Recaps

Yang Tian underwent his Knight awakening with Ye Hua and Nalan Shu assisting him, and his innate internal spiritual power rose far beyond their expectations. After meeting the Goddess of Light during Deep Meditation, he awakened with golden eyes, while his final power remained unknown to him.

• Nalan Shu and Ye Hua began Yang Tian's awakening by using Sun Fire to refine the Awakening Stone.
• Yang Tian endured the painful purification process, and his innate internal spiritual power reached thirty-nine points before its growth slowed.
• Yang Tian meditated and pushed his power past forty points, then continued rising beyond fifty as Ye Hua and Nalan Shu watched in amazement.
• Yang Tian entered Deep Meditation and saw the Goddess of Light, who blessed him with a ray of light.
• Yang Tian awoke after night fell with pale-gold eyes and heard the Goddess thank him for his faith, while Ye Hua and Nalan Shu stared in shock.

Yang Tian discovered that his innate internal spiritual power was nearly perfect, awakening Ye Hua’s envy and amazement. After testing Li Xin’s strength, he returned to the dormitory determined to begin training both his internal and external spiritual power.

• Yang Tian left the third floor after awakening ninety-nine points of innate internal spiritual power, and Ye Hua broke down over the gap between Yang Tian’s talent and his own.
• Yang Tian learned that his true innate internal spiritual power was ninety-nine point nine nine and accepted the Goddess of Light’s warning that a flaw in his heart kept him from perfection.
• Li Xin found Yang Tian in the Testing Room and questioned how a squire could have so much spiritual power.
• Yang Tian watched Li Xin score one hundred and ninety-two points, praised her sincerely, and puzzled over her anger when she left.
• Yang Tian returned to the dormitory and decided he needed to cultivate both internal and external spiritual power.

After awakening, Yang Tian discovered that his appearance had changed and that he could cultivate through moonlight at night. Ye Hua gave him a Space Bracelet and arranged for him to attend Squire theory classes and Knight training, while Yang Tian looked ahead to Knight skills and earning a mount.

• Yang Tian examined his changed appearance, and Li Xin remarked that he looked better despite still being a blockhead.
• Yang Tian discovered he could absorb moonlight through the dormitory’s Spirit-Gathering Magic Array and cultivate at night.
• Ye Hua praised Yang Tian’s extraordinary innate internal spiritual power and considered having him try a selection in two years without reporting his talent to the Holy Temple.
• Ye Hua gave Yang Tian a Space Bracelet, assigned him Squire theory classes and afternoon Knight training, and promised to teach him Guardian Knight skills and arrange actual combat.
• Yang Tian stored his two swords in the Space Bracelet and asked Ye Hua when he could get a mount, but Ye Hua said they would discuss it after he met Knight standards.

Yang Tian began his Squire classes while continuing to train as a Knight under Ye Hua. After sensing the Goddess of Light during meditation, he joined the Knights’ strenuous training, while Li Xin wondered why he had skipped her training class.

• Yang Tian wore a Squire Badge and attended theory classes with Li Xin, who laughed when she learned Ye Hua was his teacher.
• Yang Tian stayed calm during a lecture condemning the Demon Race, despite Li Xin’s indignation at his indifference.
• Yang Tian meditated in the square and felt the Goddess of Light’s presence in the sunlight, though she no longer appeared to him.
• Ye Hua brought Yang Tian to the Knights’ training ground, explained that he still needed to complete Squire theory courses, and ordered the Knights to begin training.
• Yang Tian put on heavy training equipment and eagerly joined the Knights’ exercises, while Li Xin wondered why he had skipped her class.

Yang Tian finished a month of intense training, advanced to tier 5, and teamed up with Li Xin to take a demon-hunting mission near the Haoyue Branch Hall. They met Li Xin’s friend Lin Jialu at the Adventurers' Guild, where she nearly revealed Li Xin’s disguise.

• Yang Tian told Li Xin that he had trained with his teacher and would focus on cultivation before discussing his plans to advance to the Knight side.
• After a month of training, Yang Tian reached tier 5 and left the Haoyue Branch Hall when Ye Hua ordered him to rest.
• Yang Tian and Li Xin agreed to form a party and accepted a mission to slay tier-2 demon beasts near Purple Star Town.
• Li Xin declared that hunting demons was an act of justice, and Yang Tian explained that he wanted to earn commissions and grow stronger.
• Lin Jialu arrived and nearly exposed that Li Xin was a girl disguised as a boy before Li Xin introduced her to Yang Tian.

Yang Tian and Li Xin recruited Lin Jialu to join their Adventurers' Guild mission to hunt second-rank demon beasts. The three reached Purple Star Town, where Yang Tian warned them to stay alert for stronger beasts.

• Yang Tian recognized Lin Jialu, and Li Xin and Lin Jialu questioned him about his surprised reaction.
• Li Xin and Yang Tian invited Lin Jialu to join their mission, and she agreed to accompany them.
• The three left the Haoyue Branch Hall as a team of two Squires and one Magic Apprentice.
• On the way, Li Xin and Lin Jialu bickered while Yang Tian thought about protecting them from a man he considered a scumbag.
• The team arrived at Purple Star Town, and Yang Tian warned Li Xin and Lin Jialu that stronger demon beasts might appear.
• Lin Jialu asked who would protect her if both men were Retribution Knights, and Li Xin revealed that Yang Tian had chosen to be a Guardian Knight.

Yang Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu fought their first battle together outside Purple Star Town, defeating six level-two demon beasts and collecting their magic crystals. After explaining why the demon beasts could not all be eliminated, they approached a little girl who had lost her family.

• Yang Tian killed one demon beast and directed Li Xin and Lin Jialu as five more charged at them.
• Lin Jialu missed her first spell, but Yang Tian protected her and she froze a demon beast with Ice Seal.
• Lin Jialu and Li Xin helped defeat the remaining beasts, and the group collected six level-two magic crystals.
• Yang Tian criticized Lin Jialu's missed spell while praising Li Xin for adapting quickly.
• Yang Tian and Lin Jialu explained that powerful demon beasts and limited manpower made it impossible to clear the Purple Star Mountain Range.
• The three approached the crying little girl beside her family's remains.

Yang Tian and his companions brought Weiwei home after her parents were killed by demon beasts, where they found her sick grandmother grieving. Yang Tian promised to gather herbs to help the grandmother recover and refused her offer to make Weiwei his maid.

• Li Xin comforted Weiwei, and Yang Tian told her that he had also lost his parents to demon beasts and urged her to stay strong.
• Yang Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu escorted Weiwei to her home, where she told her grandmother that her parents had been eaten.
• Yang Tian bluntly urged the grandmother to live for Weiwei and offered to gather medicine to strengthen her body.
• Weiwei promised to grow strong and protect her grandmother, who agreed to try to recover.
• The grandmother offered to train Weiwei to become Yang Tian's maid, but Yang Tian refused.

Yang Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu entered the Purple Star Mountain Range to gather medicinal herbs for Weiwei’s grandmother and fought their way through demon beasts. After defeating a level-four Demon-Patterned Tiger, they faced an unknown person who intended to take its magic crystal.

• Weiwei’s grandmother urged her to stay with Yang Tian if she could no longer care for her, while Weiwei reassured her that she would recover.
• Yang Tian explained how to kill demon beasts, then gave Li Xin and Lin Jialu roles before they entered the Purple Star Mountain Range.
• The three killed two Carnivorous Dragons and gathered several medicinal herbs for Weiwei’s grandmother.
• A level-four Demon-Patterned Tiger ambushed them, and Yang Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu worked together to freeze and kill it.
• An unknown person appeared and announced that they would take the level-four magic crystal.

Yang Tian and his companions fought the Purple Star Three Fiends after Lin Jialu sent up a distress signal. Reinforcements arrived as Yang Tian fell, but the Grand Knight crippled him by extracting his concentrated Light Element and escaped with Long.

• The Purple Star Three Fiends confronted Yang Tian, Li Xin, and Lin Jialu, and Lin Jialu fired Magic Communication Smoke to summon help.
• The Grand Knight attacked Yang Tian, who was badly injured while Li Xin and Lin Jialu fought the other two warriors.
• Yang Tian used Pure White Blade and killed Dong with a sword thrust to the heart.
• The Grand Knight and Long pressed the attack while Yang Tian and his companions struggled to hold them off.
• Reinforcements arrived after sensing Lin Jialu's magical aura, and a magic strike stopped the Grand Knight from killing Yang Tian.
• The Grand Knight extracted Yang Tian's concentrated Light Element, then fled with Long.

Lin Yinjia discovered that Yang Tian had survived but lost his cultivation, while Ye Hua and the others struggled to accept his condition. As Yang Tian was taken back to the Haoyue Branch Hall, the Grand Knight who crippled him continued cultivating and planned to kill him.

• Lin Yinjia examined Yang Tian and said his cultivation had been destroyed, leaving him unable to cultivate unless the Holy Temple intervened.
• Lin Jialu and Li Xin found the herbs and magic crystals Yang Tian had protected and planned to use the herbs to help Weiwei's grandmother.
• Ye Hua learned what had happened, broke down while scolding Yang Tian, and Nalan Shu sent the onlookers away.
• A Priest treated Yang Tian's external injuries, but his remaining external spiritual power left him at the level of a second-tier Squire.
• Nalan Shu and Ye Hua left the Haoyue Branch Hall, while the Grand Knight in the Purple Star Mountain Range absorbed light energy and vowed to kill Yang Tian.

Ye Hua and Nalan Shu used a detection scroll to find the remaining Purple Star Three Fiends and captured two men Ye Hua believed had crippled Yang Tian. Their pursuit brought them near a rank 7 demon beast, which two tier 6 powerhouses killed before appearing before them.

• Ye Hua insisted on hunting down the remaining Purple Star Three Fiends to avenge Yang Tian, and Nalan Shu agreed to help activate a costly detection scroll.
• Nalan Shu used the scroll to locate the two Fiends and a nearby rank 7 demon beast, while Ye Hua flew ahead on his Mountain-Shaking Eagle.
• Ye Hua seized two men from a cavern and accused them of ruining Yang Tian’s cultivation, then severed their tendons, pierced their eyes, and cut out their tongues before ordering the eagle to carry them away.
• A rank 7 Earth Tyrant Fire Dragon attacked nearby, and a tier 6 knight and the Grand Archmage Feng Yangmu joined forces to kill it.
• Feng Yangmu took the dragon’s magic crystal, then he and the knight appeared before Ye Hua and Nalan Shu.

After Yang Tian’s spiritual power was crippled, Ye Hua received a Knight Temple token and hurried to the Holy Temple to seek help. Lin Jialu and Li Xin both hoped he would recover, and Lin Jialu openly declared she would support him for life.

• Ye Hua explained Yang Tian’s talent and injury to two sixth-tier knights, who condemned the captives and gave Ye Hua a token to seek help at the Holy Temple.
• Lin Jialu asked Lin Yinjia whether Yang Tian could recover, argued with him when he urged her to give up, and left in anger.
• Li Xin asked Li Aoxiao about restoring Yang Tian’s power, but he had no solution.
• Ye Hua set off for the Holy Temple on a Mountain-Shaking Eagle while Yang Tian’s internal injuries and crippled cultivation remained untreated.
• Lin Jialu told Li Xin she would marry and support Yang Tian even if he became an ordinary person, and warned Li Xin not to compete with her for him.

Ye Hua rushed toward the Holy City with Yang Tian, whose cultivation had been crippled, seeking help from the Holy Temple. After passing several checkpoints with special seals, Ye Hua was stopped near Aili City by its angry city lord, who demanded an explanation before letting him through.

• Ye Hua showed his Honor Token to the experts blocking his path at Flame Sun City and explained that Yang Tian had innate internal spiritual power above eighty but had lost his cultivation.
• The Temple Knight and four sixth-rank experts placed Passage Seals on Ye Hua so he could travel swiftly and unhindered.
• After flying for a day and night, Ye Hua rested at a Branch Temple and replenished the Mountain-Shaking Eagle’s nourishment.
• At Aili City, the city lord argued with his wife over their son Dan'er’s crimes, then left the mansion still furious.
• The city lord blocked Ye Hua near Aili City and refused to let him pass until he explained his urgent business.

Ye Hua forced his way through Aili City and reached the Holy City, carrying his injured disciple Yang Tian to report his extraordinary talent to Holy Knight Commander Han Qian. The chapter ended with Ye Hua revealing that someone had crippled Yang Tian’s cultivation.

• Ye Hua explained his situation at Aili City, but City Lord Gu Zidong called him crippled and ordered him to walk through.
• Zhang Yuan and Xing Nian confronted Gu Zidong, allowing Ye Hua to fly onward; Gu Zidong struck him with battle energy, tearing through his defenses and injuring his back.
• Ye Hua continued carrying Yang Tian through Aimei City and reached the Holy City, where Temple Knights escorted him to Han Qian.
• Ye Hua asked Han Qian to mobilize the Holy Temple’s resources for Yang Tian and revealed that the boy had ninety-nine points of innate internal spiritual power.
• Han Qian asked what had happened to Yang Tian, and Ye Hua said someone had crippled his cultivation.

Han Qian learned that Yang Tian had ninety-nine points of innate internal spiritual power but had lost his cultivation, and he took the injured boy to the Holy City for care. He sought help from Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin, who agreed to examine Yang Tian and consider the Priest Temple’s Bone Reconstruction method.

• Han Qian examined Yang Tian, confirmed his cultivation had been destroyed, and took responsibility for his treatment while Ye Hua collapsed from his injuries.
• Han Qian brought Yang Tian to a secluded recovery area, where Bishop He treated his injuries but could not confirm a way to restore his cultivation.
• Han Qian arranged for a maid and Li Jie to care for and guard Yang Tian, who briefly regained awareness before falling asleep again.
• At Spirit-Riding Valley, Han Qian told Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin about Yang Tian’s talent and proposed possible ways to restore his cultivation.
• Yang Haohan suggested examining Yang Tian and considering the Priest Temple’s Bone Reconstruction method.

Yang Haohan and Han Qian sought the Priest Temple’s help to restore Yang Tian’s damaged cultivation, while Ye Hua visited his unconscious student and accepted that he might remain in the Holy City. Han Qian reached Zhennan Pass and asked Ling Xiao to arrange the secret reconstruction method, but Ling Xiao said the procedure was a guarded secret.

• Yang Haohan examined Yang Tian and found that his spiritual power had been drained and its storage damaged, though his remaining power showed exceptional talent.
• Yang Haohan ordered Han Qian to secure the Priest Temple’s help without revealing Yang Tian’s true talent, and Han Qian set out for Zhennan Pass.
• Ye Hua visited the unconscious Yang Tian, reflected on his hopes for his student, and worried that the Temple’s protection might hold him back.
• Han Qian asked Ling Xiao to use the Priest Temple’s secret method to reconstruct Yang Tian’s bones and sinews, then urged him to seek help from Elder Ling.
• Ling Xiao said the reconstruction method was a closely guarded secret and doubted he could persuade his grandfather to perform it.

Yang Tian recovered physically at the Holy Temple, though his spiritual power was gone, and struggled with leaving the temple and returning home. Ye Hua agreed to let him go on his own, leaving their relationship strained.

• Cardinal Weak Water completed Yang Tian’s healing and told him to take care of himself.
• Zi Yang changed Yang Tian’s clothes, said they might not meet again, and left while quietly grieving their farewell.
• Yang Tian discovered that his internal spiritual power had vanished, but remained hopeful that he could find a way to recover.
• Yang Tian told Ye Hua he still wanted to return home to protect people and keep his promise to Weiwei’s grandmother.
• Ye Hua said a priest had gone to examine Weiwei’s grandmother, then angrily told Yang Tian to walk home himself if he insisted on leaving.

Yang Tian learned that Ye Hua had risked punishment to bring him to the Holy City, then tried to defend a bullied brother and sister despite his weakened condition. Two days later, the Holy Knight Commander returned with a sage-level priest.

• A middle-aged knight told Yang Tian that Ye Hua had taken an axe blow and broken the rules to save him, and Yang Tian resolved to bear any punishment in his teacher’s place.
• Yang Tian explored the Holy City and stepped in when several boys threatened a brother and sister.
• Two boys struck Yang Tian with clubs, but Li Jie revealed himself and drove the attackers away.
• Yang Tian thanked the brother and sister, then returned to the temple and worried that he might remain an ordinary person without spiritual power.
• Two days later, the Holy Knight Commander returned with a gold-robed sage-level priest.

Ling Xiao began rebuilding Yang Tian’s crippled spiritual power in the Spirit-Nurturing Pool after discovering the corrosion caused by the incomplete Extraction Secret Art. As Yang Tian’s power returned, Ling Xiao was stunned to find that he had one hundred points of innate internal spiritual power.

• Ling Xiao examined Yang Tian and found that the incomplete Extraction Secret Art had left corrosive force in his body, so he asked Han Qian to bring them to a place rich in spiritual power.
• Yang Tian asked Han Qian to take responsibility for Ye Hua’s punishment, promising to cultivate hard and repay the Holy Temple if he could cultivate again.
• Han Qian brought Yang Tian and Ling Xiao to the Spirit-Nurturing Pool beside Spirit-Riding Valley so Ling Xiao could perform the reconstruction secret art.
• Ling Xiao warned Yang Tian that he had to cripple him completely to remove the corrosion, then used a spiritual tide to scour his body as Yang Tian endured the pain.
• Ling Xiao sent a golden droplet into Yang Tian’s brow, and Yang Tian’s internal and external spiritual power began to return.
• Ling Xiao sensed that Yang Tian had one hundred points of innate internal spiritual power and exclaimed to Han Qian in shock.

During the Spirit-Nurturing Pool ritual, Yang Tian’s spiritual power rose past one hundred, and he advanced to a level one Grand Knight at only seven years old. Ling Xiao tried to recruit him for the Priest Temple, but Yang Tian chose to remain a Guardian Knight and pursue the strength to protect people.

• Ling Xiao discovered that Yang Tian’s innate internal spiritual power had risen from ninety-nine to one hundred and one, and tried to persuade Han Qian to give the boy to the Priest Temple.
• As Ling Xiao continued the ritual, Yang Tian’s external spiritual power recovered and grew, and he broke through to the Fourth Order after a day and a night.
• Yang Tian accidentally unleashed golden light at Ling Xiao when he opened his eyes, and Ling Xiao offered him powerful training, equipment, and secret arts if he joined the Priest Temple.
• Yang Tian told Ling Xiao that he wanted to become a Divine Seal Knight and protect people, so Yang Haohan affirmed his choice to remain with the Knights.
• After Ling Xiao and Yang Haohan left, Han Qian asked Yang Tian to say goodbye to his teacher before staying at the Knight Temple for training.

Yang Tian and Ye Hua said their farewells as Yang Tian recovered and planned to find a demon beast companion. Ye Hua took him shopping for equipment, where Yang Tian noticed a cheap black sword and asked about its grade.

• Yang Tian told Ye Hua he would stay at the Holy Temple and hoped to enter the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament in two years.
• Ye Hua gave Yang Tian a magic-grade bracelet that could cast Holy Light Shield.
• Yang Tian said he would ask the Holy Knight Commander for permission to find a demon beast companion at Knight Sacred Mountain.
• Ye Hua took Yang Tian to an equipment shop and offered to buy him a spirit-magic-grade sword and shield for five thousand gold coins.
• Yang Tian noticed a three-foot black sword priced at one thousand gold coins and asked whether it was spirit-magic-grade.

Yang Tian and Ye Hua bought equipment in the Holy City, including a remarkably hard black sword that could not channel skills, before sharing a meal together. Meanwhile, Li Xin and Lin Jialu arrived in Purple Star Town and wondered how Yang Tian was doing.

• Yang Tian noticed a cheap black sword, and Ye Hua bought it along with a shield and another sword for six thousand gold coins.
• Ye Hua also bought Yang Tian Light Soft Armor, bringing their equipment purchases to ten thousand gold coins.
• Yang Tian worried that the black sword was useless, while Ye Hua encouraged him to discover its qualities and spoke of finding an affinity-based mount companion.
• Ye Hua took Yang Tian to a luxurious restaurant, where Yang Tian fretted over the high prices and his teacher urged him to enjoy the Holy City.
• Li Xin and Lin Jialu arrived in Purple Star Town, where Li Xin said she would resume dressing as a woman after reaching Knight rank.
• Lin Jialu wondered how Yang Tian was doing, and Li Xin teased her about their relationship.

Yang Haohan took Yang Tian under his personal guidance and asked him to plan his training. Yang Tian chose to learn both Guardian and Retribution, and Yang Haohan arranged for him to begin training the next day.

• Yang Haohan welcomed Yang Tian to Spirit-Riding Valley and offered to teach him personally, which Yang Tian accepted.
• Yang Haohan brought Yang Tian to a private chamber and asked him to write down his preferred training schedule.
• Yang Tian planned morning meditation, afternoon training and combat, and evening hunts, then told Yang Haohan he wanted dual cultivation in Guardian and Retribution.
• Yang Haohan agreed to find a powerful knight to teach Yang Tian Retribution and arranged meditation, physical training, and fourth-tier skill lessons.
• Yang Haohan told Yang Tian to rest for the day, and Yang Tian returned alone while two black-robed figures remarked that he looked older than their Cai'er.

Yang Tian began his training at the Knight Temple’s exclusive cultivation rooms, where Li Jie escorted him to Room 101 under the Holy Knight Commander’s orders. After a morning of meditation, Yang Tian found his spiritual power had increased and left to notify Li Jie that he had finished.

• Yang Tian waited eagerly for Li Jie, then greeted him and followed him to the Knight Temple’s exclusive cultivation rooms.
• Li Jie explained the rooms’ protections and the special arrangement for Yang Tian before escorting him to Room 101.
• Li Jie told Yang Tian how to signal him after cultivation, then entered the neighboring room to train.
• Yang Tian absorbed the rich Light Element in Room 101 and increased his spiritual power over the course of the morning.
• Yang Tian finished cultivating, triggered the sensory device by Li Jie’s room, and met Li Jie as the sun reached overhead.