Chapter Summaries

After the Protective Talisman warned Ouyang that Xiao Bai was in mortal danger, Ouyang and his senior brothers rushed east to find him. Hu Tutu stayed behind with the Tibetan Fox, who revealed that he was Hu Yan, the Fox Clan’s legendary Great Demon Cultivator, and offered to train her.

• Hu Tutu enjoyed her new life at Little Mountain Peak as Ouyang worried about the great calamities threatening the Primordial World.
• Ouyang sensed the true essence returning from Xiao Bai’s Protective Talisman and realized Xiao Bai faced a life-or-death ordeal.
• Ouyang summoned Liang Zai and rode him east with Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng to rescue Xiao Bai.
• Hu Tutu tried to follow, but the Tibetan Fox stopped her and revealed his true name was Hu Yan.
• Hu Tutu recognized Hu Yan as her Fox Clan great-grandfather, and he urged her to cultivate under his guidance so she could help her senior brothers.

Ouyang rushed to Xiao Bai’s aid while passing over the Tang State, where Wang Xiaoming had taken the throne after the Great Zhou conquered the capital. Xie Xinzhi staged his death and returned to Ling Feng, leaving the new emperor behind as he prepared to begin his next undertaking.

• Ouyang sensed Xiao Bai’s protective talisman activate and hurried toward him with Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng.
• The group saw the Tang State engulfed in war as Zhou forces seized the capital and raised the Zhou Dragon Banner.
• Wang Xiaoming became emperor, while Xie Xinzhi refused the throne and warned him that worldly power left him a pawn of cultivators.
• Xie Xinzhi took Wang Xiaoming’s sword and cut off his own head, leaving Wang Xiaoming bewildered.
• Xie Xinzhi awoke before Ling Feng, who asked whether they could begin now that Xie Xinzhi’s mortal affairs were settled.

Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong tracked Bai Feiyu to a coastal city after his protective talisman shattered, only to find him safe and drinking tea. At the East Sea, Bai Feiyu revealed that he had taken in a little boy who called him Master, and Ouyang suspected the child was Nezha.

• Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong reached Bai Feiyu's estate and found him unharmed.
• Ouyang questioned Bai Feiyu about the shattered protective talisman, prompting Bai Feiyu to fly toward the East Sea.
• Bai Feiyu used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to part the sea and expose the seabed, where a little boy was gathering sea creatures.
• The little boy called Bai Feiyu Master, and Bai Feiyu explained that Heaven and Earth Purple Qi had brought the child to him.
• Ouyang suspected the boy was the notorious child who had returned his bones and flesh to his parents, then asked whether his surname was Li.

Ouyang reunited with Bai Feiyu and discovered that Jiang Xiaotong was the reincarnation of Li Taibai's Sword Tassel. After the group returned to the city, Ouyang teased Bai Feiyu about his cultivation and left him with a joke written in his God-Sealing Treasure Book.

• Jiang Xiaotong introduced himself to Ouyang, who recognized him as the reincarnation of Li Taibai's Sword Tassel and questioned why Bai Feiyu had not taken him as a disciple.
• Ouyang found his broken protective talisman around Jiang Xiaotong's neck, and Bai Feiyu scolded the boy for risking his life to catch a Foundation Establishment Realm hairtail for his mother.
• Bai Feiyu ordered Jiang Xiaotong to recite the Yellow Court Scripture a thousand times, then told the group how he had followed a sensed opportunity to the East Sea.
• Chen Changsheng reminded Bai Feiyu that he and another senior brother had bet Ouyang would lose because Bai Feiyu's cultivation would fall to Golden Core before returning to the mountain.
• Ouyang wrote “God-Sealing Bang Bang Bang” in Bai Feiyu's God-Sealing Treasure Book and departed with his companions, while Bai Feiyu smiled at the inscription and wondered about writing a book.

Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, where they found Hu Tutu packing her treasured keepsakes. Ouyang decided to take her back to Green Mound Mountain in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, and Chen Changsheng understood that Hu Tutu feared growing up and losing the attention she enjoyed as the youngest.

• Ouyang told Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong that the protective talismans he had made were better than the paper figures, making them cherish the talismans more.
• Ouyang teased Hu Tutu by taking her pinwheel, and she bit his arm after he returned it.
• Ouyang told Hu Tutu that Bai had a disciple and that she would become a martial aunt, prompting her to run to her room in anger.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Hu Tutu might fear losing affection if she stopped being the youngest, and he described how she had spent years collecting and treasuring odds and ends.
• Ouyang said he would take Hu Tutu home to Green Mound Mountain after she had been away for two or three years.

Ouyang and Little Mountain Peak learned that Hu Tutu had been blamed and ostracized by the Qingqiu Fox Clan since a disaster at her birth. As they approached Green Mound Mountain, Ouyang decided the visit would not be a peaceful family reunion.

• Hu Tutu asked Ouyang whether the Fox Clan would still remember her, and admitted she wished they would forget her so she could return with a new identity.
• Hu Tutu told Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong that the clan had called her a jinx and blamed her for a disaster that killed half the Fox Clan.
• Ouyang learned that Hu Tutu had grown up without her parents, enduring the clan’s coldness and bullying until Hu Yun gave her a name and a loving home.
• Chen Changsheng cheered Hu Tutu with dancing paper foxes while Leng Qingsong prepared to confront the Fox Clan over how they had treated her.
• Ouyang vowed to make the Fox Clan answer for its treatment of Hu Tutu and reassured her that no one could hate someone so adorable.

Niu Er recalled how his live-in-son-in-law plan had strengthened the Fox Clan and worried about Hu Tutu, who had been away for two years. When Hu Bing arrived with a tiger army and demanded Hu Tutu as his concubine, Niu Er faced a threat to the Fox Clan’s future.

• Niu Er reflected on how the Fox Clan had recruited powerful live-in sons-in-law to make up for its lack of strength.
• Niu Er thought of Hu Tutu, while a foul-mouthed Guanguan bird distracted him and a flock of birds flew away with an unfamiliar blue-green bird.
• Niu Er rushed toward an explosion and found the Tiger Clan surrounding Green Mound Mountain.
• Niu Er greeted the Tiger Clan’s Third Prince, Hu Bing, with deference.
• Hu Bing demanded that the Fox Clan hand over Hu Tutu as his concubine, and Niu Er refused to accept the demand.

Hu Bing recalled how he had befriended Hu Tutu as a child, then hurt her with cruel words about her mother and left without apologizing. Now he returned to Green Mound Mountain to take her away and make amends, threatening to spill blood if Niu Er refused.

• As a bullied child visiting the Fox Clan, Hu Bing rescued Hu Tutu from foxes who mocked her and received a little white flower from her.
• Hu Tutu followed Hu Bing and shared food and wine with him, but he angrily told her that her mother was dead when she said Grandpa had told her otherwise.
• Hu Tutu began hiding from Hu Bing, and he left Green Mound Mountain without apologizing despite seeing her watch him go.
• In the present, Hu Bing demanded that Niu Er hand over Hu Tutu and threatened to make rivers of blood flow across Green Mound Mountain if he refused.

Hu Bing led the Tiger Clan in an assault on Green Mound Mountain, demanding Hu Tutu be made his concubine. As the Fox Clan’s defenders prepared to fight, Leng Qingsong arrived and stopped both sides, leaving Hu Bing wounded and the two forces facing his swords.

• Niu Er gathered Green Mound Mountain’s demon cultivators to resist Hu Bing and the Tiger Clan forces.
• Hu Bing learned Hu Tutu had gone to the Azure Cloud Sect, then attacked Green Mound Mountain with a lightning saber strike.
• Niu Er met Hu Bing’s attack with his Mountain-Cleaving Axe, and the two forces charged toward battle.
• Niu Er, Black Bird, and Turtle prepared to unleash their innate divine abilities as the Tiger Clan army advanced.
• Leng Qingsong split the black cloud with Green Lotus Sword Intent, pierced Hu Bing’s shoulder, and warned both sides that anyone who moved would die.

Ouyang and his companions intervened in the clash between the Fox Clan and Tiger Clan, trapping both sides in Chen Changsheng’s formations while Leng Qingsong held them at swordpoint. When a lightning tiger challenged Leng Qingsong, Ouyang destroyed it and ordered everyone to surrender.

• Ouyang revealed that he and his companions had arrived earlier, then sent Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng into the fight at the critical moment.
• Chen Changsheng activated the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Formation, trapping the fighters and Leng Qingsong, who broke free of its control.
• Chen Changsheng layered the Heavenly Blindness Formation over the first formation, disrupting heaven’s workings and weakening Leng Qingsong.
• A lightning tiger phantom emerged from the Tiger Clan and attacked Leng Qingsong, whose sword intent held it back despite his struggle.
• Ouyang shattered the lightning tiger with a giant hand and ordered everyone to squat down with their hands on their heads.

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.