Chapter Summaries

Lu Zixuan brought Murong Hua and her friends to her home in Demon Descent City, where they met her father, Lu Qing'an, and his companions. The visitors were left wondering about Lu Qing'an's true strength after Luo Danhong, a Peak Great Emperor Realm powerhouse, treated him respectfully.

• Lu Qing'an welcomed Lu Zixuan, Xu Yunyi, Murong Hua, and the other girls after they arrived in Demon Descent City through a surprising teleportation array.
• Murong Hua and Zhang Ya questioned Lu Zixuan's claim that her father was a Peak Great Emperor Realm powerhouse because Lu Qing'an seemed ordinary and gave off no powerful presence.
• Lu Zixuan introduced Murong Hua and her friends to Lu Qing'an, who invited them inside for a meal.
• The group met He Hong, and Zhang Ya and the other girls assumed Lu Qing'an could not be much stronger than his friend.
• Luo Danhong arrived, and Murong Hua mistook her for Lu Zixuan's mother before learning that Luo Danhong was Xu Yunyi's master.
• Luo Danhong addressed Lu Qing'an respectfully, shocking Murong Hua, Zhang Ya, and the other girls.

Lu Qing'an hosted Lu Zixuan's friends, whose confusion over his standing grew when they learned of his connection to Luo Danhong and saw Great Emperor Leixiao defer to him. The visitors were left stunned by Lu Qing'an's apparent Peak Great Emperor Realm status and his casual treatment of the renowned emperor.

• Lu Zixuan told Murong Hua that Luo Danhong was her aunt's master and said her mother would not be coming.
• Lu Qing'an welcomed the young women, learned which factions they came from, and discovered that Lu Huijun was Great Emperor Sun Zi's granddaughter.
• Lu Huijun asked Lu Qing'an about his cultivation and emperor title, but Xiao Qingyi arrived before he answered.
• Murong Hua and the others recognized Xiao Qingyi as Great Emperor Leixiao and bowed to him.
• Xiao Qingyi noticed Xu Yunyi had brewed all his Demon God Mother Tree tea leaves, but Lu Qing'an's kick and promise to replace them quickly made him cheerful.

Lu Qing'an welcomed Lu Zixuan's friends with tea made from Demon God Mother Tree leaves, which greatly improved their cultivation talent and broke through their bottlenecks. The visitors were still reeling from the family's standing when Wang Duanshan arrived smiling and offered them weapons.

• Zhang Ya, Murong Hua, and the others were shocked that Lu Qing'an had kicked Great Emperor Leixiao and left him smiling, and they questioned Lu Zixuan about her father's identity.
• Lu Qing'an served the visitors tea brewed from Demon God Mother Tree leaves, and Murong Hua, Zhang Ya, and the others broke through bottlenecks and felt their talent improve.
• Murong Hua and the others learned what the tea was and eagerly drank more, while Lu Zixuan wondered at their reaction and Lu Qing'an explained that the tea was beneficial to them.
• Wang Duanshan arrived, greeted Lu Zixuan and Lu Miaomiao, and offered each of their visitors a mid-grade tenth-rank weapon as a welcome gift.

Lu Qing'an let Lu Zixuan’s friends choose treasured weapons from Wang Duanshan, then agreed to teach Murong Hua Magnificence Swordsmanship after dinner. When the young women asked about his identity, he jokingly called himself Demon Emperor Dugu.

• Wang Duanshan gave Murong Hua, Zhang Ya, and the other young women treasured weapons because they were Lu Zixuan’s friends.
• Lu Miaomiao said her family and Grandpa Wang were her friends, and Wang Duanshan affectionately teased her.
• Lu Zixuan told Lu Qing'an that she had demonstrated his Magnificence Swordsmanship at the academy, and Murong Hua explained that her household’s elder wanted Lu Zixuan to teach them the technique.
• Lu Qing'an agreed to guide Murong Hua after dinner at Lu Zixuan’s request.
• Murong Hua and the other young women asked Lu Qing'an for his emperor title, and he answered, “Demon Emperor Dugu,” making Lu Zixuan laugh.

Lu Qing'an pretended to be Demon Emperor Dugu, convincing Murong Hua and the others and deepening their gratitude toward Lu Zixuan. Xue Tianfei returned home, and Lu Zixuan’s friends reacted with excitement when they met their idol.

• Lu Qing'an claimed he was Demon Emperor Dugu and said he had disguised himself when Zhang Ya questioned his appearance.
• Murong Hua thanked Lu Zixuan for the fortuitous opportunity he believed her father had arranged for the Murong Household, and Lu Qing'an played along.
• Lu Miaomiao noticed Xue Tianfei had returned, and Xue Tianfei came inside carrying her.
• Murong Hua, Zhang Ya, and the other girls recognized Xue Tianfei as their idol, asked her to inscribe her emperor title, and learned she often stayed at Lu Zixuan’s home.

Xue Tianfei gave Lu Miaomiao and Lu Zixuan gifts and offered Demon Crystals to Zixuan’s friends, then accidentally revealed her affection for Lu Qing'an. Murong Hua and the others mistook Lu Qing'an for Demon Emperor Dugu until Li Cangxuan arrived, leaving them to realize that he was the Eternal Night Demon Emperor.

• Xue Tianfei gave Lu Miaomiao snacks, presented Lu Zixuan with a gift, and offered Demon Crystals to Zixuan’s friends in exchange for looking after her.
• Lu Qing'an offered to help Xue Tianfei with the chamber of commerce, and she accidentally voiced her affection for him in front of everyone.
• Murong Hua and the others assumed Xue Tianfei liked Lu Qing'an because they believed he was Demon Emperor Dugu, the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s disciple.
• Xue Tianfei realized Lu Qing'an had been teasing the juniors about his identity, and she laughed it off with him.
• Li Cangxuan arrived and called Lu Qing'an his master, prompting Murong Hua and the others to recognize him as the Eternal Night Demon Emperor.

Lu Qing'an revealed himself as the Eternal Night Demon Emperor to Murong Hua and the other girls, then encouraged Li Cangxuan to socialize with them. After they shared a meal, Li Cangxuan guided the young people in swordsmanship while Lu Qing'an and the others watched and joked together.

• Lu Qing'an told Murong Hua and the others that Li Cangxuan was the Demon Emperor Dugu and his disciple, leaving them shocked by the group's powerful connections.
• Lu Qing'an sent the girls an encrypted voice transmission, and Murong Hua and the others agreed to what he told them.
• Lu Qing'an urged Li Cangxuan to talk with the girls, and their awkward conversation gradually became more relaxed.
• Xiao Qingyi had spirit cuisine served, and Lu Qing'an invited everyone to eat together.
• After dinner, Lu Qing'an asked Li Cangxuan to guide Murong Hua and the others in swordsmanship while the adults watched and traded jokes.

Lu Qing'an gathered everyone and handed out divine weapons and armor he had prepared for them. He ended by giving Li Cangxuan blood-red armor, while noting he had no weapon left for his absent second son.

• Lu Qing'an gave Lu Zixuan a silver-white armor set and Lu Miaomiao a dagger suited to her talent for movement techniques.
• Lu Qing'an gave Sun Minzi a divine sword and told her she was family, then presented swords to Xue Tianfei and Xu Yunyi.
• Lu Qing'an gave He Hong a war hammer, while Wang Duanshan took pride in seeing everyone appreciate his forged weapons.
• Lu Qing'an teased Xiao Qingyi before giving him a purple-lightning divine sword, which Xiao Qingyi eagerly accepted.
• Lu Qing'an gave Li Cangxuan blood-red armor missing a helmet and praised his bearing, then realized he had no divine weapon left for his absent second son.

Sun Minzi told Lu Zixuan about her father’s death, and Lu Qing'an agreed to treat her as his goddaughter, revealing that he had known her father. Meanwhile, Murong Hua showed her father a treasured sword from Wang Duanshan, but Murong Mei suspected she had stolen it.

• Sun Minzi broke down and told Lu Zixuan how her father had sacrificed his cultivation, raised her alone, and died in her arms.
• Lu Zixuan asked Lu Qing'an to take Sun Minzi as his goddaughter, and he agreed, saying he had known her father.
• Murong Hua rushed home and warned Murong Mei that the household could be in danger if anyone learned what she had to say.
• Murong Hua showed Murong Mei the treasured sword Wang Duanshan had given her, but Murong Mei insisted she must have stolen it.

Murong Hua told Murong Mei that her academy friend was Lu Zixuan, the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s daughter, and described meeting powerful figures at the girl’s home. Murong Mei ordered her to keep the encounter secret and preserve her friendship with Zixuan, while other Demon Domain families reacted with panic to similar news.

• Murong Hua showed Murong Mei her token, which bore Great Emperor Ice Glaze’s presence, and told him she had met Xue Tianfei, Wang Duanshan, Xiao Qingyi, and Demon Emperor Dugu.
• Murong Hua revealed that her friend Zixuan was the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s daughter, and Murong Mei collapsed in fear that she might have offended her.
• Murong Hua assured Murong Mei that she and Zixuan got along, then recounted the day’s events, including drinking Demon God Mother Tree tea and receiving a treasured sword.
• Murong Mei told Murong Hua to keep everything she had learned secret and to maintain a good relationship with Zixuan.
• In other Demon Domain households, elders heard what their children had witnessed, and two Great Emperor Realm experts fainted after Zhang Ya’s father learned she had cursed the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s daughter.

Lu Qing'an visited the Demon God Mother Tree to collect leaves and confront it over its deadly trials. After the tree recognized how much stronger he had become, he entered its barrier and spotted a suspicious trial bubble, leaving the Mother Tree trying to stop him.

• Xue Tianfei left to deal with a traitor in her merchant guild, while Lu Miaomiao, Lu Zixuan, and Sun Minzi went to the academy.
• Lu Qing'an traveled to the Demon God Mother Tree, where he demanded leaves and warned it against trapping people in deadly trials again.
• Lu Qing'an revealed his overwhelming power, and the Demon God Mother Tree abandoned its threats and allowed him to collect leaves without taking a trial.
• Inside the barrier, Lu Qing'an noticed one of the ten trial bubbles was unusual and prepared to enter it.
• The Demon God Mother Tree appeared in a false body and urged Lu Qing'an to fly past the trials, but he insisted on experiencing them.

Lu Qing'an forced the Demon God Mother Tree to let him enter the prison space, where he found hundreds of despairing cultivators and recognized that the place was the same one where he and Xiao Qingyi had once been trapped. He promised to free the prisoners and confronted the Demon God Mother Tree, who appeared to answer for herself.

• Lu Qing'an’s pressure forced the Demon God Mother Tree to move aside, and he entered the enormous red bubble.
• Lu Qing'an found hundreds of cultivators imprisoned in a bleak space and recognized it from his decades trapped there with Xiao Qingyi.
• Fang Qiuhe told Lu Qing'an that she had been imprisoned for thirty years and that the longest-held prisoner had been there for over a hundred years.
• Lu Qing'an recognized Fang Qiuhe as the Dao of Alchemy Master’s disciple and promised to rescue her and the other prisoners.
• The prisoners doubted Lu Qing'an could save them, but he called for the Demon God Mother Tree to explain herself, and she appeared.

Lu Qing'an forced the Demon God Mother Tree to choose between death and being refined into a treasure, then used his power to transform her. The Demon Domain experts emerged from her space as Lu Qing'an held the Mother Tree in its new, tiny form.

• The Demon God Mother Tree appeared, and the trapped people realized Lu Qing'an might be able to save them.
• Lu Qing'an threatened to destroy the Demon God Mother Tree unless she accepted being refined into a treasure.
• After a brief ultimatum, the Demon God Mother Tree surrendered and revealed her root core.
• Lu Qing'an used the Eternal Night Emperor Ring and Demonic Qi to refine the Mother Tree, leaving a crater where she had stood.
• Lu Qing'an held the transformed Demon God Mother Tree, now a small glowing red tree, while Fang Qiuhe felt compelled to kneel before him.

Lu Qing'an saved Fang Qiuhe and the others by taking the Demon God Mother Tree, then asked Fang Qiuhe to summon her master as repayment. He planted the refined tree in his courtyard, where Xiao Qingyi discovered it growing by the pond.

• Lu Qing'an exchanged sound transmission imprints with Fang Qiuhe and asked her to contact her master, telling him that the person who shaved his head was looking for him.
• Lu Qing'an vanished through a shattered void, and Fang Qiuhe and the others saw that the Demon God Mother Tree had left behind a massive pit.
• Li Cangxuan arrived and recognized that his master had just refined the Demon God Mother Tree.
• Lu Qing'an planted the miniature Demon God Mother Tree by the pond in his courtyard and discovered that it greatly increased comprehension for cultivators nearby.
• Xiao Qingyi asked Lu Qing'an for the tree's leaves, then rushed outside and returned speechless after realizing the tree was growing in the courtyard.

Lu Qing'an returned with the subdued Demon God Mother Tree and planted it in Xiao Qingyi's courtyard, where it enhanced comprehension and provided tea leaves. He also found a vast deposit of powerful metal beneath its roots, then told Li Cangxuan to announce his return to the Demon Domain and teased him about his secret love.

• Xiao Qingyi celebrated when Lu Qing'an brought the refined Demon God Mother Tree to his courtyard and told Wang Duanshan to help himself to its leaves.
• Wang Duanshan examined the tree, discovered that it improved comprehension, and praised Lu Qing'an.
• Lu Qing'an gave Wang Duanshan a storage ring containing a large mass of metal found beneath the tree, and Wang Duanshan and He Hong agreed that He Hong could use it for practice.
• Li Cangxuan arrived and told Lu Qing'an that people had likely realized he had returned.
• Lu Qing'an instructed Li Cangxuan to spread word that he had emerged from seclusion, then suggested he give tea leaves to the person he secretly loved, prompting the others to watch him eagerly.

Lu Qing'an and his companions encouraged Li Cangxuan to court the Blood Phoenix Sect's holy maiden with a gift of tea leaves. When Lu Zixuan returned with Xu Yunyi and Sun Minzi, Sun Minzi saw the Demon God Mother Tree and broke down in tears, thanking Zixuan.

• Lu Qing'an and Xiao Qingyi teased Li Cangxuan about his feelings for the Blood Phoenix Sect's holy maiden and advised him to give her tea leaves.
• Lu Miaomiao returned with crispy rice from a new academy underling, a boy she had beaten before taking him on for the snack.
• Lu Qing'an wondered whether the boy might be a transmigrator and asked Miaomiao to bring him home, but she refused.
• Xu Yunyi, Lu Zixuan, and Sun Minzi arrived through a teleportation gate and noticed the Demon God Mother Tree in the courtyard.
• Sun Minzi began crying, embraced Lu Zixuan, and thanked her.

Sun Minzi learned that Lu Qing'an had avenged her father and accepted his offer to become his goddaughter, joining his family as his third daughter. Meanwhile, news of the Eternal Night Demon Emperor's return and power spread through the Demon Domain, and the Zhang Household's head panicked over whether his daughter Zhang Ya'er had offended Lu Qing'an's daughter.

• Sun Minzi recognized the Demon God Mother Tree and wept, then knelt before Lu Qing'an to thank him for avenging her father.
• Lu Qing'an explained his debt to Sun Minzi's father and accepted Sun Minzi as his goddaughter, naming her his third daughter.
• Xiao Qingyi, Wang Duanshan, and He Hong celebrated Sun Minzi's new place in the family.
• News that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had emerged from seclusion and refined the Demon God Mother Tree spread through the Demon Domain, prompting major powers to hold meetings and urge caution.
• The Zhang Household's head dismissed a meeting about keeping a low profile, then rushed to meet his returning daughter Zhang Ya'er and feared she had failed to earn Lu Qing'an's daughter's forgiveness.

Zhang Ya and Lu Huijun reported that Lu Zixuan had said she forgave them, while their elders urged them to keep her favor. In the Immortal Ruins, Xu Qingying tried to help Xu Xuanyu before learning that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had become powerful enough to refine the Demon God Mother Tree.

• Zhang Ya told the Zhang Household head that Lu Zixuan had lifted her and the others from their knees and said she was not angry with them.
• The Zhang Household head advised Zhang Ya to stay close to Murong Hua and apologize to her father, then told her that he had refined the Demon God Mother Tree.
• Lu Huijun told her grandfather that Lu Zixuan had forgiven them, and learned that his Dao heart had stabilized after he heard of the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s feat.
• Xu Qingying offered Xu Xuanyu a powerful suit of armor, but he refused it and asked her to give it to Zhengran instead.
• Lin Qingxue warned Xu Qingying that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had appeared and had become even more terrifying.

Xu Qingying and Lin Qingxue learned that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had emerged from seclusion and could refine the Demon God Mother Tree, then speculated that Lu Qing'an might be his close friend. As they prepared for the possibility that Lu Qing'an might use the Demon Emperor against them, Lu Zhengran arrived with academy friends and contacted Xu Yunyi, who was cultivating in the Demon Domain.

• Lin Qingxue told Xu Qingying that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had emerged from seclusion and could refine the Demon God Mother Tree.
• Xu Qingying wondered whether Lu Qing'an was the Eternal Night Demon Emperor, but Lin Qingxue rejected the idea because their cultivation, timing, and temperaments did not match.
• Xu Qingying proposed that Lu Qing'an might be the Eternal Night Demon Emperor's friend, and Lin Qingxue concluded that they were likely close.
• Lin Qingxue warned Xu Qingying to prepare for Lu Qing'an possibly turning the Eternal Night Demon Emperor against them, while Xu Qingying insisted he would not harm her.
• Xu Qingying asked Lin Qingxue to obtain a portrait of the Eternal Night Demon Emperor, then Lu Zhengran entered with academy friends.
• In the Demon Domain, Lu Zhengran contacted Xu Yunyi through Xu Xuanyu's Sound Transmission Jade Slip, and Lu Zixuan stopped cultivating to answer him.

Lu Zhengran contacted Lu Zixuan from the Immortal Ruins to boast about his new armor and the five young disciples who had made him their big brother. Lu Zixuan revealed that her armor could withstand a Peak Great Emperor Realm expert, while Xu Xuanyu suspected the five families were using Lu Zhengran to curry favor with his powerful mother.

• Xu Xuanyu helped Lu Zhengran send a voice transmission to Lu Zixuan, while Lu Zhengran's five young companions sat with him.
• Lu Zhengran bragged that his tenth-grade armor could protect him from Lu Zixuan, but she claimed her own armor could withstand a Peak Great Emperor Realm expert.
• Lu Zixuan made her special armor appear, and Lu Zhengran conceded that he could not outdo her boasting about armor.
• Lu Zhengran had the three boys and two girls greet Lu Zixuan as their big boss lady, then bragged that powerful families' young masters and ladies had made him their big brother.
• Xu Xuanyu suspected the families were using Lu Zhengran to build ties with his eldest sister after she crippled Huangfu Qi and his son.