Recaps

Ning Wei recognized Xiao Mo and Si Li when the Zhou Kingdom’s ruler visited Ningxue Hall, and Si Li silently signaled her to keep their identities quiet. After Si Li left to rest with stomach pain, Ning Wei confronted her in the maids’ courtyard.

• Chunyan told Ning Wei to help care for Bai Ruxue’s bedchamber and keep watch over Ningxue Hall.
• Xiao Mo arrived at Ningxue Hall, and Ning Wei recognized him as Brother Xiao.
• Ning Wei recognized Si Li by the bracelet on her wrist, while Si Li secretly signaled her not to reveal anything.
• Bai Ruxue welcomed Xiao Mo into her bedchamber, leaving Si Li and Chunyan to keep watch outside.
• Si Li complained of severe menstrual pain, and Chunyan let her go rest in the maids’ courtyard.
• Ning Wei called out to Si Li, accusing her of having gone too far.

Si Li explained to Ning Wei that Jiang Qingyi and Xiao Mo’s two powerful consorts made it too dangerous to take Xiao Mo to the Western Regions or reveal their plans. After warning Ning Wei to keep her distance, Si Li left her to act as usual, while Xiao Mo returned to his bedchamber and learned that the Book of a Hundred Lives had prepared his sixth life.

• Ning Wei confronted Si Li for hiding that Xiao Mo’s reincarnation was in the Zhou Kingdom’s Imperial Palace.
• Si Li told Ning Wei that Jiang Qingyi and Xiao Mo’s two consorts were powerful Ascension Realm cultivators, making it too dangerous to take Xiao Mo away or contact their sect.
• Ning Wei worried that Consort Xue had seen through her cultivation, and Si Li advised her to act normally and avoid communicating with her.
• Xiao Mo thanked Bai Ruxue for guiding and refining his Spiritual Energy through the night, then returned to his bedchamber.
• The Book of a Hundred Lives told Xiao Mo that it had finished preparing his sixth life and asked whether he was ready to enter.

Xiao Mo entered the sixth life of the Book of a Hundred Lives and woke as a young human child imprisoned among other children by demons. After a Dog Demon selected him and four others for a powerful household, Xiao Mo arrived at the gate of Tushan.

• Xiao Mo chose to enter the sixth life and used his real name.
• Xiao Mo woke in an iron cage among dozens of imprisoned children and saw Pig Demons guarding them.
• Boss Gou arrived to select children for a lord's household, and Xiao Mo pretended to be frightened when the Dog Demon questioned him.
• Boss Gou chose Xiao Mo and four other children, and the Pig Demons bathed them and dressed them in clean clothes.
• The children rode in a carriage to Tushan, where Xiao Mo saw the name above the gate.

Xiao Mo and four other human children were brought to Tushan Manor and assigned as servants, where Steward Xiong warned them to be loyal to the manor. Xiao Mo was sent to work in the kitchen under Master Niu, while the young fox-eared Miss left disappointed after being told humans could not play with her.

• Boss Gou brought Xiao Mo and four other children to Tushan Manor and sold them to Steward Xiong as servants.
• Steward Xiong introduced himself, ordered the children to serve the manor loyally, and assigned them to different jobs.
• The young fox-eared Miss asked Xiao Mo to play with her, but Steward Xiong said humans were unworthy, and her maids led her away.
• Steward Xiong assigned Xiao Mo to the kitchen after deciding the boy looked clever, then warned all five children to be loyal to Madam and Miss.
• A Cat Demon maid delivered Xiao Mo to Master Niu, who complained that he had wanted a grown man but accepted the boy and told him to learn the manor's rules.

Xiao Mo began working in Tushan Manor’s kitchen, where Master Niu warned him about the manor’s rules and explained how demons viewed humans as livestock. That night, the Book of a Hundred Lives revealed his tasks, including cultivating, choosing whether to join the human rebellion, and helping a young Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox reach ascension.

• Master Niu introduced himself to Xiao Mo and explained the kitchen’s rules, including that Xiao Mo must never touch the young lady or her belongings.
• Master Niu told Xiao Mo that demons considered unintelligent animals livestock and humans no different, then assigned him to chop wood, tend fires, and sleep in the Wood Shed.
• Xiao Mo collected kitchen clothes and worked through the day, impressing Master Niu with his quickness while eating well between shifts.
• As Xiao Mo fell asleep, the Book of a Hundred Lives revealed his tasks: cultivate if possible, choose whether to join the Human Race Rebel Army, and support the young Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s path to ascension.
• The Book explained that all tasks would be settled when the young fox reached the Ascension Realm, then asked Xiao Mo whether he could understand love.

After months of recovering at Tushan Manor, Xiao Mo met the Eldest Miss again when she hid in his woodshed while sneaking away to play. She introduced herself as Tushan Jingci before heading out alone.

• Xiao Mo spent two months hauling firewood at Tushan Manor, regaining his health and learning about Immortal Fox City and the Tushan family.
• The Eldest Miss secretly entered Xiao Mo's woodshed and hid beneath the firewood while Master Niu searched for her.
• Xiao Mo concealed the girl's presence when Master Niu asked whether he had seen her.
• After Master Niu left, the Eldest Miss asked Xiao Mo to sneak out with her, but he declined because he had work in the morning.
• The Eldest Miss ran off to play, then returned to tell Xiao Mo that her name was Tushan Jingci.

Tushan Xinhua punished Tushan Jingci for trying to sneak out, but allowed her some freedom while keeping her away from males until her sixth birthday. She revealed that Jingci’s first contact with a man before then would determine a dangerously difficult love tribulation, and only one month remained.

• Xiao Mo heard that Tushan Jingci had been caught sneaking out and confined to her room after declaring she did not want to return.
• Tushan Xinhua made Jingci kneel with a water-filled jade bowl on her head, then ordered her to reflect for three days without leaving the manor.
• Tushan Xinhua told Yueshi to let Jingci sneak out if she wished, provided she stayed within the manor.
• Lu Xia visited Tushan Xinhua and asked why she kept spanking Jingci and whether Jingci’s birthday was approaching.
• Tushan Xinhua explained that Jingci’s first contact with a man before her sixth birthday would set her love tribulation, so she had barred males from touching her until her birthday next month.

Tushan Jingci sneaked out of her room to visit Xiao Mo and play, despite being confined. After they chose tic-tac-toe, she asked him to be her lifelong friend, leaving him to answer her heartfelt promise.

• Bored in confinement, Tushan Jingci decided to sneak out and find Xiao Mo to play.
• Tushan Jingci fooled Yueshi into thinking she was asleep, then slipped away while Yueshi secretly followed her.
• Tushan Jingci found Xiao Mo in the Wood Shed and reassured him that she had come to play, not to escape the residence.
• After dismissing Xiao Mo’s concern that he was human, Tushan Jingci agreed to learn tic-tac-toe with him.
• Before their game, Tushan Jingci asked Xiao Mo if playing together made them friends and declared that he would be her friend for life.

Tushan Jingci secretly befriended Xiao Mo and visited him to play each night, while Yueshi reluctantly kept their friendship from Madam. On the night before Jingci’s sixth birthday, as Xiao Mo took her fishing, a sword attack suddenly targeted her.

• Xiao Mo played Tic-Tac-Toe with Tushan Jingci and let her win, while Yueshi watched over them.
• Yueshi decided not to tell Madam about the friendship, and Tushan Jingci began visiting Xiao Mo each night.
• Over the next half month, Xiao Mo taught Tushan Jingci more games as Yueshi grew less wary of him.
• As Tushan Jingci’s sixth birthday approached, Xiao Mo secretly carved a gift for her.
• The night before her birthday, Xiao Mo took Tushan Jingci fishing and promised her a present if she caught a fish.
• Yueshi spotted a streak of sword light thrusting toward Tushan Jingci’s back and rushed to protect her.

At a banquet in Immortal Fox City, Ying Dayuan asked Tushan Xinhua to consider a childhood betrothal between her and the Heavenly Demon Country’s First Prince. As she traveled back to Tushan Manor, Xinhua sensed something was wrong and cried out for Jingci.

• Ying Dayuan toasted Tushan Xinhua in advance of her birthday and asked the city’s leaders to help keep order for the next day’s celebration.
• Ying Dayuan told Xinhua that the Heavenly Demon Country’s ruler planned to propose a childhood betrothal between Xinhua and the First Prince.
• Xinhua said she would need time to consider the proposal because Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes devoted themselves to one person for life.
• Xinhua left the banquet in her carriage and considered the First Prince’s potential as a match.
• Xinhua sensed something alarming, and she called out, “Jingci!”

An attacker invaded Tushan Manor and tried to kill Tushan Jingci, but Yueshi and Xiao Mo protected her until Tushan Xinhua arrived. The attacker died after detonating his Yao Core, while Tushan Jingci’s cinnabar mark faded after the human boy touched her, leaving Tushan Xinhua fearing what that meant with her daughter’s sixth birthday only a day away.

• A black-clad attacker sealed the courtyard with a formation and fought Yueshi while targeting Tushan Jingci.
• Yueshi urged Tushan Jingci to escape, and the attacker revealed his Quechen Rhinoceros form and knocked Yueshi away.
• The attacker sent a column of water toward Tushan Jingci, but Xiao Mo rushed to her and plunged with her into the lake.
• Tushan Xinhua restrained the attacker with her eight fox tails, but he detonated his Yao Core and destroyed himself and her scroll.
• Tushan Xinhua rescued Tushan Jingci and Xiao Mo from the lake and saw that Jingci’s cinnabar mark had faded after Xiao Mo touched her.
• Yueshi asked Tushan Xinhua to execute her, while Tushan Xinhua wondered whether her daughter’s fate could be avoided and lamented that the boy was human.

After Xiao Mo woke in Tushan Manor, Tushan Xinhua forgave him for touching Tushan Jingci while saving her and gave him a Daoist cultivation book. Tushan Jingci learned she could play with Xiao Mo, while Tushan Xinhua was left sorrowful and resigned.

• Xiao Mo woke in a maid's room, and Tushan Xinhua examined him and told him to rest after his ordeal.
• Xiao Mo apologized for touching Tushan Jingci, but Tushan Xinhua said it had been unavoidable and asked him to keep it secret.
• Tushan Xinhua gave Xiao Mo Great Dream of Yellow Millet and offered to answer his questions about Daoist spells.
• Tushan Jingci apologized to her mother, who allowed her to leave the manor and play with whomever she liked.
• Tushan Jingci asked whether she could still play with Xiao Mo, and Tushan Xinhua agreed before reflecting sadly after Jingci left.

Tushan Jingci’s birthday banquet drew rulers and sect leaders hoping to win her family’s favor, while Jingci longed to leave and play with Xiao Mo. The gathering’s most powerful guests bowed when her grandfather, Senior Gui, arrived.

• Ying Dayuan and dignitaries from across the monster cities arrived at Tushan Manor for Tushan Jingci’s birthday banquet.
• Tushan Jingci warmly greeted the guests but secretly wished the banquet would end so she could play with Xiao Mo and receive his present.
• Chen Bing arrived with Chen Jue and encouraged his son to get to know Jingci, while explaining that her grandfather was someone Heavenly Demon Country needed to win over.
• Rulers and sect masters continued arriving with birthday gifts, and Chen Bing realized arranging a childhood betrothal would be difficult.
• Senior Gui arrived, and Jingci ran to greet her grandfather as everyone at the manor bowed and paid their respects.

Tushan Jingci’s birthday banquet drew rulers and sect masters seeking a marriage alliance with the Tushan family, while Tushan Xinhua worried that Jingci’s destined partner was human. Guining asked Jingci what kind of boy she liked, and her answer left him amused and confident that her feelings mattered more than race.

• Guining arrived at Tushan Manor for Tushan Jingci’s birthday and noticed her cinnabar mark had disappeared.
• Guests presented lavish gifts, and rulers and sect masters introduced their sons to Tushan Xinhua and Tushan Jingci in hopes of arranging a marriage alliance.
• After the banquet, Tushan Xinhua told Guining that she favored Chen Jue but worried because the boy who had touched Jingci was human.
• Guining asked Jingci whether the visiting boys were good-looking, and she said the boy she liked was the best-looking.
• Guining laughed and told Tushan Xinhua that Jingci understood better than she did that race did not matter.

Xiao Mo studied Great Dream of Yellow Millet and reached Qi Refining Layer One in a single day. Tushan Xinhua and Guining rewarded him, appointed him Tushan Jingci’s page, and discussed his possible future as Jingci’s husband.

• Xiao Mo read Great Dream of Yellow Millet, entered a dreamlike state, and reached Qi Refining Layer One.
• Tushan Xinhua and Guining visited Xiao Mo, and Guining gave him a jade pendant to nourish his Spiritual Energy.
• Tushan Xinhua told Xiao Mo he would move to a courtyard and become Tushan Jingci’s page when she went to the academy.
• Guining gave Tushan Xinhua a recommendation letter for Xiao Mo to use if he reached the Golden Core Realm and wanted to cultivate at Seeking Immortality Mountain.
• Guining told Tushan Xinhua that if Xiao Mo became Jingci’s Love tribulation, Jingci had the right to meet her future husband.

Xiao Mo celebrated Tushan Jingci’s birthday by cooking her sweet-and-sour carp and giving her a bracelet he had made. Elsewhere, a six-year-old girl at Seeking Immortality Temple reached the tenth level of Qi Refining, and her reflection revealed that she looked exactly like Tushan Jingci.

• Tushan Jingci caught a carp with Yueshi’s help and brought it to Xiao Mo to claim her birthday present.
• Xiao Mo cooked sweet-and-sour carp for Tushan Jingci, who helped light the fire and eagerly enjoyed the meal.
• Xiao Mo gave Tushan Jingci a jade bracelet he had polished himself, and she treasured it because he had made it.
• A rosy glow rose from Seeking Immortality Mountain after a young girl reached the tenth level of Qi Refining on her sixth birthday.
• The abbess gave the girl a mirror, and the girl saw that she looked exactly like Tushan Jingci.

Xiao Mo accompanied Tushan Jingci to Hanshan Academy, where she began her long stay apart from her mother. That night, Jingci struggled with homesickness and talked with Xiao Mo about studying and trust.

• A maid moved Xiao Mo into a courtyard near Tushan Jingci’s and told him to prepare to serve as her page at Hanshan Academy.
• Xiao Mo cultivated Great Dream of Yellow Millet while Tushan Jingci visited him during her lessons and looked forward to making friends at the academy.
• Tushan Xinhua took Tushan Jingci, Xiao Mo, Yueshi, and two maids to Hanshan Academy and completed Jingci’s enrollment.
• Tushan Xinhua tearfully said goodbye to Jingci, who became so upset that she could barely eat dinner.
• Late at night, Xiao Mo found Jingci awake and homesick, and he reassured her as she explained why she thought studying would not stop her from being tricked by someone she loved.

Tushan Jingci attended her first lessons at Qianxue Study Hall while Xiao Mo waited outside. When the other girls insulted him for being human, she rejected their invitation to see the peach blossoms and left with him.

• Tushan Jingci met Chen Jue, Lou Huo, Lei Qiu, and other young demons at Qianxue Study Hall, while Xiao Mo waited outside with the book attendants.
• Tushan Jingci grew bored during class and nearly fell asleep until the teacher startled her awake.
• Several girls invited Tushan Jingci to see the peach blossoms after lunch, but they objected when she said Xiao Mo would come too.
• Tushan Jingci defended Xiao Mo against the girls’ insults and refused to go with them.
• Tushan Jingci put her books in Xiao Mo’s basket, tugged his sleeve, and led him home.

Xiao Mo settled into life at Hanshan Academy, reached the twelfth level of Qi Refining, and went to collect Foundation Establishment Pills. Outside the Pill Room, he intervened when demon page boys surrounded a frightened girl and one threw a rock at her.

• Tushan Jingci accepted the demon girls’ apology and agreed to play with them, while Xiao Mo said he was not angry.
• Over the following months, Tushan Jingci studied diligently and Xiao Mo cultivated with the academy’s resources, reaching the twelfth level of Qi Refining.
• Yueshi came to admire Xiao Mo’s diligence, talent, and calm attitude toward the demons.
• Xiao Mo told Yueshi he was going to collect Foundation Establishment Pills and headed up the mountain to the Pill Room.
• After collecting the pills, Xiao Mo saw demon page boys surround a frightened girl, and he stopped one from striking her by grabbing his wrist.

Xiao Mo intervened when Wang Zhong and the other demon attendants attacked a human girl, and he fought them outside the Pill Room. After Tushan Jingci rushed to check on his injuries, Chen Jue, Lou Huo, and their companions arrived, and a Guardian Elder demanded an explanation from her.

• Wang Zhong accused a human girl of making him drop pills and tried to beat her, while Xiao Mo stopped him and defended her.
• Wang Zhong ordered the demon attendants to attack Xiao Mo, and Xiao Mo fought back.
• An academy steward told Tushan Jingci that Xiao Mo had gotten into a fight, so she hurried to the summit of Qianxue Peak.
• Tushan Jingci found Xiao Mo wounded and saw several demon attendants lying injured nearby.
• Chen Jue, Lou Huo, and the other attendants' masters arrived, and a Guardian Elder demanded that Tushan Jingci explain why Xiao Mo had injured their people.

Xiao Mo defended Liu Shui after the Guardian Elders accused him, and the Enforcement Hall ruled that the offending book attendants had to compensate her. Chen Bing then questioned Wang Zhong about provoking Tushan Jingci's book attendant and threatened him when he refused to explain.

• Tushan Jingci shielded Xiao Mo and accused the Guardian Elders' book attendants of mistreating Liu Shui.
• Liu Shui told Master Xian that the book attendants had surrounded and harassed her before Xiao Mo intervened.
• The book attendants admitted their wrongdoing, and Jiang Feng ordered compensation for Liu Shui before dismissing everyone.
• Xian Xichun and Jiang Feng discussed Xiao Mo's cultivation and the Great Dream of Yellow Millet, while Xian Xichun criticized demons who lorded over others.
• Chen Bing confronted Wang Zhong about targeting Tushan Jingci's book attendant and pressed him for an explanation.

Chen Jue’s attack on Xiao Mo was exposed, and Chen Bing rebuked his son while urging him to apologize to Tushan Jingci. After Xian Xichun treated Xiao Mo’s wounds and explained the unequal laws governing humans and demons, Xiao Mo said he understood them but felt they should change; Jiang Feng then told Xian Xichun he was leaving the academy to challenge a sword cultivator.

• Chen Bing questioned Wang Zhong about targeting Xiao Mo, then confronted Chen Jue and ordered him to apologize to Tushan Jingci.
• Yueshi bandaged Xiao Mo’s wounds while Tushan Jingci worried over him, and Xian Xichun invited Xiao Mo for a walk.
• Xian Xichun gave Xiao Mo a healing pill, admitted Chen Jue had ordered Wang Zhong’s attack, and promised it would not happen again.
• Xiao Mo asked how the academy punished people who killed humans and demons, then said he understood the unequal rules but felt they should not be that way.
• Jiang Feng told Xian Xichun he was leaving the academy to test his sword against a scholar from White Deer Academy, and urged Xian Xichun to stay alive.

Xiao Mo left to undergo the Foundation Establishment Tribulation while Tushan Jingci hid her worry behind indirect advice and waited for him through the night. He returned successfully at Foundation Establishment, and Jingci smiled in her sleep when she heard he was back.

• Tushan Jingci acted unusually worried as Xiao Mo prepared to undergo his tribulation, but she did not tell him to stop.
• Xiao Mo left for Jian Mountain, where he set up a Formation, swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill, and began the tribulation.
• Xiao Mo survived the tribulation and, after experiencing another great dream, reached Foundation Establishment by nightfall.
• Tushan Jingci waited anxiously for Xiao Mo until she fell asleep at the courtyard table.
• Xiao Mo returned, and Yueshi told him that Jingci had been waiting for him; Jingci murmured happily in her sleep when he said he was back.

Tushan Jingci made Chen Jue and Wang Zhong apologize to Xiao Mo, while Tushan Xinhua returned to the Tushan Clan’s ancestral land for an elders’ meeting. The chapter ended with Great Elder Tushan Meng confronting her over teaching a human the Great Dream of Yellow Millet and demanding she choose whether to kill him herself or let Tushan Meng do it.

• Tushan Jingci welcomed Xiao Mo back, then made Wang Zhong apologize to Xiao Mo and Chen Jue apologize for failing to discipline him.
• Xiao Mo accepted the apologies, and Tushan Jingci sent Chen Jue and Wang Zhong away while insisting she would stand by Xiao Mo.
• Tushan Xinhua read Yueshi’s report, suspected Chen Jue had targeted Xiao Mo over the Great Dream of Yellow Millet, and burned the letter.
• Tushan Xinhua traveled to the Tushan Clan’s ancestral land and attended a meeting where the elders discussed alliances, the Human Alliance, and the clan’s ambitions.
• After the meeting, Tushan Meng asked Tushan Xinhua whether she would kill the human she had taught the Great Dream of Yellow Millet or let him do it.

Tushan Meng insisted that Xiao Mo remain alive as a stepping stone for Jingci, while Xinhua opposed harming him. Back at Hanshan Academy, Xiao Mo gave Liu Shui a chance to pursue cultivation, and Jingci arranged to keep her close to the Tushan household.

• Tushan Meng told Xinhua that Xiao Mo still had uses and that she would make him a stepping stone if Jingci fell in love with him.
• Tushan Jingci returned to classes, and Lou Huo and two others apologized to her and Xiao Mo for their pages’ actions.
• Xiao Mo sold the apology gifts at Wanbao Pavilion for five hundred High-grade Spirit Stones and planned to give the money to Liu Shui.
• Liu Shui visited Xiao Mo and Jingci with date cakes and a small gift, but Jingci returned her money and Xiao Mo offered her the Spirit Stones.
• Liu Shui refused the Spirit Stones and asked for a cultivation technique, so Xiao Mo agreed to test her Spiritual Root the next evening.
• Jingci invited Liu Shui to visit often so Yueshi could teach her and the Tushan connection would help protect her.