Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian and his teammates began breaking their seals and attempting breakthroughs in the Demon Hunt Apartments. Yang Tian’s seal broke, flooding him with stored spiritual power as he started constructing spirit apertures.

• Yang Tian reassured Jiaoxin, who chose to stay behind and wait until they could return home together.
• Ye Xiaolei and Yating left the Demon Hunt Apartments and headed to the Holy City's Auction House.
• Yang Tian set up a level-four Spirit Gathering Array and asked Jiaoxin to guard the team as six teammates sat down to break their seals.
• Yang Tian used Star-Flow Flash to break the seals of Bai Xiaoxiao and the others, and they began absorbing their released spiritual power.
• Yang Tian summoned the Star Emperor, broke his own seal, surpassed 10,000 spiritual power, and began constructing spirit apertures.

Yang Tian completed his breakthrough to the seventh-rank peak, then joined with Ye Xiaolei to reach thirty thousand spiritual power and enter the eighth order. Ye Xiaolei also explained the irreversible trial that awaited those who approached godhood.

• Yang Tian and the others cultivated in seclusion, and Yang Tian built spirit apertures until his spiritual power exceeded twenty-eight thousand nine hundred.
• Bai Xiaoxiao asked whether Yang Tian had reached the eighth order, and he said he was at the seventh-rank peak with a trump card left.
• Yang Tian summoned Ye Xiaolei, who explained that spirits with over a million spiritual power faced an irreversible trial to become gods.
• Ye Xiaolei and Yang Tian completed their final contract and entered a partially fused state, allowing him to absorb her pure energy.
• Yang Tian reached thirty thousand spiritual power, broke through the bottleneck, and entered the eighth order.

Yang Tian spent a month unconscious after reaching the Eighth Order, comprehending the nature attribute with Ye Xiaolei’s life force. He awakened with the power of nature and half an understanding of creation, but a primordial Ancestral Dragon’s voice revealed mysterious souls within him and left him wondering whether his body might someday be taken over.

• Yang Tian formed ten Spirit Apertures and advanced toward the Ninth Tier while his spiritual power surpassed thirty thousand.
• During Yang Tian’s month-long unconsciousness, his teammates stabilized their cultivation, and Yating explained that he was comprehending nature.
• Ye Xiaolei supplied Yang Tian with more life force despite the unexpected strain, allowing his nature comprehension to continue.
• Yang Tian entered a life-filled wonderland, awakened the power to create and bestow life, and transformed a plant stem into a caterpillar.
• An Ancestral Dragon’s roar interrupted Yang Tian’s vision and warned the God of Death against being reborn, revealing that other souls existed within Yang Tian.
• Yang Tian awakened with the power of nature, half an understanding of creation, and level-seventy-nine star power, then worried that his body might be taken over.

Yang Tian woke after breaking through to the Eighth Order and assessed his teammates’ progress. He planned to use the next three months to prepare his squad for a King-Rank assessment before joining Long Haochen’s team to hunt the Snake Demon God.

• Ye Xiaolei complained that Yang Tian’s breakthrough had drained her energy, then left to rest and postponed their discussion of Dream Paradise for six months.
• Yang Tian tested his teammates’ Spiritual Power and found Bai Xiaoxiao, Lin Qingqing, and Lan Ruyu at level four of the Seventh Rank, while Hanyu and Li Ang remained near its peak third level.
• Yang Tian sent Bai Xiaoxiao to check on Marshal-level No. 64 Demon Hunt Squad and learned that Long Haochen’s team was in seclusion.
• Yang Tian explained that Long Haochen’s team might hunt the Snake Demon God in about three months and said his own squad would prepare to take the King-Rank Demon Hunt Squad assessment then.
• Yang Tian told Bai Xiaoxiao to research the assessment and said he would find a way to buy Epic Grade Equipment for the squad.

Yang Tian returned to his manor with Jiaoxin and Yating, reunited with his companions, and shared a tender moment with Jiaoxin after she confessed her feelings. The chapter ended with Jiaoxin asking Yang Tian to sleep with her.

• Yang Tian left the Demon Hunt Residential Complex with Jiaoxin and Yating and returned to his manor.
• Yating reunited with Big Yellow, Little Nian, and Long Ming, telling them she had become a King Rank elf after fusing with Yang Tian's Spirit Furnaces and Sacred Artifacts.
• Jiaoxin confessed that she had fallen for Yang Tian and asked to keep following him, and he agreed.
• Yang Tian and Jiaoxin cleaned the manor together, then watched the stars while leaning against each other.
• Jiaoxin arrived at Yang Tian's door in her pajamas and asked him to sleep with her.

Yang Tian prepared powerful medicinal resources and began three months of secluded cultivation while Jiaoxin and his companions worked to strengthen themselves. After the cultivation period passed, the story left the results of their training unrevealed.

• Yang Tian declined Jiaoxin's attempt to draw him into bed, kept her warm with his power, and continued studying the Elven Script.
• Yang Tian refined elixirs and artifacts, extracted the essence from eight demon dragon crystals, and prepared medicinal liquid to strengthen himself and his companions.
• Yating delivered Yang Tian's message to Commander Grade Demon Hunt Squad No. 56: they had three months to reach at least the fifth level before seeking him out.
• Yang Tian gave Jiaoxin medicinal liquid and a Spirit-Raising Elixir to help her break through, then began cultivating with a potent dose of his own medicine.
• Yang Tian entered three months of secluded cultivation, and the chapter ended as that period passed.

After three months of cultivation, Yang Tian set out to challenge the Adamantine Base assessment, hoping the armor would protect him during the coming hunt for the Snake Demon God. Han Qian agreed to seek approval for the attempt, while Yang Tian waited at the training grounds, thinking of his former sparring partner Li Jie.

• Yang Tian left Jiaoxin at home and brought Yating with him, leaving Long Ming and Big Yellow behind to guard the house.
• Yang Tian told Han Qian that he had reached the eighth order and wanted to take the Adamantine Base assessment before hunting the Snake Demon God.
• Han Qian urged Yang Tian to stay in the Holy Temple and pursue the ninth tier, but Yang Tian said missions would help him grow and insisted on taking the assessment.
• Han Qian went to consult the Temple Masters and the Alliance Leader about Yang Tian's unusual request.
• Yang Tian wandered through the training grounds and wondered how far Li Jie had progressed.

Yang Haohan learned that Yang Tian had reached the eighth order and planned to take the Adamantine Base trial and hunt a Demon God. He asked Yang Haoyu to test Yang Tian, while Yang Haoyu revealed that he had broken through a major barrier and urged patience before humanity launched an offensive against the Demon God Emperor.

• Han Qian told Yang Haohan that Yang Tian’s sealed spiritual power had surged to around seventeen thousand after he returned from Dream Paradise.
• Yang Haohan approved arranging the unoccupied Adamantine Base Battle Armor for Yang Tian, then learned that Yang Tian intended to hunt the seventy-second Demon God.
• Yang Haohan visited his elder brother, Yang Haoyu, and asked him to test Yang Tian because the temple’s other knights might not be able to match him.
• Yang Haoyu agreed to test Yang Tian and revealed that he had broken through the barrier.
• Yang Haoyu advised waiting until Yang Tian, Long Haochen, and the Reincarnation Saintess matured before launching an offensive against the Demon God Emperor.

Yang Tian challenged Adamantine No. 9, revealed his divine power and star techniques, and forced the hidden Yang Haoyu back but failed to meet the three-step condition. As Yang Tian stood exhausted and short of victory, an eager voice offered to take over the fight.

• Yang Tian prepared his equipment and spirit furnaces before testing his strength against Adamantine No. 9.
• Yang Tian borrowed the Goddess of Light's power and struck Adamantine No. 9 with a sword slash strong enough to make him step back half a pace.
• Yang Tian recognized Adamantine No. 9 as Yang Haoyu, who required him to force him back three steps to pass the assessment.
• Yang Tian unleashed all nine forms of Emperor Star Palm, and Yang Haoyu countered with a sword made from hundreds of stars.
• Yang Tian was driven back more than a dozen steps while Yang Haoyu moved only a step and a half, and a voice offered to fight in Yang Tian's place.

Yang Tian passed Yang Haoyu’s assessment and received Adamantine No. 9, then learned that the Primordial Throne might offer a way to challenge the Demon God Emperor. He left determined to seek the throne’s recognition and planned to return to cultivation after his squad killed the Snake Demon God.

• The Star Emperor helped Yang Tian force Yang Haoyu to retreat exactly three steps, then advised him to focus on mastering fewer techniques.
• Yang Haoyu declared Yang Tian’s assessment passed and gave him Adamantine No. 9, which Yang Tian put on and thanked him for.
• Yang Haoyu explained the Primordial Throne’s history and power, urged Yang Tian to attempt its trial, and told him to seek advice upon reaching the ninth tier.
• Yang Haoyu departed, and Yang Tian resolved to try for the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation.
• Yang Haohan congratulated Yang Tian on becoming a Holy Knight and warned him not to attract the Demon Gods’ attention before reaching the ninth tier.
• Yang Tian told Yang Haohan that his squad would return to cultivate after killing the Snake Demon God, and teased that he had good news to share later.

Yang Tian and his five teammates passed the assessment to become King-Rank Demon Hunt Squad No. 19 and planned to head to the Dark Swamp after learning new skills. In the Demon Capital, Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu trained A Bao and warned him to take Yang Tian seriously, while privately considering how to turn Yang Tian to darkness.

• Yang Tian defeated his seventh-rank examiner with one strike, and Bai Xiaoxiao, Lan Ruyu, Lin Qingqing, Hanyu, and Li Ang each passed their assessments with their overwhelming strength or equipment.
• The squad received its new King-Rank No. 19 Merit Token, kept its merit points, and agreed to learn seventh-rank skills before departing for the Dark Swamp.
• Han Qian reviewed a report on the squad's rapid growth, and Yang Tian told the lady waiting at his manor that the squad would set out in a few days.
• Demon God Emperor Feng Xiu defeated A Bao in training and told him that Yang Tian had shown mercy and should be taken seriously.
• A Bao vowed to crush Yang Tian after reaching the ninth tier, while Feng Xiu considered turning Yang Tian's light into darkness and making him a possible second heir.

Yang Tian’s and Long Haochen’s teams accepted dangerous Demon Hunt missions and traveled to Starsearch City, where Long Haochen confronted a corrupt patrol captain at the Yue Ye Caravan. He planned to pursue the matter through official channels before the caravan departed for demon territory, while several unfamiliar visitors arrived in the city.

• Yang Tian’s team accepted thirty-four King Rank missions, while Long Haochen’s team accepted sixteen slaughter missions to help Cai’er awaken; they agreed to share Merit Points and have Yang Tian intervene only in life-threatening situations.
• Han Qian approved the teams’ departure, and they traveled to Starsearch City, where Long Haochen and Bai Xiaoxiao took charge of their mission preparations.
• At the Yue Ye Caravan, a patrol captain accused the merchants of colluding with demons and took a bribe from the manager.
• Long Haochen subdued the captain and summoned Starsearch City’s administrator, Shui Mu, and military chief, Han Qianyu, demanding that they deal with the misconduct.
• Long Haochen rejected Cai’er’s offer to intervene and decided to follow official procedures, noting that he needed to visit the Warrior Temple before the caravan left in three days.
• A blue-haired man and woman and a dark-gold-dressed woman accompanying a young girl arrived in Starsearch City and looked around.

Yang Tian and Long Haochen traveled to the Southeast Fortress, where they prepared to enter Demon Race territory with the Yue Ye Caravan. Yang Tian considered whether humans, demons, and other races could coexist, while the group began its first mission in Narik Province.

• Yang Tian and Long Haochen’s teams reached the Southeast Fortress, where Long Haochen obtained the Aria of the Goddess of Light and meteorites for upgrading Blue Rain, Hibiscus of Light.
• On the fortress ramparts, Yang Tian discussed with Jiaoxin the possibility of humans, demons, and other races coexisting, though he doubted humanity would accept it.
• After Long Haochen finished his preparations, the fifteen-person party joined the Yue Ye Caravan and set out into Demon Race territory.
• Long Haochen explained that their first mission was to kill five Golden Bird Demons in the capital of Narik Province, and he planned to keep the caravan separate from the attacks.
• The party entered Narik Province and began its hunt, with Long Haochen’s team prepared to draw attention away from the caravan.

Bai Xiaoxiao’s squad killed a Platinum Bird Demon, and the two Demon Hunt Squads continued south while completing missions. Near Yak Province, they joined a battle to rescue a pursued Demon Hunt Squad from a massive Yak Clan force, and the chapter ended as the King-Rank squad revealed orange light in five members’ hands.

• Bai Xiaoxiao’s squad ambushed and killed a Platinum Bird Demon and two Golden Bird Demons before withdrawing from the capital.
• Long Haochen and Yang Tian’s squads left the Yue Ye Caravan, completed more missions, and traveled south toward Yak Province.
• Yang Tian assigned Yating to support Bai Xiaoxiao’s squad against the eighth-order Yak Clan chiefs, while Long Haochen’s team approached Great Yak City.
• Long Haochen and Bai Xiaoxiao hid when over a thousand Yak Clan demons pursued a six-person Demon Hunt Squad, and Yang Tian vanished ahead of them.
• Long Haochen and Bai Xiaoxiao agreed to attack the Yak Clan demons and coordinate with the pursued squad, while Long Haochen’s group struck first.
• The two Demon Hunt Squads began fighting the Yak Clan, and the Mithril Base Battle Armor-wearing Knight’s squad counterattacked as five members raised orange-lit objects.

Yang Tian's Demon Hunt Squad rescued Tian Qing's King-Rank No. 17 from two eighth-order Yak Clan chiefs, and Bai Xiaoxiao acquired the Three-Legged Crow as a contract beast after Yang Tian subdued it. After the battle, Tian Qing explained that Demon Extermination Squads had recently begun attacking human squads, and the group started clearing the battlefield.

• Yang Tian's squad arrived with Epic Grade Equipment and joined the battle against the Yak Clan chiefs, while Bai Xiaoxiao summoned a Three-Legged Crow whose Sun Fire burned through the demons.
• Li Ang, Hanyu, and Lan Ruyu killed the two wounded Yak Clan chiefs after Yating's Starfall Spell struck them.
• Yang Tian revealed that the Three-Legged Crow could evolve into a divine beast, then beat it into forming a contract with Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Tian Qing introduced himself as commander of King-Rank No. 17, and Long Haochen introduced Marshal-level No. 64.
• Tian Qing said his squad had been ambushed by a Demon Extermination Squad in Great Yak City and that roughly a hundred such demon groups had appeared in the past year or two.
• Lin Xin, Haoyue, Bai Xiaoxiao, and the others began cleaning up, while Bai Xiaoxiao collected the Yak Clan chiefs' magic crystals.

Yang Tian, Long Haochen, and Tian Qing prepared an ambush against a Demon Extermination Squad, with Bai Xiaoxiao helping plan the attack. The ambush began against a Star Squad, but as Yang Tian killed its Bear Demon, the battle in the sky was going badly.

• Tian Qing proposed ambushing the Demon Extermination Squads expected to investigate the deaths of the Yak Clan chiefs, and Yang Tian agreed while assigning squad affairs to Bai Xiaoxiao.
• Yang Tian revealed that eliminating a Demon Extermination Squad carried a reward of five hundred thousand Merit Points, and Tian Qing, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Long Haochen planned the ambush.
• After two days of preparation, the three Demon Hunt Squads targeted a Star Squad led by an Eighth Order female Star Demon, intending to draw its members into an aerial fight and leave the Bear Demon for Yang Tian.
• Cai'er struck the Star Demon, who survived and pursued the fleeing Assassin with the other demons, while the Bear Demon fell behind.
• Yang Tian ambushed the isolated Bear Demon with a Black Sword and shattered his heart, but the demon managed a final roar to send a warning as the aerial battle turned against the humans.

Yang Tian’s allied Demon Hunt Squads captured an eighth-order Star Demon alive after wiping out a Star Squad, then divided the spoils. The group decided to risk attacking more demon squads, with Yang Tian saying Cai’er could awaken when they fought.

• Yang Tian and the allied squads wiped out a Star Squad Demon Extermination Squad and captured its eighth-order Star Demon alive.
• Yang Tian used a Star Demon duke’s token and a private message to make the captive believe he was a hidden Star Demon agent.
• Long Haochen, Tian Qing, and Bai Xiaoxiao agreed to divide the demon bodies and Bear Demon fairly, while Yang Tian kept the captive Star Demon.
• Tian Qing proposed ambushing more demon squads, and Long Haochen and Bai Xiaoxiao warned that the group should limit its attacks and avoid being surrounded.
• Yang Tian agreed they could continue fighting and said Cai’er would be able to awaken when the time came.

Yang Tian learned that Wasu had disappeared after other successors plotted against her, then killed the Star Demon Race woman who told him. Back at headquarters, he prepared his companions to ambush a Demon Extermination Squad as its leader set out to lure them into the open.

• Yang Tian questioned a Star Demon Race woman in Great Yak City and learned that Wasu had vanished three and a half years earlier after the other successors pushed her out, though she had already reached the ninth tier.
• Yang Tian killed the woman to conceal that he was human, then wondered where Wasu had gone and decided they would meet again someday.
• Yang Tian returned to headquarters, warned Bai Xiaoxiao that the demon from Dream Paradise might have grown stronger, and told her to face the coming battle with her companions.
• Tian Qing, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Long Haochen waited for the demons to lower their guard while a Dragon Group Demon Extermination Squad leader planned to lure Yang Tian out and avenge his broken horn.

Bai Xiaoxiao and Tian Qing’s teams fought Demon Extermination Squads in Great Yak City, where A Bao confronted Tian Qing to force Yang Tian out of hiding. Yang Tian appeared, healed Tian Qing’s team, and faced A Bao while the other Demon Hunt Squads continued fighting.

• Tian Qing and Bai Xiaoxiao split their teams to attack two Demon Extermination Squads, but A Bao overwhelmed Tian Qing with his ninth-tier strength.
• Lan Ruyu identified A Bao and reported that Long Haochen’s team was also under attack, so Bai Xiaoxiao sent the Three-Legged Crow to help Tian Qing.
• A Bao battered Tian Qing’s Mithril Base Battle Armor and threatened the trapped Demon Hunt Squads to draw Yang Tian out.
• Yang Tian appeared with Jiaoxin and Yating, taunted A Bao about his broken horn, and challenged him while Yue Ye watched.
• Yang Tian used Holy Healing Art to restore Tian Qing and the others, then told Tian Qing to handle the other demons while he fought A Bao.

Yang Tian fought A Bao, the Ninth Tier heir of the Demon God Emperor, and captured him with the Three Thousand Star Armor. Yue Ye was left panicked as Yang Tian turned his attention toward her.

• Yang Tian assigned Yating to protect Long Haochen's squad and sent Jiaoxin to assist Bai Xiaoxiao's team.
• Yang Tian and A Bao clashed in the air, trading attacks as A Bao used his Heavenly Demon Art.
• Yang Tian restrained A Bao with Myriad Thoughts Entanglement and the Star Confinement Formation.
• The Star Emperor sealed A Bao's spiritual power and trapped him inside the Three Thousand Star Armor.
• Yang Tian looked toward Yue Ye, who feared he might kill her next.