Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian and his allies fought back against Xiao Xuan and the Corpse-Controlling Demon as Xiao Xuan tried to rise from the ground. The Corpse-Controlling Demon's attack bought Xiao Xuan a few seconds, but Xiao Tian ordered his companions to blast him back down.

• Xiao Xuan was driven into the earth by a strange suppressive force, and the Corpse-Controlling Demon summoned flying corpses to interfere with the battle.
• Xiao Xuan broke Xiao Tian's stealth attack with his Emperor Flame, the Devouring Nihility Flame, and confronted him on the Somersault Cloud.
• The Captain sent Helena, Sendai, and the other shipgirls to fire on the flying corpses, and they eliminated them.
• The Corpse-Controlling Demon realized his attack had bought Xiao Xuan two seconds, while Xiao Xuan began to rise toward the cloud.
• Xiao Tian ordered his brothers and sisters to bombard Xiao Xuan and knock him back down.

Xiao Xuan fought off a coordinated assault from Xiao Tian's group, escaping Tushan Yaya's ice seal with the Crow Substitution Technique but taking a serious injury. As the group kept attacking, he targeted Dongfang Qinlan as their apparent weak point but chose not to reveal that he came from Outside the Circle.

• Li Quzhuo suggested that the group use combination moves against Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Tian agreed.
• Tushan Yaya trapped Xiao Xuan in her Absolute Zero Domain, then Dongfang Qinlan launched eighteen Majestic Destroyer Flames at the ice.
• Xiao Xuan escaped through the cracks as crows using the Crow Substitution Technique, narrowly avoiding the flames but suffering a serious injury.
• Xiao Tian and Yang Yitan tracked Xiao Xuan while Tushan Yaya, Li Zizai, Li Quzhuo, Ji Wuji, and the others attacked him from all sides.
• Xiao Xuan identified Dongfang Qinlan as the group's weak point but decided against using the Black Fox's methods or revealing his origin Outside the Circle.

Xiao Xuan used his emperor flame to unleash the domain Hell's Sigh against Xiao Tian and his companions. Mu Shenqi was caught in its effects and mistook his retreating allies for enemies as he prepared to fight them.

• Xiao Xuan repeatedly escaped the group's attacks with the Crow Substitution Technique while Ji Wuji grew frustrated.
• Yang Yitan warned the others after locating Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Tian told him to stop so Xiao Xuan would think his true aim was hidden.
• Xiao Xuan saw through their act and announced that he would use their blood and magical power to transform himself and become mortal.
• Xiao Tian foresaw the danger and shouted for everyone to retreat as Xiao Xuan's flames erased the clouds and spread across the sky.
• Xiao Xuan activated Domain: Hell's Sigh, and Mu Shenqi was overwhelmed by its bewitching flames and saw his allies as enemies.

Xiao Xuan unleashed his Emperor Flame Illusory World against Xiao Tian and the others, but Xiao Tian’s Sprite countered the illusion and his Heavenly Dao Double Pupils exposed the technique’s weakness. Xiao Xuan’s mirror space continued to deflect their attacks, though Xiao Tian believed its power could not last long.

• Xiao Tian used Sprite to free Mu Shenqi, Li Quzhuo, Deng Qiyue, and Qing Muyuan from Xiao Xuan’s flame-induced illusions.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Tian’s teleportation as resembling Kamui and realized the Black Fox Empress’s secrets were tied to the area.
• Xiao Tian taunted Xiao Xuan and urged the group to attack, while Sprite left them unaffected by Xiao Xuan’s Nightmare.
• Xiao Xuan activated Emperor Flame Illusory World, and his flame dragons and phoenixes deflected the group’s attacks, including Tushan Yaya’s Absolute Zero.
• Xiao Tian’s Heavenly Dao Double Pupils revealed that the technique sent attacks into a mirror space, and he judged that Xiao Xuan could not sustain it for long.

Xiao Tian used Void Immortal Tears to freeze a vast area and rescue Li Quzhuo and the others from Xiao Xuan’s reflected bombardment. Xiao Xuan fled, but Xiao Tian revived himself and caught up to strike him, leaving Xiao Xuan reeling as Xiao Tian prepared another attack.

• Xiao Xuan mocked Xiao Tian and unleashed the attacks absorbed by the mirror space across the battlefield.
• Xiao Tian used Void Immortal Tears to freeze space and moved Li Quzhuo and Captain's shipgirls out of the bombardment’s range.
• Xiao Xuan escaped with the Crow Substitution Technique as space returned to normal.
• Xiao Tian entered the Kamui Dimension, killed himself, revived at full strength, and caught up to Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Tian struck Xiao Xuan’s head with the invisible Adamantine Staff, taking nearly half his health.
• Xiao Tian prepared another attack as Xiao Xuan feared another blow.

Xiao Tian and Tushan Yaya fought Xiao Xuan, who revealed Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned Susanoo by borrowing his distant main body's power. Xiao Tian exposed his own Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and challenged Xiao Xuan, who suspected Xiao Tian might know the identity of his father; the others withdrew and left them to fight.

• Xiao Xuan blasted Xiao Tian away with Emperor Flame but reeled from the effects of Xiao Tian's staff strike.
• Tushan Yaya trapped Xiao Xuan in Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals and attacked him with a barrage of ice needles.
• Xiao Xuan sacrificed half his Emperor Flame to summon his main body's power, revealing Mangekyō Sharingan and manifesting Susanoo.
• Xiao Tian revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and summoned an even mightier Susanoo wielding the Adamantine Staff.
• Xiao Xuan asked whether Xiao Tian belonged to the same clan as his mysterious father, while Xiao Tian suggested they might be related.
• Li Quzhuo, Ji Wuji, Yang Yitan, Li Zizai, Qing Muyuan, and the Captain's group withdrew, leaving Xiao Tian and Xiao Xuan to fight.

Xiao Tian fought Xiao Xuan with their Susanoo, using the Tensei Jōgan’s power to overwhelm Xiao Xuan’s Emperor Flame. The battle ended with both of them caught in Tsukuyomi.

• Dongfang Qinlan asked Xiao Tian for cola while Tushan Yaya teased her, and Xiao Xuan mocked the Mask Group for failing to help.
• Xiao Tian revealed that he still had plenty of magical power and attacked Xiao Xuan with an invisible Adamantine Staff.
• Xiao Tian used Susanoo: You're Tied Up to immobilize Xiao Xuan’s Susanoo and shatter its knees.
• Xiao Tian struck Xiao Xuan’s Susanoo with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, cracking its central crystal and suppressing its Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Tian taunted Xiao Xuan about his knowledge of the Heavenly Dao Palace, and Xiao Xuan angrily said he had no father.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Xuan both fell under Tsukuyomi.

Xiao Tian destroyed Xiao Xuan’s Emperor Flame clone with Heavenly Tribulation Light, but Xiao Xuan sent a black bead beyond Inside the Circle before the attack finished. Afterward, Xiao Tian faced the captured Corpse-Controlling Demon, whose origins he recognized.

• Xiao Xuan escaped Xiao Tian’s Tsukuyomi by unleashing hatred through his Emperor Flame, and Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn warned Xiao Tian about the awakened power.
• Xiao Xuan ordered his subordinate to gather intelligence on the Heavenly Dao Palace and sent a black bead through a spatial tunnel beyond Northern Mountain.
• Xiao Tian used Heavenly Tribulation Light to destroy Xiao Xuan’s clone and earned 200 Achievement Points and 10 Sin Points, though Golden-Eyed Golden Morning Dawn said the hatred had escaped.
• Dongfang Qinlan congratulated Xiao Tian, who dismissed her talk of a rebellion and tossed her an ice-cold cola.
• Li Quzhuo proposed interrogating the bound Corpse-Controlling Demon, and Xiao Tian recognized him as a transmigrator from Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens.

Xiao Tian interrogated the Corpse-Controlling Demon about the Black Flame Sect while using Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame to torment him and farm System Points. After Dongfang Qinlan broke his resistance, he revealed what he knew, only to learn she intended to make him her enforcer.

• Xiao Tian realized Yan Lingji and the Corpse-Controlling Demon had not known each other, then Mu Shenqi slapped the demon for threatening them.
• Xiao Tian burned the Corpse-Controlling Demon with Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame and promised to spare him if he revealed the Black Flame Sect's other bases.
• Captain skimmed cola meant for the Corpse-Controlling Demon, and Dongfang Qinlan reported him to Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian gave Dongfang Qinlan a hundred cups of cola and ordered her to recruit the Corpse-Controlling Demon as their subordinate.
• Dongfang Qinlan tormented the Corpse-Controlling Demon until he revealed everything he knew about the Black Flame Sect and his master.
• Dongfang Qinlan refused to kill the Corpse-Controlling Demon and demanded that he become her enforcer or face further torture.

Xiao Tian persuaded the Corpse-Controlling Demon to join the Mask Group by promising to take him back to his original world. The Corpse-Controlling Demon joined, while Tushan Yaya quickly changed her opposition after Xiao Tian approved him.

• The Corpse-Controlling Demon resisted Dongfang Qinlan until Xiao Tian offered to take him back to his original world.
• Xiao Tian bluffed that he belonged to the Heavenly Dao Palace, convincing the Corpse-Controlling Demon that he knew his origins.
• The Corpse-Controlling Demon agreed to help Xiao Tian with all the abilities he had acquired and joined the Mask Group.
• Tushan Yaya, Captain, Yang Yitan, and Li Zizai discussed their reservations about the new recruit.
• Tushan Yaya changed her mind after Xiao Tian praised the Corpse-Controlling Demon's abilities, and the Corpse-Controlling Demon resolved to stick close to Boss Xiao.

After helping Lord Ji destroy the Black Flame Sect’s bases in Northern Mountain, Xiao Tian returned to the Wangquan Family with his companions and the Corpse-Controlling Demon. Wangquan Baye tried to learn what had happened, but ended up leaving with Dongfang Huaizhu while the others teased him.

• Xiao Tian handed the Black Flame Sect’s Northern Mountain branches and bases to Lord Ji, who joined forces with the Seventy-Two Caves and Thirty-Six Mountains to wipe out the mutated demons there.
• The Corpse-Controlling Demon warned Xiao Tian that Xiao Xuan’s planted pawns were not limited to Northern Mountain, so Xiao Tian’s party hurried back to the Yiqi Dao League’s territory.
• Two days later, Xiao Tian and the others returned to the Wangquan Family, where Wangquan Baye complained that they had left him behind.
• Li Quzhuo and Li Zizai hinted that the trip had been astonishing, while Xiao Tian casually introduced the Corpse-Controlling Demon as the former deputy sect master of the Black Flame Sect.
• Dongfang Qinlan refused to tell Wangquan Baye what had happened and accused him of stealing her sister; Dongfang Huaizhu defended their love, and Wangquan Baye took her hand and went for a boat ride.
• Li Quzhuo and the other single men complained as Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu left together.

Wangquan Baye and Yang Yitan discussed the threat posed by the expert from Outside the Circle, and Xiao Tian interrupted to warn Baye about the Dongfang Spirit Clan’s inherited spiritual power. The conversation ended with Xiao Tian teasing Baye and hinting at the power of his Void Immortal Tears.

• Wangquan Baye and Yang Yitan reviewed Northern Mountain’s campaign against the Black Flame Sect and agreed to warn the Southern Kingdom and Xi Xi Region about the expert from Outside the Circle.
• Xiao Tian surprised the two friends and told Wangquan Baye to prepare for his wedding before giving him a heads-up.
• Xiao Tian explained that Dongfang Huaizhu could pass her spiritual power to their child, but Wangquan Baye said they planned to have children who could cultivate on their own.
• Xiao Tian offered to build the child’s foundation at one month old, and Wangquan Baye joked that Xiao Tian would rank below him in the family hierarchy after marrying Qinlan.
• Xiao Tian threatened to make Wangquan Baye’s wedding night difficult, and Baye remembered that Xiao Tian’s Void Immortal Tears had sealed space against the Outside the Circle expert.

Xiao Tian and Dongfang Qinlan teased Wangquan Baye before his wedding to Dongfang Huaizhu, while a mysterious black-robed youth tried to enter the Circle and was wounded by the Little Golden Man. On the wedding day, Xiao Tian and Qinlan brought Baye potent tonics, leaving him embarrassed by their jokes about his future with his pregnant bride.

• Wangquan Baye agreed to provide plenty of food for Xiao Tian on the wedding day, then worried about the cost to his family.
• Xiao Tian, Dongfang Qinlan, Tushan Yaya, and the Mask Group gathered on the bridal chamber roof beneath the moon.
• A black-robed youth approached the Circle, but the Little Golden Man wounded him even after he escaped into the Kamui Dimension.
• The black-robed youth decided to perfect his divine ability before entering the Circle, while the Little Golden Man wondered about his connection to the Staff Ancestor.
• On the wedding morning, Xiao Tian and Dongfang Qinlan interrupted Wangquan Baye's preparations and offered him two potent tonics, joking about his bride's pregnancy.

Xiao Tian and his companions secretly fed Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu tonics and pills to strengthen them and their future child before the wedding. By nine in the morning, prominent guests had gathered at the Wangquan estate for the celebration.

• Xiao Tian and Dongfang Qinlan bound Wangquan Baye and forced him to consume cola and an expensive tonic.
• Tushan Yaya gave Dongfang Huaizhu the prepared tonics and pills, then teased her about the wedding.
• Tushan Yaya, Xiao Tian, and Dongfang Qinlan reunited and agreed their preparations were complete before heading to breakfast.
• Dongfang Qinlan asked Xiao Tian to make future pills fruit-flavored, and he persuaded her to help gather medicinal ingredients.
• Prominent guests arrived at the Wangquan estate, while the Demon Emperors stayed away because of suspected Black Flame Sect henchmen.
• Elder Fei recorded the wedding gifts and worried the Mask Group's expenses had eaten into the Wangquan family's apparent profits.

Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu celebrated their wedding with an elaborate aerial show arranged by the Mask Group, and Dongfang Qinlan officiated the ceremony. As the newlyweds were escorted to their bridal chamber, dark clouds gathered and a threat arrived, prompting Xiao Tian and the Mask Group to prepare for battle.

• Xiao Tian sent heavenly dao emperor flame into the sky as the wedding signal, and the Mask Group began its aerial performance.
• Ji Wuji and Li Quzhuo traced an image of Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu embracing while Yang Yitan played the flute and Captain's shipgirls scattered petals.
• Wangquan Baye and Dongfang Huaizhu entered the wedding hall, where Dongfang Qinlan officiated their ceremony in place of Old Master Yang.
• The wedding party escorted the newlyweds to their bridal chamber, and Xiao Tian carried Dongfang Qinlan over to Tushan Yaya as trouble arrived outside.
• Xiao Tian told Butler Fei to settle the guests and activate the restrictive barriers while the Mask Group confronted the approaching threat.

The Mask Group confronted a vast demon force advancing in black clouds above the Wangquan Family’s city. Li Zizai, Li Quzhuo, and Zhang Zheng unleashed their ultimate technique while Xiao Tian protected the city below, and the real battle still lay ahead.

• Ximen Chuisha saw the Mask Group members fly into the clouds and assumed the Yiqi Dao League was giving its younger generation a chance to gain experience.
• Yang Yitan spotted a dense force of unfamiliar demons in the clouds, and Xiao Tian judged them to be vanguard cannon fodder threatening the city below.
• Xiao Tian promised to handle the aftershocks, and Li Zizai, Li Quzhuo, and Zhang Zheng combined their powers to unleash “Prison of Instant Slaughter.”
• The Mask Group’s technique tore through the black clouds with sword energy, flying daggers, and conjured treasures, sending lightning, fire, rocks, and water toward the city.
• Xiao Tian enlarged his Adamantine Staff and swept away the falling aftershocks to protect the residents, then urged the group to finish quickly because the real show was still to come.

Xiao Tian’s group attempted to develop their Supreme Ultimate Technique, first failing to link their minds before succeeding with a revised method. Their success had an unexpected effect: Xiao Tian could hear Tushan Yaya, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan’s thoughts.

• Yang Yitan and Li Quzhuo asked Xiao Tian’s group to demonstrate its Supreme Ultimate Technique, so Xiao Tian gathered Tushan Yaya, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan for a Four Symbols formation.
• The four failed to link their minds, and Tushan Yaya wanted to stop, but Xiao Tian persuaded her to try again using Qing Muyuan to connect with one of the others first.
• Li Quzhuo teased Xiao Tian about the failure, while Yang Yitan suggested waiting as the demons regrouped.
• Butler Fei reassured the senior members of the Yiqi Dao League by pointing out that Tushan Honghong was present, and they recalled how she had slain the Three Night Heart Demons and many Demon Kings.
• Xiao Tian, Tushan Yaya, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan successfully linked their minds, but Xiao Tian unexpectedly heard the three women’s inner voices.

Xiao Tian, Tushan Yaya, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan succeeded in performing a four-person ultimate technique and wiped out the remaining demons. Afterward, Xiao Tian gave two Mask Star Upgrade Cards to Tushan Yaya and Dongfang Qinlan, while the others questioned his explanation of how to obtain more.

• Xiao Tian urged Tushan Yaya, Dongfang Qinlan, and Qing Muyuan to combine their magical power.
• Their four-colored magical power formed a dazzling aurora that blinded demons falling from the sky.
• The four unleashed Dual Heavens of Ice and Fire, sealing the demons' Demonic Power and erasing them as the space around them collapsed.
• The Mask Group gained achievement points, two Mask Star Upgrade Cards, and access to compatible matching for its ultimate technique.
• Xiao Tian gave the two upgrade cards to Tushan Yaya and Dongfang Qinlan, then told Li Quzhuo and the others that their masks would produce cards after they mastered a four-person ultimate technique.

Tushan Yaya and Dongfang Qinlan upgraded their exclusive masks and gained powerful new traits. Inspired by the results, Li Quzhuo and the others prepared to test their ultimate techniques as black clouds approached.

• Xiao Tian explained that the exclusive masks might have come from an ancient civilization in another world and possessed strange abilities.
• Tushan Yaya used a Star Upgrade Card on her silver fox mask, boosting its amplification and gaining the Ice Devour trait.
• Dongfang Qinlan upgraded her mask and gained Fire Spirit, a trait that summoned an intelligent, nearly undying flame sprite.
• Li Quzhuo and the others grew eager to obtain Star Upgrade Cards and gathered to try their ultimate techniques as black clouds approached.
• Xiao Tian decided to leave the defense to them while he and the others watched.

Li Quzhuo, Li Zizai, Black Sword Zhang Zheng, and Mu Shenqi combined their power to unleash the Annihilation Bomb against the demon army. After earning Star Upgrade Cards, Xiao Tian grew frustrated that his own group had received fewer and decided to try another ultimate technique with Qinlan and Yaya.

• Captain offered his shipgirls to help the others form groups for ultimate techniques, while Xiao Tian handed out personalized masks.
• Li Quzhuo's group killed the charging Great Demon King, regrouped, and used Xiao Tian's Mind Convergence Method to merge their power.
• Li Zizai told Li Quzhuo to take control of their unstable energy ball, and Li Quzhuo hurled it into the pursuing demons.
• The Annihilation Bomb exploded among the demon army, causing a massive spectacle that startled the wedding guests and senior members of the Yiqi Dao League.
• Li Quzhuo, Li Zizai, Black Sword, and Mu Shenqi each received a Star Upgrade Card, while Xiao Tian learned his group had received only two.
• Xiao Tian called on Qinlan and Yaya to attempt another ultimate technique.