Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian led the Mask Group to Northern Mountain for a sightseeing trip that turned into a training mission. After the group arrived, he learned that they needed to defeat a Demon King each to raise their star rating, then proposed a competition.

• Xiao Tian invited Dongfang Qinlan and Dongfang Huaizhu to travel to Northern Mountain with the Mask Group.
• The Dongfang sisters joined the group, and Xiao Tian praised Wangquan Baye for recruiting its members.
• The Mask Group arrived in Northern Mountain, where Xiao Tian received a hidden mission to raise its star rating to two stars by having every member defeat or kill a Demon King without outside help.
• Xiao Tian explained that a successful promotion would double members' attributes, deepen their abilities, and unlock team combination skills.
• Dongfang Qinlan objected to the proposed training, while Dongfang Huaizhu supported it and Wangquan Baye suggested a swordsmanship competition.
• Xiao Tian proposed arm wrestling instead, and Li Quzhuo suggested that Deng Qiyue challenge him.

Xiao Tian defeated Deng Qiyue in an arm-wrestling match despite the group's confidence that Deng would win. The match ended when a badly dressed youth burst out of the ground after the rock they were using shattered.

• Wangquan Baye asked Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan to hold Xiao Tian back if he lost, while Li Quzhuo and others taunted Xiao Tian and bet against him.
• Xiao Tian and Deng Qiyue began arm-wrestling on a flat rock, and Deng exerted all his strength without moving Xiao Tian's arm.
• After ten seconds, Deng Qiyue conceded, admitting that Xiao Tian was too strong, while Li Zizai lamented his lost bet.
• Xiao Tian said he was nearly out of strength, and the rock suddenly shattered as a shabbily dressed youth burst out from underground.

Xuezang burst out of the ground and was captured by Xiao Tian and Deng Qiyue, who used the interruption to end their arm-wrestling contest in a draw. To save his life, Xuezang told them about Black Wind Mountain and its golden essence stone, then claimed the ore could strengthen humans as well as demons.

• Xiao Tian and Deng Qiyue grabbed Xuezang when he emerged from the ground, giving Deng Qiyue a way to avoid losing their arm-wrestling match.
• Xiao Tian immobilized Xuezang and threatened to kill him unless he explained why he had come to Northern Mountain.
• Xuezang offered important information in exchange for his life and recounted his journey at length.
• Wangquan Baye listened to Xuezang's account, and Li Quzhuo later summarized it for Xiao Tian.
• Li Quzhuo explained that Black Wind Mountain held over a hundred Demon Kings and a mine producing golden essence stone that strengthened demons.
• Xuezang insisted the golden essence stone could strengthen humans too as Xiao Tian questioned whether it was worth pursuing.

Xiao Tian forced Xuezang to obey by poisoning him with the Poison of Emotions, then sent him back to Black Wind Mountain to retrieve golden essence stone. Xuezang returned that night with the Four Heavenly Kings of Black Wind Mountain chasing him, and Xiao Tian left the fight to Wangquan Baye and the others.

• Xuezang offered to dig tunnels and rob Northern Mountain factions, but Xiao Tian demanded a piece of golden essence stone from Black Wind Mountain and made him swallow a pill.
• Xiao Tian revealed that the pill was the Poison of Emotions, which let Dongfang Qinlan trigger Xuezang's emotions with spoken commands.
• Xuezang broke down and agreed to follow Xiao Tian's orders, while Wangquan Baye recognized how dangerous the poison was.
• After Xiao Tian gave Xuezang a little antidote to suppress the poison, Xuezang returned to Black Wind Mountain through his tunnel.
• That night, Xuezang burst back through the ground, pursued by the Four Heavenly Kings of Black Wind Mountain, and Xiao Tian told Wangquan Baye and the others to handle them.

Xiao Tian forced Xuezang to lead the group back into Black Wind Mountain after taking the golden essence stones and marrow from him. They reached a mine, where Xiao Tian found more stones and planned to wait until the demons gathered them before stealing them.

• Xuezang emerged from underground with golden essence stones and marrow, and Wangquan Baye killed the four Demon Kings pursuing him.
• Xiao Tian ate a golden essence stone and some marrow, then ordered Xuezang to guide them to Black Wind Mountain.
• Xiao Tian threatened Xuezang with a gruesome death until Xuezang agreed to go with them.
• The group followed Xuezang’s tunnels into a mine, killing minor demons along the way.
• Xiao Tian spotted more golden essence stones through the walls and proposed waiting for the demons to collect them before taking them.

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.