Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo wrote a passage that summoned a powerful Zhen Spirit, which broke loose and attacked him on Mount Sumeru. Just as the demons failed to stop it, a mysterious woman subdued it and greeted Chen Luo as Little Bai Ze.

• Chen Luo drew a Zhen beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and wrote an illustrated passage that brought its Spirit to life.
• The Zhen Spirit broke out of Chen Luo’s study and fled across Mount Sumeru, where Shi Man'er, Bai Qingqing, and She Xiangxiang tried to restrain it.
• The Zhen Spirit broke free of the demons’ attacks, revealed Great Sage-level power, and turned hostile toward Chen Luo.
• As the Zhen Spirit lunged at Chen Luo, a woman arrived, pinned it beneath her foot, and called him Little Bai Ze.
• Bai Qingqing recognized the woman as her Eldest Sister.

Bai Yan Yan arrived at Mount Fangcun and discovered Chen Luo’s connection to Bai Xiao, whom she identified as her husband. After learning Bai Xiao was hiding to face his Ancestor Demon Tribulation, she decided to wait for him while Chen Luo offered to entertain her with stories.

• Bai Yan Yan met Bai Qingqing and the other demons, questioned how Qingqing had advanced her cultivation, and collected Shi Man'er’s Monkey Brew as a state gift.
• Bai Yan Yan dismissed the other demons and asked Chen Luo where Bai Xiao was, revealing that she was Bai Xiao’s wife and had guarded Si Zhu Kingdom for him.
• Chen Luo initially denied knowing Bai Xiao, but called Bai Yan Yan his Third Senior Sister-in-law when she let the Zhen Beast attack him.
• Bai Yan Yan recognized Chen Luo’s connection to Bai Xiao’s second heart and promised to keep his identity secret.
• Chen Luo told Bai Yan Yan that Bai Xiao was avoiding his Ancestor Demon Tribulation in a grotto-heaven, and she agreed to wait while they discussed the Zhen Beast.
• In Tianjue Forest, Bai Xiao sensed danger, examined his Monster Scroll of beautiful demon women, and resolved to hide for centuries so they would all marry and have children.

Yu Jia failed to assassinate Chen Luo, while Bai Yan Yan explained that his articles could use Demon Race fortune to create Ancestor Demon blood shadows and helped him bind the Zheng Beast shadow. The Zheng Beast article proved capable of helping its bloodline reach the Great Sage Realm, and a Leopard lineage heir failed to awaken a Zheng bloodline as a Tiger Demon declared that the lineage could never succeed without Tiger lineage support.

• Yu Jia failed to kill Chen Luo and vowed to find his weakness, then decided to listen to Bai Mo's stories instead of Chen Luo's.
• Bai Yan Yan explained that Chen Luo's articles could draw on Demon Race fortune to form Ancestor Demon blood shadows, and she told him the Zheng Beast shadow carried the Demon Race's will.
• Chen Luo used his blood to bind the Zheng Beast shadow to its original manuscript, ending its hostility toward him.
• Chen Luo discovered that Demon Race members with Zheng Beast blood could enter the article and use the shadow to awaken or strengthen their Zheng Beast lineage.
• Bai Yan Yan offered to arrange for Chen Luo to marry Qingqing or Bai Lanlan, but Chen Luo resisted her matchmaking.
• A Leopard lineage heir failed to form a Zheng shadow, and a Tiger Demon declared that the Leopard lineage would never produce a Zheng Ancestor without Tiger lineage support.

Chen Luo accepted Bai Yan Yan’s offer to become Qingqiu’s Imperial Preceptor in exchange for writing a Fox Race Great Sage–level Wondrous Text, and he approached Shi Man'er and She Xiangxiang about writing texts for their clans. The chapter ended when blood-covered Ao Lingling brought a group of Jade Rabbit Demons to Mount Fangcun and said their blood was connected to the Leopard Race.

• Bai Yan Yan dropped the marriage alliance proposal and asked Chen Luo to become Qingqiu’s Imperial Preceptor, offering protection in exchange for a Fox Race Great Sage–level Wondrous Text within a year.
• Chen Luo negotiated limits on which enemy races Qingqiu could block from obtaining his Wondrous Texts, and Bai Yan Yan said Qingqing would reside at Mount Fangcun.
• Chen Luo told Shi Man'er and She Xiangxiang about the Zheng Beast Wondrous Text and invited them to consult their clans about joining the arrangement.
• Chen Luo sensed something was wrong and went outside, where Ao Lingling arrived at Mount Fangcun covered in blood.
• Ao Lingling released more than thirty Jade Rabbit Demons from a crystal ball and introduced them to Chen Luo as Mount Fangcun’s new residents.
• Chen Luo asked about the blood, and Ao Lingling said it was connected to the Leopard Race.

Chen Luo learned that the Leopard Race had ambushed the Jade Rabbit delegation, likely at the Tiger Race’s direction, and discovered that the Leopard Race’s path to becoming Ancestor Demons depended on the Zheng Beast bloodline. Since Chen Luo possessed that bloodline, he saw a chance to gain leverage over the Leopard Race.

• Ao Lingling explained that she had rescued thirty-two Jade Rabbit maids from a Leopard Race ambush and brought them to Mount Fangcun.
• Zhuiyue and the other Rabbit Demons eagerly accepted Chen Luo’s life-and-death restriction, and Chen Luo entrusted them with Mount Fangcun’s daily affairs.
• Shi Man'er explained that the Leopard Race were known as Followers of the Tiger and that the Tiger Race might have ordered the ambush.
• She Xiangxiang and Shi Man'er recounted how a Leopard Race Ancestor Demon had devoured his clan’s bloodlines, challenged the White Tiger Emperor, and left the clan’s Zheng Beast bloodline sealed.
• Chen Luo realized that his own Zheng Beast bloodline could help the Leopard Race become Ancestor Demons and began considering how to exploit the opportunity.

Chen Luo weighed the risks of sharing the Zhen-beast text with the Leopard Race and learned that Bao Chengzhu had failed to trace the Zhen Ancestor's bloodline. Bao Chengzhu concealed the truth about the White Tiger seal and faced a short life as Lie'er arrived with an urgent warning.

• Chen Luo considered how the Zhen-beast text could help the Leopard Race but feared the Tiger Race would seize on it and the Leopard Race would side with its oppressors.
• Bai Qingqing told Chen Luo that Bao Chengzhu had failed to trace the Zhen Ancestor's blood shadow and was in dire circumstances.
• Bao Chengzhu recalled how the Leopard Race had sacrificed resources and his grandfather's lifespan to make him their hope of becoming the Zhen Ancestor.
• Bao Chengzhu realized the White Tiger seal forced Zhen-blooded leopards to relive the Zhen Ancestor's defeat, leaving them only the choice of submitting to the Tiger Race or overcoming an Imperial Demon imprint.
• Bao Chengzhu kept his discovery secret, believing he had failed his clan and had only about ten years to live, until Lie'er rushed up and told him to hurry and go.

Bao Chengzhu faced the Tiger Race’s attempt to force him into the Tiger Leopard Gathering, but Chen Luo appeared as the mysterious Old Ze and restored his Zheng Beast bloodline. Bao Chengzhu awoke with his power returned and a jade slip from Old Ze, while Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun vanished.

• Bao Lie warned Bao Chengzhu that the Tiger Race had named him for the Tiger Leopard Gathering and urged him to flee, but Bao Chengzhu knocked Bao Lie unconscious and chose to face the clan’s pressure.
• Chen Luo appeared before Bao Chengzhu as Old Ze and offered to restore his Zheng Beast bloodline if Bao Chengzhu lowered his mental defenses.
• Chen Luo used a Divine Ability and his blood to revive Bao Chengzhu’s Zheng Beast bloodline, then gave him a jade talisman and told him to win the gathering and crush it.
• Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun departed, and Wen Yun Sun realized Chen Luo had deliberately set Bao Chengzhu against the Tiger Race by restoring his strength.
• Bao Lie found Bao Chengzhu after he awoke, and Bao Chengzhu discovered his Zheng Beast bloodline had returned and that Old Ze had not been a dream.

Bao Chengzhu returned to the Stone Hall after recovering his Zhen beast bloodline and agreed to attend the Tiger Leopard Gathering, while Bao Feng secretly resolved to protect him. After learning that Bao Chengzhu might bypass the White Tiger Imprint with Old Ze’s method, Bao Feng began planning how to use the gathering; meanwhile, Chen Luo revealed that he wanted the entire leopard clan.

• Bao Ju argued that Bao Chengzhu should face the Tiger Clan and that the leopard clan should cooperate with the Winged Tiger lineage, while Bao Ying opposed sacrificing him.
• Bao Feng offered to accept the Tiger Clan’s soul restriction in Bao Chengzhu’s place, but Bao Chengzhu returned and volunteered to attend the Tiger Leopard Gathering.
• Bao Feng took Bao Chengzhu into seclusion, discovered his Zhen beast bloodline had recovered, and learned about Old Ze’s method for bypassing the White Tiger Imprint.
• Bao Feng decided the leopard clan had to attend the gathering and began forming a plan to protect Bao Chengzhu after he exposed himself.
• Chen Luo told Wen Yun Sun that he wanted the entire leopard clan, not merely Bao Chengzhu.

Bao Ju learned that the Winged Tiger lineage planned to kill Bao Chengzhu and use the threat to draw the Leopard Race into an alliance. While Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun waited in the Southern Wilderness, they came across a wounded Tiger Clan general who died protecting the Kirin Incense, which Chen Luo then obtained.

• Bao Ju learned from a Winged Tiger Great Sage that the Tiger Clan knew about the Zhen Ancestor Plan and that Feng Liancheng had ordered Bao Chengzhu's death to pressure the Leopard Race into aligning with the Winged Tiger lineage.
• Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun bickered while waiting in a marsh, then sensed a Great Sage battle and went to investigate.
• A black-robed attacker pursued General Feng and demanded the Kirin Incense, but she refused to surrender it and swallowed it before exploding in an attack.
• General Feng re-formed as a tiny blood tiger, recovered the Kirin Incense, and tried to flee.
• Wen Yun Sun bound the blood tiger, and he and Chen Luo claimed the Kirin Incense.

Chen Luo received the Kirin Incense from Wen Yun Sun after they dealt with a dying Tiger Clan Great Sage, while Tiger Clan Empress Feng Nanzhi ordered an investigation into the Kirin Tomb. As the Tiger Leopard Gathering began at Hidden Mist Mountain, the Tiger Clan provoked the Leopard Clan until Bao Chengzhu’s Heavenly Pride Army rescued the targeted girls, leaving a Tiger youth boasting about killing Bao Chengzhu.

• Wen Yun Sun explained that the blood tiger was a dead Nine-Headed Tiger Great Sage who had preserved its final obsession, then dispersed it with the Great Words of Meaning.
• Wen Yun Sun gave Chen Luo the Kirin Incense as a gift, explaining its possible use in awakening the bloodlines of offspring, and Chen Luo stored it away.
• Tiger Clan Great Sages reported Feng Yu’s death to Empress Feng Nanzhi, who ordered them to investigate clans connected to the Kirin and search for clues about the Kirin Tomb.
• At the Tiger Leopard Gathering, Great Sage Feng Nu asserted that the Tiger Clan would control the response to trouble on its own territory, while Bao Feng accepted the arrangement.
• Tiger Clan youths harassed Leopard Clan girls, but Bao Chengzhu’s Heavenly Pride Army intervened and escorted the girls back to their formation.
• A Tiger Clan youth mocked the Heavenly Pride Army and said he intended to kill Bao Chengzhu and taste his Zheng Beast bloodline.

As the Tiger Leopard Gathering began, the Tiger Clan and its allies sought to crush the Leopard Race, while Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun watched and discussed the contest’s rules. The Leopard youths rallied to resist, but a Tiger-Eating Biao appeared to break their last defensive line.

• The Tiger Clan humiliated the Leopard youths, prompting the Heavenly Pride Army to intervene and rekindle their hope in Bao Chengzhu.
• Bao Chengzhu watched the violence from hiding, resolved to gamble on Chen Luo’s jade slip and pursue the ancestor-demon bloodline his race needed.
• Wen Yun Sun explained to Chen Luo that the gathering was a territorial contest followed by a possible life-and-death challenge from the losing side’s Young Master.
• The Tiger Clan and pro-Tiger Leopard lineages attacked their neighbors, while Bao Ju defended the Flame Leopard lineage’s actions before Bao Feng and the other leaders.
• The Leopard Race’s factions joined forces and resisted until the Tiger Clan surrounded their final territory at night.
• A smiling young tiger wounded Bao Yuan and revealed himself as a Tiger-Eating Biao.

At the Tiger Leopard Gathering, Bao Chengzhu entered the fight against Biao Cheng, the Tiger-Eating Biao sent by the Winged Tiger lineage. After surprising the crowd with his restored strength, Bao Chengzhu faced Biao Cheng’s Tiger Soul attack and revealed that the Leopard Race had a Zhen.

• Biao Cheng defeated the Leopard Race’s remaining fighters and prepared to attack the wounded Bao Ling.
• Bao Chengzhu stopped Biao Cheng from striking Bao Ling, declared that he would challenge him, and received the Great Sage’s approval.
• Chen Luo watched the contest and admitted to Wen Yun Sun that he had no definite plan for exploiting the conflict between the Tiger and Leopard races.
• Bao Chengzhu struck Biao Cheng with overwhelming speed and strength, prompting the Great Sages to suspect Bao Feng had used treasures to force his son’s recovery.
• Biao Cheng transformed and unleashed sixteen Tiger Souls, but Bao Chengzhu stood his ground and declared, “The Leopard Race has a Zhen!”

Bao Chengzhu killed Biao Cheng and a Tiger Clan Great Sage, then escaped a confrontation between the Tiger and Leopard Clans by swearing a bloodline oath to leave the Leopard Clan. After fleeing with Chen Luo’s jade slip, he learned that Mission A was complete and his reward was being settled.

• Bao Chengzhu’s Zhen Beast Bloodline suppressed Biao Cheng, who died after deliberately provoking the Tiger Clan Great Sage to attack.
• Bao Chengzhu used his Leopard Tooth Pendant to kill the Tiger Clan Great Sage, and Feng Lin demanded that he be taken to the Tiger Clan for judgment.
• Bao Ju proposed sending Bao Chengzhu to the Tiger Clan, but Bao Chengzhu rejected the plan and knelt before Bao Feng.
• Bao Chengzhu swore a bloodline oath to betray the Leopard Clan, then escaped with a Ten Thousand Miles Following Wind Talisman as Bao Feng ordered his removal from the clan registry.
• Bao Chengzhu crushed Chen Luo’s jade slip and heard that he had completed Mission A and that his reward was being settled.

Chen Luo gave Bao Chengzhu the Zhen Beast text to help him overcome the White Tiger Mark and sent him toward the Kirin Domain, while keeping his identity secret. Feng Nanzhi sensed a bloodline tremor and postponed a meeting with Feng Bugui.

• Chen Luo and Wen Yun Sun reasoned that Bao Chengzhu's betrayal could let him return later and establish a new Leopard Clan, then went to meet him.
• Bao Chengzhu told Chen Luo that his father had arranged for him to seek refuge in the Kirin Domain, where the strong were forbidden from attacking the weak.
• Chen Luo gave Bao Chengzhu the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Zhen Chapter and warned that using its power would bind him to the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Luo vanished after reciting a poem about spreading the Dao among demons, and Bao Chengzhu bowed in gratitude.
• Feng Nanzhi felt a bloodline tremor, wondered whether it concerned the previous White Tiger, and told a maid to make Feng Bugui wait.

After learning that Jing beasts had injured Ao Lingling and detained three delegations, Chen Luo decided Mount Fangcun would confront them directly. He sent the mountain flying east toward the Jing, leaving the assembled demons stunned and Shi Man'er recording the spectacle.

• Bai Qingqing explained that Jing beasts had detained three delegations, and Ao Lingling had been injured fighting them.
• Ao Lingling revealed that two Jing beasts had suppressed him with a Beast Blood Array.
• Chen Luo summoned two Fang Family Great Scholars and said they should fight the Jing while he handled the array.
• Chen Luo made Mount Fangcun rise from Jingze Lake and fly east toward the Jing territory.
• Chen Luo asked Shi Man'er to record the mountain's journey from several angles.

Feng Qianchi and two Jing Beast Great Sages planned to intercept delegations bound for Mount Fangcun, but a captured human scholar condemned their defense of the Southern Wastes’ bloodline hierarchy before Feng killed him. Mount Fangcun arrived at Mount Qingliang seeking revenge, leaving Feng and the Jing Sages facing an attack.

• Feng Qianchi gave the Jing Beast Great Sages a list of delegations to intercept and materials for a powerful Beast Blood Array.
• A Jing Sage revealed that human scholars had persuaded demon rulers to send delegations to Mount Fangcun, and the demons brought a wounded scholar before Feng.
• The scholar argued that Mount Fangcun’s books offered weak demon races a chance to change their fates, but Feng stabbed him through the heart.
• Mount Qingliang shook as Mount Fangcun arrived, and a voice outside demanded that its demons come out and face their deaths.

Chen Luo led Mount Fangcun in an assault on Qingliang Mountain, where it shattered the Tiger Clan’s First-Rank Beast Blood Array and revealed Di Ting could consume it. Fang One and Fang Two defeated the Jing Sages and attacked Feng Qianchi, while Chen Luo ordered Shi Man’er to record the battle.

• Feng Qianchi attacked the descending Mount Fangcun with Air-Splitting Slashes, but his Wind Blades could not damage it.
• Chen Luo ordered Fang One and Fang Two to handle the demons after he broke the Beast Blood Array, and Mount Fangcun crushed the array as it descended.
• Di Ting told Chen Luo it could eat the Beast Blood Array, and Shi Man’er explained that the Demon Race had learned the array from the Buddha.
• Fang One and Fang Two joined the fight, and Confucian techniques from Mount Fangcun trapped and burned the Third-Rank Jing Sage.
• Feng Qianchi abandoned the Second-Rank Jing Sage, but Fang One and Fang Two attacked him too, citing the saying “all’s fair in war.”
• Chen Luo and Shi Man’er watched the fight, and Chen Luo told him to keep recording the Fang Family Great Scholars.

After discovering the dying human agent Zhu Baoguo, Chen Luo revealed his identity and pledged that Mount Fangcun would never betray the human race. Grieving Zhu Baoguo’s death, Chen Luo retaliated against the Tiger Clan by flattening its vassal territories, while the Tiger Clan’s Feng Liancheng set out to visit Mount Fangcun.

• Ao Lingling found Zhu Baoguo, a mortally wounded human agent, in a cave at Qingliang Mountain, and Chen Luo went to meet him.
• Zhu Baoguo revealed that he had come on behalf of Great Xuan to unite the demons with Fangcun; Chen Luo revealed himself as Marquis Wu Chen Luo and promised Mount Fangcun would not betray the human race.
• Zhu Baoguo died after learning Chen Luo’s identity, and Chen Luo ordered his burial and the Jing Beast Great Sage’s execution.
• Chen Luo took Mount Fangcun south and destroyed sixteen territories belonging to the Tiger Clan’s vassals, claiming the repeated crashes were accidents and that he had compensated them.
• Wen Yun Sun received a report that the destruction had boosted Mount Fangcun’s reputation and that Feng Liancheng had left to visit Chen Luo; he also learned that Zhu Baoguo had died on his mission.

After Mount Fangcun’s attack on the Winged Tiger lineage, Chen Luo counted the energy he had gained and prepared to write for the Full Moon Gathering. At Mount Wei Hu, Feng Nanzhi refused to let the tiger clan intervene in Southern Wasteland affairs, then regretted that Bai Mo was not powerful enough to help her.

• Mount Fangcun circled Si Zhu Kingdom and returned to Jingze Lake, prompting demons to seek meetings with Chen Luo before the Full Moon Gathering.
• Chen Luo realized Mount Fangcun had absorbed the shattered Beast Blood Arrays and gained enough Primordial Chaos Qi and beast energy for ten Strange Tales stories and one Wondrous Texts story.
• Chen Luo called for Jin Guagua so he could prepare a piece of writing to hold down the fort at the next day’s Full Moon Gathering.
• A messenger bearing the Qiongqi Token delivered Feng Liancheng’s report about Bai Mo and Mount Fangcun to Feng Nanzhi at Mount Wei Hu.
• Feng Nanzhi refused to let the tiger clan participate in Southern Wasteland affairs before she became an Ancestor Demon, leaving the Winged Tiger lineage free to act in its own name.
• Feng Nanzhi lamented that Bai Mo had only Spirit Realm cultivation and could not help her as an Ancestor Realm expert might.

Chen Luo hosted the Fangcun Grand Meeting as envoys gathered, and Feng Liancheng’s Tiger Race servant presented Barbarian materials as a gift while subtly undermining Mount Fangcun. Chen Luo exposed several as defective and counterfeit, then revealed a vast stock of genuine materials, leaving the Tiger Demon and the assembled demons stunned.

• Zhuiyue told Chen Luo that Demon Race envoys had gathered for the full-moon Fangcun Grand Meeting, and the Winged Tiger lineage arrived with a congratulatory gift.
• Feng Liancheng’s Tiger Race servant presented Barbarian materials and praised them as rare treasures for Mount Fangcun.
• Bai Qingqing explained to Shi Man'er that the gift was intended to advertise Feng Liancheng’s ties to the Barbarians and sow doubts among the gathered demons.
• Chen Luo identified defective fourth-grade materials and counterfeit third-grade pieces, then produced genuine examples for comparison.
• When the Tiger Demon challenged him to prove the third-grade materials were fake, Chen Luo poured out a mountain of Barbarian materials and pointed out six counterfeits, stunning the crowd.