Chapter Summaries

Yue Chen rushed to save Wei Zheng and the others as Maimon’s necromancy turned their fallen enemies into undead and Ami threatened two gravely wounded Mithril Knights. A mysterious Divine Throne descended between Ami and his victims, shielding them and stopping the demon god in his tracks.

• Wei Zheng and his companions killed Maimon’s Two-Headed Demon Vulture guards, but Maimon’s Liches revived the dead as undead and raised three Skeleton Giants.
• Wei Zheng and the other two fought the Skeleton Giants despite expecting to die, while Yue Chen asked Sol for help and was told it would allow only two teleports.
• Yue Chen vanished after telling Chen Qi to lead the Radiant Knight Order and Dark Night Assassin Hall back to Zhennan Pass.
• Ami struck down the remaining resistance of two Mithril Knights and raised his hand to kill them.
• A thirty-meter Divine Throne descended in a pillar of golden light, blocked Ami’s attack, and froze him with an aged voice commanding him to die.

Yue Chen fought alongside Yang Haohan and the Radiant Knight Order at Zhennan Pass, where Yang Haohan’s Divine Throne drove off the demon gods and saved the wounded knights. After they returned, Yang Haohan warned Ling Qian against putting Yue Chen in danger, while Yue Chen reunited with his worried squad and explained the mission.

• Yang Haohan’s Throne of Protection and Mercy destroyed Fire Giant Ami’s body, and Yue Chen killed the twenty Liches while Witchcraft Demon God Mao Mo escaped.
• Yang Haohan healed the wounded Temple Knights, and he and Yue Chen returned safely to Zhennan Pass with the Radiant Knight Order.
• Maimon and the surviving Ami retreated toward the demon camp and vowed to respond to the humans’ initiative.
• Yang Haohan privately questioned Yue Chen about the mission, then warned Ling Qian not to scheme against Yue Chen and required Adamantine Foundation Knights to accompany future missions outside the city.
• Yue Chen reunited with his worried Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One and explained that he and Captain Chen had accepted the dangerous merit mission.

Yue Chen recounted his mission to his teammates, showed them the high-tier demon corpses he had brought back, and explained that the Radiant Knight Order had helped kill the lord-class Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demon. The story then shifted to the demons’ main camp, where Demon Gods Mao Mo and Ami awaited judgment from their commander, Eligor.

• Yue Chen told his teammates about his mission, and they objected to the Zhennan Pass commander sending him into battle before Yue Chen said he had accepted voluntarily.
• Yue Chen revealed a Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demon corpse and gave his demon spoils and potion ingredients to Lin Xin.
• Chen Ying'er asked whether Yue Chen had killed the demon, and Yue Chen explained that he and the Radiant Knight Order had killed it together before ending the meeting.
• The chapter described the demons’ rigid hierarchy, food shortages, reliance on human labor, and longstanding war against the Temple Alliance.
• Mao Mo and the diminished Ami knelt before Eligor, the demon army’s supreme commander outside Zhennan Pass, as he ignored them.

Eligor learned that Yang Haohan had appeared at Zhennan Pass and left for Demon Capital Heart City to report the humans’ unusual movements and request reinforcements, but the Demon God Emperor was absent. Meanwhile, Yue Chen’s squad reviewed its merit points and cultivation, revealing their progress as their military service continued.

• Eligor heard that Maimon and Ami had failed to defeat the Radiant Knight Order and learned Yang Haohan was at Zhennan Pass, so he ordered feint attacks and left to report to the Demon God Emperor.
• Yue Chen and his teammates returned from their shift and checked their merit points, with Yue Chen leading at 1,302 points.
• The squad members explained how they had earned merit points, including Lin Xin selling pills and Xue Meng healing wounded soldiers.
• Yue Chen recorded the squad’s spiritual power results, which showed his internal spiritual power was highest and Jin Ruchuan’s external spiritual power was highest.
• Eligor left Demon Capital Heart City after waiting nearly five days without seeing the absent Demon God Emperor.

Long Haochen gained a powerful Light Element Spiritual Furnace and saw his spiritual power rise sharply, while Demon-Repelling Pass faced an enormous demon army. The Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu arrived and demanded that the humans surrender every three-headed magical beast, leaving Saint Moon to confront him.

• Eligor returned to Zhennan Pass ahead of the reinforcements he had requested from Demon Capital Heart City.
• Long Haochen fused with the evolved Light Element Spiritual Furnace, gained a thousand points of internal spiritual power, and vowed to defeat Yue Chen next time.
• Gao Yingjie hurried Long Haochen and his teammates to the walls, where they saw an unusually powerful demon army assembled outside Demon-Repelling Pass.
• Sheng Lingxin, Han Qian, and Saint Moon assessed the threat as demon formations and several Demon God Pillars appeared, followed by a vast dark-gold pillar.
• Saint Moon recognized the Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu, who demanded that Demon-Repelling Pass surrender every three-headed magical beast or face total destruction.
• Saint Moon stepped forward to face Feng Xiu above the walls of Demon-Repelling Pass.

The Demon God Emperor threatened to destroy Demon-Repelling Pass unless he could search for what he sought, while Yue Chen’s squad completed its final mission outside Zhennan Pass. Demon God's Fall arrived to prevent an immediate assault and allowed the search; the Demon God Emperor found no target, but noticed something on the battlements before leaving.

• At Zhennan Pass, Yue Chen’s squad destroyed a demon supply convoy, collected useful materials, and prepared to return as stronger demon forces approached.
• At Demon-Repelling Pass, the Demon God Emperor pressured Saint Moon and Han Qian to reveal what he sought, threatening to raze the pass when his countdown ended.
• Demon God's Fall appeared and, led by Senior Chen on a red dragon, warned the Demon God Emperor that an attack could trigger a full-scale Holy War.
• The six members of Demon God's Fall agreed not to interfere as the Demon God Emperor searched Demon-Repelling Pass with his mental energy.
• The Demon God Emperor failed to find what he sought, glanced toward Long Haochen and the others on the battlements, and left after deciding his information had been mistaken.

Han Qian told Senior Chen that the Knight Temple had two young knights with the Child of Light constitution, and the two discussed their prospects. At Zhennan Pass, Yue Chen equipped his squad with Soul Chain runes before Yang Haohan prepared to confront the demons outside the pass.

• Han Qian reunited with Senior Chen at Demon-Repelling Pass and revealed that the Knight Temple had two Children of Light among its new Demon Hunt Squads.
• Han Qian described Long Haochen and Yue Chen's spiritual power and early performances, while Senior Chen expressed interest in meeting the knight at Demon-Repelling Pass.
• At Zhennan Pass, Yue Chen gave Soul Chain runes to Shiqi, Jin Ruchuan, Lin Xin, Xue Meng, and Chen Ying'er, then connected the six squad members so they could share damage.
• Yang Haohan watched Scholar Rank Squad One go to the battlements, donned his armor, and said he would kill Ami, the Hellfire Demon God who had escaped him before.

Yue Chen and the Demon Hunt Squads pursued the retreating demon army after Yang Haohan joined the battle at Zhennan Pass. Back at their quarters, Chen Ying'er was devastated to discover her bonded summon was a little white pig, but Yue Chen calmed her and urged her to question its true nature.

• Yang Haohan charged the Demon God Pillars, forcing Eligor to confront him while Mao Mo and Ami moved to hold off the Adamantine Knights and cover the demon army's retreat.
• Ling Qian sent the five newly formed Demon Hunt Squads out to support the Radiant Knight Order, and Yue Chen's two cooperating squads hunted high-tier demons until their leaders ordered them to stop.
• Yue Chen's squad and Scholar Rank Three divided the battle's Merit Points equally, while Scholar Rank Squad One kept the demon corpses for Lin Xin to process.
• After returning to their quarters, Chen Ying'er fell asleep from exhaustion, and Xue Meng teased the little pig that had secretly formed a Soul Contract with her.
• Chen Ying'er cried after realizing the little pig was her bonded summon, but Yue Chen soothed her with sacred light and pointed out that an ordinary pig could not have formed the contract unnoticed.

Chen Ying'er accepted the Mirror Image Divine Treasure Pig as her bonded companion after learning its abilities, while Sol refused to appear for her. After the military mission ended, Yue Chen and the other Demon Hunt Squads returned to the Holy City and gathered for a final meeting.

• Yue Chen comforted Chen Ying'er and helped her reconcile with the little pig, which revealed that it could imitate magical beasts and borrow their abilities by eating their magic crystals.
• Chen Ying'er asked Yue Chen to summon his Starry Sky Divine Beast, but Sol refused, so Yue Chen promised she could see him another time.
• Yang Haohan's intervention kept the demon army quiet during the mission's final days, and he reportedly killed the Hellfire Demon God Ami at Zhennan Pass.
• The five squads assigned to Zhennan Pass returned to the Holy City and met the five squads from the Demon-Repelling Pass, where Yue Chen congratulated Long Haochen on his cultivation breakthrough.
• All sixty-one members of the ten squads entered the Temple Alliance conference hall for their final gathering, and Gao Yingjie saluted the Six Great Temple leaders on their behalf.

Han Qian announced the Demon Hunt Squad Team Competition results, and Yue Chen’s Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One claimed the championship after earning five thousand Merit Points. The squad received enough rewards to qualify for General Rank, but Wei Zheng led them to a restricted area behind the Demon Hunt Squad Mission Tower instead of registering their promotion.

• Han Qian announced the squads’ Merit Point totals, revealing that Scholar Rank Second Demon Hunt Squad had 3,152 points and Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One had 5,000.
• Wei Zheng explained that Squad One had earned much of its Merit Points by selling pills to the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Squads, but would still have exceeded 3,700 points without those trades.
• Lu Xi accepted Squad One’s victory, and Long Haochen congratulated Yue Chen.
• Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One received 1,500 Merit Points per member as the overall champion, bringing its total to 14,000.
• Chen Ying’er broke through to the fifth tier, and Wei Zheng led Squad One to a restricted area behind the Demon Hunt Squad Mission Tower instead of registering for General Rank.

Wei Zheng showed Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One its new home, said farewell, and explained its plan to advance to General Rank. Long Haochen went to Yue Chen to borrow the four hundred Merit Points his squad lacked, and Yue Chen’s teammates approved the loan.

• Wei Zheng led Scholar Rank Demon Hunt Squad One through its house and explained that its annual maintenance fee began at one thousand Merit Points.
• Wei Zheng said goodbye to the squad, which planned to spend ten thousand Merit Points to advance to General Rank and distributed its Secret Technique opportunities among Jin Ruchuan, Shiqi, and Xue Meng.
• Gao Yingjie explained the benefits of advancing to General Rank to Long Haochen’s squad, which found itself four hundred Merit Points short.
• Bai Xiaoxing suggested borrowing the missing Merit Points from Yue Chen, but Long Haochen decided to ask him personally.
• Yue Chen asked his teammates before lending the points, and Jin Ruchuan, Shiqi, Lin Xin, Chen Ying'er, and Xue Meng all raised no objections.

Yue Chen’s squad promoted to General Rank No. 21, spent its remaining merit points on Magic Crystals and scrolls, and arrived to accept a mission. There, they met Long Haochen’s newly promoted General Rank No. 22 squad and compared their struggles with the cost of advancement.

• Yue Chen’s squad paid ten thousand merit points and passed the assessment to become General Grade No. 21.
• Yue Chen directed Jin Ruchuan, Shiqi, and Xue Meng to choose secret techniques, then privately told Jin Ruchuan about a technique he could learn but must not teach others.
• The squad spent most of its remaining merit points on demon Magic Crystals for Chen Ying’er’s Mai Dou and fire- and light-attribute scrolls for Lin Xin.
• Yue Chen encountered Long Haochen’s squad at the Mission Tower and realized they had also been promoted, becoming General Grade No. 22.
• Long Haochen told Yue Chen that his squad was feeling the pressure of promotion, and both captains lamented the steep prices at the Trading Center.

General Grade No. 22 Demon Hunt Squad sold pills to afford mission inquiries and considered the dangerous Cave of Dreadful Wails exploration mission. Long Haochen accepted it, and the staff member discovered that his squad had completed no missions.

• General Grade No. 22 Demon Hunt Squad exchanged Lin Xin's Spirit Gathering Pills for merit points after advancing with only two points left.
• Xue Meng met Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf, and they discussed their poverty, the Soul Chain, and whether Yue Chen was a dependable ally for Long Haochen.
• Long Haochen found the Cave of Dreadful Wails mission, which offered twenty thousand merit points for exploring an unknown cave deep in demon territory.
• Yue Chen advised Long Haochen that he could abandon the mission without a merit-point penalty and accept easier missions as backup.
• Long Haochen accepted the Cave of Dreadful Wails mission, and the staff member was shocked to see that General Grade No. 22 Demon Hunt Squad had completed zero missions.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen’s newly promoted Demon Hunt Squads teamed up for a dangerous exploration mission, unaware that its difficulty had been raised to King Rank after they accepted it. At their rest stop near demon territory, Yue Chen overheard Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf planning to seek help from wandering merchants to reach the Cave of Dreadful Wails faster.

• A staff member initially refused Long Haochen’s squad the Cave of Dreadful Wails mission, but Yue Chen demonstrated his spiritual power and persuaded him to register it for General Grade No. 22.
• Yue Chen proposed that the two squads accept additional missions along their route, and both squads agreed to split the Cave of Dreadful Wails reward evenly.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen led the squads out of the Holy City and reached Starseek City near the southeastern border after eight days of travel.
• Deacon Li learned the Cave of Dreadful Wails mission had become a King Rank mission and worried that the two General Rank squads would be killed.
• At the hotel, Yue Chen overheard Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf discuss the missing Scholar Rank Number Four squad and their plan to approach wandering merchants for a ride toward the cave.

Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf secured passage for both Demon Hunt Squads with the Yue Ye Merchant Caravan, giving them a way to enter demon territory while avoiding the heavily guarded border. After paying the fee, the squads joined the caravan as it departed Starseek City.

• Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf searched Starseek City for itinerant merchants and found the Yue Ye Merchant Company, but the old man at the counter initially dismissed them as beggars and refused to hire them.
• Bai Xiaoxing and Gandalf returned in their profession robes and persuaded the Yue Ye Merchant Company to take both Demon Hunt Squads for a fee of one thousand gold coins per person.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen planned their route to the Cave of Dreadful Wails and discussed the risks of traveling through demon territory before Bai Xiaoxing explained the caravan arrangement.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen agreed that joining the caravan was safer than forcing their way through the demon border checkpoint, with fighting through the checkpoint as a fallback plan.
• Three days later, the Yue Ye Merchant Caravan departed Starseek City with more than two hundred wagons and nearly two thousand people, carrying the squads after collecting thirteen thousand gold coins.

Yue Chen and the two Demon Hunt Squads joined the Yue Ye Merchant Company's caravan under the guise of wagon escorts, while Yue Chen’s image drew the attention of two disguised Demon girls. As the caravan traveled toward Demon territory, the red-dressed girl persuaded Sister Yue to arrange an invitation for him, and Yue Chen tried to keep his squad inconspicuous.

• The Demon Hunters collected wagon escort clothes and joined the caravan, while Yue Chen and Long Haochen noticed the consul recording them with a concealed Scouting Gem.
• Sister Yue and Xiao Xiao watched the gem’s recordings, and Xiao Xiao became fascinated with Yue Chen and asked Sister Yue to bring him to their carriage.
• Sister Yue warned Xiao Xiao not to implicate the Yue Ye Merchant Company and agreed to have someone invite Yue Chen after they passed the human fortress.
• As night fell, Shiqi told Yue Chen that the caravan’s slow pace meant they might take two months to reach their mission site.
• Yue Chen asked Shiqi to keep a low profile after an escort was frightened by the pressure Shiqi and the other Demon Hunters gave off.

Yue Chen accepted an invitation from the Yue Ye Merchant Company’s owner, leaving his squad in Xue Meng’s care as the Consul led him to her lavish carriage. The chapter ended with Yue Chen noticing the carriage’s faint green glow and suspecting it had a permanent Levitation Spell.

• The Consul invited Yue Chen to meet the owner of the Yue Ye Merchant Company and offered him a ride in a carriage.
• Yue Chen questioned why the owner wanted to see him and declined to pose as a merchant-company attendant.
• Yue Chen agreed to go because he could not cultivate and was curious about the owner’s motives.
• Yue Chen told his teammates not to worry and left Xue Meng in charge of the squad.
• The Consul led Yue Chen to a lavish carriage, where Yue Chen noticed a green glow beneath it and suspected it had been enchanted with a Levitation Spell.

Yue Chen traveled with Yue Ye and Leng Xiao through the Southeast Fortress, warning a maid to leave the unsettled demon territory. Once the caravan entered demon lands, the two women revealed themselves as demons and prepared to fight him, but an ambush prompted Yue Chen to escape through a Portal, leaving Leng Xiao’s claw halted by a surge of dragon might.

• Yue Chen advised the female attendant to leave at the Southeast Fortress and gave her several dozen gold coins.
• Yue Chen and Yue Ye exchanged questions as the caravan passed through the fortress and left its surveillance range.
• Yue Ye let Leng Xiao remove her Demon Mask, and both women revealed their demon eyes and summoned dark Magic Staves.
• Yue Chen summoned his Twin Swords as Yue Ye and Leng Xiao prepared to fight, but Yue Ye sensed an ambush by demons from Narik Province.
• Yue Chen escaped through an orange-gold Portal, and Leng Xiao’s dragon claw froze inside it when dragon might struck her.

The Yue Ye Merchant Caravan and the two Demon Hunt Squads prepared to face a massive demon force drawn by the caravan’s grain. As Long Haochen took Yue Chen’s advice to become more independent, the caravan’s magical defenses devastated the charging demon vanguard, while another volley was prepared.

• Gandalf, Bai Xiaoxing, and Xue Meng discussed why joining the Yue Ye Merchant Company had been the squads’ safest route to the Cave of Dreadful Wails.
• Yue Chen warned Long Haochen that reinforcements could arrive and urged him to stop relying on others and grow into a capable squad captain.
• The demon army approached with thousands of Zelin Race Dual-Blade Demons, Luke Race Stalkers, and concealed forces including Demon Eye Warlocks and Kuli Clan Bird Demons.
• Yue Ye ordered the caravan crews to fight after the demons ignored her insignia and continued targeting the grain shipment.
• The caravan’s magically enhanced crossbows fired thousands of arrows, tearing apart the demon vanguard, and the wagons shifted to expose another bank of weapons.

Yue Ye's caravan fought off the first demon assault, but Yue Ye realized a much larger force had trapped them. As Yue Ye began casting a powerful scroll, Yue Chen abandoned his squad's chance to escape and ordered them to protect her until she finished.

• The Yue Ye Merchant Caravan's magical arrows wiped out the leading Dual-Blade Demon legion, while Yue Chen used Lightning Thrust to kill Luke Race Stalkers beneath his group's position.
• Yue Chen had Lin Xin distribute Spiritual Recovery Pills to Long Haochen's squad and warned them to prepare for a breakout as the caravan's arrows ran low.
• Yue Ye told Leng Xiao that the attack was a trap set by one of Narik Province's three great tribes and concealed her fear from the caravan workers.
• Yue Chen's squads changed into their armor and recognized that a vast demon army was hidden by the Demon Eye Warlocks' mental interference.
• Yue Ye activated a powerful scroll that raised a purple moon and dispelled the interference, revealing demon forces surrounding the caravan.
• Yue Chen canceled the breakout and ordered both squads to approach and protect Yue Ye while she completed the scroll's casting.