Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian relentlessly harassed Light Golden Morning Dawn until she agreed to meet him in a grove on Tushan’s northern border. There, she asked him to lift the strange curse linking them, and he demanded to know why she had helped Gyuki, Yan Ruyu, and Wangquan Zui.

• Xiao Tian repeatedly contacted Light Golden Morning Dawn despite their affinity dropping, until she agreed to meet him in a grove on Tushan’s northern border.
• Xiao Tian left a Shadow Clone behind and used the Ruyi Divine Ability and Invisibility Technique to slip out of Tushan’s inner city.
• Xiao Tian found Light Golden Morning Dawn in her golden-haired, golden-eyed fox form and admired her beauty.
• Light Golden Morning Dawn said she disliked Xiao Tian’s irritating presence and asked what it would take to remove the curse linking them.
• Xiao Tian asked Light Golden Morning Dawn why she had helped Gyuki, Yan Ruyu, and Wangquan Zui, noting that her aid had led to Yan Ruyu’s capture and near-death.

Xiao Tian learned that Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn and Dark Golden Dawn shared memories, and that Dark Golden Dawn had found a powerful host. When Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn tried to possess him, Xiao Tian activated the System’s Anti-Armament Control Ability, trapping her inside his mind at the cost of all his System Points.

• Xiao Tian questioned Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn about the memories she had read and learned she could not locate Dark Golden Dawn.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn explained that Dark Golden Dawn could devour people and might share the memories she had collected.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn sensed Dark Golden Dawn’s power surge and said it had found a powerful host, leaving the balance between them broken.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn tried to possess Xiao Tian, calling him something that should not exist.
• Xiao Tian activated Anti-Armament Control Ability, losing all his System Points as Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn became trapped inside his mind.

Xiao Tian forced Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn to perform Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens, then learned she could read and block Dark Golden Dawn’s memories. He agreed to let her hide in his brain after she offered to keep him alert without sleep.

• Xiao Tian released Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn but retained power over her, leaving her afraid to resist him.
• Xiao Tian ordered Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn to dance Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens while he scattered cement and sang.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn performed the dance despite her embarrassment and complained about Xiao Tian’s poor singing.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn said the balance with Dark Golden Dawn had not been restored, but explained she could read Dark Golden Dawn’s power and memories and block access to her own.
• Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn asked to hide inside Xiao Tian’s brain and offered to keep him alert without sleep, so he agreed.

Xiao Tian introduced Xiao Xi to Tushan Honghong and Tushan Rongrong, explaining her origin and her connection to a being from Outside the Circle. The meeting ended with Dongfang Qinlan rejecting Xiao Tian’s joking offer to become his Left Guardian.

• Tushan Honghong and Tushan Rongrong visited Xiao Tian’s courtyard, where Tushan Honghong questioned Xiao Xi about her clothes and Yan Ruyu’s disappearance.
• Xiao Tian explained that Xiao Xi was born from a Tushan fox demon’s powerful hopes and obsession, combined with a jade object from Outside the Circle.
• Xiao Tian said the jade had split after Xiao Xi’s birth, with its dark half becoming Dark Golden Dawn, who would kill the human cultivator responsible for the fox demon’s death.
• Tushan Honghong and Tushan Rongrong grew concerned that Xiao Xi’s origin resembled Black Fox, while Xiao Tian named her his Right Guardian.
• Dongfang Qinlan asked who Xiao Tian’s Left Guardian was, and Xiao Tian joked that she could serve as cannon fodder before she angrily refused.

Tushan Rongrong pressured Xiao Tian into taking a lucrative Reincarnation and Renewed Affinity mission by threatening to end his free meals, while Xiao Tian realized the job was tied to the Black Fox. He decided to accept the mission so the Black Fox Empress could become complete and unique.

• At Tushan Rongrong's request, Cui Yuling secretly monitored Xiao Tian while pretending to coordinate food deliveries.
• Xiao Tian ordered a spicy, meat-heavy lunch and reflected on how his appetite and physical abilities had grown.
• Tushan Rongrong offered Xiao Tian a Reincarnation and Renewed Affinity mission and announced that his group would have to pay for meals starting that evening.
• Xiao Tian asked about the mission's reward, then suspected Rongrong was maneuvering him into accepting it.
• After Rongrong mentioned missing Demonic Power, Xiao Tian recognized the Black Fox's involvement and decided to take the mission.

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.