Recaps

Chen Nian used a silver-needle bullet to kill a vampire viscount and helped the hunters save a village. He decided to join the Vampire Hunter Association in Sunlight City, while wondering whether undergoing the Embrace would help him adapt to the world.

• Chen Nian fired the Holy Silver Gun replica, whose nanoscale silver needles killed the vampire viscount.
• The hunters killed the remaining vampires and spared the baron, while Jiating warned them not to try to seize Chen Nian’s weapon.
• Chen Nian received the villagers’ thanks, and Bai Lin invited him to join the Vampire Hunter Association in Sunlight City.
• Bai Lin explained that the Embrace transformed humans into vampires, prompting Chen Nian to wonder if he needed one to fully adapt to the world.
• Nanako recorded Chen Nian’s actions and his conversation with Bai Lin.

Chen Nian entered Sunlight City, where a blood test revealed that he had the rare type V blood prized by the blood race. After passing every hunter assessment, he joined the Vampire Hunter Association as an intermediate hunter, then nearly got lured into a female hunter’s room before Bai Lin rescued him.

• Chen Nian passed Sunlight City’s strict blood test and learned that type V blood made him especially appealing to the blood race.
• Bai Lin and the hunters took Chen Nian to the Vampire Hunter Association, where Jiating reported their mission and introduced Chen Nian as the one who killed the viscount.
• The association president tested Chen Nian, and Chen Nian met the standards in strength, speed, close combat, and magical attack ability.
• The president issued Chen Nian an intermediate hunter badge, and the hunters eagerly celebrated and flirted with him.
• After drinking that night, Chen Nian nearly went to a female hunter’s room, but Bai Lin rescued him.

Chen Nian joined a hunter team sent to kill vampire count Eric, but the hunters walked into a trap set by two counts. Chen Nian killed Eric with his Dragon Slayer Saber and silver bullet, then asked where the other count was.

• The association sent one senior hunter and five intermediate hunters, including Jiating and Chen Nian, to attack Eric's residence.
• Chen Nian used Heavenly Eye to detect traces of vampiric power in the spy but kept his suspicions to himself.
• At the residence, Eric and Evan revealed that they had lured the hunters there and sealed the valley with a blood-colored barrier.
• The hunters attacked the residence, but Eric and Evan emerged from the ruins and announced that they were both vampire counts.
• Chen Nian pierced Eric with the Dragon Slayer Saber, shot him with an alchemical silver bullet, and destroyed his head with Flame Explosion.
• Chen Nian returned to the hunters and asked where the other count was.

Chen Nian helped the hunters defeat two vampire counts, earning an exceptional promotion to senior hunter. After his victory banquet, he received a royal summons and entered Sunlight City’s palace to meet the king.

• Chen Nian erased the remaining count’s Blood Burst with Judgment, then wounded him with his last bullet so the senior hunter could finish him.
• The hunters returned with samples from both counts, and the senior hunter credited Chen Nian with the greatest contribution and nominated him for promotion.
• After the samples were confirmed, the association president exempted Chen Nian from the assessment and promoted him directly to senior hunter.
• The association held a victory banquet, and the next day Chen Nian received a royal summons that could lead to a title.
• Chen Nian followed a palace envoy into the royal palace, where the king granted him an audience.

Chen Nian was knighted and rewarded after the first princess intervened at court, where he used Heavenly Eye and saw red mist obscuring her. Back at his residence, he refused a noble’s maid’s demand that he serve her master, then provoked her with a crude condition.

• Chen Nian entered the palace and refused to kneel before the king, but the first princess calmed the court and had the guards stand down.
• Chen Nian saw red mist around the first princess with Heavenly Eye, then accepted a thousand gold coins and knighthood without kneeling.
• Chen Nian returned to the Hunter Association, where its members celebrated his new title.
• That night, Chen Nian invited the unseen Nanako inside to rest, but she stayed outside and did not answer.
• A maid demanded Chen Nian serve her high-ranking noble master and threatened to block him from Sunlight City if he refused.
• Chen Nian said he would consider serving the noble if the maid slept with him, and she flew into a rage.

Chen Nian accepted the eldest princess’s late-night invitation and discovered she was a powerful member of the blood race who wanted his type V blood. The chapter ended with her binding him in blood chains after he refused to let her bite him.

• A nobleman’s attendant threatened Chen Nian, but the eldest princess’s attendant arrived and summoned him instead.
• Chen Nian entered the eldest princess’s bedchamber, where she openly said she had taken a fancy to him.
• Chen Nian suspected the eldest princess was a vampire and considered letting her give him the Embrace to break the world’s limits on his strength.
• The eldest princess kissed Chen Nian and tried to bite him, but he refused to part his teeth.
• The eldest princess revealed she belonged to the blood race and used Blood Magic, Blood Binding to restrain Chen Nian.

Chen Nian discovered that the first princess was a duke-class vampire who planned to make him her blood servant, but the second princess arrived and helped him leave. The second princess revealed the first princess intended to evolve to prince-class by consuming Chen Nian’s type V blood, then questioned why he had not reacted with fear or anger.

• The first princess threatened to drink Chen Nian’s blood and make him her personal blood servant, but the second princess knocked on her door.
• Chen Nian came out of the first princess’s room, pledged not to reveal her identity, and left with the second princess.
• The second princess told Chen Nian that the first princess was a vampire and that the Hunter Association could not challenge her influence in Sunlight City.
• The second princess explained that the first princess needed Chen Nian’s type V blood to evolve to prince-class, a transformation that would make her nearly impossible to oppose.
• Chen Nian offered the second princess his blood as a test, then withdrew it after she reacted with disgust.
• The second princess asked why Chen Nian had stayed calm after discovering the first princess was a vampire, and Chen Nian said the first princess was alive only because he did not want to kill her yet.

Chen Nian formed a fragile alliance with the second princess to use the eldest princess, who soon lured him to a forest and began turning him into her blood servant. The chapter ended with Chen Nian calling for the second princess to intervene.

• Chen Nian and the second princess agreed to work together, planning to let the eldest princess pursue him before subduing her.
• The second princess said the eldest princess would seek Chen Nian again to obtain his Type V Blood and advance to prince-level strength.
• Nanako recorded that Chen Nian had spent two hours in the royal palace and smelled strongly of women's perfume.
• The eldest princess ordered Chen Nian to eliminate a vampire outside Sunlight City, and he accepted the commission and rode to the forest alone.
• The eldest princess appeared from a swarm of blood bats, seized Chen Nian, and began converting him into her blood servant.
• Chen Nian shouted for the second princess to act before the conversion could finish.

Chen Nian and the second princess defeated the eldest princess, and the second princess placed a Blood Curse Mark on her to make her obey while keeping her alive. The second princess revealed that Gudela had killed her as an infant and said her goal was to kill him.

• The second princess removed her ribbon and transformed into a mature vampire, suppressing the eldest princess's power to the level of a marquis.
• Chen Nian fought the eldest princess, countering her blood magic and binding her with Wind Spirit Bind.
• The second princess planted a Blood Curse Mark in the eldest princess and then returned to her childlike form.
• The second princess revealed that Gudela had drained her infant sister's rare type V blood and that the eldest princess had received Gudela's Embrace.
• The second princess told the eldest princess that she intended to kill Gudela.

Chen Nian exchanged blood with the first princess and discovered that drinking vampire blood unlocked more of his power without turning him into a vampire. The chapter ended with the duke Mogu attacking the first princess and preparing to blame her death on Chen Nian and the second princess.

• The first princess drank Chen Nian’s blood and then fed him hers as part of the Embrace.
• Chen Nian’s power rose from thirty percent to at least fifty percent after the blood exchange, but drinking more of the first princess’s blood unlocked nothing further.
• The first princess and the second princess were astonished that Chen Nian remained human and showed no harmful effects from drinking vampire blood.
• Mogu descended and stabbed the first princess through the abdomen, then claimed he would kill Chen Nian and the second princess to avenge her.
• The second princess urged Chen Nian to escape because she had exhausted her power and could not help him fight Mogu.

Chen Nian used the God Descent Technique and powerful Word Spirits to defeat the duke-level vampire Mogu and destroy his swarm of bats. The second princess began considering Chen Nian an important part of her plans, while Nanako recorded her own speculation about his ties to the princesses.

• Chen Nian carried the gravely wounded eldest princess away from Mogu and refused Mogu's offer to become his blood servant.
• Mogu trapped Chen Nian in a blood-colored hand, but Chen Nian broke free with the God Descent Technique and golden armor.
• Chen Nian withstood Mogu's Blood Magic and struck him apart, but Mogu re-formed from bats and tried to escape.
• Chen Nian used Sovereign to weigh down the bats, then used Zhurong to burn them to ash and kill Mogu.
• The eldest princess was astonished that Chen Nian had killed Mogu, while the second princess considered recruiting him for her plan.
• Nanako took notes and speculated that Chen Nian's blood exchange and relationships with the princesses were part of his mission.

Chen Nian and Ye Li agreed to work together against the First Prince, Gudela, after Chen Nian revealed that he came from another world. The eldest princess became tied to Chen Nian by a blood contract, and he ended up spending the night in her bedchamber.

• Chen Nian returned to the palace, where Ye Li made the eldest princess leave before drawing curse markings with Chen Nian's blood and forcing her to swallow them, binding her life to his.
• Ye Li told Chen Nian that she wanted to kill all twelve vampire princes, especially Gudela, and Chen Nian revealed he was an outsider seeking another being from a different world.
• Ye Li explained that Gudela had received power from an outsider, and she and Chen Nian agreed to target him, using the eldest princess to approach a prince-level vampire.
• After Ye Li left, the eldest princess persuaded Chen Nian to let her drink his blood, then clung to him and demanded more until he stayed the night in her bedchamber.

Chen Nian followed the eldest princess’s lead and infiltrated a church that recruited humans hoping to become vampires. After posing as a vampire hunter seeking power, he was selected with six others and sent toward the Twelfth Prince, leaving his fate in the prince’s hands.

• The eldest princess told Chen Nian that humans seeking a vampire’s Embrace could approach the Twelfth Prince through the Holy Fire Church, whose priest was a disguised duke-rank vampire.
• Chen Nian waited at the church until night, when the priest gathered the applicants and heard their stories of suffering under Sunlight City’s nobles.
• Chen Nian claimed to be a vampire hunter whose sisters had been killed by vampires, and said he wanted power to oppose the world’s injustice.
• The priest screened the applicants, revealed his vampiric identity, and offered the seven remaining people a chance to become vampires; all seven accepted.
• The priest blindfolded the group and sent them by carriage to his lord, telling the driver that the Twelfth Prince could decide whether to eat Chen Nian or recruit him.

Chen Nian and his companions were taken to the Twelfth Prince Gelan’s castle, where they were imprisoned while hoping to become vampires. Gelan singled Chen Nian out at a blood feast and set him against a hostile count, leaving Chen Nian facing a fight to the death for a chance at the prince’s Embrace.

• Chen Nian learned that the vampire princes were third-generation vampires and supposedly the strongest after the second generation vanished.
• Chen Nian and the others arrived at Gelan’s castle and were locked in a cell after being told that only a vampire lord could grant them the Embrace.
• Gelan learned that Chen Nian was a vampire hunter and decided to test his resolve at the next day’s blood feast.
• Gelan presented Chen Nian to the assembled vampires, who demanded his death when they learned he was a hunter.
• Gelan summoned a count to fight Chen Nian, promising that the winner would be promoted and that Gelan would personally accept him.

Chen Nian killed a count at Prince Gelan’s blood banquet, then faced a test that demanded he kill and drink blood from the humans who had followed him. As Gelan pressed him to choose, Chen Nian summoned the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast.

• Aojia returned to Sunlight City and set out with twenty hunters to destroy Gelan’s castle.
• Bai Lin tried to recommend Chen Nian for Aojia’s expedition but could not find him at his lodgings.
• Chen Nian defeated a count with his Heavenly Eye, then tore out and exploded the vampire’s heart.
• Prince Gelan silenced the outraged vampires and offered Chen Nian the Embrace if he passed one more test.
• Gelan ordered Chen Nian to slit the throats of the humans who had accompanied him and drink their blood.
• Chen Nian summoned the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast rather than carry out Gelan’s order.

Chen Nian used Death God to slaughter the vampires surrounding him, but Prince Gelan overwhelmed him with his Blood Domain and drained nearly all his blood. As Gelan ordered the fallen Chen Nian thrown to the dogs, Chen Nian suddenly opened his eyes with a sinister red gleam.

• The Chaos Light-Devouring Beast banished the other humans, leaving Chen Nian alone with Prince Gelan and the vampires.
• Chen Nian unleashed Death God, killing many vampires in the darkness while Gelan sealed the castle to prevent his escape.
• Chen Nian taunted Gelan with glasses filled with vampire blood, prompting the furious prince to attack with Red Thread Death Domain.
• Chen Nian used Judgment and Divine Crystal Shield to resist Gelan, but the prince pierced his chest and drained his Type V Blood.
• Gelan ordered the dukes to throw Chen Nian to the stray dogs, but Chen Nian opened his eyes with a sinister red gleam.

Chen Nian used the Blood of Immortality to turn Prince Gelan’s attempt to drink his blood against him, then defeated him and took the sacred artifact Blood Rose. After the vampire hunters arrived at the ruined Castle, Aojia confronted Chen Nian over the prince’s death and the blood he had drunk.

• Chen Nian killed the vampire duke and drank Prince Gelan’s blood, releasing seventy percent of his power.
• Gelan activated the sacred artifact Blood Rose and struck Chen Nian, but Chen Nian survived and cut Gelan apart with Demon Blade Murasame’s Red Moon technique.
• Gelan used his one-time Resurrection and escaped to revive in a vampire coffin, leaving Blood Rose behind for Chen Nian.
• Chen Nian collapsed from exhaustion as Aojia and his hunters arrived at the destroyed Castle and found the dead vampires.
• Aojia recognized the slain prince’s blood on Chen Nian and demanded to know who he was and why he had drunk vampire blood.

After defeating a vampire prince, Chen Nian refused Aojia’s demand to test his blood, fearing it would expose the eldest princess. When Aojia turned to execute the rescued commoners, Chen Nian blocked his saber and challenged him.

• The Chaos Light-Devouring Beast released the rescued Sunlight City commoners, who told the hunters that Chen Nian had saved them and defeated the vampire prince.
• After his blood recovered, Chen Nian refused to let Aojia draw a sample, worried that its vampiric traits could expose the eldest princess.
• Chen Nian stood unharmed in the morning sunlight, easing the hunters’ concerns that he had become a vampire.
• Aojia condemned the commoners for seeking refuge with vampires and moved to kill them.
• Chen Nian blocked Aojia’s saber and defended the commoners, prompting Aojia to challenge him to prove his strength.

The first princess rescued Chen Nian from a confrontation with Aojia, but Aojia remained suspicious of her. Later, Ye Li revealed that she was the last surviving second-generation vampire after Chen Nian asked about vampires stronger than princes.

• The first princess arrived before Chen Nian and Aojia could fight, claimed Chen Nian was on a secret mission, and escorted him and the commoners back to Sunlight City.
• Aojia watched the first princess leave and privately suspected she was not as simple as she seemed.
• The first princess asked Chen Nian for a sip of his blood, but he warned her that Aojia might investigate her and then went to find the second princess.
• Nanako recorded Chen Nian's victory at the vampire prince's castle and noted the ambiguous exchange between him and the first princess.
• Chen Nian asked Ye Li about vampires stronger than princes and questioned the source of her power.
• Ye Li told Chen Nian that she was the last surviving second-generation vampire in the world.

Ye Li revealed that she was the last surviving second-generation vampire and asked Chen Nian to help her reclaim four sacred artifacts so she could recover her power and avenge the others. As Chen Nian and Ye Li planned their next move, Aojia arranged a special-grade hunter assessment that could expose the eldest princess to the strongest sunlight.

• Ye Li told Chen Nian that the second-generation vampires had been poisoned and slaughtered at a blood banquet, and that she survived through her resurrection magic.
• Ye Li explained that the twelve sacred artifacts were made from second-generation vampires' flesh and blood, and that she needed four to regain her strength; Chen Nian gave her the Blood Rose and agreed to help seize three more.
• Ye Li and Chen Nian decided to use the eldest princess as a mole to find the princes, while the revived Gelan sent the princes a warning about a powerful human hunter and concealed that Chen Nian had killed him.
• The Hunter Association praised Chen Nian after news spread that he had slain a prince, and Aojia recommended him for special-grade hunter status with an assessment scheduled for noon the next day.
• Chen Nian realized Aojia planned to use the assessment to investigate the eldest princess by bringing her out under the strongest sunlight.

Chen Nian invited the cleric to witness his special-grade hunter trial, then arranged a scheme involving the eldest princess and the hunters. During the trial, Aojia revealed he suspected the princess was a vampire and aimed an attack at her instead of Chen Nian.

• Chen Nian threatened to expose the cleric's dealings with vampires and invited him to the trial on behalf of the eldest princess.
• The eldest princess and the cleric attended Chen Nian's trial in cloaks, while Chen Nian planned to keep the princess safe from Aojia.
• The Hunter Association president told several hunters that the cleric was a vampire and that they should kill him once he was exposed to sunlight.
• Aojia told Chen Nian that he suspected the eldest princess was a vampire and began the trial by attacking with his phantoms.
• Aojia sent a wide blade ray past Chen Nian, intending to cut the eldest princess's cloak and expose her to sunlight.

Chen Nian protected the eldest princess during his special-grade hunter trial, then exposed the cleric as a vampire. The trial ended with Chen Nian passing and the hunters believing the eldest princess had uncovered the cleric’s identity.

• Chen Nian used his Heavenly Eye and Judgment Domain to block Aojia’s attacks from reaching the eldest princess.
• Aojia broke through the Domain and attacked Chen Nian with seven phantoms, but Chen Nian defeated them with Dragons Battle in the Wild.
• Chen Nian cast Death God, plunging the area into darkness and stopping Aojia from attacking during the trial’s final moments.
• During the darkness, Chen Nian removed the cleric’s cloak and gave it to the eldest princess, exposing the cleric to sunlight.
• The hunters recognized the cleric as a vampire and killed him, while Chen Nian passed the trial and the eldest princess received credit for uncovering the truth.

After Chen Nian’s trial, he used his new status and Ailina’s help to set out with both princesses for the Tenth Prince’s castle, hoping to obtain another sacred artifact. During their first night on the road, Ailina fed on Chen Nian, and he offered Ye Li a sip as well.

• Chen Nian passed the hunter trial, and Aojia warned him not to threaten Sunlight City’s interests before he left with Ailina.
• In the carriage, Ailina asked whether Chen Nian would kill her if they became enemies, then revealed that her name was Ailina and that Gudela had turned her into a vampire and killed her younger sister.
• Chen Nian, Ailina, and Ye Li set out to find the Tenth Prince and take his sacred artifact before the princes’ blood banquet.
• After stopping for the night, Chen Nian let Ailina feed on his neck and offered Ye Li a sip too.

Chen Nian infiltrated the Tenth Prince’s castle and killed Dark Wing using a Holy Silver Gun and Ye Li’s sacred ring. He claimed the prince’s sacred artifact and left the viscount terrified.

• Chen Nian rescued a vampire fleeing a hunter, then learned the man served the Tenth Prince and ordered him to lead the way.
• Chen Nian reached the Tenth Prince’s castle while Ye Li and the eldest princess stayed behind, and he entered alone.
• Chen Nian used his Type V Blood to persuade the viscount to take him before Dark Wing as a gift.
• Dark Wing summoned Chen Nian, but Chen Nian shot him with the Holy Silver Gun and wounded him severely.
• Chen Nian used Ye Li’s ring to shatter Dark Wing’s blood barrier, then killed him with the Dragon Slayer Saber and took his sacred artifact.

Chen Nian and Ye Li destroyed another vampire castle and secured a sacred artifact, then killed the Ninth Prince and learned the resurrected princes had begun discussing how to stop them. With one artifact still needed, Chen Nian chose to target the Eighth Prince before the princes gathered for their blood banquet.

• Chen Nian threatened the castle’s lackey into freeing its human prisoners while Ye Li revealed her second-generation vampire power, forcing the vampires to kneel.
• After the humans escaped, Chen Nian used the Tiankong Divine Cannon to destroy the castle and its vampires, then gave Ye Li the second sacred artifact.
• Seven days later, Chen Nian killed the Ninth Prince and took another sacred artifact; the resurrected Ninth, Tenth, and Twelfth Princes discussed how to counter him.
• With one sacred artifact left, Chen Nian rejected the closer Eleventh Prince’s castle as a likely trap and chose the Eighth Prince instead.
• Chen Nian and his companions reached the Eighth Prince’s castle under cover of night, with the princes’ blood banquet only a day away.