Chapter Summaries

Vampires attacked Sunlight City while Chen Nian searched for their mastermind and forced the king to mobilize the city’s defenders. After the king died, Chen Nian used a blood exchange to turn the eldest princess back into a human so she could activate the Corona Divine Stone, while Cain raised the dead into an army outside the city.

• Vampires attacked Sunlight City, and Chen Nian flew past the fighting to search for the mastermind with Ye Li and the eldest princess.
• Chen Nian found the king unconscious, woke him by stabbing his hand, and killed him after the king refused to send the palace and noble guards to fight.
• Chen Nian ordered the city’s defensive forces outside, then used a blood exchange and Phoenix Divine Fire to restore the eldest princess to humanity.
• The eldest princess headed for the underground treasury to activate the Corona Divine Stone, while Ye Li went to confront the powerful figure who appeared in the city.
• Cain revealed his Undead Regeneration ability and raised fallen humans and vampires as emotionless combat puppets.

Cain possessed the progenitor Cain and led an undead assault on Sunlight City, but the eldest princess activated the Corona Divine Stone and protected the city. Chen Nian arrived to rescue Ye Li and fought Cain, whose Dark Night Demon Shield threatened to reflect their battle’s energy into the city.

• Cain’s undead horde overwhelmed Sunlight City’s defenders, while Aojia failed to stop Cain and the city gates fell.
• Ye Li arrived, destroyed the monsters entering the city, and fought Cain after recognizing the body he possessed as the progenitor Cain.
• The eldest princess activated the Corona Divine Stone, whose light formed a barrier around Sunlight City and destroyed the invading vampires and monsters.
• Cain defeated Ye Li and began cursing her into submission, but Chen Nian arrived, cut her free, and used the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire to purge the curse.
• Chen Nian fought Cain, killed ten summoned Demon Gods with his Death God Domain, and discovered Cain’s Dark Night Demon Shield absorbed and reflected attacks.
• Cain prepared to reflect the shield’s accumulated energy toward Sunlight City, threatening to destroy it.

Chen Nian saved Sunlight City from Cain’s attack, then used Murasame to overload and shatter Cain’s Dark Night Demon Shield. After surviving the explosion through the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast, Chen Nian was badly wounded and nearly out of power, but he summoned five of the Ten Beasts of All Creation to begin another fight with Cain.

• Chen Nian blocked the energy wave aimed at Sunlight City, destroying his God Descent Technique before the blood of immortality healed him and increased his power.
• Chen Nian drew Murasame and repeatedly struck Cain’s Dark Night Demon Shield until it cracked, then immobilized Cain and drove him underground with a powerful attack.
• The Dark Night Demon Shield exploded, severely injuring Cain, while the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast protected Chen Nian from the blast.
• Cain recovered enough to pierce Chen Nian’s chest with a blood-forged sword and demanded that he surrender, but Chen Nian used Mandate of Heaven to restore his strength.
• Chen Nian summoned the Void-Escaping Spirit Snake, Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf, Primordial Divine Ape, Undead Bone Dragon, and Shadow Kshana Demon Lion, preparing to fight Cain again.

Chen Nian fought Cain while protecting Sunlight City, and Mandate of Heaven restored him after Cain nearly killed him. The people of Sunlight City sent Aojia with the Corona Divine Stone to help Chen Nian, but Cain intercepted him and fatally struck him before he could deliver it.

• Chen Nian used his Beasts of All Creation and Judgment Domain to shield Sunlight City from Cain’s rock attacks, then wounded Cain with Dragons Battle in the Wild at the cost of severe injuries.
• Ye Li caught Chen Nian, but Mandate of Heaven’s Sun healed him and let him resume fighting Cain.
• Bai Lin persuaded the people of Sunlight City to risk their protective Corona Divine Stone to help Chen Nian, and Aojia volunteered to carry it.
• Cain noticed Aojia approaching with the Corona Divine Stone and charged at him while Chen Nian was protected by Mandate of Heaven.
• Aojia used Phantom Manipulation to create seven copies, but Cain’s Earth Dragon Demon Snake pierced all of them, killing Aojia before the stone reached Chen Nian.

Aojia died delivering the Corona Divine Stone, and Nanako risked her life to carry it to Chen Nian. Chen Nian used its power to save her, then defeated Cain with Heavenly Brilliance as the sun rose, leaving the battle’s outcome settled.

• Cain’s black serpent killed Aojia and tried to destroy the Corona Divine Stone, but Nanako took it and ran toward Chen Nian.
• Cain’s attack poisoned and gravely wounded Nanako, but she threw the Divine Stone to Chen Nian before collapsing.
• Chen Nian fed the Corona Divine Stone to Nanako, healing her and giving her enough power to shield them from Cain’s serpents.
• Nanako held back the serpents with a golden barrier while Chen Nian invoked Heavenly Brilliance, amplified by the rising sun.
• Chen Nian’s sunlight beam burned Cain’s body and soul away, killing the sixty-first-ranked Origin Demon God.

After defeating Cain and completing his mission in Sunlight City, Chen Nian said farewell to its people and returned to Blue Star with Nanako and Ye Li. The chapter ended with Chen Nian arriving home with Ye Li, while Nanako went back to report to the academy.

• The other demon gods learned that the origin demon god of the sixty-first pillar had died, ending that pillar's inheritance.
• Sunlight City's hunters mourned Aojia, and Chen Nian and Nanako honored his sacrifice after the vampires were defeated.
• Chen Nian established a world anchor point, then left Sunlight City with Nanako after Ailina gave him the Corona Divine Stone and promised to welcome him back.
• Ye Li returned to the vampires' castle, but Chen Nian interrupted her planned long slumber and invited her to visit Blue Star.
• Chen Nian boarded the academy's world-traveling train with Ye Li and Nanako; Nanako later left with Yaxin to report to the academy.
• Chen Nian flew Ye Li to his home on Blue Star and told her, "I'm back."

Ye Li struggled to adjust to Chen Nian’s modern home, then stormed off after thinking he had brought other women there. Chen Nian rescued her from unwanted attention and brought her to a rooftop, where she asked whether he liked her.

• Ye Li explored Chen Nian’s house, struggled to use the shower, and chose a room before learning that other rooms were occupied.
• Chen Nian called Su Jinyu to tell her he was home and that Ye Li would stay with him, and Su Jinyu said she would come over.
• Ye Li misunderstood Chen Nian’s occupied rooms, left in a huff, and turned into bats before the sunlight forced her to return to her young-girl form.
• A photographer harassed Ye Li on the street, so she released darkness that destroyed nearby phones and his camera and frightened him into wetting himself.
• Chen Nian found Ye Li on a rooftop, apologized, and explained their special connection before Ye Li asked whether he liked her.

Ye Li admitted that she liked Chen Nian, and the two reconciled after she drank his blood during a date in the sky. Chen Nian then reunited with Su Jinyu at the airport, but their dinner took an awkward turn when she noticed the bite mark Ye Li had left on his neck.

• Ye Li confessed that she was fond of Chen Nian, and he admitted he felt the same and apologized for upsetting her.
• Ye Li jumped from the rooftop, so Chen Nian caught her and carried her into the sky, where she bit his neck and drank his blood.
• Chen Nian coaxed Ye Li home, then hurried to the airport to pick up Su Jinyu.
• Su Jinyu greeted Chen Nian affectionately, and the two teased each other as they went to a restaurant.
• Su Jinyu spotted the bloody mark on Chen Nian's neck, and Chen Nian realized Ye Li had kept her bite from healing.

Chen Nian's successful mission report revealed his carefree exploits and the shocking fact that he had defeated an Origin Demon God while only Tier Five. The academy prepared to publish the report, while Chen Nian remained away on vacation with the vampire queen.

• Su Jinyu discovered Chen Nian's bite mark, and he claimed Ye Li was a vampire before Su Jinyu covered him in bite marks at a hotel.
• Nanako returned to the academy without Chen Nian, and students speculated about what had happened to him as An Qingluo grew distracted by the rumors.
• Nanako told the headmaster and Director Ma that the mission had succeeded and that Chen Nian had gone home on vacation.
• The headmaster and Director Ma read Nanako's report, which described Chen Nian's flirtations and his victory over the sixty-first Origin Demon God while he was only Tier Five.
• Nanako revealed that Chen Nian had taken the vampire queen back with him, and the headmaster ordered the academy to publish the report as usual.

Chen Nian returned to Linhai City, where his mission report shocked the academy with its account of him kissing a woman and defeating an Origin Demon God. After visiting Su Jinyu and reconnecting with Tang Rou, he offered to help her enter World Tree Academy, leaving Tang Rou’s mother pleased to see him bring her daughter home.

• An Qingluo read Chen Nian’s report, learned he had defeated an Origin Demon God, and threatened a student who called him a womanizing scumbag.
• Su Jinyu bought a house in Linhai City, and Chen Nian began visiting his acquaintances during his month-long stay.
• Tang Rou’s mother scolded her for lounging at home until Chen Nian called and invited her to barbecue.
• Chen Nian and Tang Rou caught up over dinner, and Tang Rou became upset when he said he had limited time before visiting other women.
• Chen Nian offered to try to get Tang Rou into World Tree Academy, and she resumed eating after he explained she would need his help.
• Chen Nian walked Tang Rou home, where her mother greeted him warmly and teased Tang Rou after he left.

Chen Nian shared an intimate late-night meal with Ye Li before traveling to see Zhao Yixue, only to discover that Zhao Kong had arranged a wedding for her. He was left dumbfounded as the ceremony approached and Zhao Kong recruited him to serve as best man.

• Chen Nian removed onions from a pizza for Ye Li, offered her his blood, and kissed her before she took the lead on the sofa.
• Chen Nian set out to visit Zhao Yixue, while Zhao Kong learned that Zhao Yixue intended to marry only Buyu and hurriedly booked a wedding banquet.
• Zhao Kong arranged for a Ferrari to collect Chen Nian and told him Zhao Yixue was marrying Transcendent Zhuang Feng that night.
• Chen Nian saw Zhao Yixue dressed as a bride and watched Zhuang Feng enter her preparation room, struggling to accept that she was getting married.
• After the best man was taken ill, Zhao Kong had Chen Nian change into a best man's suit as the wedding was about to begin.

Chen Nian learned that Zhao Kong had staged the wedding to help Zhao Yixue make him understand what he could lose, then chose to marry Zhao Yixue. The two began their life together in a new home, where Zhao Yixue asked him to call her his wife.

• Chen Nian revealed that he knew Zhao Kong and the wedding guests were part of a staged performance, and Zhao Kong explained that she and Zhao Yixue had planned it to encourage him to cherish their relationship.
• Zhao Kong dismissed the hired guests and told Chen Nian he could leave or meet the bride; Zhao Yixue then entered the empty hall in her wedding dress.
• Chen Nian walked to Zhao Yixue, accepted her apology for deceiving him, and promised to care for her for the rest of his life; Zhao Yixue eagerly agreed to marry him.
• Zhao Kong joined their hands and left them alone, and Chen Nian and Zhao Yixue sealed their secret wedding with a kiss.
• That night, Zhao Yixue took Chen Nian to a new home, asked him to call her “Wifey,” and nestled into his arms.

After a month of visiting his friends, Chen Nian prepared to return to the academy as the World Tree Train approached. In Tsuchimi Village, a mysterious masked woman used the Yin-Yang Boundless Barrier to send Tsuchimikado Rika to a monster-ravaged Linhai City, then vanished as Rika's family discovered she was missing.

• Chen Nian visited Ye Hongling, Gu Qingyue, Shangze Sakura, Qin Yu, and others before the World Tree Train's return drew near.
• Tsuchimikado Rika had dinner with Arina and Yang Wei, and they talked about Chen Nian and her studies of forbidden time- and space-related Onmyōjutsu.
• A masked woman froze Tsuchimi Village with the Yin-Yang Boundless Barrier and told Rika she would have to survive in an unfamiliar place and find her way back.
• The woman transported Rika to a ruined Linhai City overrun by monsters, where Rika destroyed a birdlike monster that attacked her.
• The woman lifted the barrier, flew away in tears, and left Arina and the others searching for the suddenly missing Rika.

Ye Li persuaded Chen Nian to buy her a cosplay outfit and game currency before a masked woman attacked him and challenged him to a fierce battle. After Chen Nian broke through her Zero Barrier, he removed her mask and recognized her as Li Hua.

• Ye Li dressed as Golden Darkness, and Chen Nian gave her money for her game.
• A masked woman attacked Chen Nian at his home, then fled into the wilderness with him in pursuit.
• The woman blocked Chen Nian’s attacks with Zero Barrier and overpowered his God Descent Technique with Heaven-Piercing Finger.
• The woman urged Chen Nian to use his strongest ability, and her Zero Barrier shattered when he activated Cage.
• Chen Nian stopped Cage from killing the woman, removed her mask, and recognized her as Li Hua.

Chen Nian learned that the masked woman was Rika from ten years in the future, who had returned to prevent her younger self from being abducted and to seek death. She had sent Xiao Rika into a parallel future, where the girl discovered the year was 2034.

• Chen Nian stopped future Rika from provoking him into killing her and learned she had come from ten years ahead.
• Future Rika explained that a Heavenly Torrent Rank Calamity Beast would abduct her younger self for the Origin Demon Gods, who wanted her barrier-breaking ability.
• Future Rika revealed that the Demon God Tower had made her an unwilling weapon and prevented her from dying, so she had used forbidden time arts to return to the past.
• Chen Nian learned that the future Rika had sent Xiao Rika to a parallel world ten years ahead.
• Xiao Rika found survivors in a war-torn city, borrowed a phone, and realized it was 2034.

Chen Nian persuaded Rika to return to World Tree Academy with him instead of killing her, then reunited her with Tang Rou. Yaxin allowed both women aboard the World Tree Train after warning that they would undergo strict screening, and the train departed for the academy.

• Rika explained that she had sent her younger self ten years into the future and demanded that Chen Nian kill her, but Chen Nian refused and insisted on taking her back to the academy for help.
• Rika tried to kill herself, but Zero Barrier stopped her, and Chen Nian convinced her to come with him by threatening to tell her sister.
• Chen Nian told Rika that the Chen Nian in her world had died after fighting Calamity alone and killing seven Origin Demon Gods, then said he was going to find Tang Rou.
• Chen Nian reunited Rika and Tang Rou, and Tang Rou warmly welcomed Rika after learning who she was.
• Chen Nian brought Tang Rou and Rika to the World Tree Train, where Yaxin agreed to let them travel to the academy subject to strict screening.
• The train departed for World Tree Academy, and Tang Rou shared crackers with Rika while teasing Chen Nian.

Chen Nian brought Tang Rou and Rika to the academy, where a security scan revealed Rika’s Calamity energy and triggered an attempt to execute her. Headmaster Merlin intervened, and he explained that Tang Rou’s life-related ability might help free Rika from the Demon God power inside her.

• Chen Nian arrived at the academy with Tang Rou and Rika, and inspectors began scanning them for security.
• The scanner detected Calamity energy in Rika, prompting two guardians to attack her.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit-Sovereign to stop the guardians, but Rika knocked him away to keep him from being implicated.
• Headmaster Merlin caught the guardians’ blades, sealed Rika’s power, and let Chen Nian explain how he had brought her to the academy.
• Headmaster Merlin said removing the Demon God power would kill Rika, but Tang Rou’s life-related ability might make an operation possible.

Chen Nian learned that the academy had made his combat record public, then Instructor Liu took him to meet the World Tree’s avatar. The avatar awarded him 20 Performance Points and showed him ways to improve his power, leaving him to consider what to redeem.

• Tang Rou was taken to the medical department to study for three days before her surgery, while the dean told Chen Nian to accept his punishment.
• Chen Nian found students at the academy gates teasing and praising him after Nanako’s detailed combat record went viral on the academy forum.
• Chen Nian confronted Nanako about recording his intimate moments, but two colleagues saw them together and mistook the scene for proof of the rumors.
• The dean sent Instructor Liu to take Chen Nian to the World Tree Courtyard, where the World Tree’s avatar offered him 20 Performance Points.
• Chen Nian reviewed the available rewards, including levels, abilities, weapons, and equipment, and considered how to spend his points.

Chen Nian spent his 20 Performance Points on the Sun and Moon Mystic Weapon and the Word Spirit Intangibility, then left the consciousness space after learning he had earned an unusually large reward. Tang Rou began training in the academy’s medical department, where her attempts to save virus-infected mice all failed.

• Chen Nian exchanged 10 Performance Points for the Sun and Moon Mystic Weapon, raising his ability score from 500 to 820.
• Chen Nian spent his remaining 10 Performance Points on the Word Spirit Intangibility, which made him intangible for one second when activated.
• Chen Nian told Instructor Liu he had received 20 Performance Points, and Liu dismissed him after reacting with surprise.
• Tang Rou entered the medical department and was told by a senior student to learn the basics and pass an assessment within three days.
• Tang Rou tried to use her ability to keep virus-infected mice alive, but thirteen mice died during the day’s experiments.
• Tang Rou insisted on trying again and caught another mouse despite having earlier called the mice pitiful.

Tang Rou passed her medical assessment, allowing Dean Merlin to operate on Rika and extract the Demon God's power. The surgery succeeded, and Rika survived as Tang Rou joined the medical department.

• Chen Nian took Tang Rou to the cafeteria, where they encountered An Qingluo and Sun Qian, and he sent An Qingluo a strawberry mousse cake.
• After three days of training, Tang Rou passed her assessment with a one-hundred-percent success rate and was accepted into the medical department on probation.
• Dean Merlin brought Rika to the medical department, where Chen Nian urged her to live and face her past mistakes before she entered the operating room.
• During the operation, Dean Merlin stripped the black energy from Rika while Tang Rou maintained her vital signs through the ordeal.
• Rika survived the successful surgery, and Tang Rou's senior congratulated her on becoming a colleague.