Chapter Summaries

Tang Miao fought Lu Kun, the Little Red Demon, and subdued him while Shadow Fiend dealt with the Vampire Elder. After Lu Kun was left near death, Tang Miao used the Demon Bead to drain his life force and mocked his claim of immortality.

• Tang Miao dismissed Duke Xion and ordered Shadow Fiend to attack the Vampire Elder, then used space magic to keep the nearby Monster Hunting Squad away.
• Lu Kun appeared and confronted Tang Miao, who immediately struck him with a thunder hammer and drove him into the ground.
• Lu Kun transformed into a Four-unlike and spat poison, but Tang Miao sealed the attack with a Light Shield and countered with a Lightning Halberd.
• Tang Miao's Lightning Halberd pierced Lu Kun and unleashed a massive explosion, leaving him barely alive.
• Tang Miao brought out the Kirin Jade, and the Demon Bead began absorbing Lu Kun's life force as Tang Miao stood on him and dismissed his claim of immortality.

Tang Miao killed Lu Kun and returned to Moon Snow New City, where Ling Ling questioned him about her father's death. He then learned that Heidi had sent him a contradictory message through Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, leaving him puzzled about what she wanted.

• Tang Miao killed Lu Kun despite the Red Demon remnant's warning and gained Demon Power and a high-quality Star Sea Vein.
• Tang Miao took Lu Qingyao back to the Lu Family, then Ling Ling asked whether Lu Kun had been the only person responsible for her father's death.
• Tang Miao returned to Moon Snow New City and learned that Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Mu Bai had come back from their trip.
• Zhao Manyan told Tang Miao that he and Mo Fan had met Heidi at Oros Holy Academy, where she had asked Tang Miao to visit Alps Academy and then ordered them not to tell him.
• Zhao Manyan said Heidi had seemed more angry than wistful when she brought Tang Miao up, leaving Tang Miao confused about her message.

Tang Miao traveled to the Alps to see Heidi and Blanche, but Dean Perry ordered him to leave and threatened to call the Holy Court of Judgment. Tang Miao agreed to wait for help, then used his Shadow Element to follow Dean Perry toward Blanche’s residence.

• Tang Miao flew Fei Lian to Sweden and entered the Alps without announcing himself.
• Tang Miao checked the Fellun Grand Waterfall and Heidi’s residence but found Heidi absent.
• Dean Perry confronted Tang Miao and told him that Heidi and Alps Academy did not want him there.
• Tang Miao argued with Dean Perry until she threatened to call the Holy Court of Judgment.
• Tang Miao agreed to wait, left a Shadow Element puppet in his place, and followed Dean Perry toward Blanche’s residence.

Dean Perry, Heidi, and Blanche discussed whether Tang Miao should learn about Blanche’s baby, but he arrived at the residence and discovered the child was his son. Dean Perry confronted him, explaining that Blanche’s future as the academy’s next dean was threatened because she had a boy.

• Dean Perry went to Blanche’s residence and learned that Blanche had given birth to a baby boy, while Blanche said she did not want Tang Miao to know.
• Dean Perry told Blanche that Tang Miao was outside, and Heidi denied telling him about the baby.
• Tang Miao entered the residence, recognized the baby as his, and asked whether the child was a boy or a girl.
• Blanche said the boy was hers, and Dean Perry scolded Tang Miao for disrupting Blanche’s future at the girls’ academy.
• Tang Miao understood that the boy could not remain at Alps Academy and asked if he should take the child away.

Tang Miao visited Alps Academy, where he learned Blanche had their son, then left Switzerland after spending time with Heidi. On his way out, he encountered Moler and the Holy Court of Judgment, but refused to be intimidated.

• Tang Miao tried to visit Blanche and their baby, but Dean Perry and Heidi reacted with hostility and refused to let him stay.
• Dean Perry used Mind Shock against Tang Miao, but it had little effect, and he held his sleeping son before asking Blanche why she had not aborted him.
• Tang Miao left Alps Academy with Heidi, reproached her for keeping Blanche's situation from him, and learned more about Blanche's recent circumstances.
• Tang Miao departed Switzerland the next morning after telling Heidi to warn Blanche that he would take the child if it did not bear the Tang surname.
• Tang Miao encountered Moler and a Judgment Mage outside the Alps, and Fei Lian's Supreme Monarch aura silenced the mage as Tang Miao challenged Moler to stop him.

Tang Miao left Cult Master Moller and the Judgment Mages alone, then flew toward Greece to visit Asha Ruiya. On the way, Apas warned him that the Nine-tailed Fox had absorbed his magic energy and nearly reached False Emperor strength, while explaining how difficult it was for Demon Beasts to attain the Emperor realm.

• Cult Master Moller chose to leave with the Judgment Mages and Heterodox Judgment Cult Mages rather than confront Tang Miao and his Totem Beast.
• Tang Miao decided to travel to Greece to see Asha Ruiya.
• Apas emerged from Contract Space and told Tang Miao that the Nine-tailed Fox could absorb his magic energy to recover her strength.
• Apas revealed that the Nine-tailed Fox had recovered to peak Monarch level and nearly reached False Emperor strength, but would need five or six years to regain Emperor strength without further help.
• Apas explained the thresholds between Monarch, False Emperor, and Emperor levels and described the strength required for humans to fight Emperor-level Demon Beasts.
• Tang Miao considered his own strength and recognized that his demon transformation granted temporary power beyond his ordinary middle-tier Supreme Monarch level.

Tang Miao reflected on his magic and his Contract Beasts before three Supreme-level Monarch creatures approached him from the sky. He recognized two as sub-dragons from the Sahara Desert and prepared to face them.

• Tang Miao considered his magic levels and estimated the strength he might reach through Demonization.
• Apas returned to the Contract Space, and Tang Miao wondered why his Contract Beasts slept so much.
• Little Wind Ji came out, protested being neglected, and Tang Miao fed her a Wind Element Spirit Seed before sending her back.
• Fei Lian warned Tang Miao that creatures were approaching through the air, and Tang Miao sensed three Monarch-level auras.
• Tang Miao saw the three Supreme-level Monarch creatures and recognized the red Firewing Sub-Dragon and blue Azurewing Sub-Dragon from the Sahara Desert.

Tang Miao confronted the Savage and three Supreme Monarch Sub-Dragons at sea, then overwhelmed them with his magic and empowered summons. He trapped the badly beaten Firewing Sub-Dragon and sent the Shadow Fiend to finish it while the Azurewing Sub-Dragon tried to stop him.

• Tang Miao recognized the Savage, who demanded his Elemental Contract Beasts and threatened him.
• Tang Miao surprised the Savage and the Sub-Dragons with Hellfire Stones, then battered them with Thunderous Might.
• The Savage ordered the Sub-Dragons to hold Tang Miao off as he retreated to prepare something.
• Tang Miao summoned the Shadow Fiend and drew Flame Ji and Snow Woman's power into himself, turning the fight against the three Sub-Dragons.
• Tang Miao trapped the Firewing Sub-Dragon in a Dark Energy barrier and sent the Shadow Fiend to execute it.
• The Azurewing Sub-Dragon realized Tang Miao was about to kill the Firewing Sub-Dragon and moved to stop him.

Tang Miao fought the Azurewing Sub-Dragon with powerful fire and ice magic, then faced a mysterious soul shadow that intervened to protect the demon monarchs. The soul shadow demanded Tang Miao’s Elemental Spirit, and Tang Miao attacked it with nine lightning halberds, leaving its two sub-dragons fleeing and its possessed body under pressure.

• Tang Miao countered the Azurewing Sub-Dragon’s ice wave with Hellfire Gate, burning its scales and forcing it into the sea.
• Tang Miao froze the Azurewing Sub-Dragon in the sea, then combined Little Flame Ji and Snow Woman’s ice and fire into an Ice Phoenix Fire Phoenix attack.
• A mysterious soul shadow appeared before the attack, blocked it with a Shield of Rock, and demanded Tang Miao hand over his Elemental Spirit.
• Tang Miao summoned nine Lightning Halberds and sent them toward the soul shadow and the two sub-dragons.
• The soul shadow used wind to help the sub-dragons flee, while Tang Miao’s lightning struck its possessed body.

Tang Miao pursued the fleeing Demon Monarchs and killed the wind-element Dragon Monarch with thunder and fused ice-and-fire magic. He chased the Azurewing Sub-Dragon into an unfamiliar stretch of deep sea, then gave up and returned to Fei Lian and Ying Sha.

• Tang Miao dismissed the Sahara Emperor’s threat and raced after the fleeing Demon Monarchs, with Fei Lian and Ying Sha following him.
• Tang Miao caught up with the wind-element Dragon Monarch and struck it with Thunder Punishment, then blasted it with Ice Phoenix Fire Phoenix magic.
• Tang Miao killed the Dragon Monarch and collected the Spirit Essence it dropped before using Sound Element magic to track the Azurewing Sub-Dragon.
• Tang Miao pursued the Azurewing Sub-Dragon but abandoned the chase when it hid in the deep sea.
• Tang Miao returned to Fei Lian and Ying Sha, and Ying Sha turned back into his shadow.

After deciding that the conflict in Africa had little to do with him, Tang Miao traveled to Greece to visit Asha Ruiya and obtain more healing potions. Their reunion turned intimate, and he ended the night asking how she always learned where he was.

• Tang Miao considered the danger posed by Su Lu and decided he might need to send him away before he learned about the Nine-tailed Fox.
• Tang Miao flew to Greece, entered Parthenon Sacred Mountain through the main gate, and went to Asha Ruiya's residence.
• Asha Ruiya teased Tang Miao for visiting because he had run out of her healing potions, and the two became intimate.
• Afterward, Asha Ruiya asked Tang Miao why he had gone to Alps Academy.
• Tang Miao asked Asha Ruiya how she always found out where he was.

Asha Ruiya explained that ordinary informants on the Hunter Net let her track Tang Miao’s movements, and he said he was searching for traces of ancient Huaxia Totems. After Asha Ruiya sent him from her residence, a Female Sage escorted him to a guest room under threat that the Parthenon would bar him if he did not appear the next morning.

• Tang Miao asked Asha Ruiya how she always knew where he was, and she explained that she gathered reports from ordinary informants through the Hunter Net.
• Tang Miao said he needed to search for ancient Huaxia Totems to advance toward the Super Level, then Asha Ruiya asked why he had gone to the Alps Academy.
• Asha Ruiya ordered Tang Miao out of her residence and told him that no one could spend the night there.
• A Female Sage offered to take Tang Miao to a guest room and warned that the Parthenon would never open its doors to him again if he failed to appear the next morning.
• Tang Miao accepted the escort and joked that he was the most handsome man in the world.

Tang Miao spent days with Asha Ruiya at Parthenon Sacred Mountain after she deliberately delayed telling him that Ailin had sought his help. When Asha Ruiya revealed that Mu Ningxue was heading out and Mu Zhuoyun had been taken to the Mu Clan, Tang Miao left immediately to help Mu Ningxue.

• Asha Ruiya returned after keeping Tang Miao waiting for three days and gave him the bottles he had requested.
• Asha Ruiya told Tang Miao that Ailin had sought his help and that Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Mu Bai had gone with her.
• Asha Ruiya kept Tang Miao with her for seven days, and he eventually admitted he had been enjoying their time together.
• Asha Ruiya told Tang Miao that Mu Ningxue seemed to be heading out and that the Mu Clan had taken Mu Zhuoyun to the imperial capital of Huaxia.
• Tang Miao rushed away, worried that Mu Ningxue would face the powerful Mu Clan alone.

Tang Miao followed Mu Ningxue to the Mu Clan and secretly protected her as she fought her way up Mu Pang Mountain. After Tang Miao intervened against the clan’s challengers, Mu Ningxue continued toward the main hall, aware that he was nearby.

• Tang Miao arrived in the capital shortly after Mu Ningxue and secretly followed her up Mu Pang Mountain.
• Tang Miao used Chaos and Space magic to pull Mu Tingying away before she could provoke Mu Ningxue, then warned her that she was no match for Mu Ningxue.
• Mu Ningxue defeated Ge Xiong with her Wind magic while Tang Miao watched with Mu Tingying.
• Tang Miao secretly struck Hou Ze with lightning when he moved to confront Mu Ningxue, leaving the Disciplinary Mages bewildered.
• Mu Ningxue recognized the lightning’s color as Tang Miao’s and continued toward the Mu Clan’s main hall.

Mu Ningxue faced Mu Yinfeng on Mu Pang Mountain, but Tang Miao arrived before she could use the Ice Crystal Brake Bow. He overwhelmed Mu Yinfeng with a single punch, though she survived and escaped after using Ice Phoenix Rebirth.

• Mu Yinfeng attacked Mu Ningxue, who used her Heavenly Seed Forbidden Realm, Snow God's Contempt, to dissolve the assault.
• Mu Ningxue prepared to use the Ice Crystal Brake Bow, but Tang Miao stopped her and made the bow and forbidden realm vanish.
• Mu Yinfeng attacked Tang Miao and Mu Ningxue with Heavenly Phoenix Scattered Feathers, but Tang Miao destroyed the attack with Black Dragon's Wrath.
• Tang Miao struck Mu Yinfeng with Meteor Fist Splitting Heaven, smashing through her defenses and blasting her into the mountain.
• Mu Yinfeng used Ice Phoenix Rebirth to recover from her injuries, threatened Tang Miao, and fled Mu Pang Mountain.

Tang Miao defeated Mu Feiluan and Mu Yinfeng after Mu Ningxue asked him to cripple them. Mu Yinfeng died and Mu Feiluan was left barely alive, while the Mu Clan’s Disciplinary Mages fled in fear.

• Tang Miao grabbed Nan Rongni and threw her toward the cliff, where Mu Ningxue shot her with the Ice Crystal Brake Bow.
• Mu Yinfeng went to call for reinforcements, but Mu Feiluan rushed to confront Tang Miao without waiting for the Mu Clan elders.
• Mu Ningxue agreed that Tang Miao should cripple the siblings, and he promised to finish the fight in ten minutes.
• Mu Feiluan summoned the Ice Sky Azure Phoenix, but Tang Miao merged with Flame Ji and Snow Woman and overwhelmed their Ice Element with the Ice Phoenix Fire Phoenix.
• Tang Miao followed with Thunderous Might, killing Mu Yinfeng and leaving Mu Feiluan barely alive.

Tang Miao and Mu Ningxue confronted the Mu Clan after defeating Mu Feiluan and Mu Yinfeng, demanding that the clan release Mu Zhuoyun. The elders brought Mu Zhuoyun out, and he urged them to leave the Mu Clan stronghold immediately.

• Tang Miao dragged the gravely injured Mu Feiluan before Mu Ningxue, who restrained him with barbed chains.
• The Mu Clan Great Elder arrived and threatened Tang Miao and Mu Ningxue, but Tang Miao told Mu Ningxue to do as she wished and demanded Mu Zhuoyun's release.
• Mu Tao intervened to prevent the Mu Clan elders from escalating the confrontation and arranged for Mu Zhuoyun to be brought out.
• Mu Zhuoyun appeared in clean clothes, and Mu Ningxue felt relieved to see that he was safe.
• Mu Zhuoyun urged Mu Ningxue and Tang Miao to leave the Mu Clan stronghold before the clan could endanger them.

Tang Miao confronted the Mu Clan elders after rescuing Mu Zhuoyun and threatened them with his summoned creatures and the Totem Beasts surrounding their mountain. The elders backed down as Mu Ningxue continued crippling Mu Feiluan’s cultivation.

• Tang Miao told Mu Zhuoyun to stand behind Mu Ningxue and refused to apologize to the Mu Clan elders.
• Mu Fangzhou and the other elders prepared to attack, but Tang Miao reassured Mu Ningxue and summoned Little Black, Flame Ji, and the Snow Woman.
• Mu Dao warned the elders to look behind them, revealing the Great Serpent, a giant tortoise, a massive white tiger, and Fei Lian surrounding the clan’s mountain.
• The elders were frightened by the four Totem Beasts’ overwhelming auras and refrained from interfering.
• Tang Miao remembered Shao Zheng’s warning not to make the Mu Clan a permanent enemy, but resolved to ensure the elders learned their lesson.
• Mu Ningxue continued crippling Mu Feiluan’s cultivation while the elders stayed silent.

Mu Ningxue crippled Mu Feiluan while Tang Miao and their Monarch-level companions blocked the Mu Clan from intervening. Mu Dao brokered a halt to the confrontation, and the Great Elder backed down after learning Tang Miao’s hidden strength, leaving Mu Feiluan helpless before his clan.

• Mu Ningxue used the Disciplinary Hall’s Soul-Crippling Lock to cripple Mu Feiluan’s cultivation, while Tang Miao and the Monarch-level demons prevented Mu Fangzhou from reaching them.
• Mu Dao urged the elders to let him handle the dispute, but Mu Fangzhou and the Great Elder remained furious and considered summoning the clan’s Forbidden Curse Mage.
• Tang Miao challenged the Mu Clan to fight, and Mu Dao warned the Great Elder about Tang Miao’s sealed, hidden strength.
• The Great Elder abandoned the idea of fighting, and Mu Dao apologized to Mu Zhuoyun before explaining Mu Feiluan’s limited authority to Mu Ningxue.
• Mu Feiluan called Mu Dao a hypocrite and begged the Great Elder to save him, but the elders refused to intervene.

Mu Ningxue crippled Mu Feiluan after defeating the Mu Clan’s attempt to harm her and her family, while Tang Miao warned the clan not to target Moon Snow New City again. After they left the Mu Clan’s territory, Mu Ningxue thanked Tang Miao, and he stayed in the capital with her while Mu Zhuoyun returned home.

• Mu Ningxue crippled Mu Feiluan’s cultivation, and Mu Dao asked her to let the matter end there.
• Tang Miao warned Mu Dao that the Mu Clan should come after him if it caused trouble for Moon Snow New City, then left with Mu Ningxue and Mu Zhuoyun.
• Tang Miao secretly left a wisp of Dark Power inside Mu Feiluan before departing.
• Mu Ningxue thanked Tang Miao as they walked through the capital, and he brushed her hair aside and held her face.
• Tang Miao decided they would stay overnight in the capital, and Mu Zhuoyun left for Moon Snow New City with Snow Woman and Flame Ji escorting him.