Chapter Summaries

As Bai Feiyu struggled to begin God-Sealing without the real God-Sealing Treasure Book, Ouyang supplied his life-force True Essence to strengthen the souls. Bai Feiyu began sealing them as gods while Ouyang endured the pain, with more than a hundred thousand souls still awaiting him.

• Bai Feiyu faltered as he tried to perform God-Sealing with only a golden-light illusion of the God-Sealing Treasure Book, and Bo Huang admitted he did not know where the real book was.
• Bo Huang explained that the souls needed life-force to endure, and warned Ouyang that extracting his True Essence would sever his connection to it and cause severe pain.
• Ouyang used Gouzi to release a torrent of True Essence, which became golden rain and began solidifying the souls.
• Bai Feiyu touched the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to the illusory Treasure Book, received the soul's bow, and declared, “Edict! God-Sealing!”
• As God-Sealing began, Ouyang gripped his wheelchair and hid his pain while Bo Huang realized he would suffer for every soul sealed.

Bai Feiyu began sealing more than a hundred thousand demon souls as gods, while Ouyang silently endured the pain of giving up his True Essence to sustain the ceremony. As the ceremony neared its end, Ouyang asked the Demon Ancestor to keep his suffering secret and watched Bai Feiyu with pride.

• Bai Feiyu declared that the God-Sealing would be organized around the Five Sacred Mountains, the rivers, and twenty thousand Land Gods.
• Diao Mao brought Bai Feiyu the Sword Tassel from his previous life as Li Taibai, reminding him of Jiang Shang.
• Bai Feiyu began the God-Sealing, giving the demon Divine Souls Divine Cores and powers that delighted them.
• The God-Sealing continued for three days and nights as Ouyang endured the pain of losing True Essence with each soul invested.
• The Demon Ancestor tried to stop Bai Feiyu to save Ouyang, but Ouyang asked him to keep his condition secret and said Bai Feiyu looked handsome.

Bai Feiyu completed the God-Sealing of this Mortal World, binding its new gods to rules and duties in exchange for divine powers. After the Three-Legged Golden Crow entered the map, the Mortal World’s divine order was established and the gods took their places.

• Bai Feiyu imposed rules on the newly sealed gods, restricting their freedom and requiring them to serve the living in their divine fiefs.
• The Demon Race’s divine souls accepted their divine cores despite resenting their new obligations, since rejecting them meant returning to nothingness.
• As Bai Feiyu sealed more gods, lights spread across the map of mountains, rivers, and waterways, and he felt that Heaven and Earth approved of his Dao.
• When the map was fully illuminated, the divine souls bowed to Bai Feiyu as he called for the Divine Sovereign of this Mortal World to assume their rightful place.
• The Demon Ancestor watched Ouyang as the Three-Legged Golden Crow appeared above the Capital and flew into the map, which Bai Feiyu tied shut with a red cord.
• Bai Feiyu declared the God-Sealing complete, and the divine souls became the rightful gods of this Mortal World.

Bai Feiyu comprehended the God-Sealing Dao, gained Heaven and Earth's merit, and vowed to seal all the gods beneath the heavens. After sealing the gods of this Mortal World, he prepared to continue his work across the remaining Mortal Worlds and the Cultivation World.

• Bai Feiyu's comprehension of the Great Dao brought merit and celebrations across Heaven and Earth, while Chen Changsheng, Leng Qingsong, and Dongxu Zi sensed his achievement.
• Bai Feiyu received most of the merit after Ouyang waved away the portion lingering above him, and his cultivation rose to the ninth level of Mahayana.
• Bai Feiyu summoned the God-Sealing Treasure Book, merged it with its illusory counterpart, and drew the Mortal World's map scroll into it, trapping the Three Immortals' True Spirits.
• Bai Feiyu vowed to seal all the gods beneath the heavens, and the tens of thousands of gods saluted him and accepted white jade ceremonial tablets.

Bai Feiyu completed the God-Sealing ceremony and appointed the Demon Ancestor Bo Huang as Demon God Emperor, giving him the Mountain-River Veins Map. He then reunited with Ouyang, who awoke and praised how far Bai Feiyu had come.

• Bai Feiyu watched the gods depart and saw the God-Sealing Treasure Book return to his Purple Mansion, while Diao Mao gained profound divinity.
• Bai Feiyu asked the Demon Ancestor why ten Immortals had vanished instead of becoming Mortal Worlds, and the Demon Ancestor said they had made their own plans rather than betting on Bai Feiyu.
• The Demon Ancestor revealed that his mission was complete, and Bai Feiyu appointed Bo Huang Demon God Emperor by edict.
• Bai Feiyu handed Bo Huang the Mountain-River Veins Map, and Bo Huang flew into the Sun.
• Bai Feiyu approached Ouyang, but Liang Zai tried to keep him from disturbing his sleeping master; Ouyang woke, stretched, and praised Bai Feiyu for making it big.

After Bai Feiyu successfully completed God-Sealing in the Mortal World, Ouyang left him to continue sealing the remaining worlds and returned to the Sect with the sleeping Tutu. Bai Feiyu suspected Ouyang was concealing his condition and resolved to protect him in return.

• Ouyang admired Bai Feiyu’s new power and asked what he planned to do next.
• Bai Feiyu said he would visit all Thirty-Six Mortal Worlds, then search Heaven and Earth to seal the gods.
• Ouyang told Bai Feiyu to continue alone because he was taking the still-sleeping Tutu back to the Sect to seek help from Master's Wife.
• Bai Feiyu promised Ouyang a surprise when he returned to Little Mountain Peak, and Ouyang departed with Liang Zai pulling his wheelchair.
• After watching Ouyang leave, Bai Feiyu grew grave, suspected Ouyang was hiding something, and vowed to protect him for a lifetime.

Bai Feiyu remembered his past life as Li Taibai and realized that his Eldest Senior Brother was the friend who had saved him and promised to become his eldest senior brother in the next life. He resolved to repay that debt by making Ouyezi the Lord of Myriad Gods, while keeping his past-life identity secret until he was strong enough to confront the tangled Heavenly Secrets.

• Bai Feiyu accepted that Leng Qingsong’s thirteen-tier lotus and Immaculate Sword Heart surpassed his own past-life achievements.
• Bai Feiyu recalled how Ouyezi had pulled him from the Ruthless Dao and recognized his Eldest Senior Brother as the friend who had vowed to be his eldest senior brother in another life.
• Bai Feiyu decided not to reveal their connection until he had sealed the Gods of Heaven and Earth and gained the power to protect Ouyezi.
• Bai Feiyu opened the God-Sealing Treasure Book and planned to place Ouyezi on the seat of the Lord of Myriad Gods.
• The azure bird teased Bai Feiyu, and he remembered Ouyezi’s habit of flicking foreheads.

Ouyang recovered from his severe injuries while Chang Suzhen scolded him for risking his life and mourned the fate of Chang Xiaoyue. He gave Chang Suzhen Xiaoyue’s demon core, leaving her grieving as Ouyang reflected on Hu Yun’s sacrifices.

• Chang Suzhen treated Ouyang in a medicinal bath and scolded him for nearly dying from his damaged meridians and dantian.
• Chang Suzhen accused Ouyang and Hu Yun of being heartless by sacrificing themselves without considering the pain they caused others.
• Chang Suzhen blamed herself for Chang Xiaoyue’s suffering and loss of cultivation and memories.
• Ouyang told Chang Suzhen that Chang Xiaoyue would not have existed without the Devil Race Seal on her.
• Ouyang gave Chang Suzhen the wooden box containing Chang Xiaoyue’s demon core, and Chang Suzhen broke down in tears.
• Ouyang thought of Hu Yun and judged that his master’s sacrifices had left those around him grieving.

Ouyang brought the sleeping Little Fox to Chang Suzhen in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, where Chang Suzhen recognized her as Tu Yun and sent Ouyang away. Left alone with Little Fox, Chang Suzhen fed her Chang Xiaoyue's demon core and hinted at their complicated past.

• Ouyang worried that his damaged soul and body would limit his cultivation, but he focused more on Little Fox's prolonged sleep during her bloodline awakening.
• Chang Suzhen examined Little Fox, recognized her as Tu Yun, and erupted with killing intent when Ouyang asked if she knew her.
• Ouyang tried to take Little Fox away, but Chang Suzhen insisted she could treat her and sent Ouyang away in a black wind to handle trouble in the Ten Thousand Demon Nation.
• Ouyang crashed onto Boyi and vomited into his official hat, while Boyi backed down after seeing a dog's head and its powerful true essence.
• Chang Suzhen reflected on her rivalry with Tu Yun and her history with Hu Yun, then fed Little Fox Chang Xiaoyue's demon core.

Hu Tutu wandered through a white space inside her body, searching for the power her mother said was hers, but grew lonely and gave up. She fell asleep clutching her suona and murmured that she hated Eldest Senior Brother for taking so long to come get her.

• Hu Tutu entered the white space after White Nine Tails told her to keep walking and find her own power.
• Hu Tutu walked and played her suona, encouraging herself to become strong and keep up with her senior brothers.
• Hu Tutu grew tired and discouraged, flopped onto the ground, and shouted that she wanted to go home to Eldest Senior Brother.
• Hu Tutu cried until she fell asleep, and her suona rolled over to nestle beside her.
• Hu Tutu hugged the suona in her sleep and murmured that she hated Eldest Senior Brother for only coming to get her then.

Hu Tutu encountered a magical paintbrush in the white space of her trial and learned it could paint any color. Delighted by the blank expanse, she prepared to cover it with her art.

• Hu Tutu woke in the trial and wished her Eldest Senior Brother would come take her home.
• A paintbrush appeared, chased Hu Tutu through the white space, and eventually settled on her ruff.
• Hu Tutu picked up the paintbrush and learned how to use its power to paint any color.
• Hu Tutu decided to treat the white space as a giant blank page and began choosing what to paint.

Hu Tutu drew the people and places she loved in a blank white space, then mourned being separated from her family on Little Mountain Peak. As her drawings changed the space into a living world, a tree, burial mound, and tombstone appeared.

• Hu Tutu drew Green Mound Mountain, the Lawn, the Swing, the Azure Cloud Sect, and Little Mountain Peak in the white space.
• Hu Tutu drew the Demon Beasts and the people of Little Mountain Peak, including Ouyang, whom she believed loved her best.
• Hu Tutu remembered how Daddy had brought her to Little Mountain Peak and how her senior brothers cared for her.
• Hu Tutu cried because she wanted to go home and see everyone again, and her sadness dimmed the colors of her drawings.
• Hu Tutu's drawings reshaped the white space into a world with grass, an azure sky, wind, and a towering tree.
• A small burial mound and tombstone appeared beneath the tree.

Hu Tutu found a grave beneath a great tree whose leaves held memories of a child and an older girl. After recognizing the grown child’s face, she wondered if the person buried there was her daddy.

• Hu Tutu discovered that her painting and brush had vanished, leaving her in a grassy world beside a great tree and a grave.
• Hu Tutu admitted she could not read the gravestone, so a leaf showed her an image of a child calling an older girl “Mommy.”
• Hu Tutu realized the tree’s leaves contained memories, grown from the longing of someone who wanted the buried person to be remembered.
• Hu Tutu saw a leaf show the child grown into a sorrowful figure in a gray Daoist robe, who turned to reveal a familiar face.
• Hu Tutu recognized the face as the one that had made her feel at home and asked if he was her daddy.

Hu Tutu explored the memories stored in a great tree’s leaves, discovering scenes from Hu Yun’s childhood before grief overwhelmed her. When the final leaf vanished, she looked toward the grave and spoke in a voice unlike her own, questioning the name Hu Yun had chosen for the child.

• Hu Tutu saw Hu Yun grieving beside a small grave and tried to memorize the words on its gravestone.
• She decided to learn the truth by watching the memories held in the great tree’s leaves.
• Hu Tutu laughed at memories of Hu Yun’s clumsy childhood as she watched the leaves turn into light and disappear.
• She began crying uncontrollably, and a hand gently pressed down on her head.
• The tree’s leaves vanished, and Hu Tutu looked at the grave with sorrow before speaking in another voice: “Hu Yun? This child really is... what sort of name did he choose!”

Tu Yun recovered her memories through the Little Fox and returned to her true form, learning how White Nine Tails had taken control of her body. The two confronted each other in the Illusion Realm, with White Nine Tails warning Tu Yun to put down Hu Tutu.

• The Little Fox read Hu Yun’s inscription on Tu Yun’s grave and remembered that he had sealed her memories to help her awaken.
• Tu Yun recalled being abducted by the Immortals and forced to predict the future, then recognized that Hu Yun had left her a fallback.
• Tu Yun regained her true form and learned how White Nine Tails had taken over her body and colluded with the hundred clans.
• Tu Yun decided that White Nine Tails should be erased, and White Nine Tails appeared before her in the Illusion Realm.
• Tu Yun and White Nine Tails exchanged insults and unleashed their auras as White Nine Tails warned Tu Yun to put down Hu Tutu.

Tu Yun confronted White Nine Tails in her Minor World and discovered that Hu Yun had exhausted her origin power. After destroying the protective talisman and swallowing Hu Tutu, Tu Yun overwhelmed White Nine Tails and prepared to leave the world.

• White Nine Tails mocked Tu Yun for risking their survival by opposing the Immortals, while Tu Yun insisted she could command her Minor World and raised Hu Tutu against her.
• Tu Yun and White Nine Tails summoned enormous white and black foxes, but White Nine Tails admitted neither could defeat the other outright.
• Tu Yun recognized Hu Yun's origin power in two waist tokens and realized Hu Yun had overdrawn it, while the protective talisman carried power from the person who had promised Hu Yun would be safe.
• Tu Yun accused that person of breaking the promise, shattered the protective talisman, and swallowed Hu Tutu.
• Tu Yun told White Nine Tails she was leaving to see the world, then flooded the Minor World with white and engulfed White Nine Tails and its surroundings.

Ouyang used Old Mountain Goat’s resentment and drunkenness to lure powerful demons into openly reciting rebellious verse, then alerted Chang Suzhen and had them surrounded. After leaving the Flower Demon House, Ouyang sensed something in the direction of the Imperial City and vanished with Liang Zai.

• Ouyang flattered Old Mountain Goat at a banquet, drawing out his grievances about Chang Suzhen’s reforms and his stories about her past with Hu Yun.
• Ouyang whispered rebellious poetry to Old Mountain Goat, who loudly recited it before the gathered Demon Cultivators.
• Ouyang revealed that brocade-clad executioners had surrounded the private room and told Chang Suzhen through a Communication Stone that he had caught several suspects.
• Ouyang mocked the stunned Old Mountain Goat, left the room, then pressed his hand onto Liang Zai’s dog head and vanished after sensing something near the Imperial City.

Tu Yun tried to erase White Nine Tails, her second personality, but discovered she could not kill her while her personal love for Hu Yun remained. Tu Yun used her Dao Heart Flame to refine White Nine Tails, injuring herself as well, before a calm voice challenged her claim to be the Immortal.

• Tu Yun overwhelmed White Nine Tails with her world’s power, but White Nine Tails continued resisting assimilation.
• Tu Yun grabbed White Nine Tails by the neck, and White Nine Tails explained that they were one and that Tu Yun could not kill her.
• White Nine Tails confronted Tu Yun with the truth that her personal love for Hu Yun had overwhelmed her greater love for all living beings.
• Tu Yun rejected the accusation and burned White Nine Tails with her Dao Heart Flame, causing both of them to suffer.
• Tu Yun declared that she could kill White Nine Tails and claimed to be the Immortal, when a calm voice behind her replied, “Oh? Is that so?”

Ouyang entered Hu Tutu’s consciousness and found Tu Yun restraining White Nine Tails. After respectfully greeting Tu Yun, he asked for a greeting gift and then demanded that she die.

• Ouyang entered Hu Tutu’s Minor World after sensing that Tutu’s Protective Talisman had shattered.
• Tu Yun restrained White Nine Tails with White Flame and White Chains, then recognized Ouyang as her Third Personality’s eldest disciple.
• Ouyang asked Tu Yun where Tutu was, and Tu Yun said her Third Personality was gone now that she had emerged.
• White Nine Tails called to Ouyang for help, but he bowed respectfully to Tu Yun, leaving White Nine Tails convinced that she and Tutu had been treated as sacrifices.
• Ouyang asked Tu Yun for a greeting gift, then told her to go to her death.

Ouyang unleashed his True Essence in Tu Yun’s Minor World, stripping away its white covering and revealing the grave of Hu Yun. After drawing power and memories from the tombstone and paying his respects, Ouyang turned to the two Nine Tails pinned to the wall.

• Ouyang’s True Essence tore through the white space, restored its lawn and sky, and overwhelmed Tu Yun and White Nine Tails.
• White Nine Tails celebrated Tu Yun’s loss of control, then pleaded with Ouyang when his power swept her up too.
• Ouyang found Hu Yun’s grave beneath the tree and sensed the power and memories lingering on its tombstone.
• Ouyang saw a memory of Hu Yun grieving at the grave, and the two exchanged a silent nod across time.
• Ouyang drew Hu Yun’s power into his Dantian, bowed to the grave, and burned three twigs as incense.
• Ouyang looked at Tu Yun and White Nine Tails pinned against the wall and said he had accidentally uncovered his Forefather’s grave.