Chapter Summaries

The golden eagle massacred Tsar soldiers who entered Changbai Mountain, then discovered that the battle had destabilized the valley’s magnetic field and unleashed a catastrophic eruption of strange energy. As the sky was swallowed by the anomaly, Yang Jiongxiong ordered an investigation while Levjet accused Great Xia of killing the Tsar soldiers and threatened to enter Changbai Mountain.

• The golden eagle killed the Tsar soldiers as they tried to flee, then answered their command center’s call and identified itself as the Demon King of Changbai Mountain.
• The golden eagle found the valley’s unstable magnetic field collapsing, tried to contain the spreading auroras, and was driven back as a rift opened in the sky.
• The golden eagle lamented that it could no longer suppress the disaster, while the Monkey King and people across the Changbai Mountain region sensed the upheaval.
• Yang Jiongxiong received reports of the chaotic magnetic field and rising radiation, suspended nearby flights, and ordered an investigation.
• Levjet accused Yang Jiongxiong of killing the Tsar soldiers and threatened to explore Changbai Mountain, while Yang Jiongxiong ordered a search for the anomaly’s source.

The golden eagle joined Tang Shifeng’s outnumbered Great Xia troops against the Tsar’s invading soldiers, but concentrated artillery fire brought it down. A golden figure appeared, shielded the eagle, and announced, “Great Sage Monkey King is here!”

• The golden eagle was caught in the Tsar’s soldiers’ artillery barrage, escaped, and later attacked them after seeing them fighting Great Xia forces.
• Tang Shifeng and his troops fought the Tsar’s forces despite being outnumbered and cut off from reinforcements by the mountain’s disrupted magnetic field.
• The golden eagle joined the battle, drawing enemy fire and helping Great Xia hold its ground.
• The Tsar’s artillery focused on the injured golden eagle, blasted it from the sky, and fired another volley at its fallen body.
• A golden figure appeared beside the eagle, used a purple-and-gold staff to shield it, and declared, “Great Sage Monkey King is here!”

The Great Sage Monkey King joined the Golden Eagle at Changbai Mountain, defeated the Tsarist soldiers with help from a vast beast tide, and discovered a mysterious black shell linked to the golden meteorite and the civilization beyond the heavens. After the two demons claimed Changbai Mountain and Monkey King began preaching to its creatures, officials in Great Xia learned of the battle and decided to arrange a formal meeting with the demons.

• The Great Sage Monkey King protected the wounded Golden Eagle, then destroyed the Tsarist forces’ heavy weapons and crushed their soldiers in battle.
• Monkey King summoned the beast tide from Mount Hua, and it joined the Great Xia soldiers in wiping out the Tsarist battalions, except for two soldiers the Golden Eagle released to carry its message.
• The Golden Eagle claimed Changbai Mountain as its territory and sent Tang Shifeng and the surviving Great Xia soldiers away.
• The Golden Eagle and Monkey King found a black shell buried in the valley, recognized markings like those on the golden meteorite, and discussed Ye Qin’s discovery of a civilization beyond the heavens.
• Monkey King agreed to stay and preach to the creatures of Changbai Mountain while the Golden Eagle expanded its forces.
• Yang Jiongxiong and Song An reviewed Tang Shifeng’s report and confirmed the battle’s aftermath, prompting officials in Kyoto to discuss arranging a formal meeting with the demons.

After the Changbai Mountain upheaval, Levjet blamed Great Xia and planned to investigate Longyuan Mountain, while the Monkey King left the mountain with a mysterious object. Ye Qin broke through in seclusion and opened a small, growing Blessed Grotto-Heaven as a refuge for the Demon Race and some of humanity.

• Levjet dismissed reports of monsters as Great Xia’s deception, learned that clues pointed to Longyuan Mountain, and ordered an expedition there.
• The Monkey King completed its teaching of Changbai Mountain’s creatures, said goodbye to the golden eagle, and departed with the mysterious object as the beast tide moved southeast.
• The Great Xia Official sealed information about the battle and blocked people from entering Changbai Mountain while assessing the Demon Race’s strength.
• Ye Qin’s cultivation breakthrough illuminated Longyuan Mountain, and he decided to create a secret realm as a fallback against future threats.
• Ye Qin opened a small independent space, filled it with clear and turbid qi, and established the beginning of a Blessed Grotto-Heaven.

Ye Qin opened a small Blessed Grotto-Heaven for the demons and began connecting it to Changbai Mountain. At Longyuan Village, Hu Xiaocao announced her plan to establish Earth's first human sect and serve as the Mountain God's spokesperson.

• Ye Qin brought the Siberian Tiger, the weasel, Old Turtle, the brown bear, and other demons into his newly opened secret realm, which he described as a cultivation ground and refuge for the Demon Race.
• Ye Qin appointed Great Turtle to manage the secret realm's limited cultivation quotas while he prepared to connect it with other mountains.
• Ye Qin traveled to Changbai Mountain and reunited with the golden eagle, then began establishing an entrance linking the mountain to the Blessed Grotto-Heaven.
• The golden eagle told Ye Qin that he and the Monkey King had found an object connected to extraterrestrial civilization in the valley, but the Monkey King had taken it away.
• After graduating from university, Hu Xiaocao told the village chief she wanted to establish Earth's first sect for humanity and become the Mountain God's spokesperson.

Hu Xiaocao persuaded Longyuan Village to establish the Longyuan Celestial Sect, naming the mountain god their Dao Ancestor and accepting the position of sect master. As the villagers celebrated their new sect, Sun Zhenbang arrived and learned that Hu Xiaocao expected Longyuan Mountain to enter the world soon.

• Hu Xiaocao presented evidence of the Longyuan Mountain monsters’ recent public deeds and argued that the mountain god was signaling that Longyuan Mountain would eventually reveal itself.
• The villagers unanimously agreed to establish the Longyuan Celestial Sect, honor the mountain god as their Dao Ancestor, and appoint Hu Xiaocao as sect master.
• Hu Xiaocao assigned sect positions, organized training, and worked with the village elders to draft rules as the sect took shape.
• The villagers hung a Longyuan Celestial Sect sign at the village entrance and prepared a banquet to celebrate its founding.
• Sun Zhenbang arrived, learned from Uncle Zhang that Hu Xiaocao had founded the sect, and was invited to seek a guest elder position.

Hu Xiaocao explained that Longyuan Celestial Sect would help humanity and the Demon Race coexist, then began planning its first disciple recruitment. Daoist Qingwei and a group of monks from Qiguang Temple agreed to travel to the sect, while Sun Zhenbang invited Xie Yixuan to join.

• Hu Xiaocao offered Sun Zhenbang a guest elder position, and he accepted after learning her plans for peaceful relations between humanity and the Demon Race.
• Sun Zhenbang asked Hu Xiaocao to accept Xie Yixuan as a disciple, and she agreed.
• Hu Xiaocao and the villagers decided to recruit a small number of trustworthy disciples, including suitable Daoists and monks they already knew.
• Daoist Qingwei announced that he would close Shangqing Temple and take his little disciple to Longyuan Celestial Sect.
• The abbot of Qiguang Temple selected monks to travel to Longyuan Celestial Sect and study there.

Hu Xiaocao initiated the first disciples of Longyuan Celestial Sect while Ye Qin sent a second group of demons out to establish themselves. Great Turtle got lost in the sea and began fishing up Shinzhao Nation’s missing underwater detectors, leaving the navy baffled.

• The village chief brought Daoist Qingwei, monks from Qiguang Temple, Xie Yixuan, and Zhao Guoan to the Mountain God Temple, where Hu Xiaocao welcomed them as Longyuan Celestial Sect’s first disciples.
• Ye Qin returned to Longyuan Mountain and announced that Great Turtle, the brown bear, the jackal, the fox, and the weasel would leave to find territory.
• Great Turtle traveled through rivers toward Penglai but lost his way in the East Sea and landed on a lonely island.
• Great Turtle cast his fishing line and repeatedly hauled up black iron detectors, mistaking them for scraps.
• Kawashima Kaede learned that ten high-speed underwater detectors had disappeared during Shinzhao Nation’s naval exercise in the Ryukyu Sea and demanded an explanation.

Kawashima Kaede’s fleet tracked down the Great Turtle after it accidentally fished up probes and equipment from several nations. When the Great Turtle asked the approaching warships for directions to Daxia’s Penglai Island, Kawashima Kaede mistook its greeting for a provocation and ordered an attack; the Great Turtle survived and grew angry.

• Kawashima Kaede learned that a probe had captured footage of the Great Turtle fishing up and discarding the missing probes, then ordered his fleet to capture it.
• The Great Turtle kept catching underwater equipment from multiple countries, prompting international monitoring departments to blame the Shinzhao Nation for the losses.
• Kawashima Kaede and his fleet found the Great Turtle fishing, and it called out to ask how to reach Daxia’s Penglai Island.
• Kawashima Kaede mistook the Great Turtle’s words and wave for defiance, then ordered his ships to bombard it with guns and torpedoes.
• The Great Turtle emerged unharmed, while Kawashima Kaede ordered the fleet to pursue it and the Great Turtle became angry over the attack and damage to its fishing rod.

Great Turtle sank Shinzhao Nation’s warships while trying to escape their pursuit, then headed toward Penglai and reached Great Xia’s controlled waters. Great Xia and Shinzhao Nation faced off at sea, with Shinzhao Nation demanding compensation and the surrender of the turtle as the standoff threatened to turn into war.

• Great Turtle rammed the Fusang and four other warships, sinking the fleet as Kawashima Kaede sent a warning back to Shinzhao Nation.
• Shinzhao Nation assembled more forces to pursue Great Turtle, but the turtle sank additional warships while enduring their attacks.
• Great Turtle sensed Ye Qin’s aura and swam southeast toward Penglai, drawing the pursuing Shinzhao Nation fleet toward Great Xia’s waters.
• Ten Great Xia cruisers intercepted the fleet and warned it to leave, while Shinzhao Nation accused Great Xia of sending the turtle to sabotage its exercise.
• The Great Xia and Shinzhao Nation fleets aimed their weapons at each other as their commanders exchanged accusations over the radio.
• The Shinzhao commander demanded compensation, the surrender of Great Turtle, and an explanation, leaving the Great Xia soldiers stunned.

After reaching a cultivation bottleneck, Ye Qin decided to travel to Magic City for a dangerous tribulation and sent the Little Fox ahead to scout. Shinzhao Nation agents captured the Little Fox and Yoshida Masakazu bought it, leaving it bound for Shinzhao Nation instead of Magic City.

• Shinzhao Nation withdrew its warships after Daxia refused to explain the Great Turtle incident, then sent agents led by Yoshida Masakazu to investigate clues linked to Longyuan Mountain.
• Ye Qin announced that his opportunity to break through lay in Magic City, where he planned to undergo a dangerous tribulation.
• Ye Qin chose the Little Fox to scout the route and gave it spiritual power for protection, while the other monsters planned to follow and clear obstacles.
• Shinzhao Nation's agents captured the inexperienced Little Fox soon after it left Longyuan Mountain and contacted Yoshida Masakazu.
• Yoshida Masakazu recognized a similarity between the Little Fox's protective light and the Great Turtle's, then paid one hundred million dollars to buy it.

After the Shinzhao Nation captured Little Fox, the Longyuan Mountain monsters gathered in Magic City and prepared to rescue her, while Ye Qin's spiritual power protected her in a secret facility. Great Turtle crossed the sea and began attacking the Shinzhao Nation, leaving the story with him rampaging toward Changqi City.

• The Monkey King discovered that the Shinzhao Nation had captured Little Fox, and he, Golden Eagle, and Great Turtle vowed to rescue her without alerting Ye Qin before his tribulation.
• Great Turtle suspected the Shinzhao Nation had targeted him because he had wrecked its warships, and he warned the others to prepare for a difficult fight.
• Researchers in a Shinzhao Nation facility tried to examine the unconscious Little Fox, but Ye Qin's blue spiritual barrier blocked every attempt to harm or approach her.
• Fisherman Hirata Ichiro saw Great Turtle emerge from the sea and destroy a lighthouse as he came ashore.
• Great Turtle enlarged himself and smashed buildings in the Shinzhao Nation, scattering civilians and police before continuing toward Changqi City.

The Great Turtle, the golden eagle, and the Monkey King rampaged through Shinzhao Nation as its forces tried to stop them. The creatures headed toward Guangdao and the Little Fox, but they discovered a familiar aura like the anomaly at Changbai Mountain, suggesting Shinzhao Nation also held something left behind by the Signal Tower.

• Officials identified the Great Turtle and golden eagle attacking Changqi and Daobird, and Kawashima Kaede ordered troops to protect the captured Little Fox and fight the creatures.
• The Monkey King followed the Little Fox's scent into Shinzhao Nation while the Great Turtle and golden eagle battled the arriving forces.
• The Monkey King attacked Dagao City, forcing Shinzhao Nation to redirect troops as civilians fled and the three creatures proved resistant to weapons.
• Shinzhao officials realized the creatures were converging on Guangdao, where the Little Fox and a secret research institute were located, and rushed forces to intercept them.
• The Monkey King, golden eagle, and Great Turtle changed their plan after sensing an aura resembling the anomaly at Changbai Mountain, indicating Shinzhao Nation also possessed something left by the Signal Tower.

The golden eagle triggered Mount Fuji’s anomaly, causing a catastrophic eruption and magnetic-field disruption that plunged the Shinzhao Nation into chaos. The Monkey King and Great Turtle reached the secret research facility in Guangdao and began tearing through its defenses to find Little Fox.

• The golden eagle found the anomaly at Mount Fuji and used its golden feathers to intensify it until the volcano erupted.
• The eruption’s magnetic field blacked out cities and severed communications across the Shinzhao Nation, preventing reinforcements from being redirected to Guangdao.
• The Monkey King and Great Turtle met in darkened Guangdao, followed Little Fox’s aura, and located the hidden research facility.
• The Monkey King and Great Turtle attacked the facility’s soldiers, using the Ruyi Jingu Bang and Great Turtle’s shell to devastate the area.
• The two demons confirmed Little Fox was underground and kept smashing through the mountain to reach her.

The Monkey King and Great Turtle rescued Little Fox from the Shinzhao research facility, destroyed the base, and escaped with the Golden Eagle. Shinzhao officials blamed Great Xia and sent ships in pursuit, but Great Xia’s navy blocked their way as the creatures returned home.

• The Monkey King rescued Little Fox from the facility while the Great Turtle held off the Shinzhao soldiers, and the pair fought their way out under missile fire.
• The Monkey King combined the Great Turtle’s spiritual power with the Ruyi Jingu Bang and annihilated the attacking soldiers and most of the research facility’s personnel.
• The Golden Eagle arrived, carried the exhausted Monkey King and Great Turtle away, and left the Shinzhao forces to discover the destruction afterward.
• Kawashima Kaede and Shinzhao’s leaders dealt with Mount Fuji’s eruption, the nationwide magnetic disruption, and news that the creatures had escaped, then ordered a pursuit and accused Great Xia of involvement.
• The Great Xia navy spotted the returning Great Turtle, Monkey King, and Golden Eagle, then blocked the pursuing Shinzhao fleet and refused to hand over the turtle.

After the Mount Fuji disaster and footage of the golden eagle attack alarmed governments, Ye Qin left Longyuan Mountain for Magic City to experience mortal life and prepare for his heavenly tribulation. Disguised as an ordinary snake and traveling with his Nascent Soul clone, he told fortunes beneath a bridge while the tribulation clouds gathered over the city.

• News of Mount Fuji's eruption and the three creatures spread worldwide, while Great Xia's leaders watched footage of the golden eagle attack and discussed the Demon Race's power.
• Ye Qin left Longyuan Mountain for Magic City and concealed his cultivation and dragon body to keep the heavenly tribulation from locating him.
• Ye Qin created a Nascent Soul clone identical to Long Ling, and the two traveled separately toward Magic City so he could experience the mortal world as both human and snake.
• In Magic City, Long Ling's clone set up a fortune-telling stall beneath a bridge, gained a reputation for accurate readings, and befriended a young man who sold roasted sweet potatoes.
• As Ye Qin lived among ordinary people without cultivating, his understanding deepened, clear radiance gathered around him, and rain and dark clouds lingered over Magic City.
• Fishermen found that the rain brought large schools of fish and abundant catches, while the heavenly tribulation sensed Ye Qin somewhere in the city.

An uncanny storm cloud expanded over Magic City, resisting attempts to disperse it as officials feared an approaching disaster. While Long Ling's clone deepened her understanding of the mortal world beneath the bridge, the chapter ended with Magic City's leaders suspecting a connection to demons without realizing she was already there.

• Magic City's meteorological staff watched a storm cloud grow over the city, and a tropical cyclone abruptly veered away from it toward the Philippines.
• A drone sent into the cloud was struck by lightning, and more than ten cloud-dispersal shells failed to affect it as rain continued to fall and flow into the Yangtze River.
• Long Ling's clone continued fortune-telling while living as an ordinary person, gaining insight into Heaven and Earth and attracting an increasing number of visitors.
• An eagle scouting from Longyuan Mountain saw the immense cloud over Magic City and returned to tell the demons, who worried about Ye Qin's tribulation.
• Long Ling's clone warned the sweet-potato seller to pack up before the storm intensified, and the wind promptly tore down his shed.
• Gao Zhanpeng and Magic City's officials discussed the growing storm and feared it might be connected to demons, unaware that Long Ling's clone was already in the city.

Long Ling's clone continued telling fortunes in Magic City and met Song Nan, whose decision to reject Shinzhao Nation's agents had saved his conglomerate. When the roasted-sweet-potato seller's mother was near death, Ye Qin discovered a thread of life connected to him, caught up with the young man, and revealed his true body as a heavenly tribulation began.

• Long Ling's clone accurately divined Song Nan's recent refusal to help Shinzhao Nation's agents, and Song Nan asked for guidance before leaving with renewed respect.
• Song Nan reformed his conglomerate after pondering the clone's advice, drawing opposition whose agents failed to abduct the clone and were found unconscious.
• The young sweet-potato seller returned to the stall in despair and asked Long Ling's clone how much time his gravely ill mother had left.
• The clone saw a thread of life connected to himself in the hexagram and realized he might be able to save the young man's mother.
• Ye Qin caught up with the exhausted young man, said he could save his mother, revealed his true body, and was locked onto by the heavenly tribulation as lightning gathered overhead.

Ye Qin began enduring his tribulation above Magic City, unleashing a supernatural storm that flooded the city and caused widespread power failures. As rescue crews struggled to save trapped residents, a long, mysterious creature appeared amid the lightning above the Oriental Pearl Tower.

• Ye Qin regained his aura, ascended into the sky, and headed for a place to endure his tribulation.
• A vast storm of purple lightning erupted over Magic City, and great demons across the land sensed Ye Qin's terrifying power.
• Gao Zhanpeng ordered emergency rescues as floodwater submerged districts, disabled power systems, and trapped residents across Magic City.
• At the Bund, civilians sheltered in high-rises as floodwater and lightning swept through the area and the power failed.
• People trapped near the Oriental Pearl Tower saw a long shadow floating in the sky as lightning coiled around it.

Ye Qin endured a devastating heavenly tribulation above the Oriental Pearl Tower as three flower buds formed around him and two bloomed into a Golden Core and a Nascent Soul. As the Star-Lock Satellites and observers across Magic City detected the storm, Ye Qin faced the final judgment lightning while his third flower remained closed.

• Ye Qin withstood the thunderstorm as three flower buds absorbed lightning and gradually took shape.
• People near the Bund saw the shadow atop the Oriental Pearl Tower and speculated that someone was undergoing a tribulation.
• Snag ordered the Star-Lock Satellites to observe the East, and astronauts spotted a massive thunderstorm over southeastern Great Xia near Magic City.
• Great Sage Monkey King, the golden eagle, Great Turtle, and demons across the Dragon Origin Mountain Range worried as Ye Qin's tribulation intensified.
• Ye Qin's first flower bloomed into a lotus bearing a Golden Core, and his second revealed a pure-white Nascent Soul that briefly halted the lightning.
• The heavens unleashed a final Sword of Judgment, but Ye Qin's third flower still refused to bloom.