Chapter Summaries

Chen Nian returned to the Onmyō Bureau to rest while the White Haze Faction fell behind Black Moon as the Demon King's awakening approached. When White Haze fighters were surrounded in Seventh-Layer City, a powerful streak of lightning broke the encirclement and let them escape.

• Chen Nian found Tang Rou sleeping in his room, sent her away, and rested under her covers while Sakura continued leveling up.
• Black Moon's ranks grew as Transcendents switched factions, but news of Buyu defeating Nurarihyon and Karasu Tengu and wounding Ibaraki-doji frightened its members.
• Hanyu Hayabusa dismissed the fear of Buyu and urged Black Moon members to defeat him and the White Haze Faction.
• White Haze elites led by the Earl of Wind and the Master of Rain fought to advance from Seventh-Layer City but were surrounded by Black Moon fighters and monsters.
• A streak of lightning tore through the encirclement, allowing the trapped White Haze fighters to escape.

Chen Nian visited Tamamo-no-Mae to seek a way to become strong enough to defeat Shuten-doji, and she sent him to the Heavenly Dream Pavilion to train against dream versions of herself and Great Tengu. Equipped with Tamamo-no-Mae’s magical mask, he reached the fox demons’ pavilion and found it bustling with customers.

• Chen Nian went to Tamamo-no-Mae’s residence and was blasted outside after teasing her about her age.
• Tamamo-no-Mae apologized when Chen Nian threatened to abandon his plan to help kill the Demon King, then told him about the Heavenly Dream Pavilion and gave him dream beads.
• Tamamo-no-Mae lent Chen Nian her silver fox mask, which hid his human aura and made his appearance constantly change.
• Chen Nian traveled west to the Heavenly Dream Pavilion and mingled unnoticed among the demons, monsters, ghosts, and fiends.
• Fox demons solicited customers at the pavilion entrance, leading Chen Nian to suspect that the place resembled a brothel.

Chen Nian entered the Dream Pavilion’s arena competition to earn a chance to have the courtesan queen Meng'er weave his dream. He defeated the feared Inugami with his Sequence 88 Word Spirit, Heavenly Brilliance, and the chapter ended with Inugami reduced to a scorched yellow dog.

• Chen Nian learned that the Dream Pavilion’s arena winners could ascend the pavilion, with the champion earning a dream from Meng'er.
• The host announced the competition, and Inugami stepped into the arena as the favorite, leaving the other demons unwilling to challenge him.
• Chen Nian entered the arena and dismissed Inugami’s warning, drawing laughter and anger from the crowd.
• Inugami attacked Chen Nian with Wind-Surmounting Slash, but struck only an afterimage.
• Chen Nian used Heavenly Brilliance to set Inugami’s fur ablaze and defeat him, leaving him scorched and back in his original dog form.

Chen Nian defeated Inugami and won access to the Dream Pavilion’s top floor, where Meng'er gave him a romantic dream and absorbed some of his yang energy. He asked to extend his stay for another dream but learned he could only have one per day, so he planned to return tomorrow.

• Chen Nian defeated Inugami, then stepped down so the other demons could compete for the fox demon girls’ attention.
• After the competition, Chen Nian was the only contestant invited to the Dream Pavilion’s top floor, where Meng'er welcomed him.
• Chen Nian asked Meng'er for a romantic dream, and she drew him into a dream of meeting, falling in love, and marrying her.
• Tamamo-no-Mae learned that Chen Nian had defeated Inugami and ordered an erotic dream at the Dream Pavilion, and she reacted angrily.
• Meng'er absorbed a wisp of Chen Nian’s yang energy after the dream, and Chen Nian asked to add more time.
• Meng'er explained that she could create only one dream per day, so Chen Nian said he would return tomorrow.

Chen Nian returned to the Dream Pavilion and defeated Yaksha after the fox demons arranged for him to challenge Chen Nian. He was left victorious in the arena, with Meng'er waiting upstairs.

• Meng'er told the fox demon sisters that Chen Nian's yang energy had greatly increased her demonic power and said he would return the next day.
• One of the sisters arranged for Yaksha to come challenge Chen Nian, hoping to keep him from seeing Meng'er.
• Meng'er sent a little fox demon to warn Chen Nian that a powerful fighter was waiting, but Chen Nian entered the arena anyway.
• Chen Nian defeated several challengers before Yaksha arrived and attacked him with a trident.
• Chen Nian caught Yaksha's trident between two fingers, disintegrated it with Word Spirit-Origin-Destroying World, and blasted Yaksha out of the arena.

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.