Chapter Summaries

Wen Zhi and her companions encountered rabbit demons asking for help with their poisoned brother, Tu San. After Qiaoqiao told Fu Fengyuan to shock him with lightning, Tu San revived, though he accused his family of already planning to have him roasted.

• Wen Zhi gathered medicinal herbs along the road as she traveled with Qiaoqiao and the others.
• Several rabbit demons begged Wen Zhi to save their brother Tu San, who appeared to be severely poisoned.
• Tu San stopped breathing while Wen Zhi examined him, and Qiaoqiao insisted that he could still be saved.
• Qiaoqiao ordered Fu Fengyuan to shock Tu San with lightning, and the shocks brought him back to life.
• Tu San misunderstood his siblings' frantic cries and accused them of looking for someone to roast him, while Tu Si explained that they had summoned help.

Qiaoqiao investigated who poisoned Tu San and concluded that his four brothers had conspired against him out of jealousy over their master’s favor. The rabbit demons dropped their act after Tu San realized his brothers shared his feelings for their master.

• Tu San remembered that one of his four brothers had given him water before he was poisoned, but he could not identify which one.
• Qiaoqiao questioned the rabbit demons about their master and heard Tu San describe the master as gentle, unlike his brothers’ other descriptions.
• Qiaoqiao concluded that all four brothers had worked together to poison Tu San because they wanted their master’s attention for themselves.
• Tu San realized his brothers also had feelings for their master, and the four brothers angrily accused him of monopolizing the master’s favor.

Wen Zhi and her companions encountered Zi Yu after the rabbit demons’ attempt to poison Tu San was exposed. Zi Yu punished her disciples, then questioned the travelers about their arrival from Demon Moon Mountain before becoming captivated by the white-robed man.

• Tu San’s four brothers admitted that each had secretly added poison to his water, though none had intended to kill him.
• Zi Yu emerged from purple mist, learned what her disciples had done, and ordered them to return to their cave abode and face the wall until she or Tu San forgave them.
• Zi Yu asked Wen Zhi and her companions whether they had come from beyond the barrier, and Qiaoqiao explained that they had fled unrest on Demon Moon Mountain.
• Zi Yu examined the group’s disguises and was especially struck by the white-robed man with a three-petaled plum blossom mark between his brows.

Zi Yu joined Qiaoqiao, Bai Fu, Fu Fengyuan, and the others as they prepared to travel to Demon King City. They learned that the Fox King had brought a human cultivator there to make her his queen, while Qiaoqiao’s thoughts revealed that the Fox King’s parents intended to exploit the Xiao Household and control Second Senior Sister.

• Zi Yu admired Qiaoqiao and Bai Fu, then agreed to travel with them after Bai Fu stepped between her and Qiaoqiao.
• Tu San begged to join the group, and Zi Yu revealed that she could distinguish him from the other rabbit demons because he was exceptionally tall and muscular.
• Zi Yu said the Fox King had returned to the Demon Realm with a human cultivator he planned to make his queen, and the group suspected she was Second Senior Sister.
• The group decided to hurry to Demon King City under the pretense of watching the excitement and meeting the Fox King.
• Qiaoqiao’s thoughts revealed that the Fox King’s parents wanted the Xiao Household’s fortune and intended to control Second Senior Sister.

Wen Zhi and her companions hurried toward Demon King City to rescue Xiao Tingyu, while Ye Xun and his mother prepared to use a Soul-Seizing Formation to make Xiao Tingyu their puppet. The group reached the crowded demon capital, but the chapter ended before they found her.

• Wen Zhi and Fu Fengyuan became eager to reach the royal city after hearing gossip about the old fox king and queen.
• Ye Xun went to see Xiao Tingyu, who was trapped inside a Soul-Seizing Formation, but the guards barred him from entering.
• Zi Rong told Ye Xun that the formation would make Xiao Tingyu obedient and planned to exploit her family’s wealth after the wedding.
• Xiao Tingyu’s memories began fading as the formation reached its critical moment, and a faint creak came from the window.
• Wen Zhi and her companions arrived in Demon King City and watched a female demon flatten a troublemaker in the street.

Qiaoqiao and her companions learned that the Demon King’s wedding to their second senior sister was only three days away and began planning to stop it. When Jiao Qian challenged Fu Fengyuan over his long horns, Qiaoqiao redirected the challenge to Tu San.

• A demon tried to grab Qiaoqiao’s tail, but an unseen sword wind nearly severed his hand, and Bai Fu said he had brought it on himself.
• At the inn, Zi Yu revealed she had an enemy in the royal capital, while Qiaoqiao pretended she had never been down the mountain and recoiled from the live demon bugs.
• The waiter said the bugs were complimentary because the Demon King and his queen were marrying in three days, prompting the group to realize they had to stop the wedding.
• Zi Yu offered to take the group into the palace but warned she could not guarantee they would meet the person they wanted to see.
• Jiao Qian challenged Fu Fengyuan to a match because he saw his long horns as a threat to his standing, and Qiaoqiao declared that Jiao Qian had to defeat Tu San first.

Qiaoqiao tricked Jiao Qian into a contest that ended with Tu San knocking him through an inn wall, then asked the defeated young lord for a favor. Meanwhile, Zi Rong used the Soul-Seizing Formation’s influence over Xiao Tingyu to demand a vast dowry and control over the Xiao Household’s businesses, leaving Xiao Tingyu compliant but visibly unsettled.

• Qiaoqiao proposed that Jiao Qian and Tu San each throw one punch without using Demon Power, and Jiao Qian accepted her wager.
• Tu San struck Jiao Qian, sending the Jiaolong young lord through the inn wall and into a crater outside.
• Tu San celebrated his victory, and Qiaoqiao asked Jiao Qian to do her a small favor.
• Zi Rong ordered Xiao Tingyu to kneel and told her to inform her father that the Xiao Household must provide a billion Spirit Stones, a hundred superior-grade spirit treasures, and the Shatter the Myriad Realms as dowry.
• Zi Rong also proposed placing Demon Race members in the Xiao Household’s businesses, and Xiao Tingyu agreed despite her gaze quivering.

Ye Xun and Zi Rong tried to humiliate Xiao Tingyu and extort her wealthy family, but Qiaoqiao interrupted them and turned their demand against Steward Yang. The Xiao Household’s head offered five billion Spirit Stones to stop the marriage, and Zi Rong threatened Xiao Tingyu’s life to force him to comply.

• Ye Xun sent the Xiao Household’s head a message demanding Spirit Stones in exchange for Xiao Tingyu.
• Steward Yang asked to take Xiao Tingyu’s valuable clothes and jewelry, and Zi Rong ordered her to strip.
• Qiaoqiao challenged Steward Yang’s request by suggesting he should give up Ye Xun’s clothes, then persuaded Ye Xun that wedding guests should give gifts instead.
• Qiaoqiao anticipated the arrival of Zi Rong’s favorite attendants and the old Demon King, while Wen Zhi worried about Xiao Tingyu and hoped the coming scene would kill their enemies.
• Ye Xun read the Xiao Household head’s reply: he offered five billion Spirit Stones and urged his daughter not to marry the Demon King.
• Zi Rong demanded the Xiao Household’s divine artifact and told Ye Xun to threaten that Xiao Tingyu would kill herself if her father refused the marriage.

Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi infiltrated the Demon King's palace with Tu San and found Second Senior Sister frightened and changed. A seductive snake consort disrupted the court by clinging to the Empress Dowager, and the chapter ended as another gauze-clad consort arrived to join them.

• Ye Xun sent a message in Xiao Tingyu's tone and regretted not asking for more Spirit Stones.
• Wen Zhi and Qiaoqiao entered the palace with Tu San, while Fu Fengyuan and the others were unable to disguise themselves as palace maids.
• Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi helped the kneeling Xiao Tingyu stand and saw her fearful, bewildered expression.
• A snake demon consort entered the hall, flirted with the Empress Dowager, and provoked Ye Xun into objecting.
• The Empress Dowager scolded Ye Xun for frightening the consort, and Ye Xun backed down when Zi Rong looked at him.
• Another man in red gauze entered and coquettishly asked the Empress Dowager why she had not invited him to play with her and the snake consort.

Wen Zhi examined her second senior sister while the Empress Dowager’s attendants competed for her favor, until the old Demon King arrived and saw the earthworm demon clinging to his wife. Terrified, he began gathering power for a devastating strike.

• Wen Zhi secretly checked her second senior sister’s pulse and learned from Qiaoqiao that the red-clad attendant was an earthworm demon.
• The old Demon King arrived at the Demon King’s Hall and found the Empress Dowager tangled up with two male attendants.
• Qiaoqiao revealed that the old Demon King feared earthworms and that fright triggered his strongest attack.
• The old Demon King gathered Demon Power, threatening to shatter the hall.

The old Demon King’s rage destroyed the great hall, and Zi Rong ordered Ye Xun to guard Xiao Tingyu until her wedding in three days. That night, Qiaoqiao sat awake beneath the corridor, where Wen Zhi joined her.

• Ye Xun and the Queen Dowager tried to calm the old Demon King as the tangled consorts sparked chaos on the dais.
• The snake consort cut the red-robed consort free, and both consorts fled while Qiaoqiao, Wen Zhi, and their Second Senior Sister escaped among the palace maids.
• The old Demon King unleashed a palm strike that reduced the hall to dust, then collapsed after the poison in his body took effect.
• The Queen Dowager’s hair fell out, Qiaoqiao and Ye Xun laughed at her, and Zi Rong slapped Ye Xun before ordering him to guard Xiao Tingyu until the wedding.
• Wen Zhi felt Xiao Tingyu gently press her fingers against her palm as the maids led her away.
• That night, Qiaoqiao sat awake beneath the corridor until Wen Zhi came to sit beside her.

Wen Zhi told Qiaoqiao that Xiao Tingyu seemed to be controlled by a formation, but she believed her senior sister could recover and left to research how to break it. After talking with Tu San about their masters, Qiaoqiao dreamed of the mysterious divine sword again and escaped the darkness with her protective sword intent, waking on a rainy hilltop.

• Wen Zhi told Qiaoqiao that Xiao Tingyu seemed controlled by a formation, but a signal from Xiao Tingyu had given her hope that she could recover.
• Wen Zhi left to research how to break the formation and warned Qiaoqiao to rest before their coming battle.
• Tu San joined Qiaoqiao beneath the stars and said he missed Zi Yu, then spoke about how much he loved his master.
• Qiaoqiao fell asleep and met the divine sword again, but it refused to reveal where it was and its light went out.
• Qiaoqiao used her sword intent to break through the dream's darkness and woke on a hilltop in the autumn rain.

Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi joined the Demon King's wedding procession to reach Xiao Tingyu, who had been confined by the Queen Dowager. The procession began circling the royal capital, leaving Qiaoqiao's plan ready to unfold.

• Rumors about the destruction of the royal hall spread through the Demon Realm, angering the Queen Dowager.
• The Queen Dowager kept Xiao Tingyu confined, and palace guards prevented Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi from visiting her.
• Qiaoqiao and Wen Zhi disguised themselves among the palace maids accompanying the wedding procession.
• The Demon King’s wedding carriages paraded through the capital with the Fox King and Xiao Tingyu in front, followed by the Queen Dowager and her snake demon consort.

As the Fox King’s wedding procession reached the city gates, Wen Zhi prepared for the Xiao Household elders to rescue Xiao Tingyu, aware that their earlier failure had led to the household’s ruin. The Xiao Household’s extravagant dowry convoy arrived, and its six disguised elders greeted Xiao Tingyu, who remained numb and unresponsive.

• Ye Xun rode through the demon city with Xiao Tingyu, expecting the Xiao Household’s dowry to enrich him and refusing to let her father visit before the wedding.
• Wen Zhi recalled that the Xiao Household elders planned to rescue Xiao Tingyu and that, in Qiaoqiao’s dream, Xiao Tingyu’s refusal had led to their deaths and the Xiao Household’s decline.
• The city gates opened to reveal twenty carriages carrying a billion Spirit Stones and more than a thousand Law Artifacts, overshadowing Ye Xun’s wedding procession.
• Ye Xun accused Xiao Tingyu’s father of trying to embarrass him, but Xiao Tingyu sat silently and blankly.
• Six Xiao Household guards dismounted, greeted Xiao Tingyu as the Eldest Young Lady, and received only a faint response.

Xiao Tingyu broke free of Ye Xun’s control during their wedding procession and publicly declared that she was unwilling to marry him. With the Xiao Household elders and her junior sisters intervening, she escaped the carriage, while the fight with Ye Xun continued.

• A Xiao Household elder asked whether Xiao Tingyu was marrying Ye Xun willingly, and Wen Zhi’s voice urged her to refuse.
• Xiao Tingyu laughed, stood up, slapped Ye Xun, and announced that she was not willing to marry him.
• The Xiao Household elders revealed themselves and fought the Demon Realm guards as Xiao Tingyu tried to escape Ye Xun’s grasp.
• Xiao Tingyu explained that her formation expertise and a Pure Sage Pearl had helped her resist the Soul-Seizing Formation, while Wen Zhi’s pill had restored her fully.
• Ye Xun attacked Xiao Tingyu, but Qiaoqiao intervened with the Remnant Snow Sword, allowing Xiao Tingyu to break free and leap into Wen Zhi’s arms.
• The Fox King attacked Qiaoqiao, but another sword strike carrying Dragon Qi blasted him back.

Fu Fengyuan, Tu San, and the Xiao Household elders helped Xiao Tingyu and her companions fight their way through the demons, until Bai Fu arrived and turned the battle against Zi Rong. With Qiaoqiao directing the elders to attack Ye Xun, they severed all nine of the Fox King's tails, which Qiaoqiao discovered were fake.

• Fu Fengyuan and Tu San intervened to protect Xiao Tingyu, Qiaoqiao, and the other women as demons swarmed them.
• Zi Rong transformed into a giant nine-tailed fox and overwhelmed the Xiao Household elders, but Qiaoqiao told Xiao Tingyu they had a secret weapon.
• Bai Fu arrived and drove Zi Rong back with his sword, reversing the battle and forcing the demons to keep their distance.
• Qiaoqiao urged the Xiao Household elders to target Ye Xun, and they rushed to attack him while he fought Fu Fengyuan.
• The six elders cut off all nine of Ye Xun's tails, and Qiaoqiao picked up one and declared that the tails were fake.

Xiao Tingyu rejected Ye Xun after his false nine-tailed identity was exposed, and the demons tore him apart. As Bai Fu defeated Zi Rong, Zi Yu stepped forward to reveal the truth behind the unrest on Demon Moon Mountain.

• The demons discovered that three of Ye Xun's nine tails were fake and turned against him when they realized he was only a six-tailed fox.
• Ye Xun begged Xiao Tingyu to save him and blamed Zi Rong, but Xiao Tingyu rejected him and kicked him into the crowd, where the demons killed him.
• The Fox King's statue collapsed, and Xiao Tingyu felt her long-held resentment finally clear.
• Bai Fu struck Zi Rong down, leaving her injured and exposed in her aged human form, while the purple fox clan stayed to protect her.
• Zi Yu removed her veil and announced that she would expose the truth behind the unrest on Demon Moon Mountain.

Zi Yu exposed Zi Rong as an impostor who had murdered the former Purple Fox clan leader and stolen her skin. She revealed that she was a thousand-year-old purple lingzhi who had waited for a chance to avenge the old clan leader, and the chapter ended with her thanking Qiaoqiao and her companions for helping create that opportunity.

• Zi Yu explained that the unrest on Demon Moon Mountain had been Zi Rong’s attempt to purge fox elders who opposed her, not a trap for the Fox King.
• Zi Yu cut open Zi Rong’s face and stripped away the demon skin that concealed her true, weak form.
• Zi Yu revealed that the skin belonged to the former clan leader, whom Zi Rong had killed and flayed, and pointed to the old wound that proved her accusation.
• Zi Yu told the demons she was a thousand-year-old purple lingzhi who had gained fox form from the old clan leader’s blood and Demon Power.
• Zi Yu recounted how events led her to follow Qiaoqiao and her companions to the royal capital, where she could expose Zi Rong and avenge the old clan leader.

Zi Yu offered the fox clan the old clan leader’s demon core, and the foxes asked her to lead them. Before she could answer, the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda collapsed, while the snake consort killed Zi Rong and the earthworm consort revealed he had used the Xiao Household’s Shatter the Myriad Realms to free the demons sealed inside.

• Zi Yu gave the fox clan the demon core containing nearly half the old clan leader’s Demon Power, and the foxes asked her to become their leader.
• The Demon-Suppressing Pagoda collapsed, and two masses of shadow rose as demons surged toward it.
• Bai Fu took Qiaoqiao and the disciples to the pagoda, while the snake consort strangled Zi Rong in the pit.
• Qiaoqiao and her companions arrived at the pagoda and saw the earthworm consort holding Shatter the Myriad Realms as two great demons rose into the air.
• An elder of the Xiao Household recognized the artifact, which the earthworm consort had used to break the pagoda’s seal.

Qiaoqiao talked Qiongqi and Hundun out of attacking the Human Realm by warning that the Devil Race threatened the Demon Realm and explaining that conquering the Devil Realm could expand demon territory. The demons considered her claims as Qiongqi weighed what to do.

• A great demon swallowed Earthworm Consort, and the chapter revealed that it and another great demon had eaten nearly all the demons imprisoned in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
• Qiongqi and Hundun emerged as ancient demon lords, and Qiongqi announced its intention to sweep through the Human Realm while Hundun complained that it was hungry.
• Qiaoqiao stopped Bai Fu from attacking and questioned Qiongqi about ruling the three realms, then warned that the Devil Race posed the greater threat.
• Qiaoqiao pointed to traces of Devil Race activity near the Demon Realm, and Hundun confirmed that Devil Qi remained there.
• Qiaoqiao explained that Devil Qi could devour Yao Qi and that conquering the Devil Realm could create new demon territory, unlike conquering the Human Realm.