Chapter Summaries

Huan Du Luolan defeated a Demon King, and Lu Yuan confronted the demon after discovering it was wanted for horrific crimes. After Huan Du Luolan confirmed its guilt, Lu Yuan ordered it taken away, intending to repay its cruelty in kind.

• Huan Du Luolan used her poison to overpower the Demon King, which mocked her as a little girl and then questioned how she had weakened it.
• Lu Yuan examined the Demon King and its wanted poster, offered it a chance to answer the charges, and stopped Yuan Mao and Huan Du Luolan from attacking it.
• When the Demon King insulted Huan Du Luolan and the Yue Ti Clan, Lu Yuan knocked it unconscious with a flick of his finger and threatened it.
• Lu Yuan gave Huan Du Luolan written evidence of the Demon King's crimes, and she asked him to give it a dignified death after confirming its guilt.
• Lu Yuan had Yuan Mao lead Huan Du Luolan away, then told Li Muchen he would make the Demon King suffer as it had made its victims suffer.

After punishing A Zhu, Lu Yuan offered Li Muchen a chance to take a dangerous final step toward sharing his burdens and promised to teach Yue Ti Xia to control her talent. He then rallied his exhausted expedition force and prepared a midnight assault on the Western Regions’ imperial city, leaving A Zhu wary as Lu Yuan summoned Mu Chen and Xiao Xia.

• Lu Yuan turned the defeated Demon King into ashes, and Li Muchen praised him while A Zhu trembled at the punishment.
• Lu Yuan told Li Muchen she still needed one final step in strength and status to qualify to share his burdens, and she considered whether to trust him further.
• Lu Yuan offered to teach Yue Ti Xia to control her conspicuous talent, then reviewed Yuan Mao’s map and ordered the force to seize the Western Regions’ core and capture its Demon Kings.
• Lu Yuan raised the exhausted expedition force’s morale with a speech and asked whether they dared to break the Western Regions with him; the forty-five fighters answered with a unified cry.
• Lu Yuan ordered the force to rest and eat before a midnight assault, then called Mu Chen and Xiao Xia to come with him, alarming A Zhu.

Lu Yuan revealed his Human-Dragon Hybrid identity to Li Muchen and Yue Ti Xia, then asked Li Muchen to become a dragon and take control of the Western Regions as part of his plan. Li Muchen agreed, and the chapter ended as Lu Yuan began the painful transformation, mixing their blood to guide her evolution.

• Lu Yuan explained that Li Muchen would pose as a Demon Race hero, oppose his rule, and become the new Lord of the Western Regions.
• Lu Yuan showed Li Muchen and Yue Ti Xia his dragon-head armguards and Dragon Shadow, then told them he was no longer purely human and warned them to keep his secret.
• Lu Yuan asked Li Muchen to assume a new identity and transform into a dragon, and she agreed to serve him and remain by his side.
• Lu Yuan erected barriers and Earth Walls, then he and Li Muchen cut their wrists so their blood could mix as part of her transformation.
• Li Muchen endured the blood loss, hunger, and flames consuming her legs while Lu Yuan ordered Yue Ti Xia to cover his eyes.

Lu Yuan guided Li Muchen through a dangerous metamorphosis using dragon blood, and she emerged as a Young Dragon and Human-Dragon Hybrid. Afterward, he explained his plans for balancing humans and demons, while Li Muchen began learning to control her new form.

• Lu Yuan checked that Li Muchen remained conscious, then told her to submerge herself in the dragon blood while he controlled the heat and elemental balance inside an Earth Wall.
• Li Muchen trusted Lu Yuan, lay in the dragon blood, and endured the metamorphosis as Lu Yuan continued channeling Fire Element into the Earth Wall.
• When the Fire Element inside the wall began contesting Lu Yuan's control, he recognized that Li Muchen had succeeded and told Yue Ti Xia she was now a Young Dragon.
• Lu Yuan confirmed to Yue Ti Xia that his earlier statements were true from humanity's perspective and explained that he intended to restore balance between humans and demons without exterminating either side.
• The Earth Wall exploded, and Lu Yuan protected Yue Ti Xia as the debris and heat veered around him; he then praised Li Muchen and taught her how to control her new form.
• Lu Yuan gave Li Muchen clothes and advised her to rest in human form while her body and Mana adjusted to the transformation.

Wang Quan Zui summoned the Mask to share startling news about Dragon Shadow Bookstore. The chapter ended with her revealing that Lu Yuan, Godly Fire Mountain Manor’s Senior Brother, was the bookstore’s true controller.

• Lu Yuan planned to launch a surprise attack on the Western Regions Royal Capital and intended to install Li Muchen as Lord of the Western Regions after defeating the sand fox.
• Wang Quan Zui entered a temple and disrupted Deng Qiyue’s passphrase routine before Zhang Zheng arrived and summoned the Mask members with a Jade Pendant.
• Wang Quan Zui told Zhang Zheng and the gathered Mask members that she had learned earth-shattering news from Little Qin Lan.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye guessed that Dragon Shadow Bookstore belonged to Godly Fire Mountain Manor, and Wang Quan Zui confirmed the Manor connection.
• Wang Quan Zui revealed that Lu Yuan, rather than Old Manor Lord Dongfang, Huaizhu, or Qin Lan, controlled Dragon Shadow Bookstore.

Wang Quan Zui revealed that Lu Yuan had founded Dragon Shadow Bookstore and defeated Southern Kingdom Poison Emperor Huan Du Qingtian, shocking the Mask. Fired up by Wang Quan Ba Ye, the Mask decided to travel to the Southern Kingdom to challenge Huan Du Qingtian, leaving Lu Yuan unaware of their plan.

• Wang Quan Zui told the Mask that Lu Yuan was Dragon Shadow Bookstore's founder and had gone to the Southern Kingdom.
• Yang Yitan said Lu Yuan was rather handsome by Qing Mu Yuan's standards, and Wang Quan Zui explained that he had defeated Huan Du Qingtian in a fair fight.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye rallied the Mask by arguing that their six Demon Kings could take on a Demon Emperor together.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye led the Mask in deciding to challenge Huan Du Qingtian and prove their strength.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye ordered the Mask not to kill or seriously injure Dragon Shadow Bookstore members if they tried to stop them.

Lu Yuan attacked the Western Regions city to force Fan Yunfei to come out, then revealed the overwhelming power of his Pure Yang Flame and sword strike. He trapped the demons inside the city and began cutting down those who had aided evil.

• Lu Yuan covered the city with black clouds, crashed through its tallest building, and demanded that Fan Yunfei face him while allowing innocent demons to leave.
• An antlered giant mocked Lu Yuan and challenged him to use a rusty sword, so Lu Yuan reforged it with Golden Flame and killed the giant with a devastating strike that also split the city wall.
• Demon Kings recognized the danger of Lu Yuan's power and tried to flee, but an invisible barrier trapped them inside the city.
• The trapped Demon Kings chose to surround and attack Lu Yuan, while the scorpion-tailed woman stayed back and watched.
• Lu Yuan condemned the demons for supporting evil and cut through them with golden sword light as the scorpion-tailed woman watched in fear.

Lu Yuan searched for Fan Yunfei by ordering troops to dig for hidden humans and demons while he waited in a wine shop. After a Black Fox Girl’s uncontrolled resentment revealed a connection to Tushan’s Red Thread Immortals, Fan Yunfei attacked, and Lu Yuan buried his palace beneath a sea of sand.

• Lu Yuan ordered Yuan Mao and the others to search underground for hidden humans and demons, then waited in a wine shop to force Fan Yunfei to emerge.
• Yue Ti Xia and Huan Du Luolan examined the menu while the frightened demons in the wine shop tried to appease Lu Yuan.
• The Black Fox Girl’s resentment surged toward Lu Yuan’s soul, and Lu Yuan deduced that the shopkeeper was a Red Thread Immortal of Tushan before reassuring the Black Fox Girl.
• Fan Yunfei used Lu Yuan’s brief distraction to launch a full-power attack with waves of sand.
• Lu Yuan seized control of the sand and buried Fan Yunfei’s palace beneath it.

Lu Yuan confronted Fan Yunfei and demanded that he give up the Western Regions, while Fan Yunfei tried to negotiate rather than risk a fight he could not win. Lu Yuan demonstrated his strength, and Fan Yunfei staged a dramatic defeat as he was sent crashing through the city wall.

• After Lu Yuan blocked Fan Yunfei's sand attack, the demons in the wine shop realized the human expert had saved them while Fan Yunfei had treated them as expendable.
• Fan Yunfei emerged from the sand and weighed his weakening power against the danger to his clan, deciding to seek a way to withdraw safely.
• Lu Yuan appeared beside Fan Yunfei and ordered him to step down as Lord of the Western Regions.
• Fan Yunfei argued that he could not simply surrender the position, and Lu Yuan raised his sword and demanded that he retreat or face him.
• Lu Yuan's blood-misted sword pierced Fan Yunfei's sand defense but stopped short of striking him, and Fan Yunfei spat blood and pretended to be thrown through the city wall.

Fan Yunfei escaped the sealed city with the sand foxes, while Lu Yuan learned that the Masks were advancing toward the Southern Kingdom and ordered an emergency change of plans. He set out with Yuan Mao and Huan Du Luolan to stop Wang Quan Ba Ye’s group from provoking Huan Du Qingtian and disrupting the campaign.

• Fan Yunfei used the blood-red longsword to lead the sand foxes through Lu Yuan’s barrier, then fled the Western Regions city while the trapped Demon Kings were crushed.
• Lu Yuan considered humanity’s rising power and the possible future strength of Li Muchen, Dongfang Guyue, and Wang Quan’s younger generation before returning to his meal.
• Yuan Mao reported that the Masks had captured several intelligence operatives and were heading toward the Southern Kingdom.
• Lu Yuan realized the Masks’ route likely meant Wang Quan Ba Ye’s group intended to challenge Huan Du Qingtian, and he ordered martial law, food distribution, and defensive preparations.
• Lu Yuan gave the records to Tian Xuan, took Yuan Mao with him, and departed with Huan Du Luolan to avert the crisis in the Southern Kingdom.

Mask destroyed Poison Teacher’s rebuilt Star Picking Tower while investigating continued human oppression in the Southern Kingdom. After defeating Poison Teacher, the group was confronted by Yuan Mao, who challenged them to prove themselves before pursuing the truth.

• The masked group observed humans being forced to work at a construction site, and Wang Quan Zui and Li Quzhuo debated what Lu Yuan’s actions meant for the Southern Kingdom.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye declared that the group would investigate Lu Yuan’s schemes, just as Poison Teacher discovered they had destroyed his Star Picking Tower again.
• Poison Teacher mistook the masked visitors for One Qi Dao Alliance members, but his illusion realm broke and revealed the Southern Kingdom figures he knew.
• Poison Teacher attacked and tried to send for help, but Yang Yitan blocked his flying ants and two Mask members struck him down.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye declared that the group sought to prove themselves and uncover the truth, but Yuan Mao arrived and demanded they defeat her first.

Yuan Mao confronted Wang Quan Ba Ye and the Mask members, then attacked them with overwhelming speed and killing intent. The battle left the Mask’s formation in disarray, while Yuan Mao continued targeting its members.

• Wang Quan Ba Ye dismissed Yuan Mao as unqualified to speak with him and demanded that Lu Yuan appear.
• Yuan Mao unleashed her killing intent, startling Wang Quan Ba Ye and revealing how little the Mask members’ protected upbringing had prepared them for life-and-death combat.
• Yuan Mao’s Blade Lights shattered Yang Yitan’s golden barrier, and Li Zizai and Zhang Zheng tried to counter them.
• Yuan Mao knocked Zhang Zheng’s sword away, struck Wang Quan Zui, and then moved past Li Quzhuo to attack Qing Mu Yuan.
• The Mask members became bewildered as Yuan Mao’s shifting attacks broke apart their formation.

Yuan Mao overwhelmed the Mask Gang during their attempt to stop her, crippling Mu Shenqi and Zhang Zheng while exposing the limits of their coordinated attacks. Above the clouds, the youth watching with Huan Du Qingtian said he had no fear the fight would get out of hand and defended the right of the strong to punish those who challenged them.

• Yuan Mao disrupted the Mask Gang's formation, wounded Qing Mu Yuan, and used the fighters against one another to blunt their attacks.
• Yuan Mao shattered Wang Quan Ba Ye's sword and severed Mu Shenqi's arm, prompting the Mask Gang to treat the fight as vengeance and stabilize Mu Shenqi.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye and Zhang Zheng attacked Yuan Mao, but she caught Zhang Zheng's Black Sword barehanded and covered his arm in corrosive frost.
• Zhang Zheng cut off his own arm to prevent the murderous aura in the frost from controlling him, while Yuan Mao condemned the Mask Gang for demanding an audience despite their weakness.
• Huan Du Qingtian asked the youth beside him whether he feared the fight would get out of hand, and the youth said no one would seek trouble with a Demon Emperor.

Lu Yuan and Huan Du Qingtian discussed the One Qi Dao Alliance’s corruption as Yuan Mao overwhelmed the Mask Gang. Yuan Mao split Wang Quan Ba Ye’s Heaven and Earth One Sword with the Black Blade and brought the flat of the blade down toward his head.

• Huan Du Qingtian predicted that the One Qi Dao Alliance would reject Lu Yuan and praised his strategy of intimidating its families by crippling their heirs.
• Yuan Mao battered the Mask Gang, seriously injuring Mu Shenqi and Zhang Zheng and destroying Qing Mu Yuan’s magic artifact.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye ordered Li Quzhuo, Li Zizai, Yang Yitan, and Ji Wuji to hold Yuan Mao off for three seconds so he could use Heaven and Earth One Sword.
• Huan Du Luolan explained that Wang Quan Ba Ye’s attack was an empty shell compared with Yuan Mao’s concentrated power, and Lu Yuan promised to let her fight afterward.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye unleashed Heaven and Earth One Sword, but Yuan Mao’s Black Blade divided the sword light and every defense in its path before she swung the blade’s flat toward his head.

Lu Yuan judged the defeated Mask members and challenged Wang Quan Ba Ye to choose between dying and fighting Huan Du Luolan. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan offering a reward if Wang Quan Ba Ye defeated her.

• Wang Quan Ba Ye lost consciousness after Yuan Mao's attack and crashed to the ground, while Lu Yuan criticized his lack of physical and mental cultivation.
• Huan Du Qingtian accepted the outcome of the fight, and Huan Du Luolan asked Lu Yuan to restore Wang Quan Ba Ye so she could fight him herself.
• Lu Yuan split open the sky and appeared with Huan Du Luolan before Yuan Mao and the injured Mask members.
• Huan Du Luolan taunted the Mask members for losing to Yuan Mao, and Wang Quan Ba Ye accused Lu Yuan of betraying humanity.
• Lu Yuan told the defeated youths to accept their failure and choose between death and defeating Huan Du Luolan for one request.

Yang Yitan chose Mask’s surrender after Lu Yuan offered them a choice, and Lu Yuan revealed that Tian Shu Star had reached Half-Step Demon Emperor cultivation. Huan Du Luolan challenged Wang Quan Ba Ye and initially held her own, but Wang Quan Ba Ye exhausted her demonic power until Lu Yuan intervened and invited Mask to state its requests.

• Yang Yitan chose the second option for Mask and asked Lu Yuan questions, while stopping Wang Quan Ba Ye from attacking.
• Lu Yuan told Yang Yitan that Tian Shu Star had Half-Step Demon Emperor cultivation, leaving Mask members shocked by the implications for humanity’s strength.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye challenged Huan Du Luolan, who accepted and dissipated his opening sword strike with black poisonous mist.
• Huan Du Qingtian asked Lu Yuan what he had taught Huan Du Luolan, while Lu Yuan considered her potential and watched the duel.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye wore down Huan Du Luolan’s demonic power with sword qi and struck with Heaven and Earth One Sword, causing her to fall.
• Lu Yuan caught Huan Du Luolan, crushed Wang Quan Ba Ye’s sword qi, and invited Mask to state its requests.

Lu Yuan revealed his Demon Emperor cultivation and restored Zhang Zheng and Mu Shenqi’s severed arms. He then ordered the Mask members to compensate Poison Teacher for the Star Picking Tower before departing with Yuan Mao, leaving the humans to face the bill.

• Wang Quan Ba Ye confirmed that Lu Yuan had Demon Emperor cultivation, and Lu Yuan affirmed it.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye asked whether Lu Yuan could restore Zhang Zheng and Mu Shenqi’s lost arms, and Lu Yuan used his authorities to heal them completely.
• Lu Yuan asked Poison Teacher for the Star Picking Tower’s account books and promised that the humans would pay for the damage.
• Lu Yuan ordered the Mask members to cover the full bill, threatening the Li Family if they refused.
• Lu Yuan withdrew his pressure, nodded to Huan Du Qingtian, and vanished with Yuan Mao.

After the massacre in the Western Regions city, Lu Yuan sent a scarred boy to use a river of blood as leverage and gather the humans held by local demons. With the humans assembled and the streets cleared, Lu Yuan prepared to begin the next stage of his plan.

• A scarred boy threatened a cat demon household with a basket of vegetables, and the elderly cat demon killed six descendants who had kept humans unlawfully.
• The boy revealed a river of blood outside the gate, prompting the elderly cat demon to surrender the humans in his manor in exchange for the clan’s safety.
• The boy led the freed humans to Six Stars’ command center, where Lu Yuan reviewed the reports and praised the operation.
• Lu Yuan explained that the demons had cooperated because Fan Yunfei was gone and Xue He’s river of blood had deterred resistance.
• Lu Yuan gathered the river of blood into a dark crimson crystal, cleared the streets, and ordered the doors opened.

Lu Yuan’s plan to bring the Western Regions under control began as demons entered the city and were confronted by human forces. As Yue Ti Xia stood by him, he named the operation Coronation and its executor Red Lotus Dragon Girl.

• Lu Yuan explained to Yuan Mao that he would leave only after completing his promises and uncovering the world’s secrets.
• Demons entered the city, where hidden human forces attacked those who tried to seize rescued humans, prompting many demons to flee.
• A youth posted Lu Yuan’s order to inspect wanted demons and kill those who resisted, while Li Muchen was assigned to win over the spared demons.
• Lu Yuan resolved to kill the Demon Race’s worst offenders and pursue unity between humans and demons despite the damage to his reputation.
• Yue Ti Xia clasped Lu Yuan’s hand and asked whether he could endure loneliness; he said that finding even one kindred spirit was enough.
• Lu Yuan declared the operation codename Coronation and named its executor Red Lotus Dragon Girl.

Lu Yuan’s rumors turned the Western Regions against Fan Yunfei and rallied demons for war against the supposed Human Demon Emperor. Li Muchen endured their hatred of Lu Yuan while preparing to seize control of the Western Regions, and the chapter left her surrounded by clueless young demons who mistook her anger for broad-mindedness.

• Lu Yuan spread rumors that Fan Yunfei had fled his city and abandoned its demons to a massacre, and the story grew more outrageous as it traveled across the Western Regions.
• Demons blamed Fan Yunfei for their humiliation, called for revenge, and began mobilizing under the Western Regions’ only Great Demon King.
• Li Muchen returned to her tent and struggled to contain her anger as she heard demons condemn Lu Yuan, knowing she had to use the rumors to gain control of the Western Regions.
• Li Muchen resolved to identify which demons had harmed innocent humans so Lu Yuan could eliminate them during the coming battle.
• Li Muchen reprimanded her young followers for judging a Demon Emperor without strength, but they praised her supposed broad-mindedness after she sent them away.