Chapter Summaries

The West Sea Wing Demons reached the Desert for the assembly, where Nineteenth Aunt stirred resentment toward the Undead while helping the Red-Crowned Old Demon establish himself as their leader. As the Wing Demons prepared a grand procession, their carriages and human servants displayed their differing ranks and power.

• The Wing Demons flew into the Desert and complained about its dry climate and the Undead.
• Nineteenth Aunt encouraged the Wing Demons to question their association with the Undead and the Demon Race’s unity.
• The Red-Crowned Old Demon urged the Wing Demons to keep their grievances quiet and present a united front against humanity.
• Nineteenth Aunt and the human laborers helped secure the Red-Crowned Old Demon’s authority among the flock.
• The Red-Crowned Old Demon called for a West Sea procession, and the Wing Demons brought out ornate carriages and mounts.
• The Wing Demons displayed their ranks through their carriage-pullers, including Golden Core human cultivators reduced to driven beasts.

Hou Niao and Tan Xiao traveled disguised among the Wing Demons toward the Ten Thousand Demons Assembly, hoping to find a chance to capture Demon Beasts from the Outer Cosmos. They reached the assembly’s vast gathering of elites and saw Minggu Mountain, where the Undead came to offer their bones before death.

• Nineteenth Aunt’s group joined the Wing Demons’ procession, using the crowd to hide Hou Niao and Tan Xiao’s disguises.
• Hou Niao and Tan Xiao discussed how dangerous the assembly was and planned to wait for an opportunity to capture Demon Beasts from the Outer Cosmos.
• Hou Niao admitted he was exploiting the longstanding conflict between the Wing Demons and the mainstream Demon Race to stir up trouble.
• The Wing Demons’ flock traveled deep into the Binxu Desert and reached a gathering of powerful Demon Race elites.
• Tan Xiao explained that the immense bone mountain, Minggu Mountain, was formed from the bones of Undead who came there to offer them before death.

Demons from across Jinxiu gathered at Minggu Mountain for the delayed Ten Thousand Demons Assembly, where their leaders discussed future strategies while the rest circled the bone mountain. Longstanding resentment between demon groups escalated into insults, collisions, and bloody challenges, as Hou Niao and Nineteenth Aunt waited for events to develop.

• The Wing Demons joined the gathering at Minggu Mountain, and Red-Crowned entered the circle of Wing Demon elders while Nineteenth Aunt remained outside it.
• Hou Niao spotted Heifu and Baitou among the Outer Cosmos demons and was warned not to stare at them.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Assembly began, with the group leaders meeting atop the bone mountain and Nascent Soul Wing Demons, including Red-Crowned, joining the discussions.
• Nineteenth Aunt predicted that the gathering would lead to a fight, and Hou Niao waited without being able to influence events.
• Demons traded insults and deliberately collided as resentment over their groups’ contributions to the human-demon war resurfaced.
• Individual demons began issuing challenges, and the gathering outside the bone mountain descended into increasingly violent brawling.

The Mountain Demons dominated the opening bouts and grew arrogant, but Nineteenth Aunt killed a diamond ape demon with a sudden strike, igniting the gathering. An owl then attacked a bear’s vulnerable rear, and the fight was poised to reach its climax.

• A tiger demon defeated a blue-halberd whale demon, and the Mountain Demons won several bouts, growing confident in their superiority over the Sea Tribe and Winged People.
• A diamond ape demon insulted the Winged People, and Nineteenth Aunt rushed out in her luan carriage and killed it with a peck to the forehead.
• Nineteenth Aunt returned to her ranks, while the Sea Tribe and Winged People cheered and the Mountain Demons erupted in fury; her planned strike had raised one side’s spirits and provoked the other.
• A bear challenged the Winged People, and an owl fought it with Divine Abilities, but the bear’s defenses stopped its attacks except at two vulnerable spots.
• The owl used short-range teleportation to appear behind the bear’s head and raked its iron claws toward the back of its skull.