then carried Yue Shen into the sky toward the Knight Sacred Mountain.
• Yue Shen clung to Wei Ping during the Pegasus’s abrupt takeoff and secretly maxed out his Spirit Light Shield skill for protection.
• Wei Ping asked Yue Shen about his mount choice, and Yue Shen said he was not sure he would follow Han Qian’s suggestion to choose a Starshine Unicorn.
• After three days of flight and cultivation, Yue Shen arrived at the Knight Sacred Mountain, ate Wei Ping’s provisions, and packed a month’s supply of dry rations.
• Yue Shen sensed that the light element around the sacred mountain was over five times denser than at his usual cultivation spot and wondered how to absorb more of it.

Yue Shen arrived at the Knight Sacred Mountain with Wei Ping and met Long Haochen, Ye Hua, Gui Ying, and Gui Wu. After the elder explained the mountain’s rules and safety token, he gave the first token to Long Haochen and began checking his bone age.

• Wei Ping brought Yue Shen to the Knight Sacred Mountain, where they found Ye Hua with Long Haochen and Gui Ying with Gui Wu waiting to enter.
• Wei Ping let Ye Hua and Long Haochen go first, and Yue Shen greeted Long Haochen before they entered the line.
• Gui Ying urged Gui Wu to introduce himself to Yue Shen, but Yue Shen barely acknowledged him and muttered that Gui Wu rubbed him the wrong way.
• The elder explained how the tokens indicated magical-beast ranks, enabled Mount Contracts, and could teleport their bearers out of danger or after thirty days.
• The elder handed the first black token to Long Haochen and began checking his bone age.

Yue Shen entered the Knight Sacred Mountain to seek a mount companion, carrying the hope that he might find a Starshine Unicorn. After five days of difficult travel, he had made little progress and worried he might not find one within the thirty-day limit.

• Yue Shen arrived at the sacred mountain after the old man confirmed his extraordinary potential and gave him a token to assess magical beasts.
• Wei Ping told the old man that Yue Shen had awakened with innate inner spiritual power of eighty-nine and was being trained as a candidate for the next Divine Seal Knight.
• Yue Shen entered the mountain, used his swords to clear a route, and climbed a giant tree to locate the core region.
• Yue Shen traveled for five days through dense forest but found none of the paths cleared by Long Haochen or Gui Wu.
• Yue Shen grew concerned that he was going in circles and might not find the Starshine Unicorns before his thirty days ran out.

Yue Shen met a Windrider Eagle that offered to help him find the Starshine Unicorns, while Long Haochen was rejected by the unicorn herd and confronted by Gui Wu. The chapter ended with Gui Wu and his Red-Armored Earth Dragon facing Long Haochen.

• Yue Shen encountered a seventh-level Windrider Eagle, refused its offer to become his mount companion, and asked it for directions to the Starshine Unicorns.
• The Windrider Eagle pointed out that Yue Shen had been traveling the wrong way, then offered him a ride and carried him off as he screamed.
• Gui Wu rode his Red-Armored Earth Dragon through the Knight Sacred Mountain and resolved to attack Yue Shen if he found him without a mount.
• A Starshine Unicorn told Long Haochen that its race was unworthy of serving the Child of Light and advised him to try the teleportation array.
• Gui Wu found Long Haochen after the Starshine Unicorn herd left and insulted him; Long Haochen warned him not to insult his teacher.

Yue Shen rescued Long Haochen from Gui Wu, who fled rather than fight them both. Yue Shen then waited by the lake for the Starshine Unicorn herd and asked its king to become his mount companion, but the king declined and offered him another unicorn instead.

• Gui Wu challenged Long Haochen, but Yue Shen arrived with help from a Windrider Eagle and forced Gui Wu to teleport away.
• Long Haochen thanked Yue Shen, and the two introduced themselves before Long Haochen left to search for a mount elsewhere.
• Yue Shen stayed by the lake after learning the Starshine Unicorns came there to drink each morning.
• The Starshine Unicorn king declined Yue Shen's request to become his mount companion but suggested he choose one of the king's descendants.

Yue Shen accepted the Starshine Unicorn King's help to break through to the fifth tier, but left Knight Sacred Mountain without choosing a mount. Outside, Long Haochen revealed that he had seen Yue Shen with a Starshine Unicorn, prompting the others to question what happened.

• The Starshine Unicorn King gathered light element for Yue Shen and helped him cultivate after Yue Shen's breakthrough to the fifth tier was refused as a Mount Contract.
• Long Haochen searched Knight Sacred Mountain for a willing magical beast but received no response.
• After thirty days, Yue Shen reached level five of the fifth tier with three thousand spiritual energy, then declined to choose a Starshine Unicorn as his mount before being teleported out.
• Wei Ping, the mountain guardian elder, Gui Ying and his son, Long Haochen, and Long Haochen's master watched Yue Shen return without a mount.
• Long Haochen told the others he had seen a Starshine Unicorn following Yue Shen by the lake, and Yue Shen began recalling the encounter.

Yue Shen revealed that the Starshine Unicorn King had approved of him but that he had refused to choose one of its descendants as a mount companion. He went with Long Haochen to the Knight Sacred Mountain’s teleportation arrays, where an elder prepared to connect him to creatures from other planes so he could seek a mount.

• Yue Shen explained that he had gained the Starshine Unicorn King's approval but rejected the King's descendants as mount companions.
• The mountain guardian elder took Yue Shen and Long Haochen to a cave containing teleportation arrays and summoned another elder to help.
• Elder Thin Reed led Yue Shen to a separate array after learning that he had reached the fifth tier at fourteen.
• Elder Thin Reed warned Yue Shen not to stare at the Ancient Elven Script covering the array and told him to sit at its center.
• Elder Thin Reed explained that the array would connect to parallel spaces, allowing Yue Shen to sense creatures from other planes and seek one willing to become his mount.

Yue Shen began selecting a magical beast mount through the Knight Sacred Mountain’s teleportation array, searching a powerful plane for a suitable aura. He marked a brilliant blue light with an Equal Contract just as the old man warned that a powerful being had noticed their connection.

• Yue Shen asked the thin old man about the odds of obtaining a desired mount, and the old man said few people succeeded.
• The old man transformed into a complete Radiant Body and activated the teleportation array with a golden token.
• Yue Shen entered the vortex of worlds and chose its largest nebula, where he saw immense points of light surrounded by smaller ones.
• Yue Shen screened the smaller points of light by their auras while the old man warned that the connection was draining him and attracting attention.
• Yue Shen found a brilliant blue point of light and sent it the mark of an Equal Contract.

Yue Shen summoned a sapphire-blue dragonlike creature through the teleportation array and formed an equal contract with him. The elders identified the creature as a fifth-tier Starry Sky Divine Beast, and Yue Shen named him Aurelion Sol.

• Yue Shen's contracted creature emerged unconscious from the teleportation array, while Wei Ping and the elders stared in astonishment at his aura.
• Yue Shen cradled the creature, and the thin old man recorded him as the second Starry Sky Divine Beast summoned by the array.
• Yue Shen named his mount companion Aurelion Sol and learned that he was a fifth-tier beast still in his infancy.
• The elders explained that the temple used the array to find and nurture powerful beasts summoned by promising young knights.
• The elders saw Long Haochen's lizard and initially lamented his result, then recognized Aurelion Sol and praised the thin old man for summoning a Starry Sky Divine Beast.
• Yue Shen watched Long Haochen quietly, while Ye Hua sighed inwardly beside him.

Long Haochen risked his life to purge Haoyue’s dark constitution so he could take his companion beyond Knight Sacred Mountain. As the elders prepared to stop the ritual, Yue Shen offered his own blood to help Long Haochen continue.

• Yue Shen and Long Haochen compared their mount companions, and Long Haochen named his injured Earth Fire Lizard Haoyue.
• An elder warned that Knight Sacred Mountain’s light array would kill Haoyue if he left the cave, and explained that purging Haoyue’s dark constitution would be dangerous and costly.
• Long Haochen began the transformation ritual by cutting his wrist and feeding his blood into the contract rune.
• As Long Haochen grew dangerously weak, Wei Ping predicted the ritual would fail, and Yue Shen went to intervene.
• Ye Hua and an elder prepared to interrupt the ritual, but Yue Shen asked them to let him try using his own blood.

Yue Shen helped Long Haochen save Haoyue by sharing his Child of Light blood, then returned to the Holy City with Sol and prepared for the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament. Han Qian visited Yue Shen after his training, leaving the reason for his arrival unresolved.

• Yue Shen raised his innate inner spiritual power and gave blood to Long Haochen’s contract rune, helping Haoyue cleanse his dark aura and evolve into a two-headed beast.
• Haoyue formed a blood pact with Long Haochen, who thanked Yue Shen and learned from Ye Hua that Yue Shen was the Knight Temple’s other Child of Light.
• Yue Shen returned to the Holy City with Sol, and Han Qian recognized Sol’s aura as that of a Starry Sky Divine Beast.
• Yue Shen trained with Sol to develop coordinated attacks, but discovered Sol could not cultivate because the Holy Demon Continent lacked elements matching his attributes.
• Han Qian came to see Yue Shen after a day of training, and Yue Shen asked what he needed.

Yue Shen learned that he had to qualify for the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament by hunting a fifth-tier demon, then traveled to Haoyue City to complete the assessment. He arrived at the Haoyue Branch Hall and arranged to stay there until the assessment began.

• Han Qian explained that fifth-tier contestants had to hunt one fifth-tier demon to qualify, and that Yue Shen would complete his task separately in Haoyue City.
• Yue Shen agreed to go to Haoyue City, then left the Holy City with Sol and flew most of the way using his light wings.
• Yue Shen landed outside Haoyue City, entered through the checkpoint, and presented the Holy Knight Commander's written order at the Haoyue Branch Hall.
• Nalan Shu welcomed Yue Shen and agreed to arrange lodging until the assessment began, and Yue Shen requested a single room.

Long Haochen and Li Xin attended a banquet for Haoyue City's Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament contestants, where Yue Shen arrived as a guest from the Holy City. Long Haochen recognized him but did not approach, while Li Xin went to speak with Lin Jialu about the newcomer.

• Li Xin urged Long Haochen to hurry to the Government Office banquet, and Long Haochen left Haoyue at home after promising to bring dried fish.
• On the way, Long Haochen warned Li Xin not to let her feud with Lin Jialu affect their work as teammates.
• Long Haochen and Li Xin arrived at the banquet, where Li Aoxiao and other officials prepared to send off the contestants before the tournament assessment.
• Nalan Shu introduced Yue Shen to Li Aoxiao, and Yue Shen took a seat without approaching Long Haochen.
• Long Haochen recognized Yue Shen but said nothing, while Li Xin went over to Lin Jialu after noticing her signal.

At a send-off banquet for the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament, Long Haochen recognized Yue Shen but kept their connection secret while Yue Shen studied the other contestants. The branch hall masters introduced the competitors, then questioned Nalan Shu about why Yue Shen’s identity and cultivation had not been revealed.

• Li Xin and Lin Jialu noticed that Yue Shen’s golden eyes and features resembled Long Haochen’s, and they grew curious about the boys’ connection.
• Long Haochen denied knowing Yue Shen when Li Xin asked, but admitted he could not tell her more.
• Yue Shen ate at the banquet and listened as the branch hall masters introduced Chen Si, Chen Chen, Li Xin, Lin Jialu, and Long Haochen.
• The master of the Magic Branch Hall and Chen Chunhua asked Nalan Shu why he had not revealed information about Yue Shen.