Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian claimed he had inspired Feng Tianyang and the Eight Impure Techniques, then demanded that Tang Miaoxing help him obtain Pill Devouring from Xu Xin. After fighting the Tang Sect experts and swallowing their poison, Xiao Tian persuaded Tang Miaoxing to take him to Xu Xin, while boasting that he had also created Divine Spirit.

• Xiao Tian revealed that he was 130 years old and demanded to see the Tang Sect’s Xu Xin, offering to teach Tang Miaoxing Pill Devouring after learning it himself.
• Tang Miaoxing, Zhang Wang, and Tang Qiushan attacked Xiao Tian, who fought back with Spirit Binding and General Dispatch and Heavenly Talisman.
• Zhang Wang and Tang Qiushan released poisonous smoke, but Xiao Tian swallowed it and proved the Tang Sect’s poison could not harm him.
• Tang Miaoxing agreed to lead Xiao Tian to Xu Xin, and Xiao Tian claimed he would otherwise have shown them Divine Spirit.

Xiao Tian broke through the Tang Sect’s forbidden grounds, overcame Xu Xin’s Pill Devouring, and obtained its cultivation method. After altering the Tang Sect members’ memories, he repeatedly died and resurrected while experimenting until he mastered Pill Devouring.

• Tang Miaoxing led Xiao Tian through the forbidden grounds, but Xiao Tian ignored the traps and left Tang Miaoxing trapped in an illusion.
• Xiao Tian bypassed the Tang Sect disciples guarding Xu Xin and used Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame to destroy Xu Xin’s Pill Devouring Qi.
• Xu Xin agreed to teach Xiao Tian Pill Devouring after Xiao Tian revealed the Tang Sect members were unharmed, and Zhang Wang suspected Xiao Tian was the mysterious expert who burned Chen Jinkui.
• Xiao Tian knocked out the Tang Sect members, altered their memories, and left them forgetting that he was connected to the authorities.
• Xiao Tian practiced Pill Devouring outside the Tang Sect, dying and resurrecting repeatedly until he found a way to master it.

After mastering Pill Devouring, Xiao Tian disguised himself as Zhang Wang and fed Mu You a fabricated account of the Tang Sect encounter to provoke an investigation. He returned to the Tang Sect to teach Tang Miaoxing, while Tang Miaoxing grew suspicious of Mu You’s visit and ordered Zhang Wang brought to him.

• Xiao Tian completed his Pill Devouring cultivation and tested how to deploy it by killing insects and ants.
• Xiao Tian overheard Mu You investigating the traces of Pill Devouring, then disguised himself as Zhang Wang and told Mu You an invented story about a powerful intruder and a firebird spirit.
• Xiao Tian asked Mu You to investigate the mysterious intruder, leading Mu You to leave and report the alarming claims to his subordinates.
• Xiao Tian returned to the Tang Sect, reassured Tao Tao that he had come to teach Tang Miaoxing Pill Devouring, and had her lead him to the sect leader.
• Tang Miaoxing denied the fire-phoenix account during a phone call, then ordered someone to fetch Zhang Wang after learning Mu You had visited Tang Sect territory.

Xiao Tian used Tsukuyomi to help Tang Miaoxing master Pill Devouring, then discovered that his newly transformed Rinnegan and Tenseigan were severely restricted by the world's laws. Tang Miaoxing recognized Xiao Tian's power, ordered the Tang Sect not to offend him, and sent Tao Tao to take him to a meal.

• Tang Miaoxing learned that someone claiming to be Zhang Wang had contacted Mu You and that an unfamiliar Pill Devouring had appeared, prompting him to suspect Di Shitian.
• Xiao Tian arrived with Tao Tao, told Tang Miaoxing he would teach him Pill Devouring, and took him to a quiet room while Zhang Wang gathered Tang Sect disciples in case of trouble.
• Xiao Tian used Tsukuyomi to make Tang Miaoxing endure repeated cycles of death and reincarnation until he comprehended Pill Devouring.
• Xiao Tian's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and enhanced Byakugan transformed into the Rinnegan and Tenseigan, but the world's laws made their abilities consume vastly more magical power.
• Tang Miaoxing emerged having mastered Pill Devouring, told the gathered Tang Sect members not to offend Xiao Tian, and asked Tao Tao to take him for a meal.

After leaving the Tang Sect, Xiao Tian’s fabricated identity as Di Shitian alarmed officials and factions across the irregular world. He reunited with Zhang Chulan and the others, where a monkey king treated him as a Great Sage, and he confronted Granny Jinfeng over Wu Gensheng’s treasure.

• Xiao Tian ate an enormous meal at the Tang Sect, rewarded Tao Tao with a protective magical necklace, and left.
• Tang Miaoxing, Mu You, Wang Ai, Xu San, and Xu Si discussed Di Shitian’s identity and the threat he might pose.
• Xiao Tian teleported to Zhang Chulan and the others as they faced a troop of increasingly humanlike monkeys.
• Monkey king A Si knelt before Xiao Tian and called him the Great Sage after Xiao Tian used a newly acquired ability to understand monkey language.
• Xiao Tian told Zhang Chulan and the others that he was investigating foreigners who had crossed the border, then argued with Granny Jinfeng over Wu Gensheng’s treasure.
• Granny Jinfeng stopped arguing and continued leading the group after Xiao Tian warned that he could arrest her.

Zhang Chulan and the others followed Jinfeng along a strange path that altered how travelers cultivated Qi, while Xiao Tian explained its effects and said Wu Gensheng's treasure consisted of ordinary objects. After Xiao Tian dealt with hidden ninjas and the group fought off a nighttime ambush, he disappeared to approach their concealed leader.

• Xiao Tian explained that the path could grant Qi cultivation to creatures without it and disrupt the Qi circulation of cultivators, so the group suppressed its influence.
• Xiao Tian told Zhang Chulan that Wu Gensheng's treasure was connected to the Jiashen Rebellion and consisted of ordinary objects, prompting Jinfeng to question his motives.
• Feng Baobao sensed a watcher in a distant grove, and Xiao Tian captured a ninja before dealing with five more concealed along the route.
• The group stopped for the night, and Xiao Tian used his spiritual sense and gestures to signal the positions of enemies hiding nearby.
• Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Barron, Xia Liuqing, and Wang Zhenqiu subdued the ambushers, while Jinfeng struggled against a powerful katana-wielding opponent.
• Xiao Tian spotted the enemy leader hidden behind a rock and silently moved toward him.

Xiao Tian used invisibility and deception to mislead Kameda Kojirō while the group pursued the foreigners seeking the treasure. After Kameda discovered the ruse and died from Xiao Tian’s hidden flame, the group confronted Changye Guiyi, whom Feng Baobao killed with her size-changing saber.

• Xiao Tian tormented Kameda Kojirō while the other ninjas were captured or killed, then tricked him into believing Xiao Tian was a senior from the 731 Supernatural Society.
• Kameda Kojirō left to report, and Xiao Tian revealed that he had planted a wisp of Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame in him before leading Zhang Chulan and the others after the foreigners.
• Longze Yilang and Shanye Wuya exposed Changye Guiyi as the real wielder of Tessaiga, while Kameda realized he had been deceived and was consumed by Xiao Tian’s flame.
• Changye Guiyi transformed Tessaiga into Starry Sky Tessaiga and stayed behind as Shanye Wuya and Longze Yilang fled with a squad.
• Zhang Chulan, Barron, and the others fought the ninjas while Feng Baobao faced Changye Guiyi and split him in two with her enlarged Azure Dragon Precious Saber.

Xiao Tian's group defeated Changye Guiyi, and Tessaiga acknowledged Xiao Tian as its master. Surrounded by Sakura extraordinaries, the group faced two powerful shikigami, but Xiao Tian captured Longze-kun and weakened the summoned samurai.

• Feng Baobao killed Changye Guiyi, and Zhang Chulan accidentally killed a female ninja while stopping her from committing suicide.
• Xiao Tian picked up Tessaiga and subdued its devouring power with the Heavenly Dao Emperor Flame; the blade acknowledged him as its master.
• Granny Jinfeng and Xia Liuqing recognized Tessaiga and recalled its history as a demon blade used against Huaxia extraordinaries.
• More than fifty Sakura extraordinaries surrounded Xiao Tian's group, and Longze-kun and Shanye-kun summoned an ancient samurai and the wind-controlling shikigami Sky.
• The shikigami and samurai pressed Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Barron, but Xiao Tian broke through the defenses and knocked Longze-kun unconscious.
• Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao defeated the weakened ancient samurai, while Shanye-kun called for Lu Hai-kun, who fled.

Xiao Tian helped defeat and capture the Sakura Country extraordinaries, then sent Zhang Chulan and the others into the cave in search of Wu Gensheng's treasure. After Granny Jinfeng found that some of Wu Gensheng's belongings were missing, Xiao Tian provoked her by exposing her and Xia Liuqing's unrequited feelings for him, and she chased Xiao Tian in anger.

• Xiao Tian caught Shanye-kun while Lu Hai stabbed himself, and Sky attacked friend and foe until Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the others routed the Sakura Country forces.
• Zhang Chulan interrogated Shanye-kun and Longze-kun, then Xiao Tian learned the captured extraordinaries had joined the domestic faction Stealing Heaven to seek the treasure.
• As a strange wind and beastly roars swept through the mountains, Xiao Tian arranged for Xu Si and Xu San to collect the prisoners and left a clone to guard them.
• Granny Jinfeng guided Zhang Chulan and the others into a cave filled with remarkable carvings, but Zhang Chulan vanished and Granny Jinfeng found that Wu Gensheng's Clay Figure Zhang figurines, conch, old books, and camera were missing.
• Xiao Tian mocked Wu Gensheng as a piece of work and said Granny Jinfeng and Xia Liuqing had spent their lives longing for someone who did not return their feelings, prompting Granny Jinfeng to chase him in anger.

Xiao Tian and the others returned from investigating the Jiashen Rebellion, while Nadutong uncovered information about the Stealing Heaven organization and Zhang Chulan found a portrait resembling Feng Baobao. After Feng Zhenghao invited Xiao Tian to investigate strange incidents at the World Group, Xiao Tian arrived with his companions, ate through the banquet, and warned Feng Zhenghao that Di Shitian might soon contact him directly.

• Xia Liuqing carried the unconscious Granny Jinfeng away after Xiao Tian provoked her, ending the group's trip.
• Xu San and Xu Si reported their interrogation findings about the unfamiliar Stealing Heaven organization, prompting Nadutong's regional heads to investigate it.
• Xiao Tian, disguised as Feng Baobao, threatened Qu Tong and warned her not to target the girl he had transformed into, then questioned Ma Xianhong about his communication artifact.
• Zhang Chulan showed Xu San and Xu Si a portrait resembling Feng Baobao that he had found among Wu Gensheng's treasures, and Xiao Tian appeared at the base.
• Feng Zhenghao invited Xiao Tian to investigate strange incidents at the World Group, and Xiao Tian brought Guihua, Zhang Chulan, and Feng Baobao to the banquet.
• After the group ate through the World Group's food supplies, Xiao Tian reviewed Feng Zhenghao's documents and warned that Di Shitian might soon contact him.

Xiao Tian reassured Feng Zhenghao about the threat posed by Di Shitian, then contacted Zhang Lingyu and invited him and Xia He to visit. Feng Shayan recognized Xiao Tian beneath his disguise, while strange disappearances among the Feng Family’s security guards left Xiao Tian wondering who was behind them.

• Xiao Tian warned Feng Zhenghao to keep his family away from isolated areas and promised to help investigate Di Shitian.
• Xiao Tian called Zhang Lingyu, learned that he and Xia He were facing harassment from Quanxing’s enemies, and told them to come see him the next day.
• Feng Shayan visited Xiao Tian to ask about her spatial abilities, fell into his arms, and recognized him as Xiao Tian despite his denial.
• Feng Shayan offered to bring Xiao Tian a late-night snack, then left.
• Zhang Chulan told Xiao Tian that Feng Family security guards had been disappearing and reappearing unharmed in Tibet, prompting Xiao Tian to suspect someone was exploiting Di Shitian’s name.

Xiao Tian watched over the World Group and stopped an intruder sent by the Penglai Night Division, then secretly visited the Tang Sect and told Tang Miaoxing a story about his thousand-year life. He left Tang Miaoxing with a challenge to spread: anyone who could kill him at Mount Tai in one month would receive his accumulated treasure.

• Xiao Tian, Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Guihua watched the World Group until an intruder slipped inside, and Zhang Chulan knocked him unconscious with his Thunder Method.
• Zhang Chulan learned that the intruder belonged to the Penglai Night Division and had sought information about Feng Shayan, Feng Xingtong, Spirit Binding, and General Dispatch.
• Xiao Tian teleported to the Tang Sect disguised as Kogoro Mouri, surprised Tao Tao in her bedroom, and bought her an expensive handbag.
• Xiao Tian asked Tao Tao to take him to Tang Miaoxing and warned him that factions were using his name to stir up trouble.
• Xiao Tian told Tang Miaoxing that he had lived for a thousand years through his phoenix ability and had spread many techniques while seeking a way to die.
• Xiao Tian revealed his appearance as Gai Nie and ordered Tang Miaoxing to announce that whoever killed him at Mount Tai in one month would receive his thousand years' worth of treasure.

Xiao Tian persuaded Tang Miaoxing to let Tao Tao join the Dragon Guard, then returned to the World Group and went to the airport to pick up Zhang Lingyu and Xia He. Feng Shayan recognized the pair after Xiao Tian greeted them.

• Tang Miaoxing told the leader of the Bashu region about Di Shitian’s planned Mount Tai summit, and the leader promised to arrange funds to keep him well supplied.
• Xiao Tian offered Tao Tao a chance to earn two million a month by joining the Dragon Guard, and Tang Miaoxing agreed to support her.
• Xiao Tian showed Tao Tao a photo of Xiao Yan, praised his abilities, and teased her about marrying him before giving her Xiao Yan’s contact information.
• After Tao Tao added him on WeChat, Xiao Tian ignored her message and returned to the World Group.
• Xiao Tian asked Feng Shayan to drive him to the airport, where he hugged Zhang Lingyu and greeted Xia He.
• Feng Shayan recognized Zhang Lingyu and Xia He as members of Quanxing’s Four Madmen.

Xiao Tian recruited Zhang Lingyu into the Dragon Guard while Feng Shayan tried to join by proving she had mastered Instant Transmission. He rejected her with a false medical excuse, then left the World Group with his companions after uncovering clues about another faction targeting Spirit Binding and General Dispatch.

• Xiao Tian invited Zhang Lingyu to join the Dragon Guard, while Xia He was refused because of her criminal record.
• Feng Shayan recognized Xiao Tian’s identity and asked to join the Dragon Guard, then used Instant Transmission to return with ice cream and fulfill his condition.
• Xiao Tian arranged a sham examination for Feng Shayan and rejected her application by claiming her tongue was too short.
• Xiao Tian interrogated the wall-phasing young man from the Penglai Night Division and learned that his faction also planned to target Spirit Binding and General Dispatch.
• Feng Zhenghao paid Xiao Tian’s group for their help, and Feng Shayan decided to chase after them and pursue joining the Dragon Guard.

Zhao Fangrui and the Ten Elders planned how to test Di Shitian at Mount Tai, while Xiao Tian prepared to face them under his hidden identity. On the eve of the duel, Xiao Tian found and took a natural treasure that had caused a supernatural gale, then revealed that he had lived for a thousand years and offered his accumulated treasures to whoever killed him.

• Zhao Fangrui convened the Ten Elders to discuss Di Shitian, and they agreed to test him at Mount Tai while keeping Zhang Zhiwei ready in case he proved dangerous.
• Xu San and Xu Si told Xiao Tian and Zhang Chulan that eight of the Ten Elders would attend the duel and that Xiao Tian's Dragon Guard was tasked with capturing Di Shitian or keeping him in check.
• Extraordinary people gathered at Mount Tai as nine stars aligned and a violent gale swept across the summit.
• Xiao Tian, disguised as Kogoro Mouri, tracked the gale to an Xun Wind Essence and absorbed it with Kamui before Chen Jinkui and the others arrived.
• Xiao Tian greeted Chen Jinkui and the other experts as Di Shitian, then announced that he had lived for a thousand years and would give his accumulated treasures to whoever killed him.

Xiao Tian, disguised as Di Shitian, taunted the otherworlders gathered atop Mount Tai and demonstrated overwhelming power by defeating Fire God. As the Ten Elders and the queen of the Penglai Night Division surrounded him, the battle erupted, and her ancient bronze blade pierced his shield.

• Xiao Tian provoked Chen Jinkui and the other Ten Elders until Fire God attacked him with a fire whip.
• Xiao Tian trapped Fire God's attack in a Qimen Array, then reflected the fire technique and sent Fire God flying.
• Chen Jinkui and the others retreated when space began to distort around Xiao Tian, but the queen of the Penglai Night Division's explosive ambush failed to harm him.
• Eight of the Ten Elders, the queen, and other notable otherworlders surrounded Xiao Tian as Zhang Chulan and his companions arrived, unaware that the Di Shitian before them was Xiao Tian's true body.
• The otherworlders attacked Xiao Tian from all sides, but his shield withstood their techniques and he knocked Na Ruhu away.
• The queen of the Penglai Night Division used Night Kill and drove her ancient bronze blade through Xiao Tian's shield.

Xiao Tian, disguised as Di Shitian, faced a cosmic beam at Mount Tai and staged his own death after saving the gathered extraordinary beings. Afterward, Feng Baobao signaled that she had uncovered his secret and demanded eighty thousand bottles of Martial Soul beverage.

• Zhao Fangrui ordered the extraordinary beings at Mount Tai to flee when a powerful beam from space was projected to strike the summit, but the fighters initially ignored the warnings.
• Xiao Tian summoned the disguised Peerless Sword, unleashed his full power, and confronted the beam as a giant black phoenix while the others escaped the summit.
• The beam vanished and Mount Tai's summit was damaged; rescuers found Di Shitian's body destroyed and his Yang Spirit barely intact.
• Wang Ai and Feng Zhenghao proposed using Spirit Binding and General Dispatch on Di Shitian, but Xu San and Xu Si relayed orders to save him by every possible means.
• Xiao Tian made the Di Shitian identity self-destruct, then switched back to his resurrected original body and rejoined Zhang Chulan's group.
• Feng Baobao quietly signaled that she wanted eighty thousand bottles of Martial Soul beverage, and Xiao Tian realized she had spotted something.

Xiao Tian tried to contain the secret that he was Di Shitian while Zhang Chulan and Zhang Lingyu mistook his dealings with Feng Baobao for a romance. In the van, Xiao Tian revealed that he had helped destroy Di Shitian’s Yang Spirit and warned that the unusual humans exposed to the cosmic beam needed to be recorded and monitored.

• Xiao Tian and Feng Baobao secretly negotiated a year of monthly cola deliveries in exchange for her silence about his identity, while Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Chulan mistook their gestures for a romance.
• Zhang Lingyu mistakenly encouraged Xiao Tian about dating Feng Baobao, and Guihua used a hand signal to show that she had also guessed he was Di Shitian.
• Xiao Tian corrected Zhang Chulan’s misunderstanding, explaining that Feng Baobao had been bargaining with him over cola, though she still demanded eighty-five thousand cups that month.
• In the van, Xiao Tian told the group that he knew Di Shitian and had secretly hastened the destruction of his Yang Spirit to prevent him from being turned into a puppet.
• Er Zhuang joined the group chat and agreed to block the information from outsiders.
• Xiao Tian suggested the cosmic beam may have been Di Shitian’s ascension tribulation and urged the group to record everyone exposed to its radiation in case their genes mutated.

After Di Shitian’s death on Mount Tai, Xiao Tian prepared the Dragon Guard for overseas otherhumans and learned that Guihua suspected his true identity. The chapter ended with Guihua suggesting that he recruit Wang Ye, who had already sent Xiao Tian an urgent plea for help.

• Xu San and Xu Si warned Xiao Tian that Di Shitian’s death would stir up the domestic and overseas otherhuman worlds, and Director Zhao told him to stay available for Dragon Guard assignments.
• Xiao Tian showed Tao Tao footage of Di Shitian’s final battle and recruited her into the Dragon Guard.
• Xiao Tian questioned Guihua about writing Di Shitian’s name on his palm, and she admitted she suspected Di Shitian was Xiao Tian; she asked to become his family, and he agreed.
• The next morning, Zhang Chulan teased Xiao Tian about appearing with Guihua, then warned that he and Feng Baobao would be busy with the fallout from Mount Tai.
• Xiao Tian found that only Guihua, Tao Tao, and Zhang Lingyu were available for deployment; Tao Tao reported that the Tang Sect would not provide recruits.
• Guihua suggested recruiting Wang Ye, and Xiao Tian noticed Wang Ye’s message asking him urgently for help.

Wang Ye became trapped in a mysterious natural formation and sent Xiao Tian his coordinates for help. Xiao Tian and his companions found out that the location was known as the Little Underworld and prepared to rescue him.

• Wang Ye tried and failed to escape the eerie area, then sent Xiao Tian urgent messages and his coordinates.
• Xiao Tian gathered Guihua, Zhang Lingyu, Tao Tao, and Xia He and set out to rescue Wang Ye.
• When the RV’s tire blew out, Xiao Tian used Divine Machine Hundred Refinements to transform the vehicle into a powerful amphibious RV.
• Xia He contacted Yu Huadu, and Xiao Tian brought him aboard to ask about the marked location.
• Yu Huadu explained that the area was called the Little Underworld, and Xiao Tian learned that authorities had investigated it decades earlier before sealing the information and abandoning the site.