Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo investigated an intruder at Mount Fangcun and found the black-snake youth he had encountered before, who tried to trade a pile of stolen goods for fruit. The youth transformed into the Exotic Beast Nine-Headed Infant, while Bai Qingqing began investigating whether Bai Mo was really Chen Luo.

• Chen Luo hurried toward an infant's cries at the foot of Mount Fangcun, suspecting someone had infiltrated the area.
• Bai Qingqing asked Granny Lie to have human spies investigate Chen Luo and suspected Bai Mo might be him because of their similar manner and writing.
• Chen Luo found the black-snake youth squatting by the shore and making infant cries to get his attention.
• The youth offered Chen Luo stolen silver and other loot in exchange for fruit, but Chen Luo had none that he wanted.
• The youth grew angry, unleashed his Demonic Power, and transformed into the Nine-Headed Infant.

Chen Luo discovered that the Nine Infant was a lonely, childlike beast who had been confused by consuming Demonic Energy. After learning what the boy had endured, Chen Luo severed the Heart Fruit’s control and invited him to make Mount Fangcun his home.

• The Nine Infant tried to frighten Chen Luo into giving him fruit, but Chen Luo coaxed him into explaining what he wanted.
• Chen Luo realized the Nine Infant wanted a Heart Fruit and gave him one after warning that eating it might make him obey.
• As the Nine Infant ate, Chen Luo saw fragments of his memories: he had hatched alone, met a Master who taught him rules, and later copied bandits to collect silver.
• Chen Luo formed a spiritual connection with the Nine Infant through the Heart Fruit, then deliberately severed it.
• Chen Luo told the Nine Infant that Mount Fangcun would be his home and promised he would never go hungry again, making the boy cry with happiness.

Chen Luo settled Nine Infant at Mount Fangcun and committed to guiding and protecting him. Meanwhile, Qingqiu, Yu Yuan, and Jun Ji began spreading Yingning through the Southern Wasteland, making Mr. Strange Tales famous among the demon kingdoms.

• Chen Luo rejected Lord He's warning about Nine Infant's reputation and decided to guide him at Mount Fangcun.
• She Xiangxiang told her mother about the Jingze Poetry Gathering, and the Snake Mother advised her to work with her elder brother to win over Bai Ze.
• Shi Man'er sought the White Ape Holy Monarch's approval to ally with Chen Luo, and the Holy Monarch's divination led him to order Yingning distributed throughout Jun Ji.
• Bai Qingqing told Bai Lanlan that Yingning benefited the fox clan, and Bai Lanlan ordered copies circulated throughout Qingqiu.
• Qingqiu, Yu Yuan, and Jun Ji jointly spread Yingning, and Mr. Strange Tales' name began circulating through the Southern Wasteland.

Hu Beiwang prepared to flee Qingqiu with his family, but the royal palace appointed him a Palace Professor and announced that Bai Mo’s story Yingning could help demons cultivate. As Yingning spread across the demon kingdoms and drew envoys to Mount Fangcun, a shadowy figure threatened to ruin Bai Mo if he failed to write another story within three months.

• Hu Beiwang closed his academy and prepared to take his wife and children north to escape the anti-human movement in Qingqiu.
• A Peach Blossom Envoy appointed Hu Beiwang a Palace Professor and announced that studying Bai Mo’s Yingning could produce an aura that eased demons’ difficulty absorbing sun essence.
• The demons of Qingqiu rallied around Hu Beiwang, offered to protect his academy, and persuaded him to stay and teach.
• Shi Man'er gave A Yan a jade slip containing Yingning, and A Yan discovered that its blue aura made absorbing sun essence more bearable.
• Yingning spread through Jun Ji Kingdom, Qingqiu Kingdom, and Yu Yuan Kingdom, while envoys from other kingdoms sought permission to circulate it and the anti-human movement lost momentum.
• A shadowy figure warned that Bai Mo’s reputation would be ruined unless he wrote another story within three months.

As Yingning spread through the Demon kingdoms, Chen Luo helped Little Nine Infant join Mount Fangcun and discovered that this increased the mountain’s circulation of Primordial Chaos Qi, letting him prepare another piece soon. In the Central Capital, Yan Baichuan realized that the Bai Ze who wrote Yingning might actually be Chen Luo and hurried toward the Lingzhou Bamboo Forest.

• Lord He reported that sixteen Demon kingdom delegations had gathered near Jingze Lake, waiting to see whether the Little Martial Uncle would write again.
• Chen Luo explained the risks and benefits of joining Mount Fangcun to Little Nine Infant, who agreed and entrusted a wisp of its divine soul to the mountain.
• After Little Nine Infant joined, Chen Luo sensed Mount Fangcun absorbing and circulating Primordial Chaos Qi faster and realized he might have enough to write another piece by sunset.
• Yan Baichuan read Yingning, learned that Bai Ze’s work had reached the level of a Six Thousand Li Martial Dao book, and ordered Wenchang Pavilion to monitor the matter.
• Yan Baichuan recalled that the Bai Ze in the bamboo forest was Chen Luo’s Third Senior Brother and suspected Chen Luo had taken on a new identity, so he flew toward the Lingzhou Bamboo Forest.

Chen Luo completed Jiao Na, whose story created a cultivation-boosting Virtual Core for demons and stirred a Heavenly Dao Tide. As demon clans gathered outside Mount Fangcun to meet him, Chen Luo calmed them with a bell and told them to wait while he continued writing.

• Envoys from Southern Wilderness demon clans waited near Jingze Lake, while a Bear Demon led his clan toward the lake after growing tired of waiting.
• Chen Luo finished Jiao Na and discovered its Book Spirit core could form an auxiliary demon core, while readers gained a Virtual Core that increased cultivation.
• A Heavenly Dao Tide swept from Jingze Lake, prompting the demon envoys to rush toward Mount Fangcun.
• Ao Lingling warned Chen Luo that a large group of demons was approaching, and he went outside with his sword, prepared for an attack.
• The arriving demon clans requested an audience, but Ao Lingling told them Chen Luo was still writing and they would have to wait.
• Chen Luo rang Mount Fangcun’s Mind-Calming Thunderclap, soothed the demons, and sent them back to cultivating under the moonlight.

Chen Luo tested whether he could remove the blue aura from demons, then used Jiao Na and a bloodline oath to pressure the demon races to choose whether to ally with Mount Fangcun. The chapter ended with the demons rushing to spread his ultimatum ahead of a gathering at the full moon next month.

• Chen Luo tested condemned demons and found that dispersing their blue aura did not undo the strength they had gained, but prevented them from generating more by reading his books.
• Chen Luo welcomed roughly three hundred demons from sixteen races to a dojo and gave their leaders copies of Jiao Na to read.
• After the demons praised Jiao Na and made offers for the right to circulate it, Chen Luo swore by the Bai Ze bloodline to fill the stone steles with Heavenly Dao Demon Race writings within three years.
• Chen Luo allowed the demons to circulate Yingning and Jiao Na, and told the races to come to Mount Fangcun at the full moon next month if they wanted rights to his future books.
• The demons recognized the ultimatum's significance, and one immediately sent subordinates to spread Chen Luo's message to the major demon races.

Ling Qianren rejected Lang Yuan’s attempt to turn Qingqiu against its royal clan after Jiao Na restored his daughter Ling Qi’s damaged demon core. As Jiao Na spread through the Southern Wasteland, Bai Mo’s reputation soared, and Wen Yun Sun decided to attend the gathering at Mount Fangcun.

• Lang Yuan tried to persuade Ling Qianren to rebel against Qingqiu’s royal clan and ban the Wondrous Texts, but Ling Qianren hesitated.
• Ling Qianren learned that Jiao Na had formed a Virtual Core in Ling Qi and restored her damaged demon core, allowing her to advance back into the Spirit Realm.
• Ling Qianren read Jiao Na and learned that Bai Mo had sworn to write at least thirty Wondrous Texts in three years and invited the major Demon Races to a full-moon gathering at Mount Fangcun.
• Ling Qianren denounced Lang Yuan for plotting to split the Fox Race and killed him when he tried to flee.
• Wen Yun Sun watched Ling Qianren’s assassination of Lang Yuan and decided to attend the Mount Fangcun gathering.
• Jiao Na spread rapidly across the Southern Wasteland, raising Bai Mo’s fame, drawing demons to learn to read, and increasing demand for human Confucian teachers.

As demon kingdoms sent envoys toward Mount Fangcun to secure access to Bai Mo’s writings, Yan Baichuan uncovered that Bai Mo was Chen Luo and asked the Bamboo Forest to help humanity publish the Wondrous Texts. Old Seven hinted that someone else would handle publication, leaving the identity of that helper unresolved.

• Xiong Mang urged the Bear Clan king to send gifts to Mount Fangcun, and the king agreed after saying the clan’s women had already decided to seek ties with Bai Ze.
• Jin Chen was whipped for losing to Bai Ze and told to travel to Mount Fangcun with his wounds still visible.
• The Wolf Lord rejected calls to attack Mount Fangcun and ordered the wolf clan to attend the gathering for the chance to gain strength.
• Yan Baichuan used a chess game to confirm that the disguised Lang Feixian was the real First Mister and learned that Bai Mo was Chen Luo, the Bamboo Forest’s Younger Junior Brother.
• Old Seven refused to let the Wenchang Pavilion publish the books but said someone else would help, then wrote the character “Fang” on the table.

Fang Huaji identified Chen Luo’s Literary Fame as the Fang family’s greatest problem, and the family decided to promote a Demon Race writer called White Marsh as a rival. The Fang family planned to court White Marsh and distribute his Red Dust writings, while Chen Luo remained unaware of their scheme.

• Fang Huaji reflected on the Fang family’s troubles and learned that the Ancestors intended to use the Third Ancestor’s Saintly Path to aid the family’s descendants.
• Bamboo Forest Old Seven told Yan Baichuan that his clones had gathered information about Chen Luo’s actions among the Demon Race and would guide the Fang family toward it.
• Fang Huaping presented the Fang family elders with White Marsh’s poems and writings, explaining that they could produce Red Dust Qi and had no connection to Chen Luo.
• Fang Huaji persuaded the elders to introduce White Marsh’s writings to Great Xuan, recruit him, and use him to challenge Chen Luo’s Literary Fame.
• Fang Huaji chose Fang Huaping to represent the family at the Fangcun Full Moon Gathering and ordered him to win White Marsh over; Chen Luo sneezed at Mount Fangcun and wondered why his eyelid kept twitching.

The Fang Family promoted Bai Ze’s writings across Great Xuan and pushed to negotiate with him, while Yan Baichuan opposed the move over fears it could threaten Chen Luo’s Literary Fame. At Mount Fangcun, She Xiangxiang, Bai Qingqing, and Shi Man’er reunited with Chen Luo, who hinted that the Ape-Monkey Clan might become protagonists and introduced his sworn brothers.

• Fang Huaping arranged for Yingning and Jiao Na to be copied and circulated across Great Xuan to announce the Fang Family’s involvement.
• Fang Huaji argued with Yan Baichuan at Wenchang Pavilion over the Fang Family’s plan to promote Bai Ze’s writings, and Leng Hanbing wagered six Great Scholar’s Literary Treasures that Bai Ze would boost Chen Luo’s fame.
• Yan Baichuan allowed the Fang Family to proceed on its own, while Leng Hanbing discreetly signaled that their confrontation had been staged.
• She Xiangxiang and Bai Qingqing arrived at Mount Fangcun with gifts for Chen Luo, and She Xiangxiang flirted with him before Bai Qingqing interrupted.
• Shi Man’er tasted Bai Qingqing’s pastries to show caution toward her, then asked Chen Luo when the Ape-Monkey Clan would get a story with its members as protagonists.
• Chen Luo told Shi Man’er that this was Mount Fangcun and introduced Bai Xiaojiao and Jin Guagua as his sworn younger brothers; Jin Guagua insisted he was the second brother.

Chen Luo inducted the Nine-tailed Infant into the Bai Ze Monster Scroll, raising him to the Fourth Rank and allowing him to speak. The scroll then unleashed a startling power across Mount Fangcun, revealing primordial Ancestral Shadows and leaving Shi Man'er astonished.

• She Xiangxiang, Bai Qingqing, and Shi Man'er recognized the Nine-tailed Infant's extraordinary bloodline, and Chen Luo identified him openly.
• She Xiangxiang, Bai Qingqing, and Shi Man'er gave the Nine-tailed Infant gifts, which he accepted with Chen Luo's permission.
• Chen Luo inducted the Nine-tailed Infant into the Bai Ze Monster Scroll before the three demons, and the scroll's solar essence helped them cultivate.
• The Nine-tailed Infant emerged from the scroll at the Fourth Rank, appeared older, and gained the ability to make his infant cry aloud.
• The scroll's return to Chen Luo triggered a surge of power that enveloped Mount Fangcun and revealed Ancestral Shadows to the gathered demons.
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Chen Luo discovered that the Bai Ze Monster Scroll had summoned an incomplete Classic of Mountains and Seas, which could create exotic-beast blood-shadows using beast aura from demons recorded in the scroll. After the blood-shadows appeared, he offered Shi Man'er, Bai Qingqing, and She Xiangxiang a chance to enter the Bai Ze Monster Scroll, and Bai Qingqing arranged to meet him that night.

• Chen Luo learned that the Bai Ze Monster Scroll had drawn out an incomplete Classic of Mountains and Seas containing records of exotic beasts and requiring beast aura to reveal them.
• Chen Luo realized the Book of Demons and Ghosts had shortened the Bai Ze Monster Scroll's cooldown, letting him use it again after about half a day.
• After the blood-shadows faded, Shi Man'er, Bai Qingqing, and She Xiangxiang asked Chen Luo what had happened, and he attributed it to the Bai Ze Monster Scroll.
• Chen Luo offered the three demons group portraits in the Bai Ze Monster Scroll, and they agreed to take turns entering it.
• Bai Qingqing arranged to wait for Chen Luo in a grove two or three li from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio after dinner.

Chen Luo went to Bai Qingqing’s secluded grove and helped her enter the Bai Ze Painting, but the surge of demonic power made her attack him and drain his vital essence. Yun Siyao’s azure-hair bracelet stopped her, leaving Chen Luo worried that Sixth Senior Sister knew what had happened.

• Chen Luo entered Bai Qingqing’s fog-shrouded grove and sang a song that cleared a path to her hut.
• Bai Qingqing explained that she had to be uncovered to transform, then revealed her six-tailed fox form.
• Chen Luo summoned the Bai Ze Monster Scroll and added Bai Qingqing to the painting, restoring her fourth-grade strength.
• Bai Qingqing lost control of her demonic power, attacked Chen Luo, and began sucking out his vital essence.
• Yun Siyao’s azure-hair bracelet became a dragon and stunned Bai Qingqing, who regained her senses and fled behind a screen.
• Chen Luo stared at the bracelet and worried that Sixth Senior Sister knew about the incident.

Chen Luo emerged from the woods after Yun Siyao’s Black Silk Dragon Soul had restored Bai Qingqing’s sanity, then met with Fang Huaping, who offered the Fang Family’s support to Mount Fangcun. The chapter left Chen Luo stunned by the contents of Fang Huaping’s storage pouch.

• Yun Siyao’s hidden Dragon Soul dispersed Bai Qingqing’s demonic thoughts, and Chen Luo worried about explaining what had happened to Sixth Senior Sister.
• Fang Huaping arrived at Mount Fangcun with four Great Scholars and claimed the Fang Family could help Chen Luo gain resources, allies, methods, and a suitable place.
• Chen Luo welcomed Fang Huaping and his companions after learning the Fang Family could support his ambitions.
• Fang Huaping met Chen Luo privately at Liaozhai while Jiuying stayed beside him and the three demons warned Fang Huaping before leaving.
• Fang Huaping offered to promote Chen Luo’s articles throughout the human race and showed him an exquisite storage pouch, leaving Chen Luo astonished.

Chen Luo negotiated with Fang Huaping and became a Fang Family attendant in exchange for a large offering, while keeping the Emperor Demon bone at Mount Fangcun. After Fang Huaping departed, a scholar from the Town Profound Division appeared and greeted Chen Luo as Marquis Wu.

• Fang Huaping showed Chen Luo a fragment of bone from a peak Emperor Demon's severed arm and offered it to him once he reached First Rank Great Sage.
• Fang Huaping asked Chen Luo, as White Mo, to become a Fang Family attendant and use his writings to suppress Chen Luo and keep readers from opposing the Fang Family.
• Chen Luo saw through the Fang Family's scheme, then demanded more payment before agreeing to become their attendant and swearing an oath by the White Marsh bloodline.
• Fang Huaping agreed to leave the Emperor Demon bone temporarily at Mount Fangcun and assigned two Second Rank Great Scholar attendants to serve Chen Luo.
• After Fang Huaping left, a scholar appeared before Chen Luo and identified himself as someone from the Town Profound Division, greeting him as Marquis Wu.

Wen Yun Sun revealed himself to Chen Luo as the Southern King of the Town Profound Division and helped protect Chen Luo’s concealed identity while discussing the Fang family’s schemes. He warned that the Tiger Race might disrupt Mount Fangcun’s upcoming Fangcun Gathering, leaving Chen Luo to face a powerful new threat led by the Winged Tiger lineage.

• Wen Yun Sun proved his identity by reciting his famous poem, and Chen Luo recognized him as the Southern King and greeted him respectfully.
• Wen Yun Sun gave Chen Luo a Myriad Demon Pill that would shield his bloodline from investigation and advised him to use his teacher’s Half-Saint Strike if necessary.
• Chen Luo explained the Fang family’s plans, and he and Wen Yun Sun discussed the distorted teachings of the School of Principle and why the Fang family could not yet be openly removed.
• Wen Yun Sun warned that the Fang family’s scheme could not yet be reported to the Sacred Hall because doing so might expose Chen Luo’s identity.
• Wen Yun Sun told Chen Luo that the Tiger Race might make trouble at the Fangcun Gathering, then explained its strength and identified the likely threat as the Winged Tiger lineage.
• Wen Yun Sun revealed that Feng Nanzhi, a First Rank Great Sage of the Emperor Demon Bloodline, ruled the Tiger Race.

Wen Yun Sun explained the Five Emperor Bloodlines and warned Chen Luo about Feng Nanzhi and Feng Liancheng’s threat to the human race. After correcting Chen Luo’s complacency and removing the tampering from the Emperor Demon Bone, Wen Yun Sun departed to investigate an urgent matter, while Chen Luo resolved to help him become a Saint.

• Wen Yun Sun explained the Five Emperor Bloodlines, identified Feng Nanzhi as the fifth White Tiger Emperor Demon, and named Feng Liancheng as the likely mastermind behind the trouble at Mount Fangcun.
• Wen Yun Sun urged Chen Luo to build up Great Xuan’s influence in the Southern Wasteland, and Chen Luo reluctantly agreed to do his best.
• Chen Luo showed Wen Yun Sun the Emperor Demon Bone, and Wen Yun Sun discovered and removed the Fang Family’s tampering.
• Wen Yun Sun admonished Chen Luo to remain open and upright, and Chen Luo accepted the lesson.
• Wen Yun Sun offered to trade the Emperor Demon Bone for a tribulation aid for Chen Luo’s Third Senior Brother, then explained the Ancestor Demon Tribulation.
• Wen Yun Sun revealed that he was at the peak of the Seeking Realm and was pursuing the Path of Righteous Qi before leaving to investigate an urgent matter; Chen Luo silently resolved that Wen Tianxiang would become a Saint.

Fang Huaping secured Bai Mo’s cooperation with the Fang Family, which launched a publicity campaign to make the Bai Ze’s writing rival Chen Luo’s. As Bai Mo’s stories swept Central Capital and Willow Academy, Chen Luo woke to a surge of Red Dust Qi and She Xiangxiang teased him about entering his Bai Ze Painting.

• Fang Huaping reported his agreement with Chen Luo to the Fang Family council, and Fang Huaji explained that the Emperor Demon Bone had been offered as bait under a protective restriction.
• Fang Huaji ordered the Fang Family to welcome Bai Mo into its Guest Minister Hall and promote his writing throughout its network.
• Xu Laoqi discovered Bai Mo’s stories being performed in Central Capital and entered a teahouse to judge the Demon Race writer’s work.
• Willow Academy students argued over the heroines Yingning and Jiao Na, while Kong Tianfang praised Bai Mo’s writing and hoped it would pressure Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo woke to find his Red Dust Qi surging and She Xiangxiang playfully asked whether she could enter his Bai Ze Painting.

Chen Luo learned that the Ape-Monkey Clan had rejected a plot to undermine him at the Fangcun Full Moon Gathering and offered him a powerful alliance in exchange for his allegiance. He refused to leave Mount Fangcun, then revealed he knew the Winged Tiger lineage was behind the plot and prepared to enter the Bai Ze Monster Scroll with Shi Man'er.

• She Xiangxiang advanced to the Fourth Rank Spirit Fusion Realm after Chen Luo used his Divine Ability to guide her into the Bai Ze Monster Scroll, then teased Shi Man'er before leaving.
• Shi Man'er warned Chen Luo that members of the Demon Race had asked the Ape-Monkey Clan to make trouble for him at the Fangcun Full Moon Gathering, but the Ape Lord had refused.
• Shi Man'er shared the Ape Lord's prophecy and offered Chen Luo the title of Bai Ze King and a thousand li of land if he joined Jun Ji Kingdom and served the Ape-Monkey Clan.
• Chen Luo declined the offer and proposed that Jun Ji Kingdom instead submit to Mount Fangcun, offering the Ape-Monkey Clan the First Peak among his twelve domains.
• Chen Luo identified the King and Winged Tiger lineage as the forces inciting opposition, startling Shi Man'er.
• Chen Luo decided to resume entering the scroll with Shi Man'er, hoping to summon an ancestral demon's blood shadow through his Zhu Yan bloodline.