Recaps

After Oni Yunjie took power, Fang Cheng tested his new abilities and spent time drinking with Oni Takizawa, who grieved for his dead father and brother. Oni Takizawa revealed that he suspected Fang Cheng had helped Oni Yunjie kill Oni Rakshasa, leaving Fang Cheng to reconsider how much he had underestimated him.

• Fang Cheng left the guarded death chamber and tested Ghost God Possession, which enlarged his body and strengthened him.
• Fang Cheng tried combining Purifying Demon Fire with Blood Explosion, causing an explosion that covered him in soot.
• Fang Cheng met the drunken Oni Takizawa and drank with him as Oni Takizawa mourned his father and brother.
• Fang Cheng and Oni Takizawa chatted about their interests, and Fang Cheng learned that Takizawa was a fan of Kamikawa Takumi and wanted to marry Oni Yunjie.
• Oni Takizawa told Fang Cheng that he suspected Fang Cheng had helped Oni Yunjie kill Oni Rakshasa, but said he did not blame him.
• Fang Cheng watched Oni Takizawa leave and realized that he had concealed a more perceptive side behind his aimless manner.

Oni Yunjie and the others entered the sealed palace to face the Ghost Lord’s corpse, while Fang Cheng hoped to absorb its power. Oni Takizawa stopped him and accused Oni Yunjie of allowing an outsider to desecrate their father’s remains.

• Oni Yunjie summoned Fang Cheng, and Yuguang Kaori and Tsukikage Hoshi wondered about his closeness to the new Ghost Lord.
• Oni Yunjie, Fang Cheng, Yuguang Kaori, and Tsukikage Hoshi went to the sealed gate, where Oni Takizawa joined them.
• Oni Yunjie dispelled the gate’s ward and led the group through the demonic energy to the palace containing the Ghost Lord’s corpse.
• Oni Yunjie and the fox sisters mourned the Ghost Lord as Fang Cheng reached toward the corpse’s horns.
• Oni Takizawa grabbed Fang Cheng’s wrist and accused Oni Yunjie of permitting an outsider to desecrate their father’s corpse and steal his power.

Oni Takizawa revealed his hostility toward Oni Yunjie and claimed the throne had been meant for him, then used curses to incapacitate her and the fox sisters. Fang Cheng’s resistance to curses kept him safe, but he pretended to be affected so he could learn what Oni Takizawa planned.

• Oni Takizawa challenged Oni Yunjie over what she planned to do with the Ghost Lord’s body and revealed that the body was fake.
• Oni Takizawa claimed the throne belonged to him and accused Oni Yunjie and Rakshasa of taking what was his.
• When Oni Yunjie attacked, Oni Takizawa snapped his fingers and cursed her and the fox sisters, draining their strength.
• Oni Takizawa revealed that Fang Cheng had avoided the cursed wine, then used another curse on him.
• Evil God’s Affection protected Fang Cheng from both curses, so he pretended to collapse and stayed down to hear Oni Takizawa out.

Oni Takizawa revealed that he was the reincarnated Shuten-doji, the former ruler whom the Ghost Lord had overthrown. He explained that the Ghost Lord had sealed his power and kept him under watch, leaving Fang Cheng and the others to confront a history far more complicated than the legends suggested.

• Oni Takizawa told Tsukikage Hoshi that the Ghost Lord had assigned her to watch him, and Oni Yunjie learned the Ghost Lord had suspected him since childhood.
• Oni Takizawa claimed the throne had originally been his before the Ghost Lord took it from him.
• Oni Takizawa reintroduced himself as Shuten-doji, shocking Oni Yunjie, Yuguang Kaori, and Tsukikage Hoshi.
• Fang Cheng questioned the legends about Shuten-doji, and Oni Takizawa said the Ghost Lord had told only part of the truth about his crimes.
• Oni Takizawa said the Ghost Lord had led other Great Monsters against him, then reincarnated him as his son and sealed his power rather than kill him.

Oni Takizawa recounted how Shuten-doji and the Ghost Lord became enemies, then revealed that he had secretly broken his seal and stayed hidden as the Ghost Lord’s son. His admission led Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori to question who had truly harmed their families and sabotaged peace.

• Shuten-doji and the Ghost Lord built the Iron-Cast Palace together, but their disagreements over war, Shuten-doji’s brutality, and mutual distrust ended with the Ghost Lord poisoning him and killing him with Dojigiri Yasutsuna.
• Shuten-doji reincarnated as Oni Takizawa, and the Ghost Lord sealed his power and tasked Tsukikage Hoshi with watching him.
• Oni Takizawa secretly recovered his past-life bones and Dojigiri Yasutsuna, broke the seal, and later learned that the Ghost Lord had died from recurring injuries.
• Oni Takizawa told Oni Yunjie that he had not injured their father and had stayed to watch the siblings fight, not to reclaim the throne.
• Yuguang Kaori accused Oni Takizawa of arranging attacks on the Yuguang Family, including Ugou Mirai’s abduction and Otu’s sabotage of peace talks, making her suspect Oni Rakshasa had been wrongly blamed.

Oni Takizawa revealed how he had fueled the feud between Oni Yunjie and Oni Rakshasa, then demanded the Entry Pass from Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori. Fang Cheng stopped his attack on Tsukikage Hoshi, but Oni Takizawa survived as a decoy and the two began a fierce gunfight.

• Oni Takizawa claimed he had driven Oni Yunjie and Oni Rakshasa into fighting, but Fang Cheng helped Oni Yunjie see that their power struggle would have happened anyway.
• Oni Yunjie offered to surrender the Iron-Cast Palace, but Oni Takizawa refused the throne and demanded the Entry Pass from her and Yuguang Kaori.
• Oni Takizawa tried to kill Tsukikage Hoshi, so Fang Cheng struck him with Steel Blood and Purifying Demon Fire, only to discover he had attacked a fake.
• Oni Takizawa agreed to leave if the Entry Pass was handed over, while Fang Cheng joked with him and refused his offer of friendship.
• Fang Cheng and Oni Takizawa donned Blood Battle Suits and fired Gatlings at each other; Fang Cheng was badly hit but survived with Mountain God's Protection.

Fang Cheng fought Oni Takizawa, whose ability let him copy and strengthen his opponents’ powers and techniques. After Oni Takizawa summoned ten copies of himself, Fang Cheng charged back into the fight despite the odds.

• Oni Yunjie warned Fang Cheng that Shuten-doji could copy and strengthen his enemies’ abilities, while Oni Takizawa kept the battle inside the hall to endanger the hostages.
• Fang Cheng and Oni Takizawa exchanged Word Spirit Arts, then both activated Overload Mode and formed blood blades for close combat.
• Oni Takizawa matched and outperformed Fang Cheng’s abilities and fighting skills, leaving Fang Cheng badly wounded while taking only minor injuries himself.
• Fang Cheng claimed he could fight ten opponents, and Oni Takizawa summoned ten copies of himself.
• Fang Cheng insulted Oni Takizawa and charged at the copies again.

Fang Cheng endured repeated deaths while fighting ten stronger Oni Takizawas, as the others watched helplessly. When Oni Takizawa drew Dojigiri Yasutsuna, Fang Cheng launched a massive Blood Eagle explosion to turn the battle around.

• Fang Cheng repeatedly died fighting the nine Oni Takizawa clones, while the tenth threatened to kill his companions if he fled.
• Oni Takizawa drew Dojigiri Yasutsuna, the legendary sword that could kill immortals and counter the Ghost Clan.
• Oni Yunjie offered to surrender the Proof, but Fang Cheng refused and assured her he would defeat Oni Takizawa and save them.
• Oni Yunjie regained her composure and told Fang Cheng not to die because she still wanted him as her consort; Fang Cheng postponed the conversation.
• Fang Cheng filled the hall with Blood Eagles, then detonated them all at once, engulfing the area in a deluge of blood.

Fang Cheng rescued Oni Yunjie and the Fox sisters, then defeated an Oni Takizawa clone and claimed Dojigiri Yasutsuna. He left the battle with the legendary sword and Thunder-Strike Hammer stored in his shadow, while the real Oni Takizawa remained at large.

• Fang Cheng flooded the hall with blood, rescued Oni Yunjie and the Fox sisters, and fled with them as ten Oni Takizawa clones pursued.
• Fang Cheng blew himself up to destroy the nine clones, revived, and pinned the remaining Oni Takizawa clone with black tendrils.
• Fang Cheng pulled the Thunder-Strike Hammer from his shadow, paralyzed Oni Takizawa, and struck off his head.
• Fang Cheng revived after Dojigiri Yasutsuna killed him, then stabbed and dismembered Oni Takizawa.
• Fang Cheng realized he had defeated only a clone, burned its remains, and stored Dojigiri Yasutsuna and the Thunder-Strike Hammer in his shadow.

After Fang Cheng defeated Shuten-doji, he found the real Ghost Lord’s remains and absorbed the power Oni Yunjie allowed him to take. The system upgrade finally began and then finished, leaving Fang Cheng alone to inspect what had changed.

• Fang Cheng told Oni Yunjie and the Fox sisters that Shuten-doji had escaped, then asked about the Entry Pass, but Oni Yunjie postponed her explanation.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukikage Hoshi lifted the bed and discovered the Ghost Lord’s real remains beneath it, while Oni Yunjie realized the body she had picked up was fake.
• Oni Yunjie gave Fang Cheng permission to touch her father’s remains, and Fang Cheng absorbed 48 life as the system began upgrading.
• Oni Yunjie stayed with her father and asked Yuguang Kaori to remain with her, while Fang Cheng returned to her bedroom with Tsukikage Hoshi.
• After Tsukikage Hoshi went to shower, Fang Cheng noticed that the system had finished upgrading and sat down to check its changes.

After the system upgrade, Fang Cheng discovered new ways to fuse abilities, trade lifespan for other people's abilities, and spend lifespan to raise proficiency. He tested the upgrade in White Stone Spring, where he finally noticed Tsukikage Hoshi was there with him.

• Fang Cheng saw that his upgraded system now displayed ability levels and proficiency, along with a puzzling fragmented human-body diagram.
• Tsukikage Hoshi considered how to keep Fang Cheng close to Fox Immortal House, then fell asleep in White Stone Spring.
• Fang Cheng discovered the system's fusion, trading, and upgrade functions, all of which used lifespan.
• Fang Cheng spent lives to test proficiency upgrades and learned that higher-level abilities gained fewer points per life.
• Fang Cheng noticed Tsukikage Hoshi in the spring, and she stared at him in shock.

Fang Cheng and Tsukikage Hoshi had an awkward encounter in the hot spring, and the next morning Oni Yunjie began a ritual to seal the Evil God's power inside him. The sealing was underway as Yuguang Kaori joined in, leaving Fang Cheng to wonder whether the Evil God could truly be dealt with so easily.

• Fang Cheng startled Tsukikage Hoshi in the hot spring, and she fled in fox form after he tickled her.
• The next morning, Oni Yunjie told Fang Cheng that Tsukikage Hoshi was handling urgent matters and confirmed that her father had been laid to rest.
• Oni Yunjie said she would use the knowledge she inherited from her father to seal the Evil God's power, with Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori helping her.
• Oni Yunjie led Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori into a secret chamber and began reciting a mysterious incantation as Kaori revealed her fox ears and six tails.

Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori failed to seal the markings on Fang Cheng and instead revealed that Izanae had chosen him as her Proxy. She ordered him to find her mother’s body and gather the power of Mother, and Fang Cheng later woke in the secret room unsure whether their encounter had been real or a dream.

• Oni Yunjie completed the ritual, but the markings on Fang Cheng’s chest remained, and she and Yuguang Kaori attacked him.
• Izanae spoke with Fang Cheng and explained that he had become qualified to serve as her Proxy after defeating Shuten-doji.
• Izanae told Fang Cheng to find Mother’s Body and gather the power of Mother, but she refused to explain who Mother was.
• Fang Cheng joked that his guilt over the women around him made the situation more exciting, and Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori pressed him down.
• Fang Cheng woke on the secret-room floor beside the sleeping Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori, uncertain whether the encounter had been a dream.

After the failed sealing left Fang Cheng, Oni Yunjie, and Yuguang Kaori unconscious, Fang Cheng woke the women and concealed his agreement with Izanae. Izanae granted him the Goddess's Proxy ability and control of the Ultimate Bliss Cult, leaving him to decide how to handle the cult while carrying out her task.

• Fang Cheng woke Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori after Izanae defeated them during the sealing attempt.
• Fang Cheng told the women that he had resolved matters with the Evil God and stepped outside without revealing their agreement.
• Izanae granted Fang Cheng the Goddess's Proxy ability, which strengthened him and let him use every Word Spirit Art in the Dark Bible safely.
• Fang Cheng learned that Izanae had handed him the Ultimate Bliss Cult, though opposing it could interfere with his task and bring divine punishment.
• Oni Yunjie and Yuguang Kaori recalled their embarrassing shared dream of seducing Fang Cheng and went to bathe together.

Oni Yunjie explained that the Proof required to compete for the title of Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters was Ugou Mirai, whom the Ghost Lord had entrusted to Yuguang Kaori as an infant. Yuguang Kaori asked Fang Cheng to protect Mirai from Shuten-doji when he returned.

• Oni Yunjie told Fang Cheng that monsters competed for the title of Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters and needed a Proof to enter.
• Oni Yunjie explained that the Ghost Lord had obtained a Proof more than ten years earlier, returning gravely wounded after competing for it.
• Yuguang Kaori revealed that Ugou Mirai was the Proof and that she had raised Mirai despite not being her biological mother.
• Yuguang Kaori explained that calling Mirai a hostage had been a way to protect her while Yuguang Kaori was away from the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Yuguang Kaori knelt before Fang Cheng and asked him to protect Mirai from Shuten-doji.

Fang Cheng agreed to protect Mirai and stayed at the Iron-Cast Palace until Oni Yunjie became Ghost Lord. After a bizarre duel with Hayakawa Hideki, he left for Tokyo with the Fox sisters and Oni Yunjie seeing him off.

• Yuguang Kaori pleaded with Fang Cheng to protect Mirai, and he agreed to stay until Oni Yunjie’s enthronement.
• Hayakawa Hideki challenged Fang Cheng, who shot him with a blood-formed revolver and called it a style of swordsmanship.
• Oni Yunjie held a grand ceremony and officially became the third Ghost Lord of the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng kept watch for Shuten-doji during the celebrations, then prepared to return to Tokyo.
• Tsukikage Hoshi, Yuguang Kaori, and Oni Yunjie hugged Fang Cheng goodbye as he left by car.

Fang Cheng returned to Tokyo after a month in Hokkaido, reflecting on the gains and dangers of his trip before reuniting with Nangong Saya. When they were about to become intimate, Nangong Saya asked him to marry her and promise not to seek out other women.

• Tsukikage Kari drove Fang Cheng out of Hokkaido, where he experimented with fused abilities and reassured her that she was safe with him.
• Fang Cheng traveled through Machine City and crossed to Aomori, then flew back to Tokyo the next morning.
• Tsukikage Yuko picked Fang Cheng up at the airport, but he left her and went alone to Nangong Saya's auto repair shop.
• Nangong Saya welcomed Fang Cheng, and they became intimate until she stopped him to ask whether he would marry her and remain faithful to her alone.

Fang Cheng left Nangong Saya after their encounter, while Saya privately wrestled with her growing feelings for him and kept their relationship secret. On his way home, Fang Cheng spotted Kujo Go chatting closely with Sato Hayato, who was dressed as Hayako, and was shocked by their apparent intimacy.

• Fang Cheng showed Nangong Saya a video of her drunkenly swearing off marriage, but she said she had changed her mind and demanded to know whether he could marry her.
• Fang Cheng refused, joking that he was against marriage, and left after Nangong Saya called him back and they spent over an hour together.
• Nangong Saya showered and brushed her teeth, reflected on falling for Fang Cheng, and decided not to tell Takeda Masumi that he had returned.
• Fang Cheng took a taxi home and saw Kujo Go standing with Sato Hayato, who was dressed as Hayako, at the villa gate.

Fang Cheng returned after a month away and reunited with the Sato siblings and Asaka Akie, while Sato Hayako escaped Kujo Go’s flirtation. He learned that the Agency had begun taking jobs, and the chapter ended with Fang Cheng knocking Sato Hayato down after he tried to hug him.

• Sato Hayako accepted Kujo Go’s rose and endured his compliments until Sato Mai’s return interrupted their moment.
• Fang Cheng arrived, and Sato Hayako rushed to greet him, leaving Kujo Go dejected and driving away in his rented car.
• Sato Mai teased Sato Hayako about Kujo Go before telling Fang Cheng that Asaka Akie had obtained a business license and begun running the Agency.
• Asaka Akie returned with groceries, dropped them when she saw Fang Cheng, and embraced him; Fang Cheng also hugged Sato Mai.
• Sato Hayato came downstairs and opened his arms to hug Fang Cheng, who knocked him to the ground.

After returning from the Iron-Cast Palace, Fang Cheng reunited with his friends, learned why Sato Hayato was disguised as a woman, and visited the Yuguang Family estate. There, Yuguang Qingxue began to pass on a message from Mirai’s mother.

• Fang Cheng questioned Sato Hayato about his relationship with Kujo Go, and Hayato explained that Kanzaki Rin had sent him undercover as a woman for a Countermeasure Department case.
• Fang Cheng gave gifts to Sato Hayato, Sato Mai, and Asaka Akie, then learned that Ye Yuqing was still asleep; Sato Mai stopped Hayato from revealing that something was wrong with her.
• Asaka Akie embraced Fang Cheng in the kitchen and asked him not to leave her alone for so long, then privately wondered whose scent she had noticed on him.
• Fang Cheng visited the rebuilt Yuguang Family estate, reunited with Ugou Mirai and Yuguang Qingxue, and heard Qingxue begin to relay a message from Mirai’s mother.

Fang Cheng brought Ugou Mirai and Yuguang Qingxue to live with him for Mirai’s protection, then reunited with his friends and learned that something might be wrong with Ye Yuqing. The chapter left off as Asaka Akie arrived at Fang Cheng’s bedroom door with a pillow.

• Fang Cheng arranged for Ugou Mirai and Yuguang Qingxue to move into his home, with monsters from the Yuguang Family assigned to guard the house.
• Fang Cheng returned home and calmed Ye Yuqing after she accused him of mocking her with a set of children’s educational toys.
• Kanzaki Rin and Takeda Masumi returned late from work, and Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that she would investigate Mother’s Body and warned him that something might be happening with Ye Yuqing.
• Fang Cheng went to bed, but Asaka Akie arrived at his locked bedroom door in her pajamas, holding a pillow.

Asaka Akie told Fang Cheng that Ye Yuqing had been sneaking out at night, denying it afterward, and growing increasingly exhausted. Four nights later, Fang Cheng’s watchful Monsters followed Ye Yuqing as she left the Villa in disguise.

• Asaka Akie visited Fang Cheng late at night, intending to confess her feelings, but told him Ye Yuqing seemed like a different person.
• Asaka Akie explained that Ye Yuqing had repeatedly left the Villa at night without her knowledge, denied doing so, and become more tired over the past half month.
• Fang Cheng promised to follow Ye Yuqing on her next outing, while Izanae ignored his call.
• Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie kept preparing for the Agency’s opening as Ye Yuqing slept most of the day and appeared to force her usual smile.
• On the fourth night, Ye Yuqing dressed in black sportswear, climbed over the Villa wall, and left while the Monsters followed her on Fang Cheng’s orders.

Fang Cheng followed Ye Yuqing as she used unexplained speed to evade her pursuers, killed a monster, and entered an underground fight club. The crowd hailed her as the Black Reaper, while a middle-aged man in the VIP lounge threatened her.

• Fang Cheng watched Ye Yuqing leave the Villa and saw her use a strange ability to outrun the monsters tracking her.
• Ye Yuqing shook off her pursuers, raced into Tokyo's Fourth Layer, and killed a C-level monster attacking someone.
• Ye Yuqing ran beyond Tokyo to a bar, entered its underground passages, and disguised herself in bulky clothes and a mask.
• Ye Yuqing entered an underground fight club, where the crowd cheered her as the Black Reaper.
• A fat middle-aged man watched Ye Yuqing from the VIP lounge and threatened to kill her if she crossed him.

Fang Cheng followed Ye Yuqing to an underground fight ring and learned that its owner, Fujisaka Kei, wanted her to accept a proposal. When she refused, Fujisaka ordered a monster to kill her in the final match, and Ye Yuqing entered the ring to face it.

• Fang Cheng used a mosquito to inspect Ye Yuqing’s fight schedule and saw that all five of her opponents were monsters.
• The host told Ye Yuqing that Fujisaka Kei would raise his offer to five million, but she gave no reply.
• Fujisaka Kei ordered the host to make the Head Eater Ye Yuqing’s final opponent and kill her in the ring.
• The host introduced Ye Yuqing as the undefeated Black Reaper, and she entered the cage to face the Head Eater.
• The Head Eater backed away when Ye Yuqing approached, then charged at her after the audience laughed.

Ye Yuqing defeated Fish Tiger in a rigged arena match with Fang Cheng’s covert help, then faced Fujisaka Kei’s demand that she become his controlled fighter. She rejected his offer, and his armed bodyguards surrounded her with guns aimed at her.

• Ye Yuqing defeated four Monsters before the arena replaced her scheduled opponent with its undefeated star, Fish Tiger.
• Fish Tiger charged Ye Yuqing, but she dodged and struck him until Fujisaka Kei shrank the cage to limit her movement.
• Fang Cheng used Imbalance to make Fish Tiger stumble, allowing Ye Yuqing to snap his neck and kill him.
• Fujisaka Kei summoned Ye Yuqing to his office and offered her ten million to fight twice a week under the arena’s control for two years.
• Ye Yuqing turned to leave, and Fujisaka Kei ordered his armed bodyguards to surround her and aim their guns at her.