Recaps

Chen Nian defeated Yaksha and entered a dream battle with Tamamo-no-Mae using her Dream Pearls. He won the dream fight quickly, while Meng'er learned of his connection to Tamamo-no-Mae and blushed as she remembered him touching her thigh.

• Chen Nian defeated Yaksha, claimed first place again, and went to the Dream Pavilion with Meng'er.
• Chen Nian used Tamamo-no-Mae's Dream Pearls to enter a combat dream, where he fought her illusion among peach blossoms.
• Meng'er recognized Tamamo-no-Mae in the dream and hoped Chen Nian might help her gain a chance to study under the legendary fox demon.
• Tamamo-no-Mae sensed her Dream Pearl shatter early and realized Chen Nian had defeated her illusion in less than three days.
• Chen Nian left the Dream Pavilion after winning with the God Descent Technique, and Meng'er blushed when the other fox demons teased her about him.

Chen Nian visited Shangze Sakura and learned that Kaguya-hime intended to pass her divinity to Sakura. After the transfer, Kaguya-hime took control of Sakura and threatened to make her fight the Demon King alongside Chen Nian.

• Chen Nian found Shangze Sakura binding her chest and heard about her progress as a fighter in the White Haze Faction.
• Haruna summoned Chen Nian to the shrine, where Kaguya-hime urged him to help stop the Demon King's revival, but he refused.
• Kaguya-hime chose Shangze Sakura to inherit her divinity, and Sakura accepted.
• Kaguya-hime dissolved into moonlight and merged with Sakura, then used her body to warn Chen Nian that she would fight the Demon King with Sakura if he failed.

With three days left until the Demon King awakened, Chen Nian trained against Great Tengu in a dream and searched for a way to resist the ghostly energy that suppressed his power. On the final day, Kaguya-hime ordered the White Haze Faction to defend the Onmyō Bureau instead of launching a desperate attack, leaving their last hope in Chen Nian.

• Chen Nian entered the Dream Pavilion and fought a simulated Great Tengu, whose wind domain extinguished his Vermilion Bird Divine Fire while ghostly energy weakened him.
• After Meng'er tired from sustaining the dream, Chen Nian continued dreaming with other fox demons and considered using Words Become Law to create righteous energy that could counter ghostly energy.
• On the final day before the Demon King awakened at midnight, the white-haired grand onmyoji rallied the White Haze Faction for a final assault.
• Shangze Sakura, speaking as Kaguya-hime, stopped the onmyoji and ordered them to defend the Onmyō Bureau, saying they could not defeat Great Tengu and Tamamo-no-Mae.

Shuten-doji emerged from the Coffin of Heaven, slaughtered the Black Moon onmyōji who had summoned him, and led the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons toward White Haze. Chen Nian defeated Great Tengu, but Shuten-doji reached the Onmyō Bureau, where Kaguya-hime sensed that he had found her.

• Black Moon members joked about their expected victory while their followers prayed for Shuten-doji to awaken and lead them through the barrier around the God-Demon Capital.
• Red lightning shattered the Black Moon Temple and the Coffin of Heaven, releasing Shuten-doji, who destroyed the temple and killed or injured the onmyōji inside.
• Shuten-doji declared his intent to claim Kaguya-hime and began the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, with Great Tengu and countless monsters following him.
• Tamamo-no-Mae sensed that Chen Nian had broken Great Tengu's Dream Pearl and defeated him, then said he was not too late.
• White Haze learned that Shuten-doji's army was approaching, and its members discovered they could no longer switch factions after their mission failed.
• Shuten-doji appeared near the Onmyō Bureau and spread ghostly aura across the area, causing Kaguya-hime inside Shangze Sakura to tremble and murmur that he had found her.

Shuten-doji shattered the Onmyō Bureau’s barrier and seized Shangze Sakura, leaving the onmyoji helpless. Chen Nian arrived and cut off the ghostly hand, then killed a charging demon and declared that the hundred demons could not pass into human territory.

• Shuten-doji destroyed the Onmyō Bureau’s barrier with a blast, overpowering the onmyoji and suppressing their strength with his demonic aura.
• Shuten-doji ordered Shangze Sakura to approach, then used an invisible ghostly hand to drag her toward him after injuring the onmyoji who tried to protect her.
• Chen Nian’s Dragon Slayer Saber severed the ghostly hand, and Chen Nian teleported to Shangze Sakura’s side.
• The onmyoji, demons, and transcendants recognized Chen Nian as Buyu, while Kaguya-hime felt her fear ease at his arrival.
• A great demon charged at Chen Nian, who cut off its head and declared, “Human territory ahead. No passage for the hundred demons.”

Chen Nian fought Shuten-doji after Tamamo-no-Mae drew Great Tengu away from the battle. Chen Nian dodged Shuten-doji’s attacks and wounded him with the Dragon Slayer Saber, leaving the demons and Kaguya-hime stunned.

• Shuten-doji challenged Chen Nian, but Tamamo-no-Mae arrived and provoked Great Tengu into chasing her away from the fight.
• Shuten-doji fired a black energy blast, and Chen Nian reflected it into the demon horde, destroying over a hundred demons.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit-Judgment to extinguish Shuten-doji’s ghost flames, then evaded his attacks despite Shuten-doji’s speed and regenerative power.
• Chen Nian struck Shuten-doji with Repulsion and followed with Startled Dragon Pierces the Sun, leaving a bloody hole in his chest.
• Kaguya-hime watched Chen Nian wound Shuten-doji and wondered who he really was.

Chen Nian fought Shuten-doji, whose immortal blood let him recover from devastating injuries, while the other fighters watched from a safe distance. After revealing Word Spirit, Mandate of Heaven, Chen Nian healed himself and strengthened his body, leaving him ready to resume the battle.

• Shuten-doji healed his chest wound and summoned thousands of demons and monsters from his sake gourd.
• Chen Nian unleashed Word Spirit, Death God, and destroyed the summoned demons while trading blows with Shuten-doji in the darkness.
• The darkness receded, revealing both Chen Nian and Shuten-doji injured, though Shuten-doji's wounds began to heal.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit, Mandate of Heaven, and a sun's radiance healed his injuries while greatly increasing his constitution.
• Chen Nian declared that the mandate of heaven was his and announced the start of round two.

Chen Nian was trapped in Shuten-doji’s domain and had his supernatural power drained, but Mandate of Heaven gave him a Black Sun that collapsed the domain and began swallowing everything around Shuten-doji. The chapter left Chen Nian standing unharmed as the black hole consumed the battlefield.

• Chen Nian fought Shuten-doji evenly until Shuten-doji sacrificed some Blood of Immortality to summon the Oni King.
• Shuten-doji created the Forbidden Palace of Myriad Spirits, bound Chen Nian with chains, and drained nearly all his supernatural power.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Kaguya-hime believed Chen Nian had lost, while Shangze Sakura struggled against Kaguya-hime’s control to help him.
• Chen Nian activated Mandate of Heaven after his power ran out, but drew the dangerous Black Sun instead of the Sun, moon, or Stars.
• Chen Nian released the Black Sun, which formed a black hole that collapsed the Oni King’s domain and pulled in the surrounding battlefield while leaving Chen Nian untouched.

Chen Nian survived Shuten-doji’s devastating attack, but both fighters were weakened and Shuten-doji unleashed a thousand years of oni qi to suppress the humans. As the demons prepared to slaughter them, Chen Nian used a Word Spirit from “Song of Righteous Qi” to dispel the oni qi and free everyone.

• Chen Nian emerged unharmed while Shuten-doji was badly injured, though both had nearly exhausted their power.
• Shuten-doji released the oni qi stored in his sake gourd, forcing most of the humans to their knees and preventing them from using their abilities.
• Shuten-doji ordered Ibaraki-doji and the hundred demons to slaughter the humans, sparing only his woman.
• Chen Nian recited lines from “Song of Righteous Qi” as a Word Spirit, summoning the righteous qi of heaven and earth.
• Chen Nian’s righteous qi erased the oni qi from the sky, allowing the humans to stand again.

Chen Nian’s righteous aura freed the human fighters to battle the demons, while Kaguya-hime lent Shangze Sakura her divine power. As the fighting spread, Uesawa Ueki returned to save his sister and faced Hanyu Hayabusa, while Chen Nian and Shuten-doji remained locked in a stalemate.

• Chen Nian dispersed the demonic aura, allowing the onmyoji and Transcendents to rise and charge the demons and monsters.
• Kaguya-hime entrusted her divine power to Shangze Sakura, who transformed and attacked the demons with moonlight kunai.
• Hanyu Hayabusa led the Dark Night Transcendents into battle and confronted Shangze Sakura, overwhelming her with his attacks.
• Uesawa Ueki appeared to protect Shangze Sakura, cut through Hanyu’s lightning domain, and severed one of Hanyu’s arms.
• Hanyu Hayabusa and Uesawa Ueki summoned the powers of Susanoo and Takemikazuchi and began fighting, while Chen Nian and Shuten-doji continued to face each other at the central battlefield.

Chen Nian faced Shuten-doji after the Demon King released his true form, the towering Oni King. Though everyone believed Chen Nian had reached his limit, Yang Jian’s Divinity awakened, and he stopped Shuten-doji’s punch as he prepared to counterattack.

• Shuten-doji offered to spare Chen Nian if he knelt, but Chen Nian said he would kill him regardless.
• Shuten-doji released his seal and transformed into a gigantic blood-red evil spirit, making demons and humans flee the area.
• Ibaraki-doji, Great Tengu, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Kaguya-hime watched Shuten-doji’s transformation, while Kaguya-hime and others feared Chen Nian could not survive.
• Shuten-doji’s enormous punch struck at Chen Nian, but golden divine light stopped it and Chen Nian lifted the fist with one finger.
• Chen Nian opened the third eye between his brows and invoked the God Descent Art.

Chen Nian unleashed the God Descent Technique and battled Shuten-doji, while Uesawa Ueki defeated Hanyu Hayabusa. Chen Nian drained Shuten-doji’s immortal blood with Tamamo-no-Mae’s golden bell and killed the demon king.

• Chen Nian invoked the God Descent Technique, and his divine power clashed with Shuten-doji’s demonic power in a devastating energy storm.
• Uesawa Ueki defeated Hanyu Hayabusa with a lightning-fast sword strike, killing him and turning toward Chen Nian’s battlefield.
• Shuten-doji survived the energy storm but was left unable to move, while Chen Nian emerged with barely any injuries.
• Chen Nian used Tamamo-no-Mae’s golden bell to drain Shuten-doji’s blood of immortality.
• Chen Nian killed Shuten-doji with his blade and absorbed the demon king’s soul energy.

Chen Nian killed Shuten-doji, winning the faction war and ending the threat to the God-Demon Capital. The barrier was lifted, the Black Moon forces were routed, and the survivors welcomed Chen Nian back as a hero.

• After Shuten-doji died, the demons and monsters fled, and Shangze Sakura killed the wounded Ibaraki-doji.
• The grand onmyoji died from exhaustion after wishing for humanity to flourish, and the onmyoji launched a counterattack.
• Tamamo-no-Mae killed Great Tengu by trapping him in her Thousand Fox Dream Domain.
• The White Haze Faction won the war, and the system announced that Buyu had slain the Demon King and lifted the God-Demon Capital's seal.
• Chen Nian pursued the retreating Black Moon forces, helping rout them as the remaining Black Moon transcendents fled to the real world.
• The people of the God-Demon Capital greeted Chen Nian as a hero, while Tang Rou joked to Haruna about pretending to work hard when a boss appeared.

After defeating Shuten-doji, Chen Nian received powerful rewards and prepared to return Tamamo-no-Mae’s golden bell so she could restore her power and Haruna’s heart. Kaguya-hime warned him to beware the demon fox, but Chen Nian went to see her anyway.

• The onmyoji thanked Chen Nian for saving the God-Demon Capital, and he stopped Haruna from kneeling before directing everyone to tend to the wounded.
• Uesawa Ueki reunited with Shangze Sakura, told her he had a sister-in-law, and gave her his lightning-forged kunai, Thunder Breath.
• Chen Nian reached Tier Four, level 80, equipped the mythic Oni King Supreme Ring, and awakened the rare Word Spirit Sovereign.
• Tamamo-no-Mae took control of Haruna and led Chen Nian away to retrieve the golden bell containing the Blood of Immortality.
• Kaguya-hime warned Chen Nian that Tamamo-no-Mae was dangerous, but he left to see the demon fox.

Chen Nian confronted Tamamo-no-Mae over her plan to use Haruna as a vessel for a new body and refused to give her the Blood of Immortality. Tamamo-no-Mae attacked him, and he swallowed the golden bell to keep it from her.

• The fox demons at the Heavenly Dream Pavilion learned that Chen Nian had defeated Shuten-doji, and Meng'er hoped he would visit again.
• Chen Nian met Tamamo-no-Mae in a secluded courtyard, where Haruna complained that Tamamo-no-Mae had been controlling her.
• Chen Nian questioned Tamamo-no-Mae’s claim that she needed the Blood of Immortality to restore her strength and rebuild Haruna’s heart.
• Chen Nian accused Tamamo-no-Mae of intending to use Haruna as a vessel for an immortal body, and Tamamo-no-Mae did not deny it.
• Haruna said she was willing to become Tamamo-no-Mae’s vessel, but Chen Nian refused to give her the Blood of Immortality.
• Tamamo-no-Mae attacked Chen Nian and demanded the Blood of Immortality, so he swallowed the golden bell and challenged her to take it from him.

Chen Nian swallowed the blood of immortality to keep it from Tamamo-no-Mae, leaving his body overwhelmed by clashing demonic and divine energy. Haruna brought him to Kaguya-hime and Shangze Sakura, who began an intimate treatment to try to save him.

• Chen Nian swallowed the golden bell containing the blood of immortality, and Tamamo-no-Mae seized him and tried to draw the blood out with a kiss.
• Tamamo-no-Mae threw Chen Nian into a crater, and Haruna threatened to kill herself unless Tamamo-no-Mae saved him.
• Tamamo-no-Mae told Haruna that only Kaguya-hime could suppress the blood of immortality, so Haruna carried Chen Nian to the Onmyō Bureau.
• Kaguya-hime explained that Shangze Sakura could use her moonlight divine power through intimate bodily contact, and Shangze Sakura agreed to try.
• Kaguya-hime sent Haruna outside while she and Shangze Sakura took Chen Nian into a room to begin the treatment.

Chen Nian awakened after Shangze Sakura helped suppress the Blood of Immortality, then gained the Blood Burst skill and learned Haruna was being held by Tamamo-no-Mae. He went to confront Tamamo-no-Mae and agreed to give up the Blood of Immortality to protect Haruna.

• Shangze Sakura helped Chen Nian stabilize the Blood of Immortality, and Chen Nian thanked her after waking.
• At daybreak, Shangze Sakura told Chen Nian that Kaguya-hime's consciousness had disappeared, while Chen Nian realized he had gained the Blood Burst skill with dangerous side effects.
• Chen Nian learned Haruna had gone missing and suspected Tamamo-no-Mae had taken her as a hostage.
• Tang Rou told Chen Nian she was leaving the God-Demon Capital, and he asked her to conceal what had happened with Shangze Sakura from Xiao Qi.
• Chen Nian found Haruna tied up in Tamamo-no-Mae's courtyard, where Tamamo-no-Mae demanded the Blood of Immortality.
• Chen Nian agreed to give up the Blood of Immortality to protect Haruna.

Chen Nian persuaded Tamamo-no-Mae not to use Haruna as her vessel by promising to retrieve her sealed body from Nasu Moor. Tamamo-no-Mae gave him three months, and Chen Nian ended by asking to keep her mask.

• Chen Nian asked to speak with Haruna, then kissed her, provoking Tamamo-no-Mae's anger.
• Chen Nian offered to retrieve Tamamo-no-Mae's original body from Nasu Moor, where it had been sealed after the gods' defeat and Abe no Seimei's death.
• Tamamo-no-Mae doubted Chen Nian could survive Nasu Moor, but he promised to go there within three months.
• Tamamo-no-Mae agreed to give Chen Nian three months, and he asked to keep her mask.

Chen Nian left the God-Demon Capital with Shangze Sakura and Tamamo-no-Mae after agreeing to help Tamamo-no-Mae retrieve her physical body within three months. He stayed in Sakura Country with Tamamo-no-Mae, planning to keep her occupied while he worked on fulfilling his promise.

• Chen Nian kept Tamamo-no-Mae's mask, and she agreed to let him have it if he helped restore her body, on the condition that she could visit his world and would act if he failed within three months.
• Chen Nian left the God-Demon Capital with Shangze Sakura and Tamamo-no-Mae as news spread that Buyu had defeated the demon king and Sakura Country reeled from its losses.
• Chen Nian read messages from Zhao Yixue, Ye Hongling, Xiao Qi, and Tang Rou, then learned Tang Rou was at the Tokyo Grand Hotel.
• Chen Nian decided to stay in Sakura Country to prevent Tamamo-no-Mae from going on a killing spree, and he sent Shangze Sakura home after asking whether her leg was all right.
• Chen Nian brought Tamamo-no-Mae to Sakura Country and claimed it was his homeland, saying he would never let her go on a killing spree there.

Chen Nian brought Tamamo-no-Mae to Tokyo, settled her in a hotel, and went to find Tang Rou. He found Tang Rou enjoying a meal and recruiting the guild to pay for a recording, but their conversation was interrupted when someone recognized him.

• Chen Nian took Tamamo-no-Mae to Tokyo and showed her how to use the hotel bathroom before leaving to catch his secretary.
• Chen Nian returned to check the hotel room for hidden cameras, reassured Tamamo-no-Mae, and left again.
• Tang Rou feasted at a barbecue restaurant while offering the guild a recording of Chen Nian's battle against the Demon King in exchange for epic equipment.
• Chen Nian met Tang Rou, told her to hide that Tamamo-no-Mae was in Tokyo, and teased her about reporting him to Xiao Qi.
• Someone at a neighboring table recognized Chen Nian despite his fox mask, leaving him shocked.

Chen Nian reunited with his middle school friend Yang Wei at a barbecue restaurant, where Yang Wei bragged about his divinity and archaeology business. Yang Wei left with Chen Nian to take him to Heaven on Earth, while Tang Rou stayed behind after making him pay the bill.

• Yang Wei recognized Chen Nian at the restaurant and reminisced with him about their middle school friendship.
• Yang Wei mistook Tang Rou for Chen Nian’s girlfriend, and she played along while ordering expensive food.
• Yang Wei claimed to be a powerful transcendent with Shen Gongbao’s divinity, and Chen Nian and Tang Rou pretended to be impressed.
• Yang Wei invited Chen Nian to work at his archaeology company, which searched for dungeon and divine ruins.
• Yang Wei and Chen Nian joked about replacing Tang Rou, then left together after Tang Rou reminded Yang Wei to pay the bill.

Abe no Seimei awakened after a thousand years in Nasu Moor and sent Taiyin and Taichang to kill the fox demon. Meanwhile, Chen Nian joined Yang Wei at a newly discovered secret realm near Tokyo, hoping to find a way to grow stronger before entering Nasu Moor.

• Abe no Seimei divined that Shuten-doji was dead and the fox demon was stirring, then ordered Taiyin and Taichang to hunt her down.
• Abe no Seimei rose from his thousand-year cultivation and prepared to see the outside world.
• Chen Nian and Yang Wei visited Heaven on Earth, where Yang Wei told Chen Nian that Ran Yu had died in a Calamity Beast attack.
• Yang Wei received word that his archaeology team had found mountain ruins protected by a barrier, and Chen Nian agreed to go with him.
• Chen Nian and Yang Wei drove toward the outskirts of Tokyo to investigate the secret realm.

Chen Nian and Yang Wei encountered Tsuchimikado Arina guarding a ruin, and Chen Nian used a prestigious Yin-Yang Talisman to persuade her to let them approach. The group discovered that an impenetrable barrier still blocked the cave entrance.

• Tsuchimikado Arina refused to let Yang Wei's excavation team enter the ruins, explaining that the Tsuchimikado House had guarded the forbidden ground for generations.
• Yang Wei ordered his subordinates to seize Arina, but she defeated the transcendent team with Onmyōjutsu: Empty Realm.
• Yang Wei attacked Arina with a summoned black leopard, but she stopped them with another invisible barrier.
• Chen Nian showed Arina a high-ranking Yin-Yang Talisman, and she recognized its importance and agreed to let the group pass.
• Yang Wei and the team approached the cave, but they found an indestructible transparent barrier blocking the entrance.

Chen Nian broke through a powerful barrier and discovered the sealed Demon Blade Murasame, whose baleful energy overwhelmed Yang Wei when he drew it. Chen Nian saved Yang Wei and resealed the blade, and the group left the site hidden again.

• Yang Wei failed to break the barrier, but Chen Nian used Word Spirit-Origin-Destroying World to shatter it.
• Chen Nian, Yang Wei, and Tsuchimikado Arina entered the chamber and found the sealed Demon Blade Murasame buried in a mound.
• Yang Wei ignored Tsuchimikado Arina's warning and drew Murasame, allowing its baleful energy to seize control of him.
• Chen Nian used Vermilion Bird Divine Fire to suppress the energy, took Murasame from Yang Wei, and returned it to its seal.
• Yang Wei recovered, and Tsuchimikado Arina restored a weakened barrier while the group buried the site.

Chen Nian picked up Tang Rou after she restrained two street thugs, while Taiyin and Taichang tracked Tamamo-no-Mae to the hotel and attacked her. Tamamo-no-Mae escaped by protecting a little girl, but the Divine Generals found someone waiting below.

• Chen Nian accepted Yang Wei's business card, then called Tang Rou and went to collect her.
• Tang Rou bound two street thugs with vines, and she and Chen Nian returned to the hotel joking together.
• Taiyin and Taichang arrived in Tokyo and used wind to locate Tamamo-no-Mae's demonic aura.
• Taiyin and Taichang attacked Tamamo-no-Mae at the hotel, forcing her to flee through the corridors.
• Tamamo-no-Mae rescued a little girl from their attack and escaped outside, but Taiyin sensed her aura again.
• Taiyin and Taichang followed the aura and came face-to-face with a young man.