Chapter Summaries

Feng Xiu withdrew from Dream Paradise after warning that he would claim the Goddess of Nature’s Divine Core, and Ye Xiaolei treated Yue Shen’s dangerous elemental condition. As Dream Paradise neared its closing, Sol arrived in a new Wood Dragon form, leaving Long Haochen and Ye Xiaolei astonished.

• Vassago reported seeing a mysterious mage overpower Feng Xiu before collapsing, and Feng Xiu carried him to Star Demon Palace.
• Feng Xiu abandoned his attempt to probe Yue Shen and left Dream Paradise after declaring that he would take the Goddess of Nature’s Divine Core.
• Yue Shen protected Long Haochen’s secret from Cai'er, while Ye Xiaolei explained that Yue Shen’s three powerful elemental attributes could eventually kill him but might be alleviated.
• Yue Shen asked Ye Xiaolei about treating his condition, and she said she could not cure it but might ease it.
• Sol arrived through a blue-green portal in a powerful new Wood Dragon form, and Long Haochen recognized him.

Sol returned from Dream Paradise transformed into a huge wood dragon, able to speak and brimming with nature and life energy. Before the group prepared to leave, Ye Xiaolei explained divine favor awakenings and warned that Yue Chen’s three unusually pure elements made his future uncertain.

• Sol emerged from the portal in a massive wood dragon form, and he and Ye Xiaolei greeted each other as Yue Chen and the others learned Sol could speak.
• Ye Xiaolei finished a private conversation with Sol, and Yue Chen and Long Haochen asked her about leaving Dream Paradise as the realm neared its closing.
• Ye Xiaolei identified Cai'er as a reincarnation saintess with a divine favor constitution and explained that awakening such a constitution let its bearer borrow a deity’s power.
• Ye Xiaolei described the constraints of becoming a god and revealed that the Goddess of Nature had created her while trying to escape the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Ye Xiaolei said Yue Chen was unlike other humans because three rare, high-level elements coexisted harmoniously within him, then suggested he probably would not become a god of the plane.

Ye Xiaolei warned Yue Shen that his three elemental attributes could split his body and consciousness when he became a god, but he refused to awaken his Child of Light talent and kept searching for another path. As dawn came on the third day, Long Haochen and Cai'er completed their talent awakening, and a connection to the Dream Divine Temple signaled that their time in Dream Paradise was ending.

• Ye Xiaolei advised Yue Shen to awaken his Child of Light talent so more of his consciousness might remain anchored in light if he became a god, but Yue Shen declined.
• Yue Shen weighed his options for escaping the plane's rules, including studying Electrolux's necromancy, becoming an astral spirit, or joining the demons, and decided to wait.
• Ye Xiaolei explained that the Demon God Emperor was not bound by the plane's rules and could become its ruler if he obtained and fused with a divine core.
• Yue Shen recognized that Ye Xiaolei was the Goddess of Nature's final divine core and that she could help delay his body elementalization.
• Ye Xiaolei taught Long Haochen and Cai'er how to awaken their divine favor talents, and they meditated as golden and gray mist gathered around them.
• At dawn on the third day, Long Haochen and Cai'er finished awakening their talents, and Yue Shen sensed the Dream Divine Temple calling them back.

Yue Chen left Dream Paradise with Spirit Furnaces for himself and his companions, along with Ye Xiaolei’s token to help delay his body elementalization. After Sol explained the circumstances behind Yue Chen and Long Haochen’s necromancer legacies, Ye Xiaolei formed a life contract with Sol instead of Yue Chen.

• Ye Xiaolei gave Yue Chen a Wooden Token that could contact her when his body could no longer endure.
• Sol explained to Ye Xiaolei that Yue Chen and Long Haochen had acquired Yilikes’s legacies without seeking him out, and that Yilikes was a Necromancer with the light attribute.
• Ye Xiaolei said she could not sever Yue Chen’s connection to Yilikes, who was too powerful, and Sol reassured her that Yilikes meant Yue Chen no harm.
• Ye Xiaolei asked Sol to take her outside Dream Paradise, and Sol agreed.
• Ye Xiaolei and Sol formed a life contract marked by matching emerald-green Hexagram Marks, allowing her to contact Sol whenever she wanted to go out.

Yue Chen returned from Dream Paradise with Ye Xiaolei contracted to him, concealed his gains from the Temple Alliance and his companions, and reported that Long Haochen and Cai'er were safe. The chapter ended as Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er emerged, while Huang Shuo feared for the missing demons, including A Bao.

• Ye Xiaolei chose to contract with Yue Chen so she could leave Dream Paradise, and Yue Chen soon returned to its entrance.
• The Temple Alliance elders questioned Yue Chen, who said Long Haochen and Cai'er were safe and claimed he had killed a demon inheritor and an eighth-tier Moon Demon.
• Yue Chen showed the elders the Crown of Inheritance and the Moon Demon's Magic Crystal but concealed his Spirit Furnaces and other secrets.
• Yue Chen told his disappointed companions that he had gained no Spirit Furnace, then talked with Zhang Fangfang while they waited.
• Long Haochen and Sheng Cai'er emerged from Dream Paradise, and Temple Alliance experts blocked Huang Shuo as he worried about the missing demons and A Bao.

After Dream Paradise closed, Xing Sha’s words prompted Huang Shuo to withdraw the demons, while Yue Chen and his companions returned to Zhennan Pass. The Priest Temple summoned the explorers to report on their discoveries, and Elder Ling took over the questioning, leaving the chapter on Ling Xiao privately urging Ling Qian to be smart.

• Huang Shuo restrained the demons, but when the Dream Divine Temple closed, he offered Ling Xiao dragon ointment in exchange for information about Dream Paradise.
• Xing Sha spoke privately with Huang Shuo, who then ordered the demon forces to withdraw without recovering the dragon ointment.
• Yue Chen met Long Haochen and Cai'er and warned them not to reveal what they had gained in Dream Paradise.
• Ling Xiao gave Han Qian and Ying Suifeng dragon ointment for Yue Chen, Long Haochen, and Cai'er, asking them to remember the Priest Temple.
• Ling Xiao led the group back to Zhennan Pass, where the Priest Temple summoned the explorers to report on their gains and discoveries.
• Elder Ling dismissed most of the questioners, and Ling Xiao secretly told Ling Qian to be smart.

After reporting their experiences in Dream Paradise to Elder Ling, Yue Chen returned to his Demon Hunt Squad and revealed that he had fought powerful demon prodigies. He showed his teammates an eighth-tier Moon Demon’s magic crystal and the Undead Demon God’s Crown of Inheritance, leaving them astonished.

• Elder Ling questioned Yue Chen, Long Haochen, and Cai'er about Dream Paradise, especially the Goddess of Nature and the demons’ pursuit of her divine core.
• Yue Chen and his companions left Elder Ling to discuss the divine core, Ye Xiaolei, and their concerns about Yue Chen’s future and Yue Ye.
• Yue Chen returned to his barracks, where his teammates crowded around him in relief and asked about his battle with the demon prodigies.
• Yue Chen displayed an eighth-tier Moon Demon’s magic crystal and explained that transformed magical beasts had killed its owner after he broke Dream Paradise’s rules.
• Yue Chen revealed the Undead Demon God’s Crown of Inheritance, stunning his teammates.

After returning from Dream Paradise, Yue Chen prepared his squad to head back to Holy City and wondered why the Demon God Emperor had spared him. Meanwhile, Vassago told Feng Xiu that his prophecy revealed Yue Chen could determine the demons’ survival, then planned another divination.

• Yue Chen gave Lin Xin the items from Dream Paradise, checked the squad’s merit rewards, and ordered everyone to prepare for their return to Holy City as a Marshal-level squad.
• Yue Chen promised Lin Xin a treasure to help him cultivate and urged him to prioritize training over making potions.
• Yue Chen left the barracks with Chen Ying'er to arrange a carriage, then realized the Demon God Emperor’s decision to spare him might have been influenced by Vassago’s prophecy.
• Vassago woke in the Star Demon Palace and told Feng Xiu that his divination had revealed a mysterious human who could determine whether the demon race survived.
• Feng Xiu gave Vassago a Life Essence fruit, and Vassago recovered enough strength to use Great Prophecy again and investigate the demons’ future.

Vassago used Great Prophecy to glimpse a future in which Austin Griffin threatened the demon race, and he saw a human figure riding a black dragon. After awakening, he told Feng Xiu that the human was the demon race’s last chance to survive before collapsing unconscious.

• Vassago began his final Great Prophecy, sacrificing his Life Essence to reveal the demon race’s future.
• Vassago saw a battlefield littered with corpses, broken Demon God Pillars, and Austin Griffin facing an enormous black dragon.
• Vassago spotted a mist-shrouded human atop the black dragon and used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Method to prolong the vision, but the prophecy ended before he could identify the figure.
• Feng Xiu caught Vassago as he collapsed, then treated him until he regained consciousness.
• Vassago told Feng Xiu that the future was filled with despair but that the mysterious human was the demon race’s last chance to overcome it, then fell unconscious again.

After returning to the Holy City, Yue Chen encouraged his squad to pursue the goal of becoming a Title-level Demon Hunt Squad, which they agreed to follow under the name Apocalypse. He then revealed the spirit furnaces he had brought back from Dream Paradise and gave Lin Xin the Heartflame Spirit Furnace to help him grow stronger.

• Yue Chen brought his companions back to their cottage, arranged for cultivation pills, and reassured them that the squad had enough merit points for future equipment and advancement.
• Yue Chen said he hoped to lead the squad from Scholar Rank to Title-level, and Lin Xin, Xue Meng, Jin Ruchuan, and Shiqi each pledged to continue following him.
• Xue Meng asked what title Yue Chen had chosen, and he named the squad Apocalypse.
• Yue Chen displayed the spirit furnaces he had obtained in Dream Paradise and said their priority was helping everyone reach the sixth tier and become top-tier powerhouses.
• Yue Chen gave Lin Xin the Heartflame Spirit Furnace, explaining that it suited his fire attribute and might help him learn offensive magic.

Yue Chen distributed two spirit furnaces from Dream Paradise to Jin Ruchuan and Chen Ying'er, explaining their powers and promising Shiqi and Xue Meng that they would receive suitable ones later. As Chen Ying'er learned the Substitute Spirit Furnace’s abilities, Yue Chen was called to an important Temple Alliance meeting.

• Yue Chen told his squad he had hidden the spirit furnaces until they were safely home and promised everyone would eventually receive one.
• Yue Chen gave the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace to Jin Ruchuan, who vowed to use it to protect the team and began absorbing it.
• Xue Meng realized Yue Chen had used the Eternal Tower to bring the spirit furnaces out of Dream Paradise.
• Yue Chen gave the Substitute Spirit Furnace to Chen Ying'er and reassured her that she was well suited to it.
• Yue Chen explained that the Substitute Spirit Furnace could block an attack and duplicate a skill, though it would stop working for a day after the latter use.

Yue Shen met Long Haochen and Li Xin before a Temple Alliance meeting, where Han Qian announced a million-merit-point bounty for Xing Sha, the likely successor to the dying Star Demon God. Yue Shen suspected the news was a trap, while Long Haochen regretted not killing Xing Sha when they had encountered her in Dream Paradise.

• Yue Shen reassured Chen Ying'er about absorbing the Substitute Spirit Furnace after she hesitated to promise she would remain with the group.
• Yue Shen reunited with Long Haochen and Li Xin, and Long Haochen accidentally revealed that Li Xin had considered introducing Yue Shen to someone.
• Yue Shen and Long Haochen joined the meeting as Han Qian announced that Star Demon God Vasak was nearing death and identified Xing Sha as his likely successor.
• Han Qian revealed that the Temple Alliance had placed a one-million-merit-point bounty on Xing Sha, prompting Long Haochen to regret not killing her in Dream Paradise.
• Yue Shen suspected the bounty and news of Vasak's impending death were part of a scheme, but told Long Haochen he was not interested in the reward.

Yue Chen refused to pursue Xing Sha for the bounty and began to feel that Long Haochen and Li Xin were his family. After Han Qian warned the two boys to stay away from Xing Sha and gave them cultivation materials, they reunited with Li Xin for dinner.

• Yue Chen told Long Haochen that pursuing Xing Sha was a trap and that neither of them should take the mission.
• Li Xin jokingly called Yue Chen her little brother, and Yue Chen accepted her and Long Haochen as family.
• Han Qian privately warned Yue Chen not to pursue Xing Sha, mistakenly believing Yue Chen was the one tempted by the mission.
• Yue Chen showed Han Qian a token from Dream Paradise and claimed the Goddess of Nature's will had given it to him.
• Han Qian gave Yue Chen and Long Haochen dragon ointment to help them cultivate their external spiritual power.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen joined Li Xin for dinner and enjoyed the meal together like siblings.

While Long Haochen’s and Yue Chen’s squads compared clues about who possessed the Eternal Tower, Sol revealed that Haoyue’s hidden soul had once devastated the Plane of the Dead and might threaten Yue Chen’s world if it awakened. Sol urged Yue Chen to help dispose of Haoyue, but Yue Chen refused and left Sol’s own strength in question.

• Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf told Xue Meng they suspected Long Haochen had the Eternal Tower, but learned Yue Chen’s squad had also distributed Spirit Furnaces, leaving both groups unsure who possessed it.
• Xue Meng, Bai Xiaoxing, and Gandalf considered whether Yue Chen and Long Haochen might share the Eternal Tower.
• Sol informed Yue Chen that Haoyue was evolving in the Plane of the Dead and asked him to help dispose of the Nine-Headed Chimera.
• Sol showed Yue Chen memories depicting Austin Griffin destroying the Plane of the Dead and warned that Haoyue’s hidden soul could awaken and endanger their world.
• Yue Chen refused to attack his companion, and Sol insisted he could defeat Haoyue despite Yue Chen questioning whether Sol was strong enough.

Yue Chen watched Haoyue complete his fourth evolution and worried about the danger posed by Haoyue’s future transformation and Sol’s limited opportunities to grow stronger. After warning Long Haochen to keep Sol hidden from the demons, Yue Chen returned to his squad, whose members began secluded cultivation.

• Sol warned Yue Chen that Haoyue might soon release the lunatic within him and that Sol lacked the resources to advance, while Yue Chen said he would not interfere with Haoyue and Long Haochen.
• Yue Chen watched images of Haoyue in the Plane of the Dead, then used the Eternal Melody to teleport to the Eternal Tower when Long Haochen contacted him.
• Long Haochen showed Yue Chen Haoyue, who had completed his fourth evolution, gained a water-attribute head, and reached level seven in all four of his attributes.
• Long Haochen warned Yue Chen that the Demon God Emperor might consider Sol an even greater threat than Haoyue, and Yue Chen agreed to keep Sol’s existence concealed.
• Lin Xin, Jin Ruchuan, and Chen Ying'er finished absorbing their spirit furnaces, with Chen Ying'er's Substitute Spirit Furnace evolving into the Time-Stacking Spirit Furnace.
• Yue Chen’s General Grade No. 21 Demon Hunt Squad began secluded cultivation while waiting to advance to Commander Rank.

Yue Chen, Chen Ying'er, and Lin Xin joined Long Haochen at the Temple Alliance Grand Auction House, where Lin Xin and his apprentice Gandalf helped the group prepare for the monthly VIP auction. The auction began with a costly tenth-tier dragon magic crystal, while Yue Chen kept an eye out for a suitable weapon.

• Yue Chen collected cultivation pills, then invited Chen Ying'er to the auction; Lin Xin joined them with his VIP Card.
• Yue Chen and his companions met Long Haochen, Cai'er, and Gandalf outside the auction house, where Lin Xin teased his apprentice about his Black Envoy VIP Card.
• Lin Xin and Gandalf led the group through the auction house and reviewed the catalog, while Long Haochen pointed out that Yue Chen needed a good weapon.
• Ye Weiyang introduced herself as the Chief Auctioneer and opened the monthly VIP auction.
• Lin Xin identified the first lot as a tenth-tier dragon magic crystal with a starting bid of eight million gold coins, too costly for the group to buy without sacrificing their chance at other items.

During the auction, Lin Xin teased Yue Chen about pursuing Ye Weiyang, while Gandalf proved capable at bidding for useful lots. Long Haochen and Cai'er discussed Chen Ying'er's betrothal to Yang Wenzhao and revealed that Cai'er had once nearly been betrothed to an unknown exceptional person connected to a Divine Seal Knight.

• Lin Xin suggested Yue Chen pursue Ye Weiyang, but Yue Chen refused and told Lin Xin to handle his own love life.
• Gandalf bid wisely on rare herbs, magic crystals, and scrolls, while Chen Ying'er rested against Yue Chen's shoulder.
• Long Haochen told Cai'er that Chen Ying'er was betrothed to Yang Wenzhao, but Cai'er said Ying'er would make the first move toward Yue Chen.
• Cai'er revealed that her family had once considered betrothing her to someone else, but she had firmly refused.
• Long Haochen's surprised shout drew everyone's attention, and Gandalf and Lin Xin mistakenly suspected something had happened between him and Cai'er.
• Cai'er told Long Haochen that the unknown person had ties to a Divine Seal Knight and had been admired by her great-grandfather, her father, and Grandpa Shadow.

Yue Chen tried to undo the seal on Ye Weiyang’s divine sword at the auction and used Sol’s power to persuade the proud weapon to accept him. He left the sword’s seal unbroken but gained its agreement to go with him.

• Ye Weiyang introduced the sealed sword of Light Sword God Ye Wushang as the auction’s final lot, explaining that it would only be sold to someone who could undo its seal and pay twenty million gold coins.
• Yue Chen volunteered to try, and a masked guest defended him by revealing that he had won this year’s Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament.
• Ye Weiyang and Feng Ling’er watched as Yue Chen touched the sword and circulated his sacred light spiritual power, causing it to hum faintly.
• Yue Chen offered to help the sword kill more demons and threatened to break its seal if it refused; the sword sensed Sol’s power and agreed to go with him.
• Sol confirmed the agreement, and Yue Chen opened his eyes with a golden glow after communicating with the divine sword.

Yue Chen awakened the divine sword Goddess of Light's Aria at the Temple Alliance Grand Auction House and took it with him on credit. After more than half a year of cultivation, his squad reached the sixth tier, and Yue Chen applied to promote General Grade No. 21 to a Marshal-level Demon Hunt Squad.

• Yue Chen broke the seal on Goddess of Light's Aria, awakening the legendary sword and earning its recognition.
• Ye Weiyang offered to cover one-third of the sword's twenty-million-gold price and let Yue Chen pay the balance later.
• Yue Chen reunited with his companions, and Long Haochen examined Goddess of Light's Aria.
• Yue Chen declined Chen Ying'er's invitation to cultivate together and focused on advancing through the Eternal Tower and improving his necromancy.
• After more than half a year, the squad members had reached the sixth tier, and Yue Chen applied to promote their squad to Marshal-level.

Yue Chen’s squad completed the requirements to advance to Commander Rank, but the Holy Knight Commander required Yue Chen to demonstrate seventh-tier strength in an assessment against his former instructor, Wei Ping. Their duel began in the Trial Grounds, where Wei Ping and his Blue-Winged Pegasus broke through Sol’s initial attempts to stop them.

• Yue Chen’s squad passed the spiritual power verification and paid the merit points needed to apply for advancement to Commander Rank.
• At the Trial Grounds, Yue Chen recognized Wei Ping, who revealed that the Holy Knight Commander required Yue Chen to show the strength of a seventh-tier Temple Knight.
• Yue Chen agreed to fight Wei Ping, who promised to limit his spiritual power and avoid using his Adamantine Base.
• Yue Chen and Wei Ping entered the arena with their magical beast companions, Sol and the Blue-Winged Pegasus, as the examiners raised a protective barrier.
• Sol raised wooden shields and summoned vines to impede Wei Ping’s charge, but Wei Ping cut through them and ordered the Blue-Winged Pegasus to take flight.