Recaps

Xiao Tian secured an advance from Tushan Rongrong, while his Shadow Clone robbed Tushan’s inner treasury and left a note. He then entered the Yiqi Dao League with Wangquan Zui and Captain, arriving at the Heavenly Eye Yang Family to begin their next mission.

• Xiao Tian asked Tushan Rongrong for five million taels of silver, and she agreed after hearing his claims about helping Shi Kuan and the princess of the Demon-Subduing Kingdom.
• Xiao Tian’s Shadow Clone stole medicinal ingredients and talismans from Tushan’s inner treasury and left a note for Tushan Rongrong.
• Tushan Rongrong considered the threat Black Fox posed to Tushan and decided the city needed to learn about them.
• Xiao Tian silenced Wangquan Zui when she began discussing the Heavenly Eye Yang Family’s mission in public.
• Xiao Tian and his companions reached the Heavenly Eye Yang Family, where he ordered Captain to knock on the door.

Xiao Tian and his companions visited the Heavenly Eye Yang Family to meet Yang Yitan, but Old Master Yang initially tried to turn them away. After Xiao Tian revealed his Heavenly Book and assured Old Master Yang that the watchers had been dealt with, the group was invited inside, where Xiao Tian met Yang Yitan.

• Captain announced that Xiao Tian wanted to speak with Yang Yitan, and the Yang Family guards chose one of their number to deliver the message.
• Old Master Yang came out instead of Yang Yitan and politely asked Xiao Tian and his companions to leave.
• Xiao Tian showed Old Master Yang his Heavenly Book and said the watchers had been knocked unconscious and would forget what they saw.
• Old Master Yang let the group enter, and Yang Yitan greeted Xiao Tian and noticed Wangquan Zui crying.
• Xiao Tian told Yang Yitan that Wangquan Zui had gotten onion in her eyes, then followed Old Master Yang farther inside.

Xiao Tian helped Yang Yan recover the memories of her past life after Old Master Yang explained how she had disappeared and later returned as a little girl. The hammer worked without trouble, and Yang Yan began remembering as Xiao Tian realized Tushan Rongrong had misled him about the Black Fox.

• Xiao Tian questioned Old Master Yang and Yang Yitan about why Yang Yan was a little girl despite being an adult in his memories.
• Old Master Yang explained that Yang Yan had once died, left the family with her son, and disappeared five or six years earlier; she had recently returned seeming to have reincarnated.
• Yang Yitan asked Xiao Tian to help Yang Yan recover her past-life memories, and Xiao Tian agreed.
• Xiao Tian used One Hammer Settles It on Yang Yan and found no Black Fox power interfering with her memories.
• Yang Yan's eyes grew lively as her past-life memories returned, while Xiao Tian realized Tushan Rongrong had tricked him about the Black Fox.

Yang Yan regained her memories and tried to find her demon boyfriend, but Xiao Tian learned that their hope-powered resurrections would end when they reunited. He moved to stop her and warned that meeting her lover would make them disappear.

• Yang Yan woke with her memories restored and reacted coldly to her father and Xiao Tian, then set out to find her demon boyfriend.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn told Xiao Tian that Yang Yan and her lover would disappear after they reunited and fulfilled their hope.
• Xiao Tian asked about Yang Yan's descendants, and Yang Yitan mentioned his younger cousin Mu Mie.
• Yang Yan stopped when she heard Mu Mie's name, while Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn revealed that Mu Mie had encountered Darkness.
• Xiao Tian learned that a second hope twice as strong as Yang Yan's first might prevent her disappearance, then blocked her path and warned her about reuniting with her lover.

Xiao Tian persuaded Yang Yan that he could help her reunite with Mie'er, then evaded and confronted Tushan Yaya, who had secretly followed him. Yaya claimed she had come to protect him, and the two continued their teasing argument.

• Xiao Tian told Yang Yan that he could find Mie'er and help reunite them, and Yang Yan agreed to give him half a month.
• Xiao Tian asked Old Master Yang not to seek details and left the Heavenly Eye Yang Family after giving the others instructions.
• Xiao Tian sensed Tushan Yaya following him and lured her into a dark alley.
• Xiao Tian grabbed Tushan Yaya from behind, but she froze him with her frigid Qi.
• Xiao Tian escaped using the Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame and offered Tushan Yaya a Sprite.
• Tushan Yaya said she had come to protect Xiao Tian, and he boasted that he had carried the battle in Northern Mountain.

Xiao Tian and Tushan Yaya’s street fight drew the Yiqi Dao League into a citywide pursuit. After Xiao Tian restrained Yaya, she escaped his bindings with her five-minute Indestructible Ice Body and then attacked him again.

• Tushan Yaya challenged Xiao Tian’s claims and chased him through the streets with Ice Soul Silver Needles as he dodged and teased her.
• Yang Buyue sent the Yiqi Dao League peacekeeping squads after Xiao Tian and Tushan Yaya for disrupting public order.
• Xiao Tian bound Tushan Yaya with golden hoops from the Adamantine Staff and carried her on the Somersault Cloud.
• Tushan Yaya used Indestructible Ice Body to slip free of the bindings, but remained unable to move for five minutes.
• After Tushan Yaya returned to normal, Xiao Tian mocked her ability as a powerful defense, and she bombarded him with a controlled ice storm.

Xiao Tian and Tushan Yaya tracked down Shi Jie, a Six-Winged Purple-Gold Lion Demon King, as part of a Reincarnation and Renewed Affinity mission. Xiao Tian stopped Yaya from killing him, but after Shi Jie tried to flee, Xiao Tian restrained him and asked whether he wanted to be with Yang Yan.

• Xiao Tian told Tushan Yaya that Shi Jie was the target of the Reincarnation and Renewed Affinity mission and explained that he needed an item from him without letting him meet Yang Yan.
• Tushan Yaya mocked Xiao Tian's plan, then froze Shi Jie when he tried to run from Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian thawed Shi Jie with Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame and gave him Burning Incense Spring to drive out the cold.
• Shi Jie thanked Xiao Tian but fled again, so Xiao Tian used the Adamantine Staff to bind him.
• Xiao Tian suppressed the black power rising within Shi Jie and asked whether he wanted to be with Yang Yan.

Xiao Tian used the Transcendent Hundred Million Dreams Hammer to restore Shi Jie’s memories and destroyed the Dark Golden Dawn power inside him. Shi Jie remembered Little Yanzi and begged to see her, but Xiao Tian warned that meeting her would make them both disappear.

• Shi Jie blamed Yang Yan for betraying him and described the torture he suffered after the Yiqi Dao League captured him.
• Xiao Tian discovered that Dark Golden Dawn’s power fed on Shi Jie’s hatred and anger, then asked Tushan Yaya to hold Shi Jie’s head steady.
• Xiao Tian struck Shi Jie with the Transcendent Hundred Million Dreams Hammer, and Tushan Yaya repelled Dark Golden Dawn’s power with her Indestructible Ice Body.
• Xiao Tian used Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame to destroy the repelled power of Dark Golden Dawn and earned 20 Achievement Points.
• Shi Jie recovered his memories and asked Xiao Tian to take him to Little Yanzi, but Xiao Tian refused and warned that seeing her would make them both disappear.

Xiao Tian brought Tushan Yaya back to the Heavenly Eye Yang Family after obtaining Shi Jie's tooth and hiding him in the Kamui Dimension. Yang Yan recognized the tooth and asked Xiao Tian when she would be able to see Shi Jie again.

• Xiao Tian punched Shi Jie until he believed Xiao Tian's claim, then took one of Shi Jie's teeth as a personal token.
• Xiao Tian revealed his spatial secret to Tushan Yaya and transferred Shi Jie into the Kamui Dimension to keep him safe.
• Tushan Yaya kissed Xiao Tian after he promised to reveal his secret, then threatened him with an icicle when he complained the kiss did not count.
• Xiao Tian returned to the Heavenly Eye Yang Family with Tushan Yaya, making Dongfang Qinlan jealous and uneasy.
• Xiao Tian showed Yang Yan Shi Jie's tooth, and she remembered how the lion had saved her and a village.
• Yang Yan asked Xiao Tian when she would be able to see Shi Jie.

Xiao Tian struggled to find a way for Yang Yan to reunite with the little lion without telling her the truth about her existence. The Captain then summoned everyone to see a miracle: a shipgirl named Helena had come to life.

• Xiao Tian learned from Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn that revealing Yang Yan was an incarnation of hope would make her collapse and disappear.
• Yang Yan said she deeply wished to be with the little lion, and Xiao Tian saw that her Hope Value was 200, far below the amount he thought she needed.
• Xiao Tian promised Yang Yan that he would find a way to help her.
• The Captain excitedly called the others to his room, where Xiao Tian identified the blue-haired woman inside as the shipgirl Helena.

Captain’s wood carving unexpectedly became Helena, a fully human shipgirl, and Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn suggested that his power might help Yang Yan and the others. Xiao Tian kept the secret and brought Captain to make a carving of the Six-Winged Purple-Gold Master to investigate his ability.

• Xiao Tian examined Helena and confirmed she was a normal human after Captain’s carving came to life.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn told Xiao Tian that Captain’s creation-like power might help Yang Yan and the others.
• Captain explained that his carving had glowed and left his hands after he felt jealous of Xiao Tian’s companions.
• Xiao Tian asked everyone to keep Helena’s arrival secret, and Old Master Yang, Yang Yitan, and Yang Yan swore Dao oaths.
• Xiao Tian took Captain aside and ordered him to carve the Six-Winged Purple-Gold Master, motivating him with the promise of cola and Sprite.

Xiao Tian helped the Captain bring Shi Jie to life as a wooden figurine, then used the counterfeit body to carry out a plan involving Yang Yan. He left Yang Yan believing that Shi Jie was gravely injured, and her Hope Value began rising rapidly.

• The Captain struggled to awaken his fifteenth wooden figurine until Xiao Tian threatened to let Dongfang Qinlan drink cola and Sprite in front of him.
• The Captain carved Shi Jie, and the Six-Winged Violet-Gold Lion King came alive with his memories intact in a counterfeit beast body.
• Shi Jie attacked the Captain, but Xiao Tian stopped him and persuaded him to follow a plan.
• The next day, Xiao Tian told Yang Yan that Shi Jie had nearly been killed and showed her his violet-crystal scale.
• Yang Yan insisted on seeing Shi Jie even if it meant dying, while her Hope Value rose from 200 to 400 and continued increasing.

Xiao Tian raised Yang Yan’s Hope Value by using Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn to strengthen her dream, while keeping her away from the counterfeit lion demon. He left to take her to Shi Jie, and Tushan Yaya’s attempt to follow was foiled by a Shadow Clone.

• Yang Yan begged Xiao Tian to take her to see him, while Old Master Yang urged Xiao Tian to grant her wish.
• Yang Yan’s Hope Value stalled at 703, so Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn suggested entering her dream to strengthen it.
• Xiao Tian hypnotized Yang Yan, took her away, and used a Shadow Clone to lead Tushan Yaya in the wrong direction.
• Inside the Kamui Dimension, Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn entered Yang Yan’s body and raised her Hope Value to 810.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn told Xiao Tian that Yang Yan’s strongest hope was to be with Shi Jie, and Xiao Tian agreed to take her to see him.

Xiao Tian discovered that Shi Jie’s new powers were killing him and sought Captain’s help to stabilize him. Captain created four living wooden versions of Shi Jie, leaving Xiao Tian with a way to replace the power sustaining the lion demon.

• Xiao Tian brought Yang Yan into the Kamui Dimension and found Shi Jie unconscious with eight wings and a lightning-shaped mark.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn explained that Shi Jie had advanced but would die from the clash between her power of hope and Captain’s wish-based creation power.
• Xiao Tian returned to the Heavenly Eye Yang Family estate with Yang Yan and Shi Jie, then brought Yang Yitan and Captain to help.
• Captain created four living wooden figurines of Shi Jie, while Yang Yitan watched in amazement.
• After Captain fell asleep from exhaustion, Xiao Tian asked Yang Yitan to take him somewhere to rest.

Xiao Tian planned to bring humans and demons together by forming a Demon League and uniting it with the Yiqi Dao League. Old Master Yang agreed to gather representatives for a meeting in an Aolai Kingdom border city on the first of next month.

• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn removed the Captain's power from Shi Jie and made it part of his own life, and Xiao Tian destroyed the remaining golden threads.
• Yang Yan and Shi Jie embraced after her awakening, while Old Master Yang worried that the Yiqi Dao League would discover their relationship.
• Xiao Tian said he wanted to improve relations between humans and demons and proposed creating a Demon League, drafting laws, and joining it with the Yiqi Dao League.
• Xiao Tian said the Aolai Kingdom could witness the union, and Old Master Yang agreed to rally representatives from the Yiqi Dao League.
• Xiao Tian set the meeting for the first of next month in a border city of the Aolai Kingdom.

Xiao Tian arranged for Yang Yan and Shi Jie to leave the Yang Family to avoid bringing trouble to it, then helped them set out to search for their son, Mu Mie. He returned to his companions after saying goodbye to Old Master Yang and Yang Yitan, where Tushan Yaya teased him about the women around Captain.

• Xiao Tian agreed with Old Master Yang to take Yang Yan and Shi Jie away until the Demon League and Yiqi Dao League could unite and the danger to the Yang Family had passed.
• While waiting for Yang Yan and Shi Jie, Xiao Tian discussed human-demon relations with Yang Yitan and encouraged him to pursue his Dao.
• Yang Yan and Shi Jie thanked Xiao Tian and asked him to help them find their son, Mu Mie, but Xiao Tian admitted he had no clues about where he was.
• Xiao Tian told Yang Yan and Shi Jie to wait until Shi Jie finished advancing, then escorted them out of the city and into a forest.
• Xiao Tian and his party said goodbye to Old Master Yang and Yang Yitan, and Tushan Yaya teased Xiao Tian about Captain being carried by a beautiful subordinate.

Xiao Tian and his companions returned to Tushan after visiting the Wangquan Family, then changed course toward the Yue Ti Clan after spotting smoke in the distance. They found demons demanding that a Demon King return the Insect Clan’s land.

• Old Master Yang left the Yang Family to discuss Xiao Tian’s plan with old acquaintances, while Xiao Tian took Wangquan Zui back to the Wangquan Family and shared a meal there.
• Dongfang Huaizhu returned to her manor, leaving Dongfang Qinlan with Xiao Tian and asking him to look after her sister.
• Tushan Yaya eagerly discussed joining forces against the Poison Emperor to establish the Demon League, and Captain revived a second shipgirl named Juno.
• Xiao Tian and his companions headed toward the Southern Kingdom, diverted toward the Yue Ti Clan after seeing black smoke, and found a group of demons demanding the return of the Insect Clan’s land.

Xiao Tian and his companions arrived at the Yue Ti Clan’s mountain, where the Insect Clan pleaded for relief from a strange effect caused by the Yue Ti Clan’s scented soap. After examining the soap, Xiao Tian detected a dark power and asked to meet its craftsperson.

• Dongfang Qinlan surveyed the Insect Clan demons as their sound-insect leader detected the visitors.
• Xiao Tian called out and hurt the sound-insect demon’s ears, then emerged with Tushan Yaya and the others.
• A Zhu and Yue Tixia recognized Xiao Tian, and Yue Tixia explained that he and his companions had come to help.
• The Insect Clan demons pleaded for the Yue Ti Clan to stop using scented soap, and their leader explained that its fragrances caused confusion and sex reversal among the forest Insect Clan.
• Xiao Tian examined the soap with his Tensei Jōgan, learned from Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn that it contained the power of darkness, and asked to meet the craftsperson.

Xiao Tian investigated Yue Tichun’s apparent suicide and learned that a dangerous power had driven him to it. He found Dark Golden Dawn’s new host among the Yue Ti clansmen and helped destroy the spreading black liquid, though the elderly host transformed into a young man.

• Xiao Tian examined Yue Tichun’s body and concluded that the craftsman had killed himself, despite Patriarch Yue Tixia’s disbelief.
• Xiao Tian used a Soul-Beckoning Pill, and Yue Tichun’s remnant soul said that an evil power had guided him toward destruction.
• Xiao Tian asked Patriarch Yue Tixia to gather the Yue Ti clansmen and searched them with his Heavenly Dao Double Pupils.
• Xiao Tian identified an elderly clansman as Dark Golden Dawn’s new host, and the man collapsed as black liquid emerged from him.
• Xiao Tian attacked the black liquid with Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame while Tushan Yaya froze it with Ice Seal, destroying the power.
• The elderly man stood up again as his hair turned black and his aged face became young and rosy.

Yue Tihan regained his youth after the Dark Golden Dawn’s power transformed him into a being like Golden Morning Dawn, and he claimed he could grant others the same wish. He broke free from the Yue Ti Clan’s attacks, leaving A Zhu to strike at him.

• Xiao Tian and the others realized Yue Tihan had transformed after Xiao Tian destroyed the power restricting him, while his desire to regain youth fueled the change.
• Yue Tihan celebrated his rejuvenation and sensed that Yue Tixia’s mother wished to become young again.
• Xiao Tian explained that Yue Tihan had accidentally become like a creature from Outside the Circle through the combined power of Yaya and himself.
• Yue Tixia’s mother sent thorny vines to bind Yue Tihan, but they could not pierce him and he broke free from her spell.
• A Zhu hurled a caption board at Yue Tihan and followed with a powerful hoof strike.

Xiao Tian defeated Yue Tihan and forced the Yue Ti Clan to destroy its existing soap stock. As Yue Tixia escorted Xiao Tian away, she asked about the human named Weisheng whom he had predicted she would meet.

• A Zhu attacked Yue Tihan with eighteen strikes, but Yue Tihan survived because people still desired to regain their youth.
• Xiao Tian struck Yue Tihan with Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame, defeated him, and gained ten Achievement Points.
• Xiao Tian warned the Yue Ti Clan about its soap, and Yue Tixia's mother and A Zhu compelled the clan to destroy its existing stock.
• Several days later, the forest Insect Clan stopped suffering confusion over the sexes after the Yue Ti Clan released new soap.
• Yue Tixia asked Xiao Tian about his prediction that she would meet Weisheng, and he told her to reveal her clan's secret about rootless water if she wanted to be with him.

Xiao Tian visited Hu Weisheng in this timeline, then traveled with Tushan Yaya and the others to the Southern Kingdom to meet the Poison Emperor. The chapter ended with Huandu Qingtian welcoming Xiao Tian and recognizing the formidable people accompanying him.

• Xiao Tian met a wealthy, handsome Hu Weisheng, who was practicing swordsmanship and eager to leave for a candy sale.
• Xiao Tian left Yue Tixia ten money-making schemes and departed with Tushan Yaya and the others for the Southern Kingdom.
• Xiao Xuan entered through the Heavenly Gate and found an interesting power source, while a hidden Little Golden Man observed him.
• Xiao Tian immobilized the Poison Emperor Palace guards and barged into the palace to see Huandu Qingtian.
• Huandu Qingtian recognized Xiao Tian and regarded Tushan Yaya and Kaguya with solemnity.

Xiao Tian persuaded the Poison Emperor to support a Demon League and a peace treaty between humans and demons, then claimed that forces from Outside the Circle threatened their world. The Poison Emperor believed Xiao Tian’s forged letter and was left gravely concerned about the danger.

• Xiao Tian delayed negotiations by sharing a long meal with Dongfang Qinlan, Tushan Yaya, and the Poison Emperor, Huandu Qingtian.
• Xiao Tian presented a plan for a Demon League to sign a nonaggression treaty with the Yiqi Dao League under the Aolai Kingdom’s supervision.
• Xiao Tian warned Huandu Qingtian that humans and demons would need to unite if forces from Outside the Circle invaded.
• Xiao Tian used a Shadow Clone to arrange a forged letter, then claimed the Heavenly Dao Palace had been attacked and sealed its small world.
• Huandu Qingtian examined the letter, believed its warning, and grew gravely concerned while Tushan Yaya kept quiet at Xiao Tian’s reminder.

Xiao Tian secured Huandu Qingtian’s and Northern Mountain’s support for establishing the Demon League by warning them about threats from Outside the Circle. After Lord Ji rallied Northern Mountain’s caves and mountains, Xiao Tian learned that major troublemakers still opposed Shi Kuan’s authority.

• Huandu Qingtian examined the Heavenly Dao Palace’s seal, then agreed to establish the Demon League and attend its ceremony after Xiao Tian reassured him about Outside the Circle.
• Xiao Tian recalled that Shi Kuan had authorized him to contact Northern Mountain’s Seventy-Two Caves and Thirty-Six Mountains.
• At World-Creation Mountain, Xiao Tian found only Xuezang managing the territory while the Mask Group trained in seclusion.
• Xiao Tian showed Lord Ji Shi Kuan’s token and used the threat from Outside the Circle to win his support for the Demon League.
• Lord Ji secured agreement from the Seventy-Two Caves and Thirty-Six Mountains, but Xiao Tian learned that powerful troublemakers in Northern Mountain did not answer to Shi Kuan.

Xiao Tian and Lord Ji traveled to the Fire River to bring Huo Yun Evil Demon into line, since his forces threatened safe trade and travel in Northern Mountain. Xiao Tian split the river with his golden staff, waking Huo Yun Evil Demon, who emerged to confront him.

• Lord Ji explained that Huo Yun Evil Demon controlled many strongholds and caves across Northern Mountain and hated humans.
• Xiao Tian identified the Fire River’s unusual union of fire and water and learned that Huo Yun Evil Demon’s mother had been a Fire Charm Demon.
• Xiao Tian used the Adamantine Staff to split the Fire River and suppress its flames, opening a path across the riverbed.
• Huo Yun Evil Demon woke from his doze and charged out of his cave to confront whoever had disturbed him.
• Xiao Tian saw Huo Yun Evil Demon and remarked that he had not inherited his Fire Charm Demon mother’s appearance.