Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s Nine-Tailed Fox Demon annihilates the Roaring Tiger Kingdom’s nine hundred-thousand-year guardian beasts and its hundred-thousand-year winged beast, absorbing their cultivation. King Yi Kuang’s confidence collapses.
• The Fox Demon addresses Chen Mu as its master and eagerly accepts his touch, revealing that he has subdued a ten-million-year Demon King. Yi Kuang realizes Chen Mu’s strength is beyond anything he imagined.
• Chen Mu offers Lu Yang the throne. When Yi Kuang reaches for his Tiger Tally to escape, Chen Mu traps him in a sealed small world where he will suffocate.
• State Preceptor Qian Youwei and the court officials immediately pledge loyalty to Lu Yang.
• Chen Mu uses the system to obtain a ten-million-year Ghostblade Mantis and gives it to Lu Yang as protection—and as a warning to anyone considering resistance.
• The gift triggers a hundredfold rebate: Chen Mu receives one hundred additional ten-million-year Demon Beasts.

Character developments and interactions

• Yi Kuang goes from defiant and confident to terrified and helpless, recognizing that his actions have doomed his kingdom. His attempted escape fails.
• Chen Mu demonstrates effortless dominance, controlling the Fox Demon and disposing of Yi Kuang with a gesture. He backs Lu Yang’s rule by arming him with overwhelming power.
• Lu Yang eagerly accepts the throne and the Ghostblade Mantis, pledging loyalty to Chen Mu. He begins imagining the conquest of the Beast Taming Realm.
• Qian Youwei shifts quickly from serving the old regime to swearing allegiance to Lu Yang, while remaining stunned by Chen Mu’s generosity and strength.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and the collapse of old hierarchies: The kingdom’s supposedly invincible guardian beasts are powerless against Chen Mu’s forces.
• Loyalty secured through strength: Officials submit once resistance appears hopeless, while Lu Yang’s authority is reinforced by the beast Chen Mu gives him.
• Generosity as strategic advantage: Chen Mu’s seemingly extravagant gift also benefits him through the system’s hundredfold rebate.
• Ambition and momentum: Lu Yang sees the new throne as a starting point for expanding the Killing God Pavilion’s influence and conquering further territory.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu reflects that the hundredfold rebate function is exceptionally powerful because it can endlessly multiply even ordinary items into world-class treasures.
• His comment triggers a rivalry between system functions: beast taming upgrades to allow up to 10,000 consecutive draws and lets Chen Mu choose beasts’ ages up to 100 million years; the rebate function then upgrades to a thousandfold rebate. The main system forcibly suspends further upgrades to stop their escalating contest.
• Lu Yang plans to replace the Roaring Tiger Kingdom’s rulers with his trusted Killing God Pavilion members. At Chen Mu’s direction, he summons them to the Pavilion.
• Chen Mu uses spatial power to transport the entire Pavilion building and its assembled members to the Roaring Tiger Kingdom. Lu Yang announces that the kingdom will become the Pavilion’s headquarters and that he is its new emperor.
• Chen Mu outfits Lu Yang in imperial robes. Lu Yang credits Chen Mu and introduces him as the Tianyuan Young Master and a Great Emperor. The Pavilion members welcome Chen Mu and pledge obedience to him above Lu Yang.
• As coronation preparations begin, Lu Yang worries that the sudden change of ruler could provoke rebellion. Chen Mu advises winning the people over with greater benefits, then opens the system’s infinite-money function to show him how.

Character developments

• Chen Mu remains powerful, casual, and largely untroubled by the system’s antics. He lets its functions compete until their rivalry risks continuing indefinitely, at which point the main system intervenes.
• Lu Yang moves from Pavilion Master to emperor and openly places Chen Mu above himself, showing strong loyalty and deference. His concern about public resistance also reveals that he wants to govern successfully, not merely seize power.
• The system functions are humorously personified as touchy rivals, while the main system acts as a reluctant referee.

Significant themes

• Power and effortless transformation: Chen Mu’s abilities can reshape political structures and transport an entire headquarters with ease.
• Loyalty and hierarchy: The Pavilion’s members serve both their organization and Tianyuan, while Lu Yang explicitly ranks Chen Mu above himself.
• Legitimacy through public welfare: Chen Mu suggests that good rule depends on giving people tangible benefits, not relying on force alone.
• Comedic escalation: The system’s competitive upgrades contrast with Chen Mu’s indifference to their rivalry.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu directs Lu Yang to gather his followers and later advises him on avoiding rebellion.
• Lu Yang readily follows Chen Mu’s instructions, credits him for the takeover, and tells his members to obey Chen Mu even over himself.
• The Pavilion members enthusiastically accept Lu Yang’s new role and show reverence toward Chen Mu.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu gives Lu Yang ten trillion Supreme Spirit Stones to help strengthen the Roaring Tiger Kingdom. The gift shocks Lu Yang and the Killing God Pavilion elders; Chen Mu’s system grants him a thousandfold rebate.
• Lu Yang vows to make the kingdom the strongest in the Beast Taming Realm. Chen Mu leaves to check on Zhang Shengcai.
• Soon afterward, Fang Cheng, a Great Emperor, arrives, claiming the old emperor was his friend and demanding half the fortune—five trillion Supreme Spirit Stones—in exchange for “protection.”
• Lu Yang challenges Fang Cheng’s hypocrisy. Fang Cheng attacks, but Lu Yang’s ten-million-year Ghostblade Mantis overwhelms him: it wounds Fang Cheng, instantly kills his summoned beast, and breaks through his strongest defensive technique.
• As Fang Cheng tries to flee and then uses a hidden tactic to approach Lu Yang, Chen Mu watches remotely and gives Lu Yang a Great Emperor Experience Pack, which triggers another thousandfold rebate.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yang shifts from a newly empowered ruler into a confident one. Chen Mu’s support gives him both immense resources and faith in his ability to defend the kingdom. He directly rejects Fang Cheng’s extortion.
• Chen Mu acts as Lu Yang’s benefactor and mentor, pairing material aid with practical empowerment. Watching the confrontation, he concludes that personal strength matters more than outside protection.
• Fang Cheng arrives expecting to exploit Lu Yang, but his greed and contempt for the new ruler turn into panic once he encounters the Ghostblade Mantis.
• The Killing God Pavilion’s elders witness Chen Mu’s staggering wealth, deepening their understanding of why Lu Yang holds him in such reverence.

Significant themes

• Wealth as power: Money can solve problems force alone cannot, and Chen Mu uses it to help build a stable kingdom.
• Strength and self-reliance: Lu Yang’s new beast lets him reject a corrupt “protection” arrangement and defend his realm himself.
• Greed and hypocrisy: Fang Cheng disguises extortion as loyalty and protection, but his opportunism is exposed.
• Loyalty and patronage: Lu Yang’s gratitude and promise to Chen Mu show how generous support creates trust and commitment.

Plot and events

• Fang Cheng is preparing to deal with Lu Yang when ominous heavenly phenomena signal that someone is attempting to become a Great Emperor. Lu Yang is the one ascending, but a powerful space saint body opens a Chaos Gate and absorbs the heavenly thunder.
• Lu Yang reaches the Great Emperor Realm. The ascension also strips Fang Cheng of his great Dao fortune and reduces him to the Quasi-Emperor Realm. He kneels to submit, but Lu Yang kills him anyway, judging him a dangerous bully who would remain a threat.
• Chen Mu watches Fang Cheng’s defeat through the Heaven-Peering Mirror and concludes that Lu Yang can now protect himself. Ye Qingcheng is awed by Chen Mu’s power, especially when she realizes he has become stronger even after helping others ascend.
• The chapter shifts to Chen Mu’s daily life. Ye Qingcheng prepares his room and cares for him, while Zhang Shengcai earns praise for his improved pastries. Ye Qingcheng trains hard in a hundredfold cultivation space; Chen Mu remains relaxed, relying on his breathing-to-cultivation ability.
• Chen Mu’s system successfully upgrades and unlocks the Myriad Things Investment module, which promises rewards when any investment target—from people to plants or stones—grows. A young woman then enters, and a system panel appears beside her.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yang becomes a Great Emperor and proves decisive and ruthless. He admires Chen Mu, calling him “Brother Mu,” and sees his power as the reason his rise was possible.
• Fang Cheng shifts from arrogant intimidation to fearful submission, but his attempt to save himself fails; Lu Yang’s distrust of his bullying nature seals his fate.
• Chen Mu remains effortlessly confident, now at the Great Emperor fifteenth layer, with his cultivation continuing to accelerate through breathing-to-cultivation.
• Ye Qingcheng grows more impressed by Chen Mu and continues serving and supporting him, though her quiet sigh outside his room hints at sadness or unspoken feelings. She also remains diligent in cultivation.
• Zhang Shengcai is pleased when Chen Mu approves of his rice cakes, validating his efforts to improve his cooking.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Fang Cheng’s downfall shows the danger of exploiting the weak—and the limits of submission when trust has already been lost.
• Loyalty and patronage: Lu Yang’s rise reinforces the value he places on staying close to Chen Mu.
• Effort versus effortless growth: Ye Qingcheng and Zhang Shengcai work hard, while Chen Mu’s system makes advancement and success seem almost effortless.
• New possibilities: The investment module introduces a fresh way for Chen Mu to gain power by fostering growth in others or in the world around him.

Plot points and events

• Shan Yuchan visits Chen Mu on Jian Qingzhu’s orders, bringing him a rare fragment of extreme domain ice, a precious substance that nourishes ice spiritual roots and takes over ten thousand years to form.
• Chen Mu thanks Jian Qingzhu through Shan Yuchan and gives Shan a third-grade Mysterious Crystal Pill. Shan needs one to break through to the Martial Warrior Realm and strengthen her Ice Phoenix Cold Physique.
• Chen Mu’s system confirms the gift counts as an investment. After Shan takes the pill and completes her breakthrough, he can claim an additional reward; a thousandfold rebate has already provided him with 1,000 pills.
• The investment system, embarrassed by its limitations, upgrades. Its new features allow Chen to claim rewards early, receive higher-grade rewards, and view targets’ upgrade paths.
• Chen inspects Zhang Shengcai’s options and chooses to develop his mutated heavenly demon tyrant body. The system supplies the required pills, and Chen’s investment immediately grants him the mutation.
• The mutation raises Chen’s damage reflection from 50% to 100% and greatly boosts his defense and transformation strength.
• Back at Jade Purity Peak, Shan reports the delivery to Jian Qingzhu, who is pleased by Chen’s invitation to visit. She is puzzled, however, by his seemingly modest gift of a third-grade pill.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu grows more interested in investing after the system’s upgrade reveals powerful cultivation paths. He remains generous and pragmatic, using his resources to improve others while gaining major personal benefits.
• Shan Yuchan respectfully delivers Jian Qingzhu’s gift and receives a pill that could aid her imminent breakthrough. She is grateful, though the results of taking it have not yet occurred.
• Jian Qingzhu continues cultivating her nine-tailed fox form and has reached six tails. She is delighted by Chen’s friendly invitation, but wonders whether his gift to Shan signals something more than ordinary generosity.
• Zhang Shengcai receives the pills needed for his body-cultivation path, though the immediate benefit of Chen’s investment is reflected in Chen’s own mutated physique.

Significant themes

• Investment and reciprocity: Gifts create benefits for both the recipient and Chen, blending generosity with calculated returns.
• Escalating power and system-driven growth: The upgraded system turns cultivation into a path of increasingly dramatic enhancements.
• Humor and extravagance: Chen’s abundant resources contrast with Jian Qingzhu’s suspicion that he might be running short of money.

Key plot points and events

• Jian Qingzhu realizes Chen Mu chose a third-grade Mysterious Crystal Pill specifically to suit Shan Yuchan’s imminent breakthrough. The pill should help Shan achieve a perfect breakthrough and strengthen her Ice Phoenix Cold Physique.
• Impressed by Chen Mu’s insight, Jian Qingzhu decides to visit him, hoping he can help with her own cultivation bottlenecks.
• Chen Mu uses his system to obtain a jar of ten-thousand-year-aged Drunken Immortal, a legendary wine believed to improve cultivation.
• Jian Qingzhu recognizes the wine and, after tasting it, finds it extraordinary. Even one sip appears to advance her cultivation.
• She drinks the entire jar, becomes visibly intoxicated, and begins an increasingly graceful sword dance. Her drunkenness gives way to an unusual state of heightened perception, and a sharp sword intent emerges—suggesting she may be approaching enlightenment.

Character developments

• Chen Mu demonstrates keen insight into Shan Yuchan’s physique and breakthrough needs, while continuing to conceal the true source of his treasures behind a fabricated explanation.
• Jian Qingzhu shifts from composed cultivation master to an uninhibited, delighted wine lover. The wine also seems to unlock a new spiritual or martial insight.
• Shan Yuchan gains confidence in the pill’s value but becomes uneasy at how completely Chen Mu seemed able to perceive her condition.

Character interactions

• Jian Qingzhu explains the pill’s benefits to Shan Yuchan and encourages her to prepare for her breakthrough.
• At Chen Mu’s invitation, Jian Qingzhu visits and is warmly welcomed with wine chosen to match her preferences.
• Their familiar, affectionate cousinly rapport is underscored by Jian Qingzhu’s gratitude and Chen Mu’s amused concern as she drinks herself into a strange, potentially transformative state.

Significant themes

• Insight and personalized cultivation: The right aid matters more than its rank when it suits a cultivator’s particular needs.
• Hidden power and deception: Chen Mu’s abilities and resources remain mysterious, and he invents a story to conceal the wine’s true origin.
• Intoxication as transformation: Drunkenness becomes more than comic excess; it may open a path to cultivation advancement and enlightenment.

Key plot points

• Jian Qingzhu’s drunken sword technique comes from the special properties of Chen Mu’s Ten-Thousand-Year Drunken Immortal wine. It grants insight into a wine-related technique, and using that technique while drunk doubles its power.
• After comprehending her technique, Jian Qingzhu’s transformed features fade. She enthusiastically asks for more wine, and Chen Mu gifts her nine jars, earning a system rebate.
• Jian Qingzhu explains that she has reached a cultivation bottleneck. Chen Mu uses his investment system to identify two possible paths and chooses the Nine-Tailed Ice Emperor route, which better suits her lifelong ice cultivation.
• The system supplies the required Heavenly Mountain Ice Lotus, Iceblood Pills, and Ice-Jade Qilin Scales. Chen Mu gives Jian Qingzhu the materials and explains how to advance, helping her find a clear direction.
• His investment in Jian Qingzhu rewards Chen Mu with the Nine-Tailed Ice Emperor bloodline. When he activates it, his hair and eyelashes turn white, nine tails burst out, and snow begins falling around him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu continues using the system to help those close to him. He is generous with rare wine and cultivation resources, though he remains uninterested in Jian Qingzhu’s joking marriage offers. His new bloodline introduces a powerful, unexpected change to his own abilities.
• Jian Qingzhu moves from frustration over her breakthrough bottleneck to renewed confidence after Chen Mu’s advice. Her usual cool, formidable manner gives way around him to exuberant affection and playful teasing.
• Their cousinly bond is close and informal: Jian Qingzhu repeatedly jokes about marrying Chen Mu to repay him, while he gently protests and tries to keep the exchange from becoming too serious.

Significant themes

• System-powered generosity and advancement: Chen Mu’s investments benefit others while also producing rewards for him.
• Personalized cultivation: The right path depends on a person’s nature and training; Jian Qingzhu’s ice affinity makes the Ice Emperor route more fitting than the Flame Emperor alternative.
• Intimacy and changing boundaries: Jian Qingzhu’s teasing contrasts with her public coldness, while Chen Mu’s internal reflections suggest that people may take those closest to them for granted.
• Transformation and inheritance: The chapter closes with Chen Mu gaining a bloodline that visibly and dramatically alters him.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu reveals a powerful, mutated Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline. He says he gained it by refining the lingering soul energy of a nine-tailed fox whose remains he found in the Hehuan Sect.
• He tells Jian Qingzhu she can awaken a similarly powerful Nine-Tailed Ice Emperor bloodline by refining materials with the method he taught her. She eagerly commits to training.
• A huge number of disciples and elders rush toward the Tianyuan Holy Land’s mountain gate. Jian Qingzhu goes to investigate, while Chen Mu stays behind.
• She finds an unprecedented beast tide surrounding the Holy Land. The demons do not attack, puzzling the assembled cultivators.
• Three million-year demon beasts—a giant elephant, a red-tailed white wolf, and a golden lion—emerge. Jian Qingzhu prepares to lead the disciples into battle, but the elephant interrupts to say the beasts have come to submit to the Demon King, not to fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu shows concern for Jian Qingzhu’s growth and encourages her to cultivate, while concealing the true source of his own bloodline behind a plausible explanation.
• Jian Qingzhu is astonished by Chen Mu’s strength, then becomes newly motivated by the prospect of matching it. At the mountain gate, she takes command and prepares to defend the Holy Land.
• The demon beasts initially appear threatening, but the elephant’s declaration reframes their gathering as an act of allegiance rather than an invasion.
• Chen and Jian share a trusting, supportive exchange; at the gate, Jian consults the elders and disciples before taking responsibility for the crisis.

Significant themes

• Power and cultivation: Chen’s extraordinary bloodline sets a benchmark that inspires Jian Qingzhu.
• Trust and concealment: Jian accepts Chen’s account of his bloodline, though he withholds its actual origin.
• Prejudice and misunderstanding: The cultivators assume the beasts intend to attack and prepare to slaughter them before learning their purpose.
• Unresolved allegiance: The beasts’ reference to a “Demon King” raises the central mystery of who commands them—and why they have come to the Holy Land.

Chapter summary

• Three ancient Demon Beasts arrive at Tianyuan Holy Land with hundreds of thousands of beasts, claiming they have come to submit to the Demon King. The disciples distrust them, assume it is a ploy, and prepare for battle—partly hoping to earn Chen Mu’s notice.
• The Red-Tailed White Wolf senses that Jian Qingzhu’s aura resembles the Demon King’s. She connects this to her cousin Chen Mu’s extraordinary, mutated nine-tailed bloodline and calls him to the mountain gate.
• Chen Mu arrives and is initially baffled by the claim that he is the Demon King. The system explains that his bloodline exceeds the ordinary Nine-Tailed Fox Clan’s Demon King level, making him a “Demon King among Demon Kings.”
• Chen Mu reveals his white hair and nine tails, confirming the beasts’ suspicions. The three leaders bow to him, and the rest of the horde follows. He accepts their submission, and the system links them to his God Rank Beast Taming function, ensuring their loyalty and allowing him to manage them.
• The disciples are astonished and further impressed by Chen Mu, who now commands a vast force. At his order, most of the beasts disperse; the Giant Elephant, Red-Tailed White Wolf, and Golden Lion remain to help protect the sect.
• Just as the incident seems settled, an eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Earthcore Flame Serpent interrupts, condemning the leaders for submitting to a human. Chen Mu recognizes its kind from an earlier encounter, setting up a new confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu learns of his hidden status as the supreme Demon King. Though surprised, he quickly accepts the horde’s submission and considers how the beasts could strengthen the Holy Land.
• Jian Qingzhu pieces together the connection between Chen Mu’s bloodline and the Demon King. Her past amazement at his abilities has made her almost accustomed to his extraordinary revelations.
• The three beast leaders approach as cautious supplicants, identify Chen Mu through his aura and bloodline, and formally recognize him as their ruler.
• The disciples shift from suspicion and eagerness for combat to awe and envy as Chen Mu’s power and influence become clear.

Significant themes

• Hidden identity and destiny: Chen Mu’s bloodline reveals a powerful identity he did not know he possessed.
• Loyalty and authority: The Demon Beasts recognize Chen Mu as their rightful ruler, and his system turns their submission into dependable allegiance.
• Escalating power and awe: Each revelation expands the scale of Chen Mu’s influence, leaving those around him struggling to measure his strength.
• Prejudice and trust: Humans and beasts initially distrust each other, but the beasts’ sincere submission overturns the disciples’ assumptions.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu observes that the defiant Earthcore Flame Serpent has eight cultivation rings, suggesting it recently reached eight hundred thousand years of cultivation. He wonders whether it is related to the serpent he already commands.
• The young serpent refuses to submit. It attacks the Red-Tailed White Wolf, Golden Lion, and Giant Elephant by splitting the ground and exposing magma, but the three beasts evade or counter its attacks.
• The wolf closes in and wounds the serpent, then throws it into the Golden Lion’s lightning arrow. The serpent is badly injured but still refuses to surrender.
• Chen Mu summons his own Earthcore Flame Serpent to handle it, intending either to tame the newcomer or let his serpent absorb it.
• The summoned serpent has grown to a million years of cultivation, now marked by sixteen red rings. It recognizes the young serpent, knocks it away from the lightning—saving its life—and reveals that it is the young serpent’s father.
• The father demands that its son apologize to Chen Mu and sever its tail in atonement. When the son condemns its father for submitting to a human, the father strikes it again and prepares to punish it further.

Character developments

• Chen Mu remains pragmatic: he sees both the strategic value of taming the young serpent and the potential benefit of feeding it to his own.
• The young Earthcore Flame Serpent is courageous and stubborn, refusing to surrender even while gravely wounded. Its certainty collapses when it learns that its revered father serves Chen Mu.
• The elder Earthcore Flame Serpent is revealed as both a devoted subordinate and a severe father. Its awe and fear of Chen Mu override its family loyalty, which it sees as necessary for the future of serpentkind.
• The three beasts demonstrate effective teamwork, overwhelming the young serpent despite its dangerous terrain-based attacks.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: The young serpent’s resistance is crushed by superior force, while its father’s submission illustrates Chen Mu’s dominance.
• Loyalty versus kinship: The father is willing to punish his own child rather than risk Chen Mu’s favor or endanger serpentkind.
• Disillusionment: The young serpent’s image of its father as an invincible leader shatters when it sees his fear of Chen Mu.
• Cultivation and relentless effort: The elder serpent’s growth during seclusion highlights the pressure on all beings to keep advancing.

Character interactions

• The young serpent insults the beasts for serving humans, prompting the wolf to challenge it.
• The three beasts coordinate their attacks, with the wolf and lion combining force while the elephant contains the spreading fissure.
• The elder serpent calls the young one an insolent fool, rescues it from the lightning, then orders it to apologize to Chen Mu.
• The son challenges its father’s submission; the father silences it with a blow and defends Chen Mu’s power, setting up a further confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s display of overwhelming killing intent and his command over three Saint Dragons intimidate the assembled beasts. The rebellious young Earthcore Flame Serpent prepares to submit, but its father kills it before it can do so.
• The elder serpent presents its son’s Demon Core to Chen Mu as proof of obedience. Chen Mu gives the Core to the Alchemy Room for pill-making and allows the serpent to return to the hundredfold cultivation space.
• Chen Mu casually leaves, while his power and new title inspire Tianyuan Holy Land disciples to train harder. Jian Qingzhu also resolves to cultivate and awaken her nine tails.
• Jian Qingzhu tells Holy Lord Chen Tianlin what happened. Astonished to learn his son has become a Demon King with a nine-tailed ice emperor bloodline, Chen Tianlin rushes back to Qingyun Prefecture.
• Chen Tianlin reveals the gift he has found for Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng: a Fatebinding Red Thread, said to link two people’s hearts and minds and grant them a happy life together.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains relaxed and unambitious despite his immense power, treating the Saint Dragons’ intervention and the serpent’s death as routine. He rewards the Alchemy Room with the Demon Core and indulges his father by pretending to be eager for the gift.
• The Earthcore Flame Serpent proves its loyalty by killing its own son and surrendering the Core, though the act carries a heavy emotional cost.
• Jian Qingzhu is impressed by Chen Mu’s power and wonders whether he could rule the Great Cang World; she also commits to advancing her own cultivation.
• Chen Tianlin is proud and astonished by his son’s achievement, and earnest about finding a meaningful congratulatory gift.
• The disciples react to Chen Mu’s reputation by turning admiration into a renewed competitive drive to improve.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Chen Mu’s command over Saint Dragons convinces the beasts that he could become Emperor of Myriad Demons.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: The elder serpent’s brutal choice demonstrates the price of allegiance.
• Humility amid greatness: Chen Mu’s casual manner contrasts with the world-shaking scale of his accomplishments.
• Ambition, effort, and affection: His influence motivates disciples to work harder, while Chen Tianlin’s gift introduces the importance of love and companionship.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Tianlin gives Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng a Fatebinding Red Thread said to link them and bring good fortune. They reluctantly agree to tie it around their little fingers.
• Chen Mu’s system confirms the thread works, but its effects are negligible because both are Great Emperors.
• The system unexpectedly upgrades and unlocks a “Many Children, Many Blessings” function, which promises rewards for each child and benefits for the whole lineage. Chen Mu is unimpressed and uninterested.
• The thread proves intangible and flexible, able to stretch, pass through obstacles, or disappear according to Chen Mu’s thoughts. Ye Qingcheng suggests keeping it to avoid questions from Chen Tianlin.
• Ye Qingcheng goes to the Trial Tower, secretly celebrates the thread, and kisses it. Chen Mu notices a slight tug but thinks nothing of it before settling down for a nap.
• Far away, a powerful dragon awakens in an abyss after a goshawk reports events in the Southern Region. Angered by apparent betrayal, it rises to confront whoever has opposed it.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains wary of anything that might manipulate affection. He accepts the thread mainly because of his father’s insistence, while retaining a casual, romantic attitude and dismissing the system’s new child-focused function.
• Ye Qingcheng is outwardly composed and deferential, but her secret joy and kiss reveal that she welcomes the bond more deeply than she lets on.
• Chen Tianlin enthusiastically plays matchmaker, expecting the thread to unite the pair and planning to check on its effects later.
• The dragon is introduced as a formidable, vengeful force, setting up a new threat.

Significant themes

• Fate versus personal choice: The red thread symbolizes an imposed bond, while Chen Mu is uncomfortable with anything that could force affection.
• Hidden feelings: Ye Qingcheng conceals her happiness from Chen Mu, creating dramatic irony.
• Comic contrast: The system’s grand “many children” upgrade clashes with Chen Mu’s lack of interest, while his peaceful nap contrasts sharply with the dragon’s dramatic awakening.

Key plot points

• A powerful black dragon flies toward the human sacred land, alarming people along the way. Curious about reports that a human has become a Demon King, he heads for the Roaring Tiger Dynasty’s capital, though he considers humans beneath him.
• Emperor Lu Yang learns of the dragon’s approach and goes out to intercept him, hoping to gain another powerful beast.
• The dragon attacks with lightning, but Lu Yang deflects it. When the dragon dismisses him as merely a human Great Emperor, the Ghostblade Mantis appears at his throat, forcing him to recognize that Lu Yang has overwhelming backup.
• Lu Yang gives the dragon a choice: submit through a blood contract or die. The dragon chooses submission, and Lu Yang secures him as a new contracted beast.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yang is increasingly confident in his position as emperor and eager to make use of the powers Chen Mu has given him. He confronts the dragon boldly, relying on the Ghostblade Mantis rather than his own strength alone, and looks forward to earning Chen Mu’s approval.
• The black dragon begins as an arrogant, dismissive Demon King, but his pride collapses when the Ghostblade Mantis threatens him. He is also unsettled by Lu Yang’s claim that an even more powerful being—Chen Mu—controls the mantis.
• The Ghostblade Mantis remains silent and unwaveringly loyal to Lu Yang’s side of the confrontation. Its presence turns the encounter decisively in Lu Yang’s favor.
• The dragon tries to recruit the mantis by proposing that they rule the Beast Realm together; the mantis ignores him, while Lu Yang emphasizes its loyalty to Chen Mu.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The dragon’s immense reputation means little once he encounters the Ghostblade Mantis—and learns of Chen Mu’s greater strength.
• Pride versus survival: The dragon’s arrogance gives way to submission when faced with a credible threat.
• Borrowed power and loyalty: Lu Yang’s success depends on the allies and gifts entrusted to him, especially the mantis.
• Comic irony: The dragon sees himself as a mighty ruler, while Lu Yang repeatedly calls him a mere “Flood Dragon” and treats his capture as an achievement worth showing off to Chen Mu.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yang reflects that his strength comes from the Ghostblade Mantis, not merely his blood contract with the Black Flood Dragon, and decides not to exaggerate his achievements to Chen Mu.
• The Black Flood Dragon reveals that he once ruled the demon beasts across the Four Directions World. A new Demon King has taken over the Southern Region, so he asks Lu Yang to help reclaim it.
• Lu Yang agrees, seeing the mission as a chance to secure the Roaring Tiger Kingdom’s influence and impress Chen Mu. The Black Flood Dragon hopes Lu Yang’s powerful allies may help him become a true dragon.
• The pair reach the Tianyuan Holy Land, where the Black Flood Dragon says the rival Demon King is hiding. Chen Mu senses the disturbance and arrives.
• Chen Mu reveals that he is the Southern Region’s new Demon King. In his Nine-Tailed Fox form, he astonishes Lu Yang.
• Realizing he had nearly led Lu Yang into attacking Chen Mu, the Black Flood Dragon panics and begs for his life. Lu Yang threatens him with the Ghostblade Mantis, but Chen Mu argues that the dragon could still be useful as an ally.
• Because Lu Yang has already formed a blood contract with the Black Flood Dragon, Chen Mu allows him to live. Lu Yang accepts, then kicks the dragon for daring to call Chen Mu “Brother Mu.”

Character development

• Lu Yang shows strategic ambition, wanting to use the Black Flood Dragon to strengthen his kingdom and support beast taming. His admiration for Chen Mu remains intense, and his loyalty becomes instantly fierce when he learns the dragon threatened him.
• The Black Flood Dragon shifts from trying to use Lu Yang to reclaim his territory to pleading for survival and offering his allegiance. He recognizes Chen Mu’s overwhelming power and hopes to benefit from serving him.
• Chen Mu remains composed and pragmatic. Rather than kill the Black Flood Dragon, he assesses his potential value and chooses to preserve him as a strategic asset.

Significant themes

• Power and strategy: Strength is valuable not only in battle but as a means of controlling territory, alliances, and resources.
• Loyalty and hierarchy: Lu Yang’s devotion to Chen Mu governs his reactions, while the dragon quickly changes sides once he understands who holds real power.
• Dramatic irony and mistaken identity: The supposed enemy Demon King is the very person Lu Yang admires, turning a dangerous mission into an awkward reveal.
• Pragmatism over revenge: Chen Mu chooses to exploit the dragon’s connections rather than punish him.

Character interactions

• The Black Flood Dragon tries to recruit Lu Yang to reclaim his territory, while Lu Yang eagerly agrees to prove himself and serve his kingdom’s interests.
• Lu Yang excitedly compliments Chen Mu’s transformed appearance, then immediately turns on the dragon when he realizes the dragon had wanted Chen Mu dead.
• Chen Mu coolly decides the dragon can remain useful; Lu Yang follows that judgment, though he still asserts his own claim to Chen Mu’s familiar title by kicking the dragon.

Plot points

• The three guardian beasts prepare to defend Chen Mu and Lu Yang from the approaching Black Flood Dragon, but the dragon arrives not as an attacker: he grovels before Chen Mu and calls him “Master.” At Lu Yang’s correction, he switches to “Young Master.”
• The beasts abandon any thought of challenging Chen Mu, recognizing the immense gap between the Black Flood Dragon and the three Saint Dragons.
• Chen Mu returns to Qingyun Prefecture, while Lu Yang rides the Black Flood Dragon to Sunlit Prefecture to surprise his mother, Yang Hui.
• Lu Yang boasts about founding the Killing God Pavilion, becoming emperor of the Roaring Tiger Kingdom, reaching the Great Emperor Realm, and commanding the Beast Taming Realm. Yang Hui points out that most of these accomplishments came through help from others.
• Lu Yang drinks Yang Hui’s Enlightenment Tea and experiences several enlightenments. She explains that Chen Mu gave her the tea and that each cup grants enlightenment.
• Yang Hui reveals that Chen Mu helped transform the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion into an intelligence network serving the Tianyuan Holy Land. Lu Yang is startled to learn it has been monitoring events around him.
• Yang Hui leaves to visit Chen Mu and thank him for looking after Lu Yang. Lu Yang discovers that he has emptied the teapot.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yang remains boastful, playful, and devoted to Chen Mu. Though he wants to impress his mother, he readily admits his exaggeration and is awed by Chen Mu’s generosity and power.
• Yang Hui is teasing but perceptive. She punctures Lu Yang’s self-congratulation while showing relief that he and Chen Mu are still close.
• Chen Mu, though absent from much of the chapter, is shown to command overwhelming respect and to have quietly supported Lu Yang and improved the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• The Black Flood Dragon displays complete submission to Chen Mu, while the guardian beasts quickly recognize that defying him would be futile.
• Yang Hui and Lu Yang’s teasing exchange—especially over the tea—underscores their familiar, affectionate mother-son relationship.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: Even proud, long-cultivated beasts set aside their pride when faced with a vast difference in strength.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Lu Yang’s unwavering attachment to Chen Mu and Yang Hui’s decision to thank him highlight the importance of enduring bonds.
• Achievement and support: Lu Yang’s accomplishments are impressive, but Yang Hui reminds him that much of his success depends on help from others.
• Hidden influence: Chen Mu’s impact reaches beyond direct displays of power, shaping institutions and events behind the scenes.

Plot points

• Yang Hui visits Chen Mu, initially hesitant to knock, and gives him the Yang Family’s ancestral Assassination Codex and Hidden Weapon Forging Manual in gratitude for helping her son, Lu Yang.
• Chen Mu examines the manuals and discovers extensive assassination techniques, lightness skills, poisons, and designs for weapons such as the deadly Underworld Needle.
• The system upgrades, unlocking the King of Assassins feature. Chen Mu can now instantly master any assassin-related skill, including techniques lost for millennia.
• Yang Hui asks whether Chen Mu will attend the Southern Region Prodigy Tournament. She explains that Chen Tianlin wants him to represent Tianyuan Holy Land as an observer and boost morale. Chen Mu gives no firm answer.
• After she leaves, Chen Mu considers how overwhelming Tianyuan’s strength has become—even its Outer Court could dominate other factions—and wonders why his father is delegating the event to him.
• Suspecting Chen Tianlin is using the tournament to prepare him to inherit the Holy Lord’s position, Chen Mu resolves to frustrate the plan. He wants his father to remain in office rather than retire early; Chen Tianlin suddenly feels a mysterious chill.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Hui overcomes her hesitation and gives Chen Mu treasured family heirlooms, believing the gesture is modest compared with his help to Lu Yang. Chen Mu accepts them politely, though his system makes the manuals’ value less important to him.
• Chen Mu gains a powerful new system ability but remains uninterested in public duties and political advancement. His thoughts turn from the tournament to avoiding succession.
• Chen Tianlin, absent from the main conversation, is portrayed as gradually maneuvering his son toward leadership. Chen Mu knows his father well enough to suspect the scheme immediately.
• Chen Juexin, Chen Mu’s older sister, is mentioned as another possible successor, but she is even less interested in becoming Holy Lord.

Significant themes

• Power versus responsibility: Chen Mu has immense ability but would rather avoid leadership and competition.
• Gratitude and reciprocity: Yang Hui’s gift expresses sincere appreciation, even if she feels it cannot equal Chen Mu’s past help.
• Comedic reluctance toward succession: Chen Mu treats his father’s effort to pass on authority as a scheme to be defeated, while the system’s extravagant rewards heighten the contrast between his power and his desire to lie low.

Plot points and events

• Tianyuan Holy Land’s disciples discuss why Chen Mu summoned Inner Court standouts Lu Qingshan, Li Liushui, and Yan Yutong. The holy land’s extraordinary strength and defenses are credited to Chen Mu.
• The three disciples meet Chen Mu, who serves them Top-Grade Enlightenment Tea and asks whether they would withdraw from the Southern Region Prodigy Tournament if they became Great Emperors. Lu Qingshan says no one could reasonably criticize them then.
• Chen Mu uses Great Emperor Experience Packs to raise all three directly to the Great Emperor Realm. A spectacular phenomenon erupts, but he casually dispels it.
• Chen Mu’s sign-in reward is myriad pure doomsday thunder tribulation—catastrophic lightning that he can safely cultivate with because of his exceptional body and constitution. A thousandfold rebate also grants him 3,000 more Great Emperor Experience Packs.
• The newly promoted trio gratefully pledge absolute loyalty. Chen Mu tells them he expects great things from them and orders them to withdraw from the tournament. Outside, disciples are left baffled by the vanished phenomenon.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu demonstrates his immense power and generosity, treating sudden Great Emperor advancement as routine. He uses a hypothetical question to confirm that the trio’s withdrawal will not harm the holy land’s reputation, then acts.
• Lu Qingshan, Li Liushui, and Yan Yutong begin respectfully deferential, become stunned by their transformation, and respond with overwhelming gratitude and loyalty. Lu Qingshan is particularly concerned with protecting Tianyuan Holy Land’s public image.
• The trio’s synchronized greetings and replies emphasize their shared respect for Chen Mu; Li Liushui’s brief, understated “Same here!” adds a comic note.

Significant themes

• Power and protection: Chen Mu’s influence has made Tianyuan Holy Land exceptionally secure and powerful.
• Loyalty and gratitude: The disciples’ devotion deepens after receiving an impossible gift.
• Power used to solve practical problems: Chen Mu’s promotion of the trio lets the holy land avoid both the tournament and the appearance of arrogance.
• Comic understatement: World-shaking events and apocalyptic resources are treated casually by Chen Mu, contrasting with everyone else’s astonishment.

Key plot points and events

• Three pillars of light appear at Qingyun Prefecture. Disciples speculate that Chen Mu may have reached a realm beyond Great Emperor.
• Lu Qingshan, Li Liushui, and Yan Yutong emerge from the residence transformed in bearing. Lu confirms Chen Mu has granted all three Great Emperor cultivation.
• Li and Yan briefly release a fraction of their emperor’s might to prove the breakthrough. The disciples are stunned, and Qingyun Prefecture’s reputation grows into the belief that anyone who enters can become a Great Emperor.
• At the Holy Lord’s Residence, Chen Tianlin learns the three intend to withdraw from the Heavenly Prodigy Assembly. Assuming Chen Mu has tempted them, he orders an elder to promise them ten times whatever Chen Mu offered.
• The elder then reveals that Chen Mu granted all three Great Emperor power. Chen Tianlin is left speechless.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Qingshan, Li Liushui, and Yan Yutong leave Qingyun Prefecture with dramatically elevated cultivation and renewed status. Lu speaks for the trio, while Li and Yan demonstrate their power.
• The disciples move from speculation to awe, interpreting the breakthroughs as further proof of Chen Mu’s near-unlimited ability. Their respect for him—and desire to enter Qingyun Prefecture—intensifies.
• Chen Tianlin remains eager to hand his burdensome position to Chen Mu, but misunderstands the situation at first. His confident promise to outbid his son collapses when he hears what Chen Mu has actually given.
• The elder delivers the news carefully, anticipating Chen Tianlin’s reaction.

Significant themes

• Power beyond established limits: Chen Mu’s ability to raise three people directly to Great Emperor challenges the disciples’ understanding of the world.
• Reputation and escalating legend: Each impossible achievement makes Chen Mu’s fame grow, turning Qingyun Prefecture into a rumored path to greatness.
• Humorous reversal and family contrast: Chen Tianlin thinks in terms of competing offers, only to discover Chen Mu has given something far beyond ordinary gifts—and remains uninterested in taking the Holy Lord’s position.

Plot points and events

• Chen Tianlin learns that Chen Mu helped Ye Qingcheng and Chen Juexin become Great Emperors. He is stunned by his son’s seemingly limitless ability and wonders whether Tianyuan Holy Land should skip the Heavenly Prodigy Assembly to avoid appearing unfair.
• Chen Tianlin visits Chen Mu, who senses him despite his concealed aura. Chen Mu confirms that he can make anyone a Great Emperor, but says he will only grant such power to people he trusts because sudden power can corrupt.
• Chen Mu gives his father an Everlasting Fruit, claiming it makes the eater undying and immortal. Chen Tianlin is shocked, then accepts the gift and agrees to stop pressing Chen Mu to succeed him as Holy Lord—though he keeps the position open for him.
• They discuss the Assembly. Chen Mu says Tianyuan need not worry about others’ opinions, so Chen Tianlin decides to send Lu Qingshan, Li Liushui, and Yan Yutong to compete for Dragon Origin Tokens.
• As Chen Mu considers the tokens’ value—each grants entry to the Dragon Origin Ruins and a chance at a powerful legacy—the system awards him 10,000 of them.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Tianlin shifts from cautious and self-conscious to confident in Tianyuan’s strength. He admires Chen Mu, accepts the fruit, and respects his choice not to become Holy Lord.
• Chen Mu shows restraint despite his extraordinary power, prioritizing trust when granting cultivation. His easy generosity toward his father contrasts with his reluctance to involve himself further in the Assembly.
• Their warm father-son relationship is evident in Chen Tianlin’s pride, Chen Mu’s gift, and their candid conversation.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Chen Mu recognizes that immense strength can change people, so he does not grant it indiscriminately.
• Family and generosity: Chen Mu shares a life-preserving treasure with his father, who values his son’s well-being more than the gift itself.
• Confidence and reputation: Chen Mu urges Tianyuan to act without fear of other factions’ opinions.
• Abundance and advantage: The system’s huge reward reinforces Chen Mu’s growing surplus of treasures and the gap between him and ordinary competitors.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu asks his father, Chen Tianlin, about the Heavenly Prodigy Assembly’s Dragon Origin Token rewards. The small prizes and dangers of the Dragon Origin Secret Realm make Chen Mu unimpressed.
• Chen Mu reveals that he has far more tokens than needed, giving Tianlin one hundred. The system’s Thousandfold Rebate turns the gift into another hundred thousand tokens for Chen Mu.
• Tianlin assembles a large expedition of Tianyuan Holy Land’s strongest disciples. Chen Mu decides to join out of curiosity and boredom, offering protection. He explains that his system-granted “Supreme Dragon Origin Tokens” can be used without limit, unlike ordinary tokens, which permit only one entry per person.
• Ye Qingcheng joins as Chen Mu’s guard. When the group enters the secret realm, Chen Mu uses his Space Saint Body to keep everyone together, resisting the force that would scatter them.
• The realm is a seemingly boundless desert littered with old dragon skeletons. The group learns that leaving is possible, but activating the return array takes time and leaves them vulnerable.
• Unsure whether to split up to search more effectively or stay together for safety, Chen Mu considers how to balance both approaches. The system begins upgrading.

Character developments

• Chen Mu remains relaxed and resource-rich, preferring convenient solutions over arduous competition. Despite his casual attitude, he takes responsibility for the expedition’s safety.
• Chen Tianlin is astonished by Chen Mu’s wealth, but quickly adapts to his extraordinary resources and acts decisively to organize the expedition.
• Ye Qingcheng shows that her loyalty is rooted in wanting to be useful to Chen Mu; she is relieved when he includes her.
• Lu Qingshan defers to Chen Mu’s leadership, even though he has visited the realm before.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu and Tianlin discuss the realm’s dangers, token rewards, and entry rules; Chen Mu’s generosity enables the expedition.
• The disciples celebrate Chen Mu’s contribution, briefly eclipsing Tianlin’s authority as Holy Lord.
• Ye Qingcheng rushes to join Chen Mu, who gives her a token.
• Lu Qingshan asks Chen Mu to decide their next move, placing the expedition’s strategy in his hands.

Significant themes

• Abundance versus effort: Chen Mu’s system-given wealth makes conventional competition seem pointless and encourages him to coast.
• Power and responsibility: Though he joins casually, Chen Mu uses his abilities to protect a large group.
• Risk versus reward: The expedition must weigh safety in numbers against the greater search potential—and danger—of splitting up.
• Loyalty and belonging: Ye Qingcheng’s concern is not danger but whether Chen Mu still has a place for her at his side.