Chapter Summaries

Ouyang escorted his new junior sister, Hu Tutu, up the Azure Cloud Sect mountain and privately speculated that she was his master’s daughter. He tried to establish his authority over her on Little Mountain Peak, but Xiao Bai overheard him insulting the other disciples.

• Ouyang saw Hu Tutu’s hidden status panel and recognized her as a juvenile Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox with an innate Dao body.
• Hu Tutu grew tired on the mountain path and questioned Ouyang’s intense gaze, while he wondered whether she was his master’s illegitimate daughter and considered using the secret as leverage.
• Hu Tutu recited facts about the Azure Cloud Sect, astonishing Ouyang, who had misunderstood how prestigious the sect was.
• Ouyang told Hu Tutu that he was the boss on Little Mountain Peak and warned her to avoid the other disciples.
• Xiao Bai appeared behind Ouyang and remarked that their senior brother seemed prejudiced against them.

Ouyang introduced Hu Tutu to Bai Feiyu, who warned her to keep her distance from their eccentric eldest senior brother. Bai Feiyu then took Hu Tutu flying on his sword to attend the sect leader’s lecture, leaving Ouyang behind.

• Ouyang introduced Hu Tutu as Bai Feiyu’s new junior sister, but Bai Feiyu reacted suspiciously to her fox nature and told her to avoid Ouyang.
• Ouyang teased Bai Feiyu, who pinned him against a rock wall until Ouyang begged for mercy.
• Bai Feiyu explained that he had to attend the sect leader’s lecture because Little Mountain Peak risked being struck from the sect rolls.
• Ouyang asked Bai Feiyu for a ride, and Bai Feiyu launched his sword while Ouyang narrowly dodged it.
• Bai Feiyu took Hu Tutu with him on the flying sword and left Ouyang alone in the valley.

Ouyang collected the true qi from his AFK system and reflected on how it had left him overwhelmingly powerful but permanently stuck at the ninth level of Qi Refining. He set aside his worries about breaking through and used Chen Changsheng’s Speed Talisman to hurry back to Little Mountain Peak for food.

• Ouyang collected 1,000 true qi from his AFK gains and checked his status panel.
• Ouyang recalled that his system could accumulate true qi but could not help him advance beyond the ninth level of Qi Refining.
• Ouyang lamented that remaining in Qi Refining would limit his abilities and lifespan, preventing him from reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Ouyang took the Speed Talisman that Chen Changsheng had given him and activated it.
• Ouyang called on the wind and sprinted toward Little Mountain Peak, determined to get back before dusk and eat.

Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak and joined Bai Feiyu, Hu Tutu, and Chen Changsheng for dinner, where he recognized that Chen was using a puppet. The meal was interrupted when Leng Qingsong’s breakthrough released Sword Intent and blasted apart his roof, leaving Ouyang demanding that he repair it again.

• Ouyang arrived at Little Mountain Peak and found Bai Feiyu posing in a tree while Hu Tutu watched him admiringly.
• Chen Changsheng served dinner, and Ouyang suspected that the cautious junior brother standing before him was a puppet.
• Hu Tutu sensed that Chen Changsheng lacked living vitality, and Ouyang warned her not to provoke their third senior brother.
• Bai Feiyu asked about Leng Qingsong’s seclusion and reflected on his second senior brother’s exceptional Sword Dao talent.
• Leng Qingsong’s Sword Intent burst through his roof, astonishing Bai Feiyu, while Ouyang told him to repair the roof the next day.

Ouyang introduced the newly arrived Leng Qingsong, his socially anxious second junior brother and adopted little brother, to Hu Tutu and Bai Feiyu. After Leng Qingsong’s fearsome sword intent unsettled them both, Hu Tutu privately worried that the Azure Cloud Sect and the human race were too powerful for her mission.

• Leng Qingsong emerged from his room after Ouyang shouted, and Ouyang recalled how he had adopted the orphan and brought him to Hu Yun to become a disciple.
• Ouyang remembered that Leng Qingsong had refused the sect master's invitation to become his disciple because he wanted to stay with Ouyang.
• Leng Qingsong joined Ouyang, Hu Tutu, and Bai Feiyu for a meal after three days without food, frightening Hu Tutu and impressing Bai Feiyu with his talent.
• Ouyang introduced Leng Qingsong to Hu Tutu, stopped him from calling her a fox, and made him wash his hands before eating.
• Hu Tutu went to bed and resolved not to reveal that she was a spirit fox, while fearing that the human race was too powerful for the demon race to challenge.

Hu Tutu watched her senior brothers on Little Peak and learned how firmly Chen Changsheng and the others regarded Ouyang as their eldest senior brother. Chen Changsheng’s memories revealed that he had been reborn from a future apocalypse, and the chapter left him resolved to protect Ouyang and avoid losing everything again.

• Hu Tutu saw Bai Feiyu cultivating in a tree and Leng Qingsong repairing the roof after his breakthrough destroyed it.
• Chen Changsheng asked Hu Tutu to help prepare breakfast while privately recognizing her as the future Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and Ten Thousand Demons Empress.
• Chen Changsheng burned the millet porridge, removed his scorched finger, and replaced it with a new one.
• Hu Tutu asked Chen Changsheng whether he truly considered Ouyang his eldest senior brother, and Chen Changsheng insisted that Ouyang was their only eldest senior brother.
• Chen Changsheng privately vowed to stake his life on protecting Senior Brother Ouyang.

Bai Feiyu comprehended the Sword Dao, formed his core, and fought Leng Qingsong until Ouyang intervened and stopped them. Hu Tutu watched Ouyang subdue the two powerful sword cultivators and began to doubt that he was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

• Chen Changsheng concealed the heavenly phenomena around Little Mountain Peak as Bai Feiyu comprehended the Dao and declared that all things were his swords.
• Bai Feiyu formed a golden core, and Leng Qingsong challenged him to a sword-technique duel above the mountain.
• Chen Changsheng struggled to contain the duel’s impact while Hu Tutu watched, unable to move under the pressure of their sword qi.
• Ouyang’s burst of true qi scattered the heavenly phenomena and hurled Bai Feiyu and Leng Qingsong away from the summit.
• Ouyang seized the two swordsmen, scolded them for damaging their home, and smacked them with his paper fan.
• Hu Tutu recalled Ouyang’s immense power and decided she would not object if he became Sect Master of the Azure Cloud Sect.

Ouyang welcomed Hu Tutu to Little Mountain Peak and took her to gather herbs, explaining the peak’s medical work and his master Hu Yun’s talent for cheesy pickup lines. As they headed into the rear mountains, Ouyang fancied himself a master of romance.

• Hu Tutu worried she was stupid and useless, but Ouyang comforted her and invited her to join Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang carried Hu Tutu on his back and set out to gather herbs in the rear mountains.
• Ouyang explained that Little Mountain Peak specialized in medicine and described why its healing skills were rarely needed by cultivators.
• Ouyang recalled how he taught Hu Yun cheesy pickup lines, which Hu Yun wrote down before setting off on a journey.
• Ouyang gave Hu Tutu a piece of sweet grass and privately boasted that he was the era’s master of romance.

Ouyang carried Hu Tutu through the Azure Cloud Sect and listened as she explained that she had come to find the hidden eight-tailed Spirit Fox and learn how to awaken her bloodline. Instead, he warned her against judging people by their looks and entertained her with embarrassing stories about her senior brothers.

• Hu Tutu admired the Azure Cloud Sect and recalled that she had come to find the eight-tailed Spirit Fox, a powerful cultivator hidden within the sect.
• Hu Tutu asked Ouyang whether he had met an exceptionally handsome cultivator, and Ouyang said he had not.
• Ouyang lectured Hu Tutu about pursuing beauty and claimed that Leng Qingsong had wet the bed until he was ten and Bai Feiyu had cried over small things.
• Ouyang made up more embarrassing stories about Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu, making Hu Tutu laugh as they walked through the valley.
• Leng Qingsong sneezed while repairing a roof, and Bai Feiyu nearly fell from a tree; both suspected the other was cursing them and snorted at once.

Ouyang took Hu Tutu into Azure Cloud Valley to gather spirit herbs and look for foxes, while his crude-looking trap caught a powerful Eight-Tailed Spirit Fox. Their herb gathering was interrupted by a fierce Three-Headed Monster Bird, and Ouyang suggested roasting it.

• Hu Tutu asked Ouyang to take her to see foxes, and he agreed before setting a chicken-leg trap and claiming he had caught the Azure Cloud Sect Master the same way.
• An Eight-Tailed Spirit Fox took the bait, but Ouyang's magical rope and poison subdued it.
• Ouyang gathered spirit herbs while Hu Tutu ate roast chicken and made a flower wreath.
• A bloodline-awakened Three-Headed Monster Bird appeared overhead, and Ouyang called Hu Tutu to his side.
• Hu Tutu hid in the back basket as Ouyang proposed roasting the monster bird.

Ouyang defeated a Nascent Soul Three-Headed Monster Bird by using a Qi Refining water spell, impressing Hu Tutu. After she mistook his beginner spellbook for a supreme manual, Ouyang hid his poor spellcasting talent and took her to check their fox trap.

• Hu Tutu encouraged Ouyang by shouting at the Three-Headed Monster Bird, while Ouyang checked its status and saw that it was no threat to him.
• The Three-Headed Monster Bird attacked with fire, wind, and acid, but Ouyang consulted a spellbook and summoned a water dragon that extinguished the flames and swallowed the bird.
• Ouyang severed his connection to the unruly water dragon, causing it to dissolve and the bird's corpse to fall.
• Hu Tutu picked up Ouyang's Complete Beginner's Guide to the Five-Element Escape Arts and excitedly presented it as his supreme spell manual.
• Ouyang concealed his inability to cast spells without consulting the book, claimed he was a spellcasting genius, and led Hu Tutu to check whether their fox trap had caught anything.

Hu Tutu caught Hu Yan, a Tribulation Transcendence Spirit Fox, and Ouyang discovered his identity before easily subduing him. After Hu Tutu grew fond of the square-faced fox, she asked to take him back to Little Mountain Peak as a pet.

• Hu Tutu showed Ouyang the Tibetan fox she had caught, and Ouyang recognized from his status panel that he was Hu Yan, a Tribulation Transcendence Spirit Fox.
• Ouyang untied Hu Yan, then pinned and threatened him when Hu Yan tried to attack.
• Hu Yan mistook Ouyang for an immensely powerful hidden expert and agreed to behave.
• Ouyang introduced Hu Yan to Hu Tutu, who was embarrassed when Ouyang exposed the fox's family jewels to prove he was genuine.
• Hu Tutu held Hu Yan, called him ugly-cute, and asked Ouyang to let her keep him at Little Mountain Peak.

Ouyang agreed to let Hu Tutu keep Hu Yan, an Eight-Tailed Spirit Fox at Tribulation Transcendence, and brought them back to Little Mountain Peak. After receiving a reminder to register Hu Tutu as an Azure Cloud Sect disciple, Hu Yan listened as she spoke of her fox heritage and missed her mother in her sleep.

• Hu Yan agreed to become Hu Tutu's pet because she was his clanswoman and had sincerely called him cute, while he also hoped to learn why a demon cultivator had come to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ouyang decided to bring Hu Yan to Little Mountain Peak, both to fulfill Hu Tutu's request and to keep watch in case Hu Yan tried to seize her soul.
• A paper crane from Azure Cloud Peak reminded Ouyang to take Hu Tutu to light her Lifebound Ever-Burning Lamp and complete her sect registration, and he sent back a reply.
• Ouyang returned to Little Mountain Peak with Hu Tutu and Hu Yan, and Hu Tutu introduced the fox as "Handsome" to her senior brothers.
• Hu Tutu told Hu Yan she hoped to awaken her bloodline and return with him to Green Mound Mountain, then fell asleep holding him and murmured that she missed her mother.

Ouyang accompanied Hu Tutu to Azure Cloud Peak so she could light her Lifebound Ever-Burning Lamp, but their escort’s arrogance led Bai Feiyu to attack the white crane. Ouyang recognized the crane’s rider, Zu Yuan, as the Devil Race’s holy son and wondered why the sect master had taken him as a disciple.

• Ouyang woke Hu Tutu and told her they were going to Azure Cloud Peak to light her Lifebound Ever-Burning Lamp.
• Zu Yuan ordered Hu Tutu to come forward from atop a white crane and told everyone else to stand aside.
• Ouyang ordered Bai Feiyu to shoot down the crane, but Ling Feng intercepted Bai Feiyu’s sword and apologized for Zu Yuan’s behavior.
• Ouyang examined Zu Yuan’s status panel and discovered that the sect master’s new disciple was the Devil Race’s holy son.
• Bai Feiyu praised Zu Yuan’s extraordinary talent, and Ouyang wondered why Bai Feiyu could not see through his identity.

Chen Changsheng activated every formation on Little Mountain Peak and surrounded Ling Feng and Zu Yuan with hundreds of powerful versions of himself. He demanded that Ling Feng leave, but Ling Feng refused to abandon Zu Yuan, and Chen Changsheng prepared to kill them both.

• Little Mountain Peak's protective formations activated without warning, putting Ling Feng and Zu Yuan under immense pressure.
• Ouyang, Xiao Bai, and Leng Qingsong readied themselves as the storm of wind, fire, thunder, and rain intensified around the mountain.
• A golden formation produced hundreds of Chen Changshengs, who drew their swords and surrounded Ling Feng and Zu Yuan.
• Chen Changsheng told Ling Feng to leave, revealing that Zu Yuan was his target.
• Ling Feng drew two swords and declared that he would stand by Zu Yuan as his junior brother.
• Chen Changsheng told Ling Feng he could die with Zu Yuan, and the hundreds of swords rang out together.

Chen Changsheng’s hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm-level clones overwhelmed Ling Feng and Zu Yuan until Ouyang intervened. After his attack was stopped, Chen Changsheng swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to kill Zu Yuan within ten years, revealing the depth of their feud.

• Chen Changsheng’s clones unleashed a rain of Sword Qi at Ling Feng and Zu Yuan, who sheltered beneath Ling Feng’s bronze bell.
• Zu Yuan broke through to the third Core Formation Realm, charged from the bell, killed three clones, and was struck unconscious by the others.
• Ouyang blocked the Sword Qi with a hand of pale golden true qi and ordered Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu to stop Chen Changsheng.
• Leng Qingsong disarmed Chen Changsheng, and Bai Feiyu restrained him as he reached into his sleeve for another weapon.
• Chen Changsheng regained his composure, then swore to kill Zu Yuan within ten years or be slain by humans, gods, demons, and devils.

After Chen Changsheng swore a heavenly dao oath over Zu Yuan, Ouyang stopped his disciples from killing Ling Feng and Zu Yuan. As Ling Feng left, Ouyang announced that Little Mountain Peak would enter the sect tournament and insisted Zu Yuan participate, warning he would speak to the sect leader if refused.

• Chen Changsheng ended his formation and collapsed after swearing a heavenly dao oath, leaving Little Mountain Peak intent on killing Zu Yuan.
• Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu cornered Ling Feng, who placed Zu Yuan on a white crane and faced their sword intent rather than abandon his swords.
• Ouyang ordered Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu to let Ling Feng and Zu Yuan leave, then gave Chen Changsheng a pill.
• Ouyang reminded Ling Feng to take care with his junior sister's everlasting lamp ceremony and announced Little Mountain Peak would enter the sect tournament.
• Ouyang insisted Zu Yuan participate in the tournament and said he would talk to the sect leader if the sect leader refused.

After Chen Changsheng failed to kill Zu Yuan, Ouyang carried him back to rest and stayed by his side as he woke from a nightmare about the Apocalypse. Chen Changsheng vowed to protect everyone if disaster came, and Ouyang promised that he would stand between his junior brothers and danger.

• Ling Feng flew off to report Chen Changsheng's actions, while Ouyang stopped Leng Qingsong from going after Zu Yuan.
• Ouyang reassured Hu Tutu, told Bai Feiyu to watch Leng Qingsong, and carried Chen Changsheng to his room.
• Chen Changsheng dreamed that Zu Yuan had become the Devil Race Sacred Emperor and killed Ouyang during the Apocalypse.
• After waking, Chen Changsheng admitted he understood why Ouyang had stopped him and revealed that he had placed a soul imprint on Zu Yuan.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether killing Zu Yuan could prevent a catastrophe, and Ouyang said disaster was inevitable and promised to protect everyone if it came.

Ouyang spoke with Hu Yan about why the great demon stayed with Hu Tutu, then intercepted two Punishment Peak investigators asking about Chen Changsheng’s heavenly dao oath. After sending them away with a book of torture methods, Ouyang wondered whether Chen Changsheng’s warning of a great calamity would come true.

• Ouyang asked Hu Yan why he was staying with Hu Tutu, and Hu Yan said he wanted to see whether she could become a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and would protect her until she could defend herself.
• Hu Yan returned to Hu Tutu’s room, leaving Ouyang to notice a flying boat bearing Punishment Peak’s mark approaching Little Mountain Peak.
• White Impermanence and Black Impermanence told Ouyang they had come to investigate the heavenly dao oath sworn on Little Mountain Peak.
• Ouyang claimed he had sworn the oath himself and said the sect master already knew about it.
• Ouyang gave White Impermanence a book titled “The Azure Cloud Sect’s Ten Great Tortures,” and the investigators departed after praising Ouyang’s interrogation skill.
• Ouyang recalled Chen Changsheng’s words about a great calamity and sighed beneath the moon.

Ling Feng returned Zu Yuan to Azure Cloud Peak and explained the incident to Dongxu Zi, who questioned Zu Yuan’s motives but found Ling Feng unwilling to doubt his junior brother. After Zu Yuan woke, Ling Feng revealed a chilling side, warned him against causing more trouble, and ordered him to copy the Yellow Court Scripture three hundred times.

• Ling Feng told Dongxu Zi how Ouyang’s group had used a Heavenly Dao Oath, and Dongxu Zi recognized that Chen Changsheng and Zu Yuan were both Bearers of Great Fortune.
• Dongxu Zi treated Zu Yuan’s injuries and questioned Ling Feng about whether Zu Yuan might be at fault, but Ling Feng insisted he would guide his junior brother back to the righteous path.
• After Ling Feng left, Dongxu Zi wondered why Ouyang’s junior brother held such a deep grudge against Zu Yuan despite Ling Feng’s correct divination.
• Zu Yuan woke and secretly blamed Ling Feng for his injuries, vowing to seize Azure Cloud Sect’s sect-guarding treasure and slaughter the sect’s members.
• Ling Feng grabbed Zu Yuan by the throat, warned him not to cause trouble again, and ordered him to copy the Yellow Court Scripture three hundred times before the next day.