Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian accepted Ye Hua as his master at the Haoyue Branch Hall and underwent an initial strength assessment. Ye Hua arranged his Sacred Awakening for two days later and promised to train him even if his innate internal spiritual power was low.

• Nalan Shu introduced Ye Hua as a potential master, and Yang Tian respectfully accepted him.
• Ye Hua told Yang Tian to train with the Squires and scheduled his Sacred Awakening for two days later.
• Ye Hua gave Yang Tian a Knight-grade heavy sword and watched him strike the Test Pillar for a score of 183.
• Ye Hua sent Yang Tian away and told Nalan Shu he would teach the boy wholeheartedly, regardless of his innate internal spiritual power.

Yang Tian met his new roommate, a beautiful boy who had rummaged through his belongings, and suspected the roommate was actually a girl. The roommate emerged from the bathroom, leaving Yang Tian stunned.

• Yang Tian returned to the dormitory and caught his new roommate searching through his bags.
• Yang Tian scolded the roommate for rummaging through his belongings, and the two traded barbed remarks.
• Yang Tian unpacked his two Iron Swords and meditated while his roommate watched him.
• After noticing the roommate’s persistent fragrance, Yang Tian concluded that the roommate was a girl.
• Yang Tian heard the roommate complain about uncomfortable bindings and wanting to become a Knight, then froze when the roommate emerged from the bathroom.

Yang Tian settled into the Haoyue Branch Hall, learned that his roommate Li Xin was the future Hell Rose, and chose the Guardian Knight path. After a morning run and breakfast with Ye Hua, he prepared to discuss training before awakening his Internal Spiritual Power.

• Yang Tian spoke with Li Xin, learned his name, and predicted they would soon move to separate dormitories when Yang Tian awakened his Internal Spiritual Power.
• Yang Tian chose to become a Guardian Knight so he could protect the people he cared about.
• Yang Tian woke early, ran laps around the Knight Plaza, and told Ye Hua he felt he had nothing to do.
• Ye Hua took Yang Tian to breakfast and encouraged him to eat a beast egg, which Yang Tian accepted while voicing concern about harming an unformed life.
• Ye Hua asked Yang Tian about his previous training and began explaining the preparations needed before his awakening.

Ye Hua prepared Yang Tian for awakening by having him endure a painful medicinal bath that cleansed his meridians and marrow. The treatment succeeded, and Ye Hua expected Yang Tian’s innate internal spiritual power to reach at least thirty points, though Nalan Shu questioned its high cost.

• Ye Hua explained his experimental body-tempering method and warned Yang Tian about the pain before Yang Tian agreed to endure it.
• Yang Tian entered the medicinal tub and withstood the intense cold and biting pain as Ye Hua watched over him.
• Yang Tian absorbed the medicinal liquid, which turned black as it drew impurities from his body, and Ye Hua declared the first treatment successful.
• Ye Hua estimated that Yang Tian’s innate internal spiritual power would be at least thirty points and hoped he could contend for a Divine Throne position.
• Nalan Shu warned Ye Hua that the treatment was too expensive for poor families, and Ye Hua said he would try replacing some ingredients with cheaper herbs before the next session.

After his first marrow cleansing and another medicinal bath, Yang Tian prepared to awaken his innate internal spiritual power at the Haoyue Branch Hall. He chose to pursue the Guardian Knight path as a Retribution Knight, and Ye Hua and Nalan Shu began preparing the Awakening Stone.

• Yang Tian returned to the dormitory after Ye Hua’s marrow cleansing and fell asleep while Li Xin wondered where he had been.
• Yang Tian trained the next morning, then underwent a second medicinal bath before Ye Hua brought him to the third floor of the Haoyue Branch Hall.
• Nalan Shu explained that the third floor gathered pure Light Element for the awakening of promising squires.
• Yang Tian told Ye Hua that he wanted to become a Guardian Knight and choose Retribution, and Ye Hua agreed to teach him.
• After meditating in the Light Element, Yang Tian prepared to awaken his internal spiritual power as Ye Hua and Nalan Shu set out to channel the Sun Fire into the Awakening Stone.

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.