Chapter Summaries

Hu Yan met Dongxu Zi in the Azure Cloud Hall after learning that Ouyang had succeeded in restoring His Highness, and reflected on the sacrifices made to bring about his return. Hu Yan vanished after asking whether the plan would succeed, leaving Dongxu Zi alone with a Demon Beast Egg.

• Hu Yan felt joy at Ouyang’s success, then recalled how he had inherited His Highness’s memories and decided it was time to return His blessings.
• Hu Yan went to the Azure Cloud Hall, where Dongxu Zi had been waiting, and they discussed the Immortal’s plans and Hu Yun’s role in helping His Highness return.
• Hu Yan and Dongxu Zi toasted one another and remembered their long connection, while acknowledging that this would likely be their last meeting.
• Hu Yan asked Dongxu Zi whether the plan would succeed, then dissolved into specks of light and disappeared.
• A Demon Beast Egg appeared before Dongxu Zi, who began reciting a Buddhist Sutra to it.

Ouyang entered Nine Tails’ memories in the Immortal Small World and discovered that Hu Yun had been adopted by her in the past. The memories then revealed a long blank stretch from when Tu Yun was taken to High Heaven, and Ouyang realized that was what he needed to investigate.

• Ouyang’s dear boy discovered that Nine Tails possessed only half a Divine Soul, so Ouyang pulled her shared memories with Hu Tutu from her chest.
• Ouyang spotted a memory of Hu Yun as a child and entered the scene on Green Mound Mountain, where nine suns shone overhead.
• Child Hu Yun asked Nine Tails if she was his mother, and she introduced herself as Tu Yun and welcomed him to Tu Mountain.
• Ouyang watched memories of Tu Yun caring for Hu Yun and realized that she had adopted him before they were separated.
• Ouyang saw Tu Yun’s memories end and a long stretch of blank film begin, which he recognized as the time she was taken to High Heaven.

Hu Tutu found herself in a dark sewer and met the white Nine Tails, who was imprisoned there and mistook her for a way to escape. The Nine Tails discovered that Hu Tutu was a new divine soul, but after Hu Tutu fell asleep beside her, she chose not to hurt her.

• Hu Tutu wandered through the darkness, crying for Eldest Senior Brother until a female voice called her over.
• The voice revealed itself as a furious white Nine Tails imprisoned behind iron bars, and Hu Tutu recognized her as Nine Tails.
• The white Nine Tails realized Hu Tutu was a newly born divine soul, separate from herself and Tu Yun, and planned to use her to escape.
• Hu Tutu passed through the bars, hugged the Nine Tails' paw, and asked if she was her mama.
• Hu Tutu chatted with the Nine Tails before falling asleep on her paw, and the Nine Tails lowered her claws without harming her.

The white Nine Tails escaped her seal by tricking Hu Tutu into taking her place, but Hu Tutu’s Suona and earnest call drew her back. After Ouyang extracted her memories, the white Nine Tails returned to the sewer and prepared to face the approaching Immortal with Hu Tutu.

• The white Nine Tails passed through the open seal and swept Hu Tutu into the cage, then lied that she would return soon.
• The white Nine Tails fled through the sewer, but Hu Tutu’s question about whether she would come back made her hesitate before leaving in Hu Tutu’s body.
• An Immortal in blue-green robes seized the white Nine Tails and dragged her into an Immortal’s Minor World, where she was imprisoned again.
• After Ouyang drew out her memories, the white Nine Tails returned to the sewer and found Hu Tutu playing the Suona.
• The white Nine Tails entered the cage and stayed beside Hu Tutu, then shielded her when footsteps announced the approach of a blue-green-robed figure.

Ouyang found White Nine Tails protecting Hu Tutu and revealed that he had come as her Eldest Senior Brother, not to harm her. White Nine Tails recovered her memories and accepted that she and Tu Yun were one person.

• White Nine Tails shielded Hu Tutu from Ouyang and begged him to spare the little fox, offering to do anything he wanted.
• Ouyang gently patted White Nine Tails, and Hu Tutu recognized him as her Eldest Senior Brother and introduced him to her mama.
• Ouyang and White Nine Tails greeted each other, both accepting Hu Tutu's introduction without exposing the truth.
• A streak of white light restored White Nine Tails's ninth tail and merged another version of her with her.
• White Nine Tails's memories returned, and she realized that Tu Yun and she were the same person.

Ouyang discovered that the white Nine Tails had become complete and learned that three factions were vying over the Immortal Gate and the coming Great Calamity. He returned to the Ten Thousand Demon Hall with Hu Tutu, where an old acquaintance confronted him.

• The white Nine Tails transferred a red lotus into Hu Tutu and said she wanted to watch the little fox's future.
• Nine Tails explained that the Immortals, those opposing their return, and those seeking to replace them were contesting the coming calamity, which would begin when Leng Qingsong opened the Heavenly Gate.
• Ouyang returned to the Minor World with the sleeping Hu Tutu and considered how Leng Qingsong's role connected to the Immortals and Li Taibai.
• Xiao Feng and his three pets faced the Divine Souls in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall after Nine Tails disappeared, and Ouyang and Hu Tutu suddenly arrived.
• Ouyang warned the Divine Souls not to approach Hu Tutu, then froze when a familiar female voice spoke and greeted his Master's Wife.

Chang Suzhen, the ruler of the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, appeared in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall and took Ouyang and the sleeping Nine Tails away. She revealed that she already knew the truth about the Xiantian Demon Gods, while Xiao Feng and the others remained behind.

• Chang Suzhen appeared on a throne in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall, freezing everyone with her power and frightening Ouyang.
• Ouyang recognized Chang Suzhen as his master's wife and appeased her as she confronted him about neglecting her.
• Chang Suzhen asked about Nine Tails, and Ouyang told her the Xiantian Demon Gods were seeking to be reborn in borrowed bodies.
• Chang Suzhen said true members of the Demon Race rejected inherited true names and created their own, then carried Ouyang and Nine Tails away in a black wind.
• Xiao Feng regained control of himself, while the divine souls retreated into their statues and he resolved to become stronger.

Ouyang and Chang Suzhen discussed his master's blood, her memories of Hu Yun, and Chang Xiaoyue's fate over tea on a rainy cliff. Chang Suzhen tacitly confirmed Ouyang's suspicion that Xiaoyue's identity as a Xiantian Demon God with a true name was tied to her own, leaving him to conclude that Xiaoyue could not survive.

• Ouyang vomited after Chang Suzhen teleported him, then collected a bloodstained piece of rock left by Hu Yun.
• Chang Suzhen wondered whether killing the sleeping little fox could end fate, but Ouyang stopped her and she released it.
• Chang Suzhen recalled meeting Hu Yun and defended Xiaoyue, while Ouyang insisted that Xiaoyue would be fine.
• Ouyang and Chang Suzhen drank tea and discussed how Hu Yun had concealed Xiaoyue's affairs.
• Ouyang asked whether only one Xiantian Demon God with a true name could exist, and Chang Suzhen silently confirmed his suspicion.

Ouyang realized that his master had arranged Chang Xiaoyue’s fate as part of a scheme involving Leng Qingsong and the forces behind the scenes. He concluded that the scheme might give Chang Xiaoyue a chance to live while forcing their enemies to resolve the conflict, then traded barbs with Chang Suzhen.

• Ouyang considered the identical true names of Chang Xiaoyue and Chang Suzhen and realized that only one could ordinarily survive.
• Chang Suzhen blamed herself for Chang Xiaoyue’s suffering, lashed out at Ouyang, and later apologized to him.
• Ouyang inferred that Chang Xiaoyue’s death could prevent Leng Qingsong from attaining supreme forgetfulness and reopening the Heavenly Gate.
• Ouyang reasoned that the hidden forces would protect Chang Xiaoyue until Leng Qingsong became a Great Cultivator, giving her a chance to live.
• Ouyang praised his master’s scheme, and Chang Suzhen mocked his poor romantic skills.

Ouyang comforted Chang Suzhen after Hu Yun’s disappearance, then she brought him to Ten Thousand Demon City. There, he discovered her court’s prime minister was a familiar fellow disciple.

• Ouyang cleared the storm clouds with his True Essence to reassure Chang Suzhen that he could protect her in Hu Yun’s absence.
• Chang Suzhen teleported Ouyang to Ten Thousand Demon City, where he arrived in the Hall of Light and vomited before the Demon Race’s court.
• Ouyang slapped an old mountain goat official after mistaking the court for a dream, prompting the goat to fly into a rage.
• Chang Suzhen explained that her prime minister had created a system of rules and court offices for the Demon Race.
• The prime minister turned toward Ouyang and greeted him, saying, “Brother in the Dao, long time no see!”

Ouyang reunited with Zhao Qiansun, now a powerful prime minister in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, and decided the child of destiny should become a monk. Zhao Qiansun suspected Ouyang was his lifelong enemy, while Ouyang left him wondering why he had joked about shaving his head.

• Ouyang recognized Zhao Qiansun as the child of destiny he wanted to make the Great Spirit Mountain Temple's successor.
• Ouyang saw that Zhao Qiansun had reached Out-of-Body Great Perfection and warmly embraced him.
• Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun exchanged effusive greetings while the Demon Cultivators mistook them for close friends.
• Zhao Qiansun secretly guarded against Ouyang and questioned whether his divinations kept leading him into danger because Ouyang blocked his opportunities.
• Ouyang told Zhao Qiansun he was getting used to seeing him bald in case senior monks begged him to become their abbot.

Ouyang revealed that Zhao Qiansun’s supposed immortal benefactor was Hu Yun, Ouyang’s master and the Azure Cloud Sect’s Vice Sect Master. The revelation left Zhao Qiansun stunned, and Ouyang told him to call him Eldest Senior Brother.

• Zhao Qiansun insisted he was a rogue cultivator with no ties to the Azure Cloud Sect, while Chang Suzhen and Ouyang reacted oddly to his story about receiving an inheritance from an immortal.
• Zhao Qiansun confronted Ouyang and Chang Suzhen for laughing at his revered master, prompting Chang Suzhen to grow angry and the hall to turn tense.
• Ouyang showed Zhao Qiansun a Recording Stone image of Hu Yun, whom Zhao Qiansun recognized as the immortal who had given him his cultivation technique.
• Ouyang identified Hu Yun as his master, and the demons in the hall recognized Hu Yun as the man who had once bewitched Chang Suzhen.
• Zhao Qiansun realized he belonged to the Azure Cloud Sect after all, and Ouyang demanded that he call him Eldest Senior Brother.

Ouyang learned that Chang Suzhen was using the Mortal World's bureaucratic system to unite the Demon Race while they awaited the Great Calamity. She then tasked Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun with killing Chang Xiaoyue, revealing that the Devil Race Seal was inside her.

• Ouyang asked Chang Suzhen why the demons had adopted Mortal World official robes, and she explained that Zhao Qiansun's system helped unite the Demon Race.
• Ouyang realized the system could preserve order only temporarily and suspected Zhao Qiansun had proposed it with ulterior motives.
• Chang Suzhen said the world was waiting for the Great Calamity and argued that Ouyang, his master, and his junior brothers had already changed its course.
• Ouyang told Zhao Qiansun that the Azure Cloud Sect's sect master and master wanted him to join the sect.
• Chang Suzhen commissioned Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun to kill Chang Xiaoyue with their own hands.
• Chang Suzhen revealed that her Innate Divine Ability had once let her swallow the Devil Race Seal, which was now inside Chang Xiaoyue.

Ouyang rejected Chang Suzhen’s demand that he kill Chang Xiaoyue, arguing that the world should not depend on sacrificing one person. Chang Suzhen poisoned Zhao Qiansun and gave Ouyang one month to bring back the treacherous disciple’s head, but Ouyang chose to leave for six months of secluded cultivation.

• Ouyang realized Hu Yun had planned to draw hidden forces into the open by targeting Chang Xiaoyue, but condemned the scheme for using loved ones as pawns.
• Chang Suzhen asked whether one person should be sacrificed to save all living beings, and Zhao Qiansun said he would give his own life.
• Ouyang refused to sacrifice anyone, saying a world that depended on one person’s survival did not deserve to exist.
• Chang Suzhen’s white snake bit Zhao Qiansun and poisoned him, then she demanded that Ouyang bring her the treacherous disciple’s head within one month.
• Ouyang announced he would return to the sect for six months of secluded cultivation, and Zhao Qiansun begged him to make Chang Suzhen cure the poison instead.

Ouyang agreed to help Zhao Qiansun slay the Snake Demon after Zhao swore a Heavenly Dao Oath promising him three favors. As Xiao Feng fought his way into the capital, Ouyang recognized that he had attached himself to Zhao Qiansun.

• Chang Suzhen ordered Ouyang to deal with the tattoo-covered half-demon, then swept him out of the palace; Zhao Qiansun chased after him and begged for help killing the Snake Demon.
• Zhao Qiansun offered to do three things for Ouyang, who insisted that he swear a Heavenly Dao Oath with limits on what he could be asked to do.
• Zhao Qiansun swore the oath, and Ouyang warmly agreed to help him slay the demon.
• Xiao Feng roared that half-demons had someone on their side and fought through the Tiger Clan demon cultivators toward the capital.
• A Thunderbolt Giant Tiger charged Xiao Feng, and the two battled in the air as Ouyang watched and remarked that Xiao Feng had latched onto Zhao Qiansun.

Xiao Feng fought Hu Bing in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation Capital, but an unseen snake tail struck Xiao Feng down before Hu Bing withdrew. Ouyang arrived with Little Fox, and he silently judged Xiao Feng’s poor emotional awareness after inspecting the Dragon King Envoys.

• Xiao Feng and Hu Bing exchanged blows, and Hu Bing’s ancestral souls urged him to kill Xiao Feng, but he ordered them to be quiet.
• Xiao Feng claimed the Ten Thousand Demon Queen was his Master’s Wife, making Hu Bing hesitate until an ethereal snake tail struck Xiao Feng into the ruins.
• Hu Bing bowed toward the palace and left with his subordinates, promising himself he would fight Xiao Feng again.
• Liang Zai, Bie San, and Diao Mao mocked Xiao Feng, while the Pig Demon defended him and was nearly challenged by the three pets.
• Ouyang arrived holding Little Fox, scolded Xiao Feng for charging into the capital, and noticed Hu Ling among the Dragon King Envoys.

Ouyang accompanied Xiao Feng to Takama-ga-hara, where the half-demons welcomed Xiao Feng as their Dragon King and rallied around him. Though Ouyang remained worried about Xiao Feng’s path, he left him with a protective talisman before the celebration ended.

• Ouyang realized that Xiao Feng still lacked the White Tiger blood essence Hu Bing had claimed and feared that the two would eventually fight over it.
• Xiao Feng brought Ouyang and Zhao Qiansun through the Teleportation Gate to Takama-ga-hara, where countless half-demons knelt and welcomed him as their Dragon King.
• Xiao Feng told Ouyang that he intended to follow his own path as both a human and a half-demon, and Ouyang praised him for growing up.
• Zhao Qiansun learned Xiao Feng’s identity and future potential, then enthusiastically introduced himself and joined the celebration in Takama-ga-hara.
• After drinking at the banquet, Ouyang gave a protective talisman to the Dragon King Envoy and told him to keep it for Xiao Feng and himself.

Ouyang and Xiao Feng parted ways as Xiao Feng chose to pursue his path through constant battle, while Ouyang returned with his pets to Green Mound Mountain. There, he found Leng Qingsong and Chen Changsheng sparring, and intervened just as they called the match a draw.

• Ouyang offered Xiao Feng a place to return to whenever he needed help, but Xiao Feng decided to continue his body-refinement path through battle.
• Ouyang left Xiao Feng behind, discovered Diao Mao dancing the Kun dance he had performed while drunk, and told Zhao Qiansun they would return to Green Mound Mountain to take Tutu home.
• A cat-eared girl gave Ouyang a tiger fang and fled, saying she did not want to owe him anything.
• After Ouyang and the pets arrived at Green Mound Mountain, they found Leng Qingsong fighting Chen Changsheng in the sky.
• Leng Qingsong shattered Chen Changsheng's formation and won the spar, but Chen Changsheng slapped a talisman onto his forehead as Ouyang seized them both, declaring the match a draw.

Ouyang reunited with Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong, introduced Zhao Qiansun as the Sect Master's personal disciple, and prepared to travel with him. After Chen Changsheng said Dongxu Zi had summoned Ouyang, the group returned to the sect through a teleportation formation.

• Ouyang found Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong arguing after they sparred, and Chen Changsheng assured him they had only been playing around.
• Ouyang introduced Zhao Qiansun as the Sect Master's personal disciple, and Chen Changsheng secretly took scraps from Zhao Qiansun's palm during their handshake.
• Ouyang said he planned to travel with Zhao Qiansun, but Chen Changsheng and Leng Qingsong objected to his leaving again.
• Ouyang explained that he and Zhao Qiansun would seek a way to perfect Tutu's bloodline awakening, and Leng Qingsong declined to join them.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang that Dongxu Zi had summoned him, then opened a teleportation formation to return the group to the sect.

Zhao Qiansun arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect and claimed Dongxu Zi as his master, only to reveal his shameless, scheming nature while demanding a cure for his poison. After Zhao Qiansun left the hall, Dongxu Zi gave Ouyang a Demon Beast Egg left by Hu Yan, and they discussed Hu Yun and whose side they stood on.

• Zhao Qiansun entered the Azure Cloud Sect with Ouyang, Chen Changsheng, and Leng Qingsong, marveling at the sect’s dense Heaven and Earth Essence and Ouyang’s standing among its disciples.
• Zhao Qiansun rushed to Dongxu Zi, claimed to be his dearly beloved disciple whom he had never met, and pleaded for help with the snake venom in his body.
• Dongxu Zi recognized Zhao Qiansun’s inherited legacies, but Zhao Qiansun demanded pills, treasures, or Dongxu Zi’s cultivation before faking a collapse from the poison.
• Dongxu Zi sent Chen Changsheng, Leng Qingsong, and Zhao Qiansun out of the hall, then confronted Ouyang about the disciple he had found.
• Dongxu Zi gave Ouyang the Demon Beast Egg Hu Yan had left behind, and the sleeping little fox pulled the egg into its embrace.
• Dongxu Zi said they stood on the side of all living beings under heaven.