Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo awakened the Great Sun Golden Crow Bloodline’s abilities and tried to escape Blazing Flame Mountain, but Kong Xia’erma exposed him and gave chase. He killed her with his Flame Domain, then turned to confront the Great Sages pursuing him.

• Chen Luo learned that his Golden Crow Bloodline granted Flame Body, New Sun, and the Great Sun Golden Crow ability Golden Crow Patrols the Heavens, though his bloodline was damaged and could not yet reach its full potential.
• Kong Xia’erma rallied the demons outside Blazing Flame Mountain to seal the area, then killed Pangao when he charged toward the mountain.
• Kong Salman hurried toward Blazing Flame Mountain under an ominous premonition while Feng Nanzhi followed him.
• Chen Luo dug a tunnel beneath Blazing Flame Mountain, but touching a hidden obstruction activated the remnants of the Beast Blood Array and revealed his position to Kong Xia’erma.
• Chen Luo fled through the air and a woodland, using Yang Flame fireballs and a spreading forest fire to hinder Kong Xia’erma, then burned through her Five-Colored Divine Light and killed her with an expanded Flame Body.
• After destroying Kong Xia’erma’s remains and putting on spare clothes, Chen Luo saw several Great Sages arrive and entered the forest fire to face them.

Chen Luo killed the pursuing Great Sages, learned that the Peacock Clan wanted to refine his Crimson Sun Yang Flame, and was forced to face Kong Salman. Feng Nanzhi rescued him through a spatial passage, and the chapter ended with her ordering him to get up and put his clothes on.

• Chen Luo killed Diao Deyi with his Crimson Sun Yang Flame and later killed five more Great Sages in the mountain fire.
• Chen Luo questioned the Golden Pheasant Great Sage and learned that the Peacock Clan planned to fuse his flame with King Ming's True Flame, while the Peacock Clan had helped purge the Fire Crow Clan.
• Kong Salman killed the Golden Pheasant Great Sage and attacked Chen Luo, who prepared to use his teacher's Half-Saint Strike before a mysterious woman offered to save him.
• Chen Luo drew Kong Salman’s attention while Feng Nanzhi attacked him, then Feng Nanzhi used a forbidden technique to wound Kong Salman and carried Chen Luo away through a spatial passage.
• Feng Nanzhi and Chen Luo crashed to the ground, where she found him out of his Flame Body and ordered him to get up and put his clothes on.

Chen Luo returned to help Feng Nanzhi recover from a dangerous bloodline frost, and the two agreed to share their plans before facing Kong Salman. Their attempt to treat her with Chen Luo’s Golden Crow solar essence began with an accidental second kiss, but the treatment turned dangerous when Feng Nanzhi’s skin started reddening.

• Chen Luo burned away the Five-Colored Divine Light while Feng Nanzhi recovered, then found her frozen by bloodline backlash after she moved away to protect him.
• Chen Luo considered leaving Feng Nanzhi behind but returned, learned that only a bloodline could dispel her frost, and agreed to help after she promised to reveal her plans against Kong Salman.
• Feng Nanzhi rejected Chen Luo’s stabilized Golden Crow bloodline as a cure, so he proposed using solar essence from a quickly assembled New Sun to suppress the frost.
• Chen Luo and Feng Nanzhi prepared the New Sun, but Chen Luo could not control its movement, so Feng Nanzhi drew it out through his mouth and accidentally kissed him before transferring it.
• Chen Luo released the New Sun’s solar essence inside Feng Nanzhi, melting her frost, but her skin rapidly reddened as the solar essence caused an unexpected reaction.

Chen Luo drew excess Sun Essence from Feng Nanzhi and helped her suppress the bloodline backlash, while the Southern Wasteland searched for the Golden Crow. As they hid from Kong Salman, Feng Nanzhi revealed her plan to kill him and began refining the remaining Sun Essence with Chen Luo’s Crimson Sun Yang Flame.

• Chen Luo formed a smaller New Sun and drew Sun Essence from Feng Nanzhi, but the energy overloaded him and ignited both their clothes.
• Black Chicken Brother concluded that the missing Golden Crow was Chen Luo and set out to seek information from the Peacock Clan.
• After the flames died down, Chen Luo carried the exhausted Feng Nanzhi into a wooden house to shelter from the rain and checked her condition.
• Feng Nanzhi told Chen Luo that the backlash was suppressed and that the Primordial Ancient Talisman gave her a seventy to eighty percent chance of killing Kong Salman.
• Chen Luo and Feng Nanzhi discussed their identities and the Tiger Clan, and Feng Nanzhi invited him to return with her, but he refused.
• Feng Nanzhi undressed and Chen Luo activated his Flame Body so she could refine the remaining Sun Essence.

Chen Luo and Feng Nanzhi spent two days together before she prepared to fight Kong Salman, and Chen Luo helped lure the Peacock Great Sage into her formation. After escaping the battle, Chen Luo was surrounded by demon factions seeking the Golden Crow until Gan Tang and the Kirin Guard intervened.

• Feng Nanzhi gave Chen Luo a Thoughtfruit, and the two passed the day playing Animal Chess and military chess while waiting to refine the essence of the sun at night.
• After their third refinement, Feng Nanzhi asked Chen Luo to join her in the Tiger Clan, but he declined; she then asked him to sit with her and look at the moon before their planned battle.
• Feng Nanzhi activated her rune formation, and Chen Luo drew Kong Salman toward it for ten breaths before Feng Nanzhi struck the Peacock Great Sage and ordered Chen Luo to flee.
• Chen Luo escaped several hundred li, but Great Sages from multiple demon factions surrounded him and demanded that he visit their territories.
• Black Chicken Brother arrived with the Kirin Guard, and Gan Tang identified herself to Chen Luo as his Third Sister-in-law before ordering the other factions to leave.

At the Kirin Domain, Chen Luo learned that Gan Tang wanted to sponsor his Golden Crow identity into the Kirin Guard’s Ink Guard, offering him a legitimate place in the Southern Wilderness and the chance to replace his bloodline with the Hidden Kirin. The chapter left Chen Luo preparing to face the Ink Guard’s tests, while Feng Nanzhi secretly investigated him and aided the Fire Crow Clan.

• At Tianjue Forest, Bai Xiao set out to protect Chen Luo but turned back after learning Gan Tang had taken him to the Kirin Domain, fearing his junior sisters would blame him for his schemes.
• Chen Luo persuaded Gan Tang that Bai Xiao had kept his feelings hidden to avoid burdening her, and Gan Tang declared herself Chen Luo’s Third Sister-in-law and offered the Kirin Domain as his home.
• Gan Tang told Chen Luo that Kong Salman had been killed and warned him to beware of the Peacock Clan; Chen Luo then asked Black Chicken Brother to investigate a Great Sage of the Tiger Clan.
• Feng Nanzhi refined the True Flame Bloodline, ordered a secret investigation into Chen Luo and assistance for the scattered Fire Crow Clan, and refused to meet Feng Bugui.
• Gan Tang offered to sponsor Chen Luo into the Kirin Guard’s Ink Guard, explained that he could later fuse with the Hidden Kirin Bloodline, and told him he would need to pass several tests.
• Great Sage Ran Yan dreamed of a Golden Crow but dismissed the possibility that one had appeared; afterward, Chen Luo accepted Gan Tang’s offer and asked whether the Kirin Domain could assign him a mission to steal Bai Mo’s writings.

Bao Chengzhu overcame the White Tiger bloodline sealed within him and advanced to the Great Sage Realm, drawing a frenzy of recruitment and news that the Kirin Pavilion was about to open. Black Chicken Brother explained the Pavilion’s blessings to Chen Luo, whose token revealed that he had first place in the first batch before it transported him inside.

• In Lionhead City, Yang Yan identified several demons likely to reach the Great Sage Realm, but an unknown cultivator in Qian Position, Room 8, produced an omen of advancement.
• Bao Chengzhu faced Ancestor Zhen in a bloodline vision, where the Zhen beast destroyed the White Tiger rune and returned to heal him.
• Bao Chengzhu emerged as a Great Sage with an Ancestor Demon phantom, and he told his father that the Leopard Race had a Zhen Sage.
• Yang Yan and the other Pledge-Name Demons tried to recruit Bao Chengzhu, but he refused because he already had a teacher; Yang Yan then revealed the Kirin Pavilion would soon open.
• Black Chicken Brother explained that the Kirin Pavilion could grant Demon Ancestor’s Blessings, and Chen Luo learned his token gave him first place in the first batch.
• Chen Luo’s token lit up and transported him into the Kirin Pavilion before he learned what its test involved.

Chen Luo entered the Kirin Pavilion and received blessings from multiple bloodline trials, eventually reaching a onefold increase before the Pavilion collapsed. He was transported to Snow Brocade Village, where Gan Tang told him that the Kirin King wanted to meet him.

• The Kirin King stopped Great Sages from probing the Kirin Pavilion and later watched Chen Luo’s trial with Gan Tang in Snow Brocade Village.
• Chen Luo passed the fire Kirin trial with his Great Sun Golden Crow bloodline and gained a fifteen-percent increase.
• Chen Luo’s Bai Ze, Barbarian God, and Barbarian Sacrifice bloodlines passed further trials, raising his blessing to seventy-five percent.
• Chen Luo displayed his Dao to the Primordial Kirin and received a blessing that brought his increase to ninety percent.
• A Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart appeared and continued increasing Chen Luo’s power until the Kirin Pavilion began collapsing and exploded.
• Chen Luo left a message on the stone tablet, was transported to Snow Brocade Village, and learned that the Kirin King wanted to see him.

Chen Luo met the Kirin King, who made him his sworn son after Chen Luo destroyed the Kirin Pavilion. The Kirin King revealed why Ancestor Demons rarely intervene in the mortal world, and the chapter ended with the newly bonded pair planning to visit Gan Tang’s Third Brother.

• Gan Tang brought Chen Luo to meet the Kirin King, who welcomed him with a barbecue and then invited him to a private bath to talk.
• The Kirin King proposed that Chen Luo become his son in exchange for forgiving the destruction of the Kirin Pavilion, and they completed a sworn father-son ceremony.
• The Kirin King explained that the Kirin Heart had accepted Chen Luo and that he hoped Chen Luo might someday help the Kirin Domain through the coming upheaval.
• The Kirin King explained that Ancestor Demons avoid the mortal world because reaching their bloodline limit ends their protection from the passage of time, forcing them to conserve their vitality.
• Chen Luo and the Kirin King returned to Gan Tang as close companions, announced their new family bond, and proposed visiting her Third Brother to obtain a condemned clansman for a pork dish.

Chen Luo completed the refinement of the Golden Crow Bloodline, while its awakening transformed Ran Xin and the surviving Fire Crows, enabling them to escape their captors and take revenge. Ran Xin declared that they would seek out the true chief, the Golden Crow, leaving Chen Luo’s new power linked to the Fire Crow Clan’s hopes.

• Chen Luo told Kirin King he would leave, endured several farewell feasts, and eventually returned to Black Chicken Brother before entering seclusion to refine the Golden Crow Bloodline.
• Ran Xin led eighty-one young Fire Crows toward Great Xuan, but his fiancée Cai Ying and the Weasel Demon poisoned and imprisoned them, planning to hand them over to the Peacock Clan.
• As Chen Luo completed his Golden Crow Bloodline, Ran Xin used Chongming blood essence to break the prisoners’ chains and cover their escape with his flames.
• The Fire Crows’ bloodlines awakened during their escape, and Ran Xin emerged with a genuine Chongming Bloodline, killed Cai Ying and the Weasel Demon, and destroyed the stronghold.
• Ran Xin rejected the title of chief and told the Fire Crows to settle their grudge before seeking the true chief, the Golden Crow.

After returning to Mount Fangcun, Chen Luo resumed Legend of the White Snake and discovered that a mysterious egg could help him write part of a forbidden character. When She Xiangxiang revealed that the Western Regions Buddhist Sect was behind the rumors against him, Chen Luo rewrote the installment to expose the sect and introduced Fahai as Bai Suzhen’s enemy.

• Gan Tang saw Chen Luo off, urged him to form an alliance with the Kirin Domain, and warned him to hide his Golden Crow Bloodline until he was far from the domain.
• Kirin King realized Chen Luo had stolen his sacred brew, while Chen Luo distributed the jars he had taken among his friends and acquaintances.
• Chen Luo returned to Mount Fangcun, surprised Zhuiyue in his bedroom, then updated Ao Lingling on his journey and learned that readers were demanding the next installment of Legend of the White Snake.
• Chen Luo found that he could not write about the Netherworld Underworld, but the mysterious egg helped him write half of the character “Nether”; he then wrote Xu Xian’s resurrection.
• She Xiangxiang informed Chen Luo that the Western Regions Buddhist Sect had fueled unrest and rumors against him, so Chen Luo replaced Black and White Impermanence with Buddhist disciples who captured Xu Xian’s soul.
• Chen Luo wrote that Bai Suzhen rescued Xu Xian from the disciples and was struck by their master, Fahai, who recognized her bloodline and vowed to claim her.

Ye Dafu turned Qin Xizi’s apparent rejection into a publicity stunt, then spotted a business opportunity in Bai Mo’s latest Legend of the White Snake installment. After the story stirred opposition to the Buddhist Sect across the Southern Wilderness, Chen Luo began writing the next installment at Mount Fangcun.

• Ye Dafu staged a public apology to Qin Xizi, boosting her reputation and planning to promote her as a star at the West Lake Theater.
• After reading Bai Mo’s new installment, Ye Dafu told his accountant to arrange the capture of young giant Ao as health supplements.
• Fang Huaji ordered the Fang Family to publish the installment despite objections, citing the approaching Ancestral Demon Tide and the Ancestor Beyond the Heavens’ support for Bai Mo.
• A Confucian scholar used the story to warn Snake Demons about the Buddhist Sect, and the Snake Clan Holy Monarch suspended cooperation with the Western Regions after hearing Ancestor Gui’s message through She Xiangxiang.
• Buddhist Sect disciples abandoned their efforts to spread the faith after demon clans turned against them, while Chen Luo began writing the next installment of Legend of the White Snake.

Chen Luo’s latest installment of Legend of the White Snake exposed Fahai’s scheme, brought Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian together again, and provoked outrage across the Southern Wasteland. As the Snake Clan sought an alliance with Great Xuan, a False Buddha Bodhisattva began spying on Mount Fangcun.

• Chen Luo wrote Fahai into imprisoning Xu Xian and tormenting pregnant Bai Suzhen, who flooded Golden Mountain before the disaster spread through the prefectural city.
• The sages’ Literary Radiance protected Bai Suzhen and her Innate Literary Embryo, drove Fahai away, and allowed Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen to reunite at Broken Bridge.
• A hidden golden-bodied Bodhisattva learned that Chen Luo’s story had weakened Buddhist incense offerings and decided to learn about the Bai Ze and seek reconciliation.
• Ye Dafu turned the story’s reunion into business ideas for wedding wine and West Lake water, while Yan Baichuan praised the chapter’s portrayal of the Confucian sages.
• Shen Cunzhong cursed the Buddhist Sect in the unseen realm as Daoist and Confucian figures argued over Chen Luo, and demons across the Southern Wasteland condemned Fahai.
• The Snake Clan Holy Monarch issued edicts encouraging human-snake marriages and sent a diplomatic mission toward Great Xuan, while the Mountain Guarding Monk warned Chen Luo that a False Buddha Bodhisattva was spying on Mount Fangcun.

Moriel visited Mount Fangcun to persuade Chen Luo to join the Western Regions Buddhist Sect and revise Legend of the White Snake, but Chen Luo refused and exposed the negotiation as pressure on his writing. Moriel left threatening retaliation, while Chen Luo planned to publish a recording of their meeting alongside the next installment.

• Moriel traveled alone toward Mount Fangcun after recognizing its unusual spiritual nature and deciding to confront Chen Luo over Legend of the White Snake.
• Ma Zouri told Chen Luo that the Buddhist Sect had a major preaching presence in the Southern Wasteland and that rumors spoke of hidden, injured Bodhisattvas.
• Chen Luo received Moriel, who offered to make him a Bodhisattva and proposed revisions that would portray Fahai as a rogue and bring Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian into the Buddhist Sect.
• Chen Luo rejected Moriel’s demands, ordered Ao Lingling to give him a cart of brushes, and had Zhuiyue see him out after Moriel threatened the Buddhist Sect’s retaliation.
• Chen Luo confirmed that Ma Zouri had recorded the meeting and decided to release it with the next Legend of the White Snake installment, while Ma Zouri suggested distributing Memory Jades to spread it faster.

Moriel recruited fellow wounded Bodhisattvas to arrange Bai Mo’s assassination, while the Fire Crow Clan reached Micheng City seeking the Golden Crow and found Black Chicken Brother instead. Black Chicken Brother accepted a lucrative Kirin Domain murder contract without yet knowing the target’s identity.

• Moriel left Mount Fangcun after clashing with Chen Luo, and Chen Luo revealed he had used himself as bait to draw out the Buddhist Sect.
• Moriel summoned five Bodhisattvas, who decided to hire Southern Wilderness outlaws to kill Bai Mo because they would not risk their own valuable forces.
• Ran Xin and the Fire Crows killed Jin Lulu, gathered the blood essence needed to enter the Kirin Domain, and began searching for the Golden Crow.
• Ran Xin and Ran Ding confronted Black Chicken Brother in Micheng City, and he showed them a Golden Crow feather that convinced them he was connected to the Golden Crow.
• Black Chicken Brother met a sheep demon through the Kirin Domain black market and accepted a contract for one First Rank and three Second Rank assassins to kill an unnamed Fifth Rank target.

Black Chicken Brother learned that a group of Great Sages had been hired to assassinate Bai Mo, then reported the plot to Gan Tang, who alerted Chen Luo. As Chen Luo weighed a confrontation with the Western Regions Buddhist Sect, Bai Yan Yan revealed that its Bodhisattvas had been injured by an enemy in the Nether Land.

• Black Chicken Brother met three Great Sages on a mountain and learned from their mortal client that Bai Mo was the target of an assassination mission.
• After the client died from a mysterious curse, Black Chicken Brother told Gan Tang the planned attack and identified Moriel’s disciple, Jade Bee Great Sage, as the assassin assigned to strike Bai Mo.
• Moriel instructed Jade Bee Great Sage to use a Buddhist escape route after the attack, while secretly deciding that the disciple knew too much to be allowed to survive.
• Chen Luo and Bai Yan Yan discussed whether Mount Fangcun should oppose the Western Regions Buddhist Sect, and Bai Yan Yan said Qingqiu could support him.
• Bai Yan Yan revealed that the Bodhisattvas recuperating in the Southern Wasteland had been injured by an enemy in the Nether Land.

Chen Luo and Bai Yan Yan uncovered a warning that Great Sages planned to ambush Mount Fangcun, then turned the attack into a trap that exposed the Buddhist Sect’s involvement. After faking Chen Luo’s near-death and publicizing evidence against the sect, Mount Fangcun began imposing political and economic pressure across the Southern Wilderness.

• Bai Yan Yan explained how the Buddhist Sect’s reincarnation system used the River of Life and Death and why it might have enemies in the Nether Land.
• Chen Luo received an anonymous jade slip warning that one First Rank and three Second Rank Great Sages would attack Mount Fangcun.
• Black Chicken Brother joined the assassination party, which included the Masked Great Sage, Jade Bee Great Sage, and Porcupine Great Sage; the Masked Great Sage and Feng Xi clashed while the others attacked.
• Bai Yan Yan’s illusion fooled the attackers, and Black Chicken Brother helped Chen Luo capture the Jade Bee Great Sage while the Masked Great Sage and Feng Xi were knocked unconscious.
• Chen Luo staged a near-fatal injury, blamed the Buddhist Sect, and used the ensuing outrage to draw support from demon leaders and the Fang Family.
• Mount Fangcun announced it would sever cooperation with demon clans closely tied to the Buddhist Sect, setting off political turmoil across the Southern Wilderness.

Mount Fangcun’s retaliation against the Western Regions Buddhist Sect gained support from allied kingdoms after the assassination of Bai Mo failed, while Moriel’s role in the plot was exposed and he turned on his own disciple. Chen Luo planned to continue Legend of the White Snake as the Masked Great Sage stirred and a strange aura knocked the little Rabbit Demon unconscious.

• Sullivan told Moriel that he had arranged for Feng Xi to join the assassination, and the two believed their forces would secure victory.
• Mount Fangcun placed more than sixty demon races on its Unfriendly List, and allied kingdoms cut off their trade, goods, and services while Great Xuan redirected commerce.
• A Buddhist disciple reported that Bai Mo survived the attack and accused the Buddhist sect; Moriel learned of the retaliation, argued with Sullivan, and killed the disciple when he tried to leave.
• Chen Luo beat Shi Man’er at cards and said he would continue writing Legend of the White Snake to strike at the Buddhist sect while it was vulnerable.
• The little Rabbit Demon tried to wake the unconscious Masked Great Sage, but a dusky-blue aura pulled at his soul and left him unconscious.

Chen Luo discovered that Xiaowan’s soul was being pulled away by Netherworld Death Qi, then learned the unconscious Masked Great Sage was Xiang Feitian, an elephant-clan heir whose clan had sealed itself off. He resumed writing Legend of the White Snake, ending the installment with Bai Suzhen trapped in Leifeng Pagoda and sending the manuscript out to readers.

• Zhuiyue summoned Chen Luo after Xiaowan lost consciousness, and the Mountain Guarding Monk expelled Netherworld Death Qi from her soul.
• Xiaowan recalled seeing blood when she touched the unconscious Masked Great Sage, and Chen Luo removed the mask to identify him.
• Black Chicken Brother recognized the man as Xiang Feitian, a once-promising elephant-clan genius, and described rumors linking Elephant Valley to a fragment of the Nether Land.
• Chen Luo learned that the elephant clan had been isolated for nearly a year and decided to wait for Xiang Feitian to wake before investigating further.
• Chen Luo wrote Bai Suzhen’s reunion with Xu Xian, the birth of Xu Shilin, and Fahai’s capture of Bai Suzhen in Leifeng Pagoda.
• Chen Luo gave the manuscript to Ao Lingling to copy and distribute, pleased to leave readers with the family’s separation.

Bai Mo’s Legend of the White Snake turned the human and Demon Races against the Western Regions Buddhist Sect, while the sect secretly killed Moriel. At Shouyang Mountain, Chen Xuan survived an extraordinary tribulation and woke asking, “Father?”

• Yan Baichuan and Leng Hanbing praised Legend of the White Snake’s influence before Yan Baichuan read Fahai’s separation of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian and condemned the Buddhist Sect.
• Fang Huaji ordered the Fang Family to publish attacks on the Buddhist Sect, while Ye Dafu planned West Lake attractions and an annual Mother’s Day in Bai Suzhen’s memory.
• The Yu Yuan Great Sage declared that the Heavenly Dao had acknowledged Fahai’s actions, prompting Demon Race Great Sages to join the campaign against the Buddhist Sect.
• Chen Luo warned Zhuiyue not to underestimate the Buddhist Sect, then hurried to see Xiang Feitian after Ao Lingling reported that he had awakened.
• Moriel’s senior brother demanded that Moriel enter nirvana, then killed him after Moriel revealed his hidden First Rank strength.
• Chen Xuan survived a devastating tribulation at Shouyang Mountain, emerged unharmed, and murmured, “Father?”