Chapter Summaries

Yue Chen completed his secluded cultivation at Imperial Dragon Pass and planned how to rebuild his squad and advance its rank. After receiving letters from his teammates, he read Chen Ying'er’s message about preparing to reach the seventh tier and her promise to help the squad reach Title Rank.

• Yue Chen refused to stop cultivating Yilikes's legacy despite Long Haochen warning him about the Alliance’s hostility toward necromancers.
• Yue Chen spent three months cultivating and sparring with Long Haochen and Han Yu, learning seventh-tier knight skills before planning to reach the eighth tier and reform his squad.
• Yue Chen considered the requirements for advancing his squad from King Rank to Emperor Rank and eventually Title Rank.
• Long Tianyin’s guard knight delivered letters from Yue Chen’s teammates and letters for Long Haochen, which Yue Chen passed to him.
• Yue Chen opened letters and a package from his teammates, including pills from Lin Xin and Jin Ruchuan and messages from Chen Ying'er and Xue Meng.
• Chen Ying'er told Yue Chen she was preparing to break through to the seventh tier and awaken her Soul Saintess constitution, and reminded him to reach the eighth tier before reforming the squad.

Yue Chen read Chen Ying'er's letter and reflected on the insecurity he believed their relationship and his plans had caused her. He opened a parcel from Lin Xin and Jin Ruchuan, found a large supply of pills and three letters, and began reading Lin Xin's note.

• Yue Chen read Chen Ying'er's letter, which described her approaching a breakthrough and asked him to write back.
• Yue Chen considered why Chen Ying'er had become reserved, concluding that she feared their relationship might harm her grandparents and the Soul Temple.
• Yue Chen reaffirmed his plan to use the Demon God Pillars to survive and help the Temple Alliance win its war against the demons.
• Yue Chen opened the parcel Lin Xin and Jin Ruchuan had sent from Jialing Pass and found labeled pills and three parchment scrolls.
• Yue Chen began reading the letter he identified as Lin Xin's and saw Lin Xin assure him that refining medicine had not interfered with his cultivation.

Yue Chen read Lin Xin’s letter, learning that Lin Xin was thriving at Jialing Pass and promising to catch up with the squad. He then discovered the unusually long scroll was Jin Ruchuan’s detailed account of his military service and demon-slaying merits.

• Yue Chen read Lin Xin’s letter and learned that Gandalf had become Lin Xin’s apprentice and taken over much of his potion work at Jialing Pass.
• Lin Xin reassured Yue Chen that Jin Ruchuan was serving in the army under his watch and hinted that his love life would soon be settled.
• Yue Chen wondered whether Lin Xin’s romantic interest might be Lin Jialu, but reminded himself that he was already with Chen Ying'er.
• Yue Chen opened the longest scroll and initially suspected Lin Jialu had written it, but its daily duty records and merit tallies showed it was not a personal letter.
• Yue Chen recognized Jin Ruchuan’s name at the bottom and realized his retainer knight had sent him a detailed report of his service and kills.

Yue Chen read letters from Jin Ruchuan, Lin Jialu, and Xue Meng, then decided to cultivate in seclusion while his teammates worked toward the seventh tier. As Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered seclusion, Yang Haohan returned to the front lines amid the escalating Holy War at Imperial Dragon Pass.

• Yue Chen read Jin Ruchuan's letter and learned that combat at Jialing Pass had awakened his Constitution of Light's Protection and brought his spiritual power to the upper end of the sixth tier.
• Yue Chen discovered that Lin Jialu had become the Magic Temple master's personal disciple, then read Xue Meng's news that she had absorbed the Priest Temple's Spirit Furnace.
• Yue Chen decided to cultivate until he reached level five of the seventh tier, wrote replies to his teammates, and sent Chen Ying'er a personal message saying he missed her.
• Yue Chen gave Long Haochen some pills and announced he was entering seclusion, while Long Haochen resumed cultivation after sending his own replies.
• Yang Haohan left Yue Chen and Long Haochen's quarters to return to the battlefield, where the nearly year-long Holy War had put Imperial Dragon Pass under heavy pressure.

Undead Demon God Samigina and Yang Haohan fought to a draw as the Holy War settled into a war of attrition, while both sides waited for their strongest forces to act. In the demons’ command tent, Feng Xiu rejected Agares’s proposal for a decisive assault and explained that demons depended on humanity to prevent their own overpopulation from destroying them.

• Yang Haohan and Samigina fought evenly, with both leaders holding back and Samigina guarding against Long Xingyu.
• After Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered secluded training, the demons’ attacks slowed and the Temple Alliance refused the Demon God Emperor’s demands for Austin Griffin and Yue Chen.
• The Temple Alliance concluded that Feng Xiu and Agares were still withholding the demons’ strongest forces, while the war of attrition appeared to favor humanity.
• Agares urged Feng Xiu to lead an all-out assault on the Six Great Fortress Passes, but Feng Xiu refused because it would violate his ancestor’s command.
• Feng Xiu told Agares that demons could not create more of their kind and depended on humanity to manage their overpopulation, calling low-ranking demons uncivilized beasts within their own clans.

Feng Xiu explained that the demons needed humanity and the other races to survive, but vowed to destroy Austin Griffin if necessary. At Imperial Dragon Pass, Yue Chen delayed reforming his Demon Hunt Squad and his plan to seize a Demon God Pillar, while Vassago's prophecy led Agares to suspect Feng Xiu would become Yue Chen's black dragon mount.

• Feng Xiu told Agares that wiping out humanity would eventually doom the demons, but he would destroy Austin Griffin even if it meant exhausting their race's strength.
• Vassago arrived alone, agreed that the demons might need to sacrifice everything to defeat Austin Griffin, and promised to keep their secrets.
• At Imperial Dragon Pass, Yue Chen received word that his teammates had reached the seventh tier but told them to keep cultivating while he waited for the right time to reform their squad.
• Yue Chen considered seizing a Demon God Pillar to address his body's elementalization, then postponed the plan and entered deep meditation after receiving Chen Ying'er's flower wreath.
• Vassago showed Feng Xiu and Agares visions of a powerful black dragon confronting Austin Griffin, and Agares suspected the dragon was Feng Xiu with Yue Chen riding atop its head.

Yue Shen reached the peak of the seventh tier as irreversible elementalization threatened to consume his body, and he considered when to seek Ye Xiaolei’s help. At Myriad Beast Pass, Chen Ying'er cultivated in seclusion wearing the Soul Temple’s long-hidden divine artifact, the Soul Vestment, which had awaited a Soul Saintess for a thousand years.

• Agares considered whether the Demon God Emperor would kill Yue Shen or control him to prevent him from threatening the demons’ rule.
• Yue Shen reached the peak of the seventh tier and recognized that elementalization had become irreversible, though it gave him formidable strength.
• Yue Shen decided to raise his cultivation before seeking Ye Xiaolei’s help or reassembling his team.
• The chapter described the Soul Temple’s scarce elite forces and its reliance on summoners and magical beast tides during the Holy War.
• Chen Ying'er continued her two-month seclusion in the Soul Temple’s cultivation room while wearing the Soul Vestment, a divine artifact made from the spirit pills of 108 ninth-tier predecessors.

Chen Ying'er worked to break the seal restraining her Soul Saintess power, determined to grow strong enough to help Yue Shen. At Jialing Pass, Lin Xin treated Jin Ruchuan after another dangerous battle, while Lin Jialu arranged replacement equipment and support for him.

• Chen Ying'er focused her spiritual power on breaking the seal that had limited her summoning talent and resolved not to remain a burden to Yue Shen.
• Lin Xin treated Jin Ruchuan, who had returned from the front with broken arms and deep chest wounds after protecting his soldiers from an eighth-tier Diamond Bear Demon.
• Lin Xin ordered Jin Ruchuan to rest and explained that his damaged shield and armor could not be repaired.
• Lin Jialu visited the wounded Jin Ruchuan, arranged for guards to take him to the main camp, and promised to request replacement equipment from the temple.
• Lin Jialu left after speaking with Lin Xin, who reflected on her embarrassment and his poor reputation among the Magic Temple members at Jialing Pass.

Lin Xin settled into an easy life as head of Jialing Pass’s Potion Master Department, while his disciple Gandalf handled much of his assigned work. After Lin Xin’s acquaintances convinced him Lin Jialu liked him, he began imagining how to court her, though Lin Jialu remained unaware of his assumptions and read his sudden generosity differently.

• Jin Ruchuan defended Lin Xin when members of the Archmage Corps mocked him, and Lin Jialu made the troublemakers apologize.
• Jin Ruchuan joined Jialing Pass’s City Defense Army, while Lin Xin joined the Potion Master Department and was soon promoted to department head.
• After Long Haochen’s squad was disbanded, Gandalf came to work with Lin Xin and took over his potion-making assignments.
• Lin Jialu scolded Lin Xin for slacking off, prompting his Magic Temple acquaintances to tell him they thought she liked him.
• Lin Xin accepted their explanation and began planning to court Lin Jialu, who had asked him to deliver a letter to Yue Chen for practical reasons.
• Lin Jialu noticed Lin Xin’s sudden offers of pills but did not interpret them as romantic interest.

Lin Jialu wondered whether Lin Xin was trying to bring her and Yue Chen closer, but Yue Chen’s reply remained cold and distant. At Zhennan Pass, Ling Xiao and Elder Ling worried about Xue Meng’s safety and debated whether she should remain with the Priest Temple or return to Yue Chen’s Demon Hunt Squad.

• Lin Jialu inspected the pills Lin Xin had sent and reread Yue Chen’s reserved letter, regretting that she had been eliminated from the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament.
• At Zhennan Pass, demons targeted the Priest Temple’s healers with assassin raids, forcing most priests below the Seventh Tier to withdraw behind the walls.
• Sima Xian and Xue Meng supported the defenders on the walls, while Ling Xiao anxiously watched over Xue Meng’s healing and combat work.
• Ling Xiao urged Elder Ling to persuade Xue Meng to stay behind the lines, but Elder Ling reminded him that she would eventually return to Yue Chen’s Demon Hunt Squad.
• Elder Ling warned that the Temple Alliance faced a worsening war and that its victory was unlikely, while Ling Xiao feared the Priest Temple would lose its promising successor if Xue Meng left.

Ling Xiao questioned whether the Priest Temple should help Yue Chen rebuild his squad, but Elder Ling urged him to support the Temple Alliance’s chance to defeat the demons. Meanwhile, Yue Chen reached the eighth tier after three months in seclusion and prepared to leave Imperial Dragon Pass to reunite with his squad, where Yang Haohan and Han Qian discovered his breakthrough.

• Ling Xiao asked Elder Ling to help refuse Yue Chen’s request to recruit Xue Meng, but Elder Ling argued that the Priest Temple should support the Temple Alliance’s opportunity to defeat the demons.
• Elder Ling reminded Ling Xiao that the Knight Temple had agreed to let Yue Chen and Long Haochen rebuild their squads, and said the Priest Temple should not hold Xue Meng back.
• Yue Chen completed his breakthrough to the eighth tier after three months of seclusion at Imperial Dragon Pass.
• Yue Chen decided to leave ahead of Long Haochen and rebuild his squad, believing that traveling separately would reduce the risk of both Children of Light being targeted together.
• Yue Chen sealed his other two elements with Sol’s help and left his meditation room, where Yang Haohan and Han Qian sensed his spiritual power and recognized his breakthrough.

After Yue Chen reached the eighth tier, Yang Haohan and Han Qian discussed testing whether his innate inner spiritual power had increased. Their interest was complicated by the Knight Temple’s unresolved choice between Yue Chen and Long Haochen as its future leader, and Han Qian ended by asking Yue Chen to agree to the measurement.

• Yue Chen told Han Qian and Yang Haohan that he had reached the eighth tier, astonishing them with how quickly he had advanced.
• Yang Haohan sensed something unusual in Yue Chen’s elemental aura but could not determine its cause.
• Yang Haohan asked Han Qian whether his family’s secret technique could remeasure Yue Chen’s innate inner spiritual power, and the two considered Yue Chen’s Starry Sky Divine Beast and past measurement.
• Han Qian recalled that the Knight Temple had failed to choose between Yue Chen and Long Haochen as its future leader, with senior figures divided over their merits.
• Han Qian wondered whether Yang Haohan favored Yue Chen or Long Haochen and regretted agreeing to test Yue Chen.
• Yang Haohan cast a Holy Light Shield, and Han Qian asked Yue Chen whether he wanted his innate inner spiritual power measured again.

Yue Chen let Han Qian remeasure his innate inner spiritual power, and the test produced an astonishing reading of 285. Yang Haohan and Han Qian dismissed the result as impossible, but Yue Chen began to offer a guess about what had caused it.

• Yue Chen agreed to Han Qian measuring his innate inner spiritual power with the Han family's secret art.
• A golden pillar erupted from Yue Chen, and Han Qian estimated his innate inner spiritual power at 285.
• Yue Chen realized the reading combined his Child of Light, Child of Space, and Child of the Starry Sky constitutions.
• Yang Haohan and Han Qian suspected the measurement had malfunctioned, since even 99 points had never been recorded.
• Yue Chen denied knowing why the reading was so high, while using Sol's help to block Yang Haohan from sensing his state of mind.
• Yue Chen said he had a guess about the reading, prompting Yang Haohan and Han Qian to ask what had affected him.

Yue Chen explained his strange spiritual power reading and heard that the Knight Temple’s senior officials were debating whether he or Long Haochen should become its future leader, though neither knew about the discussion. After reaching the eighth tier, Yue Chen formally applied to re-form Demon Hunt Squad No. 61, saying all his companions had also reached the seventh tier.

• Yue Chen said his magical beast companion might have caused his innate inner spiritual power reading of 285 and agreed with Yang Haohan that the measurement was probably wrong.
• Yang Haohan decided to tell the Knight Temple’s senior officials about the unusual reading, while Han Qian and Yang Haohan praised Yue Chen’s achievements and cautioned him against arrogance.
• The narration revealed that the Knight Temple was privately weighing Yue Chen against Long Haochen as its future leader, although Yue Chen preferred to leave that role to Long Haochen and Long Haochen wanted Yue Chen to take it.
• Yang Haohan and Han Qian prepared to leave after discussing Yue Chen’s cultivation, but Yue Chen called them back with a request.
• Yue Chen formally applied to Yang Haohan to re-form his Demon Hunt Squad, stating that he had reached the eighth tier and all his companions had reached the seventh.