Chapter Summaries

During negotiations between the One Qi Dao Alliance and North Mountain, the alliance realized Godly Fire Mountain Manor had four Demon Emperors, while Yuan Mao challenged Shi Kuan. The fight paused the talks, and Dongfang Huaizhu discovered Yue Ti Xia’s cultivation had advanced to the point where Pure Yang Flame could not burn her seedling.

• The family heads calculated that Lu Yuan, Yuan Mao, Dongfang Huaizhu, and Yue Ti Xia made four Demon Emperors in Godly Fire Mountain Manor, and that Lu Yuan’s possible marriage to the Tushan Master could bring the number to five.
• Yuan Mao prepared to fight Shi Kuan, who accepted her challenge despite recognizing the danger of facing several Demon Emperors.
• Chicken Lord of Beishan asked Wang Quan Fei Lao to pause the negotiations after Yuan Mao and Shi Kuan left to fight.
• Dongfang Qinlan complained that Dongfang Huaizhu and Yue Ti Xia had become Demon Emperors while she had only recently reached Great Demon King.
• Yue Ti Xia showed Dongfang Huaizhu a seedling that remained unharmed by Pure Yang Flame, revealing that Yue Ti Xia was nearing the Great Demon Emperor realm.

Yuan Mao defeated Shi Kuan in fifteen moves and secured his agreement to serve as an elder of the One Qi Dao Alliance, helping unite North Mountain with the Alliance. As humans and demons realized the world had been unified, they celebrated the end of generations of conflict.

• Yuan Mao emerged from her battle with Shi Kuan apparently unharmed, while Shi Kuan bore visible injuries and acknowledged her strength.
• Yuan Mao reflected that Lu Yuan was testing her to take on greater responsibility and concluded that she needed to preserve the balance between humans and demons.
• Yuan Mao offered Shi Kuan a position as an elder of the One Qi Dao Alliance, tasked with calming North Mountain and supporting its economic development.
• Shi Kuan accepted the agreement and pressed his bloody fingerprint onto it, keeping influence in North Mountain while recognizing the Alliance's authority.
• The gathered humans and demons realized the world had been unified, and the family heads celebrated with tears and laughter.

After the world was unified, Wang Quan Ba Ye and the Mask learned that Xiao Tianhao had escaped the Xiao Family’s purge and may be connected to a Fox Spirit. Suspecting the Fox Spirit’s involvement in a plot against Lu Yuan and Tushan Honghong, they decided to track Xiao Tianhao and quietly send a warning to Godly Fire Mountain Manor or Dragon Shadow Bookstore.

• Yuan Mao’s rise and Godly Fire Mountain Manor’s four Demon Emperors pushed the Wang Quan Family’s prestige below the manor’s, while Wang Quan Ba Ye struggled with the setbacks suffered by his family and the Mask.
• Li Quzhuo and Wang Quan Zui brought Wang Quan Ba Ye evidence that Xiao Tianhao had been seen shortly before Yuan Mao wiped out the Xiao Family, yet had escaped her search and was reportedly associating with a Fox Spirit.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye warned the Mask not to capture Xiao Tianhao rashly, since the Fox Spirit might be powerful enough to evade Yuan Mao and the Mask could not safely fight it.
• Wang Quan Zui and Qing Mu Yuan argued that Xiao Tianhao’s connection to a Fox Spirit, combined with Tushan Honghong’s sudden closeness to Lu Yuan, suggested a conspiracy against Lu Yuan.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye ordered Li Quzhuo to make a message device and instructed the Mask to follow Xiao Tianhao from a distance, hold him up if he tried to flee, and avoid making a direct move.

Xiao Tianhao explained his plan with the Black Fox: lure Lu Yuan to the Northern Mountain Border by using Wang Quan Ba Ye and the Mask members as bait. Wang Quan Ba Ye’s group pursued him, unaware of the full trap, while the Black Fox Lady’s plans for Xiao Tianhao remained hidden.

• Xiao Tianhao defended his betrayal to the Black Fox, admitting he loved a woman who loved Lu Yuan and intended to destroy Lu Yuan’s hopes for the sake of his family’s vendetta.
• Xiao Tianhao explained that he expected Lu Yuan to protect the Mask members and follow them into an unavoidable trap near the Northern Mountain Border.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye had Li Quzhuo send a report to the One Qi Dao Alliance, then led the Mask members after Xiao Tianhao.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye noticed Xiao Tianhao was heading toward the Northern Mountain Border, but Li Quzhuo urged the group to keep following him to prevent a disaster.
• Xiao Tianhao continued toward the trap, while Black Fox Lady secretly intended to dispose of him after the plan succeeded.

Yuan Mao discovered that Wang Quan Ba Ye and the others had fallen into a likely Black Fox trap after tracking Xiao Tianhao, and she placed Godly Fire Mountain Manor on high alert before rushing to Lu Yuan. She reported the danger to him in Tushan, where Lu Yuan reacted furiously to the group's recklessness.

• A Dragon Shadow Bookstore member brought a Mechanical Bird to Tian Quan Star, who found a message inside and rushed to inform Lu Yuan and Yuan Mao.
• After hearing the message, Yuan Mao concluded that Wang Quan Ba Ye and the others had likely walked into a trap set by the Black Foxes, led by a Great Demon Emperor.
• Yuan Mao ordered Godly Fire Mountain Manor into high alert, warned the members not to act alone, and instructed them to report signs of mental corruption and contain or kill anyone beyond control.
• Tian Quan Star and the others accepted Yuan Mao's orders as Dragon Shadow Bookstore's defenses mobilized, and Yuan Mao flew toward Tushan.
• Yuan Mao arrived in Tushan and told Lu Yuan that Wang Quan Ba Ye and the others had tracked Xiao Tianhao; Lu Yuan cursed their recklessness.

Lu Yuan realized Wang Quan Ba Ye and the Masks had created an opening for the Black Fox, so he prepared to go alone to rescue them and confront the danger. He entrusted defenses across the world to his allies, said farewell to Tushan Honghong, and teleported toward human territory near Northern Mountain.

• Lu Yuan concluded that the Black Fox Lady could exploit the Masks’ actions and decided he had to go without mobilizing his forces.
• Lu Yuan gave Yuan Mao an Ice Blue soul bone and entrusted her with protecting the One Qi Dao Alliance and humanity, while assigning the red soul bone and the Western Regions to Li Muchen.
• Lu Yuan comforted Yuan Mao by explaining that he might ascend after the battle but could return, and Yuan Mao vowed to wait for him and find him if she became strong enough.
• Lu Yuan told Tushan Honghong he would return with the Black Fox’s Origin and the Bittersweet Tree’s core; they kissed, and he promised they could marry or reunite through Reincarnation and Continued Fate.
• Tushan Honghong urged Lu Yuan to hurry before the Black Fox Lady killed the Demon Kings, and Lu Yuan teleported from Tushan to human territory to continue toward Northern Mountain.

The Mask members realized the Black Fox Clan was using them as bait to lure Lu Yuan into a trap, and Yang Yitan concluded they had to die before Lu Yuan arrived to ensure he received warning. The chapter ended with Yang Yitan asking the others to open a Demon Emperor-level path so his concealed Heavenly Eye could carry word of their deaths to the Northern Mountain Border.

• Wang Quan Ba Ye warned the Mask members to maintain their formation and protect Wang Quan Zui while they fought the black foxes.
• Yang Yitan and Li Zizai suspected the black foxes were not trying to kill them, and Wang Quan Ba Ye deduced that the enemy was using them to ambush reinforcements.
• Yang Yitan struggled to find a safe route through the encirclement, while Wang Quan Zui proposed changing formations and Yang Yitan rejected abandoning their defenses.
• Yang Yitan realized the trap was intended to lure Lu Yuan, with the Masks serving as bait, and Wang Quan Ba Ye confirmed his conclusion.
• Yang Yitan urged the Mask members to die before Lu Yuan arrived so the human race would not lose him, then proposed sending news of their deaths to the Northern Mountain Border with his Heavenly Eye.
• Wang Quan Ba Ye asked how they could get the warning out, and Yang Yitan asked everyone to open a Demon Emperor-level path for his eye to travel in concealment.

The Mask members made a desperate all-out attack to save Lu Yuan, but the Black Fox Lady stopped them and shattered their hope. Lu Yuan arrived, restored Yang Yitan’s Heavenly Eye, and faced the Black Fox Lady as she put Xiao Tianhao’s fate in his hands.

• Wang Quan Ba Ye rallied the Mask members to unleash their full strength and create an opening for Yang Yitan.
• Yang Yitan tore out his Heavenly Eye as the Mask members attacked together, but the Black Fox Lady blocked their Demon Emperor-level strike and seized the eye.
• The Black Fox Lady taunted the defeated Wang Quan Zui, who questioned her connection to Tushan, before Lu Yuan arrived and confronted her.
• The Black Fox Lady threw Xiao Tianhao before Lu Yuan and revealed that he had betrayed the Mask and plotted against Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan ignored Xiao Tianhao, restored Yang Yitan’s Heavenly Eye, and left the Mask members wondering how a Godly Fire Mountain Manor heir possessed one.

Lu Yuan urged Yang Yitan and the others to leave, then explained the Xiao Family’s history and told them to learn from their defeat. As the Black Fox Lady unleashed eighteen Bone Dragons against him, Lu Yuan recognized that their bloodlines came from a High Dimension.

• Lu Yuan revealed that some members of the Xiao Family had survived under new names, and Xiao Tianhao had reason to hate him despite the Xiao Family’s past crimes.
• Lu Yuan told Yang Yitan and the others to accept their defeat and learn from it, while the Black Fox Lady mocked him and threatened the exhausted group.
• The Black Fox Lady shook the ground, and Lu Yuan lifted the group away with spears as a Bone Dragon emerged from a fissure.
• Lu Yuan sensed that the Bone Dragon’s bloodline surpassed his own and inferred that it had come from a High Dimension.
• The Black Fox Lady summoned eighteen Bone Dragons, which rushed toward Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan fought Black Fox Lady while shielding Wang Quan Ba Ye and the others, using his mastery of space to outmaneuver her and her clones. He overwhelmed the Black Foxes, but a rule-based spatial force stopped his final palm strike, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Lu Yuan blocked the Bone Dragons’ attacks with a Spatial Barrier while examining their bones, and Black Fox Lady sent dragon flames at him.
• Black Fox Lady’s clone slipped past the barrier to attack Lu Yuan, but he stopped her with Insulation Claw and forced her to reveal herself.
• Lu Yuan teleported Wang Quan Ba Ye and ten others away, then used invisible spatial attacks to kill Black Fox Lady’s clones and explain how she should fight.
• Black Fox Lady tried to counter Lu Yuan at close range, but he seized and crushed another clone, then conjured spatial daggers that forced her to transfer bodies again.
• Lu Yuan attacked the scattered Black Foxes with a sweeping palm, but an opposing rule-based spatial fluctuation blocked it.

Lu Yuan fought Black Fox Lady, whose formation gathered the Black Fox swarm into a temporary half-step Ascension and unleashed devastating attacks. He turned her elemental assault back on the swarm, defeated her, and received her final message before taking a pulsing black flesh sac and a twisted key.

• Black Fox Lady revealed a formation that combined the Black Fox swarm into a temporary half-step Ascension and summoned the Nine Heavens Gale, Heaven and Earth Thunder Tribulation, and Nine Netherworld Fire while forbidding Spatial Power.
• Lu Yuan identified the formation as a fragment of the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and used the Silver Dragon King's elemental authority to redirect part of Black Fox Lady's attacks into the Black Fox horde.
• The resulting explosions shook the region, alarming Wang Quan Ba Ye and Yang Yitan, prompting Dongfang Huaizhu to activate the Star Dou Formation, and leading Tushan Honghong to leave for the human side.
• Lu Yuan approached the severely wounded Black Fox Lady, who asked him to tell her that she had won and to take care of herself, and then watched her turn to ash.
• Lu Yuan took a pulsing black flesh sac and a twisted key from the space beside him.

After defeating the Black Fox Lady, Lu Yuan sent her Origin and key to Tushan, then met Aolai Country's Third Young Master amid the ruined battlefield. The Third Young Master revealed his vague origins and his mission to revive the being who created him, leaving Lu Yuan with a theory that their world might be a fragment of a collapsed higher-dimensional world.

• Lu Yuan recovered from his injuries, assessed the devastation caused by the Black Fox Lady's attack, and sent her Origin and sealed key to Tushan for Little Black Fox.
• Lu Yuan waited for a visitor and confronted Aolai Country's Third Young Master, who emerged from the void and said he had long wanted to meet him.
• Aolai Country's Third Young Master explained that he had used Shifting Scenery alongside Divine Travel to approach without being noticed.
• The Third Young Master said he was an awakened strand of hair from an unknown being and was bound by a restriction to revive the one who had created him.
• The Third Young Master described his attempts to reconstruct the past by observing the Bitter Love Tree's Reincarnation and Continued Fate, and promised not to interfere with Lu Yuan's wives.
• Lu Yuan considered the Third Young Master's account alongside the Bitter Love Tree's Origin and the suspected Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, forming a theory that their world was a fragment of a collapsed higher-dimensional world.

Lu Yuan questioned Third Young Master about the dragon corpses and the nature of the world, then made a non-aggression pact to protect Aolai Country. After Third Young Master left, Lu Yuan unearthed a dragon corpse and altar, read its stone tablet, and began the bloodline inheritance ritual.

• Third Young Master explained that the buried dragon was a powerful flood dragon and that the smaller dragon corpses were likely its descendants.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that the world might have been reduced from a much larger realm, and Third Young Master said the Outside the Circle was at least ten times the size of the Circle.
• Third Young Master proposed a pact preventing humans and demons within the Circle from attacking Aolai Country under the pretext of unifying the world, and Lu Yuan agreed and signed it.
• Third Young Master flew toward North Mountain, while Lu Yuan sent his copy of the pact to Dragon Shadow Bookstore and sensed the ground.
• Lu Yuan raised more than a hundred dragon corpses and a gigantic dragon corpse atop an altar from the earth.
• Lu Yuan read the stone tablet’s instructions, arranged the dragon corpses around the altar, and began activating it with his blood.

After absorbing the Dragon Clan's inheritance, Lu Yuan learned that all worlds were fragments of the Primordial World and that his rapid cultivation left him less than half a day before ascension. He married Tushan Honghong, Tushan Rongrong, and Tushan Yaya through the Reincarnation and Continued Fate ritual, said his farewells, and ascended from Godly Fire Mountain Manor.

• Lu Yuan emerged from the Blood Cocoon with increased strength and learned the origins of the Myriad Realms, the limits of his spatial power, and the rules he had gained from the Jiaolong inheritance.
• Lu Yuan learned that he had only half a day left before ascending and went to Tushan to see Tushan Honghong.
• Lu Yuan and Tushan Honghong performed the Reincarnation and Continued Fate ritual, and Tushan Rongrong joined them in making a vow.
• Tushan Yaya insisted on making a vow with Lu Yuan as well, and Tushan Honghong persuaded him to include her in the ritual.
• Lu Yuan gave keepsakes to Tushan Honghong and the others, left weapons and letters for his allies, and released his cultivation at Godly Fire Mountain Manor.
• Lu Yuan shattered the void and ascended as flowers fell from the heavens and golden lotuses rose from the earth; the One Qi Dao Alliance recorded his deeds and legacy.

After ten years away, Lu Yuan returned to Douluo and reunited with Qian Renxue and the women who had waited for him, learning how the world and their lives had changed. After spending time with them, he left letters and departed to seek another world, leaving his eventual return unresolved.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Hu Liena to join the coming battles against other worlds, then went to visit Lu Yuan's hometown.
• Lu Yuan arrived near God Soul Town and learned from an old villager how Holy Soul Village had honored him and prospered under Spirit Hall's care.
• Qian Renxue recognized Lu Yuan despite his changed appearance, embraced him, and told him about their friends and the past ten years.
• Lu Yuan reunited with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then spent the night with them.
• Lu Yuan visited Gu Yuena and Zhu Zhuyun, left letters for the women, and entered the Space-Time Storm to seek another world.

An elderly storyteller recounted Li Muchen’s battle against the realm’s greatest figures as she demanded the truth about the man whose deeds had been erased from history. In the present, Hu Liena signed a cooperation agreement with Tushan Honghong, then set off to investigate Lu Yuan’s romantic history.

• Li Muchen returned to the Western Regions and used a chess game to draw the realm’s powers into a confrontation, but the former Tushan Master and others defeated and captured her.
• Li Muchen demanded an explanation about the fate and erased achievements of the man she loved, and the Third Young Master of Aolai Country promised to give her one.
• The storyteller described the aftermath of Li Muchen’s battle and warned about deadly conflicts beyond the Circle, prompting the Bamboo Hat-wearing man and the woman with the Fox Tail to leave.
• Tushan Honghong and Hu Liena signed a cooperation agreement, and Hu Liena became convinced that Honghong’s husband Lu Yuan was the Playboy she wanted to investigate.
• Hu Liena handed the agreement to Xie Yue and left to look into Lu Yuan’s romantic history.

Trapped beneath the ruins of Fox Qi Mountain, Xiao Chi struggled to keep her daughter Bi Yao alive until Lu Yuan arrived and began searching for survivors. After rescuing a group of Fox Spirits, he gained a guide and was directed toward their grandmother and miss.

• Xiao Chi resolved to conserve her strength and keep Bi Yao alive while they waited for rescue.
• Lu Yuan descended into the fox spirit world, identified the ruins as Fox Qi Mountain, and decided to search for Xiao Chi and Bi Yao.
• Lu Yuan used the Earth Rule to tunnel through the rubble, rescued a group of Fox Spirits, and offered them food and water.
• A Fox Spirit recognized the golden bell around Lu Yuan's neck and declared that he was trustworthy.
• Xiao Cui agreed to guide Lu Yuan to the grandmother and miss, then through the surviving caves to search for more Fox Spirits.

Lu Yuan found Xiao Chi and her daughter Bi Yao trapped beneath Fox Qi Mountain, where a misunderstanding nearly turned violent before he proved he meant to help. After giving them supplies and tending to them, he left Bi Yao racing to wash her face for a chance to win the Golden Bell, the keepsake Tushan Honghong had given him.

• Lu Yuan rescued a little fox from Bi Yao, then stopped himself from striking the starving child when Xiao Chi threw a bloodied dagger at him.
• Xiao Chi mistook Lu Yuan for a hunter threatening her daughter, but lowered her guard after he offered food and showed her the Golden Bell.
• Lu Yuan returned the frightened little fox to Xiao Chi and learned that she was the missing young mistress of Fox Qi Mountain, Xiao Chi, and that her daughter was Bi Yao.
• Lu Yuan gave Xiao Chi and Bi Yao food, water, gauze, and flashlights, then helped them clean up in the cave.
• Bi Yao insisted she wanted Lu Yuan's Golden Bell, so he promised it to her if she washed her face within two minutes, and she hurried to the basin.

Lu Yuan rescued Xiao Chi, Bi Yao, and the surviving fox spirits from the ruins of Fox Qi Mountain, then left to pursue his plans across the cultivation sects. In a dilapidated temple, he created five bodies and sent them toward Qingyun Sect, Incense Valley, Blood Refinement Hall, Ghost King Sect, and Heavenly Sound Temple.

• Xiao Chi named Heavenly Sound Temple as the culprit behind her mother's death and became Fox Qi Mountain's recognized new master.
• Lu Yuan carried the surviving fox spirits out of the buried cave in several trips, gave Xiao Chi food, and left without asking for thanks.
• Xiao Chi and Bi Yao rang a golden bell as Lu Yuan walked away, and he waved back before continuing on his journey.
• After reaching a dilapidated temple, Lu Yuan planned separate identities for infiltrating five major factions and created five child bodies using his flesh and blood.
• The five bodies named themselves Dongfang Yuan, Liu Yuan, Lu Yuan, Nameless Yuan, and Lu Yuan, gathered different supplies, and departed toward their assigned factions.

Lu Yuan gathered information in Heyang City before Qingyun Sect began recruiting disciples, then explained how its character trial might work. The assessment began with the Path-Seeking Steps, leaving Lu Yuan to watch as the candidates faced the challenge.

• Lu Yuan overheard that Qingyun Sect recruited disciples every ten years and was holding its assessment in Heyang City.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that Qingyun Sect would accept exceptionally talented candidates despite questionable motives, while Dongfang Yuan needed a convincing Southern Border background to join Incense Valley.
• Qingyun Sect cultivators arrived in Heyang City and announced an assessment of innate talent followed by the Path-Seeking Steps, a trial of character.
• Lu Yuan speculated that the jade steps showed candidates illusions based on their fears and desires, and a nearby youth confirmed that past candidates had reported strange visions.
• Lu Yuan advised the talented youth to reflect on why he sought immortality and what he truly wanted before facing the Path-Seeking Steps.