Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo’s Martial Dao breakthrough sent a surge of insight through warriors across Dongcang City. Wang Busheng finally gained a flash of insight during a Sword Discussion Pavilion duel, earning his first draw as Xiang Jixuan recognized the moment as history in the making.

• Chen Luo returned to human form at the Liaozhai Study and advanced to the five-thousand-li stage as Martial Dao’s feedback strengthened him.
• Wang Busheng faced Young Daoist Beifeng in the Sword Discussion Pavilion, where Savage Thunder Art was about to strike him.
• Wang Busheng gained a flash of insight and comprehended Shifting Stars, redirecting Savage Thunder Art toward Young Daoist Beifeng.
• Both Wang Busheng and Young Daoist Beifeng collapsed, and the Sword Discussion Pavilion judged the battle a draw.
• Xiang Jixuan and a Hundred Battles Great Scholar celebrated Martial Dao’s rising destiny and compared Chen Luo’s influence to the Sacred Sage’s.

Feng Nanzhi visited Bai Yan Yan to ask about Chen Luo’s Bai Ze abilities and revealed her resolve to complete her incomplete White Tiger Bloodline. Meanwhile, Chen Luo learned Jin Guagua had been kidnapped and set out to find him, while Jin Guagua woke up in captivity and tried to bargain with his captors.

• Feng Nanzhi asked Bai Yan Yan whether Chen Luo could write an Emperor Demon, and Bai Yan Yan said he likely could not do so before reaching the Great Sage realm.
• Feng Nanzhi told Bai Yan Yan that her Tiger Clan would not get involved in the conflict between the Winged Tiger lineage and Mount Fangcun, then declared she would complete her incomplete White Tiger Bloodline.
• Chen Luo consolidated his cultivation, reached fifth-rank Spirit Demon in his Bai Ze form, and considered using his extra Blood Body Transformation to infiltrate the Winged Tiger or Wolf Clan.
• Ao Lingling and Little Nine Infant told Chen Luo that Jin Guagua had been kidnapped by a big-mouthed woman, so Chen Luo took Little Nine Infant aboard a Floating Skyship and headed for Si Zhu City to seek Bai Sanqian’s help.
• Jin Guagua woke after his senses were unsealed, shouted threats and offered a ransom, until a captor ordered him to shut his beak.

Chen Luo learned that Jin Guagua had been taken to the Toad Palace Realm, the ancestral land of the Toad Frog Clan, and discovered the Demon Race had four sources of bloodline. He left to seek Bai Yan Yan’s help in contacting the Toad Palace, while Bai Xiao wondered whether its appearance foretold the coming Bloodline Tide.

• Bai Xiao watched Nine Infant’s Retrospection and saw a woman marked with the Toad Palace symbol abduct Jin Guagua.
• Bai Xiao told Chen Luo that the Toad Palace was the Toad Frog Clan’s ancestral realm and revealed that Jin Guagua’s parents were a rare Destiny Toad and a Golden Toad.
• Bai Xiao explained that the Demon Race’s four bloodline sources were the Demon Ancestor, demonic dragon hybrids, Three-legged Golden Crows, and the Toad Ancestor of the moon.
• Bai Xiao told Chen Luo to find Bai Yan Yan for a Toad Palace token and contact, since the realm was forbidden from casually entering the Southern Wasteland.
• Chen Luo left Tianjue Forest with Little Nine, and Bai Xiao wondered whether the Toad Palace had sensed the approaching Bloodline Tide.

Li Shouli’s disciple Li Yigong was attacked at his wedding to the snake demon A Rou, prompting Li Shouli to plan their escape. Chen Luo sought Bai Yan Yan’s help reaching the Moon Palace, and they traveled there together as night fell.

• Li Shouli prepared to attend Li Yigong and A Rou’s wedding, but the couple arrived wounded after strange demonfolk attacked them for marrying across species.
• Li Yigong told Li Shouli that the attack was connected to the dispute at Lin'an City’s West Lake, and Li Shouli promised to take the couple toward Yu Yuan City or Mount Fangcun.
• She Xiangxiang waited at Mount Fangcun for Chen Luo, hoping he could resolve the backlash against the alliance after the West Lake incident.
• Chen Luo visited Bai Yan Yan in Qingqiu Kingdom and asked her to help him reach the Moon Palace to deal with Jin Guagua’s matter.
• Bai Yan Yan gave Chen Luo wine while they waited for night, then used a Palace Pearl to transport them from the Peach Blossom Forest to the Moon Palace.

Chen Luo visited the Toad Palace with Bai Yan Yan to find Jin Guagua and discovered that Jin Guagua was safe and wanted to stay and cultivate. As Chen Luo spoke with him, an Old Woman appeared and saw through Chen Luo’s identity as a human.

• Bai Yan Yan brought Chen Luo to meet Wa Ying, who explained that Tun Wen had brought Jin Guagua to the Toad Palace because she recognized his bloodline.
• Wa Ying sent Chen Luo through a teleportation array to see Jin Guagua, whom he found happily eating candy beans while a puppet played fake cries for help.
• Jin Guagua told Chen Luo that he wanted to stay because his bloodline was changing and the Toad Palace was a good place to cultivate.
• Jin Guagua revealed that he had planned to use Chen Luo’s visit to bargain for benefits for Mount Fangcun, but Chen Luo said Jin Guagua’s safety mattered more.
• An Old Woman appeared before Chen Luo and Jin Guagua, freed Chen Luo from a helpless state, and called him a little human.

Chen Luo met Wa He, the Moon Palace Master and Jin Guagua’s grandmother, who revealed that Guagua’s sealed bloodline was that of a Heaven Sealing Toad. Chen Luo left the Moon Palace with a pearl granting access to the Ancestral Spirit Secret Realm, which Bai Yan Yan identified as connected to the Toad Ancestor.

• Wa He recognized Chen Luo as the Lord of Martial Dao, introduced herself as Jin Guagua’s grandmother, and asked him to recount Guagua’s history.
• Wa He explained that Guagua’s parents were a Destiny Toad and a Heaven Swallowing Toad, and that his father sacrificed his life to seal Guagua’s dangerous bloodline.
• Wa He revealed that Guagua’s true bloodline was the Heaven Sealing Toad and said he needed to remain in the Moon Palace; she gave Chen Luo a Moon Palace Pearl and asked him not to tell Guagua yet.
• Chen Luo said farewell to Jin Guagua, returned to the fox race with Bai Yan Yan, and told her Wa He had given him a Moon Palace Pearl.
• Bai Yan Yan warned Chen Luo to keep the pearl hidden and explained that the Ancestral Spirit Secret Realm was the Demon Race’s lifeblood and connected to the Heaven Sealing Toad Toad Ancestor.

Bai Yan Yan explained that the Ancestral Spirit Secret Realm preserved part of the Primordial Era and could yield powerful treasures, while She Xiangxiang told Chen Luo that a deadly incident at West Lake had inflamed tensions between Yu Yuan and Great Xuan. She asked him to write a story featuring the Snake Race, and Chen Luo began shaping the idea of Legend of the White Snake by asking whether the Southern Wastes had a Qingcheng Mountain.

• Bai Yan Yan told Chen Luo that the Ancestral Spirit Secret Realm sealed the Primordial Era and could grant Demon Race members rare bloodlines, treasures, and cultivation opportunities.
• Chen Luo returned to Mount Fangcun, where She Xiangxiang told him that a Snake Demon had died while rescuing a human girl at West Lake and that the ensuing violence had killed scholars and most of Yu Yuan's delegation.
• She Xiangxiang explained that the incident had intensified distrust between Yu Yuan and Great Xuan, threatening Yu Yuan's promotion of Elegant Script and the alliance's cultural arrangements.
• She Xiangxiang asked Chen Luo to write a story with Snake Race protagonists to foster understanding between the two peoples.
• Chen Luo asked She Xiangxiang whether the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains contained a Qingcheng Mountain.

Chen Luo overcame the obstacle of writing reincarnation into Legend of the White Snake with the Mountain Guarding Monk’s insight, then adapted the tale to this world and created the long-form book. He began expounding it to gathered demons at Mount Fangcun, opening with Qingcheng Mountain, a white snake, a shepherd boy, and a snake catcher.

• Chen Luo found that the Heavenly Dao Rules could not support writing reincarnation until the Mountain Guarding Monk gave him a golden bubble containing his understanding of the doctrine.
• Chen Luo adjusted Legend of the White Snake’s plot, recasting Bai Suzhen as a Great Sage, Bai Xi as her backer, Fahai as a Buddhist villain, and Xu Shilin as a manifestation of Confucian power.
• Chen Luo entered the Dream Flower Forest and drew the long-form Legend of the White Snake, which took shape as a book in his divine soul.
• Demons gathered at Mount Fangcun after hearing that Chen Luo had written a new Wondrous Text and would expound it first to his allies and future students.
• Ao Lingling set rules for the gathering, while She Xiangxiang and Bai Qingqing vowed to oppose anyone who disrespected Chen Luo or the future teachers.
• Chen Luo took the platform and began the story with Qingcheng Mountain, a white snake, a shepherd boy, and a snake catcher.

Chen Luo performed the first installment of Legend of the White Snake on Mount Fangcun, and its songs and story captivated the demons and even helped some listeners advance their cultivation. As copies spread across the Southern Wastelands, Great Sages began wondering whether unresolved debts were blocking their path to the Ancestor Demon Realm, while a Messenger Bluebird carried a copy toward Great Xuan.

• Chen Luo told how Bai Suzhen sought guidance from Bai Xi, and Zhuiyue and the Moon Rabbit Clan sang about her cultivation as the demons listened in astonishment.
• Chen Luo recounted Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing's arrival in Lin'an, their meeting with Xu Xian, and their growing affection, while Ao Lingling sang about their destined encounter.
• Chen Luo ended the performance on a cliffhanger and escaped; Ao Lingling stopped a demon from pursuing him, and Zhuiyue explained that the story had only been written through that installment.
• A Snake Woman advanced from the Seventh Rank to the Sixth Rank and a monkey demon advanced from the Eighth Rank to the Seventh Rank after hearing the story, prompting demons to compete for copies.
• Ao Lingling announced that five copies would go to allied kingdoms and another would be available for transcription at Fangcun Academy; across the Southern Wastelands, demons eagerly sought copies and scholars were offered rewards to transcribe them.
• Great Sages in Qingqiu and other kingdoms considered whether unresolved worldly debts obstructed their advancement, while Fang Da and Fang Er sent a copy toward Great Xuan by Messenger Bluebird.

The Fang family promoted Bai Mo’s Legend of the White Snake and sought to make him Marquis of Peaceful Lake, while the story’s cliffhanger enraged readers across Great Xuan. As the Southern Wasteland’s Bloodline Tide approached, Lang Feixian learned he must stay in the bamboo forest and conceal his strength.

• Fang Huaji ordered the Fang family to spread Legend of the White Snake and discussed using Bai Mo’s work to petition for a real fief at West Lake.
• Fang Zhilin reported that the Moon Palace had appeared and a Bloodline Tide was coming, potentially giving the Fang family or Lang Feixian a chance to become a Saint.
• The Fang family proposed making Bai Mo the Marquis of Peaceful Lake, and Yan Baichuan negotiated the title in exchange for opera’s inclusion in official education and other concessions.
• Paperboys and storytellers spread Legend of the White Snake across the Central Capital, where the first installment ended on a cliffhanger and furious readers blamed the Fang family.
• Kong Tianfang and Tian Haiyi praised Bai Mo’s story before condemning its cliffhanger, while audiences at the Morning Awakening Teahouse cursed the abrupt ending.
• Lang Feixian learned that the Fang family had agreed to Yan Baichuan’s terms and that the Bloodline Tide was approaching, then reluctantly agreed to remain in the bamboo forest and hide his abilities.

Wen Yun Sun told Chen Luo that the Fire Crow Clan had been exterminated in a Bloodline Degeneration tied to the Demon Race’s approaching Bloodline Tide, then revealed the clan’s Three-legged Crow ancestry and the hidden Golden Crow Essence Blood clues they had left at Mount Fangcun. Chen Luo rushed off to find the clues, hoping to use the essence blood for his Blood Body Transformation.

• She Xiangxiang teased Chen Luo for the cliffhanger in Legend of the White Snake, while Feng Nanzhi listened to Chapter One and learned that the Fire Crow Clan had been wiped out.
• Wen Yun Sun visited Chen Luo, took the manuscript of Legend of the White Snake, and told him that the Fire Crow Clan had been exterminated without a trace.
• Wen Yun Sun explained the Bloodline Tide and Bloodline Degeneration, revealing that the Fire Crow Clan had been targeted in the struggle for demonic bloodline fortune.
• Wen Yun Sun told Chen Luo that the Fire Crow Clan descended from a wounded Golden Crow and that its gifts to Mount Fangcun concealed clues to the Golden Crow Essence Blood.
• Chen Luo realized he needed the essence blood for his Blood Body Transformation and hurried out to ask Old Ao to help search for the clues.

Chen Luo entered the Kirin Domain under a borrowed Fang Family identity to retrieve the Golden Crow Essence Blood stored through the Unquestionable Tower. Black Chicken Brother revealed that Chen Luo had to fulfill the storage contract by bidding on a Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit at the next day's auction.

• Wen Yun Sun found an Unquestionable Order hidden inside a Flame Jade among the Fire Crow Clan's exchanged items and explained how the order worked.
• Chen Luo decided to enter the Kirin Domain and used a Fang Family identity plaque bearing the name Fang Xiuxian to conceal himself.
• Chen Luo entered Micheng City with Fang Huaxi and Fang Huayue, then went alone to the Unquestionable Tower to retrieve the stored item.
• The custodian, Black Chicken Brother, told Chen Luo that the storage fee remained unpaid and demanded a Five-Colored Sky-Mending Fluid or Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit.
• Black Chicken Brother offered to let Chen Luo fulfill the contract by bidding on a Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit at the next day's auction, and Chen Luo had him put the agreement in writing.

Chen Luo attended an auction in Micheng City, bought a mysterious egg after the Three Books of Opening Heaven reacted to it, and obtained the Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit for Black Chicken Brother. After the auction was abruptly stopped and the city was sealed over a missing item, Black Chicken Brother warned Chen Luo to leave and gave him a token to a hidden residence.

• Chen Luo went to the Kirin Domain auction with Fang Huaxi and Fang Huayue, where the host used Mount Fangcun's reputation to raise the price of Seven-Star Deer's essence blood.
• Chen Luo sensed an omen from the Three Books of Opening Heaven when his soul touched a mysterious egg, so he bid two hundred thousand Moonlight Stones and had Fang Huaxi and Fang Huayue pay with their Great Scholar's Literary Treasures.
• Chen Luo bought the Seven-Colored Exquisite Fruit for fifty thousand Moonlight Stones to trade to Black Chicken Brother for Golden Crow Essence Blood.
• The auction host abruptly ended the event, and Micheng City was sealed off after an important item went missing from the auction house.
• Black Chicken Brother gave Chen Luo a token to a hidden residence outside the city and warned him that outsiders might be targeted, so Chen Luo left with Fang Huaxi and Fang Huayue.

Bei Jia learned that her plan in Micheng City had succeeded and decided to continue Chen Luo’s writing, while Chen Luo discovered that his patterned egg was consuming treasures from his Storage Token. After defeating a Peng Clan Great Sage, Chen Luo recruited Black Chicken Brother, learned that the stolen item might be a Broken Tablet tied to the Kirin Tomb, and identified the sealed treasure as Golden Crow Essence Blood; he planned to seek the Toad Palace’s knowledge before refining it.

• Bei Jia received a message confirming that events in Micheng City had succeeded, and she told Wolf Annihilation that she wanted to continue Chen Luo’s writing.
• Chen Luo found that his patterned egg was absorbing Spirit Materials, moved it and other provisions into a separate Storage Token, then faced three Peng Clan Great Sages who demanded the auction’s egg.
• Chen Luo defeated a Third Rank Peng Clan Great Sage, revealed himself as Chen Luo and Bai Mo, and absorbed the Great Sage’s soul into the Bai Ze Monster Scroll.
• Black Chicken Brother witnessed Chen Luo’s identities, agreed to follow him, and explained that the stolen item might be a Broken Tablet connected to the Kirin Tomb; he also rescued Fang Huaxi and Fang Huayue.
• Chen Luo opened the sealed box and found Golden Crow Essence Blood, then learned from Black Chicken Brother that the Toad Palace had sheltered the Golden Crow and might know its former cultivation level.

Chen Luo received a visit from Fang Huaping, who brought an imperial decree granting him the title of "Marquis of Pinghu" with a fiefdom encompassing West Lake in Lin'an and the surrounding hundred li. However, Chen Luo refused to accept it, insisting that Prince Jing's Manor should manage it instead. Fang Huaping tried to persuade him, but Chen Luo was adamant. Meanwhile, Ye Dafu, the heir of Prince Jing, received a letter from Chen Luo about the West Lake fiefdom and immediately started making plans to profit from it.

Kong Mi'erhan denied the Peng Clan's demand for Peacock Clan intelligence about the Golden Crow Bloodline, then ordered an investigation into the attack and raised the possibility that Kong Ling had survived. Meanwhile, Black Chicken Brother left to build a Mount Fangcun force in the Kirin Domain, and Chen Luo's expanded second installment of Legend of the White Snake ended with Xu Xian apparently dead, provoking readers across Great Xuan to denounce him as the Shame of the Literati.

• Jin Bofeng accused the Peacock Clan of killing Peng Great Sages to seize their Golden Crow Bloodline clues, but Kong Mi'erhan denied knowing anything and agreed only to investigate the matter.
• Kong Mi'erhan learned that a Second Rank Great Sage or stronger had used King Ming's True Flame, ordered outside Great Sages recalled, and heard Kong Sha Qi suggest Kong Ling might be involved before Kong Salman insisted Kong Ling was dead.
• Black Chicken Brother told Chen Luo he planned to establish a force in the Kirin Domain, and Chen Luo asked him to look after Bao Chengzhu if they met.
• Chen Luo wrote an expanded Legend of the White Snake installment in which Xu Xian fainted after seeing Bai Suzhen's true form, then closed Mount Fangcun for two days after ordering the first copies transcribed.
• Lin'an readers bought the new installment, followed Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen's story to its cliffhanger, and shouted that Chen Luo was the Shame of the Literati.

Ye Dafu devised schemes to profit from building Broken Bridge at West Lake while readers across the Southern Wastes reacted to the cliffhanger ending of Legend of the White Snake. Chen Luo reopened the Moon Palace and learned that refining the Golden Crow Bloodline could be unstable, while Feng Nanzhi began a risky plan to suppress her Yin Meridian.

• Ye Dafu identified where Su Causeway and Bai Causeway met as the site for Broken Bridge and planned fees, services, and a West Lake festival around it.
• Bei Jia read the latest installment of Legend of the White Snake, became furious at its cliffhanger, and Yu Yuan’s snake demons pleaded for the next installment while its Great Sages discussed Buddhist preaching.
• Chen Luo emerged from hiding after Bai Yan Yan left Mount Fangcun and received a message that the Moon Palace had reopened.
• Feng Nanzhi asked Great Ancestor Feifei to protect her while she separated from her Tiger Clan Empress status and pursued a new True Flame Bloodline to suppress her Yin Meridian.
• Chen Luo met Wa He in the Moon Palace, learned that the Golden Crow Bloodline was a damaged but powerful inheritance that could cause bloodline degeneration, and received advice on stabilizing it.
• Jin Guagua arrived after Chen Luo had left and sulked that he had not come to see her.

Chen Luo searched for a way to stabilize the Golden Crow Bloodline and learned that Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass could do the job. After winning it from Yang Qingyuan through a contest of antithetical couplets, Chen Luo headed for Blazing Flame Mountain to refine the bloodline, hoping to gain wings.

• Chen Luo decided he needed a high-grade treasure to stabilize the Golden Crow Bloodline but could not ask the Yu Yuan Kingdom without risking trouble over his unfinished story, Xu Xian Is Still Dead.
• Zhuiyue remembered that Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass could stabilize the Moon Lion Bloodline and said it could be found on the Green Grasslands.
• Ma Zouri told Chen Luo that the only known stalk belonged to Yang Qingyuan, who would award it to anyone who defeated him in antithetical couplets.
• Chen Luo passed Yang Qingyuan's three gates and won their contest, then stumped Yang Qingyuan with the line "Smoke locks the pond and willow" and received the Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass.
• Chen Luo recited verses from Liao Weng's Rhyming Verses for Yang Qingyuan and Tian Haiyi before asking Ma Zouri to return to Mount Fangcun without him.
• Chen Luo jumped from the Floating Skyship and ran toward Blazing Flame Mountain to refine the Golden Crow Bloodline.

Chen Luo refined the Great Sun Golden Crow Bloodline after passing its trial of eternal darkness, then revealed himself at Blazing Flame Mountain as the Golden Crow returned to the Southern Wilderness. Meanwhile, Black Chicken Brother learned that the Tiger Clan had likely stolen a Broken Tablet tied to the Kirin Tomb.

• Feng Nanzhi's avatar waited outside the Five-Colored Immortal Domain for Kong Deha Wan, while Kong Salman tortured Great Sage Ran Yan for the Golden Crow Bloodline's whereabouts and threatened the Fire Crow Clan.
• Chen Luo kidnapped a zhang spirit and learned that young demons had gathered at Blazing Flame Mountain to absorb fortune released by the declining Fire Crow Clan.
• Chen Luo disguised himself as a monkey demon, took over a cave with strong earthfire, and sealed it before beginning to refine the Golden Crow Bloodline with the Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass ready to stabilize him.
• In the Kirin Domain, Black Chicken Brother learned that the Tiger Clan was likely responsible for stealing the Broken Tablet and agreed to prepare for trouble involving the Kirin Bloodline.
• Chen Luo met the remnant spirit of the Great Sun Golden Crow's ninth son, passed the trial of eternal darkness, and transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow.
• After Chen Luo stabilized his bloodline, a Demon Race Young Master attacked his cave; Chen Luo revealed the Golden Crow Illusion and burned him to ashes before the gathered demons.

Chen Luo’s Golden Crow form drew the demons’ greed, and he killed Hong Yu after she attacked him with the Peacock Tail Feather Fan. He planned to flee Blazing Flame Mountain, but discovered the Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass had trapped him in Golden Crow form for a month as the Peacock Clan sent Kong Salman after him.

• The demons recognized Chen Luo’s Golden Crow Bloodline and tried to recruit him, but he killed the Coiled Horned Sheep Demon and ordered the others to leave Blazing Flame Mountain.
• Hong Yu challenged Chen Luo with the Peacock Tail Feather Fan, but he burned through its Five-Colored Divine Light and killed her with a flaming punch.
• The remaining demons fled, and Chen Luo went to a cave intending to undo his transformation and escape.
• Kong Mi'erhan learned from Sharmar’s Ancestor Blood Message that Chen Luo had killed Hong Yu, and Kong Salman set out to capture the Golden Crow.
• Feng Nanzhi spotted Kong Salman leaving the Five-Colored Immortal Domain and went after him.
• Chen Luo failed to dispel his transformation because the Nine-Segment Blood-Fixing Grass had locked his bloodline for another month, so he began examining the Golden Crow’s powers.