Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian and his five teammates applied for promotion to a Marshal-level Demon Hunt Squad, paid the required merit points, and prepared for assessment. During the rank verification, the staff member was surprised by Yang Tian’s two pairs of spirit wings and asked him to come along for further review.

• Yang Tian’s squad confirmed they had 199,564 merit points and decided to apply for Marshal-level promotion.
• Yang Tian submitted 100,000 merit points and recorded the squad members’ cultivation information.
• Bai Xiaoxiao suggested improving Lan Ruyu and Li Ang’s equipment, and Yang Tian proposed crafting more Glorious Rank gear after they returned.
• The staff member led the six Demon Hunters to a private assessment room and asked them to release their spirit wings.
• Yang Tian revealed two pairs of spirit wings, explained that they had mutated into a combination of light and water, and the staff member asked him to come along while the others began their assessments.

Bai Xiaoxiao led the team through its Marshal-level Demon Hunt Squad assessment after Yang Tian left. Lin Qingqing, Li Ang, Hanyu, and Lan Ruyu passed their individual tests, and Bai Xiaoxiao stunned the examiners by summoning an Eighth Order demon beast.

• Bai Xiaoxiao encouraged the team as the examiners debated how strictly to test them.
• Lin Qingqing blinded her priest opponent with Yang Tian's Radiance Spell and passed by placing Hanyu's dagger at his throat.
• Li Ang fought Old Mu with Whirlwind Axe, activated Berserk, and earned a pass.
• Hanyu narrowly defeated her assassin opponent, then Lan Ruyu won her mage assessment with Hundred-Hole Water Strike.
• Bai Xiaoxiao used Double Tier-Advancing Summoning and summoned an Eighth Order demon beast, astonishing the examiners.

Yang Tian passed the Marshal-level Demon Hunt Squad assessment and his team became Marshal Rank No. 56. They selected six missions focused on manageable targets, then headed to the Exchange Center to look for equipment and elixir formulas.

• Yang Tian returned to the assessment room and defeated the fifth-rank examiner with his self-created skill, earning a pass.
• Yang Tian and his teammates advanced from General Rank No. 16 to Marshal Rank No. 56 and exchanged their squad tokens.
• Bai Xiaoxiao considered a mission to kill a Demon King, but Yang Tian warned her about the risks, so she declined it.
• Yang Tian advised the team to choose hunting and exploration missions against sixth- and seventh-rank targets, and Bai Xiaoxiao selected six missions worth ninety thousand merit points in total.
• Yang Tian led the team to the Exchange Center to find equipment for Li Ang and Lan Ruyu and look for sixth-rank-or-higher Elixir Formulas.

Yang Tian and his teammates shopped in the Marshal Rank Trading Area, where he arranged to buy Legendary Rank equipment for Lan Ruyu and found a formula he needed. The group returned from exchanging the demon’s body and magic crystal, excited about the staff’s cost.

• Lan Ruyu admired the Legendary Rank water staff Echoes of Water, and Yang Tian asked the stall owner about its abilities and price.
• Yang Tian offered a Ninth Tier magic crystal for the staff, but Bai Xiaoxiao reminded him they could earn more merit points by turning in the crystal and the demon’s body for a mission reward.
• Yang Tian sent Bai Xiaoxiao and Lan Ruyu to exchange the items, then told Li Ang to find suitable Glorious Grade Equipment.
• Li Ang chose the axe Ten Thousand Jin for thirty thousand merit points, and Yang Tian agreed to buy it when Bai Xiaoxiao returned.
• Yang Tian spotted the Magic Crystal Body-Tempering Formula and quickly bought it for thirty thousand merit points.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and Lan Ruyu returned, excitedly repeating that the staff had cost two hundred and sixty thousand.

Yang Tian and his teammates spent their Merit Points on equipment and skills before returning home after a five-day break was arranged. He reunited with Jiaoxin, who confessed her love and asked him never to leave her again.

• Yang Tian's team bought their first Legendary Rank Equipment, secured skill opportunities for Li Ang and Hanyu, and considered other items they could not afford.
• Yang Tian told the team to rest and set out again in five days, then hurried home to see Jiaoxin.
• Yang Tian arrived at his estate, greeted Big Yellow Dog, and let Yating out to play with Little Nian and a light-element dragon.
• Jiaoxin ran to Yang Tian, and he caught her in his arms after their long separation.
• Jiaoxin told Yang Tian she had fallen in love with him and asked them never to be apart again, and Yang Tian agreed.

Yang Tian allowed Jiaoxin to accompany him despite his worries, then returned home with her and welcomed Yang Yating into the family. As they shared a meal, he prepared refined light-element energy for Yating, and the household began to feel like a home.

• Jiaoxin confessed her feelings and asked to leave home with Yang Tian, who agreed on the condition that she enter the Starsea Pendant if she faced danger.
• Yang Tian and Jiaoxin embraced, then talked about her gardening and herb-garden work while he promised to cook for her.
• Jiaoxin met Yang Yating and welcomed her into the family after Little Nian explained who she was.
• Yang Tian prepared dinner for Jiaoxin and Little Nian, then refined a light-attribute magic crystal into spirit liquid for Yating.
• Yating drank the spirit liquid, coughed after taking too large a sip, and received Jiaoxin's gentle encouragement.

Jiaoxin tried cooking for Yang Tian, and he helped improve the dishes until she enjoyed them too. After several peaceful days, Bai Xiaoxiao and the others returned to Yang Tian’s estate, where they found him and Jiaoxin fishing with straight hooks; their visit signaled that another mission was due.

• Jiaoxin cooked several dishes for Yang Tian, who endured their uneven flavors and improved them with medicinal herbs.
• Yang Tian took Jiaoxin, Yating, and Little Nian into the Holy City, then enjoyed several peaceful days with them at his estate.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and the others arrived at the estate and found a note directing them to the wooden cabin.
• Lan Ruyu washed Li Ang’s feet with the Water Condensation Technique before the five teammates entered the cabin.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and the others discovered that Yang Tian and Jiaoxin were fishing with straight hooks and realized Yang Tian had been feeding the fish.

Yang Tian split his team’s demon-hunting missions and entered the Love Demon God’s Capital with Jiaoxin to investigate the Love Demons. He chose the Jade Flower House as their temporary base while considering how to carry out their mission against a race that seemed more pitiful than hostile.

• After the team ate, Yang Tian assigned Bai Xiaoxiao and the others missions to complete separately and told them to regroup at Demon-Exorcism Pass.
• Yang Tian promised to train the team during a year of seclusion, find each member a Spirit Furnace, and help them advance to Seventh Rank.
• Yang Tian and Jiaoxin disguised themselves as demons and entered Lustful Desire Capital, where Yang Tian posed as a Star Demon Race Duke.
• A Seventh Rank Love Demon woman approached Yang Tian and led him to the Jade Flower House after he pretended to seek concubines.
• Yang Tian selected the Demon God Flower House as their temporary base and reflected that the Love Demons seemed like a pitiful race.

Bai Xiaoxiao’s squad completed missions in the demon encampment, then spent two months preparing an ambush for a seventh rank Bloodthirsty Beta. They lured it out of Maxias City and killed it, completing their mission.

• Bai Xiaoxiao led her squad in splitting up to attack Gold-Patterned Twin-Blade Demons and Flame Demon Puppets.
• Lan Ruyu and Hanyu killed the Flame Demon Puppets while Bai Xiaoxiao’s group completed its mission and gathered with them outside demon territory.
• Bai Xiaoxiao planned an ambush for a Bloodthirsty Beta, and two months later Li Ang lured one out of Maxias City.
• Li Ang struck the Bloodthirsty Beta, Hanyu severed its wing, and Bai Xiaoxiao summoned a level-nine rhinoceros demon beast to crush it.
• Bai Xiaoxiao and the others collected the battlefield spoils and declared the Bloodthirsty Beta mission complete.

After a millennium of cultivation, Yang Tian surveyed the Holy Demon Continent, reunited with Jiaoyue, and left to search the starry rivers for the Blue Planet. After 129,600 years, he finally returned, protected the soul of his former self, and fulfilled his promise to the Ancestral Dragon.

• Yang Tian emerged from a thousand years of seclusion with immense power, checked on the gods and the peaceful Holy Demon Continent, and visited Jiaoyue in Skyfang Moon.
• Yang Tian gave Jiaoyue a token that let her travel freely to the Holy Demon Palace, raised her cultivation, and left to explore other worlds.
• Yang Tian fought through the starry river, reached the Star World, and forced its World Consciousness to promise it would let the Star Emperor return.
• After searching for tens of thousands of years, Yang Tian found the Blue Planet and realized his journey had lasted 129,600 years.
• Yang Tian detained and protected the soul of his former self, watched a girl in a pale yellow dress walk away, and departed after fulfilling his promise to the Ancestral Dragon.