Chapter Summaries

Yue Chen entered a meditative trance amid the demon assault to attempt a breakthrough to the sixth tier, while Long Haochen and the others defended the Yue Ye Merchant Caravan. The protective magic barriers shattered, leaving the Demon Hunt Squads battling the advancing demons as Yue Ye continued preparing her spell and Yue Chen’s breakthrough remained unfinished.

• Yue Chen told Long Haochen not to summon Haoyue and asked him to buy time while he attempted a breakthrough.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen joined Leng Xiao atop the central carriage, where Yue Chen entered a meditative trance and Long Haochen guarded him.
• The caravan’s mages used Meteor Firestorm Scrolls to bombard the demon troops, then cast Holy Light Spirit Arrays to shield the wagons.
• Berserk Demons and other elite troops attacked the barriers, while Long Haochen worried over the approaching Great Bird Demons and Yue Chen’s lack of progress.
• The Holy Light Spirit Arrays shattered, and demons broke through the caravan’s defenses as the Demon Hunt Squads formed around the carriage.
• Leng Xiao prepared her magic staff while Long Haochen redirected a spear aimed at Yue Ye, still unsure how long Yue Chen’s breakthrough would take.

Leng Xiao used Sky Ban to ground the demon air force, while Long Haochen and the Demon Hunters fought the Great Bird Demons threatening the carriage. As Yue Chen neared his sixth-tier breakthrough with starry sky and space elements entering his spirit aperture, Chen Ying'er began summoning the Gate of Life to support the embattled group.

• Cai'er joined Long Haochen on the carriage roof as twelve sixth-tier Great Bird Demons attacked, and Leng Xiao blocked their spears with her black wings.
• Leng Xiao completed Sky Ban, causing thousands of flying demons to crash into the Berserk Demon army and leaving the Great Bird Demons grounded.
• Bai Xiaoxing's Corpse Flower Kings swallowed five Great Bird Demons, and Long Haochen, Cai'er, Shiqi, and the others killed them as Yue Ye continued chanting.
• The seven surviving Great Bird Demons armored themselves in lightning and attacked the carriage, while Yue Chen's sixth-tier breakthrough advanced as starry sky and space elements merged into his spirit aperture.
• Chen Ying'er began chanting to summon the Gate of Life as the Demon Hunters struggled against the seven Great Bird Demons.

Yue Chen broke through to the Sixth Tier and helped Long Haochen’s group fend off the Bird Demons while Yue Ye prepared her Forbidden Spell. As the squads prepared to break out, Cai'er revealed to Xue Meng that Yue Chen and Long Haochen were half-brothers, though they had not yet acknowledged the truth.

• Yue Chen finished his breakthrough, reached the second level of the Sixth Tier, and revealed his blue Spirit Wings.
• Yue Chen joined Long Haochen and the others, killed a Bird Demon, and helped turn the battle against the remaining Bird Demons while Yue Ye continued casting her Forbidden Spell.
• A powerful golden demon entered Leng Xiao’s Sky Ban domain, and Yue Chen signaled Long Haochen’s group to prepare for the enemy.
• Yue Chen told Long Haochen that he had reached the second level of the Sixth Tier and encouraged him by pointing out that he was younger.
• Cai'er warned Xue Meng not to reveal the secret before the brothers acknowledged each other, then told her that Long Haochen and Yue Chen shared the same father.

Yue Chen, Long Haochen, and Cai'er faced a seventh-tier Golden Bird Demon while Yue Ye finished casting her forbidden spell. Leng Xiao revealed her dragon form to suppress the demons, while a Crimson Blood Berserk Demon broke through the merchant company's defenses and attacked Yue Chen.

• Cai'er told Xue Meng that Yue Chen and Long Haochen were half brothers, leaving Xue Meng stunned.
• Yue Chen explained that they needed to hold off the Golden Bird Demon until Yue Ye completed her spell, and he brought Long Haochen and Cai'er into the fight with Leng Xiao.
• Long Haochen redirected and blocked the Golden Bird Demon's lightning, but the strike badly injured him and cracked his shield.
• Yue Chen countered another lightning bolt with his swords as Leng Xiao transformed into a dragon and drew the Golden Bird Demon's attention; Cai'er moved to support her.
• A Crimson Blood Berserk Demon attacked the merchant company's guards, and Yue Chen confronted it but was wounded when it struck him.

Yue Chen killed a seventh-tier Crimson Blood Berserk Demon and recovered while Yue Ye completed her spell. When the Golden Bird Demon turned its attack toward Yue Ye, Yue Chen intervened and activated Sacrifice to face it head-on.

• The Crimson Blood Berserk Demon fell for Yue Chen’s Plant Dummy, and Yue Chen, Xue Meng, and Lin Xin worked together to bring it down before Yue Chen killed it with Starburst.
• Yue Chen returned to the carriage, recovered his spiritual power, and sent Sol through a Portal toward the fight above.
• The Golden Bird Demon wounded Leng Xiao and hurled its spear at Yue Ye, but Yue Chen redirected the attack with the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace.
• Yue Chen activated Sacrifice and prepared to meet the Golden Bird Demon’s all-out attack while Sol went to assist Long Haochen and Cai'er.

Yue Chen nearly killed the Golden Bird Demon with a final strike that shattered Holy Fire and Blazing Sun, but the demon survived and tried to stop Yue Ye’s forbidden spell. Sol, Cai’er, and Yue Ye’s spell turned the battle around, leaving the Golden Bird Demon and the surrounding demons frozen as purple statues.

• Yue Chen burned through his blood essence to strike the Golden Bird Demon, destroying its spear and shattering Holy Fire and Blazing Sun before collapsing unconscious.
• The Golden Bird Demon attacked Yue Chen and Yue Ye, but Long Haochen used the Holy Guidance Spirit Furnace and Sol absorbed the lightning sphere aimed at Yue Ye.
• Cai’er stabbed the immobilized Golden Bird Demon while Yue Ye completed her forbidden spell beneath the purple moon.
• Long Haochen and Xue Meng treated Yue Chen as Haoyue gathered the fragments of his swords.
• Yue Ye’s spell released a vast pillar of purple moonlight that froze the carriage area and its demons into statues, and Cai’er discovered she had received no merit for striking the Golden Bird Demon.

Yue Ye’s Forbidden Spell destroyed most of the Demon army and allowed the carriage to escape, but she later decided to enslave the unconscious Yue Chen. Sol interrupted her attempt and turned the threat back on Yue Ye.

• Yue Ye unleashed a Ninth Tier Forbidden Spell through the projection of Moon Demon God Agares’s Demon God Pillar, killing most of the Demon soldiers and collapsing from exhaustion.
• Leng Xiao drove the carriage while the Demon Hunt Squads broke through the weakened encirclement, and Yue Chen and Yue Ye remained unconscious.
• After waking in the carriage, Yue Ye realized Yue Chen was on her couch and decided to make him her slave with a Moon Demon contract seal.
• Yue Chen’s right eye released azure light that knocked Yue Ye away and shattered the seal before a spatial Portal opened above him.
• Sol emerged from the Portal, struck Yue Ye with Spiritual Transmission, and threatened to make her experience being a slave herself.

Sol forcibly bound Yue Ye with a slave contract, then placed a mysterious azure mark on the sleeping Yue Chen. When Long Haochen and the others entered the compartment, they found Yue Ye kneeling before Yue Chen, and her unexplained, flustered behavior left everyone confused and suspicious.

• Sol engraved a slave mark on Yue Ye's soul, forced her to kneel, and pressed another azure mark into Yue Chen's chest.
• Long Haochen worried Yue Ye might harm the exhausted Yue Chen and went to check on him, followed by Cai'er and Chen Ying'er.
• Yue Chen welcomed them into the compartment, where they discovered Yue Ye kneeling before his couch.
• Yue Ye stood up but went limp and fell into Yue Chen's arms, startling the Demon Hunt Squads and Leng Xiao.
• Yue Chen denied knowing what had happened, while Long Haochen warily asked Yue Ye to explain herself.

Yue Ye stopped Leng Xiao from attacking the Demon Hunters, then revealed she was a human-demon half-blood and offered her merchant company and intelligence in exchange for her life. Yue Chen accepted her explanation only long enough to confront her about falsely claiming she belonged to him and hiding something from him.

• Yue Ye claimed she already belonged to Yue Chen, confusing Leng Xiao and the Demon Hunters and defusing the imminent confrontation.
• Yue Ye knocked Leng Xiao unconscious, gave her a pill, and prepared to explain herself to the Demon Hunters.
• Yue Ye cut her wrist to show that her blood was red, then revealed that her mother was human and her father was the Moon Demon God.
• Yue Ye offered her services and the Yue Ye Merchant Company in exchange for being spared, while Long Haochen remained wary of her.
• Yue Chen asked Yue Ye why she had falsely accused him and whether she was hiding something she feared he would discover.

Yue Ye revealed that she was bound to Yue Chen by a Slave Contract and begged him to spare Leng Xiao, a Heaven-Defying Demon Dragon princess. Yue Chen uncovered Yue Ye’s schemes, confiscated her Storage Rings, and then returned most of her possessions while keeping the ring of dark-element equipment as payment for her traps.

• Yue Ye activated the Slave Mark on her forehead and acknowledged Yue Chen as her master, while Sol refused Yue Chen’s attempt to contact it.
• Yue Ye asked Yue Chen and Long Haochen to spare Leng Xiao and offered the Yue Ye Merchant Company’s wealth in exchange.
• Yue Chen confronted Yue Ye about luring him into her carriage and using a Forbidden Spell scroll to force the Demon Hunters into battle.
• Yue Chen used the Slave Contract to immobilize Yue Ye, took her Storage Rings, and discovered that one contained valuable dark-element equipment.
• Yue Chen returned Yue Ye’s rings and belongings, promised not to harm her or Leng Xiao if she honored her promises, and kept the dark-element equipment as compensation.

Yue Chen gathered Yue Ye’s demon-traveling supplies and prepared to leave with Long Haochen, while Yue Ye sensed that the Moon Demon Clan’s aura suited him and asked whether he had demon bloodline. The group left after Yue Chen ordered the outside mages knocked unconscious, and Chen Ying’er’s pig Mai Dou helped ease his troubled mood.

• Yue Ye gave Yue Chen a merchant-company emblem, Demon Masks, and a token for posing as a Moon Demon Clan noble in demon territory, and Yue Chen shared a pair of masks with Long Haochen.
• Yue Ye noticed that the Moon Demon Clan’s aura suited Yue Chen unusually well and asked if he had demon bloodline, but Yue Chen denied it and Long Haochen reacted emphatically.
• Yue Ye asked Yue Chen to have his companions knock out thirty exhausted Mages so she could erase their memories, and Yue Chen agreed before leaving the carriage.
• Chen Ying’er told Yue Chen that Mai Dou had smelled Yue Ye on him, then watched as Yue Chen stroked the pig and said he felt better.

Yue Chen and his companions escaped Yue Ye’s carriage, while Yue Ye covered their departure by destroying the carriage, silencing witnesses, and preparing to blame Narik Province. After reaching a forest, Yue Chen mourned his shattered swords, planned their route to Nubo City, and accepted Long Haochen’s Blue Rain of Light to use as a replacement.

• Yue Chen rode away with Long Haochen and the others, while Yue Ye destroyed her carriage and erased Leng Xiao’s memories to conceal their escape.
• Yue Ye waited for her clansmen, weakened herself using her memory-erasing ability, and decided to blame Narik Province for what had happened.
• Yue Chen led the group to a forest, where Long Haochen returned the fragments of Yue Chen’s shattered swords.
• Yue Chen planned to reach Nubo City for Demon Masks and to hunt Verdant Twin-Blade Demons along the way.
• Long Haochen offered to help Yue Chen recover his internal spiritual power and lent him the sword Blue Rain of Light.
• Yue Chen readily accepted Blue Rain of Light, leaving Long Haochen wondering if he had been tricked again.

Yue Chen accepted Long Haochen’s spiritual sword and recovered while the two Demon Hunt Squads traveled toward Nubo City. On the way, Long Haochen asked about Yue Chen’s past, but Yue Chen gave only a brief account of growing up at the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple, leaving Long Haochen disappointed.

• Long Haochen introduced Blue Rain, Hibiscus of Light, and Yue Chen tested its combined attack with Lightning Thrust before returning the sword to him.
• Yue Chen meditated with Long Haochen’s help and recovered his internal spiritual power in three days as their teammates kept watch.
• The squads reached the outskirts of Nubo City, where Yue Chen and Long Haochen prepared to enter the city in Demon Masks and request supplies from the Yue Ye Merchant Company.
• Long Haochen asked Yue Chen whether Sol had two forms, and Yue Chen explained that Sol was one multi-attribute magical beast.
• Long Haochen asked Yue Chen about his family and childhood, and Yue Chen said he had grown up training at the Demon-Resisting Sub-Temple without knowing his parents.

Long Haochen confirmed that Yue Chen had trained under Long Xingyu, his father, and privately concluded that Long Xingyu had betrayed his mother by passing his secret techniques to Yue Chen. The two reached Nubo City disguised as Moon Demons, where Yue Chen used his appearance and status to intimidate a seventh-tier gatekeeper.

• Long Haochen questioned Yue Chen about his family and Holy City training, and Yue Chen revealed that Long Xingyu had taught him his signature techniques.
• Long Haochen realized that Yue Chen was his father's former student, called him his big brother, and then resumed the mission with him.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen arrived at Nubo City and approached the gate disguised as Moon Demon nobles, with Long Haochen posing as Yue Chen's attendant.
• A seventh-tier Demon Eye Warlock Lord challenged Yue Chen, then recoiled in fear after seeing his face; Yue Chen stopped Long Haochen from revealing his own face.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered Nubo City, gathered Demon Masks, and recruited ten Verdant Twin-Blade Demons to fulfill Long Haochen’s squad’s hunting mission. After the demons were lured to the cave, Cai’er’s squad killed all ten, and Long Haochen’s team handed their collected corpses to Lin Xin before recovering.

• Yue Chen defeated the Demon Eye Lord at Nubo City’s gate and entered with Long Haochen, then found the Yue Ye Merchant Company branch and obtained Demon Masks for both squads.
• Yue Chen returned to Nubo City and recruited ten Verdant Twin-Blade Demons by promising they would not have to fight in future sieges.
• Yue Chen explained that the ten demons were targets for General Grade No. 22’s mission, and Long Haochen agreed to repay debts with the demon corpses and Magic Crystals.
• Yue Chen returned to the cave and told Cai’er’s squad that the ten targets were waiting outside; Cai’er declined his offer of help and prepared her team to fight.
• Long Haochen’s squad killed all ten Verdant Twin-Blade Demons, handed their collected corpses to Lin Xin, and sat down to recover their spiritual power.

Yue Chen gave the Demon Masks to the two Demon Hunt Squads and led them toward the Cave of Fear and Wailing after deciding to abandon some missions. During a rest stop, he announced that he was going to visit Sol’s plane, leaving Long Haochen wondering whether he needed help.

• Yue Chen distributed Demon Masks and taught the squads to disguise themselves as Moon Demons.
• Yue Chen checked the squads’ supplies, gave Chen Ying'er a Magic Crystal, and reminded Lin Xin not to neglect cultivation.
• Yue Chen chose the direct route to the Cave of Fear and Wailing and kept the agreed fifty-fifty split of Merit Points.
• Yue Chen led both squads onward in carriages while the members cultivated during the journey.
• Yue Chen told Long Haochen he was going to visit Sol’s plane, and Long Haochen asked whether it was dangerous and offered to accompany him.

Yue Chen learned that Sol had reforged his two broken swords into a single new weapon, then returned to his companions and continued toward the Cave of Dreadful Wails. Near the destination, the group confronted a demon cavalry unit, and Yue Chen threatened its commander while posing as a powerful Moon Demon.

• Yue Chen asked Sol about possible side effects from using his power, and Sol admitted he did not know because Yue Chen was the first human to obtain it that way.
• Sol reforged the fragments of Yue Chen's two Knight Longswords into one new sword, explaining that their materials had changed after absorbing his energy.
• Yue Chen returned through Sol's portal, and he and the two rested teams resumed their journey into demon territory under Moon Demon Clan disguises.
• After nearly seven days of travel, the group reached the vicinity of the Demon Central Province and learned that their destination lay beyond a mountain.
• Yue Chen sensed an approaching unit of roughly fifty greater demon cavalry and ordered his companions to prepare for a quick battle.
• When the demon commander approached, Yue Chen rebuked him and raised a purple crescent moon behind himself as a warning.

Yue Chen used a Moon Demon token to deceive a demon commander and let his cavalry approach, while Wang Yuanyuan's question about Yue Chen's relationship status sparked teasing among the two squads. The squads ambushed the fifty Greater Demon cavalrymen with Haoyue's Chaos Element Stripping, and Yue Chen ambushed the commander from a spatial rift, cutting off his wings.

• Yue Chen posed as a Moon Demon Viscount, and the demon commander apologized and let his cavalry unit proceed.
• Wang Yuanyuan asked Chen Ying'er whether Yue Chen had a girlfriend, then said she only wanted to spar with him; Cai'er encouraged her to ask after the mission.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen signaled their squads to attack as Haoyue unleashed Chaos Element Stripping on the demon cavalry.
• Yue Chen told Sol to help take down the demon commander and his Nightmare Demon Horse while both squads attacked the weakened cavalrymen.
• Yue Chen emerged from a spatial rift behind the fleeing demon commander and severed his wings with Blue Rain of Light and the Holy Spirit Sword.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen’s teams defeated a Greater Demon Cavalry force and continued toward the Cave of Dreadful Wails. At the cave, its shrieks began harming the group, and Yue Chen protected them with Holy Light Shield before handing it over so he could recover his spiritual power.

• Yue Chen killed the Demon Commander and helped his team defeat the remaining Greater Demon Cavalry, while Bai Xiaoxing restored the battlefield with plants.
• Yue Chen learned that the demons were also heading for the cave, and he and Long Haochen agreed to complete their mission quickly before reinforcements arrived.
• Ghostly shrieks echoed through the mountains, prompting Yue Chen, Long Haochen, Han Yu, Chen Ying'er, and Xue Meng to discuss ways to protect the teams from the sound.
• The teams reached the cave entrance, where the stronger shrieks left everyone dizzy until Yue Chen cast Holy Light Shield and Xue Meng used Calming Mind Mantra.
• Long Haochen and Han Yu took turns maintaining the shield while Yue Chen meditated to replenish his spiritual power, avoiding the Nebula Spirit Furnace’s other elemental attributes.

Yue Chen and Long Haochen entered the Cave of Dreadful Wails, where its powerful shrieks strained Yue Chen’s Holy Light Shield and led both men to study the attacks for an insight. As Yue Chen’s spiritual power dwindled, an unnamed skill appeared on his panel, while the others speculated about who would inherit the Eternal Tower.

• Yue Chen decided to explore the Cave of Dreadful Wails with Long Haochen while the rest of the group sheltered nearby.
• Long Haochen joined Yue Chen at the entrance, and they faced a new wave of shrieks behind Yue Chen’s Holy Light Shield.
• Yue Chen and Long Haochen sensed a possible insight in how the shrieks struck the shield as Yue Chen’s spiritual power rapidly drained.
• Cai’er and the others watched the pair, while Xue Meng, Bai Xiaoxing, and Gandalf debated whether Yue Chen or Long Haochen would claim the Eternal Tower.
• Yue Chen weakened the shield to conserve his remaining power, and his skill panel displayed an unnamed skill with proficiency at 200/10000.