Recaps

Jiang Yantian forced Xiao Xiang'er to memorize and perform suggestive lines under threat of wiping out her lineage, while she tried to understand his intentions. The chapter ended with Xiao Xiang'er reluctantly pushing the bed against the wall to begin reciting.

• Jiang Yantian wrote a sheet of instructions while Xiao Xiang'er worried about why he had abducted her.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Xiao Xiang'er to memorize the sheet and recite it for five hours, threatening to exterminate her Xiao Lineage if she failed.
• Xiao Xiang'er read the suggestive lines and bizarre performance directions, then reluctantly agreed to recite them.
• Xiao Xiang'er wondered whether Jiang Yantian was trying to make Xiao Jue misunderstand their relationship.
• Xiao Xiang'er held back her tears and pushed the bed against the wall as the instructions required.

Jiang Yantian forced Xiao Xiang'er to recite suggestive lines until she developed an intense, confusing attraction to him despite her love for Brother Xiao Jue. The chapter left Xiao Xiang'er exposing her shoulder at Jiang Yantian's demand while her reason and desire fought within her.

• Jiang Yantian made Xiao Xiang'er repeatedly recite sweet nothings while pushing the bed against the wall and performing other actions.
• As she continued, Xiao Xiang'er became less ashamed and felt warmth and longing grow within her, with her attention fixed on Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian noticed Xiao Xiang'er's hazy, lovestruck expression and ordered her to keep going.
• Jiang Yantian approached Xiao Xiang'er, touched her cheek, and prompted her to ask him for more; she obeyed despite thinking of Brother Xiao Jue.
• Jiang Yantian asked to see Xiao Xiang'er's breasts, and she sat on the bed and began lowering her dress while struggling with her conscience.

Xiao Xiang'er gave Jiang Yantian the attention he demanded and began memorizing the lines he had assigned her. Jiang Yantian overheard Xiao Zhang and the elders plotting to summon the Eternal Devil Venerable, then continued toward the ruined corner where Xiao Jue lived.

• Xiao Xiang'er approached Jiang Yantian, who warned her to memorize her lines or he would kill her.
• After Jiang Yantian left, Xiao Xiang'er practiced the lines he had given her.
• Jiang Yantian overheard Xiao Zhang and several elders planning to invite the Eternal Devil Venerable to deal with their unwanted guests.
• Blood Sea Fu Ling heard the plot too and dismissed the Xiao Lineage members as weaklings.
• Jiang Yantian sensed Xiao Jue nearby and reached the young man's dilapidated living quarters.

Jiang Yantian taught Xiao Jue a new cultivation technique and guided him through a ritual to summon ancient power. Xiao Jue lost control of the force, which destroyed the Xiao Lineage's ancestral grounds and left him facing furious relatives.

• Xiao Jue cultivated through a punishing routine and developed a new technique called Hardship Fist.
• Jiang Yantian praised Xiao Jue and showed him hand seals for summoning ancient power.
• Jiang Yantian told Xiao Jue to pour in his Qi and sing an incantation, then left him to control the gathering force.
• Xiao Jue lost control of the force, and a massive vortex crashed down on the Xiao Lineage's ancestral grounds.
• The impact reduced the ancestral grounds to ruins, and Xiao Jue's relatives arrived, blamed him, and called for his death.

After the Xiao Lineage blamed Xiao Jue for destroying its ancestral grounds, Jiang Yantian urged him to stand up to the crowd. Xiao Jue followed his advice and launched into a furious stream of insults, ending the chapter in the middle of the confrontation.

• Xiao Jue panicked as the Xiao Lineage elders and disciples rushed toward his courtyard, then forced himself to face them.
• The first elder broke down Xiao Jue’s gate and berated him for destroying the ancestral grounds.
• Xiao Yu, Xiao Ting, disciples, and elders mocked Xiao Jue and called for him to be punished.
• Jiang Yantian secretly told Xiao Jue to raise his middle finger and curse at the crowd.
• Xiao Jue traded insults with the Xiao Lineage, cursing everyone from elders to children as Jiang Yantian encouraged him.

Xiao Jue was punished by the Xiao Lineage after his outburst, but he responded to every beating with taunts and defiance. As the elders grew increasingly furious, he continued provoking them, even demanding they burn him.

• Xiao Jue insulted the Xiao Lineage elders, and guards beat him with chains after they failed to win their argument.
• The guards bound Xiao Jue and hoisted him from a tree while he continued taunting the elders and Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu struck Xiao Jue with a barbed whip, but Xiao Jue shouted that it felt good and exposed Xiao Yu's attraction to his younger sister, leaving the gathering stunned.
• The grand elder took the whip and lashed Xiao Jue repeatedly, while Xiao Jue mocked him and told him where to strike.
• Xiao Jue taunted the grand elder about his wife and then called for someone to light a candle and burn him.

Xiao Jue endured the Xiao Lineage’s punishment with delight because he believed the pain would help his cultivation, leaving Jiang Yantian convinced that the lineage had become rotten. Jiang Yantian avoided Xiao Xiang'er and went to find his wife and junior sister instead.

• Xiao Jue taunted the Xiao Lineage members as they punished him, while the First Elder ordered them to leave him hanging without food or water.
• Xiao Jue celebrated his suffering, tested the rope, and even looped it around his neck as Jiang Yantian watched.
• Jiang Yantian received a system notice granting Xiao Jue 5,000,000 Humiliation Points and suspected Xiao Jue was a masochist.
• Jiang Yantian returned to his lodging, heard Xiao Xiang'er making blunt demands, and chose not to go inside.
• Jiang Yantian decided the Xiao Lineage had gone rotten and left to find his wife and junior sister.

Jiang Yantian reunited with Blood Sea Fu Ling, and the two slipped away from Zhongli Qingwan to share an intimate moment in a grove. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhang returned to find the Xiao Lineage ancestral grounds destroyed and learned that his son Xiao Jue had caused the damage.

• Jiang Yantian found Blood Sea Fu Ling and Zhongli Qingwan grilling feng shui fish beside a lake and teased Blood Sea Fu Ling while Zhongli Qingwan watched awkwardly.
• Jiang Yantian took Blood Sea Fu Ling by the hand into a grove, where they kissed passionately before she asked whether he had been intimate with Xiao Xiang'er.
• Xiao Zhang returned to the Xiao Lineage estate, expecting to tell the elders that he had secured the Eternal Devil Venerable's help, and discovered the ancestral grounds had been destroyed.
• Xiao Lineage members told Xiao Zhang that Xiao Jue had blown up the ancestral grounds and had already been apprehended.
• Xiao Zhang rushed to Xiao Jue's courtyard, furious at his son for destroying the lineage's ancestral grounds and auspicious land.

Xiao Zhang beat Xiao Jue and accidentally shattered one of his, leaving his son furious and estranged from him. As the Eternal Devil Venerable arrived, Xiao Zhang feared the being he had summoned would destroy the Xiao Lineage.

• Xiao Zhang rushed to Xiao Jue's courtyard and beat him, shattering one of his and earning Jiang Yantian a notification for Humiliation Points.
• Xiao Jue rejected Xiao Zhang, blamed him for failing to defend him when he was a cripple, and shut himself in his house.
• Xiao Zhang left the courtyard and waited for the Eternal Devil Venerable, hoping the Xiao Lineage would not be implicated.
• Black haze and a terrifying presence descended over the Xiao Lineage estate, leaving Xiao Zhang afraid the Devil Venerable would attack his people.

The Eternal Devil Venerable descended on the Xiao Lineage residence and demanded that its people welcome him, but Jiang Yantian struck him down with a casual strand of Devil Qi. The gathering was left stunned as the Devil Venerable lay gravely injured in a crater.

• The Eternal Devil Venerable manifested an enormous ghostly head above the Xiao Lineage residence, crushing its buildings and terrifying the gathered elders and disciples.
• The Devil Venerable demanded that the Xiao Lineage come out to welcome him, while Zhongli Qingwan recognized his supposed connection to the Imperishable Devil Emperor as a lie.
• After the Xiao Lineage members failed to welcome him sincerely, the Devil Venerable roared and injured several people with his overwhelming power.
• Jiang Yantian, annoyed by the roar while busy in the grove, tossed out a strand of Devil Qi that shattered the ghostly head and sent the Devil Venerable crashing into the square.
• The Xiao Lineage and Zhongli Lineage members stared in disbelief at the gravely injured Devil Venerable in the crater.

Jiang Yantian crippled the Eternal Devil Venerable with a casual strike, while the Xiao Lineage mistook the attack for their ancestor protecting them. After Jiang Yantian threatened the Devil Venerable into destroying the Xiao Lineage, the Devil Venerable burned his origin power and rose to attack.

• Jiang Yantian's unseen strike slammed the Eternal Devil Venerable into a pit and left him crippled.
• The Xiao Lineage members believed their ancestor had protected them and celebrated the Devil Venerable's defeat.
• Jiang Yantian ordered the Devil Venerable to destroy the Xiao Lineage before an incense stick burned out or suffer the Ten Thousand Demons Banner.
• The Devil Venerable realized Jiang Yantian was the Imperishable Devil Emperor and feared for his life.
• The Devil Venerable burned his origin power, surged with Devil Qi, and rose above the square with his bat wings spread.

The Devil Venerable attacked the Xiao Lineage and slaughtered its members while Xiao Zhang and the elders failed to stop him. Xiao Jue saw the carnage and called for help from his senior.

• The Devil Venerable unleashed his Devil Qi across the Xiao Lineage estate, draining the disciples’ vital essence and turning them into withered bones.
• Xiao Zhang and the elders attacked the Devil Venerable, but his devil palm shattered their treasures and grievously injured them.
• Zhongli Qingwan searched for her senior brother, discovered him with an elder sister in the grove, and hurried back to the two Zhongli elders.
• The Devil Venerable continued killing the Xiao Lineage, and Xiao Zhang blamed himself as his clansmen fell.
• Xiao Jue arrived to find the Xiao Lineage being slaughtered, realized he was too weak to intervene, and called for his senior to help.

The Devil Venerable slaughtered the Xiao Lineage while Xiao Jue begged Jiang Yantian to intervene. As the Devil Venerable attacked Xiao Jue, Xiao Zhang arrived and risked his life to protect his son, but the black mist continued to close in.

• The Devil Venerable killed most of the Xiao Lineage, while Xiao Jue pleaded for a senior to save them.
• Jiang Yantian and Blood Sea Fu Ling watched from a grove, and Jiang Yantian decided to wait until the Xiao Lineage was dead before intervening.
• The Devil Venerable turned his attack on Xiao Jue, but a crushing pressure pinned Xiao Jue in place.
• Xiao Zhang arrived, burned his source and lifespan, and charged the Devil Venerable to shield Xiao Jue.
• The Devil Venerable shattered Xiao Zhang's attack and sent him flying, but Xiao Zhang rose again and held back the black mist as Xiao Jue begged for help.

Jiang Yantian arrived just as the Devil Venerable was about to kill Xiao Jue and overpowered him. He condemned the Devil Venerable for slaughtering the Xiao Lineage and prepared to imprison him in the Nine Netherworlds.

• Xiao Zhang confessed that he had brought the Devil Venerable to the Xiao Lineage to avenge the broken engagement, then urged Xiao Jue to escape as the Devil Qi consumed him.
• Xiao Jue repeatedly tried to reach his father, but the Devil Venerable's power hurled him back and left him helpless as Xiao Zhang's life faded.
• The Devil Venerable fired a fatal attack at Xiao Jue, but Jiang Yantian's overwhelming might scattered it and appeared as a towering Dharma manifestation.
• The Devil Venerable recognized Jiang Yantian as the Imperishable Devil Emperor, while Jiang Yantian blamed him for the massacre and claimed he would not shield a fellow member of the Devil Race.
• Jiang Yantian opened a rift and declared that he would imprison the Eternal Devil Venerable in the Nine Netherworlds, then ordered him suppressed and slain.

Jiang Yantian annihilated the Eternal Devil Venerable, earning the adoration of the crowd and revealing his identity to Xiao Jue. A system notification then credited him with the Three Xiao Goddesses achievement, leaving him bewildered by Xiao Jue’s fervent gaze.

• Jiang Yantian dragged the Eternal Devil Venerable into a spatial fissure and killed him.
• The gathered cultivators and commoners cheered Jiang Yantian and praised the Devil Emperor for vanquishing the evil devil.
• Xiao Jue recognized Jiang Yantian as the Imperishable Devil Emperor and Heaven-Serving Divine Lord, then knelt and worshipped him.
• A notification awarded Jiang Yantian the Three Xiao Goddesses achievement, Humiliation Points, and a Faith Aura for winning over Xiao Yi, Xiao Beichen, and Xiao Jue.
• Jiang Yantian noticed Xiao Jue’s adoring gaze and wondered what was wrong with him.

Jiang Yantian beat Xiao Jue after mistaking his fanatical admiration for a disturbing fixation, but Xiao Jue welcomed the punishment until Jiang ordered the Shadow Legion to continue it. Jiang left the ruins to seek comfort from his wife while Xiao Jue endured the beating and convinced himself it was tempering him.

• Jiang Yantian recognized Xiao Jue's clingy, fervent gaze and attacked him, kicking him into a ruined courtyard wall and beating him.
• Xiao Jue accepted the blows as deserved discipline and grew grateful, believing Jiang's personal attention meant he cared about him.
• When Jiang paused, Xiao Jue begged him to keep beating him, prompting Jiang to recoil in disgust and summon the Shadow Legion.
• Jiang ordered the Shadow Legion to beat Xiao Jue to death, and its fighters swarmed him as his pleas turned to cries of pain.
• Jiang flew away to find his wife for comfort while Xiao Jue continued to believe the beating was helping him grow stronger.

After the Xiao Lineage was destroyed, Jiang Yantian decided to leave and travel to the Zhongli Lineage in the Eastern Peak Imperial Dynasty with his junior sister. Xiao Xiang'er begged to follow him, but he rejected her and departed, leaving her alone among the ruins.

• Jiang Yantian found Xiao Xiang'er acting perversely in the residence and told her to stay away from him.
• Jiang Yantian planned to leave overnight for the Zhongli Lineage, then return to the forbidden zone and gather his followers for a journey to the Demon Domain.
• Jiang Yantian told Xiao Xiang'er he would spare her and urged her to seek out Xiao Jue instead.
• Xiao Xiang'er asked Jiang Yantian to take her along as a maid, but he refused and teleported away.
• Xiao Xiang'er watched Jiang Yantian disappear into the sunset and wondered why she had fallen for him.

Jiang Yantian left the Xiao Lineage for the Zhongli Lineage with Blood Sea Fu Ling and the others, while Xiao Xiang'er watched him go, heartbroken. Left behind with Xiao Jue, she confessed her feelings for Jiang Yantian and agreed that she and Xiao Jue would wait for him together.

• Xiao Xiang'er watched Jiang Yantian leave and cried over his indifference and her feelings for him.
• Jiang Yantian went with Blood Sea Fu Ling, Zhongli Qingwan, Elders Kumu, and Fengchun to visit the Zhongli Lineage.
• Xiao Jue arrived at the ruined courtyard and found Xiao Xiang'er grieving over Jiang Yantian's departure.
• Xiao Xiang'er shouted that she liked Jiang Yantian and would wait for him for the rest of her life.
• Xiao Jue joined Xiao Xiang'er in crying for Jiang Yantian and said he would wait with her.
• Xiao Xiang'er told Xiao Jue that her heart belonged to Jiang Yantian and suggested they remain siblings, and Xiao Jue agreed.

Jiang Yantian asked what gifts to bring when visiting Zhongli Qingwan’s family, then learned that the Sacred Sect was the Zhongli Lineage’s sworn enemy and immediately went to its headquarters. The chapter ended as the skies over the heavily defended sect began to change.

• As the group traveled back, Blood Sea Fu Ling teased Jiang Yantian about the people who had cried after he left, and he joked about keeping Xiao Jue alive because he might be useful.
• Zhongli Qingwan recalled how Jiang Yantian had protected her in the past and felt some regret about not traveling farther with him.
• Jiang Yantian landed outside the Eastern Peak Capital and asked Zhongli Qingwan what gifts her parents would like, insisting he was visiting as her senior brother.
• Jiang Yantian asked whether the Zhongli Lineage had an enemy it could not defeat, and Zhongli Qingwan named the Sacred Sect and described its attack on her lineage.
• Jiang Yantian vanished and appeared at the Sacred Sect’s headquarters several hundred miles west of the capital.
• The winds and clouds changed above the Sacred Sect as Jiang Yantian arrived.

Jiang Yantian annihilated the Sacred Sect to avenge Zhongli Qingwan, then accompanied her to the Zhongli Lineage estate. Zhongli Fu prepared to welcome the Imperishable Devil Emperor, already imagining him as a possible son-in-law, as Jiang Yantian arrived.

• Jiang Yantian destroyed the Sacred Sect's formation and killed its leader, family, elders, and tens of thousands of disciples.
• Jiang Yantian returned to Zhongli Qingwan with the Sacred Sect leaders' heads and said the deed was done.
• Zhongli Qingwan and the two Zhongli Lineage elders were stunned by Jiang Yantian's power and followed him toward the estate.
• Zhongli Fu prepared the Zhongli Lineage estate and banquet after learning that the Imperishable Devil Emperor was Zhongli Qingwan's senior brother.
• Jiang Yantian's presence reached the estate, and Zhongli Fu hurried to greet him, calling him the Devil Emperor and nearly calling him their son-in-law.

Jiang Yantian visited Zhongli Qingwan’s parents, where Zhongli Fu’s nervous greeting accidentally called him a worthy son-in-law. The visit continued with Jiang presenting the heads of the Sacred Sect as a gift, leaving Zhongli Fu delighted and even more eager for Jiang to marry Qingwan.

• Zhongli Fu greeted Jiang Yantian as both the Devil Emperor and his worthy son-in-law, embarrassing himself and Zhongli Qingwan.
• Jiang Yantian gently eased the awkwardness, and Zhongli Fu led the group into the residence, which was decorated with red lanterns, ribbons, and a double-happiness character.
• Jiang Yantian urged Zhongli Fu and Yang Tang to treat him as Qingwan’s senior brother, then presented Zhongli Fu with the heads of the Sacred Sect’s family.
• Zhongli Fu recognized the heads and celebrated the Sacred Sect’s destruction, calling Jiang his worthy son-in-law and privately imagining Qingwan’s wedding night.

Zhongli Fu and Yang Tang eagerly arranged for Zhongli Qingwan to marry Jiang Yantian, while Blood Sea Fu Ling agreed to welcome her as a younger sister. Jiang Yantian protested that the decision was rushed, but Zhongli Qingwan confessed that she wanted to marry him and recalled how long she had loved him.

• Zhongli Fu repeatedly called Jiang Yantian his good son-in-law and ordered the servants to display the severed heads Jiang Yantian had brought as a gift.
• Blood Sea Fu Ling introduced herself as Jiang Yantian's wife and promised Zhongli Fu that she would look after Zhongli Qingwan as a younger sister.
• Zhongli Fu and Yang Tang began speaking to Zhongli Qingwan as though her marriage to Jiang Yantian had already been arranged.
• Jiang Yantian objected that the marriage decision was too sudden and said Zhongli Qingwan's agreement was necessary.
• Zhongli Qingwan told Jiang Yantian that she agreed to marry him and admitted she had liked him since he gave her chicken butt to eat.
• Zhongli Qingwan recalled that she had once refused to leave Jiang Yantian for the Mysterious Spirit Sect's inner sect, until he told her that her presence affected his cultivation.

Jiang Yantian warned Zhongli Qingwan about the supposed hardships of following him, but she confessed that she wanted to marry him and remain by his side forever. His request to “wait” was mistaken for a rejection until he clarified that he only needed time to prepare betrothal gifts.

• Jiang Yantian recalled how he had sent Zhongli Qingwan away to cultivate after they had grown up together as children.
• Jiang Yantian listed the supposed burdens of joining him, but Zhongli Qingwan insisted she was willing to follow him.
• Zhongli Qingwan confessed that she wanted to marry Jiang Yantian and stay with him forever.
• Jiang Yantian told Zhongli Qingwan to wait, and she and the others took this as a rejection.
• Jiang Yantian clarified that he meant they should wait while he prepared the betrothal gifts.

Jiang Yantian clarified that he had delayed answering Zhongli Qingwan so he could prepare betrothal gifts, and she joyfully accepted his intent to marry her. Their families and allies rushed to arrange an immediate wedding while Jiang Yantian and Blood Sea Fu Ling prepared an extravagant procession and gifts, then slipped away together to wait.

• Jiang Yantian told Zhongli Qingwan he had gone to fetch betrothal gifts, and she wept with joy when she understood he intended to marry her.
• Zhongli Fu ordered the Zhongli Lineage to return, invited the city to a grand wedding feast, and began arranging the ceremony for that day.
• Jiang Yantian and Blood Sea Fu Ling discussed holding a simple ceremony now and a larger wedding in the Demon Domain later.
• Blood Sea Fu Ling summoned a host of asuras, and Jiang Yantian summoned ancient ferocious beasts carrying countless precious betrothal gifts.
• While they waited to depart, Jiang Yantian suggested he and Blood Sea Fu Ling resume their intimacy in the mountains, and she agreed.

News spread that Zhongli Qingwan would marry Jiang Yantian, the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord, and the Eastern Peak Imperial Dynasty rushed to celebrate and seek his favor. As crowds and lavish gifts gathered at the Zhongli Lineage, Jiang Yantian remained unaware, still pushing his cart.

• The Zhongli Lineage announced Zhongli Qingwan's wedding and distributed invitations across the Eastern Peak Imperial Dynasty.
• The public learned that Jiang Yantian, the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord and Imperishable Devil Emperor, was the groom, and attendees rushed to prepare wedding gifts.
• The Eastern Peak emperor ordered rare treasures taken from the imperial treasury as a lavish gift for Jiang Yantian.
• Rival lineages hurried to the Zhongli Lineage to apologize and offer precious gifts, while Zhongli Fu basked in their deference.
• Sect leaders, Rogue Cultivators, and ordinary people crowded toward the Zhongli residence, hoping to witness Jiang Yantian's arrival.
• Jiang Yantian remained unaware of the commotion and continued pushing his cart.