Recaps

Xiao Tian and his companions secretly plundered Black Wind Mountain’s golden essence mine, while Wangquan Baye guarded their tunnel and swallowed golden essence stones. Their theft disrupted the mine’s output, and when One-Horned Ox King came to investigate, Wangquan Baye killed him and the group claimed his loot.

• Wangquan Baye guarded the tunnel while Xiao Tian and the others drank and consumed golden essence stones they had taken from the mine.
• Over two days, many mining demons disappeared and the mine’s golden essence stone deliveries fell to a fraction of their expected output.
• The mine’s overseers went to One-Horned Ox King for help, and he set out to report the problem to Boss Blood Wind.
• Wangquan Baye killed One-Horned Ox King when he arrived at the tunnel and found golden essence stones and three clumps of golden essence marrow in his storage bag.
• Xiao Tian praised Wangquan Baye and invited the group to divide the loot.

The miners and guards abandoned the golden essence stone mine after Great King Blood Wind dismissed their concerns, leaving him isolated. Xiao Tian and his group found the empty mine and confronted Blood Wind, while Xiao Tian assigned Rock Lee to fight him.

• The mine officials warned Great King Blood Wind about the situation, but he threatened them and drove them away.
• The officials spread word of Blood Wind's response, and miners and guards left the mine until it stood empty.
• Xiao Tian sensed something was wrong, led his group out of their restrictions, and discovered the mine had been abandoned.
• Xiao Tian's group found the sleeping Blood Wind, who woke and angrily challenged the intruders.
• Li Quzhuo prepared to fight Blood Wind, but Xiao Tian called on Rock Lee to take him on while his Shadow Clone searched for golden essence marrow.

Thousand Mechanisms Child Li Quzhuo fought Great King Blood Wind, killed him with the Universe Ring, then badly injured himself by unleashing his treasures recklessly. Xiao Tian criticized him and sent Big Li to teach him a lesson while the others began looting the mine.

• Thousand Mechanisms Child Li Quzhuo gained the upper hand against Great King Blood Wind as his combat skills improved during their fight.
• Li Quzhuo struck Great King Blood Wind’s head with the Universe Ring and killed him.
• Li Quzhuo activated several magical treasures at once to attack the defeated enemy and injured himself in the resulting blaze.
• Xiao Tian mocked Li Quzhuo’s reckless use of magical power, and Li Quzhuo admitted he had relied on his companions’ support.
• Xiao Tian told Big Li to teach Li Quzhuo a lesson and sent the others to loot the mine, with Wangquan Baye guarding the entrance.

Xiao Tian taught the group to use Shadow Clone so they could mine the golden essence stone, but most of them left him and Dongfang Qinlan to do the work. After three days, the mine’s reserves proved enormous, and Xiao Tian worried that mining would take too long.

• Wangquan Baye guarded the mine entrance while Xiao Tian sent his Shadow Clones to mine alongside the others.
• Xiao Tian taught the group Shadow Clone, and Dongfang Qinlan created nine clones while Ji Wuji struggled to make even one.
• Xiao Tian tricked Ji Wuji with stories about legendary practitioners before teaching him a special method of controlling magical power.
• Ji Wuji, Deng Qiyue, Li Zizai, and the others went off to cultivate, leaving Xiao Tian and Dongfang Qinlan to mine.
• Three days later, Xiao Tian realized the golden essence stone mine stretched to unknown depths and decided that he needed more help mining.

Xiao Tian mined golden essence stone while Dongfang Qinlan tried to trick him with doctored drinks, until Wangquan Baye spotted a large demon force approaching. The group went to capture the demons for labor, but Black Wind Mountain sent an elite army to encircle them.

• Xiao Tian exhausted himself mining golden essence stone, and Dongfang Qinlan offered him Sprite secretly mixed with silver grass juice.
• Wangquan Baye spotted more than a thousand well-equipped demons approaching and brought the news to Xiao Tian and the others.
• Li Quzhuo and Ji Wuji argued over their names until Xiao Tian struck them and ordered them to help Wangquan Baye capture demons.
• Dongfang Qinlan and her clones asked Xiao Tian for drinks, while he recalled that they had barely mined any stone and had eaten what they dug up.
• Xuezang joined the group capturing demons, hoping to gather a hundred laborers and earn a cure for its poison.
• Scouts from Black Wind Mountain discovered the escaped demons, and an army of over a thousand, including three hundred Lesser Demon Kings and twenty Demon Kings, arrived to encircle the group.

Yang Yitan directed the group in defeating and capturing the Black Wind demon army while Dongfang Qinlan was assigned to herd the prisoners into the mine. The army was routed, but one demon king was nearly dead and Shi Kuang watched in fear.

• Shi Kuang ordered five hundred Black Wind demons to charge the masked humans and surround any who escaped.
• Wangquan Baye and the others took on the rear ranks while Yang Yitan directed Deng Qiyue, Ji Wuji, and Xuezang against the vanguard.
• Yang Yitan bluffed Dongfang Qinlan into believing her important task was to use her Demon-Slaying Divine Flame to herd demon captives into the mine.
• Deng Qiyue smashed a hole in the demon formation, and Ji Wuji attacked its weaknesses with Purple Firmament lightning at Yang Yitan's direction.
• Yang Yitan routed and sealed the Demonic Power of the defeated demons, but one demon king was nearly dead, while Shi Kuang watched in fear.

Wangquan Baye defeated the Black Wind Demon Army and captured Shi Kuang and the surviving demons, who were forced to work in Xiao Tian’s mines. As a day passed without word from Shi Kuang, Great King Black Wind grew restless on Black Wind Mountain.

• Wangquan Baye threatened Shi Kuang with his sword intent, and Shi Kuang surrendered to avoid being killed.
• Wangquan Baye and the others won the battle, killing one Demon King and over fifty lesser demons and Lesser Demon Kings.
• Dongfang Qinlan whipped the captured demons into line while Xiao Tian ordered them to mine in exchange for their eventual freedom.
• Xiao Tian dispelled his Shadow Clones, and Xuezang became a mine overseer as the demons worked under the Dongfang Sisters’ watch.
• Great King Black Wind waited a day without receiving a signal from Shi Kuang and began to grow restless.

While the group waited for the Black Wind Demon Army to mine golden essence, Xiao Tian gave Ji Wuji misleading advice about learning the Shadow Clone divine ability. Ji Wuji succeeded after taking the advice to heart, though Li Quzhuo and Dongfang Qinlan revealed they had learned Shadow Clone for far less lofty reasons.

• Li Quzhuo suggested attacking Great King Black Wind and taking over Black Wind Mountain, but Xiao Tian chose to wait and offered golden essence marrow for drinks.
• Ji Wuji asked Xiao Tian for help learning Shadow Clone so he could avoid errands after getting married, and Xiao Tian told him the divine ability required respect.
• Ji Wuji decided to turn Shadow Clone into a Purple Empyrean Lightning generator and, half a day later, successfully created two clones.
• Ji Wuji credited Xiao Tian's advice about the Heart of Divine Ability, while Li Quzhuo and Dongfang Qinlan said they had learned Shadow Clone to carry things, slack off, and play tricks.

Xiao Tian encouraged Ji Wuji after he learned to create four Shadow Clones, then went to the mine and gathered golden essence. When Great King Black Wind arrived with over a thousand demons, Xiao Tian used his Talk no Jutsu Technique to make the army kneel, leaving the king unaffected.

• Xiao Tian reassured the dejected Ji Wuji, who regained his confidence and declared himself a hero.
• Xiao Tian inspected the mine tunnels and collected golden essence stones and golden essence marrow.
• Wangquan Baye warned Xiao Tian that Great King Black Wind had arrived with over a thousand demons.
• Xiao Tian told his companions to let him handle the attackers and promised to demonstrate his Talk no Jutsu Technique.
• Xiao Tian shouted, and every demon in Black Wind Mountain's army except Great King Black Wind fell to their knees.

Xiao Tian pretended to exhaust himself after neutralizing the demon soldiers and let Qing Muyuan care for him while the others fought Great King Black Wind. He secretly used Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi to weaken the Great Demon King, allowing Wangquan Baye and Zhang Zheng to pin it down as the group moved to capture it.

• Xiao Tian feigned exhaustion and collapsed into Qing Muyuan’s arms after the demon soldiers were wiped out.
• Wangquan Baye, Li Zizai, Yang Yitan, Deng Qiyue, Zhang Zheng, Xuezang, and the others attacked Great King Black Wind.
• Qing Muyuan massaged Xiao Tian’s head while he recovered with cola and teased her about marriage.
• Yang Yitan, Wangquan Baye, Li Zizai, and Deng Qiyue broke through Great King Black Wind’s wind-and-sand attacks and injured it.
• Xiao Tian revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and struck Great King Black Wind with Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi.
• Wangquan Baye and Zhang Zheng pierced Great King Black Wind’s shoulder blades, disrupting its demonic power, and the group moved to seize it.

Xiao Tian and the Mask Group subdued Great King Black Wind and forced the demons of Black Wind Mountain to mine golden essence stone. They then planned to capture Lord Ji and other Northern Mountain Demon Emperor subordinates while training their own members.

• Xiao Tian ordered the captured Great King Black Wind to behave and mine, but Black Wind threatened them with Lord Ji, the master of Mao Sun Cave.
• Dongfang Qinlan struck Black Wind with her Demon-Slaying Divine Flame, while Li Quzhuo and Ji Wuji mocked him and challenged Lord Ji to come.
• Yang Yitan warned that Lord Ji was an ancient, powerful Great Demon King, but Wangquan Baye and Xiao Tian said they feared neither him nor the Northern Mountain Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Tian and the others beat Black Wind into submission, and Dongfang Qinlan's clone made him mine alongside the other demons.
• Xiao Tian proposed capturing Lord Ji and other Northern Mountain Demon Emperor subordinates to make them mine, while he checked outside Black Wind Mountain and Wangquan Baye trained the group by having them fight its Demon Kings.

Dongfang Huaizhu fought the Lion King Shi Kuang, using repeated attacks to draw him into range before trapping him in a devastating Demon-Slaying Divine Flame technique. Shi Kuang was left at death’s door, and Xiao Tian prepared to collect System Points rather than spend cola treating him.

• Shi Kuang hoped to win his freedom but feared fighting another woman who wielded the Demon-Slaying Divine Flame.
• Dongfang Huaizhu opened the fight with Majestic Destroyer Arrow, while Shi Kuang dodged her attacks and closed the distance.
• As Shi Kuang charged with Lion's Frenzied Flurry Slash, Dongfang Huaizhu ignited the air around him.
• Dongfang Huaizhu unleashed Purgatory Dragon Annihilation, engulfing Shi Kuang in layers of flame and sealing his defeat.
• Xiao Tian decided to harvest System Points from the dying Shi Kuang instead of spending cola to treat him.

Dongfang Qinlan fought the sand lizard Demon King to earn a promised supply of soda and revealed a powerful spell of her own. After Xiao Tian warned that her Shadow Clones’ feedback could make her pass out, Qinlan drank his restorative Sprite and Coke.

• Xiao Tian called for Dongfang Qinlan’s original, and Dongfang Huaizhu restrained Qinlan until Xiao Tian promised her three hundred cups of Coke and Sprite for defeating the sand lizard Demon King.
• Dongfang Qinlan burned the sand lizard Demon King’s tongue with the Demon-Slaying Divine Flame after it attacked her.
• Dongfang Qinlan created twenty Shadow Clones and fused their Fire Release: Great Fire Dragon Techniques into a barrage that roasted the sand lizard Demon King to ashes.
• Dongfang Huaizhu scolded Qinlan for taking such a risk, and Qinlan complained to Xiao Tian that her sister was jealous of her talent.
• Xiao Tian gave Qinlan restorative Sprite and Coke and warned that the Shadow Clones’ feedback could make her pass out.

The Mask Group unlocked combination techniques, and Xiao Tian organized trials to find the strongest teamings. Xiao Tian, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan tested an upgraded linked attack on a distant hilltop, piercing through it with a powerful beam.

• The Mask Group learned that its members’ attributes would strengthen and that masks had unlocked basic combination techniques.
• Wangquan Baye, Yang Yitan, and Li Quzhuo tested a combination attack, but Xiao Tian found its power chaotic and limited.
• Xiao Tian led the group in testing combinations, and they identified Illusory Heart Fallen God Flame and Heaven-Piercing Yang Flame Sword as their two best techniques.
• Xiao Tian, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan combined Dust Release, Demon-Slaying Divine Flame, and Falling Treasure Jade Ruyi to pierce a distant hilltop.

Xiao Tian and the Mask Group tested combinations of spells and began a three-day star upgrade on Black Wind Mountain. When Lord Ji arrived with King Samo, Xiao Tian warned them to flee after claiming the group had captured Black Wind Mountain's master.

• Li Quzhuo, Yang Yitan, and the others praised Xiao Tian's spell, then experimented with spell combinations on Black Wind Mountain.
• The Li brothers teamed up with Ji Wuji, while Black Sword Zhang Zheng and Deng Qiyue formed a duo.
• The Mask Group feasted on Black Wind Mountain and began a three-day star upgrade that boosted their attributes.
• Xiao Tian's Shadow Clone spotted Lord Ji and King Samo approaching on a demon bird, and Xiao Tian gathered the group to meet them.
• Lord Ji landed before Xiao Tian and the others and demanded to know why cultivators from the Yiqi Dao League had come to Northern Mountain.
• Xiao Tian told Lord Ji that they had captured Black Wind Mountain's master and gave him ten seconds to flee.

Lord Ji tried to escape Black Wind Mountain with King Samo Guyi, but Xiao Tian and his companions struck them with a fused technique. Lord Ji was badly wounded and realized the attack might be comparable to a Demon Emperor’s power.

• Lord Ji fled with King Samo Guyi after Xiao Tian warned him to leave Black Wind Mountain.
• Xiao Tian, Qing Muyuan, and Dongfang Qinlan combined their powers into a single attack and sent it after the fleeing pair.
• Lord Ji transformed into a three-legged golden bird and charged into the attack with his Divine Light of Nine Suns.
• The fused technique tore through Lord Ji’s divine light and wounded him, while Demon-Slaying Divine Flame spread through his body.
• Guyi swooped down to rescue Lord Ji, but an enormous ray of sword light slashed toward them.

Xiao Tian and the Yiqi Dao League captured Lord Ji after their combination technique disrupted the Three-Legged Golden Rooster’s Demonic Power. Lord Ji was imprisoned in Black Wind Mountain’s mine, where its capture plunged the demons into despair, though Xiao Tian promised to release them after a month of work.

• King Samo escaped after Lord Ji urged him to flee and warn Northern Mountain.
• Xiao Tian and the others surrounded the wounded Three-Legged Golden Rooster and explained how their combination technique had disrupted its Demonic Power.
• Li Quzhuo bound Lord Ji with the Immortal-Binding Rope while the Divine Lord of Three Senses sealed its Demonic Power.
• Deng Qiyue dragged Lord Ji into the golden essence stone mine, where Great King Black Wind recognized it and spread news of its capture.
• Black Wind Mountain’s demons despaired, and some tried to kill themselves, but Xiao Tian’s Shadow Clones stopped them and Xiao Tian promised to release them after one month of work.

Xiao Tian learned that Great King Black Wind was secretly gathering golden essence marrow to break the seal on his demonic power and lead the miners out of Black Wind Mountain. After the Ghost-Faced Pig Demon betrayed Black Wind’s plan, Xiao Tian decided to release Black Wind and warn him about the traitor.

• Xiao Tian announced that the demon miners would be released after serving a month, giving some of them hope.
• Great King Black Wind gathered the Demon Kings and asked them to secretly give him golden essence stone and marrow so he could break the seal on his demonic power.
• Xiao Tian and the Mask Group discussed Black Wind’s plan and the possibility of facing the Northern Mountain Demon Emperor, Shi Kuan.
• After three days, Black Wind’s group had stockpiled ten clumps of golden essence marrow, and Black Wind claimed one more batch would give him a ninety percent chance of breaking the seal.
• The Ghost-Faced Pig Demon informed Xiao Tian about Black Wind’s plan, and Xiao Tian decided to let Black Wind go and tell him about the betrayal.

Xiao Tian turned Great King Black Wind’s escape into a way to control the demons mining at Black Wind Mountain. He offered them freedom for reporting rule-breakers, and the White Rhinoceros Demon King urged them to cooperate.

• Great King Black Wind killed the Ghost-Faced Pig Demon for informing on the demons, then left the mine with the other Demon Kings after Xiao Tian let them go.
• After the Demon Kings escaped Black Wind Mountain, Xiao Tian showed the miners memories of their departure, but many demons accused him of showing fake images.
• Xiao Tian offered to release any demon who reported a teammate and used the Ghost-Faced Pig Demon’s corpse to demonstrate how Great King Black Wind had killed him.
• Xiao Tian told the demons they could follow his rules and leave the mine or wait until the humans departed in about a month.
• The White Rhinoceros Demon King encouraged the miners to cooperate, and Xiao Tian put him in charge of Area B with 25 days left until his release.

The Scarlet Bird tried to earn a better position by reporting other demons, but Dongfang Qinlan demanded more names before it could be promoted. After Xiao Tian learned it had once served as Lord Ji's mount, he gave it a new job delivering meals and kitchen ingredients.

• The Scarlet Bird hoped to escape the mine after seeing Lord Ji captured by humans it believed were as powerful as the Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Tian asked Dongfang Qinlan what to do with the Scarlet Bird, and she first suggested making it an area supervisor.
• Dongfang Qinlan withdrew the offer and told the Scarlet Bird to report twenty more demons, or five Demon Kings.
• Xiao Tian mentioned that the Scarlet Bird had been Lord Ji's mount, prompting it to confess that other demons had bullied it over the connection.
• Xiao Tian assigned the Scarlet Bird to deliver Lord Ji's meals and transport ingredients for the kitchen, and it gratefully accepted.

After the capture of Lord Ji, King Samo of the Far North urged Northern Mountain’s demon factions to find the Demon Emperor, while Xiao Tian’s group learned that Northern Mountain was mobilizing around Black Wind Mountain. The chapter ended with the group considering whether to flee before the surrounding scouts closed in.

• Scarlet Bird brought Lord Ji another miserable meal, and Lord Ji vowed to punish the former mount for betraying him.
• King Samo told Kang Jinlong and Jiao Mujiao that the Yiqi Dao League had captured Lord Ji and asked them to locate the Northern Mountain Demon Emperor.
• Kang Jinlong called on the Seventy-Two Caves, Thirty-Six Mountains, and demon kingdoms to contact the Demon Emperor.
• Northern Mountain’s factions rallied, sent out spies, and surrounded Black Wind Mountain with scouts.
• Xiao Tian’s group captured a spy serving Kang Jinlong and discussed whether they should escape.

Xiao Tian planned to use Lord Ji as leverage to secure freedom of movement in Northern Mountain while Shi Kuan remained missing. After the Mask Group announced its terms, Northern Mountain’s Great Demon Kings gathered and received intelligence from the returning Great King Black Wind.

• Yang Yitan said Northern Mountain’s forces were searching for Shi Kuan, and Xiao Tian planned to propose a PK match in exchange for the Mask Group’s freedom to operate.
• Dongfang Qinlan hit Li Quzhuo for calling Xiao Tian reckless, then bristled when he said she was defending her man.
• Over the next two days, Xiao Tian’s group caught Northern Mountain spies and learned that Shi Kuan had reportedly been sighted in the Xi Xi Region.
• Xiao Tian announced that the Mask Group would release Lord Ji if Northern Mountain allowed them to operate freely and signed a mutual nonaggression pact.
• Kang Jinlong told Northern Mountain’s assembled Great Demon Kings that Great King Black Wind had escaped Black Wind Mountain and could provide useful intelligence.

Great King Black Wind told Kang Jinlong and the other Great Demon Kings about his escape from Black Wind Mountain, exaggerating it into a tale of clever planning. Believing the Yiqi Dao League was overconfident, the Demon Kings prepared a counterattack as the real Yiqi Dao League forces arrived at Northern Mountain's border.

• Kang Jinlong and the other Great Demon Kings pressed Great King Black Wind to explain how he escaped and asked about the Yiqi Dao League's plans.
• Great King Black Wind claimed the Yiqi Dao League sought the golden essence stone mine and might leave Northern Mountain after mining it.
• Great King Black Wind embellished his escape into a brilliant scheme, and the Demon Kings praised him and mourned Lord Ji's imprisonment.
• Kang Jinlong and the other Great Demon Kings planned a counterattack based on the belief that Xiao Tian and his group were conceited.
• The real Yiqi Dao League forces arrived at the border between Northern Mountain and the Yiqi Dao League on a mission.

Lord Ji broke free of his bindings under the influence of Dark Golden Dawn, which created a second personality and raised him to Demon Emperor level. Xiao Tian recognized the threat and prepared his allies to fight while warning them about its mind influence and dangerous liquid.

• Xiao Tian ordered his group to kill the attackers from the Seventy-Two Caves and Thirty-Six Mountains rather than capture them.
• Dark Golden Dawn took control of Lord Ji through a second personality, and Lord Ji’s Divine Light of Nine Suns destroyed the Immortal-Binding Ropes.
• Xiao Tian and his allies arrived as Lord Ji transformed, and Xiao Tian’s cola glass melted against the Divine Light of Nine Suns.
• Xiao Tian used his Heavenly Dao Double Pupils to identify Dark Golden Dawn’s influence and saw that Lord Ji had become a Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Tian told Wangquan Baye, Yang Yitan, and Dongfang Huaizhu to prepare to attack, warned everyone about the mind influence and yellowish-white liquid, and began identifying attack points.

Xiao Tian used Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame to break Lord Ji’s Divine Light of Nine Suns and drive Dark Golden Dawn’s power from his body. Dark Golden Dawn escaped despite the group’s attacks, but Ji Wuji and the others sealed off its position.

• Dark Golden Dawn took control of Lord Ji and attacked Xiao Tian and his companions with Divine Light of Nine Suns and its golden liquid.
• Xiao Tian summoned Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame, countered Lord Ji’s attack, and pierced the Three-Legged Golden Rooster with a flame spear, forcing Dark Golden Dawn out.
• Wangquan Baye, Dongfang Huaizhu, and Yang Yitan struck Dark Golden Dawn’s exposed power and severely wounded it.
• Dark Golden Dawn cut off part of itself to escape, but Xiao Tian used Kamui to trap and tear at it.
• Dongfang Qinlan, Ji Wuji, Li Zizai, Qing Muyuan, and the others attacked and sealed off Dark Golden Dawn’s position.