Recaps

Yang Tian explored the Knight Temple’s training facilities before Han Qian brought him to a hidden combat ground to meet Yang Haohan. After discussing what it meant to be a Guardian, Yang Tian prepared to defend himself against Yang Haohan’s first attack.

• Li Jie took Yang Tian to the Knight Dining Hall, where Yang Tian explained that his faith kept him from eating meat.
• Yang Tian trained on the Automatic Physical Trainer and with heavy armor, then changed and washed up before meeting Han Qian.
• Han Qian dismissed Li Jie as Yang Tian’s temporary Guardian and led Yang Tian to a secluded place where Yang Haohan was waiting.
• Yang Haohan asked Yang Tian about being a Guardian, and Yang Tian said people protected what they cared about because of their emotions and responsibilities.
• Yang Haohan agreed to attack while suppressing his strength to Yang Tian’s level, and Yang Tian equipped his Spirit-Magic Grade gear before the fight began.

Yang Tian trained with Yang Haohan, learning Guardian Knight skills through sparring and quickly mastering techniques beyond his rank. Yang Haohan then offered to teach him a signature skill that grew stronger with its user, and Yang Tian eagerly agreed.

• Yang Tian sparred with Yang Haohan, attacking with his Retribution skills until his spiritual power ran out, then meditated to recover.
• Yang Haohan gave Yang Tian a multicolored token and arranged for him to return for Guardian Knight lessons, while Han Qian explained his training schedule.
• Yang Tian returned to Yang Haohan’s training space and learned third- and fourth-rank Guardian skills, as well as the fifth-rank skill Light Illuminates the World.
• Yang Tian asked to learn Divine Guard Block, but Yang Haohan explained that it required reaching the sixth rank and earning contribution points.
• Yang Haohan offered to teach Yang Tian a skill he had developed after obtaining the Throne of Protection and Mercy, and Yang Tian eagerly accepted.

Yang Tian asked Yang Haohan and Han Qian for books to deepen his knowledge of demons, Spirit Furnaces, herbs, and treasures while continuing his disciplined cultivation. Han Qian provided books on demons and promised more, while Yang Tian returned to training and awaited lessons in Yang Haohan’s Guardian skill.

• Yang Tian asked Yang Haohan to borrow books about demons, and Yang Haohan directed him to Han Qian’s collection.
• Yang Tian left Han Qian’s office without searching it because Han Qian was absent, then reflected on the knowledge and combat experience he still lacked.
• Li Jie watched Yang Tian cultivate and became impressed by his discipline after guarding him for seven days.
• Yang Tian visited Han Qian, who had prepared books about demons after Yang Haohan told him to expect the request.
• Yang Tian asked Han Qian for a Spirit Furnace, then requested books about Spirit Furnace cultivation and medicinal herbs; Han Qian promised to provide the additional books later.
• Yang Tian returned to the cultivation room to train and looked forward to learning Yang Haohan’s Guardian skill.

Yang Haohan taught Yang Tian three advanced defensive forms and passed their methods into his mind. Yang Tian stayed to contemplate them while Yang Haohan told Han Qian that mastering Essence of Guardian would take a long time.

• Yang Tian met Yang Haohan in the training world and thanked him for the books before beginning his lesson.
• Yang Haohan challenged Yang Tian to attack his aura, and Yang Tian's Sunflare Slash failed to break through it.
• Yang Haohan explained the three forms—Guardian Aura, Heart of Mercy, and Essence of Guardian—and mentally transmitted their methods to Yang Tian.
• Yang Haohan told Yang Tian to reflect on the forms and said he would later teach him Retribution skills before hunting lessons.
• Yang Tian contemplated the techniques, while Yang Haohan told Han Qian that Essence of Guardian could not be mastered through meditation alone.

Yang Tian completed his Guardian Knight training and broke through to level-two Grand Knight before Yang Haohan brought him to the Demon Hunt Squad Trading Center to begin learning Retribution skills. There, Yang Haoyu agreed to teach him and suggested the Light Nine-Turn Spirit Tempering Art to address his unusually rapid cultivation.

• Yang Haohan praised Yang Tian's progress in Guardian Aura and Heart of Mercy, then planned to teach him Retribution skills and considered a Spirit Furnace for him.
• Yang Tian studied books about demon races, Spirit Furnace cultivation, herbs, and treasures.
• Yang Tian meditated past mealtime and successfully advanced to level-two Grand Knight.
• Yang Haohan took Yang Tian to the Demon Hunt Squad Trading Center, where Yang Tian learned that Demon Hunt Squads offered training and access to equipment.
• Yang Tian asked how to temper his rapidly growing spiritual power, and Yang Haoyu recommended the Light Nine-Turn Spirit Tempering Art before offering to teach him Retribution skills.

Yang Tian received Yang Haoyu’s Retribution Codex and spent the night studying its skills. The next day, he returned to training with Li Jie and began practicing Retribution techniques, though he was not yet strong enough to activate Flame of Light.

• Yang Haoyu gave Yang Tian half a month to study the Retribution Codex and told him to follow his own path.
• Yang Tian learned that the codex contained skills up to the ninth tier, but its higher-tier techniques could only be read, not practiced.
• Yang Tian stayed awake all night memorizing the codex and missed his morning training with Li Jie.
• Yang Tian apologized to Li Jie, ate and rested, then practiced Retribution skills during afternoon training.
• Yang Tian managed basic techniques such as the Ascension Array, but his current rank was too low to activate Flame of Light.

Yang Tian struggled to earn Yang Haoyu’s approval and began doubting his abilities, so he asked Li Jie to spar with him. Yang Tian’s strength surprised Li Jie, but Li Jie’s effortless defense left Yang Tian questioning himself again.

• Yang Haoyu pushed Yang Tian through a harsh training session, using fifth-tier strength to drain his spiritual power and criticize his progress.
• Yang Haoyu told Yang Haohan that Yang Tian had learned Flame of Light and might grasp a new skill from the Retribution Codex, though he still fell short of Long Xingyu.
• Yang Tian stayed awake questioning his abilities, then asked Li Jie whether he was terrible and decided to spar instead of meditate.
• Yang Tian attacked Li Jie with his swords and powerful light skills, impressing Li Jie despite their gap between fourth and seventh tiers.
• Yang Tian grew dejected when Li Jie remained relaxed, and Li Jie wondered whether he was making the spar look too easy.

Yang Tian studied the Retribution Codex and created a new skill, Light, Illuminate, then spent the remaining days refining it for his trial with Yang Haoyu. On the fifteenth day, he began fighting Yang Haoyu with renewed confidence and prepared to reveal his skill.

• After sparring with Li Jie, Yang Tian misunderstood the lesson and spent a day cultivating before returning to study the Retribution Codex.
• Yang Tian drew inspiration from the codex and created Light, Illuminate, a skill combining several Retribution techniques, but its first use wrecked his dormitory.
• Han Qian moved Yang Tian to another room, where he practiced his new skill and worried that the Black Sword could not unleash Retribution skills.
• Yang Haohan told Yang Haoyu that Yang Tian had stopped training, but Yang Haoyu insisted that his meditation and skill practice were worthwhile.
• Yang Tian arrived for the fifteenth-day trial, attacked Yang Haoyu with a borrowed Glorious-grade longsword, and announced Light, Illuminate.

Yang Tian earned Yang Haoyu’s approval after surprising him with a powerful new skill, then looked forward to receiving a mount companion in two days. During his break, he met Li Jie and asked to spar so he could test the skill again.

• Yang Tian used Sunflare Slash and True Essence of Protection in a surprise attack, forcing Yang Haoyu to raise his strength to the sixth tier before Yang Haoyu conceded that Yang Tian had passed.
• Yang Haoyu worried that Yang Tian’s dual cultivation would divide his attention, but Yang Haohan defended the path and planned to teach him the Light Nine-Turn Spirit Tempering Art.
• Yang Haohan resolved to let Yang Tian try the Knight Temple’s ancient Spirit Furnace, while Yang Haoyu warned him not to ruin the promising youth.
• Yang Tian left the Demon Hunt Squad Trading Center eager to obtain a mount companion and ruled out the Starlight Unicorn King as his first choice.
• Yang Tian spent his first day off cultivating, met Li Jie, and asked him to spar so he could test his new skill.

Yang Tian traveled with Li Jie to the Knight Sacred Mountain to obtain a mount companion. As they arrived, Yang Tian asked about a special teleportation privilege for Grand Knights who had not found a suitable mount, hoping to use it himself.

• Yang Tian sparred with Li Jie, who advised him that his move was less effective against a prepared opponent.
• Li Jie took Yang Tian from the Knight Temple to the Knight Sacred Mountain and summoned his Radiant Dragon for the journey.
• The Radiant Dragon showed an unusual liking for Yang Tian, and Li Jie explained that it would have chosen him if it had not already formed a contract.
• Li Jie told Yang Tian that knights who reached Knight rank before twenty could visit the mountain to obtain a mount companion.
• Yang Tian asked whether reaching Grand Knight before twenty without finding a suitable mount granted a one-time teleportation to seek a better match.

Yang Tian entered Knight Sacred Mountain to seek a mount, where the gatekeeper discovered that he was a seven-year-old Grand Knight and warned Li Jie to keep his identity secret. Inside, Yang Tian rejected several beasts and headed toward a water source, hoping to find Starry Unicorns.

• Li Jie escorted Yang Tian to the mountain checkpoint and explained their identities and purpose to the old gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper tested Yang Tian and revealed that he was a seven-year-old Grand Knight, astonishing Li Jie.
• The gatekeeper made Li Jie swear to keep Yang Tian's age and strength confidential, then let Yang Tian enter the mountain with a Token.
• Li Jie resolved to protect Yang Tian at any cost while Yang Tian explored the mountain's lush landscape.
• A Light Crane and an Earth Dragon approached Yang Tian, but he rejected both as unsuitable mounts.
• After encountering many light-attribute beasts, Yang Tian eagerly approached a water source, hoping to find a herd of Starry Unicorns.

Yang Tian encountered the King of Starry Unicorns, who revealed that Yang Tian’s sacred aura made him irresistible to powerful light-aligned beasts. Yang Tian declined him as a permanent mount but accepted his offer to explore Knight Sacred Mountain together, and the king welcomed him to Starry Home.

• Yang Tian approached the King of Starry Unicorns and was surprised when the king offered to become his mount.
• The King of Starry Unicorns explained that Yang Tian embodied light and could help powerful light-aligned beasts reach level ten.
• Yang Tian declined to choose a mount on Knight Sacred Mountain and asked the king to carry him around the mountain for twenty-nine days.
• The King of Starry Unicorns agreed, brought Yang Tian to Starry Home, and welcomed him to stay with the herd.
• Yang Tian shared the king’s cave and learned that the golden Spirit-Nurturing Fruits growing there were a regular food of Starry Unicorns.

Yang Tian sparred with the King of Starry Unicorns and toured the Sacred Mountain, learning about its powerful demon beasts and enjoying its pure light-element environment. He continued exploring with Star King, finding no hidden treasures and considering the Demon Race’s territory as a possible place to search for them.

• Yang Tian asked Star King to spar with him, and Star King advised him to develop skills that combined Guardian and Retribution.
• Star King led a group of Starry Unicorns into the air and explained that ninth-level demon beasts lived in the surrounding mountains, but no tenth-level beasts remained inside the formation.
• Yang Tian and the unicorns crossed the mountains without being challenged and stopped beside a clear lake where he drank dew and played with the water.
• Yang Tian continued touring the Sacred Mountain with Star King and found no hidden treasures, then considered searching the Demon Race’s territory instead.

Yang Tian encountered the peak level-nine Bat King, which sought a contract with him because of his unusual soul. Yang Tian agreed to consider it on two conditions, but the chapter ended before he stated the first.

• Yang Tian and Star King approached a peak inhabited by a soul-attribute Demon Beast, and Star King warned that it was dangerous.
• Bat King appeared and asked Yang Tian to contract with it, claiming his overlapping souls made him an ideal partner.
• Yang Tian calmly questioned Bat King about why it had chosen him, and Bat King explained that his soul was unusually powerful.
• Star King urged Yang Tian not to accept, while Bat King threatened him and then pressed him to name his conditions.
• Yang Tian agreed to consider a contract if Bat King met two conditions, then began stating the first.

Yang Tian rejected the Bat King's attempt to become his mount by setting two impossible conditions, then received a secret technique from a powerful cloaked expert in the Sacred Mountain. He left believing the technique was his greatest gain from the journey.

• Yang Tian told the Bat King that it had to rival the top ten Demon Gods to meet his first condition, and the Bat King admitted it could not.
• Yang Tian set a second condition: the Bat King had to restrain his cultivation and keep his spiritual power below one million.
• The enraged Bat King released soul energy, but Star King resisted until a cloaked expert drove the Bat King back into its cave.
• The cloaked expert praised Yang Tian's affinity for light, warned that his strength was too low, and gave him a book containing the secret technique Instant Slash.
• The cloaked elders discussed the cloaked expert's decision to pass on his ultimate technique, while Yang Tian left the Sacred Mountain with the book.

After his thirty days on Knight Sacred Mountain ended, Yang Tian left without choosing a Mount Partner and decided to seek one from another world through the Teleportation Array. The old guardian agreed to activate it, giving Yang Tian fifteen minutes to search.

• Yang Tian said farewell to Star King and asked it to wait for a future Child of Light, then was transported out of Starry Home.
• Li Jie and the old guardian were surprised that Yang Tian returned without a Mount Partner, but Yang Tian said many demon beasts had chosen him and he wanted to search another world instead.
• Yang Tian insisted he would keep and raise any demon beast he found, even if it was weak, and the old guardian agreed to his choice.
• The old guardian warned that the Teleportation Array consumed enormous mental energy and would remain active for only fifteen minutes.
• Yang Tian followed the old guardian to a secluded place, noticed ancient writing, and prepared for the old man to activate the formation.

Yang Tian activated the teleportation array to seek a Mount Partner, but an unknown force seized part of his consciousness and left him unconscious. While Li Jie and the old man waited helplessly for him to recover, Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin prepared a secret treasure for Yang Tian's return.

• Yang Tian entered the starry expanse created by the array, where an unknown force seized a strand of his consciousness.
• The old man collapsed after the force intruded and warned Li Jie that Yang Tian's cultivation foundation could be damaged if his consciousness did not return.
• Li Jie supported the old man as they waited for Yang Tian to wake, with neither of them able to help him.
• Yang Haohan reassured Han Qian that Li Jie and the others were safe, then left to meet Long Tianyin.
• Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin entered a sealed area in Spirit-Riding Valley to prepare a secret treasure for Yang Tian's return.

Yang Tian was taken to another world, where a dying divine beast entrusted him with its child and sent him back. The child’s divine power erupted during their return, and Yang Tian regained consciousness a day later with the small white beast beside him.

• Yang Tian saw a giant white divine beast destroy its enemies with divine power and learned that its race was facing extinction.
• The divine beast asked Yang Tian to protect its child and sent him back to his world with the white bundle.
• Yang Tian returned to the great formation in agony, and the bundle rolled to Li Jie while Senior Hao examined it.
• Colorless divine power burst from Yang Tian, blasted Li Jie and Senior Hao into rubble, and completed an unseen contract before Yang Tian fainted.
• After a day and a night, Yang Tian awoke to Li Jie and the happy little white beast hopping in front of him.

Yang Tian recovered at a hotel near the Sacred Mountain and discovered that the adorable Little White Puff had become his demon beast partner. After a failed attempt to fly with her, he named her Nian, nicknamed her Coo-Coo, and set off with Li Jie for the Holy City.

• Li Jie waited for Yang Tian to wake and told him that a Sacred Mountain senior had recorded the unknown demon beast's appearance.
• Yang Tian fed Little White Puff spiritual fruit and learned that she called him Daddy, though he asked her to call him big brother.
• Yang Tian and Li Jie set out on the Radiant Dragon, and Little White Puff spread over Yang Tian's head and tried to make him fly before they crashed.
• Li Jie explained that Little White Puff could become a flying demon beast as she grew stronger and that the spiritual fruit would help her recover.
• Yang Tian named Little White Puff Nian, gave her the nickname Coo-Coo, and flew atop his head as they headed home with Li Jie.

Lin Jialu and Li Xin arrived at the Knight Temple's Administrative District looking for Yang Tian, but the guards said he was not there. Yang Tian remained inside, struggling to master the Void God Spell and afford Gugu's food, until he spotted two unexpected people waiting with Li Jie.

• Lin Jialu and Li Xin tried to enter the Administrative District to find Yang Tian, and Lin Jialu paid the guards to check for him.
• A guard returned and told the girls that no one named Yang Tian lived in the Holy Temple, leaving Li Xin frustrated.
• Yang Tian practiced the Void God Spell with Little White Puff, but he could not yet draw on Gugu's sealed void divine power.
• Yang Tian fed Gugu a costly Spirit-Nurturing Fruit and considered taking more missions to pay for her food.
• Yang Tian left the training room and spotted two people waiting with Li Jie.

Yang Tian met with Lin Jialu and Li Xin, then took them to the Holy City Auction House to sell a Spirit-Nurturing Fruit. The manager offered a reserve price of thirty thousand and estimated it could sell for over fifty thousand before Yang Tian revealed it came from the King of Starry Unicorns’ cave.

• Yang Tian introduced Little White Puff to Lin Jialu and Li Xin and told them his internal spiritual power was nearly one thousand.
• Lin Jialu hesitated to tell Yang Tian what she wanted to say, then backed down while Li Xin urged her on.
• Yang Tian canceled his afternoon training with Li Jie and invited Lin Jialu and Li Xin to the Holy City Auction House.
• Yang Tian showed Manager Monash a Spirit-Nurturing Fruit, and Monash offered a reserve price of thirty thousand, estimating it could sell for more than fifty thousand.
• Yang Tian said the fruit came from the King of Starry Unicorns’ cave, surprising Manager Monash.

Yang Tian sold a Spirit-Nurturing Fruit and bought food for Little White Puff while spending time with Li Xin and Lin Jialu in the Holy City. As the girls prepared to leave, Li Xin gathered her courage to tell him something.

• Yang Tian sold a Spirit-Nurturing Fruit to Steward Mo for a guaranteed forty thousand gold coins and bought batches of three kinds of fourth-tier fruits for Little White Puff.
• Little White Puff chose all three fruits, and Yang Tian paid thirty thousand gold coins for them.
• Li Xin questioned why Yang Tian had auctioned such a valuable fruit, and he explained that he needed money to host her and Lin Jialu.
• Yang Tian encouraged Lin Jialu to cultivate hard for the Demon Hunt Squad Selection Tournament while Li Xin urged her to act on her feelings for him.
• At the carriage hire shop, Li Xin told Yang Tian she had something to say.

Li Xin forced Yang Tian to answer Lin Jialu’s confession, but Yang Tian panicked and ran away, leaving Lin Jialu hurt. Days later, Yang Haohan told Yang Tian that he could begin hunting lessons if he passed a test.

• Li Xin publicly told Yang Tian that Lin Jialu liked him and demanded an answer.
• Yang Tian rejected Lin Jialu, then fled as spectators mocked the three of them.
• Lin Jialu cried and left with Li Xin, who apologized for pushing the confession too quickly.
• Yang Tian returned to the Holy Temple’s Administrative District, where Li Jie comforted him as he struggled with guilt.
• Days later, Han Qian brought Yang Tian to Yang Haohan, who offered him a test that could qualify him to begin hunting lessons.

Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin brought Yang Tian to Spirit-Riding Valley to try to gain the strongest spirit furnace on the Holy Demon Continent. They revealed the ancient black furnace, and Yang Tian stepped forward to attempt to fuse with it.

• Yang Haohan took Yang Tian to Spirit-Riding Valley, where two Gray-Robed Elders watched them arrive.
• Yang Haohan asked Yang Tian about spirit furnaces and explained that he hoped Yang Tian could gain the approval of a powerful one.
• Yang Tian agreed to attempt the trial for humanity and the light he upheld.
• Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin used their energies to draw out a small black spirit furnace covered in ancient characters.
• Yang Haohan urged Yang Tian to approach and try to fuse with the resisting furnace, and Yang Tian prepared himself.

Yang Tian absorbed the black Spirit Furnace’s accumulated negative energy with the Void God Spell, causing the furnace to shatter and then begin reassembling. He emerged with a new power called thought power and learned that the Spirit Furnace was named All-Thoughts-Extinguished, though he still did not know how to use its full abilities.

• Yang Tian’s Void God Spell absorbed the Spirit Furnace’s negative energy as he touched it, while Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin watched.
• The Spirit Furnace resisted, but Yang Tian’s colorless divine power overwhelmed it and shattered it into streams of gray energy.
• Little White Puff collapsed from exhaustion, and Yang Tian sat down to absorb the power before the Spirit Furnace’s fragments began reassembling.
• Several days later, Yang Tian told Yang Haohan and Long Tianyin that he had gained thought power through the Spirit Furnace.
• Yang Haohan confirmed that Yang Tian had succeeded and revealed the Spirit Furnace’s name, All-Thoughts-Extinguished, and its powerful combat potential.
• Yang Tian lifted Little White Puff with thought power but admitted he did not yet know how to use the Spirit Furnace or its damaged weapon.