Chapter Summaries

Li Muchen counted down the hours until the Western Regions' Total Offensive while Lu Yuan negotiated with a Tushan fox spirit in the city. Lu Yuan accepted Tushan's offer of intelligence, requested information about the Xiao Family, and declared that the coming battle's outcome was already decided.

• Li Muchen calculated that six hours and twelve minutes remained before the Total Offensive, scheduled for eleven that night.
• A Tushan fox spirit tried to learn Lu Yuan's attitude toward Tushan and offered access to its intelligence network as a basis for talks with Tushan Honghong.
• Lu Yuan praised Tushan's restraint toward humans but criticized Tushan Honghong's methods, then said he wanted to negotiate with her in person.
• Lu Yuan requested intelligence about Tushan and the Black Fox, but the fox spirit lacked authority to provide top-secret information, so he asked instead for records of the Xiao Family's recent actions.
• Lu Yuan dismissed the need for intelligence about the Western Regions' demons, said the battle's outcome was already decided, and asked the fox spirit to prepare food for eleven tables.

Li Muchen prepared the Western Regions demons for a battle against Lu Yuan, while Lu Yuan demonstrated the overwhelming power of a Demon Emperor and began slaughtering the assembled forces. Li Muchen revealed herself as the new Lord of the Western Regions and asked Lu Yuan to spare those who had fought to protect the weak.

• Li Muchen concealed her dragon horns and told her followers that their hidden position gave them a chance against the Demon Emperor.
• Lu Yuan struck the demon army with a thunderous voice, then effortlessly countered a Great Demon King's attack and seized him as he tried to flee.
• Lu Yuan challenged the hidden force behind the Great Demon King's confidence, then unleashed his Divine Slaughter's Domain against the gathered demons.
• As demons panicked and fought to survive the lethal snowfall, Li Muchen emerged, revealed her dragon horns, and pleaded for the people who had protected others to be given a chance to live.

Li Muchen established herself as the Western Regions’ Demon Emperor and challenged Lu Yuan to a fight to decide their standing and the fate of the scum among the demons. After their opening exchanges, she unveiled her strongest form, transforming into a giant crimson dragon.

• The demons identified Li Muchen as their female Demon Emperor, while Lu Yuan exposed several scum who were trying to flee the battlefield.
• Li Muchen told the aquiline-nosed elder to keep the scum from escaping and insisted the Western Regions could not endure another blow to its honor.
• Li Muchen challenged Lu Yuan to a fight to decide superiority and life or death, and Lu Yuan accepted by appearing in the sky with his Tai Xu Bone Spear.
• Li Muchen struck Lu Yuan with a crimson beast claw, and the two Demon Emperors exchanged probing blows before pulling apart.
• Li Muchen summoned a fire lotus, declared she would use her strongest form, and transformed into an enormous crimson dragon.

Yun Fei challenged the Western Regions’ Demon Emperors to a winner-takes-all battle, while Dragon's Roar promised to let the humans leave even if she lost. Yun Fei pierced Dragon's Roar with his Silver Lance, and the blast from her diverted Heaven's Punishment Spear exposed the immense power of the fight and Fan Lu Yuan’s deception.

• The demons and humans witnessed Dragon's Roar reveal herself as a giant dragon, and Yun Fei’s Tai Xu Bone Spear responded to their shared dragon bloodline.
• Yun Fei demanded a winner-takes-all contest, and Dragon's Roar promised the humans could leave the Western Regions even if she lost.
• Yun Fei attacked Dragon's Roar, who countered with Heaven Burning Flames and a Heaven's Punishment Spear forged from golden lightning.
• Yun Fei broke through Dragon's Roar’s flames and shattered her Heaven's Punishment Spear with his Silver Lance, piercing her body.
• Dragon's Roar diverted the broken spear, which detonated a vast area of the desert and left the demons realizing Fan Lu Yuan had lied about the battle’s power.

Yang Yan defeated Li Muchen in their staged Demon Emperor battle, while a short-haired human woman protected the Western Regions from the fighters’ shockwaves. Yang Yan then offered to spare Li Muchen and the Western Regions if they handed over demons who had killed innocent humans.

• Yang Yan overwhelmed Li Muchen’s attacks with his Silver Lance and black flames, convincing the Demon Kings that the human race had two Demon Emperors.
• A short-haired woman arrived with a black longsword and dispersed the fiery sandstorm, then ordered the demons not to flee.
• Yang Yan emerged from the flames with Li Muchen, declared her defeated, and Li Muchen apologized to the Western Regions’ demons.
• The demons encouraged Li Muchen, acknowledging her efforts and accepting the defeat.
• Yang Yan praised Li Muchen’s character and offered to let bygones be bygones if she handed over every demon who had killed innocent humans.

Lu Yuan completed the purge of demons in the Western Regions, while news of his rise as humanity’s Demon Emperor spread and prompted Tushan Honghong to consider meeting him. The chapter left Tushan Yaya protesting human negotiations as she prepared to catch fish by hand.

• Lu Yuan oversaw the executions of demons who had harmed innocent humans and left the remaining Western Regions matters to be settled.
• Tushan Yaya told Tushan Honghong and Tushan Rongrong rumors about the Human Demon Emperor, and Rongrong revealed that Tushan had already received a detailed report.
• Tushan Rongrong gave Tushan Honghong a reply proposing a meeting, and Honghong admitted she was considering meeting a Demon Emperor despite doubts about his brutal methods.
• Dongfang Qinlan learned that Godly Fire Mountain Manor had two Demon Emperors and boasted about walking sideways, while Dongfang Huaizhu worried that Lu Yuan would face trouble upon returning.
• Tushan Yaya complained about negotiating with humans, threw her fishing rod into the river, and prepared to catch fish herself as an airy voice answered her.

Tushan Rongrong convinced Tushan Yaya that Tushan's negotiations with the One Qi Dao Alliance were worth pursuing, while Lu Yuan led the returning Western Regions refugees and arranged for Tian Quan Star to guide a promising boy. As Lu Yuan prepared to return to human territory, he asked Yue Ti Xia whether he could bring betrothal gifts to the Southern Kingdom and propose to her.

• Tushan Rongrong used fishing to explain to Tushan Yaya why Tushan should negotiate with the One Qi Dao Alliance instead of rushing into conflict.
• Tushan Yaya considered the pressure facing the Human Demon Emperor and wondered whether the negotiations could succeed.
• Lu Yuan and Yuan Mao observed the refugee procession, and Tian Quan Star volunteered to guide a capable boy without giving him special treatment.
• Lu Yuan held Yue Ti Xia close and said he was going home, then asked what betrothal gifts he needed to bring to the Southern Kingdom to propose.
• Black Donkey A Zhu silently approved of Lu Yuan's plan but wondered how powerful Yue Ti Xia had become.

Lu Yuan reassured Yue Ti Xia that he would handle the One Qi Dao Alliance’s reaction to their relationship, while suspecting that its unusual silence was bait he had set. At a tense gathering of family heads, Xiao Wancheng pushed a plan to pressure Lu Yuan, while secretly hoping to turn Yuan Mao against him.

• Yue Ti Xia worried that the One Qi Dao Alliance would use her identity against Lu Yuan, and Lu Yuan told her he would handle it.
• Lu Yuan reflected that the Alliance’s silence and its provocations against Tushan might be connected, and wondered whether they were bait he had cast.
• At a meeting of One Qi Dao Alliance family heads, Yang Yifang objected to Xiao Wancheng’s proposal, and the two argued until Wang Quan Fei Lao intervened.
• Wang Quan Fei Lao considered Dongfang Guyue’s absence a prudent refusal to enter the Alliance’s trap and believed Lu Yuan’s power made provoking Godly Fire Mountain Manor dangerous.
• Xiao Wancheng privately reasoned that the Xiao Family could turn the tables by persuading Yuan Mao to betray Lu Yuan, though he knew he could not openly propose the scheme.
• Xiao Wancheng publicly called for Godly Fire Mountain Manor to strip Lu Yuan of his title, make him apologize and execute a demon, or treat him as a traitor to humanity.

Lu Yuan saw through the Xiao Family’s attempt to recruit Yuan Mao and decided to let them keep raising their offer while he prepared to absorb their resources regardless. As Yuan Mao answered the Xiao Family’s overtures, Lu Yuan traveled with Yue Ti Xia and Black Donkey A Zhu toward Yue Ti Xia’s home, while Xiao Wancheng and Xiao Tianhao planned to continue bargaining.

• Lu Yuan mocked the Xiao Family’s invitation to Yuan Mao, killed its messenger, and told Yuan Mao to pretend to be at a disadvantage so the Xiao Family would increase its offer.
• Yuan Mao rejected the Xiao Family’s letters through its own channels, killing three messengers and signaling that she would negotiate only from a position of strength.
• Lu Yuan visited the village near the place where he had first met Yue Ti Xia, then agreed to walk with her toward her home instead of using Spatial Teleportation.
• Xiao Wancheng’s daughter complained about Yuan Mao’s demands and the dead messengers, but Xiao Wancheng told her Yuan Mao had the right to show force.
• Xiao Tianhao advised Xiao Wancheng to keep offering concessions, arguing that Yuan Mao could not use all the Xiao Family’s bargaining chips at once and that the family could exploit any conflict between her and Lu Yuan.

Xiao Wancheng relied on Xiao Tianhao’s schemes as the Xiao Family faced a worsening political crisis, while Lu Yuan led the rescued Western Regions humans back to Godly Fire Mountain Manor. The refugees rejected the One Qi Dao Alliance’s efforts to resettle them, accepted Yue Ti Xia despite her demonic identity, and followed Lu Yuan home after he kept his promise.

• Xiao Wancheng sent his daughter to deliver altered letters and threaten a prospective ally with mutual destruction, while Xiao Tianhao explained the plan.
• The Western Regions refugees chose to follow Dragon Shadow Bookstore rather than accept the One Qi Dao Alliance’s resettlement, and they drove its Daoists from their camp.
• The refugees dismissed rumors about Yue Ti Xia’s demonic identity and defended her as the wife of the man who had saved them.
• A young Daoist quit the One Qi Dao Alliance after the refugees confronted the Daoists over their absence during the crisis.
• Lu Yuan arrived at Godly Fire Mountain Manor with Yue Ti Xia, A Zhu, Yuan Mao, and the others, saying that all forty-five people he had taken away had returned.

Lu Yuan returned to Godly Fire Mountain Manor with Yue Ti Xia and arranged a private talk with Dongfang Huaizhu about her feelings for him. He revealed that he was a Human-Dragon Hybrid and explained that, although he loved her too, his eventual Ascension could leave her alone for centuries or forever.

• Lu Yuan returned to Godly Fire Mountain Manor with Yue Ti Xia, where Dongfang Qinlan challenged Yue Ti Xia before Lu Yuan stopped her and brought them to Dongfang Guyue.
• Dongfang Guyue asked Lu Yuan whether he had thought through his choice, then created an opportunity for Lu Yuan to speak privately with Dongfang Huaizhu.
• Lu Yuan found Dongfang Huaizhu waiting with tea and acknowledged her feelings, while she insisted that her future was hers to decide.
• Lu Yuan revealed his Human-Dragon Hybrid nature, and Dongfang Huaizhu assumed their different lifespans made a relationship futile.
• Lu Yuan embraced Dongfang Huaizhu and explained that she and Dongfang Qinlan could cultivate to Great Demon Emperor realm and overcome their mortal lifespans.
• Lu Yuan told Dongfang Huaizhu that he loved her but warned that his Ascension might leave her alone for hundreds or thousands of years, and asked whether she could bear the loneliness.

Lu Yuan and Dongfang Huaizhu reconciled their conflicting feelings, and she agreed to marry him; Dongfang Qinlan was also set to become his bride. As their wedding preparations continued, Lu Yuan’s plan to draw out the Xiao Family’s ally threatened to turn the banquet bloody, while the author’s closing note discussed the story’s reason-versus-emotion conflict.

• Dongfang Huaizhu comforted Lu Yuan, accepted his choice to wait, and agreed to marry him.
• A mysterious man above the Star River complained about his duties and wondered when Lu Yuan would become a suitable successor.
• Dongfang Huaizhu appeared in her wedding dress, and Lu Yuan explained that his scheme could bring bloodshed to the banquet; she said she accepted helping him.
• Dongfang Qinlan revealed that she was also marrying Lu Yuan, teased Dongfang Huaizhu, and fled before her sister could catch her.
• The author explained in a note that the Fox Spirit arc centered on Lu Yuan’s struggle between reason and emotion.

Lu Yuan appointed the Black Fox Girl to oversee Dragon Shadow Bookstore’s core operations and promised to protect her as he sought a way to stop her corruption. At Godly Fire Mountain Manor, guests gathered for the wedding banquet, where Yang Yifang discovered Lu Yuan’s hidden force of nearly thirty Demon Kings; Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan waited for the ceremony to begin.

• Lu Yuan asked the Black Fox Girl whether she had decided to oversee the core room, and she agreed despite her dislike of being tied down.
• Lu Yuan explained that the workload would leave her little time to rest, reassured her that he would help, and resolved that he needed to visit Tushan to find a way to stop her erosion by venomous resentment.
• At the wedding banquet, Yang Yifang noticed nearly thirty Demon Kings among the Godly Fire Mountain Manor’s helpers, while Dongfang Guyue signaled him not to draw attention to them.
• Dongfang Qinlan lifted her veil to ask for food, but Dongfang Huaizhu had Yuan Mao bring her mung bean cakes and ordered her to finish eating before putting the veil back on.

Lu Yuan’s wedding procession was interrupted by Xiao Wancheng, who challenged his authority and accused him of consorting with demons. Lu Yuan and Yuan Mao answered with overwhelming power, and an unknown voice joined the confrontation, leaving Xiao Wancheng trying to draw its owner out.

• Lu Yuan walked Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan down the red carpet as the gathered family heads considered Godly Fire Mountain Manor’s growing power and the Xiao Family’s silence.
• Xiao Wancheng’s Obsidian Inspectors tried to interrupt the wedding, but Lu Yuan opened the gates and dropped them before ordering Xiao Wancheng to use the main entrance.
• Xiao Wancheng entered and declared that he was neither a guest nor there to turn the tables, then challenged whether Lu Yuan was human or demon.
• Yuan Mao appeared and suppressed the assembled guests with her pressure, warning Xiao Wancheng to show respect.
• An unfamiliar voice defended demons and insulted Xiao Wancheng, while Yuan Mao corrected the speaker about the lack of grass in his homeland.
• Xiao Wancheng assumed the voice belonged to one of Yuan Mao’s allies and prepared to draw its owner out.

At Lu Yuan’s wedding banquet, the Xiao Family tried to provoke a fight and expose Yuan Mao as a traitor, but Lu Yuan revealed he had anticipated the scheme and ordered the Xiao Family’s extermination. Yuan Mao killed Xiao Wancheng as Li Muchen stood with Lu Yuan and the assembled forces prepared to crush the attackers.

• A hidden Demon Emperor burned Xiao Wancheng’s daughter, and Xiao Wancheng realized that Lu Yuan’s forces included more Demon Emperors than he had expected.
• Li Muchen arrived as the Red Lotus Dragon Girl, rejected Xiao Wancheng’s attempt to turn her against Lu Yuan, and declared that she had come to support her friend.
• Xiao Wancheng ordered the Obsidian Inspectors to attack, while nearly thirty disguised Godly Fire Mountain Manor disciples revealed themselves as demon kings.
• Xiao Wancheng threw letters accusing Yuan Mao of plotting to betray Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan revealed that the scheme was part of his own plan and burned the letters.
• Lu Yuan ordered the Xiao Family’s extermination, and Yuan Mao killed Xiao Wancheng with her blade.

After executing Xiao Wancheng and destroying the Xiao Family, Lu Yuan began a wedding ceremony that brought him closer to the One Qi Dao Alliance’s power brokers, while Xiao Tianhao escaped with the Black Fox Lady’s help. The next morning, Lu Yuan faced Dongfang Guyue’s questions about his wives and warned him to keep Lu Yuan’s identity secret.

• Lu Yuan killed Xiao Wancheng, breaking the One Qi Dao Alliance’s custom of sparing defeated clans, then began his wedding ceremony with Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan.
• Yuan Mao led nearly thirty Demon Kings to destroy the Xiao Family, but Xiao Tianhao escaped.
• Lu Yuan identified a wisp of spatial aura as evidence that the Black Fox Lady had rescued Xiao Tianhao and decided to wait for her rather than pursue her.
• After the wedding night, Lu Yuan found Dongfang Guyue waiting in the main hall, where Dongfang Guyue asked whether Yue Ti Xia was also Lu Yuan’s wife.
• Lu Yuan confirmed that Huaizhu, Qinlan, and Xia were all his wives, then told Dongfang Guyue to keep his identity and its implications secret.
• Lu Yuan reflected on Dragon Shadow Bookstore’s hidden core members and admitted that his reason for keeping Godly Fire Mountain Manor at the center of his plans was an excuse tied to two steamed buns.

Lu Yuan revealed his Dragon Clan inheritance and cultivation methods to Dongfang Guyue, then left him to decide whether to begin cultivating anew. He turned his attention to cleansing the One Qi Dao Alliance, while Tushan Rongrong predicted that his negotiations would leave Tushan unable to resist or intervene.

• Lu Yuan manifested his Dragon Scale Armor and explained to Dongfang Guyue that he had inherited the Dragon Clan’s power and cultivated multiple Natal Magic Treasures.
• Dongfang Guyue agreed to keep Lu Yuan’s Human-Dragon Hybrid identity secret and questioned whether Lu Yuan feared betrayal; Lu Yuan said he trusted his ally and would act only if she turned against him.
• Lu Yuan offered Dongfang Guyue a cultivation method that could extend his life, left him a booklet, and reflected on the world’s strange, fragmented nature before deciding to focus on the One Qi Dao Alliance.
• Tushan Yaya celebrated the One Qi Dao Alliance’s defeat, and Tushan Rongrong reminded her that Lu Yuan was now its leader and had become a member through Godly Fire Mountain Manor.
• Tushan Rongrong reasoned that Lu Yuan would negotiate with Tushan to secure his position and predicted that his terms would strip Tushan of its ability to resist or act, even if other powers rebelled.

Tushan Honghong challenged Tushan Rongrong's pessimistic approach to dealing with Lu Yuan, while Lu Yuan explained his plan for a political marriage to Tushan. He arrived near Tushan to negotiate and was confronted by Tushan Yaya, who mistook him for an informant.

• Tushan Honghong told Tushan Rongrong not to manipulate Tushan Yaya with worst-case speculation and argued that Tushan should negotiate sincerely rather than grovel.
• Lu Yuan proposed that a marriage alliance between Tushan and the One Qi Dao Alliance could persuade Tushan and pressure North Mountain to negotiate.
• Dongfang Huaizhu reassured Lu Yuan that failed negotiations would not erase what he had done, while she and Yue Ti Xia accepted that they should not hold him back.
• Lu Yuan traveled to a peak near Tushan and drank wine while waiting for someone to arrive.
• Tushan Yaya confronted Lu Yuan, accused him of being an informant for the Demon Emperor, and sat beside him with a bottle of Glazed Brew.

Lu Yuan, disguised as Liu Yuan, drank with Tushan Yaya and steered their conversation toward Tushan’s vulnerability to his power. After she broke down over the difference in their strength, he urged her to survive hardship and become someone who could carry her own fire.

• Lu Yuan deflected Tushan Yaya’s suspicion that he was a Dragon Shadow Bookstore spy and joined her in cursing the Demon Emperor Lu Yuan.
• Tushan Yaya introduced herself, shared her wine with Lu Yuan, and admitted that drinking with a human had made her happy.
• Lu Yuan and Tushan Yaya mocked Lu Yuan’s reputation, but she defended his actions at the Xiao Family wedding and insisted he would never demand to marry Tushan Honghong.
• Lu Yuan challenged Tushan Yaya’s confidence that Tushan could refuse him, and she admitted Tushan Honghong could not defeat him.
• Tushan Yaya lamented the limits of demon strength and cried over humans’ rapid cultivation, while Lu Yuan explained that hardship and experience had made him stronger.
• Lu Yuan told Tushan Yaya to endure, survive, and become someone who held the fire rather than waiting for the light.

Tushan Yaya accidentally trapped Lu Yuan in uncontrollable ice and believed she had killed him, but he revealed himself and saved her from kneeling to a decoy. As Tushan Honghong rushed to respond to the Bitter Love Tree’s disturbance and the Black Fox’s threat, Tushan Yaya realized the human beside her was Lu Yuan.

• Tushan Yaya accused the human of being a Dragon Shadow Bookstore spy and sealed him in ice, only to discover she had lost control of the ice and could not free him.
• Tushan Yaya’s punch cracked the ice, so she poured in demon power to keep it intact while the trapped Lu Yuan begged her to kill him.
• The ice shattered around a lump of pork as Lu Yuan escaped into the void, leaving Tushan Yaya overwhelmed with guilt until he returned and stopped her from kneeling.
• Lu Yuan used spiritual power to calm Tushan Yaya, triggering the Bitter Love Tree and alerting Tushan Rongrong and Tushan Honghong to the Black Fox’s activity.
• Tushan Honghong raced toward the Bitter Love Tree, while Lu Yuan concluded that the Black Fox and Tushan Yaya shared an origin.
• Tushan Yaya recovered and recognized the human as Lu Yuan, whom she and Lu Yuan had just been criticizing.