Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiaoling healed Tiantian, revealed that she had traveled back from age sixteen, and stunned her by disclosing she was a heaven-tier Ghost Emperor. As Torch Dragon went berserk, Tang Xiaoling subdued him with a single thrust of her Trident.

• Tang Xiaoling healed Tiantian, who woke believing she was seeing a vision before death.
• Tang Xiaoling explained that she had come through a rift in space while sparring and was now sixteen.
• Tiantian warned that Tang Xiaoling's presence could alter the future, but Tang Xiaoling said she had felt no sign of being erased.
• Tang Xiaoling revealed she was a heaven-tier Ghost Emperor and blamed her stepmothers for leaving her with their responsibilities.
• Torch Dragon went berserk, and Tang Xiaoling thrust her Trident between his brows, stopping him and knocking him unconscious.

Tang Xiaoling knocked Torch Dragon unconscious and confronted the Demon Gods as Baal plotted to use her actions to bring heavenly punishment down on her. After she struck him through his scrying screen, Baal was left wounded and unable to dispel her attack.

• Tang Xiaoling knocked Torch Dragon unconscious with a single halberd strike, stunning Amon and Vassago.
• Vassago recognized Tang Xiaoling as the figure from his blurred vision and told Amon to wait, while Amon called off the operation to recover the Dark Supreme Godhood.
• Baal ordered Vassago and the other Demon Gods to hold their positions and keep Tang Xiaoling there until reinforcements arrived.
• Baal revealed that he intended to provoke Tang Xiaoling into killing demons so the Great Dao would punish her for disrupting time and space.
• Tang Xiaoling spotted Baal spying on her and sent an attack through his screen, wounding him despite his defenses.
• Baal retreated into his Demon God Pillar and realized he could suppress Tang Xiaoling's attack but could not expel it.

Tang Xiaoling tried to attack Amon and the Demon Gods but found an invisible barrier around the Academy that even her power could not break. After Tiantian learned that Tang Xiaoling had once saved her, Tang Xiaoling tearfully begged her not to come for her on the fifteenth night of the seventh month when her younger self turned ten, and Tiantian stayed by her side.

• Tang Xiaoling decided to storm the Demon God Hall and flew with Tiantian toward Amon, but an invisible barrier stopped them at the Academy wall.
• Tang Xiaoling struck the barrier with her Trident, shaking the realm and endangering the souls of Yin Zheng and the others, so she stopped when Yin Zheng begged her to.
• Tiantian explained that destroying the realm would scatter its inhabitants' souls, and Tang Xiaoling asked whether they had to give up reaching the Demon Gods.
• Tiantian told Tang Xiaoling she felt wistful seeing her grown up, and Tang Xiaoling tearfully asked her not to come save her on the fifteenth night of the seventh month when her younger self turned ten.
• Tiantian asked whether she had saved Tang Xiaoling, and Tang Xiaoling nodded; Tiantian comforted her and then suggested using the Trident to tear open space.

Tang Xiaoling and Tiantian failed to break the powerful barrier, which they suspected Tang Long had created, and discussed Tang Xiaoling’s family responsibilities and her mother’s confinement in the Moon God Palace. As Tang Xiaoling felt herself about to leave, a dozen Demon Gods arrived at the Academy, and she told Tiantian where to find protection if she could not defeat them in time.

• Tang Xiaoling used the Time-Space Trident against the barrier but could not break through it, and she and Tiantian suspected Tang Long had made it.
• Tang Xiaoling told Tiantian she was running out of time in this world, while Tiantian understood her hint about not saving someone six years later on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.
• Tang Xiaoling grumbled that her aunties had passed their responsibilities to her, including the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Myriad Exchange.
• Tang Xiaoling explained that bringing her mother back would require wiping out her clan, and Tiantian warned her to avoid the Moon God Palace because something there could kill her.
• More than a dozen Demon Gods, including Samigina and Valefor, appeared outside the Academy, and Tang Xiaoling told Tiantian to seek shelter beneath the school building if she could not defeat them before leaving.

Tang Xiaoling reassured Tiantian that she would subdue the approaching Demon Gods and let Tiantian decide what to do with them. Outside the Academy, Baal's ambition to expand into Fengdu and unite Hell came to light as Amon and Samigina argued over their past records.

• Tang Xiaoling told Tiantian she would subdue the Demon Gods rather than kill them, and Tiantian recalled Tang Xiaoling's mischievous childhood and brief stint as Ghost Emperor.
• Belial mocked Tang Xiaoling and Tiantian while the Demon Gods waited for their troops to assemble, and Amon privately suspected Tang Xiaoling was beyond their ability to handle.
• Amon wondered why Vassago feared Tang Xiaoling and why their sovereign had ordered her surrounded, but he did not suspect Baal of betrayal.
• The narration revealed that Baal intended to extend his power into Fengdu before using the added strength to wage war on Hell's rival factions and unify the West.
• Samigina questioned Amon about his failure to defeat Tang Xiaoling and Sky Dog, then taunted him over the Seventh Demon God Pillar and his dead brother.
• Amon defended his wartime record and accused Samigina of secretly helping his brother, prompting Samigina to angrily explain that his Nightmare ability required sleeping targets.

As ten thousand demons attacked the Academy, Tang Xiaoling began to be pulled back to her original time and worried about leaving Tiantian and the others to face the enemy. After Tang Xiaoling vanished, Tiantian heard her final message, then a rift opened and someone called out to her.

• Samael ordered the demons to kill everyone, and the Academy’s teachers and students panicked as the army charged.
• Zuo Tong realized Tang Xiaoling was returning to her original world, while Yin Zheng tried to rally the defenders.
• Tiantian proposed sending a clone to lead the others to the basement and reassured Tang Xiaoling that her master would come to help.
• Tang Xiaoling was pulled away despite trying to stabilize space, and she urged Tiantian to tell her present-day self to keep and study the Pure Scripture after entering the God-Demon Instance.
• Tiantian watched Tang Xiaoling disappear, then a rift opened and a sweet voice said, “Tiantian, Lingling missed you so much!”

Tang Xiaoling returned as a child and reunited with Tiantian, who was then surrounded by Samael and the Demon Gods. Tang Long appeared and froze the attackers, leaving them facing the Ghost Emperor and Meng Po.

• Tang Xiaoling returned through a spacetime rift, hugged Tiantian, and begged her not to leave again.
• Tiantian tried to carry Tang Xiaoling to the Academy, but Amon ambushed her and the Demon Gods surrounded them.
• Samael ordered the Demon Gods to attack Tiantian and Tang Xiaoling, who had fallen asleep in Tiantian's arms.
• Tang Long appeared and immobilized the Demon Gods, allowing Tiantian to approach him with Tang Xiaoling.
• Meng Po appeared behind Samael and struck at him, but he vanished and reappeared hundreds of meters away.

Meng Po confronted Samael and exposed his fear of her memory-erasing soup, while Tang Long let the Demon Gods leave. Baal arrived and challenged Fengdu to a subordinate battle, seeking a victory to restore his forces’ morale.

• Samael recognized Meng Po and retreated with the remaining Demon Gods, recalling how her soup had once countered his Nightmare ability.
• Samael claimed he had learned to resist Meng Po’s soup, but backed down when she offered to fight him again.
• Tang Long said Samael was not worth fighting, and Meng Po ordered the Demon Gods to leave under the Emperor’s command.
• Baal appeared and proposed a match between their subordinates instead of a war between Ghost Emperors.
• Tang Long rejected the idea of risking his subordinates, while Baal mocked him and sought a victory to raise his forces’ morale.

Tang Long faced down Baal’s Demon Gods after summoning Fengdu’s overwhelming forces, then blinded the Heavenly Dao and ordered them to leave. When Baal hesitated, Meng Po killed one Demon God with a single palm, sending Baal and his forces fleeing.

• Tang Long summoned tens of thousands of Fengdu’s ghost forces, including the border lords, Ten Yama Kings, and Old Lady Zhao.
• Baal proposed a three-on-three duel with territory as the wager and threatened to reveal Tang Long’s affairs involving Mount Olympus, Tang Xiaoling, and the Dark Godhood.
• Tang Long refused Baal’s threat, blinded the Heavenly Dao, and gave the Demon Gods ten seconds to leave the Primordial Cage.
• Meng Po struck down the sixty-eighth Demon God with one palm when Baal failed to retreat in time.
• Baal escaped into the void, and the remaining Demon Gods fled through the Gate of Hell.

After the Demon Gods fled, Tang Long left Tang Xiaoling in the instance and told Tiantian to teach her to use her powers. Tang Xiaoling woke, eager to grow stronger, and Baye ended the instance early, leaving Jiang Ya relieved that she could stop playing the zither.

• Tang Long decided Tang Xiaoling should stay in the instance and instructed Tiantian to teach her to wield the Eye of Reincarnation and Five Elements Formation.
• Tang Xiaoling woke and told Tiantian about dreaming of her father and Granny Zhao, then agreed to train so she could become powerful.
• Tiantian reflected on the approaching Heaven-and-Earth Upheaval and reassured Tang Xiaoling that the instance would end soon.
• Baye and E Lai arrived, apologized for their late protection, and Baye activated the Primordial Cage to end the instance early.
• Jiang Ya stopped playing the zither and rejoiced when the players received notice that they would soon be teleported to the Waiting Area.

The Primordial Cage Instance ended, and the surviving players received their clearance rewards. Tang Xiaoling obtained the Three-Lives Netherworld Book, while Jiang Ya realized the soldiers had protected her and earned powerful Spirit Artifacts.

• The twelve players entered the transit area after the Instance ended, and the exhausted survivors celebrated their escape.
• Jiang Ya asked Tang Xiaoling whether the Ghost Monarch had sent soldiers to protect her, then learned they had guarded her throughout the Instance.
• Jiang Ya received an A rating, one hundred thousand Spirit Coins, a two-hundred-point increase to all attributes, and the Soul-Hooking Rope and Myriad Soul Banner.
• Tang Xiaoling received the Three-Lives Netherworld Book, which recorded the lives and reincarnations of all beings, but she could not yet use it to determine anyone’s fate without the Judge of the Underworld's Brush.

The Ten Elders realized that Western demon forces were involved in the Evil Spirit Instance and might oppose Fengdu, while Eagle Sauce Country’s four successful players threatened to widen the power gap. They debated whether to openly approach Fengdu and commit Dragon Country to its side.

• Viewers from around the world celebrated as twelve players cleared the instance, while Dragon Country’s viewers questioned why only Tang Xiaoling remained among their players.
• Zhou Han discovered that Bane, a demon pillar of Solomon, had ties to the Sacred Soul Hall, leading the Ten Elders to suspect Western Evil Spirits opposed Fengdu.
• Zhao Qian warned that Eagle Sauce Country’s four clears had earned rewards that could greatly increase its strength.
• Jiang Daoguo urged the Ten Elders to stand with Tang Xiaoling and Fengdu, arguing that Dragon Country’s fate was already bound to theirs.
• Li Yan called for the Ten Elders to lay their cards on the table, and Wu Guang and Chen Jie supported him, with Chen Jie blaming the Sacred Soul Hall for Dragon Country’s limited participation.

Jiang Daoguo and the other Ten Elders sought to learn whether Fengdu would protect the Dragon Country, but Tiantian said Fengdu and the Dragon Country had no connection. She revealed that Tang Xiaoling ruled the Underworld and controlled the six paths of reincarnation, leaving the elders eager to ask Tang for help once she woke.

• Jiang Daoguo decided to approach Tang Xiaoling and ask Fengdu whether it would protect the Dragon Country from the Sacred Soul Hall.
• The Ten Elders went to Tang Xiaoling's room, where Tiantian told them Tang was asleep and led them downstairs.
• Jiang Daoguo asked Tiantian about Fengdu's stance, and she said Fengdu and the Dragon Country belonged to separate worlds.
• Tiantian pointed out that the Dragon Country had its own Underworld and said Tang Xiaoling governed the six paths of reincarnation.
• The Ten Elders learned that Tang could protect the Dragon Country if she agreed, and Jiang Daoguo promised they would wait for her to wake.

At Sacred Soul Hall headquarters, Sadis told the elders that the next instance would admit races from the Evil Spirit Realm and could offer humans a path to becoming Demon Gods. He revealed three invitation passes, but left it undecided which elders would receive them.

• Sadis reprimanded Li for his actions in the previous instance and revealed that the ruby necklace had been used to monitor him.
• Sadis announced that the next instance would include other races from the Evil Spirit Realm, such as werewolves, vampires, monsters, demons, ghosts, and oddities.
• Sadis presented three invitation passes and said the instance could let a human become a new Demon God.
• Yitado questioned whether the Holy Lord's promise was true, then lowered his head when Sadis rebuked him.
• Sadis said a Demon God would accompany them and that he would carefully choose which three elders would go.

As the world scrambled for invitations to the Tomb of Gods and Demons, the Ten Elders tried to obtain one for Tang Xiaoling. Tiantian received two invitations from the Ghost Emperor, while Charlie Morningstar learned that the Tomb would include the God Realm and other Dark Realm races and eagerly prepared to go.

• Rumors spread that humans and Evil Spirits would enter the Tomb of Gods and Demons by invitation, prompting powerful people and nations to compete for entry.
• The Ten Elders ordered the Investigation Bureau to search for an invitation for Tang Xiaoling, but their efforts failed to find one.
• A ghost officer delivered two invitations to Tiantian on the Ghost Emperor’s behalf, and Tiantian decided she could take Tang Xiaoling into the Tomb.
• Charlie Morningstar complained about being sent to the Tomb until Lucifer Morningstar told her that the God Realm and other Dark Realm races would be there, whereupon she eagerly planned to capture them.

Tamamo-no-Mae sent Zashiki-warashi to the Tomb of Gods and Demons to capture Tang Xiaoling, with three monsters hidden in a brocade pouch to protect her. In the Asura Domain, Rahu struggled to find a volunteer for a similar mission until Vemacitra appeared and offered to go.

• Tamamo-no-Mae ordered Zashiki-warashi to capture Tang Xiaoling and kill her if capture proved impossible.
• Tamamo-no-Mae gave Zashiki-warashi a brocade pouch containing the Blue Monk, Snow Woman, and Great Sky Dog, warning her not to open it before entering the Tomb of Gods and Demons.
• Tamamo-no-Mae vowed revenge on Fengdu and Tang Long and hinted that she would send them a gift.
• Rahu asked his Asura subordinates to volunteer for the trial, but none stepped forward because they feared opposing Fengdu after its recent victory over the Seventy-Two Demon Gods.
• Vemacitra appeared before Rahu and offered to go to the Tomb of Gods and Demons, agreeing to his demand.

Rahu traded the Tomb of Gods and Demons invitation to Vemacitra for the promised use of five hundred thousand Insect Cavalry, only to discover that she meant to lend them rather than give them. He then sent Ananya to provoke Fengdu into attacking Vemacitra and gave him a bracelet containing Vritra, while plotting to seize territory from Fengdu.

• Rahu refused to give Vemacitra his invitation until she offered him Insect Cavalry in exchange.
• Vemacitra raised her offer to five hundred thousand, and Rahu handed over the invitation after she promised he could borrow the troops.
• Vemacitra clarified that the Insect Cavalry were only a loan, angering Rahu before she left with the invitation.
• Rahu revealed he had another invitation and ordered Ananya to make Fengdu attack Vemacitra.
• Rahu gave Ananya a bracelet containing Vritra and resolved to take territory from Fengdu.

Lycaon sent Callisto to seek an alliance with Fengdu so he could break the werewolves’ curse and attack Olympus. Meanwhile, Alucard prepared Lilith and James to enter the Tomb of Gods and Demons, while Tang Xiaoling awoke after three days and eagerly asked Tiantian to teach her skills.

• Lycaon gave Callisto an invitation and ordered her to convey the werewolves’ desire to cooperate with Fengdu.
• Alucard announced that Lilith would enter the Tomb of Gods and Demons with James to awaken Vlad Dracula.
• Alucard privately revealed that he might devour Vlad and promised James Lilith and a Dracula bloodline in return for his loyalty.
• After three days of sleep, Tang Xiaoling awoke with no apparent power fluctuations and told Tiantian she felt sleepy.
• Tiantian reminded Tang Xiaoling that she wanted to learn skills, and Tang Xiaoling eagerly asked to begin so she could see Granny Zhao and the others sooner.

After seven days of searching for an Instance invitation for Tang Xiaoling, the Ten Elders finally saw her leave home with Tiantian. Jiang Daoguo tried to win her favor, while Tiantian waited for Tang Xiaoling herself to decide whether Fengdu would protect Dragon Country.

• Online discussions about whether Tang Xiaoling would join the next Instance led to users being muted, and the Investigation Bureau announced that an employee surnamed Gao had been imprisoned for collusion and treason.
• The Ten Elders spent seven days searching for an invitation and waiting outside Tang Xiaoling's apartment, keeping thirty meters away after Tiantian threatened them.
• Tiantian led Tang Xiaoling out of the community, and Jiang Daoguo approached them while the other elders warned Zhou Han for pointing at her.
• Tang Xiaoling said she wanted meat buns, so Jiang Daoguo sent a subordinate to buy them.
• Tiantian explained that Fengdu would protect Dragon Country regardless, but Tang Xiaoling had to personally agree as Fengdu's Princess, and her identity as Lord of the Underworld could bring Dragon Country further support.