Recaps

Chen Changsheng and Ouyang's group subdued the Tiger and Fox Clan cultivators at Green Mound Mountain, turning Hu Bing's attempted rescue of Hu Tutu into a bonfire gathering. Hu Bing woke to find Hu Tutu in his arms and asked why she was there.

• The Tiger Clan surrounded unconscious Hu Bing, while Gui Yi, Niu Er, and Guan San welcomed the Azure Cloud Sect as reinforcements.
• Chen Changsheng's puppets used the formation to poison the strongest Tiger and Fox Clan cultivators unconscious, while Leng Qingsong and the formation restrained the others.
• Ouyang shoved Liang Zai's head into Hu Bing's mouth, and Liang Zai vomited, knocking Hu Bing unconscious again.
• Hu Bing woke at a bonfire gathering and saw Ouyang watching Hu Tutu dance.
• Hu Tutu leaped into Hu Bing's arms and asked what had brought him to Green Mound Mountain.

Hu Tutu reunited with Hu Bing at Green Mound Mountain, where his childhood affection for her became clear to both the Tiger and Fox Clans. The gathering turned tense when Chen Changsheng ordered Hu Bing to leave and threatened to kill him if he ever saw him again.

• Hu Bing embraced Hu Tutu and apologized for their long separation, while both clans watched their reunion.
• Ouyang and his companions endured the Fox Clan's hospitality and learned that Hu Bing had brought his tribe to claim Hu Tutu as his concubine.
• The Fox Clan Grand Elder and Attendants approved of Hu Tutu's return and her ties to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Hu Tutu introduced Hu Bing to her senior brothers, and Hu Bing apologized for offending them.
• Chen Changsheng learned that Hu Lie was Hu Bing's father, then ordered Hu Bing to leave with his tribe and never meet Hu Tutu again.
• Chen Changsheng formed the Xiantian Three Talents Formation and threatened to kill Hu Bing if he saw him again.

Chen Changsheng confronted Hu Bing over his intentions toward Hu Tutu and demanded that he give up his Tiger Clan ties if he wanted to marry her. Hu Bing left Green Mound Mountain without Tutu, while she remained upset and unable to understand why her seniors had stopped him.

• Hu Bing protested Chen Changsheng's harsh judgment, but Chen recalled how Hu Bing would later betray Hu Tutu and slaughter the Qingqiu Fox Clan in pursuit of power.
• Chen Changsheng drew Hu Tutu to his side and told Hu Bing he would not stand in the way if Hu Bing severed ties with the Tiger Clan and married into the Fox Clan.
• Hu Bing questioned whether Chen Changsheng was deliberately making things difficult, and Ouyang sent him flying with True Essence before ordering him to leave.
• Unable to overcome the cultivators protecting Green Mound Mountain, Hu Bing departed with his Tiger Clan followers.
• Hu Tutu tried to chase after Hu Bing, but Chen Changsheng immobilized her, and Ouyang said Hu Bing had already made his choice.

After waking from a drunken night on Green Mound Mountain, Ouyang learned that Hu Tutu’s path to becoming a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox depended on finding Hu Yan at the Azure Cloud Sect. He was left wondering why the Tibetan Fox refused to accompany her to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall to awaken her bloodline.

• Ouyang woke with a hangover and learned that Leng Qingsong had guarded him while he slept with a bundle of straw.
• Ouyang saw Chen Changsheng’s slashed sleeve and learned that Leng Qingsong had sparred with him using a twig.
• Chen Changsheng showed Ouyang his notes on the Fox Clan elders’ conversation with Hu Tutu, which revealed that she needed Hu Yan’s inheritance to become a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
• Ouyang recalled that awakening bloodline power at the Ten Thousand Demon Hall could grant demon cultivators immense power but risked turning them into mindless beasts.
• Ouyang wondered why the Tibetan Fox had stayed home instead of accompanying Hu Tutu to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.

Ouyang reunited with Diao Mao, who had flown to him from Bai Feiyu, while Bai Feiyu used divination to confirm the bird’s whereabouts and wondered about the cost of his immortal arts. After seeing a map in Tang Pass, Bai Feiyu realized he could write a textual map.

• Diao Mao arrived and swore at Ouyang, who caught him and threatened to pluck his feathers until the bird recognized him as the boss.
• Chen Changsheng suggested Bai Feiyu had sent Diao Mao to stay with Ouyang, and Ouyang asked him to send Bai Feiyu a carrier pigeon message.
• Bai Feiyu used the God-Sealing Treasure Book and Heaven-Measuring Ruler to locate Diao Mao with Ouyang, then noticed the emotional aftereffect of his immortal arts.
• Bai Feiyu returned to Tang Pass, where General Jiang scolded Jiang Xiaotong for scribbling on an important map.
• Bai Feiyu borrowed the map, entered a state of cultivation, and realized he could write a textual version of a map.

Ouyang learned that Hu Tutu was the surviving Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox taken by the Immortals in the Elder Ancient Era. Green Mound Mountain's elders asked him to protect her and help her reclaim the Nine-Tailed throne, while Ouyang realized Hu Yan was ready to die for her.

• Ouyang and his companions met Gui Yi and the other Fox Clan elders, who explained the clan's decline after the Immortals took its Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
• Gui Yi sealed the stone house and revealed that Hu Tutu was the surviving Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, a secret that could put the Fox Clan in grave danger.
• Gui Yi, Niu Er, and Guan San knelt and asked Ouyang to protect Hu Tutu and help her ascend the Nine-Tailed throne.
• Ouyang deduced that the elders had sent Hu Tutu to find Hu Yan so he could escort her to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall for her bloodline awakening.
• Ouyang defended Hu Yan and realized that Hu Yan had suggested the trip because he was ready to die.

Ouyang learned the story behind Hu Tutu’s failed first bloodline awakening and agreed to accompany her to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall. He entered the Teleportation Gate with Tutu, while Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng were blocked outside and turned their anger on the Green Mound Mountain Demon Cultivators.

• Gui Yi told Ouyang that Hu Yan had found Hu Tutu as a fox emerging from an egg in the Blood Lake and had concealed her identity while raising her on Green Mound Mountain.
• The Demon Cultivators recounted how Hu Tutu’s first awakening surged to Integration before Hu Yan interrupted it, leaving her powerless and causing devastation across Green Mound Mountain.
• Niu Er accused Hu Yan of taking the Nine-Tailed Inheritance for himself, while Ouyang wondered why Hu Yan had stopped the awakening before accepting the request to help Tutu try again.
• Hu Tutu happily agreed to go with Ouyang, hoping her awakened bloodline would let her help him.
• At the Teleportation Gate, Ouyang and Hu Tutu entered the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, but Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng were barred from following them.
• Gui Yi said Hu Yun had foretold that Ouyang would take Tutu through her awakening, and Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng prepared to confront the Demon Cultivators for withholding that information.

Ouyang arrived at the Demon Race Sacred Grounds with Hu Tutu and learned that Demon Cultivators awakened their bloodlines by tempering them in the Blood Lake. Separated from his junior brothers and pets, he left the hostile Demon Cultivators under his control and learned how the sacred grounds worked.

• Ouyang emerged from the damaged Teleportation Gate into the blood-red Demon Race Sacred Grounds with Hu Tutu.
• Dozens of Demon Cultivators surrounded Ouyang and demanded that he die for being human, but he knocked them all down with his true essence.
• Ouyang forced a Pig Demon to explain that the Blood Lake was used for bloodline awakening, then discovered that Leng Qingsong, Chen Changsheng, and his pets were missing.
• Ouyang tried and failed to summon Liang Zai, then had the Demon Cultivators carry him on a crude chair while they followed behind, tied up.
• The Pig Demon explained that ordinary Demon Cultivators tempered their bloodlines in the Blood Lake, while talented successors could enter the Ten Thousand Demon Hall beneath it.

Ouyang brought Hu Tutu to the blood lake beside the Ten Thousand Demon Hall so she could awaken her bloodline, while the pig demon tried to manipulate him into waiting for the demons to gather. As the blood sun rose, Ouyang made clear he intended to force the demons on the island to reveal what they knew, leaving the pig demon and his companions trembling before him.

• The pig demon advised Ouyang to wait for the blood sun to rise, when the demons would gather at the lake, and Ouyang praised him before punching him for professing loyalty.
• Hu Tutu awoke in Ouyang's arms, and Ouyang told her they were at the blood lake where she would awaken her bloodline.
• The pig demon guessed Ouyang had come to help Hu Tutu and considered using his knowledge of the awakening process as leverage, but Ouyang cut off his tusks with a sword.
• Ouyang questioned the pig demon about the many demon cultivators on the island and said he would make one of them tell him everything he knew.
• As the blood sun rose, the pig demon, the palanquin bearers, and the bound captives trembled before Ouyang's threat.

Ouyang heard about the Dragon King, a half-dragon half-demon who had become a sensation in the Demon Race sacred land, and suspected he was a familiar young cultivator from Little Mountain Peak. The chapter ended with the pig demon quoting one of the Dragon King's grand declarations.

• The pig demon explained that half-demons had founded the Cold Plateau, one of the Nine Great Sacred Lands, after being rejected by both humans and full-blooded demons.
• The pig demon described how the Dragon King had recently begun making a name for himself among the demons, defeating opponents with music-enhanced strength.
• Ouyang asked the pig demon to explain the music surrounding the Dragon King and laughed at the possibility that the two were connected.
• The pig demon said the Dragon King was gifted with words and recited his boast that all demon cultivators would bow before him.

Ouyang arrived at Blood City with Hu Tutu and used a pair of Cat Ears to disguise himself as a half-demon. The city's gate detector accepted him, leaving the Pig Demon stunned by the apparent success of his disguise.

• The Pig Demon told Ouyang that the elusive Dragon King cultivated in the Blood Lake every three days, and Ouyang realized the Dragon King was Xiao Feng.
• Ouyang and the Pig Demon reached Blood City, where the Pig Demon warned that demons could detect Ouyang's Human Race scent.
• Ouyang put on Cat Ears and walked toward the city gate with Hu Tutu, while the other demons who had accompanied him fled.
• The demons at the entrance smelled Ouyang's Human Race scent but assumed he was a half-demon because of his Cat Ears and his Demon Race companions.
• A red beam from the gate's plaque examined Ouyang and Hu Tutu, then retreated when it touched Ouyang's True Essence.
• The demons let Ouyang enter, and the Pig Demon wondered whether Ouyang really was a half-demon.

Ouyang explored the demon city with Hu Tutu and was mistaken for a half-demon, then recognized Ma Xingye among the Half-Demon Clan’s Dragon King Envoys. Ma Xingye announced that the Dragon King would reclaim his place as the three-day period ended.

• Ouyang explored the demon city and found a block occupied by the Half-Demon Clan.
• A horse-faced half-demon mistook Ouyang for one of their own and put him to work preparing to welcome the Dragon King.
• The Pig Demon watched Ouyang join the half-demons and decided to stay close to him.
• Seven black-robed half-demons arrived, and their leader removed his hat to reveal himself as Ma Xingye.
• Ma Xingye declared that the three-day period was over and the Dragon King was about to reclaim his place.

Ouyang joined the half-demons’ celebration at the Blood Lake and accidentally set off firecrackers on Ma Xingye, prompting the Dragon King Envoys to move against him. Ma Xingye stopped them, greeted his old senior brother, and hinted that a hidden dragon was emerging from the abyss.

• Ouyang was swept into the half-demons’ crowd with Tutu on his head and lit a string of firecrackers to make room and liven up the celebration.
• Ouyang accidentally sent the firecrackers onto Ma Xingye, and the Dragon King Envoys prepared to seize him.
• Ma Xingye stepped between Ouyang and the Dragon King Envoys, explaining that Ouyang was an old acquaintance of the Dragon King, and the envoys apologized.
• Ma Xingye reunited with Ouyang and reflected on how he had grown stronger and become a half-demon after leaving the Azure Cloud Sect with Xiao Feng.
• Ouyang teased Ma Xingye about rising from gatekeeping disciple to bodyguard, and Ma Xingye replied that the sound of a hidden dragon emerging from the abyss was all around them.

The Blood Lake erupted as five divine beasts emerged, while the demons assumed the Dragon King was being granted a true name. Ouyang recognized the beasts as the Five Directional Divine Beasts associated with Xiao Feng, and the chapter ended with a Qilin appearing before the gathered crowd.

• Ma Xingye spoke, and the Blood Lake surged into a vast whirlpool that stirred awe among the demons and half-demons.
• A blood-red dragon took shape above the lake, leading the crowd to believe a Dragon Race Demon God was granting the Dragon King a true name.
• A blood bird and a horned red turtle emerged, followed by a tiny red cat that Ouyang identified as the White Tiger.
• Hu Bing briefly felt as though his blood was being drained, then returned to normal and wondered whether someone had called him.
• Ouyang watched the four beasts assemble above the lake, and a Qilin rose from the whirlpool to complete the group.

Two sets of Five Directional Divine Beasts appeared at Blood Lake, and the black beasts attacked the red ancestors. Xiao Feng emerged from the lake and accused the red beasts of trying to use a body to revive themselves.

• Blood Qilin joined the four red auspicious beasts, and the Demon Race identified them as the Five Directional Divine Beast ancestors.
• A reverse-spinning vortex formed and released five ink-black divine beasts that confronted the red ancestors.
• The black beasts attacked, and the ten divine beasts fought across Blood Lake using their physical strength.
• Ouyang recognized the black beasts as the Five Directional Divine Beasts he had told Chen Changsheng to draw on Xiao Feng's back.
• Xiao Feng emerged from Blood Lake and called the red beasts trash seeking to borrow a body to revive themselves.

Xiao Feng learned that the Xiantian Demon Gods sought to possess gifted descendants, but his bond with the Five Ink-colored Divine Beasts let him resist them. After destroying their blood-water bodies, he confronted their enormous dragon claw above the Blood Lake.

• The Blood Qilin and the other blood-colored divine beasts struggled against Xiao Feng’s Five Ink-colored Divine Beasts.
• Xiao Feng recognized that the Xiantian Demon Gods planned to use descendants as vessels and realized his own divine beasts were inseparable from him.
• Xiao Feng struck the five blood-colored divine beasts with a powerful punch, scattering their bodies into the Blood Lake.
• The five Xiantian Demon Gods rose into the Blood Cloud and formed a gigantic dragon claw to attack Xiao Feng.
• Xiao Feng and his Five Ink-colored Divine Beasts charged the descending dragon claw with torrents of blood.

Xiao Feng was knocked into the Blood Lake after charging the enormous dragon claw, while Ouyang suspected he had uncovered the Ten Thousand Demon Hall’s secret. Ma Xingye rallied the half-demons to play music for the Dragon King as Ouyang confidently awaited Xiao Feng’s next move.

• Xiao Feng and the five black divine beasts attacked the dragon claw but were slapped into the Blood Lake.
• Ma Xingye feared Xiao Feng’s identity as a human would be exposed, then sidled over to Ouyang for reassurance.
• Ouyang pointed out the blood cloud, whose surface showed countless suffering beast heads and called to the demons below.
• Ouyang told Ma Xingye to rally the musicians, and Ma Xingye urged the half-demons to play for the Dragon King.
• The half-demons played a stirring tune as Ouyang watched the Blood Lake and predicted Xiao Feng would fuse his way to victory.

Xiao Feng defeated the blood cloud and the five demons controlling the Blood Lake, then returned to the waiting half-demons as their king. Ouyang held back their reunion so Xiao Feng could walk alone toward his throne and claim his place in history.

• Xiao Feng transformed into a Fusion Beastman, destroyed the blood cloud, and drove its remnants back into the Blood Lake with Hu Tutu's suona.
• Xiao Feng plunged into the Blood Lake and eliminated the five demons controlling it before emerging human once more.
• The demons and half-demons bowed to Xiao Feng, whose Divine Beast bloodline commanded their submission.
• Ouyang signaled Xiao Feng not to greet him, and Ma Xingye draped a cloak over Xiao Feng's shoulders as he prepared to approach the throne.
• Xiao Feng passed Ouyang and Hu Tutu without stopping, while Ouyang explained that Xiao Feng should walk on alone.

Xiao Feng was acclaimed as the Demon Race’s Dragon King after defeating the Five Directional Divine Beasts, while their escaped Divine Souls entered Hu Bing and granted him a powerful inheritance. As the island celebrated, Ouyang left the crowd with Tutu, and a Pig Demon tried to ingratiate himself with him.

• Xiao Feng entered the half-demons’ camp and took the throne as demons and half-demons bowed and cheered for him.
• Ouyang sensed five Divine Souls escaping the Blood Lake, and Xiao Feng realized they had fled but believed they posed no threat.
• The five Divine Souls entered Hu Bing, who gained the power of all five Divine Beasts and broke through to Great Cultivator.
• Tutu complained that Xiao Feng had not recognized her or Ouyang, then left the celebration with Ouyang.
• A Pig Demon approached Ouyang with an offer of water, hoping to befriend the Dragon King through his close friend.

Xiao Feng and Ma Xingye left the Demon Race celebration to reunite with Ouyang at the Blood Lake. Xiao Feng fell asleep beside Ouyang, finding the safety and rest he had lacked since leaving the mountain.

• Ma Xingye asked whether Xiao Feng would return to the Azure Cloud Sect if Ouyang invited him, and Xiao Feng said he would stay with his companions.
• Xiao Feng and Ma Xingye found Ouyang playing Go with a Pig Demon, and Ouyang overturned the board after losing despite cheating.
• Xiao Feng greeted Ouyang, while Ma Xingye asked the Pig Demon to give them privacy.
• Ouyang reassured Xiao Feng and told him to rest, and Xiao Feng promptly fell asleep over the chessboard.
• Ouyang told Ma Xingye to let Xiao Feng sleep and softly sang a nursery rhyme as Ma Xingye watched over him.

After waking from a sleep that inexplicably strengthened him, Xiao Feng told Ouyang about his revenge, travels, and discovery that bloodline awakening let ancient Xiantian Demon Gods borrow bodies to be reborn. He learned that Hu Tutu was a fox demon and greeted her happily, but she remained annoyed that he had ignored her earlier.

• Xiao Feng woke on the Chessboard stronger than before and thanked Ouyang, who let him believe he had deliberately helped him improve.
• At Ouyang's request, Xiao Feng recounted taking revenge in his former city, wandering north with Ma Xingye, rescuing a half-demon girl, and traveling among the Cold Plateau tribes.
• Xiao Feng told Ouyang that bloodline awakening was a scheme for ancient Xiantian Demon Gods to borrow bodies and be reborn.
• Ouyang connected the revelation to Hu Yan's interruption of Tutu's last bloodline awakening and said Tutu's awakening was now more interesting.
• Xiao Feng realized Hu Tutu was a member of the Demon Race and was delighted that she was his senior sister, while Ouyang regarded his excitement warily.
• Hu Tutu woke when Ouyang held her too tightly, greeted Xiao Feng, then turned away with a huff because he had ignored her earlier.

Ouyang gave Xiao Feng a Wooden Plaque bearing his name, leaving Xiao Feng wondering whether Master had accepted him as a disciple. At the Blood Lake, Ouyang set out to bring the Ten Thousand Demon Hall forth and awakened a giant blood-red face that called him “Dad.”

• Ouyang handed Xiao Feng the Wooden Plaque Hu Yun had left for him, and Hu Tutu said it meant Daddy had accepted Xiao Feng as a disciple.
• Ouyang told Xiao Feng he had come to awaken Hu Tutu’s bloodline at the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, despite the danger of the Xiantian Demon Gods.
• Ouyang spoke confidently about protecting Hu Tutu, and Xiao Feng wrote down his words as lessons in how to show off.
• Xiao Feng explained that the Ten Thousand Demon Hall only appeared when a demon with pure blood entered the Blood Lake, and Ouyang said he could make it appear on its own.
• Ouyang infused the Blood Lake with True Essence, called out “Son,” and a giant blood-red face rose from the lake and called him “Dad.”

Ouyang awakened part of the Blood Lake and sent it searching for something interesting, while Xiao Feng concealed the feat from the demons. The search hauled the legendary Ten Thousand Demon Hall out of the lake, and the Pig Demon presented the spectacle as the ancestors cheering for the Dragon King.

• Ouyang bestowed sentience on part of the Blood Lake, whose blood-formed face called him Dad and said it was hungry.
• Xiao Feng ordered Ma Xingye and the Dragon King Envoys to secure the area and have the half-demons block the demons from seeing the lake.
• Ouyang told the Blood Lake creature to find him something interesting, and it churned the lake and flung out skeletons, stones, weapons, and other remains.
• The demons grew outraged at the sight of their ancestors' remains, but the Pig Demon persuaded them that Xiao Feng was bringing the dead home for burial.
• The Blood Lake hauled the Ten Thousand Demon Hall out of its depths, and the Pig Demon shouted that the ancestors had jumped from their coffins to cheer for the Dragon King.

The demons recognized the palace lifted from the Blood Lake as White Jade Capital, their sacred Ten Thousand Demon Hall, and knelt before it. While Pig Demon guessed that Xiao Feng had been summoned by the ancestors, Xiao Feng and Ouyang smashed open the palace doors and went inside, leaving Pig Demon to wonder if they intended to rob the place.

• The demons prostrated themselves before the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, while Ma Xingye and the half-demons remained standing.
• Ma Xingye praised Pig Demon for stopping the half-demons from kneeling, and Pig Demon realized Xiao Feng and Ouyang had dug up the Demon Race's ancestral hall.
• Pig Demon feared that Xiao Feng's actions might bring him into conflict with the Ten Thousand Demon Queen and destabilize the Ten Thousand Demon Nation.
• Xiao Feng flew to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and punched its doors until they burst open.
• Xiao Feng and Ouyang entered the hall, and Pig Demon wondered whether they were going to pay homage or rob it.

Ouyang and Xiao Feng entered White Jade Capital, where they encountered the eerie statues and three Xiantian Demon Gods. Just as Ouyang attacked them, the dog-headed Demon God revealed himself as Liang Zai.

• Ouyang brought Xiao Feng and the frightened little fox to White Jade Capital, and Xiao Feng struggled against the palace's pressure until Ouyang shielded him with True Essence.
• Ouyang and Xiao Feng found lifelike statues with real eyes inside the palace, and Xiao Feng turned off the eerie music he had played on his speaker.
• The statues turned to watch them as three stone chairs rose, revealing a yellow giant ape, an azure mystic bird, and a dog-headed humanoid Demon Beast.
• Ouyang raised his hand to attack the three Xiantian Demon Gods, but the dog-headed one shouted that he was Liang Zai before Ouyang struck.