Chapter Summaries

Haoyue teleported Long Haochen away from the Undead Lords while Yue Shen escaped through Sol’s portal, leaving the Lich King and the Undead Judgment Knight to question the defeated Lich. Back at the Temple Alliance Grand Trial Grounds, Long Haochen returned without Yue Shen, while Sol chose to remain in the Undead Plane to cultivate fire-element power.

• Haoyue prepared to teleport Long Haochen away as the Lich fused with the Skeleton Giant and raised its strength to the peak of the sixth tier.
• Yue Shen and Sol struck the Skeleton Giant with Star Radiance Cross Slash, giving Haoyue time to teleport away with Long Haochen before Yue Shen followed through Sol’s portal.
• The Lich King and the Undead Judgment Knight arrived too late, and the Lich King revived the dying Lich to question him about Austin Griffin.
• Long Haochen returned to the Temple Alliance Grand Trial Grounds, where Cai'er and Li Xin noticed he had come back without Yue Shen.
• Sol insisted on remaining in the Undead Plane to absorb fire-element power and promised Yue Shen he would return before the group-stage matches ended.

Yue Shen returned from the Undead World and prepared for his group match while Sol cultivated there, absorbing fire element and gaining a powerful new form. Sol continued moving through the plane to gather more elemental energy as the Lich King and her lich tracked its influence.

• Yue Shen returned through the portal, reunited with Long Haochen, Li Xin, and Haoyue, and rested before the next day's matches.
• Yue Shen arrived at the trial grounds and took his seat to watch the first match, between Chen Ying'er and Xue Meng.
• Chen Ying'er began summoning a magical beast as Yue Shen watched from the competitors' seats.
• Sol absorbed fire element in the Undead World, grew larger, and transformed into a porcelain-white, orange-eyed form radiating fire.
• The Lich King and the lich found the depleted fire element aura and decided to let Sol move freely as long as it did not help Austin Griffin escape again.
• Sol traveled to a richer source of fire element, shifted back to its blue form, and continued absorbing elemental energy.

Chen Ying'er conceded her match after summoning a weak Frost Giant Bear Cub, and Altair forfeited rather than fight Yue Shen. The fourth match began with fifth-tier contestants Gandalf and Chen Qi facing off, while Yue Shen wondered about Chen Qi's unusual appearance and Gandalf's extreme caution.

• Chen Ying'er summoned a Frost Giant Bear Cub and conceded to Xue Meng, then rode the cub back to the contestants' seats.
• A dark-attribute female mage defeated a fourth-tier assassin in the second match.
• Altair forfeited his match against Yue Shen, and Bai Xiaoxing explained that the fourth-tier contestants in their group planned to forfeit against him.
• Gandalf, a fifth-tier light element Magic Conjurer, and Chen Qi, a fifth-tier War Venerable, began their match fifty meters apart.
• Gandalf retreated behind magical shields and fired Holy Light Blasts at Chen Qi, prompting Yue Shen to wonder why Gandalf seemed so wary.

Chen Qi defeated Gandalf in group six’s fourth match after revealing his ranger-style warrior abilities and black panther mount, while Gandalf revealed he was a Magic Conjurer Swordsman. Yue Shen left during the next match, having won both of his group-stage bouts and drawn the attention of the Six Great Temples.

• Chen Qi used his emerald longbow to break Gandalf’s Holy Light Blasts, then summoned a black panther and charged at him.
• Chen Qi closed in and drew his saber, but Gandalf revealed a longsword and his Magic Conjurer Swordsman legacy.
• Chen Qi won the match, aided by his stronger spiritual power and fifth-level black panther.
• The referee announced Chen Qi as the winner and began the fifth match between a male assassin and a female Grand Mage.
• Yue Shen left early, while two figures on the dais watched him depart after his two group-stage victories drew the Six Great Temples’ attention.

Yue Shen defeated Xue Meng in the first match of the day, overcoming her priestly spells and Spiritglow Necklace before she surrendered. His strength impressed the temple leaders watching the tournament, while Lin Chen and Ying Suifeng discussed the attention Yue Shen might attract.

• Ying Suifeng and Lin Chen discussed Yue Shen's strength and Lin Xin's friendship with him, while Han Qian celebrated Yue Shen's second win by forfeit.
• Xue Meng and Yue Shen began their match, with Xue Meng needing to endure for ten minutes to win.
• Xue Meng used Holy Light and Holy Light Hammer to defend herself and counter Yue Shen's attacks, but his power overwhelmed her spells.
• Xue Meng's Spiritglow Necklace protected her with a Holy Light Shield, but she surrendered before Yue Shen could break through it.
• The referee declared Yue Shen the winner.

Yue Shen completed eight group matches with an undefeated record, drawing attention across the tournament, and prepared for his final match against Chen Ying'er. Han Yu then brought him to meet Han Qian and Ye Hua, while Han Yu waited outside for Long Haochen to sign a Retainer Knight Contract.

• Chen Qi conceded after Chen Ying'er summoned a huge green dragon, giving her a victory in their match.
• Yue Shen finished eight group matches undefeated, though he had fought only twice because the rest of his opponents forfeited.
• Contestants including Lin Xin, Li Xin, Sima Xian, Cai'er, and Long Haochen reacted to news of Yue Shen's record.
• Yue Shen worried about his upcoming match against Chen Ying'er and wondered whether her next summon would trigger a pity guarantee.
• Han Yu told Yue Shen that Han Qian had sent him to bring Yue Shen over, explaining that he was due to sign a Retainer Knight Contract with Long Haochen.
• Han Qian asked Han Yu to wait outside for Long Haochen and admitted Yue Shen to the room with Ye Hua.

Yue Shen received a five-year Retainer Knight Contract seal from Han Qian and watched Long Haochen and Han Yu complete their retainer ceremony. The ceremony revealed Long Haochen’s innate internal spiritual power was ninety-seven, making him a Child of Light, and Han Qian turned to disclose Yue Shen’s own potential.

• Han Qian praised Yue Shen’s undefeated group-match record, and Yue Shen played along with his boastful account for Ye Hua.
• Han Qian gave Yue Shen a five-year Retainer Knight Contract seal, explaining that Yue Shen would have to find a suitable retainer himself.
• Long Haochen arrived, and he and Han Yu signed the Retainer Knight Contract, establishing Han Yu as Long Haochen’s retainer knight.
• Han Yu’s sacred light aura surged, and Han Qian recognized that Talent Suppression Sharing had activated between the two knights.
• Han Qian calculated Long Haochen’s innate internal spiritual power at ninety-seven and announced that he was a Child of Light.
• Ye Hua asked Han Qian about Yue Shen’s innate spiritual power, and Han Qian looked to Yue Shen for permission to answer.

Han Qian discovered that Yue Chen’s innate internal spiritual power had risen to ninety, making him a second Child of Light, and assumed Sol’s influence explained the change. The chapter ended as Yue Chen prepared to face Chen Ying'er in the final round of the Summoner Trial.

• Han Qian retested Yue Chen and confirmed his innate internal spiritual power was ninety, identifying him as a Child of Light.
• Long Haochen formed a Retainer Knight Contract with Ye Hua, whose innate internal spiritual power rose from eight to fifty-two through Talent Suppression Sharing, and Han Qian took Ye Hua as his disciple.
• Han Yu said farewell to Han Qian and left to join Long Haochen, while Yue Chen accompanied Han Qian to the Government Office.
• Han Qian attributed Yue Chen’s increased power to Sol, and Yue Chen explained that Sol had gone to another plane to cultivate.
• Yue Chen and Chen Ying'er were called to the arena for the first match of the final round.

Yue Chen let Chen Ying'er summon an upper seventh-level Corpse Flower King, then fought it with his Twin Swords and knight skills. After the beast halted its attacks, Chen Ying'er warned that she might lose control of it if Yue Chen continued.

• Bai Xiaoxing predicted that Chen Ying'er would summon a seventh-level magical beast after three failed summons, calling his reasoning mystical guesswork.
• Yue Chen let Chen Ying'er summon the Gate of Life and faced her Corpse Flower King without trying to interrupt her.
• Yue Chen's Sunlight Slashes barely slowed the Corpse Flower King, which attacked him with massive vines and corrosive fluid.
• Yue Chen shredded the beast's vines with Slaughtering Circular Sword and vaporized its corrosive attack with Ascension Array.
• Chen Ying'er called to Yue Chen and warned that she might lose control of the Corpse Flower King if he kept fighting.

Yue Chen continued his final group-stage match after Sol returned in his Ashen Lord form, and together they defeated Chen Ying’er's Corpse Flower King. Yue Chen left the arena undefeated and prepared to collect his preliminary rewards, while his victory set up the day’s next match.

• Yue Chen felt Sol approaching through their Equal Contract and chose to continue fighting rather than surrender.
• Sol entered the arena in his golden, orange-yellow Ashen Lord form, surprising the spectators and Yue Chen.
• Yue Chen struck the Corpse Flower King with a Holy Radiant Cross Slash while Sol blasted it with dragonfire, defeating it.
• The referee declared Yue Chen the winner, and Sol returned through his portal.
• Yue Chen prepared to leave for the Temple Treasure Pavilion, but a girl urgently called out to him.

After sweeping his group-stage matches, Yue Chen spoke with Chen Ying'er about Sol and then joined Long Haochen and Han Yu to visit the Temple Treasure Pavilion. The three arrived at the pavilion’s entrance, where Yue Chen recognized the thin old man as possibly the Assassin Temple’s current master.

• Chen Ying'er asked Yue Chen about Sol’s origins, name, and other dual-attribute mount companions, then invited him to bring Sol to the Soul Temple and offered payment for breeding him; Yue Chen refused.
• Yue Chen met Long Haochen and Han Yu outside the arena and told them he had swept the group stage.
• Long Haochen teased Yue Chen about Chen Ying'er, so Yue Chen briefly released Sol’s ferocious aura to frighten Long Haochen and Han Yu.
• Yue Chen noticed a fleeting purple-gold mark appear on Long Haochen’s forehead and decided to ask Sol about it later.
• Yue Chen led Long Haochen and Han Yu to the Temple Treasure Pavilion, where he saw two old men at the entrance and suspected the thin one was the Assassin Temple’s ninth-tier Sage.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered the Knight Temple’s treasure array to claim their rewards, while the thin elder learned Yue Chen had become the Knight Temple’s Child of Light. Yue Chen emerged in the Spirit-Riding Valley, where his reward awaited.

• Han Yu presented tokens for Yue Chen and Long Haochen to the thin elder, who led the two Earth Knights into the Treasure Pavilion.
• The elder activated the Knight mural and kicked Long Haochen through it; Yue Chen followed under his own power.
• Ying Suifeng told the elder that Yue Chen’s innate internal spiritual power had risen to ninety and that he was now the Knight Temple’s Child of Light.
• The thin elder exclaimed that Yue Chen would make a perfect son-in-law.
• Yue Chen traveled through an illusory mist and emerged before the Spirit-Riding Valley.

Yue Chen met Yang Haohan to claim his preliminaries reward and chose equipment to protect his teammates. Yang Haohan presented the Soul Chain, an epic set of runes that shared damage among its wearers.

• Yang Haohan told Yue Chen that Long Haochen had entered Spirit-Riding Valley to claim a Spiritual Artifact.
• Yang Haohan offered Yue Chen a reward equal in value to Long Haochen's, and Yue Chen asked for time to choose.
• Yue Chen decided he wanted equipment that would improve his teammates' survival and reduce the damage they took.
• Yang Haohan recalled that the treasure pavilion held the Soul Chain, an epic piece of equipment with no level requirement.
• Yang Haohan summoned seven golden runes and explained that the Soul Chain divided damage equally among everyone wearing one.

Yue Chen received the Soul Chain from Yang Haohan and learned more about the ancient elven relics preserved by the Temple Alliance. He trained with Sol in the Undead Plane before the round-of-sixteen finals, then received a Holy Spirit equipment set from Han Qian’s staff.

• Yang Haohan gave Yue Chen the Temple Alliance’s last Soul Chain set, which shared damage among squad members and warned them when one was attacked.
• Yang Haohan told Yue Chen that the Temple Alliance’s sacred grounds and treasure vaults came from the Ancient Elves, while he and Han Qian discussed Yue Chen’s potential after he left.
• Yue Chen learned that Sol’s Ash Lord form could not advance until Sol’s original form reached the sixth level, and Sol said he needed a Star Sea Spiritual Furnace to progress.
• Yue Chen and Sol entered the Undead Plane to practice Sol’s new form, where the undead bowed to Sol as the Lord Holy Dragon and Sol identified Yue Chen as his master.
• After three days of training, Yue Chen returned exhausted to his dormitory, where Knight Department staff delivered the Holy Spirit Set commissioned by Han Qian.

Yue Chen joined the Round of 16 contestants at the Knight Trial Grounds, where Han Qian announced the tournament rewards and oversaw the match draw. Yue Chen drew Gandalf as his opponent and waited for their match to begin.

• Yue Chen met Li Xin and Long Haochen in the entrance queue and learned how they and other contestants had qualified for the Round of 16.
• Yue Chen joined the contestants' seats, where Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf told him that many female contestants wanted to join his Demon Hunt Squad.
• Han Qian congratulated the sixteen qualifiers and announced that they could claim a secret technique from the Temple Alliance Treasure Pavilion.
• Han Qian and the deputy temple masters conducted the draw, which paired Li Xin against Long Haochen while Yue Chen drew Gandalf.
• Yue Chen and Gandalf returned to the contestants' seats to wait because their match was not first.

The round of sixteen advanced through several matches, ending with Yue Chen defeating Gandalf through superior swordsmanship. Gandalf realized Yue Chen had used Nine Dragon Steps, and Long Haochen recognized the technique in shock.

• Yang Wenzhao defeated Bai Xiaomo after overcoming her thorny plant attacks.
• Li Xin forfeited her match, making Long Haochen a quarterfinalist without fighting.
• Chen Qi defeated Shiqi, Duan Yi dug up Bai Xiaoxing to win, Cai'er crushed a Soul Temple Beast Tamer, and Xue Meng defeated a fourth-tier assassin.
• Yue Chen fought Gandalf with a sword instead of summoning his Mount Companion and defeated him with a disarming strike.
• Gandalf saw Knight and Retribution Knight swordsmanship skills appear on his Skill Panel, then wondered how Yue Chen knew Nine Dragon Steps.
• Long Haochen recognized Yue Chen's Nine Dragon Steps and sprang to his feet in disbelief.

After Long Haochen saw Yue Chen use his father’s Nine Dragon Steps, Li Xin concluded that Yue Chen was likely Haochen’s biological older brother. Ye Hua confirmed the evidence, and Haochen accepted the truth but chose not to discuss it with Yue Chen; the next day, both brothers focused on the elimination matches.

• Li Xin told Cai'er and Long Haochen that Yue Chen was probably Haochen’s biological brother, prompting Haochen to leave and seek answers from Ye Hua.
• Ye Hua told Long Haochen that the evidence established his relationship to Yue Chen, and Haochen eventually accepted the truth.
• Yue Chen wondered whether Long Haochen had recognized the Nine Dragon Steps and reflected on his teacher, Long Xingyu.
• Long Haochen chose to leave the matter unspoken, then greeted Yue Chen normally at the start of the next day’s elimination rounds.
• Yue Chen sat with Xue Meng and the other advancing contestants instead of sitting beside Long Haochen and Cai'er, and he wondered why Cai'er seemed unusually kind to him.

The quarterfinal draw paired Long Haochen with Yang Wenzhao, Cai'er with Xue Meng, Duan Yi with Chen Qi, and Yue Chen with Huang Yi. Long Haochen defeated Yang Wenzhao, Cai'er advanced by forfeit, and Chen Qi and Duan Yi began their match.

• The quarterfinal draw gave Long Haochen a match against Yang Wenzhao and paired Yue Chen with Huang Yi, who possessed an earth element spirit furnace.
• Long Haochen summoned Haoyue to interrupt Yang Wenzhao's summoning, while Yue Chen linked minds with Sol to observe Haoyue's battle and briefly emitted an unfamiliar aura that Cai'er and San Shui noticed.
• Long Haochen and Haoyue overwhelmed Yang Wenzhao, and Long Haochen won before healing his injured opponent.
• Xue Meng conceded her match against Cai'er, sending Cai'er to the semifinals.
• Chen Qi entered the arena to face Duan Yi after Xue Meng revealed that the players had agreed Chen Qi needed to reach the top three, and the match began.

Chen Qi defeated Duan Yi by injuring his Golden Horn Mammoth and forcing him to surrender. The final quarterfinal between Yue Chen and Huang Yi began, and Yue Chen’s dragon Sol cleared Huang Yi’s earth barriers as Huang Yi cast Earth Wave Technique.

• Chen Qi awakened his Elf Bloodline, gained a spirit-demon grade longbow, and summoned two Azure Demon Wolves to fight Duan Yi and his Golden Horn Mammoth.
• After one Azure Demon Wolf was taken down and Duan Yi held a defensive position, Chen Qi targeted the Golden Horn Mammoth and threatened it until Duan Yi surrendered.
• The referee declared Chen Qi the winner and called Yue Chen and Huang Yi into the arena for the last quarterfinal.
• Yue Chen summoned Sol, a high sixth-level Dragon Beast, while Huang Yi began casting earth magic and prepared Earth Wave Technique with help from his Earth Elemental Spirit.
• Yue Chen charged through Huang Yi’s spikes and walls, and Sol’s Dragon Breath melted the remaining obstacles, leaving Huang Yi exposed mid-cast.

Yue Chen defeated Huang Yi in the quarterfinals after Sol interrupted Huang Yi’s Earth Wave Technique, securing a place in the final four. The next morning, Yue Chen, Long Haochen, Cai'er, and Chen Qi gathered for the semifinals, with Long Haochen eager to face Yue Chen.

• Huang Yi summoned an Earth Giant and used his Elemental Spirit to strengthen it, but Yue Chen shattered the creature with Slaughtering Circular Sword.
• Sol turned the burning Rock Giant into a Meteorite and struck near Huang Yi, interrupting his spell and causing magical backlash.
• Yue Chen won the quarterfinal and sent Huang Yi to receive treatment, while Huang Yi regretted not joining Yue Chen’s squad.
• Yue Chen learned that the final four were himself, Long Haochen, Cai'er, and Chen Qi, and later returned to his dormitory with Sol.
• The next morning, Yue Chen and the other semifinalists entered the Trial Grounds, where Long Haochen appeared eager to face Yue Chen.